
Ceci n’est pas une pipe
A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative gdp growth
A depression is a prolonged recession that lasts for a few years and reduces gdp by more than 10%.
Females have XX chromosomes and a vagina
Males have XY chromosomes and a penis. ‘Penis, Penis Penis, LOL.’ See DoD for historical references to said phrase.
Men cannot breast feed as they have no mammary glands or ducts. Hence the word ‘mammal’ to describe that branch of the evolutionary tree.
A vaccine actually prevents the contagion and spread of a virus by training the immune system to kill said pathogen on sight.
I could go on…but yinz get the point.
Possum wrote:
from the last thread.
@ Possum:
we need 7x the electricity generating power and better batteries…
or hydrogen power and nuke….
i has day shift tomorrow…night yinz!!!
@ coldwarrior:
I agree.
But an electric combine would be pretty cool. I don’t know how they are built now but back in my day the ones for wheat, barley, oats etc had a really complicated system of belts and pulleys to maintain the optimum ground speed and drum rotation. The engine was run at a fixed speed so the drum rotated at, I think 1100 rpm but I may be wrong.
Ground speed had to be finely tuned to crop density. And type.
All electric means all parts of combine could be run by electric motors at optimum speed.
coldwarrior wrote:
Quitter!!!!!
now do pronouns.
Mine are “Holy of Holies” and “Goddess of Beagles”
Or.
Else.
https://youtu.be/HjqMHdQHPXc
Looks like Pelosi managed to bribe or blackmail enough Dems that they’re going to bring up the assault weapons ban and the PLCAA repeal tomorrow morning for votes.
I haz a question.
Regardless of the fundraising pleas you may have seen, the ‘general consensus’ of fundraising is that it’s not a good idea to send out stuff that says “I’M LOSING IF YOU DON’T GIVE ME MONEY”.
The idea is that most people won’t give $$ to an admitted lost cause.
So…if Liz Cheney is a lost cause in Wyoming, as most people believe, why would Mitt Romney hold a $10k/head fundraiser? Where is the money going?
Things that make you go himmmmm……..
@ lobo91:
Pelosi wouldn’t bring this for a vote if she didn’t think she had the votes
Hybrid diesel electric tractors and combines exist.
A development of the 1950s diesel electric railway locomotives now possible because of the lighter weight electric motors we now have.
Consumer drones are a recent thing, mostly due to the advancment of electric motor technology.
Small leap from diesel electric to fully electric
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup
West Virginia bars five financial firms for deemed fossil fuel ‘boycotts’
https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/west-virginia-bars-five-financial-firms-deemed-fossil-fuel-boycotts-2022-07-28/
WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – West Virginia has barred five major financial institutions, including Blackrock Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) , from new state business after determining that they were boycotting the fossil fuel industry.
Goldman Sachs (GS.N) , Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co are also barred on similar grounds, according to State Treasurer Riley Moore.
Spokespeople for Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley said the banks disagreed with the decision, and a spokesperson for JPMorgan called it “disconnected from the facts.” A BlackRock spokesperson said it also disagreed with the decision.
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something in that dog’s breakfast bill Manchin voted for raises taxes on coal somehow. Something tells me he may not be long for his job
Am I the only one who doesn’t believe this?
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Democrats hold slight edge over GOP, abortion more important to voters than inflation, poll shows
More Americans said abortion was most important issue over inflation after it hit 9.1% in June
Democrats hold slight edge over GOP, abortion more important to voters than inflation, poll shows
More Americans said abortion was most important issue over inflation after it hit 9.1% in June
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-hold-slight-edge-gop-abortion-more-important-voters-inflation-poll-shows
bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
And yet, we’re supposed to believe that they’re going to vote to keep the status quo?
Personally, I think this is part of the plan to steal the elections this November. They’ll spend the rest of the summer and fall gradually releasing stories about new “polling” that shows people planning to vote for Democrats. That way, when they produce the fake results, it won’t seem as suspicious.
lobo91 wrote:
All they have to do is fortify the mail in election again. The GoP is scared to counter that effort. Too many rinos in office and Trump is backing OZ.
Should get the house for sure? that will at least slow the dems down a bit.
