Notre Dame standout and Chicago Cardinals football player Bill Fischer, 1952.
IT’S AN OPEN THREAD!!!
Today we celebrated Orthodox Christmas and The Puti’s 14th Birthday…14 years….
I made rotisserie duck, escargot, Brussel’s sprouts, shiitake mushrooms, and fired rice. The ducks were a yuge hit. Now, I am tired and need to chill, have a bevie, and watch some ball.
 3 TCUCFP National Championship pres. by AT&T |
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NO ONE, NO ONE had TCU in the final, no one. They were a 12.5 dog a few days ago, now it’s up to 13.5. The consensus is that the Georgia Bulldogs will beat the spread, I’m outta money,$0/$1000, first time I’m in the negative in 12 years. If it were real money, I would have walked at $1600/$1000. Good thing it’s fake money
I’d like to see the Horned frogs keep it close, but, jeeze….13.5 points is a lot of points. It looks like Vegas isn’t buying the ‘team of destiny’ shtick. Neither am I. But…13.5 is ton of points. TCU covers.
UGA didn’t bring their mascot!
Bad luck….
US considers BANNING gas stoves over concerns they cause health and breathing problems – as new study finds one in eight childhood asthma cases are linked to the ‘hidden hazard
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11616687/US-considers-BANNING-gas-stoves-rising-concerns-causes-health-breathing-problems.html
@ eaglesoars:
From my cold, dead, hands.
@ eaglesoars:
Had a door-to-door rep come by a day or so ago, wanted to discuss installing a “Net Monitor”. Hooks up to the electric meter so someone/something somewhere can control my power usage during periods of high demand. Am I interested?
Fuck no.
The rules package passed the House
coldwarrior wrote:
from THEIR cold dead hands.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The appropriate response would have been the barrel of a .45 up a nostril
Excellent news!
Update — Damar Hamlin released from hospital, now in Buffalo
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-damar-hamlin-released-from-hospital/
Project Veritas went down to El Paso to show what the POTatUS didn’t see during his three hour visit.
https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1612526352451907584
Progress report!!!!
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/12/31/ncaa-football-playoffs-2022-open-thread-happy-new-year/#comment-97085
In just 9 days there is a four pound change in my weight!
Now weigh 232….
@ Possum:
Are you asking for help?
this is good
JUST IN: House Republicans Vote Unanimously to Repeal Funding For Army of 87,000 IRS Agents (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/just-house-republicans-vote-unanimously-repeal-funding-army-87000-irs-agents-video/
@ eaglesoars:
Nah, It does me good to walk to the store every day to get beer. But thanks for offering to deliver it!
Just kind of making a statement that the key to loosing weight and being healthier is a complete lifestyle change.
Very sad news.
‘Diamond’ of Diamond and Silk has passed away.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4122161/posts
An American treasure. Her name was Lynette Hardaway
Possum wrote:
I didn’t. Oh! Was that sarcasm?
Get off your ass and get a fucking job. Reality is what it is. Nobody’s dreams are worth a bucket of warm spit unless you work for it.
I don’t mean to be cruel. The world is what it is. I’ve cleaned other people’s toilets to make my rent. Showed up at a fast food joint at 5 am to make donuts, which required carrying a 50 pound bag of dough mix up 2 flights of stairs (I weighed 98 pounds) and mix it and fry it and have everything ready for a 7 am opening. Get over yourself and what you thought what you thought life is ‘supposed’ to be. If you need help, I think I can safely say we’re all here.
But stop feeling sorry for yourself. Find your own agency and go with that.
At the VERY least, you have some helpless cats that utterly depend on you for their safety and well being.
@ eaglesoars:
Umm, actually I don’t need a fucking job. I am 64 and happily retired thanks. AND NOT TAKING A SINGLE PENNY FROM THE US SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM OR THE UK.
Just would like to lose a few pounds…..
Possum wrote:
ok, apologies.
Arrested husband of missing mom-of-three Googled ‘how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body’ – just days before her disappearance
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11617663/Husband-missing-Massachusetts-mom-three-Googled-dispose-115-pound-womans-body.html
Amateur mistake. Lot of these criminals using social media as a crime partner.
If I had to do it over I would have developed an erase social media AI bot and made billions.
Q: Why isn’t reading Playboy considered gender affirming care?
Watched Brad Pitt in the Bullet Train. I was pre conditioned to not like it from a previously bad train and crime movie. But it was good. Interesting culture blending between Japan and the west.
Watched a few South Korean crime shows on netflix last week also. Those South Koreans are a pretty dark group. Not sure if I can handle their idea of boundaries.
I had watched Squid Games and DID not like it. Will give them a few more tries.
Apparently there was a canine crusade against Texas Christian University. I missed probably lucky as I am gored out from the South Korean content.
dystopia everywhere. Also read a sci fi story about humans using AI as personal assistants and the AI evolves to the point it uses humans to further its existence.
neural net type of stuff.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/01/10/a-hoopers-hen-is-also-called-a-thicken/
unreal. doesn’t look healthy.
JP is up late and tweeting. He takes tweets too seriously and works himself up into a lather. Someone needs to take his phone from him at bedtime. Also his friend Andrew Huberman points to studies that using a phone at night while you should sleep throws off the bio rhymes. Different for shift workers,
Dr Jordan B Peterson
@jordanbpeterson
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Replying to
@jordanbpeterson
I wrote to
@JustinTrudeau
and published that in the
@nationalpost
— since part of the reason I have been sentenced was for criticizing Canada’s Prime Minister and his cronies:
@ Possum:
I used to drink imports, then went to domestic ales, then to crap beer (Bud), then to crappier beer (BudLite) and was about to make the move to a low carb almost beer when I just quit. Now I only drink in my dreams, and even then I have to sneak them.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Went from a peak of 216. Dropped to 165 due to the C word. 6′-1″ and under 195 now.
@ darkwords:
Reddit has some talented photoshopoopery masters.
This is cool. A group of SOF vets did 7 jumps onto 7 continents in 7 days for charity. The first jump was in Antarctica:
https://www.reddit.com/r/conservatives/comments/107hs4i/fauci_flip_flop/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
What the actual…???
Biden honors protectors of democracy on Jan. 6, including three from Georgia
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, a mother and daughter, got some of the biggest applause of the event as the president recounted the abuse they bore after being falsely accused of ballot fraud by then-President Donald Trump and his allies. They later provided testimony to a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol where Trump supporters breached the building and temporarily halted the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
“Both of them were just doing their jobs until they were targeted and threatened by the same predators and peddlers of lies that would fuel the insurrection,” Biden said.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/biden-honors-protectors-of-democracy-on-jan-6-including-three-from-georgia/G52DIHYNOFDNVANBW5DCA3UANY/
I don’t know how closely anyone here followed this, but these two ARE ON VIDEO fucking up the voting
@ right_wing2:
RFK Jrs book is even worse. You should see what the guy did with AIDS. He makes Mengele look like one of the 7 dwarves.
@ eaglesoars:
Wow…they’re actually passing that editorial off as a news article?
Classified documents found at Biden’s namesake think tank
https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/classified-documents-found-at-biden-think-tank-doj-and-fbi-reviewing-the-material/
This is at U. Penn. Which if you listen to Bongino, gets a lot of anonymous CCP money
@ eaglesoars:
Found several months ago (well before the mid-terms) and kept hidden until now
No, new study does not link gas stoves with asthma in children
https://junkscience.com/2023/01/no-new-study-does-not-link-gas-stoves-with-asthma-in-children/
The new study the Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to rely on to ban gas stoves is classic junk science
1. No children studied in new ‘study.’
2. Results not statistically significant.
3. Asthma = allergic disease, but gas stoves emit no allergens.
lobo91 wrote:
Yes, after the mid-terms and ahead of all the investigations the House will be doing
@ eaglesoars:
Nice find. Confirms common sense.
Whenever I see one of these junk science busts I remember that the reason we have decaf coffee is because some students at OSU fudged the data to validate their senior thesis assumptions about caffeine.
Oh get THIS! [this is more on the Harry and Meghan saga lying about their children]
He maintains they were home 2 hours after Archie’s birth.
1. They were living an hour from the hospital he was supposedly born in
2. She had an epidural during labor
NO FREAKING WAY!! Go ahead and sit up after an epidural. You’ll have a slamming headache for DAYS.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I assume you mean Ohio State? What did they fudge? Personally, I’m kind of glad we have decaf stuff because caffeine used to be one of my seizure triggers (as was chocolate, which was a big OH FUCK ME)
eaglesoars wrote:
Also, I have no idea how she could have walked so soon. I guess it’s possible she got a very low dose, but I’ve had an epidural as has my sister and we were BOTH told to lie flat for a few hours at least to avoid headaches and falls. For some reason my sister didn’t and she said her headache was worse than any migraine.
