It’s the shortest day of the year in the north, the longest of the year in the south. We area all 24 degrees or so out of kilter.
Let’s have a review of orbital mechanics, shall we:
The Winter Solstice hits my town at 1753 this evening and If I could see the Sun, his rays would be at the most oblique of the year.
Therefore, it is a good time for a stiff drink and a fire.
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Happy Winter Soltice to our Druid Community (everybody has a community)
Wait,my bad, this should be posted on the lefties cites where Druids & Wicans congrgste.
Erick Erickson
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@EWErickson
If we lived in a lesser country than our great nation, today is the day we really would be talking about a military coup. Soldiers down to the enlisted ranks are raising hell about the President’s Syria decision.
Erickson I one of the more annoying Never Trumpers. I am sure that he is upset because he was getting ready to enlist/
Ed Asner
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@TheOnlyEdAsner
With Mattis’ departure could we be seeing the first steps of a coup?
I never know what I think until Mr Grant chimes in.
Well, I do have a couple of old New Age friends who send greetings for the Winter Solstice.
“It is when nature pauses in a moment of silence and softly releases the old and prepares for the new.”
It’s not the assorted pagans and the like who creep me out like the muzz do.
@ RIX:
how many SecDefs did Obama have? Panetta, Hagel (THERE was a brilliant choice) – um, what was his name, Carter?
Trump could put Jared in there and he’d be better than the last two on that list.
someone please make it stop raining.
@ eaglesoars:
Rain here too. At least it’s not snow.
Yellow vest protests continue all over France. Macron considering chemical weapon to disperse crowds in Paris. That would be a disaster.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6503291/France-prepares-chemical-weapon-smothered-Paris-Yellow-Vest-rioters-away.html
@ RIX:
He can go mercenary in Syria if he is so brave and committed.
RIX wrote:
Ed Asner is an imbecile. The first steps of the Coup were taken when Obama ordered the various Intelligence agencies to spy on the Trump Presidential campaign back in 2015.
We The People Will Fund The Wall
https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall/
$11,423,450.00
Less than $200,000.00 dollars away from setting a new all time high fund raising record on GoFundMe.
Border security passes the House according to Breitbart.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/20/on-to-the-senate-donald-trump-celebrates-house-victory-for-border-security-funding-bill/
yenta-fada wrote:
McConnell reputed to be planning on pulling the trigger on the nuclear option when this bill reaches the Senate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VfAgtQM31Q
@ eaglesoars:
Obama fired Mattis as head of the Central Command without eve a phone call.
There was no outrage.
RIX wrote:
And he fired Flynn over Iran, I think? Then there was McCrystal, who was dumb enough to trust a Rolling Stone reporter.
yenta-fada wrote:
DO IT!! DO IT!!
get yin’s perogies…and 7 fishes and fatta!
https://triblive.com/local/allegheny/14430361-74/in-pittsburgh-region-ethnic-christmas-traditions-of-course-involve-food
coldwarrior wrote:
Friday’s winter solstice 2018 features a full moon and meteor shower
https://nypost.com/2018/12/20/fridays-winter-solstice-2018-features-a-full-moon-and-meteor-shower/
All I want for Christmas… Is for a meteor to fall on Nazi Pelosi…
@ doriangrey:
its cloudy and rain here…as usual.
hence the reason there are no observatories.
coldwarrior wrote:
Don’t need no fancy observatory to watch a meteor land on the Wicked Witch of the West… If one does, can we name it Dorothy?
https://amgreatness.com/2018/12/20/normal-americans-get-militant/
😆
where have i heard all these words before?
doriangrey wrote:
if it identifies as a female
@ RIX:
I find that highly unlikely. There may be some disapproval of the Mattis decision, but I don’t know anyone who would be all broken up over the thought of not being able to go to Syria.
lobo91 wrote:
for real.
coldwarrior wrote:
Sometimes, while reading Schlichter, I get the feeling someone is taking you and me, and creating a fictional character based on the things we say right here on your blog. Its an eerie feeling…
lobo91 wrote:
On twitter last nite I saw someone screaming that exiting Afghanistan meant condemning women to burkha-hood forever.
Well, if they’re still there after 17 yrs I’d say you’ve probably mis-defined the problem.
doriangrey wrote:
it is.
doriangrey wrote:
Oh, is that the same Schlicter you disparagingly referred to as “your guy Schlichter” once or twice? THAT Schlicter?
