Please don’t ever tell me that Mormons are conservative.
Mcmuffins anyone?WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, on Saturday criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of Roger Stone, calling it “unprecedented, historic corruption.”
“An American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president,” Romney wrote on Twitter.
Romney, a leading critic of the president, was the first prominent Republican to condemn Trump for his decision to clear Stone’s 40-month prison sentence
Mitt has dirt under his finger nails and is desperately trying to keep that out of the headlines.
Bill Clinton issued 140 pardons the day he left office in 2001– some real losers in that pack.
Hope things are well with everyone these days. Stay healthy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whitney-looks-sweden-was-right-after-all
Interesting
Willow has been whimpering for 3 solid hours and it’s making me nuts. I don’t know how to help her. A woman, ‘S’, who used to be on-staff at their doggy day care stopped by for a visit so we could meet her 7-week old daughter.
Willow loves babies. I won’t bother with her previous encounters, but just put the baby on the floor and she lays by them and licks their hands and guards them. Which is unusual behavior for a beagle, their guarding instincts are about zero.
She was SO thrilled to have a baby in the house again she could hardly contain herself. She did her whole baby routine. But ‘S’ couldn’t stay forever and now Willow is heartbroken, she wants me to make the baby come back and I don’t know what to do. I tried to get her outside for a quick walk (she’s still recovering from her ACL surgery, she can’t walk far) but she was having none of it. And she won’t shut up.
Gah
And the horse you rode in on, Sparky
The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz’s request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd’s death.
Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” for the state of Minnesota in his request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on July 2. More than 1,500 buildings were damaged by fires, looting and vandalism in the days of unrest that followed Floyd’s May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody, racking up more than $500 million in damages, according to Walz.
The governor’s spokesman, Teddy Tschann, confirmed late Friday that the request for federal aid was denied.
https://www.startribune.com/feds-deny-walz-s-request-for-aid-to-rebuild-after-riots/571715162/?
Suckers…
@ eaglesoars:
you need a blanket that smells like the baby.
coldwarrior wrote:
SOL on that one. She’s asleep now, she wore herself out.
lobo91 wrote:
Pretty soon, they’re going to start taxing the air.
@ eaglesoars:
Thats funny. I believe she wants you to adopt. Every two years. For a few decades. A town I used to live in had a daycare where dogs could meet kids and vice versa.
@ eaglesoars:
Those chickens should all be forced to come home before the election.
I’ve been through black soul, black pride, affirmative action, white privelege, systemic racism. The goal posts always move. The money and effort spent on racism healing is all wasted. The mnilitary was quite different. All my good influences were young black sergeants. Aged 20-30. Where have they all gone? I don’t think they were in Minneapolis.
BLM protestors in town today. All white. Waving signs at cars. I waved back. I don’t think they know that that are all Marxists. Maybe even a few maoists among them.
darkwords wrote:
Well, it’s only wasted if you think it went to where you sent it. I doubt many people expected it to end up in Jesse Jackson’s bank account or in CCPUSA. I’m not even sure about the NAACP anymore. Hell, I remember when the SPLC was exactly what it said it was.
darkwords wrote:
HA! They’ll be another baby here next weekend. The grandkids are coming and this one is only a few weeks older.
BREAKING: Local St. Charles Gun Store Announces Free AR15 to McCloskeys After Police Confiscate Their Rifle
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/breaking-local-st-charles-gun-store-announces-free-ar15-mccloskeys-police-confiscate-rifle/?
eaglesoars wrote:
You broke it … you bought it numb-nuts!
🙂
Of course…
DA’s Office Drops Charges On 59 Rioters In Portland, Including Suspected Felony Arsonisthttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/das-office-drops-charges-59-rioters-portland-including-suspected-felony-arsonist/?
BRCC espresso goes in the machine tomorrow for the test. It’s up against proper Italian beans….
Will report.
oh baloney…I don’t know who actually wrote it, but Mueller didn’t he can barely speak
Robert S. Mueller III writes in an op-ed: “Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.”https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1282078486094643202
eaglesoars wrote:
Any chance they broke federal laws such that the Federal government can now bring charges?
@ AZfederalist:
If they harmed Federal property, I would assume so. I don’t recall if they did or not.
mornin y’all
so I got up to some strong thunderstorms, went to work, power was out.
just noped my ass back to the house and called out for the day.
and I feel better being home while this storm moves through
CW understands statistics, maybe he can explain this. Written June 14
Be on the alert, because here is what is coming next.
Drawing from old undetected cases (a lot of them are there), and calling them ‘suspected’ or using AB tests to detect them – but reporting them as current Covid cases.
This is a trick called Legacy Data Laundering.
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1272230170997506048
Ah. Here it is. This is from yesterday
Amazing
Literally, 65% of the reported covid by CDC this week occurred more than four weeks ago.
Deaths continue a downward trend, while it appears on worldometers & counters that there was an increase this week.
Note: There’s 50k backlogged unexpected deaths to report.
There are interesting charts in that tweet I can’t show here
Some ‘lag adjusted charts’
What is occurring right now is, the reserve CDC date-cataloged deaths, which are not yet reported by the states, are being reported by the states over time (hence the Gompertz arrival). While this might be academically/bureaucratically proper, it is morally & ethically bankrupt.
