No Heisman trophy nominees, no super-stars, no one going to play on Sundays. It’s sport for the sake of sport and for the sake of pride. It’s old school, wing formation, option run offense. Navy is 8-1 when they DON’T throw the ball even once! The quarterbacks on these two sides are just another running back who just might throw the ball a couple of times.
It’s Army-Navy Football. It’s the only game played on week 15. No one would dare schedule another game today.
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Navy is a 3 point favorite today in neutral-site Filthadelphia. I’m down to $400/1000 this year, so I suck. I’ll save that $ for bowl games. This is the first time ever that I am in the negative at the end of the season, and I’ve been betting college ball with ‘fake money’ for a good 15 years!
Enjoy the game
GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY!!!
Why isn’t Air Force part of the rivalry? Too new a service?
The Lying Media Told Me Not To Watch Netflix’s ‘Ancient Apocalypse,’ So I Did
Archeologists and their friends in the media are losing their minds over author and journalist Graham Hancock’s alternative ancient history Netflix series “Ancient Apocalypse.” According to The Guardian, “Ancient Apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix.” It’s “an all out attack on archaeologists,” reads one hit piece on the series. It “promotes a whole lot of bunk,” Slate accuses. “[Graham’s] whole theory is steeped in racism and white supremacy,” alleges another.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/08/the-lying-media-told-me-not-to-watch-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse-so-i-did/
I love archeology, for a long time I intended to go into that field. But the more I learned the more disappointed I got. It’s mostly people sniping at each other. But I read all of Stephen Jay Gould and loved it. One time I attended a speech/after party for Donald Johanson (discovered “Lucy”). I asked him about Gould’s theory of Punctuated Equilibrium. He ignored me with a sneer, pretty much, treated the idea with zero respect. He was a snob at the party too. Also had a run in with Napoleon Chagnon (Yanomami tribe, Amazon), who thought his shit didn’t stink. “It’s DOCTOR Chagnon!”. Oh, ok. “Sorry, there’s no one here by that name” and hung up the phone in his face.
Assholes, the lot of them.
@ eaglesoars:
I could ask the same thing about a lot of Netflix programming, starting with “Harry & Meghan”
lobo91 wrote:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!
Best soap opera EVAH! It’s enormous fun watching 2 of the most repugnant people on the planet self-destruct in public.
In other news, whatever it started out as, it became a domestic intel op
Head Of Twitter’s Censorship Operation Was A Former FBI, CIA Operative
https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/09/head-of-twitters-censorship-operation-was-a-former-fbi-cia-operative/
@ eaglesoars:
Ita a very interesting show thus far…some very compelling arguments as well.
right_wing2 wrote:
Every year all 3 play for the commander’s trophy.
eaglesoars wrote:
I love alternate history theories. They get easier to believe when you realize anything that is found that does not fit current history gets discarded and ignored.
coldwarrior wrote:
https://universe-inside-you.com/ancient-nuclear-war/
They cover this yet?
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Mohenjo Daro.
They haven’t covered it yet. I hope they do.
Next level cat videos:
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ll have to watch!
Decided to do a slow cooker pot roast tomorrow. Boneless chuck, right? Oh. My. God. Over $7.50/lb. I nearly fainted. But, I’ll get 4 dinners out of it (8 servings), freezing the left overs, so it’s doable. But wow……..
Oh CW, tell the Mrs. she has to try the Vera Bradley slippers. Lovely.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m on it! But…are they better than LL Bean slippers?
The Bean slippers are amazing
@ eaglesoars:
I’m making Tuscan Baccala.
coldwarrior wrote:
Haven’t tried those. I’ve been wearing Dearfoams for ages.
coldwarrior wrote:
I can get cod but not salted. Are you salting it?
eaglesoars wrote:
Got a slab of salt cod at Pennmac.
Soaked for 3 days
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-gobekli-tepe-turkish-archaeological-site/stephanroget
…and then you have Gobekli Tape to explain. Back in the mid 1990s an Israeli business partner of mine Ezra Karon, who just happened to be a trained archeologist travelled to the Turkish Syrian border, to a dig called Gobekli Tepe.
They initially wouldn’t allow him access but he had flown in with a group of archeologists from Harvard and he was able to slip in with them anyway. This was the real deal. 9,000 + years BCE and just after the retreat of the ice after the last ice age. His theory was that up to 10,000 hunter gatherers would come together in family groups of about 40, following herds of Orachs (giant cattle) and use the terrain to drive large numbers over cliffs to their deaths. They then salted the meat from local salt deposits but also engaged in religious building and I should imagine quite a bit of gene swapping! 🙂
The detailed carving was extremely sophisticated, especially the images of snakes.
About every 300 years or so they seemed to ceremonially bury these ‘religious buildings’ by stacking them full of broken limestone and covering them over with sod. They then began again to build another religious building.
@ coldwarrior:
But you don’t hear about a rivalry like Army/Navy
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’m aware of that place.
right_wing2 wrote:
Because USMA and USNA don’t really take the air farce academy very seriously
@ Aussie Infidel:
That’s another confounding place
Sad news.
RIP Col. Joe Kittinger, the first man to fly a balloon 20 miles up to the edge of space, jump out of it, and live to tell the tale
https://notthebee.com/article/rip-col-joe-kittinger-the-first-man-to-fly-a-balloon-20-miles-up-to-the-edge-of-space-jump-out-of-it-and-live-to-tell-the-tale
The FIRST man? I’m not aware of a 2nd.
