An interesting read. I will attempt to answer any medical or statistical questions that yinz have.
and its an open
Guest Post from our own Aussie Infidel
by coldwarrior ( 96 Comments › )Filed under Guest Post, Medicine, Open thread at March 4th, 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!
Does anyone know if longitudinal methods have been used before? This piece is several months old and asking the question on that site is probably a waste of time.
Has anyone else noticed that given all the apparently ‘credible’ intelligence the law enforcement dudes have about the ‘QAnon army’ going for an insurrection today – nobody has been arrested?
7.3 quake New Zealand
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000dffl/executive
Well, QAnon hasn’t shown up yet, so the Capitol Police have asked the Nat’l Guard to stay for 2 more months.
Cuz they must be around here SOMEWHERE!
eaglesoars wrote:
Maybe AOC and the rest of the Woke crowd should start looking under their beds at night for hidden Qanon agents.
There was a comment in the previous thread about the loss of the SpaceX rocket.
I remember years ago there was a experimental rocket called the DCX. They did a test flight where it took off, rose maybe 50 or 60 feet, transitioned to the side, and landed. Unfortunately on landing one of the pads either didn’t extend or collapsed and it was destroyed.
@ AZfederalist:
does this violate posse comitatus?
Elon Musk is building a city in Texas called Starbase.
That’s all I know
Fox got the Capitol Police report
Fox has obtained a physical copy of the “situational information report” issued by the FBI’s Norfolk, VA Division on January 5, one day ahead of the riot at the Capitol. USCP received this information ahead of the riot.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1367497066839220225.html
New Zealand has been hit w/THIRD earthquake, 8.0
eaglesoars wrote:
We just had a 7.8 an hour ago to go with the 7.3 earlier this morning.
NE coastal regions are under Tsunami warning alerts as we speak. Great Barrier Island’s East coast is under watch but our beach house is hidden behind Great Barrier Island mountainous spine and the Coromandel Ranges so we are well protected
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
That 8.0 was recalibrated by all of the sensors on the ocean bed off NZ and is a more accurate value
@ eaglesoars:
Not to worry Eagles. We have got this under control right now.
🙂
They don’t call NZ The Shaky Isles for nothing.
🙂
Possum wrote:
From the old thread:-
Used to fly with a former RAF Vulcan bomber pilot. Pete’s job was to carry two 0.8 megaton Hydrogen bombs to the Soviet Union and drop them onto a primary and then a secondary target.
He and his crew were supposed to fight their way through the Soviet anti-aircraft bands destroy the targets and then do a 180 degree turn and fight their way hack through the by now VERY pissed off anti-aircraft thickets and return to England???
Which would be a smoking crater
His idea was to deposit his two Hydrogen bombs and then keep flying East until the Vulcan ran out of fuel. Eject and settle down with a nice Mongolian lady and produce a dozen kids!
Smart plan!
🙂
Crisis? Don’t be silly, it’s entrepeneurship!
What most news outlets are not reporting is the surge in adults crossing the border illegally, ferried over the Rio Grande and escorted into the U.S. by smuggling networks that contract with powerful cartels to bring people in without being apprehended by Border Patrol.
These operations are sophisticated — so sophisticated that smugglers are now requiring migrants to wear wristbands as a way to keep track of who has paid and which smuggling outfit is in charge of whom.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/04/cartels-introduce-wristband-inventory-system-for-illegal-immigrants/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
*snort*
Large Group Of Illegal Aliens Arrive At Border Wearing Brand-New ‘Biden, Please Let Us In’ T-Shirts
I don’t know where the t-shirts came from, probably the same place the wristbands came from
https://lidblog.com/biden-please-let-us-in/
The Question…. Who the hell is ‘general’ Honore the communist just appointed by Biden to ‘investigate’ the threat to th Capitol.
The Answer:-
Honore is CG of Washington DC Natural Guard. Each State has it’s own National Guard (some also have Air National Guard in addition to Army National Guard). These troops belong to each State Governor and are usually called to active duty for State disasters like hurricanes, floods, etc. They are in State status and work for their state Governor in state status.
IF they are called to active duty by the President they are called up in Federal status and come under command and control of the DoD, not their State Governor.
Since DC is not a State their National Guard falls under the DoD for activation even for domestic mobilization. Therefore the CG of
DC Guard must get mobilization orders from the Pentagon not a non existent DC Governor.
