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1 yr ago today was my cancer surgery…hmm.
calls for a celebratory tequila! 😆
revolver news has the breakdown of the ‘Officer Sicknick was killed by reaction to bear spray’. They analyze the video and it doesn’t look like Sicknick was ever hit by spray
https://www.revolver.news/2021/03/new-york-times-sicknick-video-creates-big-problems-for-capitol-riot-prosecutors/
There doesn’t appear to be any spray
My favorite whack job is at it again
Marjorie Taylor Green wants to defund Fauci
The “#FireFauci Act” will slash the salary of Dr. Always Wrong to $0 and the “#WeWillNotComply Act” will ban vaccine “passports,” prevent discrimination against the unvaccinated, and much more to protect the freedom of the American People.
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1377647623339905035
The Fire Fauci Act is probably illegal (bill of attainder) but I get the sentiment
coldwarrior wrote:
Congrats! It’s 5 oclock somewhere!
eaglesoars wrote:
time is relative.
@ coldwarrior:
in my case a distant cousin
must run, later……..
@ coldwarrior:
Copy that.
@ eaglesoars:
He told his family he’d been sprayed IIRC.
Bunk X wrote:
oh my.
i had to go get fasting bloodwork this AM, and get my flat top tuned up, and a nice straight razor shave…a double neat don julio respasado on an empty stomach is…welllll….interesting.
lol.
had to go eat something.
The magnet video from the last thread was pretty cool. That would make one hell of a weapon.
I love the idea of maglev trains, but I hate thinking of the tens if not hundreds of trillions of dollars it would take to build a decent rail system across the United States linking major cities.
@ right_wing2:
i took euro-rail all over europe. man, what a great way to travel. so civilized and relaxing!
we’ve done amtrack to chicago and back a couple of times, very nice.
but, i’m not sure there is enough market or ‘cultural’ acceptance for real rail alternative in the US. we grew up with yuge highways and fast, big cars. we dont need it, like europe did back in the day.
me and mrs coldwarrior could get to chicago faster by driving one of our cars, but these trips were meant for relaxation.
I’m short on time, and can’t excerpt highlights, but this is important.
Remember the Transition Integrity Project? Yeah, it was fronted by something called Berggruen Institute.
The bottom line is that CCP has its tentacles everywhere. Raheem Kessem of National Pulse got some documentation with a lot of linkages. This is just a taste
In mid-2020, The National Pulse exclusively reported on the involvement of the Berggruen Institute in an explicitly anti-Trump exercise known as the Transition Integrity Project (TIP).
A collaborative effort between former Soros counsel Rosa Brooks and Berggruen executive Nils Gilman, TIP littered the U.S. media with commentary about how Joe Biden should refuse to concede in the event of an apparent election night victory for President Donald Trump – which is precisely what happened.
Brooks – who repeatedly refused to be interviewed by The National Pulse before pulling the TIP website down and ceasing operations before election day – had previously offered election assistance to Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, and specifically name-dropped now-Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in her e-mail.
Sullivan is listed as a fellow of Australia’s Lowy Institute for International Policy – named by the CCP as a “co-operator.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/exc-china-state-propaganda-boasts-control-over-think-tanks/
Read it all. It’s horrifying.
Had my series 1 COVID vac today. Haven’t felt the urge to vote dem…yet.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
BWAHAHHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
@ eaglesoars:
The military is exercising against the Chinese in the South China Sea where the Chinese have instead intellectualized the combat and stole a march by moving untouched into western elites.
how to lose a war.
@ coldwarrior:
Good news.
@ right_wing2:
The US Navy has some of that maggot stuff.
@ coldwarrior:
I was hoping to do the Snake River rail tour one day, but I think it’s been discontinued.
if the usn is announcing that it is losing simulated war…
c’mon peeps…
think it through.
i’m an army guy, 7th generation first son veteran.
the only thing that scares me is the projection of force of the USN.
@ Bunk X:
hey, yesterday was DEVO day in akron!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
i celebrated by jamming as loud as possible to and form and during work’
twist away the gates of steel!
its either chaka khan or devo into the bullshit rock hof
chakha khan????
