ITS AN OPEN THREAD
I was even for week 3, so one down, $900/1000 thus far. My Alma Mater and The Vols broke my heart last week. Here we go:
4 Florida State @ Clemson 12:00 PM. Clemson is not rated, but they are at home in Death Valley, one of the loudest venues in all of sport. It’s on my bucket list to see. The Noles aren’t getting much respect tho, they are only 2 point favorites. I think they can cover.
15 Ole Miss @ 13 Alabama 3:30 PM. That’s right, ‘Bama has a loss and isn’t in the top 10. The press is questioning Nick Saban…yeah…don’t. ‘Bama is a 6 point favorite and covers. Don’t back Saban into a corner, ever.
19 Colorado @ 10 Oregon 3:30 PM. Coach Prime Time takes his flying circus west to the perpetually over-rated Oregon Ducks. This is it, Coach Prime, welcome to the big time! This ain’t Jackson State any more. No one is giving the Buffs a chance, they are 21 point dogs on the road. Colorado has no defense but has an incredible offense. The Ducks have QB Bo Nix. 21 points? Hell, if Colorado covers its a moral victory. If they win? Well, miracles can happen. 21 points…Jeeze…I want them to cover. But. Bet with your mind, not your heart. The Buffs don’t cover. Betting against Coach Prime just seems wrong.
6 Ohio State @ 9 Notre Dame 7:30 PM. The Buckeyes travel to play in front of Touchdown Jesus. ND hasn’t won a championship since they built stands in front of Jesus’s lower half. Coincidence? Nope. OSU will choke later in the season but not today and they cover the 3 point spread. Tear down those stands and you’ll win again, ND.
Rugby World Cup
Last week had no surprises EXCEPT, Fiji beat Australia….oh my! And the Italians are 2-0! South Africa plays #1 rated Ireland at 1500 EST Saturday. Ireland has looked flat and South Africa are always tough. The rest of the matches should be as expected for the top 5. All of the action is on Peacock Network.
SUNDAY! it’s the Caribbean Professional League final on the Willow app. As of now, I have no idea who is in. They are doing the playoffs now.
F1 is in Japan and it’s on at 0100 Sunday AM. I’ll be getting home from work at midnight, we pre-ordered a ton of Sushi to be picked up by Mrs Coldwarrior at 2300 Saturday night, saki and Sapporo’s are also on order.
Have a great weekend!
new thread
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/22/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-getting-indicted-again/
No way. Lol
The Argies manage to get past the Samoans 19 to 10 to stay in contention …. just!
My guess is France is now behind the hard hill with their star and captain out injured. The ABs are in a hard place too with a choice of having to face either the the Irish or the Springboks to get into the final quarters. Both are hard games. I think they would rather face the Boks as they are more the known quantity and the Irish eyes are smiling still! If the plans go the right way it’ll be the ABs over the Boks and meet the Greens in the final!
IF…. things go right!
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HAR!
Trump sent Hubby a coffee mug. With his MUG shot on it and the text NEVER SURRENDUR!
Biden handed major legal defeat in attempt to restrict oil, gas drilling in Gulf of Mexico
Federal judge blasts Biden officials for appearing to weaponize wildlife protection laws to block drilling
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-handed-major-legal-defeat-attempt-restrict-oil-gas-drilling-gulf-of-mexico
A commenter noted that if you want to nuke Chuck Schumerâs absurd new dress code from orbit, all you need is one Republican showing up on the Senate floor with a hoodie that says TRUMP WON.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1705300409974161724
@ coldwarrior:
….. ‘ no surprises EXCEPT, Fiji beat Australia’ ….
Someone has to snipe Eddy Jones the Wallaby coach. The guy couldn’t coach a team of Girl Guides making biscuits!
An egotist writ large with a different excuse every time and someone else to blame for his pathetic coaching show! The Aussies should have known better than to trust this guy. Even now he’s sprucking about how great Australia’s rugby will be in 2027! The guy has no shame!
SPIT
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eaglesoars wrote:
I would pay good cash money to see that!
Off to take my broken footed girl to work at TV3 news room. Then on to the gym for a wee bit of work. Had my breakfast of champions …. crumpets and honey with good coffee plus a couple of Kiwifruit . Off to play Uber Driver for my wee girl all 5’10” of her!
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This has better not be true, but I’ve not known this guy to be unreliable.
BREAKING: President Zelenskyy has requested for Marina AbramoviÄ to be ambassador for Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705307451858255938
I remembered that name like it was yesterday.
Of all the crazy tales fabricated in this election, this one might have been the most insane. Not just for the paranoid conspiracy posited by the alt-rightâClintonâs satanic networkâbut for the fact that a performance artist, Marina Abramovic, found herself tossed into the hollow core of the nationâs election news cycle. Enduring decades of obscurity in a tiny artworld niche, Abramovic may have been elevated to A-list celebrity aftĂ„er her MoMA performance The Artist Is Present in 2010, but to now show up on the alt-rightâs radar is a whole other level of fame.
Just to recap what happened: an email Abramovic wrote to her longterm friend and collector Tony Podesta showed up in a wikileaks stash. In the email, Abramovic invited Podestaâs brother John, now Hillary Clintonâs campaign manager, to join them at a âSpirit Cookingâ dinner in her apartment in New York. Infowars reported what they thought Abramovicâs âSpirit Cookingâ is and concluded that she and Clintonâs retinue are straight-up Satanists.
For the record: Spirit Cooking is nothing but a little-known (and, measured in her ouvre, a rather throwaway) performance Abramovic did in an Italian gallery in 1996, in which she painted apparent instructions on the white wall with pigs blood. Instructions like: âwith a sharp knife cut deeply into the middle finger of your left hand eat the pain.â She also painted a small kind of icon in the corner with the blood too
https://mitpress.mit.edu/marina-abramovics-spirit-cooking/
yeah, one of her ‘artistic’ pieces used fecal matter too.
Somebody nuke this bullshit. From orbit.
Ed Dowd Makes Chilling Prediction on How the COVID Conspirators Will Cover Up Their Crimes
âThese crimes are so horrific [that] I think … once this comes to light, there’ll be no place to hide on the planet, in my humble opinion.â
https://vigilantnews.com/post/ed-dowd-makes-chilling-prediction-on-how-the-covid-conspirators-will-cover-up-their-crimes
I’ve posted Dowd’s stuff before, he’s one of the good guys, former hedge fund manager at Blackrock and he knows the numbers.
âWell, so this is the problem,â answered Dowd. âIn more normal times, weâd peacefully vote all these people out, then investigate them and prosecute them. But these crimes are so horrific [that] I think the establishment is going to try to create a diversion or steal the election to prevent themselves from ever being prosecuted. Because once this comes to light, thereâll be no place to hide on the planet, in my humble opinion.â
[this was during an interview with Naomi Wolff]
Davis California School District
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@DJUSD
has these flyers with QR codes hanging in some of their schools.
The QR code takes students to a page where they can request a chest binder, tucking kit, âqueer mentorshipâ, and assistance with changing their name & gender marker.
These services are reportedly offered secretly without parental knowledge or consent.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1705277289246634278
check out the pics
Surprising absolutely no one
Lawsuit Unearths Link Between Dem Megadonor SBF, Parents, and Democratic Dark Money Behemoth Arabella Advisors
Filings show Allan Bankman discussing Arabella and subsidiaries as vehicles to move money around and obscure its origin
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/sam-bankman-frieds-dad-secretly-advised-democratic-dark-money-kingpin-arabella-advisors/
eaglesoars wrote:
Iowahawk brings the kerosene.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1705324331591463415
eaglesoars wrote:
Ask Eagles and ye shall receive …..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q
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Zelensky doubles are back in the news. Seems that the Z man is worried that someone is after him with a Polonium loaded umbrella and doesn’t want to suffer the 2 week terminal death throes. Pay will probably be pretty good because the Z man is flush with fresh US taxpayer dollar$, but I wouldn’t hold out much hope of body doubles watching TV series finals finding out ‘who done it’!
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The Z man can’t spend his ill gotten gain$ from the seventh circle of hell!
HEH
eaglesoars wrote:
I hadn’t heard much from SB-F lately and assumed that he’s met with a gristly end in a dark ally for his numerous ‘sins’ given the heavy hitters he’d screwed. One of those ‘water cremations’ with the left over CaCO3 dissolved in conc HNO3 and flushed down the nearest sewer.
eaglesoars wrote:
The key to all of this is the “queer mentorship” since we know damn well that 99% of the “mentors” are groomers.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I was going to say 100% but I’m trying to give benefit of the doubt to that one clueless guy out there that still hasn’t keyed in to what they are doing.
eaglesoars wrote:
All of this crap put together should be enough to RICO the whole damn dem party, but no one will ever follow up.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
I’ve been thinking lately about all of the shit that is going down and the who that are bringing this shit to the fore, and the why that they keep doing this wickedness and looking for some commonalities close to home in me.
A thought sprang fully formed, that I was still way too prideful in the way I was looking at the world in general and me in particular, through my personal experiences. It was this pride for the stuff, that had invaded my life in the past, that had forced me kicking and screaming through an annealing fire that developed things inside of me that now inspire me. I was proud of these trials, mostly involuntarily, and in many cases terrifying, that now I was prideful. I was living on past experiences, and there was a whole lot more (an inexhaustible supply in fact) that I was missing before I reach my potential. Trials aplenty of challenges that can still both test and terrify me, and provide that annealing fire that will further test and confirm what I can still become. The terror and challenge of facing that which is hard and moving past it, changed for the better.
I was suddenly seeing the annealing power of fear and suffering writ large, both from the outside but more to the point internally. That old shibboleth that what doesn’t kill you strengthens you, and changes you for the better. Then suddenly I realised that the world up to about the past decade or so was pretty darned ‘cruisey’ except for most of the past tough and scary stuff, that had in fact changed me for the better. But now I was in cruise mode. Now instead of having tough and scary stuff forcing me to face those inevitable ‘demons’ and grow, I was slacking.
I noticed the slackers who didn’t face their ‘demons’, and they were those who seemed to be on the slacker’s super highway. Mostly those who could tell you how oppressed they felt, how much they were victims, and how unfair the world was. That rankled me that perhaps I had somehow joined the slackers, victim highway and that was not where I wanted to be. I wanted that hard road again because that is where I was supposed to be, facing the trials of the world and growing. I was too comfortable and not both suffering enough to kick in that annealing fire again. The poor and meek in fact had it easy, as they always had the tough row to hoe, and every chance to overcome their challenges and improve. Now with all of the ‘shit’ that is blowing about our ears in the last decade is in fact a blessing in disguise, for us to rise to the challenge and get stronger in the process.
What a lucky bunch of buggers we are to live in such fraught times. So challenging, terrifying and so full of chances to discover how much deeper our potential extends. Once you realise that we are here to suffer, be terrified and find the guts to rise above it all, it suddenly becomes clear.
Oh and to all of you who fear death, be advised that it’s hollow. Been unwillingly there a number of times already, and once passed ‘the bit’ where you have run out of ideas of how you can survive and are terrified, you get to the great place where you accept it and just enjoy the ride. It’s not really scary at all.
