Stocks rose on Monday, erasing earlier losses, as worries about a potential trade war waned.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed 336.70 points higher at 24,874.76 after dropping as much as 150 points. Caterpillar was the biggest contributor of gains to the Dow, rising 3.2 percent.
This Hissy Fit is over, next will be when NAFTA gets scuttled. Round 7 is this week and the the agreement is coming unglued.
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eaglesoars wrote:
i read that as Brian Setzer.
but then i got my mind right
Sure hope so, the last couple of weeks have been bloody.
@ coldwarrior:
here is the trick to good pickin… gotta hold yer mouth right
Junior Brown – “Surf Medley”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bHWhbu_mbk
oh, and the girl shot 270 in practice
I wonder if sometimes Trump gets lonely. You know how when you’re really good at something and there’s nobody around who can play at your level?
Trump says tariffs will come off if new NAFTA deal is signed
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/politics/trump-tweet-tariffs-nafta/index.html
nobody else plays like this.
And finally – somebody tells Mueller to fuck right off
Former Trump advisor Sam Nunberg: I’m tearing up my subpoena from Mueller on live TV
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/05/former-trump-advisor-sam-nunberg-im-tearing-subpoena-mueller-live-tv/
he also seems to think Trump may have done ‘something’ during the election but he’s all outta fucks to give
eaglesoars wrote:
it gets BETTER!
You’re drunk or off your meds’: Ex-Trump aide clashes with CNN’s Erin Burnett during day of car-crash interviews, where he called Sarah Sanders an ‘unattractive fat slob’ and vowed to ‘screw’ Mueller’s Russian probe subpoena
Nunberg denied that he was drunk, saying all he’d taken were antidepressants
sheesh
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5466365/CNNs-Erin-Burnett-asks-San-Nunberg-hes-drinking.html
Putin is up to his old tricks again
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Fears for public after Russian spy is poisoned on British street: Double agent who sold secrets to MI6 before being given refuge in UK fights for his life in hospital as officials issue health alert
Sergei Skripal, 66, and a woman, 33, collapsed at a shopping centre on Sunday
The pair were admitted to Salisbury District Hospital in a critical condition
On Monday morning, the hospital in Wiltshire declared a ‘major incident’
They called in emergency crews to decontaminate the A&E department
On Monday evening, police cordoned off Zizzi Restaurant near the scene
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5463567/Hospital-shuts-E-department-major-incident.html
@ eaglesoars:
Odds of a Nunberg related Trump tweet incoming?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
75-25 against. Trump doesn’t usually pick on the helpless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs
AZfederalist wrote:
i made $$$
rain of lead wrote:
mrs coldwarrior sends her regards, she was headed to USSR archery.
till they kicked her and her family out
doriangrey wrote:
HAHA!!!
that was amazing!
@ rain of lead:
mrs coldwarrior goes up to the family retreat (what is now my mom and dads house). dad and some of his friends are there for archery…
i mention to dad, mrs coldwarrior uses to do archery…he says, ok, here ya go sweetie.
the end result hangs in the blue room. 3 in a 1/4 from 50m.
@ rain of lead:
i need to to delve into that
and here:
pickin
FROM DETROIT
in full regalia
eaglesoars wrote:
fair game.
@ coldwarrior:
what was her avg score?
we are now getting into final tournys
county then state level are coming up next
this past tourny the jv team took first place with a team score of 3318 and the varsity took 3rd with individual archers taking
1st and 2nd
.
white county, where they just went, is the best in the state, very rural, lotta bow hunters (lol)
@ rain of lead:
I shot a little years ago when my ex fiance & I were in the SCA (the Renaissance Faire people). Zen archery.
I haven’t picked up a bow in about 25 years though.
@ coldwarrior:
Whatever happened to him? LOVED his work.
Oh and my “Amazon Thursday” order just arrived – John Lott’s “The War on Guns” (How to defeat the gun control argument). Gotta have my points ready when the hysterical folks in the office go berserk.
@ eaglesoars:
Oh my God – watching this poor dude go batshit crazy in slo-mo was Twitter gold. There’s a thread up at Twitchy on it that is actually pretty funny.
