It’s an Open Thread!
We are $1200 for $1000 and a bunch of bets were made last week. 3/5, so back to $1300 FOR $1000.
Let’s see what’s in store for week 7 besides the Ireland V New Zealand match that we will get to later.
None of the games are piquing my interest. So, no bets this week.
Waitaminute…
8 Oregon @ 7 Washington 3:30 PM. Won’t matter. Georgia will beat either of these pretenders by 21. but, what the hell, the always overrated Ducks are 3 point dogs to the dogs (Huskies), heh. Anyway, Bo Nix is the Ducks QB, and he is very, very good. Ducks beat the spread (I always lose when I go this way).
Florida @ South Carolina 3:30 PM. The Gators are only 2 point favorites? I’ll take them to cover. That spread just looks weird.
10 USC @ 21 Notre Dame 7:30 PM. ND is at home in a classic rivalry game and the Irish are 2 point favorites. They won’t cover. ‘SC has a hell of a QB who will be playing on Sunday.
RWC 2023
Saturday at 1500 eastern, two of the best teams in the world are going to square off in the knock-out round of the Rugby World Cup. It’s Ireland v New Zealand. If yinz have access to Peacock online do watch it. this should be one for the ages. Let’s add this to the ledger: Ireland is 2 point faves to win, I’m going for NZ to beat the spread. I have my reasons, even though ireland are the faves to win it all.
There are other matches, but none that promise to be this great, this week…except on Sunday:
France (at home) v South Africa (1500 eastern). SA is the most physical team out there and they are playing against a great France team on French soil. again, on peacock, do watch if you have a chance. This one will get very chippy unless the ref clamps down early. SA are 2 point dogs in vegas. They should be able to get under the French skin and cause a lot of penalties anad beat that spread, France loses the story pretty fast after they have been belted in the mouth a few times and then get dirty and play stupidly.
I had to talk Mrs coldwarrior down, she wanted to buy pizza for a company!
coldwarrior wrote:
YOU GO GIRL!
First doesn’t count if you’re the one who put up the thread.
FIRST
@ coldwarrior:
Solar Eclipse Music
https://youtu.be/IjQkgZmBjzE?si=fExLBuRAIu_dp7B4
Second! DoD has been abandoned. Ugh.
Watching the Eire vs All Blacks and its a good match so far. Looking forward watching the Frogs vs the Springboks tomorrow night.
Just got home from work. Stumbled across an article about the store I work in.
https://cityviewmag.com/rick-terry-jewelry-designs/
It’s not pictured in this article and I didn’t know what it was until today. There is this ‘artwork’ on one of the walls I just assumed was paper mache or something. Looks ‘Aztec-y’. It’s circular, about 4 ft across, cream colored. I dunno.
Turns out it’s an actual Aztec calendar.
Carved out of white jade.
From Brazil
The thing probably costs more than my house.
https://doriangrey1.substack.com/p/hath-but-a-short-time
Good
All six states voted no to a proposal to change the constitution to recognise Indigenous citizens and create an advisory body to the government.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said defeat was hard: “When you aim high, sometimes you fall short. We understand and respect that we have.”
Opposition leader Peter Dutton said the result was “good for our country”.
The referendum, dubbed “The Voice”, was Australia’s first in more than a quarter of a century. With almost 70% of the vote counted, the “No” vote led “Yes” 60% to 40%.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67110193
Ok, I could use some input/ideas.
I want to make a sandwich spread out of chickpeas.
First step is to spin them in a food processor to get a medium chop. I don’t want it to be like peanut butter, more like tuna salad. A bit chunky.
Then, some mayo I think. Make my own. A garlic aoli maybe?
lemon juice, just a bit
soy sauce? just a bit, like 1/4 teaspoon
maybe dijon?
cumin?
On toasted sour dough bread with – cucumber slices?
suggestions welcome.
doriangrey wrote:
Wow Dorian. Just. Wow.
Yeshua Hamashiach.
I did not know that.
And not to pic a nit, but you need to correct this – we all do it
For thousands of years, their has been a saying throughout the middle east,
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, I could use a proof reader…
How odd. His hat flies off before you hear the shot.
HAPPY JIHAD FRIDAY!!
https://twitter.com/Sniper64286433/status/1712941999136072165
doriangrey wrote:
If I had a nickel……….
I have no idea but it’s hilarious
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1713269175458615349
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
that, sir, was one of the finest rugby matches that i have ever seen.
@ eaglesoars:
olive oil, not mayo.
yes dijon, very light on cumin, give it some garlic.
eaglesoars wrote:
WHAT????
oh my!
i’m up at g’ma and papap coldwarriors house,
its brisket, gravy, and duck fat fried potatoes.
oh hell yes.
later yinz!
wait. Didn’t ‘we’ say we had no clue about the attack? Now CNN reporting we warned Israel in Sept?
*thunk*
coldwarrior wrote:
hmmm…I shall puree some garlic cloves in olive oil. That’s what I do with avocado spread. I’m thinking some fresh dill
-Message for Mr. Possum: Ms. Lucy D. has a DM for you.-
coldwarrior wrote:
GET AN AIR FRYER! You will never go back. Use all the duck fat you want
coldwarrior wrote:
I start training on the point of sale system on Tues. I’ll take a pic and send it to you. Rick said it took 4 men to lift it onto the mounting.
rightymouse wrote:
Nothing to report, either in the swampblog or on mastodon. I’ve become apathetic.
Well, I was supposed to be in Denver to see Sadie Johnson and Kara Grainger this evening. Cody had other ideas. I tried to drop him off for boarding, and he decided to snap at two different staff members. They kicked him out. None of the other places I called could take him on no notice (it’s Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, which doesn’t help).
So much for that…
eaglesoars wrote:
Got one.
The spuds get done on a griddle on the gas grill with a side smoker box.
@ lobo91:
I suspect Cody is a bit wearied with feeling abandoned.
HAR!!
Difference between border collie and husky
https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1713159665360711837
G’ma n papap just dropped a ton of pies on the IDF.
Papap (Vietnam vet) loves this idea.
@ coldwarrior:
Good. Wait till they get the thank you email from Elisha
ut vs a&m
10 to go in 4th
vols up 14-13
ugly sloppy game
Penalties killed them
Penalties killing the Vols
Penalties kill
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
One of the all time best games of Rugby Union played. Two teams at the height of their powers leaving it ALL on the park.
I have NEVER seen a final 3 minutes where Ireland threw 40 that’s FORTY phases of pure aggression against an All Blacks side defending a slender advantage but the Black Wall held not just to Full Time but for another 4 brutal minutes of extra time until a penalty finally broke the hearts of the Irish. UnF***ing believable Rugby. This game is worthy of a Grand Final in its intensity aggression and skill sets on parade from BOTH teams. You’ve got to feel for the Irish as that Quarter Final jinx and the 600 lb gorilla on their backs goes to an eighth cycle.The Irish are the best in the world yet when it comes down to wanting to win it’s the ABs yet again. This is truly remarkable athleticism and both teams left everything on the field. Both had NOTHING left at the end.
ENJOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lFTMaC0_9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfbc6NANvBc
🙂
By the way the NZ Conservative handed Labour Party hacks their arses last night after an election where all the pundits got it WRONG yet again!
In Aussie the Aussie Constitutional change YES / NO election, went from the communist Left + Corporates+ Labor Left governments (Federally and in ALL States) + Unions+ Media+ Billionaire funders pushing a YES agenda, full of covert agendas LOSING 40% to 60% to the NO vote funded by mom and pop voters demanding clarity stripped of covert agendas, and the SWAMP’s hidden agenda
The YES vote started off 70% to 30% before the people started asking questions. Then the real ‘1984 Orwell’ plans began to leak. Even Aussie Aborigine voted overwhelmingly for a NO change to the Constitution.
All around a great night ‘Down-Under’
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
{hugs}
Bongino nails it
If you’re siding with bloodthirsty savages, who would behead you in a NY minute, because some yet-to-exit-puberty d-bag did a Tik Tok video about the fake “occupation,” he read about in a blog post from another basement dwelling “influencer” taking a break from his porn watching schedule, then you’re doing this life thing all wrong.
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1713277660007219463
Just arrived at work. This is the front entrance to BBC this morning
https://twitter.com/vicderbyshire/status/1713111853214147021
It’s not actual blood, it’s paint, but message sent and received
Thoughts?
There is no chance that Hamas could have broken through the security barrier around Gaza and gone on a killing spree for 8-26 hours before the IDF arrived. This means Israel let them through, which means the USA told them to, which means everything happening now was planned.
https://twitter.com/SimonElmer2022/status/1713233419310669997
Note his nic is ‘A communist in Hong Kong’
I still have zero idea what to think
@ eaglesoars:
Anyone who believes that Netanyahu is taking orders from Biden is delusional.
@ lobo91:
well, yeah.
but I can’t reconcile the “we had no clue this was coming’ with “we knew ahead of time but did nothing”
I don’t know where to go with that
So I bake bread.
clueless.
@ eaglesoars:
I doubt that we’ll ever know the full story, but I really can’t imagine the Israelis deliberately allowing something like that to happen. Our government? Yeah, probably. But not Israel.
@ eaglesoars:
Did you know that they make coyote-proof body armor for dogs now?
Maybe I should get a set for my mom’s dog
lobo91 wrote:
No I did NOT! Oh jeez.
Probably cheaper than feeding Thor.
this might work.
https://www.coyotevest.com/products/coyotewhiskers
although the last time I saw a serious dog fight, they went for the throat.
Trump Supporters ‘Highly Likely’ to Try to Kill People in 2024: Analyst
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporters-highly-likely-try-kill-people-2024-analyst-1831191
Elon
As tragic as the mass-shootings are, armed citizens are essential to the defense of democracy
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1713379776923058181
Israeli military is calling journalists in Gaza to threaten their lives.
They’ve already killed 10. How many more?
https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1713252280324005925
All of them
The funniest thing on twitter is this thing where somebody sez IF YOU DON’T AGREE WITH ME UNFOLLOW ME NOW!!
Or the subset of the above who tell their followers OH WE ALL AGREE ON ‘X’ SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
People take themselves so seriously as tho they’re actually important.
Who the actual fuck needs validation from social media from people they never have and never will lay eyes on? And they are ‘influencers’?
Go scrub a floor. Get a job.
Nobody pays attention to the birders, who take astonishing pictures of birds all over the world, or the architectural historians who document paintings, structures, etc. before they’re lost to the elements.
There is such value there but for the most part, people just are there to prove to others and themselves that they’re a big deal.
How very odd.
