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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!
@eaglesoars
This is a complete fictitious story. Such stories pop up since March 2021 and have their origin mostly in Russia, Ukraine and are spread via social media and blogs in Kanada, Italy, Spain and Germany all over the “Western” world. No names, no date no case reference number no name of which court was involved.
Even the named lawyer Carlo Alberto Brusa although he has ties to the anti-vaxxer movement, asked by DPA (Deutsche Presseagentur) and AFP (Agence France-Presse) denies to have ever heard of such a case or have been involved in the non existing case of the “rich grandpa from Versailles”.
Insurance associations in Europe and die United States deny that such cases could ever happen.
@ Guggi:
This is the link in question
https://twitter.com/JackColton17/status/1495794202810200065
@ Guggi:
i’m with ya on no links…the story smelled kinda fishy.
so how about backing up your claims with some credible links too?
you make 3 claims.
@ Guggi:
and odd that you spell canada with a K and used ‘die’ (the feminine nominative and accusative). are you ok? you never made weird mistakes like that before
@ Possum:
ummmm….there’s been russian troops in donbas for almost 10 years, they were placed there in 2014.
the ukies look down on donbas and think the peeps are thugs and knuckle dragging idiots….yeah, i dont need a link, mrs coldwarrior is half ukie.
Guggi wrote:
Ah I didn’t realize you were upstairs. First, that tweet has been taken down. 2nd, I couldn’t tell what country it was in and the insurance company wasn’t named.
BUT – given what the U.S. insurance companies are coming up with in their statistics, it’s entirely credible that at some point, they are at the very least going to adjust their rates according to vaccination status.
WORDLE IN TWO!!! YAAYYYY ME!
AZ Dem congresscritter
Perfect time to impound and give the trucks to small trucking companies looking to expand their business.
https://twitter.com/RubenGallego/status/1496138717890850819
@ eaglesoars:
The supporting replies in that thread are interesting. TERRORISTS!!
wut?
Why The Biden Admin’s Plan To Unionize The National Guard Is A Horrible Idea
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/22/why-the-biden-admins-plan-to-unionize-the-national-guard-is-a-horrible-idea/
unionize WHAT??
This is a fun piece. All those parents filing claims against school boards, etc., are QAnon people who think the earth is flat and surety bond lawsuits are inapplicable.
The claim letters cite various state, federal and international laws that schools have supposedly violated by imposing Covid precautions and diversity initiatives, including distributing obscene material to minors, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the Nuremberg Code, a guideline for ethical medical research that many anti-vaccine mandate efforts have cited.
The FBI calls this general tactic “bond fraud,” cautioning in broader guidance that the “scheme frequently intermingles legal and pseudo legal terminology in order to appear lawful.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parents-mask-schools-surety-bonds-rcna16872
Biden will come out and mutter something at us at 1 pm
Birds are so fascinating
Scientists Attached Tracking Devices to Magpies. But Nobody Asked The Magpies
Within 10 minutes of fitting the final tracker, we witnessed an adult female without a tracker working with her bill to try and remove the harness off of a younger bird.
Within hours, most of the other trackers had been removed. By day 3, even the dominant male of the group had its tracker successfully dismantled.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-attached-tracking-devices-to-magpies-that-s-when-things-got-weird
Yeah, this guy is one of the first ones on the trains.
Purdue relaxes its mask mandate and this is his first thought – if it can be called that.
“I’m curious what folks think about today’s announcement concerning masks on our campus,” Marzec wrote in an email obtained by the Twitter account Libs of Tik Tok. “A lax mask policy can easily lead to a new evolution of the virus, and yes, a virus becomes less deadly as it evolves.
“Regardless of how students will interpret ‘except for instructional settings,’ I’m worried that this can only translate to more freedom for a culture of health laziness and give more fodder to the combative, politicized conception of individual freedom now rampant.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/purdue-professor-worries-campus-mask-optional-policy-will-give-people-more-freedom/
Case-Shiller National Home Price Index Still HOT In December +18.84% YoY As Active Inventories Die (Phoenix AZ Fastest Growing At 32.5% YoY While Washington DC Is Slowest Growing At 10.5% YoY)
https://confoundedinterest.net/2022/02/22/case-shiller-national-home-price-index-still-hot-in-december-18-84-yoy-as-active-inventories-die-phoenix-az-fastest-growing-at-32-5-yoy-while-washington-dc-is-slowest-growing-at-10-5-yoy/
D.C. is the SLOWEST?? That’s surprising.
My daily quota for stupid has been achieved
Blackstone announces immediate halt to oil/gas investing in the US
At a time when energy and food shortages are coming to the forefront
It is ironic that ESG and green policy is directing investment capital AWAY
From the only truly sustainable production
Wild times folks
https://twitter.com/JavierGoya7/status/1496156022871834625
The Resident is 1 hour and 20 minutes late for his Muttering Session
eaglesoars wrote:
Maybe they can’t fill him with enough substances to keep him semi-coherent today.
eaglesoars wrote:
Somehow this sounds unconstitutional, but then who is paying any attention to that old document these days anyway? Certainly not Benedict Roberts or the liberal wing of the court
AZfederalist wrote:
must be a day ending in ‘y’
My comment from the thread downstairs and needs some discussion:
So, the real question is who is running things in Canada? Like the US, we know it’s not Justin Trudeau, the guy is barely smart enough to breathe, let alone ruin a country. Who’s the power behind the puppet?
AZfederalist wrote:
It’s called civil asset forfeiture and it needs a good, solid SCOTUS challenge.
Cops do it all the time. They sell the stuff for their own revenue stream, I doubt ‘small’ truckers would get a dime.
AZfederalist wrote:
look up a guy named Gerald Butt – or ButtS, I can’t recall. Also the Ukie Nazi chick who, according to Peter Navarro who has worked with her IS very smart. And she wants to be PM
eaglesoars wrote:
Gerald Butts, yeah he and others like him certainly seem to be the powers behind the throne kinds of people.
I think someone here may have mentioned Kosovo yesterday. The former province of Serbia ( which was part of Yugoslavia before the death of Tito and the country then shattered into separate factions. I could post about how sometimes dictators actually bring peace and stability to a region. I could post how during the dictatorship of Tito Yugoslavia was a very safe and very popular tourist destination for British people, but I won’t. Don’t want to cause a fight )
Anyway, Kosovo was part of Serbia and they wanted independence and to be more aligned with Albania than Serbia.
NATO got involved and bombed the shit out of Serbia to ensure the separatist region gained autonomy.
Fast forward to 2022 and in the Ukraine a region wants autonomy from the Ukraine and desires to have closer ties to Russia.
That is now bad!
How things change…..
Well, yesterday a poster here likened the current situation in the Ukraine to what happened in Serbia. Same scenario, a region of a sovereign country wants to break away.
Totally the opposite response from NATO.
Today there are a lot of tweets mention Kosovo. I think those tweety people must have read this place yesterday.
https://twitter.com/search?q=Kosovo&src=typeahead_click&f=live
@ Possum:
I never did understand what the problem there was. Some of it religious, some went back to WW II divisions that were never ‘healed’, etc.
But I remember the mass graves, people getting shot on the streets – hell on earth. The Croats vs the Serbs.
Convoy organizer Bob Bolus says a trucker convoy will shut down Washington, DC’s beltway later this week to protest pandemic mandates while keeping a path open for emergency vehicles.
https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1496252408497909761
welp….
eaglesoars wrote:
Kosovo was Christians ( Serbs ) against Muslims ( Ethnic Albanians )
District Attorneys’ union in CA has voted 97% to recall Gascon
via Bannon
I am really stupid, and I watched part of Biden’s speech and just watched the first part of the press conference with Jen Psaki and Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh.
Basically they are saying they have frozen Russian bank accounts. Yeah that will teach Russia not to be naughty!
Also Germany will not allow the natural gas pipeline that allows natural gas to flow from Russia to the rest of Europe to operate. That pipeline bypasses the Ukraine. Smart move by Russia to build it that way so there was no fear that any instability in the Ukraine would disrupt the sale of Russian natural gas to western Europe.
However, a really significant of natural gas that supplies Germany and other countries comes from Russia. If there is a Nordstream 2 I suspect there is a Nordstream 1 somewhere. Oh yes! It flows to Europe via the Ukraine!
Now, think about this. If the USA and Europe freezes the Russian bank accounts so Russia cannot be paid for anything they export. That is good right?
Yep, that will prevent Russia from exporting anything for money.
Dictator Possum would IMMEDIATLY stop any export of natural gas via Nordstream 1 to Europe because Mr Possum isn’t going to get paid for it because his bank account is frozen.
Hey it is not just Russian bank accounts that are going to be frozen. It is going to get a bit frosty in Germany etc too.
Possum wrote:
and the Croats?
eaglesoars wrote:
Croats are Christian. So are Serbs. That one was a pissing contest as to who had the most land.
@ Possum:
*sigh* Is one Roman Catholic and one Orthodox?
