Glad to see the joint didn’t get too messed in my absence.
Let’s continue with the music, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Hell.
Enjoy
That Was A Long 7 Days Open
by coldwarrior ( 290 Comments › )Filed under Music, Open thread at January 17th, 2019 - 9:54 pm
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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!
7 days a way is too much, i’m not doing that again.
the fire is lit on the deck and i am having a don julio 1942 tequila and a san latono oval from AJ fernandez.
then 10 GLORIOUS HOURS OF SLEEP!!!
(i’ve only been averaging 6 on this assignment.)
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s my average week — 5 days one week, 4 the next. I’m trying to cut back some and get in a little later so I can get a little more sleep during the week.
/weekends are for making up the sleep debt
@ AZfederalist:
I need 7 hours.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’d do better with 7 or 8, but right now, if I did that, I’d have no “at-home” time in the evenings.
@ AZfederalist:
My next gig is at my last assignment 6 weeks ago. The hotel is 145seconds from the ER door.
MAX SLEEP!
@ AZfederalist:
… and that said, it’s time to get ready for bed.
@ coldwarrior:
Now that sounds like a good assignment.
@ AZfederalist:
My favorite
Good tequila is joyous.
A great cigar rests the mind.
All is right with the universe again.
I think a proper roast and some Yorkshire pudding is the ticket for tomorrow.
@ coldwarrior:
With parsnips.
@ coldwarrior:
https://twitter.com/almostjingo/status/1085617524358578177?s=20
Something to look at. Ex-Pelosi staffers work directly for a lobbying firm that works with the mex pres who is owned by the cartels. More links appearing hourly.
judicial Watch goes after Susan Rice (yay!)and Ben Rhodes.
https://steadfastandloyal.com/politics/bombshell-federal-court-orders-discovery-immediately-susan-rice-and-ben-rhodes-to-testify-under-oath/
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Wow. I was wondering how you were doing.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
hey! where have you been? everything copacetic?
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
The corruption is endemic
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
well, THAT’s a follow. Another Feinstein ex to listen for is a guy named Dan Jones. He’s fundraising.
Everything is good. Just busy.
Taxing drinking water in California (Armstrong)
The total mismanagement and incompetence of government is just beyond description. The new California Governor Gavin Newsom presented his first state budget during a news conference, last week on January 10th, 2019. While he won bashing Trump over the illegal aliens because he cares so much for families, he could care less about how much of a burden the state imposes upon families. His new proposal to tax drinking water will impact everyone – not the rich they always point to. He is claiming to tax water to help the poor afford water. His the newly-released budge calls for the creation of a “safe and affordable drinking water fund” that would “enable the State Water Resources Control Board to assist communities, particularly disadvantaged communities, in paying for the short-term and long-term costs of obtaining access to safe and affordable drinking water.”
It’s like labeling the most abusive taking of our rights the “Patriot Act” whenever you need to hide the real abuse. He is calling the tax as suddenly necessary to ensure “safe” water. They paid for a study to show that 6 million Californians rely on water providers that violated state standards at some point in the last six years. The area impacted was Southern San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. Hey, that’s a great excuse to tax the entire state.
@ yenta-fada:
Cali needs to be broken up
@ yenta-fada:
He still has a way to go before he ascends the heights of idiocy reached by the former governor of Maryland – whose name escapes me but he tried to run for POTUS and didn’t make it past the first primary. He taxed the rain. I’m not kidding. I think it was based on the square footage of your roof or something.
more on shaving (as covered in the previous thread):
https://amgreatness.com/2019/01/16/the-return-of-classical-and-manly-shaving/
The straight razor (with strop) or even the safety razor is something a man can pass onto his son. It does not break. It is not cheaply made. The double-sided razors are exquisite even as the famous Feather razor blades sell for pennies on the dollar. The process of using a brush, water, soap (or shave cream), followed up by an alum block and aftershave (lotion or balm) is something that appeals to the gentleman. The reason for the rise of classical shaving equipment is not just because the shave is closer and better for the skin, but because it is manly and a civilized man does not reject his nature, he embraces it…
But, to be a gentleman means to inhabit the area in-between the extremes of a neutered male, and an uncivilized man. Mansfield writes, “virtue attaches to a being, a human being, as to what is best and to what is usual in him.” Being a gentleman does not mean rejecting one’s nature, it means to temporize our lesser angels while, at the same time, not denying who we are. The man who does not care for his soul or his appetite, becomes “bland, unexpressive creature of no interest or no significance.”
a well written article.
OMG. I just got out of a mtg. Turned Rush back on and heard him say Trump just grounded Pelosi. She was due to take a trip to Brussels, Afghanistan and some other stops. Nope. Gov’t is shutdown. No military transport for YINZ.
Grounded.
In other news…I’d like to open a trading account at an online broker. Any recommendations? Fidelity? E-Trade? Schwab? I don’t even know how to evaluate these guys.
Here we go
President Trump on Thursday hit back at Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for warning she may postpone the State of the Union address by scrapping her planned trip overseas.
In a letter to Pelosi, Trump told her that a congressional delegation trip she intended to take to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan, which he dismissed as a “public relations event,” is now “postponed.”
“We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the shutdown is over,” Trump wrote. “I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the shutdown.”
The announcement appears to mean that Trump will refuse to provide military transportation for lawmakers to make the journey, which would have included a stop in a war zone.
Trump added, however, if Pelosi wanted to go ahead by flying commercial, “that would certainly be your prerogative.”
Trump fires back at Pelosi, cancels her foreign travel
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/425887-trump-fires-back-at-pelosi-cancels-her-foreign-travel
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t know why he backed her as Speaker, unless opposition would be too time consuming. Or just the devil you know. People who have made global warming a religion and deny any their own experience to the contrary have kept a corrupt Congress in office.
And they love Alexandria OC no matter what drivel comes out of her mouth.
Congresscritters were ON THE BUS to go to Joint Andrews Air Force Base for the trip with Nancy when they got turned around.
I’m dying here.
yenta-fada wrote:
His opposition would have guaranteed her as a shoo-in just because opposing Trump is a religion.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m pretty sure Judicial Watch is regular reading for the President now.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-new-documents-detailing-pelosis-use-air-force-aircraft/
That’s only one link, and it’s from 2010.
Why you can’t fix California.
http://dcwhispers.com/number-of-anchor-babies-in-california-alone-twice-the-entire-population-of-wyoming/#vYvbOUSJR4HmFzpG.97
yenta-fada wrote:
actually, I think it was reported during the Obama admin that she’s takes military transport to fly back to her district every weekend, or however often she goes. Lately I’ve heard that she uses private jets, so dunno.
must fetch the heathen before the snow starts. again.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trumps-new-missile-defense-strategy-eyes-leap-to-space-age_2769616.html
China has gone to the dark side of the moon. Trump has stated this as a priority before.
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve used fidelity for years. No complaints
@ yenta-fada:
He backed Pelosi because he knows that she will do tons of stupid things.
A perfect foil for Trump
@ eaglesoars:
Phd level backhand to the face by Trump.
Brilliantly played.
coldwarrior wrote:
thank you!
coldwarrior wrote:
on so many levels. While I was in the car people were calling into Larry O’Conner’s show wanting to know if THEIR rep was on that bus, waiting to take a week-long junket on taxpayer dollars while NOT negotiating the shut down.
