Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. [Vadim Solovyov 2024]
Mom, Dad and Sparky
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 352 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at August 27th, 2024 - 5:51 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!
I had a thought today that did not involve what to have for lunch and how many calories it was. Actually lunch will involve roasted Brussels sprouts and chicken and Alfredo sauce triggered by something I saw on X.
Anyway, Russia, aka USSR or CCCP was the enemy of the USA in the 50s to the late 80s. The goal was to stop the spread of communism! Korea, Vietnam and all the other waste of American lives.
I am stupid but I do not think Russia as it is now is a communist country or a threat to life as we now know it.
So, why is Russia still regarded as the number one enemy?
Anyway looking forward to my sprouts. Steamed then sauted ( that is french for jumped ) in coconut oil then oven fried for 10 minutes at 400F
PS Bunk fucked up the game by starting a new thread. I had it nailed and he ruined it.
PPS Mr Coldwarrior, can you please change the time of posts to military time? Preferably ZULU so I can play the game in another five and a half hours.
Thanks in advance.
I once liked Mike Pompeo. Since the last Trump admin it’s come out that he threatened to resign if Trump pardoned Assange and actually wanted to kill him.
And now we learn it was Pompeo who persuaded Trump not to release the files on RFK/JFK assassinations, saying it would be ‘catastrophic’
My question: How the fuck did Pompeo know what’s in the files?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13784475/RFK-Jr-reveals-Donald-Trump-release-JKF-assassination-files.html
@ eaglesoars:
He was the CIA director, remember?
China is ‘quietly shutting down’ material US needs to make weapons: Rob Spalding
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6361032505112
huh, why would they do that?/
lobo91 wrote:
You beat me to it lobo!
Pompeo was indeed the Director of the CIA and reading between the lines he was playing ‘defence’ for all of the CIA cock-ups and straight out extra-judicial killing the agency had been involved in over the years. All well and good I hear you say. Fair enough as the spy game uses extra judicial murder as a stock in trade go to default. It’s a rough game to be in. We all understand that!
Unfortunately when the murders get a bit too close to home it becomes tricky, especially when the overthrow of legitimate administrations both away (dodgy at least when it involves allied nation states) and especially AT HOME (when the CIA is breaking the law). Treason anyone? As usual the ensuing ‘COVER-UP’ becomes the driving force of administrative institutional angst. Pompeo fell into the trap that the CIA, and for that matter many of the ‘alphabet’ agencies fall into eventually, when they run off the page covering their agendas and rules under which they operate. Politicisation will trip up agencies eventually every time. They never seem to learn from their past failures. Pompeo was just the latest in a long and sorry list of Directors who went ‘off reservation’ and spent the rest of their miserable lives attempting unsuccessfully trying to sweep the dirt under the carpet.
The US is currently suffering a rash of Agencies’ politicisation’, that always ends up in tears. The USSS, FBI and NSA are just the latest in a long line of political capture, illicit action, and subsequent attempts at ‘cover-ups’, that eventually leak and destabilise the organisational structure of these agencies. It’s always better to hang the malefactors out to dry, reorganise and move on!
Cover-ups always leak eventually, and the best that can be done is postpone the day of reckoning long enough that the ‘guilty bastards’, who tried to cover up their crimes, are all dead and in their graves. Pompeo has some years to go before his malfeasance becomes manifest. He lives with the ticking of his own metaphorical ‘time-bomb’ always in his ear. ‘Being Mike’ is a bastard of a way to have to live!
TICK … TOCK!
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
I know. That’s why I asked. Didn’t he have enough on his plate? He had to satisfy his curiousity?
Possum wrote:
I figured you forfeited after I clarified The Rules. We’ll log it as a “Bye” so you don’t lose your spot in the standings.
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Larkin Poe tackles an Aerosmith classic, with a cameo appearance by Megan’s dog Radar:
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@ Possum:
You bastard.
The ads Casey are running v Mccormick are devastating.
Casey will hold his senate seat in PA unless McC gets aggressive
lobo91 wrote:
umm where is the dog?
@ eaglesoars:
He’s sitting behind them until he wanders off
Kind of hard to see in that little window, I guess. Much easier in regular view. His head’s in between them.
lobo91 wrote:
Ah. I see it.
Every Weds morning the generator runs a self-test that lasts for about 2 mins. It’s fairly noisy. Mia was out in the yard, I was having my morning tea on the patio. She ran over to the generator and barked at it ferociously until it shut off. Then she ran to me full tilt happy “MOM! I killed it! I killed the noisy monster!”
Dogs.
I don’t get it
In New York, rent has shot up 33% from pre-pandemic levels, and nationwide that figure is about 30%.
For homeowners, increased costs for taxes, insurance and utilities have surged 26% since 2020, per Bloomberg.
https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1828761195169608061
I ‘get’ insurance in some places (e.g. Florida) but….
French police who arrested Pavel Durov told the newspapers
@canardenchaine that Pavel flew to Paris because he was invited to dinner by Emmanuel Macron. Did the President of France personally lure Pavel to France to arrest him? This story is getting crazier by the day. #FreePavelFrench police who arrested Pavel Durov told the newspapers @canardenchaine
that Pavel flew to Paris because he was invited to dinner by Emmanuel Macron. Did the President of France personally lure Pavel to France to arrest him? This story is getting crazier by the day. #FreePavel
https://x.com/KimDotcom/status/1828599122582216772
Telegram CEO released from custody in Paris
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4851554-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested/
Lost in everybody talking over each other about Kamala’s plan to tax unrealized cap gains is her surrogate trying to explain that it will fund her plan to give every newborn $6000.
WTAF? First I’ve heard of that plan and she wants abortion up to 36 weeks + a day so what newborns?
@ eaglesoars:
linky
https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1828835847984295972
This is cool. The Warning did a live acoustic performance on Univision’s morning show:
I don’t know how people afford food. My local store sent its weekly sales flyer out today and I shopped ONLY what is on sale. I saved just over 30% but before tax it was still almost $70.
eaglesoars wrote:
A number of insurers
are droppinghave dropped out of the California market (State Farm is one) and homeowners are getting fkkd. Can’t get insurance? Banks can terminate the loan for breach of contract.Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
OMG!
So they banks take the house – and do WHAT with it? They don’t need that on their balance sheets
eaglesoars wrote:
Sell it at a discount to the CCP? I don’t know; foreclosure would be an extreme case as the homeowner has the option to sell or purchase insurance policies (from somewhere) at inflated rates.
Good lord. Poor Mia is stuck in the house for the rest of the day. it won’t hit the high 80s until around 9 pm. It’s 97 right now.
Gab CEO refuses to comply with German demand to investigate user over comments about ‘fat’ MP
he CEO of the social media platform Gab revealed that the company refused to comply with a request from German police to provide data on a user who made two posts mocking the weight of a female member of parliament. Gab CEO Andrew Torba shared the request on X that demanded information about the user because he had made two posts that “sexualized the German politician” Ricarda Lang and “denigrated her weight.”
https://humanevents.com/2024/08/28/gab-ceo-refuses-to-comply-with-german-demand-to-investigate-user-over-comments-about-fat-mp
@ eaglesoars:
If I were that CEO, I would have replied with a picture of said politician and said “Upon investigation, it appears that she is, in fact, fat. Is there anything else we can do for you?”
I also googled her. She is not fat. She is morbidly obese. I I were Torba I would have replied “On re-examination we would agree to change our terminology from ‘fat’ to ‘morbidly obese’ ”
If there’s nothing wrong about that kind of weight, then there should be no offense taken, right?
I feel very sorry for people who fight this. Hubby is overweight and I know what they go thru. Some of it IS genetic. He has 3 siblings, 1 is just like him, the other 2 are thin as rails.
I’m like my mom I have to fight to keep weight on.
An amazing story (if true). Sharks come to a diver for help removing hooks
https://x.com/NetworksManager/status/1828806566079869279
It’s important to take care of your mental health. Here are some tips on how to overcome depression from late stage capitalism.
funny
https://x.com/TheLizVariant/status/1828802144025383067
Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatens to SUSPEND if Musk doesn’t comply in the next 24 hours
https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1828963461419643120
I think Elon is not going to give a monkey’s butt
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@ eaglesoars:
WTF is going on with these people in random countries suddenly thinking that they can make demands of American business owners?
I demand that restaurant owners in Belgium be arrested for allowing people to put mayonnaise on fries.
eaglesoars wrote:
Macron is just a cunning bastard and lured Durov to Paris to have dinner with Macron and then set the French cops onto him arrested him interrogated Durov for hours and finally cut him loose the next day.
Of bloody course this is a political stitch up aimed at the ‘Telegram’ app to obey the ‘diktats’ of the French State. Macron is attempting to wreck Telegram and haul it into line by threatening all sorts of nefarious charges to force compliance of the Telegram App to censor speech in Europe, and France specifically.
Macron is also trying to get at Putin by ‘monstering’ Durov. Fortunately Durov had his private jet standing by and before Macron’s cops could move Durov flew out of France back to the Caribbean where Durov also holds citizenship. What a snivelling ‘mummy’s boy Macron is who seems has degenerated into a petty tyrant who doesn’t want to see the French Parliament back in session anytime soon. It’s been months without a French government in place and that suits Macron just fine! What a creep!
I noted that Dimdotcom also commented on this attempt by Macron to ‘monster’ Durov into destroying Freedom of Speech inside Telegraph. Kimdorcom has his own troubles as New Zealand has enabled Kimdotcom to be extradited back to the US for trial, after a decade fighting that extradition tooth and nail!
🙂
This video intrigued me. Midland Michigan police evict woman known to locals as The Roof Ninja. She’d been living in a building sign access space for a year.
Full video:
https://youtu.be/osTeKSTvtC8?si=91JjrkvAB3FHb7Zh
Short version:
https://youtu.be/R28ZSY2Sc2A?si=NUE1UjX37TDwZ6fK
eaglesoars wrote:
@ lobo91:
It looks as if ‘Lawfare’ is the next big thing. The Euro-communists seem to have all caught a dose from the US Democrat Party.
lobo91 wrote:
It’s just the Internationalist Communists just getting ahead of themselves in flexing their One World Government ‘Lawfare muscles’, before they have taken over the globe. Law-fare is the perfect option for International authoritarian communists. It strips the money and power from their ideological enemies. Then makes what’s left of the enemies to ‘disappear’. They don’t even need Gulags, just a bullet and a shovel to get rid of their class enemies.
lobo91 wrote:
There is nothing random about this
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I salute her creativity
New refurbished computer arrived today so now I put my little Raspberry to bed.
Hope this one lasts longer than two weeks. Taking preventative measures to stop Glen from pissing in or on it.
