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Christmas 2022
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 133 Comments › )Filed under Uncategorized at December 25th, 2022 - 12:00 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Thx bunk….I’m at work till 3 am.
Merry Christmas all!!!
Merry Christmas CW. Hope the family is doing well. You are going to have a long day today with all the goings on. I’m making veal stew w/my famous homemade rosemary bread.
nite all.
A Christmas prayer for Calo.
Copied from below:
@ eaglesoars:
On the Amazon Prime Video homepage, either on your computer or on your TV, you should see a row of “channels.” It should have a link to add more channels. Most of them have a 7 day free trial. If you don’t cancel, they bill you accordingly. I think Epix is $5.99 a month.
Merry Christmas everyone
rain of lead wrote:
Woot!!!
Merry Christmas one and all. Wife is out digging out the vehicle for the trip to my in-laws.
Had a blizzard warning for the past two days and now it’s been downgraded to just snow squalls. Been a good day.
@ PaladinPhil:
Hi there, long time no talk to! Merry Christmas to you and yours
Gotta get my butt to the kitchen. I found the epix channel on youtube bth, thanks.
I’m tired of hearing Pah-Rumpa-Pum-Pum and Thumpety-Thump-Thump songs. Why don’t the stations play the good stuff?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Those guys live were pure magic when they got rolling.
Merry Christmas guys and guyesses. Survived Christmas and deep into Boxing Day here ‘Down-under’
🙂
ahhhh
some things never change
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/12/24/watch-cars-burned-police-attacked-in-christmas-eve-riot-in-paris-after-kurdish-centre-shooting/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Aus v SA coming up in a couple hours.
@ lobo91:
found Epix on the youtube channel on roku. Hubby is loving it! Veal stew in the oven, I get a 20 minute break.
@ eaglesoars:
I watched the first two episodes last night.
SAS Rogue Heroes actor Tom Glynn-Carney meets 102-year-old war hero–last surviving member of the actual unit:
@ coldwarrior:
@ Aussie Infidel:
If a batter is wearing an arm pad it should be considered part of the glove.
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
I watch very little TV, but this…
https://www.theblaze.com/news/confessed-serial-killer-dubbed-the-serpent-released-from-prison-in-nepal-for-good-behavior?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__AM%202022-12-26&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20AM
Umm, what? With any luck his heart condition finishes him before he racks up some more victims.
It’s snowing!
Tom Leher decided not to renew copyrights to his songs and lyrics and threw them into the public domain last month. You can download all of it at his website.
I don’t know nuthin’ ’bout no RAR files, but I downloaded all six zip files anyway.
https://tomlehrersongs.com/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Convert RAR files to Zip files here. I’m in the process… kinda slow doing them all at once.
https://cloudconvert.com/rar-to-zip
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
All 6 files converted to zip. Songs are in .MP3 format, numbered and titled. Very cool.
oh thank heavens. We’re up to 44 tomorrow. The heathen beagles get to go outside for awhile. For the last 3-4 days they have been outside 0 times or maybe twice for 5 minutes.
We went from -25 (-40 windchill) to almost 50 in a couple days.
Northwest NM is one of the few areas where the temperatures have actually been above normal the past few days.
A day late and a dollar short again but wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hoping you all had one as good as mine !!
My kids came to visit so I stayed clear away from the internet, something that I had made up my mind to do days before yesterday – I wanted to hear about and know everything about their lives and what they’ve been up to.
HO, HO, HO !!
Prayers for those who are in western NY State and all the areas that were hit so hard this past weekend. 4′ and still coming down. Wow.
It’s 34C at the MCG in Melbourne and the Yarpies are melting into the ground. They were skittled in their first innings for something ridiculously low score. It’s not looking flash for the Hitler Youth! 🙂
The new Blackcaps (Kiwi) spinner looked lethal in Karachi but the pitch dried out and flattened out as well and stopped taking spin, and the Pakistanis are about 340 for 5 and looking dangerous.
🙂
We finally had our family Christmas with ham off the bone Turkey that Mrs. AI began cooking at zero dark 30 this morning. Beautiful sunny day here with 26C and the beach with swimmers and boaters aplenty out the front. Dessert was by #1 son … dark chocolate log with freshly whipped cream and champers.
Good day
🙂
Santa bought me a soft white bamboo shirt.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Aussie Infidel wrote:
AND YOU DIDN’T INVITE ME??!! (what are champers?)
