Back to work…first time since March.
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
darkwords
116 | August 9, 2020 12:39 am
I’ve been thinking that President Trump should repair the historical redlining issue with an executive order.
Require banks to drop any real estate point fees on home loans for black home owners from 1990 to 2050. If they hold the loan for a period of time. Maybe create a black ARM. I think the market size can absorb it. ColdWarrior probably knows this a lot better than I.
I mentioned it to a few conservatives already but it gets a luke warm response as being very low on a desired list of things to do. But to me it cements Trumps relationship with the middle class of the black community. It reinforces middle class values. It defines civil rights progress.
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Interesting idea
@ right_wing2:
Do you guys understand what caused the real estate bubble we suffered thru? And I’m sick and tired of this racial crap, lose it already.
@ eaglesoars:
Sure- too many unqualified people getting loans they had no business getting. This started years ago, at least as early as Jimmy Carter.
And yeah, I’m tired of the racial crap too.
@ right_wing2:
The incentives for the banks to do what they did – and then to use all those mortgages as a basis for derivative vehicles – was pure garbage. Stop doing things like that.
And frankly, if you think it would endear Trump to his white base, after all the BLM bull, think again.
@ right_wing2:
One big problem with this is that it is interfering with private enterprise and the free market. That never turns out well.
NatGeo headline
Exclusive: Buddy, first dog to test positive for COVID-19 in the U.S., has died
NatGeo sub-head
Even though the German shepherd likely had cancer,
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/07/first-dog-to-test-positive-for-covid-in-us-dies/
Kansas health secretary used misleading charts to push mask mandate
The secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Education is facing criticism for using a misleading chart while advocating for a statewide mask mandate.
Secretary Lee Norman gave a speech earlier this week detailing the difference in coronavirus cases between Kansas counties with a mask mandate and counties without one. According to a report from the Sentinel, Norman used an axis with a range of 15 to 25 to describe the number of new cases in masked counties and used a range of 4 to 14 to describe the number of new cases in counties without a mask mandate, making it appear as though counties without a mask mandate had more cases.
When the two sets of data are placed on a chart with the same axis, counties without a mask mandate have fewer new cases per day than counties with a mask mandate. Norman told reporters that counties with a mask mandate were “winning the battle” against the coronavirus.
“All of the improvement in the case development comes from those counties wearing masks,” he said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kansas-health-secretary-used-misleading-charts-to-push-mask-mandate
@ eaglesoars:
Shades of “hide the decline”
@ lobo91:
Hey, they were asking about you at zip’s place last nite. Mandy had some kind of list about correctional officers dead from covid and asked if anyone has seen you (AZ Fed and I assured her you’re fine) and others said to say hi and they miss the music.
@ eaglesoars:
I haven’t been there in a while. Got tired of arguing with trolls, as well as the casual racism
I was actually in Albuquerque this weekend. Got home about an hour ago. Took the trailer for its first out of town voyage.
Everything went fine until I went to empty the holding tanks this morning on my way out…
lobo91 wrote:
this is me trying not to laugh………..
@ eaglesoars:
It seems to be a “right of passage” thing for new RV owners…
A must watch YouTube video. Maga vs Antifa.
https://youtu.be/tCyxSobFwS0
@ darkwords:
Did you see the one where people just rode their horses and moved them out like a cattle drive? I think that was in Colorado also
@ eaglesoars:
A fundamental problem in the US is we are teaching kids to use the adjectives black and white as a required attachment to every noun we speak. And the dems educated their slaves to think of themselves as perpetual victims. Even if the names changed and the shackles were removed. How do we self correct?
I’ve been through black soul, black pride, Affirmative Action, EEO, institutional racism, systemic racism, white flight, White privilege. It’s all wrong because of the results. I grew to think I could give my house, my wife, my kids, my car, my dog, my salary to the black victim and it wouldn’t be enough. Because the problem is in the self created victims head not mine. These are narcissistic victims. Malignant ones that can’t see out of the hole they dug for themselves.
However in the military all my best leaders were young black Sergeants. Then post military all the black managers I met in my job were incredibly whiny victims. There were exceptions. A guy direct from Nigeria. A man and a woman both from Ethiopia. All three new to the country.
How does one strike at this consciousness? By leadership? How do you build trust that resonates good market behavior?
historical woes? Don’t be a victim. Listen to a David Goggins youtube video if one thinks of oneself as a victim. I’d let David Goggins be the ambassador for Trumps Redlining repair effort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLKxdTmk-zc
The Holocaust has more extreme but similar stories to David Goggins.
@ eaglesoars:
I searched for it and think it was the same one. I have to laugh at the protesters. There was also one where a woman hit a horse and it kicked the s**t out of her. It reinforces that these northwest protesters are clueless.
I shouldn’t watch David Goggins videos. It makes me realize I am a slacker.
eaglesoars wrote:
This was a textbook case of math abuse. Heads should role over this deliberate intent to deceive.
