Good Morning, yinz!
It’s F1 Monte Carlo today. That means an early morning prepping the special F1 breakfast of champagne, various smoked and cured Italian and Spanish meats, French cheeses, and homemade garlic bread with fresh pesto.
Also: the IPL final AND The Greatest Spectacle in sport, The Indianapolis 500.
Enjoy this open.
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Teams to watch: Ferrari and Red Bull.
Mercedes can seem to get their act together.
https://youtu.be/UOlJNPopcwE
Champaign at 8am? sure!
cheers~!
coldwarrior wrote:
Absolutely. During boating season when we’d spend weekends on the boat, it was bloody marys for breakfast with fried catfish mom caught that morning. And grits.
Loudoun County. Again.
Cops Probe After Middle School Librarian Allegedly Says Students Are ‘Sex Workers’ To Justify Pro-Prostitution Book
Guido has been active in political and cultural hot-button issues. In 2017, Guido told the Human Rights Campaign she was canvassing for votes for a transgender Democrat political candidate. “I felt like I was actually making an impact in politics — which has always felt impenetrable in the past. It was so rewarding to get to go out and interact with other voters in a positive way,” she said.
Earlier this month, she used Facebook to raise money for abortions.
The school’s other librarian, Lisa Buffi, created a 17-page list of “LGBTQ+ Books” for children, such as “a picture book with rhyming text that encourages boys and girls to ignore common gender stereotypes,” one about a boy who transfers to a new school and begins life as a girl, and others called “The Bride Was A Boy,” “Boy Meets Boy,” and “Being Jazz: My Life As A (Transgender) Teen.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cops-probe-after-middle-school-librarian-allegedly-says-students-are-sex-workers-to-justify-pro-prostitution-book
These sick fucks are predators who know where the prey are. Which is why nothing is getting reported to the cops.
@ eaglesoars:
back in the early 90’s i bartended on the beaver river…i’d do saturday night, close up and make the deposit by 4am, sleep on the ‘sand bar’ deck by the bar’s docks, an then open for boater brunch 8am sunday.
by 3pm sunday i would go home with $400 in tips for both days…1992 money.
@ coldwarrior:
Can or can’t ? $100 says you meant ‘can’t’.
No, wait, lets make it $25.
@ eaglesoars:
‘These sick fucks are predators …’
Not only that but we allow, wait, no, we PAY them to care for our children all day while we are at work.
How crazy are we ?
eaglesoars wrote:
Can someone explain that county to me? How the hell can so much fuckery happen in one county school district in such a small amount of time? Especially since they should have the awareness that since they have been caught so many time they are being watched closely.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
A bunch of VERY wealthy (more $$ than Fairfax County), over-educated “my shit doesn’t stink” progressives.
@ coldwarrior:
Unfortunately for the boat club, the closest bar was The Millsboro Hotel, aka The Gag and Vomit. Don’t even THINK about drinking the beer from a glass, stick with the bottle. The only other commercial option was The Tap Room which catered to the biker guys. So it was BYOB or get used to being sober over the weekend. Perish the thought.
Spending my Sunday morning in a laundromat in Fredonia, AZ. The glamourous side of RV life.
Fredonia sounds like a name the Army would come up with for a fake country in an exercise. There don’t seem to be enough people here to create much of a guerilla army, though
This is great!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4067130/posts
Look at this letter that Helagu Khan sent to the Mamluk Sultan in 1260!
From the King of Kings of the East and West, the Great Khan. To Qutuz the Mamluk, who fled to escape our swords. You should think of what happened to other countries and submit to us. You have heard how we have conquered a vast empire and have purified the earth of the disorders that tainted it. We have conquered vast areas, massacring all the people. You cannot escape from the terror of our armies. Where can you flee? What road will you use to escape us? Our horses are swift, our arrows sharp, our swords like thunderbolts, our hearts as hard as the mountains, our soldiers as numerous as the sand. Fortresses will not detain us, nor armies stop us. Your prayers to God will not avail against us. We are not moved by tears nor touched by lamentations. Only those who beg our protection will be safe. Hasten your reply before the fire of war is kindled. Resist and you will suffer the most terrible catastrophes. We will shatter your mosques and reveal the weakness of your God and then will kill your children and your old men together. At present you are the only enemy against whom we have to march.
— Hulagu
from the comments
The Sultan executed the envoys bearing the letter which led to the Battle of Ain Jalut which the Mamluks won – stopping further Mongol westward expansion. In this case the Muslims did the West a solid since had the Mongols taken out the Sultanate, they would have razed Jerusalem and the path would have been open right across north Africa and into Spain and Europe.
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The Battle of Ain Jalut was the beginning of the end for the Mongol empire. The Mamluk innovation of the horseshoe was an important factor in that battle. Another interesting fact is that the Mamluk Sultanate consisted of Russians, Turks, and Caucasians (original term: people of the Caucasus region) who were former slave soldiers that revolted and overthrew the Arab Caliph in Egypt just 10 years earlier in 1250. Mamluk literally means “slave” in Turkish.
lobo91 wrote:
Didn’t the Marx brothers use that? SOMEBODY did.
I did notice a store as I came into town that advertised “Lotto, Guns, Ammo and Beer,” so I’ll probably get along okay with the locals
@ eaglesoars:
Yep, it was the fictional country in Duck Soup, they spelled it with 2 e’s.
https://apnews.com/article/44e7384c0499b9fe16ae1d3d79459cf2
@ lobo91:
There’s a Fredonia KS east of here a ways.
@ right_wing2:
This one is right on the border with Utah. Kanab is about 8 miles north of here, which is the only significant town in this area. I’m heading there once my clothes are dry, since it has an actual grocery store.
Bordm wrote:
HA! knew it……..
oopsie!
Pelosi’s husband arrested for DUI: Report
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pelosis-husband-arrested-for-dui-report
@ Bordm:
@ eaglesoars:
One of my favorite films
@ coldwarrior:
If you get a chance, watch Laurel & Hardy’s “Sons of Liberty”. Stan does the best double take in the history of film. I end up on the floor in tears every time.
@ eaglesoars:
Those cats were subtle funny.
@ eaglesoars:
My faves are
Pink panthers
Any Marx bros
And the good Mel Brooks films.
And python…always python
@ lobo91:
Kanab has some animal rescue place I think.
@ coldwarrior:
My dad would be in tears watching the Pink Panther movies.
Frisco Kid, The Villain, What’s Up Doc?, Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles
THE SUN IS WAKING UP — RIGHT ON SCHEDULE
Now, the uptick in activity seems to mark a change in the Sun’s behavior. Lisa Upton (Space Systems Research Corporation), co-chair of the Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, says that for the first time in 50 years, this solar cycle seems to be stronger than the one before it. She and colleague David Hathaway are predicting that this cycle will be up to 30% more active.
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/the-sun-is-waking-up-right-on-schedule/
I have four chicken breasts getting ready for tomorrow.
Two are in a dry rub mix of brown sugar, garlic powder, salt, onion powder, chili powder, paprika and oregano.
The others are marinating in BBQ sauce, Worcestershire, onion powder, and red and black pepper.
Picked up some corn and we’ll see how things turn out.
coldwarrior wrote:
Robot Spy Beaver
eaglesoars wrote:
Freedonia – Duck Soup
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ eaglesoars:
Oop. I see others mentioned Duck Soup upthread. To make up for my gaffe here’s this.
Researchers at UC Berkley dropped salamanders into a vertical wind tunnel to see what would happen.
Oh, and I think it’s called the Monaco Formula 1 Gran Prix.
lobo91 wrote:
Nah
We had those bad bastards from Massoria, and their peasant guerrilla mates the Kamarians to contend with. When the Indonesians joined us to ‘play’ they knew that THEY were the Massorians and used to joke about it!
eaglesoars wrote:
Didn’t those cops know who he is? How dare they detain the Queen of the House’s husband! Those scurrilous curs!
@ eaglesoars:
In fairness to him, I’d probably drink heavily too if I was married to someone like Nancy Pelosi
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It would be if I did the post in spanish.
The Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco is what it’s called en francaise
Gran Premio in Italian
Well, well, well. It looks like there was a murder at a high school back in our old home town in Alexandria, perpetrated by none other than the infamous MS-13 gang. Just stumbled on it on twitter.
https://twitter.com/justindotnet/status/1529433251483373568
Yeah, the sheriff declared the place a sanctuary
coldwarrior wrote:
Then it would be un poco más grande.
@ eaglesoars:
oh, at the shopping center down the street from our old apartment.
eaglesoars wrote:
Aussie Infidel wrote:
You aren’t the only one. I think CW is in that cohort also.
What I don’t know – maybe you can tell me – is if that alters the cloud cover to the extent that solar becomes even more useless than it already is.
It amazes me that people don’t see the logical disconnect in this: Uvalde has allowed the gun grabbers to start screeching again but what was everybody waiting for?
The guys with guns. That Ramos had a gun is irrelevant. He could have had a knife. Look at NYC. Look at London. Knives. Machetes.
If just one teacher had had a gun…..
California votes to end mandatory reporting on students who threaten schools [officials]
https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/27/california-votes-mandatory-reporting-students-threaten-schools-aclu/
eaglesoars wrote:
That will go well. /s
I don’t know who this guy is but I can say it comports with what I’m seeing here in the Knoxville area. I look at realtor sites mostly because I like seeing how people decorate (yeah, I’m a girl) and also for the econ info but mostly the decor stuff. And I know that a lot of it is regional, so I don’t try to extrapolate from just what I see. However, put the UHaul stats and other stuff into it and – yeppers – something’s up. What I haven’t looked at yet is how this is impacting the institutional investors like the Blackrock subsidiaries who have been buying up everything to turn them into rentals.
The housing market just slid into a full-blown correction, says top economist Mark Zandi
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-market-just-slid-full-163652503.html
Lance Lambert
Fri, May 27, 2022, 12:36 PM·4 min read
Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi is ready to call it. He tells Fortune that we’ve officially moved from a housing boom into a “housing correction.”
The real estate data rolling in for April and May shows that the U.S. housing market is softening. New home sales fell 19% to their lowest level since April 2020. Redfin reports 19% of home listings cut their price over the past month. Inventory is rising fast, while mortgage applications and existing home sales are also falling.
This drop-off isn’t a result of seasonality, or a soft month or two. Zandi says it’s a trajectory flip: Demand is pulling back—fast—in the face of mortgage rates that have spiked dramatically.
“The housing market has peaked…everything points to a rolling over of the housing market,” Zandi says. “In terms of home sales, they’re falling sharply. Housing demand is coming down fast. Home price growth [will] go flat here pretty quickly; we will see [home] price declines in a significant number of markets.”
Housing market collapses are nothing new
2,100-year-old farmstead in Israel found ‘frozen in time’ after owners disappeared
Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed the 2,100-year-old remains of a farmstead whose owners likely abandoned it in a hurry, possibly to avoid an impending military invasion.
“We were very lucky to discover a time-capsule, frozen in time, in which the finds remained where they were left by the occupants of the site,” which is near Israel’s northern Sea of Galilee, archaeologist Amani Abu-Hamid, who is leading the excavation for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), said in a statement.
The excavators discovered ancient, still-intact storage jars at the site, as well as weights for weaving looms on a shelf, suggesting that whoever lived there left them behind when they quickly departed.
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-farmstead-discovered-israel
AZfederalist wrote:
They deserve everything they get.
Ramstein rethinks Pride Month events after critics bash ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ for kids
Ramstein, the largest American air base in Germany and headquarters of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, was slated to host local drag queen Stacey Teed at a 30-minute story time event for kids at an on-base library, according to a since-deleted Facebook event.
“Be sure to wear your brightest and most colorful outfits!” the post read.
But the event created a furor. Chief among its opponents was Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who confirmed the Air Force had canceled “Drag Queen Story Time” the same week he wrote to Secretary Frank Kendall demanding the service “immediately cancel this politically divisive event, and take appropriate disciplinary action against all involved in allowing this gross abuse of taxpayer funding to place children in a sexualized environment.”
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/05/27/ramstein-rethinks-pride-month-events-after-critics-bash-drag-queen-story-time-for-kids/
Remember that guy – I think his last name is Bishop – who has been installed at the Pentagon? Darren Beattie (revolver.news) did a whole profile on him and he is as woke as it gets. I’m connecting dots. Good on Rubio for the head shot.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
What, y’all never heard tell of the famous:
State University of New York at Fredonia
Fredonia, NY
https://www.fredonia.edu/academics/colleges-schools/school-music/music
@ eaglesoars:
‘this politically divisive event’. Thats all they could find wrong with the event is its
‘political divisiveness’ ?
