3 night shifts in the hole, level 1 trauma center.
The peeps at the hospital that I am assigned to this round are top notch, world class.
I offer a small song, almost as a prayer.
I last posted it as a reprise, not this time.
Walk your street
And I’ll walk mine
And should we meet
Would you spare me some time
‘Cause you should see my world
Meet my kind
Before you judge our minds
Blue collar
Sleep your sleep
I’m awake and alive
I keep late hours
Your nine to five
So I would like you know
I need the quiet hours
To create in this world of mine
Blue collar
I’d like you to know at four in the morning
Things are coming mine
All I’ve seen, all I’ve done
And those I hope to find
I’d like to remind you at four in the morning
My world is very still
The air is fresh under diamond skies
Makes me glad to be alive
You keep that beat
And I keep time
Your restless face
Is no longer mine
I rest my feet
While the world’s in heat
And I wish that you could do the same
Blue collar
Blue collar
/——– IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW ECON stuff at about the 140 level. let’s extend this thread
——- END/
Styx – Blue Collar Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xArmqniFiJ8
Give me a job, give me security
Give me a chance to survive
I’m just a poor soul in the unemployment line
My God, I’m hardly alive
My mother and father, my wife and my friends
I see them laugh in my face
But I’ve got the power, and I’ve got the will
I’m not a charity case
I’ll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all that to be just what I am
Well, I’m gonna be a blue collar man
Make me an offer that I can’t refuse
Make me respectable, man
This is my last time in the unemployment line
So like it or not I’ll take those
Long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my back to the wall
If it takes all that to be just what I am
Well, I’m gonna be a blue collar man
Keeping my mind on a better life
Where happiness is only a heartbeat away
Paradise, can it be all I heard it was
I close my eyes and maybe I’m already there
I’ll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my back to the wall
All that be just what I am
Well, I’m gonna be a blue collar man
You don’t understand
I’ll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keeping my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all that be just who I am
Well I vow to be a blue collar, gotta be a blue collar,
Gonna be a Blue collar man.
Believe it.
rush
working man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIGKlicb8n0
I guess that’s what I am.
oh, morning y’all
here is some political shit to start the day
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/29/james-comey-under-investigation-john-huber-investigating-comey-memos-declaration-release-this-week/#more-167122
tomorrow might be interesting in DC town
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … but at least we’ve managed to avoid Baltimore.
rain of lead wrote:
I’ll believe it when I see it. Anything been declassified? Maybe that was factor in Dan Coates departure, I don’t know, but frankly we won’t see a damn thing happen w/o a neutron bomb being dropped on this place.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has just been blown up. At least 10 people have all walked out on the same day because – they’re white, apparently.
This is like watching Jonestown.
DCCC faces mass staff upheaval after uproar over diversity
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/29/top-dccc-staffer-out-amid-diversity-uproar-1439525
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-from-college-student-hit-by-car-while-protesting-trump-on-freeway/
@ Gateway Pundit
Woman is hit by car on California freeway in 2016 protesting Trump election.
The driver was uninsured, so she sued her school for damages. It got tossed.
If she does not get a Darwin Award she will probably sue for that.
Oh, good morning
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/07/30/simply-delicious-5-top-dccc-staffers-out-due-to-wait-for-it-a-lack-of-diversity-and-lol/
@ Twitchy
5 Top DCCC staffers out because they are white!
So the Dems now hate the colors orange and white.
the WSJ article is behind a paywall, so I’ll link to the piece that quotes it
If you have children in the California school system, get them out
Begin with economics. Capitalism is described as a “form of power and oppression,” alongside “patriarchy,” “racism,” “white supremacy” and “ableism.” Capitalism and capitalists appear as villains several times in the document.
On politics, the model curriculum is similarly left-wing. One proposed course promises to explore the African-American experience “from the precolonial ancestral roots in Africa to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and enslaved people’s uprisings in the antebellum South, to the elements of Hip Hop and African cultural retentions.”
Teachers are encouraged to cite the biographies of “potentially significant figures” such as Angela Davis, Frantz Fanon and Bobby Seale. Convicted cop-killers Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur are also on the list.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/337490/#respond
eaglesoars wrote:
Check your local schools. My sons history teacher was teaching this crap here in Montana.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
is it part of the Montana state cirriculum?
I know DiGenova was all over saying docs are going to be released tomorrow and Lifson is crowing that Barr and Durham are working hard – but these guys are beginning to sound like all the NeverTrumpers everytime they say THIS TIME, it’s the end of Trump. Never happens.
https://twitter.com/MSH3RIDAN/status/1156304140961759236
Looks like the DNI transfer of power may slow down the document release this week.
Imagine that.
rain of lead wrote:
narf! Point!
rain of lead wrote:
Huber was supposed to be actively investigating for months. He had NOTHING to show for it. It’s proven that he is deep state. I can’t see him changing now unless they have leverage from the White House. Do not trust Huber!
RIX wrote:
Why are those people acting like Paleostinians? The utter failure to act in your self interest is loser dumb moronic. They cheer for other losers, like all the Dem candidates for 2020.
My computer is doglexic. btw there are supposed to be solar storms this week. A rather sensational POV, but let’s see what space weather does.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-29/major-solar-storm-strike-earth-week-black-supermoon-looms
I wonder if she’s ever heard of South Africa?