Here is a gorgeous bird tweet/video from China. Enjoy
https://twitter.com/linjianyangbe/status/1713381931511922980
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
thanks
@ eaglesoars:
My favorite bit of total lack of self-awareness:
You mean, for example a president going on national TV, standing in front of a red-lit Independence Hall, giving a speech in which he essentially called everyone who didn’t vote for him an enemy of the state? Is that the sort of targeting and demonization you’re referring to?
lobo91 wrote:
This is why I left university and got a job. Starting with having to show up at 5 am and lug a 50 lb of of donut mix out of the basement and get it started in the mixer at a fast food joint called Frugle McDuogle’s.
I loved philosophy. I loved Socrates and Voltaire and the whole nine yards (but still don’t “get” Kierkegaard). Got to PSU and what a wake up. The posturing and outright dishonesty was mind slamming.
The term ‘stochastic’ has absolutely ZERO meaning in this context. It’s a statistical term, CW can weigh in.
It’s people who toss around what they think are ‘important’ words to make themselves look high IQ.
Total bullshit.
eaglesoars wrote:
Thank you for the hugs Eagles.
Strange shit is happening down here. Getting knocked out (deep anaesthesia and a camera down my gullet) for one reason and finding something completely different as it turned out.They did discover that there was never an impediment in my thoracic channel and the imaging guy should have no problems getting an imaginer down my gullet to image my heart in real time as they do a patch-up job to make me bulletproof to permanently block off an amateur in my Left Atrium against possible clot formation at some future occasion. In and out of hospital in 30 hours. What the specialist gasterologist with his fancy little camera did discover was a gastric ulcer just sitting down there someplace minding its own business . He’ll go and kill it off over 3 months as a plus. Talked the heart procedure with a specialist cardiac nurse and had loads to questions and he was very open and clearing answering the what and how questions. A 0630 kick off that involves an imaging CT probe and video down my gullet to guide the small memory metal (Titanium and Nickel) mesh up via my Femoral Vein inside a probe sheath that can fit inside a micro needle that can stretch to admit the mesh bas it passes between the Right and Left atrium and then return to micro size as they back out. He was clear and concise answering my questions and I am very comfortable with their ‘way smart’ procedure. He also gave me a backgrounder on the specialist cardiac surgeon and the anaethistist imager. Told me to give the gym a miss for a week and then don’t get back to heavy slow to exhaustion sets for the rest of November. Just do the normal gym stuff.
Suits me!
🙂
Bloody predictive
Hopefully no ‘amateur’ will be involved!
HEH
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
sheesh. I am beyond tired – in a good way – will re-read tomorrow when I wake up.
nite. love you
Appendage not amateur! The memory mesh that closes off the Left atrial appendage permanently and then builds up muscle tissue to totally embed it is the way to go these days.
HEH
🙂
Awww thanks Eagles. G’nite!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Beware of folks who misuse words to make one think that they are smarter than they really are!
🙂
Words are very useful ‘tools’ and should never be misused as ego masseurs!
HEH
🙂
@ Possum:
Wasn’t sure if he/she was legit. Carry on.
https://twitter.com/TAftermath2020/status/1713224796312592744
Excuse me? Who am I shooting? Why is it always the eyes?
‘
Another nut case white ‘lady’ who has to see herself on the innurnut and had one word in her vocabulary
https://twitter.com/TAftermath2020/status/1713224796312592744
Umm…I could be wrong, but isn’t it just common sense for a bank to not loan money to someone who’s subject to being deported at any time?
???
“Robert Malley – the State Department bureaucrat and former Iran special envoy who is mysteriously on leave for allegedly mishandling classified information – grew up with PLO leader Yasser Arafat as his unofficial ‘godfather.'”
https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1713554500273819686
[She’s referring to a pro-Palestinian event at UNC]
The Research Triangle Park area (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) has the highest concentration of Hezbollah activists in the country. Kinda odd but when you remember the tech prowess of that area and proximity to Ft Bragg/Liberty and Special Forces it makes sense
https://twitter.com/jenvanlaar/status/1713551847888204185
Yeah, this bitch. She’s the granddaughter of the imam who counseled one of the 9/11 hijackers. The mosque was across the street from my condo, I watched it being built. Every Friday evening I’d get home from work and get into fights with them for taking our parking spaces.
Pro-Palestinian school board member opposes honoring Hamas attack victims: ‘Ignores the root of the violence’
Fairfax County school board member Abrar Omeish chided fellow members for a moment of silence and not including a pro-Palestine perspective
https://www.foxnews.com/media/pro-palestinian-school-board-member-opposes-honoring-hamas-victims-ignores-root-violence
She got elected in 2018 and that’s when I knew we were leaving Virginia
“You can fuck right off! Fuck your cat and your tweet. It’s over. Unfollow.”
–Megyn Kelly on some WaPo reporter’s Tweet supporting Hamas
@ lobo91:
wait, what? This woman denigrates NBC anchors for wanting to be ‘stars’? The same woman who left her anchor job because she wanted to be like Oprah? Who ‘performed’ so badly and was such a diva no one would hire her for years?
Spare me.
Wow.
Porn Star Mia Khalifa has her adult video income FROZEN by PornHub after her shocking Twitter outburst where she called for Hamas terrorists to “flip their phones and film horizontal” when they execute Jewish people.
PornHub will be donating 100% of her earnings from her explicit videos to support people in Israel.
Source: MSNBC
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1713589214623735960
If you read further, you’ll see Porn Hub is giving all her money to Israel.
Ok, I understand the sentiment.
But I’m pretty sure it’s called ‘theft’
How convenient
FBI director warns of rise in terror threats against Americans, potential copy-cat attacks on US soil
https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/fbi-director-warns-of-copy-cat-terror-attacks-on-us-soil/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Obviously! Ugh!
Leftwing Jew-haters pretend to support American Jews as cover for their hatred of Israel.
Rightwing Jew-haters pretend to support Israel as cover for their hatred of American Jews.
lobo91 wrote:
“Coyote-proof body armor?” Do they make it in sizes that will fit the women and children being trafficked over the border by coyotes?
@ rightymouse:
Maybe we should morph it into something else, like a live “Moss Cam” and show one growing in real time.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Do you have any idea why American Jews are still voting for Dems? It is the oddest thing……………………
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That’s just treating the symptoms of the problem. To get rid of coyotes, bring in the next predator up the food chain. Wolves.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not really. Here’s a partial, short-form answer—and I recognize that “short form” in this case is rather long, but I can expand on these broad-brush observations if you wish:
American Jews vote reflexively Democrat and reflexively Left for many reasons.
One is that many of the Jews who came here—by no means all, but many—were already Leftists. The more “enlightened” Jews, the Jews more dissatisfied with their lot in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe, were overwhelmingly Leftists of one sort or another. They considered the entrenched Old Regimes of Europe to be their enemy—rightly—and had cast their lot with Napoleon and assimilation going back to the beginning of the 19th century.
Here, some shed their Judaism eagerly, as the Reform assimilationist movement had done in Europe when Napoleon’s conquests emancipated the Jews from the ghetto, and gave them citizenship (something which went back and forth in Europe throughout the 19th century; with Napoleon’s defeat, many of the emancipations were revoked). Even those who remained nominally practicing Jews ditched strict Shabbos observance in favor of getting jobs; remember that 80 or 100 years ago there was not only no chance of taking off the latter half of Fridays when the days grow short, but that people were expected to work half-days on Saturday.
Anyway, here the Republicans were identified with the Old Regimes of Europe, since back during the days of the big immigration industrialists and other big owners tended to be Republican. The Jews got into the habit of voting Democrat as the big-city machines (as opposed to the rural political machines) tended to be Democrat.
Such symbolic things as Woodrow Wilson appointing the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court, Charles Lindbergh being Republican, Truman recognizing Israel, and the execution of the Rosenbergs being accomplished under a Republican administration, also confirmed the habit.
The debased vestigial Judaism followed by most non-observant Jews crossed over into “social justice” a long time ago. That, too, makes a difference.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
ok. That makes sense.
thanks!
nap time!
@ eaglesoars:
Glad to clarify. Note that there are lots of urban ethnic groups, like the Irish, who are still wedded to the Democrats for reasons going back well into the 19th century; Jews are in no way unique in this.
I’d point out further that if the grand- or great-grand-son of one of those early-20th-century Jewish immigrants has abandoned whatever vestigial Jewish observance his zeyde (grandfather) still retained, but he remembers that Zeyde “always voted Democrat,” that “ancestor-worship,” feeble and silly as it is, becomes his way of honoring his ancestors and connecting with the withered remnants of his “roots.”
Suzanne Sommers as died. Breast cancer. 76.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
HAR! My Dad. He was STUNNED when he found out both his daughters had been voting Republican for YEARS. He didn’t believe Al Gore had really written a book against the combustion engine. I literally had to buy him a copy. After that he started to come around.
But he grew up in the coal mines. The Republicans owned the steel companies and the mines, the Dems went down and actually dug it up.
eaglesoars wrote:
Similar to the Jewish experience; the Titans of Industry who ran American companies were, back then, largely Republican—and they did not hire Jews.
My grandfather had ambitions of becoming an engineer, and actually managed to get into an American college despite a heavy Eastern European accent. One of his professors said to him, “You’re a Jew; nobody will ever hire you. Don’t bother.” So he dropped out and went back to the fur trade.
Likewise—lest you think that tale a mere century-old relic—my father’s college roommate went for a private-industry job in the late ’30s/early ’40s. The interviewer called him a “Jewboy” to his face a few times too many, and the roomie finally told the interviewer to go f*ck himself, and walked out. He was later called up by the prof who’d arranged the interview, because the prof had gone out on a limb by merely suggesting a Jew in the first place. That’s one of the reasons—aside from the fact that they were the best—that the atom-bomb project had so many Jews; because private industry refused to hire them.
That sort of family history does not end in a generation; it is passed down.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Oh no, I don’t. When we first moved to Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of PGH – wealthy, snotty, etc., we lived in a neighborhood full of Jewish families because they had been red-lined out of the wealthier enclaves. 1964 or so. I became very close to several Jewish girls and their families. A year or so later, around Christmas, because they all wanted to know what having a Christmas tree was like, I had a tree trimming party for them. Mom baked cookies, hot chocolate, etc., and we got small gifts for each of them, little bracelets from Gimbels where Mom worked. In return, I was invited to each of their houses for one evening of their Hanukkah celebration. Jackie’s mom was from France, married an American service man, so I got to hear a bit about what her family went thru during the war. She hid in Paris the entire time. Elen’s family was Polish, I believe. Her father was a furrier and had a BEAUTIFUL fur store in the mall. Survived the camps. Lynnie’s dad was a VP at Gimbels so he and mom knew each other. BUT if there was a sleepover and some of us were expected to be at our respective houses of worship the next day, the Christians could mix and match (I was allowed to attend Catholic services and Catholics were allowed to go to whatever church was closest)but no synagogues for us and no churches for them.
wow
lotta old new faces
love it
@ rain of lead:
It appears that I’ve been shadowbanned by Instapundit. I am attempting to ascertain what the hell is going on, and why.
welp, that did not take long
https://thelibertydaily.com/israel-turns-water-back/
@ eaglesoars:
Almost forgot. As my sister and I got old enough to babysit, ALL our clients were Jewish. Every last one. About 5 families. My sister is still in touch with one of them, the Liebowitz girls. We helped raised about 12 Jewish little ones so we got to know a bit about how to keep a kitchen, etc.
