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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!
thanks, lobo…i got stuck at work
wait, Christmas is NEXT week…when did that happen
Some days I hate my country and my fellow citizens. Smith and Wesson named in 150 million dollar civil action. :/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/danforth-shooting-class-action-lawsuit-smith-wesson-1.5398684
Saying that since the hand gun didn’t incorporate smart gun safety features they company is at fault.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/amid-rising-opposition-to-impeachment-new-democrat-strategy-emerges-withhold-impeachment-articles
a growing number of Democrats and their supporters on the left have begun to seriously push a new strategy: vote on the two articles of impeachment against the president in the House but then refuse to send the articles to the Senate, where they’re destined to die a quick death.
@ PaladinPhil:
Should be easy to defend. How can you require non-existent technology?
lobo91 wrote:
It’s Canada. With Canadian judges and Canadian lawmakers. Doesn’t matter if such tech doesn’t exist. All that matters is the hypotheticals in the arguments.
@ PaladinPhil:
Of course, California is the same way. They fine oil companies for not using some additive in gasoline that nobody manufactures.
Supreme Court has actually dealt a blow to the idiots in Congress claiming “obstruction of Congress” – they’ve agreed to hear the President’s appeal on the issuance of the impeachment subpoenas. Which would indicate his challenge is valid.
And Judge Sullivan is a disappointment. He’s refused Sidney Powell’s request for a Brady hearing. Sentencing for Flynn is scheduled for next week. I wonder if Sullivan is just trying to get this off his plate and once Flynn is adjudged and sentenced, the appellate process can begin. It’s the Fourth Circuit, which was been “liberal” of late, but I don’t know how many judge’s Trump has appointed to the circuit. He’s already had an impact on the 9th and 2nd Circuits.
The Barbarian wrote:
I skimmed thru some of the opinion. He seems to think since she can’t prove it would change the verdict, she can’t have it.
How can she prove it if she can’t even see it? I was stunned.
@ The Barbarian:
there also seems to be a plagiarism issue that I don’t have time to track down. Sullivan gave the page #s but I’m busy
@ eaglesoars:
I find it a little astounding re Judge Sullivan. This is the same judge that lacerated the prosecution team in the Paul Stevens case for their prosecutorial malfeasance. And yet he somehow doesn’t see the similarities in the Flynn matter. Flynn was literally browbeaten into submission.
My only hope is that after this, the Fourth Circuit takes this up and vindicates Flynn. If not, then SCOTUS. They have a history of kicking Weissman’s convictions to the curb.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/17/george-conway-republicans-lincoln-project-donald-trump/
@ right_wing2:
Has Steve Schmidt ever won a campaign? And Rick Wilson is one of the most vile human beings on the planet, he is sickening to be around. If this is Conway’s crew, Kellyanne really screwed up.
Apparently the FISA courts have responded to the IG report and Hannity is/was reading it. They are PISSED. We wuz lied to!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-court-slams-fbi-over-surveillance-applications-in-rare-public-order
huh.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hoo boy howdy, yep. Here it is. The FBI has until Jan 10 to tell the court exactly how they’re going to fix this mess.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/fisa-court-order-response-inspector-general-report
“The president is not a lawyer,” she told the BBC in an exclusive interview, adding: “He’s not law trained.”
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=384833
look at the seething classism in that one statment
this is what I was looking for
President Trump Savages Democrat Impeachment Proceedings in Blistering Letter to Speaker Pelosi
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/more-due-process-for-salem-witch-trials-president-trump-savages-democrat-impeachment-proceedings-in-blistering-letter-to-speaker-pelosi/
“Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016, in an Electoral College landslide (306-227), and you and your party have never recovered from this defeat,” Trump wrote accusing Pelosi of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
https://www.weaselzippers.us/439870-pelosi-cant-explain-why-they-didnt-include-bribery-as-an-article-of-impeachment/
@ rain of lead:
right up there with “we have to pass it before we know what’s in it”
@ eaglesoars:
and passing it at midnight on Christmas
@ rain of lead:
I’m disappointed with the FISA court order. There’s zero accountability in there. Procedural fixes don’t stop corruption. Punishment does. Of which this carries zero.
