Dark Matter Impacts Whirling Cooling Device

Putin may or may not be a master of Seventh Dimensional Chess but right now he's just having fun playing 52 Pick-Up.

Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign

And once again the US is losing. Help both sides, de-legitimize the eventual winner, let the losers have a permanent temper tantrum - it worked once for Putin, it will work twice. 

My secret hope is that the US has a counter plan which involves Putin laughing so hard he has a stroke and keels over.

I also query the conclusion of the US intel services that Putin would prefer to see Trump win. A Sanders (or Warren) fracking ban would be a boon to the value of Russian oil. 

Comments

[Jim Eagle]

Gee, Clint, Biden and Mini-Mike should play in the next pro-am if they remember where it is. Clint the most disappointing. Remember the empty chair.

[sbwaters]

DrJ: Commentary pieces are intended to be provocative as often as not.

Thanks for the clarification, DrJ, but it still doesn’t make it useful journalism.

Reminds me of the Saturday Night Live parody of "Point/Counterpoint": "Jane, you ignorant slut ..."

Entertainment, neither news nor informative opinion.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I guess the Pegster is getting all hot and bothered by all the cuck love Jen Rubin has been garnering.
Peggy should be the one in the bikini on the SS Cuck's fantail!
She should be the one rubbing cocoa butter on the Admiral's immense, pasty white back!

[Another Bob]

Um, Ig? No. Just no.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloomberg-campaign-office-vandalized-utah

[DrJ]

sbw,

This is on the OpEd page, so it is not really journalism. I find the Commentary pieces to be interesting, as often the topics are what others are talking about.

I don't agree with many of them, but that's OK. Not every opinion I read has to conform to my worldview.

[henry]

Vid at link.

@chizmaga

Joe Biden says his dead son was the Attorney General of the United States.

LOL what? 🤣🤣🤣

https://twitter.com/chizmaga/status/1231252047351013376?s=21

[Extraneus]

DC Parents Bring Children As Young As 9 Months To Adams Morgan Drag Queen Story Hour

• More than 50 people attended a Saturday morning D.C. Drag Queen Story Hour with drag queen “Cake.”

• Parents and caregivers who brought their children told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they view Drag Queen Story Hour as an opportunity to introduce children to diverse ideas.

• “It just sounded like a really fun event, different things to do on a Saturday morning,” one mother who brought her 9-month-old daughter to the event said.

Another local mother who brought her 1-year-old daughter Matilda said she thinks the event is a “such a nice program” and praised its “diversity and inclusivity.”

“This is my second one that I’ve brought her to,” the mother, Marisa Kline, explained. “As she gets older, she pays more attention, loves the stories and so yeah we will keep coming.”

“I think it’s such a great thing that D.C. communities do. It’s one of the reasons we live in this neighborhood, is we like the diversity and the community,” Kline said.

Kline “would fundamentally disagree” with those who say that it is not good for children to attend Drag Queen Story Hours.

“I think giving kids as many perspectives on the world is really important and I think that drag queens in particular teach kids positivity and acceptance,” Kline said. “Those are absolutely values I want to pass on to my daughter.”

[MissMarple2]

henry,

Is this a reasonable way to cut costs, or his Rep. Budd exaggerating?

https://budd.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=761

[Gentlejim]

Iggy,
What the hell is wrong with you? Hahaha
Shoulda picked up some brain bleach at Menards. Just damn...

[Narciso]

Goggles they do nothin, the definition of quixotic, red squaw only has apath through the canyon wall like the coyote.

[Extraneus]

Our Intelligence Community Is Meddling in Electoral Politics and the People Doing It Need to Go to Prison

[henry]

Miss M, it’s complicated. Most government systems are one off... nobody else has welfare or social security. So it’s not like you can buy it off the shelf. When the government tries to replace one, several things happen:

A) they lose a decade in lawsuits (see the Pentagon’s cloud contract now delayed by Bezos whining in the courts). That guarantees anything built is a generation out of date.

B) total lack of accountability across contracting officers and Beltway bandit firms doing the work. See the air traffic control system that has been under development since the 80s. Can’t fire them, so they don’t care.

C) possibly the worst that can happen is the government builds something, then turns it on. The Obamacare website is a fine example.

So while it sounds good to LIVs who use free apps to Tupelo’s their privacy, until you can fire civil servants for incompetence and sue them for damages no government system development is going to save taxpayers a dime.

This is just as true at the state level. I give you the University of Wisconsin payroll system. (This should work off the shelf, I do not blame the vendor even though they are a competitor). When asked why the payroll was $35 million over budget, and when it would be completed, the civil servant in charge had no idea, no plan, no clue but thought it would be at least another decade and another $35 million. This incompetent boob still is employed by the state of WI. (Really, even with all the admins wanting custom bullshit added, an equal sized private sector payroll would believe in at most two years and a couple million spent).

