Gonna be a great time this weekend with the ‘horse people’ at G’ma’s Annual Kentucky Derby Blow Out.
Wuhan Flu be damned!
Thursday Pre-Derby Open
by coldwarrior ( 144 Comments › )Filed under Open thread, Sports at April 29th, 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!
Hive mind
We’re living in one of the most exciting periods in history for many decades: the emergence of our whole society from hibernation. We’ve been able to be part of a grand national project – the vaccination programme – & now we can share together in its fruits as life opens up.
https://twitter.com/andrew_lilico/status/1387526413327208453
Whistleblower led Target 11 to unsecured contact tracing data from the state
PITTSBURGH — A major Target 11 investigation impacts about 70,000 people across Pennsylvania.
Investigator Rick Earle discovered that health and other personal information of tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians that was collected during contact tracing has been compromised.
Multiple investigations are now underway by the Pennsylvania Health Department and the company hired to collect the information and data. Those investigations began after Earle was able to view personal information and informed the state health department what he had discovered.
Insight Global, a staffing company based in Atlanta, Georgia, received a $23 million contract to hire 1,000 contact tracers in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19.
But some former employees tell Target 11 that the company failed to secure the information they collected from contacts. And the former workers say they told supervisors but nothing was done to protect the information.
Target 11 received links to spread sheets containing names, along with health and personal information collected from contacts between last September and March of 2021.
https://www.wpxi.com/news/investigates/whistleblower-led-target-11-unsecured-contact-tracing-data-state/TCSWQQ5YPRDVDBSTE5IMVYSCH4/
A stunning CBS poll which claimed 85 percent of Americans embraced Joe Biden’s joint address speech last night has turned out to be a fraud, with pollster YouGov surveying just 169 Republicans as part of the broader 943 people polled.
https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/cbs-biden-speech-approval-poll-fraud/
I wonder who decided on the sample, CBS or YouGov
@ eaglesoars:
Well, in fairness, that was probably the ratio of dems to republicans that actually watched that train wreck of a speech.
@ AZfederalist:
That’s what I thought: They had to survey homes for dementia patients to find anyone who watched it
Has this been posted yet? A Soros-like mega donor you’ve never heard of
Meet Swiss-born Hansjörg Wyss (pronounced “Veese”), perhaps the most important megadonor you’ve never heard of. His Wyss Foundation, founded in 1998, quietly commands a stunning $2.2 billion in assets (as of 2018) and annually pours out tens of millions of dollars to activist groups—more than half a billion dollars between 2000 and 2018—so it’s little wonder that he’s been called the “new George Soros.”
Wyss is one of the best-connected megadonors on the left. He’s a member of the Democracy Alliance, a cabal of the rich and powerful that meets regularly to strategize funding to leftist activists.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/inside-the-foreign-funded-hub-project-to-transform-america/
(This is a very good website, btw.
@ eaglesoars:
Its time to find a way to pull these elite off their high horses. I don’t think the political struggle is going to accomplish that.
@ darkwords:
I didn’t post this this morning because it’s depressing. You may know Sarah Hoyt from Instapundit. She’s a refugee from Portugal and she smelled this smell before.
The cognitive dissonance of changing society wide systems usually results in revolution and violence. So, I assumed that’s what it was.
And maybe it is, except for one thing: I have a feeling in my water this isn’t going to be just our civil war. Or the French civil war. This is going to be worldwide, all at once, and — well, if you’re not setting aside food, fabric (a few patterns wouldn’t hurt. Even a monkey can sew clothes with a pattern. Though you can use an old piece that fits you well) and other possible necessities for five years or so, do it, now — very very disruptive, very very bad.
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What we’re seeing is a philosophy that went up its own ass so far that it’s forgotten where reality is.
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There’s going to be a brief and horrific convulsion. How brief? How horrific? I don’t know.
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If you’re in a major city and I like you, I beg you, with tears in my eyes to get out as soon as you can (and yes, we’re working on it.) Some neighborhoods and places will be safe-ish, but in the US the brunt of the horrific will be in big cities, because that’s what the left thinks MATTERS and where they’ll concentrate their effort.
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: well, you don’t know how interconnected the world supply chains are, until they break
Everywhere
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/04/28/everywhere/
And I can tell you that in the circles I read, whispers of a broken/breaking supply chain are starting to get louder. Not to mention inflation.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1386808268836716546
@ eaglesoars:
Yes, I need to prep more.
@ eaglesoars:
Wife saw a jar of peanut butter at work for 7.99 (1 kg or standard size). Just last year it was about 5.99
I have been noticing other prices going up and cheap items are no longer “cheap”. So yeah the unofficial inflation is kicking in.
Republican’s should just start pushing the GoP elites to untimely ends. the left will applaud them.
hey y’all
eaglesoars wrote:
And Chris WAllace is the perfect example.
“You know, I think this is going to be a popular speech with the American public,” Wallace said. “He offered a lot of stuff. Four trillion dollars will buy a lot of stuff, from millions of jobs to child care to community health centers, all kinds of stuff, community colleges.”
He added that Biden said people are not going to have to pay for it, a concept that would be popular among viewers.