ARE WE NOT MEN?????
😆
coldwarrior wrote:
So there was an uncontrollable urge in the Rubber City?
i heard gates of steel whilst filling up at sheetz….a yuge PA gas/food joint like wawa.
we won. my punk brethren and me won. yeah, way ahead of our time as gen x.
i doubt that i will hear minor threat or the dead kennedys tho…
@ coldwarrior:
Mark Mothersbaugh was an art student at KSU. His senior thesis involved tossing the hood of a car into the Cuyahoga at the start of the school year and fishing it out at the end. Those were the days when the river caught fire every spring. Cleveland Mayor Kucinich set his hair on fire more often.
Bunk X wrote:
it was declared a city holiday!
@ Bunk X:
YES!!!
@ Bunk X:
the river BURNZZZZZZZZ
FWIW, so you know what’s out there
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is currently under investigation for an alleged inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old girl, reportedly showed nude photographs of his partners to his colleagues in Congress.
According to CNN, who is citing sources, Gaetz ‘gained a reputation in Congress over his relationships with women, and even showed fellow lawmakers some nude photos of women he said he slept with.’
The report says photos seen on his phone included a naked young woman in a hula-hoop.
“We should be very clear from the top, this is a separate issue than the DOJ investigation that is ongoing right now,” CNN’s Lauren Fox reported
https://breaking911.com/breaking-rep-matt-gaetz-shared-nudes-of-his-sex-partners-with-fellow-congressmen-report-says/
eaglesoars wrote:
no one is that stupid.
@ coldwarrior:
No, but about half of America is stupid enough to believe that it happened.
https://twitter.com/walkafyre/status/1377712219392249856
NEW re Gaetz/Levinson saga:
As we know, Don Gaetz was contacted by Kent on 3/16. They met on 3/17, and Kent gave a deadline of Friday, 3/19, for the funds to be sent to McGee’s trust account. BUT..
On Thursday, 3/18, McGee filed a motion on behalf of Levinson’s family, requesting execution of a $1.4 BILLION judgment against Iran that was awarded to the family last year. What the heck was going on? (2/2)
One thing that can be confirmed is that the convicted scamster don gaetz mentioned, Stephen Alford, definitely once had a relationship with the law firm where the $ was supposed to be wired into the trust account to mcgee’s attention.
coldwarrior wrote:
*snort*
guys are that stupid all the time
don’t mean I believe it though
@ coldwarrior:
and this is why, way back in the tea party day, i didnt get anywhere near office.
followed the dead, check
took a ton of acid, check
grew shrooms, check
never had or wanted to have sex with young girls, check.
young girls? fuck that, gimme a 45 y.o. with a tit job! woot!
methinks the pron is messing with folks.
coldwarrior wrote:
Assuming you mean no one is so stupid as to show nude pics of their partners to ‘guys in the club’….
I guarantee you they are. Long before there were smartphones there were regular cameras and A LOT of women I know were dumb enough to let their partners photograph them nude:lingerie And were either humiliated or blackmailed. I cannot TELL you how many men I dated asked me to do that. It’s not that the men are that stupid, it’s that the women are.
@ lobo91:
@ rain of lead:
HA
eff this, me and my acid head, shroom growin, dead followin’ ass might just get into politics.
wanna debate???
bwahahahaaaaaa! bring it. bitches.
@ eaglesoars:
see my above.
a 17 yo??? puhleeze.
she doesent even know where to start.
Researchers demonstrate first human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging assistive technology, enabling people with paralysis to type on computer screens or manipulate robotic prostheses just by thinking about moving their own bodies. For years, investigational BCIs used in clinical trials have required cables to connect the sensing array in the brain to computers that decode the signals and use them to drive external devices.
Now, for the first time, BrainGate clinical trial participants with tetraplegia have demonstrated use of an intracortical wireless BCI with an external wireless transmitter. The system is capable of transmitting brain signals at single-neuron resolution and in full broadband fidelity without physically tethering the user to a decoding system. The traditional cables are replaced by a small transmitter about 2 inches in its largest dimension and weighing a little over 1.5 ounces. The unit sits on top of a user’s head and connects to an electrode array within the brain’s motor cortex using the same port used by wired systems.
