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Light at the End
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 335 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at August 10th, 2024 - 4:24 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
morning y’all
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/climate-fear-mongering-fail-great-barrier-reef-sees-third-record-year-coral-growth
yup, heard the climate change bs on my local radio station as a news story.
it sounded so convincing and I KNEW it was crap
https://tennesseestar.com/justice/tennessee-ag-jonathan-skrmetti-joins-lawsuit-challenging-the-biden-administrations-plan-to-extend-full-health-care-benefits-to-illegal-immigrants/khousler/2024/08/09/
@ rain of lead:
Thank god for Tennessee
Reading X this morning is like getting it in the face with a fire hose
Richard Dawkins is a well known UK biologist. I find him tedious but I’ve not known him to be dishonest or anything.
My entire @facebook account has been deleted, seemingly (no reason given) because I tweeted that genetically male boxers such as Imane Khalif (XY undisputed) should not fight women in Olympics. Of course my opinion is open to civilised argument. But outright censorship?
https://x.com/RichardDawkins/status/1822166372819853352
That’s just the start of what I’m seeing so probably more later
You know who else should be on trial for the UK’s far-right riots? Elon Musk
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/09/uk-far-right-riots-elon-musk-x
Haven’t read it yet
mere ‘observers’
A judge in Belfast has warned those caught observing or taking part in public disorder will be refused bail, as four men appeared in court charged in relation to recent riots in the city.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/judge-warns-people-observing-or-participating-in-disorder-will-be-refused-bail-1659602.html#:~:text=A%20judge%20in%20Belfast%20has,recent%20riots%20in%20the%20city.
This woman is one of the people who decide if your social media posts will put you in jail. Check out the pic
https://steveorme.co.uk/articles/waiting-for-boris-rachel-swann-derbyshires-new-chief-constable/
I am somehow oddly indifferent
Former YouTube CEO and Silicon Valley trailblazer Susan Wojcicki has died at age 56
fully vaxed. 2 year battle w/small cell lung cancer. I don’t know if she smoked.
I do know that as Youtube CEO she suppressed all info regarding ivermectin
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/10/former-youtube-ceo-and-silicon-valley-trailblazer-susan-wojcicki-has-died-at-age-56.html
I saw an interview w/Peter Hitchens (that of course I can’t find again) talking about Stasi Starmer
He is an anti-monarchist down to the marrow. A Gramscian Marxist.
I also saw that as a lawyer in 1993, he is the person who went to court to get mandated benefits for illegals
eaglesoars wrote:
another pic
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1822298107926675625
I don’t know what ‘Manosphere’ is but whatever….
The first NGO we found in this network was Diverting Hate, an anti-Manosphere NGO working to roll out a tool on Twitter to divert audiences away from wrongspeak creators towards curated websites and podcasts affiliated with the US government. DHS gave them $700k for this.
https://x.com/bx_on_x/status/1822292207577051406
eaglesoars wrote:
I gather it’s a consortium of some type that collects sites promoting things the left would categorize as ‘toxic masculinity’ – like fishing or something. Scroll down on the tweet I posted
The guy who was convicted of murdering border agent Brian Terry has had his conviction overturned.
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/sentence-overturned-border-patrol-agents-killing-exposed-fast-furious-sting
The appeals court said Osorio-Arellanes had confessed to “essential elements” of the U.S. government’s case against him while being interrogated in a Mexico City prison.
On appeal, he argued that he was entitled to a new trial because his confession was taken in violation of his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, as well as his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel. He also argued that he did not have a fair trial, and his attorney said he is illiterate and didn’t understand the proceedings.
The FBI Deputy Director tasked with investigating the attempted assassination of President Trump is directly compromised by the same Islamic jihadists who are threatening to kill Trump.
Deputy FBI
@FBI
Director Paul Abbate, the lead investigator of the Trump assassination attempt, has given his hugging endorsement of the Top Jihadi Mosque in the US – Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, which is located in Fairfax, Virginia just 6 MILES AWAY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
This is the same mosque funded by mega donor billionaire, HAMAS co-founder, current Israeli hostage negotiator, and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) Mousa Abu Marzook. The Imam of Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center was SDGT Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a drone strike.
As we know, HAMAS is a proxy of Iran, and Iran has been threatening to assassinate President Trump.
Other notorious MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES of Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center include the infamous “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farook, “Times Square Bomber” Faisal Shazard, Fort Hood terrorist Major Nidal Hasan, convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center (WTC) bombing “The Blind Sheik”, and 2 (two) 9/11 hijackers – plus many many more.
Watch how Paul Abbate of the FBI unbelievably says, it is an “honor to stand” with this Mosque, how grateful he is for the “partnership” this mosque has with the FBI, how their “diversity and inclusion relationship” has increased over the years, and how, “the FBI is hiring right now and we need you.”
THIS IS THE SAME PAUL ABBATE WHO IS IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATING THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Why is Paul Abbate 2nd in command of the FBI and leading the investigation of the assassination attempt of President Trump? And why is he trying to recruit jihadist Muslims from a terror affiliated Mosque?
Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
VIDEO EVIDENCE BELOW:
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1822315172599402886
Actually that mosque is in Falls Church which is in Fairfax COUNTY. I lived across the street from it, was there when it was built
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
At the time of 9/11 it was discovered that the imam of that mosque had mentored one of the 9/11 hijackers (forgotten which one).
I decided we were leaving Virginia when I discovered his granddaughter had been elected to the Fairfax County school board
If you want to watch Tommy Robinson’s banned movie SILENCED, here it is
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1817184820151070917
msn is carrying the Telegraph article on how Stasi Starmer intends to force tech companies to ban ‘misinformatiton’
The Telegraph understands that ministers are looking at introducing a duty on social media companies to restrict “legal but harmful” content.
It could mean that firms are required to remove or suppress posts spreading fake news about asylum seekers or other topics such as self-harm, even if they do not meet the threshold for illegality.
However, critics have said the proposals expose “the sinister and authoritarian side” of Sir Keir’s Labour Party, driving “a coach and horses” through the principle of free speech.
The plans come after a row between Elon Musk who owns X, formerly known as Twitter, and the Prime Minister over his handling of the riots.
The potential crackdown on tech companies would likely form part of a review of the Online Safety Act, which was passed last year.
The Act requires platforms to take “robust action” against illegal content and activity and will be implemented gradually.
A “legal but harmful” clause, requiring firms to take down or restrict the visibility of content deemed to be dangerous but not against the law, was included in the original Bill brought forward by the Tories in 2022.
However, it was removed because of free-speech concerns, with critics warning it could allow a future Labour government to censor controversial material.
Kemi Badenoch, a candidate for the Tory leadership, previously described it as “legislating for hurt feelings”.
The clause was replaced with a new “triple-shield” of protections, including a duty on firms to give users the tools to filter out content that they do not want to see.
The final legislation was passed last year, following years of campaigning by The Telegraph for social media firms to be subject to a statutory “duty of care”.
more at the link
@ eaglesoars:
You mean exactly what they’re trying to do now?
@ lobo91:
yep
Harris campaign is faking crowd size photos
https://x.com/amuse/status/1822363151796404682
You will note the jet’s engine. No crowd in the reflection
BREAKING: A council run by the Socialist Labour party has imposed a new law to FINE people £100 for swearing in the street.
Britain has turned into the speech police.
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1822363502062993606
eaglesoars wrote:
The other crowd photos in the thread are great.
eaglesoars wrote:
Jordan Peterson to attend remedial coaching program after Canada’s top court nixes appeal
The author and former University of Toronto professor has not had an active clinical practice since 2017 but remains a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario
by staff writers
National Post (Canada), August 8, 2024.
URL: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-top-court-nixes-jordan-petersons-appeal-of-professional-colleges-remedial-orders
Jordan Peterson will be attending re-education training after Canada’s top court closed the door on his legal fight against an order that he enter a remedial coaching program.
It was confirmed through Peterson’s lawyer Howard Levitt in an email to the National Post on Thursday.
In a statement via email, Levitt said it was “ironic, even tragic” that Peterson — whom he called “one of the most adept persons in social media in this country and beyond” — is going to attend a program “from people inherently less skilled and knowledgeable than he is himself.”
“The decision is a tragedy for freedom of speech in this country,” said Levitt.
“With close to (a quarter) of Canadians (being) members of regulated trades and professions, this decision will have a chilling impact on Canadians freedom of speech and debate. They now have to concern themselves with political and other enemies making complaints to their regulatory bodies over their political comments with the risk of their ability to practice their trade. Most simply will avoid debate entirely. A tragic day for Canada.”
Also on Thursday, Peterson posted on social media about the decision.
“The court has rejected my appeal regarding the decision of the Ontario College of Psychologists to subject me to indefinite re-education,” he wrote on X.
“I am now bereft of options on the legal front in Canada. I guess it’s on with the show.”
Update re Canada Supreme Court
by Dr Jordan B. Peterson
@jordanbpeterson,
X, August 8, 2024.
URL: https://x.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1821580847361007846
The court has rejected my appeal regarding the decision of the Ontario College of Psychologists to subject me to indefinite re-education @CPBAOntario.
Primarily for publicly opposing the butchers and liars subjecting children to sterilization and mutilation.
I am also required to pay whatever court costs the College accrued in relation to my appeal
I am now bereft of options on the legal front in Canada.
I guess it’s
On with the show.
The author and former University of Toronto professor has not had an active clinical practice since 2017 but remains a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
In 2022, the professional body reviewed Peterson’s social-media conduct after hearing concerns about whether his posts met its standards.
It determined that online comments appeared degrading, demeaning and unprofessional — and that this posed a risk to the public.
The college directed Peterson to enter into a coaching program to reflect on his approach to public statements, and said he could be accused of professional misconduct if he did not comply.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed Peterson’s application for judicial review, and the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal attempt.
With additional reporting by the Canadian Press.
Canada is now governed by Stasi thugs.
@ eaglesoars:
UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts: ‘We’ll come after you’
London’s Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well.
“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.
Footage of the violent clashes involving anti-immigration protesters and the groups of counter-protesters, some of whom have been seen waving Palestinian flags, has gone viral on social media, and the government is warning that sharing such content may have serious consequences.
One key aspect that makes this apparent crackdown on social media particularly shocking to critics is that the British government is threatening to extradite American citizens from the U.S. to be jailed in the U.K. for violating their rules about political speech online.
A Sky News reporter asked Commissioner Rowley to further explain his warning, arguing that high profile figures have been “whipping up the hatred,” and that “the likes of Elon Musk” have been getting involved. She then asked what the police force’s plan will be “when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country?”
Rowley answered by telling the reporter, “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law.”
“You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material,” he said. “All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.”
“Racial hatred” eh?
So I guess the racist governments in these countries will soon be arrested and doing time in the UK gaols?