Also, one of our clients owned a restaurant in the mall and we got a free meal whenever we wanted. HA! I can still hear Sonny. EAT! EAT! It’s GOOD FOOD!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I don’t think the professor engages in that.
@ rain of lead:
Idiots. The lack of water, if any, is due to Hamas malfeasance. Israel should let them choke to death.
yeah…
this didn’t take long either
Breaking News Israel: #Iran is now moving “Strategic Weapons” to #Syria for a potential offensive against #Israel according to an Israeli Intelligence officer.
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1713516710970483164
eaglesoars wrote:
That does not explain why my comments there are “visible” when I look at them logged in from my posting browser, but are the ONLY comments that are utterly invisible/nonexistent if I look at the same thread via a browser on which I am NOT logged in.
If that ain’t “shadowbanning,” I don’t know what is.
@ eaglesoars:
BTW, the cream of the jest is that Reynolds was bragging about/re-posting, a paragraph from a post of mine that I’d posted on his
blogbog a couple of months back, that has been picked up and re-posted by some Canadian newspundit.Wow. What a talent.
On twitter, someone in the UK found an abandoned dog by the side of the road recently and brought her home. Named her Hope. A lot of us have been following Hope’s journey with Harry. One of them is named Brian. Brian does pencil portraits and has offered to do one of Hope gratis. He showed Harry an example of his work which Harry posted.
Look. At. This.
https://twitter.com/Harry20211959/status/1713644578362859682
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
How would the professor control what a browser does?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
yep
rain of lead wrote:
I think I saw that Israel has started bombing Syria a few hours ago, so I suspected it had something to do with Iran.
This is going to get ugly quick
uh huh
Happy to see MSNBC reversing its decision and allowing Muslim anchors to return. President Biden pressuring Israel to turn the water back on is a start, now we need to push him to call for electricity and food access to be restored. And join the rest of the world in calling for an end to the bombardment of Gaza. Keep raising your voices, our humanity will not survive if we stay silent as genocidal rhetoric continues and leads to the eradication of Gaza.
from the predictable Muslim brother-marrying worthless POS
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1713623865014866283
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-triumph-of-the-apocalyptics/
A brief synopsis of the last 3 years. Worth a look.
🙂
Especially the bit about the COVID cock-up!
eaglesoars wrote:
He controls what that browser does, or doesn’t do, on his own site…or it ain’t his own site.
@ eaglesoars:
I just can’t see the logic behind Israel getting into urban warfare in Gaza when the main threat is obviously from the North with Hezbollah the main surrogate for Iran, gunned up in Lebanon and gagging to be let off the leash.
Gaza can be isolated and will weather on the vine. Not one more IDF soldier should be sacrificed on the altar of Halas. Gaza can be totally isolated and starved out . Either that or just drop 4 nukes into Gaza and then move the IDF North
@ Aussie Infidel:
Yeah, well I think the point is to destroy HAMAS, regardless of where they are.
And they better hurry up if Iran is coming in.
Oops!
Jon Huntsman, in an email to
@Penn
President Liz Magill, says the “university’s silence in the face of reprehensible and historic Hamas evil against the people of Israel…is a new low.”
“Consequently, Huntsman Foundation will close its checkbook on all future giving to Penn.”
https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1713664285212061774
Aussie Infidel wrote:
And the current state of affairs.
Panel discussion. These people are profoundly absurd
Join me along with colleagues and other fellows at the Atlantic Council for a panel discussion about the ongoing Israel-Hamas War
https://twitter.com/alexplitsas/status/1713689150732349820
eaglesoars wrote:
Backlash from donors arouses moral conscience of
@Penn
.
Penn pres: “I want to leave no doubt about where I stand. I, and this University, are horrified by and condemn Hamas’s terrorist assault on Israel and their violent atrocities against civilians.”
(Current homepage below.)
https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1713683765388574991
‘moral conscience’ my ass
@ eaglesoars:
Sponsored by the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative
More Bushies
Pass
@ lobo91:
Yeah, the ‘Carlyle Republicans’ I call them.
I don’t know what’s up but for some reason ALL the animal shelters in the area are well over capacity. Urgent pleas for adopters going out.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh, we’ve got trouble, my friends!
We’ve got terrible, terrible trouble!
Right here in Diver City!
We’ve got “trouble” with a capital-T
And that rhymes with “C”
And that stands for “Capacity!”:
What IS it with Australia? I mean, kangaroos are seriously dangerous. I think the dog made it but not sure.
Don’t get me started on the spiders
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1713724652520980912
@ buzzsawmonkey:
My first idea is that pets are a cost center that people are having trouble affording. Not sure. Talked to our vet the other day on an unrelated matter and they are just desperate trying to find homes for animals that have been surrendered. Not just cats/dogs but all sorts of birds…parrots, etc. Rabbits, hedgehogs (???)
I provide our girls with the best food I can find. It is HIDEOUSLY expensive. We spend more on that than on our own food. But vet bills resulting from most of the trash dog food on the market are extraordinary. I had a $4000 bill from the emergency hospital that Psycho Puppy spent 3 days in because she ingested something in the yard that I think was a fungus. She damn near died and they worked on her all night.
I can’t imagine my life without dogs. But after Willow and Mia we are done.
BREAKING: Number of Americans killed in Hamas massacre in Israel rises to 30: State Dept. 13 other Americans remain missing
https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1713669033763938477
War.
@ eaglesoars:
Biden is trying to figure out how much more money to pay Iran in response
lobo91 wrote:
I’m down to 85 cents so he’s pretty much fucked.
Check out theses pics. Remember when that stuffed bunny was planted somewhere, Gaza, Syria, who knows? As an indicator that the Israel was murdering children or something? The problem was the toy was pristinely clean.
https://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew2/status/1713704102247444611
I’ve seen this little girl in several shots. All staged.
Before I forget, because I know you all care about this DEEPLY.
The scuttlebutt on Meghan: This woman is delusional enough to think that she could convince Gavin Newsom to appoint her to Diane Finestein’s seat – even tho Newsome gave orders to block her calls etc. And of course, after being in the Senate, she intended to run for POTUS blah blah blah (yes, I am absolutely serious)
Guess who stomped on her like an elephant on a snake?
Michelle Obama.
The word went out. Personna non grata. Loose cannon, nut case, get her out of here.
Another reason the Clooneys won’t touch her with a barge pole.
eaglesoars wrote:
Big 70Kg Red Kangaroos will try to drown dogs. Don’t try to corner a kangaroo to they can grab you with their forelegs by your shoulders and lean back on their tails and use their rear legs claws to disembowel you. Always leave them a way to escape and mostly they will exit the scene. Watch for them on back roads at dusk when the can end up through your car windscreen and in your lap. Hitting a ‘roo at above 20 MPH will wreck your car kill the ‘roo and come through the windscreen and can kill you in the impact.
Wallabies and smaller grey Kangaroos can also hurt you by crashing into your car especially at night. If you’re driving on back roads at night make sure that you fit ‘Roo Bars’ to the front of your car to limit car damage and keep them from coming through your windscreen and killing you.
Assume that EVERYTHING in Oz wants to kill you and take reasonable care not to hang your arse out over the edge when handling the fauna.
🙂
Especially those really cute little octopuses with the dayglo blue rings. Stand on one of those and you’re automatically dead as there is no antidote. Even those cutely weird platypus, Don’t maes with them as they have a nasty poisonous spurs behind their rear legs. Always check under the toilet seats of ‘long-drops’ before using, by lifting the seat with the toe of your shoe and look for red back spiders.
Assume that All snakes will kill you is the best advice. Even carpet snakes can get grouchy and will bite you if they get pissed off even though they are non-poisonous. Diamond backs and some green snakes are also non-venomous but by assuming ALL snakes are deadly you can’t really go wrong…. mostly because almost all Aussie snakes are deadly. Especially baby Common Browns. They are inexperienced and inject their whole load of poison and that’s enough to kill about 4-5 men. Adult Common Browns are more circumspect and inject just enough venom to just kill you once. Taipans the most poisonous of all snakes …. well just don’t go to Queensland ever, as they have a nasty disposition.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
They will get very thirsty very fast but I admit it’ll take them up to 3 months before they starve.
@ Aussie Infidel:
oh gee, thanks! So much for vacation spots!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s why you deny them water
bed. nite.
you gotta see this. Joan Rivers. If New Jersey attacked NY.
miss her
Joan Rivers Gives Timeless Advice on Israel & Palestine Conflict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAB8foYvAX4
@ eaglesoars:
Lebanon, 2006. Remember “Green Helmet Guy”?
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ eaglesoars:
The water is flowing again according to something I didn’t save the link to.
lobo91 wrote:
The wedding dress, the Mickey Mouse toy, the keening woman in various piles of rubble, Islamic Rage Boy…
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Hooray for Paliwood!
That sloppy Photoshoppy Paliwood!
Where a jihadi-o can make a video
Of someone who’s been knocked flat
Though blood is scattered, it doesn’t matter
He’ll be back up and walking just like that
Hooray for Paliwood!
They work at making genocide look good
It barely takes them even half an instant
To take an infant, or a woman in a hood
Who looks like a ninja, and make ‘em look injured—
Hooray for Paliwood!
Hooray for Paliwood!
Emoting and exploding Paliwood!
Kids go on television to spout their vision
Of blowing up amidst some Jews
It’s so commonplace that when they self-erase
It barely rates a mention on the news
Hooray for Paliwood!
They invite doctors who want to do good
Then interview them as they loudly bewail
The way that they fail
To save all the lives they should
It never is revealed they’re used as human shields—
Hooray for Paliwood!
Hooray for Paliwood!
That struggling, weapons-smuggling Paliwood!
Where armaments assorted will be transported
In a Red Crescent ambulance
But don’t dare object for if you detect it
You’ll be killed as soon as they get the chance
Hooray for Paliwood!
They work at making genocide look good
It barely takes them even half an instant
To take an infant Or a woman in a hood
Who looks like a ninja
And make ‘em look injured—
Hooray for Paliwood!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
LOL CITY
NEXT EXIT
@ coldwarrior:
I couldn’t find any parts lists for the kits.
