General Discussion, Thursday, January 2, 2020

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Stella

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    January 2, 2020 at 12:41 am

    I’m sitting here wondering if I should get dressed and drive the 15 miles to the closest Walmart to buy what I need to make a stromboli sandwich. Such is the immediate desire for one.

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    January 2, 2020 at 1:02 am

    For our helicopter aficionados…

    Newest USAF Helicopter Unveiled • MH-139A Grey Wolf (Footage only, no commentary, etc.)
    Gung Ho Vids – Published on Dec 30, 2019

    U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command named the MH-139A helicopter, “Grey Wolf” during a naming ceremony at Eglin AFB, Florida on December 19, 2019. The Grey Wolf will primarily be used by Air Force security teams to guard ICBM sites. The Air Force plans to buy up to 84 of the aircraft at a cost of $2.4 billion. Film Credits: Video by Staff Sgt. Philip Bryant, 2nd Bomb Wing Public Affairs

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  3. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    January 2, 2020 at 1:12 am

    Stellars…

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  4. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    January 2, 2020 at 7:27 am

    Good morning beautiful people 🙂 !

    My sky Christmas day ! God really is a masterful painter.

    PS For those of you who keep up with my swan stories, usually the entire family of swans remain until the lake is almost frozen over and then they leave together for a retention pond or river that has more open water during the winter. This year the momma and poppa swan played hardball and chased their youngin’s off the lake before the ice even began to form. Not sure why but it is the first time that happened in 27 years of observing them .

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    January 2, 2020 at 8:42 am

    Mornin’ y’all health-conscious souls!

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  7. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    January 2, 2020 at 10:45 am

    Mornin’ everyone. Sunny here. No snow.

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  8. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 2, 2020 at 11:28 am

    Seen on Facebook:

    “My Leftist friends constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by President Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are ‘beneath the dignity of the office’.”
    ~ Evan Sayet, the author of “The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks.”

    Here is Evan Sayet’s answer:
    “We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. We tried statesmanship. We tried propriety. And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob. I don’t find anything ‘dignified,’ ‘collegial’, or ‘proper’ about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.”
    “I don’t see anything ‘dignified’ in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.”
    “I don’t see anything ‘statesman-like’ in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent.
    Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit ‘dignified,’ ‘collegial,’ or ‘proper’.”
    “The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale.. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.”
    “The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.”
    “With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.”
    “During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming.”
    “Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today.”
    “Lincoln rightly recognized that, ‘I cannot spare this man. He fights.’”
    “General George Patton was a vulgar-talking.. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.”
    “Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, ‘You magnificent bastards, I read your book!'”
    “That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis.”
    “It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.”
    “Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN.. He made it personal.”
    Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”… Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. … They need to respond.
    “This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al MSM) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.”
    “Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church.”
    “Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.”
    “So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be ‘collegial’ and ‘dignified’, and ‘proper’? Of course I do.”
    “These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
    So, say anything you want about this president – I get it – he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!”
    Thank you, Evan Sayet, the author of “The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks.”

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  9. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    January 2, 2020 at 2:32 pm

    This is fascinating…We’re seeing a lot of this disinformation today. Islam teaches a version of Jesus Christ that is completely opposed to His teachings and His sacrifice…saddening and maddening that they believe they have the right to define our faith. I know of nominally Christian women who have been indoctrinated by their Muslim husbands into believing Jesus is merely another prophet and is even lower than Muhammad in ranking! Imagine being lower than a pedophile murderer!

    “Palestinian” top dog: Jesus “the first Palestinian and the first Shahid (Islamic Martyr)”
    January 2, 2020 8:00 AM By Robert Spencer
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/palestinian-top-dog-jesus-the-first-palestinian-and-the-first-shahid-islamic-martyr

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  10. czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
    January 2, 2020 at 3:31 pm

    Yesterday when I came home Mickey Orange was sitting in the driveway. I had to drive around him because he looked at me but didn’t move. When I got out of the car, i saw he had treed Mickey Black & White!

    View post on imgur.com

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  11. rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
    January 2, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    COMPARE and contrast Baghdad embassy with Benghazi…..

    FLASHBACK: Judicial Watch EXPOSED the #Benghazi Cover Up by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
    Jan 2, 2020
    Judicial Watch

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  12. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 2, 2020 at 5:35 pm

    I’ve been watching “The Great British Benefits Handout” on YouTube. What amazed me is that some of these people didn’t even know what their rent was because it was being paid directly by the government. Maybe I’m naive. It’s an interesting show though.

