Greenland Debate Turns Icy

Trump to snub Denmark because their PM had the same reaction the idea of the US purchasing Greenland as everyone else?

Cue "I Started A Joke".

Comments

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

We as an independent country of laws need to finally elimanate the judicial branch that never existed in our Constituion. These black robed terrorist have no love for our constituion or democracy. They need to be run out on rails, detailed in tar and feathers;

[jimmyk]

Condolences, Rocco.

Terrific T-storm here in NYC. Heavy rain and winds, came out of nowhere.

[henry]

Cool JiB! My hoops memories start with seeing Wilt and the Sixers destroy the St Louis Hawks on my birthday, followed by seeing Darrel Dawkins shatter a backboard into my beer at the Spectrum, with Dr J sparkling in the easily 80s. Also saw Jordan in Chicago (mom took me). College hoops daw UCLA (Walton) crush NC State in the NCAAs. (Might have been the NITs, SI had it on the cover).

[jimmyk]

Weird, because the Mets are on TV, apparently not raining in Queens. Torrential rains in Manhattan.

[jimmyk]

Ok, now the rain just hit Citi field.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/22/exclusive-sarah-palin-trump-can-see-greenland-from-his-house/

[Narciso]

Thomas did the first profile back in 2003? For new york magazine

https://mobile.twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1164653683516116992

[Buckeye]

When I was a kid, you didn't go outside to play basketball until you put you "Cousy's" on your feet.

A legend.

[Narciso]

In that first profile, thomas references fitrakis, who really went a little down the rabbithole in some resoects, but he knew few would look him up.

[GUS]

When I was a kid, Kareem, lived in my neighborhood.

[Narciso]

Wait what, thats not supposed to happen:

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/south-china-sea-has-beijing-given-up-fortifying-its-illegal-islands/?fbclid=IwAR0T34J6lk20YjM_8DceyiCs_jugcVC6jDzOdEYbLBKanM_YglxJdTXNX78

[Buckeye]

GUS, I got to meet Kareem about 5 years ago.

What a fucking asshole.

[MissMarple3]

#BREAKING Magnitude-5.0 quake jolts area near Ridgecrest, per USGS

Quake comes nearly two months after M7.1 quake in the area https://t.co/0Rr3r9mFHM pic.twitter.com/rduLBouh0x

— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) August 22, 2019

Map at link.

[MissMarple3]

BREAKING: @realDonaldTrump calls into the #WomenForTrump rally in Tampa, Florida with @KellyannePolls and @PamBondi!

Standing room only! 2,000+ women in attendance! #KAG2020 #Trump2020 pic.twitter.com/JFyxzi9xJh

— Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 (@ThatTrumpGuy) August 22, 2019

Video with phone call at the link.

[GUS]

Buckeye, why do you hate Muzzzlims of Colour??

[Narciso]

Really, i only knew from ovies and tv shows not so much from his sports career, just goes to show yoi.

[MissMarple3]

From Twitter:

"Under Obama nearly every economic indicator went down except your taxes and Obama’s net worth.

Under Trump nearly every economic indicator has gone up except your taxes and Trump’s net worth.

It’s really that simple."

[Buckeye]

Buckeye, why do you hate Muzzzlims of Colour??

Just not woke I guess:)

His problem is he is a nasty prick, and very unlikable to boot.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.wishtv.com/news/appeals-court-rules-south-bend-abortion-clinic-can-stay-open/

Mayor Pete Buttigieg's city, and also the location of Notre Dame.

[Pinandpuller]

Who is the marketing wizard behind this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumato

[MissMarple3]

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PUBLIC SCHEDULE
For Friday, August 23, 2019.
11:00am ET, receives Intelligence Briefing.
12:30pm ET, has lunch with Mike Pompeo.
11:00pm ET, POTUS and FLOTUS depart for G7 Summit in Bordeaux, France.

[GUS]

Buckeye, Lew Alcindor, decided to be a Muslim and something of an Intellectual. Fame, fortune, more money and women than you could imagine, never satisfied him. Yet he accepted all of the trappings and treated people shabbily.

