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Dems Push to Destroy the Middle Class

by coldwarrior ( 143 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Economy, Open thread, Progressives, Unions at May 6th, 2021 - 7:00 am

Carnegie Steel, Homestead, PA, ca. 1910


It’s simple, Marx had it right: yinz can’t have a socialist revolution if that pesky middle class (bourgeois) is in the way, na’t!”

SO, let’s try to kill it:
Democrats Blamed After U.S. Steel Cancels $1.5B Project in Pennsylvania

…“The lack of support, and frankly open hostility from some elected officials means the loss of four-million construction man-hours, approximately 1,000 full time union construction jobs and threatens in the longer term 3,000 steel workers,” Melcher said. “It’s absolutely unacceptable that any politician or business or community leader who claims to be supportive of union jobs and a strong middle class can allow this project to be lost.”…

I, frankly, expect nothing less from Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh for that matter. It’s far easier to control a bunch of mindless, barely making it, soy-boys in skinny jeans than construction and steel workers who are making a great wage. $1.5 billion? How many soy lattes is that?

This was done on purpose.

Enjoy yinz’s open!

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  1. eaglesoars
    1 | May 6, 2021 8:44 am

    I have things to say about this topic but am busy and want to get this posted for FYI

    SUPERB COVID ORIGINS READING LIST: Compiled by U.S. Right to Know, this list of credible analyses, news reports and studies on the origins of the Covid-19 virus is continually updated.

    https://usrtk.org/biohazards/origin-of-sars-cov-2-gain-of-function-readings/


  2. coldwarrior
    2 | May 6, 2021 4:33 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    that link needs to be a sticky somewhere.


  3. coldwarrior
    3 | May 6, 2021 4:37 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    https://zenodo.org/record/4477081#

    very elegant stats work there.


  4. coldwarrior
    4 | May 6, 2021 4:49 pm

    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/05/06/punk-rocker-john-joseph-cancel-culture-can-go-fk-themselves/#

    yep…“Then the whole cancel culture shit ran with the story talking shit about each and every one of us who participated in the show,” Joseph said. “I don’t care about all you people that called it a super-spreader show and the rest of the bullshit you talked – there has not been one case of COVID reported.”

    The punk rocker explained that the show was put on because “we decided to take a stand and open back up our stages and our way of life,” adding, “just because some of you don’t agree with it I could give a fuck less.”

    “Stay the fuck home, watch CNN and the rest,” Joseph advised his critics. “I never gave a shit what critics said in the 70s and 80s and I still don’t care.”

    Joseph’s remarks arrive on the heels of Misfits founder Glenn Danzig calling out “cancel culture and woke bullshit,” adding that his band and “the punk explosion” could never happen today, because “everyone’s so uptight and P.C.”

    Moreover, Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon — also known as Johnny Rotten — recently called “wokeness” a divisive political weapon being wielded by privileged, “tempestuous, spoilt children,” whom the media offer a platform to push their unpopular politically correct opinions.


  5. eaglesoars
    5 | May 6, 2021 4:54 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    You don’t have to know jack about Bayesian stats (that would be me) – just read the header

    Wuhan Institute of Virology analysis of bronchial lavage specimens from ICU patients at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital in December 2019 contain both SARS-CoV-2 and adenovirus vaccine sequences, consistent with a vaccine challenge trial


  6. eaglesoars
    6 | May 6, 2021 5:14 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    Re: the article on the topic – the Health Dept had a hand in this. Does that mean that Rachel guy or is that another dept?


  7. eaglesoars
    7 | May 6, 2021 5:20 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Does that mean that Rachel guy or is that another dept?

    Let me clarify – Does the county health dept report to the state or is it independent?

    Somebody needs to follow the money here. USW went for Biden and look at the infrastructure bill – killing right-to-work and unionizing babysitters. Which begs the question [BUNK ALERT!!] – who is going to pay their dues if no one has a job? It’s not just the politicians that are getting paid off by the environmentalists


  8. Aussie Infidel
    8 | May 6, 2021 6:30 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I have things to say about this topic but am busy and want to get this posted for FYI

    SUPERB COVID ORIGINS READING LIST: Compiled by U.S. Right to Know, this list of credible analyses, news reports and studies on the origins of the Covid-19 virus is continually updated.

    https://usrtk.org/biohazards/origin-of-sars-cov-2-gain-of-function-readings/

    Just scanning the initial page whilst drinking my morning coffee when I ran across …..EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak seeking information and documents related to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, April 16, 2021. (2) NIH Director Francis Collins seeking to advance an independent, scientific investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, March 18, 2021…..

    coffee spurted from my nose Eagles and onto my bloody keyboard.

    Bastards like these two plus Fauci should be busy hanging from lamp posts, not calling for enquiries over actions that they themselves initiated and were responsible for. There are tracks aplenty left by these criminally inspired politically driven doctors, throughout the Obama administration and beyond. It’s just a matter of looking.


  9. Aussie Infidel
    9 | May 6, 2021 6:41 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    @ coldwarrior:
    You need to read this right through and especially the conclusions

    https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
    Origins of Covid

    Horrific

    The period 2014-17 when the organisations led by Fauci and Collins were specifically forbidden to fund any more Wuhan research it was done with a wink and a nod from Obama. These bastards simply went around the Obama decree and personally wrote an exception that one could drive a bus through. This exception was that Fauci and Collins could continue doing whatever funding at the Wuhan Lab they wanted and Obama who OKed this exception just pretended to not know what he was agreeing to. This was a lie and Collins Fauci and Obama have the blood of 3 million on their hands. Dr Joseph Mangeler of the Third Reich was a mere amateur when compared to these three butchers.


  10. Aussie Infidel
    10 | May 6, 2021 6:57 pm

    Got my Covid 19 swab result and as expected it was negative.
    I still have Covid symptoms which also feel a lot like a Kindergarten runny nose cold. I caught it from my 2 1/2 year old in Melbourne, grrrrrrr ,

    Now the State has it’s hooks into me by way of an e-mail stating that my Covid test was negative and requiring me to fill in a questionnaire to determine what happens next……. ? WHAT

    The questionnaire was obviously penned by a Millennial ‘propeller head’ on work experience with the Ministry of Health….. complete with mandatory spelling errors.

    I can’t find a selected category that allows me to just go on my was ‘runny nose’ cold that doesn’t force me to lie to escape the clutches of big government. There is no … I haven’t got Covid… I have a bad cold, so stop pissing me off and leave me alone option. My daughter’s solution was obvious …. just lie…. everyone else does !

    🙂

    Has civilisation really come down to this?


  11. coldwarrior
    11 | May 6, 2021 9:32 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    Yes, civil has come to this.

