It’s an Open. And 30 Years ago… 30.years.ago. Damn, I’m getting old… The Wall came down.
My liver put up a great fight!
Welcome to the Weekend! I’m on nights tonight and won’t be back until Saturday morning when I’ll have to rest up for LSU v Alabama.
And 30 Years ago… 30.years.ago. Damn, I’m getting old… The Wall came down.
My liver put up a great fight!
Last week we were 1/2 for a total of 21/41…1100/1000. Vinny gets harder to find if I’m in the black 😉 .
The college ball this week is all about LSU at Alabama. The Playoff rankings are 1. Ohio State, 2. LSU, 3. Alabama, 4. PSU. LSU and ‘Bama play each other this week. OSU and PSU play each other in 2 weeks.
The lines as of Wed afternoon:
#12 Baylor at TCU – Sat, Nov 9, 12:00 PM ET…Why is a #12 only a 2 point favorite against an un-ranked? I have to take the Baylor Bears to beat the spread.
#4 Penn State at #17 Minnesota – Sat, Nov 9, 12:00 PM ET…PSU is giving 6.5 in Reno…I’ll take the Lions to beat that spread.
#2 LSU at #3 Alabama – Sat, Nov 9, 3:30 PM ET…’Bama is getting 6 at home. Neither team has a awesome D. LSU is getting 6.5. I think they can beat this spread.
USC at Arizona State – Sat, Nov 9, 3:30 PM ET…’SC is getting 1.5 at home. ASU will beat this spread.
#15 Notre Dame at Duke – Sat, Nov 9, 7:30 PM ET…ND is giving 8 and beats this spread.
Liked the idea of doing a Francis Drake Privateer solution South of the Border down Mexico way. Still that’s been tried and all we got was Los Zetas. The Special Forces types decided that there was more $$$$ to be made in BEING drug trafficking gangs than destroying drug gangs. There would have to be a mechanism for ‘regulating’ any ‘ off reservation’ departures that involved death and mayhem from the US Marines. Forget the Mexican Federalise, as they are corrupt from top to bottom.
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I remember it well Cold. ‘rented’ a hammer and chisel for 18 Marks and hacked off a sizeable chunk of nicely graffitied wall. Man was that Russian concrete HARD and brittle. You had to dig a slot in it and carefully undermine a hunk to stop it from fracturing and turning to flakes.
My liver barely survived the post-wall party too. Got the obligatory Checkpoint Charlie stamp in my passport and paid fee for a day visa from the Volks Politze. The looked like a pretty pissed off bunch and had had a ‘sense of humour failure’. The Brit MPs at Charlie weren’t too pleased about me going East due to my security clearance but agreed to let me go as long as I checked back with them when I got back, and had a wee debrief.
Wandered around Karl Marx Strasse in the cold, looked at the still bombed out wrecked buildings from WWII, and the Stalinesque rows of ‘workers flats’ and returned to the West frozen to the core. Spent 2-3 hours chipping a hunk of wall and retired to a Berlin Irish pub. The Guinness was flowing …and flowing … and flowing. Not too sure how I made it back to my hotel near the Zoo. Next day was bad! Really bad! HEH!
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@ Aussie Infidel:
we wouldn’t be using our armed forces. We’d be paying mercenaries, like Erik Prince’s group (Blackwater, I think). We used them in Iraq
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They unveiled a statue of Reagan at the site of his speech at the wall. I hope this link to a pic works
Pilot loses engine on single engine prop. Gives final message to family and friends – terribly sad
https://twitter.com/GizaDog/status/1192820086261919749
eaglesoars wrote:
Los Zeta was the Mexican equivalent of Blackwater and look what happened to that little scheme. Los Zetas just destroyed any neighbouring Drug gang and took their territory and managed it with military precision.Los Zetas are much worse that the criminals they replaced. You think Blackwater or some offshoot of Blackwater will not be tempted by the Billions on offer to take over as a criminal drugs gang?
@ eaglesoars:
Oh by the way Eagles as the smoke and rhetoric of Pachamama paganism on show at the Vatican Synod last week dissipates the REAL agenda emerges.