I’ll take it of course but me thinks, by the sounds of it, there was plenty of hand wringing before the decision was made to cut it. But cut it was apparently so I won’t complain, not much at least.
If I ever walked into such an event and saw my child present, I don’t know what I would do but I guarantee you it would involve a lengthy prison sentence before all is said and done.
All I can think of when I read these kind of stories is what must be going through the minds of the remaining WWII vets, few as they might be now, witnessing this crap go down in their beloved country ? How could they not ?
Its so sickening. I’m not ignoring the more recent vets and present day service members but ya get my drift (I hope). Of course THEY think of their buddies who they saw fall in battle and must wonder ‘for THIS ?’. I don’t know, wouldn’t be so crass to ask, but you get my drift… I hope.
eaglesoars wrote:
Beat you to it. First time in a long time.
May 27, 2022 8:24 pm
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/05/25/blackout-open/#comment-88649
The rescinding bill had been floating around for a while, kept getting voted down for good reason, then passed on the fourth try.
It’s okay to ask for directions.
https://twitter.com/Shanti__Ananda/status/1484235419092930573
Something to pay attention to
The Left Dominates the Legal System, and They’re Taking Down GOP Election Attorneys en Masse
This year, they launched “The 65 Project” to brazenly accomplish it, named after the 65 lawsuits Trump-affiliated attorneys filed after the election.
The left has developed a powerfully coordinated legal election effort under the leadership of left-wing lawyer Marc Elias.
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Now they’re coming after elected attorneys too. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who has been out on the forefront investigating election fraud, had 12 bar complaints filed against him and his staff by radical activist Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs over election issues. He beat them, but she will just figure out reasons to file more; continue to throw mud until something sticks.
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The State Bar of Texas is going after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, suing him for investigating election fraud in the 2020 election. Paxton asked the U.S. Supreme Court to enjoin Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin for breaking election laws by implementing voting changes during the COVID-19 pandemic without the approval of state legislators. SCOTUS rejected his request 7-2 for lack of standing, a sign that it wasn’t completely without merit. So now the bar is alleging he violated a catch-all, vague rule of professional misconduct prohibiting “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/05/30/the-left-dominates-the-legal-system-and-theyre-taking-down-gop-election-attorneys-en-masse-n2607956
Greenfield gets it
Our Economic Misery Isn’t an Accident, It’s the Plan
All of this is terrible for Biden’s poll numbers, but that’s only a problem for Hunter Biden and whatever Chinese, Ukrainian or American oligarchs are paying his crack bills this week..
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The Left is wearing Biden like a skin suit and will casually discard him when it’s done. That’s why the media is suddenly interested in that “Russian disinformation” about Hunter’s laptop.
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This is not a conspiracy theory. The only assumption being made here is that the Left is achieving its stated goals as the result of a plan rather than a series of accidental coincidences.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/our-economic-misery-isnt-accident-its-plan-daniel-greenfield-0/
Ok, people are counting/keeping track. Tightest estimates based on photos – we have at least 3 bears in the neighborhood.
YIKES!!
Ran errands. Stopped for gas.
$4.89/93 octane.
I nearly fainted. Fortunately I had a 90 cent/gal discount and I only needed 6 gallons.
Posobiec made it to Ukraine
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1531267022436216832
He’s out now and will report at Humanevents.com tonite.
Made it to my third stop. This time, I’m in an RV park in Kanab, Utah. Electricity (which translates to A/C, if it happens to warm up), water, and even wi-fi. I finally get to use my laptop instead of my phone!
Gas here is $4.89 a gallon for 87 octane regular. Food is about convenience store prices, as opposed to airport prices in the Grand Canyon area.
Now I just need to find a place that fills propane tanks nearby.
lobo91 wrote:
its 93f here
eaglesoars wrote:
How come it took the police 4 1/2 hours to book him? Political interference?
SPIT
It appears that someone finally had the ‘balls’ to follow the law in Ca, instead of pulling the forelock, and turning the blind eye, to mix metaphors just a little,
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Lucky you.
Freezing my arse off here!
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
It’s about 70 here at the moment. Not quite as windy as the last couple of days, but still significant. Last night, it got down to 33.
This is definitely the best time of year to visit this area. The North Rim is only open from May 15 to October 15. They get 12 feet of snow on this side per year. The South only gets about 5 feet per year, and is open year round.
In a month, it’ll be over 100 in Bryce and Zion.
eaglesoars wrote:
Correct assumption but incorrect outcome opined Eagles.
The serious Global Warming
gas’ in the atmosphere is not the much touted CO2. It’s the ubiquitous water vapour (AKA clouds). Surprisingly cloud formation is sparked by increased solar storms caused by sunspots, and inflow of ionising particles streaming onto the Earth’s Magnetosphere.
It’s not so much the increases in cloud that results in poor solar cell power generation, it’s the increases in greenhouse gasses (AKA water vapour) that it the main culprit.
Now remember that the Earth is currently in the middle of an ICEAGE where the nominal temperature is many degrees lower that the current mean. When the sun switches off it’s ionising streams and becomes quiet, Earth reverts to the base condition of being a COLD ice covered planet. Not everywhere but certainly in many places that host large populations and where food is grown. This possible long term Solar Minimum as happened about 400 years ago sparked a Little Ice Age that lasted for many decades and killed tens of millions when the world population was relatively much smaller. In other words Earth reverted to the standard of being inside an Ice Age Cycle, where Low Solar activity sparks LOW Cloud formation and a decrease in warming water vapour in the atmosphere that (with CO2 and CH4) that keeps Earth’s atmosphere warm and agriculturally productive.
This approaching (assumed 400 year Solar cycle) COLD will kill billions, not through cold per se, though that will see tens of millions die of cold related causes. The main killer of a COLD cycle will be hunger, as the globe’s food production dives. Still as we all starve the days will be sunny and the solar panels will be churning out power, not that they will be up to the task of keeping us warm, but at least the lights may still be on!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Momma Bear, Daddy Bear and wee little Baby Bear
🙂
JUST ENSURE THAT THE PORRIDGE IS JUSTTTTT RIGHT AND YOU’LL HAVE NO PROBLEMS!
eaglesoars wrote:
It’;s the second order effects that kill billions Eagles.
Sunny and cloudless, with a massive decrease on water vapour will see the ice come back and food supply plunging. Those Brueghel paintings of the denizens in Holland ice skating on their canals, and English Ice Festivals on the Thames River… hid the starvation that haunted Europe!
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/05/they-wont-glow-or-seek-to-know/
They won’t know or seek to glow!
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Queers against Nukes
Marx would be proud!
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Just thinking of all things 2nd. Amendment et al….. and looking for solutions to automatics
Just a thought…
I was watching “The Highwaymen” movie a while back (great movie!), and the FBI sub-agent characters in it were tracking down Bonnie and Clyde.
They realised they needed more firepower to counter the Barrow gang weapons, so went into a local gun shop and purchased a BAR, Thompson sub machine gun and assorted other nasties…..as easy as that!
In light of all the shooting dramas in the US, it got me thinking…the yanks are trying to control these shootings but want to keep the second amendment intact….okay…..so how did they get sub machine guns etc, off the streets without everyone having a conniption fit about the second amendment?
It’s called the National Firearms Act of 1934…..passed by the US Congress to counter Dillinger and Co.
It put extremely high yearly taxes on these types of weapons….about $4,000 in todays money…..gaoling anyone who didn’t comply with tax evasion….the same laws that got Al Capone.
A couple of years later, fully automatic weapons were no longer used.
There’s their solution.
I sent an expert this video a few days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1urPMMB77c
And he responded:
Thanks but reads almost like an apology for Russian incompetence. Arkin in Newsweek is very accurate, if you are prepared to overlook his politics.
Exclusive: Russia’s Air War in Ukraine is a Total Failure, New Data Show – Newsweek
Russia has fired more missiles in the Ukraine war than have been fired by any country in any conflict since WWII—and has shockingly little to show for it. Russia has fired more missiles in the Ukraine war than have been fired by any country in any other conflict since World War II—a record, according to air-warfare experts and new data obtained exclusively by Newsweek, that has failed to pay off for Moscow. “Just think of this terrible figure: 2,154 Russian missiles hit our cities and communities in a little over two months,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week. “The Russian bombing of Ukraine does not cease any day or night.” But the bombing campaign has done little to help win Putin’s war, exposing key lessons about the future of warfare. Two bridges tell the story: one in North Vietnam 50 years ago and one from last week, in the Ukrainian beach resort of Zatoka on the Black Sea coast.
The Ukes have done quite a few good analyses. Here are some of my comments to Arkin responding to his essay:
Some observations:
CEPs of the Russian missiles are way below spec compared to our missiles – if you pay attention to satellite imagery with craters the CEPs are hundreds of feet – like the IMU was running wild and the TERCOM, DSMAC and Glonass were not working;
For the last month we have seen increasing use of exotica – Kh-59M KAZOO variants including anti-ship, Kh-35U Kharpunski ASCM, P-800 Oniks/Yakhont STROBILE ASCM and now demothballed 1970s Kh-22 KITCHEN ASCM used to attack ground targets – the anti-ship missiles are obscenely expensive due to the radar seekers, and in general lack the accuracy for point ground targets flying on midcourse inertial alone. Yesterday ostensibly multiple Kh-22 against battlefield targets in Donbas where hitting anything would be pure dumb luck;
Huge number of mistargeting instances where they hit abandoned or empty warehouses and buildings;
Russian EWSP appears largely ineffective against 1980s Ukrainian S-300PT, S-300PS, S-300V1 and Buk M1 SAMs with SARH seekers – amazing – even with limited upgrades these are dinosaur SAMs;
This Russian air campaign is a benchmark in incompetence.
This is also good but broader: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/05/22/putins-catastrophic-war-has-exposed-russia-third-rate-power/
Russian incompetence and corruption exceeded even my expectations.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Not only are they “dinosaurs,” they’re RUSSIAN dinosaurs.
They can’t defeat their own missiles?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I think China has the same type of corruption. What I read is that the Russia launched with a lot of Hail Mary efforts and most of them failed due to better trained and motivated Ukrainians. That this was has turned into an artillery war being fought in a cauldron close to Donbas where the regular Ukrainian army is mostly surrounded. That is from Russia leaning accounts.
Russia is working on attrition of Ukrainian soldiers.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s the part I was missing. Water vapor WARMS. Thank you!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’d like to see politicians double down on the 2A and a mature gun culture.
Pass a federal law requiring all gun owners be part of an active trained militia at the local level with no state or federal oversight. Basically your voting precinct becomes a voluntary militia.
Grant military and ex military and spouses automatic membership. Require everyone else to qualify. Implement a patriotic training program on mature gun use. Discounts on gun safes.
have an age bracket. .22 and .410 in the 8-13 range. Add shotgun for the 13-25 range. Add all other weapons for the 25-75 age range.
Have a rural vs suburban vs urban distinction. Urban kids go to ranges. Rural kida shoot in the local dump/woods.
NO militia free zones.
Basically put a gun owner through a pressure test. Boot camp weeds out most but not all of the malcontents. Discharge them with a no guns allowed ID.
NO violent felons allowed to own.
NO mentally ill on severe meds allowed to own,
NO one convicted of a meth or fentanyl crime allowed to own
Parents of any kids with guns have to be in the militia.
Allow for the individual right but put some group training pressure on the noobies.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I always look left and right and make a little noise when I leave my RV. Neighbor though has a dog that will go haywire if the bear is near.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Worship the Sun god. The Robots series on netflix makes fun of all the prepper who killed themselves on climate change. Only talking cats survived and they sip martinis and tell Elon Musk jokes.
eaglesoars wrote:
So true. Rinos aren’t helping. I do see a lot of moms on social media that left the Democrats but don’t want to be Republicans. Cernovich isn’t a republican but says the only way to save the country is to vote Republican in the next election or two.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
dystopian. lol
Biden sanctions will probably kill more people than all the wars in the past 20 years.
darkwords wrote:
Nope. Nope. NO! NO! Am I clear. “… SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” means exactly what it says. The founders were quite brilliant; they knew that letting the camel’s nose under the tent with “a few requirements” for gun ownership would soon result in the whole camel getting in and letting only those people acceptable to the regime in charge have some very closely controlled weapons.
