Written from the deck whilst (yes, I said whilst) smoking a brisket and an Opus X:
Well, i’m back down to $1000/1000. If this were real money, I would have quit at being +600., as I said.
But, this aint real money and it is Championship Week.
I am smoking a Fuente Opus X. Insane expensive, I didn’t buy it, it was gifted by an MD I work with. I helped him through his rotation in the ER (a rare resident MD who actually asked the RNs questions, more on that later). Tabacalera A. Fuente make some insane excellent cigars. This one is just…It might be the best cigar that I have ever had.
10 minutes later…yep. Good God. Ok, I get it.
Lets mess with some ball:
At the time of writing, USC is losing the PACwhatever to Utah. This kills any chance of a team in west making it to the playoffs. Keep playing fagbollsoccer westies! Participation trophies to all yins. Like i said at the beginning of the year, the PAC? is gonna be over rated again…Oregon…just like every year. I remember the days where the UCLA v USC game was the gateway to Rose Bowl, and glory heaped upon the victors by Keith Jackson aka Plini the Elder).
It’s desolate in the football west. Sad hunks of metal of what were proud, dominating football machines are meandering in mediocrity and can’t quite get their footing, any footing, something. It’s a sad as hell day when USC or UCLA aren’t part of the End Of Year ‘Who’s the best?’
So who is the best? After what M just did to ohIo….go dot an i osu. I can’t say that I was upset by this because, to be really honest, the only people who I know who are more obnoxious and single minded than PSU fans are the Ohio State faithful. I’m a PITT guy and live half way between the two nut farms. O or M….well, I know folks who graduated from both. BUT…my great uncle was M Law…so that trumps it. Now, M has to get on the horse. They will most likely have to play SEC…GEORGIA if they get that far.
There are no participation trophies today, who gets to the playoffs is done after tonight:
9-3 Utah just crushed 11-1 USC at the time of writing, maybe USC makes the playoffs as the sad gimp from the hinterland. Probably not.
None of the Championship games matter this year because the big divisions got so big so fast the they cut them up in to two, east west, north south… Watch these inter-divisions go away after this abysmal showing.
Michigan and Ohio State are in the same group of the Big10…M gets to play some team from another group…Perdue, i think, to win the big 10. Maybe M and OSU might have to play twice, throw PSU in there…Purdue??? Purdue.
Same thing in the other groups. I can see where this divisions in leagues goes away real fast.
This is the worst Championship Saturday that I have ever seen and I have no interest in any of the games. Let’s look:
 10 Kansas State |
@
 3 TCU |
12:00 PM |
Blowout
Woops…..the line is 1.5 against the frogs? TCU covers x$600!!!
 14 LSU |
@
 1 Georgia |
4:00 PM |
18 points? this is supposed to be AN SEC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!!!
bite me
EFFF OFFF.
|
@
 2 Michigan |
8:00 PM |
8-4 Boilermakers V 12-0 Michigan for the Big 10 Championship??? the line is 17. so what.
There are other games, but what matters is the playoff picture.
Georgia, Michigan…and the also rans. I must admit, I do love watching Ohio State implode over and over again.
Maybe recruit some better people with a modicum character instead of fast hood rats. Woody Hayes would have done this differently.
College football is a wonderful thing, a day out supporting my Beloved Panthers as an undergraduate, graduate, and then as a dad with my kids and wife (also a grad) is something special. It’s the Alma Mater, the comradery, and the knowledge in your heart that those people from that other school are under educated neanderthal scum! But I digress, It’s OK that there is almost zero interest in my college football rantings here. Yinz put up with me. And that makes this all worth it.
Time to roll out the Notre Dame bowl invite.
Had a good experience today. I’ve been concerned about going to a legalized THC place because most of them are run like head shops, but heard about a different kind of shop today. Stopped by and the place was very nicely set up and organized. Talked to the woman there about my issues and the fact I didn’t want a high and had concerns about the VA, but needed a pain killer for my headaches and other issues. She actually directed me AWAY from the Delta 8 products saying that they probably wouldn’t meet my needs and instead recommended a higher dose full spectrum CBD edible. (I had told her that so far only one CBD product had any effect on me). So now I’m sitting here feeling a lot more relieved from my migraine without the unpleasant side effects of my prescription.
If more of the “pot” shops were like this place a lot of the negative stigma people like me have toward them would go away. Unfortunately, 99% of all of the shops in town are more like head shops than a professionaly business. (But then again one of our chain tobacco shops is filled with glass pipes so even that kind of shop can get kind of sleazy looking.)
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
oh that’s great!
I love this stuff
Medieval Cistercian farm unearthed in northern England
https://aleteia.org/2022/12/01/medieval-cistercian-farm-unearthed-in-northern-england/
Anew archaeological excavation is taking place in northern England. Near the town of Helmsley, within the North York Moors National Park, a high-status medieval farm that was managed by the Cistercian Rievaulx Abbey is being unearthed. According to the article published by Medievalists.net, the finds include rosary beads, pottery and glazed tiles.
Rievaulx was founded in 1132 by 12 monks from Clairvaux Abbey in France (St. Bernard’s own foundation). It soonbecame one of the greatest British abbeys: At its peak, 650 people actively lived and worked there, including monks, direct and indirect employees and other officials associated with the maintenance of monastic activities, including the farm.
oh sorry for the bold, my bad
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, I can still feel it in the background but it’s not crippling me. Only problem is it’s 15 bucks for 10 gummies and I have to take two. So I only have five doses. Might have to see if there’s somewhere I can get more for less.