Apparently someone in England missed a penalty kick giving rise to French supremacy. We don’t hear about it because of the beer ban.
eaglesoars wrote:
David Blaine came close.
https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/2/21418481/david-blaine-ascension-balloon-stunt-youtube-stream-video
I think he made it 5 miles up.
Ok, I watched the first episode of Ancient Apocolypse, it was great! Now off to watch the nuclear war thingy
GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY!!!
an excellent ball game.
@ eaglesoars:
Nuke war thingy?
@ eaglesoars:
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a higher altitude in 2012, and then Alan Eustace beat his record in 2014.
@ lobo91:
And then there’s the lunatic who jumped from 25,000’ into a net.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36935087.amp
@ right_wing2:
To be fair even if he had jumped from 250,000 feet he would have survived.
Terminal velocity. It has something to do with mass, surface area of the body, gravitational pull and stupidity.
No matter how high you throw a standard weight and shape human out of an aircraft the fastest they will go is about 120mph.
As long as they don’t curl upinto a sobbing and deficating soy ball on the way down.
Achievement was actually hitting the net.
@ Possum:
Once you get down into the lower atmosphere, yes. Baumgartner reached a maximum speed of 843 mph during his free fall. He was the first (and still only) person to exceed the speed of sound outside of a vehicle.
coldwarrior wrote:
The degree of co-operation and logistics involved in feeding, watering and organising 10,000 people to smoke and salt large volumes of fresh meat, provide water for 10,000 people in a region with little natural water (Apparently the water availability was restrictively seasonal but still scarce), and have 10,000 people under transportable hide tentage, was pretty clever. And then the management of the stone cutting, transportation and carving plus all of the planning to bring the whole shebang together for a brief 3-4 month of high activity, before breaking camp and all going their own ways for the next 9 months until the next annual Orach migration between winter and summer grazing.
These guys were very well organised and their civilisation lasted for at least 3 millennia !
Possum wrote:
Only in the lower atmospheres mate. When there is only <1% air density the molecules are far apart and you can get a LOT faster free falling….
Yeah, yeah I was generalising, You got me.
I did actually say throw an human out of an aircraft though.
( Now comes the fact that the Bell X-15 is an aircraft….
@ Aussie Infidel:
Actually you made my point. No matter how high you jump from you will make EXACTLY the same size splat when you hit the ground.
Lol currently thawing ground beef for supper. My brain ain’t wired right.
But you all know.
Possum wrote:
When someone goes from terminal velocity and hits the ground they actually bounce about 6 feet off the ground, for a second touchdown. No point in hurrying over to where they splat. Go get a stretcher first and walk over. Never had to retrieve a body personally but I was there in attendance when one went in at Wilton airfield. Splat just about explains it! About 50% of the amateur parachutists seemed to have a death wish to one level or another. The other 50% were all safety focused and managing the risk.
One guy (a naval rating from the Navy), no matter where he landed would just stand up, throw the lift webs over his shoulder and drag his parachute through the dirt back to the packing shed. When he opened the chute the next time there would be a shower of dust and bits of sticks and stones showering out. He averaged a partial failure about one in four or five jumps. He was totally nuts!
@ Possum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRYtgZNlAw
Landing in the Star Mountains in New Guinea. Hell this guy is flying a Pilatus Porter for crying out load. And he’s got a 20+ degree slope and 1,000 feet of runway. I’ll grant him that it’s definitely a One-Way strip however.
🙂
Used to put my Cessna U-206 onto a strip called Ningle in the Bewani Mountains near the North Coast of New Guinea. Tennis court sized landing pad with a 20 degree slope beginning at the edge of the landing pad. SAs soon as you got wheels onto the ground you opened up the throttle to maintain speed or you’d get ‘cast’ half way up the hill. As you crested the hill you’d close the throttles and stand on the breaks as there was only another ‘tennis’ court sized pad at the top of the slope as well. Use brakes and rudders to turn the airplane around to face back down the hill just by the lip of the slope. It concentrated the mind!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t have a problem with that.
coldwarrior wrote:
All at once? That’s a game I’d watch. It’d be like chinese checkers football.
right_wing2 wrote:
Someone said that the game is the only time the Marines will admit they’re in the Navy.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You should watch Australian rules football
The field they play on is a circle and I will be buggered if I can work out what the rules are.
P.S glad England got kicked out of the world FOOTBALL cup.
Possum wrote:
Long time ago I recall you mentioned that this place should be turned into a cooking blog. It’s happening…
Possum wrote:
I’m a hurling fan. Saw a world championship game entirely by accident about a quarter mile away from my house. If you’re on the sidelines you HAVE to watch so you don’t get beaned by the cue ball or whacked with a splintered hurling stick.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
To be honest if it wasn’t for this place I would still be failing at bread.
I inhabit places that are political and this place is slightly to the right of Stalin.
But when you go deeper into conversations other subjects are discussed and links provided.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
And now you know why Europeans have missing front teeth!
@ Possum:
Like this horror movie filmed in 1971 by a 10 year old:
The Ape Man.
https://youtu.be/5DdZSHAPZKc
@ Possum:
That’s how you could tell who the best players were. Scars and missing teef. If someone gets injured they pour a pint down his gullet and throw him back in.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Classic American football. You can attack and kill any players even if they are not in possession of the ball.
Civilised sports do not allow that.
coldwarrior wrote:
Deplorable Martian post #9
https://universe-inside-you.com/ancient-nuclear-war/
@ eaglesoars:
There is another explanation for that and it involves water seeping into natural deposits of Uranium
Possum wrote:
If you say so
@ eaglesoars:
Hey I ain’t Google. Do RESEARCH..