Here comes the fog machine.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/beware-internet-hoaxes-go-viral-deep-state-operative-ray-epps-media-liz-cheney-panic-video/
https://www.revolver.news/2022/07/strange-disinfo-campaign-to-discredit-key-questions-concerning-ray-epps/
From the Fox WH reporter
Chinese FM spox accuses WH of lying about Biden bringing up genocide, forced labor on call w/ Xi:
ZHAO: “….pure lies… White House spokesperson said the issues of genocide and forced labor were mentioned in the call last night, that is false information”
https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1553000916324073472
The other day, I caught somebody comparing Joe Biden to Joe Isuzu. Remember him and his commercials? He’s say something like “And your new Isuzu gets 150 miles to the gallon!” and text would pop up on the screen HE’S LYING.
Yep. The Joe Isuzu admin.
@ eaglesoars:
You think Joe’s that honest?
@ eaglesoars:
$124 billion for the IRS in that bill Manchin tossed over the transom
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That’s a new one for me!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/former-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandman-loses-defamation-cases-cbs-ny-times-abc-others-jimmy-carter-judge-tosses-lawsuits/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
NBC settled with Sandman in December.
Mayor Pete preferred in NH.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/484238-poll-new-hampshire-dem-voters-pick-pete-buttigieg-over-joe-biden-in-2024/
eaglesoars wrote:
WTH does the IRS evenbn 1 billion?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I don’t know. It seems like they all published a wanted poster of him worldwide into everyone’s phone.
TimCast is sayingthis is a problem for everyone with the media full of unethical employees. He would like to sue for a retraction in these cases where the media admits it lied and make them run it on page one for a week.
right_wing2 wrote:
Jesse Kelly called this guy a person full of hatred and anger. Seems so.
China fired its most direct warning shot yet amid reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may visit Taiwan on Friday, saying that if the speaker’s plane is accompanied by U.S. fighter jets, they would not rule out shooting them down.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11062421/China-warns-fighter-jets-escorting-Pelosi-Taiwan-shot-down.html
@ darkwords:
Cold War.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
She made me re up on DoD. Took me 10 years. Coming up on my 20th Anniversary at LGF. I still have an inactive sock puppet there unless he purged inactives. I doubt if I remember the password.
darkwords wrote:
He purged the accounts that were silent for 6 months or more long ago. Gimme your nic and I’ll see if it appears in the Dead Scrolls.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
hazzyday was the really old one. I’ll have to check to see where I annotated the others. Left right after Iron Fist was banned. Just before the blog tilted pre woke.
I socked a few posts then decided it wasn’t worth the effort.
darkwords wrote:
So…China’s offering to get rid of Pelosi for us?
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lobo91 wrote:
No kidding. Don’t throw us into that briar patch!
darkwords wrote:
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hey y’all
I had an isuzu pickup
first last and only vehicle I ever bought new
kept it for 10 years and drove it till the wheels fell off
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
blast from da past
@ darkwords:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ darkwords:
lol
rain of lead wrote:
Fun times.
I’ll stop now. Besides, there’s an old blog that used to post stuff like that a lot. Buncha stalkers.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
OMG. We were so much younger then.
@ eaglesoars:
no shit
age and gravity are NOT your friends
@ rain of lead:
https://diaryofdaedalus.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/chuckface-3.png
So. Hadn’t heard from one of my girlfriends in awhile, but because HER HOUSE GOT HIT BY LIGHTNING (I swear she’s cursed), I was not surprised but wanted to check in.
She and her husband are both down with covid. For like 3 weeks. And guess who else has it. My god-dog, Thor, the most wonderful pittie ever born.
THEIR DOG HAS COVID??? Yep, tested positive.
Well, HR 1808 (the “assault weapons” ban) passed the House. One Democrat voted no, and 2 Republicans voted yes.
rain of lead wrote:
true. But I find there are a lot of things I love about being old (NOT ‘older’, 70 is old, give it up).
The expectations are so much lower. For a woman, this is especially liberating. Nobody expects me to look fabulous. I have never looked fabulous, but now that I’m old, nobody knocks me for it.
When I tell people to ‘fuck right off, yesterday’, they put it down to impending dementia and not to being a flaming bitch. Being underestimated is a clear advantage.
Sometimes I need help reaching items on the grocery store shelves. I look for the best male body in the vicinity and ask. The view from behind is refreshing and nobody suspects a thing.
