Methtoona aint all bad, I climbed on some cliffs and rocks yesterday. But first, a visit here. I procured a few high end cigars, the My Father’s ‘The Judge’ was had atop the mountain along with some of the local ale. Then after the climb some lunch and a few beers.
It was Monday, closed day for ‘respectable’ restaurants. So I went to a dive Irish bar and had a few pints and deep fried wonderfulness.
One needs a great beer after the climb!
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Great pics on gorgeous day!
Never really hung out there, but spent a lot of time in J Town.
The birthplace of your beer, Williamsport, is a major drug trafficking hub for everything moving through from the I 95 corridor inland. Stayed there quite a bit with oilfield service companies.
heh. The nanny FDA. Hey, did you know your little hike is racist? yeppers. Blacks don’t avail themselves of the great outdoors, so that makes anyone who does racist. Also, fossil fuels. This is the green bill language
“The BUILD GREEN Infrastructure and Jobs Act will make the big federal investments necessary to transform our country’s transportation system, confront the racial and economic inequality embedded in our fossil fuel economy, and achieve the ambitious targets for 100% clean energy in America.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/03/22/democrats-introduce-new-green-new-deal-bill-calling-fossil-fuels-racist-n1434177
Chris Plante: Nielsen reports CNN has lost 45 percent of its prime time audience in the last 5 weeks. MSNBC down about 20 percent, Fox down 6.
uh huh
Police identify 21-year-old Ahmad Alissa as suspect in Boulder shooting
https://nypost.com/2021/03/23/police-identify-ahmad-alyssa-21-as-suspect-in-boulder-shooting/
eaglesoars wrote:
Syrian
@ eaglesoars:
Mmmmmhmmm.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
@ coldwarrior:
The Left is insisting he’s white. helps the white supremacy narrative
Another FBI intel success story
REVEALED: Syrian-born gunman Ahmad Alissa, 21, was known to the FBI and posted about ‘racist Islamophobes’ before killing ten at Boulder grocery store after buying automatic rifle one week ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9393669/Gunman-21-charged-murder-shooting-killing-10-people.html
eaglesoars wrote:
Where did he get that? “automatic rifle”? … and these people think they are reporting facts.
… and this:
Yep, it’s a puzzle alright
AZfederalist wrote:
An earlier headline read “AR 15 type assault rifle”
That’s ok. I think it was the Georgia massage parlours shooting when Jim Scuitto (CNN) said the shooter used ‘unregistered ammunition”.
I gotta get me some of THAT!!!
hey y’all
Israeli experts uncover Dead Sea Scrolls for first time in 60 years: The significance of the find, explained
https://ancient-archeology.com/israeli-experts-uncover-dead-sea-scrolls-for-first-time-in-60-years-the-significance-of-the-find-explained/
Hiya rain!
eaglesoars wrote:
Another one committing murder under the careful eye of the FBI while we have a dem president. This isn’t a coincidence. This is a pattern.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Well, when we have an R POTUS, the FBI is too busy undermining him, they have no time for the jihadi rotation.
Sen. Kennedy: “We don’t need more gun control. We need more idiot control.”
Apparently the CIA dump of its UFO docs have been collected and archived at this website. The Black Vault.
https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/
Heads up
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral argument in Caniglia v. Strom, a case that could have sweeping consequences for policing, due process, and mental health, with the Biden Administration and attorneys general from nine states urging the High Court to uphold warrantless gun confiscation. But what would ultimately become a major Fourth Amendment case began with an elderly couple’s spat over a coffee mug.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2021/03/23/biden-administration-urges-supreme-court-to-let-cops-enter-homes-and-seize-guns-without-a-warrant/?sh=57d75fef2829
@ lobo91:
That man is a national treasure
Tucker Carlson is lying about Kristi Noem. He said she caved to corporate interests.
That’s not what happened and he knows it
@ eaglesoars:
The story says the excavation was in part to beat tomb raiders in their search for ancient gold. Might make a good movie.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
name initially report as Ahmad Alyssa. Then later Ahmad Al-Issa
For the group of journalists trying to frame this story as white supremacy frame the journos as insurrectionists and have the FBI haul them to court. These are the real people trying to break down the government.
@ lobo91:
That would mean denying gun permits to all registered Democrats.
@ eaglesoars:
I read her reasoning and it seems fine to me. And wise. She knows her environment. Seems like thin skins in the elite conservative Bow Tie club partnering up with people who want the spotlight on DeSantis.
listened to Allen West on the Tim Pool podcast. His mind is pretty sharp historically and politically. He might get outmaneuvered but he won’t roll over.
darkwords wrote:
HAR! That is so classic in the Holy Land. I have an oil ‘lamp’ that is probably 2500 yrs old from that area. Those things are a dime a dozen over there. It’s just clay type small enough to hold in the palm your hand. I didn’t pay TOO much for it, but if I’d been in Israel/Judea, I could have taken a trowel to somebody’s back yard and found the same thing.
