Stocks ended sharply higher Monday, bouncing back from deep losses in the previous session as trade tensions between the U.S. and China appeared to ease.
The Dow gained nearly 670 points, with Microsoft as the best-performing stock in the index. The S&P 500 gained 2.7 percent to bounce above its 200-day moving average, with technology and financials leading all sectors higher. The Nasdaq advanced 3.25 percent, with Apple and Amazon both rising.
Bullshit, the market was trying in vain to try to teach Trump a lesson and they failed. LOOK! SQUIRREL!
I’m glad that last Friday was payday, My paycheck contribution went into a down market and mad a few percent in a day.
Trump is operating to a different driver and it shows in the reaction of the market gurus. The powers that be on Wall Street know that the marketplace is a bit oversold and they are wetting themselves in case Trump does something decisive because the wall street denizens are basically gutless. Trump does decisive things too get long term action and wins on the board. This scares the living shit out of the Way Street pussies.
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There guys live in the hope that the market will go up regardless forever. A hopeless wish but they are scared of their own shadows in case they trigger something …. anything that will decrease the value of their stocks, even if it means that Trump gets his way in the medium term and they profit on the back of that !
As I said … pussies
morning y’all
Quote of the Day
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, âby restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.â Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers.
âThomas Jefferson
CDC warns of a second wave of flu virus, happening now
The CDC says that B-viruses are being reported more frequently than the A-strain, which had been more dominant recently
its ridiculous in the ERs
@ coldwarrior:
Are they seeing it one one region (i.e., southeast/Atlanta) or is it generally all over the place?
@ eaglesoars:
we are seeing an uptick too.
these things , as you know, dont stay in one place very long
@ coldwarrior:
would people who contracted type B have any immunity against type A or vice versa?
I’m thinking not, as hubby got his vac and still contracted the flu, I assume of another strain
ok,this is getting bad. The so-called Cambridge Analytica whistleblower – the guy with the pink hair – is now implying that his predecessor was murdered. And he’s doing it to Parliament.
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Cambridge Analytica Christopher Wylie has today revealed his predecessor died mysteriously in a Kenyan hotel room – and may have been poisoned.
The tech specialist said Dan Muresan was found dead in 2012 amid reports that a deal he was working on went ‘sour’.
Giving evidence to the culture select committee of MPs, Mr Wylie told how rumours that Mr Muresan had been killed circulated around the controversial data firm.
And he heard talk the Kenyan police had been bribed not to enter the hotel room for 24 hours in a bid to cover up the possible murder.
He made the explosive comments to a committee of MPs investigating the spread of fake news.
Rumours that the death could have been murdered will fuel concerns about Cambridge Analytica and the shady world it operated in.
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CA doesn’t operate in a shady world. The Clinton Foundation does, tho.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5548919/Christopher-Wylie-says-predecessor-killed.html
@ eaglesoars:
well, the vax helps, but…they cant get them all. immunity is identified by the proteins that are on the outside of the virii…get one and maybe you are immune to another, depends on the outer proteins as that is how the immune system recognizes friend or foe
coldwarrior wrote:
For the last 100 years we have had an extraordinarily long run of incredibly good luck regarding the Flu. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic the Flu killed somewhere north of 50 million people world wide. In the United States alone, the estimation is somewhere between 675,000 and 5 million.
The exact number is so… shall we say… uncertain because the US Government at the time intentionally covered up the death toll. With the US heavily involved in WWI the US Government did not want the average American freaking out over the fact that the Spanish Flu was killing even more American’s then the “Great War” was.
All of us alive today have grown up in a world where we have essentially been taught that the Flu, is a more or less tamed viral contagion. This is of course not even remotely the case, we have simply been fortunate that the strain’s of the Flu that have been prevalent since the 1918 epidemic have been the milder less virulent ones. Plus we have developed more effective treatment options that mask most of the Flu’s symptoms.
While our medical sciences have vastly improved since 1918, there are some simple truths that we should not lose sight of. An ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure. We do not as yet have a cure for the Flu (or for the common cold even). While our medical sciences are progressing, they are yet far from perfect.
As of today, Mr Death may no longer walk hand in hand with every man woman and child on the face of the earth as he has done for the last uncounted melleina, he has not been banished, he is patient and for now is content to walk behind us knowing that eventually he will catch up with us. He knows that we will eventually tire, weaken and falter and then we are, as we have always been, be his once again.
