Brood VIII of the 17-year species, Magicicada septendecim, Magicicada cassini and Magicicada septendecula Cicadas have begun to emerge over the last few days. I can hear the faint noise of the early risers in the woods across from the house. This will turn into a LOUD and continuous hum over the next few weeks. I find the sound to be quite relaxing.
They are mostly harmless, don’t eat much, just come up out of the ground every 17 years, have sex, then die. Much like he denizens of LGF.
I’ll ry to get a recording/vid of them later as the Brood heats up.
In mythology and folkloreMain article: Cicada (mythology)
Cicadas have been used as money, in folk medicine, to forecast the weather, to provide song (in China), and in folklore and myths around the world.[69] In France, the cicada represents the folklore of Provence and the Mediterranean cities.[70]
The cicada has represented insouciance since classical antiquity. Jean de La Fontaine began his collection of fables Les fables de La Fontaine with the story La Cigale et la Fourmi (The Cicada and the Ant) based on one of Aesop’s fables: in it the cicada spends the summer singing while the ant stores away food, and finds herself without food when the weather turns bitter.[71]
The cicada symbolises rebirth and immortality in Chinese tradition.[72] In the Chinese essay “Thirty-Six Stratagems”, the phrase “to shed the golden cicada skin” (simplified Chinese: 金蝉脱壳; traditional Chinese: 金蟬脫殼; pinyin: jīnchán tuōqiào) is the poetic name for using a decoy (leaving the exuviae) to fool enemies.[73] In the Chinese classic novel Journey to the West (16th century), the protagonist Priest of Tang was named the Golden Cicada.[74]
In Japan, the cicada is associated with the summer season.[75]For many Japanese people, summer hasn’t officially begun until the first songs of the cicada are heard.[76] According to Lafcadio Hearn, the song of Meimuna opalifera, called “tsuku-tsuku boshi”, is said to indicate the end of summer, and it is called so because of its particular call.[77]
In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess Aphrodite retells the legend of how Eos, the goddess of the dawn, requested Zeus to let her lover Tithonus live forever as an immortal.[78] Zeus granted her request, but, because Eos forgot to ask him to also make Tithonus ageless, Tithonus never died, but he did grow old.[78] Eventually, he became so tiny and shriveled that he turned into the first cicada.[78] The Greeks also used a cicada sitting on a harp as an emblem of music.[79]
They’re great until you start stepping on the carcasses, then it’s YUCK CITY!
reposted from downstairs
Maybe Le Pen’s win over Macron, small as it was, is part of something larger
French Senate says Notre-Dame must be restored exactly how it was
https://www.thelocal.fr/20190528/french-senate-says-notre-dame-must-be-restored-exactly-to-how-it-was?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
ok, maybe not THAT large
Merkel Un-resigns
https://order-order.com/2019/05/28/merkel-cancels-resignation-decides-successor-not-job/
Anti-Israel Adviser to Sanders Meets With Former Arafat Aide
Matt Duss, foreign policy adviser to presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, met recently with Palestinian spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi to discuss President Trump’s “destructive” Middle East policies.
Ashrawi, former deputy to late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, met with Duss, former Middle East director of the Center for American Progress, to discuss the Trump administration’s “hostile approach in the region and its destructive policies that undermine the prospects of peace and the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights to freedom.”
Breitbart reports that the meeting of the Israel-hating activists is “the latest sign that the Sanders campaign has taken an explicitly anti-Israel turn.
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Hanan Ashrawi
15 Known Connections
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/hanan-ashrawi/
Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
Holocaust denier
Apologist for Palestinian terror
Read more at the link above.
