His contributions cannot be overestimated, nor his impact.
A giant.
Rush Has Passed Away
by coldwarrior ( 79 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at February 18th, 2021 - 7:00 am
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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!
He will definitely be missed. His core was freedom and the opportunity that was America. May he rest in peace. Condolences to his family
The true project of the Establishment right now, and especially of the Grift Right, is to subvert the morale and self-belief of right-wing people such that, in the future, they will once again quietly accept whatever forever war, whatever exploitative “free trade” policy Establishment donors dream up. The Never Trump GOP’s infidelity is not a matter of momentary indiscretion. Their inflated sense of superiority, self-absorption, arrogance, entitlement, and oblivious self-regard points instead to the fact that they are akin to narcissistic abusers.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/walk-away-from-never-trump/
In 1971 Rush was ‘Jeff Christy’, a d.j. in McKeesport. I think they’re about to play a montage if you want to tune in
December 24, 1968 Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit. I was ten years old. I did not live in the USA then but I knew there was a place called Houston.
America was the place to be. All children of my age wanted to be astronauts and be Americans.
Fast forward to April 1998 and I left my home country to come to America and start a new life. Not as an astronaut but to be part of the American dream.
2021 Houston has been struggling with electricity shortages for the last five days. At one point over three million people were without electricity / heat out of a population of 4.3 million.
Without electricity there is no water supply in Houston. We now have electricity but the water distribution network is severely damaged due to burst pipes and damaged pumping equipment.
Looking out of my window I see a constant stream of people carrying buckets along the street. They are people carrying buckets of water taken from the swimming pool in a nearby apartment complex so they can flush toilets.
We have no water.
This is not the Houston I dreamed to be living in when I was a child.
Perseverance has landed on Mars.
eaglesoars wrote:
and I cannot flush my fucking toilet.
You know what is so funny?
Even at Mission Control in Houston they probably have back up generators and fancy things but currently while they are celebrating landing in Mars if anyone there takes a shit they cant flush it.
Maybe the best cover of an Eagles song I’ve ever heard:
@ coldwarrior:
There’s nothing a narcissist fears more than being abandoned, and they will likely continue to lash out as the pretty lies about their moral superiority crumble.
here’s a piece that adds another dimension. The envy of the mediocre.
The grudge that mediocrity bears against genius is the purest form of evil. Thomas Mann’s postwar reworking of the Faust legend tells of the failed composer Adrian Leverkuhn who, in the final phase of syphilitic dementia, has written a cacaphonous cantata “to take back Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.” Leverkuhn had made a deal with the Devil and suffers the consequences. If the Devil has any taste in music, he won’t be in the market for Ewell’s soul.
https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2021/02/16/mediocritys-envy-of-genius-the-dirty-secret-of-cancel-culture-n1426112
Apparently Shrillary and Bill have a podcast. Earlier today I heard an advertisement for it in which Slick Willy, The Slick Meister himself was hawking it. I figured it was just his show, solo, like Rush. Just a minute ago though I heard basically the same commercial except this time it was Shrillarys voice pushing the program. I quickly muted it though and now wish I had listened so as to get the complete picture. Of course I COULD google it I guess…. Nah. I think it’s going to be the two of them. Willy has that hucksters charm still, he didn’t sound as weak and frail as the last time I heard him speak. He could probably pull it off – I have no doubt that lib woman still find him irresistible, yes even at this age, as sick and twisted as it might be.
OK, moving on. I am NO fan of Willy but I just had a thought. Could Shrillary be Willies Yoko Ono ? Did she demand to be part of the show so as to keep an eye on hubby and his infamous wandering eye ? Eh, he has to be too old for this, right ? Hes rehabilitated his voice though. On the ‘radio’ he sounds like the younger skirt chaser himself. This could be a scream.
Will she sink this effort before it even gets a chance ? Could they be this centuries answer to Burns/Allen, Ralph/Alice, Ricky/Lucey ? It could be a scream ! Just the thought though makes me shudder. It could be our worst nightmare.