Good morning. Well this is bad news, FNC is reporting to expect a new round of influenza, more virulent
than the last one. This is particularly tough on kids.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2018/03/24/npr-lets-david-hogg-slam-opponents-old-people-dying-wrong-side
a few daays ago i mentioned Mao’s The Four Olds…well well well.
@ doriangrey:
wash hands and dont go out or to worek when you are sick
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/03/27/unreal-ana-navarro-rants-about-people-attacking-parkland-students-misses-1-ironic-thing/
@ Twitchy
Roseann Roseanadana strikes again. Apparently the Parkland âKidsâ can say anything and attack anybody that the want, but the ate immune from any criticism?
eaglesoars wrote:
Types A, B and C are… well, gross characterizations. They are classifications of specific RNA genomes, but do not identify specific stains of the virus. Those are identified by specific protean sequences for example, 22 H1N1, 9 H2N2, and 30 H3N2.
Type A is the most virulent (most aggressive) while type C is the least virulent. The crossover effectiveness of any vaccination for a type, is going to be predicated on how closely the vaccine mimic’s the protean structure of the specific strain it encounters.
So, in some cases, the vaccine for Type A will be equally effective for types B and C and in other cases, where the protean sequences is a very poor match it will have little to no effect.
@ RIX:
Typos.
coldwarrior wrote:
And if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you aint going to make it with anyone anyhow….
@ doriangrey:
these are some particularly angry critters this time around.
@ coldwarrior:
@ doriangrey:
thank you. Because I’m on a med that suppresses my immune system I’ve got in the habit of washing my hands religiously and wearing gloves when I handle raw animal products and bleaching my kitchen down. But it’s a pain and for people with kids – walking petri dishes – I don’t know how they cope.
@ RIX:
Roseann Roseanadana
when SNL was funny
@ eaglesoars:
they lick doorknobs at school
RIX wrote:
Maybe Ana should talk to this guy
Eagles of Death Metal singer and Bataclan attack survivor Jesse Hughes calls March for Our Lives ‘pathetic’ and says the students who lived through the Parkland shooting are ‘vile abusers of the dead’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5547535/Eagles-Death-Metal-singer-lashes-March-Lives-supporters.html
coldwarrior wrote:
I saw a clip from Roseanne Barr’s new show. This is gonna be good.
doriangrey wrote:
You may recall I casually study medieval history life/Tudor life etc. The hygiene was appalling. And even now, when the knowledge is right out there, it so often isn’t applied. Haiti has been having a cholera outbreak for months.
@ eaglesoars:
I practically bathe in Purell during flu season. My office smells like a doctor’s office.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes, one of my pet peeves on this exact subject… Is Sliver and Copper. What do Silver and Cooper have to do with an ounce of prevention and knowledge unused you ask? (go ahead and ask)…
Silver and Copper are amazing anti-bacterial agents. Bacteria, virus, all sort and manner of of pesky disease vector pathogen stuff simply refuse to grow on either silver or cooper. Yet most hospitals use stainless steel for door handles, kick-plates and toilet facilities fixtures, thus enabling a great host of pathogens to flourish.
The amount of secondary infections that could be reduced in hospitals by replacing the aforementioned articles with silver or cooper plated accoutrements would far outweigh to cost of the silver or cooper.
Stainless steel surgical instruments, put a fine silver or cooper plating on them and watch secondary infection rate significantly decrease.
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/978632092375400451
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, there’s a reason I call the Squire my “Little Plague Vector” to friends and family. What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger, right?
That being said, I am lucky that I have a very strong immune system so I rarely get knocked hard on my ass with anything.
@ doriangrey:
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/978634039199391744
@ doriangrey:
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/978637431887953920
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/978638001507987457
retired Justice Stephes: Repeal 2nd amendment
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html
@ doriangrey:
I knew about copper, didn’t know about steel
eaglesoars wrote:
Neither stainless steel nor regular steel have any anti-bacterial properties. Perhaps you meant silver, which like cooper is an natural anti-bacterial agent.
doriangrey wrote:
YUGE
@ eaglesoars:
And he bases this ridiculous opinion based in part of the “march attendance” of this past weekend. My guess is that if you totalled it up, MAYBE 500K participated everywhere. Even going out on a limb and saying 1MM nationwide, Mr. Justice Stevens, that is .003 of the population. Since when do we change the Constitution because 1/3rd of 1% want to destroy a civil right?
