Let’s have a great cigar, a martini, and some Frank.
This week, life is good.
A nice martini, some Frank, a great cigar. Tomorrow, well, back to hell.
Friday Afternoon Open.
by coldwarrior ( 152 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at January 27th, 2023 - 6:38 pm
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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!
a Punch classic, always the perfect classic smoke.
straw boys martini.
hey yins, and i dont get no money from them
great vodka
https://drinkmemag.com/straw-boys-irish-vodka-come-crash-the-party
in a standard martini. very nice.
a shot, well…perfect. these cats nailed it
for fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCgZAQlpY4k
pgh punk, 85.
i did a random search, ok
@ coldwarrior:
wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1qIkQwfLo4
thy cynics re still around
ok fine…beaver county;s best
donnie does metalica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B4Ykh7X1t4
@ coldwarrior:
this is much beter
CNN is running the Memphis cops vids uncut and people in the airports are pissed. Kids don’t need to see and hear that stuff.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
CNN is still in airports?
I can’t tell anything from the video. Here it is
https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/27/tyre-nichols-police-body-cam-footage-video-memphis-arrest-cop/
i’m sent to hell for a few weeks.
for calo:
on to TR1
And this is fine
Scientists invented a melting liquid robot that can escape from a cage
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-invented-a-melting-liquid-robot-that-can-escape-from-a-cage/ar-AA16LYAk
eaglesoars wrote:
They pay for the privilege as far as I know.
eaglesoars wrote:
There are four. 2nd one shows an aerial view.
https://vimeo.com/cityofmemphis/videos
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Are these cops COMPLETELY untrained in how to take down/restrain a perp?
@ eaglesoars:
From what I could tell, the guy wasn’t resisting, and when the cops started in on him he ran, got caught, and then the dogpile beatdown began.
This is Pfizer’s statement following the Project Veritas blow up. Haven’t read it yet but here it is
https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1619230105263382529
@ eaglesoars:
“Fact based information rooted in sound science is vitally important.”
Now let’s talk about the monkeys.
Why do eggs cost so much these days?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2W0V3VnObyDW/
The chicken feed has been “altered.”
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I’m hearing bird flu. I know they killed a lot of birds on the DelMarVa Penninsula
@ eaglesoars:
I blame the free range organic eggs fad.
If some people are prepared to pay $7 per dozen for eggs then to normal people $3.50 per dozen looks like a bargain when egg shopping.
@ Possum:
The last time I bought eggs (and I always buy store brand) they were $1.98/dozen
Yesterday I didn’t even bother to look at other brands
@ eaglesoars:
I can’t get to a store so I have to buy online.
US four-star general predicts war with China in two years as he issues chilling memo to Air Force wing commanders to ‘fire a clip’ at a target and ‘aim for the head’ to prepare
https://twitter.com/DailyMailUK/status/1619360525065781249
copy of the memo at the link
eaglesoars wrote:
Either the general is an idiot or the memo is fake. There is no clip in the miliary. All official documentation refers to magazines.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I’ll take ‘idiot’ for $200. That’s for writing the memo, not for the prediction.
I am just going to leave this here for future reference.
There is way more to the murder of Tyre Nichols than has been reported so far
Also fuck Amazon and especially Amazon Fresh.
uh……..
Massive Fire Mysteriously Occurs At Egg Farm In Connecticut
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/massive-fire-mysteriously-occurs-egg-farm-connecticut/
I’d like to know what the insurance company figures out
Is this more importing people to do the jobs Americans won’t do? Do we really need more criminals?
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m guessing that this is a fake news job …. just for the sake of being an idiot, given the stupidity involved in the words!
It has all of the indications of some pimple faced, greasy haired, overweight scumbag, sitting in his parents cellar, allowing his twisted brain loose to wander through the intellectual mire, of his delusions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zut8akB4h8
Another great Oxford Union contribution to dismantling Woke Culture.
Possum wrote:
So when does the future happen?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
tomorrow
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ eaglesoars:
Maybe today is tomorrow.
https://comonocreerendios-lem.blogspot.com/2023/01/things-are-always-what-they-seem.html
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Your tomorrow is in fact my today. It all depends on where the Date Line is dawn and whether some bureaucrat decided when Daylight Saving is or isn’t being applied!….. Living right alongside the Dateline means that I am always in someone else’s future.