Deconstructed European emergency vehicles.
The Lloyds Bank Coprolite
https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/the-largest-recorded-dollop-of-human-dung-will-blow-your-mind/
What a week. Grandmother died, head gasket began to give out, jeep developed a parasitic battery drain that it took my until Sunday to find. (Much to late to take the 3 hour drive to the funeral on Saturday, luckily we managed to cram 8 people in an expedition.)
I’m assuming head gasket since my coolant in the overflow is now black. Parasitic drain was from a broken heat exchange door actuator. Simple fix, just unplugged the damn thing. Might make heater run weird this winter but Oh Well.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Wow. You could definitely use a break.
eaglesoars wrote:
Mostly you never see snakes and spiders and I have Never seen a ‘Blue Ring Octopus’ .
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep, not a great week. Tried to get an advance on my paycheck but my boss went airhead and forgot even though management reminded her twice.
I’m in the mood for potato soup. And meatloaf.
This is Lee Smith, one of the finest journalists this country has ever produced.
—————-
The Biden Administration Tries to Hide What It Knew About an Impending Massacre, While Leaving U.S. Backing for Iran Untouched
The D.C. blame game is about avoiding responsibility while protecting a policy that is written in blood
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/biden-administration-tries-hide-knew-impending-massacre-leaving-iran-untouched-hamas-lee-smith
“It appears that the United States had a separate reporting stream it didn’t pass on to the Israelis…”
Those fuckers knew
Media keep asking how Hamas can keep firing missiles into Israel with all the Israeli bombing. The answer is that Israel is being told by Biden via Blinken not to hit schools, mosques, or hospitals in Gaza even though Hamas is firing missiles from those sites. And apparently Biden is trying to dictate all kinds of terms with Israel as a condition of receiving certain kinds of military weapons and other needs. Now we also know why the invasion of Gaza has been delayed.
https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1714070899345736141
Biden goes to Israel on Weds.
The secretary says that the US is aware that Hamas may try and seize or destroy such aid once it enters Gaza but asserts that the US will condemn such actions if they happen and work to prevent them in the future. (3/4)
https://twitter.com/JacobMagid/status/1714074589200884088
‘in the future’
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Hamas-supporting Harvard students beg for donations to ‘support their mental health’ after suffering ‘relentless bullying’ over supporting terror attack on Israel
NO
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12637679/amp/harvard-students-defend-hamas-request-donations.html
Saved the astronauts AND give birth to the actor Jack Black at the same time?
Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she had finished the problem and then gave birth to Jack Black.
Now that’s dedication
Look at the pic. Astonishing
Imagine being able to make stone translucent.
Giovanni Strazza possessed that extraordinarily rare artistic skill. His bust of the Virgin Mary, “The Veiled Virgin”, executed in flawless Carrara marble, is one of the most impressive feats by any sculptor in history.
Strazza’s “wet drapery” technique continued the legacy of other Italian sculptors like Giuseppe Sanmartino, who produced mind-bending veils from marble a century earlier – the famous “Veiled Christ” is a canonical example.
The tradition also dates back to much earlier sculptors well-known for carving intricate folds, in particular Renaissance artists like Michelangelo and ancient masters from Greece’s Hellenistic era.
But in the mid-19th century, Strazza took the technique to its extreme. The subtle layered effect he achieved allows the viewer to easily discern Mary’s facial features from the delicate veil, and at the same time creates the illusion of total weightlessness.
How he created something so soft and fluid from solid stone, using only basic hand tools, is a mystery.
https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1714006778185224214
Here’s the narcissist lunatic Laura Loomer who isn’t getting enough attention/fuel
After I vote for President Trump in the primary and the General in 2024, I’m leaving the Republican Party.
I hate the Republican Party to be honest.
None of the elected Republicans are doing anything to fight for President Trump.
And when I leave the party, so will everyone else because if Donald Trump doesn’t get back into office, the Republican Party is OVER.
Do you think the low IQ mentally handicapped idiots in GOP leadership understands this? I think these morons were all Dropped on their damn heads when they were babies, because none of them seem to understand how serious this is. None of them have a sense of urgency. None of them understand how this is it. If we don’t get Trump back into office, AMERICA IS OVER AND A REPUBLICAN WILL NEVER AGAIN BE ELECTED IN AMERICA!
NONE OF THEM DO ANYTHING TO FIGHT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP SO NONE OF YOU SHOULD FIGHT FOR THE GOP.
The GOP is a JOKE. They are willing to let Obama appointees literally GAG Donald Trump in an election year.
I don’t want to be a part of a party full of cowards and traitors.
Screw these people if they won’t fight for Trump.
Everyone should leave the GOP if they don’t start fighting for Trump.
We won’t have a country if we don’t fight for Trump. And if we don’t have a country then there is no purpose for the silly GOP.
I just can’t stand any of them. It’s hard to explain how much I hate the GOP.
#Trump2024
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1713967902544548096
Oh, I forgot, my week last week started out with my Instacart account being stolen. A full week later and they still haven’t finished the ID verification to reactivate it and return it to me.
I just found out that “packing peanuts” are potatoes in Switzerland.
@ eaglesoars:
Strazza didn’t have TV, so he had plenty of time.
@ eaglesoars:
Loomer is factually accurate in her assessment
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s what I thought as I left them in 2005 for similar reasons. They do nothing with the power their given and we get stuck with the weepy John Boehners or the “reach-across-the-isle mavericks” like McCain. They get elected and back-stab their constituents.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Yep, it’s a scam and Trump is both side’s unifying existential threat to their wealth.
coldwarrior wrote:
I know that. She’s just the most obnoxious person on the planet. It’s always about HER
So. I think we’re headed to war. Here. I think Iran wants it (12th imam crap) and I think Biden is going to give it to them. He thinks he can appease them. He can’t.
Here’s a treat for Van Halen fans. The room mic audio from Jamie’s Cryin’. Eddie, Alex and Mike playing live, no overdubbing. The vocals were recorded separately on a different take:
lobo91 wrote:
Although I liked Van Halen, Roth’s vocals put me off with his overdone double harmonic gimmick. I like this version is better. Their cover of Louis Prima was a goodun, and wouldn’t have worked WITHOUT the vocals.
Bouzy bouzy bop, diddybop.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
BTW, former BlocgMock commenter Song And Dance Man, aka SADM, aka Bob Crotchit (of the Bob & Jack Show) knew Eddie Van Halen personally before the band hit the charts.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Which, with $2.90, will get him on the New York subway.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yup but it’s just to Southern Gaza. Part of a plan to ‘convince’ the civilians to head South . Then North Gaza becomes a Free Fire Zone.
What happens to 2 million Palis sitting in South Gaza is anyone’s guess. No Arab State wants a bar of Palis as they bring bad ju-ju with them wherever they turn up.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
The Egyptians don’t want their citizen-descendants back?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
FWIW – who knows if it’s true – I did see pics of Hamas digging up water pipes to fabricate into missile launchers.
I LOVE VAN HALEN
Blue Angels original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PqVeex4QU
@ coldwarrior:
check yer email. I sent pics of the jade calendar
BREAKING: Jordan cancels summit between Biden, King Abdulla, President Sisi and president Abbas planned for tomorrow in Amman, Jordanian foreign minister says
https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1714392700152172963
Bibi was supposed to address the nation at 8:00 pm last night, so Elisheva joined me in the study. The TV had been on forever, the news droning and droning, the emerging stories so horrifying that you could start to be numb.
But Bibi didn’t show, and by 9:00 pm, Elisheva said, “I’m going upstairs to bed. You should turn off the TV and come up, too.”
Before we turned off the TV, though, some Home Front Command officer was interviewed about the heating up Lebanese front. Hezbollah in Lebanon, of course, makes Hamas look like cub scouts. If Hezbollah gets into this —with their thousands and thousands of precision missiles than can hit any bridge, any hospital, any power plant, any airport, anything in Israel—this is going to turn into something very different.
Israel has promised time and again that if Hezbollah attacks the Jewish state, we will “return Southern Lebanon to the stone age.” No one doubts that. No one here has any problem with that. We just wonder what it will be like here during the days that it takes to get that done.
So what was the Home Front Command telling us?
Stock up on water. A lot of it. Make sure you have dry food. And DO NOT take the handles off your safe room doors.
After the horror stories Israelis have been hearing about how terrorists tried to turn the handles from the outside as terrified husbands and wives used all their might to hold the handle inside, Israelis have been sharing social media clips telling people to take off the handles, so that once you’re in, you’ll be safe.
But the Home Front says that’s dangerous. You also have to be able to get out. DO NOT take off the handles, he repeated. Find something in the house that’s the right height that you can brace under the handle so it can’t be moved down into the unlocked position. And make sure you have your food and the water with you in there so you don’t need to open the door to get it.
Lovely.
https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/along-with-thousands-my-wife-and
I am very afraid this is going to be us. Soon.
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Not even the armpit of the Arab world Syria wants them.
Senior Pentagon official worked for Qatar regime. Pentagon dragging its feet to avoid answering.
“Yousra Fazili, the Chief of Staff for the Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer of the Pentagon … served as a ‘strategic’ advisor” to Qatar ambassador.
https://twitter.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1714103811441324040
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The vast majority of the “Palestinians” are of Jordanian or Egyptian descent.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Not to mention the fact that the territories in question were controlled by Egypt and Jordan, respectively, prior to 1967, not some mythical “Palestinian state.” I’ve always said that Israel should wash its hands of them and give them back to their previous owners. The fact that those countries don’t want them is their problem.
Jim Jordan is getting f*cked over for House Speaker due to the GOP doing their usual thing. Of note, it was Jim who exposed the IRS targeting of the Tea Party members for excessive audits… the IRS settled out of court. The uni-party despises him.
Disclaimer: I was a night page at the Ohio House in the mid-90s while attending OSU and spoke to him often when he was a state rep as he was younger member and worked late. Solid guy and great American.
@ lobo91:
I believe in compromise. I think that Israel should offer every “Palestinian” $50,000 a head for each (verified) family member, or something like it, to leave Gaza and/or the West Bank, and sign a quitclaim against any claim on the land or citizenship in exchange—which would drop to $40,000 a head the next month, $30,000 the next month, etc. There would be a one-month grace period after the quitclaim payment dropped to zero—after which the remaining people would be summarily expelled.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
to where?
Large fire burns at US Embassy compound in Beirut, Lebanon.
https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1714410185555362045
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I think that would be a preferable solution, of course. I was just trying to appease the people who keep insisting that Israel is legally obligated to return the territories it captured in battle. Obviously, that means it has to be returned to its previous owner, not some random group of squatters.