You know they’ve had this planned for some time now, kept under wraps, just waiting for Rush to depart. They wouldn’t have stood a chance up against Rush but now that hes gone … It just occurred to me, this is proof positive that I’m living in a simulation, one created with a sense of humor, one as twisted as my own. Hmmm…now that there is a thought ?
I can hear it now:
“Want to see me fry 4_Sticks ASS ?”
“Sure, what do ya have in mind ?’
‘Well you know how he was such a fan of Limbaugh, right ?’
“Yeah, ok, go on …. what are you up to you crazy devil ?’
‘Watch this …”
Why not ? The Marines are rewriting policy/procedure for transgenders as we speak …. I mean, what the hell isn’t possible ?
I just had a horror of a thought. It seems that nothing is new these days. Just about everything in entertainment is just a re working of what was created in the last century. Imagine if they (Clintons) really DO catch on, become media darlings (to half the country for now) but with slight variations ? Gomer Pyle is trans, Barney is married to Floyd the barber and so on…
‘Wake up Sticks, c’mon, you’re having nightmares again …’
WTF.
@ 4_Sticks:
“It has a snowball’s chance in Houston…”. Gulp.
I gave this ‘rumor’ status this morning but as neither Haley’s camp nor Trump’s has denied it, I’m rating it ‘true’
Report: Donald Trump Turns Down Nikki Haley Request for a Meeting
I don’t know what would have to happen to make her a viable candidate this cycle, but it would be pretty dramatic/awful
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/18/report-donald-trump-turns-down-nikki-haley-request-for-a-meeting/
4_Sticks wrote:
No. We used to have a bar fly acquaintance who was part of their ‘circle’ at Yale and by ‘circle’ I don’t mean ‘friends’. Imagine intersecting Venn diagram circles.
According to him, they were frauds from the get-go. We didn’t believe him at the time but according to him it was a straight up political power match from the beginning. A lot of people got sucked into the dream. He also kept insisting on something I didn’t hear again for years – that her personal hygiene left a lot to be desired.
@ lobo91:
Studio precision.
@ lobo91:
In my best Lawrence Welk voice:
“Nice job boys …”.
Ya had to be there.
This is a 12 min video of ships in storms (you wonder why I’m terrified of open water?). Check out the fishing boat at about the 6:30 mark. I have no idea who was filming that or from where, the camera is very steady
https://youtu.be/bZSM5ZbdpWw
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
Funny, I was just watching a bunch these this past weekend but I did not see this one ! Good Lord, the sounds alone are terrifying, DAMN !
One that I watched over the weekend showed a guy walking through one of the ships ‘hallways’ (?) maybe 75′ long I think, and you could watch the ship bend as he walked toward the camera. Another showed how a ship, once a certain amount of it left the water and was just suspended out in space while the rest of the ship passed through the wave, can actually cause the ship to break in two like the Titanic did. I dunno what would be worse, being sucked out of a passenger jet or to find ones self suddenly looking forward out at the ocean, realizing your ship had slit in two. And people have actually experienced this stuff !
My Dad, Navy vet, WWII, fibbed about his age and joined the Navy at 17 years of age (apparently my Grandmother took part in the fibb also). He was on cruiser in the So Pacific for most of his time in the Navy. He went from a small apartment and high school in the Bronx to war at sea in no time.
I can’t even imagine… Anyhow, he told me (I was just a boy at the time) that his ship took part in a rescue after another ship was, well, I don’t remember now exactly but suffice to say, the other ship went down or was about to. He had to have some of these terrifying moments in the time he was out there. Imagine experiencing something like this when all you knew and were accustomed to was your single bed in an apartment in the Bronx ?
Knowing Japanese dive bombers could appear out of nowhere, at 17, had to be enough to push a kid to the breaking point not to mention sailing through something that looked like any of these, damn !!