I can spend it all and not worry about the future.
eaglesoars wrote:
You get to make up shit.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That’s only if you’re one of those ‘progressive’ schlubs. But they’ve had a lot of practice
All hell is breaking out in the Netherlands.
this is just one I’ve found
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dutch-farmers-in-a-rage-over-emissions-cuts/ar-AA1056fu
$10.3 Million Settlement Reached in First COVID Vaccine Mandate Class Action Suit Involving Healthcare Workers
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/healthcare-worker-settlement-covid-vaccine-mandate-class-action-lawsuit/
Today, Liberty Counsel settled the nation’s first classwide lawsuit for healthcare workers over a COVID shot mandate, for more than $10.3 million.
The class action settlement against NorthShore University HealthSystem is on behalf of more than 500 current and former healthcare workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate.
The agreed-upon settlement was filed today in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois.
As a result of the settlement, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate these healthcare employees who were victims of religious discrimination, and who were punished for their religious beliefs against taking an injection associated with aborted fetal cells.
This is a historic, first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests to COVID-19 shots.
The settlement must be approved by the federal District Court.
Employees of NorthShore who were denied religious exemptions will receive notice of the settlement, and will have an opportunity to comment, object, request to opt out or submit a claim form for payment out of the settlement fund, all in accordance with deadlines that will be set by the court.
As part of the settlement agreement, NorthShore will also change its unlawful “no religious accommodations” policy to make it consistent with the law, and to provide religious accommodations in every position across its numerous facilities.
No position in any NorthShore facility will be considered off limits to unvaccinated employees with approved religious exemptions.
In addition, employees who were terminated because of their religious refusal of the COVID shots will be eligible for rehire if they apply within 90 days of the final settlement approved by the court, and they will retain their previous seniority level.
absolutely nada in the MSM
eaglesoars wrote:
I should also note something else: Naomi Wolfe was on Bannon today. There have been some headlines about the tech companies deliberately suppressing information about the effect of the vax on women – menstrual cycles, miscarriages, etc. – at the behest of the CDC.
Wolfe said she is looking into filing a class action lawsuit against Rachael What’s-her-name – head of the CDC on behalf of women who were denied information that could have protected them.
I have not idea where that will go, I’m just posting what I heard.
Question.
Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan. I think she should go. The Joe Izuzu admin hasn’t been exactly thrilled to back her up.
What if her plane were accompanied by a bunch of fighter jets/planes and called China’s bluff?
Oh, ok, that won’t happen, just dreaming. Sorry.
bed. nite.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I probably have a lot of bad history there. I’m sure I often posted to avoid troubles. lol
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I had a span of months where I followed Charles brain hive mind and touted the party line. I think I eventually visited blogmockracy after too many weird bans. And changed my mind.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11062877/Trumps-love-Saudi-Arabia-continues-LIV-golf-series-9-11-families-protest-nearby.html
Trump jumps to the LIV tour. Don’t blame him. He looks like he lost a lot of weight.
eaglesoars wrote:
She is a security liability, has no good reason to go, Freedom of Passage or no.
@ darkwords:
From what I could tell, he was eyeballing you during the Great Intelligent Design debates, i.e., should religion be discussed in school while not promoting it. Most of his arguments were Yes But No.
oh great. Wait, bugs are protein, too, amiright>
Eating Too Much Protein Makes Pee a Problem Pollutant in the U.S.
Protein-packed diets add excess nitrogen to the environment through urine, rivaling pollution from agricultural fertilizers
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eating-too-much-protein-makes-pee-a-problem-pollutant-in-the-u-s/
Russia just told Latvia Oopsie! There’s a problem with the pipeline, so sorry/not sorry!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/30/europe/latvia-russia-gazprom-gas-supplies-intl/index.html
The Chinese own the Bidens. I’d say ‘including their souls’ but I’m pretty sure those are just on loan from Satan.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/contracts-indicate-biden-admin-set-spend-half-billion-dollars-chinese-backed-luxury-camp-illegal-alien-migrant-children/
North Carolina.
Biden Creating Permanent U.S. Postal Service Division to Deliver and Return Ballots in US Elections
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/biden-creating-permanent-u-s-postal-service-division-deliver-return-ballots-us-elections/
On July 28, Google’s DeepMind announced its powerful AI system, AlphaFold, has modeled the 3D structures of some 200 million proteins. That’s almost every protein on the planet, published on an open database. Even if we account for errors, no human team has achieved anything close to this.