It’s when you survive and you end up with the shakes and feel as if you’ve been run down by a 600 pound gorilla, that you realise that you are back for an other round!
I kid you not! It is also experiential and character, and potential developing!
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Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
You certain’y got that one right!
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My best guess is that in these types of contests there will be no potential ‘black swan’ left when the dust settles after Rupert kicks off his mortal coil. It will be brutal and terminal for someone. My guess is that Lachlan will be ‘dog tucker’ and Fox will become CNN 2.0 with Comrade James back in charge.
The Murdoch struggle for Succession isn’t over – and it’s sister Elisabeth who holds the key after Rupert Murdoch steps away from the media empire
The speculation as to the succession can be dated to 1994 when, prophetically, he said: âI expect to do it [hand over] in about 30 years.â Give or take a month he was almost spot on.
Elisabeth, 55, was said to be the sharpest of his children, but Murdoch the establishment disruptor curiously subscribed to the old-fashion traditions of a son with the family name inheriting.
Lachlan, he declared, was first among equals and soon after, in 2000, Elisabeth quit the family business and launched her own successful television production company, Shine.
Lachlan shared his fatherâs Right-wing politics and, apparently, his love for newsprint as well as the rugged landscape of their Australia homeland.
He was seen as the âgolden childâ, the one with whom his father was most closely aligned. But just as with TVâs Succession, this drama had its share of reverses and shifts in the perceived rankings of the siblings.
Murdoch worried that tattooed, easy-going Lachlan, with his love for rock climbing, was a little too relaxed and did not want the top job enough.
When Lachlan clashed with Fox Newsâ then chief Roger Ailes, it all but confirmed it.
Abruptly in 2005 he quit as News Corpâs deputy chief operating officer, moved back to Sydney with his young family and set up a private investment firm.
That left James as heir apparent and for a decade it seemed he was the likeliest successor.
But his liberal politics â he vowed to make the business carbon-neutral and invested in prestige brands such as National Geographic channel â led to another crisis, again over Fox News. This time it was over the networkâs hardcore conservative bias and he, too, quit.
In the years since, James has developed an atavistic hatred for Fox News, delivering an implicit rebuke of the channel without naming it over the storming of Washingtonâs Capitol building in 2021.
âThe sacking of the Capitol is proof positive that what we thought was dangerous is indeed very, very much so,â he said. âThese outlets that propagate lies to their audiences have unleashed insidious and uncontrollable forces that will be with us for years.â
He withdrew completely from the familyâs news operations and began a media fund called Lupa Systems investing in Left-leaning companies. By then his brother had returned from Australia and resumed his position as his fatherâs heir.
So what does all this mean? Of one thing we can be certain: it is the UK-based Elisabeth who will be kingmaker.
The media executive, who this week was in Cambridge for the Royal Television Societyâs conference, remains close to both brothers who are now polar opposites, both politically and ideologically.
Indeed, the two men are now said to no longer speak.
Lachlan is in step with his fatherâs conservative opinion; James loathes Fox for its full-throated defence of former president Donald Trump, which he considers toxic and a menace to American democracy.
Last year, he hosted a fundraiser for Joe Bidenâs Democrats. Murdoch observers believe James is, however, biding his time until he and his sisters can seize control of the company after Rupert is gone and sell or purge Fox. But there is no guarantee this scenario will come to pass.
The family dynamics are constantly shifting. When James was based in Britain during the crisis over the phone-hacking scandal and the now-defunct News of the World, Elisabeth was reported to have told her father that her brother should be sacked.
When the family celebrated Lachlanâs 40th birthday in 2011 on board Rupertâs 184ft yacht, Rosehearty (which he later sold), Elisabeth left before James and his wife Kathryn arrived.
They are close now, but she is equally fond of Lachlan â joining him and their father for this yearâs Super Bowl in Arizona.
A figure close to her was reported as saying that she wants to enjoy the time she has left with her father. âSheâs terrified of Rupert dying mad at her,â the source added.
In a family as volatile as the Murdochs â just like Successionsâ Roys â there are simply no absolutes.
Remember, it is not that long ago that Vanity Fair was reporting that Lachlan had accused James of leaking storylines to the makers of the TV series and told his father that he thought this was happening.
James did not attend the 90th birthday celebrations for his father and wasnât there this summer while the tycoon was wooing the new love in his life, Elena Zhukova, former mother-in-law of oligarch Roman Abramovich. Tellingly, Lachlan and his children were present.
In every empire with an ageing monarch the first hint of a new crown prince is enough to whip courtiers into a frenzy. It happened in Succession and many believe it will inevitably happen with the Murdochs, too.
For now, Murdoch can do as he pleases but, after his death, the family trust holds the assets and each of the four siblings carries an equal vote. How the women cast their votes will be crucial.
Insiders tend to the view that Elisabeth will ultimately back James and Prudence will side with the majority.
That would be 3-1 against Lachlan. Within this highly competitive family there is said to be a motto: you either win or walk away. Which is why no one is taking bets on the final outcome.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Long day. Watch Lachlan’s wife.
A sad fact of life now that even in an English speaking country bi-lingual is a definite advantage in a job.
I would actually go so far to say that not being bi-lingual would limit your job opportunities.
I actively encourage anyone who has the time and money to get a degree in anything to also spend some time and money learning another language.
Just passing through and as an observation about prescription drug advertising in the US.
It is something not allowed in most countries.
Just seen one for Trazodone. Side effects are diarrhea and constipation.
LOL
@ Possum:
The really funny drug commercials are the ones that state “may cause death ”
Hey at least they told you the risks
@ Aussie Infidel:
Hope does nothing, attitude does everything.
Great essay.
Possum wrote:
The best are when it’s for something like toenail fungus.
“Hmm…toenail fungus…death. Let me think about that for a minute.”
Possum wrote:
Happy Fun Ball.
lobo91 wrote:
I don’t recall exactly, but I think the ad was for diabetic potato chips that “may cause oily stools.”
Possum wrote:
Does Pigin English count/ Pigin has a dictionary so it MUST count….
Helicopter = Mixmaster belong jesus christ!
Em E die = he’s unconscious
Em E die pinis = He’s really REALLY dead and there is no coming back!
Em E big fella box em e got white teeth em e got black you hit em he yell = piano
Balas = bird OR aeroplane
Place belong balas = airfield
Captain belong balas=pilot
…and I an NOT making this shit up!
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eaglesoars wrote:
Lauchlan is prepping for a bloody assault. He’s just appointed Tony Abbott (the former conservative Australian Prime Minister) to the Board of Fox. They don’t call Abbott the ‘Mad Monk’ for no reason. He takes no prisoners; did a few years studying for the priesthood before deciding to have a brace of children; was an excellent conservative PM EXCEPT he got Act 10C wrong and it cost him his prime ministership. Tried to go easy on religious freedom of expression as a sup to the left, and the conservatives turned on him and ate his lunch!
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Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yeah, well, there is an entire branch of linguistics that studies Pittsburghese.
PITTSBURGHESE: WELCOME TO STEEL CITY
FLUENT IN AMERICAN, BEGINNER IN PITTSBURGHESE
https://www.languageconnections.com/blog/pittsburghese-steel-city/#:~:text=In%20terms%20of%20pronunciation%2C%20Pittsburghese,%E2%80%9Cpull%E2%80%9D%20all%20sound%20identical.
A recent poll by Gawker determined that Pittsburgh, sometimes called âPicksburghâ by locals, has the worst accent in America, beating out second-place Scranton and, yes, even predicted winner/loser Boston. The accent, lovingly called âPittsburgheseâ by natives, is so unique to Western Pennsylvania that many Americans havenât even heard of it.
Every time I said “haint it” my Mardi Queen mother backhanded me.
eaglesoars wrote:
The list is missing Vitamin I.
Some of the examples aren’t unique to Pittsburgh. In Cincy, babies also ride in buggies and pork cubes on a stick are called “city chicken”. “Jeet?” wasn’t uncommon.
@ eaglesoars:
https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?si=m-iqve7EadOu1xeh
Baltimore accent
@ right_wing2:
oh, that’s hilarious!
Well. I fucked up. The only chocolate in this house is a can of Nestle Quik
Which I am eating with a spoon
I’m watching the 7th Crossroads festival on PPV. It’s being held at the Crypto.com Arena (AKA the Staples Center). Not sure what possessed them to have it there. It’s usually been outdoors in a bigger venue.
Bill Murray is hosting again.
Samantha Fish is playing with Eric Gales now.
“I Put a Spell On You”
If there’s a Guinness World Record for “Most played song at music festivals,” it has to be “Going Down.” I guess it’s just assumed that every guitarist in the world knows it, so it’s always a safe bet for an “all star jam” thing.
This is almost a year old but I hadn’t seen it before
Two minerals never seen on earth extracted from meteorite sample
https://www.mining.com/two-minerals-never-seen-on-earth-extracted-from-meteorite-sample/#:~:text=The%20new%20minerals%20%E2%80%93%20named%20elaliite,had%20been%20synthetically%20created%20before.
Also very cool (I find cool stuff on reddit)
Ancient Egypt and the dawn of literature: Revisiting the oldest book in the world
Among the many treasures recovered by archaeologists and antiquarian collectors from Egypt are papyrus copies of a remarkable text written more than 4,000 years ago: The Teaching of Ptahhatp. Bill Manley investigates this often-overlooked survival from ancient Egypt and one vizierâs contributions to the dawn of literature.
https://the-past.com/feature/ancient-egypt-and-the-dawn-of-literature-revisiting-the-oldest-book-in-the-world/
Too much to excerpt, so just read………
@ eaglesoars:
Ern ern an ern ern.
right_wing2 wrote:
I busted a gut. But then he ‘gets it’………
#2 most played song: “Sweet Home Chicago”
Eric Clapton, Jimmy Vaughan and Gary Clark Jr
Clapton really seems like he’s disinterested. I have a feeling that this may be the last Crossroads festival.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I used very rarely catch a pidgin broadcast on short wave back in the day. If the skip was right and the f layer cooperated.
@ eaglesoars:
I am a prahd yinzer!
Screw those jagoffs
coldwarrior wrote:
Fetterman used that term the other day and the media were completely bewildered.
Oh, this is glorious. Look at her face after she ends the interview. She is PISSED.
WATCH: Matt Gaetz Causes CNN Host to End Interview After Fact-Checking Her Live On-Air
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/23/watch-matt-gaetz-causes-cnn-host-to-end-interview-after-fact-checking-her-live-on-air-n2164209
OMG! LOOK AT THIS! YOU COULD FEED AN ENTIRE ROMAN FUCKING LEGION DURING THE SIEGE OF CARTHAGE WITH THIS THING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-RbdDpNRNI
(9 mins)
eaglesoars wrote:
1.5X speed made it tolerable. It’s a bigass bacon cheeseburger with salad dressing.
BOMBSHELL REPORT: United States Army Hospital located in Germany Is Now Treating AMERICAN SOLDIERS Hurt While Fighting in Ukraine.
The Army has quietly started to treat wounded Americans and other fighters evacuated from Ukraine at its Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. -NY TIMES
“Asked about the development by The New York Times, a Defense Department official who is regularly briefed on Ukraine-Russia matters expressed surprise, and said that leaders at the Pentagon were unaware that Landstuhl was regularly treating wounded American[s].”
bullshit. ‘Nam redux.
