This is a rushed and hurried column for me, as Friday was our annual Christmas Party. Since I normally put this puppy to bed Friday evening before leaving the office, imagine my shock, dismay and horror when I woke up this morning and remembered Friday was a mess of red wine and prime rib. Both of which were slightly on the cheap end, if you ask me.
So t’was the week before Christmas and everyone who has stopped watching the NFL can now experience first-hand the delights of mall shopping on the weekend before Christmas. I get there when it opens and dash out before everyone gets out of church. Thank you, Catholic Church for authorizing Saturday Mass all those many decades ago.
There was never a greater indication of my divorce from football as yesterday. Normally I can’t wait for the NFL Saturday schedule to start. This year, the only reason I know two games were played yesterday was because they were advertised on a DVR’d episode of “Bull” that I didn’t get a chance to watch until this morning. Heh.
But keep paying those millions to Goodell, you idiot owners.
Today’s Games
Dolphins @ Bills
Packers @ Panthers
Ravens @ Browns
Texans @ Jaguars
Bengals @ Vikings
Jets @ Saints
Eagles @ Giants
Cardinals @ Redskins
Rams @ Seahawks
Patriots @ Steelers
Titans @ 40-Whiners
Cowboys @ Raiders
Monday’s Game
Falcons @ Bucanneers
In the NHL,
Blues @ Jets
Wild @ Blackhawks
Flames @ Canucks
Panthers @ Golden Knights (this is FLORIDA v VEGAS….okay, still having a problem with this)
As always, this is your Sunday Open Thread. Have some fun. Personally, I plan to make a big batch of hot-buttered rum and not planning to share. I will of course make an exception if anyone from this blog shows up at my front door. And we are a fruitcake-free zone here if that’s an incentive….
so, according to the financial press and some nevertrumpers, america firt policies will destroy the economy, the tax cut is bad for the economy and will cost the gop the majority in the house and senate, the booming economy is an illusion, the stock market is a bubble, nor one word about 4% growth this quarter, and bloomberg is obsessing about the price of a trump christmas ornament.
well, here is what i see: my retirement portfolio makes me smile bigly every week when i review my holdings, there are help wanted signs everywhere, the railroad up river from my house is busier than ive ever seen it, there are coal barges waiting to unload at the terminal across the river (this has never happened), the trades are advertising on the radio for apprentices (iron workers, electricians, carpenters, steamfitters, welders and operating engineers), three big companies up north are advertising for help so they can put on a new shift and open more production lines…
who do i believe, the so called CONservatives, the socialist press, or my own eyes.
Classic media bias by omission. Remember Charlie Gard, the British baby born with a mitochondrial defect?
VP Pence invited his parents to the U.S. and hosted them at the WH on Friday.
Remember Charlie Gard? Mike Pence Just Blew The World Away With What He Did For His Parents
https://www.americanewshub.com/2017/12/17/remember-charlie-gard-mike-pence-just-blew-world-away-parents/
coldwarrior wrote:
well, now you get to believe the Kremlin, cuz the U.S. press is going to go ape shit over this one
MOSCOW (AP) – The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin called Donald Trump to thank him for a CIA tip that thwarted bombings.
the WH has confirmed the call and will be issuing transcript shortly
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/942433950806536192
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365068-exclusive-prominent-lawyer-sought-donor-cash-for-two-trump-accusers
This is unsurprising. I want to know how much Moore’s accusers were paid. This clown and Allred need to lose their ability to practice law and need to be personally bankrupted. Also, how does she “represent victims” and Weinstein?
eaglesoars wrote:
OH NOES!!!
IMPEACH!!!!
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
until we learn to fight back hard and dirty this crap will keep happening.
Oh, my bad, this moron IS Allreds daughter. Seriously, these people need to go away.
This is interesting: Magazine-fed Remington 870
Yeman has a problem and it’s not the war. It’s the Houthis. On drugs. And not just any drug – khat. mix tobacco and meth. I knew there was casual use but it has now become a scourge
https://twitter.com/B7nlllk/status/801374370824331264
@ eaglesoars:
All those militia guys in Mogadishu were on that stuff
@ eaglesoars:
khat is a stimulant, breaks down to cathine and norephedrine and other compounds…they are similar to amphetamines
captagon is the nasty stuff that they are all using.
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
I “house to House’, a first-person account of the fist battle of Fallajuah, he said every house they took was FULL of drug paraphenalia. Apparently it’s common for Arabs to go into battle totally whacked.
@ eaglesoars:
tweakers.