What’s missing from the Twitter files: The truth about the FBI
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-s-missing-from-the-twitter-files-the-truth-about-the-fbi/ar-AA14QY8G
Elon Musk half-delivered on his promise to tell all about Twitter’s censorship of The New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election. What was missing were details of specific warnings we know the FBI made to Twitter about a Russian “hack and leak operation” involving Hunter during their weekly meetings with top executives of the social media giant in the days and weeks before The Post published its exclusive bombshell.
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We know that FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan testified Tuesday in a lawsuit against the Biden administration brought by Republican attorneys that he organized those weekly meetings with Twitter and Facebook in San Francisco for as many as seven Washington-based FBI agents in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
Twitter’s then-head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth has stated in a sworn declaration that he was told during those meetings to expect “hack-and-leak operations” by state actors involving Hunter Biden.
I’m posting this to help highlight Yoel Roth, one of the most malign personalities I have ever encountered. Big on trans humanism.
I don’t know what it is with people of high IQs. [full disclosure: I was married to one]. Not all, but so many are of the ilk that they are the Chosen of a God they think they replace to engineer human life and society.
I’m glad I’m old. This fight won’t be mine for long.
Ok I’m a little shocked. I found a nice pair of snow boots at rescue mission. They were in the womens section but I didn’t really care, I liked the way they looked and fit and they were brand new. Looked them up online. Unisex and they sell for 170 bucks. WTF. Seriously, who donates boots that expensive in brand new condition. I will be wearing the hell out of these this winter.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
BTW I paid 6 bucks.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Someone who murdered a family of four. Husband, wife and two sweet girls aged 2 and 4.
Perfect way to get rid of evidence and frame someone else.
Check them for blood splatter.
Possum wrote:
Lol. They were well-cleaned. Not letting anyone near them with luminol.
There is some fantastic video here. Why I’m terrified of open water.
The ocean is overwhelming. Enjoy
https://youtu.be/mC8bHxgdHH4
I am watching with amusement the ongoing hagiography of Elon Musk over his supposed ‘rescue’ of free speech/twitter.
Not to disparage what he may possibly be doing (I’m in wait/see mode) – does anybody ‘get’ that this guy is just as much in bed with the ChiComs as Tim Cook? He’s opened a Tesla factory in China, Tim Cook has had an Apple factory there for years. China is famous for slave labor. And nobody does anything in that country without being in bed with the CCP
There are dots to be connected and nobody is connecting them……
@ eaglesoars:
Something in the back of my noggin keeps whispering
*he’s trolling everyone*.
THIS is how to come into port.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1599296734978396160
I haven’t been following the Oath Keepers’ story with regards to Jan 6 “trials”, but there’s this:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/01/oath-keepers-verdict-a-dangerous-escalation-in-criminalizing-dissent/
BTW, Only Brits and guys with manbuns say whilst.
Mr. Possum might refer to them as bloody ponces
Salena Zito, always a great read
MONONGAHELA, Pa. — As you climb out of the valley in this riverfront town, the railroad tracks and patchwork of industries become a distant memory as lush woodlands overtake the roadways. Suddenly they give way to a stone villa tucked into the hillside, surrounded by a clearing filled with acres and acres of grapevines. It looks like a postcard from Tuscany.
Welcome to Ripepi Winery and Vineyard, a sprawling family operation that began as a way for Rich Ripepi to remain connected to the traditions of winemaking brought here from Italy by his grandfather. It has become an award-winning winery located right here in Appalachia.
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2022/11/27/ripepi-wine-monongahela-valley/stories/202211270040
Clumbus OH lolfeds
“Khaki up and cover your whitewalls, bois!!”
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1599403729568288771
I can’t find it now but I read two headlines about it earlier. Apparently, in order to conform to EU climate guidelines, Germany is not allowing its farmers to use fertilizer.
Is this suicidal or what?
eaglesoars wrote:
Those whom the gods seek to destroy, they first make mad!
🙂
Just passing through.
I think we should stop all oil and gas production by 2030 to save the planet. Devote all our efforts to producing clean wind, solar and tidal energy. Also research more into the production of bio fuels using bacteria and algae.
@ Possum:
Quiet in here….
Oh I know!
The USA got knocked out of the world FOOTBALL cup .
You is in mourning….
Possum wrote:
LOL this was the start of a ramble, but currently cooking shrimp fagita stuff so I got distracted
Possum wrote:
prolly not….
but did they get participation trophy an a juice box?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
sophocles nailed that one
@ coldwarrior:
I was really proud of the USA team. They did not bring politics to the game.
The England team tried to wear rainbow arm bands to show support for mentally unstable people.
Also they are kneeling before the start of every game.
Fuck the England team.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
ohferchrissake.
they always look like fresh FLETC grads. not one of them out of shape an no scraggly beards and filthy cammo hats stained with brake fluid.
i always enjoy bunk’s illustrations.
@ Possum:
oh! ok then. well done us team!
found it
Farmers in Germany have been banned from properly fertilizing large areas of their land under strict EU rules pushing the green agenda.
The use of nitrate fertilizers has been further restricted for large swathes of farmland in North Rhine-Westphalia, which is now likely to drastically reduce yields.
Although German authorities have implemented the ban, it is ultimately at the behest of the European Union, which is seeking to reduce the amount of nitrogen to tackle ‘climate change.’
The policy has already wreaked havoc in the Netherlands.
https://www.dailyfetched.com/germany-bans-farmers-from-fertilising-own-land-to-serve-eu-green-agenda/
we need an alien invasion
Really says a lot about Current Year when the most prominent communists are Ivy legacy Chapo trust fund kids and the most prominent white nationalists are a black schizophrenic, a Jewish homosexual FBI informant, and an autistic Mexican(who’s also homosexual).
https://www.facebook.com/eesmith4/posts/pfbid02GHxNBzWXF5hiFkhXVs7PsxjTNhsWiaE9HfUtKMWAdvfM57JGCZrp3RsNFLKVDbQzl
hmmmm, lawsuit is on the entree portion of the menu, I do believe.