Aussie Infidel wrote:
😆
@ eaglesoars:
Hint:
“The carbon dioxide in champers will make the perfect light and airy crepes.”
https://www.vinovest.co/blog/what-to-do-with-leftover-champagne
@ 4_Sticks:
oh how fun! Thanks!
left-over champaign?
heathens.
i highly suggest reading this book
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rise-and-fall-great-powers-35-years-later
it’s excellent.
eaglesoars wrote:
champers = Champagne~…… bubbly!
🙂
BREAKING: Supreme Court Keeps Immigration Rule Title 42 in Place Indefinitely
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/12/27/breaking-supreme-court-keeps-immigration-rule-title-42-in-place-indefinitely-n1656723
Not that it will make any difference, as this admin has been ignoring it anyway
@ eaglesoars:
That headline is misleading.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/supreme-court-rules-5-4-to-keep-title-42-in-place/
The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that a pandemic-era health measure that restricted illegal migration at the southwestern border would remain in place for the time being, delaying the potential for a huge increase in illegal crossings at the southern border.
In an unsigned order, the justices refused to throw out Title 42, which allows Illegals who might otherwise qualify for asylum to be swiftly expelled at the border.
The court said that it would hear arguments in the case in February and that the stay would remain in place until it issued its ruling. The justices said they would only address the question of whether the 19 mainly Republican-led states that had sought the stay could pursue their challenge to the measure.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil M. Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
@ eaglesoars:
“Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil M. Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.”
‘I’m shocked, SHOCKED … !!’.
I wouldn’t mind so much if theses assholes opened the doors to their own mansions/vacation/summer/winter homes too and took them in while encouraging all their leftist comrades to do same, but nooooo …
Two faced, fhony fux that they are, every last one of them and for as long as I can remember – which is a LONG, LONG, LONG, LONG time (thank you David Crosby).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bxb_6hbH70
‘LIVE’, but I’d Rev and listen from the beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bxb_6hbH70
4_Sticks wrote:
There is NO SUCH THING as LEFT OVER Champers!
HEH!
🙂
Looks like Pope Ben may be dying
Pope Francis asks for prayers for Benedict XVI
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2022-12/pope-francis-benedict-xvi-prayers.html
and Larry Fink never misses a chance for a scam
Zelenskyy, BlackRock CEO Fink agree to coordinate Ukraine investment
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/28/zelenskyy-blackrock-ceo-fink-agree-to-coordinate-ukraine-investment.html
Wait till they try to impose this on the entire EU
Great Reset: German Govt Wants to Remote Control Home Heat, Electric Car Charge
Germany’s Federal Network Agency, a government watchdog responsible for the regulation of electricity and gas in the country, has announced a new plan that will allow power grid operators to remotely limit the use of heat pumps and electric car chargers in Germany next winter without the user’s permission.
With the plans set to be put in place by January 2024, the measure has been described as a way of ensuring energy grid operators have the ability to artificially curb electricity demand should consumption outstrip supply.
According to a report on the new scheme penned by Die Welt, the plan has been drawn up in response to the German energy grid being put under more and more strain by an increasing number of electric car chargers and people using more ‘environmentally friendly’ but electricity-intense heat pumps in their homes.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/12/25/great-reset-home-heating-and-electric-car-charging-to-be-remotely-throttled-under-government-scheme/
Sympathy meter pegged at negative eleventy
Tesla owners blast Christmas car charging chaos with dozens of electric vehicles forced to wait in THREE HOUR queues at charge stations across the UK
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11579649/Tesla-owners-blast-Christmas-car-charging-chaos-dozens-forced-wait-THREE-HOUR-queues.html
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t see how they survive. They needs batter batteries, a small gas engine, or a highway that charges them as they drive.
@ darkwords:
I’d think magnets and solar panels on the car could provide some juice.
15,000 southwest flights canceled. Seems like the same logic that drove the Afghanistan pullout.
darkwords wrote:
The airline’s crew-scheduling system also crumbled under the pressure of so many recent flight changes.
** I also think woke personnel got ahold of them and quality people left.
Don’t start fights with waffle house workers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11579759/Waffle-House-turns-wrestling-ring-customer-launches-chair-worker.html
eating waffles will slow you down and make you a bigger target.
Stew Peters
@realstewpeters
·
12h
These Four Republican Senators Voted AGAINST Reinstating military members discharged for refusal to get vaccinated:
Mitt Romney (UT)
Mike Rounds (SD)
Bill Cassidy (LA)
Susan Collins (ME)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Swve-zmj8
Walk it off buddy.
darkwords wrote:
how many crews got fired for refusing to get vaxed?
