Read it an weep Neverterumpers.
I await the response from the Nevertrumpers.
Trump More Reagan than Reagan
by coldwarrior ( 158 Comments › )Filed under Donald Trump, History, Open thread at January 25th, 2018 - 6:22 pm
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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!
Whatever works !
In the meantime a quick tutorial on must have skills when confronting Progressives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q79yQquKq7M
Shipero has more than a few notches on his belt
Enjoy
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Trump and the Republicans are making a mistake on immigration reform. Before they do ANYTHING, there needs be be signed legislation on an end to chain migration.
And God help us my wife wants to take in a co-workerâs German Shepherd when he moves to Germany. Along with our army of cats. In an 850 sq ft house. But at least right now itâs either us or Craigâs list.
Well, one thing they do is try to tear down Trump supporters – not even supporters, just people who aren’t Nevertrumpers – with vile, anti-hominem attacks. Thurston Hower, the Turd, of course.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/24/bill-kristol-takes-on-fox-news-tucker-carlson.html
âNow Fox is sort of â 75 percent of it seems to be birther-like coverage of different issues,â Kristol tells CNBCâs John Harwood.
Kristol criticizes Fox News host Tucker Carlson, saying what he does on TV is âclose now to racism, white â I mean, I donât know if itâs racism exactly â but ethno-nationalism of some kind, letâs call it.â
right_wing2 wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
How old is the dog? I’ve had some experience with the breed and they’re usually very good with cats. As long as they’re not too old and set in their ways, but that’s true of everybody. The cats will dominate the dog, I have no doubt
@ right_wing2:
Has it had at least basic obedience training?
You really don’t want one in a small house if it hasn’t. They can be terribly destructive.
Back to Reagan/Trump. Remember when Reagan was inaugurated and Iran puked out the hostages? Check this out
Iranâs Fast Boats Stop Harassing U.S. Navy, Baffling Military
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-fast-boats-stop-harassing-u-s-navy-baffling-military-1516897301
They still have American hostages that we need to have home. I doubt that can be done with any fanfare/publicity, tho
I can’t wait for some Trump tweets.
Lots of people out there thinking amnesty’s a done deal, and that Trump weakened on firing Meller.
All on the word of the MSM.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
And notice they wait til’ he’s out of town, receiving a GREAT reception at Davos.
It amazes me that nobody’s noticed a pattern yet.
Or maybe a bunch of simpletons think that this is the way to “hold Trump’s feet to the fire.” LOL!
I think I’m beginning to see a pattern
Marriott CEO trashes Trump at Davos after bowing to communist China
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/marriott-ceo-trashes-trump-at-davos-after-bowing-to-communist-china/article/2647034
Sorenson is a Lutheran but Marriott is part of the Mormon culture, based in Utah. Mormon mafia? His wiki page says he’s big on LGBT rights, very liberal Dem, so it may be simply politics w/no church convergence
eaglesoars wrote:
Then he is not a confessional Lutheran. Most likely a member of ELCA which is Lutheran in name only, they no longer adhere to the Lutheran confessions let alone Christianity.
Maybe I’m assuming things, however:
Very liberal democrat => supports abortion, not even human values let alone Christian values
Supports breaking the 9’th and 10’th commandments, promoting those with less to covet that which those who have more possess and use the Government to break the sixth commandment by stealing from those who have more and giving that to themselves
Big on LGBT rights: being tolerant and seeing those in that lifestyle as prospects and in need of the Gospel is one thing. Promoting acceptance and celebration of that lifestyle is enabling and promoting sinful behavior
.. as a Lutheran who adheres to the truths of By Grace Alone, by Faith Alone, by Scripture alone, someone who promotes those ideas is not practicing such a faith.
@ eaglesoars:
Marriott has been running national ads on TV lecturing America on tolerance and inclusion, I’ve noticed.
The oversized influence on the GOP that the Mormon Church has is troubling to me in relation to their stance on the current Executive Branch, along with their stances on profiling and immigration.
I’m happy. I’m happy because these 2 people are unhappy.
Tom Steyer
Steyer Says He Wonât Donate to Democrats After They Caved on Shutdown
http://freebeacon.com/politics/steyer-says-wont-donate-democrats-caved-shutdown/
And Soros
Soros Threatens: Trump âWill Disappear In 2020 Or Even Soonerâ
https://www.weaselzippers.us/372467-soros-threatens-trump-will-disappear-in-2020-or-even-sooner/
Soros, who spent millions backing failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, claimed that Trump was leading the world to nuclear war and that he is trying to establish a dictatorship in the United States, CNBC reported.
watching your hopes for a global world order go up in smoke sucks, doesn’t it?