The problem in Uvalde is not that an 18 year old got a gun and went on a rampage. The root cause of the problem is a nation that has lost its spiritual values and raises 18 year olds that are capable of going on such rampages. Secondary causes include this whole absurd notion of “gun-free zones” that will “prevent a terrible shooting such as happened at Columbine” when the reality is actually the opposite. Unhinged losers like this 18 year old pick soft targets where they know that they are likely going to be the only armed person on site for quite some time. They usually aren’t smart enough to have an exit plan or are seeking suicide by cop.
The primary answer to this is Christians reaching out to their neighbors and witnessing to them and showing care and compassion. Secondary answers include repealing this absurd gun-free zone legislation and realizing that more laws don’t make for a safer society. So if guns were illegal, the 18 year old couldn’t have gotten one? If people believe that, they must also believe it is impossible to get black market fentanyl, heroin, or crack since those are flat out illegal and banned.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Political interference kept them from dragging it out for 6. Release the drunks when they’re good and hungover.
darkwords wrote:
THAT is what used to happen in Oz back in the day. Kids all joined the Cub (cub scouts) at 7 and learned to be good citizens including working in the community to win badges and make money for scouting in general with ‘bob-a-job’ mowing lawns and washing cars etc. We learned knots and how to make shelters , learned to swim and if there were sea cubs and scouts about then safe boating too, and to gather from nature things to eat that were safe. By 11 we joined the scouts or Sea Scouts or if very lucky Air Scouts, and learned bush craft and adventurous training like caving, climbing and bush walking. At 13 many also joined the Military Cadet Corps at school. I’d say that 80% of the kids at school were in Cadet units while the balance were scouts. About 20% were both scouts AND Cadets.
In the Cadet Corps run by the Australian Army and Navy everyone learned safe weapon handling and had weekly shoots using sub-caliber rifles on 50 meter ranges at most schools. Cadets also attended at least 4 Range Days a year at Rifle Ranges where we fired full caliber weapons, like .303 Lee Enfield Rifles from WWI and WWII, Owen Machine carbines (sub-machine guns) and .303 BREN guns (light section matching guns). Annual Camp was for ALL Cadets and troop trains ran shuttles in our State’s military camp to Singleton Camp. We’d live in 180 lb tents with WWI duckboards, Hay Paliasses and blankets to sleep on and masses feeding and ablution areas. We study minor infantry tactics, covert movement and stalking, camouflage and concealment, navigation and map reading, with sneaky ‘lantern’ stalks at night and plenty of Route Marches in boots with packs and rifles.
The lucky ones at some schools had their own 25 pounder artillery Batteries that they would lay and fire during ‘camp’. We got to fire, 4.2 inch mortars, .303 Medium Vickers Machine Guns as well as BRENS and rifles on the various ranges as well. Safety was paramount and I must have seen the compulsory movies ‘Ammunition Accidents Need Not Happen’ about a gazillion times. New lived under canvass for the 2 weeks with about 5,000 Cadets ‘in camp’ at any one time. There were also exercises to learn the basics of the Attack and Defence as well as tactical movement and basic tactics.Total numbers of Army Cadets in the State of New South Wales was about 80,000. Many would then progress after they left school to the CMF (Citizens’ Military Forces) as partly trained recruits.
We had a ball in the Cadets. Nobody EVER got shot or blown up… ever! Food was pretty basic but VERY filling. Cadets could specialise in everything from combat Medic to Gunner, to Infanteer to Mortar man, Intelligence, Signaller, Assault Pioneer (basic engineering).
Effectively even growing up in a large city like Sydney I spent most of my youth 7-18 living outdoors in the bush on weekends doing adventurous stuff, and during school time balancing schoolwork with cubs, scouts or cadets. There was NO TIME to get into trouble. WE did have our brushes with danger. Caught in two different bushfires and one dodgy climbing incident and a SCUBA diving incident. We however giving the level of exposure we had growing up, were all supremely confident that we could think our way out of any situation we found ourselves in….. and did!
Listening to classical music:
Prince Patridge & the Monroe Tucker Orchestra
How Come My Dog Don’t Bark When You Come ‘Round?
You want a Citizens’ Militia .. THAT was a Citizens’ militia !
AZfederalist wrote:
The psychopath liked to torture small animals, an early behavioral pattern shared by numerous mass murderers.
darkwords wrote:
Russia totally mis-understood the strategic imperatives on war in the Ukraine. Totally!
First Russia could only manage to field about 180,000 troops which was up against 250,000 Ukrainians who had been fighting on and off for 5 years already and were combat hardened. Normally an attacker needs 3-4 to one defender to be successful. The Russians were counting on a collapse of Ukraine forces and overwhelming technological weapon systems to make up for the lack of Russian numbers. That was totally wishful thinking. The Ukrainians were fighting on home territory which gave then a ‘home town’ advantage. It wasn’t;t even that the Russians used Concentration of Forces to full effect to locally over come their lack of numbers deployed on the attack. Russia spread their forces all over the place so that nowhere were they strong enough to prevail.
When it came to advanced weapons, Russian corruption found Russians VERY short of smart systems and they had to rely instead in dumb bombs. Russian weapon stocks were poorly stored and were totally degraded by the time they were hauled out to use.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Why did no one attempt to intervene or stop this. If he was this broken and couldn’t be helped, these are the kinds of people that need to be isolated from society or at least closely monitored. It sounds like he was already ineligible to own firearms based upon existing laws if he had a history of mental illness.
@ AZfederalist:
… and why isn’t the question mark on my keyboard working? [OK, my fingers were dumb and didn’t use it. Twice.]
@ Aussie Infidel:
Now extend this to their nuke and strategic forces and one is faced with rather frightening possibilities
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/iranian-troops-seize-greek-oil-tanker-in-persian-gulf-raw-video/
Lovely.
I wanted to post this earlier but was at CC
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-climate-activist-smashes-cake-mona-lisa-louvre
The left can only destroy.
@ AZfederalist:
Good points. Isolation is one of the causes of these kidsi. This uvalde shooter seems like he was more of a serial killer in the making. His type needs to be ferreted out and contained.
I’m favoring the militarization of society at a local level there. I think the feds are too weak to withstand bad gun PR. See Trudeau in Canada today.
They will dilute the 2A. I would like to ramp it up into full action.
People think the number of guns in the US provided protection from 2A attacks.
If you can get some one to wear a mask for two years as group theater you can also take their gun from them.
The only thing stopping that is power.
The dems are like weeds. You can stop then one days but they will never consider themselves wrong. They will reform and attack again.
Andy Stumpf thinks a gun safe is the one measure most accessible to stop gun crimes and accidents.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I would think that would weed put the malcontents.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Jocko Podcast was saying in urban warfare the Russians will get ripped much worse. They need a 4 to 1 or 10 to 1 advantage. 200 snipers killing one or two Russians a day each will hammer the Russians. And he says Ukraine has well trained snipers.
AZfederalist wrote:
I think look at the parents. They seem to be in denial. There has been enough of this stuff that a parent should be able to act on warning signs. They should have noticed his fixation on guns.
One Of The Largest Egg Factories In US Torched In The Middle Of The Night Amid Outbreak Of Fires In Food Processing Facilities Across The Nation
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/one-largest-egg-factories-us-torched-middle-night-amid-outbreak-fires-food-processing-facilities-across-nation/
That’s the headline. And it illustrates why I don’t trust Gateway Pundit. The headline makes it sound like arson. But if you read the piece, you find this:
The Wright County Sheriff’s Office maintains the fire was likely accidental
@ AZfederalist:
Your point about churches is good. While I am not particularly religious. (Protestant.) I seem to be aware of numerous people who changed their course in life once someone showed them kindness or love from a background of faith.
A practiced personality can assert a spontaneous wisdom that means something to the troubled person.
Something has to be done. This Uvalde incident has set the precedent that, in the future, parents won’t obey the police orders to “stay put.” Instead, some parents may charge into the fray, in an effort to rescue their own children. Logic fails when children are involved.
@ Canoe Convoy:
If I had a child in that school I would have drove my vehicle up to the door and went to their classroom. Unless the police were already in there.
Canoe Convoy wrote:
I wish I knew what you’re trying to say. The parents (as far as I know it was one mother and a Border Patrol Agent) who actually went in and saved their kids.
What is the precedent? That parents will do anything to save their kids?
bed. Nite.
political cartoons
https://freedomtoons.com/
coldwarrior wrote:
Bullet-proof glass for the win.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wikipedia entry for “fake new sites” includes Gateway Pundit for posting stories that were later debunked, despite GP’s subsequent retractions.
Listen to these froggles.
https://twitter.com/tarongazoo/status/1531047829531156480
darkwords wrote:
Ukraine is currently losing 100 men KIA per day and around 2-300 WIA daily. Losing 2500-3000 a week can’t go on forever in a population of just 250,000 combatants. What those sort of casualties mean is that the Ukrainian military will cease to be an active force in about 3 months, even given that returning wounded will prolong the timings a little more.
Russian air activity has a very different focus than Western and especially US Airpower. Russians look to local short term air superiority over their active forces that are engaged in fighting. Western strategic seeks total domination of the airspace and complete Air Superiority over the Battle Space, by bringing to bear overwhelming superior integrated offensive airpower. Russia has local air superiority anywhere it wants it over the Ukraine but only when Russian aircraft are currently over that particular battle space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1urPMMB77c
I found this site to help explain what is actually happening in Ukraine. The reality is that Ukraine is losing the Air War. It can only put up around 4-6 sorties a day against the Russians 200+ sorties per day. Ukrainian airfields are wrecked and can only remain operational for brief periods. Ukrainian aircraft operate from rough airfields in small (4) numbers, and are not being concentrated anymore. Moving logistics from West to East and South is getting more difficult by the day for the Ukrainians. The Slovenian S-300 AAA missiles, donated to Ukraine were destroyed soon after they crossed the Polish border and well before they could be shipped to the Donbas.
Ukraine is running out of manpower and equipment is short. Russia has serious corruption problems and has used almost all of its smart munitions. Russia probably has enough reserves for one final push onto Odessa but not much more. Only a massive influx of up to date Western weapons will save Ukraine now and those weapons will also need Western soldiers to use they effectively. There are already Brit SAS in country covertly as well as US Special Forces and French instructors. They have been lucky so far and their casualty rates are low enough to be hidden. This is not going to be a clean win. If Russia is pushed to the brink with overt Western Forces, they will use tactical nukes on Ukrainian soil as Russian tactical doctrine demands.
Think about that when contemplating an Ukrainian demand for No-Fly Zones.
The only winner in that scenario is China!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The little buggers are counting aeroplanes!
🙂
darkwords wrote:
If you want to see a serious Armed Citizens’ Militia look no further than the Swiss. 30 minutes to react to a national emergency with most of the population fully armed and trained.
Now ask yourself why the Swiss can have rifles and machine guns on every other home and not have crazed murderers stalking their streets and killing their children.
This is about civil society, civilisation, mores, and training.
It’s got nothing to do with guns!
darkwords wrote:
I can remember exercising with 28th Gurkha Brigade on Lan Tau Island in Hong Kong. A life long mate was the CO of Land Forces Military Intelligence and Security at HMS Can’t remember, a 10 story building down by the ferry terminal on Hong Kong side. There was a secure floor sandwiched between two secure floors where all of the debriefs took place. The spooks from the CIA used to borrow it as it was MUCH more secure than their place in Kawloon side. They were all worried about two Motor torpedo boat Regiments of the PLAN ( Peoples’ Liberation Army Navy). Mike my mate told then to put their satellite photos away as there e were only a single boat that was seaworthy and all of the sailors worked as market gardeners to pay their own wages by selling vegetables. Mike know this by confirming the story of the defecting Chief Engineering Officer of the PLAN who was based up the Pearl River.
The two Regiments looked great in satellite photos but they were rotten hulks and their engines were stuffed.
🙂
know = knew
Grrr predictive!!!
@ 4_Sticks:
all fixed.
@ Aussie Infidel:
it’s ok, the azovs have re-branded.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mainstream-media-praises-ukraines-azov-battalion-dropping-nazi-patches-uniform
Wish I could afford to go shopping right now. :/
https://nypost.com/2022/05/30/canada-moves-to-ban-sale-of-handguns-in-sweeping-bill/
Prices and stocks of handguns are going to increase and drop.
