A new term was accidentally coined last night by Aussie:
Slacktivism.
I like it.
I also love some Misfts…Mr Graves tells it like it is.
Happy Mothers Day 2021, Yinz Muthers!
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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!
My first mother’s day without my mother. Small things are popping up that remind me of her. Like yellow begonia hanging baskets that she loved for her front porch. She could see them from her favorite spot in the living room and it would bring her such joy. Will wait for the weather to improve before I buy some for the house.
@ PaladinPhil:
Yeah, I miss my mom too. Long story, but she showed up for about 7 years after she passed. Until her first great grandchild was born (she visited not just me but my sister and both nieces)
Anyhoo, this is a big uh oh
Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit returns positive drug test
https://www.wlky.com/article/kentucky-derby-winner-medina-spirit-returns-positive-drug-test/36374437#
I stumbled on this today. There’s a piece in WaPo about supply chain disruption that I can’t see on my laptop because of the paywall. But I CAN read it on my phone. May not work for all sites but worth a try
You know that CIA recruitment video that was so woke people laughed at it? It’s not the only one. This guy found about 6
https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1390726025097760769
@ PaladinPhil:
First one without my mom also. She liked Robins in the spring.
@ eaglesoars:
I can see the quality of deception and being believed being good for a spy. I can see wokeness in a spy as an easy blown cover.
This is probably why the US military didn’t use the chinese booster as target practice.
Bo Obama died.
eaglesoars wrote:
This?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/08/manufacturing-supply-chain-crisis/
darkwords wrote:
I don’t think the employees in any of those videos are on the operations side of the Agency (“spies”). They all appear to be analysts and other headquarters staff.
@ darkwords:
Same here. In fact I’m arranging for her funeral this Friday. I always made sure she knew she was loved and that I would never wish to swap her for anyone else’s, she was the best (strongest, fighting adversity like no ones business) and smart as a whip !!
Happy Mothers Day to all of you Mothers out there !!
4_Sticks wrote:
Oh no! I’m so sorry!
Bunk X wrote:
yep
The Fauci Bargin. Even though the Obama admin shut down his gain of function fantasies he was so obsessed with them that once Trump was in office he snuck over to China to restart them. It appears Fauci knows better. It appears Fauci enjoys a world wide pandemic.
@ 4_Sticks:
Moms are great. My condolences and thoughts on the passing of your mom. We appear to be in that age group in the blog.
If the DoJ tries to stop the Maricopa Canvassing I would hope the Governor kicks the feds out of the state by force.
If not then I would think the DoJ has created standing at the Supreme Court for all those election lawsuits they sauntered by.
darkwords wrote:
now THERE’S a thought!
darkwords wrote:
I saw something today where he said masks may always be with us, but they would be ‘seasonal’.
psychopath
eaglesoars wrote:
They would be used as both a reward (OK Comrades you’ve been obedient so you get to be mask free for a specific period or until you rebel) or a threat (obey your Overlords you swine or it’s back behind masks for you).
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
https://therightscoop.com/keep-spreading-that-fear-buddy-citizen-totally-busts-reporter-on-camera-playing-mask-game-and-he-has-no-defense/
One of the ‘comrades’ caught in a lie and knowing it.
The body language is remarkable. The shoulders drop, he actually sighs deeply , hid head looks at the ground and he tries to mumble a parting defence, gives up and runs away.
CLASSIC
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
https://therightscoop.com/keep-spreading-that-fear-buddy-citizen-totally-busts-reporter-on-camera-playing-mask-game-and-he-has-no-defense/
One of the ‘comrades’ caught in a lie and knowing it.
The body language is remarkable. The shoulders drop, he actually sighs deeply , hid head looks at the ground and he tries to mumble a parting defence, gives up and runs away.
CLASSIC
:
🙂
opps how did that happen?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
it was so good that it was said twice!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
and in PITTSBURGH no less. They oughta toss his ass in the Mon.
Biden to deliver remarks on the economy tomorrow per White House, after disappointing jobs report on Friday
watch him blame it on Trump
https://twitter.com/robcrilly/status/1391570064072232965
I’ve also noticed this at my job, with a certain large chain pharmacy. There have been items which seem to sell out the moment we get a pallet in. The GM has told us about supply chain issues. @ eaglesoars:
@ Canoe Convoy:
Hi, thanks. I’m so busy trying to offload this house I don’t have time to do my usual research, it’s good to know someone else is paying attention and can perhaps post any info they run across.
nite. bedtime
Conclusions:
Meta-analyses based on 18 randomized controlled treatment trials of ivermectin in COVID-19 have found large, statistically significant reductions in mortality, time to clinical recovery, and time to viral clearance. Furthermore, results from numerous controlled prophylaxis trials report significantly reduced risks of contracting COVID-19 with the regular use of ivermectin. Finally, the many examples of ivermectin distribution campaigns leading to rapid population-wide decreases in morbidity and mortality indicate that an oral agent effective in all phases of COVID-19 has been identified….
…In 1975, Professor Satoshi Omura at the Kitsato institute in Japan isolated an unusual Streptomyces bacterium from the soil near a golf course along the southeast coast of Honshu, Japan. Omura, along with William Campbell, found that the bacterial culture could cure mice infected with the roundworm Heligmosomoides polygyrus. Campbell isolated the active compounds from the bacterial culture, naming them “avermectins” and the bacterium S. avermitilis for the compounds’ ability to clear mice of worms.7 Despite decades of searching around the world, the Japanese microorganism remains the only source of avermectin ever found. Ivermectin, a derivative of avermectin, then proved revolutionary. Originally introduced as a veterinary drug, it soon made historic impacts in human health, improving the nutrition, general health, and well-being of billions of people worldwide ever since it was first used to treat onchocerciasis (river blindness) in humans in 1988. It proved ideal in many ways, given that it was highly effective, broad-spectrum, safe, well tolerated, and could be easily administered.7 Although it was used to treat a variety of internal nematode infections, it was most known as the essential mainstay of 2 global disease elimination campaigns that has nearly eliminated the world of two of its most disfiguring and devastating diseases.
some light reading above.
enjoy
eaglesoars wrote:
Seasonal at the whim of the government of course
too many days in a row.
night yinz!
eaglesoars wrote:
I would not counter that bet no matter what odds you gave me.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Reminds me of this vid. Candidate for mayor brought a film crew, trampled the grass and flowers, annoyed the homeowner.
https://youtu.be/de3WWGCK4N0
coldwarrior wrote:
Smallpox & leprosy?
I guess guns are only bad if white people use them.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-may-soften-gun-crime-laws-citing-impact-on-people-of-color
@ Bunk X:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5642864/
More light reading
@ Bunk X:
onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis
the ivermectin discussion hits one of my favorite topice, ‘neglected tropical diseases’
so, onchcerciasis is aslo known as river blindness, carried by black flies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onchocerciasis
and lymphatic filariasis, which often turns into elephantitis, carried by mosquitos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphatic_filariasis
both are caused by parasitic worms. ivermectin interferes with the muscles and nerves of the parasitic worms when taken orally; this disrupts the parasite’s life / reproductive cycle when they are in viro. it can also be used topically to treat scabies.
so, ivermectin appears to also work as a broad-specrum anti-viral in viro. it inhibits RNA protein folding of the virus during replication. how it does this is well beyond my scope of practice or understanding.