Hoo boy.
Somebody just said Trump should have let them go.
And cancelled the flight back
Just brilliant
Bumr50 just posted over at Zip’s that there’s been a state-wide outage of the EBT system (Pennsylvania). He was just at the grocery store
oh crap. It’s NATIONAL.
https://downdetector.com/status/snap-ebt/map/
@ eaglesoars:
I’m hearing Amazon too.
@ eaglesoars:
You should have seen all the carts full of food at the Shop n’ Save entrance.
And the people STILL trying to use their cards, despite the 800 signs.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
wait. you can use EBT cards on Amazon?
@ eaglesoars:
No, I think Prime is down in exactly the same areas that EBT is.
https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/map/
@ eaglesoars:
It’s not hard to think that there are some shenanigans here.
Right before a major winter storm over large population centers?
eaglesoars wrote:
the comments are pathetic
“my foodstamps”…it’s not yours asshole, its mine. i paid for it.
pathetic sponges.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
that’s a TELECOM issue. It looks like the backbone has taken a hit. Some of the cities on the list are what are called ‘gateways’ – they have major routers directing all traffic, domestic and international
At least that’s the way it was when I was ‘there’
@ coldwarrior:
The carts were all REALLY, REALLY full…
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
yep, february’s bribe was paid today because of the shutdown.
sux to be dependent on the tax payers. if the economy were shitty like under obama i wouldnt be complaining. but it isnt. there is record low unemployment and jobs everywhere.
@ coldwarrior:
OH!
Maybe the leeches broke the system by trying to spend it all the minute they got it.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
This SHOULD act as a lesson…this is what happens when you are dependent.
so you let your dog out to pee and the next thing you know she’s running the half marathon that’s going past your house.
And comes in 7th.
Good girl!
http://www.sportbible.com/other/news-reactions-take-a-bow-dog-accidentally-runs-half-marathon-after-being-let-out-for-pee-20190116
Passing through…
Yesterday afternoon I filed my federal tax return using Turbotax.
This morning I got notified it was accepted by the IRS. So sombody must still be at work.
However, many millions of people are going to be very angry at President Trump and the changes in the tax that were made for 2018.
My refund was $500 less than last year with no change in income, status, deductions etc.
@ coldwarrior:
Our local news ran a piece the other night about how HUD being shut down is going to affect housing subsidies (Section 8).
One couple they showed was described as having lived in subsidized housing for 25 years, as if that gave them more standing to complain.
Why the hell have we been paying for their housing for 25 years in the first place?
@ Possum:
why are you getting a refund? you’ve loaned the gov’t money interest free
CORRECTION. I mis-remembered last year refund and I just went to look at my 2017 return.
The difference between 2017 and 2018 is $191 less.
The point was/is my refund is lower! Fuck Trump and his tax changes…….
I hate Trump!
When you all file your taxes you will feel the same.
eaglesoars wrote:
I loaned the government money because I can never be sure if my circumstances change and I end up owing them money. Being self employed again and filing 1099s is a noghtmare.
coldwarrior wrote:
How are broke, destitute people with no money to buy food commenting on that site?
eaglesoars wrote:
My 401K is with Fidelity; it’s OK. I just opened a TD America account after my last broker decided they no longer wanted to be brokers. Got passed to them when the previous on-line broker decided not to do it anymore. So far, I’m impressed with TD Ameritrade.
I thought Dorian had some issues with either Scott Trade or E-trade, you might want to check that.
Aw come on people in here, attack me because I said “Fuck Trump and his tax changes…….”
eaglesoars wrote:
It is so refreshing to have a Republican president with a spine and a pair of big brass ones.
eaglesoars wrote:
Now that would have really been brilliant.
Possum wrote:
Your refund was less. What was your tax obligation? That’s what really matters. Witholding was adjusted last year when the tax cuts went into effect.
@ eaglesoars:
We always overpay.
I have terror of owing them money
Possum wrote:
It’s your money. Nobody here is going to be pissed because you want to keep what you’ve earned.
Try living off OUR money and then we’ll play.
AZfederalist wrote:
And there you have it!
Tax obligation exactly the same. Circumstances exactly the same. salary exactly the same.
2018 tax refund was $191 less in 2018 than 2017.
However my pay check in 2018 was slightly over $25 per week more.
Doing the math I paid $1177 less in tax in 2018.
That is $22.63 per week.
But ,y point is when you file a tax return you are going to less back.
Because you paid less tax in 2018
AZfederalist wrote:
yeah, I think it was E-Trade. And I’m not sure how that worked out. It was about penny stocks I believe.
coldwarrior wrote:
I have NEVER once paid interest on a credit card.
coldwarrior wrote:
Every 6 mos we get a letter from the IRS saying we didn’t pay something or other. Like effing clockwork. (This is for the business, not our personal taxes.) This go-round, tho, it’s the state of Pennsylvania saying the business owes them money. Because even tho we’re in Virginia, some clients that pay us are in Penna.
One year the IRS came after us saying that we mis-paid because they said at the time I worked for the company. I didn’t, I was still in telecom. They have our returns, they can see the records. It was only when I dug thru my files and pulled our own copy that they backed off.
This is why we have an accountant. Because when some little pissant agent trying to make quota decides to come calling, we don’t have time for this garbage.
It pays for our vacations…
Nancy Pelosi is not having a good day
Shock Poll: Trump Gains 19 Points with Latino Voters During Border Wall Shutdown
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/shock-poll-trump-gains-19-points-with-latino-voters-during-border-wall-shutdown/?fbclid=IwAR3KhDO7h8l7ODSlz1GdBPavbKHesAIdp3DjrEAyrzsoZvz6E-3-f3S6U_4
@ eaglesoars:
Just as predicted.
The legals are getting screwed by the dems
@ coldwarrior:
Now with the blatant anti-semitism coming from the leftist dems, let’s see how the liberal jews vote. In general, I have great respect for the Jewish people, but when it comes to how American Jews vote, they have to be the dumbest people on the planet
On Instapundit’s open thread, somebody has visited reddit where they are reacting to a report that Ruth Bader Ginsberg has contracted pneumonia.
Oh god. This is going to be brutal. Her chances for survival would be better if she’d taken on Mattis.
California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters announced in her first major policy speech since taking the reins of a powerful House committee that she will target acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/17/maxine-waters-mick-mulvaney/
eaglesoars wrote:
the problems of immobility
You may remember that a few days ago Bunk posted an open about a zipper ‘Math Fellow’ who was having heart problems. Huck Funn had started a GFM page. Well, Math Fellow just showed up on zip’s OT so I guess he made it thru surgery ok
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s what I thought, but you’d think she’d have nursing care to get her up and around. I guess it’s not that simple and everybody’s different.
Dem disasters.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/16/rashida-tlaib-blasts-right-wing-media-after-covera/
@ eaglesoars:
She’s not going to make it. That cancer was not primary, it was secondary to metastatic process elsewhere which is the primary cancer
@ eaglesoars:
Are they in fact Jewish?
@ yenta-fada:
When Beslan happens here….