🙂
…. oh and once a day I’m in EVERYONE’s future
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
There are an infinite number of datelines and tomorrow is whatever I choose it to be. Don’t make me go all metaphysical on you.
I was referring to Mr. Possum’s mystery hint upthread, and I suspect it has something to do with BLM and gangs in Memphis.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
What I have heard is that the deceased was having an affair with the wife of one of the cops. Or the cops and the deceased are in/associated with rival street gangs. Upfront they did better releasing video then the SFPD did.
Pelosi did not know the perp. They were not friends. The perp broke in the house. The Pelosis for having a lot of money had no security to speak of. The latter seems to be significant.
darkwords wrote:
Considering they called themselves the Scorpion Unit, I’m inclined to go with door #2.
This is beginning to sound like the NYPD and Serpico
bed. nite.
Well crap. Just found out Gerard Vanderleun died.
https://americandigest.org/gerard-vanderleun-december-26-1945-january-27-2023/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That’s two I found out about today, the other being an FB/Twitter friend who inexplicably stopped posting two weeks ago.
@ darkwords:
@ eaglesoars:
https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/memphis-cops-in-tyre-nichols-murder-hired-after-pd-relaxed-job-standards/
“Nichols was tall — around 6’3” — but thin because of a battle with Crohn’s disease, his family said. He weighed about 150 pounds at the time of his death.”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I’m not surprised. Honestly, to me this sounds like a gang thing, the Scorpion Unit being the gang and I wonder if Tyre was targeted for some reason. The entire ‘give me your hands’ thing when his hands were clearly available seems to be an act for the police body cam.
And the chief of police was fired from a previous job for some scandal or other, so there’s that.
@ eaglesoars:
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Memphis.”
@ coldwarrior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqnw5IfbZOU
here it is
Memphis police chief Cerelyn Davis fired by Atlanta PD over involvement in sex crime probe
https://americanwirenews.com/memphis-police-chief-cerelyn-davis-fired-by-atlanta-pd-over-involvement-in-sex-crime-probe/
Two detectives came forward and accused Davis of telling them not to investigate T.C. Crane, who later pleaded guilty to one count of producing child pornography after being indicted by a federal grand jury.
“Then-Chief Richard Pennington first demoted Davis from major to lieutenant before firing her,” AJC reported. “She challenged her firing before the city’s Civil Service Board and was ultimately reinstated.”
————
and it looks like the Scorpion Unit was her idea
This man’s worst enemy is his own fat mouth
Trump Says DeSantis Running in 2024 Would Be ‘A Great Act of Disloyalty’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/trump-says-desantis-running-2024-great-act-disloyalty/
@ eaglesoars:
D can’t run. He promised the Florida that he would seve his full term as governor till 2026.
It won’t matter anyway, elections are meaningless at this point.
@ coldwarrior:
The other issue is that his wife is dealing with breast cancer. She doesn’t have her 5-yr all-clear yet.
coldwarrior wrote:
Alas I believe that you’re correct. The US governance system is flawed because it’s been corrupted from within the bureaucracy, and when it’s that far gone it’ll take a miracle to recover from that death spiral.
We’re all screwed as well because there is no honest player left on the block to keep the bad guys in check. Oz needs to start manufacturing its own nukes ….. mT class thermonuclear warheads as doomsday guarantees that will ensure belligerents will also end up with a mouth full of ashes. This should have happened in the 1960s before Oz and the UK were threatened by the US with economic warfare into bending the knee. With ‘friends’ like this who needs enemies?
America First …..
I believe ’em!
So on a lighter note who except De Santis has the ‘horsepower’ and $$$$$$$ to run? Well there is your problem right there.. This whole shebang is driven by $$$$$ and therefore it’s corrupted root and branch!
lobo91 wrote:
You could cut and paste almost any City Police Department in the Continental US instead of Memphis and still be on corrupted ground. Don’t get me going on the Feds!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Correct. Americans are not going to be able to vote their way out of this.
