Item 1: Today I paid my CC dues, proving that I made enough surplus through hard work last year to enjoy a membership. Played 9 today, the bronchitis kept me from 18, but it felt good walking outside. My lungs do feel better.
Item 2: Go Fuck Yourselves, Nevertrumpers, yeah including you nosebleeds who used to post here…do nothing Con Artists.
With unprecedented speed, the Trump administration has already implemented nearly two-thirds of the 334 agenda items called for by the Heritage Foundation, a pace faster than former President Reagan who embraced the conservative think tank’s legendary “Mandate for Leadership” blueprint.
Thomas Binion, director of congressional and executive branch relations at Heritage, said that Trump has implemented 64 percent of the “unique policy recommendations” from the group.
At this stage of his presidency, Reagan had completed 49 percent of the Heritage policy recommendations.
I’m impressed with most of what Trump’s done but I’m not very happy with the budget.
@ right_wing2:
There is a budget…unlike the past 8 years. Progress.
@ coldwarrior:
It’s got far too much spending in it though.
right_wing2 wrote:
sure does, but it is a budget, something not seen in 8 years of continuing resolutions. i am happy that we actually HAVE a budget! now we can work toward making it smaller as regs fall away.
long is the struggle, hard the fight.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-to-gdp
debt has to be per gdp
spending has to be in base dollars or as % of gdp
und so weiter
i’ll take a long hard look at data in a few years. one year does not a trend make
hey hey! where’s waldo just showed up!
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the Justice Department will investigate potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
“Yes, it will be investigated,” Sessions told reporters at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees FISA warrants, according to the Washington Examiner.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.
By comparison, President Obama earned 43% approval on this date in the second year of his presidency.
@ coldwarrior:
future tense. waiting on the OIG report
can I just say something? I’m tired of hearing about the school shooting and guns and blah blah blah. talk about something else. there really is no more to say about Florida so just shut up
right_wing2 wrote:
If it helps, I think of it like this: The tax changes have dramatically increased revenue: the military has been starved for years and there’s serious catch-up to do. China and Russia are real threats.
There’s austerity and then there’s suicide. There are some areas that just have to be made healthy again.
@ eaglesoars:
😆
i just havent seen jeffey in so long i forgot he was there!
eaglesoars wrote:
its all they got. its all they got.
There’s an interesting piece on instapundit about that little tete a tete that got about 200 Russian mercenaries smoked. Scroll down to watch a 17 min video posted by Fred Trout about it.
Here’s what I find remarkable. Yes, theoretically, we Americans aren’t there but everybody knows that’s a legal fiction. Yet the Russians obviously did not expect to encounter the force they did – almost all of it from the air.
When the attack started, the Americans called on the ‘deconfliction line’ and asked, “Hey, is that you?” and the Russians said “Nope” (technically, it was a mercenary group, which is illegal in Russia, but hey there aren’t any Americans in Syria to make the phone call, either). So, the Russians know the Americans have eyeballed them and just kept on coming. They got slaughtered. For nothing.
Here’s the thread with the vid (‘Occasional Reader’ shows up in the comments – haven’t seen him in years
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/leaked-audio-recordings-of-russian-mercs-business-insider-seems-to-think-the-recordings-are-authent/#respond
eaglesoars wrote:
such is the life of a mercenary. they all know this going in.
CW, it might be interesting for your Mrs to view that vid. There is a Russian speaker that is subtitled in English. I’d be interested to know if she detects a regional accent of any kind.
In 6 hrs, the Russians lost 90% of their equip and 70-80 of their people.
Another thing: If Putin wants a serious fighting force, he’s going to have to lose the vodka. You can’t have survivors coming back from battle and getting shit-faced. The enemy will follow you home and finish it
@ eaglesoars:
might be a good idea.
coldwarrior wrote:
FOR NOTHING. They never had a chance. That’s not what mercenaries sign up for. Besides, they are actually Russian military probably getting military pay.
eaglesoars wrote:
well…
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Wheeler then turns to the recent success of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, which ushered in the democratically elected Viktor Yushchenko after his supporters virtually shut down the government in protest of the first presidential election, which fraudulently resulted in the victory of Yushchenko’s Russian-backed opponent.