@ eaglesoars:
Nope.
coldwarrior wrote:
Are you saying ‘no’ to my take or Harry’s story?
Cardinal Pell has died. Thankfully not in prison.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/10/new-york-times-columnist-blake-hounshell-dead-at-44/
‘Hounshell joined The Times from Politico, where he served as managing editor for Washington and politics. He spent eight years there, overseeing coverage of Congress, the White House, the judiciary, national security and defense, among other things. Prior to Politico, Hounshell was the managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine.’
A tough racket I guess.
eaglesoars wrote:
1. Yes.
2. I don’t remember the specifics.
eaglesoars wrote:
I had one when I was in college. The doc didn’t warn me about the migraines. I went out with my buddies to cut up dead wood to sell for Christmas present money anyway, splitting logs and puking bile at the same time.
We finally got done and the truck backed into the clearing so we could load it up. What we didn’t consider was the heat of the engine – it thawed the frozen mud underneath, so we got to unload it and push it out to the road, and reload it a second time.
That evening we stood in the snow on a Christmas tree lot, sold a cord or so of logs. We made just enough to pay expenses (rentals, lot fee, gas, etc.) with some left over to buy exactly two pitchers of beer.
That Graham Hancock ancient civilizations series suggest that the mythology of dragons and giants snakes in ancient culture is an observation of the meteors from an ancient meteor shower the earth passes through.
Makes sense when one looks at the aerial view of Indian mounds.
darkwords wrote:
Fort Ancient, Ohio, ya? Got the bigass egg-sucking snake mound.
eaglesoars wrote:
Our evil knows no bounds.
After Cold’s rant about our arrogant fans, I was baking a nice crow in the oven, his favorite dish when bemoaning Buckeye greatness, but that missed last second field goal…shame. I nice repeat of 2014 season would have been nice way to wrap up the year.
Bwahawhaha.
Looks like a massive failure
FAA lifts ground order on flights after two-and-a-half hours: White House says ‘no evidence of cyberattack’ behind computer failure that delayed at least 4,000 flights and halted America’s air traffic for the first time since 9/11
The FAA’s NOTAM system – which pilots use to see flight plans – failed overnight
The White House says there is ‘no evidence’ of a cyber attack
The issue was fixed by 9am but more than 4,000 flights were delayed as a result
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11622941/Hundreds-flights-grounded-leaving-passengers-stranded-FAA-systems-outage.html
Day 2 of the 777 Expedition: Santiago, Chile
After the usual morning ablutions and feasting, the heathen beagles go back to sleep. For some reason, Willow has decided she wants to sleep in my closet.
Benedict XVI: It Is The Time Of Antichrist
In 2015, BXVI wrote letter to Catholic statesman Vladimir Palko, urging prayer against the ‘expanding power of the Antichrist’
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/benedict-xvi-it-is-the-time-of-antichrist/
Very interesting article
@ Buckeye Abroad:
God Bless Woody Hayes. Or what’s left of him.
Bongino: Pentagon dropping vax mandate
Just start shooting these people
Harvard med class focuses on LGBTQIA+ ‘infants’ and older
https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-med-class-focuses-on-lgbtqia-infants-and-older/
The prologue for Jack Carr’s upcoming novel:
Fun article
How Pittsburgh’s Famous Sandwich Became its Most Beloved Fake News
Everyone in Pittsburgh knows the Primanti Brothers namesake sandwich originated as a lunch for local steel mill workers, but … what if it didn’t?
https://www.saveur.com/pittsburgh-sandwich-history/
Nice start.
https://conservativebrief.com/articles-impeachment-69830/1aX7jTueD-9m5G4
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
His old office still might be around– it was a shrine when I was there. His picture is still hanging above my desk in any case.
@ eaglesoars:
Ummmm….I never heard it was for steel workers. It was for the guys driving truck and working in the strip rail terminal.
Which is right beside the original restaurant.
eaglesoars wrote:
Two of our daily e-Mail group knew Crd. Pell personally and he was a wonderful guy. Pell died a ‘white martyr’ (no blood was spilt but he suffered for the Faith) and he’s just fine now! One was an Aussie Director of CI for two separate National ‘alphabet’ agencies and the other is the Director for a powerful DC based think tank.
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I see R’s waffling on a Biden impeachment. That gives him a pass for all his ill deeds. Put them on display.
Also, there are 51 intelligence leaders that need to be grilled by congress. And IMO swapped out for the J6 prisoners.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/benedict-xvi-it-is-the-time-of-antichrist/
the final word about Benedict XVI
Dryer at the height of his power.
Worthy of a read!
lobo91 wrote:
I’m on board. HE’ll probably only get better.
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/cardinal-pell-white-martyr/
Definitely one of the good guys. That’s why Pell was so hated by the ‘world’.
Jeff Beck has passed away. Bacterial meningitis, reportedly
Aussie Infidel wrote:
We are sitting ducks for the spirit of Antichrist, in whatever forms it takes.
** I think that can observed by the people who are driven by fears and the leaders who use fear to control. That there is your fauci as a disciple of the antichrist. Biden fits the bill also.
eaglesoars wrote:
So there were XV other Benedicts? Kind of interesting. The church has been around awhile.
eaglesoars wrote:
One can’t discount the morale failure among employees. Or the disingenuousness of woke managers led by PeteButt.
Go Local. Anything fed is dangerous.
@ darkwords:
REVEALED: Pete Buttigieg oversaw a rebranding of faulty NOTAM system make it ‘more inclusive’ by referring to ‘air missions’ instead of ‘airmen’ in 2021 – and it was undergoing a two- phase ‘modernization’ when it crashed
@Cernovich
I rescued a crocodile and am going to start walking it everywhere because it’s the owner not the breed. Good little croc extra cut never been a problem before.
** As a commentary on pitbulls killing young kids. 2 stories in the past few days.
One of my ex’s got a pitbull as security around her house. I objected because there were kids around and the house environment was tense. But resolution didn’t occur until she was walking the pitbull and it attacked and killed a dog passing by. She ended up giving the dog away. I look back and think I wasn’t insistent enough.
lobo91 wrote:
Hopefully peacefully.
https://twitter.com/CoverdaleReed/status/1613207750724489216/photo/2
Effort now to ban assault stoves.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I BEAT YOU TO IT!! (look upthread)
darkwords wrote:
I am god mother to a pit named Thor. I am not trustful of the breed as a whole and it isn’t always the owner. But this dog belonged to my best girlfriend in Virginia’s family and I held him the day they brought him home so I saw how he was raised (with a 12 oz yorkie, btw) and I babysat him in my own house when Mia was just a puppy. The discipline was loving but EXTREMELY consistent. The doorbell rang and Thor assumed the down position wherever he happened to be and did not move until he was given the release command. That’s really really hard to do. When I would go over and he was released, it was pure joy! All his toys came out, yada yada. I loved walking him, his curiosity, and the smothering cuddles on the sofa. Only once was there an issue. Some guy, early 20s maybe, not well dressed, shuffling walk, etc. I could see something off. Thor moved from my other side to put himself between me and this guy and moved me off the sidewalk and never took his eyes from him. His feet were planted, ears up up up. The guy crossed the street. We moved on. They’re in S. Carolina now, and Thor is recovering from Covid.
OTOH, there used to be a pit down the street that was given to the widow who lived there by her son to protect her after her husband died. The dog (‘Precious’) was never trained. With people she was fine. After the THIRD dog attack where Precious escaped the yard to attack a dog being walked by – well, she managed to grab the dog’s human in the fight and that was it. She was destroyed within 3 hours. Complete waste of what could have been a fine animal. After the second attack I spoke to her son and told him I knew people who could help him and his mom train her but he was into the macho bullshit (immigrated from Cuba somehow) and didn’t want to hear it. I understand the fines involved were several thousand dollars and they could have faced criminal charges. Had Precious come after Molly I would have shot the entire family.