@ eaglesoars:
Suicide bombers are usually on drugs, too
eaglesoars wrote:
hence the reason that they have no discipline and are lousy soldiers…well that and the entire male portion of society are cowards.
coldwarrior wrote:
Give them enough Heroin and Crystal-meth and absolutely NO ONE is a coward. What did you think those drugs were really invented for?
@ doriangrey:
amphetamines worked for the germans in ww2, at the start. it worked because the soldiers were very well trained, highly motivated, and not cowards at heart. however, prolonged use caused addiction and very erratic behavior which is not an asset on the battlefield. speed can be used but it has to be very limited and under very controlled circumstances.
loads of speed over time will expose weaknesses in the psyche pretty quick. untrained and cowardly muzzies hopped up on meth make great targets. the iraqi army ran away form isis when isis showed up tweaked to the hilt. the russians and us made pretty quick work of daesh for exactly the same reason. they are cowards at heart and have to rely on a chemical to even be on the battlefield.
chemical bravery is fake and dangerous and it will get you killed fast. i dare say that if isis were culturally brave and well trained that there might still be an ‘islamic state’ in the region today as it would have been far far harder to eradicate them. they won a short game with a chemical, now…just about all gone.
coldwarrior wrote:
part of this comment didnt show…
anyway, captagon is a stimulant as well, it isnt very strong though, as i recall, a bunch of captagon pills were captured and analyzed, it turns out that there wasnt any captagon in them, it was all meth and other stronger stimulants.
so isis et al are tweakers.
How The Media Reports On Trump
Two boys were tossing a ball in a vacant lot when one of them was attacked by a Rottweiler. The other boy, thinking quickly, grabbed a sturdy stick, wedged it under the dog’s collar and twisted mightily breaking the animal’s neck and freeing his buddy.
A reporter from the New York Times was cruising by and witnessed the scene. Thinking it would make a great human interest story, he began to interview the boys, focusing on the quick-thinking rescuer. Whipping out his laptop he entered the heading: “Brave Young Yankees Fan Saves Friend from Jaws of Vicious Animal.”
Looking over the reporter’s shoulder, the lad said, “But I’m not a Yankees fan.”
“Sorry,” said the reporter, “I guess I just assumed everyone in New York is a Yankees fan.” Hitting the delete key, the reporter typed in “Young Clinton Loyalist Rescues Friend from Horrific Dog Attack.”
“I’m not much for the Clinton’s either,” said the boy.
“Well, this is New York ,” said the reporter, “and most folks here are pretty big on the Clinton’s. Well, what person do you admire? What team do you root for?”
“I’m a Nationals Fan,” said the boy, “and I really like Donald J. Trump a lot.”
Hitting the delete key a second time, the reporter typed, “Arrogant Little Conservative Bastard Kills Beloved Family Pet.”
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
@ doriangrey:
Is that also why Arabs’ dicks are micro-sized…like a certain Corpulent Blogger from Culver City?
Deplorable Macker wrote:
one can only speculate.
RIX wrote:
indeed.
NHL hockey struggles in Miami, even with success, but the Tampa Bay franchise does great due to lots of retired northern expats.
Phoenix was a mistake, but Vegas has promise.
Seattle could support a team, as can Quebec City (of course). I look for AZ Coyotes or FL Panthers to move to one of those locations.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
It just ain’t right without the Nordiques…or Whalers.
@ coldwarrior:
Haven’t heard any chatter about Hartford.
Last time I saw Hartford, it was getting to be a pretty bombed out town. Plus, Broooons.
coldwarrior wrote:
The Germans tried it with their pilots during the war and boy, was that a mistake. The Allied pilots had a fixed number of missions before they were done and even then, got breaks. Not so the German pilots who were expected to fly until they were shot down or the war was over. My father said rumors about it had filtered thru while he was still in England and he finally met German pilots on the trip home who confirmed it. He said the majority of them had gone thru withdrawal shortly after capture and it definitely impaired them in the air. When the ship got to NY, the Americans were ordered that they were never to convey a word of the forbidden conversations they’d had with the non-existent German prisoners who were not on board.
coldwarrior wrote:
ROTFLMAO…. Never said it wouldn’t. Chemical bravery will make you brave. It will also make you reckless, irrational, and mind numbingly stupid. Its negatives far outweigh its benefits which is why no sane rational professional military allows their usage.
Its not so simple as one hyped up idiot getting themselves killed, in combat situations they tend to get everyone around them killed as well. But it does make them brave, suicidally brave, but brave none the less.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Massholes.
eaglesoars wrote:
love it!
eaglesoars wrote:
Yea, not to be an ass or anything, but it wasn’t just the Germans. My grandfather was a WWII pilot, he was also one of the founding members of the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club. The American Air Force relied on amphetamines pretty heavily as well.
