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NCAA Football week 9 and Rugby World Cup 2023 FINAL & OPEN

by coldwarrior ( 171 Comments › )
Filed under College Football, Open thread, Rugby at October 27th, 2023 - 10:24 pm

We were even last week, so still $1300/$1000…outperforming the stocks and bonds. Quit level is 33% ROI, we had that three weeks ago.

Let’s get to it.

No one, except yours truly and some maniac former-747 pilot in NZ thought the 2023 RWC would come to this:

South Africa versus New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup final, day 48 of the tourney, all are sore and beat up. Yet, here we are. Both teams peaked at the right time, Ireland fell to their quarterfinal curse while France lost on home soil. The pretenders have been sorted, South Africa v New Zealand for the final, 100 years of playing each other. SA is incredibly physical especially in the ruck, NZ can bite you from a set piece in their own end. Neither team was supposed to be here. NZ is a 2 point favorite. Jeeze, that makes some assumptions, can NZ’s pack withstand the SA force, especially at the end? If Jordie Barrett is not contained, SA loses big. NZ beats this spread.

NCAA Week 9

I’m not seeing anything that I even want to watch.

IT’S AN OPEN!!!!

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  1. Aussie Infidel
    1 | October 27, 2023 10:41 pm

    Ohhh Ohhh!

    Paris weather forecast is for showers this afternoon moving to general rain by Kick-Off time for the All Blacks -vs. South Africa Hitler Youth final of the World Cup.

    So much for a free flowing innovative game of Rugby we may end up with a down in the bloody-muddy trenches with grinding Forwards football.

    The innovative AB’s running Rugby where the Springboks are literally run off their feet, looks like it’s shaping up for ‘The Somme’ battlefield 2.0 where grinding ‘Forwards’ attrition warfare will be the name of the day.

    The odds seem to have switched back in favour of the ‘Boks!

    Ahhhhhhh !

    šŸ™‚


  2. coldwarrior
    2 | October 27, 2023 11:22 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    skype if yinz got a minute


  3. coldwarrior
    3 | October 27, 2023 11:22 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Paris weather forecast is for showers this afternoon moving to general rain by Kick-Off time for the All Blacks -vs. South Africa Hitler Youth final of the World Cup.

    šŸ˜†


  4. coldwarrior
    4 | October 27, 2023 11:25 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    stad de france can’t handle rain and SA power in the srum, they will lose their grip!


  5. coldwarrior
    5 | October 27, 2023 11:38 pm


  6. coldwarrior
    6 | October 28, 2023 12:05 am

    “it would be un-australian if the players wore protection”

    šŸ˜†


  7. lobo91
    7 | October 28, 2023 10:53 am

    @ coldwarrior:

    You mentioned earlier that one of your girls expressed an interest in being a drummer. Here’s a good video for her to watch. It’s the “Paucam” from The Warning’s show in Denver last year. The entire 43 minutes is focused on Pau’s performance, from over her left shoulder. It really shows the amount of physicality involved. As a bonus, Ale is in frame for a lot of it, and you can see the subtle non-verbal communication between the two of them.

    Definitely worth watching for someone who’s interested in seeing behind the curtain a bit:


  8. eaglesoars
    8 | October 28, 2023 1:16 pm

    If you ever feel useless, remember…

    It took 20 years, trillions of dollars and 4 U.S. presidents to…

    Replace the Taliban with the Taliban

    There. Feel better?


  9. 9 | October 28, 2023 3:04 pm

    @ coldwarrior:
    The guyā€™s hilarious.


  10. coldwarrior
    10 | October 28, 2023 3:53 pm

    @ right_wing2:
    He is


  11. coldwarrior
    11 | October 28, 2023 3:54 pm

    NZ team captain thrown off, red card. They have to play one man short. That’s not gonna work.


  12. 12 | October 28, 2023 3:57 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    You mentioned earlier that one of your girls expressed an interest in being a drummer. Hereā€™s a good video for her to watch.


  13. eaglesoars
    13 | October 28, 2023 6:28 pm

    srsly?

    Pro Hamas Protesters have interrupted and stopped the USC vs California College Football gameā€¦

    https://twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/1718378878463254543


  14. 14 | October 28, 2023 6:35 pm

    Leonard Nimoy & the blizzard of 1978
    https://twitter.com/i/status/1697150948559233523


  15. lobo91
    15 | October 28, 2023 8:42 pm

    speaking of useless:


  16. 17 | October 29, 2023 5:12 am

    Very cool. Just spotted an odd light in the sky, orangeish color with a tail, moving fast southward at a 30 degree angle up. Clearly not an aircraft. It disappeared into cloud cover after a few seconds.
    Turns out it was a 2am Space X launch out of Vandenburg.
    https://www.rocketlaunch.live/


  17. lobo91
    18 | October 29, 2023 11:53 am

    Matthew Perry Dead at 54 After Apparent Drowning
    The actor, who was best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends, was found dead at a Los Angeles-area home on Saturday.

    TMZ reported that Perry was found in a jacuzzi at the home, and no drugs were found at the scene.

    Warner Bros. issued a statement about the beloved star: ā€œWe are devastated by the passing of our dear friend Matthew Perry. Matthew was an incredibly gifted actor and an indelible part of the Warner Bros. Television Group family. The impact of his comedic genius was felt around the world, and his legacy will live on in the hearts of so many. This is a heartbreaking day, and we send our love to his family, his loved ones, and all of his devoted fans.”


  18. coldwarrior
  19. 20 | October 29, 2023 3:24 pm

    The Book of Hallowe’en Ruth Edna Kelley, 1919
    From the Archive intro:

    The druids, we are told, held black cats sacred, sacrificed enemies in wicker frames set ablaze, and carried magical glass balls crafted from the spittle of snakes. As Christianity spread across Britain, the sacred oak groves of the druids were felled to build churches, and their festivals hollowed out to serve as vessels for monotheistic rites. Saint Johnā€™s Eve was mixed with the dregs of Midsummer; Lammas filled the sterilized bottle of Lughnasadh, a Gaelic harvest festival progressively shorn of pagan reference. Like her contemporaries across the Atlantic involved with the Irish Literary Revival or the Scottish Renaissance, Kelley believes that the old magic was buried but not lost: it simply went underground, finding safe passage into modernity in rustic landscapes inhabited by ā€œScotch, Irish, and Welsh peasantryā€, who still believe that ā€œbrooks, hills, dales, and rocks abound in tiny supernatural beingsā€.

    https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-halloween/


  20. rain of lead
    21 | October 29, 2023 4:08 pm

    Are you a Democrat, a Republican or a Southerner?

    The answer can be found by posing the following question:

    You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children.

    Suddenly, a terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams “Allah ho akhbar!”, raises the knife, and charges at you…

    You are carrying a Kimber 1911 .45 ACP, and you are an expert shot.
    You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family.
    What do you do?

    THINK CAREFULLY AND
    THEN SCROLL DOWN:

    Democrat’s Answer:

    Well, that’s not enough information to answer the question!

    What is a Kimber 1911.45 ACP?

    Does the man look poor or oppressed?

    Is he really a terrorist? Am I guilty of profiling?

    Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack?

    Could we run away?

    What does my wife think?

    What about the kids?

    Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand?

    What does the law say about this situation?

    Does the pistol have appropriate safety built into it?

    Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children?

    Is it possible he’d be happy with just killing me?

    Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me?

    If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me?

    Should I call 9-1-1?

    Why is this street so deserted?

    We need to raise taxes, have paint & weed day.

    Can we make this a happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior.

    I need to debate this with some friends for a few days and try to come to a consensus.

    This is all so confusing!

    ………… ………. …….. ….. ……… ……. …….. …….. .

    Republican’s Answer:

    BANG!

    ………… ……. …… …….. ……… …….. ………. ….

    Southerner’s Answer:

    BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
    BANG ! BANG! BANG! BANG!
    Click….. (Sounds of reloading)

    BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!BANG!BANG!
    Click

    Daughter: ‘Nice grouping, Daddy!’
    ‘Were those the Winchester Silver Tips or Hollow Points?!

    Son: ‘Can I shoot the next one?!’

    Wife: You are not taking that to the Taxidermist!


  21. 22 | October 29, 2023 4:23 pm

    “Scientific” American strikes again, but even this is a stretch.
    Couldn’t be because of average age group differences. Nah, gotta be science deniers and anti-vaxxers.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republican-counties-have-higher-death-rates-than-those-in-democratic-counties/


  22. Aussie Infidel
    23 | October 29, 2023 4:52 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    NZ team captain thrown off, red card. They have to play one man short. Thatā€™s not gonna work.

    A great game totally ruined by the referees. ESPECIALLY the TMO (TV referee siting up in his studio with a team of lawyers deciding who won and who lost and who goes home) So the AB’s captain has an accidental head clash and gets ‘sin binned’ for 10 minutes but the ABs are rather pissed off and play like harridans and shock the ‘Boks to the core. THEN the TMO and his team of lawyers decide to upgrade the yellow card to a red card and the ABs Captain is sent off for the rest of the game leaving the ABs a man short for 3/4 of the game.

    Then exactly the same thing happens to the Captain of the ‘boks … the ‘claret’ pours from the face of an AB and the ‘boss Captain is also sent to the sin bin for 10 minutes and the teams are now playing a man short. Seemed fair ….. UNTIL …. the ‘boss Captain DOESN’t get his yellow card upgraded to a Red Card and he’s allowed to return to the field after his 10 minutes ……. in the bin…. THIS TOTALLY ruins the World Cup Final.

    Still the ABs are now really pissed off and play like they are possessed and get to within a single point of the ‘boks when they conjure up some AB ‘magic’ . They toss the ball about mesmerising the whole ‘boss’ team and SCORE a Try. The lawyers and the referee in the TMO box decide that this ‘magic’ can’t be allowed to happen and strip the ABs of their try which would have won them the game and given them the Webb Ellis Cup as World Champions.