    Cell phones are the main culprit


  12. eaglesoars
    12 | May 6, 2021 10:14 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    I can’t find a selected category that allows me to just go on my was ‘runny nose’ cold that doesn’t force me to lie to escape the clutches of big government

    that’s not a bug, it’s a feature

    Tell them you have leprosy


  13. darkwords
    13 | May 7, 2021 12:00 am

    Ceylon cinnamon contains all of the health-promoting properties of cinnamon with none of the toxic properties, which is why it’s the healthiest type of cinnamon.

    Someone told me cinnamon is toxic. Apparently so in large doses. Cinnamon verum or Ceylon/ Sri Lankan cinnamon is the most platable.

    Cassia cinnamon is so high in coumarin that even regular intake of the spice in moderate doses is likely harmful. (this is the stuff from the stores that I have been consuming for year)


  14. eaglesoars
    14 | May 7, 2021 12:06 am

    darkwords wrote:

    even regular intake of the spice in moderate doses is likely harmful. (this is the stuff from the stores that I have been consuming for year)

    well, that explains it then doesn’t it.

    [joking]


  15. darkwords
    15 | May 7, 2021 12:14 am

    listening to the Tim Ferris podcast today. globalist are a problem. Lady on it wants to franchise blm around the world. Working on funding.

    versus the Andy Stumpf podcast where he had Mike Glover(CIA) on. They recommend the best thing to do is get in shape and stress test on the gun range. Glover gave a Friday Q and A with Stumpf last week that was pretty politically incorrect and hard hitting. And this latest one he calls out LeBron James as a loser of a major order. They hadn’t seen that latest CIA add I think.


  16. eaglesoars
    16 | May 7, 2021 12:17 am

    Ok, read this. Note the phrase “although not addressed by the Family Court”

    Finally, although not addressed by Family Court or the attorney for the child, the mother’s testimony at the hearing, as well as an exhibit admitted into evidence, reveal that she has a small confederate flag painted on a rock near her driveway. Given that the child is of mixed race, it would seem apparent that the presence of the flag is not in the child’s best interests, as the mother must encourage and teach the child to embrace her mixed race identity, rather than thrust her into a world that only makes sense through the tortured lens of cognitive dissonance. Further, and viewed pragmatically, the presence of the confederate flag is a symbol inflaming the already strained relationship between the parties.

    As such, while recognizing that the First Amendment protects the mother’s right to display the flag, if it is not removed by June 1, 2021, its continued presence shall constitute a change in circumstances and Family Court shall factor this into any future best interests analysis.

    The advocate writing this is basically saying that if the Mom doesn’t get rid of the rock displaying the Confederate flag, she loses her child, even tho the relationship between the mother and father has been fine (that’s in the part I didn’t excerpt)

    https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/06/n-y-court-pressuring-mother-to-remove-rock-with-small-confederate-flag-painted-on-rock/


  17. eaglesoars
    17 | May 7, 2021 12:21 am

    @ darkwords:

    So, basically, one side is planning to take over the remaining institutions and the other side is planning to – what? – anybody got ammo?

    BTW, the French just re-elected Boris Johnson.

    Bed, nite.


  18. darkwords
    18 | May 7, 2021 12:21 am

    Needed to give my eyes a computer rest. Bought the latest Jack Carr book as hardcopy instead of to my kindle. Other Navy Seal products then popped up in my pages. My honey add on tells me that prices for stuff has gone up 20 percent in the last thirty days.

    Trump would have beat the inflation down.


  19. eaglesoars
    19 | May 7, 2021 12:23 am

    Way to go, Biden

    Shares of Moderna and other makers of the COVID-19 vaccines plummeted after the US backed a plan to waive intellectual property protections for the life-saving products.

    Moderna stock fell more than 6 percent Wednesday after the announcement and extended those losses a further 2 percent in premarket trading on Thursday. Pfizer shares were down more than 3 percent in that same period and shares of its vaccine partner BioNTech were down more than 7 percent.

    US Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Wednesday that the US will advocate for the “extraordinary measures,” which would potentially enable companies in developing countries to manufacture their own versions of the vaccines,

    https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/shares-of-covid-vaccine-makers-fall-after-us-backs-ip-waiver/


  20. darkwords
    20 | May 7, 2021 12:26 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    Bad news. I’ve been in family court as a concerned relative. I walked away from it thinking the judges and lawyers both sides were an incestous stasi affair.

    Nothing good to say about CPS. They are an illiterate power hungry bunch. This lady will lose if she keeps the rock. If she puts it back later they’ll remove her from the child permanently.

    Solve things in the family and via mediation before letting oneself be soul drained by a CPS worker.


  21. Aussie Infidel
    21 | May 7, 2021 12:30 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    I can’t find a selected category that allows me to just go on my was ‘runny nose’ cold that doesn’t force me to lie to escape the clutches of big government

    that’s not a bug, it’s a feature

    Tell them you have leprosy

    I’m sure they have an App for that too.

    🙂


  22. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    22 | May 7, 2021 12:40 am

    darkwords wrote:

    Ceylon cinnamon contains all of the health-promoting properties of cinnamon with none of the toxic properties, which is why it’s the healthiest type of cinnamon.

    Someone told me cinnamon is toxic. Apparently so in large doses. Cinnamon verum or Ceylon/ Sri Lankan cinnamon is the most platable.

    Cassia cinnamon is so high in coumarin that even regular intake of the spice in moderate doses is likely harmful. (this is the stuff from the stores that I have been consuming for year)

    Well technically Cassia Cinnamon is barely cinnamon anyway. It’s just the cheaper substitute we’ve been using for over a hundred years or so. It’s just cheap and potent. Lol, literally a chinese knockoff.


  23. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    23 | May 7, 2021 12:41 am

    Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:

    darkwords wrote:

    Ceylon cinnamon contains all of the health-promoting properties of cinnamon with none of the toxic properties, which is why it’s the healthiest type of cinnamon.

    Someone told me cinnamon is toxic. Apparently so in large doses. Cinnamon verum or Ceylon/ Sri Lankan cinnamon is the most platable.

    Cassia cinnamon is so high in coumarin that even regular intake of the spice in moderate doses is likely harmful. (this is the stuff from the stores that I have been consuming for year)

    Well technically Cassia Cinnamon is barely cinnamon anyway. It’s just the cheaper substitute we’ve been using for over a hundred years or so. It’s just cheap and potent. Lol, literally a chinese knockoff.

    We by the US. China has been using it forever.


  24. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    24 | May 7, 2021 12:47 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Way to go, Biden

    Shares of Moderna and other makers of the COVID-19 vaccines plummeted after the US backed a plan to waive intellectual property protections for the life-saving products.

    Moderna stock fell more than 6 percent Wednesday after the announcement and extended those losses a further 2 percent in premarket trading on Thursday. Pfizer shares were down more than 3 percent in that same period and shares of its vaccine partner BioNTech were down more than 7 percent.

