Factory demolition, Châlons-en-Champagne, France (Eric Tabuchi).
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Demolition
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 299 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at April 13th, 2025 - 6:19 am
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Play nice!
ahhh…fresh thread smell
AHAHAHAHAHA!!
BREAKING: Ukrainian President Zelensky demands that President Trump “visit” Ukraine before any negotiations can move forward.
Yeah, no
https://x.com/GeneralMCNews/status/1911562255117754777
test… test… Is this thing on?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Nope, it has been broken for weeks.
@ Possum:
That’s what I thought. I’m gonna listen to BIN on I Heart Radio instead.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Or not. Off to see the pretty nurses instead. The Black Information Network is kind of boring.
@ lobo91:
Great answer!
@ lobo91:
FUCK YOU would have been a lot shorter
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
So who were the turncoats within the Supreme Court this time? Roberts and the standard triple are obvious but to garner a majority there must have been some other turncoats arsewipes spinning their webs of receipt ?
🙂
I thought that was the WH Chief of staff was Susie Wiles? Who in hell is Stephen Miller when he’s pretending to be the CoS? I know who Miller is of course but what happened to Susie Wiles?
eaglesoars wrote:
So who in hell does Zelenskyy think he is now? Another pretender for the crown of Chief of Staff at the WH. I Know Zelenskyy thinks he’s a world famous degenerate comic, but get a grip on your runaway ego, numb nuts!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I dunno. I don’t even care anymore. Trump has the bit in his teeth and he’s running with it. I never saw judges make themselves so irrelevant so fast.
According to the Saudi-based Gulf Research Center and several Arab media outlets, the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), the internationally recognized government of Yemen supported by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Nations, is massing upwards of 80,000 troops for a major offensive to retake the Houthi-controlled port city of Hodeidah on the western coast of Yemen.
This would be by far the largest offensive of the ongoing Yemeni Civil War, which has seen the PLC and its allies in the Southern Transitional Council and the Yemeni National Resistance slowly grow in firepower and influence since 2017. The capture of Hodeidah would effectively surround the Iranian-backed Houthis in Western Yemen, enabling future operations to retake the capital of Sana’a which has been under Houthi control since the war began in 2014.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1911937958468341841
Canadian PM Mark Carney dresses up in Sikh clothing to celebrate the Sikh holiday of Vaisakhi.
Carney served food to Ottawa’s Sikh community while Christian’s accross Canada took part in Palm Sunday celebrations.
He made no mention of Palm Sunday.
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1911682423420596287
ROTHERHAM GROOMING GANG SCANDAL JUST GOT EVEN DARKER
While the victims of industrial-scale child rape in Rotherham STILL wait for justice…
While Labour BACKTRACKS on its promise of a full independent inquiry…
The monsters who destroyed lives?
They’ve been handed over £600,000 in legal aid.
https://x.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1911659805757841901
Apologies if I’ve posted this already
Here is Norm Eisen on MSNBC literally telling you the entire playbook back in February of 2025.
He said he would file 100 lawsuits against the administration and over 150 of seven filed.
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1911643036095766971
He said those lawsuits would be accompanied by “peaceful protesters” and they were as soon as he filed the treasury one.
Just as he prescribed in is 2019 manual about “protecting democracy” which should have been called how to launch a color revolution.
Cringe Alert.
https://x.com/iam_smx/status/1911786291424805226
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
They were a glorified artillery shell
Elephants at the San Diego Zoo reacted to the 5.2 earthquake.
https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1912026511860711843
coldwarrior wrote:
Would have been cheaper and more entertaining to toss them all into the Vomit Comet for an hour or so.
These people are insane!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/04/15/police-arrest-man-for-threatening-tulsi-gabbard-n2655531
I just read that
Karmelo Anthony’s family, following his murder charge in the killing of Austin Metcalf, plans to use $400,000 in donations to buy a new home and hire security amid alleged “racist threats.”
Allegedly they have already moved into a massive 3500 square-foot home valued at over 800K that they are renting from Indian investors out of Frisco.
This is what GiveSendGo did.
https://x.com/Arkypatriot/status/1912180786431693015
@ right_wing2:
Oh look! It’s the Amish again!
I wonder if he’s a convert
????
NEW: Russia’s mysterious “Doomsday” radio station UVB-76 has just broadcast four cryptic messages in the span of 24 hours: Neptune, Thymus, Foxcloak, and Nootabucks, Russian media reports say.
No one in the civilian world has a clue what they mean — which, of course, is likely the whole point.
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1912126235976864222
@ eaglesoars:
My distant cousin Possuminski is in charge of the messages broadcast.
He has been on a three day drunken vodka fueled binge and was just having a laugh.
A food post.
If I had financial backing I would develop an MRI machine for Avocados. It would involve accurately weighing the Avocado then using very powerful magnets to scan the Avocado and calculate the amount of flesh and the size of the lump.
Then it would print a bar code and a price and stick it on the Avocado and a person could then take it to the checkout and pay the price of just the yummy part.
Reason. I was buying the small Avocados for $0.78 and they had the thing inside about the size of a grape. When dismantled the flesh weighed about 100g.
Bought a big (H)ass Avocado for $3.50 intending to use it for two meals and stuff it with Tuna, decoratively.
The big Avocado had a thing in the middle the size of a golf ball and yielded 154g of flesh.
Using the immortal words of the song by The Who.
Won’t get fooled again……
@ Possum:
And, no. I am not gay.
I actually like the damn things!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s an old short wave station, we still use them too.
A food post and intense intestinal distress.
A week or so, maybe longer I got a carton of Eggland’s Best high vitamins eggs. The hens are fed a special diet. Makes the eggs more nutritious they say.
Did a side by side taste test and I could not taste any difference. Boiled two of them, the last two regular eggs and two Egglands. Made them into devilled eggs and got the shits.
A couple of days later had scrambled eggs and bacon. Got the shits.
Sunday made fried eggs, two, and served with ham. Got the shits.
Intestines have healed. Now for final test. A juicy 1/4 beef Pattie with cheese, no bun, and the remaining two Eggland eggs, fried shiny side up. For lunch. Plus a lettuce salad, no tomatoes they ain’t quite ready.
I am not allergic to anything, no food allergies, nothing.
Next 12 hours should be interesting.
Possum wrote:
Took me a while to figure out I needed to salt them a tad to find the flavor. I still don’t eat them because I don’t need people asking about my pronouns.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
YEP! a light sprinkling of salt makes all the difference.
Plus mayo and the expensive chunk tuna in olive oil, or sauté shrimp.
The Keto diet is awesome, you get to eat all the good stuff. Still bouncing in and out of ketosis as I have cut down on beer and no wine but I am not disciplined enough to quit drinking alcohol completely.
( Plus a sober Possum is a boring Possum )
Possum wrote:
high vitamin eggs? I’ve seen ‘omega-3’ eggs (from Eggland – they feed the chickens flax seeds) – but never high vitamin
eaglesoars wrote:
These eggs.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Eggland-s-Best-Large-White-Eggs-12-Count/10324125
So remember when I sustained a concussion because for some unknown reason I just fainted and hit my head?
At first they thought it was because of some weird mechanism of the vagus nerve called vasovagal syncope. It controls blood pressure and for some reason mine decided not to do that for a second or so.
Not quite.
I had a heart attack. The EKG was EXPLICIT. ‘myocardial infarction’. I don’t know why this wasn’t picked up in the hospital, they kept looking at the brain bleeds
*sigh*
I never felt a thing before or after. No chest pain, nothing in my left side, no dizziness, nothing.
Mtg w/the cardiologist should be fun.
@ Possum:
Now, I posted this before so sorry if it is boring.
Eggland also sells chicken food so you can have your own backyard chickens lay nice eggs.
What made me laugh was they feed the chickens marigold flowers, bright yellow, and that “natural” ingredient gets into the yolks making them more yellow!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Eggland-s-Best-Egg-Layer-Mini-Pellets-Chicken-Food-40-lbs/400370043
An ingredient is “Tagetes (Aztec Marigold) Meal (Color)”
Full ingredients they feed their hens is here, and maybe one of those ingredients causes me intestinal distress.
Usual way to identify an ingredient that causes a reaction or allergy is to gradually reduce intake of each allergen to identify the trigger.
Good luck identifying which on this list gives me the shits!
All natural ingredients!
Deadly Nightshade is also 100% natural and organic.
Possum wrote:
Oh, that’s just their ‘normal’ egg w/adverts on the carton. They’re my go-to egg except when things go nuts and prices skyrocket.
@ eaglesoars:
A blood test can detect a heart attack even with no symptoms. CW is the expert.
I just remember there are enzymes in the blood after one that are present when dead heart muscle is being processed.
Anyway, as per usual, I did not want beef patties and eggs once cooked. The eggs were boiled. So it is in the fridge now.
Wanted chicken drumsticks! Order placed with Walmart and they just arrived, plus 2.5lbs of chuck roast, I have baking powder!
Four chicken drumsticks are now in the slow cooker on high with chicken stock and a huge squirt of Siracha, skin secured with tooth picks, where they will reside for a couple of hours before air frying to perfection.
Down side is Walmart also delivered a 30 pack of beer.
