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hmmmm….
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11970648
Yup… Globull Warming gonna cause a whole lot o people to freeze to death.
4 below? Must be nice to be that warm. ////
Currently 7 below here at my place. And it’s “moderated” by the lake.
morning y’all
it’s a nice 15 deg here
just got back from dod
man that was a fun thread
crazy is better watched from a distance
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/lyons-trumps-denial-of-collusion-with-russia-grows-thinner-and-thinner/
@Chicago Sun Times
Good morning. This is an opinion piece by some “political writer” Gene Sullivan.
He tortures logic and be advised that he wants so badly for Trump to be guilty that he makes wild assumptions
in typical lib fashion. This is the same guy who wrote a book about a right wing witch hunt against Bill Clinton.
Real double standard. Be advised that if you read the whole article you might get brain freeze.
Both major papers in Chicago are now just liberal rags.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/wolffs-book-is-starting-world-war-iii-with-china-no-wonder-president-trump-is-upset/
@ Gateway Pundit
Did this goof Michael Wolff make relations worse with China? Looks like it.
@ RIX:
Wolff asserts ‘this is the beginning of the end… my book will bring down his presidency’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5241565/Michael-Wolff-claims-book-Trump-end-presidency.html
at this point, I’m starting to think ‘follow the money’
A witch’s tit is positively tropical compared to this place right now. Nothing is moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojOl0xyee8w
You’re gonna like this.
@ eaglesoars:
This guy Wolff has always been a muck raker. The problem is that the loons making outrageous
allegations against the president own the MSM as their propaganda ministry.
The are undercutting him with international adversaries, but right now I would bet that he gets reelected.
Video at link
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/01/05/good-check-la-times-columnist-says-trust-michael-wolff-fire-fury-sordid/
@ Breitbart
I rarely go there but this is good. This journalist stumbles into the truth inadvertently.
It says more about how insipid journalism has become than anything about Trump.
Physician, heal thyself. It’s accepted in the psychiatric field that sociopaths gravitate toward professions that confer authority, a perfect camouflage for totalitarian thuggery to get its freak show on. That bitch shrink, Bandy Lee, wants to physically constrain Trumpin order to remove him from office
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Those who most require an evaluation are the least likely to submit to one. That is the reason why in all 50 states we have not only the legal authority, but often the legal obligation, to contain someone even against their will when it’s an emergency.
So in an emergency, neither consent nor confidentiality requirements hold. Safety comes first. What we do in the case of danger is we contain the person, we remove them from access to weapons, and we do an urgent evaluation.
This is what we have been calling for with the president based on basic medical standards of care.
Surprisingly, many lawyer groups have actually volunteered, on their own, to file for a court paper to ensure that the security staff will cooperate with us. But we have declined, since this will really look like a coup, and while we are trying to prevent violence, we don’t wish to incite it through, say, an insurrection.
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ya think?
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/5/16770060/trump-mental-health-psychiatrist-25th-amendment?platform=hootsuite
coldwarrior wrote:
Beware of ANYTHING that comes from the NZ Herald.
For a start the Herald has NIP … NADA, ZERO capability to carry out independent reporting. They just buy in WaPo, Guardian and NYT plus AP and Reuters news feeds and reprint them. The rest of what laughingly are called reporters by the NZ Herald, are just ‘man bites dog’ leftist, lowest common denominator types who can’t spell.
The NZ Herald is NOT a publication of record. It’s a socialist rag pumping out warmed over lightly can’t from other left wing papers.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The report is true, confirmed by DOJ. It’s set some people who have been calling for Sessions to resign back on their heels a bit.
eaglesoars wrote:
Can you remember back to the Soviets of the late 1970s to mid 1980s when opponents to totalitarian rule were being rounded up and forcibly held in psychiatric clinics …. ‘ for their own good’ ….. by totalitarian psychiatrists in the pay of the Soviet State.
Brandy Lee would fit right in!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
True or not this story is just a reprint of a WaPo story by the NZ Herald.
🙂
The NZ Herald couldn’t string two words together to save itself. They don’t call the rag Pravda on the Waitamata Harbour for nothing.
