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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!
Thanks, Lobo. I was computer less, and it’s really hard to get a post up from my phone.
Where is everybody?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ve been out working on my trailer. Had to replace one of the stabilizer jacks that was bent when I was driving on a badly-maintained Forest Service road last weekend. Then I installed a new 12v fan to use when I’m not connected to power and can’t use the A/C. Next project is finishing the upgrade to the outside speakers. Everything works as expected; now I just have to mount it all and run the wiring.
Oh God, make it stop
Rudy Giuliani’s son Andrew eyeing NYC mayor bid in 2021
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rudy-giulianis-son-andrew-eyeing-nyc-mayor-bid-in-2021
eaglesoars wrote:
What is it with US politicians thinking they belong to some kind of damn royal dynasty?
so the girl got her acceptance letter from the college of her choice
@ rain of lead:
Congrats!
@ lobo91:
the next step is the $
I hate paperwork
@ rain of lead:
@ rain of lead:
THE University of Pittburgh!
HAIL TO PITT!!!!!
thx lobo…the fishing got heavy
we are at beach. will post up tomorrow!
rain of lead wrote:
TELL US!! TELL US RIGHT NOW!!
I’m watching the Samantha Fish livestream show from Tiptina’s in New Orleans. She’s playing stuff that hasn’t been heard in years tonight.
@ eaglesoars:
ETSU
she wanted to go to a small college
mascot…heh
https://images.pcmac.org/images/Users/whitney.turnmire@hck12.net/4433_etsu_buccaneers-alternate-2014.png
@ rain of lead:
Oh, don’t they have a good business school, I think? I remember resumes from there. Will she be on-campus?
@ eaglesoars:
1st year
@ eaglesoars:
but she still has to graduate THIS year
plus now her job opened back up, she is back working
@ rain of lead:
she’ll do it
rain of lead wrote:
Awesome! Congratulations to her!
There’s a storm out in the Pacific that’s sucking the smoke plumes from the west coast.
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=127.1525581155142,-19.049856971237702,279.4939226614214,75.8064457967998
https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/09/08/chad-announces-it-will-open-diplomatic-mission-in-jerusalem/
@ Bunk X:
Trump is just distracting from his coronavirus failure.
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@ lobo91:
Things like that just might push a few people to turn away from the far left.
right_wing2 wrote:
You would hope so
@ lobo91:
A democratic voter is guilty by association. Guilty by ever liking a BLM social media page.
These people have way too high of an opinion of themselves…
@ lobo91:
They’ll be directing a portion of the funds to support Netflix and Cuties to please their audience.
Type this in the google search engine.
does joe biden have dementia
Then in Bing or such. Note at what point the auto fill kicks in.
@ darkwords:
In Google, you can get further by subbing Trump on the same search.
@ darkwords:
in google, auto fill did not kick in at all
in duck duck go, it autofilled after does
rain of lead wrote:
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Jeff in Norco.
https://twitter.com/JeffInNorco/status/1305009700233031680
@ lobo91:
LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is part of the problem.
https://newspunch.com/la-sheriff-released-4276-inmates-closed-gun-shops-coronavirus-fears-crime-wave/
To all you Bengals fans, I apologize. I came in at 12 minutes to go, just in time to see an interception, then went out. I came back in to see another interception, left again. When I came back, I jinxed an easy field goal. I feel terrible.
@ lobo91:
https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1152144812906340353
Bunk X wrote:
I wonder how much of this is due to having a camera. Do you remember that photo from years ago – a starving child being stalked by a vulture? In Sudan I think. People were outraged and demanded to know what had happened to this baby. The NYT ran a special saying that the child had managed to start walking again toward a food station but didn’t know about anything after that.
However the child managed, it wasn’t due to the photographer. He apparently chased off the vulture but did nothing to help because he was just the recorder.
He got the Pulitzer for that pic and killed himself less than a year later. His last name, I think, was Carter. He was young, in his 30s. And, IIRC, he had a child of his own.
Some years ago I read – and I don’t know if it’s true – that the child lived until around 2007 and died of an illness. S/he would have been a teenager, I believe the vulture pic was taken in the early 90s.
Holy Moley! Mark Levin’s grandparents were yinzers!
darkwords wrote:
Very interesting. Yeah, Google has a totally neutral search and predictive algorithm. Yep. Uh-huh
@ eaglesoars:
Like Sam Kineson said, “I bet the cameraman has a sandwich.”