@ coldwarrior:
You can’t have 2 primary tumors by definition.
https://amp.dailycaller.com/2019/01/16/eight-house-dems-break-with-leadership/
My newly elected dem congressman voted with Trump and against Pelosi.
Let’s see what happens when it’s real.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/haha-best-photo-of-2019/
I effing hated CODELs when I es in Berlin. Drunk morons getting in trouble and in the way.
Amateurs
By Ryan Saavedra
@realsaavedra
Former law enforcement officials called out socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for using a violent sexual term on Wednesday in an interview that was published in The Washington Post.
Ocasio-Cortez complained in the interview that the media was “focusing on taking quotes out of context or manipulating them or making it seem as though I said things that I didn’t say.”
A few sentences later, she said, “So enjoy being exhausted for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda.”
The 29-year-old former bartender, who describes herself as “Alex from the Bronx,” used the term in the following exchange:
The Post: How did you feel when that hit yesterday?
Ocasio-Cortez: I was surprised and I was annoyed because it was a new tack. They’ve been for a very long time focusing on taking quotes out of context or manipulating them or making it seem as though I said things that I didn’t say. This was different in that it was an outright fraudulent thing. You can tell that they’re getting into hysterics because now you’re getting into my actual body, which is definitely crossing a level, definitely crossing a line.
I also think it’s encouraging because this is my sixth day in Congress and they’re out of all their artillery. The nude is supposed to be like the bazooka. You know, like, “We’re going to take her down.” Dude, you’re all out of bullets, you’re all out of bombs, you’re all out of all this stuff. What have you got left? I’m six days into the term, and you already used all your ammo. So enjoy being exhausted for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda.
@ yenta-fada:
AOC sounds like Michelle O’s thesis at Princeton reads. I believe the comparison is quite reasonable. It’s not about color but the content of their character. And they both make it sound like they were raised without any food in the house.
coldwarrior wrote:
Hubby went on a couple when he was on staff. What people don’t know is that it’s not just congress critters that go on those things. Families go along. Yeah, Brussels is NATO headquarters but they were going SHOPPING. Look at some pics of people getting off the bus.
yenta-fada wrote:
She’s not the problem. She’s evil by accident because she’s stupid and in love w/her own PR.
Rashida Tlaib is the problem. She is evil by intent.
She wants a CODEL to’Palestine’ that some Rs are trying to stop.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep.
coldwarrior wrote:
I think I remember she had breast cancer. If that’s correct, I’m betting it recurred. I imagine they’ve done the histology but at this point there is no point.
eaglesoars wrote:
Surgery is January 24. He was back tonight saying thank-you for the Go FundMe, still feeling weak but much better because he sees the path forward now.
@ yenta-fada:
She is priceless for Trump. This will be most excellent
yenta-fada wrote:
It’s amazing just how stupid she is. Nothing has been taken out of context, she is being directly quoted. It can’t be helped that she is far too stupid to understand the words she uses. I think her big problem is that she thinks she’s an intellectual and doesn’t use a speechwriter. Her level of stupidity is Maxine Waters level and growing.
I actually had to admit I was wrong about RBG the other day. A trailer for the propaganda film about her popped up and I said that there was no way she was ever that attractive. Yesterday I stumbled on a pic of her in college (I was on reddit, so to be expected). She was startlingly attractive. Evil is a harsh mistress. There should be no way for someone to become as horribly unattractive as she has been the last 50 years starting from where she did. Sith Lord confirmed I guess.
coldwarrior wrote:
Remember when McCain’s surgery was to remove a “growth” and was nothing to worry about?
Nobody was buying it than either. We’ve become used to being lied to and no longer believe what is being peddled.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Sith lord indeed
@ eaglesoars:
Pancreatic iirc.
Any time it’s an excreting organ that has the primary, the outlook is grim as the organ excretes the cancerous cells throughout the body
@ AZfederalist:
Mrs coldwarrior, neuro expert, laughed her ass off at that one.
@ yenta-fada:
I read her thesis…for real.
It was garbage and not masters level at all
Worse than you thought: inside the secret Fitzgerald probe the Navy doesn’t want you to read
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/worse-than-you-thought-inside-the-secret-fitzgerald-probe-the-navy-doesnt-want-you-to-read/
Yeesh.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
The navy has serious problems.
Fort’s work took on added urgency after another destroyer assigned to the 7th Fleet, the John S. McCain, collided with the Liberian-flagged tanker Alnic MC on Aug. 21, 2017, killing 10 more American sailors.
That name is cursed.
I have to go to bed. I’m too tired to find the link(s) but I wanted to note that North Korean officials are actually in Washington DC, staying in a hotel downtown, for more talks.
That’s not getting covered and that’s why I love twitter.
good nite.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
That is devastating. They are failing to recruit capable people. Eight years of Obama purging loyal officers in the military certainly played a part. Low academic standards from the ‘progressives’ contributed too. Loss of morale. Deep State taking on battles so they could get filthy rich. It’s all there. We all wish Trump had more people he could trust.
@ yenta-fada:
I read her thesis…for real.
It was garbage and not masters level at all@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Oh my lord
@ yenta-fada:
Diversity is our strength
Mmmhmmm
@ coldwarrior:
Seriously.
“The probe exposes how personal distrust led the officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock, to avoid communicating with the destroyer’s electronic nerve center — the combat information center, or CIC — while the Fitzgerald tried to cross a shipping superhighway.
When Fort walked into the trash-strewn CIC in the wake of the disaster, he was hit with the acrid smell of urine. He saw kettlebells on the floor and bottles filled with pee. Some radar controls didn’t work and he soon discovered crew members who didn’t know how to use them anyway.
Fort found a Voyage Management System that generated more “trouble calls” than any other key piece of electronic navigational equipment. Designed to help watchstanders navigate without paper charts, the VMS station in the skipper’s quarters was broken so sailors cannibalized it for parts to help keep the rickety system working.”
What the actual fuck? On a United States Navy vessel?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
They need a purge.
BREAKING. National hari-kari.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/ocasio-cortez-gets-seat-on-house-financial-services-committee-overseeing-wall-street/
Waters & AOC in charge of the money. What could go right? Chaos rising with unchecked greed, stupidity, and power revenge filled will to power.
Other than that, how was YOUR day? 🙂
@ yenta-fada:
perfect, they get to show how batshit commie they are
everything dies in the senate.
trump gets to troll them.
i have a night shift at the local joint tomorrow night…EZ $
see yinz later, i need a good 10-12 hours of dead sleep.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/17/woman-blames-trump-for-hastened-death-in-obituary-column/2581226002/
@ USA Today
Trump killed a woman! Well ok he didn’t exactly kill her, but he may as well have.
According to this woman’s obit he caused her to die early because he’s icky or something.
This is not from the Onion and shows you how truly nutty things are.
If you’ve heard about a Buzzfeed story that says Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress about Russian deals or something.
1. Buzzfeed is saying they have NOT seen any documents, just a ‘source’
2. The reporter, Jason Leopold, is the same doofus who had ‘sources’ that told him Karl Rove was going to be indicted back in the Scooter Libby/Joe Wilson days
Here is your weekend reading. DIA’s paper on China Military Power.