@ eaglesoars:
We are of the same mind on that one. You DON’T EVER lie to the Court for a warrant, for a subpoena, for ANYTHING. You get sanctioned, you get jailed for perjury. Of course, Durham has to power to charge these Justice lowlifes with the crimes. Wonder if they’ve contacted him to inquire.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/12/17/it-makes-no-sense-cnn-analyst-jeffrey-toobin-says-cnn-poll-finding-declining-support-for-impeachment-among-dems-is-wrong/
@ eaglesoars:
@ The Barbarian:
anybody seen yenta lately?
@ The Barbarian:
I don’t know what kind of criminal punishment the FISC is authorized to impose. But they can sure as hell control who is allowed to set foot in the place or sign docs they have to approve.
rain of lead wrote:
nope
rain of lead wrote:
I don’t know who the fat guy in the middle is but I really loved the part when he said “because the evidence was so damning”
Schiff thinks he’s going to knock pieces off the chess board until Nancy is POTUS – and of course she’ll reward him with the VP slot
Schiff says Pence’s office may have purposefully misled panel about contents of his Zelensky call
WaPo
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1207062419010396160
REading thru the FISC order again there is something quite interesting in there.
Pg 3 para 2 – On Dec 5 the court ordered the FBI to provide (unspecified) info to the court about FISAs supplied apparently with info from Clinesmith. That hasn’t been known before, that the court called the FBI on the carpet.
Pg 4, last para – The FBI is to declassify by Dec 20 all the info about the Dec 5 stuff BECAUSE THE COURT IS GOING TO GO PUBLIC WITH IT. And don’t try to redact anything either, because the OIG report already spilled it, so there.
That’s pretty big stuff. The FISC is actually going to spill it all.
Sometimes a guy’s time has just come !
It worked!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj-YK3JJCIU
Enjoy!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Did you see Boris told his members they won’t be partying at Davos this year?
*snort*
@ eaglesoars:
I think Schiffty has killed himself off as any sort of reliable source.
@ The Barbarian:
yeah, well the MSM is still regurgitating his crap
@ Aussie Infidel:
Your Russia doc just landed, thank you
Shou-Sugi-Ban.
With a Texas weed burner and some nice hemlock planks.
It’s an experiment for later.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yep — bloody brilliant!
coldwarrior wrote:
Hemlock?
@ eaglesoars:
Oh of course. It’s like Lucy and the football. They keep coming back for more and promote this idiot. It’s almost as if they don’t realize that there are alternative and honest sources for people to turn to. You’d think their ratings would give them a hint.
AZfederalist wrote:
We are covered in it. There aren’t many a couple hundred miles east of here as the British Navy took them all back when.
@ AZfederalist:
Yuge rot resistant pines.
coldwarrior wrote:
why?
https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/283/page/546/display
eaglesoars wrote:
Masts
coldwarrior wrote:
Ah, that makes sense. The charred finish seems quite interesting.
@ AZfederalist:
I’m still getting the hang of it. Linseed oil after a wash down and dry seems to really make the surface wonderful.
I did a 6 foot ‘reference board’ burned on one end and lightly toasted on the other for mrs coldwarrior, point at the color yinz want.
coldwarrior wrote:
I thought oak was used, but what do I know?
We put ship lap hemlock planks to replace the floor in the girl’s bedroom. Got it from the amish. Its beautiful.
eaglesoars wrote:
And the rivers flow west on this side of the Delaware watershed
The 500000 btu lp burner is a nasty peice of equipment.
Yikes!
@ coldwarrior:
Logs floated on this side end up in French N’orleans.
“Merry Christmas” is a “Republican narrative”?
Who knew?
It’s been a while, but some people were involved in something called folding@home. I’d forgotten about it until the other day and wondered if anyone was still involved and what the blogmocracy team number was.
https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/billings-chamber-pulls-tourism-campaign-after-concerns-raised-about-insensitivity-to-native-americans
So, what’s new in your neighborhood. Around here we get a fairly unobtrusive tourism campaign pulled and god knows how much money wasted because a radical leftist blogger complains. (Please note no native Americans complained.)
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Some people really need to get a life.
morning y’all
https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2019/12/18/as-impeachment-moves-to-senate-get-ready-for-surprises-n2558179
lobo91 wrote:
Santa wears a MAGA hat?
@ coldwarrior:
CW can you send me an email with your contact info?
@ RIX:
i can, gimme a few minutes.
@ RIX:
sent, and new thread…off to work!
@ coldwarrior:
Thanks