From the previous thread about razors. Please do not support Harry’s razors or dollar shave club either. They have both expressed extreme anti-male sentiment also. If you enjoy the type of razors that both companies have order then order blades from dorcousa or Dorco through amazon. These are the exact same blades that Dollar Shave Club sells without the social filter.
eaglesoars wrote:
good.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
https://www.amazon.com/30-Personna-Platinum-Israeli-Double/dp/B01JAGZWWA/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=safety+razor+blades+made+in+israel&qid=1559070051&s=gateway&sr=8-4
😆
the jooooooooooossssss!!!!!!
all hell is going to break lose here in about an hour.
we are under tornado/thunderstorm warnings.
this looks ugly, the shear and lift has been very strong, this has been building all day.
its bad when the dog runs to the bedroom and hides while the sky is still somewhat blue.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
That’s the THIRD Bernie aide I’ve seen who is a real problem. The other 2 are a black woman who thinks white people need to go away, the 2nd is an Asian woman who, during the EU polling,tweeted a gif of Jeremy Corbyn dancing on Margaret Thatcher’s grave saying “Corbyn is going to be the next PM of ENGLAND!!”
she got nailed because, among other problems, England doesn’t have a PM, the UK does.
The warm sector will
become moderately unstable by early afternoon (MLCAPE near 2000
J/kg) with minimal convective inhibition, and scattered thunderstorm
development is expected near the path of the surface low and along
the trailing east-west oriented front near 18z. Moderate buoyancy
and effective bulk shear of 50 kt or greater with long, relatively
straight hodographs will support splitting supercells in the warm
sector. These storms will be capable of producing large hail and
damaging winds into this evening. Additionally, a few tornadoes
will be possible, given sufficient low-level shear/hodograph
curvature (0-1 km SRH in excess of 150 m2/s2) from PA into NJ,
especially near the surface warm front.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep and Personna is cheap and many of their products are sold at walmart.
eaglesoars wrote:
And this time we have a President who will actually mention all of this. Bernie is done.
A YEAR??? Every day for a YEAR??!!
: Navy pilots reported seeing unidentified flying objects nearly every day for almost a full year.
I saw something else – I think it was from Nick Pope, who headed up the UFO pgm for the Brits – that one thing they’re not saying is these things seem to hang out around nuclear sites.
Also, the New York Post is going to be running a series on this
https://www.weaselzippers.us/421846-navy-pilots-report-unexplained-flying-objects/
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
bingo.
YEB! would have never mentioned it.
eaglesoars wrote:
they need neutrons!
Just in case the ChiComs thought they had that one last card…..
Japan Just Found a Huge Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply The World For Centuries
https://www.sciencealert.com/japan-just-found-a-semi-infinite-deposit-of-rare-earth-minerals
That trade deal w/Japan is gonna be lit
@ eaglesoars:
the ‘just found it’ now huh.
mmmmmhmmmm…..
i’m not buying the very coincidental timing of this ‘find’
i just have a weird feeling that the ring of fire in the pacific has rare earths in many, many places.
eaglesoars wrote:
From personal experience, they also like Air Shows.
eaglesoars wrote:
What if the Government, as part of the declass, is releasing files on decades of UFO sightings? That would be YUUUGE. Interesting to speculate.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
You mean we are sort of an alien entertainment planet?
@ yenta-fada:
heh
best reality show in the galaxy
rain of lead wrote:
Mostly harmless.
🙂
(Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Breitbart also reports that the NYT blames Trump and Netanyahu for anti-Semitism in Europe. I want that newspaper to die.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/05/28/new-york-times-blames-netanyahu-trump-for-antisemitism-in-europe/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
If yinz haven’t read it, do.
Its hysterical
This is glorious. A 20-min COLOR film of a trip from Le Havre France to NYC on the S.S. Normandie in 1939. I’m only 7mins in but there’s no dialog only someone who sounds like Bing Crosby singing in French.
It’s so weird to watch this, knowing what’s coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePPuGXsRWas&feature=youtu.be
coldwarrior wrote:
crimeny, he had some really good drugs
@ eaglesoars:
It’s a great read.
You know CNN fired almost it’s entire health care unit right? That was only about 7 people, I think they kept Sanjay Gupta.
