I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.
–John Adams 03 July 1776
And so it shall be.
repost from downstairs
Well, SOMEBODY loves us.
Happy Birthday, Big Satan!
Love,
Little Satan
The Mossad
https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1014503892581830656
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/results-matter-president-trump-tops-obama-in-approval-numbers-at-same-point-in-his-presidency/
fireworks are legal in PA now, first time since the 30’s, of course with an 18% sales tax.
this was a GOP house and senate who passed these taxes.
everyone here just drove over to ohio to buy them, the pagov was missing out on a revenue stream so the PAGOP saw a way to shaft the citizen again
the johnstown flood tax on booze hasn’t been repealed yet either (1936)
dems double down!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/07/04/democratic-national-committee-july-4th-statement/757585002/
Greetings and salutations . Happy birthday you wild and crazy country.
My hope is that Democrats keep featuring “abolish ICE” and impeachment as centerpiece issues in the Midterms.
No blue wave.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh, good grief!
@ RIX:
@ AZfederalist:
HUZZAH!
Calvin Coolidge’s Independence Day speech, 1926
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-on-the-occasion-of-the-one-hundred-and-fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-declaration-of-independence/
@ eaglesoars:
silent cal
@ coldwarrior:
Copy that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc
A little Toby Keith fot the 4th!
This is fun
How to Survive Independence Day with Your Lazy-Assed, Freedom-Hating Millennial Nephew
SEE ALSO: Uncle Strickland’s How to Talk to Your Pansy Marxist Nephew at Thanksgiving
https://www.weaselzippers.us/389988-how-to-survive-independence-day-with-your-lazy-assed-freedom-hating-millennial-nephew/
BEST PART
Soccer is a hideously anti-American affair: tedious, low scoring, international, foot centric, socialist, and prone to tie games and indiscriminate whining. The fact that Belgium is one of the favorites to win the World Cup this year should tell you everything thing you need to know about soccer. Belgium!
In fact, soccer’s only measurable benefit to Western civilization is that it occasionally allows people like Brayden to express an unironic form of patriotism for once in their miserable lives. Unfortunately, the United States didn’t even qualify for this year’s World Cup, so there’s no one to root for. Instead, you can look forward to a lecture about how taking a knee during the fireworks display is actually the highest form of patriotism. Ugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc
@ Hot Air
This is mind expanding. Our space craft Dawn has been sending back photos for the last 11 years.
While gathering photo evidence of Ceres it is discovered that it is not an asteroid. Instead it has planetary
properties like Earth and Mars. It is believed that it has more frozen water than Earth, and is emitting water vapors.
This is a party for your brain!
Rare US Declaration of Independence found in Sussex
Rare US Declaration of Independence found in Sussex
Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/american-declarationf-independence-sussex/
one of the global econ metrics I look at is the Baltic Dry. A somewhat similar domestic metric is rail traffic.
Excluding coal, carloads were up 30,494 carloads, or 4.3 percent, in June 2018 from June 2017. Excluding coal and grain, carloads were up 25,979 carloads, or 4.2 percent.
Total U.S. carload traffic for the first six months of 2018 was 6,747,414 carloads, up 1.3 percent, or 87,169 carloads, from the same period last year; and 7,153,557 intermodal units, up 6.0 percent, or 405,633 containers and trailers, from last year.
Total combined U.S. traffic for the first 26 weeks of 2018 was 13,900,971 carloads and intermodal units, an increase of 3.7 percent compared to last year.
https://www.aar.org/news/rail-traffic-for-june-and-the-week-ending-june-30-2018/
Left eating the Left
Black female leaders criticize Pelosi, Schumer for ‘failure to protect’ Waters
Black female leaders and allies expressed their “deep disappointment“ with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for their “recent failure to protect“ Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) “from unwarranted attacks from the Trump administration and others in the GOP.“
“We write to share our profound indignation and deep disappointment over your recent failure to protect Congresswoman Waters from unwarranted attacks from the Trump Administration and others in the GOP,” the women wrote in a letter sent Tuesday. “That failure was further compounded by your decision to unfairly deride her as being ‘uncivil‘ and ‘un-American.‘“
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/04/black-female-leaders-waters-pelosi-schumer-trump-693967
*snort*
@ eaglesoars:
As a wise man once said, “don’t start no shit, won’t be no shit.”