@ eaglesoars:
some places just cant be saved.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes. Maybe you can figure out why he annoys me so much…
@ eaglesoars:
And the reality is that not much has changed on that front, anyway. We didn’t go to Afghanistan to tell them how to make women dress.
see yinz later…i am getting a new breaker panel for christmas. the old one fried.
what fun.
lights out!
doriangrey wrote:
From his virtual quoting me with “Damn you for making me support Trump” to his quoting coldwarrior’s “Conservative Inc.” He is about 6 months behind coldwarrior and my conversations here and many times nearly word for word.
coldwarrior wrote:
Remember, keep one hand behind your back gripping your belt while working on the new panel…
doriangrey wrote:
well, according to this
McConnell’s Office points out that spending bill is covered by the Budget Act and therefore subject to a point of order that – by law – would require 60 votes to overcome. —> can’t go nuclear to pass it.
which sucks
https://twitter.com/ylanmui/status/1076141645920419841
doriangrey wrote:
Because he’s annoying. He’s smug and arrogant. But he’s also usually right. Also pretty funny.
@ eaglesoars:
Have you seen his latest book? It’s another Kelly Turnbull novel:
@ lobo91:
already finished it. fun read. Hey, I found an author you might like. Don Winslow. He writes DEA/cop drug cartel stuff and it is raw. I’m reading Cartel now, Dogs of War won the best crime book last year. I think you’d like it. When I finish Cartel, I’ll do Militant Normals
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks
Eye Bleach
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/omg-fashion-dont-michelle-obama-flaunts-thigh-high-sequin-streetwalker-boots-on-book-tour/
We’re supposed to believe that one phone call w/Erdogan in which Trump was told, “Dude, you won, ISIS is gone” convinced Trump to go against all his advisors’ recommendations.
https://apnews.com/ec2ed217357048ff998225a31534df12
With Erdogan on the line, Trump asked national security adviser John Bolton, who was listening in, why American troops remained in Syria if what the Turkish president was saying was true, according to the officials. Erdogan’s point, Bolton was forced to admit, had been backed up by Mattis, Pompeo, U.S. special envoy for Syria Jim Jeffrey andspecial envoy for the anti-ISIS coalition Brett McGurk, who have said that IS retains only 1 percent of its territory, the officials said.
Bolton stressed, however, that the entire national security team agreed that victory over IS had to be enduring, which means more than taking away its territory.
Trump was not dissuaded, according to the officials, who said the president quickly capitulated by pledging to withdraw, shocking both Bolton and Erdogan.
@ yenta-fada:
I had to look at that freak for 8 years, no more
I need food
eaglesoars wrote:
Butt, butt, you didn’t listen to what she had to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6d2FiFv8tU
@ eaglesoars:
Trump’s unpredictability keeps world leaders off balance. It must also keep Congress wary. His voters don’t want the U.S. being the world’s top cop. We are more interconnected through cyberspace than in any other time in human history. Complex solutions to complex problems. Change accelerates. People don’t REALLY like change.
Ginsberg had a lobectomy for lung cancer…at 85.
@ doriangrey:
Oh hell no. I dont play with that much juice. It’s all new from the electric wires down.
coldwarrior wrote:
good things she broke those ribs, that’s probably how they found it
poor woman, she’s been thru a lot physically. My mom broke ribs at 85 and it was brutal
Is the cancer primary or mets..
If they had clear margins, a wedge resection would have been sufficient.
85…she needs to retire
@ coldwarrior:
The wedge resection maintains lung function. A lobectomy takes the whole lobe, in this case 15 percent or so
My nomination for “dumbest story of the day”:
gee, maybe the media just didn’t notice
Obama’s Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years
This is from 2013
Yet what has happened to our officer corps since President Obama took office is viewed in many quarters as unprecedented, baffling and even harmful to our national security posture. We have commented on some of the higher profile cases, such as Gen. Carter Ham. He was relieved as head of U.S. Africa Command after only a year and a half because he disagreed with orders not to mount a rescue mission in response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/197-military-officers-purged-by-obama/
@ eaglesoars:
Sorry, but the first two mentioned are both false:
General Ham wasn’t even in theater that night. He was at the Pentagon for briefings. He also remained in his position for another six months. When a commander is “relieved,” it’s immediate. Would you fire someone but keep them in place for 6 more months?
On the night in question, the Stennis battle group was somewhere in the vicinity of Malaysia. It was nowhere near the Mediterranean.
I can’t believe that people are still repeating those bogus stories.
@ lobo91:
thank you!
hey y’all
@ doriangrey:
That was definitely a good read
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/senate-passes-vote-approves-motion-to-bring-bill-to-the-floor-democrat-doug-jones-votes-yes-vp-pence-breaks-the-tie/
@ rain of lead:
Do they have the votes?
