Yeah, Yeah, I know it’s Friday. However, this is clearly pertinent, timely, and will require a long sit down to get through this exhaustive article. Our grad-ass Chuckles has coffee and bagels against the back wall. Keep your hands and feet away from his teeth…he bites!
I also wanted to put this in its own post so that it can be easily referenced.
Enjoy!
I have another question, that this article just glances against with “we’ve never done this before”.
That’s right. Name one virus that we’ve wiped out. Smallpox? We’ve vaccinated against it, but it still exists. We get flu every year and have never masked. And if you think flu is just a bad cold, talk to people who have had limbs amputated because of a cytokine storm caused by the flu they caught.
Anybody who pays attention knows that the virus is 30 nano-whatever smaller than the pores of the mask.
This is political. On a day-to-day scale, it atomizes other people whose faces we can’t see, an absolute human necessity. It’s a form of dehumanization. It also deputizes the Karens (who should be called ‘kapos’). How many stories have we seen of people getting into fights because somebody refused to wear a mask and got challenged by the local kapo for being ‘selfish’? There was a 400 comment thread on my Nextdoor app started by one of these mini-monsters who saw a maskless woman at THE PRODUCE section of the grocery store and was utterly traumatized. (Why the produce section should be more critical than the bakery, I have no idea.) About 50 of the responses included the phone # for the police she should call in case there is a ‘next time’. The 15 or so people who called bullshit got shouted down.
Ultimately, I wonder if this entire farce is just a way for some really bored/unsatisfied losers a way to find meaning in their lives. Find a hobby.
REPORT: Woman Hits A Grocery Store Employee For Asking Her To Wear A Mask In Colorado
https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/12/report-woman-grocery-store-employee-hit-king-soopers/
Tennessee:
HB 794/SB 320: “Medical Non-Discrimination Business & Consumer Act” is officially entering the legislative session!
This bill protects both businesses & consumers from medical device (mask) discrimination & retribution.
Freedom from policing. Freedom from lawsuits. Freedom from cancel culture.
https://tennesseestands.org/freemybusiness/
@ eaglesoars:
I can just imagine the hysteria THAT legislation is going to bring out.
@ eaglesoars:
Simple and clear. I like that it asks business owners to sign up. This seems like a good way to gamestop overreach by govt and public health. Avoids violence.
The CDC has harmed and killed more kids then covid via its lockdown policies.
Mask wearing is a political ideology outside the hospital.
(The person who made that mask with “Super Spreader” printed on it will get jailed as a domestic terrorist.)
Chamber of Commerces are as anti American as a Confucius Institute.
So Swallwell manufactured evidence. How this guy keeps his seat I have no idea. He boinked a Chinese spy and now submits doctored evidence. He needs to be in jail, but he’ll probably make millions.
I’d wager a few thousand dollars in Vegas that GWB voted for Biden.
@ eaglesoars:
To me it’s Charlie Brown syndrome. Where the GoP is Charlie Brown, The football is the Democrats offering equal justice, Lucy is Pelosi. The GoP repeatedly tries to kick the ball only to have it pulled out of the kick. Everytime.
The GoP always falls back on process instead of persuasion.
From what I’m reading and the little bit I’ve been able to watch, Trump’s lawyers finally got a grip and are destroying the prosecution’s case.
But it won’t matter. They lie openly, knowing everybody sees the lies, but it’s ok, because TRUMP. The truth is entirely irrelevant. This is theater, where the suspension of disbelief is the entry fee.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1359918229800550405
Funny short clip on Larry Byrd.
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Is it possible to fight against totalitarian statists without ever compromising conservative “principles?” Is it better to play “fair,” and constantly lose? Can you grapple with monsters without becoming a monster? That’s the question at the heart of the schism on the Right.
So I’ve decided to try to golf again.
We’ve got a great range with heaters near me.
Thing is, when there’s snow on the ground and the treeline is snow covered and the sky is constantly overcast it’s REALLY REALLY hard to see your ball after you hit it.
They really should invest in orange and yellow range balls if they’re going to be open all winter.