    US Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Wednesday that the US will advocate for the “extraordinary measures,” which would potentially enable companies in developing countries to manufacture their own versions of the vaccines,

    https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/shares-of-covid-vaccine-makers-fall-after-us-backs-ip-waiver/

    Yep now whenever fake meds made around the world start killing people they can claim it is from Moderna and Pfizer. This isn’t the left being altruistic it’s another multi-pronged attack on “big pharma”.


  25. 25 | May 7, 2021 1:40 am

    Cool chinese booster rocket tracker – live.
    https://orbit.ing-now.com/satellite/48275/2021-035b/cz-5b/


  26. 27 | May 7, 2021 3:45 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    [BUNK ALERT!!]

    Only thing I hate worse are meerkats.
    Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin bastards.


  27. 28 | May 7, 2021 3:54 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Shares of Moderna and other makers of the COVID-19 vaccines plummeted after the US backed a plan to waive intellectual property protections for the life-saving products.

    How is that even legal? Companies have a right to their own products until they get their research money back and throw the formulae into the public domain.


  28. eaglesoars
    29 | May 7, 2021 8:43 am

    @ Bunk X:

    I have no idea how it could be legal. Not only that, the next time we need pharma to ramp up and deliver another miracle, they’re going to tell us to piss up a rope because they don’t have the resources to do it because they weren’t allowed to profit from this go round.


  29. lobo91
    30 | May 7, 2021 9:11 am


  30. eaglesoars
    31 | May 7, 2021 9:52 am

    Jobs report sucks. 1 mil expected, 266k actual


  31. coldwarrior
    32 | May 7, 2021 11:29 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    Stagflation…how jimmy carterish


  32. AZfederalist
    33 | May 7, 2021 1:44 pm

    Bunk X wrote:

    How is that even legal? Companies have a right to their own products until they get their research money back and throw the formulae into the public domain.

    It’s probably not as it constitutes a “taking” without compensation – a Constitutional violation. But it will be years of court proceedings and millions of dollars of legal fees before that gets resolved.


  33. AZfederalist
    34 | May 7, 2021 1:48 pm

    @ lobo91:

    Why does this seem like real life rather than parody?


  34. AZfederalist
    35 | May 7, 2021 1:49 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Jobs report sucks. 1 mil expected, 266k actual

    Why did they expect 1M with the proposals that this administration has put forth?


  35. 36 | May 7, 2021 2:22 pm

    34 year old tranny goes spaz for being called “sir.” 2nd vid is even funnier. Wait for the eyebrows.
    https://notthebee.com/article/a-trans-karen-went-absolutely-postal-on-a-popeyes-employee-that-used-the-wrong-pronouns


  36. eaglesoars
    37 | May 7, 2021 4:50 pm

    @ Bunk X:

    It’s hard to feel sorry for that – whatever it is


  37. darkwords
    38 | May 7, 2021 4:51 pm

    Tether, a cryptocurrency that had risen above $40 billion in market capitalization. At the end of February, James found that Tether was hiding $850 million in losses, and its “claim that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie.”


  38. darkwords
    39 | May 7, 2021 4:53 pm

    Someone pointed us to Hometown International (HWIN), which owns a single deli in rural New Jersey. The deli had $21,772 in sales in 2019 and only $13,976 in 2020, as it was closed due to COVID from March to September. HWIN reached a market cap of $113 million on February 8. The largest shareholder is also the CEO/CFO/Treasurer and a Director, who also happens to be the wrestling coach of the high school next door to the deli. The pastrami must be amazing.


  39. darkwords
    40 | May 7, 2021 5:02 pm

    @ Bunk X:
    The Tranny is busy labeling people as a POS. Tranny trying to force other people to live out their sex fantasies. If the person was really that good at being a tranny they would pass as a woman visually. People afraid to be real and have depth. When someone gets that upset about being called “Sir” they have a fear in them about who they are.


  40. darkwords
    41 | May 7, 2021 5:05 pm

    @ Bunk X:
    Maybe this was needed at the checkout counter.

    https://twitter.com/x_Graveheart_x/status/1390733863333289993/photo/1


  41. eaglesoars
    42 | May 7, 2021 5:30 pm

    darkwords wrote:

    “claim that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie.”

    uh…that sort of undermines the idea of crypto I think…….


  42. 43 | May 7, 2021 6:22 pm

    darkwords wrote:

    its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie.”

    Well that’s a bigass surprise to no one.


  43. 44 | May 7, 2021 6:24 pm

    darkwords wrote:

    When someone gets that upset about being called “Sir” they have a fear in them about who they are.

    Or he’s a professional asshole.


  44. 45 | May 7, 2021 7:15 pm

    In other news, the old Diary of Daedalus domain that was coopted by the UK pron site was up for renewal and they apparently balked. I don’t see it in Google & DDGo searches any more, only the legit one.


  45. lobo91
    46 | May 7, 2021 7:55 pm

    @ darkwords:

    We have a handful of them in the system at the moment. One had a parole hearing a few months back, and went ballistic when one of the Parole Board members called him “sir.” Keep in mind that this is an inmate in a men’s prison, wearing orange scrubs, with no makeup, jewelry, or anything else that might suggest to someone that they’re “transgendered.” Going strictly off of mannerisms, one would probably assume gay.

    And the board member in question is a black retired school teacher in her mid-70s.


  46. eaglesoars
    47 | May 7, 2021 8:49 pm

    What the fuck is this?

    China Plans To Build Giant Wind Farm Next To USAF Base In Texas

    Texas lawmakers have launched an all-out effort to block a Chinese billionaire from building a massive wind farm near Laughlin Air Force base in southwest Texas. The wind farm’s close proximity to the military base has raised concerns about potential spying and attacks on the energy grid by China.

    The Chinese-backed project called Blue Hills Wind, which could house up to 40 turbines in Val Verde County, Texas, is being managed by GH America Energy, the US subsidiary of the Chinese Guanghui Energy Company. The project sits on approximately 140,000 acres of land located about 70 miles from Laughlin.

    .
    .
    Meanwhile, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) authorized GH America Energy’s Texas wind farm project in 2020. However, the lawmakers in the state are making sure the project is stopped.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-plans-build-giant-wind-farm-next-usaf-base-texas


  47. Aussie Infidel
    48 | May 7, 2021 8:50 pm

    @ Bunk X:
    Bunk X wrote:

    Cool chinese booster rocket tracker – live.
    https://orbit.ing-now.com/satellite/48275/2021-035b/cz-5b/

    very.