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1282058004096049158
@ eaglesoars:
these data are garbage at best, a flat out lie at worst.
you can’t ‘launder’ rolling daily/weekly data with past data points. it’s not done, anywhere.
https://newspunch.com/zimbabwe-vp-blames-famine-white-man-failing-teach-economics/
you savages had 20 years to get what should be the richest country in africa squared away. the other failures had since 1965 to get their act together.
sorry, don’t blame whitey. look in the mirror. black african leaders are nothing more than the the village strong men pillaging a country.
coldwarrior wrote:
after I posted that, I wondered in what circumstances that kind of presentation would be useful. Nuthin’.
This is me the next time somebody to tells me to wear a mask while I’m walking the dogs
https://twitter.com/Lupus_Loricatus/status/1282162059598233606
(from one of my all time fave movies The Heat)
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/07/12/derrrp-usa-today-claims-trump-campaign-shirts-feature-nazi-symbol-trips-spectacularly-over-actual-american-symbol/
@ USA Today
This from a paper that they have to come you at hotels
@ RIX:
I just noticed something, too. Every time Trump speaks, there are flags behind him on the stage. They’re red, white and blue with stars.
Know who used a red, white and blue flag with stars?
The Confederates!
Trump cleverly rearranged the elements of it so the crack researchers of the MSM wouldn’t notice, but I figured it out!
That man is dastardly*
@ RIX:
@ lobo91:
Oh no no no!! You’ve completely misunderstood! They’re weren’t fact checking The Trump campaign’s use of a Nazi symbol! No, they were fact checking whether the Trump campaign had been ACCUSED of using a Nazi symbol!
Upon clicking on their “fact-check” article, it became clear that what they fact-checked wasn’t whether or not the campaign was selling a shirt with a Nazi symbol, but rather, they ridiculously fact-checked how the campaign was accused of such a thing.
gutless bitches
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/386581/
@ eaglesoars:
and poor journalists.
huh
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513631/Scientists-Wuhan-virus-lab-defected-West-reveals-Steve-Bannon.html
Well as all of you here know quite well I am an expert in everything American. I use the term “American” in this post indicate the country I should be correctly referring to as the United States of America. Not the whole continent of America, but I digress….
The only criticism of that T-Shirt design is usually the eagle’s head faces the left as viewed from an observer’s perspective. The T-Shirt eagle head faces right. As does the NAZI emblem eagle.
However in both images there is no olive branch or arrows in either eagle’s talons. In fact the NAZI eagle seems to be hanging on to a wreath while the American eagle is proudly clutching an American flag.
So… In conclusion I think the designer of the T-Shirt tried to make a patriotic themed logo but failed because of the direction the head faced. To the right.
Why is the direction the eagle head is facing important you may ask? Well, the eagle always faces to the side that it is holding the olive branch in. Away from the talons holding the thirteen arrows. Yep I even knew that! Thirteen arrows…
Sometimes you see T-Shirts, posters, apparel, logos where the eagle is facing to the right but if you look at the eagle’s feet the position of the arrows and olive branch is also transposed. Yep, the printers got the silk screen on ass about face.
But in this political climate all democrats look at that Trump T-Shirt and scream ” NAZI ” because they are sheep.
@ Possum:
Oh, well Done!
eaglesoars wrote:
so, this is the horreur du jour?
pretty weak stuff.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/11/president-trump-wins-big-on-secret-meatpacking-robots/
its a good start.
then what ya do is put the chief of HR in jail for one year for every illegal hired in his company…then this shit ends.
as i’ve said a million times, i’m all for qualified LEGAL immigration based on the needs of the economy. i have zero respect for illegals as their FIRST contact with america is to commit a felony.
@ coldwarrior:
“Bees around a honey pot”
“Flies around shit”
No honey pot, no shit then no attraction to fly here….
Hit the employers of illegals, and hit them HARD!!!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
This has been going on in the dairy industry for years. You almost never see cows milked by hand anymore. It’s way overdue. The last time I saw it was on an Amish farm.
@ Possum:
right. i cant blame the illegals for taking the jobs that they are actively recruited for.
put some executives in jail and this stops.
@ eaglesoars:
robots arent disease vectors like humans are…especially illegal immigrants as they have no health care, live in packed and lousy conditions…much like the slaves, which is basically what they are.
coldwarrior wrote:
oh they certainly can be. The cleaning protocol for this stuff is on par with what you would find in hospital operating rooms.
https://twitchy.com/brads-313037/2020/07/12/i-guess-we-can-call-them-propedo-from-now-on-an-irish-protest-for-the-protection-of-children-was-attempted-to-be-disrupted-by-antifa-and-they-were-chased-off/
@ Twitchy
if you have been longing to see Antifa get an ass kicking this is for you.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
As a word, robot is a relative newcomer to the English language. It was the brainchild of a brilliant Czech playwright, novelist and journalist named Karel Čapek (1880-1938) who introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots.
Robot is drawn from an old Church Slavonic word, robota, for “servitude,” “forced labor” or “drudgery.”
R.U.R. tells the story of a company using the latest biology, chemistry and physiology to mass produce workers who “lack nothing but a soul.” The robots perform all the work that humans preferred not to do.
RIX wrote:
Just half a dozen Antifa thugs (mostly female) tried to disrupt a legal gathering with loud music and got shut down.
The Guardia had to go rescue them from the anti-pedofile demonstration protection crew who shut them down in 8 seconds flat.