The commander of each State National Guard is a Two Star but Only in their state. That State Governor appoints him/her. Military requirements are only at they be at least a LTC in that State’s National Guard in good status. For example the CG for say the Texas National Guard could be only a LTC but wears two stars and is paid as a MG. But if he travels out of state his rank reverts to LTC. He is not what is called an “officer of the line”. Active duty generals AND Army Reserve generals ARE “offices of the line”. These are Federal positions not State ones. Both must met specific military seniority standards and military education requirements. “Officers of the line” are capped in Max numbers by Congress.
That’s one reason why many State National Guard Generals are viewed a little differently by many Active and Army Reserve Generals.
Long answer to explain that Honore is a politically appointed “National Guard” General. To my knowledge he is not an “officer of the line”. He does not hold Federal rank.
Well thank god for that!
🙂
but …. why are the communist Cancel Culture after ..Dr. Seuss of ‘Cat-in-the-Ht fame?
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/aufheben-der-dr-seuss/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Most Americans remember him as the guy who got in there and finally cleaned up the Katrina mess. He just got it done. That’s why it was such a shock.
@ Aussie Infidel:
We need to start teaching against CRT in kindergarten, and start to name it in 5th grade (10yrs old)
Tsunami warning just sounded on all cell phones. Mrs and Miss AI are working getting a house looking pretty for sale . It’s 1 metre above sea level up the Tamaki River in Auckland. Suggest STRONGLY that they head home for ‘lunch’ and see what transpired!
Hmmmm
Don’t want to get our feet wet.
Mt Hobson is just 3 minutes away and ‘home’ is already 60 metres above seal level !
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually Honore is a retired general who Nancy Pelosi and the house democrats picked to lead the investigation. When he was on active duty years ago he headed the Military part of the FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. He got in trouble at that time by being to “political”(read publicly being left wing while in uniform on active duty) and making poor public statements about the President Bush response. Many felt he was lobbying in advance of retirement to ensure that he got some plumb job in the next Democratic administration. He’s stayed left of center since Katrina which is probably why Pelosi picked him. She doesn’t want the investigation to be impartial.
Side note: The CG of the DC National Guard is a National Guard two star. He’s the one who couldn’t get anyone to give him permission to activate his troops so he could send them to the capital. Lots of blame and finger pointing above his pay grade going on now.
Got to get to higher ground!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I don’t think that’s very much
eaglesoars wrote:
It ain’t QAnon.
@ Bunk X:
everything is QAnon
@ Aussie Infidel:
Actually, none of that is correct with regard to Honore.
He wasn’t a National Guard officer. He was the 3 star commander of First Army when he retired in 2008.
Yeah. The Kraken. Right.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-rejects-sidney-powells-lawsuits-challenging-election-results-in-wisconsin-arizona_3715825.html
eaglesoars wrote:
YLF/GAF is not QAnon.
@ Bunk X:
SCOTUS is going to reject anything w/her name on it.
Yeah, you know and I know YAF isn’t QAnon, but Pelosi, et. al., need a bogeyman, so it’s always QAnon.
I’m reading a ‘Tom Clancy’/Jack Ryan book. I don’t know who really wrote it, the plot is pretty good.
I just read the DUMBEST sentence ever written. The editor should be strung up. Here it is:
The sun rose promptly at dawn
No kidding! whodda thunk?
@ eaglesoars:
It was a dark and stormy night
These people are like those whack jobs on the street corner carrying a sign saying day after tomorrow will be the end of the world
The House of Representatives canceled its scheduled votes for Thursday
Capitol police confirmed they received an intelligence report that of a far-right militia plot to breach the Capitol this Thursday
…
‘We have obtained intelligence that shows a possible plot to breach the Capitol by an identified militia group on Thursday, March 4,’ USCP said
No specific group mentioned and USCP said intelligence was too ‘sensitive’ to reveal more details
…
Security has been beefed up around Capitol buildings as the National Guard patrol
The Capitol is being guarded by almost 5,000 troops ahead of Thursday’s threat
There is speculation that March 20 – when the Republican party was founded – and April 15 – federal income tax day – may also pose a threat
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=393042
Wait until July 4. They’ll cancel the fireworks on the Mall, just you watch.
@ eaglesoars:
They’ll pick April 20th next. They think everyone who opposes them is a Nazi, so Hitler’s birthday is an obvious choice.
You learn lots of useless things working in a prison. It’s a big day for the Aryan Brotherhood types.
lobo91 wrote:
Sounds pretty useful to me!
I’m just waiting for all the arrests.
eaglesoars wrote:
Which, I suspect, we’ll see right around the time the Durham report comes out.
I’m out. Night.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s 200 feet in US jargon and that’s plenty hit enough and if needs must I can scoot up Mt. Hobson and put another 250 feet under my feet. Not getting wet up there.