@ darkwords:
I’m pretty sure he said he did.
@ darkwords:
Only if they’re actors playing the role of the Peanuts’ characters.
Think studio wrestling, where sometimes they let the heel win to maintain the suspense of the audience.
What you’re suggesting with that analogy is that the GOP is failing in good faith. I’m certain they’re not.
I really wish so-called ‘journalists’ would do anything close to due diligence. There’s a media storm about TJ Dulko – aid to Biden – being abusive to a female Politico reporter for disclosing his relationship w/another reporter. There’s no doubt he was. The media is all over Biden for not living up to his promise to fire anybody who was rude, etc. They’ve simply suspended him for a week w/o pay.
He has apologized personally and in writing.
Here’s what no one is telling you and I found out simply by looking at his wiki page – took 2 sec. He’s a 32 years old non-smoker who got a diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer last October. OF COURSE they aren’t going to fire him, he needs the insurance.
Don’t think the press corps doesn’t know this. They’re going to hang this guys death sentence around Biden’s neck for not keeping a promise and the WH is in a bind because if they admit the truth, the media will go wild on health insurance. In the meantime, this guy – who by all accounts is a true asshole, but so what? – gets tossed into the wilderness just when he needs all the support he can get.
darkwords wrote:
Good analogy. Where is Linus?
Ben Shapiro just hired Gina Carano to produce and star in a film for his Daily Wire Studios.
Heh. Screw Disney
I don’t know her name but some Dem rep, a black woman, said Trump’s lawyers showed videos of black women.
yeah, y’all a buncha liars and got caught. Also, Mudslide Maxine is not doing you any favors.
@ lobo91:
I’m beginning to think ‘we’ are figuring out how to fight back
AHAHAHAHAHA!!! From the NYT
https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1360294548291878912
On the final day of the impeachment trial of the former president, the threat of political violence on the Capitol is still so serious the entire Cannon-Capitol tunnel is filled with troops
I have ZERO military experience but this is either a chow line or a mail call or something.
@ eaglesoars:
I should say you need to see the pic on that tweet
That is an easy question to answer, “Because, Orange Man Bad”.
It’s as simple as that. The left didn’t let a crisis go to waste and used this as a means of destroying a very successful presidency.
darkwords wrote:
You are more kind than I and putting a much more positive slant on this. I’m really beginning to think that the establishment GOP is nothing more than the Paluka (sp?) party that exists as a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC with the sole purpose of providing a “loyal opposition” but helping advance the DNC’s statist policies. I point to the McCain and Romney presidential campaigns as evidence. … and the 2020 election where the GOP had ample opportunity to prevent the widespread fraud and enabling capabilities for that fraud via mail-in voting.
eaglesoars wrote:
Comments in the tweet are pathetic. “The Trump lawyers called the democrats liars, this will further enable the Trump supporters to fight back and more insurrection”.
/Good grief — I fear we have lost our country, because those people are the dumbest, most ignorant posters I have ever seen.
AZfederalist wrote:
Never mistake twitter for being a snapshot of the country. It is anything but. I read one stat that only 2% of people use it (and that conforms to other stats). The only reason it gets any play is because a lot of media use it as an outlet.
It’s a media cesspool, it’s not the country at large. Perspective.
One reason I like it is because a lot of history academics use it so I get to see stuff I wouldn’t see otherwise. And farmers from other countries, etc.
I just rarely post stuff about Pompei or Roman history, etc. And I’m pretty sure nobody here is interested in Irish sheep farmers.
Altho if you think twitter is bad – Harvard admitted David Hogg. So, there’s that.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m not quite sure what that is, exactly, but it’s just a bunch of troops walking down a hallway. They’re not in formation, and they’re not armed or wearing any gear.
Whoever posted that is a moron.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
scally’s?
welcome back to the greatest game on earth…played in the 8 inches between your ears.
@ coldwarrior:
Pine Creek Golf, but I’ll be hitting up Scallys on Wednesdays on my 2 hr break between classes. Campus is in Oakdale.