He "still hasn't found, what he's looking for".

Ironically, he isn't looked upon as fondly as he could have been. All-time leading scorer, several MVP's, several WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, movies, commercials, etc etc. STILL NOT HAPPY

[Pinandpuller]

One of Adam Carolla’s best gaffs was telling Lou El Cinder that you sure don’t see many old tall people.

[Dave (in MA)]

Cousy:

"... Mr President, it’s special because it’s being presented
by the most extraordinary president in my lifetime ...”

Howie Carr's former producer/sidekick and admitted Obama voter "VB" (Virgin Boy):

VBTheWise@VBTheWise
So will people boycott the great Bob Cousy now?

[Narciso]

For some reasom the sharyl atkisson piece about still redacted fast and furious doesnt link

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support From Bill To Save The Earth After Learning That’s Where Israel Is

“This is, like, a learning process,” Ocasio-Cortez later told reporters. “When I made the Green New Deal, I thought weather like storms and earthquakes were all caused by climate change, but now I’ve learned from Representative Omar that lots of that is actually from Jewish-controlled weather machines. So for the next version of the Green New Deal we will have to keep that in mind.”

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Trump To Buy Greenland, Install Shiplap, Hardwood Floors, Flip For Profit

[Narciso]

Id seen that last one before, but not the new one.

[MissMarple3]

Heading to bed.

Nytol!

[Narciso]

Like i say he gets some things right,
https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/larry-johnson/

[GUS]

When Trump buys GREENLAND, he's going to change the name to WHITELAND.

[GUS]

Can you imagine VERY SLOW JOE BIDEN, threatening to take DJT back behind the gym for a "throw down".

It's quite funny.

[Narciso]

Hes like peter graves when he ate the fish, not well gus, like a stuck 8 track of captain and tennille

[Pinandpuller]

Gymnos, a Greek root that can be found in a word like Gymnasium, means naked, as it is to this day.

[GUS]

Narciso. I've got REALLY REALLY BAD NEWS for you.

The Captain, from Captain and Tennille, WAS NOT A REAL CAPTAIN. He was a crappy keyboard player, making a living off of Tennille.
He did however, have a very cool HAT.

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

Careen Al Gebra never kicked Bruce Lee’s ass. Ask henry.

[Narciso]

No gus i meant the stuck 8 track, it could havrle been abba

https://medium.com/@garius/a-man-and-his-moustache-the-history-of-magnum-p-i-ecaa7cbb1746

[Captain Hate]

I was lucky enough to watch Bob Cousy do his trademark behind the back pass to another player I cant remember - Harmon??

Probably his backcourt partner Bill Sharman.

[Pinandpuller]

But can he play Once Bitten, Twice Shy?

@InmemoryofSkyK1

One of the worst mass murders in US history was carried out by a Cuban immigrant..with 1 dollar of gasoline and a lighter.

(checks notes...Happy Land Fire)

[GUS]

ABBA ROCKS. Despite the lack of hats and Muskrat love.

[Captain Hate]

Taste of autumn in the air today as a cold front blew out all the humidity. I probably got more reading done today than since the start of summer. Plus it hasn't been a terrible summer.

[Narciso]

Air supply then, i started on a saga by veteran china watcher robert elegant, from the boxer revellion to the cultural revolution

[Pinandpuller]

Obama’s spent their FU money in Martha’s Vineyard. That’s land that was literally stolen from the Indians. He must have a little siciliano in his woodpile.

[Captain Hate]

College hoops daw UCLA (Walton) crush NC State in the NCAAs. (Might have been the NITs, SI had it on the cover).

UCLA didn't go to the NITs while Walton was there. They did lose to iNCeST in Walton's senior year as the Wolfpack prevailed in the championship game against Al McGuire's Marquette team.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

When I was a kid I was (and still am) a huge b-ball fan. Villanova was right down the road and I spent a lot of time at the field house. My first pro game was a package deal, six games maybe, for the Sixers for Christmas. All by my lonesome. Used to take the train to take the bus to the Spectrum.