The one he destroyed is not a total write off, same model as one that arrived today so I should be able to salvage the 16GB ram card and stick that in new one. Taking it to 32GB. It also means I have a spare PSU and a spare DVD drive.
Last computer came with an off brand monitor, which I do not need. Today computer came with a really nice Dell monitor. That I am using, it is excellent.
Also looks like the 256GB SSD card from it will go into the laptop that died prompting me to get new computers. Hard drive failed.
Why waste time fixing the old laptop? Well it is useful when the Texas power grid fails, It runs over four hours on battery if I dim the screen.
My Internet here is via a phone with hotspot enabled. $25 a month and unlimited data.
@ Possum:
And yes I am trying to look on the bright side and not get angry at the cat.
He has already given the new computer a severe sniffing.
It smells strange to him and the territory marking was attempted.
He is a cat.
eaglesoars wrote:
No heat in the “attic” but she has a solar blanket, said she dealt with the cold in Alaska. She wouldn’t divulge how she got up and down from the roof w/o a ladder, but given her outfit I’m guessing she’s got some mountain climbing experience too.
She referred to the attic as a “safe spot” and was worried about the store owner or the police doxxing her to the public. Someone somewhere would really like to know where she is.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That is very ungood.
I just became aware of this. Unfortunately, Boar’s Head is the only brand carried by my store’s deli
Death Toll Rises to 9 From Listeria Linked to Boar’s Head Meats, C.D.C. Says
Six new deaths were reported in a nationwide outbreak that started in May. The C.D.C. is advising people not to eat any recalled products.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/listeria-outbreak-boars-head-meats.html
This article is about an hour old
Boar’s Head has a ‘hire a refugee’ policy
https://x.com/WarlordDilley/status/1829168207875453059
Here the highest daily temp is hit around 3-3:30 pm range. It’s noon and it’s 91F
ugh
HAR! Good luck with that…
Germany announces tougher knife laws
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1829173145082990970
People are being slaughtered in the streets and this is what Stasi Starmer comes up with
‘The end of pubs’: Furious backlash at Labour’s ‘nanny state’ OUTDOOR smoking ban plans – which will ban people from lighting up in beer gardens, near football grounds and in children’s parks
Smoking outside nightclubs and on restaurant terraces could be outlawed
Shisha bars are under threat and pavements are in line to be smoke-free zones
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13790649/end-pubs-backlash-Labours-nanny-state-OUTDOOR-smoking-ban-beer-gardens-football-grounds-childrens-parks.html
From Trump’s new book
“Mark Zuckerberg would come to the Oval Office to see me. He would bring his very nice wife to dinners, be as nice as anyone could be, while always plotting to install shameful Lock Boxes in a true PLOT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.”
“He told me that there was nobody like Trump on Facebook. But at the same time, and for whatever reason, steered it against me.”
“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison – as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1829170016702677111
You can always count on Nigel
Pictured: Nigel Farage smokes a cigarette outside a Westminster pub after hearing Keir Starmer’s proposed ban on smoking in pub gardens.
Our next Prime Minister doesn’t give a fuck
https://x.com/b4sed7/status/1829203742337687983
Stasi Starmer has ordered Margaret Thatcher’s portrait removed.
https://x.com/KingBobIIV/status/1829219518326984978
It probably gives him nightmares. Her eyes follow him around the room.
BREAKING: A group of illegal migrants in San Diego County, California tried to hijack TWO school buses full of Elementary & Middle school kids from the Jamul-Dulzura Union District on Highway 94
Border Czar Kamala is RESPONSIBLE
The District issued a WARNING to all drivers and parents, “If a school bus encounters a group of migrants at a stop, it won’t stop, leaving students unattended.”
Border Patrol and the Sheriff’s Office have also been alerted, according to District Superintendent Liz Bystedt
This is what we mean when we say, “Elections have consequences, but STOLEN elections have catastrophic consequences.” Pray for all the kids who will now be fearing for their lives because Kamala Harris and Biden decided to import millions of dangerous illegals into their neighborhoods
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1828959390105284897
It seems there is a problem in Aurora Colorado
https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1829191725975515432
Venezuelans
@ eaglesoars:
Aurora is the ‘hood of Denver. Always has been
@ lobo91:
Well, if it’s anything like Virginia it won’t stay in Aurora
I don’t know if any one else will find this useful, but I did.
Did you know that grocery stores cycle their sales on a 12 week rotation? If you plot the rotation over 12 weeks you can predict what will be on sale when. Helps with planning.
@ eaglesoars:
Looks like it’s time to get the pre packaged stuff.
@ right_wing2:
I’ve become so disciplined about this I dropped my Costco membership ($200/yr). The grocery store I use also gives points you use at their gas station. This week I saved $30 on groceries and when I fill up next time I’ll get about 40 cents off per gallon so that’s at least $4. $34 x 52 = $1758/year. Plus the $200 I’m not using for Costco. Stuff adds up
BUSTED: The Biden-Harris admin has been caught using a secret rule to “Trump-proof” the Department of Justice.
Their moves suggest that a Trump comeback is imminent, and they’re laying the groundwork to undermine his power.
How are they doing this?
The answer: they’re using a loophole called the “Schedule A” hiring rule, allowing them to pack key DOJ offices with people who can’t be easily fired—even if Trump wins in 2024.
Hundreds of employees have already been brought in under this rule, bypassing the usual qualifications and ensuring they stick around, no matter who takes the next oath of office. If Trump returns, he’ll be walking into a DOJ filled with Biden appointees.
Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) warns that placing Biden-Harris loyalists in key positions is a strategy to protect their policies, even if a future Trump or another administration tries to alter them.
This tells you that the Deep State is gearing up for a Trump presidency, and it’s about to get ugly. Watch the video for the whole story.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1829249315920859426
DHS is resuming the CHNV parole program after it was paused due to fraud discovered in the sponsorship process—The program allows for 30k migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to fly directly into the county each month.
“DHS is resuming the issuance of new Advance Travel Authorizations and will closely monitor how this new process is operating moving forward…”
The agency says they have enhanced vesting measures which include:
•Further scrutiny of supporters’ financial records and criminal background
•Additional vetting to identify fraudulent supporter profiles, and bolstered review methods to identify serial filing trends. •Fingerprints are now required from U.S.-based supporters.
Chairman of
@HomelandGOP
@RepMarkGreen
says, “My Committee has engaged with the department since this pause was announced, and the results were sobering. Instead of scrapping the clearly flawed program, the department is allowing it to continue without rooting out the fraud or putting adequate safeguards in place to prevent exploitation by sponsors here in the United States.”
https://x.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1829254466216046747
looks like the invasion is back on……….
@ eaglesoars:
That’s why Trump tried to implement the Schedule F rules before he left office, in order to convert employees in “policymaking” positions to being part of what’s called the “excepted service.” That way, they can be fired at will.
This kind of crap happens at the end of every Democrat administration. They’ll take a bunch of political appointees and give them civil service positions at the last minute, so they’ll be in place to sabotage the new administration. It’s called “burrowing.”
lobo91 wrote:
I thought it sounded familiar. I first ran across it when some asshole at the Ag Dept told Hubby his elected chums on the Hill could go fuck themselves because he had been in place for decades and he would still be there when they were all gone.
Hubby just happened to *ahem* mention it to his good buddy Pat Leahy who just happened to control some serious ag purse strings.
The guy was out of a job before COB.
@ eaglesoars:
If Trump does manage to take office again, his top priority has to be dismantling the bureaucracy. Everyone always says that it’s impossible to fire civil service employees, but that’s just because the civil service regulations say it is.
The president isn’t bound by civil service regulations. He’s the head of the Executive Branch, according to the Constitution. He can fire the entire federal workforce if he wants to. Would it result in a massive fight? Of course. But I’m almost certain the Supreme Court would agree.
eaglesoars wrote:
Just wait until the using a car as a weapon laws swing into sight! Porsche, Audi, Mercedes and BMW will be all bent out of shape!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
The betting odds have been headed all Trump’s way for months now. Bookmakers earn their n$$$$s by calculating the odds. Meanwhile ideologues who run Polling Companies continue to ‘get it wrong’ every time and we all marvel at their ideological stupidity. They never learn! How the hell do Polling outfits stay in business?
🙂
Now Stasi Starmer is arresting 11 yr olds (so far he’s arrested 2)
(start at about the 3 min mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuQJd7WbHXM
“1970s East Germany All Over Again!” | 11-Year-Old Arrested Following Riots
lobo91 wrote:
GOOD POINT!!
eaglesoars wrote:
This problem appears to be taking root in the hallowed halls of Presidents and Prime Ministers globally. I seem to remember Obama throwing the bust of Churchill out of the window of the White House! These so called exemplars just can’t stand the competition it seems. Even when those reminders of greatness have been dead for decades! These current degenerates’ psyches just can’t stand the competition it seems. Terminal ego problems … anyone?
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
That’s why the Hatch Act doesn’t apply to the president or VP.
Holy Crap. Dan Bongino just followed me. Yeah. The real one.
Sometimes Mia has a bark so sharp it could crack glass. Not to mention my ear drums.
eaglesoars wrote:
And he just sent me a really nice DM! No, I’m not repeating it.
What’s weird is if you go thru his timeline – which I did to be sure it’s really him – his follower count goes from the millions down to the hundreds in like a day.
I’ve seen a lot of creators bitching about this recently – their counts just evaporate overnite and Elon had better fix it. Either there’s something wrong with an algo somewhere or Elon hasn’t fired all the people he needs to
@ lobo91:
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
This Interrogator tells it like it is. This is the best ‘from the shoulder’ description that I have heard. I have done all of the stuff Diks has and then some. My specialty was ‘ploys’! I should have won a few Academy Awards back in the day and I was quite good at playing a part. I used to say to Mrs. AI, that I knew that I was still OK, as long as I kept having nightmares about the stuff I was involved in with SAS.
I was teaching them how to last under interrogation until whatever ‘stuff’ they had in their heads, had lost its value. Then they had to break slowly, to keep themselves in one piece and survive. Then how to forgive themselves for breaking, and understanding that eventually everyone breaks, and it’s all about breaking after the information finally given up, was too late to matter over. Then how to save your own life after you had been cleaned out of useful information. It all comes down to timing keeping a clock running in your head, and report with the interrogator.
You had to have been there really, as it is so far out of left field for 99.9% of actual people. The Psychologists and doctors doing the ‘service support’ stuff in the background, admit that they are operating right up to the edge a lot of the time. I am convinced that we actually crossed the boundary on many occasions, and caused both physical and psychological damage to Resistance to Interrogation Training for ‘prone to capture’ military, such as pilots, Special Forces and divers. You have to adhere to the reality that interrogators have limited resources in trained staffing and time constraints, and it comes down to not wasting resources on those who don’t know much and just waste lean resources.
For those under interrogation it comes down to ….