Pretty pathetic in all. Notice how the 3 female Antifa got themselves trapped against a building whilst their male Antifa associates fled from that rather large well muscled security guard.
@ Aussie Infidel:
yup they came I small numbers because they never expected push back .I hope that it is a trend.
This needs to get A LOT more attention.
A factory making shoes for Nike was “equipped with watchtowers, barbed-wire fences and police guard boxes.” Nike Shox were discovered being made in another factory by slave laborers shipped far from home to produce shoes for the sportswear giant. Too far for them to run away.
“We can walk around, but we can’t go back,” one worker said.
.
.
The CECC report and the accompanying legislation noted that Coca-Cola, Adidas, Calvin Klein, the Campbell Soup Company, Costco, Esprit, H&M, Tommy Hilfiger, Patagonia, and Nike were among those companies suspected of complicity in China’s forced labor camps.
Coke and some of the other companies involved denied everything, but a Wall Street Journal article noted that COFCO Tunhe supplies sugar to Coca-Cola and tomatoes to Heinz and Campbell. The Chinese state-owned company is the country’s largest food processor, the world’s second largest tomato processor, and one of the largest sugar processors in the world, with vast networks of plantations.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/coke-nike-and-pro-black-lives-matter-corps-are-daniel-greenfield/#.XwszRyjJ4AM.twitter
So just start with the NBA too
These people vote
When the 2nd Amendment was written in 1789, a gun took 30 seconds to reload. You could kill 2 people a minute. With an AR-15, you can kill 600 people a minute. Who the hell needs to kill 600 people if they are an everyday citizen?
https://twitter.com/BryanWinsAgain/status/1282416458929061889
“Why don’t you start in San Antonio, where Mat Best and all the Black Rifle Coffee Company people are? Why don’t you go up against them before you try to take the rest of Texas on?”
I’d pay good money to see that…
eaglesoars wrote:
What are you taking about Eales/
Actually a TRAINED Redcoat was expected to load and fire a musket with 3 well aimed shots per minute. The one in the barrel and two more before resorting to the bayonet. The elite Rifle brigade were supposed to be able to fire 3 well aimed shots per minute and keep it up until their ammunition was used up.
NOBODY shoots 600 people dead with a AR-15. The 600 rounds per minute is defined as the cyclic rate of fire. That means that a 30 round magazine on full Automatic lasts just THREE seconds. That is just spraying it about and hoping like hell that you his someone. Firing well aimed shots a highly trained marksman might manage to hit 40 stationary targets in the open given that he will need at least one magazine change every minute.
600 dead people per minute? REALLY? Eagles.
What moron wrote this stupid story?
The House is ‘messing’ with the USMC organisational structure. The Dems want the Corps to be penny-pinched out onto tiny islands throughout the Asia-Pacific to act as stationary garrison guards, for long range rocket forces. SERIOUSLY?
Larson the Corps Commandant, if he was a real Marine, would have the guts to go to the House and throw his 4 stars in Pelosi’s face and walk out.
Using the BEST troops as garrison security guards in small unsupported commands concentrated and vulnerable on tiny islands subject to overwhelming attack is madness. Riddle me this Gen Larson. What do your totally unsupported Marines do after their last long range rocket is fired? That was rhetorical of course. They sit there with small arms awaiting massive artillery fire to totally wipe them out.
Go ask the 50 Royal Marine Commandos left totally isolated at Stanley township on the Falkland Islands what happened when 5000 barely trained Argentinian conscripts arrived. The Royal Marines ended up laying face down in the gutters of Stanley with their hands behind their heads!
Larson needs to go in a blaze of glory and throw his 4 stars in Pelosi’s face in front of the whole Congress. No doubt Larsen till roll over and get a nice plumb job on retirement with Lockheed Martin!
SPIT
Chesty Puller must be doing 600 RMP rotating in his grave!
lobo91 wrote:
I appreciate that she’s naive enough to think the best of people in tough circumstances. But stupid don’t cut it. That 42 inch TV isn’t edible.
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t think a lot of people are getting shot over loaves of bread, either
I’m trying to think who I feel sorry for. Can’t come up with anybody.
A revolution is under way. White actors are being fired. Edicts from studio bosses make it clear that only minorities – racial and sexual – can be given jobs.
A new wave of what has been termed by some as anti-white prejudice is causing writers, directors and producers to fear they will never work again. One described the current atmosphere as ‘more toxic than Chernobyl’, with leading actors afraid to speak out amid concern they will be labelled racist.
The first sign came with one of the most powerful black directors in Hollywood, Oscar-winning Jordan Peele – the man behind box office hits such as Get Out and Us – stated in public that he did not want to hire a leading man who was white.
‘I don’t see myself casting a white dude as the lead in my movie,’ Peele said. ‘Not that I don’t like white dudes. But I’ve seen that movie before.’
As one studio executive responded privately: ‘If a white director said that about hiring a black actor, their career would be over in a heartbeat.’ Few doubt it.
Peele is more vocal than most about his hiring policy, but his outlook is increasingly widespread. Dozens of producers, writers and actors have spoken to The Mail on Sunday about the wave of ‘reverse racism’ pulsing through the industry.
speaking on condition of anonymity, the executive confirmed that the climate is now toxic for any ‘white, middle-aged man in showbusiness’. Their careers, ‘are pretty much over’.