@ Bunk X:
After I posted that I looked it up to see if I had to correct anything from my memory in order to be true to the story I was trying to tell.
This is the wiki page.
Carter saw Silva on the runway and told him, “You won’t believe what I’ve just shot! … I was shooting this kid on her knees, and then changed my angle, and suddenly there was this vulture right behind her! … And I just kept shooting – shot lots of film![13] Silva asked him where he shot the picture and was looking around to take a photo as well. Carter pointed to a place 50 m (160 ft) away. Then Carter told him that he had chased the vulture away. He told Silva he was shocked by the situation he had just photographed, saying, “I see all this, and all I can think of is Megan”, his young daughter. A few minutes later they left Ayod for Kongor.[14]
In 2011, the child’s father revealed the child was actually a boy, Kong Nyong, and had been taken care of by the UN food aid station. Nyong had died four years prior, c. 2007, of “fevers”, according to his family.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_vulture_and_the_little_girl
I don’t have to say anything about this, you all know it.
In the meantime, there are other fish to fry.
Probably some are aware of the Netflix ‘Cutie’ debacle. Did you know that Good Morning America has done a segment on child drag queens? Check this out.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/GMA_Day/video/11-year-trailblazing-drag-kid-desmond-amazing-58926262
These people are predators. Child Protective Services in every state are ground zero for these people.
https://therightscoop.com/massive-latinos-for-trump-caravan-takes-place-in-miami-but-almost-no-media-attention/
@ eaglesoars:
Not interested in even reading the stories. This kind of abuse was promoted in the 60s in The Whole Earth Catalogue.
@ Bunk X:
Srsly? I read that and must have missed it. Of course, my antennae were not as sensitive as they are now. [translation: I’m not as dumb as I was then. I think.]
Be that as it may, The Whole Earth Catalog back in the 60’s was hardly as mainstream as Good Morning America is today.
Out for the night.
@ eaglesoars:
Somwhere I have an old beat up copy, maybe 1972. I remember it, the one with the black cover and the flip book of Mt. St. Helens exploding.
For what it’s worth, there was ONE player in the NFL that gets it. He also has a tribute to 9/11 in his timeline:
@ The Barbarian:
too late, don’t care.
Here is a vid of the ambush shooting of those deputies in L.A.
Am I the only one who thinks the shooter moves like a female?
https://twitter.com/M_McAdams/status/1305512455418847232
@ eaglesoars:
As someone who loves football, I have to agree. But I did want to call attention to the one guy who appears to be brave enough to buck the trend.
I heard that the idiot Oakland/Carolina game – they KNELT at the opening kickoff as the pigskin went into the end zone. Seriously?
And you’re absolutely right – that looks like a woman firing the shots!!
@ right_wing2:
@ Bunk X:
One of my new favorite hobbies is watching BLM activists get run over by vehicles. Then act surprised.
Further down in your link.
Have you all seen that video of the woman in Oregon, near Portland, that sees an Antifa d**khead walking on her property with matches in his hand, pulls his skanky ass over, tells him to eat dirt and assume the position and holds him at gunpoint till police arrive. A thing of beauty.
A Federal judge has ruled Pennsylvania’s lockdown orders are Unconstitutional (from Breitbart):
Now then, when a District judge rules on a Trump order, the decision applies to ALL 50 states effective IMMEDIATELY. Why do I get the feeling that no one on the MSM and their legal experts will be screaming about “facism” and that “the states need to open up immediately!”
The Barbarian wrote:
NO!! linky?
I think DeBlasio has canceled Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade – trying to confirm
yep
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8731475/Mayor-Bill-Blasio-cancels-Macys-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade.html
eaglesoars wrote:
got it
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/not-climate-change-oregon-woman-catches-arsonist-property-matches-holds-gunpoint-police-arrive-video/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
@ eaglesoars:
And did you see how fast that POS complied when she pulled that weapon. He couldn’t hit the ground FAST enough. She’s my new hero.
Our Uber and Lyft drivers are fighting back in California this election. They’ve put an initiative on the ballot, Proposition 22, that repeals that Democrat Legislature’s AB-5 that forced App-based drivers to be EMPLOYEES rather than independent contractors. This bill was passed to appease their cab company donors that were getting killed with the competition (as they should – cab drivers in San Francisco are rip-off artists that take the longest route available to them).
