It’s cold here in the upper-Midwest.
A few notes.
I saw this: Cats and Mind Altering Parasites
Let’s review this lecture
Pelosi, The Mob, and the Wall
I got yinz’s Polar Vortex RIGHT HERE! Yinz Warmists.
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Trump announced today that he’s donating his first-quarter salary to Alcoholism research. I seem to recall that he even offered to use his private plane while in office to save the taxpayers money in Presidential travel, but of course, could not do so because of the features and security available on AF-1.
Meanwhile, Pelosi travels like a queen on the taxpayer dime, flying friends and family across the Globe, with top-shelf liquor, and donates her salary to nothing, even though her hubby is worth $100MM minimum and could afford her a lavish lifestyle in D.C.
@ The Barbarian:
do as she says, not as she does…plebian!
I’ve seen her home in San Francisco. Broadway Heights, like Feinstein and the rest of the politicians who care so much about “the people” they have 6 foot fences, electric gates and private security patrols to keep them at bay.
I heard a story from a retired San Francisco cop that when she was Mayor, Feinstein was shagging the Chief of Police and that SFPD had a perimeter around the house to alert her if Blumie showed up unannounced. I have no reason to doubt the man’s story.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/record-cold-forces-rethink-on-global-warming/
(1 p.m. Wednesday)
1. Baykitskiy Rayon, Siberia -45
2. International Falls -22
3. Minneapolis -17
4. Antarctica -16
5. Nome, Alaska 12
http://www.startribune.com/the-great-freeze-off-is-on-we-re-colder-than-antarctica/505020882/
@ coldwarrior:
I love that whole “Polar Vortex” thing they have going.
It’s call VERY VERY COLD. It happens. But don’t worry – they’ll find a way to link it to Climate Change! Because it’s never been this cold in Chicago before. EVER!
Hell, maybe those Ice Age predictions from the 70’s were right after all.
@ coldwarrior:
Baykitskiy Rayon, Siberia -45
ya know what goes on there?
booze.
😆
The Barbarian wrote:
they are.
remeber when these things were called Alberta Clippers?
doesn’t sound as menacing as POLAR VORTEX!!!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
vodka doesn’t freeze til about -16, so there’s that……….
@ coldwarrior:
In S.F., when we had the occasional really cold temps with the even colder winds, we always called it the “Yukon Express.”
@ eaglesoars:
What’s the temp in Chicago now.
Grey Goose doesn’t need the freezer now. Just put it on the ledge.
Personally, I prefer Chopin (Potato) Vodka.
@ The Barbarian:
good vodka should NEVER be frozen.
store it in the fridge.
average vodka…that goes in the freezer
@ coldwarrior:
Wow, it’s a balmy -17 (C) here. Windchill is about ten degrees colder though.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2019/01/30/politico-liberals-developing-new-phraseology-hype-climate-change
In fact, not only will there soon be a new term for “Climate Change” but a whole slew of new terminology as a PR effort to sell the public on the same old agenda with pretty new words according to the January 27 Politico Magazine in an article by Bryan Bender: “The New Language of Climate Change.”
The subtitle informs us that the public will become like test animals to determine how well the marketing strategy works: “Scientists and meteorologists on the front lines of the climate wars are testing a new strategy to get through to the skeptics and outright deniers.”
PaladinPhil wrote:
BOAT DRINKS!
@ rain of lead:
it aint gonna work.
Always amazes me that the same people who call us SCIENCE DENIERS! because we refuse to buy a theory based on nothing more than computer models and proffered as a means of World Wealth Distribution apparently believe that how you FEEL inside about your gender is more determinative than your actual chromosomes.
rain of lead wrote:
Is ‘new green deal’ in there?
this thread has been updated, n’at. yinz.
Kamala Harris is an authortarian bitch
For starters, here are some of the things that Harris believes the state can ban at expense of your personal freedom: private health insurance, your car, affordable energy, political speech, your guns, for-profit colleges, and government office holding for practicing Catholics.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/29/kamala-harris-is-an-authoritarian/
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s also MID SUMMER in Antarctica!
🙂
The Barbarian wrote:
Ummmm except for the last ice age when there was an ice sheet 1.5 Km thick where Chicago is now!
Now THAT is cold
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
How true. GOOD Vodka need a temperature where the aromatics can still be released hence the frighted and not the freezer.
The Barbarian wrote:
NOT all computer models are created equal.
