It’s an open
We were 3/5 this week and 24/46…1200/1000 overall. I got suckered into working some OT on Saturday so I have to get this out quick and go to bed.
#8 Penn State at #2 Ohio State – Sat, Nov 23, 12:00 PM ET…PSU is a 19 point dog and covers the spread.
And, that is why I agreed to work, there aren’t any other interesting games on so I might as well pay for Christmas.
Enjoy yinz’s open!
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Ecommerce Jumps by Most Ever
by Wolf Richter • Nov 22, 2019 • 43 Comments
Department stores get crushed one by one.
Ecommerce sales in the third quarter 2019 spiked 17.3% from a year ago to $145.7 billion, not seasonally adjusted, according to the Commerce Department. On a seasonally adjusted basis, sales hit $154.5 billion. Ecommerce sales will exceed $600 billion in 2019, double the amount five years ago. In dollar terms, ecommerce sales jumped by $20.4 billion in Q3 compared to a year ago, the biggest dollar-jump in the history of ecommerce:.
morning y’all
econ 101
https://ktla.com/2019/11/22/california-pot-taxes-to-increase-jan-1-shocking-unsteady-industry/
Hefty marijuana taxes that can approach 50 percent in some communities have been blamed for pushing shoppers into California’s tax-free illegal market, which is thriving. Industry analysts estimate that $3 are spent in the illegal market for every $1 in the legal one.
SHOCKA!!!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/update-all-three-nicholas-sandman-lawsuits-against-liberal-media-move-forward-wapo-cnn-nbc/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/breaking-devin-nunes-to-sue-daily-beast-and-cnn-for-junk-report-that-he-traveled-to-vienna-to-meet-with-secret-ukrainians/
wow, talk about creepy
https://nypost.com/2019/11/19/120-year-old-photo-sparks-greta-thunberg-conspiracy-theories/
rain of lead wrote:
When that broke last nite the left went bat guano. WAR CRIME!! yeah, whatever. I think he’s taking a page from Trump’s book, this is something Trump does. The process is the punishment. I think Nunes is suing twitter also.
In other news about the rewards of fighting back, Elise Stefanik raised $500k in under 2 hrs.
yenta-fada wrote:
much like Sears in the early 1900’s.
there is nothing new under the sun
https://www.retaildive.com/news/before-amazon-there-was-sears/330764/
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/bwahaha-john-bolton-twitter-laughingstock/
i warned yinz about that neocon turd.
@ yenta-fada:
@ coldwarrior:
But we’re not driving around to look for/find/buy the stuff. How do you even begin to calculate the amount of gas that saves? That’s a fossil fuel, right?
@ yenta-fada:
When you live in a third world city like Tucson, e-commerce is a real blessing. I can actually get things that I need without having to search high and low for somebody who might be able to order something. … or have to drive to Phoenix to actually be able to get something.
Just like Sears and other mail order houses did for rural shoppers, those of us in the regressive hinterlands are very grateful for e-commerce. I try not to use Amazon unless I absolutely have to, but places like Acme tool, Woodworker’s Supply of NM, and others are great sources
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/covering-up-the-greatest-political-scandal-in-american-history/
coldwarrior wrote:
Yes, you did.
21-17 ohio state over penn
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/11/23/dan-crenshaw-drops-all-the-reality-nukes-on-kamala-harris-threat-to-take-over-drug-companies-and-snatch-their-patent/
@ lobo91:
can anybody around here spell MacArthur?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/oops-looks-like-senator-crying-chuck-schumer-just-inadvertently-outed-one-of-schiffs-whistleblowers/
Is anybody watching this fiasco?
At halftime of Harvard-Yale a sit in protesting climate issues has broken out on the field, at least delaying the second half and the way the protest is growing I would be shocked if the game continues.
