The Aussies have put the screws to the POMEs and are up 2-nil in the best of 5. The Third test for the Ashes is on this weekend! England
MUST win or be embarrassed at home. The injuries and strain of 2 test matches will start to show.
The Rugby Championship starts for the Southern Hemisphere Teams and the British F-1 Grand Pris is this weekend. A YUGE weekend of sport.
Enjoy This Open.
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update on the ashes later
yeesh.
Douglas Macgregor – One million Russian troops marching to the Polish border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te5uz1cCitA
‘America’s Darkest Secret’: Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19780/sex-trafficking-child-abuse-biden-administration
Ben & Jerry’s Parent Company Loses An Estimated $2.5 Billion After July 4 Tweet About ‘Stolen Indigenous Land’
https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/06/ben-jerrys-unilever-loses-billions-tweet-july-4th/
*snort*
a lovely 1 min video of a polar bear having a spa moment (sound on)
https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1677033540888797189
https://doriangrey1.substack.com/p/pay-no-attention-to-the-crackhead
The list of stuff falling apart around here keeps growing.
We had to replace some trim and siding.
Our dishwasher leaked, rotting through the subfloor.
We have termites.
And our whirlpool tub leaked, giving us black mold.
While the guy was replacing the subfloor, one of the cats got in the floor and got shut in. I’m glad I heard him.
Dishwasher is replaced.
Termite people coming Monday.
If it stops raining we can replace the termite-damaged siding (the rest has been replaced).
We have to wait to hear from the warranty people on the tub/mold.
This crap’s getting old, fast.
@ right_wing2:
what does your insurance look like?
morning y’all
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/08/biden-approves-sending-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine-as-nato-prepares-for-discussions-of-ukraine-entering-alliance/#comments
shits getting old,fast
Well, I’m stumped/astonished. I saw a bird at the feeders that I could swear was a magpie, but slightly smaller. I have searched all over and the the closest match I’ve found is a loggerhead shrike but those are WAY too small. This bird was just smaller than a crow with the typical magpie coloring.
But magpies don’t show up in Tennessee. They’re out west and in Australia.
???
rain of lead wrote:
yeah, I thought cluster bombs were verbotten?
*snort*
Dutch government collapses over immigration policy
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-government-resign-over-asylum-policy-anp-2023-07-07/
AMSTERDAM, July 7 (Reuters) – The Dutch government collapsed on Friday after failing to reach a deal on restricting immigration, which will trigger new elections in the fall.
The crisis was triggered by a push by Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s conservative VVD party to limit the flow of asylum seekers to the Netherlands, which two of his four-party government coalition refused to support.
“It’s no secret that the coalition partners have differing opinions about immigration policy. Today we unfortunately have to conclude that those differences have become insurmountable. Therefore I will tender the resignation of the entire cabinet to the king,” Rutte said in a televised news conference.
Rutte is no conservative, he’s a globalist and has been for decades. This was deliberate. What ever happened to Geert Wilders?
As China ramps up military activity, Pentagon looks to accelerate networked warfare tech and exercises
The U.S. is working to retain “decision advantage” in the Pacific, in anticipation of a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/07/china-ramps-military-activity-pentagon-looks-accelerate-networked-warfare-tech-and-exercises/388315/
wait – data stored in China?
The fix is in for 2024.
Democrats will use the same gameplan they used in 2020. Nominate an unpopular candidate, campaign from the basement, hold few rallies with 20-30 people, mail out millions of ballots, insert drop boxes, use voting machines, late night ballot deliveries after the deadline, keep adding votes to the totals for days after the election, block GOP workers from the counting rooms, and several states use systems that store data in China…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/fix-is-joe-biden-has-no-campaign-headquarters/
This is all I could find
American software biz CEO arrested for allegedly storing election data in China
Eugene Yu, CEO of Michigan-based software firm Konnech, has been arrested at the request of the Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, as part of an investigation into the theft or mishandling of personal information.
Yu’s company makes software called PollChief and has a five-year $2.9 million contract with the City of Los Angeles, which uses the code to manage and pay poll workers during elections.
According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office (LACDAO), Yu was arrested after investigations allegedly determined that personal information submitted to PollChief was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China, in contravention of contractual requirements.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/05/konnech_election_software_china/
Rather quiet here like it is below.
@ rightymouse:
summer. everybody’s outside. I just happen to be on the deck at the moment supervising Psycho Puppy as she terrorizes the people walking the trail next to the house
@ eaglesoars:
Gascón is an asshole.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Well, yes, but what are you referring to?
@ eaglesoars:
Your post that mentioned him.
If Gascón requested it, there’s something else going on.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oh. Got it. Nice catch.
@ eaglesoars:
Too much of it we don’t want to file a claim because it’d bump our rates or even make it impossible to get insurance.
@ right_wing2:
Your state has a regulatory agency that oversees insurance companies. Check with that agency and find out what the rules are.
We had a false auto insurance claim filed against us that we were completely unaware of. Until we got a notice from our insurance company that they were raising our rates. AND they added points to BOTH our licenses. I took a day off work to track down what had happened and in the end got one guy fired [I don’t want to mention is name but his initials are DAVID STRINE, a useless lying bastard if there ever was one] and a written apology from one of the VPs. I returned his letter with a dime taped to it and a note I wrote on it. THE LAST DIME YOU WILL EVER GET FROM US.
That’s because when I got the state regulatory agency involved all hell broke loose and everybody straightened up and flew right. It was glorious. One of my better moments.
So be sure to contact them and find out what your rights are. Because the way you are seeing it now, you might as well not carry insurance at all.
@ rightymouse:
@ eaglesoars:
Standard summer stuff.
I’m on deck, after work watching the NZ v Argies rugby.
Had to avoid my phone all day at work
And in the latest Harry and Meghan news – they’re strapped for $$$. Neil Sean, a great reporter, is saying that ITV (the woke channel in the UK) is offering mega bucks for Harry to appear on that jungle survival show, I forget what it’s called.
Lady C did it, she needed the money to fix the roof on her castle, and Mike Tindall has done it just for the helluva it.
