Saturday Morning Action

Here we go.

I am intrigued by Iran's admission of responsibility for the airliner shoot-down. Apparently they may have set back Operation National Unity, their attempt to provoke a foreign crisis to distract from domestic woes:

In Iran, a debate over how much blame the government bears threatened to destroy the national solidarity that followed the country’s conflict with the United States. Many Iranians said that their anger over the lack of accountability at the highest levels of government had quickly returned.

However, they were in a bit of a box. Another Iranian goal is to present themselves to the international community as the more credible and responsible negotiating partner vis a vis Trump. Shooting down airliners is not helpful but pretending they weren't at fault would have been worse.

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[joan]

Oh, darn, just posted on the other thread. :)

[joan]

About Buttagieg's "new studly" look. :)

[Jack is Back!]

How come Mayor Pete hasn’t a rally at the Folsom Street Fai?

[Captain Hate]

Nothing says "credible and responsible" like shooting down a commercial airliner in your airspace. Where's the fucking UN on this?

[Captain Hate]

Willowed

Rick Grenell running for President could further drive a stake into the shriveled heart of the Uniparty. He's been outspokenly supportive of DJT and could drive Homo Inc. more insane than Pence. 49 state (Utah FTL) blowout?

[Marlene]

Good Morning! Speaking of Mayor Pete, he's running lots of ads on local NH media. The ads are shallow,feel good cliches. For the amount of money he's probably spending the ads aren't impressive.
I'm off to spend more time with my mother. I observed her physical therapy session yesterday. She's making slow progress. I had to smile because Sinatra was playing in the PT room. Ha,imagine the music when we're in the nursing home. Anyway,my mother thinks she's going home in a month. Not happening.

[Jack is Back!]

CH,

I think Pompeo wins handily in a Pence v. him in the primaries. At least he is my pick but again will need external funding and we know where that leads.

Top Men!

[Buckeye]

The contrast between Buttplug and Grenell is striking.

There is a lesson for gay Americans in that, at least if they choose to think instead of react.

[Captain Hate]

Pompeo certainly gets my support for his ability to make Chris Wallace even dumber than usual.

[Captain Hate]

Doesn't Buttplug get blown out of the water by looking at what happened to South Bendover under his leadership?

[joan]

Think Jim nj posted this and it has a great line :) about an eyedropper & brainwashing:

"Effectively this requires inviting Turkey and Russia to exercise influence in the region on a tolerable basis of respect for human rights, while ensuring that they are rigorously opposed to any propagation of terrorist activity and don’t endanger Israel. Any such ambition runs afoul of the current Democratic hysteria about Russia, which arose in their shock at being defeated in the 2016 election and their instant conjuration and brainwashing of their obedient media (it could have been done with an eye-dropper) that Russia had colluded with Trump to win a bogus presidential mandate."

https://www.nysun.com/foreign/claim-that-trump-lacks-a-strategy-rings-false/90969/

[Captain Hate]

You're still giving them too much credit by planning a false-flag airliner shootdown. It's FAR more likely some higher-ups inbred nephew with a 70 IQ pushed the wrong button.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 11, 2020 07:46 AM (TLxpZ)

I agree completely. People don't realize how automated, and deadly, modern weapons systems are. (like Russian made AA) They are Fire and Forget systems - all it takes is one idiot punching a button, and BOOM. I've read some say that this particular system could be set on auto, so the operators may not have even realized it was about to fire.

Letting the Iranians have weapons systems like this is like giving a room of five year old boys fully loaded AK-47's to play with. And then being surprised when someone gets shot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2020 08:31 AM (V2Yro)

[Captain Hate]

Pete Seeger, Alger Hiss, Henry Wallace and all the other commies in Hell must be further tortured at how the progs have turned on the original workers paradise.

I must be the only person who didn't have a Rush album.

[jimmyk]

“ Doesn't Buttplug get blown out of the water by looking at what happened to South Bendover under his leadership?”

Ssh, we’re not supposed to look at that. It would be homophobic. Or something. /MSM

[Narciso]

You saw hoe that brat at the new republic has attacked both pence and pompeo, a successor to zakarias medal mania in the reagan nsc.

