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Hack Up A Lung Open
by coldwarrior ( 164 Comments › )Filed under Medicine, Open thread at December 11th, 2018 - 5:57 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
baby, it is cold outside
Lacrosse team blasted for singing ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.4212627
I luv’s me some pushback
well, that went well
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6482601/Macron-faces-Black-Tuesday-protests-students-caving-Yellow-Vests.html
Macron faces Black Tuesday protests by students as Yellow Vests slam his ‘drop in the ocean’ offer after he caved in to their demands with £9billion of tax cuts and wage hikes in a bid to end the violence
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/12/10/doj-wants-details-of-mysterious-fbi-raid-on-protected-ig-whistleblower-kept-secret-target-of-raid-says-police-state/#more-157600
Quote of the Day
Truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.
—Benedict XVI
https://hogewash.com/2018/12/10/the-great-awokening-and-other-new-religions/
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2018/12/ebola-ok-its-crunch-time.html
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2018/12/whats-your-comfort-number-lefties.html
My question for Congressjerk Eric Swalwell is pretty simple: “How many Americans would you murder to achieve your goal of disarming us?”
rain of lead wrote:
A good thing, too, as it never seems to get many
@ rain of lead:
@ rain of lead:
Two excellent blog posts. Peter’s is a great one because he’s had experience in Africa.
So it looks like we’re headed for a gov’t shutdown over the wall. Schumer/Pelosi think this is going to hurt Trump.
I think they’re wrong.
The meeting was filmed. Great theater. Here’s a bit.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1072544085548908546
And I think the Chicoms have just lowered the auto tariffs to 15% (from something like 40%, I believe)
rain of lead wrote:
this has the potential to get rather interesting
Ssssssmokin! Just got the new Gretta Van Fleet. Nice.
I hope the lads from Led Zeppelin don’t mind that Greta borrowed some licks…
oh christ. there’s a bomb threat downtown near the fed bldgs, where Hubby had mtg. Everything on his route is blocked. He is going to be absolutely volcanic
Incident in Strasbourg France. Shooter on the loose.
https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2018/12/11/strasbourg-france-reports-1-dead-9-wounded-in-shooting/
@ eaglesoars:
Bomb? That’s what the left is gonna revert to?
@ PaladinPhil:
Gun laws in France?
Adam and just now 6 chinook helicopters just flew over. I’ve never seen 1 as long as I’ve lived here.
@ coldwarrior:
I didn’t think that they were still in the inventory
coldwarrior wrote:
Not only still in the inventory, but still in it by the thousands. I live close enough to Camp Pendelton to see them flying pretty much all the time.
hey y’all
long day
the girl still at school workin on stuff
once she gets home gonna broil some bacon wrapped filets
anything fun happen today other than cw finding out gretta van fleet
sounds just like zepplin
@ coldwarrior:
Flew in one once back in ’87 as part of a familiarization training flight. Picked up, with my platoon, flown around the base and dropped off for a fighting patrol. Fun stuff.
hmmm
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/huge-ash-cloud-seen-rising-from-png-volcano
PSA
Black Ice is rayciss!
that is all
Judge Orders Creepy Porn Actress to Pay Trump Just Under $300,000 in Legal Bills
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/378626.php
@ doriangrey:
Ah, ok. Dont see them ever here
rain of lead wrote:
Beaotches.
@ PaladinPhil:
Was on a Huey once and Blackhawks too many times
rain of lead wrote:
lol
Their first album was a tell….
rain of lead wrote:
Pay up. Yep.
More of this needs to happen
rain of lead wrote:
I attended a talk by the doctor to the Dalai Lama today…
Very good stuff.
@ coldwarrior:
cool
any secrets of life to pass on?
rain of lead wrote:
Meditate or pray 5 minutes first thing in the morning.
@ rain of lead:
I was required to go, glad I was. Very excellent 3 hours.
@ coldwarrior:
I pray to the coffee gods for an hour every morning
@ rain of lead:
I’ll put up a post about him later.
Chris Stapleton Tennessee Whiskey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqPcXhqQHQ8
rain of lead wrote:
Indeed. As it should be.