Hollywood’s identity crisis: Actors, writers and producers warn of ‘reverse racism’ in the film industry which has created a ‘toxic’ climate for anyone who is a white, middle-age man
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513727/Actors-writers-producers-warn-reverse-racism-film-industry.html
lobo91 wrote:
Has the Latina said anything about Goya? I haven’t seen/checked
@ Aussie Infidel:
Ive seen R.U.R. before but never knew the connection
@ lobo91:
The NYPD should walk out for a week and force the national guard in.
darkwords wrote:
There’s a thought!
@ lobo91:
Hey, what do you think of this as a concealed carry?
https://www.sigsauer.com/store/p229-m11-a1-compact.html
eaglesoars wrote:
….. Take last week’s letter to Harper’s magazine, signed by 153 artists, writers, and scholars. The letter penned by all but two Left-leaning, signatories called for an end to ‘cancel culture’ which sees online mobs trying to intimidate and ‘de-platform’ people simply because of their views. It has blown up in their faces as their progressive ‘monster’ escaped their control and begins to cost THEM BIG $$$$$. I can imagine what the Chinese corporations that piled into Hollywood in a buying spree over the past few years, are feeling right now!
The stupid ’round eye’ ‘ artistes’ have just cost China some serious $$$$$$ by letting Antifa and BLM loose and then losing control of their Monster! Well done Comrade Frankenstein!
🙂
@ lobo91:
eaglesoars wrote:
Hey Lobo what do you think? Looks like a nice Compact especially firing the heavier grain ammo. Not too sure about the sights however. Perhaps the guy who gave it a 2 star rating and had the front sight 0.06″ offset problem may have been a one-off manufacture problem. Paying extra to get that ‘fixed’ is NOT how to sell a weapon. Most unusual for SIG who are renowned as manufacturers of quality firearms.
eaglesoars wrote:
Why not just cut to the chase and PAY Antifa and BLM to specifically TARGET the Mayor’s house and burn it to the ground. After all the Mayor …. is da man!
I’m sure that the NYPD / FDNY will all be ‘busy washing their hair’ at the time to respond
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’m not sure I’m real big on sights anyway. A reasonable guide but in an active shooter situation who cares……….In target practice just to know how the weapon performs.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
There should be a blog devoted to tracing the lineages/connections to all this. All the actors who sign on to this crap noted. Not to be cancelled, just so consumers can make a choice.
And that goes for Disney too.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
DeBlasio is their best bud. Won’t happen.
As for Trump Tower – usually Trump doesn’t actually own the buildings with his name on them. He’s a DEVELOPER. He owns the name/brand. In Trump Tower he owns his apartment and maybe a restaurant, but I don’t think much else.
I do believe he has complete ownership of the hotel in D.C. altho there may be a mgmt company involved.
So all those people who think they’re destroying Trump property actually are not.
Jesus. This is Valeri Jarrett talking about NY covid stats
From the epicenter to zero deaths. Short term sacrifice saves lives!!!
https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/1282472367063785473
Tens of thousands nursing home deaths is ‘short term sacrifice’
lobo91 wrote:
I’d pay good cash money to see these 50 black clad losers up against … hmmm ‘let’s say’ two or three SAS Sabre teams ( 4 troopers to a team) suitably ‘tooled up’ and having been fed their usual breakfast of raw meat.
You couldn’t take a bet on who’d win but you might get some odds on exactly how long it’d actually take. I’m in for $10 bucks at 5:1 that it’d all done and dusted by the SAS troopers in under 1 minute.
Takers?
HEH
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
On a 10 metre Range you should be sure you … and your firearm, can hit the main centre of mass reliably.
That gives you confidence in a high stress situation where the nominal range is a LOT less that 10 metres and you just point and squeeze, and you will hit a target and stop him. Stress does nasty things to aim especially after the first shot is fired. You need to PRACTICE at 10 metres and reliably hit the centre of mass every time reliably. Forget head shots, that is just plain silly. When the shit really hits the fan you’ll probably inside 5 metres and you’ll e shooting instinctively. PRACTICE this as well until you get comfortable with it. Then with all of the adrenaline of the moment flowing you’ll be good to hit your target.
Oh and NEVER draw your pistol unless you actually mean to shoot someone right then and there. Threatening is NOT a good thing to do with a gun. It just frightens other people to use their guns on you.
eaglesoars wrote:
In that case Jarrett go and throw yourself under a bus you satanic piece of excrement.
eaglesoars wrote:
That goes ESPECIALLY for Disney
@ Aussie Infidel:
I am aware of weapon etiquette,thank you.
I need A LOT more practice. I need to start from scratch again. I used to go to the range several times a week. I need to retrain.
Then Bonnie got sick and we just bled money……….now, all the financial focus is on the move to Knoxville. As soon as we get situated there, I can start over. That Sig P229 is frigging expensive, at least $900 as far as I can find. But it just may be worth it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Who’s to say because BLM / Antifa have diverse membership so who knows which franchise is operating at the time. One team dressed all in black carrying and with a wheelie bin full of Molotov Cocktails look much like the next team dressed all in black with fire in their eyes.
If you know what I mean!
Nudge nudge wink wink.
eaglesoars wrote:
Rather spend up front and buy quality than not being able to TRUST your firearm when you need it most.
Rather than just shooting down a range think about investing in some ‘active shooting’ training. It may cost a bit more but it’ll hone your weapon handling skills and CONFIDENCE a LOT faster than just firing $$$$ down a range
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I am. There is some being offered (I get the emails) but it involves travel, which I simply cannot do right now. And I don’t have time to research the orgs offering it.