Well, now, it’s the London bureau
DEVELOPING: As ratings plummet, CNN has been forced to fire essentially all of their London correspondents, shutting down London coverage/programs, asking them to re-apply for a job.
https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1133483342987505664
Mia is finally executing the ‘bring it’ command consistently.
when she feels like it, of course.
whoa. MONSTER tornado in Kansas.
https://twitter.com/41actionnews/status/1133532003738034176
@ eaglesoars:
I was listening to Dan Bongino, and he said the series you mentioned “Chernobyl” was one of the best things he’s seen on TV.(HBO)
Without any spoiler alert, he remarked that it showed some of the worst manmade disasters were under Socialist regimes where they don’t care about the people. He also said it showed that nuclear energy is the cleanest and safest we have available now.
Since HBO is run by liberals, Bongino thought they didn’t realize that subtext the documentary carried.
I don’t know this news source, but it appears to be a carefully written article on bambi’s sneaky payoffs to Iran. Short & worth a read.
https://milnenews.com/2019/05/28/obama-secretly-tried-to-help-iran-use-u-s-banks-to-convert-5-7-billion-in-iranian-assets/
@ lobo91:
Acosta is demonstrating a clear cut demonstration of psychological projection. He accuses others of exactly what he is guilty of. You see it on the left all the time. You also see it with nutbars.
yenta-fada wrote:
If they didn’t it would be the only thing they missed. There was one scene where a guy said “We knew” referring to the reactor design. “But we didn’t think it would explode”. Just the one episode I’ve seen so far is wrenching.
They had to kill the animals. All of them. The gov’t had been in complete denial and they could not ask for help. They sacrificed people because they were too proud to ask for robots. They had zero so they used humans.
It’s like being turned inside out in your own skin. It’s very hard to watch. But it’s brilliant.
here’s the wind-up
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/trump-i-hope-barr-looks-at-australia-uk-role-in-spygate/
the pitch comes later
coldwarrior wrote:
“Collusion” hah!
@ eaglesoars:
my dad was a nuclear professional for 35+ years. when Chernobyl went down i remember asking him what happened. he said: communism and a bad design.
i already understood the commie part, then he went into a 20 minute explanation of how a RBMK reactor works and what happens when there is no proper containment structure (commies dont value human life)and then he went on to explain the failure. this was before the news details hit. everyone in the nuclear industry knew what happened pretty quick, it’s a tight group.
@ yenta-fada:
gonna be a great summer!
Don’t heap derision on me, but here is a short official type article on digital currency.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/european-bank-official-discusses-potential-benefits-of-central-bank-digital-currency?utm_source=newsletter1&utm_medium=email
coldwarrior wrote:
From what I read, they are going straight after Brennan. That would shake up things very nicely. Pleeeze.
During a visit to the mental asylum I asked the director”How do You determine if a patient should be institutionalized?”
“Well”, he said, “we fill up a bathtub and offer a spoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub.”
“Oh, I understand”, I said. “A normal person would use the bucket because it’s larger than the teacup or the spoon.”
“No”, said the director, “a normal person would pull the plug. Would you like a bed near the window?”
nite
coldwarrior wrote:
I lived in Harrisburg during 3 Mile Island. Evac’d to State College where my then fiance’s brother headed up the training pgm at Breazeale Nuclear Reactor at PSU. That’s where the 3MI operators were trained. That’s when I learned about what human error does. It’s also when I started to learn about reactor design and altho we did not then know that Chernobyl was even online let alone that it was graphite, I THOUGHT no one was actually dumb enough to build one.
At least the ChiCom have enough sense to steal the good stuff and use THAT
yenta-fada wrote:
not tonite, Satan
yenta-fada wrote:
that’s round 1.
Round 2 is UK intel. Wipe it out. Scorched earth. Our supposed allies tried to take us down. Haul the queen’s ass over here and make her apologize from the Rose Garden, then ship her home on a fucking canoe.
The Brits have had their disjointed noses up in the air ever since WW II and Philby. They can’t get over the fact that crass barbarians have taken over, they’d be just fine with the French who at least know how to dress and behave at the theater even when they’re occupied by genocidal enemy forces to whom they have surrendered w/o a fart.