The only part of these talks that I remember is the comments he made about how he would NEVER go out to sea again and that he hated officers. He was a part of an ack-ack gun crew so he was on deck a lot. I also watched a video tour of one of the big guns turret from topside down. I can’t even imagine… If you’ve never seen it (video) its worth a watch. Kinda off topic yes, but combine the reality of being below deck working these guns while passing through seas like whats shown in these videos (above):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0D-ulUrMIo
Now I know what Homer (Harold Russell) Parrish was talking about in the WWII classic “The Best Years of our Lives’ (1946). Just a movie yes, but Russel was the real deal,
@ 4_Sticks:
Sebastian Junger’s book The Perfect Storm is in my top ten favorites. The movie sucked donkeys in comparison.
@ Bunk X:
I thought there for a second in eagles link / video that the one boat scene was from that movie, no ? The one where it went ass over teacup ?
I wanted to post the link to one of those vids I was watching over the weekend but I just couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore. I have to look for it in my History, it too had some interesting scenes.
As to the movie The Perfect Storm, that whole bit about the overweight babe
(waitress or bartender maybe?) who loses her guy at sea was just too much for me.
I didn’t realize ‘Perfect…’ was based on a novel. Did it include this same ‘lost her man at sea’ bs ? Theres an older ‘lost her man at sea’ b/w movie called ‘The Key’ (1958) in which the sailors (Holden and Howard) do temporary hook ups with a babe (Sophia Loren) due to their inevitability of being, well… ‘lost at sea’. They pass on her room key, sailor to sailor, to long suffering Loren, the whore with a heart of gold. Its not just a manipulation, its the plot of the entire movie. The trope is handled much better though in the older movie.
Some of the special effects though in Perfect Storm, IIRC, were pretty good,
I’ll give it that.
4_Sticks wrote:
It’s not a novel, it’s a true story
So, did I get this right: the USA is back in the Paris climate treaty?
@ Guggi:
Yes, as of today.
I imagine we will be lifting all sanctions on Iran by the end of next week
O great! First video of Perseverance on Mars. SOUND ON! (26 seconds)
https://twitter.com/James7Holland/status/1362814591940648960
@ eaglesoars:
no. It’s old footage from Curiosity. nevermind. (But it’s still neat!)
@ eaglesoars:
You can bet on it.
Today I bought FFP2 masks in black, grey, lilac, dark blue, turquoise, red, rose and orange 🙂
@ Guggi:
It will be a cold day in Hell before I buy any mask that isn’t disposable. It’s all garbage.
I’m beginning to think ‘cancel culture’ won’t stop at cancel culture
#Trump’s impeachment lawyer, Attorney Schoen, now canceled by a law school and a #CivilRights law group. Schoen says these are two very important parts of his life that he lost.
https://twitter.com/news_ntd/status/1362859505290268684
I keep going back to Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. Put people ‘outside’ the culture, outside the safety of the law.
Then you can kill them.
This isn’t hyperbole. First the Jews were kicked out of their jobs.
And seriously, what is the point of this other than just petty malice?
Biden Signs Executive Order Ending Trump Industry Apprenticeship Program
But left-wing groups, and some congressional Democrats, objected to Trump’s order. The Center for American Progress complained that Trump was creating “a parallel track that lacks adequate worker protections” that could allow for “the proliferation of low-quality programs.”
Democrats eventually frustrated Trump’s new system, as Bloomberg News noted this week: “Democrats in Congress blocked funding and the implementing regulations weren’t finalized until last year.”
oh. unions. silly me.
@ eaglesoars:
They are disposable masks.
oh. I meant to ask if anyone else has seen this.
Earlier this week we got a letter from the IRS. It said our SECOND stimulus payment of $1200 would be directly deposited into our bank account, if we didn’t see it w/in 7 days call this number.
WTF?