@ lobo91:
Yep.
Folks over at WZ were asking about you, they were worried they hadn’t seen you there for a while and there was a report of correction officers falling victim to the virus. Several folks said to say “Hello”
I do think the violence level in the country is escalating as people become fed up. I don’t have a gun. yet. Probably need one.
What do people think about Trumps EO’s yesterday? Constitutional> or doesn’t matter? OK if its an emergency?
darkwords wrote:
yes, you do and first thing tomorrow please. I don’t think there’s much time.
gah
@ eaglesoars:
🙂 I agree. I looked at a local store $500 for a 9 MM
Going to check again tomorrow. Might have to settle for a BB gun.
@ eaglesoars:
I had a rifle and a revolver stored at a relatives house. But the inlaws freaked out and disposed of them a few years ago.
Listening to Manchin on the radio. Talks like a hard core Republican. Votes like a hard core Democrat. Com’n Mountaineers whats the deal there?
Meth is fueling a lot of these protests. It helps with their dopamine deficits.
Portland is a conduct-aversion experiment and a potential Clockwork Orange
I know some Meth users and their conduct is what we would describe as evil. Used to be ok people.
Seattle’s core issue is not homelessness but meth addiction.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/24/seattle_is_dying_drugs_and_homelessness_in_seattle.html
I’ve been up close to it and the threat is real but vastly underplayed.
@ darkwords:
I think they’re politically brilliant.
I haven’t looked at them, but I’m hearing that they’re funded in ways that are within executive purview.
It has the Dems defending the constitution and rejecting government spending to help Americans, so I’m 100% behind him on this.
darkwords wrote:
make sure you can get ammo for whatever you buy.
I was at Cabela’s yesterday. Pretty much nothing in stock as far as common pistol calibers or 5.56. Also no .308
Mark Levin has AG Barr as guest tonite
A note for Martian Overlord
As you have only 2 more years to go, you may not be interested in this, but there are people really working on homeschooling/networking curriculum stuff
Homeschool Moms & Dads of Instapundit: I know you’re out there. I’ve read many of your comments. I’m working with someone who is trying to create a new type of homeschool network with a generally libertarian/classical emphasis. (Not religious, but traditional, and definitely not left-wing.) A lot of the educational planning has been done, but not the organizational development.
From what I’ve seen of it, this project has the potential to become a significant national organization. If you’re a current or retired homeschooler, or if you’ve worked with groups like Scouts, 4-H, Heritage Girls, Grange, etc., and you might be interested in following or getting involved with a project like this, send me an email at e.d.dorsatum@gmail.com (your privacy is assured). Instapundit homeschool folks are all so clever and talented (not to mention well dressed and good looking), I suspect this project might appeal to many of them.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/385256/#comment-4984914615
@ lobo91:
Ok thanks.. I wasn’t thinking of Cabela, but I should go there first probably.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/widespread-damage-reported-in-downtown-chicago-after-night-of-looting/
@ eaglesoars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Caribbean_Premier_League
the cricket starts on the 18th, available in the US on willow.tv
there will be no crowds, which is unfortunate because they are insane and fun to watch! going to one of these is on my bucket list. it is top notch T20 cricket. the best players from around the world play for each team…T20 means 20 overs which are 6 balls each over per side to score as many runs as they can, 120 in total. that makes for 3 or 4 hours of great cricket. after a few games you will ‘get it’ and begin to understand the game.
@ darkwords:
for the first time ever, my guy down the road is completely out of reloading supplies too.
@ coldwarrior:
Yikes. I hope Rix and family are ok
Did you go back to work yesterday?
coldwarrior wrote:
I shall have to look for it. Cricket has always intrigued me.
eaglesoars wrote:
i did. finally.
eaglesoars wrote:
its worth the subscription as they carry almost all of the matches from around the world too.
eaglesoars wrote:
ok, I’m in
coldwarrior wrote:
stamina ok and everything?
eaglesoars wrote:
YAY!!!
eaglesoars wrote:
yeah, i did pretty good. was tired t the end, but that is par for the course. it was an easy there tho. wednesday is gonna be a tough one, different and much busier facility
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, it’s letting me watch previous matches w/no subscription. And already I don’t understand it. HA!
coldwarrior wrote:
eat your spinach.
I have to wake up the heathen beagles. laziest dogs on the planet
eaglesoars wrote:
you will.
in short:
each over is 6 balls bowled by the bowler. the batter is out if the ball is caught on the fly, the bails (those wooden things at either end) knocked over while they are running, or if the batter is LBW (leg before wicket) where the ball does not touch the bat but hits the batter and it is judged that the ball would have knocked over the wicket/stumps. the most exciting way to get an out is for the bowler to knock over the wickets (aka stumps) as in i’m stumped….
there is one bowler and two batters, one on each end.
runs are scored by running back and forth between the two wickets after the ball is put in play by the batter, one run for each time the two batters make it to the wicket, the ball is batted over the outfield rope (6 runs), the ball runs to the outfield rope (4 runs).
eaglesoars wrote:
i cant drink another spinach/fruit/protein shake. i lived on them for weeks.
