Let's Go TB12

OK, here in the 3rd quarter the LA Rams have just kicked an extra point to go up 27-3 over the Tampa Bay Bradys.

If the Rams had any respect for the game they have gone for the 2 point conversion. Then Brady could deliver 28-3 II and the Hollywood ending fans (like me!) would be thrilled.

Comments

[Pinandpuller]

Speaking of delivery:

"In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed."--Tertullian

[Narciso]

this is the way, crimson tide started out

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/23/u-s-aircraft-carrier-strike-group-heads-for-mediterranean-amid-russia-threats/

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Germany has abandoned NATO. They are now Putin's little bitches dependent upon Russian gas. Scholz refused to meet with Biden and the head of their Navy as much as said they were going to stay neutral. Further, they somehow banned the Estonians from transferring lethal aid to Ukraine.

Biden's first move should be to sever Nordstream I and II. Let Berlin freeze.Berlin has engendered tremendous antipathy from the other EU states for many reasons, but their craven caving to China and Russia puts them in a special place.

Maybe a boycott of Mercedes and Audi and VW is in order.

Putin has succeeded in driving the wedge he always wanted between Germany and the rest of NATO.

[Marlene]

Tommy!!!!!!!!!!! WOOT!!!!!!!

[Marlene]

*sad face*

[Jack Lillywhite]

As a newly minted TB resident may I say you go Tom but not as much as young Stanford. The baton has been past. Great run Tommy. Now retire and hit the the broadcast booth if your ego can take hat demotion.

[Narciso]

Gazprom has greased enough palms to prevent that from happening,

has there being a comparable example to Brady in terms of success, Montana, Irving I'm just spit balling here,

[Jack Lillywhite]

Narc. No,

Goat by far. All measurements.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/01/23/breaking-u-s-orders-evacuation-of-embassy-staff-families-from-ukraine/

Brought over grom end of last thread. Contains lots of info from State Department, news media, etc.

[Jack Lillywhite]

LOL. Missed your Irving note. I am sure Jerry Rice is sleeping better.

[Narciso]

certain teams have a hot streak and then they end,
of course which was the film where the character said 'you got to know your limitations' something brady hasn't figured out yet,

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2022/01/23/aaron-rodgers-slams-biden-after-unvaccinated-qb-joke/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Note how at the end of the story thee reporter calls the vaccine “safe and effective”. Either Fauci or some Pfizer minion in the White House contributed to this story.

[Narciso]

like the mutants worshiping the cobalt bomb

[Narciso]

some examples here:

https://tinyurl.com/498amk6y

[Narciso]

her complaint is he didn't tighten up harder?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keeping-up-with-the-johnsons-is-exhausting-life-is-lived-at-10-000-miles-a-minute-h77ztnk66

[Narciso]

sigh

https://www.spisok-putina.org/en/news-en/2022-01-20/house-republicans-aim-sanctions-at-putin-his-family-and-his-mistress

[Jack Lillywhite]

Narc,

Please. No equal to Brady. Simple. Who wants to argue?

[Narciso]

why he doesn't want to give up his exalted position

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

From the archives;
--“I’m asking myself, what the hell is going on? We look like a third-world country," @GavinNewsom
says at site of L.A. train theft

“This is not one-off. This is organized theft. These are organized gangs of people,” Newsom says, then apologizes for saying “gangs,” says wasn’t “pejorative”--

That dumb shit attitude is what is going on, idiot.

--“There’s a burden of responsibility and all of us share that, and that’s why I’m here," Newsom says. "I don’t think anyone particularly cares about who to blame*, I think they care about what we’re going to do."--

I share no responsibility in your prog bullshit that is reducing our state to exactly what it is beginning to look like. And every sane person already knows who to blame.

--“My frustration with this in particular is the images look like a third-world country,” repeats @GavinNewsom
, clearly concerned about how California is perceived.--

He's not primarily frustrated at thousands and thousands of packages worth millions and owned by mostly Californians stolen by not-gangs. He's frustrated that "the images" make CA look bad which makes Gov Brylcreem's future look bad.
We ARE becoming a third world state you moron, and you are the latest in the line of tin horn would be dictators to bring us here. Own it, butthole.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Also from the archives;
--"The New York Times referred to women as “menstruators” for the first time in a Thursday article on changing attitudes towards feminine hygiene products"--

Hold on. Surely they noted that women AND men are menstruators.

[MissMarple2]

Ignatz,

I have a friend who is weighing whether to move to California or Wisconsin to be near one of her children. Wisconsin wasn’t even in the mix until California went completely nuts.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/featured-top/never-trumpers-exit-stage-left/

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/foxweather/status/1485409513922609152

Freeze/frost warning in parts of Florida. Map at the link.

