A Caution
Yes, it’s great that one of the most rancid cunts in US politics is destined to leave office on January 3rd of next year, having been primaried out…by a great big (but not big enough) margin.
But just remember…we might replace the RINO candidates. But that will make no difference in the long run if the party officials, basically the Rhonna McDaniels (or however that’s spelled), don’t get replaced.
State party chairs, vice chairs, secretaries and so on, and the same at county levels, have huge influence on who ultimately gets nominated, and if these party wheelhouses are RINOs, they will work tirelessly to put their own pukey people on the ballot. In fact I’d not be surprised if some of our “MAGA” candidates are in fact, RINO plants, encouraged to run by the RINO party leadership when they realized that Lyn Cheney (and her ilk) were hopelessly compromised as effective candidates. The best way for them to deal with the opposition, of course, is to run it themselves.
Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!
SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom
I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”
Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.
Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?
Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?
中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!
And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:
OK, with that rant out of my system…
Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit
…we can move on to the next one.
Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.
Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.
Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!
It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.
In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.
Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Spot Prices
All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).
Last Week:
Gold $1,676.90
Silver $19.69
Platinum $916.00
Palladium $2,217.00
Rhodium $14,950.00
So here it is, Friday, 3PM MT after markets closed and we see:
Gold $1,645.40
Silver $18.93
Platinum $864.00
Palladium $2,153.00
Rhodium $14,500.00
Gold continues to drop…and the standard story is that it’s because the dollar looks attractive to the big financial weenies because the interest rate is climbing. And it’s trending up against the euro. Personally I think both are circling the drain, so something else is in play…conspiracy theories about big buyers forcing the price down are certainly not out of order.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!
China is in the White House
Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.
Joe Biden is Asshoe
China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.
But of course the much more important thing to realize:
Joe Biden Didn’t Win
乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!
In 2011, I bought a roll of silver eagles for $400. The spot price was $18.
I am now confused.
We live in a casino. The House changes the names of the games available, changes the rules, and changes the odds at its whim.
Does this help?
Sort of.
Dershowitz is one of the few Dems who cares about the Constitution and will take a stand.
Great point about the RINO candidates and party leadership. I don’t know if this will make any difference in which candidates are supported:
https://www.wkrn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-allies-create-a-new-super-pac-called-maga-inc/
OMG – so hilarious – and SO TRUE!!!
You can also say corrupt, greedy, evil men create hard times.
We have seen this over and over again.
Well, Biblically, that is weakness, right?
AMEN.
🙂
Another FIB raid on an innocent person:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/bidens-fbi-sends-25-30-agents-home-pro-life-author-father-7-arrest-reportedly-protecting-son-abortion-escort/
This pro-life family man, with a wife and seven children, had his 12-y-o son with him while doing sidewalk counseling, and a guy kept approaching the son and saying lewd things.
So now the FIB has frightened the family and arrested the man. It’s not clear to me what their suposed grounds are.
I guess Ab0rtion, P0RN and P3D0 lobby paid for that. I purely and righteously H8 the effing bee eye and the snide sneering slimy øbastid they are working for.
These monsters have no fear of GOD and no love and respect for the US Constitution, human rights or human life.
They’re evil, and they’re turning FIB evil.
This is a nightmarish reality that we’re living…
https://grrrgraphics.com/we-tried-to-warn-you/
That’s for all those government lawyers out there who need clarification on Constitutional Law from The Motor City Madman.
Enumeration of limited powers and protection of God Given Rights.
ALWAYS frame your argument to others as the Constitution being a pact of PROTECTION for Divine rights.
So many people have no idea.
Thanks for the belly laugh!
YW! 😆
H/t Citizen Free Press:
Thought experiment — we know that most of the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch of our government have been bought off by the CCP.
What if most of the CCP had been bought off by someone? Perhaps the WEF?
Things will become clearer in a bit of time, but we should always be prepared to laugh.
Yes. There are MANY WEF-trained Chinese. If THEY take over, then it’s bad news for everybody.
Curious about this myself. I know WEF and the Chi-coms are intertwined. Would like to know how more clearly.
IMO WEF and CCP are two predators dealing for dominance.
Absolutely.
Hoping they are not in cahoots. Or even, both playing the “enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
“IMO WEF and CCP are two predators dealing for dominance.”
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Except for Klaus Schwab.
He just wants to be the world’s oldest tranny.
Is that so wrong?
LOL!!!
This could be bad news or good news.
If Xi is arrested, that’s BAD NEWS because it means that WEF has manipulated China into taking down Xi so that WEF can then take down Putin.
WEF will then be in control of the whole world.
If Xi is arresting WEF-trained assets, or just removing them from office, then Putin and Xi are safe from color revolutions, and WEF can be contained.
Here is my thought. WEF has been grooming people in all countries, but MANY in China. We don’t remember their names – they’re mostly intermediary but important politicians and technocrats. If you look at WEF lists and videos, there are MANY Chinese trainees and visitors.
Putin and Xi and the other members of the SCO are tightening the belt against all possibilities of COLOR REVOLUTIONS, which are publicly blamed on SOROS, but I suspect are largely the work of WEF and CIA in reality.
Xi was saying that China is going to help other nations stabilize against color revolutions, by giving them training in counterintelligence and counterrevolutionary tactics, as part of the SCO.
Let’s hope that dupes of WEF in CCP are not taking down Xi, because if so, that means freedom is in deep shit WORLD-WIDE.
Fluid.
“Fluid.”
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Like a run for the border.
Also would like to see the list of US politicians connected and corporate connections to the WEF. Many we know already, but the unknowns are key.
Seems like only yesterday he appointed himself dick-tater for life…
Very interesting report. This gals conclusion and general assessment below. (Her words, as best I could capture. ~24:30 minute mark.)
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So for people who don’t believe Xi has been ousted, this hurried sentencing of the anti Xi officials are also evidence that Xi is still in control. Tight control.
So how do we look at this __ conclusion, evidence and facts.
Maybe the only safe conclusion. Things are quite out of order in China. Anything is possible. Nothing is normal in China. Everything seems to have gone wrong.
Also, we have surely entered into a historic stage __ tales and change. Not only only in China and also in our world.
So what can we do is only to keep our eyes wide open. Follow the facts. Or sometimes maybe the rumors closely. And then make the right judgement.
I suspect that Xi + CCP loyalists + PLA are spreading disinformation to flush out more traitors.
Would be helpful if, Bannon had Gordon Chang on his show today, or soon.
IIRC, Gordon has been a frequent guest on War room in the past.
So, weird bleg for RF121….
There is a guy in the Golden Gate Live Steamers (I’m in the Bay Area Engine Modelers, who meet in their facility). He owns a ‘Northern’ 4-8-4 coal-powered steam engine that runs on IIRC 3.5″ track (it could be 4.75″ or 2.5″ — it’s a triple-gauge track layout). It is real coal — he shovels it in by the teaspoon. The locomotive is about three feet long.