WE HAVE A NEW VARIANT!!
right on cue – BA2
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t know without doing the Google thingy.
Personally I think it is tragic that Eire ( South Ireland ) and Ulster ( North Ireland ) have been at war for centuries. Same basic religion, Christianity, but a different interpretation of it.
@ Possum:
The Irish can be pigs. And I AM Irish. They don’t even know what they’re fighting about anymore. The only thing that unites them is hatred for England (not that I blame them)
@ Possum:
And to expand on this. I have been at weddings and funerals in both Catholic churches and Protestant churches and to my untrained eyes and ears I really cannot honestly tell the difference.
eaglesoars wrote:
And what caused that?
eaglesoars wrote:
Diverse reasons for the 3-400 years of on – off war between the Croats and Serbs. Religiously the Serbs are Orthodox and the Croats are Catholic. The Croats look towards Europe and the Serbs loom towards Russia. They have had bad blood between them for years concerning who did what when the Muslim Turks were in occupation. \\Complicated.
Possum wrote:
Actually the whole thing REALLY kicked off when William the Dutch king took over in England and screwed down the Catholic South. The original basis was the Norman earls who moved into Ireland and Wales and broke up the Sept (Clan) system and confiscated huge swathes of land.
That didn’t go down well with the locals. Then 1/3 of the population starved during the 1800s Potato famine and the English used starvation to thin the Irish and force them to emigrate. I am the result of that immigration!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
And thankfully the UN and NATO did not interfere and artificially divide the land.
Yes, I am old enough to realise that outside intervention to draw lines and enforce boundaries on territorial disputes does not work.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Why did the Irish rely on potatoes for their main source of food.
Fucking Francis Drake is a NAZI
Possum wrote:
Really/ There are 40,000 different Protestant denominations! That is a LOT of weddings and funerals to attend to get a relative handle statistically that they are the same.
As to us arguing about Irish history from 200 years ago it seems to me that African Americans today pissing and moaning about slavery and reparations may have a valid point.
@ Aussie Infidel:
They aint 40,000 in
England.
Your turn.
Possum wrote:
There were 4 types of potato but there was one variation that was really easy to grow in large volumes and that stored if not well than adequately. Alas the Irish didn’t realize that this potato variation was prone to a fungal rot. When a staple fails a population dies…. or moves someplace else. Restricting movement during a famine by the English was a crime against humanity and murdered 1/3 of the Irish, through planned use of starvation as a weapon/
@ Possum:
Actually in England there is Catholic and CofE which is Church of England.
Henry 8th started CofE because if the divorce thing.
I am baptised CofE but in England there are several levels of churches depending who the Vicar is, or also known as Priest, or the Father of the congregation.
If a church is protestant but leans heavily towards the basic Catholic faith it is known as a ” High Church ” mass in Latin etc….
Then we have the huggy kissy kind of American churches that really piss me off.
Possum wrote:
There were 4 types of potato but there was one variation that was really easy to grow in large volumes and that stored if not well than adequately. Alas the Irish didn’t realize that this potato variation was prone to a fungal rot. When a staple fails a population dies…. or moves someplace else. Restricting movement during a famine by the English was a crime against humanity and murdered 1/3 of the Irish, through planned use of starvation as a weapon/Possum wrote:
Guessing now but let’s agree that there are a couple of hundred in the UK?
The US probably has thousands as every local lad and his uncle is the leader of some splinter Protestant outfit.
That’s still a hell of a lot of weddings and funerals for you to make such a broad claim! Methinks you just had .. a vibe … and just went with that!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
And in the USA in Salem you couldn’t store wheat properly and so a fungus took over ( Ergot ) and the population of Salem went fucking nuts…
@ Aussie Infidel:
No, when I was there there was Catholic, CofE and ” high Church ” which was CofE but had more latin shit.
Possum wrote:
I’m married to a High Church Anglican, from the direct line of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. Alas we never get invitations to visit Castle Howard these days!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I do not mind entering a church to pay my respects but that huggy thing really pisses me off. I have a bubble and NO ONE gets in it. Not even Bunk.
Possum wrote:
I’m married to a High Church Anglican, from the direct line of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. Alas we never get invitations to visit Castle Howard these days!
🙂Possum wrote:
The Methodists, Baptists, Presberterians, and other mainstream Protestants might disagree with you mate!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians are nuts. The religious team I am supposed to belong to has churches ( the stone buildings ) that are over 1000 years old.
We have history….
@ Possum:
LOL the Baptist ” church” is probably in the building next to Walmart…
Aussie Infidel wrote:
#metoo
On a lighter note, I have been taking Krill oil ( to lubricate my Krill ) and some other tablets that are supposed to promote joint health. Usually given to aging dogs, I got them cheap on Amazon.
I cannot really notice any difference in my joint pain except when I go for a walk I have a strange desire to urinate on fire hydrants.
Up till now it was not a problem but today as I was walking past an elementary school and saw a hydrant the urge overcame me.
My court date is next Monday…..
Possum wrote:
I HATE that
Possum wrote:
Try the Missouri Synod Lutherans.
If the Roman Catholic and Baptist churches had a baby………
Possum wrote:
POSSUM FINALLY GOT A DATE!!
@ eaglesoars:
I do not like being touched.
@ eaglesoars:
LOL finally! Being trying for years.
Possum wrote:
This really all boils down to the question of upon what do you place the salvation of your eternal soul? Catholic doctrines place significant emphasis on works and that humans can do enough good deeds to offset their sins and enter heaven based upon that. The Protestant faiths (many of them, not all) take a scriptural approach based upon what God’s Word says and that is that it is only by God’s Grace, through faith in the atoning work Christ that we are saved. Christians do good works as a fruit of their faith, not because those works in any way contribute to salvation. Now, there are various different flavors and denominations that have various views on these matters, however, in the grand scheme of things, this is what really matters.
@ AZfederalist:
I am thankful that I was baptised into the Christian faith when I was just a baby.
That did not really have any physical effect on me.
Later in life I could choose whatever religion I wanted to follow or none at all.
I am grateful my parents were not Jewish.
I was not genitally mutilated as an infant.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/missouri-ag-eric-schmitt-informs-t-mobile-investigation-launched-following-censorship-conservative-viewpoints-following-gateway-pundit-complaint/
Brings back memories. Only time I was asked for my religion was when I got a kidney donor card.
That was in the early 70’s and I think at that time the only organs that could be successfully transplanted were kidneys.
Maybe they needed religion so they could treat what was left of me in the manner to which was appropriate.
Anyway I cheated death in the 70’s and deprived two other people from a future.
Possum wrote:
Not until you change your socks.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I got a twelve month supply of socks.
From Amazon. Twelve pairs.
So fuck off.
🙂
@ Possum:
You’re supposed to remove them from the packaging, not use them as stainproof cat pillows.
So fuck on.
😀
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hey stop attacking me. I bought a pack of socks just incase one night I got luckily.
You know the English always keep their socks on in bed.
I like socks. They are not like cottage cheese. Socks do not have a ” best used by” date.
@ Possum:
But actually girl socks are best eaten when still warm….
@ Possum:
But you have to eat all of them, To hide the evidence, If you just nibble the sock toes off and leave the rest you are going to get busted.
So I have been told by a friend….
Possum wrote:
Sorry to have to break this to you mate, but those 1000+ year old churches you attend were confiscated Catholic churches, that Henry VIII ripped off. He slaughtered Catholics all over England and followed up with the “Clearances’ where he stole a shit load of property and treasure. The Civil War and Cromwell again suppressed the remaining Catholics and again stole masses of wealth and land. Guy Fawkkes and Catholic plotters attempted to blow up Parliament but all they managed was get caught , hanged, drawn and quartered. NOT something I would recommend!
🙂
I throw on whatever socks look around the same color. Occasionally this does not work so I am bi-socksual.
@ Aussie Infidel:
But they did not destroy the buildings.
Shows respect for the consecrated ground.
AZfederalist wrote:
Where in hell (pardon the pun) did that come from? Totally wrong and I mean 180% wrong . Sorry but Catholic doctrine says nothing of the sort. Neither does Canon Law. This type of thing is the stuff that generates ill will and misconceptions. You need to go look at source material and NOT believe stuff that someone has made up off the top of his / her head.
🙂
Possum wrote:
Again mate sorry to dash your preconceptions. Churches and especially those belonging to religious orders were plundered and destroyed by Henry VIII. There are wrecks standing all over England right now. Literally hundreds of them. History matters mate!
Otherwise we keep making the same mistakes.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Monasteries maybe. Churches were not wrecked.
eaglesoars wrote:
We were from the O’Carroll Sept (clan) near Roscrea and Templemore in the center of Ireland. Our lot included two convicts ( One went straight to Van Diemans Land, Tasmania, for Life as he was considered prone to escape, and the other to Newcastle where he was ‘endentured’ (enslaved)for 20 years. They were transported earlier on, before the Potato famine drove the rest of us out to Australia vis a ship from Cork. Both were eventually given a ‘Ticket of Leave’ (free but could never return to England or Ireland. Both made it big time. The guy who was transported to Tasmania eventually ‘Squatted’ and claimed 60,000 acres of land in the Castlereigh country on the Western plains in New South Wales, and raised 6 girls and a shitload of wheat!