This is great. A profile of Sherod Brown’s wife. Feminist, journalist (Pulitzer), Christian, the whole package. And she’s really really smart
“I am the woman he hates,” Schultz said, getting water from the fridge.
She stopped and smiled.
“Can I tell you just how proud I am to be that woman?” she said. “I never measure myself against what Donald Trump would think of me. But if I am exactly what he hates, and I think I am, it makes me feel all the more necessary.”
In the last three and a half years, since Trump descended on his escalator and announced he was running, her criticism of him has been withering and unremitting. On Twitter (where she has more than 54,000 followers), on Facebook (183,000 and counting), and in her columns, she has accused him of “spewing racism and xenophobia to cheering crowds of white people.” She has called him “the most dangerous man running for president in our lifetimes.” She has ripped him as “a chronic and unapologetic liar.” She has called his anti-democratic media-denigrating “venom” “toxic” and “contagious.”
uh huh.
The first 3 years Hubby and I were married we lived in an apt across the hall from a Congressional staffer who hosted Connie’s husband more Sunday nights than not. Every Monday morning it would be the 3 of us in the elevator down to the garage making small talk ignoring the obvious.
linky
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/21/connie-schultz-sherrod-brown-donald-trump-democratic-primary-2020-223416
@ eaglesoars:
So she’s just another fraud.
@ coldwarrior:
he wasn’t married to her at the time. The point is that he was sleeping with a staffer. Don’t do that.
If you read the rest of the article, you will meet the most self-righteous, obnoxious harridan in the midwest.
“I just want to be clear on this,” Schultz said. “Anybody who attempts to go after our family, it is going to be double-barrel. I mean, you don’t go after children, you don’t go after our kids. There’s no such thing as the ‘acceptable’ family—especially after we’ve put up with the Trump family.
she’s referring to the fact that some of their grandchildren are Latino. First, identity politics comes from HER side and second, the Trump family is pretty solid. But she anticipates being a victim, because that’s her schtick.
@ eaglesoars:
She must be a joy to be around.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/12/21/checkmate-saudi-crown-prince-mbs-sends-replacement-troops-to-defend-kurds-in-syria/
Well, THIS is a new one. Another theory on why Flynn doesn’t seem to be fighting. Because he was working as non-official cover.
You wanna get that Fetullah Gulen fellow extradited back to Turkey you say? Sure, Flynn could help them do that! Come on in and sit down and LET ME PUMP YOU FOR INFORMATION about how we could go about doing that, who your US contacts are, let’s network!
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1076268309673402368
The question now is – when they decided to go after him, did DOJ know this?
coldwarrior wrote:
look at this and tell me it was ‘sudden’ and impulsive. bullshit. And the other thing no one is talking about – the Saudis and Israelis are really trying to ‘be friends’. That’s a YUGE change and I doubt if it would have got this far if MBS didn’t lay some people out on the floor of the Ritz for a few nights, confiscate half their wealth and make damn sure they knew the new bosses aren’t the same as the old bosses.
What people are pissed off about is that they weren’t consulted. Trump doesn’t need or want the opinions of people who make no bones that they think he’s a POS
coldwarrior wrote:
Meh… Why not,she already had a lobotomy…
Yinzer alert
Pennsyltucky clothes
https://twitter.com/SalenaZito/status/1076191594989191168
@ eaglesoars:
also beer
https://www.dogfish.com/brewery/beer/pennsylvania-tuxedo
lobo91 wrote:
I hear that.
ah, maps
Here is a map of Syria today showing territory held by combatants. Scroll down a reply or 2 to see the reply from Median Politics comparing 2016 and current maps.
We’re done here
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1076293265496907782
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve been to the factory many times
@ coldwarrior:
figures
http://click1.ilovemyfreedom-email.org/rncrhwqfkwfpnlvtpktbsphrwlptfvhwfqkhrgvklngc_rcccgwjctlpcgkgknckjj.html
@ Gateway Pundit
Justice Ginsburg has two cancerous nodules removed from her lung and Libs go into panic mode.
Many are stepping up and offering her a lung. One of the would be donors is Chelsea Handler.
I would take a pass on hers, I don’t think that she treats her body like a temple.
SOLAR MINIMUM CONDITIONS ARE IN EFFECT: The sun has been without sunspots for 212 days in 2018–that is, 60% of the time. To find a similar stretch of blank suns, you have to go back to 2009 when the sun was experiencing the deepest solar minimum in a century. Solar minimum has returned, bringing extra cosmic rays, long-lasting holes in the sun’s atmosphere, and strangely pink auroras.
@ RIX:
i wish the justice a nice retirement.