    The ABs throw everything but the kitchen sink at the exhausted ‘boks , with the now REALLY pissed off ABs pushing the ‘boks supposed superhero scrum around like there a bunch of kindergarteners, but the exhausted ‘boks manage to stat on their feet and run out the clock.

    The best team, who has made all the running during the game DOESN’t win and the victorious ‘boks stagger off to the showers clutching their cup. The moron ref in the TMO studio with his team of lawyers go to the bar to get drunk. The Brit Referee on the field has forced, what was a winning team of ABs , to collect their silver medals and wanders off to collect his illicit winning at the local betting shop!

    BLOODY PERFIDIOUS ALBION strikes again! Now the Apocalypse is allowed to happen as all of the pieces are in place and the South African ‘Hitler Youth’ have back to back World Cups and there is no justice in the world!

    The AB s await the sounding of trumpets and look out for Gog and Magog to show up for the real final! With the ‘Hitler Youth’ Boks basking in the Lake of Fire where they belong.

    It’s not as if this was just a game or anything!!

    HEH

    šŸ™‚


  23. eaglesoars
    24 | October 29, 2023 9:33 pm

    Live: Israel must distinguish between Hamas and civilians in Gaza, US says

    https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20231028-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-health-ministry-in-hamas-run-gaza-says-war-deaths-exceed-8-000

    AFAIK, no one bitched about this when we nuked Japan. Twice.


  24. lobo91
    25 | October 29, 2023 9:38 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    AFAIK, no one bitched about this when we nuked Japan. Twice.

    Not at the time, no. In recent years, I’ve seen people complain that we were obviously “racist,” since we only nuked Japan and not Germany.

    Never mind the fact that Germany surrendered several months before the bombs were ready. It’s generally considered unsporting to nuke people after they’ve surrendered.


  25. Aussie Infidel
    26 | October 29, 2023 10:53 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Live: Israel must distinguish between Hamas and civilians in Gaza, US says

    https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20231028-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-health-ministry-in-hamas-run-gaza-says-war-deaths-exceed-8-000

    AFAIK, no one bitched about this when we nuked Japan. Twice.

    My comment is that nobody complained when Germany was firebombed. Two names stand out … Le May of the USAAF and the 8th Airforce and UK’s Bomber Command and ‘Bomber’ Harris. Dresden burned for days with 1,200 degrees C in the city centre where the bricks melted together ‘No Quarter Existential Combat’ tends to bring out the worst in mankind, as civilisation survival itself is in the pack of cards. It’s better to fi ish it rather than allow compassion to intervene and lengthen the suffering. Compassion has a lot to answer for in the past 70= years of ‘forever wars’! When you are fighting an existential war of civilisational survival the words cease fire or truce are just code for reload and move to the next attack. Forever wars are truly Amoral!


  26. Aussie Infidel
    27 | October 29, 2023 10:55 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Live: Israel must distinguish between Hamas and civilians in Gaza, US says

    Code for the US generated ‘Forever Wars’ which I might say are hugely profitable …. unless you are one of the dead!


  27. coldwarrior
    28 | October 30, 2023 5:40 am

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    I can’t argue with that


  28. eaglesoars
    29 | October 30, 2023 11:04 am

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    My comment is that nobody complained when Germany was firebombed.

    I’ve noted the Dresden/Hamburg thing in previous posts. Golda Meier said something along the lines of “We can forgive you for killing our children. We can never forgive you for making us kill yours. This will stop when you love your own children more than you hate ours”

    Not verbatim but close.


  29. 30 | October 30, 2023 11:12 am

    No response from DarkWords to an email I sent 27 September. He hasn’t posted here since 19 March.


  30. eaglesoars
    31 | October 30, 2023 11:44 am

    Accept That Savagery Is the True Nature of the World ā€“ and Deal With It

    Remember the Pax Romana?
    .
    .
    Caesar at Alesia. The Gauls had gotten uppity and killed a lot of Romans, so Caesar decided to pacify them. The barbarian leader Vercingetorix took refuge in the hilltop town, and Caesar immediately surrounded it. He had his legionnaires build a giant wall around it to lock the Gauls inside. The Gauls called their friends for help, so Caesar built another wall around his besieging forces to keep the relief column at bay. He starved out Alesia, eventually forcing the Gauls to attack and defeating them handily. Then he took Vercingetorix back to Rome, made him march in chains in triumph, and then had his defeated enemy strangled. This was an important learning point for the barbarians. Donā€™t screw with civilized people, or everybody dies.

    This is how you get a Pax Romana.

    https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/10/30/accept-that-savagery-is-the-true-nature-of-the-world-and-deal-with-it-n2630502


  31. buzzsawmonkey
    32 | October 30, 2023 12:23 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    AFAIK, no one bitched about this when we nuked Japan. Twice.

    Not too many at the time, no—though even then there were people stupid enough to suggest that there should be a “demonstration” bombing, which apparently meant that we should somehow persuade the Japanese High Command to sit in the bleachers while we dropped a “demonstration” bomb and said, “See what we could do to you? Why don’t you just be good boys and surrender?”

    The problems with this were many: not only would it have been impossible to get the Japanese leaders thus assembled for such a demo, but
    a) We only had a few bombs, and those developed at great expense;
    b) We didn’t know if they’d actually work under battlefield, as opposed to test, conditions (and nothing is more lame than a “demonstration” that doesn’t come off; and
    c) Worst of all, even if such a demonstration could be arranged and stage successfully, nothing says “lack of seriousness and resolve” like saying to an implacable enemy, “Look what we could do, but which we’re willing to not do if you hand over your surrender swords now.”

    The people who pushed this nonsense then, and the many more who do it now, do not realize that we did arrange not merely one, but two, “demonstrations”—Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and that even after the second demonstration the Japanese did not immediately surrender. Indeed, when Hirohito first attempted to arrange for a surrender, he was attacked by his own generals and nearly killed for trying to do so.

    BTW, as a historical note, for many years after WWII there were Japanese soldiers found on various Pacific islands who were still carrying on the war. The last such holdout was finally captured in the late ’60s or early ’70s.


  32. coldwarrior
    33 | October 30, 2023 1:26 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    The west does not have the resolve or guts to pull that off anymore


  33. lobo91
    34 | October 30, 2023 2:16 pm

    Here’s an interesting song from The Warning. They apparently close with it most of the time when they play in Latin American venues, but not in the US or Europe. Note that Pau finally escaped from behind the drums for this one. The guy filling in for her is actually her drum teacher:

    Translation of the lyrics:

    They say you have to pray for me
    so worried
    But, I don’t see that they are praying so much
    It’s not a big deal, leave your judgments now
    Stay away from me please
    Criticize me a little more
    I find myself entertained when listening
    Everything they say, everything they curse
    Let me laugh some more
    Because you, you don’t know anything
    You spread the word and you don’t shut up
    I cover my ears and just say
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    Let me deny the list, I’m not crazy or a malinchista
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    They say I’m selfish, damned narcissist
    I do not know what to do
    I don’t see the point in pretending
    I don’t try anymore, because I already know
    Behind the curtains, they keep talking!
    Your good intentions always come out on top!
    Don’t think you’re fooling me with that disguise
    Because you, you don’t know anything
    You spread the word and you don’t shut up
    I cover my ears and simply say
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    Let me deny the list, I’m not crazy or a malinchista
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    They say I’m selfish, damned narcissist
    Na, na, na, na, na, na
    Na, na, na, na, na, na
    I will deny the list again
    I’m not crazy or malinchista
    Na, na, na, na, na, na
    Na, na, na, na, na, na
    They say I’m selfish, damned narcissist

    The one untranslated word, “malinchista,” is a Mexican slang term for someone who prefers non-Mexican culture. Basically, it’s like when American blacks say that someone is “acting white.” From what I’ve read, they’ve taken a lot of heat from people in their own country for not being “authentically Mexican” enough.

    Most of their songs are in English (and all three of them speak better English than most Americans). They were raised in an upper-middle class family in Monterrey, and are of primarily Spanish descent, rather than the more typical mestizo mix of Spanish and native.


  34. lobo91
    35 | October 30, 2023 2:22 pm

    Meanwhile in Colorado:

    Court arguments begin on blocking Trump from the presidential ballot under the ā€˜insurrectionā€™ clause

    Efforts to use the U.S. Constitutionā€™s ā€œinsurrectionā€ clause to bar former President Donald Trump from running for the White House again entered a new phase Monday in a hearing focused on whether the Jan. 6 Capitol attack meets the Constitutionā€™s definition of the word and whether Trumpā€™s role meets the threshold for being barred.

    The Colorado hearing is the first of two statesā€™ lawsuits that could end up reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Mondayā€™s testimony began with details about the 2021 assault that was intended to halt certification of Joe Bidenā€™s election win .

    Attorney Eric Olson, representing a group of Colorado voters seeking to keep Trump off the ballot, recounted Trumpā€™s violent rhetoric and encouraging of a crowd that came within ā€œ40 feetā€ of the vice president when they stormed the Capitol. He said Trump ā€œsummoned and organized the mob.ā€

    ā€œWe are here because Trump claims, after all that, that he has the right to be president again,ā€ Olson said. ā€œBut our Constitution, the shared charter of our nation, says he cannot do so.ā€

    At the start of Mondayā€™s hearing in Colorado, the judge rejected a Trump motion that she step aside because she once contributed money to a liberal group.

    On Thursday, oral arguments are scheduled before the Minnesota Supreme Court on an effort to kick the Republican former president off the ballot in that state. Whether the judges keep Trump on the ballots or boot him, their rulings are likely to be swiftly appealed, eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court. The nationā€™s highest court has never ruled on the Civil War-era provision in the 14th Amendment that prohibits those who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and then ā€œengaged in insurrectionā€ against it from holding higher office.

    It’s almost like these idiots are trying to start another civil war…


  35. buzzsawmonkey
    36 | October 30, 2023 3:02 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    Itā€™s almost like these idiots are trying to start another civil warā€¦

    Why wouldn’t they? They already know that the Barcalounger Conservatives won’t lift a finger against them.