AHAHAHAHAHA!! This is an email my sister got from APTA (Alabama Physical Therapy Assoc – she’s a PT)
Colleagues,
APTA Alabama apologizes for the May 25, 2022 message that contained an inaccurate statement. We strive not to make mistakes and to provide only accurate information. George Floyd was not shot, but suffocated, and no one involved with this incident was charged with a hate crime. As an organization made up of diverse members who engage with diverse populations, we do not condone racial violence and continually strive for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
As she says “So damn busy trying to look “woke” that they let their racism show through.”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Interesting. Competition for the Tibetan monks.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I rate it quite a bit above rap music.
Michael Sussman has been acquitted!!??
Why Is the US Military Rationing Meals? They Have a $770 Billion Budget. What’s Going On?
This Memorial week we received information that the men and women on US aircraft carrier, the USS Harry Truman, are receiving food rations.
The USS Harry Truman is not at war. It is not in harm’s way. It is in the Mediterranean Sea near the conflict in Ukraine but not in the Black Sea
Around 5,000 personnel are on board this huge carrier. Reports are coming out that the ship is rationing food. Why is our military doing this? It makes no sense. They are only receiving two meals a day.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/us-military-rationing-meals-700-billion-budget-going/
This is great – and from NBC no less!
Inside a Biden White House adrift
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-white-house-adrift-rcna30121
Biden is rattled by his sinking approval ratings and is looking to regain voters’ confidence that he can provide the sure-handed leadership he promised during the campaign, people close to the president say.
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Multiple people close to the White House said they’ve heard that chief of staff Ron Klain will depart at some point after the midterms, and one has heard him discuss leaving.
Should Klain go, a potential successor is Anita Dunn [Anita Dunn?? oh please oh please oh please…]
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Amid a rolling series of calamities, Biden’s feeling lately is that he just can’t catch a break. “Biden is frustrated. If it’s not one thing, it’s another,” said a person close to the president.
An assumption baked into Biden’s candidacy was that he would preside over a smoothly running administration by dint of his decades of experience in public office. Yet there are signs of managerial breakdowns that have angered both him and his party.
“Catching a break” is not in the POTUS job description, you dolt. Remember ‘the buck stops here’?
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Biden has vented to aides about not getting credit from Americans or the news media for actions he believes have helped the country, particularly on the economy. Unemployment rates have dropped to below 4 percent — pre-pandemic levels — but polling indicates most Americans believe the economy is in bad shape. Biden grouses that Republicans aren’t getting their share of the blame for legislative gridlock in Congress, while he’s repeatedly faulted for not getting his agenda passed.
name one thing. more at the link. It’s a picture of total unawareness and profound stupidity
Free NFT if you want to try a new cryto coin. Probably not worth much. And the company offering it has a restriction on US ownership once it goes public.
You want to have a crypto wallet like Trust Wallet or Coinbase. Needed for Polygon wallet address. You just add polygon to the wallet as something you want to track and then check the Receive button to have your polygon address displayed. On a phone it is 2 clicks Click Polygon. Click Receive. Copy address.
And need a twitter and telegram app to validate. Registration doesn’t currently have a KYC(know your customer) process. It just uses your email. Sign up was about 15 minutes time
https://chains.com/register/?ref=CkvuR
https://cryptoslate.com/press-releases/chains-com-unveils-deep-space-society-a-million-free-unique-nfts-on-polygon/
eaglesoars wrote:
And they think the adults are in charge now. It’s a house of cards. A corruption castle. It appears no one is at the helm. So Biden must be being ruled by a shadow Obama cabal. Recipe for disaster.
eaglesoars wrote:
Vindman must be on board as a consultant. He’s hoarding all the good food.
eaglesoars wrote:
IF so we have passed a threshold. Dems will win at all costs and ignore rules. Republicans will play by the rules and lose at all costs.
darkwords wrote:
The judge let 3 Hillary voters onto the jury and one who has a kid on the same school sports team as Sussman’s kid.
Surprising absolutely nobody (Another Natalie Winters scoop)
White House Supply Chain Advisor Is a World Economic Forum Climate Change Activist Who Worked at Hunter Biden’s Think Tank.
Aleading advisor to President Joe Biden on supply chains is an alum of several World Economic Forum climate change initiatives, who additionally served as a former fellow at a think tank chaired by Hunter Biden.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/05/31/biden-supply-chain-director-is-hunter-biden-linked-wef-alum/
wow
EXCLUSIVE: Pelosi’s multi-millionaire husband Paul killed his 19-year-old brother when he lost control and flipped his sports car in early-morning ‘joyride’ when he was 16-years-old – 65 years before this weekend’s arrest for drunk driving crash
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10871913/Nancy-Pelosis-husband-killed-brother-lost-control-flipped-sports-car-teen.html
Obama armed the Sinaloa cartel as a way to subvert the 2A
Biden armed the Taliban as an accident of an addled mind.
But Iran Contra was a scandal???
I’m in a rural deep Trump county with the county seat being a very blue college town a few hours away. No Bide signs anywhere here. But the local paper this weeks published an op-ed and 4 Letters to the Editor. All advocating for much more serious gun control. The Google AI And MSM consortium are going to blanket the country with the negative effects of the 2A. Need to get that militia process entrenched in the country to where it’s not a vague court interpreted process.
The WEF is going to come out against US guns. 499 of the Fortune 500 businesses are going to quietly support them from the bleachers. It will be appended to their CRT policies. It will be fine if a black gang member has an illegal guns and kills black neighbors. But elsewhere gun ownership will be tied to white supremacy. IF gun owners go tribal and isolate instead of grouping together the 2A will be amended.
I like the mind of Megyn Kelly once she was freed of msm shackles. But she is on her program saying she has no use for the 2A. She influences a lot libs and independents. She is a big supporter of the military.
@ darkwords:
And Biden armed the everyday Ukrainian to protest their country from totalitarians. My point above was supposed to be that the Dems support arming local populaces everywhere except in the United States.
eaglesoars wrote:
Corrupt…. Progs have no boundaries and by default slide in mass mental illness. None of them are competent to rule.
eaglesoars wrote:
Advisor should be @man_integrated. He understands global supply chains. Yesterday he pointed out that China has cornered the trace mineral production facilities. He thinks we need to keep China hands off of US Real Estate. Commercial and residential.
@ darkwords:
400 million guns can be turned into 4 million guns by passing a law restricting ownership. Let the 4 million squeaky wheels keep their guns. Pay everyone else $10,000 with a threat of government oversight. It can be done with the 2A in place and a media blackout and propaganda.
The only thing that stops it are the Trump appointed judges.
It’s not hard to handicap the gun supply chain. Disable mailing of gun stuff. Fund a local effort to buy up ammo. Force all manufacturing into Texas. If a shipping Union goes gun woke then gun sales won’t move. The feds can also slow gun checks down to a crawl.
Only local gun owners will survive the restrictions. Cabela’s might be the only store left to buy guns and ammo.
The reason online gun stuff will be impacted is because that is how the losers buy their stuff. Losers as in the insane violent minds. But the GoP seems to have very little interest in addressing the violent minds and getting ahead of the issue.
coldwarrior wrote:
Nice to know Cold.
Nothing like a wee bit of re-branding and PR to sweep all of that NAZI shit back under the carpet!
🙂
We have a gun range here where a leftist group has organized as Democrats Armed. There is some vague pro Trump group that walked the streets armed a few years ago. But I was never able to tell how organized they were. The media presented them as violent radicals. And the local police had to shoo them off the main street. It was the time when ANTIFA was trying to organize in small towns. I think they gave up.
Meth is still a bigger issue here.
Salmon berries are blooming. Bears are active. Neighboring Blue Jay is mad at me every time I exit the RV. Have had a week of Sunny weather after 6 months of constant rain. I live in a valley just before a 2000 ft rise in the terrain and the ocean dumps water on us every night.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
The NEO NEO Nazi.
darkwords wrote:
he’s a treasure
nap
@ darkwords:
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijing-forced-to-shelve-sweeping-pacific-security-deal_4499477.html
An unusual rebuff for Xi in the Pacific??
One cynical view might have it that the envelopes were not fat enough, first time around.
Another might attribute some of it to the CCP’s tin ear regarding the Chinese rules imposed on media at the local press conferences.
Smacks of arrogance and paternalism – if not racism.
The people of the Pacific islands know exactly what a snow job is.
They have long been charming exponents of the game among themselves.
🙂
There goes the neighbourhood!
Vale NZ
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/karl-du-fresne-new-zealand-s-cultural-upheaval?postId=a8742b38-2675-4884-8e7d-073979212f77&
… as Ardern readies herself for a run for the BIG job as the next Secretary General of the UN!
SPIT
eaglesoars wrote:
Banana republic
Boiling up the crawdads…the shipment from the bayou just got here
darkwords wrote:
Remember “Elie Light”? A lot of almost identical pro-Obama letters to the editor (with local addresses) appeared in many small town papers across the nation. Patterico ID’d him.
darkwords wrote:
And criminals.
As for the rest of us, 3D printers are unregulated.
darkwords wrote:
The Proud Boys got most of the bad press, but except for a couple of rogues, they were defenders, not instigators.
Had an appointment this morning with the Onkydoc prior to infusion. Found out that besides Avastin, I’ve been getting Fluorouracil. Doc said since everything has been stable for so long (2 years) he could reduce the fluoro stuff to 80% with minimal risk and see if it reduces the mental fog. The pump, instead of being the size of an orange, is the size of a cue ball. Very cool.
And no one told me to put a mask on.
@ coldwarrior:
oh, you’re here. Ask Mrs. CW to confirm something please. Is it true the Russian language doesn’t have a word for ‘fun’? (ignore the mail I just sent, thx)
We lost power for 30 minutes in what we were told was a rolling blackout that could last for 12 hrs.
Hubby is now big on getting a humongous honking generator.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
sounds promising!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
no.
China Moves to Buy a Major American News Outlet
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/05/31/china-moves-to-buy-a-major-american-news-outlet-n572890
Forbes
@ eaglesoars:
Got a 4 hour burn on ours last week when utilities replaced the pole just downhill from the house. Life’s little conveniences, love my Generac.
/galt
@ eaglesoars:
…veselo….
весело
fun.
mrs coldwarrior says…yes. there is a word for fun.
@ coldwarrior:
thank you. REading a book “Putin’s Playbook” by Rebekah Koffler. Born, raised, educated in the USSR. Came to the U.S. in her 20s, worked at World Com, went into intel (DIA). She wrote there isn’t.
I’ve met a few Russians in my time and altho they can be a bit more dour than we Americans, when they decide to cut lose, they rival the Aussies. That assertion didn’t make sense to me.
@ eaglesoars:
more bullshit propaganda.
and she knows putin’s mind how?
eaglesoars wrote:
yes, negative people. always negative even if things are normal. will look for the negative in everything and complain endlessly…
until they decide that things are good…then look the hell out.
coldwarrior wrote:
well, their history…..not pretty
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m about a 3rd thru the book. Most of it so far is about how the intel community doesn’t grasp that Putin’s mindset is Russian, not American, and they keep treating the intel they get as tho he thinks as we do. That’s why they call Putin ‘irrational’ but if you look at it as she thinks he does, from a Russian mindset, he’s ENTIRELY rational.
eaglesoars wrote:
Being an Aussie it makes perfect sense Eagles. The main difference between Russians and Aussies is their respective points of view.
Russians tend to look for the negative, and like their weather, can be a bit morose. Russians do however lighten their load by having a truly wonderful ‘black’ humour’ and can make light of even the most dire situation. Aussies on the other hand tend to be nature’s optimists and have a sense of the ridiculous that puts things into perspective. They can see the positive in one’s situation no matter how dire, and make light of it.
This makes Russians and Aussies two sides of the same coin. One light heartedly humorous and optimistic, and the other darkly humorous and pessimistic.
Aussies immediately tend to befriend the stranger and bring him into their circle. Russians tend to take their time befriending the stranger, but once they know you you’re befriended and invited into their circle.
Once inside that circle be it Russian or Aussie, watch out. You can endure severe liver damage as a consequence during the subsequent partying!
🙂
I became a sincere Russophile even though at the same time I was covertly operating against their government.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well DUH!
If the US INTEL Community is doing their job properly there shouldn’t be this cultural blindspot existing at all.
The Professional INTEL operator works his/her whole life suppressing subjective cultural bias and weakness and pushing objectivity to the forefront of his brain. The whole point of intelligence is to learn to look through your enemy’s eyes and hear through your enemy’s ears.
What in hell are these INTEL frauds thinking?
Sheesh!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
They pretty much don’t. USSR/Russia has always referred to the U.S. as “the main enemy” and acted accordingly. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not free the Russian psyche, it just made it feel more vulnerable. Which I find quite understandable. They will never trust us and that just doesn’t compute in the American mindset. Aren’t we always “the good guys”?
