There is no reason that his has to happen.
How long until ‘Blackout’ is erased as raaaccccissssss?
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https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/new-who-covid-report-once-again-proves-sweden-right
well played, sweden
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/05/24/u-s-poised-to-force-russian-debt-default/
this is getting ridiculous.
coldwarrior wrote:
talk about cutting our own throats
Good morning from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon! Got in last night.
A huge deer just walked by my trailer as I was getting into the shower. Don’t see that every day…
@ lobo91:
Coincidentally, that is what the deer said too!
@ lobo91:
And by “walked by,” I mean I could have reached out and touched it if the door had been open.
robert francis o’rourke just destroyed his career
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sick-son-bitch-beto-orourke-crashes-school-massacre-press-conference
@ coldwarrior:
Might actually endear him to his nutcase supporters
@ coldwarrior:
Let’s hope.
@ lobo91:
@ right_wing2:
he’s done:
He also said that these events will “continue to happen” because Abbott refuses to “stand up to the people of Texas,” going on to imply all Texans were at fault for the death of the children killed in Tuesday’s mass shooting.
done.
@ coldwarrior:
the schools in my district have armed POLICE officers and the doors are locked.
not lookin’ good for Zuckabucks
Facebook’s first big ‘angel’ investor, billionaire Peter Thiel, is ‘stepping down from Meta’s board effective immediately’ to pursue Trump agenda
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10854545/Peter-Thiel-stepping-Metas-board.html
I don’t know if many people noticed this. I did. A few weeks ago a neighbor of SCOTUS justice Kavanaugh’s orSganized a protest outside his house over the leaked SCOTUS draft.
I’m reading Kellyanne Conway’s book. She tells a story. While still in the White House, she was at a restaurant celebrating one of her daughters’ birthday with her school friends. Suddenly someone grabbed her from behind, pointing her finger in Kellyanne’s face, pulling on her arm in an out of control rant.Crazed, the worst of the trolls come to life. The police were called and a court hearing scheduled, but the woman apologized and apparently there was no hearing. This woman, it turned out, is a neighbor of Kavanaugh.
Think there could be two of these zealots on the same street? Doubtful
Lacie Wooten-Holway
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/brett-kavanaugh-neighbor-organizing-protests-outside-his-home-im-not-going-to-be-civil-to-that-man/ar-AAX1H2a?li=BBnbfcL
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
ummm….that’s battery and assault.
i would have pressed charges after she got out of the hospital.
coldwarrior wrote:
looks bad for the mask theater in the US.
@ lobo91:
At another festival or touring? I was there once and the viewpoints were quite spectacular.
coldwarrior wrote:
that is comedy gold!
coldwarrior wrote:
He is the type to go pro gun to get elected then turn into a fauci like monster.
coldwarrior wrote:
This should be the standard. Have a tactical and strategic plan. Mike Glover teaches this in his fieldcraft survival business. He says the worst national response to school shootings has been the policy of duck and cover.
School districts that have avoided addressing this issue are corrupt. Each parent has the responsibility to insure the school superintendent is on top of protecting kids instead of using them like beto.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wild. mentally ill dems…. I’d be ok if it was only registered republicans who were allowed to own guns.
Gas up 50 cents per gallon here today. First time over $5.
Build back broker.
Bill Gates sent millions into dark money groups to attack Elon Musk. Also shorted Tesla. This was before Elon compared a profile of Gates to the pregnant man emoji. Gates was also trying to hit musk up for charitable donations during this time.
I am not sure why Musk would want to help a pro Epstein Billionaire.
@ darkwords:
Dark money against Musk hides Gates involvement in Epstein island. As long as the media is ragging on Musk they will avoid Gates.
darkwords wrote:
I’m on a two week trip through northern Arizona and southern Utah. Going to the North Rim next
I’m going up to Mather Point to watch the sunset
Timeless…from Time
Correction: Beto O’Rourke confronts Texas Gov. Abbott about gun control during Uvalde press conference https://ti.me/38jVrxH
The original version of this tweet misspelled Beto O’Rourke’s name. It is Beto, not Beta
https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1529563007424024578
eaglesoars wrote:
I wonder how he sees himself as a valid honest candidate? I read some of his followers and they are in love with him.
My pronouns are Pronoun/FreeZone
From Kellyanne’s book: Remember when her daughter’s tik tok video trashing her family went viral? Guess who helped her do that because she already had her claws in the kid w/o the Conways’ knowledge or permission?
Taylor Lorenz.
One garbage person if ever there was one.
darkwords wrote:
doubt it. Those that aren’t bots are bought and paid for.
Almost done w/Kellyanne’s book. She doesn’t like Bannon, no biggie, a lot of people don’t. But what is REALLY odd – she never once mentions Peter Navarro who was a HUGE factor in the success of Trump’s trade policies. Not just trade policies, but gearing up for COVID and she talks A LOT about COVID.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think Bannon and Navarro were in the trenches guys and she was in messaging. Maybe a clash?
She talk about her husband? Alcoholism?
darkwords wrote:
She talks about her husband in great detail. She has zero idea of what has/darkwords wrote:
About her husband a great deal. She has zero idea about what happened to him and states at the end she doesn’t know if they will survive. Anytime she tried to talk to him about what he’s doing all he does is scream at her YOU ARE ENABLING A MADMAN. Nothing changed after she left the WH. He doesn’t have a job, apparently his entire life and time is taking up with tweeting.
I checked his twitter feed – never looked at it before – and he sounds absolutely unhinged. I think they won’t last. Given her own background, I think Kellyanne will wait until all four kids are out of the house – then initiate divorce proceedings.