It’s on my “when we get to Knoxville…” list.
RIX wrote:
The trend assumes that the bulk of people will be intimidated into surrendering without a fight. That is the whole premise upon which Antifa and BLM are based.They do what they do apparently irrationally but there is a rationale behind their terror. They figure that terror generates fear and fear crushes people into inaction and compliance. Any targets will suffice as long as it generates fear. That leaves the whole marketplace open for ‘False Flag’ attacks on Progressive targets. As long as the attackers LOOK like Antifa / BLM and fear is generated then the smaller details of ‘who’ is glossed over. Di Blasio is a prime target for a bit of False Flag creative arson that can look very BLM-ish.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Good for you Eagles.
Just remember that your pistol is NOT meant for intimidation. The only time it should come out of that holster you should be determined and single minded to use it.
The Gurkhas were supposed to never draw their blade unless they were about to take a head. So much so that they were required to draw blood every time it warzmoved from its scabbard.
When I was exercising on Luang Tao Island off Hong Kong with 18th Gurkhas Brigade I asked my driver Gurkha if that was true. He just laughed and said that they’d have 10 bloody fingers all the time it that was true because they had to clean their weapons everyday. Still it was a good story to put the fear of god into their enemies.
HEH
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Worse than slaves since the companies have minimal investment in them. They are truly interchangeable and disposable. Just like the Chinese and Irish workers who built the transcontinental railroad
eaglesoars wrote:
My personal preference in concealed carry guns runs toward striker-fired pistols. Less to snag on stuff. Also, every shot is the same.
Pretty much the same size: https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/handguns/sig-sauer-p320-xcompact-9mm-luger-36in-black-nitron-pistol-151-rounds/p/1538625
Aussie Infidel wrote:
you mean like this?
https://twitter.com/Lupus_Loricatus/status/1282162059598233606
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep, you and many millions have seen that movie before. Aint’ but a few people, at best who are gonna see any movies you are getting ready to make.
Enjoy bankruptcy, you racist
Apparently identifying and personal information on some 24,000 Chinese in Australia using two social media have been forwarded to HK Police who are now acting like the Strasi of Asia.
And this just in, clearly related but yet unread…
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/this-activist-says-she-is-being-tracked-and-harassed-in-australia-by-chinese-police
@ lobo91:
LOVE the elephants!
AZfederalist wrote:
not only that…can you think of a movie w/in the last 2-3 yrs (I’m being generous) that you would shell out $10 to see in a theater? Seriously, I do netflix.
eaglesoars wrote:
Visiting my parents, they had the “news” on. Some puff piece came on about Disneyland (worlld, whatever) opening back up but with “strict controls” in place to “maintain the safety of our guests”. One of the things discussed was the requirement for all those people in the park to wear “face masks that loop around the ears”. Yeah, good luck with that. Going through NM today on the way home. This place has gone nucking futs; full retard,
eaglesoars wrote:
Probably been 8 years since I’ve been to a movie
Right on fucking cue. The fox is in the yard between midnite and 1 and Mia just waits. The entire neighborhood is now calling the cops because all the dogs are howling.
Remind me again why I wanted to get an irrepressible beagle puppy.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Cry harder
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2020/07/12/pope-says-hes-very-saddened-over-hagia-sophia-but-why-n633563
@ PJ Media
Erdogan converts the foremost Christian cathedral ,the Hagia Sophia into a Mosque. Pope Francis has a strongly worded objection,” I am saddened”.
That’s it? That’s all ya got?
@ RIX:
It’s not really a catholic site, its orthodox.
That said, what if they did this to his basilica
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/13/washington-redskins-officially-retire-name-and-logo-after-sponsor-backlash.html
The Washington swamp rats? Woke warriors? Beltway blowhards?
lobo91 wrote:
Haha! You thought you were saving money on gas, huh? Well, since you don’t pay GAS taxes, good ol’ California will get you another way. Having fun yet, Blue Meanies?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lefts-boycott-goya-has-backfired-spectacularly-conservative-customers-clean-out-store
Pondering over the weekend that Newsom’s and the other Democrat overlords have really screwed the pooch in California and all those unions they love so much – especially the transit unions.
Thinking back to some years ago when BART went on strike. Lasted three days before management caved because “commute was a mess”, which has always been the strongest negotiating tool for the unions. Don’t want to mess up the commute, clog the freeways, make workers angry.
Okay, you have shut down the business centers completely for the last four months. Everyone who can has adjusted to working from home. So next time your contract comes up for renewal, you have NO threat to make. You proved to the business centers that they can work from home. The only ones who MAY be affected will be restaurant/hotel/bar workers. But then if there’s no workers in office buildings, who precisely will need a restaurant or bar for lunch or dinner/after hours? Hell the freeways will be clear enough to drive in.
Go ahead and strike. You’ll be out a long time since NO ONE is going to be clamoring for you to get back. Your strike fund will run out before our patience does.
coldwarrior wrote:
Chick-fil-A didn’t teach them anything, did it?
@ The Barbarian:
Nope.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/13/60-shot-at-least-10-fatally-over-weekend-in-mayor-lightfoots-chicago/
BLM, mmmmmhmmm
coldwarrior wrote:
right, it’s not Catholic but it’s fellow Chrisians.
this guy is a disaster
coldwarrior wrote:
Mike Opelka was subbing for Chris Plante last week when he started this. He could not BELIEVE how fast it took off, he said that tweet go more responses/retweets than anything he ever posted.
