The Great American Race got rained out yesterday, so they will run it today.
Trump owned it yesterday. The lap in the Beast was perfect.
A victory lap as it were.
It’s an open
Daytona 500 Monday Open 2020
by coldwarrior ( 150 Comments › )Filed under Donald Trump, Open thread, Sports at February 17th, 2020 - 1:09 am
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Play nice!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
perfect.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/air-force-one-executes-amazingly-low-flyover-of-daytona-speedway/
Saw a post somewhere earlier, “the reason the race got rained out was because of all the liberal tears.”
Trump got the same crowd reception that he got at the Army/Navy Game, very upbeat.
I doubt that a lot of libs were watching, but if they were the would conclude that there are more of us than there are of them.
I haven’t read it yet, but wanted to put it out there
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/default/files/public/downloads/cidrap_coal_report.pdf
Pandemic Influenza, Electricity, and the Coal Supply Chain Addressing Crucial Preparedness Gaps in the United States
Nov 2008
Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, Univ. Minnesota
Even the Indians have discovered China’s virus smoking gun!
https://greatgameindia.com/indian-scientists-discover-coronavirus-engineered
These slack CCP bastards can’t even manage to keep their pet pathogens in a bottle.
https://greatgameindia.com/indian-scientists-discover-coronavirus-engineered
Now they’ve accidentally let it loose on their own population and it’s a very difficult virus to put back into the bottle.
Talk about a Home Goal! 🙂
What total waste of rations they are
SPIT
@ Aussie Infidel:
That study is not being accepted. I’ve already posted about it, it’s being trashed from one end to the other.
At the very least, the model for this virus is engineered, I don’t think anyone has doubted that. Somehow it got to a bat (probably)
Also, I also posted an abstract of a paper by several scientists, one of whom is Zhing-li somebody from the Wuhan lab on how they worked on this virus and how infectious it is. The lab wasn’t specified in the abstract, but I think it’s in Canada. If there were a way to search this site by poster’s name, I’d find it again. It was in Nature/medicine and it was in 2015 (I think)
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence
Nov 2015
If you click on Zhingli-Shi’s name –
Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
the race ended in typical daytona fashion wrecks everywhere
ryan newman was in a horrible crash
@ rain of lead:
really really bad crash
@ rain of lead:
rumors on twitter
it was fatal
@ rain of lead:
or not
he’s now at halifax health medical center
been re watching the crash and bloody hell it gets worse each time i see it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj_e3LTsEiU
I just witnessed an epic setup and take down. A new user showed up in a veteran FB group a couple of days ago and started posting pro Trump memes. The lefties attacked in their usual shrieking harpy manner, dissing Trump, attacking the poster, anyone who defended Trump, all the usual name calling and reporting the user to the page admin. A little while ago the ‘new user’ announced that he actually was the page owner/admin and thanked them for revealing themselves for easy removal from the group. It was a brilliant way to expose them and clean them out, just as election season is getting started off. I’m still laughing.
@ rain of lead:
All that the news channels have is that his condition is not known.
Bordm wrote:
Well, that is awesome. Now FB can ban the page owner — yeah, that’s probably not sarcasm
@ Bordm:
So, what is this FB group about? What brings everyone together as a group?
Oh, look! Here’s a pic of Rick Wilson having lunch with Peter Strzok.
https://twitter.com/ShellyMcgough/status/1229578439549538305/photo/1
@ eaglesoars:
It’s a page for folks who were stationed at RAF Lakenheath in England. The owner set it up several years ago and made it a closed group a couple of years ago. There were a few lefties that spouted off any time Trump was mentioned. I guess he got tired of it and decided to draw them all out of the woodwork so he could get rid of them before the election cycle gets into full swing. I suppose he decided to nip it in the bud as it were.
@ Bordm:
Ah, a ‘Let’s keep in touch” sort of thing. I admit to some inner snark at watching the Lefties get the banning club instead of being the ones to wield it.
I’m unusually tired, so I’m out. nite.
Oh, I should say I saw a tweet from somebody who has family on staff at the hospital that Nascar driver was taken too. They said he has a head injury, but he’s stable. FWIW.
And here is a tweet from a Mayor Pete supporter who thinks that, because he supports Trump, Newman “deserves SOME bad karma”
https://twitter.com/warr1orpoet/status/1229600013195599873/photo/1
@ eaglesoars:
“Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”
Must have deleted it….
