A Legend, one of my favorite guitar players died last night. I can’t count how many times I saw the Allmans…10? 15?
Forrest Richard Betts:
Early in his career, he collaborated with Duane Allman, introducing melodic twin guitar harmony and counterpoint which “rewrote the rules for how two rock guitarists can work together, completely scrapping the traditional rhythm/lead roles to stand toe to toe”. Following Allman’s death in 1971, Betts assumed sole lead guitar duties during the peak of the group’s commercial success in the mid-1970s. Betts was the writer and singer on the Allmans’ hit single “Ramblin’ Man”. He also gained renown for composing instrumentals, with one appearing on most of the group’s albums, including “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” and “Jessica” –wiki
I’m gonna finish up a chore or two and then sit back, smoke a brisket, put on some Allman Brothers and enjoy some time.
Check out the uncanny valley theory
eaglesoars wrote:
years ago at DLI (yeah, for the military guys this sounds like…at band camp…) anyway, me and a friend from nebraska were heading south into monterey back to the presidio and there was a hell’s angel on the side of the road. his harley was broke. i convinced my friend to stop, he was driving the ubiquitous ford pick up from farm land…we managed to get the harley into the bed using a small hillside and then took said bike and hell’s back to their clubhouse.
upon unloading, my buddy scooted out in pure born again protestant fear and loathing, and so it was me. in the parking lot. of the hell’s angels club house. the biker told me to go inside with him. i did, young and foolish. i entered.
he said to the club: ‘this man helped me, he needs beer.’ an so i was served, a lot. then i was offered to ‘sign the book’. i did.
years later, after i got out of the army, i needed that reference. a hell’s angel called their chapter and verified that i was ‘in good standing’ with the monterey chapter and all was smoothed over for the bar i was working for at the time. there had been a minor kerfuffle that could have got very bad.
i’d like to see the book…just for fun.
rip, dickie.
my favorite version
@ coldwarrior:
Betts’ solo work was good too. Great early morning roadtrip music.
It sounds like Johnson is another shit show. But if the Republicans dump him, there’s a real chance we end up with a clown like Jeffries, because there’s no margin.
Democrats pretty much march in lockstep, while we have spineless weenies.
I know Clapton gets the credit but didn’t Duane Allman come up with the classic Layla slide guitar thing (apologies if I wrote this incorrectly I’m not a music person)
Ya know it gets odd buying a house that’s been used as a rental for ‘investors’. You get mail addressed to things like ‘Cactus Leasing’.
I don’t even want to know
coldwarrior wrote:
What? What are you talking about?
@ coldwarrior:
Bikers: Our much loved and never forgotten Iron Fist was a biker. Quite a few (like 40) came to say good bye while I was at the house. They have a code and they live by it. His bike was OH MY GOD!! beautiful. Bikers saved my little sister from predatory lesbians in high school.
Yeah, I’ll die on this hill
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes
Motörhead + Isley Brothers = ISLEYHEAD
Ace of Shout is pure awesome.
The Isleys were a couple years ahead of me in school. We were stuck with effn Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods.
This is the U.S. House of Representatives under the direction of Speaker Mike Johnson. Democrats are celebrating his total capitulation with no victory for securing our border.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1781767781945360480
And every last penny is going into Zelensky’s pocket
@ eaglesoars:
The Ukrainian flags are a nice touch. It was nice of them to give the Dems advance notice so they could get them ready
@ lobo91:
I’m sure Zelensky gifted them
BREAKING: CIA Director William Burns secretly flew to Kyiv to warn President Zelensky that Washington was aware of his personal corruption and his unwillingness to remove any of the dozens of officials known to be deeply involved in diverting defense funds to personal accounts. Washington expressed anger due to Zelensky taking too large of a cut, according to Seymour Hersh.
https://twitter.com/RealPatrickWebb/status/1781854127514845263
define “too large”
Utterly useless
Once again,
@SpeakerJohnson
has moved massive legislation without a majority of the Majority. More Republicans voted against Ukraine aid than voted for it. Twice as many Democrats voted for it than Republicans, which says how much of a win this was for them.
https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus/status/1781764524250415452
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
By: Jeffrey A. Tucker, 20 April 2024.
The last few years can be tracked at two levels: the physical reality around us and the realm of the intellectual, mental, and psychological.
The first level has presented a chaotic narrative of the previously unthinkable. A killer virus that turned out to be what many people said it was in February 2020: a bad flu with a known demographic risk best treated with known therapeutics. But that template and the ensuing campaign of fear and emergency rule gave rise to astonishing changes in our lives.
Social functioning was wholly upended as schools, businesses, churches, and travel were ended by force. The entire population of the world was told to mask up, despite vast evidence that doing so achieved nothing in terms of stopping a respiratory virus.
That was followed by a breathtaking propaganda campaign for a shot that failed to live up to its promise. The cure for the disease itself caused tremendous damage to health including death, a subject about which everyone cared intensely before the shot and then strangely forgot about after.
Protests against the goings-on were met with media smears, shutdowns, and even the cancellation of bank accounts. However, and simultaneously, other forms of protest were encouraged, insofar as they were motivated by a more proper political agenda against structural injustices in the old system of law and order. That was a strange confluence of events, to say the least.
In the midst of this, which was wild enough, came new forms of surveillance, censorship, corporate consolidation, an explosion of government spending and power, rampant and global inflation, and hot wars from long-running border conflicts in two crucial regions.