AlphaFold is a deep learning system. In the initial phase, it was trained on the datasets of known protein structures. Over the past two years, programmers have turned it loose on every genome ever sequenced. The AI can look at any gene and convert the DNA to protein—in virtual space—then predict the folding pattern with remarkable accuracy.
That means scientists can anticipate any protein’s function, whether natural or artificial, starting with nothing but its DNA sequence. That also means genetic engineers can predict what mutations will produce new functions—in silico—before they ever test it in the lab. Months of trial-and-error can be done by computer in an instant. It’s a trashuman fantasy come to life.
The project’s leader, Dame Janet Thornton, told The Guardian, “This insight will now be used to design improved vaccines which induce the most potent transmission-blocking antibodies.”
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Jab 2.0 for Humanity 2.0 – Hurtling Down the AI-to-Vaxx Pipeline
Big Pharma embraces the Fourth Industrial Revolution—“the fusion of our physical, digital, and biological identities”
Joe Allen
Jul 30
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From “Rewriting the Genetic Code” | Tal Zaks | TEDx
Artificial intelligence is pulling new vaccines out of the Platonic realm. Automated labs are on standby, prepared to crank out alien strands of mRNA and pack them into toxic nanoparticles. A billion empty syringes are waiting on shelves.
This is not science fiction. These jabs will be on the market before you can say “boostah.”
Google. Moderna. Microsoft. They’re all racing to the edge. This is corporate transhumanism in all its avaricious glory, riding waves of propaganda and channeled by the biosecurity state.
These people uphold a new mythos whose axis mundi is the Machine. In their world, digital minds are “dreaming up” novel genetic configurations. Biological systems are treated as “living software.” With each technical advance, their myths bleed into our reality.
A 2019 white paper from Policy Horizons Canada Horizons describes this shift as a “biodigital convergence,” characterized by:
1 – Full physical integration of biological and digital entities
2 – Coevolution of biological and digital entities
3 – Conceptual convergence of biological and digital systems
Our intelligentsia—the elites “educated beyond their level of intelligence”—are undergoing a sort of religious conversion. Their world has been illuminated by gene sequencing and neural networks.
Their machines have convinced them that living things are just clunky machines. Our immune systems require software updates. Our flawed genomes need debugging. In order to get there, our brains must be augmented.
“Reality explored by AI, or with the assistance of AI, may prove to be something other than what humans had imagined,” wrote ex-Google chief Eric Schmidt in his 2021 book The Age of AI. “Across the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, a hybrid partnership is emerging in which AI is enabling new discoveries.”
For Schmidt and his coauthors, this vantage point has a mystical quality:
The prognostications of the Gnostic philosophers, of an inner reality beyond ordinary experience, may prove newly significant. … Sometimes, the result will be the revelation of properties of the world that were beyond our conception—until we cooperated with machines.
Lifeless eyes gaze out on a world composed of numbers. Every living creature is just data to be manipulated.
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On July 28, Google’s DeepMind announced its powerful AI system, AlphaFold, has modeled the 3D structures of some 200 million proteins. That’s almost every protein on the planet, published on an open database. Even if we account for errors, no human team has achieved anything close to this.
AlphaFold is a deep learning system. In the initial phase, it was trained on the datasets of known protein structures. Over the past two years, programmers have turned it loose on every genome ever sequenced. The AI can look at any gene and convert the DNA to protein—in virtual space—then predict the folding pattern with remarkable accuracy.
That means scientists can anticipate any protein’s function, whether natural or artificial, starting with nothing but its DNA sequence. That also means genetic engineers can predict what mutations will produce new functions—in silico—before they ever test it in the lab. Months of trial-and-error can be done by computer in an instant. It’s a trashuman fantasy come to life.
The project’s leader, Dame Janet Thornton, told The Guardian, “This insight will now be used to design improved vaccines which induce the most potent transmission-blocking antibodies.”
In the next few years, a flood of experimental mRNA vaccines—all designed using AI—will flood the pharmaceutical market. Moderna is working on fifteen different concoctions, targeting everything from the common flu and HIV to malaria and dengue fever. If they can drum up enough public anxiety, we’ll soon see two-legged bio-machines lined up around the block to get their injectable updates.
“We call mRNA the software of life,” Moderna’s CEO told MIT Sloan. “You can copy and paste the information into a lot of drugs by using the same technology.” In the spirit of biodigital convergence, Moderna has trademarked the name “mRNA OS”—as in “mRNA operating system.”
