Hey all!
Been really busy with life stuff, so apologies for the absence!
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Stopped to see what’s going on and the door’s locked.
The weather seems to have broke for good in these parts…
Spring Open the Thread
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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!
afternoon y’all
it has been a nice day,
took momcat and the girl to get haircuts
then had a lunch that could NOT be beat,
then we all went for a stroll along the river and enjoyed the sunshine
stones river greenway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-THIIUEc3Cs
@ rain of lead:
if you pick up the vid at 3:52 you will see the exact part of the path we strolled today
i walked 18, shot in the high 80’s (USGA rules followed).
perfect day, finally. i have to work tomorrow and the OFF FOR 4 COUNT ‘EM FOUR 4 DAYS!!!!!!
WOOOT
thx bummr
if that smolette schmuck were white…..
UNSHACKLED TRUMP MAY ATTEND WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER…
BWAHAHAHAAAHAAAHAAA!!!!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
It would be very hard to convince me that the WHC dinner where Obama dissed him from the podium wasn’t a major factor in Trump’s decision to run.
rain of lead wrote:
everything outside has started to bud. And the ‘indicator’ cherry tree down at the Tidal Basin is blooming. Finally. Mid-70s this weekend.
Great piece by VDH
The Late, Not-So-Great Mueller Investigation
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/trump-russia-investigation-mueller-report/
he is not gentle
{{{Bumr50}}}
I was definitely starting to do some freelance worrying about you.
HI!
@ eaglesoars:
sadly, NRO is now on my never bother reading list
@ coldwarrior:
I’ve had them on THAT list for a couple of years now
a little southern rock because why not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4IJLJWHODg&list=PL3mcE8pqA9V9IYFjSdXcU3ShE2Yfg7Oy-&index=27
Someone is desperate to memory-hole this case as comprehensively as possible.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/03/27/cook-county-clerks-office-stunned-as-smollett-case-file-vanishes-from-records-system-n2543809
@ rain of lead:
You mean this one?
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5782112/Chicago-Police-Department-report-on-Jussie.pdf
Or this one? Apparently released by Police.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5782114/Chicago-Police-Department-report-on-Jussie.pdf
Joan Rivers said that everyone knew that Zero was gay and Mike was a tranny. It’s also like the muzz; you are lying, but you can’t say you are lying.
The Law is beginning to collapse under the sheer weight and number of high crimes. You know, like when the head of the CIA is a Muslim convert, but nobody can SAY it.
@ coldwarrior:
Meant to ask you – under the new rules you can leave the flagstick in. Do you? Flyboy thinks it’ll help his short game. (It’s been too wet on the weekends to get out yet).
yup
just Dem operatives with bylines
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/27/cnn-president-peddles-new-excuse-garbage-russia-coverage-not-investigators/#.XJvGZbxFUxU.twitter
“We are not investigators,” Zucker reportedly said in an email to The New York Times. “We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did.
@ rain of lead:
CNN has gone full retard. NEVER go full retard.
“I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry
Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry”
listening to the Trump interview on Hannity.
If I’m ‘getting’ this right, people are headed to the hoosegow.
“What didn’t President Obama do something about this when they were informed?”
I think it was a rhetorical question.
@ eaglesoars:
hope so
believe it when I see it
eaglesoars wrote:
Not really. The Dems will institute a structured fall back tactic. They will throw the odd low to medium level player into the jaws of the Justice system in the hope of assuaging some VERY pissed off Americans. Hoping that the retribution will not reach up to the major players.
I think that we should start at the top and work down as the Nuremberg tribunal did. Hang the major rmalefactorsfor attempting to stage a soft coup d’ estat and give the medium players some jail time and de-orogram the lesser players.
If the State AG can’t even throw a race baiting actor into the hoosegow than what are the odds that heavy hitter political elites will EVER see the wrong side of a set of prison bars?
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Smollett Drama – Cook County State Attorney Now Says Sealing Case Was Done Accidentally…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/03/27/smollett-drama-cook-county-state-attorney-now-says-sealing-case-was-done-accidentally/
Oh yeah, and don’t overlook that pesky admission that Ms. Foxx didn’t actually recuse herself from the case, as previously claimed. She’s admitting she participated. D’oh!
rain of lead wrote:
Yep. After the police file was leaked. This stinks all the way to the top.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
They only have to worry about 2. Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary, and Donald Trump.
