The kids are enjoying their first real day of summer break. Naps and lounging are the order of the day.
First day of summer vacation was always my favorite day of the year.
Early June Open
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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!
some actual progress!
https://info.westinghousenuclear.com/news/westinghouse-submits-ap300-smr-reg-engagement-plan-to-nrc
@ lobo91:
They should have executed that fucker. Along with Aldrich Ames.
Well, this is not good.
Why more US men are falling victim to Japan’s anti-social hikikomori trend
https://nypost.com/2023/06/05/us-men-falling-victim-to-japans-anti-social-hikikomori-trend/
In Japan, an estimated 1.5 million people — many of them young men — now live in complete isolation.
The problem has grown so severe that the Japanese have a term for it: Hikikomori, one who literally withdraws from society.
Some 6,000 miles away, the United States is experiencing its own form of hikikomori.
During a recent interview with Chris Williamson, a British podcaster based in Austin, Texas, the political economist Nicholas Eberstadt discussed the fact that 7 million men of prime working age are currently without employment and not seeking jobs.
Many of these men, said Eberstadt, spend inordinate amounts of time indoors, totally withdrawn from society.
They play video games, watch pornography and tend to engage in heavy drug use, according to the author of “Men Without Work.”
Work carried out by academics at Kyushu University in Japan has found that a low testosterone level is one of the common metabolic signatures of hikikomori in young social recluses — which is important to note because testosterone levels among young American men are plummeting and have been for years.
The drop now reportedly affects 1 in 4 men in the US.
This is the umpteenth time I’ve read about testosterone levels and I’m utterly bewildered. All sorts of causes proposed but nothing definitive
eaglesoars wrote:
From what I’ve been reading for years it’s apparently related to diet. But, it can’t be the same for everyone since my diet has been awful for ages and even my last medical appointment had my values extremely high.
My oldest son fits many of the hikikomori flags (everything but the porn and drugs), but much of it is due to his autism and unwillingness to even try to engage socially.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
OR – his autism and unwillingness is due to low testosterone?
I don’t know if hotels are classified as ‘commercial’ real estate (as office bldgs are) but anyhoo…..
Owner of SF’s Largest Hotel, the Hilton Union Square, Is Walking Away, Surrendering It to Lender
https://sfist.com/2023/06/05/owner-of-sfs-largest-hotel-the-hilton-union-square-is-walking-away-surrendering-it-to-lender/
There is no secondary market for commercial loans as there is for residential loans and this is most certainly not a residential loan, so I don’t know how this would be classified. In any event, everybody on the chain is ska-rood.
24 hr coverage of D-Day as it happened.
starting soon. tune in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpRK1fKQJUI
US Women’s Soccer Team Trash Talks Club of Retirees, Ends Up Losing 12-0
https://rightnewsnow.org/2023/06/05/us-womens-soccer-team-trash-talks-club-of-retirees-ends-up-losing-12-0/
where is that bitch, Rappinoe?
@ eaglesoars:
There you go Eagles. All you wanted to know. Now that the information dam has finally ruptured the leaks are coming thick and fast.
https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/
@ Aussie Infidel:
I know, I’ve been reading it. But with a skeptical outlook. It’s a wonderfully convenient distraction, isn’t it?
OH LOOK!! SQUIREL!
I don’t doubt the ‘leaks’, I snort at the timing
Well, it is officially the anniversary of D-Day now.
Thanks, Dad.
AND – our 31st anniversary – which I just remembered about 20 minutes ago and Hubby will probably forget completely. It won’t be the first time one or both of us completely forgets it and we think it’s hilarious.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/rfk-jr-tells-musk-he-wants-to-permanently-seal-the-us-mexico-border-links-mass-shootings-to-pharmaceutical-drugs
Interesting. Still don’t trust a democrat, but he says some interesting things. He could manage to snag the vote from the small portion of dems that have an uneasy feeling about the way their party is behaving.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I think he might beat Trump. He’s still too progressive for me, but he’s got big pharma nailed – to the cross
eaglesoars wrote:
HAPPY ‘VERSRY!’
eaglesoars wrote:
the dems will never let him win the primary.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/06/report-cia-was-warned-of-ukraine-plan-to-sabotage-nord-stream-pipeline/
oh please, the ukies are not capable of that kind of sabotage. we know EVERYTHING that goes on in that part of the ocean.
BWAHAHAHA
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/06/06/what-about-the-morality-pga-tour-caves-merges-with-saudi-backed-liv/
BWAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
We have a decent breeze…so why is it so hazy? Hmmm, air quality warnings but no source….
Oh, wildfires west and north! Boy howdy! That was not mentioned as to why I shouldn’t run my smoker, drive my car, etc. Climate change. Yeah, sorry, there is no haze with this breeze from us yinzers cooking meat and driving cars.
These fucks have no idea what bad air quality is. The orange soot over everything when the mills were running was ACTUALLY bad!
coldwarrior wrote:
I remember days when Mom couldn’t hang the laundry outside. And there were no electric dryers back then. She had a small drying room in the basement
coldwarrior wrote:
If he’s the one most likely to beat Trump, they sure as hell will
hey y’all
Dam explosion causing flooding in Russian controlled territory of Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxyL9rpl418
so…..who did this?
what happens at the power plant when the water gets too low?
@ eaglesoars:
Yep. Really nasty. But everyone was making huge money.
My anemometer says 10 knot breeze. That precludes local pollution from still air. But! Environmental Emergency!!!
Yeah, no one is listening
@ rain of lead:
@ rain of lead:
You can reference Chernobyl for the water level thing. But, I’m sure the Russians ain’t gonna melt down this time.
rain of lead wrote:
The Russians of course!