@ darkwords:
@ eaglesoars:
Voices From The Line: Larry Lonero
What happened to Southwest Airlines?
I’ve been a pilot for Southwest Airlines for over 35 years. I’ve given my heart and soul to Southwest Airlines during those years. And quite honestly Southwest Airlines has given its heart and soul to me and my family.
Many of you have asked what caused this epic meltdown. Unfortunately, the frontline employees have been watching this meltdown coming like a slow motion train wreck for sometime. And we’ve been begging our leadership to make much needed changes in order to avoid it. What happened yesterday started two decades ago.
Herb Kelleher was the brilliant CEO of SWA until 2004. He was a very operationally oriented leader. Herb spent lots of time on the front line. He always had his pulse on the day to day operation and the people who ran it. That philosophy flowed down through the ranks of leadership to the front line managers. We were a tight operation from top to bottom. We had tools, leadership and employee buy in. Everything that was needed to run a first class operation. When Herb retired in 2004 Gary Kelly became the new CEO.
Gary was an accountant by education and his style leading Southwest Airlines became more focused on finances and less on operations. He did not spend much time on the front lines. He didn’t engage front line employees much. When the CEO doesn’t get out in the trenches the neither do the lower levels of leadership.
Gary named another accountant to be Chief Operating Officer (the person responsible for day to day operations). The new COO had little or no operational background. This trickled down through the lower levels of leadership, as well.
They all disengaged the operation, disengaged the employees and focused more on Return on Investment, stock buybacks and Wall Street. This approach worked for Gary’s first 8 years because we were still riding the strong wave that Herb had built.
But as time went on the operation began to deteriorate. There was little investment in upgrading technology (after all, how do you measure the return on investing in infrastructure?) or the tools we needed to operate efficiently and consistently. As the frontline employees began to see the deterioration in our operation we began to warn our leadership. We educated them, we informed them and we made suggestions to them. But to no avail. The focus was on finances not operations. As we saw more and more deterioration in our operation our asks turned to pleas. Our pleas turned to dire warnings. But they went unheeded. After all, the stock price was up so what could be wrong?
We were a motivated, willing and proud employee group wanting to serve our customers and uphold the tradition of our beloved airline, the airline we built and the airline that the traveling public grew to cheer for and luv. But we were watching in frustration and disbelief as our once amazing airline was becoming a house of cards.
A half dozen small scale meltdowns occurred during the mid to late 2010’s. With each mini meltdown Leadership continued to ignore the pleas and warnings of the employees in the trenches. We were still operating with 1990’s technology. We didn’t have the tools we needed on the line to operate the sophisticated and large airline we had become. We could see that the wheels were about ready to fall off the bus. But no one in leadership would heed our pleas.
When COVID happened SWA scaled back considerably (as did all of the airlines) for about two years. This helped conceal the serious problems in technology, infrastructure and staffing that were occurring and being ignored. But as we ramped back up the lack of attention to the operation was waiting to show its ugly head.
Gary Kelly retired as CEO in early 2022. Bob Jordan was named CEO. He was a more operationally oriented leader. He replaced our Chief Operating Officer with a very smart man and they announced their priority would be to upgrade our airline’s technology and provide the frontline employees the operational tools we needed to care for our customers and employees. Finally, someone acknowledged the elephant in the room.
But two decades of neglect takes several years to overcome. And, unfortunately to our horror, our house of cards came tumbling down this week as a routine winter storm broke our 1990’s operating system.
The frontline employees were ready and on station. We were properly staffed. We were at the airports. Hell, we were ON the airplanes. But our antiquated software systems failed coupled with a decades old system of having to manage 20,000 frontline employees by phone calls. No automation had been developed to run this sophisticated machine.
We had a routine winter storm across the Midwest last Thursday. A larger than normal number flights were cancelled as a result. But what should have been one minor inconvenient day of travel turned into this nightmare. After all, American, United, Delta and the other airlines operated with only minor flight disruptions.
The two decades of neglect by SWA leadership caused the airline to lose track of all its crews. ALL of us. We were there. With our customers. At the jet. Ready to go. But there was no way to assign us. To confirm us. To release us to fly the flight. And we watched as our customers got stranded without their luggage missing their Christmas holiday.