Bunk X wrote:
smallpox is prevented with a simple vax as it is a viral infection
The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when the English doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were protected from smallpox. Jenner also knew about variolation and guessed that exposure to cowpox could be used to protect against smallpox. To test his theory, Dr. Jenner took material from a cowpox sore on milkmaid Sarah Nelmes’ hand and inoculated it into the arm of James Phipps, the 9-year-old son of Jenner’s gardener. Months later, Jenner exposed Phipps several times to variola virus, but Phipps never developed smallpox. More experiments followed, and, in 1801, Jenner published his treatise “On the Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation.” In this work, he summarized his discoveries and expressed hope that “the annihilation of the smallpox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of this practice.”
Dr Jenner is truly a hero among the medical profession.
leprosy is treated with antibiotics as it is a bacterial infection
…and here endeth the lecture as i must go hit some golf balls.
There is now more crypto in circulation than dollars
Our new CIA Director is a Chinese stooge
National Security, Military Vets Demand CIA Director Resigns Over Chinese Communist Party Links, Lies To U.S. Senate.
Washington, D.C. — The Committee on the Present Danger China – a national security group constituted of national security and military veteran – is demanding the resignation of Joe Biden’s recently confirmed CIA chief William Burns following outright lies to the United States Senate over Burns’s links to the Chinese Communist Party.
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/cpdc-letter-demands-cia-director-resignation/
And the new Sr. Counsel/Nat’l Security Div of the DOJ is….
Susan Hennessey!
Major Trump hater (even wrote a book about it), writes for Lawfare, far left blog, supporter of the Trump hoax and former NSA lawyer
JUST IN – FBI confirms that the #Darkside ransomware is responsible for the compromise of the Colonial Pipeline networks, which is still dysfunctional to a large extend.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1391784513311842309
So now we know it’s not Darkside…………
eaglesoars wrote:
Hennessey even managed to join the parade of psychos who claimed the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were “corroborated.”
forgot about that one.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/05/10/one-of-the-worst-russian-collusion-hoaxers-just-got-hired-by-the-doj-n377438
Darkside sez it wasn’t them but they’re sorry anyway
In its own statement, the DarkSide group hinted that an affiliate may have been behind the attack and that it never intended to cause such upheaval. Like some other ransomware groups, DarkSide offers to sell its malware to others in what is known as “ransomware-as-a-service,” according to the cybersecurity firm Cybereason.
In a message posted on the dark web, where DarkSide maintains a site, the group suggested one of its customers was behind the attack and promised to do a better job vetting them going forward.
“We are apolitical. We do not participate in geopolitics,” the message says. “Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society. From today, we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-10/white-house-creates-task-force-to-deal-with-pipeline-breach?sref=vuYGislZ
coldwarrior wrote:
Some light reading below, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism
coldwarrior wrote:
Throwing latin at me on a Monday? Jeez-o-Pete. You medheads are all the same.
River blindness and elephantiasis.
Oop. I didn’t read your follow up comment.
Rock on wit yo bad sef.
@ coldwarrior:
Bunk X wrote:
ahhhh….not new
Bunk X wrote:
that’s “yinz meatheads” thankyouverrymuch
omnibus, peribus, i missed the bus, i’ll catch the next bus (in church/monk chant)
@ eaglesoars:
the entirety of the dc collective needs to be removed with extreme prejudice. this is simply incest at this point.
eaglesoars wrote:
for now.
i wouldnt touch that stuff with OPM.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9562695/France-bans-schools-teaching-gender-neutral-words.html
well done.
https://gutsmack.com/2021/05/tim-tebow-2-0/
as i said many years ago, tebow would make an excellent tight end…
‘god’ made him waste 9 prime years, i guess…or was it tim’s hubris and ego?
coldwarrior wrote:
#metoo
Apparently, people are using it as a hedge against dollar devaluation. And Biden is in the process of proving them right.
Biden said they’ve seen no evidence that employers’ inability to find workers is caused by the gov’t giving out free money.
We are being governed by implacable stupidity.
@ eaglesoars:
we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us
Facebook Oversight Board Co-Chair Headlined Top Chinese Communist Party Influence Group’s Conference.
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/fb-oversight-board-chair-headlined-ccp-conference/
Natalie Winter at the National Pulse has become the go-to reporter for all China stuff. And I think she’s like 21 or something. An infant.
eaglesoars wrote:
yep, one of our groundskeepers basically said that a few weeks ago. he got fired.
no funemployment for him. kid wouldn’t show up on time, was warned, written up…fired. fired from a pretty lenient job too and he lives a few hundred yards from the course..
fired in PA means no unemployment. he found that out a few days ago and was back today begging for his job back. he was re-hired, with caveats and a written warning.
the owner taught him a very nice lesson.
@ coldwarrior:
The Roaches’ Mr. Sellack comes to mind.
@ Bunk X:
yep. its called work and not ‘happy play fun time’ for a reason
This is monsterous
APNEWSALERT: NEW YORK (AP) — US expands use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, paving way for children as young as 12 to get shots.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yuppp
And not particularly contagious to boot. You can have a single family of lepers in a village that are not infected at all. Lepers terrified me. I used to put them down the back of the plane, with Yaws in the middle because they were gross and speed bad and TbB up front with me.
A nurse put me right and the lepers sat up front and the TB suffers went down th back!
eaglesoars wrote:
Monsterous as well as wickedly evil too
@ eaglesoars:
Visited my surgeon yesterday and he freed me from my ‘contraption. FREE FREE AT LAST!
🙂
Said the current discomfort was 100% normal for the level of repairs he did to my shoulder. Said to relax heal and come bach in a month.
🙂
Yinz really need to listen to Steve Bannon’s show, War Room. You don’t have to listen live, everything is recorded and saved on the website.
https://warroom.org/
Mon – Fri he’s on at 10-12, and 5-6 and Sat at 10-12.
Today he interviewed an Aussie journalist, Sharri Markson, investigative journo, who has written a book “What Really Happened in Wuhan”, out in Sept (you can pre-order)
It sounds like the Five Eyes intel agencies knew more than our gov’ts were telling us regarding the origins of the virus. BUT – U.S. intel refused to share a lot of stuff w/the other agencies.
And I got the impression that a lot was suppressed because people just HATED Trump and didn’t want to provide info that proved he was right. Altho I don’t think her book addresses it, that goes for therapeutics too. A lot of people have blood on their hands.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Excellent, but I think gin & tonics are still in order.
So, do you know of the Sharri Markson person?
I was visiting my parents in Florida one summer and a mama armadillo waddled over with 2 babies. I played with them.
Which is when my sister gleefully informed me they are the only other creatures that contract Hanson’s disease, aka leprosy.
She doesn’t like me.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
what are Yaws?
