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Weekend Drive By Open
by lobo91 ( 64 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at January 11th, 2019 - 9:11 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!
If Trump declares an emergency to fund the border wall, how many minutes into a Democratic administration would the declare health care, guns and climate change a national emergency?
@ right_wing2:
About 2 minutes before the shooting starts
@ right_wing2:
Aren’t there already 30 some other national emergencies currently?
For the past 3 days I’ve been having a lot of trouble getting on this blog to post. It’s very frustrating & even hubby’s messages are going to my spam folder. So, it’s probably just me. Same thing happens if I go to get a link & then try to go back and post it. grrrr.
If you don’t hear from me it’s not because I don’t care.
Oh, fabulous. That last post is awaiting moderation. It’s an obstacle course, and I should be used to it by now.
@ yenta-fada:
*hug*
the panther says hi
A thing of beauty. SpaceX Rocket just sticks the landing. This morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faBpZ9UAgTI&feature=youtu.be
rain of lead wrote:
{{rain}} 🙂 Any birthday cake left to push through the innertubes to me?
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
31. Here’s a list
https://www.sebgorka.com/president-trump-can-declare-a-national-emergency/
Holleee crap, Batman! Somebody leaked Lisa Page’s testimony
https://www.theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of-lisa-pages-closed-door-testimonies-provide-new-revelations_2763452.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfH8IG7Awk0
The ‘white privilege’ term gets pulverized by Jordan Peterson. The shallow logic which underpins postmodern bafflegab starts around the 1:45 mark and continues for nine minutes. This man is a social scientist who understands neurology as it relates to behavior. He has studied theology, philosophy, totalitarian regimes, and as a clinical psychologist has come up with concrete methods of improving the lives of others.
@ yenta-fada:
It’s good to know rats laugh but I still want to know how they figured out lobsters get depressed
@ yenta-fada:
from the comments
My great-grandfather came to America from the Ukraine in the late 1920s. He worked in a zinc mine his entire life lived in a house owned by the same company bought food from a store owned by the same company. His life was beyond wretched. His brother was crushed between two couplings on a transport train and he watched him die as they pulled the headers apart. My grandmother was a child in the early 1930s during the Depression. She used to beg for coal from the engineers who pulled into the transport stations for the zinc mines. My Uncle Walter was her older brother and used to fight off all the other kids while she picked up as much could as she could fit in a bucket and run back to the house to keep it warm. Their lives where misery… what they sacrificed for this country and for their survival can never be truly accounted for in the modern era. And when I hear the spoiled sjws and the leftist Communist pigs talk about privilege, I have no other recourse but the wish for war. These arrogant little spoiled leftist Marxist brats have nothing to offer anyone… they are the epitome of the Animal Farm. It is far past time to make them realize the error of their ways. Forgive me Jordan… but I can anticipate the truth of this. These people take freedoms and delegate as though they have the right… they’re going to pay for it, there is no other recourse.
@ eaglesoars:
Hmm. Not sure what that could mean.
right_wing2 wrote:
what are you referring to?
@ eaglesoars:
Lisa Page’s testimony.
eaglesoars wrote:
Why are you stuck on this? I’m trying to tell you that Peterson is anything but a pedestrian thinker. I’ve listened to a couple of his classroom lectures on Jung, watched him atomize others in debate, seen him say when he needed to give something more thought. Everytime
I listen to him I see something fresh that I had not considered.
You read much more widely, so maybe this is just stale bread for you. It is not true for me. I saw that he took on the whole lefty faculty and lefty student body of the University of Toronto calling out their nonsense. And he WON. He’s lecturing all over the world speaking to 2,500 people who pay to hear him live when he leaves free you tube videos up on a regular basis. I think he has great knowledge and great integrity. His book alone is making him rich.
He’s a rare bird and you can argue with me. I’m entitled to my own madness. {{eagle}}
@ eaglesoars:
Actually Peterson advocates for peace while showing how difficult that truly is. He’s a rigorous thinker. The antithesis of a snowflake.
He has a horror of Marxists and totalitarians. People are LISTENING to him because he defies their sloppy reasoning skills without insulting them personally.
right_wing2 wrote:
ah. Well, the first thing I noticed is that – just skimming – no bombshells. Which is the bombshell. Her explanation of why the Hillary case wasn’t persued (ancient history) is, to me, risible.
yenta-fada wrote:
I like JP. He’s very articulate. I’m still listening
I just find it fascinating that somebody seems to have figured out that lobsters get depressed and I want to know how.
