It’s a monday, and they have this in NZ…as well as a rather dangerous volcano!
I’ll take the truck, thanks.
Enjoy yinz’s monday, n’at.
Monday Open
by coldwarrior ( 133 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at December 9th, 2019 - 8:48 am
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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!
He doesn’t say it outright, but John Solomon has the IG report. It’s a whitewash
The report is expected to conclude the FBI’s decision to open a counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia in 2016 was adequately predicated but that its subsequent reliance on the so-called Steele dossier and execution of FISA warrants to assist the probe were problematic.
It wasn’t adequately predicated, and lying to a FISA court is NOT ‘problematic’.
https://johnsolomonreports.com/ig-report-provides-compelling-evidence-fbi-misled-fisa-court-in-russia-case-sources-say/
@ eaglesoars:
Anybody surprised that the deep state is covering for the deep state? Nothing is going to come of this until We the People do something about it. Not sure what that is going to need to be, but we are in serious jeopardy of losing what remains of our freedoms.
Mark Meadows, 10 mins ago
I just got out of a nearly 2 hour briefing on the IG report.
It is deeply disturbing. Some former FBI and DOJ officials are about to have some serious explaining to do.
More details to come shortly.
https://twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1204092155440046081
Devin Nunes is saying the report vindicates the Republicans’ report and shows the FISA abuse was even worse than they thought.
@ eaglesoars:
I heard an excerpt from one of Jerry No-Nads many appearances on the TV Sunday shows yesterday. He keeps using the phrase “incontrovertable evidence.” Last time I checked, the Republicans and the President have been unable to call any of their witnesses to this Carnival Sideshow. No-Nads was asked about Republican witnesses and his response was “I didn’t consider them relevant.” As if somehow his word on the subject is final.
Note to No-Nads – in a proceeding, it’s the JUDGE who determines what is relevant to the matter at hand – NOT the opposing party. What you idiots really don’t get is that when you lose control of the evidence and the other side is allowed to present an actual case, one of the questions every single one of them should be asked is “Was Chairman Schiff/Nadler aware that you had this information during the time of the inquiry?”
*snort*
Barr plays ‘fuck you AGAIN’ hardball
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr recently approved making public new details about a former F.B.I. informant at the heart of conservatives’ allegations about the Russia investigation, deciding to release information that had been blacked out in a highly anticipated inspector general’s report due out on Monday.
A representative from the office of the Justice Department inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, told the former F.B.I. informant, Christopher Steele, on Sunday that the Justice Department had decided to allow for the release of the information, two people briefed on the situation said late on Sunday.
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The notice to Mr. Steele on the eve of the report’s release was highly unusual. Like the other witnesses interviewed for the inspector general’s report, Mr. Steele had earlier reviewed the findings that are pertinent to him, and he was given a chance to comment on them. In this case, Mr. Horowitz’s office did not detail for him the additional information and gave him no opportunity to respond for the report to be released on Monday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/politics/ig-report-steele-dossier.html
@ The Barbarian:
oh good, you’re here.
I’m noticing a pattern. Horowitz report on the Clinton investigation let everybody walk because even tho what they did is ‘wrong’, they had no illegal INTENT
Nadler’s impeachment report says that Trump did not have to ACTUALLY break the law, he had INTENT to break the law at some point even if he never did, so that’s enough.
This is thought crime tyranny.
And I want every last one of them in exile.
In Somalia.
Here’s the report. Download it before the server crashes
https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf
Looks like the latest preachy Hollywood movie is another box office bomb. Mark Ruffalo was all about how evil capitalism is in a Tweet. People agreed. That movie “Dark Waters” has grossed $5 million in 17 days. Dude, if people haven’t gone to see it by now, they aren’t going. Meanwhile other movies released the same time have grosses of over $63,000,000 – and don’t even get me started on “Frozen II.”
You don’t insult 50% of the nation and somehow think that you are going to do Boffo Box Office. Especially during the Christmas Shopping Season.
