Nope. This has nothing to with my second least favorite online topic, the Civil War. Nor does it have to do with anything political.
This is a BOOZE and cigar open.
Allow me to set the stage.
My neighbor and friend alerted me yesterday that he had found two old bottles in a walled off basement in a very old house where he was doing a total renovation. These bottles have clear French labels from 1865 and were Cognac. There were two of the same label and vintage. Both bottles were hand blown with small bubbles throughout. Each had a cork and wire. The corks were secure, the wires in place. Each bottle had about 1/4 volume missing. Yes, I know, Booze doesn’t age in glass, so shut yinz’s pie hole.
So, we have an interesting set here. Slightly condensed booze in a mostly airtight vessel. We took a hard look at them and I said, hold on. Let me call my butcher before we proceed. 6 high-end steaks were procured post-haste. One must advance on this kind of booze with a proper sacrifice of beef.
The booze…yep, it’s cognac. But. Smooth, so smooth, with a caramel finish unlike anything the I have ever had before, subtle off the tongue at first, then almost toffee at the end. The booze was darker than normal cognac, closer to a weak coffee shade. The first bottle got paired with CORN FED local beef, sirloin 1 1/2 inch. There was enough for all of the 6 adults to have a healthy double paired with good beef.
Then, well. One can’t have proper old booze and post-steaks without the right cigars. The second bottle was opened and I broke out the cigars from the reserve humidor. I shant go into detail on these cigars; from this humidor are examples of simply the best cigars in the world; it does not get opened to the public very often. Mrs Coldwarrior exclaimed the she hadn’t seen that box in 4 years. Again, the booze, smooth and caramel and then toffee from the second bottle. Both were darkish like a weak coffee but easily seen through in the snifter. Their aroma was almost like a slight molasses. A fire on the back deck accompanied the happy troop. The view of the Ohio river enriching and enhancing the experience made the night complete.
Some days are better than others.
I am SO GLAD you haven’t fallen for the ‘grass fed’ beef bullshit.
mazel tov!
Did you take a pic of the labels on the cognac bottles?
cool
@ eaglesoars:
Your post.
Britain is ‘weeks away’ from running out of EGGS: Farmers warn of looming shortages due to ‘never-before-seen’ rise in cost of chicken feed, fuel and livestock caused by war in Ukraine
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10672737/Consumers-egg-shortages-weeks-without-price-increase.html
Possum has the solution I think.
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/cognac/1865
Could be $15,000 a bottle.
bedtime nite
Saw this and thought of Mr. Possum.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
now connect it to an AI
Globalism Rising: Authoritarianism and the Demise of Civil Liberties
https://www.regent.edu/misc/globalism/
bookmark it
rain of lead wrote:
Not. Funny.
Jen Psaki leaving WH. Going to MSNBC
eaglesoars wrote:
Scoop: Jen Psaki planning to leave White House this spring for MSNBC gig
https://www.axios.com/jen-psaki-leaving-white-house-msnbc-a75bdbc6-4c6b-43f9-b406-e104ea3b88e9.html
eaglesoars wrote:
So, cutting out the middle man?
lobo91 wrote:
Her #2 at the WH, whose name I can’t recall, is a disaster. This is going to be hilarious
Good.
OPEC refuses to increase oil output as US announces massive release of crude reserves
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/opec-refuses-increase-oil-output-us-release-reserves
rigged2020.com
The movie about how Zuckerberg helped steal the election (and other factors)
Available Apr 5. $5 for digital download about $15 for download and DVD (it says $19.95 but I think I got a discount for pre-order)
So, it turns out you have to make reservations for Carlsbad Caverns. Leftover covid restrictions, apparently. I was able to get one for tomorrow, so it’s all good. Going to visit Guadalupe Mountains park today, instead.
Cached version to bypass Epoch Times’ paywall:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DaPwBxKBylQJ:https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-chilling-reason-they-wont-declare-the-pandemic-over_4372005.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-e
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yeah, I posted that a week or so ago. Did you see what authority they’re basing it on that makes them think they can do this?
I hope Biden tries to sign it. That would get him impeached.
Here’s the WHO document being referred to:
https://www.who.int/news/item/01-12-2021-world-health-assembly-agrees-to-launch-process-to-develop-historic-global-accord-on-pandemic-prevention-preparedness-and-response
And the controlling para
Article 19 of the WHO Constitution provides the World Health Assembly with the authority to adopt conventions or agreements on any matter within WHO’s competence. The sole instrument established under Article 19 to date is the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which has made a significant and rapid contribution to protecting people from tobacco since its entry into force in 2005.
I never got around to looking up article 19
@ lobo91:
TAKE PICTURES. Have a wonderful time.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/03/appeals-court-upholds-gibsons-bakery-massive-verdict-against-oberlin-college/
hey y’all
Years ago an ahole client balked on his invoices once his liquor store was built and open. Rather than taking him to court we offered to split the difference, cutting our profit in half. He tossed in a couple cases of 1960s vintage wine.
I don’t care for wine much, so I took some bottles to a party of wannabe wine connoisseurs and they marveled at the dates on the labels. The bottles had been improperly stored, corks were dry and crumbly, and the wine was shit. The posers raved about how great it was… because 1969.
rain of lead wrote:
Accidentally program it to attack white blood cells and put it in a mandated vaccine.
@ lobo91:
You’re not too far from the World’s Largest Pistachio.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/world-s-largest-pistachio
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m always late to the party. Had to deal with WebEx meetings… to discuss vehicle bollard design. Conversations went like this:
Mgr. 1: “Bunk, you show the bollards mounted 12 inches from the slab edge. What if we made it 10 inches instead?”
Mgr. 2: “I think 6 inches works.”
Mgr. 1: “8 inches is better. Bunk, what do you think?”
Me: “Put it where you want. I don’t care.”
Mgr. 1: “Bunk, stop with the passive-aggressive shit.”
Insufferable micromanagement.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I’m always seeing replies to posts I missed on the same dang thread. I can’t keep up
I used to take a Mickey Mouse hat (straight from Disney World) to mtgs w/me. If my BS quota got full up I put it on. The meetings usually ended w/in 2 mins. I also had an 18 inch miniature baseball bat. I put a label on it. USER ALIGNMENT TOOL. It sat on my desk, label facing the users sitting on the other side. When I left, I willed them to people on my team.
No
A House bill could create an experiment on digital US cash
The introduction of the ECASH Act, along with a recent executive order, shows how the US government is thinking about the future of money.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/us-lawmakers-introduce-ecash-act/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yeah, that’s back in Alamogordo, where I previously stopped. I must confess that I didn’t go see it, though.
3 hrs ago
C.D.C. Confirms It Will Lift Public Health Order Restricting Immigration
The agency cited “current public health conditions and an increased availability of tools to fight Covid-19” as grounds for returning in late May to prepandemic policies for admitting migrants.
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that it would lift an emergency public health order that had restricted immigration at U.S. land borders since the beginning of the pandemic, citing “current public health conditions and an increased availability of tools to fight Covid-19.”
Federal officials expect the policy change, which will go into effect on May 23, to draw thousands more migrants to the southwest border every day, in addition to the already high number of people who have been arriving over the past year from Latin America and across the globe. Republicans, who have described the border situation as out of control under President Biden, immediately condemned the C.D.C.’s decision. The order has been used to expel migrants about 1.7 million times over the past two years.
“I hereby determine that the danger of further introduction, transmission, or spread of Covid-19 into the United States from covered noncitizens, as defined in the August order, has ceased to be a serious danger to the public health,” Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the C.D.C. director, wrote in her justification for ending the policy. She also said that she could issue a new order in the future “based on new findings, as dictated by public health needs.”
The order, known as Title 42, gives officials the authority to turn away migrants at the border, including those seeking asylum. The process takes about 15 minutes, a factor that has helped the Border Patrol manage the sometimes overwhelming number of undocumented migrants gathering at the border.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/us/politics/cdc-immigration-title-42.html
no paywall for some reason
Look, it’s going to be one crisis after another so that we can’t focus on what’s REALLY going on – and that’s the global reset, led by destruction of the dollar and intro of Central Bank Digital Currency
Here is the actual CDC statement
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/s0401-title-42.html
CDC Public Health Determination and Termination of Title 42 Order
Today, following a thorough reassessment, the CDC Director is issuing a Public Health Determination and terminating an Order under 42 U.S.C. §§ 265, 268 and 42 C.F.R. § 71.40 (i.e., “Title 42”), suspending the right to introduce migrants into the United States. In consultation with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), this termination will be implemented on May 23, 2022, to enable DHS time to implement appropriate COVID-19 mitigation protocols, such as scaling up a program to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to migrants and prepare for resumption of regular migration under Title 8.
After considering current public health conditions and an increased availability of tools to fight COVID-19 (such as highly effective vaccines and therapeutics), the CDC Director has determined that an Order suspending the right to introduce migrants into the United States is no longer necessary.
With CDC’s assistance and guidance, DHS has and will implement additional COVID-19 mitigation procedures. These measures, along with the current public health landscape where 97.1% of the U.S. population lives in a county identified as having “low” COVID-19 Community Level, will sufficiently mitigate the COVID-19 risk for U.S. communities.
I think that last para is their way of acknowledging herd immunity.
Also, this entire statement is ‘horse/barn door’ as Biden opened the border the nano second he sat his ass down in the Oval
and hilarity ensues
An attempt by CNN to promote its new streaming service by selling NFTs of the opening moments of its programming has backfired, with a large majority of the product still available more than 24 hours after the initial broadcast.
The video NFT, or non-fungible token, features host Kate Bolduan welcoming viewers to the “first live broadcast” on CNN+, and is being sold for $50 on CNN’s NFT marketplace. The news network appears, however, to have overestimated the demand for the piece of digital history—of the 250 NFTs made available, only about 80 were purchased.
The head of CNN+ told the Hollywood Reporter, which decided to write an actual news story announcing the NFT offer, that he expected interest from “digital collectors.”
“CNN+’s debut is a historic moment for CNN,” said CNN+’s Andrew Morse in a statement. “We’re excited to raise the curtain on this new platform and making CNN+’s first live moments available as an NFT is the perfect way to celebrate our launch with digital collectors.”
The trendy pieces of digital property have taken off in recent years, with demand for even mundane offerings such as a picture of a New York Times column about NFTs going for over half-a-million dollars.
Anticipated releases of NFTs typically sell out extremely quickly and for large sums of money. In 2021, an NFT collection sold by Brazilian artist Monica Rizzoli sold out in one hour for roughly $5.55 million.
The failure of the CNN+ NFT is the latest piece of bad news surrounding its launch. Fox News reporter Charlie Gasparino said just a day after the product launched that employees were already bracing for layoffs due to lackluster sales projections. The report was bolstered by CNN’s decision to slash prices for the service, offering users 50 percent off for life if they agree to shell out over $2.99 a month.
“CNN+ already showing no confidence in their product,” wrote reporter Saagar Enjeti. “Throwing away [subscriptions] at discount rates to fake their initial sign up numbers.”
The network has made a large investment in the streaming service, poaching reporter Chris Wallace from Fox News specifically for a show on CNN+. Other daily programming will come from Kasie Hunt, who previously worked for MSNBC, as well as longtime CNN hosts Wolf Blitzer and Brian Stelter. It is unclear whether any NFTs featuring Stelter will be offered.
https://freebeacon.com/media/nobody-wants-a-piece-of-cnn-history/
lobo91 wrote:
Go back.
lobo91 wrote:
Looks like a huge place. Permian fossil deposits. I wonder if they let you pick up fossils.
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Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Letting China into the hen house. Maybe if the WHO can declare Taiwan a country than maybe I could consider evaluating my trust in them.
All the WHO official I see talk on the news seem like major losers.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
How not on Zoom where you can pose as a cat? So if that many people are meeting about bollards there must be money in them.
I’d like to see Bollards that compliment people as they pass by. Like Alexa.
1. Hey baby
2. Hey dude watch it there.
eaglesoars wrote:
They should just do like every other crypto company and make strawman purchases of their NFT’s to inflate the value.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
great pic in the OP.
thx!