Baltimore Rat will not be in attendance tonight because he hasn’t raised enough money to qualify. But he is polling at 3 percent. #DemocraticDebate
bwahahahahah
@ eaglesoars:
I’d love to see people who have the means start providing scholarships to private schools.
right_wing2 wrote:
There’s a guy who gives money to vets – I won’t mention his name you can find him if you want – and he asked if he should give money to Baltimore. I didn’t participate in the poll but apparently the answer was yes, because the next thing I saw from him was that with x number of retweets he’d give money for one scholarship for something or other.
You know what? It’s bullshit. BILLIONS have been flushed down that rat-infested shithole. One Robert Stokes, Baltimore city councilman, was just on Tucker blaming it all on 400 years of racism, and the fix was more money for ‘opportunity’ and ‘infrastructure’.
No.
Not one more fucking dime. Where are the BILLIONS of taxpayer monies they’ve already been given?
These people succeed in their world by ‘failing Black’. I suggest we let them.
I researched scholarships not as a tax dodge but as a means of gifting education money to someone not related to me without them being taxed on that gift.
A scholarship cannot be targeted at an individual.
LOL. fuck the scholarship plan…
New plan is bundles of $100 bills sent to person as and when required.
Fuck the IRS.
@ Possum:
Fuck the IRS.
can I get a HELL YEAH!
rain of lead wrote:
I do not mind paying taxes, but I seriously object to paying tax on money I earned, and paid taxes on that earning when I move it somewhere else.
@ eaglesoars:
No sane person supports racism. And yes, Jim Crow laws were wrong and did incredible damage to the black community. But those laws were repealed. We’ve spent trillions trying to atone for sins of the past. There has to be an end to apologizing.
How long were the Israelites slaves in Egypt? How many other peoples have suffered through the brutality of slavery?
@ Possum:
Could you call it a grant? Or make it a scholarship to someone based on a zip code?
right_wing2 wrote:
And still do. There are open slave markets in Libya now. Thank you Hillary.
Definitely better than the Democrat shit show:
Chinese ‘soft-power’ on display in NZ Universities. And the Vice Chancellors folded like cheap deck chairs right on cue.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/07/30/705870/aut-scraps-tiananmen-square-event
McCormick had the temerity to try to have a bit both ways. Having acquiesced to Chinese power that sees 10% of AUT income coming directly through Chinese International students, he folded but that waxed lyrical about the rights of freedom of speech especially on university campuses, something he had just destroyed, and tried to end up looking like a defender of freedom of speech laws. What a craven bastard. At least at Auckland University the VC just acquiesced to Chinese demands and left it at that.
SPIT
Meanwhile a bunch of pro-CCP thugs roughed up a Hong Kongese student taking part in a Pro-Hong Kong support ralley on the campus of the University of Auckland. The Police are looking at video of the attack and the three pro-CCP thugs are clearly seen but have yet to be identified as students or imported muscle from the Chinese consulate. I’m not exactly hold ing my breath as the current NZ government are currently trying to play both sides of the street as far as China-NZ trade is concerned whilst pretending to be upset with China to mollify the angst of the NZ people.
Up until now the Chinese have played it low key but they seem to be playing hard ball openly and they seem to be feeling empowered by the queasiest attitiude of the NZ politicians.
SPIT
lobo91 wrote:
Or Zimbabwe / Rhodesia?
Formerly the breadbasket of Africa and currently the soup kitchen of Africa, under the racist Black communist government.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
They’re afraid to show weakness anywhere right now. Looks like they’ve got troops ready to go in to HK
https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/chinese-forces-gathering-at-hong-kong-border-white-house-officials-monitoring-escalation/news-story/82621253f4c093c69834e041713ab34d
Plus their economy is sludge and swine flu is worse than ever. Not happy campers and I can imagine Xi thinking “Why the hell did I want this job again?”
eaglesoars wrote:
It was not. She took what should have been a basic world history class and altered it into something unrecognizable. She called it “progressive history” apparently she didn’t do anything that she wasn’t allowed however, when I looked into it there wasn’t any way to penalize her for basically using radical leftist propaganda.
@ eaglesoars:
pp 11-12 of the Callick paper 2019..
…John Garnaut, who as senior advisor to then prime minister
Malcolm Turnbull headed a classified inquiry with a focus on
Chinese government interference, described it as “covert, coercive
or corrupting, and goes together with espionage.” The answers are
“sunlight, enforcement, deterrence and capability.” The key response
is to “follow the money,” he said. It is also important to map the
activities of China’s United Front Work Department, to re-purpose
Australia’s intelligence and finance-tracking agencies, to enforce
the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme, to equip and train law
enforcement agencies, and to “align economic policy with the need to
counter covert, coercive and corrupt behaviour.”25
Yet the new public register of foreign agents subsequent to new
legislation, which was agreed to on a bipartisan basis and commenced
in December 2018, appears at this early stage at risk of being widely
ignored. The 13 Confucius Institutes at Australian universities, for
instance, have not registered because they are operated to a degree
as joint ventures with those universities, even if they are primarily
funded by China’s Education Ministry.