Europe Turns Down Chinese Offer For Grand Alliance Against The US
Almost as if behind the facade of smiles and agreement, Europe has absolutely no belief that Beijing will ever follow through with its promises.
and they absolutely believe Trump when he promises that if you fuck with the U.S., you will wish you had never been born
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-04/europe-turns-down-chinese-offer-grand-alliance-against-us
@ eaglesoars:
Awesome news about increased rail traffic. I would like to see better passenger service- it’d be so easy to take your car with you while someone else ‘drove ‘.
And a happy and safe Independence Day to all here. We have plenty to be thankful for as Americans, even when you don’t agree with our leaders.
Been doing my little Highland dance in front of the glowing coals all morning. Ya’ll should know, I am good at this. Sadness fills my heart that those who haves passed are not here. But joy also fills my heat to continue on this tradition.
I am an American, for more generations than most care to contemplate. Blessed be the Lord Most High who giveth and takesth away. Whose glory shinesth upon me and giveth me everlasting life. May his name be glorified for evermore.
May we all remember today the sacrifices that made today possible.
@ eaglesoars:
Increased rail traffic is VERY evident from where I sit.
Fireworks all through down valley tonight. Will be excellent viewing
right_wing2 wrote:
Mrs coldwarrior and I have taken the train to Chicago a few times. Very nice way to travel
@ doriangrey:
Aye. This a fine day.
@ coldwarrior:
Unfortunately the only time there’s a train around here is at about 3am, 30 miles away.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/07/04/michael-moore-rallies-the-troops-and-wishes-them-happy-resistance-day-this-july-4th/
@Twichy
Fitness Buff and diet guru Michael Moore has different take on Independece Day.
Why are these people so miserable and unhappy?
100 watts of Peavy power, a fender….foot pedals….hmmmm…
This might get noisy
right_wing2 wrote:
at the family ‘compound’ on the river in PA, there were tracks on the other side, the trains mostly carried coal to Pgh. There is NOTHING like being sleepy in bed and hearing a train in the near distance. It’s just as good as rain on the roof. Here, there are tracks about 2 miles away. Actually, on 9/11 when I heard the plane hit the Pentagon, I thought it must be a train derailing, it was all I could imagine.
@ lobo91:
Brilliant.
@ right_wing2:
I have a yuge rail yard about a mile up river. Its music.
@ eaglesoars:
Trains and tug boats here.
I’ve ID’d 5 new very large tugs, built right up river. Haven’t seen a new one in 15 years.
Happiness is finding 40 AJ Fernandez hoyo de Monterrey cigars that you forgot were in the liquor cabinet…all secured and humidified. 🙂
Happy Birthday you lot!
🙂
Up with the Colonies … down with the British!
HEH
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yes….
Now, in 2019 there is going to be a slight change to the way the world will be organised.
Due to all the “Fuck the English” and “Fuck Great Britain” sentiment then as of 1st January 2019 the ENGLISH language is copyrighted and only ENGLISH persons are allowed to use it.
You have six months notice world.
Hate the English? Well stop using our language.
Actually today is the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of the US Australia as fighting cousins. 100 years in a little French town of Cherval a much weakened 5 Aussie Divisions after 4 years of fighting asked for American reinforcements. This combined Aussie – US Corps fought under the forward looking Aussie General John Monash, who figured out’ all arms tactics’ and applied them ‘strenuously’. He scheduled that the whole operation would take 90 minutes. He was slightly out. It took 93 minutes of combined artillery and naval gunfire, creeping barrages to protect his troops during their assault, bombing by the Royal Flying Corps of selected hard points, the use of infantry supported armour to break through and exploit deep into the German depth positions.
Monash was Australia’s most revered fighting General and there are universities, suburbs and a Federal parliamentary seat named after him. During his life however he was reviled by some because he was Jewish, but definitely not by the men who served under him.On the 4th July 1918 Australia and the US were first in combat together. Today a century later Australia and the US are still ‘family’.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Bah… that is good… But…. Happiness is walking into a room and thinking… Damn it, it sure smells good in here…. And then realizing… what smells so good… is the half a gallon of BBQ sauce you are still wearing for cooking eariler…
@ Possum:
HEH!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Up the republic!