Back in 2017, Moderna’s chief medical officer, Tal Zaks, explained this approach to his TEDx audience:
This is part of the email from Joe Allen, who covers transhumanism for The War Room. Trust me,
@ eaglesoars:
Trust me, it’s not about vaccines as we once understood them.
Now Russia cuts off gas supply to Latvia amid growing energy panic in Europe after supplies to Poland, Finland, Netherlands and Denmark were axed – and some cities go dark to save power
Russian has cut off gas to Latvia after supplies axed in Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, Netherlands and Denmark
Many countries have refused to pay for Russia’s gas in roubles which is in line with European Union sanctions
Putin’s weaponization of gas supplies has lead to increased prices and growing energy panic in Europe
He appears to be betting European unity over Ukraine will break before the worst effects are felt in Russia
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11064513/Russian-energy-giant-Gazprom-cuts-gas-supply-Latvia-refused-pay-roubles.html
eaglesoars wrote:
All those poor saps who lost their jobs delivering the Yellow Pages now have something to do.
@ eaglesoars:
Putin plays chess…euros play checkers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/29/putin-ruble-west-sanctions-russia-europe
coldwarrior wrote:
…Biden plays with crayons
eaglesoars wrote:
There are never any articles on morals or on ethics surrounding AI knowledge. I have my doubts that an incompetent government or a totalitarian fauci can wield any level of AI knowledge wisely.
They will screw it up. They’ll test this AI neural implant on a chimpanzee. They will give it a leap in protein folding and it will get loose from the lab and start a monkey pox on everyone.
From yesterday. Some stunning pics
Uprising of Italian farmers in Piemonte: “We are not slaves, we are farmers!”
https://twitter.com/LeylaRostami/status/1553092307423055874
coldwarrior wrote:
Russia will absorb the sanctions. China and India will fill gaps. Biden is trying to lay siege to a large porous country. Versus being agile in the markets.
There was an evil abroad in WWII that was beat by purer intentions. There is an evil abroad in the US that is an existential threat to the rest of the world. Biden is the figurehead for it.
@ eaglesoars:
Oh that’ll be corruption free and absolutely no Republican ballots will disappear or be delayed or altered.
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@ eaglesoars:
Obviously white supremacists.
Oh dear God. From July 12
Researchers Suspect New Variants of Rapidly Progressing Brain Degenerating Diseases From COVID-19 Vaccines
Though he never told his doctors that he started developing symptoms a month after the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, his family thinks that his sudden sickness a month later and dramatic weight loss within weeks seemed like too much of a coincidence.
This suspicion was further confirmed after Linda Howey, Douglas’s mother, heard a podcast by Del Bigtree where Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a senior researcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, talked about her research on possible links between neurodegenerative diseases and the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
Once patients are diagnosed with ALS, they are normally given a life expectancy of two to five years. The disease is mostly diagnosed in men, and often between the ages of 55 to 75.
Douglas is younger than this and his illness has progressed much faster than most. He has already entered the late stage of the disease and is experiencing breathing difficulties although he has only been sick for one year.
Linda recalled that Douglas’s fever began in June, around a month after he received his second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine dose on May 21, 2021. He experienced high fever and was bedridden for a month.
Douglas’s father passed away in 2011 after a 25-year battle with a brain degenerative disease called frontotemporal dementia (FTD) that has a genetic component.
Within the last week or so of life, Douglas’s father began to experience ALS symptoms. Though Douglas also has the FTD gene, he was not expecting any significant progression for the next 20 years.
However, after Douglas recovered from his month-long fever, he began to notice constant fatigue and weakness in his grip strength.
Within six weeks of falling ill, he lost 40 pounds and his weight only continued to decline as his appetite deteriorated.
Five months later, Douglas was too weak to handle silverware properly and needed to feed himself with both hands.
Douglas has been a paraplegic since he was hit by a truck in 2012. As a result of that accident, he developed strong upper arms that he used to hoist himself up from bed and to propel himself around in a manual wheelchair.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/researchers-suspects-new-variants-of-rapidly-progressing-brain-degenerating-diseases-from-covid-19-vaccines_4581466.html?
more at the link
@ eaglesoars:
prions
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/29/study-noaa-advances-bogus-heat-data-based-on-collection-practices-96-corrupted/
if i took that data into my MS stats defense…they would have killed me.
that was 20 yrs ago tho….