I believe that our new CEO Bob Jordan inherited a MESS. This meltdown was not his failure but the failure of those before him. I believe he has the right priorities. But it will take time to right this ship. A few years at a minimum. Old leaders need to be replaced. Operationally oriented managers need to be brought in. I hope and pray Bob can execute on his promises to fix our once proud airline. Time will tell.
It’s been a punch in the gut for us frontline employees. We care for the traveling public. We have spent our entire careers serving you. Safely. Efficiently. With luv and pride. We are horrified. We are sorry. We are sorry for the chaos, inconvenience and frustration our airline caused you. We are angry. We are embarrassed. We are sad. Like you, the traveling public, we have been let down by our own leaders.
Herb once said the the biggest threat to Southwest Airlines will come from within. Not from other airlines. What a visionary he was. I miss Herb now more than ever.
#SWAPA #SouthwestAirlines
https://www.facebook.com/swapa737
@ Bordm:
fascinating.
@ coldwarrior:
Aussies crushed the South African ‘Hitler Youth’ by an Innings and 180 runs. Kiwis have the Pakistanis by the throat. Now let’s see if they can put them away on day 5 of the Test Match!
@ Aussie Infidel:
The Aussie bowlers are scary good
jeebus
Regulator wined and dined by SBF and FTX out at the SEC.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/sec-official-steps-down-ftx-connection
It comes after the Washington Examiner revealed Berkovitz cozy relationship with SBF and FTX thanks to emails obtained by the watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust. “If ever there were a scene to conjure up a vision of a D.C. rigged toward corrupt insiders at the expense of the little guy, it would be difficult to top this one,” Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told the Washington Examiner. “Not long before its collapse and a raft of fraud charges, SBF and his gang were wooing one of their would-be regulators no doubt to try to manipulate the regulations to their advantage.”
Bankman-Fried, FTX General Counsel Ryne Miller, and then-FTX President Brett Harrison met with Berkovitz at a luxury restaurant in Oct. 2021 amid discussions by the SEC and CFTC to determine the best methods for regulating cryptocurrency. While it is unknown what was discussed, the presence of Berkovitz at the dinner illustrates Bankman-Fried’s efforts to schmooze lawmakers and regulators in D.C. and promote his view of crypto regulation.
SBF even presented FTX as the “natural choice” to be “umpires” of the crypto industry to Berkowitz in emails.
about an hour ago
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Just Had His First Margin Call for Twitter Loan
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-elon-musk-margin-call-twitter-loan-51672328580
Holy Moley! Look at this pic!
Ontario on Lake Erie, houses totally encased in ice. There are dead people in there.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/29/us/homes-ice-blizzard-lake-erie-climate/index.html
Naomi Wolf is right. This is mass murder
Sixty-one KNOWN DEATHS FROM STROKE in THREE MONTHS after Pfizer vaccination out of 275 strokes AFTEFR marketing rollout and they KEPT SAYING SAFE AND EFFECTIVE. Half of them dead within 48 hours after injection. Mass murder. FDA coverup.
https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1608192806916591616
You know CISA, our ‘cybersecurity’ unit of the government? Guess who sits on their ‘advisory committee’. Vijaya Gadde, the bitch who banned Trump from twitter. Elon fired her ass.
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1608231231564701697
Pele has died. Breaking now, no links
Pele dead: Brazil football icon dies aged 82 after battling colon cancer
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1713764/Pele-dead-Brazil-football-icon-dies-aged-82-colon-cancer-World-Cup-Santos
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/whimper-disbanding-jan-6th-panel-drops-president-trump-subpoena-trump-responds/
Heh.
They’re doing it again. I think the rationale is if they have to suffer, they’ll make sure the rest of the world suffers too.
https://www.floppingaces.net/2022/12/29/ready-for-the-next-china-pandemic-theyre-sending-it-our-way-right-now/
China finally ended its idiotic zero-COVID policy, which was an absolute disaster. People were sealed into their own homes, sometimes even welded in. As China lies about pretty much everything it’s almost impossible to know how many died as a consequence. It estimates that 250 million are now infected with COVID since the end of its zero-COVID restrictions. The country is now going through what everyone else endured two years ago, except that now they are again willing to share.