One of those games was the Bucks and for some reason I had a 2nd row seat right on the aisle. Alcindor (I think he was still Alcindor at that point) walked right by me. Tallest man I had ever seen to that point.

Can't remember who won but the Sixers were pretty bad.

Was a huge UCLA fan as well, which really conflicted me when 'Nova played them in the NCAA championship game in '71. Someone had given me a Villanova letter jacket and I wore it through college. I was being recruited by them for track and used to run with Liquori and the team on warmups sometimes since they were right near our school.

But in the end I had to get outta Philly and see the elephant in NYC, which I certainly did. Got to see various college and pro teams play at the Garden and it was all downhill from there. Got to see Clyde at his peak. That was probably the last time NYC was basketball nirvana.

[Narciso]

Law and order, did a reasonable faithful accounf of the incident it was in their firsr year.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

JiB: "We as an independent country of laws need to finally elimanate the judicial branch that never existed in our Constitution"

This is mostly about BrExit, and quite lucid. But there's also a fascinating section about the pitfalls of giving courts too much authority. I was not aware of how limited the Brit judicial branch had been historically.
https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/why-hasnt-brexit-happened-yet/

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

If you are interested but no time to read the whole thing, look for this.

"And there was an even larger problem than the loss of national sovereignty, Bogdanor shows. The E.U. destroyed the system of parliamentary sovereignty at the heart of Britain’s constitution. For all its royalist trappings, Britain has traditionally been a much purer representative democracy than the United States, because it excludes courts from reviewing legislation on any grounds."

There's quite a bit more in the following sections

[GUS]

My Grandfather, my Paternal Grandfather, was an Irish immigrant to Phila. He never finished High School, but he did end up being a SENIOR VP of SALES and MARKETING for a major corp. He was on the board of ST JOSEPH'S for many years. I was chatting with Henry last week as we had lunch, and we talked about Henry, as a Young exec and Yale grad working section 8 real estate in Phillie.
WHAT A SHITHOLE. Henry had GREAT STORIES of his youthful career and a specific GHETTO CRUISER that he owned. He even had pictures on his phone all these years later.
The FULL COMMIE has had TRILLLLLIONS of dollars, and TONS AND TONS of LIES and BULLSHIT.
Philadelphia has NOT gotten better.
I'm sure that is TRUMPS fault.
OH!!!! Wasn't PHILA where the NEW BLACK PANTIES, were walking at polling places with night sticks???

[Pinandpuller]

Air Supply were panty-droppers like Sigfreid and Roy IYKWIMAITTYD.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Are we all following along with MemeWorld dot com?
Language warning but hi energy and no BS
https://www.memeworld.com/meme/trump-2020-ad-ford-commercial-parody/

[Pinandpuller]

Did someone say SAGA?

https://youtu.be/A51gkF7eu_A

[Narciso]

Thats creative and a little blunt but necessary

[GUS]

Pin, I am a lifelong "AIR SUPPLY" fan.

Those dudes ROCKED. "Lost in love and I don't know much....etc etc etc....." GREAT SHIT.

[GUS]

"and I love you best.....You're not like the rest....."

CLASSIC. Absolutely unbelievable lyrics.

[GUS]

"So LADY, let me take a look at you NOW"........

Tingles up and down my spine.

[Dave (in MA)]

Dental hygienist music.

[Pinandpuller]

I think Air Supply liked dudes before it was cool.

[Pinandpuller]

That was Little River Band GUS.

[Pinandpuller]

https://youtu.be/BrnZv7fHGSE the other Aussie white meat.

[Dave (in MA)]

Same thing.

[GUS]

Pin, did you ever see AIR SUPPLY and LITTLE RIVER BAND together at the same time???

Nobody has!!!

[Pinandpuller]

You didn’t like this groove ? https://youtu.be/mFLdHx2ZXUA

[Pinandpuller]

Cardiod mics bro.

[jim nj]

Interesting on the different Lutheran Synods. As a Catholic, I'm no authority on any Protestant denomination, but I might have an insight for some of you. In studying genealogy in New Netherland, now NY, you can't help but become aware of religion.