They don’t play.
Hannity asked Trump about the ‘healing’ crap. Trump said, at first, that was his feeling too. Then he realized the scope of what had happened and he went there.
Treason.
off to sleepy time. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
Good luck getting the sainted first black (muzz) president. He established his skill at tossing peeps under the bus starting with granny. He enjoys it. He said himself that he likes killing people with drones.
No shortage of bad actors in this still festering influential pit.
http://dcwhispers.com/turning-on-their-own-james-clapper-tells-cnn-it-was-obama-who-ordered-trump-russia-hoax/#TL2BO3mT2JAJbU0U.97
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Smollett is small beer, but it has had so much popular Press coverage that they have attracted the attention of the sheeple whose trust is being eroded by obvious lies.
The Barbarian wrote:
i often play by myself…i walk, fast, and not too many can keep up!
anyway, i always leave it in when playing single, in a group, take it out as there is someone to man the stick while another readies to put.
the only way it helps the short game is if your ball is going too fast and it hits the stick, preventing further distance
morning y’all
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/government-warns-of-historic-widespread-flooding-through-may-food-prices-to-skyrocket-as-1000s-of-farms-are-destroyed/
@ rain of lead:
how can a farm be destroyed?
the dirt is still there, crops can be regrown
if you are a farmer, you already know this
rain of lead wrote:
The soil is totally hosed. It takes YEARS to cultivate soil and now what they’ve got is polluted with river water with a ton of crap in it. Eventually, it will be re-balanced and there is a lot of good stuff in river mud. If you’ve ever been thru a flood, the smell of what the river leaves behind is unforgettable. Some of it from rotting corpses.
@ rain of lead:
As for food prices going up, not as much as you might think. We have more metric tons of the stuff stored than we’ve ever had. I posted a link w/numbers few days ago. I think it was from a Reuters article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0
Nappy Friday. Don’t throw stuff at me.
@ RIX:
HAPPY Friday.
USA Today Blacklists The Federalist For The Crime Of Getting The Trump-Russia Story Right
A Margot Cleveland piece, no less.
I worked at USAT in the early days and knew Al Neuharth. He would have started throwing people out of windows for this crap. And he was no conservative.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/28/usa-today-blacklists-federalist-crime-getting-trump-russia-story-right/
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/03/28/you-sit-on-a-throne-of-lies-cnns-excuse-for-why-fox-news-is-burying-them-in-the-ratings-is-a-humdinger/
@ Twitchy
CNN does not think that their ratings drop is due to their miss on the Mueller report.
No, it’s because it’s a slow news week.
@ coldwarrior:
Football Savant Offspring is really getting into golf – which makes me glad because I’ve always maintained you meet great people at the club. He hasn’t played a round yet but I told him we’d go out on the last tee time of the day as soon as we can so that we don’t hold anyone up. He’s now watching golf with me on the weekends (which he used to complain about).
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve always argued that food (and water) are strategic and security issues and should be treated as such.
@ The Barbarian:
There is no riff raff at the CC
This is interesting. If half of it’s accurate, we need to start building gallows:
@ lobo91:
treason is so 19th century
coldwarrior wrote:
A great book is The Taste of War. The Nazis were intent on using food and ag not just tactically, but strategically. I’ve forgotten the name of the guy who headed up the effort, he was what we would call an agronomist. I spent a couple years studying the issue. USDA keeps a seed bank (as do many other countries), and I got to meet some of the people. The problem as I see it – or A problem – is in the event of a catastrophic failure, there is really no solid method of getting the seed to the growers.
Water is another issue. I’ve always maintained that the way to take out the desert kingdoms is not nukes – it’s their desalination facilities. If you back-track the issues in Syria, it takes you right back to – water.
@ lobo91:
I saw that yesterday. I have timeline problems with it. Specifically, there are conflicts with the Russia story line as outlined in ‘Shattered’, which portrays the Clinton campaign as coming up with it AFTER the loss.
That’s not a judgement call, that’s just “hmmmm, questions to be answered” thing.