Their commercials are very good, too. Emphasizes the fact that many of these drivers wanted to set their own hours and have the option NOT to drive if they didn’t want to.
Did anybody just catch Biden speech on Climate Change? He came out of the basement, but stayed in Delaware.
It was a wandering mish mash word salad. He talked about Midwest flooding, Western fires and East Coast storms.
The only thing that he left out was Noahs Ark. guess whose fault it all is ? TRUMP!!!!!
Trump suggested better forest management and Biden’s people sent him out to say that Trump weas blaming the victims.
Then he went to Trump’s opposition to forced section eight housing in the suburbs. You know raaaaaist!
The Barbarian wrote:
yeah. heh.
@ RIX:
thanks for watching so we don’t have to
We have a trial going on in the conference room near my office (it has video capabilities) so just for kicks I’m listening on Hulu to “Hill Street Blues” (just started Season 2).
Forgot just how many GREAT TV Themes were written by Mike Post, who has been described as “the John Williams of television music.”
Oh, and as info for those keeping score, Sunday Night Football was down 28% in ratings from last year.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m here for ya!
The Barbarian wrote:
It’s a start. I want to see a total wipeout
Bernie Sanders’ nat’l press sec (former, obviously), a black woman, has tweeted
“Older black voters are not “POC”. We should try to be specific when use that term”
Yeah, I’m sure Rev Al Sharlaton will be glad to hear it
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/400453/
Donald Trump Agrees to Debate Against Biden Moderated by Joe Rogan
https://notthebee.com/article/donald-trump-agrees-to-debate-moderated-by-joe-rogan
I remember darkwords mentioning Rogan (who I have never listened to and know nothing about), but I don’t remember what he said. Who is this guy?
When I brought Mia home from doggy day care this afternoon, I noticed that everything is beginning to look quite autumnal, our yard, too. There’s very little humidity in the air, so 83 degrees today was quite pleasant.
I’m reading King’s Counsellor, Tommy Lascelle’s diaries from when he was private secretary to King Geo VI during the war. Aside from learning words I’ve never heard of [clerihew], the thinking during that time was astonishing. This was written in June 1942.
Edward Halifax in his last weekly political summary from Washington says that the Roosevelt government have made up their minds to four postulates for the post-war period: 1. A long armistice, of possibly several years, before a final settlement is made. 2. Establishment of an international police force. 3. Abolition of Colonial Empires. 4. Equal access to the world’s raw materials for all democracies.
Lascelles, Sir Alan . King’s Counsellor (p. 47). Orion Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
@ eaglesoars:
One of the best episodes of “The Crown” was “Vergangenheit”, which dealt with the Marburg Files. Tommy Lascelles figured prominently and the actor who played him was great in that episode.
Does Tommy talk about it? Edward wanted to go into government service (bored with the Duchess and their life) and Elizabeth was ready to let him do it. The Queen Mother, Philip and Tommy all brought her the Marburg files and she sent him packing. Because he had so many friends in high places, to keep from getting pushback, it appears they gave the press permission to publish the information in Marburg.
RIX wrote:
Same thing was going on in Australia before the catastrophic fires of 2019-20 season. In ALL of the leftist controlled States and especially those with an organised Green Party representation the management of fuel loads went unattended for a generation.
Victoria especially was a tinder pile just waiting for a spark. A mixture of arson and lightning accomplished this requirement. Australia has a woodland (eucalyptus) that DEPENDS on fire to help germinate new trees. These trees are not normally totally destroyed by fire as 80% re-sprout after a fire passes.
Now we are being lumbered with more ‘diktats’ from the elite class. They have declared vast swathes of bush to be Koala sanctuaries, that precluded any building or farming. This wipes out the incomes for many people. The elites were totally ignorant that Koala bears only eat 27 types of eucalypts out of several hundred types yet they have declared a total ban on ALL eucalyptus areas regardless. Hell there are Koala sanctuaries in cities and industrial places that have been built up for 150 years and haven’t seen a Koala for that period, yet they too are set aside and building is impossible.