I think it would be hilarious watching Egypt and Jordan try to come up with reasons for not accepting the offer.
12th imam crap
A black flag is raised over Imam Reza shrine in Iran for first time in history.
Symbolism in Islamic historic tradition:
“When the black flags come from Khorasan (Persia/Central Asia) go to them, even if you have to crawl on snow, among them is the Caliph of Allah, the Mahdi”
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1714411995074576725
pic at the link
This is how the press conference from Gaza looked a little while ago
https://twitter.com/Osama40121/status/1714382711714935145
they set up a podium surrounded by dead bodies?
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s their problem.
@ lobo91:
Sadat was only willing to sign a piece treaty with Israel on the condition that they NOT give him “back” the Gaza Strip. Israel also offered the West Bank back to Jordan, which said “Thanks, but no”—even though they’d illegally occupied it for 19 years.
If you look at an atlas from the British Mandate era (I happen to have one), it says that the entire area of what is now Israel—“from the river to the sea,” in current parlance, which includes both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—was, under the British (who took it from the Ottomans whom they defeated in WWI) open to Jewish settlement, while the larger part of “the Palestine Mandate” (which later became “Transjordan,” then “Jordan”) on the other side of the river was, under British administration, closed to Jewish settlement.
In other words, the entirety of “the river to the sea” of the “Palestine Mandate” was open to Jewish immigration/settlement. Prior to Israeli independence, it was the Jews who were called “Palestinians”; the Arabs were called, and called themselves, “Arabs.”
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s a rather poor photoshop job
lobo91 wrote:
Hooray for Paliwood!
That sloppy Photoshoppy Paliwood!
Where a jihadi-o can make a video
Of someone who’s been knocked flat
Though blood is scattered, it doesn’t matter
He’ll be back up and walking just like that
Hooray for Paliwood!
They work at making genocide look good
It barely takes them even half an instant
To take an infant, or a woman in a hood
Who looks like a ninja, and make ‘em look injured—
Hooray for Paliwood!
Hooray for Paliwood!
Emoting and exploding Paliwood!
Kids go on television to spout their vision
Of blowing up amidst some Jews
It’s so commonplace that when they self-erase
It barely rates a mention on the news
Hooray for Paliwood!
They invite doctors who want to do good
Then interview them as they loudly bewail
The way that they fail
To save all the lives they should
It never is revealed they’re used as human shields—
Hooray for Paliwood!
Hooray for Paliwood!
That struggling, weapons-smuggling Paliwood!
Where armaments assorted will be transported
In a Red Crescent ambulance
But don’t dare object for if you detect it
You’ll be killed as soon as they get the chance
Hooray for Paliwood!
They work at making genocide look good
It barely takes them even half an instant
To take an infant
Or a woman in a hood
Who looks like a ninja
And make ‘em look injured—
Hooray for Paliwood!
lobo91 wrote:
that’s why I asked. I was wondering what the hell I was looking at………..
@ eaglesoars:
The “doctors” aren’t even the same size. And they’re awfully clean for being at a mass casualty site
This is interesting. Two different recordings of the same event, which is the studio recording of Eruption. The first one is the room mic. The second is the raw guitar track:
All this material came from a batch of early Van Halen tracks that someone recently “leaked.”
I clicked “Submit Comment”entirely by accident. Sorry.
@ lobo91:
Kirby: President Biden “wants to get a sense from the Israelis about the situation on the ground, and more critically, their objectives, their plans, their intentions in the days and weeks ahead. And he’ll be asking some tough questions.”
https://twitter.com/mlakan/status/1714448929142497492
Yeah, and after finding out about the spies in our gov’t, I’m sure the Israelis will just spill their guts.
What is wrong with Bill Kristol? This man is a serial liar. His mother was a highly respected historian (Gertrude Himmelfarb) and his father, Irving, was one of the intellectual founders of ‘neo-conservatism’. Neither of them would have recognized this utter bilge from their POS offspring.
I came to D.C. to work in the Reagan Administration because (to oversimplify) it was pro-Constitution, pro-U.S. global leadership, pro-military, pro-Israel, pro-democratic capitalism, and pro-American dream. And that’s why I now support the Biden Administration and Democrats.
He destroyed an iconic American magazine voice (The Weekly Standard) and apparently thinks because he is from NY, DC should suck his dick.
Fortunately, he has exactly zero influence anymore. But man, what a come down from parents who were giants in their day.
@ eaglesoars:
linky
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1714266826295718000
@ eaglesoars:
If he actually believes any of that, he should be drug tested ASAP. It’s literally 100% false
@ lobo91:
I remember when Trump was running and he started some ‘underground’ group that called him evil and issued a ‘manifesto’. It was all going to be VERY SEEKRET. The National Review covered it and then all THOSE articles disappeared. The author was a woman whose name I can’t recall. Anyhoo, that was the beginning of ‘THE BULWARK’.
And the dumbest people in D.C. are associated with it. It’s like a Q Anon group for people from Harvard/Yale.
We are seriously missing people like Christopher Hitchens, Robert Novak, William Buckley.
And the one offspring Buckley had turned out to be an utter failure. Christopher.
He wrote 2 books that were comedic sendups of The Great and The Good. Everybody loved them.
Then he wrote one that trashed his parents and their marriage.
He hasn’t been heard from again.
And that should be the fate of Bill Kristol.
off to bed. nite.
now this is cool
https://www.sciencealert.com/revolutionary-bionic-hand-fuses-with-womans-bones-muscles-and-nerves
The bionic hand is based on revolutionary technology that connects directly to a user’s bones, muscles, and nerves – creating a human-machine interface that allows AI to translate brain signals into precise yet simple movements.
YIKES!
I’ve turned the fire place on. jeez.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ~ George Orwell, “1984”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/orwellian-irony-left-is-now-trying-cancel-george/
Which is why I followed the sage advice of buzz years ago and bought old, hard copies of important books.
Yinz need to watch this
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/watch-canadian-conservative-leader-justin-trudeaus-worst-nightmare/
And THAT is how it’s done.
@ coldwarrior:
I’m not even gonna click. It’s the guy eating the apple, isn’t it?
The most interesting thing about that is it shows how mentally disabled the left really is. They live in a box an they can’t get out of it.
coldwarrior wrote:
Watched that one twice last night. Now I’m gonna go look at the responses to the tweet where it was posted.
Speaking of the Twit-X, play-by-play master Steve Inman is back at it after a hiatus of sorts.
https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
If I may, I’d like to recommend several other useful reference works:
A Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary from the mid-20th century;
A Webster’s Biographical Dictionary, which has capsule biographies of all sorts of people that one has, has not, or only-vaguely heard of;
A “Familiar Quotations” book, whether Oxford or Bartlett’s;
A copy of the Variety Cavalcade of Music, 3rd Edition (1969, the last year it was issued), which not only details the popular songs in America from the mid-1600s to 1969, but contains well-written historical notes for each of those years;
A copy of the “Oxford English Literature Companion” (I think that’s the name), which not only has entries discussing English and American authors, but entries which discuss their works by title, and the characters in them.
@ coldwarrior:
George Orwell was a very complex character. He came from a lower-middle-class background (he was a scholarship student at his prep school and at Eton), which left him with an enduring hatred (and envy) of the more well-off, entitled boys he went to school with.
He was committed to “democratic socialism” even towards the end of his life—but his first book, “The Road to Wigan Pier,” was almost not published because it savaged the lefties who were trying to “uplift” the miners he was writing about, and although he fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, he had to flee for his life when the Stalinists took over and suppressed the militia in which he was enlisted.
Though Orwell was the political opposite of a conservative like his contemporary Evelyn Waugh, he and Waugh are almost indistinguishable as far as cultural/behavioral preferences are concerned.
MORE – Biden: “$100 million of new U.S. funding for humanitarian assistance in both Gaza and the West Bank.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1714654576429969487
I similarly despise the supposed “morality” of Israel giving evacuation warnings to a sovereign government that, as a matter of its own stated endgame, attacked Israeli civilians to facilitate the extermination of the Jews. As “pro-Palestinian” protesters in Western countries — in a remarkably transparent rebuke to the multicultural program supported by the global elite as a way to weaken wealthy Western nations while appearing benevolent — gather and chant “gas the Jews,” or “from the river to the sea,” it should be frighteningly obvious that the project of trying to reason and assimilate medieval tribal allegiances into propositional nations was and is a fools errand. It is not a “blessing of liberty” to enable the conditions for your own civilizational suicide because doing so grants you some temporary plaudits from those who, when the time is right, have every intention of wiping you out and subjugating those of you whom they don’t murder. In fact, its an astounding display of cultural arrogance and personal sanctimony — with the latter being a point of extraordinarly pride to those who, in different circumstances, would lecture us on the particular sin that impulse represents.
Here is the harsh truth as I see it: It’s time the West believes in its own civilizational exceptionalism
https://jeffgoldstein.substack.com/p/tilting-at-self-righteousness
HAAR!!!
https://twitter.com/Arkypatriot/status/1714666241179181428
Here are the pics of the hospital Israel bom….
Oh. Wait. The hospital is fine?
Daylight. The Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza still stands. Local footage shows all buildings intact. There are no rescue workers pulling bodies from rubble. There are no bodies. There is no rubble.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1714604789286252554
pics at the link
@ eaglesoars:
The people claiming that was the result of an Israeli airstrike clearly have no idea what it looks like when a bomb hits. Scorched pavement would be the least of their concerns. There should be a big crater where it impacted, not scorch marks and a few burned out cars.
lobo91 wrote:
Or they’re just fucking liars
The dogs can’t go outside for awhile, we’ve got stuff going on in the backyard. When she can’t holler at squirrels and anything on the trail, she just snuggles under the blankets on the bed and naps.
Well. I’m changing the sheets. And this dog is BARKING AT ME to hurry up already
I missed the memo with my new title SLAVE
eaglesoars wrote:
The number of keyboard warriors out today is amazing. My favorite was the one who insisted that it was “clearly” a US manufactured GBU 72. That’s a 5,000 lb bunker buster.
If one of those had hit there, the crater would have encompassed the entire parking lot, and there would be nothing standing for at least a block. It would have looked like the aftermath of 9/11.
And they’re still at it. Sky News released a story pretty much saying that Hamas is full of shit, for the same reasons I’ve cited.
Half the commenters are screeching about how no Hamas rocket could have “obliterated” the hospital like that.
I guess they must have rebuilt it overnight, because I didn’t even see any broken windows, much less anything “obliterated.”
@ lobo91:
😆 😆 😆
GBU 72 indeed!
@ coldwarrior:
The reality is that the most common ordnance dropped by Israeli F-16s has been 250 lb GBU 39 Small Diameter Bombs. That’s plenty big enough to take out a house-size target without flattening the whole block around it.