I have no will power.
eaglesoars wrote:
Negative troponin, no heart attack
@ Possum:
Troponin
Possum wrote:
looks like a bunch of vitamins. I used to have to follow labeling standards in agriculture. They’re absurd.
coldwarrior wrote:
which would have shown up in a blood test. But the concussion addled my memory and I don’t remember if they did a blood test.
eaglesoars wrote:
They did.
coldwarrior wrote:
then they didn’t fucking look at it
Oh noes!
BREAKING: The Federal Finance Housing agency has sent a criminal referral to the DOJ alleging that New York AG Letitia James has committed mortgage fraud.
https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1912289288399573146
Anyway…………..
Possum wrote:
I was looking for magnesium hydroxide. It’s what’s in the gummy snacks that the missus thought I might enjoy.
I passed… literally.
eaglesoars wrote:
I have that problem with some of my docs. Lack of communication between them makes me the conduit. I also found that some don’t read their emails.
I’m going to be 2-1/2 months without Avastin at the end of my current infusion. That’s the capillary inhibitor that keeps cells from regenerating and small lacerations from healing up. I take that as a good sign.
huh
https://patriots.win/p/19AxC2gXZd/-breaking-uk-supreme-court-rules/c
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Then so do I.
@ rain of lead:
Let the wailing begin
@ eaglesoars:
Hope your sitch is just a one-off fluke.
So now ‘someone’ is coming after our dogs because of their ‘environmental impact’.
Yeah, that should take care of any overpopulation concerns
I’m not referring to the dog population
https://x.com/Rothmus/status/1912318707205894303
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Thanks. I imagine the cardio guys will have something to say. The only bad habit I have is smoking so I’m betting nicotine gum is in my future.
He did what??
federal judge James Boasberg who said in an order today that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt over the deportation flights that it sent to El Salvador.
https://x.com/DougWahl1/status/1912548053627642285
I thought SCOTUS ruled on this garbage
eaglesoars wrote:
That Velo stuff isn’t too bad. Tuck a tab up under your lip like the hot Scandi chicks do.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
never heard of it, what is is?
A new study conducted by animal behavior and mammalian cognition experts at the Universities of Lincoln and Sussex, and Jean Monnet University, reveals that dogs may be far better at understanding human speech than previously understood.
The group’s research paper, “Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) recognize meaningful content in monotonous streams of read speech,” published in Animal Cognition, explains that dogs actually “listen in” when we are speaking, even if the speech is not directed at them. According to the findings, dogs possess the neurological capacity to passively sift through information and commands relevant to them when humans are talking.
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-ears-reveals-dogs-remarkable-ability.html
They just figured this out? Why do they think every dog own in the world has to spell ‘walk’?
I didn’t know there was a blog about the Chinese legal system but there is. This guy helps American (and European?) companies do business in China and boy is it a minefield.
And corrupt. Fascinating read even tho it’s a few years old
https://harris-sliwoski.com/chinalawblog/how-to-conduct-business-with-chinese-companies-that-see-a-dark-future/
@ eaglesoars:
Little paper nicotine pouches. Nicotine is not harmful, the delivery methods are (like smoking or chewing tobacco).
https://www.velo.com/us
the ‘blogmocracy’ email is now defunct. see the aboot page for the new addy.
thx.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
yep. i use ‘on!’
for some reason they wont let me smoke cigars in the er. if a patient comes in all methed up, i should get to use chemicals as well.
it keeps me from ripping heads off.
eaglesoars wrote:
Here’s the moron’s presser from El Salvador.
coldwarrior wrote:
One time I asked Smokeshop Lady about nicotine gum. She said don’t bother, there’s not enough nikki and I’d be climbing the walls. That’s when I tried Velo, still have a few tins.
Hadn’t heard about “On”.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Mark Levin was cranking about the definition & intent of “due process” and now he’s ripping Boasberg and Van Hollen.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I ordered some pouches from both On! (8 mg cinnamon) and mixed flavors (9 mg) from Vela. Thanks guys!
@ eaglesoars:
You might be interested in this book “Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization by Pat Choate.”
It deals with the history of patents, counterfeiting and the theft of intellectual property. I found it to be fascinating.
eaglesoars wrote:
I seem to remember this isn’t the first time he’s ruled on something that has already been overruled. This asshat feels he is the final say on everything.
This is hilarious. Letitia James goes berserk and it is a wonder to behold!
Letitia James is visibly unraveling—rambling overreacting and trying to spin mortgage fraud into some “civil rights” issue. Her tone is frantic her logic unhinged. She sounds guilty cornered and absolutely terrified the truth is about to explode.
https://x.com/LionelMedia/status/1912597789953212814
@ eaglesoars:
Oh, and Pat Choate was the guy who ran with Ross Perot in 1996.
Bordm wrote:
O hell yeah! Bought the kindle version, thanks
I remember when Hitachi stole code for an OS. There was a book about it I read called the Appalachian Papers (I think). I look for the title now and it doesn’t show up
Oh! Here’s the story! 1983.
NEW YORK — Hitachi Ltd. agreed to pay International Business Machines Corp. about $300 million in a secret pact that led to the recent settlement of IBM’s suit charging the Japanese firm with technology theft, it was reported.
The Wall Street Journal, quoting sources close to the negotiations, said Wednesday IBM also agreed to allow Hitachi to continue to using software the U.S. computer giant had claimed was ‘stolen or derived from stolen IBM technology.’
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/11/10/IBM-Hitachi-reportedly-made-secret-pact/7890437288400/
Thought To Be Impossible: Scientists Break Century-Old Physics Barrier
A research team from POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) and Jeonbuk National University has achieved a groundbreaking feat: the complete confinement of mechanical waves within a single resonator—something long considered theoretically impossible. Their study, published on April 3 in Physical Review Letters, represents a significant advance in solving the century-old puzzle of bound states in the continuum (BIC).
Resonance, the amplification of waves at specific frequencies, underpins many everyday technologies, including smartphones, ultrasound imaging, and radio systems. However, conventional resonators gradually dissipate energy, requiring continuous input to sustain their operation.
https://scitechdaily.com/thought-to-be-impossible-scientists-break-century-old-physics-barrier/
I guess this is important………..
Nobody is talking about how Chris Van Hollen never called El Salvador prison ahead of time to be told NO before he got on a plane. But then there would be no photo op
eaglesoars wrote:
8 coffee
Yep
God, I hope not
BREAKING: The Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy stated that U.S. government technology is capable of manipulating “time and space.”
https://x.com/dustinemills24/status/1912601184772452793
eaglesoars wrote:
It looks like the same is underway now as it was in 2019, only this time it’s YUUUGE.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/09/china-ppi-cpi-in-oct-consumer-inflation-soars-on-high-pork-prices.html
In a rare admission, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that the Chinese hypersonic missiles can destroy all US aircraft carriers in just 20 minutes.
“So far our [US] whole power projection platform is aircraft carrier and the ability to project power that way strategically around the globe,” said Hegseth in a recent interview.
However, Hegseth added that China’s 15 hypersonic missiles “can take out 10 aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of the conflict,” added Hegseth.
Hegseth said that the US “loses to China in every war game” run by the Pentagon. “China is building an army specifically designed to destroy the US.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-could-sink-entire-us-100124996.html
eaglesoars wrote:
Agree.
Brutal.
The Carolina Reaper Chile
https://x.com/scs_real/status/1912717151703597482
God help us.
I got a text message from friend yesterday who said they’d found a kitten at her workplace. Of course she thought of us.
I picked the little one up yesterday, and this tiny little black kitten was born on tax day. So we have a two day old kitten. Our vet has already told us there’s a decent chance she won’t make it, but she seems to be a fighter. Good lungs, decent appetite, so we will see.
@ right_wing2:
If you have never done this before it will be an experience you will never forget.
The feeding every two hours, every four at night for the first week or so is stressful.
Also the massaging the belly with a cotton ball dipped in warm water is an acquired technique. You may get lucky and one of your female cats may have their primordial instinct trigger and she may help with that part, and the resulting clean up required.
LOL if I can do it for two day old twins you can!
right_wing2 wrote:
I think He certainly chose you!
@ Possum:
Feedings at 6, 8, 11, 1:20, 2:40, 6:40, 9:45, 12, and 2 so far.
My break is only 15 minutes, so getting everything heated, assembled, working on helping her to potty, feeding, and then cleaning up in such a short time is pushing it. I know she’s not getting as much food as she should, but it’s all I have time for.
We’re using a syringe right now to feed, and the little nipples we got from PetSmart keep popping off. She’s not quite ready for a bottle yet I don’t think.
She’s just a little bit longer than one of those horsey sauce packs from Arby’s.
@ eaglesoars:
Why can’t He send us a few large winning lottery tickets?
BREAKING: Donald Trump has directed the U.S. military to pull hundreds of troops out of Syria.
https://x.com/GeneralMCNews/status/1912953548339392618
@ eaglesoars:
Should never have been there in the first place.
They were only there to protect the Conoco oil fields.
@ right_wing2:
I got my kittens art an estimated age of two days. Umbilical cords there and pink and yucky about half an inch long. That was Sunday.
Only thing I had to feed them was a cheap bottle I got from Walmart. Made a hole in the nipple with a needle and had to squeeze it to make milk come out.