“Offering a lot of stuff and saying, ‘You’re not going to have to pay for it’ is pretty popular. And I think they’ve made a calculation that after COVID, that people have come to have a different feeling about government,” he added. “That they now feel more trusting and more [the] need of government and so where this might have turned a lot of people off, and probably still will, they believe the majority of people are going to say, the government’s here, and they’re here to help you.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-wallace-says-bidens-speech-will-be-popular-that-admin-thinks-americans-are-more-trusting-of-government-after-covid-19
meanwhile, out in AZ
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/04/29/lawfare-groups-ask-for-federal-intervention-in-arizona-ballot-audit-send-letter-to-doj-asking-for-immediate-involvement/
now we see three outside left-wing election groups (claiming bipartisanship yet led by lawyers from NYU) asking the DOJ to intervene in the Maricopa County, Arizona, ballot audit.
@ rain of lead:
I’d say make those lawyers feel unwelcome in Arizona in every way possible. From their hotel stay, their rental car, their restaurants. Delay them any time they try and enter and exit a building. Find out where they drink and make it unpleasant. Go full Maxine Waters on them.
darkwords wrote:
See rain’s #15. I nominate Andrew Weissman as our lead off guy.
eaglesoars wrote:
Shoulda just polled Dan Rather and saved a lot of time and trouble.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve been seeing more and more warnings from people who recognize the patterns and have lived through the aftermaths. This is very disturbing.
@ Bunk X:
Here are the viewing stats for previous years compared to Biden
Trump 2017 – 48M
Trump 2018 – 46M
Trump 2019 – 46.8M
Trump 2020 – 37.2M
Biden 2021 – 11.6M
https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1387838179533860873
@ eaglesoars:
More than the Oscars? I’d have lost that bet.
I respect Glenn Greenwald.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1387559932812308489
Why is this happening and what is going on? Looked at through a wide lens, it is a deeply weird (not to mention WEIRD) phenomena. What sort of country is ashamed of itself? What people wants to be governed by a ruling class that holds it in contempt? What historical precedent is there for a lasting culture whose story-makers are embarrassed by their own ancestors? How can any culture continue into the future if it is teaching its children a deeply disturbing form of racialised self-loathing?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/springtime-for-spengler-benedict-option-paul-kingsnorth/
Oh, look…the NY Times is lying again. Must be a day ending in “y”:
@ eaglesoars:
And if Biden gets his way, 3- and 4-year-olds will get a jump on it soon, with his “universal pre-K” crap
I was told to post this for one of the regulars here. Sound up.
https://twitter.com/TomthunkitsMind/status/1386843340977627139
@ lobo91:
Any time the NYT is in screeching panic mode is a good time
Bunk X wrote:
Musta been good, I got:
This is not available to you
lobo91 wrote:
The Republicans need to take a page from the democrat playbook and stop calling it “election reform”. They need to start calling it “Common Sense Election Reform”
AZfederalist wrote:
Odd. I checked the addy, it’s correct.
Anyone remember LGF lizard Bulgar Wheat? Greg Witham passed on.
@ Bunk X:
Possums eat ticks. They are ok in my book
AZfederalist wrote:
I can see it.
Bunk X wrote:
I do. We’re all getting to – or are already in – that phase of life
@ coldwarrior:
They eradicated the snails in our yard years ago.
@ Bunk X:
Bingo.
I’ve made it up to Gma n papap coldwarrior’s estate…I have 2 huge briskets to make by Saturday noon.
Gonna be a great weekend!
Bunk X wrote:
Snail mucus is a highly prized skin care product. Just so you know.
And with that thought, I bid you good night.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.21252192v1
@ eaglesoars:
Came inside and found a slug on my shoe. I made the mistake of picking him off with my fingers. Took a lot of scrubbing with Morton’s to get the slime off.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56858158
Yuge
Malaria is man’s #1 killet
But the because it does not upset the avocado toast, malaria doesn’t really matter.
@ coldwarrior:
Make DDT Great Again.
LOLOLOL HIS NAME IS REALLY
DYLAN SHAKESPEARE ROBINSON??!!!
AHAAHAAHHAHAHAAH
https://www.twincities.com/2021/04/28/brainerd-man-gets-4-years-for-helping-to-firebomb-minneapolis-police-station-in-may/
Look what AoS did. Captioned “She can’t breathe.”
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/george%20floyd%2020210428%2001.jpg
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/393587.php
I really like myself as I am now.
last evening I had an Amazon Fresh order delivered. Ramen noodles, string cheese, a frying pan, a can of carrots and cat treats.
Order was delivered.
Amazon sent me an email saying they were sorry that my order was not delivered and they refunded me.
GREAT!!!! Free shit! But no, I am a strange person.
Called Amazon and spoke to several nice people to tell them to reverse the refund. Much laughter was involved as it seems not many people call customer service and ask to be charged for something they got for free.
Anyway I feel good. I pay for what I get.
@ Possum:
Amazon Karma Points.