For a study published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, two clinical trial participants with paralysis used the BrainGate system with a wireless transmitter to point, click and type on a standard tablet computer. The study showed that the wireless system transmitted signals with virtually the same fidelity as wired systems, and participants achieved similar point-and-click accuracy and typing speeds.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-human-high-bandwidth-wireless-brain-computer-interface.html
coldwarrior wrote:
Have you run this by Mrs. CW? It’s an utterly miserable life. When Hubby proposed, he had already been asked to run by several ‘interests’. I told him that was a deal breaker. Me or an elected title.
He chose wisely. I’ve seen it up close. You do NOT have the personality for it.
@ coldwarrior:
https://youtu.be/1xUWbNYC26k
heh
Figuring in diabetes and obesity, I’d say Coca-Cola has killed more people than the NRA.
https://twitter.com/El_Kabong81/status/1377754752042246145
@ lobo91:
Heather is priceless. If she plays her cards right, she’ll be bigger than Flo at Progressive.
I’m not sure if he’s serious. But Jack Posobiec is making noises about running for office. Unfortunately, he lives in D.C. so he’s chances are about as good as mine. He’d have to move to another state and neither VA nor MD are hospitable.
(For those who don’t know him, he’s known to most people as a reporter for OAN NEWS)
From the Installed POTUS
A Cabinet that looks like America.
what a pathetic picture
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1377792787211505666
Well, it’s hit the Daily Mail
REVEALED: Matt Gaetz ‘showed lawmakers naked photos on the House floor of women he said he’d slept with’ as former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe says there must be a ‘significant degree of information’ for sex trafficking probe to be launched
McCabe. Unimpeachable source.
Multiple sources told CNN the congressman showed lawmakers photos and videos of the women while he was on the House floor
There is no known link between these alleged images and the sex trafficking probe into Gaetz
Prominent Republicans have remained silent on the probe with sources saying the congressman is not well liked because of his avid self-promotion on right-wing news outlets
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe says there must be a ‘significant degree of information’ for federal officials to have launched a sex trafficking probe into a sitting member of Congress
It emerged Tuesday that Gaetz is under investigation by the DOJ over allegedly havign sex with a girl, 17
Gaetz denied the allegations and claimed former DOJ official David McGee was trying to extort him over it and he and his father Don Gaetz were working with the FBI to expose it
McGee denied he was extorting Gaetz and said he had no involvement in the DOJ sex trafficking probe
Gaetz produced texts, an email and a printout purportedly showing the extortion plot
The documents describe incriminating photos of Gaetz with underage prostitutes in a ‘sex orgy’
The plot allegedly involves former McGee and former Air Force intelligence officer Bob Kent in a plot to free US hostage Robert Levinson from Iran
The ‘plot’ tries to enlist $25 million from Gaetz in exchange for a presidential pardon and the probe dropped
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9428995/Matt-Gaetz-showed-lawmakers-naked-photos-women-said-hed-slept-with.html
@ eaglesoars:
The worst part of that is the comments
eaglesoars wrote:
tru.
night yinz~!
eaglesoars wrote:
What you said. Distanced by miles, wearing masks, just look pathetic and small.
lobo91 wrote:
Yep. A few brave souls trying to instill some logic in the comments, but mostly just sycophants and idiots.
Dr. Jill Biden hispanders, “See Say Puadre!” while standing in front of a nazi-inspired flag.
https://twitter.com/TocRadio/status/1377582405477924866
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/the_commonalities_between_the_rise_of_the_nazis_and_the_tactics_of_the_american_left_cannot_be_ignored.html
@ coldwarrior:
Left out the part about disarming the populace. If we lose the filibuster, that’s a done deal.
I asked our handyman to send someone over to install a new shower head (I’m too short and Hubby’s hands shake too much).
AND….he’s swearing in Spanish and just walked out and back in….carrying a ladder.
Our esteemed governor Blackface inked a deal with Buttiwhatever to expand the rail system in Virginia. Blackface thinks when it’s done the state can forbid people from using their cars. Or something.
No water is coming from the shower pipe now.