NASCAR has issued an update on Newman’s condition, stating that he is in serious condition, but that doctors have indicated his injuries are not life-threatening.
I’m not sure what this means. Probably nothing good.
J.P. Cooney, same DOJ attorney who informed McCabe he wouldn’t be charged, has entered an appearance in the Stone case this morning.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1229763540799631360
Trump expected to grant clemency to Blagojevich & Kerik
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/18/trump-expected-to-grant-clemency-to-rod-blagojevich-bernard-kerik.html
I honestly think Trump gets bored and does this to make heads explode because he thinks it’s fun. #metoo
Trump commuted Blagojevich’s sentence
@ coldwarrior:
and the former owner of the 49’ers.
And Barbarian is getting her wish. Trump is headed to California to give a campaign stop/speech (not sure exactly where in California). He’s at Joint Base Andrews now. And we’re doing a very big trade deal with India.
I’m not sure we’re in a much better place
Europe braces for coronavirus-induced drug shortages
With China responsible for most of the EU’s pharma ingredients, supplies are at risk.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-braces-for-coronavirus-induced-drug-shortages/
coldwarrior wrote:
Good news, Blago get screwed, he was no more corrupt than your average Cook County Democrat.
Blogo did not bow to the Machine and alienated his father in law Richard Mell a Machine Dem.
He had no support.
Trying to sell Obamas senate seat was illegal,but the punishment was excessive.
I’ve been thinking that Bloomberg’s problem is that maybe he’s on the autism scale and simply doesn’t ‘get it’.
Nope. He’s just your run-of-the-mill son of a bitch
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/18/mike-bloomberg-lp-nda-china/
Threatening people’s families. What a guy.
@ eaglesoars:
when he is at the next debate, I wonder how hard the other dems will go after
him. I mean with all the quotes of his now getting public, they SHOULD be able to just blow his ass right off the stage
eaglesoars wrote:
As US based BIG Pharma also seeks Chinese ingredients they too are susceptible to either a Chinese boycott or restrictions if production is needed to supply the Chinese home market.
The take away is…. don’t ….. DON’T put all your eggs in one basket folks
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course the virus is engineered. The sudden appearance of separate and different HIV components appearing in the four ports of the Crrone virus structure making it able to attach to human cells and thus infect those cells is a million to one chance. Zhing admitted as much and was using research into bat partial immunity to the effects of the virus as a way forward. The circumsu=tances of how the bat population passed the modified virus onto the local wild bat population and how those bate ended up in the Wuhan ‘wet market’ is yet to be discovered.
You’re correct that the original research was stolen by the Chinese from a Canadian lab.
This is a Home Goal if there ever was one.
It’s common knowledge that the Chinese labs have been trying for years to get a racially specific pathogen. So far unsuccessfully. These idiots are capable of anything and mixed with their sloppy lab habits it makes them very dangerous
An elite hacker network sponsored by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) stole the personal data, including telephone numbers, credit card details, and passwords, of over 13 million people in Britain.
The Chinese reportedly sponsored a 2017 cyberattack on Equifax, a top consumer credit reporting agency. It was described by the United States as the largest database hack in history, with over 145 million Americans being affected — and it has now been revealed millions in the United Kingdom were impacted as well.
Equifax said that the personal data of at least 13.1 million Britons was compromised in the hack as their data was stored on their servers in Atlanta, Georgia.
The hack was conducted by four members of the People’s Liberation Army’s cyber-espionage unit, dubbed the “54th Research Institute”, Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei — all of whom were indicted by the United States Justice Department on Monday.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/17/equifax-hack-china-stole-13-million-peoples-data-in-the-uk/
Yeah, give ‘em control of your 5G network too, that’ll fix it!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
may day-to-day credit card # was stolen about 5 days ago – probably skimmed from a gas station pump (I always used cash except that one time when I was short and in a hurry).
I’m thinking now it’s just a good idea to turn over all the credit cards once a year.
Hmmmm bad luck. Skimming od a global problem but after recent breaches in NZ the Romanian crews who were responsible were caught based on video evidence and are now being provided 3 square meals a day courtesy of Her Majesty’s government.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Sen. Tom Cotton who is on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has again raised concerns about the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory while appearing on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News.
“Now, we don’t have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of China’s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning we need to at least ask the question,” Cotton said of the lab.
The National Biosafety Laboratory is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is classed “Cellular Level Biosafety Level 4” – meaning it works on the most dangerous pathogens, like Ebola.