Bunk X wrote:
no kidding
inch and a half ribeyes for dinner…cut from grass fed prime from the local farm. these things are gorgeous.
cost? fuck it.
my parents are having their 55th anniversary and they had to put their beloved CoCo dog down yesterday. my daughter ‘fiafia’ is sobbing. phoebe dog looks lost. she cant find her buddy. i had to take coco’s dog food out of the pantry at g’mas request. they couldnt do it, and these are strong people. it’s a tough time here.
but g’ma is baking and enjoying her grandkids and the derby party is tomorrow. dad is pretty beat up, that was his dog.
last night i forgot that coco was gone and i held the door opoen and called her to go out to the gargemahal to have a cigar and give her a treat.
rest in peace, a good dog.
coldwarrior wrote:
hardest thing in the world, other than burying your own human child.
I should have let the kittens go.
can’t. sorry.
They need a forever home but I just need them for one more day. and another day….
I aint normal. Just posting reality how kittens must go is making me cry real tears.
OK Kittens, one more day….
@ eaglesoars:
dad is takng this hard.
vietnam vet, seen it, been it…
its good to see that he is human.
@ coldwarrior:
Let’s see how long it takes before they decide the house is just too damn quiet and Phoebe needs a new friend. Took me 7 mos.
wanted you to see this
https://twitter.com/timelywriter/status/1388182147471642628
PITTSBURGH (
@AP
) _ United States Steel Corp. said Friday that it is canceling a $1.5 billion project to bring a state-of-the-art improvement to its Mon Valley Works operations in western Pennsylvania.
According to officials, this project was cancelled because of climate activists & liberal allies
The result: 1,000 construction jobs killed & 4M hours of construction work lost
Add it to the growing number of blue-collar jobs lost because of Biden’s Green New Deal-style agenda
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1388222421065478148
yeah, start shooting people. I’m done.
eaglesoars wrote:
thats what i said.
@ eaglesoars:
i just showed this to papap coldwarrior…
this is why he became a republican. now, mind you…he was union prez and al that back in the day.
coldwarrior wrote:
Dad couldn’t figure out how he had raised 2 conservatives who voted Republican. He didn’t believe Al Gore actually wrote a book against the combustion engine, we had to buy it for him and show him (Inconvenient Truth I think it was). Eventually he decided the Dems were just as bad as the Republicans but he still voted Dem. At least he hated Jimmy Carter, we all agreed on that one, but he never figured out that the Democrat party had left him. As far as he was concerned the Republicans would always be the bastards who owned the steel companies and the mines and who hired the strike breakers. The Democrats started the unions and Jock Yablonski and family were some of his best friends.
Yinz know India and China have been having ‘border’ issues, right?
I just think it’s odd that all of a sudden it’s India that gets hit with this super-lethal covid variant. Just sayin’
Time to burn the FBI down, salt the earth and find some lamp posts
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal agents served a search warrant at a boutique resort in Homer, Alaska, saying they were looking for a laptop stolen from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, one of the Homer Inn and Spa owners said.
Marilyn Hueper said agents also claimed there was photographic evidence that she was inside the Capitol during the riot; something she denies. No arrests were made Wednesday.
The couple attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington on the day of the insurrection but denied entering the Capitol.
When agents arrived at their living quarters at the resort on Wednesday, she said agents told her she probably knew why they were there.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, no, not really,’” she told Kenai radio station KSRM. The Huepers did not immediately return a message The Associated Press left on the resort’s phone Friday.
“And they said, ‘Well, we’re here for Nancy Pelosi’s laptop.’ And I said, ‘Oh, so it was stolen and it’s at large, good to know. I thought maybe it was just conspiracy theory, so thanks for the intel,’” she said.
Agents showed her photos of a woman wearing a black Columbia coat with white lettering on the left shoulder, the same as she was wearing, Marilyn Hueper said, acknowledging both women were close in age with a similar hairstyle.
That is where the similarities ended, she told the station. The woman was wearing a sweater that Marilyn Hueper claimed she would never own, and she said she has attached earlobes.
“This chick looks like she has detached earlobes, which makes me jealous,” Marilyn Hueper said of the woman in the screen grabs. “I’ve always wanted detached earlobes.”
https://www.inquirer.com/wires/ap/alaska-woman-says-feds-searched-home-pelosis-laptop-20210430.html
Famous But Incompetent
@ eaglesoars:
left out of the Inquirer report
THE FBI BROKE INTO MY HOUSE TODAY… 12 AGENTS! Handcuffed me and Paul. Interrogated us, searched the house, and left with my phones and laptops,” she wrote in an April 29th post. “The FBI said they were looking for Nancy Pelosi’s laptop!! So I guess that answers one question… It really did get stolen and is still at large. […] They tried to get me to admit that I had been in the Capital building on Jan 6th… which I hadn’t… and threatened to arrest me for obstruction of justice if I didn’t give them the answers they wanted,” she added
This article has pictures of Marilyn at the rally and the woman the FBI said they were looking for. No way are they the same.
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/exc-fbi-raids-alaska-spa-to-recover-pelosis-laptop-stolen-from-u-s-capitol-owners-reveal/
There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It’s a Made-Up Label
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/people-and-culture/2018/04/theres-no-scientific-basis-race-its-made-label
2018
There was a geneticist who was a regular on LGF who told me this and I’ve forgotten her nic. IIRC, she did post the funniest post that blog ever saw, about skiing backwards down a mountain.