That is why the Hell Angel’s even to this day are so profoundly associated with amphetamines. The Original Hell’s Angels were all WWII Air Force Pilots. Later a bunch of Army guys joined, because, well, the Army is where the motorcycle part of it came in.
The Story as I got it from my dad and grandmother is this. While in England, between missions my grandfather and his friends would blow off steam by…… Stealing Harley Davidson’s from the United States Army Signal Corps and riding them into the English towns near where their air bases were and pub crawling until they couldn’t see straight.
When grampa, a full bird colonel, return home from WWII he brought back 2 trophies. 1 was the seat out of Mousiloni’s personal fighter plane. The other was the Harley that he kept stealing from the Signal Crops. I played on both as a young child more or less unaware of their historical significance. The meth part I did not learn about until I was much much older.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/absolute-red-line-eric-holder-issues-second-warning-potus-trump-firing-mueller/
@ rain of lead</b
will this be like obamas red line?
doriangrey wrote:
first, we need to touch base because Dad told me a similar story about those pub crawls and wouldn’t it be, um, odd if – well, where was he stationed? Does the name Chelmsford mean anything? Altho Dad said he did his most of his R&R in London – he had a girlfriend there, Ricki.
Dad said some crews had such fast turn around between missions that they did take stimulants they had to request from the base doc but it was not a case of being ordered use them and their requests weren’t always granted. Nobody wanted to fly like that or with a crew like that unless absolutely necessary.
John McCain has left DC and is back in Arizona. He will not return for the tax vote.
I suspect he won’t return at all
*snort*
County commissioner invites UN into Chicago to battle ‘genocide’, violence
I’m sure the baby blue helmet guys will do just fine.
https://bluntforcetruth.com/county-commissioner-invites-un-into-chicago-to-battle-genocide-violence/
eaglesoars wrote:
I was growing khat and I didn’t even know it. It was used in NZ as a herbaceous screening plant in many gardens. Then the Somalis arrived in town as refugees and they all seemed ERY interested in our herbaceous screen. Tore the bloody thing out as soon as I discovered that they were getting mildly high on my herbaceous screen and they all went away. Khat is not a mixture of tobacco and meth. It’s a traditional intoxicant through the Horn of Africa. The cops cracked down in Khat trading and it’s now underground in the refugee Somali community here.
🙂
Ya know, I think this may not be a good look for the Dems
Diane Feinstein
The Republican tax bill caps the mortgage interest deduction at $750,000 for new mortgages. In California, seven counties have average home prices that are more than $750,000: Alameda, Marin, Orange, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. #GOPTaxScam
https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/942454012711964673
“Trump screwed me because I’m too wealthy”??
coldwarrior wrote:
Really?
I saw Somalis on the stuff and they all seemed pretty normal for Somalis.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I know that and I was less than clear in writing it. I should have done “(think tobacco and meth)”. Simply because that’s the way Somalis I’ve spoken to have described it to me (we have a few around here, very nice, I tend to meet them as taxi drivers)
@ Aussie Infidel:
see my 18
my earlier comment was truncated
eaglesoars wrote:
no comment from me.
This does not bode well for disaster/EMP issues.
Atlanta/Hartfield airport has been in a TOTAL power outage for over an hour and no backups have come online.
Heh. Tugboat just went past, fully decorated with lights and a big red light on the bow.
Lit tree on the roof of the pilot house.
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s a joke,but on the money.
@ eaglesoars:
No, they’re being killed by other “young people of color.” Guns are just the most common tool used to do it.
@ eaglesoars:
And just what does this moron think the UN, or any other outside body, is going to do about it? It’s not two warring factions that can be separated using peacekeepers.
lobo91 wrote:
Mayor Tiny Dancer is gearing up for a POTUS run. This is his delusional posture for the launch.
Trump is committing genocide against blacks. The global order must take note.
Just imagine the donations he’ll get.
@ eaglesoars:
Is it genocide when it’s people killing others of the same race?
watching the hatefull 8
right_wing2 wrote:
it’s genocide if it’s Trump. I’ll forward the memo
@ right_wing2:
bloods/crips huti/tutsi (watusi)
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope, sorry. If I was ever told the town names, I was way to young to remember them. Though, my not remembering the town names shouldn’t be much of a big deal, as, if I remember correctly, he flew fighter support for the 303rd bombardment group.