The old Declarations of rules on the Internet put free speech as a first principle. Today, the hosting website of the most famous one, signed by Amnesty International and the ACLU, is gone, almost as if it never existed. In 2022, it came to be replaced by a White House Declaration on the Future of the Internet, that extols stakeholder control as the central principle.
All the while, once-trusted sources of information – media, academia, think tanks – have steadfastly refused to report and respond in truthful ways, leading to a further loss of public trust not just in government and politics but also in everything else, including corporate tech and all the higher order sectors of the culture.
Also part of this has been a political crisis in many nations, including the use of sketchy election strategies justified by epidemiologic emergency: the only safe way to vote (said the CDC) is absentee via the mails. Here we find one of many overlapping parallels to a scenario hardly ever imagined: infectious disease deployed as a cover for political manipulation.
Crucially and ominously, all of these mind-blowing developments took place in roughly similar ways the world over, and with the same language and model. Everywhere people were told “We are all in this together,” and that social distancing, masking, and vaxxing was the correct way out. Media was also censored everywhere, while anti-lockdown protestors (or even those who simply wanted to worship together in peace) were treated not as dissidents to be tolerated but irresponsible spreaders of disease.
Can we really pretend that all of this is normal, much less justified? The exhortation we receive daily is that we can and must.
Really? At what point did you realize that you had to start thinking for yourself?
We all have a different starting place and journey but each of us has the following in common. We’ve realized that official sources, the ones we’ve trusted in the past, are not going to make any sense of the above for us. We have to seek out alternatives and put the story together ourselves. And this we must do because the only other choice is to accept that all of the above consists of a random series of disconnected and pointless events, which is surely not true.
That leads to the second layer of comprehension; the intellectual, mental, and psychological. Here is where we find the real drama and incalculable difficulties.
At the dawn of lockdowns, what appeared to be a primitive public health error seemed to be taking place. It seemed like some scientists at the top, who gained an implausible amount of influence over government policy, had forgotten about natural immunity and were under the impression that it was good for health to stay home, be personally isolated, avoid exercise, and eat only takeout food. Surely such preposterous advice would be revealed soon as the nonsense it was.
How in the world could they be so stupid? How did they gain so much influence, not just nationally but all over the world? Did the whole of humanity suddenly forget about all known science in every field from virology to economics to psychology?
As time went on, more and more anomalies appeared that made that judgment seem naive. As it turns out, what was actually taking place had something to do with a move on the part of security and intelligence services. It was they who were given rule-making authority on March 13, 2020, and that’s why so much of what we needed to know was and is considered classified.
There were early initial reports that the virus itself might have been leaked from a US-backed lab in Wuhan, which introduces the entire subject of the US bioweapons program. This is a very deep rabbit hole itself, thoroughly exposed in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s The Wuhan Cover-Up. There was a reason that topic was censored: it was all true. And as it turns out, the vaccine itself was able to bypass the normal approval process by slipping through under the cover of emergency. In effect, it came pre-approved by the military.
As the evidence continues to roll in, more and more rabbit holes appear, thousands of them. Each has a name: Pharma, CCP, WHO, Big Tech, Big Media, CBDCs, WEF, Deep State, Great Reset, Censorship, FTX, CISA, EVs, Climate Change, DEI, BlackRock, and many more besides. Each of these subject areas has threads or thousands of them, each connecting to more and to each other. At this point, it is simply not possible for a single person to follow it all.
To those of us who have been steeped in following the revelations day by day, and trying to keep up with putting them together into a coherent model of what happened to us, and what is still going on, the ominous reality is that the traditional understanding of rights, liberties, law, business, media, and science were dramatically overthrown in the course of just a few months and years.
Nothing operates today as it did in 2019. It’s not just that functioning broke. It was broken and then replaced. And the surreptitious coup d’etat with no shots fired is still ongoing, even if that is not the headline.
Of this fact, many of us today are certain. But how common is this knowledge? Is it a vague intuition held by many members of the public or is it known in more detail? There are no reliable polls. We are left to guess. If any of us in 2019 believed we had our finger on the pulse of the national mood or public opinion generally, we certainly do not anymore.
Nor do we have access to the inner workings of government at the highest levels, much less the conversations going on among the winners of our age, the well-connected ruling elites who seemed to have gamed the entire system for their own benefit.
It’s so much easier to regard the whole thing as a giant confusion or accident on grounds that only cranks and crazies believe in conspiracy theories. The trouble with that outlook is that it posits something even more implausible; that something this gigantic, far-reaching, and dramatic could have happened with no real intentionality or purpose or that it all fell together as a huge accident.
Brownstone Institute has published more than 2,000 articles and 10 books exploring all over the above topics. Other venues and friends are out there helping us with this research and discovery, issue by issue. Even so, a great deal of responsibility falls on this one institution, the main work of which is providing support for dissident and displaced voices, which is implausible since it was only founded three years ago. We are deeply grateful for our supporters and would welcome you to join them.
As for the intellectuals we once revered for their curiosity and wisdom, most seem to have gone into hiding, either unable to adapt to the new realities or just unwilling to risk their careers by exploring hard topics. It’s understandable but still tragic. Most are happy to pretend like nothing happened or celebrate the change as nothing but progress. As for journalists, the New York Times publishes daily commentaries dismissing the Constitution as a dated anachronism that has to go and no one thinks much about it.