Steve Schmidt Resigns From The Lincoln Project, Releases Statement Claiming He Was Molested At 13
https://www.dailywire.com/news/steve-schmidt-resigns-from-the-lincoln-project-releases-statement-claiming-he-was-molested-at-13
I REALLY hope someone’s digging deep on this, bc I think he’s lying.
And I don’t care if I’m wrong. That’s how little I think of Steve Schmidt. God forgive me.
https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1360381218555060233?s=09
eaglesoars wrote:
Ah, here’s the video
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1360345413824491522
“It was not lost on me”: Stacey Plaskett points out that when Trump’s attorneys showed videos of Democrats using the word “fight,” many of them were Black women and people of color
Today’s WaPo headline is lit
Opinion: In office, Trump was the greatest threat to U.S. democracy. Now it may be Tucker Carlson.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/12/tucker-carlson-conspiracies-fox-news-dangerous/
Written by Max Boot! If you don’t know his work, he makes a living out of calling everybody a liar – by telling lies about them. I hope Tucker feels honored.
Last I heard, the Republicans said that if the Dems called even one witness, they were going to call dozens in response. This could go on for a while:
@ AZfederalist:
Oh and of course calling Trump a traitor, Hitler, Putin’s puppet, etc. etc. couldn’t possibly rile anybody up to commit acts of violence.
right_wing2 wrote:
Not to mention explicitly–and more than once–telling people to go after any Trump administration officials they encounter in public.
lobo91 wrote:
This is going to be hilarious.
Wanna watch Dr. Jill and Uncle Joe suck up to China? Watch this Happy Lunar New Year video. Dr. Jill does most of the talking, of course
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1360449477446946816
eaglesoars wrote:
If the House Managers call Rep Herrera Beutler as a witness, the first witness Trump’s lawyers should call is Nancy Pelosi. Several Qs she should answer:
What did you know about threats to the Capitol?
When?
Did you turn down national guard because of “optics”?
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1360627725694869514
Cruz is having fun
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1360620874756423680
2/x While we’re waiting to figure out what’s next, I thought I’d share some of the Qs in the pile that DIDN’T make the cut to be asked yesterday. (These are all real, from various senators, who will remain anonymous.)
3/x Q1: “Where’s the short, fat guy?”
4/x Q2: “Can we build the Keystone Pipeline if we add Hunter Biden to the board?”
CNN reports that former President Trump’s legal team is prepared to call OVER 300 witnesses.
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1360642934291447820
Dang it. Looks like the Dems have backed off on calling witnesses. The idea of Pelosi answering Ted Cruz’s questions apparently held no appeal for them.
@ eaglesoars:
dammit.
he would eat her alive.
so, further proof that this was just grandstanding
@ coldwarrior:
This Politico reporter has the sadz
I’m still in shock.
Democrats FINALLY HAD THEIR MOMENT to take a shot at Trump. Call in witnesses. Show the world what he did on Jan 6 beyond what we know.
And they chose not to.
All for the sake of Biden’s agenda.
https://twitter.com/rachaelmbade/status/1360653535747198978
room temp IQ required for that job……….
That Scandinavian countries are successful examples of socialism is a long debunked myth. This article goes into specifics.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-moms-research-part-1-nordic-countries-are-not-socialist-paradises_3695026.html
San Francisco supervisor says lack of tourists has criminals now targeting residents.
Trump has been acquited.
@ Bunk X:
Some time ago I saw an article on doing your laundry in Sweden. It was terrific.
No one owns their own washer/dryer. It’s all ‘communal’. You can take it from there.
@ eaglesoars:
Imagine that…someone decided that advancing their agenda was more important than exacting revenge on Trump. Hard to believe.
Ah yes. SOMETHING has been bugging me about Jamie Raskin and all I could remember was it had something to do with Michael Flynn. But I could find nothing.
Until I did. It’s his WIFE
Jim Jordan Asks Rep. Jamie Raskin Why His Wife Unmasked Michael Flynn
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/29/jim-jordan-asks-rep-jamie-raskin-why-his-wife-unmasked-michael-flynn/
eaglesoars wrote:
Those who can MAKE you believe absurdities, can MAKE you commit atrocities…… Voltaire …
We have Kapo morons who Want To Believe mater how Absurd, because if gives them the whiff of power. They then turn into monsters who can justify ANY wickedness because of that intoxicating power.