I for one am looking forward to seeing “Richard Jewell.” Because it kicks the FBI and the MSM in the ass, but also because it’s Clint Eastwood!
@ eaglesoars:
Is it the phone book everyone said it was going to be?
We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the FBI’s decision to seek FISA authority on Carter Page.
What a fucking lie
Conclusions on page xiii are DAMNING. At least 17 omissions….
Still….
“While we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct, we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for the errors or problems we identified”
450 more pages to go, later
The Barbarian wrote:
Start on page 345, Chapter Eleven, Analysis
This really is damning. Yeah, there was adequate predicate, etc., but the bar for that is really low, we recommend…
Basically, Horowitz has kept this tight. He doesn’t draw conclusions when there’s an absence of evidence, but when the policy that’s followed results in this dog’s breakfast, the policy sucks, change it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Durham seems to agree. He has issued a statement
Statement of U.S. Attorney John H. Durham
“I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff. However, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within component parts of the Justice Department. Our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities, both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S. Based on the evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.”
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/statement-us-attorney-john-h-durham
“FBI leadership supported relying on Steele’s reporting to seek a FISA order on Page after being advised of, and giving consideration to, concerns expressed by Stuart Evans, then NSD’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General with oversight responsibility for OI, that Steele may have been hired by someone associated with Clinton or the DNC…”
Hang every last one of them
This just out from Barr
The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken. It is also clear that, from its inception, the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory. Nevertheless, the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration of the campaign and deep into President Trump’s administration. In the rush to obtain and maintain FISA surveillance of Trump campaign associates, FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source. The Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory. While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General’s report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-attorney-general-william-p-barr-inspector-generals-report-review-four-fisa
The source for the golden showers story of the Steele dossier told the FBI that it was hearsay and meant in jest.
https://twitter.com/SamScottish5/status/1204116860607664128
The accusation against Carter Page, that he was offered a bribe in return for helping to lift sanctions, was a lie. Apparently by Steele
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1204119578260979712
@ eaglesoars:
No-Nads is in over his head. Both of the FIRST parties to that conversation say there was no quid pro quo, nor was there any intent. He cannot have it inferred by others claiming to know the operation of anyone’s mind. This is hearsay of the WORST sort. And from what I can gather about the proceedings today, it’s more of a clown show than the 3 to 1 “experts” from last week. BTW, TURLEY was the only national recognized Constitutional scholar on that panel. The other three were partisan hacks who apparently have no working knowledge of the Federal Criminal code.
Pelosi is not going to get the votes for this.
The Barbarian wrote:
oh yes she is. Your premise is that this is a semi-rational endeavor. It is not.
I have no idea how the Babylon Bee can stay in business
The “We Support Jeremy Corbyn” Facebook page, which has 72,000 members, was run from the Gaza strip [Hamas] from 2017 until recently.
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/Influential-Corbyn-supporting-Facebook-page-run-by-Hamas-from-Gaza-610306
@ eaglesoars:
That’s my shortcoming in this. Even in California, I deal with people more rational than those Democrats in Washington.
BTW, the video snips of Daniel Goldman being grilled by the GOP members of the Committee reminds me of the look on my granddaughter’s face when she dumps a load in her Pampers.
@ The Barbarian:
If I never hear Goldman’s voice again, that would be fine. He comes across about as arrogant as I imagine Weissman is.
@ eaglesoars:
Latest from White Island….
Death toll is now confirmed as 8 as some of the critically burned have succumbed. Some of the missing 5 tourists ( many of them Australians on a SW Pacific cruise), and guides were photographed as a group walking along a 2 Km long track leading up to the steaming caldera just a minute and a half before the ground rose up under their feet and the helicopter cameraman lost sight of them as the whole caldera erupted. The second helicopter that had lifted them in close to the caldera remains on the island shore in the ash field.