@ eaglesoars:
Each Sept had seven families attached, and ruled over by a sub-chief in our case the O’Carrolls. Actually our Sept had 8 families as the Dooleys got kicked out of their Sept and came to live in ours.
My good lady wife through her father’s line lived just 15 Km south and it took 500years and 12000 miles before we got together in Oz.
@ Possum:
And one close to home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_Bretton_Priory
And if you research Monk Bretton Priory further then you find it is a wreck due to Henry 8th people stealing big chinks of it to add to churches in the Barnsley area of South Yorkshire.
Possum wrote:
I believe that’s correct. People still needed physical houses of worship.
Possum wrote:
Afraid not mate. The whole south coast is dotted with their ruins.
@ Possum:
Chunks not Chinks.
I don’t think China was discovered yet in 1538.
Those churches that submitted to Henry VIII were spared, those who refused were gutted and destroyed. Why do you think Priest Holes (hiding places behind false walls) became d’regure in England. If found, priests were slaughtered by Henry’s goons
Possum wrote:
Well there was a lost Roman Legion living in Western China (DNA confirmed it) and the silk road was active for a thousand years so I think folks knew a wee bit about China., even before Marco Polo wandered over that way
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s where House Churches came into ‘fashion’. The Church literally went underground until the suppression stopped.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
My family is the McKee clan, originally out of Scotland (where it’s known as McKay, IIRC)
One ancestry site says it was Hugh McKee who first landed in 1795 but that doesn’t accord w/the family Bible.
It was Alexander and his son Thomas and Thomas’ wife (who died shortly after landing) BEFORE the Revolution. They were located in what is now Pittsburgh where Thomas married into the Shawnee nation, a woman name Tecumsahpah, Anglo name Margaret. Their son or grandson, Hugh, was Geo. Washington’s liaison to the Shawnee nation during the revolution and there is a small town in Pennsylvania named after him, McKee’s Rocks. John Kasich, who keeps running for POTUS, will tell anyone still listening that’s his hometown and his father was a mail carrier. I’ve never been there but I hear it’s a dive.
James Mitchener wrote a book about my family called Centennial.
Yes. I am a Shawnee Princess. Deal.
@ eaglesoars:
That just covers my paternal grandfather’s line. My paternal grandmother’s father was a MOFFET and he came over at 13 sometime during the 1800s I THINK because of the potato famine.
On my mother’s side – meet Molly Reagan. Mom’s paternal grandmother. Mom never knew her, never met her, could tell me nothing.
But if you look at my DNA stuff – I’m a freaking Valkyrie. All I can think of is that the Vikings used Ireland as a slave colony for 300 years.
God, I’ve known whores with more integrity
The U.S. economy has been hit with increased gas prices, inflation, and supply-chain issues due to the Ukraine crisis.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1496311351827910657
@ Aussie Infidel:
I will ask then what the purpose of penance and lighting candles are. There is definitely work righteousness associated with Catholic doctrine.
eaglesoars wrote:
Pretty amazing that the economy knew 10 months ago about the Ukrainian crisis, eh? You know, when gas and other prices started skyrocketing. Couldn’t have been Brandon administration energy policies, nope, not at all.
This is so cool
Researchers unlock the keys to designing an interstellar sail
Researchers in two new studies explored how best to design a light sail for an interstellar journey. They found that such a sail should billow and have a grid-like pattern and came to some conclusions about the best materials to use as well.
https://www.space.com/interstellar-flight-lightsail-design
AZfederalist wrote:
By their works shall ye know them
I think somebody said that
eaglesoars wrote:
Very true, but it the motivation for those works that is the factor. Done out of love for what has been done already for them is Christian motivation; done to earn salvation is not. That same person had lots to say to the Pharisees who thought their righteous lives and acts would save them
I’m thinking by the end of the week Putin will tell Biden to hand over Alaska – and Biden will do it.
AZfederalist wrote:
Penance also known as Reconciliation and Confession and one of the seven sacraments, and offers sinners the chance to confess their sins before Christ and seek his forgiveness. The Penance is given as a form of making restitution for those sins, and is symbolic as well as necessary for forgiveness. The words of Christ to Peter and the Apostles (bishops)and through them (the Priests) … paraphrased… what is forgiven on Earth is forgiven in Heaven and what is retained on Earth is retained in Heaven. The fact that to sin is an affront and rejection of Christ Himself, requires Justice as well as Forgiveness. That is where the Church has the concept of Purgatory, a state of a soul to purge the sins from their souls, and to seek the Justice of Christ’s Forgiveness, prior to the Beatific Vision, of the Trinity.
@ eaglesoars:
Just in.
Video of a Kiwi cop beating on a man in Wellington at the sit-in, and then gouging his eyes. Also the three cops who claimed that acid was sprayed into their eyes by demonstrators was actually a ‘home goal’. The cops were spraying demonstrators with pepper spray and got a bit carried away and accidentally sprayed his own cops. The MSM were full of outrage but a video of the whole incident has brought out the truth! Plain clothes cops have been IDed amongst the crowd stirring up members to break the law. Agent Provocatures indeed
@ Aussie Infidel:
Based on that I was not engaged in believing stuff that someone has made up off the top of his / her head. You yourself used the phrase of making restitution for sin and that those works are necessary for forgiveness.
Look, I know that we disagree on these doctrines; I stated my position and will leave it at that.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Are you sure they are Kiwi cops? There were rumors yesterday that mercenaries were brought into Ottawa. GS4 I think? Lobo id’d the parent company
Aussie Infidel wrote:
In your opinion, is there any hope for Australia at all or are the citizens going to be sheep and accept the tyranny?
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
NEWS ALERT****
Jasinda Ardern’s fiance is wearing a court required ankle bracelet. Found guilty of drugs offences. Kept VERY QUIET.
He’s the moron who ‘knocked up’ Cindi. He then knocked up Cindi’s baby sitter and she was bundled out of the country and it was all swept under the carpet.
The WEDDING of the Century has been on again and off again 3 times now. I’m guessing that the Prime Minister getting married to a COVERTLY convicted drug criminal may … Just MAY not be going ahead!
Are they going to have to return the wedding presents from those 700 guests?
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I thought the church got rid of that concept. Something about children in non-western countries dying too young to be exposed to Christ or something.
I’m a super dooper theologian.
AZfederalist wrote:
This is NZ. They are even more like Sheeple than the Aussies. 97% jabbed and they STILL can’t handle it!
eaglesoars wrote:
No I’d know if this was the case. #2 son is a cop!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Two very different Doctrinal concepts. One is all about Christ’s Justice as well as Forgiveness. The other is the concept of babies dying unbaptized and what happens to them.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m guessing that Jacinda’s fiance’s big dive boat will not be parked on Jacinda’s front yard!
He’ll be hiding in some remote bay around the back of Waihiki Island waiting for the bad press to die down. That if the Judge allows him to be that far away from his place of restraint.
Clarke Gayford (the would be ‘First Bloke’)hid on his boat for 3 weeks when he’d inseminated Jacinda’s babysitter, and while she was arranging to leave the country for home in Brazil
AZfederalist wrote:
With a PM like Morrison who knows? He tries to play BOTH sides of the street and is a semi-covert member of the World Economic Council while pretending to be a conservative church going Christian.
SPIT
Aussie Infidel wrote:
she’s from Brazil?
where is Mark Steyn? I haven’t heard a peep out of him in over a year
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup. She was babysitting her 2 year old. Clarke Gayson was also home and one wonders why the hell he wasn’t doing the babysitting. He was certainly getting into the babysitters pants however. OK I understand the kid’s mother was the PM and her old man was a B grade media personality hosting 3 shows, a diving, a fishing and a house moving TV reality show. You’d think he’d be too busy to get involved in cocaine distribution!
eaglesoars wrote:
He’s running his TV channel on the web as well as doing a lot of radio and is s syndicated correspondent for several news papers.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Doh! I failed the reading comprehension portion of your post. Sounds like NZ may not have much hope then. Although I did see something the other day regarding a protest and some Māori appeared to be very unhappy with the way things are going.
eaglesoars wrote:
Saw him on Fox maybe a month or so ago
AZfederalist wrote:
A bunch of Maori gang members are totally trashing the reputations of a peaceful demonstrators. They are getting drunk and playing up like morons. They are playing into the hands of the MSM and Cops.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’d be interested how GS4 personnel were ID’ed in Canada. Were some IDed from the Danish HO of GS4 or was it ye Olde Rumor Mill?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
do they know Hunter?
Do these numbers sound reasonable to anyone?