But no, there’s no mention of alcoholism
Either he was never what she thought he was and missed a lot of signs over 17 years of marriage – or something happened that is inexplicable. He never became employed after they moved to D.C. after a brilliant career in NY. Unemployed, he just tweets trash all day. When their daughter, Claudia, got caught up in the tik tok thing, she was sure he’d come out of his bubble to protect their child, but all he did was look at Kellyanne and say “What do you want me to do about it?” Eventually, he got off his ass, but first response was pretty damning.
bed. nite.
Oh. I should also say – she has nothing but admiration and respect for all the Trump children, even bringing Tiffany into it as being very sweet. She and Ivanka got along great and she adores Melania.
But man does she despise Jared. Hoo Boy Howdy. She implies that he doesn’t deserve the credit for the Abraham Accords but the problem I have with that is that she never names who should get credit for it. It’s a fascinating book, but the problem I have with it is that it leaves a lot hanging. ESPECIALLY her take on the 2020 election. She doesn’t deny it was stolen, but she skates…it’s never been proven in a court of law type of thing. On first read, my takeaway is that she doesn’t want to cut off her potential client list.
Maybe that’s just me. I’ll have to read it again, I just read over 500 pages straight thru so first impressions aren’t to be trusted. I need to go over it again.
lobo91 wrote:
Don’t pee over the edge.
There are updrafts.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Sage advice.
Something smells fishy…where did this shooter from a very poor family get the cash for those ARs and body armor? That’s serious money there.
The U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.5% in the first quarter of 2022—the first decline since the second quarter of 2020, the Bureau of Economic Analysis estimated Wednesday in a worse-than-expected update to last month’s figure, which showed a decline of 1.4%.
The update primarily reflected softer-than-expected spending on business inventories and residential investments, which was only partially offset by an uptick in consumer spending, the government said.
In the first quarter, a record wave of Covid-19 cases spurred by the omicron variant resulted in continued restrictions and business disruptions, while government assistance programs including forgivable loans to businesses and social benefits to households expired or tapered off—further preventing growth, according to the release.
Broad declines in exports, government spending and business inventories, along with increased imports, spurred the overall decline, the government said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-economy-shrank-15-25-last-quarter-in-worst-showing-since-covid-recession-new-gdp-estimate-shows/ar-AAWHddT
I@ coldwarrior:
Guns are easier to get than cold medicine. Just ask a liberal.
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coldwarrior wrote:
Texas school killer Salvador Ramos got job at Wendy’s to save up $4,000 for rifles he used to massacre 19 young children, and shared his lust for guns with worried co-workers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10855013/Texas-elementary-school-killer-Salvador-Ramos-got-job-Wendys-save-4-000-guns.html
Joe Allen has a piece on transhumanism/metaverse
I, Ramona
https://salvomag.com/article/salvo60/i-ramona
The metaverse couldn’t have come at a better time. As real-life droids take over decent jobs, unemployed schmoes can shoot at robots in virtual reality. A population lost in digital hallucinations doesn’t need brain implants or drugs to keep them pacified. If the VR realm is fun enough, people will keep themselves on lockdown.
Judge Strikes Email, Testimony Suggesting Trump-Russia Claims May Have Been Fabricated
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, the Obama appointee overseeing Sussmann’s case, on May 24 ordered Heide’s quote struck from the record. His justification was that the answer was “at odds” with his earlier ruling that prosecutors could not delve into whether the data was concocted or “spoofed” because Sussmann was said to not be involved in the research itself.
On Wednesday, Cooper said the email itself can no longer be an exhibit.
Cooper had allowed the document to be admitted because he said it was not hearsay since it had a statement and a question.
https://www.ntd.com/judge-strikes-email-testimony-suggesting-trump-russia-claims-may-have-been-fabricated_785003.html
utter BS
coldwarrior wrote:
DNC special projects fund.
eaglesoars wrote:
A judge with an agenda. Using his judicial skills to fabricate a desired outcome.
WHAT??!!
Ray Liotta Dies: ‘Goodfellas’ Star & ‘Field Of Dreams’ Actor Was 67
A shocker. Ray Liotta, the terrific actor whose career breakout came in the 1990 Martin Scorsese crime classic Goodfellas after co-starring in Field of Dreams, has died. He was 67.
Deadline hears that Liotta died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was shooting the film Dangerous Waters. We will have more details when they become available.
Liotta leaves behind a daughter, Karsen. He was engaged to be married to Jacy Nittolo.
https://deadline.com/2022/05/ray-liotta-dies-67-goodfellas-1235033521/
Would anyone here accept gun control measures.
To me a mature gun ownership culture is a healthy benefit. Especially in a corrupt dem system.
I recognize the cause here as mental illness. Mental illness that seeks out gun violence as its outcome.
I’d like these kids that are growing up warped to go through some actual life hardships with other people before they get a gun. This kids parents and grandparents seemed pretty clueless about guns.
I believe this kid did this because he saw infamy in the other elementary school shootings.
A lot of dem pushback on the “one entrance, many exits” policy for schools. They want no positive solutions other than the repeal of the 2A. So they can then abuse society without fear of retribution.
This shooter needs to have his name erased from social media. And classified as a number.
Biden-Backed WHO’s Latest Power Grab Fails
https://www.frcblog.com/2022/05/biden-backed-whos-latest-power-grab-fails/
But nobody knows why. Odd.
Very cool
Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air
Mapping technology cut through the canopy to detect sprawling urban structures in Bolivia that suggest sophisticated cultures once existed
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lost-cities-of-the-amazon-discovered-from-the-air-180980142/
Ah jeez. The husband of one of the teachers murdered at Robb elementary school has died – heart attack/broken heart.
https://twitter.com/fuhknjo/status/1529870121023557632
eaglesoars wrote:
Interesting. And pyramid builders up to 70ft. I wonder if that inclination across civilizations is from stacking stuff in piles.