Bannon sez NY Post is breaking big news tomorrow morning on Brown-Jackson SCOTUS nominee. Sr. Staffer is saying the phones blowing up is scaring them off
Will Smith just resigned from the Academy of whatever it’s called
eaglesoars wrote:
The Twitter traffic on liberal grooming of kids and being pedo adjacent is huge. It’s not limited to being noted by conservative. Lot of liberal moms upset at the progressive nature of objectifying kids. With the Dem elite saying its no big deal.
eaglesoars wrote:
So he realized he made a mistake? Didn’t seem so in his first few interviews.
But I dunno. He seems a bit lost to me in this. Probably needs to dump the scientology and the wife. Go do a buddy film with Chris Rock.
darkwords wrote:
It is, and no, they don’t
New Iran Nuclear Deal Could Allow Iranian Terrorists Into US
Removal of sanctions on IRGC will permit terror-tied Iranians to enter the country
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/new-iran-nuclear-deal-could-allow-iranian-terrorists-into-us/
eaglesoars wrote:
But if we remove the sanctions, they’re no longer terrorists.
Problem solved.
@ lobo91:
If you want to pick up fossils there is a bar near where I live that is open until 6am.
So I have been told…..
Do Not Piss Off Your Mother
40 sec video
https://twitter.com/toybeartime/status/1509985487221448707
Brave browser is working well. I am gone from Duck Duck go now and using the Brave search. Only issue is the worpress thumbnails in blogs don’t display. shows a broken gif. Working on figuring that out.
One of my $100 crypto investments is now worth $33.
Strategic oil reserves are not to be used for market price manipulation they are there in case the shit hits the fan.
There have been several releases from the strategic oil reserve, usually due to a supply disruption or tests to see if the infrastructure to get it out works.
https://www.energy.gov/fecm/strategic-petroleum-reserve-0
I think this is the first time to try to lower the price. There is NO shortage of oil and oil products at this time.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ve been adding pix so I know I’m on the right thread. 😀
eaglesoars wrote:
[fade to black] 😀
Limbaugh was prescient.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1509544065611845638
Possum wrote:
When the Dems look at the mid-term polls they think the shit has hit the fan.
@ eaglesoars:
That may be the case. But if the president of the United States of America depletes the strategic petroleum reserves and in the fall we get another Katrina then things WILL get interesting.
@ Possum:
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. If you haven’t figured out yet that they want us in penury and starving, with currency that they control, and failing that then dead, you haven’t been paying attention.
The referenced NYT article is behind a paywall for me, so here is the freerepublic piece
Sarah Palin Announces She’s Running for Congress in Alaska
Sarah Palin, a former Alaska governor and the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008, said Friday that she was entering the race for Alaska’s lone congressional seat, marking her return to national politics after she helped revive the anti-establishment rhetoric that has come to define the Republican Party.
She will be joining a crowded field of nearly 40 candidates to fill the House seat left vacant by Representative Don Young, whose unexpected death last month has spurred one of the largest political shifts in the state in 50 years.
Ms. Palin said she planned to honor Mr. Young’s legacy, painting a dystopian picture of the nation in crisis, criticizing the “radical left,” high gas prices, inflation and illegal immigration.
“America is at a tipping point,” she said in the statement. “As I’ve watched the far left destroy the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4051614/posts
I don’t understand the tech stuff, but it’s not good
Bunker Contamination Crisis Hits Singapore As Ships Hit With “Blackouts”
A major bunker fuel contamination has been reported in Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering hub, with dozens of ships receiving tainted high sulfur fuel oil (HSFO) that has led to dangerous power blackouts, according to Bloomberg.
Fuel testing firm Veritas Petroleum Services (VPS) reports 34 vessels were identified to have received HSFO from two unidentified Singapore suppliers between February and March. The marine fuel contained up to 2,000 parts per million (ppm) of chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Out of the 34 vessels, almost half experienced power blackouts with the loss of propulsion systems, creating a hazardous situation if the ships were underway.
Such incidents could dent demand for bunker fuel in Singapore which is at the crossroads of a centuries-old trade route that links Asia to Europe and the Middle East to the US.
Maritime news website Splash 247 reported in early March that the contaminated fuel contains “abrasive particles that could cause accelerated wear of diesel engine components.”
This is just another wrench thrown into the snarled global supply chain as one can only imagine the affected ships would need to go down for maintenance and repairs.
For some color on the state of the current global supply chain, Goldman Sachs’ Jordan Alliger notes this week, “we are past peak bottlenecks.” Even though congestion remains elevated, supply chains around the world are normalizing.
https://zububrothers.com/2022/04/01/bunker-contamination-crisis-hits-singapore-as-ships-hit-with-blackouts/
Does this sound like sabotage to anyone else?
Russia’s war effort stalls as the Red Army can’t get replacement weapons or spares for their crippled convoys… because they’re all made in Ukraine
(what about the Chinese tires?)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10677711/Russias-war-effort-stalls-Red-Army-replacement-weapons.html
should be fun
Daily Wire investing $100 million in kids content to battle ‘woke’ Disney
https://nypost.com/2022/03/31/daily-wire-investing-100m-in-kids-content-to-battle-disney/
where did they get $100 mil? Somebody’s investing w/them
@ eaglesoars:
* Possum renews his British passport *
New vehicles must average 40 mpg by 2026 under US standards
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its new fuel economy requirements are the strongest to date and the maximum the industry can achieve over the time period. They will reduce gasoline consumption by more than 220 billion gallons over the life of vehicles, compared with the Trump standards.
https://www.wvlt.tv/2022/04/01/new-vehicles-must-average-40-mpg-by-2026-under-us-standards/?fbclid=IwAR1hCpUtV4LW2GDTvW7sQxsJqRY4tMPmluMqecVhkXgufLj-bWtI4NOjHt8
Did this go thru Congress? No. Is this achievable? Well, if you make the cars out of tinfoil…
Possum wrote:
HAR! Which post was that a response to?
@ eaglesoars:
You got me at hungry…
@ eaglesoars:
I read something earlier today that said the state of Washington just passed a bill mandating that all new cars and light trucks sold or registered in the state be electric starting with the 2030 model year.
@ lobo91:
They have eight years to build charging infrastructure and work out how to put a tax on the charging electricity so they can finance the road repair program.
@ Possum:
Electric vehicles have computer things in them.
Easy to tax usage by calculating the weight of them multiplied by miles traveled.
lobo91 wrote:
that’s gonna be hilarious
Possum wrote:
I would suggest you think again. The Brits gave up their guns.
Federal judge puts Florida on 10-year probation after ruling voting law disenfranchises Black voters
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that parts of Florida’s new voting restrictions unconstitutionally disenfranchised Black voters and banned the state from making certain voting changes without approval from the court for the next decade.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled that portions of the law restricting the use of ballot drop-boxes, assistance for voters, and third-party voter registration drives violated the Voting Rights Act and constitutional protections because they were passed “with the intent to discriminate against Black voters.”
Walker also ruled that the state must get court approval for the next 10 years before it enacts any other changes related to these rules. The ruling effectively put Florida back under pre-clearance requirements that were imposed on states with a history of discrimination under the Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down the preclearance rules in its Shelby County v. Holder decision.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-judge-puts-florida-on-10-year-probation-after-ruling-voting-law-disenfranchises-black-voters/ar-AAVLaob?li=BBnb7Kz
Another judge on the take. Watch DeSantis blow him out of the water.
eaglesoars wrote:
Fortunately there are PLENTY of used Chinese knock-off tyres laying about so the troops have plenty of fuel to keep them warm..
Standing on the top of your tank and screaming “all UKies play with dolls” also gets you a nice burning tank to keep the winter chills away!
🙂
‘The Owl’s Night Continues’ launch of Rocket Labs latest proceeds flawlessly this time from the Mahia NZ Launch Facility Pad ‘B’
https://www.republicworld.com/science/space/spacex-rocket-lab-to-conduct-satellite-launches-on-april-1-and-2-heres-how-to-watch-live-articleshow.html
The Biden administration will pay farmers more money not to farm
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would expand a program that pays farmers to leave land fallow, part of a broader, government-wide effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. The new initiative will incentivize farmers to take land out of production by raising rental rates and incentive payments.
https://thecounter.org/biden-administration-farmers-conservation-reserve-crp-usda-vilsack/
eaglesoars wrote:
The whole globe is awash with cheap funds looking for a home or a good idea.
Wired has a good idea.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounds like EU’s Common Agriculture Policy just before it all went so terribly wrong.
When will they ever learn?
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Serious question: Do you think Putin was misled by his military advisors or were his military advisors just – dumb?
or both?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Oh, honey, you’ve never read our Federal Milk Marketing Orders. Only two people on the planet ever understood them. One is my husband and the other one is dead.
@ eaglesoars:
That was last April.
Someone here may remember my rant about the fact that there may be a global food shortage in six months because of the reduction in Ukrainian and Russian wheat and other carbohydrates.
I said fuck growing coloured lettuce in the USA and plant real food. There is time.
I also said that may not be easy because it would require equipment that is in the wrong place, and to plant, say, wheat you need seeds.
I type slow and get easily distracted but in my ramblings I was going to mention there is about 24 million acres of ” set aside land ” where crops could be grown in an emergency.
On a different topic about 10 minutes ago I herd gunshots. Happens several times a week here and there are no blood curdling screams and no EMS or police.
Cats do not even flinch.
WELL!!!! surprise, police are here and according to https://cohweb.houstontx.gov/ActiveIncidents/Combined.aspx?agency=F
so are EMS.
Seems like the locals finally enrolled in gun classes and someone got shot.
eaglesoars wrote:
So her job is not really changing.
@ Possum:
Last shooting when someone actually hit what they were aiming at was 2017. I counted 11 shots.
It involved, of course, a CAT!
Damn cats…
@ Possum:
I live here, I know people.
I am part of the community.
*laughing* next day the word on the street was ” The cat is OK “
Possum wrote:
Don’t think the farmers don’t know this. The biggest mistake most people make is to think farmers are stupid. Unless, of course, they’re ‘organic’ or Amish or something.
If you want to see ‘institutional capture’ just look at our Ag dept or FDA.
Hubby spent YEARS getting the organic regs in place. They said specifically they were about substances that were ‘consumed’. Then came the proposed regs for ‘organic cosmetics’. It was all marketing and I spent untold hours responding to the standard ‘requests for comments’ in the Federal Register.
All for naught. That one word – consumed – was completely buried.
Follow the money. I’m going to bed. Nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
There isn’t enough popcorn
eaglesoars wrote:
I think it’s the Academy of Court Jesters Who Think They Should be Running the World, but I could be wrong about that.
and then there’s this
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: US Postal Service Refuses to Release Investigative Report on Whistleblower Truck Driver Who Hauled 288,000 Suspicious Ballots Across State Lines Before 2020 Election
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-exclusive-us-postal-service-withholding-investigative-report-whistleblower-truck-driver-hauled-288000-suspicious-ballots-across-state-lines-2020-election/
AZfederalist wrote:
The other day Dan Bongino was talking about a Hollywood event he ended up in as a Secret Service officer protecting POTUS Clinton. He said the conversations he overheard were the most shallow, idiotic, banal, posturing in his life. One person there asked him if his watch was a specific brand, I forget what – it cost about $30k -and Bongino said that was typical. It’s all peacock strutting
eaglesoars wrote:
… or re-badge Prius’s as whatever car the customer is asking for. Saw a Range Rover today, it was about the size of a Corolla. Four doors, a hatch. No way would anybody take that piece o’ crap off road. Ok, nobody would take a real Rover off-road and expect to come back, but still …
eaglesoars wrote:
Didn’t things like this used to require acts of Congress?
eaglesoars wrote:
Not dumb. He’s a known kleptocrat however and that is news to nobody.
So we can assume that like many authoritarians it was a matter of his staffers telling him what he wanted to hear.
The more authoritarian a leader is the further divorced he becomes from the average Joe in his electorate.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
It must take a special sort of dental care for Secret Service professionals. The way they have to grind their teeth when our ‘Betters’ are proving that they are just bottom feeding scum sucking frauds.
I’m currently ‘debating’ a future Federal Member of the House from a leafy suburb in Perth Western Australia. This idiot will get elected as the seat is solid conservative. He’s a ego driven idiot who doesn’t know that he’s a fool and a dangerous fool at that. He trades on bumper sticker policy and flights of fancy. Yet he’ll get elected. God help the people of northern Perth! This guy is a fraud who thinks he is a leader of men & women.