So I am awaiting Mark Rowlings the Police Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police arresting millions of US citizens extraditing and using draconian Terrorism Laws to lock up these millions of US citizens in British Jails. Rowlings is looking at you Eagles and me too! Exactly where these millions of foreigners are going to be locked up inside the UK for 20 year jailings, is anyone’s guess. I don’t think Sir Mark thought this through fully. More likely he thinks that by locking up the likes of Musk and senior journalists on Fox he will terrorise the rest of the world into compliance and total silence. This bastard is a Stasi thug!
Biden too thinks that if Trump wins the 2024 elections, that he can be locked up before he is inaugurated in January 2025 for sedition. Even though he has not even been charged with that crime. Seems that the Dems think that they will have automatic power to just lock up enemies on their say so alone, and without charges ever being laid and before those picked up off the street, are found guilty before the law.
The Dems seem to believe that already wield total authoritarian power.
Are they ever going to get a shock!
🙂
If anyone is worried about me being missing then all is well. Hard drive on my seven year old laptop crossed over the rainbow bridge.
A new refurbished desktop and a monitor and keyboard arrives Wednesday.
$139. LOL
Anyway until then the only contact with the outside world is a silly little $80 phone and I have fingers like a pig’s tits and it is difficult to type.
But rest assured I am watching you all saying nasty things about my country of birth..
Get your passports ready for when you get extradited to the UK to face justice.
LOL typing this took ten minutes of my life I ain’t getting back.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I wonder who they think would become president if they were to do that?
It wouldn’t be Harris. Do the really want Vance in there?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
how did this twat get the ‘sir’ honorary?
I see Kamala has come up with a new policy proposal
NO TAX ON TIPS!!
She said she’ll come up with her plan to lower prices next week. I’m expecting something along the lines of price controls
Well, isn’t THIS interesting…….
Kamala Harris’s campaign is using AI to manipulate her campaign photos and videos. And it’s all being orchestrated by
@MikeNellis
, a senior advisor to Kamala Harris who works with Loren Merchan, the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan as I have previously reported.
more at the link
And nobody will be disciplined
The U.S. Secret Service is apologizing to a Massachusetts salon owner after an agent covered her security camera with duct tape and broke into her salon by picking the lock so that its bathroom could be used by various people for a two-hour period.
After the two-hour period, Secret Service agents left her salon unlocked and left the tape covering the camera.
The woman was told by others that the lead Secret Service agent was directing people to use her salon’s bathroom without authorization.
The agents were in the neighborhood to secure the area ahead of a Kamala Harris fundraiser. The woman understood she needed to close her salon but didn’t expect the rest of what happened.
linky
https://x.com/yashar/status/1822446668333416826
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The other A.I. crowd images appear to have been created by a joker for lulz & clicks. https://x.com/Sarcasmcat24/status/1822385849708999007
Possum wrote:
I figured you were walking 47 miles of barbed wire to get a new Android phone. Not knowing how fast you walk or how many KOA facilities there are for overnight accommodations, I guessed it could take a week at most.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s what DJT proposed.
@ eaglesoars:
The ATF agents who killed the Little Rock airport executive in his home a while back covered his doorbell camera with tape, too. Seems to be a common tactic for the feds.
So, they gave him 28 seconds to answer the door–probably from a sound sleep–before knocking the door down. Seventeen seconds later, he was shot three times with an M4.
Keep in mind that this was a search warrant, not an arrest warrant. Also, one detail left out of their timeline is the fact that they cut power to the home, meaning it was dark inside.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
This is from Kamala
Two years ago today, I proudly cast the tie-breaking vote to pass our Inflation Reduction Act. Here’s what it means for the American people:
One of the provisions in that bill was to hire 87k new IRS agents to go after service workers’ unreported tips
@ eaglesoars:
The important thing there is that she’s accepting responsibility for that disaster of a bill.
Trump can now tie it around her neck and use it to send her to the bottom of the ocean.
lobo91 wrote:
good point
Check out how much of the arena is blocked off with curtains:
Stasi Starmer is giving mosques ’emergency security measures’
https://x.com/FLCons/status/1822575863830814732
eaglesoars wrote:
Sir Mark the twat sure as hell didn’t get his knighthood for being an exceptional ‘copper’ that’s for sure. The guy is a dyed in the wool Marxist twat!
My Executive Committee of the Auckland RSA (Returned & Services Association) (military)proposed and lobbied amongst Members of Parliament to make Warren ‘Buck’ Shelford, a former All Blacks Rugby Captain,
a hard as nails, good guy. He was a former Naval Swimmer (Clearance Diver), Naval Chief Petty Officer, Chief Naval Fitness Instructor and media person, regarding all things Rugby. The ARSA manoeuvred Sir ‘Buck’ into the position as President of the Royal NZ Returned & Services Association. We had and squeezed our way past the pretender to that ‘throne’, one Major General ‘nutter’, who wormed his way out of the Reserve where he had been Commissioned and did a few years in the serve Troop of the NZSAS to get his SAS parachute wings. He then moved sideways into the Regular Army (this self absorbed ‘joiner’ and stamp on the hand ‘dickhead) had never been to a Regular Defence College. He had then knifed his way to the top,and in his only operational deployment has been Lt Gen Sir Peter Cosgrove (an actual fighting soldier) XO on the Timor deployment under UN auspicious. This pretend Maj Gen had spent his whole deployment at HQ in the capital Dili pushing paper! Cosgrove did the actual General Officer stuff.
This professional ‘knife his way to the top’ psycho had ‘smoosed’ his way politically into a government job as Comptroller of Customs and thought that he’d get the usual Knighthood and knife his way into the job as President of the RNZRSA. The guy had the command capability of ‘Attila the Hun’! The Exec of the Auckland RSA out manoeuvred the pretend Lt Gen, and got Sir Buck into the position as ARSA President.
Alas human nature being what it is Sir ‘Buck’ was corrupted by the baubles of power, and his lack of management smarts had him becoming the plaything of the inner cabal of NZ Inc. (AKA the Kiwi Swamp). From an All Black Captain and the Hard Man of the All Black Rugby scrum. A guy who had a testicle torn out of his scrotum by a Rugby boot stud, retired to the change room where the medic taped his testicle back into his ‘ball bag’ and went back onto the field to finish the game back in the scrum….., to the plaything of the (Kiwi Swamp Dwellers). How the mighty have fallen prey to the baubles of power!
Sigh!
🙂
Sir Mark the Chief of the MET in London did nothing for his Honorific except join the Masons and knifed his way up the MET ‘stud book!’
Spit
lobo91 wrote:
I’m guessing now but one would assume that is Vance!
I still don’t give Vance a clean bill of political health either. After the shenanigans of 2016-2020 exposes of Trump Cabinet posts I am a LOT more circumspect these days. I’ll give Vance a few years ro prove that he is the real thing before I would trust him!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Honestly, it’s not really clear what would happen in that event, because the Constitution isn’t clear. It would end up being decided by the Supreme Court, I’m sure.
But I’m pretty certain that their answer wouldn’t be “Well, I guess the Republicans just forfeited this one.”
@ Aussie Infidel:
The way I’m thinking about this is – assume Trump is dead
Now play out that scenario. I haven’t figured it out yet but I think that’s the play they’re planning on. This assumes it’s BEFORE the election.
A fresh computer now arrives Tuesday. Can’t wait to be able to re-join the human race again. Phone only life sucks.
@ eaglesoars:
That’s the thing, though. Just because the VP automatically becomes president upon the death of the president doesn’t mean that it would necessarily work the same way for the president-elect, particularly if it’s before the electoral votes are counted on January 6th. There’s no precedent for it. It probably would end up that way, but the Supreme Court would have to decide, most likely.
Of course, this whole scenario hinges on the Democrats retaking the House in the first place. That’s the only way they can “disqualify” Trump.
@ Possum:
Many more days of this and I am going to go out and buy a fucking newspaper!
PS UPS lost my new up to date 2024 capable phone that was due to be delivered Friday 2nd August so no way to Uber to a newspaper store.
On a bright note playing with my raspberries again! On a sad note I cannot find a bootable SD card and no way to create one.
@ lobo91:
My head hurts
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m getting tired of living in “interesting times”
Then howz about a break from reality for awhile:
Picture if you can a world where AI has blurred the line between what is real and what is not, a world where robots can easily replace a human, YOU for example, at work, at home, with your spouse and you could barely tell the difference.
The EVIL DNC is attempting yet again, to take over the country named The United States of America. They have already failed once in their mission to assassinate former President and now POTUS Elect prior to his being sworn in. This man who these Evil Doers have in mind and in their sites is non other than a man named … Donald J Trump.
But there are vexing problems for the Evil Doers, the largest one being:
How to tell if they have the REAL Donald J Trump in their sights ? What IF
they succeed in their EVIL MISSION or maybe only THINK they do when, to everyone surprise, on January 20, 2025 the REAL, proven by fingerprint and eyeball analysis, shows up to be sworn in while the Evil Doers are popping their bottles of champagne and the finest spirits know on planet EARTH, toasting to a job THEY think was well done ? What IF this man of means, this billionaire had specially made 100 exact replica robots that only he and certain select secret ‘agents’ known only to the POTUS Elect himself …
And so on and so forth, I hope ya get the idea. I need an/to’ escape’ myself and since I can NOT drink, I do NOT take drugs, I need SOMETHING because the shtz gettin’ CRAZY. Robot tech has me otherwise excited. I hope and pray The Donald has found them just as interesting and whips up some kind of FUN like the above because man, it would be a PISSER !!
Nite y’all, sweet dreams
Elon’s interviewing Trump on Xwitter tomorrow, 8PM ET.
Live podcast or something.
4_Sticks wrote:
Elon would do it and he would fucking LOVE IT!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It’s on spaces. Which I haven’t figured out how to use yet but I will. I get a notification if anyone I follow starts a spaces discussion and as I follow Elon I assume I will be notified and just click the notification.
BTW, Trump posted on X today
I would take these people to court if I could. It’s a violation of their Health and Social Care Act
Last week the Royal College of Nursing updated its guidance, so that patients can be denied treatment if they are perceived to have been racist. The denial of treatment – to even the most odious person – is a straightforward violation of the hippocratic oath.
https://x.com/Emma_A_Webb/status/1822963010144481323
Jeebus. Josh Hawley just sucker punches Sec Of Interior for acting at the behest of dark money environmental groups. The video is 5 mins but you can see it in the first 2
https://x.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1823017993904775596
$100 mil
Trump to Sue DOJ Over Unprecedented Mar-a-Lago Raid
https://vigilantnews.com/post/trump-to-sue-doj-over-unprecedented-mar-a-lago-raid/
This is over a month old and I missed it
The UK’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, is someone Obama has been mentoring for months. Oh dear lord..
“Starmer and Obama had known each other for 20 years since meeting at an event for Black alumni of Harvard University.”
This sounds like a remake on Hope and Change
“Starmer said as voting began Thursday. “A new age of hope and opportunity after 14 years of chaos and decline.””