140 pages
http://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military%20Power%20Publications/China_Military_Power_FINAL_5MB_20190103.pdf
Thomas or one of the other conservative Justices should step down so Trump can add another young voice to the Court.
Amul Thapar maybe?
eaglesoars wrote:
Is it just me? Does it seem that these kinds of stories -“this is THE END for Trump!” always drop soon after another story that makes you go ‘hmmmm’? This buzzfeed story dropped late the same day – or day after – it leaked that Bruce Ohr had TOLD everybody that the Steele dossier was garbage.
just sayin………..
@ right_wing2:
Thomas? Now? RBG is about to kick it, why lose Thomas?
@ eaglesoars:
So you can get 2 additional young conservatives on the court instead of one.
@ right_wing2:
oh. You’re saying ‘in addition to’, not ‘instead of’.
jeez, i dunno if the country could survive two fights
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-18/pelosi-accuses-trump-administration-of-leaking-afghan-itinerary
@ Bloomberg
Pelosi claims that Trump leaked plans for her and her entourage to fly commercial to Kabul.
She claims that he compromised their safety.
Yetshedoes not reveal how she knows. Uh huh.
@ eaglesoars:
Watching the left’s heads explode would a riot! Unfortunately it probably would be a riot.
RIX wrote:
In a fierce attack on Donald Trump, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, said the safety of the trip had been compromised due to “grave threats caused by the President’s action.”
“In the middle of the night, the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service provided an updated threat assessment detailing that the President announcing this sensitive travel had significantly increased the danger to the delegation and to the troops, security, and other officials supporting the trip,” Hammill said in a statement. “This morning, we learned that the Administration had leaked the commercial travel plans as well.”
I didn’t hear anything about commerical flights. Did you? What commercial flights could they get to Afghanistan, btw? Or would they have to fly into Karachi and take Greyhound over the Hindu Kush?
I’d like to see that ‘middle of the night’ security threat assessment from the Diplo Sec guys too. I’ll bet whoever got dragged out of bed for THAT little bit of hissy-fit theater is thrilled. Pompeo needs to issue new rules: War theater congressional travel is considered inadvisable unless specifically approved by SecState.
right_wing2 wrote:
Bring
It
eaglesoars wrote:
Ah, I got it. They were supposed to arrive wherever they first were headed and the news would then show the “congressional delegation meeting with [destination] leaders to assure them of their efforts to restore order in the US economy and bring the shutdown to the end” Trump’s public cancelation before they left screwed that appearance of materializing in a foreign country.
@ AZfederalist:
Shopping. You left out the shopping.
I want to know the names of every PERSON on that bus, not just congresscritters. Spouses and kids who were going to be dropped off in Brussels for the duration so they could scarf up little duty-free goodies.
Hubby went on a couple of these junkets when he was on staff and it’s NEVER just reps and staff.
The WH is calling Pelosi’s accusation that they leaked her plans for commercial flights “a flat out lie”
eaglesoars wrote:
nevermind
On Friday morning, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought tweeted a memo indicating that all congressional travel — at government expense — was being suspended until the shutdown ends.
The memo explained that, while the government would still provide for the security of traveling members of Congress, the travel expenses would not be absorbed by the government.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/18/vought-omb-travel-guidelines-shutdown/
BOOM!
“By the middle of the year, US crude output will probably be more than the capacity of either Saudi Arabia or Russia,” read a portion of EIA’s report, meaning it expects American companies to churn out more oil than what Saudi Arabia or Russia are even capable of producing.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/18/us-oil-industry-production/
Looks like we’ve got a foot or so of snow coming.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m digging this! Its BOOMING here!
@ coldwarrior:
your gov has already declared a state of emergency
we looking at rain
again
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m paying below $2.80/gal for 93 octane. I don’t recall EVER paying below $3
@ eaglesoars:
And I’m off as of 7am Saturday for 3 days. Snow storm bbq!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
people around here are pretty fed up with the snow
https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-man-uses-flame-thrower-to-clear-driveway-of-snow/1078285017?fbclid=IwAR2OEZWjaPA5ckA9LZabOBl6xWqSnhOTbFJYT2Xlv1b68e35ZlhXaY9F0l8
I don’t know WHAT to make of this. I don’t trust these guys
Bye Bye Trade War? China Plans $1 Trillion Buying Spree to Reduce US Trade Deficit
https://www.ccn.com/bye-bye-trade-war-china-plans-1-trillion-buying-spree-to-reduce-us-trade-deficit/
WH just announced Trump is making a major speech tomorrow night ‘to the nation’ about ‘the humanitarian crisis’ at the border.
the last fillup I paid $1.91 a gal, the cheapest it got here was $1.77 g gal
#cheapgas
Well, I’ve looked at the online trading sites/companies and it did come down to TDAmeritrade and Fidelity.
I liked Fidelity’s research/learning services and the prices are competitive, so I’ll go with that.
I’m going to choose 5 sectors and choose one company in each sector. The sectors I’ve already chosen: health care, energy, communications, manufacturing and agriculture. If the Bezos divorce hits Amazon stock, I’m gonna add that stock just for the buy-it-when-its-low hell of it, even tho it doesn’t belong to any sector I’m looking at
I haven’t decided on any companies yet, but I’m pretty sure manufacturing will be a steel company and energy may be refining.
oh, I forgot to say if anyone has any suggestions, I’m all ears
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve been carrying John Deere and Caterpillar for years — they have been pretty solid. You might want to watch as the market dips; you may be able to get a good deal on things.
eaglesoars wrote:
Loved all the dire warnings about “checking with local officials” ….
We are no longer a nation of free people.
@ AZfederalist:
I thought Caterpillar had been getting clobbered. But I’ll keep it in mind. Right now I’m looking at steel companies.
research research research
And Buzzfeed goes down in flames
Mueller’s office is PUBLICLY debunking the report about Trump telling Cohen to lie to Congress.
That Jason Leopold person is about to be homeless. Buzzfeed is stupid for hiring him with his record
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/not-a-joke-pelosi-proposes-electronic-dogs-to-protect-the-border-wth-is-she-on-video/
@ GP
It was right in front of us the whole time . Border security? We no need no stinkin wall.
No Pelosi has the solution and it’s a forehead slapper, it was there the whole time.
Electronic dogs! MS 13 thugs will cower in fear, “No mas por favor, no mas!”
eaglesoars wrote:
And they broke the dossier story.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/01/18/photos-gunnery-sgt-r-lee-ermey-laid-to-rest-in-arlington-national-cemetery/
@ Twitchy
R Lee Ermey laid to rest . Well done Gunny, Semper Fi.
RIX wrote:
I don’t think the problem is Buzzfeed per se, I think it’s Leopold. Of course, Buzzfeed was dumb enough to bring him on board.
They have to burn their sources if they want to stay credible.
ace of spades kicks Jonah Goldberg square in the nads
Does “Jonah’s” article seem to be making the same point I did, which, by the way, was original when I made it? (But not when he made it.)
Does he seem to be using the same language?
Even the same examples?
Yeah, because he didn’t write this piece. He merely remembered it.
This is plagiarism, and yeah, Jonah Goldberg read my article. Do I have to do a twitter search to find him referencing it?
I’d like an acknowledgement from NRO.