There Kapos can’t debate because they lack the provable facts, so don’t even attempt to debate them. Debate only enrages them and drives their rage to greater wickedness. The atrocities then commit appear to a rational individual to be absurd in their justification, but to the Kapo they appear in their own delusions to be totally justified and even ‘moral’.
Better to leave them to their delusional world view and protect oneself from the worst of their atrocities.
That’s not to say one should attempt to take them on alone. We are only powerful enough to resist this group madness by supporting each other and resisting as a group.
🙂
I hate predictive!
🙂
@ lobo91:
That they’re so pissed off about it is the funniest thing ever……..they couldn’t tell you what Biden’s agenda is if their lives depended on it. Of course, neither could Biden.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
And gives their lives meaning. Look at all the people wearing masks while driving alone in their cars.
That’s terrifying.
Biden’s stimulus gamble: Massive cuts to Medicare, farm aid
“I don’t know whether to be concerned or not,” House Budget Chair John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) said in an interview. “I’ve been told not to be concerned.”
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/02/13/biden-cuts-medicare-farm-aid-468895
Honesty, LMAO!!
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Now you know why he’s the chair……
@ eaglesoars:
Here’s a few interesting associations you may not be aware of that explain why it’s called “The Swamp”………
*YES, THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.
*YES, CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW.
* YES, ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS. * YES, JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN. * YES, HILLARY’S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ NEPHEW.
* YES, ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.
* YES, CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA’S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.
* YES, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.
* YES, ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA’S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY.
* YES, ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA’S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.
* YES, CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON’S DEPUTY SECRETARY.
THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A “STACKED DECK”.
IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS MEDIA WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN’T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE. Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar!
You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ. It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper. One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit. Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother. Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015. Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas,” in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign. Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation. It gets even cozier. DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm. Who is Douglas Emhoff? He is the husband of KAMALA HARRIS!
Just a coincidence? Amazing if it is. You can’t make this stuff up! Another example of the DC swamp.”
SWAMP…. much ?
🙂
Louisiana GOP: The Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Louisiana has unanimously voted to censure Senator Bill Cassidy for his vote cast earlier today to convict former President Donald J. Trump on the impeachment charge.
https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1360732556979757063
eaglesoars wrote:
“This summer, things happened that were violent. But there were also things that gave some of us black women great comfort: seeing Amish people from Pennsylvania standing up with us.”
Stacey Plaskett, Congressional Delegate, US Virgin Islands
@ Aussie Infidel:
*sigh*
*YES, CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW.
Not anymore. It was a ‘by marriage’ relationship and that marriage ended in divorce
YES, JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN.
Her husband was born in New York, he’s a neurosurgeon in Boston, I believe. They were married at the Nat’l Cathedral here in D.C., I remember the wedding. His father is a physician in Los Angeles
The incestuous media relationships are not only well known, they are celebrated. Claire Shipman and Jay Carney were even given the cover on a local mag.
Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation. It gets even cozier. DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm. Who is Douglas Emhoff? He is the husband of KAMALA HARRIS!
That’s also well known to those of us who have kept up, but finding the sources for it is time consuming and eventually those sources have to move on to other stories. Emhoff has not taken a leave of absence, he’s left the firm, period. He did take a leave during the campaign, but after the win, he announced he would make it permanent by inauguration.
Anything else?
YES, ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.
He doesn’t have a sister
Bunk X wrote:
with their Trump signs?
yeah, U.S. Virgin Islands. We live there for a few weeks at a time – one of the most corrupt places on earth.
eaglesoars wrote:
Here is where this is coming from. One of Soros’ sons, was married to a Melissa Schiff. Here is the wedding announcement in the NYT
Melissa Robin Schiff, the daughter of Marlene S. Schiff of New York and the late Dr. Haskel Schiff, was married May 5 to Robert Daniel Soros, a son of Annaliese Soros and George Soros, both of New York. Rabbi Dr. David Posner performed the ceremony at Temple Emanu-El in New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/24/style/weddings-melissa-schiff-robert-d-soros.html
Same name, different family
eaglesoars wrote:
No, different wedding.