@ eaglesoars:
watch this
coldwarrior wrote:
Guess we are lucky here in the north. Last time I was in the local gun shop they had crates of 7.62×54, buckets of 9mm both Blazer and Remington. Out of the .45 buckets though. Reloading supplies are good as well.
Unfortunately I can’t afford any shooting supplies currently. Only have about 700 rounds of 9mm, and about 200 .45 rounds. Have enough supplies for almost 500 .45 to reload if needed. Having issues with the .45 1911 currently, locks up and fails to eject after one or two rounds and I have tried everything that might work. Gunsmith trip is in the cards this week.
hysterical
@ PaladinPhil:
this is a big, BIG independent store, almost half a block long. i’ve never seen it so empty. recently, his wife does 12 hours a day of just background checks
for background
@ coldwarrior:
Independent store here as well. Very busy all the time. People from the big city stop there or make a trip up because they carry stuff big name stores don’t. Better prices then Cabela’s as well.
For what it’s worth.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/453745-professor-who-has-predicted-every-election-since-1984-says-trump-will-lose/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/10/nolte-magnificent-mile-riots-looting-hit-democrat-run-chicago/
You have to see this area to appreciate the $$$ and what just happened.
Big money stores and restaurants
Reports: Big Ten schools vote to cancel fall football season
https://www.whio.com/sports/ohio-state/reports-big-ten-schools-vote-cancel-fall-football-season/NACF57MM3RFBZFQQDWNKJYGGQE/
right_wing2 wrote:
yeah, I remember him and his 13 ‘keys. Don’t bother to buy the book, it’s right here in wiki and we can have a fun game with it
The 13 Keys to the White House
The Keys are statements that favor victory (in the popular vote count) for the incumbent party. When five or fewer statements are false, the incumbent party is predicted to win the popular vote; when six or more are false, the challenging party is predicted to win the popular vote.[4]
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Party Mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections.
Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
Incumbency: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president.
Third party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign.
Short-term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign.
Long-term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms.
Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.
Social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term.
Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.
Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.
Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.
Incumbent (party) charisma: The incumbent party candidate is charismatic or a national hero.
Challenger (party) charisma: The challenging party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero.
The above 13 keys are slightly different from the 12 keys originally proposed in 1981.[2]
2020 United States presidential election
As of August 5 2020, Allan Lichtman predicts that Donald Trump will lose the 2020 United States presidential election to challenger Joe Biden based on seven of the thirteen keys of his prediction model turning false against the incumbency.[5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_to_the_White_House#The_13_Keys_to_the_White_House
I’ll start: Let’s look at the guiding rule, shall we?
The Keys are statements that favor victory (in the popular vote count) for the incumbent party. When five or fewer statements are false, the incumbent party is predicted to win the popular vote; when six or more are false, the challenging party is predicted to win the popular vote.[4]
Too bad we use the electoral college and not the popular vote, huh Hillary?
Second, is the very nature of college football itself. Several player groups in different conferences have approached their leagues with demands and threatened not to play if their coronavirus and social justice demands are not met.
Ever hear of killing the golden goose? Any of these players who can read need to let their illiterate fellow athletes how the story ends.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
The schools and venues wont make any $$$ without fans.
I’ll cancel my ncaa football subscription. No reason to have it.
coldwarrior wrote:
I have and I’m all outta fucks to give
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
guess the thugs will have to go to class or something
Maybe the southern schools will play. That’ll work. ACC SEC Big 12.
@ eaglesoars:
For every football scholarship there has to be a scholarship for lesser sports esp female sports.
Cancel all of them for a year…an object lesson
This is a lot of $$$ for these schools…expect to see layoffs of non tenured first.
coldwarrior wrote:
Folks, people were arriving with multiple empty shopping bags and bringing *U-HAULS* to the Loop and the Gold Coast last night/this morning. It wasn’t ‘protest’, it was a coordinated raid using the guise of protest for outright thievery.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/08/10/she-did-chase-away-the-gays-richard-grenell-torches-lori-lightfoot-for-threatening-sunbathers-but-ignoring-looters/
coldwarrior wrote:
well, it sure as hell won’t be the assistant VPs for diversity and social justice
I have a plan for the student debt problem.
I’m having a brain freeze – I can’t remember the term for the money stashed the univs have stashed away. BUT. Seize those, pay off the student debt with it, and going forward make the univs co-sign all debt notes the students sign.
eaglesoars wrote:
endowments?
@ eaglesoars:
The “endowment”?