No, we’re blithering idiots.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well no I wouldn’t say that….. as I am too much of a gentleman.
I sure think that on occasion however!
🙂
HEH!
@ eaglesoars:
Off to the ‘beach. Ms. dog (AKA Fluffy Bum) has been delivered , her doggy seat fitted and her food stored. Her ‘mummy’ is flat out working two jobs and doing 2/3 of a full time University Course. She gave the required 2 months notice but had to suck it up and begin her new job at TV3 as their Foreign Correspondent Producer ASP. She’s got her final two stories being hatched before Monday next for her university course work. Is doing mornings at University and mid afternoons to 10:30PM at her old job and working 3x 12 hour days Fridays to Sundays as a TV Producer selecting and managing foreign news stories. Hence Ms. Fluffy Bum is following me about just now!
🙂
Got to head off. The beach awaits!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
send pics!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
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I visited Bryce Canyon NP today. Hiking at 9000 feet is hard, even for someone like me who lives at 6500
Yellen: ‘I Was Wrong’ about Inflation, ‘Didn’t Fully Understand’ Supply Bottlenecks
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/05/31/yellen-i-was-wrong-about-inflation-didnt-fully-understand-supply-bottlenecks/
Either she’s lying or she’s too stupid to breathe. In either case, hari kari is in order
@ eaglesoars:
I’m fairly certain that she thought being Treasury Secretary meant she got to swim in a vault full of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck. Nobody told her there would be math.
Reality will not be mocked.
A California appeals court has ruled that bees are “fish” for purposes of the state’s endangered species act. While “commonly understood” that a fish “lives in aquatic environments,” “terrestrial invertebrate[s],” including bumble bees, qualify legally.
https://twitter.com/AjitPai/status/1531720927796420608
This will bite hard
@ eaglesoars:
Seems logical for people who can’t define a woman
HHS Creates New Office of Environmental Justice
An Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) has been created within the Department of Health and Human Services to address health issues related to the climate, HHS announced on Tuesday, The Hill reported.
The OEJ, which will be under the supervision of the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, which itself was launched last August, has plans to especially concentrate on how these issues affect poor and marginalized Americans.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/hhs-office-of-environmental-justice-climate/2022/05/31/id/1072340/
should be fun
@ lobo91:
computer models instead of a trip to the grocery store.
@ eaglesoars:
I loved this bit:
Really? Most Americans believe the economy is in bad shape? Despite a 4% (probably made up number) level? Why ever would Americans believe the economy is in bad shape? I mean, stores are fully stocked with goods whenever they need them. Oh. Wait. OK, gas prices are reasonable and affordable, the same as during the previous administration. Oh. Well, maybe not. Prices are stable and inflation under control. Hmmm, maybe I should try again. Stock market is in good shape and peoples’ retirement funds continue to gain ground. Oh.
Like I said, I’m not sure I believe the 4% number given that all businesses are trying to find people and just can’t find anyone yet workforce participation doesn’t seem to be recovering all that much – it is still well below pre-pandemic levels and was only recovering from the Obama administration during the Trump administration. It is totally absurd that they somehow think that one number indicates the economy is in great shape when there are supply chain shortages, record high gas prices, and inflation rates not seen since the Carter administration. This is an administration (and apparently media since they wrote the piece trying to cover for the administration) that is totally out of touch with reality.
eaglesoars wrote:
Kind of reminds me of that old locker room joke. Why would they buy it when they already have what they want from it for free?
@ AZfederalist:
Sounds like the discussion I’m having at the moment with someone who insists that criminals from Chicago drive to Indiana and buy handguns from FFLs and bring them back to Chicago in order to commit crimes.
Never mind the fact that you can’t buy a handgun in a state other than your legal residence unless you have it shipped to another FFL where you live. He heard it on some left-wing media outlet, so it must be true. Obviously, my years of experience as a firearms instructor don’t give me any expertise on the subject.
lobo91 wrote:
Reality is not even in the same zip code with these folks
lobo91 wrote:
The DC pols used to try that w/Virginia. Altho I don’t recall bringing the FFLs into it.
Well, this is interesting
Perkins Coie has offices in Beijing and Shanghai, specializing in “Intellectual Property” cases , and is partnering with the CCP/PLA-tied Shanghai University.
Any Chinese companies being sued/sanctioned by the US firms/govt for stealing IPs, call Perkins Coie.
And did yinz see that the FBI was working out of a Perkins Coie office?
https://twitter.com/BenTallmadge01/status/1383010583516045314
@ eaglesoars:
If they’re buying them illegally, what difference does it make what state they buy them in? The whole point of the story is that they’re supposedly taking advantage of “lax gun laws” in neighboring states
lobo91 wrote:
Please don’t traumatize them with logic.
That diving bird that comes out of the shadows and seems to land on the ground at the base of the ash tree in the back yard just did it again. completely silent.
I have to figure this out.
but anyhoo…bed, nite.
Feral Irishman found an interesting story from 2014. Key West FL cop killed a suspected criminal, bragged about it, and an extensive cover up followed.
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2022/05/funny-that-i-dont-remember-seeing.html
Link to the story:
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-caught-video-bragging-killed-man/
At the deposition, the accused officer brought his weapons. Testimony video:
https://youtu.be/eAAfXzFBb7s
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The “criminal” was pulled over for reckless driving, and video evidence indicates he complied with officer’s directions.
Police had directed the coroner to cremate the body without autopsy, but he declined. Autopsy revealed the victim had 10 fractured ribs, bruises and abrasions on his wrists.
eaglesoars wrote:
I have my fingers crossed. I need reassurance that it’s ChemoBrain and not my family history of Alzheimer’s. If it’s the former, cognitive stuff shouldn’t get worse, and might improve.
coldwarrior wrote:
Hmmm I quite see your point!
🙂
This is hilarious. Brandon Herrera infiltrated the protesters outside of the NRA convention in Houston to show just how clueless they really are:
@ Aussie Infidel:
Spot the typo.
@ lobo91:
“There’s a story
Of a man named Brady…”
Mighty fine trolling.
Sharyl Attkisson, reporter, talks on how the FBI remoted into her computers and surveilled her during her reporting on Obama corruption. She learned that the FBI planned to download child porn onto her husbands computer so they could arrest him.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/johnson-follows-up-on-unanswered-questions-from-reporters-lawsuit-regarding-obama-administrations-doj
Cleared Hot Podcast Andy Stumpf interviewed MARSOC officer Fred Galvin. He underwent the longest war crimes trial in Marine history.
he has a book out “A few bad men”. The podcasts was a good overview of a persons rise through Marine Special ops.
Basically, he was in a firefight in a village on the Afghans/Pakistani border and the Taliban convinced Gen Mattis to charge them with a My Lai massacre type of crime. All bogus. He names names of the generals who are subverting the Marine Corps.
Bernie Madoff ponzid 60 Billion from investors and went to jail.
Stable Kwon Do of South Korea ponzied 60 Billion from Crypto investors and he was given a second chance to start a new scheme.
Some of these coins are woke. Young kids running them. Their main coin value is that they plant trees with their profits. The main selling point. No mention of making the crypto doing something useful.
https://cryptoslate.com/videos/human-data-income-hudi-believes-your-data-is-yours-to-monetize/
The HUDI coin is a coin that plans to let you store your personal info in a HUDI wallet. Then ok who can access your information for dollars. They are trying to de centralize the market for ad generated revenue and cut Facebook and google out.
99.999 percent of crypto coins are projected to cease to exist in the next 10 years. Bitcoin is coca cola. Ethereum is Pepsi. Both though are built on tech that is now old and they are having a hard time keeping up with tech evolutions.
@ darkwords:
Brave, patriotic, fedgov gestapo.
add this in there as well
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/31/breaking-the-fbi-maintains-a-workspace-including-computer-portal-inside-the-law-firm-of-perkins-coie-the-ramifications-are-significant/
@ coldwarrior:
how long have I been saying this is an inside job, including the so-called ‘hack’ of the DNC computers?
Finally had time to look. Here is the Halderman Report regarding the vulnerability of the Dominion voting machines. SPOILER: wide open!!
It came out months ago but was sealed. somebody leaked it.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20702935-halderman-report-antrim
54 pages
oh, and Hunter sent the Big Guy porn links
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/06/01/umdid-hunter-biden-send-joe-biden-porn-links-n1602556
The progs are losing their hive mind. Tonite at 10 MSNBC is running a special report on it.
‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections
Placing operatives as poll workers and building a “hotline” to friendly attorneys are among the strategies to be deployed in Michigan and other swing states.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758
The plan, as outlined by a Republican National Committee staffer in Michigan, includes utilizing rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, developing a website to connect those workers to local lawyers and establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts.
They honestly thought that when confronted with a stolen election, we’d just roll over.
Now they’re looking a tsunami of pissed off people who are trained and organized. Let the freakout begin
It’s not a lot of money, but these things add up so I don’t want to shell out. But if you’re interested, Matt Walsh’s “What Is A Woman” documentary airs at 8 for Daily Wire members
https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer
@ eaglesoars:
heh.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yezzir
I’m hearing a lot of stuff like “The time line we’re getting from the Texas school shooting doesn’t make sense”. Also, no way he got the money to buy the gun and ammo from a job at Wendy’s. Also, that town is a cartel corridor.
hmmmmmmmm…….
Right on schedule:
HOLY CRAP! Look at this NRA billboard! Srsly, look……
https://twitter.com/MaryCali007/status/1531647577396916225
lobo91 wrote:
Try 16,000 feet Dead Woman’s Pass just South of Machu Pichu, from a standing start at sea level. My daughter spent 4 days on the trail and fell behind all of the acclimatized walkers and she walked alone for a whole afternoon. Little did she know that the guides were keeping an eye on her through binoculars. She threw up once and was almost bowled off the track by rampaging wild Llamas. She clicked a shot of a wild looking Llams’s head as he dashed past thinking it’d be found and would explain her fall into the canyon alongside the track. That walk to 16,000 feet almost killed her she admitted!
@ eaglesoars:
Those have been around for awhile
eaglesoars wrote:
Kinda makes the point!
🙂
Hard to miss that comment!
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’ve been to 14,000 and change. That was enough for me.
I took my Sheltie with me. After about 15 minutes, she started staggering as if she was drunk.
I decided that was our cue to leave.
eaglesoars wrote:
😀
Good lord. Trudeau is legalizing fentanyl?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Meanwhile, the Dems are trying to get the state Bar Associations to disbar all the lawyers who worked with Trump following the 2020 election.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Over the target.
eaglesoars wrote:
That won’t end well. We use it SPARINGLY in the ER, the pt has to be put on O2 and sometimes a cardiac monitor
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep. None of this makes sense. Look for this to start dying a quiet media death just like the Las Vegas shooter incident.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’d say that is pretty effective. Show the libs they are mentally ill.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Thin air. And worse is the llama is spitting at you. I’ve been in Cuzco at a lower elevation there and the breathing was labored. I took a liking the to local solution. Coca Tea.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I dunno I believe there was fraud. And even with this GoP effort I don’t think they are doing enough.
coldwarrior wrote:
My first contact with fentanyl was someone with a legal prescription for fentanyl pain patches. Then they would scrape the fentanyl off and smoke it. I had no clue as to its danger. I was sitting next to someone who was smoking it off aluminum foil.
I had just been invite to the house for a beer and football.
@ darkwords:
I didn’t know you were friends with Hunter Biden
//
Listening to old age advice.
Memory issues: Best solution is 3 days of strength resistance training a week.
Also prevents falls which causes a lot of hip injuries that kill oldsters.
No. 1 one killer of men over 55 is ladders. Fall. Break bones. Lose the active life. then decay.
lobo91 wrote:
I think the meth/fentanyl forms the evil in those people. One guy reminded me of hunter biden.
If what I say it true then Hunter Biden is an evil jerk who lies and steals every chance he gets. And his direction was formed by abuse from his dad.
coldwarrior wrote:
I think it’s not intended to
eaglesoars wrote:
“Just 170 of more than 5,400 Detroit election officials were Republicans in 2020, according to the RNC.”
Yet it’s the GOP committing fraud.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
“Falsely believe?” That’s some objective reporting right there /s
…and some really poor grammatical construction as I think about it.