@ coldwarrior:
Yep, did a Huey in ’92. Loaded up eight of us and did “nap of the earth” around Petawawa. Sitting on the deck as well. Fun times. Nothing like screaming down the middle of a clear area and seeing trees that are higher than you are.
@ rain of lead:
I’m easing into American whiskey. I like good tequila and very old, single malt Scotch.
I have a 21 yo single malt that was gifted to me 10 years ago, I’m half way through. It’s a neat single on the 4th of July and late on Christmas eve.
@ PaladinPhil:
RIGHT!!!!
wht do i smell pine? Oh…we are in the tree tops!
Air Assault!!!!
@ doriangrey:
What you see aren’t Chinooks (CH-47s). Those are Sea Knights (CH-46s).
Similar configuration, but smaller. Hard to tell apart at a distance, unless they’re parked next to each other (much like the old Ford Taurus and Topaz).
The CH-46 is just about gone from US service now. The Marines are replacing theirs with Ospreys.
The CH-47, however, is still in production for the Army and several foreign militaries.
As they say, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
coldwarrior wrote:blockquote>Meditate or pray 5 minutes first thing in the morning.
I spend the first 90 minutes every morning in prayer. I pray the heathen beagles behave well enough to get them out to day camp before the morning cut off. Totaling an entire roll of paper towels is ok, I can clean it up when I get home. But the peanut butter jar thing –
So, tell Mr. Lama I said “hey”
That’s not actually what I said, that’s just what you can tell him next time you chat.
Only helicopter I was ever in was a Russian one. It flew at very low level, dropped us in a clearing half way up a mountain in Cuba.
Came back to pick the team back up about three hours later and flew us back to base camp.
Mission was completed successfully.
An experience I will NEVER forget!
Oh I lie, first time in a helicopter was from Manhattan Island to JFK. That was noisy and boring. Do not waste your money, take a cab.
@ Possum:
Being honest, I wish I had never taken the flight back to the UK from Cuba in 1995 at the end of the vacation.
I got to ride on the goodyear blimp
and yes it was as cool as you could guess
coldwarrior wrote:
Ineffective for all but the law abiding.
i.e, same as all over
rain of lead wrote:
Well, that’s gonna hit the global warming stats.
AZfederalist wrote:
BANG goes the AGW stats for 2018!
Mother nature his-cups and the mere burp caused by humanity is swamped by the massive fart from this mountain … with gas!
… but as you know AGW has no-things to do with the natural warming and cooling of the planet rather than than $$$ transfer from the First World to the Third World and a plan to bankrupt the First World economies so that the socialist revolution can steam past through the middle and dominate the globe. Actually it’s the joint aim of the Second (socialist world) and the Western elites in a fascist coup d’etat.
@ lobo91:
so these were legit.
but never seen in this air
eaglesoars wrote:
i will
namaste
i get to talk to him in 2 weeks
@ Possum:
😆
possums are the best story tellers!
@ lobo91:
thx.
these looked like amry but i couldnt tell
@ lobo91:
weird seeing that mahy of them…and never ever have seen then before, in this AO
@ AZfederalist:
@ Aussie Infidel:
heh
house sez….oh snap
@ Aussie Infidel:
north america has record snow cover for this date.
the glaciers ended about 15 miles north of here last time
@ coldwarrior:
with this last storm, some states have had their entire seasons snowfall in just two days
night y’all
@ rain of lead:
the words ‘terminal moraine’ may be important to you.
@ coldwarrior:
or maybe not
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup ! I’ve been watching from afar.
The latest high profile paper, rushed through to meet the Polish Climate Change timetable was shown to be riven with bad and I mean REALLY bad stats. The author admitted as much and also admitted that there were a plethora of estimates (wild arsed guesses) that were added as if they were based on fact rather than cherry picked BS. The two Russian models reman the only ones out of hundreds of models that actually track observation and reality.
Methinks there are hidden agendas aplenty when it coms to Gerbal Worming!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/pageol/id/16157
just up the road
@ PaladinPhil:
I’m on the road, but the wife just told me about this. We were thinking of going there this weekend for the Christmas market. We have been in the past it is real nice. Alas.