    Yet another Chinese screw up. A 20 tonne booster orbiting mostly across the Continents and due to burn up maybe over the next 24 hours. Typical Chinese attitude of losing control of space junk and not giving a tuppence fart who it hits. All they had to do was deorbit it safely but these ‘einsteins’ would rather just leave their junk behind them and do the amoral thing every time . No wonder they are drowning in their garbage dump. Typical gangster government that needs kicking to the curb


  48. Aussie Infidel
    49 | May 7, 2021 8:58 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Yup, the Chinese Communists are totally off reservation and believe that the West is so corrupt and decadent that they will just roll over to Chinese financial pressure. A major CCP company attempted to monster a State government into selling a huge cattle station right along side one of the Jindalee ULF over the horizon strategic radars in Western Australia. They were blatant about it and assumed that corrupt politicians wold be bought off. It didn’t happen this time but it won’t stop the CCP creeps from trying again


  49. lobo91
    50 | May 7, 2021 9:01 pm


  50. AZfederalist
    51 | May 7, 2021 9:04 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    Interesting orbit as well. Looks like its purpose was to launch reconnaissance over US, Southern Europe, and potentially some of Oz.


  51. eaglesoars
    52 | May 7, 2021 9:05 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    It’s probably not as it constitutes a “taking” without compensation – a Constitutional violation. But it will be years of court proceedings and millions of dollars of legal fees before that gets resolved.

    It’s not clear to me how ANY administration would manage to deny pharma their profits. That’s what I thought at first. Then I remembered – didn’t the gov’t [Trump] say that the gov’t would pay for all the research or something? I may be wrong about that. If that’s the case, then Biden could refuse to pay.

    But paying for the vaccine going forward is something between insurance companies and Medicare [if applicable] and I’m not clear how that could be blocked.

    Pharma could simply stop providing the vaccine.


  52. eaglesoars
    53 | May 7, 2021 9:07 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    believe that the West is so corrupt and decadent that they will just roll over to Chinese financial pressure.

    they’re not wrong………


  53. 54 | May 7, 2021 9:10 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    Just passed over Spain, headed for Italy.
    https://orbit.ing-now.com/3dlaunch/payload/data/2021-035/


  54. 55 | May 7, 2021 9:29 pm

    @ AZfederalist:
    CZ-5B/2021-035B orbital decay with predicted reentry within 26 hours


  55. 56 | May 7, 2021 9:30 pm

    @ Bunk X:
    Estimated Reentry Date:predicted between 0100 UTC May 8 and 1900


  56. AZfederalist
    57 | May 7, 2021 9:58 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Then I remembered – didn’t the gov’t [Trump] say that the gov’t would pay for all the research or something? I may be wrong about that. If that’s the case, then Biden could refuse to pay.

    If the government paid for the research and development, then the government owns the rights to the work and can distribute as it sees fit. The defense industry has gone through that in the past decades. If the government even invests $1 in the R&D for a product, it can claim rights to that product or technology. Companies are very careful to make sure that all intellectual property is developed on company dollars to ensure that it does not get given away. OK, most companies, the one I worked for wanted to claim IP on everything, but was very stingy with R&D dollars except for a very few pet things.


  57. 58 | May 7, 2021 9:58 pm

    President Joe Biden visits Lake Charles to speak to residents about infrastructure plans near the Calcasieu River Bridge as well as the Capitol One Building which remains damaged 8 months after Hurricane Laura.

    Too many to count.
    https://twitter.com/AllyArose108/status/1390386391213805569


  58. AZfederalist
    59 | May 7, 2021 9:59 pm

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:
    CZ-5B/2021-035B orbital decay with predicted reentry within 26 hours

    If I read that right, it is the booster, not the payload. Let me know if I misunderstood.


  59. 61 | May 7, 2021 10:04 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    it is the booster

    I believe this is correct. Probably gonna burn up.


  60. eaglesoars
    62 | May 7, 2021 10:09 pm

    No link yet, but I assume zerohedge will be posting it soon

    Well, well, well: Chinese Military Scientists Discussed Weaponizing SARS Coronaviruses In Document Obtained By U.S. Government: Australian Media

    https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1390849117627293697


  61. eaglesoars
    63 | May 7, 2021 10:13 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    ok, got it. The gov’t didn’t help.

    So. If Biden admin is serious about making sure pharma does not profit from its vaccine endeavor, what would be the mechanism to do that?


  62. eaglesoars
    64 | May 7, 2021 10:20 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    No link yet, but I assume zerohedge will be posting it soon

    Well, well, well: Chinese Military Scientists Discussed Weaponizing SARS Coronaviruses In Document Obtained By U.S. Government: Australian Media

    https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1390849117627293697

    Dailywire has it

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-military-scientists-discussed-weaponizing-sars-coronaviruses-in-document-obtained-by-u-s-government-australian-media


  63. darkwords
    65 | May 7, 2021 11:05 pm

    Couldn’t post to the site today. Eventually figured it out. I wonder if they barfed on the post title. They don’t say what link they don’t like.

    Web Protection by
    Bitdefender
    Dangerous page blocked for your protection
    https://www.blogmocracy.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogmocracy.com%2F2021%2F05%2F06%2Fdems-push-to-destroy-the-middle-class%2F
    Dangerous pages attempt to install software that can harm the device, gather personal information or operate without your consent.


  64. darkwords
    66 | May 7, 2021 11:16 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Seems to me like the Chinese would be inclined to do this. Their whole country is a test tube. And Fascist Fauci was their helpful American mole.


  65. AZfederalist
    67 | May 7, 2021 11:55 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    So. If Biden admin is serious about making sure pharma does not profit from its vaccine endeavor, what would be the mechanism to do that?

    That would certainly be a mechanism to do so. One would think the big pharma companies are smart enough to make sure that doesn’t happen though. Even with woke CEO’s, the one thing they won’t give up is profit — money still drives them.


  66. 68 | May 8, 2021 12:05 am

    darkwords wrote:

    Couldn’t post to the site today.

    I’ve had odd glitches, too, but they’re infrequent.


  67. Aussie Infidel
    69 | May 8, 2021 1:36 am

    darkwords wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    Seems to me like the Chinese would be inclined to do this. Their whole country is a test tube. And Fascist Fauci was their helpful American mole.

    Was ?

    Seriously

    IS their helpful mole

    How old is Fauci anyway. Surely the bell must ring soon?

    I bet that he’ll still be wearing a mask when the inevitable happens?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgTNx50ehFY

    Nope no mask by the looks of it !

    🙂


  68. eaglesoars
    70 | May 8, 2021 8:51 am

    Remember Marilyn Moseby the D.A. in Baltimore? She’s back. She’s siccing the FCC on the Baltimore Fox affiliate and Tucker Carlson because they’re mean to her.

    https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/07/baltimore-top-prosecutor-fcc-fox-news-affiliate/

    She has no idea what Tucker’s gonna do to her now, does she?