Tyre Nichols was pre-meditated murder.
The beating of him was planned in advance. The fact that he died from that beating, intended or not, makes this murder one.
If I can be bothered I will state my evidence for my reasoning.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Death toll in Auckland is now 5 after some guy paddling down a street in West Auckland in a kayak last evening was swept into a culvert and drowned.
Mrs AI made it down to ‘the Beach’ Saturday evening in my 4X4. Got as far as Maramarua on HW2 and ran across quite a few cars roadside and full of water. Being a ‘country girl’ she knew about crossing submerged roads and such. Chatted to some locals who had been getting past the water and asked the edges were and whether they were stable. Some guys had walked the flood and checked it out for snags or holes.She just stayed behind her bow-wave and stuck to the plan and kept on ‘trucking’. Piece of cake.Several (lots actually) of cars ended up full of water and stalled half way through the flooded section when drivers chickened out have way through or tried to drive across at speed! NOPE! Mostly Chinese drivers from Auckland or the odd tourist who ended up getting towed out by the military overnight.
Last night in Auckland I had an Automated General Amber Emergence Alert Warning on my phone, warning another 70 mm where I was last night between 6PM and 6AM, with further heave rain today.
Ain’t going anywhere near HW2 or the Coromandel Peninsular, driving Mrs. AI’s baby BMW anytinme soon!
🙂
Possum wrote:
I said upthread that I would not be surprised is Tyre was targeted. The Scorpion Unit IS the gang on the street and somehow he crossed them.
The ULTMATE criminal, tho, is the Memphis Chief of Police. SHE is the one who put that unit together and Memphis hired her AFTER she’d been fired from Atlanta PD for trying to block a child porn investigation.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I absolutely fucking hate floods.
Something’s going down. The missus was coming down the hall with a steam iron in each hand. I instinctively escaped to the garage.
It’s quiet… too quiet.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’ll take $200 for something in the carpet, Alex
@ eaglesoars:
Turns out the neighbor lady had some extra irons laying around and asked the missus if she wanted any. I am relieved.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I have one on each floor, plus some specialized ones.
eaglesoars wrote:
Floods are bloody dangerous unless you know what you’re on about and never assume that you can just drive on through. The Queensland and Northern Territory tropical ‘Wet Season’ are notorious for taking lives. AND there are crocodiles to clean up the scraps!. Loads of fords running bankers mixed with over confident drivers and you end up with cars and trucks being swept off fords and into holes where the crocs are waiting for lunch! At least in NZ you just drown!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Had one in college for grilled cheese sammiches.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
The aftermath is horrid. All the animals are in ecological shock, they go nuts and become dangerous. I had to shoot a racoon and cried for 3 days.
Finland thoroughly deserves ever bit of scorn/contempt it gets. The other day it proudly announced its first transgender competitive skater. How it made it to the EU skating championship I have no idea. I usually default to the “follow the $$ position”, so for now I think I’ll stick to that.
The asshole can’t skate worth a damn. Watch this fiasco.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/bwaaahaha-transgender-skater-dupes-eu-figure-skating-championship/
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
@ lobo91:
Project 2025
The permanent political class will be ready for the next U.S. conservative administration. Will we be ready for them?
by Spencer Chretien
The American Conservative, January 30, 2023.
URL: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/project-2025/
Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project
Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training.
URL: https://www.project2025.org/
The Project 2025 advisory board includes:
URL: https://www.project2025.org/advisory-board
Now let’s hope that this works!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
meh
@ Aussie Infidel:
Please donate….
Just more word whores…
I don’t remember the Pentagon doing it, but I sure as hell remember Victoria Nuland confirming it from the back of the room
Remember when the Pentagon confirmed the US partnered w/46 Ukrainian Bioweapon labs?
And Hunter Biden secured millions for 1 of the labs – Metabiota?
