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by coldwarrior ( 67 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at August 6th, 2018 - 11:23 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
NEARLY ONE QUARTER of All Jobs Added in the US this Century Have Now Occurred Under President Trump
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hey nevertrumpers….hows this work again? morons.
@ coldwarrior:
They’ll claim it started under Obama’s wise leadership, and because of a trade war, the economy will crash soon.
right_wing2 wrote:
Oh, thanks for the segue, not that I needed the excuse. Repost from downstairs.
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I don’t want to hear any more crap about how Trump’s tariff game with China can’t work either
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After a meeting on July 31, the Politburo, a top decision-making body comprising China’s 25 most senior leaders, issued a statement saying China’s economy maintained steady growth with good momentum in the first half of 2018. However, it now “faces some new problems and challenges,” the body acknowledged.
More precisely, according to Xinhua, which carried the statement, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth stayed within the range of 6.7 to 6.9% for 12 straight quarters. “But a slight weakening was spotted in June in industrial output and investment, and worries have been on the rise that escalating trade tensions could bite into the economy in the future.”
http://www.atimes.com/chinas-new-woes-unravel-xis-personality-cult/
re: the shootings in Chicago
“It is the same people who are pulling the triggers in some of these communities. This isn’t a widespread issue among citizens of the city. This is a small subset of individuals who think they can play by their own rules because they continue to get a slap on the wrist when we arrest them,” Johnson said.
And some of those ‘individuals’ are cops and politicians.
@ eaglesoars:
I was watching a panel on CNN the other night discussing Trump and the economy.
One pundit opined that Trump knows nothing about international trade.
Seriously, the guy said that. I assume that he learned all about it in J School.
https://m.dw.com/en/german-metalheads-construct-beer-pipeline-for-wacken/a-38962724
I need one of these.
I know that you all know the weekend casualty report for Chicago, 63 shot, 10 dead.
there is outrage at the thugs that did it l nah, I am just joshing. The media and city leaders are angry at the guns!
Well,also the manufacturers and joblessness and the heat wave, seriously. You just know. that Trump will
be held somehow responsible.
The solutions are,”We all have to work together” We need understanding”
Emanuel will do nothing but March around with Father Pflager and block expressways.
@ RIX:
Calories dont make people fat, forks do!
RIX wrote:
ya never know. Paul Krugman got a PhD in econ AND that stupid prize everybody keeps calling a Nobel and look how right he’s never been. Ever.
come to think of it, that might help explain that Ocasio-Cortez bimbo.
Ach. I shouldn’t have said that. Pamela Anderson is a bimbo, a really sweet person with the personality of evaporating water. Bimbos are far too good for the socialist latina
Holy Crap!
“Due to the flaws in our methodology, we are issuing you a refund for excess interest previously charged to your account”
Citibank got nailed by the Consumer Financial Protection people. I had no clue this was going on. But I just got a check in the mail for $1321.12.
*gulp*
@ eaglesoars:
pennies from heaven
coldwarrior wrote:
I knew it, I wasright!
@ eaglesoars:
Krugmanpredicted a world worldwide recession caused by Trump by now and the world would never come back from.
That’s a Obelisk right there.
that Ocasio-Cortez girl should have stayed a bartender.
@ RIX:
Obelisk, what the hell is that? NOBEL
RIX wrote:
Something to do with nitroglycerine I think!
🙂
Hopefully these morons will lose their minds when it explodes.
Oh yes. They have already lost their minds!
HEH
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
G’day mate. yup, lots of crazy out there.https://www.weaselzippers.us/392832-google-declares-angela-merkel-leader-of-the-free-world/
@ Aussie Infidel:
Damn! The above was responding to you.
@ Aussie Infidel:
you might like the piece linked to in #3
Hmmm… Gun Control…. AS defined by us ignorant toothless California rednecks… “Gun Control; the ability to hit what you are aiming at”.
eaglesoars wrote:
Remember that the actual GDP figures from China need ‘adjusting’ to take way the skewing and ’empty infrastructure components by 6%. The CCP know that they are currently only just breaking even at just over 6% ‘growth’. Anything Trump initiates will push their economy below 6% which means in fact that they would be in negative growth territory.
That coupled to the push back against the Xi clique of 5 mandarins controlling the Xi sock puppet is an added worry. All is not stable in China and Trump knows it. Perhaps it’s Trump’s turn to deploy one of those
‘nudges’, so celebrated by Obama and Valerie Jarret!
