THIS IS AN OPEN THREAD
Ahhhhh, that’s better. College Football Season! My Beloved Panthers beat the toothless inbred, yayhoos from that school in Morgantown WV late in the game on a heads up defensive play. This Backyard Brawl was one for the ages. If you don’t get it, read about it. If you still don’t get it, well…to each, his own.
NEXT WEEK: My Beloved PITT Panthers versus the Tennessee Volunteers! at PGH.
Eastern Tennessee State U is gonna be on the road versus a school where I was a lecturer…heh….on 9/11.
It’s week 1, let’s start with $1000 dollars $57K in last year’s money) and get this ‘betting’ underway. All bets are $100 unless otherwise noted.
 11 Oregon |
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 3 Georgia |
3:30 PM |
on ABC at 1530. Here we go again, the Ducks are over-rated again. The Bulldogs cover this 16pt spread at home.
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 2 Ohio State |
7:30 PM |
on ABC at 1930. ND is ranked 5, OSU is ranked 2. This has playoff implications. The difference will be OSU’s QB CJ Stroud. He had 4500 passing yards last year, as a Sophomore! If he keeps his head and doesn’t run around like a squirrel (or an ostrich, see last night’s thread) then OSU can beat this 16 point spread. I think OSU can beat this spread.
Yeah, only 2 games, it’s early!
ENJOY THIS OPEN!
from CW downstairs
Tucker… The Red Wave is not guaranteed…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tucker-the-red-wave-is-not-guaranteed/
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Never get over confident
The one pollster I think is really good is Rich Baris. He’s going to have a poll up in an hour or so, but you can see his stuff on cdm.com
CD Media Big Data Poll: Trump Leads Biden By 7 Points In Pennsylvania
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/politics/2022/09/02/cd-media-big-data-poll-trump-leads-biden-by-7-points-in-pennsylvania/
and he made a very intriguing remark recently
Funny listening to those who watch from a far. Because I have seen and watched it all from the beginning and listened to voters. Up close, very personal.
Let me break a few brains…
Trump’s legit successor, who truly represents his voters, is not even a man.
I’m betting Kari Lake or Marjorie Taylor Green.
Oh, and Bannon’s show got swatted this morning
@ lobo91:
how odd.
So some reporter who thinks his shit doesn’t stink thought he was going to get a two-fer and tried to set up Kari Lake.
She decapitated him. It is a thing of beauty.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/02/kari-lake-blasts-reporter-2020-election-question/
Accomplices to murder, every last one of these bastards.
The United States National Institute of Health lists IVERMECTIN as an antiviral option to help treat COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1566105476965666817
@ eaglesoars:
Re: Your mention downstairs that Bannon was SWATted
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/steve-bannon-swatted-dc-home-second-time/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yes, this is the 3rd time. I think after the 2nd time the cops aren’t going to fall for it at his house again, so they had to try another site.
@ lobo91:
Said the man who soon will have no voters
wtf?
Buick just offered to buy out ALL of its U.S. dealers.
Holy sh*t.
DTC is happening.
https://twitter.com/GuyDealership/status/1565830381374513156
later in the thread it seems to be about conversion to EVs
My world has been shattered.
I just found out that bandleader, songwriter & radio host Johnny Otis was a white guy who “chose” to be black.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Kathy Hochul says the quiet part out loud:
I have no idea what Sweden’s energy profile looks like
BREAKING NEWS
THE PRIME MINISTER OF SWEDEN IS WARNING THAT RUSSIA’S DECISION TO HALT GAS DELIVERIES TO EUROPE COULD PLACE ITS FINANCIAL SYSTEM UNDER SEVERE STRAIN
https://twitter.com/GoldTelegraph_/status/1566092213029056512
what did Hotchul say? Hubby has the TV on, I can’t use volume
“Europe On The Brink:” 70,000 Czech Protesters Flood Prague Over Energy Crisis
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-brink-70000-czech-protesters-flood-prague-over-energy-crisis
@ eaglesoars:
She said that the Supreme Court took away her right to protect the people of her state from “gun violence” by smacking down their absurd concealed carry law
@ lobo91:
oh. thanks.
@ eaglesoars:
How dare they take away her right to take away the rights of her subjects?
lobo91 wrote:
She seems like Cruella De Ville on a bad day. Something is in the water there in New York. I’m guessing a constant diet of lies with little common sense.
twitter is boring today
darkwords wrote:
Now that you mention it…she does seem like someone who would torture beagles a la Fauci.
psychopath
jackery.com solar powered generators.
I used to try an power my laptop off one. The 100 Watt version was too weak.
TA DA!
Scientists Find a Simple Way to Produce Hydrogen From Water at Room Temperature
https://www.sciencealert.com/clean-fuel-breakthrough-turns-water-into-hydrogen-at-room-temperature
https://www.amazon.com/p-g-water-purifier-packets/s?k=p+and+g+water+purifier+packets
P and G water filtration.
Survival prep day…..
I’m 30 minutes late giving the heathen beagles their evening snack and the little darlings are BARKING at me.
sheesh
eaglesoars wrote:
Lol. They have you on the clock. Regular watch dogs.
Joke on the internet that Satan was a little disturbed by Biden’s speech.
This Eli Lake guy is praising it. And I see some people I follow amping up his praise.
You can buy an F-15 if you need one.
https://aerocorner.com/blog/civilians-fighter-jets/
@JackPosobiec
Crowd ERUPTS in cheers as Trump calls for the death penalty for drug dealers
In these SoF podcasts none of the podcasters every say anything good about Dan Crenshaw or Ron De Santis.
Closest I have heard is Jack Carr saying all the operators he knows that are in congress have sold out to the military industrial complex.
And for some reason non of them think Rob ONeill killed Bin Laden. It seems he did take the first or second shot and his co team member in the room wanted to be a silent Seal. I’d say the headshot to Bin Laden was definitely ONEill. based on the stories people have told.
SEN
(D) John Fetterman 44% (+4)
(R) Mehmet Oz 40%
GOV
(D) Josh Shapiro 44% (+1)
(R) Doug Mastriano 43%
PRES
(R) Donald Trump 47% (+7)
(D) Joe Biden 40%
Pennsylvania. Those Trump voters fall off for some reason when it comes to the other candidates. They should give Biden some coatails.
Patty Murray in Washington State is in a neck and neck race. That is a surprise. GoP turnout could flip that Senate seat.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1566153239296413696
Pretty wild video against the soros prosecutors.
@ darkwords:
Matt Bissonnette was the second SEAL through the door, right behind O’Neil. He later wrote the book No Easy Day, which got him in hot water with the government, under the pen name Mark Owen.
He’s one of the executive producers and main technical adviser on the CBS/Paramount series SEAL Team now.
He and Jack Carr are close friends.
darkwords wrote:
what is SoF?
darkwords wrote:
I forget who but someone on Bannon’s show this morning said Fetterman has 2 convicted murderers on his staff.
eaglesoars wrote:
Special Operations Forces.
SF, Rangers, SEALs, etc
@ lobo91:
oh sorry. brain fog
eaglesoars wrote:
Special Forces.
eaglesoars wrote:
How can anyone vote for him?
There is a DEVESTATING piece up on the UK’s Daily Mail about Biden’s speech. Whoever in his admin thought this was a good idea……..
In Philadelphia, however, Biden wasn’t demonizing elected officials. He was taking square aim at regular citizens.
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If last night’s 24-minute oration were judged as nothing more than a stump speech, objectively, it probably succeeded, at least for the small number of people who bothered to switch over from the opening of college football season.
As an address to the nation as a whole, intended to start bridging divides and save democracy, it was a Kabul-sized catastrophe.
And there’s no walking back from that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11174473/Biden-damage-control-demonizing-half-Americas-voters-JONATHAN-BRONITSKY.html
There are 3.6k comments. Highest rated..
This can’t be walked back. Scary part is the Democratic party allowed it to happen which pretty much tells me, they’re all deranged. Common sense is severely lacking in the liberal mind and the Democratic party is now an extremist organization. Vote this garbage out in November.
and guess who replied to that? Someone going as ‘Carolina Girl’. Remember that nic? What are the odds?
The thing is, Dems have gotten so comfortable with the fact that 99% of the media will cover for them or “explain what they really meant”, that they literally have no filter anymore. They believe that if something backfires, the media will just clean up the mess. Well, it has been that way. However, this is a step beyond. It’s unlikely that even the media can spin this away.
eaglesoars wrote:
Have to keep throwing it at them. They will try and weasel their way out.
lobo91 wrote:
I read that book but can’t remember much about it.
I don’t blame her. I’m surprised she didn’t take all of it out to the yard, pour gasoline on it and light it up
Report: Melania Trump Bought New Wardrobe After FBI ‘Contaminated’ Her Clothes During Mar-a-Lago Raid
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/03/report-melania-trump-bought-new-wardrobe-after-fbi-contaminated-her-clothes-during-mar-a-lago-raid/
Donald Trump and Joe Biden Both held rallies in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania this week.