The Aussie economy is very strong and is about to BOOM. They are short of just about every class of occupation. Queensland is short 1000+ chefs alone. Skilled workers are being attracted from overseas and commodity prices are going ballistic, Iron ore price hit $160 a tonne. China economy is now dependant 100% on Aussie iron ore. China’strade war on Oz is smoke and mirrors as it’s the Aussies who have the Chinese economy by the balls. Turn off the ore and coal and Chia goes dr and broke. …… The rest is just Chinese jingoism writ large.
Johnson’s UK is also about to boom. Hopefully the Kiwi economy can wean itself off the Chinese economy as the UK begins to open it’s food markets to Kiwi high value food and services.
eaglesoars wrote:
Inch wide mini volcanos of puss mostly on the genitals and face that look disgusting and smell worse Asimple course of antibiotics fixed it just like that.
A bit like Grilly #1 but with associated puss !
Yuh!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
When are they not?
eaglesoars wrote:
Thanks Eagles. I slept in a real bed last night! Bliss.
Interestingly lepers lose sensation and villagers used to accidentally roll into the hot coals of a fire at night and not wake up sans a hand or foot next morning. It wasn’t their leprosy per se that I was flying them out of the jungle to treat. It was associated damage to their bodies. Leprosy can be managed 100% with modern drug therapies
coldwarrior wrote:
I more than made do with my Duty Free bottle of triple casked triple filtered Irish Whisky.
It’s dirty work but someone has to do it!
HEH
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Yes, difficult situations indeed.
@ Aussie Infidel:
*ahem*
Do you know of this Sharri Markson person?
Isn’t ivermectin also used to treat mange? I think that’s what the wildlife rehabilitator gave me when we had an infected squirrel I had to trap
eaglesoars wrote:
Ivermectin is used to treat a whole range of illnesss including River Blindness and even Malaria. as well as different types of worm infestations etc.
🙂
In case you didn’t know, Israel and Hamas are at it again and I don’t have to tell you who started it. Axios sez
This is the first time Hamas has fired rockets at Jerusalem since 2014, and it’s the most serious escalation between the Israelis and Palestinians in many months.
Translation: Trump would have stomped them.
eaglesoars wrote:
Sure. She’s a Political Editor at the Sydney Telegraph as well as a commentator at Sky News. Nominally very un-woke and usually reliable
Why?
eaglesoars wrote:
All came about for a ‘set up’ by some ultra-nationalists literally waving flags on Jerusalem Day and marching onto Temple Mount and the al Axia Mosque.The whole thing was stage managed.
Trump would have carpeted Bibi beforehand and it’d never have happened the way it did.
Hamas has been losing influence and was gagging to start an incident to get itself bach in the news.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
from my #67
Today he [Steve Bannon] interviewed an Aussie journalist, Sharri Markson, investigative journo, who has written a book “What Really Happened in Wuhan”, out in Sept (you can pre-order)
It sounds like the Five Eyes intel agencies knew more than our gov’ts were telling us regarding the origins of the virus. BUT – U.S. intel refused to share a lot of stuff w/the other agencies.
And I got the impression that a lot was suppressed because people just HATED Trump and didn’t want to provide info that proved he was right. Altho I don’t think her book addresses it, that goes for therapeutics too. A lot of people have blood on their hands.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Well, it seems they may have re-elected Bibi. *snort*
https://media.patriots.win/post/8GJQdzYj.jpeg
@ rain of lead:
beautiful!
@ Aussie Infidel:
I have unopened bottles of John Sullivan, Black Bush, and Clontarf.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup I believe that you are correct. Bibi was in a heads I win Tails you lose situation. The Israeli Ultras are all bat shit crazy but they do have their used!
🙂eaglesoars wrote:
Morrison is walking a tight rope with Chine. He’s getting flogged by the Chinese on trade but can’t really say much lest they up the stakes. All this when Oz actually holds China’s balls in its hands by being able to bring down the Chinese economy if it so desires. That would mean blood war and revolution however and is Australia’s version of their nuclear option. Too dangerous to use unless it comes down to survival options., and taking China down with you.
You can imagine the Chinese economy imploding if they run out of iron ore and coal. China has reserves but that’d only stave off the inevitable total economic collapse. Oz currently has that power over China. It won’t last forever but it is a reality for at least the next 2-3 years.
right_wing2 wrote:
You have WHAT??
AND they remain UNOPENED…?
Come sit at my feet little grasshopper and learn …
John Sullivan, Black Bush and Clontarf are MADE with just one aim …. TO BE OPENED
🙂
Now get to work little grasshopper and realise their destiny!
HEH
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
You betcha they did.
The US has a massive blockage that is backing up the free for of Intel. It’s called the CIA, NSA and Pentagon.
Spit !
right_wing2 wrote:
All I have is a bottle of Triple Triple Jameson Irish and the tide seems to be going out fast. Should have got that second bottle.
Triple distilled and triple casked in Sherry, Bourbon and Malaga casks. A little sweetness and unbelievably smooth.
Yum
😉
Not a complex single malt but a bloody great blend that has been made by someone who knows how to get the best out of his Irish.
eaglesoars wrote:
In utero vax coming soon.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
well, that could come in handy if anybody gets the bright idea to invade Taiwan (which I doubt they would but you never know)
eaglesoars wrote:
Frankly I don’t believe the Chinese rhetoric on Taiwan. Economic and cyber warfare sure, Scare tactics and Taiwan’s ADIZ overflights by the PLAAF absolutely… and often. But a full on invasion… I think not for for the foreseeable future, Guam would have to be taken out to secure China’s left flank and can you see that happening with all that such an action would generate? Nah… me neither.
What is in the mix is Xi’s popularity in an environment a LOT different from the years when Mao ruled China with an iron fist. Xi’s grasp of absolute power is … well not exactly absolute. There are cracks aplenty if you have eyes to see. Frankly Xi is second rate and the 12 families that actually count in China know it. They aren’t going to burn in a nuclear fire for anyone’s ego !
Taiwan will be undermined when it is possible, especially economically but Real Politik is also in play here. China’s ICs are ALSO made in Taiwan and is China going to cut off it’s nose to spite its face? Nah !
Chana also knows how politically, geographically and demographic vulnerable it is, not to forget economically. The 12 families deal in realpolitik as they have done for hundreds of years. They know which side their bread is buttered and which the winds are blowing and it’s not China’s century no matter how much they might eat it to be.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Actually, with Biden as POTUS I can.
I wouldn’t shoot the tiger, they are magnificent animals. I’d shoot the dumb fuck who brought it into the neighborhood and let it get loose.
Tiger roaming Houston street leads to tense confrontation
ya think?
https://nypost.com/2021/05/10/tiger-roaming-houston-street-leads-to-tense-confrontation/
eaglesoars wrote:
The booming economy in Oz is being fuelled by China’s demand for very expensive Australian Iron ore. Even with China’s trade war with Australia the Aussies are winning at a canter as both they and the Chinese know that Oz holds all of the trade cards.
Sure if Oz tripled the price of iron ore in this sellers’ market and pushed its volume price monopoly power, it could tank the Chinese economy, cause a hot war, kill millions in a Chinese revolution and wound its own economy in the process. Oz would however survive perhaps a little poorer, but the CCP would not!
