It was a great year.
This is an Open:
College ball:
4/4 on Saturday! 36/65…1600/1000 this far.
The VOLS made a bowl game!!!
JAN 1st:
#18 Minnesota v #12 Auburn 1:00 P… The Outback Bowl, ‘casue we all all love Bloomin’ Onions! Auburn is a 7 point favorite and cover.
#14 Michigan v #13 Alabama 1:00 PM…The Citrus Bowl… ‘Bama is a 7 point favorite and M has to win this, the Blue faithful will start to doubt Coach Harbaugh. He hasn’t beaten OSU and has under-performed. Tua is out for ‘Bama. Saban has to motivate the guys who thought that they would be national champions. I think M can cover.
#6 Oregon v #8 Wisconsin 5:00 PM…The Grandaddy of them ALL, The Rose bowl. The Ducks are 3 point favorites. Nope. W beats this spread.
#5 Georgia v #7 Baylor – Allstate Sugar Bowl – Wed, Jan 1, 8:45 PM ET…The Bulldogs are 5 point favorites and beat this spread.
New Year’s eve. Just 12 1/2 hurts of 2019 left to go.
Heraded off to Oz tomorrow at ‘sparrow fart’ for a week of 35-40C temperatutes in Melbourne in the ‘Peoples Socialist Republik’ of Victoria. SPIT
🙂
Alas too late to even see the ashes of the Kiwi’s Boxing Day Test crocket that finished early in a total rout.
It’ll be interesting to see the next test in Sydney at week’s end at the SCG (Sydney Cricket Ground). …. on TV.
🙂
“ONCE IN A LIFETIME” STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS: A spectacular outbreak of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) is underway around the Arctic Circle. “This is a once in a lifetime event,” says Chad Blakley, who runs the Lights over Lapland aurora tour service in Abisko, Sweden. “No question, this is the best that any of us have ever seen.” Tour guide Paige Ellis took this video showing the clouds’ aurora-like colors on Dec. 29th:
neat video & pic
https://spaceweather.com/
The East Room of the WH isn’t corporate office space, doofus
As president, I’ll turn the East Room into an open office plan, where I’ll sit with our team.
I’ll use the Oval Office for some official functions – never for tweeting – but the rest of the time, I’ll be where a leader should be: with the team. http://politi.co/2tbPhLl
https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1211781268922359810
@ eaglesoars:
good stuff.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i’m all lined up to watch on this side of the globe
eaglesoars wrote:
Lord willing, the only thing he’ll see of the East Room and Oval Office are videos of Trump performing official duties there until 2025.
@ eaglesoars:
Of course, the reason Trump has to use Twitter is that it’s the only way he can get his message out without someone in the media explaining what he “really” meant to the audience.
Bloomberg wouldn’t have that problem, given that he owns a wire service.
Okay…the pulled beef turned out great.
So far, we’re 2 for 2 with the new smoker
eaglesoars wrote:
Stratospheric cloud PLUS ‘sun dogs’ aplenty. I have ex army mates on holiday right now on a Lapland holiday looking to see the Aurora Boriallis . Lucky bastards. I miss the auroras over Canada flying between LAX and London via Greenland.
We used to invite passengers up to see the Northern lights from the big windows ‘up front’ . Few even bothered to take the opportunity. Most had their heads buried in their screens. People have lost their souls to bloody electronics.
🙂
Probably nothing.
Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran
Peter Strzok lived in Iran as a child and went to school there (apparently he still speaks perfect Persian)
Lisa Page’s mother is Iranian (naturalized American)
lobo91 wrote:
Taking notes. We are in the market for a new grill and the smoker is starting to sound very appealing.
