Independence Day
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Thx Bunk! We just got home.
Happy Intendance Day to y’all!!
Freakin’ smell check (lol) !
Happy Independence Day to y’all !!
Earliest known recording of The Star Spangled Banner, 1898.
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/star-spangled-banner-the-diamond-four-ca-1898.mp3
@ 4_Sticks:
i thot u makn a funy
WWI letter envelope decorated by my great-grandfather and sent to my great uncle stationed in France.
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/wwi-4th-of-july.png
We have been commanded to celebrate diversity. Diversity is our strength they say.
Well, now we have 50 diverse ways of looking at abortion and its laws and guidelines!
Diversity!
Celebrate it.
Lol
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I wish I knew a way to edit here. I’m old, make typos by the tons. At FB, YT etc., no because I can edit immediately after posting. As far as I know, this is not an option here on WP, right ?
The worst part is that I can stare right at an error and not see it. Refresh the page and voilà, it stands right out. Oh well …
Watched and old b/w movie from 1959: ‘The Devil’s Disciple’ (1959). Found it on a web site with a lot of free old movies that ya can’t find elsewhere:
https://archive.org/
Apparently its a gov’t repository for all sorts of media, public domain stuff, so its free. If ya start looking around theres all sorts of neat things to read/hear/watch.
I’m trying to locate two more movies right now. They’re movies I watched around the 4th back when I was a kid:
‘All That Money Can Buy” (1941) I’ve always known it as “The Devil and Daniel Webster”. Used to get spooked by ‘Mr. Scratch’ (Walter Huston) when I was a kid.
and:
‘The Howards of Virginia’ (1940)
Not having any luck.
Any old movie buffs here ?
Not seeing any errors/typos so I’m gonna go ahead and hit ‘Sbmit Cement’…
yes, thats a joke.
So far, I’ve watched 7 of the 8 episodes of The Terminal List. It’s relatively faithful to the book.
I’m not sure about the actress they cast as Katie, only because those who have read the later books know that she ends up as a love interest for Reece, and I really can’t see it at the moment.
Personally, I think I would have gone with someone like Emily VanCamp.
4_Sticks wrote:
WP doesn’t allow it unless you can access the dashboard.
Kate Beckinsale looked ravishing on Monday as she hit the red carpet at the National Film Awards in London.
The 48-year-old posed up a storm in a plunging silver gown as she was awarded the best actress award for her role in Jolt.
*** hmmm i watched this movie and can barely remember it. I do remember thinking the writing and acting were bad.
@ darkwords:
Same here. It got a 5.6 score on IMDb
Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry lead the celebrities ‘CANCELING’ Fourth of July ‘due to a shortage of independence’ after Roe v. Wade was overturned
lobo91 wrote:
That caught me off guard also. Should have cast Katie Pavlich.
lobo91 wrote:
IT would have been much better as a comedy.
lobo91 wrote:
I just started episode one. For some reason I had her as a blue eyed blonde. She looks almost Japanese
darkwords wrote:
Katie Pavlich is who I basically see when I read the books, but she’s not an actress.
I think Emily Van Camp would have been a good substitute. And she has experience doing action roles, with all her MCU stuff.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s how she’s described in the books, yes.
They changed her character to be the daughter of a Chinese dissident in the show. She talks about it in Episode 7.
@ lobo91:
well that sucks
Looks like they caught the shooter from the parade
@ lobo91:
I saw a pic. Soi boy loser
@ eaglesoars:
Yup
@ lobo91:
He had some interesting twitter followers
Pelosi, Clinton, City of NY, Biden, Fox News
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/07/04/concerning-social-media-of-person-of-interest-in-highland-park-mass-shooting-n588797
Which, to my mind, means the whole ‘follower’ thing is meaningless
No parents today. In fact, no visits from relatives, at all — not even a phone call. It rained, and I baked some bread.
This is very cool. We can see the Town of Farragut fireworks from our deck.
Happy
@ Canoe Convoy:
\You ok?
eaglesoars wrote:
The birds ARE NOT HAPPY
HAR!! I did not know this, I have zero memory of it
Happy 10-year anniversary to the greatest fireworks show in history, when San Diego accidentally shot off 7,000 fireworks at once.
video at the link. Epic
https://instapundit.com/529587/
sounds like a war zone. A lot of private stuff going up including the next door chicken neighbors. But the girls are fine, so it’s ok.
Back to Terminal List.
Is it just me or does that look like a really nice house for a military family/SEAL? I remember the housing at Ft Bragg and it was perfectly ok, but not this………..maybe I didn’t see the right part of the ‘hood.
eaglesoars wrote:
Remember, he’s a Lt. Commander (O-4). And it’s not base housing. It’s in Coronado.
They actually show them buying it in a flashback in a later episode. It was a “fixer-upper” when they got it.
@ darkwords:
@ darkwords:
I’m all for freedom of speech of course, but may the days return when saying such a thing is a career killer.
And sooner than later, the sooner the better.
Maybe we should rename the day, or better yet, create a new holiday, call it “Turn Over Day”.
Its the day when all the Forefathers collectively and simultaneously turn over in their graves in reaction to the shitheads of the past year.
I’ve already started work on a tin wind up that will commemorate the day – it will be a hoot for the children ! ‘Collect all 34 !!’ (I’m in talks right now with Mattel, Marx and REMCO).
Anyone here old enough to remem … ahhh, ok, probably not.