Whoa, Nelly
Tesla set to unveil new million-mile battery at in-person event in September
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-battery-day-in-person-september/
@ eaglesoars:
The whole Chick-fil-A Wednesday started because Sean Hannity mentioned on his show that everyone should go to Chick-fil-A on Wednesday to show their support since the left called for a boycott. I seem to recall MOST locations ran out of food well before 5:00 p.m.
The left calls for boycotts on their unwatched networks and a Twitter feed that they believe MOST Americans are paying attention to. I imagine most people aren’t even aware these numnuts even called for a boycott. But the right is always ready to spring into action.
We all piled in the car to go to Chick-fil-A when I got home from work that Wednesday. There was a note on the door saying they were closed because they ran out of food. Must have been about a dozen people there – we were all taking photos of the sign, of ourselves with the sign, etc. to post on Facebook and Twitter.
@ eaglesoars:
Let’s see if all these virtue signaling people will decide to only go to a black physician, or Hispanic, or a transgender physician. It doesn’t matter whether they’re qualified or not, it matters if they fit their agenda.
@ coldwarrior:
Whineycats.
coldwarrior wrote:
The Washington Used-to-be-a-football Team
@ The Barbarian:
I’m one of the few people who is not a fan of their food, but we did our duty and got some sandwiches. The poor guy who waited on Hubby said they would be closing in about 30 mins, he’d got there just in time.
Remember Air America? They were so sure it would take off, but it sank under the waves like a rock. That, to me, was SO telling. Maybe if they tried again now, with likeable people, they’d have better luck. Mike Malloy used to call conservatives ‘rat bastards’ and ‘pigs’, Al Franken was never funny and Randi Rhodes was beyond stupid and vulgar.
right_wing2 wrote:
I’ve had a theory for awhile that they’re going to push to require straight people to ‘date’ trans people under some kind of civil rights rubric. Believe it or not, a lot of them bitch that straight people will have nothing to do with them, proving that the straights are transphobic. Which they will try to make illegal. I’m betting.
Well, ran into my first real-life Karl today. We are traveling and had gone to Cracker Barrel to get take-out breakfast. Idiot guv’ner here in NM has closed inside dining, but that’s a different story. As we went in the hotel to get to our room, 3 older folks were walking down the hallway; we were politely waiting for them to pass before we moved on when “Karl” made the statement, “Those masks work better when they are on your face and not in your hands”. I responded loudly, “Thanks Karl, we’ll get right on it Karl, Read the studies Karl”. As an aside, my “mask” is a Gadsden flag gaiter and was around my neck at the time. Next time my response will be, “Thanks Karl, for the advertised purpose, they are as effective in our hands and on our faces”
@ AZfederalist:
That last sentence should read, “ … they are as effective in our hands AS on our faces”
A month after Surgisphere paper retraction, Lancet retracts, replaces hydroxychloroquine editorial
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/07/10/a-month-after-surgisphere-paper-retraction-lancet-retracts-replaces-hydroxychloroquine-editorial/
It never should have been published in the first place
@ eaglesoars:
Air America was such a stupid idea. The idiots ran out of things to talk about. One person (and I forgot who it was) who studied talk radio said that one of the biggest attractions of conservative talk radio was the the liberals would call in and argue with the host. Which meant that liberals listened to the shows. Conservatives didn’t listen to Air America. They didn’t call in to Air America.
Not only that, but Air America didn’t get on high wattage stations, because no matter what else, the people who run radio are there to make a profit. So in many broadcast areas, the stations they elbowed in on and took over were those that targeted minority audiences. Oh, and that raiding the Boys and Girls Clubs funds to make their payroll didn’t help their reputation much.
This was posted Jul 11
333 FL Covid Testing labs reported 100% positive tests today in State Report for 3,528 tests.
That is 34% of today’s 10,360 new cases.
Without these, today’s “percent positive” would fall from 12.6% to 8.7%.
https://twitter.com/RebelACole/status/1282061281361616896
100% positive is a statistical impossibility.
The Barbarian wrote:
HAR!!!
I’d forgotten about that!
@ eaglesoars:
How many hosts – well known in many cases – have they put up against Rush? They really thought an idiot, unfunny asshole like AL FRANKEN was going to beat him?
Bill O’Reilly, Mike Huckabee – ALL FAILED. Miserably. Hell, they couldn’t even beat the most unlistenable guest hosts Rush had. I remember he turned the show over to Nick Searcy – who I LOVE – but he couldn’t do three hours and be interesting.
Andy Wilkow on Sirius/XM is probably the only one who makes a dent, but even then, I belong to Rush 24/7 and listen to him after noon, when I can hear it seamlessly, without commercials. (Because I don’t care that much for Hannity’s radio show – he has too many liberals on).
So Nancy Pelosi thinks commuting Roger Stone was a threat to National Security?
Um, you do realize that Obama commuted Bradley Manning’s sentence, right Nan? The guy who released national security documents to Wikileaks while serving in the armed forces?
eaglesoars wrote:
This is big
coldwarrior wrote:
yep. This isn’t about just Tesla. This is about BATTERIES. A huge obstacle in the energy field.
I do recall that one of Musks closest associates at Tesla left to go work on batteries. I don’t know if the two are connected or if this is a Tesla stand-alone achievement.