The pic is glorious
https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/1198318294396215296
eaglesoars wrote:
Divest Harvard
That’s right! We’re disrupting The Game because we know that #NobodyWins when our universities profit from destruction and extraction. We ar Demanding #HarvardYale to divest from fossil fuels and cancel their holdings in Puerto Rican debt.
https://twitter.com/DivestHarvard/status/1198325665042518016
make these people live w/o fossil fuels/elec for a year. God, they are tedious
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m a Bolton fan but one reason was that he was always outwardly professional. If he never Trumps I’ll withdraw my fanage. Trump is doing the right job here. Better than Romney or McCain would have ever done.
@ doriangrey:
The GOP has a problem pursuing the left. The left has no problem pursuing the GOP
@ lobo91:
Fire them. When a military bureaucrat thinks they can’t be replaced. Its time to replace them. They need to take the pardon seriously. IF they want to asterisk it, do it in the Officers Club bar.
@ AZfederalist:
Tucson is a third world city? I Had no idea it was the hinterland. Toronto is a big city, but people still go to Buffalo malls to shop if they want more depth of choices at a fraction of the cost. Some things I need due to illness would be impossible to find without Amazon. I just get concerned about a monopoly. Canada doesn’t manufacture much anymore. That was deliberate and slow Socialism pushed by international unions and greedy politicians.
lobo91 wrote:
No, it would not be pushback, it would be Article 92 insubordination at the very minimum, perhaps even Article 94. This single sentence casts doubt on the entire article as it is something that only an imbecile with zero experience with the military would think possible.
darkwords wrote:
I find the article extremely unlikely as making such a threat would be court-martial worthy conduct. Something that a civilian might not realize, but any commissioned officer would know.
Justice Ginsburg has been in the hospital since last nite according to this
Johns Hopkins
https://twitter.com/JanCBS/status/1198384521890152448/photo/1
expected to be released tomorrow
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/23/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court-hospital/index.html
@ doriangrey:
Secretary of the Navy weighs in
I would like to further state that in no way, shape, or form did I ever threaten to resign. That has been incorrectly reported in the press. I serve at the pleasure of the President.
https://twitter.com/secnav76/status/1198387376889970689
Vols up 17-10 at the half
yenta-fada wrote:
Tucson is one of the most regressive, anti-growth, anti business places around. We’ve lived here 20 years and the downtown skyline has not changed a bit. One of the hotels has changed names, but that’s pretty much it.
24-20 vols in the 4th
Final 24-20
Go vols
rain of lead wrote:
After a rocky start, looks like they have things dialed in.
@ AZfederalist:
they are playing better, that’s for sure
Chuck Todd: You should be a witness. They may want to call you.
Adam Sciff: Well, look. If the Senate wants to call me as a witness, then they pretty much made the decision not to take this process seriously. I’m not a fact witness. I was the chairman of one of the committees doing the investigation. I’m not in the shoes of a special counsel. I don’t work for the Justice Department. All I can relate is what the witnesses said in the deposition and in the open hearings. And that’s no reason to call me as a witness.
Is it just me or does this sound like a guy having an “Oh Shit!” moment?
I think that he stepped in it and it would be great TV.
RIX wrote:
Which may go toward influencing whether or not this goes to the Senate. He IS a fact witness, his office interviewed the whistleblower.
eaglesoars wrote:
Fantastic.
That takes care of the Sec Navy!
Now the C in C should give Rear Admiral a direct order and leave it at that. We’ll then see how the dominoes fall. And especially if the Admiral decides to resigns and whether the Sec of Navy follows him, or decided to cut his loses and get his heels together and obey the C in C.
🙂
Sec of the Navy Spencer has been canned.
em>Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper asked for the resignation of Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer on Sunday after losing confidence in him over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq, the Pentagon said.
Spencer’s resignation came in the wake of the controversial case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was accused of war crimes on a 2017 deployment. He was acquitted of murder but convicted in July of posing with the corpse of a captive.