I forget how many pits were rescued from Michael Vick’s operation. They were able to rehab most of them, altho IIRC, one, Georgia?, died on the operating table during dental surgery. The last of the rescued dogs, Frodo, died Dec 2021.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/last-surviving-dog-rescued-from-ex-nfl-michael-vicks-dog-fighting-ring-dies-in-oakland
darkwords wrote:
There were quite a few and at least two were real rotters. That rotters were also popes doesn’t brand all popes with that brush. Even Benedict XVI was not squeaky clear of controversy in his early days, as the youngest professor of theology. He only slowly realized what had been done within the Church during the immediate post Vatican II years when Bernadin was wilfully subverting the liturgy from within…… just like the plan since the 1870s or even perhaps since 1717 when the Masons decided on their theology based nuclear option!
eaglesoars wrote:
… and so you did … upstairs!
🙂
Interesting ehhh?
🙂
darkwords wrote:
Sad to hear that.
Hope he didn’t have to struggle too hard.
Almost lost my daughter … twice … to it. As they say .. a really close run thing. In the end they had to remove her spleen as it was reacting and was killing her. And she was 12,000 miles from home too.
We were very lucky to have kept her.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
A NOTAM is a Notice to Air Men … NOT a Notice to Air Missions
Yet who knows these days. It ‘might’ have been a case of PC gone nuts. The FAA might have caught the PC disease and not been able to utter that shock-horror word … ‘man’!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Buttfuck changed it to be more ‘inclusive’. I kid you not.
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ eaglesoars:
First reports said it was a system upgrade, not a cyber attack. Then the story changed to “we don’t think it was a cyber attack.” Now it’s come out that the US was not the only country that probably didn’t suffer a cyber attack.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oh! What other countries?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Biden level of competence. Canada also i believe had the issue.
Even if it was a software upgrade the dev cycle is out of whack. Most likely a common piece of software that had an exposed vulnerability after an improvement in the system.
But I read that most pilots think the shutdown was a panicked over reaction by Buttigeg level staffing. Pilots didn’t think it was such a system wide big deal. 48 hrs I guess.
@ darkwords:
my understanding is that the FAA was responsible for the hardware, a contracted company was responsible for the software, the FAA never upgraded the hardware to provide a platform for the software so when everything went tits up they had a failure cascade on their hands.
😀
https://www.facebook DOT com/reel/2207840036057485/
From last night’s Gutfeld. They discuss the stupidity that is Harry’s book:
Day 3 of the 777 Expedition–Miami (yesterday). They got caught up in the whole FAA debacle:
So…it looks like the second batch of classified documents found in Biden’s possession were located in the garage of one of his Delaware homes.
Pretty hard for him to claim that he knew nothing about them, I’d say.
eaglesoars wrote:
My BiL just retired from FAA. His job was the hardware side. He was flown to India about 10 years ago to buy tape drives.
India was the only place they could find them. He warned of the coming failures and was told to shut his pie hole.
lobo91 wrote:
If you want to watch Garland squirm – or blatantly cover up, who knows
Watch Live: Garland to deliver statement at Justice Department
1:15 pm today
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/watch-live-garland-statement-justice-department/
@ coldwarrior:
We talked about the FAA’s computer problems when I was in grad school 20 years ago
Even better than taking directions from the Easter Bunny. Biden can’t tell the difference between the Salvation Army and the Secret Service:
We’re getting snow tomorrow, temp drop of about 30 degrees. sheesh.
Matt Gaetz subbed for Bannon this morning (who had a court date, I think). He was interviewing a Congresscritter whose name I didn’t catch but he had some very good news. They’re going to go after the individual bureaucrats in agencies who punish people for bullshit rules. One of the rules I’ve always hated is what I call the ‘mud puddle’ rule which is actually called the WOTUS rule under the EPA’s purview. (Waters of the U.S.)
The EPA has consistently violated people’s property rights and collected massive fines on the grounds that there’s a mud puddle on the property that gives them authority over how the property is managed. There is one man who built 3 ponds to fight wild fires and the EPA is going after him.
Well, enough. They are going to dig out the totalitarian martinets as INDIVIDUALS and go after them, hammer and tong.
I remember years ago when Hubby came back from a meeting with one of these Small Penis Syndrome guys at USDA. He spent the entire meeting snorting that politicians come and go, weren’t worth a pitcher of warm spit. Said he spent his entire career ignoring them because he had a life long sinecure and he could make any decision he saw fit, so Hubby and his clients had to decide at which end of Constitution Ave they were going to kneel.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Hubby walked into Pat Leahy’s office within the hour and that ‘life long sinecure’ went up in smoke by close of business.
The bureaucracy can move really fast when one of the guys who controls your budget allocation puts you on notice that you’re about to lose your funding.
It will be glorious to watch a flame thrower be taken to these assholes.
Another thing they should do is go after the law licenses of the lawyers who fabricated evidence/used it against Trump.
That cockroach Andrew Weissmann is first on the list
Garland appointed a special prosecutor for the Biden documents case
@ lobo91:
Rand Paul spoke on the Buck and Clay show a few minutes ago. His first take was to redefine what documents should be classified versus innocuous stuff. He said even the White House menu is classified. His second point was equal application of the law regardless of a person’s status or political affiliation.
Garland is putting on a shadow puppetry show.
Today is Rush Limbaugh’s birthday, Howard Stern’s birthday, Joe Frazier’s and *ahem* someone else’s.
Everyone: “Happy Birthday.”
Me: “I got chemobrain. Let’s move on.”
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Absolutely. Probably 90% of stuff that’s classified is of no value, particularly due to time. For example, the route a presidential motorcade is going to take is classified, for security reasons. The next day, it’s meaningless. But declassifying it requires an affirmative action, so nobody bothers.
I wouldn’t be surprised if none of the documents Biden had were of any great significance. It appears as though the same is true of what Trump had, contrary to the absurd claims that they included nuclear launch codes.
Whether or not something should be classified, however, is not an element of the crime. If it is, then it has to be handled properly.
lobo91 wrote:
Biden IS the Nuclear FUBAR.
Speaking of nuclear FUBARs, one of the Dem legislators in my state introduced a bill to limit magazine size to 9 rounds. Of course, nobody makes 9 round magazines for anything, so that would just effectively ban the sale of almost all guns here:
lobo91 wrote:
Barf….. The only gun control I would vote for is a law that denied registered Democrats from owning guns.
Lot of conservative social media trying to advocate that Biden shouldn’t be impeached because we are better than that. We can adhere to the constitution better. That may be so but it Biden, Harris, Mayokas, Fauci and the 51 intel chiefs aren’t bitch slapped into the dunce corner then they will just assume they are right. They will come back like a weed that didn’t get pulled.
I got tired of timcast.com podcasts. 2 hours of talking with maybe 15 minutes of real content. Often repeated content. Ocnly a decent quest that drives the conversation. But that is rare.
Lisa Marie Presley has died. She had a heart attack yesterday, 56 yrs old (I think)
@ eaglesoars:
54
lobo91 wrote:
Impressive. Knock on wood. First time I heard Andy Stumpf talk on Jocko podcast I thought he was a blowhard. But I followed his podcast and he is probably one of the most capable persons on the planet.
Seal at 18, no rollback
Seal officer. Retired I think because he was shot in the leg?
Commercial Pilot
Crossfit leader
Wingsuit record setter.
Parachute jumps… .many and many.
The wingsuit stuff is insane. But his safety prep and intuition is extreme.
@ darkwords:
Can you imagine the kind of jet lag those guys are going to have when they get back home?
lobo91 wrote:
I cannot imagine her mother’s utter devastation. There’s is a clip on youtube from 1-2 days ago showing her having to hold on to a friends arm and a slight slurring of her words at some Hollywood event. People probably thought she’d had a bit too much to drink
@ eaglesoars:
I’m seeing her maternal grandmother died of a heart attack at 46.
Did Joe wander off with classified documents?
Did a Democratic operative plant them to weaken his chances of running again in ’24?
right_wing2 wrote:
No. He gave them to Hunter to fence. Then they couldn’t find an opportunity to return them to their proper storage areas w/o being detected so they stashed them in the garage in Delaware (and the glove box of the ‘vette)
My guess.
eaglesoars wrote:
Makes sense. Joe Biden see the information in DC as a money pipeline from China and Ukraine.
Seems like Hunter would crack under pressure.
Will Hunter be questioned next? Biden revealed to Jay Leno that his son refurbished his Corvette – that was parked in garage classified documents were found in
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11630145/Biden-revealed-Jay-Leno-Hunter-refurbished-Corvette-garage-documents.html
‘refurbished’
@ darkwords:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FReqP_Q40bU
Re: The above:
FYI, the above is NSFW, nor for church.
I thought it was a joke meme before I saw this.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-suggests-classified-docs-bidens-home-office-planted-second-batch-found
darkwords wrote:
I saw what you did there.
lobo91 wrote:
You really got that correct!