Richmond Restaurant Denies Pro-Life, Pro-Family Group Dinner Service Over Christian Values
About an hour and a half before the event, the owners called to cancel our reservation. An employee had looked up our organization, and their wait staff refused to serve us.
The Family Foundation of Virginia is the largest and oldest pro-family advocacy organization in Virginia. Our team and supporters were denied a meal for our beliefs when Metzger’s Bar and Butchery in Richmond, Virginia, refused to service our pre-reserved event, leaving us scrambling just moments before.
For weeks, we had planned a gathering in a private room to fellowship and update supporters on our work. About an hour and a half before the event was set to take place, one of the restaurant’s owners called our team to cancel. An employee had looked up our organization, and their wait staff refused to serve us.
Their official explanation was that our pro-life and pro-traditional-marriage positions violated the “basic human rights” of women and LGBT individuals.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/05/richmond-restaurant-denies-pro-life-pro-family-group-dinner-service-over-christian-values/
AHAHAHAHAHA!!
Now do Muslims.
Here we go again:
Gillibrand declared that the codes will not be used to judge firearm enthusiasts, hunters, and or collectors but instead those who make random and unusually large purchases with credit cards.
Bullshit
For those of you hearing stories that Trump called for the termination of the Constitution – they are malign lies, a deliberate misreading of what he actually said. Here is his post.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/donald-trump-just-weighed-in-on-twittergate-and-i-really-wish-he-hadnt/
“A massive fraud of this type allows for the termination of…even those found in the Constitution”
And I will note that most of the stories I found did NOT include the direct quote.
eaglesoars wrote:
Gee…that’s never happened before…
If I were to invest in steel, lead, and magic sulfates…
Use cash at the local.
@ eaglesoars:
Today’s Pennmac bill wasn’t horrible…
Lol
A 5 lb side of wild caught Scottish salmon…slowly on the smoker…slowly…bagpipes in the background…a single malt, neat…a CAO v660 Flathead cigar…60f in December.
Some days are better than others.
@ coldwarrior:
The side of baccala will take 3 days…
I will use g’ma biagganti’s technique.
@ coldwarrior:
20f to go…the fat marbling on this slab is exquisite
coldwarrior wrote:
google is giving some very odd, irrelevant results
@ eaglesoars:
How is your pup doing?
eaglesoars wrote:
a neighborhood italian gma from back in the day
coldwarrior wrote:
I liked how they dressed in what they think is Ohio garb – plaid CPOs, and two are twinsies.Not sure why they’re marching around a small residential area. Maybe someone’s gramma lives there.
The white face masks are thin and tight enough that someone with forensic-fu could easily recreate the faces for identification.
coldwarrior wrote:
They serve a purpose. It shows me that I’m scrolling through the current thread about a game I haven’t played since high school.
eaglesoars wrote:
Meebas.
California tax “gift” from Newsom arrived a few days ago. Instead of direct deposit to my account or a check, it’s a debit card. If I cash it out there is a fee. If I use it for a purchase, someone’s tracking.
The card is from Money Network Financial, owned by Fiserv Inc., and issued by My Banking Direct / New York Community Bank. Wonder where the service fees really go.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Much better, thank you. She slept thru the night last night and the open sores have developed healing scabs. She’s scratching only very occasionally and when she does the vet ok’d application of topical cortisone cream, which I have as part of the household arsenal.
No more dogs. I’m way to old for this kind of stress. I slept most of the day.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Well isn’t THAT interesting……
Has anyone else got a message about something called the Flexcard. About $3600 from Uncle Joe. Because for some reason we’re ‘eligible’. Yeah, like I’m gonna lay a fingerprint on THAT.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh, got it………
@ eaglesoars:
My entire day is devoted to keeping Cody from either killing himself or us.
This morning, he discovered a box of roofing screws in the garage, which he then carried off in his mouth. He gleefully ran around the yard, leaving a trail of 1 1/2″ screws in his wake.
@ eaglesoars:
lobo91 wrote:
This is the kind of thing I have our financial advisors look in to. We’ll talk to our docs, but color me skeptical.
As for Cody – you DO realize that our sole purpose in life is making dogs happy, right?
My dogs own me.
eaglesoars wrote:
There’s also a limit of $600 per transaction for cash withdrawals, and a fee for each one.
@ Aussie Infidel:
check your email. pics attached
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
wait a sec. In my mental fog, I seem to remember something about the IRS going public with new reporting reqs of elec transactions, minimum amount $600.
eaglesoars wrote:
got it
A recent tweet says it all. “Sam Bankman-Fried: I don’t know where $10 billion went. The Pentagon: We don’t know where $2.2 trillion went. The IRS: You just sent $601.37 don’t forget to report it.”
.
.
The threshold used to be $20,000 but was lowered to $600 as part of the Democrats’ American Rescue Plan Act. (No Republicans voted for this monstrosity.) The legislation tightened the screws on the little guy, and that was no accident.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/05/team-biden-is-using-the-irs-to-attack-the-gig-economy/
NotTheBee
Guy gets his restaurant shut down 2 years after disobeying covid mandates. Listen to the video.
https://notthebee.com/article/virginia-restaurant-gets-raided-by-cops-shut-down-for-defying-lockdown-orders-two-years-ago
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
State Troopers AND local LEOs. How odd.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That’s how it was when I went to Telluride in 2021. Everyone attending the festival had to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to get in, and they gave you a wristband. The only places you had to wear a mask inside the festival were the merchandise tent and the one indoor venue.