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
I haven’t seen any. The Mormon church may be trying, but as far as I can tell, Mittens has been about as effective s Jeb!
@ eaglesoars:
When I was oilfield, I noticed that, despite the fact that the hotels in gas-rich areas were booked full round the clock that were previously empty husks, that they never raised the wages of their staff. Housekeeping (whom I interacted with frequently) had to work three times as hard for the same peanuts. And in many cases seemed to prefer immigrants.
Just sayin.’ It bothered me at the time. I tipped, but it was a company room, so many didn’t.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
We are reimbursed for those tips when we travel.
@ AZfederalist:
All we did was travel, and we kept thirty rooms booked with occupants night and day for usually a month at a time. Many of those occupants were young adults, and we tracked ALL SORTS of debris in with us.
If you worked nights, it was incumbent on you to arrange housekeeping to get there at some point or things would get out of hand. The only good thing was that most of the time they let us split the room with one other person on the opposite shift so there was no more than one person there at any given time.
I’ve doubled up like that, and it was HELL.
Back to my point on the housekeeping staff…
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
You’re saying housekeeping preferred immigrant customers? Do you know why?
I completely forgot about this, assuming it ever registered in the first place.
Who headed the completely fucked up FBI anthrax investigation that arrested one wrong guy, drove another to suicide, conveniently blamed it on him and closed the investigation?
Mueller.
bed time. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
No, I’m saying the hotels preferred immigrant help. They were making 8 freaking bucks an hour. The same 8 bucks an hour they made three years earlier when the hotel was empty, or wasn’t there. And they absolutely refused to pay OT. They’d send them home with half the rooms dirty if they hit forty hours.
We were slobs, in general. (Not me,of course, but I made much more than the average hotel occupants share of sand, oil, and sweat.)
W actually had a number of Fijians that worked with us. They were, well, just about the same. You had your slobs, and your neatniks.
Bastards never wanted to turn the AC on, though. If you roomed with one, you’d get back on a 90 degree day and the room would be air temp…
eaglesoars wrote:
krisotl and his mormon buddies are up to an old trick. they will eventually get so out of hand that some trump supporter will call them a blanety-blank jew, or a blankety-blank mormon…and POW!
TRUMP IS AN ANTI-SEMITE (whatever) HITLER!!!!!
its an ancient trick well honed in the blogs.
and yes, i question their patriotism.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
And that’s why we need to strengthen E-Verify. A in previous employer info, and when someone calls in to verify, ask where they said they’d last worked. If it doesn’t match, that at least makes it a bit more likely you’re looking at someone who’s claiming to be someone they aren’t.
Start fining the hell out of businesses who don’t use the E-verify system, and add in a little jail time for the individual who decided it wasn’t important.
Balance this out with making it easier for temporary migrant farm workers to get a Visa, and don’t take out Social Security taxes.
Make it harder to get a for Visa for high skill workers, and maybe set some kind of minimum pay rate before those high skilled workers can be brought in. Sure, company X can say they need computer programmers because they can’t find someone here to work for 15/hour or whatever, but if they’d pay what a skilled worker was actually worth then they wouldn’t end up having their American programmers training their own replacements to work for less money.
right_wing2 wrote:
Except that that is exactly what they want.
right_wing2 wrote:
Please. I was a software developer for over 30 yrs and that’s been going on since the boat people from the Vietnam War. This always comes from a VP somewhere whose performance metric doesn’t include institutional knowledge because no one has figured out how to measure it. One thing they can measure is pension/retirement costs, so it’s the older employees who are most vulnerable and they just happen to have the most knowledge. Knowing how to write code/design systems is only half the job. The other half is understanding the business you’re developing for. Just don’t get me started, I can rant for hours.
coldwarrior wrote:
And Tucker was absolutely brilliant. He ignored that path. He reiterated – beautifully – what his philosophy is. “Why have a government if not to look out for the best interests of its own citizens?” That’s paraphrasing, but you get the idea. The ball he tossed Kristol, et. al. is full of arguments to address, not ad hominem slurs. They won’t, of course, but over time, this is a self-eroding tactic. It’s a tactic of the left and even I am surprised they fell for it.
right_wing2 wrote:
Just a caveat: You are proposing jail time for not using a system that is flawed. We’ve had to use it – about 3 times I think – and it hasn’t been right once. We’ve always had to spend hours – ADMIN hours which are billable to no one in our business – getting this crap straightened out. Their data is not clean. So even if you DO use it, you can end up hiring someone who you should not have and STILL be liable to legal sanctions of some sort.
I’m fine with using it as long as you’re immune from punishment if you can prove a good faith effort in having used it. We shouldn’t be fined because their system is garbage.