“Eastern Ukraine is heavily ethnic Russian. The main industry is coal. The miners are rough, tough, and hate Yushchenko for wanting to take Ukraine away from Russia and toward the West,” writes Wheeler. “It was arranged for more than a thousand of them to be taken from Donetsk, the capital of the coal-mining region, by bus and train to Kiev, where, armed with clubs and blunt tools, they would physically beat up the Orange Revolutionaries. Such mass violence was not only to disperse the demonstrators but serve as an excuse for the government to declare martial law, suspending the Ukrainian Parliament (the Rada) and elections indefinitely.”
Now comes the secret weapon: vodka.
“When the miners got on their buses and trains, they found to their joy case after case of vodka – just for them. When they arrived in Kiev, trucks awaited them filled with more cases of vodka – all free provided by ‘friends’ of the Donetsk coal miners. Completely soused, they never made it to Independence Square. Too hammered blind to cause any violence at all, they had a merry time, passed out and were shipped back to Donetsk.”
http://www.wnd.com/2005/01/28698/
left this out by accident
Available only to subscribers of To the Point, Wheeler’s column goes on to explain who provided the liquor: teams of Porter Goss’ CIA working with their counterparts in British MI6 intelligence.
@ eaglesoars:
Brilliant, commical,and pathetic at the same time.
coldwarrior wrote:
Next time there’s a Ferguson situation, we should leave crack all around
i am sure that the other candidates would have done the same, NOT
lobo91 wrote:
no, that’ll just make ’em crazy!
use purple drank and some shatter.
lobo91 wrote:
wth is a massacre machine gun magazine????
i dont remember this in the TO&E
I WAS RIPPED OFF!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
me too
@ lobo91:
That woman is in Congress because her husband was murdered in a commuter train massacre. you’d think she’d know her guns
eaglesoars wrote:
No, that was Carolyn McCarthy
@ lobo91:
Who is equally clueless about guns
Even better, here’s the dumbass who wants to take Diane Feinstein’s seat:
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s worse than that. They are trying to use this to get back power and then disarm us so we become subjects. What is interesting to me is the frequency of these nut jobs carrying out this carnage in gun-free (unarmed victim/criminal free-fire) zones. The media has spun things up, but it seems very interesting that the FBI and other agencies are falling down so much on these cases. The cynic in me thinks the deep state is trying to gen up anti-second amendment fervor to make us like Australia and then former Great Britain.
Hilarious video at link
lobo91 wrote:
The stupidity is deep with this one. Actually, the US is one of the safest countries in the world if you remove the statistics from the cities with the most restrictive gun laws. It further drops if you exclude crimes committed in “gun-free” zones. In areas where citizens are allowed to carry, the country is very safe.
lobo91 wrote:
Good heavens! … and this is the next generation?
AZfederalist wrote:
the real world awaits….
should be fun
lobo91 wrote:
AACH!!
@ AZfederalist:
@ eaglesoars:
I hope they weren’t pre-med or something
@ lobo91:
I hope none of them get confused about the wrong bathroom when I happen to be in it.
I heard a bit of this on Hannity
———-There are more than 66 investigations by the Broward County State Attorney’s office into Broward County Sheriff’s deputies and employees, ranging from drug trafficking to kidnapping since 2012, according to a 2014 Brady list produced by the Broward State Attorney’s office. Forty of the investigations occurred under embattled Sheriff Scott Israel’s watch. His office is now under investigation for allegations that his deputies failed to allow first responders from treating patients at the scene of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on Feb. 14, and failure of his deputies to enter the school during the rampage that left 17 people dead, according to reports.
https://saraacarter.com/broward-county-state-attorney-investigating-66-cases-misconduct-sheriff-israel/
@ eaglesoars:
That’s so sad, the times.