Lol
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup
Always keep your fingers crossed when you read anything about ETs. 🙂
Always try to find first person stories as well as embellishment is part of the opinion when there are few hard facts to go on. I believe that the current opening of attitudes have probably sparked a raft of ‘whistleblowers’ but also a mass of nutters seeking their 15 minutes of fame by interviewing their keyboards and making up shit of garner eyeballs viewing their websites.
Be skeptical Eagles as I’m sure you are whilst trying to be objective.
🙂
ok whatever
Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before humans
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/world/homo-naledi-burials-carvings-scn/index.html
ooh ooh ooh!
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/breakthrough-cal-tech-scientists-transmit-space-based-solar-power-to-earth-for-first-time/
producing an array that can generate 1 gigawatt of power – or about the output of one nuclear reactor – would cost about $7 billion with currently available technologies.
It costs about $5 billion to build one nuclear power plant. So, a solar array would be marginally more expensive.
hmmmm…..still..
well, that was quick………
CNN Fires CEO Chris Licht in Major Shakeup
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/cnn-chris-licht/2023/06/07/id/1122665/
I seem to remember something about a ‘rule of holes’….
Fox News host Harris Faulkner drew condemnation from some fans of the network on Wednesday when she said the company will be forced to incorporate the left’s diversity, equity and inclusion agenda into its business model.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/rip-fox-news-harris-faulkner-says-things-going-change-network
Did I see something about Elon thinking out loud about buying Fox News? Yes, I believe I did…………….
@ rain of lead:
Try it on planet Earth first.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams tells ENTIRE city to stay indoors to avoid ‘nicotine yellow’ wildfire smoke containing toxic nanoparticles – as air pollution in Big Apple becomes the worst on EARTH
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12169409/NYC-topped-list-worlds-polluted-cities-overnight-150-Canadian-wildfires.html
rain of lead wrote:
… HOW to instantly cremate a golden eagle with microwaves … on the wing!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Eagles, passenger jets…
right_wing2 wrote:
Somehow our elite seem to have overlooked a few realities when it comes to microwave energy.
As bugs bunny would opine …. ” what a maroon!”
🙂
So it’s a mistake to dismiss reports that the United States has recovered “non-human craft” out of hand. The evidence available to us isn’t conclusive, but there’s now a fair amount of it, and while alien spacecraft seem unlikely, unlikely not the same as impossible.
That said, I have questions. First: Why are these spacecraft crashing all the time? If we really have “12 or more spacecraft” of non-human origin, er, what’s wrong with them? I mean, to lose one spacecraft could be an accident but to lose twelve seems like carelessness. I would assume that spacecraft of nonhuman origin came from another star; at the very least they would have to have come from the outer solar system. (I assume we’d notice an alien civilization on the Moon or Mars, or probably even Venus.) A spacecraft that could do that would have to be very advanced, and presumably aliens have much better and more reliable technology than we have. Yet I think we’d feel that losing a dozen spacecraft was an unacceptable loss rate, assuming reasonable numbers of sorties.
https://instapundit.substack.com/p/aliens
Ah. But the assumption – unacceptable loss rate – is that there is only one alien civilization visiting. What if there are – say – 5?
nite
I am astonished at the arrogance of this prick.
Prince Harry tells High Court judge he is not aware of ANY evidence he was hacked by the Mirror – but insists it would be an ‘injustice’ if he lost his case against them as he finishes his second day on the stand
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12171325/Barrister-aware-evidence-hacking-Prince-Harry-No.html
I’m just posting the msm take on this – but keeping up on the analysis of what actually went down in court.
So I will say this: This man child is mentally deranged and if he were a commoner he would have been institutionalized long ago. He is an ugly human being.
eaglesoars wrote:
And it’s also assuming they are friendly toward each other. I know of several incidents that looked like the craft were engaged in combat before the crash.
This is apparently NOT satire
The United Nations replaces all 193 country flags with LGBT flags
Rockefeller Center, in New York City, woke up this Tuesday plagued with rainbow flags. The initiative sparked a lot of criticism on social media.
https://voz.us/the-united-nations-replaces-all-193-country-flags-with-lgbt-flags/?lang=en
I imagine some Muslim countries were thrilled.
Turn that dump into condos
@ Aussie Infidel:
Hot air balloon…
@ Aussie Infidel:
And what’s the life of space-borne panels?
eaglesoars wrote:
Or as that classic Aussie Movie … The Castle … would opine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMuh33BMZYY
Harry felt that it was …” just the vibe your honour … it’s .. it’s … it’s just the vibe”
🙂
HEH
eaglesoars wrote:
… obviously that’s not the case regarding reliable technology…. but I give you the highly probable stats rates make the odd SNAFU and crash reasonably probable, over a fairly long time period of say the past 70 years. Especially so if there are multiple species on the field. Perhaps we should get the UAP aerospace traffic control sorted out for them, especially in high ‘traffic’ areas over the USA.
🙂
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Awwww that’s a bit harsh mate, on poor old ET, especially so if there are a cohort of different species operating in Earth’s aerospace/ airspace. A dozen piles of junk over 70 years is not all that careless given the numbers of aircraft crashes over that time period.