Esper asked for Spencer’s resignation after learning that he had privately proposed to White House officials that if they did not interfere with proceedings against Gallagher, then Spencer would ensure that Gallagher was able to retire as a Navy SEAL, with his Trident insignia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/11/24/pentagon-chief-asks-navy-secretarys-resignation-over-private-proposal-navy-seals-case/
posted at 4:46 pm today
Somebody remembered how to spell MacArthur
@ Aussie Infidel:
fuck with the CiC, I don’t care who it is, expect this, no exceptions.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not to wish the good lady ill in any way, but I can already hear the brushes slapping sing, as the left prepares to object to the next candidate for the US Supreme Court …. just add the name, and voila you can be on the streets in a trice yelling and hollering for somebody’s / anybody’s blood.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
exactly
eaglesoars wrote:
Really!
That was fast!
I’m guessing that Rear Adm. Collin Green, is currently hiding under his desk, considering his options and hoping like hell that he isn’t given a direct order!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
For Kavanaugh some of the protest signs had Kavanaugh’s name in different script than the rest of the sign.
Fill in the blank
eaglesoars wrote:
Well done procedularly
They even got the Chain of Command procedures correct with Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper asking for Spenser’s resignation because the Defence Secretary had lost confidence in him.
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ RIX:
The group fighting against any and all Trump SCOTUS nominees is Lawfare. There’s no hidden hand (except maybe Soros funding, which is always the default assumption these days)
As for Spencer getting canned, I’m not clear if the Gallagher review is going forward, altho Fox said it is, but they suck canal water these days
WH says they had lost confidence in Spencer due to ‘lack of candor’ in private conversations with WH (read ‘he lied to Trump’s face’)
RIX wrote:
Please PLEASE make the next candidate Amy Coney Barrett. She’s have 40 years service ahead of her and I am evil enough to really REALLY want to see the Progressive socialist Left have a total nuclear meltdown if she is appointed.
🙂
Just for the pure entertainment value if nothing else!
https://twitchy.com/jacobb-38/2019/11/24/tds-is-real-dont-injure-yourself-loling-when-you-read-what-the-washington-post-now-calls-barack-obama/
@ Twitchy
WaPo reveals that Obama is a “conservative ”
And all of this time you thought hat he was some radical leftie.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well Trump seems to have allowed the Chain of Command to do its work and make his point for him.
As any good Commander would do.
RIX wrote:
Everything is relative. Given that WaPo has totally jumped the shark then even a dyed in the wool like Obama looks like a conservative.
Just goes to show how far the Hard Socialist / Communist Left has slipped into the… blood in the streets/ mad as a maggot, circling the plug hole of history’s drain.
We should be standing on our seats applauding and shouting More MORE!
🙂
RIX wrote:
Of course. Because he said the mod dems won’t go for all the marxist crap the dem nominees are spewing. And the progs basically called him ‘white boy’.
They deserve each other. Obama thought he owned the Dem party. Must come as a bit of a shock that they think they own him.
eaglesoars wrote:
Or… the asshole really was stupid and arrogant enough to threaten Trump. Which means…. Adm. Green is shitting all over himself worried about which Article of the UMJC he is looking at being charged with.
Cernovich reporting that Gallagher to file IG complaint against Spencer saying Spencer tried to get people from coming to Gallgher’s defense.
doriangrey wrote:
Yeah, I think Green signed the review board letter sent to Gallagher?
eaglesoars wrote:
If correct then Green is ‘toast’ as well. Trump should team the incoming Sec Navy to sort out ear Add. Green as proof that he is up to the Secretary’s job. Again allow the Chain of Command to do its job, rather than just using a blunt instrument with the C in C issuing Green with a direct order.
eaglesoars wrote:
If true then Spencer is an idiot.