First, we never got a FIRST payment, second we don’t need it and third, altho the 7 days aren’t up yet, I’m still not seeing it.
And did I miss that a second stimulus payment was actually approved? I thought it was hung up somewhere.
Guggi wrote:
Here, they’re flogging masks you can launder and reuse. No. Chains are not fashion accessories.
CDC orders masks be worn on all commercial fishing vessels, Coast Guard must enforce the new rule
https://justthenews.com/government/local/cdc-orders-masks-be-worn-all-commercial-fishing-vessels-coast-guard-must-enforce
Like the Coast Guard doesn’t have better things to do. Like commercial fishing isn’t one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet, so lets make it harder.
Next up: Coal miners.
I has chores. later.
@ Possum:
We only have biden to blame for this.
Toilets are a luxury. Not essential if out in the woods.
@ eaglesoars:
Mars: 100 percent ruled by robots. Earths future if they ever come back?
eaglesoars wrote:
This we had before but now we have to wear FFP2 masks and until recently they were only available in white.
https://www.bahnhofsapotheke.de/aktuelle-apothekeninfo/ffp2-masken-in-neuen-farben-erhaeltlich.html
@ 4_Sticks:
No navy for me. Assigned to a confined battle space with fire hazards galore and no where to run. I suppose a pressure cooker like that does bring out the best and the worst of people.
the old navy was hard core drinking and fighting on and off duty. The new navy is woke. Given the same gear old Navy would destroy new Navy.
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve received 2 $600 checks.
I find it odd that Biden promises $2000 then renegs and no one flags him on it constantly. Was he just being stupid and someone smartened him up?
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah second stimulus was approved and sent out in January. Third is in the works right now.
@ 4_Sticks:
The Perfect Storm wasn’t a novel – it was a documentary of real people and events with a lot of related information tossed in. Went into detail on the industry, meteorology and the poor decisions made that led to the loss of the Andrea Doria.
4_Sticks wrote:
I liked the movie for what it was. Linda Greenlaw, the skipper of the other boat, was supposed to play herself in the movie but they replaced her. Greenlaw wrote a book about the storm also.
4_Sticks wrote:
Yeah, that’s a scene from the movie. Starts about 10:20.
@ darkwords:
Same here. Well, direct deposits. I haven’t seen a paper check from the government since the ’80s.
@ eaglesoars:
Which was precisely the point Gina Carano was making when they fired her for it.
eaglesoars wrote:
But if they come with a designer label and in fashionable colors?
/Yeah, I can’t believe how compliant people have become. It appears people were using the knowledge gained from those psychological experiments (“The experiment must continue” in the Stanley Milgram experiment) to plan how to enslave the US, not how to prevent it.
@ eaglesoars:
I was just talking to an old friend about this very thing not a half hour ago. I said to him The Beatles broke through the blanket of doom and gloom of the post JFK assassination period during the winter of ’63/’64 when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, February 9,1964. I, for one, will never forget that night and what those 4 mop tops did for moral around the world, silly as it may sound.
What would really snap us out of the doom and gloom mess this country is in would be a space ship landing on the White House lawn (yes like in the 50s sci/fi movie). I think it would make the entire world ‘ONE’, all looking out there ^ as earthlings, not left and right. Yes, thats an understatement of course but you get the idea. Can you imagine ? WOW. And imagine if the hatch opened and out came an alien who was a dead ringer for John Lennon ? Just a thought, haha. Somethings gotta give …
4_Sticks wrote:
IT’S A COOKBOOK!!
Look at this
Doctors Disappointed After Joe Biden Rescinds Trump Reform to Boost Access to Opioid Addiction Help
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/09/docs-disappointed-biden-rescinds-trump-reform-access-opioid-addiction-help/
Now this guy – The NIH selected Columbia Professor Carl Hart to serve on their National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse.