People who should know better seem to ‘get off’ by over-classifying documents. All it does is stuff the system with fill safes of BS reports that one can normally read in truncated form in unclassified periodicals without even reading between the lines.
Don’t get me started on Top Secret documents that should have never got classified above Confidential! Just a pain in the ass to look after and a bugger to get lowered in classification or destroyed!
SHEESH!
@ eaglesoars:
Albaneese the Aussie Prime Minister refused to give Cdl George Pell a State funeral…. well because … ummm. well it might upset some prople…. you know …. ummm
SPIT
What a total drongo!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I think I heard that even the White House menu is classified.
Ok, maybe a few days before, but come on, why not automatically declassify after 24 hours on something like that?
@ Aussie Infidel:
The other issue is stuff that’s classified in order to prevent embarrassment, or to cover up crimes. Keeping information from the public isn’t a valid reason to classify something. It’s supposed to be to prevent damage to national security, not to protect the administration’s poll numbers.
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ lobo91:
i had an obscenely high clearance back in the day, and yep, a lot of it didn’t even meet the ‘confidential’ hurdle.
The world’s first Antarctic podcast. Andy Stumpf, Logan Stark and Jariko Denman:
it was bound to happen eventually…
for the first time in 20 years i will not be buying a benz (i usually get a good deal CPO). i test drove a 2 year old GLC suv…wayyyyyyy tooo much tech in the cabin and it was not that impressive on the road. the cabin looked like a 70’s discotheque! so much shit to go wrong. all i could see was thousand dollar repair bills for blingy, unnecessary nonsense.
i’ll keep my beloved and reliable glk as a backup (just clocked 100k without a problem, always routine maintenance) and get something else for work. some years i put 20k on just for work…
@ coldwarrior:
I’m coming up on 160,000 miles on my Mountaineer, and just had my first real repair (as in not scheduled maintenance or wear items). One of the spark plugs blew out, which is apparently a thing with that generation of Ford V-8s. It has aluminum heads, and they were able to rethread it. Runs fine now.
I keep looking at replacements, but the prices for used trucks and SUVs are still insane.
coldwarrior wrote:
I had my last benz for over 15 years until my mechanic said I was going to have to get a new one because parts were becoming an issue. Yep, yearly physical is required. A thought: Have you considered going to a benz dealer and asking about a used car with a complete maintenance record and fairly low mileage?
VERRRYYY interesting piece on the gas stove ‘ban’. It’s a feint. [What? You really think NYC is going to undermine its restaurant economy?]
No. They are going to segue into ‘indoor air quality’ and then insist on ‘indoor air monitors’.
Read this.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/12/what-is-the-us-gas-stove-ban-really-about/
As part of “backing down” from the stove ban, they will introduce a new bill which sees “smart air monitors” become mandatory in all new-build houses, hotels and rented accommodation.
Just like smart electricity meters, smart air monitors would almost certainly be used to harvest huge amounts of data and give states or corporations the ability to control your home.
If your “indoor air” isn’t “clean” enough; if you use your stove too much, burn too many scented candles or emit too much co2, expect to get penalized in some fashion until you learn how to be more responsible.
More smart technology, more monitoring, and ultimately more control.
So, while it’s possible the gas stove ban talk will resolve itself into the cliche new tax or fines or some other petty scheme for bilking the many out of their wages, the signs are certainly there it might be something more sinister.
Meanwhile, expect to keep seeing reports on gas stoves damaging the climate, or stories about poor indoor air quality making covid worse.
The usual bought-and-paid-for columns that support every new normal narrative.
Willow is sleeping in my closet again. She literally moved from her bed on the floor next to the closet INTO the closet.
??? hmmm..her bed is under a window. The closet is dark?
This is hilarious
Op-ed: Republican efforts to limit ESG investing are anti-capitalist
[lead author is Sheldon Whitehouse, one of the biggest tools on the Hill]
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/13/op-ed-republican-efforts-to-limit-esg-investing-are-anti-capitalist.html
Also, I’m hearing something about Katie Hobbs (stole the AZ gov) is, as her first priority, changing pronouns in the schools or something
Project Veritas Strikes Again: Pfizer scientist admits the unthinkable on hidden camera… they all knew…
Well, Project Veritas is back at it again, and this time they captured a Pfizer bombshell on hidden camera.
A scientist by the name of Chris Croce admits on hidden camera that there’s a link between the vaccine and myocarditis… and they all know it.
Watch:
https://www.revolver.news/2023/01/project-veritas-strikes-again-pfizer-scientist-admits-the-unthinkable-on-hidden-camera-they-all-knew/
Another chink in the immunity from damage wall – which never covers fraud
Dir. Nat’l Intel has released the 2022 report on UFOs. Have at it
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/item/2354-2022-annual-report-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena
@ eaglesoars:
The New Urbanists. They’ve been demonizing the single-family home for years, and now the tools have the tools to price almost everyone out of the market. They’re using environmental building codes to do it.
My license is up for renewal and it requires Continuing Education bullshit. Used to be 5 hours of handicap accessibility code review, now they’ve added another 5 hours of sustainable environmental greeny stuff. Haven’t looked at it yet; can’t wait to get educated.
A 55-page report has been submitted to Congress regarding the naming of US Navy ships. I wonder how many billable man hours this took.
https://news.usni.org/2023/01/12/report-to-congress-on-u-s-navy-ship-names-21
https://babylonbee.com/news/fourth-stash-of-classified-documents-discovered-during-bidens-colonoscopy
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Ah, hadn’t realized that aspect, thanks!
@ eaglesoars:
Buick Regal TourX wagon, CPO with lifetime power train warranty.
Made by Opel in Germany with ALL the bells n whistles.
Yep. A station wagon…dad wagon!
@ coldwarrior:
This does make me a 3 time station wagon owner
91-08 mercedes 300TD
08-15 mercedes 320E
23-?? Buick
A most useful design.
coldwarrior wrote:
You will love it. When I had to finally get a new one, I got a small SUV so the heathen beagles can ride comfortably.
yowser
Severe flooding hit California’s Salinas Valley on Thursday, as the Salinas River burst its banks, flooding farmland and threatening to cut off access to the Monterey Peninsula.
Several levees have broken along the banks of the Salinas River, located just south of the Bay Area, with footage of the destruction going viral on Friday morning. So much water is pouring out of the basin that the entirety of the Monterey Peninsula risks being cut off entirely from road access, NBC News reported.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/13/salinas-river-bursts-banks-california-storms-2023/
@ eaglesoars:
The Germans build a nice station wagon. Lol
Obama-era White House counsel will represent Biden on classified documents
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/13/obama-era-white-house-counsel-bob-bauer-will-represent-biden-in-matters-surrounding-classified-documents-00077912
Bob Bauer. He’s married to Anita Dunn.
He started at Perkins Coie in 1980 where he developed their ‘political law practice’. He left in 1918. Uh huh.
Trump just needs to build a residential garage and park a corvette in it. Docs are secure then.
Also I am wondering why Biden cronies revealed the classified docs to America.
I’d think they found some real bads ones and hid those while releasing the others. And they will produce a smoke screen out of this.
226
Possum wrote:
22614
@ darkwords:
You is doing good! ( if you was an elephant…)
CDC identifies potential side effects in Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
then this…
The agency contended that it is “very unlikely that the signal in VSD represents a true clinical risk” and does not recommend any changes to its vaccine practices at this time.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/cdc-identifies-potential-side-effects-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine
getting ahead of the lawsuits
darkwords wrote:
218822
lobo91 wrote:
You got that right mate.:)
Embarrassment can be a MAJOR driver in how documents get classified. We were on an Intelligence Course at the School of Military Intelligence & Security. Even though I had been commissioned into the Australian Forces I was then serving in the NZ Defence Forces. There was a Sig Int Kiwi Major on course as well but she was based in Melbourne on a 3 year posting.
We were studying one of the Fijian Coups as a case study and we were using classified documents. Suddenly the Course Director said ..” OK everyone who’s not an Aussie … sports afternoon for you guys, this is for AEO (Australian Eyes Only). The Kiwi Sig Int Major piped up that she had classified the documents herself and does the Course Director want her to stick her fingers in her ears and close her eyes? The Director muttered ” hmmm I see what you mean. OK all of the Kiwis can stay and Maj M can stay twice as much!”