Not successful so I emergency got one of those syringe with multi nipples Amazoned on Monday. That was not good, one false squeeze and milk comes out of nose and they stopped feeding.
Tuesday I tried again with the Walmart bottle, with a needle hole. NOPE!
Then I actually cut the nipple so that when held upside down milk dripped out.
YEAH! they could then suck on it and get what they wanted. The needle prick hole just sealed up when they tried to suck.
Anyway if I had read the instructions on the Walmart bottle the first time I would not have had to find out the hard way.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/PetAg-Small-Animal-Nurser-Bottle-2-oz/17330077
FB “space shot” vid
https://www.facebook.com/reel/659773736951624
Lunch is chicken drum sticks, air fried and going to be served with medium salsa and some next to zero calorie honey mustard dip.
Interesting fact. If you order a take out of chicken wings and a side of regular dips then most of the calories you eat are from the dips!
You do not believe me? Well try it. Weigh your wings, eat the meat then weigh the bones. Subtract the bones from the weight of the wings .You will be amazed at how little chicken you actually ate.
Last time I did a calculation of the actual cost of the chicken I ate when eating wings was about $8 per pound of chicken meat.
But they taste good.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
A very expensive fairground ride. That is all it was.
Possum wrote:
I found that vid clever.
BTW, I think we have a cat. A bag of Friskie’s Gravy Swirl’d is sitting by our patio door.
I can’t confirm this
BREAKING Donald Trump said Ukraine mineral deal will be signed next week. Zelenskyy Caved
https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/1912968267465195940
wha??
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1913028548001923259
the poster is apparently the president of El Salvador so I’m confused. The term ‘miraculously’ seems to imply the photo is not real
eaglesoars wrote:
apparently true
Here’s Zelensky bigging up US-Ukraine rare earths deal
Says talks have been ‘constructive’ and so has Ukraine
Confirms not agreement itself but ‘memorandum of intent’ could be signed as soon as TODAY
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1912926230409622014
Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1913035243918864742
The Warning have invaded Germany:
eaglesoars wrote:
The Xwitter account looks legit, 7.5M followers.
I skimmed comments for about an hour and found nothing to indicate AI images. This is bizarre.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Now Kilmar Abrego Garcia is outside of the USA he can legally apply for a visa or a green card based on marriage to a US Citizen and return to the USA.
However, he has to wait five years as he was an illegal that was deported.
Also his application may be denied if he committed a felony while in the USA illegally, or even committed a misdemeanor involving ” moral turpitude “
@ Possum:
I can provide supporting data but trust me.
I knows this shit.
@ Possum:
Ok, Ok.
I put up or shut up.
https://www.uscis.gov/i-212
Visit that page to learn all the requirements etc to re-enter the USA after being deported.
@ Possum:
LOL and NO!
I ain’t giving anyone my USCIS username and password.
Possum wrote:
Deported twice now, and I think beating your wife counts as a felony unless he was never prosecuted for it. The MS-13 tatts are a problem.
Mark Zuckerberg recently built a MASSIVE data center for META in Georgia
– There are residential homes just hundreds of yards away
– It uses so much water, residents no longer have water pressure in their homes
– Their sink water no longer works
– Their toilets don’t fill with water
– Their homes physically shake from the constant new construction
– The data centers use so much power they often go without power
– The small amount of water they do get to their homes is full of sentiment
“It’s overwhelming because you really feel like you are up against this huge wall that you can’t penetrate. There’s nothing that you can do and they don’t care.”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1913099539915186468
video at link
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Maybe. The only thing I can think of:
1. The polls show most Americans are against illegals
2. The Dems have for some insane reason decided to die on this Hill
3. Trump and Pres. El Salvador know this
4. So they will provide the Hill. As campaign fodder for the mid terms this is liquid gold.
That’s the only thing that makes sense to me
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That I-212 application is just the first step to see whether immigration will actually talk to you further.
My very best favorite USCIS form is I-485.
I know it well and could probably recite it in full while drunk as a skunk and asleep.
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-485.pdf
Part 9 are where the fun questions are.
Possum wrote:
Needs another line that reads
AND YOU BETTER NOT LIE LIKE LAST TIME
@ Possum:
I see they removed the question, and this is from memory.
“were you a member of the NAZI party in Germany during the period 1936 to 1945”
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yep, some questions like serving in the military of another country are OK to say yes to, and they clarify it at the interview.
I said no to all of section 9.
My interview lasted ten minutes ( a three hour drive to Omaha and three hours back )
LOL I was so boring they did not even grant me a 5 year provisional Green Card but the real 10 year no strings attached one!
Possum wrote:
You posted the link to that form a few years back and we all giggled like kleine Kinder.
Bad news for my wife’s friend.
Aggressive cancer in her bones. Hip I think.
6 months tops if they do nothing, 2-3 years max with full treatment.
Bunk! Can you please check out DoD to see if you can fix it so I can post? For some reason posting is unavailable . Thanks !
rightymouse wrote:
Seems ok now. Thanks!
Fauci is gonna pull a runner
Anthony Fauci has petitioned the State Department for an emergency travel visa to China. His lawyer states that he’s accepted a high-ranking position at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and needs to leave as soon as possible for “important” research.
https://x.com/toobaffled/status/1912989538508804238
SCOOP: Fauci misled Congress about the date of his government retirement, new docs show.
He said he retired in December 2022, right as the GOP was poised to control investigative committees. In fact he retired in January 2023, overlapping with new Congress, which could have subpoenaed him as the head of NIAID.
https://x.com/emilyakopp/status/1913274682629042479
Tulsi has released the RFK assassination files
Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government’s investigation thanks to @POTUS leadership and commitment to maximum transparency.
https://archives.gov/rfk
https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1913201263472259118
BREAKING: The Trump Administration has overhauled the http://COVID.gov website into a massive lab leak data center displaying scientific proof that COVID was man-made in Wuhan, China.
The official site now names Dr. Fauci as the criminal who covered-up COVID origins:
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1913232811084890235
Dr. Oz just EXPOSED the jaw-dropping fraud bleeding America’s healthcare system dry—and says a war room is now hunting down the abusers.
The examples he laid out? Absolutely mind-blowing.
Every single one is a bombshell:
“Almost a quarter million people, American citizens were fraudulently enrolled, without their knowledge, in exchange programs by brokers.”
“Tens of millions of dollars… are being spent on illegal immigrants receive Medicaid in California and pushing the bill to us.”
“We are spending about a billion dollars on Medicaid programs for dual state eligible patients… we’re paying all three states for services you’re not getting because you don’t live in three states all at once.”
And it gets even more outrageous.
Medicaid dollars are being funneled into non-medical perks:
“Public labor unions are getting childcare through some of this money—Housekeeping! I wish I could get that for my home.”
“There’s a big problem with student loan repayments taking place with Medicaid dollars. That’s not where it should be used.”
“And we are paying for DEI programs.”
Dr. Oz says enough is enough.
“We have created a war room at CMS to go after, to catch the fraud in real time before the money leaves the federal coffers.”
This isn’t a reform. It’s a reckoning.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1913320483006894112
Look at the pics, it is downright hideous!
Egads, it’s ugly! Photo of Chicago’s Obama shrine gets BRUTAL reviews
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/18/egads-its-ugly-photo-of-chicagos-obama-shrine-gets-brutal-reviews-1537438/
ACLU filed emergency request for Judge Boasberg to enter another emergency CLASS ACTION TRO after SCOTUS already said he didn’t have jurisdiction. SIGNIFICANTLY, ACLU is asking for immediate action because Court with jurisdiction isn’t giving it what it wants. 1/
https://x.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1913320467047346623
Note that this is AFTER SCOTUS told them to piss off. So this should be fun
@ eaglesoars:
Gottta develop a new deadly virus.
@ eaglesoars:
Obama just beat out Bill Clinton for the ugliest library. Bill’s looks like a mobile home.
right_wing2 wrote:
Which suited him perfectly
Half The Universe’s Matter Was Missing. Astronomers Just Found It
A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe’s visible matter has been hiding.
In the space around galaxies, it lurks as huge, invisible clouds of ionized hydrogen. Normally, this would be impossible to see – but a large international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has developed a technique that reveals its hiding places, out there in the darkness amidst the stars.
Survey programs confirm the missing half of the Universe’s material takes the form of an intergalactic mist of hydrogen expelled farther from the active cores of galaxies than anybody previously thought.
https://www.sciencealert.com/half-the-universes-matter-was-missing-astronomers-just-found-it
I cut my hair yesterday all by myself as I no longer have any friends to do it for me.
The result as expected.
Looks like I got attacked by Mothra.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra
( Now searching for hats on Amazon…. )
@ eaglesoars:
All that is a load of bollocks, and an excuse for funding.
What they detect so far away is what was there billions of years ago. Fuck knows where the missing Hydrogen is now.
I would like to know what is swimming in the deepest parts of the Ocean. About 15 miles away.
And is it tasty?
Insects.
Just saw a different advert on Paramount plus. Makes a change from weight loss drugs, HEB crawfish boils and deodorants.
Anyway it was from Orkin and the wall bug zappers that have an ultra Violet light and wires with tens of thousands of volts that fry bugs, blast them apart and scatter bug body parts into the air.