Ovation of the Seas remains berthed in the Port of Tauranga, It appears that one crew members is among the missing and most of the tourists missing are Australians with Kiwi guides. There are confirmed 31 evacuated, some of whom are in serious condition with impact and burn injuries. Rescue helicopters arrived back on the island at first light and evacuated a large group of stranded and injured tourists.
The air and ground search is ones we speak in the ash field for the final 5 missing but given the devastation of the caldera region the hopes for their survival is remote.
The island was registering Level #2 seismic activity with a few short term spikes to Level #3 just 2 days ago. That suddenly jumped from Seismic Level #2 to Level #4 moments before the eruption. A Level #4 warning is ‘about to erupt’. Level #5 means that an eruption is under way. The change was so rapid that there was no time to evacuate.
The Seismic Monitors are still working and the Island is registering Level #3 with spikes to Level #4 seismic activity as new minor eruptions happen,
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hmmmm…
verry interestink
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/12/obama_gave_commoncore_contract_to_publisher_got_65_million_book_deal_in_return.html#.Xe5qdRtb5d4.facebook
@ rain of lead:
Yeah, no quid pro quo or bribery there…..Oh, and remember those interest-free loan millions he gave Solyndra – that went bankrupt? How much did Solyndra give Democrats/Obama in campaign donations? Or Planned Parenthood? Or all those union jobs that were maintained in California using the Stimulus money that was supposed to go for infrastructure? The same unions that contribute heavily to the Democrats.
Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to dramatically expand the role of the state and boost public spending to levels not seen in a generation if voters send him to Downing Street on December 12.
On Labour’s policy wish list: nationalizing major utilities, a 32-hour work week, giving 10% of shares in large companies to workers, increasing the power of unions, freezing the retirement age at 66 and building out public housing stock on a large scale. The party has pledged to finance higher spending with big tax hikes for corporations and Britain’s wealthiest 5%. Borrowing to fund investment would reach £55 billion ($72.4 billion) annually by fiscal year 2023.
The overhaul would unfold at breakneck pace. Labour said Monday that it would begin the process of nationalizing water and energy companies within 100 days of taking office.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/economy/uk-election-economy-labour-ge19/
dayum
reads like a bad Dr Who episode
@ rain of lead:
Cheese Shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A
@ eaglesoars:
Exactly.
rain of lead wrote:
watch everybody in the UK who makes $100k or more pack up and leave
@ eaglesoars:
bet no more than 4% leave if those laws get passed
“that will never never affect me”
Aussie Infidel wrote:
tsunami time!
rain of lead wrote:
more likely they’d stay because there’s nowhere else to go. Canada? Australia? Australia is not easy to get into
@ rain of lead:
More likely
https://youtu.be/F3UGk9QhoIw
ooof
https://www.weaselzippers.us/439318-doug-collins-roasts-dem-counsel-joe-biden-was-the-only-one-who-did-a-quid-pro-quo/
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope. Wrong type of volcano although you can never really tell as the whole island could theoretically just blow apart.
Of the 31 survivors in hospitals 27 have serious burns to more than 30% of their bodies. Mostly sulphur burns. One of the young female guides got her small party to shelter beneath borders and then covered their bodies with her own body. Her back sustained 90% burns but overall her total burns add up to 45% and she will probably survive. She is one gutsy young woman!
There is a 50% chance of an eruption on the same scale or less within the next 24 hours.Helicopter surveys have identified 6 suspected bodies in the ash field our of the remaining 8 still listed as missing. The levels of lethal gasses and the heat of the ash preclude survival.
There were 9 US citizens amongst the 47 who were listed as being on the island when the eruption occurred.
Word is that they will submit two impeachment counts – “Obstruction of Congress” and “Abuse of Power.”
What the hell happened to BRIBERY? They had three partisan hacks squawking about bribery last week and it’s not a count. If there’s no high crime or misdemeanor, where the HELL is the “abuse of power”?
And how the hell is challenging a Congressional subpoena “obstruction?” If that’s what constitutes obstruction, every lawyer is going to file a sanctions and compel motion every time a “motion to quash subpoena” lands on his/her desk.