  69. eaglesoars
    71 | May 8, 2021 8:56 am

    tsk tsk this kind of thing just keeps happening……..

    Last night a fire broke out in Bushehr not far from Iran’s only nuclear power plant.

    I don’t know what’s burning but it’s spectacular

    https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1390973924595339265


  70. rain of lead
    72 | May 8, 2021 9:35 am

    morning y’all


  71. lobo91
    73 | May 8, 2021 10:28 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    “I have noted that the news coverage of the WBFF persistently follows a disconcerting and dangerous pattern: beginning with a slanted, rigged, misleading, or inflammatory headline; followed by a conspiracy theory; and supported with guest commentary from disgruntled ex-employees or political opponents that lend false credibility to their biased coverage or omission of facts,” she continued.

    Sounds exactly like CNN or MSNBC to me…


  72. eaglesoars
    74 | May 8, 2021 10:54 am

    This is the statement from Archbishop Vigano about COVID given at the Truth Over Fear conference (I think it’s pretty much Catholics but all observant Christians at least

    https://www.marcotosatti.com/2021/05/08/vigano-the-covid-an-infernal-plan-and-the-persecution-of-the-last-times/

    [“Our friend” is an imaginary person who has been holed up in a cave for the past year and returns to civilization]

    Well, our friend will discover that while he devoted himself to his novel or to meditation on the Fathers of the Church, the world has literally gone mad. A flu syndrome, which according to official data causes almost the same number of deaths among the elderly and weak people as any other normal seasonal flu, has been used as a pretext to sow terror amidst the population, thanks to the complicity of politicians, the media, doctors, and law enforcement. He will see himself surrounded by people who wear masks even outdoors, because someone has said that it will prevent infection. When he returns to his hometown and wants to go shopping, he will find that he is expelled from the grocery store because he is not wearing that ridiculous muzzle, and he will not be able to go out to eat at a restaurant without being subjected to a swab test that, up until last year, was indicated as ineffective for diagnostic purposes. He will hear it said that this “pandemic” has caused millions of deaths, even if in 2020 in every nation of the world the number of dead was basically exactly the same as in preceding years. And he will also hear that, because of an influenza virus that notoriously mutates like any other coronavirus, global authorities have purchased billions of doses of vaccines that are admittedly useless, given that they do not guarantee immunity and indeed have serious side effects, which nobody wants to recognize.

    Our friend will be disconcerted to learn that, at the first outbreak of infections in a remote location in China, instead of blocking flights and contacts with foreign countries, there were those who shouted “racism” and took great care to show solidarity by going to eat spring rolls at the local Chinese restaurant, with a bevy of photographers and reporters in tow. He will learn from the newspapers that many nations, for more than a decade previously, had weakened public health, closed hospitals, and left their pandemic plans out of date. And he will not understand why effective treatments and home health care have been banned, instead waiting for the infected to get worse so that they can be hospitalized in intensive care units and made to die using ventilators for deep breathing. He will be shocked when they tell him that the dead were deprived of an autopsy and subjected to cremation without any religious funeral services, as if those who let them die did not want to leave any traces of their misdeeds.


  73. lobo91
    75 | May 8, 2021 11:13 am


  74. eaglesoars
    76 | May 8, 2021 11:24 am

    uh huh

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9556971/US-pipeline-company-halts-operations-cyberattack.html

    Ransomware attack leads to shutdown of key pipeline that transports 100 million of gallons of fuel a day through a 5,500-mile pipeline between Texas and New Jersey [it’s Colonial]


  75. Aussie Infidel
    77 | May 8, 2021 11:26 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    Thanks Eagles. Couldn’t have said it better myself

    🙂


  76. eaglesoars
    78 | May 8, 2021 11:41 am

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    most welcome! How’s the shoulder?


  77. eaglesoars
    79 | May 8, 2021 11:47 am

    This is a good article on the origin of COVID (published in the Journal of Atomic Scientists, no less). The author, Nicholas Wade is a well known science writer. He’s not happy.

    https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/

    Viruses have all kinds of clever tricks, so why does the furin cleavage site stand out? Because of all known SARS-related beta-coronaviruses, only SARS2 possesses a furin cleavage site. All the other viruses have their S2 unit cleaved at a different site and by a different mechanism.

    How then did SARS2 acquire its furin cleavage site? Either the site evolved naturally, or it was inserted by researchers at the S1/S2 junction in a gain-of-function experiment.
    .
    .
    People round the world who have been pretty much confined to their homes for the last year might like a better answer than their media are giving them. Perhaps one will emerge in time. After all, the more months pass without the natural emergence theory gaining a shred of supporting evidence, the less plausible it may seem. Perhaps the international community of virologists will come to be seen as a false and self-interested guide. The common sense perception that a pandemic breaking out in Wuhan might have something to do with a Wuhan lab cooking up novel viruses of maximal danger in unsafe conditions could eventually displace the ideological insistence that whatever Trump said can’t be true.

    And then let the reckoning begin.


  78. eaglesoars
    80 | May 8, 2021 11:55 am

    Matt Deperno is the lawyer leading the election fraud fight in Michigan. Here is his website with all the evidence they’ve gathered

    https://www.depernolaw.com/


  79. Aussie Infidel
    81 | May 8, 2021 12:03 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    most welcome! How’s the shoulder?

    Bloody sore. It’s 3″56 here and that says it all.

    Seeing the surgeon Monday theoretically but I have a bad cold from Melbourne and that might have to slide. Kept my mouth shut transmitting the Airports and had a Covid test when I made it back home. Negative as i suspected. Can’t sleep with all the coughing up stuff and being propped up on multiple pillows. Doesn’t help with this contraption tying my arm to my body either….

    grizzle … grizzle … grouch

    🙂


  80. eaglesoars
    82 | May 8, 2021 12:06 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    I recommend a couple gin and tonics.

    ok, time to take the heathen beagles to be boarded. later.


  81. Aussie Infidel
    83 | May 8, 2021 12:07 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    I think the stirrings of that reckoning are already well underway.

    Truth has a pesky habit of leaking out eventually


  82. Aussie Infidel
    84 | May 8, 2021 12:10 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    What a great idea.

    I bought a bottle of very good Irish Whisky back in my Duty Free.

    My elixir was there all of the time !

    🙂


  83. Deplorable Bumr50
    85 | May 8, 2021 12:18 pm

    Cyberattack shuts down pipeline that supplies 45 percent of East Coast fuel

    https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/cyberattack-shuts-down-pipeline-that-supplies-east-coast-with-fuel/

    I find it hard to believe that any of their process control was on the internet, so I’m wondering if a physical hack had to take place Stuxnet-style.