  36. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    37 | October 30, 2023 3:05 pm

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/police-were-warned-about-the-maine-shooter-weeks-before-he-massacred-18-people

    Oh look, the “flag laws” don’t work, big shock. Yet they left wants to institute them everywhere.


  37. buzzsawmonkey
    38 | October 30, 2023 3:09 pm

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
    Now, now—not a word against the way the “caring professions” are dealing, legally and professionally, with social problems. After all, they’ve done really well with solving “the problem of homelessness” over the last 40-odd years.


  38. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    39 | October 30, 2023 3:09 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    Meanwhile in Colorado:

    Court arguments begin on blocking Trump from the presidential ballot under the ā€˜insurrectionā€™ clause

    Efforts to use the U.S. Constitutionā€™s ā€œinsurrectionā€ clause to bar former President Donald Trump from running for the White House again entered a new phase Monday in a hearing focused on whether the Jan. 6 Capitol attack meets the Constitutionā€™s definition of the word and whether Trumpā€™s role meets the threshold for being barred.

    The Colorado hearing is the first of two statesā€™ lawsuits that could end up reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Mondayā€™s testimony began with details about the 2021 assault that was intended to halt certification of Joe Bidenā€™s election win .

    Attorney Eric Olson, representing a group of Colorado voters seeking to keep Trump off the ballot, recounted Trumpā€™s violent rhetoric and encouraging of a crowd that came within ā€œ40 feetā€ of the vice president when they stormed the Capitol. He said Trump ā€œsummoned and organized the mob.ā€

    ā€œWe are here because Trump claims, after all that, that he has the right to be president again,ā€ Olson said. ā€œBut our Constitution, the shared charter of our nation, says he cannot do so.ā€

    At the start of Mondayā€™s hearing in Colorado, the judge rejected a Trump motion that she step aside because she once contributed money to a liberal group.

    On Thursday, oral arguments are scheduled before the Minnesota Supreme Court on an effort to kick the Republican former president off the ballot in that state. Whether the judges keep Trump on the ballots or boot him, their rulings are likely to be swiftly appealed, eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court. The nationā€™s highest court has never ruled on the Civil War-era provision in the 14th Amendment that prohibits those who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and then ā€œengaged in insurrectionā€ against it from holding higher office.

    Itā€™s almost like these idiots are trying to start another civil warā€¦

    They actually don’t believe that anyone will fight back. As their power grows out of control, they actually have convinced themselves that they control everything. The election fraud continues to embolden them.


  39. buzzsawmonkey
    40 | October 30, 2023 3:10 pm

    Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:

    They actually donā€™t believe that anyone will fight back.

    Well, history is on their side there.


  40. lobo91
    41 | October 30, 2023 3:11 pm

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:

    Oh look, the ā€œflag lawsā€ donā€™t work, big shock. Yet they left wants to institute them everywhere.

    Obviously. Isn’t that what you do when you try something and it doesn’t work?


  41. coldwarrior
    42 | October 30, 2023 7:56 pm

    @ lobo91:
    I’m diggin these chix. Pretty good.

    Don’t laugh, my new fave band on the turntable is…

    Led Zeppelin.

    Ok, stop laughing. I was grossly overexposed to them on rock radio back in the day.

    Same 3 so songs….

    I grew to just yawn at them. Well, hello. Ok I get it. I prefer them on the open channel speakers with the sub over the schitt amp/Beyer dynamic headphones. Make the house vibrate!


  42. coldwarrior
    43 | October 30, 2023 7:57 pm

    @ buzzsawmonkey:
    Heh

    Barcolounger conservative


  43. coldwarrior
    44 | October 30, 2023 7:59 pm

    @ lobo91:
    The Spanish descent in Latin America are not the problem


  44. coldwarrior
    45 | October 30, 2023 8:07 pm

    @ buzzsawmonkey:
    The nukes were necessary on many levels.

    A demonstration there may have saved a nuke exchange elsewhere


  45. lobo91
    46 | October 30, 2023 8:23 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ lobo91:
    The Spanish descent in Latin America are not the problem

    Of course not. I was just pointing out the parallels with black culture in the US. I’m pretty sure that if they hadn’t gotten into music, those girls would have gone off to college and been productive citizens, rather than trying to be “cool” and hanging out with cartel wannabes (or worse).


  46. lobo91
    47 | October 30, 2023 8:37 pm

    I think we may have found a clue to why no action was taken when the Maine shooter was locked up for two weeks last summer for evaluation. It happened while he was in upstate NY on annual training with his Reserve unit, and he was at the Army hospital at West Point. Following an incident like that, the Provost Marshal’s office at West Point was supposed to have reported it to the system. Guess what didn’t happen?

    Just like the Air Force veteran who shot up that church in Texas a few years ago. They never got around to reporting his domestic violence incident, either.

    Obviously, the solution is for me to turn in my guns, though.


  47. coldwarrior
    48 | October 30, 2023 8:52 pm

    @ lobo91:
    I lost all of mine in the great beaver County lahare of ought 2.


  48. coldwarrior
    49 | October 30, 2023 8:53 pm

    @ lobo91:
    Agreed


  49. lobo91
    50 | October 30, 2023 9:16 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    Speaking of reporting things to the system, I went in to have a set of fingerprints done this morning for a new concealed carry permit. It took 35 minutes and I don’t know how many attempts to get the system to accept them. I hate those stupid scanners. What was wrong with a fingerprint card and ink?


  50. coldwarrior
    51 | October 30, 2023 9:16 pm

    It took 12 years.

    I made the perfect loaf of bread.


  51. coldwarrior
    52 | October 30, 2023 9:17 pm

    @ lobo91:
    Digital goes through everything


  52. lobo91
    53 | October 30, 2023 9:44 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ lobo91:
    Digital goes through everything

    Then they need to make it actually work.


  53. coldwarrior
    54 | October 30, 2023 9:44 pm

    @ coldwarrior:
    Yep. Perfect.


  54. eaglesoars
    55 | October 30, 2023 9:51 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:
    Yep. Perfect.

    recipe please

    Ok, remembering.

    Noreiga. Panama.

    Bush the 41st.

    Blasted him with rock n roll.

    Grabbed him. Threw him in a shit hole somewhere. Is he still alive?

    Pax Romana


  55. coldwarrior
    56 | October 30, 2023 9:51 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ lobo91:
    Digital goes through everything

    Then they need to make it actually work.

    Oh listen.

    Try to get a professional license across states.

    Eat

    A

    Bullet


  56. coldwarrior
    57 | October 30, 2023 9:53 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Imma callin


  57. lobo91
    58 | October 30, 2023 10:00 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    That’s bureaucracy, though. That’s always been a problem. Hell, it took me three trips to the DMV to get my drivers license when I moved back here from Colorado.

    But that was due to having stupid people working at the DMV, not the state decreeing that people use technology that doesn’t work properly, probably because someone’s cousin owns the company that provides it. Remember the Obamacare website debacle?


  58. lobo91
    59 | October 30, 2023 10:04 pm


  59. eaglesoars
    60 | October 30, 2023 10:16 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    Imma callin

    not tonite you’re not. I’m off to bed


  60. coldwarrior
    61 | October 30, 2023 10:23 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Ditto


  61. coldwarrior
    62 | October 30, 2023 10:39 pm

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/explosive-claims-ex-director-dia-gen-mike-flynn/

    Yep. I did security for a bunch of CODELs.

    Flynn speaks the truth.

    Night yinz!


  62. lobo91
    63 | October 31, 2023 12:20 am

    I’m watching The Warning at The Troubadour in L.A. last spring. Dany, getting ready to play “When I’m Alone”:

    “I want to share a very special song with you guys. When it was recorded, I was a 17 year old baby–like Ale–and I still had a baby voice, so it’s gonna sound a little different.”

    I’ve watched it a few times, and I can’t tell if Ale gave her a thumbs up or flipped her off. The video’s not clear enough.

    The joys of touring with your big sister… šŸ™‚


  63. 64 | October 31, 2023 2:38 am

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
    They’d work very well for the inlaws and exes with axes to grind.


  64. 65 | October 31, 2023 2:42 am

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    After all, theyā€™ve done really well with solving ā€œthe problem of homelessnessā€ over the last 40-odd years.

    They eliminated homelessness a couple years ago. Now they’re working on the problem of the un-housed.


  65. eaglesoars
    66 | October 31, 2023 9:57 am

    I looked all over for this quote yesterday but couldn’t find it because I couldn’t remember who it was from. Heinlien.

    Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded ā€” here and there, now and then ā€” are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

    This is known as ā€œbad luck.ā€

    Oddly enough, Instapundit had it up this morning.


  66. lobo91
    67 | October 31, 2023 10:02 am

    @ Bunk Five Hawks X:

    Homelessness only exists during Republican administrations. The media told me so


  67. eaglesoars
    68 | October 31, 2023 11:54 am

    This is unbelievably stupid. People are going after DeSantis for wearing cowboy boots (with lifts or something?)

    People know NOTHING about Florida. It is a HUGE horse (and cattle state). My parents lived in Ocala which is horse central. Horse people from all over the world go there to get their stock.


  68. lobo91
    69 | October 31, 2023 12:00 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Hasn’t he always worn boots? It’s not something he just started doing during the campaign.


  69. eaglesoars
    70 | October 31, 2023 12:43 pm

    @ lobo91:

    I have no idea. Nor do I care.


  70. 71 | October 31, 2023 12:58 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Reminds me of P.J. O’Rourke’s All The Trouble In The World where he dedicated a chapter to poverty and the root cause – incompetent government. As an example, he dissected the basic differences between Bangladesh and Stanton California.


  71. 72 | October 31, 2023 1:02 pm

    Happy Samhain to all Blogmockers everywhere.


  72. 73 | October 31, 2023 1:08 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Pax Romana

    That term has been making the rounds.