If the story has some ‘legs’ and the FBI have had agents on the case for over a year already then good for them. Hillary needs her day in court and then she can go get measured for her orange jump suit.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
yup. the only thing we have going for us so far is that she’s not – yet – a part of ‘the state’
What no one is following up on is – who are those ‘lawyers’ who offered to ‘help’?
Because that is conspiracy to commit sedition.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s an insult to Pravda, which, if you knew how to read it, was really quite informative.
I’ve just got hubby to agree to cancel our WaPo subscription! W00T!
@ eaglesoars:
My new place on the beach starred on the front page of the NZ Herald yesterday. Massive storm here right at the time a ‘king tide’ was running. The ocean is now a LOT closer!
HEH!
We’re fine as there is a 5 metre hill on which the house sits above the beach. The road in front is now gone and the guys are bust laying new roadway already. The picnic table just on the rise, down by the beach is now somewhere offshore and has become a reef for the fish!
🙂
The veggie garden needs a little work but we’d eaten most of the produce it grew over Christmas so it’s all good.
Am I the only one who didn’t know there is such a thing as a slug flamethrower? Used to incinerate explosive belts/vests w/o exploding them?
eaglesoars wrote:
… as they MUST know unless they are totally deficient in the application of the law.
Just shows their arrogance to the principles of the Rule of Law.
They need a lesson!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Hmmmm You learn something new everyday.
Almost High Explosives and especially Plastic explosives are not reactive to heat or shock and need initiation to explode.
Hell we used to use a nub of PE4 as fuel on which to boil water for a cup of tea !
So I guess burning out explosives in a vest is a good idea.
My only worry would be that the heat might set off the detonator and that would not be good whilst there was PE4 still present.
25 second video of downtown Paris
https://twitter.com/V_of_Europe/status/949798646551281664
Next time, we let the Huns have them. Oh, wait………….
@ eaglesoars:
Did you see the video of the sledding dog?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
deflagration vs detonation
Deflagration is a term describing subsonic combustion propagating through heat transfer; hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it.Most “fire” found in daily life, from flames to explosions, is deflagration.Deflagration is different from detonation, which propagates supersonically through shock waves.This means that when a substance deflagrates, it burns extremely quickly instead of detonating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OvywNsWWd4
@ eaglesoars:
That’s not the result of socialism.
It’s the result of their pet “migrants.”
lobo91 wrote:
HA! I woke up that morning with EIGHT emails saying YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!!
Border collies are all OCD, mine was Tramp. I thought he’d be the best dog I’d ever know – until Bonnie.
lobo91 wrote:
They’ve got a pet migrant problem because of their socialism
Soviet officer giving a lecture, says next war will be with China. Guy asks: “How can we win? There’s a billion of them!” Soviet officer says: “Look at Israel, holds off 200 million Arabs with 3 million Jews.” Guy says: “Sure – but do we have enough Jews?”
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/949426151864324096
tis always a sad time when the Christmas decorations finally get taken down
eaglesoars wrote:
paris has trees so germans can march in the shade
eaglesoars wrote:
HEH!
🙂
rain of lead wrote:
pro tip…don’t put ’em up
what the hell happened? Marcus Mariota threw a Td pass to…himself?
don’t tell me I have to start watching football again
Gisele: “My husband cannot fucking throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.” Marcus Mariota: LMAOOOO
https://twitter.com/jessica_smetana/status/949787063045550080
eaglesoars wrote:
I would be ok with that, momcat and the girl would skin me alive and pour salt in the wound
@ eaglesoars:
damn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4SeQ8OC8m0
@ rain of lead:
I probably will next year, but this year had WAY too much of literally life and death deadlines and must-dos, I rebelled at having one more thing I ABSOLUTELY MUST DO – on deadline.
nope
rain of lead wrote:
HAHAHAAHA!!!!
That’s gonna be a classic
lobo91 wrote:
yeah, Akhmetshin is a name I’ve run across in my research and he’s not a benign player. I suspect the story, as framed, is a tad misleading
just a heads up – Mike Rogers is resigning and you might want to hop over to CTH when you have a free hour and read about Operation Condor
eaglesoars wrote:
With or without the suicide bomber still in them?
eaglesoars wrote:
speaking of OCD dogs – I follow all kinds of things on twitter I don’t talk about here because no one would be interested, really, but some might like this. Blair Braverman. She’s a young woman in Wisconsin who ere I write this is running the Gunflint Mail Race – 100 miles – with an 8 dog sled team. One of her dogs, Hari, is completely blind. They were due to come off the first checkpoint about an hour ago, I’m watching for more updates from her. People do amazing things.