Well now we have a 2/24/22 letter from Zelensky ordering the destruction of all gov’t files for Metabiota
I’m sure it’s nothing
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1619784534953984000
Biden administration shooting down its own ‘green’ energy ideology
The Biden administration is stymieing its own “green” energy efforts after the Interior Department announced the blocking of mining in parts of Northeast Minnesota for the next 20 years.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland signed Public Land Order 7917, withdrawing 225,504 acres in the Superior National Forest from leasing to mining or geothermal companies through 2043, according to the department’s press release. The administration has canceled multiple mining projects over the past two years while prioritizing a green energy transition, which requires mining of critical minerals and metals.
https://www.wnd.com/2023/01/biden-administration-shooting-green-energy-ideology/
The WSJ has this story too but it’s behind a paywall
eaglesoars wrote:
That Biden MO is too green up the domestic politics while exploiting child labor and buying the minerals from places like the Congo.
More toxic soy bois making the world bad for kids while tooting their moral superiority.
Wednesday’s gone.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/actress-lisa-loring-best-known-role-wednesday-addams-iconic-tv-show-addams-family-dead-64/
coldwarrior wrote:
You donate mate. It’s your swamp
The need to donate Down Under is pressing enough!
🙂
darkwords wrote:
Toxic Soy Bois…
Millstones & necks ….
Depths of the sea ….
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It would be productive for some group to set up an intellectual debate about this.
Lessons learned from the 777 Expedition. Some good stuff here:
darkwords wrote:
Creating artificial reefs full of fish food to save the planet.
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In other news, Elex Michaelson (Fox News 12) interviewed Adam Schiff about his run for the CA senate and asked about Schiff’s private life. Schiff said he does stand-up comedy on open mic night.
@ Aussie Infidel:
It’s all theater at this point. I’ll continue the pantomime of voting but I won’t send $ nor will I invest time or emotion.
@ coldwarrior:
My sister is visiting. She brought a box of stuff from my parents’ house she thought I’d like. In there was a special edition newspaper about the Election Day Flood. 1985. God, what a mess. You were what? 18?
eaglesoars wrote:
Damage in Pennsylvania largely occurred along the Monongahela River basin.[1] In Brownsville, 35 businesses were flooded, while in Greensboro, high waters damaged roads and forced 300 people to evacuate. During the floods, 23 barges broke free and became lodged in the Maxwell Lock & Dam, which is an important shipping link; the lock remained closed for nearly six weeks, costing the local economy $20 million in lost production. The same river crested at 44 ft (13 m) in Charleroi, breaking the record set in 1967. The flooded river caused $1 million in damage at California University of Pennsylvania, broke 40 barges from their moorings, and forced about 2,600 people to evacuate; one person in North Charleroi drowned after returning to his evacuated home. Throughout the region, the floods damaged or destroyed 3,349 houses,[7] leaving at least 2,000 people homeless,[29] and statewide damage was estimated at $83 million.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Election_Day_floods#:~:text=The%20event%20occurred%20after%20Hurricane,Florida%20late%20on%20October%2031.
The drummer’s name is Honey Bun.
Most dangerous cities ranked 1 to 416.
11 U.S. cities made the top 50, 3 made the top 20.
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings.jsp
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
And what do those 11 have in common?
CORRUPT COPS
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/26/china-zambia-africa-debt-restructuring
China is buying dilapidated repo houses
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, good luck with that.
CW I have a med question, and once I know the answer I’m probably gonna feel really stupid but……
would blood transfusions help in the treatment of covid? Antibodies don’t seem to be helping?
off to the store………
2022 Travel Photog Awards
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-11692773/The-astonishing-winning-shots-2022-Travel-Photographer-Year-awards.html
eaglesoars wrote:
the risks outweigh the benefits
i get to sleep in my own bed tonight…home sweet home.
I’ve had enough of this flooding. Can’t get into the Coromandel yet with masses of slips and washouts all over the place.
A house alongside Ngarimu Bay beach (Thornton Bay) was swept away by a landslide. The 3 folks were inside at the time and rode the landslide down the hill. Fortunately nobody was killed. They belong to Mrs AI’s church and have been clutched up and have another roof over their heads and are warm and safe!
There has been 1.5 metres of rain in the last 5 days!
SPIT
Brother and son having birthday. Smoking a Fratello Oro.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
omg
You need an ark
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
eaglesoars wrote:
And what else?