The two outliers are Russian climate models that track historical reality almost perfectly. They are of course poo-pooed by the rest because they don’t belong to ‘the gerbal worming club’ who always get it wrong.
🙂
oh dear. the techies are having a knock-down, drag-out. Apple just knifed Facebook developers
It has been a tumultuous day for Facebook and its investors after Apple revoked the company’s iOS enterprise developer certificates due to damning revelations about Facebook bribing teens into supplying the company with reams of personal data, which it is believed to have used to improve its ad microtargeting and keep tabs on its rivals. This news, and the slight hit to FB stock that followed, was soon followed by a solid earnings report, which sent FB shares higher in after-hours trading.
A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.
*snort*
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-30/chaos-erupts-inside-facebook-hq-employees-blocked-opening-apps-their-iphones
Aussie Infidel wrote:
the 3 mile thick glacier stopped about 25 miles north of my house. the terminal moraines are quite evident
moraine state park
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moraine_State_Park
Aussie Infidel wrote:
pravda.
The Barbarian wrote:
Yup
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/29/polar-vortex-2019-despite-winter-storms-global-warming-real/2710885002/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=amp&utm_campaign=speakable
They are blaming it on global warming even though the Polar Vortex does get volitile in extreme cold.
That is the science, it is not due to Global Warming.
ahahahahahaha!! I hope the judge throws him out on his ass. Concord, you may recall, is the company Mueller charged, believing that since it’s Russian it would never show up in court. Well, they did. Hilarity ensued. Now Mueller is whining that Russian twitter bots are ruining everything, MAKE IT STOP!!
A pro-Russia Twitter account somehow gained access to nonpublic evidence gathered by special counsel Robert Mueller and tweeted out altered versions of those files as part of a “disinformation campaign,” Mueller asserted Wednesday.
The allegation was made by Mueller’s team in a new court filing Wednesday in the case against Concord Management and Consulting, a Russian company owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a billionaire friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Concord Management helped finance a known Russian troll farm, Internet Research Agency.
According to Mueller, “certain non-sensitive” evidence given by federal prosecutors to the defense team was “altered” and posted online “as part of a disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. political system.” Mueller didn’t describe how the information was altered.
To me this smells like Mueller is trying to avoid giving the defense exculpatory evidence – which Weismann is famous for.
The judge should throw their asses in the hoosegow for contempt, bread and water, no sunlight, and let them come crawling back after a month.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mueller-says-his-files-were-leaked-to-russia-which-used-it-for-disinformation-campaign
Low of 47F expected tonight. Going to put extra blankets on my bed so I don’t freeze to death.
NYC property taxes have gone up 44% in five years?!!
Happy to announce Super Bowl column is in the hopper for Sunday. And no, it isn’t a serious one….well, not much at any rate.
Democrats prefer cats
The Barbarian wrote:
Tommmmmmmmm!!!!!! Brady!!!!!!!!
Damn him.
I just told the governor of Virginia to shove it.
I feel much better.
Pumpkin Seeds kill tape worms. Or paralyze at least like AOC in headlights.
Garlic also has a parasite killing effect I believe.
My naturopath recommends a parasite cleanse twice a year.
Sold me this thing called Intestinal Edge by Go Nutrients. Not sure if is works,but I don’t seem to want to own a cat anymore. Has Walnut Hall and Wormwood in it.
darkwords wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
Everyone is entitled to your opinion. 🙂
@ yenta-fada:
I pay taxes here
RIX wrote:
Who ya gonna believe, me or your lying, freezing eyes?
eaglesoars wrote:
I was not criticizing you. If thousands of Virginia voters did the same, you wouldn’t need a lying pollster industry. So good on you.
Yinzer traffic alert, 279S
https://twitter.com/christinepghpa/status/1090796051232186368
yenta-fada wrote:
I know. He’s getting dragged like a drunk slut all over twitter. I’m just piling on because I’m pissed.
Here’s an article on the Sackler family and the problems with oxycontin. We were talking about it awhile back.
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/purdue-pharma-the-sacklers-crimes-against-humanity/
@ eaglesoars:
Big wreck.
eaglesoars wrote:
One of those rare times when constant twitter hate spewing is actually useful. Maybe AOC will say something so moronic that it will upset morons. Fingers crossed.