@ eaglesoars:
Absolutely if you made the effort and used the system there wouldnât be a penalty.
Good morning. Trump just delivered his speech to the assembled at Davos. Friendly , but no apologies for America
being America. He laid out his vision with great optimism. Imo he nailed it, but I have been into the orange Kool Aid.
MAGA!
@ eaglesoars:
Bill Kristol was on Morning Joe yesterday with Thing One & Thing Two smugly mocking Trump and Republicans
in general.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/01/26/is-this-real-jimmy-kimmel-announces-special-guest-after-trumps-sotu-speech/
@ Twitchy
Is Jimmy Kimmel an inflamed hemroid? Only one answer is correct.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/01/26/is-this-real-jimmy-kimmel-announces-special-guest-after-trumps-sotu-speech/
@ WZ
The Dems intend to pull a stunt at SOTU speech.
RIX wrote:
I don’t care if Trump bedded her and paid her off. I’d rather he spend his own money paying off some tramp instead of spending ours paying off the mullahs. Trump’s problem is that he needs to find tramps who stayed paid off. The rest is between him and Melania and nobody’s business.
What I do care about is that there is a child involved in this – Barron. He’s what – 11 yrs old? This woman is sealing her fame – such as it is – at a child’s expense. That’s a special kind of child abuse and she should be called on it.
Politico: An affair with Trump? Nikki Haley on âdisgustingâ rumors and her rise to a top foreign policy role
This is from one sentence in Wolff’s book.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/26/nikki-haley-trump-foreign-policy-370851
@ eaglesoars:
Yup, This does hurt their son Barron. But guys like Kimmel donât care. He and Colbert were tanking until they discovered that Trump smearing sells. Both of those guys are low rent punks. Fallon gets laughs at Trumps
expense, but itâs not a hate fest.
RIX wrote:
A KENNEDY?? That’s what they got? My dog shits stuff I have more respect for than that inbred clog. I don’t think I’m alone.
One of the reasons I listened to Bill Kristol for so long is the respect I HAD – past tense – for his parents, Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarbe. Not after this howler.
———
Back when Donald Trump was merely a small dark cloud on the horizon of American politics, many of us were already worried about the state of American conservatism. Five years ago, I suggested in these pages that Eric Hofferâs famous observation of decades ago applied to the conservative movement. To paraphrase, every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
But that problem can be addressed by rejuvenation, reformation, and renewal. And it seemed it was being addressed during President Obamaâs second term
http://www.weeklystandard.com/kristol-the-gop-through-the-looking-glass/article/2011332#.Wmsv30Ux3Gg.twitter
——————-
There is no possible conservative philosophy that contains that as a true statement. Hannah Arendt should rise up out of her grave and haunt him forever.
And his parents should disown him.
hmmm. Seems someone by the name of Devin Barrett is the WaPo ‘reporter’ Strzok/Page used to leak to.
He’ll probably get a Pulitzer.
eaglesoars wrote:
I know I won’t win any favor for saying this, but I trace the decline of American Conservatism to William F Buckley Jr. His ideological philosophy was basically surrender to the left in order to gain so called credibility. In short, he and Little Billy Krystalmeth (and quiet a few others) sold out American Conservatism for fame, fortune and admittance to America’s Political Aristocracy.
doriangrey wrote:
well, I’m confused.
@ eaglesoars:
William F Buckley JR was not William F Buckley. Sr was a genuine conservative, Jr was heir apparent to his father’s throne of intellectual Conservative giant. Being that heir was more important to Jr than being an actual conservative intellectual.
Jr compromised with Marxist Liberals on almost every Conservative Principal in order to win popularity and accolades as an intellectual.
“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.” — William F. Buckley, Jr
In other words, surrender a little bit at a time so you get invited to the Beltway cocktail parties.
@ doriangrey:
Oh, and please do not misunderstand me, William F Buckley Jr was a very very smart man. But unlike his father, jr was more interested in building his own empire, whatever the cost, than in defending traditional American Conservatism. Jr basically redefined American Conservatism in a wide ranging series of “Compromises” designed to garner social acceptance of himself and his publication, rather than that of traditional American Conservatism.
doriangrey wrote:
can you give me an example? I’m not trying to be tendentious, I just have no idea what you’re referring to.
eaglesoars wrote:
You are not alone.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/leaked-emails-show-nyt-hack-behind-latest-trump-hit-piece-deep-state-favorite-attended-secret-hillary-campaign-meetings/
@ GatewayPunditnt
NYT journo hag Maggie Haberman behind the Trump wanted to fire Muller leak.