“In a series of Zoom calls, Obama, who served as US president from 2009 until 2017, encouraged Starmer to become more vulnerable and open with the public and has spoken with the Labour leader about the difficult decisions he made in the Oval Office.
https://x.com/pepesgrandma/status/1809034896494542944
I need a nap already. later
@ eaglesoars:
The only good thing that came from her being appointed as Interior Secretary was getting her out of the NM Congressional delegation
Dan Wooten is sort of the Tucker Carlson of the UK
I have spoken to some of the country’s most prominent conservative and independent thinkers over the weekend, all of whom have expressed a fear that they could end up behind bars, amid a very obvious attempt by Two Tier Keir to eradicate controversial debate.
We must resist!
https://x.com/danwootton/status/1823019449194053924
It isn’t clear what form of ‘legal action’ she is taking, but Tulsi ain’t having it
“My own government, my president, my commander-in-chief is targeting me as a potential domestic terrorist, the closest word that comes to mind is a complete sense of betrayal.”
“After serving over 21 years and continuing to serve in our nation’s military, my own government has labeled and is targeting me directly now as a domestic terrorist.”
“They’re using people like the air marshals as weapons and pawns to target their political opponents.”
“Of course, there’s no explanation given, which is why we are taking legal recourse.”
“Obviously, I’ve been very outspoken about the dangers of the Biden-Harris administration to our democracy and to our freedom and to our national security. This is what happens as a result.”
Shouldn’t matter where you land on the political spectrum, a former congresswoman and veteran being put on a terrorist watch list simply for speaking out against the current administration should enrage you. It should enrage you because it’s not only a waste of your tax payer money, but because it is what some of the worse governments in history do and that doesn’t represent America.
The weaponization of government against outspoken political opponents is things you see in governments such as Russia and Iran not America
If you are a Democrat thinking ‘that’s what she gets for betraying us,’ please remember the Pendulum always swings back the other way. Eventually a non Democrat will take power and the precedent has now been set.
Americans deserve better.
https://x.com/EndTribalism/status/1822762309179281692
New Monopoly, UK Edition
@ eaglesoars:
Did you see all the comments on that thread calling her a Russian asset?
I guess the Hillary crowd is bored…
@ lobo91:
nope too busy to read it. Cuz of stuff like this
Voters now trust Harris over Trump despite being ‘hurt’ by Biden-Harris policies, new polling finds.
BRUSSELS, Aug 12 (Reuters) – EU industry chief Thierry Breton told billionaire Elon Musk in a letter on Monday he must comply with EU law ahead of Musk’s interview with U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump on social media platform X.
The interview, scheduled for 8PM Eastern Time (0000 Tuesday GMT), will also be accessible to users in the EU, Breton wrote, adding: “In this context, I am compelled to remind you of the due diligence obligations set out in the Digital Services Act (DSA).”
“DSA obligations apply without exceptions or discrimination to the moderation of the whole user community and content of X (including yourself as a user with over 190 million followers) which is accessible to EU users and should be fulfilled in line with the risk-based approach of the DSA, which requires greater due diligence in case of a foreseeable increase of the risk profile”, Breton wrote in his letter.
The DSA law requires very large platforms to do more to tackle illegal content and risks to public security.
Last month, EU tech regulators ruled that X breached the DSA and that it deceived users through its use of blue checkmarks.
X said it disagreed with the EU’s assessment on how it complies with the DSA while owner Musk threatened litigation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/eus-breton-says-musk-must-comply-with-eu-law-ahead-trump-interview-2024-08-12/#:~:text=EU's%20Breton%20says%20Musk%20must%20comply%20with%20EU%20law%20ahead%20of%20Trump%20interview,-By%20Reuters&text=BRUSSELS%2C%20Aug%2012%20(Reuters),on%20social%20media%20platform%20X.
@ eaglesoars:
that is the wrong head line. This is the correct one
EU’s Breton says Musk must comply with EU law ahead of Trump interview
@ eaglesoars:
.@MikeBenzCyber tells @JackPosobiec : “The EU Digital Services Act … is going to be the main tool that will be used to try to force Elon Musk to censor like the other major platforms.”
https://x.com/HumanEvents/status/1758584085360894102
This is Breton’s X post w/letter
With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSA
As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to @elonmusk
https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1823033048109367549
This is decades old and it has aged like a fine wine. 2 min segment of an Archie Bunker episode
https://x.com/Pismo_B/status/1821654883457802526
eaglesoars wrote:
Elon got a threat from the UK. Fun responses in the thread.
https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1823033048109367549
@ eaglesoars:
Beat me to it.
Just felt an earthquake. Mild roller.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
4.7 magnitude South Pasadena.
Revised to 4.6, Highland Park
Here is Elon’s response
To be honest, I really wanted to respond with this Tropic Thunder meme, but I would NEVER do something so rude & irresponsible!
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823076043017630114
check out the meme he posted
@ eaglesoars:
She’s guilty of double plus ungood think.
https://patriots.win/p/17txfKgSi9/elon-musk-responded-to-the-eu-le/c
lobo91 wrote:
there will be blow back and they won’t like it.
Hubby is out running errands, Psycho Puppy and I are outside – and I keep hearing tapping on the inside of living room window which overlooks the patio
Usually when stuff like this happens to me, somebody has died
The search function on X sucks canal water
Mark Levin ain’t on
The PatriotThe Answer today. Seb Gorka’s timeslot shifted.Tech companies will be forced to ban fake news from their platforms under plans being considered by the Government in the wake of the riots
https://x.com/Telegraph/status/1822045750424944663
lobo91 wrote:
Haaland the Sec of Interior is way out of her league. She is the typical ‘glove puppet’ that is just a figurehead and has little real power. The power behind this sock-puppet is linked to foreign terrorist billionaires who have their own staff who have infiltrated into yet another department bureaucracy. You can smell the Marxism on their breath and hear the cash registers ringing with ‘Buckshee’ corruption of bureaucrat leadership.
Wherever these Marxists infiltrate corruption and wickedness follows. Every time the actual power brokers who have infiltrated the bureaucracy are found there is always a clutch of moronic Progressive socialists providing ‘cover’ for the nefarious manipulation and corruption.
This Haaland idiot bitch, among many other moron bureaucrats , need kicking to the curb on day one post Inauguration 2025.
Dear Mr. Breton …. I see your EU Digital Services Act and raise you the US First Amendment to the US Constitution. Expect to be extradited to the USA for charges to be laid early next year Mr Breton under US Federal Law.
Then we will see which US Constitutional Law succeeds and which foreign ‘piffling’ little Act is kicked to the curb.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
One can only hope … I actually think ‘we’re’ there !
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/54DuuNBwA5o
nobody can get in to the spaces area where the interview is taking place
eaglesoars wrote:
Kind of embarrassing for both of them, especially with all the hype.
Real America’s Voice got in and is playing the audio and right now it’s just music
https://americasvoice.news/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Elon said they had run some scaling tests but …..
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I can see the tweet on my phone but not my laptop. Elon has posted there has been a massive DDOS attack and worst case they will post the conversation later
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s up. 697K and climbing.
found it
There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on . Working on shutting it down.
Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823152153445404990
@ eaglesoars:
It’s almost like someone doesn’t want this interview to take place…
@ eaglesoars:
Elevator music stopped. 850K
I’M IN!
If you still can’t get in, it’s being carried on real america’s voice, they’re in too
https://americasvoice.news/
What’s with Trump’s speech impediment?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’m not hearing that ??
Greetings..
( Posted using a Raspberry Pi 4 found in my junk pile eventually. keyboard that suffers from cat piss, an old TV and a mouse covered in roach shit. )
I forgot how fast it was just doing web browsing stuff.
Keyboard is fucked though. New refurbished Windows computer arrives tomorrow. With a new keyboard!
Until then I am just watching…
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounded like dentures slushing around (ala Pelosi). Others blamed it on a cheap mic, bad posture and boomer enunciation.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
or lmited auddi baandwithh
That what piss saked keybboourdd t
lets me poss wiho ussing sppell ceck.
Possum wrote:
Impressive. I’m visualizing an analog oscillator hooked up for ambiance. Maybe a Tesla coil buzzing away nearby.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
GrrI foud more aarduino tois th any adult man should oown.
Fuckk this keyboard.
@ Possum:
Aarduino Tois is a great name for something. Carbonated caramel espresso in 8 oz. cans with a picture of the Arc de Triomphe on the label.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
On phone now. The isolation from the internet forced me to look through the electronic shit I have in many boxes so I could put something together that is not a phone.
I realized I have awesome fun shit here to play with!
So after five years if not doing electronical shit I am back.
You may have heard of the smart watch things.
I have two chronos 430 development kits . One unopened!
@ Possum:
LOL just googled it. It is very old tech.over ten years old and it does not communicate using blooteeth or wifi or cellular data currently price is $95
Why is that technology although outdated perfect for some applications?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
the photo I saw showed he was using his phone. Don’t know if it was android or not
I do wish they had covered crypto. They did cover the strain on the grid due to EVs but as I understand it, that’s got nothing on crypto
ok, I’m out, nite
@ eaglesoars:
He had a mic with a little blue light on his lapel.
I made it to the 10pm ET mark. Too much chit-chat and not enough meat for me. At least it’ll give the flawfinders something to comb through.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
missed that.
So. The #3 at Obama’s DOJ is a guy named Tony West. He investigated the Michael Brown shooting and we all know what happened there.
He is also Kamala Harris’s brother in law
https://www.frontpagemag.com/kamalas-brother-in-law-set-america-on-fire/
Real computer delayed until tomorrow but good news as cat piss dried this keyboard working better.
The ridicule that the Australian Break Dance contestant from Australia is getting is cruel and nasty. The harsh fact is she was the best Australia had and she earned and deserved a place in the Olympics.
What she did get is an all expenses paid three week vacation in Paris, free flight, food and accommodation.
All she had to do was wriggle on the floor for a few minutes. I call that a big win for her!
Anyway, if anyone has time to watch a good Olympics movie then highly recommend two. in both these movies the competitors came last, and both were in fact deemed to be too dangerous to compete at first.
“Cool Runnings” Jamaican Bobsled team and “Eddie the Eagle” 1988 British Ski Jump competitor.
Both are based on true events and in both movies the competitors became national heroes and inspiration to others.
CNN selectively edited Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s conversation to claim they said that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were not a big problem.
The full context shows they were talking about nuclear energy.
via
@TrumpWarRoom
https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1823422382104830150
I lost interest in electronics and soldering shit and making cool things about 2019. It just stopped being fun.
To build shit and program it do shit you really need to connect prototypes to a real computer. A PC usually. Via USB usually.
LOL that does not come without risks! I used to connect my toys to a PC using a USB hub, never directly. That is because I believe the smoke and flames would not get past the hub. Yeah, I know, when that dang electricity escapes it is going to destroy whatever gets in its way and aim for the most expensive thing it can find and explode it!