  73. 74 | October 31, 2023 1:40 pm

    We used to blast out Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum on Halloween back when the cul-de-sac was teeming with costumed kids. When the older ones started showing up, we played this:


  74. eaglesoars
    75 | October 31, 2023 4:00 pm

    Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:

    P.J. Oā€™Rourke

    Another one we could use. Hitchens. Breitbart. Novak


  75. rain of lead
    76 | October 31, 2023 5:24 pm

    hey y’all
    happy Halloween

    got a scary movie playing, don’t even know what it is and a big bowl of candy
    to hand out to the little monsters


  76. coldwarrior
    77 | October 31, 2023 5:27 pm

    @ rain of lead:
    My little monsters and their friends are ready to go get some sugar.

    I’ll be handing out candy…in a dick Nixon mask.


  77. eaglesoars
    78 | October 31, 2023 5:37 pm

    Look at this. Child abuse. Blinken dresses his son as Zelinsky and his daughter as the Ukrainian flag

    https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1719401001835483630


  78. coldwarrior
    79 | October 31, 2023 6:11 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Sick


  79. coldwarrior
    80 | October 31, 2023 6:16 pm

    …a neat Don Julio 1942 tequila, an Aurtoro Fuente Hemmingway, and little ghouls running around…

    Nice way to kill a couple hours


  80. rain of lead
    81 | October 31, 2023 7:58 pm

    best one i saw was a plague dr outfit


  81. coldwarrior
    82 | October 31, 2023 8:06 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    best one i saw was a plague dr outfit

    lol

    that’s what the puti was!


  82. eaglesoars
    83 | October 31, 2023 8:13 pm

    So I guess all these people insisting Joe Biden enforce a cease fire on Israel means…Hamas is losing?

    BWAHAHAHAHA!

    suck it

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/31/police-remove-pro-palestinian-protestors-disrupting-senate-israel-aid-hearing-chanting-cease-fire-now-genocide/


  83. eaglesoars
    84 | October 31, 2023 10:16 pm

    I think this is Canada.

    National Immunization Program (PNI) is likely making jabs mandatory for children aged 6 months to 5 years starting 2024.

    The Covid-19 vaccine will be included in national children’s schedule and administered to priority groups starting from 2024

    https://twitter.com/carolina_bonita/status/1719529951366369518

    what are ‘priority groups’?


  84. eaglesoars
    85 | October 31, 2023 10:46 pm

    I’ve seen some weird shit on twitter but this………..

    Is it starting to make more sense why the jewish controlled uni-party kept pushing abortion in the US and globally? Aborted Babies being ripped apart while alive. The bodies were sent to Israel’s partner, CCP, to process the bodies for adrenochrome to be shipped to hollywood.

    https://twitter.com/UAmerica333/status/1719514667238789492


  85. Aussie Infidel
    86 | October 31, 2023 10:51 pm

    Yemen has just joined Hamas and is no officially at war with Israel. Now watch the rest of the Muslim world joining on the pile on as always happens. If Israel begins to have its tactical and strategic defences overwhelmed by sheer weight of firepower there is NO WAY that Israel won’t use its nukes in an existential war to the death. If the usual Muslim pile on happens this time, then the world as we know it will be a very different place.

    Good luck!


  86. lobo91
    87 | October 31, 2023 11:01 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    Which is why there are US Navy ships in the vicinity shooting down their missiles and drones en route


  87. Aussie Infidel
    88 | November 1, 2023 12:24 am

    If they are Houthy rebels from the North West I didn’t believe that they had many missiles with the range to worry most of the Israeli population centres. Maybe Elait in the extreme South on the Red Sea but not much else. I know that they have a few Silkworms out of a museum but not much else with any really significant range. The USN destroyer on station off Northern Yemen didn’t seem to have many problems snotting a few missiles and a small ‘flock of drones’, last week!

    šŸ™‚


  88. lobo91
    89 | November 1, 2023 12:50 am

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    They didn’t. I imagine it was a nice bit of target practice for them.

    The Israelis apparently used their Arrow system to shoot down a medium-range ballistic missile fired from Yemen earlier today, though. Not sure what type, exactly.


  89. Aussie Infidel
    90 | November 1, 2023 1:13 am

    Using an Arrow to down a medium range missile is a bit of overkill . Maybe they used an old Arrow I that was just about for replacement by a shiny new Arrow II and thought that might as well let the Arrow do what a missile is built to do!

    šŸ™‚


  90. rain of lead
    91 | November 1, 2023 6:24 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    my boss is one that REALLY believes the adrenochrome storyline


  91. eaglesoars
    92 | November 1, 2023 10:48 am

    rain of lead wrote:

    adrenochrome

    why would they need babies? You can get it on amazon.


  92. coldwarrior
    93 | November 1, 2023 12:01 pm

    Bad week for NZ sports, they just lost to SA by 190 runs.


  93. eaglesoars
    94 | November 1, 2023 1:19 pm

    so impeach him already

    Weā€™ve followed the money and identified how Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money.

    @RepJamesComer lays out the money trail.

    https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1719715671154528579


  94. buzzsawmonkey
    95 | November 1, 2023 1:39 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Weā€™ve followed the money and identified how Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money.

    Joe Biden: the Clodfather of the Biden Crime Family.


  95. Aussie Infidel
    96 | November 1, 2023 4:53 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    Bad week for NZ sports, they just lost to SA by 190 runs.

    Tell me about it!

    I put it down to not having a functioning government in place yet. So far 2 weeks have passed counting and cross referencing all of the million+ special votes from Kiwis scattered around the globe. The ‘on the night count is just a rough estimate. When margins are course and there is no real chance of flipping an electorate there is not a real problem . BUT there are a load a razor thin ‘on the night majorities’ that could still go either way. The Coalition of right-ish kinda partners have a 1 seat majority and a third party (NZ First) may have to be brought into the mix to secure a definitive win for the ‘sorta right’. With the current voting system of proportional voting where everyone gets two votes …. one for an electorate member and one for a party vote, then ‘tactical ‘split’ voting comes into its own.With the Kiwi system styled on the German voting system there is a very 5% high barrier to voting for one of the myriad single interest parties. Given that hurdle there can be a load of wasted Party votes, and that complicates the final numbers round-up for Party votes. Tactical voting can be a real two edged sword when it comes to Party votes. If a minor Party scores a single win in an actual electorate seat then regardless of their Party vote the Electorate winner can carry a few Party members along on his / her coat tails. This even gets more confusing in some situations when you end up with an ‘overhang’ Party vote that pushes the total House seats up from the nominal 120 seat House to 121 or even 122 seat House. This then has down stream effects when you need more than a coalition of 60 Seats + 1 to govern. Then you have to appoint a ‘supposed’ apolitical, Speaker of the House to act as a referee in the House. This may mean in a House with a razor thin majority, an agreed member from an opposition party can be elected Speaker. Now THAT can get real messy real fast, if the Speaker starts dabbling in politics instead of acting as a neutral referee. The question of minority government can also happen where a supporting party can not be part of a government but can sign an agreement to support House Bills of a minority government ‘On Confidence & Supply’. Meaning that it agrees formally to not vote against minority government Bills and will guarantee( Supply ) Money Bills.

    So NZ is currently living in governmental Limbo between administrations where the outgoing Administration is being advised by the new incoming administration until an electoral solution is worked through, including the horse trading between successful coalition members or potential members of a new Administration.

    This BS can take up to 6 weeks to come to a conclusion.

    šŸ™


  96. Aussie Infidel
    97 | November 1, 2023 5:01 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    so impeach him already

    Weā€™ve followed the money and identified how Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money.

    @RepJamesComer lays out the money trail.

    https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1719715671154528579

    Why would you do that when the Republicans have their ideal Democrat candidate for 2024 in Biden. A corruptocrat who loses support every time he attempts to walk up a set of stairs to tries or find his way off a stage? Leave Biden right where he is and don’t give the Dems a way out of their self inflicted electoral hell.

    šŸ™‚
    The bloody Dems deserve the Biden crime family!


  97. eaglesoars
    98 | November 1, 2023 7:21 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    point taken


  98. eaglesoars
    99 | November 1, 2023 7:22 pm

    Just in from the White House:

    Today, [President Biden] and Vice President Harris are announcing that their Administration will develop the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia in the United States. We look forward to continuing our work with community leaders, advocates, members of Congress, and more to develop the strategy ā€“ which will be a joint effort led by the Domestic Policy Council and the National Security Council ā€“ and counter the scourge of Islamophobia and hate in all its forms

    https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status/1719834843926659442

    maybe now the Jews will figure out they’ve just been used………….


  99. lobo91
    100 | November 1, 2023 7:37 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Just slightly tone deaf…


  100. Aussie Infidel
    101 | November 1, 2023 8:22 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Just in from the White House:

    Today, [President Biden] and Vice President Harris are announcing that their Administration will develop the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia in the United States. We look forward to continuing our work with community leaders, advocates, members of Congress, and more to develop the strategy ā€“ which will be a joint effort led by the Domestic Policy Council and the National Security Council ā€“ and counter the scourge of Islamophobia and hate in all its forms

    https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status/1719834843926659442

    maybe now the Jews will figure out theyā€™ve just been usedā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦.

    Used sure ….. BUT more to the point the Jews have been HAD.

    As the world moves from crisis to crisis we probably missed the Synod of Synodality in Rome …… what ever the hell that actually means. Perhaps you were busy picking lint from your bellybutton or something equally urgent! šŸ™‚

    Here is Matt discussing what actually went down in Rome over the past month. It was serious but mostly a non-event and carried out behind closed doors. As normal!
    Matt uses the first half to lay the context with what happened in Rome. If you aren’t really all that interested then skip ahead to the 30 minute mark and listen as Matt spells it out for all to hear. Persist as you need to at least know what is going down globally so that you can’t use the excuse of …. we didn’t know!

    https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/6878-busted-synod-on-synodality-is-the-catacombs-pact

    Know about this wickedness and keep your powder dry. Sure we win in the end but at least know what is happening in the shadows of the Roman catacombs and the evil pact that was signed 50 years ago and has just been energised once more. Then you can’t say that you just didn’t know what was happening and use ignorance as your excuse for not doing anything.

