The Great Lakes in November.
The crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald faced 25 foot waves. Shipping on the Great Lakes stops this time of year because of that event.
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The lakes produce their own weather until they freeze over. The warmer water feeds the storms.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake-effect_snow
And my parents…instead of retiring where its warm decided to plant their butts right in the middle of the snow belt.
Typical.
coldwarrior wrote:
ROTFLMAO…. I have seen your parents basement… Your dad has a unregistered, unlicensed nuclear reactor down there, I am certain of it. (remember, I worked at a nuclear power facility, so I do know what they look like).
@ doriangrey:
They send their regards. Dad and I were watching college ball and the UCLA game was on, sunny and 70. Dad grumbles some profanities…it was 38F and shit mist outside the garage.
I damn near choked on my beer.
coldwarrior wrote:
I wanted to ask you to give them my holiday best wishes, but knew you were already there, and your reception… Well, less than optimal. I trust that now that you are once again snuggled up in cozy castle warrior, you will be able to do so…
@ doriangrey:
Oh, it’s now even more complicated. He has water coming up from the well house into the new ‘drinking water’ side of the reactor. It feeds the kitchen sink and both bathroom faucets.
The lines are labeled with potable water stickers. With arrows to mark flow.
@ doriangrey:
I did. Thx!
@ doriangrey:
Oh, and yes, your dad muttering obscenities under his breath while watching a footiesball game is chuckle worthy. (For those who don’t know, or haven’t met coldwarriors dad, he’s the kind of guy who upon accidentally cutting off one of his thumbs is most likely to exclaim… “Well gosh doggoned that hurt” Then wrap his severed thumb with electrical tape and go right back to whatever he was doing, only stopping to go to the hospital if coldwarriors Mom forced him to.)
@ doriangrey:
They are expecting 22 inches of snow today
@ doriangrey:
Yes, coldwarriors dad is a mans mans man. Quiet, reserved, polite, gentle and made of some exotic Titanium alloy that would have made John Wayne envious. My biggest regret when visiting coldwarrior was not getting to spend more time getting to know his dad. A genuine real class act that man is.
coldwarrior wrote:
ROTFLMAO…. Sorry, no disrespect intended. I’m just imagining the look on your moms face as she contemplates keeps your dad from tracking said snow into the kitchen.
@ doriangrey:
When the snowblower has heated handles…you might have a problem
coldwarrior wrote:
What? Your dad hasn’t made his snowblower a remotely operated drone yet?
coldwarrior wrote:
My dad & step-mom spent every summer vacation in Florida and when they retired what did the do? Stayed in Ohio with the cold and drifting snow. At least my grandmother had the sense to leave and spend the last quarter of her life where the sun is.
@ doriangrey:
dont give him any ideas
@ Buckeye Abroad:
G’ma had some sense.
mrs coldwarrior and i were grocery shopping and were in the produce sectio. only a russian would say something like this:
“those are some good looking beets”
i got cappuccino up my nose and damn near choked from laughter.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
nice win over M.
don’t ask to play ‘Bama. they are possibly the best college ball team that I have ever seen.
for real, they could beat some pro teams
I went to grad school years later with the grandson of Edmond Fitzgerald. The fleet consisted of two ships almost
identical. Mr Fitzgerald knew the crew of each ship personally. He became so upset that he suffered a stroke.
He survived but sold off the business.
CW –
Dangerous Infection Tied To Hospitals Now Becoming Common Outside Them
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/25/657861409/dangerous-infection-tied-to-hospitals-now-becoming-common-outside-them
C. Diff. Not good.
Live NASA feed, Insight Mars landing. Should be down in a few mins
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/timeline/landing/watch-online/
eaglesoars wrote:
wash yinz’s hands.
that article is odd, it never really gets to the point. rates of hospital acquired c diff are down because of massive awareness and changes in orders etc.