Anyway the ‘system’ worked a treat. Lots of folks having picnics on hilltops in the sun waiting for the ‘tide to come in.. Central North Island felt the shocks but there was zero damage. The high tide on the East coast seemed to go out a bit around 1PM around Whanarei harbour in Northland and there were rocks visible that shouldn’t have been visible. Then the tide came in . Only to Christmas tidal levels and it was all a bit of a non event. No damage or waves in Norfolk Islan Samoa or Tonga, Tsunami alert was called off around 2PM.
Meanwhile ‘cindy’ government to all wobbly and declared a Level 3 lockdown for Auckland and a Level 2 for everywhere else. Within 12 hours there was definitive proof that this was a microscopic breakout … 2 people and NOT associated with a general breakout. WE’ve been locked down at #3 for 5 days with zip new cases. Obviously the government got scared and jumped the gun but now instead of finishing this 2 days early they have just rolled Auckland back to level #2 and the rest of the country back to Level #1. They are screwing small business just to bloody SAVE FACE.
The socialist plonkers.
Folks are HAD IT with lockdowns
eaglesoars wrote:
BULL SHIT!
If there were insurrectionists, which there are not, they would know that THEIR security had been breached so how does NOT offering the so called ‘intelligence’ ,breach any so called intelligence?
Whoever released this statement has obviously not thought through the logic, OR NOT, behind his/her/its statement.
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
100% correct mate. I was led astray and was chatting cross purposes with my tame General Officer.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Or the Proud Boys. They get arrested but are usually exonerated for lack of evidence. Not so sure about the Oath Keepers / III Percenters. Those guys start shit.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
They’re all hunkered down in their fraidy holes whispering “The Morlocks are coming.” Yeah, sure.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2021/03/04/baltimore-high-school-student-0-13-gpa-near-top-half-class/
And we need to spend more on schools.
Feb jobs report is pretty good. (I’ll get the specifics later). 379k jobs added, labor participation at 61%, unemployment at 6.2%.
I’d like to see that compared to a year ago, we’re starting from crap, but at least it’s not contracting. At any rate, I think maybe we don’t need the stimulus?
@ eaglesoars:
It’s all because of Silver Alert Biden.
///
Man, you should see the comments. He could crawl naked over broken glass but people remember hiring Paul Ryan. There are over 600 comments that found various ways to tell him to fuck right off.
Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch says that his network will serve as the ‘loyal opposition’ to Joe Biden and that ‘you’ll see our ratings really improve’ as a result
– Murdoch said they were taking the role played by MSNBC in the Trump era
– He said it was a tactic designed to boost their ratings
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9328985/Fox-CEO-Lachlan-Murdoch-says-network-serves-loyal-opposition-Joe-Biden.html#comments
Prove it. You’re a liberal nut job. You’re only pandering because you tried to go woke…instead you nearly went broke.
eaglesoars wrote:
… and didn’t because Rupert stepped back in, took his boys to the woodshed and ‘splained to them how thing work
I don’t know a woman in the world who would consent to this
A young bride-to-be named “Ann” recently went to a bridal shop near Washington, D.C.
If you’ve watched the television show “Say Yes to the Dress” – you know it’s quite the family affair.
The salesperson followed the bride to be into the dressing room to help her try on a wedding gown.
The salesperson was wearing a COVID mask, dress, tights and heels. The salesperson proceeded to help “Ann” in the dressing room, touching private areas of her body while helping her in and out of wedding dresses.
Then “Ann’s” sister and mother pulled her aside and notified her that the salesperson was a man.
https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/bridal-shop-under-fire-for-not-telling-bride-that-female-sales-clerk-was-really-a-guy/
Having tried on my share of wedding dresses, I can tell you that a lot of times you have to also try on specialized lingerie – because you need ‘scaffolding’ to make the dress hang properly.
I don’t mind the trans guy at Sephora, he can help me find perfume, but you walk into a dressing room with me and I’ll remove any spare parts you won’t be needing anyway.
https://twitter.com/Ruth_A_Buzzi/status/1367837529412603912
Someone asked how much I usually spend on a bottle of wine. I don’t know; half an hour?
Ruth, I saw an ad for a device to keep your leftover wine fresh. I assume you are like me and were completely blown away by the words, “leftover wine”. Like, what IS that? The words make no sense.
September 2020 compilation
My sister got a disturbing text on her phone
Bonjour, my name is [name] and I’m looking to network with real estate investors in the network. You did spruce up [address] correct?
The problem is that the address is the house I bought in Knoxville. Her name isn’t on any of the papers. And [name] is the name of one of her grandchildren.
And she’s not a real estate investor/agent.