NOT getting selected for deep interrogation
Keep your internal clock going so that you know when the information you have has lost its ‘shelf life’
NOT beating yourself up unnecessarily and putting internal pressure on oneself
Knowing the tactics to eventually saving yourself and not blaming yourself
There are two types under interrogation ‘Neanderthals’ and ‘Jedi Masters’. Don’t get ‘selected’ and be a Jedi Master!
🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-8hiVmasKk
@ eaglesoars:
ok never mind. I unburrowed the asshole. I was still pretty skeptical and I was right
eaglesoars wrote:
Whad’d you do? I thought you were keeping a low profile.
@ eaglesoars:
Sort of what I thought. Nevermind.
I you want to know why people are speculating Kamala has a drinking problem, here ya go!
https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1829296233716093102
@ eaglesoars:
Its downright SCARY.
@ lobo91:
…. and their unions / contracts / disciplinary procedures..
“What are District of Columbia Breastfeeding Laws?
If you’re a working mom who recently gave birth and is still breastfeeding, it’s important to know that your employer is obligated to provide you with appropriate accommodation in both Washington D.C. and at the federal level. This can include either paid or unpaid breaks, depending on your company’s policies, and the adequate conditions required by law include a private room or space with a door (not a bathroom stall) that’s conveniently located near your workspace.”
What I want to know is, what is junior doing at work with mommy in the first place ?
Aren’t Secret Service agents who are assigned to protecting the POTUS expected to get between said POTUS and a BULLET if necessary to protect said POTUS’ life ? Well, I guess she might have been there to do secretarial work, right ? I mean ….
Am I being too harsh here ? Am I just another filthy, bigoted, misogynist, creepy MALE ?
Past my bedtime … Nitol.
4_Sticks wrote:
No. There is NO WAY I would bring my child into such circumstances.
I was a team lead/manager for decades. Had lots of nursing moms. Some found it really important to breastfeed/bond with their babies and some just needed to provide breast milk. We worked schedules and sometimes we had babies in the office. I vacated my office at times so they could have privacy and control lighting. But no way that baby was in the office full time. Once a day max and for no more than 3 months.
It was a good team bonding thing. Everybody gets a break to coo over the baby, mom has far less stress yada yada. People who couldn’t care less or were irritated by the whole thing (very few but some) were given the same break they could do whatever with.
Which is why a lot of people wanted to be on my team and I was making six figures back in the 90s. And when there were catastrophic system failures (yeah, we had 2, both hardware) people worked over 50 hrs straight and never bitched.
Take care of your people.
In other news – you know the neighbor’s flock of chickens next door? If I’m on the patio sometimes I want some music. The Stones and Tina Turner are faves. I noticed the chickens get really loud. Ah. they’re upset.
Try Rhapsody in Blue. Ah yes. Bach’s Sleepers Awake.
Man, they settled right down. Chickens have musical taste. Who knew?
eaglesoars wrote:
This is sober Kamala.
“The climate crisis is real that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”
American electricity is a joke.
This 120v stuff is stupid, yeah it won’t kill you but the house wiring is nuts.
Sitting here with a fan blowing on me. In the kitchen meatloaf is cooking in the air fryer. Air fryer is not proportional control, well it is kind of. On full then off, maintaining 350F kind of.
Fan blowing on me is speeding up and slowing down in perfect sync with air fryer.
I miss 240v and decent house wiring.
@ Possum:
UK wiring is based on the ring main concept. 30 amp cables connect to each wall socket, but in a ring. a continuous path that goes back to the fuse box that has a 30 amp breaker. Even if the ring is broken the 30 amp breaker still protects the 30 amp cables that are connected.
30 amps per wall socket! No, the plugs that plug into the wall sockets are individually fused to protect down stream equipment. Maximum 13 amps.
Example, a heater giving out 3000 wats would need a 13A fuse in the plug.
A bedside lamp then a 1A fuse is appropriate.
Fuses are or should be inserted into circuits to protect the downstream appliances.
Not in the USA,
CO Governor Jared Polis claims that the takeover of apartment complexes in Aurora is a “figment of imagination”:
@ Possum:
Is the UK still using fuses or are there breakers at every outlet?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The plugs are fused
@ Possum:
I remember that from when I was in Kuwait, which uses UK electrical standards (well, to the extent that they use any standards). I always thought it was odd that plugs had fuses in them
BREAKING: The Brazilian supreme court has just BANNED X in the country.
They got a Socialist leader and now free speech is gone.
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1829611654138708406
BREAKING: Brazil will FINE people $8900 if they use a VPN to access X after they banned it.
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1829618051127591388
Former Blogmocker SADM posted a clip on FB. woman bought a small table for $25, turned out to be worth a bit more. [Link]
@ lobo91:
The breaker in the basement protects the house wiring. In the UK there is one ” ring main ” per floor, that is 30A cable is used to supply all the wall sockets on that floor and it connects all of them then returns to the basement. So in reality each wall socket is supplied by two 30A cables.
So a short in the house wiring will cause the main breaker to trip, the cables in the wall can handle a short of over 30A without bursting into flames.
Now, as to the appliances connected to the wall socket. If they develop a fault and say, start pulling 20A the main breaker will not trip. But the skinny little wire they are connected to the wall with cannot handle 20A without melting the insulation and bursting into flames.
Hence the fuse in the plug. It is rated at a value that is less than the burst into flames rating of the equipment it is protecting. Say a 1A fuse for a bedside lamp, 5A fuse for a toaster, 10A fuse for an air fryer and the maximum allowed is 13A usually for a heater.
In the USA in my apartment my little fan with a very skinny electrical cord is protected by a 20A breaker in the bedroom closet. If it develops a fault its little skinny power cord will alert me to the fact well before a breaker trips as it will start dripping molten plastic and will start glowing.
PS NEVER accidentally barefoot step on a UK power plug, it is a thousand times worse than treading on LEGO
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I like posts that contain a [link] especially a [link] in bold.
Dead laptop update.
SSD from dead desktop cannot be installed into dead laptop. However!
a 1TB hard drive from one of those really dirt cheap portable USB hard drives can.
Opened one up that I had laying around expecting it to contain some Chinese crap hard drive that was worth less than the $40 I paid for it.
Fucking cheap China crap had a Western Digital 1TB kick ass 2.5″ hard drive in it.
Installed in laptop, made a USB thumb drive windows installation thing and, laptop is alive again.
Tomorrow will attempt to put laptop back together again. I has had a few beers….
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Worpdress don’t like no FB links. (Replace the DOT with a period.)
https://www DOT facebook.com/reel/1676907686387730
@ Possum:
And as I took it apart after having a few beers a couple of days ago I can’t find the screws.
I think I put them in a safe place somewhere.
Possum wrote:
I almost changed the color to a pretty blue, but thought that was a bit much.
BREAKING: Brazil orders Apple and Google to remove X from their app stores.
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1829620978575630389
A test
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1676907686387730
Brazil is shutting down X/Twitter today, and if they’re caught using VPN they’ll be fined and/or jailed. Glenn Greenwald is fkkd.
Possum wrote:
What did you do?
@ Possum:
Wordpress loves Possums. I has special privileges.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Used my special powers in here.
Ireland
“It’s a shocking day when 4 Gardai turn up to arrest my son who has an unblemished record because he won’t accept transgender ideology”
Police turn up to arrest @EnochBurke a teacher in Ireland who has refused to accept and even endorse transgender ideology into his school.
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1829592670035148955
Welp. Pennsylvania is screwed
BREAKING: In a MAJOR ruling, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court holds rule against counting undated/misdated mail ballots violates the PA constitution.
A stunning loss for the Republican Party and a big victory for the voters of Pennsylvania.
https://x.com/marceelias/status/1829584150887579871
@ eaglesoars:
If the Dems steal PA, we all lose
@ lobo91:
yep
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2024/08/what-women-want-what-men-need/
Some good comments in there as well!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’m going to have to read that TWICE.
On Brazilian Justice de Moreas’s order shutting down X:
The text of his 51-page decision is far more concerning and sweeping than the headlines suggest.
de Moreas’s own words make clear that he is attempting to strike a broader blow against free speech and in favor of authoritarian controls.
His opinion does not even try to hide it. He comes right out and points to Brexit and the 2016 election of President Trump as examples, in his telling, of the types of extreme “populist” outcomes that he is attempting to avoid by imposing a new censorship regime in Brazil ahead the country’s elections later this year.
But this type of censorship of a political and ideological nature is expressly prohibited by Brazil’s own Constitution.
Nonetheless, de Morea argues that free speech on X cannot be allowed to continue because the diversity of political opinions expressed on the site might influence the people of Brazil ahead of their 2024 elections. See op. at 31-32.
In other words, de Morea is arguing that free speech is a threat to democracy—a position that is as Orwellian as it is dangerous.
The opposite is true. Free speech is democracy’s check on excessive government control. Censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.
To dress up his decision, de Morea runs the warmed over playbook of labeling political speech that runs contrary to his own orthodoxy as “misinformation” and “disinformation.” But authoritarians like de Morea are not worried that people will be misled by the political messages they choose to read. He is worried that those messages will be effective.
At bottom, this decision is part of a live, ongoing, and global debate between free speech and censorship, between freedom and control. It is imperative that free speech and freedom prevail.
Or as the late NY Times editor John Oakes once said, “Diversity of opinion is the lifeblood of democracy. The minute we begin to insist that everyone think the same way we think, our democratic way of life is in danger.” Those are the stakes.
https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1829712717328105788
I don’t know who filed the complaint and isn’t this moot by now? 4 years is a little late
BREAKING: A complaint has been filed alleging that the USPS acted illegally in shipping at least one million mail-in ballots from a facility in Bethpage, New York, to Pennsylvania in 2020, before the U.S. District Court in Maryland.
https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/1829882999435116672
Shades of Obama’s radical pastor “God d*mn America”.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/watch-kamalas-pastor-talk-about-destruction-of-america-video/
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t believe that.
USPS would have lost the ballots. They can even lose a sack of cat food.
@ right_wing2:
Kamala has a pastor?
If that woman ever entered a church the place would spontaneously ignite
@ Possum:
yeah but their union doesn’t care about your cat
This idiot thinks paying for her groceries with a hand scan is the coolest thing ever.
She’s going to be first on the train……..
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/1829774268345040925
Got dead laptop running. Was very surprised that when I took it apart stickers inside had a manufacturing date of 08. I bought it new but cheap in 2017 for $256 I remember what I paid as 256 is a binary number.
Ideapad 110.
Anyway it did the job OK when I bought it and now with a new ( LMAO date on hard drive I used was 2019 ) it runs again. Perfect for use during power outages.