Obviously if these folks are using technology to come calling then they are definitely NOT from this solar system. Mercury is tidally locked, Venus is almost tidally locked and due to surface temperatures and massive pressure is in hospital to life. Earth appears to be looking dodgy when it comes to intelligent life. Mars has been stripped of most of it’s atmosphere because it lost it’s protective magnetic field because it cooled down too fast due to it’s mass. Forget the 4 gas giants and most of their moons except for the odd possible micro-organisms, floating about in seas, or hiding under rocks. Nope the vast majority of stars that are of the multiple variety that have planets cause non stable orbits for their attendant planets that don’t easily support even basic life let alone complex or intelligent life. The vast proliferation of ‘Red Dwarf stars’, that make up the large proportion of stellar classes, are frequently unstable with regular outbursts of life destroying radiation and very close in ‘Goldilocks zones’ that almost automatically tidally lock planets where there is the potential for water, making then hostile for intelligent life to evolve. Microscopic life may be reasonably common but the conditions for the development of intelligent life is probably vanishingly tiny, and the mean lifespan of intelligent species is relatively short by the looks of it. Given all that, there could a microscopy small bunch of plants that statistically ‘lucked in’ among the billions of planets scattered across our galaxy.
The BIG question is how long these different potential species last as a civilisation before crashing their space craft on far away planets that somehow got lucky.
There is some really interesting stuff going on and we now have the technology and ‘coverage’ to suss it out, track it and investigate it. From the shit that I saw with my own eyes and tracked using multiple radars whilst watching visually, these vehicles exist but I have no idea where they come from, how they got here , what powers them or whether they are drones or piloted. We may be on the cusp of actually finding out a bit more about them from our elitist masters!
🙂
hospital = hospitable
Grrrr predictive is NOT your friend
right_wing2 wrote:
Absolutely not a clue!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup
Harry is Harry’s worst enemy. Nope I take that back. Harry now has something even more toxic on his case … it’s called a Meagan!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
WHY?
and WHO is going to force a change of business model on Fox and more importantly HOW without totally destroying the host network.
…. or perhaps THAT is the whole point of this exercise. To create a ‘vanilla media’ where there are no opposing and questioning voices left at all.
Hmmmmmmm
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Exactamundo! Especially, as I recall you telling me, we know of 5 different species. For all we know, they shoot each other down.
In any event, I question the timing of this sudden vomitous spew of revelations.
I just don’t want to find us in the classic IT’S A COOKBOOK!! scenario.
I’m so glad I’m old.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Because that seems to be how Wall St will be evaluating equities, etc. Larry Fink (Blackrock), may he rot in Hell, is all for it. It’s a method of advancing the Great Reset. The Murdochs are part of the WEF bandwagon
@ eaglesoars:
It could be a distraction as well. Look at the bright flashing thingie, while we screw you behind your back!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Don’t go down that rabbit hole. I’ve been reading some books about missing persons and that is one of the theoriess out there. Some deep conspiracy crap.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Don’t go down that rabbit hole? YOU’RE the one reading the books!
So Trump has been indicted. It will be fun watching him being elected as POTUS again while he’s in prison.
They want civil war.
Point.
HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO BELIEVE THAT ALIENS FOUND A WAY TO TRAVEL AT WARP SPEED AND THEN PROCEEDED TO MISTAKENLY CRASH A SERIES OF UFOs THAT ALL LOOK LIKE SOMETHING FROM THE MOVIES ON A PLANET THAT IS MILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY.
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1666978668554469377
BEST comment
….. I mean for the last three years people put a cloth on their face, locked themselves in their homes, and followed arrows on the floor like cattle thinking it would stop a virus. So is this a rhetorical question or…
https://twitter.com/Chesschick01/status/1666983141515354112
A Quiet Bluegrass Genocide
The scientific and political communities in America were solidly behind the project. Those performing the sterilizations were considered humanitarian heroes, and academics who questioned the idea were subject to vilification, loss of employment, and loss of academic funding. The press and political activists formed a solid phalanx to protect the pro-eugenics side. Glenn Reynolds of Glenn’s Substack (another worthy subscribable) linked to the interview on Instapundit.com, framing it as follows:
https://graboyes.substack.com/p/a-quiet-bluegrass-genocide
Covid was not the first time. It won’t be the last.
My father’s first wife was epileptic. He didn’t know when they married, she had a seizure one night while they were sleeping, that’s how he found out.
She didn’t tell him because it was illegal at that time for epileptics to marry (Pennsylvania 1930s-40s.)
Eugenics. Forced sterilization. Spike protein altering DNA
Be aware
@ eaglesoars:
“While I know next-to-nothing about the Family Planning Services Act, I’m from Virginia, and I know how my state’s government, dominated by ostentatiously inbred elites, sent swarms of public health practitioners and social workers into the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains to round up and sterilize those they considered unworthy.”
“ostentatiously inbred elites”
Perfect
China Has Started Digging a Mysterious 10,000-Meter Deep Hole
https://www.sciencealert.com/china-has-started-digging-a-mysterious-10000-meter-deep-hole
This isn’t quite the deepest humans have ever been. The new dig won’t beat the 12,262-meter (40,230-foot) Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia (which is now abandoned), or the 12,290-meter (40,323-foot) BD-04A oil well in the Al Shaheen Oil Field in Qatar – but it’s getting close.
Chinese scientists are hoping that the hole will significantly improve our understanding of deep Earth geology, while searches for oil and gas reserves will also be carried out as the drilling goes to lower and lower depths.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wasn’t the patron saint of dems, Margaret Sanger a huge proponent of all of that?
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
more than a proponent, she was the originator
All this talk about Alien spacecraft crashing on to planet Earth in a flaming ball of fire makes me think.
They say the universe is billions of years old. It started with a big bang. The
number of stars and planets in existence now is infinite ( as in a really big number )
So yes, I DO believe space craft from other worlds do crash onto this planet. They took hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of years to get here.
Why do I think that? Well Voyager 1
So in another few million years Voyager 1 is going to get to the constellation Ophiuchus and end its life crashing into some random planet there and the population will be out in the street with their cell phones filming it and yelling in an Alien language ” What the fuck was that! ”
Yes, I do believe some artifacts not of this world has in the past landed here.