In town, you had to wear a mask everywhere indoors, except when sitting at a table in a restaurant. So I’d be walking down the sidewalk, decide where I wanted to eat, then put on a mask to walk through the door. As soon as I sat down, I could take it back off.
Dumbest shit ever…
Kirstie Alley died of cancer at 71
lobo91 wrote:
She was a hoot! God speed…………..
@ eaglesoars:
Not hoot, hot.
Interesting fact. There is no egg in an egg roll.
Hey five out of six ain’t bad!
https://twitter.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1600016402416484353
Possum wrote:
Vietnamese eggrolls are the best.
As so many suspected, COVID was just a test run
Oxfordshire Council to Trial a Climate Lockdown Starting 2024
Oxfordshire County Council Pass Climate Lockdown ‘trial’ to Begin in 2024
Oxfordshire County Council yesterday approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. The latest stage in the ’15 minute city’ agenda is to place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighbourhoods.
Under the new scheme if residents want to leave their zone they will need permission from the Council who gets to decide who is worthy of freedom and who isn’t. Under the new scheme residents will be allowed to leave their zone a maximum of 100 days per year, but in order to even gain this every resident will have to register their car details with the council who will then track their movements via smart cameras round the city.
Communism will make the weather better.
Oxfordshire County Council, which is run by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, secretly decided to divide-up the city of Oxford into six ‘15 minute’ districts in 2021 soon after they were elected to office. None of the councillors declared their intention of imprisoning local residents in their manifestos of course, preferring to make vague claims about how they will ‘improve the environment’ instead.
Every resident will be required to register their car with the County Council who will then monitor how many times they leave their district via number plate recognition cameras. And don’t think you can beat the system if you’re a two car household. Those two cars will be counted as one meaning you will have to divide up the journeys between yourselves. 2 cars 50 journeys each; 3 cars 33 journeys each and so on.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/oxfordshire-council-to-trial-a-climate-lockdown-starting-2024/
Musk is killing animals
12 minute readDecember 6, 20229:57 AM ESTLast Updated 10 min ago
Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
By Rachael Levy
Dec 5 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations.
Neuralink Corp is developing a brain implant it hopes will help paralyzed people walk again and cure other neurological ailments. The federal probe, which has not been previously reported, was opened in recent months by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General at the request of a federal prosecutor, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. The probe, one of the sources said, focuses on violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which governs how researchers treat and test some animals.
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The investigation has come at a time of growing employee dissent about Neuralink’s animal testing, including complaints that pressure from CEO Musk to accelerate development has resulted in botched experiments, according to a Reuters review of dozens of Neuralink documents and interviews with more than 20 current and former employees. Such failed tests have had to be repeated, increasing the number of animals being tested and killed, the employees say. The company documents include previously unreported messages, audio recordings, emails, presentations and reports.
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In all, the company has killed about 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys, following experiments since 2018, according to records reviewed by Reuters and sources with direct knowledge of the company’s animal-testing operations. The sources characterized that figure as a rough estimate because the company does not keep precise records on the number of animals tested and killed. Neuralink has also conducted research using rats and mice.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-faces-federal-probe-employee-backlash-over-animal-tests-2022-12-05/
I can’t get much more than the headline (paywall) but it’s worth noting
U.S. Altered Himars Rocket Launchers to Keep Ukraine From Firing Missiles Into Russia
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-altered-himars-rocket-launchers-to-keep-ukraine-from-firing-missiles-into-russia-11670214338?mod=djemalertNEWS
Vigano gets it
am pleased to be able to speak and share with you my thoughts about the current global crisis. A crisis that we can consider to have begun with the pandemic emergency, but that we know has been planned for decades with very specific purposes by well-known personalities. Stopping at the pandemic alone would in fact be a serious mistake, because it would not allow us to consider the events in their full coherence and inter-connectedness, thus preventing us from understanding them and above all from identifying the criminal intentions behind them. You too – each with your own expertise in the medical, scientific, legal or other fields – will agree with me that limiting yourselves to your own discipline, which in some cases is extremely specific, does not fully explain the rationale for certain choices that have been made by governments, international bodies, and pharmaceutical agencies. For example, finding “graphene-like” material in the blood of people who have been inoculated with experimental serums makes no sense for a virologist, but it does made sense for an expert in nanomaterials and nanotechnology who understands what graphene can be used for. It also makes sense for an expert in medical patents, who immediately identifies the content of the invention and relates it to other similar patents. It also makes sense for an expert in war technologies who knows about studies on the enhanced man (a document of the British Ministry of Defense calls him “augmented man” in transhumanistic terms) and is therefore able to recognize in graphene nanostructures the technology that enables the augmentation of the war performance of military personnel.
https://www.stilumcuriae.com/vigano-to-medical-doctors-for-covid-ethics-international-pandemic-is-only-the-first-step
Naomi Wolf cuts loose at her alma mater
“I cannot believe that in the year 2022,” Naomi continued. “After 35 years of advocacy for women’s health and human rights and civil liberties, I’m standing here to say Yale University should not mandate 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 21-year-olds with an experimental dangerous mRNA lipid nanoparticle injection — just so they can come back to school and resume their educations! I can’t believe I have to say this. But here we are.”
Naomi expresses how she always believed Yale would “protect the civilization that it sought to portray — a civilization in which I learned about the Nuremberg Code here at Yale. I learned about the Geneva Conventions here at Yale. I learned about the Hippocratic oath … here at Yale University. I cannot believe I’m standing outside these walls, saying, ‘Don’t coerce minors and young adults into damaging their lives and submitting to an illegal injection that violates the Geneva Conventions, that violates the Nuremberg Code, that violates the Hippocratic oath, that violates basic human rights — so these kids can pick up their education.’ Don’t do it.”
https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/youre-violating-them-dr-naomi-wolf
@ eaglesoars:
As I expected, they modified the launchers to prevent them from firing long-range ATACMS missiles (which we haven’t supplied them with, anyway):
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, that’d go over real well here.
right_wing2 wrote:
what specifically are you referring to?