4_Sticks wrote:
I’m old enough to notice that my memory seems to be having problems so you’re screwed either way.
What was it you wanted me to remember.
Alrighty now, just to show that I’m not ALL curmudgeon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkmA61djaDY
@ eaglesoars:
The days of Mattel, Marx and REMCO (commercials) !
I know, I know, smelly hippies, but …
@ 4_Sticks:
Well it is “Happy Treason Day” if you are in England.
@ eaglesoars:
Weeeeell ? Fall sleep ? Forget the question already ?
Just remembered the rolls are in the oven ? Can’t find yer bi-focaled ‘Granny Glasses’, Adult Attends feeling a little ‘damp-ish’ Huh, huh ??
4_Sticks wrote:
I have no memory of REMCO, Mattel and Marx yes
Tim Kennedy MMA. You can’t get a marshmallow in shape in a season of TV. It’s a marshmallow, just toast it over a fire…
He was on a military game show trying to get people in physical shape.
@ darkwords:
I NEVER knew that !! Or, if I did, I forgot that I did.
Where did eagle go – soaring maybe ? After dark ?
They have headlights ? Watch for those stray bottle rockets ….
@ eaglesoars:
There you are. So, you’re likely in my age bracket then.
@ eaglesoars:
You’ve likely lost 1/3 of your long term memory then.
Remco was just another of the big toy makers back in the 50s / 60s. I spelled it all in caps ’cause thats the way they stamped it on their toys. They made a few dolls but most of their stuff was for boys. Oh MY, did I just say … ?
@ eaglesoars:
Without getting too specific did you graduate HS sometime in the 60s, 70s or 80s ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv_gXt1cCI8
@ eaglesoars: Yeah, I’m OK. I regret that I have to return to work tomorrow, but that’s something I gotta do if I want to get the paid holiday/
4_Sticks wrote:
no biggie. I was born in 1952, I’m 70 yrs old, graduated high school in 1970
If REMCO made toys just for boys, I would have had little reason to encounter their products. I did have toy guns but at the time, that was not considered gender-specific. We ALL had those little pistols that shot those cap things. Cap guns I think they were called. Red strips with black dots that went CRACK! My parents had pics of my sister and me dressed up as little cowgirls pointing our guns at the camera. Have no idea where those pics are, I think my sister may have them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/missouri/comments/vrccq5/missouri_man_makes_roman_candle_gatling_gun/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Smoked/grilled $26 KC strips the better half paid a total of 1.99 for. She got me a bottle of Kilbeggan’s Irish whiskey for our anniversary. I’m taking her to her favorite jewelry/pawn place tomorrow to pick something out.
Canoe Convoy wrote:
I remember that feeling. Being retired – at least so far – is fantastic. But it took a LOT of planning. And there is no guarantee that it will continue as is. Quite the contrary actually
right_wing2 wrote:
WHAT a great shopping idea! I’ll have to tell Hubby!
Something else I didn’t know. Delaware? Srsly?
Has Biden—who never met a Southern racist Democrat (George Wallace, Robert Byrd) he didn’t want to buddy up with—ever acknowledged and apologized for his useless state’s rancid history? Fat chance; instead, throughout his hacktastic political career, and in earlier delusions of running for president, he explicitly identified his state with the South during the Civil War as he pandered for support:
The same story went to quote a presidential primary campaign speech Biden had given in Alabama in which he said “we (Delawareans) were on the South’s side in the Civil War.”
Leave it to the Democrats, the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition that started the Civil War, to nominate and elect a senile dinosaur from the last human-bondage state in the Union.
https://instapundit.com/529536/
ok, off for the nite, bye
Survey reveals that 2 in 3 young adults don’t know who America declared its independence from in 1776!
https://www.studyfinds.org/americans-cant-spell-independence/
Well there ya go. And I didn’t even go looking for it, it was just there on a page of various news stories/links.
Mattel, here I come !!
@ eaglesoars:
She loves this place. Asian family runs it, they do good work on repairs, reasonable price and fast.
Finished The Terminal List. They changed the way some things happened in the ending, but it ends up the same, with Reece alone on a sailboat heading to Africa.
I give it a solid 9/10.
Still don’t see the Chinese chick becoming a love interest in the future, though. That may end up being a significant deviation from the books.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK_XLFOm_I
3 and a half hours of Shawn Ryan talking to Erik Prince. Lot of business stuff.
Said once the saluters arrived in Afghanistan that was when the Taliban started to win.
Also, the Obama state department was the biggest block to US success in wars.
Hearing that the Dutch police tear gassed the farmers last night. Looks like the gov’t may be positioning to confiscate some farm land.
Coinky dink thingy – hearing Russia is offering free farm land
darkwords wrote:
It’s still the Obama State Dept. See Victoria Nuland, et al
Civil war in the Netherlands
Farmers have blocked roads, distribution centers getting emptied, no milk/eggs on the store shelves and…
The Dutch gov’t told farmers that their farms will be closed down to meet some climate change target for nitrogen. Dutch farmers export a lot of meat & other foods. Seems we’re supposed to starve to meet some climate change target. Meanwhile, the farmers (Boer) are fighting back.
.
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Dutch farmers set fire to the entrance to the Epe town hall after politicians’ decision to close dozens of farms and cattle ranches to reduce nitrogen to comply with absurd EU regulations on nitrogen pollution.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/holy-shite-do-not-mess-with-dutch-farmers/
eaglesoars wrote:
the offered it to farmers from south africa and zimabawe as well.