But tell me about #MuhPrinciples, Jonah.
Given that I’m the real author of this NRO piece, I think I’m going to have to demand the standard NR freelance article rate as payment, as well as a prominent “Adapted from an original piece by Ace of Spades” credit.
And I’m not kidding. This is plagiarism, straight-up. Pay me.
I’m not serving as an unacknowledged, uncompensated ghostwriter for cucks
Jonah Goldberg Plagiarizes My Political MacGuffin Insight Without Attribution
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=379275
eaglesoars wrote:
Leopoldo’s a bad choice but Buzzfeed is no prize. They are still defending this story. (20 minutes ago.)
RIX wrote:
@ lobo91:
why do you think the Dems push for a $15 min wage? Because they know people will be replaced with digital something or other. Not because they give a shit about ‘living wages’, but because they are owned by Silicon Valley.
Silicon dogs? Of course. That’s Nancy’s dog whistle to her primary donor base.
Buzzfeed’s source? Would it surprise you to find out it’s some House staffer who works for a rep on a committee that would be investigating Trump for this? Plant the story, use it as grounds for investigation. The FBI has been doing it from the beginning.
eaglesoars wrote:
This is Ronan Farrow on the Buzzfeed story:
I can’t speak to Buzzfeed’s sourcing, but, for what it’s worth, I declined to run with parts of the narrative they conveyed based on a source central to the story repeatedly disputing the idea that Trump directly issued orders of that kind.
The between-the-lines reading of that is that someone was shopping the story to begin with
oh, linky, sorry
https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/status/1086425618802241536
eaglesoars wrote:
Over time it has done well. It’s been hit in the recent months but that may be providing a buying opportunity
@ AZfederalist:
I’ve been reading some research on steel companies (USS and Nucor) and the outlook is not happy because they’re anticipating lower global demand. So perhaps I’ll look at the manufacturing end of steel, the people who actually do the steel fabrication. If demand for steel drops, their prices should be lower.
Pelosi is still skipping town. A redditor took a picture of her and her scumbag entourage in the airport headed for a flight. Don’t know if it’s domestic or overseas. She is pulling out all stops to ensure she is not available for a vote on the shutdown.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I wonder if it was commercial or private
eaglesoars wrote:
Some are saying it was commercial, but without proof we probably should assume private.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I would be surprised if she subjected herself to 3 hrs among the great unwashed inside a metal tube from which there is no escape
DiGenova just said the reason Mueller refuted this story is because Mueller knows if he hadn’t, when Barr shows up as AG in a few days he would have fired his ass for letting the story stand.
Today, Washington Post / MSNBC contributor @Eugene_Robinson described the Buzzfeed reporters as great reporters and called for POTUS to be impeached over the now debunked Buzzfeed story
Buzzfucked
https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1086446579899342848
eaglesoars wrote:
The Chinese are buying with U.S. Treasury bills. Those things have very few buyers these days according to some zerohedge articles. So the Chinese are using them in trade for U.S. goods.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
If Pelosi is breathing, she’s lying. Rapacious witch spent years hosing the nation.
coldwarrior wrote:
Us too and North Pole temps.
@ yenta-fada:
We’ll be at about 17 tonight and we’ve got just a little bit of snow. It rained today though, so driving tomorrow might be dangerous. I’m in from 9-8 tomorrow and 8-7:30 Sunday & Monday.
Managed to trap one of our remaining cats tonight. I hope the last 2 didn’t escape. Fluffy, the one we caught… objected. I have scratches and a torn shirt to prove it. She’s never been fully socialized, and lived most of her life out on the streets.
yenta-fada wrote:
At this point it’s debatable she’s still breathing. She looks like the freaking mummy. I wonder how she’s going to charge this trip to the taxpayer. Since there will be no government travel or travel expenses without White House approval, lol.
@ yenta-fada:
they’ve got a trillion in Treasuries?
bedtime. nite
@ eaglesoars:
I wouldn’t even consider an online broker. Find a financial manager who is a fiduciary.
eaglesoars wrote:
Night.
@ eaglesoars:
=D
eaglesoars wrote:
Assume everybody is lying about numbers, especially the Chinese. They only admit to having 4 thousand tonnes of gold, and I’ve read estimates up to 20 thousand.
eaglesoars wrote:
Longer than 3 hours. I was on a flight from DC to Phoenix in December and it was 5 hours and 20 minutes, SFO would be about 1 hour longer. Yeah, even in First Class, I would be surprised if Pelosi would subject her royal @$$ to that.
@ eaglesoars:
Exactly.
The killer for me is the “self-employment tax.” That’s about to change.
@ Possum:
The President of the US is not in charge of taxation. Only Congress can levy taxes.
The President of the US is not in charge of immigration law, either. Only Congress can decide and define who, what and how many.
@ yenta-fada:
The vulgar phrase is “pull train,” but it might vary depending on region. She could have said “gang bang” and left no doubt.
Now I’m thinking of The Yardbirds, Aerosmith and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
https://youtu.be/Bi45R72k9z8
@ eaglesoars:
Mark Levin said the only possible “source” was Mueller’s office, which means a Federal crime has been committed… Film at 11.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) this week revealed that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is her “shero.”
“Chairwoman Maxine Waters is a shero of mine,” Tlaib reportedly told Politico, adding that Waters has been “unwavering when it comes to holding corporations accountable.”
Waters was arguably the most vocal impeachment advocate in Congress before Tlaib arrived and, on her first day in Congress, vowed to “impeach the motherf**ker.”
Waters chairs the powerful House Financial Services Committee, and Tlaib is expected to get a seat on it.
After her “impeach the motherf**ker” remarks dominated news cycles, Tlaib revealed that Waters and Rep. Al Green (D-TX), who has also been incessantly making the case for impeachment, were actually “smiling” and telling her that they loved her “spirit.”
“I can tell you I’ve talked to a number of my colleagues, including Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Al Green and others who were very… smiling and telling me we love your spirit. We welcome it. Come to us if you ever need any help or advice,” Tlaib told a local Detroit news outlet. “And they agree that we need to impeach the president of the United States.”
Bunk X wrote:
This is good news, yes?
@ lobo91:
https://youtu.be/LuyS9M8T03A
This was a pretty good Black Mirror episode.
https://youtu.be/xejjA2AFO5I
@ yenta-fada:
I’m about to be hired by a company that’s paid me since 2013. My antennae are up and my eyes are open, just gotta run the numbers.
The commute sucks big green donkeys, but we’re working on that as well. I might have to dig a hole in the back yard to work from.
@ Bunk X:
And this video rips apart that Black Mirror episode that I thought was pretty good.
https://youtu.be/1RihjPKqauA
@ Bunk X:
It would be great not to chase down work. I gather Mrs. Bunk is nested in the family homestead. Maybe you could rent a room 2 nights/week instead of a daily commute. I had to commute on 3-4 highways for years. I was ready to board myself at a kennel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/nyregion/the-15-dollar-minimum-wage-is-not-enough.html
NYT demanding a 33 dollar an hour minimum wage.