@ lobo91:
this is so weird
um, with what?
Ukraine Hits Airbase 600 Kilometers Inside Russia
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=53487
@ eaglesoars:
Some sort of drones, apparently
@ eaglesoars:
Living zones, huh?
Can’t leave….
Mr Orwell was quite the prognosticator.
This can’t be enforced without a compliant police force.
@ lobo91:
ah. of course.
coldwarrior wrote:
and legal system
Psycho Puppy is totally pissed off at me. It’s raining and chilly (around 50) – perfect hypothermia weather for a svelte, small beagle. She’s busy causing trouble.
@ eaglesoars:
Willow is far smarter. She stuck her head out the door, backed right back inside. NOPE, nap time.
@ eaglesoars:
Thats was some story, wow.
4_Sticks wrote:
I assume you’re referring to the Oxford lockdown. Yeah, the morons gave up their guns and the idiotic French, who never learn, are in the process of doing the same.
@ lobo91:
Why the hell would they keep it a secret ? Am I having a ‘slow day’ here or something ? Thats seems more like a cruel, sadistic practical joke than a strategy, no ?.
@ eaglesoars:
Sorry but nope, the ‘BBC2 Horizon Freak Wave’ video. Did I go and post on the wrong 2.0 page again ?
@ eaglesoars:
The rogue waves video.
L.A. City Council hearings are still being disrupted by protesters, and the sound clips I’ve heard are hilarious with all the f-bombs bleeped out. Now they’re bringing cowbells, with mirrors and flashlights to shine in the eyes of the councilmembers.
4_Sticks wrote:
Oh was that cool or what? I am terrified of open water for good reason. Even tho I used to love snorkeling in the Carib, when we couldn’t see land nearby I was terrified right down to my limbic system. Once we went fishing in the Chesapeake on some group boat and we were out there in the Bay. They practically had to carry me off, I was so rigid I could barely walk.
Don’t get me started on the night we got lost in the Thousand Keys area of Florida. In canoes. In the dark. An Outward Bound expedition in the Everglades. On of those “If I knew what I was getting into I never would have done it but it’s one of the best things I ever did”. Fine. Did that. Never again. I still wish I was stupid enough to book a safari, but unfortunately I’m not.
eaglesoars wrote:
It even looks ‘ouch’!
Poor pup!
Still no idea how this happened ?
eaglesoars wrote:
I tried an unarmed safari in the African bush all by myself. Just me and a Landrover jeep and 150,000 animals. Figured that I could hide in the jeep if all else failed.
🙂
Ignorance was bliss. I decided that it’d be a good idea to walk up to Victoria Falls AT NIGHT because there was a full Moon and the spray from the falls made for a night time rainbow. Nobody told me that at night all of the Hippos come out of the river and made huge nests by the road to the falls. I walked both ways , about a mile in all up and back right through the ‘invisible hippos’ all over the place. Never saw a single one but they were there! Hippos are deadly and more dangerous than lions.
As I said ignorance was bliss!
Had a Bar-B-Que just North of the Rhodesian capital up on a Kopii by the main reservoir. I decided to walk up to the top of the kopii to get a view (about 300 feet high). A mate and his wife were cooking steaks down by the water, and they were smart enough to be well armed. Kev had his 7.62mm SLR and Sally had her revolver loaded with ‘wad-cutters’. I smell something like a pole-cat on top of the rocks. Called Kev up and as he reached the summit he suddenly looked terrified and started running. I decided that that was probably a good idea too although I didn’t know what I was running from. Seems that it was a leopard was stalking me and I never saw it but I certainly smelt it!
🙂
Ahhh Africa!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Nope. All 4 vets say these ‘hot spots’ are an allergic reaction to SOMETHING, but in this case their best guess is an insect bite. However, in this cool/cold (overnight) weather, what insects are there? And Mia is fine.
eaglesoars wrote:
Used to do a LOT of snorkelling in the Pacific Islands back in the day. Swilling inside the coral was lovely. Loads of colourful fish. On the OUTSIDE of the deep however there were 6 foot white tip sharks but they didn’t really bother you and were just curious. Another 10strokes however the water went from 20 feet deep to 2,000 feet deep with a massive wall. The Deep Blue was terrifying because that was where the BIG MUNCHIES lurked. Looking down in the inky darkness plunging into the depths was terrifying!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Had she been rolling about in some plants while walking?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
under the azalea bushes a lot. when the yard dries up I’ll go looking
James Baker just got shitcannned by Elon Musk…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/james-baker-just-got-shitcannned-by-elon-musk/
I need a nap. later.
eaglesoars wrote:
Locking everyone in a geographic area and only letting you travel outside that area a certain number of times.
eaglesoars wrote:
Musk probably still has some security holes in twitter that let old employees back in. Hit pieces being released on Musk so someone is worried.
Republican Governors need to cancel woke culture in their own administrations. And in state colleges. One reason they are afraid to do so is that civil rights office is usually the same office as the woke office.
right_wing2 wrote:
That is kind of crazy. No organized resistance. It’s another case of a progressive needing to be slapped in the face until they wake up.
eaglesoars wrote:
That explains some things, and raises more questions.
Yoel Roths qualification for working on Twitter Safety. His PhD thesis was about Grindr.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I don’t know about questions but it sure as hell connects some dots.
Elon needs to gut the place. If Harmeet Dillon gets the chair of the RNC that’s what she intends to do.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I would question why he wasn’t fired in the first round of terminations. He is a known bad actor. Unless Mush just kept him on so he could string along the media?
