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St Valentine’s Day 2020 open

by coldwarrior ( 104 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at February 14th, 2020 - 9:25 am

Interesting read on the Saint

I gave Mrs Coldwarrior gifts on our first Valentine’s together…in typical Russian fashion she says:

“What did you do wrong?”

She thinks it’s a stupid day (a ploy to sell cards, flowers, chocolate, and dinners) so we don’t bother.

Enjoy yinz’s weekend?

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  1. 1 | February 14, 2020 9:55 am

    Thank you NASCAR for moving the Daytona 500 back to Presidents’ Day weekend, where it belongs.


  2. eaglesoars
    2 | February 14, 2020 11:59 am

    a ploy to sell cards, flowers, chocolate, and dinners

    Welcome to capitalism. Worst system in the world except for all the other ones.

    p.s. I’ll take her chocolate


  3. eaglesoars
    3 | February 14, 2020 12:01 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    a ploy to sell cards, flowers, chocolate, and dinners

    you left out the jewelry


  4. eaglesoars
    4 | February 14, 2020 1:47 pm

    oh, man you should hear Mark Steyn RIPPING Barr. He was ripping him BEFORE the news came out that McCabe is going to skate, now he wants him flayed alive.


  5. AZfederalist
    5 | February 14, 2020 2:40 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    oh, man you should hear Mark Steyn RIPPING Barr. He was ripping him BEFORE the news came out that McCabe is going to skate, now he wants him flayed alive.

    Barr has been a disappointment. Unfortunately, this double-tiered justice system is going to backfire on the elites. They should take a few lessons from history and understand some of the causes of vigilantism.


  6. coldwarrior
    6 | February 14, 2020 3:22 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Nothing is going to happen to anyone.

    Tic effing tock, buy my book…


  7. eaglesoars
    7 | February 14, 2020 3:30 pm

    @ AZfederalist:
    @ coldwarrior:

    Joe DeGenova is speculating that the issue is the jury pool in D.C. Only 4% voted for Trump and prosecutors generally don’t bring cases they don’t have a good chance of winning.

    My response to that is, if the process if the punishment, process the fucker.


  8. eaglesoars
    8 | February 14, 2020 4:25 pm

    Well, maybe not the jury pool. Maybe the JUDGE. Who is, quite obviously, anti-Trump

    Reggie Walton, who is handling the FOIA case, had publicly pressed prosecutors to make a final decision about the McCabe prosecution and had set a deadline Friday for them to disclose previously-secret records related to the FOIA litigation.

    The newly-disclosed files showed that in private, Walton was even more stern with prosecutors, warning them that Trump’s complaints about McCabe would taint any decision they made.

    “The public is listening to what’s going on, and I don’t think people like the fact that you got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted … I just think it’s a banana republic when we go down that road,” Walton told government lawyers behind closed doors in September. “I think there are a lot of people on the outside who perceive that there is undo inappropriate pressure being brought to bear … It’s just, it’s very disturbing that we’re in the mess that we’re in in that regard.

    “I just think the integrity of the process is being unduly undermined by inappropriate comments and actions on the part of people at the top of our government,” added Walton, an appointee of President George W. Bush. “I think it’s very unfortunate. And I think as a government and as a society we’re going to pay a price at some point for this.”

    But Trump’s tweets came AFTER McCabe admitted to lying, IIRC


  9. Possum
    10 | February 14, 2020 5:24 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    a ploy to sell cards, flowers, chocolate, and dinners

    Welcome to capitalism. Worst system in the world except for all the other ones.

    p.s. I’ll take her chocolate

    I did not get fooled into buying useless shit to give to my he/she/them/they friend.

    Roast beef on wheat with provolone, onions and mayo with a cup of tomato soup and a diet coke. Delivered at he/she/them/they workplace at lunch time.

    Just another normal day.


  10. eaglesoars
    11 | February 14, 2020 5:43 pm

    Possum wrote:

    I did not get fooled into buying useless shit to give to my he/she/them/they friend.

    commie bastard


  11. Possum
    12 | February 14, 2020 5:52 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    commie bastard

    Caring commie bastard I think you meant to say.

    🙂


  12. rain of lead
    13 | February 14, 2020 6:51 pm

    hey y’all
    momcat said hey.


  13. eaglesoars
    15 | February 14, 2020 7:01 pm

    @ rain of lead:
    hey guys, where have you been?


  14. RIX
    16 | February 14, 2020 8:59 pm

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine
    Happy Valentines Day. Here is his story.