Anybody even contemplating that course of action given the politicisation of the case would be expected to ask himself … “would I die in a ditch for this?”…. if the answer is no, then he should take his own wiser council and punt for the touch line and then go to lunch!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That seems to be a requirement for advancement in the navy. The first prosecutor got booted from the case by the judge because he hacked the defendent’s lawyers’ email accts.
And IIRC (I may be re-remembering) withheld exculpatory evidence, altho I’m not sure what the law is in the military
eaglesoars wrote:
Lead Navy prosecutor in SEAL war crime case out over email spying
https://www.navytimes.com/news/2019/06/04/lead-navy-prosecutor-in-seal-war-crime-case-out-over-email-spying/
The whole question of why they were after Gallagher in the first place is the one the media should be asking.
It MAY be about the Leahy Law. Basically, Green and Spencer ordered the SEALS to fight with ERG Iraqi forces. They were raping and torturing prisoners. The prisoner, desperately injured, was killed, either by Gallgher or the medic (who has confessed to it) to avoid turning him over to THAT. Green and Spencer orders were in direct violation of the Leahy Law and that’s where the cover-up is.
The Leahy Laws or Leahy amendments are U.S. human rights laws that prohibit the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense from providing military assistance to foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity.[1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy_Law
eaglesoars wrote:
Same as civil law when it comes to evidence!
Lunch, hang out the washing and then gym!
🙂
Sh%t Southern Women Say,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id2spOr5cks
@ rain of lead:
this is my fave……
….during a hurricane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmMJlTuZf8s&list=PLEPUfAqTc1qneanuDXfTI4YWs0-CIsw9d&index=2&t=0s
@ rain of lead:
Well, now I know there’s a Vol’s wreath!
FWIW, this post from 10 years ago suddenly got over 1K hits today.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2009/10/04/expensive-ignosecond/
Bunk X wrote:
14 hours ago someone posted a link to your site in the comments at https://imgur.com/gallery/yRUeDJf
About 12 comments down.
And, yes, it is confirmed I do not have a life or enything better to do with my time.
A thing of beauty. A wooden wonder. A WWII Fighter bomber that could outrun the best that the Luftwaffer could throw at it.
4x 20mm cannon and carrying a bomb load of almost as much as a B-17 and 370mph. Precision low level bombing and photo recon. Just a pilot and a navigator bomb aimer. Used as pathfinders and for surgical bombing raids.
Built by carpenters as a make work scheme in the UK to use their skills, until they discovered that they had a magic aircraft.
https://www.facebook.com/sevensharp/videos/266204540955586/UzpfSTE1MDA3Mzc3NTAwNTM2NjoyMzU3NjYzMjE0MjQ2NDAw/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
Enjoy.
This is the third totally restored Mosquito built in NZ for the US market. Currently Texas is home of all three airworthy Mosquitos in the world, built at Ardmore airfield just South of Auckland.The fourth aircraft is due to be built for the Brits for their former Mosquito Squadron the famous 633 Squadron,
eaglesoars wrote:
dear, you can get ANYTHING in UT orange
want a UT crockpot, we got em’
clothes,shoes, yup
christmas tree ornaments, I get a new one every year
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1198672548453658624
hmmmm……
@ RIX:
It’s bad enough that Obama’s supposedly conservative. But claims that Warren and Sanders aren’t liberal to radical are outright ludicrous. ‘Universal health care’ , ‘universal education through college’ and a ‘living wage’ are the norm everywhere else, so we should follow them off the cliff too. F*ck liberty, we need ‘security’.
If the fake Indian and the lazy old man aren’t, just what would it take to BE far left? Or is there such a thing?
@ right_wing2:
These people aren’t talking to YOU. YOU are an anachronism that will fade away and don’t even belong here in the first place. The globalist mindset is remarkably parochial when it comes to recognizing humanity’s actual diversity, especially when it’s inconveniently located so close to home. They talk to each other. Only each other.
I am alive! Baking a pineapple pizza for breakfast.