Turns out that the material was classified because it plumbed al of the ‘cock-ups’ that the Aussie Army and Navy has made during the Fijian Coup. A litany of major Embarrassments. The Secret docs were out in the unclassified press about 2 weeks after the coup, thanks to some journalists just dong their jobs on the ground in Nandi. Even most of the embarrassing Top Secret stuff could have been guessed at by joining the dots from inside specialist magazines in the marketplace and using some logic.
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
25 0r 624
@ Aussie Infidel:
In the UK anyone revealing they had security clearance at any level was a breach of the official secrets act. Jail time….
@ coldwarrior:
@ lobo91:
Goddammm
@ coldwarrior:
They’re pretty good, huh?
@ lobo91:
Well now
@ lobo91:
CTAs first on heavy vinyl is a joy.
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
Those cats are dead on
@ coldwarrior:
They do more than Chicago:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/13/robbie-bachman-drummer-of-bachman-turner-overdrive-dies-at-69/
Night yinz
coldwarrior wrote:
quitter…..
Some free youtube movies
Braven
The Illusionist
Freaks
Pumping Iron
Glengarry Glen Ross
Swanky NYC hotel being trashed by immigrants acting like ‘animals’, taxpayer-funded food tossed in bulk
https://republicbrief.com/swanky-nyc-hotel-being-trashed-by-immigrants-acting-like-animals-taxpayer-funded-food-tossed-in-bulk/
*snort*
During an interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” on Wednesday, Rodriguez said the hotel’s management team wouldn’t allow them to say or do anything.
“When you go into our rooms and you say something, the hotel management –especially the GM — has directed us that we’re not allowed to tell them nothing. They practically have carte blanche [to do what they want],” he explained.
a lot of bribes going down
eaglesoars wrote:
Taxpayer funded.
It’s a rule of life. Putting them up in a motel 6 would be better.
Portland once decided to house the homeless. The homeless decided to strip all the wiring out of the hotel and sell it for drugs.
coldwarrior wrote:
Pi from 3.1415 I used to know it a lot further out but my memory got clipped by laziness. 3.14 was always a given. One would think one could do more than append 15 to it in 60 years of schooling.
ratio of circumference to diameter. That is probably more cogent than reciting the actual number.
Goal for this year then has to be 3.1415926535
92 my expected life span from genetics
65 age retired
35 day i shifted from attraction to playboy centerfolds to milfs.
quote me in a year.
eaglesoars wrote:
Tremendous amount of people wanting to whistle by the corruption. At all levels of government. Has to stop.
darkwords wrote:
I have all the attributes of the unabomber. Except I think people shouldn’t die before their old age clock gives up the ticker.
Because you know and I know that we could not live without this. I have laughed so hard my muscles hurt.
Prince Harry in his book titled SPARE relates the following.
He went to the Antarctic or somewhere and had to pee and froze his penis. FROSTBITE-ISTAN. A FEMALE friend of his told him to apply some cream from Elizabeth Arden [that’s a cosmetic firm for the clueless men here] on it “trust me Harry, it works”.
How a woman would know how to treat a frost-bitten penis I have no idea, just sit down ok?
So, Harry recalls that it’s a cream his mother used to apply to her lips. He finds the cream, and while applying it, the fragrance brings back memories of his mother, Princess Diana blah blah blah.
I mean, fill in the blanks here. People are just rolling. ‘Elizabeth Arden’ has become ‘Elizabeth Hard-on’, people are laughing so hard they’re choking, smacking heads on desks or just so aghast they’re speechless.
I am reduced to gel with laughter. That Shelob he married is going to take him for everything right down to his shorts and then some. They’re probably decapitating each other at Penguin Random House, not to mention Netflix and Spotify.
And I’m loving it.
darkwords wrote:
no, actually, you don’t.
bed. nite.
This just gets better and better.
Five More Pages of Classified Documents Discovered at President Biden’s Home
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/five-more-pages-of-classified-documents-discovered-at-president-bidens-home/
@ eaglesoars:
I’m guessing that Biden’s handlers are really sorry they let him talk about Trump’s document issues about now…
She’s insane
https://national-conservative.com/congressman-introduces-bill-that-criminalizes-criticism-of-a-non-white-person-by-a-white/
Possum wrote:
Who said I had a security clearance? I just recounted that the particular course I had been sent on, that required that I read classified documents. Who knew???
Just doing what the Director of the School demanded we students read! Officers get to have clearances as a matter of course in order to do their jobs.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I can’t speak for the other branches, but anyone who receives a commission in the US Army is required to have at a minimum a Secret clearance.
Coming to Hulu in March
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/01/14/mel-brooks-shows-hes-back-skewering-sacred-cows-in-new-history-of-the-world-part-ii-trailer-n688589
lobo91 wrote:
Correct. Same here. My specialist Corps required a little more, as no doubt did your branch given the work you were doing!
🙂
As mentioned much of the Classifications of one degree or another were to cover up SNAFUs and other embarrassments.
🙂
right_wing2 wrote:
I think she was the one who asked the NASA coordinator if he could turn the Mars Landrover camera to face the US flag that Neil Armstrong planted.
lobo91 wrote:
Well, there is one school of thought that this is coming out because it’s a way to get rid of Biden.
coldwarrior wrote:
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
8675309
226 is current weight. Interesting side effect of keto is the microscopic shits.
That is all….
@ eaglesoars:
I think that’s entirely possible
@ lobo91:
I think so. The question is – who replaces him for the 2024 run? The only name I can come up with is Newsome. I have no idea what they do with Kamala. Bribe or blackmail her to ‘spending time with her family’ and then who is the VP candidate?
Former Gov. Oregon Kate Brown who was a COVID totalitarian? Whitmer? God forbid, Hochul?
Yeah, I think it’s got to be a woman
heard on the internet.
They should make another Taken movie, about Liam Neeson being under-appreciated for trying to keep his family safe.
Taken 4: Granted
@ eaglesoars:
Tulsi. She is hot!
eaglesoars wrote:
I guess we will know when a House Dem presses for impeachment. I think they have much more on Biden.
Possum wrote:
Michelle Obama could ride the blue wave and win. Question is if she wants something like that. She seems irritated by politicians in a personal manner.
I have no dog in this fight but I really cannot understand the presidential election thing in the USA.
You basically elect a dictator for a four year term.
Possum wrote:
She is distracting your attention by smiling through you ,whilst knifing you between the shoulder bladed as a good little liberal socialist, with a mild dose of economic and military realism.
Sure she looks good, but don’t let a pretty face make you turn your brain off!
🙂
https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/6340-pope-francis-is-a-disaster-cardinal-pell-s-last-word
On Cdl George Pell’s last public statement
George is STILL giving Frank ‘raspberries’ from beyond the grave!
Go you good thing!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
But what a way to die!
Seriously she seems to be in the middle of the political spectrum. That is why the hard line democrats dumped her and the hard line republicans will not accept her.
Plus she is hot….
Possum wrote:
she’s a fucking socialist. She sounds very pragmatic but look a little deeper. Like her husband. And her education. And she’s not hot. Up close her skin is quite scarred, poor thing. Make up and lighting can do wonderful things. Once my husband won some contest on the morning drive radio. The prize was a session at a place called Glamour Shots. It made you up like a model and took ‘glamour photos’. So I went. The photos looked FANTASTIC. Nothing like me in real life, but DAYYUMM!.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Ben Harnwell has been covering this. The ‘Demos’ letter.
@ eaglesoars:
Her face may not be perfect but I am a tits and ass aficionado.
Possum wrote:
Ooooohh Ohhhhh
AP apparently has lost trust in Uncle Joe.
You know what THAT means ….
The CIA has lost trust in Joe
Doesn’t look good for Joe!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
OK so you do not approve of my choice for president in 2024
Not seeing any other picks in here though.
Nick Freitas
@NickForVA
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It’s a lot easier to remotely shut off your electricity than it is to disconnect your propane tank. Just something to think about as politicians in DC discuss deciding how you should be allowed to cook your food.
** point noted. In power outages I could still cook with my gas stove. Also provided heat.
Possum wrote:
We could draft Finland’s prime minister. Ivanka Trump doesn’t currently have a job.
Possum wrote:
No wonder. They are all POLITICIANS after all!
🙂
Possum wrote:
Not at all mate
You have a Congress of two houses, a Supreme Court and an Executive President, all viewing for as much power as they can garner. Getting the balance just right can be tricky but it’s swings and roundabouts and the power ebbs and flows.
No system is perfect but it’s not a great system except for most of the rest, unless when it gets wildly out of kilter.