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/trevor-lawrence-let-us-play-football-damnit/
Looks like Lawrence just became maga
@ coldwarrior:
There’s a concerted social media movement, #wewanttoplay, organized by the players that’s just been endorsed by POTUS.
eaglesoars wrote:
I used to love going to Chicago
@ coldwarrior:
The train from PGH was the way to do it. Classy.
@ coldwarrior:
I’d like to make it there someday, mainly to eat.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/san-diego-not-portland-hundreds-police-angry-citizens-face-off-antifa-terrorists-san-diego-video/
Get em, SD!!!
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Dude!!! Ditka’s!!!! Oh man!
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
great Polish food!
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
yeah. I just woke up from a nap (needed because I pigged out with bacon and eggs instead of the usual croissant/yogurt thing) and I don’t wake up quickly.
Senior Trump campaign legal adviser intentionally misgenders Rachel Levine in tweet
https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/senior-trump-campaign-legal-adviser-intentionally-misgenders-rachel-levine-in-tweet/
Half right. Intentional, not “misgendering.”
eaglesoars wrote:
And I would like to point out that as Hillary won the popular in 2016, Lichtman was wrong in 2016
gah
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Facts is facts.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
good. Next up: dead naming
would you drive on a bridge or fly in an airplane using her ‘math’
@ coldwarrior:
wanna bet she doesn’t try to pay her bills like that.
https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/new-zealands-ongoing-self-siege-is
Pay now or later
@ PaladinPhil:
That’s enough to take care of one riots from the Seattle Protesters when the Food Truckers boycott forces them to cross the Blaine Border crossing In search of Maple Syrup and Molson. We would come for the Canadian Bacon also but there is a debate underway about Pineapple Pizza and no consensus yet.
Canada right? Living there? What are the gun laws like?
@ right_wing2:
I’m still concerned. I don’t think anything is guaranteed.There are numerous echo chambers on both sides. And a lot of last minute fickle voters. And a lot of immoral ballot harvesting by the left.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
The Fightin Illini declare dibs on the conference championship.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes that would be good. Keep the accounting in house. Knuckle down on the campus budget.
In tough times a business will get leaner and more efficient. But a government project manager will just borrow more money to solve any problem.
Shooting outside the white house.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8613485/Donald-Trump-escorted-White-House-press-conference-minutes-began.html
@ darkwords:
Pineapple on pizza is an abomination unto the Lord.
coldwarrior wrote:
Obviously you are not from Honolulu!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
No sir. I grew up with Italians
eaglesoars wrote:
Eventually you will catch the Cricket bug and once hooked you will even mainline cricket… that is watch Test Cricket for 5 days at a time.
It’s like heroin. You just drift in and out and watch snippets of the game while you get on with your life. A radio playing in the background is the way most maintain their fix. When something extraordinary happens you quickly switch on the TV for a few instant replays. That way you maintain your ‘fix’ for the whole 5 days while still seeing all the good stuff. Test cricket is like 3 D chess. The game swings one way and then back the other between the teams. The aficionados love the subtle waxes and wanes of the game and the mental games that are payed like pulling in a majority of fielders in a tight circle ( called slips) around a tired batsman and dare him to play aggressively while tricky ‘spin bowlers weave their mesmerising magic with balls that move isideways in the air and then break back the other way on the pitch!
Once you understand the rules and they are not all that complicated really you will love this game.
I’d suggest trying 20:20 (3 hour game) first as this is slash and bash and full of action but no real subtle play.
Then graduate to One Day (or Day/night) cricket known as 50 over cricket. There is still action aplenty and a good dose of skilled play and excitement.
Then comes Test cricket where your brain is pandered to by the game as well as your heart!
🙂
Enjoy Eagles
coldwarrior wrote:
Everyone in Honolulu eats pineapple pizza to suppotrt the local Dole pineapple producers!
HEH!
🙂
It’s revolting if the truth hbe known!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Precisely
Aussie Infidel wrote:
oh dear
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course not, they are essential staff. /sarc
coldwarrior wrote:
Mrs. Federalist would strongly disagree. Violently and strongly.
darkwords wrote:
In short? Stupid. Semi-automatic rifles have a five round limit. Hand guns 10 rounds. Hand guns require a separate permit and can only be transported from home to the range in a locked container (there’s a few other times but that’s about it). Purchasing a handgun takes minutes to complete the transaction then three to four weeks for permission to take it from the store to home.
I could go on, but that’s the summation.
They’re still at it in Chicago
First looter in custody, will be declaring mass arrest situation tonight, ID coming shortly.
https://twitter.com/chipolicescan/status/1292979882339729408
anybody seen Rix?