OK in homes, Illegal to use in restaurants in Iowa however.
Yep, the bug parts.
In Iowa approved UV bug traps and killers look the same but no thousands of volts. They are lined with glue paper that is changed once per week.
This message was brought to you by a former bug trap glue paper changer.
Supper is meatloaf.
1/4 pound frozen burger, a small onion chopped and some left over stuffing and a couple of teaspoons of tomato powder.
Wrapped in a foil packet and currently in air fryer at 250F for 40 minutes. Just to get it all co-mingling.
It should have had an egg included, I has a fear of eggs now!
Anyway after the 40 minutes foil packet will be opened and 350F for ten minutes to crisp the top.
Then I will probably let it cool, throw it away and have sardines on toast.
Or chicken nodule soup.
For all those placing bets. Sorry you lost.
Ham sandwiches.
Night.
rightymouse wrote:
WorpDress is doing some oddness again. Gotta refresh the page to see the comment after I post it. It’s not just DoDaedalus.
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the deportation of illegal migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1913468638968926470
the order is dated Saturday April 19th so this happened w/in the last 2 hours
@ eaglesoars:
This is a foreign policy issue which SCOTUS has no say in, if I understand what’s been going on.
ok, off to bed
@ eaglesoars:
It is a well known and proven fact that dogs can understand words. Like Sit, Stay, Roll Over, Beg, Play Dead, Fetch.
Cats can understand over 120 words. Proven fact.
And they have the ability to ignore ALL of those words.
@ Possum:
However a fact that I can prove. A cat’s ears are directly connected to the tip of their tail and that connection is active even when they are sleeping.
I could video this phenomenon and post it, but why bother? Nobody watches my videos.
Went into the kitchen to get another coffee mug of wine, cat on the floor in a very deep sleep.
Just said one word, his name, and the end of his tail made a movement. Sleep not interrupted at all. Brain had zero involvement, ears directly connected to the tail.
Possum wrote:
When our dog started picking up on words and heard something he knew wasn’t going to be fun (like “veterinarian”) he’d get real nervous, so we started spelling it out, and the dog learned how to spell.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’m going to the vet to get tutored!
@ Possum:
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1834725672268239007
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
wait till they learn to talk
We’re Passion of the Christ. Later
Currently waiting for my chicken to reach boiling point. English people eat boiled meat.
Four chicken drum sticks in slow cooker on high. Skin secured with toothpicks to stop it shrinking back. The liquid is onion powder, chili powder, a big squirt of Siracha and chicken stock.
When it gets to 212F I will let it cook for about 30 mins then out of the liquid, dried then coated with coconut oil and into the air fryer at 350F for 30 mins, turning once, to crispy the skin.
To be served with a variety of dips.
But wait! There is more!
Once the first batch of drumsticks are out of the slow cooker then the next batch of four goes in. They will be cooked for a while and then slow cooker pot left to cool down and into the fridge. That will be tomorrow night supper, freshly air fried, I like crispy skin.
@ Possum:
First batch is done.
Best chicken you ever tasted, except you ain’t getting any.
It is all mine!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1913817306557264156
I don’t know if any of this is true, but someone is going after Stasi Starmer with pics of him in women’s clothes, apparently as a secret cross dresser. Calling him Kweir. Then there’s this video which is, um, uncomfortable, singing a Boy George hit in a very odd outfit.
https://x.com/Pistonspy/status/1913730074026582073
https://x.com/Lord_Talbot64/status/1913722246125830510
Keir Starmer May be on his way out….. explosive footage allegedly shows
Keir Starmer and Lord Alli in compromising positions inside a
private office.
The footage reportedly captures something physical between the two, and Starmer’s wife was shown the video—prompting her to storm out and contact divorce lawyers immediately.
https://x.com/JDunlap1974/status/1913833576845476140
I’m not sure but I think Lord Alli is a member of Parliament?
Oh here we go!
Lord Waheed Alli: Who is the Labour peer behind Sir Keir Starmer’s donation row?
Lord Waheed Alli, 59, was appointed Sir Keir Starmer’s chief campaign fundraiser in 2022. He became the youngest peer in history when Sir Tony Blair appointed him to the House of Lords in 1998.
But this month, thousands gifted to Sir Keir Starmer and his wife in luxury workwear and glasses landed the prime minister at the centre of a freebies row, in which he was revealed to have received more than any other MP.
.
.
He also let deputy leader Angela Rayner stay at his New York home for New Year’s Eve and gave her £2,230 in donations for clothes.
The Labour peer has always said he doesn’t want “anything in return” for his donations.
He said of his fortune to the FT: “I pay myself a salary and I don’t really know where the rest of it is. I live my life on my salary because if I thought about the rest of it I think it would probably drive me mad.”
Sir Keir, Ms Rayner, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have said they will no longer accept clothing donations.
https://news.sky.com/story/lord-waheed-alli-who-is-the-labour-peer-behind-sir-keir-starmers-donation-row-13221243
If you haven’t read Barry Goldwater’s ‘Conscience of a Conservative’, I recommend it.
The damn dog has been outside since 10 am an WILL NOT come in. None of the usual bribes is working. Happy Easter!
Things old people do when they are bored and have no life.
Tomato plants are growing better than expected and I have about 75 which now need transplanting into final pots or killed or given away.
Aiming for four plants at the East facing balcony and four on the West facing door. Promised a few plants to a neighbor who lives in a ground floor apartment and who built a South facing raised bed a couple of years ago and has not managed to grow anything so far.
He needs help! LOL.
Anyway, the potting soil I am using is this. It is highly compressed and expands when wet. Ideal for hanging baskets also, it is light weight but needs frequent watering.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Expert-Gardener-Potting-Mix-132-oz/926142788
BUT, there is a story! ( there is always a story ) The left over potting mix in a storage container in the bath tub sprouted three seedlings a few days ago and I ignored them.
Gave in to my instincts and transplanted them into a pot and now they are under the grow light. I wonder what they are.
The potting soil is made from coconut husks and is sterilized to kill pathogens. So it came from some exotic tropical place and obviously their heat sterilization did not kill these seeds.
It will be interesting to see what these seedlings are. Obviously not a coconut tree!
@ Possum:
And, I am going to have to move the grow lights and the mystery seedlings into the bedroom closet.
I had no fear of a 5am knock on the door and a SWAT team entering when I was growing my tomatoes under lights in the bedroom as I could prove what I was growing. I has the empty seed packets.
No such alibi for these three seedlings….
Anyway I used AI to narrow down my quest as to what the mystery plants are.
They have two seed leaves. Dicotyledons which eliminates about 25% of known plant species.
Only 165,000–175,000 species left to eliminate. Hopefully if they survive to develop true leaves I can narrow it down further.
No wonder nutritionists get a bad rap. I was looking for a domestic producer of grass-fed butter and ran across this gem
(this is AI generated, so no link)
That said, as long as you’re not intolerant to dairy or following a vegan diet and don’t have heart disease or high cholesterol, it’s certainly possible to incorporate up to 1 tablespoon of butter per day as part of a healthy, well-rounded diet.
UP TO?? That’s gulag rations.
morons
There IS a domestic producer of grass-fed (aka ‘pasture raised’) butter. It’s Organic Valley
Also Bunk is 100% correct.
When posting pictures of chicken legs make sure they are from the same chicken otherwise the post is ridiculed and down voted.
Lucy does an awesome job of cooking but her presentation sucks.
I did not tell her that because she will burst into tears and stop cooking for me.
@ eaglesoars:
Mixed feelings on this.
I would prefer that the meat and eggs I consume are fed a controlled and monitored diet.
This “let the animals roam and eat whatever they want ” is not safe.
BTW I threw away the remaining Eggland eggs that gave me the shits.
Any egg now is not going to be a part of my diet for a while.
Mystery plant update.
The dicotyledons ( seed leaves ) are unfolding and responding to the lights.
Well two of the three are. One seems to be having difficulties.
But I am good at birth of seedlings, it is the plant equivalent of a forceps birth in humans.
Lucy got this!
First attempt, tweezers in one hand, phone in other hand in an attempt to create a virus video.
FAIL!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1914093663434555534
Doing it correctly, the seedling is now free!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1914094220840767995
Um, Day of the Triffids springs to mind.
Free to watch here. I ain’t going to sleep much.
https://tubitv.com/movies/545179/the-day-of-the-triffids
@ eaglesoars:
ONE TABLESPOON!!!!
umhmmm
coldwarrior wrote:
And now you know why I am Metric and weigh everything in grams.
What is one tablespoon of butter?
I bet I can get a 4oz stick of butter on a tablespoon with no problem at all !
Possum wrote:
28.3495 grams
eaglesoars wrote:
no that’s wrong I was thinking 8 oz per stick, there are only 4. There are 8 TABLESPOONS per stick, so half ounce per tablespoon is 14 grams/tablespoon
@ eaglesoars:
Now, that is technically correct, but.
When in the kitchen is that a level tablespoon or heaped?
When I am measuring things I put the spoon/fork/knife on the plate. Hit Tare to zero the scale then I weigh the spoon/fork/knife with the subject ingredient on it.
You would be surprised how much mayo a fork retains.