I’m also happy to hear that rats laugh. I like rats, they’re intelligent. Remember that guy back at the swamp who had them as pets? Rugby and Soccer were their names I believe.
yenta-fada wrote:
yeah. that’s one of my problems with him. He can nail Mao, Lenin, Stalin, etc., but seems to not recognize what we’re up against.
This is interesting, in a soul-sickening way. First out of the gate from the Dems – Federal control of elections. Mandated voter registration, felon voting rights, etc. etc.
Meet H.R. 1
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/h-r-1-democrats-act-to-strip-state-powers-over-elections/
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve read that Obummer declared 12 national emergencies. I recall a VERY selective government shutdown where he closed the National Parks and Veterans Affairs, but left everything that mattered to him open. Other times I believe he confiscated money but I have no linky.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, notice how every one of those “requirements” either opens up voting for groups expected to vote for democrats or mandates, at a federal level, policies that further enable democrat vote fraud.
@ AZfederalist:
yeah, what a coinky-dink!
@ eaglesoars:
Peterson recognizes that change only happens at the level of the individual. This is something that drives him and he is driven. He is not a military expert and makes no claims that he is a geopolitical
analyst. He searches for meaning in the gulags, the concentration camps, and in the genocides of the 20th century. He despises modern Marxists and tells everyone why. He delves into religions and myths looking for human archetypes. So in that sense he is a historian of mans’ search for meaning. He reads MANY current papers in psychology which still contain studies of rat behavior.
He says that juvenile rats ENJOY fighting with each other for PLAY. It is not aggression in young rats, it’s fun. Watching the rats a stronger young rat can beat another young rat in play. However, if the weaker rat does not win 30 to 40% of the time, he will not engage in this play. So the stronger rat learns that he has to let the other one win sometimes if he’s going to get the reward of playing the game. From there this particular paper goes on to say that there ends up being a hard wired sense of fair play in the young rats who want to have a rewarding good time.
AZfederalist wrote:
Exact same thing here. Besides all the illegal immigrants crossing on foot ever day, there’s a new ooze of leftist sleaze. Now anybody who was ever a Canadian citizen and lives elsewhere permanently, e.g. Lebanon, will be allowed to vote even if they never set foot in Canada ever again. That includes all returning ISIS fighters or non returning ones who move elsewhere. It’s a substitute for the dead voters of Chicago.
yenta-fada wrote:
even if they’re no longer a citizen?
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve never heard of anybody giving up Canadian citizenship. The muzz all love having it. My muzz BIL and Cdn. SIL haven’t lived here regularly or paid Canadian taxes for decades. But this is where they come for free medical care and I KNOW he gets an automatic Old Age supplement since he is over 65. He took out citizenship when he went to University here. It’s always been a great passport to travel on. He and SIL used to come to Canada every 6 months or so to maintain being eligible for benefits I think. Neither one of them ever responds to a direct question, but one other SIL occasionally tells me stuff.
All their money is in Switzerland, so no taxes on that either.
yenta-fada wrote:
where do they live if not the utopia that is Toronto or Vancouver, etc.?
eaglesoars wrote:
The French Canadians were famous for applying for unemployment benefits and then going to Florida for the winter. The STOOPID socialists sent them their unemployment checks to their Florida addresses. Now it’s all direct deposit of course. Leftists will take infinitely.
eaglesoars wrote:
They maintained an apartment in Paris for years as a central point while they moved around in Europe for work. SIL has a penthouse here
that she used to rent out. She did a fair amount of buying and selling real estate here using her place as a primary residence so that she didn’t have to pay taxes when she sold. They are stinking rich and stingier than King Midas. They lower the temperature of any room they walk into.
yenta-fada wrote:
you shoulda let ’em leave
yenta-fada wrote:
Anybody have a link to Lewis Carroll’s Wax Wing Moth parable? I just looked for it but didn’t find it
eaglesoars wrote:
The Canadian Elite (mainly in Quebec, hence repeated French PMs) did not want a Canadian breakup. They made billions sucking resource money out of the rest of Canada. Alberta always got the shaft. I would have been glad to see Quebec go, but we obviously have our own small but very deep state.
@ yenta-fada:
You should ask Paladin Phil these things when he shows up. He usually knows more about this stuff than I do. He served in the Military.
PALADIN PHIL PLEASE PHONE HOME. lol
@ AZfederalist:
The Walrus and the Carpenter keeps coming up
???
bedtime, nite
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m pretty sure it was Carroll, maybe it was C.S. Lewis. Parable about a wax moth that gets into a beehive because the bees got lazy, the young moths start living off the work of the bees and view the honey as an infinite resource. Hive starts to die, the beekeeper finds the moth larvae and purges the hive.