Ukraine is capable of mobilizing a total of between 300,000 and 400,000 experienced reservists, in addition to 250,000-strong active service Armed Forces
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1496252260912975872
I don’t know what the numbers would be for the US
A significant winter storm will bring snow and ice from the southern Plains to the Ohio Valley Wednesday through Thursday night, and the Northeast U.S. Thursday night through Friday. Check your local forecast at http://weather.gov
https://twitter.com/NWS/status/1496309949516894213
I suspect this will disrupt the U.S. truckers convoy.
bed. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
What the Ukies lack is heavy equipment. In a mobility mechanized war, infantry just don’t cut it. They need above all else heaps of 155mm Artillery and the tech to use it operationally. THAT they lack as well as capability to defend themselves from fast air, and modern armor.
The Russians are ready for WWIII and the Ukies are preparing for WWI
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh I what you’re getting at. No Jacinda is 100% Kiwi. Her live in babysiter who looked after her 2 YO daughter, was from Brazil
Tulsi Gabbard is going to speak at CPAC this year?!
https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1495762134403276801
Tulsi Gabbard endorsed Bernie Sanders for the Democratic primary in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
She voted to terminate President Trump’s declaration of an emergency at the U.S.-Mexican border, which allowed him to bypass Congress and re-allocate funds to build a border wall.
She voted to reinstate Federal Communications Commission rules that would regulate Internet service providers as public utilities.
She is a “life-long environmentalist.”
Need more? https://ballotpedia.org/Tulsi_Gabbard
Possum wrote:
R.I.P. PATCHES
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Size and density, color match optional.
eaglesoars wrote:
How do you unlock a key?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Neonazi white supremacist confederate Trump insurrectionists
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Except for cyber warfare.
@ Possum:
Then we have the huggy kissy kind of American churches that really piss me off.
I’ve been going to my church (Evangelical Covenant) for 20+ years and wouldn’t do that. A hand shake maybe but no more. And with as mask mad as most people are even that probably won’t happen.
@ Aussie Infidel:
My question on Catholic traditions- why confession to a priest and absolution such as ‘Our Father’ or ‘Hail Mary’? Why confess to a priest instead of directly to God?
Wow! An IRA, religion, Balkan thread and thr joint is still in one peice!
I am very impressed!!!
right_wing2 wrote:
He’s God’s representative on earth and can act as guidance.
But to continue your reasoning…then why go to church. Pray and worship at home. Most churches hate that idea. ; )
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
If you just wear one…well, you’re Russian…Mars Soxonanoff.
Heh.
As for the use of candles in Orthodoxy and Catholicism…ever been in an ancient church…and I mean ANCIENT.
no windows…means no light. Thecandles serve a representative / symbolic function AND you get to see in a very dark room.
@ eaglesoars:
McKees rocks can be a little rough…but there are some businessmen making a great effort…It’s coming around, slowly.
And it’s home to Mancini’s bread. THE BEST Italian bread in the galaxy.
required watching
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/brilliant-young-student-kills-her-school-board-with-sarcasm/
all is not lost!
@ coldwarrior:
she’s great.
This – not so much. Look at this crap
Students at Rocky Run Middle School, FFX county, Virginia are made to pledge support to #BLM.
https://twitter.com/ThermoNuclearZ/status/1496469956204142594
coldwarrior wrote:
And socks.
Stay away from that one or Mr. Possum will tell you to fuggoff.
We got caper-sized hail again this morning.
coldwarrior wrote:
Audience was silent with nervous applause at the end. Should have been chuckles and raucous cheers.
Rich Higgins died last night. He’s been in the hospital forever it seems, complications from COVID
He wrote THE memo that outed the Deep State in the WH and elsewhere, McMasters forced him out.
So he wrote a book. The Memo: Twenty Years Inside the Deep State Fighting for America First
https://smile.amazon.com/Memo-Twenty-Inside-Fighting-America-ebook/dp/B08KWQMK1Z/ref=sr_1_2?crid=4JJMCOXIFYDW&keywords=The+Memo&qid=1645632120&s=books&sprefix=the+memo%2Cstripbooks%2C78&sr=1-2
Here’s the Memo That Blew Up the NSC
Fired White House staffer argued “deep state” attacked Trump administration because the president represents a threat to cultural Marxist memes, globalists, and bankers.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/10/heres-the-memo-that-blew-up-the-nsc/
Remember a few days ago when a lot of Canadian banks mysteriously went off line?
Apparently – altho no one is talking – there was a predictable – unless you’re a leftist dumbass – run on the banks.
And the Ukie Nazi chick had to back down.
@ eaglesoars:
i think that the left is trolling sometimes just to piss off the right
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
and there are no whistle-blowers from the inside to put n end to this.
that’s all i need to see
A Democratic sponsored bill I can support- ending subsidies for stadiums.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/02/22/nfl-congress-stadium-tax-bill/
@ right_wing2:
tht headline is kind of misleading. they want the teams to stop using municipal bonds to raise capital for stadiums…well, this system works quite nicely.
investors who buy the bonds get a safe place to put their money and the areas surrounding the new stadiums grows and generates income. PGH’s north shore was a murder zone until the two new stadium were put in, now there are corporate headquarters, restaurants and bars, hotels, a casino, and some damn nice apartments…all what was gang-land slum. imagine the tax revenue all that generates! this system works.
if someone is against the idea, then they don’t HAVE to buy these particular bonds, however…you’d be a fool not to. they always get paid off on time and are super safe.
the author of the bill is claiming sexual harassment…wth does that have to do with municipal bonds? oh, nothing! she’ just an angry left wing hell-bitch bent on removing safe investments from careful investors.
@ coldwarrior:
When they were trying to get baseball back to DC, they were looking for someplace to put the ball park. Somebody got the idea to put it around the corner from my house in Virginia. REVENUE!!!
I went to every meeting, stood on chairs, you name it. The traffic would have been HORRENDOUS.
They finally got a clue and put it in DC where it belonged to begin with.
The Matrix
Trudeau’s ‘anti-hate’ bill will allow people to PREEMPTIVELY report Canadians for ‘hate speech’
Bill C-36 states that “a person may, with the Attorney General’s consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit (a) an offence under section 318 [advocating genocide] or subsection 319” [inciting or promoting hate, promoting hatred].
https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeaus-anti-hate-bill-will-allow-people-to-preemptively-report-canadians-for-hate-speech
@ eaglesoars:
agreed on that one!
that team needed to be IN DC. that’s part of the beauty of a city based baseball park.
just look at this!
perfect.
From the World Economic Forum 2017. If this doesn’t scare the hell out of you, I don’t know what will.
https://twitter.com/_Citizen_Se7en/status/1496384829679673351
Transhumanism from their own mouths
@ coldwarrior:
I agree with the sexual harassment part, but I’m against any use of taxpayer money, in any form. Bonds, tax breaks, subsidies etc.
@ eaglesoars:
The man speaking is Yuval Noah Harari. He’s written some good (interesting) books. The one you want to read is Homo Deus
What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
the amazon url is too long so you can look it up yer own selves
coldwarrior wrote:
gorgeous. lots of saturated color in that pic
@ right_wing2:
Of course I’d be ok with all pro and NCAA sports shutting down too.
@ eaglesoars:
https://tinyurl.com/2p927s3k
Homo feud on Amazon
@ right_wing2:
That’s homo deus. Stupid autocorrect
right_wing2 wrote:
i dont understand where ‘tax payer money’ is used in these cases.
they are muni’s. where do ‘tax payer dollars’ fund these? they don’t.
and then, the tax revenue generated by the stadiums, concerts, parking, and new surrounding businesses far outpaces a the pittance on q ONE TIME tax on a private bond issue. and i’m all for paying as little taxes as possible.
a muni was issued for a highway extension from PGH airport west to WVA…i never drive on it, so why did ‘my tax dollars’ go to it? fine by me because it is generating tons and tons in taxes and helping to sprout new investment along the corridor far outpacing the one time tax on a non-muni. large net gain for the entire community.
this isnt a zero sum game.
right_wing2 wrote:
right_wing2 wrote:
BWAHHAAAA!!!!!!
sometimes auto-correct is hysterical.
@ eaglesoars:
we have to leave this rock to survive. this joint is terminal.
how do we leave? dunno…maybe as part machines? interesting to think about
right_wing2 wrote:
the beauty of capitalism…don’t like it, don’t ‘buy’ it.
@ eaglesoars:
Gee…no chance that that will be misused…
lobo91 wrote:
NEVER!!! /
mmmmmhmmmmmmm.
not to put too fine a point on the stadium thing…sports/concerts are the same as any business. they will go to where the business climate is best. fedex ground put their corporate hq in robinson twp north of PGH because of gigantic tax breaks.
no complaint there, right? good move on their part. corporations like SAP were given large breaks by the city of pgh to move there
no problem.
sports teams are like any other producer in this economy. tryin’ to make a buck. they don’t produce widgets, they produce entertainment…the city doesnt care what they produce so long as that tax stream stays in place.
why sports teams are treated any differently than widget inc is beyond me.
coldwarrior wrote:
prestige
coldwarrior wrote:
you and Elon should get together over a couple of beers
off to rustle up food, later
@ coldwarrior:
An airport isn’t (usually) privately owned though. And teams holding a city hostage to demands for billion dollar stadiums happens far too often.