I’m tired of it. Time for some generations-long humiliation.
coldwarrior wrote:
I definitely think that the Brit MI6 needs a thorough pillorying in the public stocks, and some strong words about getting involved in other peoples elections. That’s a given. However the US also needs to recognise that it’s a bit rich for it to not look totally hypocritical given the number of times that the US has ‘messed’ with democratic elections in allied countries. There was at least one in the UK when Wilson was PM and two in Australia under Caldwell and definitely under Whitlam, not to mention the recent election in Israel as well as Kenya and just about every election in South / Central America over the past century.
I know for a fact that there were at least two Australian Prime Ministers and a hot of Foreign Ministers who sold their souls to the other side. Not to mention the institutionalised corruption and ‘blind eyes’ turned to traitors by the mandarins in the Australian Public Service including security agencies.
coldwarrior wrote:
I did notice that the end of the story said that although they have identifies the location of the Rare Earths they don’t yet know how to extract them economically. This smells like a page filler non story. Hell the US has heaps of Rare Earths but they are currently unavailable due to their location, federal laws, and difficulty in extraction economics and technologies.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Exigencies of the cold war my good man.
😉
@ Aussie Infidel:
What do you make of the Windies drubbing of NZ yesterday?
If the Windies could field better the score would be even worse. Their batting was suberb.
morning y’all
And right on cue….
China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths: newspapers
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-rareearth/china-ready-to-hit-back-at-u-s-with-rare-earths-newspapers-idUSKCN1SZ07V?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
morning rain, ‘sup?
This is by Bill Gertz, who has been writing about China for as long as I can remember, at least a decade
China’s Communist Party-controlled media stepped up a war of words with the United States recently urging an escalation of the ongoing trade dispute into a full-scale conflict.
“China must be prepared to fight a protracted war,” states a four-minute, anti-American video posted five days ago on a Chinese video-sharing service.
Chinese Video Urges War With U.S.
State-controlled media urges fight ’til end,’ calls for sanctions on U.S. companies
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-video-urges-war-with-u-s/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=767390e2e2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_28_11_32_COPY_195&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-767390e2e2-45573877
Don’t know if you remember, but a couple months ago a doc was leaked about a talk given by a Chinese admiral at some conference, in which he advocated an attack on the U.S. to kill about 10K of us, because we really ARE weak pussies and need to be put in our place.
just sayin’
@ eaglesoars:
here’s the story
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/04/well-see-how-frightened-america-is-chinese-admiral-says-sinking-us-carriers-key-to-dominating-south-china-sea/
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/05/29/cringe-joe-biden-gets-handsy-with-young-girl-says-ill-bet-youre-as-bright-as-you-are-good-looking/
@ Twitchy
Biden strikes again.
@ eaglesoars:
now that work has settled back to normal, able to start getting things done around the house, the girl is off to camp doing staff training this week, campers arrive sunday. the director says gonna be a full house all summer. folks got some extra money I guess.
got her shower fixed finally, went from a small drip to a stream.
the panther is not pleased, he liked having a source of running water to drink from and did not give a shit if he got wet in the process
other than that, just chillin and piddlin
I listened to Mueller’s presser while I was in the car. What an asshole. He basically said he couldn’t say Trump wasn’t guilty, so Congress, go for it.
Then he took a swipe at Barr for releasing the report. “I don’t question his good faith”. Then why bring it up? Because you question his judgement.
I hope the fucker gets hit by a bus when he walks out of the building
rain of lead wrote:
what is it with cats? My sister had one that would turn on the bathroom sink faucet to a slow drip and play with it for hours
@ eaglesoars:
they just like moving water
we have had decorative fountains and other cats would prefer to drink from those instead of their water bowl
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah. Mueller looked really nervous. Basically he just pledged the Fifth Amendment. Said he was leaving Justice Dept and never talking about the report again.
yenta-fada wrote:
Not his call. I’m waiting to see if Miss Lindsey is pissed off. The Dems have been very noisy, I want to see what Grassley, et. al. do.