Again, parsing the statements, “It looks like Trump forces are going directly after the legal system itself and that should concern everyone” makes it sound like Trump supporters are attempting to subvert the legal system which is obviously not true and makes no sense. Trump supporters are attempting to use the legal system to ensure that free, fair, and open elections are held, free of fraud and shenanigans. However, when you look at this from the standpoint of the authors of this piece of propaganda, the statement makes total sense. “Issue One” the euphemistically defined “election watchdog group” is obviously a DNC/Marxist front organization that conducts activities to make sure that left-wing / communist nominees get elected. At this point, in the areas this group operates, the democrats/communists control the election and legal system to ensure only liberal democrats get elected and that any challenges to the fraudulent voting operations in which they engage are suppressed by their sympathizers in the legal system. The fact that the Trump organization is seeking to shine light on this widespread fraud and abuse truly is “going after the legal system” in their world and causing concern to everyone [that matters to them]. Namely themselves and the people they are getting installed in government positions. Thanks
Well, I didn’t see the MSNBC freakout on either the normal channel or on Prime so………..
@ AZfederalist:
The fact that the RNC has announced it and it’s being taken seriously by the dems is a win right there. It forces them to come up with new tactics.
I’d love to see a purge of the quiet corruption in the CA elections. The smoke is there.
my feet hurt. I need to start stretching again. I’ve been very physically active but the kind of thing that requires lifting, shoving, etc. Not walking. I need to loosen up.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The irony is that serious conservatives don’t give a monkey’s butt about the RNC
Oh. I’ve been meaning to ask. I have an android phone and I’ve always used Sprint as my provider. They were bought by T1 Mobile. Now I’ve got a SIM card in the mail and messages telling me I have to swap out the old and install the new but no worries we have all your stuff stored on the cloud.
I hate this crap. Has anyone been thru what is sure to be this nightmare?
eaglesoars wrote:
Was data stored on the SIM card? It’s probably seamless. My Tmobile phone has swapped that little chip you need to access with a paper clip easily. NO service interruption.
darkwords wrote:
how the hell would I know? I don’t even know what it does except it’s the ID of the phone
eaglesoars wrote:
🙂 I think that replacement card is just the paper chip that has the phone number config on it and connects the phone to new cell towers. It will include a pin. Push out the old paper chip and push in the new paper chip. and phone works. Downtime a few minutes. If it doesn’t work you put the old one back in and visit the phone store.
@ darkwords:
from your post to god’s ears.
ok, bedtime. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
When I get their dunning letters in the mail I usually contribute a pithy statement and mail them back.
@ darkwords:
Okay, I have one for you (I think I know the answer but I’ll axe you anyway.)
We have Verizon the Insufferable on our Androids. I have a Samsung Galaxy 8. Verizon says we have to the end of the year to purchase new phones as they’re moving over to 5G and the ones we have will be incompatible.
I’ve been considering jumping to T-Mobile for a while, and now seems to be the time. You think the switch will involve new phones also?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’m on an iPhone with 4G. The towers they rolled out for 5G here have 4G backwards compatibility. I believe T-Mobile will give you a free phone if you sign a 2 year contract.
They show a Galaxy 8 here in their store but it’s labeled 5G. Tmobile has been fine as a service. ATT was also fine. Tmobile has a senior discount plans or free netflix if you get a different plan. I was paying $55 a month for 2 phones on the senior plan(unlimited data). I switched to a no data version for $20 a month last year. I do my data over wifi. For one phone.
I’d jump over if they give you a free phone. Coverage would be the only issue.
Megyn Kelly and Whitney Cummings just ripping on Amber Heard as an evil bitch and the end of the metoo movement.
I followed zero of the trial. Not much interested in actors and actresses unless they are John Wayne or Clint Eastwood. I just listen to these hosts devote time. Amber Heard seems like she has a personality disorder.
darkwords wrote:
Given that the only thing I’d really want coverage for is using the Ways app, and given that I’m no longer commuting anywhere, that probably isn’t a deal killer. I’ll check it out. Tanks.
darkwords wrote:
They both do.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes, it’s seamless. No problem.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/food-fuel-inflation-crises-all-stem-globalist-policies
Good morning. The USDA has gone woke. We’re screwed.
https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2022/06/01/usda-announces-framework-shoring-food-supply-chain-and-transforming
USDA Announces Framework for Shoring Up the Food Supply Chain and Transforming the Food System to Be Fairer, More Competitive, More Resilient
Building a more resilient food supply chain that provides more and better market options for consumers and producers while reducing carbon pollution:
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Creating a fairer food system that combats market dominance and helps producers and consumers gain more power in the marketplace by creating new, more and better local market options:
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Making nutritious food more accessible and affordable for consumers:
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Emphasizing equity
And how are they going to do this?
Up to $300 million in a new Organic Transition Initiative
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Up to $75 million to support urban agriculture.
Organic. With 30% of the yield of non-organic. In the cities.
coldwarrior wrote:
Good intentions? Their intentions are specifically malign and they know exactly what they’re doing
eaglesoars wrote:
Like this
ENGINEERED FAMINE: California diverting water flows into the ocean, depriving rice farmers of necessary irrigation to grow food
https://starvation.news/2022-05-31-engineered-famine-california-deprives-farmers-of-water.html
All across California, residents are being told to scrimp and save water because of historic drought conditions. Meanwhile, state officials are dumping freshwater into the ocean while intentionally depriving rice farmers of the water they need to grow food.
Colusa County in Northern California is the top producer of rice in the Sacramento Valley. The area generates more than 150,000 acres of rice in a normal year – but as you can probably tell by now, 2022 is anything but a normal year.
Officials there say that only a fraction of the usual rice crop will be grown there this year, delivering a massive financial blow to rice farmers, workers and suppliers.
“In April 2022, the water districts serving Colusa County were given their final allocation for the 2022 growing season – 0.4-acre feet per acre,” reads a statement from Colusa County officials.
“This allocation is not enough to support rice production, and estimates show that the Sacramento Valley will fallow 370,000 of 450,000 acres in the Sacramento River Settlement Contractors service area, primarily in Colusa and Glenn Counties. Currently, less than 7,000 acres are estimated to be planted in Colusa County, resulting in a direct financial loss to growers in excess of $270 million.”
Meanwhile, 50 percent of California’s water flows right out into the Pacific Ocean, a policy that was enacted for “environmental” purposes to save the Delta smelt, an “endangered” fish species.
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Not only will there not be enough rice to supply local, state and export needs, but everyone and everything up and down the supply chain will also suffer. This includes equipment suppliers, farm bag producers, mills, aerial applicators, crop dusters, pesticide and fertilizer dealers and ground applicators, among many others.
“The economic devastation is unprecedented,” Tyler added. “People aren’t dying, but businesses and communities are.”
And they’ll let our kids go hungry if we don’t comply
No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/no-free-lunch-biden-admin-will-pull-meal-funding-for-schools-that-dont-comply-with-its-lgbt-agenda/
The Biden administration is requiring schools to comply with its LGBT policies or lose billions in federal funding for school lunches.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service announced in May it will prevent low-income students from participating in its National School Lunch Program if their public school does not adopt the administration’s interpretation of Title IX, which holds that the federal civil rights law’s provision against discrimination based on sex includes designations of sexual orientation and gender identity. The move was originally reported by The Center Square.
Somehow that didn’t show up in the USDA’s new ‘fairer’ ‘equity’ framework
bad day for the US economy.
First, ADP US jobs added flopped (only 128.2k jobs added, the lowest reading under Biden and the massive Federal Reserve stimulus). Much lower than the expected 300k. Second, nonfarrm labor productivity fell in Q1 -7.3%. Third, unit labor costs soared to +12.6%.
M2 Money stock YoY is falling, but remains at 8% YoY.
Here is the summary table for today.
https://confoundedinterest.net/2022/06/02/bad-night-at-the-whiskey-adp-jobs-added-flops-unit-labor-costs-soar-labor-productivity-goes-negative-as-monetary-stimulus-wears-off/
Stupid smart people.
‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy
shut down your nuke plants, quit coal and then wonder wtf just happened.
An arrangement that began as a peacetime opening to a former foe has turned into an instrument of aggression. Germany is now funding Russia’s war. In the first two months after the start of Russia’s assault on Ukraine, Germany is estimated to have paid nearly €8.3bn for Russian energy – money used by Moscow to prop up the rouble and buy the artillery shells firing at Ukrainian positions in Donetsk. In that time, EU countries are estimated to have paid a total of €39bn for Russian energy, more than double the sum they have given to help Ukraine defend itself. The irony is painful. “For thirty years, Germans lectured Ukrainians about fascism,” the historian Timothy Snyder wrote recently. “When fascism actually arrived, Germans funded it, and Ukrainians died fighting it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/germany-dependence-russian-energy-gas-oil-nord-stream
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Here’s one fatboy who’d going down.
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1531977087627563009
eaglesoars wrote:
A chicken in every back yard. Corn stalks in the front. Pigs in the street. Just like the good old days.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Do you remember they tried this is the utterly destroyed areas of Detroit? Community gardens? All the gardens were robbed.
@ eaglesoars:
40 acres and a mule…all over again
@ eaglesoars:
Chop/Chaz worked out well, as did the Happy Farm communes.
This bubble is gonna go KABOOMSKI!! Since we bought the house just over 2 yrs ago the value has increased by $164,500. That’s about 45% I think.
Unsustainable.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
And the cuisine was great!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/fettermans-health-return-campaign-trail-mystery-democrats-grow-nervous-rcna31645
eaglesoars wrote:
Going to drive through there in a few weeks. Will check it out. I’ve thought that area as historically Japanese. And that the rice is a superior quality as to what most of the world produces.
However, Biden Bug farm is probably racking in water calculations.
eaglesoars wrote:
Signs up all over here for $15.50 an hour jobs. $2,400 a month. Rent $1,500, Food $500, Gas $200, Utilities $100 The job after FICA won’t quite cover it. Need 2 jobs 80 hrs a week to get ahead. And that rent is actually hard to find. Have a spouse and kids the rent will be $2,400
eaglesoars wrote:
I used to know what that was. Read that article. Obama initiated this plan. These people. They are all thinking like central planners with equity as their primary goal. That has only led to disasters and starvations.
eaglesoars wrote:
Meanwhile Biden kills 100’s of millions of women and kids as his sanctions disrupt world food markets.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Is election fraud on a massive scale really so implausible? Considering all the dems that want to do away with the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court. Not to mention the dozen or so hoaxes they used to defraud the public interest?
One of my best friends (if you remember Pink Freud) came done with Covid yesterday/today.
Says the pain is beyond anything she’s ever known. Joints feel like they’ve been injected w/poison and not even hydrocodone touches the headache.
darkwords wrote:
They weren’t going to vote for him anyway
coldwarrior wrote:
I wish him and his family well. My father had strokes and it’s very difficult and can be a long, hard road.
POLITICALLY tho? God works in mysterious ways
Freaking NORWAY??
TOO FAR: Norway to track citizens food purchases
It’s happening. Norway is heading towards a complete control society where the state wants to know everything you do.
We have earlier talked about how Norway is a leading country when it comes to digital ID. It is almost a must in order to live modern life. People have to use it for online banking and many other things.
Now it turns out Norway wants even more control over citizens. The State Statistics Central bureau (SSB) in Norway is now demanding to know the food purchases of citizens and track all card payments.
They were central in establishing a “folk register” in Norway after the second world war, which led to people getting a unique ID number called “birth number”. This bureau already knows where people live and how much income they have, but now they also want to track exactly everything that you buy in the grocery store. They want to know every single food item that you buy.
The Norwegian state literally wants to know what you ate for lunch!
This is going too far.
This latest move is actually going pretty far in going towards a control society. We are now going full steam ahead. They have required almost all of the large grocery store chains in Norway to share their receipt data with the state.
They have also required a card terminal company called Nets to share detailed information with the state on all transactions. Some 80% of card payments done in grocery stores in Norway is done via this company.
“A connection with payment transactions done with debit card and grocery store receipts enables SSB [the state statistics bureau] to connect payment transactions and receipts in over 70% of daily grocery shopping” the state run bureau said in a statement on its website.
So imagine that! Norway is going to connect payment details done with card payments and grocery store receipts to figure out exactly what kind of food people are buying, and who is buying it. In other words, Norway will track exactly what kind of food citizens are buying. We are talking about a new level of state control here.
The state will know what you had for breakfast, lunch, dinner, everything. Cola, ham, chicken, steak, you name it. The state will see it all.
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/norway-tracking?s=r
time to take down that grid.