Then you have the operational security state and the MSM, as well as the BIG end of town, including the military industrial complex… AKA the Swamp… just to keep everyone on their toes. Corruption always goes with power but again you get wild swings from time to time.
A kick ass speech by one Konstantin Kisin at what appears to be Oxford Union on wokeism and climate change. 6 minutes and well worth it
https://twitter.com/DissocialSpace/status/1614612506743549954
It’s snowing here. Cody is confused. He didn’t realize that snow falls from the sky. I guess he thought it grew on the ground
darkwords wrote:
Thought about that!
Laid in a year’s supply of gas to heat water and cook on a stove top (2X Large cylinders) Own water supply from a reticulated spring amongst the 30 houses in the Bay, a water buffer supply tank in case the stream gets muddy after heavy rain and stand alone sewage system. Getting set to install 20 solar panels, battery packs x 2 and associated inverters, and selling power back to the power company, whilst benefiting from 30 kWH ‘free power’ per day to nudge me into buying an electric car. I don’t think so! I know that can’t last but I’ll grab it for as long as it’s on offer.
If the government tries to cut us off at the knees I just switch the power company OFF and go on as before! The water costs $65 a year each amongst the 30 families in the Bay and we have a $30k fund built up to ensure that our little dam fed by the spring is kept up to scratch.
Suck that up government!
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
BMADAIWTYWIS (?)
@ lobo91:
ahahaha!!!
@ Possum:
Yes, but for how long ? Youngins’, they think with the wrong body part and don’t know it ’til they’re old and grey… yes, like me.
And by then they’ve lost the house, the kids, the dog, the car is wrecked and the accounts are all wiped out.
One of my all time favorite rock lyrics at: 2:03:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZSgwQoTeiQ
Or: 1:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o5ELd0TGNE
Take your pick.
oh. my. god.
A statue to honor MLK and his wife.
https://twitter.com/AmakaUbakaTV/status/1614002232180998145
4_Sticks wrote:
from the comments.
Ze Bunker
1 year ago
Live music. No autotune or back tracks. How far society has fallen.
eaglesoars wrote:
One would almost think that is trolling the city.
https://cryptoslate.com/wallets-of-nft-influencer-gets-drained-in-obs-malware-attack/
Guy lost all his crypto money. He was trying to download a video editing software to his desktop. He did a google search and selected one of the top ads from google. He downloaded the exe file and it took over his desktop and sent all his logins and crypto keys to a hacker.
The three times in my life I experienced bad hacking and it also from ads in google search. Til I learned not to click them ever.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Looks like that airstrip in Nepal took more lives
https://www.breitbart.com/news/plane-with-72-people-on-board-crashes-in-nepal/
@ darkwords:
I’ve used McAfee since it came out. Saved me a few times
coldwarrior wrote:
There’s another one who didn’t kill himself
darkwords wrote:
Personally, I think all modern art is one big troll. They’re all frauds. Rothko? A monkey with crayons
You have GOT to see this video – commercial airliner crashes into mountain and then…….
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VSp2BRHk2mg
@ eaglesoars:
Magni Airlines appears to be a charter airline company out of Mexico
@ eaglesoars:
You do know that’s animation out of a flight sim program, right?
Ok, I think that video is not real. I’ve just seen 2 other videos posted by the same guy that are definitely not real. One has the space shuttle riding it.
lobo91 wrote:
HA! I do now.
lobo91 wrote:
Funny. I’m reading a classic Peanuts story arc with Lucy believing snow comes up from the ground.
@ right_wing2:
He’s seen snow before, but it was already there. He’s never seen it coming down, though.
@ darkwords:
@ coldwarrior:
Web Of Trust (WOT) is a useful browser add-on for filtering out fakers. Not foolproof.
eaglesoars wrote:
Pierre Brassau did some amazing work.
eaglesoars wrote:
Nice collection. https://www.youtube.com/@black-crow5323
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
AHAHAHAHAHA!
Thanks for that
Can someone explain this to me? I don’t get it. I’ve worn the same model Timex watch since forever. Not expensive, it’s just what I like. Mia got hold of it (don’t ask) and – well, new watch. Fine. So I go to the Timex website, same price as it’s been since forever so that’s fine. But let’s see if I can avoid the shipping cost. Maybe Walmart carries it and I can run over there and see if they have it. Walmart website. Yeah, they carry it, so maybe my local store has it in stock. For 30% less than the price listed on the Timex website. Huh? Let’s check Amazon, cuz I get points for that. Again, 30% less than the Timex website and no shipping cuz I’m prime.
I don’t get it. Why would you sell a product via alternate retailers for 30& less than you charge on your own site?
@ eaglesoars:
I am surprised to see Timex also sells direct to the public when they have a distribution network.
Selling via distributers means you don’t have an need for an end user customer service department. No bothering with returns and warranty issues.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I was really talking about this executive order thingy they have here.
If the president signs an executive order saying any man over the age of 65 has to wear a leopard skin body suit every Thursday otherwise they go to jail for ten years it is the law and will be enforced!
Also the president can veto anything that comes out of congress as long as less than 2 thirds voted for it.
OK the leopard body suit was exaggeration but…..,
Hundreds of thousands of Japanese looking people got put in cages because of an executive order by one man.
The president of the USA has dictator like powers.
Possum wrote:
mmmm….from the Timex website you can purchase a warranty offered by a 3rd party. From Amazon you’re directed to the manufacture’s website. So there is no ’embedded’ cost in the Timex price, delivery and returns are free if w/in 30 days. Additionally, would that really shoot the cost up 30%?
I worked in retail jewelry at a high end retailer (Bailey Banks and Biddle back in the day) and I NEVER saw pricing discrepency like this. We were competing w/Tiffany’s and a few privately owned jewelers in the mall (Zales didn’t count, they were ‘down market’).
@ eaglesoars:
I really do not know. It makes sense to me for a company which is a global company to only sell through local distributers.
Why sell direct? You need a customer service department that speaks 400+ languages!
Possum wrote:
Koramatsu case – affirmed by SCOTUS a few years ago I believe. Go forth and google or something.
Possum wrote:
EXACTLY!
@ eaglesoars:
I did. You kind of proved my point. An executive order is enforced immediately and it takes YEARS to then go through the courts to be either justified or not.
@ Possum:
The veto power and executive orders are two different things. The president can veto any legislation he’s sent, regardless of what the vote total was. Congress then has to hold a new vote to try to override the veto, which does require 2/3 of each house. It’s not automatic, and because of the vagaries of horse trading over votes, the fact that a particular member voted for the original bill doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll vote to override a veto.
As for the executive order power, the president doesn’t have the authority to order any US citizen or permanent resident to do anything, unless they work for the federal government. He can’t for example, order everyone to turn in their AR-15s.
He can order the ATF to confiscate them, though. It would be challenged in court on Second Amendment grounds, and likely struck down, but he could issue the order.
@ lobo91:
As for the executive order power, the president doesn’t have the authority to order any US citizen or permanent resident to do anything
Many of the interned Japanese looking people were actually US citizens born in the USA
Not looking for fights but the presidential executive order thingy is kind of scary if some how you elect a hitler.
lobo91 wrote:
Particularly since it has been customary for Presidents to take documents with them when they leave office as long as they are properly protected.
Possum wrote:
One of my best friend’s stepmother was actually interned. She was born/raised in Utah, believe it or not. Mormon. The most complex family history I have ever heard. With her family, she was quite young. He is half Japanese, half Caucasian. His father (full Japanese) was not. Birth mother Caucasian. Father Buddhist.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/taxpayer-dollars-spent-to-house-ashli-babbitt-shooter/
@ Possum:
@ eaglesoars:
There were real concerns about espionage and sabotage, especially after Pearl Harbor. In 1939, Japanese dignitaries toured west coast facilities, and in retrospect they may have been gathering information to attack California refineries. Later, internment of all people of Japanese ancestry was justified due to circumstances. A lot of German Americans were interred also, but nobody talks about them.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I think Italian/Americans were also
ok, I’m going to bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
The Americans also captured Frank Whittle and forced him to make jet engines…
@ Possum:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ eaglesoars:
Big war.
In the opening days of World War II, a number of American merchant vessels were attacked by Japanese submarines off the West Coast. Among them was the oil tanker the SS Emido, returning empty from Seattle to a California port. Attacked on Dec. 20, 1941, the ship was shelled by a deck gun then hit in the stern by a torpedo. The Emido didn’t sink but was run aground near Crescent City (pop. 7,643), where 31 survivors were rescued. A marker at Crescent City commemorates the incident.