To hear these morons talk, you’d think the Israelis had borrowed a fleet of B-52s and were carpet bombing the entire Gaza Strip.
Not that I would particularly object if they did…
Did yinz know that Antifa trained with the Palestinian terror groups?
I just found out.
Didn’t Antifa rise up in Germany?
We’ve seen this before
Baader Meinhof.
“F*** Israel and any Jew who supports Israel.”
Hamas? Iran? Nope! It’s the Biden Administration.
Biden’s DHS has hired former PLO spokeswoman Nejwa Ali to work as an Adjudication Officer for the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service — the job that decides who gets let into America as an “asylum seeker” and who gets left out.
Yes, Biden has a bloodthirsty terrorist supporting Jew-hater running our immigration system.
Our country is run by people who hate it. But you probably could have guessed that by now.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1714713060181704971
Meet Nejwa Ali. She seems nice.
@JackPosobiec
: “Out of New York City, a federal judge just sentenced Douglass Mackey to seven months in prison after being found guilty of election interference for making memes disparaging Hillary Clinton.”
https://twitter.com/HumanEvents/status/1714713774983168211
Pro-Palestinian protestors have broken into the Capitol
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1714717756937900085
video at the link
@ eaglesoars:
that’s a 14 minute video. posted about an hour ago
NOW – Pro-Palestine crowd inside and outside the U.S. Capitol.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1714727523982946586
Just happened outside of my office…Hamas supporters entered the Capitol and ripped down the “I Stand with Israel” sign outside my office.
Here’s what I have to say…
https://twitter.com/TXRandy14/status/1714732144084320296
Police begin one by one arrests of pro-Palestine protesters in Cannon Capitol building atrium.
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1714719811391967548
In other news – why do I bother making the bed? Mia has just messed up everything.
God, please take this man out of our misery into your just arms.
KJP: “Guys we gotta wrap it up!”
REPORTER: “You said you were very blunt with the Israelis on the need to give humanitarian aid to Gaza or what exactly?”
BIDEN: “On everything! Hehehe. No, I was very blunt about the need to support getting humanitarian aid to Gaza – quickly.”
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1714745098561356280
NEWS:
@POTUS
tells reporters aboard AF1 that Egyptian President El Sisi has agreed to open up the Rafah crossing to allow up to 20 trucks of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1714739954784338381
The Iranians must be in disbelief………..
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
Truly a target rich environment. Obviously the IDF wants to break up the task into bite sized pieces that can be managed with the limited manpower and logistics resources available. Whereas the main threat is obviously Hezbollah backed up by Iran and between 130,000 and 150,000 rocket currently available in Southern Lebanon, some of which can range all of the way to Southern Israel including the breeder reactor in the Negev. Hamas are just ‘cannon fodder’ designed to tie down IDF forces in Central as Gaza’s Hamas rocket inventory is already half used and it’s only a couple of weeks into this war. Remember that Hezbollah has TEN times the rocket inventory of Hamas and the quality and accuracy is MUCH better than the ‘amateur hour’ rocket stocks of Hamas. Hezbollah has the capability of overwhelming the Israeli ‘Iron Dome’ defences by sheer weight of fire, and shortages of Israeli AAA rocket defence stocks and logistics problems.
Remember also that the last time the IDF and Hezbollah ‘crossed swords’ in South Lebanon, it ended in a draw! We seem to be in a holding pattern right now, as the Arab nations try to decide whether they are going to once more go down that ‘well-trodden’ path of ‘joint action’, against the common enemy Israel. This war is under cut by the changing system of potential peace accord talks, between Saudi and Israel. The rest of the Arab polity, globally, can’t afford to lose that Saudi support, as Saudi finances a huge chunk of Arab funding against the common Arab enemy Israel. Where the real action is happening politically is the space between Israel and Saudi. Saudi remember also has another religious war ongoing between Arab Sunni and Shi’a Persians (Iran) that has been on and off for a millennium at least. Occasionally that religious war is side-lined when a common foe is engaged (like Israel), and then picked up when the war(s) are settled temporally.
Remember too that when a nuclear armed belligerent is involved, that ANY time when an existential war erupts, the chances of a nuclear release WILL happen, before a nuclear armed State is destroyed, is 95%. The ‘Sampson Option’, as demonstrated vocally by a Fox News contributor just 2 days ago. Now in the mix is a second potential nuclear armed belligerent, Iran , with two weapon loads of ‘weapons grade’ fissile fuel already stored, and the potential in just months of an additional four weapon loads, of weapons grade fissile material, multiplies the chances of a nuclear release more likely than unlikely and very close to 100% guaranteed. The weapon manufacture technology already resides in Tehran.
Israel has always seen itself as a 4 warhead target and will respond to prevent that from happening. Having two nuclear armed belligerents facing each other doesn’t normally guarantee a nuclear exchange. After all the West and Soviets survived the Cold War for 40 years. India and Pakistan have not used their weapon stocks in anger either. BUT in the case of Israel and Iran that Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) metric doesn’t apply, to a RELIGIOUS War scenario. Especially when Iran has doctrine that demands the destruction of the State of Israel, as a basic tenant of the Shi’a Religious Canon. Sooner or later either Iran, and possibly Gaza / Southern Lebanon as well, will be consumed by nuclear combat that may even spread to the rest of the Middle East, if Israel faces their own Gotterdammerung, armed as Israel is, with 200+ nukes. The appearance of the Twelfth Iman notwithstanding.
I am NOT taking bets that this or some future war will not end up with destruction of hundreds of millions of people in the Middle East. All of the pieces of this Middle Eastern puzzle are falling into place unfortunately, and with Religious War in the mix the augers are not good for a logical MAD outcome happening. Religion and nukes are an unholy and volatile mix that has a logic all of its own.
Alas!
@ Aussie Infidel:
I have NO doubt that there are leaders in Iran who want war. Now. Especially before Biden is thrown out of office
The Real (and Awful) Reason Biden is Coming to Israel | The Caroline Glick Show IN FOCUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xwPA57xOXA
from yesterday.
about 30 mins.
Biden is a thug
huh
Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Putin just said the US aircraft carriers are in range of Russia’s airborne hypersonics in the Black Sea
“This is not a threat. But I would just like to inform you on behalf of the Russian Air Force”
@ rain of lead:
That’s nice. Pretty sure that Putin knows how long Moscow would continue to exist after a Russian attack on a US carrier battle group.
eaglesoars wrote:
And now they will lock them up in a rundown shithole of a secret prison for months without charges until they finally charge them with insurrection. No? Any bets they are quietly let go and never see time behind bars. That treatment is only for political foes.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
They’ll probably give them jobs in the administration
lobo91 wrote:
Oh I dunno. It’s the Biden admin.
@ eaglesoars:
True. I keep thinking that I’m in America
So I’m looking at the house of the POS who stole my Instacart account. Anyone have any evil ideas?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
On google.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
not at the moment. let me give it some thought.
Hubby tells me Alan Dershowitz is pitching a fit.
This is the guy who said he has ALWAYS voted Dem and always will.
Can’t fix stupid.
BREAKING: IDF conducts raid in West Bank
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1714821337351336444
video is confusing
When Animals Go On A Rampage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1pEp1Hj6qE
1. Kangaroos are mean fucks
2. Don’t piss off the elephants
3. Rhinos can run faster than you think
4. Monkeys are assholes
eaglesoars wrote:
5. Don’t swim with the hippos.
You lot are going to need this map to know who is hitting whom….
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-explainer-the-gaza-strip/
The bloody hospital DID NOT get hit directly by an Israeli bomb … that was a Hamas LIE
There was NO BOMBING in Gaza City when the hospital was supposed to be bombed by Israel .
The CARPARK beside the hospital was hit by a way-ward Hamas rocket that was on its way towards Israel when it’s combustion chamber exploded and it was this device that hit the hospital carpark.
Unless 500 people were jammed shoulder to shoulder in the hospital carpark there was not enough space for 500 people to have been killed in the explosion of terrorist off-course rocket. The casualty numbers are another LIE.
Intercepted comms date stamped at the time when the hospital carpark was hit by a terrorist rocket records communications from Hamas blaming the explosion on Islamic Jihad
The bloody hospital has cosmetic damage from the Islamic Jihad off course rocket hitting the hospital killing more than likely a dozen or so people wandering about in the car park. 500 + dead is a demonstrable LIE yet ….
Western media including the NYT are STILL reporting the propaganda LIE even now.
How can these people live with themselves?
SHEESH!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Are you seriously asking about the NYT? Who covered up the Holodomor?
Please. They were awarded the Pulitzer for Duranty’s reporting and don’t have the soul to return it.
I have to go to work tomorrow. nite.
AHAHAHAHAHA.
Welcome to TN. A Wells Fargo Bank somewhere here decided to FAFO. With a lawyer.
Because she wasn’t wearing a mask.
She pulled all her money
@ eaglesoars:
https://twitter.com/CarlosSimancas/status/1714789257011707908
@ eaglesoars:
I was anticipating the part where the manager said they’d have to order the cash. I spent some time working bank security. They never keep that kind of cash in a small branch. The “vault” is usually about the size of my gun safe.
@ eaglesoars:
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
My altercations are myriad and always turned out by me running away!
* I was overtaken by a crazy guy in Rhodesia when I was driving back to my motel at night after having dinner at Lake Karibe casino. Caught up with him minutes later. He was dazzled by some person coming the other way with their lights on high beam and the speedster didn’t see the elephant’s huge grey arse on the road just around the bend. He apparently jammed on his brakes but the car was still moving when it hit the elephant behind its back legs. The elephant then sat down on the front of the car and broke it where the windscreen meets the bonnet (hood) , broke it right off. When I turned up the guy was still sitting at the wheel and was as white as a ghost. No sign of the elephant who had wandered off into the bush. I took the driver to the pub / motel iIwas staying at and poured 5 slugs of whisky down his throat.
* My Armoured Personnel Carrier driver and I was retrieving a wire across a creek when a huge Red Bellied Black Snake who’d just swallowed a rabbit was spotted. The driver wanted to run over it but I thought that that was mean. So he picked up a large tree branch 6” in diameter and slammed it down on the snake who laid still. About then I thought I’d select a small stick and see if it was still alive. I hit it on the head and found out the wrong way that is was very much alive and extremely pissed off. Unfortunately I didn’t have a time keeper with me as I definitely broke the World Record for the 100 metres dash!