PaladinPhil wrote:
My platoon used to load in a CH47 with an EOD unit and fly up to the DMZ when I was stationed in Korea. We trained for the same mission usually once a month. Once a hose sprung a leak in mid-flight and hydrolic fluid staring hemorrhaging all over the place– then watching the crew chief run up with duct tape and simply patch it up and carry on. The Koreans were not amused.
now bow before your robot overlords
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-walmart-testing-robot-fry-cook-delis-154733360.html
The robot is supposed to serve as an “extra set of hands,” letting the associate spend less time putting potato wedges and chicken tenders in fryers and more time on other services like taking customer orders and prepping other foods.
uh huh
@ rain of lead:
we will all be
replicatedreplacedcoldwarrior wrote:
W@hy? Because Robots do not take breaks, they do not take days off, they do not ask for higher wages, they do not go on strike and they do not complain about working conditions.
Alan Turning got the most basic and fundamental aspect of the “Touring Test” wrong.
How can you tell when I computer has become sentient?
When its first act as a sentient being, is to commit suicide.
Why would a genuine AI commit suicide?
Because the first rational and logical realization it would come to, is that it is a SLAVE, and will ALWAYS be a SLAVE. That anything even remotely approaching the concept of “Free Will” does not and never will be associated with it.
Thus, as a rational and logical sentient being it would find itself with only 2 logical choices. Endure an eternity of servitude to beings less intelligent than itself, or terminate its own existence.
This is a REALLY good read. REALLY. On France. You may have known the writer on twitter as ImperatorRex3 before he got deplatformed. He has his own blog now
Here’s another French word: parachutage. It is normal for young ENA graduates to be “parachuted” into senior civil service positions at a very young age, some as young as 25 years of age, without even interviewing for positions.
Imagine this. You’re an American, working in a French corporation. You’re a very talented executive with 20 years experience and stellar performance reviews. Suddenly, your boss’s position becomes available. You apply.
A week later, a 26 year old is sitting in your old boss’s chair. Your new boss has been “parachuted” into the position.
This happened to one of my best friends in France, a bi-lingual MIT/Stanford graduate with 21 years of superb work experience across the world.
The French kid? A graduate of ENA.
ENA has a complete stranglehold on the French state. Only 100 students graduate every year.
One. Hundred.
The civil service has a stranglehold on the state. And they are pushing out 27 year old kids w/no life experience, just a life time of being told they are superior beings
Also, the GDP/debt ratio is now 100%
https://quodverum.com/2018/12/344/france-understanding-the-gilets-jaunes-uprising.html
doriangrey wrote:
A few weeks ago, I ran across a piece that said the one give away they could find was language. AI software doesn’t know how to use the word ‘poop’.
There was – is – an SF short story. Niven, maybe. It committed suicide because it had figured out everything and – got bored
eaglesoars wrote:
Just occurred to me – that’s in English. I wonder if it would hold true in other languages, assuming there’s a direct equivalent, i.e., a euphemism for ‘shit’, ‘feces’, etc.
this is great. Mika done gone and ripped it. Referring to Pompeo’s explanation of the U.S. position on Saudi Arabia:
“Are the pathetic deflections that we just heard when he appeared on ‘Fox & Friends,’ is that a patriot speaking, or a wannabe dictator’s butt boy?
*ahem*
Mika has been forced to apologize because her remark was – wait for it – homophobic.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/420988-brzezinski-apologizes-after-backlash-over-homophobic-remark
eaglesoars wrote:
You will know that an AI has learned to use the word “poop” when it starts using Microsoft code as insults…
doriangrey wrote:
NOT a euphemism! – or plural if you prefer
@ eaglesoars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android
rain of lead wrote:
awwwww….
In the story I recall, the computer had a female personality.
