just an open thread. i have to rest from all of this winning!
edit: yes there is a topic i suppose, its about how to think about the federal debt. debt in dollars and what not is irrelevant. the only number that matters is debt as a percentage of GDP. this is what counts. think about it this way, compare if you make $75,000 and have $10,000 in debt or if you make $30,000 and have $10,000 in debt, there is a huge difference. any other measure is nonsense.
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Better off though making $75,000 and having no debt
AZfederalist wrote:
i’d rather have a mortgage and a reliable car than walk to work and live under a bridge.
but, lets not get side tracked.
the point of this is that the GOP and the so called principled conservative nevertrumpers have the majority in the house and senate and DID NOT CUT SPENDING.
the only reason that debt to gdp has held is because of trump deregulating and demanding a tax cut. inflows to the govt are way up and gdp is bangin away.
the gop will not cut spending because they are liars. period.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/michael-browns-mother-who-instigated-rioting-and-beat-mother-in-law-is-running-for-office-in-ferguson/
Ghoul.
@ coldwarrior:
yup and she will win with 104% of the vote
The film (Christopher Robin) was denied release in China, as Chinese citizens have drawn comparisons between Winnie the Pooh and Chinese leader Xi Jinping since mid 2017.
now that’s funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr13IIkLMAI
Who needs a drummer or bass player?
@ coldwarrior:
You could close local, state, and federal government non essential offices on Monday and on Friday without a drop off in services.
@ coldwarrior:
Marty Armstrong:
I have been stating that (1) were are in a major bull market for the dollar, and (2) it is the US economy that is supporting the world. What I mean is simply this. Everyone from China to Europe is DEPENDENT upon trade with the USA because it is the US consumer who is the marketplace. The balance of the world CANNOT win a trade war with the USA. They have focused on selling to the USA rather than developing their own domestic consumer economies. China has shifted and understood that important distinction and has indeed turned its focus to developing a domestic economy. Europe has not and it is significant to comprehend that the structure of the European Union is disastrous. They want to PRETEND to be the federalized entity of Europe, but all 28 member states must agree on trade.
@ lobo91:
You win the award for finding young, pretty, and talented female vocalists. I like her. š
darkwords wrote:
lol. Canada ‘produces’ mostly Government jobs. We are SO scroomed.
Vanity Fair magazine has an article on loser heirs of successful men. Justin(e) Trudeau features prominently.
coldwarrior wrote:
She ran through her settlement like a hot knife through butter.
Yep, I’m still a racist./
@ yenta-fada:
bingo.
we win unless we choose not to win.
@ coldwarrior:
You and eagle were talking about the U.S. base in Turkey the other day.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-10/turkish-lawyers-want-raid-incirlik-air-base-arrest-us-troops-terrorist-ties
@ yenta-fada:
And an oppressor of women, apparently:
coldwarrior wrote:
I agree with that and the subsequent comment you made. However, having a mortgage and a reliable car is not the same as having a 4800 square ft mini-mansion and a Beamer. We have politicians that think the 4800 mini-mansion and Beamer, in a figurative sense, is what the government should have.
@ AZfederalist:
That.
@ yenta-fada:
@ lobo91:
If the Saudis didn’t teach, nurture, & finance homicidal maniacs worldwide, I would say that they’re just buffoons.
yenta-fada wrote:
I think Rebecca has it right above:
When was the last time you heard a mandolin solo on a Hendrix song?
@ lobo91:
Do I need to peel these NM chillies before I roast them?
lobo91 wrote:
Completely fact free! I wish there was a widely circulated analysis of the insane Psychopathology that arises from being brainwashed by Islamic doctrine & practices. No matter which country the are from, the lying, paranoid, delusional grandiosity is the same. They are required to despise and destroy infidels. It’s pretty simple.
lobo91 wrote:
i like it
coldwarrior wrote:
Nope. You peel them after roasting
https://www.hatch-green-chile.com/how-to-roast-hatch-chile/
I’m on, thx!