TJ Ducklo has apparently resigned. Tough call. I hope they’ve found a way to help with his health insurance issues.
XD
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-now-most-acquitted-president-in-history
uh huh
Secretary @JanetYellen is reportedly looking to appoint an Obama admin veteran <b<Sarah Bloom Raskin as @USTreasury ‘s #Climate czar to lead efforts in assessing the impact of #ClimateChange on financial markets and pushing tax incentives for #RenewableEnergy.
Jamie Raskin’s wife
https://twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1360743059437346823
um….
https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1360326838279618567
this is a big story: biden admin is beginning to end physical mail for federal prisoners. there’s a lot more to this, and it’s a story of corporate profiteering off human caging (1) https://smartcommunications.us/mailguard.cfm
the multi-billion $$ prison profiteering industry has long viewed mail as one of the last untapped cash cows. their plan? end all physical mail so that they can charge $$$ for tablets, scanning, and surveillance of mail into jails/prisons. (2) https://prisonlegalnews.org/news/2015/jul/7/companies-pitch-tablets-prisoners-maintain-family-ties-aid-reentry-and-generate-profit/
@ eaglesoars:
I sure wish we could do that in NM. It would cut off a major source of drugs in the prisons.
And if the tablets were set up to facilitate video visits, that would be even better. We haven’t had physical visitation in about 10 months, and scheduling the video visits through the 5 iPads the state gave us for the purpose is a major operation.
lobo91 wrote:
I doubt it. It would just be another group getting the graft.
eaglesoars wrote:
This is why acolytes of Sanger and the eugenics movement are so scary now that there is bio-tech and AI available to make transhumance beings a reality.
These black souled / souless (take your pick) arsewipes are gagging to go down that path, and the shame and denunciation arising from 60 million dead American babies not withstanding they insist on dragging the rest of humanity down that sewer with them.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Sanger was against abortion as a contraceptive measure. She died in 1966, the same year Planned Parenthood got into the abortion business.
@ lobo91:
But they did really great anti-Trump commercials, so it’s all fine
@ Aussie Infidel:
And Elon Musk wants neural implants……I’m so glad I’m old.
eaglesoars wrote:
If you ever have some more familial / whatever linkages between Progressive elitists make it your task in life to drop a line to
TREVOR LAUDON
He’s on the web.
He keeps track of ‘Person’s of ‘interest;. Lovely guy. I;;ve known him for 30 years.
🙂
Bunk X wrote:
Sanger was in to aborting the African American population to ‘strengthen the Caucasian gene line!
She was a very wicked person and is allegedly, currently the chief stoker in hell!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I have 2 of his books, I still have to read one, The Enemies Within. Good guy.
The other was on Obama
Bunk X wrote:
She was?
As far as her wanting to use it to control the races, I’m not sure. The sentence cited goes something like this (I’m too lazy to look it up)
“We don’t want it to be thought we want to control the Negro population”.
That can be read two ways
1. We don’t want to be MISUNDERSTOOD as wanting to control
or
2. We DO want to control the population but we don’t want anyone to know it
I haven’t read deeply on her because I don’t really care…
Aussie Infidel wrote:
oh hell, I found TONS among the Crossfire Hurricane FBI people that nobody caught. I mean I had it down to something like Peter Strzok’s brother’s wife and her General father that Clinton had pardoned – something like that.
And all from open source records. I bet if I really wanted to dig, if I started w/Brett Kimberlin I could get into the Crowd Strike people. The one thing I would end up needing tho, is a translator. One of the head honchos there is Russian.
So many leads, so little time.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Seems like incest.
eaglesoars wrote:
Which is ANOTHER lead that nobody has pursued. Who spent time in Moscow?
Nellie Ohr.
@ eaglesoars:
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@JackPosobiec
Hi, Biden voters! Are you enjoying your $2000 checks?