The National District Attorneys Assoc has issued a letter on ‘best practices in high profile cases’
Yeah, they slam Chicago
https://ndaa.org/wp-content/uploads/NDAA-Press-Release-on-Prosecutorial-Best-Practices-in-High-Profile-Cases.pdf
However, the case in Chicago illustrates a point that must be discussed
in an effort to ensure fairness in our criminal justice system: the rich are treated differently, the politically connected receive favorable treatment, and Lady Justice sometimes peeks under her blindfold to see who stands before her. NDAA rejects these inequities as they are antithetical to our
founding principles of justice: that no one is above the law.
White people’s diets are killing the environment: study
yeah, fuck off
https://nypost.com/2019/03/28/white-peoples-diets-are-killing-the-environment-study/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow
Oh, this is gonna be good
Ben Shapiro is going to sue the Economist. Because they called him ‘alt-right’. And is he pissed.
.@TheEconomist, this is a vile lie. Not only am I not alt-right, I am probably their leading critic on the right. I was the number one target of their hate in 2016 online according to ADL data. I demand a retraction.
British defamation laws apply. Shapiro just asked Ezra Levant for the name of a lawyer.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1111261175268794369
@ eaglesoars:
Strongly worded letter.
coldwarrior wrote:
check included with several zeroes
@ eaglesoars:
Further proof that there is too much political research money out there.
nice try. won’t work
Kim Foxx’s office is saying she didn’t actually recuse herself ‘formally’, they used the word ‘colloquially’, for ‘public consumption’.
Yeah, well the public doesn’t seem to be in the mood to consume that particular lie, try again.
https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1111287817559248896
dammit. The Economist has apologized to Shapiro
You illiterate morons
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/28/ben-shapiro-economist-alt-right/
https://www.bing.com/amp/s/www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/World-News/2019/03/28/British-report-Serious-defects-in-Huawei-technology/9391553775833/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/they-could-have-worn-white-face-smollett-lawyer-says-of-alleged-black-attackers-who-actor-claimed-were-white/
@ Gateway Pundit
Smolletts lawyer thinks that she has solved the mystery about why Jussie thought that his Nigerian brothers attackers were white. They wore whiteface makeup! Yeah, that’s it, that’s the ticket!
@ RIX:
Oh puh-leeze
Chicago PD is going to protest Kim Foxx on Monday. Everybody’s invited, c’mon down!
https://twitter.com/CharlieDeMar/status/1111334439878123520
another lovely day
took momcat and the girl for a stroll around the lake then went to lersey mikes and got a huge sack full of philly cheesesteak sammies
and the girl is waiting for a friend to swing by so they can go hang out for a while
@ coldwarrior:
It’s the age of Avenutti.
Lawyers used to cringe at their clients going out on TV and making ridiculous statements.
Now it’s the LAWYERS who need to stuff a sock in it.
Just over 1 1/2 hours before the next RocketLabs launch from the Mahia Launch Complex. The payload is a DARPA package loaded onto its own pallet but powered by the RocketLabs manoeuvring stage to get it into an accurate orbit. No other nanosats are loaded and this is a single payload launch comprising a large pneumatically expanded parabolic antennae. It’s a proof of concept trial for DARPA to study how large parabolic antennas can be loaded in small high launch frequency boosters.
I’m guessing here but this may be part of the US to get masses of GPS satellites into orbit over a very short period to replace those satellites that have been shot down by the Chinese anti-satellite systems. The Chinese alternative LASER anti-satellite system located in Antarctica would have a very large bullseye painted on it so that leaves anti-satellite rockets launched from Chinese territory as the remaining anti-satellite offensive system. This launch may be exploring the very fast replacement of shot down US GPS satellites by very high launch frequency system with large high powered parabolic antennae.
But that’s just me!
🙂
First, this amount seems low to me. Second, they’ll never see a dime anyway
Chicago wants $130,000 from Jussie Smollett for hate-crime investigation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/28/chicago-wants-jussie-smollett-pay-130000-hate-crim/
Watch the launch live at:-
https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch-schedule/launch-details.php?id=1512
in 1 hour 15 minutes
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
That IS very low.
How many man hours were wasted on this? Certainly a hell of a lot more that $130k.
This guy needs some jail time to make his boosters pee their pants and to make others ‘reconsider their options’ in the future. The Hollywood crowd needs a good bitchslapping!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
how rude.
eaglesoars wrote:
I got my knickers in a twist over a NZ aviation manufacturer purchased by China. The Chinese will turn these airplanes into drones with 3000 Km range and 1.5 tonnes cargo capacity to resupply all of the Chinese artificial islands in the South China Sea.