Doctor that tried to save Ashlii Babitt’s life has been charged.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/doctor-who-tried-to-save-ashli-babbitt-on-jan-6-charged-with-2-felonies-2-misdemeanors-for-time-at-the-us-capitol_5016719.html
That’s behind a paywall. This isn’t.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/01/31/julie-kelly-calls-vengeful-inhumane-doj-out-for-arresting-doctor-who-tried-to-treat-ashli-babbitt/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Dem Gov’t
I see Tom Brady has retired. Again. And this time he really means it.
Too late, Dude. Giselle blocked your number months ago.
Moron.
Larry Elder to make a White House run
https://www.kusi.com/larry-elder-announces-probable-presidential-run-on-kusi/
Somebody called ‘sodpoodle’ occasionally posts these ’email from a friend’ items on Free Republic and they are a hoot!
MEN ARE JUST HAPPIER PEOPLE!
What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
You don’t have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress – $5,000. Tux rental – $100. People never stare at your chest when you’re talking to them.
New shoes don’t cut, blister, or mangle your feet. One mood all the time. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff about tanks. A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend. Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack. Two pairs of shoes are more than enough. You almost never have strap problems in public. You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
Everything on your face stays its original color. The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades. You only have to shave your face and neck. You can play with toys all your life. One wallet and one pair of shoes – one color for all seasons. You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can ‘do’ your nails with a pocket knife. You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache… You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes. No wonder men are happier!
NICKNAMES: If Laura, Kate, and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah. If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Bubba, and Wild Man.
EATING OUT: When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back. When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
MONEY: A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs. A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need but it’s on sale.
BATHROOMS: A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel. The average number of items in the typical womans’ bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS: A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
FUTURE: A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
MARRIAGE: A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t. A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change, but she does.
DRESSING UP: A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail. A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
NATURAL: Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
OFFSPRING: Ah, children! A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears, and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.: A married man should forget his mistakes. There’s no use in two people remembering the same thing!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127734/posts
This is a bit much to excerpt, but it’s fascinating stuff. Archeologists found a workshop that embalmed Egyptian mummies, with all the equipment/materials intact with instructions. They’ve analyzed the ingredients too. Between 664–525 BCE.
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-goo-spills-the-secrets-of-how-the-egyptians-mummified-their-dead
@ eaglesoars:
Exactly
NO. Fuck right off. Yesterday
Energy Department proposes efficiency rules for cooking devices after gas stove furor
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/policy/energy-environment/energy-department-proposes-regulations-for-cooktops
The metrics used would not attempt to limit stove usage when they are installed and in use, a department spokesperson emphasized.
“Instead, the metric will ensure cooktops are produced to meet a certain level of energy efficiency if the proposed rule is finalized,” the person said.
.
.
It would also impose regulations on electric ovens for the first time, providing that they may not utilize a linear power supply, or one that produces unregulated as well as regulated power.
Gas ovens would be subjected to the same prohibition.
Someone please explain ‘linear power supply and regulated/unregulated power, I have no idea what they’re talking about
Well, if they’re not going to limit my USE of the stove, then they’re going to limit the AMOUNT of fuel I use? ‘Energy efficiency’? They’re going to make methane burn more efficiently? Did somebody alter the law on thermodynamics or something and I just missed it?
Next up: Limit on breathing to reduce carbon emissions
I hate these people with the heat of a thousand suns
@ eaglesoars:
NEVER!!!!!!!!
https://www.wsj.com/story/boeing-delivers-the-last-747-a-history-of-the-queen-of-the-skies-8951cdf6
an absolute joy to fly on. i got to do first class of Lufthansa from frankfurt to ny ONCE on a 747, a wonderful flight
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, I know but can you explain that word salad crap to me? I’m a simple girl, I don’t do ‘nuance’
Royalty Now Studios is one of the youtube channels I follow. They do an incredible job of ‘recreating’ what people in history looked in in real life. This one is of George Washington. Scroll forward to the 22 min mark or so, you don’t need the history lesson..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ22sfmV1LM
@ coldwarrior:
I saw a video of one of the early 747’s doing a roll.