@ darkwords:
Wait till they say Trump pocketed it.
@ eaglesoars:
There is a profit mechanism there. Phone calls out had to be collect but the major cell carriers wouldn’t process collect calls. You can transfer money to an inmate but it has to be through a prison approved vendor.
I had to find a specific website. Create an account login. I suppose it has to do with corruption. But I would rather just have paypaled the money to the prison treasurer. I just remember it being extremely difficult and time consuming trying to work with that system.
@ Bunk X:
Ah I get it.. Wink Wink! Her death wasn’t planned. Nothing to see here. Whistling……
darkwords wrote:
When I worked at MCI, we did. The prisons system had its own accounting sub-system. I didn’t work with it, because I worked at the intersection of accounting and marketing and, well, prisons don’t need much marketing. But I could see the data.
@ Aussie Infidel:
She was into sterilizing the blacks to reduce their population. Yes, she was a racist.
eaglesoars wrote:
I did years ago, I don’t remember why.
Here’s a fun Valentines song.
https://youtu.be/MQr9xkWrilc
Bunk X wrote:
People think this stuff was “a long time ago”. It wasn’t and it isn’t. I remember reading in 2019 or 2020 that Denmark announced it had ‘wiped out’ Down’s Syndrome. uh huh.
My father’s first wife – they married in 1940, I think – was epileptic. Dad didn’t know. He found out when he woke up because she was having a seizure in her sleep. Here’s the thing. In Pennsylvania it was illegal for epileptics to marry. He eventually had the marriage annulled on those grounds. (Not because of her illness, she cheated on him while he was in England, but an annulment didn’t carry the ‘disgrace’ of a divorce for her, so that’s what he did.)
So there was some effort to ‘control’ for the ‘unfit’, but abortion was very backstreet.
Oddly enough, one of my cousins (son of mom’s sister) was born with fragile x syndrome, married a woman who was also mentally disadvantaged but I don’t know what her diagnosis might have been. They both died fairly young but not before they had a daughter who is perfectly normal. She’s a nurse.
eaglesoars wrote:
Even though he gets reminded of it every day.
eaglesoars wrote:
.. and amusing at the same time. The ones I see doing so here are most often driving Smart cars or Priuses
@ Bunk X:
I was debunking that a Brit just a 2 days ago. He kept using a the Scandi’s as proof of functioning socialism and I kept pointing out that a mono-ethnic country of 5 million might be able to do that, but some of them have off-shore oil rigs and territorial energy contacts subsidizing their welfare programs. Also most of them migrated to a more business friendly models +30 years ago as their were going broke.
The myth lives on long after the model died.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
The writer tossing the cultural aspect into the mix was interesting and something I’d never considered. An honest people might pull it off on a relatively small scale, but the Scandis saw with their own eyes where the path leads.
This is pure awesome. Click on any green dot on the globe to listen to the local radio station.
http://radio.garden/
Clarice…….
https://triblive.com/local/regional/silence-of-the-lambs-turns-30-celebrate-by-spending-the-night-in-buffalo-bills-house/
AZfederalist wrote:
I haven’t seen one of those around the rolling hills of Pittsburgh for a while now, now that you mention them…
Bunk X wrote:
Malappuram, India = “I’m unwrapping a McDonald’s steak and cheese sandwich”
BWAHAHAHHA!
Bunk X wrote:
yowser – Swedish sounds more Russian than anything. And no matter where you go all the pop music lyrics are in English
@ Bunk X:
Maybe the best link I have seen in awhile. I was looking for something like this.
@ eaglesoars:
MCI as a cell phone carrier or a land line carrier in taking collect calls? Tmobile and ATT wouldn’t. I didn’t check Sprint-Just assumed they wouldn’t.
Happy Valentine’s Day:
Bunk X wrote:
great stuff!
Surprise! Only 8 of the 200+ Capitol rioters charged with crimes used Parler:
darkwords wrote:
HA! Land line. When I worked for MCI, cell phones were not common and were about the size of brick.
Hi all,
what is/was this all about “Jamie Herrera Beutler”
I’ve no clue.