Before America officially entered WWII he flew with the AVG. The Hell’s Angel Squadren to be exact. Because he was retired Army Air-corps Captain he could not legally fly for Claire Chennault, so he is listed as Flight mechanic “Hank” Walker. He had flown with Eddie Rickenbacker in WWI in the 94th Aero Squadron hence the legal prohibition on his flying with the Flying Tigers.
He, interestingly enough, was the Commandant of the 94th Aero Squadron when he retired for good in 1958, one year before succumbing to prostate cancer. The Hell’s Angels that the world came to know, was the Hell’s Angels of Californian Sonny Barger. Sonny’s Hell’s Angels was a copy-cat of the original. Not even created until 1957, the real original Hell’s Angels were created back in 1946.
This is treason
Obama derailed campaign targeting Hezbollah to secure nuclear deal with Iran: Report
Operation Cassandra
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-derailed-campaign-targeting-hezbollah-to-secure-nuclear-deal-with-iran-report/article/2643790
eaglesoars wrote:
racissssss.
eaglesoars wrote:
In reality, it was probably a case where the Obama administration used Operation Cassandra as the “Stick” in a “Carrot and Stick” approach to negotiating with Iran. In other words, I suspect there is a whole lot less there than is being implied.
@ doriangrey:
Great background on the Hell’s Angels. Dad was a bomber pilot w/the 386 (IIRC it was the 386). Flew B-26. One of the best times we had together is when I got to take my parents to the Smithsonian Air & Space and they had a B26 on display in sections so you could see everything. He got to explain/show me all the stuff he had talked about.
You see those things and realize how cramped they were – no heat – and realized these men spent hours in flying tin cans loaded with ordnance getting shot at at X thousands of feet. Jesus
doriangrey wrote:
I’m not clear yet, but it looks like the deal w/Iran involved letting Hezbollah run free
I’d throw her ass in jail just on general principles, but unfortunately, I don’t think she actually did anything illegal. But the Awan brothers had access to everything – and turned it all over to Pakistan. Including SEAL operations, it is believed. It got men killed.
Thank God for Judicial Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPGfVZLzqXM&feature=youtu.be
doriangrey wrote:
doesn’t look like it
In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.
They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.
But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records.
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
eaglesoars wrote:
That would be my guess as well.
welp
Panthers owner Jerry Richardson to sell team after allegations of workplace misconduct
https://www.sbnation.com/2017/12/17/16788572/panthers-owner-jerry-richardson-selling-team
please tell me I’m not the only one LMAO
Russian oligarchs sue Trump dossier producer for becoming ‘collateral damage’ in smear campaign
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/17/fusion-gps-trump-dossier-producer-sued-defamation-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
gotta go.
did Franken resign yet?
this just gets worse.
McCabe has been in with the Russian mafia and Comey and Mueller have known
For years James Comey and Robert Mueller, as FBI directors, knew Andrew McCabe maintained problematic contacts with Russian officials including organized crime figures yet did little to investigate the now-FBI deputy director’s relationships even after other agents caught McCabe tampering in Russian-linked cases, FBI sources said.
And while both Comey and Mueller have used the unlimited resources of the United States government to try and tie President Donald Trump to Russia, the former FBI chiefs largely ignored McCabe’s associations with Russian mobsters and a Putin-linked billionaire under federal investigation by their own Bureau.
The same Russian billionaire at the center of Mueller’s recent indictment of Paul Manafort.
https://truepundit.com/comey-mueller-ignored-mccabes-ties-to-russian-crime-figures-his-reported-tampering-in-russian-fbi-cases-files/
Just a reminder – McCabes wife ran for state office in Virginia and took over $700k from Clinton Foundation money funneled thru Terry McAuliffe, our governor
lobo91 wrote:
So where does rem choke fall in the normal order of things: Full, Modified, etc.
lobo91 wrote:
Comes across as a dim bulb. However, that is probably just a front and knows full well the cause of the violence but wants to continue the personally profitable conditions.
@ AZfederalist:
Rem Choke is their in-house line of choke tubes.
That particular one comes with the “Tactical” choke, which is more of a compensator. It’s cylinder bore. https://www.remington.com/shop/Rem-Choke-Tactical-12-Gauge—Haskinator-Tactical-Ported-%28Extended%29/p/F401501
Chik-Fil-A is working on Sunday to deliver food to people stranded at Atlanta airport
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/12/17/better-than-fema-chick-fil-a-is-delivering-meals-to-stranded-passengers-in-atlanta-on-a-sunday/
HOLY SHIT!
i almost wrecked 600dollars worth of cigars.
jezzus!
i feel nauseous.
