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Play nice!
thanks, bumr! i was having a much needed sleep-in.
@ coldwarrior:
No problem! Rest up. Glad you’re feeling better.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
i’m still pretty tired at the end of a 12 hour shift tho. every night at 9pm i get ‘cold’ too. i had to put on a fleece jacket at work last night. yeah, i lost 40+ pounds, but jeeze!
i mean, now i’m down to my actual ‘fighting’ weight. so that’s a plus.
I have just been informed that Governor Coonman, who supports full term abortion if it’s “the mother’s choice” will be MANDATING vaccinations for COVID when the vaccine becomes available.
This will be a shooting war.
@ coldwarrior:
how’s your appetite?
eaglesoars wrote:
mostly non-existant until the evening. i’m holding weight tho. i might have to go back to taking small doses of marijuana on days off(1/4 of the normal dose) to eat properly. i’m not high at that point…maybe one beer in…but i get hungry.
although, the other day at work i ate 20bux worth of chinese in 12 hours…then the next day i had a boost and a sandwich for the day
eaglesoars wrote:
my body my choice. /
@ eaglesoars:
pakistan v england is on now. its a test match, so, slower than t20 but more ‘involved’
@ coldwarrior:
My wife lost >100 lbs with diet and exercise, and she went from “hot all the time” to “cold all the time.”
It’s great for the electric bill! I just sit around in my underwear when I’m home and leave the thermostat at 78.
coldwarrior wrote:
sorry, no time. WAs just about to sign off because I have to go pick up meds for Willow. The original pain meds were causing some liver toxicity and I had to discontinue.
https://www.theatilisgym.com/shop
buy a shirt!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/new_jersey_gym_owners_have_a_clever_workaround_for_governors_vendetta.html
we are going to stop by there when we go to the shore in a few weeks!
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
great work, her! well done!
All 77 false-positive COVID-19 tests came back negative, NFL testing partner cites ‘isolated contamination’
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/all-77-false-positive-covid-19-tests-came-back-negative-nfl-testing-partner-cites-isolated-contamination/
Really makes you confident in the numbers that are controlling everyone’s lives…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/breaking-every-big-ten-athletic-director-wanted-play-football-liberal-commissioner-warren-killed-season-btw-ok-son-plays-sec/
this will drive votes to trump. Michigan fans are rabid
I don’t know if it means anything, but I’ve been working a few hours a week for the census. I’ve been hitting some very small towns here in Kansas, and one of them I went to yesterday I saw three or four Biden signs, but nothing for Trump.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED! SCIENCE DENIER!!!11TY!!
😆
@ coldwarrior:
Yep, I’m proud.
No longer considered diabetic.
Just an elliptical machine 5 days a week, 30-45 min. and counting calories. Cheat day Saturday. Took 15 months.
She’s plateaued now. She still follows routine, but needs a gym for some isolation exercises and a training advice. Waiting out the great covid scare.
@ right_wing2:
interesting, let me relate this: there are no trump signs in my neighborhood, i’m not flying my trump flag, yet. i dont want to have to aerate a moron so soon. i do know how my neighbors are going to vote tho, and it aint for brainless joe.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
thats a yuge accomplishment. send her my respects.
@ coldwarrior:
Will do.
You couldn’t raise enough revenue to pay for all this free crap Biden is talking about without raising taxes on everybody.
https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2020/08/24/biden-no-new-taxes-for-anyone-making-under-400k/
@ coldwarrior:
“This mess already has ramifications. The University of Nebraska just announced furloughing more than 50 and is implementing salary reductions due to a now $100 million budget hole. The University of Iowa has now dropped four sports and announced it is in deep financial trouble as a result of Warren’s politics.”
the big10 football generates insane $$$
@ right_wing2:
laffer curve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
JFK used it before it was the laffer curve.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/breaking-every-big-ten-athletic-director-wanted-play-football-liberal-commissioner-warren-killed-season-btw-ok-son-plays-sec/
football for me, but not for thee!
watch this. he speaks the truth
the guillotine has made an appearance in portland. it appeared in france in 1792.
Robespierre in February 1794 in a speech explained the necessity of terror:
If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing needs of the patrie [homeland, fatherland].[8][4]
and then Robespierre was put to the guillotine 28 july 1794.
be careful, antifa, what you ask for.