There is a lot to sort out. So much has changed so quickly. No sooner than the dust seems to be settling from one upheaval, there is another and then another. Keeping up with it all causes a level of psychological brain scramble on a scale we’ve never previously experienced.
It’s easier to wait for the historians to tell the next generation what happened. But maybe, just maybe, by stepping up and telling the story as we see it in real time, we can make a difference in stopping this madness and restoring some sane and normal freedom back to the world.
right_wing2 wrote:
Democrats have a central core that is unshakable and part of their DNA. It’s simply called the seeking of POWER through any means.
Meanwhile the RNC weenies were ‘sold a pup’ by ‘the 1970s-80s joiners’ of the RINO pack, of former Democrats, and get into the inside running and make $$$$ BIG Bucks. This totally destabilised the RNC, who had lost their capacity for logical discernment, after years of suffering the effects of ‘smoke filled rooms’, where $$$$ and ‘the in$ide running’ bested all. Simply the RNC lost their ability to decide what they even believed anymore. Such is the politics of the BIG tent where, it tends to blow away at any suggestion of more than a quiet zephyr.
🙂
The CIA weaponisation initiative into arming the Afghan Northern Alliance with modern anti-aircraft missiles was a real and direct threat to the air force of the USSR in Afghanistan. Similarly the supply of modern, Western anti-armoured weapon systems to the Northern Alliance by the CIA, was a real and an effective threat to all Soviet armoured forces inside Afghanistan.
Logistically the threat posed by the Northern Alliance to the Soviet forces fighting the mujahadin inside Afghanistan, was the defining metric that broke the spirit of Soviet forces fighting in northern Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance stood athwartship across the main Soviet logistics support capability inside Afghanistan. The Soviets lost the initiative and eventually the sheer weight of the ‘body-bags’ being shipped home to Russia, eventually told the tale, even in a media controlled authoritarian State like the USSR.
Typically the CIA didn’t fully think through the end-game concept, of supplying modern technology to the religious Islamists withing the Northern Alliance, and just swept any forethought of what a post Russo-Talab war would look like, after the Soviets turned tail and ran. Just another quick fix, short term , and a typical CIA ‘lack of strategic planning’ cluster, so typical of CIA ‘Olde Foggy Bottom’ knee jerk, policy making. The ‘Virginia brains trust’ within the CIA, just replaced the Russians with western forces and took over the’ bleeding out exercise’ themselves. We all watched the inevitable ‘end game’ by US forces at Kabul’s airport, as Biden’s US was humbled by mere Muslim jihadis, who also captured tens of billions of dollar’s worth of weapon systems, a brand new Command and Control edifice and world class infrastructure within Kabel.
I don’t find fault with D. XXXXX’s time line in the least, regarding Colonel Dr. Kouzminov book publishing date of 2005. Nor do I find fault with the facts that the decade + that Kouzminov was very active within the ranks of the KGB, especially when it came to Kouzminov’s speciality … biological warfare and the use of Line N Special Reserve Officers, in an Australian context . The expose was necessarily delayed by Kouzminov’s flight to the West, from post-Soviet Russia, to the UK, then to Australia, and finally casting up in Wellington NZ, working for the Ministry of Health, as a ‘national water quality’ specialist. Truly the ultimate ‘Poacher turned to Game Keeper’!
My assigned task was to supply Dr. Chris West, formally of the Australian Federal bureaucracy, with a retrospective of Australian counter intelligence effectiveness, during the last decade of Soviet power, from a Soviet perspective, for West’s Memoirs.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Ummm…I was already ‘there’ well before covid
lol
the US has to play the aussies and the all blacks in may.
@ Aussie Infidel:
That is one concise summary, and I’m not being sarcastic.
In March 2020 I was in the hospital, doped up and recovering from surgery, yet even I noticed the sudden shift in reporting on the news channels – all doom and panic. Hospital staff noticed too.
coldwarrior wrote:
Your guys have good insurance policies one would imagine?
🙂
RUSSIA!! RUSSIA!! RUSSIA!!
Our loss of trust in the judicial branch is Russian disinformation. All is well
Russian campaign spreads disinformation about American justice system: ABA, state courts, National Center fight back
And this thing is 4 yrs old
https://napco4courtleaders.org/2020/09/russian-campaign-spreads-disinformation-about-american-justice-system-aba-state-courts-national-center-fight-back/
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAKnbIr6TE
Nothing to see here. Move on!
🙂
HEH
Zelensky stresses need for weapons system to win war in Ukraine
I hope when Putin gets his hands on this guy it’s slow………..
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4609416-zelensky-stresses-need-for-weapons-system-to-win-war-in-ukraine/
missed this one
BREAKING: In a landmark 9-0 ruling on Wednesday that you will never hear about in the media, the US Supreme Court has undercut all DEI-based discrimination, sending the Marxists into a tizzy.
The US Supreme Court’s ruling that a St. Louis police sergeant can sue over a job transfer she claims was discriminatory lays the foundation for legal action against employers who push discrimination against white people in job hiring, work assignment and promotion. That’s right, those “diversity-preferred” job postings, the practice of passing over whites for promotions, discriminatory job transfers, pushing unfair diversity trainings, etc…all of these are now legally actionable.
The ruling was championed by human rights groups as “an enormous win for workers,” but has lawyers for companies like Disney warning that it could have a chilling effect on employers’ diversity initiatives.