🙂
Our dog walker had a birthday recently. She has beautiful long hair so I ordered a very pretty barrette for her. On Apr 10. Still haven’t rec’d it.
Guess what? It just left it’s ‘country of origin’ yesterday.
Shanghai
‘thunk*
Possum wrote:
Like learning that mockingbird slang for “cat” translates roughly to “hair face cloaca”.
Possum wrote:
Sorry about the downdings. I didn’t know you could do that on the Xwitter.
Our skunk’s gonna eat good tonight. Apple core, old avocado and a side of peanut butter, all at the end of a comfy section of PVC.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I hope he/she/they/them likes the overnight accommodations.
https://www.snareshop.com/prodinfo.asp?number=ADC10
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAcp71mHe34
Dr Gavin Ashenden was an Anglican bishop and a chaplain to the Royal Family, before converting to Catholicism and is now deputy editor of the Catholic Herald.
In this 25 minute video, he eloquently castigates King Charles for his betrayal of the Christian Faith this Easter, in order to pander to British Muslims.
Dr Ashenden explains how Mohammed falsely represented Jesus and why Britain is on the path to subjugation under either Islamic or Marxist rule.
He doesn’t mention this aspect of the Royals, but William, the heir to the throne, is reputed to be a non-believer and declined to attend any Easter Services on the grounds
that he wanted to spend the time with his family.
One commentator observed that William’s religion appears to be English football and his team Aston Villa.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Lord Alli is an appointed Labour Party
Aussie Infidel wrote:
My hair ignited when I saw that story. But remember he invited just about every muslim in the country to Windsor for that stupid Ramadan dinner.
It is the WORST kind of moral vanity to tolerate evil in order to consider yourself tolerant and kind. After the Rothingham rapes and cover ups he’s lucky the place doesn’t go all Cromwell on him.
As for William, my verdict is still out on him, but it ain’t lookin’ good. Guess who he appointed as some sort of director of his Earthshot Prize org?
Jacinda Arden.
The buck toothed tyrannical whore
It doesn’t matter if he’s a believer. He has to uphold the cultural traditions whether he likes it or not. The Royal Family IS one of the strongest binding forces in the UK.
One of her children complained to Queen Mary about having to cut another bloody ribbon at some bloody infrastructure nobody cared about.
She said “We are The Royal Family. We LOVE infrastructure”
Precisely
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I thought they did away with the lifetime sinecures years ago
According to Archbishop Viganò, Pope Francis is complicit in the Great Reset and aims to demolish the church so it can be replaced with a Masonic-inspired organization.
https://x.com/JDunlap1974/status/1913809732680179964
short video
bed time. nite
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/breakingpope-francis-dies-88-vatican-announces/
Latest outrage and something that I actually disagree with.
Let biological males get passports that say they are female.
Let biological females get passports that say they are male.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-blocks-trump-administration-s-from-passport-changes-affecting-transgender-americans/ar-AA1Dci3E
And wish them good luck trying to enter a country that has strict passport controls for entry.
Other countries don’t fuck around. I got detained twice because my passport photo did not match my face. Once for 15 minutes and the second time put in a windowless room for over an hour.
Passport photo very white and clean shaven. At the time deep tan and dark beard.
LOL, yeah I did look like an islamic terrorist.
Imagine if my passport stated I was female and they discovered a penis!
rain of lead wrote:
Yep.
rain of lead wrote:
FINALLY!
I think Schwab has stepped down from WEF too, haven’t confirmed
Stole it from where? How?
A thief stole DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag this weekend, including her driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash, per
@JoshCampbellcnn
.
https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1914321965067751478
Thoughts on the latest allegations about our secretary of defense allowing access to a sensitive Intel?
right_wing2 wrote:
bullshit. They also tried to start one that he’d started drinking again but that didn’t fly
right_wing2 wrote:
NYT + 3 anonymous sources…
@ lobo91:
She’s as crazy as Tiananmen Tim is.
lobo91 wrote:
Talk about stupid. It is clear and laid out. Their party is the one trying to alter the existing laws to fit their narrative. Their last “Jesus” that was deported was very much in the gang world and had the tat to prove it, but I guess that is inconvenient for them to admit.
I haz WHOLE BUNCHES of dirt on Stasi Starmer but was too busy to post them today. Get ready tomorrow.
nite.
These people have lost their friggin’ minds. I can’t believe that this is the hill the Dems have chosen to die on:
Note to Dems: He already is “home.” He’s from El Salvador, idiots.
All three seedlings do not seem to be suffering any transplant shock and are outside for a couple of hours in real light. Then back indoors under grow lamp.
Gently does it.
Going to have to wait a few days until true leaves develop then will try all these fancy AI things to see if they can identify my mystery plants.
Unless they are Triffids. Then I will probably get eaten when I am sleeping.
So on Reddit I came across a scumbag posting a picture showing how Republican policies are identical to the Nazi policies. Same scumbag called for violence against Trump and “MagaIdiots”. I reported him for hate. Got my response today from Reddit. They saw nothing hateful in the post. Yet, another poster posted a pic showing ACTUAL QuoTES from dems one from pre-civil war asking if slavery is banned, who will pick the cotton. The other from a current dem bemoaning if we send the illegals home, who will do the farm work? That person was reported for hate and was immediately banned.
Anyone see the hypocrisy?
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Do people actually believe shit like that or are they just trying to be “edgy”?
Having a traditional American lunch. Grilled cheese sandwiches with added thinly sliced yellow onions and tomato soup.
Why are they called GRILLED cheese sandwiches when you don’t grill them you cook them in a frying pan?
Another thing I can never work out is what chicken fried steak is. It comes on a plate and it has obviously been fried, but what is it?
Chicken or steak?
@ Possum:
I know you are all really interested about my yummy lunck.
100g Fresh Italian bread ( 3.527 ounces )
26g Butter ( 0.971 ounces )
28g Sharp Cheddar ( 0.987 ounces )
50g Onion ( 1.763 ounces )
And half a can of Campbells Tomato soup. ( weight depending on how much it is diluted, but nutritional value for half a can in spreadsheet )
Calories for meal is 643 cal consisting of 22g fat, 20g protein, 73g Carbs and 6g fiber. 1450mg sodium for those on a low sodium diet.
Recommended daily intake of fiber is 28g, so as my food is deficient and today is a wine and beer day ( no fiber in beer! ) I am going to have to eat a few ounces of a cardboard box.
Lunch eaten. Cats inside. Nap time!
Weather says due for torrential rain, so inside comes plants.
Looked at weather radar, bugger all rain but not risking it.
NAP!
@ Possum:
Chicken fried steak (AKA country fried steak) is beef. It’s breaded and shallow-fried in the same manner as fried chicken, hence the name. There’s also chicken fried chicken, which is the same thing made with a flattened chicken cutlet.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
lobo91 wrote:
It’s probably true, at least in terms of economic policy. I bet there are a lot of democrat policies that are identical to nazi policies as well.
Ann Coulter says she’s now a Trump supporter. Guess she’s trying to drum up more interviews.
lobo91 wrote:
I’ve spent too much time amongst the scum of reddit to learn they actually believe this shit and are ready to sacrifice other people to have a revolution. (Everyone of them is too chickenshit to go out and do it themselves.) But, with the level of hate they spew they should be held accountable for every single shooting and violent assault that has occurred because of perpetuating their hate.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
From what little I’ve seen, Bluesky is similar.
Human ancestors nearly went extinct 930,000 years ago
Now, a groundbreaking study published in the journal Science sheds new light on a dramatic event that nearly erased humans from existence. Researchers uncovered evidence that our ancestors survived a population crash that lasted over 100,000 years, leaving just around 1,280 individuals. This severe bottleneck occurred roughly between 930,000 and 813,000 years ago, profoundly influencing the genetic makeup of today’s humans.
1280?? YIKES!!
The study points to severe climate changes, including harsh ice ages and prolonged droughts. These extreme conditions likely wiped out food sources, destroyed habitats, and made survival nearly impossible. The tiny remaining population not only had to survive day-to-day threats but also struggled to keep genetic diversity, crucial for healthy future generations.
This ancient bottleneck dramatically impacted human genetics. Around 66% of genetic diversity was lost, profoundly reshaping our gene pool. Interestingly, scientists also found that this harsh period led to crucial genetic changes. One notable event involved the merging of two ancestral chromosomes, creating what we now call chromosome 2. This change potentially contributed to the divergence of modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, shaping the course of human evolution.
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/humans-almost-went-extinct-930000-years-ago-study-finds-2/
Darwin would be pleased
This sounds rather vague
World Economic Forum launches probe into founder Klaus Schwab over whistleblower allegations
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the probe, said an anonymous letter sent last week to the WEF’s board raised concerns about its governance and workplace culture, including allegations that the Schwab family mixed their personal affairs with the forum’s resources without proper oversight.
https://www.reuters.com/world/world-economic-forum-launches-probe-into-founder-klaus-schwab-over-whistleblower-2025-04-22/
Just so yinz know…today is National Beagle Day.
That is all
@ eaglesoars:
The other 354 1/2days are National Cat Day.
@ Possum:
I even fucked that up!
364 and 1/4
@ Possum:
Grrrrrr
356 or 355 or 354. Whatever, Grok how many days are an Earth year.