A group behind Occupy Wall Street is going to do a 50-day siege of the White House beginning mid-Sept (thru election day). I’m sure the FEC will be looking at how to charge them for the in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/group-behind-occupy-wall-street-planning-50-day-white-house-siege-through-election-day/
https://twitter.com/STUinSD/status/1292989456463597568
Children Writing About the Ocean
1 – This is a picture of an octopus. It has eight testicles. (Kelly, age 6)
2 – Oyster’s balls are called pearls. (Jerry, age 6)
3 – If you are surrounded by ocean you are an island. If you don’t have ocean all round you, you are incontinent. (Mike, age 7)
4 – Sharks are ugly and mean and have big teeth just like Emily Richardson. She’s not my friend any more. (Kylie, age 6)
5 – A dolphin breathes through an
@sshole
on the top of its head. (Billy, age 8)
6 – My uncle goes out in his boat with two other men and a woman and some pots and comes back with crabs. (Millie, age 6)
7 – When ships had sails, they used to use the trade winds to cross the ocean. Sometimes when the wind didn’t blow the sailors would whistle to make the wind come. My brother said they would have been better off eating beans. (William, age 7)
8 – Mermaids live in the ocean. I like mermaids. They are beautiful and I like their shiny tails, but how on earth do mermaids get pregnant? Like, really? (Helen, age 6)
9 – I’m not going to write about the ocean. My baby brother is always crying, my Dad keeps yelling at my Mom and my big sister has just got pregnant, so I can’t think what to write. (Amy, age 6)
10 – Some fish are dangerous. Jellyfish can sting. Electric eels can give you a shock. They have to live in caves under the sea where I think they have to plug themselves in to chargers. (Christopher, age 7)
11 – When you go swimming in the ocean it is very cold and it makes my willy small. (Kevin, age 6)
12 – Divers have to be safe when they go under the water. Divers can’t go down alone, so they have to go down on each other. (Becky, age 8)
13 – On vacation my Mom went water skiing. She fell off when she was going very fast. She says she won’t do it again because water fired right up her big fat
@ss
. (Julie, age 7)
14 – The ocean is made up of water and fish. Why the fish don’t drown I don’t know. (Bobby, age 6)
15 – My dad was a sailor on the ocean. He knows all about the ocean. What he doesn’t know is why he quit being a sailor and married my mom. (James, age 7)
eaglesoars wrote:
Fast balls about 100MPH with an average of 0.38 seconds to react by the batsman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06zJmVBnroM
Cunning and mesmerising ‘spin bowlers’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUVZ0jej6I
Unplayable swing bowling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUVZ0jej6I
Best Run outs (stumping)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0rWDLXehk
Best catches (you’ll note there are NO Gloves ) and a cricket ball is VERY Hard ! It hurts like hell! Look at #5 the fielder stops the ball above his head and prevents it going for 6. catches the ball inside the boundary but his momentum is carrying him over the boundary rope so he throws the ball high back infield, steps over the boundary steadies himself, steps back into the field of play and catches the ball as it falls. Brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdhnbSBKI8E
Best wicketkeeper catches’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9XvAL3JvUM
@ eaglesoars:
#3 I feel for ya Mike 🙂
#12 Becky will go far! 🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I think Amy’s sister went farther.
I’m off to read.
CW &AZ, thanks much for the cricket stuff, much appreciated.
eaglesoars wrote:
It weren’t me, I think you meant Aussie. I know nothing about Cricket
Mean Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CNB5OLUPM0
And The Hu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
Good morning. The en banc Flynn case is being heard now. I’m getting bits and pieces from twitter, no clear picture so far
Washington Wild Things suspend season, citing possible crackdown by state police
The Washington Wild Things said in a press release Monday that they have officially suspended their 2020 season after being warned by the Pennsylvania State Police that the continuation of their season could lead to enforcement actions.
The announcement comes a month after the Wild Things held their opening night July 9.
“We are extremely frustrated right now,” Steven Zavacky, executive director and president of the organization said in a statement. “We have done everything humanly possible to safely operate our facility…… we have gone above and beyond, and it was working.”
https://triblive.com/sports/washington-wild-things-suspend-season-citing-possible-crackdown-by-state-police/
Illegal baseball.
Welcome to 2020.
@ eaglesoars:
listen live here, but I haven’t got time
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/sixtyday.nsf/mastercalendar?SearchView&query=(%5BEntryDate%5D%3E=08/11/2020%20AND%20%5BEntryDate%5D%3C=08/11/2020)&tab=1&SearchMax=1000
I hate these people.
U.S. Surgeon Gen’l Feb 29
Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
http://bit.ly/37Ay6Cm
https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160
My freshly defrosted made in America Kenmore upright freezer turns 40 this year.
40.
Big 10 just quit the 2020 season.
coldwarrior wrote:
Pineapple is a fruit. So you dislike fruit on pizza?
These are also fruit. Tomato, peppers, olives, mushrooms ( technically a fruiting body of a mycelium )
Your pizza must be so boring without fruit!
@ Possum:
Knowledge is knowing tomatoes are fruit.