@ coldwarrior:
Antifa has already proved itself to be a brainless organism.
Sturgis? REALLY? Six of you idiots thought it would be a good idea to show up at STURGIS and then slap someone’s bike?
@ The Barbarian:
Well they’ve stones the size of basketballs to do that. And brains the size of a grain of wheat.
@ The Barbarian:
the sturgis cops showed a lot of restraint
coldwarrior wrote:
And Lenin perfected that idea
can you say Butthurt?
I knew that you could
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/08/24/hbos-john-oliver-freaks-as-town-names-sewage-plant-after-him-go-fk-yourselves/
sigh
https://tennesseestar.com/2020/08/15/rutherford-county-schools-tell-parents-not-to-monitor-their-childs-virtual-classrooms/
@ rain of lead:
Law suits.
This policy will fail in the courts
The terms of Cheng’s grant prohibited participation, collaboration or coordination with China, any Chinese-owned company or any Chinese University, according to the charges.
https://www.kbtx.com/2020/08/24/texas-am-professor-arrested-for-conspiracy-making-false-statements-and-wire-fraud/
yet you hired this chinese national anyway.
did we ever put soviets in these position? no.
so why is it different now? $$$$$…sell you soul and country out for money.
coldwarrior wrote:
Try a Guinness or two in the evenings. The stuff of champions and guaranteed to add weight
coldwarrior wrote:
At the Oval or at Lords?
coldwarrior wrote:
Correct
And there are data that suggests that income tax take does indeed happen at specific rates of personal tax, (see Ireland and Singapore) and tax ‘minimisation’ vanishes because further attempts to minimise tax is just not worth the trouble. Millions of Tax accountants will be pissed!
NZ has a three level tax. Not ideal as a single flat rate works best. The Mean rate in NZ is around 20% tax. A bit higher than the ideal rate where the take flattens between 12 – 16% I think but close enough. But that also has a 15% Goods and Services Tax as well on ALL transactions so it’s not yet ideal. Just a GST of around 15% and NO income tax and watch the economy bloom….except for Tax Lawyers and accountants!
🙂
I saw a headline on MSNBC (this was at work not at home) saying that 40 or 45 former US Republican representatives were backing Joe Biden.
@ Aussie Infidel:
You know, I dont know where they were! There was no swing at all tho.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yep. Officer’s thinking that. Capital idea!
right_wing2 wrote:
That’s why they are ‘former’
I just left the local school (kids had orientation) the HS girls were at soccer practice and the HS boys football was wrapping up their two a day.
No masks, just healthy kids running in the sunshine. The sound of the blocking sled gave me a flashback!
@ coldwarrior:
Gov wolf and his freak health minister ignored.
@ coldwarrior:
I think the pushback could get ugly
speaking of getting ugly
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/513427-wisconsin-activates-national-guard-after-protests-over-jacob-blake-shooting
Gov. Tony Evers (D) ….yeah, he’ll find a way to fuck this up
ensure Kenoshians are able to assemble safely,” he added.
Burn loot murder
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/513445-florida-judge-halts-order-requiring-schools-to-reopen-for-in-person
it marked a significant legal win for the Florida Education Association (FEA), a statewide teachers union
@ rain of lead:
Oh and…the twins teacher said that it would be great if the parents listened in to class. Just dont be a distraction.
The was the first question someone axed.
So Scott Petersen has had his death penalty sentence overturned by the California Supreme Court, but his murder conviction stands. Our Supreme Court always finds a reason to remove dirtbags from the “Green Mile.” The exception being Richard Allen Davis (murderer of Polly Klaas) and Ramon Salcido (murdered two of his little girls; one survived), because if they even ATTEMPTED to take them off, the pitchforks would be marching on San Francisco.
What this means for Scotty is that those grotesque girlies who are groupies can now go visit him on the weekends. They’ll no doubt move him from San Quentin to another facility – probably Corcoran.
@ The Barbarian:
When there is an execution in PA, the residents of Bellefonte (pronounced bell font) go to the prison with electric frying pans.
My bro lived there when he went to PSU. Nice town.
Apparently there is a run on gaming headphones for the kids to cyber school.
Amazon limited my purchase to 2.
@ coldwarrior:
Sadly, I doubt that either Davis or Salcido will get strapped to the table in the old gas chamber. But if they did, I’d be right at the gate at San Quentin (it’s not that far from me) doing the Macarena.