Unfortunately, around the start of this COVID stuff, it was diagnosed with boiler issues, and we are both aware of how little tolerance there can be with such. I have only heard rumors regarding the exact situation, but I believe that the boiler was originally sourced from some firm in Germany that may no longer be available. In the meantime, people have tried to reach out to their contacts in the miniature locomotive world to find someone willing and able to fix whatever problems his boiler has, with a marked lack of success.
I don’t know if anyone ever asked anyone on the “big guys” side of things for a possible contact. Do you know anyone crazy enough to work on coal-powered steam boilers that are about 4″ across and 20″ long? I’d love to pass a name along even if it’s a longshot.
To be honest, I don’t even know the guy’s name. I just remember how insanely great his little engine looked pulling him around the track (he rode a flatcar sidesaddle — the “high-line” track is elevated about three feet). In Real Life, a Northern is a Big F’in Engine — and this so aggressively miniaturized that it was running on one of the smallest available tracks….with each tiny drivewheel moving things along.
These are trains running on 7.5″ track on the ground. Imagine a locomotive 1/8 the size. The high line track is on the right-hand edge of this picture.
Full size —
It was amazing to see a version miniaturized to ride on the elevated track.
I’ve watched this several times — it’s firing-up a 2-8-2 ‘Mikado’ D&RG coal locomotive bit by bit. A 4-8-4 Northern would be about the same, although the engine would be a little longer. In addition, this video is about a narrow-gauge engine while a Northern would normally be standard gauge.
The young guy in the video got stolen by Disney within months of this video being made. He’s good and deserves the money they threw at him.
Very C O O L !
Would enjoy visiting that museum.
So many people love the coal fired stem engine. I wrote many times and I can tell you they are dirty. Everywhere is the coal dust never mind one make the mistake opening the window to look out.
Yes they are a marvel and fascinating specially to my husband a train buff. Twice he bought tickes to ride through West Virginia from Huntington . Was a nice fall trip.
There are a couple of old railroads being run in Colorado…Durango and Silverthorne (I think) and Cumbres and Toltec.
The Durango route goes well up into the San Juan mountains, and at times even though they’re shoveling coal as fast as they can the train slows to a crawl. Climbing, the train is doing a lot of work (in the physics sense of the term) and there’s only so much energy in coal.
True they are slow even going up the mountains in W Virginia.
Another consideration is that no only do they need new fuel (coal), they need water, too. Wyoming is pretty empty, but there are substantial towns every hundred miles along I-80 Those originated as stations for trains to take on water.
Interesting thank you
They also need sand, oddly enough.
Colorado has mountains, W Virginia has hills.
Ahem. The tallest peak in the lower 48 isn’t in WV or CO.
True. But we have a lot of big ones.
Yeah, we came up with 54 of them.
So those assholes in CA had to come up with one but make it just a few feet higher.
Yes, CA only has 12 14ers.
I stand corrected 🙂
However what matters for what I was describing was the grade…not how high it starts or how high it goes (which, of course CO beats everything east of the Mississippi on–the highest point in the US east of the Mississippi barely reaches the bottom of my well)!
Normally, slowing to a crawl is a traction problem instead of an engine problem. If the coal is boiling the water, you’ll have steam at the pressure limit of the boiler. There is no direct connection from coal burned to work performed.
Incidentally, there are two or more domes on top of the boiler. One is a steam dome — it’s the one with the whistle on it — and it helps you get dry steam. Another is the sand dome (has a large handwheel on top) and it actually contains sand, which is sent down little tubes to the train’s drive wheels, so they don’t slip against the tracks.
This is a replica of a rather famous “American”-pattern locomotive — 4-4-0 — there are four little red leading wheels, four drive wheels under the boiler, and no wheels under the cab. The original “Jupiter” brought railroad executives to the site in Utah where they drove the “Golden Spike” completing the transcontinental railroad.
The steam dome is polished brass and — as advertised — has a whistle on top. The idea is that raw steam off the water in the boiler would move up into the dome. Any moisture that would condense from it would collect on the walls and fall back into the boiler. Steam collected from the middle of the dome would tend to be “dry”. Besides the whistle, there’d be an overpressure valve — if the steam were supposed to be 120 pounds pressure, this valve would open and vent the excess.
In front of it is the sand dome, in blue, with the number of the train (60) and some decoration. If you look at the bottom of the side of the dome, directly under the number, you can see a little brass pipe coming out of the base. It goes essentially straight down over the boiler and drops towards the front drive wheel. As it passes the axle of the drive wheel, it gently curves along the curve of the wheel until it ends just above the track. If you have trouble seeing it, find the little brass pipe right in front of the drive wheel just above the tracks and trace it upward. This dome just sits on top of the boiler and doesn’t impinge on the boiler.
The steam that actually moves the train drives two cylinders, one on each side. On this train they are shiny brass. The pistons of steam engines have steam pressure alternately on the front and back, so both “half-strokes” are driven. The pistons on each side of the train are offset by 90 degrees from the other side, so there is no dead spot — since the pushrods are flat on this side, they are either at the top or bottom on the other. The shiny brass box immediately above the cylinder contains the valves that route the steam.
The wheels are attached to the axles such that each side is a flywheel for the other. I attended a talk given by the guy who had the maintenance contract on the Disneyland locomotives. He showed the (modern) process for mounting a wheel on its axle. The axle is dipped into liquid nitrogen for a bit, while the inner surface of the wheel is warmed with blowtorches. Once everyone is ready, the elements are pressed together, squared, and trued in about 30 seconds before they lock together. If they are not square and even before their appointed time, they get to remake everything and start again.
No direct connection?
Perhaps not, but there must be a connection, however indirect.
OK, I’ll certainly grant that traction is part of the reason for the slowdown on a grade, but it cannot be all of it.
Which requires more energy? Pulling a train on a flat stretch of track where one must overcome friction (including some air resistance), or pulling a train up a slope the same distance? The latter is more work, thus requires more energy, and the sole source of energy is the coal. To maintain the same speed (same distance per time) you must burn more coal. Pressure in the boiler at most will introduce a delaying effect (essentially the coal you burn now is being put to work a few minutes later; the boiler serves as an energy store. In fact the lengthy amount of time it takes to fire up a locomotive is basically this in action on the other end, where you have to put a lot of heat in before you can start to get work out.
If you reach an upper limit of how fast you burn coal that will ultimately constrain your speed even if the locomotive *could* go faster, mechanically speaking.
Loss of traction is basically an added extra loss of efficiency (you’re turning more coal energy into heating the rails and wheels than normally). I’m sure that loss of traction is one of the limiting factors on how steep you can build a track. The D&S is a very steep track by railroad standards.