China, which was ground zero for COVID, is lifting quaranti
from the “Oh, NOW you tell us” dept, direct from the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics
https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/05/jme-2022-108449
COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities
Long story short: They do more harm than good, knock it off
Look what equity means in Virginia schools. “Equal outcomes for every student, without exception.”
https://twitter.com/AsraNomani/status/1608532855642292224
This was a powerpoint presentation by a company who got a no-bid contract
Just wonderful
https://chicksonright.com/blog/2022/12/29/zelenskyy-announces-plans-to-join-wef-and-sign-loans-with-blackrock/
So Ukraine will go down the crapper.
He said the quiet part out loud. Some countries are using the boosters to kill children
44 sec video
This is the head of the WHO
https://twitter.com/DaperReptilian/status/1607357760903196674
Pay attention to this. Ed Dowd is a very serious guy who was an analyst with Blackrock.
Warning From Ed Dowd: 7,500 Americans Are Killed or Disabled EACH DAY as Jabs Take Heavy Toll
Ed Dowd, author of Cause Unknown (available at BrighteonBooks.com and other book resellers) joined me for an interview last night to share updated — and slightly horrifying — numbers about post-vaccine excess fatalities and excess disability claims.
The short version of that conversation is that each day in America, there are about 2,500 excess deaths and 5,000 excess disability victims due to covid-19 vaccines. This means, on average, about 7,500 Americans are removed from the potential labor pool each day. Granted, not all 7,500 are currently working, but most of them theoretically could contribute to the work force if they chose to.
Our conversation goes way beyond the mere numbers, however. We look at the macroeconomic implications of this daily removal of 7,500 people from the potential labor pool and what it means for America’s economy and military security, among other things. To hear the full conversation, listen to the interview below.
The decivilization of the USA
One of the more startling realizations in all this is that the United States of America is suffering the early stages of a “decivilization” event, not merely a temporary bump in the road. That term refers to the dismantling of the critical, complex pillars of a modern advanced civilization, rendering it unable to function.
https://discernreport.com/warning-from-ed-dowd-7500-americans-are-killed-or-disabled-each-day-as-jabs-take-heavy-toll/
This is pretty much how the bronze age became the iron age. There was a massive decivilization process in the east at about 1177 B.C (or maybe 1189 B.C., Egyptologists keep changing the date). Anyhow, it seems a perfect storm of earthquakes, draught, famine and invasion destabilized the entire region and enough civilzation knowledge was lost – or raw materials made unavailable (e.g. tin), that iron became more practical than bronze
right_wing2 wrote:
I posted about the Blackrock venture upthread. Once that joint venture was announced, the WEF join up was inevitable.
coldwarrior wrote:
Do. Not. Fuck. With. Harmeet. Dillon.
That is all.
@ eaglesoars:
Hugh Hewitt was supporting McDaniel last I read. and McConnell.
IMO AOC should date Matt Gaetz and create a reality TV show around it. Episode 3 they invite MTG over for steak and lobster. BYOB.
Such a thing in the current milieu would swamp attention. Unfortunately Trump would be in the distant past of a last year then.
Crap. I bought whiskey for New Years Eve party and find myself secretly siphoning off the alcohol content before the end of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfjDykCVGRE
Breaking Down INSANE Military Spending in 2023 Omnibus Bill (w/ Stephen Semler)
Brieana Joy Grey. Bernie Bro…. Interesting that they analyze the omnibus bill as a win for the GoP. People on the left thinking against the dems.
They make some interesting points.
Crater Lake Bourbon on sale. plus Amaretto, lemon and maple syrup. A little too sweet. Crater Lake usually has a good Gin. I need to visit the distillery since i am a long time customer.
Putting on to my vacation 2023 vacation to do list.
@ darkwords:
Alcohol sucks in terms of long term health but I seem to like the short term adjustment in life skills.
darkwords wrote:
Bidens war machine removes any benefits obtained from climate change build back better policies.
I’m watching a reporter with a mask on and I can’t take her seriously. I have to think she is a deluded person.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-this-winning/
WINNING
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Good article
And….
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/trump-speaks-at-davos-and-gives-middle-finger-to-wef-agenda-in-front-of-klaus-schwab/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
When I tell people the Ukraine war was started by globalists – including the US – baiting Putin with the totally BS ploy of Ukraine joining NATO and Putin was dumb enough to fall for it and that it’s one big money laundering op for the arms dealers – I mean Griner for Boot? – how much more Captain Obvious do you need to get – they literally have no idea what I’m talking about. They don’t even understand that Ukraine floated the NATO idea. Astonishing ignorance.