@ coldwarrior:
I’ve known about that problem since the late ’90s. The fact that they haven’t done anything to fix it proves that it’s deliberate.
coldwarrior wrote:
I think it was wattsupwiththat that documented all this at least 10 yrs ago.
coldwarrior wrote:
holy mother of God.
One way to deal with the ATF 😀
https://twitter.com/anogy/status/1553225233670307840
lobo91 wrote:
A girl in Junior High did a photo survey of just that. Sensors located in the middle of asphalt parking lots, next to a/c condensers, etc. Decades ago.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
😀
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/10/atf-agent-accuses-columbus-police-officers-excessive-force/6505667002/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Full vid
https://youtu.be/gb1MVFDy_tw
This is an interesting video. These guys are taking a trip to Deadhorse, Alaska with a Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck. The things they have to go through in order to get there are pretty amusing:
I don’t think I’ll be trading in my gas-powered V-8 SUV anytime soon…
lobo91 wrote:
lot of work. Was interesting hearing the locals talk about the road. I wonder why they don’t have solar panels on the roof? I can’t see myself getting a Tesla after this. Only if I was rich and drove about 40 miles a day. The charging times and costs are outrageous.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
His mistake he couldn’t follow instructions. Then blew up. Seems like he has no life experience.
@ darkwords:
I thought the idea to use the regular F-150 to charge it was pretty smart. Too bad it would have taken 5 days.
Obviously, the solution is to put a 50 kw diesel generator on a trailer and tow it wherever you go.
Or you could just not bother with the stupid thing in the first place…
I like the Motorail concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorail
@ Possum:
And I am a realist. There is no way ever there will be a high speed rail network in the USA unless it is on elevated tracks.
Baked more bread today.
@ Possum:
Love the idea.
And I wish we could get high speed rail here. We couldn’t afford it on a nationwide basis though.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/englands-rugby-football-league-bans-transgender-women-playing-female-rugby
Yep.
Canoe Convoy wrote:
I need to do that tomorrow
@ lobo91:
But by God this would be labeled a recession within five seconds if a Republican were in office.
right_wing2 wrote:
Those definitions matter. It’s how the market communicates. Krugman is a confidence killer.
@ lobo91:
the words ‘technical’ and ‘rule of thumb’ are meant to cloud the waters.
the reality is, if gdp goes down over the past benchmark, then the economy is contracting, do it two quarters in a row, and you have a recession.
sad part is, he used to be a very talented economist, top notch.
darkwords wrote:
He’s a federal agent. Everyone else is supposed to bow to his authority. … or else. Kind of satisfying karma when he finds out that just speaking words don’t satisfy other people in authority.
right_wing2 wrote:
… and Krugman would be the first in line and on CNN proclaiming that the “textbook definition of a recession is two negative quarters of GDP growth and this event is the textbook definition of a recession. Furthermore, the other economic data is irrelevant to the fact we have entered a recession. ”
Krugman is nothing more than a partisan hack who will say whatever suits his side.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3967/text/pcs
section 707 paragraph 324 part B where progressives try and slide a free 400B spend into the PACT firepit bill.
As far as I can tell it looks like it happened. And they got called on it. Lo t of resistance in social media just posting the location of the argument from the actual bill.
I can’t understand the wonky esoterics of congressional budgeting that well. But I do know politicians love to move money in ways that allow them to spend without oversight.
I’ve become a hoarder since the Build Back Better. I now have 30 jars of peanut butter and about 60 cans of beans saved up. Just need to get the water source down. It rains enough here I can probably collect rain water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ1dPtXfSOU&t=6s
Posobiec takes on Jon Stewart over burn pit health financing.
lobo91 wrote:
shaddap paul
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/labor-market-cracks-job-openings-suffer-third-biggest-plunge-record
Cool! Got a FB suspension before noon!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
commenting on Pelosi investing in bollards in Taiwan?
@ lobo91:
He’s always thinking. Wonder what would happen if he visited a subway and buskered for a day?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I wonder if Libs are getting smart on these Trump hoaxes. I haven’t been getting any pushback when I mention them.
RV life. About once week a spider will run across my face while I’m sleeping. Doomed by a quick slap to the face.
darkwords wrote:
Site owner put in a nest camera. Found out that a black bear visits my garbage can at 11 pm the night before the garbageman picks up. Regular visitor.