FBI’s Aussie Trump-Russia Tipper Linked to Firm U.S. Intel Chiefs Have Distrusted for Years
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/fbis-aussie-trump-russia-tipper-linked-to-firm-u-s-intel-chiefs-have-distrusted-for-years/
given the Chinese infiltration of Aussie society, this should surprise absolutely nobody
eaglesoars wrote:
Alexander Downer has been a One World Government muppet for the past quarter century or more.He infiltrated the Australian Coalition government (conservative Liberal / National Parties)but was always a OWG mole just like PM Fraser was way back in the 1980s. Downer operates on a OWG agenda that exists in a nether world of elitist deals within deals. He has attended one to many Branderberger events for his own mental health.
🙂
well, well, well
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national/nashville-mayor-resigns-after-affair-pleads-guilty-theft/n1656aKP823874q4FTB9jJ/
Mayor Megan Barry, a one-time rising star in the Democratic Party with big plans to remake Nashville, resigned Tuesday after pleading guilty to cheating the city out of thousands of dollars as she carried on an affair with her bodyguard.
Barry and her former bodyguard, police Sgt. Robert Forrest, separately pleaded guilty to felony theft. Barry’s resignation was part of a plea bargain with prosecutors. She and Forrest were sentenced to three years’ probation
In court, Barry didn’t say how she stole money from the city, but investigators have said they believe she engaged in the affair while she was on city-paid trips and Forrest was on the clock.
oops
Authorities found two nude or partially nude photos of a woman that were taken by Forrest’s phone while he was on duty. The photos were shot last May and October, on days that Barry’s travel schedule shows she was on trips to Washington.
@ Aussie Infidel:
And more:
It’s effing snowing
eaglesoars wrote:
Growing up in Colorado, some of the worst snowstorms we got were in April. … and October
AZfederalist wrote:
March is historically the highest snowfall in CO
I heard Tucker say Samantha Powers blamed the Italian election results on the Russians.
I don’t for a minute think they believe that. What I can’t understand is why these people keep pushing this idea expecting anyone else to believe it.
@ AZfederalist:
@ eaglesoars:
I suppose there’s a point there………..
eaglesoars wrote:
… or not
@ rain of lead:
Hey have you ever been to CabaRay? Email me and let me know!
@ Deplorable Macker:
hey Mack!
I don’t know what cabaray is so I guess the answer is no.
*tumbleweed rolls by*
I don’t have much of a handle on what happened with the elections in Texas yesterday (except Ted Cruz was re-elected) but one thing is notable: the predicted ‘blue wave’ was another media hype lie. Republican turnout beat Dem turnout 60-40.
tsk tsk
um…
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https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/announcement-truthrevolt-closing-shop
eaglesoars wrote:
WSJ tries to spin it. This is the headline
High Turnout in Texas Primaries Shows Democratic Enthusiasm
WASHINGTON—The 2018 fight for control of Congress began Tuesday, as Texas Democrats flooded the polls for the year’s first primary election and showed that the national wave of Democratic enthusiasm will buffet even traditionally Republican states.
actual numbers given in next graph
https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-primaries-pose-a-test-for-democratic-enthusiasm-1520373855
CIA Warns of Extensive Chinese Operation to Infiltrate American Institutions
The CIA has issued a classified report detailing China’s far-reaching foreign influence operations campaign in the United States, which imparts financial incentives as leverage to permeate American institutions.
In an unclassified page of the report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the CIA cautions against efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to stipulate funding to universities and policy institutes in exchange for academic censorship.
“The CCP provides ‘strings-attached’ funding to academic institutions and think tanks to deter research that casts it in a negative light,” the report says. “It has used this tactic to reward pro-China viewpoints and coerce Western academic publications and conferences to self-censor. The CCP often denies visas to academics who criticize the regime, encouraging many China scholars to preemptively self-censor so they can maintain access to the country on which their research depends.”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cia-warns-extensive-chinese-operation-infiltrate-american-institutions/
I’m betting any one of us could have ripped this report out over a lunch hour.
OMG – I’m loving this.
You know those IRS phone scammers? The ones that anyone with a room temperature IQ would realize after talking to them for one minute that they are dealing with a scam outfit from India? “A lawsuit has been filed in your name at the Courthouse…an arrest warrant is issued in your name and you will be arrested immediately.” But $1000 in iTunes will fix this.
Well, guess who’s falling for it. Not senior citizens, not baby boomers.
Milennials. In droves. By all means, let’s listen to these guys on immigration, health and gun policy.