@ coldwarrior:
It’s not clear to me if he’s offering it to just anyone or if there’s a targeted cohort. If any Dutch do take him up on it, he’s lucky. The Dutch are a grim people (as evidenced by my family) but they’re probably the best farmers in the world. American farmers are quite good but in general they’ve started on 3rd base. The Dutch started literally under water.
post lunch nap time.
I love being old and retired.
C’mon guys, seasonally recurring mosquito born illness ain’t gonna cut it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/us-health-officials-warn-rise-mosquito-borne-viruses-including-west-nile-zika-virus/
This just keeps happening
Russian executive linked to Putin energy giant Gazprom is found shot dead in his swimming pool in latest mystery death of country’s tycoons
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10983437/Russian-executive-linked-energy-giant-Gazprom-shot-dead.html
@ eaglesoars:
2nd???
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Well, if measured in currency, probably, yes. Obviously, they aren’t going to be big wheat exporters, but horticulture and meat – big time. We’re talking probably 100-110 BILLION euros last year. When I was keeping up with agriculture in the EU I think it was around 65 billion. Believe me, they are SERIOUSLY good farmers. When I was learning their dairy industry I was really impressed by their inventiveness.
@ eaglesoars:
hey y’all
yeah, this dutch farmer stuff is really snowballing
media is trying not to talk about it
@ rain of lead:
Hi ya!
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t doubt that, but I didn’t think they would have the land area to make that claim. On the other hand, most of the world’s nations keep what they grow/raise just to feed themselves.
(I’m going back to discussing parking bollard spacing and colors with three designers. One just informed me that 6-inch concrete block weighs less than 8-inch block.)
Yeah, you’re first for the blindfold
Canadians will be required to get a Covid shot every nine months for the foreseeable future, says Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos. Previous definitions of “fully vaccinated” made no sense, he told reporters.
“Nine months is very clear and will help people understand why ‘up to date’ is the right way to think about vaccination now,” said Duclos.
“‘Fully vaccinated’ makes no sense now. It’s about ‘up to date.’ So am I up to date in my vaccination? Have I received a vaccination in the last nine months?”
Duclos previously called for the provinces to make vaccinations mandatory and when asked by reporters if mandates would return this fall, he replied “We must continue to fight against Covid.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/canadas-health-minister-you-will-never-be-fully-vaxxed
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
When you consider how much land they use for flowers, they have plenty
When I was a little girl I was fascinated by the Netherlands. It was those pictures of the windmills, tulips, etc. (Tulips are still my favorite flower). When I grew up, I was going to move there and wear those wooden shoes and ice skate on the canals. Then when I was about 8, I figured out that Daddy – my hero – had actually bombed the place.
I was OUTRAGED!! I didn’t speak to him for about a week except to yell at him and tell him he was a bad person. YOU ARE A BAD PERSON AND I’M NOT TALKING TO YOU!! He thought it was hilarious.
Ken Cuccinelli noticed something in the Constitution that nobody seems to have noticed.
States have the right to defend themselves from invasion. Gov Abbott has apparently declared invasion status and started picking people up and deporting them. As he is not letting them come in – immigrate – it’s not interfering with Border Patrol
@ eaglesoars:
Lol
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Well!
Good to know!
@ eaglesoars:
The left would love to see America break apart. It’s their goal.
Hence, one of the reasons for all of the ridiculousness from them.
yeah , not gonna end well
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/breaking-ups-cuts-off-gun-retailers-for-selling-ghost-guns-threatens-to-seize-and-destroys-in-transit-packages/
darkwords wrote:
Actually England ‘got over’ the whole 1776 thingie about 150 years ago and then forgot all about it.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
… and THAT goes twice for Texas which was a Republic in its own rightY!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
NO. Misunderstanding on my part. Abbott has not done that after being begged to do so, so now the individual counties are doing it themselves.
eaglesoars wrote:
Because he thinks he’s gonna run for POTUS and doesn’t want to offend anybody.
What a freaking douche. I saw something about Youngkin, Gov Virginia prepping for a POTUS run. Predictable. Carlyle/Bush dickless wonder. Also saw a Fox poll re Trump showing only a 44% approval and over 50% disapproval among ‘Republicans’, which I don’t believe. I could be wrong. It’s been known to happen
A Virginia school district is prohibiting teachers from consulting parents when students as young as kindergarten-age switch genders at school.
Fairfax County Public Schools is instructing teachers and administrators to forgo parents’ permission when a student requests to use a bathroom or locker room associated with his or her so-called gender identity, according to screenshots of a mandatory faculty training module obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The district will also allow schoolchildren without parental consent to change their names and on its virtual learning portal “identify as male, female, or nonbinary.” Teachers could not proceed with the “Supporting Gender-Expansive and Transgender Youth” training until they checked the correct boxes, regardless of their personal beliefs.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/virginia-school-district-prohibits-teachers-from-contacting-parents-when-students-change-gender/
Asra Nomani is going to be wearing these people as skin suits
Erik Prince. The Chinese moved into the South China Sea because they perceived Obama as vapid.
Erik Prince. Taiwan will have to withstand the initial blow from Chinese and work 1-2 million people into urban resistance.
100 percent of Chinese generals bought their commissions.
@ darkwords:
If Taiwan thinks Biden is going to ride to the rescue, it’s dreaming. China gives the Big Guy a fat 10%.