  15. eaglesoars
    17 | February 14, 2020 9:45 pm

    The Department of Justice has tapped an outside prosecutor to review the case of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Fox News has learned.

    A senior Justice Department official told Fox News on Friday that Jeff Jensen, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, has been assigned to Flynn’s case.

    Jensen will be working hand-in-hand with the lead prosecutor of Flynn case, Brandon Van Grack, according to the official.

    https://www.weaselzippers.us/443743-justice-department-taps-outside-prosecutor-to-review-handling-of-michael-flynn-case/#disqus_thread

    Oh, yeah, Van Grack is going to be SUCH a big help, I feel so much better.

    It’s not easy to insult my intelligence, but these assholes have managed.


  16. AZfederalist
    18 | February 14, 2020 11:35 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    It’s not easy to insult my intelligence, but these assholes have managed.

    Just like the reason they let McCabe skate is because of a tweet from the President. Yeah, right.


  17. coldwarrior
    19 | February 15, 2020 1:02 am

    Two tiered justice system.


  18. coldwarrior
    20 | February 15, 2020 1:05 am

    6f…cold but no wind. Ok. Fire is lit on the deck, a nice romeo y jullietta noche, and the last of the don Julio 1942 tequila.

    A great night cap.


  19. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    21 | February 15, 2020 3:42 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    6f…cold but no wind. Ok. Fire is lit on the deck, a nice romeo y jullietta noche, and the last of the don Julio 1942 tequila.

    A great night cap.

    7×70 Schizo Maduro. Cigar cooler is holding a steady 60-65 with minimal humidification right now. Turns out that Rocky Patel Edge boxes are the perfect size for shelves. Will throw in a crystal jar next week for humidification and it should be perfect. It was a great score and will be a perfect cigar cooler. Can’t believe how well it worked out.


  20. eaglesoars
    22 | February 15, 2020 8:46 am

    good morning!

    It’s Dorian’s birthday, don’t forget to harass him.


  21. coldwarrior
    23 | February 15, 2020 12:35 pm

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
    I like it!

    Patel Edge is a really good cigar too.


  22. RIX
    26 | February 15, 2020 2:54 pm

    Gordon Chang an expert on China is on FNC right now discussing relations between the US and China,
    He pointed something out. The Woo Han Province where the corona vius first broke out is the same province that was first to have Hong Konk type demonstrations against the Chineese government.
    Food for thought and speculation.


  23. 27 | February 15, 2020 2:54 pm

    @ coldwarrior:
    Did she know something about the Clinton family?


  24. eaglesoars
    28 | February 15, 2020 3:07 pm

    I got nuthin’. Maybe someone else does

    Space Force wants ideas ‘in good taste’ on what it should call its members

    https://nypost.com/2020/02/14/space-force-wants-ideas-in-good-taste-on-what-it-should-call-its-members/


  25. 29 | February 15, 2020 3:25 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Space Force wants ideas ‘in good taste’ on what it should call its members

    Idiots?


  26. 30 | February 15, 2020 4:27 pm

    Bloomy/Hillary 2020?
    https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2020/02/15/michael-bloomberg-apparently-considering-hillary-clinton-as-his-running-mate/

    He’d better watch his back or he’ll commit Arkancide.


  27. Aussie Infidel
    31 | February 15, 2020 4:51 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I got nuthin’. Maybe someone else does

    Space Force wants ideas ‘in good taste’ on what it should call its members

    https://nypost.com/2020/02/14/space-force-wants-ideas-in-good-taste-on-what-it-should-call-its-members/

    Not sure about qualified Space warriors, but I do know about ‘Space Cadets’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU7TdtLzPrA

    Space Commander Dodgers to Space Cadet P. Pig ….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU7TdtLzPrA

    🙂


  28. eaglesoars
    32 | February 15, 2020 5:15 pm

    @ right_wing2:

    His campaign won’t confirm or deny. After he said he’d convert the East Room into one big cubicle-filled office space, I wondered if perhaps he’s on the autism scale. It’s not that his elevator doesn’t stop at all the floors, it’s that he’s missing some floors.


  29. eaglesoars
    33 | February 15, 2020 5:18 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I got nuthin’.

    Frontier Forces? As in ‘final frontier’? As in ‘The American Frontier’, a big part of our national mythology.