“This virus did not originate in the Wuhan animal market,” he said.
In response, Cotton doubled down on his claims, saying: “It’s not a ‘theory’ and certainly not a ‘conspiracy theory,’ but rather a hypothesis.”
“But given the CCP’s ongoing dishonesty, we have to examine the hypothesis and demand the evidence,” he added, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.
Suspicion over the origins of the coronavirus comes as China continues to search for a cure, and faces accusations that it had suppressed information about the virus. When the SARS coronavirus broke out in China in the early 2000s, the government initially covered it up.
Cotton’s theory has already been thoroughly debunked by multiple scientists.
“There’s absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered,” Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University.
“The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded.”
(Okay Dick, what is your evidence to make that statement?)
Vipin Narang, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it was “a skip in logic to say it’s a bioweapon” or claim China “developed and intentionally deployed, or even unintentionally deployed” the virus.
(Okay Vippy….what is your evidence to support your statement??)
CNN’s Jake Tapper also quoted an unnamed healthcare expert as saying Cotton’s theory was nonsense.
(Oooo….an “ nnamed” expert!…..and via CNN, no less…..well then, this MUST be factual!!)
“The rumour is circulating but there is no evidence to date that this is true,” the expert said, according to Tapper.
“Hopefully the WHO team will get the samples from the original cases and we will be able to figure this out. Until then, I put it in the conspiracy theory bucket.”
This would be the same WHO that praised China for their (non) actions regarding Coronavirus and castigated any country that stopped flights by Chinese nationals.
The same WHO that has NEVER recommended….EVER….that travel be curtailed to stop ANY pathogens.
Yeah, that WHO.
The unelected bureaucrats that will get the bulk of there money from the Chinese now that Trump is curtailing dough to the UN.
Differing expectations of what a future trade deal should look like will leave the UK and EU ripping each other apart at the negotiating table, a suggestion the British government has denied as overcomplicating matters.
French foreign minister and close ally to President Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said on Sunday that “everyone is going to defend their interests” in the coming trade negotiations, but clearly signalled that the national interests of the different parties would lead to fractious negotiations.
The statesman said: “I think that on trade issues or on the measures for our future relationship that we are going to discuss, we are going to start on, we are going to rip each other apart.
“But that is part of the negotiation. Everyone is going to defend their interests.”
While the United Kingdom technically departed the European Union at the end of January 2020, it continues to trade as a full member of the Union and follow the bloc’s rules for as long as it remains in the so-called transition period. This means in practice, it is unlikely Britain will actually become an independent nation until the end of December 2020, although there is a mechanism to extend the period even further.
European leaders want to keep the United Kingdom tied as closely as possible to the European Union, forcing it to accept the continuing supremacy of EU rules in return for maintaining the status quo on cross-border trade, or something close to it. The problem faced by the British government is continuing to accept EU rules in return for trade means Britain will never really leave the European Union.
How’s that old Eagles song go?….
“You can check out anytime you like,
but you can never leave”
Aussie Infidel wrote:
maybe we should send him a copy of that Nature abstract. I suspect a bat got out of the lab. That’s the simplest explanation. There’s no implied nefarious intent in the fact it was ‘engineered’ – that’s what these places do, in order to develop counter-measures.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
You should see the fight coming up over the fishing rights. The French have threatened to use their navy in English waters or something. They’ve all lost their minds. I suspect the real issue is the EU is worried about other countries wanting to leave (Italy would be my first guess). The Brits may not have much of a navy left, but I think it would behoove the French to recall Dunkirk.
And there’s some kabuki theater going on in Boris’ cabinet I can’t follow. It’s not just Cummings, it’s some little smudge who is all for incest or something. And eugenics. Great entertainment value if they weren’t also dealing with biblical flooding.
eaglesoars wrote:
You’re doubly correct. It was engineered and yes it was probable that sloppy lab procedures allowed a bat infected with this strain of the virus to escape and spread the pathogen to wild bats who eventually ended up in the Wuhan ‘wet market’.
The rest as they say is history
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
https://fromrome.info/2020/02/17/open-persecution-of-the-catholic-clergy-has-begin-in-victoria-state-australia/#comments
Looks as if Broglino’s oppression of the Church is now open for all to see even outside China where Frank’s go to man Perolin effectively threw Chinese Catholics under the bus by doing the business with the atheistic CCP.