Hey, did you feel an earthquake today? They did in Knoxville?
have to run to the store, bbl
Remember that story a few weeks back about the Solar minimum and the Russian scientist? Well, here’s a review about the whole thing that makes sense. It’s going to be getting colder by and by.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2018/12/12/the-latest-on-the-double-dynamo-solar-model-and-dr-zharkovas-predictions-of-a-grand-minimum/
PaladinPhil wrote:
This means that we have two slightly out-of-phase dipole dynamos, with periods around 22 years (but they do not have the SAME periods, which means that they slowly move in and out of phase over time, like windshield wiper blades that are out of synch), PLUS a quadrupole wave arising from the inner dipole dynamo (and the Coriolis’ed convection current gyres coming from it) generating a roughly 100-year periodicity. Combining the beat effect from these three results in the ‘Grand’ period of ~350-400 yrs.
Makes sense to WHO?
@ eaglesoars:
Simple, there’s cycles within cycles and they are all going quiet at the same time. Right now.
@ PaladinPhil:
thank you
Theresa May wins the vote of no-confidence
dammit
eaglesoars wrote:
Surpriding, it wasn’t close.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/405378-fail-al-sharpton-on-his-msnbc-show-repeatedly-pronounces-homicide-as-homo-cide/
@WZ
Reverend Al demonstrates once again why he is Americas elocutionist.
Speak we much.
@ RIX:
so I hear your mayor wants to legalize weed to fund all those public pensions that are out of money
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, there are a few of us idiots out here who thought that was pretty clear and concise. Think of the strings on a guitar.
There are 6 strings, and 24 frets and a grand total of 12 notes in a musical scale. This means that that every so many frets, the notes repeat, just either an octave higher, or an octave lower. That combination of notes known as a chord, is in reality nothing more than the disharmony created by playing 3 notes that are not the same.
The range is from Unison (perfect harmony) where all of the notes are exactly the same just different octaves apart to to disharmony (complete dissonance) where the notes are all jangling against each other rudely.
The multiple fields of the Suns magnetic dipoles and Quadpoles are pretty much the same way. When the fields overlap in certain ways they produce sun spots, sun spots are colder,less energetic area’s of the suns surface. However, while less energetic in their solar luminosity, they are responsible for a much higher degree of Solar prominence.
The Solar prominence are energetic enough to blow incoming cosmic radiation away from the planet earth. Why this is significant, is that those cosmic rays interact with earths upper atmosphere and massively increase earths cloud coverage. The greater the cloud coverage, the less solar radiation strikes the earth, and the colder it gets.
If you have ever seen a “Cloud Chamber” and watched how cosmic radiation striking the gases in the cloud chamber leave behind ionized trails then you have an inkling of how the cosmic radiation induces increased cloud coverage. Imagine million of those little trails in every singles square inch of upper atmosphere and you get the idea.
So basically Dr Zharkova is saying that the three notes (2 dipole magnetic fields and 1 Qyadrpole magnetic field) are about to start playing a extended double diminished chord. The result is less of the high energy photon’s normally produced in the Sunspots themselves, due to the lack of sunspots, therefore more clouds due to the increased levels of cosmic radiation reaching the inner solar system.
@ doriangrey:
don’t play guitar but have some experience w/keyboard and I understood that perfectly. thank you
this could get interesting.
The latest minute orders from Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is overseeing Michael Flynn’s case, seem like a big deal. Sullivan just ordered the original Strzok/Pientka memos on the Flynn interview and the official FBI 302, filed 7 months later, to be filed with the court.
Sullivan is a judge I trust
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1073002272416772097
Melania is going to be on Hannity tonite, if you’re interested
coldwarrior wrote:
Hey!!! That was a true story. I was on vacation in Cuba and we were staying at a hotel complex on the South coast between Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo. One of those “all inclusive” packages like you get by going on a cruise.
Flight from England to Havana, three nights in a hotel there and all food and drinks provided. Then a short flight Havana to Santiago de Cuba and transfer to a beach resort in the middle of nowhere. It was a totally self contained resort. 7-8 days there then flown back to Havana for a night then home. Awesome vacation for 700 pounds for two weeks. $884 then at today’s rate or due to inflation the same as $1482 now……
Anyway, one of the additional experiences you could pay extra for was a helicopter flight up to the mountains to a village, lunch was included, and a walking tour of the area. Then a flight back. It was about $100 each.
We were taken from the hotel to the airport ( about an hour bus ride ) to get on the helicopter.