RIX wrote:
wow.
coldwarrior wrote:
F*ck no. Spoke with my brother and said the same thing over the weekend. He said it best, “It’s our rivalry game. The last time MI beat Ohio at home the WTC was still standing in Manhattan and people were freaking out about Y2K.” The Buckeyes have playing up/down to their oppenents the last half of the season (Purdue was painful to watch), but AL are playing at a completely different level– they are going to waltz to a NC and not break a sweat no matter who they play.
@ eaglesoars:
Looking good so far.
Insight has landed.
@ eaglesoars:
cool science
Screen shot of first image…
https://flic.kr/p/2c5tetN
New York Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Occasional-Cortex on Sunday compared members of the migrant caravan attempting to enter the United States to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
yet right up the road from lordstown is the honda factory, working 3 shifts making…sedans and hatchbacks.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/companies/gm-general-motors-car-production/2018/11/26/id/891954/
its easy, GM sux and honda doesnt.
eaglesoars wrote:
Fantastic news!
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@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, small details…the Russians didn’t put them to the bottom because of charity.
Yup.
This move by the Skies has been in the planning for 6 months or so. Their base on the Sea of Azov has been upgraded but they had moved all of their ships out before the recent unplesentisies erupted between the Russians and themselves … just in case.
The three boats are just Patrol Boats to monitor movements on the Sea of Azov and especially the entrance to the Black Sea by Russian naval vessels. The alternative was to transport them overland which would have been a major undertaking and very costly. The boats used the free transit provisions under the Freedom of the Seas, Maritime Law, to make these passages, to their refurbished base on the Eastern shore of the Sea of Azov.
These guys must feel like the canaries in the coal mine as they are almost totally surrounded by Russian territories of Rebel seized land with just a single access to Ukrainian territory.
ColdW should feel quite at home there after experiencing his time in Berlin as a ‘tripwire Brigade’ all those years ago!
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Western Shore = Eastern shore.
I think the Russians would object to then taking up residence in the East!
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HEH!
@ coldwarrior:
“its easy, GM sux and honda doesnt.”
I know personally a few people in MI and OH who work for GM and they are a bunch of prima donas. Their UAW fan-boydom aside, they bascially are of the mind set, “I got mine. To hell with everything else.” I live down the road from Opel– half owned by GM for over 50 years until PSA (French) bought GMs share a couple of years ago. A third of GMs profits go to cover retiree obligations; when the govt. finally sold their last GM Shares from the 08′ crash, the taxpayers were shorted $9 billion.
Honda has a huge plant outside of Columbus. No union and they have never had lay offs. Mystery that.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
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cannon fodder
@ Buckeye Abroad:
in a nutshell.
@ coldwarrior:
Frankly mate the whole report about the Ukrainian boats was just ‘click fodder’ thought up by some cub reporter wondering what ‘news’ he could think up to make the Copy Deadline!
The 3 boats were projected to return to their former base on the Sea of Ozov ages ago. There was even a study done about whether they might be moved by road. But that was trashed because it was considered too costly.
The boats themselves are for all intents and purposes just Coast Guard type patrol boats with 12.7mm weapons and tiny crews. There are 3 boats so that there is a guarantee that at least one is fully operational at any specific time. Nominally one boat is in maintenance, one is on stand-down after a cruise, and one is operationally ready to sail or already deployed.
Their transit was legal under Maritime law as they were just transmitting Russian waters and notification of their legal passage through an internationally recognises maritime ‘pinch point’ was made months ago.
The rest is posturing and BS
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Ladies in here please ignore this post…
OK you men, fake testicular discomfort. I had a scrotal ultrasound last Monday and today got the results. My nuts are happy nuts!
Cost me $55.75
( Side note, single men die younger. Can’t be bothered to find supporting links but I seem to remember that breast cancer in single men was almost 100% fatal. )
So, If you are a male and with no nagging woman riding on your back then pretend you have one.
If in doubt get it checked out.
@ coldwarrior:
Bye the by. Russia’s navy is not looking all that potent right now. Their only carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov was in a floating dry dock for essential maintenance between 2018-2021 at the 82nd Ship Repair plant. As most of the really large dry-docks are located in Ukrainian territory that are now off limits. Hence the use of the PD-50 floating dock being used, Alas for the Kuznetsov the PD-50 sank and as it headed for Davy Jones Locker one of its cranes smashed across the hull and decks of the Admiral Kuznetsov severely damaging it. The only reason why the Kuznetsov didn’t follow the PD-50 to the bottom is that they closed all of the watertight doors in an emergency situation.
