General Discussion, Thursday, January 9, 2020

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Stella

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  1. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    January 9, 2020 at 12:10 am

    STELLARS…

    “Mountain Chalet in Snowy Pine Forest”

    “Red Vermont House in Snowy Woods” by Lora Cokolat

    “Snowy Mountain Cabin In the Woods” by Shelley Dennis

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  2. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    January 9, 2020 at 2:04 am

    Czarina and I (she actually) decided that we’d go for a short walk…900 feet or so down the drive and about another 400 down the road to the creek. We took the fat old border collie with us and off we went. We were about 300 feet down the drive and ZOOM, the orange outside cats decides tom come with us. About another 200 feet and here comes the black and white cat and off we all go, down the driveway and down our narrow country road down the narrow lane to the creek.

    We get to the creek, look around and start back…just about then one of the new neighbors from up the hill drives by on their 4-wheeler. What she sees is and older guy with a large gun sticking out of his pocket, his wife, followed in a line by an older fat dog and two cats, all in a line mind you, all out walking. There was a polite wave in passing but noted was she didn’t slow down at all.

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  3. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    January 9, 2020 at 5:13 am

    President Trump is bringing back a country of laws, if there were three Obama appointed judges on this court they would have ruled politically (as did the one Obama appointee rather than lawfully).

    U.S. appeals court stays judge’s ruling blocking military funds for border wall

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-court/u-s-appeals-court-stays-judges-ruling-blocking-military-funds-for-border-wall-idUSKBN1Z806H

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    Appointing a Historic Number of Federal Judges to Uphold Our Constitution as Written

    It is up to us to reclaim our heritage of equal and impartial justice. It is up to us to re-dedicate ourselves to the traditions and wisdom of our Founders.__President Donald J. Trump

    Working with the Senate, President Trump has now had 158 judicial nominees confirmed to the Federal bench – a historic transformation of the judiciary.

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  4. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    January 9, 2020 at 7:48 am

    Mornin’ y’all!

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  5. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 9, 2020 at 10:19 am

    Just read that deer have been spotted in my area. A lady said she saw a dead deer on 8 Mile Road. This is an 8-lane parkway that separates Detroit from the suburbs. A man also reported seeing two deer in his yard. Urban wilderness.

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  6. czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
    January 9, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Making it way too easy for serial killers…

    https://me.me/market?s=pop

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  7. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    January 9, 2020 at 12:58 pm

    Can’t remember if I posted it here but I posted a piece on the Ukrainian jet that was downed over Tehran, postulating that it was a missile and not mechanical failure that brought down the jet. Silence from the readers but I’m seeing now that the pointer is aiming more at ‘missile’ and there are reports of a AAM ‘head’ being found near the crash site.

    I’m thinking the Iram]nians had an Idea of what happened, you don’t just shove some schmuck out the door with a MANPAD and let it disappear like a snow cone, there’s gonna be one blatantly missing from the rack. I’m not 100% sure that it was government- intentional, I’m leaning towards someone either getting over anxious from fear of a US attack or just getting an individual case of the red-butt and full-squeezing the trigger. Either way it doesn’t matter to the crew and passengers on the plane.

    Now the Ukraine’s not in a position to do much about this and it looks like in the process of de-escalation the US is going to write this off as an ‘oopsie’ moment so we’re going to see some serious whitewashing in the short term. I expect, at worse, Iran may offer apologies and cough up some cash but the issue, as are the passengers and crew, seems to be dead.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      January 9, 2020 at 1:03 pm

      A tweet I just saw said it was a Russian-supplied missile.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        January 9, 2020 at 1:29 pm

        Russia’s been supplying Iran tons of advanced weaponry fr decades and Iran’s been reverse engineering and making their native versions of them too. They’ve both had a relationship of convenience for political, economic and strategic reasons for a long time.