I visited a historic site on the Alti Plano in Bolivia. They had a wall of carved faces that had Asian and African faces in it. Pre European discovery.
darkwords wrote:
That’s the only solution. They see the press letting this kind of scum live on and they think that that will be them. It’s all due to the leftist media feeding in to these mentally deranged individuals fantasies.
@ darkwords:
People like to say that there’s no connection between things like this and the fact that 40 or 50 people are shot every weekend in Chicago, but they’re wrong.
It’s the same mentality in either case. Just a matter of degree. Most of the murders in Chicago are over stupid shit, not some big gang war. The shooters put no value on human life.
darkwords wrote:
interesting!
lobo91 wrote:
… and once again, the solution to the problem of a mass shooting in a gun-free zone is to take away all the guns from law abiding citizens and try to transform the country into a gun-free zone. A rational solution to this would be to eliminate the failed gun-free zone policy and allow teachers and staff to be armed and to allow normal citizens to carry. The shooters know they are walking into an unarmed victim/free fire zone when they attack these soft targets. If they don’t know who is armed, they are not going to be as motivated to commit these acts.
… and the politicians accuse Republicans of politicizing events when people like Beta O’Roarke demonstrate that it is really the communists who are politicizing everything that happens. … and every news channel is making this event all the news, all day, every day for the next who knows how many days.
coldwarrior wrote:
Pecker Pete learned a lesson that day. Fortunately for me a thundershower rinsed him off before we continued the road trip.
coldwarrior wrote:
Saw some discussion about cartel money and a possible setup by the KhakiBois to create a political event. That supposedly explains why the police held off for an hour before they entered the school.
Occam isn’t returning my calls. The theory came from Princess Natasha on FB.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ eaglesoars:
That seems more likely.
Out of curiosity, I went to Googoyle Maps and found the town is about an hour’s drive from the US – Mexico border. Then I zoomed in and went to street view, took a drive around. That is one big empty place for an 18 year old.
hey y’all
so the girl is off on her study abroad trip
about a 3 week trip
CBS News reported that Beta O’Rourke’s stunt was staged.
rain of lead wrote:
Oh great! What country?
Nextdoor is full of people posting pics of a bear in their yards. No one knows if it’s just the same bear traveling around from neighborhood to neighborhood or if we’ve got multiple. In a lot of cases the bear has learned to go after bird feeders. I don’t think bears are fond of bird seed. Suet maybe.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
He paid a PR company to come up with that stunt? HAR!! He’s dumber than he looks
@ eaglesoars:
So is the news reporterette. Staged? Hooda guessed?
According to Mark Levin, some of the kids were able to hide from view. Police called to the kids “Call out if you need help.” One girl did, and she was killed.
@ darkwords:
mrs coldwarrior has a perfect theory for all of this ancient building stuff:
‘well, they didnt have tv or the internet, so what else were they supposed to do?’
works every time
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
our school district has man-trap hallways and entrances. one way in, one way out with armed police officers on duty at all times.
its not hard to secure a building. any school that is not thusly secured is run by people who want to have their kids shot for political purposes, period.
eaglesoars wrote:
again, no internet or tv…maybe the peeps were pretty good sailors.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
an hour.
such brave officers. to protect and defend /
bet they are excellent at writing traffic tickets to quota, never get out of the car and ‘walk the beat’.
i quit trusting the cops years ago.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/26/shock-dps-reveals-uvalde-shooter-entered-thru-unlocked-door-no-school-police-officer/
buncha faggot fake cowboys hid for an hour.
nice hats, you sissies. tell me more fables about brave and flawless TEXAS! WOOOHOOOO!!!!!
poseurs.
@ coldwarrior:
Chuck Schumer just blocked a bill to create a clearinghouse for best practices in school security. He said that no amount of additional security will stop school shootings.
I say we eliminate the Capitol Police, then.
coldwarrior wrote:
I SAID THAT!!!!!!
Anyone who has visited Europe has seen all the magnificent churches. some took centuries to build.
The only buildings in Europe that I really understand why they were built are in places like Rome and Greece. The Colosseum in Rome was a sports stadium. There are many examples in Greece and Italy of theatres carved out of hillsides. No Internet but entertainment for the people!
P.S the Coliseum in Rome today has a huge chunk missing. It did not fall down. After the end of the Roman Empire the heathens stole big chunks of it to build other shit.
I knows my history. .
@ lobo91:
bingo.
best practices are armed POLICE inside the school, man-traps in the hall ways, remote and failsafe mag locks everywhere, and double mag locks at all entrances.
it aint hard. hell…this is basic stuff here.
@ Possum:
yinz are of like mind.
this scares me.
Many Americans have apparently never seen wild animals before. As I was waiting for the shuttle back to the campground, I heard a guy say “look…horses.” Someone else corrected him. “No, I think those are moose.”
I finally looked in the direction they were pointing and noticed two elk standing there.
@ Possum:
You do not have to watch all of this just the first minute.
Amphitheatre at Pompeii. A USEFUL building 2000 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-E7_VHLvkE
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/26/joe-biden-suggests-americans-owning-ar-15s-are-sick-people-who-want-to-kill-someone/
LOL!!!!
oh man….
an AR??? heh.
hey joe, ever see what the average deer hunter in PA has in his gun safe?
Most of them do seem to be able to identify squirrels, at least
@ lobo91:
oh FFS.
jeeze
Two elk just walked past as I was typing
lobo91 wrote:
hide!
they are notorious copy editors!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reportedly, the most dangerous animals in the park are the squirrels. They injure more visitors than the rest combined.
Because the people are stupid, of course
Of course, most injuries are from falling. Because people aren’t smart enough to not fall into an 1100 foot hole in the ground
I went into town to get gas, since I’m packing up and driving to the North Rim in the morning.