Those who the gods wish to destroy they first make mad!
eaglesoars wrote:
Edward Lord Halifax was a remarkable man. He’s had a bit of a bad historical press, some deserved, but by and large his heart was in the right place. His reading of Roosevelt and more to the point the influence of the power of the First Lady was nuanced. The Phone War period of 1939 was amazing with many great characters trying to prevent war even as it became inevitable. The myths too that grew up about this period are telling.
The Barbarian wrote:
I saw that episode. Altho the Marburg files are real, I’m not at all sure how culpable David/Edward really was. Certainly, in the beginning, he admired the Hitler regime for what he thought – and he was hardly alone in this – to be progress in the ‘social justice’ area, e.g., housing, etc. He was extremely frustrated by the ‘grey suits’ in his attempt to better the lives of coal miners, etc., it was one of the issues that discouraged him from really wanting the throne.
If you look at the European aristocracy back then, MOST of them viewed Hitler favorably because they thought he would let them keep their titles/lands, etc, as opposed to Stalin, who they knew would kill them. Edward viewed himself not just as British, but as British-German and if you look at the family tree, he was quite right. Today, Americans and Brits, when we’re not pissing each other off, refer to each other as ‘cousins’, but for British/German aristocracy, it was actually true. The Kaiser was Victoria’s grandson, for goodness sake. From Edwards POV, war between Britain and Germany was almost a civil war.
Yes, he was a fool. But he was hardly the only – or the worst – one.
The Barbarian wrote:
… and wasn’t last year’s rating score lower than previous years by a large percentage as well?
eaglesoars wrote:
Huh?
@ eaglesoars:
He’s a Boston born Comedian who also made a name for himself commenting on MMA fights. He started a podcast and developed an interview style in what they call long form communications. Everyone told him the public didn’t have the attention span. He drunk casts a few times a month. Focuses on comedy, Mixed Martial Arts, Leading edge science, and some politics. Voted for Obama. Loved Obama. Moved out of California to Austin Texas recently because he disliked the tax authority on his $100 million dollar deal with Spotify. He has a larged audience I believe then most TV shows. He used to be a big conspiracy theorist also. Friends with Alex Jones and some of the bigger UFO beleivers. The Microsoft of podcasts. Pro Police. Pro Guns. Not big on religion prefers psychedelic’s.
He recently said Joe Biden is like a weak battery in a flash light that you take for a long walk in the woods.
He and his guests have denigrated Trump a lot.
This is a large segment of independent voters. Vocal ones. If Biden doesn’t play he will probably lose a good chunk of them.
I’ve only heard Rogan moderate a debate on marijuana and one on veganism. He seemed insightful, didn’t take sides, had pointed questions. Not such how well he would do with Biden and Trump.
What would happen though is a lot of influential people across sports, academia, politics, and business would listen to him.
@ AZfederalist:
Don’t ask me. I’m just sitting here enjoying my white privilege while they slice and dice each other. Free entertainment.
@ eaglesoars:
If Rogan follows his past and asked questions based on his preferences they would be something like.
1. Why do we need a president?
2. What about these UFO tic tac videos?
3. Shouldn’t everyone own a gun?
4. Do these riots threaten my family?
5. Could we train all police with jiu jujitsu?
6. Would you guys like a whiskey?
7. Do you want to share a joint from Mike Tysons company?
8. Would you like some elk i killed and keep the meat in my freezer.
Rogan is well read and a voracious reader. I always disliked him from his TV days where he seemed arrogant. He hosted Fear Factor. But the content out of his quests is pretty good and I came to the conclusion he is a lot smarter and nicer than I am. lol.
@ AZfederalist:
Well I hope it goes down further. It’s down 100 percent in my family. Down in my football fantasy leagues.
These are the type of people who want to identify with cultural movements that support killing police and support things like Netflix’s cuties. They’ll say Oh! oh! but OK!!!. No boundaries.
@ darkwords:
Thanks, that was very informative.
Speaking of UFOs, Sara Carter has a podcast, she starts the UFO topic at about 10 mins in. She interviews Nick Pope, who was the UK UFO investigator
https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1305650033367293955
eaglesoars wrote:
contumacious
I’m only on page 66.
I remember when I used to read Buckley’s columns. New word every time, it was great.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1305599762352103424
I’ve turned the corner in civility. My new pandemic hobby is watching BLM members getting run over by cars they attack with their bodies.