@ The Barbarian:
You know who is at least as good as Rush? Chris Plante.
@ eaglesoars:
The batteries have to last as long as the car
@ coldwarrior:
In terms of simple economics tho – If you’re Duracell, where’s the sense in making batteries that almost never need to be replaced?
eaglesoars wrote:
once their batteries are discharged they have to be replaced.
the problem with electrics and hybrids is that the battery would wear out after being charged/discharged so many cycles and need to be replaced, this cost more than the car was worth. this is a negative impact on sales.
here’s how it works in my mind, my benz’s usally last me upward of 200k without any major work to the transmission/engine with normal maintenance. if i had to replace a battery at 100k for 10grand i wouldnt bother. i wouldnt buy the car in the first place.
@ coldwarrior:
yeppers. Not to mention, if these things are lithium, that’s pure poison in the landfills. Big no no.
Look at this little totalitarian!
Andrew Cuomo announces visitors to New York must disclose contact and location information on arrival
“The airlines will hand it out on the plane. It will also be available on the web. You fill it out electronically, or you have to fill out the piece of paper on the airplane,” Cuomo told reporters Monday. “You must give officials at the airport your form as to where you came from and where you’re going before you leave the airport.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/andrew-cuomo-announces-visitors-to-new-york-must-disclose-contact-and-location-information-on-arrival
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve heard you mention him often. I just discovered his shows are archived so I am going to start listening!
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, and I’m sure everyone will be honest and forthcoming.
What an idiot. You cannot require people to “have papers” to travel within the offing United States. I’m waiting for someone to refuse to disclose this information as Unconstitutional and challenge. You have freedom of association. You don’t have to disclose who you know.
@ The Barbarian:
Some of us have to carry ID at all times. 🙂
https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-we-grant-your-green-card
And also….
However, if you are illegal then none of those rules apply, and you get free healthcare, food, accommodation etc.
@ eaglesoars:
That will die a quick death; that’s interfering with interstate commerce. Fed should be all over that like white on rice
@ AZfederalist:
Also, airlines are governed by the FAA and not the states.
oh, goody, because we don’t hear enough about it now
CNN’s Jeff Zucker in memo this A.M: “Today, I am pleased to announce that we are making an even more significant, sustained commitment to ensure race coverage is a permanent part of our journalism.”
There will be a “a new and expanded race team” as well as more policing coverage
https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1282674966027173888
‘expanded race team’
The Barbarian wrote:
Oh, good point
@ eaglesoars:
The real problem for the democrats? They believe all of America watches CNN and is on Twitter.
This has to be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. They’re showing sheep virtually now in the UK, and this is the ‘under 8 yrs of age’ class.
Meet Barley and Ethel. Thank me later. (sound on)
https://twitter.com/annawaitwhat/status/1256095181419446272
Good God. My icon, the only woman who just blows me away, is 80 years old today.
Happy Birthday Tina Turner.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8518849/Tina-Turner-80-set-return-music-collaborates-superstar-DJ-Kygo.html
@ eaglesoars:
Environmentally friendly lawn mowers. life expectancy of a sheep is 10 to 12 years, though some sheep may live as long as 20 years.
In the UK they are farmed and bred once a year to produce lambs that are raised to about six months then slaughtered for meat. This is because the profit from just the wool from a sheep can be supplemented by the meat production.
Have you ever watched movies, documentaries and the like featuring wonderful English country houses and estates surrounded by vasts lawns and trees? Perfectly mown grass, acres of it!
Now it is fossil fuel burning lawn mowers, in the past the work was done by sheep.
Why sheep and not cows you ask?
When a cow shits there is a ten pound steaming pile of fertilizer that takes months to break down and the result is a luscious dark green and healthy clump of grass, but not a nice look on a rich person’s lawn.
Sheep shit when deposited has about a length of four inches and a diameter of about two inches ( depending on the dimensions of that particular sheep’s rectum. But we do not have to discuss that )
Sheep shit although large when first excreted consists of small pellets that are easily distributed evenly around the area of defecation. So no clumps of over fertilized grass. A nice even lawn texture.
So, yes, if someone has a large lawn and kids then sheep are the answer to a perfectly trimmed lawn and friend to the children.
Oh, word of advice. If you try to enclose sheep on your property using an electric fence you wasted your money on the fence!
@ Possum:
Good to know!
@ Possum:
one of the people I follow on twitter is a sheep farmer in Ireland, Suzannah Crampton. I’ve learned a lot. She raises a breed called Zwartbles
The Barbarian wrote:
they are in for a rude awakening. twitter and the other socials have self-selected, therefore, their statistical sample is far from random and is skewed to one side of the bell curve.
When the coronavirus first broke out in this country, apparently our betters indulged in a little white lie about the efficacy of mask-wearing against COVID-19. We were originally told they weren’t needed by none other than Dr. Fauci himself (and many others) back in March. Was that to help make sure hoarders wouldn’t leave them without masks?
Then we were told that the HCQ was ineffective. Was that to make sure that the “right” people would have ready access to drugs they told us either didn’t work or were actually dangerous?
I’m no conspiracy theorist, but today’s news does make one wonder.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stephen-green/2020/07/13/hcq-helps-contain-covid-19-cases-new-evidence-and-a-major-retraction-n636361
@ rain of lead:
feel like ya got played?