Wrong on so many levels.
Sheesh!
I’ve recently been in touch with a NZ Catholic missionary priest (now based in Christchurch) who spent 14 years on the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal and speaks the local dialects.
He had this to say about PM Sogavare:
“Yes, I am acutely aware of the wide extent of political corruption in the Solomons and Sogavare’s manipulation of truth and integrity to maintain power.
Many people in Honiara are aware of his failure and his criminal lack of honesty as a leader.
I was back in the Solomons last year visiting the Ghari speaking people on the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal and caught up with a lot of old friends. This was where I spent most of my time as a missionary – only a couple of years on Malaita.
I have published a book (2021) “Footsteps in Sand and Time – The Ghari Story” and in the last chapter I commented on some of the scandals surrounding the Prime Minister with particular reference to the trafficking of young women and the widespread rape of forests throughout the whole of the Solomons along with the devastation of the environment. There’s no shortage of information about the role of China and Indonesia in these activities with Sogavare’s hands in the lolly jar! It is very sad. There is no control over the economic catastrophe taking place at the present. Other countries have already learnt their lesson in making deals with the CCP.”
……
eaglesoars wrote:
Has anyone told the Republican Party?
Both Indonesia and especially Malaysia ‘clear felled’ whole swathes of jungle on Guadalcanal, turning it from a lush jungle into a dusty desert with the thin top soil washed into the sea, paupering the local peoples.
Now it’s China’s turn!
SPIT
Possum wrote:
Congrats.
Did they make you do the Wubba Wubba Dance again?
eaglesoars wrote:
Redefine the mile.
eaglesoars wrote:
Pop owned about 200 wooded acres in the rural Ohio farmlands. When he died, my dad inherited it and was paid not to grow soy beans. He leased the property to a local farmer who grew …soybeans.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yet if you tried to explain that story to a socialist bureaucrat, all they you’d get is glazed eyes and the
‘stunned mullet look’
Pathetic
Serious driving blues.
Republicans are getting bashed for voting against the cap on insulin prices. I know this only capped out of pocket cost and the difference will be made up through increases in what gets billed to the government and insurance companies.
But what is the solution? Cap the total price over a certain number of times over the cost to manufacture? More competition by bringing more producers in on certain drugs? Something else?
We leave tomorrow morning for mom’s memorial down in Texas. Memorial Monday, back here Tuesday.
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/why-your-locally-butchered-beef-might-actually-come-china
Right in yinz’s wheelhouse
@ right_wing2:
Be safe,!
AZfederalist wrote:
Lol
Mrs coldwarrior and I are looking at defender 110…
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh hell to the yeah
I spent 3 years reading labeling standards in the Federal Register. There are ALWAYS loop holes. If grass fed beef weren’t ‘finished’ on corn, NOBODY WOULD EAT IT BECAUSE IT’S CRAP. And some chickens are actually shipped to China, packaged, and shipped back. Or WERE, I don’t know what the process is these days.
Listen, ‘organic’ probably isn’t. And I KNOW those regs because Hubby wrote most of them. Yes, lobbyists sit with staffers and write this stuff, even tho it’s supposedly illegal or something. You’ve got 26 yr old staffers from Connecticut who have spent 4 yrs on the Hill, 2 as interns, majored in Spanish at Dartmouth, who wouldn’t know a seed spreader from a lawn mower. They are not going to come up with language on taking cows out of the milking rotation when they develop mastitis. Lobbyists provide the expertise.
As for ‘free range’ chickens – where do you think the word ‘flock’ comes from? You know, as in ‘how birds stick together’. There is safety is numbers and they don’t like to be out there alone. Except for the occasional rooster(s) that keeps escaping from our neighbor’s roost. And if you want to see pure, unadulterated slaughter, put chickens out there w/no shelter close by so they can walk around and be ‘cage free’. Watch the wild hawks fly in and have a feast.
Don’t get me started on pigs. There is ANOTHER eco-freak going on because farmers confine the mothers. They confine the mothers because sometimes they eat their babies. Nobody wants to talk about that part.
Farming/animal husbandry is an unforgiving business and if people grew up growing a tomato plant once a year or something, they’d have some idea.
We’ve got an HOA meeting coming up. The by-laws prohibit ‘food type’ gardens. Not sure why – they do attract wild life. However, I’m going to ask if raised bed gardening would be ok, cuz spinach and beans n stuff. I could put something like this on the deck
https://bestchoiceproducts.com/products/raised-garden-bed-elevated-wood-garden-planter-stand-72x24x30in
right_wing2 wrote:
WHERE IN TEXAS?
Yesterday Bannon said today’s NY Post would have a block buster story on Brown Jackson.
I think this is it
https://nypost.com/2022/04/02/ketanyi-brown-jackson-even-chose-leniency-in-baby-sex-cases/
Ketanji Brown Jackson chose leniency even in baby sex torture cases
In July 2020, Jackson gave the bare minimum sentence to a defendant convicted of distributing images and videos of infants being sexually abused, and who had boasted of molesting his 13-year-old cousin, even though she knew the defendant refused “to take full responsibility” for his crimes, a transcript reveals. In 2018, Christopher Michael Downs was busted trading child porn in a private online chat room, “Pedos Only,” including images of adult males raping “a prepubescent female child,” according to court records. He posted 33 graphic photos, including an image of a naked female child as young as 2 years old. Downs, then 30, told the group, “I once fooled around with my 13-year-old cousin.” He also uploaded a 10-second video of “a prepubescent female lying in a bathtub and with an adult male inserting his penis into her mouth.”
Jackson herself admitted that the felon was at “risk of reoffending,” the transcript further reveals. But she declined to enhance his prison time based on the amount of porn he distributed, arguing such enhancements were “outdated” and “substantially flawed.” She acknowledged the average sentence nationally “for similarly situated defendants” was 81 months, but she gave him the statutory mandatory-minimum sentence of 60 months, which was short of the nearly six years prosecutors asked for. In addition, Jackson gave him credit for time served starting from when he was first incarcerated in October 2018, so technically she gave him only 38 months, or a little over three years, in the pen. Downs is scheduled for release in December.
n her April 2021 sentencing of child porn distributor Ryan Manning Cooper, Jackson contradicted the findings of prosecutors, dismissing the crimes they described as “on the more egregious or extreme spectrum” of child porn as not “especially egregious.” Among the more than 600 images prosecutors told the judge he traded were sexually explicit pics depicting bondage of infants and toddlers. Prosecutors also busted him with a video of a “pre-pubescent boy being penetrated anally and orally” by an older male.
“I’m really reluctant to get into the nature of the porn,” Jackson told the court before sentencing Cooper to prison time short of what the prosecution recommended.
“I don’t find persuasive the government’s arguments concerning why they think that this is a particularly egregious child pornography offense, which means I struggled to find a good reason to impose a sentence that is more severe in this case,” she argued.
Jackson cited “mitigating factors,” including letters family members sent to her describing Cooper as “kind, hard-working, dependable, loving. I have no reason to doubt those representations.” Striking a sympathetic tone, she advised the defendant: “There are going to be a lot of restrictions that the law places on you because you are a convicted sex offender, and you’re going to need the support of these people during this next phase of your life.”
More at the link.
My guess is that she’s just somebody who hasn’t been caught yet. OR – she was abused as a child by somebody she trusted and loved and is still deeply conflicted
The only shortage we should be experiencing is lamp posts
NIH Admits it ‘Suppressed’ Wuhan Lab Genetic Data, but Disputes Watchdog’s ‘Deleted’ Label
“The headline says the sequences were deleted which is inaccurate. They were not deleted. This is a really important point, and I’ve highlighted what did happen from what we provided to you earlier this week,” NIH Media Branch Chief Amanda Fine told The Epoch Times in a March 31 email.
Fine was referring to a March 29 Epoch Times story headlined “NIH Deleted Info Received From Wuhan Lab on CCP Virus Genetic Sequencing, Watchdog’s FOIA Finds.” The information Fine referenced as having been provided to The Epoch Times by NIH earlier in the week was included in the published story:
“’In June 2020, in response to a request by the same [Wuhan] researcher, National Center for Biotechnology [NCBI] gave the sequence data the status of ‘withdrawn,’ which removes sequencing data from all public means of access but does not delete them.
“‘NCBI subsequently reassigned the status of the sequence data to ‘suppressed,’ which means that sequence data are removed from the search process but can be directly found by accession number. This action to reassign the data was identified as part of NLM’s ongoing review into the matter. We are working to make more information available,’ the spokesperson said.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nih-admits-it-suppressed-wuhan-lab-genetic-data-but-disputes-watchdogs-deleted-label_4376867.html
To give yinz a bit more background on the Brown Jackson debacle
All this info is coming to light due to the deep dives done by the good people at the Article III Project
https://article3project.org/
we defend constitutionalist judges and the rule of law
The founder is a guy by the name of Mike Davis. In his previous life he was Chief Counsel for Nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and he was in that position during the Kavanaugh circus. Background info on him
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/mike-r-davis
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-russias-gazprom-stops-deliveries-russian-gas-germany-via-yamal-europe-pipeline/
those nuke stations that yinz closed….morons.
In the event you thought you could protect your kids from Disney by not attending their theme parks or movies – look at this
The Walt Disney Co. is, next to Comcast, the biggest entertainment and communications company in the entire world. They own not only Walt Disney Studios, but also Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Animation, and Searchlight Pictures.
Further, from Wikipedia:
“Disney’s other main business units include divisions in television, broadcasting, streaming media, theme park resorts, consumer products, publishing, and international operations. Through these various segments, Disney owns and operates the ABC broadcast network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, Freeform, FX, and National Geographic; publishing, merchandising, music, and theater divisions; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Disney+, Star+, ESPN+, Hulu, and Hotstar; and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, a group of 14 theme parks, resort hotels, and cruise lines around the world.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/self-destructive-disney-finds-a-new-more-permanent-way-to-terrify-children_4374368.html
@ eaglesoars:
yeah, its impossible to avoid. so me and mrs coldwarrior monitor what the kids watch really closely and counter it when needed.
@ eaglesoars:
Kerrville
eaglesoars wrote:
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup.
For an advanced nation of engineers and technicians the Krauts have their balls in the Greenies handbags.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
And putin just shut off the gas to England as well.
Hope it stays warm!
coldwarrior wrote:
OMG. The Brits are in trouble, their energy prices have been soaring worse than ours and the gov’t wants to make them all install heat pumps or something, I’ve forgotten what. People absolutely cannot afford this, they’ll be beggared.
@ eaglesoars:
Ain’t globalization grand!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/fox-news-interviews-ukrainian-president-zelensky-edits-responding-azov-battalion-atrocities/
Mmmhmmm
https://thelibertydaily.com/buried-bombshell-tennis-world-rocked-as-fifteen-fully-vaccinated-players-unable-to-finish-miami-open/
Buried Bombshell: Tennis World Rocked as FIFTEEN “Fully Vaccinated” Players Unable to Finish Miami Open
@ eaglesoars:
This whole thing is so far beyond criminal
coldwarrior wrote:
You have no idea. Bannon played an interview he did with Robt Kennedy Jr. I have to find it and will post it I was so gobsmacked my brain just stopped. Stopped.
It threw off my whole day and I’m still thrown.
The CIA?
This has been a long day. Carlsbad Caverns is quite a hike. You end up 750 feet below ground. Fortunately, there’s an elevator to go back up (although some crazy people walked up).
Heading back toward home in the morning, although I’m not doing it in one shot. I’m spending the night at Caballo Lake again. Hopefully I’ll get there in daylight this time so I don’t get lost on the wrong side of the lake…
@ eaglesoars:
Not eat them, lay on them and smother or crush them. I know this, I raised pigs to put myself through college. I only had one instance of a sow killing its young (it was immediately sold). However, when a 400 pound sow lays down and there are 3 pound baby pigs, things get ugly really quick unless the sow is constrained in a farrowing crate so the piglets have time to get out of the way and a place to go regardless of which side the sow decides to lay. Piglets travel around mom’s snout with no ill effects unless you have a deranged sow like the one I mentioned. Yes, the sow is somewhat unsteady when you let her out after the piglets are weaned, but they get their legs back pretty quickly.