The PRC’s internationalising narrative comprises three elements,
according to Garnaut: That China is a peaceful, magnanimous
civilisation (more than a mere nation); that it is an inexorably rising
power, against which resistance or mere disrespect are futile; and that
China is dangerous if provoked. “Opposition is suicidal,” he said.26
It is also depicted as racist. Former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr
says that “the energetic propaganda” directed at Chinese-Australians
who appear to back Beijing “is feeding the prejudice of a small
minority of Australians who still have old-fashioned White Australia
prejudices.” He cites his predecessor Gareth Evans describing “a new
form of Sinophobia” where “the message is, if you are of Chinese
background your loyalty to Australia may be suspect.” Carr brands
concerns raised in Australian media about Beijing’s aims and methods
as “China Panic.”27
During the recent federal election campaign, former prime minister
and China Development Bank advisor Paul Keating delivered a
personal attack on Garnaut and accused Australia’s security agencies of
undermining the relationship with China, saying they had “lost their
strategic bearings” and gone “berko”. “When the security agencies
are running foreign policy, the nutters are in charge. You’d clean
them out,” he said.28 This extraordinary invective was rejected by the
Labor leadership, with Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen urging instead
dialogue between Australia’s business and security sectors.
These two sectors, crucial contributors to Australian integrity
and prosperity, have been prised apart both by Beijing weaponising
its economic heft and by the country’s own widespread failure to
understand better the balance of opportunities and risks in engaging
with China. The West once sought to change China. Now China is
seeking to change the West.
@ eaglesoars:
The BORG !
🙂
Resistance is futile.
You will be assimilated!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Well, with protection like that coming from your politicians, you already KNOW where the money went, no Hansel & Gretel bread crumbs needed. And you know who to hang when the time comes.
I think there is a Confuscious institute around here someplace – or was. It may have been shut down, I’m not sure. At any rate, I know they’re here in the U.S.
I read somewhere today about how that all that real estate owned by the Chinese in Vancouver had been used to move drugs. Fentanyl mostly.
It’s late. bedtime.
our PM must meet with Trump
poonzteam5443 Foreign affairs July 30, 2019 1 Minute
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has done the hard yards, trade officials and diplomats have put in long hours – but NZ won’t achieve a free trade agreement with the US until PM Jacinda Ardern sees President Donald Trump. That’s the way these things work.
New British PM Boris Johnson has already been on the phone to Trump and this week his new trade minister, Liz Truss, is heading to Washington DC, on much the same lines as Peters has pursued.
Trump says he is keen to do a deal with the Brits – in part to thumb the US nose at Europe and bring the UK closer into the US orbit.
Our contacts in the US capital believe that, at official level, all the signs are right to launch a US-NZ FTA round. Both parties want to dance.
Sure, there are sticking points such as Pharmac. These can be worked through just as the government rapidly sliced its way through the negotiations to secure the CPTPP. Further, Big Pharma in the US is taking a beating over opioids and its legendary lobbying powers with the Administration are not as strong as in earlier times.
Relations between NZ and the US have never been better. Most of the angst over the ANZUS break-up of 1985 has been set to one side.
The NZ Defence Force is closer than ever to its US equivalents. US forces (mainly Navy and Marines) are regularly exercising in NZ waters. The US has woken to the threat posed by China’s rapid penetration into the South Pacific.
But, it needs PM Ardern to exercise her widely admired charm on President Trump to set the ball rolling.
Helen Clark, as PM, swallowed much her antithesis to the US and managed a visit to White House. That’s a pretty good act to follow.
Now I just hope that Jascinda can keep her bloody mouth shut so we can get this thing signed.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
You are so screwed……………
wow
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/07/30/what-a-joke-yes-this-was-an-actual-question-from-a-cnn-moderator-at-the-demdebate-what-media-bias/
“What do you say to those Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the president’s bigotry?”
rain of lead wrote:
Good morning. Don Lemon can’t help it, he’s distracted trying to find the Malaysian airliner that got sucked into the black hole.
@ RIX:
morning rix
rain of lead wrote:
Right back at ya.
One of the things that I am getting out of these debates is that Maryanne Williamson is a fun candidate albeit
bat shit crazy. I could see her prancing around the Vortex in Sedona chanting to Eros or something.
RIX wrote:
no she’s not. she’s a grifter. Bat shit crazy is just her schtick
RIX wrote:
I just heard an audio of her last nite when she sounds like she was YODELING.
not kidding.
maybe her batteries were running down
eaglesoars wrote:
here
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1156365329041375232
eaglesoars wrote:
I noticed that.
eaglesoars wrote:
But she does it well.
Yeah, I wanna see the body. Cuz if we think he’s dead we’re aren’t looking for him are we
BREAKING: U.S. Intel Says Hamza Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden’s Son Is Dead…
https://www.weaselzippers.us/427712-breaking-u-s-intel-hamza-bin-laden-osama-bin-ladens-son-is-dead/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Williamson
Marianne Willimsons Wiki page is enlightening.
@ RIX:
She seems a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
right_wing2 wrote:
Clearly
wait, what?
Gavin Newsom, Gov Calif, is Pelosi’s NEPHEW?
@ eaglesoars:
yep
by marriage, on her husband’s side. Her husband’s brother’s son is Gavin.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/gavin-newsoms-keeping-it-all-in-the-family/
One of the Pelosis’ sons, Paul, married Nancy D’Alesandro, who went into politics and has now reclaimed speakership of the House of Representatives. Another Pelosi son married William Newsom’s daughter, Barbara. Until they divorced, that made Nancy Pelosi something like an aunt by marriage to Gavin Newson (Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law was Gavin Newsom’s uncle).
and get this..Gavin’s father was lawyer for J Paul Getty and delivered the $3mil ransom for his son’s kidnap
Holee Ka-rap.