Thank GOD you are no longer on the Court.
doriangrey wrote:
yes, thank you.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
The 2nd amendment RECOGNIZES a right, it does not create it. Repealing it would change nothing about the right. Stephens is a moron if someone like me – a complete legal dufus – can nail him on that
Mia is down for her nap, so I’ll take mine too. later.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Translation sent via email to the good doctor
@ eaglesoars:
All power flows from the barrel of a gun.
ok, they called shenanigans.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/articles/2017-07-19/congress-slyly-diverts-pentagon-money-to-fund-donald-trumps-border-wall
eaglesoars wrote:
I sincerely question your characterization of yourself as a legal “doofus”. No way, no how. Stevens was not the most intellectually curious of the justices – not in the Scalia/Alito mold. He replaced William O. Douglas on the Court and one attorney I know said “how could they tell…..”?
Breyer is the one I dislike the most – he’s still there and he’s incredibly stupid. His brother Charles is a District Judge at the Northern District, and is a superb jurist. But then Clinton’s SCOTUS picks SUCKED. But apparently Obama wanted to even RAISE the Unqualified Limbo Bar.
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, that’s a bit of ‘not even the rest of the story’. Every dept has a slush fund’ mechanism and it’s not about ‘why should the Pentagon pay for he wall?’ – a completely specious question – but ‘how the hell are we going to get this done?’. I’ve seen monies that SHOULD be in the Homeland Security budget in the Agriculture Dept budget – (immigration stuff) – as slush fund money. This stuff happens all the time. Also, I wonder where he thinks ‘self executing rules’ come from. Hubby has had to move a client’s budget from one dept to another for a budget cycle just for political reasons.
If he wants to talk about ‘common sense’ – those monies now are counted against the Pentagon’s baseline budget going forward instead of Homeland Security’s. The Pentagon has got to be happier than a pig in shit about that one.
Oh, an yinz will notice that the markets are up because of ‘trade talks’. uh huh. So for he past weeks they’ve been down because of tariffs but today they’re up on basically the same thing.
what crap.
@ eaglesoars:
sorta like this was planned that way
eaglesoars wrote:
this is too fun to watch
we’re dropping the kids off at g’mas for the easter break, mrs coldwarrior and i are going to go to a real old school mob italian restaurant up north after the hand-off.
this joint is proper mama-italian. i cant wait! its been a few years since we went there. very few windows, all parking in the rear behind a tall privacy fence. the place would be a caricature if the food weren’t so amazing.
coldwarrior wrote:
You will notice who tried to stop it according to the writer. Louise Slaughter. She was a very nice woman, and certainly not dumb. But if you wanted to lead a charge to the barricades, she wasn’t who you wanted yelling CHARGE!!
This was a highly choreographed dance by BOTH sides. As far as not being allowed to use ‘cement’ for the ‘fence’, I’ll bet somewhere both those words got new definitions.
coldwarrior wrote:
Okay, but if three guys come in and sit down, and one looks like a Police Captain and two begin talking in Italian and says “tu padre” a lot, I recommend paying the check immediately and heading to Olive Garden….
eaglesoars wrote:
As mentioned earlier in #1 post. The market was oversold and the Wall St. folks were gagging for an excuse to sell off a little and grab the profit gain when it was going. Then the market rebounds 2.7% a few days later and everyone goes home and places an order for another Range Rover.
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@ eaglesoars:
Your:-….. ok,this is getting bad. The so-called Cambridge Analytica whistleblower â the guy with the pink hair â is now implying that his predecessor was murdered. And heâs doing it to Parliament.
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Cambridge Analytica Christopher Wylie has today revealed his predecessor died mysteriously in a Kenyan hotel room â and may have been poisoned.
That what happens when the gay white guy doesn’t ante up the payment for his gay Kenyan lover. Poison apparently is the weapon of choice for this sort of thing in Kenya. It’s a bit like Haiti there with the local gays who are into ancestor worship and all types of creepy stuff , pandering to visiting gay Euros. When these types of deals go wrong the results can be terminal. Kenya used to be a nice place to go see the animals. Nairobi was always a little dodgy but it’s degenerated since the days of the Islamist bombings and now apparently it’s positively lethal.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-bishops-r-us
From a Catholic who voted with his feet, found a packed traditional Latin Mass Parish and is smiling again like a pig in shit!