Space junk from the billions of years of spacey things.
@ Possum:
I call BS… Nothing makes you think…
https://doriangrey1.substack.com/p/the-cargo-cult-of-ufology?sd=pf
@ doriangrey:
ok, cruel but funny……
I’m back at the Flagstaff Blues & Brews festival after a 4 year absence. Beautiful day at the Centennial Country Club. Samantha Fish headlines tonight.
In other news, I traded in the Mountaineer for a 2017 F-150 4×4 with the Coyote 5.0 V-8. Should make towing the travel trailer easier. Hard to believe it’s a truck, though. It has a better 0-60 time than my Mustang GT did
lobo91 wrote:
why am I not surprised?
@ eaglesoars:
Larkin Poe headlines tomorrow.
Telluride is gonna be great. Bonnie Raitt is headlining
Hmm…someone wearing a Taylor Swift tour t-shirt.
Could be a fed
lobo91 wrote:
Oh be still my heart!
lobo91 wrote:
TOP men!
@ eaglesoars:
LOL
Really…
In keeping with the earlier discussion, I suppose it could be an alien,too
doriangrey wrote:
ok, I’ve read it.
Do you have anything to say to the Navy pilots who have encountered these phenomena?
A) no matter how advanced an Alien civilization is, it is still constrained by the same laws of physics that we are
Agreed. But you seem to be assuming that we completely understand the laws of physics. Are they actually ‘laws’ or just theories that we think pretty much describe behavior we have observed? I think we’ve been surprised before.
Nice to see you back. Hope you still hate me. Gives purpose to my life.
Off to bed.
nite
Good morning all.
The Trump indictment is primarily to starve his war chest, what wuth the threat of any money sent his way being seized by the state. Thereby killing his campaign before some crazy plea deal where he has to agree to some crazy (and to my mind extralegal) terms like I’ve seen posited.
No cooking post today as I seem to be cooling things while drunk and next day cannot find what I cooked.
Did I eat it all? Did I ruin it and flushed it? Did the cats eat it?
Anyway, newer Evs charge using electricity from a charging point on your home. But they can also supply electricity back into your home or camping site or beach disco party!
Be honest, we have ALL stolen gas/petrol from vehicles at some time in our lives. Even if it was your own, just to use in the lawn mower on a Sunday. It involves a plastic tube and lots of spitting and coughing so they say.
Wondering if it is possible for a Possum to sneek up to an EV on his electric scooter in a Walmart parking lot and plug into it and get re-charged?
Computery hacking thingies may be required. Just a thought….
Back for Day two of the festival. Near perfect weather. Looking forward to Larkin Poe
I think the only way Trump could win is if Harris is the nominee. Even then I’m not sure.
He’s incredibly divisive, and a healthy chunk of voters flat out won’t support him.
I’ll vote for him, but not because I want him.
Assuming that Biden actually got all those votes in 2020 (which I don’t), that’s pretty much how he got them. I’ve never met a Democrat voter who actually supported him. They were all votes against Trump
Heh, I was told the I should fill out my preferred pronouns at work. I informed HR that I will not, and told them I am orthodox and to prepare for a massive law suit if they pursue this further.
From talking to my coworkers, well, most of them have told HR to fuck off. I got an email from legal that says to ignore any pronoun requests in the future.
I’m gonna frame the email and hang it up.
Oh, 11 days off…
A don Julio 1942 and a my father’s bijou cigar, temperate weather, and a brisket to smoke.
Life is good.
coldwarrior wrote:
dammit. that lawsuit would have been EPIC!
eaglesoars wrote:
My lawyer was PRAYING for it.
The test final is day 4. Kohli is at the bat. India need 270 v the Aussie.
This is brilliant
coldwarrior wrote:
Well done Aussies!!
A complete destruction of the Indian side.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/major-philadelphia-highway-collapses-following-fiery-tanker-truck/
We are usually on that road this time every year…
This is a massive problem. Those of yinz who know 95 understand how big this is.
@ coldwarrior:
Just a coincidence that the truck. Caught fire just there.
Nothing to see here…move along…oh, wait, youse can’t. At all. North or south on the main highway of the east coast.
@ coldwarrior:
This is one for Bunk.
Bridges are usually a mixture of steel and concrete and are pre-fabricated in sections and then moved into place. So are many buildings.
Heat a section of the bridge or building to a high enough temperature and it will expand, maybe the steel expands more than the concrete as a guess.
Then when it cools the steel is no longer connected to the concrete.
Supper is going to be pan fried pork loin, cauliflower cheese, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and apple sauce.
Or fried egg on toast. Fucking tragedy is I has only one egg and no bread. Bugger.
Possum wrote:
Am making your favorite in the slow cooker with stout beer and seasonings. Corned beef.
**runs away**
@ rightymouse:
Corned beef no longer available here. Kind of like if pumpkin pie is so awesome then why can’t I buy a pumpkin!
However stores here have a year round supply of water melon.
Laundry story involving cats.
On site laundry place in apartment complex used to be nice but recently it is trashed. No hot water and only one out of six machines work. So fuck it….
So I wash my socks and panties in the bath tub. Hang them out to dry in the bathroom during the day then sneak them out onto the balcony at night. Hanging laundry outside is a lease violation and guaranteed eviction they say!
Couple of days ago my knickers were outside and almost dry but a storm was on the way so obviously brought them inside to finish drying.
Using coat hangers arranged my panties decoratively hung on door knobs in apartment. To finish drying.
Then Glen saw them. Why did he decide that my clean underwear was something he should mark as his territory?
Yep, he sprayed the lot. And not just a tiny scenting squirt but the fire hose thing.