[Pinandpuller]

Not a lot of people know this, but the original name of Melville’s whale was Mocha Dick.

A copywriter recently hired away from Starbucks spelled it wrong and by then it was too late.

[Davod]

Ace landscape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/1%2023%20222%200nt.jpg

[Davod]

Feel good story of the day:

"Football Coach Sends Team To Shovel Snow For The Elderly

A high school football coach in Pennsylvania swapped weight training practice with snow shoveling for neighbors in need."

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/4534/Football-Coach-Sends-Team-To-Shovel-Snow-For-The-Elderly

[Neo]

Just saw commercial with Ron Reagan, lifelong atheist on support of church state separation

[Davod]

PS. Re the landscape. That's a Tony Hillerman landscape. Can you spot Joe Leaph

[Davod]

That's Leaphorn.

[Neo]

Atheism is like CRT, they defend something they say doesn't exist

[Dave (in MA)]

Matt’s Idea Shop@MattsIdeaShop·
How do you say “at least the mean tweets are gone” in Ukrainian?

[Dave (in MA)]

Da fuq is this? pic.twitter.com/2QjmBBMfRo

— 🍊💥Atomic💥BIonde💥🍊 (@Ablonde20211) January 22, 2022

[jim nj]

https://tinyurl.com/2zssuza2

Glenn Loury and Heather MacDonald conversation

[jim nj]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2022/01/23/ignore-the-hype-chinas-leaders-cannot-re-shape-economic-reality/?sh=73b000d3167b

Ignore the Hype, China’s Leaders Cannot Re-Shape Economic Reality

"Even if it succeeds (it won’t) in overwhelming the message of the market, such a move will not enhance China’s economy. We know this because restrictions on human action are by their very name a growth depressant, and China’s leaders are trying to paper over their own freedom-limiting errors. Just as harmful would be attempts to limit the market’s message about property mis-allocations."

It seems to me that that the Chinese leaders at the local and national levels are just tinkering at the edges of the property market.

I read, for instance, that the real estate developers will be allowed to exceed the current debt red-lines if the newly acquired debt is due to a merger or acquisition of real estate assets from a failing developer.

Yeah, that'll work.

[MissMarple2]

Australia and the UK have begun evacuating embassies from Ukraine.

[MissMarple2]

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-vladimir-putin-europe-antony-blinken-1c3eee4895926233aa85ad52ef09d102

NATO sends ships and military equipment east.

[henry]

Things are so bad for governments everywhere that they need to create a war to stay in power.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.reuters.com/business/fed-tries-match-economic-risks-against-markets-rush-tighten-2022-01-24/

Lending interest rising even though fed hasn’t acted yet.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

I hate to admit that you are close to the truth with your sarcasm.

[MissMarple2]

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jan/23/china-sends-39-warplanes-toward-taiwan-largest-in-/

[Buckeye]

Hope not Henry.

Don’t think we’ve “got what it takes” at the moment.

[MissMarple2]

Buckeye,

I bet enlistments have taken a precipitous drop over the last 6 months.

[MissMarple2]

https://mobile.twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1485602554448945157

This tweet lists NATO contributions. Lots of huffing and puffing but only 6 jets and a few ships.

[MissMarple2]

https://mobile.twitter.com/home

Peter Schweizer on Mark Levin’s show. Two-minute video. Biden family got $31 million from Chinese intelligence-connected groups while he was VP AND while president!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/23/schweizer-biden-family-have-received-31-million-from-individuals-linked-to-chinese-intelligence/

[Neo]

DOW down 651 (-1.99%) to 33,584

[clarice]

https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/begun-the-college-wars-have/#more-83915

[Momto2]

Cari Kelemen 2.0
@CariKelemen

115,252 Wisconsin "voters" who have been registered for OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS voted in 2020.

Joe's margin of "victory" in Wisconsin: 20,682

Trump won Wisconsin. How do we know? Because one out of every 14 voters in the system were registered on the same day: January 1, 1918.

[Melinda]

Fresh VDH:

Wokeism Is a Cruel and Dangerous Cult

https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/23/wokeism-is-a-cruel-and-dangerous-cult/

[Narciso]

a viral plague worse then the current outbreak

https://thehighwire.com/watch/

[Melinda]

Patrick Howley
@HowleyReporter
EXCLUSIVE: January 6 political prisoners are being DENIED MAIL that could help their defense (in violation of their First Amendment rights). And some of the info the jail is withholding from them proves FBI Hoax activity (read that info here) 🚨🚨

bigleaguepolitics.com/january-6-poli…

https://twitter.com/HowleyReporter/status/1485599974737993728

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/january-6-political-prisoners-are-being-denied-mail-that-could-help-their-defense/

[Narciso]

howley revealed a nasty strangelove streak, last week,

[Narciso]

I think that nora ephron film showed his true colors

https://stream.org/breaking-up-with-carl-bernstein-and-the-communist-media/?fbclid=IwAR3mS4_RF_85aSZe2D6pBvGykyVyPuwzFJpSQ44ww6iwUaJKyko1_BPvqtk

[Melinda]

Copying in full:

“The average age of a trucker is 58”

January 24, 2022 Kate Roadkill 60 Comments

Via email from a trucker I know personally, names withheld at request.