If an argument from physics can’t convince you a train must burn more coal per mile going uphill, and that on those grades the speed with which an employee can shovel fuel into the engine becomes the limiting factor, then perhaps the fact that the D&S employees actually told me this is what happens–her husband shoveled the coal, IIRC–would.
I have kinfolk (and a lot of history) in Huntington (and thereabouts) going back hundreds of years… The fall colors there are spectacular, as are the chili dogs (WITHOUT SLAW!!!) from Stewart’s and a number of other hotdog havens near Huntington 🙂
The city was named after Collis P. Huntington, founder of the C&O Railroad, and one of the great proponents of railroading in general. It used to be a huge hub and maintenance depot for the C&O and, IIRC, the B&O, but those days are (sadly) long gone…
“Chessie” the cat was their mascot for passenger (and sleeper) service.
The famous logging railroad at Cass Mountain has a number of Shay Locomotives which are really interesting, and fun to watch. Probably not so fun to run 🙂
Most coal-fired engines being used on “museum railroads” have been converted to oil (the best example being the 4014 Big Boy) so the soot problem is all but gone. Having said that, the technology exists to scrub the exhaust from steam lovos just as it is done for coal-fired power plants…
Nothing like seeing, hearing, and feeling a Big Boy flying by. Here in Europe there is/was nothing close, although the Mallard and the Flying Scotsman were quite impressive. At the technikmuseums in Sinsheim and Speyer they have some German Dampfloks that are huge, but not that huge. Also some ship’s diesel engines that are as big as a house….
Thank you for sharing your history of Huntington. I get there once in a while but most of the time more to Columbus.
Yes the steam locomotives are impressive. My husband has dragged me to many train museums from CT to Pennsylvanian then to train rides to Hinton WV. Bought a nice handmade quilt on one of the trips from a fair. Yes the fall leaves are beautiful. My one daughter in Law is from VW. The people are very close knit families and friendly.
The last BAEM meeting was the same day as a GGLS open house, and a guy had a coal powered miniature tractor. He had been given some soft brown coal that was almost wet, and it was very dirty. He’d never seen anything like it.
Interesting do not remember coal fired tractors.
I know all about brown coal and it is soft and dirty. My grandmother at the DDR ordered every fall brown coal to heat her kitchen oven and heat the living room. The coal is more dust and then pressed into form.
The outfit that worked at restoring the “Big Boy” 4-8-8-4 and the “Challenger” 4-6-6-4 are probably the top experts in boiler fabrication and restoration out there. There are a few videos (OK, probably TONS of videos) on the restoration and them. They would be closer than anyone in Germany, especially if the maker isn’t in business anymore.
(As a side note, along with the Germans, the British and even the Belgians are into old steam, live steam models, and restoration thereof. But remote diagnosis is difficult 🙂 )…
I remember riding on one like that as a kid in England. Very cool.
I don’t get involved with miniatures like that. You could try the train guys at Roaring Camp Railroad in Scotts Valley. They may know someone.
I’m pretty sure he’s tried everyone actually in the railroad field. I was thinking there might be some weird research boiler thing that none of the train people would think of.
He might reach out to Tony Koester or one of the editors at Kalmbach publications (“Trains”, “Classic Trains”, “Model Railroading” and a host of others). They would know the movers and the shakers in the industry and the restoration field because that’s their field, and many of them worked “in the biz” before moving to the magazine side of things (and some are doing both).
As far as the original supplier of the boiler, he could look in the “Handelsregister” of German businesses and see if they’re still there. Like I said, the folks that restored 4014 and 3985 did a lot of stuff from scratch, including the boilers, tubing, underframe, firebox, etc., etc., etc.
The boiler for the train will actually be fairly straight forward. Even if they used riveted joints there is some expertise there. The controls, pistons etc maybe a little more specialized.
This is a great little video that para dropped late yesterday – worth playing again, if you have not seen it.
https://youtu.be/BeaIUCE6vas
This comes from a great article here:
https://pjmedia.com/columns/benbartee/2022/09/23/wef-mafioso-threatens-climate-annihilation-demands-2-trillion-as-protection-money-n1631839
This paper from May 2022 is aging well.
Researchers: Covid jab deadlier than Covid infection for anyone under the age of 80
https://www.worldtribune.com/researchers-covid-jab-deadlier-than-covid-infection-for-anyone-under-the-age-of-80/
FTA
A risk-benefit analysis by Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., and independent researcher Kathy Dopp concluded that the Covid vaccine is deadlier than Covid itself for anyone under the age of 80.
The researchers looked at publicly available official data from the U.S. and UK for all age groups and compared all-cause mortality to the risk of dying from Covid. “All age groups under 50 years old are at greater risk of fatality after receiving a COVID-19 inoculation than an unvaccinated person is at risk of a COVID-19 death,” Seneff and Dopp concluded.
For younger adults and children, there’s no benefit, only risk, the researchers said in their analysis, which was published in mid-February,
“This analysis is conservative,” Seneff and Dopp note, “because it ignores the fact that inoculation-induced adverse events such as thrombosis, myocarditis, Bell’s palsy, and other vaccine-induced injuries can lead to shortened life span. When one takes into consideration the fact that there is approximately a 90% decrease in risk of COVID-19 death if early treatment is provided to all symptomatic high-risk persons, one can only conclude that mandates of COVID-19 inoculations are ill-advised. Considering the emergence of antibody-resistant variants like Delta and Omicron, for most age groups COVID-19 vaccine inoculations result in higher death rates than COVID-19 does for the unvaccinated.”
Wolf Moon
The Seneff / Dopp paper is truthful and convincing. The problem is that it’s a pre-print and not yet peer-reviewed. Yours Truly suspects that since it’s too truthful and convincing, the paper will “languish” in “not yet peer-reviewed Purgatory.”
Meanwhile, the FDA / CDC / “official medical establishment” / the local pharmacy, are all pushing the failed, dangerous, potentially life-threatening and/or life-shortening mRNA-based or adenovirus DNA-based COVID-19 “vaccines.” Meanwhile, Pfzier-BioNTech, Moderna, and literally dozens of other companies are working on even more mRNA-based COVID-19 “vaccines”, along with mRNA-based “vaccines” for cancer, influenza, and so on.
Seneff bio (from Stephanie Seneff – Wikipedia): Seneff attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning her Bachelor of Science (BS) in biophysics in 1968, master’s (MS) and engineering (E.E.) degrees in electrical engineering in 1980, and a doctoral degree (PhD) in computer science and electrical engineering in 1985. She is a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Her research career focused on using computational
A Schlichter I’m reluctant to even drag over here…..