@ eaglesoars:
As a non legal expert, “Mueller says charging President Trump with a crime “was not an option we could consider” because of Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president”” at least sounds like ‘if he wasn’t president, we’d be pressing charges ‘.
What am I missing?
coldwarrior wrote:
In a word…
TURN
When the Kiwis can TURN the ball both in the air and especially off the pitch then they will almost always win no matter who they are playing. Boult is a class act and one of the best ….quickies… in the world. When he’s turning the seamer he’s unstoppable.
When the wicket refused to take TURN then they are just a good side especially when it comes to bowling and so-so with there bat, especially as the openers are newbies.
eaglesoars wrote:
The only reason that China has the whip hand with Rare Earths is that their production costs are low, either because of strategic subsidies to capture the market and drive out completion to ensure that the world has to depend on Chinese Rare Earths. The distribution globally of Rare Earths is pretty well known and it’s only supply side pricing that gives China the power it currently wields. The US and Canada have plenty of Rare Earths as does Australia and Brazil but their production costs are higher, so they are priced out of the market by China.
This is NOT a geological supply problem. It’s an economic supply side problem.
right_wing2 wrote:
That was the implication, yes.
Total BS, but that’s beside the point.
eaglesoars wrote:
PLAN directed ‘fishing boats’ used LASER dazzlers on an Australian UH-60 helicopter off the RAN Canberra a 27,000 tonne Amphibious Assault ship operating on a freedom of the seas exercise in the South China Sea. There was a shadowing Chinese PLAN surface combatant watching from close by as the ‘fishing boat’ used LASERS against the helicopter crew. These PLAN operated ‘fishing boats’ are used as the PLAN’s eyes and ears as well as mounting aggressive acts against allied ships at a level just short of war.
It’s all just a game of threat and psyops against China’s neighbours and anyone who supports them.
Someone is going to get hurt sooner rather than later in the South China Sea if this goes on much longer. Actually ask the Vietnamese about folks getting hurt as there is leaked propaganda video shot by the PLAN of the machine gunning of Vietnamese fishermen in the water and the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat by naval gunfire already!
@ lobo91:
Is the issue that Mueller couldn’t find the evidence to prove Trump innocent? That, of course, flies in the face of innocent until proven guilty.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup that’d work!
I think not. Trump should channel Dirty Harry with …’ go-ahead make my day!”
🙂
Go ahead and sell US bonds. That’ll upset the markets and smart money will flow to US Treasuries and $1 trillion will be snapped up. Up the price of Rare Earths and that ‘lever’ will be wrenched out of Chinese hands as alternative supplies are sourced from well known suppliers who currently produce 20% of Rare Earths already. Higher Chinese tariffs on Rare Earths will rise the world price making many alternative Rare Earth suppler profitable again.
Tell the Chinese that the West is doing them an favour by improving their dental health as Coca Cola is monstered by Chinese tariffs. Meanwhile chinese bottling plants will go to the wall inside China.
Another Dirty Harry moment!
🙂
right_wing2 wrote:
Barr said that Mueller told him the policy of not indicting a sitting president had no influence on Mueller not bringing an indictment. Barr has said that 3 times. Mueller just contradicted him
Mueller said that if he could have found Trump not guilty, the report would have said so.
No prosecutor ever exonerates. He either brings a case or not. Period.
Mueller’s job was to decide if there were prosecutable offenses. For him to cite policy as precluding that decision vis a vis Trump raises the question of why he took the job if a policy precluded him from doing it.
I can’t figure out who in the FBI is guilty of this misconduct, but the Office of Inspector General has declined to prosecute. Whoever it was accepted a ticket to some event from some media person and leaked to them.