Even when the Admiral Kuznetsov was able to go to sea …… followed closely by an ocean going tugboat (just in case) the ship made it to offshore Syria. After attempting to launch its airing a few times and after an aircraft loss, and several aircraft near losses attempting to land on the carrier, the whole air wing was transferred to the Russian base at Humaymim near Latakia Syria.
This is not exactly a threat to the US 5th Fleet! Of course the sisters hip to the Kuznetsov is the now re-christened Liaoning of the PLAN !
Hmmmmm
@ Aussie Infidel:
I always laugh when people bring that POS up. Most people can’t seem to grasp the concept that you can’t just hand an aircraft carrier and its air wing to some random group of sailors and pilots and expect it to go well. The Russians have no history of carrier operations. Neither do the Chinese. They’re about 80 years late to the table if they think they’re going to challenge ours.
Reminds me of the people who couldn’t understand why it would take years to stand up a new Iraqi army, starting from scratch. After all, we can train Americans to be soldiers in 3 months. It doesn’t occur to them that there’s more to an army than a few thousand brand new privates with rifles.
Job interview, tomorrow at 10am 5 miles from that damned San Ysidro border.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
my understanding is that most, if not all, of the plant closures manufacture sedans, a type of vehicle that has lost its luster. At least in my neck of the woods, I’d say 75% of the vehicles are small SUV-type
evening y’all
Mondays are some long days
@ eaglesoars:
a re-tooling can be done and is done rather often at these auto plants.
something about that story seems fishy.
rain of lead wrote:
they are always VERY busy in the ER
Possum wrote:
Good to hear that. So why all the hair growth? … and how do I get me some of that on top of my head?
@ AZfederalist:
ya just need to know the right barber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy6OaUxDxVg
rain of lead wrote:
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This is a nicely done piece on the cultural divide we’re seeing now, short and to the point (ignore the headline, it misses the point).
https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/26/culture-war-results-empty-suits-pristine-credentials/
eaglesoars wrote:
The difference between the prognosticators and the do-ers.
Once one can get past what credentials actually are, then you can decide whether do stuff or just bloviate for the sake of making your cohort look admiringly and a wee bit jealously at you. That’ll give you an ego high but not much gets done!
🙂
Do-ers need not be uneducated. Education is about knowing how to be a do-er.
That education can be formal informal or self taught.
A diploma add nothing except someone’s opinion that you have completed some form of formalised education. Nothing more.
Give me the do-er every time.
Well, looks like the Blogmocstalker is still squatting on the Blogmocracys tweeter feed.
tied up in a left handed slip knot:
Students at a private university in New Jersey can eat more chicken as long as it’s not Chick-fil-A.
Rider University removed the restaurant from a survey of dining options “based on the company’s record widely perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ community.” The fast-food chain was included in previous surveys.
Chick-fil-A says it has supported Christian values. Its corporate purpose is “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us.”
Rider says it understands some may view the decision as a “form of exclusion.” But the school says it wanted to be “faithful to our values of inclusion.”
The university plans to hold a campus forum so that all voices can be heard.
@ doriangrey:
exterminated
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/26/migrant-caravan-uncertainty-grips-those-waiting-tijuana-tear-gas/2122165002/
@ USA Today
USA Today reports that the migrants are now gripped with “uncertainty”. Oh no!
If you read just a paragraph down you will come to the report that the march started out peaceful, the goes on to
describe the border agents response. What they leave out is that the marchers turned violent before the response.
Just an oversight I’m sure./
keep voting democrat.
Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.
the left are finished with the clintons. now its time to ruin them, if they can.