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/09/22/of-course-ron-desantis-will-runand-he-may-very-well-win-n2613398
I don’t agree. I do not think he is ready for the spot to be honest. I question his, (Desantis), judgement on some issues and also don’t think he has the resources to withstand the onslaught by the uniparty that Trump has. I’ll stick with Trump.
He is doing a good job as governor. Not everybody needs to be president. We need good governors, senators, and representatives also or this thing will never get wheels.
We need a comprehensive assault at all levels, rather than playing pattycake with just the White House. De Santis is fine where he is right now.
Yup!
True, to run Desantis is going to have to throw his hat in the ring so the big wigs can fill it up. There in lies the problem. All the big money comes with strings attached. Trump is obviously better able to resist this.
Desantis running in 2024 would split MEGA I can see it already people finding the grass greener on the other site. We will loose and then all is lost.
Desantis needs to run after Trump and have the whole movement behind him not the split strategy the establishment is known for.
That is the part that irked me. The pov was: what is best for DeS’ presidential prospects?
Frankly, I don’t give a damn whether 2028 might be less favorable to DeS. Who would even think that way?
Go Trump!
👍
The establishment like McConnell and other Rinos do think that way.
They live for the split strategy. Look how they fight Trump’s MEGA candidates running for Senate and Congress ? They pure millions against Trump supported candidates even on Governor level.
28 doesn’t exist at this point. 24, is barely the dim light, at the end of this tunnel.
And C, I just want to interrupt the seriousness of the posting tonight and let everyone know…I am currently watching…’Animal House’ on AMC.
This movie is Babylon Bee .5
They all knew then. Glad I have wide eyes now!
Just as long as you’re not on double-secret probation.
It hilariously told us what was going to happen…as most of Marxist Hollywood!!!! Yet, it IS a riot!
And I LOVE the ‘double-secret probation’ line!
And where Dean Wormer says “The time has come for someone to put his foot down.
And that foot is me.”
(the whole passage is a hoot)
CLASSIC!!!
They FED us their recipe.
Lol.
The answer to one question tells me everything I need to know about whether DeSantis can beat Donald Trump.
Ask yourself, “would I drive a few hundred miles and stand in line for several hours to hear Ron DeSantis speak?”
My answer is NO. I would not. But I did it for Trump. And I’d do it again. How do you run against that?
Ron had better be real careful. He could peak at 44 years old as a has-been Governor of Florida, and a failed Presidential candidate. Because I’m telling you right now, up against Trump, he loses. Because which die-hard Trump supporter is going to listen to Ron criticize the Donald, and then vote for him?
Not me.
Yup. DeSantis goes into the LION’S CAGE if he does.
Hey Smiley – Looks like you got out of Dodge in the nick of time!
Ian is predicted to be a major hurricane by the time it hits.
Tis the season to be wary for Florida folks.
Prayers for everyone in the hurricane’s path. I am glad Catturd is alert to it. He has five dogs and a cat to watch over.
There is a second photo below the one you see and it’s very bad. You have to look at the whole post to see it though.
Spooked Traders Just Piled Into Stock Protection at Record Rate
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-23/spooked-traders-just-piled-into-stock-protection-at-record-rate#xj4y7vzkg
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The Fed Is Finally Seeing The Magnitude Of The Mess It Created
snip … “Yet, the Fed’s real incompetence is already behind us. That came over the past decade when the Fed absolutely refused to end its quantitative easing efforts even as the economy was clearly in an accelerating expansion. This was especially obvious after 2017, and yet Powell stuck with the usual monetary inflation, because that was the popular thing to do. Then, when the covid crisis, came, all restraints on monetary inflation were completely abandoned.
Now, thanks to Powell’s mistakes, price inflation is supercharged, and even he admits it could take years of economic stagnation or decline to bring it under control. The sheer level of ineptitude would be shocking if it were not so common for central bankers. For those people, their entire “strategy” can be summed up—as Peter St. Onge puts it—”Hike til it breaks, cut til it inflates.” There’s not much more to it than that. That’s the best all those PhD’s at the Fed have managed to come up with. Thanks to Powell and Yellen and Benernake and Greenspan, we’ve living with the consequences of the Greenspan Put, followed by a decade of QE, followed by the “panic and print money” mania of the past two years. It’s great that Powell is finally figuring out what the real world looks like. Unfortunately he’s years behind.”
full article https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-finally-seeing-magnitude-mess-it-created
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So glad I read this one. I needed a good laugh.
Need more 🥓🥓🥓
WILL EUROPE BREAK WITH THE UNITED STATES?
23 September 2022 by Larry Johnson
FTA:
“The craven sycophancy demonstrated by Germany, France and the United Kingdom in their passionate embrace of America’s confrontation with Russia is now on life support. Despite continued bombastic threats to keep arming Ukraine until Russia collapses, economic reality is hitting the Europeans like an icy cold shower from a fire hose. Rapid inflation, particularly in the energy sector, is forcing factories and businesses to shutter operations. The de-industrialization of Europe, especially Germany and the UK, has started. German steel plants are closing, German bakeries are trying to figure out how to pay soaring utility bills while still making bread and pretzels and German toilet-paper manufacturer Hakle GmbH has applied for insolvency proceedings in self-administration. If you don’t have a bidet or a bucket full of sand, toilet paper is an essential item. The inflationary spiral may lead to the day where it is cheaper to wipe your ass with a 100 Euro note than three sheets of Hakle.”
full article https://sonar21.com/will-europe-break-with-the-united-states/
from the comments:
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““bumbling lazy weaklings”? That would be the stereotypical view of some backward illiterates in some Northern European corners, Britain mostly, but not only. Those who are aiding the Nazi government in Ukraine basically. Same bed-fellows. The Italian economy as you say is a lot better than most think having a strong industrial base despite years of off-shoring since the mid 2000s, and quality-wise few if any can compete with Italian goods. Then, there is the personal wealth factor. Italians possess way more financial wealth deposited in the countries banking institutions than anyone in Europe, 3’rd highest in the world to be exact. Italy is a lot better suited to handle an impending economic crisis than all of Europe. I won’t even mention that we have the most advanced and productive agricultural economy probably in the entire world. To the detriment of the “Atlanticists”, Mario Draghi, the US stooge should be gone in a few weeks after the elections tomorrow and without any underhanded machinations coming out of the Quirinale, the Italian presidency, to resuscitate him, a major wind of change should come out of Italy that will seriously affect Bruxelles policy. Lest we forget, Russia has more political assets and commercial contacts in Italy than one can imagine and that is not to be taken lightly.”
Reality is going to hit Europe very soon. Switzerland has always housed the enemy of ALL of Europe.
Those who sat ABOVE the kingdoms – ABOVE the warring powers – ABOVE the Nazis – have always been the real problem.
