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Vacation Time 2019 Open, 3
by coldwarrior ( 76 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at June 28th, 2019 - 1:23 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
repost from downstairs
The Dems are a mess. They’re calling each other child abusers and racists.
Everyone hates this place
Just before the vote, Pocan, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, inflamed tensions further when he called the Problem Solvers Caucus — a bipartisan group of moderates that pushed Pelosi to take up the Senate bill — the “Child Abuse Caucus.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/everyone-hates-this-place-border-bill-tears-apart-democratic-caucus/ar-AADwrkx?ocid=spartanntp
And AOC’s chief of staff called other Dems racist (he deleted the tweet, but, ya know, it’s the innernut, good luck with that)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aocs-chief-of-staff-deletes-tweet-calling-centrist-democrats-racist
David Ortiz shooting: Police arrest Victor Hugo Gomez, alleged mastermind of attack, in Dominican Republic
Ortiz was shot June 9 at the Dial Bar and Lounge in Santo Domingo and underwent two surgeries in the following 24 hours. The 43-year-old was transported to Boston by air ambulance a day after the shooting and has been recovering at Mass. General Hospital for the last few weeks.
Gomez is at least the 12th suspect arrested in the shooting, which was ruled a case of mistaken identity last week. Dominican attorney general Jean Alain Rodriguez said Ortiz was not the intended target of the attack and that the target was Gomez’s cousin, Sixto David Fernandez, who was sitting at the same table.
https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2019/06/david-ortiz-shooting-police-arrest-victor-hugo-gomez-alleged-mastermind-of-attack.html
Can you even use the word “mastermind” when they shot the wrong guy and didn’t even kill him?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Dominican Republic has really pissed off the tourism gods
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
{{Bumr}} So, my BIL, in his late 60’s is flying home from a conference and talking with the woman beside him. Somehow the conversation turns to age, and he asks her how old she thinks he is. He has boyish looks and manner. She says “about 35.” He’s feeling pretty pleased with himself. When landing, a stewardess passes asking if anyone needs help getting off the plane. The woman next to BIL says “I do. I’m legally blind.” 🙂
@ yenta-fada:
{{yenta}}
LOL!
From Tel Aviv, mostly political satire site.
https://dailyfreier.com/2019/05/27/icelands-eurovision-band-loses-bad-el-al-service-case-after-court-finds-no-history-of-good-el-al-service/
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
True story. 🙂
yenta-fada wrote:
Look what those bastards tried to get away with.
A 2 year ‘pilot program’, letting the UN administer our CPB centers
(mark 1:35)
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1143593716336250881
hey y’all
Marianne Williamson, the psycho – uh, psychic – nutbag running for the Dem nomination
Each of us is pregnant with a better version of ourselves.
https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/233083950216658945
My position on late-term abortion just changed
I’m very seriously looking at buying a 2016 Nissan Frontier. It’s only got 38,000 miles on it, and has a price of $14,000.
The pluses for it, low miles, decent price, and it’s got some nice features like steering wheel controls for both crews and the radio, plus Bluetooth.
I wish it had a manual transmission, it’s got crank windows, and I need to put some kind of bedliner in it since the former owner must have had some kind of painting business- there’s paint all over the inside of the bed. I’d also want to get some kind of locking tonneau cover.
Cancer ride update: I hit my 125 miles, and raised over $200. In total, over 80,000 riders have ridden 2,600,000 miles and raised almost $8 million.
right_wing2 wrote:
what?
congrats on the ride!
@ eaglesoars:
Should be cruise and radio
@ right_wing2:
oh! I didn’t know what you had a crew for, I was wondering if it was about the cats or something!
China blew it and they know they blew it. They spent 8 years with a putz of a POTUS and didn’t know an honest broker when he showed up.
China tries to bridge gap in knowledge about the US following criticism that misreading of Donald Trump helped trigger trade war
“It proved that our world outlook had important gaps, which made us unprepared for the increasing trend towards selective ‘decoupling’ [with China],” Shi said.
so far, so good………
“The US has been long banned the export of advanced technology to China, including aerospace, aviation and advanced materials,” Jiang said, adding that if China was allowed to buy this technology it would help cut the trade deficit between the two sides – one of Trump’s main grievances.
nope, start over.
https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3016396/china-tries-bridge-gap-knowledge-about-us-after-misreading
yeah, I stole it
Hey if Liewatha wins & picks Downtown Willie Brown fave hooker as VP candidate they could be Squaw/Skank Redemption
@ eaglesoars:
*rimshot*
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/youre-a-nazi/
@ eaglesoars:
Is Chinese diplomacy an oxymoron? It seems like when they are not stealing, they are lying. Declaring yourself leader for life is an Idi Amin move. How can you make deals when China moves the goalposts on you? They should look to their own problems of lack of accountability and gross cronyism. Additionally, Donald Trump is not the deep state. Which America are they going to study?