Over the past few decades, genetic research has revealed two deep truths about people. The first is that all humans are closely related—more closely related than all chimps, even though there are many more humans around today. Everyone has the same collection of genes, but with the exception of identical twins, everyone has slightly different versions of some of them. Studies of this genetic diversity have allowed scientists to reconstruct a kind of family tree of human populations. That has revealed the second deep truth: In a very real sense, all people alive today are Africans.
By analysing the genes of present-day Africans, researchers have concluded that the Khoe-San, who now live in southern Africa, represent one of the oldest branches of the human family tree. The Pygmies of central Africa also have a very long history as a distinct group. What this means is that the deepest splits in the human family aren’t between what are usually thought of as different races—whites, say, or blacks or Asians or Native Americans. They’re between African populations such as the Khoe-San and the Pygmies, who spent tens of thousands of years separated from one another even before humans left Africa.
All non-Africans today, the genetics tells us, are descended from a few thousand humans who left Africa maybe 60,000 years ago. These migrants were most closely related to groups that today live in East Africa, including the Hadza of Tanzania. Because they were just a small subset of Africa’s population, the migrants took with them only a fraction of its genetic diversity.
eaglesoars wrote:
AI image recognition software?
Bunk X wrote:
good question! Which begs the question of where human intel comes into it because those 2 pics are about as similar as me and Liz Taylor
@ eaglesoars:
We share 99% of our genes with chimpazees. We also share 90% of our genes with celery. At least that’s what I’ve been told.
There are no different races, only different breeds, and there are three. Almost everyone is a mix and some are more mixed up than others.
eaglesoars wrote:
GAH! Fingernails on a chalkboard! Squeaking balloons! Amplifier feedback! Joy Behar!
Bunk X wrote:
sorry.
HAR!! I’m NEVER sorry, I’m using it all the time now!
Well, the real estate listing for the house went online at 3:45 yesterday, the sign was put in the yard this afternoon, we got our first appt request at 5 pm. for 11 am tomorrow. PRAY this house sells fast. Getting it ready has been the most physically demanding thing I’ve ever done since I did the Outward Bound Expedition in the Everglades. I’m exhausted, we miss our heathen beagles who have had to be boarded and if one person tells me I missed something, there’s is going to be a slight disturbance in the soil in the backyard.
Mark Levin just praised Craig Melvin for the point-blank questions. Joe’s responses were, well, Joe’s “for God’s sake.”
https://www.today.com/news/today-exclusive-joe-biden-says-schools-should-be-open-fall-t216921
I’m sitting outside my RV at a BLM campground about 20 miles from home enjoying a glass of iced tea and listening to Tyler Bryant. Life is good
lobo91 wrote:
I’m guessing that’s Bur. Land Mgmt.
???
@ eaglesoars:
He’s turned it into a LAZ.
Franklin Graham police appreciation dinner canceled by Seattle Police Chief.
I wonder how many woke people are in authority in Seattle. The judges? Social Workers? Do white families need to fear black woke social workers? Public health officials? That Seattle HR department is on tilt for wokeness. I can’t imagine how a black woke worker could be a public servant?
It just reminds me of the Palestinian doctor in Ohio that gave anyone Jewish poor treatment.
And elderly Chinese need to be beware of any urban setting that isn’t insular to Asians.
Biden’s world.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Laminar Abscission Zone?
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes
darkwords wrote:
Check out this shitheads twitter feed if you want to know the Seattle/Portland antifa schedule. May 1 is being advertised for a day of fun.
https://twitter.com/stonewall1312/status/1386533021164072960
gruesome gun error.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1388146530721353728
50= peeps confirmed for the derby….
i’m slammed cooking and getting the bar ready.
gotta love it!
i’m about to have a shot or two.
gruesome gun error.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1388146530721353728@ Bunk X:
May day the day violent rioters use peaceful children as a front.
darkwords wrote:
what happened?
@ eaglesoars:
Hard to say without more information. If I had to guess, it was probably a reloaded round that was too hot.
@ lobo91:
what on earth is a reloaded round?
eaglesoars wrote:
Lots of people reload ammo. It just takes some basic equipment. It can be cheaper, but it’s usually done in order to create more consistent ammo. Another reason is because a particular cartridge is hard to get
lobo91 wrote:
Well, not in this case.
I’m out. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
True
Good night
@ lobo91:
Apparently it was a SLAP round Factory load still too hot for what he was shooting with.
I don’t know what it means, but Feral Irishman thinks it’s important.
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2021/04/gmornin.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-020-00808-x.pdf
[updated]
Here’s the article with commentary.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=242205
@ Bunk X:
All this COVID stuff is complicated.
I was born in 1958 and I am not sure what I got vaccinated for. I know I was vaccinated for smallpox and TB ( Which actually causes me problems as I test POSITIVE when tested for TB ) because I have the scars to prove it.
Smallpox vaccination causes a slight bump on the injection site. TB leaves a sort of speckled scar the size of a 5 cent coin.