If course the swimmer was rigging a bavk channel to iran, this was in the notes of the tower report.

[Another Bob]

There’s lots of stuff rumored now: Iranian generals were on the flight. Flight was ordered to return to the airport and didn’t.

Also rumors that lots of IRGC generals have gone missing.

Who knows.

[Narciso]

But Russia is imperial as far as their little minds can contemplate.

[Narciso]

One of the things that started to tick me off about the good prosecutor was his repeating innuendo from will folks i. Mean mike wolff about haley and hicks.

[MissMarple2]

Gppd morning!

I sometimes listen to You Tube when I am falling asleep. Since I don't have cable, I listen to news shows and interviews and political speeches. You Tube will go on autoplay and select things for me.

I woke up this morning and President Trump's rally speech was playing, but with voice over Japanese translation!

Here it is in case you think I am making it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FEzkNQFFGU&list=TLPQMTEwMTIwMjDUbNMZ4N_xlA&index=6

[joan]

Jim nj posted another article, Battle of the Bastions, -- the opening image is beautiful:

https://warontherocks.com/2020/01/battle-of-the-bastions/

"While protecting nuclear assets remains a vital mission, particularly for already established bastions, newer installations are taking on other roles. This is clearly visible as strategists examine how China and Russia are employing an offensive bastion strategy to tilt regional balances of power and extend their global influence."

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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47m
“FBI Director apologizes for FISA Errors (of which there were far to many to be a coincidence!).” @FoxNews Chris, what about all of the lives that were ruined because of the so-called “errors?” Are these “dirty cops” going to pay a big price for the fraud they committed?

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Where have the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats gone when they have spent the last 3 days defending the life of Qassem Soleimani, one of the worst terrorists in history and the father of the roadside bomb? He was also looking to do big future damage! Dems are “unhinged.”

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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15m
New polling shows that the totally partisan Impeachment Hoax is going nowhere. A vast majority want the Do Nothing Democrats to move on to other things now!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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14m
Nancy Pelosi will go down as the absolute worst Speaker of the House in U.S. history!

[sbwaters]

JiB: If as sbw noted he initiated our democratic decline then Wilson put the pedal to the medal

Yup, and the good Mr. Jefferson would likely be horrified at the consequences of parties. Wilson, not so much.

I enjoyed reading Fawn Brody’s book on Jefferson. There is lots to admire about Jefferson, despite the characterization in "Hamilton" the Broadway play.

[Jack is Back!]

GUS,

Are you going to watch the Chelsea v Burnley game. Comes on in a short 1/2 hour.

[sbwaters]

"metal" — Sure that was autocorrupt.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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3m
Now the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, are asking @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell to do the job that they were unable to do. They proved NOTHING but my total innocence in the House, despite the most unfair & biased hearings in the history of Congress. Now they demand fairness!

[Narciso]

Well wilson drank from the well of german philosophy which doesnt accept natural law or negative liberty, there lies the poison. Im taking poppers characterization of kant as foundation.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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45s
95% Approval Rating in the Republican Party, a record. 53% Approval Rating overall (can we add 7 to 10 percent because of the Trump “thing?”). Thank you!

[Buckeye]

MM,

That is Mandarin, not Japanese, but point still well taken.

[Captain Hate]

Is this peak retard?

Holy cats and OMG.

Gwyneth Paltrow is selling a candle that smells like her vagina.

*shoots heroin into eyeball *

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 11, 2020 09:13 AM (ptqGC)

I love the smell of vagina in the morning

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 11, 2020 09:15 AM (JFO2v)

---
Cheaper just to open a can of tuna, no?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2020 09:17 AM (cfSRQ)

[Narciso]

And marx internalized kant in the dialect, assuming the masses dont have their own agency.

[Narciso]

This is when the electroshock comes in handy.

[Narciso]

Oh:

https://mobile.twitter.com/BensmanTodd/status/1215999094705000449

[MissMarple2]

Buckeye,

Well, I obviously am not a linguist!