Here is what they looked like back to back.
Incredible.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1566230943693676544
video just under a minute, and it is jaw dropping
Oh yeah, remember this whack job? Dr. Brandy Lee? A Yale shrink who used to go off about Trump? Then she tried to analyze Dershowitz and eventually they fired her ass.
She sued.
She lost.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/09/03/anti-trump-obsessed-psychiatrist-who-advocated-to-boot-trump-loses-big-time-over-her-own-job-n622324
Trump: They raided Barron’s bedroom.
https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1566280276443123714
eaglesoars wrote:
As with all of these schemes there is always a fatal flaw, otherwise some wiseacre would have already done it before.
The flaw is that Gallium is EXTREMELY rare and therefore VERY expansive. It is a byproduct of Silver Zinc extraction at the Broken Hill mines in Western New South Wales in Oz. Of the hundred of thousand tonnes of zinc and around several thousand tonnes of silver produced annually at Broken Hill they get a pickle Jar full of Gallium as a byproduct.
A VERY expensive pickle jar I might say!
🙂
Photos: 5 Coal Miners Push Tourists’ Dead Electric Car to Charge Up at Coal Mine
https://www.westernjournal.com/photos-5-coal-miners-push-tourists-dead-electric-car-charge-coal-mine/
@ Aussie Infidel:
Well, how much stuff did Marie Curie have to shovel?
I’ve been seeing this for a couple days
A Global Chickpea Shortage is Looming
Chickpea crop yields are expected to drop as much as 20 percent in 2022.
https://modernfarmer.com/2022/07/chickpea-shortage/
Russia exports 25% of the global supply
That’s the export side. But domestically, it looks like we’ll be ok
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/is-there-a-chickpea-shortage/?did=833690-20220904&utm_campaign=alrcom-whats-cooking_newsletter&utm_source=allrecipes.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=090422&cid=833690&mid=96223573297&lctg=125496885
Does anyone know how this happens? was out on the deck w/my phone last night. Weather was lovely. Came in about 10:30 and plugged my phone into the charger. Up pops a message
UNPLUG PHONE. MOISTURE DETECTED. ALLOW TO DRY
wtf? Nothing was wet. Tried Hubby’s charger. Same thing. Left it unplugged overnite. Tried this morning. Same thing.
Turned it off, Hubby ran it over to the T-Mobile shop. All dried out, I guess, it started to power up, no problems. The guy at T-Mobile had no idea how it happens but said, yeah, don’t get it wet.
Thanks.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Change the room temperature.
This is our local hospital
Woman waits 28 hours in ER for room at Knoxville medical center
https://www.wate.com/news/knox-county-news/woman-waits-28-hours-in-er-for-room-at-knoxville-medical-center/
staff shortages.
Hell, when hubby called the ambulance for me a couple weeks ago, it took them an hour to get here. Couldn’t have been nicer but – short staffed.
eaglesoars wrote:
From the 3 September FB post:
“Today at our mine off Corridor H an electric car from DC ran out of battery at the road entrance to the mine.”
Great piece from Lee Smith
Why Did the FBI Raid Mar-a-Lago?
The Mar-a-Lago raid feels like Russiagate because, well, it is Russiagate: a conspiracy theory weaponized by the country’s courtier class to serve the interests of a delirious and deracinated oligarchy, spawning daily prophesies of doom fed by an endless supply of national security “leaks” asserting that the former commander-in-chief really was and is a secret Russian agent. And proof of the president’s treachery, chant the priestly keepers of the “collusion” mysteries, will soon be revealed to the public. It is their blanket justification for every past crime and every new banana republic-style abuse of power, accompanied by a drumbeat of ever more outlandish and violent threats.
It is in this context that the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago should be understood: Government records and reports from political and media operatives and bureaucrats who previously starred in Russiagate I give evidence that the FBI raided Trump’s home to seize documents exposing the crimes that the FBI and Justice Department have been committing since 2016. The fact that Russiagate shows no signs of ending anytime soon is bad news for the republic, betrayed from within by a performative elite whose ability to project power outside its gilded bubble requires a steady supply of paranoia, fear, and hysteria.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/fbi-raid-mar-a-lago-trump-russiagate-lee-smith
Football lulz
https://www DOT facebook DOT com/frenchvanillaicecream/posts/pfbid02r9ii8ukgbm3CmcnwbUaxm15MN9tEhBsEYgt5KCPa1wcrNeYNqutG4ioQBTLFHZvrl
Germany: River levels dropping, impeding barge traffic that delivers coal. Coal prices expected to rise 3x benchmark from start of the year
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1566532744657903616
eaglesoars wrote:
Never feel sorry for arseholes’ self inflicted injuries!
The Krauts and especially the’ Greens’ Krauts deserve every single icicle coming their way this approaching winter!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
IF enough people can’t pay their monthly bills then the EU will have to nationalize energy production and distribution. With all the efficiencies and having gifted all their saving to a corrupt Ukraine.
more inflation… I don’t see how a market economy survives there without some violence that removes all the bad think.
Studying dopamine on Huberman Labs podcasts. People have a dopamine baseline that will spike and drive a person to a goal. Then recede back to the baseline.
Drugs can spike the baseline x 10 and then drop the baseline to a lower level that is more difficult to work with.
Exercise, Chocolates, and Sex will all spike the dopamine baseline 1.5 to 2.5 times. And recede within 30 minutes to an hour.
Cold Showers can spike dopamine for 3 hours.
The human body needs a dopamine rest. Exercise and rest. Work and Play. Argue and apologize are common events. Having a cell phone on the majority of the day interrupts dopamine homeostasis. Putting the phone down for a few hours a day will make a person happier over the long run in their life.
Periods of resistance, sadness, and lack are necessary to make dopamine goals function well. If you exercise you need to enjoy the exercise to make the dopamine function efficiently.
Dopamine is the happiness over time molecule.
@ darkwords:
And Yerba Mate tea has a boost to dopamine from it. I tried this last night and yes I had a mood lift from it. But it also kept me wide awake til 5 AM. A lot of caffeine in it also.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Did you see my post upthread about the German Green politician who said he doesn’t give a fuck what his voters think, full steam ahead? [not that they’ll have any steam or anything]
The best tea I ever had was Coca Tea in Cuzco Peru. A person is at a high altitude there and it made breathing easier. So I went up higher in elevation, drank the tea, and hiked and got altitude sickness.
Not acclimated in culture or physiology at that altitude. Dumb foreigners.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I feel sorry for those who had nothing to do with it.
darkwords wrote:
4WD allows you to go where nobody can help you if you get stuck.
@ darkwords:
Balance.
Rant…
Why in 2022 do we need to send humans to the moon?
What are they going to do there?
Currently there are rovers on mars and they are doing whatever they do. Technically it is difficult as because of the distance depending on the earth and mars orbits it can take up to 15 minutes for a command to a rover on mars to be acted upon.
A moon rover responds in a couple of seconds… 186000 miles per second is speed of wifi to moon.
Manned mission to the moon? Waste of fucking time, resources and money.
OH SORRY!!!! I retract my statement. The Mission to the moon is VITAL!!!!!!
Look at the mission statement of https://twitter.com/NASAArtemis
Fuck NASA
Possum wrote:
free gov’t money
It’s not just NASA
OK me as a child who grew up in the 60s then use the moon for something.
Fuck hubble and the james web telescope. They are in orbit around the earth so they are above the atmosphere and they are looking out at the cosmos with their asses pointing at earth to minimise electromagnetic pollution from earth
If you want or need a radio telescope that is shielded from earth’s pollution put it on the dark side of the moon. Which isnt exactly dark. .
Sunlight 24/7 for 14 days every month to charge batteries for the 14 dark days
Moon orbital relays send data back to earth. Simples.
@ Possum:
As to satalites orbiting and relaying data when there is no direct line of transmission from a rover then that is how they are doing it on mars at the moment.
OK fun times here. Lots of blue flashing lights just went past and the cats are glued to the window. Checked on https://cohweb.houstontx.gov/ActiveIncidents/Combined.aspx
and we have an EMS event.
But that is usual a few time a week. What is unusual is flightradar24 showing a noisy hellycopter.
Cats are looking at the sky thinking if it just comes a little lower we gonna KILL IT!!!!!
@ Possum:
I think it crashed, or HPD shot it down.
https://twitter.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1566646641427447810
@ Possum:
Can we send Harris and AOC and leave them?
eaglesoars wrote:
….” Hmmmm This Green numbnuts forgets that ‘not giving a fuck’ goes in BOTH directions. “.
Next election cycle he may discover what ‘get even’ means to very angry voters!
