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Pre-Christmas Open 2017
by coldwarrior ( 43 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at December 23rd, 2017 - 9:34 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!
sooo much college ball coming up…i’m delerious!
saltmines…
Training is almost over. We take the test Tuesday afternoon. Seems like a pretty good group, and I think most will pass. I’m more worried about my passing than some of them!
Part of me wishes I’d waited for a different opportunity.
This is a good start though.
@ right_wing2:
you’ll be just fine!
McCabe is out
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/facing-republican-attacks-fbis-deputy-director-plans-to-retire-early-next-year/2017/12/23/b4802b8c-e67a-11e7-a65d-1ac0fd7f097e_story.html?utm_term=.96ca2530a709
HA! Even MSNBC finds her too stupid
Joan walsh is out
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/366308-msnbc-decision-to-not-renew-joan-walshs-contract-prompts-backlash-from-hosts
Oh yea… The SEC has informed me that they are going to ask Scottrade if they did anything illegal with my account, but that if Scottrade denies it, oh well, there is nothing the SEC can do about it. What, does Hillary Clinton own Scottrade, or just run the SEC??? Somehow I knew this was going to happen.
Fox was not responsible for the slaughgter of all the chickens in the Chicken koop. Signed, Fox’s Mother.
@ doriangrey:
And a lawyer would probably just charge you an arm and a leg
hey CW
Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/business/economy/trump-steel-industry-layoffs.html?_r=0%3Fsmid%3Dfb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
thoughts?
eaglesoars wrote:
Bumps and hick-ups.
@ eaglesoars:
The ArcelorMittal plant locally has been fighting with the EPA for years.
https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2017/12/21/settlement-reached-for-1-5m-with-arcelormital.html
If you can’t make coke, you can’t make steel. And for years it has been impossible to meet air quality standards and produce coke at a profit. Period. If they get under their limits, the EPA wold tighten the limits.
I can only speak for US Steel, and they’re hiring like gangbusters.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Read somewhere in the past year that the reason U.S. steel isn’t the best is too many contaminants from recycled material. Stuff like mercury can’t be driven out so steel from foreign markets, like say China, is a more pure metal then what we get here in North America due to recycling standards.
@ PaladinPhil:
I can’t speak to that at all, but I can ask. The old man was in every mill in the Mon Valley every day, as a guy selling them their machinery, for 40+ years, and many of his friends were directly involved in production and rolling.
I can say that they are hiring like CRAZY, ad that nobody liked the fact that they upgraded the corporate wide computer system instead of ‘upgrading’ to a new hot mill. (“Bean counters,amirite…,” that kind of thing)
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
thanks. one of the reasons I asked is because it is so seriously at odds w/everything else I’ve been hearing. The other reason is that a one-plant profile immediately makes me wonder if there is something particular to that plant. Now, your comment
If you can’t make coke, you can’t make steel. And for years it has been impossible to meet air quality standards and produce coke at a profit
makes me ask – why are other plants not having the same issue?
hey, lookie here!!
Snowden’s Haven app turns smartphone into anti-spy sentinel (VIDEO)
yep, Edward Snowden has an no-spy app for your phone. And not to worry, it’s open source so there are no hidden back doors or anything.
If I could afford it, I’d buy a second phone just to test that sucker
linky
https://www.rt.com/news/414026-edward-snowden-privacy-app-haven/
@ eaglesoars:
ArcelorMittal is based in Luxembourg. Just throwing that out there.
Honestly have no idea where US Steel is getting their coke.
We just had a large plant close on Neville Island last year.
USS Clairton makes coke in-house, but other than that I don’t know.
I also don’t know who else is actually making steel other than AK in Buter, PA.
ArcelorMittal (the ‘Luxembourg’ based company) also bough Weirton steel, and Wheeling-Pitt and Allegheny ludlum are relics of the past.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
wait a sec wait a sec wait a sec
my Smithsonian attic memory is making rustling noises. Something about a French politician. Back in the Chirac days. Remember that Fench PM whose name I can’t remember but he considered himself a poet and we always finished up his name with “…who is a man”
https://youtu.be/cmpRLQZkTb8
@ Canoe Convoy:
I’m an Oasis fan, but I guess the Brits played that after a Muslim terror attack as a way of ‘catharsis.’