The U.S. will only deal in dollars. Not rubles, yen, etc. They know paying the U.S. for goods in dollars is a problem since they have dumped the majority of their U.S. Treasuries. They are not bargaining in good faith and Trump knows it. HOWEVER, Trump placing sanctions on so many countries seems like there’s no endgame in diplomatic terms. These G20 meetings are a gong show. China needs food. Shutting off Canada’s soy beans, canola oil, hogs, and possibly meat isn’t smart. They do know that Canada’s ‘leadership’ is weak, stupid, and rude. China can do this to Canada, but it has to respect Trump’s leadership. They can see the Democrats have no good candidates.
doriangrey wrote:
Well, look who is here! {{Dorian}} You guys who found jobs have been missed. Bunk too.
Who wants the keys to DoD? I’ve had it after this.
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2019/06/22/true-because-charles-johnson-said-its-true/#comment-377724
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2019/06/22/true-because-charles-johnson-said-its-true/#comment-377752
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2019/06/28/breaking-news-long-time-lizard-lapper-vicious-babushka-aka-alouette-suspended-from-twitter/
@ right_wing2:
My dad has one of those. Excellent truck.
@ Bunk X:
Oh man
I didn’t catch her position on reparations.
Kamala Harris’ Great-Grandmother Exposed as Plantation Slave Owner
Kamala Harris is a true Democrat. According to Kamala Harris’ father, the Democratic presidential hopeful’s great-grandmother was a Jamaican slave plantation owner who founded the city of Brown’s Town, Jamaica
http://conservative-headlines.org/kamala-harris-great-grandmother-exposed-as-plantation-slave-owner/
@ coldwarrior:
I know Nissan is a pretty good truck. It’s not like I’m going to be hauling tons of stuff or pulling a massive trailer or anything anyway. It’s not everything I wanted, but for the price I’d be crazy to pass it up.
@ eaglesoars:
So doesn’t that mean that Kamala Harris should step out and endorse Cory Booker?
@ right_wing2:
Honey, you’re asking the wrong white girl
The horrible year is over for Australia.
The cricket world cup is theirs to lose.
Oh, man, did Trump burn Acosta or what
Acosta:
“You did seem to be joking there with the Russian president. Are we taking that to be wrong?” Acosta asked. “And what is it with your coziness with some of these dictators and autocrats at these summits? With Mohammad bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, when you were asked about the case of Jamal Khashoggi, you did not respond to that question––were you afraid of offending him on that subject?”
Trump:
“No, not at all. I don’t really care about offending people,” Trump said. “I sort of thought you’d know that.”
@ right_wing2:
engine
transmission
@ coldwarrior:
Well, hit a dead end on the Makarov ammo. Scheels had it online but not in store and they said they can’t even order it in. Looks like online is my only hope but I have to save up enough to make an order of 5 or more boxes to make the shipping fees worth it.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
my cat has it…that does not help you tho.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
You pretty much always have to do that with online ammo purchases because of the hazmat fee that’s part of the shipping cost.
I bought a case (10 boxes of 20) of Federal Gold Medal Match .308 from Midway recently because it was the only way it made sense, cost-wise. The shipping was slightly less than the sales tax would have been if I’d gotten it at Cabela’s or Sportsman’s Warehouse locally, but it was priced about $2 a box less.
On a side note, it’s amazing how small of a box $250 worth of ammo comes in…
This is from the day after their appearance in Flagstaff:
@ coldwarrior:
4 cylinder with about 160hp. 5 speed automatic. Almost never going to haul much.
Speaking of vacation, if anyone needs some new music to listen to this summer, Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown released their new album, Truth and Lies, yesterday.
I’m listening to it right now. Good stuff.
coldwarrior wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
You guys want … Engine …
Now THERE is an ENGINE
mid 2020 for the first full scale test of the Skylon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_a21fPkYM
After years of myopic government intransigence this technology is finally maturing.
Now if they just put an aerospike slab combustion chamber on it you’ll have something to transform space forever.
Cruise the lower atmosphere ar Mach 5.14 and 100,000 ‘ and go London to Sydney in 4 1/2 hours, or if you wish, just raise the nose and push the power forward and use onboard oxidiser to reach orbit at Mach 25.