The funds promised to the U.S. National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) players by Voyager Digital in a sponsorship deal may not materialize as the lender filed for bankruptcy,
https://cryptoslate.com/us-womens-soccer-league-sponsorship-funds-from-voyager-in-jeopardy-after-bankruptcy/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11073831/BMW-urges-83-customers-stop-driving-iX-M60-i4-EVs-batteries-catch-fire.html
BMW EV’s explode….
Financial joke going around that Pelosi shorted Taiwanese stocks before her visit.
@ darkwords:
china sure rattled a lot of sabers….
yawn…. lol
Report that Seattle has 15,000 homeless people AKA meth addicts.
I seem to remember that number being 3,000 a few years ago. Growth industry.
coldwarrior wrote:
They blinked. Must be economic issues or allies not lined up. Was a report that they are waiting til Oct after a big CCP meeting.
@ darkwords:
this was all for show on both sides.
i would not be surprised if there were agreements ahead of time. xi gets to whip his people into a nationalistic fervor, and biden looks like a leader.
i aint buying it, nor am i buying pelosi’s comments about ‘freedom and democracy’ either.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m disappointed. I was hoping they would get rid of Pelosi for us
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@ lobo91:
sh’e too valuable to them.
this was all for show
darkwords wrote:
Friend posted a picture of a case of French 9mm hollow points shaped like penises. My comment:
FB suspended me for “hate speech.” 😀
coldwarrior wrote:
Her husband’s DUI hearing is coming up, too. He’ll come down with the ‘rona when he returns to the States.
Primaries today. I’m in a suburb of Wichita, and I’m usually in and out in less than 10 minutes.
Today, probably mostly because of the abortion vote, it took about 75 minutes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kansas_Value_Them_Both_Amendment
Cleared Hot 90 minutes with Mike Glover Green Beret/CIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lh2lOcO3t8
First half is about Uvalde. The Border Patrol didn’t enter immediately because they were told the classrooms were empty.
Any of you guys have heard any fallout from the al Zawahiri assassination? The Brit newspapers seem to be leading the charge in backgrounding this hit. It seems that the CIA has been tracking Zawahiri through his family members for months. That doesn’t happen unless the Taliban is in the loop as well with the CIA. There is a 3 way gun-fight in Afghanistan just now. The Taliban vs. al Qaeda vs. Islamic State. al Qaeda is the weakest of the protagonists and it looks as if the Taliban wanted them out of the way.
Reading the ‘tea-leaves’ suggests that the assassination of Zawahiri was OKed by the Taliban as long as there was no collateral damage. Hence the use by assumed CIA assets of ‘Switchblade 300 drones’. Just a sliced and diced terrorist on a verandah. That also suggests liaison between the CIA and Taliban, against al Qaeda.
Tried to get access to General retd Keane, or LTC retd Doug MacGregor, or LTC retd Ralph Peters solar to no avail. Peters has recently fallen out with Fox over Fox’s wokeness and may be a possible starter.
Anyone here have access to these commentators?
darkwords wrote:
Correct.
China also has to wait for the weather to come right. Taiwan is only ‘invaluable’ twice a year. March-thru’ April and Sept thru’ October. The rest of the year the seas are too rough and tides too dangerous.
invaluable = invade-able
Bloody predictive rubbish!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Daily mail says it was a taliban assest for UK.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11074605/How-Ayman-al-Zawahiris-FAMILY-led-CIA-worlds-wanted-terrorist.html
Aussie Infidel wrote:
lol
sometimes its pretty funny
right_wing2 wrote:
WOW!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/paul-pelosi-had-unknown-drug-in-system/
ruhroh!!!
just had a beer or three with the minor league ball team that just played here in methtoona, man…i thought those cats got paid more than they do! (and thank GOD the hotel bar is open again!)
they love the game and are enthusiastic about ‘getting a shot’ at the bigs! they make a pittance.
right_wing2 wrote:
regardless of the outcome, this is how it should be. anything not explicitly in the constitution is to be decided by individual states.
there are some primaries going on….
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/08/02/various-02-august-primaries-2022-open/
@ coldwarrior:
Re: Paul Pelosi
That’s barely over the legal limit, but I wouldn’t expect it to cause slurred speech and balance problems.
Wonder what drug was in his system.