DNC elite/FBI protect Epstein but oppose Musk who is removing child porn.
The naming is backwards.
Oh wow. Gates of Vienna. Somehow they dropped off my radar.
In my opinion, as users of an “everything app”, (almost) everyone will be turned into a node in The Grid. The profit and power an “everything app” can generate will stem primarily from its ability to influence and control human behavior en masse.
And “information”, in this context, is nothing but your life: all what you do, say, think (!), buy and sell. According to Livemint:
Musk and members of his inner circle had also texted multiple times about the idea of adding digital payments to Twitter.
That’s comfortably reassuring. But how digital will those “digital payments” be? As digital as… the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)? Well, it will certainly be able to influence human behavior, then. But it does not even have to go full CBDC to be able to be coercive; it only has to be comprehensive. Which it will be.
Musk says that ads on his Twitter will have to correspond with content. This means that some of the content will be promoted because it will have to correspond with ads. Ads are mainly paid by giant global corporations that are ultimately owned by the Powers That Be. Thus an “everything app” will become an “elite” monopoly of the collective reality by promoting the “content” of Big Business. And Big Business will collude with Big Government — as we have been allowed to get a taste of during the plandemic. That collusion is what the WEF calls euphemistically “stakeholder capitalism”. Of course, it could not be farther from either “stakeholder” or “capitalism”. It is just what it is: Tech Fascism.
And how fascistic this Tech Fascism will be? Very — Firstpost writes:
In 2020, a Twitter user proposed that Musk create X “to ensure human survival and progress.” This version of X would be the parent company of Tesla, SpaceX, his brain computer company Neuralink and his tunnel construction company the Boring Co., the user suggested. Musk called the proposal a “good idea.
“Ensure human survival and progress.” If that sounds like a cover story, basis and excuse for totalitarian tyranny, it is because it is all of that:
These apps are meant to be able to arrange almost everything and contain everything and everybody. Hence the more you, as an individual, engage in the “monopoly of reality” the easier your life will be in a material sense. Therefore those who do not live their lives in the Grid, will have a much harder time in the virtual reality that will become the most powerful empire within the realm we used to call “reality” in the pre-digital era. The rules for entering the REALITY of the Grid and living in it will obviously not be prescribed by its nods (people), but by the owners of the corporations that pay for the ads (behavior modifiers) — and, at the end of the day, paid by the parasitic overclass.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/12/the-peasants-of-elons-digital-fiefdom/#more-54867
I’m remembering a scene in Lord of the Rings. Frodo has THE ONE RING and doesn’t want the responsibility of destroying it in the volcano. He offers it to Galadriel Queen of the Elves. She already has one of the child rings that remain untainted. She is SO tempted. There is so MUCH good she could do. She almost takes it. Then overcomes the temptation and refuses it.
“I will remain Galadriel”
Let’s hope Musk also ‘remains Galadriel’
@ eaglesoars:
Also Elon did not kill himself
eaglesoars wrote:
I think the neurolink is coming no matter what. People will want to use it.
We’ll have purebloods and linkfrees.
Some lady tatood her eyeballs purple the other day.
@ darkwords:
Musk and others didn’t know he was a consultant lawyer for Twitter until earlier today according to Taibbi’s report. Read the thread.
eaglesoars wrote:
How long was Vetter Jim working in the shadows for Twitter, and what exactly did he do (like censor news about fbois)?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
was he actually in the shadows or just in some corner people weren’t smart enough to look in?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
nah. I have better things to do with my time. I’ll read the reports about it. twitter has great bird threads
Warnock won. Schumer declares he’s going to kill the filibuster and stack SCOTUS. Oh goody!
Only discovered this on Sunday
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600274469104234497
Elon on James Baker’s involvement
yeah, I’m off to bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
That was for Mr. Dark. There were three tweets or so that answered his question.
eaglesoars wrote:
well.
fuck.
me.
darkwords wrote:
And she’s going blind.
@ eaglesoars:
Say goodbye to America
right_wing2 wrote:
what on earth are you talking about?
A sterling example of Fuck Around and Find Out
Janitors’ union called a strike outside Twitter, so Elon Musk canceled its contract and fired the janitors
https://www.theblaze.com/news/elon-musk-union-janitors-strike
works for me……..
right_wing2 wrote:
Lemme check my sympathy meter, just a sec……oh yeah, nuthin.
things that make you go hmmmmmmm……..
MAINZ, Germany — Authorities in Germany arrested 25 people on Wednesday who are suspected of planning to violently overthrow the government in a far-right extremist plot.
More than 3,000 police officers, including special forces, made 130 early morning searches across 11 of Germany’s 16 federal states in one of the biggest counterterrorism operations in the country’s history.
Suspects from the so-far unnamed group include a nobleman with a historic royal title and various armed forces veterans. It is centered on the so-called Reichsbürger, or Reich Citizens, movement which is motivated by conspiracy theories about the role and legitimacy of the modern German state.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/germany-arrests-plot-far-right-extremist-coup-military-rcna60481
eaglesoars wrote:
Fun “related story” headline on The Blaze: Elon Musk challenges sexual misconduct accuser to describe certain ‘one thing’ about his private parts.
Kind of twisted what Musk actually tweeted, but fun just the same.
Reminded me of Animal House. The movie omitted the reason Larry Kroger’s Delta name was “Pinto.”
@ eaglesoars:
With Democrats controlling the Senate?
right_wing2 wrote:
With control of the House, a lot of nonsense bills will be rejected, and the ones they forward to the Senate will likely be voted down. Stalemate.
Except for POTatUS’ executive orders.