Archaeologists over there are always fighting the raiders. Egypt is a mess. Jerusalem has to be a nightmare to excavate.
darkwords wrote:
OH GOOD CATCH!! Hadn’t thought of that angle.
@hale_razor
The “Jesus Christ was a person of color crowd suddenly very big on people from Syria being white.
darkwords wrote:
Because it’s all about race and has nothing to do with religious affiliation. /s
@ darkwords:
This is gonna be lit.
AFAIK, if you talk to a geneticist/biologist, there is no such thing as ‘race’. There is ethnicity but that’s not the same.
And if you think Jesus the Christ can blow this up just wait till you get the skinny on Meghan Malarky. She claims to be half black. Total bullshit. Her mother is MAYBE 60 percent black, probably less. Lady Colin Campbell who is a royal biographer did the research on Doria’s background. She is AT LEAST 40 percent white.
Which makes Meghan 25 percent black at most. She dated/married only white guys, her sorority was white.
This is such a hoot.
Biden considers executive action to ban assault rifles and says ‘this should not be a partisan issue’ in wake of Boulder massacre and Georgia massage parlor shootings
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9393391/Kamala-Harris-calls-Boulder-shooting-baffling-pressure-grows-Biden-act-gun-violence.html#newcomment
War
Cover up alert!
Former Capitol riot prosecutor Michael Sherwin is facing an internal investigation after his ’60 Minutes’ interview in which he discussed possible charges against Trump and rioters
Michael Sherwin, former US Attorney for DC, spoke to 60 Minutes on Sunday
Sherwin said Trump was being investigated for his role in the January 6 riot
He said that Trump could still face charges for his actions leading up to the riot
His remarks caused uproar inside the DoJ and mayhem among senior officials
Sources say Sherwin did not get DoJ approval for the 60 Minutes interview
On Tuesday the judge in DC overseeing the case called an emergency hearing
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said he was ‘surprised’ by Sherwin’s remarks
Mehta warned: ‘this case will not be tried in the media’
John Crabb, head of DoJ criminal division, said an internal inquiry has begun
New AG Merrick Garland is seeking a low key ‘no drama’ approach to probes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9395479/Former-Capitol-riot-prosecutor-facing-internal-investigation-60-Minutes-interview.html
I’m out. nite.
darkwords wrote:
Great observation.
eaglesoars wrote:
There are only three races and almost everybody is a mix.
eaglesoars wrote:
Funny how those two events happened right about now, isn’t it? Pretty convenient for the anti-freedom crowd
@ AZfederalist:
A 22 caliber semi-automatic long gun is not an “assault rifle.”
@ Bunk X:
It’s a ‘weapon of war’ if it’s scary looking, and has a ‘military style’ ‘clip’ that holds more than 5 bullets.
///:
Another screw up in to global supply chain
Giant container ship blocking Suez Canal partially moved
https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/giant-container-ship-blocking-suez-canal-partially-moved/
the thing is a beast
Apparently the woman in this video is a former VP of Media Matters. I couldn’t get past 15 seconds. It’s a propaganda video for Biden’s ‘rescue’ plan.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1374707778145677316
creeped me out.
right_wing2 wrote:
A ball bearing fired from a sling shot can be a lethal weapon. So can fists and feet, and more people are killed that way than any other IIRC.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/21/the-branch-covidians/
eaglesoars wrote:
My gut reaction was that it was a vulnerability test, but the ship is Japanese owned, not Chinese or Russian.
eaglesoars wrote:
Too old to be trying that pseudo cutesy Disney crap. Bring in the clowns.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not quite as bad as the little kids singing about Obama, put together by some Hollyweird producers “on a Sunday morning” [when they should have been in church]. But yeah, really bad. I got to 30 seconds before I just couldn’t stand it anymore.
Bunk X wrote:
“Never mind, they’re here”
More Navy UFO reports from July 2019
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9397507/Swarms-flashing-tic-tac-shaped-UFOs-chased-four-Navy-destroyers.html
*snort*
Liberals keep saying it’s easier to buy a gun than it is to vote, but I don’t seem to remember when the government sent me an AR-15 in the mail.
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1374811584233607174
The woman who tweeted this is the mayor of Charlottesville.
https://twitter.com/NikuyahWalkerCC/status/1374724379393818625
When you read it you will understand why I didn’t copy the text
9th circuit has gone whacko again
BREAKING: The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit just ruled that THERE IS NO RIGHT TO CARRY – either openly or concealed in public.