$5.79 for regular
lobo91 wrote:
it is difficult to miss such minor geological undulations.
@ coldwarrior:
Actually it is quite mesmerizing. Standing on the edge it seems almost not real.
@ coldwarrior:
I’m sure it’s only getting worse, now that everyone is walking around with a cellphone in their face
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Shipwrecked crew wrote a bit on this. Small town police dept in city of 15,000. Probably 8-12 police officers with maybe 3-4 on duty in the AM. They responded got shot at and called for backup. Closest backup is a border patrol office in the town. The first two officers focused on the shooter instead of the kids.
Then big city ROE took hold. Those are meant to protect officers and politicians from being hurt via PR. The border patrol guy that shot him must of been SOF at one time. Apparently walked in took a bullet in the leg and scalp and killed the loser.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Obama had a really weird statement “Lets not forget George Floyd”
The shooter got greenlit by the gunsale. Was online ruminating about troubles. Occams razor suggests the FBI prompted him in some manner in order to boost the dems in the election.
Now McConnel is saying lets cooperate with the dems on gun control.
@ rain of lead:
Where is she headed?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Ghoul he is. He sucked up a news cycle where more helpful news could have occured.
Sandy Hook father on Megyn Kelly says don’t give money to the Red Cross via the shooting. They offered to do that in Sandy Hook but kept the money in their coffers for other business. Sort of the Amber Heard of charities.
coldwarrior wrote:
Keen observer of male behavior.
coldwarrior wrote:
And there was a mom who broke free of US Marshall handcuffs and went into the school on her own. Unarmed.
lobo91 wrote:
yah except he doesn’t know that. If there is an armed guard there with a better field of fire than the loser. The loser will go someplace else.
He picked kids because he knew that would get him the most headlines.
@ darkwords:
Oh, I guarantee you that they had many hours of forced entry and tactical training complete with bdu’s and fancy guns and whatnot. Got to play urban soldier.
Well, the time came…fail.
@ darkwords:
Army Special Forces are the most dangerous peeps in all the military.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep, but I was referencing the attention paid to these human trash. Stop paying attention to them and the number of the events drop to almost nothing. The media creates them.
lobo91 wrote:
Pretty blatantly obvious what his agenda is right there. I’ll bet he is going to say there is only one solution.
@ darkwords:
Spineless loser.
@ AZfederalist:
Especially since he said that he wouldn’t bring it up for a vote on its own, but he was okay with adding it to the bill he wants. Not sure what that is, but it can’t be good
lobo91 wrote:
Funny isn’t it? Schumer supported the Gun Free school zones act when Clinton proposed it as the solution to make sure no more school shootings would occur. That worked out quite well, don’t you think? Now that we’ve had more mass shootings in schools since the Gun Free Zone act was enacted than happened before, the solution it another massive government power grab and taking away of citizens’ rights. Like always, Government sees a problem, implements a solution that gives it more power and makes the problem worse, then proposes a solution that involves giving the government more power that will result in worse problems.
No thanks
lobo91 wrote:
Nope. They are going to use this as their opportunity to ban a class of sporting arms, restrict sales of a material (body armor), outlaw standard capacity magazines, and further restrict the transfer and sale of firearms. All just “common sense gun laws” to “stop gun violence” of course.
How close do you think my prediction will be?
@ AZfederalist:
They’re certainly going to try, anyway
coldwarrior wrote:
That is a fire death trap and is illegal.
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s a broad brush you’re painting with.
Possum wrote:
You also said, “TO BALTIMORE! AND BEYOND! *whoosh*”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
“The Talk” my dad gave me was that I shouldn’t trust all police. That they had some bad apples. He always made friends with the local sheriff. He was aware of the personnel.
Possum wrote:
Terry Gilliam shows up at 01:47.
lobo91 wrote:
and one elk says to the other…
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
i was an MP for four years and know several police peeps…i’ve seen and heard enough first hand to use that brush.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
yep. i made an incorrect assumption about what are only fire doors. i assumed that they could be remotely locked as they are almost exactly the same model that we use in the locked down psych units in some of our ERs. the frames have the metal strips where the magnets would go. neighbor is a teacher at the HS and he set me straight while walking dogs last night. they dont lock but can be remotely closed. yeah, i notice stupid shit like door frames.
to get into either school you have to do this: hit the buzzer to get identified and buzzed into the antechamber. then you have to hand over your license through the security glass to the secretary who then scans it and issues an ID. then whomever you are visiting has to come and get you before you get buzzed through the next set of security doors. there are also armed police on duty at all times.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/go-there-distraught-parents-begged-texas-cops-enter-school-gunman-inside-hour
bad details there.
the next town council meeting is gonna be rough
Good morning
I misted over 30 tomato plant seeds, got the morning glory seeds in, put 6 plants in the side garden, dead headed 3 rose bushes (1 more to go), all the bird feeders are full, still have to do the bird bath and figure out where to put the hummingbird feeders. Oh, I need to do the transplant food thing.
First – food!
This is fine
Fish in Florida are on drugs, and scientists say that could be a really bad sign of what is ahead
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/05/fish-in-south-florida-are-on-drugs-and-scientists-say-that-could-be-a-really-bad-sign-of-what-is-ahead.html
study out of the Sunshine State found “dozens of pharmaceuticals” in the blood and tissue of the fish in the South Florida waters. Among the substances that reportedly showed up are valium, blood pressure meds and antidepressants.
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the average number of drugs found in each fish was seven, and that some of the bonefish even had as many as 16 different drugs in them.
I need a nap. I’m already sore.
coldwarrior wrote:
Got it.
What’s the worst you saw?
eaglesoars wrote:
I bet the amounts detected were insignificant, but since Florida is a political target the story will be hyped.