Oh, did I mention this? If the Dems lose the House in Nov guess who gets named Ambassador to Italy?
Pelosi
Pelosi Vita: Speaker, DUI hubby cavort at Italian resort owned by Andrea Bocelli
https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/pelosi-dui-hubby-cavort-at-italian-resort-owned-by-andrea-bocelli/
BREAKING NEWS: POLICE OPEN FIRE AT DUTCH FARMERS DRIVING TRACTORS DURING COW GAS RULES PROTESTS, “THIS IS GOING WRONG”
https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2022/07/breaking-news-police-open-fire-at-dutch.html
Here it is, the Declaration of Local State Of Disaster by Kinney County.
“The County Judge of Kinney County, TX, has determined that extraordinary measures must be taken to ensure the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of county residents”
https://mobile.twitter.com/MattRoy_TV/status/1544401102988345350
German industry is grinding to a halt
For the first time in a generation, the country has an export deficit
Germany reports its first monthly trade deficit since 1991
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/german-industry-is-grinding-to-a-halt
Rep. Gaetz introduces bill to ban IRS from acquiring ammunition
The IRS has reportedly spent $725,000 this year on ammo.
Along with fellow Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), and Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Gaetz is pushing the “Disarm the IRS Act,” which would prohibit the IRS from acquiring (by purchase or otherwise) any ammunition.
The bill arrives following Gaetz’s discovery that this year alone the IRS has spent $725,000 on ammunition. Odd timing, he says, considering the nationwide shortage of ammo and Biden administration’s stated animosity toward gun rights.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/rep-gaetz-introduces-bill-ban-irs-acquiring-ammunition
my sympathy meter is pegged at – negative eleventy
Eric Adams aide mugged at gunpoint told crooks: ‘You don’t want to do this. I work for the mayor’
https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/eric-adams-aide-mugged-at-gunpoint-in-nyc-sources/
But in a show of utter contempt, they ignored the warning, with one man lifting his shirt to display the butt of a pistol tucked into his pants, the source said.
The incident began when the victim — Manhattan resident Christopher Baugh, 33 — refused to turn over his wallet and cellphone, telling the robbers, “Get out of my way,” cops said.
Instead, one stuck his leg out behind Baugh and the other pushed him to the ground.
After he failed to convince them to leave him alone, they rifled his pockets and swiped his city-issued phone and a wallet holding five credit cards, cops said.
*snort*
eaglesoars wrote:
Matthew 18: 6
Heck I’d even raise funds to purchase millstones and charter a ship to get off the Continental Shelf to deposit this garbage over the side.
How come these evil assholes never get ‘disappeared’? It’s been a source of wonder how they manage to survive for so long.
The European insect sector welcomes the sixth #EFSA opinion on #edibleinsects
The @EFSA_EU confirmed the safety of frozen and freeze-dried formulations of the lesser #mealworm (Alphitobius diaperinus larvae), marking another achievement for the edible #insect sector.
https://twitter.com/IPIFF_org/status/1543916720011841537
The twitter bio for IPIFF.org: #IPIFF represents the interests of the #insect production sector (#food & #feed) towards #EU policy makers, European stakeholders & citizens.
Out of Brussels
eaglesoars wrote:
The reason that the muggers didn’t absolutely destroy this asshole, was that they probably felt that working for the Mayor’s Office was retribution enough
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That takes too long. Boot their asses out of a chopper over the Gulf of Mexico
eaglesoars wrote:
That’d work too. Go with the high tech solution!
🙂
By the bye. Did you see the Irish vs. All Blacks rugby last weekend?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjTFDJXo2U
Not a bad game and it kept the ABs …honest ….
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Little Chloe is now 6 and is visiting Poppy…. with her dad!
They arrived from Melbourne last weekend.
🙂
We are currently painting a collection of butterflies to hang from everyone’s ‘frig doors!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ Aussie Infidel:
Well, that might explain WHY they lost the war with the American colonies in 1783 !!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
No. No. She. Is. Not. 6. I remember when she was born. It was like 3 months ago.
Foreign-Born MS-13 Members Butchered Teenagers in a Park in the Deep Blue DC Suburbs
The victims, just 17 and 14 years old, were butchered with a machete and pickaxe before being tossed into shallow graves; their killers sent video back to El Salvador in hopes of impressing gang bosses
Five foreign-born members of MS-13 have been convicted of murdering two teenage boys in the ultra-wealthy, deep blue DC suburbs of Fairfax County, Virginia. Gang members lured the boys to a park before restaining them, killing them, and chopping them up with a machete and pickaxe. They even recorded footage of the brutal murders on a cell phone camera so that videos could be sent back to El Salvador to impress MS-13 bosses, who they hoped would give them promotions within the gang.
“On the night of August 28, 2016, the gang lured E.E.E.M. to Holmes Run Stream Valley Park in Fairfax County under the pretense that there was going to be a gang meeting there. Instead, in a wooded area of the park, gang members restrained, attacked, and killed E.E.E.M., stabbing and chopping him more than 100 times with knives, a machete, and a pickaxe. Afterwards, the gang broke one of E.E.E.M.’s legs so that his body would fit into the pre-dug hole that was nearby.”
https://nationalfile.com/foreign-born-ms-13-members-butchered-teenagers-in-a-park-in-the-deep-blue-dc-suburbs/
Fairfax County Sheriff declared the county a ‘sanctuary’. Holmes Run Park is 5 miles from our house there. If that.