Remember the Navy guy, Gallagher, who was brought up on murder charges for killing an Iraqi prisoner and it turned out the prosecuting attorneys were absolute sleaze, then Gallagher got acquited a few weeks ago?
Well, those prosecutors were given awards, the Navy Achievement Award, for their work on the case.
And Trump just went all Commander-in-Chief on their asses.
I have directed the Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer & Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson to immediately withdraw and rescind the awards….
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1156655478740606977
eaglesoars wrote:
🙁
Tell me about it.
She’s a do nothing type. All mouth (full of teeth) and that’s it!
No action.
Still I guess that that’s a plus. At least she’s not making loads of socialist policy. Mostly not because she doesn’t want to. She sure as hell wants to however she has a coalition partner that is centrist and that stays her hand.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Nah!
One of her crystals has a crack in it and it’s effecting her brain.
Bad ju-ju . She risks popping into a parallel universe through a defective crystal portal !
Hmmm Now That’s a thought!
🙂
@ lobo91:
Could that be considered liable?
Could we sue media members who claim all Trump supporters are racist?
lobo91 wrote:
If Trump wins, these people are going to go full psycho.
@ eaglesoars:
It’ll be entertaining.
@ right_wing2:
I doubt it
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Read a position paper someone forwarded me the other day from a Chinese study group on projection of power. One of the most overt counter-US papers I’ve read from an official Chinese organ. They are definitely wanting to flex their muscle to see how far they can push.
rain of lead wrote:
Totally objective questioning from a debate moderator. Totally
Aussie Infidel wrote:
We should be so lucky
AZfederalist wrote:
… and by that I don’t mean the topic of power projection and opposing US power — that would be expected. It was the way they referred to the US and the tone that were very overt.
way to go, slo joe
https://pjmedia.com/trending/did-joe-biden-lose-the-debate-during-the-introductions-liberals-are-already-triggered/
happy Thursday y’all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLnd-OYClTM
NBC News is reporting on pedophilia and prostitution charges that were covered up when Hills was Secretary of State. Better late than never. Oh they are hanging the Clintons out to dry. I hope. This is the worst sleaze ever and the tip of the iceberg. I don’t think it’s safe to be Epstein. Barney Frank, the Podestas, Hollywood. It’s everywhere. To have NBC talking about it likely means the rats are turning against each other to avoid the spotlight. But WTHDIK.
@ yenta-fada:
I bet pizzagate and Haiti aren’t too far off the mark
Gillibrand is mentally ill. I just heard what she said last nite. As a woman of white privilege she can explain to white suburban moms who voted for Trump that the reason their sons don’t get shot while walking down the street eating M&Ms is because of their white privilege.
I can’t even……..there is no drug in the world that can do that kind of distortion, and trust me, I’ve done some of the best LSD to have ever hit the street.
‘k, I’m ded.
Have you ever noticed the popularity of white robots?
.
.
The reason for these shades of technological white may be racism, according to new research.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/tech/robot-racism-scn-trnd/index.html?utm_content=2019-08-01T13%3A15%3A04&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social
there’s a rumor starting that Chris Wray is out. Tom Fitton has been tweeting that Wray’s trying to block release of Stzrok/Page stuff until after the election.
this is totally unconfirmed, may be nothing.
eaglesoars wrote:
Please Lord let it be true. Wray is more concerned with protecting the bad actors than injustice against Americans
He is a Deep State guy.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/trump-hating-washington-post-writes-weirdest-story-ever-tying-trump-to-russia-and-hamburgers/
@ Gateway Pundit
WaPo just broke a blockbuster story, Trump likes hamburgers!
Wait there’s more. You know who else does? Russians!
Ok, they convinced me.
ok, this has people calling each other out for duels.
correct answer is ?
8÷2(2+2) = ?
I know what I came up with, it looks like there are TWO answers being fought over
@ eaglesoars:
And both answers are correct…. Depending on how you calculate it.
@ PaladinPhil:
Please
Excuse
My
Dear
Aunt
Sally
is what I was taught is the order of operations. I came up with 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QvUhphm_Pg
eaglesoars wrote:
If they weren’t white it would be also racism since black = slavery in their tiny minds.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah my kids are taught that. I was taught FOIL. Confused the hell out of me trying to help them with their homework.
eaglesoars wrote:
I came up with one. Everyone else says it’s 16.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
what is foil?
eaglesoars wrote:
First Outer Inner Last
eaglesoars wrote:
Apparently it only works with two binomials. But I kept trying to use it with everything, lol.
About fucking time. Inhofe is one of the good guys
Inhofe: Navy ‘Arrogance’ On USS Ford ‘Oughta Be Criminal’
CAPITOL HILL: The head of the Senate Armed Service Committee today charged Navy leadership with “a level of arrogance” in dealing with the failures of its new $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, saying the lack of planning for key new technologies that have struggled to perform “oughta be criminal.”
Sen. Jim Inhofe’s comments came during the nomination hearing for the next Chief of Naval Operations, Vice Adm. Mike Gilday, who was on the spot to answer for years of maintenance delays, modernization stumbles, and the struggle to grow to a 355-ship fleet in a two-hour hearing.