Small Business Payrolls Collapse in New ADP Report for May, Total Employment Result Far Below Expectations
That’s the message within the ADP private sector payroll report released today [DATA HERE], which shows a contraction in small business employment. Economists were looking for private payroll increases in the 300,00 range; but the result was far lower at 128,000. Small businesses lost 91,000 jobs in May. Main Street is in trouble.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/02/small-business-payrolls-collapse-in-new-adp-report-for-may-total-employment-result-far-below-expectations/
Why on earth were economists looking in the 300k range? More stupid smart people. Let’s have less computer models and more trips to the local Safeway
Hey Cold, Aussie,
I have been coming to Krakow, Poland, on-and-off since February. I ran into some of 82nd turd-birds in the street. They told me some dope about how the had to consolidate a lot of the battalions due to lack of unit strength (some at 50%) and that anyone with 19 years in was dropping retirement packets. None of the senior NCOs are re-enlisting.
Word in the EU street amongst the Ukis and Ruskis was that that big fight in Mariupol was about a nuke. NATO advisors were supposedly taken POW after the fall.
I think Vlad is going to get what he wants despite the set-backs. I have spoken with acquaintances with friends on both sides and I surmise the Ukis are being grounded down and do not have much fight left despite all the NATO “gifts.”
Just got back from Zion National Park. Very cool place.
A herd of mountain goats decided to block traffic, though. Apparently, they have the right of way.
Daily Wire was hit with a DDOS attack last night during the premiere of their documentary “What Is a Woman?”
Shocking, I know
lobo91 wrote:
Who is going to argue about it?
I saw an article about a 25 year old woman who approached a bison in Yellowstone. No word about when her funeral is.
@ eaglesoars:
Mountain goats aren’t particularly large, although they do have big horns. And the one that looked like he was in charge was wearing a radio transmitter collar, so running over him probably would be a bad idea. Must be some sort of VIP goat.
Apparently, all the animals at Zion have an attitude problem. There was even a sign outside the visitor center warning of deer attacks. Several people were injured by them last year.
@ eaglesoars:
Opiates don’t work for headaches.
They can give you a headache tho.
@ lobo91:
He’s the dj. It’s a goat rave.
coldwarrior wrote:
He seemed more like the road guard. The problem was that he lost control of the formation. “Goat Crossing” is one thing, but they need a sign that says “Goats Wandering All Over the Damn Place.”
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I’ll add you to the approved list in a few minutes…
Making steaks….
@ lobo91:
Effing privates
@ Buckeye Abroad:
@ coldwarrior:
fixed!
coldwarrior wrote:
Is there some advice I can give her? Right now she wants to die
Biden gives national blubbering address at 7:30 pm. Over/under on who he blames?
eaglesoars wrote:
Everyone but the criminals.
@ eaglesoars:
is she allowed motrin or aleve?
@ coldwarrior:
don’t know.
brilinta is the med shes on – blood oxygen up from 86 to 97
she can take tylanol no aleve ibuprofin
she also uses budesinide inhaler
@ eaglesoars:
brilinta, yep.
no cox-2 inhibitors allowed.
need a blood pressure and temp too
@ coldwarrior:
ok, give a few minutes
@ coldwarrior:
I should also say she has Sturge-Weber syndrome and has had a recent heart attack. 56 years old.
Biden’s stupid speech. Let’s see…ban “high capacity” magazines…raise the age to purchase “assault weapons” to 21…require background checks at gun shows and for online sales (spoiler alert: they already are required)…and, finally, eliminate the 3 day “loophole” that allows sales to go through if the background check isn’t completed.
Yeah, no. That last one in particular is a non-starter. The reason that 3 day “loophole” was put in there in the first place was to keep them from just putting sales off indefinitely.
lobo91 wrote:
Question is if anyone is actually watching this. While these tragedies are a significant concern in their respective locales, I think most people right now are rightly concerned about how they are being impacted by the financial and energy disasters that this administration and the congressional dems have unleashed on the country.
@ AZfederalist:
I should add that I am not saying this to appear callous or indifferent, the thing is, however, that while people may be sympathetic and concerned about solutions, I don’t think anyone thinks that this administration has the solution to any problems, let alone the problem of violent actions. They are letting unvetted people in the southern border, allowing the cartels and coyotes to roam free and this bunch thinks they can solve the problem of mass killings?
AZfederalist wrote:
‘ve
That’s not what they think. They think they can disarm us. They have zero problems with mass murder, see COVID
coldwarrior wrote:
146/79
Temp 97.5
Oxygen 96
Heart rate 66
OPEC+ backs bigger output increase, clearing Saudi Arabia to ramp up oil production to offset Russian shortfalls
OPEC+ and its allies agreed Thursday to increase oil production more than expected, opening the door for Saudi Arabia to ramp up its own output if wartime sanctions force Russia to pump less.
The oil group will boost output by 648,000 barrels a day in July and August, up from its prior monthly increases of about 400,000 bpd. But crude prices reversed earlier losses to turn higher.
confusing
linky
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/saudi-arabia-could-ramp-oil-125712669.html
To Promote Public Safety, Michigan Authorizes Cops To Rob Travelers at Airports
The change represents a substantial reversal of civil forfeiture reforms aimed at protecting innocent property owners.
https://reason.com/2022/06/02/michigan-cops-rob-travelers-airports/
“Traveling with cash is not a crime,” notes Institute for Justice senior attorney Dan Alban. “People regularly fly with large amounts of cash for a wide variety of completely legitimate reasons related to their business or personal finances. Allowing authorities to take air travelers’ cash without a criminal conviction, simply because they have a large sum of money, is a blatant violation of their rights. This will lead to innocent people losing their money and is a massive step in the wrong direction by Michigan lawmakers.”
Wait till they make us all go digital
@ eaglesoars:
Looks good
@ lobo91:
Am I right in thinking that if I went to Texas to buy a gun from a licensed dealer, they’d have to ship it to a Kansas dealer for me to pick it up? In other words I can’t bypass state law here by going somewhere else?
right_wing2 wrote:
Correct. Same thing if you buy one online.
You can only buy handguns in your state of residence. You can buy long guns in the immediately adjacent states, though (and walk out of the store with them).
Note: Those are the federal laws. Some states are more restrictive.
coldwarrior wrote:
thank you!
@ lobo91:
What about so-called weapons of war?
@ right_wing2:
I could buy it for you and put it in your trunk just before you drove home.
@ Possum:
Thanks, but I’m debating people who blame Indiana gun laws for Chicago’s gun problems.
right_wing2 wrote:
Sorry! LOL
Possum wrote:
That would be a felony (although the feds rarely prosecute it)
right_wing2 wrote:
Depends on what a “so-called weapon of war” is
right_wing2 wrote:
The Indiana thing is BS. Someone from Illinois cannot travel to Indiana and legally buy a handgun and bring it back to Illinois. Period. And that’s what are used in the vast majority of the shootings in Chicago. It’s not ARs or AKs.
According to federal law, someone from Illinois could go to Indiana and buy a rifle or shotgun (including an AR or AK) and bring it back, but Illinois law prohibits it. Same thing with California. You can’t even bring ammunition into the state legally.
@ lobo91:
Yeah now they’re talking about straw purchases.
Felony, no?
right_wing2 wrote:
Yup. Which is almost never prosecuted
lobo91 wrote:
Yep, one of the businesses that I do business with for woodturning had to go and post something on their Instagram storyboard for this. I no longer feel any obligation to do business with that business. There are lots of other places I can buy from and will do so. Once a company starts making political statements, I reserve the right to judge whether I want to support that business.
@ lobo91:
That’s one I’d support.
And mixed feelings on red flag laws. I can see those being way too easy to abuse.
right_wing2 wrote:
Yep. They will definitely be abused
@ right_wing2:
I’d support something requiring them to prosecute violations of the existing gun laws. I see no need for any new ones until after they do that
lobo91 wrote:
No horse in this race but I TOTALY agree…
Well, Discovery Plus has decided to start pushing revisionist history as fact now. Every commercial break on Hulu I get an ad for some crap called The Book of Queer that lists a whole bunch of historical figures and then says they were all queer. Most of them were only insinuated as such in recent leftist revisionist history like with Abraham Lincoln. It’s a total bullshit program masquerading as fact. Luckily they’ll stop pushing it once alphabet month is over, unfortunately, they’re going to push it for a whole month.
eaglesoars wrote:
Bloody hell.
Even travelling internationally you can take up to $10,000 without declaring it. If you carry more that $10k then you simply declare it and it’s all good. Crossing an international border without declaring in excess of $10k leads to a fine…. about 1-3% nominally, although you can be fined the whole shebang if customs take a dislike to you!
An associate and myself travelled to Bangkok to bribe a bank employee to gain access to some account details on behalf of a client, that the bank was corruptly withholding from him. The Army Bank of Thailand was holding a very large sum of money and refused all legal approaches to release either the details or the cash! There was an under the table transfer of cash to bank officials to hide the cash from both our client and the NZ Taxation Department.
The plan was to download the dats directly from an off-line machine and print off the details. For this ‘service’ our man inside the Army Bank of Thailand got his $10k. On the day before the data was going to be accessed, somebody talked and the data was transferred to a microfiche stored in the bank’s vaults. The ‘man inside’ was told in no uncertain terms that if he wanted to get paid we needed the data and we didn’t care how tough it was to access. He got caught with his fingers in the ‘cookie jar’, and the guys (actually a Chinese Triad_ who had apparently leaked to the bank decided to also go for the $10 K as a sweetner. We decided to ‘Get the Hell Outta Dodge’ and checked out of the hotel, just as the goon squad arrived. My ‘minder’ a NZSAS heavy doing some moonlighting immediately ‘departed’ for one of the SAS safe houses just over the Laos border, leaving ‘muggins’ to look out for myself. My ‘minder ‘ took the $10k with him for safety, and I left by the freight elevator, phoned the Canadian Embassy where a ‘friendly Mounty mate of mine’ was stationed, doing anti-drug intel gathering, and asked him to escort me to the airport with’ Canak’ heavies in tow, and wait until I was aboard a flight out of Thailand.
Meanwhile my NZSAS ‘escort’ arranged a flight out of Laos, arrived eventually in Auckland with a mixture of his personal walking around money plus the $10k. He got nabbed at the NZ border (he forgot that he was travelling alone now and had MORE than $10k in his pockets) and held. When he had detailed the story of our expedition, the Customs guys broke up laughing, and gave him all of his cash back! Theritacally they could have confiscated the LOT!
🙂
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Yup that’s what I have heard as well Buckeye. The Russians airwar is just about over when it comes to supressing Ukie offensive capability. The Ukies are running short of pilots and planes … and runways. The Russians are still going to be losing aircraft and crews to AAA but there is little opposition from the Ukie air force anymore. Not that you guess from Western news sources!
🙂
Interesting comments about the 82nd!
Hmmmmmmm Without experienced SNCOs the place goes all to hell!
LOL as to the skirmish between the Ukraine and Russia what made me laugh was the statement last week that the USA would not send any rockets, MLRS or missiles to the Ukraine that could reach Russia.
Anyone in authority actually looked at a map?
A 50 cent “bottle rocket” fired from Ukrainian territory could land in Russia.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
There is a law here in the U.S. called ‘civil asset forfeiture’ that allows it to confiscate anything you own. The local law enforcement uses it to line their pockets.
No due process, no nothing.
bed. nite.
3 dead in shooting at church in Ames Ia. jilted boyfriend, ex, and new boyfriend.
Progs in full mass shooter panic and ban all guns.
Today 2nd June London Heathrow airport was closed for take of and landings for 20 minutes.
A few people were very pissed their flights were delayed.
FUCK THEM!
P.S. at around the same time Flightradar24 dot com crashed.
Spectacular.
@ Possum:
To put this into context. Royal Air Force fly past over London.
If you want to hear Matt Walsh describe his film “What is a Woman”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNII_sNGAP0
A few clips. from the Megyn Kelly podcast
@ Possum:
For HRH’s Jubilee?
We are ruled by oppressors.
Biden Administration Considering Proposal to Tax Oil, Gas Windfall Profits
The Biden administration is considering a proposal to tax oil and gas windfall profits to provide a gas subsidy for American consumers struggling with high energy prices, said Bharat Ramamurti, deputy director of the National Economic Council at a panel sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute think tank on June 2.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-administration-considering-proposal-to-tax-oil-gas-windfall-profits_4508568.html
Who are also incredibly stupid. A five year old wouldn’t make this mistake. Take money from an industry, give it to consumers to pay for the product, which now has a higher price the industry imposes to cover the new tax?