Couldn’t happen to a more invidious lot!
🙂
MAGA
@ Aussie Infidel:
no no no. we do NOT want an unstable China. We want a subservient China.
You know all those silly islands? Yeah. #WalkAway
like that.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-most-starred-chef-joel-robuchon-dead-73-111934613.html
31 michelin stars. 31.
by the age of 30 was running a 90-strong kitchen at the Concorde Lafayette hotel in Paris.
astounding talent
@ coldwarrior:
he was an astounding talent and he lasted longer than most. It is a BRUTAL profession, suicide is not uncommon, nor is early, stress-related demise. A girl who lived next door, a few years younger, became a chef. I saw her when she was about 32. She looked like she was a wrung-out 50.
http://www.greenmarketrecipes.com/vegetables/robuchons_mashed_pototoes.htm
@ eaglesoars:
its a tough life.
coldwarrior wrote:
looks yummy, I shall try it. But I’ve taken to steaming stuff in the microwave instead of a water/simmer on the stove. Tupperware makes a great microwave steamer, I think I have 4
https://www.amazon.com/Tupperware-Microsteamer-Junior-Microwave-Steamer/dp/B075ZG2KT3/ref=asc_df_B075ZG2KT3/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198075681105&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17907175813949362363&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008148&hvtargid=pla-578303643752&psc=1
live bear cam Katmai Nat’l Park Alaska
(they’re in the river fishing, it’s very cool)
https://youtu.be/2UIA8xOVcOs
@ eaglesoars:
The Obama administration would have arrested them for fishing without a license
Rome, 320 AD, History in 3D
https://youtu.be/btKooS7k3nw
(people are posting really cool stuff)
https://wwmt.com/news/local/amish-man-starts-uber-ride-service-with-his-horse-and-buggy
rain of lead wrote:
how do you call him?
@ eaglesoars:
oh. he should have regular buggy stops somewhere, like a taxi stand.
eaglesoars wrote:
So, sister in law who lives in Kansas posted a picture of an Amish family headed to vacation. A Winnebago and a party barge being pulled by a tractor.
@ AZfederalist:
I’m betting Mennonites.
Very interesting interview of Mike Rowe by little Benji Shapiro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVqtXX6LbM4
CW, if you haven’t seen this yet, get ready. A stronger version of bath salts. flakka
https://nypost.com/video/zombie-like-woman-terrorizes-florida-apartment-complex/
@ eaglesoars:
Very true. Chefs live on their nerves and by the always ticking clock. True passion is always like that no matter how talented one is. You’re only as good as your next dish and by god it’d better be perfect and exactly on time. Gordon Ramsey stays looking good by monstering all those around him. Actually he’s supposed to be a really nice bloke when he’s not under the pump himself or trying to drive others to excellence.
🙂
I just cook for fun
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@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Got a huge slow-cooker of gravy beef, masses of veggies and species sauces and herbs that’s been ‘on’ since 1100 today. It should be ready by 1800!
Yummmmm
Had my car serviced today. 5 hours later and $1900 it’s done!
Ouch!
I thought it might be $500-600! Made my eyes water!
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Took the bus to collect my car when Toyota phoned me. The Inner-Loop bus went via the University of Auckland and Auckland Hospital and Medical School. Goy got on and sat behind me opening crying in bursts with bought of apologising between them. His mum had just passed away in hospital. I turned around to him and told him that he had nothing to apologise for as it was just fine to cry when you lose your mum. He then fell to bits totally. Poor guy. Got off a few stops later still sobbing.
🙁
bouts = bought
Bloody auto correct is at it again!
@ RIX:
You might like this regarding Chicago stats.
https://heyjackass.com/
@ Aussie Infidel:
That’s rough. I had an trans-Atlantic flight from FRA to Detroit back in 2005 and sat next to a soldier who was on leave from Iraq. He was tired but struck up a conversation with me. I eventually found out he was going home because his mother had suddenly died and spent the next few hours speaking with with him (he wept at times) and I spent most of the time listening and asking a pointed question once in awhile. I let him steer the conversation. He showed me the scar where an AK47 round grazed his neck that happened a few months prior, so I understood he was in an emotional abyss. Ater we landed, he told me he appreciated my time.