  84. Deplorable Bumr50
    86 | May 8, 2021 12:22 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    I think I’m going to fill our tanks…


  85. eaglesoars
    87 | May 8, 2021 12:45 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    I think I’m going to fill our tanks…

    good idea. I think I’m going to rob a bank.


  86. lobo91
    88 | May 8, 2021 2:25 pm


  87. AZfederalist
    89 | May 8, 2021 2:57 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    She has no idea what Tucker’s gonna do to her now, does she?

    From what I remember seeing her when her 15 minutes were active, she didn’t exactly strike me as the sharpest tool in the shed.


  88. rain of lead
    90 | May 8, 2021 4:18 pm

    dat slide tho…

    Ozzy Osbourne “Mama, I’m Coming Home” (Larkin Poe Cover)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_inb9O-ckNs


  89. darkwords
    91 | May 8, 2021 4:29 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:
    Time to buy gas.


  90. darkwords
    92 | May 8, 2021 4:40 pm

    @ lobo91:
    Good story lol.


  91. darkwords
    93 | May 8, 2021 5:16 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Well I hope one of these efforts comes home to roost. It seems like an awful lot of corruption in the election systems. In Michigan you have an election manager who can’t understand the law that she should not alter the election system 30 days before the election. IMO a year should be the limit.


  92. 94 | May 8, 2021 5:16 pm

    +/- 8 hours before the chinese firecracker goes off. If you don’t hear from me after 10pm PST, I’ll probably be somewhere in Myanmar.


  93. darkwords
    95 | May 8, 2021 5:23 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    It’s problematic that these election offices buying Dominion software also bought a wifi modem to cloud connect. And only Dominion was accessing the admin passwords in a proprietary system. That is not a safe election.

    That’s before even getting in the SQL(Strutured query language) issues. Those are essentially global search and replace functions provided in a very small script that can be uploaded to a voting machine via thumb drive or wireless access. And what is more likely is the dominion consultant was just doing that from his office. what a crap show for an election. All of these election managers have no idea of how to run an election. They are political hacks with no election skills.


  94. lobo91
    96 | May 8, 2021 5:28 pm


  95. 97 | May 8, 2021 5:44 pm

    @ Bunk X:
    predicted reentry within 4 hours


  96. 98 | May 8, 2021 5:48 pm

    https://thehoundnyc.com/


  97. eaglesoars
    99 | May 8, 2021 5:54 pm

    darkwords wrote:

    They are political hacks with no election skills.

    They should also have software skills. SQL is easy to learn as far as relational database software is concerned but it’s still a relational database distributed over a network. Things can get tricky.


  98. eaglesoars
    100 | May 8, 2021 6:34 pm

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ Bunk X:
    predicted reentry within 4 hours

    not that long – here’s a live tracker

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEfpRAt0MA


  99. 101 | May 8, 2021 8:06 pm

    @ Bunk X:
    Now they’re estimating re-entry in about 90 minutes.


  100. 102 | May 8, 2021 8:10 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    That one looks more up to date, better map, too. Looks like I gained enough time for a nap.


  101. 103 | May 8, 2021 8:17 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    The US on Thursday said it was watching the path of the object but currently had no plans to shoot it down.
    “We’re hopeful that it will, like, land in a place where it, like, won’t fuck things up and shit.” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.


  102. eaglesoars
    104 | May 8, 2021 8:32 pm

    @ Bunk X:

    if we’re lucky, it hits the Pentagon


  103. eaglesoars
    105 | May 8, 2021 8:34 pm

    Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Holds Emergency Meeting After AZ Senate Threatens Legal Action for Not Providing Passwords and Routers

    No answers yet – the Supervisors are in a lot of trouble in not providing these items to the auditors. These items are not out of place or items that are out of the ordinary in an audit like this one. You have to wonder why the auditors who the County selected to audit their work didn’t have a problem with this. Did they not request this information? This would indicate a poorly designed audit. Did they pass on not receiving this information? This would indicate a problem with the auditors’ judgement.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/maricopa-county-board-supervisors-holds-emergency-meeting-az-senate-threatens-legal-action-not-providing-passwords-routers/


  104. eaglesoars
    106 | May 8, 2021 8:38 pm

    Representative Liz Cheney’s husband’s law firm represents several Chinese Communist Party-linked clients – including firms tied to the regime’s military – and employs former party officials to undergird its massive China practice, The National Pulse can reveal.

    Phillip Perry – the husband of the House Republican Conference Chair who looks set to be ousted over her outlandish criticisms of her own party and its leader Donald Trump – serves as a Partner at Latham & Watkins. The firm, which has offices in Shanghai and Beijing, has worked with companies labeled “tools” of the Chinese Communist Party by the U.S. State Department and People’s Liberation Army collaborators.

    https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/liz-cheney-husbands-firm-reps-ccp-clients/


  105. eaglesoars
    107 | May 8, 2021 8:44 pm

    This is good

    Biden Greeted by NOBODY While Visiting Louisiana

    Team Demented touts their Get America Back on Track tour. Despite the train reference, Biden appeared in Louisiana to tout his $2T infrastructure boondogggle.

    The event had all the hoopla of watching Biden pick lint out of his belly-button. See for yourself:

    The videos are damning. I especially like the one of the overpass graffiti DEMS STOLE IT

    https://theblacksphere.net/2021/05/biden-greeted-by-nobody-while-visiting-lake-charles-louisiana/


  106. eaglesoars
    108 | May 8, 2021 8:54 pm

    And THIS is hilarious.

    ‘Jonestown 2.0, racism edition’: Radical anti-Semites crowdfund $65,000 for doomed city in Colorado mountains

    A band of “anticolonial” and racist activists have “liberated” land high in the Colorado mountains to build a utopian city for minorities. Commenters are expecting a rerun of the Jonestown cult, but with more anti-Semitism.
    Openly communist, overtly anti-white, and proudly anti-Semitic, the ‘Black Hammer’ organization isn’t afraid of a fight. The group’s Twitter account fires off hourly invectives against the “cave beast” white race it sees as “colonizers,” and against the Jewish people it accuses of funding the “pig departments and prison systems that mass incarcerate and kill us everyday.” Bizarrely, the group has taken a fix on Anne Frank, calling the Holocaust victim a “bleach demon,” whose death – to them – overshadowed the suffering of colonized people worldwide.
    .
    .
    Black Hammer members have taken part in rallies and protests across the country, but the scant media reports on their activities don’t mention the racism and the apparently pathological fixation on Jews. Instead, they praise the “activist group” for holding vigils for coronavirus victims and handing out masks, food and clothing to their fellow people of color.