My mate in the US Army told me not to sweat it as they had it all under control and that these Chinese logistics drones would end up jammed big time and reside at the bottom of the South China sea. That’d leave a massive hole in the Chinese offshore logistics chain.
Never interrupt an enemy when he’s in the middle of making a strategic error.
🙂
Same with the US GPS System. They have it under control so sit back and just s-m-i-l-e !
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Minor hold due wind speed. The clock is counting down again so we are go in 75 minutes for the R2D3 DARPA antennae test launched on an Electron rocket.
🙂
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Altho I believe the EU went with a Chinese system. This was some years ago and my memory isn’t great about stuff I don’t understand, such as satellites. IIRC, it was a protocol issue.
Also, I saw some headline today about some country bitching about a ‘bug’ in the Huawei technology they bought and I laughed out loud.
Oh. Guess who’s on the board of Huawei? Alexander Downing
There’s another company out there that has something to do with China, Hikvision, I’m not sure what’s going on yet
@ eaglesoars:
You’re correct. The EU went with the Chinese system that was a copy of the Russian Glossnos system that was ….. ROLL OF DRUMS…. a unclassified copy of the Hughes Aerospace US GPS System.
Yup a copy of a copy of a copy of a cheap version of the Hughes system.
HEH!
The delusion runs deep with these folks… and long may it last !
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
You mean ‘look mom I’m one of the Global Elite’ Downer. ?
HEH
🙂
The guy was a puff piece addict who believed his own propaganda. He’s still living on his past ‘glories’ of 40 years ago. Downer is irrelevant to the 21st. Century. Time to take your dirt bed nap mate! Good riddance you traitorous bastard. This guy pretended to be the Foreign Minister of the Centre Right government all those years ago. He was an elitist one world government and Devos / Bohemian Grove groupie.
Ask this grub about those pictures of wearing net stockings and ‘fuck-me red heels.
Not only delusional but degenerate.
He fits right in into the One World Government elitists crowd!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
What was/is the Galileo protocol/system? Is that just what they ended up calling it? IIRC, the EU wanted to use some frequency that anybody could access and the US couldn’t block w/o jamming ourselves?
So we threatened to shoot every last one of the fuckers out of the sky.
They found another frequency.
I think I remember that fairly well. It was pretty funny at the time. Still is, acually
@ eaglesoars:
Yup.
The European Galileo was the knock off Hughes system and one of the civil channels was the same as the US GPS System. The Euros being Euros were trying to elbow the US out of an existing bandwidth as soccer players elbow each other off the ball.
The US just used a rugby crash tackle and the Euros limped off the field whimpering
🙂
This is a good companion piece to the Big League Politics link lobo posted.
Spygate: The Inside Story Behind the Alleged Plot to Take Down Trump
https://www.theepochtimes.com/spygate-the-inside-story-behind-the-alleged-plot-to-take-down-trump_2833074.html
Jussie Smollett is nominated for an NAACP Award, and host Anthony Anderson hopes he wins
2019 Image Award
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/03/28/jussie-smollett-up-naacp-award-host-anthony-anderson-hopes-he-wins/3298234002/
Really? Why is the Dem leadership talking to this guy?
@JohnBrennan met with @LeaderHoyer and group of House Dems yesterday on Capitol Hill to discuss news of day, etc. Meeting w/ Hoyer’s “leader’s council” was scheduled before recent Mueller developments.
https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1111346253592436738
RIX wrote:
Best comment:
this song saved my life.
i was in the hospital with a coma for six months when the nurse walked in and turned the radio on. this song started playing. i got up, and turned the radio off.
Hey guys.
RocketLabs had a flawless launch and the R2D3 DARPA satellite is currently being powered by the Curie mini-boost engine to its selected orbit as we speak.
DARPA WILL be pleased.
Next launch is in 3 1/2 weeks from Wallops off the US East coast. Meantime the RocketLabs launch site #3 work is underway at Kodiak Island in Alaska to serve Polar orbits for the US Military.
By November an Electron will launch it’s Moon Shot, to land close to the North Pole of the Moon hop over to a likely looking creature i the shadow, scrape up some ‘frost’ and return it to Earth. That’ll tell everyone whether there is Helium 3 to mine and water ice to manufacture rocket fuel from on the Moon.