Europe’s cabal of troublemakers need to be ordered into that back seat. And that includes all those who traded sovereignty for an unreliable America to foot the bill for foolishness, and for the rise of globalists ready to give that cabal power OVER Europe as a whole.
European countries with power could have objected to the insanity of NATO over-expansion.
The time to admit that it was all a mistake is NOW.
Amen
Hakle is one of many, so we’re not short of TP.
On the other hand, we have more BS and Merde than we can deal with…
Habeck is getting pilloried even within his own party. A philosophy major who writes childrens’ books has no business being vice-kanzler and business minister… he probably can’t even balance his checkbook (OK, he has someone else to do it for him)….
A true WEFfenSS puppet…
Amen Cuppa … hope you are moving gently through what must be a nightmare. It’s comin’ here … sooner than people think …
Praying for all of us …
Yup. Another Jenna Griswold. A stupid warm body giving somebody else power.
There is no logic in EU, UK following BiteMe’s lead supporting Ukraine AND TOTALLY pissing off their energy supplier.
Dumb bastards in Germany, UK, France, shot themselves in both feet. Then cut them off.
We didn’t vote for the ones who are actually in power…
Sound familiar?
Very.
Almost as if it were a conspiracy…turned
real lifenightmare.A “bucket full of sand” 🥴🥴🥴
He is colorful!
The Hurricane Cometh | Musings from the Chiefio (wordpress.com)
He was just talking about his “go bags” and prepping and fuel range to get out of town…
Still better than Kalifornistan, at any rate…
When something as big as a hurricane is imminent, you have to stop what you’re doing and spend all your time in preparation. He seems to have thought things out pretty thoroughly. I wish them all well.
Yep. He has a huge series on prepping, and basically everything to do in case TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) happens…..
I’d rather have DeSantis than Gruesome Newscum any day as governor…
Just wish we could get someone better over here, but Merde-Kuh got rid of all of them (e.g. zu Guttenberg)…
Many years ago, I lived in Florida for a while, on the Gulf side.
My brother-law-law left his job in the Northeast and moved to Miami. He brought his three kids; his wife was still in New England finishing out a job.
One week after he moved in, Hurricane Andrew struck.
We all had to go down and help with the clean-up. I’ve never, ever, seen destruction like that, and I’ve lived through five tornadoes. The roof of the house was in the pool in the backyard. I didn’t see a standing tree for twenty miles. All glass was broken, everywhere I looked, in every building.
A bad hurricane is a nightmare.
That is how it works 😂
Ah, the pesky patterns of reality!
My twin experience literally bears this out!!!
Verse of the Day for Saturday, September 24, 2022
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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
This is what I meant to post 😉 … not the cat
Can’t imagine being on Active duty, assigned to one of those pathetic douche bags.
Could never hold my tongue, or hide my disdain for them. Could never fake, “respect”.
At best I’d get discharged. Worst, busted, brig, then discharged.
The surgical normalization of mental illness based on enforced “niceness” was a brilliant subversive tactic.
That’s a great quote Wolf 👍
TY!!! 😊
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/09/24/no-the-vaccines-never-worked-all-that-well-against-severe-covid/
by Alex Berenson
Short summary by Yours Truly: A study of people in Great Britain published in The Lancet, a peer-reviewed journal, showed that in 2021, “fully vaccinated” persons had a higher risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19, and only a 65% aggregate protection factor against hospitalization and death from COVID-19.
The Berenson article also refers to another peer-reviewed paper published in The Lancet, this one about a follow-up study on U.S. adolescents and young adults who came down with myocarditis after getting “vaccinated” for COVID-19. He includes a graph from the paper, indicating that out of the study cohort, only about 50% of the patients were “fully recovered.”
However, there appears to be a problem with the findings in The Lancet paper: According to http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/myocarditis —
“There is no curative treatment for myocarditis.” (Johns Hopkins University)
When these people start dropping like flies, or needing extensive medical care, the burden on healthcare systems WORLDWIDE will be overwhelming.
Cloward will be cheering up from Hell, and Piven will be cheering, awaiting her eventual welcome to Hell (complete with accordion)…
Agreed. Part of the issue is how to get people with, say, myocarditis from a COVID-19 “vaccine”, to understand that they will most likely never be “fully recovered”, will need to be monitored by a cardiologist for multiple years, will need to take drugs to keep the heart functioning as nearly normal as possible, and will need to avoid certain types of strenuous exercise and/or sports.
And what about the looming burden on healthcare systems worldwide because of mounting COVID-19 “vaccine” injuries and/or illness? The medical profession itself may well be in trouble from doctors, PA’s, and nurses themselves getting sick / retiring early / leaving the profession, due to their own COVID-19 “vaccine” injuries and/or illnesses.
The potential for healthcare everywhere to be rationed according to multiple factors — including the leaving out of the UN-“vaccinated” — is also there.
I believe that is one of their goals.
Agreed; with the bias being in favor of younger, healthy “drone – slaves” while eliminating the older and/or sicker. The elite “ruling class”, however, will always have access to a high level of healthcare at whatever age or health status.
The elites die also in God’s time. Sometimes long life can be a punishment specially for evil doers like they are.
Like the government has now…..
Factor in the psychological aspect. Some will be extremely depressed about their future. Not everyone is the pull up your bootstraps type, especially younger people with their lives altered permanently.
This is far too true. The one on the right may be bigger.
Nice belly laugh on that one. Imagine that one on a LED billboard. Drivers would lose it. 🙂
Uranium jerky: Angle on Ukraine (Part VII) – The Optimistic Conservative (wordpress.com)
Great stuff.
Everything is about the one energy we can’t talk about.
OMG – Trump KNOWS. CONFIRMED.
He freakin’ JOKED about it.
New, thought-provoking Pointman up…
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2022/09/24/whats-it-actually-mean-if-the-new-donbass-republics-join-the-russian-federation
(Somehow I keep seeing that as “dumbass” rather than Donbass…)….
Excellent read.
That’s because you’re always having too much pun. 😉
This is not good.
154 Scientists at Los Alamos Nuke Lab Defected to China
If that went main stream, folks might wake up.
Yea, not likely they’d wake up. 
Yet another reason why Chinese nationals or immigrants of any flavor should not be allowed to do critical/classified research, or indeed anything where intellectual property might be stolen, or opportunities for spying/sabotage exist.
(In other words, keep them out of R&D and academia completely)…
Only allow them into Disneyworld!
LMAO!!!
It’s A Small World probably needs some new puppets or whatever they are.
A couple of spooky things about It’s a Small World.
They initially turned the puppets off overnight, but a certain number of them didn’t restart every morning — so now they just run them 24/7. They just turn off the soundtrack and lights at night, so they move and whirr and click in the dark.
The fabric costumes, on the wood and plastic puppets, wear out with the constant motion……from the inside.