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/03/05/the-worsening-cosmic-ray-situation/
that thermonuclear reactor a few light minutes away really has an effect on our weather and, well, everything else.
the electric panel and increased amps to the house is almost complete. i went total overkill.
👿
i NEVER want to have to deal with this again.
Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 6 days
2018 total: 212 days (60%)
2017 total: 104 days (28%)
2016 total: 32 days (9%)
2015 total: 0 days (0%)
2014 total: 1 day (<1%)
2013 total: 0 days (0%)
2012 total: 0 days (0%)
2011 total: 2 days (<1%)
2010 total: 51 days (14%)
2009 total: 260 days (71%)
2008 total: 268 days (73%)
2007 total: 152 days (42%)
2006 total: 70 days (19%)
Updated 22 Dec 2018
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – The U.S. economy grew at an annual 3.4% pace in the third quarter instead of 3.5%, revised government data show. Slightly weaker consumer spending mostly accounted for the downward revision, the Commerce Department said. Consumer spending, the main engine of U.S. growth, rose 3.5% vs. an earlier 3.6% estimate. This was offset partly by higher inventory growth as businesses boosted stockpiles ahead of threatened trade tariffs. The data confirm there were large but offsetting swings in inventories, which added 2.3 percentage points to growth, and the trade balance, which subtracted 2 percentage points. Looking ahead, economists surveyed by MarketWatch predict gross domestic product will slow to a 2.6% annual rate in the fourth quarter, the slowest pace since the first three months of the year.
3.5 is the sweet spot.
RIX wrote:
Temple of the Quarter Moon?
I know it’s early, but here’s my nomination for Dumbass Tweet of the Day:
AZfederalist wrote:
Ok, maybe that.
@ lobo91:
oh my lord.
AZfederalist wrote:
More like, Temple of the Batshit Crazy Please Pee on Me Moon.
coldwarrior wrote:
More proof that you just can’t fix stupid. Kid of two academic’s, private prep schools, and NYU student. And still stupider than a bag of rocks.
coldwarrior wrote:
forget ahead, why is the market falling now? I wonder if the indices are mis-balanced toward tech, which is taking hits? Or is there a fundamental weakness I’m just not seeing? It’s not as though the economy is rotten, it’s doing quite well
the child has no chance in life.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12181481
And speaking of the sun –
GAO: Solar storm ‘blackout’ of electric grid could last 3 days to 2 years, impact 40 million
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/gao-solar-storm-blackout-of-electric-grid-could-last-3-days-to-2-years-impact-40-million
@ eaglesoars:
“3 days to 2 years”?
That’s a useful estimate…
/s
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
we’ve only known about this problem since, well…at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
coldwarrior wrote:
That would be the right thing to do, but I think that she is holding out for a Democrat president to nominate her successor.g
eaglesoars wrote:
This can’t be because it would be caused my nature and stuff. It has to be man made, probably by guys
wearing MAGA hats.
army is stomping the dog snot out of Uhouston.
42-7 army is running it down theoir throats. the wing is a beautiful thing to watch.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/twitter-legal-warns-tgp-associate-editor-cristina-laila-claims-burka-tweet-violates-pakistans-blasphemy-laws/
@ Gateway Pundit.
Ok, you will need to read this twice. An American citizen criticizes the burqua,, and gets a reprimand from Twitter.
Apparently she violated PAKISTANI law, and twitter actually included the citation.
The offender is the daughter of Armenians that came to the U.S to avoid Islamic persecution.
This is tough to comprehend.p
RIX wrote:
our social media apps are controlled by totalitarian toddlers
lobo91 wrote:
No, I think that will pretty much withstand any competition for the rest of the day. That could make dumb twitter posting of the week.
doriangrey wrote:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DNgft0A-5Yg/VPnpn5bDbgI/AAAAAAAAJ7k/wT1n5vdJtCE/s1600/free-outhouse-plans-01.jpg
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/422543-mattis-exit-leaves-pentagon-in-state-of-depression
🙄
waaaaaahhhhh!!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
did we see these stories when Obama fired him w/o so much as a phone call?
No, we did not. fuck ’em
ok, here’s your bedtime reading. About a guy you never heard of and his friendship w/Charles Barkley.
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley
have tissues ready
coldwarrior wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
Let’s be perfectly clear here. Obama spent 8 years firing people that did not share his Marxist agenda, and promoting those who did. The Pentagon and upper echelons of the US Military have been pretty thoroughly infiltrated by Marxist sociopath politicians masquerading as Military personal.
Yea, they are afraid that their fellow travelers and themselves will be shown the door just as Obama showed the true patriots the door during his administration.