Bunk X wrote:
I hope the libs are happy that they got an addlepated fool installed into the highest office in the land.
@ eaglesoars:
Scam of some sort. Turn it over to the authorities if there is contact information.
@ AZfederalist:
she didn’t reply not even w/a”wrong number” type thing
But the evident AI result is interesting. The algorithm got the wrong owner. Buggy code right there. Looks like a test. My sister thinks it may have something to do w/Pinterest, but it’s not something we’re going to discuss via anything but pure phone call. If our phones are tapped,well whoop-di-do.Two boring old ladies. Have fun.
yeah, just fuck right off
#ICYMI: During a congressional hearing this week, #FBI Director Christopher Wray discussed how end-to-end encryption threatens the FBI’s mission to protect the American people from federal crimes, including crimes against children, cyberattacks, and terrorism.
https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1367847400736456705
spell’Durham’
AZfederalist wrote:
No. They got exactly what they wanted, a puppet that can still sign his name. The real President is nameless.
Here’s one for Coldwarrior. It’s a band from Madrid that plays late ’70s Oi! stuff. Not all skinheads are racist neofascists.
The family of Ashli Babbitt is preparing to file a wrongful death lawsuit.
It is a universal law enforcement standard that a police officer should use no more force than necessary to accomplish a lawful purpose. At 5′ 2″ tall and 110 pounds, an arrest of Ashli could have been accomplished by a single trained officer with a set of handcuffs. At the time of the shooting, there were over a half-dozen police officers in close proximity to the Speaker’s door where Ashli was standing. Some of those officers had just allowed protesters access to the door by stepping aside.
Other officers, dressed in full tactical gear, stood among the protesters just a few feet behind the door. Still others stood casually at the opposite end of the Speaker’s Lobby, unconcerned with the activities of Ashli and the protesters around her. All of these officers were in a position to have aided in the apprehension of Ashli if it was necessary. Given her background as a 14-year veteran of the Air Force, it is likely that Ashli would have complied with simple verbal commands, thereby making the use of any force unnecessary.
However, the officer who shot Ashli never attempted to arrest her. Nor did he call on his fellow officers to arrest her. Instead, he fired a shot into her chest. Witnesses confirm that the officer did not give Ashli a single verbal warning prior to firing. In fact, Ashli was not even aware that the officer was present, as he was located in the doorway of a room off to the side of her field of vision.
https://twitter.com/ForAshli/status/1367887279503589382/photo/1
@ Bunk X:
Good.
Posting this for the hilarity
https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1368219595929227267
Just when you think this abomination of a partisan Trojan horse spending binge couldn’t get more ridiculous, it does: Ds vote for stimulus checks for prison inmates. Definitely not a #CovidReliefBill . Less than 10% COVID-19 related. Less than 1% for vaccines.
@ eaglesoars:
They were eligible for the last round, too. We had to deal with the paperwork.
@ lobo91:
jeebus
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep, that’s how totalitarians roll. “We need the authority and you need to give up your freedom … FOR THE CHILDREN!”
Bunk X wrote:
Yep. Biden has never been more than a placeholder. In any position in which he as served throughout his “career”
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course not. This is the #ElectionPayoffBill. Just like the $1T “stimulus & recovery” bill in 2009 was not about stimulus or economic recovery, but was all about paying off Obama’s campaign contributors. The cost just tripled in the past 12 years.
You can’t make this stuff up. Eric Swalwell is now suing Trump for “emotional distress”:
@ eaglesoars:
Oh, and the Twit comments on that are disturbing. Some idiot claiming the 2017 tax cut bill increased his taxes $8K (didn’t happen, he probably didn’t get the same refund he used to get because withholding went down) and the NPR breakdown about how it really is helping, including huge amounts for state and local governments impacted — i.e., rewarding states that destroyed their economies with draconian lockdowns that did nothing to help the problem.
@ lobo91:
I think ol’ Swalwell may learn the meaning of “frivolous lawsuit” and the associated costs. He thinks Trump is like other GOP who will just roll over rather than turn around and mow down.
@ AZfederalist:
I’m always amazed by the people who lack even a basic understanding of taxes. I had to write a check to the IRS for almost $6 grand a few days ago. That doesn’t mean that I only paid $6k. I actually paid closer to $22k this year. That was just the difference between what was withheld and what I actually owed.
Yet people seriously believe that Trump paid $725 one year, because that was what he ended up owing when it was all done. Yeah…just ignore the $27 million or whatever it was…
No wonder we’re $30 trillion in debt…
@ AZfederalist:
So I sez to myself ‘Self, I don’t believe you’ve ever heard this word before”.