The hearing — generally friendlier than that might make it seem at first glance — presented the image of a service struggling to modernize at a critical time as commitments mount in the Pacific, Arctic, and North Atlantic, as China churns out new warships at a rate unmatched anywhere else on the globe.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/07/inhofe-navy-arrogance-on-uss-ford-oughta-be-criminal/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebb%2008.01.19&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
but what does FOIL stand for?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
The equation is.. 2+2 times the sum of 8 divided by 2. Therefore since 2+2=4, and 8 divided by 2 is 4, 4 times 4=16.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh for cryin’ out loud
@ doriangrey:
Here’s the way I was taught (PEMDAS)
8÷2(2+2)
8÷2(4)
8÷8
1
@ eaglesoars:
Well, in fairness to the Navy, if the catapults and arresting gear don’t work, they won’t be launching any planes, so who cares if the elevators work?
/s
Besides, it’s supposed to be outfitted with the F-35C, which doesn’t really work, anyway.
AZfederalist wrote:
Have you missed the bitching that milk is racist? Not joking……….
eaglesoars wrote:
Which is the correct answer by order of precedence of operators that is used by anyone who uses math on a daily basis. Any other answer would require the person calculating the result to clearly justify the order of operations.
lobo91 wrote:
So Navy contracts are just one big laundering operation. got it
AZfederalist wrote:
talk to Dorian.
doriangrey wrote:
Standard notation for that would be:
(8/2)*(2+2) or (8/2)(2+2)
Any standard algebra, calculus or engineering text would use this notation
@ eaglesoars:
It gets better:
And why were they trying to mothball the Truman early?
Because it was supposed to be replaced by the Ford, which clearly isn’t happening on schedule.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Then ‘everyone else is crazy!
🙂
BIDMAS
Brackets
Indices
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction
The answer is 1
🙂
@ lobo91:
There will be a CR, there always is
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Brackets = Parenthesis
Indices = Exponentiation
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction
Your method reverses Multiplication and Division. My method goes
Parenthesis
Exponent
Mult
Div
Add
Sub
eaglesoars wrote:
Which is what will gum up the Truman refueling, since it’s considered a new spending item. That means they can’t pay for it using the CR funds.
@ lobo91:
Trump has done some pretty creative accounting. The wall monies was just taking some $$$ from one cost center to another under the same budget title. I don’t know how much we’re talking about, but it’s a thought.
AZfederalist wrote:
There are only ONE set of brackets in this equation mate. Those are around the (2+2). You ‘magic’ those other pair of brackets from the 9th dimension .hat’s why you keep getting it wrong.
🙂
AS I said before
BIDMAS
Brackets
Indices
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction
The answer is
1
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually the Multiplication / Division and
the Addition / Subtraction positions do not really matter, as we can multiply and divide negative numbers
as well as add and subtract negative numbers
Just as long Multiplication & Division always come before Addition & Subtraction.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Well it looks as if rump has the OK from the SCOTUS to immediately access $3 billion plus change immediately and the remaining $5 billion later from the Defence vote. The rationale is that it improves strategic security.
That makes sense to me.
Just reduce the numbers of gold plated toilet seats on the Ford ‘flat-top’ and Columbia boats and stuff like that in the Defence vote, and you’ll have little trouble finding the $$$s
🙂
Then you’re a good third of the way towards funding the whole shebang.
🙂
https://amgreatness.com/2019/07/31/confessions-of-a-recovering-neoconservative/
This is somewhat disturbing.
It seems that china is particularly interested in the 5 Eyes Members
There are specific soft power attacks being mounted through the Confucius Institutes, inside Academia in the Wast.
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2019/05/australia-a-laboratory-for-beijings-global-influence-strategy/
@ coldwarrior:
Some new music for you:
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I had to think about it, but I get it.
@ coldwarrior:
Thanks for that one Cold.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I am extremely disappointed with the increase in the debt ceiling. Far too many Republicans are at least as bad as the Democrats when it comes to spending these days.
eaglesoars wrote:
But… But … Buuuut. ….
What about Chocolate Milk?
🙂
right_wing2 wrote:
Yup that’s not good at all. Still one has to separate ‘GOOD ‘ debt from ‘BAD’ debt. Good debt that’s spent on infrastructure is an investment in the future productivity. Whereas Bad debt is just pissing money up against the wall, for the sake of buying votes and power.
@ Aussie Infidel:
But increasingly Australia, like other U.S. allies in the region, will need to play a different card in managing the alliance with Washington: namely that of the responsible ally that is not afraid to tell its great power protector what it might not necessarily want to hear. And here the task is to advise the United States on the folly of going down the containment path in dealing with China
Somebody needs to talk to Germany. Take that ‘big power protector’ bullshit and shove it, you’re on your own.
doriangrey wrote:
I know your tricks Dorian. Stop trying to pull the folks legs!
HEH!
🙂
I know you know. And you know that I know you know!
You know?
HEH!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
I appreciate everything she said, but it wasn’t everything that could have been said and it wasn’t everything that SHOULD have been said.
What was left out was the malice and sheer dishonesty completely divorced from any policy position that were the foundation of any argument the neocons made. She’s still not clear in her own mind that the policy positions she supported once upon a time had a reasonable rationale, but the positions taken against Trump did not and do not.