World Economic Forum Cancels Twitter, Directs Followers To Use Chinese Social Media Instead
https://www.postdiscus.com/2022/12/world-economic-forum-cancels-twitter.html
Twitter is noticeably absent from the entities listed on the WEF’s “How to follow Davos 2023” social media pamphlet, and that appears to be no accident.
The Dossier reports: To stay up to speed with all that is happening within the invite-only doors of the ruling class confab, the WEF recommends following along through a handful of social media sites. They include the U.S.-based narrative-compliant Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, along with the Chinese social media apps TikTok WeChat, and Weibo. Twitter, which has freed itself from the grasp of the WEF-endorsed censorship-compliant social apps, is no longer included.
Through its founder Klaus Schwab and partner organizations, the WEF has a very cozy relationship with the Chinese government. Davos recently revealed that their China office now has 40 full time staffers. Moreover, every year in Beijing, the WEF hosts its “Annual Meeting of the New Champions,” which facilitates partnerships between international businesses and the Chinese Community Party. In 2018, the CCP awarded Klaus Schwab with its China Reform Friendship Medal, a medal for non-Chinese people who do the CCP’s bidding overseas.
Elon’s doing something right
WTF is the CDC doing in this sewer?
CDC Pressures Teachers to Increase ‘LGBTQ Inclusivity’ in Classroom Instruction
https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/29/cdc-pressures-teachers-to-increase-lgbtq-inclusivity-in-classroom-instruction/
Alyssa Farah Griffin is a piece of work. She’s Joseph Farah’s daughter (he’s a founder of WND) and I suspect there are some serious Daddy issues going on.
Former top Trump aide: Kayleigh McEnany ‘a liar and an opportunist’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-top-trump-aide-kayleigh-mcenany-a-liar-and-an-opportunist/ar-AA15N8Mi?cvid=7d006ec18d3041ecab7b9514a44afcc1
You know how the left always accuse others of what they’re up to? Yeah, like that……………….how in God’s name she ever made it to Trump’s WH………
A man in his 20s has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students whose bodies were found in a rental home near campus last month, multiple law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said Friday.
It marks the first major break in a case that has both captivated and mystified the globe.
Pennsylvania State Police, with the assistance of the FBI, apprehended him in the Scranton area Friday morning, the sources said.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/suspect-in-killings-of-4-university-of-idaho-students-arrested-in-pennsylvania-sources/4020657/
um…………
$1.7M In Crypto Vanishes From Bankman-Fried-Linked Firm Days After His Release On Bail
https://www.dailywire.com/news/1-7m-in-crypto-vanishes-from-bankman-fried-linked-firm-days-after-his-release-on-bail
And it looks like whoever did it was deliberately trying to cover their tracks. Interesting article
@ eaglesoars:
Which is totally different from her gig on “The View”…
@ lobo91:
oh nice catch!
This is an actual text from Ray Epps to his nephew on January 6th:
“I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it.”
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1608884925259993089
looks like it’s taken from the House Jan 6 committee docs
eaglesoars wrote:
Like I said…the Left always accuses others of what they do………
Oh, so THIS is going to be the play…..
Judge rules suspect in Colorado voting machine tampering case is incompetent
A man accused of tampering with a voting machine during Colorado’s primary election is mentally incompetent and cannot continue with court proceedings, a judge ruled Thursday.
At the request of Richard Patton’s lawyer and prosecutors, Judge William Alexander also ordered that Patton undergo outpatient mental health treatment in hopes of making him well enough so he can be prosecuted.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/richard-patton-mentally-incompetent-suspect-colorado-voting-machine-tampering/
And let me just get ahead of the curve and predict that Mr. Patton didn’t kill himself
eaglesoars wrote:
So he was either the head of the hydra and exploiting a peaceful rally or he was taking orders from someone.
The pacific northwest peaceful rallies always have a violent contingent that walks at the end of the protest. The peaceful rally organizers have a relationship with the violent protest leaders. They get to use the publicity for the cause. They talk to each other and sometimes to the police and the mayor so they can stage violence for the media.
@ darkwords:
I wonder if any of them are on somebody’s payroll
Germany’s ZDF Public Television Suggests Bathing Once a Week Would Be Beneficial
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/28/germanys-zdf-public-television-suggests-bathing-once-a-week-would-be-beneficial/
Watch the Huns try to make it mandatory. The fuckers never change
Carryin’ on from a post on the last page / thread, I find these links invaluable:
https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand
and…
https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Classic+TV%22
@ 4_Sticks:
that archive is great, but on pluto I can’t get rid of that stupid box playing some kids’ garbage.