Reason for post? Being without a PC since last Thursday caused me to dig around in the piles of stuff I have here and put together a Raspberry Pi system. I have so much electronic toys and parts that I actually feel ashamed…
Anyway Raspberry Pi system up and running, old TV as monitor, 3A USB C charger is power supply, now dried of cat piss wireless keyboard and a sticky corded mouse. I think I should clean mouse with a Clorox wipe maybe.
OS is Debian Linux, browser is Chromium which is indistinguishable from Chrome. I can browse all my usual places, here, X, weather, Gmail, Outlook mail, Youtube etc no problem. And faster than the laptop that had a hard drive failure!
Hard drive on a Raspberry may fail also you all yell! And I just smile….
Yes you can run using a plug in portable hard drive and it makes things faster, or you can use a USB thumb drive but I am happy with using the most basic way of running it.
My “hard drive” is a 32GB micro SD card, about $2 each if you buy a multi pack. “Hard drive” fail, then toss it in trash and use another.
I think new refurbished PC and new new 21 inch monitor and keyboard and mouse may stay inside its box for a while when it gets here. $139 well spent though, it was a bargain.
🙂
@ Possum:
Hardest part in getting this all together was creating a bootable micro SD card. Do not attempt when drunk.
Hey, phone has the ability to insert a micro SD card for extra storage. Easy!
You either poke the poky hole and a drawer slides open or you break both thumb nails and rip the back of your precious phone.
Well after a few scary attempts using my current active phone with a poke a hole drawer and the SIM card fell out and got lost in the dust bunnies I then tethered an old rip off the cover type phone to it.
Using either phone and the Raspberry Pi SD card imaging tool many times was asked ” do you want to format the SD card? ” Yes is the obvious answer, then the tool can wipe the SD card clean and make me what I want.
Always read the small print. The utility was targeting the phone, not the plugged in SD card. Would have wiped phone clean.
Got it in the end though. I is expert now, even though I has two badly broken thumb nails. Where are clippers?
@ Possum:
Oh, and a really important thing. When you get a new phone do not throw your old one away. Unless it is broken. Then throw it.
Even though a disconnected phone seems useless it can still dial 911 which is all you need when walking to the store. And if on the way to the store someone with a gun asks to borrow it, then no big loss.
An old disconnected phone can still access the internet, stream movies and do all it used to do.
Just connect it to your WiFi network.
An old phone is still a useful phone.
My iPhone 7 that is now absolutely fucking useless as none of the apps I use work anymore is still useful.
Except for one app, and I hope Friskies do not upgrade it ( problem with iPhone is app store will not run anymore )
So! My old useless iPhone will spend the rest of its life running the catfishing app and be totally ignored by the cats.
( but I have the high score so far )
One thing I absolutely LOVE about using my little Raspberry is the fact that on the task bar there is the temperature of the CPU. t is in Celsius and when I am calm and composed and just posting here currently temperature of CPU is 48C nice and cool.
Now, when I start shit posting on other sites and get angry and shit post more CPU temp rises to amazing levels!
I lied, CPU temp rises if I watch Youtube videos as the video stream needs decompressing.
Quiet in here. Looks like everyone else CPU temp is below freezing.
An update! Raspberry Pi was intended to bring a very low cost computer available to all school children. Easy to use and making programming and other shit kid friendly.
I wish I had children.
After three days off trying I finally got my Raspberry to taalk to my blueteeth headphones.
Don’t really know why there was a big problem. Do not know who to blame. British designed, built and programmed computer or cheap Chinese headphones.
Anyway finally achieved it. I can now go for a piss while wearing headphones aand I do not have to pause the movie so I do not miss anything.
Life is good here.
Having said that I still cannot microwave anything without sound cutting out. Cheap Chinese microwave does not seem to obay FCC emission standards.
I knows FCC certification shit, and my microwave must have arrived in the USA by swimming acrosss the Rio Grande
Shutting the fuck up and sitting the fuck down now so I do not claim the side bar.
Too easy to do.
Message to Calo.
Get your evil spawn to contact me.
I kind of need help to kill a cat.
I can’t kill a cat alone.I
Possum wrote:
A lot of the ridicule came from the absurdity of making breakdancing an Olympic event.
https://youtu.be/hgsLp4h2Sbc?si=amCP8zw1B3QwPlbd
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I agree.
She got a free vacation to Paris.
I paid to visit Paris several times in the 80s a nice place to vacation to. Spoiler, the picture of Moaning Lisa is very small.
Later I worked in Paris for a few months. Been there, done that….
@ Possum:
First time I worked in France for two weeks company I worked for sent me there in my company car on a ferry.
NICE, I got to drive
my own car.
Switching from a LHD drive car to a RHD drive car is quite easy if it is an automatic. Pedals are the same.
No worry about gear shifting.
Try driving a RH car in a counttry where they havee LH cars.
Fucking nightmmare.
@ Possum:
Clarification.
If you are behind something in front it is impossible to overtake that vehicle without fully moving into the oncoming lane if your steering wheel is on the opposite side to what the country you are in has.
Try it.
The polls in Minnisota closed an hour ago. The only district that has posted zero results is Ilhan Omars.
Here comes the cheat
A new CNN investigation shows that a startup promoted by JD Vance failed as a business. Workers say they were subjected to “nightmare” and intolerable conditions.
Vance gave some $$ to a start up that failed and it’s all his fault
As to dying cat. This afternoon could not find him. Small apartment but he was not anywhere. OK he must have jumped off the second story balcony and gone some where else to die.
Closed balcony window. Counted cats in here. Two, no Boris.
Glad dying cat Boris went somewhere else to die.
Boris, or the ghost of Boris just appeared wanting cat treats. Seriously I do not know where he was sleeping/hiding all day. Turned place upside down trying to find him.
Still need someone to take me to a veterinarian to kill him.
@ eaglesoars:
linky (CNN – big surprise, I know)
https://x.com/AC360/status/1823523966905983341
Possum wrote:
I’ve been there but LHD in the UK.
Dangerous
eaglesoars wrote:
As America awaits Squad member Ilhan Omar’s primary results, there has been a baffling reporting delay.
Numerous other Minnesota primary results have begun trickling in, but Omar’s is lagging behind.
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1823544650109526488
@ coldwarrior:
It may be cool to have a foreign car and drive it in a country where the steering wheel is on the wrong side. But as you said it is dangerous, and not fun at all
@ Possum:
I used to work in UK and Europe.
Fly to Europe, get in a rental car. Sit on left. seat.
The most important thing to think about when switching to LHD and RHD is you as the driver need to be in the middle of the road, not next to the side of the road.
All is fine, you can do it! It is like when you learned to ride a bike.
Until shyit happens, and the 20 years of driving on the other side of the road kicks in.
It’s almost time for the annual Great Cycle Challenge!
Over the last 10 years, people have raised more than $72 million, and ridden almost 34 million miles.
@ Possum:
As in when in Italy and you really need to shift down in a stick shift fiat uno and you smash your left hand against the door.
Driving a car in your own country becomes automatic and pure muscle memory.
@ Possum:
I had real problems coming back from the UK/Ireland after driving there and then back to driving on the right.
Omar was declared the winner in her primary. Shocker
@ Possum:
Strange thing this is. I am severely dominant right handed but when eating with a knife and fork then the left hand with the fork feeds me
My left hand is useless until it is shifting gears, LMAO I havee never driven a gear shift thing in the USA and I do not think my right hand kknows how to do it.
@ coldwarrior:
Mind thing is you sit on the outside/fastt lain of the road.
Left turns are a bugger and need concentration.
I know this subject is boring to many here but it is real wrold life..
@ coldwarrior:
LOL and you want embarrassing stories?
Commuted from England to Italy for six months. Flew out Sunday and returned Friday.
Glad it was before ticktoc and that shit.
Number of times I opened car door in Italy and England and sat in the wrong side is quite embarrassing. But funny and I admit it!
Bed time for me. All three cats are on the bed including the dead one.
Night!
lobo91 wrote:
It’s a miracle! The good news is Royce White won his Senate primary in MN
I was out on the patio and a possum just casually walked by me. About 18 inches away. Just moseying by in its nightly peregrination. I had heard something rustling around in the river rocks we laid down by the fence. Guess it was this little guy
Well we are all in bed and we were going to watch a movie on the phone.
T.
It is fun when all of us picka character to be when we watch a movie togethe
Tonight movie is ice age and I nominated Natasha to be the stupid squirrel.
She then bit me…
Movie night is over.
The UK is under a totalitarian regime; it has fallen to tyranny under PM Keir Starmer.
One former Member of Parliament told me this morning that close to 1000 arrests have been made for sharing online posts in the last week.
The same MP advised me that even a stopover through Heathrow isn’t safe for Americans who have spoken out about immigration issues.
“One key aspect that makes this apparent crackdown on social media particularly shocking to critics is that the British government is threatening to extradite American citizens from the U.S. to be jailed in the U.K. for violating their rules about political speech online.”
– NY Post.
Britain is now under siege.
https://x.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1823484450573050250
UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts: ‘We’ll come after you
https://nypost.com/2024/08/10/media/uk-police-commissioner-threatens-to-extradite-jail-us-citizens-over-online-posts-well-come-after-you/
Possum wrote:
Unless you’re coordinated enough to do it in reverse.
Gavin Newsom claimed CA energy prices are lower than in TX & FL, got fact checked in reader’s comments.
https://x.com/economatrix1/status/1822892309987680264
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You are confusing me with Tom Cruise. He can probably drive backwards in France and have no problems.
I understand how you could have mistaken me for a well known actor. We are both stunningly handsome.
Difference between us is I am not a dwarf.
I want a job at the NTSB. You don’t have to do shit and you can take months or even years to write a report.
March 26th a ship hit a bridge and several people on that bridge were killed. Ship did not sink, explode, get abducted by aliens. The ship is fully intact.
So five months later and STILL no final report as to what happened and what caused it. I has the NTSB docket bookmarked and I check about once a week.
https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/?NTSBNumber=DCA24MM031
Your tax dollars at work….
One hour and ten minutes to go until store that sells kick ass little Peruvian oranges opens.
Will I stay awake and go get some?
Will I drink another coffee mug of Cabernet and end up too drunk to walk?
Aw fuck it. They may still have little oranges tomorrow.
morning y’all
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-discloses-lloyd-austin-ordered-major-military-deployment-conflict-zone
Female police officers. They are needed, often laughed as on videos as they cannot restrain a 300 pound male who is drunk as a skunk and high on fuck knows what.
Female police officers are needed to search female criminals.
What we do need is more women as police helicopter pilots or observers. hey are awesome! In this video the female helicopter person was telling all the men on the ground what was happening or what was about to happen before they knew what was happening.
She was the only one that had her shit together and was cool and calm.