Only problem is keyboard got pissed on and numeric keypad and top two rows of keys do not work. I have a $13 real Lenovo keyboard for it but replacing it means taking the laptop completely apart. Later models of Ideapad 110 the keyboard just pops out of the front.
Was using the bloody thing with a pissed on keyboard by attaching a USB keyboard and mouse to it. Really not going to risk destroying it by trying to replace the keyboard.
Unless I get drunk and adventurous. I has tools and a little pot to put the screws in…..
@ Possum:
Screws and the little pot.
13 screws to take the bottom of laptop off, then sharp knife to pry it open.
4 screws to release the hard drive caddy.
Four screws to take hard drive out of caddy.
Re-assembly I set a personal best!
Only lost one screw.
@ eaglesoars:
How did i know that it was Whole Foods (AKA Amazon)?
@ Possum:
Talking of screws and little pots. When I was much younger and more fun I worked in an electronics repair place. 19 or so.
There was one big, fat asshole who worked in the repair shop too. I hated him.
When you take shit apart you put all the screws in a little pot. When you put the shit back together after fixing it there should be no screws left in the little pot.
You guessed it. Whenever he left his workbench to go take a piss or grab a coffee I casually wandered by and dropped a random screw into his little screw pot.
Yep! hours then spent taking the shit apart again trying to find where the ” missing ” screw went.
I have always been an asshole…..
This is interesting audio. There was an incident about 10 days ago involving a USAF KC-46 (the new tanker version of the Boeing 767 that’s supposed to replace the 60 year old KC-135) and a flight of two F-15Es that were on a combat air patrol enforcing the no-fly zone around Biden’s vacation stay in Santa Barbara.
While refueling one of the fighters, the KC-46’s boom broke off, seriously damaging the F-15 as well. The damaged fighter tried to land at the Fresno airport (twice!) and broke the arresting cables on both runways. It eventually ended up landing at NAS Leemore on fumes:
@ lobo91:
You got your dog chipped. Same idea.
After being identity thefted I like the idea.
@ lobo91:
The boom refueling always looks dangerous to me. A solid connection between two aircraft.
The basket thing on the end of a pipe looks safer.
Bunk!
Count down to 1pm EST
Game on!
@ Possum:
Cody’s microchip isn’t connected to anything else, though. It just transmits a number to a hand-held scanner. If you enter the number into a website, it gives you my contact information. It’s basically just putting a serial number on him, just like the VIN on a car.
It doesn’t allow him to unlock doors or buy stuff, and it’s a passive chip. It doesn’t broadcast his location 24/7.
@ lobo91:
That is what a chip in a human does. It uniquely identifies the implant at very short range.
You do know how these chip things in dogs work?
They are not powered, they have no batteries.
Wave a wand at one at the right frequency and the antenna in the chip powers up the chip and it transmits a code.
Wrap Codi’s neck in tinfoil and he is invisible.
Actually tinfoil does not work. There is an alloy called Mu-Metal A nickel and iron alloy that once was cheap because in the 1980s it was used to shield the neck of cathode ray tubes so the stray electronical stuff would not screw up the rest of the electronics.
Now Mu-Metal is expensive and sold on conspiracy websites.
125
LOL
Time for my afternoon nap.
@ Possum:
Possum 2
Bunk 1
While Stasi Starmer is getting busy arresting people who smoke on the sidewalk, mothers are watching their children being knifed to death on the streets in London.
I broke down listening to this poor woman, so fair warning
https://x.com/BBCbreakingNewt/status/1829784820999749865
lobo91 wrote:
Back in Virginia one opened up near our house shortly before we moved. I couldn’t wait, I was SO excited.
I couldn’t get out of that place fast enough. Everything was BLACK. I wasn’t in there 10 mins before I wanted to open a vein it was so depressing. The selection was nothing to yell about, the prices certainly weren’t, the pizza looked soggy, the sushi selection was boring, etc. I bought something just to learn how the checkout system worked. It was cumbersome and stupid, a lot of card waving, no place to put the cart. Never went back.
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t mind whole foods…for a few ingredients. Dill and Mrs coldwarriors weird kumbacha and gross probitoc dairy drinks…it’s a Russian thing, pork belly, aged steaks, and that’s about it. Their bread is really good if it’s too hot to bake or I have no time.
So, I’m there about one a fortnight. And yes, I laugh hysterically at some of the customers. I think of it as an intelligence op into the belly of the lib college educated white women moron collective
There was another Whole Foods store about 6 miles away that was really good and very expensive. But that was before Bezos bought it and totally fucked it up. I used it maybe 4 times a year for specialty meats or something. Walk in and it felt like the Tiffany of grocery stores. I haven’t checked out the Whole Foods here yet, it’s something like 12 miles from here and there’s no good reason to.
@ eaglesoars:
the one closest to us is quite good. and…it made giant eagle put ‘market district’ in some of their better stores…more high end stuff for once in a while indulgence.
I used to MAKE kumbacha and kaffir for Mrs coldwarrior as it was simply not avaliable, I hate both of them, but happy wife. now, I can go and buy them, thank GOD. both of those drinks are gross.
these two items are old school Russian food and she missed them.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
all that said, a can of beans, a bottle of dish detergent, milk from the local dairy, cat litter, dog and cat food, and other identical goods get bought at Wal Mart, I can do without the 30% markup for identical items at the grocery store.
eaglesoars wrote:
she removed Thatcher’s bust as well.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
whole foods dry aged steak is really great. we get it once every 3 or 4 months.
were we just moved has an indie grocery store with the most kick ass butchers….cut to order. we had them coarse grind some pig so we could make a ton of different sausages last week. they nailed it.
we make ‘garlic-bomb’ keilbasi, breakfast sausage, anduille, and ‘guest sausage’. this time it was Portuguese red wine sausage. so good!
coldwarrior wrote:
Portrait. He probably felt her eyes following him. He’s a psychopath
I used to have to drink kaffir when I was first diagnosed. blech.
eaglesoars wrote:
I MADE it! I wanted to gag! but, it was not avalaible back then. and imma dummy, I brewed beer in the early 90’s and could duplicate the final product over and over again (VERY DIFFICULT), brewed kumbacha, and made kaffir…did I go pro?
nope.
dummass
eaglesoars wrote:
in the bar I have busts of Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, and Dzerzhinsky. I keep them to remind me…starmer is a coward. keep the painting right there…or maybe he can’t handle having a real, brave leader staring at him.
that said, isnt it ‘sexist and mysogenist’ that he got rid of her portrait, he hates women! (lol)
@ coldwarrior:
I just read that he’s warning the October budget is going to be brutal. He’s already ruled out increases in taxes and VAT and promised not to go after ‘the working man’. So what does that leave? Unrealized capital gains baby! The elderly and the wealthy.
Given that he’s also refused to pay the fuel allowance, I suspect he thinks of the elderly as ‘useless eaters’ and is trying to kill them off
eaglesoars wrote:
me and Mrs coldwarrior are so fucked if this shit passes. we’ve had investments since the late 90’s.”Around 3 out of every 4 U.S. stock investors wouldn’t be subject to an increase in the capital gains tax rate, according to a UBS research note.
That’s because they bought stock in 401(k) plans, individual retirement accounts and other types of accounts not subject to the tax.
President Joe Biden is expected to propose raising the top federal tax rate on long-term capital gains to 39.6%, from 20%. It would apply to millionaires.”
lol, yeah, until NEXT time
coldwarrior wrote:
Aand how will that be determined? If assessed value of a house is part of it, we have have a lot of elderly getting nailed. Over the 26 years we owned the house in VA the value more than doubled. Hell the house we have now has more than doubled in the 3 yrs we’ve owned it. Are we worth a million on paper? Yep.
In actuality we live on a fixed income and I come up with grocery savings strategies.
Fucking morons.
eaglesoars wrote:
4 years.
How time flies
@ coldwarrior:
I will never forget the most important lesson you taught me. The commies ALWAYS go after the middle class FIRST. I’ve learned to view things thru a different prism since then.
@ eaglesoars:
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Can’t have a strong and cohesive middle class ‘bourgeoisie’ and
“Dictatorship of the Proletariat” at the same time.
AI is gonna be really pissed off when he wakes up.
In Florida? Does DeSantos know about this?
Florida Parents Partner with IJ to Shut Down Dystopian “Predictive Policing” Program
Pasco County Residents Challenge Sheriff’s Harassment Based on Potential “Future Crimes”
The Sheriff’s Office of Pasco County, Florida, harasses people in their own homes using a method they call “predictive policing.” The program has unfolded like a dystopian nightmare for the Pasco County residents it has ensnared, who have been subjected to near-constant police surveillance and harassment. The Sheriff’s Office claims the program’s goal is to predict and prevent crime before it happens by targeting people they suspect may commit crimes in the future, dubbing the approach “intelligence-led policing.” This euphemism may make it seem like there’s thoughtfulness to the approach, but there’s nothing fair or smart about it.
Using a crude computer algorithm, the Sheriff’s Office creates a list of people they think are likely to commit crimes in the future. It places people on the list based on their criminal record, but also based on things that the person may not have been able to control, such as whether they have been suspected of a crime, whether they witnessed a crime or even whether they were a victim of a crime. The Sheriff’s Office calls the people on the list “prolific offenders.”
Then, deputies are sent out to monitor, intimidate and harass people on the list. The deputies are instructed to gather as much information as possible about their targets, and routinely show up unannounced at people’s houses to interrogate them about their friends, their families and their comings and goings. Dalanea Taylor, who was placed on the prolific offender list because she had been incarcerated as a teenager, was harassed by Pasco deputies for years after she was released and had turned her life around.
Code enforcement is a favorite tactic for ensuring compliance during the deputies’ visits. To coerce people into letting the deputies into their home or answering their questions—or sometimes purely to intimidate them—the deputies slap their victims with citations for innocuous offenses like missing house numbers on the mailbox, chickens in the back yard or unmowed grass on the lawn. By design, family members of prolific offenders are ensnared by the program too. Robert Jones had a son on the prolific offender list, and Pasco deputies showed up at his door multiple times a week asking about his son. When the deputies decided that he wasn’t cooperating fully, they wrote him multiple citations for tall grass and other similar property code violations. They even arrested him several times on bogus charges.
Tammy Heilman and Dolly Deegan, who both had sons on the list, also received multiple citations for thousands of dollars in fines for code enforcement violations.
Worse, the motivation of the program is more sinister than merely “fighting crime”: The Sheriff’s Office acknowledged that they want these “problem people” gone. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco, the architect of the program, boasted that the goal was to predict which residents are likely to commit crimes and then “take them out.” In the words of a former Pasco County deputy, they were under orders to “[m]ake their lives miserable until they move or sue.”
Experts on policing have roundly criticized Pasco County’s practices, pointing out that it is based on junk science and could tend to reinforce racially biased policing practices.