I just realized this has so far been one of the most amazing weeks in political history. Between the buzzfeed dumbasses getting smacked down by their holy Mueller, to Pelousy getting grounded, to the huge spike in the Presidents favorability amongst hispanics due to the wall, the signs on the wall that The President may be putting another on the supreme court, this has been a really spectacular week. Hope next week doesn’t reverse the trend.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
What kind of money does this moron writer make?
@ yenta-fada:
I could set up shop in the parking garage, sleep in my car, but the wi-fi is spotty, there’s no shower, and “Splash” has already claimed it.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Liberals are idiots.
Who’ll Stop the Rain [
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrsJNtd_bc
@ rain of lead:
C’mon up here…a foot of snow soon.
The girls have their snow suits and sleds at the ready!
Bunk X wrote:
Well, if you think about that, Levin might be correct if the story were true. But it isn’t. Buzzfeed characterized the sources as ‘law enforcement’, which might make one think FBI/DOJ etc. But nobody in LE benefits from that story. Who does? A Congresscritter who wants to investigate impeach. Barnes Law said flat out yesterday that if Cohen had had that kind of dirt on Trump to give to Mueller, there’s no way he would have pulled prison time. As it is, nothing they nailed Cohen on was related to anything Trump.
@ coldwarrior:
@ rain of lead:
Here in the Fox Valley outside of Chicago it is snowing like crazy and will all morning.
We are expecting 6 to 10 inches, so I am waiting to clear the snow until it stops.
The shame is that it’s Saturday so the kids don’t get a snow day.
@ RIX:
No reason to do it twice
coldwarrior wrote:
No, this will be a one & done . Then the plan is a movie and ribs tonight.
Winter isn’t that bad.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/mark-levin-muellers-office-released-statement-on-junk-buzzfeed-report-to-cover-their-asses-video/
@ GP
Mark Levin really nails it. The Muller people sat on their asses all day wondering what to do about the false Buzzfeed story. Eventually they came out to debunk the story , because if true the leak had to come from them.
Muller and the group of partisan Dems around him did not have an attack of ethics, it’s c y a.
Some people need to be isolated on an island where they can indulge in their totalitarian fantasies by their lonesomes. It’s difficult to fathom how people raised in a relatively free culture grow up to be tyrants. But here we are.
To comply with EAT-Lancet’s quarter-ouncer diet, the UK would all have to cut meat consumption by 80 per cent. As this will not be achieved voluntarily, the committee calls on politicians to move away from “soft end of the policy ladder” and instead work to “eliminate choice”.
They want more taxes on food and more advertising restrictions. They also propose “rationing on a population scale” and the “banning and pariah status of key products”.
In wealthy countries such as Britain, they say “a priority is to offer less than what is currently offered by reducing portions, choice, and packaging.”
https://conservativerightwingnews.com/2019/01/17/planet-earth-takeover-by-food-professors/
RIX wrote:
my point.
Also, last nite on Hannity, Joe DiGenova said that if Mueller hadn’t done it, Barr would have fired him first day on the job as AG
I really hope DiGenova is right about Barr. I believe he’s sincere about Barr, I just don’t know if he’s right. I mean, who in their right mind could be friends with Mueller?
@ RIX:
This one hasn’t been bad…unlike last year.
@ eaglesoars:
I had enough of Barr’s testimony to think that he is a wild card.
I know that he is trying to get through confirmation , but he was pandering to the Democrats.
Instead of the way he answered I would have liked him to say, “I do not want to deal with hypotheticals.”
He could have confirmed that he would honor his osth and faithfully enforce the law.
Instead it sounde like he was piling on Trump, maybe that is just what he has to do.
coldwarrior wrote:
Right. Hey you kids call this a snow storm? in my day we walked barefoot 12 miles to school in 4 feet of snow, uphill.
You kids have it too easy.
@ eaglesoars:
GREAT Britain is now pretty muck ok Britain.
@ RIX:
It is Trump’s prerogative to fire him if he goes rogue. I don’t think Trump’s has the patience for another Rip Van Sessions or Comey kind of characters.
RIX wrote:
Formerly Great Britain. With a slight pause between Great and Britain
California knows no bounds when it comes to radical LGBT activism. On Thursday, State Senator and Senate Judiciary Committee chair Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) announced that only “gender neutral” pronouns will be permitted during committee hearings.
“Our first order of business is to approve the committee rules. I’d like to note — in respecting the fact that we are now a state recognizing the non-binary designation as a gender — he and she, we are now merging them so we are using what my grammar teacher would have had a heart attack over: we are using the phrase ‘they’ and replacing other designations so it’s a gender neutral designation: ‘they’” announced the Democrat. “Basically, that’s the primary reforms and revisions to the committee rules.”
“In the spirit of gender neutrality for the rules of this committee, we now designate the chair as ‘they,’” Jackson corrected the record.
“The world is a different place. My grammar teacher is long gone and we won’t be hearing from her,” the senator noted, before correcting herself: “— from them! From they!”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42389/watch-democrat-state-senator-announces-politically-amanda-prestigiacomo
Can we kick them out yet?
AZfederalist wrote:
I hope that your right. None of them won even one vote. Trump is the president with all of the prerogatives.
AZfederalist wrote:
It’s like a death wish.
@ eaglesoars:
When I was younger, I read a lot of Science Fiction, Science Fantasy books. This kind of behavior mirrors the dystopian worlds that some of those stories used as backdrop. California has become and odd parody of itself.
Who is going to pay for a “European Army”? This stuff looked like Conspiracy theory just a few short years ago.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/19/merkel-calls-eu-weapons-development-systems/
AZfederalist wrote:
How about those muslim congresscritters swearing the oath of office on the koran? Every founding father would have been apoplectic.
This GORGON Paleostinian is going to be on Maxine Waters Finance Committee. Above the Law already. Even the alt media have difficulty with this NEWS. Being muzz is like being black. Everybody who is not them is a racist bigot. Tlaib probably got an increase in salary from Soros for her latest triumph. And the sheep go baaaa.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/18/rashida-tlaib-blames-trump-for-death-threats-like-hes-sending-out-some-sort-of-signal/
“Killing Free Speech” is a documentary that the killers of free speech will never watch.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/leftists-unironically-try-to-shut-down-film-killing-free-speech-watch-it-here
yenta-fada wrote:
this is going to be hilarious. Germany has this idea that they will partner with France (as the VERY junior partner) to lead Europe. The French are dusting off the guillotines and have no time for the Huns. Whoever they think is going to pay for this…isn’t
@ eaglesoars:
Who’s going to serve in this “EU army”?
The Europeans can’t even scrape up troops to serve in their own military forces.
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
Robot Soldiers?
Still give this creature any credibility?
Donna BrazileVerified account @donnabrazile
#MadamSpeaker today
#PresidentPelosi shortly thereafter
#MLKWeekend is underway…
yenta-fada wrote:
Well, Pelosi wants us to put robot dogs on our border…
@ lobo91:
@ yenta-fada:
god. it’s gonna be all muzz, isn’t it?
This is a collection of stunning photographs. I think #14 is my favorite
https://themindcircle.com/unbelievable-not-photoshopped-photos-real/
yenta-fada wrote:
How we got here is a puzzle.
eaglesoars wrote:
Those are very cool. The “This is one photograph” and “Perspective” took a while to figure out that they were not photoshopped.