  30. Aussie Infidel
    34 | February 15, 2020 5:22 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Chinese economic numbers shows the country cratering.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/china-disintegrating-steel-demand-property-sales-traffic-all-approaching-zero

    Remember that because dodgy CCP economic counting techniques combined with a housing sector that sports a 40% BS factor due to corrupt Provincial build data that include building for demolition to meet CCP Five Year Plan requirements. To put it simply that means that the ACTUAL Chinese GDP is factored 6% higher than its real GDP.

    Given that China has had ZERO GDP Growth since 1015 and it’s looking down the barrel of MINUS 7% for 2020’s Q1 with no likelihood of any rebound for Q2 as the numbers continue south in an apparent freefall.

    Don’t expect the West go get away from this recession scot free either. Being joined at the hip to china as many in the West are means that many western economies will feel China’s economic pain. In particular the US , EU, and Australasia, not to mention all of those Africal economies who sold their should to become China’s quarries.


  31. Aussie Infidel
    35 | February 15, 2020 5:25 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I got nuthin’.

    Frontier Forces? As in ‘final frontier’? As in ‘The American Frontier’, a big part of our national mythology.

    You could call the Space Force servicemen and women …. cowboys… of the final frontier!

    🙂

    HEH!


  32. eaglesoars
    36 | February 15, 2020 5:41 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Don’t expect the West go get away from this recession scot free either

    No one is getting away from this one. The U.S. is probably the best positioned to take the hits – we can gear up to make just about anything. My big concern is our pharmaceuticals. There may be other more susceptible, critical areas I’m not aware of.

    I’ve no love for the CCP but I feel so sorry for the Chinese people. This is like the plague in medieval Europe


  33. rain of lead
    37 | February 15, 2020 5:51 pm

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-plans-to-take-the-beast-for-a-lap-at-daytona-500

    and you know he will say to the driver “ok pal, floor it!”


  34. rain of lead
    38 | February 15, 2020 5:53 pm

    @ rain of lead:

    hell yeah, what this guy said

    Please, dear Lord, inspire some pit crew to put a flame wrap on the front and sides of the limo, Trump’s signature above the door, and the number 45 on both sides of the car.


  35. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    39 | February 15, 2020 6:03 pm

    God I love jeeps. Lending my other jeep to my ex, with the possiblility of her buying it. It’s been sitting for a year. Year old gas, no oil, no water in the battery. Throw on the jumper cables turn the key. “Well, I guess if you need me to, I’ll fire up.” Lol. Unbelievable. Loved the look on my ex and her wifes face. Filled the oil, changed the tire, put water in the battery and off they go.


  36. Aussie Infidel
    40 | February 15, 2020 6:11 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Don’t expect the West go get away from this recession scot free either

    No one is getting away from this one. The U.S. is probably the best positioned to take the hits – we can gear up to make just about anything. My big concern is our pharmaceuticals. There may be other more susceptible, critical areas I’m not aware of.

    I’ve no love for the CCP but I feel so sorry for the Chinese people. This is like the plague in medieval Europe

    I agree that the US is better set up than most as it is and has been an isolationist economy with economies of scale and markets to survive alone if necessary.The US has always been just an amateur trader who indulged for a sideline hobby. Bad luck for all of those economies who need to trade for their survival.

    Bad luck especially for the Aussies who allowed china to use them as its quarry. Given that the both sides of Australia’s political elites are determined to gut Australia’s energy sector and destroy Australia’s energy dependant industries for the sake of an utopian Green Dream, will only compound the pain in Oz.

    I’m forecasting that China will be officially in a deep recession officially by mid year.


  37. Possum
    41 | February 15, 2020 6:13 pm

    I am starting to understand why some people go insane, wear tin foil hats, (In fact you cannot get tin foil any more, it is now aluminium foil and probably does not protect as well as tin used to, but I digress ) and refuse to be near any electronics and live in the remote parts of Wyoming.

    Several weeks ago I met a friend for lunch. After lunch we sat in friend’s car for a while and discussed electrical kitchen appliances. I think it was either crock pots or air fryers. Anyway the actual product is irrelivent but the store my friend advised me to look at was… and as my friend spoke the name of the store my mind interpreted it as “Coles”

    Later that evening I started seeing adverts on web pages for “Khol’s” Hey what a coincidence!!!! And that is how Coles is really spelt.

    Today, lunch again and we both sat in friends car after and talked about coronavirus and the cruise ship that had 3000 on board for weeks. Talked about crieses in general and both agreed that it was not something either of us would do, or like. Except maybe Alaska.

    I also said Mediterranean may be good as you just get on ship, it sails four hours and you get off and visit a place, get back on, eat sleep and next day another new place to visit. But again I am rambling….