OK going easy on you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor
And why historically natural atomic reactors kind of are not common now.
International Atomic Energy Agency. They get paid to research this stuff.
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor
I does it for free….
Fuckin awesome here! Cops just went past with just flassy lights on at about 100 mph and street is maybe 200 ft long. Hope them popo got good brakes!
Several more just went past, Flashy lights no sirens.
Thank you Houston PD I have complained so many times to them that the loud sirens scare my cats…
But they love the flassy lights!
@ Possum:
And an update!
Went outside and there are blue and red flashing lights at the end of the street blocking it off.
Also there are red and blue flashing lights and green and yellow outside most apartments here!
Cats fucking loving it!
@ eaglesoars:
I first met Col. Kittinger on the flight line at RAF Lakenheath in 1978, one of the F-111F pilots I was friends with, from working Victor Alert together, introduced me to him. He was a genuine nice guy, we had a nice long chat, it was one of the top 5 highlights of my time in the Air Force. I told him that it was an honor to meet him because I had read about him in the Scholastic Magazine, when I was in junior high school and we went from there. He was a little guy with huge brass ones that clanged when he walked. RIP
Possum wrote:
I ran into it when I was studying gemology. Naturally green diamonds. I’ve never been into the ‘flawless’ stuff. The inclusions, etc., tell a wonderful story.
Also, altho not geology, amber can be very interesting.
Geology is a fascinating field.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1601648824355024896
best baby sitter
Bordm wrote:
Oh how cool! What is Victor Alert?
darkwords wrote:
oh my heart!
From the sick fuck Yoel Roth, “Safety Head’, one of the big muckety mucks at twitter
Can high school students ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers? http://bit.ly/bbpH68
https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/5979003856879617
Disgraced former head of Twitter Trust & Safety
@yoyoel appeared to have argued for adult gay hookup apps to be able to extend services to minors. #TwitterFiles also revealed the extent to which his left-wing political bias guided his censorship decisions.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1601804459167940609
Ok, latest in the Harry and Meghan saga. The Netflix video that appears to show them at their home – doesn’t.
Apparently, the video was actually taken at the home of one Mark Schulhof. Who is CEO of various charities, an entrepeneur blah blah.
One problem. He was caught stealing from one of the veteran’s charities he supposedly supported.
$25 million settlement in NY veterans charity case
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-25-million-settlement-in-ny-veterans-charity-case-2014jun30-story.html
But Harry and his Invictus games…
This is so much fun………
@ eaglesoars:
It was a double fenced area within a fenced and controlled flight line patrolled by security police, some with dogs, with 1 pair of gates for vehicle access and 1 pair of gates for the airplanes to get in and out. We had 8 airplanes loaded with nukes that were ready to take off at a few minutes notice, if the Warsaw Pact or another hostile nuclear power did something incredibly stupid. When the signal was sent we scrambled to the airplanes, just like in the movies, saw a couple guys go ass over teakettle trying to go behind airplanes running up their engines. We would watch the news later to see if the alert was a practice alert or for a real event. We lived in the area, there were 2 crews swapping times, we worked 3 days on, 3 days off, 2 days on, 2 days off. I was the lead weapons guy, part of my job was to make sure they knew how to manually arm them if something screwed up. We had a placard hanging in the ready room that said “If the alert birds roll through the gate, put your head through your legs and kiss your ass goodby.” Fun times.
The Daily Mail has the goods
Who lives in a house like this? Not us! The mansion shown in Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary was not the couple’s, but a £27.3 million Montecito estate up for sale
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11525233/Mansion-shown-Harry-Meghans-Netflix-documentary-not-theirs.html#comments
Bordm wrote:
Oh. Well. Ummmm…I think I’ll just work on an herb garden or something.
Seriously, this stuff is just terrifying.
What kind of planes?
CW: So I looked at LL Bean slippers for women. Way too much $$. This is the equivalent on their website
https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/127482?page=womens-llbean-x-peanuts-daybreak-scuff-motif-womens&bc=&feat=women%27s%20slippers-SR0&csp=a&searchTerm=women%27s%20slippers&pos=26
$70.
Here’s Vera Bradley
https://verabradley.com/products/cozy-life-slippers-2711714687?variant=40372891680812&cm_mmc=pla-_-gs-_-180711-_-shopping-top-sku-full&gclid=CjwKCAiA-dCcBhBQEiwAeWidtZayl2y-dNOdQFvx7vle92vQtLIMFZLyewIQ25KOjQSCtG0PAkw6CRoC3hYQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
$25
bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
F-111F’s the best of the F-111 series. They were the airplanes used to hit Libya in 1986.
If the US were to move from a representative/presidential republic, what kind of government would you want?
Semi presidential republic? Parliamentary republic? Some kind of monarchy?
right_wing2 wrote:
What is that?
Ok, the other day I posted about Tony Podesta and his wife’s house loaded with pedo erotica.