@ eaglesoars:
lol. She made that today and with presidential implications? I just started it.
ochlophile
Two weeks into the great cycle challenge, and I am at $383 raised out of $500, and I’ve ridden 96 of 200 miles.
In total, $11.9 million has been raised, and 134,000 riders have pedaled 1,800,000 miles
darkwords wrote:
I paused it to listen to Tucker. Yeah, I think she made it today. The beginning she talks about Durham, and says she doesn’t think he’ll produce anything.
@ right_wing2:
how tired are you?
Nick Pope said even the Japanese gov’t is asking for reports from its agencies on sightings, etc.
Trump AGREES To Joe Rogan Moderated Debate With Biden, WE GOTTA GET BIDEN TO SAY YES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKB1jzBJaU
Clark Kerr reports a very frank conversation with Wendell Wilkie, lately in Moscow, when the latter opened his heart about the extreme dislike of the British which he had found, he said, at every point of his journey from Washington to Russia – especially in Cairo. Himself, he said, he was a whole-hearted believer in the necessity of Anglo-American cooperation for the future of the world; but, if he found anti-British feeling overwhelmingly strong in USA, he would be unable to ‘play with us’, and he would not hesitate to say so. This is serious, for W.W. is very likely to be the next President – a recent Washington report said that F.D.R. had practically adopted him as his political heir;
Nick Pope is on Tucker now talking about the Venus finding (microbes)
Oh, I missed this. From Sept 11
Flynn case, Gleeson filed his amicus brief. Argues DOJ move to drop case is “gross abuse of prosecutorial power”.
I think that’s like telling your grandma she ain’t black, but ok
https://www.scribd.com/document/475680495/Gleeson
eaglesoars wrote:
Have the Democrats sent them mail-in ballots yet?
@ lobo91:
They have to find out how many they’ll need first.
@ eaglesoars:
I actually feel pretty good. I haven’t been able to do much riding in the mornings just because I’ve gotten kind of lazy, but I’m going to try to start that up again maybe Wednesday.
I don’t know if it’s because of the biking, because of how I was sitting at work, or if it’s some thing psychosomatic because I don’t want to be at work, but my left shoulder, arm, and wrist has been kind of sore mostly when I’m actually at work. I have a doctors appointment on Thursday to see what might be going on though.
lobo91 wrote:
HAR!!!
We should offer to allow them to go over there and do their ballot harvesting.
right_wing2 wrote:
good luck. docs hate that kind of complaint, they’re horrendously difficult to diagnose.
D. Kavanagh told me that Smuts, when he took him to see the King the other day, said, ‘We can never trust the French, for they can never forget that they were masters of Europe for 200 years.’ That is a very profound remark; and so perhaps is Winston’s summing-up of Darlan – ‘He’s a bloody swine.’
A great many of the officers serving in the US forces come from the West or Middle West – from Oklahoma, Ohio and Colorado, states quite unknown to us – where the native way of speaking is much more like our own. One young officer, enjoying a whisky and soda, was heard to say, ‘I never get Scotch at the White House. I like this king-racket.’
darkwords wrote:
Has been behaving like an addled drug addict the last couple years IMHO.
eaglesoars wrote:
I should note that Lascelles wrote this after the launch of Operation Torch and before Darlan was assassinated. I don’t know if Lascelles was aware that Darlan had made contact with the Americans prior to Torch indicating he would cooperate w/any landings.
Dated Dec 28 1942
The feature of the Xmas news was the assassination of Darlan in Algiers, by a boy of twenty, a Frenchman with an Italian mother, whose name is variously reported in today’s telegrams as Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle and as Bonny Chapelier. Nothing has yet been revealed as to his motives (he was shot yesterday) save that he is supposed to have had strong anti-Vichy prejudices. Whatever the causes, the effects of his action will certainly resolve what threatened to develop into a very unpleasant situation. All seems to be quiet in Algiers, and, as I hoped would happen, Giraud has been nominated as Darlan’s successor.
Here is the background on Torch and the Darlan assassination. The SOE provided the assassin, the OSS the gun.
Easy peasy
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2015/07/20/operation-torch-and-the-assassination-of-admiral-jean-darlan/
off to bed. nite.
The Statue of Liberty never kneels for Pro Football.
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2020/09/15/sunrise-a-beach-open/