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is anything but simple or guaranteed to succeed. It’s got every timing constraints both tactical and strategic and the strategic clock is ticking and not in China’s interests. Tactically twice yearly invasion window of opportunity and buildup is impossible to hide, and a massive invasion across some nasty water let alone resupply if the war goes past 4-6 weeks would be impossible to resupply.
A single short nasty storm almost wrecked the D Day resupply effort and Taiwan is a hell of a way further than a quick nip across the Channel.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Even Biden can’t survive 20,000 body bags!
He’d be strung up from the light pole across the road from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
@ Aussie Infidel:
I have to look at a map. My geography sucks.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
who says Biden would defend Guam? I don’t think you understand how deeply that family is in hock to the Chinese. Jesus, Aussie, the man opened our borders to the cartels! He doesn’t give a flying fuck. He’s on the take, pure and simple.
“Fusion Susan.”
This:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/05/10/doj-just-hired-a-woman-who-pushed-the-russian-dossier-n2589196
and this (via Glenn Greenwald):
https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-are-trump-allegations-hanging-around-when-they-havent-been-substantiated
eaglesoars wrote:
That would make a great bumper sticker
@ Bunk X:
Glenn Greenwald is one of the few honest journalists around. I have problems with his reporting on Israel but nobody’s perfect.
Also, he loves dogs.
Chelsea Clinton on regulating free speech
“I personally very strongly believe there has to be more intensive and intentional and coordinated global regulation of the content on social media platforms,” she said.
“We know that the most popular video across all of Latin America for the last few weeks that now has tens of millions of views is just an anti-vax, anti-science screed that YouTube has just refused to take down.”
“We know that – because I have tried – that appealing to the leadership of these companies to do the right thing has just not worked, and so we need regulation.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chelsea-clinton-calls-global-crackdown-anti-vax-social-media-posts
They won’t do what I want so regulate them
eaglesoars wrote:
Why, how positively Bolshevik of her.
/Chelsea Clinton is still a thing? People are actually listening to her? Why?
This is worth a read. Mollie Hemingway torpedoed the anti-Kavanaugh bullshit almost single-handedly. Susan Hennesee, recently rewarded for her anti-Trump stance with a senior position at DOJ and who promoted the Steele dossier and maintained that the Kavanaugh accusations had been corroborated, now is in a position to target her. Do not doubt it.
September 14, 2019 is one of the most important days in the history of journalism. It was on that day that a reporter named Mollie Hemingway traveled forward in time to torch the New York Times.
Okay, so Hemingway didn’t literally time travel. What she did was obtain an early copy of the book The Education of Brett Kavanaugh. The authors were Times reporters Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin. It would be published the following Tuesday, September 17. In obtaining an early copy of the book, Hemingway was able to preemptively firebomb a bogus story being sold by the book’s authors.
It was and remains an amazing journalistic feat, with major implications
https://stream.org/how-mollie-hemingway-time-traveled-to-stymie-the-new-york-times-and-save-our-timeline/
AZfederalist wrote:
She’s the Anointed One of the Clinton Camp
eaglesoars wrote:
Seeing Guam is a US territory and home to almost 200,000 US citizens including 9,000 Marines and about 9,000 of their family members, plus a National Guard unit that is part of 25th Div based in Honolulu about three air bases and a Naval base plus a few Marine barracks …. that is a major chunk of US citizenry in China’s crosshairs.
It will not be Biden’s call about the body bags of all those US citizens on the TV, it’s the attack on part of the USA that will refit even old Joe’s attention. If China wants Taiwan then Guam can’t be there like a thorn in Xi’s left flank.
You think even Biden can weather Pearl Harbour Mk. II with part of the US now a smoking hole in the ground and shipping sitting on the bottom with their crews?
Even Joe can’t excuse his mate XI for that one!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
He’s more center than he is left. He’s a straight shooter which is rare these days.
I’m out. nite
AZfederalist wrote:
She’s always been a thing.
I’m a trucker and my trucking friends are telling me the truckstops are running out of fuel in the southeast. They’re no booking any more loads until the situation improves. Store shelves will be empty in 3 days if the fuel runs out.
https://twitter.com/WoodyWoodyard2/status/1391930522700550144
that was 2 hours ago
Uhhhh I’m in North Carolina and everything thing was normal when I left the house two hours ago and now all the gas stations are closed. All of them.
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1391902484138967042
About 3.5 hours ago
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Word to the wise. These people called out 20k National Guard on us and fenced in the Capitol. Put nothing past them. Do not assume they care about anything except their own self-aggrandizement. They tried to take out a duly elected POTUS, corrupted every branch of the gov’t and are in the process of destroying the currency. Your assumption that Joe and his cohorts need an ‘excuse’ is a notion they find highly amusing.
Now I am going to bed unless I see something else.
eaglesoars wrote:
If that’s the reality of the US then you’re already involved in a civil war mk. II
Do what folks do in a civil war and go destroy your enemies
… but make sure you win because it’s the winners who write the history and the losers who get the rope.
eaglesoars wrote:
New report says gas price has jumped from $2.60/gal to $4.59 in one day.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I don’t know where the soft underbelly of the beast is, and when we find it, I don’t know what weaponry we have that can slice it open, aside from a military coup, and I don’t like that idea either.
The ARK-1547 Assault Gun.
https://twitter.com/truckinwithnorm/status/970677607296532481
Updated.
https://news.usni.org/2021/05/10/u-s-ships-fired-shots-to-warn-off-13-iranian-fast-boats-harassing-u-s-guided-missile-sub-warships
IDF intercepts incoming rockets (video).
https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1391840686366986245
Gas runs out after Colonial Pipeline cyberattack: North Carolina declares state of emergency as cars line up outside stations in Virginia, Atlanta and Florida and American Airlines adds extra stops to long haul flights
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9564219/Gas-stations-begin-run-fuel-cyberattack-Colonial-Pipeline.html
I hit the gas station at 6:30 am, got the last empty bay. No line but it was full and people were pulling in as I was pulling out. For 93 octane the price was $3.84
Speaking of China/Australia/Coal – this is interesting. China is playing a game, betting that it can last longer w/o Australian coal than Australia can w/o Chinese money. And it looks like it’s upping the game w/LNG
Column: China may target Australian LNG despite costly coal ban
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-column-russell-coal-china-australia-idUSKBN2CS0VF
Colonial Pipeline, 10 mins ago
We are experiencing a temporary service disruption to our corporate website, and unrelated to the ransomware. We continue to make progress on our system restart plan, and will provide an update when our website is restored.
https://twitter.com/Colpipe/status/1392094505235537924
Really?
MIT researchers ‘infiltrated’ a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism.
“Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution.”
Indeed, anti-maskers often reveal themselves to be more sophisticated in their understanding of how scientific knowledge is socially constructed than their ideological adversaries, who espouse naïve realism about the “objective” truth of public health data.”
“In other words, anti-maskers value unmediated access to information and privilege personal research and direct reading over “expert” interpretations.”
“Its members value individual initiative and ingenuity, trusting scientific analysis only insofar as they can replicate it themselves by accessing and manipulating the data firsthand.”