Stay tuned. As Neil sez “When I know more, you’ll know more”
yer welcome
@ eaglesoars:
This is like watching train wreck in really low speed with very high definition
a wonderful pic, bunk!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bates_(cricketer)
all ’round sportsman. 24 years as a first class cricketer.
now for the round up of this busy weekend.
new zealand went to argie land to play rugby, the argies have beat the legendary all blacks twice in 3 years, once in New Zealand. isn’t that right, aussie infidel….
southern hemisphere rugby championship
yeah, well…NZ trounced las pumas in argieland, dominating all aspects of play.
and, well, some team who was wearing the national rugby team aussie jerseys went to south africa to play the biggest, badest team in rugby, the springbocks. i wont belabour the point. Australia need to not send a bunch of punters, they lost YUGE. i would hang my head in shame if i were an aussie.
on to cricket. Australia are 2-nil up in the best of 5 in the greatest test series in cricket. tomorrow is the final day of test 3, England were 27/0 at play stoppage because of bad light today at Headingly. They need 224 tomorrow and have all day and all of their batters to do it. the aussies need to take all 10 of england’s wickets. this should set up like a t-20 match, aggressive bowlers will dictate aggressive batters. The aussies have nothing to loose so they will be bowling like madmen. If england keep their cool, they should have this in the bag by tea, making it 2-1 aussies.
AND!!!
F1 is on from famed Silverstone in England.
SHOCKINGLY, the lowly Mclarens are 2 and 3 on the grid. this is astounding!
red bull with verstappen is 1 of course, they are almost unbeatable.
MCCLAREN!!! a blast from the past! this is YUGE. seriously, if yinz have ESPN, watch THIS race at 10 AM sunday. this is going to a great race!
coldwarrior wrote:
Actually, it has been a great help to many people who have been victims of narcissists but had no idea what they were dealing with and thought everything was their fault or that they could fix it somehow. There are cases of suicide of partners of these people because they just could not take it anymore.
It’s a very tough life to get sucked into the world of one of these people. My sister went thru it. It’s not easy to ‘diagnose’ as there is a spectrum, as there is in autism, so some narcissists are very self-aware, and others, like Meghan, a mid-range, are totally clueless. She has no idea there is anything ‘wrong’ with her, nor will she ever be capable of doing so.
There is a youtube channel by someone who goes by HG Tudor. He claims to be an ULTRA narcissist who was forced into therapy by his family who threatened to slap him into an institution if he didn’t get help. There is no way to verify that but his output on the personality disorder is massive and fabulous. I’ve been thru most of it. Gobsmacking.
Meghan CANNOT feel. She can mimic. What causes it? A common denominator is some kind of abandonment. We know who mother disappeared for about 10 years and the consensus is that she was in prison, either for tax fraud or drug violations. A genetic component is suspected. AND her father, who spoiled her beyond rotten.
The bottom line is that it is a defense mechanism. The greatest need is for control because lack of control means they can’t get the ‘fuel’ they need for self-validation and the lack of that fuel is psychologically equivalent to death.
Here is the link to HG Tudor’s ‘knowledge vault”
https://tudorhg.gumroad.com/
and in other sport,
the puti…now 14, had her first practice for the varsity golf team.
funny story, so, me and mrs coldwarrior dropped off the puti for first practice at 10am, we then proceeded into to lovely club house and enjoyed a g&t. at the time to pick up the puti, we arrived early and had another g&t.
mrs coldwarrior laughed at us. no, i told her, this isnt softball or cheerleading, this is golf and there are certain traditions that MUST be followed. mrs coldwarrior is russian/ukie/soviet…has been a member of a CC for over 20 years but still doesn’t quite get IT yet. where there is golf, there is booze. we then bought the coach a drink for his efforts that day.
(where there is ice, there is civilation, where there is gin, english is spoken)
the puti, well…she has been getting lessons from a former pga pro, the owner of our cc, now onto the coach’s response to us on her first 9 holes with ‘the team’:
the coach was very impressed, the puti was consistent, long off the tees, crap in mid irons, average on approach, great at putting.
she’s the only chick on the team and scored #5 out of 10.
a freshman girl…her first round
@ coldwarrior:
she was vexed that she lost her favorite golf ball by slicing it into the lake.
precious.
coldwarrior wrote:
how do you have a favorite golf ball? I thought they were all pretty interchangeable assuming they’re all from the same company
eaglesoars wrote:
lol
this was her first round. she has only been on the range.
live play!
eaglesoars wrote:
and well…no.
ballz are crazy different
@ eaglesoars:
golf reality just smacked her in the face.
@ coldwarrior:
Hubby loved it. I played but I found it boring. The most interesting course I played was Mahoghany Bay at St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. I simply could not ‘get’ what direction I was supposed to shoot the ball. People were all over the place shooting thru and I could not see the tee. One time, Hubby took me to some kind of range and my ball ended up in a sand trap. I gather I was supposed to hit it out of there onto the green but that seemed stupid so I picked it up and just rolled it out onto the green like it was a bowling ball.
But I did love those places where you could buy a bucket of balls and just smack the bejeesus out of them for distance. That’s great fun and I loved it.
Yeah, I’m utterly useless. Also I’m going to bed. Nite
@ coldwarrior:
POMeS at the bat, need 170 after drinks. 82-2.
I don’t see how England loses. It’ll be 2-1 for the series
eaglesoars wrote:
the thing about golf, founded by a bunch of scots neo-calvanist presbyterians, is that it is the single most democratizing measure of a person ever. at the berlin cc, i had a 6 (down to 2 in late summer) handicap. that is shockingly good, 2-6 over par. i once got a 69 on that par 72. 3 under.
i was a lowly e-4. part of the e4 mafia. the army wasnt going to be my career, so…enjoy the trappings of the cc to the fullest. this lowly 20 year old e4 short timer was sought out by the other members, generals, colonels, senior vp’s, diplomats, and ceo’s. why, because this 20 yo was much much better than them and they wanted to play with me to get better. they wanted me on their teams when visiting ViPs showed up, they wanted me on their teams for the club championships and outings.
a 20 yo e4 playing weekly with the commanding general of berlin brigade and the senior vp of bmw motorcycle? yep. for three years.
all army golf courses have a brass strip at the front door with the inscription: “RANK STOPS HERE”. and it is serious. fines are handed out if rank is even mentioned. there are ejections from the club if someone ‘pulls rank’. handicap dictates the pecking order. i was the #3 best out of hundreds.
at my ‘expensive’ CC, hell, i’m a medium earner! i cant afford some of the cars that get parked there. yeah, well…i have an 8 handicap from the back (pro) tees. the members call the clubhouse to see if i am golfing that day and if they can go out with me. i gladly take their buck or so a hole and offer some pointers.
when i got back from the army, my membership and bar bill at ambridge cc (at the time a very exclusive, very private club) was paid for by my buddy’s granddad with the agreement that i always was on his team and would give him lessons. the irony is now that ACC is privately owned and public now, i still golf there a ton too and the same stuff happens.
golf is the only democratizing and leveling sport out there.