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1706007356931186694
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I gained 5 lbs watching the video
coldwarrior wrote:
At the same time I was attempting to GET AWAY from the Pigin’ sing-sing frequency on my transistor radio inside my ‘mart’ (grass roofer native hut up on the hill overlooking Vanimo village. I was hunting for Dubbo radio on the NSW plains (good skip distance ) or BEST…….. ‘KUAM Radio Guam the Voice of the Western Pacific’ which actually had some great rock music.
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Radio batteries and stamps to chat with my best girl who was working in London, were my monthly splurge. I managed to elk out a monthly stake and 2 cans of beer per month as well. That’s how I spent my fortune of $11 a month and keep in deepest darkest New Guinea, risking my life, bush flying to stripes, where you had to use your imagination pretending that I was flying into actual airstrips on the sides of mountains.
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Stake = Steak
Sonny & his Wild Cows is a blues band from Budapest.
Finally I have something useful to contribute.
In the past Britain ruled all the world, all of it. While doing so there was an obligation to bring news and vital information to the Empire.
That was the past. For some reason in 2023 The BBC still produces content in very many languages to fulfil the obligations to former colonies. All funded by humble British tax payers.
As an example, there is BBC America, still broadcasting content in the American language so Americans can understand it even though they kicked the British, and by extension the BBC, out over 200 years ago.
My favorite BBC foreign language site is one I have bookmarked and when I feel sad, lonely or drunk I go there and read it. If you are alone it is best if you read the articles aloud. If not alone read them aloud in your head.
Visiting that site makes me happy….
Try it.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
@ Possum:
Current lead story is about a recently graduated university student was killed by a cow he was herding.
@ Possum:
Um I did not mean reading about people killed on that site makes me happy but the mental gymnastics I have to do to read things there is a nice feeling.
A food post.
That thing with the cabbage I actually cooked a few days ago. Well kind of. I like it and do it often.
Yeah you know I live alone, have no friends and cats that refuse to share human food. They REFUSE human food, a can of tuna is human food so if I open one I have to eat all of it, alone.
What I d is get a small cabbage, one that fits in my lonely old man sized crock pot. Remove the outer leaves until it fits then cut out a cone shaped wound in it to remove the stalky thing.
Coat the inside of small crockpot with peanut oil to kind of prevent sticking. Place cabbage in, fill the V wound with a mix of ground beef, finely chopped onions, seasoning sometimes chopped raw bacon too if the ground beef is not fatty enough.
The rest of the beef mixture is placed on top of the cabbage. Lid on then on low for eight hours. Don’t fuck with it, just leave it alone.
Result is beef mixture cooks, the fat works its way among the cabbage leaves and the whole thing is a nice cooked soggy mess.
Disgusting you may say, but we are not done yet
When it is time for supper pour a small amount of peanut oil into a skillet, heat until oil starts to smoke then scoop out a generous portion of the beef and cabbage soggy mess into skillet.
Let it brown on one side then flip it.
Single man version of Bubble and Squeak.
@ Possum:
I seriously do not fucking know why I spend a lot of time cooking anything in my situation. Hungry man and Banquet and Birds Eye make perfectly good frozen meals that take three minutes to microwave.
Tonight supper for example is going to be slow cooked beef brisket with gravy made from scratch, cauliflower cheese made with real cauliflower and sharp cheddar cheese and a baked potato topped with butter, finely chopped onion and again sharp cheddar cheese, or maybe parmesan.
@ Possum:
Actually, it sounds wonderful and not expensive!
Ok, Harry and Meghan update.
It seems the William Morris Entertainment agency that signed Meghan not too long ago (but not Harry) is getting a bit pissed off at all the negative publicity these two get. So they’ve tried to strong arm the various outlets to shape up or access to WME’s A-list clientele will be cut off. Well, how did THAT go?
WME just got a MAJOR ‘fuck you yesterday’ message from the media.
The Sun broke the story but the Daily Mail splashed it all over the universe.
Two years ago when H&M visited one of the most underserved elementary schools in NYC, they tried to get the school AND all the students to sign an NDA saying they would say nothing negative about them on social media ‘now or in the future’. No word on if it actually got signed.
So, on that level it’s pretty hilarious.
On another, not so much.
AFAIK, Harry is still collecting a pay check from a department of the Aspen Institute that fights ‘disinformation’. Harry is on record saying he thinks our 1st amendment is ‘bonkers’ so this foreign twat is over here trying to curtain our 1st amendment rights.
@ eaglesoars:
I really cannot understand what Harry and Meghan want in life.
A lot of criticism has been targeted at Meghan’s acting ability but I must admit I watched Suits up until she and the main star left, then it was crap so stopped. She was actually good as a character actress I thought.
Also another admission, there was one show I binge watched and she showed up in two episodes and I went to IMDB to look at the cast and was surprised it was her. Could have been Fringe,
Anyway there is a way to escape the Royal Family trauma thing. Edward did it. As all royals do he had to go into the armed forces, he did but dropped out of the Royal Marines Commandos and went into artistic theater and TV stuff and everyone then thought he was gay and laughed and forgot him.
eaglesoars wrote:
CURTAIL. sheesh.
Possum wrote:
who?
I’ve spent years looking at the evidence. Out of his own mouth, Harry is one of the most malicious personalities you will encounter, right down to animal abuse. He is also a pathological liar, see the story he told about burying the remains of Meghan’s ‘miscarriage’ from the hospital to a hole he dug with his own hands under a banyan tree nobody knows about. A lot of people think the Palace covered that up, but I don’t think they understood the malice. Fucked up? Yeah. But it’s bad enough that if I were William and Catherine, he would be allowed nowhere near my children. That bad. There is speculation that as Diana was bulimec when she was pregnant with Harry he may have been damaged in the womb.
Meghan is a mid-range narcissist and there are very predictable phases they go thru. But everything about her is a facade because she has zero authentic emotions except the needs of her narcissism. All narcissists need fuel and her fuel is $$ and public acclaim. They also need absolute control and they need it by the nanosecond. I’ve learned to watch her micro facial expressions and it isn’t pretty. The only person I’ve ever seen that really terrifies her is Catherine. On the Windsor walk about after Queen Elizabeth’s death, the 2 couples got out of different cars and when they joined up, Catherine gave her a laser stare of death that actually made Meghan flinch and reach for Harry. Her facial expression was OH FUCK I’M DEAD.
Meghan never intended to stay in the royal family once she understood she could never be top bitch. She even told the Queen to shove it. She will never put herself in a position where she will have to curtsey to Catherine. All she had to do to accomplish that was validate Harry’s insecurities about being THE SPARE and validate his feelings of insecurities as being his heartless family’s fault.
She had set up merchandising domains early on. She intended to make money off being a royal. I could go on.
So, Meghan is considering a run for office, Harry still wants revenge against his family and it is what is called a ‘folie a deux’: Shared psychotic disorder (folie Ă deux) is a rare disorder characterized by sharing a delusion among two or more people in a close relationship. The inducer (primary) who has a psychotic disorder with delusions influences another nonpsychotic individual or more (induced, secondary) based on a delusional belief Meghan is the ‘primary’, the inducer.
I found this really fun youtube channel, webspoon. All sorts of kitchen hacks. Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhcdQENcVIk
@ Aussie Infidel:
I am one of the very few in Eastern North America to qsl Solomon Island. My friend and I worked all summer for that.
Good times, then we discovered girls…
@ eaglesoars:
Oh hell yes
@ eaglesoars:
Carthago delenda est.
Sqpr
Hail! Caesar! Et cetera
Look at college football highlights or read eagles stuff on the royalty…yep.
Real life soaps. Thx eaglesoars
@ coldwarrior:
For the uneducated in here a QSL means that when you are all alone in your mom’s basement with your radio and twiddling the little knobs and keying the microphone and yelling ” can anyone hear me” someone did.
Being serious in the early nineties I had a UK CB radio installed in my car. We were limited to one watt FM only so really bugger all use for anything over a couple of miles.
On way to work in the morning one day just listening and occasionally chatting to others stuck on the M25 which is a beltway around London suddenly everyone had Scottish accents. And I mean a lot of them.
One of those rare events where the ionosphere or aliens bounced short range transmissions hundreds or thousands of miles.
LoL and it was a two way bounce. Us in London asking for traffic reports and the Scottish answering back ” No problems here”
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Hmmmm interesting!
Just had an out of the blue demand, and I use that word advisedly, from none other than the Bank of New Zealand, regarding my international taxation status. What international Taxation status? Seeing that I only have a peripheral association with the BNZ through my Visa Card and an association as a âCharitable Trusteeâ with the Auckland RSA Trust, I wondered whether I was experiencing a scam or perhaps a phishing attack via my e-mail account.
Rather than complying I went straight to the BNZ directly. At least I wasnât just complying with a demand for information from a weird supposed BNZ web site, that popped into my e-Mail stream. Turns out that the Indian gentleman who insisted on calling me âMr. Peterâ was indeed from the BNZ itself. Even this BNZ staff member wasnât all that clear, whether or not the web-site was a Phishing scam or part of the BNZ itself. Finally he convinced himself that it was indeed part of the BNZ itself. I asked him a few searching questions about which part of the BNZ was casting about all of a sudden for information from clients, with the vaguest association with the BNZ ⊠(that of the banking holder of my Visa Card, but no other BNZ products, at all) . Maybe it was just BNZ Marketing touting for business?
Turns out that it was the âCommonsâ of the OECD (now what in hell is the ‘Commons’ of the OECD, who was putting pressure on both the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the NZ IRD, and through these two organisations, pressuring the big four Banks in NZ, to use any and all levers, however tenuous, with clients to discover which taxation regimes those clients belong. My Indian interlocutor opined that if I didnât want to fill in a long winded data collection on-line, all I had to do was visit a BNZ branch and tell them directly that I was registered for tax with New Zealand alone, and had no other international taxation complications. A simple yes or no. When asked what other information they would collect on behalf of the OECD he said nothing at all! All the BNZ wanted, on the OECDâs behalf, was a simple NO international complications, I am only registered for Taxation with the NZIRD. No other data needed. They would fill out the rest of the form! What do you mean ….THE FORM ?
Hmmmmm and what other data sets were appearing on this FORM? I thought it was only about Taxation registration, nothing more at all?
Turns out I was supposed to deliver all manner of information to the local BNZ staff, including my full contact and online connections, family information, my IRD information and photo ID from a government sourced card such as Passport or Driverâs Licence. I asked my Indian gentleman, who still called me Mr. Peter and then abjectly apologised for his cultural habit, why his former suggestion, “that all the BNZ wanted a simple confirmation of being registered solely with the NZ IRD” âŠ. Now he was âextending his former âtruthâ to include virtually my and my familyâs life and communications history.