And Congress critter that votes for this should be removed from office. This is beyond ridiculous.
The Barbarian wrote:
Biden. On video. They don’t need that shown over & over in the Senate
@ eaglesoars:
Indeed. I’m sure they also don’t want Biden hauled in front of the Senate under subpoena and asked point blank what in particular required the firing of the prosecutor.
Abuse of power, huh? Can’t wait for someone to be asked if it’s an abuse of power to send billions to Iran under cover of night in an unmarked plane after asking banks to break the law without advising Congress?
i do think that the dems are willing to impeach and lose the house just to harm trump. deep state will try to crash the markets in the fall, deep state gopsters and the dems will do anything to stop this man.
if he gets to put another/two/three justices on the supreme court and keep appointing more judges elsewhere then the deep state/socialist will be ratcheted back for the fist time in my memory.
alas, no one will go to jail over this spying and corruption. no one will pay in any real way. deep state will just be more careful next time. and that is the real crime here.
@ coldwarrior:
that said, i would not be surprised if trump has something YUGE up his sleeve for later.
@ coldwarrior:
Pelosi brought up the USMCA and is trying to make it sound like it was literally HER idea and that of the Dems. Ridonkulous.
Small group of Dems are now shying away from impeachment – want censure. I’m still wondering if this gets out of the House – these articles are pretty weak sauce, especially when they were yelling bribery less than a week ago.
The Barbarian wrote:
congress passes bills?
Aurtoro Fuente Hemmingway is a great cigar. But that goes without saying
Our betters…aren’t
Lisa Page sues FBI and DOJ, citing ‘cost of therapy’ after Trump mocked her salacious text messages
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lisa-page-sues-fbi-doj-cost-of-therapy-after-salacious-text-messages-released
Here is the full NBC interview with Barr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRKFo0JmuBc
The first 30k of the 60k addition to the house is in hand. My neighbor n contractor has made initial measurements.
The game is afoot.
Maximize the view of the river valley. Floor to ceiling windows.
I’ll keep yinz posted
Another step toward confiscation in Virginia
A pending assault weapon ban backed by Gov. Ralph Northam will include a provision allowing Virginians to keep firearms they already have, the governor’s office said Monday.
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“In this case, the governor’s assault weapons ban will include a grandfather clause for individuals who already own assault weapons, with the requirement they register their weapons before the end of a designated grace period,” Northam spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky said in a statement Monday evening. “Additional details on this and all other bills will be announced prior to the start of the upcoming session.”
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2019/12/09/northam-backed-assault-weapon-bill-will-include-grandfather-clause-for-existing-guns/
@ coldwarrior:
The 28 hospitalised survivors of the White Island volcanic eruption are all in critical care with over 30% burns to their bodies. A large proportion also have serious burns to their lungs and breathing passageways.
Any idea of the percentage survival of patients with this sort of damage Cold?
The NZ Navy has HMNZS Wellington standing off White Island as well as MV Deodar the large offshore NZ Police launch. There is some sort of military event underway to recover the 6 bodies ID’d inside the Ashfield. Two bodies remain missing
Total numbers of fatalities are 13 with some survivors in critical care at various specialist burns units also expected to succumb.
The fact that the MV Ovation of the Seas remains in Tauranga harbour while Police forensic units collect DNA from passenger cabins, tells you how seriously the bodies have been damaged.
Very sad
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i do. there is an algorithm that goes with all of this. i dont work burn/trauma for a reason tho. i cant handle it. too gruesome. i never want to see that stuff again. it gave me nightmares. i’ll take GSW-head and chainsaws to the chest, thanks.
the problem with these is not the skin burns so much, its the airway burns. if you cant ventilate, you cannot heal. period. this is a very big pulmoary challenge that probably wont end well.