@ coldwarrior:
I swear, this year has had some weird stuff to be running out of
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
All 77? That’s not “isolated”
In case anyone was unsure how the MSM was going to cover the GOP convention:
@ lobo91:
I’m waiting for the NYT to start trashing that woman from Baltimore, Kim Kacilik (sp?) How they decide to do it will be telling. It will be hopeless, but telling. Hubby has already sent her money
You can’t know the teams without a program. A little background reference to all things NBC warfare
https://hp245.hostpapa.com:2096/cpsess3476797611/3rdparty/roundcube/?_task=mail&_mbox=INBOX
Or for the truncated version…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXp8SnXUvEo
☺
Peter
Take note that China is also buying up Australian and other gold mines –
Their current gold stock holding as ‘disclosed’ annually is nearing that of the USA, but I suspect their ‘undisclosed’ holdings are far higher, and note that their population are banned from taking gold out of China.
Why – (my hypothesis) –
US gold stocks have been amortized (lent out multiple times as security) many times over and there is serious doubt that they exist in physical gold form, more likely in ‘paper’ gold.
When the worlds’ US$700 trillion derivatives market collapses, as it surly will, and likely triggered by the current depression caused by Covid 19, then the Chinese Yuan backed by gold will gradually usurp the US$ reserve currency.
I believe the only factor currently stopping China entering a full currency war with the US, is their US bond stock holding that has to be liquidated first – that is why they are buying up physical US assets to convert their bonds.
China has always planned decades ahead for the long game and is patient enough to wait it out.
May not happen in my lifetime but I suspect my son will see increasing Chinese influence in his everyday life –
Be afraid.
right_wing2 wrote:
Martha McCallum fajita’d Jeff Flake last night – had him stuttering and sweating by asking him just WHICH of Joe Biden’s policies he agreed with.
Apparently NONE.
Of course, you won’t see any stories how THOUSANDS of Black voters who cast the ballot for Hitlery in 2016 will be voting for President Trump.
Do we have any numbers for the overnights for the first night of the RNC?
Looks like the word has gone out on the back channels to revive the “Trump raped a 13-year-old” allegations from the fraudulent complaint of four years ago. I’ve seen five separate Twitter threads now that have mentioned it.
@ The Barbarian:
but twatter won’t take them down……….
@ eaglesoars:
Of course not. I do love it when the legal geniuses tell me that the complaint was valid because the judge “set it for trial.” No. It was set for a status conference, which is done at the time the complaint is filed and the judge is assigned, even before the other parties have appeared. The fraud NEVER served the complaint on then-candidate Trump or Jeffrey Epstein and dismissed it right before the election.
Also, supporting evidence included a declaration executed by “Tiffany Roe”. You cannot execute a declaration under an assumed name because you cannot swear under penalty of perjury that the statements are true. Such a declaration would have had the real name of the individual and would have been filed under seal. A fact which apparently Jane Doe’s retained “patent” attorney didn’t know or understand.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/23/solar-plasma-temperature-is-plunging-should-we-worry/
That thermonuclear reactor 7 light minutes away is acting up.
The Barbarian wrote:
found this
First night of GOP convention delivers nearly six times more views than start of Democrats’ event on C-SPAN livestream
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513507-first-night-of-gop-convention-delivers-nearly-six-times-more-views-than-start
@ eaglesoars:
From what I’ve heard, republican excitement is much higher than democratic excitement.
eaglesoars wrote:
Saw that on Twitchy. People are tuning into CSPAN because they are realizing that a boatload of talking heads (including Fox) can’t seem to shut up during some very uplifting speeches.
right_wing2 wrote:
Yep.
coldwarrior wrote:
Watch out for the burps. They can be a real bastard for the Magnetosphere as it gets bent out of shape.
😉
Here’s a laugh, yer welcome………
https://twitter.com/GlennUlman/status/1298364388647337985
Michael Cohen is on Twitter, hinting that he’s apparently going to smear Trump sometime tonight.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Cant tax or control the sun, so the libs ignore it…man causes warming, no old sol!
@ Aussie Infidel:
The batting in the CPL is below average…low run rates.
67-7 at the 15th over…t20.
@ eaglesoars:
They do seem like zombies
There is this black meme that goes around where black parents have to tell their kids beware of the cops. And that white people don’t have to do that.