Look at this
https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/30/balenciagas-child-porn-advocacy-an-echo-of-tony-podestas-disturbing-art-collection/
Remember the Podesta art collection? In 2016 it was revealed that the art collection of DNC bigwigs Tony and John Podesta was bizarre and really disturbing. The Podesta’s collection contained, as critic Michael J. Pearce described it, “weird genetically-mutated piggy-children sculptures and creepy photographs of men with children running away.” People were “shocked to learn that this pillar of the Democratic Party owned a sculpture of a decapitated naked woman whose pose closely resembled a photo of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims. Another installation in [Podesta’s] home included hyper-real sculpted hybrid human and pig figures, including piglet children.”
decapitated naked woman
eaglesoars wrote:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-presidential_republic
I’d never heard of it before either.
eaglesoars wrote:
I just picked these up at rescue mission brand new for 6 bucks. Aweseome snow boots for work.
https://boojoyshoes.com
right_wing2 wrote:
I don’t see how anything could get done in either system.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Oh those look nice! I don’t need them, tho. Altho females and shoes…’need’ has never been a necessary metric
Canny Canine catches drug smuggler.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1602059264453140481
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah my eye is apparently good. My brother joked about them when I got home wondering why I got womens slippers. I looked up the shoes and pointed out they were unisex winter shoes. Shut him right up since now I have super comfortable shoes for snow at work. Lol.
This place needs a search function. I can never find my previous posts.
I’m in a Twitter time out because I said something mean to a walking turd that expressed joy at Kirstie Alley’s passing.
I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch.
I shake my head and forget everything.
Crackerbox Palace wrote:
Must be old code that hasn’t been reviewed.
@ Crackerbox Palace:
Hi Ya! Merry Christmas and all that stuff!
Ok. This time it looks like it’s for real.
US government scientists have reportedly made a breakthrough in harnessing the much sought-after fusion energy power source.
It’s believed fusion energy, the same reaction that powers the sun, could one day provide a limitless and cleaner alternative to fossil fuels.
The Financial Times today reported three separate sources confirmed a recent experiment at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California yielded successful results.
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The US department of energy told the news outlet it will announce “a major scientific breakthrough” at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Tuesday (local time, Wednesday NZT).
https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/world/us-scientists-reportedly-make-fusion-energy-breakthrough/
https://twitter.com/i/status/1601907131384758272
playing jenga at work
Heshmat Alavi
@HeshmatAlavi
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#BREAKING
#Iran’s regime hastily hanged #MajidrezaRahnavard, 23, in public this morning in Mashhad.
This is yet another wake up call for those who believe the mullahs can be reformed or diplomacy has a chance with this murderous regime.
I fucking hate Christmas
That is all
I’m hearing Larry Fink, head of Blackrock, resigned but can’t find anything yet
AHAHAHAHAHA! Somebody teach these geniuses how to spell ‘discovery’
Report: Hunter’s Team Weighs Suing Fox News, Eric Trump, and Rudy Giuliani for Defamation
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/12/report-hunters-team-weighs-suing-fox-news-eric-trump-rudy-giuliani-defamation/
@ eaglesoars:
I thought Hunter was supposed to be an attorney? He must have missed that day in law school. At least under US law, the truth is an absolute defense. I have yet to hear anyone claim that anything that’s been said was false.
I thought this was an interesting point:
Pretty much proves that they can’t refute the information, and have to resort to attacking the messenger.
Of course, the only reason anyone has ever heard of Griner is because she’s a black anti-American lesbian who doesn’t think the laws apply to her. If she were a “blond Chi Omega from SMU,” she probably wouldn’t have been in that situation in the first place.
@ lobo91:
not to mention that if you blatantly break the laws in a country, expect to be treated accordingly.
That entire diatribe is beneath Carville. And that’s saying something
Laughing my ass off right now. The Dept of Ed just sent me a “cover their ass” email.
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The last email said I was approved but they couldn’t do anything about it because of the litigation. Apparently their lawyers waited a few weeks then went OOPS, we weren’t allowed to say that under the rules of the lawsuits.
Greg Price
@greg_price11
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BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested by Bahamian police following a “receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges against SBF and is likely to request his extradition.”
Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟
@PelosiTracker_
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FTX’s new CEO, John Ray’s testimony was just released. In it he confirms:
1. FTX commingled client assets w/ Alameda
2. Alameda used client funds for Margin Trading
3. FTX spent $5B of client assets buying businesses, real estate & more
This the nail in the coffin for SBF?
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/12/11/redhibitional-hot-links/
Goes to show there are a lot of talented obsessed quirky people out there.
I live a sheltered life.
The simpsons link was good.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3771551-fetterman-pressley-among-new-york-times-list-of-most-stylish-people/
Fetterman, Pressley among New York Times list of most stylish people
** Maybe at Balenciaga
darkwords wrote:
Ray said he has never seen “such an utter failure of corporate controls at every level of an organization, from the lack of financial statements to a complete failure of any internal controls or governance whatsoever.”
darkwords wrote:
TOQP
darkwords wrote:
The Simpsons of Estonia.
@ darkwords:
Reported for using an ad free blog to advertise a website.
Do it again and I will report you for spam also.
pfft
Anthony Fauci’s wife is writing “tributes” to him in peer-reviewed medical journals.
https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1602363901701754894
Possum wrote:
The Brit army in Berlin used to call us spam.
Synthetically Produced American Males
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Worse than Lehman bros and Enron.
That’s some fierce competition
Ex-Twitter censor Yoel Roth and his boyfriend are forced to FLEE their $1.1m home after Elon Musk shared his thesis, which supported letting children use gay hook-up app Grindr
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11531441/Ex-Twitter-censor-Yoel-Roth-boyfriend-forced-FLEE-t-1-1m-home-Elon-Musk-shared-thesis.html
yeah, keep running
@ eaglesoars:
Guess who the libtwits are supporting en masse because Musk.