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of
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TikTok boat jumping challenge that sees people jump off vessels moving at high speed is blamed for FOUR deaths in Alabama – as cop says victims broke their necks instantly
Officials in Alabama have said that a recent rise in the number of deaths on boats has been down to a TikTok trend
Footage posted on TikTok shows numerous individuals throwing themselves into the wake of a boat at high speed
Rescue teams say the trend has claimed the lives of four people, including a father, in the past few months alone
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12278925/TikTok-boat-jumping-challenge-blamed-FOUR-deaths-Alabama-cop-says-victim-broke-necks.html
I was a pretty good water skier, and I can tell you hitting water at high speed is like hitting cement.
Gawd, this is delicious. Watching their heads explode is like beautiful fireworks on the 4th of July
US podcast misinformation goes largely unchecked
The Brookings Institution found “War Room” from former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon has aired the most false statements, amassing more than 135 million downloads while promoting allegations of vote rigging in the 2020 US election.
Commentator Joe Rogan, whose podcast is the most popular on Spotify, has also used his platform to push unproven Covid-19 treatments.
Analysts say people seek out the shows that reaffirm their own beliefs. But the intimate, conversational format also helps enable the spread of rampant misinformation.
https://news.yahoo.com/us-podcast-misinformation-goes-largely-013110041.html
Embrace the suck
This had better be stopped and fast
Jeremy Hunt ‘denied a bank account by Monzo’ with Chancellor joining other politicians in being blocked due to controversial anti-money laundering rules – as Nigel Farage repeats demand for Government action
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12279905/Jeremy-Hunt-denied-bank-account-Monzo-amid-row-anti-money-laundering-rules.html
There are growing concerns about action being taken by banks in relation to so-called ‘Politically Exposed Persons’.
The Treasury has demanded swift action from banking watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, over its guidance on PEPs.
MPs have expressed fears that customers’ accounts are being closed because of their political views.
Ex-Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage is currently waging a furious fightback against what he claims is ‘serious political persecution’ by British banks.
He has claimed Coutts have closed his account and nine other banks have refused him as a customer after he was deemed a PEP.
‘It feels like hot acid on the skin’: Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle, where Harry Potter was filmed, unveils ‘most venomous plant in the world’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12279745/Poison-Garden-Alnwick-Castle-unveils-venomous-plant-world.html
The gympie gympie has a sting so strong it can kill humans – and has even led to people taking their own lives to relieve the pain caused by it.
Of COURSE it’s native to…Australia. Everything in that country tries to kill you.
Oh, sweet
Indigenous Chief Wants To Take Back Ben & Jerry’s HQ Built on ‘Stolen’ Land
An Indigenous tribe descended from the Native American nation that originally controlled the land in Vermont the Ben & Jerry’s headquarters is located on would be interested in taking it back, its chief has said, after the company publicly called for “stolen” lands to be returned.
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation—one of four descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont—told Newsweek it was “always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands,” but that the company had yet to approach them.
It comes after the ice cream company was questioned as to when it would give up its Burlington, Vermont, headquarters—which sits on a vast swathe of U.S. territory that was under the auspices of the Abenaki people before colonization.
https://www.newsweek.com/ben-jerrys-headquarters-vermont-indigenous-chief-stolen-land-1811532
Australians are warned to make bookings if they want to make cash withdrawals as banks go digital
ANZ & NAB no longer permit withdrawals
Banks are shifting to the digital age
QLD woman was denied cash by her bank
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12269623/Banks-ANZ-NAB-no-longer-permit-large-cash-withdrawals-customers-told-book.html
But RateCity research director Sally Tindall said the major banks were now advising customers to call a branch beforehand if more than $10,000 in cash was needed to buy a used car, so they could give banknotes to sellers wary about PayID scams.
I don’t know what PayId is but I think it’s a bullshit reason
eaglesoars wrote:
How can people be this stupid?
rightymouse wrote:
Quiet again downstairs. Was supposed to rain this afternoon here in NE Ohio, but the weather forecast now says ‘no rain’. Alrighty then!
rightymouse wrote:
Darwin.
And this is on my NOPE list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9aFyPCJgwQ
pregnancy and giving birth in arctic. north nomads life
10 min video. These are the reindeer people. Seriously, they could use some central heating.
So, I encountered the whole bank denying a purchase thing this week. USAA routinely denies transactions at Dispensaries apparently. First time I ever purchased something at one and it was denied. Guy working there says his wifes is denied every time and she’s also USAA.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
what is that?
coldwarrior wrote:
That was a nice ankle tap by Sam Cane the AB’s Captain, on that Argie ‘pitch invader’ post match
🙂
The Argie plonker invades the pitch gets taken out by the AB’s captain and is then apologised to after the incident and given an AB jersey in reparation. The invader wasn’t even charged with assaulting Sam Cane’s boot!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
The Pharmacy !
@ Aussie Infidel:
here we call them ‘drug stores’. And as it was capitalized I’m thinking a brand name
eaglesoars wrote:
PayID is just the latest battle between banks and scammers who seem to be always one step ahead of banks when it comes to digital security. THAT is going to be the fly in the ointment when we all get screwed by the Digitisation of currency that is about to hit us between the eyes. Bank digital cash security is totally INSECURE. These scams are getting more and more sophisticated. PayID is a layer of security for transactions above a bank set level where the customer is texted a one time security code to allow the cash withdrawal to go ahead.
A media guru here’ downunder’ just got scammed for $35,000 with a very believable scam that looked exactly like his bank site. Funds were transferred internally (by ‘Smerfing’ funds just below the triggering level) from various accounts into a savings amount and then transferred internationally to someplace in Rumania … never to be seen again. This shit happens a lot and will only increase as we get digital cash pushed onto us.