Disney’s “Pale and Male is Stale” policy is a prime example. Disney has allegedly used it to drive out white animators by giving them the worst assignments, even though they them have the most experience, skill, and seniority, in order to make the job humiliating enough that they quit…which many of them have done.
The same companies argue that there is ‘good discrimination’ and “bad discrimination’, that white people should be purposely disadvantaged to pave the way for diversity. The lawyers stated that the decision will ‘complicate’ DEI programs and limit their ability to discriminate against white men.
The Supreme Court torpedoed these claims, re-asserting that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. Further, the court has established a relatively ‘low standard’ for bringing discrimination cases. The victim need not suffer ‘actual harm’. An employee only must show “some harm” under the terms of their employment, AND that harm need not be “material,” “substantial” or “serious.” The decision makes it much easier for workers to sue over discriminatory practices.
This is a big win for equality!
https://twitter.com/FreeThinkerInc/status/1781688729783988638
Anyone else remember him?
Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76
https://www.yahoo.com/news/terry-anderson-ap-reporter-held-211444971.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr
Welp. We are having the deck replaced with a patio and the crew is here to begin the destruction phase. You can hear the noise in the next county
2 weeks. Prayers welcome
Why did they even take this case
SCOTUS Deliberates Over Homeless Camps And A Fictional ‘Right To Housing’
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/22/scotus-deliberates-making-up-constitutional-rights-to-remedy-homelessness/
@ eaglesoars:
Excellent
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s quiet here.
The wood butchers didn’t show up.
Illinois mayor Tiffany Hanyard was elected with 82% of the vote, and
She’s under investigation for corruption.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Did you see who they hired to investigate her?
Lori Lightfoot
lobo91 wrote:
Bwahahaha!!!!!
Oh perfect
I have completed all of the paperwork and tasks required to get to closing on our new house.
Who compensates me for the nearly 20k I lost in overtime because I was doing stupid paperwork and tasks?
lobo91 wrote:
lololol
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
Seems the FBI is involved. Bet they’ll turn up some more LorLi Fun Facts.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
And we wonder why half the population is furious.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Go back to Somalia for few weeks, sweetheart
coldwarrior wrote:
You could have hired a few real estate attorneys for less.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
For info. The river is still above the tree bases in my ‘pool’ of the river. Barge traffic started up a day or two ago. The flow looks still really fast.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I know that too late. This was absurd. But, happy Mrs coldwarrior.
Lol
Washington Marxist Dem says the quiet part out loud:
I really hope Trump’s lawyers show this clip in court.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Homeless? Seriously?
Get a tent bitch!
Starving?
I can smell the entitlement on her breath from here.
Starving?
Come back and visit in another 70 days and THEN hell me that you’re starving, you nasty little communist bitch!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
and this is what makes me nuts.
if rugby paid like NFL…we would crush the shit out of all of yinz.
no…really.
nfl players on the hoof? christ, deione sanders on wing or 15 would have destroyed the defense with pure speed.
mike Singletary at #8
jack lambert at #7
oj simpson at #10
mike webster at hooker, fit two larger dudes on the props, mike benched 550lbs
oh my god….the list goes on and on
ronnie lot on wing
troy palamalu on the other
tony dorsett at #11
john riggins at #5
my #9 would be fran tarkington, yep…
dick butkus, mike ditka,
@ coldwarrior:
but! there is progress!
there is a US pro league now that is available free to watch on the rugby network.
so, we might be getting back to wining world championships like in the olde days 1920/1924
i guess we got bored lol
gah!
Sheetz Inc. discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check, according to U.S. officials.
https://twitter.com/nbc4i/status/1781861692755832928
@ coldwarrior:
I imagine the swell has made it to Cincy by now. Those poor saps on the floodplain gonna eat it again.
eaglesoars wrote:
Heh..I give lots $$$ to sheetz
@ eaglesoars:
I hope your experience is better than ours was.
I’m waiting for an event put on by Hillsdale College, with school president Larry Arn as the speaker.
right_wing2 wrote:
So far so good. They show up on time and ask my opinion about a lot of things. Also they wear shirts and drive trucks w/the company logo so to me that says something.
The reason I chose them was not $$$. It was because I watched how carefully they measured and it was meticulous. They explain the difference in the paving stones etc. So I’m happy.
’bout time
Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools, and it is headed to Gov. Lee’s desk
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1782915019916579255
@ eaglesoars:
Some really stupid comments on that thread.
“We should ban guns in schools!”
Umm…we’ve had that for about 35 years now. How’s that working out?
Speaking of stupid takes, here’s the NY Times headline on that story:
@ lobo91:
The thing is I don’t know why a law has to be passed. This is a ‘shall carry’ state. People here EXPECT others to be armed. Went to a neighbor’s house party in December and everybody was asking Charlene if she wanted them to leave their weapons in the bedroom with their coats. “Oh keep ’em, whatever you want”
Why I’m terrified of the ocean
https://twitter.com/TaraThoughts2/status/1782936286472581390
“Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.” Tyrant Judge Abena Darkeh
https://twitter.com/DoniTheDon_/status/1782781800625877248
@ eaglesoars:
Because the current law says that nobody except law enforcement can have guns in schools. This would create an exemption for teachers and staff.