New awesomeness, just posted today:
@ AZfederalist:
I never did figure out “Perspective”
Its rain.
The 75.5 feet of civilization destroying snow death….
Rain.
Oooh, rain, in SWPA. Wow. Yeah. Mmmhmmm
@ AZfederalist:
Wow
@ coldwarrior:
Its snowing like all get out at my CC…10 miles north of here.
@ coldwarrior:
You might get hit tomorrow tho
Our rain started about 2 hrs ago and it looks like it will stay rain. I hope.
A car bomb exploded in Londonderry today (Ireland). Wonder what that’s all about.
welp, that went over well
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/no-deal-pelosi-rejects-trumps-offer-to-legalize-dreamers-for-wall-money
eaglesoars wrote:
oh no.
no. please no.
@ coldwarrior:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/bishop-street-suspected-car-bomb-explodes-outside-londonderry-courthouse-37728591.html
no. please no.
we cant do this again
@ coldwarrior:
its over.
its god damned over.
coldwarrior wrote:
Brexit?
I’m coming up empty here.
rain of lead wrote:
yeah. her response was time stamped 5 mins before he gave the speech
I don’t think the Dems are winning this
eaglesoars wrote:
im almost in tears.
coldwarrior wrote:
I can’t imagine it’s the old crew come back to life. I don’t see that they have any support. And why now? What’s going on in Ireland that would set them off? Nothing.
Somebody else is behind this. What was going on in that courthouse?
@ coldwarrior:
i’ll give President Clinton this.
the Good Friday Agreement.
for that…
@ eaglesoars:
i hope so.
this shit is too painful to go through again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement
i’ll get something posted tomorrow….
india is at NZ for cricket.
its going to be smashing!
The Saturday Night Joke
A Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist who was badly injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of the road was an American Marine in a similar but less serious state. The Marine was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the Squad Leader asked the injured Marine what had happened.
The Marine reported, “I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway here, and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent. We saw each other and both took cover in the ditches along the road.
I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was a miserable, lowlife scum-bag who got what he deserved.
He yelled back, “Barack Obama is a lying, good-for-nothing, left wing Commie who isn’t even an American.
So I said, “Osama Bin Laden dresses and acts like a frigid, mean-spirited lesbian!
He retaliated by yelling, “Oh yeah? Well, so does Nancy Pelosi!
And, there we were, in the middle of the road, shaking hands, when a truck hit us.
rain of lead wrote:
Yep, he actually delayed his speech and put her in the position of having to reject EXACTLY what she had tweeted out before her response. So, she has now rejected the same exact plan that she suggested. And the whole press is playing dumb.
The master negotiator has outhought the evil, old bat again.
coldwarrior wrote:
I have been so close to explosions in Ireland they made me deaf for a few days.
Once in Belfast, the other Londonderry.
The one in Derry was actually quite amusing after the fact. No one was injured. Well except for me.
LOL explosion went off, I was in hotel room, dived under the bed…..
Um not enough room under the bed for me to dive under.
OUCH!!!
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/01/20/more-media-lies-looks-like-theres-a-whole-lot-more-to-story-about-catholic-students-harassing-native-american-protester/
@ Twitchy
Remember those Catholic school boys in DC for the Right to Life March harassing Native Americans?
People were outraged including right leaning blogs. When I read the headline I thought ” little punks”
But when I looked at the video I saw it differently. I saw the Native American getting in the kids face chanting and
banging his drum. I saw the kid handling it well and the other kids taking it all in good spirits.
But, why was I not seeing what everyone else was seeing?
Looks like there is more to the story than was reported after all.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/19/kentucky-diocese-incident-indigenous-peoples-march-covington-catholic-high-school/2624503002/
@ USA Today
USA Today still going with the narrative that the kids harassed this elderly Native American.
They also cite him being harasses by Eastern Michigan University students.
I read an account that the guy initiated the incident with the EMU students.
I fon’t know what happened , but I know that these kids will be crucified.
RIX wrote:
no they won’t. Nathan Phillips, the ‘native American’ might be tho. Twitter research is all over this, especially John Cardillo. Phillips is a provocateur and his bullshit is getting a nice twice-over.
This is just ONE twitter thread this morning totally debunking the initial story. A letter to a local news stations from one of the kids and video showing that Phillips initiated contact. So far I’ve seen 3 threads but this seems to be the most comprehensive in my TL
https://twitter.com/AClementsWKRC/status/1086822521012473858
Aaand……..here we go. Barnes Law has offered to rep the kids for free if they want to sue the NYT for libel.
https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law/status/1086984625711341568
Barnes is one of the sane ones
eaglesoars wrote:
You are right about Phillips, he is an activist with a grudge.
But the high school has already apologized. My fear is that facts will not matter and the kid takes a fall.
If I am his father I want assurances from the principal that my son is not going to take a fall.
If I don’t get that I am getting a lawyer, this could ruin the kids life.
eaglesoars wrote:
Good.
Just a quick update from Imperial Space Dock Number 7, the new and improved Death Star is now 2 days ahead of schedule.
RIX wrote:
If I’m the kid’s parent I sue every producer of an edited video and every platform that hosted it. Then I go after the NYT. Sullivan doesn’t protect these people.
@ doriangrey:
hey! how goes it?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/covington-catholic-student-begs-local-tv-news-to-tell-the-truth-about-native-american-incident-in-dc/
@ Gateway Pundit
A kid from Covington Catholic wrote a real interesting letter to a local TV station.
Still Martha Radditz is shilling that the kids harassed the old man.
eaglesoars wrote:
I leave for work when its dark, I get home when its dark, I am exhausted most of the time. So, all in all, not bad at the moment. When payday finally rolls around, I’m going to burn some previously living very tasty animals, and drink copious amounts of rotting barely water in celebration.
@ doriangrey:
excellent!
Cormier and Leopold, the Buzzfeed reporters were on CNN this morning:
“This is going to be borne out. This story is accurate,” Buzzfeed’s Anthony Cormier tells @brianstelter. “What if the sources are just wrong?” Stelter asks. “They’re not. They’re not. I’m confident.”
https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1087021348004741120
Lanny Davis, Cohen’s lawyer, won’t confirm it, you schmuck
And once again, National Review gets to choke on its own moral pomposity
The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/nathan-phillips-covington-catholic-high-school-march-for-life-mocking-students-spit-cross/?fbclid=IwAR39rvQz3aAejFHK2SYyD4ent29u1pHGhlbpsuPNL6ipNdEqGsfRN3_eTVU
Nicholas Frankovich. Remember the name. Among the Immortal Insufferables, I have no doubt.
@ eaglesoars:
What a bunch ofcrap. There is no video evidence that condemns these kids.
I notice that he never mentions the elders previous grievance mongering.
As I see it pounding the drum and chanting right in the kids face is the real outrage.
RIX wrote:
The real unedited video was put out late last night including a 2 hour version. The kids were in the right, even to the point of thinking the natives were being fun at the beginning. The video has clips of the kids being told they need to “go back to europe” and called the descendants of gay romans and greeks. The POS with the drum is a long time false accuser and the rest of the group was trying to provoke a fight. They didn’t get it and the kids still got screwed over. These kids were amazing in how well they kept it together. I don’t like to fight, but if I were in this situation someone would have been wearing a drum.