He was having a serious problem of reconciling his former âtruthâ to what was in store for me, if and when I showed up at the local BNZ Branch, to be faced with âTHE FORMâ! He said that it was for the IRD and NZ Reserve Bankâs compliance, from the âCommonsâ of the OECD, which was the final destination of my family data set. I opined that this sounded dodgy, and since when did the âCommonsâ of the OECD get statutory superiority over NZ government authorities, who were then using Banking Corporates to do the data trolling, on the âCommonsâ of the OECDâs behalf.? My Indian gentleman assured me that the OECD was only vacuuming up NZ held data, to stop money laundering and for the international good!
It would appear that indeed I may have just experienced and attempt at a âPhishing scam â, not from some obscure bastard from a back street in Cyprus, but from âThe Commonsâ of the OECD via the NZ IRD / Reserve Bank of NZ and via one of the Big Four banks in the High Streets of NZ, doing theta collection ‘dirty work’ of the OECD.
Hmmmm !
I opined before leaving my Indian gentleman, that all of this data may come into its own, when digital currency arrives . I think he choked on his cocoa at that point!
@ Possum:
1 watt?
lol
@ coldwarrior:
It was a kind of complicated time. The UK used frequencies for other things that the illegally imported CB radios used.
So a compromise was made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_radio_in_the_United_Kingdom
FM only and four watts from transmitter but limited to half a watt ERP at antenna.
A good decision by UK… CB became legal but follow the rules.
mrs coldwarrior asked me what was wrong today. im in a bit of a funk.
many years ago when i worked icu i had a patient who was dyeing. he was 101 airborne in Bastogne. he knew he was done, i knew he was done, just a matter of time. his kids were all florida and cali and flying back.
this was back before the shit we have now. they wanted to move him out to the general floor to die, i threw a complete tantrum and got my way. my crew in the ICU backed me up. this man would not be left alone again, Bastogne. i sat at bedside well past my end of shift. bastogne would not be alone now. dr pande, a brilliant indian intensivist backed me up.
i went to one to one as his heart slowly let out. he gave me his beat to shit automatic Seiko and told me to not let his kids fight over it. the watch did many years at the mill and served him well. he made me take it.
its nothing special as a watch goes, i took it to my jeweler and they were perplexed to why i wanted this beater serviced and cleaned. it would cost more than it was worth, then i told them the story.
i havent been willing to strap on the watch until a few days ago. it sat there, i couldn’t. 12 years. the beater lives, and keeps good time. i put it on two days ago, some guy from bastogne smiled. ffs, it took me long enough.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i use cash as much as possible. my bar-tenders at the CC prefer it that way.
Currently watching V the 2010 TV version. Seen it before but I am kind of obsessed with watching the lady alien ever since Bunk posted the kissing a turtle stuff.
Her top lip is the perfect example of what happens when you try to kiss a turtle. Turtles are reptiles, so is she.
She is ideal for the part in the TV show.
I do not think I will post the fact I am attracted to women who get their top lip bitten by a turtle on my eHarmony dating profile though.
Maybe I should just say “I like women who have a pet turtle, does yours bite? “
coldwarrior wrote:
I have a 50 watt GMRS mobile unit. With repeater access, I can reach literally anywhere in the US.
And that’s only limited by the fact that Canada and Mexico don’t allow high-power GMRS. They’re limited to 2 watt handhelds.
So far, I’m glad I didn’t spend the money to go out to L.A. for this year’s Crossroads festival. I’m watching on PPV, and it’s been nothing to write home about.
I think the best performance so far has been Joe Bonamassa. Cody seemed to really like Sheryl Crow for some reason.
Clapton has been like the groundhog. He’s poked his head out a couple of times, but that’s it.
@ lobo91:
Yeah but this is 2023 and the quality of manufacture is far advanced than 40 years ago.
Anything made in the old days thirty plus years ago emitted radio frequencies that were a multiple or a divisor of the intended frequency. New stuff still does to a certain extent but due to the better quality of the transmitter and better shielding of the transmitter not a lot of unintended interference on other frequencies escapes.
Take a look at the door of your microwave. See the mesh with the holes in it. The holes will be the size of a quarter of the wavelength of the microwave wavelength.
The only reason we can now have wifi and 5G and Bluetooth and airpods is electronic shit s obeying strict rules as to emissions outside their operating band.
@ Possum:
At RAF Lakenheath our Munitions Maintenance Squadron radio frequency, (We loaded bombs on F-111F’s) happened to be the same one that a New York City cab company used. We had a blast chatting with them when we had a good bounce.
@ Bordm:
And you kind of proved my point that in the good old days the radio frequency spectrum was something that was regulated in different countries.
Lmagine what would have happened if the citizens of the UK were freely allowed to buy New York cab company radios and use them.
LOL
@ coldwarrior:
Remember these?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/VRC-12#/media/File:RT-524-R-442-latrun.jpg
lobo91 wrote:
I cannot TELL you how jealous I am you are getting to experience Clapton.
Even in his dotage.
Possum wrote:
just ask if they get fillers
coldwarrior wrote:
Some jewelers will deal with watches, some are OH HELL NO! The store I work at will fix bands but the watch mechanics – nope. Doesn’t sell them either.
As for the work costing more than the piece – that’s fairly common. Sentimental value counts for a lot.
LOL how can I ever leave Lucy?
https://twitter.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1706167262380499177
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve seen him a couple of times live. Once in 2007 or so in San Jose where he had a little-known guy named Derick Trucks with him. The second time was in Denver a couple of years later when he toured with Steve Winwood. THAT was a hell of a show.
@ Possum:
The frequency we and the NYC cab drivers used was not in the CB radio spectrum, they were regulated and assigned frequencies that CB radios could not pick up.
I’m really showing my age now. When I was stationed in Italy at a nuclear warhead storage facility, we had three of these, just like what’s in the video. The FM radios were for communication between our teams, and the massive AM/SSB unit on the other side was to talk to our headquarters:
Aussie Infidel wrote:
what IS that?
We got a form from our bank saying the Securities and Exchange Commission required them to provide information about our investments such as how much was foreign (in percentages) etc. and we had to fill out all these forms. I called our investment guy and said WTAF? He told me “Just give me the ok and I will tell them “the client refuses to comply”. Sounded like a plan.
Got another notice. Called the bank. Said “The SEC is requiring something FROM YOU. I don’t work for you. Fuck off” Click.
@ Bordm:
What I was trying to say that because of the geographical separation of the countries then the RF spectrum could be used in NY and the UK differently.
The issue is NY cab radios imported to the UK..
That is what happened with AM CB radios from the USA being used in the UK.
coldwarrior wrote:
most welcome.
A word about Catherine. This is not a ‘fan girl’ post, I just want to point out that I suspect she’s quite a serious woman. She majored in Art History at university, which in this country would elicit snorts. But I’ve seen her work and it is impressive. It’s photography. She did a series on Holocaust survivors and their descendants when she was still Duchess of Cambridge. It was stunning. Her mastery of lighting was – wow. Pure Vermeer. She’s very subtle.
Here are 2.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/kate-middleton-takes-moving-photos-21368120
Video of tsunami after 2011 earthquake, Japan, near or at Kamaishi.
https://twitter.com/Emilio2763/status/1705910936962216237
Possum wrote:
Best headline I’ve seen all day.
âI neva chop meat for months but I no go sell my bodiâ
Yale Law School??!!
On my two law school tour last week I saw something that genuinely surprised me. A student had a tri-folded cardboard name tag in front of him. No big deal, I thought, in a big class professors might need those and while I donât use first names many of my colleagues do.
Then he explained there are three colors: green for willing to talk, yellow for being on the cusp of being willing to talk, and red for not being prepared. I was stunned â the idea of a law school class where students could opt out of being called on! Judges donât let you put up the red light when you donât want to answer.
I canât quite put my finger on the causation. Do law students demand to be treated like fragile children or do law faculty start treating them that way? Either way what a joke â in practice the vast majority of the class stays on yellow.
This innovation will never find its way to my classroom at Chicago. But it is ok for the romper room that is Yale Law School.
https://twitter.com/AdamMortara/status/1706035358725497021
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
She is a keeper!
@ Possum:
I had a CB set when I was a kid. When I wasn’t listening to the VOA in some foreign language, I was calling “Hello CQ – Hello CQ.”
Possum wrote:
I keep in touch with a blogger friend in Barbados for chitchat, and she seasons the comvo with pidgin. Barbados’ primary business is tourism, and they were very worried about cruise ships bringing covid, for good reason.
“All dem tourists come go rubnup against each other, that’s how it spread.”
Possum wrote:
In HS I kissed a girl who was kind of like that. Her upper lip was flat and didn’t work and she had a nasty scar across one eye. She’d been in a bad car accident that sent her through the windshield and was in the process of a lot of reconstructive surgery. Didn’t bother me at all because I remembered how pretty she’d been back when she wouldn’t talk to me because I wasn’t one of the cool kids.
eaglesoars wrote:
Found out what my Indian gentleman was accidentally letting slip when alluding to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development of Standardised metrics for measuring ‘DIGITAL’ outcomes of international economic outcomes. This was discussed apparently in 2020 during the kick off of Covid-19 by the G 20 nations. Their plan was to establish a Standardised way of converting Economic advancement to DIGITAL for within a decade (e.g 2030 , now where have I heard that before Oh yes, the Agenda 2030 raised its ugly head once more). My Indian gentleman let slip the planning that will enforce the coming Digital Currency these NZ major banks were planning amongst hundreds of other major banks internationally.
The Commons of the OECD that he was alluding to was the Standardising of the World Digitalisation of Currency by 2030. I’m sure it’ll appear all over the place as one of those ‘conspiracy theories’ that just seem to keep turning into fact, that we keep tripping over!
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Needless I’m NOT playing that game!
No wonder my Indian gentleman’s cocoa was spurting out his nose as he choked on what he’d let slip!
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I, too, find this totally believable
Political author Greg Rubini has reported inside info that:
Kamala will be forced to resign as VP, and sent to the senate to replace Dianne Feinstein.
Then, Gavin Newsom will be subbed in as VP.
THEN they will REMOVE Joe Biden from office.
QUOTE: âeither he will âdie of Covidâ or âhe fell from his bicycleâ or whatever. One way or another, he will be forced to resign.â
Then, Newsom will run against Trump!
I HAVE NO TROUBLE BELIEVING ANY OF THIS.
Because since 2020 itâs become obvious that politics has become a 3-d chess game, with human pieces FROM BOTH PARTIES being moved into their places.
So when Newsom says he wonât run for president – this is what he means.
The presidency will be given to him.
https://twitter.com/JamesBradleyCA/status/1706278086042366295
I don’t know who this James Bradley is but his bio says he’s a U.S. Senate contender from California
what the………..??
I was reading comments to the twitter thing I just posted and saw this
This post is now part of the blockchain history with
@reSeeIt! @DaneUndivided, access the forever stored record, plus all ïž + , and read the AI summary here
https://twitter.com/reSeeIt/status/1706293373961654457
It is bluechecked and under the nic is an ‘automated’ icon.
The bio says “Preserving posts with blockchain & IPFS! Save posts, threads & convos with high-res images, AI summaries & permanent records. Uncensorable, secure & lasting!” Joined September 2022
When did Elon buy twitter?
The pinned tweet: We’ve added instructions to http://reSee.it in Spanish, French, and German. Whether tĂș hablas español, vous parlez français, or du sprichst Deutsch, you can save posts on forever.
eaglesoars wrote:
Business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 27, 2022.