Great time for the little rocket that could!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yes it did, and if you missed it, here’s the video, liftoff at about 13 min mark. The separation phase won’t be live, look to rocketlab’s social media accounts for success confirmation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaUSf0D95vs
yenta-fada wrote:
Ok, that’s good. It is that bad.
Creature = Crater
HEH!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
It’s a great relief to know that the U.S. has an active military between Russia and Canada. Turdough puts no money into the military, but lots into gay rights. The Liberals shut down the Justice Committee allegedly looking into SNC Lavalin’s years of bribery to Liberal politicians. Then they shut down the Ethics Committee. Justina spends his days on the expensive jet looking for aboriginals to apologize to or mosques to visit. Even Canadians are noticing cowardice and corruption at the top. Not much in the way of protest, but the arrow has moved towards ‘disgruntled’. More Trudolt lies are uncovered each day. Alberta would love to separate from the Quebec crooked Elite who sop up the lion’s share of Federal taxes.
@ yenta-fada:
Let me know if you need us to invade. I’ll send a couple guys up.
Aaannddd….The BBC has to admit it lied about Trump and the Ukraine.
The BBC has apologised and agreed to pay damages to Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.
The apology relates to an incorrect report claiming a payment was made to extend a meeting between Mr Poroshenko and US President Donald Trump.
An article, published last May but since removed from the BBC website, alleged $400,000 was paid to Mr Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.
The allegation, relating to a meeting in June 2017, was untrue.
and shell out $$
“We apologise to Mr Poroshenko for any distress caused and have agreed to pay him damages, legal costs and have participated in a joint statement in open court,” the broadcaster said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47719166
eaglesoars wrote:
Quebec has a huge WHINE cannon. Your team had better be equipped with sound dampening equipment. And the many mosques going alulululul.
@ yenta-fada:
oh, we bring all KINDS of heavy metal. I’ll see your alulululul and raise you
some Van Halen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM
coldwarrior wrote:
Rather interesting quote from that, “The company answered the report Thursday, saying it still doesn’t conclude Huawei devices or infrastructure pose a greater security threat than they have at any point in the last two years.”
i.e. “The same backdoors and covert access vulnerabilities exist today as existed 2 years ago when we first tried rolling out this large-scale espionage capability, thus the devices pose no greater security threat than the did when we first introduced them.”
eaglesoars wrote:
Heh. Tweren’t a bug, it was a feature.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, Smollett definitely presented an image. Not sure it was something you would want to tout as representative of your values, but hey, this is the NAACP after all.
@ AZfederalist:
’twas why I laughed
Glad I lost Bunk’s phone number because he was going to get a call..
@ eaglesoars:
Armstrong looking at the inverted yield curve in Treasuries and seeing
signs of panic coming from Europe. EU countries are looking for safe haven in the U.S. dollar and there aren’t enough being offered.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/emerging-markets/the-financial-panic-of-2019/
@ yenta-fada:
I keep seeing the ‘inverted yield curve’ crap everywhere and I don’t even know what they’re talking about, I don’t know what they are. Something to do with bonds or treasuries? what?
altho I’m also seeing rpts that inventories are climbing which may or may not be good, I haven’t seen any seasonal adjustment figures.
eaglesoars wrote:
I should say I don’t understand if inverted yield curves apply only to treasuries. Because – again – I don’t know what they are.
@ AZfederalist:
They invent these awards overnight in the media if there is a hint of people going off the official narrative. Especially when the sheeple are armed with facts. Try criticizing a newspaper Editor when he’s caught lying. zap! Front page award announced the next day from some
complicit elitist group. I’ve noticed it here when honestreporting.ca
gets people to send out large amounts of emails refuting a Senior editor. Same tactic with Smollett. Politics/celebrity combo did this **** through 8 long years of Obimbo. The BORG speaks with one voice from its hive mind.
Twitter may annotate Trump’s tweets, and those of other officials, if they violate its rules
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/twitter-may-annotate-tweets-from-trump-and-other-elected-officials-if-they-violate-its-rules
Also, Beto O’Rourke has a substance abuse issue. Bet on it.
yenta-fada wrote:
oh yeah! I remember they gave Dan Rather some invented award after he blew his career sky high.
When Foxx dropped charges against Smollett the ‘Empire Writers’ tweeted something like “See you Wednesday!”