Holmes Run Park is a favorite place for MS-13 to stash their victims bodies. Which are almost always dismembered.
Has anyone heard a story about Mitch McConnell meeting with Fox News honchos to rein in Tucker Carlson? Hubby said he heard something.
In case you were wondering, it was Debra Messing that got Joe Biden elected.
Debra Messing was fed up. The former “Will & Grace” star was among dozens of celebrity Democratic supporters and activists who joined a call with White House aides last Monday to discuss the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
The mood was fatalistic, according to three people on the call, which was also co-organized by the advocacy group Build Back Better Together.
Messing said she’d gotten Joe Biden elected and wanted to know why she was being asked to do anything at all, yelling that there didn’t even seem a point to voting. Others wondered why the call was happening.
That afternoon, participants received a follow-up email with a list of basic talking points and suggestions of Biden speech clips to share on TikTok.
https://instapundit.com/529792/
so no voter fraud then
eaglesoars wrote:
lol
And just like THAT…
Environmentalists Stunned by EU’s Parliament’s Decision That Nuclear and Gas Power is Now ‘Green Energy’
https://trendingpolitics.com/environmentalists-stunned-by-eus-parliaments-decision-that-nuclear-and-gas-power-is-now-green-energy-knab/?utm_source=ElWiz
When you’re staring into the abyss and realize the abyss is staring right back
Well, alrighty then……….
Alisyn Camerota compares gun background checks to being a waitress
“I used to be a waitress. And for a while we were told to run up the alcohol tab…then the law changed.”
Steve Moore: “That’s a little different though.”
Camerota: “None of these analogies are perfect, Steve.”
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1544389040283308032
Sloth-Slow? Fed Expected To Raise Target Rate 75 Basis Points Today As Recession Fears Grow (Trying To Force A Recession??)
https://confoundedinterest.net/2022/07/06/sloth-slow-fed-expected-to-raise-target-rate-75-basis-points-today-as-recession-fears-grow-trying-to-force-a-recession/
Police flagged Highland Park shooter ‘clear and present danger’ in 2019; he later cleared 4 background checks
Crimo successfully cleared four firearm purchase background checks between 2020 and 2021
https://www.foxnews.com/us/highland-park-shooter-flagged-clear-present-danger-2019?intcmp=tw_fnc
https://twitter.com/williamcacusso/status/1544689018134208513
Friend in the Netherlands says situation is wild. Some are already talking of going to war with the government! Apparently the fisheries have entered the fray and have blocked several ports. A lot of talk among farmers about “great reset” and “WEF”!
My friend says that the police shooting at a tractor has made waves in social media and people are very angry
(If you didn’t see yet, a police officer shot with intention to kill a farmer driving his tractor)
oh of course……….
https://twitter.com/lone_rides/status/1544698498683224065
Hard truth time, kiddies.
Those public services like garbage and water and sewer and streets and all that stuff that makes your life livable?
Yeah, it’s gonna get dicey up in hurr.
Chassis that those services use (Freightliner, Peterbilt, etc)…they’re out a year for orders.
Meaning that if your local solid waste picker-upper has a garbage truck that breaks, either they get lucky and find one in someone’s stock OR they’re waiting a year.
They’re doing road work and need a dump truck?
That’s a year.
Need a new street sweeper?
That’s a year.
more at the link. This is why I replaced our perfectly good, but getting a bit old, dishwasher a few months ago. And why we installed a new HVAC system and new water heater. Because waiting until they croak meant going w/o for at least a year. It took 7 months to get a new stove in here.
more on the Netherlands
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/holland-on-the-brink-of-civil-war
On Monday farmers appeared at the home of the Nature and Nitrogen Minister Van der Wal-Zeggelink. Hay was burned, fireworks were set off and a police car was pushed out of the way so tractors could enter the street. Farmers also emptied a tanker containing slurried manure into the roadway. Police were apparently unable to disperse the assembled farmers due to the size of the protest.
Farmers also protested in the Netherlands’ political capital, The Hague, where two cows were brought to participate in the protests as well. Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the actions “unacceptable and out of proportion” and condemned the farmers’ actions. He has characterized the massive protests as the actions of a small minority and demanded they stop. His comments have been echoed by other members of his administration.
Last night things escalated further. Dutch police fired shots at protesting farmers. According to the police they were being threatened by the farmers. They claim the farmers were attempting to push past a checkpoint and roadblock onto a highway in the province of Friesland and started to drive their tractors onto police officers and their vehicles. Video from the scene does not appear to confirm this version of the facts.
According to the Dutch police, their shots hit a tractor and no one was injured. Three individuals were arrested. The Rijksrecherche, the Dutch government’s internal investigator, said it would look into the events as required when police discharge their weapons.
fun pics at the link
I think this belongs in the UNEXPECTEDLY! file
The UK
ELECTRIC police cars are struggling to reach crime scenes and emergencies without running out of power.
Officers in rural areas cannot find charging points on patrol and are having to switch to petrol or diesel vehicles.
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/5710094/electric-police-cars-running-out-power/
That car in the pic is a tricycle with doors
good theing the GOP is right on top of this
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/06/nolte-joe-biden-ships-u-s-oil-reserves-to-foreign-countries/
@ eaglesoars:
such good little nazis.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/eu-parliament-declares-nuclear-power-and-fossil-fuels-as-green-energy/
heh
was out running errands. heat index 107. I’m exhausted. The beagles are upset because I won’t let them out in this, they’d be dead in 10 mins but they don’t understand. MOOOOMMMM!! it’s a SQUIRREELLL!! OPEN THE DOOR!!!