@ eaglesoars:
This part was funny:
$1.1 million in the Bay Area typically gets you a studio apartment or a shack that’s barely habitable.
lobo91 wrote:
If justice is served, he’s going to have some nice digs at a free BnB soon. Meet some new friends too.
https://conservativebrief.com/judge-arizona-69086/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/judge-orders-kari-lake-and-katie-hobbs-to-appear-at-emergency-court-hearing-over-election-lawsuit_4920793.html
I hear all the cool kids, including AOC, are using the term “stochastic terrorism”. I think it’s on the same level as institutional racism, something you can’t prove but you can paste it on anything or anyone you want to discredit.
Random terrorism?
Did those morons find a new word to use?
@ coldwarrior:
In practice, it’s used as a way to shout down criticism of any favored group, on the grounds that doing so will lead to violence against them.
Note that this idea doesn’t apply to white male Christians or conservatives. It’s perfectly acceptable to call such people “deplorable,” “racist,” “bigots,” etc. with no evidence.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
stochastic simply means ‘random’. It’s a statistical term. I have no idea how somebody decided to paste it onto ‘terrorism’ because if you look up that phrase it means demonization of someone.
Totally nonsensical, made to make them took intellekshual
@ eaglesoars:
My favorite is when they try to blame a particular person (usually a conservative commentator or politician) for the actions of some random person without knowing if that person was even aware of the existence of the commentator. They apparently have magic powers or something.
@ lobo91:
Jonah Goldberg tried it with ‘epistemic closure’ . Also intellekshual preening.
I was a philosophy major. I ‘grew up’ with that term. It means being close-minded. (One of the reasons I left the field – abuse of language). I laugh when I see people trying to communicate using that phrase. By its nature it’s exclusive because most people will not have come across it
This should be fun.
DeSantis calls for Florida grand jury to investigate coronavirus vaccine ‘wrongdoing’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/desantis-florida-grand-jury-investigate-coronavirus-vaccine-wrongdoing
This is a novel technique for bread baking. Boil the dough in water. Only one rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkIfQTilUsM
Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels | Lex Fridman Podcast #346
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PIOoJMMptA&t=6157s
long podcast but towards the end he says Mexico leftist have militarized the country. Their main allies are China, Russia, and Haiti.
The caravans are insertions of national policy into the US by state enabled shadow actors.
They have a culture that is merging violent cartels into Mexican nationalism. And view the US as arrogant.
My twitter feed has slowed to a crawl. I’m seeing maybe 30 new tweets in an hour.
darkwords wrote:
and China is…….??? They view the US as weak, the rest is theater
Study from the internet says the older you get the less able you are able to stand on one leg with your eyes close.
With eyes open i can get 60 seconds easy.
With eyes closed I can’t get past 5 seconds even though I know I am tilting.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve had some odd twitter hiccups. One is a comment that shows 30 replies but I can only see 4 of them.
I made a second account same phone number pre musk. And any replies it makes to people are never visible to my main account.
darkwords wrote:
One of the first things a trainer will do with you as an older person is work on your balance. One of the greatest threats to the elderly is falling. With women, there’s the phrase “she fell and broke her hip”. No. Her hip broke and she fell. But still, balance in the elderly is a HUGE issue.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
Here’s a good source for when you want to out-obscure someone with antiquated verbiage.
https://phrontistery.info/ihlstart.html
eaglesoars wrote:
I call them dumplings. I hate them.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yesterday The Musk announced a surprise for the bots. I haven’t checked to see what it was.
darkwords wrote:
I can barely do it with my eyes open. Neuropathy stuff.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
austerulous adj 1731 -1731
somewhat or slightly harsh
The austerulous monks were rarely lenient with their pupils.
somebody has WAY too much time on their hands
fascination site
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
no, they aren’t dumplings and that’s fine. more for me
bed. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Keep that up and I’ll resume your mandatory crash course in musical appreciation.
@ eaglesoars:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hell, I put in nine hours of honest work today, even skipped a nap, so we might as well pick up where we left off. This may be the greatest Christmas song ever:
Little Isidore & The Inqusitors’ Party Hard.
https://youtu.be/u9a6_VaRYD4
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I like Gregorian chants. Start there.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I like that. Sounds a bit like swing.
Where is everyone???
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fd42e22ff1f8b18ad382b7f16daad9d4965163a7de2c2ea206fd4b18a807e594.jpg
AHAHAHAHAHAHA! cry harder
The Washington Post, which has lost 500k subscribers in the past year, has announced layoffs are coming to the paper. The meeting didn’t go well.
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1603080894553677826
25 sec video
@ eaglesoars:
Hip breaks first. I’ve seen way too many of these.
And then, the problems of immobility kill yinz
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Heh. I’m on it!
eaglesoars wrote:
We were at the Serbian Orthodox church’s retreat up north.
The monks chanting was amazing
@ coldwarrior:
yep. Happened to my mom. But when she fell, she hit the fireplace hearth on her side and broke a rip. Lucky she didn’t puncture a lung. I spent A LOT of time in Alabama. Ultimately I had to retire. Hubby got his melanoma diagnosis . Couldn’t do it all.
@ eaglesoars:
Oh jeeze!
eaglesoars wrote:
Never heard of him. Is he Goth?