Pope Frank, Soros, Moon and Sache…. all the usual suspects having secret meetings at the Vatican to plot their hidden agenda. It’s not like the actual facts are all that hard to find and anyone with minimal intelligence can interpret.
https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/4665-pope-sachs-church-vatican-embraces-united-nations-goals
Now you may not be all that supportive of the RCC and I understand that totally but that’s a peccadillo compared to the One World Government garbage that they are plotting.
SPIT
Mike Matt is a third generation news hound and it shows!
eaglesoars wrote:
HEH!
I almost bought it… almost!
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But then rationality clicked in and it was all just a prank.
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@ Aussie Infidel:
I’ve known about their one world garbage for years. They’ve been completely infested by Liberation Theology, a KGB myth constructed for just that purpose.
Did you see the picture of the Moloch statue erected in Rome I posted last night
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup saw that too.
It was just down the street from the Vatican City at the Colleseum. Lock up your babies folks. These wicked bastards would love to sacrifice live babies to Molach if they could. The whole Pachamama BS was just the smokescreen to distract the paroles. The real work was about the UN and Vatican axis and the One World Order.
Just saying that makes me shake my head. In saner times I’d have said that it is all delusion. But now I’ve got to believe my lying eyes!
Tragic if it wasn’t so wicked, terrible and true.
SPIT
Aussie Infidel wrote:
well, thanks for the spoiler alert, Sparky
Trump Puts Down New Roots in Greenland
But the plan for a new U.S. consulate has drawn unease and even suspicion from some in Denmark and Greenland, thanks in part to Trump’s colonial-style bid to buy up the island, which the president acknowledged earlier this year.
oh shut up, you sleep soundly in your beds because of Trump’s wolves.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/08/trump-puts-down-new-roots-greenland-arctic-denmark/
finally
#NEW: The top Republican on the House Intel CMTE, Rep. Devin Numes, has formally requested the panel’s chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, testify in a closed-door setting, claiming he is a “fact witness” in the impeachment inquiry against Pres. Trump.
Antifa thugs gets 6 yrs for assault
https://www.westernjournal.com/judge-throws-book-antifa-punk-sent-good-samaritan-hospital/
@ Aussie Infidel:
Heh…we ran into each other I’m sure
@ lobo91:
Heh
@ coldwarrior:
Reminds me of an inmate’s file that I was looking at earlier today. One of his charges was for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The gun in question was a Jimenez Arms .380 ACP. Personally, I think he should have gotten a pass on that charge. The only person that POS is a danger to is the one holding it.
Ummmm….the bond yield is way up.
lobo91 wrote:
That seems a bit sporty.
@ AZfederalist:
A friend had a Jennings J-22, which was the .22LR version of the same gun. The POS would jam after about every other round
@ lobo91:
I have a Phoenix .25. Supposed to be about the same quality. So far not too bad though, but a bitch to find ammo for.
@ coldwarrior:
Hey CW , penn State is losing to Minnesota 31to 19 early in the 4th quarter. Should warm your heart.
eaglesoars wrote:
Psssst… Spoiler alert…. Epstein didn’t kill himself….
RIX wrote:
they looked horrible…i root for them as they are no longer a rival, thanks to the bastard paterno.
so, Trump is at the LSU v ALabama game, CBS hasn’t even mentioned that POTUS is i attendance.
when it was Obama, boy howdy, they interviewed him before and after the game.
doriangrey wrote:
HEH!
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OK … OK … Rub it in why don’t ya?
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eaglesoars wrote:
Well ya can’t rea.ly blame me !
I was on the volunteer crash waggon at Ardmore airfield, when I was instructing. Some moron had his engine stop just after take off and we saw his airplane disappear down behind some trees. When we got there the airplane was in a hedge with a broken nose wheel. His dolly-bird passenger was totally calm ‘ chewing gum and twirling her clutch bag’ on her finger. He was a jabbering wreck. 🙂
Seems he was the ‘boss’, and was showing off to his ‘secretary’ prior to an afternoon assignation. He forgot to turn the fuel switch to a full tank prior to take off. Once the fuel in the lines was exhausted the propeller and the sound stopped, and it was all over red rover’. 🙂
The function of a propeller is to keep a pilot cool.