I have yard work to do but it’s not getting done in this
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, Greta is under suicide watch
video from the Netherlands
The cops and farmers are punching each other in the face
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1544746122035470343
Georgia Guidestones Were Just BOMBED, “Monument To Globalism” Partially DESTROYED In Explosion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npigFD5z2ic
@ rain of lead:
what the hell is that thing? I read something about some stones falling off but nothing about a bombing
wait what? Biden is sending our oil to CHINA???
rain of lead wrote:
It was only a matter of time.
eaglesoars wrote:
10%
OH. Next time use more bomb stuff
Georgia Guidestones Monument BOMBED at 4 AM… Structure Represents New World Order Calls for Significantly Smaller Human Population
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/georgia-guidestones-monument-bombed-4-structure-represents-new-world-order-calls-significantly-smaller-human-population/
Looks like PSU ag outreach released a bunch of praying mantis in response to my and my neighbors report of Asian lantern bug infestation.
I had a nice conversation with one of the Manti just now on the bbq deck. He’s happy to be out of the box. I count 5 in the garden and 2 in the trellises
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve heard of these a few times. I thought it was a native American artifact. But reading the article. No. Just blow it up and blow it up again.
@ rain of lead:
good news
Another honking thunderstorm passing thru. I forgot to bring in the cushions from the deck. I hope it helps with the heat
darkwords wrote:
I wonder where the money came from to build it. Is it on public land?
@ eaglesoars:
We’re gonna get hit innaminute
“For every 1K likes, I’ll make Nancy Pelosi’s rack sag more.”
Thread:
https://twitter.com/MostlyPeacefull/status/1544484663158358020
eaglesoars wrote:
Interesting concept.
The situation in the Netherlands is interesting.
If you read all the reports without delving deeper it appears ” Farmers are outraged to be dragged off their land ” says Michael Yon, a supposed respectable and accurate journalist.
No farmers are being dragged off their land and their farms destroyed. The goal of the bill signed last week was to reduce Nitrogen emissions in some areas by 2030.
Not an unreasonable goal in my opinion.
eaglesoars wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#History
Possum wrote:
Why?
Nitrogen????
Sez who?
Why mess with clean, EU farms?
There was no reason for these regs.
coldwarrior wrote:
Ammonia is an atmospheric pollutant that in high concentrations kills plant life.
They are not banning farming, the government is requiring ammonia and nitrogen oxides.
@ Possum:
I realize that. I find it very very difficult to believe that these farmers were not in compliance or working toward it given how efficient the EU is on compliance.
Something stinks here and it ain’t the pig shit.
@ Possum:
https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-farmers-block-food-distribution-centers-over-new-environmental-rules/a-62356217
Shut down farms because of new regs…
According to the government’s own figures the plan to cut nitrogen emissions by more than 70% in areas close to nature conservation areas could lead to the shutting down of around 30% of livestock farms.
@ coldwarrior:
Unelected bureaucrats make regulations, the newly regulated protest, the monopoly of state sanctioned violence (police) shoot at the newly regulated who protest the unelected bureaucrats.
@ coldwarrior:
This has been going on for almost ten years. Finally the government set a timetable. Sorry I am not being more verbose but keyboard acting up.
Sticky keys ( Stop laughing Bunk )
coldwarrior wrote:
Or change farming practices to reduce emissions. An Iowa State Uni paper from 2004.
A long but interesting read.
https://www.thepigsite.com/articles/practices-to-reduce-ammonia
lobo91 wrote:
Makes my head spin. Seems like both are fraudulent but since they both recognize it then they can continue on being fraudulent?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
She’s Italian. There are Italian women who know big boobs smooth out a lot of stress. See Sophia Lauren and Jayne Manesfield.
Dutch farmers argue that other EU countries are not clamping down on the agricultural industry as hard as the Netherlands. During a protest Monday, a group of farmers at a Dutch Natura 2000 region near the German border put up flags and a “Welcome to Germany” sign to symbolically make it part of the neighboring country.
Ahhhh….and they had 1 year to comply…while the rest of Europe ignored it
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/explainer-dutch-farmers-protesting-emissions-85848026
@ Possum:
I’m gonna bet that EU farms are already ‘less polluting’ than US farms without even looking.
Gonna also bet that EU farms are less polluting than the non-eu farms that they will have to import from.
Some nimbly ism going on with a dash of virtue signaling thrown in with some nefarious wef stuff.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Masons…. Kinda of weird but I went to high school with the son of the person suggested to create this. Nice family. Upper class. If I recall correctly they sent their kids all to Notre Dame.
But looking at the effort and the messages I would definitely say Masonic. The secret part is also something they would like to do.
Modern masons are a scattered bunch.
Bob was a member of Ararat Shrine Sand Buggies Unit; (another sign of masonic influence)
coldwarrior wrote:
Let technology solve it. Pig farms are the worst. I suspect the regs are vastly overreaching into the farmers life and making him an asset of the state.
It will be ironic if the revolution starts there.
coldwarrior wrote:
Why not just build large windmills and blow the gas into Germany?
Emma Marie rockin’ out to some Joe Bonamassa:
@ darkwords:
Anyone who has the Great Lectures app needs to watch the 26 part lecture called Secret Societies.