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s based on a 1950s piano style from Chicago (& NOLA) that was coopted by a Jamaican musician who took it back to the island and renamed it ska, a precursor to reggae.
coldwarrior wrote:
hospital, nursing home, dementia onset, and finally the cancer. Tough 2 yrs. My sister took the brunt of it because she lived in the same town. AND her then-husband was an opthalmologist who did all his surgery out of that hospital. Believe me, it helps when your son-in-law is on staff. The nurses did not fuck around so they could find out. But finally she told me to get my ass down there, she was burnt out.
I simply could not also do a 60 hr minimum week with a lot of overnite on call. 6 weeks of 24/7 in Alabama nearly killed me and I was only in my 50s. The dementia was horrifying. I can’t TELL you how many times she set the kitchen on fire. The reason she fell on the hearth is that she was trying to go for a walk using the back door to get out. At 2 am. But my sister had put those sliding locks on all the doors above her reach and removed the knobs from the stove.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Very.
@ rightymouse:
HA!!!
Good lord
Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood.
Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944
@ eaglesoars:
lil X is his baby
Joe Biden has a 22% approval rating in the state of Tennessee according to a new Vanderbilt poll. That’s tough to pull off. Props to
@JoeBiden on the lowest presidential approval rating in Tennessee history.
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1603054526084390913
Good news on the cat front.
Earlier this year we started fostering 5 from someone my wife knows who got evicted. She’d said 3 or 4 times over the last month that she was going to pick them up, and she finally got them!
We still have an insane number, but the extras are gone.
The kitten we picked up a few weeks ago is doing well, and we should be able to take her to the Humane Society once we’ve had her a month, as long as they’re doing intake. We probably won’t, but we could.
right_wing2 wrote:
You guys are a hoot!
Listening to Bannon. Mike Lindell and Harmeet Dillon, who both want to be the next chair of the RNC are on. They’re talking about how Ronna McDaniel is managing the money.
40% FOR OVERHEAD
And that ‘overhead’ includes private jet travel to ‘retreats’ for ‘staff’
@ eaglesoars:
Part of the problem is our cats are used to us, but not other people. A bunch came off the streets and it’s taken years for them to even trust us.
right_wing2 wrote:
Busted
This is idiotic. I knew Trump was going to make a ‘major’ announcement today, I thought perhaps it would be about a running mate.
Nope. TRADING CARDS. Look at this BS
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! My official Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection is here! These limited edition cards feature amazing ART of my Life & Career! Collect all of your favorite Trump Digital Trading Cards, very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting. Go to collecttrumpcards.com/ & GET YOUR CARDS NOW! Only $99 each! Would make a great Christmas gift. Don’t Wait. They will be gone, I believe, very quickly!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109518512543023262
eaglesoars wrote:
Red State has it
Late last week, RedState was provided a report dated October 7, 2022 that examined RNC’s 2021-22 spending. It calculated more than $500,000 in private jet expenses, $64,000 at clothing retailers, and $321,000 in floral arrangements.
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/12/14/exclusive-analysis-of-rnc-spending-since-2017-shows-millions-were-spent-on-private-jets-limousines-luxury-retreats-broadway-shows-and-more-n673852
Black people should get $350,000 each in reparations, landmark California committee hears
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-people-should-get-350-000-each-in-reparations-landmark-california-committee-hears/ar-AA15jI6s?cvid=a278e694278944af97f0d1c4b69c0a39
Max Fennell, a 35-year-old businessman and former professional triathlete, told the committee the money should be given to all black California residents. He argued that black-owned businesses should receive grants of about $250,000 and 15-20 acres of land to help further boost black wealth during the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals’ public hearing.
“It’s a debt that’s owed, we worked for free … we’re not asking; we’re telling you,” he told the panel, the Daily Mail reported. “The tangibles of what I’m asking for is $350,000 per black American in California — that’s tangible, small business grant $250,000, and land 15-20 acres.”
someone should be asking “Or else WHAT?”
And the new mayor of Los Angeles is going to be using some form of eminent domain to house the homeless, currently on the street. Yep, y’all got company!
Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is suing Arizona in order to force them to stop building their own border wall:
@ eaglesoars:
Two points:
First, who’s “we”? Unless this guy’s like 175 years old, he was never a slave.
Second, why does California owe slaves anything? It was never a slave state.
@ lobo91:
uh, 3 points.
If we’re doing reparations for past transgressions, let’s start with Native Americans. Get in line.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m sure we could come up with all sorts of problems with their plan (starting with the fact that they can’t afford it). Those were just a couple of things that occurred to me right of the bat.
eaglesoars wrote:
That is embarrassing. Intentionally destroying his credibility as a candidate? Fundraiser for something else? Boneheaded move he thought was funny.
eaglesoars wrote:
First deduct for free food, housing, clothing & medical care & trade school.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s kinda dicey. They owned slaves too.
Family expanded by one yesterday. We got a son-in-law.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Indeed they did. Techumseh’s mother was a Cherokee slave taken by the Shawnee.
Dances with Wolves shows it clearly. There are legions of stories of Native Americans taking whites as slaves during raids. There’s a famous story of a white woman taken who refused to return to white society.
Slavery is in the Bible. Sarah, Abraham’s wife, owned Hagar, who Sarah offered to Abraham as it seemed Sarah was barren. Hagar gave birth to Abraham’s son, Ishmael.
And then there’s Moses leading the Jews out of their slavery in Egypt.
But only whites can be guilty.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
W00T!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
stealing……….
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
My family didn’t get here until after slavery ended, and settled in Kansas.
Why the hell should I pay?