Tom Elliott @tomselliott
Bill Nye says global warming will mean America needs to grow its crops in Canada:
“The agriculture is going to have to move north into what would normally be Canada and we don’t have the infrastructure, the roads and railroads to get food from that area to where we need it.”
Bill, Canada is NORTH where you could freeze to death on your balcony. Mexico is the sunny hot place. Lay off the booze.
yenta-fada wrote:
BWAHAHAAA!!!!
yenta-fada wrote:
well, what’s it gonna be when it’s NOT normal? Columbus?
oh, lookie here! Chuck Schumer is asking for a coup. I’m not joking.
It’s past time for U.S. Intelligence Community leaders to stage an intervention with @realDonaldTrump.
My letter to Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence:
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1090793111435931648
@ eaglesoars:
The comments are great!
With all due respect senator this man and his family are a direct national security threat to the USA and our allies I urge you and your fellow senators to remove him and his family immensely! Please
https://twitter.com/brodugg/status/1090810060073099264
My duty as a parent is to give my child all the help I can so my child can fly off into the future and have a happy life.
I will do all I can to make sure my child has all the things she needs to start a new life, wings, a parachute, another set of wings and food.
As to flying lessons, well she is on her own there. She has to learn to fly herself.
darkwords wrote:
I heard from an acquiantance about his old healthy neighbor who was 100 and still indenpendent and he asked him once what was his secret. He told him to “eat a few cloves of garlic every day. It’s good for you.”
Couldn’t hurt.
@ yenta-fada:
Not only is he not a scientist, he doesn’t know squat about Canada and our agriculture. Unless he’s thinking about the tundra for farming.
yenta-fada wrote:
Good Lord , scientific climate advice from a mechanical engineer.
Hey, I tossed a cup of hot water in to the Polar Vortex air and it became white snow.
So using Nyes logic if it was a warm day it would have been a blizzard.
I are a scientist too!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/top-african-american-website-police-are-not-convinced-jussie-smollett-is-telling-truth-about-alleged-attack/
a Gateway Pundit
The cops are questioning the story of the actor attacked in the Streeterville Area in Chicsgo by Trump loving , homophobic racists. I know that Area well, it is really upscale. There is more to this story.
They guy had a rope around his neck when the cops got there? Hello
https://www.weaselzippers.us/409736-chicago-police-release-pics-of-persons-of-interest-in-jussie-smollett-case/
@ WZ
Ah ha! Pics released of persons of interest in the MAGA attack in Chicago.
Look closely, it’s Trump and Pence! You see that right?/
@ darkwords:
Nope. More cats than you can shake a stick at here. But we are thinking of adding a dog to the mix.
@ eaglesoars:
Chuck needs to be careful what he asks for.
@ RIX:
This guy needs some publicity…this was a stunt.
Publicity stunt.
Private sector employment increased by 213,000 jobs in January, according to the ADP National Employment report , surpassing Wall Street’s expectations of 178,000 jobs, despite a 35-day partial government shutdown that experts believed could take a toll on small business.
“The job market weathered the government shutdown well,” Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody’s, said. “Despite the severe disruptions, businesses continued to add aggressively to their payrolls. As long as businesses hire strongly the economic expansion will continue on.”
In December, the private sector added a whopping 271,000 jobs — soaring past analysts’ expectations of 178,000. Manufacturing, meanwhile, added the most jobs in more than four years.
@ coldwarrior:
Therefore, less govt makes capitalism better.
coldwarrior wrote:
and THAT is the best news of all
Yesterday was my regularly scheduled day off from work. Today, I have a second day off, as so few trucks made deliveries to the warehouse, that the manager simply said to take the day off. -15 here in southern Wisconsin. I better check on the car. Does anyone know how long I should plug in the engine block heater for it to be effective ?
The bad news is that I have to work Saturday, in order to make up for not working today.
Canoe Convoy wrote:
a core heater takes a few hours to really start working.
an oil dip stick heater heats the oil and that is what is most important. this takes less time but does not heat the block.
the oil has to be not so viscous that it does not get up into the motor when it starts.
oil temp is key. if the oil is running ok off of the dipstick, then start your car.
@ Canoe Convoy:
@ coldwarrior:
for my old reliable (1988 mercedes 300 turbo diesel wagon…i miss that car) i had to use a core heater and a dipstick oil heater and a blanket over the motor to get it to start when it was below 0F. the fuel would gel if i didnt put in any additive or put a heater near the tank.
gas cars usually dont have a fuel gel problem, its an oil viscosity problem. gas doenst get weird until -40C
Chris Christie has a new book out. He guts Kasich and it is God’s own wrath
Kasich called Christie after his New Hampshire wipeout.