Always wondered what happened to him.
So that driver for Diane Feinstein wasn’t just her driver. He was her office mgr.
And she was a big deal on the Senate Intel committee.
good lord
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/breaking-feinsteins-chinese-spy-identified-russel-lowe-was-office-manager-not-just-a-driver-attended-chinese-consulate-party/
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ Buckeye Abroad:
It’s weird when your mom dies. No matter how old you are, you feel suddenly orphaned.
eaglesoars wrote:
marvelous.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
This is what you get with a corrupt Democrat patronage machine.
they have even paid gang bangers to get out the vote, seriously.
@ RIX:
Chicago has always been a corrupt rats nest though I have a few good Weekends there in the past. When Illinois finally goes bust and can no longer fund their graft, I expect most of the city to go up in flames south of the river and well into Gary, IN.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
oh, expect it before that. They’ve levied a new property tax effective for the next 30 years (IOW, forever) in order to fund the bankrupt public pension funds. A 44% increase. Good luck trying to sell and get out, because nobody is going to buy into THAT.
So, if it were me – just sayin’ – and I wanted out of the place, what are my options? Burn the thing down and collect the insurance.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/property-tax-for-pensions-plan-would-pummel-illinois-homeowners/
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
The. City can not sustain things the way they are. The City is trying to solve everything through new taxes that the
residents can’t afford. People are leaving in droves, and more and more they are left with public assistance people.
The State of Illinois is ready to crash and we are exporting more people per capita than any other state.
By Constitution the State may not file for bankruptsy. Soooooo
@ RIX:
I feel for you. I have a good friend near Baltimore who has a house he has been trying to sell for years. He said once his ill inlaws pass (his wife is taking care of them), he is leaving Maryland as fast as possible as his job is not location dependent. His wife has a nice spread, but the amount of taxes they pay (they are DINKs) they are fiscally punished for staying.
Eventually all those state pensioners and welfare rats are going to get the big shaft and there will be nobody left to blame.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Then the American taxpayers will be on the hook to bail them out.
Oh yeah, they should make this part of their platform
To save American trust in “our institutions, democracy, free press, and markets,” it suggests, we need unprecedented and undemocratic government intervention into online press and markets, including “comprehensive (GDPR-like) data protection legislation” of the sort enacted in the E.U.
Brought to you by Sen. Mark Warner (Totalitarian-Virginia) and his buddies
https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/31/democrats-tech-policy-plans-leaked
I read somewhere that Alex Jones/Infowars email company has pulled his account.
I think the man is a loon, but if the Left succeeds in taking him out, there will be war
Toldja. So did CW. One of the few times Hubby has admitted I was right about commodities
https://www.oilworld.biz/p/weekly-august-3#weekly-august-3
China will face a very tight supply situation in soybeans in Oct/March 2018/19 and will have to resume purchases of US soybeans – probably up to 15 Mn Tons
right_wing2 wrote:
How can a state govt. demand the feds bail them out? Refuse and let the state restructure as no one will be buying their junk bonds.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I live in an outler county in Illinois in a great area, but the state is sinking.
My property taxes are killing me..
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
They’ll get the media on their side, show some pathetic, starving pensioners and go for the emotional kill.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/393137-boy-in-wheelchair-holds-himself-up-to-stand-for-national-anthem-at-tennessee-fair/
https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/ohio/special-election/aug-07/
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/socialist-star-cortez-strikes-out-all-endorsed-candidates-lose-tuesday-primaries/
rain of lead wrote:
There’s some arcane rule that’s keeping Crowley on the ballet. I’m betting he wins.
@ eaglesoars:
Crowley,
sounds like the name of someone who would make a deal with the devil…
@ rain of lead:
Aleister Crowley. Brit guy who was into the occult. I think he was a bit of a con man myself
nite
@ eaglesoars:
Food is a yuge yuge national security issue
Ted Cruz asks Trump to campaign for him in Texas
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Ted-Cruz-asks-Trump-to-campaign-for-him-13138353.php
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
i was putting that thread together just now!
AZfederalist wrote:
Good luck with that. I don’t think there is much empathy for the greedy geezers.
@ RIX:
“My property taxes are killing me..”
Tell me about it. Mine tripled a few years ago. The flat has appreciated in value, but wife and I are knocking around our plans for the future and staying here isn’t in the cards.