In New Yotk's earliest history the predominant churches were Reformed Dutch and Lutheran. Catholic churches didn't exist, although a priest might sneak down from Canada.

All of the first pastors were ordained in Europe. Most of their replacements also. It took a while before they started ordaining American pastors.

All of the services were conducted in Dutch.

I am not sure what church the Huegenots belonged to, but I assume their services were conducted in French.

Over time, after the English gained control, English-speaking churches would have sprouted up. Episcopalian, Anglican, etc. Around 1709, Britain shipped about 3,000 German refugees to NY, thus German-speaking congregations arose.

Eventually, all of these churches freed themselves from European control and set up their own American-based hierarchies and seminaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick_Theological_Seminary
Reformed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_Theological_Seminary_at_Gettysburg
Lutheran, but possibly not the first

So you have churches of different existing religious denominations, some of them not using English until a few generations later.

New American religions arising and after a time, some older churches uniting with newer churches in using English everywhere.

While some churches were uniting, others rising, some old ones wound up with different hierarchies.

The divisions could have been due to differences in theology, personal clashes, of difference in geography.

Nowadays the divides seem to be liberal vs. traditional.

[Pinandpuller]

Bringing out the big guns. https://youtu.be/OqeKV2UYq1Q

[Pinandpuller]

Here’s some Aussie Pop that’s not Crowded House: https://youtu.be/IUFOVu1CurM

[GUS]

Crowded house is New Zealand.

[Pinandpuller]

All I know is, the Nazarenes don’t allow anyone in their purview to wear shorts. My church rented out one of their camps for a week and I couldn’t wear shorts while it was light out. I still hate them a little and I’m not even working on it.

[Dave (in MA)]

Same thing.

[Pinandpuller]

Same Difference lol. That girl from their video was hot, I’m not gonna lie. If any of those guys turned out to be gay I’m going to be mad.

[Pinandpuller]

Sadly that girl is probably wearing a burqa now.

[Dave (in MA)]

A guy I used to work with is about as devout Nazarene as you can be, and I just checked his FB photo gallery and there's lotsa shorts pics. Are there regional differences? His degree is from a Nazarene college in Idaho, and his father was a pastor in Maine.

[Pinandpuller]

I feel like I’m in Groundhog Day and I made that same Crowded House mistake before. Back to Canada and the studio from Limelight and Tom Sawyer: https://youtu.be/YlcY_enzwmI

[Pinandpuller]

You can’t wear them on or around Church Business. This was 30 some years ago though.

Listen to that April Wine song, music fans, and tell me if they didn’t cop Paperback Writer a little bit. And the breakdown from Heartbreaker.

[jim nj]

That was a great article from CRB on Brexit.

Much of the doomsday talk sounds silly. Lorries will be piled up in France and Britain won't get supplies of essentials and have do deal with shortages? EU businesses aren't going to earn money on goods that can't be delivered.

[Pinandpuller]

One of the best movie scenes of all time was in Witness. The townies are making fun of the Amish and one smashed ice cream on Aragorn son of Arathorn’s face if you’re paying attention. Harrison Ford gives him an overhand right and breaks his nose.

The old guy says,”He’s from Ohio.”

[Pinandpuller]

Has anyone seen A History of Violence?

The History is a little thin but Violence is covered thoroughly.

[jim nj]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/victor-davis-hanson-what-could-sink-trumps-chances-in-2020

VDH

[Pinandpuller]

Bill Gates flew on the Lolita Express. Some guy connected to BG is an executor of Epstein’s will, filed in the Virgin Islands two days before his tragic death, in a shaky signature. Nothing to see here.

[Narciso]

So folks are going to bring up that byrne was successfully sued for some overreach he made about one particular businessmam, but most of his indulges in the same garbage that fusion has beem throwing up for years now.

[Narciso]

Boris nikolin, science advisor

[Narciso]

The same leads that mueller drive to ground, but that sprouting like kudzu.

[jim nj]

https://spectator.org/californias-war-on-cars/

It's funny decades ago southern California built and exported "car culture" to the rest of the nation. Not so much anymore.