Also the original video has been removed from Youtube 3 times that I know of and had to be reposted in other channels. Not sure if it was the original content creators or youtube itself. The press at this point has moved into blatantly criminal behavior with this story as there is no possible way at this point (considering everything that was found and posted last night) that they do not know the true story. The fact that they are continuing this narrative shows that the true crime in their minds is that the kids are the wrong skin color and are wearing the evil red hats.
https://i.redd.it/lx2401jcrlb21.jpg
Oh, my look who they found again at a totally unrelated event in the past. Seems to have left his drum at home.
Apparently they also have video of him at the Keystone protests but I haven’t found it yet.
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/native-american-claims-racial-harassment-by-emu-students-dressed-as-indians
Here’s his previous fake outrage moment that was mentioned earlier.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Catholic. Covington Catholic. This is an attempt to extend the narrative of Catholic ‘extremism’ inherent in the Knights of Columbus, etc., (see Maizie Hirono and Kamala Harris on the nomination hearings of the Catholic judge) and battlefield prep for Amy Coney Barrett.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep heard about that too. With the left it’s never one thing, they like to use things for multiple purposes.
Photo of native agitator supposedly at keystone protest.
https://imgur.com/a/nckre0Y
Posted by his niece who is also a well known dem activist.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I’ve never laughed…check out the pic of the baby – and the pronunciation of the name.
Apparently the first group that started everything is called the “Black Hebrew Israelites”. In a reversal of all that is sane they are actually an anti-semitic group that is also strongly racist and homophobic. The video is carefully edited to eliminate all the footage of this groups provocation and the fact the natives came in and actually joined this hate group. (This group is so bad the SPLC actually had to label them a hate group even though they are leftists).
Here is the unedited two hour video that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt these kids are a credit to this country in their decorum and decency.
https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34
what the….??? Mia, who just turned 1 yr a month ago – can now jump up on my bathroom vanity. Like a frigging kangaroo. She just brought me my nail brush and after she dropped that off went back for a bunch of cotton balls.
Now what? Closing the door won’t help, she can open it.
gah.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Here’s the Newsweek headline.
‘BLACK MUSLIMS’ MADE MY SON DO IT, SAYS MOTHER OF PRO-TRUMP BOY WHO MOCKED NATIVE AMERICAN VETERAN
https://www.newsweek.com/black-muslims-made-son-do-it-mother-maga-hat-boy-native-veteran-1298609
Here’s the underlying article at Heavy.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/01/ky-catholic-teens-maga-taunts-native-american/?fbclid=IwAR3qWtTdMEbWU9HoIo0kKneOIYnHEsB2-KBXMpsgXog9EkgW365GDjZPbFM
“Shame on you! Were you there? Did you hear the names the people where calling these boys? It was shameful. Did you witness the black Muslims yelling profanities and video taping trying to get something to futher (sic) your narrative of hatred?? Did you know that this “man” came up to this one boy and drummed in his face? Shame on you. Only reporting what you want. More fake news.”
To Heavy’s credit, they seem to be getting the idea that all is not as it seems, as you scroll down and see the updates. But they’re not there yet.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I agree, from the video the kids acted great. St first they thought that the old guy was being friendly.
Thrust tried to play along until the realized that the guy was not being friendly, but trying to provoke them.
There is a lot of speculation that there will be school expulsions. If it is my kid I lay down the law that you are not going to ruin my kids life to appease the lefty mob. If I got no sssurances I would lawyer up.
I think the good guys are winning. Jake Tapper has tweeted
.@reason: “Video footage strongly contradicts Native American veteran Nathan Phillips’ claim that Covington Catholic High School boys harassed him. The media got this one completely wrong,” writes @robbysoave
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1087100286433402881
The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran
https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-video
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Is their school now going to apologize to them for throwing them under the bus? If not, it shouldn’t just be the leftists that the students go after.
@ AZfederalist:
That should have said, “If not, it isn’t just the leftists that the students’ lawyers go after.”
@ eaglesoars:
@ AZfederalist:
It looks like the tribal elders hustle is blowing back on him. This is an attempt to destroy a kids future.
This could get him expelled and make it tough to get accepted to a good college.
So he is a Native American, so what? He’s basically a race hustling grievance hustler. They claim that he is a
Vietnam vet. If true ( I have doubts) then thank you for your service. But that is not license to destroy a young man.
As I recall the Media didn’t like Viet Vets before.
@ RIX:
Robert Barnes (Barnes Law) has tweeted to Ana Navarro to withdraw a tweet or else he’ll serve her.
Which tells me his services have been retained. I’ll see if I can find he tweet again.
Here we go
Retract this libel @ananavarro, or let us know where we can serve the lawsuit.
https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law/status/1087109785760059392
Can confirm Covington Catholic parents are reaching out to @Barnes_Law
https://twitter.com/Jormelendez/status/1087122030720368642
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/must-read-covington-student-being-targeted-by-media-releases-statement/
@ Gateway Pundit
Nick Sanman is the kid from Covington Catholic targeted by the angry Indian Elder.
He has responded in a letter and he sounds thoroughly decent.
eaglesoars wrote:
That is a beautiful thing.
@ RIX:
Sandman
https://external-preview.redd.it/MwrXqerdqdGoHeN5M45D1AOl-l-YI7Ecjp2BrG096io.jpg?auto=webp&s=07d5780adae315d67a42845ec3bee295b994e3d7
CNN “journalist” and cannibal advocating violence against a teenager. Should be the next one served with papers.
Another change. Press no longer referring to native agitator as “Vietnam Veteran”. Now changed to “Vietnam Era Veteran”.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
No surprise, that is what I figured.
Second reason for this manufactured story was to get the Buzzfeed embarrassment off the front pages and let the reporter off the hook. Unfortunately for them they just managed to compound one stupid move with another.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Phillips_(activist)
Here it is, Nathan served in the US military “during” the Vietnam War. well alrighty then.
See, I told you it would be ok
Polish Catholic Parliamentarian Tarczynski Invites Targeted Covington Pro-Life Boys to Come and Speak in Parliament
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/polish-catholic-parliamentarian-tarczynski-invites-covington-pro-life-boys-to-come-and-speak-in-parliament/
The Kentucky Attorney Gen’l has warned that threatening public institutions, e.g., schools, is a crime and will be prosecuted (Covington Catholic is somewhere in KY).
The media has had a really crappy 72 hrs
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
CNN fired his ass about a year ago I thought.
I don’t know the CJ Pearson person, but good on him. A junior is HS with more balls than the totality of the MSM
We’re getting new submissions every 30 seconds. Every member of the media who defamed, slandered, and doxxed the #CovingtonBoys on Twitter will be served.
Each and every tweet will be archived and turned over to the students’ legal counsel.
https://twitter.com/thecjpearson/status/1087115979807748096
click thru to see the form and what he’s collected so far. I predict massive deletes on twitter thru the nite. Hope someone has screen grabs.
@ eaglesoars:
Covington is directly across the river from Cincinnati. It’s actually where the Cincinnati airport is located.
@ lobo91:
The Cinncy airport is in KY?
Fuck. Brady got the Pats to the 4 yard line, 1st and goal.