Meantime Cardinal George Pell remains in his cell in solitary awaiting his final Federal Appeal in May against his egregious conviction by elements within the State of Victoria’s justice ministry.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
If I had an audience of any kind, that’s what I would write about. I don’t even LIKE the Catholic Church, but it’s become a vector for infection of Western Culture and that needs to be made clear.
eaglesoars wrote:
The British fishing fleet operates mostly in the North Sea and their competitors are the Icelandics and Norwegians. The traditional Channel British fishing grounds extend to France’s 3 mile limit and Brit Factory Fishery vessels operate against small family French fishing boats. The agreements over timing of Brit access to these fishing grounds havre until now been governed by EU protocols. Not so anymore, hence the French fear that the Brits will show up on day #1 of the fishing season and scoop up the lot, leaving the small French fishers with nothing.
The timing of Brit fishing fleet access to these traditional areas is just a lever that Boris has to use as a stick with which to beat the EU over the head and then come to an agreement, similar to what is currently agreed, in response with something else that the UK wants from the EU. Quid pro Quo writ large.
There is a lot of that going about these days!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
That fact would make you the perfect reporter to write about the writ that has hollowed out the Church …. just as it was forecast to do.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
From my Brexit friends I used to have a video comparing the catch the Brit fleets were bringing home. They are getting raped.
Also, anytime somebody can stick it to the French, I’m happy. My dad used to say that you can’t get Americans to agree on anything – except everybody hates the French
eaglesoars wrote:
Even the French hate the French!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
That was mostly in the North Atlantic and the North Sea fishing grounds. The Channel fisheries it’s the Brits who are the rapers modified by EU timing rules that give the small French fishers a shot at it first. Trouble is the small Brit fishers get lumped in with the big time factory fishers as well and by the time they get to the French coast there is nothing left!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I will have to re-look, because I haven’t looked in years (not a lot but…). I will ask. There’s a Brit blog and they’re going to flay me alive, but they do tell the truth, if I can manage to navigate my way thru the cuss words I’ve never heard before & I would blush if I understood them. If you want some serious entertainment, try going-postal.com
ok, here we go
The EU claims all UK territorial waters as the European Pond. UK waters include the North Sea, Channel, Western Approaches, Irish Sea, a huge chunk of the Atlantic, and the waters around the Hebrides. The richest fishing waters now are around the Shetlands in the northern part of the Atlantic and North Sea, where the better conservation measures of Norway and Iceland have a spillover effect. If the EU succeeds in splitting Scotland and Northern Ireland off from England it also grabs around 80% of UK Territorial Waters.
.
.
We have two hundred miles except where there is less, where we have half way, the other nation having their half.
Basically the EU is stuffed from Oporto to Tromso.
and this – this is what I was trying to remember
http://www.efddgroup.eu/images/publications/Stolen_Seas.pdf
Oh, and the latest ‘hot’ rumor is a Bloomberg/Obama ticket. That would be MICHELLE Obama.
Can you imagine Michelle Obama taking orders from Mike Bloomberg. Can you see them on stage together? She’d have to hold him like Jeff Dunham holds Walter.
Oh, man, somebody should do a meme.
eaglesoars wrote:
Walter for President
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8–lrON9yzs&list=RD8–lrON9yzs&start_radio=1&t=0
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks for that report Eagles. Not only was PM Ted Heath bad news for the UK, he was very probably playing for the opposition. USSR. They held some destructive evidence about his lifestyle at a time when such picaddelos meant the end of one’s career.
if you get my drift
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Yeah, give ‘em control of your 5G network too, that’ll fix it!
And yet I have spoken with Europeans who claim they don’t care if the Chinese have their personal data. “It’s a great product and cheap!”
Reminds me of what Ayn Rand said, “There are people willing to relinquish their right to free speech for a free set of dentures.”
did y’all see the presser from trump?
“THE PRESIDENT: We know a lot. In fact, when I want to get something out to the press, I tell certain people. And it’s amazing, it gets out there. But, so far, I’m leaving it that way.
I’ll see you later. Thank you. See you on the plane.”