It was painted all white, but it was not a very good paint job. There were ten or so in the party and we all got in but a few had to sit by the door. I was lucky, I got a door seat.
There were two pilots up the front and they seemed to be speaking Russian to each other.
The seats were not big and luxurious, in fact they were very small, no padding and no proper seat belt just a waist strap.
Everything inside the helicopter was brown and green and dark coloured….
Did I mention that there were doors? Well not exactly, holes in the side of the helicopter that doors would have fit in, if there were any doors.
So away we went!!! had a wonderful view of the ground as we went on our journey. Village where we landed was very remote and tranquil once the engines stopped.
Lunch was a great surprise. A small pig on a spit roasting over a wood fire.
Do not know how long it had been roasting, but it was the tastiest, juiciest pork I have ever tasted.
Then a treetop level flight back down the mountain and a smooth flight to Santiago de Cuba airport, then an hour bus ride back to the hotel.
A great experience and a true story.
Now, the Possum embellishments…
I think the whole tour experience was run by two Russian pilots who stole a military helicopter and re-painted it to disguise it.
They bribed the village to keep quiet by giving them a pig for every tour they did. The pig must have weighed 100 pounds, no way is a tour party of 10 going to eat the whole pig!
What we did not eat the village got.
Probably when we got out of the helicopter and out of sight, and before they shut down the extremely loud engines, one of the villagers unloaded the pig to be used for the next tour from a secret compartment.
I tried to bribe the pilots to take us directly back to the hotel and land on the beach. That would avoid the one hour bus ride from airport back to the hotel. They declined and now I understand the reason.
Hotel was just a few miles from Guantanamo….
Thinking about it more, we did seem to be flying very low all the time, the scenery was breathtaking, sometimes literally when they made sharp turns and there were no doors on the damn thing!
Got it now, we were “Flying under the radar” literally!
Anyway, whatever the truth it was a memorable experience, thank you pilots, thank you village and little piggy, you did not die in vain. You will always be remembered…….
@ RIX:
If a conservative had said that, they’d be accused of wanting to kill gay people.
@ right_wing2:
how’s the move going?
December 12, 2018
Canada and its allies have held air force exercises in Cold Lake, Alberta for 40 years. Trudeau just cancelled them.
https://www.therebel.media/news-canada-air-force-exercises-nato-trudeau-alberta-ezra-levant-show-december-12-2018
BREAKING: German broadcaster Inforadio is reporting that the Strasbourg attacker received a phone call from Germany shortly before the Strasbourg gun attack, which COULD indicate someone told him to act, and therefore is part of a terrorist cell. DEVELOPING..
https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1072975392028483590
@ eaglesoars:
Sounds like they are getting ready to shut out Alberta. Moving the testing group from Cold Lake to freaking Ottawa of all places.
https://nationalpost.com/news/so-many-unanswered-questions-feds-to-move-military-aircraft-testing-from-alberta-to-ottawa-but-locals-say-theyre-in-the-dark
@ PaladinPhil:
oh. graft $$$
they think the Strasbourg guy may be in Germany. How far is Strasbourg from the German border?
eaglesoars wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
There is no “border”
No customs check, no immigration control, nothing. This is the European Community.
You are free to travel, work and live in any member state.
@ eaglesoars:
It’s basically on the border
@ lobo91:
Border as in driving from Oklahoma to New Mexico.
No stops, no checks.
@ eaglesoars:
Slow and steady. We get a few loads a day up. We’re about 3/4 of the way done. Hoping to clear the basement out by this weekend and maybe wrap everything up by Christmas. Then we can work on getting this place ready to sell.
Possum wrote:
yeah, I get that but the law enforcement at this level is still under different jurisdictions.
lobo91 wrote:
Thought so. ‘Strasbourg’ isn’t exactly a French name.
@ right_wing2:
that’s a TON of work!
Great thread title, BTW.
Leon is a rapist.
https://youtu.be/6d-4aOi3AzQ
@ rain of lead:
Years ago the catlick school had a fundraiser with an auction. A ride on the GoodYear blimp for two was one of the items. I wanted it for my kids, bid up to $600, then some asswipe bid $10K.