MIT researchers ‘infiltrated’ a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism.
“Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution.”
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07993.pdf
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’m waiting to get with a couple of friends.
We know the Black Bush is great. Haven’t tried the others.
Of course they did
Obama FBI/DOJ shared the Dossier With Lawfare to get their analysis? [‘Lawfare’ = Susan Hennessey]
https://twitter.com/scuba2024/status/1391833239283699713
Welp. I just fired our real estate agent and hired another one who will buy the house for the asking price if we get no offers.
Two weeks on the market and not one request for a viewing. Well, there was one, but they canceled.
@ eaglesoars:
How long had your realtor been a realtor? Not sure, but I think there’s been a surge in licensing recently.
@ eaglesoars:
The place we bought had been on the market for the better part of the year. We closed about 2 1/2 years ago.
@ Bunk X:
at least 10 yrs. She’s older than I am and I’m 69.
@ right_wing2:
I have a non-negotiable date of July 8 to start packing. I don’t need to hear “it’s early in the process” and to be told it’s too soon for an open house. I hired her to sell it, not sit on it.
Jennifer Granholm (Biden energy honcho) sez there is no need to panic, the gas company will be making a decision to come back on line in a day or two and then after the decision is made is will take a few more days to bring things back up. No need to hoard gas or panic buy
Virginia Gov Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency
eaglesoars wrote:
Are they stating that science is not a process, but is an institution? MIT? What is it now, Massachusetts Institute of Technocrats?
eaglesoars wrote:
“All is well! Remain Calm!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
@ eaglesoars:
IMO that is the right step. In the Real Estate market I was in there were agents who could sell and agents who couldn’t sell or close. Then there were super agents who outperformed everyone in marketing, selling, and closing.
the agent has to be creative and aggressive.
AZfederalist wrote:
GAS gas prices surge to seven-year high on fifth day of DarkSide cyber shutdown of Colonial Pipeline: Fuel distributors warn of ‘catastrophic’ shortages as Putin denies link to hackers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9567077/Gas-prices-hit-highest-level-2014-Colonial-Pipeline-hack.html
darkwords wrote:
There’s a different philosophy at the agency I hired. We will have an open house the first weekend after it’s put back on the market, a stager is coming in to make it look ‘good’ for new photos, etc. The new agent said, “You bought a house and made it a home. What you have to sell is a house that someone else can see as THEIR home.” They have a database of over 12k buyers that they just run the parameters by and market to them in addition to the new people that pop up. And if we still don’t have any takers, they buy the house at the asking price.
@ eaglesoars:
and I get a text a day from realtors desperate to buy my house
the price for gas at my station 2.49 for reg
the other two stations across the street…2.75
yeah, I was busy today
bet we run out by tomorrow morning
Hubby just filled up his tank at the same station I used this morning. The price had gone up 7 cents
Mossad has a new Iron Dome app
https://twitter.com/i/status/1392195316535992322
@ rain of lead:
Gas is $3.30 here. but the price has been that level for about 4 weeks.
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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4h
Issues like surveillance were non-starters once intel agencies started feeding reporters stories about the Russia-GOP conquest of our precious bodily fluids, but since January 6th, the FBI-CIA-media partnership has been cozier than a Swedish porn shoot.
I still read people calling Trump a moron. One was Josh Rogin and the Joe Rogan show. he was offended that Trump let Xi Jinping lie to him about Covid.
Trump knew and led on the fundamental issue of jobs. Much better than his critics. Without Trumps assertions we would still be in the dark about how far Marxism has seeped into all segments of our society. Trump pulled the duct tape off. Election reform and CRT reform would not be on the table if a Pence or a Biden had been president.
DarkSide posted an apology on the Dark Web Monday, according to Vice. They claimed they did not want “social consequences,” or to make a political statement.
“We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives,” they declared.
“Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society,” the group proclaimed.
“From today, we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future,” DarkSide promised.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/11/bread-lines-next-pipeline-hacker-offers-mea-culpa-as-long-lines-anger-and-panic-rise-over-gas-shortages-1072379/
riiight…
Rand Paul gutted Fauci today and Fauci flat out lied. Video links here
https://conservativebrief.com/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-40118/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=The%20Conservative%20Standard
UNITED STATES, May 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican is warning the United States’ top bishop that a forthcoming policy on giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians who call themselves Catholic, such as President Joe Biden, may become a “source of discord” for the country’s episcopate and would unfairly target “only one category of Catholics.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-puts-brakes-on-us-bishops-confronting-problem-of-pro-abortion-biden-receiving-holy-communion
Wow.
‘Absolute stupidity’: Cybersecurity experts condemn White House for breaking with FBI and suggesting private companies could pay ransomware demands as gas pumps run dry amid Darkside pipeline hack
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9566489/Cybersecurity-experts-condemn-White-House-suggesting-companies-canpay-ransomware-demands.html
Good idea
U.S. moving to temporarily waive Jones Act after Colonial Pipeline attack
The Biden administration said Tuesday it is moving to temporarily waive a law that requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on U.S.-owned and operated vessels. The move over the Jones Act comes in response to the ransomware attack that led to a shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, a critical artery supplying fuels to the East Coast. The U.S. Department of Transportation said in a statement that it has “started the work needed to enable consideration of a temporary and targeted waiver of the Jones Act,” and that it is surveying qualified vessels that can carry petroleum products within the Gulf and from the Gulf up the Eastern Seaboard. Colonial Pipeline is working to restore the system that provides 45% of the fuel consumed on the U.S. East Coast by the end of the week.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-moving-to-temporarily-waive-jones-act-after-colonial-pipeline-attack-2021-05-11?mod=mw_latestnews
which makes me think this isn’t going to be over by the end of the week
I don’t understand how this works but…….
Solar, wind, batteries, nuclear, tidal power, among others, provide carbon-free electricity. But their generation is usually immediately absorbed into the power grid for use or stored in lithium-ion batteries.
Large-scale energy hoarding is expensive, and quite frankly, with base metal prices skyrocketing, maybe unattainable unless the Biden administration allocates billions of dollars to upgrade the grid.
Toronto-based Hydrostor has found a solution to storing power on the grid that doesn’t involve batteries but instead stores energy in the form of compressed air in underground chambers.
California is becoming the new site for two new compressed-air energy storage plants
https://principia-scientific.com/compressed-air-grid-battery-to-challenge-tesla-powerpack/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/outrageous-acts-maricopa-county-attorney-claims-cant-provide-routers-passwords-auditors-questionable/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
how can they just say “no”?
rain of lead wrote:
I’d say they’re kinda late. String ’em up but don’t drop them. Let them dangle in a public square for a while.
rain of lead wrote:
cuz the judge they bought is gonna stay bought
Feb 2018
Gene Therapy Researchers Find Viral Barcode to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier
Gene therapies promise to revolutionize the treatment of many diseases, including neurological diseases such as ALS. But the small viruses that deliver therapeutic genes can have adverse side effects at high doses. UNC School of Medicine researchers have now found a structure on these viruses that makes them better at crossing from the bloodstream into the brain – a key factor for administering gene therapies at lower doses for treating brain and spinal disorders.
https://neurosciencenews.com/virology-bbb-8473/
Global Economy discussion on TimCast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QwDxS8ekgo
They can get a little juvenile but the guests say the dollar is tanking. And the dollar is in danger of losing its reserve currency status. Inflation reported as 1.6 percent but is in actuality 10-16 percent.