Cats are assholes. I blame their parent. Had them from two days old.
coldwarrior wrote:
A comprehensive demolition of the Indians by the Aussies. So now Oz is once more World Champs and the Kiwis lose their slot as top of the pops!
Possum wrote:
Then grow your own mate. There was a self seeded pumpkin that appeared growing in my compost heap. Tasted fantastic and I made pumpkin soup out of it.
🙂
The incident of the memorial stone has been resolved. The rest of the stone was dug out and it turned out to be a headstone for the local Maori paramount chief from the 1860s. One assumes that the bones we found was from the chief. Local Maori Karmanua are now waxing lyrical and I will gift the stone back to them and they will move it plus the remains up the coast two beaches up where they store their tribal historical artefacts. In the end the apprentice recovered the bones of two bodies as the local Maori were too idle to actually do any work recovering them. Footings are now going in today and the building inspector is visiting tomorrow for a final sign off.
All’s well …….. etc.
🙂
oh goody, tornado alert
Ahhh bugger!
I was doing my good deed looking after my grandson and giving his parents a break. NOW I find that they all have Covid 19!
My son brought it home from his shift at the Police. Stupid morons were coming into work sick and passing it around and infecting everyone else on shift. When they were chided they opined that they were too busy to stay away from work. Idiots! My son had what seemed to be a temperature and a bad cold so he kept his distance but managed to infect his wife and 4 year old. The 4 year old threw up yesterday but was just fine after that. Seems that they now find that they are all infected and both Mrs AI and me are now also infected. Grrrrrrr!
Feeling just fine but I have been eating loads of Vitamin C, D3, zinc since the flu season has been rampant as winter sets in. Registering as infected however so it’s loads of vitamin C and fluids. Hopefully it’ll be not too bad as I got it last spring and it was just a mild imbuggerance. Definitely got natural immunity and NO STABS of Covid clot shots.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
good
Possum wrote:
Okay, since I’m working anyway..
Steel rebar is required to be covered with a minimum of 2 inches of concrete to prevent rust which can make concrete explode. The concrete also serves as a heat sink in case of fire.
Exposed unprotected steel framing turns into rubber when the fire is hot enough. Concrete decks don’t, so the slab collapses when the supporting steel gets all droopy and starts busting plates and bolts.
I just blew a snot that looks exactly like the Eiffel Tower except it’s flat and kind of amoeba shaped.
@ Possum:
Last night I had the house to myself so I ordered a pizza. Don’t even ask what was on it. It was gone by the time the missus got back.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Heard about a study that confirmed the diabetes drug MetFormin is effective in treating “Long Covid”. It worried me at first, sounded like there was going to be a shortage, but then I read the report. It’s used for infected fat slobs.
@ coldwarrior:
“Due to exploding manholes, firefighters are urging the public to steer clear of these areas.”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
WHAT??
care to explain? It actually sounds fascinating
Mrs RW is a supervisory auditor. One of her employees is terrible at his job, and very creepy. As In ‘staring at women’s breasts’ level. But they haven’t been able to PROVE it.
He’s kind of obsessed with this young lady in the office. Again, nothing provable, but enough that my wife’s going to have her leave any time either my wife or the head of the office isn’t there too.
Friday, on his way out of the office, he stopped at her desk and said something like “I was digging through the trash and found this invoice. Are you getting a sit/stand desk?” This lady is in her 20’s or early 30’s. Not someone who typically needs something like that!
What the hell is he doing rooting through trash? Easy- just looking for a reason to talk to her.
So my wife decided to have some fun with this. She’s going to create a fake invoice from a security company. Then we’ll swing by the hardware store and pick up wire to make ‘pinhole cameras’ a few places around the office, sticking out of the ceiling tile.
right_wing2 wrote:
That would have got me fired. Can she at least move his desk or something?
@ eaglesoars:
The problem is, they haven’t been able to prove it.
The problem is, they haven’t been able to prove it.
A while back, this guy is a disabled vet, and parks directly across the street from the office. This young lady, in question parks, some distance away, and while back he made some comment about her walking from her car.
This has been reported to HR, but it’s just the whole lack of evidence.
This is a government position, so as a veteran, and as someone who has his two years in, getting rid of him is not easy. fortunately, though he is on a improvement plan, and he doesn’t even seem to be making the effort. He likely won’t be around long.
@ right_wing2:
Just a thought. When he is interacting with men does he make eye contact?
Some people are like that, they avoid eye contact or any chance of eye contact.
@ right_wing2:
It’s almost always hard to get rid of people. That’s why I suggested physically moving him.
I had one co-worker, K. She had a fabulous figure but her face was unfortunate to say the least. Acne scars, etc.
She ‘compensated’ for it by wearing short, tight skirts w/sky-high heels and – no underwear. She flashed every man that passed by below the level of VP. Finally my director – a man – was at a total loss and asked me what he should do. It was embarrassing for all the guys in the office. At that time, she was in a cubicle. So, move her to an office. But there were none available. We had one guy in an office who was willing to trade down for a cubicle in return for a reserved parking space in the garage. Problem solved and no HR involved.
@ eaglesoars:
He is in a different area. He pulled this stunt while leaving the office.
Not sure about meeting men’s eyes, but apparently he had the same issue at the VA. He just creels people, especially women, out. Odd vibe somehow.
Unfortunately, they can’t have him work from home because of the low-quality work, and everyone has to be in at least some of the time.
right_wing2 wrote:
Take him out back and beat the crap out of him
eaglesoars wrote:
I hope he is ex Delta Force.
You advised physical violence against that man.
Hope the clean up crew brings a mop and a bucket and several trash bags to get rid of the end result.