AZfederalist wrote:
Don’t be a silly.
IN
lobo91 wrote:
Smacks of desperation. Personal anecdote: 20+ years ago, there was a guy where I worked who was let go for substandard performance (90’s defense layoffs, so the bar for layoff was set pretty low). I had known him, in passing for years and we would greet each other in the hallway. During the depositions, my name was included and I got called in to talk to the company lawyers. When they learned that my depth of interaction was basically seeing him and saying, “Hey Joe, how are things going?”, they just rolled their eyes, wrote it up and I never heard from them again.
I’m thinking the same is going to come from this.
@ AZfederalist:
Crap, missing a sentence. After the “was let go for substandard performance” insert:
He turned around and sued the company for being fired saying he was being unfairly targeted.
eaglesoars wrote:
Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to squirt coffee up your asshole using this $135 glass jar https://boingboing.net/2018/01/06/rectum-damn-near-kilt-im.html …
And some people just ARE amazing. May I present Lizzy Lou Who, the funniest person on twitter, hands down
I want Gwyneth Paltrow to shove a live snake up her ass and staple her mouth shut but we can’t always get what we want.
https://twitter.com/_wintergirl93/status/949826733326430210
AZfederalist wrote:
Unless they’re tying to get Ivanka on a ‘process crime’ and her version varies from someone else’s by so much as an Oxford comma…..
@ eaglesoars:
There is that. I think Saint Hillary was able to get around that with an “I don’t recall” defense.
eaglesoars wrote:
Here’s an interesting one. A CNN guy says that this violation of the “Goldwater Rule” by the press and the psychiatric industry is a bad thing and needs to stop.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/367773-cnns-smerconish-speculation-about-trumps-mental-health-unfair-and-unseemly
Video at the link
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
here’s something even more interesting. She isn’t licensed. On her twitter feed she aid she let her license in Conn ‘lapse’. She said she has a ‘national’ license which is all she needs to ‘consult’.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/950044885012402181
AHAHAHAHAHA!!
I haven’t followed the link to see if it’s still working but WikiLeaks tweeted a link to Google Books’ version of Wolf’s book. Hope none of you bought it yet
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/367832-wikileaks-shares-full-text-of-wolffs-trump-book
@ eaglesoars:
EEEEWWWWWW!
oh man. First, JFK is completely backed up because of flight delays, there are people all over the place, now this
Water Main Break at JFK Airport Floods Baggage Claim Area, Shuts Down International Flights
http://ktla.com/2018/01/07/water-main-break-at-jfk-airport-floods-baggage-claim-area-shuts-down-international-flights/
Is anyone else having problems over on Weaselzippers using Pale Moon as a browser? The last date I can get to come up is 12/30.
@ right_wing2:
sorry I use firefox, no problems
click on this and see if it helps, maybe there’s an issue clearing your cache
https://www.weaselzippers.us/
@ eaglesoars:
Sucks to be a smoker.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
tell me about it
Mandatory evac ordered in areas of Santa Barbara CA ahead of incoming storm. I have no idea what storm or what they’re worried about – I THINK landslides after the Thomas fire?
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1MsfIfBPYO0JcSprEno-QPWR2-POpliv2&ll=34.449200353180714%2C-119.56311619001309&z=10
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, clearing the cache out seems to have fixed it. Thanks.
right_wing2 wrote:
welcome
God, did Oafra really say she was thinking of running in 2020?
I wonder how these people manage their checking accounts. Watching MSNBC for grins. They’ve been on Wolff’s book for over an hour. One guy, don’t know his name, says “We know from our own reporting that entire scenes in this book never happened, but there are deeper truths here”.
?????
I can’t be out of money, I still have checks.
@ eaglesoars:
“Fake, but accurate”.