They reference the 4th turning concept. Advice is to hedge risk diversification against inflation with Real Estate, Gold, Silver, and Crypto.
That Amazon has issued Bonds in order to buy back their dollar which can be interpreted as an attack on the dollar. A lot of it makes my ears glaze over.
eaglesoars wrote:
This is a similar tech to ‘pump storage’ where used hydro water is re pumped to higher elevations for later use. Not very efficient but better than batteries… depending on pump losses
@ eaglesoars:
Sounds like the latest Solyndra waiting to happen.
That system might work for an emergency, but it’s not practical for everyday use (for example, storing energy generated during the day from solar panels to use at night. They claim that it’s 60% efficient (which is doubtful).
@ eaglesoars:
I can only interpret that as they are burying politicians(compressed air) in graves. Seems like it might save a ton of energy. But I am not sure.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/may/deter-or-win-future-wars-united-states-must-reverse-cost-exchange
@ rain of lead:
I worked on a WAN with election and police segments. Firewalls separates them out. The police have a public segments and a private segment with different levels of security. The election people can’t even see the police side.
There are global CISCO security passwords. But those can be changed. I imagine they want that level of access to see the traffic pattern logs. In my organization it was only feasible to keep those logs online for 2 weeks. Then they went to the backup data center.
It can be more complex but it doesn’t threaten public safety for the admin password to be audited. Audits happen every year. The password can be granted and then changed. If data exposure is an issue then the data can be redacted.
This sounds a lot to me like the higher ups don’t know what they are talking about and are looking for excuses.
Animals with a sense of humor.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1391754325135970312
darkwords wrote:
rotting corpses do give off gases
So the owner of the agency I fired called me. They haven’t given me the release form and want one more chance, promising they can sell the house for the asking price or they will buy it. By the end of this week.
ok.
@ eaglesoars:
Lol. Its like “The Art of the Deal” Eagle Trump.
@ darkwords:
That one goes back years, but it’s still fun, just like this one:
https://i.gifer.com/2RYg.mp4
oh dear
‘Agitated’ Ocasio-Cortez berated and screamed at Border Patrol agent during Texas visit, government documents show
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez berated a Border Patrol agent during her 2019 visit to a border station in El Paso, Texas, according to newly obtained government documents.
“I as a woman of color do not feel safe here,” the New York Democrat told a female agent during her July 1, 2019, visit, according to government documents obtained by the Daily Signal through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Ocasio-Cortez went on “to personally admonish and berate” the agent after claiming the agent took a selfie with the congresswoman in the background.
The unnamed agent, however, denied the accusation of taking a selfie to her supervisor and in a memo that day. Her colleagues also denied seeing her take a photo, and her supervisor found no evidence of a picture on her phone.
“Rep. Ocasio-Cortez abruptly voiced an allegation that a female agent outside of the REDACTED had just taken a selfie with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez in the background,” the agent in charge said in a memo dated July 2 and sent to the acting agent in charge. “Rep. Ocasio-Cortez not only verbally voiced this concern, she became agitated and animated as she began to bang on the glass, pointing and screaming at the agent.”
The female agent “did admit to having her cell phone in her hand and showed me the current image on the screen,” the agent in charge wrote. “The image appeared to me to be web-based and had nothing to do with interior photos of the detention area.”
Ocasio-Cortez went on to accuse the agent of “unprofessional conduct and asking if she will have future contact with children,” the agent in charge wrote the next day.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2233264763139/agitated-ocasio-cortez-berated-and-screamed-at-border-patrol-agent-during-texas-visit-government-documents-show
Well, at least AOC actually WENT to the border. Maybe BJ Harris could get some tipes.
darkwords wrote:
I don’t feel great about it. Real estate agents work hard for their money and I have no intent to pit one against the other. It’s not something I would do intentionally. It’s funny in a way but it’s less than optimal.
I can be ruthless when I have to be but I don’t necessarily like it. Big Swinging Dick theater doesn’t appeal to me. Unless I’m dealing with an asshole, which I’m not in this case.
@ eaglesoars:
Was that the trip where she had herself photographed tearfully staring at an empty parking lot?
eaglesoars wrote:
case in point: I have apparently been more stressed about all this – the timing is very tight – than I knew. 30-some years in IT and stress and deadlines are in the job description. When you’re going thru hell, just keep going.
Except…
This morning I went into the bathroom to wash my face, brush my teeth, and I looked in the mirror.
Hives.
On my face.
ON
MY
FACE
Something had to give.
@ lobo91:
no clue. My guess is it was not, as she was not at that point after the border authorities but after Trump
I have a question.
$15 min wage. Employers deploy robots instead. IRS loses tax revenue.
Follow THAT one down the rabbit hole.
Israel says they took out Hamas intel HQ
rain of lead wrote:
… and phone calls and mail. We had a rental house that they were trying to buy as well. Never followed up, but I think these are flippers who paid for an educational “program” and this is how they were told to find houses to flip. I’m also betting that they offer way below market value for what they try to buy.
Sean Parnell is a good guy in PA and he’s trying again
#ParnellsPlatoon is a legit force to be reckoned with.
Thank you ALL for coming out to my announcement for Senate in Pennsylvania. I’m truly humbled & grateful for your steadfast support.
I will always work hard to earn it.
Let’s roll. Flag of United States
https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1392293491598823425
Lawrence Summers thinks that robots are wealth creators, taxing them is illogical and Gates’ robot tax would amount to“protectionism against progress”.
Bill Gates is right up there on the autism scale.
https://twitter.com/adamscrabble/status/1097341954449424384
As is Musk and I’m sure a few others………at least Musk seems to have fun.
good
Virginia parents group launches PAC to unseat school board members over reopening, race controversies
The Loudoun County school board members showed a complete “misunderstanding of their duties and responsibility as elected officials,” reads a press release from Fight for Schools PAC.
It specifically names Beth Barts, Brenda Sheridan, Ian Serotkin, Denise Corbo, Leslee King and Atoosa Reaser. Each were reportedly part of a secret Facebook group where members compiled a list of parents who opposed critical race theory in the school district, according to the Daily Wire.
tar, feathers, rails, stocks, torches…….
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-parents-pac-school-board-members-reopening-critical-race-theory
eaglesoars wrote:
More evidence that the Vatican Catholic Church is no longer Christian. Withholding communion from those who are participating in public sins or publicly promoting sin (I think last time I checked, publicly promoting the murder of babies counts as sin) is not done as a political statement, but is done out of concern for the soul of the person participating in those public and persistent sins. The bible is quite clear that if someone takes communion in an unworthy manner (such as is the case of people like Pelosi and Biden given their support of abortion, euthanasia, and other forms of deviant behavior), they are taking the sacrament to their damnation, not to their benefit. The US Catholic bishops are rightly advocating withholding the sacrament from such as these who are publicly advocating for evil.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wow, I’m not sure which side to take on this. On the one hand, it is the Biden administration that never gets anything right. On the other hand, it is the FBI that never gets anything right.
eaglesoars wrote:
The more they do this, the more they leave the perception that this election was neither free nor honest. They are doing everything that demonstrates that they are covering up nefarious activity
eaglesoars wrote:
lol city.