My German family wasn’t interred but they either enlisted with Americanized names or never left the town they were in.
I’m not surprised by the Japanese internment. It seems logical to me. The west had a stereotypical view of the east and not much contact. As they did of us. It was decades later that the social consciousness evolved enough to produce some trust. But I have Chinese friends to this day that hate the Japanese with a passion. When around them its not good to say a nice thing about Japan. That will go away also unless the CCP makes it worse.
UK mob movie The Gentleman was good.
@ darkwords:
LOL the world war started September 1939.
The USA picked the winning side in December 1941. Two years late to the fight.
https://www.writespirit.net/inspirational-talks/political/martin-luther-king-talks/where-do-we-go-from-here/
@ Possum:
Progressive isolationists. Just like in 1914.
darkwords wrote:
IIRC, a torpedo from a Japanese mini sub hit the coast at Carson CA. It didn’t explode.
darkwords wrote:
They have good reasons.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Complete your analysis. The vast majority Japanese Americans were innocent.
Eventually the US enlisted Japanese Americans males and sent them to the European theatre where the 100 Bn /442 Regt were the most decorated Independent Infantry Regiment in the US Army, winning 5 Medals of Honor and loads of Silver Stars, and suffered massively casualties.
Possum wrote:
That’s just silly.
GE and Bell Aircraft would call you out on that!
Whittle didn’t come to the US for no more than a maximum of 10 weeks and studied US progress in jet engine design. He arrived in 1976 in the US semi permanently divorced his wife and married a yank floosy.
🙂
He designed the Turbo-fan engine post war and was instrumental in designing the main concepts of the Rolls Royce RB211 high by-pass engine that powered some of the Boeing B-747, including the ones I flew.
Four power plants each of 52,000 thrust horsepower and in 14,000 hours I logged only two broke. One lost lubrication and we shut it down and one ‘threw’ a compressor blade which destroyed the core of the engine just below V1 take off speed. Two other ‘Rollers’ also got ‘cranky’ and one of them just stopped, because two the engines ingested a flock of big seagulls, but you can’t blame the engines for that!
🙂
darkwords wrote:
No kidding. I was going over resumes for a new hire, chose what I thought were most promising and passed them around to my team for comments. One of them was from a guy from Hawaii, American first name, Japanese last name, just graduated from Geo Wash U in comp sci. A Chinese woman on my team threatened to quit if I even interviewed him and she meant it. So I didn’t, as it was quite obvious that there was zero hope of hiring him. I tried to explain to her he was American, she didn’t give a rip
Why were Biden’s PERSONAL lawyers scrounging for classified docs in a locked closet in that Biden/Penn place? I’m not sure which set of lawyers hit up his house, personal or WH
Sanity
Wyoming is set to BAN sales of new electric vehicles by 2035 to ‘ensure the stability’ of its oil and gas industry
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11640855/Wyoming-set-BAN-sales-new-electric-vehicles-2035.html
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Of course they were. Incarcerating all of them saved time and resolved the probleems, real or imaginary.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Michelle Malkin got a lot of grief for her book defending the Japanese incarceration. I didn’t read it.
https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2004/09/michelle-malkins-in-defense-of-internment/
IT WAS ALL PLANNED: Tactical Commander for US Capitol Police Admits Under Oath that “Agitators” Who Were “Highly Trained” Ripped Down Fencing Prior to Protest at US Capitol on Jan. 6
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/planned-tactical-commander-us-capitol-police-admits-testimony-agitators-highly-trained-ripped-fencing-prior-protest-us-capitol-jan-6/
Apparently the gov’t is accusing Seth Rich of being responsible for the DNC hack.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.197917/gov.uscourts.txed.197917.92.0.pdf
IIRC, Seth’s computer skills were quite limited, but I don’t know what his access level was
Police and eyewitness body cam footage of the latest LAPD outrage. Guy was coked up, paranoid and delusional. Once restrained, he was transported to a local hospital for tests and treatment. He died 4 hours later.
https://youtu.be/MVTYcbPX0GA
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
yep. And some pretty famous black people wanting to narrate that he was an innocent teacher killed for vengeance at a traffic stop.
@ darkwords:
Police were called because he wrecked a car, tried to jack another. But the school children loved him, so cops are racist, including the black one.
Holy crap
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-frans-reparations-committee-proposes-5-million-each-longtime-black-resident-total-debt-forgiveness
@ right_wing2:
I agree!!!!!
Sort of. 5 million allocated to every black man, woman and child in California that resided there in 1865
Let the descendants of those slaves fight it out for their share.
Ancestry dot com and all those dna testing sites are going to be busy!
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
In those situations the cops need to be armed with fire extinguisher sized cans of silly string. Immobilize and cocoon the person then use a skid loader to put them on a flatbed truck and to a hospital.
right_wing2 wrote:
Just sell the city to the CCP. Win/Win
England has been invaded and colonised by a foreign power twice. once in 0043 when the British defense consisted of stripping naked and painting our selves blue.
Not a great tactic but credit wher credit is due a really good try!
Second time the French attacked in 1066 and King Harold who should not really have been on the front line fighting managed to get an arrow in his eye.
Fucking lucky shot by some Frenchie asshole. There is a tapestry to prove it.
On a side note, in 1066 there were no cell phones recording battles, just a few hundred old ladies sewing like crazy…
Anyway the end result of two invasions and taking over of Britain we STILL are not speaking Italian or French.
I knows history….
yeah, this is fine…
Report: Commie Pope Francis Shocks Seminarians – Starts Hurling F-Bombs During Private Papal Audience
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/report-commie-pope-francis-shocks-seminarians-starts-hurling-f-bombs-private-papal-audience/
According to testimonies from the seminarians, Francis ranted against “f***ing careerists who f*** up the lives of others.” The pope criticized “those who climb to show their a**,” the Italian media outlet Daily Compass reported on Monday.
The trainee priests were shocked when Francis also reportedly insisted that priests should never deny absolution to penitents in the confessional under any circumstances.
Fluke Discovery of Ancient Farming Technique Could Stabilize Crop Yields
https://www.sciencealert.com/fluke-discovery-of-ancient-farming-technique-could-stabilize-crop-yields
As climates around the world grow harsher and increasingly unpredictable, concerns are increasing over our world’s food security.
Already, yields of staple crops like maize and wheat are dropping in low-latitude tropical regions and in dry and drying regions such as African drylands and parts of the Mediterranean.
Wealthy countries are far from immune. Australia experienced almost a 30 percent crop yield decline between 1990 and 2015 due to reduced rainfall.
While studying food diversity in 2011, environmental scientist Morgan Ruelle, now at Clark University, accidentally stumbled across one possible technique that could help stabilize dipping crop yields.
The once widespread practice is now only used by small farms in places like Caucasus, Greek Islands, and the Horn of Africa. Despite being incredibly simple, most of the agroecology community weren’t aware of it.
Yet farmers have been using this technique for more than 3,000 years across at least 27 countries. It may have even been what gave rise to agriculture in the first place.
The method is planting maslins – a combined mix of cereals that can include rice, millet, wheat, rye, barley and more – and harvesting them all together to be separated or used as a single product.
In Ethiopia, for example, where Ruelle discovered the existence of maslins, duragna contains multiple species and varieties of barley and wheat, all grown together. The locals consider the mix to be one crop, using it to make bread, beer and traditional savories with it.
Local farmers reported this mix ensures at least some yield under unfavorable conditions, and now researchers have the experimental trials to back up these claims. Working at Cornell University, Ruelle and colleagues conducted a review of previous work, demonstrating maslins yielded higher stability under changing conditions. By shifting species composition each season, farmers could hedge against climate impacts without the need for additional intervention.
“It’s this continuously evolving responsive entity. On its own, it’s operating outside the farmer’s control to respond to whatever conditions happen,” says Ruelle. “So no matter what, you’re going to be able to make bread with this.”
The process lets the environment choose which species will thrive. And if environmental conditions continue to shift in one direction, the mix of seeds for the next season will also shift in line with that trend too.
“It’s more rapid than evolution. If you had just one weak variety, it would take a long time to adapt,” explains ethnobotanist Alex McAlvay now at the New York Botanical Garden. “But if you have multiple species and multiple varieties, those shifts can happen very rapidly.”
When drought strikes, the resulting crop yield will contain the more drought resistant strains of barley, and less wheat for example. But the wheat is still there to take over if there’s a sudden wet season.
“If one fails, at least we have the other,” a Georgian priest growing this mix told one of the researchers in 2022.