        Russia has a major petrochemical deal going with Iran. Iran sits on top of a monstrously large natural gas field and will pair with Russia to transport it to Russian facilities in Syria and off to Europe, Latin and South America. Russia will continue to give them what they want.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      January 9, 2020 at 1:09 pm

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        January 9, 2020 at 1:41 pm

        That’s the DSP system I was mentioning. It picks up the infrared signature of the launch and can predict the launch point and impact point in the case of ground-to-ground systems.

        It can easily pick up the signature of a larger explosion such as the plane’s fuel going off after the ‘hit’. Some say the DSP was what caught the explosion of the Russian Metrojet flight 9268 over Egypt when it exploded over the Saini. It’s a neat system.

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  8. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 9, 2020 at 1:29 pm

    I wonder why they thought to do it this way. Video at link.

    250 Amish Men Lift Barn With Their Bare Hands And Carry It Across Ohio Farm To Its New Spot

    https://www.littlethings.com/amish-men-lift-barn/

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  9. The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
    January 9, 2020 at 1:48 pm

    Good read with my morning coffee:
    https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/296604/iran-and-america-are-suddenly-both-naked

    It’s no coincidence that in the wake of the targeted killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most important military proxy has begun taking credit for terror attacks committed nearly four decades ago. For example, Hezbollah-affiliated media and activists are laying public claim to the organization’s responsibility for bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in October 1983, which killed 241 Marines. So why now?

    The answer is, to scare Americans now that Donald Trump has thrown the regime in Tehran off balance by changing the 40-year-old rules of the game. The United States always knew that Hezbollah was responsible for the Marine barracks attack and that the Lebanese militia was armed, trained, funded and directed by Iran. President Reagan’s decision not to respond directly to the attack was part of a tacit agreement that America and the Islamic Republic entered into during the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran. It mirrored similar arrangements with the Soviet Union in which neither superpower held the other directly accountable for the actions of proxies in order to reduce the likelihood of a nuclear cataclysm.

    Yet, unlike the Soviet Union, the Islamic Republic was hardly a globe-spanning nuclear superpower. It was merely a hostile local power that threatened the American regional security order through terror attacks. Washington’s response was to look away, under the theory that it was beneficial to the larger order to pretend, in public, that rules still existed. In turn, Iran was happy to play make-believe and accumulate prestige and leverage.

    Well worth the time to read the whole thing…

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      January 9, 2020 at 2:06 pm

      I’ve been posting here and next door for years that Hezbollah was Iran’s primary proxy and received a good sized chunk of its funding from its plants in the US, but no one cares or at least does anything. It was back in the 80s that the Bureau had a bug in a Hez plant’s house and recorded him beating his daughter to death for a religious infraction. They were loath to arrest him for that as it might impede their larger investigation but as the course progressed they had to.

      How about the 1st WTC bombing where the Bureau put on its own shackles in the investigation of the Bling Shiek’s mosque and very possibly could have prevented the attack.And let’s not ignore the Bureau’s screwups that might well have prevented WTC attack #2.

      Then just after I was recalled to duty in September of 2001 there came the issue of the known al Qaeda cell in Missouri, the Fuqra settlements being set up all over the US…opps, that’s right, though they WERE an international terrorist group they changed their name to ‘Muslims of America’ so all’s forgiven.

      We don’t care. We’ll investigate the hell out of that ‘white supremacist’ bogeyman but will fall over backwards to avoid investigating anything remotely smelling Moslem. Hezbollah in the US is arguably as big a threat as ISIS would be as Hez has a state sponsor that hates us as much as it does Israel.

      I got a bit off track here…

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  10. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 9, 2020 at 2:06 pm

    And from Ace of Spades, more good news …

    The Reckoning Continues: Former CNN Host Reza Aslan, Kathy Griffin, Ana Navarro, Elizabeth Warren All Served Papers in New Round of Nick Sandmann Lawsuits

    Former CNN treasure Reza Aslan is being sued specifically for encouraging vigilante violence against Sandmann, remarking that the 15 year old schoolboy had “a very punchable face.”

    He refused to delete this tweet until, oh how conincidental!, today, when he got served.