@ eaglesoars:
No link to the study.
33rd wedding anniversary for the missus and I. There’s no traditional gift, but in some countries in Europe it’s the tin anniversary.
We’re having tuna melts tonight.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
CONGRATS! We’ll hit our 30th on the 6th.
Oh ffs
The Forest Service??!!
Forest Service pile burn caused Calf Canyon Fire
The Calf Canyon Fire was caused by a “pile burn holdover from January” that was started by the Santa Fe National Forest Service, officials said on Friday.
The blaze later merged with the Hermits Peak Fire – also started by a federal prescribed burn – to become the largest fire in New Mexico history.
The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire has burned more than 312,000 acres as of Friday morning and is 47% contained. More than 3,000 personnel are battling the blaze that has destroyed 761 structures, including hundreds of homes.
https://www.abqjournal.com/2503225/officials-pile-burn-caused-calf-canyon-fire.html
The last survivor of the Malmedy Massacre has died. Harold Billow. He was 99.
https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/last-known-survivor-of-wwii-pow-massacre-dead-at-99/
Protests at the NRA convention.
Nice people
https://twitter.com/MrJoeyMannarino/status/1530276126966353920
@ eaglesoars:
fish on drugs is pretty old news…this is all they got?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
hooooray, yinz guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Bingo! Says more about sensitivity of testing than anything else. Note they don’t lead with “dangerous levels of drugs found in fish” or “Potentially harmful levels of pharmaceuticals found in fish.” That’s the tell right there, trace amounts of just about anything can be detected pretty much anywhere.
eaglesoars wrote:
Top. Men.
eaglesoars wrote:
… and I’ll be if any one of them were to be the victim of a home invasion or assault, they will each wish they were able to defend themselves.
coldwarrior wrote:
Police tackling parents attempting to storm the school while they stood there impotent is not a good look. That whole “protect and serve” thing doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Now it means, “… and make sure we get to go home for dinner”.
@ AZfederalist:
It really does seem to perpetuate the image that the police now view their job as to arrive at the scene, collect evidence, write up the report and let the investigators solve the case. Yes, I do have concern for police lives just as I do for those in our military. However, there are situations, such as when a gunman is in a school or other place where the notion of “wait around until we have a tactical unit suited up” guarantees more deaths and mayhem.
@ AZfederalist:
In Berlin, we assumed the school was going to get hit. We trained on that. We even did dry runs after hours.
It doesn’t take much to get trained up and ready.
AZfederalist wrote:
It’s a failure of their ROE. They made assumptions that weren’t real. They acted to persevere their safety first.
This ROE comes out of the big Dem cities. Where police are the bad guys and major police actions need to be debated with politicians before implementation. Big money writes these up as best practices and influences all training across the country. Later these same orgs would go on to “defund the police”
An individual cop can’t disagree. Fired on the spot. Pension gone. That pension is the no 1 motivator for most cops as a reason to endure all the street crap.
@ AZfederalist:
This looks more horrible by the minute.
We got kosher hotdogs from the Jewish butcher in squirrel Hill. Good God expensive. But…oh my. I may convert.
coldwarrior wrote:
no bacon.
rethink.
eaglesoars wrote:
ummmm….
shit.
yep, thats a non starter.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
we just brought home two pigs worth double smoked, double pepper, no crap added bacon in vacuumed sealed 1lb packs, and 2 pigs worth of bellies from the amish.
oh.
hell.
yes.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/bankrupt-sri-lanka-takes-russian-crude-fuel-crisis-depletes-stocks
and now it starts.
the US will be the pariah state in one year
eaglesoars wrote:
Not really news. We’ve known that they started it since a day or two after it began. There’s a nationwide ban on prescribed burns now as a result.
I made it to the other side of the canyon.
Still 40 miles away, though. This was the closest campground I could find.
Never been to the North Rim before. I went to the South Rim about 45 years ago, before most of the current infrastructure was built. Way too built up for my taste.
The North Rim is much quieter, mainly because it’s so hard to get here from the Interstate.
@ eaglesoars:
And that genital mutilation….
@ coldwarrior:
Rice is the most widely grown crop in Sri Lanka.
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an Asian nation located in the continent’s southeastern edge. According to data from the World Bank, in 2017, Sri Lanka’s gross domestic product was roughly $87.2 billion. Based on the strength of Sri Lanka’s economy, the World Bank categorizes it as a middle-income nation. The economy of Sri Lanka was dramatically affected by a civil war that lasted nearly 30 years. Sri Lanka’s economy is heavily dependent on the natural resources some of which include fish, minerals, arable land, and wildlife.
** i think the name states the problem there. They grow enough food to live. China has its lending hooks deep in.
Lex Fridman on Joe Rogan talks about the worlds view. He says Israel, India, and China have all hedged on the US and are leaning Russia. He is pro Ukraine.
Thinks we are close to a hot war that is mainly being forced on us by Joe Biden. The global south values the US concept of freedom but not freedom at the expense of PR bombing women and children. Biden is projecting weakness, Putin is projecting strength. HE considers Putin a war criminal.
@martyrmade on the Jocko podcast made a similar observation. When Israel hedges against its biggest ally then there is something wrong.
@ eaglesoars:
Grassyass. She hasn’t offed me yet.
Tiger Woods injured himself in 2006 attempt to qualify as a Navy Seal. Hasn’t recovered since.
@ coldwarrior:
Yep. We tolerate each other.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
30 years is a long time. Did you find anything new in that time that you both liked?
Possum wrote:
“I was circumcised and I no longer am.”
Bill Murray, SNL Weekend Update
darkwords wrote:
We found we liked the house better once Bunkessa and Bunkarina moved out.
California just rescinded a law that requires police to investigate threats of violence (for intervention) in the under 18 crowd. The argument was that not enough white kids were being reported so it’s racist.