Listen to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJpj1XP-vsE
Possum wrote:
I remember years ago a bank robbery in LA that was carried live on TV. The bad guys had military weaponry and they did not give a shit. The cops arrived in droves and at least one was killed. The camera work was from a helicopter but I don’t recall if it was a police chopper or news. In any event, the police dispatchers – 2 women – were watching from the same camera and they could see what the cops on the ground couldn’t. Like the bad guys opened the trunk of their car and there were like ROCKET LAUNCHERS in there! The bad guys were all in black wearing ski masks. The cops were just trying to find cover, their incoming was so fierce. Finally, the dispatchers realized the problem and started yelling to the cops on the ground. TAKE THE HEAD SHOT!! TAKE THE HEAD SHOT!! THEY’VE GOT BODY ARMOUR TAKE THE HEAD SHOT!! That did the trick. IIRC the bad guys were from some shithole country from the former USSR and this particular bank wasn’t their first rodeo. It was, however, their last.
@ rain of lead:
Of course, the only reason they made that announcement in the first place was to scare the bad guys. We pretty much never talk about the deployment of our submarines.
Sending USS Georgia over there is a significant move, though. She’s one of the four early Ohio class SSBNs that were converted to SSGNs. Instead of Trident SLBMs, she now carries 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, giving her firepower equivalent to an entire surface battle group.
In addition to being a missile truck, Georgia also has the capability of supporting 66 SEALs.
Basically, a whole lot of FAFO.
lobo91 wrote:
!!!!!
I very often order our groceries online and then go pick them up. Today’s bill was almost $100. 9 items. No meat. Paper towels are a killer but still
Anyhoo, when we first moved in, the first thing I got was a freezer for the garage. And there is a TON of storage in the garage. So I loaded up with SHTF food.
Now is when we start using it.
@ eaglesoars:
The launchers in those SSGN boats are pretty cool. In their original configuration, they had 24 launch tubes, each holding one Trident nuclear missile. After the conversion, they installed a rotary launcher into each of 22 tubes. Each launcher holds 7 Tomahawks, sort of like a big revolver. The missiles can be launched one after the other, with each launcher operating independently. Basically, it can fire 154 missiles in a matter of a couple of minutes.
The last two launch tubes were converted into lockout chambers for deploying SEALs while submerged.
Possum wrote:
i’ve done that!
@ eaglesoars:
cheap energy destroys inflation every time
lobo91 wrote:
VERY COOL!!
Wanna read something hilarious?
Musk’s X Reeks of Failing Social Network Syndrome
The former Twitter is losing users, advertisers and relevance. This presidential election will be the platform’s last.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-14/musk-s-x-reeks-of-failing-social-network-syndrome?srnd=homepage-americas
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, because Musk openly and publicly endorsing Trump is exactly the same as when Dorsey used to secretly delete or ban conservative commentary, right?
@ eaglesoars:
Oh well.
@ eaglesoars:
I love it when journalists (the only academic discipline lower than a degree in education) predict that a very successful and brilliant person is going to fail.
if you, journo, are so smart, go make a few billion, THEN I MIGHT listen to your opinion.
@ coldwarrior:
talk to me about smokers. thinking about getting us one for Christmas. Know NOTHING about them.
saw a Tesla for the first time today. You should SEE the tires on that thing. THIS WIDE!! That car must weigh 8 thousand pounds
@ eaglesoars:
If you want simple, get a pellet grill/smoker.
@ eaglesoars:
Are you talking about the Tesla Cybertruck, or one of their cars?
Kamala Harris shamed by Jamaican father over pot-smoking joke
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/20/kamala-harris-father-pot-1176805
“My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics,” he wrote.
“Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” he added.
lobo91 wrote:
car
My pellet grill is similar to this one. It’s been great. Unless you’re planning to cook for a bunch of people, the 24″ size is probably all you need.
@ lobo91:
If you want more flexibility, add one of these. It bolts onto the side in place of the shelf.
eaglesoars wrote:
lobo91 wrote:
lobo is 100% correct!
pellet smokers are the easiest. i have a pretty big smoker because there are 5 of us and we entertain as well. so often i am cooking for 10.
my parents have this one and they love it because they can do a whole ham in it or a brisket. it’s pretty versatile with the vertical shelves and yinz can hang your home made sausages from the top rack
@ coldwarrior:
I just used mine this morning to smoke a small chuck roast. Later, I’m using the propane burner for burgers
i still have my large side smoker that runs on charcoal and wood chunks or chips. that style will teach you how to manually maintain temperature and get ZERO sleep overnight whilst cooking a brisket for 16 hours!
i still use it once in a while. it converts to a nice big charcoal grill too. i’m working on making into a pizza oven.
@ coldwarrior:
I prefer filling the hopper with pellets, turning a dial and going back to bed
@ lobo91:
doing either a brisket or some ribs friday…the girls probably want ribs, which is OK by me.
I bought a commercial grade IR propane grill for the burgers and stuff, gotta have space as the girls are growing rapidly and have ravenous appetites!
lobo91 wrote:
AMEN!!!!
i’d start at 2100 or so the night before to have the brisket done by 1500 the next day and get almost no sleep. i have an alarm 4 probe thermometer that has a portable readout. i’d set that up to the range i wanted and tried to get some sleep…yeah…ummmhmmmm.
@ coldwarrior:
I really like the Camp Chef side burner. It comes with a flat griddle, but you an swap it for any of their 14″ stove accessories. I use the grill box most. I also have the pizza oven.
The best part is that the same accessories fit on my 2 burner freestanding stove, so I can take it with me when I go on trips with the RV. I converted it to plug into the RV propane system, so I don’t have to carry separate propane tanks for it.
@ lobo91:
i did buy a couple of these to get more smoke. light them with a blow torch.
@ lobo91:
smart design.
@ coldwarrior:
The Camp Chef controller is Bluetooth and Wi-fi enabled, so it sends a message to my phone.
@ coldwarrior:
I use those for cold smoking
lobo91 wrote:
and that is what allows me to get some sleep on those overnight sessions!
lobo91 wrote:
they are brilliant. we use those to smoke the sausages that we make. then vacuum seal and freeze for later…we’ll be hitting that next month.
@ coldwarrior:
@ lobo91:
So there is propane involved? Then hubby won’t want it. When we finished the patio I thought he’d want a grill but he wants NOTHING to do with propane/fire.
@ eaglesoars:
There is no propane with a pellet smoker UNLESS there is a side burner, that is what uses propane.
Pellets are ignited by an electric heat source which then shuts off after the pellets are lit. They are burned in a surprisingly small metal box.
@ coldwarrior:
EXCELLENT!!!
whoa. look at this
Japanese ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi has just broken the world record for the longest ski jump in the world.
291 meters
@ eaglesoars:
You do need electricity, though. You fill up a hopper on one side with pellets, and there’s an electric motor that slowly feeds them into the combustion chamber. It’s all automated. You set the desired temperature just like you would on an oven (which is basically what it is, anyway) and it does the rest. You just have to make sure it doesn’t run out of pellets. Not usually an issue, though. Mine will run for probably 16 hours on a full hopper, and it has a glass window where you can see the pellet level.
Possum wrote:
Yup.
The scene sergeant was the only adult on the ground, and the female Chopper pilot had her shit together and was lucid and communicated perfectly. Most of the cops started off calm and logical but as the police numbers grew as additional Police Units joined in most of the cops went feral. They were so hyped that they were a danger to each other. The cops in blue appeared poorly trained, the Sheriffs’ deputies were more logical and were using their brains. How half of the local cops in blue didn’t shoot each other is anyone’s guess. The officer Fraser was totally out of control and should forever more drive a desk somewhere. He was totally out of control , didn’t use cover at all and almost shot a bunch of his fellow cops who were operating on the other side of the felon’s vehicle. The scene sergeant got command and control finally. The rest of the cops in blue were afraid, weren’t thinking, and were dangers to each other.
The female chopper pilot remained professional and logical as did the scene sergeant. The rest of the cops in blue were amateur hour untrained law enforcement and didn’t know much at all about urban policing.
I’m from a Police family. My dad was a Crown Sergeant and my son is a detective 80% through his Detective Sergeants exams. When operating into LAX our crews got to know the LA Torrance Police and they used to take flight deck crew as ‘ride alongs’ on occasion. Torrance cops had their shit together as did the local Sheriffs’ Deputies. Other local cops surrounding LAX and Torrance were amateurs with guns mostly. Most were terribly untrained and were scared shitless a lot of the time and prone to using excess force as their first position. LA based California State Police were better trained from the little I ever saw of them. The Chopper crews were almost to a crew were the best of the best. Most sergeants knew their shit but the average local cop was dangerous to themselves and anyone around them.
eaglesoars wrote:
Rather than Propane that is heavier than air and as such is prone to gathering near the ground. Try using piped gas with an external feed from the permanent gas lines. This is lighter than air and vents to air and disperses automatically. Much safer!
🙂
We’ve used a plumbed in Bar-B-Que on a large open air deck and it has worked perfectly for a decade. All you need to convert a normal Propane burner to use commercial (lighter than air piped gas) is change the burner sizes to use the lighter gas. All Bar-B- Que stores sell larger bore burners for not very much at all.
That’ll keep your hubby happy and safe.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Propane bottled gas on boats scare the shit out of me! They can leak and the gas end up on the keel spaces under deck. A bomb waiting for a spark to burn the hull to the waterline!
lobo91 wrote:
yeah, I’v been googling. We do have an outlet on the patio but it’s in the wrong place and I have other plans for it.
So. No smoker it looks like.
1st world problems
Stasi Starmer strikes again
UK Set to Adopt ‘Blasphemy Law’ to Protect Muslims
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/08/uk-set-to-adopt-blasphemy-law-to-protect-muslims#comments
I need a nap. later
@ eaglesoars:
You can always use an extension cord and unplug it when not in use. It doesn’t have to be plugged in all the time.
Kamala Harris has repeatedly described Dana Walden as her “best friend” who introduced Kamala to her husband Doug Emhoff.
“In many ways Dana and Matt are responsible for my marriage.”
“My best friend [Dana Walden] who is like a sister to me, called me up and she’s like ‘I need you go to out with this guy’. She’s very bossy, as best friends should be.”
Dana Walden is a Senior Disney executive whose duties happen to include hosting the upcoming presidential debate between Trump and Harris on ABC.
Democrats have to stack the deck because their entire astroturf operation is built on a House of Cards.
https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1823821382184264125
I wheel mine in and out of the garage and just use an extension cord. The amp draw is tiny
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
Jobs going begging.
You have to provide your own shovel
:)https://x.com/francis_scarr/status/1823664380031955233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1823664380031955233%7Ctwgr%5E8eaec03506d79555aa78f29346b3847a36e6511e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twz.com%2Fnews-features%2Frussia-building-trenches-in-kursk-to-defend-against-ukrainian-advances
Now all we need is 500,000 12 week … ‘ahem’ ……. ‘volunteers’ 3 months choke … training. and 500,000 shovels and 500,000 bayonets and a clone of General Haig of WWI notoriety and we can get down to some serious bleeding!