Guess not, Sparky
————
According to TVLine, Wednesday night’s episode of Empire dropped to 3.97 million viewers. This all-time low follows last week’s low performance of only 4 million total viewers.
The ratings for the Fox drama have been in a free fall since Smollett allegedly planned a hoax attack against himself. Two weeks ago, the show’s fifth season debut episode dropped 35 percent in the ratings compared to last year.
https://ilovemyfreedom.org/uh-oh-the-show-empire-gets-worst-news-ever-after-smollett-has-charges-dropped/?utm_source=stonewall&utm_medium=twitter
*snort*
@ eaglesoars:
I will give you the short version until CW arrives to do a better job. Basically it’s about borrowing and lending money, in this case U.S. Treasuries of varying lengths of how long you are loaning out your money to the govt. You should receive a better interest rate on your dollars when you lock in your money for a longer period of time. So, the YIELD on your money should be greater for a one year T note than a one month T note. (arbitrary periods for purposes of explanation.)
The FED had said a few months ago that it would slowly raise interest rates. What they DID was indicate that forward guidance was pointing to LOWER rates. That means you will get a lower YIELD on your money in the future. So this ‘inverts’ the yield plotted on a graph. You would have to be desperate to lock your money up longer and get less interest than you can TODAY.
Am I making sense so far?
oh ffs
Air Force grounds entire fleet of B-1 bombers for 2nd time in less than a year
https://ktxs.com/news/abilene/air-force-grounds-entire-fleet-of-b-1-bomb-ers-for-2nd-time-in-less-than-a-year
During a routine inspection, “potentially fleet-wide issues were identified with the rigging of the drogue chute,” according to the Air Force Global Strike Command.
The drogue chute is the first parachute that deploys when the pilot or crew member ejects.
The commander of Global Strike Command — which is located at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana — ordered a safety stand-down of the B-1B Lancer fleet.
The issue is believed to be unrelated to a problem with ejection seat (egress) components that forced a B-1 from Dyess to make an emergency landing in Midland on May 1.
The fleet was grounded on June 7. The safety stand-down was lifted June 19.
yenta-fada wrote:
perfectly. I was missing the part about Fed guidance. I was assuming it was something organic.
eaglesoars wrote:
Lynette Zang, who works for a precious metals group does a great job of simply explaining interconnecting parts of the global financial system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DowIQvVJGX4
@ yenta-fada:
Well done.
@ yenta-fada:
thanks! see, she’s ANOTHER one using this as WARNING! WARNING!
but, do be careful with the prediction power attributed to the ‘inverted yield curve’ as one must look at bond interest rates in other countries. if the lower yield long term is still higher than say the german bonds then the investor from germany will do a rational move, a flight to quality.
american central bankers are trained assassins. the raising of the interest rates increased all yields of american bonds to well above the yield anywhere else for any maturity date regardless of yield curve function. this is what creates the flight to quality.
also, an inverted yield can signal the market belief that there is little threat for inflation and/or there are too many long term bonds at this particular moment.
were interest rates raised too much, like trump says? we’ll see.
@ eaglesoars:
It’s not about forward guidance. That was an example. Right NOW European Banks are talking about ZIRP (zero percent interest rates) and NIRP (negative interest rates). That means people are losing confidence in their currencies. This is described in Armstrong’s post. They don’t trust the Banks enough to think they will get their MONEY BACK. Like in a bank run. So, institutional money is willing to get no interest rate from overnight lending. That means that FEAR is in the air.
Brexit uncertainty is one factor that reduces financial confidence. How do you plan your business in England if nobody will give you an answer about leaving the EU. March 29 was supposed to be the final decision. Now they moved the date which increases uncertainty regarding your planning. That increases uncertainty in TODAY which ratchets up fear. Fear is contagious. The Banks are insolvent. Meaning that they have more debt than assets. Money flow (velocity of money) slows down. This slows down the REAL economy where people need to trust that they will be paid for their goods. Trust is eroding very visibly. Money is only good when people have confidence in it. Those digits in cyberspace are not wealth. They are money for use in paying bills, buying food, bribing politicians, etc.
You know all this from Jim Rickards. Armstrong is following hourly action, not writing books. Because Marty has offices around the world and knows people ‘behind the curtain’ he will pick up on trends quickly. You pay him more, he tells you more. His Socrates program is designed for traders, institutional and otherwise. May is a crucial month which is why he is doing a May Conference in Rome.