@ AZfederalist:
years ago I posted a link to a pig farmer who laid it all out. No chance I would find it now.
Humans eat meat. In order to do that we have to kill. Go from there.
The other thing that got me wondering – don’t ask me why – Do human farts contribute to global warming?
Ok, I’ll stop there.
Because it’s not like that would be grounds for getting rid of people or anything
AZfederalist wrote:
The issue which is glossed over in the USA is the confinement of sows in gestation crates.
The restriction in movement in the farrowing crates is understandable and in Europe those crates are more akin to small pens with hidey holes the piglets can safely be without getting smushed.
Gestation crates are about 7ft long and 2ft wide and the pregnant sow is confined in there for over three months.
In Europe the pregnant sows are confined in groups of 8-16 and due to modern electronics are individually monitored. More interesting individually fed!
I won’t bore you with links. A company I used to have dealings with was Fancom in the Netherlands.
Another awesome company that specializes in happy chickens, turkeys and ducks is Vencomatic. Another Dutch company.
The true basics of raising pigs which applies to any animal raised for food is.
” A happy piggy is a productive piggy! “
And another thread killer.
I didn’t even take the bait about human farts and go into a long diatribe about Dutch Ovens, immature giggling and the main reason for failed marriages in England.
Goldman Sachs warns the dollar is at risk of losing its dominance, and could end up a lesser player like the UK pound
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dollar-dominance-reserve-currency-risk-uk-pound-russia-sanctions-debt-2022-4
@ eaglesoars:
Cool! I want the dollar to be worth next to nothing.
🙂
Methane Emitted by Humans Vastly Underestimated – Powerful Greenhouse Gas Is Large Contributor to Global Warming
https://scitechdaily.com/methane-emitted-by-humans-vastly-underestimated-powerful-greenhouse-gas-is-large-contributor-to-global-warming/
I can’t even….
nite
Possum wrote:
It looks like you’ll get your wish
@ eaglesoars:
The lower the dollar goes the richer I get!
( anyone with a pension fund will understand that. )
@ Possum:
To expand. If you have a very diversified pension portfolio outside of the USA and you reside in the USA then your wealth ( on paper ) fluctuates FAR more depending on the dollar to your pension fund currency than the fluctuations in the fund itself.
I wish my base currency was in Rubles this week!
@ eaglesoars:
Methane released to the atmosphere by drilling and methane escaping.
This ain’t farts.
Humans only have one stomach and they are not adapted to digesting cellulose with the aid of methanobacteria. Cows have four stomachs.
They throw up in their mouth periodically and chew their puke and swallow it and that chewed up vomit then goes into a different stomach.
That is how they turn grass ( cellulose ) into carbohydrates and then fat and protein and STEAK!!!!
If humans ate only grass then they would starve to death and shit mushy grass. Zero absorption of nutrients.
Also water consumption would increase as you going to need at least three flushes to get rid of grassy mush shit.
@ eaglesoars:
So we can’t eat beans any more?
right_wing2 wrote:
Only on toast. With a knife and fork. The English way.
Yep you started something, why do Americans despise so many English foods?
They cannot eat them with just a fork..
Feed an American a plate of peas and they is fucked…
Sorry, I thought this was a 2010 OOT
( I wish… )
Why Soccer ( real football played with feet ) and Rugby will never be a mainstream sport in the USA.
No timeouts. No chance for ” messages from our sponsors ”
The most exciting sport there is happens to be Australian Rules Football and I will be buggered if I can work out what the rules are. None stop. No time for commercials.
Actually the most exiting game to watch is Irish Hurling.
It is sort of a hockey game but played on grass. Each player has a stick and they all try to hit the little ball.
Accidentally the players may accidentally hit opposing players with their sticks.
Sometimes when there is a really good game the players are hitting each other with sticks 20 minutes after the little ball got lost.
OK done. Time zones are sometimes a problem and sometimes a blessing.
It is now 6am somewhere else, time to piss off sleepy Europeans that just woke up!
Possum wrote:
Peas and carrots. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to make alcohol out of them.
darkwords wrote:
Yep! They do where Coldwarrior lives. There they make alcohol out of peas, carrots and squirrels. They also all play the Banjo and a distinguishing feature of the inhabitants there is….
Well I won’t go into details but ” What has 64 legs and three teeth? ” The front row of a Willie Nelson concert at the Philadelphia concert hall.
coldwarrior wrote:
The British governments of both persuasions scored a home goal with gas. There plenty of gas in shale under Britain and everyone knows it. All however are afraid of the Greens and so all shale gas is off the table.
Idiots.
Possum wrote:
Mrs. AI went to Melbourne this morning at zero dark thirty. Last night we turned off Daylight Saving . I changed the clocks going to bed but left the phone’s untouched even though they were out alarm clocks. I was worried that the satellites might screw it up and the phones wouldn’t be turned back an hour. I know,,, I know… Ye of Little Faith. But my brain STILL woke me up at 0430 and I checked that the time had been adjusted.
WE made the flight, and Mrs AI even got toast with Marmite and a cup of brewed coffee before she departed ‘chez AI ‘ this morning. I’m baching for the next 16 days!
🙂
darkwords wrote:
Nothing here in Auckland as we’ve moved must of the food down to the beach house. Daughter AI was supposed to bring me some vittles from the dining hall but she is late finishing an assignment. I found…. Pea & Ham soup. That’s mushy peas and bacon. I will be farting until lunchtime tomorrow.
🙂
Possum wrote:
Aussie Rules Football a variation of Garlic football. Known in Oz by detractors as ‘Forcings Back’ or Aerial Pingpong.
It can get a wee bit rough and is spectacular with High Marks, where attackers jump and literally climb up the bodies of their also airborne opposition to catch a ball on the full about 10 feet in the air.
Don’t ask me for the rules. Buggered if I can figure it out. You’ve got to come from Melbourne to know that!
🙂
Gaelic NOT garlic football.
Bloody predictive strikes again!
grrrr
An Excellent article about the Air War in the Ukraine by a Ukie MiG 29 driver.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/45019/fighting-russia-in-the-sky-mig-29-pilots-in-depth-account-of-the-air-war-over-ukraine
Good analysis and loads of Ukie Air Force shots of them training with the US Air National Guard back in 2015, as well as combat footage from the last month.
The conclusion is that the Skies need an injection of Russian fighters from various sources to bolster the losses BUT what really need is Western Radars and AAA missiles as well as communications. The USAF can fly along the Belorussian and Polish borders and light up Russian aircraft in Western Ukraine and then pass the INTEL instantly to the Ukie flyers by radio (no networking of information )
AT LAST something SOLID and rational from someone who KNOWS
Start shooting these people.
EXCLUSIVE: Connecticut school nurse, 77, is suspended over ‘transphobic’ Facebook post revealing that student, 11, was on puberty blockers, 12 others were non-binary, and that teachers were helping some keep it secret
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10665389/School-nurse-suspended-revealing-student-11-puberty-blockers.html
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Bring
It
Scientists Demand Climate Revolution with Promise of Civil ‘Disobedience’
Members of Scientist Rebellion told AFP their non-violent actions are timed to coincide with an upcoming report from the U.N.’s climate science advisory panel laying out options for slashing carbon pollution.
Scientist Rebellion will operate in two dozen countries. It targets universities, research institutes and major scientific journals, demanding they speak out at what is described as the “existential threat of global warming.”
The group promises to block streets from April 4th – 9th “on all continents with over 1000 scientists and academics” with associated acts of civil disobedience inspired by the eco-extremist Extinction Rebellion lobby.
“Scientists are particularly powerful messengers, and we have a responsibility to show leadership,” said Charlie Gardner, a conservation scientist at the University of Kent specialised in tropical biodiversity.
“We are failing in that responsibility. If we say it’s an emergency, we have to act like it is.”
Starting Monday, the group hopes to see “high levels of disobedience” with more than 1,000 scientists worldwide taking part in direct non-violent action against government and academic institutions.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2022/04/03/scientists-demand-climate-revolution-with-promise-of-civil-disobedience/
Follow the money, honey
about 5 mins ago
Sacramento Mass Shooting Downtown — 6 dead, 11 more wounded…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/sacramento-shooting-6-dead-9-more-wounded/
langsame Lerner
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-seeks-to-cut-away-russian-tentacles-in-energy-infrastructure/
Having spent years cozying up to Russian oil and gas interests, Germany is now scrambling to loosen their grip and take back control of its critical energy infrastructure.
Berlin is looking into forcing Kremlin-backed Gazprom to sell critical gas storage facilities across Germany, effectively meaning an expropriation of those sites, a government official and two additional people briefed on the plans said.
And Germany’s Economy Ministry says it “is working intensively” to reduce the influence of another Russian state-controlled energy firm, Rosneft, which owns a refinery in the eastern town of Schwedt that processes around a quarter of the country’s oil supplies.
The government’s sudden focus on the storage sites and the refinery highlight how Russia’s leverage over Germany in the energy sector goes far beyond its large role in supplying Europe’s biggest economy with oil and gas.
Hubby was out running an errand. Found himself behind one of those behemoth pick up trucks, Dodge Ram or something, black. Bumper stickers (2)
FUCK JOE BIDEN
AND FUCK YOU IF YOU VOTED FOR HIM
Zero chance you’d see that in Northern Virginia
@ Possum:
i had two irish bangers and heinz english baked beans on batch loaf toast for breakfast.
so there!
Funniest thing you will read all day (about Cawthorne saying he was invited to orgies)
Look, I’m just going to say what we’re all thinking: why would someone invite someone in a wheelchair to an orgy?
go read it, no spoilers here
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1509737815046647809.html
@ Possum:
soccer is jammed down our throats, hell, they show french second league.
i despise soccer with my very DNA.
but they don’t push rugby at all.
there is a reason for this, as posted before
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2013/12/02/sports-the-american-male-and-recombinating-dna/
Possum wrote:
i played it, club side a few times when i lived in ireland.
i have never, ever been so beat up in my life. it’s insane.
Possum wrote:
Morgantown WVa…morgantown.
@ Aussie Infidel:
haven’t missed and AFL game yet this year!
i kinda understand some of the rules…..sort of
eaglesoars wrote:
like you, i dont trust that guy
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/paradigm-shift-western-media-hasnt-grasped-yet-russian-ruble-relaunched-linked-gold-and
i need to ponder on this for a while…
very interesting development
eaglesoars wrote:
The comments at Instapundit are pretty funny too
https://instapundit.com/513155/#respond
Well. I was 20 and in Denton TX and went to a birthday party….for a dwarf. Very strange. Saran wrap. Mazzola oil. Plastic on the floor. Weird chicks. Ummmm. I was uncomfortable. My brother was visiting. He was 15.
We all left.
Were people tossed from the party?
Just the dwarf. Repeatedly.
——–
Well, that would still be preferable to some of the women in the House Democratic Caucus. .
coldwarrior wrote:
And pretty predictable. I sold my Tesla stock and bought gold. Made a good profit on Tesla but pretty soon people aren’t going to be able to afford them.
When food prices go airborne, gold is the hedge.
I’m sick of watching Fox go all gooey-eyed over Ukraine. Not one of those assholes know what the Minsk agreement is – or WAS
There’s a scam going on over on the Nextdoor app. Somebody said her tower garden had saved her so much money, just message her, she’d give you the link.
About 17 people responded OH YES, PLEASE GIVE ME THE LINK!!
Usually, when people have a good experience (or bad), they post the link. I smelled a rat. So I googled ‘tower garden’
Yeppers, there it was.
Over $800!!!!!!
It’s one of those ‘You provide the water, we provide the chems that you have to keep buying forever to grow whatever you’re growing”
So I blew her up, provided the link and said it was expensive.
She said $54/week (!!!!) was a huge savings as she was spending more than that on veggies that rotted in her fridge.
Seriously, people need to learn how to make soup and/or vacuum seal & freeze or something.
coldwarrior wrote:
Morgantown is a nice place. ‘Cept for the drug thing, I guess.coldwarrior wrote:
That’s because we can both spot pathological liars thru the TV screen.