@ AZfederalist:
It’s a pretty cool gadget, especially with the side burner. I can cook anything on it that I could with the gas grill, and a whole lot more. And it holds its temperature amazingly well. It was about 21 degrees outside when I started that chuck roast this morning (high was about 31). It stayed within 5 degrees either way all day long.
morning y’all
happy new years eve
eaglesoars wrote:
Todd Herman is sub’ing for Rush. he’s about to talk about imposing gun control by re-classifying it as a ‘health care’ issue (California – where else).
That’s the insidious thing about government-provided healthcare. They can require that you do (or not do) just about anything that they can somehow link to it.
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I keep thinking of the scene in 1984, where everyone is doing exercises in front of the telescreen and the instructor screams at Smith for not touching his toes.
Government approved diet, mandatory exercise, smoking and bacon and high fat food illegal or highly taxed…
Trouble in River City.
The U.S. embassy in Baghdad is under attack. Shiite militia have breached the walls once and been ousted by security forces.
The embassy has NOT been evac’d, our people are still in there.
Based on reports as of 30 mins ago.
Happy New Year’s Eve all Blogmocracy denizens.
I hope that the NewYear brings you peace and prosperity.
@ eaglesoars:
The embassy compound in Baghdad is not what you would typically think of as an embassy. It’s a huge facility:
@ lobo91:
I know. Some of my adopted soldiers sent me pictures and I’m sure it’s bigger now than it was then. And some of it I gather they weren’t allowed to photograph. IIRC, even approaching it is a security hassle, so I’m not clear on how this breach happened.
I need a nap.
@ eaglesoars:
I am. The Iraqi troops who are supposed to be guarding the outside let them in.
@ lobo91:
d’uh!
The NYT is calling them ‘mourners’. uh huh.
@ lobo91:
to your point:
Breaking: it looks like some of the special Iraqi army units tasked with protecting the U.S embassy joined in the Militia mob in trying to smash and break in the glass barriers. This is a major catastrophic image and an indicator of how things are in #Baghdad #Iraq
https://twitter.com/thestevennabil/status/1212031552256798720
@ lobo91:
Has anyone mentioned that Ben Rhodes is an @$$? If not, I will.
lobo91 wrote:
What the @#$% is that even supposed to mean? Trump envies Obama giving pallets of cash to Iran. Saudi interests? No, that’s what the Bushes and Clintons put first and foremost. “Magical right wing thinking”? No idea what you are trying to say there Benji old boy, but the only “right wing” thinking that goes with this is that if you are going to go to war, you go in to win and you don’t hobble the military.
lobo91 wrote:
And Obama’s made it so much better?
Melania
Ben is still writing fiction, hasn’t had a best seller yet.
I don’t know what the ordnance is, but neat video of Apache support of the embassy fight in Baghdad supplied by Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman.
https://twitter.com/OIRSpox/status/1212063797059506176
@ eaglesoars:
It’s more fun if you turn the sound up
There are several videos in this thread, but the first gives some idea of how large the embassy compound is
https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee/status/1211963329884897280
@ eaglesoars:
Those are flares, normally used to distract infrared-guided surface to air missiles.
I did embassy and personal security for 4 years. I GUARANTEE you that the crew in Baghdad has enough fire power to take out a small country.
coldwarrior wrote:
The embassy in Baghdad IS a small country
@ lobo91:
Obama envy? Ben Rhodes is a bed wetting goof ball.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/12/31/ghoulish-progressive-vets-group-really-hopes-attack-on-us-embassy-in-baghdad-will-be-donald-trumps-benghazi/
@ Twitchy
Some woke veterans group”votevets” is having orgasims of joy over the US embassy being invaded in Iraq.
They are cheer leading for this to be Trumps Benghazi, you know where Americans were murdered and Obama
and Hillary did nothing. They seem nice./
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7838235/Ghislaine-Maxwell-totally-convinced-wont-prosecuted.html
as she has too much ‘dirt’ on rich people, family friend says
heh
let’s see how that works for ya,sparky
@ rain of lead:
Well, she may not be prosecuted, but she really needs to remember what happened to her daddy. He thought the same thing.