Findings of Misconduct by an FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Unauthorized Contacts with the Media, Disclosing Law Enforcement and Other Sensitive Information to the Media, and Accepting a Gift from the Media
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/f190529.pdf
I think it would be interesting if Durham called Mueller before a grand jury.
eaglesoars wrote:
Why decline to prosecute? That’s a firing offense in industry and should be fully prosecuted if someone in the Government does it. This just demonstrates a two-tiered justice system; our system of equal justice is being turned on its head.
AZfederalist wrote:
I don’t know. My understanding is that there’s usually a cost/benefit analysis. It could be the agent has already been terminated and it would be taxpayer monies used for something that carried a disproportionately small legal penalty. Say $2 mil to prosecute for a 1 yrs sentence that would end up in probation after the agent has already been fired (and maybe lost pension).
But I don’t know.
AVOCADO: Hi! I’m GOOD fat!
BACON: *lights cigarette*
*punches avocado in the face*
I love this stuff………
@ eaglesoars:
zerohedge reports that Julian Assange is in the hospital in very bad health and barely able to speak. Do you think the Brits have been torturing him? He certainly went downhill quickly since he was forced from the Embassy. Whatever one might think of him, Assange certainly knows more important info than is good for his health.
yenta-fada wrote:
of course not.
wouldn’t be surprised if somebody poisoned him.
I saw a report that he was ill yesterday and didn’t know how credible it was.
People never learn. Somebody took a picture of the USS John McCain, which apparently is in Japan, with a tarp hung over the name and the story line it was covered up on orders of the WH because Trump didn’t want to see it.
It was a lie, but of course, guess who fell for it
Trump is a child who will always be deeply threatened by the greatness of my dads incredible life. There is a lot of criticism of how much I speak about my dad, but nine months since he passed, Trump won’t let him RIP. So I have to stand up for him.
It makes my grief unbearable.
unbearable. got that?
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1133892177183105024
Here’s the original story
NEW: The White House wanted the USS John McCain “out of sight” for Trump’s visit to Japan. A tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of the trip, and sailors—who wear caps bearing the ship’s name—were given the day off for Trump’s visit.
Sailors were given the day off because of the caps they wear – or Trump’s visit?. This, dear reader, comes straight from the Wall Street Journal’s WH reporter.
https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1133882529335980032
You have to have an IQ no higher than room temp to be a ‘journalist’.
@ eaglesoars:
This is the brain on CNN, MSNBC, NYT etc. The totalitarians have become the victims. They act like Pavlov’s trained dog when they hear “Trump”. Angry bots.
morning y’all
fwiw
The Coming Cyber War
http://coyote.works/posts/CyberWar/
I’d heard that there was ‘some memo’, but didn’t get the whole picture. At his presser, Mueller distributed a memo outlining how HE would have answered some questions put to Barr. This article has pics of the memo but I can’t find a link to the memo yet. Mueller pretty much calls Barr a liar, as far as I can tell
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7084543/Mueller-launches-final-hand-grenade-Bill-Barr-speaking-words.html
@ rain of lead:
small beans. I saw something this morning that said Zuckerberg wants to create robots to teach people how to ‘make friends’. I don’t think it was satire
This is really sad. And interesting. Remember the tweet I posted from that sports writer about Chernobyl who had actually lived thru it? Guess who else did? His stepfather. And he never knew. This is that story. It’s a bit longer than a tweet but so worth it
My stepfather, retired Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Veytsman, lives in New York State and is always watching Pervyi Kanal, so I just wanted him to see something decent for a change. So I told him, here’s a show with Russian dubbing. Look at the Soviet machinery here. I wanted to know how well they nailed the military uniforms, and he was an expert on this, after all. And suddenly my stepfather tells me: I was there, and I don’t want to watch this anymore.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/05/30/i-was-there-and-i-don-t-want-to-watch-this-anymore
@ right_wing2:
Indeed. Apparently we’ve changed the Corpus Juris of criminal law while I was sleeping.
Mueller’s goal from jump street was to get the House to impeach Trump.
And maybe the HOUSE is satisfied with this bullsh*t press conference, but those damn GOP running the Senate should haul this lying snake in front of them and ask him those hard questions he was terrified would come from the House GOP.