She was. lackey for Hillary during the campaign.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/mike-huckabee-responds-chers-attack-daughter-serious-person-dresses-like-cigarette-girl-casino/
@ GP
Cher messes with Sara Sanders. Huckabee does not like his baby girl being attacked.
Well done Governor.
@ doriangrey:
His gravest sin, in my opinion was not in renouncing repugnant ideas, but in failing to grasp that the Marxist Liberal Left had no intention of “Compromising” on ANYTHING. Every single compromise made with the left, was/is a surrender of degrees.
An example, Jr held reprehensible views on race until around 2006. His views on White racial superiority had an enormous impact on how white people are viewed and treated today. Jr painted the majority of white American’s as racists by advocating aggressively for white peoples natural right to rule based on “Advanced race” theory.
The lefts deconstruction of what Jr advocated is the direct cause of the liberal lefts mantra that only white people can be racists.
Jr’s abandonment of Sen Joseph McCarty and his conclusion that Marxism/Communism could not be “Rolled Back” is another example of how his compromises, while perhaps marginally well intended, had disastrous consequences.
@ eaglesoars:
Lew Rockwell is usually a bit of a far stretch for me, his being a Ronulan, but he is not wrong about Buckley Jr.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-phony-legacy-of-william-f-buckley-jr/
https://mises.org/library/betrayal-american-right-0
Nor am I alone in my beliefs that Buckley Jr was playing the role of Conservative Intellectual for reasons other than the advancement of American Conservatism.
doriangrey wrote:
Well, my eybrows jumped and my jaw dropped. But you are absolutely right. I’ve found a really excellent review of Buckley’s ‘evolution’ here. It’s stunning.
https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/the-national-review-racist-writing-and-the-legacy-of-william-f-buckley-jr/
Thanks, dorian
@ doriangrey:
Also, I am not the fan of Barry Goldwater that cw is, but I have far more respect for Goldwater than for Buckley Jr. Personally I derive my Conservative views far more from Edmund Burke than from Buckley or Goldwater.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/burke-not-buckley/
RIX wrote:
How not firing someone is a hit piece is beyond me, and Haberman didn’t leak a damn thing. Chris Ruddy reported on this 6 mos. ago. She’s simply recycling a laundry load because she’s got nuthin’ else.
doriangrey wrote:
yes. And tell that to a EUnuch, who is convinced Americans are too ill-educated to even be aware of Burke.
Then tell them Enoch Powell had a point.
Duck.
@ eaglesoars:
Personally I believe that had Buckley and the National Review not taken the position they held for so many years, racial relations in America would not have been so vulnerable to the Marxist Liberal lefts attacks by Saul Alinsky. Obama would have never been able to cause the racial divide that he did by using Alinsky’s leverage.
@ doriangrey:
i quit reading here:
âBurkeâs is the true school of conservative principle,â
i am so sick and god damned tired of the bullshit ‘true conservative’ shuck and jive that i could just spit.
eaglesoars wrote:
Edmund Burke is the FATHER of modern Conservatism. Without Burke, there is no Conservative movement.
@ coldwarrior:
sorry. former philosophy major. an annoying – to other people – proclivity for tracing intellectual roots. Of anything.
also, I feel a nap coming on.
The Curie orbital manoeuvrable engine uncovered by Rocketlabs
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a15854376/rocket-lab-engine-kick-stage-electron-rocket/
doriangrey wrote:
I think you give too much credit. Alinsky’s influence is not nearly as great as people like to think.
Without the welfare state supporting 3 generations of fatherless males, creating a permanent underclass of ignorant, feral, undomesticated and unemployable men, Obama would have been just another skinny poseur on the downlow.
nap
coldwarrior wrote:
I hear ya, that one makes my blood boil as well. There is NO “True Conservatism” as Edmund Burke himself declared, “Conservatism is an evolving growing concept”. It evolves to defend and protect each society in accordance with the needs particular of that society.
The notion of “True Conservatism” amounts to nothing less than “Otherism” which by definition, is the demoting or devolving of others in order to exclude them from having a valid or acceptable place at the table where decisions are made.
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually Enoch did have a point and almost everything he forecast has come true. Fingers crossed about the rivers of blood, and hope he was wrong in the terminal descent of British racial problems.
@ doriangrey:
he sure was, but i stopped reading because i have been lectured to enough by ‘CON’servatives quite enough over the past 2 years.
I am happily not one…by their definition.
eaglesoars wrote:
It is ginned up BS. Technically only the AG can fire Muller anyway.
eaglesoars wrote:
that…lbj’s plantation.
@ doriangrey:
i’m for whatever gives me the most freedom and most prosperousness.
howz that for a made-ee-up word!
@ coldwarrior:
You home?