My dad did tell me to always be polite to the cops but don’t trust them outright. That some cops were bad people.
We are both related to police and support the organization.
Show your hands. Say yes sir. Don’t freak out. Get the lawyer and don’t say much else.
My last police stop was probably 8 years ago. I was dressed like a rat and walking through an area of town where a robbery occurred. A single police officer stopped me. Maintained a social distance from me with his hand on his gun. I knew I was innocent and just talked to him until he let me go. I didn’t get handcuffed. I was polite and answered all his questions. But even if one is guilty at that point one should accept the arrest. Most likely nothing comes of it unless one is a really bad person. Just becomes a good bar story.
I’m against bail. It destroys the family of the bailee. Puts them in a deep hole. I had a friend arrested on many old unpaid traffic tickets and given a high bail. He had a mental issue in jail and needed meds and the system wouldn’t provide them or listen. Just wait til court. He wanted to sit in jail but the family was worried about his health and bailed him out. Loss of $5000 dollars for a family that at most every had $500 cash on hand. Not this jail but this jail system had a reputation for killing inmates through medical neglect.
There are better alternatives.
The Barbarian wrote:
The dude is a loser. No character. Probably being soros paid for his slanted confession.
I wonder when BLM is going to intimidate white liberals for their mail in ballots and lunch money? They were at a restaurant yesterday trying to do intimidating street theater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_in_film_and_television
Cricket in Film and TV. I expected to find nothing!!!! Shows what an isolated American I am.
@ darkwords:
I don’t see much point in bail for unpaid traffic fines. You can’t be sentenced to jail for them, so why lock the person up beforehand?
Without some form of surety, though, a very large percentage of people arrested for serious crimes would simply disappear. These are the same ones who abscond from parole or probation supervision.
And GPS monitors are just about worthless, in practice.
@ lobo91:
There is a place for bail. The system is large with a broad brush. I also became a felon for letting a California traffic ticket go unpaid.
I just stayed out of California. When talking to police friends they informed me that the severity of the crime versus the cost of re arrest and transport would determine if I was hauled back to CA. And that if I was even out of county it might not be worth it.
That was before the national records integration occurred. Now you’ll be flagged at the DMV in any state and unable to renew unless you make restitution.
And being the hypocrite I am I would arrest every single BLM protester and assign them bail. 🙂 I know the weight it can carry. If a celebrity volunteers to pay it I would make it the full amount.
@ lobo91:
This guy had kids in sports. Restricting his game attendance would have been effective leverage. He would have probably found a way to pay his tickets in two days.
coldwarrior wrote:
“Aye Cap’n, I’m giving it everything it’s got, it canna take much more!”
coldwarrior wrote:
Boring except for the 600 wicket total for the spinner.
You are going to have to wait for the Ashes to see some real action from this English side. The Aussies do bring out the mongrel in Brit teams.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Who is 67 for 7 in the T20?
Did they have a liquid lunch or something?
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
The nominal 11 year Schwabb cycle is embedded in an 88 year Gleissberg cycle that is very well understood. The Gleissberg is likewise modulated by other longer term solar cycles at about 200 years + and 300 Years plus and overall a 2200 year cycle. The 300 year cycle with the embedded Gleissbery cycle can explain the past 300 year post Mini-Ice age warming event. Alas the good times can’t last forever and the world is headed back into the cold where food again becomes scarce and expensive.
https://simsee.org/simsee/biblioteca/CICLO_SOLAR_PeristykhDamon03-Gleissbergin14C.pdf
Well, shit just got real in Kenosha.
Watching live streams and listening to scanners.
Normal people FINALLY have had enough of this BLM/antifa/riot shit.
Two assholes shot so far.
@ Possum:
You got a bolt hole if the storm shifts west?
Bordm wrote:
2nd floor apartment. Car caught fire 2 months ago so I hope it floats away.
@ Possum:
Still in the Spring Branch area? If it gets stupid I’m heading to a friends house in Sealy.
Good morning.It looked like the RNC had another great night
I flipped to CNN when Nick Sandman spoke.
They did not cut away
Can you imagine the fear and loathing at that studio?
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2020/08/26/dead-marxists-open/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
one ot the CPL teams, hell…a final score of 102 was defended the other day…102??? in T20?
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2020/08/26/dead-marxists-open/