Thank God we have a few options still left.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
so who’s paying the pink-haired tiny dancer?
Maybe it’s because I spent money long ago on a book titled ‘Invisible Armies,’ but I’m kind of enjoying watching Max Boot descend into TDS rage.
MAX BOOT GETS DEFENSIVE OVER BOLTON SMEAR
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269717/max-boot-turns-defensive-over-bolton-smear-daniel-greenfield
oh great. McCain is writing a book.
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is set to offer a “no-holds-barred” assessment of the Trump administration in a new memoir.
The book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, said Monday that “The Restless Wave” will begin with McCain’s 2008 White House run against now-former President Obama, and will reflect on his time in the Senate during Obama’s tenure in office, according to AFP.
But he will also “share his experiences during the divisive 2016 election and his no-holds-barred opinions on the current developments coming out of Washington,” the publisher said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/380407-mccain-book-promises-no-holds-barred-take-on-trump
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
tell me about this book
coldwarrior wrote:
Isnât that the truth!
eaglesoars wrote:
She would flip out.
@ eaglesoars:
It’s excellent. About the conception and evolution of guerilla warfare.
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Armies-History-Guerrilla-Warfare/dp/0871406888
I haven’t read it in a while, but remember learning much and enjoying it.
@ eaglesoars:
Shouldn’t it be titled “My Head Hurts”?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
downloaded, thans!
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
It should be titled “How to Destroy My Enemy”. This will be taken as the last will and testament of a dying man, therefore beyond any moral objections or questions. McCain can write that Trump has been sexually abusing his children with animals and because he wrote it on his death bed, no one will be permitted to gainsay it.
@ eaglesoars:
You’ll like it, and be in more astonishment when you watch the man who wrote it descend into madness!
eaglesoars wrote:
No idea. Probably the pink haired dancer’s straying boyfriend
HEH!
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@ Aussie Infidel:
I’ve been meaning to ask you a question about Christopher Steele and I’m not sure how to articulate it.
Is it strange to you that someone who rose high enough in MI-6 to be head of Russia desk freelances in an ally’s election – the U.S. – and uses dodgy Russian sources to do it? To me that seems not just odd, it seems downright hostile. And I wonder what other intelligence agents who worked with him and work with MI-6 now think of it. I know the U.S. is not exactly viewed with great fondness by MI-6, but RUSSIA? Srsly?
eaglesoars wrote:
You might also like to read this:-
https://peterwatsonauthor.com/books/war-on-the-mind/
The Interrogation chapters were required reading before the annual Interrogation battle inside the heads of the SAS recruits.
There are a lot of interesting bits and you can read chapters in isolation as they are complete. The ones on rifleman-ship studied at the end of WWII and especially the Korean war is illuminating and totally changed the way training of infantry was carried out.Also the psychology of the combat soldier was gobsmacking.
@ eaglesoars:
For Steele to even go freelance after his time at MI-6 seriously raises eyebrows. Especially in the British context. To then get involved in some other nation’s elections would result in someone from MI-6 dropping in and telling Steele to take up house painting or bricklaying ! The Russian sources were dodgy to say the least and active members of MI-6 would be none too pleased with Steele wandering about on their turf where their operational tasks might be compromised by attracting the attention of the SVR / FSB.
Sure ex Intel types can go and get involved in Business Intel but dabbling back in the same pond that the just got out of is a serious No-No.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Try the definitive books:-
The Jungle is Neutral
and
A Bunch of Fives
Both have stood the test of time and are Guerrilla Warfare classics.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Thank you. That was my assumption. So one of 3 things is true: he told MI-6 he didn’t like bricklaying; MI-6 never visited him; or MI-6 supported him
Ignoring advice from the gov’t probably would have triggered some sort of agent thing he had to sign like the Official Secrets Act and his ass would be in The Tower.
Not getting visit from the gov’t is barely believable
That leaves me with the most probable scenario being that MI-6 – and therefore the UK gov’t – supported his efforts. Which is even more disturbing when you look at his product. It was toe-curlingly risible. The former head of the MI-6 Russia desk and that’s the best he can do?
Thanks for the book suggestions, off to look them up now
@ Aussie Infidel:
Ok, I put all the books on my wish list (my budget for March was reached with Invisible Armies). Watson’s book is a bit pricey, that’s going to have to wait for xmas or something. The Jungle is Neutral looks like a ball buster
WHAT??