I have been remiss attending to my paperwork, so I caught up today and looked at the Medicare statement from my hospitalization last August when I contracted E coli.
Well, first off, the quack ER doc diagnosed me with Covid, which I knew was bullshit. He gave me one dose of hydrocodeine for the pain, and after that – nothing. I never saw him again. It was 4 hours in the ER before I could get water.
Got a room (finally) and no pain meds. FINALLY, they gave me MOTRIN. They wouldn’t let my husband in cuz COVID. They did feed me, and the food was good, but I was in so much pain I couldn’t eat. The morning of day 3, they told me I was being discharged. Because my insurance wouldn’t cover any more. I still couldn’t walk, even with a walker. I left in a wheel chair. Hubby got me to his doc the next day. She immediately gave me a script for pain, took blood and urine. Noted the notes from the hospital ER said there was blood in my urine, at the very least I had a UTI. Diagnosis E. Coli.
That could have killed me. Hubby’s doc loaded me up on antibiotics and more pain stuff. In 20 minutes, no more pain. I could walk.
The services the hospital claimed to medicare were NEVER provided. I did not have ANY IVs, I had absolutely NOTHING but Motrin. That’s IT.
$12,000.
Thank god we have 2 hospital systems here. When Hubby’s doc ordered radiographs to be sure there was nothing else going one, we went to that hospital. I looked at their claims and there were straight up.
right_wing2 wrote:
I guarantee that what you saw was a B-747 doing a BARREL ROLL ….. NOT a slow roll or especially NOT a snap roll. Otherwise you would end clapping wings over your head!
🙂
So the FBI ‘searches’ Biden’s beach house. And find ‘nothing’. Well, that’s why the searched it! So they could make the statement, nope, nothing to see here, nada, zip, MOVE ON!
right_wing2 wrote:
Governor? Yes. President? You gotta be kidding me.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m glad to hear it was a “planned search” as the spokesholes are calling it.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I could maybe even see him in a Cabinet position.
@ Aussie Infidel:
8 point hesitation roll?
Lol
I have decided to re-watch Game of Thrones. I don’t know why
right_wing2 wrote:
Well you’d get through half a roll before you’d exceed the -2.5 G Rating and it’d all end in tears…. and a 377.840 tonne hole in the Earth!
🙂
right_wing2 wrote:
A DC-9 did a perfect barrel roll off the end of a runway as a VERY skillful driver went with the movement and didn’t try to’ monster’ the airplane onto the ground which would have folded up his(damaged structurally at the wing root) port wing, and totally spoiled his and his 90 passengers’ day. He was one of the 0.01% of drivers who could have pulled it off, he happened to be where he was, when he was …. and he was really lucky. Being lucky is most important, as even if you are a total beginner and you are lucky …. you STILL get away with it!
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Don’t I know it!
I’ve been really…. REALLY Lucky three times and been a steely eyed aviator who knew what he was doing, half a dozen times
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Oh ffs
More Airports to Use Greener ‘Glide’ Approach to Landing
Eleven more U.S. airports plan to adopt a new way of landing planes that reduces both emissions and noise — all by having incoming planes turn off their engines and glide down to the tarmac like a paraglider.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-airports-to-use-greener-glide-approach-to-landing/?ref=upstract.com
Yep. Here’s lookin’ at all you Rothko-esque frauds
“Our exaggerated reverence for the creative impulse derives from the romantics of the early 19th century… and filtered through from intellectual bohemia…”
“… to the upper middle classes…. Now, quite banal instances of human creativity are preposterously overvalued. Witness the often conceited superiority of those in only tangentially creative professions. Why should a newspaper columnist or an advertising copywriter feel himself to be more interesting than a banker or a cleaner? I have lawyer friends who complain of the rictus countenances and slipping eye-contact they get from artistic types at parties. But I know those parties. And I know my lawyers are the most interesting people in the room. … [Some] argue that AI cannot be creative because it lacks internal understanding, is merely a ‘king of pastiche’…. But this is close to what those original artists were doing too — the artist’s great struggle, the critic Harold Bloom argues, is confronting and overcoming the influence of predecessors. And does it even matter what’s going on internally now that human audiences fail to distinguish between a composition by a robot and one by Bach…?… AI should disillusion us of the spurious glamour of creativity.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2023/01/our-exaggerated-reverence-for-creative.html
Jim Jordan announces the Judiciary Committee will be going to the border next week.