To my friends and family who are not familiar with the trucking industry: get a few extra essentials if you’re in a position to do so. Fill your tank with fuel.

Truck drivers have hit the proverbial wall & every tactile thing in your life is moved by them. This goes far beyond the mandate issue, that’s just the snapping point for many. There are many factors at play – truckers being the constant, proverbial scapegoat for a crumbling supply chain is front & centre.

I want to be clear that this has been brewing for decades. The horrible state on our Canadian highways is similar to what I’ve experienced traveling in third world countries. Safety has declined to where there’s almost daily fatalities. I’ve had to unfollow most trucking groups because they are just so negative & defeating showing all the daily wrecks that don’t hit the news. Real, undoctored pictures, video, & dashcam footage of “professional drivers” showing absolutely no regard for human life.

What’s the answer? Feds throw mass quantities of undocumented drivers who simply have to say they have a license or experience. They pay large sums to “handlers” that facilitate throwing them right into the fire on our mountainous, snowy, icy highways. I have personally helped drivers that had absolutely no idea how to chain up, free a frozen brake, fuel up a tractor or reefer, add diesel exhaust fluid, back up one trailer (let alone two), which airline went where, how to check fluid levels, hook up a trailer, etc. And this was in the parking lot! Now to watch them pass people on double yellows, over the crest of a hill, around a blind corner, driving loaded super B’s 6 feet from my passenger vehicle at highway speed. I’ve taken the ditch or shoulder several times this winter alone as I knew my family would be hit & perish when the loaded tailgater couldn’t stop in time. Because I have decades of off-road & trucking experience.

Unfortunately, I could no longer afford to run a viable business in transport. The rates are the same as in the 90’s but every expense has tripled. My last three months hauling grain I couldn’t even pay myself a dollar, I was just working for the bank. Mary insisting I “get out while I could” was the best thing to happen to us in years. All those long, wasted, unpaid hours of my life never to return. Then, months later, she saw her cancer return & we were very thankful a semi with a $3K+ monthly payment wasn’t sitting on the driveway.

I also knew that every extra mile I drove on the decaying state of our roads would increase the chance of my ticket being punched. Not a sacrifice my family was prepared to make. I was sick with stress every Sunday night before going to work. All so people could give me dirty looks, cut me off in the city & on the highway. It didn’t matter if I had dynamite, aviation fuel, crude oil, or apples in the trailers. The end result would be the same for them. 💥

Try and find a place to pull over and rest, eat, use a washroom in Saskatchewan. Especially a safe location with adequate room and not just a litter-ridden highway shoulder with a frozen porta potty. How many times did I stop just to see a “no trucks” sign, locked garbage bin, jugs of pee everywhere, and an out of service or locked bathroom.

Next is drivers being driven to financial ruin & physical distress with ridiculous fines and penalties. Many of those lie squarely on shitty trucking outfits & brokers that push people far beyond their limits. Shippers & receivers as well. But it all falls on drivers that are quickly thrown under the bus.

What’s the answer? I don’t know.

• make trucking a recognized trade
• keep diesel prices in check
• insurance costs will stop escalating if drivers actually qualify for what they’re operating without the resulting chaos
• a decent wage available for competent, experienced drivers

So many of my former colleagues are finding different avenues than driving to earn a living. Or getting out of the industry entirely. The average age of a trucker is 58. Would you venture out to do this thankless job? Encourage your kids to pursue this? It’s nearly $15K just to get a 1A now. Even if you love the idea of everything the road has in store for you, good & bad, would you do it today? Maybe give a little space, sprinkle some respect, and consider what a truck driver is currently dealing with on the road before branding us all as the source of domestic terror.

I think there’s a reckoning ahead."

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/01/24/the-average-age-of-a-trucker-is-58/

And that's just Canada. Similar in a few other places, too. Like that Colorado trucker that just got his sentence reduced by the governor because he burned out his brakes coming down out of the mountains, blew off TWO runaway ramps and killed 4 people.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I can't honestly say that the Western dolts are seeing war. This one is on Putin because the Western leaders are dolts.

So some of the NATO countries are moving troops and ships forward. Then what? As the samurai used to do, never unsheath the sword unless it is to draw blood.