Negating the filibuster is a problem, but I don’t know that the Senate can do it by itself.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The Senate is the only body that CAN do so. It’s a creation of the Senate rules. It doesn’t appear in the Constitution or any law.
@ lobo91:
Schumer will get rid of filibuster and the gop will put it right back when they win majority.
coldwarrior wrote:
The 2024 Senate races will be a watershed for the Democrats as they have a LOT to defend with loads of Democrat Senate races up for grabs .Statistically the Dems should end up in the minority again by 2024.
right_wing2 wrote:
Agreed, it’s not optimal but the House is still R.
Charlie Kirk said that the maga voters just didn’t show up in Georgie. That’s a disgrace.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
We’ll see if the GoP goes to work and puts Harmeet Dhillon in as RNC chair.
Trumps been unable to present himself as the good guy. He’s not providing the boost needed for turnout and independents. McConnell and Trump needed to be more unified. Neither one would budge.
If he wants to be POTUS he can’t sit at Mar-Al-Lago holding court.
One disturbing note from Georgia was that Tim Scott collected money for Walker but kept 99 percent of the funds for his own purposes. I’m not sure if that is true. The GoP lets itself get outspent for some reason. I think it’s petty politics.
eaglesoars wrote:
And there were some fear issues easily used if the GoP wanted to use fear tactics like the Dems do to drive trunout. CRT, Trans…
@ Aussie Infidel:
With fairly run elections, yes.
I have no confidence in that ever happening again, though.
lobo91 wrote:
In that case all bets are off as the Framers opined…. you can have a Republic IF YOU CAN KEEP IT!
If you can’t keep your Republic and electoral crime is both rampant and unsanctioned then you have moved on from the Republican stage of the political discourse and deep into authoritarianism. The stage beyond that is revolution and civil war ending in Dictatorship or back to the beginning of yet another political cycle with either representative democracy or republicanism. The fly in that particular ointment will be the rise and rise of transhumanism and the All Powerful surveillance State from which it will be almost impossible to escape. BIG Tech has the capability to truncate natural law and destroy history.
lobo91 wrote:
Brain fart on my part. Thanks.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
If the Dems want to end the filibuster, they can do it on the first day of the new Congress in January. On that day only, it only takes 51 votes to make changes to the Senate rules.
Any bets they’ll try to ram through an increase in the number of Justices? 12? 15? All far left, of course.
right_wing2 wrote:
It’ll be 15. 12 is no good, because it’s an even number. You want an odd number to prevent ties
OOPSIE!
Blackstone’s $69 billion real estate fund hits redemption limit
https://www.pionline.com/real-estate/blackstones-69-billion-real-estate-fund-hits-redemption-limit
Texas subpoenas BlackRock to discover how much taxpayer money has been ‘wasted in woke ESG funds’ – as activist investor calls for CEO to resign over ‘greenwashing’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11513409/Texas-subpoenas-BlackRock-documents-ESG-strategy.html
The dots connect themselves
Just a little reminder that Matt Taibbi is a pig who terrorized women and relished in misogynistic attacks, and co-wrote a book in which his 30-something coauthor bragged about sex with teenagers and threatening to kill his girlfriend if she didn’t abort.
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1600506789463789570
I have no idea if this is true or not, but the knives are out.
bed.
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course that negates all of his unrelated reporting. Null and void.
Peter Boghossian
@peterboghossian
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13m
This is fascinating. There are large numbers of people pretending to be Native Americans—“pretendians”. They occupy professional positions across society and even after their fraud is revealed they are not removed from their positions, punished, or sanctioned.
Alex Bruesewitz
@alexbruesewitz
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Dec 6
In PA, RINO Karl Rove spent millions of dollars AGAINST Republican candidates.
In GA, RINO Lt. Gov Geoff Duncan was working AGAINST Republican Herschel Walker.
** Just enough votes to lose.
This is some crazy shit:
Vanguard Group, One of ‘Big Three’ Index Fund Managers, Quits ESG-Oriented ‘Net Zero’ Group
Vanguard indicated its decision rested in a desire to maintain the freedom not to restrict its investment options.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/12/vanguard-group-one-of-big-three-index-fund-managers-quits-esg-oriented-net-zero-group/
Also because they just saw Blackrock get pounded
Griner has been traded for a Russian arms dealer in a prisoner swap.
Insubordination plus.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1600344108891279361
Commenter on Feral Irishman:
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Arms dealing is a big business right about now.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
We traded a dangerous arms dealer for a dope-smoking lesbian hoop-rock player????
@ eaglesoars:
Good for Vanguard.
@ coldwarrior:
Fair trade
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coldwarrior wrote:
follow the money. War can be very profitable. This is WAY more stinky than the Bergdahl trade
Also, this is believable. She’s all Putin was willing to trade. One American or none
https://nypost.com/2022/12/08/brittney-or-no-one-wh-defends-russia-prisoner-swap-without-whelan-fogel/
Dr. Ann Lesby PhD is awesome.
“A fetus is a complex pre-human sponge, capable of absorbing both tolerant and intolerant energies from the host body and the surrounding environment.”
https://getoutspoken.com/humor/how-to-raise-an-antiracist-fetus
https://twitter.com/annlesbyphd
eaglesoars wrote:
I might have to watch this again.
Biden To Hold Meeting With American Oil And Gas Producers To Ask Them To Help Ukraine
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/12/06/biden-to-hold-meeting-with-american-oil-and-gas-producers-to-ask-them-to-help-ukraine/
coldwarrior wrote:
“…a senior official in the State Department during the Clinton administration…told Yahoo News that Viktor Bout was once the second-most-wanted man in the world, after Osama bin Laden.”
I’ve been hanging out at McDonalds too long. Today the cashier greeted me by name as I paid cash. And said “Namaste” as I left.