    Got back to my apartment, got on the Internet and I bet you will never guess what adverts are appearing.

    Mediterranean cruise $2,999

    Next time I meet my friend for lunch I am going to use sign language.


  38. Aussie Infidel
    42 | February 15, 2020 6:16 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I’ve no love for the CCP but I feel so sorry for the Chinese people. This is like the plague in medieval Europe

    And like the Black Death in Europe it freed up the market and allowed people to market their skills which eventually sparked the Renaissance.
    One hopes that this for all the coming pain will free the Chinese people to reach their full potential.


  39. eaglesoars
    43 | February 15, 2020 6:32 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    freed up the market

    if you mean “just about wiped out the labor market” – yeah

    Possum wrote:

    Next time I meet my friend for lunch I am going to use sign language.

    I’ve been yelling about that crap forever. One of you have a phone with you?

    I bought an upgraded Kindle a year or so ago. Imagine my surprise when fucking ALEXA started talking to me.

    Fortunately, it understands ‘Alexa fuck right off’. Not that I have any illusions that it’s actually gone, but at least I’m not having a ‘conversation’ with an AI droid.

    And I remember the early days of – what was the name – Liza? Lisa? Something like that.


  40. eaglesoars
    44 | February 15, 2020 6:37 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    Please, dear Lord, inspire some pit crew to put a flame wrap on the front and sides of the limo, Trump’s signature above the door, and the number 45 on both sides of the car.

    oh yes!


  41. Possum
    45 | February 15, 2020 6:41 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Both of us. Mine Android, friend’s iPhone.

    Now this could be pure coincidence, me adverts now that I have been getting before but only after a conversation noticing them.

    A few months ago I Googled Japanese Restaurants and ordered a delivery online. I now get adverts in Japanese occasionally.

    That I can understand, well not the adverts, they are in Japanese! But the reason I get them.


  42. eaglesoars
    46 | February 15, 2020 6:58 pm

    Possum wrote:

    Now this could be pure coincidence

    nope

    for myself, I actually like it. There is an almost 100% chance that my phone is not more than 30 feet from me. If I disappear, it’s not a bad way to start looking for me. And all I have to do if I get in trouble is say “Hi Google, call the police” or “phone Home” – anything in my contact list. So I think of it as an emergency beacon device.


  43. eaglesoars
    47 | February 15, 2020 7:03 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    Here’s another article on the global impact

    https://www.guggenheiminvestments.com/perspectives/global-cio-outlook/coronavirus-impact-on-the-global-economy

    Yet as a major economic problem looms on the horizon, the cognitive disconnect between current asset prices and reality feels like the market equivalent of “peace for our time.” The average BBB bond yields just 2.9 percent. A recent 10-year BB-rated healthcare bond came to market at 3.5 percent and subsequently was increased in size from $1 billion to $1.7 billion due to excess demand.

    For those investors who perceive the disconnect between risk assets which are priced for a rosy outcome and the reality of the looming risks to growth and earnings, any attempt to reduce risk leads to underperformance. It is a mind-numbing exercise for investors who see the cognitive dissonance


  44. AZfederalist
    48 | February 15, 2020 7:07 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/13/first-female-muslim-united-states-judge-found-dead-hudson-river.html

    Odd.

    So they call her a U.S. Judge which usually implies federal. However, she was appointed by Mario the Pious, so she was just a state judge, not Federal. It was all about her being the First Female Black muslim judge.


  45. eaglesoars
    49 | February 15, 2020 7:08 pm

    You can get it TWICE?

    Hubei Doctors Warn Of Even-Deadlier Coronavirus Reinfection Causing Sudden Heart Attacks

    cytokine storm? This is actually worse than the plague

    https://www.zerohedge.com/health/hubei-doctors-warn-even-deadlier-coronavirus-reinfection-causing-sudden-heart-attacks


  46. AZfederalist
    50 | February 15, 2020 7:09 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Given that China has had ZERO GDP Growth since 1015 and it’s looking down the barrel of MINUS 7% for 2020’s

    Wow, that’s a long period of zero growth

    😆


  47. AZfederalist
    51 | February 15, 2020 7:13 pm

    Possum wrote:

    Next time I meet my friend for lunch I am going to use sign language.