But the Sheriff’s use of predictive policing is not only methodologically shaky; it’s unconstitutional. The government cannot harass you in your home just because it has decided that you or someone you live with might someday do something wrong. That’s why Robert, Dalanea, Tammy, and Dolly have decided to challenge Pasco’s program, alongside the Institute for Justice, in court to affirm the basic principle that there is no such thing as “innocent until predicted guilty.”
https://ij.org/case/pasco-predictive-policing/
It looks like Brazil has shut down Rumble
https://x.com/chrispavlovski/status/1829618949652430958
BFD
“Tim Walz’s Own Brother Considers Joining Forces with Trump, Slams Governor as ‘Unfit to Make Decisions About Your Future’”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/tim-walzs-own-brother-considers-joining-forces-trump/
@ eaglesoars:
Did any LEOs protest, refuse?
Of course not. That pension is more important than the silly constitution
Compelling RFK ad
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1829977474853454223
We’re watching a movie In Transit w/John Malkovich. It’s a Soviet prison camp w/German prisoners. Malkovich is the head honcho. Based on a true story.
It’s a British/Russian production. Grim. Very grim.
huh
We reached the final step on the escalation ladder..
https://patriots.win/p/1994fUjVvI/we-reached-the-final-step-on-the/c
@ rain of lead:
Rugby, Carib pro cricket, college ball!!!!
I GOT TOO MUCH TO WATCH!!!!
@ rain of lead:
Must feed the M I C
I just had to post!! The Hells Angels are on their way to Aurora Colorado!!! They are going there because of the Venezuelan Gangs
https://x.com/riverrat328/status/1829979427943440389
This is the testosterone-free Colorado governor. 33 seconds of total cringe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–yce_ke8KA
@ eaglesoars:
Did the Venezuelans screw over a hells angel?
@ coldwarrior:
no. But the Venezuelans have fucked around and are about to find out.
@ eaglesoars:
Careful. Polis is “openly gay,” so you’re not allowed to criticize him in any way.
lobo91 wrote:
HAR! Watch me.
And so it begins.
Today, brutal new reporting from Vanity Fair, reveals disturbing details about RFK Jr., completely upending his claims of being the most transparent candidate in history and a moral authority.
The endless list of RFK Jr.’s dangerous and grotesque behavior casts doubts on his fitness for office. As one friend put it, RFK Jr.’s campaign could cause him to go down as “one of the greatest villains in American history.”
Vanity Fair reveals RFK Jr. groped and assaulted the family babysitter and kept x-rated photos on his phone of multiple women – possibly without their consent. While he prides himself on being an environmental attorney, he’s been fired from every job he’s ever had and ousted from multiple environmental organizations. And to top off these twisted stories, the story includes a photo of a grinning RFK Jr. holding up a barbequed dog like a prize.
https://democrats.org/news/vanity-fair-rfk-jr-could-be-one-of-the-greatest-villains-in-american-history/
@ eaglesoars:
So, he’s a Kennedy, in other words.
@ lobo91:
He addressed the dog thing in a recent video. I do have concerns about his 1st marriage. She committed suicide and I’ve never figured it out. She was obviously mentally ill and maybe he just gave up. Or maybe he was at the root of it. I don’t know
@ eaglesoars:
This wikipedia entry is pretty damning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Richardson_Kennedy
@ eaglesoars:
I’m pretty sure that was a goat
Hubby is sitting here venting about what Trump’s doing wrong. HE SHOULD TALK MORE ABOUT THE ECONOMY blah blah blah
People already trust Trump on the economy. He’s talking about the border, where Kamala is a big target
lobo91 wrote:
yeah
@ eaglesoars:
He should turn those videos of the Venezuelan gangs in Colorado into ads
#BREAKING #Aurora Allegedly all Branches of the Outlaws ((81)hellsangels)
Are heading to Aurora to deal with the problem
#GANGWAR
https://x.com/AngryCitizenxx/status/1830040349869273220
video at the link
An alternate POV
There is ZERO chance that the Hells Angels are going to Aurora Colorado.
Why do people do this? Why? Hells Angels have Cartel connections.
Labor Day weekend and the Hells Angels are on the way to Aurora?–Absurd.
The Hells Angels have links to multiple Cartels, they are part of the border problem, they are certainly not going to do anything that would help it. They are also an immense criminal organization with ties to Human trafficking. If they did go to Aurora, it would be to establish a partnership with these gangs over helping the citizens.
This post will probably cost me 2-3k more followers, but there is zero percent chance they are going to Aurora. I am sorry, but it will never happen.
https://x.com/DocNetyoutube/status/1830059812962349451
eaglesoars wrote:
Bronte and Austen had it all worked out 200 years ago and then the great forgetting kicked in, around 1963!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
‘Great Expectations’ I read at 10 sorted me out from there on in! Pip didn’t see it coming. I felt for Pip but I didn’t make the same mistakes!
🙂
I’ve had a few Miss Havershums in my life. Some were the mums of old girlfriends. Having a girlfriend’s mum who thought that you were a gentleman and trustworthy and who thought that you were ‘just swell’, was the kiss of death for girlfriends. It took me a while to learn that lesson the hard way!
🙂
That and lack of timing! I was just too busy and so were the great gals who were usually smarter. Always marry a gal who’s smarter than you!
eaglesoars wrote:
The Angels like to keep a VERY low profile. They hate publicity and want the $$$$$ but not the public notoriety. The history of the Angels is interesting. They sprang fully formed in 1946-47 from US returning vets!
@ Aussie Infidel:
I don’t have any idea who to believe. But I find it odd that the Hell’s Angels would head out to support these people in plain sight. I think it’s more likely that they feel they have territory to protect.
I’ve told the story before about my biker friends back in high school and tho that was before God started making dirt, I still don’t see bikers allowing this.
I’ve been wrong before
eaglesoars wrote:
ok not true (??)
https://x.com/AngryCitizenxx/status/1830071819316986361
I just watched Kevin Costner’s epic western Horizon Part 1. It was…interesting.
I have no idea what the hell it was about, since there’s no coherent storyline. It was basically 3 hours of vignettes involving a ton of different characters. Maybe it will all start to come together in Part 2…or Part 3…or the rumored Part 4.
I’m glad I watched it at home. I think I would have been annoyed if I’d just spent 3 hours in a theater and walked out wondering what the hell I just watched.
Part 2 is completed, but they pushed the release date back to November.
coldwarrior wrote:
The All Blacks blew their ‘altitude valve’ with 12 minutes to go. A week at 5,000 feet isn’t even close to enough in true test match rugby against the World Champion ‘boks. Still another great match and the Springboks were deserving of a come from behind win by 4 points. The ABs can’t give the ‘boks a dozen penalities when the ‘boy flyhallf is kicking 60 metre penalties from all over the park!
WE’ll look forward tp the Cape at sea level!
🙂
Who is playing in the Caribbean Cup?
A mate of mine inhabited the edges of the Angels chapter in the top of the North Island. Pete Macxxxx was booted out of home at 15 and the Angels took him under their wing. Pete was an Agricultural Loader Driver for a Top Dressing company and occasional pilot. Rough diamond but a good guy. The Angels were deep into loads of criminal enterprises but they looked after their own. Pete’s sister got married to a non-Angels guy. The Chapter stole a total house load fit out including white-wear beds and even carpets from various burglaries.. The ‘frig was even stocked with food!… to order.
The only time the Angels got bent out of shape was when their ‘patch’ was threatened
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I don’t know what white wear beds are but I just LMAO!
eaglesoars wrote:
Might be a hoax. Xwitter post disappeared.
eaglesoars wrote:
Community Notes: “This TikTok is edited. The original clip said the bikers were heading to Milwaukee.”
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
see my #174
@ Aussie Infidel:
Professional t20.
CPL. it’s yearly like the IPL… A CPL game is on my bucket list.
Aliens are pounding on the door. DON’T OPEN IT!!
Boeing’s Starliner crew are reporting hearing strange “sonar like noises” emanating from the spacecraft
Crews on the International Space Station are trying to identify the source of strange noises reported by Boeing’s Starliner crew, who contacted Mission Control saying, ‘Houston, on two, we have a question about Starliner. We are hearing strange noises coming from the speaker, and we don’t know what’s causing it.’ The Starliner began emitting these ‘strange sonar noises,’ and astronauts on the ISS are working to diagnose the issue, which occurred on Saturday. Since the launched by Boeing on June 5th, the Starliner has faced several problems and significant challenges, temporarily stranding two astronauts. Due to safety concerns, Boeing’s Starliner is set to return on September 6th with no crew on board.
https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1830262176369484135
Just a random Sunday afternoon thought.
I do not think Sparky is a very good name for a Carp.
Sparky is a perfect name for a pet Electric Eel though, but not a Carp.
yep
As a retired military case officer (spy) whose job was to spot, assess and recruit people to spy against their nation for us, there’s no doubt
@Tim_Walz was developed as an agent of CCP/PRC intelligence to be an asset… Walz meets the profile of who they would want… he’s literally a Marxist who would sell out his mother for his ideology…he cannot be trusted…
https://x.com/T_S_P_O_O_K_Y/status/1830316467243409585
Possum wrote:
If I had a pet carp I’d name it Sparky, and if I got a second one to keep the other company I would name it Sparky also to eliminate confusion between the two.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
If I had a pet electric eel I would put it in a box and send it to you, via FedEx or UPS as if it went USPS they would loose it.
In the box I would place a note.
” Hello! my name is Cuddles, please hug me! “
@ Possum:
Probably going to get banned in here for issuing a death threat.
Oh well…
A boring Sunday afternoon technical Windows post for old people.
You ever watch a TV show or a movie where the action sequences are really loud and hurts your old and tired ears but if you turn down the volume then you cannot hear what people are saying in the quiet parts?
There is a solution.
Right click on the sound icon on the task bar. Then left click on “open sound settings” That opens the control panel.
Click on ” device properties ” then find the link under related settings and click on ” Additional device properties ”
That opens another window, select the ” enhancements” tab, check the ” loudness equalization” box then apply.
Quiet parts are then louder and the loud parts are less loud. Evens shit out.
As I got anew computer a couple of days ago had to do this as the movie I am watching is VERY loud when the shooting starts but the quiet times are very quiet.
Or alternatively you could buy a very expensive hearing aid, they do the same trick.
@ Possum:
Odd coincidence. I just stumbled upon the volume equalization on Saturday. Now the missus doesn’t snore as loudly, but my farts wake her up.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Um, I have a strange feeling that it isn’t the loudness of your farts that wake her up.
Cats do not fart, well they may but all that fur muffles the sound.
Natasha wakes me up at about 3-4am.