You seeing this Aussie and CW and Lobo?
The answer to the issue of a disabled veteran who may have difficulty adjusting to a life outside the military is to take him outside and beat the crap out of him.
Possum wrote:
Yeah. He’s a stalker who refuses to take the hint.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well I find Jewish people creepy. It has something to do with their noses and glasses and that funny hat with hair ringlets dangling at each side.
I have no actual proof they are creepy or stalkers but just because I suspect it is grounds to take them out the back and beat the crap out of him.
Welcome to the 2023 version of Nazi Germany circa 1937 courtesy of eaglesoars someone looks creepy beat the shit out of them.
@ Possum:
creepy is not stalkers and there are witnesses to his stalking.
Take your bullshit elsewhere
So why did Tara Reade high-tail it to Russia? (she accuses Biden of groping her when she was a staffer)
We received a response from Reade’s attorney, Dr. Levy. He provided us with a copy of a subpoena that Twitter’s Trust and Safety office received from a U.S. District Court in California in June of 2020. (The pdf file is attached.) The Justice Department was seeking all of Tara Reade’s personal information associated with her Twitter account. They believe this move by Twitter (pre-Musk) was meant to intimidate her.
Further, the attorney revealed to us that Reade had been in talks with Matt Gaetz of the House Weaponization of the Government Subcommittee as recently as May of this year. She was informed that her arrest could be “imminent.” A search is currently ongoing to see if INTERPOL has issued a Red Notice, allowing any nation to arrest her and extradite her. Reade has applied for asylum via the United Nations and awaits a response.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/06/12/is-this-why-tara-reade-fled-to-russia-n557339
eaglesoars wrote:
I will. If this site condones physical violence to a disabled military veteran who may just be socially awkward in any interactions with others then yes, elsewhere I will go…
Possum wrote:
That doesn’t alleviate him from moral responsibility and ‘socially awkward’ doesn’t cover ignoring the ‘advice/guidance’ he got from HR.
Every cop I’ve ever worked with has told me the same thing. TRUST YOUR GUT. If this guy is creeping out women, there’s a problem.
Britain has started burning coal to generate electricity for the first time in a month and a half, after the heatwave made solar panels too hot to work efficiently.
One unit at Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power plant in Nottinghamshire started producing electricity for the first time in weeks on Monday morning, while another coal-powered plant was warmed up in case it was needed by the early afternoon.
The National Grid turned to coal to generate electricity as a rush to turn on air conditioning and fans across the country during the heatwave led to a spike in demand.
High temperatures over the weekend also reduced the amount of energy generated from solar panels. Output on Sunday was almost a third lower than a week earlier, despite temperatures climbing above 30 degrees celsius across large parts of the country.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/12/britain-fires-up-coal-plant-weather-too-hot-solar-panels/
@ eaglesoars:
Britain has started burning coal to generate electricity for the first time in a month and a half,
So…they want us to fight global warming by using a product that doesn’t work well in warmer temperatures.
Think about that for a moment…
@ eaglesoars:
Not to mention the fact that 86 degrees isn’t much of a heat wave. That’s the current temperature here. My solar panels work just fine
@ Possum:
He’s 100% NOT a combat veteran.
And he constantly claims everyone is working against him.
lobo91 wrote:
oh, let’s talk about wind turbines!
The whole thing is a grift
@ eaglesoars:
Or those stupid heating systems they made everyone in the UK get that don’t actually work in cold weather.
Umm…isn’t that when most people use their heat?
@ right_wing2:
He was a Seabee.
No idea if he stares at men’s crotches.
@ right_wing2:
Oh. He looks my wife in the eye.
eaglesoars wrote:
In Oz under both State and Federal administrations the bureaucrat global warming warriors remove that coal option permanently. At least the Germans and Brits hold onto coal powered plants … just in case. With the socialists in Oz they ensure that burning coal is off the table by demolishing coal fired power stations in South Australia, Victoria and now New South Wales by DESTROYING coal fired stations by BLOWING THEM UP with HIGH EXPLOSIVES. Such is the authoritarian Marxist belief in their Global Warming ‘religion’.
‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.’
🙂
These Marxist politicians must live on Planet Zog!
right_wing2 wrote:
I don’t care if he’s a paraplegic
@ lobo91:
We’re almost done watching Person of Interest. Any other recommendations?
@ Aussie Infidel:
You will own nothing and you will be happy
I’m a disabled veteran with autism. I can’t make eye contact with people for long. Even I find the described behavior outrageous and inappropriate.
Possum wrote:
nice try
Shipping tax could yield $100 bln climate windfall
TINOS, June 12 (Reuters Breakingviews) – The shipping industry emits 2.9% of the world’s greenhouse gases. It has also largely escaped taxation because what happens on the high seas is not in the jurisdiction of any single government.
These two facts represent an opportunity. If the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) – the United Nations body which regulates shipping – taxed carbon emissions, it would encourage shippers to go green faster. The body could then channel the money raised, perhaps $100 billion a year, to poorer countries to help them cope with climate change.
The shipping industry’s tax-free status is already facing challenges. The European Union has agreed that from next year all ships will have to buy permits for their emissions within the EU, and half of what they spew out while travelling between the bloc and other countries.
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/shipping-tax-could-yield-100-bln-climate-windfall-2023-06-12/
@ eaglesoars:
The originating city for that article is Tinos. Never heard of it so looked it up
Greece.
Tinos is definitely one of the most famous islands in Greece located between Andros and Mykonos. The glorious church of Panagia Evangelistria gathers thousands of faithful visitors to honor the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary. However, Tinos is not different from the typical Cycladic islands with the whitewashed settlements, picturesque alleys and gorgeous beaches that attract many tourists during the summer period.
https://www.greeka.com/cyclades/tinos/map/#:~:text=Tinos%20is%20definitely%20one%20of,located%20between%20Andros%20and%20Mykonos.