The Fiancee remembers the original from the New York World’s Fair — she was afraid her infant sister would fall out of the boat.
They are in all research at the expence of America researchers
Yep. And that’s been true for almost 50 years… and not just the RED Chinese. The Indians, Iranians/Persians, Arabs, and other groups have been favored over Americans!
Have a look, for instance, at USC’s School of Engineering. Nary an American name to be found….. Same is true for UCLA, Bezerkely, and other institutions.
Willingly or not, the USA let foreign countries invade and take over most, if not all, of the plum research and leadership posts. And all that “intellectual property” (THAT WE PAID FOR) went back to their home countries, and, as with Los Alamos Labs, the researchers went back as well….
That is true a;so in engineering. They are school learned but not practical. They cannot build a thing all on paper.
I had a prof who, in a conversation after class, gave me some impressions. The Iranian students (and I am guessing these were people whose family got the hell out a few years earlier when Khomeini took over), he said, were very studios and would do well on paper exams. For instance they could do computations regarding Snell’s Law without fail.
But you couldn’t take one out into the hall, next to a window, and ask them to tell you at what angle relative to the glass you could no longer see through the window. They couldn’t even tell you how they’d go about figuring it out, provided you gave them one important parameter for the type of glass. Hint: That’s what you would actually use Snell’s law for.
Yes. And those married to chinee nationals should be severely limited in their access also.
Those who go bang-bang with Fang-Fang shouldn’t be on the security committee.
They should be “workin’ on the chain gang”…..
I watched the entire Dan Bongino interview of FIB whistleblower Kyle Seraphin. Part I:
https://rumble.com/v1l37oz-interview-with-fbi-whistleblower-kyle-seraphin-part-1-ep.-1857-the-dan-bong.html
Some tidbits:
● The FIB is an investigational organization, not a law enforcement organization.
● Its structure is not condusive to honest work. Incentives for promotion are based on numbers of cases, which are pursued, and even invented, whether they have merit or not. At times it is even advantageous to rat out another agent for something very minor.
● Agents get assigned a type of case and sometimes have to find something to fit the category.
● Seraphin says no way would he have participated in a raid on any former president’s home. He would have quit right then.
● He also described a situation where he was sent to interview someone but didn’t think there was any need. He influenced the person to exercise his right to not speak to law enforcement, and went on his way.
● For the FIB, J6 is bigger than 9/11. Agents have been brought in from all over the country. They investigate who was there and their comings and goings and contacts, etc., and charge them with trespassing. Bongino was puzzled at the premier law enforcement agency in the world going after trespassers.
The FIB is out of control, is not structured well, is subject to the political and power-play whims of higher-ups, does not appear to be working in the best interest of the people and the country, and IMO should be torn down and replaced with something else. That could create a vacuum because it takes years to train agents, and they do accomplish some things. But I have no doubt that people like Seraphin, the other recent whistleblower, Bongino (former police officer, SS agent), and others could come up with a workable solution. I hope PDJT and a lot of others in positions of influence will see this. I know at least one whistleblower has been in contact with Jim Jordan.
Yeah, this is not good. More to say later.
The J6 Truth Rally is going on now. I wonder how many FIB agents are there and if they’re all dressed alike in MAGA gear. 🤭
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/live-stream-video-january-6th-solidarity-truth-rally-saturday-1-5-pm-washington-d-c-us-political-prisoners-mike-lindell-jim-hoft-cara-castronuova-etc/
Dems are just pushing to see how far they can push us.
That is a TRUE story. And they won’t stop until we stop backing up.
Hope the stupid virtue signal is worth the waste of life energy.
https://t.me/intelslava/37873
“The Federation Council says that the issue of joining new regions to Russia can be considered as early as September 29. Accordingly, the official entry of 4 new regions into Russia can be either at the same time on September 29, or on the morning of September 30, when Pasechnik, Pushilin, Balitsky and Saldo sign the relevant documents with Putin in the Kremlin in the same way as they were signed by Chaly in 2014 and Aksenov.
The real question is what happens then? Once the documents are signed, as far as Russian law goes the Ukrainian military will then be occupying Russian territory.”
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“They either leave voluntarily or are made to leave, and the Ukraine ceases to exist as a geopolitical entity.”
Pointman has a good post up here:
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2022/09/24/whats-it-actually-mean-if-the-new-donbass-republics-join-the-russian-federation
Have the DIMs sent some of their ‘mules’ to the Ukraine … ?
Intel Slava Z
Ukrainian sabotage group detained in DPR
During the search they found bundles of ballots, similar to those used in the referendum. On each, negative answers are pre-marked on the issue of the DPR joining Russia.
Yup. Straight out of DEMOCRAT SOVIETISM, allied with UKRAINIAN NAZIS.
Carnac the Magnificent says “Yes!”
“Have the DIMs sent some of their ‘mules’ to the Ukraine … ?”
😉
Cankles being Cankles.
HILLARY CLINTON
Hillary Clinton likens Trump rally in Ohio to the Nazis
by Ryan King, Breaking News Reporter
September 24, 2022 09:18 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/hillary-clinton-likens-trump-rally-in-ohio-to-the-nazis
Note the timing! Right after the PBS “Holocaust is Trump Supporters’ Fault” special!
Why I’m Glad I Watched the Ken Burns PBS Propaganda Special Blaming the Holocaust on America’s Evil Trump Supporters (Or Their Terrible Nativist Parents and Grandparents)
LOL!!! Love it!
IMO, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that HRC is “directing” the DNC and the 2024 DemCommunist President / VP ticket selection (whether or not HRC’s going to make another run). The goal is to make all Republicans who are MAGA into “Nazis” along with POTUS45 himself. POTUS45 may be portrayed as “too dangerous” to be anywhere near the Oval Office. IMO, the Saul Alinsky playbook.
I think you’re right. This very likely supports NEW “secret law and policy” designed to essentially make a Trump presidency “illegal” – basically sanctioning the next election theft, which could be this election or the next.
They constantly try to “legalize” their crimes, and now that “””IC””” has basically declared itself to be above the law with judges, in several ways, they can pretty much make everything they want illegal.
And notice that they PROJECT that highly autocratic behavior on Trump himself, by couching THEMSELVES as “democracy” and Trump as “autocracy”, when it’s the self-managing IC and their administrative state that is in fact “autocratic” to almost the level of definition.
It’s shocking. The whole thing is shocking. But that is what we must expect from the WITCH Cankles.
That is THE best two-word, all purpose description of the leftist woman. The devil always knew who to go after.
Catturd:
h/t Marica’s blog:
@SpartacusJustic
17 hr
2:41AM – Sept. 24, 2022
This is a video clip of a U.S. attorney telling some horrifying truths about the mRNA COVID-19 “vaccines.” Among them (from Yours Truly’s rapid notes):
Conservatively, over 500,000 people have died from these “vaccines” in the U.S.