He has a LOT of explaining to do.
@ eaglesoars:
Mueller’s whole presser was to imply that Trump was saved by the Office of Legal Counsel memo regarding the indicting of a sitting President. However, as was pointed out, if Trump had actually obstructed justice, he would not have been alone in the endeavor, correct? The OLC memo only covers the President. Okay, Mueller, if there was obstruction, REAL obstruction, please show us the indictments of the individuals not vaccinated against prosecution who carried out the conduct.
The Barbarian wrote:
or Durham could call him before a grand jury
😆
@ eaglesoars:
And the Navy press office said that the whole story is BS. That the photo was from another period and that no one from the White House requested anything about the USS John McCain.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/05/30/shocka-wsj-journo-rebecca-ballhaus-who-reported-wh-wanted-uss-john-mccain-out-of-sight-has-history-of-fake-news/
The Barbarian wrote:
I don’t know what the law says. If the reports on McGahn are to be believed, Trump vented and wanted him to fire Mueller but he didn’t. So there was INTENT on Trump’s part but no result. Is ‘intent’ criminal? Conspiracy to commit a crime, even if it’s never carried out – is that chargeable?
The Barbarian wrote:
the WSJ reporter who did that has been known to deceptively edit Trump tweets, too. But seriously, in the history of any navy on the planet, when has an entire ship’s crew ever been given ‘the day off’? I know as much about the military as I do about quantum physics and even I smelled that one.
The Barbarian wrote:
which is named after his father. Even the navy isn’t going to name a boat after one of the worst pilots in its service ever.
@ eaglesoars:
Now THERE’s a thought. Personally, I’d love to see that little weasel Andrew Weissman hauled in front of Congress and questioned.
The Barbarian wrote:
nope. Too much grandstanding potential and they’ve never prosecuted for perjury yet. grand jury for that SOB too. Then leak it.
@ eaglesoars:
Would love for that jerk to be on the other side of a nasty prosecution, for sure. It would certainly be a Schadenfreude moment for the former Arthur Andersen and Merrill Lynch employees that he railroaded.
eaglesoars wrote:
It isn’t
Facebook wants to send ’emotional’ robots to explore the world on tank-style tracks and scan the faces of people to ‘help users make friends’
The concept for the social robots was outlined in a European patent filed by the social media firm on May 16, 2019.
Each machine, about the height of an adult, would be equipped with cameras and other sensors.
These would let them scan and interpret the faces and body language of people they encounter to assess their ‘likely emotional state’.
Speakers and microphones would listen out for ‘sounds emitted’, allowing the robots to talk to people or pick out the sound of someone calling to them.
Zuckerberg is one sick puppy. I’m glad I’m old.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7085789/Facebook-wants-send-emotional-robots-explore-scan-faces-help-users-make-friends.html
@ eaglesoars:
Me too. I can do without the portents of this “Brave New World” these tech dickheads have in store for us.
@ The Barbarian:
Do you know any patent lawyers? Show them this article, please.
Did you notice the article says the patent was applied for in Europe? I’d like to know if something similar was file in the U.S. If not, why not (someone else may already hold it). What exactly is the patent for? Facial recognition is not new. Is it software? Is it the fact that it’s a tracked robot? What does the patent cover.
I’m starting to wonder if that presser by Mueller yesterday was part of a deal he struck with No Nads in the House to withdraw the request he testify. Guess he forgot who runs the Senate.
Of course, I’m not hopeful that Lindsay Graham will call him before the House Judiciary Committee. But as eagles says, hell, let Dunham throw his ass in front of the Grand Jury.
@ eaglesoars:
We have an entire patent section. But I didn’t see an article. Was it referred to up above?