No speculation, just historical fact. Fascinating the intertwined and outcomes….
darkwords wrote:
Blow it all to Brussels
darkwords wrote:
The wind already blows that way most of the time
coldwarrior wrote:
The solution is simple. Just take the Ukraine graft and pay every pig farmer in the country to grow chickens instead. Possum has the line on the EU chicken farmer culture.
I’m serious about the solution. If pigs are the problem just buy them out. Make chickens more profitable.
@ lobo91:
Brussels already blows.
Lol
coldwarrior wrote:
They probably are. The issue is not the nitrogen emissins from, say, a single pig facility it is the DENSITY of the farms.
Some here have casually commented that NL is the second largest exporter of AG products in the world.
Not bad for a land area about three times the size of LA county.
Or less than a third the area of Pennsylvania.
NL 33,893 sq km
PA 116,080 sq km
@ darkwords:
Russia already told the Boers to come on over and farm there.
lobo91 wrote:
My brother was telling me to listen to this guy. These groups you are following seem more gut real than most. More interesting to watch and listen to.
more soul.
@ Possum:
Betting the Boer don’t vote lefty either. EZ target
lobo91 wrote:
What is your top ten list in the lobo91 genre?
@ darkwords:
Bonamassa is insane good
@ darkwords:
Bonamassa is a hell of a guitarist, but he’s almost an industry at this point.
I made Szechuan beef and veggies…the bbq deck is trashed.
Later, yinz
coldwarrior wrote:
Combine that Boer to the steppes offer with the Russia bride industry and you have got a deal…
coldwarrior wrote:
I went EU fusion in honor of the ammonia conflict.
Filet mignon with Campbells pork and beans. A little bit of Tillamook cheese.
Best thing I have over fried in a long while.
VOYAGER FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY | BITCOIN & MARKET UPDATE
This company was a bank for a lot of retail crypto investors in the US. The investors lost all their crypto if they never moved it out of Voyager. I know someone who lost $10,000.
darkwords wrote:
You mean who I listen to? Hmm…in no particular order:
1. Larkin Poe
2. Samantha Fish
3. Joe Bonamassa
4. When Rivers Meet
5. Hannah Wicklund
6. Ally Venable
7. Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown
8. Kara Grainger
9. Allman Betts Band
10.Jonathon Long
@ lobo91:
I’m just going to quote a few to my brother so he is astounded I am on top of it. lol.
darkwords wrote:
you got a chuckle out of mr coldwrrior.
lobo91 wrote:
dickie is still alive???
damn.
coldwarrior wrote:
jeeze! i burned a hole in my welding gloves while handling the wok.
i thought something smelled odd….
coldwarrior wrote:
He is, but that’s his son, Duane along with Devon Allman.
A story with a happy ending:
lobo91 wrote:
ahhh!
lol
Of course, they do a few covers:
i wanted to post this earlier
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-07-06/governments-science-behind-monkeypox-hilarious
@ lobo91:
you read my mind
@ lobo91:
@ lobo91:
the allman bros did that song just after a yuge thunderstorm at a show near pgh, the skies turned a beautiful blue, and all was right with the world for a good 10 minutes.
it was the single greatest thing that i ever saw in all of the many concerts attended.
god smiled too.
Of course, Blue Sky leads us to this:
And then there’s the Allman Family Revival shows, where you’re liable to see just about anyone show up on stage. Ally Venable, Samantha Fish, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Gales, Robert Randolph and Joanne Shaw Taylor. Not sure where they found enough power to run all those guitars:
@ Possum:
coldwarrior wrote:
I find it difficult to believe that not a single one of the farmers understand what Mr. Possum asserts.
Possum wrote:
That was the name of my favorite tiki lounge space rock psychobilly punk band.
@ darkwords:
Don’t blame the Masons. The guy was scooters.
@ darkwords:
Pay attention to Cam Cole.
coldwarrior wrote:
You’ve got a forest and trees problem Cold.
Nitrates and ammonia levels are the tool to minimise the levels of food production.
The core of this whole vendetta is …. he who controls the food controls the population. It is really as simple as that. Agenda 30 writ large. Price cheap food out of the reach of the average Dutchman, make it really difficult to distribute what food is left and you have a great mechanism to enforce rationing and a decrease in population. It’s NOT going to be radical (maybe) but it is a slow drip …drip that sees populations plunge over the next couple of generations and backs up the already woeful reproduction rates across the whole of Europe.
Eva Somebody from the Netherlands was interviwed on Bongino today. The NL EU MP who is pushing these regs has a brother in law. Who has a fake meat company. Or insects or something. Who just signed a $600 mil deal with Bill Gates.
@ Aussie Infidel:
This isn’t about application of nitrogen to the land to increase food production this is about ammonia and nitrogen oxide levels in the atmosphere being wasrd out of the atmosphere by rain and ending up on native plants that die from excess nitrogen.
Excess nitrogen also fucks up lakes and rivers and ends up in aquifers used for drinking water.
Blue baby syndrome
darkwords wrote:
Piggeries do have some problems because of animal densities, and the management of run off. The tech is emerging that can reduce significantly gaseous emissions, but mostly for ruminants not pigs. Liquid waste recycling is the way to go for piggeries where ammonia management and methane production can be used to produce a significant level of a piggery’s power supply. Initial capital costs are the current sticking point, but it’s nothing that government can’t fix if they are serious about cleaning up the problem with Pig meat production.