This ruling impacts RTC laws in AK, HI, CA, AZ, OR, WA, & MT.
This was not an NRA case but we are exploring all options to rectify this.
https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1374768895408680962
@ eaglesoars:
This is a Trump ship right? Biggest and best. Getting attention to the Middle East.
@ eaglesoars:
modern zombie. Sterile world. She must of shipped her kids off.
@ coldwarrior:
Fauci is a horror show. Its unwise for DC to make the pandemic political. Will leave them unprepared for a real pandemic.
@ eaglesoars:
Easiest guess is Navy Seals testing out drone warfare.
Next guess is Chinese testing out drone warfare with some type of radar false imaging.
If its aliens who have identified military assets then it doesn’t look good unless the tic tac shape is a commentary on navy pollution.
@ eaglesoars:
She is an out racist. Full BLM. It seem like its time to pull down the statue of George Floyd and have a real discussion on who harbors hate and why.
In her case she is jealous of wealth.
@ eaglesoars:
Seems like infringement?
darkwords wrote:
The range and speed are beyond current technology
Shelties do love snow:
This is scary. And sad.
And the entire world is watching.
https://twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1374796744710557696
@ lobo91:
That’s great music on that clip. Do you know what it is?
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t. You could probably ask in the comments, though. The guy who runs that site seems to respond a lot. Or Biscuit might know
Bunk X wrote:
yeah, I’m just waiting for China to invade Taiwan.
I don’t know why people are so upset about Bill Clinton being paired w/Kamala Harris on ‘Women’s Empowerment’. They are both in agreement about what it takes. An expertise in blow jobs.
@ lobo91:
It’s very strange. Willow watches this, but Mia is watching ME, trying to figure out what I’m doing (“Look at the video” isn’t in her vocabulary and the movement in the video isn’t attracting her)
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounds like inside baseball and they’re interviewing a pitcher and a catcher.
At White House, Megan Rapinoe says she’s been ‘disrespected and dismissed because I am a woman’
No honey, because you’re a flaming bitch.
https://twitter.com/BoSnerdley/status/1374890889097666565
@ Bunk X:
ha!
@ eaglesoars:
Loved the one comment, “She’s disrespected and ignored because she is what would happen if poison ivy became sentient”
@ AZfederalist:
I don’t consider her sentient. Didn’t her team lose to a male high school team?
BIDEN: “There’s not a single thing a man can do that a woman can’t do as well or better. Not a single thing.”
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1374835878439350274
this isn’t even a stretch
coal miner
oil rigs
check out the comments
dry wall
And if I am any evidence, I can’t open a freaking jar.
YES!!! BANDY LEE HAS BEEN FIRED!
Too bad they didn’t fire her ass while Trump was in office, but I’ll take it.
Yale Psychiatrist Who Declared Trump Mentally Unfit Has Been Fired, and She’s Suing
“your repeated violations of the APA’s Goldwater Rule and your inappropriate transfer of the duty to warn from the treatment setting to national politics raised significant doubts about your understanding of crucial ethical and legal principles in psychiatry”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/yale-psychiatrist-who-declared-trump-mentally-unfit-has-been-fired-and-shes-suing/
bed. nite
eaglesoars wrote:
How is this not a states’ rights issue? Not a federal call for this
The Methtoona Captivity hath endeth.
Verily. I say.
I stand upon my home deck, the river is in order, the moon is setting, a neat 1942 Don Julio and a San Latano Oval are my much needed rewards
And the birds are singing, the sun is coming up, 75f today.
Verily!
Good morning!
Toilet paper could face a new shortage
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/toilet-paper-could-face-a-new-shortage
It’s a shipping container shortage. But what’s not noted here is that the ship blocking the Suez canal is expected to be stuck for weeks, so it’s even worse.
USSS tried to cover for Hunter’s gun screw up
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/25/sources-secret-service-inserted-itself-into-case-of-hunter-bidens-gun-477879
This is absolutely bizarre.
eaglesoars wrote:
Apparently they’ve got salvage crews from SMIT, a Dutch firm, heading in. They
are going to try to offload the cargo. There are over 8000 shipping containers on that thing, I have no idea where they would put them, but they are going to remove the ballast water and fuel first to see if that’s enough. The only good news is that it’s grounded in sand/mud, not rock.
I imagine some will try to re-route around southern Africa but I don’t know how much time that would add to the voyage. Obviously not as much as sitting and waiting at the canal.