/rant

I enjoyed that. ;)

[Dave (in MA)]

https://twitter.com/tmi3rd/status/1231106702960971776?s=21

(Link goes to The Hill piece with HildaBeast saying “I always out earned my husband.”)

Posted by: Melinda | February 22, 2020 at 10:19 AM

Huh.
And here I was thinking all these years that women earned only 79¢ compared to every $1 her husband got when they peddled influence via their "Global Initiative".

[Dave (in MA)]

Remember the empty chair.

He's got a dozen years on Hair Sniffer Joe.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

Thank you. I can imagine all those grifters and whiners in DC getting horrified at Trump kicking ass and taking names. That does my heart good.

Extraneus,

If Red State is right, I bet Hillary is behind it hoping to get the VP spot so when Bernie drops dead of a tragic heart attack, she can take over.

[MissMarple2]

Look so forward to being with my great friends in INDIA! https://t.co/1jdk3AW6fG

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2020

Link goes to a video by Solmemes!

[henry]

re Hillary earning more. She was employed? Or is this referring to her always correct on commodities string?

[henry]

Talk about iffy systems development....

@tuckerhiggens

We are having caucus calculator trouble at one precinct at the East Las Vegas Community Center.

The number of early voters in the final alignment is not adding up to the same number as in the first alignment

[sbwaters]

Not every opinion I read has to conform to my worldview.

Agreed, DrJ, but I want to read things that sensibly challenge my own assumptions and conclusions, not make me laugh.

[hrtshpdbox]

henry, according to this old Politico story, tax records indicated that Hillary earned $188k in 1991 at Rose Law.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-candidate-wealth-2016-213317

[henry]

Hrt, I forgot about that until your post showed up on my side table.

[hrtshpdbox]

Yeah, it's funny, I've walked past that little table over and over, and that post was never there before.

[Extraneus]

How easy is it to say that "Russia" is doing this or that on the internet? There are thousands of Russian hackers, trolls and assorted other miscreants, just like there are here, or in Romania, or Nigeria. Find a Russian miscreant, claim he's working under direct orders of former KGB Putin, and viola! Russians under your bed.

It's sick, but you just know that's what these deep state scumbags did.

The funny thing is how scared they are of anyone asking questions about Ukraine meddling. And none of them ever even whisper of Chinese meddling, which is surely a more serious threat and would obviously be targeting Trump over any Democrat.

[henry]

Here is UW’s gloss on the Payroll project gone wrong. It doesn’t have the money quotes from the UW project manager. The claim they needed more IT consultants for off the shelf software is ludicrous, but that’s how governments roll.

https://madison.com/news/local/million-software-scrapped-by-uw-system-officials-regret-the-loss/article_d719f8a3-a718-59c6-8159-b3c27e23bf65.html

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Parents and caregivers who brought their children told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they view Drag Queen Story Hour as an opportunity to introduce children to diverse ideas.--

Think of all the diverse ideas in crack houses, brothels, gang wars and mafia GHQs that are going to waste.
Come on progs! Check your privilege and educate your spawn.

[lyle]

The day I canceled my WSJ subscription around this time last year, the Editorial Board was slobbering over Klobuchar as the answer to Drumpf.

Sayonara, chumps. As for Peggy, here’s what you deserve: 🖕

[KevlarKid]

"“I think giving kids as many perspectives on the world is really important and I think that drag queens in particular teach kids positivity and acceptance,” Kline said. “Those are absolutely values I want to pass on to my daughter.”

it's called grooming.

positivity= "be whatever you think you are. that's what makeup is for."

acceptance= "your life is just a movie so you may as well be the star."

quotes from two homosexual drag queens who frequent FIL's 5 star restaurant in Palm Springs.

lecherous drunks in sheep's clothing. but hey! just as moral and decent as everybody else.

patooie!

[KevlarKid]

"“I think giving kids as many perspectives on the world is really important and I think that drag queens in particular teach kids positivity and acceptance,” Kline said. “Those are absolutely values I want to pass on to my daughter.”

it's called grooming.

positivity= "be whatever you think you are. that's what makeup is for."

acceptance= "your life is just a movie so you may as well be the star."

quotes from two homosexual drag queens who frequent FIL's 5 star restaurant in Palm Springs.

lecherous drunks in sheep's clothing. but hey! just as moral and decent as everybody else.

patooie!

[Pinandpuller]

Clint Eastwood has been a Republican longer than the entire Trump family combined.