    But while they’ve been pushing Farrakhan-style racism on Twitter and getting stuck into charity work on the streets, Black Hammer’s members have been stockpiling cash. A GoFundMe campaign organized by the group has pulled in nearly $65,000 since last July. The group wants $500,000 to build a city of their own, with free healthcare, free rent [if it’s free, there IS no rent], and no cops. White people and Jews are presumably not welcome.

    On Monday, the group announced that it had “successfully liberated 200 Acres of Land to build our City,” adding that their real-life Wakanda would be “FOR COLONIZED PEOPLE ONLY.” Presumably, “liberated” in this instance means “bought.”[Nope]

    And the best part

    But while the racists in Montana and North Dakota bought up fertile land, commenters pointed out that the Black Hammer crew might find it hard to build a sustainable city so high in the mountains. “May God have mercy on them,” one wrote, “for the arid scrubland of one of the most historically inhabitable regions on earth will not.”

    “rich soil” siri how often does it snow at random times during growing season in the colorodo mountains at 10,000 feetsiri whats solar radiation like at 10,000 feet and how much does it increase skin cancer risk Siri how come this land was so cheap

    limestone half an inch down.

    “They’re going to end up eating each other by October,”

    https://www.rt.com/usa/522879-black-hammer-colorado-mountains/?fbclid=IwAR2502LPx0T6oYUbCXq7NzzCHlgGuhqvTRXqwmQ2PS4VCQaugk8InelKAH8


  107. Possum
    109 | May 8, 2021 9:05 pm

    The Chinese rocket had a problem which caused its return to Earth to be uncontrolled and unpredictable.

    This is what should have happened….

    The rocket knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the rocket from a position where it is to a position where it isn’t, and arriving at a position where it wasn’t, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn’t, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn’t.
    In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn’t, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the rocket is, and where it wasn’t. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the rocket must also know where it was.

    The rocket guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the rocket has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn’t, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn’t, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn’t be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

    Because the GEA failed the rocket is unguided.


  108. lobo91
    110 | May 8, 2021 9:35 pm

    @ Possum:

    Because the GEA failed the rocket is unguided.

    Much like the Biden administration, then


  109. Aussie Infidel
    111 | May 8, 2021 9:41 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    limestone half an inch down.

    “They’re going to end up eating each other by October,”

    Just make sure that there is lots of Ketschup available and for the sports out there build some bleachers and bring beer to watch the action hot up as the temperature drops.
    Hmmmm
    Better make those bleachers out of steel as the as those pesky Black Hammer-ers will no doubt try to burn anything flammable to keep from freezing.

    🙂


  110. eaglesoars
    112 | May 8, 2021 9:42 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    Much like the Biden administration, then

    That assumes the Biden admin ever intended to be ‘guided’.


  111. Aussie Infidel
    113 | May 8, 2021 9:43 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ Possum:

    Because the GEA failed the rocket is unguided.

    Much like the Biden administration, then

    Au Contraire mon amiee.

    The Biden shit show never knew where it wasn’t let alone where it used to be !

    🙂


  112. Aussie Infidel
    114 | May 8, 2021 9:48 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    lobo91 wrote:

    Much like the Biden administration, then

    That assumes the Biden admin ever intended to be ‘guided’.

    To be guided one most know a current location and a required destination.

    Both are way beyond the mental abilities of either Biden himself or his Fascist Left ‘handlers’.
    They’re all just ‘winging it and lying like they always do and hoping that thrir true believers don’t notice.

    THEY ARE NOTICING … and they are getting skittish and even a bit pissed off

    Heh

    🙂


  113. Aussie Infidel
    115 | May 8, 2021 9:56 pm

    @ Possum:
    Well theoretically the Chinese SNAFU rocket body should have spoiled the day of some Earthling by now. Alternatively some Great White carelessly looking for something to chow down on is now fish fingers itself and being consumed by myriad lesser fish who missed , or were missed by the big event.

    🙂


  114. eaglesoars
    116 | May 8, 2021 9:56 pm

    We are near panic about selling the house. Only 2 times has anyone made an appt. The first was a couple w/4 kids (12 yo thru toddler). This is not a house for kids, the yard is too small. The deal was she is a big Yankees fan and she wanted to see Hubby’s shrine.

    Another agent made an appt for 12:30 tomorrow that was canceled about an hour ago because the buyer’s schedule changed.

    This is supposedly one of the best neighborhoods in Alexandria and the market is supposedly hot.

    And……..nothing. The house behind us, on the market for 29 days now, is reporting the same. No one.

    Our agent can’t explain it – “be patient” blah blah blah. Bullshit. We have a deadline. And we are absolutely fucked if we can’t make it.


  115. Aussie Infidel
    117 | May 8, 2021 10:04 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    I am sorry that you are in this fix Eagles.

    Can you widen the geography of potential purchasers?
    Can you use International Real Estate purveyors to look for a wider demographic?
    Surely Alexandria is ideal for Federal government employees looking for permanent housing close to the action?

    When is your first deadline Eagles?

    Any chance of Bridging Finance to give you some more wriggle room and get you deeper into the summer whn purses are more open and peope more optimistic?


  116. Aussie Infidel
    118 | May 8, 2021 10:13 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    And……..nothing. The house behind us, on the market for 29 days now, is reporting the same. No one.

    Our agent can’t explain it – “be patient” blah blah blah. Bullshit. We have a deadline. And we are absolutely fucked if we can’t make it.

    28 days is not unheard of globally Eagles. Time to keep your head and try to get a better handle on the actual market.

    What are total sales across ALL Real Estate companies in your area over the last 3 months? What is this agent’s ‘hit rate’ ? Is this agent operating and experienced in selling into your part of the market? There are plenty of variables and you guys are smart and figure this out by asking the necessary questions, formulating a plan to find out what you don’t know . And have the fortitude to make good logical decisions under pressure. Is there any slacktivism to formulate a Plan B at this stage?


  117. Aussie Infidel
    119 | May 8, 2021 10:14 pm

    slacktivism? Where the hell did that come from?


  118. Possum
    120 | May 8, 2021 10:14 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    @ Possum:
    Well theoretically the Chinese SNAFU rocket body should have spoiled the day of some Earthling by now. Alternatively some Great White carelessly looking for something to chow down on is now fish fingers itself and being consumed by myriad lesser fish who missed , or were missed by the big event.

    This is a complicated and fascinating event. As it is in an elliptical orbit the altitude keeps changing. Notice all the ” WTF it is going back up! ” tweets by the uneducated.

    Also, the time and place when it first encounters the outer atmosphere can be calculated but what orientation is the rocket in? Is it stable engines first? Stable engines last. On its side? Whatever way it is oriented when it starts to encounter the atmosphere will determine how fast it slows down ( um, how fast something slows is maybe not scientific LOL )

    Then when the atmosphere is encountered will it change orientation which will again mess up the calculations?