Scientists discover new organ spanning the ENTIRE human body that acts as a built-in ‘shock absorber’
Humans have been studying the anatomy of our own bodies for thousands of years â but, to this day, scientists are still uncovering new secrets.
A team of researchers has identified whatâs said to be a previously undiscovered organ, and may even be one of the largest in the body.
What was once thought to be dense, connective tissues running all throughout the body has now been found to be a network of fluid-filled compartments that may act as âshock absorbers.â
Not only could the finding reshape our understanding of the human body, but scientists say it could help to explain why cancer is more likely to spread when it invades certain areas.
Dubbed the âinterstitium,â interconnected compartments act like a âhighway of moving fluidâ that sits beneath the top layer of the skin, lines the digestive tract, lungs and urinary systems, and surrounds the arteries, veins, and the fascia between muscle.
The human body contains huge amounts of fluid.
More than half of this is found within the cells, and another seventh inside the heart, blood vessels, lymph nodes, and lymph vessels. The rest is known as interstitial.
Now, researchers say the network that carries this interstitial fluid is its own distinct organ.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5551189/Scientists-discover-new-organ-spanning-ENTIRE-human-body-acts-built-shock-absorber.html
interesting pics too
eaglesoars wrote:
If in doubt in a multi-choice… always choose … C …..
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That’d be my guess too!
You should be able to get Watson’s book second hand. I even think I might have a copy downloaded somewhere. I’ll go look
A Bunch of Five was written by an ex Hong Kong Police Inspector who was a VERY hands on Operational Type! If you get my drift!
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The Jungle is Neutral documents the initial development of British counter Terrorism in Malaya and is a classic.
@ eaglesoars:
OK
I just found man electronic copy of War on the Mind.
Dusts it off for you.
Look in your in box
Read well!
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Cheers
@ Aussie Infidel:
Thanks! But what is the djvu extension? (I think we’ve danced this dance before) – let me see if I can open it
Is anyone watching Martha McCallum’s interview with the Schrier guy who escaped al Queda and continues to be fucked over by the FBI?
eaglesoars wrote:
ok, I found software to convert to PDF
@ eaglesoars:
Yup I think we may have. From memory this extension demands that you go and pay to download it in something ordinary like a .pdf file. I’d be wary in that case.
@ eaglesoars:
What is the file conversion software? Is it Mac compatible or only for PCs?
I need to convert this file back to pdf I think
eaglesoars wrote:
done. handy stuff
http://djvu2pdf.com/
I’m watching the pilot of Roseanne. Hilarious.
Thanks lady
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Appreciated.
Frank Kitson wrote a Bunch of Fives
One cool tough hombre.
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@ Aussie Infidel:
Oh thank YOU! now I’m off to read. Roseanne was great. Good times.
later.
This was in my inbox – USDA pet food alert
FDA Alerts Pet Owners about the Presence of Thyroid Hormones in Certain Miloâs Kitchen Pet Treats
https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/ucm602872.htm?utm_campaign=3-27-2018-Milo&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
@ eaglesoars:
If McCain would have won his election there wouldnât be a president trump.
http://newstalk955.com/zinke-reportedly-wont-focus-on-diversity/
Oh, shame on him, that’s the greatest crime he can commit in our insane fedgov.
He has “upset” many within the government by saying he will focus on finding the right person for the right job.
@ eaglesoars:
I use Calibre for my digital book collections. Converts, reformats, virtual bookshelf, the whole thing. Free too.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Not just the government but large corporations as well. … and they judge diversity by how someone is pigmented or plumbed, not by diversity of experience. This is particularly true at the top levels of corporations. It is no longer about the best person for the job, it is the “best person of [insert type here] for the job”. Despite the fact that they may look different, they are all educated at the same Ivy League schools and think exactly the same. vs. true diversity — getting people with diverse backgrounds, regardless of pigmentation or plumbing.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
I grew up with this. The dinner was so good.
It was just as we left it 5 years ago.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Orthodox.
Trust me
AZfederalist wrote:
Yep, it’s pretty ridiculous.
Someone who knows a bit more about medical things than I do- is it dangerous to have your cholesterol level too low?
I know a level over 200 is considered high. When I had my surgery in 2011, it was at 152. My last blood work, about 3 weeks ago, had my total level at well under 100, my ‘good’ at under 35 and my ‘bad’ cholesterol at under 55. That just seems weird.
coldwarrior wrote:
Heh!