That being said, who cares what anyone in Hollywood says about anything?

Hollywood is an anti-Christian anti-American hate group.

[clarice]

Accidentally posted these links on the wrong thread:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-has-flipped-the-9th-circuit-e2-80-94-and-some-new-judges-are-causing-a-shock-wave/ar-

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/02/22/cue-the-lefty-hysteria-justice-sotomayor-says-her-colleagues-are-biased-in-favor-n2561732

[henry]

Eiger Sanction DVD on now. Clint did great work.

[clarice]

If you think the drag queen story gives you a clue about my DC neighbors--nearby Takoma Park (a nuclear free zone) is considering a fossil fuel ban.

[Another Bob]

I can think of a few “sanctions” I want done today.

[Jim Eagle]

Funny story:

When Frederick went to camp one summer to Wellsley, he and his roomies (kids from around the world) found out Hillary went there. Sure enough they found her photo portrait on the wall of famous grads.

They, the kids, decided 5o

[KevlarKid]

declare all truth relative and morality becomes pass-ay. degeneracy flourishes. and the next generation rots before the eldest turns 17. then there are the hands rockin those cradles these days...outsourcing moral development of their kids to drag queens.

[Jim Eagle]

Forget that 6:19 post was t spposed to be

[KevlarKid]

the msn link was a dead end for me, clarice.

i'd like to see the Corpulent Latina's decision record since day 1. shirley not a whiff of bias up in there. cabrona.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Osigah Kakhu
🗯
@OsigahK
·
Feb 18
Disclaimer:

“I am a proud black Trump supporter. Please do not approach me with your BS when you see me in my Trump attire. I will beat your ass.

Have a blessed day.”

[lyle]

https://www.redstate.com/tladuke/2020/02/22/investors-are-getting-worried-about-a-sanders-vs-trump-election/

I’m not.

[henry]

Investors= Chamber of Cronies

If the Chamber is worried, I’ll have another beer.

[Jane]

JIb,

Not to be rude but why would you go to camp in wellsley? Nothing there resembles a campground?

I bet the new Russian interference is made up by the Dems.

[henry]

Vid at link

@mooncult

Bernie Sanders literally just lost a delegate to Pete Buttigieg via playing card because Bernie pulled an Ace and Pete pulled a 3, but they decided Aces are low

https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1231323990817267712?s=21

[MissMarple2]

The Spectator Index
@spectatorindex
·
1m
BREAKING: 96 new coronavirus deaths in Hubei province

[MissMarple2]

Chris Matthews compares Bernie winning Nevada to France falling to the Nazis in 1940
pic.twitter.com/qTGajdnr2L

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 22, 2020

Video with Matthews, Brian Williams, and caucus percentages at the link.

[anonamom]

i'd like to see the Corpulent Latina's decision record since day 1. shirley not a whiff of bias up in there. cabrona.

Just find RBG's--they have voted in lockstep, along w Kagan and Breyer, 96% of the time.

I LOVE that the leftists are so enamored of the Constitution these days!
Is there ANYTHING DJT can not do???

[KevlarKid]

tx amom. you have mail.

[Threadkiller]

Eastwood doesn’t surprise or sadden me. Several times fake quotes of him supporting Trump were posted here. He was falsely built up and now depression is setting in.

I’ll still watch his movies.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
22m
Looks like Crazy Bernie is doing well in the Great State of Nevada. Biden & the rest look weak, & no way Mini Mike can restart his campaign after the worst debate performance in the history of Presidential Debates. Congratulations Bernie, & don’t let them take it away from you!

[Extraneus]

What galls me is the question of why Nunes acknowledged Russian meddling in his majority report (which everyone says was 99.99 correct in hindsight). He could have called Crowdstrike out for not turning the servers over to the FBI. Even a statement of doubt would have been better than to say, "Yes, we agree with the 'IC' that the Russians tried to meddle in the election. We just don't agree on the particulars."

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
1m
“The Kremlin is reportedly backing Bernie Sanders bid to win the White House.” Jon Scott @FoxNews
Why didn’t somebody tell me this?

[Catsmeat]

Forgive the long bit coming, but this explains why Toto doesn't talk in Oz though other animals do (from Tik-Tok in Oz, Baum's 9th or 10th Oz book):
Dorothy: "There's a Yellow Hen here, and she can talk, and so can her chickens; and there's a Pink Kitten upstairs in my room who talks very nicely; but I've a little fuzzy black dog, named Toto, who has been with me in Oz a long time, and he's never said a single word but 'Bow-wow!'"

"Do you know why?" asked Ozma.