Read this
In 2014, at age 18, Cawthorn was seriously injured while returning from a spring-break trip to Florida. He was riding as a passenger in a BMW X3 SUV near Daytona Beach, Florida, when his friend Bradley Ledford fell asleep at the wheel. The SUV crashed into a concrete barrier while Cawthorn’s feet were on the dashboard.[15][16] In a 2017 speech, Cawthorn said that Ledford left him “to die in a fiery tomb”; Ledford publicly disputed this in 2021, saying that he pulled Cawthorn from the wreck once he escaped the vehicle.[12] In their depositions, Cawthorn stated that he had “no memory from the accident”, while Ledford said that he had helped rescue an unconscious Cawthorn.[12] In the same 2017 speech, Cawthorn declared that he was “declared dead on the scene” of the accident, but the official accident report listed Cawthorn as “incapacitated”.[12] The injuries from the accident left Cawthorn partially paralyzed, and he now uses a wheelchair.[12] He said he accrued $3 million in medical debt during his recovery;[17] he has received that amount as settlement from an insurance company, as well as other payments, and as of February 2021 is seeking $30 million more.[12]
U.S. Representative Mark Meadows nominated Cawthorn to the United States Naval Academy in 2014, but his application was rejected before his 2014 car accident; Cawthorn had claimed during his congressional campaign in advertisements that the accident “derailed” his plans to attend the Academy.[14][6][18][7] Cawthorn subsequently said that at the time of the injury, he knew only that he had been nominated to the Academy and that he had expected to be accepted, and added that he never said that he had been accepted before the accident took place, but could have applied again later.[19][20] But in a lawsuit deposition, Cawthorn admitted that he had been rejected before the accident.[12]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Cawthorn
eaglesoars wrote:
This
Mar 30:
Ru troops leave Bucha
Mar 31:
Mayor of Bucha announces town ‘liberated’, makes no mention of atrocities.
https://ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3445989-bucha-liberated-from-russian-invaders-mayor.html
Apr 1/2:
Azov Nazis enter Bucha
https://nytimes.com/live/2022/04/03/world/ukraine-russia-war#scenes-of-desperation-and-death-as-the-russians-retreat-from-suburbs-outside-kyiv
Apr 3:
Ukr MinDef publishes video of ‘Russian’ atrocities
https://nytimes.com/live/2022/04/03/world/ukraine-russia-war#ukraine-accuses-russian-forces-of-executing-civilians-in-the-town-of-bucha
https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1510635534321860611
Adam Kinzinger shows once again why he got re-districted out by his own party
Now that we have seen evidence of mass graves in Ukraine, and pictures of the atrocities against civilians, We should demand @TuckerCarlson
answer for his support of this war, as well as those Congressmen who have done the same. @GOPLeader should demand accountability
https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1510462385055834112
Oh God….
German Retailers To Increase Food Prices By 20-50% On Monday
Just days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generation (with February headline CPI soaring at a 7.6% annual pace and blowing away all expectations), giving locals a distinctly unpleasant deja vu feeling even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke what few supply chains remained and sent prices even higher into the stratosphere…
… on Monday, Germany will take one step toward a return of the dreaded Weimar hyperinflation, when according to the German Retail Association (HDE), consumers should prepare for another wave of price hikes for everyday goods and groceries with Reuters reporting that prices at German retail chains will explode between 20 and 50%!
Even before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, prices had risen by about five per cent “across the product range” as a result of increased energy prices, HDE President Josef Sanktjohanser told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on Friday. With Russia’s invasion hitting economies and the supply chain harder, yet another series of price increases is on the horizon.
“The second wave of price increases is coming, and it will certainly be in double figures,” Sanktjohanser warned, cited by The Local.
According to the president of the trade association, the first retail chains have already started to raise their prices in Germany – and the rest are likely to follow.
“We will soon be able to see the impact of the war reflected in price labels across all the supermarkets,” said Sanktjohanser.
Recently, popular retail chains such as Aldi, Edeka and Globus announced that they would be forced to raise their prices. At Aldi, meat and butter will be “significantly more expensive” from Monday due to price hikes from its suppliers.
https://zububrothers.com/2022/04/03/german-retailers-to-increase-food-prices-by-20-50-on-monday/
Collapse Incoming: European Nations Start RATIONING Food and Fuel and America Isn’t Far Behind
In Spain, the country started experiencing sporadic shortages of different products like eggs, milk and other dairy products almost immediately following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. In early March, major supermarkets like Mercadona and Makro began rationing sunflower oil.
Spain’s left-wing government even went further and gave stores the option to temporarily impose limits on the number of certain products customers purchase.
In Greece, at least four national supermarket chains have started rationing food products like flour and sunflower oil due to critically low supplies caused by the crippled supply chains coming out of Russia and Ukraine.
The supermarkets claim the current rationing is only a preventive measure that will be rolled back once Greece’s supplies of flour and sunflower oil stabilize. Around 30 percent of Greece’s wheat imports come from Russia and Ukraine.
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In Germany, the nation triggered the first part of a three-stage emergency plan to conserve the country’s natural gas supply. This move came after Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Germany pay for Russian gas in rubles in an attempt to twist Western sanctions against Russia.
The first stage of the emergency plan will lead to “targeted” shutdowns of the flow of natural gas to “specified individual large consumers.”
https://noqreport.com/2022/04/03/collapse-incoming-european-nations-start-rationing-food-and-fuel-and-america-isnt-far-behind/
This is fantastic! Remember that guy in Greensboro North Carolina whose address to the city council an 2A rights went viral? here’s the clip
https://twitter.com/mrschris2000/status/1510391962754498560
It got him elected Lt. Gov of NC.
Here he is today. Not changed a bit.
https://twitter.com/4mojo2/status/1510356735353139205
Mark Robinson
I can see a DeSantis/Robinson ticket!
Here’s another great clip
https://twitter.com/BidenCrimeFamly/status/1510612157200748552
@ eaglesoars:
He reminds me of Niedermeier.
@ eaglesoars:
Last time the Germans had massive inflation…
Well…it didn’t end well
Possum wrote:
Accidentally the players may accidentally hit the spectators with their broken sticks or cue balls. The best players a have scars and are missing teeth. If a player gets injured, they give him a Harp, bandage him up, and throw him back into the scrum.
One time the world championship hurling games were held within walking distance of my house.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
At first I wondered what the hell good a stringed instrument would do….
coldwarrior wrote:
who is Niedermeir?
coldwarrior wrote:
How much you want to bet they’ll stick w/their ‘green’ energy policies? It will be touted as ‘energy independence’, just watch
eaglesoars wrote:
Frat ass in Animal House.
For just the third time in recorded history, farmers will be planting more soybeans than corn as they grapple with the rising cost of fertilizer — a cost that will almost certainly be passed on to consumers.
Soybeans put nitrogen back into the ground rather than extract it, so they only need a small amount of fertilizer when compared to corn. Previously, the average farmer used 255 pounds of fertilizer for corn, compared to 65 pounds for soybeans, Bloomberg reported.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environment/farmers-turn-to-soybeans-over-corn-as-fertilizer-prices-spike
In 1978 the writers at SNL understood basic monetary policy better than the Fed does today
A joke in 1978 is fiscal policy today
https://twitter.com/Adventure_Nero/status/1510656776303169536
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oh. Believe it or not, I’ve never seen that movie
eaglesoars wrote:
the Harp made some kind of intellectual sense to me at first. Injury, music heaven, mates sing a long. Then the brain search said oh yah… Beer.
@ darkwords:
It was the fact ‘Harp’ was capitalized that clued me in…d’uh
eaglesoars wrote:
2 plus 2 don’t equal transgender.
eaglesoars wrote:
We got to get to small farming. Big AG is as unregulated and in control of their market as Big Tech is. The land that is rich in the midwest is being pillaged by Big Ag for cash. Destroying the water tables, eroding the top soil, genetically locking people into hybrid seeds and fertilizers.
eaglesoars wrote:
Give him a national stage. Glad to see Bongino clipping him. Took it to Kapernick. Will be interesting to see how black twitter reacts to this. Or woke twitter. He makes a good cause for a strong articulate faith.
Officially in old age now. My grandmothers daily routine was 1 cup of coffee with oatmeal in the morning. and at lunch 1 slice of colby cheese with tea and a piece of homemade bread.
Been eating that this week minus the homemade bread. Probably have to go shopping for applesauce now.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s worth the watch, there are some classic scenes in there. Based loosely on a short story that appeared in National Lampoon titled “The Night of Seven Fires” or something, written by the late Doug Kenney.
darkwords wrote:
Lager. It’s better than Guinness.
The Harp is the national symbol of Ireland.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Correction.
https://www.marksverylarge.com/issue-index/1974-10/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Chris Miller based his writing on his fraternity experiences at Dartmouth, where his pledge nickname was Pinto.
https://www.review-mag.com/article/house-rules-chris-miller-takes-us-back-to-the-real-animal-house
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
There was a reason for that nickname.
coldwarrior wrote:
Apparently there was a scorcher of an AFL game at the MCG in front of 65,000 screaming Melbournians, this last weekend
And on top of everything else, Spanish truck drivers went on strike over the price of fuel, so everything Spain sells to its customers is backed up/more expensive
Fruit and veg faces 30% price rise in latest cost of living crisis: Striking Spanish truckers disrupt supplies of tomatoes, lettuce and peppers – while sunflower oil is ‘running out’ putting production of crisps and chips at risk
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10681097/Fruit-veg-faces-30-price-rise-latest-cost-living-hit-sunflower-oil-running-out.html
coldwarrior wrote:
Very clever of you to have noticed!
Right now the Aussie Dollar is setoff a serious gain in value as is directly linked to Gold Production and resources.
Hell coal on the ‘Spot’ price just crested $600 a tonne. That’s TEN times the base. The Commodities market in Oz just DOUBLED to $425 billion. Even with the possibilities of a hard core socialist trending to get elected in May (the Aussie example of Trudeau) this commodity marketplace has enough momentum to survive and government future cock-up. Oz is at 110% capacity and just can’t dig up any more stuff out of the ground fast enough.
Albanese the current Labor leader of the opposition isn’t called ‘Each Way Also’ for nothing. Pathetic. Yet Morrison a ‘marketeer by training’ just keeps fucking up his own nest for some reason. There was a ‘primary’ (preselection for the Federal seat of Cook just south of Sydney at Chronulla beach. You may remember the place where Lebanese Islamists arrived in leather jackets and starter assaulting girls in bikinis at the beach. There was a huge push back from surfers and the Labs retreated but over the next few days burned out whole streets of parked cars at other Sydney beaches.
The guy who got selected to stand as the Liberal (conservative) seat of Cook was a Lebanese CHRISTIAN. Not a muslim. The Lebanese Christians have been pillars of communities for a century in Sydney and he was preselected with 90% of the vote. Then suddenly he wasn’t. The PM Morrison stepped in a was chosen by the Liberal Party to stand for the Cook electorate. The folks are’ ropeable’ at such high hardedness.
Morrison seems to have lost his mind just when we need a strong conservative to see off Chinese incursions into the SW Pacific and with economic riches pouring into the country.
Albanese the probable Labor PM after the May Federal elections is buoyed up by a 12% Greens vote and leads overall 52% to 48%
SPIT
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
BLASPHEMOUS!!!!
eaglesoars wrote:
Wasn’t Niedermeir the token Nerd living in Animal House?
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Ahhhh
Get thee behind me satan!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
There are tons of old Lebanese Christian families around here, they migrated to Aliquippa and New Castle. Absolute pillars of society and most are quite wealthy now.
Great peeps and fantastic food.
@ coldwarrior:
Guinness is Scottish ale for wimps.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Did you see my 149?
@ Aussie Infidel:
I can’t help myself!
That game is nuts
@ Aussie Infidel:
No, he was the asswipe leading Omega House.
Doug Kenney played the token nerd “Stork.”
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s getting to close to a shooting war
We have no strategic interests in this cousin on cousin feud
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup. Exactly the same in Sydney and Melbourne. Great family orientated folks who are a credit to the country.
The 1960-70s Muslim Muslims…. NOT so much. Drugged up criminal families and gangsters. The trash of the Earth.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Lager is for uneducated soccer goons
coldwarrior wrote:
It certainly is. I feel so sorry for the Russian conscripts who are dying for nothing under a kleptocratic autocratic, regime. I’m feeling for the Ukie families who are under the pump to a group of kleptocrats and degenerates led by Zelinsky and his mates, who are aligned to the Biden criminal family.
coldwarrior wrote:
… as in …. Lager louts….