Just two bull headed idiots too proud to back down and using…..
qui ex Patre et Filio procedit
.. as an excuse to get back at each other!
Childish temper tantrums all around and a tragedy that needs fixing .. for God’s sake mate !
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morning y’all
as Paul Harvey used to say
“here is a strange.”
https://nypost.com/2018/03/27/scientists-discover-new-organ-hiding-in-plain-sight/
Scientists say theyâve discovered a new organ â possibly the human bodyâs largest â and it was hiding in plain sight, according to a new study.
The so-called interstitium is an interconnected system of tiny fluid-filled cavities throughout the entire body that acts as a âhighwayâ for our internal water supply, study co-author Dr. Neil Theise told LiveScience.com.
The findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports Tuesday.
ok, this is a great story to start the day with
https://nypost.com/2018/03/26/nipple-stickers-are-the-new-glitter-boobs/
https://nypost.com/2018/03/27/blue-moon-will-light-up-sky-ahead-of-easter/
he term âblue moonâ has been around since the 1940s. The name is simply used to distinguish the full moon as the second to appear within a calendar month.
this is funny
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/03/27/chef-who-confronts-vegan-protesters-with-recently-murdered-deer-being-hailed-as-a-hero-video/
blogTO has posted video of a chef taunting vegan protesters outside his restaurant by carving meat in his front window, and the chef is being hailed as a hero. Be sure to listen to the âplay-by-playâ by the filming protester as the chef carves the ârecently murdered deer.â
uh, ok
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/breaking-california-ag-threatens-to-arrest-orange-county-sheriff-for-assisting-ice-officials-with-criminal-illegals-video/
@ rain of lead:
related, more like backstory
https://www.weaselzippers.us/379828-breaking-county-in-california-votes-to-join-trump-lawsuit-against-states-sanctuary-law/
@ rain of lead:
Read that this morning. On my list of places to go eat at now. đ
rain of lead wrote:
oh I wanna see that. straight to SCOTUS
momcat and the girl are getting their hair cut today, then after that we’ll be having lunch, then the girl has a practice for a couple of hours, then the state tourny is tomorrow
so y’all have a great day, cause I know I will
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/census-question-on-citizenship-is-bad-news-for-illinois/
@ Chicago Sun Times
Lynn Sweet is outraged at the proposed âintimidating â citizenship question on the census form.
Then she stumbles into the real reasons, congressional apportionment and federal funding.
But you already knew that.
rain of lead wrote:
*gulp* Give her a hug from eagle
@ RIX:
I keep hearing people say that that hasn’t been on the census since the ’50s. About 10 yrs ago, I had to research this and talked to some of the guys at BLS who were census guys. They told me they hadn’t collected the data since the 1990 census – and they gave it up because everybody lied.
which is the problem I have with putting it on the census now. People will lie, the citizen population count will be larger than it actually is, and the libs will say “Hey, it’s YOUR census question, there’s your answer!”
This is interesting. You may have heard that Nicholas Sarkozy is under investigation for taking money from Ghaddafi. The person named as the bagman is a guy called Ziad Takieddine. So I looked him up because the name looked Greek to me, which I thought was odd. It’s not Greek. It’s Lebanese. Druze, to be exact. He’s talked about as a major arms dealer.
Guess who his niece is?
Amal Clooney. Her father’s brother.
A cousin on her mother’s side, Tarek, married well. He married the daughter of Ilya Pavlov, who was a Bulgarian mob guy until he got knocked off. Amal officiated the wedding.
@ eaglesoars:
I hear ya, but the libs are concerned about cash and political power, not scaring immigrants.
RIX wrote:
and of you put that question on the census, they’ll get it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_oFVlyXhJ8
Hogg Hitler,
eaglesoars wrote:
It seems like a fair question. If people decline to answer the census it costs Dems the their critical mass.
H.R.5087 – Assault Weapons Ban of 2018
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5087/text
The leftist street theater with amplified emotion and now this? I did nazi that coming.
The hysterics of late tells me the left is shitting the bed and they are grasping at straws. They have nothing left to loose but more seats this fall.