"Why, he's a Kansas dog; so I s'pose he's different from these fairy animals," replied Dorothy.

"Hank isn't a fairy animal, any more than Toto," said Ozma, "yet as soon as he came under the spell of our fairyland he found he could talk. It was the same way with Billina, the Yellow Hen whom you brought here at one time. The same spell has affected Toto, I assure you; but he's a wise little dog and while he knows everything that is said to him he prefers not to talk."

"Goodness me!" exclaimed Dorothy. "I never s'pected Toto was fooling me all this time." Then she drew a small silver whistle from her pocket and blew a shrill note upon it. A moment later there was a sound of scurrying footsteps, and a shaggy black dog came running up the path.

Dorothy knelt down before him and shaking her finger just above his nose she said:

"Toto, haven't I always been good to you?"

Toto looked up at her with his bright black eyes and wagged his tail.

"Bow-wow!" he said, and Betsy knew at once that meant yes, as well as Dorothy and Ozma knew it, for there was no mistaking the tone of Toto's voice.

"That's a dog answer," said Dorothy. "How would you like it, Toto, if I said nothing to you but 'bow-wow'?"

Toto's tail was wagging furiously now, but otherwise he was silent.

"Really, Dorothy," said Betsy, "he can talk with his bark and his tail just as well as we can. Don't you understand such dog language?"

"Of course I do," replied Dorothy. "But Toto's got to be more sociable. See here, sir!" she continued, addressing the dog, "I've just learned, for the first time, that you can say words—if you want to. Don't you want to, Toto?"

"Woof!" said Toto, and that meant "no."

"Not just one word, Toto, to prove you're as any other animal in Oz?"

"Woof!"

"Just one word, Toto—and then you may run away."

He looked at her steadily a moment.

"All right. Here I go!" he said, and darted away as swift as an arrow.

Darby is extremely cute! I hope he doesn't get post-show letdown.

[jimmyk]

The WSJ piece on Eastwood hardly mentioned Bloomberg. It was more just about his own experiences as Mayor of Carmel. He said that Trump had done some good things, he’d just prefer less Tweeting. Then the line about Bloomberg showed up at the very end.

[henry]

So Bernie is declared winner... but nothing about delegate splits.

[clarice]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/msnbcs-chris-matthews-speculates-democrats-may-be-better-off-with-trump-over-sanders

[Catsmeat]

Oh, also, sbw--I'm stoked for our meet-up in March--I'm so glad mrs. sbw will be there, and Robin! I'll be giving an Oz paper (on the geopolitics of Oz, which are nonsensical, as you'd expect)--but it should be fun. As for where we should eat, we should just try to avoid my colleagues, so somewhere "American" or promoting steak, beer, etc. would work better than Thai or vegetarian. They are very nice people, but just colossal libs, and I cannot let my hair down with any of them within listening distance!

[Extraneus]

Why didn’t somebody tell me this?

lol. Troll master.

[MissMarple2]

Sean Davis
@seanmdav

It’s also apparent that John Crabb allowed his team of unaccountable left-wing hacks to purposefully tank the grand jury against McCabe to make sure he would never be indicted for lying under oath. A ham sandwich can be indicted, but not a documented liar?
=========================================
Sean Davis
@seanmdav

It’s patently obvious that Tim Shea is a potted plant with zero say over anything that happens in the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office, which is clearly run by left-wing political hacks who are accountable to no one in government. https://twitter.com/rachelweinerwp
========================================
Sean Savis is one of the founders of The Federalist. Here are the replies to the two tweets I posted above:

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1230524754349740037

[Jane]

More importantly Dave, Remember “Empty Chai Day “!

[sbwaters]

Repeat for us, Catsmeat, the schedule for possibly meeting. Friday? Saturday? One or the other or both? I forgot.

Thnx.

[DrJ]

Catmeat,

Try Richardson's Canal House, if you don't mind a bit of a drive.

[Extraneus]

Tsk, tsk. Future meet-ups not emailing privately?

[Jane]

CHAIR!

[clarice]

Here. KK:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-has-flipped-the-9th-circuit-—-and-some-new-judges-are-causing-a-shock-wave/ar-BB10gUTy?ocid=sf2

[sbwaters]

Ext, formal invites not yet in the mail. Possibles need to reveal themselves.

[Jim Eagle]

Jane,

Camp Explo. 2/ years each summer at Wellsley. Cloed. 1 year at Yale. Summer academics, sports and fun. 3 weeks. He loved it. Kids from around the world.

[KevlarKid]

tx clarice!

[Pinandpuller]

Arkansas is the number one state for losing fingers in garbage disposals.