    Or a chalk-board. Chalk board with work


  48. coldwarrior
    52 | February 15, 2020 7:38 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    yeahhhhh……i dont know that that will be widespread. you need some pretty specific parameters to fall in place just right


  49. Aussie Infidel
    53 | February 15, 2020 7:39 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    if you mean “just about wiped out the labor market” – yeah

    That’s exactly what happened. 1/3 to 1/2 half of Europe died. Housing became cheap and plentiful and the standard of living rose. Labour was less accessible so the price went up and people had more disposable income and ate better food. Education began and especially tertiary education causing an increase in skills and enterprise. Crafts arose to protect new gained freedom of work conditions, but also created the idea of unions.

    It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good!

    🙂


  50. coldwarrior
    54 | February 15, 2020 7:43 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    the laws of supply and demand


  51. Aussie Infidel
    55 | February 15, 2020 7:45 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Given that China has had ZERO GDP Growth since 1015 and it’s looking down the barrel of MINUS 7% for 2020’s

    Wow, that’s a long period of zero growth

    It certainly is. The ‘official GDP growth’ hovered around 6% since 2015, so when you factor in the 6% raised base due to Chinese accounting chicanery and fraud. That makes it effectively zero GDP growth for the past 5 years, all financed by printing presses and a fiat currency that he’s been artificially propped up.

    Now that we are in negative actual GDP Growth territory that whole’ fiscal house of cards’ is being placed under impossible strain!

    Something is got to give!

    🙂


  52. eaglesoars
    56 | February 15, 2020 7:45 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    but also created the idea of unions.

    I thought guilds pre-dated the plague

    coldwarrior wrote:

    i dont know that that will be widespread.

    are you referring to the disease or the economics?


  53. Aussie Infidel
    57 | February 15, 2020 7:46 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    the laws of supply and demand

    I would say so!

    NOBODY beats Supply and demand for long and survives to tell the tale.

    🙂


  54. coldwarrior
    58 | February 15, 2020 7:48 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    I agree that the US is better set up than most as it is and has been an isolationist economy with economies of scale and markets to survive alone if necessary.The US has always been just an amateur trader who indulged for a sideline hobby. Bad luck for all of those economies who need to trade for their survival.

    gospel.

    its a great time to start back on the pah of goods independence


  55. coldwarrior
    59 | February 15, 2020 7:48 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    NOBODY beats Supply and demand

    1st iron law of economics.


  56. Aussie Infidel
    60 | February 15, 2020 7:49 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    You can get it TWICE?

    Hubei Doctors Warn Of Even-Deadlier Coronavirus Reinfection Causing Sudden Heart Attacks

    cytokine storm? This is actually worse than the plague

    https://www.zerohedge.com/health/hubei-doctors-warn-even-deadlier-coronavirus-reinfection-causing-sudden-heart-attacks

    … and the period of antibody protection only lasts about 2 month apparently so we should be seeing the new some reinfection numbers coming in soon, as well as the prognosis for re-infected patient death rates IF the CCP allows them to be released.


  57. coldwarrior
    61 | February 15, 2020 7:50 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    good morning!

    It’s Dorian’s birthday, don’t forget to harass him.

    he needs a good dose of haranguing and such.

    😉


  58. Aussie Infidel
    62 | February 15, 2020 7:52 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I thought guilds pre-dated the plague

    Only a few core guilds especially in the technical trades such as building.

    There was a massive blossoming of new trades and associated guilds post Plague


  59. Aussie Infidel
    63 | February 15, 2020 7:53 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    quote

    Yup

    Not even the CCP.

    Actually. Especially the CCP all like folks!

    🙂


  60. eaglesoars
    64 | February 15, 2020 7:53 pm

    very early reports of embassy in Baghdad under attack


  61. coldwarrior
    65 | February 15, 2020 7:59 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    cytokine storm?

    https://hms.harvard.edu/news/eyeing-storm-sepsis

    light reading.

    you have to be very very septic first…then the storm MIGHT happen….

    lots of variables. including quick reaction to sepsis which occurs in all american hospitals. its drilled into our heads.


  62. coldwarrior
    66 | February 15, 2020 8:00 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    very early reports of embassy in Baghdad under attack

    these people need to get a hobby, or girl friends.


  63. eaglesoars
    67 | February 15, 2020 8:03 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    as well as the prognosis for re-infected patient death rates

    according to the article it’s the MEDICINE that’s killing them the 2nd time around, as it’s so hard on the heart.

    This is not your run-of-the-mill antibiotic scenario.

    Cytokine ‘storms’ are not as rare as you might think, it’s suspected in my auto-immune hepatitis, post-e.coli infection and we think we may be looking at onset of one in Mia, post-bacterial infection. They can be a bitch to manage.