How many blacks moved here after slavery ended, or were in free states? They didn’t ‘work for free’.
eaglesoars wrote:
Including a couple of boys, great-great uncles of mine. Captured, likely molested, and once their captors went to sleep the 14 yo & 10 yo brothers killed them and escaped. Jefferson County Ohio archives.
@ right_wing2:
Unlike other parts of the world where slavery was legal, American slaves (of all colors) got a better deal. Males weren’t castrated, women weren’t forced into sexual servitude. They were also allowed to marry.
Infusion No. 67 is infusioning as normal. Only half brain dead 😀
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The younger one held the indians’ gun while the other slit throats. They ran away, found the search party. The adults didn’t believe the story until the boys led them to the bodies.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/must-watch-urging-house-republicans-immediately-send-preservation-letters-president-trump-makes-huge-announcement-vowing-reclaim-first-amendment-rights/
Read the rest…
Sooooo predictable
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-comes-job-shock-philadelphia-fed-admits-us-jobs-overstated-least-11-million
coldwarrior wrote:
Tell me about it. I remember doing research when I worked with Hubby on immigrant census data. Got in touch with the people at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (who were really great, btw). They flat out admitted it was a scientific wild ass guess/lipstick on a pig number. Because nobody told the truth. I think the last number they felt was moderately trustworthy was 1990 or something.
retail sales sucked apparently (November)
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
uh, not true
coldwarrior wrote:
Seb Ghorka said he was told it was part of the presidential campaign. He’s calling out incompetents and fools.
coldwarrior wrote:
lol
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
how many more of these infusions do you have to have?
eaglesoars wrote:
I wasn’t aware of sex slavery, only infidelities. You’re probably right.
National Archives Releases New Group of JFK Assassination Documents
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2022/nr22-15
My take: fusion “breakthrough” a total dud
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/12/14/my-take-fusion-breakthrough-a-total-dud-n517800
*sigh*
lobo91 wrote:
I’m ok if registered Democrats pay all reparations out of their own pockets.
I’ve been in 50 years of EEO/Affirmative Action/DEI. IF the person can’t get equal by now then the problem is in their head not in their pocketbook.
right_wing2 wrote:
I would put the Jews, the Armenians, the Cambodians, and the Yazidi ahead of black in the victim roles.
Also I want a refund of tax dollars then that I spent for 2 generations of EEO.
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t think Trump is reading the room and his timing is off. NFT’s are in a freefall as a scam. One of those $650,000 monkey NFT’s bought last year is worth $10 today.
NFT’s could be useful. Make them so they are a phone app or a screensaver. And use them to collect campaign contributions. Trump missed the 2022 election though and it seems like he just wants a big bucket of money for himself.
He could have made a Hershel Walker NFT that delivered $100 to the walker campaign and then sent back screen saver updates on voting to a persons phone.
One could also create an NFT deck that shared out Trump hoaxes and accomplishments.
One could create a journalist deck that displayed them as good or evil and linked back to their actual articles.
we could create a blogmocracy NFT that collected all the recipes on the blog.
@ darkwords:
But no one is doing anything with NFT’s. They are just an inside joke rich people use for klout.
darkwords wrote:
That became obvious when he backed that carpetbagger Muslim in Pennsylvania, Dr. Oz
So apparently Tucker has gone thru some of the JFK assassination documents and got some verification.
CIA was involved.
*sigh*
A good example of why you don’t send social workers to make traffic stops:
@ darkwords:
And payments to England for finding the fucking place and made it what it is today.
You do realise that if it wasn’t for the British the White House would not exist.
@ Possum:
Also the first four presidents of the United States of America were British.
Possum wrote:
The last time I checked you fuckers burned it out
Elon as Michael Corleone. Perfect.
TODAY I SETTLED ALL FAMILY BUSINESS
https://twitter.com/VodkaPundit/status/1603575452102115328
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep! that was us. The first presidential residence was kind of made like a double wide trailer and burned easily.
The white house you see today was built out of stone to stop us fuckers setting fire to it again.
LOL
@ lobo91:
Meth heads… they should just create a free meth jail so they know they are going some place better than the streets.
And sterilized them all. They are all potential child abusers.
I think I was trying to make a point about history and historical facts and it just depends who you are and your own history and heritage.
In America the British setting fire to the not yet a white house is important.
Hey even your national anthem and star spangled banner is due to the British!
First rocket bombardment by ships.
But, in British history the USA does not even get a 1 out of 10 in importance.
Not even taught in school.
@ Possum:
So the naughty British were being nasty in the USA in 1812.
I ask myself WHY!
What is the American take on this.
Possum wrote:
You were practicing impressment of American sailors into the British Navy. There were other issues but that was the biggie.
@ eaglesoars:
And why? Britain needed help.
But the USA did not help.
The British Burn Washington, DC, 1814
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/washingtonsack.htm
George Gleig was part of the British force that attacked and burned Washington. Too small in size to effectively occupy the city – their intent was to cause as much damage as they could. We join Gelig’s story as the British send a truce party to negotiate with the Americans:
“Such being the intention of General Ross, he did not march the troops immediately into the city, but halted them upon a plain in its immediate vicinity, whilst a flag of truce was sent in with terms. But whatever his proposal might have been, it was not so much as heard, for scarcely had the party bearing the flag entered the street, than they were fired upon from the windows of one of the houses, and the horse of the General himself, who accompanied them, killed. You will easily believe that conduct so unjustifiable, so direct a breach of the law of nations, roused the indignation of every individual, from the General himself down to the private soldier.