I’ve DEFINITELY hit the WRONG head several times in my life.
It generally ends with me looking around in a confused fashion for a fixture, cursing loudly, and apologizing profusely…
Also always in an adult establishment.
DON’T TAZE ME SIS…
(Just being honest…)
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
When I was single, Friday was my nite out at the Front Page on Dupont Circle. All the kool kids were there. It was common practice that when the ladies room line got too long, the men’s room was ours. Desperate is desperate.
You yinzers (did I get that right?) might find this interesting….
“Oops! 100,000 non-citizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/02/oops_100000_noncitizens_registered_to_vote_in_pennsylvania.html
@ Bordm:
I promise I haven’t read it but let me guess – Philly
(‘Yinzers’ is Pittsburgh)
@ Bordm:
Prior to the study, election officials only took actions to remove ineligible noncitizens from the rolls after they self-reported their statuses.
well, that’s 3 of ’em taken care of.
Seriously, having worked in Penna State gov’t, I’d easily accept this is just another records keeping screw up. I worked in the Auditor General’s office and their claim-to-fame report on drug users on welfare took 3 days to generate. I cut it down to 4 hours with one sort routine. Only person in history to get a raise while still on the probation employment status.
Ah, I stand corrected…. The article talks about state wide but the only city mentioned is Philly…..
“A core concern for the lawsuit stems from a report by City of Philadelphia Commissioner Al Schmidt to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 2017, which detailed how a DOS/PennDOT study of noncitizen driver’s license holders matched records belonging to roughly 100,000 current voters in the statewide registration database.”
bed time. nite.
One of our semi-feral cats snuck out this afternoon and we haven’t seen her.
@ right_wing2:
she’s out drinking, doing catnip and whoring around
Bordm wrote:
yep, yinz is a PGH thing, in Phillie, they just shoot ya and steal yinz’s hubcaps.
coldwarrior wrote:
I stole one from the arms room along with a box of grid squares and a can of squelch.
@ rain of lead:
Thank God she’s fixed. The last thing we’d need is a batch of kittens!
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
that’s article 15 territory right there!
total yinzer thing
http://triblive.com/lifestyles/fooddrink/13303197-74/readers-share-their-favorite-fish-fry-locations-across-region
st kilian’s is DA BOMB!
eaglesoars wrote:
And the desperate men, no doubt were sent out into the ally.
doriangrey wrote:
your point?
http://wqad.com/2018/02/27/new-chicago-id-card-created-for-undocumented-immigrants-to-be-accepted-for-voter-registration/
Chicago introduces “City Key” as an ID for illegals. They are claiming that this will help them get library cards etc,
but admit that it COULD be used as voter ID. Emanuel needs illegal voters because he has lost the black
vote over the Laquan McDonald shooting..
A public interest group is suing the state of Pennsylvania alleging 100,000 illegals on the voter rolls.
See a pattern? This is the Dem strategy.
@ lobo91:
Must have been one of those “massacre machine gun magazines”
eaglesoars wrote:
Ah yes, the olde Victorian American wedding vow…
He says to her… “What’s mine is your’s, and what’s your’s is your’s”.
She says back to him “Damn right it is, and don’t you ever forget it”.
@ eaglesoars:
NO! NOT THE “WODKA”!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
I wish I could remember where I saw it, but there was a blurb somewhere that in his first year in office, Trump had REDUCED the national debt by $12 Billion, whereas Obama had INCREASED it by $200 Billion.
I know $12 Billion isn’t much in the general scheme of things, but Hot Damn! It’s a start!