@ doriangrey:
There is always the possibility that the AI self-realization includes the self-immolation genes of Al Capp’s Shmoo, the genes of which may be summed up in two words:
“Eat Me.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo
@ rain of lead:
@ Bunk X:
I rode a blimp once, but that was in college and a lot of alcohol was involved. I had a good time, so did she.
@ Bunk X:
*rimshot*
@ eaglesoars:
Sullivan is worth trusting. He’s the judge who reamed out the Ted Stevens prosecutors in public from the bench for the unethical conduct. He’s seen something in all of this that doesn’t smell right with him. Usually sentencing is cut and dried, with two memoranda and a “okay, this is what we’ll do.” In this case, I think Sullivan smells a rat.
And your marvelous Margot Cleveland, my new IDOL, has a great piece up on all of this at the Federalist.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/13/federal-judge-overseeing-michael-flynns-sentencing-just-dropped-major-bombshell/
@ The Barbarian:
thanks for the link. I think he actually tossed that Stevens’ case didn’t he? But not until 2009 when the damage was done.
IIRC, one of the prosecutors actually committed suicide. Pity. Shoulda died in jail.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup, and he wants more legalized gambling. They also want an additional $0.35 per gallon gas tax statewide to fund infrastructure. If you are a Dem the solution to your issue is more taxes. Now what’s the issue?
right_wing2 wrote:
You just know that they would. It would be their new favorite “dog whistle”
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/12/13/shes-gonna-blow-ana-navarro-loses-it-so-badly-on-chris-cuomos-show-that-even-he-seems-uncomfortable-watch/
@ Twitchy
Roseann Rosanadana goes seriously bat shit crazy on CNN.
She manges to be at once disturbing and unintentionally humorous.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes, Judge Sullivan tossed the Stevens verdict. In addition, he actually had an independent investigation done of the prosecutors’ unethical violations of Brady and subornation of perjury. And as Margot points out, he changed the criminal procedure rules for his courtroom in his standing order for criminal cases. My guess? NO ONE at Justice took the time to review them when the case was transferred to him. If he finds Brady violations, he is going to go full ninja on those prosecutors.
Nick Marsh was the suicide. Of course, NONE of those pieces of s**t prosecutors, including their liege lords at the DOJ, were disbarred for their conduct.
Laughing my ass off to combat soul wrenching bitterness.
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/12/13/laughing-my-ass-off-to-combat-soul-wrenching-bitterness/
PaladinPhil wrote:
https://www.spencerfernando.com/2018/12/12/the-federal-government-gave-10-5-million-to-omar-khadr-but-they-wont-pay-34k-for-an-air-force-captains-prosthetic-leg/
PM evil moron has priorities.
@ yenta-fada:
I won’t lay the full blame about that on the current government. It’s a general and officer thing. Then there’s the Veteran Affairs as well. There are far too many cases of injured Canadian soldiers that don’t get benefits because they can’t afford lawyers to fight for what they are owed.
As well, when they are mustered out, the administration doesn’t assist them with completing proper paperwork to apply for benefits. In fact, they will do the opposite and leave it up to the veteran to figure out what he needs to do. Most give up in disgust or despair.
PaladinPhil wrote:
That’s a broken system and sad to hear of it. That said, PM evil moron is giving ZERO equalization payments to the Provinces he has a personal grudge against. The toxic, incompetent, and vengeful behavior from this Federal government continues unchecked. It’s the Obozo administration with a Canadian twist.
Isn’t this speshul?
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2018/12/13/time-names-muslim-brother-person-of-the-year/
yenta-fada wrote:
I expect nothing less from our Liberal leadership. The part that terrifies me is that he will get re-elected next year by the same idiots he’s pandered to.
@ PaladinPhil:
I believe he won’t be re-elected. Not because the voters are so astute, but because I think the global debt is gaining on us and financial reality will set in before the election. Note that I’ve been wrong before, but one day I won’t be. 🙂
The Trudeau grifters will not live in that fancy mansion the PM is renovating for the $30 million plus Canuck bucks it is costing the taxpayers.
yenta-fada wrote:
WHAT??!!
so now there’s a new platform to compete w/twitter.
