It’s an open thread.
Today I went out to take some pictures of Progress. These are photos of the construction site of the Cracker Plant that Royal Dutch Shell is building in Beaver County, PA. It’s being built here because of Fracing. We are now able to bring up a ridiculous amount of natural gas quite easily and it is changing the local economy for the better.
It is difficult to capture the sheer size of this endeavor.
This image was taken from across the Ohio river:
This image was taken from a higher vantage point 180 degrees from the above shot:
That crane on the far left is one of the largest cranes in the world. it was brought up the Mississippi River and then up the Ohio on barges.
The opening of the cracker plant is expected to have a major economic impact on both the immediate area and the Pittsburgh metropolitan area in general. The plant is expected to create 6,000 construction jobs to build the site and 600 permanent jobs for employees working at the plant.[2] It is also expected to expand neighboring Center Township, which had already seen a hotel construction boom in anticipation of the plant, as well as keep the Beaver Valley Mall afloat.[17] A building dating to the 1920s in nearby Rochester that once served as a luxury hotel is being restored as such due to demand of the plant,[18] while parts of the Northern Lights Shopping Center in Economy is being demolished for redevelopment, partially due to the plant.[19] In 2018 Mount Airy Casinos won the licensing to build a satellite casino just 12 miles North of the cracker plant, planning to open in 2020.
The plant is also expected to spur long-delayed highway expansion projects. The Southern Beltway, which had already confirmed would be extending its second leg in 2020 from U.S. Route 22 to Interstate 79, moved the project up a year solely as a result of the proposed plant.[20] In West Virginia, Interstate 68 has been proposed to be extended from Morgantown (where it currently terminates with I-79) to Moundsville (where it would terminate with West Virginia Route 2 just south of Wheeling) in response to Marcellus fracking as well as the proposed plant.[21]
Several trade unions are now offering free training to those who want to become skilled tradesmen and women; KDKA’s Jon Delano reports.
The above articles do not even begin to scratch the surface of the positive economic impact that is going on here. To create real wealth one must produce from raw materials, extract it from the ground and make a useful product. Each maufacturing job creates 11 service industry jobs…and this is only the beginning, thanks to Fracing.
then, I went to lunch at one of my favorite joints.
😉
Wow, some names I haven’t heard in a long time. Economy, Moundsville……..
Is this going to be enough to turn Pgh red? Prolly not.
Hey, CW, you probably didn’t see it, but I posted a few days ago asking you to post a link to your smoker. I’m tired of drooling all over my keyboard. Thx.
@ eaglesoars:
ooops…
ok
https://pitboss-grills.com/Shop-Pit-Boss/Grills/vertical-smokers/7-series-vertical-smoker-wood-pellet
BOOM!
😉
@ coldwarrior:
thanks! I was laughing at that 2nd video. “Okraszewski”. Been a long time since I’ve run into names like that.
coldwarrior wrote:
nope. No boom. There’s no way the HOA would let me put that thing anywhere. All we have is a deck that, with the furniture already on it, doesn’t allow enough clearance. Probably not enough clearance to the ‘floor’ either.
@ coldwarrior:
Damn, that looks nice. Wonder if I can convince the Fiancee that we need one. 🙂
trump just said this
“So there’s a very good likelihood that I’ll be closing the Border next week, and that’ll be just fine with me.”
Start at about the 8 min mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1AXAVFyrns
@ PaladinPhil:
They have several sizes, the 3 and the 5 are the same, but smaller, i’m cooking for a crowd
eaglesoars wrote:
Iron Workers Local 3. its a great gig if you can work with swinging steel beams at 300 feet in the air in all weather.
we’re all a bunch of hunkies.
perogies and deep fried cod for dinner tonight…from the fire hall (lent)
eaglesoars wrote:
yeah…
i couldn’t live with one of those.
If you have 14 minutes and a very stiff drink, this is freaking hilarious. Some snowflake, Nick, calls into a radio show in Tennessee to bitch about Mueller (“Putin has something on him”) and Trump (“it’s impossible for me to find a job in Trump’s capitalist economy”)
My degree would be much more marketable in a socialist economy.
But Nick, this IS a capitalist economy, you knew that when you went for that humanities degree.
But we were headed there, I started school under Obama.
This guy hits every stereotype in existence. “You’ll NEVER understand my FEELINGS”
https://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/6/1/b/61b17f15952fd6ee/DAN_MANDIS_CALL_WITH_CRAZY_LIBERAL.mp3?c_id=38296376&cs_id=38296376&expiration=1553896418&hwt=8bf8e3176f70b111683c30ed0bdb50ae
I’m dead.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m not telling you the best part. That starts toward the end at about the 12 min mark. Don’t miss it.
Nick will be spending the rest of his life in Mom’s basement.