When she goes and does cat things in the litter box.
eaglesoars wrote:
Whitewear = refrigerators, dishwashers, water heaters, Washing machines, Tumble dryers, TVs, beds, side tables etc.! 🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
More than a wee bit obvious! Walz is an ideologue writ large and from personal experience with the Soviet professionals there is nothing more hated by authoritarian Marxist left than Western Marxist ideologues who are working for the other side and against their own side. The Marxist professionals consider these Western Marxists as traitors to their own side and NOT to be trusted. That was how we got so far because we were NOT ideologues but cultural supporters with not a sniff of ideology. Ten long years undercover told the story! 🙂 It’s hard work running two persona for that long .
🙂
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/heres-why-democrats-want-censor-groks-ai-images
As we highlighted earlier this week, Democrats in the House are attempting to have the FEC issue rules to enable censorship of images created specifically by the Grok, the AI developed by Elon Musk’s X.
@ rain of lead:
Personally I would like any image or video that is produced using AI to have a coloured stripe in one corner indicating it is not real.
That way you could still admire, appreciate, laugh at that creation without it being mis-interpreted.
Not censor images created by AI but they are marked as such.
@ eaglesoars:
We tracked and identified ‘who’s who in the zoo!’ The Soviets thought that NZ was a weak spot and sent the newbie spooks to NZ first because they erroneously assessed NZ as a ‘(ahem) ‘safe’ exposure posting for their post trainee newby spooks. Did they ever get that wrong! The newby spooks were careful but it wasn’t too difficult to ID where in the ‘pecking order they were. The Embassy was a ‘hot-house’ of pressure and it was the families who leaked, as there were very few Kiwis who could be trusted. Non-ideological Kiwis were light on the ground.Once you were trusted and non-ideological the doors opened and over the years opened further and further as families felt comfortable to vent their spleen and decompress to trusted people.
🙂
@ Possum:
an AI watermark?
eh, that would be ok
I just assume everything is fake nowadays
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I forget where I read it. Maybe The Main Enemy? But yes, Russians may be glad to have you working for them, but in their eyes you will always be someone who betrayed your own and not to be trusted.
I love cooking, I knows all about cooking.
For tonight supper I thought about cooking Bombay Duck. I have left over potatoes and curry powder and tomato bouillon and onions and diced tomatoes in a can so I thought I could make a realistic Texas version.
In England the dish Bombay Duck is quite a joke, there is absolutely no duck involved at all. It is a side dish of potatoes in a curry sauce. So I googled a recipe.
Imagine my surprise! The sauce on the potatoes contains fish. A specific kind of fish which is dried then flaked and added to the sauce the potatoes are cooked in.
Looks like Bombay Duck is off the menu tonight. Going to make a chicken curry instead. Slow simmered in a crockpot.
What is the fish that is dried and used to season the wonderful dish I cannot make?
A fish called, wait for it, a Bombay Duck! or Harpadon nehereus if you speak Latin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_duck
( wondering if using a can of sardines in the sauce would work instead, I has cans of sardines, and fancy feast and Friskies pate available )
Damn, the chicken is already included in supper for tonight. Wish I had found this one earlier.
Maybe next Sunday.
https://indiancurrytrail.com/canned-sardine-curry-indian-style/
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukraine-eyes-billions-in-revenue-from-controlled-defense-industry-exports/
Must not be much of a war…
@ Possum:
I’m on that!
eaglesoars wrote:
You misunderstood. I was always working against the Russians but they didn’t realise that. The reason why I was NOT seen as a threat towards them was that I was never an Ideological Marxist from a Western country and therefore I was NOT a traitor to the West. My cover was always cultural and never political. That made me no threat, and I certainly never showed any political leanings, just cultural ones. The hate towards Western Marxist ideologues that was endemic amongst Russian intel professionals didn’t apply to us. We were seen as no threat and we certainly didn’t pick up the Russian Intel professionals’ hate of Western Marxists(who the Russians classed as Western traitors who couldn’t be trusted) that the Russian Intel Intel community found so reprehensible. Over the years we just blended into a cultural background and became invisible. The Russian Intel professionals were proud of having us as non-political average Westerners who happened to love Russian culture. The Russians were actually embarrassed to be in the same function as Western hard core Marxists, whom they considered traitors to Western mores. Loads of belugas caviar, good Russian Vodka and loads of tickets when the Bolshoi was in town. Hell I was even invited to drive their latest Mercedes. I became family friends with the Russian families and observes them at play and when facing the usual day to day angst. They even asked me to do the odd ‘meet and greet’ in Auckland when they had Russian luminaries passing through Auckland, on their way to the capital.
I had the Resident and his wife for dinner one night. That particular Resident was of the ‘dirty fingernail Brigade’ ! They were degenerate arseholes and his Resident’s wife was on the end of his fist on occasion. The dangerous ones were the really smart urban guys and you had to be VERY careful, when at the same time NOT looking that you were being careful! My #1 son at 6 months old was woken by this Neanderthal Resident and was being bounced on the Resident’s knee ‘post dinner’ when #1 son had a brown eruption through a white ‘stretch and grow’ and diaper all over the Residents suit. Externally I was full of apologies and offers to have his suit pants dry-cleaned. Internally I was yelling inside my head….. “that’s my boy there! ….. shit on this piece of *** rubbish!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Isn’t that what I said?
I regret that I have not been posting much, lately. My father passed away Wednesday of last week. This weekend has been tough.
@ Aussie Infidel: The turncoats, the Benedict Arnolds, are never trusted. Not by the side to which they tattle, not to any side. It’s human nature: If he’s betrayed his own side, he can’t be trusted.
eaglesoars wrote:
Part #1 Yes but Part #2 maybe not?
Never met Putin the two times he was in NZ. Once on a trip to Wellington but Putin hopped off the Singapore flight and onto an Air NZ Boeing 737 for Wellington the capital.Loads of photos of him in and around Wellington but not while I was in town!
On Putin’s second visit, he was sent from Singapore where he’d been on posting, to investigate the loss of the Russian Cruise ship the MV Lermentov. Totally accidentally I happened to have be aboard the MV Lermentov when it was berthed in Auckland immediately prior to its terminal sailing. Just a single casualty, a Russian Engineering Officer who drowned at his station. The hundreds of Australian pensioners aboard were all efficiently got into the lifeboats before the ship rolled onto its side and sank near Queen Charlotte Sound at the top of the South Island. The blame was with the Kiwi marine pilot, who had a rush of blood to the head and decided to take a ‘short cut’ between the top of the South Island and some offshore large rocks of small islands! He drove the MV Lermentov onto a reef at speed and tore the guts out of the ship! And NO it wasn’t my fault!
🙂
Or, he / she is a useful idiot. Once the usefulness has come to an end ? Good bye.
@ Canoe Convoy:
I’m sorry for your loss.
Prayers for you and the family.
Canoe Convoy wrote:
Sorry to hear about your dad. It’s always hard!
100% correct. If turncoats can’t be trusted by their own then they are totally untrustworthy by everyone, including the enemy!
Canoe Convoy wrote:
That’s a rough one. Condolences.
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@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Some of us normal people need sleep!
Feeling very smug and satisfied with myself.
At the end of July I bought a $29 fan which stands next to me while I am playing on the computer wafting a gentle breeze and keeping me cool. I do not need the AC on even when it is in the 90s. Also not having AC on means patio door can remain open all day and the cats can sit and watch the World go by or sleep on the balcony.
August results are in.
August 2023 usage 1,081 kWh
August 2024 usage 395 kWh
@ Canoe Convoy:
O gosh, I’m so very sorry. I hope you’re not alone. Here’s a hug [hug]
Here’s an interesting thread on how spacesuits are made. It’s a YIKES! kind of read
https://x.com/TheAttagirls/status/1830493371187511430
Churches in France are still being torched
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1830604585091899680
We have apparently seized Maduro’s plane in the Dominican Republic and are flying it to Florida. No idea who is on the plane
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1830637436789284892
@ eaglesoars:
U.S. says planes purchase violated sanctions
The finalists of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
fun thread
https://x.com/fopminui/status/1830668437414449550
JUST IN – Several cars in Tim Walz’s motorcade have crashed on the way to an event in Milwaukee — DailyMail
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1830673477109477688
@ eaglesoars:
just reporters nobody cares
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13804567/Trump-Biden-Kamala-2024-general-election.html
A Monday afternoon thought. It may be interesting for pilots or people that live in their mother’s basement and play video games with a joystick all day and night.
The Airbus aircraft do not have a steering wheel that the pilots can hang onto like in the movies where they are sweating profusely as the plane plummets towards the Earth and they are yelling at each other ” Pull up! ”
Airbus has a tiny joystick at the side of the cockpit. Just like a cheap video game uses. Seems to work ok.
Now, my thought is, when in training and then becoming a first officer you sit on the right side of the cockpit. Thus you use your right hand to fly the aircraft. It takes years sitting in the right seat before you are qualified to be a captain.
The captain sits in the left seat, and so the left hand seat person uses their left hand to fly the aircraft. A newly qualified captain is dangerous.
Don’t know about anyone else but after many years using my right hand to do something then having to use my left hand instead would be next to impossible to do instinctively.
@ Possum:
A simple test. Get a pen and a sheet of paper.
Place the pen in the opposite hand you normally write with then try writing.
This does not apply to left handed Catholics as they are ambidextrous, they had the left handedness beaten out of them when they were small children. Only for it to return in later life.
Possum wrote:
Possum 2
Bunk 2
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I was distracted. I was having an afternoon thought and ordering flea medication. Two 1oz bottles for the cats and a 16oz sqweezy bottle for me.
I think I can get it on the back of my neck without help, so don’t worry, I got this.
RFK 3 min video explaining the Ukraine war. It’s makes sense except I’m not sure Blackrock owns Monsanto etc. I shall be checking
https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1830684452479267042
Back to the takeover of Aurora CO by Venezuelan gangs…
https://www.denverpost.com/2024/08/30/aurora-venezuelan-gang-fact-check-tren-de-aragua/
@ eaglesoars:
Blackrock does hold more Monsanto stock than anyone else but we’re still talking single digits
https://www.streetinsider.com/holdings.php?q=mon
@ eaglesoars:
Well that ties into what I said at the start of this thread. After the threat of communism taking over the world was gone why is Russia still regarded as the enemy?
@ Possum:
Why do I need flea medication? The little fuggers are jumping onto my socks and biting my feet and lower legs.
As the patio door is open all the time now I am not using AC then the mosquitoes are taking the care of the rest of my body.
Thinking of taking an iron supplement because a few days more of this I will be anemic.
Ooof
BREAKING: Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has ruled that illegal immigrants do not have the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.
https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/1830680870962823265
@ eaglesoars:
YES THEY DO!!!!!!!
I knows this shit.
The 2nd amendment is one of the ten amendments that is the bill of rights.