    If you forget the context and just listen to the final 25 minutes from the 30 minute mark, take the time to listen. It won’t be a waste!

    šŸ™‚


  101. 102 | November 1, 2023 8:32 pm

    British police come to a manā€™s home to arrest him for posting a video to Facebook of him criticizing migrants in his area for putting Palestine flags up everywhere in the neighborhood.

    https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719509199162413334

    Shades of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. His video was broadcast on the news:

    https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719510893979988110


  102. eaglesoars
    103 | November 1, 2023 10:26 pm

    Newsmax just fucked up their business model. You can no longer watch it on TV. Even if you pay the $50/year you see it only on phone/labtop. No Greta, no Chris Plante. A lower tier lineup.


  103. Aussie Infidel
    104 | November 2, 2023 12:49 am

    Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:

    British police come to a manā€™s home to arrest him for posting a video to Facebook of him criticizing migrants in his area for putting Palestine flags up everywhere in the neighborhood.

    https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719509199162413334

    Shades of Terry Gilliamā€™s Brazil. His video was broadcast on the news:

    https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719510893979988110

    British Police and especially The Metropolitan Police and Midlands Police have been totally corrupted and politicised. The fish rots from the head. It is due to the politicisation of Chief Constables as well as the second and third tiers down as far as Inspectors in some cases. The beat Police know that the system has been politically captured and are either voting with their feet and leaving in droves or just knuckling under and keeping their mouths shut.

    The beatings by Senior Police will continue until thereat Police morale improves!

    šŸ™‚


  104. Aussie Infidel
    105 | November 2, 2023 12:55 am

    @ Bunk Five Hawks X:
    Bottled gas candle lighter …. on a stick …. is all one needs. Ignite the flags in situ at 3AM whilst wearing a Covid Mask!

    Simple and effective.


  105. 106 | November 2, 2023 2:07 am

    Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a list of the 23 Repubs who voted with the Dems to table her motion to censure Rahida Tlaib. 13 didn’t vote.

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
    @RepMTG
    List of feckless Republicans that voted WITH Democrats to table my censure resolution against Rashida Tlaib.

    This is why Republicans NEVER do anything to stop the communists Democrats or ever hold anyone accountable!!
    PATHETIC.
    1/2

    https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1719856504583401786

    I’m stunned to see Tom McClintock (CA) on the list. And Darrel Issa? Must be a good reason…


  106. 107 | November 2, 2023 2:18 am

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Ignite the flags in situ at 3AM whilst wearing a Covid Mask!

    If they can take down the trap cams in London, they can certainly fire up the palliflappers.


  107. eaglesoars
    108 | November 2, 2023 9:55 am

    yeah, no. Thanks for the Fauci, but you’re done.

    Watch: RFK Jr. called for a national ā€œsmart gridā€, built by the Federal Gov, with the ability to turn off household appliances

    ā€œIt can send signals through the line to turn off the water boilers in a million homes for 15 minutes..

    It can go into your car and borrow the stored electricity in your carā€

    https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1720062577202307464


  108. eaglesoars
    109 | November 2, 2023 10:02 am

    This Marine vet was asked what she made of the Marine Ball being cancelled. Her reply:

    Because we might be called at a moments notice in the Marine Corps birthday ball is a very formal event with a lot of drinking and partying going on. In addition to all the formalities we are the first to go always tells me they know shit they don’t want us to know

    https://twitter.com/Arkypatriot/status/1720064608558358714


  109. eaglesoars
    110 | November 2, 2023 10:17 am

    smart

    ā€œDenmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden announced a new agreement on Tuesday that they were to combine their efforts on removing migrants, saying they would launch joint deportation flights and other initiatives.ā€

    https://twitter.com/listen_2learn/status/1720077354519929075


  110. lobo91
    111 | November 2, 2023 10:54 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    The entire Marine Corps didn’t cancel it. One particular organization (MARCENT, the USMC component of CENTCOM) did.


  111. eaglesoars
    112 | November 2, 2023 11:09 am

    What a magnificent dog. He’s so happy!

    Watch this police dog find a single marked leaf in a forest

    https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1720087334002270235


  112. eaglesoars
    113 | November 2, 2023 11:09 am

    @ lobo91:

    so, CENTCOM


  113. lobo91
    114 | November 2, 2023 11:27 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ lobo91:

    so, CENTCOM

    Not saying that it isn’t significant. Just that it’s not the entire Marine Corps.


  114. buzzsawmonkey
    115 | November 2, 2023 1:21 pm

    There has been some buzz about the Hamas perpetrators of the October 7 massacre, and the Hamas fighters killed/captured subsequently, being hopped up on a drug called “Captagon,” apparently some amphetamine variation, also called “the poor man’s cocaine.”

    Many people are not aware that the English word “assassin” is derived from “hashishiyoun,” an Arabic term for “the hashish eaters,” which was used to describe the Crusader-era equivalent of today’s jihadis and suicide bombers. There were, of course, no bombs during the era of the Crusader Kingdom in the land of Israel, gunpowder not yet having been discovered, but the “hashishiyoun” were drugged-up jihadi killers working under the direction of Hassan-i Sabbah, “The Old Man of the Mountain,” who kept a stable of young men whom he provided with drugs and women in a “paradise” fortress, and whom he sent out on murder missions telling them that if they returned having been successful in their missions they would be re-admitted to “paradise,” and that they would also attain paradise if they were killed in performance of their mission.

    Most articles discussing the Captagon drug use of Hamas killers reference the Nazis, which is apt since Hamas is modeled after the Nazis, and since the WWII German soldiers were also given amphetamines—but the tradition of drugged-up jihadi killers goes much farther back in history.


  115. 116 | November 2, 2023 1:26 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Watch: RFK Jr. called for a national ā€œsmart gridā€, built by the Federal Gov, with the ability to turn off household appliances

    SoCalEdison tried that a couple years ago, hawking a remote control on homeowner’s meters so SCE could cut off power during emergency “peak usage” times like heat waves. It was optional, and the majority of homeowners opted to say GFYS. The program quietly disappeared.


  116. 117 | November 2, 2023 1:46 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    and since the WWII German soldiers were also given amphetaminesā€”

    A form of meth. Allowed the blitzkriegen to blitzkrieg and turned them into rabid animals until they collapsed from exhaustion.


  117. buzzsawmonkey
    118 | November 2, 2023 1:52 pm

    @ Bunk Five Hawks X:
    Indeed. My point, however, is that the Muslim tradition of drugged-up jihadi suicide murderers goes back to the Crusades.


  118. 119 | November 2, 2023 2:11 pm

    @ buzzsawmonkey:
    I didn’t miss your point. I just wanted to see if my keyboard still worked.


  119. 120 | November 2, 2023 2:15 pm

    This is a start. Now do it across the country for the other local elections.

    BREAKING: A Democrat Judge in Connecticut has OVERTURNED the results of the Mayoral Primary Election in Bridgeport and ordered a new election be held after bombshell video evidence of election fraud was found

    ā€œThe volume of ballots so mishandled is such that it calls the result of the primary election into serious doubt and leaves the court unable to determine the legitimate result of the primary,ā€ Judge Clark wrote in his ruling, adding that the videos ā€œare shocking to the court and should be shocking to all the parties.ā€

    Judges across the country now have a case to go off of when ruling in future mail-in ballot fraud cases.

    https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1719858537155678717

    [h/t Rightymouse]


  120. Aussie Infidel
    121 | November 2, 2023 4:38 pm

    @ Bunk Five Hawks X:
    @ lobo91:
    @ eaglesoars:
    Divert and youā€™re DEAD!
    Delta Pilot Indicted for Threatening to Shoot Captain During Flight

    A Delta pilot has been charged in relation to a disturbing incident in which he allegedly threatened to shoot the captain of his flight if he diverted the plane for a passengerā€™s medical issue.
    Californiaā€™s Jonathan J. Dunn, the first officer on an August 22, 2022, flight, has been indicted by a grand jury for interfering with the crew of a commercial airline flight, the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General said.
    While Dunn was ā€œauthorizedā€ to carry a firearm through the Transportation Security Administrationā€™s Federal Flight Deck Officer program, he ā€œtold the Captain they would be shot multiple times if the Captain diverted the flight,ā€ the Inspector Generalā€™s statement said.
    The threat came ā€œafter a disagreement about a potential flight diversion due to a passenger medical event,ā€ the press release added.
    Delta also said that Dunn has since been terminated from the airline.
    The indictment, obtained by the outlet on Tuesday, alleges that Dunn ā€œdid assault and intimidate a crew member of an aircraftā€¦and did use a dangerous weapon in assaulting and intimidating the crew member.ā€
    The agency noted that Dunn has been removed from the FFDO program which allowed him to bring a gun on domestic flights, but did not add further details due to the ā€œpending investigation.ā€
    Dunnā€™s arraignment is scheduled for November 16.

    Obviously the F/O had a ā€˜hot dateā€™ at his original destination and didnā€™t want to stand his date up!

    Happens all the time!