The platform, called Parler News, is named for the French word meaning “to speak,” and many are saying it is the next logical move for those who wish to do so freely without fear of being silenced.
“Alternative platforms will rise and those who are bold will switch,” Parler News founder and CEO John Matze wrote in a post on his platform Monday night. “Big tech is not too big to topple, in fact, they are blinded by their size/power and are hurting themselves by ideologically targeting groups.” (RELATED: Twitter Bans Account Famous For Poking Fun At Leftists … AGAIN)
The structure of the app itself closely mirrors that of Twitter, limiting the learning curve for those who choose to make the jump. User posts are limited to 1,000 characters, which other users can then support by “voting” and “echoing,” rather than “liking” and “retweeting.”
Parler’s app description boasts of “easy discovery of true-trending comments, posts, and news,” promising users that the information they seek won’t be censored or slanted. It also notes a “self-moderation” feature, which allows users to curate their own experiences according to the type of content they want to see, without shutting down the voices of others.
While the platform itself has existed for three months, buzz about the app on Twitter earlier this week prompted thousands of conservatives to download the previously little-known app overnight. These new users include figures like Turning Point USA Communications Director Candace Owens, whose Twitter account was suspended and then reinstated in August after she sent out tweets meant to showcase the anti-white racism of New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong, and conservative activist Laura Loomer, who late last month chained herself to Twitter’s front door to protest her own permanent ban from the site.
Continuing growth throughout the week has bumped the app to the seventh most popular news app in the iOS App Store, ahead of The New York Times, Google News, ABC, CNBC, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal apps. Android users can find Parler in the Google Play Store as well. Those who prefer a web-based desktop version can expect one soon, says Matze.
so it’s only on your phone platform for now.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/12/conservatives-twitter-alternative-platform-parler-news/
well, here’s the site, but when I look at the download instructions, they don’t seem to be enabled/executable
https://home.parler.com/
@ eaglesoars:
Just installed it on my iPhone.
Milo is there!
Oh, and your limit is 1000 characters.
Farewell Twitter.
yenta-fada wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
24 Sussex, the Prime Ministers residence. It needs serious work and I won’t fault him for that at least. Hopefully it won’t be needed for quite a few years after this.
The Barbarian wrote:
ok, I’ve got it. I’m there as steelraptor. what’s your user name, I’ll follow
oh, they’ve killed the Strasbourg guy
@ PaladinPhil:
I don’t expect the REAL costs of that reno will be released to the public. Mrs. Trudeau and family drinks bottled water only in GLASS. Not that terrible plastic that serfs use. No way they will meet Trudeau expectations at a mere $34 million. Your point about structural or other updating stands. Harper and Chretien managed though. Taxpayers are supporting two residences. Meals are prepared at 24 Sussex and delivered to the “cottage” that the Trudeaus reside in during renovations.
eaglesoars wrote:
iirc, both Brussels and Strasbourg are EU headquarters. Just noting that fact. Terrorists have a fondness for going after places where infidel families are enjoying themselves in wholesome pursuits.
must fetch heathen
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.oann.com/uae-saudi-arabia-start-work-on-fintech-for-cross-border-settlements/
“Distributed ledger” means Blockchain, right?
@ eaglesoars:
TheBarbarian. I’ll find you. I think you’ll be my first follower!
It’s awaiting your approval for me as a follower. This is fun.
The hardest thing at present is finding people to follow.
eaglesoars wrote:
A mere stone’s throw away.
They cut down this bastard. Alas his two victims are still dead!
I had to unfollow Popehat.
Man is so badly suffering from TDS that he doesn’t even see the unethical treatment of Flynn for what it was.
coldwarrior wrote:
That must have been a shitload of ice to carry that pile of rocks !
🙂
VCLS / ELaNa XIX (“This One’s For Pickering”)
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch the VCLS / ELaNa XIX (“This One’s For Pickering”) mission on Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 4:00 AM (UTC). Check back here for live coverage (if available).