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Aussie Infidel wrote:
oh hell.
coldwarrior wrote:
Massive score this week. Went to a local second hand store that I frequent and saw a countertop snus cooler from a tobacco shop. Asked how much they wanted. They were unable to locate a power cord so I scored it for free. Now I just have to load it with some spanish cedar boxes season it, and get a good humidification system and I have a high quality (what would normally be a really expensive) cigar cooler system.
@ coldwarrior:
we had 6 kids come in one night from a house fire, all dead. burned up.
through the ER to the morgue.
i cant do burn like that. cant.
nope.
Why, it’s as if the media are Democratic Party operatives with bylines, to coin an Insta-phrase.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bloomberg-continues-to-poach-his-newsroom-to-staff-up-2020-campaign
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
hot wire that thing!
SCORE!
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I just had a proper cohiba cuban 3 days ago.
yinz know what? yawn.
i’ll take a good nicaraguan any day over that.
@ coldwarrior:
my BFF did it for over 30 yrs. The child abuse cases were the ones that I got the 4 am phone calls for.
eaglesoars wrote:
i cant.
its my block. no way in hell.
i’ll take the most fucked up mangled gurgling mess from an industrial accident over a burn any day.
burn peeps and oncology peeps get my props. i cant do it
ok, i just did the ear test for amazon HD….
i usually dont go for hype. so here’s what i did.
the audio system is Mitsubishi DA-A-10 amp with DA-P10 preamp that was recently rebuilt into 4 B&O redlines.
for headphones, Beyer Dynamic 770s (@250 ohm) driven by a Schitt Valhalla2 with russian tubes.
comparison was Steely Dan either form the U Turn Audio turntable with a Grado gold cartridge or Amazon HD audio (FLAC lossless.
Amazon failed in headphones and amp/speaker to top vinyl.
That said, it was a schitt ton closer than i thought it would be. Holy Cow!
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
mrs coldwarior, the stone-cold neuro trauma nurse, cant handle vomit
we all have someting
@ coldwarrior:
yes, B$O’s can be overly bright, but the Beyer Dynamics dont lie
oddly, where amazon hd shines is in old tunes that were recorded analogue
nena sounds great
coldwarrior wrote:
I woke up in ICU after the craniotomy and hurled all over the nurse standing there. She walked away to get cleaned up muttering “I fucking hate this”
😆
eaglesoars wrote:
😆
@ eaglesoars:
a cranie???
wtf???
Pence is thinking “If only Schiff, Nadler and Pelosi weren’t so incompetent I could be president right now.”
trump just tossed a protester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRx_8xLV_RM
eaglesoars wrote:
mrs coldwarrior wound have yaked back at ya
@ coldwarrior:
once i a great while she gets pulled to the GI floor.
i never hear the end of it
heh
Trump
“we don’t want to be politically correct.”
damn, he’s swinging for the fences
So Trump just stomped on the WTO – and China
Fate of WTO’s Top Court Effectively Sealed by US Blocking Strategy
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fate-of-wtos-top-court-effectively-sealed-after-us-blocking-strategy_3169307.html
the mitsubushi amp/pre-amp out drives the B&Os.
rain of lead wrote:
UT in a BOWL!!!
thank Christ.
all is almost normal now
coldwarrior wrote:
Trigeminal neuralgia. Modified Dandy procedure w/a nerve subsection (they severed the nerve) at the pons. Dr. Michael Dennis. Mrs. CW may be know of it/him.
lisa page tweets now
bwahahahahahah
she’s REALLY gonna be butthurt after this
@ eaglesoars:
its good to be the reserve currency
@ coldwarrior:
I KNOW you’ve heard of Peter Janetta.
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, fuck the gold standard
heh….
even the old punk rock sounds great. a little Charged GBH at top volume
This, just for the record, is a real thing that Sen. Chuck Grassley said today:
“It’s like the goldilocks impeachment. The ‘quid pro quo’ bowl was too cold, and the ‘bribery’ bowl too hot. But apparently, ‘abuse of power’ tastes just right.”
eaglesoars wrote:
it has a role.
projection of force, manufacturing capacity, and a great middle class.
yinz guyz are starting to get it..
central banking is war by other means. holding gold is static position, its like hiding behind a maginot line
@ coldwarrior:
lead trumps held gold
@ coldwarrior:
I hold some. And silver. It’s part of a portfolio, not the driving force.