Hi, all together, hi {eagle} a short stop by because this may be interesting for some of you
How Zuckerbergâs Facebook is like Gutenbergâs printing press
THE BIG IDEA:
PALO ALTO, Calif.âWhen historian Niall Ferguson moved from Harvard to Stanford two years ago, he was struck by Silicon Valleyâs indifference to history. The hubris he saw reminded him of what he encountered on Wall Street as he researched a book about the history of banking during the years before the financial crisis. He became convinced the technology sector was careening toward its own crisis and decided to write about it.
The crisis has finally arrived, thanks to Cambridge Analytica, conveniently timed to coincide with the publication of Fergusonâs new book on the history of social networks, from the Freemasons to Facebook. âThe Square and the Towerâ is a cautionary tale that challenges the conventional wisdom that growing interconnectedness is inherently good for society. âOur networked world is fundamentally vulnerable, and two-factor authentication wonât save us,â Ferguson said at the Hoover Institution, where he is a senior fellow.
Since President Trumpâs victory, much has been written about parallels between the present and the rise of authoritarian leaders in the 1930s. Ferguson thinks thatâs lazy analysis. For most of the 20th century, communications systems were amenable to central control. This was a fluke of the Industrial Revolution, which produced telegraphs and then telephones. These technologies had an architecture that allowed whoever controlled the hub to dominate the spokes, which led to more hierarchical power structures.
To understand the current era, Ferguson believes we need to look more at what happened after Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press. Like the Web, the use of these presses was difficult to centrally control. âAt the beginning of the Reformation 501 years ago, Martin Luther thought naively that if everybody could read the Bible in the vernacular, theyâd have a direct relationship with God, it would create âthe priesthood of all believersâ and everything would be awesome,â said Ferguson.
âWeâve said the same things about the Internet,â he added. âWe think that’s obviously a good idea. Except it’s not obviously a good idea, any more than it was in the 16th century. Because what the Europeans had was not âthe priesthood of all believers.â They had 130 years of escalating religious conflict, culminating in the Thirty Years War â one of the most destructive conflicts ever.â
The more he studies that period, the more echoes Ferguson sees in the 21st century. âWhat one can see in the 16th and 17th centuries is polarization, fake news-type stories, the world getting smaller and therefore contagion is capable of spreading much faster,â Ferguson said. âThese big shifts in network structure led to revolutions against hierarchical institutions.â
Ferguson points to recent studies showing that fake news can spread faster and farther than real news when itâs especially sensational. âThe crazy stuff is more likely to go viral because we’re kind of interested in crazy stuff, but this is not surprising historically,â he said. âThe idea that witches live amongst us and should be burned went as viral as anything that Martin Luther said … Indeed, it turned out that witch burning was more likely to happen in places where there were more printing presses.â
In a sobering 90-minute conversation, the author said heâs driven to sleeplessness when he thinks about how some of the dynamics on social media will play out in the future. âI’m much more worried than a non-historian by what I see because history tells me that the polarization process keeps going, and it doesn’t just stop at verbal violence because at a certain point that’s not satisfying,â said Ferguson.
(via WaPo)
RIX wrote:
They won’t decline to answer. They’ll lie.
eaglesoars wrote:
They would be counted either way then, with or without the question. None of them will answer that they are not
U,S citizens, but I have to believe that many will just pass on the census.
@ Guggi:
{GUGGI!!}
I’ve missed you! The book sounds like it’s worth a read, thanks. I wonder if he considers what happens, tho, if the ‘hierarchical institutions’ try to contain the media, be it printing presses – which was attempted – to books to shadow banning.
It’s not the degree of connectivity that’s the problem. The problem is how it’s used. China is going for facial recognition of its entire population. And they’ve started something called ‘social credit’. Do you take care of your parents? Are you a reliable employee? If your ‘social credit score’ is high enough, you get to travel outside the country.
So how goes it on your side of the pond?
RIX wrote:
That’s my point! Only if you put it on the census, now the libs can say all these illegals are officially citizens and we have to accept it don’t we? We can’t ask the question and then say we don’t like/believe the answer.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah but answering untruthfully is fraud. Libs can make the argument that by accepting their answer that they
are now somehow citizens. That is a formal process to gain citizenship. For them to try to twist that would be
ridiculous on its face.
RIX wrote:
So an illegal alien won’t lie on a census form because it’s illegal?
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup, I did mean to mention that, of course they will lie if they choose to answer.