Great for a fighter of strategic bomber that has the options of choosing either the upper atmosphere or space. Also if travelling hypotonic and 100,000’ and you get fired upon then just open up the space option and accelerate to Mach 25 and leave the AA missile in your dust.
In civilian mode you get current airliner fuel economics with NO Pollution except water vapour and Mach 5.14
In military mode see above.
In space launch mode get 8 tonnes into orbit with a true reusable space system that has the economics and sortie rate of a B-787 that lands and takes off from a normal runway !
President Trump now in the DMZ, waiting for Kim Jong Un. Making history against all odds. Take that, you snobby never Trumpers and you treasonous brainwashed leftards. Let’s celebrate the triumphs where we find them.
Kim fashionably late…
Kim Jong Un, President Trump and President Moon of South Korea are still talking away at Freedom House. 3 separate security forces were freaking out. The longer the 3 are sitting together, the better it is. It really is historic. President Moon was not in the actual meeting inside. Kim wanted only to talk to Trump. They are actually on South Korean land though.
wonder how the american traitors in the press will spin this
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/30/president-trump-meets-with-kim-jong-un-at-demilitarized-zone-for-historic-handshake-130am-livestream/#more-165686
@ rain of lead:
He’s receiving his orders from his masters.
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@ rain of lead:
Right on cue
Dishonoring the cause of freedom and humanity is no honor at all.
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1145283238497177601
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2019/06/30/the-brownshirts-of-the-american-marxist-socialist-progressive-democrat-left/
@ doriangrey:
Yes Mile, American’s will have to die. The Democrats will permit it to go that far because they have plausible deniability, and because nothing is more intimidating then seeing your allies die and absolutely nothing done about it.
I’m headed out the door, so don’t have time to respond in full, but I want to ask your personal opinion on something. I’m seeing a lot of “keep it coming, assholes, you’re guaranteeing Trump’s re-election.”
I’m not so sure. I’m not at all sanguine about the cultural malice even among the supposedly apathetic. After all, this country elected Obama. Twice. And I’m fairly sure, if it had had the chance, would have a third time.
What say you?
bbl
@ eaglesoars:
I think the Democrats are going to nominate someone so far left it turns most voters off. The biggest worry is the amount of passion the loony left will bring.
Good morning. I wondered yesterday how the Dems and thei media allies would spin the meeting between Trump and Kim as a negative. Right on cue this morning ABC and CNN delivered.
Clapper is on CNN right now mocking Trump. Not one question about why the Obama Administration got nothing done.
Clapper should be fitted with an orange jump suit, instead keeps under cutting Trump.
right_wing2 wrote:
My biggest worry is voter fraud. That attack on Andy Ngo by Antifa in Portland yesterday was sanctioned. The mayor is head of the police and he told them to stand down. Dorian is right, people will die and nothing will be done. Voter fraud for these people is a simple clerical issue
And if the WH press scum think Stephanie Grisham is going to be a walk-over, she just literally put her ass on the line and body checked some NOKO goons so that the press could get into position.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7197451/White-House-Press-Sec-getting-scuffle-North-Koreans.html
Pretty rich coming from a bartender…
@ lobo91:
I hope to god I live long enough to see this one crash and burn
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, first off, I believe that while America elected Obama once, it was Democrat election fraud that got him reelected. That said, I am not suggesting that America is going to man up any time soon to deal with the Marxist Socialists.
My personal opinion is, that if the Marxist Socialists fail to conquer America, it will only be because of their narcissistic arrogance. It is quiet possible that they over played their hand and tried to rush in for the kill too soon.
A full quarter of generations y and z have gorged themselves on the greed and envy that the Marxist Socialists sold them. Undoing that brainwashing is going to be a herculean task.
doriangrey wrote:
I’m not sure it can be ‘undone’. Expunged, perhaps.
eaglesoars wrote:
ROTFLMAO… a) Stephanie literally threw out the stereo-typical female “Hip”. b) the North Korean security guys were just doing their jobs. There was no “all out brawl” and no bruises.
That said, it was glorious to watch, especially the expression on the face of the North Korean Security official on the receiving end of Stephanie’s “Hip” move.
doriangrey wrote:
not so sure about that. They were in neutral DMZ space that was set up for the event. Trump is the only one who went into North Korea.
eaglesoars wrote:
Having once been a California licensed Security professional I can tell you that what I saw, was strictly speaking, professional protocol. Those North Korean security guys never made anything resembling a serious attempt to prevent the American press from entering.
What they were doing was attempting to control the flow and number of individuals entering. Its a very standard tactic whenever a high visibility/target individual interacts with the general public.