@ lobo91:
stupid
Columbia University has announced a midnight deadline for organizers, warning that their campsites will be forcefully cleared by police and unconfirmed reports of the National Guard
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1782977334993191027
more at the link. Some have noticed that their tents showed up at the same time and are identical.
not organized or anything
It looks like Biden has overtaken Trump on the betting side of the November election in the last couple of weeks.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting-odds/2024/president/
Public Service Announcement.
If anyone is interested in the details of the Trump trial the transcripts of the proceedings are posted online. They say they will have each day’s transcript uploaded by close of business the following day.
Main page here, click on transcripts. It asks if you are human then takes you to a page like I have not seen since the early ’90s. Just a basic directory tree.
https://ww2.nycourts.gov/people-v-donald-j-trump-criminal-37026
I would have watched the trial if it was televised but NY state law prohibits it.
Tried reading it, got three pages in and was bored stupid.
The third page however had the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen or read in a trial.
@ Possum:
I split this into two comments because this place sends me to hell if I post too many links in one post.
Anyway direct link to that particular page.
https://pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTrump-71543/transcripts/4-22-2024/00002.html
It is an image so I can’t cut and paste the text, but I will summarize.
Last week a juror had a tooth ache. Juror made appointment for 3pm Monday and as a result the court intended to finish early so juror could get tooth fixed. On Monday jurors appointment was moved to 1:20pm so court actually finished at 12:30pm so juror could get tooth fixed.
Why could the juror not get tooth fixed Saturday or Sunday or even in the evening of Monday?
I am sure it would have cost extra, but the court could have paid the difference for the out of hours dentist fee.
As a result of this stupidity the court and all involved lost HALF a day of proceedings. How much did that cost?
@ Possum:
Just scanned a sample of the archive. There were arguments over jury selection, as if this is the first trial that ever had a jury.
https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/Letter-re-jury-selection-4-8-24.pdf
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Juror Questionnaire
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
LOL
I really laughed at that one. Take a look at the application for a Green Card. Form I-485
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-485.pdf
The funny questions start on page 10, that is part 8. The best one is question 57
@ Possum:
How did you answer this one? XD
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
36 and 37 asks “are you a pimp?”
They ask a lot of questions. Are you a spy? Have you ever hijacked a plane or do you intend to? I think I answered NO to that question, at least I think I did….
( pity we can’t cut and paste from that pdf. There is some good shit there! )
A very useful tip when making instant coffee ( I use instant because I was sick and tired of having to fish out roaches that were nesting in the water reservoir of my coffee maker. But that is another story. )
Basically get to know your microwave, the temperature of the faucet water, the size of your coffee mug and your preferred temperature of the finished coffee.
In my kitchen the perfect length of time to heat up the water in the microwave is EXACTLY 1 minute and 41 seconds.
Why that length of time you may ask, if you give a shit. Well…
At 1:41 the handle of the mug is in exactly the same place as when I put the mug in the microwave.
I like harmony and order in my life.
LAPD & pro-pally protesters* from USC are about to go at it. People are gonna get hurt.
*anti-Israel protesters
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Couple hundred LAPD have protesters isolated in a park area, and there are a lotta students milling around taking selfies or something.
Bunkessa is visiting, she lives about a mile away from the USC mess.
So…it seems Alvin Bragg revealed today what the secret “underlying crime” was that allowed them to magically turn misdemeanors into felonies and ignore the statute of limitations in Trump’s case. They’re claiming that the supposed payment to Stormy Daniels was part of a conspiracy to violate a NY election law.
There are two major problems with that: First, the law in question is a misdemeanor, not a felony, which is what would be required to elevate the other charges to felonies. Second, it’s a state law that only applies to state and local elections. Trump wasn’t running for a NY state office.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I showed her the live feed, her response was, “Cool. All the cops are busy so I can drive as fast as I want,” and she left.
I don’t know if this is true so FWIW
WHO Forced to Abandon Global Pandemic Treaty
https://twitter.com/TuckerPoodleMA/status/1783287857903439972
@ lobo91:
Nice Catch!
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t see how they’re managing to keep that farce going. Do you know how they came up with 34 counts in the first place? It’s supposedly about a single payment of $130,000, right?
Apparently, Cohen made the actual payment to the porn star and Trump reimbursed him for it. The reimbursement was supposed to be in 12 monthly payments. As it turns out, the last two were combined, so there were only 11.
So…each of the 11 payments is one count. Each payment also involved an invoice, so that’s 11 more counts, for a total of 22. The remaining 12 are the ledger entries (11 payments, plus the original entry). 34 counts.
What a crock.
And that’s 34 misdemeanor charges, BTW. The statute of limitations for charges like that ran out a couple of years ago. By “elevating” them to felonies, they get a longer statute of limitations.
The way they were able to do that is to claim that it was done “in furtherance of” an additional felony, which we now know was the state election law mentioned above. Which is NOT a felony, and doesn’t apply to federal elections anyway.
If there was an actual judge in the case, rather than a Democrat party hack, the case should be dismissed immediately. Of course, it won’t be. They’ll continue with the farce for the next 6-8 weeks, after which the judge will issue some BS instructions to the jury, and they’ll get a conviction. Then it will be overturned on appeal, probably at the state level.
Everyone involved knows this. Trump’s not going to prison over this nonsense. It’s just a way to keep him from campaigning for two months.
As soon as it’s over, of course, they’ll start over in Georgia.