SPIT
@ Aussie Infidel:
I understand the concern, but the fact remains that the money DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM – it belongs to the depositors.
Look at this. Almost a quarter mil $ for what is basically a shed
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3313-Bishop-St_Knoxville_TN_37921_M96797-47708
eaglesoars wrote:
Ahhh the Brookings Institute ….. that was involved in an attempt to seize a whole country back in the day. Tonga a Pacific nation and independent Royal Nation State. Brookings, the CIA (with attendant staff Buzz cut guys in flowery shirts … call me Hank (you just can’t write this sort of shit) Melbourne Mafia enforcer types, Chinese intel ‘eavesdropping’ ships listening in from just off Tonga…. and one of my former IntOps who was also a journalist who was actually just on holiday (he REALLY WAS ON HOLIDAY) , stumbled into this attempted putsch. My IntOp got grabbed off the street thrown in the slammer for 2 weeks declared ‘personna non grata’ and deported from Tonga. Folks were getting kidnapped off the street by the Mafia types. The ‘call me Hank’ types from the CIA looked confused, and the Brookings types were after Tonga’s oil resources and the use of Tonga’s Nationhood and location as cover for moving South American coke globally. My IntOp was actually just on holiday but the rumpus caused by his arrest attracted the MSM who flew in, in droves, when the story of the putsch leaked out. Brookings, the CIA, the Chinese and the Melbourne Mafia plus the government Ministers involved in the putsch took freight and flew back to their respective bases.
Brookings was deeply involved as was Nughan Hand Bank. Straight out of an amateur hour plot line. Bloody unbelievable.
eaglesoars wrote:
Very true BUT the banks exposure to digital scams draws a huge target on their backs as their ‘duty of care’ holding other peoples’ money makes them liable for class action legal problems. We still have a way to go before the banks can shift blame away from themselves, as currency goes digital….. whoever it belongs to and whoever is supposed to be guarding it.
coldwarrior wrote:
The POMEs won by 3 wickets .
That’ll be great for the last two Tests.
Frankly I’d like to see a final fifth Test Match played at The Oval with two Tests each for an exciting Ashes Series win for the Aussies.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Specifically pot shops here. Decided to try an edible for my migraines. Didn’t work, still had the migraine, still had the horrible knee pain I’ve recently developed. All it did was make me relaxed (at first), incredibly tired, and then when I tried to go to bed I got bed spins everytime I closed my eyes.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Oh, and nausea.
Ok, I have a strange food craving lately. Back after Desert Storm I got addicted to Russian Blini’s at the base cafeteria in Kuwait. (UN base, also didn’t know what the hell they were until last year, just knew they were giant, thin pancake thingies.) Loved them but can’t get them anywhere. Asian Roti hits the mark a little bit, but no luck on the Blini. Maybe the Russian Tea House in town would special make them if I beg.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/9-injured-in-mass-shooting-in-cleveland-mayor-bibb-blames-republicans-as-police-search-for-the-suspect
9 injured in mass shooting in Cleveland; Mayor Bibb blames Republicans as police search for the suspect
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
The suspect is a black male who may have had a gold grill in his mouth, Chief Drummond said, adding that officials do have some leads. He said they have no indication from their investigators regarding what may prompted the shooting.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
how much you wanna bet they’re into fentanyl now?
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
do you know if you have food triggers?
I got migraines for awhile after my accident and the neuro gave me a med to stop them, had to take it w/in 20 mins of onset. Metoprolol maybe? Worked like a charm.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup
Coke is so last century now!
Hey the quacks here gave me Fentanyl plus a hypnotic (whose name I can’t remember …. heh! 🙂 )when they did a failed TOE probe down my gullet! So they then tried a $2500 CAT scan instead but they missed the whole object of the exercise so they have to dot it all over again but it was their cock-up so I don’t have today again. And to add insult to injury for the first time in my life i was allergic to something! The dye they pumped into me!
Bloody Quacks!
🙂
today = to pay
I really hate predictive!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
when my mom was dying she got fentanyl patches and they made her life SO much easier. A patch on her back next to her spine every six hours. Neither my sister nor I were permitted to apply them, the hospice nurses had to do it, because it’s so potent. They wore gloves and took them with them whenever they left the house. AND the packaging. They were very clear. DO NOT TOUCH THIS IT CAN KILL YOU.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
probably valium.
I got it after the last brain surgery. Loved it. Oh, everything is SO BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY AND YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND THIS ROOM IS GORGEOUS AND…AND..AND…
It was hilarious. It was dispensed with another drug, demerol, an opiod. I was one happy camper.
The pain mgmt was superb. Only once did I have to complain, when I was in pain about 2 hrs before the next dose was scheduled and the nursing staff withheld it. I asked them to call the doc and he went ballistic. GIVE HER WHAT SHE NEEDS WHEN SHE NEEDS IT. He had actually written that in the orders but everyone was so gun shy of the ‘opiod/addiction’ thing they balked. So I got it. About 4 hours later – it must have been 2 am – he comes BLOWING into my room – in bloody scrubs – to check on me. Woke me up. “Are you getting your pain meds? Yes? Ok, go back to sleep, I’ll have someone check on you later this morning, he’s one of my interns, Dr. X, if there’s anything you need tell him, I’ll hear about it.”
Dr X showed up right on time, nervous as a cat. DON’T FUCK THIS UP was all over his face. ARE YOU GETTING YOUR PAIN MEDS?
It was great.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not really. Everything else is a trigger though. Sunlight, air pressure, my headphones.
@ eaglesoars:
I should say my doctor was Michael Dennis. It was just a few years ago I found out he was one of the attending surgeons when Reagan was shot.
I think he’s probably passed away by now. But he saved my life. 3 times. The first surgery, a glycerol injection, was not successful and I woke up in the middle of the night to find him at my bedside fiddling with some machine and doing something with my arm.
My blood pressure had TANKED. He sat with me for 3 hours, monitoring some machine and doing something with one of those IV bottle thingies.