One interesting thing is that the TB thing used to be done on the left upper arm but in the 60’s and later on females it was done on the upper thigh.
This was because of the fact that women tended to wear sleeveless clothing and the TB scar was thought to be disfiguring.
I think that was an early example of political correct bullshit. We ALL had the same scar.
Anyway, where am I going with this?
When I was a child there was no vaccine for chicken pox, mumps and German measles ( re named rubella due to not offending German people I think )
It is/was better if you got chicken pox, measles or mumps at an early age. Infection was encouraged!
Yep, I am being serious. If a child had any of those diseases there was a real effort to get other children in close contact with that child.
Basically get a disease when young and then be immune for life.
So, COVID well before a vaccine was available we should have actively encouraged children to get it.
Mark Levin played this clip, but the video makes it even worse.
@ Possum:
I’ve heard of chicken pox parties, but I don’t recall them being a thing in the 1960s. Both my kids got it back to back; The 6-year old was miserable, the younger spotted up but barely had symptoms. As for TB shots, we all got them in our arms and everyone had the scar.
Mumps and measles, check. I remember one kid got Whooping Cough. That was almost eradicated until the illegals brought it back.
It’s been going on for hours. There’s a mockingbird nest in our tree, and mom and dad are yelling at each other. They do it all night long.
“Shut up!” | “No YOU shut up!”
“You’re an asshole!” | “You’re an asshole!”
“Quit repeating me!” | “Quit repeating me!”
“Fuck you!” | “Fuck you!”
“Meow!” | “What?”
“Shut up!”
@ Bunk X:
https://www.cypresscollege.edu/2021/04/30/campus-statement/
@ Bunk X:
When I applied for my green card I had to have a full medical and prove I had been vaccinated for a shit loads of things.
Well I could not provide that information so I just went and got vaccinated for everything. Cost me many hundreds of dollars and much stabby things.
Nurse that did all the stabby things was nice, She did me in both arms and my ass so as to spread out the pain. The she smiled at me and said ” for another $25 I can give you a flu shot ”
Yeah go for it I said… OUCH, one more in the left upper quadrant of my rear end
LOL
@ Possum:
I was told my my doc not to get a shingles vaccine. He’s never brought up the ‘ronavac either. I guess I’m too toxic.
PaladinPhil wrote:
Unacknowledged inflation, but it’s everywhere. Fuel, raw materials food stuffs,… The Green Deal is going to make everything out of reach.
@ lobo91:
Good luck finding the components these days.
@ coldwarrior:
Sorry to hear that mate.
Bunk X wrote:
Yep. The 2nd link has a reference to a book I’m going to look for – “First Platoon” by Annie Jacobsen; “An Urgent Investigation into Warfare, Good, and Evil in the Age of Biometrics, The Technology that Would Allow the Government to Identify Anyone, Anywhere, At Any Time”.
As for the Ancestry DNA route – I believe both Ancestry and the other one, 123-something both send their samples off to China.
The gov’t UFO report comes out in June. I don’t expect any surprises but this is a good piece about one of the investigators
https://nypost.com/2021/04/30/feds-cover-up-of-ufos-puts-us-at-risk/
Want some gossip/inside info? Comes from a staffer whose member attended the Orlando confab where the head honchos were supposedly coming up w/policy ideas.
What came up was a huge knock down drag out between Liz Cheney and Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy told her to knock off the snotty remarks directed toward the deplorables, she yelled she was following her ‘principles’. McCarthy said she doesn’t have any and she belongs in the Dem party.
After we got hold of that little tidbit, Steve Bannon spouts that McCarthy is getting grief from everybody about her. The other members find her arrogant and he’s hearing from the precinct levels that people in general can’t stand “that bitch”.
so there’s that………..
heh.
About 25 mins ago, this goes up
GOP frustration with Liz Cheney ‘at a boiling point’
© Washington Post/Pool
Liz Cheney said that Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell — not Donald Trump — are the leaders of the Republican party. At a GOP gathering focused on policy, she said she’s not ruling out a future bid for the White House.
And on national television, the Wyoming Republican walked a few paces to give a fist bump to the new Democratic president, Joe Biden, before his first address to Congress.
It was a big, headline-grabbing week for Cheney, the House GOP Conference chair and highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress, who in a few short months has made herself the face of the anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party.
And it’s put an even bigger target on her back as the former president seeks retribution and vows to back a primary challenge to her next year while he fights to maintain an iron grip on the party.
Some pro-Trump Republicans say 2022 is too long to wait to oust Cheney, who demonstrated this week she will not be silenced.
Three months ago, Cheney easily survived an attempt by Trump loyalists to force her off the House leadership team for voting to impeach Trump.
Now, some of those GOP colleagues who rallied to her defense in that 145-61 vote are saying it’s time for her to go and that it’s only a matter of time before Cheney is pushed out of leadership.
“It’s at a boiling point. This isn’t about Liz Cheney wanting to impeach Donald Trump; this isn’t about Donald Trump at all. It’s about Liz Cheney being completely out of synch with the majority of our conference,” said one GOP lawmaker, who said Cheney’s antics this week were the focus of a flurry of text messages with House colleagues.