  64. Aussie Infidel
    68 | February 15, 2020 8:04 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    You can get it TWICE?

    Hubei Doctors Warn Of Even-Deadlier Coronavirus Reinfection Causing Sudden Heart Attacks

    cytokine storm? This is actually worse than the plague

    https://www.zerohedge.com/health/hubei-doctors-warn-even-deadlier-coronavirus-reinfection-causing-sudden-heart-attacks

    Ahhh SHIT !

    The virus can hide for up to 24 days!

    Bugger

    Daughter and associated Chinese students who have been quarantined just got out of 14 day quarantine last Tuesday. That means that they can still be asymptomatically infectious. Shit! That puts them as potentially infectious up until Feb 20 ! And there are about 50 Chinese students living in various school dormitories at St Cuth’s as we speak!

    What are the odds?

    We’ve got to be VERY careful here as we have a pulmonary compromised baby involved in the family!

    BUGGER!


  65. eaglesoars
    69 | February 15, 2020 8:05 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    lots of variables. including quick reaction to sepsis

    Ever hear that Comcast commercial about the kid who lost his limbs due to a ‘bad case of the flu’? Yeah, that was sepsis/cytokine storm


  66. Aussie Infidel
    70 | February 15, 2020 8:06 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    very early reports of embassy in Baghdad under attack

    these people need to get a hobby, or girl friends.

    One of the problems is that the girls are not interested anymore.

    Perhaps handsome long lashed camels will suffice?

    🙂


  67. Aussie Infidel
    71 | February 15, 2020 8:09 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    I agree that the US is better set up than most as it is and has been an isolationist economy with economies of scale and markets to survive alone if necessary.The US has always been just an amateur trader who indulged for a sideline hobby. Bad luck for all of those economies who need to trade for their survival.

    gospel.

    its a great time to start back on the pah of goods independence

    Bad luck about Oz.

    They allowed China to dominate their mining customer base to the extent that they are now in trouble. Oz and NZ HAVE to trade or they die a slow death of economic strangulation.


  68. eaglesoars
    72 | February 15, 2020 8:17 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    coldwarrior wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    very early reports of embassy in Baghdad under attack

    these people need to get a hobby, or girl friends.

    One of the problems is that the girls are not interested anymore.

    Perhaps handsome long lashed camels will suffice?

    Looks like they missed

    #BREAKING:None of the four rockets fired by the #IRGC backed #KataibHezbollah hit the #USEmbassy in #Baghdad’s #GreenZone however it seems they have hit something else in that neighborhood. Plume of smoke detected over the area shows that something is burning due to these rockets

    https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/1228850081241223168

    photo at the link


  69. Canoe Convoy
    73 | February 15, 2020 9:48 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel: It’s like trying to combat the Gods of the Copybook headings. You will always lose.


  70. Canoe Convoy
    74 | February 15, 2020 9:49 pm

    Also, even if it is belated: https://youtu.be/E0LAs7X5ybE


  71. eaglesoars
    75 | February 15, 2020 10:36 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    My big concern is our pharmaceuticals. There may be other more susceptible, critical areas I’m not aware of.

    Apparently not.

    The effect on the supply chain caused by events in China has affected many areas of manufacturing but, ironically, none more than the pharmaceutical industry.

    https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/how-a-world-without-borders-became-a-ward-with-no-exit/

    I do remember reading that a good part of the API industry had been in Puerto Rico – until the hurricanes. I don’t know what the status of that is now.

    I’m off to read, nite


  72. AZfederalist
    76 | February 15, 2020 11:11 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Perhaps handsome long lashed camels will suffice?

    Thought that’s what the goats were for


  73. AZfederalist
    77 | February 15, 2020 11:13 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    I was kind of yanking your chain, the original post said that China’s zero growth had started in 1015, before the Middle Ages.


  74. Aussie Infidel
    78 | February 15, 2020 11:48 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    I was kind of yanking your chain, the original post said that China’s zero growth had started in 1015, before the Middle Ages.

    Opps!

    Alas chain yanking loses it’s sting a bit when I failed to read your obvious error 1015!

    🙂


  75. Aussie Infidel
    79 | February 15, 2020 11:55 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Perhaps handsome long lashed camels will suffice?

    Thought that’s what the goats were for

    Nah!

    Goats are so 7th Century!

    Now those big tased camels also lend themselves to contraception by the bucket method.