Never heard that one.
@ AZfederalist:
During the Great Obama Recession media was bemoaning all the housing foreclosures. What they didn’t mention was that 2/3rds of the foreclosures were on flippers who got caught with their pants down and walked.
AZfederalist wrote:
Almost.
Begin from the premise that they don’t give a monkey’s butt what we think.
Because there is fuck all we can do to stop them.
AZfederalist wrote:
The primary reason ransomware exists is because some people pay ransoms… with no guarantee that the hackers will free the data.
bed nite
Bunk X wrote:
I’m not sure that’s true. I think it may have more to do with the fact that the hackers can’t be ‘caught’. a 256-bit encryption key is a nightmare.
k
nite
@ eaglesoars:
I’ll have to find the MalwareBytes article. Or not.
IDF is rolling.
https://twitter.com/AAhronheim/status/1392021768802607105
https://twitter.com/AAhronheim/status/1392184366835642374
Good morning. What is it with Trump Derangement Syndrome? It’s like an addiction. Liz Cheney is off the rails saying he’s a threat to democracy because he ‘misled people’.
It’s ok that she thinks that but THAT’S ALL SHE TALKS ABOUT.
Cheney’s parting shot: GOP No.3 takes to House floor to chastise her fellow Republicans for ‘remaining silent’ over Trump’s ‘crusade to undermine our democracy’ – on eve of vote to oust her
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9568849/Liz-Cheney-calls-Donald-Trump-liar-crusade-undermine-democracy.html
The country is going to hell and all she can talk about is Trump. It’s all CNN can talk about. Trump has been off the stage for months and TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP.
Who exactly is the lunatic here?
@ eaglesoars:
and she was voted out. Good
@ lobo91:
I suspect it’s not because she’s a nut case. There’s a cohort behind her who is fighting for the control of the Republican party and she’s their mascot.
Boris Epshtyn on Bannon yesterday was a hoot. He maintains that the Bush/Cheney subset of the party/culture is just stunned that Trump’s so-called defeat didn’t sweep all the Trumpers off the stage. WE’RE STILL HERE!! And now they don’t know whether to shit or go blind.
Because the Trumpers are acting like the Left. They don’t quit. Unlike the polite, cultured Repubs who are more concerned about being GRACEFUL losers as long as they can keep the pearls they clutch.
Matt Gaetz: Congresswoman who offered resolution to recall Cheney said: A leader with no followers is just a person on a walk.
But Gaetz said there’s a lot of money behind her and this isn’t over.
Remember Miles Taylor? He’s the schlub that wrote the anti-Trump opinion piece in the NYT (or WaPo?) under ‘anonymous’. He’s back w/a bunch of other loser Republicans threatening to start a 3rd party if Trump isn’t exorcised or something.
I’ve babysat 2 yr olds like this.
The GOP is broken. It’s time for a resistance’: More than 100 Republicans – led by ‘Anonymous’ Trump critic – sign letter threatening to form third party unless it breaks with former President
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9570469/Over-100-leading-Republicans-threaten-split-GOP-unless-moves-away-Donald-Trump.html
unreal
First it was the woke CIA ad, now it is a super-woke woke animated army recruitment ad featuring a lesbian wedding, an LGBT rights parade and women “shattering stereotypes” by joining the world’s largest killing machine.
https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1392367395906498560
@ eaglesoars:
I’m so glad I retired when I did…
A bridge across the Mississippi has a BIG crack.
https://twitter.com/AndyMPederson/status/1392534362248388611
So they’ve closed the river
Here’s where it gets very, very bad.
The Mississippi River is the mouth of the Midwest’s on-water grain export economy.
This means more exports shifting to the PNW via rail (huge congestion), or via ocean container (no equipment or ship/rail space).
.
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Corn and soy exports from upriver are both bigly affected.
Cotton and cotton co-products mainly export on rail or barge from Memphis.
Those could re-route over the USEC via NS or CSX rail to Savannah, but containers are EXTREMELY tight in Memphis.
https://twitter.com/man_integrated/status/1392548664682352641
https://twitter.com/man_integrated/status/1392548664682352641
eaglesoars wrote:
GOP, Libertarians, Dems, Independents, Democrat Sociaists, etc., etc. I don’t think threre’s an opening for 6th party either. Back of the line for you, bro.
lobo91 wrote:
I’ve seen a lot of former/retired military say that they would no longer advise family/friends to join
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s not a crack in that photo. That’s a tension failure. Can’t find a photo of the location on the bridge, scale of the failed steel, etc. All I know is that the design load safety factor for bridges is higher than the 1.33 required for buildings.
@ eaglesoars:
I would be one of them. I would advise a young male to go combat arms for a hitch and get out for the GI bill. Do not make a career of it.
@ eaglesoars:
Results will be counter productive, but perhaps that is the goal.
Bunk X wrote:
How do you even fix that?
Oh, here’s a good piece on what a rotten person Liz Cheney is. She threw her sister under the bus
Running for Senate in 2013, Liz Cheney threw her sister overboard. “I love Mary very much, I love her family very much. This is just an issue on which we disagree,” she told viewers of Fox News.
“Liz — this isn’t just an issue on which we disagree, you’re just wrong — and on the wrong side of history,” Mary, a Republican operative herself, shot back on Facebook. “Liz has been a guest in our home, has spent time and shared holidays with our children,” Mary’s wife Heather Poe wrote. “To have her now say she doesn’t support our right to marry is offensive to say the least.”
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/12/liz-cheney-republican-house-trump/
eaglesoars wrote:
Weld two channels on either side of the tube. Gotta calc out the member to see why it failed in the first place. I suspect it was caused by temperature fluctuation, but then I would expect to find cracks in others.
Several years ago (1990s?) there was some chinese-manufactured steel in circulation, mostly high-tension bolts, that was found to be very brittle. I don’t remember if larger steel components were affected, but there was a recall and requirements for retrofits.
@ Bunk X:
That blows my temperature theory out of the water.
@ Bunk X:
“Going for Crystallization Due to Vibration for $400, Alex.”
@ Bunk X:
If things keep going in the current direction, we won’t need the bridge anyway. Everyone will be out of gas.
I can’t recall another time when co-incidental events conspired to hit us on all fronts. Biden’s deliberate destruction of the economy, COVID, fuel shortages, food transport disrupted – I mean is there a sector that hasn’t been hit?
ICE Nominee Worked With BLM to Push False Claim That White Man Murdered 7-Year-Old Black Girl
The Texas sheriff nominated to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement pushed a false claim that a white man murdered a seven-year-old black girl from Houston, even after receiving a tip that the actual killers were black.