We’ve had many new users joining our preservation quest recently. As a reminder:
âĄïž Reply with ”
@reSeeIt
save this” to save an individual tweet
Reply with ”
@reSeeIt
save thread” to save a Tweet thread
Reply ”
@reSeeIt
save conversation” to save a conversation
https://twitter.com/reSeeIt/status/1686897383794253824
Christ, where is this stuff being stored?
Note the caveat, tho…
JUST IN: Mayo Clinic QUIETLY ADMITS on it’s website that hydroxychloroquine can be used to treat COVID 19..
“Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria.”
“It is also used to prevent malaria infection in areas or regions where it is known that other medicines (eg, chloroquine) may not work.”
“Hydroxychloroquine may also be used to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) in certain hospitalized patients.“
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1705978547410440229
The Armenians? AGAIN?
Thousands of Armenian Christians have now been forces to leave their homes in Artsakh as Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing operation threatens them
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1706340786172838219
lobo91 wrote:
I do!
Oh lookie here! Another ‘Democracy Dies In Darkness’ ploy. I mean that’s right up there with “To Serve Man” being in actuality a cookbook.
I’ll do more digging in a bit, I’m busy, but you need to know about this. There is a coalition of organizations who claim to want us mere peasants to have trusted sources at the local news level and intend to ‘subsidize’ – ahem – those poor, failing outlets.
It’s called Press Forward. Let’s see who the donors/participants are. Oh lookie here! First on the list! It’s ARCHEWELL, Harry and Meghan’s ‘charity’! You know, the same Harry who thinks our 1st amendment is ‘bonkers’ and who is collecting a paycheck from the ‘disinformation’ crew at the Aspen Institute?
https://www.pressforward.news/#coalition
scroll down, it’s almost at the bottom.
I’m guessing ‘subsidize’ means ‘hold financially hostage’
ok, must run!
oh, do tell………
REPORTER: “Does the Department of Agriculture see anything in the purchase of farmland by Chinese corporations or Chinese nationals that would suggest a threat to national security or food security?”
AGRICULTURE SEC: “There’s legitimate concerns in that space.”
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1706365791635951852
gosh, the PR must have been horrid. I wonder what they’ll change it to.
BlackRock, State Street among money managers closing ESG funds, per Bloomberg.
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1706340534225412441
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hidden-words-in-ai-art
This is kinda fun, but it wouldn’t let me spell out the word “assholes” with letters formed by cats.
https://glif.app/@fab1an/glifs/clmqp99820001jn0f2xywz250
WHAT a travesty. Hubby and I attended services there many times. The pics are infuriating
Washington National Cathedral unveils new stained glass windows to replace Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and âStonewallâ Jackson with BLM protestors.
https://twitter.com/AFpost/status/1706334990236364909
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
On September 18th, 2023, Redditor /u/3deal posted a “subliminal advertisement” AI-generated image of people walking on a rainy street with the letters of the word “OBEY” spelled out by their dark clothing (seen below)
Yeah, I’m not seeing it. But Tom Cruise could make a fascinating plot out of this tool for one of his movies.
eaglesoars wrote:
Heard that Newsom will be attending Wednesday’s GOP debate. The question is why.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
He’s going as part of Biden’s ‘response team’.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4217882-biden-campaign-sending-newsom-to-gop-debate/
BREAKING: Reports coming in that
@catturd2
was just swatted during his livestream today
He has been mercilessly doxxed by corporate media in hopes that someone would do just this
Send prayers
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1706400009258770879
uh huh
SET TO TUMBLE? Iâm an online expert â Russell Brandâs ârefugeâ platform Rumble may be forced offline under new internet safety laws
https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/11391225/online-expert-russell-brand-platform-rumble-safety-laws/
The Canada-based platform has come under scrutiny after being used by Brand to share videos as he denies allegations of rape and sexual assault.
He has been posting daily episodes of his Stay Free programme on Rumble since signing a deal with the website a year ago.
It now faces being regulated by UK media watchdog Ofcom under the new Online Safety Bill, which was approved by Parliament last week and is due to become law next month.
Tougher new rules could prompt Rumble’s bosses to stop broadcasting to Britain, a tech expert has now suggested.
The new law says internet firms must prevent children from seeing pornography as well as any material promoting eating disorders, self-harm and suicide.
Violent content and material harmful to health, including misinformation about vaccines, will also be barred.
And platforms will also be told to take down illegal material such as videos inciting violence or race hate.
I don’t know what’s going on with Russell Brand. I know he started to make political sense a few years ago. I know he was a wild man for quite awhile an then cleaned up his act. He’s been very open about it.
What I find odd is that these sexual assault allegations have come YEARS after they allegedly took place and soon after he became a political adversary of everything woke.
*snort*
Ford suddenly pauses massive EV battery project that Republicans are probing over CCP ties
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ford-suddenly-pauses-massive-ev-battery-project-republicans-probing-ccp-ties?intcmp=tw_fnc
San Fran Pride event. Sex in the open. with video
These people are sick, this is a mental illness!
Anyone who supports this should be checked, shame on you!
https://twitter.com/xrpvito/status/1706411107982688667
wha??
Breaking: Governors Newsom and DeSantis have agreed to a televised debate. When you have the ego of Ron DeSantis this is the kind of humiliating and grave error you make.
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1706426989047943597
catturd has just checked in
So, I was just swatted during my podcast.
The caller pretended to be me and told the cops – “I’ve stabbed someone, had a gun, and was going to kill myself.”
This is the result of being doxxed over and over by leftist outlets. You can imagine how dangerous this is.
I’m okay, the pets are okay, and the local cops were fantastic.
Thanks for your concern. I’ll continue to talk truth to power. I won’t stop. Love you all.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1706404832620278051
Harry and Meghanâs Censorship
1 – Gagging Schools
2 – Working for the Aspen Institute to gag Americans âïž
3 – Silencing the media with lawsuits
4 – Funding The Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard for political gain
5 – Working with WEF
6 – Buying up local US media
https://twitter.com/Freedom16356531/status/1705984765164208516
WTAF is #4? (#6 is the Press Forward thing)
eaglesoars wrote:
Is this another of those groups that wants all donor information pubicly available so they can be harrassed by the lefts storm troopers?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
No. What they are going to do is buy up all failing local liberal newspapers, keep them in business and start the infiltration process.
We’ve got one here, The Knox Sentinel. The first time I read it I thought it was a parody. It was also the last time I read it. And they are desperate. We keep getting calls, promos, etc, from them and I just keep telling them to fuck right off.
NYC now preparing to spend staggering extra $1B on hotels alone to shelter migrants for three more years
https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/nyc-now-preparing-to-spend-staggering-extra-1b-on-hotels-alone-to-shelter-migrants-for-three-more-years/
New York City is preparing for the worst â extending its contract with local hotels to help house migrants for up to three more years at a staggering added cost of more than $1 billion.
And the revised contractâs projected new total $1.365 billion price tag â nearly five times what the original deal called for â would just pay the rental fees to more than 100 hotels converted into emergency migrant shelters.
It doesnât include the cost of city facilities and other rented sites housing homeless asylum seekers pouring into the Big Apple by the thousands every week.
Critics â including even some Democrats â raged that the Adams administrationâs contract with the New York City Hotel Assocation, which is set to be extended from this year through August 2026, reeked of a taxpayer giveaway.
âWhy are we extending this contract for three years? It sends the message of not wanting to reduce this migrant population,â said Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow with The Manhattan Institute.
Hubby’s brother really wants to leave NY – upstate near Syracuse – but they told him they would pull his pension if he did.
Hubby’s son and his family [ex-wife and son] and current wife, 2 sons – are going to get nailed. They have a magnificent house [don’t get me started] and it’s going to be panic time for them.
This is weird. I just ordered some fragrance from Sephora. There was a little note in red letters during checkout. “This item is considered hazmat. Your order will ship by Ground”
It’s on ALL their fragrance orders.
Also, I just realized that the word ‘weird’ violates the “i before e except after c” rule.
@ eaglesoars:
It is flammable, and, or under pressure. So air freight in an unpressurised plane is a no.
@ eaglesoars:
The post office put it on their banned list a year or so ago. The only reason I know is they told the woman in front of me at the post office.
eaglesoars wrote:
In GEORGIA?? Hosted by HANNITY?
This is just freaking hilarious
This is so transparently silly and yet simultaneously obvious in motive.
Both Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis are the approved corporate candidates for 2024. CTH pointed out this effort a year ago, and all of the datapoints since then have perfectly aligned to the simple truth of the thing. Either DeSantis or Newsom is acceptable to the Sea Island crew, and guess where the debate will take place. Yep, Georgia. lol
The intelligence glow-worm known as Sean Hannity, who will have to quickly learn the shut-up skills needed to be a debate moderator, is the chosen performance artist for the nonsense. Hannity will likely take the multinational duo on a tour through the questions of policy that he would provide as solutions,
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/25/murdoch-again-sean-hannity-will-host-debate-between-ron-desantis-and-gavin-newsom-on-november-30th-in-wait-for-it-georgia-lol/
Possum wrote:
Define ‘unpressurised plane’
This stuff is created in France, not the U.S. How do they get it over here?
My absolute favorite perfume is by Creed. Spring Flowers. It’s a Brit company. For years they produced it solely for Audrey Hepburn. After she passed they released it to the public. How does it get here?
My 2nd favorite scent is Mediterranean Honeysuckle by Aerin. I’m pretty sure that’s not produced here either (Aerin is part of Estee Lauder).I’m
And I’m sorry but how is perfume flammable?
I just ordered – and had delivered – a kitchen torch. That thing is a weapon. Delivered by the USPS.
It was delivered by plane from somewhere.
@ eaglesoars:
By ship, I imagine.
Most of which are flammable.
whoa.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders really does dodge endorsing Trump.
This is very odd. (sorry for the commercial)
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-repeatedly-dodges-when-asked-on-fox-news-why-she-hasnt-endorsed-trump-yet/
lobo91 wrote:
ok. Try this on for size
Lithium-ion Batteries From Electric Vehicles Aboard The Felicity Ace Are Keeping The Fire Alive
The Felicity Ace ship, carrying around 4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys, some electric with lithium-ion batteries, caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday. The 22 crew members on board were evacuated on the same day.
https://gcaptain.com/lithium-ion-batteries-electric-vehicles-aboard-felicity-ace-keeping-fire-alive/
past my bedtime. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
Me being dumb as a rock and knowing nothing about anything if in charge of shipping 4,000 vehicles would ship them without batteries installed.
I would also put the batteries on a separate little ship that was towed behind the big ship.
Oh well, I am too busy cooking my supper.
Surgery 2 today.
Theyâre drilling out a section of the artery, putting the stent and a temporary pacemaker. I donât know how long itâll be in, or how long the recovery will be when they take it out.
Should be fun!
Iâm a little worried about this because itâs a higher risk, but the surgeon said heâs done at least 100.
@ right_wing2:
I’m not trying to minimize this, it’s scary as shit. But Hubby had something similar and it was really not that bad. Are you getting a monitor for the pacemaker?