*I was wandering about a bush track near Kurnell south of Sydney when I looked down and realised that mid step I had just stepped across a very large Tiger snake. I had one foot on one side of the snake and the other foot on the other side of the snake. Somehow I leapt vertically and tore off into the bush . The snake was probably smiling
* while snorkelling in Botany Bay south of Sydney about 1 mile North of there Captain Cook first landed in Oz in 1770. Near Bear Island where the second Mission Movie was shot. I swam clockwise around a 30 ‘ rock just awash with the incoming tide and came face to face with a shark coming the other way around the rock counterclockwise.
I was more surprised than the shark as I managed to leap vertically out of the water and onto the rock in one smooth movement! 🙂
* After marvelling at the Falls on the Zimbese River in Rhodesia I thought that it might be a good idea to look at the night rainbow as the full moon was shining through the spray off the Victoria Falls. I wandered up the track that I had discovered during the day and wondered what the huge ‘nests’ were all about then forgot about them. I walked both ways and saw the night rainbow but noted that I was the only person doing that. I did wonder about that at the time. When I got back to the hotel I told everyone what i’d seen and they were shocked. It seems that at night the hippos come out of the river at dusk and sleep in those huge nests. Hippos are nasty animals and can attack humans and bite the in two. Didn’t notice one as I was too bust looking at the moon shining through the spray.
* Left Salisbury to a bit of solo exploring and headed for the Elephant Hills up country up against Zambia and the Zambezi River. Joined an elephant sightseeing van but should have twigged that all was not exactly as it seemed. Half the VW Combi van was full of family of the driver, and the paying passengers were advised that first we had to collect some joiners first. It seemed that we didn’t have enough $$$$ yet to fill up with gas so we would act as a local bus first picking up and dropping off locals first until we had enough $$$$ to buy gas that would get us to where the elephants hung out. We finally got the $$$ and the gas to go find the elephants. That we did. A herd of a dozen or so females and really cute baby elephants and a massive Alpha female that was systematically destroying a huge tree for reasons known only to her. She seemed more that a little pissed off however. The herd was on one side of the dirt track and the Alpha female was on the other side of the track destroying her tree. The driver kept edging closer and then backing off when the large female started getting upset. This went on half a dozen times until the driver saw his chance as the large female moved to the other side of her tree. The driver gunned the VW and as we passed the massive female she just stepped out from behind the tree and started screaming at us and chasing us down the track. I was in the back seat of the Combi van and there was just 1.5″ of glass between my nose and 6 tonnes of VE RY angry elephant charging behind us. Her trunk was about 6′ from the back window and she was in a full charge, trunk reaching out towards me and her huge ears spread either side like huge sails. All I could think of was …. please don’t miss a gear change mate or that elephant is going to be in my lap. She chased us for over 100 yards before seeing us off and went back to destroying her tree. 🙂
* Kev, my host, who had spent the last 3 years as a mercenary in the Rhodesian War his lovely wife and two little went on a Bri (Bar-b-que) out by the main Salisbury water supply in Rhodesia. Such a fantastic place but now totally ruined now and a hell hole. What a shame. Anyway I decided to climb up a nearby Khope (stone hill) near the place where Kev was busy cooking the meat. We were always well armed and Kev never went anywhere without his SLR semi-auto 7.62mm rifle and 6 30 round mags, and Sally always carried her .38 revolver with ‘dum-dums.’ I was unarmed! WRONG ! Meanwhile I reached the top of the Khope and there was a terrible stink. I yelled for Kev to come up as there was something dead up there. He climbed the Khope unarmed too (WRONG) and smelt the air. He IMMEDIATELY turned and sprinted off the Khope. …. If Kev was running then I figured I needed to run as well …. even faster. A huge leopard had been stalking me and i never even saw him but I certainly smelt him. I used Kev’s binos to spot him on top of the Khope later. He was huge and in the prime of life. We ate our Bri but kept an eye on our friendly Leopard throughout our Bar-b-que. In another life Kev had been my NZ Regiment’s , The 3rd Bn Auckland & Northland (Countess of Ranfurley’s Own) weapons training instructor. 🙂 The war had been over for 2 whole weeks but not everyone knew or wanted to know that it was all over. There was a LOT of ‘getting even’ going on everywhere and everyone was still walking around tooled up for trouble.
8 the War in Rhodesia had just finished and as usual Perfidious Albion had screwed the white Rhodesians over totally to curry favour with the new Marxist President Mugabe of the Zippra terrorist army. As a parting gift a company of Rhodesian Light Infantry took their Brigadier General fishing on the Zambezi river just down stream from the Kerbeba dam. We went armed to the teeth however and the Rhodesian army insisted that I formally needed to join the Rhodesian Army for the duration of the trip …. just so I could protect myself if needed. The trip went fantastically. No trouble at all driving the 300Km up complete with 14 mine protected trucks with assault boats and outboards on top. A 128 man Company went ‘fishing’. The fishing was incredible and we caught heaps of tiger fish. Alas someone from Zippra with a snit mined the track between the river and the tar roads South. The first two trucks passed the mine but the third truck hit the mine and lifted it into the air and rolled it over. A Russian anti-tank mine. Everyone in the vehicle was strapped in and it had anti-mine V plates and roll over bars, but everyone in the vehicle blew their ears and three were badly wounded and one later died. What a sad place Rhodesia became.
I have an Africa story too.
Was in Johannesburg near the airport on one of those overpass thingies that was a single lane. You have them in the USA too.
You know the ones, where you are hundreds of feet in the air, concrete barrier on each side before descending onto an interstate.
Was on it, doing about 40 mph when a tumbleweed passed me. The tumbleweed went down the ramp in front of me, did a perfect merge into the traffic.
Then changed lanes and got behind a semi truck. Left me in the dust….
The Miracle.
@ Aussie Infidel:
And here I was about to tell the story of arguing with a store manager while trying to purchase a $2,000 copier for the office with a check that was one nickle short.
Stayed at the Elephant Hills hotel amid around 3,000 elephants. Now down to a few hundred as after the war Zippra and Zanla terrorists went elephant hunting with machine guns, looking for bush meat and just to kill something …. anything… The hotel rooms opened directly onto the veldt and you were protected by a VERY deep trench surrounding the hotel but out of sight camouflaged by the slope of the ground. Lion and elephant, zebra antelope and wilderbeast just wandered past your room whilst you dined on magnificent breakfasts. Decided to go animal spotting. Early start at 5AM, just me in an open top Landrover jeep. NOTHING . I do mean NO ANIMALS at all.They were smart and stayed in the bush and thorn until it warmed up a bit and by 8AM the place was humming with animals. Saw a Leopard in a tree (I was so very lucky as most Rhodesians haven’t seen a wild leopard in the African bush on the high veldt in their lives). The leopard climbed down his tree and began to stalk a massive antelope called a Zebu. The biggest of all antelope, it stood 6′ at the shoulder with twin straight horns that could be used with lethal effect. The stalk went on but I’m sure that the Zebu buck know that the Leopard was about. Just before the leopard broke cover the Zebu buck turned to face his leopard. the huge antelope lowered his head and stamped his hoof The leopard just stood up and looked around as if he was just kidding. He wandered off and climbed back into his tree and waited for a smaller breakfast to come by!
Magical!
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I could tell you another Africa story about if you see a dead porcupine on the road DO NOT drive over it, or even near it.
Them quills will shred your tires better than an LAPD spike strip.
@ Possum:
Heh
I guess tumbleweeds qualify as local flora!
🙂
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
HEH
🙂
now that is a miracle cure for lead poisoning!
🙂
We used to drive from Lote where we lived native style on the top of a jungle covered hill about 8Km west of Vanimo on the coast where my airplane was hangared. Vanimo was an old German New Guinea colony until the League of Nations stripped it off Germany and gave it to Australia. The road between Lote Mission Station and Vanimo town forded 3 streams through concrete fords and huge Papuan Black snakes used the concrete to warm up in the evening. We’d drive down to town in the Mission truck to go to watch movies on a rugby field, with the projector operating off a generator protected from the rain (it rained a LOT) and shining onto a large white tin screen. The movie ‘The Longest day almost became the longest night. It was a 5 reeler. and we watched reel #1 reel #3 reel #2 reel #5 Reel #4 Reel #5 (it seemed a bit anticlimactic by that stage and FINALLY reel #5. Then the rain was so heavy that we couldn’t get back across the fords so we watched horror movies until dawn. The PIRF (Pacific Island’s Regiment) who owned the projector were scared shitless by back to back Dracula movies! It was truly The Longest Night!
🙂
HEH
We used to call the Papuan Black Snakes…. ‘ judder bars’ and they were tough and driving a truck over them didn’t seem to hurt them much at all! Just watch out that you didn’t bring one home with you as they could also get picked up and hang on inside the truck’s mudguards and by that stage they would be more than a bit testy!
Took my baby brother swimming. He was just 6 years of age and I was 16. I took him to Little Bay behind the Coast Hospital where there used to be a leprosarium, just on the approaches of Botany Bay where Captain Landed in Oz in 1770. we used to play and fish behind the Coast Hospital and constructed various boats and rafts over the years. For reasons known only to a 16 year old I also took my pride and joy a 20 lb weight belt, fins mask and snorkel. Why a weight belt you may ask? Who knows what goes in a 16 years old head?
Anyway I decided being 6 was old enough that we two should swim the 500 metres between the entrance of Little Bay. 6 years old … of course he could swim a mere half a kilometre! So off we paddled until my baby brother piped up with Peeeete I’m getting a little bit tired. OK says I just hang onto my shoulders and I’ll tow you the rest of the way. Dump my prized weight belt NO BLOODY WAY mate. What felt like half an our later I dragged my baby brother AND weight belt onto the rocks on the other side of the bay. I was totally hacked and could have drowned both of us…. but I still had my 20 lb weight belt! Priorities!!
Did I mention that a guy was taken by a Great White at that very spot where my baby brother said that he was getting tired. Great Whites used to follow the oil tankers into Botany Bay where the ships used to dump all their spoiled food before making anchorage inside the Bay?
Who knew?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Insurrection
@ rain of lead:
@ lobo91:
It’s a fair question. East Med carrier group is in strike distance of ukieland…
@ Aussie Infidel:
you seriously need to write a book
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/19/chaos-in-berlin-65-police-injured-as-pro-palestine-activists-riot-set-fires-during-banned-protest/
65 polizei injured???
man, have they gone soft. ‘riot season’ in Berlin’s neukolln/kreutzberg districts was something to behold in the 80’s. the polizei were viscous, after giving a few warnings to disperse, mind you. i went with the polizei a few times to ‘observe’ it was rather enlightening…tear gas, water cannons loaded with CS, followed by a horse charge with ‘hit me twice sticks’ (long rubber batons with a spring inside and a lead weight on the business end). once, tho, i popped up out of an u-bahn station right into the middle of a riot, and I was on the wrong side! it took a couple of days for the CS to clear out of my sinuses and eyes. admittedly, i wasn’t supposed to be there (kreutzberg), but, the turks there had the best doner kebabs.
i had to explain to my boss (the RSO) that i got lost on the u-bahn. he just laughed at me and said that that was highly unlikely given that i have lived there in the middle of the city for years at that point. it was the classic ‘have you learned your lesson’ talking to. after that, we would go in pairs and take one of the state dept staff cars.
the best doners are worth risk to life and limb.