Oh, did you hear that Bennie Thompson, the hack who served as the ringmaster for the January 6th committee/infomercial, introduced a bill to remove Secret Service protection from any former president who is convicted of a felony, including a state one?
I’m pretty sure that’s part of their Plan C to stop Trump. Plan A was to bankrupt him. Plan B was to keep him from campaigning. Plan C is the fail-safe, in case he still manages to win in November.
At least one good thing happened today. The Warning released the video for their new song Que Mas Quieres (What More Do You Want).
Middle sister Pau came up with the concept and co-directed, along with their in-house videographer, Ivan Chavez. It’s pretty funny. A murder mystery/caper, with Dany in full “mob wife” mode.
Speaking of Que Mas Quieres, I’m watching clips from last night’s show in Leeds, UK. It’s funny seeing a bunch of Brits singing along with a song in Spanish:
There was another band who played a big show in Leeds, way back when:
Speaking of big concerts, tickets went on sale yesterday for a show next February at Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional. It’s a 10,000 seat venue. Sold out in one hour:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DJxuIGDDMBM
@ lobo91:
He’ll get assassinated and leftists will celebrate. Certain members of Congress will probably give to the killers defense.
Willow Grace is running free. I held her.
May she always be happy and run free. And I am glad you got to hold her. Your presence must of been a comfort to her.
@ Calo:
thank you
@ eaglesoars:
I’m so sorry to hear that. Prayers
@ lobo91:
We’re ok. Sad but ok. It feels like 100 pounds have been lifted from my heart. Her head was in my lap, my arms around her, here in the house where she belonged. She was so tired she just couldn’t do it anymore and the pain meds no longer helped. She was waking me up every 2 hours from pain needing to be held/massaged. The euthanasia team was wonderful. It’s all good. We gave her 11 great years after she was rescued from a kill shelter in West Virginia.
It was all as it should be. I will sleep well tonight. No tears. Her ashes will be returned in a week.
Altho Mia is a bit confused……….
@ eaglesoars:
Damn, I’m sorry to hear.
Thanks for being there with her at the end.
@ right_wing2:
Thank you. I was her mom. It was my job as it has been with all my dogs. Mia will be our last. She will be 7 in Dec. She is hale and happy. We go on.
In the meantime – look at THIS happy horseshit. Somebody check his basement/backyard
https://twitter.com/RenOfMen/status/1782863116830990441
Single, unmarried, childless women over 30 have lived in willful rebellion from God’s design for them.
Dress it up however you want, usually with victimhood (“my dad was mean”) but it’s still true.
A woman’s repentance for defying God’s design will create humility in her. In that space of humility, she’ll see God’s justice at work, pray for mercy, and perhaps be given grace.
Those three together will signal her readiness to be a wife to a godly man. That man can say “no” to her and wash her with the word (Eph 5:26), which she will then gratefully submit to by him.
That is the only kind of man that any woman should want.
It’s a grueling process I don’t think many women have the courage to complete, in part because of feminine pride.
Also because “the Sisterhood” of mothers, friends, and even fathers will disincentivize them every step of the way.
Sadly, even fewer pastors have the courage to lead young Christian women through this gauntlet.
Meanwhile these same pastors will bang on endlessly to men about porn and video games.
But when it comes to women’s repentance? Crickets.
This is the elephant in the room in every evangelical church today, shamed men and unrepentant women dressed in piety carrying unacknowledged sin in their bloodstream that few, if any, have the courage to name:
Feminism and the Sexual Revolution, the true spirits of the age.
Pastors know the potentially enormous costs for speaking into this. And I think they want to kick the can down the road until the next generation.
What no one seems to want to point out though, is that unless we confront this now, there might not be a next generation.
That’s what the numbers say.
Meanwhile women are suffering in unrepentant sin that everyone turns a blind eye to—which I regard as cruelty—and godly men are suffering in singleness while birth rates are crashing below replacement.
Do Christian leaders have the courage to say something about this?
Are we going to try “equal weights and measures” (Proverbs 11:1, Ezekiel 45:10) for both sexes in the pews?
Or are we going to continue to be good Feminists and egalitarians, bowing the knee to “make amends” for centuries of oppression that never happened, rather than giving our sisters the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27) that they, as creatures made in His image (Gen 1:27) deserve?
Today is the anniversary of Chernobyl. That might be an interesting thread
@ eaglesoars:
It’s still Thursday here. Happy bittersweet birthday.
The Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783657944841941180
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Thanks. Yeah I’ve had better
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Not exactly as there is a wee bit of ‘artistic licence’ and ignorance involved as well. If you are going to say something ensure that you actually KNOW what you’re talking about, or you look like a fool.
First the long low white building is NOT now the Federal parliament. It is ‘old Government House’ that used to House both the Lower House and the Senate. Whoever did the voice over knows zip and it really shows. The … ahem …. red and black and yellow as well, circles and rectangles painted on the stairs is in fact the so called Aborigine Flag. A wee bit of actual research, would at least make you sound as if you actually know some background, rather than just sounding like a cheap no nothing propagandist. Not that I don’t agree with the thrust of the argument.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Exactly why I posted it – for your commentary. I should have tagged you.
Results of Tuesday’s CT scan are fine with me.