🙂
Possum wrote:
… and a nice touch. The Moon surveyor has found lava tubes near the South pole of the Moon where partially collapsed tubes form ‘trenches’ where the temperature stays pretty constant around 18 degrees C. You can build inside the lava caves using locally manufactured concrete that shields one from energetic radiation.
I am almost tempted to holiday there except for the razor sharp dust particles that get all over the place and cause nasty breathing problems after a long period living in a cave with a concrete mixer in tow!
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
You mean the s-l-o-w learners who haven’t moved yet? Hell even the CDU voted for Green initiatives. The smart money (and folks) moved out already. What’s left keep voting for Green arseholes and deserve whatever comes their way!
🙂
darkwords wrote:
What is it with Andean folks that makes them do really dumb things? Like living 4,000 M above sea level for the fun of it, in a wind blowing at a constant 50 MPH at 45F…. in the summer? Windchill anyone? Hell before they even think about building a hovel, they first build a wall of stones (no wood up there as it hardly ever rains and they are above the snowline in winter). The wall is to shelter behind as they contemplate their hovel drawings and choose which rocks they are going to build it out of. Then they have to handle the local witches who seem to get off on making the average folks lives even more hellish. No wonder the local folks are still driven to a little covert child sacrifice on the side, still when tourists aren’t looking to placate the nasty pagan gods!
Landing at 4,000 metres means that your airplane hardly slows down from cruising speed when it hits the ground. Terrifying to behold, as I saw through the leaky pressurisation grommets around the door seals, that really didn’t do all that much sealing! Thought that the tyres were going to fly off their rims landing in La Paz!
Don’t get me started on the Bolivian hobby of le Revolution. The total is around 67 since the 1870s I believe. The record is THREE revolutions in a single day! Seriously. These folks get off on their revolutions! They love ’em!
🙂
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/20-quid-pint-uk-pubs-forced-hike-prices-or-die
the death of the brit pub.
very sad.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
The pursuit of purple potatoes.
Possum wrote:
Right below Lucy’s tweet was a photograph of a bridge with an islamic subliminal.
https://twitter.com/heartzcore_/status/1566525460581851136
https://www.breitbart.com/news/judge-grants-trump-bid-for-special-master-in-document-search/
raaaaacissssss
@ coldwarrior:
Good background info here if you filter out the libspeek.
https://heavy.com/news/aileen-cannon/
darkwords wrote:
Nationalization is the goal here. This is planned.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
she seems level headed and well grounded
no hurricanes yet this year….
keep a eye on this
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-slashes-fx-deposit-requirement-prop-yuan-only-delays-inevitable
coldwarrior wrote:
I did not understand one word of that. Please explain.
@ Possum: When I think of where I thought we would be in terms of space exploration as a child, and where we are at present, I am quite disappointed. It makes me feel like we are in decline as a culture. I have been looking forward to today’s launch attempt, and to progress & advancement overall.
Judge GRANTS Trump’s request to have a special master review documents seized in Mar-a-Lago raid – as its revealed FBI agents took medical records from ex-President’s home
Judge Aileen Cannon approved Trump’s motion to appoint a special master
The independent party would review for attorney client AND executive privilege
Trump lawyers had made the demand in a filing in Florida
Trump-appointed judge said order would not impact intelligence assessment
Justice Department revealed extent of top secret materials found in raid
‘Detailed Property Inventory’ reveals agents seized ‘ approximately 11,000 documents and 1,800 other items’
Materials include ‘medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11182181/Judge-GRANTS-Trumps-special-master-request.html
You might want to view w/Brave browser as the Daily Mail has enough ads for a circus
Also, I thought I saw something about the judge saying the FBI couldn’t have some papers back, don’t know what that was about
Possum wrote:
Back of the Moon radio astronomy and stuff.
Refuelling station (water split into H2 and O2)from the H2O at the South Pole. for deep space exploration of the solar system.
Jumping off local in a low gravity environment for deep space missions to mine stuff out there worth $Trillions
The strategic ‘High Ground’ overlooking Earth!
Because NASA is good at spending OPM (Other Peoples’ Money)
🙂
Why NASA just doesn’t subcontract to Space X and be done with it I will never know.
Survey Finds Self-Hating White Liberals Are Getting Progressively More Delusional
[whites are lazier than blacks, dumber than blacks blah blah blah]
All empty virtue signaling
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63315
FedEx delivery network is ‘on brink of COLLAPSE’ because rising costs have pushed contractors to brink of bankruptcy, owner of delivery truck fleet warns
FedEx Ground delivery contractors have been demanding higher pay and changes to operations with profit margins squeezed due to inflation
Rising costs due to fuel and inflation mean local contractors that deliver FedEx packages on behalf of the conglomerate are at risk of going bankrupt
FedEx doesn’t employ drivers for its Ground operation and instead relies on contractors — often small operations with tight profit margins
FedEx recently severed links with one contractor, Spencer Patton who ran a fleet of 275 trucks across 10 states saying he was ‘spreading misinformation’
Patton had signaled warnings: ‘The FedEx Ground network is in far more peril than what anyone realizes,’ he said
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11175639/FedEx-Ground-delivery-network-brink-COLLAPSE-54bn-conglomerate-refusing-act.html
As I wrote before, NASA’s behavior makes me feel as though we are a culture in decline. When do we have the manned missions to Mars, or the moons of either Jupiter or Saturn ?
AMAZON SECRETLY SHUT DOWN ALL ITS SOLAR ROOFTOPS AFTER THEY STARTED CATCHING FIRE
“THE RATE OF DANGEROUS INCIDENTS IS UNACCEPTABLE, AND ABOVE INDUSTRY STANDARDS.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-shut-down-solar-rooftops-fire
eaglesoars wrote:
Nothing about the causes of the fires.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Cheap Chinese-made solar equipment
@ lobo91:
satanic
How stupid are men?
All the housecleaning I’ve been doing – 2 days getting everything back to normal after I’ve been too sick to keep up – and Mia decided to go all psycho puppy and eviscerate a stuffed toy. Filling and dust everywhere.
Hubby made a mistake.
He laughed.
He is now busy with a broom, dust pan and micro fibre dust mop. He asked me to hold the dust pan. He is now on his knees sweeping into the dust pan.
How do they survive past 21 yrs of age?
CW is this what that zerohedge piece was saying?
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/09/chinas-economy-is-headed-for-one-of-the-largest-meltdowns-ever/
China’s Economy Is Headed For One Of The Largest Meltdowns Ever
To stimulate the economy, China’s regulators are forcing Chinese banks to meet high loan quotas.
To hit the difficult-to-attain targets, ingenious bankers are lending and simultaneously allowing borrowers to deposit identical amounts with their institutions at identical interest rates.
Companies no longer want money to launch new projects. Pessimism about the economy dominates thinking in Chinese boardrooms and throughout the rest of society.
The big story is not that the Chinese economy is falling apart. It is, at least apart from the export sector. The big story is that China’s stimulus efforts, so successful in the past in jumpstarting growth, are no longer working. The country’s economy is, in a word, exhausted.
https://instapundit.com/541060/#respond
In the past, when the economy look fatigued, China’s business community could count on the central government to create growth with massive stimulus programs. That is, after all, how former Premier Wen Jiabao avoided contraction in China as the rest of the world suffered during the 2008 downturn.
Wen went big. In the half decade beginning in 2009, Beijing added an amount of credit equal to that in the entire U.S. banking system. The premier flooded an economy that at the end of 2008 was not even a third the size of America’s.
Wen went too big. Anne Stevenson-Yang of J Capital Research tells me that the Chinese have long compared their country to a train whose last car is on fire. The train has to go fast to make sure the flames blow backwards. As soon as the train slows, flames engulf the passenger cars.
“That is China and debt,” Stevenson-Yang, also author of China Alone: The Emergence from and Potential Return to Isolation, says. “If you add enough money to the system, you can keep refinancing the old debt, but you have to add money exponentially.”
The country has been exponentially incurring indebtedness, perhaps creating debt about seven times faster than it has been producing nominal gross domestic product.
Nobody knows how much debt China has accumulated, but total country indebtedness could be an amount equal to 350% of GDP. Because of the infamous “hidden debt” and Beijing’s misreporting—exaggeration—of economic output, the percentage could even be higher.
However much debt there is, senior Chinese leaders are facing problems they cannot solve, something evident from, among other things, defaults by large property developers, the so-called “mortgage boycotts” of homeowners refusing to pay loans, and bank runs.
The Communist Party knows—and has known for a long time—the game could not go on forever. Wen Jiabao himself in 2007 talked about what has become known as the economy’s “Four Uns.” Growth then, he said, was “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.”
What happens now?
So how’s that One Belt, One Road thing working out?
lobo91 wrote:
Another idiot that the insane vote for. She means ant white or asian person with a gun. She doesn’t mean black. Which makes it a political policy.
Oh. My. God.