White House announces gun control push
Nothing we didn’t expect, ‘assault weapons’ ‘high capacity magazines’ blah blah blah
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1361013286263750663/photo/1
@ Guggi:
She’s a Republican Congresswoman from the state of Washington. She maintains she had a conversation with Kevin McCarthy in which he told her about Trump’s so-called involvement in the riots and that he ‘refused to stop them’. She first mentioned this in a tweet (I think) and was supposed to be a witness at the impeachment until the Democrats realized that the Republicans had witnesses that would KILL their case. So, they put Beutler’s testimony into the record of the impeachment for reference and that was the end of her claim to fame.
What the reports ignore is this – Trump had zero authority to stop anything. The Capitol Police report to the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
@ eaglesoars:
I knew I can count on you {{eagle}} 🙂
@ Guggi:
How are you? I’m reading the weather over there is HORRID!
The New York Times has retracted its story about Officer Brian Sicknick’s death. Because for most of us the NYT is behind a paywall, I’m linking to Julie Kelly’s story about it (they also throw their ‘sources’ overboard)
https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/14/the-new-york-times-retracts-the-sicknick-story/
The Times’ correction might be one reason why Democrats on Saturday reversed their demand to subpoena witnesses. House impeachment managers cited the original January 8 Times’ article as evidence in their impeachment memo: “The insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.”
Any arrangement to compel testimony would have provided Trump’s legal team with an opportunity to expose yet another myth in the Democrats’ “incitement” case against the former president.
hmmmm……
SEN. GRAHAM: “The biggest winner I think of this whole impeachment trial is Lara Trump. My dear friend Richard Burr… just made Lara Trump almost the certain nominee for the Senate seat in North Carolina to replace him if she runs”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1361048117425156104
video at the link
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Auckland alone is in another 3 day tentative lockdown after 2 months of normality. Went to get a bottle of milk yesterday and there were cues 100 metres long waiting to get into the local supermarket. Madness.
My scheduled sergers was for tomorrow at 1:30 AM and it was looking as if it was going to be postponed. My surgeon phoned and asked if I could get to hospital at 0630 tomorrow as two major surgeries have been postponed.
YESSSSSSS
Asked if I’d been near anyone with Covid (there are 3 family cases in Papatoetoe miles away in deepest darkest Auckland. Nope. great he said see you at ‘sparrow fart’.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Nooo, for me its quote fantastic. I need and love really seasons 🙂 and in winter there has to be snow and it has to be cold 😉 – next week it will warm up
How are you eagle, hubby and puppies are ok and well?
@ Guggi:
We’re fine. The beagles have some cabin fever because it’s been too cold to be outside much and it’s also VERY icy. As long as we have heat and food, which we do, all is well. But it’s going to warm up tomorrow so Mia goes back to doggy day care and Willow can hang out on the deck and bark at the squirrels.@ Aussie Infidel:
Good luck, here’s hoping for good pain meds!
A friend in Houston just checked in. They lost power for 7 hours, no heat and it’s 15 degrees. They’re just warming up now.
Interesting map from Joe Bastardi, no less
As per last night, its not only Texas. The blue area is likely the worst 5 days of winter in the lifetime of anyone that has spent their life here and is highly unlikely to repeat itself to this extent in their lifetime
https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/1361042655778639876
Global warming or something something something…….
@ eaglesoars:
It’s 12 here, with 25 mph wind.
Yesterday, it was in the upper 50s.
25 here with ice THEN snow in the AM
@ lobo91:
I saw somebody in NM saying they had 2 ft of snow
@ rain of lead:
Your weather and ours track very closely
Capitol Police Officers Issue Vote Of No Confidence For Top Leadership
https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-police-officers-issue-vote-of-no-confidence-for-top-leadership
@ eaglesoars:
We only got about 2-3 inches here.
This is from the major energy company in TX
https://twitter.com/ERCOT_ISO/status/1361057586297118721
We know it’s cold. But if you turn down your heat to 68 degrees and put on a fleece, you can help keep the power flowing for everyone. #showusyourfleece #conserve
from other sources I’m seeing that part of the problem is wind turbines – they’re icing up
oops!