@ eaglesoars:
Awww…c’mon they CANT be real
@ coldwarrior:
oh just keep listening………it’s real.
This is fascinating. They completely – 100% – wiped out the people who built Stonehenge.
Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132230-200-story-of-most-murderous-people-of-all-time-revealed-in-ancient-dna/
The migrants’ ultimate source was a group of livestock herders called the Yamnaya who occupied the Eurasian steppe north of the Black Sea and the Caucasus mountains. Britain wasn’t their only destination. Between 5000 and 4000 years ago, the Yamnaya and their descendants colonised swathes of Europe, leaving a genetic legacy that persists to this day. Their arrival coincided with profound social and cultural changes. Burial practices shifted dramatically, a warrior class appeared, and there seems to have been a sharp upsurge in lethal violence. “I’ve become increasingly convinced there must have been a kind of genocide,”
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132230-200-story-of-most-murderous-people-of-all-time-revealed-in-ancient-dna/
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
This sort of research is one of my favorite topics.
‘No one cried for the Etruscans’ as I like to say.
@ coldwarrior:
I was going to be an archaeologist. Then I discovered Bloomingdale’s.
This is long but worth it. One person’s experience with China moving into developing economies. He’s a Wall Street/finance type, so his perspective is really interesting.
Modernization in China isn’t the enclave of a middle-class modernity, as in India, but a movement that reaches into the capillaries of society. Entrepreneurs in Chinese villages connect to the world market through mobile broadband, sell their products and buy supplies on the Alibaba platform, and obtain credit from microfinancing platforms. Information and capital flow down to the roots of the economy and products flow back up to the world market.
China now proposes to export its model to Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Latin America, parts of the Middle East and Africa. This involves a Faustian bargain of sorts; the same technologies that have lifted billions of East Asians out of dire poverty and the ever-present risk of starvation into prosperity and economic security can also give dictatorial regimes previously unimagined tools for social control. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has a $1 trillion war chest for infrastructure investments and export loans.
In making such offers, Chinese planners are thinking a generation ahead.
How the fight for the next communications ecosystem could make a world dependent on Chinese technology, Chinese software, Chinese e-commerce, Chinese venture capital, and the Chinese market
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/281731/chinas-plan-for-global-supremacy
eaglesoars wrote:
and that is why india will bury them
lobo91 wrote:
california
coldwarrior wrote:
NO! Read the rest of it: but a movement that reaches into the capillaries of society. Entrepreneurs in Chinese villages connect to the world market through mobile broadband, sell their products and buy supplies on the Alibaba platform,
He’s saying it includes and goes BEYOND the class bubble in India
@ eaglesoars:
i read the article. twice
he’s painting a best case scenario for a race who hasnt had an original idea since gunpowder and who had such a horrible amount of debt and graft that no one with money beleives their lies anymore.
the author is not an economist (he is a classical music critic) and misses the underlying macro and micro economics of too many thing to mention.
@ lobo91:
let the screaming, crying and knashing of teeth begin
@ coldwarrior:
this is the equivalent of me trying to write a legitimate critique of a performance of The Ring Sequence by Wagner.
might be a fun read, but…i have no clue what i am talking about.
rain of lead wrote:
consult orthodontics STAT!!!!
@ eaglesoars:
i do love the “THOU SHALT READ” bar in the upper right.
that is hysterical
coldwarrior wrote:
and because of that, i put it in my daily read.
😆
coldwarrior wrote:
yes. But what I got out of it was the BLATANT openness about taking over the world. Most regimes are somewhat modest about their aspirations for global hegemony, if for no other reason than to not piss people off. But not these guys. This is their manifest destiny and there are no rules. And it IS disturbing how they’re going about it.
coldwarrior wrote:
They publish some good stuff and tho they’re a Jewish pub, they publish Lee Smith, who has been one of the few honest journalists on this coup crap
AOC is on a roll again. ‘regenerative agriculture’
“We need to innovate and change our, our grain, uh, our, our cow grain from which you know they feed in these troughs. We need to look at regenerative agriculture. These are our solutions”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1111798840250687488
eaglesoars wrote:
Does she mean the same grain that her lunatic friends keep buying up for the “biofuel” stuff? Yeah, drive up the milk and beef prices more bitch, you’ll get the revolution you want but you’ll not be the ones revolting.
oh god. these people are savage.
look at the t-shirt you can by at Trump’s website.
https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/official-mr-pencil-neck-limited-edition-tee
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Somebody – specifically the former Attorney General that I believe Trudeau fired – recorded all the phone calls. Trudeau is finished.
Wilson-Raybould recording brings SNC-Lavalin affair crashing back to reality
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-wilson-raybould-recording-brings-snc-lavalin-affair-crashing-back-to-reality
eaglesoars wrote:
Trump is not your typical spineless Republican. He understands the dems play hardball and he doesn’t try to equivocate to them.