@ eaglesoars:
Well, they’ll funnel it somewhere…
eaglesoars wrote:
Let’s continue with this thought. Lobo is not married and has no children that I’m aware of.
But Aussie and CW are married and they both have daughters.
So, if they learned that any of the females in their families were dealing with this at their places of work, do you think they would consider it excusable/understandable that the perp was a socially awkward disabled veteran, combat experience or no, and who had not ‘benefited’ from the company’s HR guidance – what do you think they would do?
And let’s change it up. What if the target was not an adult female but – children? At school?
If YOU were married with a daughter?….
Buh bye
lobo91 wrote:
Somewhere I saw there’s a volcano about to go KABOOMSKI any day. That should be a good cover.
Jack Smith obtained a conviction of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell that was subsequently vacated in a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court. Think how egregiously a prosecutor would have to stretch the law in order to unite Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1668451912843132930
I remember that but I didn’t remember Smith was the prosecutor
The actor Treat Williams has passed.
https://twitter.com/McDowellMalc/status/1668457158755876864
FWIW
Pentagon UFO whistleblower claims people have been killed by ‘non-human intelligences’ and says US government will do ANYTHING to protect the secret
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12186605/Pentagon-UFO-whistleblower-claims-people-killed-non-human-intelligences.html
The debauchery is beyond belief.
‘This is the White House not a hookers-n-blow photo from Hunter’s laptop’: Conservatives slam White House Pride party as a ‘disgrace to our country’ after trans model bared her breasts
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12189617/Conservatives-slam-White-House-Pride-party-trans-model-bared-breasts.html
Sometimes, an ass-beating is in order, is justified, and is the solution. It takes many, many steps to get to that point tho.
@ eaglesoars:
This fascination with homos / trans / freaks is very odd.
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2023/06/12/grassley-burisma-executive-who-allegedly-paid-bidens-has-audio-recordings/
Interesting
Great pic, Bunk. I got a good laugh outta that one!
coldwarrior wrote:
Maybe I misunderstand, but I am under the impression that anybody that gets close to POTUS is vetted by the Secret Service. If that’s correct, I wonder what the Secret Service thinks of that freak show
@ eaglesoars:
All the Secret Service cares about is if they’re likely to be violent.
@ lobo91:
They’d trust a group of people that are demonstrably mentally ill?
(I see the White House has banned the person who stripped down. A bit late, I should think)
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Ummm
9/11 anyone?
CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST THE BIDENS IS ON THE VERGE OF EXPLODING
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/corruption-case-against-the-bidens-is-on-the-verge-of-exploding.php
House Oversight Committee members to view the unclassified June 30, 2020 FD-1023 in which a confidential human informant alleged President Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from a foreign national in exchange for policy decisions. But not before redacting 10% of the text.
Frustrated by the fact that an unclassified document should be redacted at all, Sen. Chuck Grassley addressed his Senate colleagues on Monday afternoon. Scott reported on his extraordinary remarks here.
The Iowa Republican first reminded his colleagues that he has seen the unredacted version and then proceeded to enighten them with some of the missing material.
Grassley revealed that “the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them. Seventeen total recordings.”
Yeah, when pigs fly
eaglesoars wrote:
Rust expands and can blow out chunks of concrete.
coldwarrior wrote:
One of them is obviously gay.
The other grew up to be a man in the autistic spectrum who creeps out women and should get the crap beat out of him just because he’s attracted to office sluts. I think that’s what someone said in the drama upthread.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Those were steel trusses supporting concrete slabs. The fireproofing blew off and the support angles failed – the trusses didn’t – and the floors pancaked. It was an unusual design at the time. Had the buildings been framed more traditionally, the buildings would have toppled on impact, taking out entire city blocks.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Ahhhh….I didn’t know those details. Thx!
@ eaglesoars:
Yep. I’ll belive it when I see the big guy in hand irons.
2021 Swiss Nissan Thunderberg
How Dare You Sedan
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Ha!!!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
RUST EXPANDS??!! I had no idea.
So has anyone else been paying attention to the Chaco Canyon debacle. Biden admin has managed to completely make asses of themselves. First the killed off all oil and gas leases in the area which pissed off the local Pueblo tribe businessmen. Then they doubled down by decreasing the buffer zone for commercialization around the park which caused the local Pueblo to block the roads and protest. Then the moron official (Interior secretary I think) stated that the Pueblo are a matriarchal society and since she’s the Pueblo with the highest rank they should have listened to her. (Paraphrasing what I read yesterday). The whole thing is a massive embarrasment, and it seems the MSM is largely silent.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Your post is the first I’ve heard about it. Where did you hear about it, I’d like to pass it on.
Speaking today, [yesterday] US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that there should be an expectation of a slow decline in the US dollar as a reserve currency. Moreover, the statements arrive amidst international de-dollarization efforts employed by a host of countries, including the BRICS economic bloc.
Yellen had previously stated her expectation that the US dollar would remain unchallenged as the global reserve currency. However, it appears as though recent developments have shifted her stance on the matter.
https://watcher.guru/news/treasury-secretary-says-to-expect-a-slow-decline-in-us-dollar-as-reserve-currency
Abp. Viganò: Cdl. Gregory’s silence on DC ‘Pride Mass’ a ‘betrayal of Christ’s teaching’
Today at Holy Trinity Parish, run by the Jesuits of Georgetown University in the Archdiocese of Washington, a Mass will be celebrated for “Catholic” activists of the LGBT movement.