The bill of rights applies to EVERYONE on American soil regardless of their immigration status. That even applies to someone from Finland taking a week vacation at Disneyland.
Now, that is where STATE law takes over, a tourist can be banned from purchasing or carrying a gun.
See where I am going with this?
@ Possum:
That is why Guantanamo exists, to circumvent the bill of rights. If the prisoners were detained in the USA they would have rights. Like the speedy trial stuff.
2024 citizen questions straight out of the horses mouth. USCIS which you lot never have to deal with.
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/questions-and-answers/100q.pdf
The answers are given in italics. Now don’t cheat, you need to get 95 out of 100 to become an American citizen. You get less than that and as a current American citizen you should be kicked out of this fine country.
Question 51 is what I am talking about.
Possum wrote:
I am honestly not sure. I’d like someone like Dershowitz to talk about it
@ eaglesoars:
The constitution and the bill of rights is a legal minefield. I just know bits about it because it is the requirement to become a citizen.
That ain’t happening. They make you sing the national anthem at the ceremony.
NOPE!!!!! Not singing in public, Green card is fine, no singing required.
And just to add more confusion before I go for my afternoon nap and set my alarm for 2am EST so as to play the game.
An example of how the constitution and the bill of rights is outdated and how states can circumvent it.
2nd amendment and right to bear arms.
But not if you are a convicted felon on parole, or in some states for five years after your release from prison, or in some states never again.
Seems like state laws override the bill of rights.
sometimes…
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Actually it is still 2 to the Possum and 1 to you.
That foul you did at August 27, 2024 10:00 pm is subtracted from your points.
I has proof.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2024/08/27/mom-dad-and-sparky/#comment-112131
If nobody minds I would really take a much needed nap now.
Spreadsheet is indicating calories consumed so far is 1007. Carbs are at 38g.
And I have not eaten today!
*burp*
https://patriots.win/p/1994faPDLL/yup-elon-has-go-fuck-yourself-mo/c
Elons new paint job on his jet
@ rain of lead:
well it should be
@ eaglesoars:
Those are all from 2020.
https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
REALLY??!!
Anyhoo, we’ve all seen this before. Germany. The AfD is the anti-immigration party
The AfD were set to win a parliamentary blocking majority, but then a ‘counting miscalculation’ took away the single seat required to do so.
https://x.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1830696984610586939
Possum wrote:
Correction noted. I had teh sleepys.
rain of lead wrote:
lol city
OMG
HOW EMBARRASING! Kamala Harris propagandist and professional race hustler
@rolandsmartin
was watching BLACK GAY PORN while taping an episode of his podcast, and forgot to edit it out of the final release!
https://x.com/joma_gc/status/1830608946371207459
The oldest olive tree in the world. 3500 yrs. Crete.
https://x.com/Greenisamissio1/status/1830549563993632954
-TV app is now available on LG, Amazon Fire TV, and Google TVs.
https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1830734952448610371
@ rain of lead:
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Uh-oh. The Xwitter account says Not Elon Musk / @iamnot_elon
@ eaglesoars:
Thank you. Unfortunately, I’m alone right now. I missed the funeral, and I expect to be at the visitation & Memorial this upcoming weekend.
@ Possum:
Universal rights.
@ Canoe Convoy:
Dude, my condolences.
I’m facing this with G’ma n Papap Coldwarrior. They are in great health…pushing 80…
When Mrs coldwarrior parents died my mom and dad sat her down and told her not to worry, they will be mom and dad to her.
And they have.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Thank you
I now officially have 3 teen age girls…birthday for the twinz
Pray for me.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Thank you
Canoe Convoy wrote:
That just sucks.
coldwarrior wrote:
Abandon all hope………
eaglesoars wrote:
All ye who enter here…
Dante…
@ coldwarrior:
Thank you
Almost done setting up the music room. The girls all play.
Sound test reveals I need a carpet to soften the sound…yet Devo sounds perfect.
The older I get, the more Dylan and Devo make sense.
Canoe Convoy wrote:
I dread what’s coming. Be strong. Take care of you first.
coldwarrior wrote:
Idiot Wind is my favorite Dylan song. Devo’s cover of Workin’ In A Coalmine is awesome.
Possum wrote:
I think there may be a difference between legal and illegal here
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Spuds make more and more sense.
The Clash, Dylan, and oddly Devo. I love some dead…Marley…
The kids are digging some Jimmy Buffet and adore Phish. All 3 of em are pretty good musicians, they didn’t get talent from me.
uh Aussie?
Has Tanya Plibersek lost her marbles?
Australia is building a monstrous solar farm to send power to Singapore via underwater cables.
It’s not cheap. It’s not green. It’s not in the public interest.
Why is it happening?
https://x.com/ellymelly/status/1830556961026564185
CHICAGO!!??
BREAKING: A group of 32 armed Venezualans took over an apartment building in Chicago tonight. Here’s the audio of the 911 dispatch call.
First they did this in Aurora, CO and now Chicago? Which city will be next?
This invasion happened on Kamala’s watch.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1830807423206015453
@ eaglesoars:
Umm…because somebody’s making a shitload of money from it?
Wow — San Francisco TV station is running a story that Harris committed a felony hit and run 13 years ago in her first year as Attorney General.
The injuries to the young woman are certainly capable of being verified with medical records.
The only witness seems to be her now passed mother who was with her at the time.
If this goes anywhere, the election is over.
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1831002130511167541
@ eaglesoars:
there is something fishy about the supposed radio station. Shipwreckedcrew is taking down the tweet
Ex-Hochul and Cuomo aide and husband worked as foreign agents for China, splashed out millions on mansion, Hawaii condo, and Ferrari: Feds
https://nypost.com/2024/09/03/us-news/ex-hochul-and-cuomo-aide-husband-acted-as-foreign-agents-for-china-bombshell-indictment/
copies of indictments at the link
@ eaglesoars:
The 2nd does not make the distinction so that is why I say the ruling is not correct.
Now as to what I feel is correct is the application of statutes, laws, restrictions being imposed that modify the intention of the amendments.
2nd says ” Every person has the right to bear arms ”
But, then we have the hundreds of laws that say ” except for people who.. ”
I doubt an illegal invader would pass the FBI background check for example.
@ Possum:
Correct. On the ATF Form 4473, Question 21L asks “Are you an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States?” Checking Yes is an automatic denial.
Question 21M asks if you are an alien admitted on a non-immigrant visa. Again, a Yes answer is disqualifying.
@ lobo91:
That question 21M also stops the person from Finland on a week vacation to Disneyland getting a gun.
Hey I can get a gun!!!!!
I am not a citizen. Not getting one though as I would probably shoot some toes off, or scare the cats first time I got it out of its box.
The thing that really makes me smile is the fact that Jose Paz Medina-Cantu who appealed to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was told that Second Amendment rights do not apply to those who have entered the country illegally.
So illegals have no rights?
LOL that illegal who had no rights as to the 2nd had the right and was granted the right to appeal his conviction to the Court of Appeals.
Oh well, send him back to where he comes from again.
@ Possum:
Yes, you can
eaglesoars wrote:
The “station” website has only been up for a couple of weeks. Never mind that its call letters aren’t assigned to any station.
@ Possum:
It’s not an all or nothing deal. Illegals don’t have the right to own a gun. That doesn’t mean that they have NO rights. He was afforded the same rights under the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments as anyone else at his trial.
Just got back from the clinic. Coming home via Pacific Coast Hwy. we pass a high-rent housing tract by some wetlands, and many of the 2-story homes fly flags. Now there are campaign flags, most for Trump/Vance, several for Harris/Walz, and the one at the end is for Hawk/Tuah.
I’ll get a photo next time.
@ lobo91:
I do not think I explained it correctly.
Anyone on US soil is protected by the bill of rights regardless of their immigration status.
But there are other laws which are on top of those amendments. The 2nd specifically. Jose Paz Medina-Cantu was deported previously. That means a convicted felon.
When he re-entered the USA his right to own a firearm was against the law!
If he had entered the USA armed with a leaf blower then he would be OK.
Throwing the second amendment rights into this case was not appropriate. It is not a second amendment issue.
Look at the comments on the X eagle posted. 100% pro or against guns. and most on both sides got it wrong.
I wish gun control was 1776 type guns. Watching Chicago gang members doing a drive by shooting while re-loading their muskets would be awesome.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hawk Tuah did not initiate this.
She was videoed by some other person and it went viral.
She is using her 15minutes to have fun and raising money for animals.
Also if you watch her videos she is a real person.
@ Possum:
His lawyer made it one. That’s who raised the 2nd Amendment question
I need to go into assisted living, or somewhere I can get fed.
Cannot seem to get a grocery order right.
Today it arrived, beer, wine, bread, cat treats. So a grilled cheese sandwich or three and a nice bowl of tomato soup is on the menu
Um, no cheese to be found and tomato soup is long gone.
Options here are chicken curry sandwiches or a bowl of breakfast cereal with out of date milk.
( I really cannot remember where the cheese went )
Has anybody heard Kamala trying out a ‘black’ accent? Funny as hell and utterly pathetic
here ya go
https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1830683943332651457
why is it totalitarians know nothing about economics?
British car sellers are now having to RATION the sales of fossil fuel cars in order to meet Net Zero targets.
If they fail to sell a certain amount of electric cars they will receive massive fines for every car sold.
This means that people wanting to buy a combustion engine car have to wait in order to get their cars, and EVs are being sold at discounted prices.
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1831082682782228514
Possum wrote:
Duh.
eaglesoars wrote:
Would have been funnier if she spoke yinzer in Pburgh.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
What duh?
If you researched how this all started you need to watch this and understand the context. Someone interviewing drunk and happy ladies and asking them explicate questions. All of them trying to be as funny/nasty as they can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7tydu_erZo
hailey welch first appears around the 7 minute mark. She does not appear to want to play but finally returns to the interviewer at around 9 minutes.
The 10 second clip from that video went viral. She did not initiate it.
Someone else made her famous, she did not instigate this fame but good luck to her and the animal causes she is fund raising for.
@ Possum:
I said ‘duh” because it’s old news and I have an attitude. Almost nap time.
BTW, my weight is down to 199 lbs., bp 109/68, glucose is just a tad over the normal range. Platelets are too low, but that’s due to Avastin. Onkydoc said my last CT scan looked good, but he thinks something’s going to wake up within a few months.
This is …. odd
American and Iraqi commandos raided Islamic State hide-outs in western Iraq last week, killing at least 14 ISIS fighters in one of the most sweeping counterterrorism missions in the country in recent years.
https://x.com/nytimes/status/1831175541757473132
so we still have astronauts stranded in space?
ok this is fine
we suck canal water
nite
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I am gaining weight again and I know what is causing it.
New computer only has last six days of data. Average calories per day is 2508 which is way more than my goal of 1500.