I don’t have details, heard on the radio.
lobo91 wrote:
WE DID??!!
@ eaglesoars:
“We” meaning people in NM, anyway. It’s been widely covered here
lobo91 wrote:
… and who was it who was responsible for that chemical spill several years ago where the orange water was released from a dam? Yep, fed is not exactly filled with the most competent bureaucrats.
AZfederalist wrote:
didn’t hear about that either
NYT reporter akshuallee does journalism
In the past two years, the Uvalde school district has hosted at least two active-shooter training days. One of them was just two months ago.
The trainings included both classroom teachings and role-playing scenarios inside school hallways (below).
https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1530357348308377601
This thread is damning.
The training is clear: Time is of the essence. The “first priority is to move in and confront the attacker.”
eaglesoars wrote:
That was the Animas River. Some EPA contractors were messing around at a closed gold mine and accidentally breached a dam on a tailings pond.
@ eaglesoars:
Training for whom? The cops, or the students and staff?
The cop who got a text from his wife who was a teacher – and they have a daughter at the school – was getting a haircut, grabbed the barber’s shotgun and got his ass over there. Look at this
Two cops provided cover for him so he could get his kid and her class — but they wouldnt let other parents do the same. I mean, he did what I would do… but it’s kind of fucked cops got to save their kids while other parents were threatened with arrest/not allowed as theirs died.
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1530362462297538566
Got my pellet grill burn off done this evening. I’ll hit Dillons for some chicken breast tomorrow or Sunday, try a couple of different dry rubs on them overnight Sunday and will fire the smoker up Monday for a couple hours.
KEE-RIST!!
Have you ever seen egg prices at $1 per egg range, or $12/doz? Hold on a few months and perhaps you will. That is the context for the scale of food price increases the USDA is now starting to predict. The highest predicted change in food costs in well over 40 years, that’s the USDA warning in their revised May “Food Price Outlook”. [DATA HERE]
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/27/udsa-raises-food-price-forecast-to-highest-level-in-42-years-third-wave-of-u-s-food-inflation-will-dwarf-prior-price-increases/
@ eaglesoars:
I filled up with gas after dropping my trailer this afternoon. $5.60 a gallon for regular. $112 for about 3/4 of a tank
@ lobo91:
Amazon doesn’t pay enough to make delivering for them worth it. Some cities are getting higher rates but not Wichita.
$54 for 3.5 hours, but you might drive 70 or 100 miles.
right_wing2 wrote:
Amazon Prime has always been a good deal for me as I don’t drive to shop much except to the grocery store, it’s too time consuming. Now, it’s a total bargain. $0 shipping for about $10/month
@ eaglesoars:
Sorry, I meant as a Flex driver, in my own car.
@ right_wing2:
oh. sorry. My middle name is Girl Genius
Polk County, Fla. Sheriff Grady Judd responds to #Uvalde mass shooting: “[We will] put a bullet through your head if you’re trying to hurt our children. We are going to shoot you graveyard dead if you come onto a campus with a gun.”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1530351518184095744
“The first responding officer – I don’t care if it’s the deputy dog cartoon guy – he goes in and stops the shooter. That’s just part of the job,” Grollnek said. “You’ve got a ballistic vest. You know what the kids have? Crayons.”
https://twitter.com/davidhth/status/1530365731837292544/photo/1
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Like I said.
I had to quit reading details on this…cowardace!
@ coldwarrior:
This town – from what I’ve read – has a population of 15,000. The police force uses 40% of the budget.
Qualified immunity is going to be wiped out. You get that only if you do the job you were hired to do.
What I don’t understand is this – apparently after Ramos drove onto the property – in a truck that did not belong to him and would not have been recognized as having Ramos as the driver – a teacher opened a locked door and propped it open. All other doors remained locked. And minutes later Ramos scaled the fence and entered thru that door.
What a coinky-dink.
Lots of possible reasons I guess. I can’t think of one.
Good morning. Garbage people alert.
Statement on Removal of Mercedes Lackey from the Nebula Conference
We learned yesterday that while participating in the “Romancing Sci-Fi & Fantasy” panel, Mercedes Lackey used a racial slur. First, we apologize to our attendees and the other panelists who were subjected to that slur. We’ve disabled access to the panel to avoid any additional harm being caused.
Second, we are immediately removing Mercedes Lackey from the conference and the additional panels she was scheduled for, in accordance with SFWA’s Moderation Policy. The use of a racial slur violates the instruction to “Respect all cultures and communities. Do not make derogatory or offensive statements even as a joke.” That applies to everyone in a SFWA space, at all levels of their career.
https://www.sfwa.org/2022/05/22/statement-removal-mercedes-lackey-nebula-conference/
Good lord! What on earth did this monster say?
Read their statement and was like: Holy shit, what did she do? Did she drop N-bombs on stage while wearing a white hood and setting a cross on fire??
Nope, turns out she accidentally misspoke and said “colored person” instead of “person of color”
https://twitter.com/Undoomed/status/1528753770183671808
More garbage people
FBI Documents Reveal US May Have Funded Charlottesville Rioters Through Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Group — Documents Show Ties Between Azov Battalion, US Rioters
https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1530541300348604423
eaglesoars wrote:
lovely.
@ coldwarrior:
Did you see a ‘retired’ FBI agent was apparently talking to the Buffalo shooter?
This morning I misted the tomato seeds, watered the side garden and dead headed 2 rose bushes. Those things are MONSTERS, no way I could get to everything.
Going to visit a new grocery store today. Earth Fare. Never heard of it.
I’m easily entertained.
eaglesoars wrote:
ummmmhmmmm….
Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/authorities-investigating-if-retired-federal-agent-knew-of-buffalo-mass-shooting-plans-in-advance/article_bd408f18-dd39-11ec-be53-df8fdd095d6f.html
Law enforcement officers are investigating whether a retired federal agent had about 30 minutes advance notice of a white supremacist’s plans to murder Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, two law enforcement officials told The Buffalo News.
Authorities believe the former agent – believed to be from Texas – was one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated with accused gunman Payton Gendron in an online chat room where racist hatred was discussed, the two officials said.
The two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation stated these individuals were invited by Gendron to read about his mass shooting plans and the target location about 30 minutes before Gendron killed 10 people at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on May 14.
The News could not determine if the retired agent accepted the invitation.
Cargo Freeway Expansion Canceled in L.A. Due to ‘Racist’ Roads
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/27/cargo-freeway-expansion-canceled-in-l-a-due-to-racist-roads/
The 710 freeway, a major artery linking Los Angeles to its port complex, will no longer be expanded, thanks to opposition that claimed the highway is racist because it produces emissions that affected minority communities living near the road.
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The 710 Freeway is the main artery for the nation’s largest port complex, through which nearly a third of the nation’s imported goods move. Big rigs carrying a crush of goods — as varied as electronics, auto parts and shoes — often clog the road. Activists call it the diesel death zone, but Americans with their appetite for click-shopping, have come to rely on the web of warehouses and deliveries that the port is built around.
found a nice business/econ site. It’s an aggregator but looks fairly comprehensive.
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/
Defense type guy on Bannon. Steve Bryen. Has an interesting blog
http://www.bryensblog.com/
A Modest Proposal to Improve Regional Air Defense in East Asia
In our just released Experts Panel study, Stopping a Taiwan Invasion, we point out the urgent need to improve air defenses around Taiwan and Japan. Now, with the Navy proposal to retire seven Ticonderoga class cruisers, allegedly because they are expensive to maintain, it appears there will be nothing to replace these and other Ticonderoga class cruisers slated for retirement, 21 ships in all. Ticonderoga class cruisers are guided missile destroyers equipped with the powerful AEGIS missile and air defense system.
This is another blog you should keep in your rotation
https://presentdangerchina.org/
Frank Gaffney
Release: The C.C.P. is ‘Transitioning to War’; What Are We Doing?
https://presentdangerchina.org/release-the-c-c-p-is-transitioning-to-war-what-are-we-doing/
Hit my stupid quota for today!
If 19 armed police inside PLUS 150 police outside, were afraid to engage ONE 18 year-old with an AR-15, the only solution is to ban AR-15 style rifles, period!
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1530326390117122048
We don’t know if he had any long guns or not
eaglesoars wrote:
I just overdosed
Is it possible that this was planned by Republican strategists? It’s so weird that the police didn’t call the SWAT team or the fire dept. They didn’t go in. What if the shooter was hired to do this shooting? But notice, Ginny Thomas is no longer at the top of the news headlines.
https://twitter.com/mary97786999/status/1530357351378731008
eaglesoars wrote:
Be sure to wear birkenstocks ans fair trade clothing.
@ eaglesoars:
I think the correct answer is to get better cops
coldwarrior wrote:
jeans, sneakers, sweatshirt. Maybe pearl earrings
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/biden-to-withhold-federal-funds-for-schools-that-dont-allow-boys-to-use-girls-bathrooms/
Priorities
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep, got to have the boys confused about their sexuality and the girls groomed to accept rape at any time and place. Loudun County Virginia was just a preview.
From the Telegraph in the UK
NEW – AstraZeneca vaccine: Jab’s Trojan horse delivery system could be causing a rise in Guillain-Barré syndrome cases.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1530640526189506563
Didn’t the same thing happen with swine flu vax during the Ford admin?
coldwarrior wrote:
from the comments: Trump tried to do somewhat the same by wanting to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities.
Appeals Court held that Trump could NOT withhold federal funds to sanctuary cities because federal govt cannot require “conditions” on such funds. Supreme Court agreed. Isn’t this the same?
So Pfizer followed 270 pregnant women. When 28 of the first 34 of the babies died, Pfizer just gave up following the rest of the women.
https://www.lifenews.com/2022/05/27/__trashed-8/
@ eaglesoars:
Goldwater warned us about this.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
This is sick.
@ eaglesoars:
Of course they can. That’s how we got the 55 mph speed limit and the drinking age of 21.
But there’s a special Trump exception to all precedent
The Grand Canyon ate my favorite BRCC hat
@ lobo91:
and was not in the mood to give it back?
eaglesoars wrote:
What pregnant woman would allow herself to be a test subject? Maybe they were outside the US? In any event there are 270 stories not being told there.
eaglesoars wrote:
Saw a political *ahem* cartoon yesterday. Policeman talking to a GOP elephant with dead bodies strewn around in front of “USA High School.” Cop says “Good news, sir. Nobody was teaching critical race theory.”
When I and others complained about the FB post, the poster and his buddies defended it. Puke.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
They’re just pissed off the shooter wasn’t a white supremacist.
rain of lead wrote:
Nope. It was super windy this afternoon. Probably 40-50 mph with gusts to 60.
My hat may still be flying. If not, it was about 5000 feet to the bottom. Some anthropologist will find it a thousand years from now
Can’t cut/paste.
Did the kids die because they were mostly Hispanic and the cops didn’t care? I mean – Texas – if you’re not white you’re illegal
https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1530592364066230273/photo/1
The police chief and most of the cops in Uvalde are Hispanic. It was a white Border Patrol agent who shot the killer.