    I did remonstrate when a Captain landing at Auckland out of LAX, tried and missed an approach due to very low cloud and fog. We hit the BINGO (divert to Christchurch point) on the second approach but thatā€™s just fine as we were burning very little fuel and we also had a 45 minute emergency fuel load as well as the divert fuel still in the tanks. This MORON DID actually have a ā€˜hot dateā€™ and was determined to get in to Auckland one way or another. I was head down calling the numbers with the Captainā€™s head up and looking for visual cues, as was the Flight Engineer. We hit minimums and there was a (pause) . Obviously the Captain couldnā€™t see squat out the front and that meant an immediate divert, no questions asked. You could feel the Engineer getting jumpy behind me and there was a sharp intake of breath. Legally I wasnā€™t supposed to take a peek and stay fixated on the clocks, but given the circumstances I did a quick bob up and down, and took a peek. THERE WAS NOTHING BUT FOG OUT THE FRONT. By then we were about 150 feet above the ground!!! The Captain then said RUNWAY ā€¦ LANDING. I then legally lifted my head and saw NOTHING!!! By then the engineer said 50 feet and the Captain started to close the thrust levers and round out. At 50 feet I saw the edge lighting of the runway to port and the centreline of the aircraft was half over grass and half over runway edge lighting. Then a light patch of fog passed and the Captain kicked the rudders left and managed to put all the wheels on tarmac ā€¦. JUST! We then entered another thick fog bank and could barely see the runway edge lighting flashing past as we slowed. The Captain was shaking like a leaf and I told him that he was a MORON and could have killed all 320 of us aboard and I was of a mood to make a formal report of this near accident. He was still shaking like a leaf and tried to laugh it off. I told him and used the Engineer as a witness, that I would refuse to fly with the Captain ever again and if he ever saw my name rostered to fly with him again, he had better go sick or I would REPORT him for dangerous operating. The Flight Engineer also laid down the law to the Captain and told him that he would refuse to operate with that Captain ever again and would also report him to DCA as well as Air NZ Flight Standards and the Chief Pilot.

    This happened because the Captain DID had a ā€˜hot dateā€™ and ā€˜neededā€™ to get into Auckland, no matter what!!

    This Captain never flew with me nor the Flight Engineer again and must have been going sick reasonably regularly!

    HEH!

    And besidesā€¦.ā€anyone can fly a planeā€ – Jim Backus

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i415QwSj0Og


  121. Aussie Infidel
    122 | November 2, 2023 5:21 pm

    TVs are basically SHIT!

    Motoring expert John Cadogan’s scathing verdict on electric cars

    Motoring journalist John Cadogan, who runs the AutoExpert website commented in typically colourful fashion in a YouTube video posted on Tuesday which is titled ‘Tesla EVs are just too expensive to own – says Hertz CEO’.
    He claimed Telsas are proving twice as costly to repair as comparable combustion engine vehicles.
    Cadogan also arguedthat slowing sales has led to showroom discounting which destroys resale value and threatens retailers’ commercial viability.
    The video follows a blistering attack on electric vehicles made by a top Toyota executive who questioned whether they were suited to Australia.
    And car rental giant Hertz this week announced it was slowing the introduction of 100,000 Teslas into into its fleet – with only around 35,000 operating – despite first announcing the bulk purchase in 2021.

    In a typically pithy and expletive-laden post, Cadogan explained why.
    ‘The damn things just cost too much to keep on the road and the resale value Is s***,’ he said.
    Hertz Global CEO Stephen Scherr said that collision and damage repairs on a Tesla cost ‘about twice that associated with a comparable combustion engine vehicle’.
    The electric vehicle market globally has been stalling with AutoForecast Solutions Vice President Sam Fiorani telling Business Insider ‘the spectacular growth we’ve seen over the last few years cannot be sustained’.
    Cadogan explained this as a shortage of ‘virtue-signalling t**ts’.
    ‘Electric scientology-zealot customers seems to be plateauing,’ he said.
    ‘It could signal an end to the age of bullsh***.’
    In response he said Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who he called ‘electric Jesus’, has been forced to ‘start inelegantly slashing prices to keep customers coming through its front door’.
    He said this was causing a steep drop in resale value.
    Mr Scherr also mentioned this in justifying Hertz’s slower take-up of the model.
    ‘The MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) declines in EVs over the course of 2023, driven primarily by Tesla, have driven the fair market value of our EVs lower as compared to last year, such that as salvage creates a larger loss and therefore greater burden,’ Mr Scherr said.
    Prices on new Teslas have been dropping by up to 20 percent, according to Cadogan.
    ‘Face facts Tesla fanboy, how many 20 per cent price drops are sustainable for Tesla before the s***show just collapses,’ he said.
    ‘If cutting prices is the only counter measure for increased competition, Tesla is doomed.’
    He pointed out that a bulk purchaser such as Hertz would be getting their Teslas at a significant discount and would have negotiated a good deal for maintenance.
    ‘Not even this has been sufficient to invert for Hertz the economics of the double whammy that Teslas are too expensive to repair and the resale value has imploded,’ Cadogan said.
    The discounting of new Teslas was a cynical move that heavily impacted owners, according to Cadogan.
    ‘Every time electronic Jesus just slashes prices, this greatly impacts existing owners resale value too,’ he argued.
    ‘He’s happy to trash existing owners if it keeps new faithful coming in, which is not a very sustainable long-term commercial strategy, is it.
    ‘If you really take the biggest bath on your (Tesla) Model 3 are you really going to front up again? How much of the Koolaid have you actually consumed?’
    He thought what was true of Teslas was largely true of all battery-powered vehicles.
    ‘It seems every day there is another brick in the wall of evidence that this insane rush to transition to battery electric transport exclusively is little more than a buffet of all-you-can-eat s*** sandwiches,’ he said.
    ‘And problematically I think we are running out of bread.’
    In the video’s comments section many weighed in with their view of Tesla and electric vehicles and the sentiment was mostly negative.
    ‘If something is too expensive for large car rental company to own/operate, that’s good sign for us normal people to know,’ one added.
    A second added: People are starting to realise that EVs are not the green utopia they fantasised about in their wildest dreams.’
    A third said: ‘Proudly keeping my 1990’ Volvo wagons maintained and on the road. Also cant say enough how much the vintage interior makes for a welcome get away from the world filled with computer screens everwhere.
    ‘Yes, it needs premium gas, and gets 25mi/gal, yes it requires maintenance but overall its cheaper to insure and maintain than a $400/month car on 86 month loan.’
    Toyota sales boss Sean Hanley told journalists last week that electric vehicles were ill-equipped for many typical Australian distances, stress and uses.
    “It is too early,ā€ Hanley said.
    ‘What battery electric vehicle do we have right now on sale in Australia that can tow 2.5 tonnes for 600km? We donā€™t. It doesnā€™t exist.
    ‘If we just move to only zero-emission vehicles, what are you going to tell the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Australians who tow caravans, who use their cars for work, who need their cars on the land, who need their cars in the mine, who need more than a 200 or 300km range?’

    It was announced this week that US auto giant Ford will be cutting its investment in electric vehicles after the stunning news they lost approximately $US36,000 ($57,000) for every battery-powered vehicle produced.
    Ford’s long-time rival General Motors also announced it had abandoned its target to produce 400,000 electric vehicles through the first half of 2024, citing slowing demand, manufacturing bottlenecks and low profitability.


  122. lobo91
    123 | November 2, 2023 5:35 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    ā€˜What battery electric vehicle do we have right now on sale in Australia that can tow 2.5 tonnes for 600km? We donā€™t. It doesnā€™t exist.

    Exactly the reason I’ll never own one


  123. Aussie Infidel
    124 | November 2, 2023 5:37 pm

    I see the claws of the Masons have popped up yet again!

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/a-masonic-leader-was-at-vatican-environmental-conference-to-promote-depopulation-world-govt/?utm_source=daily-usa-2023-11-01&utm_medium=email
    neck, leading the Climate Change and Depopulate the Globe schtick yet again. At least you can’t blame the pope for not being consistent!

    Sheesh!

    šŸ™‚


  124. Aussie Infidel
    125 | November 2, 2023 5:43 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    ā€˜What battery electric vehicle do we have right now on sale in Australia that can tow 2.5 tonnes for 600km? We donā€™t. It doesnā€™t exist.

    Exactly the reason Iā€™ll never own one

    But the basis of an eternal promise has been cemented in place. A bit like ‘fusion power’ It’s been about to happen definitely within the next 20-230 years …… for the past 60 years!

    So the ‘better battery’ is only half a decade in the future. One with 10 minute recharging and 1,000 Km range. I’m sure that will be the meme still in 2050!

    šŸ™‚

    Better build a whole slew of standby clean coal fired power stations to power all those electric cars!

    Brought to you by those folks who believe in their heart of hearts that electricity just pops out of the wall socket fully formed and ready to go!

    šŸ™‚


  125. lobo91
    126 | November 2, 2023 5:57 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    If their “better battery” ever appears–and the price is reasonable–maybe I’ll buy one. But I’m not holding my breath.


  126. eaglesoars
    127 | November 2, 2023 6:36 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    @ lobo91:

    Because of the cost of repairs, insurance companies have either raised their rates to the ‘unaffordable’ category or simply refuse to insure

    But here’s some good news!

    Aid to Israel offset by IRS hirings passed along with additional savings.

    https://twitter.com/timburchett/status/1720201819006070883


  127. Aussie Infidel
    128 | November 2, 2023 6:39 pm

    @ lobo91:
    Just to remind you as to ‘Who’s Who in the Zoo’ that is the energy / global warming scam pushed by the Club of Rome ever since the1970s.

    https://geopolitics.co/2021/04/20/club-of-rome-the-origin-of-climate-and-population-alarmism/

    The same names keep popping up and there have been quite a few mega-billionaire added over the last few decades as well. This crew have been throwing everything but the kitchen sink at this scam to force the people s of the globe to ‘eat the dead rat’ of universal socialism. Even manufacturing a lockdown of the world for over two years, and orchestrating the foundation of a ‘world religion’ to accompany a global political world power structure and a digital world financial system.

    This sort of apocalyptic scribbling used to amuse me back in the day. Alas too much of it came true, and we seem to be circling the plughole of perdition!

    šŸ™‚


  128. eaglesoars
    129 | November 2, 2023 6:52 pm

    Tonight, a bipartisan group of members voted to send immediate aid to Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East. Our supplemental package, which is fully offset, provides Israel with advanced weapons systems, supports the Iron Dome missile defense system, and replenishes American domestic defense stockpiles. This is necessary and critical assistance as Israel fights for its right to exist.