Oh for anyone interested I got an IRS extension on filing my USA taxes this year as it is too complicated for me to do without help.
Plus! the UK tax year ended 5th April, and that is going to be complicated as well.
I am going to plead insanity to both the IRS and HMRC as a reason for late filing.
Relying on you guys to back me up!
Anyway, last post before I eat supper and end up in a wine induced coma.
Supper is a personal sized pizza with added fruit!
I LOVE fruit on pizza. Tonight the fruit is mushrooms.
Mushrooms that we eat are a fruiting body. The big part of a mushroom thing lives underground and you never see it.
I like fruiting bodies on my pizza.
this should be fascinating
SpaceX Launches Atomic Clocks With Lasers To Test Einstein Theory
https://x.com/Forbes/status/1914899558749909066
Possum wrote:
how are you paying taxes when you don’t earn US money? Not a slam, just don’t understand
Anyhoo, ran across a recipe I’m going to try that’s inexpensive thought you might like/find useful
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flo+lum+garlic+noodles
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Well, Reddit gets what it wanted. During the election they banned every subreddit that was to the right of Marx. They banned all people who posted positively about trump, anyone criticizing the Biden admin, etc. Very soviet.
This is the interim head of the WEF post-Klaus Schwab. I have been really busy (retirement? What’s THAT?) so haven’t been able to do a really deep dive but FWIW
Klaus Schwab just resigned from the World Economic Forum.
This is his replacement Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, former CEO of Nestle, who stated in 2017: “Humans have no right to access free water.”
What do you notice about him?
Apparently he modified that statement to outline an actual amount. He wants to ration water. And note his wording. “humans’. As opposed to WHAT?? Which
is right up there with telling us we need to eat insects
Look at his left eye.
Also, he’s had work done on his face. I’m a girl. I’ve had fillers and this guy…look at his cheeks. He’s also wearing make up, look at the white color under his eye. I don’t know anything that does that other than make up. Also, he needs some SERIOUS exfoliation. Sheesh.
He’s a sociopath. Full stop
https://www.theblaze.com/news/boss-of-ms-13-associate-championed-by-democrats-was-human-trafficker-report
Dem clownshow gets more embarassing.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I spend very little time on Reddit. I’ll occasionally click a link from a Berniemarxist “friend” in Vancouver, usually it’s anti-Trump, anti-Musk, anti-anything Republican, conservatism = fascism, etc. Juvenile ignorance.
I didn’t realize so much of Reddit is infested.
@ eaglesoars:
As a US resident I have to pay taxes on all my income no matter where it comes from. Fair enough.
In September I started the process where the US told the UK tax people I lived in the US so my withdrawal from my UK pension fund would not be taxed by the UK. The UK equivalent of the IRS takes 20% of every withdrawal until the US IRS tells them they got it. Then the UK gives me a tax refund.
LOL, fucking nightmare to get it all sorted out.
I have to file a US tax return declaring overseas income as obviously my bank is telling the IRS I am getting paid.
Things would be easier if I got an MS13 tattoo and got a free plane ride to a warm and sunny country, tax free.
Noodles, I have to up my noodle game. Re-purposing Ramen 50 cent packets is getting boring.
I like the big flat rice noodles better.
He certainly won’t be missed:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I think I got banned from Reddit for being normal and sane.
Me, normal and sane! LOL
Oh, and as for X I was doing quite well getting visibility and impressions and likes until I casually mentioned that an old man had nice firm tits.
Looked it up. I actually said ” large, firm and quite spectacular tits ”
Oh well, back to posting plant pictures…..
A food post. I like bean sprouts but not the expensive $1.52 per can that is three fourths water.
But yet I buy them. Lunch is going to be stir fried pork and a can of bean sprouts.
So, as the tomato seeds went so well I am going to invest in a sprouting thing.
No, I am not gay. It involves putting seeds, mung beans for Asian dishes but any beans or peas work, and getting them wet and rinsing them daily.
No grow light needed, they are kept in the dark.
Now, as I am frugal ( AKA broke ) going to attempt to make my own sprouting system using old Temptation cat treats containers which I have many of, and buying some beans and other sproutable things from the local convenience store.
Note for anyone else trying this, canned beans do not work. I researched it.
Oh dear, it seems I have Amazon credit points available and a free Amazon Prime account that expires 28th April so I went for it!
FREE!!!!
Arriving overnight 7 AM – 11 AM
Sadaf Mung Beans – 24 oz.- Whole Green Mung Beans for sprouting and cooking – Green Gram Maash – Natural, Vegan,
$9.99
Aowalen 4-Tier Seed Sprouting Kit, Stackable Microgreens Growing Kit with Drain Trays and Blackout Sleeves, Green Soil-Free Seed Sprouter Tray for Growing Organic Mung Beans, Broccoli, Alfalfa
$18.79
So, mung bean seeds and fancy plastic thing arrives tomorrow
Honey chicken teriyaki
2 pounds chicken breasts split, skin and bone
Half cup all-purpose flour
Half teaspoon salt
8 teaspoon pepper
Two eggs, beaten
For the glaze
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup honey
1 tablespoon dry sherry
One clove garlic Minster pressed
1 teaspoon grated ginger
2 tablespoon sesame seeds
Cut chicken into 2 inch squares
Combine flour, salt, and pepper. Dip chicken and eggs then coat with seasoned flour
Pour 1/2 inch oil in a wide frying pan. Place over medium high heat.
When the fat is hot add chicken, half at a time cook and tell golden brown.
Heat soy, honey, Sherry, garlic, and ginger in a small pan.
Drain chicken, dip and honey mix, then place on a rack set in baking pan. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Make it 250° for 20 minutes, brush with glaze after 10 minutes.
I’m not Catholic, so I have absolutely zero skin of the game, but I kind of hope the cardinal from Guinea, Robert Sarah, is chosen.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yeah, I go there for game related stuff and some weird things, but even those posts get infested after a while. They purged their site and now it’s a leftist totalitarian hellhole. The ignorance is amazing, they even have people posting that if the US got rid of their military everyone else in the world would too. They’ve even claimed the military is useless because we’ve never been invaded (which even a cursory glance at history proves wrong.)
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
My favorite is when they say we should bring the military home and use them to defend the country. Right up until someone (like Trump) proposes putting them on the border. If that’s not “defending the country,” I’m not sure what would be.
right_wing2 wrote:
Polymarket: https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-be-the-next-pope?tid=1745448326780
29% Pietro Parolin
21% Luis Antonio Tagle
10% Matteo Zuppi
8% Péter Erdő
8% Pierrebattista Pizzabello (?!)
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Parolin probably wouldn’t be the worst choice.
right_wing2 wrote:
I think that should be 350?
@ right_wing2:
I don’t think Father Guido Sarducci is in the running. He never made it to Cardinal.
@ eaglesoars:
Nope. 250, on the card.
That’s after it’s been fried.
right_wing2 wrote:
okey dokey!
I made dinner tonite (shrimp, rice, green beans almondine) but I don’t feel like cleaning up. The after-dinner clean up pisses me off so I’m not doing it.
Today I swung my front door wide open and placed my Remington 30.06 on the deck rail. I left six cartridges beside it, then left it alone and went about my business.
While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, my neighbor across the street mowed his lawn, a girl walked her dog down the street, and quite a few cars stopped at the stop sign near the front of my house.
After about an hour, I checked on the gun. It was still sitting there, right where I had left it. It hadn’t moved itself off the deck rail. It hadn’t killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it had presented to do so.
In fact, it hadn’t even loaded itself. You can imagine my surprise, with all the hype by the Left and the Media about how dangerous guns are and how they kill people.
Either the media is wrong or I’m in possession of the laziest gun in the world.
The United States is third in murders throughout the World. But if you take out just four cities: Chicago , Detroit , Washington DC and New Orleans , the United States is fourth from the bottom, in the entire world, for murders.
These four Cities also have the toughest Gun Control Laws in the U.S. All four of these cities are CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS. It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data – correct?
Well, I’m off to check on my spoons. I hear they’re making people fat .
https://x.com/MichelleMaxwell/status/1915024358545801428
Not NYC or LA?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
My vote.
Are you a cardinal?
You bet you’re sweet ass I am.
Drink
Lol
@ eaglesoars:
Spoons and forks make peeps fat
PA Amish…
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1914679392632033447
eaglesoars wrote:
right_wing2 wrote:
Yup!
Alas the chances of that happening are remote to impossible. Pope Frank left time bombs under every Cardinals’ chair as he appointed almost every one of the voting Cardinals (below 80 years), with a few that you could count on two hands. There are certainly almost all US Cardinals that will just vote for more of the same!
Spit!
I’m for expecting that St. Malarkey’s suggestion that Pope Frank will be the last Pope, or depending on how you count Popes from about the early 1100s to now! So far pope Peter the Roman hasn’t put in a presence. He’s supposed to be the official last Pope!
coldwarrior wrote:
Even YOU qualify Cold! All that is required is to be Baptised as a Catholic. Once baptised you can’t ‘un-baptised’
There’s no requirement to be a Cardinal to qualify. All it takes to qualify is to have been Baptised a RC and you’re in with a chance!