Wisdom is when you understand that they do not go in fruit salad.
coldwarrior wrote:
Depends how drunk I am 🙂
Also broccoli is a flower. Real men do not eat flowers!
( we do actually but only in private and we do not let it be known )
Talking of food and masculinity. ” Real men don’t eat quiche ”
How true, I would never eat quiche, I am a red blooded true Yorkshire man.
Real Yorkshire men eat bacon and egg pie.
🙂
Supposedly Biden is set to announce his VP pick shortly. As soon as they tell him who it is.
In other news, Michelle Obama apparently stepped in it, moaning that low-income essential workers, e.g., grocery store workers, don’t have health care. Guess she forgot about Obamacare.
SHIT!
The whole of great Auckland as just entered Level #3 lockdown. We are packing up and fleeing to the beach before the 2=1200 deadline when the roadblocks go up.
This is what happens when you have eradication but still have ‘so called Managed quarantine of arriving people. One family group of morons with a collective IQ of tepid water somehow get infected and 40% of NZ’s GDP gets shut down and defends back into Level #3 lockdown …. AGAIN and the rest of the country goes into Level #2 partial lockdown.
I’m OUTTA HERE FOLKS…. Damnit!
🙂
… great Auckland = Greater Auckland.
🙂
predictive still thinks it’s in charge of the keyboard!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Kamala Harris
Aussie Infidel wrote:
smart move, drive safely
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Best thing you can do is find someone that has COVID-19 and give them a big wet kiss. Then throw pepper in their face and stand six inches from them and open your mouth, flair your nostrils and breath deeply while they sneeze all over your face, also open your eyes really wide.
This is never going to end until we all have had the Chinese Flu and either survived or died.
My advice is GET IT NOW!!!! while beds in ICU are still available.
eaglesoars wrote:
wait till all the black people find out her hubby is a white Jewish lawyer
https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/a25905360/kamala-harris-husband-douglas-emhoff/
eaglesoars wrote:
You knew it when she turned up a few weeks ago looking like she stuck her face in a hornet’s nest.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Maybe it was the lighting, but it looked like she lightened her skin too
@ eaglesoars:
Apparently Minnesota has a state law that forbids wearing masks in public. The governor also executive ordered that all people out doors must wear masks.
I have some Christian neighbors who purposely won’t wear a mask. They are retired. They tell me its Gods will if they are taken. They want to live their faith fully as they see it.
I wear a mask to make people comfortable. My understanding of the mask science is that my mask is about 3-10 percent effective.
I don’t think politicians are doing a good job here. IMO all the 50 governors need to be seriously audited.
Epochtime proposing that Justice Roberts swings left to balance the court and insure he has a balanced legacy.
If that is the case then I don’t think he has taken the constitution to heart. I might expect that of am immature high school debate club member. But not from a vetted Supreme Court justice.
How long does it take the Senate to push through a justice nomination? Ghoulishly I’m thinking RBG is just hanging on and Trump might ramrod a nomination through before the election if he has time.
coldwarrior wrote:
Now that is news. I wonder if one can still buy a 40 year freezer? I always liked kenmore products.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I applaud countries that find a path. In the US I don’t think we are smarter than the virus. The Swedish model is probably more workable. IMO.
Extended quarantine just delays the costs.
Harris’ father, econ prof at Standford
“My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-father-rips-her-comments-on-weed-13635531.php
@ eaglesoars:
Weren’t his family slaveholders?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
@ eaglesoars:
I think that is his best choice. She has some baggage but is attractive and smart. I wonder what that Willie Brown thing was then? People were posting he advised her not to take the slot because he knew she wasn’t being picked.
Well, this still leaves the door open for Hillary. Biden better be careful how he rides that bike. A Clinton go Kart might spin out of control and knock him silly.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
yep
@ Possum:
Pizza=meat.
And onions.
The only fruit you put on pizza is the tomato sauce. Or barbecue sauce.
darkwords wrote:
Sillier.
Ok staff gossip, Hubby knows 2 former staffers.
Total bitch, treats people horribly. Had one dry shave her legs while she was on the phone.
Oh, yeah, and her defense of Juicy Smellit.
darkwords wrote:
I didn’t think that the Swedes had the solution but right now I have changed my mind. Eradication actually worked for NZ because we are a couple of islands at the end of the world. That said however the stupid socialist government refused to leverage that advantage when it had the chance. Now we have managed and quarantined citizens returnees doing their 14 days lockdown in military supervised hotels. Except for the folks who get to flout the rules somehow and self isolate at home.
RTeading between the lines the five positive cases are probably chinese nationals who hold NZ Residency and somehow mixed with someone who slipped through the quarantine structures. If that is so then there is going to be hell to pay for the NZ Chinese 2% of the population. The two family run shops owned by this family apparently sell Chinese food and pills but have not kept any logs of customers because we were in Level #1 and it was unnecessary. NOW we will see whether the tracing system actually works!