This is fine……..
Hunter Biden reveals sobbing Joe chased him down a driveway while staging an intervention to get him to stop doing drugs DURING the 2020 campaign – as he admits Ukraine laptop ‘could’ be his but claims he was ‘hacked by Russians’
Hunter Biden’s interview with CBS will air on Monday morning
He took part in it to promote his new memoir, Beautiful Things
In the sit-down, he reveals he was still using drugs last year, during his father’s Presidential campaign
He recalls Joe and his daughters staging an intervention at the family home in Wilmington
The girls stood in front of his car, blocking the doors, to stop him from taking the wheel
Joe, then 77, grabbed him in a bear hug, cried, and said: ‘I don’t know what to do’
Hunter said all he could think of was how to do ‘another hit’
He also shrugs off the laptop that contained details of his Ukrainian business dealings, saying: ‘For real, I don’t know!’ when asked if it was his
He said it ‘certainly’ could be his, but that he also could have been ‘hacked by Russian intelligence’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9430373/Hunter-Biden-describes-dad-Joe-chased-driveway-intervention.html
Best comment: Joe can run?
Vermont Endorses Racial Preferences in Medicine
If you or anyone in your household identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), including anyone with Abenaki or other First Nations heritage, all household members who are 16 years or older can sign up to get a vaccine! Get yours at
Critical Race Theory in action. The funny part is, Vermont is the whitest place I’ve ever been. It took me 3 days to figure out what was ‘off’ and then I realized everyone I’d seen was white. After living in the D.C. area for decades it was quite strange.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/vermont-endorses-racial-preferences-in-medicine/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
This is a BUY
To Support America’s Electrification, We’ll Need More Copper Than Ever Before
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/04/01/to_support_americas_electrification_well_need_more_copper_than_ever_before_770754.html
WW III is starting in Ukraine.
eaglesoars wrote:
All NATO troops on high alert
“And if you look to your left, generals, you’ll see the US Navy.”
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1378002566810832896
Intel Crab is a good source for this stuff. Open source integrator
eaglesoars wrote:
let them kill each other. this is an ancient hatred.
So it wasn’t a fuck up with 15 million doses of the vaccine. It was 26 million doses of AstraVeneca and J&J got mixed together. Some woman on Bannon’s show
@ coldwarrior:
My sentiment also. But the problem is these things rarely stay local
@ eaglesoars:
oh my!
@ coldwarrior:
IN THE SAME BOTTLE!! This woman is a Dr. Ryan
@ coldwarrior:
Scarily dead on.
Some nbc news guy Jake Sherman just tweeted that everybody on the Hill (where he is) just got a text that there is an external security threat, no exit/entrance permitted, stay away from windows, etc.
Probably a fake bomb scare
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1378031234589278208
Two Capitol police officers shot
https://twitter.com/JClifford33/status/1378031963454500870
Per
@dcfireems
radio:
3 patients
1 transported already by Capitol police
Officer and shooter the other victims.
https://twitter.com/JClifford33/status/1378032328124026880
‘Former’ is probably the operative word here, as they can’t be fired
https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-scientists-dispute-climate-change-2012-4
Some prominent voices at NASA are fed up with the agency’s activist stance toward climate change.
The following letter asking the agency to move away from climate models and to limit its stance to what can be empirically proven, was sent by 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts.
Matt Gaetz’s communication director Luke Ball RESIGNS ‘out of principle’ after his boss was accused of trafficking girl, 17, and paying for drugged sex with sugar daddy girls
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9430905/Matt-Gaetzs-communication-director-Luke-Ball-RESIGNS-principle.html
eaglesoars wrote:
perp is dead
So Pete Buttwipe rides an SUV, which is also transporting a bicycle, to about a block away from where he has a meeting at the WH, stops, mounts the bike and CNN shoots him riding the bike to work. Wearing a mask. With a convoy of SUVs following him.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg biked to the White House for today’s Cabinet Meeting, it would appear.
https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1377714183270240260
eaglesoars wrote:
One officer has died
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/leftists-rush-claim-capitol-police-attacker-white-trump-supporter-suspect-actually-appears-young-black-guy-video/
Martha McCallum said Officer Sicknick was shot twice.