He asked how I was doing. I told him, okay, considering. “You know what happened to you, don’t you, Chris?” he said.
I told him I didn’t.
“God wanted you to play right field, and you insisted on playing shortstop. No matter how many times God told you to play right field, you insisted on playing shortstop. And last night, you went out to shortstop, and the ball went through your legs.”
Right there, I understood why so many people in politics despised John Kasich. . . .
“And John,” I asked, “what does God have in mind for you?”
He didn’t hesitate. “I think you’re going to see that very clearly over the next couple of months.”
There’s more there, also about Trump, none of it flattering
https://thebulwark.com/the-15-things-you-need-to-know-about-chris-christies-book/
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/gomer/77732?xid=nl_popmed_2019-01-31&eun=g790546d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PopMedicine_013119&utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_PopMedicine_Active
@ coldwarrior:
so they’re all assholes………….
@ eaglesoars:
Nah, ortho and cardiology are usually pretty cool.
Lots of lives saved here.
Good job, CBP.
@ eaglesoars:
Another arsehole lots as if he’s keeping his financial options open! A Russian Boeing 777 is in Caracas loading what remains of the Venezuelan gold hoard. Looks as if el-Presidente is getting worried about who he can trust in the army.
It’s now only a matter of when .. not if!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
yeah, I’ve heard the planes are Russian and the gold is headed for UAE
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I have no idea how they thought they’d get that past the dogs. That’s A LOT of product!
Well. I’ve found a new way to bake bread that requires no work.
I’ve made 3 loaves so far and I’m going to be as big as a house. I’ve just figured out how to build my own proofing box. Just have to find the right box. Staples tomorrow
coldwarrior wrote:
… and real jobs at that !
Not the “do want fries with that?” type jobs.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup. That what I heard as well.
Once a regime starts to get their gold out of country, it’s all downhill from there.
There have been scattered revolts within the junior ranks of the military as well as those senior military outside the country at foreign legations and such.
Next to go will be the course where the justices will do the math and decide whether they want to be gainfully employed next year or political refugees in a flat in the UAE or Moscow.
The ned sanctions are causing serious hunger and the comrades, at the bottom of the heap ‘revolutionary vigour’ is waning.
Only a matter of when for the helicopter dash to the airport and the Russian flight out at zero dark thirty for el Presidente and his hangers-on.
eaglesoars wrote:
Is that the recipe I gave someone in here?
@ Aussie Infidel:
I didn’t see that recipe but here’s mine
3 1/2 cups bread flour
1 and 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoons yeast
14 oz water, cool
pour the water in a cool glass bowl, dump in yeast & salt, add water and mix a bit. Add flour, stir (the handle of a plastic spoon works well) till everything is well mixed. Cover with plastic wrap, let rise till doubled, about 8 hrs. Punch down the dough, roll it up with that plastic spoon handle, slide into a bread pan, cover with cloth, let rise about 30 minutes
Then 400 degree oven for 40 minutes.
here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jt14GSi0g
The measurements he uses in this video are a bit different than the ones I used from his book, but it doesn’t seem to make much difference. If you want a faster schedule, you increase the amount of yeast and alter the water amount.
This is just plain white bread, altho I added lots of herbs to my last loaf (thyme, marjoram, rosemary)
no kneading, no nuthin’
eaglesoars wrote:
AND THE TEMP! You use warm water, a warm bowl and let rise in a warmer place ( used my oven w/the light on)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ftw/2019/01/30/philadelphia-eagles-michael-vick-desean-jackson-chip-kelly/38979813/
@ USA Today
Chip Kelly made Micahael Vick cry!
My dog Maggie and dogs everywhere howl approval.
@ RIX:
That was when Vick revealed that he felt so betrayed by Kelly’s insistence on a quarterback competition with Nick Foles that he broke down in tears before a preseason game.
Why isn’t this guy picking up dog shit in Philly?
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ll give you the Rolls Royce version that will make you sing the Hallelujah Chorus. It’s down at the beach … where I should be instead of being stuck here in Auckland. I’ll get it to you in a few days eagles.