I follow the Prince Harry/Meghan Markle saga closely – I call it the ‘Hank and Skank Show’ – because the entertainment value is priceless.
This is The Skank’s most recent speech at something or other whatever. You can listen to the whole thing – it’s all about her – but THIS word salad is priceless
…as we embrace the present moment of NOW…to create a better tomorrow
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11182951/Duke-Duchess-Sussex-run-gauntlet-negative-cries-group-protesters-UK-visit.html
darkwords wrote:
I look at her, Whitmer, et al. and notice that with a few minor tweaks, all these women look the same. It’s quite odd. It’s as tho insanity has a genetic component.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/09/chinas-economy-is-headed-for-one-of-the-largest-meltdowns-ever/
China’s Economy Is Headed For One Of The Largest Meltdowns Ever
To ‘stimulate’ ahhhemmmm, the economy, China’s regulators are forcing Chinese banks to meet high loan quotas.
To hit the difficult-to-attain targets, ingenious bankers are lending and simultaneously allowing borrowers to deposit identical amounts with their institutions at identical interest rates.
Yeah that’ll work.
NOT !
Banks meet State stipulated loan quota rates by LENDING to customers, and then quietly allowing the LOAN applicants to DEPOSIT the same funds back into the bank at the same rates as those they borrowed the money from the bank in the first place. Central government is happy that the banks have met their loan rates to customers. The customers are happy that they deposited the funds back with the banks at NO COST to them, as borrowing and deposit rates are identical. Interest rates on borrowed funds by customers is identical to the deposit rates with the bank. Everyone is happy.
The government can show that it is doing something by ‘encouraging banks to loan funds’ to customers. Customers are moderately happy that their interest on borrowed funds is identical to the banks’ interest and it’s not actually costing them anything.
And so around and around this fiscal ‘merry-go-round’ goes. Nobody loses ‘theoretically’, although the banks are actually losing their fees. The customers see interest costs going out, on their bank loans, but that is exactly balanced by income on their loans flowing back to their bank accounts. Alas the customers’ borrowed funds don’t actually DO anything either, as it just goes straight back to the banks. Fiscal drag anyone? No additional people get employed and no products get manufactured.
Companies no longer want money to launch new projects. Pessimism about the economy dominates thinking in Chinese boardrooms and throughout the rest of society.
The big story is not that the Chinese economy is falling apart. It is, at least apart from the export sector. The big story is that China’s stimulus efforts, so successful in the past in jumpstarting growth, are no longer working. The country’s economy is, in a word, exhausted.
The usual internal ‘smoke and mirror’ property market that makes up 40% of the Chinese economic activity, built on Provincial funds from businesses confiscated and then paid to Central Government at zero interest, and paid back in a lump sum at Chinese New Year to business and back into workers’ pockets. Doesn’t work so well anymore. Most of these ghost tower blocks without even plumbing and wiring installed, are just ‘make work schemes’ to forestall the rising of the populous. That whole Ponzi scheme has finally run its course it appears.
The Central Government bureaucratic wombles are however still happy because they have met their stipulated Bank Loan TARGETS, and they are still pulling in a salary made up of internally generated ‘fairy dust’. This is some gig that the Central Government ‘economists’ (and I use that word advisedly) have thought up. A huge circular money transfer machine that makes absolutely NOTHING, whilst it generates bureaucratic paper that shows ‘ACTIVITY of the bureaucrats. Just keep your eyes closed and disregard all of the money leaking out of the system, with fiscal drag, bureaucratic salaries and zero profits on invested funds.
Sounds like a really great way of painting the Chinese economy into a corner!
@ Aussie Infidel:
The ripples from this are going to be massive
eaglesoars wrote:
You betcha it’s going to be massive. Having China fall to bits before our eyes, has the potential to wreck the world economy and give us another taste of 1929 all over again. As with the Depression of 1929 – 1936 the seeds of a world war were planted and bore fruit in 1939. Given with what is happening post Covid, the Globe is playing with fire with Agenda 2030, throwing gasoline all over the place.
🙁
eaglesoars wrote:
I had 3 hours this morning talking with my Chinese sounding board. He reported that up to 50% of Chinese Permanent Residents are hard core CCP, with about (his estimate) 10% of that half, professional Chinese Intel agents and Agents of Influence working directly to the Chinese Intel services.
If he is correct, and he’s VERY well connected through family ties back to the top 1% in China, we all have plenty to worry about in the West.
Hunter Is the Good Biden
Written by Jason Morgan | Remnant Correspondent, TOKYO
The son of the warlock who spread his talons and cast a spell from his satanic podium last Thursday.
Hunter Biden has been in the news again recently. Not for his fingerpainting this time—for a movie that has been made about his life. “My Son Hunter,” which is being distributed by Breitbart News, is set for release on September 7, 2022.
If the trailer is any indication, “My Son Hunter” will be a recreation of what it would look like if all the horrendous photos and videos on Hunter Biden’s misplaced laptops had been strung together and set within the context of political events. The churning, psychedelic plotline is disconcerting in the extreme, but the nausea one feels watching the trailer is not due to art for art’s sake but to art’s imitating life. The pathetic shallowness that is Hunter Biden, the meth teeth and prostitutes and cocaine, is not fiction in the slightest. It is who the son of the illegal occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is throughout his every wasted day.
Joe Biden, is infinitely worse than “the smartest guy he knows,” the clearly idiotic Hunter.
Flipping through the scenes of Hunter Biden’s existence takes a strong stomach and a fortified psychological constitution. The man is debauched, depraved, disgraced, and diseased. What’s worse, he has traded access to his famous father for the sexual, financial, and narcotic favors which have been thrown his way. Hunter Biden is essentially a reverse pimp. He sells fake intimacy for money, but he’s the one who ends up getting used. And one suspects he kind of likes it. Hunter Biden is, by every measure I can think of, a disgusting human being.
But let’s not let “My Son Hunter” distract us from what’s really going on. Yes, Hunter Biden is a traitor and a lowlife. But he’s the good Biden. His father, Joe Biden, is infinitely worse than “the smartest guy he knows,” the clearly idiotic Hunter.
It’s true, for example, that Hunter Biden was on the take from bigwigs in Ukraine and China. Those payments, disguised as business transactions, were transparently in exchange for face time with “the Big Guy.” You don’t have to be Perry Mason to figure out what’s going on. Hunter sold out his country and his name for Mammon. A trial is too good for people like Hunter Biden—drumhead justice at dawn will do.
Heck, long before Hunter became the poster boy problem child, his dad was “high-tech lynching” Clarence Thomas.
But Hunter was just the disposable middleman. The real corruption comes when “the Big Guy” gets involved. And when that happens all bets are off. Heck, long before Hunter became the poster boy problem child, his dad was “high-tech lynching” Clarence Thomas. And one can hardly blame Hunter for pop’s (not to be confused with Corn Pop) surrender to the Taliban, a ragtag force of Stone Age cave dwellers whose most potent weapon, apart from rusty Kalashnikovs from the Soviet era, would appear to be b.o. Not sure the average Talibanner is as ripe in his greasy robe as Hunter must be after a long night on the town in Beijing, but at any rate the ignominious retreat from Afghanistan was “the Big Guy’s” canvas, not Hunter’s.
Afghanistan brings into even sharper focus why Hunter is the good Biden. Joe Biden is the manager of American decline (as was his boss when he was vice-president, the highest office which Joe Biden has ever legitimately held). His task is much more complicated than was Obama’s, however. Obama—who has yet to produce a paper version of his birth certificate—had only to curtsy from afar as the People’s Republic of China came drooling and snarling (and, yes, spitting and breaking in line) onto the world stage. Biden is in a much stickier wicket. Biden has to fake-grapple with Beijing, to put on a good show before the People’s Republic of China—Biden’s owner—finally gets to clasp the brass ring and escort the Americans out of the theater. Free Wuhan virus for everyone in the audience.
There are hundreds of millions of people in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and a lot of other places (including, yes, China and even North Korea) who would prefer that a nuclear war in the western Pacific not be the price to pay for Joe Biden’s having cashed in on the American endgame.
Maybe you like the American Empire. Maybe you don’t. There are hundreds of millions of people in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and a lot of other places (including, yes, China and even North Korea) who would prefer that a nuclear war in the western Pacific not be the price to pay for Joe Biden’s having cashed in on the American endgame.
In Ukraine, too, Hunter was, again, just the self-pimping pimp who got a cut of the cash flow for doing his debasing political gigolo work. It was “the Big Guy” who bought off the Ukrainian justice department (yes, that’s an oxymoron) by leveraging American taxpayer dollars and then bragging about it in public while the cameras rolled. That was just the warmup. Biden (and by that I mean the WestExec business-casual fascists who write his speeches) is coordinating the steady expansion of the American weaponry outlet mall in a country whose political system is to the United States what a deck of cards is to a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas. Ukraine is the new Vietnam, the new Central America, a bonanza for con artists, gun-runners, drug dealers, and human traffickers—and that’s just what’s happening inside the CIA. American voters and taxpayers, most of whom seem to think Ukraine is some kind of perennial underdog sports team for which one must cheer or else be thought a heartless monster, have no idea what is going on. Some of them are watching “My Son Hunter,” though, and saying, “Ooooh, that Hunter is a bad dude.”