Solyndra 2.0:
Zelensky just seized the monestary that my FiL attended in Kiev.
That one and many more. Such a nazi
@ coldwarrior:
A buddy of mine just retired after 32 years of service in Wiesbaden. He told me the “Polizei” today are pussies. He doesn’t speak English, but that is the term he used.
We served around the same time and I saw the German riot police in action back in the day — they were ruthless. And fun to work with. LOL.
@ coldwarrior:
Globo-homo.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UkmI1BHAr8I
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
it was a lecture in applied force and selective violence.
so not anymore.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
we pay for this joker.
i heard from one of mrs coldwarrior’s work mates that she tee’d off on someone a few months ago. mrs coldwarrior is half ukie, half russian. one of her idiot american gen z travel nurses showed up with a yuge support-ukie patch on her back pack.
oh my. well, the history lesson began. it ended 10 minutes later. mrs coldwarrior then asked: ‘any questions?’
her friend said it was one of the best dress-downs that she has ever seen.
i wish i was there for that
new thread tomorrow night late
and so it begins
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-bases-come-under-drone-attack-syria-after-israeli-strikes-south-damascus
/—–
as of later this evening, i go into a long work cycle. i’ll need peeps to look after the joint for 5-6 days.
thx
—-/
if a ground war starts, the muzz will be full of captagon. it will work for 3 days, then the crash.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Well. Australia/NZ is DEFINITELY off my bucket list, thanks so much. As is Africa. I thought just maybe I would be able to fit in the Holy Land/Petra but it looks like that’s not going to happen either.
coldwarrior wrote:
In the book HOUSE TO HOUSE, about the fighting in Fallujah, the author said they ALWAYS found kit. They were using some form of meth. It made them insane but they stayed awake until we ventilated them.
Had a GREAT day at work. Learned a lot about the mechanics of jewelry repair as I spent 2 hours watching one ring being re-sized. I mean, seriously? When to just tighten prongs and when to replace the entire head. When to say NO to watch repair. How to use a head loupe to look INTO tiny diamonds (need more practice on that) Etc. etc.
There’s a gala tonite for all the businesses that won “Best in [category]” votes in Knoxville and the store won it this year and last. The owner lets all the female employees borrow whatever jewelry they want for the evening. So we spent a few hours deciding between diamonds, rubies, etc. No, I’m not an employee so I’m not invited. Maybe next year. But in a truly lovely gesture, they absolutely refused to charge me for 2 pieces I had repaired, because “You earned it”. Several hundred dollars worth.
Oh, yes, 2 of the dogs were in, Pearl and Mellie. The Fed Ex guy sneaks them treats behind Rick’s back.
I haven’t looked at any news today. I think I’ll take the day off from that. Preserve my good mood.
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s a wonder why Hezbollah hasn’t recruited Zelenskyy to join their NAZI mates even given his secular Jewish background. It’s not as if this hasn’t happened before. That well known secular Jewish billionaire who worked for the SS from 1944-45 rounding up Jews for the gas chambers when a teenager. Then why not a B grade Ukie Jewish comedian now President of Ukraine as an honorary Hezbollah Uberstrumfuherer?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
HEH
🙂
Why deny yourself a great holiday in NZ Oz is god’s joke holiday destination and he emptied NZ of ALL nasty animals to stock up Oz with everything that wants to kill you. NZ is totally free of things that want to kill you …. even Black Power gang members out for a punch up with the Head Hunters gang in deepest darkest Otara suburban mall on a Saturday evening.
🙂
Just give Otara a miss and don’t turn off the #1 Motorway at the 42 off ramp and you will be ‘sweet’!
🙂
So Petra it is
So Petra it is!
Meanwhile, it looks like the Iranians are launching missiles toward Israel out of Yemen:
eaglesoars wrote:
Don’t forget to hire a horse to gallop through the Petra cut. That’s the ultimate holiday departure! Watch Harrison Ford for instructions!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
horses hate me.
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, posted about that a week or two ago. Absolute stupidity.
@ Possum:
Akron lesson: Never break into a Goodyear blimp compound by accident and then try to escape over barbed wire to get to the I-76 freeway. It’ll shred the London Fog jacket your grampa gave you that made it easy to smuggle alcohol into concerts.
coldwarrior wrote:
Coming out of brainfook No. 89. I’m good until Halloween.
Apparently a new version of Windows was installed against my explicit direction and now all my Word files are totally fucked.
I don’t have time for this bullshit
The US District Court / Southern District of California just shut down California’s “assault weapons” ban again.
Miller v. Bonta Opinion/Order of the Court. 79 pages…
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/firearmspolicycoalition/pages/5381/attachments/original/1697737480/2023.10.19_175_OPINION.pdf?1697737480
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The Bonta in the ruling is CA AG Rob Bonta, appointed by Gov. Newsom in 2021. He’s another socialist train wreck.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X: Here’s someone’s analysis of the ruling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_iUKc_4X8w
It’s a start
After It Lied About Israel, New York Times’ Verification Badge Removed By X
https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-it-lied-about-israel-new-york-times-verification-badge-removed-by-x
@ eaglesoars:
Once again:
Hooray for Paliwood!
That sloppy Photoshoppy Paliwood!
Where a jihadi-o can make a video
Of someone who’s been knocked flat
Though blood is scattered, it doesn’t matter
He’ll be back up and walking just like that
Hooray for Paliwood!
They work at making genocide look good
It barely takes them even half an instant
To take an infant, or a woman in a hood
Who looks like a ninja, and make ‘em look injured—
Hooray for Paliwood!
Hooray for Paliwood!
Emoting and exploding Paliwood!
Kids go on television to spout their vision Of blowing up amidst some Jews
It’s so commonplace that when they self-erase
It barely rates a mention on the news
Hooray for Paliwood!
They invite doctors who want to do good
Then interview them as they loudly bewail
The way that they fail
To save all the lives they should
It never is revealed they’re used as human shields—
Hooray for Paliwood!
Hooray for Paliwood!
That struggling, weapons-smuggling Paliwood!
Where armaments assorted will be transported
In a Red Crescent ambulance
But don’t dare object for if you detect it
You’ll be killed as soon as they get the chance
Hooray for Paliwood!
They work at making genocide look good
It barely takes them even half an instant
To take an infant Or a woman in a hood
Who looks like a ninja And make ‘em look injured—
Hooray for Paliwood!
@ eaglesoars:
LoL you Fell for it.
Check their x account
meh
it’s fine
https://www.westernjournal.com/foreign-company-gobbles-top-us-ammunition-manufacturers-remington-federal-cci-others-sold-off/
eaglesoars wrote:
Now there’s no way to determine if future NYT tweets are from the NYT or from an imposter.
Cool. I wasn’t late for my periodontist appointment like last time. In fact I was early.
A week early.
I don’t watch Tucker Carlson, but he dared to talk about George Floyd, and dared to repeat that Floyd didn’t die of asphyxiation. The medicos who performed the autopsies were going with the narrative in order to save their careers.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1715465410856841628
@ buzzsawmonkey:
my poet buddy…………
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Since NYT is a pathological liar to begin with……..
eaglesoars wrote:
I’d rather see the verified lies and the subsequent vivisections. Same with Pallywood.
who the hell is Tom Emmer? Speaker of the House? SRSLY?
The GOP is just suicidal
@ eaglesoars:
He’s the Majority Whip. Before that, he was chair of the NRCC.
Not that he seems to have done anything to brag about in either of those positions, but he’s not some random backbencher
I love Nick Freitas:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/arvO6BFvy0g
lobo91 wrote:
You are mis-guided.
Somewhere there is a video of that SOB chasing Ben Shapiro down the street on their way to synagogue – the family, including Shaprio’s children.
He is Laura Loomer in trousers.
I know him from Virginia. He’s an asshole.
lobo91 wrote:
and the very shallow research I’ve done so far is that he is Soros backed.
We will see
@ eaglesoars:
I know nothing about him, beyond what I mentioned, and have no opinion either way. I was just pointing out that he’s actually part of the House leadership team.
Just a few thoughts from my not particularly intelligent or enlightened mind.
https://doriangrey1.substack.com/p/misunderstanding-all-you-see
Home from work. Today’s education was in metallurgy. I spent most of the day with Matt, who actually fabricates the pieces that Blake designs with a customer (using CAD, which is very cool). Blake makes a rubber-like prototype using specialized equipment and Matt makes the actual piece.
Jewelry gold always has a paired alloy and Matt decides on the alloy. That round ring on your finger? Well, gold doesn’t want to bend. And the way you get it to pair with the alloy so that it does bend involves chemicals that YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE AROUND. Like boric acid and all sorts of gases and – it is just a witch’s brew of poison.
Which is why there is this room in the shop that is quite noisy when Matt is in there. It’s the ventilation system. And there is an entire chain of waste management that goes along with it.
Matt also likes to cook, and as his dad is from Louisiana and my Mom was from New Orleans, we discussed the subtleties of making a roux.
Good times.
Oh. Pro tip. If you frequent a business, don’t step out of line with the associates ESPECIALLY male-on-female improper stuff. Cuz they will put a note on your file. Yes, you have a file. And every time you darken their doorway, you will be ‘shadowed’ by one of the male staff. You won’t like it.
@ doriangrey:
Your point is well taken.
I can’t decide what the piece is about. The feckless Biden admin, or the reckless Iranians. They both seemed to get the same emphasis.
For me, the value of VDH is the prism he sees things thru. His educational/experiential background is not mine [Captain Obvious at your service]. So even tho he and I arrive at the same place, he saw things on the journey I missed.
On a similar vein, Jordan Peterson. He beautifully articulates things in a way I simply cannot. But he’s very practical. No soaring revelations, just common sense.
uh huh
Michigan Jewish synagogue president Samantha Woll found dead outside Detroit home
Police in Detroit said there’s no motive in the death of a prominent synagogue president, as of Saturday afternoon
Michigan Jewish synagogue president Samantha Woll found dead outside Detroit home
Police in Detroit said there’s no motive in the death of a prominent synagogue president, as of Saturday afternoon
https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-jewish-synagogue-president-samantha-woll-found-dead-outside-detroit-home
2 seconds of FAFO
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1715576518858960919
@ eaglesoars:
New thread upstairs….