🙂
Possum wrote:
I don’t think this counts as cruel and nasty.
https://x.com/i/status/1823861852524499147
lobo91 wrote:
maybe. I’ll think about it. It’s definitely not an appliance I would leave unattended just in case God is having a bad day and taking it out on me.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/14/starmer-will-let-the-blob-take-over-britain/
Starmer looks to allow ‘The Blob’ (AKA QANGOS) to take over the UK
🙂
Why am I not surprised?
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Hey I have a great idea.
Death by a thousand cuts!
Now that’s real progress!
🙂
Google Blames ‘Glitch’ For How Harris Campaign Was Able to Run Paid Ads with Fake Headlines to Deceive Voters
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/google-blames-glitch-how-harris-campaign-was-able/
eaglesoars wrote:
Easily safer than charcoal
@ Aussie Infidel:
We were going to go to Bath next year for a Rugby match at the Rec.
Reconsidering, yugely.
R knee, Grade 1 MCL tear, torn anterior meniscus head.
I slipped on a piece of plastic at work. This shit hurts.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’m connecting some dots. Let’s put this Stasi Starmer issue aside for a moment.
I saw a tweet (on my phone so i’ll NEVER find it on my laptop) that said gangs from Venezuela are taking over Colorado and because they are a sanctuary state law enforcement is helpless.
It occurred to me then that this is not just about getting these people registered to vote. The people coming across our border are a ready-made mercenary army.
And it looks like that may be what Stasi Starmer is doing. He’s anti-monarchist down to the bone. And the UK gave up their guns.
If Trump wins and tries to start deporting these people, there will be blood in the streets. They won’t go quietly and they will kill.
Lock and load.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh no!
Chaos Erupts as Pro-Palestine Protesters Storm Democratic After Party Event, Throw Smoke Bombs During Kamala Harris Campaign
Currently, numerous pro-Palestine protesters have stormed a Democratic after-party event in Harlem, Manhattan, following Kamala Harris’s campaign. The protesters began setting off smoke bombs and causing chaos at the restaurant hosting the event. The New York Police Department has made several arrests, and clashes between protesters and law enforcement are ongoing. The situation remains tense as authorities work to restore order and clear the area. Video by
@ScooterCasterNY
https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1823898952204431513?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m out for Steelers training camp. ;(
Estee Palti, the Kamala impersonator of X, drops the mask for a bit.
https://x.com/mommyrn88/status/1823747910137471370
Well, I predicted she’d use price controls. This is just as bad
Kamala Harris to Call For ‘Price Gouging’ Ban on Food and Groceries
Harris plans to direct the Federal Trade Commission and other agencies to investigate and penalize “big corporations” that violate the rules, and to find other ways of tackling price fixing and other anti-competitive practices in the food and grocery industries, her campaign said late Wednesday night.
Yep, raising the cost of doing business will definitely bring down prices
linky
https://time.com/7011214/kamala-harris-campaign-federal-ban-price-gouging-food-groceries-inflation/
@ lobo91:
I like my Pit Boss grill. I got a smoker tube, too so I can smoke cheese and spices.
American Business owner is selling her food truck. Illegal immigrant shows up with paperwork that he is getting funding to purchase her truck with NO MONEY in the bank and NO CREDIT
She speaks with the bank and is told it’s COMMON, Illegal migrants are being given funding to purchase things like this
Why do American citizen need so much income and credit scores to the the same funding??
“I purchased my first food truck. It cost me over $25,000. I paid it cash money. I worked hard to pay for this truck.
I’m now selling it, because I’m just gonna I’m doing other things, but I’m selling it. I had a guy come to look at purchasing my vehicle or my food truck.
And he explained to me he’s an illegal immigrant. He has no credit. He has no money in the bank. But he showed me his paperwork that he will receive funds to purchase my food truck.
I’m thankful that he’s buying it, but I’m hurt that I worked so hard to pay cash for my food truck.
I have good credit. Can’t even get a business loan because of color of my skin.
I have veterans in my family. I’m a veteran. I’ve been self employed for so long. But somebody please tell me. How do I work so hard to have somebody who comes to this country not long, no credit.
And he shows me paperwork where they’ll be funding him money to buy my food truck. And when I talked to the bank, they told me, usually they have to go straight to a dealership because, no, I’m a I’m a private sale. But for special circumstances, they’re gonna you know, they allow it.
But I need my president to tell me why I worked so hard all these years, all these decades. Couldn’t get a business loan, but I bust my ass to get the money to create my business. And we got immigrants coming here, and they’re getting money. Money. We’re doing nothing but just being here. It’s not right, and I want answers.”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1824068842622275668
video at the link
right_wing2 wrote:
this?
right_wing2 wrote:
Yeah, pit boss makes nice smokers. That’s what I have. It’s excellent
coldwarrior wrote:
Bath should be just fine. Bristol down the road from Bath …. not so much
🙂
Go to Cheddar Gorge and visit Cheddar Man a 7,000 year old Britain. Somerset is quite beautiful as well. Stay clear of the dodgy bits of London however. The tourist bits are OK however. Google the Shakespeare Society’s theatre down near Land’s End in the deep SW corner of Britain. The open air theatre hangs off the cliffs above the sea. Check the weather and visit on a dark and stormy evening for the most atmospheric rendition of ‘The Tempest’ you will EVER witness. 🙂
lobo91 wrote:
Apparently NOT so!
🙂
The USSS is broken and will take a minimum of TWO years to repair, such is the damage to Standards and the need for retraining and re-staffing. In the meantime Trump needs to field his OWN security teams lest the USSS allows another Trump’s assassination attempt Mk. 2.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
A major house of hurt for the Argies playing the All Blacks tonight at Eden Park. Rain forecast so several Argies will probably drown at the bottom of a Ruck tonight! 🙂
The ABs went crazy during the final 20 minutes at the Wellington ‘Cake-tin’ last week, and threw the game away with crazy impossible passing stuff that didn’t come off. Apparently the ABs are looking for blood tonight against the Argies, but the ABs just went crazy last week throwing the ball all over the place in the final 20 minutes. Alas for the Argies they will suffer a room of pain tonight at Eden Park.
🙂
Weathering an AB storm after a silly loss last week will be hard on the Argies tonight. They did OK last week and deserved the win but will suffer a beating tonight by the ABs with blood in their eyes tonight.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Ouch mate. I know from personal experience that hurts!!! 🙁
Walked through light baffles, from a large brilliantly lit underground Command Centre, into the original ‘Dark and Stormy Night’ on the side of a hill in a beech forrest. Some idiot had dug his ‘slitty’ just outside the HQ entrance. It was akin to ‘the inside of a cow’ and I walked straight into the slit trench. Fell forward but my right leg remained at ground level. Totally ‘munted’ my knee. Crawled into my Stage 3 slitty and lived with my knee for another 50 hours after which I walked out of the bush with all my kit for 15 hours. STUPID!
Put up with my knee for FIFTEEN years until I finally got it cleaned out by a surgeon who told me I was an idiot!
🙂
He was right!
Talking of knee joints, and joints in general. It has been a few weeks since I took any multi-vitamins and minerals and ZERO joint pain anywhere.
I think this is about the third or fourth time I have done this clinical study using my own body.
Due to the lack of vitamins and minerals in my diet of Busch Light, lettuce and Peruvian oranges my teeth are becoming loose, my skin is all dry and flaky and peeling off, my hair is falling out and I can no longer see in the dark.
I really must attempt to find out what is in those things that is triggering joint pain. Could even be something as stupid as the fillers they use!
Difficult choice, have my body fall apart and be able to walk 50 miles or have a perfect and healthy body but in so much pain I cannot walk to the bathroom without taking an Ibuprofen.
PS, new phone that UPS lost on 2nd August showed up yesterday out of the blue. So much for next day air.
New windows computer and monitor arrived Tuesday. Still in its box. I love my Raspberry.
A cooking post for all those single and lonely people out there that are sick and tired of cooking meals using regular recipes, you know the ones.
Feeds six, that means you are eating the same shit for a week.
Pasta is a good example, bring 2 quarts of water to a boil, add salt, pour in a 16oz packet of spirally pasta things and simmer for 8 minutes, or until cooked.
Nah, none of that here. 56g which is 2oz of pasta is placed into a microwave bowl. ( a 200 calorie portion ) then cheap Walmart chicken stock is added. Enough to cover the pasta and a splash or two more.
Microwave on high, my microwave is a tiny 700W one, for four minutes then forget about it for an hour.
Drain the now cold but very tasty pasta, sprinkle it with the cheap Walmart powdered Parmesan dust stuff. Mix well then splosh in 62g of Walmart Alfredo sauce. Stir again, cover bowl with saran wrap and forget about it until hungry.
Best one portion with no leftover pasta ever!
Best way to eat it is then get two slices of fresh bread, an toast the bread. While toast is toasting warm up a can of baked beans. DO NOT LET BEANS BOIL!
When toast is done, butter it with a very thick layer of real butter. Hint, let the toast cool slightly as if it is too hot butter melts and turns toast soggy. Pour on the baked beans, top with shredded cheddar and enjoy.
So what happens to the pasta? Pasta is gay. That gets fed to Mr Toilet.
@ Possum:
We use the EveryPlate kits about once a month, but we make the recipes quite a bit. Our favorite is probably the sweet chili chicken.
@ Aussie Infidel:
NZ better get their shit together. The ‘bocks are looking as good as any team that i have ever seen
@ Aussie Infidel:
the MRI says minimal degenerative disease, that’s pretty good given all of the physical stuff I’ve done over the years, therefore, I will insist on surgical fix if that is warranted. i’m not going to have an arthritic knee.
3 St Louis style racks of ribs just went on the smoker. me and my knee are gonna do some SERIOUS goofing off this weekend.
Possum wrote:
If Lucy stops by, ask her to take a picture of your Flintstone Rasberry set up and post it on her MySpace, or fax it to me. I’m curious.
Deutsche Welle is German gov’t mouthpiece. They’re going after Elon
X owner Elon Musk should be held accountable for his provocative tweets regarding the recent far-right riots in the UK, according to a former top Twitter executive. Disinformation experts explain what needs to be done:
https://x.com/dwnews/status/1824165167795466615
@ eaglesoars:
“Disinformation experts,” indeed
Had another routine CT scan on Monday and everything is peachy. Some bone loss due to calcium deficiency, a side effect of the chemo cocktail, and I’m on supplements.
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Sister is doing fine in the convalescent home, and will be transferred to her own apartment in the assisted living wing in a few weeks. It’s an efficiency apartment that costs her nothing; she qualifies for a lot of assistance programs.