It was the infinite resource that applied here. To the point that the moth larvae would puncture cells just to show it’s infinite availability
I just realized something. RBG had 2 cancerous growths in her lung, they said it was primary…bullshit.
2 cant be primary by definition. They had to come from somewhere else. Making them secondary and the cancer metastatic.
@ AZfederalist:
Had the wrong author. It’s Kiplings “The Mother Hive”.
http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/actions-and-reactions/3/
@ eaglesoars:
Our confederation is becoming broken. Quebec has always been a taker and never a giver. Trouble is that every time that we get a Quebec prime minister they get more goodies. Very few prime ministers in the past 50 years (one maybe two?) have come from other parts of the country.
The sad part is that the big cities all vote Liberal for the majority and nothing ever really changes now. I don’t think Quebec will ever leave. Things are too good for them.
A little girl asked her father, Where do. people come from?
The father answered, years ago there were two people Adam and Eve.
They started a family and that is where people come from.
The next day she asked her mother the same question. The answer was,
In the past there were monkeys and that is who we evolved from.
The next day the little girl explained her confusion to her father.
He explained, Honey, mommy was talking about her side of the family, I was talking
about mine.
coldwarrior wrote:
didn’t she have breast cancer at one point?
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2019/01/12/vatican-briefly-commemorates-cubas-stalinist-revolution-n2538920
@ Town Hall
The Vatican (Pope Frank) commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Nothing like recognizing a regime hat slaughtered Catholics and suppresses the Church.
I am Catholic , but with the abuse of children and this guy……….
PaladinPhil wrote:
Thank-you! That’s it!
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/11/megyn-kelly-today-nbc-money/
@ Daily Caller
So let me see if I got this. Megyn Kelly trips all over her massive ego and in general makes a mess over at NBC.
So to punish her they give her $30 M to walk away.
Hey, I want that deal! Give me that cash and I promise that I will walk away.
@ RIX:
I wish my employer would offer me that
@ RIX:
I’ll walk away for 10 million.
That reminds me a little bit of the section in the book Catch-22 when someone’s father was making money from the government by not growing wheat. If Uncle Sam wants to pay me for not doing something, I’ll be happy to not do it.
@ lobo91:
@ right_wing2:
Megyn got a sweet deal, but she will land somewhere and continue to annoy.
The woman has a massive ego.
Maybe I should get THIS Amazon Echo.
https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=31925292
@ yenta-fada:
Have you seen Frontier? It’s a series on Netflix that’s set in the wilds of Canada around 1780 or so. Jason Momoa plays an independent fur trader going up against the Hudson’s Bay Company.
On this week’s episode of “Before They Were Larkin Poe,” we have a clip from way back in 2009, featuring a 16 year old Rebecca Lovell playing mandolin, 18 year old Megan on dobro, and their elusive eldest sister Jessica, who’s apparently now a soccer mom in the Atlanta suburbs:
Compare and contrast:
@ lobo91:
When you retire you’re going to follow Larkin Poe concerts around the country, aren’t you?
I won’t get Netflix because hubby is already glued to the TV all the time. At least he reads widely. He’s book smart.
World Bank President Resigns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEIEBntIlro&feature=youtu.be&a
It’s probably nothing./
@ yenta-fada:
Only part of the time. I’ll probably follow Samantha Fish the rest of the time 🙂
Male soldiers rebel against affirmative action incompetent pick.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6585341/Woman-failed-infant-test-given-pass-Army-furious-male-soldiers-staged-rebellion.html
Infidel German police dismantle Muslim systemic criminality.
https://www.dw.com/en/police-in-western-germany-launch-massive-raids-against-criminal-clans/a-47062084
GOOD to see examples of common sense and the rule of law crop up in the West. It’s a start.
Oh man, this unit is on fire. I’ll be back wed night.
Someone put up a thread please…
Thx.
damn
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … but wouldn’t using that much bug repellant at Microsoft cause the company to disappear?
rain of lead wrote:
Narf. Point. 🙂
Lobo, Dorian, Bunk… Can one of you toss up a new thread so that Cold can do medical emergencies as well as manage to eat and sleep too?
I can’t do computers. STAT. Admins needed. Thank you.
somebody tell me again about ‘peak oil’
BP just discovered a billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/08/bp-just-discovered-a-billion-barrels-of-oil-in-gulf-of-mexico.html
I think we’ve got about 6 inches of snow so far
@ eaglesoars:
Best observation I’ve read all weekend.