Toilet paper isn’t the only item that’s going to be hosed. What a mess.
eaglesoars wrote:
I asked the question of the global supply chain guy I follow. He tells me he’s still working on the analysis, but estimate is 2-3 weeks.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ain’t all this “Just in time” stuff grand? Works great when everything is going well, really screws everything up when there are hiccups
@ AZfederalist:
Get this. I checked out a map (what a concept!). The 2-3 week estimate would have to be for ships waiting on the south/east side of the canal. But ships waiting on the north/west side have considerably farther to travel to make it to the southern tip of Africa so it’s going to be longer for them.
The cascade effects are staggering. How are they going to get the fuel to cover the extra mileage? I think for the south/east ships it’s about an extra 5000 nautical miles. Then they have to reschedule all the port calls. BUT part of the reason there is a container shortage is because they’re already having trouble unloading them at the ports, so they aren’t available for re-use.
The cost of the products being shipped is going to be passed on to – you guessed it – the consumer.
Egypt is already saying they bear no financial responsibility, this is going to be on the insurance companies. And THAT’s going to hit the equity markets.
*face palm*
@ AZfederalist:
JIT is a product of the tax code.
Oh, man. What a presser.
Will someone please create a flow chart of Biden’s train of thought?
@ Bunk X:
you actually watched it? I walked the dog
eaglesoars wrote:
Vulnerable pinch points are all over the globe, and the Suez Canal is a big one.
eaglesoars wrote:
PBS video was down, but we listened to it. It was bizarre.
@ eaglesoars:
Roads have to be raised three feet.
Illegals are coming because of earthquakes and hurricanes.
Trump starved children at the border.
Hope is on its way.
His dad used to go to bed and stare at the ceiling worrying about what would happen if his mom or kids got sick.
Journalists will be allowed in the border detention facilities some time but we don’t know when.
North Korea is our biggest threat.
He knows Xi (pronounced “she”) very well and met with him alone for two hours.
Billionaires and corporations don’t pay taxes.
Stuff like that.
(Today is my “fog” day, otherwise I’d give you more.)
@ eaglesoars:
Plausible deniability. Didn’t seem like a big deal until the Biden pulled in favors.
@ Bunk X:
from the comments I see, he yelled a lot
@ Bunk X:
Oh, and 2/3rds of the US population has been vaccinated against COVID since the inauguration.
@ eaglesoars:
He raised his voice a couple of times. Praised unions.
Hannity’s running the greatest hits right now.
100,000 well heads leaking methane need to be capped at the same price as it cost to dig them.
Voter verification equates to more than Jim Crow laws – they’re Jim Eagle laws.
The filibuster is racist.
@ Bunk X:
Windows are porous.
@ Bunk X:
Fox News was not allowed at the presser, but Univision was.
@ Bunk X:
roads have to be raised 3 feet?
This is a very nice explanation of why there is a shipping container shortage.
https://www.hillebrand.com/media/publication/where-are-all-the-containers-the-global-shortage-explained#:~:text=Many%20factories%20closed%20temporarily%2C%20causing,of%20vessels%20out%20at%20sea.
Bunk X wrote:
that’s the hispanic station? Were newsmax/oann there?
Have a disabled friend who is feeling negative impacts from the lockdown. Sees Biden as a scary figure.
@ darkwords:
Anybody with a functioning frontal lobe sees Biden as a scary figure.
AZfederalist wrote:
When Just in Time….. ends up … Too Bloody Late !
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Roads are flooding.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, Univision is the one that sometimes tells the truth in English then lies to their Spanish-speaking audience. As for the others, I don’t know.
@ eaglesoars:
one of the fun spring things in Tn , dodging tornadoes
we have storms here all night
Mia just scarfed my hot dog. With mustard.
Interesting
Constitutional law trivial I learned from
@mrddmia
If Biden resigns, Harris becomes POTUS.
But….
Harris’s VP would have to be approved by a majority of the House and Senate.
Until that time, Senate is 50-50 with no tie breaker.
Hence why Biden is still in office.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1375178853685981184
@ rain of lead:
yeah, I know. That’s why I found it odd that so few houses there – and I looked at hundreds – have basements.
@ eaglesoars:
cause they are expensive and we have water everywhere
@ rain of lead:
I figured it was something to do with water or soil. Because even the million dollar type stuff I saw being built by people who had the money had no basements. And they’re quite handy.
Northern houses have basements because of the large furnace requirement for heating.
@ coldwarrior:
The weather in Knoxville and where we live in Virginia is almost identical, maybe a 24 hour difference. The furnace in the new house is in the ‘attic’. That’s really just an unfinished space off the bonus room.