She’s in good spirits, much better than a few months ago. The problem is that she sounds lucid and coherent, but she tells stories. She says she’s able to do things that contradict what the staff and others tell us. Sis thinks she’s capable of living on her own as before – she’s not. Besides personal hygiene, she is barely ambulatory with the equivalent of a club foot and she’s got eclampsia in her right hand.
Our concern is that she hasn’t been declared mentally incompetent. She’s already fantasizing about leaving the assisted living home (too many old people) and she has the right to do so. One day the reality of her situation/condition is going to hit her. Or not.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
How old is she now?
Just discovered that Messenger has enabled something called “end-to-end encrypted” that locks up FB chats unless you have a “key”. No way to find the “key”, use it or disable the fucktion. Dickheads.
eaglesoars wrote:
66. I don’t think she’s lying intentionally, I think she’s delusional. If you spoke to her you wouldn’t notice anything odd until she tells you she can shower and use the toilet by herself and later you find out she hasn’t bathed in a week and the couch is soaked with urine.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
sad.
@ eaglesoars:
She’s in a good facility, can stay there indefinitely, has no responsibilities (bills, shopping, etc.) There is medical staff, transportation, physical therapy as well as a “tavern” and other areas where she can hang out if she gets tired of her small dwelling. I don’t know the details, but I think her long-time friend owes her a chunk of money, so if she wants to upgrade to a larger apartment, he can pay for it. That’s all speculation on my part.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
that sounds ideal!
@ lobo91:
‘Disinformation’=disagreeing with the left.
@ right_wing2:
our middle daughter (the genius) just finished ‘1984’…she is slack-jawed.
ribs are almost done, another hour or so…and the great pomme frites experiment begins shortly!
this is gonna be a riot!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/16/chicago-businesses-boarding-up-ahead-democratic-national-convention-fear-mass-riots/
both figuratively and literally
eaglesoars wrote:
Especially the Tavern. We spoke with “Britney” the woman in charge of the social workers and I told her that Sis doesn’t need wine (it got her to where she is, but that’ another story). Britney said residents can order whatever they want at the Tavern, and if they have mental impairment, the bartenders serve doctored grape juice in a wine glass.
coldwarrior wrote:
Now give her a copy of Brave New World.
coldwarrior wrote:
lol city
The missus said that Gov Abbott is going to bus illegals in.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
There was a facility in the UK that had a problem with impaired residents wandering off occasionally. They solved the problem by constructing a fake bus stop near the facility entrance, with a bench, roof, lights and signs. If someone went missing they’d usually find them sitting quietly, and they’d tell them “Hello Mr. ZZZ! The lorry’s running late today due to the fog. Care to come back for a spot ‘o tea while you wait?” It worked.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
bloody brilliant
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
yeah….that’s next.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
20 years ago, I spent 6 weeks in chicago M-F for corporate boy stuff and would catch the earlier flight from o’hare to pgh ONLY because the ground staff was top notch and could get my stuff to gate in nothing flat…with a $20 tip!.
I loved those weeks there, what a great city. I had a BALL!
now, I ain’t going near the joint.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
brilliant!
there is this nonsense that the patient has to be re-oriented…screw that. go with it! works every time and they don’t get pissed off.
coldwarrior wrote:
I ahve multiple hard copies of both…just in case. thx to buzz for advising hardcopies of ‘non-approved books’
antisemitism, authoritarianism, propaganda, economic control, and lock step adherence to ideology…..
the democrats…and the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
fascinating, innit?
hey y’all
well, the girl is off back to school
rain of lead wrote:
hey yinz!
mine go back after next week, thank GOD!
new school district too…
is your oldest doing the car thing yet
the girl has spent the summer learning how auto insurance works
start them off with something really cheap so when they break it, it won’t hurt as bad
@ rain of lead:
@ rain of lead:
next year. she’ll start on the venerable Subaru outback…it’ll be ready for the ‘teen’ drivers. its already beat to shit because Mrs coldwarrior has to park in the most ridiculous garage in the world. the spaces are .25 inches wide.
@ rain of lead:
@ coldwarrior:
if not, my mechanic will have a beater ready if needed.
they WONT get the Benz. PERIOD.
ummmmhmmmmm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/breaking-jd-vances-plane-makes-emergency-landing-milwaukee/
Speaking of brilliance, I received a check from USAA today, described as “a refund of any applicable fees and finance charges to compensate you for the lost use of funds” on a MasterCard account that I closed down years ago.
$2.52
yet ALL of the Jewish peeps in Squirell Hill will reliably pull that lever for the Dems…again.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-harris-delegate-quietly-pushing-a-bds-resolution-that-would-cripple-pittsburghs-jewish-orgs-and-punish-local-hospitals/
coldwarrior wrote:
Let me know when she’s ready for Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. It’s really turgid (her first language was German) but worth it. And so is Mein Kampf. Another is Red Horizons by Ion Pacepa. He was head of security for Ceausecu. He was the highest military defector ever from the Soviet Union. He died in the early days of Covid. I had the greatest honor to talk to him a bit online. Anyhoo, it turned out he was a closet Christian and he got his daughter out too. The stories he told in the book about Arafat are hilarious. Total degenerate.
@ eaglesoars:
arendt can wait a few years…:lol:
the kid is only in 7th grade.
@ coldwarrior:
Sounds like the city parking garage across from the event center in Winter Park, CO (the venue for Blues From the Top). It’s great if you drive a Prius or something. Not so much for the people who actually inhabit the area, who tend to drive 4WD pickups and full size SUVs, given that it’s the Western Slope of Colorado.
This was posted yesterday MORNING
GPS—Over 30,000 international antifa have already arrived in the Chicago area, with approximately 500-850 more arriving each day.
https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1824086864288182477
The DNC convention is going to be LIT. Probably literally
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I will get her to do it tomorrow in daylight, if I can get her fat ass out of bed.
The lighting in the bedroom is very dim and romantic. LOL
eaglesoars wrote:
good.
1968 all over again
@ lobo91:
😆
I know 4 docs that were at her hospital who quit their system…
that parking lot was the LAST straw for them. nothing like a dented, scuffed, and scratched porsche!
Only 5-4. We’re in serious trouble.
https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1824575671550742771/photo/1
@ coldwarrior:
I don’t blame them
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
one of the best skin cancer docs on the planet walked out after cement water leaked all over his BRAND NEW g-wagon and wrecked the hood and roof paint. the hospital said…’not our problem’…he said, eff yinz and walked with over 300 patients to my system, he gets to park in the luxo box hospital in the toni north hills now.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
is this crap going to go on until some chicks are killed by men playing women’s sport?
yet all of the femisitas will pull that d-lever! the level of cognitive dissonance on the left and the entire dem party is fascinating to watch.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Nothing was “struck down” by that. It was a petition from the federal government to stay a lower court ruling on it.
Don’t get legal advice from swimmers…
coldwarrior wrote:
I was in 7th grade, and our Social Studies class had a faux presidential election. The top students were assigned to represent Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace and present their platforms. I got Tom Hayden. Didn’t take me long to realize that he was a complete idiot.
@ lobo91:
Thanks for the correction. My brain is misfiring today for some reason.
lobo91 wrote:
you should see the marks all over her car. it was perfect when we bought it. if we traded it in these would lower the price by thousands, hence, it get handed over to the teen next year.
@ coldwarrior:
The Democrats haven’t been an actual political party in decades. They have no core beliefs or principles. It’s just a collection of different grievance groups cobbled together every election in the hope of getting 50.1%. The rest of the time, the members of their coalition actively fight each other.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That case (actually, there are two of them, out of different Circuits) hasn’t even been heard on appeal yet. It’s nowhere near going to SCOTUS. That was a Hail Mary play by the government (which apparently almost worked).
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
you sound like me! Reagan v Carter…it was obvious to this 12 y.o. who would be the better president. clear as day.
😆 I started buying national review (back when it was good) much to the chagrin of papap coldwarrior…union / kennedy dem etc….
now I have to reign in him and g’ma coldwarrior sometimes! (the clintons drove both of them out of the dem party)
lobo91 wrote:
queers for Palestine… :lol;
yinz get tossed from the rofftops in islamic counties! <-that one is my favorite
@ coldwarrior:
I got my truck back from the body shop about 10 days ago. It took 3 weeks and cost $6300 (plus another $1200 for a rental car) to have damage from a parking lot hit repaired.
The best part is that while it was in the shop, they put another dent in it. Someone apparently hit the rear passenger side door with a rolling tool box or something. Now I have to take it back next week for them to fix that.
@ lobo91:
that sounds like a Ford (aluminum)….ammiright?
I like that idea, but jeeze, body panels cost…but NO RUST….
pay now or pay later
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ lobo91:
Did yinz know Justice Brown Jackson is related by marriage to Paul Ryan?
The judge’s husband is Patrick G. Jackson, the twin brother of Ryan’s brother-in-law William Jackson.
William Jackson’s wife, Dana, is the sister of Ryan’s wife, Janna.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2022/02/25/paul-ryan-related-marriage-biden-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson/6931910001/
lobo91 wrote:
at this point, I have to disagree.
they sure do have core beliefs (regardless of cognitive dissonance). they are willing communists, the sane peeps in their party are driven out.
eaglesoars wrote:
eventually, all of the politicos in DC will be inbred like the Hapsburgs.
…nice chin….pinhead.
@ coldwarrior:
The politicians, the consultants and the media class, yes. The average Democrat voter, not so much. They have no understanding of politics or ideology. They just want whatever one or two issues they care about.
@ coldwarrior:
Yup. The entire body is aluminum. The only steel is the frame and the bumpers. The engine is all aluminum, too, since it’s the Coyote 5.0 V-8.
They had to replace the entire passenger side rear quarter panel (the entire outside of the cargo box), because it cracked or tore in two places.
lobo91 wrote:
true. yep.
abortion is gonna be a thorn in the gop. it was the right decision, send it back to the states, constitutional. yet, the average purple hair psycho is incapable of thinking logically,
I still want to see what is going to happen when a few chicks get killed by men in sports.
we had a (I’m sure dyke) play on our rugby team in Berlin for a minute. it lasted one half, the king’s own Scottish borderers put an end to it quickly. we tried to tell it that it was going to get killed. it ended up in the hospital. men dont belong in women’s sport, women don’t belong in women’s sport.
@ coldwarrior:
I have a story about expensive cars, parking lots and money.
Many years ago I used to do sales support for a large European computer company. Back in the day when Digital Equipment Corporation ruled the Mini-computer market.
Was on a sales visit to a government contractor, pitching the sale of a 4MB upgrade to a VAX 8650. You heard that right, 4MB. The cost I seem to recall was about 20000-25000 pounds. Anyway we got the sale!!!!!!
Why? we were cheaper than our competitor who had visited an hour before us. But not by much we later found out.
What really clinched the deal and the procurement manager told us before we even mentioned the cost was the fact that out of his office
window he could see the visitor’s parking lot.