1. Status post right hemicolectomy.
2. No CT evidence of metastatic disease in the chest, abdomen or pelvis.
3. Stable low suspicion left lower lobe pulmonary micronodules.
4. Colonic diverticula.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-VzFlJ14o
Canberra is located in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory – a Federal Territory surrounded by New South Wales a State within Australia.) It’s full of Federal bureaucrats, and is an ultra modern garden city without a soul. Looks great but as it’s full of Federal bureaucrats what can you expect? It’s a totally planned garden city designed by a Chicago architect Burley Griffen, after the Federation of the 6 Australian colonies in 1901 plus associated Federal territories, hence the seven pointed star on the flag.
The Aborigine people have been in residence for 40,000 years having crossed from Africa, via the Middle East and Indian coast followed by the walk during the last ice age across of what was a dried out Indonesian archepeligo when sea levels were 300 m lower due to ice accumulation mostly in the Northern polar regions.
The only deep strait was the Timor ‘gap’ some 60 Km wide and able to be crossed by log canoes, following bird migrations south.
Don’t mention ‘Mungo-man’or the local aborigine will roll up the welcome mat. There were ‘other aborigines’ here in Oz for twenty thousand years, before the present aborigines arrived 40,000 years ago, who out competed them, and / or eaten by the current aborigines particularly in South Australia and Tasmania. That has been swept under the carpet over the last century! 🙂
The current so called Aborigine state within a Federal Territory is a bunch of tents and graffiti daubed wrecks on about 2 acres opposite the Old Government House, that represents a few angry revolutionary Marxists who are allowed to despoil the local landscape, due to some ‘woke’ Federal bureaucrats with agendas aplenty. They are seen as a local joke!
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Well that’s mostly a good outcome!
🙂
On the Sydney Australian city blacklisting from the local Lebanese Islamists and the reaction :-
🙂
Enjoy!
MUSLIM BACKLASH
An Interesting Story seen in the Bankstown and Auburn local newspapers recently.
Local Lebanese and Asian leaders here are upset at the Liberal Party for threatening to send back the illegal boat people and to restrict immigration.
So this weekend they boycotted all Australian-owned businesses in the Sydney area as a demonstration of their economic impact on the community.
The boycott was declared a success by the Lebanese community and Asian leaders, noting that revenue in Aussie-owned businesses was down by 19%.
However, it is reported that Aussie business owners also declared the boycott a success.
They pointed out that shoplifting was reduced by 77%, money orders sent out of the country were down by 97%, the cost of daily clean-up and trash collection was down by 84%.
Shoppers reported that they could actually hear English being spoken throughout the community for the first time in recent memory, and customers actually paid for purchases with real money, not government debit cards or fake credit cards
HEH
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
It’s hella good!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
YAYyy!! How do you feel?
BREAKING: Khymani James, the leader of the anti-Israel encampment who said ‘Zionists deserve to die’ has been thrown out of school
https://twitter.com/MaltzJudy/status/1783992593941983581
This was hours ago but look at this monster
Currently, tornado sirens are blaring and sounding off as the National Weather Service in Lincoln, Nebraska has issued a confirmed tornado warning, indicating a particularly dangerous situation as a large, extremely violent, and dangerous tornado is on the ground, heading towards or has passed Memphis, Nebraska. This is a life-threatening situation. Take shelter now!
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1783957237305667596
The “Hymn to Nikkal”, represent the oldest known substantially complete notated music
It is 3,400 years old, dating back to approximately 1400 BCE.
This is how it sounds
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1784089165954429239
LOOK at the notation!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Sounds good!!
In the US the carbohydrates are listed as the total carbs. That includes fiber which is indigestible so to get the net carbs you must subtract the fiber. The fiber content is a sub heading under carbohydrates. The text is not bold and indented.
In the UK the amount listed as carbohydrates is the digestible quantity, fiber is listed as a separate item. The UK label does the math for you.
Also, if you really need to know the nutritional content of the food you are eating the teaspoon, tablespoon, cup etc way of measuring is bollocks. As an example the standard serving of lettuce is one and a half cups. Who the fuck tries to stuff lettuce into a cup?
I am metricated. A standard serving of lettuce is 85 grams.
This person is a fascinating twitter follow
GEOLOGISTS LIVED OVER 5,000 YEARS AGO ?
The Great Pyramid of Giza has an enormous weight, probably approaching or exceeding 6,000,000 tons. It is quite easy to imagine that, under such a weight, the underlying ground could give way. There are not many areas of the Earth that bear such a weight. If, for example, this pyramid had been built in Bangkok, the alluvial soil underneath would have given way over time, and the pyramid would have at least partially collapsed in some places, damaging itself beyond repair. Instead, over thousands of years, and despite some very violent earthquakes that have occurred in the area in the past, the Great Pyramid seems not to have had any significant collapse.
Nowadays, every architect includes variable of “subsidence” in his project. Accurate geological studies and static calculations are carried out, and the possibility that a building suffers a subsidence of 15cm every 100 years is considered acceptable. Well, until now the Great Pyramid, despite its incredible weight, has suffered a landslide of less than 1.5cm in at least 5,000 years. Such a result, bordering on the paranormal, cannot be due to chance.
Whoever decided exact location to build the Great Pyramid knew exactly what he was doing. As the engineers who leveled the ground knew exactly what they were doing, with a margin of error of 1 centimeter over 230 meters (as we have seen in previous chapters). So the suspicion that “smart” geologists and engineers worked in that area becomes very pressing. But, normally, a civilization from thousands of years ago, just emerging from the Neolithic, should not have had this type of knowledge. Theoretically, the workers who worked at Giza built everything using only copper stonecutters and wooden logs, having practically no knowledge of geology or static calculations.