@ eaglesoars:
And deduct 40% for overhead
More catastrophies caused by stupid smart people
Current and former energy officials tell CNN they worry that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the wake of years of underinvestment in the energy sector have sent the world careening into a crisis that will rival or even exceed the oil crises of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Unlike those infamous episodes, this one is not contained to oil.
“Now we have an oil crisis, a gas crisis and an electricity crisis at the same time,” Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency watchdog group, told Der Spiegel in an interview published this week. “This energy crisis is much bigger than the oil crises of the 1970s and 1980s. And it will probably last longer.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/business/energy-crisis-inflation/index.html
Yeah, well, you’d probably get a lot more investment if you didn’t impose bullshit regulations. There’s a reason those leases for drilling in Alaska were dropped
@ coldwarrior:
Yep, not many people in the UK complaining about the Monarchy this weekend. Queen gave her subjects Monday off.
Long weekend, lots of street parties and beverages.
@ Possum:
Sorry, I got that wrong. The usual bank holiday normally last Monday in May was moved to yesterday. Today, Friday is also a holiday because of the jubilee.
Monday is a normal day. LOL but after a four day long weekend and the amount of beer the Brits drink I think there will be a lot of sick days taken.
Oh. My. God. Marry me.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/2nd-amendment-mic-drop-this-is-outstanding/
@ eaglesoars: It’s setting the precedent. The next time something like this happens — and, in the US, there will be another time — One or more parents are going to disregard the cops, and charge right in.
@ Possum:
HRH will be saddened by NZs batting today v England.
eaglesoars wrote:
Bingo
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t think she will.
HRH is head of state of both countries.
Her team can’t lose. 🙂
Canoe Convoy wrote:
with guns
These people are fucking worse than useless. Haldeman did the job they were supposed to do and now these cowboys jump on the bandwagon.
CISA Releases Security Advisory on Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite ImageCast X
While these vulnerabilities present risks that should be mitigated as soon as possible, CISA has no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in any elections.
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-activity/2022/06/03/cisa-releases-security-advisory-dominion-voting-systems-democracy
Yeah, it’s not like you’re going to find evidence you refuse to look for
Possum wrote:
Well played, her!
tonight the girl was at THE globe watching one of the bards plays
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/06/03/breaking-dave-mccormick-concedes-to-dr-mehmet-oz-pasen/
rain of lead wrote:
IN ENGLAND!!??
rain of lead wrote:
well now we get to see what OZ is.
eaglesoars wrote:
Something changed there. When i was an election tech these machines were forbidden as being not secure. Somewhere someone convinced a lot of election offices that these bells and whistles were necessary. And budgets increased and elections became more difficult.
Canoe Convoy wrote:
i would go in unless the police where in front of me.
darkwords wrote:
And that probably makes me a target for the police entering from the other side of the building.
Apparently, the fix is in, because the Dems have started saying the quiet parts out loud. Well, actually screaming them:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/03/david-mccormick-concedes-to-mehmet-oz-in-pennsylvania-senate-primary-race/
Vote for a muzz or a commie…
Yeah. Wonr bother.
I wish I could see this combo. Samantha Fish is touring with Devon Allman at the moment, but they’re not playing anywhere nearby:
coldwarrior wrote:
This was suposed to be a good batting wicket.
Who know?
Obviously not the NZ Captain!
It was raining wickets in the face of a bowling attack by BOTH SIDES.
Let’s see if the batsmen can find their song again in the second innings.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Quite !
🙂
HEH
eaglesoars wrote:
yup the og
doing the study abroad program
darkwords wrote:
PAID
hence the increase budgets etc
This isn’t hard
rain of lead wrote:
That is SO fabulous! Tell her ‘reader girl’ must make an appearance here and tell us all about it and the jubilee and everything!
Just. Priceless.
https://instapundit.com/523831/
They have just self-destructed
Mennonite Church USA passes resolution committing to LGBTQ inclusion
Delegates also repealed membership guidelines instructing pastors not to officiate same-sex marriages.
https://religionnews.com/2022/06/02/mennonite-church-usa-passes-resolution-committing-to-lgbtq-inclusion/
And what the hell is going on in Pennsylvania?
Wow so Pennsylvania has a gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, child trans surgery supporter vs a gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, child trans surgery supporter
Huge opening for an independent candidate here
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1532859299994673153
Akshually, it’s a pretty good joke. Also, the left eating its own is always entertaining.
A spokesperson for the Washington Post issued an apology after a writer retweeted a sexist joke and other writers at the news outlet objected vocally on Twitter.
Dave Weigel retweeted a joke about women on Friday and immediately regretted it after he was criticized heavily for joking on Twitter.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/wapo-dave-weigel-sexist-joke
I’m not going to post any excerpt here because it’s disgusting and gross. But it could be a killer to all the young people who think declaring themselves transgender is a political/fashion/virtue statement. The reality is repulsive.
https://iqfy.com/women-smell-trans-inclusivity/
also bed nite
more from the heroic police in texas
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/uvalde-mom-who-broke-into-school-speaks-out/
lobo91 wrote:
Daughter has lethal weaponry that was smuggled in from Nevada.
When she made Sinsei, her Sinsei bought her a set of three katana swords, illegal in CA.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Many (like Alan Turing) are only suspected with little to no evidence to categorize them as such, as if it matters. Then they demonized J. Edgar Hoover for the exact same thing.
I have respect for Baron Von Steuben.
coldwarrior wrote:
From the comments:
“Uvalde Police Department guns FOR SALE. Never fired, some still in the box.”
https://i.redd.it/mp6brlut35391.jpg
eaglesoars wrote:
I went to a protestant service last week at my daughter’s behest. Female pastor. The church was small, but they were able to get bodies in seats. The same rose-colored “new testament”, kumbaya messaging, but a lot lacking regarding scripture. I will stick with the more orthodox.
@ coldwarrior:
Hard to watch. Mrs. Gomez and the border patrol agent Jacob Albarado did what paid cops refused. I noticed the kids were not in the morgue before the democrats immediately started quacking about seizing guns and racism.
I mean.. it isn’t like Pedo Joe and his klan have much success going for them.
@ Aussie Infidel:
There is some disturbing reports from Ft. Bragg. Something like 80 deaths and only 11 from training accidents. They are finding some of them dead in their bunks.
Mystery that.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Navy’s been reporting an increase in suicides, but they seem to be limited to a few ships with questionable command.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I was being facetious. It is under investigation, but they common denominator is that they all gone the experimental gene therapy injection.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That’s my biggest bitch. They are taking insinuation and suspicion and stating it as fact. They are just as bad as the red scare people (though they were actually right) and the queer baiters. But, we’re not allowed to question them because they are “right”.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
I’m running in low gear, but I got that.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
My biggest bitch is who the fuck cares if a dude likes dudes.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
I watched this. She seems credible to me. On instagram Mike the Cop and Officer Tatum are saying her story is not believable and to wait for all the facts to come out. That the police did the right thing in the circumstances.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It’s easy to say now. But not then. People were jailed for homosexual behavior. They were seen as intelligence risks (blackmail). The Duc D’Orleans was untouchable because he was a flaming queen and the brother of the Sun King. His mother dressed him in female clothing from the time he could walk. But he is the exception that proved the rule.
But you know what? The entire subject is just tedious. I don’t give a monkey’s butt what consenting adults do in private. If that’s the most important thing you have to talk/think/do, you are not just boring, you’re an intellectual dead end. People are so much more than sexual orientation. Go scrub a floor.
But if you are going after children, the death penalty applies.
@ darkwords:
“She seems credible to me.”
I as well. Let me elaborate, it was hard to watch as a concerned mother and the border patrol agent had more gumption, grit and fortitude than the lax publicaly paid, heavily armed LEOs who were standing around.
But hey, give up your guns. Those public employees will protect you (when they are not tasing or fining you for non-compliance).
oh dear. The Gerber Baby has died. Ann Turner Cook was 95.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1533224594001256454
@ Buckeye Abroad:
The Dems are actually citing the failure of the Uvalde cops to do anything as “evidence” that having armed security at schools is pointless.
lobo91 wrote:
i don’t make that connection. The lady WV shooter who killed the AR-15 thug at a party proves otherwise. It’s just a manner of training. Someone pointed out that these schools are too innocent. A perp approaching a school should feel an increasing amount of resistance. With the finality being a group of armed people confronting his insanity.
I don’t have a problem gun controlling the insane and labeling them badly.
Harbinger.
The Hamptons summer rental market is facing an unexpected chill as inventory piles up and prices come down
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/30/hamptons-summer-rental-market-beach-house-inventory-is-up-prices-are-down.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar
eaglesoars wrote:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over.
/Seriously, somebody actually wrote that article as a serious piece of research and journalism?
lobo91 wrote:
OK, I don’t know when I entered the Twilight Zone, but I want somebody to show me the way back to the real world. This is all very disturbing because what these people are saying would have been laughed at as the absurd rankings of lunatics as little as 20 years ago.
@ AZfederalist:
*rantings* not *rankings*. Dang auto-cowreck
AZfederalist wrote:
I have no idea what it was intended to be. But it certainly exposes the reality of what the results of being trans is. It’s not pretty.
Right now, I’m in a bad mood. I just think that everything is inexcusably stupid.
eaglesoars wrote:
I have watched the Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth and all that stuff. Remarkable woman. Good on the Brits. The side story is Meghan and Harry. Because – I’ve said this before – if they’re not careful – those two grifters can bring down the monarchy. And if the monarchy goes, so goes the West.
So I watched closely.
It was glorious. Total, utter, complete failure by those two clowns. Markle is a vulture of the first order – she orchestrated an appearance at a memorial for the Uvalde victims that was supposed to look spontaneous. Unfortunately, somebody got video of the camera crew she brought with her – hundreds of miles from her home – being directed by her on how to get the best shot, etc. Not to mention that she had to have taken a private jet to travel the hundreds of miles from her place in CA to TX
And the two of them were frozen out by the British establishment. I’m seeing they came back to the U.S. early but can’t confirm.
Their Netflix deal is going to crash and burn. Too late for Netflix. Too late for them.
@ Possum:
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRP70zMHgo
Paddington Bear has ‘tea with HRH!
🙂
HEH!
Marmalade sandwiches M’am?
🙂
Actually Possum and Eagles, This is full video and is much better!
🙂
HEH
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/18783067/queen-beams-paddington-bear-handbag-jubilee/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnHwJhzPc9k
Jocko and Dan Cnossen. Navy Seal Platoon Commander who lost 2 legs in an IED explosion in Afghanistan.
These stories are hard to listen to. Jocko has a few of them. More than a few.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m pro Queen Elizabeth. Especially in this modern age where tradition is under attack. I’m surprised at Prince Harry. All I can say is the sex must be crazy. His mates must wonder what turned him.
I do not do the prayer thing but if anyone else here does please ask your god to help a friend to us all here.
Possum wrote:
Sure thing.
@ darkwords:
Thank you.
Best I can hope for is to hold her hand again and hope she recognizes me.
@ Possum:
Not hiding this. Calo suffered multiple strokes according to her daughter.
I cannot go see her because I am not close family.
She is not doing well.
@ Possum:
Oh, jeez…
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I spoke too soon. The Kiwi Middle Order has played like champs and the English look beaten as they lapse into their familiar torpor when things go bad for them.
There is still a second innings to play and knowing the UK the weather gods can still put in an appearance and ‘wreck the Kiwi boat’! Still right now with runs to be had in a flat wicket the Kiwis hold the initiative. Now let’s see if they can slip the knife between England’s ribs and finish them off quickly!
🙂
Possum wrote:
Absolutely Possum.
On it!
darkwords wrote:
Harry was deeply involved it the ‘Wounded Warrior Invictus Games’ and our RSA instituted the funding appeal, to get all of the Kiwi athletes to the US for their first games. We supplied all of their kit and arranged a lift via the Aussie RAAF (air Force). Harry was a good guy at the time. Since his association with Markle he’s changed a LOT and his former unit won’t even contact him anymore. The UK Army was Harry’s excuse for being an honest bloke who got on with his military peers. He’s now unapproachable and very paranoid … just like his skanky wife!
Possum wrote:
Thoughts and prayers for Calo. Strokes are awful. 🙁
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/06/05/new-open-thread-6-5-22/
Possum wrote:
oh no!!!!!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
no he wasn’t. Listen to his ex-girlfriends. Whiney, paranoid, totally high maintenance. They ran away. Markle saw her chance and validated it
I feel so sorry for Harry — IN almost every single video shown with his wife, he looks like a broken man.