I’M HERE WITH YOU, DON’T YOU LEAVE ME
I will never forget him. When the seizures started years later, he was adamant. “We are going to fix this, it’s temporary, I promise” I asked him to define ‘temporary’. 5 years max. It was 2.
One of the great blessings of my life, and I’m sure of many others’ lives.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
???
When I had migraines I had to be in a dark room. but sunlight was never a TRIGGER.
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t know it could be something else, since some days I can be out in the sun all day with no problem and others my eyes start to feel strained and boom I’m out with a headache.
I wish CW was here. I’m curious why I had a negative reaction to THC. Everyone talks about how great it is, but my experience was terrible.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
So was mine.
I don’t know if your remember Yenta Fada but she was incredibly ill for DECADES and in a lot of pain. She lived in Toronto.
She tried it.
The pain got worse and she was sick as a dog.
She went the assisted suicide route in Oct 2021 I think.
I’m going to bed. nite.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
maybe you need glasses?
FWIW
New Study Finds Zero Amish Children Diagnosed with Cancer, Diabetes or Autism
https://theleadingreport.com/2023/07/09/new-study-finds-zero-amish-children-diagnosed-with-cancer-diabetes-or-autism/
But the separated communities didn’t avoid catching the virus, however, as roughly 90% of the Amish have been infected with Covid.
yeah, I don’t trust that stat either, as I was diagnosed w/covid and what I had was e. coli. Because the hospital got $$ for the covid diagnosis.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Blini are very easy to make.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Too high a dose and/or the wrong strain. This is fairly complicated.
@ coldwarrior:
Use this, the pancake recipe. Puddings need two eggs, the pancake/crepe version uses one egg and I find using 300ml water instead of the 250ml makes thinner pancakes.
British st5ylepancakas are served topped with gravy or stew or even as a desert lemon or orange juice ( real ) and castor sugar.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0072B8FIY
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/215962/blini-russian-pancakes/
Use half a lemon juiced in place of citric acid.
@ Possum:
I make my puds from scratch. Yorkshire pudding is brilliant.
eaglesoars wrote:
Just got new ones. It’s been happening most of my life.
This is SO bad. This is taxing ‘unrealized capital’ by the back door
The Supreme Court Should Strike a Blow Against Wealth Taxes
Moore v. United States looks at a provision in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). One of the ways that legislators offset the foregone revenue from tax cuts was through a one-time “deemed” repatriation of earnings from U.S. citizens’ shares of foreign corporations.
Put simply, the deemed repatriation provision acted as if Americans with shares in foreign corporations (above a minimum threshold) had received a dividend representing their share of that corporation’s profits going back to 2006. Never mind that they hadn’t received this dividend — the TCJA treated them as if they had.
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2023/07/03/the_supreme_court_should_strike_a_blow_against_wealth_taxes_963501.html
This explains the letters we got from our investment company saying the SEC required them to report our holdings and what percentage was ‘foreign’. And I had to do the research, fill out these forms and return the forms to them.
I told them to piss up a rope, doing the job the SEC required THEM to do wasn’t on my bingo card. Our financial guy put it more professionally after I got done with them – CLIENT REFUSES – but neither he nor we knew what it was about.
Now we do. Taxing our foreign holdings regardless of whether we had made a profit.
Be Aware.
@ Possum:
Oh, and as an explanation an English pancake is nothing like an American pancake.
Other4 than being round and flat….
Fun fact….
I kind of have three cats. I leave the door open so they can have their freedom but when I go to bed I cannot really sleep until they are all indoors then I close the door and we all snuggle.
Today one of the cats was doing the meowling thing indicating the food dish was only half full.
Went to fix the problem and noticed the cat standing by the food dish was not my cat!
coldwarrior wrote:
Will’s Cigarettes inserts had some good stuff, including how to build bomb shelters and what to do with incendiary devices.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/03/16/wills-cigarette-cards-civilian-defense-tips-in-wwii-britain/
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/03/23/more-wills-cigarette-cards-civilian-defense-tips-in-wwii-britain/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Excellent!
Thank you for that. Perfect
coldwarrior wrote:
Someday I’d love to collect cigar silks.
https://www.ebay.com/b/Collectible-Tobacco-Felts-Silks/38041/bn_2310737
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Very cool. Didn’t know about them.
Longtime blogger acquaintance has an eclectic mix of blues from the 1920s to the present. He’s west coast Aussie, Perth I think, and we don’t talk politics.
https://archivee.podbean.com/page/2/
Kid harassed by teachers for wearing an American flag to school doubles down.:D
https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1678329693412491265
Test post from my phone
It worked!
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
https://brownstone.org/articles/best-selling-author-michael-lewis-pens-cia-covid-propaganda/
Know your enemy folks!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
That’s a change for Lewis, he’s usually a muck racker
you know, I’m ready to rumble over this bullshit
Biden’s TOP Paid Staffer is Christ-Desecrating, Occultist ‘Monkeypox Co-ordinator’.
The White House payroll has hit historic highs under President Joe Biden, and the most highly remunerated staff member is his Monkeypox Co-ordinator Demetre Daskalakis, who The National Pulse first revealed as a Satan-and-occult-obsessed gay man who recently donned bondage gear for a speech at a biomedical conference. Daskalakis, who is 50 this year, joined Biden’s White House staff less than a year ago. In that brief time, he has earned himself a salary of $260,718 – the highest in the White House apart from the President himself.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/11/bidens-top-paid-staffer-is-christ-desecrating-occultist-monkeypox-co-ordinator/
This is a very odd URL, but the info is critical.