RIX wrote:
Dana Perino actually just said: I have no reason to not believe the NYT.
And she was Press Sec for a POTUS. I’d bed my house Gutfeld could sell her a unicorn.
What could possibly go wrong?
Google Launches Cybersecurity Firm
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-26/google-launches-cybersecurity-firm
In the event you find yourself in this situation, the CIA has helpful hints on how to photograph a UFO
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/blog/2017/images/ufo-day/Guidance-For-UFO-Photographers.pdf
Raise your hand if you saw this coming:
@ lobo91:
I think the court should take him at his word and surgically alter his genitalia to comport with his mental state.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/98340c186763f148096799932ba72119834a35e6f1d3c3772eeca2ebc9813826.jpg
Weâre doomed!
eaglesoars wrote:
The other day when it was reported that John Kerry was selling out Trump telling Abbas that Trump would soon be
gone, Dana said âHe wouldnâtâ do that, it doesnât sound like him, This is the same Kerry that collaborated with the
North Vietnamese and smeared our troops.
RIX wrote:
Dana has made a classic mistake. She has conflated being a ‘nice’ person with being a ‘good’ person. If you just act nicely, you’re a good person. It’s a value system for the lazy – being good takes work and involves pain, being nice instead is an lazy lie. She’s not a bad person at all, but she would have made excuses for Himmler right up until the moment she got off the train. Then she would have tried to make friends with the dogs.
eaglesoars wrote:
That sounds about right.
https://kxan.com/2018/01/25/california-lawmaker-wants-to-stop-restaurants-from-giving-out-plastic-straws/
âNo straw for youâ Straw Nazis in California.
RIX wrote:
Dana has become quite the disappointment
RIX wrote:
From the article:
Taking their cue from the gun control crowd. “it’s not a ban … ” In thought quotes, “It’s the next step in getting to a ban”
As far as the last sentence, yeah, this would change my behavior; I’d start getting two or more straws every time.
So, first, is that compacted straws or with the air still in them? Makes a huge difference. Second, know why school buses were used in the analogy? The researcher who came up with this number was 9 years old when he did the research. Yeah, that’s credible.
500 million straws per day in the US? Let’s see, there are about 330 million people in the US, that means each man, woman, child and baby use 1.5 straws per day. Now, given that not everybody uses a straw each day, this becomes another questionable statistic.
OK, being the OCD engineer geek I am, I just went and got a straw. My straw (I’m pretty sure it’s average) is 1/4″ in diameter and 7 1/2″ long. So, a straw takes up 0.3682 cubic inches (with the air in it). So, taking the 500 million straws number, that’s about 106,526 cubic feet. If you had a house 50 feet x 30 feet x 8 feet, that would fill up about 9 of those houses. Assuming a 9.5 foot tall x 8 foot wide x 40 foot long school bus, that would fill up 35 of those school buses (the kid who calculated this must have ridden the short bus). Thing is, a straw won’t be the full volume in a landfill, it will crush. I measured my straw and the wall dimension is 0.005″. Therefore, the plastic volume of the straw is 0.0280 cubic inches per straw. The plastic from 500 million straws will take up 8,352 cubic feet. That means that the plastic from all those straws will fit in about 2/3 of a house and 2.7 school buses.
So, the whole premise here is beyond flawed, it is criminally fraudulent.
@ AZfederalist:
user paper straws. piss off everybody.
AZfederalist wrote:
how did you do that?
@ eaglesoars:
I’m gonna guess he has a decent micrometer.
AZfederalist wrote:
I would agree.
@ eaglesoars:
With a caliper.
/Yes, i have a caliper in my desk drawer. Brown and Sharpe — I printed a case for it
@ AZfederalist:
You have convinced me, The Straw Nazis are nuckin futs.
AZfederalist wrote:
Of course you did!
eaglesoars wrote:
We had a local Italian chain that used pasta straws, back in the day.
AZfederalist wrote:
wait. do you have a slide rule? PLEASE tell me you have a slide rule. I haven’t seen one of those things in DECADES and they were works of art. My brother taught me to use one when I was about 8
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
that’s a good idea. My grandmother used to have glass straws that had a slight bend in them. She loved disposable paper towels because she no longer had to wash rags, but she thought disposable straws, etc., were terribly wasteful.