Parliament was supposed to ‘rise’ tonight and not resit until after the September elections. The Leader of the Opposition has demanded that Parliament extends it’s term until after this current scare is over as the cross party Covid Control Committee can’t sit if all the MPs are in their electorates. She also demands that the election is delayed until the end of the year or early next year because electioneering under lockdown is impossible. And NO postal ballots are NOT going to be allowed for the general election as they are full of security holes.
#2 son has just texted from his Station and says they all NZ Police will be required to bunk down at their Stations until further notice. That’s code for this thing is going to get out of control. Thanks President XI and your me band of Covid super-spreaders!
SPIT
@ Aussie Infidel:
Just saw on a Brit blog that 2 American friends in NZ were told last week to leave because there was going to be another lockdown.
You’re being played?
Made it down to the beach thank goodness.
Apparently the sole current testing station for Wuhan Fly in Wiri South Auckland (think SE LA)have a question of cars waiting for tests stretching 500 metres in both directions. Estimated wait time is 3 1/2 hours and with traffic control just outside the testing station. There is a VERY wet grass strip down the middle of the road that is just daring anyone stupid enough to try to cross it without getting bogged to escape this log jam of vehicles. The Tongans and Samoans are currently punching each other out and rolling around n the mud fighting …. to pass the time while waiting for their test1
🙂
Speaking of being played – anyone else notice that there were almost zero cases of childhood virus until they started talking about opening the schools? Now those stories are all over the place
eaglesoars wrote:
WE KNOW now that we were being played.
Last week there was a big preparation exercise to get ready for another outbreak and PM Jacinda (AKA wendy) was leaking half truth from both sides of her mouth.
We were waiting for the other shoe to drop!
🙁
We wus played!
eaglesoars wrote:
I DID notice that. This is happening in Australia too. There was an Opus Dei Girls School for senior girls who went on a religious retreat and about 30% came down with Wuhan Flu. What was ‘conveniently ‘ left out of the story was that they were 17818 years old and hardly children! Yet now the Lock down forces are using this as an excuse to close ALL schools!
There is a dirty game being played here folks
17 – 18 year old girls
@ Aussie Infidel:
ah. To what end tho?
@ Aussie Infidel:
Our media outlets do that when it comes to figures regarding “children” being killed with guns.
Most of the “children” in question are teenage gang members, not kindergarteners.
eaglesoars wrote:
Thank you.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, it’s not like he was going to pick anybody who’s any good
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
most welcome
AZfederalist wrote:
The pool he was working from has no such person
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope. Not a one
the girl said people she follows on the web are really salty about joe picking
kamala, not pleased with it at all
@ rain of lead:
who did they want?
@ eaglesoars:
not a clue, she did notice that in the age of blm,antifa and defund the police
joe goes and picks the COP?!!??
yeah, not well thought out
kneepads done put a lot of bros in jail
rain of lead wrote:
whose father’s family owned slaves.
yeah, weird…………
@ rain of lead:
I think she was a terrible choice.
She’s done nothing in the Senate. She’s from California, which Biden automatically wins anyway. She won’t win him any black votes, because she’s not really black (her parents are Indian and Jamaican). Nobody buys her act, either. She must have borrowed Hillary’s script for “how to appeal to the Negroes.”
@ eaglesoars:
Funny how we have the second “African American” on the national Dem ticket, and neither of them are descendants of black Americans.
@ Aussie Infidel:
It is interesting to come to the realization that these different county/cutures are growing different solutions to a common virus.
Chinese I would think as a whole are difficult to quarantine. They have a reliance still on a working age old canon of health maxims. Something even the CCP couldn’t wipe out. They would have a different cultural solution to the pandemic than the government does. At least my guess.
@ rain of lead:
That a good point Even though conservative think picking a cop might even out Bidens image a bit? All those BLM supporters will see her as the devil. She’ll have to roll over for BLM and be morphed into a Joe Blow 2020 ticket to get BLM fully in bed with her. (Stole from Scot Adams)
Well. A group of women from various orgs, including Valeria Jarrett, have written an open letter to the media.
Report on Harris according to our directives…or else.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7030967/Letter-to-Media-Final.pdf
@ eaglesoars:
hope Harris gets every bit as much respect and fair play as Palin got
rain of lead wrote:
Yeah, that’s a nice thought. You know that won’t happen though. Kamela will be elevated, beatified, and adored by all of the media sycophants. Matter of fact, I would not be surprised to see comparisons to how she is such a smarter pick for Biden than Palin was for McLame
eaglesoars wrote:
Marching orders from the leftist Harpies. Wunnerful
eaglesoars wrote:
Simply to keep ALL schools closed from nursery school through to pre-university colleges (Senior high schools)
If schools are closed then industry has to partially close down as well thus ruining the economy and destroying the West.
It’s just THAT simple!