[GUS]

Epstein, was connected to HUNDREDS of big timers.
PRINCE ANDREW and on and on and on.
Why has the INVESTIGATION into EPSTEINS, sex pals, come to a complete STOP????

We all know why. The idea that the AMERICAN MFM Media is in any way LEGITIMATE is a clownish joke.
EPSTEIN and his DISGUSTING FILTH, should have taken down DOZENS of LIBTARD FULL COMMIE CREEEEEEPS.
It hasn't.

[Narciso]

Many many people, gus, some very prominent in finance in media and government. Ive mentioned just a few, if you make the wromg connection without a net, you get an electric shock like the game of operation.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

"That was a great article from CRB on Brexit."

It really is. I particularly like its bleak honesty. Certainly I would guess the author sides with "The People" but he also, for example, openly admits the elite has fought their battle far more effectively.

[GUS]

Yes Narciso, but the ELECTRO-SHOCK only works one way.

[Narciso]

I mean his two attys write a new will, where they are beneficiaries, he ends up dead two days later, hello mcfly, this wouldnt fly on an episode of columbo.

[Narciso]

Jethro gibbs would stooge slaps those eighr guards into a coma, i know devlin barrett bought it, but hes like mikey from the life cereal commercials.

[jim nj]

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-20/northrop-b2-b21-stealth-bomber-palmdale

I'm reminded of a prior article that said the Air Force won't support 4 different bomber fleets. At least one will be retired. There are only 20 B-2 stealth bombers. Probably the first to go.

There are about 62 active non-stealth B-iB's left, with a bunch more in storage.

There are about 58 active non-stealth B-52'S, 18 in reserve and more carcasses available for a re-build if needed.

I think the B-52 will fly longer than the B-1B's and B-2's. They are less expensive to operate and have more carrying capacity. Some predict they will still be in use 30 years from now.

[Narciso]

You saw the piece how the pla has been scaling back their artificial island program

[Narciso]

The eu and itz flagship germany has acquired through oeaceful meams what two wars didnt succeed in doing.

[jim nj]

Two sniper articles quoting the same source:

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-a-marine-hit-a-target-nearly-8000-feet-away-2019-8

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-americas-top-snipers-shoot-from-helicopters-with-deadly-aim-2019-8

[Narciso]

Caldwell goes a long way to set the scene, but it doesnt require it, the resistance to brexit was set out in andrew marrs head of state which was published a year before.

[jim nj]

Narciso,

I did see the article that suggests the PLA has maxed out it's investment in the artificial islands.

They seem to be configured as forward reconnaissance and offensive missile bases.

I've been puzzling over them for a while. I don't think they are defensible. One or two missiles from subs or other source could take them all out at once. I think the Marines could launch near simultaneous attacks on all of them and take them that way.

I don't know what approach we would take. Do we want to seize the islands to hem in the PLA Navy?

Well Chinese missiles could be launched at the islands if we took them. Do we believe we can put in enough air defense to secure the islands?

I don't know how it would work in the back and forth of a war, but I can't see the Chinese re-taking the islands and I can see the Marines eventually owning them. Assuming, that any part of the fake islands survive.

And if you want to wander into the realm of irony, did some brilliant Chinese strategist build a defensive perimeter only to have another brilliant Chinese strategist war-game this with a better red team and ask why they built US Marine bases so close to China.

[jim nj]

https://defensemaven.io/warriormaven/air/navy-uses-lasers-to-sustain-f-35-stealth-attack-OCdhXFtiH02AAT1Zr-STQg/

Like shot-peening without dents.

[Pinandpuller]

Hello? Yes, do you have Prince Andrew in Guantanamo?

Why the hell not?

[Pinandpuller]

So she would rather kill innocents overseas than secure America. Got it.

@wildmesquite

46 miles of #borderwall construction is underway in New Mexico, the first stretch using stolen military funds under the “emergency” declaration. Spread the word. Help us stop it!

[Pinandpuller]

More Cards Against Humanity:

But before I kill you Mr. Bond, I must show you Inappropriate yodeling.