How funny would it be if mere hours after essentially TELLING the press he knew who the leakers were……..he used those leakers to bait the press regarding Barr?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/18/imagine-that-mini-mike-bloomberg-qualifies-for-nevada-dnc-debate-with-lift-from-nbc-poll/
https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/724c2901-a509-4ae8-ac09-58e6f8ac025e/note/1ed4db4a-0c8b-49e7-a6b9-eee5e090584c.pdf#page=1
damn, dis should be fun
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/senior-white-house-official-calls-california-occupied-territory-as-trump-lands-in-los-angeles-at-start-of-four-day-west-coast-swing/
perfect
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/18/so-god-made-a-bloomberg/
rain of lead wrote:
These urban elitists need to go a few weeks with no power, no food, no water whilst we deplorables take some time off.
He’ll buy the nomination, the old angry commie and his bros will get shafted again, and its 4 more years.
Apologies to all. I know that the Daytona thread is customarily mine but it’s been a rough week and I needed a brief respite. And when I got to the spa….no laptop. Brilliant.
eaglesoars wrote:
Biden’s already running, isn’t he?
@ The Barbarian:
its ok. i just worked 7 of the past 8 days. jeeze!
now 5 days off, i’m gonna take the miata out for a road test, take some biscotti and cappuccino to mrs coldwarrior, and buy some really nice cigars.
4 day international cricket nz versus india starts tomorrow, 1730 local.
friday night will be very clear and no moon…astronomy date with the mrs.
nothing else planned until back to work monday.
Virginia Gov. Northam to sign bill releasing hundreds of juvenile murder convicts
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-virginia-gov-northam-sign-bill-releasing-hundreds-juvenile-murder-convicts/
Which means John Lee Malvo gets out in 2 yrs. He will be 37, I think. He is the juvenile partner of the D.C. sniper, who was executed years ago.
Kill the babies after they’re born, release the murderers. There’s a logic to that, I suppose
@ eaglesoars:
How many will go straight and how many will be back behind bars in a few years. Or less.
@ right_wing2:
How many are/will be associated with MS-13? I really don’t think there are too many juvenile murderers in this state that aren’t gang members.
I suspect the pool of prisoners eligible for this release is small to begin with, but a murderer is a murderer. If you got life as a juvenile, it’s not because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s because you’re a menace.
The same idiot responsible for the AB5 law in California is now about to kill the insurance industry
She wants to mandate they insure homes in high-risk wildfire areas
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/358797/#respond
Is it a requirement that politicians be stupid? This is from the comments
San Francisco wants to create their own city utility and force PG&E to sell them their entire city infrastructure, what could go wrong?
Ryan Newman has been released from the hospital
coldwarrior wrote:
I didm’t know that you were into astronomy mate?
What type of tube and set up do you have?
eaglesoars wrote:
Well that’s really good news. I had fears that he had brain damage.
@ eaglesoars:
awesome
eaglesoars wrote:
…. and then blame it on Global Warming!
SPIT!
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ve got a bad feeling about this Chewwie……..
NZ Black caps off a 3-0 drubbing of the Indians in the limited over form of the game will be out for revenge. ….. And the coach of the Black Caps is back after his secular ‘holiday’. I assume that the normal screw ups will now appear in the team!
The 11 Black Caps are playing against a team of Indians plus their own coach!
🙂
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Anyone who undervalues their freedoms to that extent will lose both their freedoms as well as their independence!
@ Aussie Infidel:
One made 10 inch and one meade 16 inch newtonian and a set of yuge binoculars with tripod and counter balanced trapezoid arm
@ coldwarrior:
And many occulars and filters and fun stuff
Aussie Infidel wrote:
wait till they find out that all that DNA they’ve been sending off for ancestry analysis ends up being analyzed by – the Chinese.
Think Coronavirus being directed at Asian males is bad? Just wait.
coldwarrior wrote:
Great.
You sound pretty well set up mate.
What’s the viewing like where you live? Do you head away from the city lights to get a better dark sky?
How’s the bankruptcy of Meade and subsequent ongoing lack of supporting spares going to effect you?
eaglesoars wrote:
I know!
I warned my kids NOT to get involved in the ancestry stuff because the Chu=inese were subcontracted to do the lab work.
As usual they knew better!
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
The 10 inch is aa LX200 I assume?
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup.
The Chinese ‘wet dream’ is a race specific virus. They’ve been working on it for years but to little effect so far!
@ Aussie Infidel:
My parents have dark skies.
As for parts, they are newtonian…easy. I built a dobsonian stand for them.pretty impressive bit of work.
I want to get a 10 inch cassagrian with full go to and tracking tho.
@ coldwarrior:
a 10 inch Cassagrian with a tracker is definitely the way to go…… as long as you can still get parts. Light enough to move to dark skies and with enough aperture to satisfy one’s ‘aperture madness’ at least for a while.