As CW says, the Euro was poorly designed, and the black swans are coming home to roost.
night yinz!
coldwarrior wrote:
OMG! Really? I am flattered. 🙂
Ijust stumbled onto this website. It’s a very clear analysis of how Trump – quite rightly and legally – avoided a perjury-trap interview w/Mueller
http://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2019/03/how-was-trump-able-to-stiff-mueller.html?m=1
Barbarian would/will love it
coldwarrior wrote:
Thanks for the expansion on the yield curve. I think this stuff is fascinating which makes me a geek and an utter bore to most of the people I know.
nite!
coldwarrior wrote:
that’s the way I read it.
@ eaglesoars:
Airplanes leave no room for human error when checking equipment. The SJW narrative is a crock when it comes down to things that matter.
yenta-fada wrote:
But the UK doesn’t use the Euro. The effing Germans are instilling the ‘fear’ just to be effing Huns (and next time we salt the effing earth) every time May squeaks. Thatcher would have set fire to Juncker’s junk and then refused to spit on it while she pointed and laughed.
No, I think the real weak spot in Europe is France. I could, of course, expound, but you will be grateful that it’s my bedtime instead.
nite
eaglesoars wrote:
We do have shrinkflation at the supermarkets though. Smaller packages at each price point is how they hide higher food costs. Increased taxes (our new freaking carbon tax)decreases your purchasing power, but it’s not called inflation.
Home prices in Toronto & Vancouver are coming down which is actually deflationary when counting up your assets. It took us forever to pay off the mortgage.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Well comrade we now know what our erstwhile comrade PM has been up to this past week, Other than crying on cue to the cameras that is over the Christchurch tragedy.
One of her NZ Police Assistant Commissioners is on his way to CHINA to help out the comrades over there.
Given that right now over a million Weigers are being held in concentration camps and the Chinese are commercially harvesting human organs from Political and criminal prisoners … a Kiwi heads over to ‘help them out with their security crackdown’.
SPIT
https://croakingcassandra.com/2019/03/14/almost-unbelievable/
These people are truly evil!
Wow. Talk about getting even from the grave. Sweet little old lady my bupkiss.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I would pull over and park so I wouldn’t go hit a tree.’ Barbara Bush revealed how she fell into a deep depression and considered suicide while her husband George carried on decade-long affair with younger aide, explosive new bio reveals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6861667/Barbara-Bush-devastated-humiliated-Georges-affair-aide-considered-suicide.html
This dropped late last night. Byron York is a treasure.
Byron York: In subpoena fight, Trump lawyer told Mueller: ‘You want to do it, you’ve got yourself a war’
Mueller and the president’s team went back and forth on the question of a presidential interview for quite a while. “[Mueller] said, ‘Well, John, I need to know what was in the president’s head,'” Dowd recalled. “I said you already do, you know in real time.”
The conflict dominated a difficult March 5, 2018, meeting. “I asked, what’s the president’s status?” Dowd said. “[Mueller said] he’s a witness-slash-subject. And I said, you mean he has no exposure? He said that’s right. So I knew then for sure, by inference, that [Mueller] had nothing to proceed on in the collusion and conspiracy area.”
March 2018. That bastard was waiting for the mid-terms, hoping it would give him enough political pull to do what he wanted.
Jay Sekulow goes on Mt. Rushmore
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-in-subpoena-fight-trump-lawyer-told-mueller-you-want-to-do-it-youve-got-yourself-a-war
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yeah, try Google. They’re working w/China to give them all our tech.
Aussie, does the name Svetlana Lokhova mean anything to you? In all this mess, she was named by Stephen Halper as a ‘honey pot’, but she never was.
Look at her bio on the Amazon page
https://smile.amazon.com/Spy-Who-Changed-History-Americas-ebook/dp/B07P97KMKC/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=The+Spy+Who+Changed+History&qid=1553860874&s=books&sr=1-2
@ eaglesoars:
Reading this it S clear that the only reason to try to compel Trumps testimony was to lay a perjury trap.
No exposure? They would have been crazy to comply.
morning y’all
state archery tourny today
tomorrow she has her interview for camp counselor
( they have to reapply and reinterview each year)
@ RIX:
And putting this piece together with a few others, it becomes obvious that w/o evidence of a crime or evidence not obtainable otherwise, Trump was on solid legal ground to tell Mueller to take a hike. All these people whining that Mueller ‘let Trump off the hook’ because there was no interview are missing the point that Mueller had no legal right to an interview. The POTUS may not be above the law, but he isn’t obligated to negate his own rights either.