@ RIX:
kabuki theater. they are trying to Gaza-ize the southern border
coldwarrior wrote:
oh, wait till you hear about Mike Espy. He rep’d a murdering tyrant.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/15/mssen-espy-accused-taking-payments-african-despot-after-contract/2015743002/
Well, actually, you probably won’t hear about it, he’s a Dem. Google pulls up 2 results, both from media you never heard of
doriangrey wrote:
woot! missed that post.
You may have heard that when the people at the Tree of Life synagogue were murdered, Linda Sarsour, in the spirit of – well, grifters everywhere, it turns out – raised money for the synagogue. She got around $155k
$10k went to the synagogue.
Guess where the rest went.
The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1067453871205818368
@ eaglesoars:
perfect.
Aussie was talking about this yesterday
Work on China’s newest aircraft carrier has slowed as tensions with the United States and military reform have taken their toll on the programme’s budget, military sources said.
gee, that’s too bad
The Xinhua report was the first official Chinese media confirmation of the Type 002’s construction, a disclosure that means the vessel’s keel is ready to be laid, according to a source close to the Chinese military.
The newest warship will be fitted with the world’s most advanced aircraft launch system, an electromagnetic system known as EMALs, which is the same type used on the nuclear-powered USS Gerald Ford supercarrier. EMALs causes less wear and tear on planes and allows more aircraft to be launched in a shorter time.
Military insiders said work on the Type 002 had slowed because of budget cuts and the rising costs associated with the J-15, the beleaguered carrier-based fighter jet.
“China has so far still failed to develop a more advanced and powerful carrier-based fighter jet to match the Type 002 carrier,” a naval source said.
The South China Morning Post reported earlier that several sources said Beijing was developing a new carrier-based fighter jet to replace the J-15, which has had a series of mechanical failures and crashes. All of the J-15s were grounded for three months after a fatal crash in 2016. A military investigation revealed that some data relating to the flight control system had been doctored
Imagine that
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2175102/trade-tensions-united-states-blow-hole-budget-chinas-newest-aircraft
coldwarrior wrote:
Exactly rigHT and if the have to report dishonestly, no problem.
@ eaglesoars:
launching and recovering aircraft under way is not the same as stealing technology and patents and pirating some products for export.
they are bleeding money on this, and if it ever happens, the us navy will put that thing to the bottom so fast that their heads will spin. the us navy is not to be toyed with. the world has never seen any naval power like it.
Google sets up to go full gender extinction.
https://www.oann.com/fearful-of-bias-google-blocks-gender-based-pronouns-from-new-ai-tool/
coldwarrior wrote:
Population replacement with lower IQ people who can be more easily controlled to do what they are told. Meantime, China and Russia teach the hard sciences in schools, giving them a competitive advantage.
eaglesoars wrote:
It would be great if the synagogue knew that fact. I’m not holding my breath on that. Facts are hard to come by. If the facts don’t fit the current belief system, they tend to be dismissed as error or not credible. So there are at least two filters that the truth has to get through. Add the media and consensus and it takes a lot to WAKE UP.
Back later gators and crocodiles. 🙂
@ yenta-fada:
most of the jews in PGH won’t care, they are of the self-loathing socialist type branch of judaism
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/11/27/spongebob-squarepants-creator-stephen-hillenburg-dies-57-als/2126368002/
he was only 57. brilliant cartoon
FORE……. (That is a golf term by the way, it means now would be a very good time to duck your head and look carefully around you)…
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/11/27/smoking-hot-nerd-of-the-month-elon-musk/
AZfederalist wrote:
I have an alternate theory about the body hair growth. Why does it only grow to a certain length then stop? I think it is being worn away on arms and legs because of rubbing on clothes.
Recently I am nowhere as active as I was, so less rubbing on clothes, it grows longer.
Maybe a nice long walk in a park will wear the hair off my knees…. ( hint, hint )
As to head hair, can’t help you there but always remember you have an advantage over other people.
You are always the first one to notice it started raining.
🙂
Possum wrote:
wellll….
@ doriangrey:
NEW THREAD, thx dorian!
coldwarrior wrote:
George Orwell is alive and kicking. “Promoting our values of inclusion by excluding those with whom we disagree”