@ eaglesoars:
arkincide is real and
Epstein didn’t kill himself
lobo91 wrote:
true.
tehran changed the way he embassies are defended.
there are some nasty surprises inside those walls.
coldwarrior wrote:
because muslims ae subhuman scum who cant follow the rules of humanity
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/31/president-trump-responds-to-iran-this-is-not-a-warning-it-is-a-threat/#more-179801
oh man…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/breaking-judge-in-hunter-bidens-paternity-case-suddenly-recuses-himself-as-lunden-roberts-attorneys-ask-for-hunter-to-be-held-in-contempt-for-withholding-financial-records/
rain of lead wrote:
Two things that do not hang themselves? Christmas tree ornaments and Jeffry Epstein.
Dang I missed it:
“At 12AM, the night before New Year’s Eve, it will be Ramones Time. It will be 2020, 24 hours to go.”
Happy New Year, Blogmocrateers!
@ lobo91:
And that’s on top of 2 C-17s that headed that way out of the VA Beach area a couple of hours ago.
And we all know who lives there…
Bunk X wrote:
YESSSS!!!!!!!!1
lobo91 wrote:
Happy New Year!
lobo91 wrote:
ru-roh.
the ammount of ammo and guns we had was over the top, both nato and non-nato, so many shotguns with 00 and slugs too.
you get on the grounds, you lose. local knowledge is worth 3 strokes, like in golf.
we will kill you, you will disappear into the incinerator.
there is no more fucking around with embassies anymore.
get on the grounds, die and burn.
@ coldwarrior:
David Boreanaz sold separately…
We’re watching a move, The Green Book. (Showtime). Never heard of it, but god is it good. Don’t miss it if you stumble on it
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6966692/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Happy New Year, yinzers! Go to bed.
Happy New Year One and All !! Wishing you all, your families / loved ones a very Happy, Healthy New Year !!
Back to bed.
morning y’all
happy new year
I think this should be our theme song for 2020
Won’t Get Fooled Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9LaWZsV-Rk&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1f1RQZEv9hqwisoXO84Fk5RPiwHDmSmdEpJU7E4MA6dYDI7b7wDWJCY1E
FLIR Video • Marines Arrive At The U.S. Embassy In Iraq
Good. Morning and Happy New Year! The college bowl season is moving on. Michigan and Bama at noon central.
Rose Bowl at 4 central , Wisconsin and Oregon.
Once again I am disappointed, no South Carolina and Oregon State game.
I woul give anything to be on the play by play or color commentary for that game.
Think about it.
@ RIX:
would the color be blue?
@ RIX:
man, think about all the sensitivity training, those guys would have to endure
Happy New Year to all.
rain of lead wrote:
You could not control yourself. The jokes tell themselves.
Yrain of lead wrote:
Would have to be wouldn’t it?
auburn fumble
auburn fumble
in review
10-3
tie
10-10
in the hockey winter classic, the preds and the stars
these guys DON’T like each other
nashville up 2-0
beating the hell out of each other
GOOD!
I’m so sick of these morally pompous scolds telling us everything they want to take from us is for the children
Climate Friendly Lithium Battery Horror: Lawsuit Accuses Alphabet, Apple, Dell and Tesla of Complicity in Child Exploitation
Updated Google-parent Alphabet, Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and Tesla have been accused of “knowingly benefiting from and aiding and abetting the cruel and brutal use of young children in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to mine cobalt,” a key component of the lithium-ion batteries that these companies obtain from suppliers like Glencore, Umicore, and Huayou Cobalt to power their products.
On Sunday, International Rights Advocates, aka IRAdvocates, a Washington, DC-based human-rights advocacy group, filed a complaint [PDF] on behalf of 13 unnamed plaintiffs, each either a minor miner injured in DRC cobalt operations or a relative of a child killed or maimed in a mining-related accident. They’re unnamed not because they’re unknown, the complaint says, but because their lives are at risk for challenging powerful businesses and DRC government officials who benefit from the status quo.