AZfederalist wrote:
I keep telling people and they keep not listening to me…whatever happens, don’t ever let them give you to the women
darkwords wrote:
Maybe !
But welding the doors shut is a great way of ensuring that the enclosed family stays put intol they all die out inside regardless of culture!
The CCP really ARE JUST THAT CRUEL!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I don’t know when your next election is, but can you guys use mail-in voting? Because that’s what it’s all about here right now.
lobo91 wrote:
the term child is somewhat ‘fluid’ when it comes to the Left!
Given that the fascist left understands that language is just another weapon to be used to destroy one’s enemies …. changing the language to suit your particular circumstance is somehow ‘logical’ in a weird amoral sort of way!
🙂
Looks as if the family that has set loose the Wuhan Flu in Auckland are Chinese Residents who carry CCP passports and run money exchange booth at various airports and downtown locations. Their customers are travellers and chinese students.
Lovely. It’s like recruiting spreaders professionally!
SPIT
This will NOT end well.
The cops have been told that they may be restricted to camping out at their stations for up to 7 weeks!!!!!
I kid you NOT.
This is stupid. How can we possibly have an election in September?
This now has a political spin to it
Just a quick note, not to be morbid but……just about this time 4 years ago today, we said goodbye to Iron Fist. One of the best friends I ever had, who I dearly wish were still here with us to talk about all that’s going on. But I’m so glad we knew him.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHA!!! BINGO!
The Pence/Harris debate(s) has the potential to be EPIC
Will any journo do a story of how @KamalaHarris , AG of CA, raided the home of @daviddaleiden and seized his hard drives bc he investigated Planned Parenthood, a donor to AG.
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1293306740482736129
I think Daleiden is the guy who exposed the organ selling
Jesus, look at the spin on this crap, from the ever-reliable dictation whore at the NYT
In same way that Obama asked Clinton to be Sec of State after a brutal primary, Biden is choosing the person who dinged him hardest on stage. His team knows this and is betting people realize it’s something Trump, who lives in grievance, would not do
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1293302973611810817
eaglesoars wrote:
NOT mail in voting. There are Special Votes that are signed by the voter and checked for aucenticicy. The Leader of the Opposition has totally ruled out a Mail-In vote as in her own words , “would make the vote suspect of being manipulated and would therefore be not licit”.
eaglesoars wrote:
Iron Fist would have been like a pig in shit with everything that’s going on these days. He was one interesting guy!
Has it really been 4 years?
RIP Iron mate!
eaglesoars wrote:
Spun so hard it just disappears up its own arse!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
The comments on that thread were hilarious. The most self-righteous garbage I’ve read in a long time.
Oh, wait, not true. The new book on Harry and Meghan came out today and it is, in the words of the Daily Mail, ‘toe curling’.
‘The Tig [ her blog] was polished and optimistic. Whether it was Meghan walking a rugged coastline in a perfectly belted camel coat or a “Tig Talk” with famous pals like the actress Priyanka Chopra or a recipe for “spicy broccoli and hempseed stew”, the website was curated eye candy that she hoped would be “the breeding ground for ideas and excitement – for an inspired lifestyle”
hempseed stew. I’ve been laughing for hours.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8616349/The-26-toe-curling-Finding-Freedom-quotes-Meghans-packing-skills-Harry-tough-impress.html
but now I’m going to bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
Prime Minister Jacinda Arden (AKA wendy) has decided to run her party’s campaign WITHOUT ANY POLICY! Yup not an error. NO POLICY at all.
Just her memes…. the ‘Team of 5 million’ and ‘Lets all be Kind’ and ‘it’s all about the Covid’.
That’s it!
Zip
Zilch!
Should make the debates a hoot!
Her 3 years in power were all about …
an earthquake,
a massed shooting
and a Flu
Other than that she DID NOTHING because her partner in crime NZ First and the Greens couldn’t agree to do ANYTHING. She was there for the POWER and the strutting on the world stage as a precursor for a tilt at the job as Secretary General of the UN!
Her mentor is Helen Clark who also wanted the UN job!
Jacinda’s squeeze and latter day philanderer Clark Gayford have buried their axes in each other’s backs until after the election whenever that is now. The Labour Party Conference all pretended that he didn’t have a 3 month affair with his and Jacinda’s live in nanny… got the nanny up the duff, got tossed out of the Prime Minister’s house , hid away on his boat around the back of Waihiki Island until the heat died down….. and then rehabilitated by the Labour Party….. for the Election’s optics and PR
eaglesoars wrote:
Harry’s head will be spinning!
🙂 G’nite Eagles
@ Aussie Infidel:
It worked for Obama, didn’t it?
His campaign was based on “Hope” and “Change”
lobo91 wrote:
Now you have me worried!
🙂
Iron Fist and No threat would have enjoyed this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8613161/John-McAfee-claims-hes-arrested-Norway-wearing-lacy-THONG-face-instead-mask.html
Perfect McAfee