Because they apparently believe that the government takes payments in cards from CVS.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
Nah those millennials are too old to listen to. I get myi info from Parkland “cihildren “ like David Hoog and Emma Gomez.
they did not live all of those seventeen years and learn nothing.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/nfl-kneeler-league-approves-national-anthem-protests-next-season/
@ Gateway Pundit
The players union has served notice that the players will continue to kneel during the National Anthem next season.
They are making it clear that they disrespect this nation and most of their fans.
I wonder how many season ticket holders will refuse to renew?
Did anyone else hear about that new study that says Tylenol is just as effective for pain relief as opioids?
I wonder what kind of money changed hands for that one.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Isn’t today the day they are all supposed to have their school walk-out and come to D.C. or something?
@ RIX:
Why would anyone take advice from people who think Tide Pods are a snack?
@ eaglesoars:
we spent money on this? i thought the cia was busy trying to get trump.
eaglesoars wrote:
Next Wednesday
This is interesting. I’m in the process of filling out a shopper’s survey for Wegman’s. One of the questions is “A year from now I expect to be A. Better off B. worse off C. same D. not sure
26% think they’ll be better off, 8% worse off, 58% same, 6% not sure
lobo91 wrote:
dammit. Philly and everything on the eastern seaboard are getting nailed with snow right now. next week will probably be all sunshine and flowers. The chances of the precious darlings getting lost in a snowdrift or swept out to sea are considerably reduced.
coldwarrior wrote:
This is their cover story. China is bad.
Oh my God, listening to Jerry Brown’s pedantic comments about Jeff Sessions make him sound demented.
“They’re all liars”
“Mueller is closing in.”
Brown makes these comments thinking that all of California wants to be a Sanctuary State. Jeez Looeeez – never put to a vote and every credible poll I’ve seen say upward of 70% DO NOT agree with this.
right_wing2 wrote:
Cause they’re woke, or something.
More on China
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White House: Trump did not know about ‘Britain First’ leader when he shared videos
White House won’t say Trump has confidence in Tillerson
WH dodges on whether Trump knew Flynn lied to FBI
Schumer: China is ‘number one trade problem’
White House disputes former campaign aide’s collusion claims
Cochran to retire from Senate next month
Schumer: China is ‘number one trade problem’
White House disputes former campaign aide’s collusion claims
Cochran to retire from Senate next month
Schumer: China is ‘number one trade problem’
TheHill.com
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Top Navy and Marine Corps officials on Wednesday expressed concern over China’s expanding global reach and said the superpower was rapidly buying up foreign land to “win without fighting.”
“When it comes to China, the bottom line there is the checkbook,” Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer told lawmakers during a House Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing.
“Not only in the dollars and cents that they are writing to support their military expansion and their technological work, but what they’re doing around the globe … weaponizing capital.”
Spencer referred to Beijing’s current funding of a Sri Lankan port project, a move not done as aid but rather in order to secure it for themselves.
China has said the project is part of its $1.4 trillion “Belt and Road Initiative,” which is meant to bolster trade routes by extending roads outside the country and building up ports.
“Their open checkbook keeps me up at night,” Spencer said.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/377270-navy-marine-corps-leaders-warn-that-china-is-weaponizing-capital
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how long have I been talking about this? and buying land for agriculture? In one way, I think it’s a good thing. Let them spend huge amounts of money – then nationalize everything.
Just like Saudi Arabia did to our oil companies.
Idon’t know what happened there. Start reading at
Top Navy and Marine Corps officials on Wednesday
I picked up that article from freepers. There’s a very interesting comment there
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Communist Chinese people have bought up half or more of most SillyCon Valley communities and much of Los Angeles (and Seattle, Portland, and VancouverBC).
This has so tremenously distorted the markets that normal American citizens, even those with medium to high level professional incomes cannot afford shelter anymore.
A perfectly undistinguished little SIllyCon Valley cottage (a half century old, on a normal postage stamp lot, only 2 bedrooms and 848 sq ft) just sold for $2,000,000.00 cash. That town, Sunnyvale, is now majority Chinese and the immigrants are still flooding in….same for a number of Bay Area communities
the point is that this highly irregular mass-scale buying-up of American real estate… in obviously very, very selected locations (with the greatest military, defense sensitivity)……is hurting American citizens, immensely.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3638038/posts#comment
@ eaglesoars:
So our house in Wichita, KS that’s worth maybe $40,000 would cost 50 times as much. And I’d just have to move to California.
No thanks.