“As we’re focused on unifying the Republican conference and our mission to win back the majority, she is focused on the past and proving a point,” the lawmaker told The Hill. “She is alienating herself from the conference, and I have to imagine if she doesn’t resign there will be a new vote in the near future and the result will be lopsided in the opposite direction of what it was before.”
“She may go down in a second vote,” added a second GOP lawmaker, who had voted in February to keep Cheney in her leadership post.
Asked whether he had confidence in Cheney’s leadership, the well-respected, retiring Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) repeatedly dodged the question.
“We are absolutely unified in stopping the socialist agenda,” Brady told host Chuck Todd on MSNBC.
Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has been unapologetic. After Republicans lost the White House in 2020, Liz Cheney, a defense hawk like her father and a former State Department official, urged her party to ditch Trump and return to traditional GOP principles like a muscular foreign policy and fiscal discipline.
And she called Trump’s efforts to overturn the election and his role in inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot the greatest “betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
Trump attacked Cheney this week as a “warmongering fool” and predicted she would soon announce her retirement from politics, which she dismissed this week as “wishful thinking.”
“You can tell that she’s trying to define the Republican party in the neo-conservative mold of the party,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a fellow Wyoming Republican, told The Hill, “and that’s a different type of Republican than I am, so it will be interesting to see how this all goes.”
Through a spokesman, Cheney declined to be interviewed for this story.
Cheney allies, few as they may be now, are praising the 54-year-old mother of five, saying that she’s one of the few voices in the party willing to call out Trump and hold him accountable for lying to his supporters that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and stolen.
“If a prerequisite for leading our conference is continuing to lie to our voters, then Liz is not the best fit,” Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), who also voted to impeach Trump, said in a phone interview Friday.
“Liz isn’t going to lie to people. Liz is going to say what she believes. She’s going to stand on principle. And if that’s going to be distracting for folks, she’s not the best fit. I wish that weren’t the case.”
If her foes force another vote, Gonzalez said he will support Cheney again.
Another Cheney ally argued that having her view at the leadership table actually makes the party stronger and proves that it’s a big tent.
“Does Cheney’s stubborn insistence to stick with her conviction rub some of us wrong? Yes. But I sure wish McCarthy realizes that it benefits us in the long run if we have one member of our leadership team who won’t kiss Trump’s ass,” the second Cheney ally said. “It’s good for the Republican party.”
But Cheney’s eyebrow-raising moves this week at the GOP policy meeting in Florida sparked frustration and hand wringing among other colleagues. Many saw her press conferences and media interviews that launched stories about the GOP’s sharp divisions over Trump as self-serving and a distraction from their efforts to unite behind a policy agenda that will help them win back majorities in the House and Senate next year.
At the opening news conference in Orlando, Cheney broke with McCarthy and his leadership team over who the central leader of the party was — not Trump, according to Cheney — and over the scope of an independent commission to probe the Jan. 6 attack.
That put three other members of the leadership team who appeared with Cheney that day — Reps. Mike Johnson (R-La.), Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) and Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) — in an awkward spot, lawmakers said.
Attendees also said Cheney wasn’t very visible at the gathering, after she made a splash at her press conference. The No. 3 GOP leader didn’t attend a meeting where McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) gave a leadership update to rank-and-file members, and skipped out on a dinner with guest speaker Ben Shapiro, members said.
“She was missing in action,” said the first GOP lawmaker.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/551261-gop-frustration-with-liz-cheney-at-a-boiling-point
@ eaglesoars:
Brings to mind Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland. Most of the book describes perceptions and interactions of “people” in 2 dimensions, but he also described the perceptions of Flatlanders witnessing a 3D object passing through. He hypothesized on what we might see if a 4D object passed through our environment. Elizondo may be onto something.
@ Bunk X:
Abbott described what a Flatlander might see if an apple passed through their plane. The Flatlanders might see several dots that expand into three lines that merge and get larger, then shrink to a small line and disappear. The last part passing through is the stem. In our case, if a 4D object passed through, it would first appear as a small 3D object floating in air that gets larger, then shrinks and disappears. The 4D object is still there, but we can’t see it.
The edge of a 4D object scoring our dimension could appear and act the same way these UFOs have been described as doing.
@ Bunk X:
If a 4D object that was shaped like the letter “C” dropped through our dimension, we’d see a losenge that splits into two; one disappears, the other “flies” at high speed, stops for a bit, then zooms away and vanishes.
@ Bunk X:
Isn’t that Poincare’s Conjecture?
@ eaglesoars:
I’ll have to look it up.
@ eaglesoars:
Poincaré was 30 years old when Flatland was published in 1884, but his Conjecture wasn’t published until 1904. I guess I was somewhat familiar with his work without knowing his name.
Bunk X wrote:
I think it says that a creature living in 4 dimensions will physically detect 3. That would be us, time being the 4th dimension. My understanding is that it’s been proven for some dimensions but not all.
Of course, I’m using lay person’s English. His version is all about topology using words that I never heard of before.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not in this discussion. We’re talking hyper-cubes, hyper-spheres and hyper-tori.