@ right_wing2:
And I do agree there. That seems like a bad PR and overall business decision
@ right_wing2:
For info, the city and county own PNC park and heinz field
Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm
More evidence Covid was tinkered with in a lab? Now scientists find virus contains tiny chunk of DNA that matches sequence patented by Moderna THREE YEARS before pandemic began
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542309/Fresh-lab-leak-fears-study-finds-genetic-code-Covids-spike-protein-linked-Moderna-patent.html
Canadian regulator sent crypto CEOs tweets to the cops, tells them not to promote custodial wallets.
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1496233854381826057
Judge blasts Air Force over denying vaccine religious exemption requests, grants injunction
https://aztodaynews.com/judge-blasts-air-force-over-denying-vaccine-religious-exemption-requests-grants-injunction/
@ eaglesoars:
Mmmhmmmm
coldwarrior wrote:
That is because I went to bed early LOL
🙂
https://freebeacon.com/culture/butcher-confidential/
yep, grass fed beef sucks.
right_wing2 wrote:
I would suggest asking the Apostles and Especially Simon Peter who received a command from Christ Himself to build His Church. Christ’s Church uses priests to mentor His Church and to represent Christ in leading His people.
I’m afraid your ‘inner Luther’ is showing again. It’s an ‘oldie but well worn piece of flim flam that is 500 years old. It’s BS then as it’s still BS now. Christ is the only One to forgive sin, however it was Christ Himself who said to His Apostles that they had the power to forgive sin through Him, when He said, what is forgiven on Earth is forgiven in Heaven and what is retained on Earth is retained in Heaven. If you cherry pick the New Testament to suit your agenda then you will have to sort that out yourself. The destruction of parts of the New Testament 500 years ago in direct rejection of specific demands to not add to nor take away from that Testament, doesn’t help your case much either.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-watch-live-trudeau-cancels-national-emergency-act/
the fascist takes a step back
@ coldwarrior:
too late though, trudeau peeled back the curtain for the whole world to see what they have in store
eaglesoars wrote:
World Economic Forum pushes digital ID system that will determine access to services
The World Economic Forum (WEF), an international organization that works to “shape global, regional and industry agendas,” recently published its latest dystopian proposal – a far-reaching digital ID system that will collect as much data as possible on individuals and then use this data to determine their level of access to various services.
This digital ID proposal is outlined in a report titled “Advancing Digital Agency: The Power of Data Intermediaries”.
Under this framework, the WEF proposes collecting data from many aspects of people’s “everyday lives” through their devices, telecommunications networks, and third-party service providers.
The WEF suggests that this data collection dragnet would allow a digital ID to scoop up data on people’s online behavior, purchase history, network usage, credit history, biometrics, names, national identity numbers, medical history, travel history, social accounts, e-government accounts, bank accounts, energy usage, health stats, education, and more.
Once the digital ID has access to this huge, highly personal data set, the WEF proposes using it to decide whether users are allowed to “own and use devices,” “open bank accounts,” “carry out online financial transactions,” “conduct business transactions,” “access insurance, treatment,” “book trips,” “go through border control between countries or regions,” “access third-party services that rely on social media logins,” “file taxes, vote, collect benefits,” and more.
In this Advancing Digital Agency: The Power of Data Intermediaries report, the WEF positions this digital ID framework as the part of the solution to a “trust gap in data sharing” and notes that vaccine passports, which were mandated across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, do “by nature serve as a form of digital identity.”
The WEF also praises the way vaccine passports have allowed governments to harvest data from their populations without “notice and consent”.
Additionally, the WEF provides a specific example of how digital IDs could be used to authenticate a user (by using fingerprints, a password, or identity verification technology) and decide whether they should be granted access to a bank loan by judging their profile (which may include their biometrics, name, and national identity number) and history (which may include their credit, medical, and online purchasing history).
The WEF goes on to suggest that digital IDs will “allow for the selection of preferences and the making of certain choices in advance” and ultimately pave the way for “automated decision-making” where a “trusted digital assistant” “automates permissions for people and effectively manages their data across different services” to “overcome the limitations of notice and consent.”
@ Aussie Infidel:
Did you see the Bank in the UK suggested to Parliament that crypto use be restricted to only ‘essentials’. ?
I think people are on to them now.
coldwarrior wrote:
wonder what happened…
coldwarrior wrote:
My take as well.
“Honk Honk” = “Hail Hitler”
eaglesoars wrote:
pressure from the banks?
did HRH call him and tell him to knock it off?
sis he realize that he destroyed his own govt?
@ coldwarrior:
Cities fight each other for the big tax-generators like sports facilities, amusement parks. Cities with smaller budgets fight for high roller auto dealers, give them land subsidies and corporate tax breaks.
coldwarrior wrote:
Dodger Stadium is a place I’d not like to be after dark. The surrounding area is bad enough during the day.
right_wing2 wrote:
In theory the sales tax revenue justifies and pays for the subsidies.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not if you delete everything after and including the question mark.
https://www.amazon.com/Homo-Deus-Brief-History-Tomorrow/dp/0062464310
right_wing2 wrote:
Homo Feud got me to click on the link. FagWars are fun.
right_wing2 wrote:
coldwarrior wrote:
Tourism. Just like Disneyland.
coldwarrior wrote:
So now the truckers need not “stand down” for fear of violence.
coldwarrior wrote:
most likely. Somebody on that CFP thread said Hong Kong institutional funds got pulled. And now – that money isn’t coming back. The trust is gone.
eaglesoars wrote:
Paypal is limiting crypto as of 1 March. Limits on digital art purchases also.
coldwarrior wrote:
A step back? Not really. He in essence invoked the the Emergency Measures Act, got what he needed done, and then revoked it. BEFORE it could be approved or revoked in the parliament houses.
He’s just shown the best way to abuse this damned thing for future prime ministers and governments. Pandora’s box has been opened wide, and there’s no hope left inside.
@ PaladinPhil:
i hadn’t thought of it that way
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Ever been to the Oakland Coliseum?
Two blocks away and you could film episodes of The Walking Dead
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
north shore was like that. not anymore. its high rent tax generation now
This story may interest anyone here who is involved with buildings.
To cut a long story short for the last week someone has been digging holes around the apartment block I live in. Then there was the noise of a generator running and for anyone who has been near one the engine note changes as more load is applied to it. Engine note got deeper then there was a bang cyclically once every 30 seconds to two minutes.
For the first day or so it scared the cats. After the first day or so cats got used to it. The “bang” was so intense it actually bounced both me and my TV. Then came the pneumatic drills. They were digging out something under apartment. Maybe a buried UFO that crashed here 4000 years ago. I do not know, but I watch too many 60’s Sci-Fi movies.
This one sprung to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=033K233GIWs
Yesterday the happy band of workers seemed to be placing round concrete blocks under the apartment. About a foot long and nine inches in diameter. That was a relaxing quiet day for a change.
Today at 9am as I was enjoying my morning coffee there seemed to be a lot of yelling outside. Counting in Spanish then the creaking noises started. It was like being in a sailing ship on the high seas in an Errol Flynn movie!
Boris wanted outside, so I opened the patio door to the balcony to let him out then went to the bedroom door to close it to stop the kittens escaping. It would not shut. It no longer fit in the hole!
Oh dear. I opened the bedroom closet door and went into the bathroom and opened opened the door of the cupboard there too. A door that is open and will not close is not as big as a problem as a door that is closed but gets jammed shut.
I also noticed that the vinyl floor tiles along each side of the length of the apartment by the walls had buckled up. That was strange. So I had another cup of coffee.
Suddenly a thought struck me. If the bedroom door no longer fits in the hole it was supposed to fit in what about the apartment door?
Stuck solid. The deadbolt wouldn’t turn. WTF I thought ( as you do when you find out the lock on your door no longer turns. )
Locks are a wonderful thing. Anyone on the outside can’t take them apart to sneekily enter your home but if you are on the inside you can take one apart to fix it or change it! Brilliant idea!
Got my trusty screwdriver and dismantled the lock. I knows what I am doing I said to myself. Surrounded by lock parts the only thing left in there was the bolt thingy that slides into the frame of the door. It STILL wouldn’t move. Even though I used a few naughty words. Eventually and using bigger tools than my trusty screwdriver there was a bang ( quite a loud bang to be honest ) and I got it to slide back and door was open and I was free!
Anyway, I told you I would keep this short. I had to move the metal plate that screws into the door frame down about quarter of an inch before the deadbolt thingy would engage again.
I am thankful I was trapped inside when all this happened and not outside.