    With antisemitism on the rise both domestically and abroad, itā€™s imperative that the U.S. sends a message to the world that threats made against Israel and the Jewish people will be met with strong opposition. The Senate and White House cannot let this moment pass, an

    https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1720199957678842022


  129. Aussie Infidel
    130 | November 2, 2023 6:53 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    So far 2 weeks have passed counting and cross referencing all of the million+ special votes from Kiwis scattered around the globe.

    @ eaglesoars:
    We FINALLY get the results of the election of almost 3 weeks ago at 2PM this afternoon.

    it’s about bloody time too!

    šŸ™‚ some of these wins will be paper thin as well and in a couple of cases less than a 100 votes in it! We will make some unbelievably historic wins by the skin of our electoral teeth, and make a few loses again by the tiniest margins.

    It will probably result in bringing into the winning coalition another centrist party the NZ First Party along with the elder political manipulator of all Kiwi elections Winston Peters. No doubt he’ll be after Cabinet slots that call for loads of international travel and 5 star hotels aplenty! Foreign Minister I’m guessing plus a couple of others.

    Still being forced to swallow a dead rat, with NZ First, is better than allowing the socialist / communists of the Labour Party Factions plus the Marxist Greens plus the NAZIs nutters of the racialist Maori Party, to further destroy this country.

    šŸ™‚

    At least the adults are back in charge! Even if half of them are of the RINO persuasion!

    šŸ™‚


  130. Aussie Infidel
    131 | November 2, 2023 6:57 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    and replenishes American domestic defense stockpiles.

    Now if only the US can refill its strategic Oil Reserves. Many of the storage facilities have been seriously degraded and ‘Filling Up the Reserves’ are going to be difficult and costly.


  131. eaglesoars
    132 | November 2, 2023 7:00 pm

    None of these guys have been laid in their entire lives. And won’t be anytime soon.

    The female mind, the beta mind, and the liberal mind are all the same.

    None of them can comprehend the levels of alpha male in this one photo.

    https://twitter.com/GOPJosh20/status/1719323496306606532


  132. eaglesoars
    133 | November 2, 2023 8:28 pm

    good. Now what about his parents?

    Breaking! Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty on all seven fraud and money laundering counts.

    Heā€™s facing possibly over 100 years, although it has not been determined yet.

    https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1720232721241301446


  133. buzzsawmonkey
    134 | November 2, 2023 8:32 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    It would be interesting to open a combination launderette and currency enterprise called “The Money Laundry.”


  134. eaglesoars
    135 | November 2, 2023 8:50 pm

    Elon says Starlink could do an IPO. I want in

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1359027355851841536


  135. eaglesoars
    136 | November 2, 2023 8:58 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    It would be interesting to open a combination launderette and currency enterprise called ā€œThe Money Laundry.ā€

    It would accept only cybercurrency.


  136. Aussie Infidel
    137 | November 2, 2023 11:52 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    None of these guys have been laid in their entire lives. And wonā€™t be anytime soon.

    The female mind, the beta mind, and the liberal mind are all the same.

    None of them can comprehend the levels of alpha male in this one photo.

    https://twitter.com/GOPJosh20/status/1719323496306606532

    Children still. They really have no idea at all about what their fellow man is capable of. They will learn the hard way when the roof falls in on them a few times…. just like the rest of us!

    Plan A is become a man. Then find a really smart wife , preferably one smarter than you, and allow her to keep knocking the rough edges off you and making you into the man that you might eventually become.

    There is no Plan B!


  137. Aussie Infidel
    138 | November 2, 2023 11:57 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Say a prayer for me Eagles at 0800 Monday my time (GMT + 13 hours). If all goes well I should be out by 1100 and into recovery, after getting my plumbing patched up. I really don’t mind the blood except when it’s mine!

    šŸ™‚

    HEH!


  138. Aussie Infidel
    139 | November 3, 2023 12:34 am

    ā€˜Proportionateā€™ ā€” now thereā€™s a word of the moment, lately found in any number of editorialistsā€™ chin-stroking ruminations on the state of play in Israel and Gaza. It seems, as far as one can follow the scribblersā€™ woke logic, that the enlightened and fair-minded are obliged to inscribe on one side of the ledger a list of the bloody outrages endured and then balance the books by responding only so much and no more. Force of arms must never deviate from from some unspecified rubric of fairness and moral equivalence.

    Simple, really, if taken as stated: The Hamas filth roast a baby alive, behead others, rape, butcher, kidnap, and burn, so the proportionate response, logically speaking, would be for Israelis to rape, butcher, kidnap, and burn in equal measure. What could be more ā€˜proportionateā€™ than equivalence, an eye for an eye? But that, of course, is not what the solons of the opinion pages mean.

    Aggrieved Israelis, it seems, should be more like the well-known Jew of long ago who turned the other cheek, with just a dash of judicious anger such as that directed at money-changers in the Temple. Well, as the world is seeing and Kinky Friedman sang, they ainā€™t making Jews like Jesus anymore. Trouble is, as editorialists and bylined opinionistas continue to demonstrate, the refuge of relatavist thinking hasnā€™t changed at all except to embrace with even greater enthusiasm the notion that good and bad need to balance on the bottom line.

    Rod Dreher explains why this has come to be the case in a lengthy report on the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London, where Quadrantā€˜s Simon Kennedy was also in attendance and filed this report. After describing how Texas Muslim leaders sought to have him fired from his job at the Dallas Morning News for daring to point out the radicalism being promoted in Texas mosques, Dreher writes:

    ā€¦ for over twenty years now, we have been instructed by the media and by institutional leaders not to ask the hard questions [of Islam], because the hard questions are bigoted on their face.

    Where has that gotten us? It has gotten us to a place where open Jew-hatred is common in America of 2023, as long as it is framed as in support of Muslim Palestinians. And combined with wokeness, it has gone from something we were all supposed to avert our eyes from two decades ago, lest some redneck somewhere have a Bad Thought about Islam, to something they are proud to proclaim.

    After October 7 and its aftermath, we canā€™t put off asking hard questions and making hard demands of American Muslims. But of even greater importance, given their far greater numbers and influence in American institutions, are the Woke.

    Islamic radicalism might have been contained had it not been for the woke. You might wish to believe that these people are all still only a small number in American life, but you had better understand that history shows it only takes a small number of truly committed revolutionaries to control a society.

    We can no longer suppress or otherwise avoid hard questions about wokeness in our society. It is soft totalitarianism ā€” but it wonā€™t stay soft.


  139. Aussie Infidel
    140 | November 3, 2023 2:41 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ buzzsawmonkey:
    The nukes were necessary on many levels.

    A demonstration there may have saved a nuke exchange elsewhere

    Actually you may just have discovered a smidgin of reality in that sentence, somewhere, mate!

    šŸ™‚


  140. 141 | November 3, 2023 2:59 am

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Kinky Friedman sang, they ainā€™t making Jews like Jesus anymore

    lol
    I’d forgotten that song, but the words came back:

    “They ain’t makin’ Jews like Jesus any more;
    They ain’t makin’ carpenters who know what nails are for.”


  141. rain of lead
  142. Aussie Infidel
    143 | November 3, 2023 4:25 am

    @ Bunk Five Hawks X:
    @ rain of lead:
    @ eaglesoars:
    https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/doug-macgregor-speaking-truth-to

    Doug Macgregor is at it again. He’s one of the most dangerous people in the world. Alas he’s almost right 90% of the time, but there is that pesky 10% of the time where he gets things terminally WRONG. Having seen the veneer thin depth of MacGregor thought processes, once he goes ‘off the reservation’ and onto scenarios where he has little or no idea about reality. MacGregor then leads his cohort of true believers along with him into places that he doesn’t know and which lead to blind alleys that can actually kill them. Believing in that, ‘off script ‘ dangerous 10% of arrant and logically veneer thin nonsense, can get one killed even more certainly dead.

    The mere suggestion, by one commentator that MacGregor ‘understands China’ better than Mearsheimer who like Francis Fukuyama, is ethnocentric and tends to judge east Asia as if the cultures there were similar to those of Europe and North America. The commentator goes on to opine that MacGregor’s friend, Jeffrey….. ,the arch thought leader for the WEF and the whole ‘One World’ Push ….. SACHS, will enlighten his BBF mate MacGregor in the near future.

    At that suggestion my coffee sprayed out of my nose!

    These people are going to end up killing us all for all of the very best, but slightly erroneous, but still deeply flawed ideas.


  143. Aussie Infidel
    144 | November 3, 2023 5:06 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ buzzsawmonkey:
    The nukes were necessary on many levels.

    A demonstration there may have saved a nuke exchange elsewhere

    Opps !

    Just after this potentially useful ‘demonstration’ of the newly uprated B-61 dial-able nuke the US had a wee oppsy!

    In the glare of publicity, with the South Koreans watching (maybe Biden’s Pentagon figured that this success might leak back to North Korea ) , the US tested a Minuteman III. Alas it ended up as an embarrassing ‘fizzer. Just when things seemed to be going so well for the Biden Administration’s Pentagon PR crew!

    Does the failure of the missile delivery system cancel out the success of the part of the system that was designed to go BANG?


  144. 145 | November 3, 2023 6:25 am

    Sitting at the train station, waiting for a friend.
    https://twitter.com/i/status/1720072700398350730


  145. eaglesoars
    146 | November 3, 2023 8:39 am

    I just turned the fireplace on.

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    ,the arch thought leader for the WEF and the whole ā€˜One Worldā€™ Push ā€¦.. SACHS,

    one of the biggest frauds out there. IIRC Russia kicked him out after he tried to revamp their economy


  146. eaglesoars
    147 | November 3, 2023 10:22 am

    Soros-backed DA Jason Williams of New Orleans was carjacked at gunpoint.

    DA Williams campaigned against cash bail and called for alternatives to prison. During his first few months in office, he dismissed 66% of all violent felony cases.