@ eaglesoars:
Iâm not sure.
@ right_wing2:
Well, then probably not. I think they would have mentioned it! đ
As it’s temporary, probably not needed.
Too funny
Hunter Biden Sues Former Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Over Laptop
Hunter Biden Sues Former Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Over Laptop
By thepoliticsbrief – September 26, 2023
Hunter Biden is suing former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and his associated businesses. The lawsuit claims the defendants engaged in unauthorized access and data manipulation of information found on Hunter Bidenâs laptop, which was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop.
In the lawsuit, Hunter Biden asserts that Giuliani and his affiliated entities improperly utilized his username to gain access to the laptopâs contents and subsequently shared this information with third parties. Hunter Biden contends that the defendants not only accessed but also tampered with and altered certain data stored on the laptop.
https://thepoliticsbrief.com/hunter-biden-sues-former-trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-over-laptop/
The final performance of Crossroads from Sunday night. Eric Clapton joins Santana for Black Magic Woman and then Roadhouse Blues by The Doors. Maybe it’s just me, but Clapton really didn’t seem like he wanted to be there. Of course, it was something like 12:30 AM by this point:
Entitled twat.
Harry’s Invictus Games were in Dusseldorf last week. Apparently, there was also a polo match there at the same time. Harry was invited – not to play, just attend.
Sure, he said – for 70 grand – dollars, I assume.
They told him to piss off
Surgery went ok.
Instead of a drill they used some kind of new sonic thing. That breaks the calcification up and they can shove it to the side.
right_wing2 wrote:
SCIENCE!!!
good stuff. Any time invasive surgery can be avoided, it’s best
@ right_wing2:
are you home?
Good God.
NEW: If I am reading this right, Judge Engoron has found that Donald Trump committed fraud and has ordered the cancellation of all of his New York business certificates and the dissolution of the Trump Organization.
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1706767627723681850
NY AG Latitia James, who made it a campaign promise to get Trump, has won a major part of her case. The judge held that because Trump and his organization overvalued assets in loan applications, ALL Trump companies- including those not in the suit- will go into receivership:NY AG Latitia James, who made it a campaign promise to get Trump, has won a major part of her case. The judge held that because Trump and his organization overvalued assets in loan applications, ALL Trump companies- including those not in the suit- will go into receivership:
https://twitter.com/KingMakerFT/status/1706793234515521821
@ eaglesoars:
They are so desperate
Here is the judge’s order removing all Trump’s businesses from him and into receivership
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1706773043274797449
coldwarrior wrote:
And it’s bullshit. NO bank ever gives loans based on an applicant’s evaluation, it’s always appraised
@ eaglesoars:
3 hours of bed rest, then 3 hours sitting here in a hospital room. I’ll be released around 9.
So with discharge instructions, pulling the IV and a couple of bandages, I’ll probably get out around 10.
@ right_wing2:
ok, I’m not going to bother you. I assume you’re home by now, go to bed, check in in the morning.
coldwarrior wrote:
I just want people to understand. The legal system just took Trump’s wealth – just about all of it – and is now well on the way to imprisoning him for life.
some months ago I researched why in God’s name he didn’t pardon Julian Assange. And it turned out Mike Pompeo threatened to resign if he did.
And now Pompeo – who I once respected – is out there flogging our so-called responsibility to Ukraine.
What I THINK I’m looking at is Trump being trussed up like Assange. And I know I’m probably the oldest person here so many may not know/remember – but Ukraine looks like Vietnam.
What is different and MUCH more nefarious now is the WEF/digital currency/internet laws.
The UK has just passed a law under the guise of ‘protecting the children’ – where have we heard THAT before – that controls public speech. That is why that bitch whose name I don’t recall at the moment sent a letter to Rumble asking about the monetization of Russell Brand, etc. The law has passed, King Charles MUST sign it. The citizens of the UK are now breaking the law if they so much as DISCUSS the Russell Brand case on any public forum.
We thought it would knock on the front door. No. It is seeping thru the floorboards.
eaglesoars wrote:
Carried in the Pressurised section of an airplane cargo hold subject to restrictions on volumes for carriage in Passenger aircraft. OR subject to Cargo aircraft ‘dangerous cargo’ rules …. or by sea in containers.
eaglesoars wrote:
Now This is getting interesting-er and Interesting-er. As as happens no matter how much shippers complain, It always comes down to what level of risk assessors place on cargos. You’d be surprised just how much the PRICE goes up as risk assessors do their sums. The world is based entirely on risk assessments and the resulting COST that determines shipping viability.
The Chinese will find out to their chagrin that shipping electric vehicles with batteries attached will fast become just too expensive due to insurance premiums. ANOTHER reason why what is effectively an ‘Island state’ that is China will be held hostage by insurance companies when they take Taiwan and the world refuses to pay exhorbant
Opps….
outrageous premiums on their exports once the US starts mining all of the ‘ pinch point’ approaches to Chinese ports.
Living on an inland sea, the South China Sea, as the Chinese does, makes them vulnerably to insurance demands for their exports in times of war! China has no seriously viable conduits for their exports to the world except by sea cargos through the extremely dangerous South China Sea. Surrounded as it is by easily mined choke points. Just look at a map. China is effectively an Island Nation that has vulnerable choke points as its key access to international shipping.
Wars can be fought in a number of ways! Trade and insurance is an easy option.
coldwarrior wrote:
must be right over the TARGET given the thickness of the Flak!
đ
lobo91 wrote:
Yup
We used to estimate that our Boeing 747 was at least 10 tonnes overweight when departing LAX Runway 25 Right on a 14 hour trip to NZ. Our airplane flew like a stunned Dodo with an extra 10 tonnes of alcohol in the passenger deck overhead lockers. Yet knowing this we STILL were forced to turn a blind eye to the practice. 10 tonnes of alcohol stored glass bottles in overhead lockers + 330 passengers in the middle of an ocean at night in a tropical storm in ‘smoking’ !
I’ll leave it up to your imaginations!
Ocquera-Rocha was a deputy in the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2023/09/25/charges-filed-in-fentanyl-case-against-riverside-county-sheriffs-deputy/70964542007/
Biden’s dog has apparently bitten another Secret Service agent. That makes 11, so far.
lobo91 wrote:
What the hell are they doing to that dog! It’s still just a puppy.
“Nothing Is Working”: Volkswagen’s Factories In Germany Paralyzed After Massive “IT Malfunction”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/nothing-working-volkswagens-factories-germany-paralyzed-after-massive-it-malfunction
Wait till this starts happening at munitions factories/tanks etc.
Holy sh*t a former J6 prosecutor stabbed someone in a road rage incident and then tried to stab another couple trying to help. As I’ve said repeatedly, something very wrong with these people.
Howard Frankland stabbing suspect is former federal prosecutor Howard Frankland stabbing suspect is former federal prosecutor
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2023/09/27/howard-frankland-stabbing-suspect-is-former-assistant-us-attorney/
@ eaglesoars:
Iâm feeling ok today.
Thereâs a huge bruise and a lump on my left forearm from surgery #1, but the doctor just said to keep an eye on it.
Less of a bruise on my leg, probably since thereâs bigger access from there.
The pacemaker was only in while they were working, and instead of drilling they used some kind of new technology that uses sonics to break the calcification up.
Too bad they canât remove it completely, but itâs shoved to the side and the balloon/stent goes over it.
I got a walk in this morning (only missed 1 day in the last week), have made some major changes to my diet, and Iâm working on dropping a bunch of weight.
@ eaglesoars:
And other manufacturing facilities, especially cars, so people have to walk and bike more
oopsie!
Horndog ex-Hizzoner Bill de Blasio has 3-hour heated âtouchy-feelyâ make-out session with mystery woman at rooftop bar
https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/bill-de-blasio-caught-in-heated-make-out-session-with-mystery-woman/
with pic!
I didn’t know he and his skank wife had separated. Managed to miss that earth shattering announcement
Babylon Bee: New York online censorship law includes crack-down on comedy
ADF represents satire website Babylon Bee in friend-of-the-court brief challenging New York censorship law at 2nd Circuit
https://adflegal.org/press-release/babylon-bee-new-york-online-censorship-law-includes-crack-down-comedy
This sounds a lot like the UK’s online safety bullshit law about to be signed by the king
Oh ffs
DOT Invests $100 Mil to Help Disadvantaged Communities by Fixing Broken EV Chargers
https://www.judicialwatch.org/broken-ev-chargers/
eaglesoars wrote:
THere is. The world revolves around them and their worldview. Anything from outside is “other” and must be destroyed.
The Army War College thinks war with China could cause 3600 casualties per day. So, they’re considering a draft.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1707010559559061724
The ‘Nam protests will be viewed as a cake walk if they try this. Maybe they should stop recruiting sexual deviants
@ eaglesoars:
Not exactly rocket science. We haven’t fought a sustained high intensity war since Korea. We don’t have anywhere near the force structure it would take to fight a ground campaign against China.
The Chilean communist activist Valentina Muñoz threatens those who refuse to yield to the Agenda 2030: “This is no longer a negotiation. That’s why it’s called an agenda and not a wish list.”
https://twitter.com/betterworld_24/status/1705904107679088828
hey y’all
need music
“The Chain” (Larkin Poe and The Sheepdogs Cover Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGPUUQtqN7Y
Hi! It’s been a very long while (too long!), so I thought I’d stop by and see how things have been here. I’ve been busy, productive, working as a judicial clerk and composing music. How’s everyone?
lobo91 wrote:
Even under the best of circumstances, would we? I see that scenario as involving nukes simply because we don’t have the manpower
@ eaglesoars:
Not really. We’d need to increase the size of the Army by a factor of 10, at least. We haven’t fielded that many troops since the end of WWII. And then we’d have to equip them. This isn’t 1944, where you can hand them a rifle and a helmet and hope for the best.
Watching the GOP fashion show. Vivi Rama is rocking a bouffant.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Chris Christie said Trump was scared to show up, called him “Donald Duck” and got some boos.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Pence was asked about Obamacare and responded that he has children and grandchildren, and is “sick and tired of these mass shootings”.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
On Big Phama and medical costs,
NoamHaley called for tort reform, the govburger who nobody knows called for the government to get out of the business.The stage lighting makes all the candidates look like P.O.C.
RickTim Scott is almost invisible except for his white teeth and shirt.Now they’re onto education.
MoemHaley calls for vocational classes and school choice and literacy w/o CRT. FOXmod Stuart Varney hints that racism is the cause of low test scores for minorities, Christie doesn’t bite. Univision woman brings up slavery in a similar question to DeDesantis. Ramaswami went off about trans programs, was interrupted twice by modPerino to ask him if he’d pass federal law to prohibit them in public school.@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Mike Pence began his response to question about parental notifications for trans kids by saying “I’ve been sleeping with a school teacher for a long time. Full disclosure,” and paused for reaction. Nobody laughed.
Vivek is coming off as a fast-talking shit-flinger. He’s got some good points, but on others (Ukrraine, China, Russia) he seems a bit naive, and the others on stage have been calling him out on it.
Christie is a pretty good speaker on stage for being a clown.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Nikki Haley said that every time Vivek speaks she feels a little bit dumber.