How to Survive a Blackout in a Heat Wave
No matter where you live, you should be prepared to live without power during extreme heat.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fheatmap.news%2Fclimate%2Fheat-wave-blackout-power-outage
This is hilarious but I haven’t confirmed
I am hearing rumors that Harry is planning to sue the NY POST for publishing pics of the them at the July 4 parade in Monticeto. The pics were taken by Backgrid the photog clothe photog company that took those damning pics of the fake car chase in NYC H&M demanded they turn over all the pics and BBackgrid told them to fuck right off
Sorry for the typos I’m on my phone
eaglesoars wrote:
Been there done that for real in Sydney back in the day around 1960 when Sydney had a week of temperatures that maintained a daily max around 110F- 115F dropping to around 100F at night. I was just a kid and we moved our mattresses onto the front lawn and sat under tables and chairs on the lawn with sheets draped over them soaked in water. We kids thought it was fantastic as we stayed up late playing with the other families who all retreated from their houses to sleep outside where we kids were playing. The sheets dried out in about 30 minutes but you’d just throw a bucket of water over them and it was quite cool sleeping like that.
eaglesoars wrote:
Fill up your bath and tap into your hot water cylinder and fill as many water containers as soon as the heat arrives and BEFORE the power and therefore the WATER and sewerage goes south as well. Use your toilets ONLY for peeing in and just disinfect them when they get a bit stinky. Use a covered Black garden bag for shitting into and keep it buried in a hole at the farthest point away from the house, with a disinfectant ‘Castalare bottle’ and roll of toilet paper on a forked stick with a jam can on the top to keep the paper dry. Erect a hessian privacy wall on 4 sticks around the ‘throne’ ( AKA the Long Drop) so as to not lower property values too much!
Husband your water!
A week like that you can do standing on your head!
🙂
Oh and we had a cold box too to keep our food cool as the ‘frig defrosted after a few days even with limited door opening and letting the hot air in. Just use a baking tray full of water sitting in the shade with a wooden bread cutting board sitting on eggcups in the water. Then put a chair with the legs in the tray and an old sheet with loads of strips hanging down in the water wicking the water up as it evaporated. The food to be kept cold sat on the bread cutting board. You’d be surprised how cool it gets on a really hot day with loads of evaporative cooling.
We were all country families and knew how to stay cool in REALLY HOT weather with no power.
morning y’all
ya know…this has been a very cool,mild and wet spring/summer
huh
https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/brics-countries-planning-new-gold-backed-currency-202307101739
huh
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/11/farmers-insurance-company-pulls-out-of-florida-another-100000-policies-will-not-be-renewed/
@ rain of lead:
which is why my sister left Florida and moved back to Alabama. Her condo and auto insurance just skyrocketed by thousands per year. Some of it is due to the hurricanes but I think they cited a second reason that I don’t remember.
I don’t understand why DeSantis is being blamed in that article
Aussie Infidel wrote:
In the summer when we’d visit my mom’s parents in New Orleans, she’d wrap us in wet sheets when we went to bed.
Sick bastards
California Assembly committee blocks bill that could have sent human traffickers of kids to prison for life
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-assembly-committee-blocks-bill-making-human-traffickers-kids-prison-life
eaglesoars wrote:
Sister sez it’s because of all the lawsuits. That the insurance companies bring on themselves. There’s something called ‘assignment of benefits’. People hire contractors to repair their houses after a storm and the insurance companies paid the contractors directly instead of giving the money to the homeowners. So, of course, the contractors inflated the cost of the job, etc., and you can see where that’s going. And MAYBE they did the actual work.
I remember when our house in VA caught fire (elec in the furnace) and the smoke damage was – jeez. But the guy from the insurance company came over once a week to talk to the restoration people, view the work and talk to me.
Normally this map shows where the action is.
https://news.usni.org/2023/07/10/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-july-10-2023
Looks like the Navy pulled out of the South China Sea – China and Russia are preparing to conduct exercises in the region, and this:
https://news.usni.org/2023/07/07/philippine-forces-spots-48-chinese-fishing-vessels-guarded-by-warships-in-its-eez
Nothing projects power like running away.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
BUTTT …. but …..
The USN pronouns are a work of art!
That should scare the PLAN (Chinese Navy)
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
somewhere today I saw that a lot of the navy’s ships are undergoing repair/maintenance. I think it said 40%.
I don’t know if anybody caught Matt Gaetz just TORCHING Chris Wray this morning. He was pounding on him about the lack of trust the FBI has now, and Wray thought he’d trip Matt up by telling him more Floridians had signed up for the FBI than ever (Florida being Matt’s state)
Gaetz sez: And we’re deeply proud of them, but they deserve better than YOU
total mic drop
@ eaglesoars:
Boom.
Oh, will ya lookie here…..
Ray Epps is finally going to be charged over his J6 involvement. He blames Fox news and Tucker Carlson.
https://twitter.com/15poundstogo/status/1679257792052330496
If I were Mr. Epps, I’d be thinking JEFFREY EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF because SOMEBODY doesn’t want him to talk – ever.
Which also means the J6 committee is getting close and whoever handled Epps has decided he’s a liability.
eaglesoars wrote:
That rattling sound you can hear are Xi’s knees knocking together!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I doubt it. Not after Joe’s performance at NATO. off to bed, nite
Kamala Harris: “AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all it has two letters”
Good lord, who knew the woman could count?
@ eaglesoars:
She can’t be real.
@ coldwarrior:
Well, maybe she’s an AI prototype! Back to the lab you guys!
eaglesoars wrote:
proof
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1679181653887811588
oh, burn
Michigan hair salon refuses transgender customers, says to ‘seek services at local pet groomer’
https://nypost.com/2023/07/13/michigan-hair-salon-claims-it-will-ban-transgender-customers/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost
coldwarrior wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
Kamala isn’t real. She’s a cardboard cut out driven by an AI prototype. Notice how most of the AI is currently been manufactured with the LIE Chip attached. Auto-destruct is already embedded!
🙂
Matariki public holiday this long weekend to celebrate the beginning of the Maori New Year with the Pelades star group (AKA The Matariki) peeping above the NW horizon this night. Last year was a trial run but this time it’s full Hard Left Pagan Maori quasi-religious BS. Still not sure which stream is taking precedent. The re-establishment of full on paganism , the hard communist left push, the fascist destroy the white oppressors schtick, the let’s replace modern science with Maori morons running the schools science and maths programs, to let’s break NZ up along racial lines and have a civil war BS. All driven by a microscopic group of Maori radicals out to destroy Western governance establish an unelected ‘co-governance’ Maori elite and make loads of $$$$ for themselves on the side.
SPIT
🙂
How does this happen. In addition to my yahoo mail account, I have a gmail account I rarely use.
So I checked in today and there’s a msg from Google dated June 6, subject “Your photo reached 20,000 views. Let’s celebrate the impact!”
wha?
Open the email and as god is my witness – it’s a picture of Mia I took in Apr of 2000 when she was 18 mos old, snuggled up in my bed. At the top of the pic is a link to the vet in Virginia we used.