87% of people hospitalized with COVID-19 are double-“vaccinated.”
The CDC knew about the side effects of these “vaccines” before they were rolled out.
The “vaccines” damage the immune system, and that each subsequent “booster” will further damage the immune system.
Due to “vaccine” damage to the immune system, the upcoming fall / winter “cold and flu season” will be very bad for those who are “vaccinated.”
Thinking below link is the interview. Have not listened in. Off to it…
https://mobile.twitter.com/SpartacusJustic/status/1573563236586242050?cxt=HHwWhICyxabbtdYrAAAA
So…life ending bad? Guess we will see tents outside hospitals again? Long “testing” lines…or something different?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer asshole… Hope takes Remdisivir and he chokes on Paxlovid. His Christmas present can be the bivalent booster. (Yea, I am like that.) This all assumes he truly has covid again, if ever.
GWP Bold mine.
JUST IN: Quadruple Vaxxed Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Tests Positive for COVID Again
I’ve not had the new bivalent booster yet, as I was following CDC guidelines to wait 3 months since my previous COVID case which was back in mid-August.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/just-quadruple-vaxxed-pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-tests-positive-covid/
How does one know to test for COVID if one is feeling well and symptom free? Why would anybody do that?
Of course we know; liar, liar pants on fire.
B I N G O !
^^^ My bet. Bourla comes across as a liar. It’s all Bourla CYA.
That said, komifornia hospital requires visitors to have current, within 24hrs, Covidiot test. Includes thosed Injected and Boosted.
I found this propaganda poster for the benefits of eating bugs being displayed in CA schools. I cant seem to find it again but its for the little ones.
Mr Gil says he’s not going to make it 4 yrs. Not sure we want to anymore either.
I hope you get a house soon.
We’ll get a home. That is a given.
When you guys decide to move on, betcha NEVER regret leaving CA.
Im sure you will, sooner than later. Itll be hard for us moving at first. There are many places and things we have so accessible…variety, etc. that we wont have, but I suspect that we will get over it and adjust. My mother doesnt want me leaving, despite our differences, but CA is just too severely damaged. I just hope that we are able to do the repairs, actually sell the house in a timeky way, and buy another house that isnt in need of total rehab which cost $$$. Hoping!
Part of the reason you have concerns about doing a total rehab on a home is that you are thinking about doing it in California, even though the home you’ll be rehabbing will be elsewhere.
Here, if you do demolition, you have to investigate whether the debris might cause cancer if humans eat it. There, if you do demolition, you have to worry about getting one bin or two.
Here, if you do new construction, you have to ensure that the materials are from sustainable sources and are connected in politically correct ways. There, if you do new construction, it must not obviously be ready to collapse.
Here, when you’ve built your add-on or remodel, you must use paint that can also be used as a dessert topping or whose fumes can be a Juul flavor. There, it’s expected that you’ll leave the windows open a couple of weeks after painting a place for the stink to disperse.
Once you escape, you’ll find it is so much easier to do new things that you’ll hardly miss the old.
When i look at “some” houses elsewhere i definitely appreciate “some” of our standards. But youre really right. Mr gils dad has a 2nd home and the city doesnt have trash service.
Here’s a hint — if the city doesn’t have trash service, somebody does.
One thing that surprised a person who had moved to an apartment here from out of state, then bought a house a couple of years later, was that she had to actually *buy* trash service. Apparently where she grew up the city provided it “gratis” (i.e., taxed you for it, so the connection wasn’t obvious). And in her apartment of course the landlord had contracted with one of the companies.
Apparently most Americans think of trash as something the government naturally should take care of, and that’s simply not true. Which makes one wonder about other local government services…apparently some states even have privately-provided fire protection! (Presumably if you insure your house the insurance company requires you to buy fire protection.)
Wow. Ive always had to pay. One was bundled into city water, trash, sewer and now its totally separate. My FIL’s house has nothing, no service at all. You have to haul to the dump yourself.
As a CPA, start by making a spreadsheet with destinations down the left and things that are important to you in the columns.
For an example, local climate may well be very important to you (unless you’re from Minnesota, North Dakota, Interior and Northern Alaska — in which case nowhere is likely to be worse). I, myself, am such a fragile blossom as would be unhappy in a zone less than seven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone
Looking at that, i may be an 8. A big deal is climate, dt health concerns all around. As well as distance to certain types of hospital providers or activities. Traffic, school(good opportunities at least for enrichment) all matter. Thats a good idea to start.
There are only 155 Medical schools in the US — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_schools_in_the_United_States .
It is helpful to be nearby because (1) they are more likely to have state-of-the-art medical care, and (2) they will likely have more medical people around who haven’t decided to move on.
There are few places on this planet where traffic sucks as much as it does in California.
Amen.
Everyone who i know that left and has ever come back to visit has hated CA when they get here.
Squirrel!!!
The sad thing is that not everyone will catch the reference.
Hahahahaha!!!!!
Hey ive got a sales tax question.
I went to cost coo today and bought a table set that was on sale. The mgr who helped me explained that bc we are blessed to live in CA, I had to pay sales tax on the full price.
Ive never heard this and dont know how this tax law works or how its applied. Do you?
When I’ve bought a cell phone at Costco, at a heavily discounted price, I have always had to pay sales tax, on full price.
Hmmm, maybe they call the “discount” an “instant rebate”. Dunno.
True for these days in NV. IIRC, true when we lived in Ridgecrest, CA, purchased at Palmdale Costco.
Ok. Thats interesting. Cthulu explained about the rebate too. I didnt know that.
I am not current on any level of tax expertise, especially because of how nutz things have been over the last couple of years. HOWEVER…..
If you are buying a $20 thing marked down to $17, the rules have generally been that you pay sales tax on $17. If you buy a $20 thing and get a $3 mail-in rebate, you pay sales tax on $20. If you buy a $20 thing and get an “instant rebate” from the manufacturer that is paid to the vendor…..things get hairy.
One thing I can practically guarantee, however, is that Costco managers don’t determine sales tax policy themselves. Ask him to give you a copy of the letter he received telling him to do it this way.
Hmmm. Ok the “instant rebate” thing makes it more clear and i didnt know that either. So…those are a scam too dangit.
A very old joke about choosing the right accountant for you is to go to their office and ask them what 2 + 2 should come out to. If they say “3” or “5”, they are scary dangerous and you should quickly make for the door. If they say “4”, you should be courteous, thank them for their time, and leave on good terms.
The one you should hire closes the door and asks, “what do you want it to be?” They’re the ones who can structure transactions so that the only legal answer is the one that you want.