She does see that there is a political moral calculus to be understood that resulted in the ravaging of the average America, she still does NOT understand the fundamental evil exposed when the champions of that calculus were threatened existentially.
eaglesoars wrote:
I agree and I think that Australia has hoisted that aboard. It has also funded its defence well past the 2 % GDP as Trump wanted as it climbs towards 2.5% GDP mostly with capital programs as the ADF (Australian Defence Forces) move to full integration technologically with the US Forces technologies. Even the dozen hybrid boats (French nuke hunter killers but with air independent systems that quietens down the nuclear propulsion downside noises) on order from the French have US electronic systems and weapons inside them. Perfect platforms for the Asian AO with both very long range matched by ultra quiet running for the shallower waters of the South China Sea.
I still think that the US was wrong in preventing Australia from developing its own ‘native’ nuclear strike force back in the 1960s. Australia could manufacture atomic warheads up to the 200 Kt range within 6 months and thermonuclear warheads only after it has access to heavy water in volume. The thermonuclear tech however is already in place at ANU and in the DIA vaults.
eaglesoars wrote:
Absolutely.
Turn over ALL the rocks and leave none un-inspected lest the neo-cons re-establish themselves like the good little ‘swampier’ they are.
🙂
Jesus H. Christ.
Japan removes South Korea from trusted export list
Much of the ill will relates to whether Japan has shown sufficient contrition for its 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula.
Japan was incensed by South Korean court rulings holding Japanese companies liable for cases of forced labour during the colonial period. The Japanese government says all such claims were settled under a 1965 treaty, while South Korean courts have said the agreement did not cover the emotional pain and distress suffered by the victims.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3021083/japan-removes-south-korea-trusted-export-list
We need to bomb both of them
Aussie Infidel wrote:
hey, I’ve got low fat jokes around here somewhere
eaglesoars wrote:
HEH!
🙂
Meanwhile while we are chatting about evil swampies loose in the world Comes This _
Cardinal Paglia, appointed byPope Francis, is the same guy who commissioned the homoerotic murals for his cathedral in Puglia.
The destruction is being carried out with the approval of Francis as a prelude to the new pantheist Catholic Church, following the Amazon Synod in October.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/john-paul-ii-institutes-identity-seriously-threatened-vice-president
SPIT !
eaglesoars wrote:
Why waste ordinance that was paid for by the US taxpayers.
Let them bomb each other!
Sheesh!
🙂
A massive bubble of Antarctic cold is swinging around the bottom of Australia and sweeping up across the Tasman Sea covering New Zealand. Very heavy snow is falling on Fjordland and the Southern Alps as well as Otago and even Canterbury. It’s snowing on the central plateau Desert Road, in the North Island as well. The wind is increasing and is forecast to blow at 70 knots by tonight. I’m freezing my gonads off here and I’m supposed to be at the balmy end of the country!
Sheesh!
There are king tides tonight and with westerly winds at 70 knots I’m going to discover just how good the new sea defences actually are down at the beach. Driving down to the beach tonight. Got my chainsaw to cut more firewood. I think we are going to need it!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Granados told CNA that since this mandate, the Institute has been trying to implement changes while still being faithful to John Paul II’s vision:
He’s lying because by definition Amoris laetitia makes the institute null and void, even I can see this.
Instead of trying to ‘save’ the place, he should burn it down, salt the earth, and curse it so Frank can’t use it as a Trojan horse for his bullshit.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
They need a bigger enemy to focus on.
At last, some good news for Kiwis freezing downunder.
Climate Change, such as it might be, is likely not our fault.
Not a good look for the IPCC if these Finnish and Japanese reports hold up to further investigation:
http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/research_at_kobe_en/NEWS/news/2019_07_03_01.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-finnish-study-finds-human-activity-has-minor-influence-on-global-temperature-change_3003377.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00165v1
I’ve got these two scientific papers Eagles if you want to peruse them at your leisure!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’ve bookmarked the kobe link, I’ve read the Finnish thing and the Cornell paper is going to be beyond me. There’s likely something in there called ‘arithmetic’.
I’m off to bed. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think they’ve both got that in spades!
eaglesoars wrote:
You should have the two papers in your e-Mail by now.
G’nite Eagles
🙂
Here’s a mathmatician’s take on our little problem. Answer? It’s so poorly written, either answer is right, but in fact because there’s more than one answer THE EQUATION IS WRONG. It’s written ambiguously.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7311141/Mathematician-Hannah-Fry-solves-equation-thats-baffling-internet-days.html#comments
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/02/dewayne-wickham-baltimore-twitter-donald-trump-rat-column/1889821001/
@ USA Today
This is an opinion piece by a USA Today contributor. In typical USA Today fashion they select an article dripping with Trump smears and gratuitious insults.
It’s a silly article with a particularly inane points. Theguy says that Trumps hometown of New York has more rats than Baltimore.
Brilliant! Trump was never the NYC Mayor, NY senator , rep or governor.
Fucking landslide
Trump plan calls for nationwide concealed carry and an end to gun bans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/18/trump-plan-calls-for-nationwide-concealed-carry-and-an-end-to-gun-bans/?fbclid=IwAR26aNmEeAlMRzK4rw-8GWgCNoA7osmLd6XxO2oal4HzD8cF33JvoWhwzok&noredirect=on&utm_term=.cdaec22c6d36
KABOOMSKI!!