So I googled it:
[chiefly Australian], confounded, confused, dazed, distracted, dizzy, dopey (also dopy), fogged, mixed-up, muddleheaded, muzzy, pixilated (also pixillated), punch-drunk, punchy, raddled, shell-shocked, silly, slaphappy, spaced-out (or spaced), spacey (also spacy), stunned, stupefied, zonked, zonked-out
Accent on the ‘chiefly Australian’ just in case my ‘Basic’ language skills are outmoded or no longer used here.
@ eaglesoars:
Possibly the internet version of a ‘cold call’ ? If they bought up a bunch of
e-mail addresses and, with one keystroke, sent out say 1,000 of these hoping to get a bite from even just one… ? In the old days they had to go door to door following the Fuller Brush salesmen.
Oh DANG me, dang me… Fuller Brush PERSON. I’m woke damn it, I’m woke …
4_Sticks wrote:
how did they associate my sister w/ a house that I bought?
@ lobo91:
I think we should end withholding of taxes from paychecks. Just everybody gets to write a check to the government on April 15 every year. Then change election date April 16.
@ eaglesoars:
Hmmmm… well, I dunno. It was just a guess. I do know this kind of thing does go on though. Have you ever looked up a / your name at one of these ‘background check’ sites ? They list every known relation. I’ve wondered how they pull off that too. It seems like way too much work for a few people to do so I’m guessing the same kind of thing, some local service that batchs the info (making it manageable) and the info is either stolen (hackers) or bought.
I can’t think of any other way or reason it would be done – unless you all have your own stalker / hacker which of course is doubtful.
Kids … ya can’t BEAT ’em !! Just when you think it might be safe to start showing your face again in public, “out of the inkwell comes …”
https://people.com/politics/rudy-giulianis-daughter-caroline-speaks-out-about-her-sexuality-and-being-a-unicorn/
@ Bunk X:
“A puppet who can still sign his name.”
I prefer ‘muppet’ myself. As in:
Noun. muppet (plural muppets) (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eastern US, South Africa, slang, derogatory) An incompetent or foolish person.
“The last thing we need…”
https://twitter.com/calvetpatriot/status/1367655261972787200
@ lobo91:
Jeez O Pete.
@ Bunk X:
@ Bunk X:
OI! OI! OI!
🙂
@ lobo91:
when SNL was funny.
I’m really enjoying Ally’s new album:
@ lobo91:
pretty good. very texas blues. i have some work to do on the computer here at the hotel. i think ill have a tequila and get R done, and listen to some ally.
…i’ve about had it with these white trash scum meth heads…
coldwarrior wrote:
oh, and there was a great batch of heroin that hit town 3 nights ago…laced with fentanyl. we hand out narcan, narca the dolts in the field and in the ER.
yinz know what that is?
rewarding bad behavior. that’s what. let them die after their first mistake. i’m all for giving ONE second chance.
@ coldwarrior:
“i get as high as i can because i know that you guys will save me”
said to me by a junky who we saved 3 times in 7 days.
how the hell did this pop on the ‘tube?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9U1BQP_X1k
ricardo just smoothly kicks ass. he was great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4MKQMTHplI
without comment.
@ lobo91:
😀 Phil Hartman was the best.
@ coldwarrior:
Puddles is great.
@ lobo91:
Okay I’ll stop.
coldwarrior wrote:
First- did you see my question upthread? Has longitudinal analysis been used in epidemeology before? I don’t know if it’s an ‘accepted’ method.
As to this particular video: Denmark ‘bragged’ that it has wiped out Down’s Syndrome. via abortion.
But one of the Nobel prizes last year was given to 2 female scientists who ‘invented’ crisper techniques – editing genes. If I understand it – at whatever level I can – If a woman is carrying a Down’s Syndrome baby that can be ‘fixed’ with this – then abortion loses a lot of its justification.
So I would expect that the crisper technology will be targeted away from such things so the abortion lobby can keep its influence. Not least for organ harvesting.
bed. nite.
Also, altho I haven’t been on much in the last week or so, twitter is boring beyond belief when it comes to U.S. politics
Did anyone watch Greg Gutfeld tonite? I don’t usually but the TV was on the channel and the opening ‘act'(smells like SNL when it was funny) was a female newsreader with a serious case of TDS and it was hilarious.
eaglesoars wrote:
welll….without looking at a meta study analysis of analysis…i would say yes
unless they changed the definition.
longitudinal is sorta really, super important to epidemiology.
@ Bunk X:
ive been on heavy dread zep benders.
@ coldwarrior:
They could have tightened up a bit, but the concept was over the top for the time. Their version of Bob Marley’s “Stir It Up” is one of my faves.