@ lobo91:
Thanks, that’s what I was wondering. Makes sense for the application
coldwarrior wrote:
Dude, what happened? Humidor issue?
This is a man and piano.
@ coldwarrior:
Keyword is “almost.”
@ AZfederalist:
Details in a minute…omg.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
@ AZfederalist:
oh hell.
so my kids and santa bought me this great 250 cigar humidor (the kids dont know it yet, nor does mrs coldwarrior, but its from santa and the kids still believe and that is what matters) i was a good boy this year.
anyway, i started the curing process some days ago and did some minor modification with some spanish cedar that i have on hand.
i took the following out of my coolidor, i will do a post on that engineering marvel later…
i placed 20 drew estate undercrowns, 40 oliva sun grown, 10 aging room pelo d’oro, 10 from a place that i shall not name 🙂 , 10 oliva V, 10 AJ fernadez enclave, and 10 Montecristo espadas. and 10 Perdomo lot 23…$$$$$
…cont
@ coldwarrior:
i buy a country club membership every year and i like a good cigar. thats it. those are my things. mrs coldwarrior was blown up about about the cigars given my old history with tobacco. i smoked ciggies and chewed…yessir. both. i quit them cold turkey and when i did i dreamed of skoal for 6 months. it gets into you soul, it does.
i had always had a nice cigar here and there but was terrified to formalize having them at hand as i feared that i would slip right back into my very bad habits.
well, i didnt. a couple of years ago i started smoking cigars again. i might have 2 or 3 a day and then none a day…or many a day, depends.
@ AZfederalist:
now…on to the near failure…
that was a shit ton of $$$ cigars that went into the box. i left a block of the stuff that flower peeps use in the base of arrangements in the humidor. it was in a plastic cup. its green and absorbs water then releases it. the thing is that its great for curing the spanish cedar in a humidor but VERY lousy for when the cigars are in because the cigars will keep absorbing, bloat, get lumpy, and then rot; not unlike a certain blogger from culver city.
@ coldwarrior:
now, in my bar i have a lovely prohibition era liquor cabinet (and my famed collection of prohibition era marini shakers)…the new humidor with the high end smokes will fit nicely on the shelf.
i was going to place the humidor in there for longer storage for these excellent smokes and i decided to look in it one last time.
8 of the cigars were already starting to bloat, several were absorbing way too much water. i forgot to take out the florist block.
they got removed and put in room air and look ok. had i left the block of foam in there there would have been destruction as i was using this for longer term holding. i would have had a bunch of formerly very nice and now unwound rotted tobacco.
coldwarrior wrote:
I had to save about 50 cigars that were allowed to dry out for around 5 months at a pawn shop. (I bought the humidor from them and got all the cigars for free because they legally couldn’t sell them). Used the green flower foam. Saved about 35 of them. The rest exploded.
@ coldwarrior:
Ouch. Glad you caught that in time.
morning y’all
the girl has mid-terms for the next three days then she’s out for christmas
will find out wed if she made the team
hehe
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/18/manchin-franken-senate-resign-300843
@ rain of lead:
I wonder if we really will be getting a bunch of allegations against half a dozen or a dozen Senators & Congressmen. How many against Republicans & how many against Democrats?
good morning. Already the dog is looking at me like I’ve forgotten something and she’s not even out of bed yet.
@ coldwarrior:
lord. you are one lucky SOB. Hey, will you check your email please, I’d like to quote you for a letter I’ve been asked to write for the UKIP blog.
right_wing2 wrote:
I dunno, but the reporter who made the claim, Luke can’t-remember-last-name is an investigative guy for the Daily Caller News Foundation and his record so far is good. He’s testified before Congress on the Awan case.
rain of lead wrote:
why I don’t miss school
Apologies coldwarrior, I have been exiled to outer Siberia, I’m usually in bed and wifi’less by 8pm PST these days.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ah, commonly referred to as “Hell Week” back in my old school days. Not sure what the kids are calling it these days.
@ doriangrey:
she’s pulling 5 A’s and 2 C’s
so not too bad
well damn
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hartsfieldjackson-atlanta-airport-blackout-sends-message-to-terrorists-america-is-unprepared?via=twitter_page
Good morning. Having to do with nothing I was watching the History Channel over the weekend.
They had a piece on the Dark Ages and how they ended, One factor was the Crusades because it opened
Europe to to new ideas including literature and medicine etc.Interesting since libs see no value in the Crusades
which they view as European white supremicists persecuting brown people.
The other factor is a warming period ending the Little Ice Age. Crops flourished, health and innovation improved.