Impeachment evidence gathering I bet.
Unfortunately, the announcement just gave the admin a heads up and they’ll shut it down until Jordan et al head back to D.C.
@ eaglesoars:
I wonder what kind of provision for missed approach or go around they’ll have.
@ right_wing2:
And changes to the routes.
eaglesoars wrote:
Had to do the google on that name. Masssive fraud indeed. Even his earlier *ahem* work shows he had little real talent, so he created a philosophy to justify his crap and became “brilliant”.
One of my college buddies did (and is doing) exactly that, with some success. His splattered paint canvases are being shown and touted in the UK. His “philosophy” is that the world is made up of layers. Real nice guy, but pheeeew.
right_wing2 wrote:
I was going to comment too. That articleis incorrect.
They don’t “turn off their engines ” but leave them in idle. according to the FAA.
64 US airports already use this system of descending without steps. They are adding another 11.
That s the news, adding 11.
Possum wrote:
My car does that. Stop at a light or something, it goes into idle mode. Saves fuel and there’s no problem – I just step on the gas again.
Thanks for the clarification.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Does he believe it or does he know it’s a con?
eaglesoars wrote:
He believes it. I haven’t spoken with him in several years, he became kind of aloof. Not condescending, but a tad pretentious. He was interviewed on some obscure cable show, and the esoteric language made me want to puke.
Ok…
A slab of Scottish wild caught salmon
Versus
NZ responsibly farm raised salmon on the smoker…
FIGHT!
@ eaglesoars:
I got a module that stops mine from doing that
I think that today I finished my watch collection. It’s been a problem for years…but, I think I’m done. I saved for 4 years to get that ONE.LAST.PIECE. 20 here and there, maybe a 50…
A 70’s bulova speedmaster, all checked out with papers. I can’t swi g an original Omega lunar…the bulova model did the moon on Apollo 15 when the omega failed.
https://youtu.be/6Z84hBIWqxg
coldwarrior wrote:
I cannot stand THE SMELL of farmed salmon. I bought it once and was going to throw it out, but thought better of that. The dogs LOVE salmon. They wouldn’t touch it.
@ eaglesoars:
This stuff is excellent. BUT.
it’s more expensive than Scottish wild caught and is less dense in muscle and fat. And there is a subtle something that is missing.
Overall, VERY good but not worth the $28/lb. Scots was 14
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Ah. Growing up in high school, I had 2 best girl friends. Thick. As. Thieves. One was a quite talented artist, went to Syracuse, ended up in NYC (Chelsea), had at least 2 shows that I know of, (I went to one), married another artist (dead ringer for Paul McCartney and one of the most insufferable pricks I’ve ever met. He fell down dead some years ago, lightly mourned by his 4th wife.) Anyhoo, when The Artist dumped the dead weight she contemplated moving back to Pittsburgh but moaned “Who is there to talk to? About WHAT?”
I hung up on her.
Years later, Hubby and I were visiting the other friend in our high school crew in Pgh, who is still my BFF. The Artist showed up with her adorable daughter (named ELECTRA, as God is my witness). She was back in the ‘burg teaching art at Upper St Clair high school (CW knows what I’m sayin’). Living with her parents. BFF’s mom was there and she and Hubby immediately bonded over baseball and The Artist could NOT have been more disgusted. She escaped early, she just couldn’t drink beer. She didn’t stay in touch w/me or BFF.
Years later BFF’s mom died. I still had The Artist’s parents’ phone number, so I called. Sure ’nuff she was there. Told her about BFF’s mom, the church, funeral service, blah blah blah and told her to be sure ‘your artist ass shows up’. After the funeral BFF called me. “You told The Artist didn’t you?” “Oh, she showed up!” “Yeah, she did and she was very nice, really”
And that was the LAST time I ever spoke to The Artist. Thank God.
Another Project Veritas drop. Pfizer’s vax & menstrual cycles.