Absolutely true. But not just because of the whoring and the carousing. Not nearly. Hunter facilitated evils which no cinematic release could ever convey.
In early September 2022, “Dark Brandon” gave a speech, in his role as “president,” against the hellish backdrop of an uplit blood-red building barred and blocked with goth shadows. It was horrifying. “PedoHitler” was the reaction on Twitter.
Speaking of evil, there’s something else to bring up, something that will be unpopular in some quarters. Hunter Biden, on my view, is probably under the influence of evil spirits. I would not be surprised if he had sold his soul to the devil in exchange for one more hit on a bong at a party with Ukrainian gangsters (or Chinese ones—who can keep up?). But morons like Hunter Biden are a dime a dozen for Lucifer. They are roped as easily as dead steers. They are born bottom-dwellers, people who never get farther in the dark kingdom than the sex and drugs and money with which Hunter has already wasted his life.
Joe Biden is under the influence of demons, too, but he’s much higher up on the food chain. In early September 2022, “Dark Brandon” gave a speech, in his role as “president,” against the hellish backdrop of an uplit blood-red building barred and blocked with goth shadows. It was horrifying. “PedoHitler” was the reaction on Twitter. I can see what they mean. Biden is a sex fiend, yes. (But don’t expect the FBI to go raiding any archives to get the records on “the Big Guy’s” hair-sniffing and chest-rubbing.) And he’s also a power-mad racist. So no argument with “PedoHitler” on substance. But Joe Biden spreads out his talon-like arms and casts a warlock spell from the satanic podium on a country which has already sacrificed more than sixty-three million unborn children on the altar of the Democrat Party. Hitler managed only six million, and most of them were adults. Ask yourself—if you were the devil, whose work would you admire more?
As proof I offer you this: even Pope Francis loves Biden. Might as well have a certificate from the underworld written in molten sulfur.
Hunter Biden is small beer. Joe Biden is the one performing a black mass and calling it a “presidential address.”
The United States is governed by more than just the usual cabal of sociopaths. Every country is governed by one of those. The United States, under the fake “president” Joseph Robinette Biden, is barreling toward World War III—which will make even the Democrat Party’s bloodthirstiness seem tame—and is doing so under the direction of a man who is clearly an instrument of Hell itself.
Don’t believe me? As proof I offer you this: even Pope Francis loves Biden. Might as well have a certificate from the underworld written in molten sulfur.
Hunter Biden is a tattooed creep sponging off the government. So what? I knew a hundred of those in grad school. Walk through the streets of New York City to meet a thousand more. That’s not where the real problem is at.
Joe Biden is on another level of bad than his “smartest guy in the room” son.
Don’t lose sight of it: Hunter is the good Biden.
–Jason Morgan is associate professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan
eaglesoars wrote:
IIRC, there was an electronic run on the banks in late 2008, much of the withdrawals came from China. It happened so fast and involved so much moolah that Wall Street shut down. That was pre-recession.
Heard on the radio a few minutes ago that Twitter is unrolling a “new feature” that allows editing of posted tweets. The feature is only available to blue check people and those who pay for a premium account (whatever that is).
Nobody’s gonna abuse THAT feature.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-edit-button-finally/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
beautiful
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I have zero memory of that. But I can’t remember much about last week either, so there’s that
Oh goody! Ed Dowd is talking the Baltic Dry index, one of my faves.
Everything’s tanking, in case you were wondering, no pun intended.
He has a new web site
https://www.theyliedpeopledied.com/
Geniuses, the lot of them
Germany Rules Out Keeping Nuclear Power On Despite Energy Crisis
https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/05/germany-rules-out-keeping-nuclear-power-despite-energy-crisis/
“Lehman Event” Looms For Europe As Energy Companies Face $1.5T In Margin Calls
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/European-Energy-Companies-Face-15-Trillion-In-Margin-Calls.html
eaglesoars wrote:
Finland will look to set up a loan and guarantee scheme of up to $9.92 billion (10 billion euro), under which the State may grant loans or guarantees to companies engaged in electricity production in Finland.
** there is some basic economics there that the hubris of the EU central planners is going to break.
All this is born from Biden and sanctions.
eaglesoars wrote:
Bring on the violence. Hopefully it visits the halls of the elite first.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Twitter seems less interesting to me these days. They’d better get Elon on.
darkwords wrote:
Truth social seems like it has the exact same conservative content plus Trump.
https://cryptoslate.com/russia-to-settle-cross-border-payments-using-stablecoins/
Russia is developing a digital platform that will allow it settle cross-border transactions with more friendly countries using commodity-backed stablecoins
If they are successful
the Biden has shot himself in the foot to spite his nose. But this is something Obama desires.
** This can all be traced back to 7 of 9 so locked up in being a Borg that she refused a 3 some with her spouse.
darkwords wrote:
???? wha?
@ Aussie Infidel:
I passed that one on to a few people.
BTW – Thanks for setting me straight on the thread about the Aussie military. You were right about that guy.
@ Aussie Infidel:
In other words, no GDP is actually generated and the GNP shrinks every time money changes hands.
at 7:30 pm on The Epoch Times. Ed Dowd.
PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Excess Mortality Doubled for Americans Aged 35 to 44—Edward Dowd on New Society of Actuaries Data
https://www.theepochtimes.com/84-percent-rise-in-excess-deaths-among-millennials-edward-dowd-on-new-society-of-actuaries-data_4710431.html
My friend L. is here to decorate the kitchen/dining room walls. She’s a tremendous artist and like me, is to the right of Atilla the Hun. She lives in Annapolis so we don’t see each other much but we talk all the time. Mid-50s, still dresses like a hippie. Been divorced for decades, never remarried. Nobody really serious, so she has a lot of ‘dating stories’. She encountered this guy, nice looking, intelligent, who saw her at work and asked for her number. She thought it was about a job, so she gave it to him. Then, of course, she researched him online to make sure he’s not a serial murderer or something. No social media presence she can find.
He calls and asks her out for a drink. Wasn’t about her work. THEN he asks her who she voted for.
Trump. Twice.
The next thing she hears – at full volume – is that she’s a fascist and racist who hates humanity and wants to put people on trains.
She told him “Well, it’s a good thing you called so you didn’t have to find out while we were having drinks at a bar” and hung up.
Seriously, what is wrong with people?
darkwords wrote:
It causes problems for websites that embed tweets (or screen cap them) to bolster their stories. Capping a tweet that is later revised undermines the credibility of the blog writer.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Didn’t think of that but that would be a problem. A blue check can clickbait quote then change the message up.
eaglesoars wrote:
Jeri Ryan. She was married to the guy Obama was running against for the Illinois Senate. I think he was favored to win until she gave him a sex scandal. He was trying to get her to go to a swingers club I think.
Illinois is lacking quality for politicians.
Off to troll some Biden voters online. They can call me a magat buy I can’t call them groomers.
darkwords wrote:
Oh I remember that. SHE did not give him the sex scandal. It was an issue in their divorce and they had the divorce records sealed in order to protect their minor children.
David Axelrod somehow had them unsealed and publicized. Total scum.
A provider can lock your phone? This is a comment over at Instapundit
Last week the subject of telephone bills came up. My son spends about $40 per month and we pay AT&T close to $200 per month. So, I called AT&T and asked them why I was paying so much. They informed me that I had the best service and I had unlimited data. I explained that I don’t use any data and I wanted my plan changed to bring the bill down to the $40 dollar range. They were not able to offer a “valued” customer that type of rate. This valued customer started shopping around and found a plan at Consumer Ceiiular in the $30 range that accommodates two lines, unlimited talk and text, and data limited to 1 something (I wasn’t listening, mostly because I don’t use the data, so I actually don’t care). We headed to our closest Consumer Cellular dealer which happens to be at the local Target. The young man was very helpful and we were about to close the deal when he said “are your phones unlocked”. Honestly, I didn’t know they could lock your telephone. Now we have always bought our telephones outright and were confident that they were unlocked. WRONG!. 5 days later, hours on the phone with AT&T and one trip to their store (which is 30 miles from my house) and we FINALLY have unlocked telephones and can switch providers. I suspect AT&T makes the process of changing carriers difficult on purpose.
This thread
https://instapundit.com/541117/#respond from ‘Pam Page’
Today in 70 AD, Roman soldiers captured Herod’s Palace, ending the bloody siege of Jerusalem. The city was razed & Temple destroyed. The loss of Jerusalem & devastation of Judea motivated the Jewish diaspora, the development of Rabbinic Judaism, & the spread of Christianity.