The competition rolled up in a Porsche, we arrived in a trusty Ford Cortina, estate. He said ” they are paying their sales people too much, they are obviously ripping people off! ”
Anyway, point is that if I walked out of a hospital after being charged $50,000 for hemorrhoid removal and I walked past a row of Porches in the doctor spaces I would be tempted to ding a few of them!
Flashing your wealth is not always a good strategy….
lobo91 wrote:
I like the aluminum idea ESPECIALLY here in PA where salt on the road is king in the winter. I’ve had perfectly functional cars go to the yard because of rot.
Possum wrote:
smart!
@ coldwarrior:
Rust isn’t really an issue in the southwest. The main benefit of aluminum is weight. It’s 750 pounds lighter than the previous generation. And the engine puts out about 100 more horsepower than the previous version. Performance-wise, it’s great.
Possum wrote:
allow me to let you in on something.
these docs work their asses off, often over 13 hours a day, often 5 days a week including weekends. sometimes their only relaxation is a nice drive home.
the cardiologist who saved Mrs coldwarrior’s life drives an S-class. why, he’s that good and we know him personally. he says his 40 minute drive home is the only relaxation he gets until his ONE true day off a week.
I’ll not begrudge someone who has worked hard to be the best they can be a nice car. that said, I have a nice ride because I am often 3 or 4 hours on the road to get to and from assignments. a Yugo would be brutal. the doc who I work with a lot put 30k on last year driving to different assignments. I put on 32k.
lobo91 wrote:
the rust in the NE is insane, there is almost no way to stop it. salt in water is a mighty corrosive, like driving IN the ocean. cars are infinitely better now than they were tho. I had a great 5.0 fox body with some trix, went to the yard from rust with 140k on it. my old Benz diesel wagon with 300k miles on it dies of two things, only 3rd gear left and rust
the funny thing is now we have a massive garage that could hold 4 cars.
could…
I turned 3 stalls into my area, tv, stereo, full bar, fridges, etc.
Mrs coldwarrior is not pleased. usually, I bend to her requests, except this time.
‘i need space to get the hell away from all of you women!’
it’s a quite nice bar and she enjoys watching rugby there.
the miata is parked in stall 4. 😉
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
OK just tried. Video ended up being too big for X.
Will try again tomorrow.
I was quite proud of today’s effort. I got the Sean Bean accent down perfectly.
LOL
@ coldwarrior:
Actually my point still stands. No matter how hard you worked for your wealth, or even if you got rich scamming others it is never a good idea to flaunt that wealth in an area where people casually passing by can see it. Person $50,000 in debt seeing a doctor’s porche.
Akin to someone wearing a $100,000 Rolex on the NY subway.
( as an aside anyone wearing a FAKE Rolex actually deserves what they have coming to them. Candidates for a Darwin award. stupidity. )
Possum wrote:
death wish
Possum wrote:
I can see yinz’s point.
flaunt? perhaps, yet if that is that docs few moments of calm, fine by me. that person you reference with 50k in debt…that doc is 250k in debt.
@ coldwarrior:
LOL OK a compromise.
Put the doctors parking lot out the back where the patients don’t have to walk through it.
Problem solved!
Possum wrote:
and a word on fake watches, if I may…I have a HORRIBLE watch addiction. I wont mention how many…it’s bad. I have an omega, a breitling, and an original Seiko captain williard and xx others…
yeah, I have a problem, BUT!!!! I haven’t bought a watch in 2 years, so that’s good!
a fake watch is the most horrible thing in the world, first…you lied to yourself. second, you are lying to the rest of the world. third, you are setting yourself up for violence in the democrat controlled cities.
I wear my omega sometimes to church, never to work or anywhere near the city.
the breitling only goes to the CC or Funtime date n the ‘burbs.
the rest, I’ll wear into urban joints because they aren’t with dying over and the thuggos have no idea what I got on.
Possum wrote:
prolly best.
@ coldwarrior:
I stopped wearing a watch of any kind in the late 70s because of the job I did. Also later in life only wore a wedding ring heavily taped up when on the job. ( low voltage stuff, but hundreds of amps. )
Once I stopped wearing a watch I kind of instinctively knew what time it was to within a few minutes. Probably unconscious clues as in wall clocks, radio news times etc that kept me synced.
@ Possum:
Really laughing to myself.
UM now I have to look at my phone to see what DAY it is!
Example, today is Friday, that came as a surprise. I was sure it was Thursday. Being retired is not easy….
Sunday is special. I always know when it is Sunday.
In Texas you can buy beer after 7am. Monday to Saturday.
Sunday beer can only be bought after 10am, by then it is 95F and too hot to walk to the store, so, make sure you buy enough beer on Saturday at 7am to last until Monday.
If you live in Texas.
@ Possum:
If I don’t wear one, i can get within 15 minutes of the time by sense.
and then I go on night shift…. lol
game over.
Possum wrote:
do THAT all the time and i’m not retired….shift worker,
Kamala has a plan to lower drug costs
WE WILL SNATCH THEIR PATENTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kRiYilN9kw
How a Democratic president could reduce drug prices without Congress
Two obscure laws provide an opening for a Democratic president to slash drug prices.
On Friday night, Sen. Kamala Harris made a campaign trail promise that grabbed some attention: If drug companies refuse to lower their prices, “I will snatch their patent so we can take over.”
According to the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel, somebody in attendance asked the obvious question: Can you do that? “Yes, we can do that,” Harris replied. “We just need the will to do that.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/25/20982374/2020-democratic-presidential-candidates-prescription-drug-prices
eaglesoars wrote:
socialized medicine is coming.
be prepared for the govt to control EVERYTHING you do
I see the WHO is declaring Monkeypox a global threat and encouraging all countries impose lockdowns.
This may be the ‘October surprise’ to impact the American elections
coldwarrior wrote:
Bring. It.
@ coldwarrior:
That night and day shift shit is sometimes dangerous.
Once I did a 8am to 11am next day. Drove home, went to bed. No more work until next day!
Woke up and saw alarm said 7:00 but it did not go off and thought that was a nice long sleep.
Got showered, dressed, jumped in the car and off to work I went.
On the way noticed the traffic was unusually light but there seemed to be a lot of traffic coming the other way. Strange, also it seemed to be getting darker as if there was a storm on the way.
Yeah, you guessed, wrong 7:00.
My advice to anyone who needs this not to happen to you is set clocks to military or aka European time.
@ Possum:
@ coldwarrior:
if I had to pick ONE watch, just one…Mrs coldwarrior would be thrilled.
anyway….
the most useful, brilliant, indestructible, monstrosety of a watch is a…
Casio G-Shock that upatades time over shortwave and is solar/battery powered.
inelegant, thuggish, chonky as all get out, bulletproof. perfectly accurate.
everything a fine swiss Rolex or Tudor isn’t.
@ Possum:
all watches and phone are military time. I’ve done that.
i’ve even woke up in a hurry and showed up at the wrong hospital and on my day off!
@ eaglesoars:
Wish they had done that with another sexually transmitted disease decades ago
eaglesoars wrote:
oh, it’s coming.
just a matter of time.
@ Possum:
because I am more or less locum tennens / travel fill I get some bizarre shifts…day, day off, night, off, third….third, night, off, day, etc.
sleep and time are very serious subjects for me
@ coldwarrior:
The conversion between military and US time is automatic.
I and you probably do not even have to think about the conversion. The if military is over 12 then subtract 12 and add a pm.
My little Raspberry is on military time and without doing any math I know it is not bed time yet!
When the tiny clock in the top right starts showing 0 and something time to fluff up the pillows and find the blankies.
Possum wrote:
😆
why am I driving aginat the sun????
oh yeah…yins is off today….
been there.
@ Possum:
And yes, I set it to Central time zone. Which is really not important as time is relative. Except when you try to buy beer at the grocery store and you tell them it is 7am in the time zone I exist in!
@ Possum:
I work on a 24 hour clock. the kids use it too.
hell, I used it when I was 9 and did ham radio. its the only way.
I have a couple 24hr watches from vostok, love em.
😆
a few of my gmt watches are set for local time and AI’s time in NZ so that I know when to harass him.
of course, I have to stand on my head to read his time…yoga I guess.
Possum wrote:
you would have hated the ole PA ‘blue laws’
they were ridiculous.
@ coldwarrior:
Not to be boring or anything but for anyone who watches police videos and then reads the comments.
Sometimes the body cameras are set to UTC ( Coordinated Universal Time, it is French. Used to be GMT which is Greenwich Mean Time but the world hates the British )
Anyway, on some videos the time on the bodycam is wrong. It is actually correct but you have to look at the -5:00 UTC tag next to it and work out what the real time there is.
A glaring example is the George Floyd trial where the time on the body cam of the Asian looking officer was out by hours and he couldnt explain why.
Possum wrote:
TIMEISTS!!!
@ Possum:
its ALL GMT for me.
prime meridian, Harrison’s clocks. gonna sing ‘rule britania’ innaminute.
😆
I put up a new thread for later.
thanks bunk for helping me. got a lot of shit going on in meat world
Well Boris is gone. He came home to die end of June. Skinny, dirty and not eating.
Finally decided the place he wanted to die in was the cabinet under the sink in the bathroom.
Gave him water a little bowl of Temptation treats and a bowl of wet cat food.
Just checked on him. Dead.
Second one in six weeks.
Do not feel like getting him out of cupboard, putting him in a box then in a trash bag and throwing him in the dumpster tonight.That is a job for tomorrow.
Was there a chance to save him if I took him to a veterinarian?
Nope, FIV+ and dying. At least he died at home.
@ coldwarrior:
Also known as ZULU
Last time I looked Zulus kicked British ass..
https://tubitv.com/movies/698087/zulu
Why ZULU time?
@ Possum:
our ‘princess’ died of that.
there best cat ever. I miss her every day and I don’t like cats
@ Possum:
Z Zulu is the last letter in the alphabet.
on ops you can have other assigned times by letter, but Zulu is the reference.
coldwarrior wrote:
And there are twenty four time zones. One per letter, when you skip India and Oscar (because I and O look too much like 1 and 0)
@ Possum:
I wonder if Chauvin’s attorneys will be allowed to enter all the other bodycam and security camera videos that the judge disallowed during his appeals?
Possum wrote:
One of Fauci’s many screwups over the course of his career. He’s the Joe Biden of medicine, from what I can see.
I know it’s early, but the polls are concerning.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris
@ right_wing2:
Trump, Vance, and Republicans need to attack Harris/Walz on issues, hard. Highlight their extreme, radical stance on issues. Forget anything personal. Issues, issues, issues.
@ right_wing2:
If people are dumb enough to vote for her price control scheme, we’re doomed
You have to elect her to find out what she wants to do.
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/08/16/democrats-beg-kamala-harris-not-to-release-policy-agenda-before-election/