She’s giving Joy Reid a run for her money.
@ coldwarrior:
suicide by cop
And Chad Pergram just said Sicknick died defending the Capitol
OAN coming right up!
@ coldwarrior:
I think the 17 yr old thing here and the showing of the nudes are two separate thing.
Human Nature: I’ve have numerous men show me naked pictures of their current GF on their phone. And men that like to share their taste in porn humor not realizing that that is just them with that interest.
And the really smart girlfriend who told me “You don’t get any nude pics of me, men are dicks.”
Now for a congressman in THIS metoo era showing a nude of someones SO to another congressperson seems like a self fulfilling prophecy of self sabotage. It’s like he wants to get blackmailed. How old is he? 40? If he wants to hang out with strippers and drink booze and be a congressmen maybe build a rep as a partier then? Tell people he wants to grow up and be like Bill CLinton.
Deceased assailant identified as Noah Green, 25, from #Indiana and may have lived in #Virginia, according to
@NBCNews
, which reports that on his
@Facebook
page he identified himself as Nation of Islam follower.
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1378071877269270528
Not even a Christian, dammit!
@ darkwords:
Being like Bill Clinton does not involve growing up
@ eaglesoars:
Probably enough mud to sully Gaetz’s political career. Because the GoP will run away from him. Unlike hunter Biden, Gov. Northam, or fang fangs eye candy. The dems are laughing all the way to the bank with stolen GoP power.
AHAHAHAHAHA!! GOOD DOG!
(scroll down, you’ll see they reunite)
https://twitter.com/Ozkok_A/status/1377916653846036480
darkwords wrote:
McCarthy is crap
US Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman identifies slain officer as William ‘Billy’ Evans, an 18-year USCP veteran who was part of the first responder’s unit.
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1378080059924348928
@ eaglesoars:
lol. Dogs make some of the best videos.
The Georgia Repubs pulled Delta’s tax exemption after their woke CEO criticized their voting legislation. Now this
GOP SC Rep Duncan asks staff to draft legislation to eliminate MLB’s antitrust exemption after yanking All-Star Game from Atlanta over GA voting bill
https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1378086118613266434
@ eaglesoars:
Michael Crichton’s book “State of Fear,” a novel about government climate control abuse, included a great appendix regarding climate change hysteria. One of the sources was NASA. Shortly after the book was published, NASA took down their propaganda.
@ eaglesoars:
Texas should let the MLB that the All-Star game is not welcome in Texas until after it has be hosted by Georgia.
@ Bunk X:
I was never a fan of Chrichton, but I’ll have to check it out
…………..
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1220099.shtml
MLB to build its presence in China despite Sino-US spat
eaglesoars wrote:
His stories were mostly formula-written pulp fiction, but his background research was usually solid.
This just gets weirder and weirder.
Jake Novak is the media director for the Israeli consulate in NY.
On Saturday he gave Scott Adams a heads up about the Gaetz investigation (it wasn’t made public until Saturday.
Then he says the story is going to screw up his attempt to free Levinson, that the $25 mil figure was not extortion because Gaetz’s father, Don, had already been funding them and they just asked for more.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/leaked-texts-from-israeli-consular-official-show-more-details-in-gaetz-levinson-funding-scheme/
@ eaglesoars:
I had the exact same experience there a few years ago, when I spent 2 weeks in Burlington for a military course.
Something seemed odd about the hotel. I finally realized it was the fact that the maid I saw vacuuming the hallway was blonde, and I hadn’t heard a word of Spanish in days.
fyi
#ProgrammingAlert: This weekend – Mike Lindell’s new exposé “Scientific Proof.” He is joined by Dr. Douglas Frank who reveals how a computer algorithm stole the 2020 election.
Tune in at 6 a.m. PT / 9 a.m. ET & again at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET both Saturday & Sunday on #OANN.