Cheers!
@ Possum:
Have you heard any of the accents here???
Is that English?
Possum wrote:
Haaaa… Good luck mate…. If we (American’s) don’t use it, who will? Cause ya damn well know the British don’t know how to speak English…
coldwarrior wrote:
We speak Spanglish here in SoCal…
@ Aussie Infidel:
My dad greatly appreciated the Anzac, Philipinos, and Korean help he got in Vietnam
@ doriangrey:
Yinz going aht-aht dahtahn, n’at?
😆
The valley is starting to get noisy!
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1014671231558168576
Possum wrote:
yinz need to visit Pittsburgh. After that, try, oh, Lafayette Louisiana
coldwarrior wrote:
HEY… I said we speak Spanglish here… Not Yinzglish.
(We gonna go Ba-da-boom, Big big ba-da-boom here in a couple hours)
eaglesoars wrote:
Bah… He’s complaining… But only cause now that he lives here in the US, he finally learned how to speak English, and can’t understand a damn thing anyone in the UK says… Cause aint nobody there speaks English no more.
Why? You’re not using it…
eaglesoars wrote:
😆 yep.
Anyone who hates the British should stop using our language. It is cultural appropriation.
Also, if you hate the British so much why did you copy the colours of OUR flag?
Happy 4th of July to all of you! May the next years bring you FREEDOM from your enemies within your borders. This means the TV, radio, and print media. Also freedom FROM the powers at alphabet agencies & Congress members who fill their pockets and have no interest in serving the people who pay their salaries. It means celebrities and mass entertainment propagandists who shove collectivism & dystopias down your craw.
Let freedom ring.
@ yenta-fada:
lol, I’m enjoying watching trump make the left show us EXACTLY who they are…and the GOPe/nevertrumpers too.
@ Possum:
No hate, just some fun at the expense of our former colonial overlords
coldwarrior wrote:
I was busy at the grill today…
Chicken… 6.3lbs
Carne asada 5.13lbs
Beer Brauts 5.5lbs
Pork Short Ribs 7.3lbs
Pork Chops 3.6lbs
BBQ sauce, 1/2 gallon.
Beer 1 gallon
Started at 10am PST, finished at 4:50pm PST
5 adults, 7 teenagers, and 3 dogs now all fat drowsy and contented.
Things were looking a little rough for awhile there. Thought a couple of the teenagers were gonna try to gnaw one of my arms off waiting for something to eat. Fortunately they were easily distracted by the homemade salsa potato salad… (yea, that’s where I make that infamous salsa of mine, and mix it into homemade potato salad about 60/40)
@ Possum:
Colours…
Russia, France, Netherlands, Philippines…
LOL and the funny part of 4th July is the fireworks…
Rockets’ red glare…
Laughing my ass off.
(while trying to calm my cats. )
doriangrey wrote:
oh, well, done, sir, well done!
coldwarrior wrote:
My theory is the first USA flags were made from cut up and recycled British flags. Hence the choice of the colours.
And watch out for this Latina who retweets Valerie Jarrett, Keith Ellison, WSJ. Vogue magazine & social justice politicians and celebrities. She will be on the Late Show this week and Meet the Press on Sunday. She has ACCESS and backing. She is young and she was picked to offer free everything for everybody. Not working class but middle class. The Social Justice movement always works through the churches and organizes by knocking on doors & using social media to get out the vote.
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018
yenta-fada wrote:
Thank you. I ask you to pray for our enemies, both foreign and domestic, for they are lost to God…but found by us
Possum wrote:
Hate? We don’t hate the British. Just the British cuisine, or, well, actually, the complete and total lack there of. You do realize there is more to cooking then putting a 1 lbs Chuck roast in a pot with 4 potatoes, 3 carrots and a onion and burning the hell out of it, right? Not saying you have to be French (and surrendering twice to the mustard and once to the Worcestershire sauce before you can ever turn to stove on) But hey… There are more spices in the world than salt, pepper and Mustard.
@ yenta-fada:
If you’ve seen any interviews with her, she certainly didn’t get there on her own. She basically has no clue what she’s talking about. Just parrots far-left talking points and deflects.