*spit*
Manchester crowd sings Don’t Look Back in Anger – video
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2017/may/25/manchester-crowd-sings-dont-look-back-in-anger-oasis-video
eaglesoars wrote:
I think I’m going to repurpose an old phone and put it in my jeep as a security device. I’ve been looking for a device that can detect attempted breakins and notify my phone. This might work for that. I don’t want an annoying alarm device. (I’m also on a budget for a couple more months.)
eaglesoars wrote:
simple, the rest of the world is dumping right now ahead of the coming tariffs. i read that article and the writer is willfully ignorant of the way the steel market works. this is fairly common all the way back to the first Basic Steel Contract. A simple reading of ‘And the Wolf Finally Came’ or a simple interview with management or with a non-hand selected steel worker will reveal that this sort of layoff is and was common. it is a temporary reaction to lack or orders.
What would happen with the BSC (before the rest of the world was allowed to dump) is that there would be massive orders in the final year of the contract as the consumers of various kinds of steel would get their inventory built up in case of a strike. that would lead to a down year with layoffs and then as supplies were consumed, the workers would be called back as orders piled in.
the writer has no clue about the steel industry and they hand picked workers who would say bad things about trump for the article.
i see your article and raise you a Mingo Junction. the writer didnt bother going there, didnt bother to go to the mon valley either where USX is hiring as fast as they can.
@ coldwarrior:
thank you!
eaglesoars wrote:
yep
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
An example of other video I’ve been watching on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rAv7dN9X5KM
My neighbors may be wondering what all of the honking is about.
I have to go to bed. I just want to bring something to your attention. So, today, we find out via WaPo that McCabe is going to leave quietly, as soon as his pension kicks in.
Some hours later Trump tweets this:
How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?
Translation:
McCabe – I’m going to go, not giving you any problems
Trump – no deal. I’ve got your ass on bribery.
note: Jill McCabe, his wife, ran for state senate in Virginia. Via Terry McAuliffe[aka ‘Clinton Puppets’] , our governor and Clintonista fund raiser extraordinaire, she got $700k funneled from the Clinton foundation. Virginia law allows any unexpended campaign funds to be kept by the candidate.
Anybody who still thinks Donald Trump is an idiot is beyond help.
nite
coldwarrior wrote:
You’re old.
🙂
some assembly required.
BWAHAHAAAAA!!!! SOME BOOZE REQUIRED!
@ coldwarrior:
Ikea?
@ Canoe Convoy:
Ah, industry!
Isn’t it great?
We’ve got hipsters moving into “industrial chic” apartments that get mad when industry happens.
Industry is loud. And smells.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
you should hear the bitching when they move into ‘the country’ and the farmers start to fertilize the fields.
With manure.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
christmas…a 9 year old and twin 6 year olds.
and my oh my…i must have been a very very good boy, there is a bottle of 1942 don julio under the tree.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
they will be gone as a group soon
night yinz…
coldwarrior wrote:
It could be worse… One of the princesses could have been gifted by Santa with a complete 41 piece Neal Pert replica Drum kit, you would be well into June trying to figure out how to “Assemble” that sucker…
@ doriangrey:
yes! with hydraulics!
the girls have started watching NORAD santa tracker.
coldwarrior wrote:
Best non military use of military technology on earth.
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/944932306564743168
Its Southern California damn it, the current temp is…. 28 degrees. I blame Globull Warming.
In case you need a last-minute gift for a leftie friend or relative:
heh, the girls wanted walkie talkies… 😆
so what that these have 5 mile range and multiple encrypted channel jumping…overkill? nahhhhhh….
coldwarrior wrote:
😆
this is hysterical.
(and what a great way to teach geography!)
Related to the steel Topic: I currently work in the metals industry and we are going gang Busters and next year is projecting to be just as good— we are actually limited by our capacity and the suppliers ability to sell us all the raw material they produce. Our only fear is if there is a strike or one of the lines fails.
Merry Christmas all!