    As soon as someone gets too excited the camel is trained to kick the bucket on which it’s lover is standing. Thus acting as a contraceptive. It is not however 100% successful given some of the bearded head banging types I’ve seen walking about who are obvious proginy of camels and heir Middle Eastern males lovers!

    🙂


  76. eaglesoars
    82 | February 16, 2020 10:25 am

    This should have occurred to me but didn’t. Iran has close economic ties w/China, so now THEIR already weak economy is getting slammed

    This is behind a WSJ paywall, but the headline says it all

    Coronavirus Outbreak Slams Iran’s Embattled Economy

    Demand from Beijing, one of Tehran’s last crude-oil customers, drops amid chaos of health crisis

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-outbreak-slams-irans-embattled-economy-11581627392


  77. 83 | February 16, 2020 10:51 am

    The very first act that every individual performs upon enlisting in the Armed Forces of the United States is promise to uphold and defend The Constitution.

    For the Army the oath of enlistment was this:

    I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

    All of us who served in the Armed Forces made this promise to the nation.

    And every one of us who has served has broken that promise. Every one of us has allowed traitors and murderers to rule over us and every one of us has obeyed every order the traitors and murderers have issued.

    We deserve to punished for this. We really do deserve to be punished for this.

    All of us who served the United States in the armed forces took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. The time has come to keep that promise.


  78. RIX
    84 | February 16, 2020 11:50 am

    Tom Steyer was just on with Martha Radditz. This guy is profoundly weird and babbles gibberish.
    He tried to sell that the economy is poor and even Martha Radditz pushed back. Steyer got all huffy and accused her of defending Trump. Say what? This woman cried on air when a Trump was elected.
    Out of curiosity I googled Steyers Wiki page. He comes from private equity just as I figured.
    Trump created wealth and thousands of jobs. Steyer however moved money around destroying lives and jobs while creating no new wealth. Vulture capitalism ala Pierre Delecto.
    I have seen these guys up close and personal.


  79. eaglesoars
    85 | February 16, 2020 12:16 pm

    So, Possum and I were talking about how one’s internet activity can result in targeted ads, etc.

    And I’ve been posting a lot about China, coronovirus, emails, etc.

    Today a new newspaper was delivered. World Journal, which appears to be a Chinese newspaper, as I can’t read a word of it. I can see the terms CDC and WHO and World Journal. That’s about it.

    We have a lot of neighbors from other countries, but not one from China. Korea,yes, no China, no Japan. And no one’s name, i.e., customer id/address, is printed anywhere on a label, etc.

    just sayin’


  80. eaglesoars
    86 | February 16, 2020 12:20 pm

    @ RIX:

    “Hypocrisy & Hedge Funds: Climate Change Warrior Tom Steyer’s Secret Life as Coal Investment Kingpin.”

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/the-epic-hypocrisy-of-tom-steyer.php


  81. coldwarrior
    87 | February 16, 2020 1:05 pm

    @ RIX:
    Typical finance guy.


  82. coldwarrior
    88 | February 16, 2020 1:06 pm

    @ The Other Les:
    0work local to get real Patriots elected


  83. RIX
    89 | February 16, 2020 2:34 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    @ coldwarrior:
    Yeah Steyer is a piece of work. He has no delegates and got less tha 1% in one of the primaries.
    It has to be a complete vanity candidacy.


  84. Aussie Infidel
    90 | February 16, 2020 4:39 pm

    RIX wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    @ coldwarrior:
    Yeah Steyer is a piece of work. He has no delegates and got less tha 1% in one of the primaries.
    It has to be a complete vanity candidacy.

    Narcissistic amoral bastards!

    There is a lot of it going around these days!

    🙂


  85. Aussie Infidel
    91 | February 16, 2020 4:49 pm

    What I want to know is WHO was on the Telecommunications Advisory Group overseeing the implementation of 5G networks for the UK, and who advised PM Boris Johnson to allow Chinese 5G anywhere neat the UK’s communications system.

    Surely some ‘cub reporter’ from the British Telegraph group can easily dig up the names of these so called ‘experts’. By even suggesting that peripheral systems can be isolated from the Core Systems in a 5G network is delusional, as by its very nature processing is spread to peripheral systems to increase speed.

    There is a need to expose these ‘advisers’ to the cold light of public investigation before any recommendation can be accepted. Vested interests these days are the ‘coin of the realm’ and corruption run deep and crosses international boundaries.