For some time now researchers have been advising a shift away from monoculture farming may be beneficial in many cases, as planting multiple types of crops is far better for pest management, fertilization, wildlife health and sustainability. However, polyculture is problematic for larger scale farming that relies on machinery for harvest and processing.
Since the same machinery can be used to harvest each variety of grain within the maslin mix, the process can be scaled up. Modern industry is experienced at sorting grain types on a large scale too.
Maslins also produce higher yields. In a field trial wheat and barley together did 20 percent better than wheat by itself and 11 percent better than barley by itself, and another study found the monoculture land use would have had to be increased by 50 percent to achieve the same result for the same maslin mix across three years.
What’s more, maslins still convey many of the ecological benefits of polycultures involving entirely different plant types, such as resistance to diseases and pest insects which would require less reliance on the pesticides that are causing all sorts of harm to wildlife.
“I’ve talked to some Israeli scientists who said that they never find wild wheat without wild barley,” says McAlvay. “These grains have been co-evolving for many, many thousands of years.”
There’s also evidence that early farmers in the Bronze Age and Neolithic periods used maslin mixtures like emmer and spelt or einkorn.
“A mixture of wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum) and wild oat (Avena sterilis) was being cultivated at Gilgal in Israel, before either was domesticated,” the researchers write in their paper.
While there are still a lot of uncertainties to investigate, like the tolerance different mixes might have to poor soils, McAlvay and team believe maslins could provide huge benefits across all levels of farming, from subsistence to industrial, particularly in areas already facing challenging climate conditions.
“Subsistence farmers around the world have been managing and mitigating risk on their farms for thousands and thousands of years and have developed these locally adapted strategies to do that,” concludes McAlvay. “There’s a lot we could learn from them, especially now, in a time of climate change.”
ok, sorry for the climate change bs, but whatever………..
@ eaglesoars:
um it used to be called dont put your eggs in the same basket
@ Possum:
no, I think it means using more than one basket. But whatever.
@ eaglesoars:
What happens if you only have one chicken?
Possum wrote:
You get an omlete only every 3 days.
@ eaglesoars:
You’d think there would be some differences in growing season and harvest time. Wish dad was around to ask, but obviously it works.
coldwarrior wrote:
On approach to a fairly short runway but not all that short, the driver managed to stall the port wing and rolled over.
Keep thy airspeed up lest the Earth reach up and smite thee!
Hunter Biden’s monthly rent of $49,910 matches a rental deposit at the House of Sweden related to the Biden family business venture with the infamous CEFC China Energy Co. Hunter’s $49,910 deposit also matches the amount of money he logged on a 2018 background check document unearthed by the New York Post’s Miranda Devine.
In an email on October 13, 2017, Cecilia Browning, the general manager of House of Sweden, an office complex in Washington, DC, emailed Hunter about a lease that Hunter and his Chinese business partners were trying to terminate, according to emails unearthed from Hunter’s “Laptop from Hell.”
Browning notes the amount of the deposit was $49,910 for the office space and that it would be returned to Hunter upon signing a lease termination document.
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/01/16/hunter-biden-49910-rent-matches-deposit-houseofsweden-cefc-china-energy/
Jump 4 of the 777 Expedition:
lobo91 wrote:
I wonder if he is the firs to do this? unique photo.
darkwords wrote:
The first to jump over the pyramids? No. The company they jumped with does it regularly.
They’ll hold the record for the shortest period of time to jump onto all 7 continents, though. That’s the whole point of the trip.They’re jumping 7 times onto 7 continents in 7 days.
They have quite a bit of margin for error for breaking the current record, though. Right now, it’s more like 7 MONTHS.
Now that I think about it, that should have been jump 5, not 4. The sixth is in Dubai, and the 7th is in Perth, Australia.
@ lobo91:
Can you do a thread about this…I effed for time!
@ coldwarrior:
Omelets ar off the menu here due to Biden and inflation and the astronomical price of mushrooms.
When Trump was president mushrooms were an affordable pantry staple.
coldwarrior wrote:
Sure
@ Possum:
While we’re waiting for lobo, let’s have a beer luge.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Bobsled is my favorite winter sport to watch.
Curling comes a close second….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1lttDebHi0
New post is up
@ lobo91:
Possum and I might stay here to direct the stragglers to the stairs. We’ve got some important things to discuss.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Now you get it!!!!!!
For years and years and through many bans from here I was poshing the point that we can run multiple threads here!
Just because a new thread/topic is started it DOES NOT MEAN we cannot continue a discussion on a previous post.
We3 can continue trash talking about sports, and curling and things here while the grown ups talk politics and boring shit on the fresh sparkly post!
P.S.as to the bobsled video Russia won as far as I was concerned. The plain blue suits highlighted the awesome muscle tone.
@ Possum:
I always enjoyed Trash the Thread Nights.
Used to be called the Overnight Open Thread when everyone would drink into the wee hours and throw shit at each other.
I was rooting for the Russian team also.
How much time does it take to drive from Yuston to New Orleans? I made the trip once, but that was before hurricanes were invented.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yeah, but trouble was posters would then continue the venom onto the next day thread.
Anyway I think we proved that sticking to a topic and continuing a discussion on an old thread works, or could have worked.
But out of respect to Mr Lobo who I don’t think ever sent me death threats I have something to add to the new post!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
According to Goggle mappy thing it is about 360 miles and five hours 30 mins.
Mostly on a decent highway.. 10.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
no reason they cant be put up.
there are very limited restrictions here
@ coldwarrior:
Mr. Possum and I are in the process of making some.
Possum wrote:
You up for a road trip? I’m gonna be in NOLA in May. I’ll buy you an omelette.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Not having a car, or a valid driver license and being in possession of a Green Card that expired Feb 2022 kind of limits my travel options.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ Possum:
lol
get on it
@ Possum:
Oh and did I mention my British passport also is expired?
Try deporting me, they going to send me straight back here….
LOL
@ Possum:
Your cats would have made a better excuse.
coldwarrior wrote:
@ Possum:
See that? We’ve got official authorization to make new restrictions.
Possum wrote:
ummm…
oh jeeze,
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
get on it
@ coldwarrior:
After I suss out my Spectrum network security key. My wifi don’t wifi.
Someone is having problems with pussy.
The word on the street is two really sexy, ripped and great genetically engineered male cats are available for nookie. Hand reared from two days old.
Come home from grocery store and there are cats just waiting for me to let them in!
Not happening… Girl cats are sluts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2xPk73zcU
As to curling. American males on prom night often say to their dates.
” I really like the way your toes curl when we are having sex! ”
Prom date replies ” yeah well next time we do it let me take my panty hose off first.”
And I am out!!!!!
@ Possum:
Also another reason there will NEVER be another OOT is by 10pm us old bastards are asleep.
@ Possum:
quitter
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Time zone cheater.
OOT thread should be Zulu
And then we get all politically correct because the British kicked Zulu ass. Then they renamed it GMT which if you google it is based on where the sun is at over the Greenwich line. In England.
But not to be out done the USA invented GPS and they moved the coordinates about 12 feet.
As to time, it is no longer referenced to GMT but now called UTC which is short for. Coordinated Universal Time ( ummmmm CUT is the abbreviation I think. )
Anyway all this Zulu, GMT, UTC shit is easy for me.
Just take a look at the comments on police shooting body cam videos.
LMAO!!!
Even in the Floyd Chauvin trial nobody answered why body cam time stamp was wrong.
The -06:00 at the end of the time on some cameras should have been a clue.
Also nobody bothered to do any research into Elephant Island.
@ Possum:
OK nobody is playing. I cant post images here but bonk can.
Elephant island was named Elephant Island about 100 years before we hat satellite pictures of it.
See a 2022 satellite pic and the name is obvious!
Hundred years ago and primitive mapping and they nailed it.
Respect.
And never get me started about how regenerative braking was done by the British Rail Class 76, also known as Class EM1 electric locomotive swhich were powered by 1500v DC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_76#Brakes_and_controls
No details are ever given
@ Possum:
I did some curling in MN…drunk assed bowling with large stones by some viking looking peeps.
Great stuff! Bemidji
Possum wrote:
No I can’t, and I stepped away to do computery things because you got quiet.
Did you see the L.A. wannabe Floyd? Guy was a teacher, decided to get all cracked up, thought Cee Lo was gonna kill him.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Cee Lo is singing, but that’s Urkel doing lip sync.
Of course
https://gazette.com/news/us-world/space-race-astrophysics-is-racist-according-to-woke-professor/article_03e460cc-d807-5c9c-9c06-186039ee52cf.html