There is a branch of theoretical mathematics that postulates the existence of up to 10 physical dimensions.
@ eaglesoars:
Then there’s the 5th Dimension. I had a crush on Marilyn McCoo.
Bunk X wrote:
more words I never heard of.
I need a nap
oh too bad. Romney gets booed and heckled at Utah GOP convention. Sound on.
https://twitter.com/BenWinslow/status/1388556507558473734
@ eaglesoars:
Washington Compost “objective” reporting. It’s not just Trump after her, it’s liberty loving real Republicans as well. Oh, and that little bit about Trump lying to voters about the election being stolen — He wasn’t the source of the accusations.
eaglesoars wrote:
Imagine that, people unhappy with the RINOs who cost the 2020 election and the Senate
eaglesoars wrote:
That last bit about, “We need to come together in peace and unity”. What he really means, “Ya’ll need to shut up and let us, your betters, get back to running the party and your lives as we see fit. Ya’ll need to give up those silly notions that somehow the republican party is a party of smaller government. It’s really the party of our government”
Ok, we’re worried. We only had one request to see the house so far and they never showed up. The house is correctly priced, it’s a nice house in a really good neighborhood and…bupkis.
Our agent said she’s shocked BUT she is seeing very few showings this weekend for some reason so not to worry.
But we’re worried. This is beyond odd. Houses in this neighborhood sell w/a week.
AZfederalist wrote:
Vulture capitalist is vulture politician. Whodda thunk?
This is thrilling. Secretariat’s run at the Derby (#8)
https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1388658331833704448
Yeah, don’t try to rob people in a concealed carry class
https://www.bitchute.com/video/5lMvQP7wj2XB/
@ eaglesoars:
that is odd. i figured yinz’s house would be gone at asking price in a week in that market.
For anyone who wants to learn what actually happened with the exploding .50 BMG:
coldwarrior wrote:
So did everyone else. BUT our agent did say she is seeing fewer showings this week and doesn’t know why. She’ll be pulling some stats. We did get an appointment for next Tues so that’s good.
The heathen beagles are home. Mia heard my voice in the lobby and you should have heard the howl. Sounded like a wolf. She managed to escape the kennel area to get to me. She was like a running back, she went thru Alex’s legs as he was trying to grab her. Straight into my arms.
Dogs.
FWIW
in CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE· NEWS AND EVENTS
Halt Covid Vaccine, Prominent Scientist Tells CDC
Toxicologist Janci Chunn Lindsay, Ph.D., calls on ACIP to halt Covid vaccine, citing fertility and blood clotting concerns. Photo of Moderna vaccine vial courtesy of Ian Hutchinson. | Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D.In a public comment to the CDC, molecular biologist and toxicologist Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay, Ph.D., called to immediately halt Covid vaccine production and distribution. Citing fertility, blood-clotting concerns (coagulopathy), and immune escape, Dr. Lindsay explained to the committee the scientific evidence showing that the coronavirus vaccines are not safe.
On April 23, 2021, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices held a meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of this ACIP meeting was blood clotting disorders following Covid vaccines. Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay spoke to the CDC during the time set aside for public comment.
The censorship on social media in particular and the internet in general is relentless. Here is a slightly edited, annotated censorship-proof transcript of Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay’s 3-minute comment.
You can listen to her testimony on YouTube here (for now, anyway. If this link goes viral, YouTube will likely censor it).
Molecular Biologist and Toxicologist Calls to Halt Covid Vaccine
https://www.jennifermargulis.net/halt-covid-vaccine-research-scientist-urges-cdc/
coldwarrior wrote:
Fantastic news. My niece was involved in this research before she threw over her PhD thesis and joined the Fire Brigade. 🙂
Malaria is one bastard of a disease. Had it and was glad to see the end of this scourge, especially the deadly cerebral malaria that carries off so many children and ‘black water fever malaria’ that destroys oe’s blood supply…. hence the ‘black water’….. pee.
I was one very sick bush pilot for a while there!
🙂
Managed to spend 10 days in Melbourne without getting caught in any lockdowns.
The downtown is still like a ghost town. Most work from home and the tourist trade is still staggering along. The cafes I frequented were overjoyed to be open again. Most of the popular eateries were the out of town places and they were doing OK. Downtown was surreal however.
🙂
The communist Premier of Victoria is only now getting back on his feet. He was badly injured when he fell down the steps of a major industrialist after an all night drinking session. Premier Andrews is known as an alcoholic and a total drunk. His injuries involved multiple fractures and internal damage to his organs.
Even the Left’s party faithful have had their fill of this out of control Premier.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Had to look that up. It’s due to quinine treatement.
. Blackwater fever (BWF) is a rare but serious complication of malaria that is a consequence of antimalarial treatment. Its prevalence seems to have increased. Its diagnosis is based on clinical symptoms and urine color. We report on 4 BWF cases admitted to the infectious diseases department of Zinder National Hospital. Results. Four patients were hospitalized in September 2017 for a hepatorenal syndrome of jaundice, port wine-colored urine, renal failure, and hepatic cytolysis following antimalarial treatment with quinine salts. Quinine treatment was stopped and treatment was continued with injectable artemether.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/criid/2019/2346087/
@ lobo91:
The Lord was watching out for him for sure. Thanks for posting that
eaglesoars wrote:
Isn’t that special. We are supposed to listen to the experts as long as it is the approved experts.
eaglesoars wrote:
What in the world? You’d think the guy was trying to commit suicide.