#BREAKING:
@ERCOT_ISO
, the power grid operator in Texas, says about half of the wind turbine capacity (25,000-megawatts) in West Texas is not generating b/c of winter weather.
“As of this morning about half of the wind capacity was iced out,” said Dan Woodfin, ERCOT
https://twitter.com/John50444707/status/1361091034814566405
eaglesoars wrote:
This was the daisy cutter:
“The first two witnesses that we would call would be Nancy Pelosi and Muriel Bowser And they can explain why they rejected additional security and national guard help.”
@ eaglesoars:
How were they supposed to know that it would get cold in winter?
If they were in school at any point in the last 20 years, they’ve been told that there would be no more winters by now.
Wait for the mic drop.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1360815669294596096
@ eaglesoars:
“[The New York Times] initially said Mr. Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, but weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was hit. Medical experts have said he did not die of blunt force trauma, according to one law enforcement official.”
I haven’t seen anything yet on the actual cause of death or the circumstances.
I also haven’t seen any mention of who killed Ashli Babbitt.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
😀
Bunk X wrote:
Yep. And the 3rd would have been the previous chief of the Cap Police who resigned in disgust.
What I seeing now is interesting. There appears to be a cleft – McConnell & Thune vs Trump & Kristy Noem. Right now it appears to be more like ‘fantasy primaries’ but it is an interesting thought experiment. McConnell pissed off a lot of people for no good reason. Thune has McConnell’s support but he’s pretty much hated in S.D. and they’re talking about Kristy Noem up against him in the primary. She hasn’t said anything, don’t know if she’d be interested, but Trump would back her.
As far as I’m concerned McConnell has more than outlived his usefulness. He can go, feet first, head first, ass over tea kettle first, don’t much care.
lobo91 wrote:
not only that – I seems the newer homes in Texas are mostly electric. They’ve got gas out the wazoo. Whenever I’ve looked for a house to buy or build (4 times) I’ve insisted on gas. sheesh
bwahahahahahah
https://djhjmedia.com/kari/huge-exclusive-election-do-over-latinos-for-trump-sue-to-shut-congress-down-over-civil-rights-violations/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
@ eaglesoars:
reports out of Germany are that all wind turbines are frozen and the solar panals are covered in snow so only 2% of power generation are from “renewables”
@ rain of lead:
unexpectedly
rain of lead wrote:
This is a bullshit piss-into-the-wind lawsuit used as fundraising bait.
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t even mind that the MSM is still calling him “House Minority Leader.”
Bunk X wrote:
They’ve already announced there will be no charges so we don’t need to know. Peasant.
@ Bunk X:
The other thing we’ll never see is any sanction against Dems for falsifying evidence
https://www.weaselzippers.us/464451-trumps-attorney-just-destroys-media-in-interview-after-acquittal/
That would be game set and match. This corrupt member of the ‘commentariat’ was exposed as the lying creep she is, and she had no response to the truth. Do I think this exposure to the truth of her corruption will change anything one jot?
Absolutely NOT.
These lying pieces of MSM shit base their job description on being able to lie with a straight face. This bitch is a professional liar. She earns her living by being corrupt.
She got what she deserved.
Bunk X wrote:
I didn’t pick him on his funny quirks. I picked him because he’s the BEST shoulder man within 2000 miles.
He’s the guy that sorts out all of the surgical cock-ups that ‘cowboy orthopaedic surgeons’ make. So I thought I’d just cut out the middle men and go to The MAN!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
All the best to you for a successful surgery and rapid recovery
@ Bunk X: Fascinating! Good find!
@ rain of lead:
@ eaglesoars:
Concur. I can just imagine the response from the Courts: “No Standing!” “Latches!” Or some other legal maneuver, basically resulting in the suit being dismissed, and a return to the present status.
@ Bunk X:
@ Canoe Convoy:
One thing to be aware of with that world radio link. I clicked on more than one remote station and MalwareBytes blocked them as malicious.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/02/what-we-do-and-dont-know-about-deaths-connected-to-the-capitol-hill-riot/