Just talked to Macker. He went into the hospital this morning for a chemo procedure and – they seem to have a slight inventory problem. If they can’t find the stuff by 9 am tomorrow he’s outta there.
off to read. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not sure about AZ, but I do. Can’t remember how to use the damned thing anymore. Haven’t used it in like 45 years.
eaglesoars wrote:
As a matter of fact, I do. Bought it when I was in high school. We needed it for chemistry class as sophomores. 1/2 way through the year, the teacher decided that calculators were becoming a thing and allowed us to use those. That was my first scientific calculator. I think I paid a little over $100 for it, it had memory, trig and logarithmic functions. I thought it was awesome. Now I have one as an app on my computer that I can pull up when I’m conversing across the world over the internet using a graphical interface and screen resolution that makes the old vacuum tube TV look like a horse buggy. Whodathunkit?
@ AZfederalist:
I showed the slide rule to Federalist Jr. He got the concept of using logarithms for multiplication and division.
AZfederalist wrote:
I probably could have used a slide rule…
(Math doesn’t make sense to me unless it’s applied. Science was the best thing that ever happened for my math skills)
New single from Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa’s album Black Coffee (which just came out today):
AZfederalist wrote:
I should add that was a lot of money to me back then. We didn’t have much, but one of the things my folks impressed on us was that when you are getting tools, to get good tools that will last. That calculator took me through 2 1/2 years of high school and my freshman year at college. By that time it had become dated and the TI line of scientific calculators that included statistics had come out. Paid about 1/2 as much for a TI calculator that did twice as much as my first calculator.
@ AZfederalist:
That’s how I am with guns…
eaglesoars wrote:
I used to able to identify 5 thou by eye and didn’t have to measure it. I might say it was ONLY 5 thou and no other measurement. I used do a LOT of wind tunnel work and we used 5 thou fillets to perturb the air to make it stick to the tunnel wall a little bit longer.
Best job I ever had at Sydney University’s Aeronautical Engineering department as a Lab Tach. The Profs and Doctoral candidates used to task me and then leave me alone to figure out how to do something, run the tests punch the data and return it to the academics.
If there wasn’t something specific to do I had the run of the whole labs, workshops and test structures.I learned and developed so many innovative ways of doing stuff at that place.
đ
Not good.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/455798/trump-immigration-preemptive-surrender
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Very, very bad.
Absolutely nothing should be down about the illegals already here until we’ve completely ended chain migration.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Heh heh, I used to be able to do the same thing by feel. I was a QA in manufacturing of extruded plastics. I could tell the difference between .0045 and .0040 plastic walled “Tape” (Toro Aquatrac Microirrigation Tape, which is actually very thin wall tubing) entirely by feel. Not that I EVER relied on feel in the determination of product quality.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Sounds like a job I would have killed for.
doriangrey wrote:
we were out goofing off antiquing etc…
AZfederalist wrote:
i have my dad’s old slide rule and an e6-b. i was a whiz with the e6-b.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
the national review?? are they still around? đ
i like how he calls for trump’s impeachment at the end.
this negotiation is far from over, i will put money on trump to get the most that he can from shumer and pelosi. think long term, get rid of chain immigration ad the dem party is over. we can keep the current immigrants and eventually make them citizens through a long process and this still wont save the dems.
get the wall, enforce the laws, stop chain immigration, go to merit based immigration. THESE are the keys. we arent going to deport the one who are here en mass. it just isnt going to happen.
think long term and big picture.
The Sox are looking for a new radio home. They were locked into a six-year deal (from 2016 through 2021) with WLS-AM (890), but as of Feb. 1, the Sox will need to find a new home after Cumulus Media, WLSâ parent company, filed for bankruptcy and asked a New York court to allow it out of the deal.
@ Chicago Sun Times
This is literally inside baseball âChicagoââ,The White Sox are like the sugly ister to the Media. When they won the World Series in 05 they were the most dominant team that I can remember. They went 11 & 1 through the playoffs with lights out pitching. Yet the Cubs still dominated the Media. I am an oppressed minority!
When the Sox and Cubs play the City Series you would swear that the White Sox arenât from here.
There I feel better, not that Iâm bitter or anything./
@ RIX:
đ the lamentations of a sox fan!
i encountered this often while in chicago, and yinz is right.
coldwarrior wrote:
Itâs a fact, Woe is me!
RIX wrote:
WOE AND MISERY!
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Amnesty? Who said anything about amnesty? The way I understand it, these people have to go thru the legal process to stay. Maybe I’ve completely misunderstood, wouldn’t be the first time. But in any event, since this is Trump, I smell a trap for the Dems. Watch them turn this down. The Dems don’t want a deal, they want Trump screwed. They’ve misplayed their hand every time – see ‘shutdown’ – because they still don’t get it. They’ll turn it down, and Trump will bury them with it – and probably still get a wall.
The game the Dems have, the ONLY game, is that they’re the champion of losers. Their guys ALWAYS have to lose, otherwise there’s no grievance currency.
coldwarrior wrote:
ok. what’s an e6-b?
coldwarrior wrote:
Alas, we suffer great slings and arrows. But the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson fortifies us.