My point is that I believe many will not answer the census at all and will cost the Dems house seats and
federal funds.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s a mess. One doesn’t know where to start. One example:
The EU-parliament has decided a new asylum-package which includes such ridiculous rules for family re-unification that we would get entire family-clans if only one family member makes it to the EU. We are spaeking about dozens, if not hundreds of people of one family. Even the most conservative partys in the EU voted for the package HOPING that the “Rat” (Council of Ministers of the European Union) would eliminate such nonsense.
Such nonsense goes on day after day and no hope anywhere near.
@ Guggi:
yes, here we call it ‘chain migration’.
I’m good friends with someone who has worked very hard for Brexit (she’s the editor of UKIP Daily http://www.ukipdaily.com/). This is one of the fundamental forces breaking the UK out of the EU. I read that one Swedish Member of Parliament has moved to Hungary just to get away from it.
I seriously fear you people are headed for civil war.
It won’t stop until your elites start being murdered and raped. And maybe not then.
RIX wrote:
ah. Well, that’s where you and I anticipate different behavior. I anticipate that the Dems will pay them to do just that. They have no qualms about voter fraud, census fraud won’t turn a hair, especially if they get to lock in the numbers for a decade.
It’s a trap
eaglesoars wrote:
Thatâs an interesting angle, and you may be right.
@ eaglesoars:
There is one and only one exception: Denmark. They are fed up and have closed their doors and even the left parties don’t want refugees any more.
Bye bye and big [eagle}
It’s GUGGI! (Why does that sound like a great name for a Saturday morning kid’s show?)
Wonderful to see you!!
@ Guggi:
Be well, Guggi, and don’t be stranger!
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/03/28/thwap-slate-tries-to-hit-conservatives-with-pps-deleted-disney-princess-tweet-self-inflicted-ko-ensues/
@ Twitchy
Planned Parenthood wants a new Disney Princess role model.
So, letâs exploit little girls to advance an agenda. These people are crazed.
@ RIX:
Pedophilia isn’t far behind.
eaglesoars wrote:
No doubt
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/breaking-david-shulkin-out-as-va-secretary/
@ GP
Shulkin out at the VA. Trump is building his own team
https://www.weaselzippers.us/379933-doj-opens-investigation-into-fisa-abuse-fbi-contacts-with-confidential-source/
@ WZ
It begins. I will bet that McCabe has bigger issues right now tha his pension.
RIX wrote:
I’m very discouraged. Where is this IG report we’ve been hearing is due ‘any day’ for months? At this point, I’m thinking this is just their way of burying the bodies. We’ll never see anything.
eaglesoars wrote:
The same way a criminal won’t lie on a 4473
Steven Crowder has picked it up now…
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/parkland-survivor-admits-to-bullying-the-shooter-and-shes-not-sorry/
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/978357541750030338
eaglesoars wrote:
Stranger than whom?
lobo91 wrote:
murder has been illegal for awhile. Or so I’m told
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, you know how Democrats are, murder may be illegal, but only if its actually “Murder murder”…
doriangrey wrote:
yeah, abortion would be a sacrament if it weren’t for the patriarchy
eaglesoars wrote:
They are really slow walking things, and itâs infuriating.
Documents suggest possible coordination between CIA, FBI, Obama WH and Dem officials early in Trump-Russia probe: investigators
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/28/documents-suggest-possible-coordination-between-cia-fbi-obama-wh-and-dem-officials-early-in-trump-russia-probe-investigators.html
Harry Reid.
This surprises nobody.
yup, good day
So Nunes was on Hannity. Long story short: If they don’t get the docs they want, they move to contempt and then impeachment.
Yawn.
Impeachment of whom? Comey? He’s gone. Any jail time? Any fine? ANYTHING??
nope.
I’m done for the nite.
@ rain of lead:
best of luck to the girl tomorrow
@ eaglesoars:
thanks, she’ll be fine
@ eaglesoars:
I can’t goto the gym like I want to, due to my Chemo weakening my immune system. Sucks, but there it is.
What I wish for is that some of the people who are, supposedly, my friends (no, not referring to anyone here), can call me up and check on me.
But they don’t.
@ Deplorable Macker:
Hey Mack , how are you?
Whiney totalitarian thuglet threatens Laura Ingraham
Parkland survivor David Hogg calls on advertisers to boycott Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show after she accused him of ‘whining’ about his college rejections
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5556919/David-Hogg-asks-Twitter-followers-boycott-Laura-Ingraham.html
morning Mack!
new thread
eaglesoars wrote:
That would be Rosenstein or Wray.