@ coldwarrior:
**shifty eyes**
uhh, no,not at all..
rain of lead wrote:
mmmmhmmmm.
@ rain of lead:
Hey there! How is Momcat?
Well, my trailer finally made it to the dealer in Utah today. Hopefully, they’ll deliver it by the end of the week
AOC may have actually hit bottom for stupidity this time: A world without police “looks like a suburb”
@ lobo91:
You got a trailer? How cool!
um, did you see my note to you upthread? I’d like your opinion on a Sig Sauer P229 as a concealed carry
https://www.sigsauer.com/store/p229-m11-a1-compact.html
@ eaglesoars:
I answered you last night
@ eaglesoars:
This is the model I’m getting:
@ eaglesoars:
hey
she’s stable her o2 is still recovering pretty well
lobo91 wrote:
I shall look again, thanks.
lobo91 wrote:
Oh, that is SWEET!!
@ rain of lead:
Good. Please give her a hug from me.
rain of lead wrote:
No, they are engaging in a white lie now. Masks weren’t effective in March and they aren’t effective now. They are however, according to NEJM, talismans. The size of the virus is on the order of a wavelength of light — a mask isn’t going to stop that. Yeah, it will stop droplets, but that’s not much especially if you have leakage that fogs your glasses. All they are is making people feel like they are doing something.
@ eaglesoars:
And rare as hen’s teeth, apparently. It took me about a month to locate one at a decent price that wasn’t located in New England. And when I did finally find a listing for one in Utah (about 400 miles away), it turned out that they hadn’t even received it yet from the factory. That was 7 weeks ago, and they finally got it today.
They’re going to get it all ready and deliver it in a few days. I’d go get it, but our lunatic governor is making everyone who leaves the state quarantine for 14 days.
lobo91 wrote:
I never thought of that. Altho my revolver has a ‘hidden’ hammer for just that reason.
lobo91 wrote:
I love these things. Seriously, the only thing missing that you need to really live in one is a washer/dryer. That was always the problem on the boat. Laundry. But looking at your trailer, I think design has got a lot better, I think you have as much storage there as we did on a 40ft house boat.
eaglesoars wrote:
The P229 is a quality gun. Of course, everything Sig makes is.
The P320 compact is a bit lighter, though, and it’s simpler. Pretty similar to a Glock in most regards. No manual safety (although they do offer it as an option), no external hammer, and consistent trigger pull. With the 229, assuming the hammer is down, your first shot is something like a 12 lb trigger pull. After that, you’re in single action mode, and it’s around 4.5 lbs. It’s not an insurmountable problem, but it does take more practice. Most people never practice with the hammer down.
Another thing in favor of the 320 is the fact that it’s basically the “flavor of the month” right now, having been purchased in massive quantities by the military. Everyone and their brother wants one, so the aftermarket did its part, and there are a million different holsters and accessories available for them. Magazines are also easy to find.
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, we went through there yesterday and today. Totally insane. Had my first encounter with a real-life Karl today in Albuquerque — see posting above.
I’m so over this masking crap.
@ eaglesoars:
One of the “deal breakers” for me was a full queen-size bed. A lot of RVs advertise queen beds, but they really aren’t. They’re what’s called an “RV queen,” which is 6 inches shorter. I’m 6’1″. I want an actual 80 inch mattress.
The other big factor is weight. The average 20-21 foot trailer weighs over 4000 lbs. This one is about 3100. Makes a big difference in what you need to pull it, when you figure that fully loaded, you have to add about 800 lbs to either one. That makes your 3100 lb trailer more like 4000, and the 4000 lb one is now 5000.
My SUV can tow a 4000 lb trailer easily, even in this part of the country (I live at 6500 feet). A 5000 lb load, however, would be pushing it, especially if I go into the mountains.
@ AZfederalist:
I saw that.
Are you in Albuquerque today? I had to go see my rheumatologist today. It was 103 when I got there at 3:15.
At 4:30, it was 64 degrees, raining, with 58 mph winds for my drive home on I-40.
lobo91 wrote:
oh yeah. Annnd, your mileage pegs at ‘sucketh’. How much water can it carry?
lobo91 wrote:
We’ll see. I have a new house to put together and god only knows what THAT’s going to cost. I just may have to be happy with what I have for awhile. Also, there are those double-stacks that are just ADORABLE. If left to my own devices, I’d end up spending 5 grand before we started talking about ammo because it’s all just so…..WANTABLE. Good thing I’m not rich.
Doesn’t matter, what I need is PRACTICE. I have to start over.
I’m off to bed. Congrats on your VERY sweet home away from home. I’ll be happy to help with any decorating questions/needs you may have, that’s one thing I DON’T need practice on.
nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
My SUV is a Mercury Mountaineer (same as an Explorer) with a 4.6 liter V-8 and AWD. My mileage already sucks (around 13 MPG on the highway).
The trailer holds 37 gallons of fresh water, and the black and grey tanks each hold 30. Of course, those would be empty, ideally.
The weight figures don’t include the propane tanks (about 70 lbs) or the batteries (150 lbs), either.
lobo91 wrote:
We were just passing through; got in last night and left at 1130 this morning to get back to Tucson. It was definitely hot and we went through a few scattered showers. We usually stop in Albuquerque when going to and from Denver. It’s a good half-way point.
new thread whenever yinz are ready
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2020/07/14/open-thread-and-return-of-an-icon/