I found it fascinating that a foreign country would produce a voice-over translation. I wonder what they made of the parts where he talked about how horrible the democrats were.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/Jali_Cat/status/1215711103348592640

This is a thread about a Muslim woman whose Muslim father is serving 168 years in prison for domestic terrorism and she is running for Congress in Illinois.

He took $2.5 million from Libya to blow things up here.

[anonamom]

For the record, I am walking back the post partum psychosis consideration in regard to the Duchess of Sussex (for now, anyway.)

I've read a whole lot more about that woman, and all I can say is
"Crazy like a fox!"

Those who agree with Son One that we fought a war to "not have to bother with these people" can SOB right now.

Obviously, I have no way of knowing if all the snarky stuff people are now saying about her is true, but

1. She is estranged from a good chunk of her biological family.
2.She divorced her first husband as soon as she became a "bigger" name than he
and
3. Blatantly used Piers Morgan to climb the British social structure.

(Not to mention being a vegetarian, and believer in climate change!)

Having that whole website up and the licensing and patents ready to go, and being SO RUDE to Grandma doesn't set well with me either.

So, self absorbed narcissist, yes; unbalanced--sadly (in that she would be forgivable and possibly treatable), no.

[MissMarple2]

It is absolutely pouring down rain here. I wonder if henry is getting the equivalent in snow.

[Jane]

I posted a pix of my new golfcart on Facebook because I know you are all dying to see it.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156755717672231&set=pcb.10156755718482231&type=3&theater

Now I promise I will shut up

[MissMarple2]

Jane.

The link doesn't work for me.

[MissMarple2]

Secretary Pompeo
@SecPompeo
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24m
Human dignity, autonomy, and freedom are essential to the exercise of our rights and liberties. On this National Day to #EndTrafficking, we recommit to relentlessly pursue the promises of freedom on behalf of the millions of people around the world whom traffickers exploit.

[Buckeye]

MM

When you are in China, it is total immersion:)

[Jack is Back!]

Cheaper just to open a can of tuna, no?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2020 09:17 AM (cfSRQ)

Snark of the year so far!

[Buckeye]

Those who agree with Son One that we fought a war to "not have to bother with these people" can SOB right now.

Hard to argue with Amom.

Have studied enough of my family history to conclude they moved on, and never looked back:)

[Captain Hate]

She is estranged from a good chunk of her biological family.

Like her father calling her a gold digging hosebag before she got married to the brainless royal ginger?

[MissMarple2]

Vox reporter blames Trump for the airliner shoot-down. Satisfyingly catches hell from most of those who reply:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1215854368076988416

[Buckeye]

Gwyneth Paltrow is selling a candle that smells like her vagina.

Not only does her shit not stink.....

[Narciso]

Tractor rupar, yes hes in klein territory

[hoyden]

Jane, linky no worky for me either.

[Jack is Back!]

jane,

Can't find it on your FB page. Only photos of your dog.

[rse]

To a'mom's point, lots of copy detiling the extent to which markle fits virtually all known patterns of narcissistic behavior. https://narcsite.com/2019/10/22/a-very-royal-narcissist-part-3-2/ is an example before the current ugliness.

[henry]

Miss M, mostly rain so far. Now frozen with a dusting of powdery snow.

[GUS]

Just got here Jack. Just as Chelsea scores!

[GUS]

see you next Tuesday Gwyneth.

[Captain Hate]

I can almost hear my very British mother refer to Harry's wife as "that Markle woman" and to categorize her as "common".

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at January 11, 2020 09:57 AM (Vf4Y7)

Being common would be a step up for that gutter trash
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 11, 2020 10:02 AM (7HweE)

Mother Hate used to use "common" as an all purpose dismissive term.

[Jack is Back!]

MM,

Most of the comments I read about the Vox tweet were over the top Trump Derangement Syndrome on steroids. Those people are "government educated" as Neal Boortz would say, and BTW, he commented on that tweet: "and you call yourself a journalist?"

[GUS]

Harry and Markle are clowns. They want to be commoners one camera at a time.
Trash.
And I'm half British

[Melinda]

Some diligent sleuth, using publicly available flight data, noted that 6 flights using the exact same route out of Tehran in the few hours before that Ukrainian flight pretty much ensures that “accident” probably isn’t the box to check on any MP form.