Columbia professor: I do heroin regularly for ‘work-life balance
https://nypost.com/2021/02/19/columbia-prof-i-snort-heroin-regularly-for-work-life-balance/
Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
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4h
BREAKING: Dem Senator Joe Manchin will not vote to confirm controversial Biden appointee Neera Tanden to lead OMB
— A couple of GoP should vote to confirm her. She is an albatross around Bidens neck.
The coldest I have ever heard of was during the depression. Hunters where dropping like flies.
I’m usually prepared for cold weather even if I am in the south. A pair of long johns in the trunk, warm cap and gloves, water, matches, newspapers to burn.
In the old house we always had heavy quilts. Seldom needed the coal stove on at night. Hay around the outside foundation. Water dripping. windows all wrapped in plastic. Cold weather just seemed normal. Food was probably the main issue if the artic front lasted more than a week. I am impressed how the food chain is staying up and running. Knock on wood.
darkwords wrote:
In recent history, when there really was no spring/summer and it stayed cold to the point of crop failures – all this globally – was in the early 1800s. It was due to a volcanic eruption Mt Tambora
Are you fucking kidding me
https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1362963765885550592
Biden admin ordered ERCOT to throttle energy output by forcing it to comply with environmental green energy standards, knowing full well Texans could freeze to death in their homes with zero electricity as temperatures plunged into the single digits.
Here’s the doc. Effective Feb 14
https://www.scribd.com/document/495189508/DOE-202-c-Emergency-Order-ERCOT-02-14-2021
Outages Morph Into Outrage As Texans Slapped With “Mind-Blowing” Power Bills
Ty Williams told WFAA that his average electric bill is around $660 per month. He said it now stands at $17,000.
How can they charge you for something you didn’t get?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/outages-morph-outrage-texans-slapped-mind-blowing-power-bills
eaglesoars wrote:
Gov Abbot declared state of emergency Feb 12. Just FYI
Apropo of the ‘boats in bad storms’ video I posted last nite
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bfaa37d791bb05630cb836280f7d379626b5faac06b6351db629a67ea3f0b8f1.jpg
ammo has become really scarce
South Carolina veteran uses butt of his shotgun to kill home intruder who attacked his wife
https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-carolina-invader-elderly-woman-dies-scuffle-husband
@ eaglesoars:
That type of cloud looks nasty, but I don’t think it’s associated with bad weather.
https://www.clouds-online.com/cloud_atlas/other_cloud_photos/images/0012.htm
@ Bunk X:
https://xtremeweather-tours.ch/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Lenticularis-mehrfach.png
I was trying to find a song that was in Rush’s bumper rotation, thought it might be Fishbone. Found this comment:
https://youtu.be/1OuiuolN1r4
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/facebook-bans-all-australian-news-content-over-pay-to-link-proposal/
I gather this has to do with inherited property so pay attention (Biden taxes)
Freepers.
Met with my CPA over the innerwebs today. A conservative, 30+ years in the biz.
So they tell me what Team Biden is thinking of doing.
Elimination of the Step Up in Basis, That is mind blowing.
How many of you are keeping running ledgers of Assets and or improvements to hard assets aka real estate etc.? We have been running under the Step Up in Basis rule for some time now.
It gets worse.
You don’t or can’t come up with a basis? The IRS will assume Zero, that’s right, you will pay tax on the full value of the asset.
The only saving grace is the Swamp may not want it to hit their offspring, so this may go nowhere, unless they get an exemption…
Please read the comments, informative
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3936357/posts
Anybody else watching The Guns of Navarone on TCM now ? Even though I’ve seen it a hundred times since its release in ’61, I forgot about how much of the beginning involves a VERY nasty bat being smashed around at sea and up against the rocks of the island. Ships and storms at sea has been a bit of theme for me since eagles post the other day.
‘bat’ That should be ‘boat’.
@ 4_Sticks:
here’s another one but it’s some idiot sailing the north atlantic – haven’t watched it yet, and it’s chapter 3 – have fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAfZonTJfY&feature=youtu.be
@ eaglesoars:
“In my tiny little plastic boat…”
Wadda dipstick, wadda maROON !