According to several modern scholars, the Giza plateau could be the only place in the world capable of supporting the weight of the Great Pyramid without giving way. Was it a simple coincidence that the Great Pyramid was built on that very spot? Is it possible that with those poor means the men of thousands of years ago managed to do better than the man of the 21st century? Or is there something we don’t know about them yet?
https://twitter.com/Dr_TheHistories/status/1784140212349882383
Feds are at it again
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A group called the Patriot Front are currently marching down towards the charleston state capitol
#Charleston l #WestVirginia
Currently, approximately 90-150 individuals identified as the “Patriot Front” and recognized as a right-wing organization are advancing towards the state capital located in charleston west virginia Numerous sightings have been reported from the people inside building into the streets police officers are currently keeping an eye out while escorting them as they work to maintain a separation between any counter-protesters or any other individuals.
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1784277186096005559
Being gay and eating gay food is not so bad.
Lunch was two slices of toasted keto bread, not buttered as it was topped with 85g of spinach sautéed in 1/4 oz ( 7g ) butter and finally two poached eggs.
345 cal, 20g fat, 27g protein, 5g net carbs, 19g fiber and 630mg sodium.
A perfect keto meal, although not filling. If I had eaten two servings of lettuce with it that would only add another 30 calories. Oh well, maybe next time!
eaglesoars wrote:
Nikkal must have been one hot mama.
Here’s a cover version of the same song.
https://youtu.be/tAc2KDNHEw4?si=0-MjLCLbyPxTPdN6
Don’t miss the comments. “I’m only 2,367 years old and I love Hurrian.”
eaglesoars wrote:
@ rightymouse:
Things are stable. Effects are reduced, but seem to drag on longer after infusion than they used to. The worst are the mild cognitive effects that never quite go away. Sometimes it’s hard to stay focused as I’m easily distracted. Nothing like the brain squeeze of the first year’s treatments, back when I had telekinetic powers. HOWEVER
Yesterday I went for a routine comprehensive blood draw. When I returned to the parking garage my car had opened the drivers door all by itself, as if to welcome me back. It wasn’t due to a burglary as there’s nothing to steal, I’d forgotten to close it.
Possum wrote:
I include spinach and weeds in the lettuce category and I measure them by area – 1/4 the area of a dinner plate max.
eaglesoars wrote:
Several modern scholars don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I have a lettuce story. That is why I now weigh everything and log it on a spreadsheet.
Possum wrote:
Is it titled The Best Head In Texas?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
No, but that would be a better story!
My lettuce story is I was interested what a serving of iceberg packet salad looked like so I put a plate on the scale, then pressed Tare and shook lettuce onto the plate until it read 85g. That is quite a lot of lettuce, shredded cabbage and shredded carrots. 15 calories.
Next came the mayo. Can’t eat lettuce without something on it. Serving size for mayo is 1 Tbsp. or 13g and 90 cal. So pressed tare and into the jar went the fork and out came a usual size for me blob of mayo and splat onto the lettuce it went. 42g or just over 300 cal. That was a surprise!
Next came the cheese, cut a chunk of sharp cheddar off the block and onto the plate that went. Slightly over 2oz. Serving size is 1oz, 120 cal so I put 240 cal on my plate.
So the end of the story is when making myself a healthy cheese and lettuce salad I managed to turn 15 calories of lettuce into a plate containing over 550 calories.
For reference.
https://www.livestrong.com/article/298350-how-many-calories-in-a-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder-with-cheese/
Possum wrote:
Great title for a noir novel.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
“Things are stable. Effects are reduced, but seem to drag on longer after infusion than they used to. The worst are the mild cognitive effects that never quite go away. Sometimes it’s hard to stay focused as I’m easily distracted. Nothing like the brain squeeze of the first year’s treatments, back when I had telekinetic powers. HOWEVER
Yesterday I went for a routine comprehensive blood draw. When I returned to the parking garage my car had opened the drivers door all by itself, as if to welcome me back. It wasn’t due to a burglary as there’s nothing to steal, I’d forgotten to close it.”
Bless you for hanging in there!! You’re on my nightly prayer list!
One of life’s big mysteries. The kind of thing that keeps me up at night.
https://www.baconscouts.com/bacon-facts/nutritional-information-of-bacon/
@ eaglesoars:
A victory for equality, and a victory for the Constitution.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Penetration of Western Intelligence agencies and the rise of Critical theory amongst agency elitists.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-critical-theorists-captured-american-intelligence-agencies
rightymouse wrote:
Much thanks, but the one who needs prayers is my sis.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Dislike
Canoe Convoy wrote:
Why?
I always look forward to being educated and then do my on analysis to arrive at a probable conclusion.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
She has been on the list since she first got sick years ago. What’s the latest on her??
@ Aussie Infidel:
NEW THREAD!
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2024/04/29/one-for-aussie-open/
lol
rightymouse wrote:
She called her friend Friday night because she couldn’t get up from the couch she lives on. Eddie called the paramedics, got her to the ER. Sepsis and internal bleeding, along with edema in her leg that she’s had for a while. She’s got a colonoscopy scheduled for today.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
OMG. Sepsis is dreadful. Ugh. Does she know what caused it? Praying for her recovery.