The number of people employed in the United States hit a record 157,288,000 in July, according to the employment report released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That was up 283,000 from the 157,005,000 employed in June.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/record-xxxxxxxxx-employed-july
@ eaglesoars:
But according to AOC and Elizabeth Warren, employment is up because everybody has two or four or eight jobs and works 18 and 20 and 30 hours a day.
@ eaglesoars:
not so fast…i need the % of population labor stats. raw #s are useless without context, such as spending debt…needs to be a % of gdp
7—U.S. BUREAUOFLABORSTATISTICS•bls.gov7—U.S. BUREAUOFLABORSTATISTICS•bls.gov/cpsChart 4. Employment-population ratioSeasonally adjusted, 1990–2019
https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf
you can see where globalization and then obamam wrecked the joint.
trump is gainaing nicely
Chart 7. Part-time workers as a percent of total employedSeasonally adjusted, 1990–2019
it is imperative to have any stats and econ numbers in some sort of context. they are, in fact, useless without it.
eaglesoars wrote:
hmmmm….i’m a big state’s rights guy. however, the 2d amendment is pretty clear and supersedes any local laws….states cant restrict free speech or any of the other amendments…
but a fed list of who owns guns…
hmmmmm
eaglesoars wrote:
Polish/Russian hacking of the election!!!
OMG!!!!111TY!!!!
The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred
to as involuntary part-time workers) declined by 363,000 in July to 4.0 million.
These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were working
part time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-
time jobs. Over the past 12 months, the number of involuntary part-time workers
has declined by 604,000. (See table A-8.)
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
this is the shit that i argued with speranza, buzzsaw, and the other guy whose name i cant remember.
trump is right, they are wrong.
the proof is right in front of my eyes where i live too. i dont need a link. i see it in realithy
i’m extending this thread by an day as i am too damn tired to put all that stuff in a new thread.
right_wing2 wrote:
nope. see 138 and 142.
i dont expect much from her except as a mouthpiece to her sugar daddy.
OKOKOK….yeah, i’m a cigar snob. yeah, Nicaragua is putting out the best stuff…
however
Bahia, and a couple other of the brazilian brands are actually very good ad aren’t terribly expensive.
i am having a CAO Brazilia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahia
https://www.jrcigars.com/cigars/handmade-cigars/cao-cigars/cao-brazilia/
very interesting history
https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/the-cigar-from-brazil-8648
@ coldwarrior:
speaking of aoc otherwise known as donkey chompers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/turmoil-aocs-chief-of-staff-and-communications-director-quit
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti and communications director Corbin Trent are both leaving her D.C. office.
@ rain of lead:
not surprising. Being a Hill staffer was never the limit of his ambition. I think for Trent, it’s a been-there-done-that thing, so……………
coldwarrior wrote:
I had to go by the headline, as I don’t subscribe to that rag and can’t see the body of the story
@ coldwarrior:
I had a Nicaraguan cigar last night in a cigar bar in downtown Chicago last night.
Really good cigar.
@ coldwarrior:
I would tend to agree on that point, but there’s no need for any such thing.
Nationwide concealed carry doesn’t actually require any sort of national registry. It just requires a law that says all states must honor each other’s permits, just like drivers licenses.
coldwarrior wrote:
Nicaraguans rule. Brazil is a pretty good bet, and surprisingly Mexico has some fairly good options if you are into a little spice in your smoke.
For CW. There be some cameos in that love song.
https://youtu.be/Xwj6ajSE0LA
I don’t know what’s going on, but every time I come on to the website I have to login again.
We had to take one of the cats in because of a blockage. They did surgery on him and he is not a happy cat. He escaped the office were keeping him until he fully recovers in three or four weeks, and when I grab him he bit. He’s only partly socialized anyway, and this was the last straw for him.
morning y’all
filed under things that makeyou go hmmm
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/31/20746926/sentient-national-reconnaissance-office-spy-satellites-artificial-intelligence-ai
But an initiative called Sentient has relevant capabilities. A product of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Sentient is (or at least aims to be) an omnivorous analysis tool, capable of devouring data of all sorts, making sense of the past and present, anticipating the future, and pointing satellites toward what it determines will be the most interesting parts of that future. T
https://hogewash.com/2019/08/03/biden-still-ahead/
The latest polling shows Joe Biden has a roughly 2-to-1 lead over over Bernie, about a 3-to-1 lead over Harris, and nearly a 4-to-1 lead over Fauxcahontas. It looks like the race is Biden’s to lose.
And I bet he will.
really, at this point for the dems, he is the least worst options
holy crap
https://www.weaselzippers.us/427918-hong-kong-protesters-explain-why-theyre-waving-american-flags/
Protesters in Hong Kong are adopting the American flag as a symbol of defiance against China
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/08/02/o-obama-frustrated-dem-presidential-field-keeps-criticizing-cnn-reports/
dis thread be getting a bit long in the tooth
anybody able to toss up a quick open thread
rain of lead wrote:
If you watch videos of those protests, you’ll see what looks like laser beams flashing. That’s what they are. It turns out they throw off facial recognition tech.
That’s some pretty sophisticated protesting going on.