I’ve always felt that Celestrons were a bit of ‘toys’ but the larger versions like the 11 inch tube only with a f/10 only cost $1500 used. And as we both know 90% of used telescopes have only been taken out of their boxes on average 3 times!
@ Aussie Infidel:
the 16″ meade is a monster. but wow! amazing views. the 10″ is more manageable as the mirror on the 16 weighs about 50 pounds.
i have a 2″ nagler ocular from teleview that i like to use. its like watching tv.
Jesus
AMID MASS CREMATION FEARS, CHINA DELIVERS ANOTHER 40 GIANT INCINERATORS TO WUHAN
http://www.shadolsonshow.com/2020/02/19/amid-mass-cremation-fears-china-delivers-another-40-giant-incinerators-to-wuhan/
@ eaglesoars:
lovely.
There’s been a shooting in Germany – or several, hard to tell. So far 8 dead, 5 injured, from a drive-by. Hanau Germany. Will post a link when I find a sane one
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-hanau-shooting-multiple-people-21535089
I don’t know what a ‘shisha bar’ is. Shishkabob? Sushi? Sounds targeted, as both sites were this type of establishment
coldwarrior wrote:
Medical waste can range from used medical consumables right through to bodies. Given the coverups endemic in Chinese media one has to assume that at least some of it involves human bodies.
@ Aussie Infidel:
This was a satellite image about 2 weeks ago showing increased sodium dioxide over Wuhan. A byproduct of burning organic material.
Just a guess, but I suspect the virus is not as deadly as the stats from China are going to show IF patients get medical care. At this point, medical facilities have to be overwhelmed and people are probably dying from things like heart attacks that aren’t getting attention.
coldwarrior wrote:
Celestron has Next Star tracking library of stars numbering into the tens of thousands. But is still Celestron. Maybe the larger cassagrians will be of better build quality with gears that are solid and not sloppy.
The main thing is the mount but you already know that!
🙂
….. AND the aperture …. ooooo the aperture. get the widest one that you can afford. That’s why second hand big scopes are the way to go.
Aperture MADNESS is a terrible disease that attacks one’s pocketbook!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
my 16 is a 4.5f
eaglesoars wrote:
I think that was SO2 (Sulphur Dioxide) caused by burning human bodies and other organic waste. The death stats seem to ping-pong between 2.1 to 2.3%. Under Western medical care abet with manageable numbers is much lower but that is off very small numbers. Control in China ranges from massed patients in huge facilities with overworked staff to Police and soldiers nailing shut the door of infected houses and leaving the denizens to either die or get over it.
I noticed that 3000 PLA troops have been withdrawn from Wuhan because of the rates of infection amongst them and logically that sounds a hell of a lot higher than 2.3% !
coldwarrior wrote:
Sweet!
What is the mount?
That’s where the rubber meets the road!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
You need to come ‘down-under’ mate
We get to look into the yaw of the Galaxy from here. I know… I know but everything is ‘upside down’
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
I get to use a Zeiss half metre on occasion at the Auckland Observatory.
The views make you break wind!
🙂
OVER A WEEK AGO?? And this is the first I’ve heard of it? Not even on twatter?
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Paddington Green: inside the anti-terror HQ taken over by climate anarchists
The squatters found their way in to what was once described as Europe’s highest-security police station just over a week ago. “A concentrated effort was made to enter the building, using a ladder and gaining access via the roof,” the Metropolitan police said. The squatters did not comment on these claims.
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And the little shits are still there instead of in the dungeons where IRA thugs were held? Jesus, England is lost
linky
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/18/paddington-green-inside-the-anti-terror-hq-taken-over-by-climate-anarchists
Look at the pic. They’re dweebs, I could take them out for god’s sake
eaglesoars wrote:
What in hell is wrong with the British Police Forces.
Cut Power Water and Sewage and then pump in CS Gas. Leave for a few minur=tes and then allow the anarchists out. They WILL come out I guarantee
🙂
Damian Gayle and Sean Smith ofThe Guardian should be thrown back in to Paddington Green with their anarchist mates before the CS is administered.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ coldwarrior:
yeah, obama…i di build that.
how about the toilet flanges on the up/down axis!
@ coldwarrior:
YOWSER!
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’d get a headache from being upside down!