    We all need to know who is who in these advisory groups that suggest such outlandish and dangerous paths to follow. Surely some news hound with his salt can name and expose these so called ‘experts’. We need to know their histories before we can weigh the value of their suggestions.

    Anyone?

    🙂


  86. Aussie Infidel
    92 | February 16, 2020 5:07 pm

    Start with Ciaran Martin who heads Cyber Security at GCHQ. He’s getting out while the ‘getting is good’ later this year after establishing the Group 5 years ago ….. At a Huawei facility in the UK .

    https://news.sky.com/story/uks-cyber-security-chief-to-step-down-next-year-11896433

    This is beyond unbelievable! Talk about getting to know one’s enemies by living with them!

    Who are the members of the GCSB associated advisory group appointed by Martin and what is their associations with the Huawei group?


  87. eaglesoars
    93 | February 16, 2020 5:17 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    At least part of the problem the UK has is there’s no Plan B. Huawei has all of their 4G, there is no telecom that can come in and replace them. Boris didn’t do that, he inherited it.

    And have you noticed that the Pentagon has objected to Trump cutting off Huawei? Their objection supposedly is our telecom suppliers would be cut off form subsidiary suppliers or something, but if you want my opinion – and of course you do – follow the money


  88. rain of lead
    94 | February 16, 2020 7:22 pm

    President Trump Taking A Lap At The Daytona 500

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6k1p9AynpE


  89. Aussie Infidel
    95 | February 16, 2020 7:26 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    follow the money

    ALWAYS the best tack!

    Cambridge has been bought and paid for with CCP ‘gold’ and Oxford though holding out still may just be waiting on a better offer! Who knows.
    These former politicians and senior public servants leverage their power to know how the corrupt system works to line their own pockets. These grubs leave behind staff who feed them access and receive kickbacks. The SWAMP writ large.

    Sir Simon Fraser who has slithered out of government to set up his get rich scheme would be a good place to start the repression. These bastards are beyond embarrassment, just as long as the $$$$ keep flowing in. Folks like this must be crushed openly to dissuade like minded creeps from trying to cash in.


  90. Aussie Infidel
    96 | February 16, 2020 7:28 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    At least part of the problem the UK has is there’s no Plan B. Huawei has all of their 4G, there is no telecom that can come in and replace them. Boris didn’t do that, he inherited it.

    That is Boris’ problem. He was elected as a problem solver. So don’t give me excuses. There are plenty of 5G providers out there who can do the job and some even foreswear using Huawei products too!

    🙂


  91. eaglesoars
    97 | February 16, 2020 7:37 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    That is Boris’ problem. He was elected as a problem solver.

    true. But Maybe Trump could have offered him a Plan B template that recognized the problems w/o pounding on him as a non-cooperative sludge?


  92. Aussie Infidel
    98 | February 16, 2020 7:41 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6k1p9AynpE

    Only TRUMP … Only in America!

    Trump is a genius when it comes to PR optics!

    🙂


  93. Aussie Infidel
    99 | February 16, 2020 7:42 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    That is Boris’ problem. He was elected as a problem solver.

    true. But Maybe Trump could have offered him a Plan B template that recognized the problems w/o pounding on him as a non-cooperative sludge?

    I agree. Still it hasn’t happened yet so anything is still possible especially given the stakes!

    :


  94. rain of lead
    100 | February 16, 2020 7:44 pm

    test


  95. Aussie Infidel
    101 | February 16, 2020 7:48 pm

    Trump even brought his own ride to Daytona!

    🙂
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txBSED-1eA0


  96. eaglesoars
    102 | February 16, 2020 8:40 pm

    Bloomberg is working with the Chinese big time.

    Bloomberg Launches New Access Channels for China Bond Market
    https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberg-launches-new-access-channels-china-bond-market/

    Let China Build The Longest Undersea Rail Tunnel
    The Tallinn-Helsinki link offers Europe more geopolitical advantages than risks.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-13/let-china-build-longest-undersea-finland-estonia-tunnel

    This is one of China’s One Belt to Hang You With bribery/hostage schemes

    And Xi isn’t a dictator

    I won’t even bother you with his take on farmers. Hope over to Instapundit if you want to read the insults


  97. 103 | February 17, 2020 12:28 am

    FWIW, I “found” an old photo of a “lyin’ dog-faced pony soldier” that Biden may have been referring to.

    https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/lyin-dog-faced-pony-soldier.png?w=768&h=600


  98. coldwarrior
    104 | February 17, 2020 1:13 am

    rain of lead wrote:

    test

    yinz passed.

    new thread


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