    According to PJ Media the suit names a variety of public figures including “Ana Navarro, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Maggie Haberman, and Kathy Griffin.” PJ Media also reports that �According to the lawsuit, the tweet calling Sandmann�s face ‘punchable’ further spread the false narrative that the Covington Catholic boys had aggressively insulted the Native American man, when that was not the case.”

    Aslan deleted his tweet earlier today. The Post Millennial reached out to Barnes who said that “Aslan may be a facing a serious six-figure verdict, which could have been even worse had he not deleted his tweet when he did.”

    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=385216

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  13. rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
    January 9, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    Iranian Missile System Shot Down Ukraine Flight, Probably by Mistake, Sources Say

    https://www.newsweek.com/iranians-shot-down-ukraine-flight-mistake-sources-1481313

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  14. rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
    January 9, 2020 at 2:51 pm

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    January 9, 2020 at 3:02 pm

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  16. rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
    January 9, 2020 at 3:11 pm

    Even Justin Socks is awake (partially)….

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  17. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    January 9, 2020 at 4:13 pm

    PURE EVIL: Anti-Trump Group Led by Wife Abuser George Conway Releases Ad Mocking Evangelical Christians
    January 9, 2020 by Jim Hoft
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/pure-evil-anti-trump-group-led-by-wife-abuser-george-conway-releases-ad-mocking-evangelical-christians/

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  18. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    January 9, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    You really know you’ve ‘made it’ when you get letters from universities you’ve never even attended asking you to give them money when you die.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      January 9, 2020 at 10:30 pm

      However do they get our addresses? Must be thousands of lists out there with every known sucker’s preferences and donation histories.

      For years I donated to Habitat For Humanity. When I moved out of California, they got my new address and started sending me “thank you” letters for being one of their best supporters. By that time I was no longer a Dem and wrote them saying that I hadn’t supported them for a long time and wasn’t interested in donating to any group which had a Jimmy Carter connection…and that they would get no more money from me.

      I’ve been free from their requests for $100 donations for 3-1/2 years. Somehow they were able to obtain my Idaho address and just yesterday I got another one of those “thank you” PR jobs. Apparently attempted guilt-tripping is in their blood.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        January 9, 2020 at 11:21 pm

        EVERYBODY’s selling our info. Until they were caught the State of Louisiana was full info packs with our names, addresses,DOBs and SSNs.

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  19. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    January 9, 2020 at 5:03 pm

    Woo Hoo, Wee, weather’s sayin’ you’re in the ‘Uh Oh’ zone on this storm acomin’.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      January 9, 2020 at 5:32 pm

      Going to be a bad one. I knew it was coming before the weather forecasters even began talking about it last week. We have sucky weather every year on January 10. Looks like the worst should hit tomorrow night or into Saturday. I am about to watch the weather hysterics on the local station.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        January 9, 2020 at 5:35 pm

        Yeah, weatherwhiners were going on about the horror of Israel getting rain at a 50 year record. A few weeks ago they were whining that the Dead Sea was at a historic low. Can’t they get their complaints straight?

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      • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
        January 10, 2020 at 4:24 am

        Wow, must be something special about that day…wonder what it could be…hmmmmm…

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  20. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    January 9, 2020 at 5:57 pm

    Look at this beautiful photo from the National Park Service of Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska…

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  21. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    January 9, 2020 at 6:24 pm

    Is it just me or am I seeing a lessening of the critical thinkers we used to have next door and an increase in CRITICAL thinkers?

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  22. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 9, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    Since we just discussed this the other day …

    Man Bitten by Coyote Marks Second Attack in Chicago in 1 Day

    A second person was attacked by a coyote in Chicago just hours after a young boy was hospitalized after being bitten on the city’s North Side, officials say.

    The second incident took place in the evening hours on Wednesday in the 700 block of North Fairbanks Court in the city’s Streeterville neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

    Authorities said a 32-year-old man walked into Northwestern Memorial Hospital and said he had been walking on the sidewalk in the area when a coyote came from behind and bit him in the buttocks.