I knew there was something about skins. I have about a dozen ready to go from the garden
@ lobo91:
Oh man!!! These are wonderful!
yenta-fada wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
define ‘enough popcorn’
@ eaglesoars:
its time to teach those muzz cowards a lesson.
you stupid goombah, trump will humiliate you. moron.
coldwarrior wrote:l
This guy will never get to the point of being nominated. This guy is an out of control nut bag.
coldwarrior wrote:
The Turks are good fighters, I don’t mean to take anything away from them. But they have a leader who is going to get them humiliated. In that part of the world, that’s a recipe for a short life.
As for Avenatti, somebody told him about the loopholes that allow you to pocket your own campaign money. If the guy thought he’d win and have to, you know, actually show up for work, he’d probably open a vein.
Good god. Submitted without comment. Mostly because I’m at a loss for words
NYT corrections:
An article on Friday about rising global temperatures described incorrectly an aspect of the average temperature for the United States between May and July. While that temperature, 70.9 degrees Fahrenheit, was 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit above average, it was incorrect to describe it as āalmost 5 percent above averageā because Fahrenheit temperatures are not absolute quantities and therefore changes cannot be expressed consistently in terms of percent.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/the-times-does-temperature.php
@ eaglesoars:
Powerline is wrong about this, though:
Using Celsius would have yielded the same error. 21.6 degrees is not 9.5% “hotter” than 19.7.
Now, if they’d reported it in Kelvin, then they could have made that claim. 70.9 degrees F is 294.7611 K. The supposed “average” of 67.5 F is 292.8722 K.
That gives you a percentage increase of 0.645%
eaglesoars wrote:
jesus god almighty.
its an expressed fixed amount!!!!
they tried to write about math and screwed that up too. how about some graduate level stats or differential equations????
any takers NYT?
@ coldwarrior:
And that’s not even considering the stupidity of trying to express an “average temperature” for a country with a land area of almost 3.8 million square miles
coldwarrior wrote:
um, I think 8th grade algebra maybe?
lobo91 wrote:
I didn’t even do the math. I got stuck on the “not absolute quantities’ bit. Fortunately my beverage for the evening is bubbly water so it was easy to clean up.
@ lobo91:
Its painful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3VLqLLWxbQ
My dog is a Democrat
yenta-fada wrote:
Lying to infidels is perfectly OK and sanctioned. However, they have taken it to the extreme such that they think the infidels and others will believe bald-faced lies even when the facts are openly in evidence. As you state, it is to the point of psychopathy.
heh
“strike me down and I will become more powerful than you can imagine”
https://www.mystatesman.com/business/bans-don-seem-lessening-reach-alex-jones-infowars/Xo1jC96JodMuYqZDYMVQjO/
coldwarrior wrote:
Hatch chilies? Oh yeah, that’s good eating.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep, Obama’s no longer the CINC and Mattis is SecDef. Try something like that and the ROE’s will be … entertaining
@ AZfederalist:
… especially where nukes and nuke safety is involved. Those signs about “use of deadly force authorized”? Yeah, they mean it.
rain of lead wrote:
The fact that other news outlets – ‘respectable’ ones – are encouraging this – is going to bite them. Goose, gander.
Freedom of the press is just a convenient lie for them.
Now I see that over 100 of them have teamed up to write anti-Trump editorials. Mob ‘journalism’.
But they’re not the enemy of the people.
lobo91 wrote:
This. … and even for one region, what the heck is “average temperature”? Temperature varies as a function of diurnal cycle, cloud cover, sampling interval, etc. Averaging the temperature over the course of a day, and then over a year, is really ludicrous.
@ eaglesoars:
reporters are just democrat operatives with bylines
AZfederalist wrote:
Oh my! I only planted 3…there will be many more next year!
rain of lead wrote:
So this really seems to be the opening salvo in purging the internet of “wrong-think”. They start with someone extreme (actually, they started years ago with nazi’s and white supremists”) such that most rational people would say, “yeah, he’s extreme” so that banning is “sort of” OK. Then they start moving the boundaries with the goal of banning anyone who dares step outside the bounds of liberal orthodoxy. Failing to defend Alex Jones now will result in people like Crowder being banned next followed by blogs like this.