Seems awfully familiar,,,
coldwarrior wrote:
I missed this. When I was there all the tugs were owned by the steel companies, I remember the J&L logo (Jones & Laughlin)
lobo91 wrote:
Her “Stunning upset victory” is a whole lot less stunning than it appears on the surface. In a congressional district with 215,000 registered voters, only 13% bothered to vote ( 20,331 ) and she only got 51 percent of the vote, i.e. 11,921 votes. Her victory is profoundly hollow, nearly as hollow as her ideology.
yenta-fada wrote:
She’s too big for her britches. Repost from downstairs
———-
It seems Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has an ego as big as her mouth
Wondering: How many other House Democrats have a degree in Economics like I do?
Trying to find who out here is going to be in the Gini Coefficient Appreciation Squad.
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1014127299875270660
A degree in econ and a socialist. Another high IQ person w/zero actual intelligence
@ doriangrey:
Which she probably doesn’t understand, anyway.
She was bragging about her economics degree earlier. If she’d actually learned anything, she wouldn’t be a socialist
yenta-fada wrote:
In a congressional district with 215,000 registered voters, she got 11,921 votes… In other words, her voters were all the unemployed homeless derelicts who could be persuaded to vote for a pack of cigarettes and a 40 oz King Cobra.
doriangrey wrote:
I have a feeling her mouth is going to be writing checks her ass can’t cash
That’s nice. Only Marxists believe in income equality in the first place, generally because they have no marketable skills and thus will fail in a market economy
doriangrey wrote:
Actually I meant she calls herself working class. A typical socialist
liar, when she was five her family moved to a more affluent neighborhood. By that exact definition & background I am working class. It’s only by working that I stay middle class.
The middle class is a WONDERFUL historical human achievement.
oh HERE is something to celebrate. The judge who dismissed the charges (all of them) against the Bundys have told the Feds to go piss up a rope
“The Court’s finding of outrageous government conduct was not in error,” Navarro wrote in her 11-page ruling, obtained by The Oregonian. “On the contrary, a universal sense of justice was violated by the Government’s failure to provide evidence that is potentially exculpatory.”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/04/judge-bundy-prosecutor-plea-conviction/
Prosecutors need to start going to jail
15 USC §1263 & 16 CFR §1500.17(a)(3) make it a federal crime to sell M-80s, cherry bombs, and other large firecrackers, unless it’s to a farmer, rancher or grower who has a government-approved need to scare animals with them.
eaglesoars wrote:
She touts herself as someone who takes no money from (evil) Corporations. That doesn’t mean she has no backing from the wealthy who create & fund various ‘groups’.
lobo91 wrote:
Hopey changey minority? Nope, it’s deja vu all over again.
@ yenta-fada:
iPolitician 2.0 brought to you by Soros
doriangrey wrote:
… and a wonderful Independence Day to you as well Dorian. May the good overshadow the bad and may you enjoy the Lord’s blessings.
oh, look, a Wall Street guy is starting a 3rd political party because he wants to have ‘a civil dialogue’
Major donors are probably going to be finance or lawyers or Hollywood.
Yeah, Hollywood types have been so civil lately
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-02/a-morgan-stanley-star-wants-you-to-back-his-political-movement
“Hey, give me your money and I promise we’ll be nice to you”
@ eaglesoars:
I know that you are interested in this type of thing
Really interesting and thought provoking
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=x-HhfbCk2oU
@ eaglesoars:
Is this a party or a multilevel marketing scheme?
lobo91 wrote:
but they’re a bit short on levels
@ Aussie Infidel:
oh thanks! Saved for later, I’m watching ‘Defiance’ on Netflix at the moment. True story about resistance in the woods of Belorussia during WW II.
@ eaglesoars:
Good movie
lobo91 wrote:
Sounds like your average professional resume. “Innovative leader who seeks to apply cutting edge processes to promote value-based outcomes …”
eaglesoars wrote:
Here is the first part of this two part series.
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z6PlYiQSTs
lobo91 wrote:
I read the book years ago, just found it on Netflix, never knew they made a movie
@ eaglesoars:
The suppressed history of New Zealand is a scandal but the forces opposing any investigation into NZ history outside the ‘official’ Maori ‘history’ remains moot.