Warming is good according to the segment. That piece will never be shown at any university.
RIX wrote:
they said that? srsly?
*thunk*
rain of lead wrote:
exactly. They had a single point failure and they could not even identify the where or why for hours. They had no backup to bring online, they had nothing.
I read something the other day about the security of the grid. The point was that preventing failure was only half the issue – the other half was recovery protocol, about which they’ve done – zip.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup, it was amazing. They apparently didn’t get the memo.
@ eaglesoars:
cause monster transformers just grow on trees
and not the movie kind
Understandably, some people have been skeptical of Mohammed bin Salmon’s efforts to bring Saudi Arabia into the 21st century. I suggest they look at this.
Jerusalem is as holy to the Jews as Mecca and Medina to Muslims: Israel is the product of Jews historic rights in the region
https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/942762179564097536
rain of lead wrote:
very VERY BIG trees!
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course, the companies who are gung ho for gay marriage and progressive atheism and work on Sunday were not heard from.
It’s the company that espouses CHRISTIAN values and it’s EMPLOYEES who were willing to help strangers that practiced what they preach!
Okay, I must have been unconscious when this happened last night during the Raider Game because Football Savant Offspring did not burst into my location screaming invective…..
“THE PAPER RULE????”
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
hey, Kozinski, 9th Circuit, is leaving – under a cloud but that’s not important.
Trump gets to appoint a new judge to the 9th!
@ eaglesoars:
Six total vacancies now. But Kozinski was one of the most senior and powerful. Still, I’ll take six conservative voices to help drown out the deafening thunder of libeal asshatery and poor judicial reasoning.
You would think they would be embarrassed at their reversal percentage.
off to real life later
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
They are libs, they are probably proud of it and consider it a resume enhancer.
AZfederalist wrote:
Of course they do, to them, it proves how right they are and how stupid and corrupt the rest of the world is.
Kozinski’s case was moved to the 2nd Circuit for review by order of Chief Justice Roberts. Two clerks have quit.
I imagine things are poppin’ over at 7th and Mission right now. The corridors must be overflowing with reporters. Hee. If these guys think Trump is hard on them, wait’ll they get a load of the kids in the Clerk’s office. If I know Phyllis, the Imperial Clerk, she will personally drop kick every one of them through the double doors.
Here is the text of Trump”s Security Strategy. It’s 68 pages. You first
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/read-trumps-america-first-national-security-strategy-for-yourself/article/2643829
Oh yeah, remember this?
Earlier this year, a prominent #Antifa website published an article tacking credit for the sabotage of train tracks in Olympia, WA. In this article they claimed to have poured concrete on the tracks. It has since been deleted
https://twitter.com/FarLeftWatch/status/942818644911943686
@ eaglesoars:
NTSB will be all over that area. If it’s ANTIFA, at least we know the Trump DHS will make sure they get designated as a terrorist group. Obama would have hosted them as SJWs at the White House.
Prehistoric ancestor to Muslims found living in Japan. https://www.sciencealert.com/female-japanese-macaques-having-sex-with-male-deer?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1
uh huh
Update: A local official has reportedly told the Associated Press that preliminary signs suggest that the Amtrak train may have struck something on the track before derailing…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-18/watch-live-amtrak-train-derails-plunges-i-5-freeway-near-seattle
And…..you have to see this picture
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/283688/
you’re welcome
That? Is just what I needed today.
What an adorable little angel! And that expression!
There are too many issues to excerpt so read the whole thing. Andrew McCarthy just shreds Mueller
Mueller’s Scorched-Earth Tactics . . . Again
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454742/mueller-investigation-trump-team-files-using-bullying-tactics
This is a FANTASTIC story. These guys are going to MAKE organs for transplants..
And not one by one, but on an industrial scale, potentially producing tens of thousands of kidneys, hearts, livers and lungs annually, each one grown from the recipients’ own cells. Three-dimensional printers and bioreactors might churn out skin and cartilage to help heal wounded soldiers the way the looms in the red brick buildings of the Manchester Millyard once produced cloth to dress the Union Army.
and the Pentagon is backing him up
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/18/human-organ-manufacturing-transplant-artificial-3d-printing-216104?cid=apn
guess who didn’t show up for his Congressional testimony?
Bruce Ohr.
eaglesoars wrote:
Doesn’t Congress take a dim view of people who fail to appear for hearings?
@ AZfederalist:
remember when they held Eric Holder in contempt? What exactly was the fallout from that?
Nothing.
@ AZfederalist:
And how many regiments does congress have?