When you try this recipe you’ll NEVER go back to just bread.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’ll probably never go back to 115 lbs either
Canoe Convoy wrote:
When I lived in Colorado, we used to leave them plugged in whenever the engine wasn’t running if we knew we were going to need whatever was being heated. Had them on tractors for the most part.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hey, that’s a civil service gig.
back to the grind…checked into the hotel…i’m a freaking elite platinum spire secret handshake grand-poobah member at this point.
the points are nice tho….
RIX wrote:
HEY! dey is tryin’ to bust da union!
i’m gonna go to the dive bar and have a cigar and a 70minute ipa.
@ coldwarrior:
You should have seen how many points I had after spending nearly 5 years living out of hotels between 2004 and 2009.
coldwarrior wrote:
Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Dat’s what I wanna know.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, that doesn’t have the glamor one would think, does it?
Hey CW, did you know about this? I didn’t.
#63YearsAgo At 4:10 P.M., on Jan 31, 1956, a TB-25N medium bomber crashed into the Mon River near Homestead and was never seen again. Its fate remains one of #Pittsburgh’s most intriguing, enduring and challenging mysteries.
This is a video
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2291361561107706&id=1499930710250799
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/mystery-of-pittsburghs-ghost-b-25-bomber
lobo91 wrote:
i can only imagine
RIX wrote:
in my heart.
(former teamster shop steward)
local 249.
AZfederalist wrote:
nope.
this is the second time in my life i did the man in a suitcase stuff.
first was with fedex, much, much flying and hotels everywhere. for instance, so much flying into ORD that the porters at the curb knew me by name, would get my bags to the earlier flight to PIT, a $20 slipped in helped. hell, i would call my favorite taxi driver a day ahead. he was a great guy, we’d go get dinner have a few drinks, his choice…he took me into south chicago where he lived…i was the only white guy in that bar. didnt matter tho, back then. in the early 2000’s. i miss that.
this gig is with the largest hospital system in PA, so i drive and get mileage and hotel points…my mileage makes the car payment. cant complain, my ass sits in a really nice benz…a really, really nice benz.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
did you read this comment from Eugene Tomica
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
yinzer conspiracy!
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
did you read this comment from Eugene Tomica
My father was working at Masta Machine.
He saw this land also saw it recovered that night. He was working a double.
I have tried to give my dads story but nobody seems to want to here.
I will be glad to share his testimony as it was a story he told several times.
@ eaglesoars:
that area of the river isnt real deep. its deep enough for flat bottom barge traffic. given the river expertise of the tug and recovery crews, i can see where this plane would have been pulled out within hours.
@ coldwarrior:
if the plane went down around 4:30 pm on Jan 31, there would be only about 2 hrs of daylight left, max. To say recovery was ‘at night’ may be misleading. At 7 pm it’s dark but there are still people around conducting business. 10 at night, it’s a different story.
@ eaglesoars:
in 56..that area, there is no darkness.
coldwarrior wrote:
we’ll have to find pics
it’s my bedtime. I’m old and decrepit and downright cranky
good nite.
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, I’ll try to dig up some accounts I saw on YouTube.
Concur with CW. USS Homestead Works was right there. It would have been pretty bright.
@ eaglesoars:
Nite, eagles.
A fun and remarkable bowling feat.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden
Ben Shapiro destroy’s the commies in 2 minutes
https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1091342910447108099
brilliant
@ yenta-fada:
that’s a follow!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/trump-curse-la-rams-say-they-might-skip-white-house-visit-if-they-win/
@ Gateway Pundit
l.A Rams coach will not commit to visiting White House if they win the Super Bowl.
I really don’t think that they will have to worry snout it. I hope that Brady carves the up..
RIX wrote:
Not a Tom Brady fan at all but I’ll vote for the Patriots if this is the case. They can ram it you know where. lol
ZIPPIDY DO DA!!
Here is our infanticde-supporting pediatrician governor in either black face or KKK get up (can’t tell who is who) back in college/med school. 1984. His political career is OVAH.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/yearbook-ralph-northam-in-blackface-photo/
(multiple people have been working to confirm this, and they’re all coming up saying YEP, real thing)
@ eaglesoars:
If Northam resigns, he’ll be replaced by our Lt Gov, Justin Fairfax. Mr. Fairfax is African American
He’s also a yinzer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Fairfax
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
darkwords wrote:
Yeah I am down with the Pats now. The NFL does not get it,play football, I don’t want your politics in my face.