@ RIX:
That was a total setup
@ rain of lead:
Excellent. Wish her well!
4 days off… got the girls off to school… made a nice cappuccino and lit up a drew estate Liga Privada Maduro.
Was going to golf…rain.
Not to put too fine a point on the yield curve… i’m not buying a pending recession with just one indicator.
coldwarrior wrote:
me neither. however I am seeing reports of inventories increasing. That’s a little too broad for me, tho. What sectors? Is it with or w/o seasonal adjustments?
@ eaglesoars:
And inventory is taxed…altho… I can see a yuge increase in inventory just up and across the river where J&L steel used to be. The yard is now full of new gas fracking and pumping equipment and gear destined for the cracked plant that RDS is putting in to make plastic ingredients from nat gas.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/spain_tells_mexico_hell_no_following_amlos_demand_for_an_apology_for_colonial_conquest.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/its-official-us-is-first-country-in-world-history-to-increase-gdp-by-more-than-1-trillion-in-a-year/
Some perspective.
The fed gave Obama training wheels. And yes, rates had to come up to be ready for the next recession. I’d like 4%… but that’s just me.
rain of lead wrote:
Spain BUILT Mexico. Mexico would have been better off as an English colony…
But I digress
coldwarrior wrote:
It would have been crazy for Trump to sit with the Muller team.
@ RIX:
This has been a rather enlightening period in politics
@ RIX:
Absolutely. Especially if the President had already submitted written responses. This was NOTHING more than a perjury trap. As perjury was the chief charge leveled against Bill Clinton, this would have paved the way for Pelosi and the Dems to seek impeachment. This was why all this was held back, as has been pointed out. Mueller waited for the midterms. If the Dems had taken the House and Senate, he MIGHT have been able to reword the report to try to make their impeachment case for him.
His problem was that the machinations of the FBI and DOJ vis-a-vis the FISA warrant came to light, the Congressional testimony was being produced and he realized the game was up. Everyone that was really informed now knew there was nothing to the collusion story.
Now the big thing we’re waiting for is the IG’s report – as I believe he’s the one conducting an investigation into that FISA warrant business and the Hillary coverup. I could be wrong. I just know one is ongoing and I think he was waiting for Mueller.
I’m amused by everyone is saying Barr is hiding something, that the report does NOT really say with the summary says. Okay….but if he’s mischaracterizing the report, why isn’t Mueller on every left-wing MSM outlet saying that Barr’s lying about the report results?
And Trump needs to stop threatening and go ahead and de-classify the documents.
whoa. Of ‘things that are not good’ this is REALLY not good.
It’s wiped out 90 amphibian species and is on its way to wiping out hundreds more. Not individuals. SPECIES.
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis – The Worst Disease Ever Recorded
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/bd-frogs-apocalypse-disease/585862/
The Barbarian wrote:
He can try. But he’s not the final word. Every IC agency gets a shot at docs and can redact, e tc.
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually, I believe the president is the final word. He can over-rule the IC and declassify as he so chooses (see jimmy Carter and stealth technology). Doesn’t mean it is a wise thing to do, but it is the prerogative of the President.
Hey folks been busy and wondering if I can pimp a book here? 🙂
@ AZfederalist:
I hope you’re right
@ PaladinPhil:
pimp away!
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks. A first effort and I am publishing to a variety of retailers. Only e-book currently. Now I have to go and do it again…
https://books2read.com/u/4DZPkg
@ PaladinPhil:
Pimpin’ ain’t easy, G.
Woot!!!
My fish monger got more baramundi in!!!!
@ PaladinPhil:
Kindled.
Ok, what’s it about? Give us some detail…the writer’s motivation, etc
@ PaladinPhil:
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@ coldwarrior:
Writer’s motivation? To tell a good story and get paid! 🙂
It’s an “end of the world” type scenario with the main character being one of those types that doesn’t want to roll over and die.
Looks like Brexit is dead. There are people in the streets
@ PaladinPhil:
Good enough!
eaglesoars wrote:
But of course. 🙄
I have some amazing pics coming up on a new thread
@ PaladinPhil:
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