Prayers needed for our finances. We owe taxes and have to start having more withheld so we don’t owe next year.
@ RIX:
I watched maybe 2 NFL games last year. Down from the maybe 50 a year I used to watch. And now I notice the ads and try and not buy those products. The in laws actually threw away about $1,000 of team gear and stuff. Now if they became anti antifa I might reconsider.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
I got that scam. What was odd about it to me was they knew how many dependents I had.
@ eaglesoars:
The US is like the glamorous starlet and the rest of the world are stalkers. With the exception of the beta male in Canada.
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t know about opioids, but I know that in my case, Tylenol was way better than Percocet when I had my retinal surgeries over 6 years ago. The only reason Percocet didn’t make me violently ill when I tried it was shear force of will. Tylenol relieved the pain without making me feel like crap.
darkwords wrote:
I avoided the entire NFL season , and the withdrawal was not as bad as I expected. A lot of it was because the
college football was so good last year.
I did watch the Super Bowl though. Basically my wife wanted to see the commercials.
@ AZfederalist:
you might want to list Percocet as a drug you are allergic to. I’ve got problems w/opioids in general, so I usually get demerol w/a Valium kicker. Even Tramadol – The Exorcist scenes got nuthin’ on me. I’ve nailed 3 nurses at 15 feet with one hurl. Fortunately, I can take codeine.
darkwords wrote:
and Silicon Valley. These are the ‘ tech stars’ on the cover of Hollywood Reporter, actors portraying geeks. And they aren’t wrong.
I blame the ‘feminists’. And believe me, there are some hardcore bitches in the IT field.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/silicon-valley-confronts-a-darker-side-tech-culture-tj-millers-messy-exit-1092493
right_wing2 wrote:
even with the new tax code?
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually, I brought that up during the treatment and was told, “nausea is a side-effect and not an indication of allergic reaction”. Yeah, that didn’t go over well.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wow, apparently I’ve missed some serious devolution since I stopped watching main stream entertainment.
AZfederalist wrote:
I wasn’t told either way, just to list it as such next to the symptom.
Wow, apparently I’ve missed some serious devolution since I stopped watching main stream entertainment.
I miss Gunsmoke
eaglesoars wrote:
Wow, what a contrast to the pictures in that story.
@ AZfederalist:
These are the people giving Bruce Willis’ new movie ‘toxic masculinity’ reviews.
eaglesoars wrote:
Given what I saw in those pictures, those reviews have zero credibility. Good grief! That was a train wreck. Guys trying to look like female pinup models is not a good scene. Some of the comments over there were hilarious. … and the liberal retorts to those comments are uproariously funny
AZfederalist wrote:
It’s the lisps.
bedtime. nite
eaglesoars wrote:
Goodnight Eagles
@ eaglesoars:
Trouble remembering ‘Gunsmoke,’reruns maybe 6 or 7, but Mom loved it.
It was bedtime when the ‘Dallas’ theme came on.
Sorry to date anyone, but these things make me think about my chidhood.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes, as far as Mrs RW found on the IRS withholding calculator.
Well damn it. My brothers father in law just died.
@ AZfederalist:
@ AZfederalist:
zofran or another anti-emetic should be given for doses of opiates in the opiate niave patient to prevent the SIDE EFFECT of nausea and vomiting.
but yeah, i cant stand the way opiates make me feel either. i don’t get the attraction. if i want to fell that shitty, i’ll hit the booze and at least have some fun before hand.
@ doriangrey:
Sorry to hear that. Prayers to the family.
right_wing2 wrote:
He came home to hospice on the 6th, we knew he was going to die, however, we though it would be in 6 months or so. So it was a surprise, but not unexpected, if that makes any sense. Still, made for a very stressful evening.
RIX wrote:
We’ll know soon. If I recall correctly, Season Ticket renewal packets usually go out in April right around the draft. At least in THIS area. Also what’s going to be telling is what DirecTV will do if the renewals for Sunday Ticket don’t materialize. It’s pretty pricey to begin with, and they got thousands of cancellations after “we gonna kneel today” Sunday. Me? It’s a contract and I fulfill a contract. But I’ve already informed them I’m not renewing. Also I imagine a lot of sports bars who have seen patronage fall off won’t be renewing, and those subscriptions cost BIG bucks.
DTV has an obligation to the NFL to pay so much a year and if the renewals and subscriptions are not there, I imagine the price is going to skyrocket.