Joe was framed I tells ya!
RIX wrote:
VERILY!
eaglesoars wrote:
slide rule for flying an airplane.
eaglesoars wrote:
its NRO, do you expect honesty?
they are ridiculous nevertrumpers.
coldwarrior wrote:
oh wait! did you get anything? I have a favorite antique place I asked to shop at for my Christmas present. Mostly 18th Century stuff, BUT I found an old clay oil lamp from ancient Israel (800 BC) AND and English translation of the French memoirist Jean-François Marmontel which I looked for for years but couldn’t find. Jackpot.
@ coldwarrior:
Got a pocket protector for that slide-rule?
coldwarrior wrote:
Good lord! My dad had one of those and I never knew what the hell it was. I guess he had it from the war. I think he tossed it when they moved to Alabama because I asked him about his ‘calculator on a stick’ and he said he’d tossed it.
@ eaglesoars:
Nah, found nothing of note…ended up having some drinks and snacks at bars we’d never been to.
doriangrey wrote:
Need a big pocket!
@ coldwarrior:
gloom!!!
Gloom, Despair & Agony…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAAKPJEq1Ew
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh no!
http://dilbert.com/
rain of lead wrote:
YES!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
So let it be written, so let it be done. In the words of Moses, âWord up yâallâ
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/01/26/clothing-company-founder-finds-out-its-not-a-great-idea-to-call-his-fox-viewing-n2440312
@ Town Hall
Have you seen. the commercial for that goofy Scott e Vest? you know you can pocket all of your devices, a Jimmy
Johns samich and a Volkswagen. Well the founder of Scott eVest thinks that you are a Fox viewing idiot.
The guy is a PR genius./
@ coldwarrior:
I still have mine. Buried in my barracks box from my Cadet days. Forget what I paid for it. Never did get the hang of it though.
An Oliva Hellion cigar…making some tandoori chicken on the smoker. Yep.
RIX wrote:
That whole drama has been a hoot! Something interesting I found about it. Brad Thor helped him design/develop it. It is really nice, I got one for Hubby for Christmas. In some tweets, Thor took somebody to task – Glenn Beck? – for bringing up his association with Jordan – because Thor had ended the relationship some time ago. He said altho he was very proud of the product he’d helped design, working with Jordan had not been a pleasant experience. Sounded like Jordan is an asshole in all aspects of his life.
This deserves some attention. Russia is laying a gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, under the Baltic to supply Europe. Dependency on Russia for energy doesn’t sound like a strategy designed to enhance national security, Poland doesn’t trust Russia as far as it can spit but it still has to source Russia for a lot of its supply. Germany, natch, is on the take, has been for years, Schroeder is probably still working for Gazprom.
Poland is trying to diversity, so it’s cutting deals with Norway and the U.S.
But it has invested in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Baltic coast to diversify supplies and plans to build a gas link to Norway. In November, Poland signed a long-term deal to buy LNG from the United States.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-nordstream-usa/u-s-says-planned-russian-pipeline-would-threaten-european-energy-security-idUSKBN1FG0CY?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a6c98a204d301290f2171e7&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Which reminds me. I haven’t looked at Baltic Dry numbers in ages and I need to get back up to speed on ships being built. We might need more tankers.
@ eaglesoars:
This is what SEC Perry meant by exporting freedom.
@ lobo91:
Economix be raaaaacisssss
coldwarrior wrote:
Sounds like “Tiny Pocket Syndrome”…
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup. Couldn’t possibly be because your business models sucks, your product sucks, and you didn’t pay your bills.
Has to be racism
@ coldwarrior:
Expecting loans to be repaid is racist?
doriangrey wrote:
i’m scottish and white.
@ lobo91:
@ right_wing2:
clearly raaaaacisss.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup, cause God knows 7 out of 10 businesses don’t fail in their first 5 years for any other reason.
doriangrey wrote:
And the stats are probably even worse for businesses in the food and beverage sector.
coldwarrior wrote:
Took an “Air Earth” class in high school; it was basically ground school that couldn’t be called that because it wouldn’t have been an accredited class if it were labeled that. We got to use those in that; it is really amazing what people came up with before the advent of the cheap computer chip. There were some very smart, clever people who came up with that stuff. The old analog computer days were the same; I’ve seen the control loops that they came up with for the old Sidewinders — all analog but very sophisticated and elegant. Those of us who have grown up into the digital age are really just doing brute force calculations compared to what those guys had to do with analog circuits and cleverness.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh yeah, Jordan sounds like an a hole with raging hemroids. He is just that slapable guy.