4_Sticks wrote:
I like the bat imagery better.
eaglesoars wrote:
The 4:50 clip was an inter-Islander (Wellington on the NI to Picton at the top of the SI) Tis was shot from Lyall Bay in a VERY upperty North Westerly gale. The threshold to Runway 34 is just out of shot on the left. We used to regularly land into these Norwesters in Boeing 737-300s but also in Fokker Friendships (40 pax and two underpowered Dart turboprops. NOT a good look in weather like this.
Just in front of Lyall Bay is the entrance to Wellington Harbour. This is the very spot that the Inter-Islander Wahine lost power and was rolled and washed onto the rocks. It was full of cars trucks and a train and hundreds of passengers. About 80 died that day.
The Strait between North and South Islands is one of the most dangerous crossings in the world. OK getting out of the harbour because there is no bar but once into the open strait you get quartering swells they both roll and pitch ships at the same time. EVERYONE turns green!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
The fishing boat was filmed from the shore as it was attempting to cross the bar into a sheltered anchorage.
Anyone who tries to cross bars in poor weather is nuts.
Actually anyone who is at sea in these conditions is totally nuts.
Glorioso Albeneida, Bus Driver.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That goes for Gilligan and the skipper, too. Neither one checked the marine forecast.
Bunk X wrote:
but will notice that Ginger always travelled with her full wardrobe!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
What is a ‘bar’? Is that a configuration of the land under the water that affects how the water behaves? I’ve only heard of ‘sand bars’ and I kind of understand what they are.
Ok, look at this. I can make a very good guess why this program was terminated.
FL AG Moody: ‘No Reason’ for Biden to Terminate Operation Targeting Sex Offenders in Country Illegally
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/02/20/fl-ag-moody-no-reason-for-biden-to-terminate-operation-targeting-sex-offenders-in-country-illegally/
This is why that Ronna person who heads up the RNC sucks canal water. This is Scott Pressler (let me know if I have to explain who he is)
Today, over 150 volunteers gathered in Illinois’ 16th District to learn how to unseat Adam Kinzinger.
Many of the voters told me that they helped elect Kinzinger in previous elections, but are no longer supporting him.
https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1363282663130476547
‘curtain twitching lunatics’
This is a story about how some people found a dog who had been lost 2 weeks earlier is the Irish country side, rescued her and returned her to her family.
Somebody read the heartwarming story and called the cops.
This is what doxxing is for.
https://threader.app/thread/1363165609236824066
I would never have imagined this. James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti in a duet singing “It’s A Man’s World”. Full orchestra. Gorgeous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaB9F3R9cIY
When night stirred at sea,
An the fire brought a crowd in
They say that her beauty
Was music in mouth
And few in the candlelight
Thought her too proud,
For the house of the planter
Is known by the trees.
Men that had seen her
Drank deep and were silent,
The women were speaking
Wherever she went —
As a bell that is rung
Or a wonder told shyly
And O she was the Sunday
In every week.
Austin Clarke, The Planter’s Daughter
For a couple days on a blog I won’t name, a single man has been – what? – whining? – yelling? moaning? pleading? – I don’t know the right word – about a woman he just met who actually knows how to cook. Aaannd – he can feel the hook. So, I’m just going to post a few for the comedy gold
So the Devil Temptress this morning tells me she wants me to meet her parents and I told her that we should take things slowly and just enjoy what we have. She pulled cinnamon rolls from the oven, and now we are going to her parents tomorrow for dinner. Since we started seeing each other I put on 10 pounds
.
.
I know its a trap but how do you turn down fresh homemade cinnamon rolls. If she ever learns i love Orange Rolls i’m going to end up buying her a house.
nite
@ eaglesoars:
I can’t wait for the part where he suddenly notices that her hands are kinda big…