@ Aussie Infidel:
The parking lot at their parish up north looks like a high end lux o box dealership every Sunday.
Big money.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Lol.
I just am not a fan of Lager.
To each
His own
My experiment on turning a pork loin into lunch meat is going quite well.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Mrs coldwarrior’s dad is ukie, mom is Russian. Her advice, stay the he’ll out of it
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I am smarter now. I will have to try it now. I always passed up on it for Guinness. I am a creature of marketing. Don’t say Ferrari, then I will have to go buy one.
coldwarrior wrote:
To replay the joke one more time.
IF a clandestine operator tells me to stay out, I will stay out.
darkwords wrote:
sage advice
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
I noted that Pope ‘Frank’ weak attempt at the Consecration of the Russian People to the Blessed Virgin Mary was screwed up again for what is it? The fourth of fifth time straight by at lease 4 separate popes. You d think that they weren’t actually trying. There was :-
* No Consecration of the Russian Peoples to Mary SPECIFICALLY
* There was no mention of the Reparations for the refusal to comply exactly
* There was no COMPULSION for ALL bishops to support this
This looks like a re-run of Pius XII’s 1948 weak attempt, dusted off and given a re-run in 2022.
One would think that all of these Popes and especially ALL of the bishops in the world don’t want this to happen and are just going through the motions.
To my mind some future Pope needs to put some ‘steel’ into his requirements and charge ALL bishops to support this, with the power of a ‘Papal Bull’, requiring obedience and compliance under threat of being stripped of their bishops office and being dismissed from the Church. One way or the other that will ensure that 100% of the remaining bishops will support this Marian requirement.
This latest March 25 travesty is just another in a long line of half hearted attempts to do as Mary requested. This is not hard. It’s simple.
Just do it!
Sheesh!
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Makes you wonder who’s side many of these popes and bishops are on doesn’t it?
coldwarrior wrote:
I 100% agree. There is no upside in letting this go on any longer.
coldwarrior wrote:
To my taste it’s like drinking Virgin’s Piss!
🙂
HEH
@ Aussie Infidel:
the church of rome does not care about orthodox church
the orthodox church does not care for the church of rome
they put up with each other, barely.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yes, I did, and I haz questions but you weren’t around. First: This, it has become clear, is very much the life of a Ukrainian Air Force fighter pilot these days. There is also doing battle with hordes of Russian aircraft, of course.
wha? <hoards? I remember reading that the Russkies only sent up one or 2 planes at a time, what hoards?
Juice grabbed his personal AR-15 assault rifle
The AR-15 is a semi-auto 22. Anybody who calls it an ‘assault’ anything is an idiot or a liar and I stopped reading, bye.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup
The Christian Lebanese who arrived around WWI period settled in and immediately set up in business. Especially restaurants serving great food. They had huge families and were very family orientated and traditional. They prospered. I can’t think of a single Christian Leb family who has EVER been in trouble with the law. They are now almost very well off financially but in a low visibility way. Oz needs immigrants like these folks.
Then we had an extremist Leftist Labor government (PM Goff Whitlem) who had a kaftan wearing nutter called Gadsby as his Minister of Immigration. Gadsby brought in thousands of ignorant, dirt poor, criminally inclined, and incestuous Muslim Labs. They had been marrying their first cousins fir way too long and were totally feral.
No good came from that and they are a scourge on Australia
SPIT
eaglesoars wrote:
Who am I to say. He says that the Russians deploy a squadron to oppose just a couple of Ukie aircraft.
As far as the AR-15 is concerned, it’s a US semi-automatic / automatic assault rifle chambering a 5.56mm (.223 cal round). It has a very high mussel velocity and was the US weapon of choice during the 1970s – 2010s.
Most current NATO rounds are still 5.56mm rounds or 7.62mm. The big move to a new standard 6.8mm are just now happening.
NATO .223 supersonic copper sheathed rounds are NOT just like tiny subsonic .22 cal civilian rounds!
You should have kept reading on a wee bit more Eagles.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
I know.
… and it al happened because two egotists had a ‘pissing contest’ over control a millennium ago!
Do I think we are going to get a Pope with the guts to do what he has to do regarding Fatima.
Nope!
What a lost opportunity.
Orthodox see Fatima as a potential power grab by Rome for converting the Orthodox to Catholicism. Something miraculous needs too break this deadlock! Obviously Rome is too corrupt to do what needs to be done for its part.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Should have read AR-16 of course.
@ Aussie Infidel:
i was catholic and then converted to orthodox.
there are tons of different orthodox churches in the PGH area: coptic, ukie, russian, OCA, serb, armenian, carpatho-russian…
the preists on both sides throw in some subtle digs once in a while about ‘the other side’ mostly in good fun tho
Aussie Infidel wrote:
the filoque arguments are just about the stupidest thing that i have ever seen
go dance on the head of a pin, yinz jag offs
@ coldwarrior:
Yup.
The Filoque was just the excuse for the Western Church to tell the Eastern Church to get back in line because … ‘we are the big dog in town now.’.. And the Eastern Church to retort, to ‘come over here and say that to my face’…… Then the Muslims totally screwed things up when Constantinople fell and cemented everything into concrete. The Russian Orthodox was built on the concept that it represented New Rome, to unite the Russian people.
It’s a crying shame that we are going to have to wait for some Divine input to fix this family faction fight!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
i dont think it bothers anyone much anymore
coldwarrior wrote:
People who hate soccer are too dense to understand the most popular sport in the world.
darkwords wrote:
Watney’s Red Barrel is better than Guinness Stout.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
McDonald’s is the most popular hamburger chain in the world, too. Doesn’t make it good, though
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s one great lead in to a story. So how exactly did you find this out?
Orban wins!!
I was worried, the early returns I read about were pretty grim
Orban scores crushing victory as Ukraine war solidifies support
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-orbans-12-year-rule-tight-ballot-overshadowed-by-ukraine-war-2022-04-03/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Do you mean the M16? I’m scratching my head here
Totally missed this.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
oh that looks great!
@ eaglesoars:
You’ve already seen the other NatLamp movies, so you ought to see Animal House first. It was expected to bomb – their dream cast of SNL regulars balked, and then Belushi showed up.
@ eaglesoars:
Over 1000 worldwide? Oh my, that will be absolutely devastating. Not.
If it were 1000 in the US, that would be a whole 20 per state uniformly distributed (reality is they would be concentrated in liberal heckholes). Across the world? Yeah, that is kind of silly.
Scientists? Really? Real science doesn’t support their position. Problem is, some of these activists have been successful in re-defining science.
eaglesoars wrote:
Saw this on the back of a pickup: “If you voted for Joe Biden, you owe me gas money”
Today, saw on Instagram some guy has some stickers of Brandon pointing with the words, “I did that”. One of the pictures the guy posted was where he had put that sticker on some meat that was showing a price of $78 for the package. I’d like to have those and put them on gas pumps.
@ AZfederalist:
Pointing at the prices of course
coldwarrior wrote:
OTOH, this is D.C., there may be some who get off on things like that so I wouldn’t totally rule it out.
What just happened?
JUST IN – Imran Khan officially removed as Prime Minister of #Pakistan with immediate effect, per notification of the Cabinet Division.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1510663620513964032
While the Cabinet Division of the Government of Pakistan has officially denotified the Prime Minister as ceasing to hold office, His Excellency Imran Khan will continue as the Chief Executive and Prime Minister of Pakistan under Article 224 A(4) of the Constitution of #Pakistan.
https://twitter.com/PSFAERO/status/1510665521372581899
@ eaglesoars:
Now he can go back to playing cricket.
eaglesoars wrote:
Note in my twttier from @jazzyary
After his recent visit to Russia, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan told a public gathering that he will not be a slave of America like other politicians. Do you have comment?
Question was posed to Jen Psaki.
@ eaglesoars:
I stopped reading at thedrive. They have always been very left-leaning. Had one of my direct reports who would send out links to various articles of interest, he often linked to thedrive and one or two others that were obviously total leftist claptrap.
Long drive from Wichita but we made it. Memorial is tomorrow morning, we’re having lunch with some of her good friends from church who helped her out so much. And back on Tuesday.
AZfederalist wrote:
I didn’t get a leftist slant from that article, it was interesting, but I noted the few things that I had issues with.
I’m getting REALLY tired of Fox accepting everything out of Ukraine/Zelensky’s mouth as gospel.
Obviously there have been atrocities, but there is no solid proof who committed them. Not when the Azov Brigade has moved in after the Russians leave and it takes 4 days to get the ‘atrocity’ videos out
I’m not rooting for anybody here, I want them both to lose. You have to wonder why Zelensky all of a sudden started mewling about wanting to join NATO in direct violation of the Minsk agreement.
@ right_wing2:
where in Texas are you?
darkwords wrote:
Which is boiler plate for that guy. What changed?
@ eaglesoars:
Kerrville
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Proving that the bulk of the world lacks class and guts!
But we all knew that already didn’t we?
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That would be telling!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup.
Knew I was right!
AR-15 or and M-16 are the same firearm in civilian or military nomenclature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmaLite_AR-15
Firing a high velocity round and chambering a 5.56mm (.223 cal round) with a much larger shell and fully jacketed round than a .22 low velocity unjacketed round.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
So he had an M-16? Look, I’m no gun expert, but I’m not going into combat with an AR-15. Which is beside my point. The writer of the article said the AR-15 is an ASSAULT weapon. It is not because it is semi- not fully auto. The M-16 is.
The nomenclature for ‘assault’ weapon may differ in your world but in mine, to be an assault weapon, it must be fully automatic.
oh this should be good
Six Major Automakers Agree to End Gas Car Sales Globally by 2040
Ford, GM, Mercedes-Benz, and others, along with 30 nations, signed a pledge to eliminate sales of new gas and diesel-powered cars by 2035 in “leading markets.”
However, the governments of three of the most significant car markets—the United States, China, and Japan—refrained from joining the pledge, as did major automakers such as Toyota, Volkswagen, and Nissan-Renault.
The pledge, which is not legally binding, is an agreement to “work toward reaching 100 percent zero-emission new car and van sales in leading markets by 2035 or earlier,” which could include sales of both traditional electric vehicles or hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Along with the three aforementioned automakers, Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, and Chinese automaker BYD also joined the pledge. The group of manufacturers who signed on made up around one-quarter of global sales in 2019, and two dozen fleet operators, including Uber, also promised to use only zero-emissions vehicles in their fleets by 2030.
Among the 30 counties that joined the agreement were European nations—including Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom—where EV sales have already begun to take off. India, the world’s fourth-largest car market, was a crucial addition. The nation was among several, such as Turkey and Rwanda, that hadn’t already committed to a date to end gas and diesel car sales. California and Washington state also gave their signatures.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38213848/automakers-pledge-end-gas-sales-2040/
@ right_wing2:
Thoughts are with you.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yep good article.
You need to try to find aerial targets and maneuver so as not to be shot by ground air defenses. It’s pretty challenging and sometimes you can land on a completely different airfield, in another region.”
I think he painted an honest pic.
There is no need for wars these days. When with the big fish it means total destruction. And with the small fish it just brings misery. Boundaries can be fixed and those fish that complain can be focused on in their lack.
In particular there is the middle class in DC who need to make their bones based on old world fighting.
And there is China which needs to realize their army is useless.
I can talk to a person in Kiev or Taipei and form a business relationship with them that is productive.
It is a good time to stop those who think they can take. The no 1 offender is the current woke US government.
right_wing2 wrote:
So about 150 miles from the border?
more on Pakistan (I’m not saying I believe it, I report you decide)
https://twitter.com/PSFAERO/status/1510523135266746371
The regime change operation against the elected government of #Pakistan, which was today defeated in parliament, was decided in the National Security Council of the United States, presided over by Joe Biden.
It is mentioned explicitly in official recorded minutes of the meeting between the U.S. State Department and the Pakistani Embassy that this decision was taken by the United States National Security Council.
#Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan confirms it was Donald Lu, the #UnitedStates Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs who met with Pakistani embassy officials and conveyed Joe Biden-headed NSC’s demand for a regime change in Pakistan.
bed. nite.
AZfederalist wrote:
Some of these activists dress up in white lab coats, too.
Aussie Infidel, How is your brother? He is in my thoughts these days.