I still don’t get it, but…from Carnegie Mellon, no less
Mathematician discovers a simpler way to solve the quadratic equation that could fundamentally change the way students are taught math
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7774153/A-new-way-solving-quadratic-equation-fundamentally-change-way-students-learn-math.html
This photo is a masterpiece. Hilarious, too.
https://twitter.com/JonCaltHarris/status/1204551368662380545/photo/1
coldwarrior wrote:
I know the feeling mate.
Used to fly mostly kids from remote vioillages to the coast 7 bed hospital with serious burns. They were suffering from leprosy and had no feeling in their limbs. They used to roll into the hut fires and not feel the pain
this
@ coldwarrior:
this punk rocker weeps
this punk yinzer
i got the river right here
and i cn almost play it.
i forgot abot this song.
for yinz who dont get the joke
eaglesoars wrote:
oh,=.
good stuff.
eaglesoars wrote:
i wil check
eaglesoars wrote:
i have some too…and a shit ton of lead.
gold does not work when humans have guns.
coldwarrior wrote:
Fully agree. A couple years ago a guy sent me a handful of cubans. I wasn’t impressed. I’d take a nic any day over them.
coldwarrior wrote:
I had a power cord. Standard PC cord. Now I just have to figure out a good humidifier. Probably just going to go with crystal jars for now. Eventually will see if I can find the hot wire inside the unit and run a powered humidification device off of it. But will have to learn a bit more about electrical work first.
rootin around on yinztub for something ironic or what…
stopped my punk rock gen x stone cold
dammit.
i did love it when it came out
coldwarrior wrote:
The main reason why the US has to play nice with the bloody Saudis!
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
jeez that album, along with a fewothers was the soundtrack for my high
school years
and the girl loves her some journey
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Exxon wins first climate change lawsuit against a major oil company as judge rules they did not mislead investors
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7776993/Judge-rules-Exxon-Mobil-suit-climate-regulations.html
I hope they counter-sue for harrassment. Sue them into bankruptcy.
@ eaglesoars:
morning
Beautiful pic
Moon setting in Pittsburgh
https://twitter.com/DaveDiCello/status/1204757094223810560
@ rain of lead:
good morning. it’s been hectic. the window replacement guys showed up 20 mins early, Mia went ballistic. Doggy day care doesn’t open until 8, so it was 10 mins of Mia trying to get thru any available window to make them go away and Willow trying to get to them so she could be petted. Neither of them listened to one word I said, I had to pick them up and put them in the bathroom to get their gear on to get them in the car.
I need a nap
@ eaglesoars:
gotta love your critters
as a matter of strategy
Trump wants a full blown trial
Senate leadership is like fuck no, vote this shit down as fast as possable
no chance for trump to refute ANYTHING
one and done, out the door
which way will it go
rain of lead wrote:
Senate will try real hard to shut it down. But if Trump gets a foot in the door, he’ll try to blow it up.
And don’t forget. Rudy’s back from Ukraine with a lot of dirt.
The Horowitz hearing has started. Miss Lindsey is in fine fettle.
Gee, I wonder what their first clue was
Belgian university closes its Chinese state-funded Confucius Institute after spying claims
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3041617/belgian-university-closes-its-chinese-state-funded-confucius
CNN is not airing the hearings
@ eaglesoars:
wait, what?
huh, they damn sure ain’t
rain of lead wrote:
apparently neither are ABC CBS NBC. Fox takes commercial breaks but OAN doesn’t
One of the many LOL moments of all this is when Chris Wallace said a BIG revelation is that Steele hadn’t been in Russia for TWENTY YEARS!!