RIX wrote:
I like that malaprop
AZfederalist wrote:
Sure, anything else would be nuckin futs!
AZfederalist wrote:
Not just brute force. Back when I was still big into the “Overclocking” scene I did quiet a bit of circuitry analysis, (kind of required in the old days to do any real overclocking) and became aware of one of the digital computer revolutions ugly facts.
Virtually all modern digital circuits are compilations of older circuitry. If they did something wrong or poorly in the original circuit design, its still there and various workarounds have to be applied to make the new circuitry work correctly, these are known by their technical engineering term, “Kludges”. They are dirty ugly, but reasonably function fixes to problems rather than redesigns of poor or incorrect original designs.
eaglesoars wrote:
Good for us, but that’s a very vulnerable supply line if Putin decides to get frisky
coldwarrior wrote:
Whats ma chicken damn it, I’m a starving over he-ya…
lobo91 wrote:
Or maybe they just had a lousy business model or lacked the business savvy to produce a product that people wanted to buy or lacked the ability to market it.
Catchy SJW slogans only get you so far.
AZfederalist wrote:
if you strike at the king, kill the king.
He’ll get one shot. Then he can kiss his navy goodbye, such as it is. The Baltic is an ugly place, worse than the North Sea IMHO.
The 40th anniversary Atari with ALL the games just got here.Trying to explain the underlying meaning of Missile Command to a 9 and twin 6 y.os is difficult.
The whole zeigheist is lost.
But, the girl’s are digging the old games
coldwarrior wrote:
Have they watched Game of Thrones? Any fairy tales about warring kings?
@ eaglesoars:
Unicorns and rainbows.
Here’s a handy little article on Trump’s Dreamer plan.
– it is merit-based
– it takes 12 yrs
– if you jay walk w/in that 12 yr period, you’re deported
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/01/trumps_goyuuuuge_intheirface_daca_deal.html
coldwarrior wrote:
Good lord, man. Not even Xena, Warrior Princess??
Do I need to come up there?
eaglesoars wrote:
I used to work one of those. I even got a circular version what was very cool as it fitted into the shirt pocket of your flight uniform shirt. I think it was called an Aristo flight computer. It worked perfectly well on both jets and prop aircraft.
đ
lobo91 wrote:
check this out
Woman sues Wall-Mart for locking up black hair products.
guess who her lawyer is. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/957348953921503232
@ eaglesoars:
I know the African-American women here in the city have a running feud with the Asian weave shop owners, and are constantly accusing them of discrimination, as they follow them around the store.
Shrinkage, anyone?
Trump about 40 mins ago
I have offered DACA a wonderful deal, including a doubling in the number of recipients & a twelve year pathway to citizenship, for two reasons: (1) Because the Republicans want to fix a long time terrible problem. (2) To show that Democrats do not want to solve DACA, only use it!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/957462746060206080
toldja!
Also, somewhere I saw (but forget where, as usual) that Trump told DOJ he wants the memo released.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Asian women own weave shops? That’s a new one on me. They usually own the nail salons.
I’ve only experienced that once, some woman selling something that my husband was dumb enough to let in the house. When I told her I wasn’t interested she said I just didn’t want to buy something from a black person and when I told her to get out she refused. So I grabbed her hair with one hand, an ear with the other and dragged her fat ass out the door and threw her down the steps. she was screaming the whole time she was going to call the cops and I just laughed at her. Then I gave my idiot husband hell.
jesus.
Well, tomorrow we go to choose our new puppy. I’m not going to get much sleep tonight. We won’t bring her home for another month, which is going to be even worse.
*sigh*
Today, the final minutes of Holocaust Memorial Day. You may have seen this iconic photo of a train of Hungarian Jews being liberated by Allied soldiers before they reached the camp. Here’s the story behind the photo.
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/MAGAZINE-72-years-later-woman-from-iconic-holocaust-photo-identified-1.5464513
https://www.diamondandsilkinc.com/videos/2017/9/8/watch-what-happened-when-diamond-and-silk-visited-the-view
Diamond and Silk pay a virtual visit to The View, and school Whoopi.
This is worth a look.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/372663-california-councilman-and-high-school-teacher-gregory-salcido-caught-on-video-degrading-military/
@ WZ
Elitist âhigh school â teacher mocks the military. A true a hole.
To me this is an example of the left intimidating people to use their approved language to control speech and
win the debate. Arthel Neville was conducting an interview on FNC yesterday.
She apologized if anyone was offended by her use of the term âchain migrationâ
She should not have been uncomfortable for using an accurately descriptive term.
âOnce we have perfected the language, the revolution will be complete.â George Orwell 1984