And this is the take they come up with.
https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1530592364066230273
eaglesoars wrote:
There are so many morons out there in the country. Same for that FB political cartoon Bunk annotated. And sorry to say most of them have 3 syringes and 3 Ukrainian flags in their bios
I’m in favor of tossing all the west coast cities out of the country. Collective IQ would go up 10 points
King County is Seattle
Multnomah county is Portland
Los Angeles County
San Francisco
@ eaglesoars:
The town has a several Vietnamese nail salons on my GooberMaps virtual drive-thru.
@ eaglesoars:
One thing most of them are totally unaware of is the fact that the Border Patrol is over half Hispanic.
eaglesoars wrote:
which IS odd. Border Patrol is probably 90% Hispanic
@ eaglesoars:
These morons are unhinged. This is absolutely ludicrous. … and that bit about “disabling access to the panel to ‘prevent anyone else from being harmed’”. Good grief! Who was that comedian with the bit about if you are offended, so what? OK, you’re offended. Get on with life.
eaglesoars wrote:
So, is it time to start expanding ports and roads in Texas and Florida where more sane people live and make policy?
eaglesoars wrote:
Dang, I made the mistake of reading some of the comments. They make the person who posted that nonsense look like a mental giant. Seriously, that comment is so stupid, I’m surprised that this poster hasn’t yet died of embarrassment (OK, the enablers on her page aren’t helping because they are equally stupid.)
19 police officers and 150 other officers, all of whom most likely had access to AR-15’s as well. Puhleez
eaglesoars wrote:
The kids died because Bill Clinton got the “Gun Free School Zones” bill passed. End of story.
I can’t believe the difference between the North Rim and the South Rim. The North Rim is probably what most people imagine when you say “National Park.” A handful of rustic buildings in one small area, and the rest is wilderness.
The South Rim reminds me of something Disney would make
lobo91 wrote:
Made it there when I was 11. I guess it was the South Rim. What I remember is the people going down on donkeys. I was outraged as only a young girl can be. Total animal abuse!!!
It’s a miracle my parents didn’t leave me there.
No One Is Talking About This
I have been looking for some good data on food. Frankly, I have seen my grocery bill go up quite a bit and I am trying to figure out if I should stockpile foodstuffs or not.
It is a La Nina year. That brings a lot of dryness to places like South America. Unscientifically, everyone I know in Las Vegas says it has been a lot windier here than normal. Expect more hurricanes this year in the southeast. Hint: It’s not global warming.
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I used to trade Lean Hogs, so I watched the food supply stuff relatively closely. I have heard that if you want a slot at the slaughterhouse this year, you are out of luck if you don’t have one. It’s hearsay for me as I don’t have good data on anything but my guess is that livestock farmers are going to really cull their herds this year. It’s just too expensive to feed them.
Short term, that might drive meat prices down. Long term, they will skyrocket. If you look at futures prices for lean hogs, that’s what they are telling you. Here is the near-term July contract. You can see it is off its highs, but the price isn’t low. That volume spike shows a change in direction, so it looks like to me prices might be headed back down for the short term. But, if you look at next year, prices are up.
He’s seeing this and wondering if he should stockpile?
Sweetheart, EVERYBODY is talking about this
oh, linky
https://jeffreycarter.substack.com/p/no-one-is-talking-about-this?s=w
@ eaglesoars:
That would have been before most of the current stuff was built. I went there in that era, too.
The historic buildings are still there, but they’re several miles from the visitor center. They built a whole new complex over to the east.
Leader McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan Address Subpoena from Jan. 6 Select Committee in Blistering Op-Ed
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2022/05/27/leader-mccarthy-and-rep-jim-jordan-address-subpoena-from-jan-6-select-committee-in-blistering-oped-n2607912
Too long to excerpt.
@ eaglesoars:
My response only would have required 2 words
lobo91 wrote:
60 years ago?
eaglesoars wrote:
About 45. I don’t think much changed between there
eaglesoars wrote:
*Conspiracy by a teacher on the inside to allow access..
*False Flag attack to generate a Second Amendment policy crisis
*Set up of a politically and mentally unstable individual, to generate anti-NRA narratives
*Destabilize the current Texas polity
…. to name but a few!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
or smoke break? We used to do that, even tho smoking on the property was banned but nobody said anything because if we wanted to we’d totally fuck up their phone bills. However, Texas this time of year is hot enough so there is an air conditioning issue to consider.
My sister got her phone bill today.
It shows a charge from her ‘landline’ – which she does not have – to North Korea.
eaglesoars wrote:
They have phones in North Korea?
lobo91 wrote:
missile launch codes!
eaglesoars wrote:
Probably this…. we have all this communication and can’t get people to secure doors.
Concerns Over Egg Shortages Grow
https://zububrothers.com/2022/05/28/concerns-over-egg-shortages-grow/
Concerns over potential shortages of eggs nationwide are growing due to inflation and supply chain issues made worse by avian flu.
When I did my research shopping today at Earth Fare I checked the price of eggs (it was a totally organic store). Over $6 for a dozen.
On the way home I stopped at my usual grocery to get ‘my’ stuff and checked prices. The house brand organic eggs were about $3.68. But the outside price for organic eggs was over $7.
I bought the non-organic house brand for about $2.58.
lobo91 wrote:
she emailed me a pic of the line item but it doesn’t show the $ amount. This should be fun. Talk about fucking up a phone bill!
darkwords wrote:
Well…maybe this is it.
One time we converted the test platform to the production platform. Next thing we knew we were billing people named Chaucer and Shakespeare and places like Stratford von Avon.
OOPS!!
Test data got mixed up with ‘real’ data.
darkwords wrote:
You’d be amazed at how often that even happens in prisons
I’m going to bed. Nite.
NRA Protestors Channel Their Spirit Animals
https://twitter.com/stevenvoiceover/status/1530298580937875459
vid
https://twitter.com/Rev20_4/status/1530574489729253376
New thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/05/29/f1-grand-prix-of-monte-carlo-2022-open/