🙂
If it’s the white smoke from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel then you are the Pope elect. They can ordain you the next day as a priest, Ordain you a bishop the next day and officially make you Pope ____ the next day!
🙂
There would be a wee bit of sorting out regarding your change to Orthodox, but that is mere paperwork!
HEH
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
It’s a drinking game.
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ coldwarrior:
the funny thing is that i learned said driking game at bunks alma mater
https://www.drinkiwiki.com/Cardinal_Puff
https://www.drinkiwiki.com/Cardinal_Puff
i am, in fact, a cardinal, kent state, 1991.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
you guys dont me to run the show. i’m orthodox now. wanna schism…let’s go.
lol
Aussie Infidel wrote:
the only job i ever really wanted was pope.
i wasted semesters doing papal history electives.
that and central banking….
I don’t understand all this pope stuff. I bat for the Henry the Eighth team.
Last time I sneaked into the Vatican City I had a severe neck ache for days after.
Asked some of those Swiss guys who were wearing striped panty hose and short skirts where the painting of the last supper was, they had no clue!
Found it on another Italian job.
LOL, Milan.
right_wing2 wrote:
Ya Think????
Uncle Fester from the Munsters himself!
Parolin was the sleezebag who sold 30 million Chinese Catholics down the river, to Xi’s secret police and allowed Xi and the CCP to make Bishops in the Church of the CCP’ wing of the church’. At a knock down price too! just $2 billion a year into the coffers of the Church.
Parolin is pushing for the slot of stoker in chief in hell. Still he’s fit right in during the Conclave!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
now. that said, mrs coldwarrior and myself watch the comings and goings of all of this with extreme fascination. when seeing the white smoke, it is most historic, and foreboding….what comes next as the vikar of christ.
i grew up under JPII. there will never be a better pope. not in my life time. there cant be.
@ Possum:
my wife’s family was taken out of russia in 1983 by Pope JP2. he is a venerated, almost saint in orthodoxy for helping orthodox priests get out.
the soviets couldnt shoot the priests, but they could make life hell. mrs coldwarrior’s family spent a year in the vatican while the catholic church worked to find her dad, and orthodox priest, a job and parish in the west.
they did not need to do this. jp2 demanded it.
Possum wrote:
its in milan….
coldwarrior wrote:
Perfect background!
🙂
Just keep well away from Blackfriers bridge on the Thames in dark and stormy nights. …… and Jesuits carrying nooses ….. and get yourself a few food tasters as well . You may go through several a year. Pope John Paul I ,left it too late to load up on volunteer food tasters and left it to the end of the month to hiring in tasters. Bad Move!
🙂
🙂
HEH!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
😆
by all means!!!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i never trusted those cats. ever.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup JPII kicked off really well but faded badly when he lost his mojo and went ‘hippy’ and even had Satanists as well as every man and his dog in a frock and back to front collar, doing their ‘shit’ in the Assisi cathedral
Thatcher, Reagan, Wojtyla.
jp2 opened the door in poland with supporting soladarnosc, the rest fell in place nicely.
btw, jerezelski had no choice but to do martial law or the soviets were coming in. he had the worst cards ever. the guy is a hero and a patriot.
jp2 going to poland started the beginning of the end
Aussie Infidel wrote:
WHAT??
coldwarrior wrote:
Benedict would have been.
coldwarrior wrote:
Of course Pope Frank was a Jesuit. He never got to be the Jesuits’ Black Pope however. The Jesuits wore black always. The Church sent the Jesuits down but a later Pope made the bad mistake of bringing them back. A really bad mistake.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
you need to come over to us.
you’re orthodox, but might not know it.
just a few more steps….it’s right over here….and all is right.
eaglesoars wrote:
he had real potential. really. i was a huge fan.
ITS CALLED RELIGION FOR A REASON!!!!!
and pope benedict ‘got it’
right_wing2 wrote:
oh yes you do! There are still enough Catholics in the world to sway government policies etc. My first choice would have been Vigano but….
Aussie Infidel wrote:
the jesuits, in my opinion, had a very important place in Catholicism, but should never be leaders. their role in the past should not be understated, that said, i thinl they have been corrupted as an order and have lost their way.
eaglesoars wrote:
Afraid not Eagles. Benedict XVI was deep into Vatican 2 politics. He tried to make up for his lack of discernment by trying to have a bit both ways, but just pissed everybody off. There hasn’t been a halfway decent Pope since Pius XII and even he appeared a bit dodgy on occasion!
🙂
Elon Musk’s Secret Michigan Empire
“Elon Musk came in, bought up Riviera Tool & Die. This was before Donald Trump became president. So he came in, bought up Riviera Tool & Die because he wanted to start producing his stamping tools in the United States instead of Asia, because he was realizing there’s a lot of problems that they were encountering with these foreign made tools. And it’s hard to solve a problem when you have a language barrier. So he bought up Riviera Tool & Die reopens as Tesla Michigan in Grand Rapids.
When he bought that up, he took a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy, that couldn’t hire anybody to turned it, turned it into something awesome.
I mean, the number of people that Tesla Grand Rapids now hires to build stamping tools right here in Grand Rapids. And then not just that, he farms out the work that Tesla Grand Rapids can’t handle. To auto die, to Artiflex, to Greenville Tool and die, to Walker tool and die, to basically every die shop here in this region is making stuff for Tesla. He I don’t know the number, but it’s in the thousands upon thousands of jobs he has created just in West Michigan because he wanted to make his, his parts in America.
How can you hate that? You really can’t.”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1915234211226878096
eaglesoars wrote:
vigano’s election would be like trump.
the pain and gnashing of teeth, the rendering of clothes, oh, the end times!
i’d love it.
[I don’t know what ‘ISD’ is]
EPIC is the all muslim town going up in Texas
That Paxton is just getting on this is seriously disturbing
BREAKING: I’m demanding documents from Plano ISD officials after being made aware of potential connections between school board members and EPIC.
We will thoroughly review the records we receive and hold anyone who violates Texas law accountable.
https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1915063281485488258
If a Christian or Jewish group had tried this there would have been fire bombings.
Remember this? This is along the lines of teachers being sexual predators. The predators follow the prey. I’ve seen horror stories of dogs being adopted from shelters only to be abused to the death.
Judicial Watch received 163 pages of records from the NY State Dept of Environmental Conservation in a lawsuit which show authorities had planned to euthanize a squirrel named “Peanut” & a raccoon named “Fred” before they were seized from NY resident Mark Longo (1/3).
https://x.com/JudicialWatch/status/1914666988502155392
eaglesoars wrote:
JPII lost his bottle towards the end of his ;pontificate’ and went all weird by inviting ALL would be religious to the cathedral in Assisi. There even had native American Indians banging their tom-toms and dancing around the altar. The Saudi Muslims, Buddhists and Jews with hundreds of various religions were all there doing their thing. If Pope Frank had been there he’d have brought earth goddess Pacamumma along as well.
🙂
JPII certainly had his faults towards the end of his pontificate.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
You can say that Cold! 🙂
They ruin their credibility by having what has been reported as a 6 man hit squad. Kinda doesn’t go with the mantra as deep thinkers and dodgy politics!
@POTUS
signs an executive order eliminating the use of the woke so-called “disparate-impact liability” to ensure equal treatment under the law.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1915156460994019488
@ eaglesoars:
its simple, i argued this years ago.
wealth comes from extracting things form the ground, then finishing them, and selling them.
it’s not hard.
the brits made the best wool in the world, the portuguese made the best port.
trade
everyone gets rich. this is waht adam smith was talking about with free trade. no one steps on each other toes.
we cant compete with a country who makes the same product as we do using slave labor and has zero environmental regs or any worker safety measures to speak of.
smith’s free trade is not near to anything that is happening now.
its time to reset. yeah, china holds a fuckton of us bonds, but the instance that they sell them, their currency collapses and the nation goes into revolt. the only thing that backs the yuan is those holdings.
central banking is war by other means.
get ready, the world is going to be re-set.
eaglesoars wrote:
Vigano would have been my choice, or Sutherland from Texas in a pinch.
Neither would have survived in the snake pit that is the modern Curia.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
he and thatcher and reagan brought down the most awful, godless, evil, threat to humanity in the history of the world. ok, he got silly at the end.
big effing deal.
a ceremony of hippies does not compare to his ass going back to poland as pope and starting the beginning of the end. that took balls and faith. what communism was doing to faith and self rule itself had to be stopped. his trip back to poland starts to end the cold war, and maybe ends the threat of armageddon. he got his ass shot for his efforts. there is no doubt in my mind that was kgb.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
ooooo.
whose that ?
can you imagine a texan in charge of rome?
lololollololololololo
oh shit, this would be great! brisket for all yinz!!!
that said, the curia will never elect an american. even th0ugh we provide almost all the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
This does not bode well
– India has ordered all Pakistani nationals living in India to leave the country within 48 hours.