    The bail for Ahmad Seals (18) has been set at $150,000. The bail for Raymond Rochon (18) is set at $120,000. A third underage suspect will be prosecuted as an adult (Louisiana AG)

    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1720291263260270824

    I think this is the 2nd I’ve read about. Would be interesting if these were targeted


  147. lobo91
    148 | November 3, 2023 10:51 am

    Elissa Slotkin was just on MSNBC whining about how there was no aid to Gaza included in the bill the House just passed to aid Israel.

    Do you normally send aid to both sides in a war/ Maybe, if you’re trying to prolong it. Is she going to call for aid to Russia to be included with the next truckload of cash to Ukraine?


  148. buzzsawmonkey
    149 | November 3, 2023 11:49 am

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    Never heard of this Macgregor clown before. He may have cogent observations about something or other, but the column you’ve linked to shows him to be an ignorant and ahistorical boob where the Arab-Israeli conflict is concerned. There’s also a wee Biden Depends-load stench of Jew-hate wafting off him.


  149. buzzsawmonkey
    150 | November 3, 2023 11:55 am

    Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:

    Sitting at the train station, waiting for a friend.

    Leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc


  150. buzzsawmonkey
    151 | November 3, 2023 12:22 pm

    I’ve been listening to NPR (“National Palestinian Radio”), and it’s amazing how, despite all the lockdowns in Gaza, and the cessation of this or that service, the “news”-people there seem to be doing just fine. They have no trouble finding people to interview; all their electronics and broadcasting equipment works, they’re not starving or dying of thirst (nor are their interviewees), yet we are all supposed to be Deeply Moved by their interviewees’ descriptions of the (alleged) horrors of the Israeli foray into Gaza.

    Meanwhile—as people holding passports from everywhere from the US to Slovakia to Ungabunga flee Gaza (why were they there in the first place? Gaza is hardly a tourist destination), which sort of shows that the tight interdiction of Gaza is nonsense, these same news correspondents do not seem able to balance their sob stories about the privations of Gaza with one single interview with someone in Israel who had a loved one abducted by the Hamas murderers. Interesting example of unbalanced “balanced coverage.”


  151. buzzsawmonkey
    152 | November 3, 2023 12:47 pm

    Anyone calling for “a ceasefire” in Gaza should be reminded that there WAS a “ceasefire” in place on October 6th.


  152. 153 | November 3, 2023 1:38 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
    Sitting at the train station, waiting for a friend.

    Leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc

    So you ask me what I’m doing here,
    Holding up the lamp-post,
    Flipping this quarter,
    Trying to make up my mind;
    If it’s heads I go to Tennessee, and tails I buy a drink;
    If it lands on the edge I keep talking. To. You.

    https://youtu.be/zhK7ZylXTs0?si=c1I-ugPbJCeOi8gF


  153. 154 | November 3, 2023 1:46 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Anyone calling for ā€œa ceasefireā€ in Gaza should be reminded that there WAS a ā€œceasefireā€ in place on October 6th.

    Perfect.
    There was also a ceasefire on 11 November 1918.


  154. 155 | November 3, 2023 1:53 pm

    Just got an update notice for my Samsung android phone.
    “Telephoto lens is now supported in Food mode. Take better close-up shots of food using the telephoto lens.”

    THANK GOD.


  155. 156 | November 3, 2023 2:05 pm

    “Hunter Bidenā€™s pathetic op-ed claims Republicans are putting other addicts at risk by attacking him.”
    https://thedailybs.com/2023/11/03/hunter-bidens-pathetic-op-ed-claims-republicans-are-putting-other-addicts-at-risk-by-attacking-him/


  156. 157 | November 3, 2023 2:10 pm

    I wasn’t able to ride much this year because of the stents, but the cancer ride raised a little over $9 million.


  157. eaglesoars
    158 | November 3, 2023 2:13 pm

    @ right_wing2:
    wow!


  158. 159 | November 3, 2023 2:53 pm

    I was looking for a response from Sen. Tom McClintock, but this will do for now.

    Massie was one of 22 Republicans who voted Wednesday to table a resolution by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia that would have censured Tlaib for antisemitic comments and a raucous Oct. 18 protest. Tlaib and other left-wing members of the House of Representatives known as ā€œThe Squadā€ released statements calling for a ceasefire almost immediately after Israel began its response to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas.

    Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky defended his vote to table a resolution condemning Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan Thursday.
    ā€œFree speech isnā€™t just about protecting the speech that you like, itā€™s especially about protecting the speech you donā€™t like,ā€ Massie told ā€œJesse Watters Primetime guest host Rachel Campos-Duffy. ā€œI think the protest was an expression of speech. Now, the other reason that I voted against this resolution, the language was modelled after a resolution that I voted against two years ago that calls the January 6th protesters insurrectionists. Itā€™s wrong to call the January 6th protesters insurrectionists and I think itā€™s wrong to call the people that were with Rashida Tlaib insurrectionists. So, those were my two reasons for voting against it.ā€

    https://thedailybs.com/2023/11/02/somebodys-got-to-stop-it-thomas-massie-defends-vote-to-kill-tlaib-censure/


  159. 160 | November 3, 2023 3:01 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Anyone calling for ā€œa ceasefireā€ in Gaza should be reminded that there WAS a ā€œceasefireā€ in place on October 6th.

    https://thedailybs.com/2023/11/02/we-had-a-cease-fire-former-israeli-ambassador-blasts-biden-admin-push-for-pauses-in-gaza/


  160. Aussie Infidel
    161 | November 3, 2023 3:39 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Never heard of this Macgregor clown before.

    MacGregor is a retired US ‘chicken’ colonel who worked in various Pentagon (5 sided puzzle palace) postings and instructed at the War College for a while. I have no idea of his actual combat experience as a leader of men in high stress situations. His major defect is that he strays away from the stuff he knows well, and his followers tend to sit at his feet and absorb both his valid prognostications, but then with the ‘good stuff’, they also believe the 10% of his totally arrant nonsense.

    I used to be one of his acolytes until MacGregor stumbled into Pacific geopolitics and all manners of Pacific ‘defence’. A place where I actually had more than a little ‘topic background’ wedded to practical on the ground experience, and discovered that MacGregor was a total fraud when it came to this knowledge topic.

    After that shocking experience I became a little more circumspect about other seemingly ‘loose’ logic jumps that MacGregor was propounding.


  161. Aussie Infidel
    162 | November 3, 2023 3:41 pm

    @ Bunk Five Hawks X:
    A Ceasefire is actually ‘code’ for …. RELOAD.

    ‘Ever has been and ever will be’!

    Just so that we are clear!

    šŸ™‚


  162. lobo91
    163 | November 3, 2023 4:03 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    MacGregor is a retired US ā€˜chickenā€™ colonel who worked in various Pentagon (5 sided puzzle palace) postings and instructed at the War College for a while. I have no idea of his actual combat experience as a leader of men in high stress situations.

    As a major, he was the squadron (battalion) S-3 for the 1st Squadron, 4th Cav at what came to be known as the Battle of 73 Easting during Desert Storm. As far as I know, that was his only actual combat service.

    He also served as Wesley Clark’s senior planner for the 1999 NATO operations in Yugoslavia.

    Not sure I’d put that on my resume…


  163. eaglesoars
    164 | November 3, 2023 4:51 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    He also served as Wesley Clarkā€™s senior planner for the 1999 NATO operations in Yugoslavia.

    oh jeez……………


  164. eaglesoars
    165 | November 3, 2023 6:06 pm

    Britain

    ‘Tyranny masked as empathy’

    @MrMarkDolan
    says banks will have given themselves the power to prevent you from purchases if you’ve ‘used all of your carbon credits’.

    NatWest is going to start tracking your purchases and tell you how big the carbon footprint is for each one.

    https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1720562496317370754


  165. Aussie Infidel
    166 | November 3, 2023 6:34 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    He also served as Wesley Clarkā€™s senior planner for the 1999 NATO operations in Yugoslavia.

    Yup I’d be keeping that ‘cluster f**k a little quiet!

    My God son actually commanded a Platoon of Samoans belonging to the 100th. /447th Regiment attached to 25 Div (Hawaii). Did some up close and personal punch-ups and didn’t lose a Samoan although several were wounded during his tenure in the ‘Sand-box’. His main problem was the Monday Morning Quarterbacking from One stars literally electronically looking over his shoulder and offering ‘….. suggestions’ ….. None of these General officers had EVER been at the sharp end of a bayonet among people that were earnestly attempting to kill you and your men! These would be ‘combat infantry’ rear services officers, were just living vicariously through a poor Lt. schmuk trying his best to kill as many of the enemy without getting his own men killed.
    He succeeded and his men knew it! He is a true close combat urban warfare officer of the first water, regardless of the ‘ unrequested or required suggestions’ that were forthcoming from senior Corps Level officers.

    Many times misuse of technology just gets in the way when it comes down to staying alive.


  166. Aussie Infidel
    167 | November 3, 2023 6:35 pm

    100th/ 442nd Regiment!

    finger problem!

    šŸ™‚


  167. Aussie Infidel
    168 | November 3, 2023 6:38 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Britain

    ā€˜Tyranny masked as empathyā€™

    @MrMarkDolan
    says banks will have given themselves the power to prevent you from purchases if youā€™ve ā€˜used all of your carbon creditsā€™.

    NatWest is going to start tracking your purchases and tell you how big the carbon footprint is for each one.

    https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1720562496317370754

    Welcome to the era of Digital Currency and associated personal tracking!

    SPIT

    šŸ™


  168. Aussie Infidel
    169 | November 3, 2023 6:43 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    Wesley Clarkā€™s senior planner

    Ohhh shit. Wesley bloody Clark! Not that drone!

    Give be strength!

    šŸ™‚


  169. coldwarrior
    170 | November 4, 2023 7:38 am

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Iā€™ve been listening to NPR

    you, sir, are a better man than me.

    lol


  170. coldwarrior
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