@ eaglesoars:
Teflon bearings and slide plates. Mmmmmhmmm
@ Aussie Infidel:
Lock them in. Shut off the services.
Re open in 1 yr.
coldwarrior wrote:
HEH!
I LIKE IT!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
All that blood running to your head will do that. It’s when your feet lift off the floor that you have one of those “Houston we have a problem ” moments!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Thanks.
It was fun engineering
coldwarrior wrote:
NO WAY I’m going to wait a year, even it’d be interesting to see who ate who!
Nah
Cut the stuffing about and use CS to clear their nasal passages
🙂
I guarantee that they will not stop running to get clear of the building.
coldwarrior wrote:
I can’t see properly.Is it on a turntable as well?
@ Aussie Infidel:
It rides on 2 half inch circular teflon plates that are 24 inches across
WHOA!!
Trump Names Richard Grenell Acting Director of National Intelligence
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/19/trump-names-richard-grenell-acting-director-of-national-intelligence/
@ eaglesoars:
Sisha is tobacco, usually flavoured, smoked by hookah (water pipe). Typically middle eastern people that do so. Used to be a big issue in Toronto because it seemed to flaunt and bypass anti-smoking regulations.
@ PaladinPhil:
ah, thanks! The speculation is that this is a gang shooting among Turks
@ Aussie Infidel:
and i mad adapter plates so that the 10″ can be used in it as well.
@ eaglesoars:
they make some awesome doner kebabs…
eaglesoars wrote:
hmmm.
ok. i like it
apparently, the laser pointer/finder that i use to line up the telescope to the celestial targets is illegal.
BWAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
what river are you on? Allegheny?
eaglesoars wrote:
… and take the firearms from the law abiding.
/You’d almost think that this was a set of deliberate bolshevik-like moves
right_wing2 wrote:
Hopefully no innocent civilians die as a result of this nonsense.
eaglesoars wrote:
ohio. north of PGH. i’m a few miles upstream from where the river goes from flowing north to flowing westish then southwestish
eaglesoars wrote:
Why, that is impossible. Germany has very strict gun control, there’s no way a person who would commit murder could get a gun and go on a shooting rampage. /s
eaglesoars wrote:
From a look-up (I love Mac, just highlight a phrase and click on “look up”):
A shisha parlor is sometimes mistakenly referred to as hookah lounge’. It is an establishment where patrons share shisha from a communal hookah or from one placed at each table or a bar.
Hmm, this sounds, oh, let’s say “Asian Gang” related.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
i can see the county jail on the river to my south and all the way up to the courthouse in the county seat, 8 miles or so of river view. its quite relaxing.
AZfederalist wrote:
turks arent germans, silly.
Check out this headline. Dude’s amazing.
https://news.usni.org/2020/02/19/iron-fist-teaching-japanese-amphib-force-to-synch-with-u-s-marines
@ Bunk X:
excellent.
eaglesoars wrote:
The key phrase in that story, “.. which closed in 2018”. It’s an abandoned building. All the good stuff has been moved out.
Check out this headline. This dude’s amazing, too.
https://mcphee.com/collections/new/products/racing-possums
coldwarrior wrote:
Holy crap. That’s nice.
/Not gonna see much through those clouds though.
AZfederalist wrote:
there are no coffee table books of the great observatories of SW PA for a reason.
🙁
i calculated that we get 10-12 great astronomy nights a year, clear, little or no moon, stable air
the girls will get their first proper lesson in astronomy friday night.
one of the twins is a super-genius. she’s not really 8, she’s 45. they got a pretty nice microscope last christmas…
some basic celestial and planetary mechanics, a look at venus, pleades, and fun in orion…maybe some crawling around in cygnus….
coldwarrior wrote:
I probably have old school friends you can wave to for me…..
should be some good highlights from the dem debate
getting nasty
Warren just scalped Bloomberg in front of the entire country.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1230314808353918977
it sounds like Warren’s debate prep was to scorch everyone.
trump rally
14,000+ inside and POTUS says they turned away 21,000 outside!
Bernie just publicly revealed bloomberg had two stents in his heart.
Trump on bloomie
“No Boxes, we call him No Boxes.”
“I hear he’s getting pounded tonight.”
rain of lead wrote:
He has a heart?
@ AZfederalist:
I’m not watching (I’d rather pass a kidney stone) but from comments I see the entire debate is a dumpster fire inside a train wreck
I wonder how a BS Bernie/Fauxahontas ticket would do among leftists and the general public?