/That’s why I really like him. He is actually doing what many of us have been screaming for decades at the eunuchs in the Republican party to do.
eaglesoars wrote:
You’re lucky you didn’t !
Sore back.
Aching knees.
Dirty broken fingernails
And contrary to what you see on TV … days weeks and sometimes months go by without finding anything because you are digging in the wrong spot!
… oh and did I mention archaeology is staffer by backstabbers and thieving bastards who steal other peoples’ discoveries. It’s one of the most poorly paid and venial ways to make a living. OH and you don’t even get to backstab until you get your doctorate. All the Masters graduates are the stabees and a few with doctorates are the stabers
Just so you don’t feel too bad about ‘missing out’.
🙂
We have an archaeologist in the family!
🙂
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3vsGlAvr04
Good morning. Bill Maher goes all professorial and lectures on his perfect business model thst he labels
“Capitalism Plus”.
It is of course a heavy dose of Socialism and cites a study showing people in mostly Scandanvia being happier than us. What he ignores is that those people live in a socialized welfare state funded by a capitalist economy.
They have no defense budget to speak of and would have to depend on us.
If it is a paradise why isn’t everybody flocking to Finland?
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/03/30/media-triggering-in-progress-as-trump-campaign-reveals-new-t-shirt-featuring-pencil-neck-adam-schiff/
@ Twitchy
You can get your lil Adam Schaffer pencil neck tee shirt from the trump store.
You that the Media and other libs will go bat shit.
I predict that they will label it somehow anti-semitic.
Morning folks. Just dropping the book link again. Realized that it went up on the last thread just before it was superseded by this one. 🙂
https://books2read.com/u/4DZPkg
@ AZfederalist:
AMEN!
Beef jerky just went into the smoker
coldwarrior wrote:
Indian Premier League cricket on the laptop, Pimm’s in the glass, a Perdomo lot 23 cigar…65F on the deck.
Life is good
Willow.tv
They are in the streets in London – or were. Why they aren’t lynching every last one of their politicians is beyond me. They still may. For background/insight, etc., try the broadsheet for the ‘Leavers’ (it’s nominally UKIP, but the editors aren’t fond of them either)
https://independencedaily.co.uk/
The lead article “Your Daily Brexit Betrayal” (written by my friend and fellow dog mom, Viv) is a good backgrounder
My darling hell-on-wheels Mia is in the hospital. We had an emergency run shortly after midnight. Possible bowel obstruction. Or, just a very expensive gas pocket. I’m going back to bed.
@ eaglesoars:
Good read, thx!
@ eaglesoars:
Never a dull beagle moment.
@cold warrior
Creative pic of the progress in your hood. Looking at the project from different views is photo journalism.
@ yenta-fada:
Thx!
Green new deal
One of the top 50 reasons I’d like Brennan to be thrown in prison during early swamp draining:
In the summer of 2014, the CIA’s inspector general concluded that the CIA had “improperly” spied on US Senate staffers who were researching the agency’s black history of torture. As the New York Times reported:
An internal investigation by the C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program.
And that’s not the worst part. The Times goes on to note that CIA officers didn’t just read the emails of the Senate investigators. They also sent “a criminal referral to the Justice Department based on false information.”
John Brennan, CIA director from 2013-2017, insisted during Senate hearings these were “very limited inappropriate actions” and that “the actions of the CIA were reasonable.”
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) disagreed.
“That’s not what the Inspector General [concluded],” Wyden said. “When you’re talking about spying on a committee responsible for overseeing your agency, in my view that undermines the very checks and balances that protect our democracy, and it’s unacceptable in a free society. And your compatriots in all your sister agencies agree with that.”
Brennan, who publicly lied about the episode, was not punished and even retained his security clearance until Aug. 15, 2018.
@ yenta-fada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjFsWWsv8M8
This is the C Span youtube (zerohedge) that shows Brennan lying his a$$ off in front of the Senate probe into illegal CIA spying on the Intelligence Committee whose job it is to oversee the conduct of the CIA. Muzz commie taqqiya expertise from Brennan duly noted in retrospect. Failure to answer the question obvious even in 2014.
https://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-returns-middle-ages-during-power-outages-143506671.html
Green new deal
@ yenta-fada:
Karma will get him
coldwarrior wrote:
Does karma come in .308 hollow point?
@ lobo91:
karma can come in all shapes and colors
Cut ALL “foreign” aid to ALL countries.
“Disaster” relief in my mind is OK as long as there is a definite plan and a final objective.
Stop funding oppressive regimes, and third world shitholes
lobo91 wrote:
I’d prefer it to come in this form: https://www.cabelas.com/product/RAVIN-R-BOW-PACKAGE/3017663.uts?slotId=1
Silent, non-traceable, and the anti-second amendment nazis have a hard time using any resulting event to advocate for control of “assault weapons”
@ AZfederalist:
My Savage 110 identifies as a “deer rifle.”
lobo91 wrote:
Which one do you have, one of the wood-stocked or black ones?