Who likes to eat Jalapenos, McDonalds French Fries, and Peppermint Bark for dinner and breakfast?
A: A 35 week pregnant Mary Katherine Ham.
From her podcast. She has a good attitude about life.
Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War. Page 42
“Under Weimar they were rioting, they were becoming Communists, they were going in for sex perversions and drugs, it was horrible.”
In reference to the youth of the day. And why Hitler was good for the youth.
I need to get better organised.
Tonight for supper I am going to have a bacon and tomato sandwich. No lettuce, I don’t eat rabbit food. I ain’t got the right teeth or ears.
Problem is a simple sandwich is going to take over five hours to make.
@ Possum:
Bacon? CHECK!
Tomatoes? CHECK!
A sprinkling of shredded cheddar? CHECK!
Mayo? CHECK!
OK good to go on the sandwich!
Um, bread?
Aw shit…..
@ Possum:
5 hours?
@ Possum:
Hit up your neighbors. Knock on the door and say
“Hola! Tiene dos o tres tortillas puedo comprar?”
In possum speak, that’s
“Oh-la! Tea-ennies doss oh trace tor-tea-yahs pway-tho comb-prar?”
Then hand them your wallet.
@ eaglesoars:
Yep. All that proving and kneading and second rising and baking and stuff.
Anyway plans changed. Bread will be ready for breakfast.
Supper is now going to be shrimp tacos.
Or more beer…..
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Neighbors are Brazilian. You gonna get me shot!
@ Possum:
People I meet on the street. One walked up to me and said “Hi Gringo! ” and we did the fist bump thing.
Gringo is an insult to North Americans used by Mexicans, but Gringo is kind of an affectionate greeting used by central Americans to people who do not speak Spanish fluently.
I am also referred to, and greeted by African Americans as ” home boy “here.
Possum wrote:
No help with Porta-geese. That’s bastardized Spanish pronounced with a French accent.
@ Possum:
oh, apologies. I missed that you must be making it yourself.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Inspector Clouseau speaks Spanish?
What the HELL?! NBC pulls BOMBSHELL story about Brittney Griner trade, edits to mirror Biden’s claims
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/09/what-the-hell-nbc-pulls-bombshell-story-about-brittney-griner-trade-edits-to-mirror-bidens-claims/
Stunning Video from Russian TV Says It All About Joe Biden’s Disastrous Trade for Brittney Griner
When the enemy’s media speaks more truth than our own, you know we are in deep trouble.
https://rightnewsnow.org/2022/12/09/stunning-video-from-russian-tv-says-it-all-about-joe-bidens-disastrous-trade-for-brittney-griner/
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes, it’s another foreign policy disaster for Biden who is banking on media running cover for him. The GoP needs a more cutthroat leadershihp.
FTX former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried supports restarting the bankrupt exchange by issuing new FTT tokens to creditors and giving 100% profits to token holders.
@ darkwords:
The stupid smart people
Deep inside Earth, scientists find weird blobs and mountains taller than Mount Everest
At the 410-mile level, researchers recently identified a tremendous interior mountain range, with peaks perhaps even taller than Mount Everest. “Recently, we’ve discovered another change at about 1,000 kilometers [600 miles] depth,” Romanowicz says.
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/deep-inside-earth-scientists-find-weird-blobs-mountains-taller-mount-ncna997111
Oh good God
https://www.tampafp.com/bernie-sanders-to-take-a-hard-look-at-running-for-president-if-biden-doesnt/
@ right_wing2:
Bernie is a hoot. If he’s serious, he’ll probably call Hubby (they go back a ways). I’ll let yinz know.
Celebrity Promoters Sued Over Bored Ape NFT Endorsements
The suit accuses the creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs of enlisting A-listers to mislead their followers into buying bad investments at inflated prices.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/celebrity-promoters-sued-over-bored-ape-nft-endorsements-1235279115/
Even tho I think Gwyneth Paltrow is one of the most useless people ever to have been born, it’s not her fault you are stupid.
eaglesoars wrote:
NFT’s are all about speculation and greed. It’s not a game for an investor. After all it’s just a jpeg and has no more function than a team decal on a baseball cap.
Someday they might have a good internet use but not yet.
darkwords wrote:
I won’t hold my breath
I use the nextdoor app. It’s been very helpful for us finding handymen, lawn care, etc. in an area we are new to.
I’m seeing a TON of posts asking for assistance. The most recent one is for dog food. They can’t find an affordable apartment, etc.
It’s heartbreaking.
The Epoch Times is what the NYT thinks it is
FDA Says Ivermectin Doesn’t Work Against COVID-19 but Points to Studies That Show It Does
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/fda-says-ivermectin-doesnt-work-against-covid-19-but-points-to-studies-that-show-it-does_4903968.htm
Report: Washington Post Lost Half a Million Subscribers Since Biden Took Office
https://freebeacon.com/media/washington-post-biden-fail/
I didn’t know WaPo HAD 500k subs
FWIW
Moscow wanted Russian colonel jailed on murder charges released for Paul Whelan: report
https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/3769007-moscow-wanted-russian-colonel-jailed-on-murder-charges-released-for-paul-whelan-report/
There are others here who know a lot more about music than I do. I’m one of those “I know what I like” morons. But tonight I found someone who I’d heard of but didn’t listen to – until I did. Ed Sheeran. I’ve known he was a big deal in the UK but never heard his music. Until now. Maybe it’s too ‘mushy’ but whatever. Scroll down or not.
PERFECT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vv-BfVoq4g
right_wing2 wrote:
In Italian.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wow!!!
Dead on
GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY!
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/12/10/ncaa-football-army-v-navy-2022/
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