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
football games are not won in the first quarter, but they sure can lost there.
progress, progress, progress, move the ball forward 3.4 yards at a time and you will win. and this is what the CONservatives didnt get. piling up small victories over and over again wins. always gong for the long bomb fails more often than not. swinging for the fences at every at bat will get you struck out many more times than you hit that home run. the liberals understand this, the marxists understand this.
as the gospel song goes…long is the struggle, hard the fight.
and that’ll be enough sports analogies for a while. 😉
lobo91 wrote:
i was ripped off! i’m suing the army for never letting me use the “massacre machine gun magazines”
i was robbed!
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
eaglesoars is a terrible Russian…. TERRIBLE I says… You can take the Russian out of the wodka, but you can’t take the wodka out of the Russian, not if you want to live anyways…
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/968867566373384192
Rep. Maloney proposes banning machine gun magazines.
@ right_wing2:
Oh, and Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced that they will no longer sell those evil black guns or whatever…..okay, didn’t they say the same thing after Sandy Hook? And didn’t they then open a chain that sold nothing but those evil black guns. So, uh, I guess the chain they opened for that express purpose is the one that will no longer be selling them. Yeah, okay.
Oh and they will not sell a gun to anyone under 21.
To which Cabella’s and Bass Pro Shops sent a note = “THANKS, Dummy!”
@ right_wing2:
Her timeline on Twitter is reaalllly interesting. She has this stalker named Pamela that comments on all of her tweets and tells her how much she loves everything the Congresswoman does. Pamela has been on Twitter for five years and has 17 followers.
Pamela is NUTS.
right_wing2 wrote:
so what is moron’s pla to stop weekely black on black slaughter in chicago/baltimore/nola…
looks like the plan is to not talk about it and just focus ‘evil guns’ on when whitey gets shot.
this horse is dead, the american people woke up and the media no longer controls the narrative.
we need to ban large forks and spoons and straws, these, like the “massacre machine gun magazines” kill people! Please! save a life ban massacre machine gun-utensils and help lower that calorie count!
coldwarrior wrote:
First the liberals came for my guns, then they came for my alcohol, then they went to the emergency room.
doriangrey wrote:
they would be met with hellfire.
@ coldwarrior:
Have you ever noticed, CW, that it is the supposed racists and bigots on the right that are always talking about the slaughter in Chicago, Baltimore, etc. and never the mouthpieces of the left? How many times has CNN or MSNBC had on the grieving mother or friend of someone who had lost their life overnight on the Mean Streets? None. But Rush, Levin, Hannity, Wilkow, mention it constantly! We keep it front and center.
@ doriangrey:
Don’t give them any ideas.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
i was in the army with a black guy from Phillie, he graduated from some big music school in the i-95 corridor. he went in to get his mom the hell out of inner city philly, pronto. i am sure he is making it big somewhere, they guy is talented on bass and keyboard.
anyway, he used to say: be glad the brother cant shoot or it would be a lot worse.
he also said: a tattoo on a black man is like sky writing at night…this cracks me up all the time.
i wonder who trump is gonna get to replace hicks, she just resigned
@ coldwarrior:
I don’t know, but unlike Obama, who replaced the resignations with someone WORSE, Trump always seems to find someone BETTER.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
this will be a shiny object for the press
@ coldwarrior:
If any of you missed the Wussy-Boy from CNN firing an AR-15 at the gun range and looking like an absolute FOOL – here’s a link:
https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/968917817092427776/photo/1
In case it doesn’t work – here’s the story on Twitchy:
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/02/28/what-a-wimp-watch-this-cnn-reporter-firing-an-ar-15-is-a-straight-up-hot-mess/
Check how he’s holding it and his attempts to make the recoil seem bigger than it is.
Big story about hazing at a Pitt sorority on the local news.
Thought to self “Hey! Alpha Kappa Alpha. Isn’t that the black girl only sorority?”
Yep.
Not a word about THAT on any news report…
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
(To be clear, I’m not talking predominantly. I’m talking only. Maybe Rachael Dolezal could pledge…)
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
sad soy-boy
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
it sure is!
new thread
Bordm wrote:
Not that that could influence the outcome of an election or anything.