Somebody with a military background needs to read this and explain. I get that women can’t pass the fitness test so people are in CYA mode and running for the hills. I don’t know many women who could dead lift 140 pounds. Actually, I don’t know any
Army Combat Fitness Disaster: Units Refusing to Take Test, Medics Bailing
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2021/03/31/army-combat-fitness-disaster-units-refusing-to-take-test-medics-bailing/
@ eaglesoars:
What part do you need an explanation of?
Unless you mean why they did something so stupid. That’s just the Army.
@ lobo91:
I don’t understand how you can refuse to take a fitness test.
Also, Dan Bongino talked about this today and I looked all over for it and finally found the video. Leana Wen, formerly head of Planned Parenthood (didn’t last long, figured out right quick they are all about killing babies) has said the quiet part out loud. We have to restrict peoples freedoms in order to force them to take the vaccine.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/441930/
@ eaglesoars:
They need to rethink fitness and have standards per unit type. Maybe have them roll in a judo club. That will make everyone fit. I used to be able to run a 12 minute two mile consistently. Now I would be lucky to limp it in 30 minutes. If they can do it in 18 minutes I would consider them barely fit for the military.
@ eaglesoars:
No, you (as an individual) can’t refuse to take the test.
What he’s saying is that unit commanders are refusing to administer it to their units.
The whole thing sounds like a total train wreck.
@ darkwords:
Personally, I think they were trying to fix a non-existent problem. No, being able to pass the APFT doesn’t equate to being capable of serving in a Ranger battalion in combat. But guess what? Rangers do a whole lot more physical training than just being able to pass the APFT. They don’t need the Army to invent a new test for everyone else.
So this is how you train a ninja dog. This is the same dog that was in those videos the other night as a puppy:
lobo91 wrote:
I could write a book on how a beagle would do that. The title would be FUCK YOU AND CHASE ME RIGHT NOW
I am so OVER this b.s. about how dogs just want to please you. No. They want what they want without pissing you off.
[yes, I’m a total failure in the dog training field, but somehow I end up with trained dogs who are unbelievably sweet. Except Mia with other dogs in some circumstances.]
lobo91 wrote:
So where is the fault? The test or the unit commanders?
Before you answer
I think some women are just not competitive (I am not). Men seem to be by instinct. I really don’t care if somebody is better at something than I am as long as I’ve done the best I can. I compete against myself. There’s a psychological component. Of course, Serena Williams would spit on me. Iron Fist and I had great conversations about this (women disappear from training once the competitions start). And of course, some women compete for men or measure themselves against other women, which I’ve never understood.
There’s something I don’t get because I suspect I’m weird.
Anyhoo, I suspect the problem is the female psychology.
Don’t
Even
Say
It
I’m out. Hope everyone had a Blessed Good Friday. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
The problem here is the test. It’s a ridiculously time- and resource-intensive test that really doesn’t measure anything useful.
When I joined the Army, the PT test had 5 events, and required a prepared course to conduct it. In addition to the 2 mile run and situps, which were carried over to the APFT, you had to do a horizontal ladder, the inverted crawl (which required a sand pit of certain dimensions), and a real piece of stupidity called the Run, Dodge and Jump. That one required two pairs of wooden hurdle-type things with a trench in the middle. You had to weave around the first pair, then jump the trench, and then weave around the other pair some number of times. That event was best known for causing sprained and broken ankles.
Obviously, you can’t find a course like that just anywhere, so it made it really hard for deployed units to train. And if you were in the Guard or Reserves, you were probably out of luck 28 days out of the month.
Someone eventually wised up and invented the APFT. Three events: 2 mile run, pushups and situps. You can do that pretty much anywhere. About the only specification is that you have to actually run on the ground, not a treadmill, but it doesn’t have to be on a special track.
There were 2 sets of standards (men and women), and those were further broken down by age. Was it perfect? No. But it was a lot better than what we had before.
Personally, I think there should probably be two types of tests. A basic one that everyone takes (like the APFT), and one that’s geared toward a person’s actual specialty. The infantry has something like that already, which is the test for the Expert Infantry Badge (EIB). No other branches do, as far as I know.
@ lobo91:
Thanks!
I just sent you an email of a pic I think people here would like. I don’t have admin status so I can post it.
@ eaglesoars:
I can’t post pictures. Only videos.