Pence claims he’s the most conservative candidate on stage and indirectly compared himself to Ronald Reagan.
Food post.
I bitch and moan about cooking for one takes as much time as cooking for a huge family. It is true, a roast is a roast. Difference is f I cook a roast I am eating it for days, and days.
However there are some meals I prepare that take just three minutes. So here is a three minute meal that is great for lunch or a snack at 3am when drunk as a skunk.
Uncle Ben ready rice, Garden Vegetable is my favorite for this. Open pouch and microwave 90 seconds and it is done. While it is microwaving heat up a SMALL skillet, small because it is a meal for one. A big skillet you gonna be eating this shit for days, with a splash of peanut or coconut oil, Get it hot.
Add finely chopped onion to the hot oil. I always have chopped onion in fridge in a zip lock because a whole onion is too big.
Let onion sizzle for 30 seconds then add half the pouch of Uncle Ben’s, stir it all up then crack an egg on it and stir again and turn off the heat.
Let it cook for a minute or so then onto a plate it goes.
Now, add a splosh of mayo to one side of the plate and a small puddle of Teriyaki or sweet and sour or any other sauce you can think of to the other side. Honey mustard would be good.
The way you eat this is important. DO NOT MIX IT ALL UP TOGETHER. The way to enjoy this is to dip your fork in the mayo then scoop up some rice and eat. Same with the side sauces, dip fork in then scoop up the rice.
That way every fork full is a different taste, not one big plate of same flavoured shit.
Now Haley is attacking DeSantis on energy independence. DeSantis took it with a grin and corrected her on her attack points. “That’s just wrong. This is what happened.”
DeSantis has been cool the entire debate. Hasn’t stumbled, had answers for every not-so-subtle gotcha question.
@ Possum:
Thanks for stepping in. I’m tired of doing play-by-play of the platitude festival.
@ Possum:
Yeah and I know that Uncle Ben ready rice is expensive. $2.33 26.5 Âą/oz and a sack of rice is like ten bucks for a twenty pound bag.
Thing is cooking rice from scratch takes twenty minutes, then what about the garden vegetables part. Do I go to the store and buy half a carrot, fourteen peas, and a couple of chunks of a green pepper?
So my way of thinking is half a pouch of Uncle Ben’s is buck twenty, add an egg for ten cents and I got a meal for less than two dollars and no fucking left overs.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
shit i forgot to watch it
@ Possum:
You need to cover the three color groups. White doesn’t count.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I am as colour blind as a bat. You seen the shit I cook.
Possum wrote:
I swear I heard Chris Christie belch while Dana Perino was setting up a question.
The best part was when Nikki Haley called Tim Scott the n-word, he called her the c-word, and they tore into each other for 10 seconds before FOX went to commercial break.
@ Possum:
The do not add black pepper to scrambled eggs before you cook them rule means nothing to me…
And now I hate you bunk. ” means nothing to me ” just gave me an ear worm. A worm I must feed.
On the innernet searching for Vienna…..
@ Possum:
Yeah, got it.
Ultravox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJeWySiuq1I
Possum wrote:
I cap the photos, turn them into black & white, then run them through an AI colorizer. Then I invert the colors and it looks almost edible.
@ Possum:
I’m making the first ten seconds my new ringtone.
eaglesoars wrote:
I agree Eagles. The combat brigades available to the US is reaching pathetic levels. The base logistics remains marginally viable but the available combat boots on the ground have reached the minimum and then continued south from there. As for tech pulling the fat out of the fire? the tech is developing but the capability for capacity production has vanished by being outsourced. The hollowing out of the US forces structure has been going on for way too long for any quick turnaround now. THAT in itself makes me VERY twitchy about the Tac Nuke scenario, especially if the Russians set the ball rolling and a few US Combat Battle Groups dissolve in a flash of dialable Plutonium.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
There was a Star Trek episode about two civilizations at war. It was a lottery gig. Your number came up and you went into a tube that vaporized you. All based on an algo. The warring civilizations thought it was a better idea than actually blowing shit up and they each got to maintain their infrastructure.
@ Aussie Infidel:
War has changed. It is no longer the 1918 solders in trenches popping up and taking shots at each other.
This is 2023 where f you are in a war with another country first thing the enemy does is turn out the lights.
I cannot understand why Russia has been so gentle with ukraine
@ eaglesoars:
Another thing. I don’t think many people truly understand the terms of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. In my opinion, he was the greatest president in our history. There is a lot of hagiography around him and it is all well deserved.
But what people miss is his utter ruthlessness. He burned half this country right down to the ground. And don’t get me started on how he unleashed Sheridan. “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” guy.
Lincoln took no prisoners. And the prisoners he did take, he hanged.
PhilipDaniel wrote:
i think that i have yinz all set to go.
welcome back.
@ eaglesoars:
LOL and you all yell England bad.
The whole thing about England colonising places was to grow stuff and mine stuff to send back to England to make us rich.
Killing the population of a colony is kind of not really productive.
@ PhilipDaniel:
Don’t fall for that scam CW is running where if you send him a buck fifty you get a blue check mark.
Possum wrote:
a buck 75.
bidenflation….
@ coldwarrior:
Glad I got scammed early… LOL
coldwarrior wrote:
wait, where is his post? I missed it.
PhilipDaniel wrote:
oh THERE you are! Hi! So – want to share the music?
right now I’m going to bed.
I missed the debate.
Iâm still up in the air (plenty of time, I know) on who I like. Krispy is out. No, thanks on Trump. Iâm off the Vivek train. I think DeSantis would lose. Haley and Scott are probably my top picks.
Itâs not that social issues arenât important, but the focus needs to be on the economy. Chinaâs threat. Helping people get on their feet.
@ eaglesoars:
You can find my music on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipDaniel/playlists
My most recent work on a grand scale is a string trio in four movements, for dilruba/esraj/sarangi or three cellos, inspired by the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfAMgWcjhMYdYHTpB5bwJzJKu321pLPC
Be forewarned that my musical language, which combines the traditional with the modern, might seem artificial or contrivedââchromatic harmony bordering on atonality, dense polyphonic textures approximating a type of “musical prose”, the continual development of small motives. It certainly won’t appeal to everyone
@ Aussie Infidel:
There was a former US general who has been vocal about ending the UE-RU war for over a year now who has all been but shunned and ignored. He laid out why the US would not win a conventional war with Russia at this point and that the current Russian army in the field is not what was around in Feb. 2022. Their joint combined arms tactics have improved immensely. They have mass produced the needed materials for a prolonged conflict and have 350k soldiers in reserve. Ukraine has losses of 7:1 and are out of troops with over millions of citizens abroad and never returning. He also said his biggest fear is the US sleeping walking into a nuclear conflict predicated on the US use of tactical nukes which will quickly escalate.
The current crop of reprobates in DC are way out of their depth, but are so self-deluded believing they are capable.
Holy crap
https://notthebee.com/article/its-not-just-a-meme-anymore-the-la-times-wants-you-to-live-in-a-pod
Possum wrote:
Excuse me?
right_wing2 wrote:
I believe there is something similar in Japan
oh jeez. The UK is in mourning. A sycamore tree, hundreds of years old, grown along Hadrian’s wall, was felled during the night by someone with a chainsaw. This tree has been an icon in the UK. Apparently a 16 yr old has been arrested but no word on the charges.
Sycamore Gap on Hadrian’s Wall
https://twitter.com/Glyndle/status/1707340460807557559
I have a comment still awaiting moderation.
I wish Yenta was still with us. She would have LOVED this. She was the one who clued me into Chrystia Freeland and her family.
#CrystiaFreeland Deputy Prime Minister and senior board member of The World Economic Forum and who reports to her German Chairman #KlausSchwab appears to hate #Russians with a passion and has been instrumental in providing aid and money to Ukrainian Nazis of which her Grandfather was a collaborator in #Ukraine with reportedly family members who were also part of the Waffen SS Nazi Galicia unit under the Wehrmacht.
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1707484369940521429
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve been there!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
Lucky you. Unfortunately, it’s no longer ‘there’
Hubby and I were married under a sycamore tree at Burnside’s Bridge/Antietam. We went back years later to have a picnic with our Molly who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The tree was gone. Cut down due to disease. We were heartbroken. That tree had survived the Civil War.
@ eaglesoars:
I did a great walkabout on Hadrian’s wall area for 4 days.
Wonderful
Possum wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
Forget it. He’s rolling.
@ Possum:
Yes, you got scammed early but asked for it. Now, dump the stupid blue check mark you made.
Now, I get to look at lisence plate holders for an hour and choose one that will be rejected!
Oh joy, daughters.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
so are my eyes
Ok. Trump vs. DeSantis.
I’m concerned about what I THINK I’m seeing about Jared Kushner and the Saudis. Jared’s personal life seems to be clean, but that’s concerning.
thoughts?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Um, read the post I was responding to. Digest it then re-read my reply.
Then roll back to me….
OMG. Our testosterone-free Sec State Blinken (and Nod) thinks he’s a rock star.
Jimmy Page would open a vein. Watch this.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1707568623282500016
Possum wrote:
I was trying mollify Eaglesoars. Obviously didn’t work.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mollify#:~:text=Some%20common%20synonyms%20of%20mollify,speech%20that%20mollified%20the%20demonstrators
Great job. You should have been a social worker….
h/t rightymouse
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1707233674054213819
Elon Musk is on border patrol. I kid you not
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1707529754075713691
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
oh. I fucked up again. sorry.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That was posted 24 hours ago and this is the first I’ve heard about it. I fucking SCOUR the innernut and this is nowhwere. WTAF?
eaglesoars wrote:
Ok, it’s a nothing burger.
“On background, Arizona law states that when the Governor is out of state, the next elected official in line serves as acting Governor. In this case, the Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General will all be out of the state leaving Treasurer Yee as acting Governor.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-governor-mysteriously-steps-down-one-day
Good lord. An ‘historian’. Michael Beschloss. I once thought he mattered.
Biden has never delivered a more important, powerful or eloquent speech than the one he has just given about the crucial importance of protecting American democracy.
Watch, listen, read.
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1707480557418942683
Cultural suicide in slow motion direct from Gavin Newsom
NEW: Fast food workers in CA will now be paid the highest minimum wage of any state in the country.
I just signed a bill that will ensure these workers receive the fair pay they deserve.
$20/hr
Hail the robots! Which will be destroyed with whatever weapons come to hand. So they won’t be insurable. And on and on.
Today grocery order delivered. Oh, and I am not gay I actually like cauliflower, with the cream cheese.
This should last me two weeks or more, I have sharp cheddar and eggs and butter in stock. The ribs are a special treat for me.