She’s insane
Pelosi says it is her right to seat and unseat any Member of Congress she wants
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1375193633285103629
eaglesoars wrote:
Kim Jong Un has been coaching Nancy and it’s gone to get head
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Amendment 25 was built just for occasions like this..
As with everything the Democrats say and do, the opposite prevails. When Democrats accuse someone of lying it always turns out that it’s the Democrats who are lying. When they try to depose a sitting President they attempt to use Constitutional Amendment 25, when their own man in the White House has lost his marbles and needs to be removed using Amendment 25.
@ eaglesoars:
Yup. I can’t believe how few people understand that. I keep hearing that Harris becomes president, and Pelosi becomes VP.
Nope. There is no line of succession for VP. Until a new one is nominated and confirmed–by both Houses–there is none. If they never confirm one, the office would remain vacant until the next inauguration.
Everyone seems to forget that prior to the 25th Amendment, there was no way to replace the VP. When LBJ became president in 1963, he had no VP until the 1965 inauguration, when Humphrey was sworn in.
In the meantime, the President Pro Tempore presides over the Senate. Since he’s a member himself, there’s no tie-breaker.
eaglesoars wrote:
Basements became the norm in houses constructed in the snow belt. The foundation has to extend below the frost line, and builders realized that extending them down a couple more feet and adding a slab adds usable square footage. They could sell the house for more.
Storm cellars, aka Fraidy Holes, are built elsewhere.
coldwarrior wrote:
Nope.
rain of lead wrote:
Nope.
Simpson Strong-Tie is now selling pre-engineered wood shear walls. Very cool.
https://www.strongtie.com/resources/literature/strong-wall-shearwalls-catalog
The company started out with a guy making screen doors out of his garage. A carpenter friend asked him to make some framing clips, now known as Simpson A34s. I’ve been to the Simpson factory, and it’s amazing. I’ve never FELT noise that loud, except maybe at an NHRA event.
lobo91 wrote:
I’m not sure why that would be a concern to the democrats. Even in that case, they still have Romney, Murkowski, and Collins; they don’t need a tiebreaker when we have several betrayers on our side.
Bunk X wrote:
How have I lived without it?
Geraldo Rivera is quickly attaining the full blown idiocy of Juan Williams.
@ AZfederalist:
That is right. The R’s don’t have the vote discipline the D’s do. They should give the VP spot to Romney if a D is appointed to replace his senate seat.
@ eaglesoars:
I used to think Geraldo was great then somewhere along the way I got the feeling he leaned the wrong way in a bad way.
@ coldwarrior:
Not to mention foundations and frost lines. Our frost line is about at least four feet deep so a house with a proper foundation has at least five feet of basement.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/how-to-beat-the-woke-never-apologize-rally-friends-and-punch-back-harder/
Lesson one: Don’t panic — and don’t give in. Ian Prior, of Loudoun County, Va., publishes The Daily Malarkey, an Internet humor site that goes after what he calls the “Chardonnay Antifa.”
@ PaladinPhil:
@ Bunk X:
the frost line goes without saying, you have to get under it in the north or your water lines will freeze and your foundation will heave. tejas found about the the water line issue a month ago.
i was told by an old building inspector that the basements were needed for the behemoth coal furnaces and storage of coal where its dry and out of sight, and storage of heating oil where it wouldn’t gel in low temperatures. added sq ft is a bonus for sure. hell, i’ve been in some basements that are nicer than most bars!
@ coldwarrior:
i remember my grand parents old coal furnace…it was menacing!
and you need a basement in the north or yinz wont have a pittsburgh toilet, n’at!
because one does not walk into the ‘good living’ room directly from the mill or coal mine! lest the woman of the house will rip your lungs out.
@ coldwarrior:
now you’ve got me thinking. My [paternal] grandparents’ house, built in Millsboro in the 40s, and their original house built during the civil war or shortly before, and the house my dad built just outside Uniontown.
That’s coal country. But none of those houses used coal or oil. I don’t know what else they could have been but gas. And in those dinky little rural areas where people still had septic tanks.
@ eaglesoars:
wood or gas or both!
night yinz…i’m mentally shot.
I’m out too. nite.
coldwarrior wrote:
That would also apply to old oil-fired burners, but you’re going into antiquated design.
@ coldwarrior:
Old farmhouse. Probably built by swedes or Germans. We had a dirt basement. A coal chute was the only original function that I could see. The basement also served as a homemade winery, tornado shelter, snake refuge. There was a measure of warmth to it in the winter and coolness in the summer.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1375205832141459465
A protest that didn’t pan out.
WordPress may have just farked Daedalus. Classic Editor is gone, can’t upload plug in, stuck with the block editor that everyone hates.