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1621277753063493637
coldwarrior wrote:
I have a soviet tank commander watch I got in Germany that I gave to my dad. Need to get it fixed and get a band.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Naomi Wolf had this from the get go.
Barrel rolls, any aircraft can do one as long as the pilot knows what they are doing. It is a low G and low stress on the airframe maneuver.
But the pilot HAS to know what they are doing.
Test pilots barrel rolled Concorde to gain confidence in the airframe and flight controls.
( prototype Concords had ejection seats LOL)
coldwarrior wrote:
Blind taste test x2 of the fam.
NZ wins, and hands down.
Sadly
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Vostok is my fave.
@ coldwarrior:
I have a couple vostok europe as well.
Beasts
@ Possum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQS3qAIjAo&t=178s
coldwarrior wrote:
barbarians
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m not pleased
@ Aussie Infidel:
https://youtu.be/8a8aeHb-Qco
coldwarrior wrote:
They saw you coming mate. Nothing like fresh wild salmon but the Kiwi stuff is OK. There are two types …. fresh water and salt water. The fresh water salmon is raised in the hydro electric dam’s ‘power races’ (outfall channels once the hydro water has exited the turbines) in the Southern Alps. The salt water salmon used to be raised in the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island. The Sounds salmon are moving from near Blenheim to Cook Straight between the North and South Islands where the water is colder and has a fast current with 6-800 feet depth of water. There are zero contamination from salmon shit although all farmed salmon are now fed with a mix of Kiwi and Chilean fish food that maximises the fish weight gain. Hence Cold’s notice that the flesh has lower muscle density.
US $28 a Lb … that’s …over US$ 60 or NZ$90 a Kg RETAIL. That’s MADDNESS. You’re getting suckered.
I can source pallet loads of fresh caught and chilled (NOT Frozen) and airfreighted salmon anywhere in the US for a fraction of that. If either of you guys want to make some $$$$ do let me know and we can do some business.
You’ll need a wholesaler to handle the logistics but we can do the business where EVERYONE makes a very good living. Loads of experience with off season foods mostly to China ….. not anymore…. SPIT. Also have experience in craft woollens into the US so it’s not as if we are ‘newby’s’ in the US marketplace. US retail is a hiding for nothing and wholesale is the ONLY way to go!
🙂
e-Mail me if you’d want to discuss it!
@ Possum:
Yup… Just as I said. A BARREL Roll . The magic thing that this driver said was those magic words…….. POSITIVE G ….
As long as you keep positive G all the way over and don’t get NEGATIVE you can BARREL roll ANY aircraft quite safely.
I used to instruct aerobatics students and they always had a great experience.
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eaglesoars wrote:
This is how BAD Habits get started. Feel free to close the thrust levers for decent, but once you get close to the ground ALWAYS … ALWAYS SPOOL UP a jet engine or eventually you will kill yourself your whole crew and ALL of the passengers! FFS. Spool up a jet engine to 75-80% on approach or you WILL eventually cock it up, and when you NEED a large handful of thrust immediately… then the engine will just ‘think about it’ for about 5 seconds before you get the thrust you needed 5 seconds ago. By then you will part of a flaming ball of aluminium and kerosene, at the bottom of a very deep hole in the runway!
I mean exactly THAT.
SERIOUSLY!
@ eaglesoars:
Large Turbo-Fan engines are very heavy and have both a mass of inertia and momentum. Turbofans react really slowly. Therefore dirty up the wings with trailing edge flaps and slats and leading edge flaps. Get set up for landing and get your gear down and SPOOL UP the engines to say 80% so that if you need POWER you’ve got your engine fans up to speed and all of that inertia as ‘money in the bank’ giving you instant thrust … especially when you need it!
@ Aussie Infidel:
I won’t buy it again. We tried it for fun.
The Scottish is superior, regardless of what the savages think
@ Aussie Infidel:
Oh
My
God
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/train-derailment-massive-explosion-and-fire-in-ohio/
Happened just over there…
So, the 1619 project now has a TV series on Hulu. Should be listed under fiction or alternate history but instead is front and center shoved in your face everytime you load up Hulu.