In the end it’s all about MONEY. The Waitangi Treaty tribunal has doled out billions of dollars in reparations, for land confiscations during the Maori wars, to various to tribal leaders, mostly lawyers. There has been no real trickle down so the average Maori are still at the bottom of the social heap, whilst the tribal leaders are millionaires. Hell over 50% of the NZ fishery (one of the world’s largest) was given over to Maori interests.
To discover an actual history before the official arrival of Maori in 1250-1350 would totally undermine those claims. In the end money talks!
SPIT
Aussie Infidel wrote:
what? 1250? I thought they were ALWAYS there, you know, the abiORIGINALS.
see, I’ll get to learn something. But now I have to go to bed. The beagles are on the bed and Mia is barking out me from under the covers.
nite
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/fourth-july-wave-flag-america/
@ Chicago Sun Times
This is not from a columnist or letter to the editor .
They clearly are down with the Resistance.
Chickens are not very bright, and they’re cannibals. I really should have taken a picture of me grilling yesterday. With my nephews chickens hovering around the patio begging for scraps… OF the CHICKEN I was grilling.
@ RIX:
Holy crap
You may have heard about a young man in a fast food place who had his MAGA hat ripped off and his drink tossed in his face. Here’s the video. If you turn the sound on, I believe the man who did this (black guy, I think) said “he ain’t worth shit, niggah” as he strolls away. With the hat.
https://twitter.com/brxpug/status/1014417257945018368
@ eaglesoars:
oh, the guy has been fired from the bar he worked at.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1014867483940007938
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1014870155967455232
@ doriangrey:
no it won’t. they will never admit it’s wrong. the only thing it will do is move jurisdiction back to the states, so they’ll have 57 fights on their hands instead of just one. Actually, California and NY would probably end up allowing infanticide, so they wouldn’t even have to bother.
This is Howard Fineman (MSNBC) jerking off about the latina
#AlexandriaOcasioCortez is a sensation. Rightly so. She’s young, winsome, vibrant, truly working class. Her agenda of guaranteed health care, jobs, college and criminal justice reform is spot on for a rising, urban generation. Her viral video ad was inspirational — and lethal.
Winsome.
https://twitter.com/howardfineman/status/1011809786663403520
Maduro warns Venezuela army over Trump’s ‘invasion’ plans
Behind-the-scene talks reveal how Trump intended to take advantage of Venezuela’s crisis to invade the country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/maduro-warns-venezuela-army-trump-invasion-plans-180705070527990.html
Troll level: Galactic Overlord
It does make one wonder what Trump was up to while those morons were distracted, tho.
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1014948416802050048
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1014952592479170560
Here’s Scott Pruitt’s Resignation Letter
Mr. President, it has been an honor to serve you in the Cabinet as Administrator of the EPA. Truly, your confidence in me has blessed me personally and enabled me to advance your agenda beyond what anyone anticipated at the beginning of your Administration. Your courage, steadfastness and resolute commitment to get results for the American people, both with regard to improved environmental outcomes as well as historical regulatory reform, is in fact occurring at an unprecedented pace and I thank you for the opportunity to serve you and the American people in helping achieve those ends.
That is why it is hard for me to advise you I am stepping down as Administrator of the EPA effective as of July 6. It is extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role first because I count it a blessing to be serving you in any capacity, but also, because of the transformative work that is occurring. However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.
My desire in service to you has always been to bless you as you make important decisions for the American people. I believe you are serving as President today because of God’s providence. I believe that same providence brought me into your service. I pray as I have served you that I have blessed you and enabled you to effectively lead the American people. Thank you again Mr. President for the honor of serving you and I wish you Godspeed in all that you put your hand to.
Your Faithful Friend,
Scott Pruitt
http://freebeacon.com/politics/exclusive-scott-pruitts-resignation-letter/
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Thurston Howell the Turd’s commentary on Pruitt’s letter
Will a future Gibbon cite this letter as the moment republican spirit was replaced by obsequious servility, and the glory of America was extinguished forever?
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1014982905850982400
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1014990239742324737
@ doriangrey:
snort
*grin*
rain of lead wrote:
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1014993723199877120
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1014995462825259013
https://twitter.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1015005185419239424
@ Possum:
Are yinz OK?