Very nice looking pieces, regardless of form.
@ AZfederalist:
I have this one: https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting/rifles/savage-arms-110-tactical-rifle/p/p58755
@ AZfederalist:
It’s wearing one of these: https://www.midwayusa.com/product/107412/sig-sauer-sierra3bdx-ballistic-data-xchange-rifle-scope-30mm-tube-65-20x-52mm-side-focus-bdx-r1-digital-ballistic-reticle-with-kilo2400bdx-laser-range-finder
In case I need to shoot a deer. In another zip code.
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Godzilla ga Ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishikyu hinan shite kudasai! Daishikyu hinan shite kudasai!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvQWBXJOgAI
You know that extinction event that wiped out life on earth, including the dinosaurs? This article has a very good macro level description of what happened. Because the event was SO destructive, no real fossil evidence has been found.
Until now. Lots and lots of it. Including dinosaurs. In North Dakota. At the appropriately named Hell Creek Formation.
Enjoy
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died
lobo91 wrote:
Oh. I like both of those. Have you had a chance to try them out? That looks positively perfect for long range precision.
@ AZfederalist:
Not yet. I got everything put together, but I haven’t had time to go out and shoot. Plus, it’s been pretty nasty lately.
If the wind dies down tomorrow, I’m going to take it out and break in the barrel. That’s going to take some time.
doriangrey wrote:
I hate it when that happens.
yenta-fada wrote:
What????
whoa.
James Comey has a daughter, Maurene.
She is – wait for it – Asst. D.A. for SDNY. Since 2015
https://twitter.com/almostjingo/status/1112173823598559233?s=21
doriangrey wrote:
Godzilla happens. My computer defies simple copy and paste function and even ‘quote’ can go rogue on me.
I keep seeing liberals calling it Donald Trump a “dictator“. But isn’t a dictator someone who wants to expand control of the government?
It seems just another liberal disconnect with reality.
@ right_wing2:
They are absolutely convinced they can make ‘the narrative’ the reality in people’s heads.
Why is Cindy McCain campaigning in Ukraine? And what is IRIGlobal?
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1112019278184833026
@ eaglesoars:
Cindy McCain following in her husbands footsteps, is a hero to the left for meddling in Russian internal affairs. A hero to the exact same people who feigned such outrage at the merest suggestion that Russia might have meddled in American internal affairs. But don’t you dare call it hypocrisy… Because DEMOCRACY….
@ doriangrey:
Simon OstrovskyVerified account @SimonOstrovsky · Mar 29
Internews, a US-taxpayer funded NGO that trains reporters in Ukraine, is telling journalists to get approval from the military before publishing their war reporting. This is exactly what they should not be doing! h/t @InnaVarenytsia
There’s snow on the ground and temps going well below freezing tonight.
Mush!
yenta-fada wrote:
oh my wouldn’t it be fun to look into that funding! ‘US taxpayer’ is a very lose term.
In our ‘Just So You Know’ file: There’s quite a bit coming out trying to link Trump with Russians in spite of the Mueller debacle. Leading the charge is one ‘investigative reporter’ by the name of Craig Unger, who I’ve been smacking down to whoever asks for a couple months now. But today in WaPo’s opinion piece, he’s got another screed claiming Trump let the Russian mafia launder money by buying condos in Trump Tower NYC.
It was a small thing back during the campaign, so you may not remember, but in Chicago they removed the Trump name from a building or two. Just to be spiteful assholes. How could they do that to private property you may ask? Because it’s not ‘private property’. Trump doesn’t own any of the buildings with his name on them. He builds them for developers and franchises his own name. The only thing he owns in Trump Towers NYC is his own condo.
Altho I believe he DOES own the hotel on Penn Ave in D.C. So far.
Trump doesn’t sell what he doesn’t own. Nobody does. The real estate agency for Trump Towers has been, for as long as I can remember, Sotheby’s. Not Trump Org.
In the event anyone tries to pull that crap on you…………
doriangrey wrote:
The next time that fat spawn of his starts caterwauling about what a hero her daddy was, someone should shove the fact that he wanted the IRS to target the Tea Party, etc., right up her ass. Yeah, use the gov’t against people you don’t like, some hero.
Chris Rock can’t help himself when they told him “No Jussie jokes.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACaD6aheUPk
hey y’all
home from work and the girl is about to go to work
Tom Fitton going after the black hats.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/fitton-vs-schiff-neck-size-aside-in-his-zeal-to-destroy-president-trump-schiff-seems-to-have-improperly-disclosed-classified-information-will-ethics-committee-ever-act/
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