@ eaglesoars:
Biden being managed by a shadow government.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I never claimed to have class, and 2 years ago last month I had some guts removed. I might not be here were it not for the Da Vinci Machine! 😀
@ Aussie Infidel:
I was advised by one who knows that if you visit Oz you need to pay attention to what beer the locals drink because they’re tribal about it. Ordering the wrong brand can have consequences, and if you’re not sure, ask for Toohey’s.
Similar but different code in the UK. Some areas you’ll get pounded if you order a Black & Tan. Mr. Possum knows.
@ eaglesoars:
About an hour from San Antonio and about 200 from the border at Laredo.
darkwords wrote:
He’s just fine mentally. He is meeting with the diagnostic specialist today Monday where they will discuss what will happen on Wednesday. They are going in from the gullet with cameras and will enter the Pancreatic cavity via the stomach with a punch. Slip a biopsy probe through the slit and sample the cancer mass. Then back out after closing the stomach punch wound. Should take about 90 minutes all up. They will then have a good idea of what cancer they are dealing with, and what post extraction back up options they will have. His specialist Pancreatic surgeon will then remove the cancer from his pancreas with keyhole surgery. The mastisiced cancer that’s spread to his liver will then be attacked using a new technology that uses liquid O2 to freeze and oxidise the cancer cells on his liver. That follow up will also depend on the cancer type and the tactics to get rid of it.
He’s happy but concerned, as you would be, but he has the best of the best surgeons and technology at hand.
The long term prognosis is usually bad but he’s staying positive and focused. Still working doing mining plans but was having trouble sleeping and looked tired last week. A new medication was prescribed and he’s now getting his 8 hours a night and is quite perky again. His faith is strong and he knows he’s in good hands both spiritually and physically.
Thank you for asking about Chris. I and he appreciates it.
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Toohey’s is awful tasting beer. It’s ‘just’ drinkable if you chill the hell out of it to cover the terrible taste. Try Swan if you really like the taste of good beer. Swan is Western Australian. Castlemain from Southern Oz isn’t bad. Treat DB beer like sheep dip!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
that treatment plan is a vast improvement over what was done just 5 years ago
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Try this beer too.
XXXX means Beer for non-readers!
🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpYNMQX41Gs
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup. He’s nowhere near out of the woods but he’s going to give it a fair hammering first!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Jaguar Land Rover has pretty much already met the “zero emission” goal. After all, cars that don’t run don’t produce emissions
@ lobo91:
*snort*
I’ve been advised that hotels on the border in Texas are full of Nat’l Guard – who are getting sick from close proximity to the illegals and injured apprehending them.
FWIW
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Foster’s is nasty IMO. I hear you diggers use it for degreasing.
Saw Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl when they were doing their Bruce schtick. At the intermission, they walked up and down the aisles heaving full cans at the audience.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
XXX means Ballantine’s Ale here. Bitter stuff that knocks you on yer arse.
The Castlemaine ad reminded me of a canoe trip. Steve and I were floating down the Little Miami, sitting on the seats like goobers instead of kneeling like injuns. Canoe capsized, we lost the cooler and a case of beer went floating downstream ahead of us. We righted the canoe, climbed back in and continued. About a mile on, there were some guys fishing from the banks, drinking our beer and waving in gratitude.
If anyone finds a pair of well-worn sneakers at the bottom of the Little Miami, they’re mine.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Today starts Infusion No. 50 for me. WooHoo!
At this point it’s all maintenance to keep the little beasties in check.
Good luck to Chris.
Well, I’ve never been into beer much so I got nuthin’. But you might be interested in this
One morning in May 2019, a crowd of journalists gathered around the Biratenu bar in Jerusalem, snapping photos as a bartender poured golden, frothy beer into plastic cups. The story of the beer was both new and very old: The yeast that fermented it came from a 3,000-year-old jug found at a nearby archaeological site.
“It’s actually a pretty good beer,” says Aren Maeir, an archaeology professor at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and the director of excavations at the site of Tell es-Safi. Scholarly, but determined that archaeology should be fun, Maeir, upon first tasting the beer, joked that as long as no one died from it, it would be a successful project.
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The scientific team concurred that the one made with the yeast colony from the Philistine jug was the best tasting. In fact, that species of yeast is still used in commercial beer today.
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Half a world away from Maeir and his team in Israel, archaeologist Marie Hopwood, of Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada, collaborates with Love Shack Libations brewery to re-create ancient beers based on archaeological evidence. “Beer is telling us about everything from gender roles to agriculture,” Hopwood says.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-beer-in-history
I didn’t know there are different ‘species’ of yeast
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
blech.
eaglesoars wrote:
How do they know the strains of grains are the same used by the ancients?
Meanwhile, the Dead Iowa Chickens count is on. (Ducks and turkeys are chickens, too.)
https://www.rawstory.com/iowas-bird-flu-toll-tops-13-million/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Jerusalem story doesn’t say anything about the grains used, only the yeast. In other stories farther into the article, grains are addressed.
Elon Musk just bought 9.2% of twitter.
heh
shares up 24%
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s not that bad. Mostly just messes with my head for two days.
eaglesoars wrote:
lol
He’ll boost the price and at some point will sell off and a lot of others will follow his lead. A crash & burn scramble would be fun to watch.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
He’s a free speech absolutist. If the price keeps going up, why would he sell?
And the ‘quits’ just keep on coming
Kamala Harris staff exodus: Deputy chief of staff Michael Fuchs quits
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-staff-exodus-deputy-chief-of-staff-michael-fuchs-quits
A ‘Silent Mariel’ Airlift from Cuba Underway Just in Time for Massive Phase II of the Biden Border Crisis
Cuba and Nicaragua have opened a new air passageway to the American southern border and thousands of U.S.-bound Cubans have poured through the short-cut while tens of thousands more are reportedly lining up daily in Havana for tickets, according to Spanish-language media reporting.
One March 22 BBC Mundo story quotes a Cuban migrant named Carlos, who made it to Miami from Nicaragua, describing how Cubans are selling houses and everything they own to “line up for miles in front of agencies waiting to see if there is a ticket”.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Silent-Mariel-Airlift-Cuba-Underway-Just-Time-Massive-Phase-II-Biden-Border-Crisis
@ eaglesoars:
Feature.
Not bug.
hey y’all
@ rain of lead:
s’up, yinz
eaglesoars wrote:
To kill the anti-free speech daemon.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Good to hear. Modern medicine has come a long way. Will continue to think about him.
@ coldwarrior:
yah know, same ol same ol
takin care of bidness
eaglesoars wrote:
How toxic is her environment? Send her to fight Russia as a WMD.
This is in Florida. The EPA is going after DeSantis via proxy using Florida strawberry growers
Because of our tropical climate, disease is a big problem for growers. Thiram is a fungicide that’s been used for 50 years without incident. Because many farms are small – often 50 acres or less – Thiram is applied using an overhead sprayer.
The EPA wants to ban Thiram
https://twitter.com/ndcarson/status/1511064404518920205
It’s a long thread but worth it.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-calls-reports-of-many-killed-in-mali-extremely-disturbing-/6513474.html
Yep.
coldwarrior wrote:
I will not take at face value any reports of Russian atrocities.
@ eaglesoars:
Looks like Mali decided not to go the way of Nigeria
@ coldwarrior:
Educate me like I’m 5 yrs old. I have no idea what’s going on in Nigeria
This just in from Emerald Robinson. Some of this I didn’t know, so I’m passing it on.
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FOR THE LAST 16 MONTHS THE FAKE CONSERVATIVE GRIFTERS WHO RUN FOX NEWS DEEMED THAT NO ELECTION FRAUD TOOK PLACE IN 2020 AND THEY OUTLAWED ANY DISCUSSION OF THE SUBJECT ON AIR.
THEY DID SO BECAUSE FOX NEWS WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN CALLING ARIZONA EARLY AND THROWING THE ELECTION TO JOE BIDEN – AS WE ALL KNOW.
WE DON’T EVEN HAVE TIME TO LIST ALL THE WAYS THAT FOX NEWS BETRAYED THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE LAST THREE YEARS.
BUT LET’S TRY ANYWAY.
FIRST, FOX NEWS HIRED A DEMOCRAT OPERATIVE NAMED ARNIE MISHKIN TO RUN THEIR 2020 ELECTION DESK. THIS WOULD BE LIKE CNN HIRING KARL ROVE TO RUN THEIR ELECTION COVERAGE. ARNIE MISHKIN DID WHAT HE WAS HIRED TO DO AND PROMPTLY CALLED ARIZONA EARLY FOR BIDEN. HE WAS THEN FIRED AFTER THE ELECTION.
THE PART YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED IS THAT FOX NEWS HAS HIRED HIM AGAIN TO RUN THEIR COVERAGE FOR THE 2022 MIDTERMS! [I did not know this]
THEN FOX CANCELED LOU DOBBS RIGHT AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION BECAUSE DOBBS WOULDN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD. DOBBS HAD THE HIGHEST RATED SHOW ON THEIR BUSINESS CHANNEL TOO. FOX CANCELED DOBBS SO QUICKLY THAT IT DIDN’T EVEN HAVE A SHOW TO REPLACE HIM WITH READY TO GO! [I thought Dobbs left on his own]
THEN FOX NEWS BLACKLISTED RUDY GIULIANI FROM THEIR NETWORK BECAUSE GIULIANI WAS ONE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S LAWYERS AND HE WAS STILL TALKING ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD TOO. [didn’t know this]
THEN THE OWNER OF FOX NEWS RUPERT MURDOCH GOT UP AT A FOX SHAREHOLDER MEETING AND TOLD EVERYONE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD.
THEN JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO FOX NEWS WAS NAMED AS ONE OF THE CORPORATE MEDIA OUTLETS THAT TOOK MONEY FROM THE BIDEN REGIME TO PUSH THE DEADLY COVID VACCINES ON ITS AUDIENCE WITH DISCLOSING TO THE PUBLIC THAT THEY WERE TAKING ANY MONEY AT ALL. [I didn’t know this either!!]
AND THEN JUST A FEW DAYS AGO FOX NEWS HIRED A MAN PRETENDING TO BE A WOMAN TO BE A CONTRIBUTOR. THIS NEW CONTRIBUTOR MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF BECAUSE AT ONE TIME HE THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA TO MARRY INTO THE KARDASHIAN FAMILY.
DOES THAT SOUND CONSERVATIVE TO YOU?
WHICH BRING US TO THIS WEEK. SUDDENLY FOX NEWS HAS STARTED ALLOWING THEIR ANCHORS TO DISCUSS ELECTION FRAUD.
WHY IS THAT? WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT CHANGED?
ONE THING THAT HAS FOX NEWS WORRIED IS A NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE 2020 STOLEN ELECTION CALLED “RIGGED.” THE FILM WAS PRODUCED BY TRUMP ADVISOR DAVID BOSSIE AND IT COMES OUT TOMORROW.
FOX NEWS WAS WORRIED THAT AFTER THIS NEW DOCUMENTARY COMES OUT IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE STOLEN ELECTION. FOX NEWS IS ALSO WORRIED ABOUT THE NEW DETAILS EMERGING FROM GEORGIA AND WISCONSIN THAT WILL MAKE THEIR SILENCE LOOK EVEN MORE FOOLISH.
IN OTHER WORDS: FOX NEWS LOST.
FOX NEWS WANTED TRUMP TO LOSE. THE PEOPLE WHO OWN AND OPERATE FOX ARE ON THE RECORD ADMITTING THIS. THEY COLLABORATED WITH DEMOCRATS TO ELECT BIDEN.
THEN THEY INSULTED THEIR OWN VIEWERS FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS BY CLAIMING ELECTION FRAUD WAS AN ILLUSION.
AND NOW THEY ARE GOING TO COVER ELECTION FRAUD WHILE PRETENDING THAT THEY DIDN’T GASLIGHT YOU FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.
HOW’S THAT FOR FAIR AND BALANCED?
Martin Armstrong/Armstrong Economics
The bias of the Western Press is just unimaginable. I reported previously that our contacts in both Serbia and Hungary were reflecting overwhelming support for Putin and Russia. The press can’t report on anything honestly and calls Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor an “authoritarian” or a “nationalist” because anyone who dares to go against their agenda is evil. The BBC reported Orbán said: “We have such a victory it can be seen from the moon, but it’s sure that it can be seen from Brussels.”