We have a great deal of flood damage around here.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Yeah, no flooding but it was bloody annoying. Stuck indoors. Cats were pissed.
May as well have gone to work. No neighbors grilled or gathered in parking lot to have a beer.
Normally 9am Saturday and Sunday the parking lot is a great place to be… 🙂
@ Possum:
Glad you’re OK.
Did they reschedule a celebration?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
They celebrate all the time here…
🙂
They work hard, and they party hard.
I am a minority here. In fact in 320 apartments I am a minority of one.
LOL ask Calo.
@ eaglesoars:
First I’ve heard of this but maybe Trump should do a float by with an aircraft carrier.
just found this
makes sense
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
— Calvin Coolidge, Philadelphia, 1926
@ rain of lead:
Well written. Makes me wish Mexico and Canada would overlay with this.
eaglesoars wrote:
…… on the end our bayonets!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope not at all.
NZ officially was the last point on Earth to be occupied by human. Until you read the unofficial histories and in that case the Maori were just the latest ‘Johnny-come-latelies’ to arrive. There is so much physical evidence of thousands of years of hard evidence as well as genetic research that says otherwise. But after just 33 generations of Maori and 11 generations of Europeans there is a whole legalistic industry on ensuring one race pays the other race for real and imagined slights. The money in the billions goes to the 3% of the Maori grievance industry mongers by suppressing the actual history of this nation.
@ darkwords:
Maori came from Rarotonga and before that Tahiti. There was no great fleet of canoes. Settlers arrived in dribs and drabs in sub tribal groups up until the 1600s when the Dutch passed by and sighted NZ. The groups were no more that extended family groups of 40 or so in each very scattered settlement, with virtually no Maori in the South Island except for summer forays to collect green stone. Then as regular trade developed between Tahiti- Rarotonga – and NZ the Kumura (sweet potato ) arrived from Tahitian contact with the Peruvians about 1600.
That massive change in Maori diet caused a population explosion and the establishment of Pa (fort sites) and inter-tribal warfare and cannibalism. It was all about living space and control of tribal land. That tribal warfare persisted for the next 200 years until the Europeans arrived in small numbers in the early 1800s and in large numbers from the mid 1800s. They Treaty of Waiting was signed by many but not all Maori Chiefs and supported by a majority of Maori as the British brought the end of tribal warfare. To that end many Maori fought on the British side during the land wars of the North in the 1840s and the much larger land wars across the middle of the North Island in the 1860s. Maori in 1840 became British Subjects with all of the protections that that brought. Land was still a contentious friction point as British land courts battled against the ideas of tribal land owned collectively but often traded and sold by unscrupulous Maori with no rights to sell anything. Land confiscations especially in the Waikato south of Auckland (where great dairying land is located) and the awarding soldiers and ‘friendly Maori’ who fought on the British sideband won the wars still sticks in some Maori throats. Maori raise and the odd massacre resulted in more land confiscations by the Crown and the sale to settlers from the UK, Australia and Europe.
The Waitangi Tribunal was set up 40 years ago to address some of those legal battles between the Crown / NZ Government and various Maori tribes. IOt was hijacked right from the off by lawyers who have turned it into an ‘industry’ to enrich themselves to the detriment of many Maori who remain at the bottom of the social heap.
Food for thought as you digest your 4th July repast.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/the_sinomexican_influence_in_americas_backyard.html
Self entitled moonbat who went after Scott Pruitt in a restaurant says debate about civility is a waste of time.Ergo the ‘civil’ part of civilization disintegrates into tribal warfare. History will repeat with the triumph of the loss of reason. MAGA, not losers.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ryan-foley/2018/07/05/kristin-mink-msnbc-whole-debate-about-civility-waste-time
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DIkOWk3iVms/Wz4AVx4oe_I/AAAAAAABuZQ/hjcwArBLx-Q76Mqo8Np3MgY5TmbKbHh2ACHMYCw/s1600-h/sowell%2Bon%2Bpreerential%2Btreatment%255B3%255D
Those Israelis have been busy little bees again.
The Missile that Must Not Be Named!