@ eaglesoars:
Roland Martin (little chubby black dude)was a panelist yesterday morning on ABC.
it was a Trump,hate rally and he opined ,”Trump has nor coer principals or morality.”
Well alrighty then.
PaladinPhil wrote:
oh it’s even worse! Mika’s friends who go to Paris are “viscerally embarrassed to be Americans”
the horror
RIX wrote:
Well, as apparently our next POTUS, Oprah, said last nite “We all have our own truths”
That Golden Globes thing pisses me off. Those harridans have ruined the Little Black Dress for us Deplorables for at least a decade.
eaglesoars wrote:
I didn’t watch it. Lectures by Hollywood types don’t perk my coffee.
But we did see “the Darkest Hour” I highly recommend it.
RIX wrote:
Hubby wants to see it too
@ lobo91:
Oh my God! She GREETED them as they were LEAVING1 $10 says they accosted her when they observed her in the lobby and walked over to tell her they had just met with her brother.
If Mueller thinks he’ll trap Ivanka because she’s a dumb blonde trust fund baby, this dirtbag has another think coming.
eaglesoars wrote:
That is quite a read.
Time for heads to roll.
Ah ka-wrap. More ‘wintry mix’ later today. They’re closing schools again.
coldwarrior wrote:
it is. There are a couple people on twitter besides CTH who don’t have blogs but are doing yeoman’s work in investigating this stuff. ‘Katica’ is one, etc. The stuff you don’t hear ANYWHERE could fill a football stadium, but they’ve got it all archived. There is now an actual profession – something like ‘digital researcher’ – you can train for – and these people are relentless. I have no idea what they do for ‘real jobs’.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
And the SEC’s investigation of the Kushner family business is just a coinky-dink. The same people who couldn’t find Madoff when he was the elephant sitting on their heads.
eaglesoars wrote:
The SEC is a fucking pathetic ass joke.
@ doriangrey:
on its better days
@ eaglesoars:
But there was NEVER any collusion in the IRS in denying the applications of the TEA Party…nope, nope, nope, no sir…
@ doriangrey:
Especially in the case of Madoff – Harry Markopolous told the SEC over and over again that there was NO WAY Madoff could have pulled those numbers off and they refused to listen. His book is excellent, by the way.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/04/news/newsmakers/madoff_whistleblower/
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
I am so pissed its not even funny. I bought stock in a company called EMXC for $0.01 per share. 10,000 shares. The company floundered around for years. Then was sold off as a shell to a Chinese marketing firm, its now trading at…. $55.10 per share.
When I demanded to know where my shares went from Scottrade, I was told, basically, you didn’t pay enough for those shares, so we confiscated them.
The SEC told me they would ask Scottrade if they did anything illegal, but that if Scottrade denied, oh well, there is nothing the SEC can do about it.
All because I didn’t pay enough for those shares. Some asshole criminal broker at Scottrade saw a chance to make half a million dollars at my expense and took it.
@ doriangrey:
There has GOT to me somebody else you can talk to about that. Barbarian, do you know anybody in the legal field who knows this stuff?
new thread
@ doriangrey:
I have NEVER heard that a brokerage could confiscate your stock because “you didn’t pay enough” for it. There have been plenty of tales of penny stocks actually taking off.
Have you gotten in touch with Scottrade’s Legal Department? By law, Scottrade must provide verification of ANY movement, sale, purchase, etc. of your stock and therefore you are most certainly entitled to view this. If you have not already done so, I would send them a detailed letter, advising them of the circumstances of this particular transaction.
I am very much inclined to agree with your assessment of what happened. Frankly, I doubt that many people keep up with their “penny stocks” – in many cases I imagine that they forget all about them, especially if there is no movement in it at any time and selling would not result in a profit – and especially when a minimal investment amount is involved. Therefore, when the acquisition took place, a deceitful broker figured no one would notice and manuvered the record to put to the stock in his name. I also imagine that said unscrupulous broker found out that you indeed HAD been paying attention, he is probably not in a position to cover the $551,000 in monies you are owed.
I think this would be worth fighting in court. The scandal that ensnared Wells Fargo 18 months ago started, I believe, when ONE bank customer noticed that there were accounts in their name they had never opened.
eaglesoars wrote:
Worth a look.