Ed Gonzalez, the Harris County sheriff and the Biden administration’s choice for ICE director, worked closely with Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King to identify Jazmine Barnes’s killer. Gonzalez amplified the family’s claim that the gunman was white even after he received a tip that Barnes’s killers were black. An attorney for the man King falsely identified as the shooter said King’s allegation might have contributed to his client’s suicide.
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/ice-nominee-worked-with-blm-to-push-false-claim-that-white-man-murdered-7-year-old-black-girl/
eaglesoars wrote:
I left out the open borders thingy
3 mins ago
The Colonial Pipeline will restart its operations on Wednesday, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm tweeted.
“We just got off the phone with #ColonialPipeline CEO. They are restarting pipeline operations today at ~5pm. More soon,” she said in a tweet. M/b>
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/553224-granholm-colonial-to-restart-operations-today
@ Bunk X:
More than just high-tension bolts.
This article is probably from 2016.
https://gensteel.com/building-faqs/building-comparisons/chinese-steel-quality-vs-american-steel-quality/
NZ: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/80635517/chinese-steel-fails-strength-test
@ Bunk X:
The steel at the break is rusted. That means that the inspectors missed it in 2019.
From Colonial Pipeline
Latest Update – Colonial Pipeline Return to Service: https://cpcyberresponse.com
https://twitter.com/Colpipe/status/1392590110231863297
eaglesoars wrote:
Colonial Pipeline initiated the restart of pipeline operations today at approximately 5 p.m. ET.
Following this restart, it will take several days for the product delivery supply chain to return to normal. Some markets served by Colonial Pipeline may experience, or continue to experience, intermittent service interruptions during the start-up period. Colonial will move as much gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel as is safely possible and will continue to do so until markets return to normal.
AZfederalist wrote:
Canon Law is perfectly clear as well. Biden et al are all not only on the wrong side of history, they are damning themselves.
Bunk X wrote:
Lets hope that thePLAN is being built of the same quality of steel.
🙂
https://www.prageru.com/video/left-or-liberal/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIubTV7oXF8AIVacP2Ah0uUQ4eEAEYASAAEgI5ofD_BwE
@ Bunk X:
why would they get tax credits for using boron?
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/073/802/958/original/36df829cfa54fc90.png
@ eaglesoars:
Thing is they don’t need to close the river.
darkwords wrote:
The Coast Guard made the call.
@ lobo91:
The only gun control law I would probably be in favor of is total gun bans for anyone that wants to vote as a Democrat.
The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday confirmed it closed a portion of the lower Mississippi River near the bridge.
“There are currently 16 vessels with a total of 229 barges in the queue,” the Coast Guard said in a news release.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/discovery-of-large-bridge-crack-forces-us-coast-guard-mississippi-river-portion_3813272.html
@ eaglesoars:
Global warmingism.
@ eaglesoars:
Premium content. I’m not worthy.
Bunk X wrote:
s’ok, I posted everything you need to know
Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin to purchase its cars because mining is so energy – fossil fuel – intensive.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392602041025843203/photo/1
BREAKING: .
@FoxNews
has confirmed via the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that construction on a 13.4 mile stretch of border wall in the Rio Grande Valley will *RESUME* after pressure from local residents & politicians.
The Biden admin previously halted all wall construction in Jan.
https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1392611420068528128
@ eaglesoars:
I would think they would build a wall on both sides where the kids are drowning trying to swim across the river.
of course she did
And as interesting, at least to me, @Liz_Cheney is clearly playing for history: she brought family friend and legendary photog @kennerly
w her today to record her transition from House leader to leader of the anti-Trump Republicans
https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1392620956229775363
Kennerly was the POTUS WH photog and also a war photog. I think he got the Pulitzer for that
*snort*
Guess who’s advertising for a cybersecurity mgr?
https://twitter.com/We_Have_Risen/status/1392624126100049921/photo/1
@ lobo91:
Do. Not. Make. Me. Want. A. Sheltie.
eaglesoars wrote:
LOL
It’s a cult 🙂
More implacable stupidity
JUST IN – US Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida: “We were SURPRISED by higher than expected inflation data.” This comes after the surprisingly low jobs report
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1392488787838742536
and more……
Northam awards $9.4 million in green transportation grants, $20 million more for electric school buses
[electric school buses. It gets cold here, you know. And batteries don’t do well in cold weather.]
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/northam-awards-9-4-million-in-green-transportation-grants-20-million-more-for-electric-school-buses
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6253801909001
Sharri dissing the CCP again with her excellent research into Covid.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The most damning thing she says is “there is a wealth of information out there”
And nobody did nuthin’
bed
nite
lobo91 wrote:
Awesome! She is the embodiment of everything wrong with the GOP Establishment. Biden has his foot on the accelerator driving the country on the road to he77 and she’s worried about Trump? Trump undermined “democracy”? You’d think she’d at least know we are not democracy but a Constitutional Republic.
@ lobo91:
@ lobo91:
Isn’t it funny how the left talks about such low odds of being involved in a gun crime as a reason not to own one but is livid about how it is critical that people wear masks, social distance and be injected with a magic potion over a disease that has a fatality rate even lower than the number of times the people defend themselves with a gun?
eaglesoars wrote:
My advice to them, “Don’t let the door hit ya’ where the Good Lord split ya'” Because they aren’t going to split the GOP vote as much as if the Trump wing were to form a third party.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
You could be on to something there. Who’s been advocating an end to the all-volunteer military and a return to the draft? Drive recruitment low enough and they have traction to re-instate the draft.
@ eaglesoars:
Higher than expected
Lower than expected
More than expected
Less than expected
Worse than expected
I’ve noticed that the news stories are never “as expected.”
@ AZfederalist:
Excellent illustration. I might steal it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wouldn’t let me view the tweet, said I’m not worthy. Who is it?
AZfederalist wrote:
Creating The Trump Party will split the GOP vote and guarantee a dem victory in 2024. Ross Perot demonstrated that.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh. Good. We are now back to reports in which the word, “unexpectedly” is going to dominate.
Do these people not anticipate anything?
Bunk X wrote:
By all means you are welcome to do so.
Bunk X wrote:
Yep. Creating the “not Trump” party will be barely noticeable and might even bring some dems into the GOP side or siphon off their votes from the dem party since those currently in power are behaving in such a radical manner, there are a lot of democrats who are appalled.
AZfederalist wrote:
Hadn’t of that interesting take.
😀
Wow. I hadn’t seen the larger picture. That steel tube is 24w x 30d.
https://wreg.com/news/frantic-911-calls-from-i-40-bridge-inspectors-reveal-seriousness-of-situation/
Now I really want to know where the steel came from.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/05/12/executive-order-on-improving-the-nations-cybersecurity/
AZfederalist wrote:
Colonial Pipeline.
Re the broken bridge
I’m going to let you guys know for those of you who don’t, this is one of the most critical bridges in America and it’s the better of the two in the Memphis corridor.
It exceeded the repair/replace by date 10 years ago. Memphis knew for years this was coming.
https://twitter.com/Irkutyanin1/status/1392611524947152896
@ eaglesoars:
I like this response better than any of mine.
https://twitter.com/Gavin6Less/status/1392832303601225733
eaglesoars wrote:
Thanks. Only about a few weeks late.