Don’t believe me?
Just watch him sweat when the prop stops!
HEH!
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Iranians feel the pain as the regime begins to destabilise.
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/iran-s-imperial-overreach-protests-iraq-lebanon-irgc?id=87179e919a&e=aeddc34cc8&uuid=3004f475-5741-4f6f-9e6f-ea9233036dcb&utm_source=Daily+Brief&utm_campaign=b4f9738f4b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_07_12_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_87179e919a-b4f9738f4b-53618005&mc_cid=b4f9738f4b&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D
@ Aussie Infidel:
they’ve been ‘collapsing’ for 20 years.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I saw a piece in zerohedge a couple of weeks ago that the Banks in Lebanon had been closed for a few days. I do not know how or if this problem was dealt with. That would have kicked up the stress levels there. Possibly related to the Government going wonky. Iran has continued to build power in places it does not belong. They ignore the needs of their own people.
3/5 this week…24/46…1200/1000
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@ coldwarrior:
so the vols beat kentucky bringing their record to 5-5
as coach majors once said
“they remember what you do in november”
The word “coup” shifted to a new level of formalized meaning last week when members of the political resistance showed up to remove President Trump wearing military uniforms.
Not only did U.S. military leadership remain silent to the optics and purpose, but in the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman he admits to giving instructions to ignore the instructions from a sitting United States President.
In the absence of push-back from the Joint Chiefs, from this moment forth, the impression is tacit U.S. military support for the Vindman objective.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/09/the-coup-against-a-sitting-u-s-president-became-official-on-october-29th-2019/
https://www.weaselzippers.us/437149-real-america-trump-greeted-by-thunderous-applause-at-lsu-alabama-game/
rain of lead wrote:
might get bowl eligible!
rain of lead wrote:
do notice that unlike obama, he wasn’t interviewed by the sporting press before and then after the game
coldwarrior wrote:
Very telling, isn’t it?
I watched the Buckeyes pummel Maryland until the scored their 5th TD sometime the 2nd quarter and stopped watching. Minnesota surprised me, but the Penn QB throwing 3 interceptions is what did it.
Alabama vs LSU was a good game, but I find it hard to believe the QB fumbled in the red zone without a soul around him and the punter lets the ball go through his hands.
Out of nowhere Illinois just became bowl eligible. They scored 27 points in the fourth quarter to
defeat Michigan State! Nobody saw this coming.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
19 and 20 year old amateurs
@ RIX:
The vols v the illini.
I like it
I didn’t expect The Wall to come down.
@ eaglesoars:
😀 😀 😀
@ The Other Les:
What amazed me at the time was that the news media completely missed what was going down.
@ doriangrey:
Horshack knows something, but he’s not talking, and Barbarino skipped town.
@ coldwarrior:
True. An acquiantance of mine, who does quite well gambling, assures me the NFL is rigged which I assumed for years anyway.
BTW- Happy Veterans day. I was stationed in Baden-Württemberg when the Wall fell (and watched it on TV like everybody else! LOL). We visited Berlin a few years ago and the wife and I had our pictures taken at Check Point Charlie. Wierd feeling when we recalled she was a student in Moscow and I was solider stationed in West Germany at the time. Funny how life turns out.
morning y’all
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/10/nikki-haley-president-trump-and-maga-convenient-friction/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/epic-mollie-hemingway-leaves-fox-news-panel-stunned-stuttering-after-she-drops-eric-ciaramellas-name-on-fox-news-live-broadcast-video/
https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1193524735839072257
https://twitchy.com/jacobb-38/2019/11/10/244-years-of-keeping-us-safe-happy-birthday-to-the-united-states-marine-corps/
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/11/branco-cartoon-gulp/
@ lobo91:
wait till they start on fracking.
Exxon/Mobil should sue for costs