It has been widely known that Serbia was very pro-Russia. I reported from our readers in Serbia that they were sick and tired of the West’s propaganda that they saw Zelensky for what he was – a puppet of the West. But the Western press will not report the truth about Zelensky and his covert connections. The press is oblivious to the truth and constantly paints Zelensky as a hero when in fact not merely did he outlaw the Russian language in a country made up of 30% Russians and over 50% also speak Russian, but he has also attacked the Russian Religion – he has been seeking to also outlaw Russian Orthodox Christianity.
These are actions that caused Putin to recognize independence for the Donbas but when VP Harris, at the Munich Security Conference on February 20th said Ukraine should join NATO, four days later Putin invaded. One must ask – was this all intentional or just stupidity?
So while Zelensky pretends to be a soldier for the cameras simultaneously preaching World War III to everyone else, his actions show a deep-seated hatred of the Russian people, especially those who live in the Donbas. He has made no effort to end the civil war since taking office in 2019. The West ignores Zelensky’s action outlawing the Russian language and his more recent attempt to outlaw the Russian Orthodox religion. Orbán immediately criticized Zelensky who the Press will NEVER criticize because all they ever preach is the agenda of the Neocons and their determination to manufacture World War III.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/zelensky-the-madman-of-ukraine/
@ eaglesoars:
It’s called having a bet ‘each way’ … to win or place!…
After all for Rupert it’s ALWAYS ALL about the MONEY.
SPIT
🙂
The new mayor of NYC is doing well..
The Big Apple mom who crashed Mayor Eric Adams’ press conference Monday to blast him over his tot mask mandate was fired shortly afterward from her job at the city Law Department, The Post has learned.
Daniela Jampel, who served as an assistant corporation counsel, learned she was canned less than an hour after she confronted a caught-off-guard and apparently annoyed Adams over when he would “unmask our toddlers.”
Jampel had publicly challenged the mayor at an unrelated event on LGBTQ issues — as Adams stood in front of a podium banner that read, “Come to the city where you can say whatever you want.’’
https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/nyc-woman-who-confronted-mayor-adams-on-toddler-mask-mandate-fired-from-city-job/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
This is no longer about Rupert, he’s stepped back quite a bit. His sons and their trophy wives are a lot more active. Well, WERE, I think one stepped away. But Paul Ryan is still on the board.
darkwords wrote:
Just got off the phone with my brother Chris. The specialist Pancreatic biopsy guy will do Chris’ biopsy tomorrow morning. Chris will be under for a couple of hours and will be discharged from a Day OR Clinic. He’s having a GA followed by an endoscopy inserted into his stomach with camera attached. Then an ultra sound will be added to ID the Pancreas and chart where all of the blood supplies are located.then a ultra thin needle the width of a human hair is guided in and around all of the blood supply veins via the ultrasound probe. Then The needle will take a biopsy and everything will be backed out.Should take 4 days to do the analysis and come up with the tactics of attacking this mass on the pancreas. Hopefully with keyhole surgery first and then with chemo and or pelletised radio isotopes inserted in situ for later extraction.
Prayers for Chris. He’s wearing his Brown Scapular just in case, but he’s ready for anything.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
James has been a huge disappointment to Rupert and although he’s old Rupert is getting active again to chart a safe course for his empire.
Musk just tweeted
Do you want an edit button?
yse
76.1%
on
23.9%
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1511143607385874434
@ Aussie Infidel:
Chris is gonna be tired.
eaglesoars wrote:
Part of the British Empire and ruled with an iron fist by the Queen until the country became independent 1st October 1960
Since then gradually declining into a third world shit hole.
As did many other countries once granted independence.
At least Australia still has enough sense to remain ruled by the Queen!
Expecting incoming but those in the know will realise what I mean.
Possum wrote:
The smartest person I ever worked with, Victor, was Nigerian. His parents were in the diplomatic core and he was educated in Israel. I don’t know if he ever set foot in Nigeria. He was/is brilliant, gracious, and one of the nicest people I ever knew. I was his boss. When Hubby was diagnosed w/melanoma and I had to step back from my team lead role to deal with it, my mgmt asked to name my replacement. Victor. Hands down.
Now that I think about what’s going on in Nigeria – is China in there doing its One Belt One Road scam?
eaglesoars wrote:
There you go Eagles.
https://www.counterextremism.com/countries/mali
The basis of the trouble in Mali goes back about a millennium, with Northern Arab Muslims enslaving black animist Southern Malians even before Mali emerged from the mishmash of tribalism. There is a band running from West to East where Arabs and black Africans rub up against each other. Once Islam arrived that ‘rubbing’ became greater.
When France decolonised Mali there was a LOT of corruption and ‘rubbing’ between competing factions of Islamists in the North and fairly recent Christians and a rump of tribal animists in the South. The spill from the breakup is both Algeria and Libya (thanks Hillary) many trained jihadies arrived back in Northern Mali gunned up and looking for blood.
The French Foreign Legion fought for a decade but recently withdrew leaving an African staffed UN empowered force to keep the peace. Naturally it failed.
Now the Russians are having a try using their name mercenaries because Mali mines most of France’s uranium that supports France’s nuclear industry.
Hope that helps a little.
Did I say that Timbuktu is the capital?
How about that!!
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
LOL! Nailed it!
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup
I told him I’d call Thursday for a SKYPE and to get some rest after the GA on Wednesday and this initial surgery, even though it is minimally intrusive.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Why does Russia care about France’s nuclear industry?
@ AZfederalist:
Yep, Jaguar Land Rover make shit cars. You know they are an Indian company right?
Previously Jaguar Land Rover was an American company. Ford.
Before that Jaguar Land Rover was a German company. BMW.
LOL
Possum wrote:
A true shithole now Possum. We had a team of volunteer c0-pilots and Captains do 2 years in Nigeria flying Boeing 737-300s internally, while the Nigerians were converting to Airbus aircraft. Are Lingus Irish Airlines was doing the same but internationally flying Boeing 747-200s.
EVERYTHING was corrupt. Hell even the power and phone companies were corrupt. If you didn’t pay Bacshkee they would steal your copper wires and disconnect the landline phones. To get them back you had to pay. The guys used to sit on the verandas and shoot at bastards climbing telephone poles.
Sunday was executions day. There were 50 gallon drums welded together sung into the beach sand and filled with sand. Those being executed were tied to the drums and firing squads would kill them.
One of our guys got a serious case of malaria but the Nigerians refused to release his passport and he got sicker and sicker. Finally our guys talked to the Irish and they flight crew smuggled our sick guy out of the country without his passport. He eventually got home after being treated in Germany and released using temporary travel papers.
Air NZ saw his passport again!
@ Possum:
I just know I owned a 1988 Sterling. Beautiful car, fun to drive when it was working. Spent more time driving the dealership courtesy vehicle than the Sterling. Engine and power train were by Lexus — bullet-proof and reliable except where they intersected with the Austin Rover bodywork and Lucas Prince of Darkness electronics. My experience was typical of all Sterling owners. Can’t pin this on anything other than Rover and Lucas. Oh, the radio, it was a delight, automated tuning couldn’t even find the top strongest Dallas FM stations. Dealership tried to gaslight me on this telling me how the radio searched the “top highest frequencies, then the lowest frequencies”. I was working on the design and implementation of a micro-scan receiver at work at the time, so the BS this guy was spouting was hilarious. Couldn’t actually come out and admit that the design was a piece of crap.
eaglesoars wrote:
To upset France’s nuclear supply stream.
Because Russia …can!
@ AZfederalist:
And so…..
The moral of this story a shit British company fooled the Germans into buying it.
The Germans realising they bought a shit company did a wonderful snow job and sold the company to gullible Americans.
After a while the Americans realised they had been sold a lemon and convinced some fool in India to buy it.
Meanwhile the British are riding around in Toyotas and Hyundais and smiling…..
Possum wrote:
When the Queen goes Aussies are none to sure about ‘Chuckles’!
His talking to trees does make one ‘wonder’ somewhat and now that his bitch looks like she got her way and will become Queen Consort, will get Republican Aussie backs up.
Oz had a referendum back in the 1990s I think, regarding the Queen. Because the bloody politicians demanded that THEY would appoint a President the Australian People said “screw that’ . Either WE the People elect a President or you politicians can go piss up a rope.
🙂
Lizzie survived easily.
Possum wrote:
Yup
Like Possum said!
🙂
OK you lot.
I’m off to the beach house. I’ve eaten everything in the apartment and the bach is full of food down at the beach.
Chat with yuuze lot tomorrow.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Britain or the Queen really has no say in Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the Caribbean countries that William just did a friendship visit to ( and was greeted with hostility. I was going to look up how much aid is given to them… )
The Commonwealth is more like a gang, or a coalition of gangs. We are buddies and have the same gang colours.
Hawaii makes me proud. They joined another gang but never forgot their heritage.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/1200px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png
AZfederalist wrote:
Had a summer job when I was in High School, working for BMC (British Motor Corp). I was working on the moving belt building Minis and every seventh car was an Austin Freeway sedan. Where I worked was a ramp where the belt carrying the cars rise up 6 feet and my position was standing on a raised floor with parts coming overhead from baskets.
Terrible system as I had to get ahead working on Minis to have enough time to do the different bits on the Austin, so I was working at 45 degrees and running up and down 5 stairs. There was a huge fat slob Samoan down below who’s job was the check whether the transmission had been installed OK. He used to complain that I was sweating on him! There we’re 2×10 minute breaks to go to the toilet but with 1000 workers all running up 40 stairs to take a leak at the same time it was impossible.Lunch was 30 minutes and when it rained there was no shelter except at your work station. By the time I peddled my bike home I was out on my feet.
Then after 3 weeks of sheer bloody hell I discovered that I was doing THREE peoples’ work and the foremen were pocketing the pay for the dumb part time school boys! No wonder Austin Freeway windscreen wipers leaked in the rain!
🙂
@ Possum:
I have two words.
RESERVE POWER
It’s always there is needed. And indeed Oz’s Governor General DID use it to dismiss a very naughty Prime Minister and call for new elections!
@ Possum:
The Hawaiian King invited Captain Cook to dine with him on Cook’s third and final voyage to the Pacific.
Alas it was Cook himself that was on the menu
🙂
Otta here
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I think he was slow roasted, then sliced thinly and served on toasted rye bread. With a side of potato chips and a pickle.
From that day onwards the group of islands in the Pacific were known as The Sandwich Islands.
I really should start a new career as a history teacher. Hey I may embellish the stories but the facts will stick in the minds of the young and impressionable children.
@ Aussie Infidel:
nite Aussie
Why is Hunter Biden being afforded USSS protection in the first place?
/rhetorical question
Here’s the crib that’s costing US taxpayers $30k/month
The Spanish-style sea view villa comes complete with six bedrooms, a pool, tasting room, gym, spa, built-in BBQ and ‘castle-like tower’
what’s a ‘tasting room”?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10685759/Inside-6million-Secret-Service-Malibu-crash-pad-Hunter-Biden.html
Get your kids out of public schools
In Jersey City, disproportionately poor public school students were compelled by district bureaucrats to wear blue and yellow & give money to support Ukraine’s war effort.
All across America, people are being pressured to take sides in a foreign war in support of the US proxy
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1508128849837633539
@ eaglesoars:
Would have been nice if the schools supported the Donbass region for the last eight years.
Possum wrote:
They’d have to be able to find it on a map first
@ AZfederalist:
To introduce the topic of how the Eastern part of the Ukraine was mostly Russian and they wanted to be an independent state. Not part of the Ukraine and not part of Russia but their own country.
I would educate my students about the part of Serbia that wanted to break away because ethnically they were more aligned to Albania than Serbia.
Due to NATO and the UN and lots of bombing that part of Serbia that wanted independence is now a country called Kosovo.
Current situation is part of the Ukraine wants to be independent and the world opposes it.
Oh well…
And due to a mouse my apartment is quiet. I am going to take this opportunity to have a deep and un-interrupted sleep.
A mouse, best sleep aid EVER!
Possum wrote:
Everytime I see that I think of the Earl of Sandwich and it reminds me of Buck Henry.
new thread, yinz
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/04/05/twitter-war-open/