@ 4_Sticks:
Speaking of old movies, I just read a Spectator piece about the movie Cleopatra w/Elizabeth Taylor. Brought back memories. I was 11, my sister 9. It was showing at a local drive-in. YAYY! REALLY BIG SCREEN! And Mom said she’d take us.
Dad objected. Didn’t think it was suitable for young girls, especially with all the scandal. My mother gave him her ‘long stare’. “Cliff, go find something to do”
heh. Mom wanted to see Liz.
eaglesoars wrote:
And one thing I found out – Taylor was hospitalized during filming with ‘pneumonia’ that put her in the hospital where they needed to perform a tracheotomy. You can see the scar in the film.
She didn’t have pneumonia. She accidently OD’d on seconal
what’s odd about this arrest in the Idaho murders – somebody on twitter posted a screen shot and I didn’t grab it – a 4chan post from an anonymous person by someone who described what he did to one of the girls (I won’t repeat it) saying he was hiding in “the shit hole woods of Pennsylvania. Good luck catching me”
And they found him in rural PA near Scranton. Somebody reported something. That 4chan post was around Dec 14th I think
@ eaglesoars:
he is a grad student in criminal justice – conducting a research project?
sheesh…….
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/12/30/university-of-idaho-murder-case-takes-bizarre-twist-thanks-to-reddit-post-allegedly-written-by-suspect/
just NOW???
Bahamas Regulators Seize Crypto Assets from FTX Worth $3.5 Billion for ‘Safekeeping’
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/30/bahamas-regulators-seize-crypto-assets-from-ftx-worth-3-5-billion-for-safekeeping/
@ eaglesoars:
Honest question as my brain isn’t functioning properly today –
Why is this murder case more significant than others?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
the horror
dayum
south carolina just roasted noterdame for a 100 yard interception return
vols play in an hour
@ rain of lead:
100 YARDS!!
That’s got to be one of the great plays of all time.
Latest on the Idaho murders. (use Brave browser, this is the Daily Mail and the ads are beyond obnoxious, Brave blocks them)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11585985/Idaho-police-suspect-CUSTODY-murders-four-students.html
They had his DNA
FBI had him under surveillance for 4 days
His aunt told the New York Post that he was ‘above and beyond’ being vegan and obsessively forced his family to ‘buy new pots and pants’ which had not touched meat.
His reddit post about his research project is at the link.
Total BS. Sturgeon, btw, is one odious human being.
Anger as EU project sees Police Scotland rebrand paedophiles as ‘Minor-Attracted People’
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/anger-eu-project-sees-police-28841534?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Barbara Walters has died
https://twitter.com/RobertBReports/status/1609016065744404482
Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/barbara-walters-trailblazing-tv-icon-dies-93/story?id=41435083&cid=social_twitter_abcn
eaglesoars wrote:
Brussels is more our enemy than Putin.
eaglesoars wrote:
Dissect him. Give him a number in a cell. And work some science on him.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I often wonder why we choose one murder to read in the paper and not another.
And with mass killings Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan probably have more daily.
It suggests people take a tribal interest in these things rather than a civilization interest.
eaglesoars wrote:
My guess. though I don’t care for the terms.
Incel. Porn. Rejection.
He was unsuccessful in human relationships. Students from Pullman drive over to Moscow Idaho to drink. Quite a few car crashes along the way.
darkwords wrote:
Possibly. I’m thinking along other lines. The pedophiles that become grade school teachers.
This guy was a criminal justice grad.
Predators follow the prey.
Altho your line and mine are not mutually exclusive.
eaglesoars wrote:
Just went through the Daily Wire story. Real creepy.
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Meanwhile, sister got to spend Christmas in the hospital recovering from surgery to re-attach her bowels and get rid of TWO colostomy bags (the result of a botched surgery). She got home today and sat on a toilet for the first time in a couple years. She’s happy.
darkwords wrote:
A lot of stories make sure to mention that the perp was a libertarian.
darkwords wrote:
Took a while but welcome to the logical side of the street!