Steve,
Those metal prices are something. I cant believe how they keep changing like this, and stocks at the same time. Have they mirrored each other in some way like this before?
I actually *don’t* watch these prices obsessively. I have no idea, just for instance, what the low and high were last week. I can tell, however, that things went down on Friday, because the widgets I look at on my phone all say they did–they show you that day’s performance.
I’ve heard it said that if BOTH gold and stocks start climbing, that’s inflation, because the nominal value of a company doing business and the nominal price of gold are both going up due to inflation.
If one goes up and the other goes down, it’s people moving money away from / towards the weaker thing to the stronger. For example if they expect business to be booming, they’ll want their money in stocks.
I don’t know what it means if BOTH are going down…since I doubt we have deflation going on right now.
All righty. Thats how i understand it as far as movement goes. Makes one wonder then if the digital “currency” idea is perhaps a part of it?
Transcribed word for word by ASB from an interview with Scott Ritter at Redacted.
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“If NATO doesn’t back the hell off, we are 1 second away from a nuclear war. If NATO continues to pretend that this is some game designed to weaken Russia.. Russia just changed the game. They said they are not playing this game anymore. The game has changed. NATO needs to wake up to the fact that anything it does once the referendums have passed will be an act of war against the Russian federation— and Russia will treat it as such and respond accordingly. It will not be a slow roll out, if NATO continues to provide Ukraine with the means to attack mother Russia, which very soon will be Kherson, Zaporozhie, you know all that daily pounding of the nuclear plant? It’s over man. It’s over. Do it again when it becomes Russia, I dare you Ukraine, you will cease to exist. I’m not saying Russia is gonna use nukes against them, Russia will just simply turn off the lights. Russia will kill the leadership (of Ukraine) The gloves are off, this has been a special military operation, we talked about how it constrains Russia (the SMO) now all constrains are off. When Russia starts defending mother Russia, they’re now gonna bring all of their abilities to the forefront. Russia has 25 million men available, they can go as big as NATO wants to go. Russia is ready to go as big as necessary. And if NATO wants to make this an issue, Russia will cross that threshold. If NATO wants to threaten the existence of Russia, by attacking Mother Russia either directly or indirectly through the Ukrainian proxy, then Russia will use every means at its disposal to ensure that it will fail — including nuclear weapons.” –
former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter
Makes sense to slow guy.
Makes sense. With winter coming, Russia will want this settled soon.
I disagree. Mother Russia knows that General Winter fights on her side. NATO will be invited to walk the tracks of Napoleon and Hitler, and suffer the same fate.
In this particular case though Ukraine is just as much a part of General Winter’s bailiwick as Russia is–they were both part of the Soviet Union in WWII and both part of Alexander I’s Russian Empire for Napoleon’s foray.
I’d say General Winter is likely a push, here.
That might be true if this were truly Russia v. Ukraine.
If it’s Russia v. NATO, or Russia v. the Cabal, or Russia v. US hegemony….
And, BTW, I’m very much in favor of extraditing Nuland, the Vindmans, and Soros to anywhere that wants a piece of them.
True but so far as I know we’ve not sent troops. We’re basically handing the Ukrainians money and gear. Even if we WERE sending troops, it makes a big difference if they’re being welcomed in Winter’s bailiwick (Ukraine) and thereby getting a home base.
Hitler and Napoleon’s issues were overextending and being deep in hostile territory as much as they were Winter, the one made the other worse, and vice versa.
Yes. And I have to say, that the same basically applies to NATO, as far as any European support for a fight in Ukraine.
Russia has plenty of energy, Europe does not. Americans can ship and sell Europe energy, much like arms in WWI and WWII, but this time, it’s not on Russia’s side, but the “Axis” side. IMO the distance factor just increases Russia’s advantage.
Ukraine is once again a battleground of a European axis against Russia, but it looks to me like the same fundamentals are applying. The idea of over-extension plays on so many levels, people should run, but Susan Rice and Obama are fully mesmerized by the mental fog of “Atlantis”, and they will be led into defeat.
Not that I care if the new Axis is defeated.
We have sent reserve/retired US troop mercenaries, and some have been captured.
We have sent money into corruption. Nothing has gone anywhere trackable.
We have sent gear that regular Ukrainian troops can’t use into places where mercenaries can use it.
Winter is coming.
Well said!!!
Me too. This follows the Crimea model. Where Russians are regarded by the population as liberators, to the extent that the people see being part of Russia as preferable to being satellites, Russia will absorb and then turn into a red line, JUST LIKE CRIMEA. Russia will eventually surround itself with either puppets or fail states, take your pick. There appears to be no need to do that right now. “Former Ukrainians” are welcoming the idea of being part of Russia proper.
The real question is how many Ukrainians will remain Euro-nationalists at the end? Will there be ANY? Or will all of them live in mansions in Switzerland?
NATO attempting to recover these areas for the one-party corruptocracy of Ukraine, which the people of the region are happily escaping, is going to be all kinds of failure.
Nukes are the backstop, but Russia will never need to use them, IMO. However, if they use one or two, don’t expect Russia to walk right into a bad guy role. There are excellent ways that Russia can economically use one or two nukes with almost no human casualties, and turn the Western stump of Ukraine into a “fail state” that essentially destroys the EU, and they will do it as the energy is turned off at the same time.
NATO over-expansion was a TRAP for the Western governments and alliances. Get it through your heads, you folks in “important places”.
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Those who expect 300,000 Russian Armed Forces troops to show up on the battlefield are going to be disappointed. That’s not how this will go. The 300,000 troops that Russia will deploy to Ukraine are being prepared for combat at the moment. These troops…
Another thing that needs to be said, the war will be very different once the new Russian Armed Forces troops touch down in Ukraine.
Up until now, majority.. and we mean a huge majority of the fighting was carried out by Wagner, Rusich and the people’s militias. Russian Armed Forces were carrying out a supportive role. They were in the background. They were providing air support, logistics and possibly artillery strikes, etc — like we said, they were in the background. Probably 70-150+ KM behind the front lines. (With some exceptions)
However, this time, as Kadyrov said — “the war will start now. Up until now it was child’s play” (or something along those lines, don’t recall the exact words he used) — and this is true.
Those who watch closely, nobody knows where Russian troops are in Ukraine. There’s no information about this. However the Russian MOD regularly includes divisions, battalions and units of the LPR/DPR in their reports and their areas of operations. There’s basically no information on Russian brigades and their place of deployment, because realistically — they are not deployed on the front lines. They play supportive and specialized roles.
This is all about to change now, it is going to be Russian army proper doing the fighting.
This will show in terms of operational security (unfortunately for us, this means the fog of war will be real because the leaks will be non existent), logistics and equipment, and highly likely — modern technology used on the battlefield in form of EW, drones & aviation.
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A-1 top-dog brake pads.
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