The Barbarian wrote:
crap. just a sec
The Barbarian wrote:
here
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7085789/Facebook-wants-send-emotional-robots-explore-scan-faces-help-users-make-friends.html
Barr interview w/CBS
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Mueller could have reached a decision on if there was criminal activity
The DOJ doesn’t use our power to investigate as an adjunct to Congress
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airs tomorrow morning, that’s the tease they’re airing
@ eaglesoars:
Off the top of my head, I’d say someone may have patented something similar here in the U.S. already and Facebook’s patent may not be “unique” enough to warrant them receiving a separate patent without having to pay royalties. However, European patent requirements may not be as stringent, and therefore Facebook gets a European patent on the appartus, manufactures in China, and ships to U.S.
The Barbarian wrote:
oh, how clever is THAT!
eaglesoars wrote:
Mutti is just going to have to be … re-re ‘resigned’ …. by dragging her kicking and screaming towards the exit!
🙂
Zuckerberg’s no dummy.
An asshole and a schmuck for sure, but no dummy.
And he probably has the best intellectual property firm in California, Wilson Sonsini, practically next door to Facebook in Sunnyvale.
eaglesoars wrote:
I can’t think of anywhere in the world these wouldn’t be broken and stripped of their parts in a matter of hours if not minutes.
This is not good. A South Korean newspaper is reporting that North Korean officials involved w/the Trump-Kim summit were executed for ‘spying for the U.S.’ back in March
https://twitter.com/i/events/1134230924781019136
more
DPRK purge over failed Trump-Kim Summit
Kim Yong Chol—US counterpart: Pompeo—forced labor.
Kim Hyok Chol—US counterpart: Stephen Biegun, negotiator—executed.
Shin Hye Yong, interpreter—interacted w/ Trump, etc—prison camp.
Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jung Un sister—lying low.
https://twitter.com/OmarAslamLugo/status/1134248588245028865
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I think we should start w/Zuckerberg and watch the problem evaporate
@ eaglesoars:
… and this is why North Korea will never succeed. When you execute your best people because they fail, nobody else wants the job, your leaders don’t get to learn from their mistakes and improve, and you wind up with lower and lower quality minions.
eaglesoars wrote:
How do we know he’s not a robot? He looks like Data from STNG
AZfederalist wrote:
I suspect they were executed/imprisoned because they succeeded. There have to be a lot of powerful people there who are just fine with the status quo.
AZfederalist wrote:
Poor Data
DEER HUNTING
Ted Nugent, Rock star and avid Bow hunter was being interviewed by a French journalist and the discussion came around to deer hunting.
The journalist asked “What do you think is the last thought in the head of a deer before you shoot him? Is it ‘Are you my friend?’ or is it ‘Are you the one who killed my brother?’
Nugent replied “Deer aren’t capable of that kind of thinking.”All they care about is “What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next and can I run fast enough to get away. They are very much like the French.”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5a923a8cddbaae7e923c4cd010665d4833240ed7d9e77ae91777c10ba57d9a27.jpg
@ eaglesoars:
Love it!
I understand concerns that a Presidential pardon of military personnel charged with murder probably shouldn’t happen until the process has been carried thru. But THIS – not only should he be pardoned NOW, the prosecutors should be frog marched to Leavenworth
Judge releases Navy SEAL charged with murder
A decorated Navy SEAL facing a murder trial in the death of an Islamic State prisoner was freed from custody Thursday after a military judge cited interference by prosecutors.
The unexpected move drew gasps in a San Diego courtroom after lawyers for Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher presented evidence to get the case dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct.
The judge has not ruled yet on whether to throw out the case or remove prosecutors for launching an unusual effort to track emails sent to defense lawyers and a journalist to find the source of news leaks in the politically charged case. That hearing continues Friday.
I’m sick and tired of hearing about blatant prosecutorial misconduct and watching these assholes prance right out the door.
eaglesoars wrote:
Such a robot would be helpful for women in face coverings to meet some male friends. I’m sure muslimas are very lonely. Then the robots could give hugs to upset looking muzz males. Really long hugs. A couple of days.
yenta-fada wrote:
seconds, Yenta. A couple of seconds.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hear! Hear!
bed
nite