Which explains their opposition to the metric system.

[Catsmeat]

I think CH preferred Friday, but he won't be able to make it because of his wife's surgery, but you and Robin are okay with
Friday, so unless there's a reason to change, let's go with that (that said, if there IS a reason to change, Saturday is fine with me).

[Catsmeat]

And if either Robin or sbw have a car, Richardson's sounds great to me (plus no colleagues).

[Extraneus]

Which explains their opposition to the metric system.

lol

[Catsmeat]

Sorry, Ext--didn't know the rules, such as they are !

[Neo]

I understand that “ties” in the Nevada caucuses are settled using playing cards, but this is odd ..

Bernie Sanders literally just lost a delegate to Pete Buttigieg via playing card because Bernie pulled an Ace and Pete pulled a 3, but they decided Aces are low

[Extraneus]

Possibles need to reveal themselves.

Have the date, time and location done so?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/21/report-trumps-remain-in-mexico-stopping-anchor-baby-schemes/

[Jane]

Amom,

Instapundit has an article about using LSD for Alzheimer. Who would have thunk it? Let me know what you think.

[Narciso]

Warren murphy supposedly adapted trevanians tale.

[Extraneus]

Would you believe my wife bought me a $400 razor for my birthday?

https://shavenation.com/collections/feather-safety-razors/products/feather-2015-wood-safety-razor-w-stand-blades-and-gift-box

[henry]

So starting a beard is now off the table?

[Extraneus]

(This is after I vowed to shun Gillette, which I had been using for decades.)

[DrJ]

Ext,

Since you are here, what is the deal with Crowdstrike? As far as I know Crowdstrike is an antivirus company. Is there another one?

[Narciso]

But he was upset at someone who died replicating the eiger climb so he wouldnt collaborate on any further film projects.

[KevlarKid]

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/02/22/susan-rice-acting-dni-grenell-a-hack-and-a-shill-one-of-the-most-nasty-dishonest-people-ive-ever-encountered/

a special place in hell

[henry]

DrJ, this is the controversial bit that responds to hacks. Note the Russian born founder.

CrowdStrike was co-founded by George Kurtz (CEO),[4] Dmitri Alperovitch (CTO),[5] and Gregg Marston (CFO, retired) in 2011.[6][7] In 2012, Shawn Henry, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official, was hired to lead sister company CrowdStrike Services, Inc., which focused on proactive and incident response services.[

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

[Narciso]

Interesting what is thr mcguffin that eastwoods character is after, a super strain of virus.

[henry]

So far, Sanders, Buttgig, and Biden are over 15%. That keeps Bernie below a vote 1 win in Milwaukee. (5% counted)

[henry]

Fun film Narciso. I hadn’t seen it prior to tonight.

[sbwaters]

Friday works for us.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Clint Eastwood has been a Republican longer than the entire Trump family combined.--

Objection; relevance.
So has Willard Mittens Romney and and so was John ClydeCrashcup McCain.

Sustained.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

As a former rock climber, the climbing was very well done.

[Extraneus]

Since you are here, what is the deal with Crowdstrike?

Not sure what you know, but Crowdstrike is the (Ukranian?) company, hired by Perkins Coie of GPS Fusion fame, to look at the DNC servers, and who claimed those servers were hacked by Russians yet never gave the gov't access to the servers, or any other proof of their claims that we know of.

[henry]

He’s inviting all of them – great and small — to be a part of the American Dream, their birthright. He’s inviting them to rebuild their lives and do their small part in making America great again.

https://datechguyblog.com/2020/02/22/why-donald-trump-courts-black-americans/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Jeebus,
Dems - so incompetent they can't even cut the cards right...in Nevada!

[KevlarKid]

narciso---- seen "outlander" the series?

[henry]

mmmmmm. Beef.

@beef

U.S. beef's carbon footprint is 10 to 50 times lower than other regions of the world, making it the leader in sustainable production. biwfd.com/30qreoc

[Narciso]

Some episodes, back when starz was on the discount pack

[Extraneus]

And, btw, even if the servers were hacked by Russians, that doesn't implicate the Russian gov't. If I hack Chairman Xi, that doesn't mean it was the "Americans" doing it.

[MissMarple2]

Joe Biden had the lead in Nevada for the entire race, according to the RCP polling average.

Until 10 days ago. pic.twitter.com/OH5G4xn481

— Matt Viser (@mviser) February 23, 2020

Link goes to a graph with percentages for candidates and months, so you can see the changes. Washington Post guy.

[Jane]

Ex,HELL SHE GOT IT ON SALE! Does it work?

[Narciso]

The malware is of ukrainian design, which bryce should have realized.