The problem is that the government doesn’t WANT to fix the problem, as it’s the perfect tool with which to destroy the Pig meat industry.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Before this erupted the farmers wanted 3 billion euros aid so they could change farming practices.
Today someone was awarded the Medal of Honor
Biden put the medal on backwards
video
https://twitter.com/andre_mihaescu/status/1544782995189600260
eaglesoars wrote:
well now I’m not sure
Possum wrote:
Yup I know all of that. The solution is management of farm waste to isolate it from the surrounding environment, treat it and use it as a resource. Pigs are a special case and I understand that. Ruminate pollution can be fixed with a two tier approach. Fix the Nitrogen from the… ‘front end’ … by mixing normal fodder with seaweed. Problem solved. Then fix the problem from the … ‘rear end’ …. by a combination of waste management solutions that have already been solved. Especially so there ruminants are housed as in Holland, and not wandering free in fields.
All of these problems have solutions. All that is lacking is brain power and $$$$$$ in capital to modify the animal husbandry industries.
@ Aussie Infidel:
On that we fully agree.
And the Dutch have eight years to get their shit together and become world leaders in the field.
( two punnys in one sentence, with a bad keyboard. I is good )
I was watching Biden talk. “Fuck you’re stupid” was my comment.
Possum wrote:
Silly farmers. THAT would have FIXED the problem and the farmers could have increased production, raised food standards, and made mucho $$$$$. The farmers need to see the BIG picture here.
THAT however is NOT what the EU wants to happen. It wants the farmers to be pauperised and food production to tank. Already the food distribution system is under attack. What is happening in Europe is an attack on the food production side, and a planned scarcity of food.
Control the food supply and you control the captive population and bend them to your will.
Bidens big plan. Put abortion clinics in national parks to defeat the evil Supremes.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’vve been reading Roman history. This is their no 1 tactic.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Hell in 1970-71 a farm at a place called Ossima in theWest Sepik District of New Guinea was harvesting 100% of its electricity from farm waste. Raising ducks for the table, that were fed from ponds growing water based green plants with farm run off, after all of the methane had been harvested to power generators. The gas was stored in large tractor tubes and pressurised by placing large slabs of concrete on top of them.
Ossima had a total closed system of farming that emptied NOTHING into the nearby river, that might upset the crocodiles!
This was 50 years ago and was set up by a single monk with a few smarts and access to a load of manpower. Another monk down the coast at Lietre (in the middle of a malarial swamp) manufactured all of the districts Single Sideband communications systems. These guys did this type of stuff off the top of their heads with little external input and with minimal $$$$ funding. The only thing they needed was diesel for the mowers to cut the grass to keep the airstrips open so that I could get in and supply them with a few luxuries and contact from the outside world.
darkwords wrote:
… and if the locals objected (as the Carthaginians did ) you kill most of them and sow their fields with salt!
🙂
So…it appears that the Highland Park shooter didn’t use a so-called “assault weapon” at all. It was a Kel-tec Sub-2000, which is a weird little folding pistol caliber carbine. It comes in either 9mm or .40 caliber, and uses standard pistol magazines.
I used to have one. Finally got rid of it because it was basically pointless.
Amazon underrated for the month.
18. John Dies at the End
17. Barry Munday
16. The Europa Report
15. The Saint
14. Ghost World
13. Virtuosity
12. She’s Out of My League
11. Switchback
10. Dave Made a Maze
9. Jennifer’s Body
8. Tumbbad
7. Bound
6. The General
5. Revolutionary Road
4. Kalifornia
3. In Order of Disappearance
2. Jacob’s Ladder
1. ALI: Director’s Cut
Germans forced to begin rationing hot water in Saxony housing complex due to skyrocketing global energy costs.
Tenants will only have access to water between 4am and 8am, 11am and 1pm and 5pm and 9pm.
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1544890340498350081
just ordered new keyboard will be here 7am to 11am $13
then we can talk
bed. nite.
From Feral Irishman
https://youtube.com/shorts/qOHNJVb9E1Q?feature=share
Possum wrote:
Is this a rental? Where is it going after 11am?
@ eaglesoars:
Or not.
https://twitter.com/Herrminator/status/1544814335125512194/photo/1
Well the world is nuts.
Current theme is the Dutch farmers are protesting against climate change legislation.
This is not climate change shit this is localised concentrations of air pollution.
Oh well at least I tried
@ Possum:
I just posted a photo of a capybara taking a dump because that’s what Twitter is for.
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/07/07/boris-johnson-resigns-open/
@ Possum:
see what i did there lol
eaglesoars wrote:
Why, how is this even possible? NYC has strict gun laws. Really strict. No way a regular citizen could legally acquire a gun. Oh. wait. Yeah, that pegs the karma meter.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wait. What!? These are supposed to be the thought leaders in the media? That doesn’t even sound like a dope-inspired statement. The kind that sounds good in their head but sounds like gibberish when they verbalize it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Should help bring up the humidity, so there is that.
Possum wrote:
By forcing those farmers to give up their livelihoods. That’s the same as dragging them off their land. And that’s a totally unreasonable goal with no reason to exist.
Possum wrote:
You realize ammonia is a fertilizer, right?
@ AZfederalist:
Ammonia gas NH3 is toxic to plants.
@ AZfederalist:
Stop polluting the area by changing the way you farm or you have to close your business seems reasonable to me.