In the beginning, I thought Kamala Harris might have a shot at getting the Dem nom. She checks a lot of boxes that make her immune to criticism (female, minority), and she comes across as smart (even tho I think a bag of hammers could beat her at tick-tac-toe). NOBODY is going to touch her for BJ’ing her way to the top, Tomi Lahren got roasted for trying it. But it turns out she’s got a REALLY big problem.
She’s a dirty cop.
Fact Check: Yes, Kamala Harris Blocked DNA Evidence Proving Death Row Inmate Innocent
The court had to force her hand
https://va.news-republic.com/a/6720180336451387910?app_id=1239&gid=6720180336451387910&impr_id=6720252423841007878&language=en®ion=us&user_id=6656103688938176518&c=fb&fbclid=IwAR3eIvBBkQuXGGJvb7ArFAws3uFip29upvA-VniQ_EYYp30H7UsJaT0Y1OM
https://www.ktsm.com/news/breaking-possible-active-shooter-at-walmart-near-cielo-vista-mall/
@ rain of lead:
I’ve been in that particular store many times. It’s usually jam-packed with shoppers from Mexico on a Saturday afternoon. It’s the closest one to the main border crossing in El Paso, right off of I-10.
@ lobo91:
I hope this is not the start of a string of copycats
rain of lead wrote:
Can somebody tell me which election they won on Obamacare? Because it wasn’t 2018. They won 2018 on fraud pure and simple. … and the fact the RINO’s had not quite gotten the lay of the landscape.n Preserving Obamacare? Nope.
Patrick Crusius of Dallas. 21 years old. From Dallas.
nineteen dead 40 injured, youngest 4 months old.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/428034-breaking-at-least-18-injured-in-shooting-at-walmart-in-el-paso/
And Beto steps up asking for donations for the victims – by directing people to his website
https://www.weaselzippers.us/428060-beto-orourke-asks-for-donations-for-shooting-victims-directs-people-to-his-campaign-website/
what a guy
lobo91 wrote:
serious question. Is it a gun free zone?
People are talking about a manifesto. He’s being portrayed as a Trump supporter who hates race mixing and immigrants
And, we have a solution!
Several days ago I posted a rambling diatribe on how it was not possible to grant a scholarship to an individual. You have to target a group of people and one gets it. Possibly not the person it was aimed at.
Wells Fargo comes to the rescue.
Notice the “friends” part.
So, looks like I can take out a student loan to benefit a friend, the advantage is with my astronomically high credit rating interest rates will be low. ( Joking aside, interest rates on loans are dependent on credit rating among other things. My credit history is 100% I am boring. )
To be continued…..
https://www.wellsfargo.com/student/parent-student-loans/
eaglesoars wrote:
I honestly don’t recall. Many WalMarts are, even in open carry states.
@ lobo91:
It is a gun free zone.
Also, some people are posting that it was a tax-off day at Walmart for school supplies or something so there were a lot of families/kids
Altho on a Saturday, that’s pretty much a given anyway
If target was Hispanics then why travel 9 hours to El Paso?
We have a few here in Houston. Just a six hour drive. Also lots of African Americans too, and Indians. just depends which Walmart you go to.
Three Walmart’s near me and at each one the racial makeup of both staff and customers is dramatically different.
I like shopping at the ” Black ” one……
El Paso police are saying based on manifesto this is a hate crime.
And there goes the Wall, the border and maybe 2020
eaglesoars wrote:
This is bullshit. There were no Hispanics in Dallas?
@ Possum:
I’d just set the scholarships up based on zip codes.
Possum wrote:
I dunno. Lobo says this is the one closest to the border.
@ eaglesoars:
El Paso is majority Hispanic now, anyway. Something like 80%.
But yes, that particular WalMart is generally packed with shoppers from Mexico on weekends. You’ll drive around the parking lot forever looking for a space, and about 2/3 of the cars have plates from Chihuahua.
eaglesoars wrote:
Possum wrote:
This is bullshit. There were no Hispanics in Dallas?
I dunno. Lobo says this is the one closest to the border.
I live in an apartment complex f 3200 apartments. I am the only non-Hispanic
320
six minutes
it took SIX MINUTES for the first cops to get there
yeah, this better be bullshit
Harvard Scientists, Funded By Bill Gates, To Begin Spraying Particles Into The Sky To Dim The Sun
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-03/harvard-scientists-funded-bill-gates-begin-spraying-particles-sky-dim-sun
eaglesoars wrote:
And in rural Iowa if they get there in 30 minutes they did good.
lobo, scroll down, look at the photo of the shooter. He’s got an AK-47 according to reports
He had to have fired at least 50 rounds by my count.
where are the extra mags. He’s got a side pocket on the left hand side of his pants (his left)??
linky
https://www.weaselzippers.us/428034-breaking-at-least-18-injured-in-shooting-at-walmart-in-el-paso/
eaglesoars wrote:
And then another 20 before they did anything.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes, that’s an AK. 50 rounds is only one spare magazine (they typically hold 30). You can stick that in your pants pocket (although it’ll stick out some). The Tru-Spec pants I wear almost daily (similar ones are made by 5.11) have pockets that will hold at least four AK or AR magazines, plus several pistol mags.
@ lobo91:
so he had to reload at least once. and nobody got to him.
eaglesoars wrote:
Really not that unusual, particularly among a store full of random families. It wouldn’t occur to most people that the shooter is vulnerable while reloading. All they know is what they’ve seen in movies and on TV.