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    • rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
      January 2, 2020 at 9:24 pm

      Iran’s Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport
      By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA27 minutes ago

      This is being reported as a HUGE DEAL. Retaliation by Iraq expected.
      Said to be “an act of war” but I would say the attack on US embassy was an act of war, and this is retaliation?

      The “Targeting” intel seems to have been GREAT..they got…

      Qassem Soleimani – Leader of Iran’s Quds force
      Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis -Iraqi-Iranian military commander
      Naim Qassem – Deputy leader Hezbollah in Lebanon – also killed

      And a few others.

      US Marines also arrested Qais al-Khazali and Hadi al-Ameri in Baghdad
      Qais Khazali is known as the founder and leader of the Special Groups in Iraq – Hadi al-Amiri is an Iraqi Member of Parliament and former Minister of Transpiration for Iraq.

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    • rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
      January 2, 2020 at 9:30 pm

      This news broke a few hours ago, but the “fog of war” meant conflicting reports.

      CNN (FakeNews) were HAPPY initially as they reported this as a “Katyusha rocket” attack on US (trump) forces… they and others are still reporting it as a rocket attack.

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  14. rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
    January 2, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    Trump has not tweeted all day… until now….

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  15. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    January 2, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    Just posted this next door, let’s see what troll this billy goat meat stirs up over there, but I posted it here for your amusement:

    Just a few hours ago a rocket attack at the Baghdad airport killed a group of important Iranians, including Gen Qassim Soleimani, commander of the IRG’s al Quds Force (AQ) and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces. So far these are the only major casualties listed.

    Soleimani is considered an extremely capable military tactician and strategist and commanded the estimated 20-thousand strong al Quds force, a branch of the IRG dedicated to carrying out intelligence and terrorist operations outside of Iran. Allied forces in Afghanistan have…encountered…AQ forces there and the Israelis know them well from their Israeli-centered operations. The AQ have been listed by State as a terrorist organization since 2007 and there’s little doubt that there is – or were – US and Israeli targets on Soleimani’s back.

    Al-Muhandis was the commander of the chimera Popular Mobilization Force (PMF) created in 2014 by the Iraqi government to fight ISIS. The Iraqi government melded a group of individual militia units under an umbrella command. There were seven different militia units in the mix, all seven being Shia units and all had direct or, at worst, heavy Iranian and IRG influence. Now that ISIS is more or less done for the $64 question is:” What’s next for the PMF?”.

    The attack on the US embassy compound in Baghdad was directly linked to a couple of the PMF militia components, ergo the thought that their Iranian/Hezbollah/IRG influences’ were behind it. There’s nothing definite yet but there’s an idea that the AQ may have had a hand in it. It’s their forte and the AQ/IRG/PMF connection’s a gimme.

    The rockets used in the airport attack are said to be Katusha rockets, a generic term for the BM-family of rocket artillery dating back to WWII and upgraded over the years. They’ve been made by a number of other countries under licence so until someone processing the debris says otherwise we can’t be sure who made these – but they’re said to be the same rocket used in the attack that killed the US contractor and started this all. Irony, karma or…

    I find it unusual that they were used as the BM rockets are considered an area and not a point target weapon, they ain’t that accurate. It’s really very, very fortunate that out of the reported three rockets fired they’d land would just where two hi-priority targets are standing. Those of us who’ve served in Viet Nam and major wars thereafter are very familiar with the BM-series of rockets sand their inaccuracy and power…I find it remarkable that the local rocketeers, who reportedly would have trouble hitting a cow in the butt with a canoe paddle, could fire three by-guess-and-by-god rockets and kill two top-tier targets.

    Let’s see what we’re told over the next few days…

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  16. rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
    January 2, 2020 at 9:54 pm

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    January 2, 2020 at 10:00 pm

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    January 2, 2020 at 10:10 pm

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    January 2, 2020 at 10:11 pm

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    January 2, 2020 at 10:12 pm

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  22. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    January 2, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    An old friend of mine sent me a puzzling message about a good friend of hers (I don’t know him) being called to attend a meeting with the President (whether that will be in person or on live feed from somewhere he couldn’t say). She thought it was very mysterious as her friend’s only request was to pray for God’s mercy.

    After reading her email, I casually went over to CTH to see what might be happening and saw the news of Soleimani receiving his just reward and now being in hell and knew that the mystery had been solved.

    May we all join together with good people everywhere to pray for an acceptable outcome…wow, I don’t even know what to pray; so I’ll just take the man’s advice and pray for God’s mercy upon us, our homeland, our military and for the Iranian people who have suffered so much that they may obtain freedom from their oppressors.

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