Sorry
lobo91 wrote:
ok, it’s at this link
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/442011/
I am now walking around with my phone listening to podcasts as I do my work around the house. And you know what?
It’s just like when I got my first transistor radio. The more things change…
@ lobo91:
How did he do that without breaking down in uncontrollable laughter?
/See say pwawdway
@ eaglesoars:
One of the comments on that page, I’m stealing this when referring to Google:
eaglesoars wrote:
thx
ours isnt for another month!
had the girls over to the CC, hanged out with my bro, a great day was had by all.
I’m in the middle of de-winterizing my trailer. So far, everything works, and nothing is leaking water, so that’s good…
ok, I’m gonna talk a bit about transhumanism. Remember awhile ago I said Elon Musk was working toward implanting chips in brains, etc.? And I asked if you would be willing to do it if you could understand everything about what you wanted?
I’ve been listening to Steve Bannon recently (I know people don’t like him, but his brains are excellent and I don’t have to marry the guy). He focused on the subject in his last 2 podcasts and I wasn’t aware how far along it’s come. There is this utopian technocrat elite that seems to have the ultimate goal of uploading their ‘brains’ to ‘the cloud’ in order to escape the corporal body and gain eternal life. (As an aside, ‘the cloud’ resides in a device that requires electricity and I wonder if they would be willing to subject their cloud selves to the vagaries of ‘green’ energy.) For those who die before the technology matures, one guy, Ray Kurzweil, proposes Dyson spheres as a route to resurrect them.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35788050/dyson-sphere-digital-resurrection-immortality/
One of Bannon’s guests, Mark Jeftovik, who has been watching this for awhile, has a very good point. Vis a vis the Turing paradox, Jeftovik says ‘artificial intelligence’ doesn’t exist, ‘algorithmic imitation’ does.
There was a lot more. Bannon’s podcast can be found at pandemic.warroom.org. I just thought that this Easter weekend, when some ponder the miracle of life, the promise of eternal life, and the willingness of one small, nondescript man to sacrifice himself to prove what so many believe to be true, it was an interesting podcast.
And just to be clear, the last guest on the podcast is a rabbi whose name I’ve forgotten and he could NOT have been more clear. Leaving the quest for immortality aside, this transhumanism is replacement of God with man and history is replete with lessons of where that leads.
And that’s my Easter post.
lobo91 wrote:
no mice eating the insulation?
@ eaglesoars:
I haven’t gotten up underneath it yet, but I don’t think so
@ lobo91:
Guy wrote into Heloise (yeah, I read the column) about how he solved his mouse problem by leaving containers of used cat litter around the house. The mice got the message and left. This seems to work also, but once you collect ’em all, what’s next?
@ eaglesoars:
I’m fickle in my podcast listening. I keep having some favorites but then moving on. The only steadies for me have been the Navy Seal podcasts.
I started listening to Bannon about a week ago. He has some deep perceptions and experiences in life. He seems to know how to call BS on information. His casts with Majorie Taylor Greene show her to be a thoughtful and practical woman. She might have a blind spot in relation to Trump weaknesses. She puts a lot of faith in him.
As for the transhuman thing. I don’t think science can understand human consciousness well enough to impart a soul onto a machine. The machine would have to be able to breath and in that breath animate its existence. These machine implants we see? IMO will just be information extensions of consciousness like a telescope or a microscope. They will filter and quality source information so that the human mind and be more sensitive and precise.
@ Bunk X:
Drive across town and let them loose at the mall there?
darkwords wrote:
THERE ARE NAVY SEAL PODCASTS????!!!!
The way things ought to be.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/gov-reynolds-signs-bill-into-law-letting-residents-buy-carry-guns-without-permits_3760934.html
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t know of any official podcasts done by the SEALs, but I know of some former SEALs who do podcasts. Andy Stumpf is one. He does the Cleared Hot podcast.
And of course Jack Carr has started doing one recently, too.
@ lobo91:
Thank you!
Keke https://twitter.com/Kekeflipnote/status/1378034391872638980
@ lobo91:
There are Andy Stumpf, Jocko Willink, Jack Carr, Marcus Luttrell, and a few others.