I don’t know what ‘Rabbinic Judaism’ means
https://twitter.com/Varangian_Tagma/status/1567287852651905024
Document on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities found by FBI at Mar-a-Lago: report
FBI agents who searched former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home found a document detailing a foreign government’s nuclear capabilities and other military defenses, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The document containing the nuclear information was found during the Aug. 8 search that was authorized by an FBI affidavit that has now been released with redactions. The sources did not disclose to the Post the identity of the foreign government.
The Post had reported in August that the FBI was searching in part for documents containing nuclear information, something Trump later dismissed as a “hoax.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/national-security/3631705-document-on-foreign-nations-nuclear-capabilities-found-by-fbi-at-mar-a-lago-report/
WaPoop is behind a paywall so I’m posting this.
Wasn’t this already debunked by the FBI or someone?
This is so pathetic
well…
How can a source go to wash post saying “Here I am making public the sensitive classified material Trump had and wasn’t unauthorized to keep himself and oh yeah I also don’t have that clearance.” Unless they do. Which wound be, interesting, after Garland’s statement
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1567337542663704579
More than two dozen environmental organizations petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of natural gas for home heating nationwide, arguing the federal agency must regulate “deadly pollution from heating appliances.”
The petition, sponsored by the Sierra Club, claims fossil fuel-fired home furnaces, water heaters, clothes dryers and stoves emit enough nitrogen dioxide (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) that they must be classified as “new stationary sources” of air pollutants, placing them in the same regulatory regime as power plants and factories.
The petition resembles – but goes beyond Gov. Jared Polis’ Greenhouse Gas Roadmap for a clean heat program, a key component of efforts to transition to a natural gas-free heating economy.
“Gas heating appliances, such as water heaters, furnaces, boilers, stoves, and clothes dryers represent about 80% of fossil fuel-fired heating appliances and emit the majority of appliance pollution, including both climate-disrupting GHG emissions and pollutants that directly impact human health,” the petition says.
“The data is incontrovertible: heating appliances in residential and commercial buildings contribute significantly to pollution that endangers public health and welfare. The emissions from these sources are major drivers of the dual crises of climate change and unclean air,” the petition adds.
Some critics described the petition as a sham and excuse to go after carbon dioxide emissions, with regulation of nitrogen dioxide as the vehicle to accomplish that goal.
The petition’s reading would force the EPA to set NOx standards that would effectively ban the use of natural gas in all new construction within a year after the regulation is implemented. Even existing gas appliances would have to be replaced eventually – at the end of their life cycle or when they break down.
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/energy-and-environment/sierra-club-environmental-groups-petition-epa-to-ban-natural-gas-for-home-heating/article_56771a16-c24c-553f-9896-445f5d07f54f.html
A lot more at the link.
This is a ‘follow the money’ thing I’m guessing.\
eaglesoars wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
Good chance they planted it as part of a watergate like political ops. Also good chance Trump is ok to hold the info.
But why would they make this public?
darkwords wrote:
I’m guessing they’re trying to flank the ‘special master’ thing.
But I’m my mother’s dumbest daughter, so what do I know.
Of course they planted it. Assuming it actually exists.
bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
“Accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt”
– Saul Alinsky, HRCs mentor.
Does anyone seriously believe they were ever going to come out of that mansion and say ‘We didn’t find anything…” ?
It was planned from the very beginning, the only thing needed was the actual raid itself and the ‘throw down’.
1) Make SURE he is far away (not home).
Check
2) Make SURE there are no witnesses to the search.
Check.
3) Walk in there with evidence that he committed a felony (the ‘throw down’) or look like the biggest bunch of asses to ever came out of DC.)
Check.
Even if they were somehow caught in the sting, what does it matter ? Over half the country wants him gone ‘By any means necessary’. What do they have to lose ? Zero, zip nada.
The moment the judge handed over the warrant, it was a done deal. I don’t give a shit what they say, I will never be convinced otherwise.
The Clintons, Obama, Biden et al are telling the whole world “This is what we are doing, yes, right before your eyes and yup, not only does everyone know it, we don’t give a shit what you or anyone else has to say about it – its going down. If you don’t like it, you can go fuck yourself”.
We are living through an American coup and there ain’t a damn thing we can do about it…
*Nothing new or original I know, I just needed to vent.
4_Sticks wrote:
don’t be so sure…….
darkwords wrote:
Exactly.
My initial thought was “What Would Foster Do?”
eaglesoars wrote:
darkwords wrote:
IF the document is legitimate, and IF it is classified as “State Secrets” or something, THEN whomever leaked it to the public is guilty of treason.
Occam snickers.
@ 4_Sticks:
Trump knows he’s the biggest target on the planet, and he has insurance.
Somewhere there are assassins in training, and Trump knows that too.
@ eaglesoars:
For years now I’ve been happy with Tracfone.
Indict for WHAT?? And how the fuck would Barr know what the DOJ does or doesn’t have?
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Wednesday on FNC’s “America’s Newsroom” that the Department of Justice is “very close” to the point of having the evidence to indict former President Donald Trump.
Co-host Dana Perino asked, “Do you have a view on how it ends?”
Barr said, “As I’ve said all along, there are two questions. Will the government be able to make out a technical case? Will they have evidence by which that they could indict somebody on, including him? That’s the first question, and I think they are getting very close to that point, frankly.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/09/07/bill-barr-doj-very-close-to-having-evidence-to-indict-trump/
eaglesoars wrote:
Barr had more evidence in the 2020 election fraud but abstained due to technicalities. Both Barr and McConnel have a Fauci like love for their positions of authority and in guiding the nation as elder, wiser statemen. None of them realize how corrupt they are. All three are willing to accept corruption and think they can guide it with hubris.
the red wave has to be a lot bigger than it looks if we are to excise this corruption from DC.
eaglesoars wrote:
Barr is full of himself. Someone needs to let the air out of his hot air balloon sized ego.
Barr has that epstein history in his family. As long as Trump has power Barr is in danger of losing his legacy.
darkwords wrote:
???
Meet Joe Biden’s new White House Monkeypox & HIV coordinator, Demetre Dasalakis.
…Seriously?
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1567653623466979329
take a look at the pic.
eaglesoars wrote:
His dad was the school principal that hired Epstein as a teacher. His dad also wrote erotic novels that resemble Epstein Island.
eaglesoars wrote:
Who is hiring these people? What his photo says is that he is corporate but really is a Satan worshipper through gay sex?
Someone should put this photo in Bidens face.
eaglesoars wrote:
http://www.zombietime.com/
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/ Been a few years.
I’d post a link but a lot of the content is documenting disturbing social justice porn.
darkwords wrote:
These are people without spiritual values. Drugs or sex has driven them this far. In any event they shouldn’t be taken as seriously as we are. We shouldn’t be hiring them in any presidential admin.
@ darkwords:
But Hunter would fit in.
I bet Zombie is a J6 political prisoner now.
spoonie — Teenage girl addicted to being sad and posting on Tik Tok about.
It’s the latest fad. Timcast.com making fun of AOC as their leader.
darkwords wrote:
oh jesus
darkwords wrote:
Do you know any titles/author name(s)?
eaglesoars wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr
one of the pirates awakened Craig and the other prisoners to rape a 15-year-old virginal redheaded female captive in front of them;
Three is more at the link to the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations
darkwords wrote:
I wouldn’t necessarily visits the sins of the father upon the son. But Barr seems very concerned about his legacy. Trying to atone for his father maybe? Bad hire by Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9EBu89EbiY
Megyn Kelly and James O’keefe
20 minutes. He catches school VP saying he won’t hire Catholics or anyone over 30. Because they are too conservative.
@ darkwords:
thanks. I don’t even know what to say
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/queen-elizabeth-at-the-end-royal-family-rushes-to-bedside/
this is a hell of a kill shot
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tucker-carlson-exposes-fetterman/
coldwarrior wrote:
This is going to be an incalculable loss. Poor Charles. Poor Camilla.
Sister sez she saw some media reports she had bone cancer
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
this next generation of royals and the one after that will destroy the monarchy.
@ coldwarrior:
The monarchy may not survive but it won’t be because of the next generations. It will be the one world types. Some of the commonwealth nations will decide to leave now I think. If the Aussies bug out that will be a biggie.
eaglesoars wrote:
Future NY Times headline: Queen Elizabeth dies; Megan Markle hit hardest
She’s gone.
@ eaglesoars:
RIP
Is it King Chuck?
eaglesoars wrote:
RIP. She was a good leader.
right_wing2 wrote:
Yes
@ lobo91:
Oh God.
King Charles III
darkwords wrote:
lol
We took my artist friend, L, out for a steak dinner. I can’t BELIEVE how long it’s been since I had an actual steak. AND FRIED GREEN TOMATOES..with hot mayo.