🙂
Brussels has been the evil bunch of fascistic, socialist bastards ever since the days of the Euro Coal Exchange days way before the EEC or EU ever broke cover. Where do you think all those NAZIs were hiding in plain sight in the 1950s?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Jack The Ripper creepy. One of the girls – the one who told someone she thought she had a stalker – is the girl the person on 4chan said he sexually mutilated. That is something only the killer and law enforcement would know. The police have said from the beginning one of the victims was targeted. I will bet dollars to donuts this guy is VERY familiar w/Jack The Ripper. He mutilated his victims also.
I’m sorry about your sister. I mean I’m glad she’s doing better, but…
@ Aussie Infidel:
Long long ago (and far far away) I posted a paper I was asked to write for a German/English blog on the EU. It sucked as I was restricted in length but to write it I had to do my research and it meant reading every. fucking. iteration. of the EU docs from the Rome Declaration onward. I think I’ve only posted three threads here, one on Ninon DeLenclos, [THE EXTRAORDINARY WHORE], one on hygiene in ancient Rome and that paper. It was called This Miraculous Conception or something. Maybe Bunk can find it, he found all the Iron Fist stuff, but he’s got brain fog going on and you’re not missing anything not reading it anyway. It was for a German audience.
Anyhoo, the origins of the EU are post WW I. Not the 1950s. The administrative agency was established in 1952 but that’s not the ultimate origin.
eaglesoars wrote:
One of my best resources back then was the blog EU Referendum, which I used to read like a nun reads a Bible. That site has changed radically but here is one of their articles that I used as one of my sources.
https://www.eureferendum.com/results.php?search=Steel+and+Coal
Thus, Loucheur came to reflect, industrial organisation was the key to waging war. From this he developed the idea that, if key industries from different countries, above all their coal and steel industries on which modern warfare so much depended, were removed from the control of individual nations and vested in a “higher authority”, this might be the means of preserving peace.
From this beguilingly single concept came the spur that led Jean Monnet, 34 years after the battle of Verdun, to suggest to Schuman the idea of a European Coal and Steel Community, which in turn was to lead to the European Economic Community and thence the European Union.
In that sense, the intellectual father of the European Union was not Monnet, much less Schuman, nor even Spinelli � all of whom are honoured in the hagiographies of the European Union. The greater claim to being the “father of Europe” rests with that almost totally unknown Frenchman, Louis Loucheur, whose work undoubtedly provided the inspiration for Monnet.
The great tragedy though is that the idea picked up by Monnet in the 1920s (and translated into institutional format by the English civil servant Arthur Salter) was out of date by the time it came to be implemented in 1950.
An idea born out of the carnage of the First World War, intended to prevent future wars, was a model in fact designed to prevent the Second World War. In 1945, however, when peace was finally imposed, the geopolitical situation had changed beyond all measure. That 1920s model was totally out of date and no longer appropriate.
https://www.eureferendum.com/results.php?search=Steel+and+Coal
And I suspect, this is also the germ of The Great Reset
@ eaglesoars:
THE absolute best book on the EU is The Great Deception by Richard North and Christopher Booker. Booker was a founder of the satirical mag Private Eye and wrote for one of the UK papers. Brilliant guy, passed a few years ago.
Richard North ‘owned’ the blog EU Referendum and was a UKIP candidate. I think he’s still with us (he’s ‘only’ 74) but I haven’t kept up with him as U.S. issues have become more critical for me.
Bed. Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve which means more time in the kitchen for me. I’m just doing a buffet. This cooking thing can fuck right off but still – baked spiced pita chips, yada yada yada. The hard boiled eggs for deviled eggs are done.
Shame. On. Me. I’d forgotten all about her. As Glenn Reynolds points out, RIP Barbara Walters. “But she was no Oriani Fallaci”
I highly recommend The Rage and The Pride
eaglesoars wrote:
I didn’t get that far into the details…
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2016/03/19/saturday-guest-lecture-an-extraordinary-whore/
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2016/03/12/tudor-hygiene/
eaglesoars wrote:
Correct. Here’s the third.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2014/03/28/the-unremembered-part-1/
January 1 is public domain day.
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/
New thread, yinz guys!
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/12/31/ncaa-football-playoffs-2022-open-thread-happy-new-year/
@ eaglesoars:
I’d like to see the number of pedophiles broken down by career. Teachers, coaches, priests/religious leaders, youth workers etc.
right_wing2 wrote:
They would all be pretty bad, but from what I’ve seen teachers would win by a landslide. Of course that may because there are more teachers than the other categories but it’s really bad. The schools also have a system in place to cover it up. Teacher gets accused, school shuffles them off to another district where they can hide until they do it again.