I never put that pic on the internet, I wouldn’t know how. I DID email it to a few friends but I did that thru my yahoo mail account (which is listed as backup email on my gmail account)
How does this happen?
Vietnam all over again
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready
Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/07/13/ordering-the-selected-reserve-and-certain-members-of-the-individual-ready-reserve-of-the-armed-forces-to-active-duty/
How do I paste a link from my phone that has been copied to my clipboard?
@ eaglesoars:
Test https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/07/06/its-headingly-cricket-grounds-match-3-of-the-ashes-2023-open/
@ Possum:
on Android hold your finger on a blank part of the reply box for about a second and a paste option appears
https://pagesix.com/2023/07/12/rfk-jr-press-dinner-explodes-in-war-of-words-and-farts/
Thanks Possum. Anyhoo this is hilarious
@ Possum:
same on iphone but it is clumsier.
lol yes I have both. An interesting story
RFK Jr. Press Dinner Turns Into ‘Screaming and Polemic Farting’: Report
https://resistthemainstream.com/rfk-jr-press-dinner-turns-into-screaming-and-polemic-farting/?utm_source=twitter
what the hell is ‘polemic farting’?
I’m off to watch a movie.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yep.
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/gravitas.png
😀
Stacy McCain took a potshot!
https://theothermccain.com/2023/07/12/are-you-a-white-nationalist/
Nothing really happening in my world. Woke up at 6:10am and could not go back to sleep.
I had things to do! And by the time I did those things I was wide awake.
What woke me was not the early birdsong, that is a rare sound in central Houston but another animal sound that I know only too well.
bok, bok, Bok, boK, BOk, BOK BOK, Blearguh….
Why do cats always vomit on soft furnishings, as in my bed, instead of puking on the easy to clean floor?
Cats are assholes. But at least I got an early start to my day.
@ Possum:
I quit my job last night about 10pm but didn’t bother to tell them. Gives them time to think about it.
EXCLUSIVE: According to a current senior producer at Fox News there are company-wide layoffs happening right now that no one is reporting on. “Morale miserable across teams on both news and opinion,” the producer says.
Producers are also feeling “insulted” about getting 0 or 1% increases the same week Abby Grossberg got $12m “for helping force out Tucker.”
The source also says shows are getting “frantic, bipolar guidance almost daily on blacklisted and unblacklisted guests, including sitting members of the Senate.”
Stay tuned here for more updates from the chaos unfolding inside Fox.
https://twitter.com/Chadwick_Moore/status/1679933901337182208
EXCLUSIVE: Sources inside Fox have confirmed to me that Fox News has banned sitting members of the U.S. Senate from appearing on the network if that Senator has publicly defended @TuckerCarlson in the aftermath of his cancellation. More to come…
https://twitter.com/Chadwick_Moore/status/1679937485885906944
Yeah, real savvy media moguls, the Murdochs…………
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
why?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Just ensure that they pay you out 100% before you walk slowly away … backwards …. mate!
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I guess if you’re ditching a job then about now are ideal ditching times, as good employees aren’t easy to come by for employers.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
There is nothing more liberating than working for yourself mate.
🙂
why does the guy still have a med license? Never mind, rhetorical..
Pink-haired Portland surgeon who performs sex-change surgery on trans CHILDREN admits they face lifetime of infertility, incontinence and sexual dissatisfaction, in now-deleted video (the vid is in the article)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12299393/Portland-surgeon-dubbed-Dr-Frankenstein-reveals-drawbacks-genital-ops-trans-adolescents.html
Whoa. Watch Tucker demolish Mike Pence’s political career in just over 1 minute. “It’s not my concern”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/14/wow-just-wow-presidential-candidate-mike-pence-says-a-collapsing-usa-is-not-his-concern-supporting-ukraine-is-priority/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wow-just-wow-presidential-candidate-mik
If that had been my child the perv would have been unconscious on the tarmac. LOOK at this video. Sick bastard
President pretends to gobble up little girl before SNIFFING her on the tarmac before leaving Finland – and Twitter has plenty to say about it!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12300283/Joe-Biden-pretends-gobble-little-girl-sniffing-Finland.html
@ eaglesoars:
Assholery. Put in a 14-hour day to make a bullshit deadline while coping with chemo. Crashed out about 4am, got up at 7, wrapped up work and sent it out by 1pm. Totally unnecessary work crunch, but I did it.
Then at 10pm I get a flurry of emails. Dickheads had another worker undo everything I did.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
No problem. I’m a consultant, so if any flags go up on the $10K they owe I’ll slap a lien on the owner’s house.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Been self-employed since 2009. Bit of a roller coaster, but it’s MY rollercoaster.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Now is also a good time to retire and make money doing fun shit.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
HAHAHAHA! Can I watch?
@ eaglesoars:
It won’t get that far.
I don’t have personal animosity, but every time I point out a pile of shit they step in it anyway. Management by crisis (with a huge helping of micromanagement) takes a lot of fun out of it.
eaglesoars wrote:
In fact Tucker just set the stage and Pence fell right into this self constructed policy hole, willingly. Then he remembered that his briefers told him in no uncertain terms, to “NEVER admit that to the public”. It was exactly THEN that Pence stopped being a potential Presidential Candidate.
The ultimate Home Goal!
Moron who sold his soul for his 30 pieces of silver!
SPIT
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Remember mate when a Consultant never … NEVER…. work with folks who are more moronic than the worst corporate you have ever worked with. The idea is that you build your consultancy and improve on the last task, each time you do the next job. Otherwise you are just going backwards and delivering a worse eventual outcome when the corporate refused to take reality as a positive and learn and improve.
You don’t want to interact with corporates like this. They are toxic and just drag you down to their level and you can congratulate yourself for walking away when you did, before they pollute you with their venom.
Well done that man!
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Now THAT is the smartest thing you’ve said EVER!