Heaven.
As I’ve been out and about all day and just found out – Steve Bannon was ARRESTED???
Jesus. H. Christ.
Lady Colin Campbell confirms Queen Elizabeth did have bone cancer
eaglesoars wrote:
Which is the death knell for that wastrel Harry and his whore wife because they both knew it. And once people come out of their brain fog of shock and grief and realize that those two are pure poison.
70 years.
Amazing.
Tomorrow, Mrs coldwarrior and I will have tea at the CC, scones and all.
We will then toast the queen with either Pimm’s cup or proper gin and tonics, or both.
Reagan, JP2, Thatcher, The Queen.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/pimms-no-1-cup-recipe-759329
@ coldwarrior:
She had an entire correspondence committee all over the Commonwealth. Ordinary people she tapped to write to her and tell her what their world looked like and anything they thought she might need/like to know. From pig farmers to haberdashers to housewives.
Her Prime Ministers never had a chance. She was more plugged in than they ever could be.
You know who else did that?
Ronald Reagan.
@ eaglesoars:
Extraordinary person. And a most excellent monarch. To be honest, both Mrs coldwarrior and I are saddened, more than we should be by HRH’s passing.
We aren’t subjects…but…this loss, this vacancy of stability, its like a grandmother passing.
@ coldwarrior:
Of course, our Pimms will be harbor bar, Kinsale Ireland recipe.
The best.
@ coldwarrior:
Me too. But, of course, I’ve been watching stuff across the Pond for awhile now, so my feelings don’t surprise me. I can tell you that I’ve seen quite a few Brits truly surprised at the honest grief felt by Americans they know or have encountered. They’re quite touched.
Charles will do just fine, primarily because of Camilla and William. He’s going to have to land on Harry tho. I’m am absolutely serious that Meghan’s malice is boundless. And I’m not sure Harry isn’t too far behind.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s standard to all cellphone companies. Your phone is locked to their network unless you go outside the company and buy an unlocked phone. They can give you the unlock code and process (some phones you can buy unlock codes on ebay). But, they sometimes make it very difficult to get your unlock code from the company though they are legally obligated to give it to you if your phone is paid off.
Tomorrow’s – well, today, I guess – Daily Mail front page (the paper version)
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1568037012069818368
@ eaglesoars:
Well, we are products of England, Rome before that, and Athens and Sparta before that.
The brits who are surprised by the American reaction maybe don’t get it. We know our history and how important HRH has been in the past 70 years.
As much as I love pushing possums buttons, we don’t exist without England.
@ eaglesoars:
Perfect
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
now that you mention it – back in the day when I was a software developer in telecom..long before cell phones, just land lines…you could choose your own provider. And you could switch over any time you liked to whatever provider you liked. It made billing a total nightmare, but that was the law. But what happened is that AT&T would look at phones numbers serviced by MCI and just file a provider change to get their business (it was called a PIC switch). People noticed that altho they had chosen MCI, they started getting bills from AT&T or vice versa. It was the wild west. I was responsible for the software that tracked this crap so I saw the numbers. Carnage. Talk about pissed off customers. Finally somebody got to the right committee in Congress and they instituted a PIC lock rule. Thank you God. My entire team was ready to open their veins. Not to mention the VPs who had to report to the board.
coldwarrior wrote:
Exactly.
And we aren’t the only ones.
@ eaglesoars:
For better or worse;
South Africa, New Zealand, aussies, Canada, US, Kenya, half of the Caribbean, the state formerly known as Hong Kong, parts of Africa, India…
Etc
eaglesoars wrote:
Ah yes, memories of Raj, one of the more incompetent and entitled Indians I have ever worked with. Dumb as a bag of hammers but from an upper caste Indian family, so enough said on that score. Yes, I did fire his ass eventually, but another story.
I used to have to listen to his monologues about the unjust colonization of his native land by the EEEVIL Brits and one day I just got tired of it and dropped my “I’m the boss, I am utterly neutral” mask.
Hey Raj, so when you die is your family going to cook your wife over an open fire? Oh, and what language are you and I speaking?
shut his sorry ass up
@ eaglesoars:
Quite.
India is only successful because of the brits. I know a ton of successful Desis who have that opinion as well.
Some of the comments on breitbart.com, 0hedge, and TGP about HRH’s passing are just as bad as lefty comments that we chide.
Stay classy, assholes.
Get a life.
This story has been well told in the series THE CROWN, but just in case some here are unaware, Elizabeth was much more that a figure head who wore fantastic jewelry. She was a mover and a shaker who wielded subtlety like a shiv and you never saw a thing. Here is a brief story on how she saved Ghanna FOR the Commonwealth and FROM the Soviet Union.
She danced.
https://www.biography.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-ghana-1961-trip
One of my favorite stories about her – and it’s absolutely true because it was a documentary and filmed – was one time when she was reviewing pleas for prison sentences clemency. One was a death sentence case asking for commutation to life. She was reading thru it and said “Oh, and he killed the dog, too.”
Denied.
You go girl!
coldwarrior wrote:
People who don’t understand history. Waste of time.
coldwarrior wrote:
Look at the Americas. North America doesn’t really have anything they don’t have in South America, resource-wise. Why are we so much more successful?
Because North America was primarily settled by British, German and Dutch Protestants, while South America was settled by Spanish and Portuguese Catholics.
It’s cultural.
Night, yinz…I’ve a competitive match in the AM…
Damned Scottish Presbyterians and their confounding golf!
https://youtu.be/_S11eKcyOYY
coldwarrior wrote:
I shall pray..in gratitude that I no longer have to get up in the morning for a damn thing.
Except the dogs.
Nevermind. I’m going to bed too. nite.
Oh wait. Lookie here! These ‘Pride’ events targeting children for sexual perversion are taking some hits. [How does a state agency get involved is this sewage anyway?]
Boise Pride says it’s postponing children’s drag show due to increased safety concerns
BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — Boise Pride Fest says it’s postponing its drag show featuring children due to increased safety concerns.
Pride organizers say the decision was “very difficult.”
“While the vast majority of our sponsors and supporters have voiced their support for the Boise Pride Festival and the Drag Kids program, we have made the very difficult decision to postpone this performance due to increased safety concerns. The health and well-being of the kids, their parents, and the attendees of the Festival are our priority.”
The move comes after the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare wrote in a letter that it’s no longer sponsoring this year’s Boise Pride Fest.
In a letter, director Dave Jeppesen wrote to Pride director Donald Williamson that the Department of Health and Welfare, Project Filter, Idaho HITV, and the STD and Hepatitis Prevention and Care Program would no longer participate.
Jeppesen says the state made a move to avoid confusion.
“DHW’s sponsorship of Boise Pride 2022 has led to some confusion about whether DHW endorses specific event activities involving minors during this event,” he said. “To avoid any confusion regarding DHW’s support of such activities, DHW is withdrawing both of its orange level sponsorships and Project Filter will no longer be supporting a booth at the event this weekend.”
Also on Thursday, Idaho Power said it too was no longer participating or sponsoring the event.
https://idahonews.com/news/local/idaho-power-withdraws-from-boise-pride-citing-safety-of-employees
‘confusion’
Hilarious segment of Russel Brand bulldozing Mika.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/when-russell-brand-went-on-morning-joe-and-turned-mika-into-a-whimpering-mess/
coldwarrior wrote:
Her coronation sold a ton of TVs in Britain.
@ eaglesoars:
https://twitter.com/MickJagger/status/1567947190127194112
@ eaglesoars:
Guess it’d be funnier if I knew who those people are. I’ve heard of Mika.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
yep
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
DO NOT TELL ME YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF SCARBOROUGH AND MIKA.
That is a cultural touchstone for the idiotocracy of America.
Seriously, what use is my purpose on the interfuckingnet pointing out the threats and stupidity of the decline of Western Civilization then I may as well confine myself to doing my laundry.
Which reminds me. I have clothes in the dryer I have to put away.
As for Russel Brand..a so called comedian – but all comedians are political pundits disguising themselves as laugh machines. He’s a Brit. And a highly intelligent person. I’m guessing his IQ is WAY off the charts. He fell into his ‘role’ and it makes him a ton of money but I get the feeling he’s not particularly happy with it.
@ eaglesoars:
Okay. I laughed my fucking ass off then.
There is a lot of shit being thrown at Britain and the monarchy on social media.
Most of it being about colonisation.
Yep Britain ruled the world once, brought civilisation to many uncivilised countries.
All the venom directed at the British seems to come from either people of colour that were decendents of families from countries colonised by Britain or Irish.
How long can anyone hold a grudge?
Hey I hate the French because in 1066 they invaded England and murdered Kink Harold by shooting him in the eye with an arrow.
I DEMAND REPARATIONS!!!!!!!!