All thoughts of accommodation were instantly laid aside; the troops advanced forthwith into the town, and
having first put to the sword all who were found in the house from which the shots were fired, and reduced it to ashes, they proceeded, without ‘a moment’s delay, to burn and destroy everything in the most distant degree connected with government. In this general devastation were included the Senate House, the President’s palace, an extensive dockyard and arsenal, barracks for two or three thousand men, several large storehouses filled with naval and military stores, some hundreds of cannon of different descriptions, and nearly twenty thousand stand of small arms. There were also two or three public rope works which shared the same fate, a fine frigate pierced for sixty guns and just ready to be launched, several gun brigs and armed schooners, with a variety of gunboats and small craft. The powder magazines were, of course, set on fire, and exploded with a tremendous crash, throwing down many houses in their vicinity, partly by pieces of the wall striking them, and partly by the concussion of the air whilst quantities of shot, shell, and hand grenades, which could not otherwise be rendered useless, were thrown into the river.”
Possum wrote:
That’s not the way to get it.
@ eaglesoars:
World War a bit before World war one.
Britain was kind of busy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars
World war one. USA showed up 180 days before the end of it.
World war two, started September 1939. The USA picked a side 7th December 1941
USA joins a fight when they know which side is winning and only then. They support the winning side.
Every war the USA started alone then dragged their ” allies ” into they lost.
Possum wrote:
oh fuck off
@ Possum:
USA is dragging the rest of Europe into the Ukraine debacle.
eaglesoars wrote:
That the best you can do?
Well prove me wrong. Why did the USA not enter the war prior to 7th December 1941
Holy C^%@, Authoritarian Evil of ESG Emerges at Texas Hearing
The pushback against ESG steps into high gear with hearing at the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs.
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The first witness, @bmbrigham, told the story of how Wall Street’s ESG scam has affected him and his business personally, outlining how @CreditSuisse ( $CS ) indicated that they would deny him for a loan if he didn’t tweet out various points praising the green energy agenda:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/15/holy-c-authoritarian-evil-of-esg-emerges-at-texas-hearing/
Possum wrote:
Americans don’t like war. It’s our blood and treasure to dig your sorry asses out of your leaders’ egos that dig trenches you sacrifice your best and brightest in.
WW II was a defensive war for us. As it was for you. We gave you material. You just didn’t have the man power or the naval power to do the job – which was total slaughter. Europe was INCREDIBLY lucky Japan attacked us, otherwise you’d be speaking German.
Now we try to keep it on the downlow. Which was a mistake in Vietnam, digging the French out of their humiliation. After Algiers, another mess. Afghanistan was an idiotic proxy war against Russia, as is Ukraine. Leave Russia alone, FFS. China can be kept non-kinetic. altho I think they could use a good dose of small pox.
And while I am fucking off as told where was the US as a member of NATO in 1982?
You know that NATO thing where an attack on the territory of a NATO member is responded by the full force of NATO
Britain thanks you for your help.
Oh sorry, you did not help.
Falklands…..
@ eaglesoars:
Actually if you know history Britain saved itself in September 1940
After that the objective was liberating the rest of NAZI occupied Europe.
As to the USA being the number one country in space exploration and rocket development it was due to someone who should have been shot, hanged and cut into little pieces day he was captured.
Possum wrote:
Oh, you mis-understand. The junta tried to play a game with Reagan and he decided to let Margaret let loose. We stood down to let you have at it. And she did.
Possum wrote:
I’m well aware of ‘The Battle of Britain’. Sept 1940 was just the beginning of the Blitz. IIRC you took it in the nuts on a day in May but I’d have to look it up. The air war was not all the war. The RAF was phenomenal. But not sustainable. Britain was looking at starvation. Churchill had to cut India loose. When my Dad was there (arrived May 1942, left June 1944) he noted the food shortages already affecting the physical health of the Brits.
I’m going to bed.
Thanks for the fight. We can continue tomorrow.
Possum wrote:
Not quite. Not until we got all the info out of him. I would add burning his genitalia over a wood fire. While still attached.
lobo91 wrote:
The raw footage is better without all the “Lah Kwinta” babble. Costa Mesa is about an hour’s drive south of L.A.
https://youtu.be/imDJfzQefAs
eaglesoars wrote:
Only Brits and guys with manbuns say whilst.
Possum wrote:
After Woodrow Wilson received word of the Zimmerman letter.
Amateur video of an F-35B that crash-landed in Fort Worth yesterday, including the pilot ejecting
10 degrees, with a 10 mph wind. Wind chill is -5
I think I’ll stay inside…
@ lobo91:
It was 36 degrees when we got up this morning. The Heathen Beagles had ZERO intention of staying outside. Not even Mia the Psycho Puppy is that stupid, and that’s saying something.
@ eaglesoars:
Cody will stay out for maybe 5 minutes
National Guard Serviceman Says He Was Given COVID Jab Instead of Flu Shot
https://www.theepochtimes.com/national-guard-serviceman-says-he-was-given-covid-jab-instead-of-flu-shot_4927699.html
Yep. Which is why I ain’t gettin’ no flu shot either
@ lobo91:
@ eaglesoars:
there is nothing quite like days in a row of 38F and rain / shit mist.
i don’t mind snow, or cold weather for that matter. but, 38 and rain…
yeah. that’s a special kind of depressing.
Possum wrote:
you have no idea how much we helped. almost all of it is still classified.
ok…the updates didnt wreck the joint
now to update word press…
wish us luck!
@ coldwarrior:
whew!!!
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/12/16/a-sad-yet-inevitable-open/