🙂
@ lobo91:
https://youtu.be/bpz5jVKyXbg
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Sounds a lot like my former employer, CoreCivic
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:About the same year – 1963. Sonny Boy Williamson II was an asshole.
https://youtu.be/x2An9nyzMW4
eaglesoars wrote:
Your President is a pedo-psycho and believes that his position makes him immune to prosecution for his evil
The SS agent was to Biden’s left and the kid’s father could have broken ‘olde slo’ Joes jaw and put him on the ground before the SS could have acted. It’s be worth striking back on behalf of his daughter. Kids like this poor little waif that was being exploited by his moronic patents, can sense the evil wafting from the likes of Biden. You can see the fear in her eyes as Biden goes in for his mandatory pedo-sniff.
Biden is an evil excuse for a man.
SPIT
eaglesoars wrote:
And the Newsmax guy loses it
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/07/14/newsmax-host-nearly-loses-it-in-coverage-of-biden-nibbling-frightened-young-girl-n776672
But then Schmitt asked that question I think we all want to know: why does this keep happening? Why does Biden keep having this weird behavior with little girls? Why can’t his staff stop him, and if they can’t, how deeply engrained and problematic is this behavior?
“It happens a lot,” Schmitt said. “Here’s a trip down memory lane.”
He then showed multiple different instances of Biden making strange comments including the Corn Pop story, where he talks about kids rubbing his legs when he was an adult lifeguard, saying that a little girl who was about six years old looked like she was about 19.
lobo91 wrote:
Sounds like a corporate I worked with in the coffee marketplace. We dragged them from the #3 in the coffee pecking order to #2. I had to go and wash off the stink they exuded, and promised myself NEVER to work with a crew like that one ever again!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
There IS no excuse
lobo91 wrote:
A name like that tells me all I need to know.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The rebranded Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)
Aussie Infidel wrote:
You’d be amazed at some of the things that fall out of my face.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
did you watch his facial expressions? Nothing but contempt. When Tucker said “You’re running for POTUS” and Pence muttered “I’m glad you noticed”
He fell in a hole, but I don’t think it was a policy hole, I think it was a political class hole. The elites vs. the national populists
About an hour ago
Breaking! Tornado Watch in Chicago Area-O’HARE AIRPORT COMPLETELY EVACUATED- Shelter in Place in Effect
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/breaking-tornado-watch-chicago-area-ohare-airport-completely/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-tornado-watch-chicago-area-ohare-airport-completely
eaglesoars wrote:
Elites such as Pence don’t react only from a position within the elite, when their raison d’être is driven by their agreed Policy positions, that denigrate the general polity and consider them below the so called ‘illuminated elites’.
This is not only a pecking order position, vis a vie, the self proclaimed elitists and the hoi poloi, but more to the point, a Policy position that also incorporates not only the elites’ membership position, but also their Policy positions. Elites can even come and go, but their core policies remain set in stone. Biden, Pelosi and Pence et al can move in and out of the elites’ numbers on a whim, but it’s their Policy position that ensures the elites continuity of purpose.
Aussie Infidel wrote:continuity of purpose.
That’s the key right there. Without that the machine doesn’t keep steamrolling along. Both parties are sending us to hell in a handbasket, the only disagreement is the speed to which we arrive.
We just got home from seeing the new Mission Impossible movie, Dead Reckoning. Great fun (and VERY loud!). It’s part one of a 2 part series so we hope part 2 is just as good. Very interesting premise. An AI got lose and wants to take over the world. A key controls it. Everybody is after the key for the power, except Ethan Hunt. He wants to kill it.
The action is completely over the top. I have no idea how these sequences were filmed without people getting killed. Very long, 2 hrs, 43 mins, but you’re never bored. Cruise’s stunts are terrific.
Just peachy.
I paid my sister’s outstanding bills last week so her power and water doesn’t get shut off, and now my checking account is locked due to “suspicious activity.” I’m not about to discuss it over the phone with a Chase rep with a thick accent, and the branch is closed until Monday.
Where did all my karma points go?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
the bank didn’t notify you?
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope. Not until I tried to log in.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
that’s very odd
@ eaglesoars:
Paying someone else’s bills directly from out-of-State probably set off alarms.
Best version I’ve ever heard.
A friend forwarded a link to this substack post, no subscription req’d
Freedom Fox
Writes Freedom Fox
9 hr ago
·
edited 9 hr ago
Some additional Fox insights for Bad Kitty and readers
Supreme Court justices and countless many lower court judges now rely upon Behavioral Science in their rulings. As Chief Justice John Roberts did in his Obamacare (ACA) ruling: https://www.healthaffairs.org/about
Health Affairs is a very influential Behavioral Health publication, not only advising Chief Justices about ACA, but saying things like mask mandates are needed even though masks don’t work – medically, but the symbolism, psychology of the things, that’s what’s needed:
Flu Masks Failed In 1918, But We Need Them Now
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20200508.769108/full/
Because we “suffered” from “optimism bias”:
https://www.wpr.org/what-optimism-bias-and-how-it-affecting-our-response-pandemic
And what Rx cures optimism better than “fear amplification,” like say, seeing snakes and triggering the amygdala fight, flight or freeze response:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/whose-rights-are-they-pre-emptive/comment/20844501
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
That would be my summation too.
It’s not a destination that is in doubt, it’s just the rapidity of our collective arrival. Don’t get too swept up in this craziness however. It’s crafted to look and feel ‘crazy’ to ‘nudge’ us towards just giving up. We’re just observers if the truth be known. It’s all under control and there are going to be a LOT of very upset folks when they are dragged kicking and screaming to face the TRUTH. Protect yourself from the ‘crazies’ by all means but we’ve already won and it’s just about the incidentals now that we are suffering and working through. Narrow ways are always the best path to take. Just don’t sweat it too much even if it is a pain in the butt sometimes.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
As Bongino says:
“Embrace the suck.”
Saw an article on my phone today that the Biden admin is not pivoting to possibly push through their student loan forgiveness through the Income Driven Repayment Plan (which is what I’m on), since the court slapped down it being within Bidens authority to do.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
More on the killer.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/14/gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermann-boasted-about-career-11-years-after-alleged-killings/
Here’s an interview with the now-incarcerated architect. Don’t know why the interviewer keeps laughing, but the guy had a pretty good deal going with the city as a plan check consultant.
https://youtu.be/tbQOcEs3aZg
Got a post coming up. After dinner.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
…the now incarcerated architect…
Words that yinz don’t see placed together everyday…
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38016152/tennessee-vacate-all-11-wins-2019-2020-seasons
Ummm….rain??