@ Possum:
I dream of a time when over one third of the world population lives in harmony, shares a common second language and gets together to compete in sports regularly without politics being involved.
Is such a thing possible?
Membership of this community is voluntary, all countries involved can leave at any time.
On the flip side of the coin a country can be expelled from this happy group of member states if they mis-behave.
As a side note, there may be localised shit fits, fights, threats of nuclear oblivion between individual members of this élite club but they are tolerated. Until one of them flings a nuke at the other….
OK so far this club has 56 countries that have a combined population of 2.4 Billion people.
Never heard of it have you?
P.S. The U.S.A is technically eligible to join, but as I said earlier membership is on a purely VOLUNTARY basis.
You know the Gremlin rules?
Don’t feed him after midnight.
Don’t get him wet.
Lucy has different rules.
DO NOT CALL OR TEXT AT 10am WHEN SHE IS DRUNK AND PLAYFUL!!!!
And still the calls keep coming.
https://twitter.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1568256673944403968
Possum wrote:
I think we’ve all heard of the Commonwealth.
The question now is if any of the member states choose to leave.
Possum wrote:
Odd that you don’t hear these paragons of victimization say a word about the Uyghers.
@ eaglesoars:
why would they leave?
@ Possum:
dunno. I would imagine the reasons differ by country. I’ve read that there are some in both in Australia and Canada that want to leave.
Somebody got a clue
British Prime Minister Truss lifts fracking ban amid energy crisis
https://justthenews.com/world/europe/british-prime-minister-truss-lifts-fracking-ban-amid-energy-crisis
Unfortunately, it’s hitting private owners too, but still, a little schadenfreud is not out of order.
Then: Commercial Investors Are Sucking Up All American Housing! Now: They’re Losing Their Shirts!
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=52410
One thing I was unaware of: Commercial investors in residential real estate fund their purchases through variable interest rate debt.
OpenDoor’s outstanding debt balance “has ballooned from $271 million to $6.1 billion.”
Every point rise in interest rates costs OpenDoor $40 million more in interest rate payments.
“OpenDoor is truly a modern day house of cards. The company’s revenue grew from $1.8 billion in 2018 to over $8 billion in 2021. To grow they scaled, going from 18 markets to 44 markets in the U.S. In those four years, the company went from flipping 7,000 homes a year back in 2018 to now flipping 21, 000 homes most recently in 2021.”
“Despite OpenDoor’s top-line growth, the company has incurred loss after loss after loss, each bigger than the last, even in a strong rebound year in 2021. Where the company sold a record number of homes, OpenDoor incurred a record loss of over $600 million.”
Some math snipped. “OpenDoor would need to sell roughly sixty thousand homes a year just to break even with how much it costs the company to exist in its current burn rate. Every time the interest rate goes up a single point, OpenDoor needs to sell an additional 2,000 homes in order to offset that additional $40 million.”
The end of the video touches on how Zillow lost $881 million by trusting an algorithm that had them paying above-marker prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyaFeBlRUWw
lol
eaglesoars wrote:
leaving the Commonwealth would just mean England would do better at cricket test things.
Steve Bannon just reported on the Charlie Kirk show that on the day they perp walked him the FBI also raided the homes of 35 people close to Trump.
https://twitter.com/mindnotforrent/status/1568299302946242561
Hurricane Kay couldn’t handle being a Cat 1, thought she’d eat up Baja but woosed out, now she’s Tropical Storm Kay. Rain is nailing the US-Mexican border towns, washes are filling. Stuff is falling in San Diego.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/live-news/tropical-storm-kay-impacts-southern-california-live-updates/1244133
Further north, it’s overcast, wind has picked up, and it’s 90 degrees in the hallway.
Possum wrote:
I noticed that, too, particularly the part about colour.
@ Possum:
lol city
@ Possum:
14 children, the oldest is 13. 😀
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
four wives but don’t want health insurance for them.
@ Possum:
also they disconnected the call after I said I had a heart transplant.
lol
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/08/study-reveals-striking-differences-in-brains-of-modern-humans-and-neanderthals
Homo Sapiens were sharper than Neanderthals.
Therefore white Europeans are stupid.
@ Possum:
Made my day, even though I just woke up an hour ago, put on my official Steve Irwin Crikey Pants, and now I’m ready for breakfast.
Treatment 60 Day 2.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
good luck…..
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Good on ya, mate!
@ Possum:
Without the British Empire yuge swaths of the world would be poor, illiterate, and violent.
Those who don’t understand the outcomes of the Empire are fools.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Octillo flash flood
https://twitter.com/ReedTimmerAccu/status/1568320531417698304
@ coldwarrior:
And after they left, many of those places returned to being poor, illiterate, and violent.
coldwarrior wrote:
“Crikey! Look at the size of this Black Mamba! Bite me right in me crackerbockles she would!”
New eco-phrase just heard on the radio: “Climate Resistance Districts”
NEW @WTOP
: Circuit Court Judge James Plowman has appointed a special prosecutor to replace Loudoun Co. prosecutors in the appeal of a father whose daughter was raped at Stone Bridge High School, by a teen who later raped another student at another
@LCPSOfficial
high school.
https://twitter.com/AugensteinWTOP/status/1568349815385325571
The is the 2nd time that prosecutor has been removed from a case
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
last I checked ‘fuck right off’ still worked.
God, the money must be like a waterfall
Zelensky to headline US defense industry conference
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3636685-zelensky-to-headline-us-defense-industry-conference/
eaglesoars wrote:
Until the local building department slaps a tax lien on your house for non-payment of penalties for non-compliance.
I have no idea if this is binding
JUST IN: The International Organization for Standardization, an organization that sets standards for business transactions has voted to create a special code for gun stores to use when processing credit and debit card transactions via Visa, $V, and Mastercard, $MA.
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1568332195626106880
eaglesoars wrote:
During the late 19th Century The Viceroy of India was having religious troubles with the locals … again … ! The problem was the rules surrounding surtee (the burning of wives when their husbands died) and suchlike. The Viceroy knew that the locals were looking to pick a fight so he appeared to comply with the Indian Law covering Surtee. He did however insist on British Law being given equal consideration.
He declared that the Practice of Surtee under religious law in India was available to family members of a recently deceased male family member, Just as long as British Law covering murder was equally practiced. The Viceroy declared… ” ….please feel free to build your Surtee fires. I will also build sets of gallows along side…”
That was the end of Surtee!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
The Murgal Empire left India factionalized, poor illiterate war ravaged and broken. The British Empire and the later Commonwealth of Nations, left India reasonably well educated, democratic, and with a world class civil service.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
… but white humans were much better as forwards in a rugby scrum because of their superior Neanderthal attributes and great to have on your side in a street fight!
🙂
HEH!
coldwarrior wrote:
College age guy who ran the counter at a local smoke shop grew up in Ohio (he knew all the places I did and vice versa). He still has relatives in India and he visits them yearly. Once I asked him why India still had the antiquated caste system and he responded with three words:
“Because they’re assholes.”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Air NZ was training aircrew to fly the Boeing 737 and based their simulators out of Christchurch in the South Island. The Kiwi crews training were always rostered to train at ungodly hours of the night to allow the Indians to train during the more respectable hours of the day. I was on rostered training from 8PM to 11PM, just as the last Indian crew from All India Airways was finishing up for the day. It was summer and HOT and the SIM had been working all day and was hot and smelly. The Kiwi Instructor had the SIM door open and we were watching through the door wondering when the last Indian crew was going to finish. The Indian skipper was a high Caste Indian and his co-pilot was a low caste. Apparently the co-pilot had aced his training program and the skipper was having a handful managing an engine fire as well as multiple electrical problems during an ILS (Instrument Landing System) down to very low minimums with a cross wind to make things even more difficult.
So help me the co-pilot just sat there mute as the skipper was beginning to lose it because the Co-pilot was low caste and the skipper wouldn’t take any real or implied criticism from someone so lowly!
FINALLY the Kiwi Instructor leaned over tapped the Indian skipper on the shoulder, and suggested that maybe he should maybe sorta start to put out the raging engine fire. So help me he yelled out CAN’T YOU SEE I’M FLYING ON INSTRUMENTS?” The Co-pilot just looked sideways out the blank SIM side window and pretended as if it wasn’t happening!
About that stage our Kiwi crew decided that if we were ever in India we wouldn’t fly All Indian Airways …. but would hire a camel instead!
🙂
True story.
HEH
🙂
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/09/10/ncaa-college-football-week-2-2022-open/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s true in several cultures. I remember reading reports about airline crashes in which the deciding factor was differing social classes between the pilot and co-pilot. One was Japan. The co-pilot was correct but the pilot would not take advice/instruction from him.
No survivors.
@ eaglesoars:
Rush Limbaugh used to warn about this kind of thing – the ol’ ‘give an inch and they will take a mile, and before you know it….” well, here we are.