And regardless of how many great ideas Elon Musk seems to have (and he does, Space X is not nothing) – I’ve been yelling about this for a long time. You don’t use children for this.
and the preds go down 4-2 to the stars
bleech
@ eaglesoars:
https://wreg.com/2019/12/30/tennessee-gun-law-to-change-in-2020/
@ rain of lead:
ah, civilization, here I come……..
@ rain of lead:
I’ve been looking at real estate in the knoxville area (to buy) and where we live now (cuz we’ll be selling). The difference is astonishing. New, 2300 sq ft 4 bed, 2 bath house in Knoxville in the mid 300’s. Here I saw a 797 sq ft condo, 1 bd, 1 bath – $499k. That’s Amazon coming in here. Yikes.
Fightin cheesheads from Madison up 10 to 7 on Oregon after one quarter.
New York is about to lose a lot more people. The ‘bail reform’ that’s about to go into effect is horrific
“..a defendant must be released from custody without bail for the following crimes”
A list of offenses follows. The first 3 are:
manslaughter in the second degree; aggravated vehicular homicide; criminally negligent homicide.
It’s a long list
https://twitter.com/salyers_maryana/status/1212508027225591808
*ahem*
The 14th Air Force, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, has been renamed. It will now live long and prosper as Space Operations Command, or SPOC, according to a recent service announcement.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/31/new-us-space-force-hub-renamed-spoc.html
This is hilariously bad
@ lobo91:
Yeah, that’s really bad.
@ lobo91:
I made it to 2:10.
Don’t ever do that to me again.
This is a fun article on the space missions due for 2020. For me, the neatest one is US Air Force’s X-37B space plane
The U.S. Air Force is expected to, sometime in 2020, once again launch the mysterious X-37B space plane (also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle).
This will be the sixth mission of the uncrewed vehicle, which can stay in space for up to a year at a time to perform its secret work. In 2019, one of Air Force’s two known X-37 spacecraft returned to Earth after a record-breaking 780-day spaceflight. That’s more than two years in space.
The Air Force usually discusses only the overall goals of the program, because it classifies each payload: “Reusable spacecraft technologies for America’s future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth,” states an X-37B fact sheet produced by the Air Force.
https://www.space.com/space-missions-to-watch-2020.html
@ lobo91:
Virginia gun store says firearms, ammunition, and magazines flying off the shelves. Upswing on buying by cash
“This is the largest Christmas and November, December that we’ve had, basically, since Trump has come on board. The only other person that was a better salesman right now is when we had President Obama,” said Jerry Rapp, owner of SpecDive Tactical, in Alexandria, comparing the administrations of President Trump and his White House predecessor, Barack Obama.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/virginia-gun-store-says-firearms-ammunition-and-magazines-flying-off-the-shelves-upswing-on-buying-by-cash
Virginia: Somali Muslim FBI translator pleads guilty after his own voice was intercepted on terror surveillance calls
and his kids are on the terror-watch, no-fly lists
It’s the new Holy Trinity. Virginia, Jihad, FBI fuck-up
https://creepingsharia.tumblr.com/post/189977963411/virginia-somali-muslim-fbi-translator-pleads
@ lobo91:
At about 2:30 there is an inset with a Bloomberg quote: “If you want to have a gun in your home, I think your pretty stupid”. I almost agree with that, why would anyone want to just have a gun. You don’t want just one gun, you want a firearm for multiple purposes.
2/4 Yesterday, i broke even 38/69…1600/1000 this far
Bloomberg should be forced to live without his armed security detail.
heh
https://www.weaselzippers.us/441063-viral-video-shows-man-getting-shocked-trying-to-steal-electrified-trump-yard-sign/
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
even better – I’d bet the ranch his daughter is surrounded. Pull those guys.