It is a beautiful Sunday morning here, I may go to church later. Well that or the Indian store to get beer.
Oh, is it Thursday? It could be, or Wednesday.
I do not know any more, all days are the same now.
Night is day and day is night.
Tomorrow I am going to get my hair cut, or maybe the day after. It is so long I could have a man bun.
Or next week, there is always a tomorrow to do something.
All my life I have dreamed and yearned for some time when I could do what I want, when I want. With no commitments and nobody to care about or worry about and no one telling me what to do.
After eight months I have had enough! I NEED stress, deadlines, commitments, a purpose in life.
Many years ago the company I worked for brought in an outside consultant to give our team a training course on motivation and team building and other bullshit. I am sure others here have gone through the same. One point they made was humans thrive under stress. However the stress level at the company/job I had was very high. So what these “consultants” were saying was a total wast of time and money. We had stress!
Example, one wedding anniversary on way home to go for a meal, ended up in Paris. ( got a call when on way home, go to Heathrow airport, flight xxxx )
Another one, was late getting home, Wife called 24/7 support center to ask where I was. They told her I was on way to Switzerland. Zurich and I was booked into a hotel there.She needed to contact me urgently and she called very many hotels in Zurich to find me. None had any record of my reservation.
To cut a long story short the job was in Basel not Zurich. When I called her from hotel she was beyond stressed.
Reason for this post. Yes, I think humans and even cats need a little bit of stress in their lives to keep them going. Cats manufacture stress by attacking imaginary enemies like toy mice and things, for practice.
I need to go get a job………
O@ right_wing2:
I think that it was Jefferson that said “ He would trade liberty for security deserves neither “
Possum wrote:
Yes.
President Trump to sign animal cruelty bill into law, making it a federal felony
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-sign-animal-cruelty-bill-law-making/story?id=67295654
@ eaglesoars:
Just be aware that PETA and other animal welfare type groups such as RSPCA and SPCA are attempting to tailgate the Red Poppy Day veteran support programs by instigating a Purple Poppy Day program targeting collection of funds for ALL animals killed or injured in war, and OTHER INSTANCES (unstated). The collection timing is worrying being just prior to the ANZAC Day collections in Australia and NZ and prior to Remembrance Day collections throughout the Commonwealth.
The argument is that these collections are in memory of the 40,000 horses slaughtered and left post WWI, animals killed and injured in WWII and search and detection dogs and animals killed and injured in military service in modern conflicts. A good and worthwhile c cause I hear you mutter. However the program has just passing and quizzical references to war service animals and to a suspicious individuals like me it sounds like PETA and extremist vegan groups trying to ‘coat-tail’ other charities to lift funds from their established collections regimes.
@ Aussie Infidel:
SPCA actually does rescue animals from war zones (I sponsored one home for a soldier who found her as a pup, and got a letter and a pic!)
Here, it’s the Humane Society (along with PETA) that is a fraudulent group. They even tried to rehab the dog killer, Michael Vick. Must have been one hell of a check he wrote them. They’ve put out fraudulent animal abuse vids against farmers too
@ eaglesoars:
HSUS, yes. Not necessarily true of your local Humane Society, though.
That’s what confuses people (by design, I’m sure).
Until I heard what Katie Pavlich has to say about it, I’ve said there’s no way Mooch Obama runs. She hates politics, she hates the spotlight, she loves the good life.
But Katie makes a case: she has history to make. The first woman/ black woman.
Almost convincing. Almost.
@ Possum:
Yeah, I saw that. WorpDress tells you where the links/hits come from.
The convo in the imgur link is typical – reacting without realizing that the tree cut was precise and it fell exactly where it was intended to. I was guilty of it as well when I first posted the photos, but then looking at them it’s obvious that the guy was a pro.
1/1…25/47…1300/1000
new thread is up…migrate whenever yinz feel like it
Aussie Infidel wrote:
agreed.
i use that philosophy often.