That’s been public info for at least a year.
hack
eaglesoars wrote:
YUP!
We had our monthly soiree with the guys. 20 turned up. Great night with LOTS of erudite talk. Even the jurists and academics present were behaving themselves!
🙂
Had a great session with our guy from Beijing. He’s just back from China in general and HK in particular and had loads of info about what is actually going down in HK. Both good and bad news. PLA agents have infiltrated the ranks of the demonstrators with agents provocateurs aplenty. Two bombs found by the HK Police was a set up!
VERY interesting evening.
I even got some Austrian Stollen for Christmas from ‘mein host’ who is a master bakerof the German variety.
🙂
“This wasn’t Jason Bourne. This was Beavis and Butthead.”
Ted Cruz
Ben Sasses is smokin’!
There is a huge cultural failure here. What happens when China, running a much more sophisticated operation than THIS, and we’ve got an FBI nobody trusts?
https://pjmedia.com/election/sleepy-joe-biden-to-aides-dont-worry-about-me-being-old-ill-only-serve-one-term/
I just want to point something out so that it sticks in peoples’ minds. The verbiage being used about the funding for the Steele dossier is always “The DNC”.
However, there are several sources out there – my primary is Donna Brazille’s book, Hacked – that are very clear. The Hillary Clinton campaign had TOTAL control over DNC funds, it was in a contract. To say “the DNC” is to say “the Clinton Campaign” when you’re talking about the $$$
HAWWWW!!
Yertle just fucked over Pelosi. No Senate vote on the USMCA until the impeachment trial.
‘Total nonsense’: Democrats rip McConnell on delaying USMCA vote until after impeachment trial
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/total-nonsense-democrats-rip-mcconnell-on-delaying-usmca-vote-until-after-impeachment-trial/ar-AAJZYDr?ocid=st
The Australians and Americans have sent 120 square metres of human skin to assist in the treatment of the 28 critically ill burns victims of the White Island eruption. Two victims have 90% burns as well as lung damage and are not expected to survive. Another 20 have life threatening burns and seven or so have 30% burns. A couple of dozen have burns to their breathing ways and lung tissue and are in really serious trouble.
Wiser heads have prevailed and the bodies of the missing will remain on the island until the threat level decreases below Level #2. Drone surveillance will continue over the island and geodesic monitoring will watch for any drop in activity that will allow a landing.
Sad
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@ Aussie Infidel:
it’s a god awful way to die. I pray for a quick passage for those who linger.
Hirono is off the reservation. Again. She wants Horowitz to investigate AG Barr for interfering with Mueller investigation
eaglesoars wrote:
Delusion strong is in this one!
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eaglesoars wrote:
The deep burns and that is the vast majority have lost all or most of the nerves in their dermis which is in itself a blessing. They are fighting infection but lung damage is a serious threat and breathing ways swell blister and supplicate which impairs breathing.
Poor buggers. As you say. It’s an awful way to go.
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The dead are the lucky ones.
@ eaglesoars:
Did you get the historical Plans brief from 1908? fascinating perspective of what’s happening vis a vie the South China Sea and China today.
These days war is fought in many and varied ways. My tame guru at the NSA considers that she is at war with China and has been since she arrived at the agency. Especially with her opposite numbers from Building 101 in Shanghai.
eaglesoars wrote:
Cruz nails it. These wobbles within the Beltway really are moronic.
Individually they can be urbane smart and clever types but submersed in a systen=m that is broken even the smartest can only fall into line with dumb and ignorant policy.
It starts at the top and rot trickles downwards
John Kennedy, our National Treasure
“Mis-fire Hurricane”
Joni Ernst brought up something I THINK is important but there’s so much banging going on around here I couldn’t quite catch it. Something about the Giglio rule (?) and I think it’s about ‘fruit of the poisoned tree’ idea.
adjourned
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yes, but haven’t started it, sorry for not getting back to you. all the upset at the house and the hearings are a bit distracting.
new thread