AZfederalist wrote:
If this gets out all hell will break lose. Women are losing their babies in spontaneous miscarriages. When I posted that there were 3 replies on the twitter thread I pulled it from. One said ‘better than dying’ another said something about statistics and another said something irrelevant, about choosing to live in fear.
They were all from men.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup we had an Aussie Kyup Patrol Officer stuck in a very bad malarial place with BWF. He was a lucky boy to make it out OK. Had to winch him up into a chopper to carry out the rescue.
eaglesoars wrote:
ANY drug or illness during pregnancy is hella dangerous for the baby. My sister is infertile due to the DES my mom took while carrying her.
@ Bunk X:
And her risk factors for all types of cancer are up there.
But, you know, how do you test for this stuff in a time frame that provides help to the target patient cohort?
You can’t.
In your family’s case, this shows up decades later. Can’t test for that.
I’m ok with that.
What I’m not ok with is that the problems with the vaccine aren’t being reported.
I have decided to not take it for as long as I can get away with not taking it. I would much rather catch the virus and develop natural immunity. As for the probability of not surviving the virus – I might not. But my immune system is already fucked up and medicated into suppression. That vaccine is an immuno-provocateur. I’ll take my chances.
As long as we’re here: About a year ago there was a piece I can no longer find that explained how the hydroxy-vitamin D – antibiotic disrupted the Covid virus to render it non-infectious. It assumed the spike protein as the pathological source, IIRC. If anyone knows the report I’m talking about, please post.
And off that – BUNK- the links you posted above to the Feral Irishman – marketticker.org
That paper postulated that the protein spikes aren’t the pathological entities. It thinks the nucleo something is the problem. BTW, I think the page has been taken down, but here is the referring blog
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2021/04/gmornin.html
So now the problem becomes – if the HZA protocol works because it uses the spike protein model – and in the early stages it does work – WTF is this nucleo something thing doing out there? Because it does look like a viable theory.
Bed. nite.
Julliard got busted for stoopid. Liberal racistm exposed.
https://www.juilliard.edu/news/149411/message-president-woetzel
https://performing.lifeideasinsider.net/american-theatre-a-teaching-moment-for-juilliard/
eaglesoars wrote:
Looks like the entire website http://www.market-ticker.org is down.
eaglesoars wrote:
Some offspring have genital mutations, like my sister, and according to some research, had she borne children, she could have passed it on to them as well. I was fortunate. I could have been born without a pecker.
Bunk X wrote:
Strike that. It’s up now, just really slow to load (gateway timeouts) and there’s an update post:
There are THREE Studies; All Showing Serious Harm.
http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=242248
@ Bunk X:
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/bad-karma-day-24.gif
good morning.
If you have been concerned about the quality of our intel agencies – it’s worse than you think. CIA recruitment ad
In the video, a Hispanic woman regurgitates glib social justice mantras, explaining how she is a “daughter of immigrants” while bragging about being “perfectly made.”
“I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder,” she states.
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A CIA recruitment ad featuring a “cisgender woman of color” who rails against the “patriarchy” and announces she has been diagnosed with “generalized anxiety disorder” has been ridiculed for its woke pandering.
The promo went viral on Twitter, racking up almost a million views, prompting ‘The CIA’ to start trending.
In the video, a Hispanic woman regurgitates glib social justice mantras, explaining how she is a “daughter of immigrants” while bragging about being “perfectly made.”
“I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder,” she states.
“I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box checking exercise,” she adds, after having ticked a whole raft of ‘diversity’ boxes and showing off her ‘Donald R. Cryer award for diversity and inclusion.’
She then begins rambling on about not allowing her inflection to rise at the end of her sentences and having “earned her way in” (but not by checking diversity boxes, surely?).
“I used to struggle with imposter syndrome, but at 36, I refuse to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be,” she states, once again definitely not trying to tick diversity boxes.
She then continues to stroke her own ego before declaring herself to be “a proud first generation Latina and officer of the CIA.”
https://summit.news/2021/05/03/cia-recruitment-ad-ridiculed-for-overdosing-on-woke-talking-points/
Remember that CRT school kerfluffle in Southlake Texas?
They had their elections. The good guys won and not just the schoolboard either, also the city council
In bitterly divided election in Southlake, Texas, opponents of anti-racism education win big
That headline is a lie. The next line is Candidates who opposed a local school diversity plan took about 70 percent of the vote in the wealthy Dallas-Fort Worth suburb.
If you win by 70%, there’s not much of a divide, bitter or otherwise. The CRT loons got stomped.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bitterly-divided-election-southlake-texas-opponents-anti-racism-education-win-n1266102?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
CW has a new thread. You ought to copy and paste these, @ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
Oh good grief. That is the hiring criteria?
@ Bunk X:
lol