Seems probable that the fiendish Israelis have been at it again technologically, producing a hypersonic anti S-400/500 killer
Not sure what’s the name code, but this project developed by Rafael is a new hypersonic missile with active radar countermeasures and sacrificial drone missiles in the head. It tricks the planar switching phase radars to see it going sideways and shoot their antimissiles on a phantom target. Then, the missile passes over the S-400 / 500 battery and the decoy keeps circling and stirring to stay in S-400 radars sight, which calls for expending more antimissiles on a target with no value at all. This crazy design is so good, in fact it navigates in jumps from one S-400 location to the other, because it can be acquired as true target only by triangulation from very far away.
As it was in the case of the Iron Dome the US who helped fund development are already asking for a transfer of technology.
Cunning Israelis. It seems that Rafael boffins have been busy in the lab/workshop again.
HEH!
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yenta-fada wrote:
But, but, that’s not what they said after the Gifford’s shooting. Then it was all about “civil discourse”. Which of course meant that people with conservative viewpoints were to STFD and STFU.
AZfederalist wrote:
Silly billy
Language of the Left means whatever they want it to mean at the time it dribbles off their lips.
These creeps couldn’t lie straight in bed!
🙂
A history of BAD Progressive Ideas that never worked.
https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/06/historys-bad-ideas-are-an-inspiration-for-progressives/
Good morning. How about the irony ? The Lib pundits are complaing about Trump supporters chanting
“lock her up” But they have no problem with Maxine and her mob shrieking “Impeach 45!”
Maxine is claiming that she is getting threats and hate mail. But it was ok for her to tell the mob to harass
and chase out Trump cabinet members out of public places.
They are really only to laugh at.
@ RIX:
This will curl your hair mate!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/BMpmOLCH6KvH/
… and Turkey remains part of NATO!
amazing
@ Aussie Infidel:
G’day mate, great information , but most people do not or will not believe it.
Erdogan has transformed the secular Trukish state into an Islamic state .
The Army was the protector of the secular state, so Erdogan purged the officer corps.
When they come to the West it is not to be part of us, it is to dominate, a soft jihad.
213K jobs added in June. 600k new workers in the force (NOT from the unemployment figures, these are new), unemployment rate is 4%, labor participation at 62%. I heard the wage growth is good, also, but I didn’t catch the number.
winning.
oh, here we go. wages up 0.2%
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ RIX:
we need to get our nukes out of there
neaglesoars wrote:
ASAP. Things are going sideways there quickly.
eaglesoars wrote:
people moving out of u5 and u4 into u3 skews the unemployment rate upward.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
shows the total going down under trump.
@ coldwarrior:
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/gross-domestic-product-charts
in a short period of time we will be out of the depression that started under bush2 in 2000
@ coldwarrior:
@ coldwarrior:
to paraphrase that famous scene from ferris bueler’s day off:
again, how is trump going to wreck the economy…nevertrumpers? nevertrumpers? nevertrumpers?
coldwarrior wrote:
the other day I asked a question about the GDP and somebody saying that the growth was not as good as it could have been because of demographics. I didn’t understand at the time. Now I get it. It’s simply about the availability of workers, they’re finding they’re a bit short.
ach. Hubby has lost his cell phone. I mean LOST it. It’s nowhere. Panic time. Anybody got any ideas?
@ eaglesoars:
found it
eaglesoars wrote:
I know where it was… It was in the last place you looked… Huh…
I just went out to check my thermometer, It told me to fuck off, it had problems of its own, and go stare at somebody else. Yea… It’s 118 degrees here today.
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t remember what labor participation was 2 years ago, or 4, but 62% seems low.
doriangrey wrote:
100 degrees here today after a week of about 105. Wicked winds though, our summer monsoon rains started last night and now the winds are trying to make sure that any moisture provided is blown away.
right_wing2 wrote:
It’s going up. It was abysmal under Obummer
AZfederalist wrote:
We got 118 heat… and 20 to 25 mph gusts. Its like walking around in a blast furnace.
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1015357001902092289
doriangrey wrote:
We know someone who refers to it as walking into a hair dryer
new thread
eaglesoars wrote:
You bet your arse you do.
At last count there were at least 60 tactical nukes mostly B-61 variants at a minimum.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hubby only had a MAN -Look!
🙂