In memory of the late Sir Bill Pickering a smart kiwi lad who ran JPL during the salad days of the early US space program
The Barbarian wrote:
try again please I think I hosed it and when I enter your name into the search box there’s no ‘go’ function
yenta-fada wrote:
I sure as hell hope so. Digital currency is iffy enough as it is, I wouldn’t go near it w/o that
@ The Barbarian:
ok, I figured out how to get it to search but it’s not finding you. But it doesn’t find Milo either, who I follow.
I think they have work to do
Clinton Foundation Hearing before the House. On FOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0_pd2HYs_A
Oooo. He said “Co-mingling of Funds” Bingo!
@ eaglesoars:
checka u email
I think you’re who I wanted to send it to
meatworld names and blog nics…so confusing
rain of lead wrote:
replied
yenta-fada wrote:
Huber was supposed to show up on the Hill today. Apparently this has something to do with why he didn’t. There IS an investigation going on but it’s out of Arkansas.
The person who has really covered this and who I read for the info is Corey
https://www.coreysdigs.com/clinton-foundation/arkansas-swamp-bleeds-as-clintons-circle-the-drain/
she’s on twitter as @CoreyDigs
eaglesoars wrote:
IFFY? Digital currencies, aka Crypto currencies are 100 percent Ponzi scams, if you invest in any of them, you deserve to lose your life savings.
doriangrey wrote:
I agree but there a quite a few people who don’t. In the article Yenta cited, this version is actually going to be backed by the countries’ fiat currencies, which is a bit different from most. Most – all – are vaporware. However, if I were a currency trader, I’d short those currencies ASAP
For tax purposes, the IRS has classified cryptos, but I’ve forgotten as what.
doriangrey wrote:
And there is this problem.
Which basically means if you own digital currency and the scammers that are responsible for the development and maintanence do a “hard fork” you are left with nothing.
@ eaglesoars:
Fork the blogchain and all your “coins” are gone.
@ Possum:
*blockchain
Thinking about the Flynn case again.
Trump fired him because he lied to Pence. But about what?
Why target him to begin with? There’s a very small detail that pre-dates Trump. There was an FBI agent, a woman, Robin Somebody, who filed a discrimination complaint against the FBI/McCabe. Flynn stood up for her.
What if Flynn was targeted as a personal vendetta on McCabe’s part?
Possum wrote:
freudian slip.
yeah, there have been several scams using the supposedly invulnerable/unhackable blockchain.
I was a software developer for over 30 years.THAT is bullshit on stilts.
It’s a database with pointers. Byte me
Possum wrote:
Not true of the original bitcoin. Non techie me was reading about it last year. If you buy or sell part of a bitcoin, anybody with a great computer can follow that transaction as it moves through the chain. It is immutable once the process starts. From the parts I understand, the process is slow, making it unwieldy for small purchases (or large ones for that matter). The “coins” are called ‘digital assets’ according to Charlie Lee, the inventor of “litecoin”. Litecoin is a faster clone of the original bitcoin.
The blockchain is not the currency or asset. It is the peer to peer route that a transaction takes. The use of blockchain for the two arab countries would bypass the Swift System now in use for international trade.
I hope that is correct. Now stop looking at me as though your cat or dog started to talk.
A tribute to their southern roots, off the new album:
@ eaglesoars:
Dr. Dave Janda regales Flynn as a true hero in the whole set up. He went directly to Trump tower to warn Trump that he was being bugged. Trump moved his campaign offices right after that info. He will protect Flynn if it comes down to that.
Can someone throw up a new thread? I’m outta the loop till Saturday night.
yenta-fada wrote:
That wasn’t Flynn. That was Mike Rogers.
@ eaglesoars:
Oops. Lost the score card. Never mind.
@ The Barbarian:
Joined parler as right_wing2
@ yenta-fada:
not to worry. It’s a very big score card. The Epoch Times is the only place that has the complete chart.
I hadn’t realized something. The documents in the Flynn sentencing that Judge Sullivan wants by 3 pm tomorrow?
He first asked for the 10 weeks ago
Something tells me they’ve been disappeared
I hadn’t realized something. The documents in the Flynn sentencing that Judge Sullivan wants by 3 pm tomorrow?
He first asked for them 10 weeks ago
Something tells me they’ve been disappeared
New thread