However calories due to food is 1121 per day.
Alcohol consumption has creeped up again. I am drinking more calories than I eat. And it shows not only on the spreadsheet but the weighing scale.
It just gets better and better. The “protective detail” Trump had was given two hours of online training:
lobo91 wrote:
And Biden can’t go out in public because it’s too dangerous.
L.A. street takeovers are becoming more common, and now some vigilantes are on the scene.
https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1831419006961734060
I found something to pass my time on a cool 87F Wednesday afternoon.
Started watching a movie on Tubi and during the opening credits a voice was describing the columbia logo.
” wearing a roman toga she holds a torch aloft… ” I thought WTF is this?
Turns out the audio was set to English with audio descriptions. Anyway left that setting on and it is like listening to an audio book. I am impressed and the audio descriptions are pointing out things that I would have missed by just watching.
Tubi is free and you do not need to register an account. If you do you can save lists of what to watch and save settings but it works without that.
Movie looks like it may end up being crap, but it is an example. Just watch/listen to first couple of minutes.
https://tubitv.com/movies/100001132/total-recall
Possum wrote:
4:45pm, +95 degrees here. I made myself some shorts out of a ratty pair of jeans, soaked one of the cutoff legs and am using it as a doo rag in front of a fan on high. I’m a human swamp cooler.
Look at this short (30 sec) video? Who is it? Many say Tim Walz. I think so. Did anybody vet this guy?
https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1831512714432180352
So the Georgia shooter had been on the FBI’s radar and they did…..?
Well, hopefully the other elections go well. Tester is going to be safe now. Our candidate just shot himself in the metaphorical foot.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
wat happened? Tester is a joke
Well, thinking of what to eat for supper.
I have peaches, banana, canned tuna, sardines and mayo.
Google any combination of those ingredients and there is a recipe.
I also have a cheap bottle of Merlot and a 30 pack of Busch light.
Probably supper is going to be a liquid supper. Less chance of vomiting.
One thing I did find while researching supper was this.
https://sabrepetfood.co.uk/products/sardine-with-banana-complete-wet-food-can-for-cats-200g?variant=42534561382591
Here Natasha! I made you supper.
I wish I had videoed it.
Hawk Tuah cat after one sniff….
So, sardines and banana is not something a cat desires.
Maybe I should try sardines and peaches.
@ Possum:
We don’t have cat but I might order a can based on the description alone.
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@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You really got to get a life
@ Possum:
I had a nap.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
if they were doing donuts on pride flags, they’d be arrested.
@ right_wing2:
Some idiots got squished, and at least one of the presumed survivors has bendy legs.
https://x.com/i/status/1736793783470272556
eaglesoars wrote:
Plibersek REALLY IS batshit crazy. Poor girl was always a bit dim but even for a raging leftish political crazy, she is now actually mentally unwell. Someone has to take responsibility for her and get her into a mental institution where she can get the treatment she deserves.
The Federal leader of the Liberal (Conservative) National coalition opposition is using the power to force State Liberal Parties …. namely the Victorian, NSW, and Western Australian State Liberal Parties to reorganize their Party processes. These State Liberal Parties, over the past 3 electoral cycles, have allowed a provable infiltration of covert hard left capture of the candidate selection process. Currently the State NSW Liberal Party has had its independent control partially taken under control of the Federal Party. This is to rectify the charges that an active policy program has been ignited by a hostile covert group to seize control of candidate selection process for at least the past 3 electoral cycles in the NSW State Liberal Party.
lobo91 wrote:
Yet the Acting Director of the USSS said in a Congressional hearing under oath that the nominal USSS team was the normal USSS team working with Trump when the attempted assassination took place. Obviously he lied under oath. Why has he not been charges?
Hunter Biden just changed his plea in the tax evasion case to guilty.
@ lobo91:
because he knows he’s getting nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Once he’s convicted of something The Big Guy will pardon him
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hey Bunk, this is an article that may interest you. Also, what is an orthostate?
This is how a 150-ton stone was moved thousands of years ago to complete the Dolmen of Menga
A study reveals the advanced mathematical, astronomical and geological knowledge that was used to build one of humanity’s first stone buildings, located in southern Spain
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-08-31/this-is-how-a-150-ton-stone-was-moved-thousands-of-years-ago-to-complete-the-dolmen-of-menga.html
Well, hopefully the other elections go well. Tester is going to be safe now. Our candidate just shot himself in the metaphorical foot.eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/montanas-tim-sheehy-hopes-flip-211758267.html
Happened twice.
But, todays polling data has him with a big lead over Tester still.
Good Afternoon!
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Boy those injuns sure are the real sensitive types aren’t they?
I don’t believe for a minute that anyone would be insulted by that
The local law enforcement will not co-operate with ICE which makes Fairfax County Virginia very attractive for illegal scum and was a big reason we left
Previously Deported Illegal Kept Young Boys Chained to Bed Near D.C.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/09/05/previously-deported-illegal-kept-young-boys-chained-to-bed-near-d-c/?feed_id=18183&_unique_id=66da00146ad39
Maybe California will finally fall into the sea.
video at the link
DEVELOPING: MASSIVE CRACKS IN THE GROUND ARE STARTING TO FORM BENEATH LAS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
https://x.com/MattWallace888/status/1831790013904003481
I despise this man
The world’s largest mosquito factory is in Medellin, Colombia and its funded by Bill Gates
They breed 30 million mosquitos per week that are genetically modified and intentionally released in 11 different countries
https://x.com/MmisterNobody/status/1831790725966746053
eaglesoars wrote:
Had to look it up on the google. It’s a stone slab placed vertically to support horizontal roof slabs. Reverse-engineering Neolithic structures is fascinating guesswork.
Possum wrote:
ISWYDT
I was on my way up Coast Hwy to take a picture of a Hawk Tuah flag but the missus wouldn’t pull over and hit the gas instead.
heh
https://nypost.com/2024/09/05/us-news/top-spokesman-for-manhattan-us-attorneys-office-caught-on-secret-recording-blasting-da-bragg-over-trump-prosecution/
eaglesoars wrote:
Matt Wallace is about 85 years late to the story. The soils under Palos Verdes Peninsula have been moving since they first began building there. Although the bluffs were stablized and re-stabilized over the decades, soils engineers recently discovered the slip line is much deeper than they thought, and now things are moving fast. Gas lines were rupturing so service was cut off a month ago; electrical was shut off a day or so ago. Retirees’ multi-million dollar homes are now worth zip.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Alpha Structural is a construction company trying to do retrofit solutions, they post pictures on FB. Lotta crap construction by amateurs on some of those old homes.
I haven’t seen any damaged orthostates. Yet.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Lemme guess. Insurance ain’t gonna cover this.
Looks like that Georgia shooter’s mom is a druggie and absent and Daddy isn’t on site, altho he DID buy him the gun.
JUST IN: President Biden admits that the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ was not actually about inflation after he started ranting without the teleprompter.
Holy sh*t.
Biden said the Inflation Reduction Act was actually about funding Climate Change efforts and said the Act should have actually been named something different.
“Through my investments, the most significant climate change law ever. And by the way, it is a $369 billion bill.”
“It’s called the [Inflation Reduction Act]. We should have named it what it was.”
CLIMATE CHANGE!!
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1831788288384102848?
eaglesoars wrote:
And he’s being charged with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter
eaglesoars wrote:
Honestly, they aren’t. But, it gives them cover when they miraculously have 100% turnout from the reservation in favor of Tester again.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
$$$$
Guys, it’s not a win that the J6 case against Donald Trump is not going to trial before the election.
What Chutkan did today by taking the rare—unprecedented?—step of allowing DOJ to file an “opening brief” on additional immunity questions is a way to put Trump on trial without a jury and little recourse.
Tom Windom, Smith’s prosecutor, told Chutkan the brief would be “comprehensive.” The document will include grand jury transcripts, 302s (FBI) and other cherry picked “evidence” to salvage the “Big Lie” narrative as people start to vote.
You can GUARANTEE DOJ will release new bombshells to put Trump on the defensive and create damaging headlines.
It’s a paper trial but without cross examination, defense witnesses, or other due process rights.
Nothing to celebrate.
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1831836212539097322
eaglesoars wrote:
They don’t even bother with that. They have a big op on the res where they just deliver all the ballots and fill them out there. No voting required on the part of the people.
Oh any you thought “they’d tax the air we breathe” was a joke…
https://americanstewards.us/usda-is-monetizing-natural-processes-under-the-sustains-act/
The USDA is preparing policy to implement the Sustains Act, determining who will own “environmental services,” which include the air we breathe, photosynthesis, pollination, and the health benefits of open space.
eaglesoars wrote:
Act of God.
The land is worthless too.
I gather the NFL opened the season not with the National Anthem but with the BLACK national anthem
I gave up on pro football when the Steelers signed the dog killer
341
“I couldn’t wait for all the Hunter Biden interviews so I made my own.”
Estee Palti @mommym88
https://x.com/i/status/1831858887961760186
@ eaglesoars:
Trusted sources within NYC Emergency Services have leaked to me that selected units of the NY Guard have been issued Warning orders to provide security for the NYC Court where Trump will be sentenced on Sept 16. It appears that the rumours that Trump will be held and transported to Reickers immediately post sentencing.
If these ‘Firefighters scuttle-butt’ is valid then the Court where Trump will be sentenced on Sept. 16th will indeed need quite a few members of the Guard!
Suspiciously this thread has been allowed to go on way past 300. I suspect it is due to the fact someone needed an extra point and made sure one was available to be had when the competition was curled up in bed with his cats.
That may be an unfounded accusation.
OK news for space flight enthusiasts. The Boeing thing is due to depart the ISS at 5:45 p.m. ET on Sept. 6, with a landing planned for ~12 a.m. ET on Sept. 7
Watch live here.
https://www.boeing.com/space/starliner/launch/index.html#watch
Oh, and the meal of today and tomorrow and probably Sunday is going to be Paella.
No green peppers or shrimp is available but a can of that expensive $2 chunk tuna will substitute.
Or sardines!!!!!
MuppetsThe Warning take Manhattan! Earlier this morning in Times Square:Possum wrote:
you may be right!
NEW THReAD
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I saw a video of a guy walkin in NYC noticing military and he talked to them about it – they surmised it was about the sentencing
Moot point now I guess as the judge has delayed sentencing
@ eaglesoars:
Maybe Merchan decided that he didn’t want to go down in history as the person who started the second Civil War
Possum wrote:
It is. Other nefarious methods are available for exploitation, but some of us have ethics and odd sleeping schedules.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yet again he may be wrong.
Pump No. 111 disconnected yesterday AM and someone has the backaches.
@ eaglesoars:
That’s… confusing.
I know, legalese and FedSpeak.