    Because of the elliptical orbit the first encounter with the atmosphere could cause it to “bounce” off the atmosphere…

    Basically no one knows where it will come down, but it will be somewhere in the orbital path. That ain’t changing.


  119. eaglesoars
    121 | May 8, 2021 10:15 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Can you widen the geography of potential purchasers?

    The house is shown on national real estate sites, realtor.com and zillow.com.

    It’s not us because the house behind us is experiencing the same. I don’t know them but one of my best girl friends who used to live next door does and they told her.

    No. There is something going on w/the market that has not bubbled up to the ‘common attention’ yet.

    I have contacted an agency that buys your house if they can’t get a buyer at the market price. I’ve probably violated the contract we have w/the current agent but maybe not as talking is not signing a contract.

    I’ve looked at the real estate sites for our zip code in our price cohort and SOMETHING is off. It’s not our agent, she’s lovely and quite good. She’s just clueless and it appears everyone else is too.

    I’m a fairly good systems analyst and nothing I’m seeing makes any sense.


  120. eaglesoars
    122 | May 8, 2021 10:25 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    28 days is not unheard of globally Eagles.

    location location location.

    6 weeks ago a house in our price range/location sold within a week or 2. I have the stats.

    It’s not the agency or the agent as all houses go on a multi-listing site and are shown on the internet real estate sites. Requests for appointments are made to me directly via texts. I did not find our house in Tennessee via an agent, I found it on realtor.com and then contacted the agent to close the deal. It’s all internet.

    I have to shut up now, sorry to vent. Let’s talk about how Biden wants to ban menthol smokes. Do these people every learn anything? No, they do not because they think diktats mold reality.

    And has that stupid Chinese wreck landed somewhere yet?


  121. Aussie Infidel
    123 | May 8, 2021 10:44 pm

    No they don’t learn anything and it shows. They always make the same SNAFUs and then attempt to shift the blame when it all turns to custard. They all seem to have a gene that makes them both arrogant and stupid at the same time. This makes then extremely dangerous as they exhibit a moving feast when it comes to logic , rationality and moral certitude.

    Remember to count your fingers afterwards when shaking their hands
    🙂

    As for the CCP booster, perhaps it’s guidance package was crafted by the same outfit that built my brother’s ‘El Cheapo’ Chinese electric ride on mower. It seems programmed to destroy battery pack cells.

    He’s into his third battery pack in 6 months and nobody can figure out why the Chinese circuitry seems determined to eat batteries for lunch !

    🙂


  122. eaglesoars
    124 | May 8, 2021 11:04 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    Ah. Batteries. The next final frontier. I’m going to bed. Sorry for the personal rant.


  123. coldwarrior
    125 | May 8, 2021 11:14 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    slacktivism? Where the hell did that come from?

    i am ALL about slacktivism.


  124. 126 | May 8, 2021 11:15 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ Bunk X:

    if we’re lucky, it hits the Pentagon

    The odds of that are about the same as Joe Biden getting elected president.
    Oh wait…


  125. AZfederalist
    127 | May 8, 2021 11:37 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    That assumes the Biden admin ever intended to be ‘guided’.

    Oh, it’s guided alright. Because it certainly isn’t leading self-actuating. The question is, who are the marxists that are guiding it?


  126. 128 | May 8, 2021 11:46 pm

    Dogs loading bulls


  127. 129 | May 8, 2021 11:59 pm

    @ Possum:
    THAT is a piece of art.


  128. 130 | May 9, 2021 12:05 am

    Heh. Right as the chinese booster clock hit 00:00:00 someone fired off an aerial bomb in the neighborhood.


  129. Possum
    131 | May 9, 2021 12:18 am

    Bunk X wrote:

    @ Possum:
    THAT is a piece of art.

    I stole the text. replaced rocket for missile and posted it here.

    The text is real, it is from a USAF training film of how guidance systems for missiles work.

    Unfortunately there are so many youtube videos out there capitalizing on that text for profit it is unpossible to find the original.

    I did watch the original, and paused it, and rewound it and watched it and rewound it and it makes PERFECT sense ( after over two hours of watching, rewinding, pausing… )

    There is another USAF film from the 50s or 60s that has cartoon characters in the compartments of a guided missile showing how they all interact.

    History is fascinating. Recent history as in real life things that are relevant today.


  130. 132 | May 9, 2021 12:24 am

    Possum wrote:

    I stole the text.

    And so I stole it also. 😀


  131. Possum
    133 | May 9, 2021 12:27 am

    @ Possum:

    Also due to the speed of computers and even really clever people doing math with a pencil and paper knowing where you are, as a missile, is a waste of time because by the time you know where you are you are no longer there.

    So, where you have been, and where you are supposed to be is the important part. Where you are now is not where you were or where you are supposed to go.

    I get it!

    Just follow your dream, where you are now is not important. Where you were and where you want to be is the thing that should guide you.


  132. 134 | May 9, 2021 12:30 am

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    slacktivism? Where the hell did that come from?

    According to Wiki, it came from Dwight Ozard and Fred Clark at the Cornerstone Festival in 1995.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism


  133. Possum
    135 | May 9, 2021 12:34 am

    Um and that was my thoughts, not stolen.

    Just follow your dream, where you are now is not important. Where you were and where you want to be is the thing that should guide you.

    I hope a distant friend sees that and passes it on to our mutual friend.

    Now I need a beer and cake.


  134. AZfederalist
    136 | May 9, 2021 12:45 am

    Bunk X wrote:

    Dogs loading bulls

    That was impressive.


  135. Possum
    137 | May 9, 2021 12:48 am

    I just psychotherapist myself NIGHT!!!!!!!!

    Fucking missile guidance systems..


  136. 138 | May 9, 2021 1:12 am

    Possum wrote:

    Where you are now is not where you were or where you are supposed to go.

    Okay, so it takes time for light to bounce off an object and into your eyeballs, and time to relay that information to your brain, and time for your brain to process and identify the object. “Now” is always in the past.

    I want beer and cake, too.


  137. Possum
    139 | May 9, 2021 1:16 am

    @ Bunk X:
    Too late. By the time you realised we had cake we eated it.


  138. 140 | May 9, 2021 1:17 am

    I just learned that batraquomancy is divination using frogs.


  139. 141 | May 9, 2021 1:19 am

    @ Possum:
    I can have beer only when I’m asleep. I can have cake when I’m awake and real sneaky.


  140. 142 | May 9, 2021 1:56 am

    Chinese booster rocket reenactment.
    https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1390676792160268295


  141. 143 | May 9, 2021 3:13 am

    Good Jobs First, a website that tracks government subsidies and promotes “accountability in economic development,” reports that Facebook has received nearly $800 million in state, local, and federal subsidies since 2010.

    https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/facebook


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