Time to say good nite.
I think I have the date right. It was 2 years ago tonite, just about this time, that we lost Iron Fist. I have absolute faith that he’s where he’s supposed to be, I just hope he’s watching all this and cheering us on. He would have loved every minute.
sweet dreams
eaglesoars wrote:
Wow, 2 years. It just doesn’t seem that long.
Goodnight Eagles.
Damn it… Just got home about 10 minutes ago.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/393714-boston-globe-urges-coordinated-response-against-trumps-criticism-of-press-more-than-100-papers-sign-on/
A couple of years ago, I performed a wedding for two of my friends. We found out about 3 weeks ago that she was pregnant. Sadly, she lost he baby. Prayers for my friends T & G Vasquez.
right_wing2 wrote:
When all else fails, double down on the stupidest idea you can find.
CHICAGOLAND: 20 shot in night; ‘I’m scared to walk to store’…
keep voting democrat, slave!
coldwarrior wrote:
The Mayor has it under control. Emanuel has declared Chicago a “Trump free zone.”
@ RIX:
Itās all the imported Trump supporters who are killing young black men and women.
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For perspective. Which countries are on the current UN Human Rights Council.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/currentmembers.aspx
The international Deep State corruption sewer
The Mossad threat to the world.
The Mossadā @TheMossadIL Ā· 19h19 hours ago
The people who have the worst time in our custody are terrorists and those who point out spelling errors in our tweets.
@ eaglesoars:
I ran across a pic recently I took of him at the last meet up in Ohio (Geepers place, for all you old timers) about a dozen years ago. Looks like we were on a make shift firing line.
Good times.
@ eaglesoars:
Good thing the nukes left Turkey about a week after the crafted coup happened. I think the Russians have the goods on Erdogan accepting IS oil and making a small fortune off it. Some Kurds I know here are pretty well informed what that rat is doing.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/08/12/nbc-ignores-own-reporter-and-crew-assaulted-antifa
Yinzer Pride
Steelers fan in full uniform sneaks onto field with team
https://triblive.com/sports/steelers/13963536-74/steelers-fan-in-full-uniform-sneaks-onto-field-with-team
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Oh, they ARE out! I asked and was told they were still there. Good.
I’ve been skeptical about the ‘coup’ narrative. It’s quite possible, of course, but it seemed convenient.
You know all those racists/neo-nazis that Trump has encouraged and they’re rioting all over the place and HOARDES of them are ravaging our nation’s capital?
All 30 of them.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/304641/
oh, almost forgot.
If you like British comedies, there’s a new one on tonight on public TV at 10 pm EST. “Raised By Wolves”. It appears to be a single mother on the dole with about 4 children, living in public housing. The previews looked hilarious.
coldwarrior wrote:
Mortgage = Death Grip (according to there French)
The first thing one does is PAY DOWN YOUR MORTGAGE, preferably to zero. then invest any spare money to have a live within our means.
… ohhh yes and get yourself a good, smart wife who thinks likewise.
Happy life
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coldwarrior wrote:
There is GOOD spending and debt and then again their is BAD spending and debt.
are on GOOD debt if you must because spending on infrastructure and capital equipment will make one more productive and wealthier, whereas BAD debt just hangs an anchor of debt around both our and our children’s necks. When the GDP and productivity grows allow yourself a little largess and go splash out and reward your good sense.
š
eaglesoars wrote:
NYT are dumb to the bone.
One can’t remedy that profound level of stupidity !
I blame these morons’ teachers who taught them WHAT to think and not HOW to think. Two and a half generations of numbskull teaching and poof …. there goes civilisation!
š
rain of lead wrote:
If this movie doesn’t win something at the Academy Awards I’m going to tear someone’s throat out!
š
new thread, sad topic
@ lobo91:
Eep. Gimme some Samantha Fish instead.
@ Bunk X:
https://youtu.be/L0Au9lcwawI