Can’t remember where I saw it in the last day or two, but it’ll come to me.

[MissMarple2]

Jack,

They weren't when I linked it. I guess the TDS people called up reinforcements.

[Captain Hate]

Or maybe this is peak retard

https://newrepublic.com/article/156137/australias-infernal-denial

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

I think I saw that this morning in a reply to Don Surber.

[Neo]

Alphabet’s controversial chief legal officer, David Drummond, is leaving the company, effective January 31.

Drummond, a top executive of nearly 20 years, was being scrutinized as part of a board investigation into the company’s handling of sexual misconduct for claims that he had inappropriate relationships with other employees. The probe also included the response to allegations against Android creator Andy Rubin, who reportedly received a $90 million exit package after the company found sexual assault claims against him credible (Rubin denied wrongdoing at the time of the report).

A company spokesperson said that Drummond will not be receiving an exit package.

This "inappropriate relationships with other employees" may or may not be true, but it has become the new "out" when the company officer has done great harm to the company.

Nobody at Intel believes that CEO Brian Krzanich stepped down over an "inappropriate relationship", but rather it was his failure to make the 10nm process work, that cost the company billions, that cost him his job.

This makes me wonder what foul Drummond performed in the legal department.

[James D.]

Vox reporter blames Trump for the airliner shoot-down. Satisfyingly catches hell from most of those who reply:

It’s Vox. They’re all morons who somehow conned supposedly smart investors into giving them millions of dollars to pimp out endless ignorant, deranged leftist drivel.

Why can’t I get a meeting with one of those investors?

[Jane]

Well it's there. If someone wants to tell me how to post a pix here, I'll try, but I tend to be a moron about that stuff.

[Jane]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156755717647231&set=pcb.10156755718482231&type=3&__tn__=HH-RH-R&eid=ARCLLtAsL0_5xU4GCFL80Kjmmvyx1St_DOJFeK_m6bnBWyXKafqXdra7JP--OAkY_blNp5gIfNkl-q1t

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1215946835631710208

Thread with leaked photos of the plane.

[Jane]

On a different note:

Kerry on Billions in Iran Payments: 'We Gave Them a Little Bit of Money'

https://pjmedia.com/trending/kerry-on-billions-in-iran-payments-we-gave-them-a-little-bit-of-money/

[GUS]

So humans purposely set fires, and GLOBULLSHIT WARMING is blamed.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/news/andrew-yang-won-the-internet-but-can-he-win-a-2020-caucus/

“I really, really like what he had to say about what he will do for us,” Larson said. “He’s made me more confused.”

[MissMarple2]

Leaving for a while. I have to run some errands.

[KevlarKid]

"giving them millions of dollars to pimp out endless ignorant, deranged leftist drivel."

James D--- NEVER CHANGE! Vox that, bitchez. LOL

[Threadkiller]

Gwyneth Paltrow is selling a candle that smells like her vagina.

Must be quite the dipping process.

[KevlarKid]

Joan, i call that stubble fetish "the Nixon shadow." dates me but IDGAF.

[hoyden]

Jane, no joy. Second best, post a link to the make and model?

[KevlarKid]

Gwyneth is "optimizing" her #MeToo cred with the Whoppy- scented wax phallowacker. New next fall: bag-scented donut holes.

"She brings the best out in me. What a woman." --- the Lead Eunuch fr Coldplay

her daughter "Apple" brings the candle to school for her career day presentation. "this candle smells just like Tacos."

i miss Imus. He'd uhHad a field day with Blythe Danner's kid.

[Theo]

I love Saturday morning action.

[KevlarKid]

Gwyneth's ingenuity has me wondering how Markle will tap the candle odor market.

Given her and Harry's nasal parking jobs in Michelle Obama's grand canyon perhaps a zesty southwestern theme?

[KevlarKid]

"ooooo-oooh that smell...."

[Melinda]

There were US soldiers tailing Suleimani on that fateful Baghdad run. Their pictures, which obviously were for confirmation purposes, were leaked to the Daily Mail (Martosko, no doubt) since no other DC outlet is trustworthy.