They aren’t messing about
https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1915081708090577295
@ eaglesoars:
in pope ____ world, US, India, Russia form the basis for the most powerful group. all of this wpould be to show china where they stand.
china will end up like japan did. yes, they kicked ass for a bit. but then, central banking and trade wars…..OMG, japan is kicking our ass….yeah, not anymore. OMG china is kicking our ass, well, they fell into a trap.
i never understood how the world works until i took a couple of grad level econ course on central banking and a macro on bonds. its war, by other means.
china is in deep deep doo doo. they cant, nor has anyone been able to, export themselves to wealth. trade can work that way, for a bit. then not.
the single child policy is going to destroy the economy, and there may be revolution in the streets when the fake chinese econ books come due.
they will go for war somewhere to placate and whip up support, it wont work. we sold them the rope by which they will hag themselves.
central banking is war by other means, we learned this from the brits.
coldwarrior wrote:
Adam Smith wasn’t talking about World Trade in the 21st. Century however. That’s why the US mixes a goodly shot of national security into the Trade mix. Just Trade alone, especially with democratic governments who are not democratic Republics also suffer from trade disparities and the wheels eventually fall off when national security gets into the mix. Trade should always be balanced and if a nation state can get it together should always establish a home market for an internal market for strategic food and energy. National Security needs to be in balance with Tradables. Most Nation States can’t do that because they don’t manage to reach an internal market status.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
no, i have the fix.
it’s easy. i decree, after a high council of both orthodox and catholic that the stupid as hell discussion of the filioque and other nonsense is reserved for only any assholes who can tell me EXACTLY how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and prove it, then said asshole arguementors can proceed to a locked room without food, water, light, and have 4 hours of air.
go.
gimme an answer, it does’t matter to either side’s faithful. lets throw the pope (not me) and the metropolitan into the chamber.
yinz have 4 hours. council of nicea my ass. both yinz get in there, yinz have 4 hours of air. fix it or die.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ohhh bloody shit!
That sounds positively dangerous Eagles.
This could go pear shape VERY quickly….. with mushroom clouds all over the place.
On a brighter note did you hear that the USA is getting a professional T20 and National Cricket Council in 2027. Apparently there are 25 million well heeled Indians living in the US right now.
🙂
The international cricket Conferences are also allowing professional cricketers to play for US based T-20 teams whilst being able to play for home country teams for Tests and professional 50 over sides.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
we will return to mercantilism. which is not a bad thing.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
😆
I’m a well healed indain! YES!!!
i love cricket, much to chagrin of my family.
@ Aussie Infidel:
t20 is a great way to introduce the sport.
but….but….its not test.
coldwarrior wrote:
🙂
Heh!
You and I can sort this easily
🙂
Just keep the bloody Europeans out of it. Especially the Italians and Greeks!
HEH
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Ahhhh Haaaa.
But it can be when the US gets a National side. There are 25 million heritage Indian as an initial catchment. The US had a sizeable East Coast Test Cricket Conference 120 years ago that regularly swept all before them in Tests! They even won Olympic gold medals for their efforts!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
the greeks, omg. look. we belong to a CC that is ‘owned’ by the greek catholic union. lol. their church has a 3 bar cross on the top, the priest is married, of course, as it should be for a parish, and they do mass in greek and pre-vatican 2…..ummmmmm
hello….
coldwarrior wrote:
Exactly!
Nationally secure Food and Energy with a goodly dose of Mercantilism and everyone gets on well. Trouble many democracies have the seeds for their own destruction buried in their dirt and HAVE to Trade to survive
Democracies with their inbuilt problems, and not the necessary raw materials available to feed and power themselves, destabilises many Nation States.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
aussie, it’s simple.
if we wanted to destroy the world in rugby, we would. we did.
we destroyed the world in cricket back in the day.
(fuck soccer, it’s for homos and transgender momma’s boys. god, there is nothing WORSE than soccer. a sport for poor people.) i get god damned hives if i see a soccer ball…that might be the rugby player coming out…soccer is for homos.
if we did put our minds to it, imagine the rugby side.
you might not know who he was, but deione sanders at wing, jack lambert at 8, the steelers line of the 70’s as pack. barry sanders #10….
imagine the cricket side
omg
coldwarrior wrote:
the puti, who is now 16, brought home a guy who she WAS dating. she warned him, dont mention that you play soccer. he did. he got the drill instructor stare.
they arent dating any more.
i effing HATE soccer.
@ coldwarrior:
Cold, can you please explain the bond market?
@ coldwarrior:
ANZAC Day public holiday tomorrow. Kick off is 0500 with 60,000 expected at the Auckland War Memorial Museum . The 1100 Civic Remembrance ‘after match do’ with another 30,000 visitors for all the ones who slept through the 0500 morning start….. and all the politicians local body and National and the diplomatic Corps .There are 6 other sites in Auckland and another 60 -70 sites scattered up and down the Country.
Public holiday nation wide with everything closed until 1300 hours.
🙂
Strong Wind and showers forecast for tomorrow 0500 temperature is supposed to be a chilly 7 C
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
LOL
whew…gime a minute.uffdah
Aussie Infidel wrote:
we’ll fly the NZ flag.
coldwarrior wrote:
ok….lets go.
coldwarrior wrote:
Especially soccer players ‘trying out for an Academy Award’ for a minor ankle tap!
🙂
Dinner calls. Eagles & Cold.
Later guys!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
bonds are an issuance of new debt.bonds may be issued by most entities.
issued bonds are only as valuable as the organization isuing them.
i assume that you mean the us bond market, and shall proceed from there.
coldwarrior wrote:
we’ll dispense with local bonds such as for a new stadium or water works for a municipality.
bonds are legally bound to pay the buyer a given rate of return. they tend to be the most boring and safe investment evah. you give me 100 and i will give you 100+the interest over the set amount of the term, 10 year, 5 year, 1 year.
it is a way to raise funds now and pay later with interest.
cont.
@ coldwarrior:
fedgov issues bonds.
this is the worlds most important market for bonds. these are independent of the corporate and municipal bods.
i will now again focus on fedgov bonds.
us fedvov issues bonds for various lengths of time, the bonds are purchased in USD regardless of point of purchase.
international trade is done in USD as it is the currency that almost all trade is done. a country can use gold or usd to do trade.
fedgov uses the bond market to create dollars. a country that want to trade with us has to buy bonds to get usd to trade with us or anyone else.
at the auction for bonds, the interest rate goes up if there are few buyers. it goes lower if there are many buyers.
holding a shit ton of us bonds corners that county because if they dump, the value of their held assets goes down rapidly in the market rendering their holdings useless. this will wreck their currency. central banking is war by other means.
as long as the usd is the currency of trade, the cycle can continue.
bed, i;ll try to pick this up tomorrow
coldwarrior wrote:
Lol
Father Guido Sarducci paid us a visit in a small auditorium, late 1970s.
After the usual gesticulations, he announced that he’d been planning on taking confessions, but since there were so many of us, it was going to be a Mass Confessional. He’d read off sins and we were to raise our hands for the ones that applied.
“Okay, here-a we go. First-a one: How-a many of you masturbate?”
A few hands went up. Father Guido nodded as he scanned the crowd, made some notes. Then he looked up again.
“Very good. Next-a one: How-a many of-a you are liars?”
The judicial insurrection continues…
lobo91 wrote:
bullshit.
have yinz heard about how the whack jobs are about to block out the sun?
Trump should threaten them with crimes against humanity stuff.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
)500 and there was a shower and once wet the wind felt cool. The temperature was a balmy 16C so it wasn’t a real nasty early morning start, and the numbers attending were right on the money. ~ 60,000 and a few stragglers. 🙂
March on of the Vets , Guards and Navy Band. A WREN played a lament excellently on a wonderful violin. Drill was crisp, Hymns were sung, flags were raised and lowered, Last Post and Revelry sounded. The rest of the Ceremonial well done and the Flight of three very low C-130s arrived exactly on time overhead as ceremonials came to an end. The Three Services Guards marched off behind the Vets, who repaired through the Doric Columns and deeper into the Museum for coffee, with a smidgen of rum! Individual Regiments did their own ANZAC Day ‘thingies’ behind the Museum on the Domain including ‘The Aucks’ one of my own units the 3rd Bn Auckland ‘Countess of Ranfurly’s Own and Northland Regiment. A breakaway bunch headed down through the hills and copses of trees, through the University of Auckland University grounds and Victoria Park to the Northern Club for a slap up breakfast, and all was right under God’s Heaven!
🙂
The 112th. ANZAC Day was well done
🙂
Ouch!
That is going to leave a mark!
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pakistan-warns-act-war-after-india-cancels-landmark-water-treaty
So this is where WWIII begins?
Ukraine, Gaza, Iran will have to just have to join the line and wait!
🙂
@ lobo91:
@ eaglesoars:
“GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART […] The Democratic Party Plaintiffs’ Motion is DENIED as to Sections 2(b), 7(a), and 7(b) of Executive Order 14,248.”
Not sure what all of it means aside from obstruction.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/
New thread.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2025/04/25/everybody-sing/
@ Aussie Infidel:
I thinkthe history of the different names Popes have chosen is interesting.
Some have chosen a characteristic, like Pius, Innocent, or Honorius.
Others chose a name reflecting someone important in Christendom, like John or Paul.
But there have been many Popes with, at least to our ears, names which are unusual. What prompted Popes like Urban, Conon, or Zosimus to choose those names? And, with the obvious exception of Judas, why have only a handful of names of the other Disciples had their names used?