@ eaglesoars:
@ CynicalConservative:
OK, you do have a point. Congress is not exactly a force with which one must reckon unless you are an average citizen.
@ AZfederalist:
Once upon a time I was impressed with the institution, after waking up and analyzing the past 20 years or so, not so much. As CW has frequently said, the recent election cycle has been quite the eye opener.
AZfederalist wrote:
the penalties are minor in terms of fine and prison. An ordinary citizen’s problem is paying for the legal stuff. Somebody like Holder gets his bills paid by the gov’t. And if you want to fight a conviction, guess what – in 2 yrs or so, the makeup of Congress will change and they won’t remember your name.
It’s a joke.
Al Franken is still in Congress. So is Menendez. Conyers gets to retire with a pension. Which includes Congressional healthcare, NOT Obamacare.
Where the whole shebang comes together to bring down not just the US but the whole Western world.
Not a bad synopsis.
🙂
https://medium.com/@Cernovich/mcmaster-purged-nsc-trump-supporters-radical-islam-7ae8200e1f35
@ coldwarrior:
Just for Coldwarrior …. and any other cricket aficionados out there ….
The results of the second Ashes test match on day 5….
England First Innings all out for 403
Australia First Innings 662 for 9 (declared)
England Second Innings all out for 218 ( they fell totally to bits on day five just as the Aussies planned)
The Aussies win by an innings and 41 runs and don’t have to play a second innings
🙂
Two zip with three still to play. The Aussies have their tails up!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’ve been reading Cernovich for months and altho he’s good about some things, I don’t think one thing he’s feared about McMasters has come close. Higgins was let go awhile ago and everything Cernovich warned about with McMaster’s supposed infiltration of the WH is not panning out.
Listen to Trump’s National Security Strategy speech today. Look at what has happened to ISIS on the battlefield.
If Cernovich is to be believed, Trump is a chump under McMaster’s influence. And so are Mattis and Kelly. That’s a lot to swallow.
Trump is defeating the enemy without compunction or qualifiers.
Who’s the chump?
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
If that’s the case, then let the Antifa(g)s be Terminated with EXTREME PREJUDICE!
@ Aussie Infidel:
“Putin Puppet” — treasonous
Clapper weighed in today with that exact accusation. The paper is a decent primer for people new to the game.
The problem for all those cultural Marxists/infiltrators is – the internet. Publicity works in all directions. WE KNOW. We know what they look like, we know some of their names, we know they’re there.
We’re going to make 4% growth 4Q GDP. They enemy is being slaughtered in its homeland. The mothership, Saudi Arabia, is disinfecting the nursery.
This isn’t over, but I feel like Churchill when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The first good night’s sleep he’d had in years.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Bah… Cricket is a horrible game which only exists because a bunch of Limey’s tried to steal baseball but couldn’t comprehend the rules and buggered it all up.
@ doriangrey:
and it’s typically British. It takes forever to decide who wins.
cricket is a magnificent sport and i follow it pretty closely…wasnt a bad player back in the day either.
the aussies are handling the english side fairly easily in this installment of the ashes.
@ Aussie Infidel:
????????????????
Here’s another predictable line of attack. Gorsuch is widely considered one of Trump’s accomplishments. WaPo is now trying to undermine confidence is his judgement and temperment by publishing an unsourced report that he wanted to pull the nomination because Gorsuch wasn’t ‘loyal’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-reportedly-considered-rescinding-gorsuchs-nomination/2017/12/18/ad2b3b68-e1c7-11e7-9eb6-e3c7ecfb4638_story.html?utm_term=.446f903e0969
The ‘dementia’ meme isn’t over yet either. The DM has a story about Trump picking up a glass of water with both hands as indicative of mental decay.
Trump sparks fresh dementia concerns after he drinks small glass of water with two hands like a child – just days after he slurred his words during Jerusalem speech
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5192867/Trump-seen-drinking-water-two-hands-like-child.html
bedtime
coldwarrior wrote:
Snicker snicker… just messin with you and Aussie.
Baseball was only invented one year before Cricket (1839 Baseball, 1840 Cricket), the similarity between the two sports is genuinely coincidental. Both games indisputable have their origins in the Irish and English games of “Cat” and “Rounders”. But diverge in their own directions from that common ground pretty much from before either game was invented.
@ eaglesoars:
I must have dementia too, then, I guess.
I often pick up a glass/soft drink can/coffee to-go cup with both hands.
eaglesoars wrote:
I believe that you’re right. Trump is NOT the chump many take him for. There is a public (city) persona and then there is the actual behind the scenes persona. I know for a fact that Mad Dog is nobody’s puppy. McMaster is perhaps professional enough to divorce his personal politics from his pubic face, as all military are required to do ALL of the time. Denizens of the swamp can’t handle this because such a quality is so very rare inside the Beltway. More’s the pity.