[KevlarKid]

"and for your wedding rehearsal dinner settings might i suggest the Paltrow Mini-me Mons Veneris candle?"

good gawd save yourselves! @<@

[KevlarKid]

Leaving for a while. I have to run some errands.

Posted by: MissMarple2 | January 11, 2020 at 11:13 AM

Pick me up some candles,k?

[peter]

Kev, who is the person in your avatar? It's making me crazy, because I kind of sort of recognize it but not really

[KevlarKid]

Suleimani in hell: "All i got was these steenkeeng candles!"

[Neo]

Instagram is removing posts and suspending accounts that voice support for slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, says it is complying with US sanctions

This is different

[Neo]

No known arrests or prosecutions stemmed from San Diego's 7-year facial recognition program, which compiled 65K face scans; the program ended Dec. 31, 2019

https://www.fastcompany.com/90440198/san-diegos-massive-7-year-experiment-with-facial-recognition-technology-appears-to-be-a-flop

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I don't have any Rush music either, thank God. Could never stand that whiney lead singer. Speaking of Lynyrd I was in a meeting the other day and this social worker with a ponytail had a Lynyrd T shirt on. I complimented him on his taste.

So I guess the full Tramp kit is now a candle, a hat and a designer vagina. Who knew??? Apparently Gwinnie is also a fan of the Back Street Boys. Such a role model for modern society.

One of the biggest problems with all of these celebrities is that no one ever told them "no".

[hoyden]

I once scraped creosote from some new railroad ties to bring authentic aroma to my model train.

[peter]

The cat rescue society just ordered 500 of them.

[Threadkiller]

Interesting article on the facial recognition, Neo. It seems the only success was when San Diego shared the data with ICE. But they cut that tie.

[KevlarKid]

peter--- Billy Barty

[henry]

Link to Daily Mail article

@vickimckenna

Fury on streets of Tehran as Iranians demand Ayatollah’s resignation after military admits shooting down passenger plane. Meanwhile, Democrats still blame Trump. 🤦🏼‍♀️

https://twitter.com/vickimckenna/status/1216039267014717440?s=21

[KevlarKid]

back in the 80s down in southern ilnoy, RUSH and Kansas were big with the local farm boys who'd discovered weed for breakfast. i was too far into SRV, Pastorius, and Nana Vasconcellos to build an iterest.

simpler times.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I think the mullahs are in a real dilemma. They raised gas prices and blew all of that $150 billion on shitty missiles. Then they lose Siegfried and Schtarker.

They shatter their myth of competence, control, and power by shooting down an airliner and then scrape the pieces to try and cover it up but fail. This is going to empower the opposition I think.

In other news Israel just started pumping NG from both of their massive fields and is building a pipeline from those fields to Cyprus and then Greece and Italy and Western Europe.

I would like to have the NG powered bus and truck concession for Israel just about now. I can see taxis going that way as well.

That leverage the Mideast had has been de-leveraged. The Gulf Arabs will be okay, but I have to believe the Iranians are screwed.

This huge surge of NG production in places like the Coral Sea, the States and now Israel isn't even getting much press. It is not only changing the geopolitical map, but it will have a massive impact on CO2 and air pollution if it continues.

My vision is of scavengers pillaging solar arrays for the silver that is in most panels and German children playing in pristine parks as the wind farms stand silent.

The Israeli fields may well dwarf the fields NORD is drawing from, putting even more pressure on Russia and the idiotic German establishment.

All courtesy of some American wildcatters.

[JM Hanes]

TM:

"Shooting down airliners is not helpful but pretending they weren't at fault would have been worse."

Worst of all would be putting the black box in a lock box, bulldozing the scene, and then confessing after realizing they weren't fooling anyone.

[KevlarKid]

Tehran needs a candlelight vigil.

[KevlarKid]

do ayatollahs resign or just get dragged out to the pyre tits up?

[Threadkiller]

Tehran needs a candlelight vigil vagil.

[KevlarKid]

was the feckless rocketry display a failed cover play for killing fleeing ICRG personnel?

" i hear ukraine is retirement paradise."

[KevlarKid]

TK--- knew i could count on ya!