@ Possum:
An in my totally non expert opinion I feel that the foundations of this building may have had a problem and maybe we were all gradually sinking to the center of the Earth at the rate of an inch per 100 years and we needed saving.
But to lift us all up a few inches and replace the foundations then drop us all back down you would have thought that at the very least they could have kind of made sure the new foundation was level.
Oh well, rent is cheap….
Breaking News: The prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s inquiry into Donald Trump have resigned. The D.A. is said to have doubts about the case.
*snort*
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1496570957821005827
@ Possum:
good lord!
good read
A Major Backfire – Is the Canadian Financial and Banking System in Serious Trouble as a Result of Their Attack on Private Bank Accounts?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/23/a-major-backfire-is-the-canadian-financial-and-banking-system-in-serious-trouble-as-a-result-of-their-attack-on-private-bank-accounts/
@ coldwarrior:
A friend of mine has started to think I am a total loser, a paranoid person, someone who expects disaster to strike me in unexpected ways every day.
My friend is quite correct.
You know the old excuse ” the dog ate my homework ” Well today thankfully I was not scheduled to go to work but…
Imagine what my boss would think if today I called into work and said ” I can’t come to work today because my apartment fell into a hole and my door won’t open ”
LMAO life here has got so strange that some mornings I wake up and wonder what new disaster will strike. And if a disaster does not strike I feel cheated…
Hey some mornings it is no electricity, some mornings no water. No problems, if no electricity I can make a cold cup of coffee because I am smart and have instant coffee stuff.
No water? No problem! The cats have a big water dish…. They sometimes have to share.
@ Possum:
Really laughing my ass off now.
I just went into the kitchen to get a beer out of the fridge and noticed that now the fridge door mysteriously closes itself without any human intervention.
Seems like every cloud has a silver lining.
🙂
Possum wrote:
excellent!
eaglesoars wrote:
Alberta was pushing it’s Chief Justice towards a challenge against the legality of the Emergency Act at this time and the banks were terrified that Trudeau was starting a ‘run on the banks’. It always comes down to filthy lucre!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
that was one of my 2 guesses above.
interesting
@ Aussie Infidel:
i have a feeling that a VERY large amount of money ‘walked’
If Boris asked me if he could have a quiet moment with me and he then sat on the bed, looked me in the eye and told me he was pregnant and he didn’t know who the father was I would hug him and tell him I loved him.
That would be something that nowadays would be quite normal here.
Oh Boris is a neutered male cat.
Remember when the White House said they weren’t passing out actual crack pipes?
Turns out it’s crack pipes, meth pipes, and syringes all packaged nicely in a ready-to-go bag.
https://twitter.com/RedWingGrips/status/1496641730652819461
video
@ Possum:
lol i thought you meant boris johnson!
coldwarrior wrote:
Actually the way things are going I would not be in the least surprised if Boris Johnson was outside my door making cat yowling noises and when I let him in to the apartment he sat on the bed and looked me in the eye and said….
LSD was fun in the 70’s Life here is way better.
I am at the point where I WILL not wash all my socks and panties at the same time because knowing the way things are going the dryer will catch fire and I will end up sockless and going commando to Walmart to buy replacements.
@ Possum:
This is the 2022 version of ” don’t put all your eggs in the same basket ” as in ” don’t put all your socks in the same dryer “
coldwarrior wrote:
And a lot of it was institutional. And it ain’t going back
JUST IN – Large German health insurance company analyzed data from 10.9 million insured individuals regarding vaccination complications.
The new data is “alarming,” says BKK board member Schöfbeck in a report by WELT.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1496555793092685824?
so it’s not just in the US
@ eaglesoars:
How long before AOC cries on the House floor because they didn’t include the actual drugs in the package?
Right on cue, the Biden Administration basically blamed Trump for the Ukraine situation:
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, I love how they were so proud of this program when they started funding it, then when they were told to knock it off all of the damn MSM circled the wagons and flooded the internet with stories saying “it’s not happening and you’re all damn liars for saying it is.” When you search for it you have to wade through dozens of “fact checks” saying the program isn’t happening before finally finding a story from the Philly Inquirer bragging about how successful the program is and how thankful they are for the fed funding.
@ eaglesoars:
actuaries are very powerful…
coldwarrior wrote:
I love the story about Bragg and his team giving up on prosecuting Trump for lying about the value of his properties to get a loan.
If you’ve ever asked for a home equity loan, one of the things that doesn’t happen is the homeowner telling the bank what the house is worth. They send out an appraiser.
I’m pretty sure that banks do something similar with high value players like Trump
White House press secretary Jen Psaki could reportedly replace Rachel Maddow on MSNBC
https://nypost.com/2022/02/23/white-house-press-secretary-jen-psaki-may-replace-rachel-maddow-on-msnbc-report/
not just because the ratings would dive but that poor little girl who subs for Psaki now always looks like deer in the headlights
UPDATE: Multiple live video streams show Ukraine’s major cities coming under fire. Ukrainian media reporting nearly all major cities are under attack.
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1496685008999829509
coldwarrior wrote:
Different application and not the purpose that was being referenced.
Seriously?
Dilution of forces and non-concentration of forces gets you a F in tactics school.
Show me the proof!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
coldwarrior wrote:
That was brilliant. The school board, of course, didn’t listen to a word she said, but others did
eaglesoars wrote:
OK I’ll bite
🙂
So where is Maddow headed? Not to jail where she belongs ….. surely?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
I have a feeling the true God is not going to judge this attitude favorably. Promoting humans to godhood is quite arrogant
right_wing2 wrote:
The first one was funnier and made me look. 😆
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s all we had growing up. Yeah, it’s tough and not all that great. Lower fat but lower fat.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Depends on what you use for doctrinal authority. Using scripture to interpret scripture, known as hermaneutics, supports RW’s point. Far from cherry picking and backed up by significant biblical scholarship. As I said before, we may not agree on doctrine, but there is no need to get insulting
coldwarrior wrote:
Must have figured out this was going to end badly for him and his puppetmasters
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep, question is whether Canadians are going to remember this when they have a chance to do something about it.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Nothing frightening about that at all. /s
coldwarrior wrote:
Exactly. Mud jacking while occupants are in the building seems wrong
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I report. You decide.
eaglesoars wrote:
Great read. Yep, people are reassessing where and how assets they have are going to be held.
eaglesoars wrote:
Apparently Twatter doesn’t care for that thread. Hid most of the comments behind an offensive warning. Twatter sucks
lobo91 wrote:
Seriously, don’t give them ideas
lobo91 wrote:
Peppermint Patty is a perfect spokesperson for such a weak administration.
eaglesoars wrote:
Darned right they do. And for commercial properties, it’s not just some drive by look at the place and come up with a number, these are very detailed and well researched appraisals that are quite expensive.
eaglesoars wrote:
I have no sympathy for anyone who willingly takes the job of lying for this administration. Remember when the left made that kind of statement about Trump’s press secretaries? Once again they were projecting what they were going to do.
AZfederalist wrote:
There is a nihilism inherent in that world view that is beyond depressing.
Without going into detail, I’m not an adherent of any particular religious persuasion, but I know for a fact that God IS and sometimes it’s a comfort, other times it’s UH OH.
What I am certain of is that HUBRIS is probably the most important word in the English language when it comes to understanding the human condition and political history.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Nobody knows.
My guess is that she got the Mike Wallace Sucker of All Time Award.
CNN poached her for their streaming service – and then Zucker went down in flames.
It could be that she is just fed up with all of it and went home to suck on her toes.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Looks like Putin has made his move in eastern Europe.
I recall you mentioning the ChiComs only have a couple of optimal windows per year to attack Taiwan. Please refresh my memory as to the date windows. Just wondering if one is close.
lobo91 wrote:
Nope, but I’ve been to Oakland. Once.
@ Possum:
They jacked & racked the building while it was occupied. Not just illegal, but dangerous as hell. I’m guessing that they were driving small piles, hence the “bangs”, but that seem an odd way to go about it.
I’d make an “innocent call” to the building department and ask if there was an inspector on site. Better yet, inform the fire department that you were trapped in the building. The Fire Marshal will kick the building official’s ass all the way to Gilley’s.
@ Possum:
If the Building Department red tags the construction, you get free relocation to a better hole.
@ Possum:
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/dryer-sterilizer-1.gif
Aussie Infidel wrote:
She’s interviewing defense lawyers. Rittenhouse is suing her for libel.
AZfederalist wrote:
She’s undergoing stress therapy with a trainer.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That I just can’t believe as the Russian military do NOT have sufficient troops on hand to have them vanish into urban warfare. Try 1 Brigade Battle Group per city block (down from 1 Division per city block in WWII, but due to more lethality of forces, this has dropped to a Brigade Battle Group). I can’t see Vlad getting involved deeper than destroying the Ukie airforce and armored forces and then taking the two Eastern rebel provinces, perhaps a strip of land along the Black Sea to enable Crimea to be supported, a strip of coastal Black Sea to Take Odessa and to join up with that Spatznes unit that has been in the Moldovian rebel province of Denesia for a decade.