For years – ever since he was Archbishop of Atlanta – Wilton Daniel Gregory has been abusing his power to promote the homosexual agenda, much to the scandal of the Catholic faithful. His monomaniacal fixation on the vice against nature earned him the sacred purple (i.e., the cardinalate) and appointment to the See of Washington, D.C., a worthy heir to McCarrick and Wuerl, thus confirming that betrayal of Christ’s teaching is regarded in Bergoglio’s Vatican as a prerequisite for an ecclesiastical career.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-cdl-gregorys-silence-on-dc-pride-mass-a-betrayal-of-christs-teaching/
Up at gma n papap coldwarriors. Ensconced in the garagemahal.
Dad wants to watch the Aussie Rules, it cracks him up.
Cheers, AI!
eaglesoars wrote:
Agreed.
These corrupt bastards look after each other to ensure that they will NEVER be held to account.
Still waiting to see Hillary prep-walked in an orange jumpsuit and manacles. Not holding my breath.
I was turning blue and it was a bad look!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s easy to tell the actual cardinals from the faux-ones. The Faux-cardinals are the ones trailing sulphur fumes and sprouting horns! Cdl Gregory’s betrayal of the Church with the rest of his crew of Jesuit degenerates in DC automatically excommunicate them from the Church. They are no longer Catholic and are just a bunch of degenerate squatters who have taken over Holy Trinity Parish at Georgetown University. They need to be thrown out into the street . Maybe they can open a Trans bar down the street?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Like most shifts in a long held position, the status quo appears solid whilst behind the scenes the whole edifice is hollowed out usually on purpose by operators playing to their own agenda. Then while ‘shock horror’ the whole edifice suddenly implodes to ‘everyone’s surprise’.
The Romans, Orthodox, Dutch, Spanish and Brits were similarly ‘surprised’ when their imperiums seemingly suddenly imploded, much to their surprise. Internal rot, over reach and corruption is the common thread to all of these stories.
coldwarrior wrote:
Who will carry off the laurels this year Cold? Sydney Swans???
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
why is it always the Jesuits?
Oh. I was trying to find out something about residential rental properties and fired up the google machine.
Guess what came back with the answser
ChatGPT
eaglesoars wrote:
The Jesuits were the so called ‘smart ones’. They became corrupt and overly prideful until they were taken down during the Middle Ages, only to be reinstated a century later when they promised to be ‘good’. They lied their arses off and gathered power over the next centuries. The Head of the Jesuit Order wasn’t known as the ‘black pope’ for no reason. Jesuits wore black cassocks and wielded a huge behind the scenes power behind the Popes. There was never a Jesuit Pope however until Francis happened in the mid 2010s when the Jesuits manipulated Benedict XVI out of the way, and isolated him until he died last year. These black garbed cunning bastards need to be disestablished once and for all next time.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I do believe CW was educated by Jesuits – and it was a good education.
So Mike Pompeo is a sludge dweller
(about the 5:40 mark)
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1668747661028081664
Fascinating thread
https://twitter.com/JohnLeePettim13/status/1614178348694904837
As a miner for 40 years I have worked in various mines around the world. Gold, platinum, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil and salt. I’m going to tell you something, and here it is. We will destroy the earth in the name of “Green Energy” Follow along and I will explain
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MiningWatch Canada is estimating that “[Three] billion tons of mined metals and minerals will be needed to power the energy transition” – a “massive” increase especially for six critical minerals: lithium, graphite, copper, cobalt, nickel and rare earth minerals
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Over the next 30 years 7.5 billion of us, we will consume more minerals than the last 70,000 years or the past 500 generations, which is more than all of the 108 billion humans who have ever walked the Earth.
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Mining requires the extraction of solid ores, often after removing vast amounts of overlying rock. Then the ore must be processed, creating an enormous quantity of waste – about 100 billion tonnes a year, more than any other human-made waste stream.
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Purifying a single tonne of rare earths requires using at least 200 cubic meters of water, which then becomes polluted with acids and heavy metals. On top of that, imagine the destruction and energy required to obtain these essential metals:
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18,740 pounds of purified rock to produce 2.2 pounds of vanadium
35,275 pounds of ore for 2.2 pounds of cerium
110,230 pounds of rock for 2.2 pounds of gallium
2,645,550 pounds of ore to get 2.2 pounds of lutecium
Also staggering amounts of ore are needed for other metals.
more at the link
@ eaglesoars:
And I guarantee you that the same people who want “green energy” are also opposed to mining.
@ lobo91:
of course they are.
For these geniuses, it’s unicorn farts or nuthin’
Now THIS should be interesting
The lawsuit against @Walmart & @HyVee on behalf of Marine Bill Salier for refusing to fill his #Ivermectin prescription is being heard tomorrow at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals at 9:30 CDT.
Instructions to listen in & more information about this important case are at the link below.
https://twitter.com/WTPatriotsUSA/status/1669108583815077889
@ lobo91:
hey, now that we’re almost finished with Person of Interest, you got anymore recommendation?
eaglesoars wrote:
shockingly good.
4 years of latin, which does not count as foreign language.
4 years of french, foreign language, 2nd year calculus on graduation. AP philosophy, english, history, biology, chemistry, physics.
a ton of my friends went to college and drank themselves out of school or had to take lower degrees. i left for the army 7 days before graduation.
…
the army was a respite from getting my head kicked in academically, i made it through DLI because i knew how to study, and i guess that was the point of getting my dick kicked in in HS.
one day i’ll let yinz in on why my Ph.D was cancelled and what it was…27 july, 2001 is the crux date.
new, sporty, thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/06/14/the-ashes-the-us-open-my-dads-fathers-day-golf-outing-2023-open/