Keep in mind, their job is Un’s security, not Trump’s. They would be criminally derelict in their duties if they simply took the Secret Services word that all of the American Journalists had been vetted and were not assassins.
At the very worst, what they are guilty of, is attempting to manipulate a media propaganda moment by delaying the American press thus giving the North or possibly even the South Korean press a couple of minute advantage in publication terms.
doriangrey wrote:
I have no clue how that kind of thing is managed, especially in an environment like the Korean DMZ, so I will stipulate your point.
In the meantime, Stephanie rocks.
eaglesoars wrote:
@ yenta-fada:
Reply and submit still a technical challenge. *sigh*
@ yenta-fada:
try try again!
$117k was raised in the 1st 24 hrs for Andy Ngo. That’s very cool
“They may be watching this right now,” Bellavia said. “Our military should not be mistaken for a cable news gabfest show. We don’t care what you look like. We don’t care who your voted for, who you worship, what you worship, who you love. It doesn’t matter if your dad left you millions when he died or if you knew who your father was.”
“We have been honed into a machine of lethal moving parts that you would be wise to avoid if you know what’s good for you,” he said.
“if you want war with the United States of America, there’s one thing I can promise you, so help me God, someone else will raise your sons and daughters.”
David Bellavia, in his speech accepting the Medal of Honor.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/do-not-mess-with-this-soldier/
His name kept niggling my poor brain. Then it hit me – yep, it’s him. He wrote the book, literally.
House to House
It’s about the Battle of Fallujah and it is brilliant.
https://www.amazon.com/House-Epic-Memoir-War-ebook/dp/B000W5MI12/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1U1TN7BGEBDA0&keywords=house+to+house+by+david+bellavia&qid=1561936157&s=books&sprefix=House+to%2Caps%2C120&sr=1-2
Beto is campaigning in…….Mexico
The goal of the trip, according to O’Rourke’s campaign, is to meet with “individuals and families directly impacted by Donald Trump’s cruel and inhumane policies” and “shed light on the desperate circumstances those who are seeking asylum and refuge are fleeing, and the conditions these families and individuals are forced to endure when they’ve been turned away from our borders.”
O’Rourke is supposed to meet with illegal aliens, primarily from the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, CNN reported.
keep him
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/06/30/huh-beto-is-running-for-president-of-the-united-statesbut-hes-campaigning-in-mexico-n2549231
eaglesoars wrote:
The job of security, is to control access. To know who is where, and what they are doing. The tighter security is, the more the movements of individuals are restricted. You prevent bad things from happening, by preventing bad people from gaining access to sensitive area’s or specific individuals.
You prevent bad people from gaining access by knowing who they are and what they are doing and restricting their ability to move towards those sensitive area’s or individuals.
From a security standpoint any unknown individual is a suspected bad person. If you do not know them, you do not know what their intentions are. If you do not know what their intentions are, you do not allow them access.
The higher the security area, the more you restrict access to that area and the closer you monitor those granted any access to that area. And that most assuredly does include the use of deadly force in maintaining extremely high security restricted area’s.
The Korean DMZ is one of the highest security area’s on earth.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ummmm Yeah that’ll work! …… sarc
Maybe we’ll luck in and one of the criminal gangs will vanish him.
Hey I could happen!
🙂
doriangrey wrote:
This reality is better than all of the nominal ‘fake news’ of bruises and such.
You go girl!
Extreme loss of face by the NoKo security official. Poor bastard is probably at best the butt of his peers jokes about getting shoved aside by a ‘mere female’ and at worst walking guard on the graveyard shift at some detention centre up country.
I head out on Saturday to pick up the new car. Waiting on an estimate for a spray on bed liner and maybe a better cover. That might have to wait. Along with other things I want to do.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
good point! Culturally, that has to jar some of their premises, I would think, like – American woman butt checks NK security, what might POTUS do? They DO respect force, I believe.
For the record:
Joe, you are not the son of a Welsh coal miner.
Liz, every time you put ‘American Indian’ on an application, you signed your name to a false statement.
Corey, being a U.S. Senator is not actually similar to being a Roman slave.
Beto, you are not Hispanic.
Kamala, the only time there was any African American in you was while you were negotiating a job offer with Willie Brown.
(yeah, stole that one, too)
eaglesoars wrote:
Ohhh Yeahhh!
I’m definitely stealing THAT ONE
🙂
morning
I still hate mondays
@ rain of lead:
ah, but the day is young! Bernie is now raising money off a real, honest-to-god Trump attack video that happened at a rally. You may recall that it was a Bernie Bro who actually did attempt to assassinate some Republican Congressmen at a baseball practice.
Want to really scare Trump?
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1145520734980075520