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    The attacks were the latest in a string of incidents involving coyotes across the area in recent days. An NBC 5 photographer spotted a coyote running through the city’s Loop on Tuesday, and just hours earlier another coyote was pulled from Lake Michigan near Montrose Harbor.

    The animals have also been spotted in the Old Town and Lincoln Park neighborhoods in recent weeks.

    Animal control officials say that the increased sightings have come as coyotes follow the Chicago River in search of food. Experts believe coyotes are coming closer to downtown and becoming more aggressive because they’re struggling to find food.

    Experts from Chicago’s Animal Care and Control have several suggestions for residents who encounter coyotes. Making loud noises, or using a whistle, is a good way to spook a coyote into leaving, they say, adding that waving hands and jumping up and down can also work.

    Residents should also keep dogs on short leashes and allow pets to hide behind them if they encounter a coyote.

    Homeowners are also encouraged not to leave garbage out in the open, as it could potentially encourage coyotes to seek out their yards as a food source.

    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/man-bitten-by-coyote-marks-second-attack-in-chicago-in-1-day/2198620/

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      January 9, 2020 at 11:17 pm

      The damn things are coming into town and losing their natural fear of people. You heard my nearly 50 year old encounter with them – number 2 coyote rug was caught in the dumpster of a Pizza Hut, they’ll eat any trash – and they get popped when seen here.

      @#$%& animal rights squirrels in Slidell and New Orleans area are telling people to ‘yell, scream, wave your arms and make noise’ to scare coyotes out of their yards’, they don’t want you shooting or otherwise harming them. They want Animal Control to trap them and move them out to the country where they can live normally. Sure, bring that crap out here so we can shoot ’em.

      About 2 years after we got to NOLA they caught a couple of coyote pups at the airport. One of the animal nuts decided to raise one as a ‘pet’ and brought it to a zoo party at the NOLA Zoo, it was about a year old by then. Czarina and I went to see it, I wanted to see how ‘civilized’ it had become. The nut had it tied to the fence on a long lead and we watched it sitting there with the nut, staring at passersby like each were prey. A little girl walked by with a plate with fried chicken on it. The yote jumped at her, full force, from a sitting position, hit the end of that lead and did a 180 when it went taught. It stopped about 3 feet from that girl, she dropped the plate and ran off screaming while the yote was straining to get at the chicken. That’s a coyote.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        January 9, 2020 at 11:27 pm

        Since the wolf populations are now gone in most of the country, they have no natural enemies.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          January 9, 2020 at 11:44 pm

          They do on my farm. I’m down to having bought a silencer and special subsonic ammo so I won’t bother the neighbors late at night. When I take the dogs out for their nightly trip I go armed with a pistol or rifle that has a flashlight and a headlight.

          They’ve gotten into one of their die-off cycles but for a while it was scary. They’d cornered something on the farm across the street a couple of years ago and the sound was right out of a horror film. A year before that they’d cornered and killed, at night, a calf on a farm down the road. They killed it, dragged it at least 50 feet thru the fence and ate most of it in the street. They ain’t Disney characters.

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  23. rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
    January 9, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    UPDATE
    I posted link to Charity Auction to raise money to help victims of the Australian fires…… the final bid was…….

    Warne’s baggy green cap sold for more than $1 million

    https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/warne-s-baggy-green-cap-sold-for-more-than-1-million-20200110-p53qay.html

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  24. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    January 9, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    SA-15 (Tor M-1) Surface to Air Missile system. Boeing 737-800 down in Iran
    Blancolirio – Juan Browne

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    • rumpole2's avatar rumpole2 says:
      January 9, 2020 at 11:59 pm

      I think “accident” misses the point.
      This is air defense system is near a commercial airport. They have to be able to distinguish “targets” that are normal passenger planes. If the equipment (or the operators) are not capable of that, then they should CLOSE THE AIRPORT when the defense batteries are active. I would have thought that would be done that night especially, since they were “begging to be attacked” that night, after attacking Bases in Iraq??

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