Freshness Guaranteed Italian Bread Loaf, 14 oz Qty 2 $2.94
Smithfield Fresh Pork Spareribs, 3.7 – 7.9 lb Qty 1 $12.27
Great Value Cauliflower, 12 oz (Frozen) Qty 4 $3.92
Great Value Cream Cheese Brick, 8 oz, 2 Count Qty 1 $2.86
Libby’s Canned Sliced Carrots, 14.5 oz. Qty 2 $2.24
Great Value Italian Seasoning, 0.95 Oz Qty 1 $1.12
Campbell’s Condensed Tomato Soup, 10.75 Ounce Can Qty 2 $2.52
Great Value Sliced Hickory Smoked Original Pork Bacon, 16 oz Qty 1 $5.87
Eckrich Skinless Smoked Sausage, 14 oz Qty 1 $3.46
BEN’S ORIGINAL Ready Rice Garden Vegetable Flavored Rice, 8.8 OZ Pouch Qty 2 $4.66
BEN’S ORIGINAL Ready Rice Butter and Garlic Flavored Rice, 8.8 OZ Pouch Qty 2 $4.66
BEN’S ORIGINAL Ready Rice Jasmine Rice, 8.5 OZ Pouch Qty 2 $4.66
Subtotal $51.50
@ Possum:
Today walk to the convenience store.
1 bottle of MD 20/20 Blue Raspberry
1 Six Pack Busch 16 oz cans
4 packs of Clipper Red smokes
Total $20.22
That will last me a day.
LOL I need to adjust my priorities in life.
$600 a month in alcohol and smokes and just $100 a month food?
I need to start eating more…….
@ Possum:
Sometimes when harsh reality strikes that you realise you spend six times more on alcohol and smokes than you do on food something needs to change.
Maybe if I spent less on food I wouldn’t be so fucking fat.
@ Possum:
eaglesoars wrote:
There was a lot of speculation on the thread and I was overdue for a nap so I didn’t mollify it it.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Even I know that during the state of the onion address there is one person not invited and kept in a secret and secure location.
Makes sense also at the state level. Whoever is next on the list to be governor is acting governor if all he others are not in state.
Three comments from Phillip Daniel released from purgatory (up thread).
I also an emailed Dark Words yesterday. No response yet. His last post here was on 19 March. 2nd to last was this:
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/03/18/do-the-potatus-shuffle/#comment-99651
Possum wrote:
$14 for 10 packs of 20 “filtered” cigars?? lol
https://www.cheaplittlecigars.com/Clipper-Filtered-Cigars-Red-Full-Flavor_p_2562.html
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yep, but then add shipping and the fact that when they are delivered you has to get out of bed and show an ID to prove you is old then two bucks a pack at the convenience store is a bargain.
Also it makes me get outside and walk half a mile.
I has rules, you want beer or smokes you walk your fat white ass and go get them.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Had to googlify.
https://www.holts.com/clubhouse/cigar-101/filtered-cigars
@ Possum:
“The biggest difference between filtered cigars and cigarettes is that filtered cigars are finished with an outer leaf of tobacco, whereas cigarettes are processed with a paper wrapping. The second big distinction between filtered cigars and cigarettes is that filtered cigars should not be inhaled.”
Hunh.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Biggest difference is there is no tax on them. Pack of Marlboro is eight bucks, pack of Clipper two bucks.
And the outer leaf isn’t tobacco, it is brown paper. I ain’t stupid.
Possum wrote:
Long ago I lived in a crappy apartment that was walking distance to a 7-11. The walk took me past a fenced lot with a guard dog that would bark at me non-stop until I had passed, even though I told it to sit, hush, and every other dog command I could think of. Then I hollered at it to STFU and STFD en el español. Dog froze, cocked its head and sat down. Problema solved.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
There are dogs here running loose that are typical Hispanic dogs. Little and yappy. That is not derogatory, there is a weight limit of about twenty five pounds here in apartment complex.
I try to make friends with them as they chase me. I actually do not run very fast, neither do they but we have fun.
Idon’t like those little doggs and they do not like me. I am a Gringo.
The dogs I would like to get to know and look after are the bigger dogs that got dumped in the Park and Ride parking lot there.
They are getting fed, and you would not guess by who.
The homeless people living there.
I would take pictures and videos but I am not stupid. I don’t belong here.
@ Possum:
Yeah, yeah there is a lady dog that hangs around in the parking lot that is not under nourished because there is so much food stuff casually thrown around in this area but she is wary of humans.
NOPE NOT DOING IT……..
@ Possum:
We have a new friend hanging around the side garage door, Midge the Pidge. Completely white belly, black and grey speckled wings and head, atypical coloring for the flocks around here. Loves dried lentils, not the crappy sesame seeds the missus put out for it.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Only gay people have lentils dried or otherwise.
Blog poll. CW set this up.. Question is ” Is having access to lentils a sign of homosexuality? Yes or no ”
My vote is yes.
@ Possum:
You miss Beed too huh?
eaglesoars wrote:
My Godson just got kicked upstairs to ‘Full Chicken Colonel, after suffering purgatory as one of two ADCs to the Secretary of Defence inside the five sided puzzle Palace’, for the past few years. He’s just been posted to the Army War College as a senior instructor. One of the few these days, who actually led troops in battle. Didn’t lose one of his Samoans either, even surviving being harassed by a one star back in Corps with all of the ‘creature comforts’ of course, mumbling ‘suggestions’ in his left ear, as he was in the middle of fighting an urban battle. I might say, like most officers back in Corps, they had never actually commanded troops in battle themselves, whereas my Godson was being shot at on a daily basis. Typical!
SPIT
Losing a Battle Group per day in a serious war, with half a Division of wounded per day, brings serious officers to the fore.The US are going to need all of those Reservists Guard and 90 day enforced troops that they can get. First problem is getting shot of Millie, and putting a serious soldier in charge.
Possum wrote:
Nah mate!
I use lentils to get some serious body into a pea and ham soup and I definitely do NOT swish!
đ
eaglesoars wrote:
Kushner has quite a background story to tell but nobody really goes there much because he also has a reputation to go with it. He’s got seriously deep connections in Israel and what is going down as we speak with the Saudis changing horses in mid stream as they are, Kushner is playing a power game for the highest stakes. Both he and his wife should be given a wide berth by everyone including his father in law. Especially his father in Law, given the size of the target he’s sporting on his back, and the extremely powerful folks who will end up in Federal prison for 500 years, each given the games they have been playing for decades. Worst job in the world in 2025…… USSS officers in charge of Trump’s security detail, if Trump actually survives until January 2025.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup I remember that show. Trouble is not actually losing stuff prolongs war and killing on cue is reprehensible. Same thing with neutron enhanced warheads that destroys flesh but leave behind infrastructure is totally amoral. If you insist in poking an enemy, with black letter written down tactical policy, that has no ‘shift gears’ break between conventional and tac-nuke is just silly. But that is exactly what the US has had in place for 40 years. The mid 1970s to mid 1980s were the most dangerous of times. That decade dwarfed what happened in the early 1960s when the CCCP were mostly bluffing and they knew that they would blink first. Except when by accident they almost blew up the world, and it took a VERY brave Soviet operational commander on the spot, to refuse to take that lethal step without checking first! Other than that almost accidental ‘oppsy’ the 1960s were just a bit of bluff. Kennedy was totally out of his depth and it showed. Fortunately he knew enough to realise his own failings and sought wise mentors to help him got out of a potentially deadly spot.
Dianne Feinstein has died.
https://abc7news.com/senator-dianne-feinstein-dead-obituary-san-francisco-mayor-cable-car/13635510/#:~:text=Senator%20Dianne%20Feinstein%20has%20died,Insider%20Phil%20Matier%20has%20confirmed.
Now watch for the chess play I posted earlier.
Kamala Harris gets moved to her seat. Newsom gets moved to VP. Biden falls off his bike. Newsom gets moved to POTUS.
Game on.
@ eaglesoars:
So some of my friends are speculating Michelle Obama, aka “Big Mike” would be Newsom’s VP.
hmmmm. I dunno. She hates it, would not want to do it.
The nightmare scenario for VP? Gretchen Whitmer.
Diane Feinstein has passed away.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/town-s-electric-buses-out-of-commission-commuters-relying-on-diesel-powered-fleet
ROFL
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I saw that yesterday. Fucking hilarious!
Since 8:30 this morning we have had SIX different companies/people here.
I’m absolutely dead/exhausted. I just want to go back to bed
Fish reel diddley bow..
eaglesoars wrote:
Not sure how that happens given the rules of succession. Newsom’s in a pickle.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Thx. I got pulled to the mother ship for trauma duty
The timing on this shutdown nonsense sucks. I was planning to head out Sunday morning for my last trip of the year, to NE Nevada and central Utah, visiting 4 National Parks. It would be really nice to know if they’ll be open when I get there.
lobo91 wrote:
Iremember reading last shutdown that they actually don’t have to close the parks, there is some kind of loophole on staffing for the parks. The left just does it to get people riled up against the Republicans for “holding the country hostage.” Similar thing with welfare programs, since they are state run they can keep operating but the dems shut them down everywhere they can get away with it to generate hostility.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
A long complicated read but in a nutshell Lobo is going to have to shit where the bears shit.
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/government-shutdown-will-close-americas-national-parks-impede-visitor-access
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Of course. Last time, they even put up barricades around the open-air monuments in DC like the WWII Memorial. Nobody even works there, aside from someone to cut the grass and empty the trash cans. They literally used more resources to keep people out than they normally do to have it open.
@ Possum:
There’s no question that they’ll close the parks if they don’t pass a funding bill. The question is whether they’re going to pass something or not.
lobo91 wrote:
A group of disabled veterans had planned a tour for months and were turned away from the
LincolnWWII Memorial, yet a bunch of native Americans were allowed in to protest something.Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I remember that.
My phone died today. Had to get a new one. Over 3 freaking hours.
Today has just sucked.
I ASKED CHAT
@ Possum:
Try this again. I asked chatGPT a simple question.
“Do lentils make you gay?”
Answer was “Iâm sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. Iâm still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.’
Told ya, lentils make you gay.
LOL finally got a straight answer.
Q; “do lentils reduce testosterone levels’
LOL ANSWER: “Lentils are a type of legume that are rich in protein and fiber. They are also a good source of vitamins and minerals such as iron, potassium, and folate. While lentils are a nutritious food choice, there is limited scientific evidence to suggest that they have a direct impact on testosterone levels1. However, some sources suggest that plant proteins like lentils and nuts may be linked to lower testosterone levels”
Lentils make you gay…….
I just saw a news story from Utah. The state says that if the federal government shuts down, they’re going to pay to keep the five National Parks open.
@ lobo91:
That was in the link I sent you. If they want the state or tribes can keep the parks open
@ Possum:
Makes sense, the parks bring in tourist dollars to the whole area around them
Strong woman. Sen. Feinstein was posting tweets/Xs while in a coma.
https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/1707505958040048116
Possum wrote:
Here is a breakdown of the gayest countries.
https://www.atlasbig.com/en-us/countries-lentil-production
Possum wrote:
Especially Utah. Almost the entire state is National Parks or National Monuments.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Notice the UK is not on that list.
Czech Republic men are real men too. Only three tons per year grown, and that is probably for export.
lentils are for communists.
lol
BLAME THATCHER!
coldwarrior wrote:
So is Vodka.
Would a 3rd Party run by RFK , Jr hurt Trump or Biden more?
One of the Dems actually pulled a fire alarm in an attempt to stop a vote on a temporary funding bill:
Empty room?
@ coldwarrior:
Empty room is good. Like fully empty bowels.
Yep that is the ads I am getting now.