🙂
doriangrey wrote:
HEH!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
and after say 3 1/2 days it rains and it’s a draw…. or even worse they run for the whole shebang 5 long days in the sun and STILL end up with a draw.
:0
Still it’s often the journey and not the destination.
But we certainly got to the destination in this last test match!
🙂
Try the mid to late 16th Century for the establishment of cricket Dorian . Cricket’s actual spread beyond Britain & on occasion Holland, was the mid 1800s when the game ride on the coat tails of British colonial expansion.
Actually Test Cricket is definitely an acquired taste. Fifty Over Day / Night is the best form of the game
Oh my. Ted Lieu batted above his weight and Sarah Huckabee Sanders bitch slapped him into next week.
Lieu: Dear @PressSec: You don’t serve in Congress. I do. And I can say with absolute certainty that you are lying
Sanders:
Dear @tedlieu – I don’t serve in Congress, but I can read. If you had read the story, not an incorrect tweet, you would see that what I said was Dems should be begging to help Americans keep more of their money. You should spend less time tweeting, more time doing your job.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Not to be pedantic my friend, but Test Cricket/Cricket was invented in 1840. Cricket, like its distant cousin Baseball (invented in 1839) is based upon the games of “Tip-Cat” and “Rounders” both of which are from the 16th century though are very distinctively different games.
coldwarrior… Christmas Cheer hath arrived… Muchas gracias, mi amigo..
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/12/19/cnn-hypes-new-childrens-book-about-santas-husband/
@ Twitchy
Ok, Santa is now. kind of a Kwanza dude, really donning gay apparel.
Tucker is doing the UFO thing. The pilot is going to be on tomorrow night
@ RIX:
Link from that page; it appears that McMuffin is not very well read regarding the founding principles of this country: https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/12/19/looks-like-evan-mcmullin-has-mistaken-our-founding-principles-for-frances/
@ AZfederalist:
When he runs for POTUS, Sally Yates is going to be his VP nom.
Our shared values include another essential principle, and that’s the rule of law — the promise that the law applies equally to everyone, that no person is above it,
unless you don’t like it, then you can order the entire Dept of Justice to stand down and disobey the POTUS
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/19/what-kind-country-we-speak-out-core-american-values-sally-q-yates-column/951828001/
McCabe is still testifying. It’s been 7.5 hours. I hope they don’t give him any bathroom breaks.
@ AZfederalist:
When he runs again, we’re calling his running mate Hash Browns. I don’t care who it is.
AZfederalist wrote:
McMullin is a major nosebleed.
If you don’t have a beard, a Muslim man might mistake you for a woman and get turned on. https://www.weaselzippers.us/368098-islamic-cleric-in-turkey-says-men-without-beards-may-cause-indecent-thoughts-because-they-could-be-confused-for-women/
doriangrey wrote:
Enjoy!
doriangrey wrote:
Absolutely correct mate. Test cricket did in fact have its origins in the mid 1800s. However cricket as a game began in the mid to late 16th Century on green commons everywhere in England
🙂
Comey’s tweet as McCabe leaves
Don’t let them get you down: “We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason. “ Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1830)
https://twitter.com/Comey/status/943329238152896512
eaglesoars wrote:
What the crap is that supposed to even mean? i.e, the Deep State is not yet dead and the Globalist vision shall return?
@ AZfederalist:
I am sure none of us possesses the requisite IQ to share his profound wisdom, even if he chose to grace us with it
@ eaglesoars:
Didn’t Comey tweet weird, but profound, crap a few nights ago?
Calo wrote:
I believe you are correct. Something’s not right with that man.
Calo wrote:
he’s been tweeting Bible verses. I keep telling people he reminds me of that FBI spy Robert Hanssen, who was a devout Catholic and arrogant POS. He’s got a messiah complex. Which is fine. I’ll gladly see him crucified.
Cardinal Law has died. Bet he’s not having a great after-life
A delightful A. J. Fernandez with my morning coffee, courtesy of coldwarrior. Krampus may be planing to visit my nephews and niece this year, but he has passed over my house like the Angel of Death did those Jew’s who marked their threshold with the blood of lambs so long ago.
eaglesoars wrote:
Just the after life he worked so hard to earn.
doriangrey wrote:
Funny thing is, he could have not worked at all and attained the same fate. All that time being miserable in life to be miserable in eternity as well.