I can’t see him attempting to take Kyev a city of 3 million, even though it has historical ties to the foundation of Rus. That would be a ‘Bridge too far’.
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Good for him!
🙂
Bordm wrote:
First the Chinese love to link historical incidents with contemporary action. The foundation of the CCP was in 1922 !
Taiwan has two ~6 week weather windows per year. March /April, and Sept/October. The Taiwanese West coast has few landing beaches with enough contiguous area behind them that is defendable. The East coast is even more problematic. The storms of the South China Sea off the Taiwanese coast are regular as clockwork, as are the king tides and low visibility weather. If Xi is going to ‘have a go’ I’d be looking at Sept/ Oct this year.
its from RT so grain of salt. however, these do logically explain to the reasons, i guess
https://www.rt.com/russia/550394-donbass-republics-military-help-putin/
https://www.rt.com/russia/550408-special-operation-putin-donbass/
so, if i get this straight…russia recognized donbas areas yesterday (?), then donbas asked for help because the ukies weren’t playing nice and were blowing stuff up.
and putin want to de-nazify ukieland??? BWAHAHAAAA!!!!! good luck with that!
i’m sad that i had to go to RT to get the backstory…
i’m sure the euros can’t wait to bravely fight russia right down to the last american.
i kinda understand why putin did this. mrs coldwarrior, upon hearing this news, said, good, they deserve it (and she’s half ukie). so there is some stuff going on from wayback that we aren’t aware of as well.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/23/joe-biden-sanctions-russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline-nine-months-after-lifting-donald-trumps-sanctions/
Ah, now I get it.
The pipeline project, once supported by the Germans, was considered a politically disastrous move for national security regions, allowing Russia to bypass Ukraine to provide natural gas to Europe…
good morning!
Underwater photo winners – great pics
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-10543387/The-incredible-winners-Underwater-Photographer-Year-2022-awards.html
coldwarrior wrote:
I think an element has been left out of that story. Germany halted certification of the pipeline a few days ago. The ‘greenies’ have more influence after Merkel left and I haven’t heard anyone talk about their influence on that decision. They all want ‘renewables’.
Also, keep in mind that people here in the U.S. are being debanked continuously, not just Mike Lindell
Wells Fargo has shut down the bank account of America First activist Lauren Witzke, leaving her stranded out of state with completely no money.
https://nationalfile.com/breaking-wells-fargo-cancels-lauren-witzkes-bank-account-leaves-her-stranded-out-of-state-with-no-money/
the howling neocons have it all wrong. putin is not trying to restore the old soviet union, he is not stalin. he is much more in line of tsar where the current oligarchs are the former boyars…combine that with the all-pervasive fear of invasion given history and that russia has no real geographic barriers to invasion…that more accurately begins to describe all this.
throw in that the ukies havent done their part in the minsk agreement, the coup in 2014, expansion of nato after we promised that would never do that (1991, bush sr)…not that putin is innocent, oh hell no.
1. never enter into a land war in asia
2. when slavs are fighting, stay far, far away…
@ eaglesoars:
wells fargo has done this to a lot of peep if i recall correctly
i have an idea! lol
we can end this now. send hunter biden in commanding a brigade of LBQTx10 shock troopies…general miley can wear his new patent leather pumps, and some spineless shit from europe can issue a strongly worded statement!
that will not only strike the fear of god into putin, but also utterly demoralize the russian airborne troops that this would be over in minutes!
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s hard to keep from laughing at the leaders who created this mess to curry favor, votes and money from the Greens. Take, for example, German chancellor Olaf Scholz whose contribution to the fight was halting the certification of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic gas pipeline. I’d put my money on the halt being temporary. Germany already gets half its gas from Russia. Germans are facing record energy prices and the government is tapping its treasury to ease consumer pressure.
https://the-pipeline.org/how-the-greens-brought-war-to-ukraine/
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s not their money
Real-time updates on Ukraine
https://twitter.com/rwapodcast
‘Russians With Attitude’
most interesting of the recent:
Ukrainian forces seem to have blown up the dam at the Pechenihy Reservoir. Among other things, the reservoir supplies the city of Kharkov with water.
In the meantime, Russian special forces now control the Kiev airport, which will allow the rapid deployment of additional troops to attack Kiev. The Northern front from Belarus is also advancing on Kiev, currently fighting Ukrainian troops near Chernobyl.
And 5 hours ago: The Ukrainian Air Force base in Melitopol has been destroyed with a rocket strike. (video)
Oh ffs. Wha?
This was posted yesterday afternoon
The United States carried out a “self-defense” strike in Somalia yesterday. First U.S. strike in Somalia since August 2021.
https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1496564504724922376
This is the Reuters foreign policy correspondent who covers the Pentagon
@ eaglesoars:
yeah, we blow up a lot of shit, at will, all over the globe.
eaglesoars wrote:
did they file an environmental impact statement??????
Biden delayed his press conference until DeSantis was speaking at cpac.
@ coldwarrior:
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/putin-presents-ukraine-with-two-demands/
Looks like my analysis was pretty good.
I should be a talking head
coldwarrior wrote:
“Some shit just needs blowin’ up”
lobo91 wrote:
I understand…sometimes…BOOM!!!
it’s how it goes.
@ eaglesoars:
“In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab terrorists after they attacked partner forces in a remote location near Duduble, Somalia, February 22.”
https://twitter.com/Amanda07895017/status/1496825677923946498
No idea who this poster is. 1 follower, joined Nov 2020
coldwarrior wrote:
Didn’t Ukraine ask Alexander Vindman to head up their military or some such thing? Wouldn’t that have been a hoot?
eaglesoars wrote:
almost as funny as gen miley
almost
Well as predicted by the Psychic Possum several European countries are opposed to the removal of Russia from the SWIFT banking system.
What Biden has done along with other countries is to freeze Russian assets that are outside of Russia, fair enough.
However, there is no way they are going to shut down SWIFT to prevent foreign money flowing to Russia.
Europe buys natural gas from Russia. 40% of Western Europe consumption is produced in Russia.
If Europe stops paying, or is prevented from paying Russia for natural gas then, quite rightly, Russia will stop supplying it.
https://www.rebelnews.com/doug_ford_shuts_down_39_trucking_businesses
Doug Ford shuts down 39 trucking businesses
“No trial. No judge. No hearing. No appeal. Just happened. And of course it was done by Doug Ford — but at Ottawa’s direction.”
@ Possum:
proof that the euros arent really that serious
eaglesoars wrote:
nice.
in a ‘western democracy’ that is supposedly free
this is just a warm up
coldwarrior wrote:
Also proof that the whole of the continent of Europe is one intertwined entity. All working together and dependent on each other.
https://www.nationsonline.org/bilder/continents_map.jpg
The Russian Federation is in both Europe and Asia.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/farm-credit-canada-is-making-a-list-to-punish-donors-to-trucker-convoy/
more punishment for free speech…coming to your country soon
@ Possum:
a word of advice tho…never call a russian an asian…
it gets UGLY fast.
@ coldwarrior:
I can imagine. The geographical designation of names of continents does not readily translate to the political lines drawn on the world map.
I seem to be clumsy explaining this.
Let me put this another way.
( for example only ) “”Biden announces he will be sending 200 billion dollars to Europe and 200 million military personel “”
The Russian Federation replies ” Thanks for the share of the money you sent to Europe, as for the troops, our part of Europe has plenty. “
Hannity…
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-hannity
coldwarrior wrote:
A speaking commode? Nah.
The head of Russia’s space agency: “If [the U.S.] blocks cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled descent out of orbit and a fall on the United States or”—continued in his next tweet—”Europe?”
“The ISS doesn’t fly over Russia, so all the risks are yours.”
https://twitter.com/marinakoren/status/1496941218240110605
eaglesoars wrote:
yes it does. it has to do to orbital mechanics, conservation of motion, and the amount of fuel it would take to avoid russia on nearly every pass
@ coldwarrior:
It flies ( if you can call it flying, more like it is always falling towards Earth but luckily the Earth keeps moving out of the way. ) it orbits take it in a band that only crosses the Southern part of Russia where nobody lives. It also never is above Scotland. So no sheep will be slaughtered when it comes down.
@ eaglesoars:
Biden mentioned Russia’s space program among his threats. Up until now nobody mentioned space sanctions except our president.
Time for Russia to bring their ISS crew home.
While we are talking about the ISS I think it is a complete waste of money and effort now. No real research that benefits mankind is done. It is just a prestige thingy for the countries that send crews up their.
@ Possum:
And if someone on the ISS can develop a fucking autocorrect that does not screw up “there” and “their” I retract anything nasty I said about the ISS being a waste of money.
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Tools/orbitTutorial.htm
A crashing re entry could easily hit more population.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/putin-makes-public-statement/
coldwarrior wrote:
From what our president said today amount sanctions crippling the Russian economy and industry for years to come I think now is the time to bring ISS down in a controlled way.
The Russian part of the ISS has engines that can periodically boost the ISS orbit but I think they are not used. Visiting cargo delivery spacecraft currently do that job.
@ coldwarrior:
What a shitty translator! Just read the transcript instead LOL
@ Possum:
I think Mr Putin made some valid points…..
LOL and if I keep up with this pro Russian rhetoric there is no way my Green Card is going to get renewed at the end of the month.
@ Possum:
I’ll vouch for ya!
Also it would be quite nice if 99% of the commentators on social media actually knew what the letters NATO meant.
When they Googled it, then saw a map of the countries that were members of NATO and looked for the big blue area of that map labeled North Atlantic they may get a clue.
coldwarrior wrote:
Can you find a place in there to include SecDef Austin?
eaglesoars wrote:
Well that’ll show the Russians! We can blow up stuff in third world countries with no modern military capabilities.
coldwarrior wrote:
… and the reason the market recovered today was because of Biden’s speech. Has to be true, some idiot on Fox said so.
coldwarrior wrote:
The real reason why permits, licenses, insurance requirements and other regulations exist. The ability of the government to unilaterally shut down people it finds inconvenient
@ AZfederalist:
If we are doing such a great job bringing peace and stability to Somalia why are there so many Somalians in Minnesota seeking asylum?
Also thousands of Somalians in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England.
Possum wrote:
Hell, we elected one of them to Congress………
Jennifer Rubin got her law degree from Berkeley. Her IQ has to be at least as high as mine – admittedly a low bar but still…and she vomits up this….
Ok, all, spend 30 min talking to someone who understands this. SWIFT is a messaging system, not a bank/currency exchange. If US banks freeze (as we are doing) the big Russ banks they are cooked, 1st because Russia needs $ transactions and 2nd because of secondary sanctions.
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1496948270479912960
coldwarrior wrote:
I bet the Skies who didn’t see Russia crossing its fingers when it said to the Skies. Just give up your 35 nukes and we’ll guarantee never to invade you. Or more recently Vlad saying to the Ukies just 2 days ago… Russia is never going to invade or occupy the Ukraine
Fool me once shame on you Russia. Fool me twice shame on me Ukraine.
eaglesoars wrote:
Perhaps the Canadian people could take a page out of the Russian play book. Task the SPATNZ guys currently looking to rub out the Ukie President and his family, for a’ twofer’. Send them First Class return to Ottawa and get them to ‘sanction with extreme prejudice’ Doug Ford and his lot!
🙂
Damn. Sally Kellerman has died. 84. Dementia.
RIP Hot Lips.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sally-kellerman-dead-hot-lips-houlihan-mash-1235099282/
@ eaglesoars:
She is correct SWIFT is a messenger system. It is a secure and internationally recognized system to send and receive messages about accounts, and payments and where they are from and where they should be deposited.
I do not think it actually transfers money. That would take a Ford 150 or a U-Haul to physically do it ( I am being deliberately stupid here, money is not a physical thing unless you are in a gas station and buy a bag of chips and a diet coke in a gas station with a $20 )
So, rewind to about late 80’s or early 90’s and someone you all know and love was called into the Bank of America headquarters in Croydon, England because one of their Digital Equipment Corporation PDP11/70’s was reporting disk errors.
In I go… Hey not all heros wear capes! They had a string (4) of RP06 hard drives ( 176MB stop laughing ) connected via Massbuss to the PDP11/70
The disk drive ID was determined by a plastic thingy that you inserted into the control panel. So operating system reported errors on the LOGICAL ID of drive not which PHYSICAL drive it was.
Now in those days a PDP11/70 was a huge computer, did a lot of shit, and to take one offline to run diagnostical stuff had to be done at a quiet time. I think I got it at about 2am.
So, disk errors. Load up XXDP ( the XX is the device you load it from. as in a mag tape would have been TU A TU77 probably in this case and DP means Diagnostic Package )
You see the reasoning behind this? Suspected disk errors so load diagnostics from magnetic tape.
Ran disk diags on the first physical drive alone, took about an hour. Repeat for the other three disk drives.
No problems, well fuck!
Then started a multi drive diagnostic, started on one drive, then added the second one and DISK ERRORS!..
Yeah!!!! found the failing drive. But did I?
Started multi drive diags on the disk that gave me errors and it ran clean then added another drive and DISK ERRORS!!
Did it with other disk drives, added all of them, the second disk drive I added, no matter which physical one always gave errors.
Ain’t a disk drive problem….
Disk diagnostics write patterns to disk drives then read them back to see if the data is the same….
Computer stores a pattern for a sector, writes it to disk then reads that sector back to a different part of its memory then compares the before and after. They should be the same. They were not!
Wherever the diagnostic put the data either before the write or after the read was buggered. But how? A PDP11/70 had EDC memory. Error Detection and Correction. The data bus was 32 bits wide but the memory was 36 bits wide which meant by using a Hamming code the error correction unit could detect and correct a single bit error and report a double bit error or more as a memory error. Yes single bit errors although corrected were reported to the operating system.
So it couldn’t be a memory problem either.
And you also would have been correct. It was the error detection system detecting errors in a section of memory that were not having errors.
So the error detection and fixing the error that was not an error that scrambled data. Changed it out and all was well!
Why am I telling you all this? Well the management at BofA wanted me in the office every hour while I was working on the computer as they needed it back online fast..
At about the 9am meeting I got there and suddenly none of the management wanted to see me they were too busy. It appears one of the SWIFT computers managed to “lose” 78 million pounds the previous day.
I never did tell the pompous assholes that treated me like a janitor where it went..
Yep, that PDP11/70 was one of the SWIFT network. Lucky for us there were several in the data center. The guilty one was never found……
Google is my friend.
https://gunkies.org/wiki/MK11_memory_system
It was the M8161 Control B module that evaded all diagnostics and kept me from my nice warm bed that night.
LOL
Possum wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Brilliant!
Possum wrote:
That’s about half it’s function
@ eaglesoars:
I have not researched it as to what it does now in 2022 but it was developed to allow international transfer of funds.
As in, we Russians will send you as much nice, warm, electricity generating natural gas as you want as long as you send us lots of crisp and clean Euros.
No moniski, no gaski.
@ Possum:
To expand on this, when Putin said something like there will be consequences like never seen before and Biden and the MSM media assumed a nuclear strike I think Putin meant imagine a 40% cut in energy supply in all of Western Europe.
I know I am not well educated in politics or relationships with other humans but if I were Putin I would cut off all supplies of natural gas.
Just for a few days…
@ Possum:
Yep I know that is impossible. You cut off a gas line and then to re start it you have to purge the lines in case air got in there.
@ Possum:
Putin needs the money
I’m off to bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
You sleep well..
This whole thing is interesting to me.
Economic sanctions and isolating a country from trading with outsiders actually makes that country stronger and more self reliant once the initial pain is overcome.
Cuba and South Africa spring to mind as I have lived in one and visited the other.
Once isolated a country gets creative…
If I was the president of the United States of America on my first day I would completely close ALL borders and ban ALL imports of everything.
We have within our country everything we need. There is no need to import anything.
The ONLY reason America imports anything is because it is cheaper to get it from other countries, so just stop all imports and pay the price. Never will we be subjected to pressure from outsiders.
Now I could not say that if I lived in England. In England we can’t even grow our own bananas.
Just take a look in your home and see where the things you have were made. If they were not made in the USA then ask why not.
Food is another thing. The USA is a very large country and almost anything can be grown here, seasonally.
So why don’t we eat seasonally?
Asparagus is seasonal, but available all year. Imported from South America when it is not growing in the USA.
Avocados, I will be buggered if I know when that growing season in USA is, but do we need gwakamole all year round?
Cabbage, Americans will go nuts eating cabbage in a few weeks time. Why not all year round? I think because the USA is so large a land mass cabbage can be harvested year round here.
Oh wait, cabbage is only eaten with corned beef! And washed down with green beer.
I like cabbage, I like corned beef. If Americans think it is so great on 17th March why is it not available all year round?
Eat seasonal and only buy what we produce in the USA.
Fuck the rest of the world.
coldwarrior wrote:
..if more of the population lived in the oceans.
Lefties are using this out-of-contest mashup as proof that Tucker Carlson is a Putin supporter.
https://youtu.be/dJaALCUQszo
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
look carefully at figure 8d. note the northern trajectories and where they then return south (relative to the earth). a catastrophic re-entry on one of those northern extremes could easily hit a population center. how far above the 51degrees of declination would debris travel? dunno
new thread, this one smells like old cabbage and onions
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/02/25/new-invasion-open/
AZfederalist wrote:
Not meant to be insulting AzFed. Just calling it like it is. Apologies for any suggested insults.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Putin has $3/4 trillion to finance his war and is getting richer every day as the price of oil heads north through $100 a barrel.