In the meantime, the US and Japan just completed a 4 deck carrier exercise in the South China Sea. The Lincoln and the Vinson, a F-35B/Heli American carrier and one of the Japanese carriers. Combined with our presence on Okinawa that's a lot of power projected.

China responded with another flyby this morning.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

seeking, not seeing.

[Narciso]

we know the quality of western intelligence, see the steele dossier and the 'russian bounties' is not good, bellingthecat, provided the latter, and served as the frame in berlin,

[Melinda]

Anyone seen the Duke Brothers lately?

Beeks?

Anyone?

[Narciso]

he was the spokesman for evergrande

[Narciso]

so the reason why they are bungie jumping, rate hike speculation, or some other tripe,

[Narciso]

hmm

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/24/crossing-or-not-the-1-5-and-2-0c-thresholds/

[Melinda]

Fed hike for one. Margin calls under active Corzine Rule trading hours is probably the main reason.

[Narciso]

dow doesn't look so bad, looking back to october, nasdaq looks like a francis bacon painting,

[Davod]

Headline from Instapundit:

"Paula Bolyard: My ‘Free’ Covid Tests From the Government Arrived in Record Time… But There’s a Problem. “My tests sat in my mailbox all day in frigid temperatures—well below the required minimum 36°.” (Same here.)"

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Putin is a smart cunning adult thug playing a hand that is at once extremely strong because he has thousands of nuclear weapons and weak because his economy is weak and imbalanced and his population is declining.
He advances his nation's interests when faced with Western idiot children who are like grist for his mill and bides his time when faced with adults.
If he invades Ukraine now it will be for the same reason he did before; he's faced with people not fit to lick clean even Neville Chamberlains stable boots who brag about their soft diplomacy and send out ginger haired, freckle faced, imbecilic bints to intimidate him with hashtags.
Evelyn Waugh could get a lot of books out of the last 20 years of American history.
Any war that occurs is completely on the sublime fools in the US and Western Europe, none of whom have any business being within three parsecs of a lever of power. Putin is an archetype; a force of nature whose behavior is as predictable as the sunrise. The age old lion who goes about seeking whom he may devour. That's who he is and what he does and what his kind have always done.
We are supposed to be led by flawed but actual men who are not predictable archetypes or caricatures, but able to assess and defend our interests and keep in check the lions, not invite them into the parlor.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

To what purpose, again, are those tests being mailed out?

[Davod]

Ignatz. I don't know if the philosophy survived the Chechnya era generals, but tactical use of nuclear weapons was part of the normal war strategy. Who would stop them?

[Narciso]

dejavu,

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-forces-capable-of-being-nuclear-moving-to-crimea-nato-chief-says/

[Davod]

Bloody hell.

[Dave (in MA)]

Dow 33,538.85 -726.52 -2.12%

Minor incursion.

[Narciso]

there have been a number of staff officers, who have threatened nuclear committment over several types of provocation,

[Narciso]

is the average broker some adderall fueled chimp, leaving out jordan belforts crew,

[Narciso]

this was just a signifier,

https://twitter.com/GerryCallahan/status/1485633788948406272?cxt=HHwWgICzieqDhJ4pAAAA

[Old Lurker]

Putin knows that Biden learned about Red Lines from Obama.

Odds are that he and China both will expand their holdings while the grabbing is good.

The US cannot afford to play the military card because that will reveal the nakedness of our emperor when our woke girly forces go up against the bad guys. The uselessness of our vast spending on our military to get what we got right now, today, might be the last straw concerning our Uniparty Leaders. And of course, there is that "we are broke" thingy.

[Narciso]

I thought we had alread seen this film,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10434909/Julian-Assange-WINS-right-appeal-extradition-Supreme-Court.html

well milley vannili and that brigade commander at ft hood, will probably be purging,

[Jane]

MM,

That Levin interview was incredible. Watch the whole thing if you can. Completely opens the door into what has been going on is this country for years!

[Davod]

Part of an Ace quote

"...Karol Markowicz, : "We're just going to make leaving Americans in war zones an ongoing thing, huh. I remember, in my 20s, arguing with someone that one of the great benefits of being an American was that no matter what, and no matter where, my country was going to come get me. Whoops. . ."

[Narciso]

and to punctuate things further, the relevant figure at foggy bottom, is a charter member of the world economic forum,

[henry]

Iggy, assuming the Dems remain in power… failure to order Kung Flu tests will be equal to treason.

[Narciso]

spread the pox panic,

[Narciso]

but of course,

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1485671555883429888?cxt=HHwWgMCr1ZOalZ4pAAAA

[Neo]

The Trump administration's sanctions on Iran were working so well that the mullahs were unable to put together the money to pay Iran's United Nations dues. Then Joe Biden stepped in and paid the debt. The decision of the Biden administration to arrange for the payment of Iran's dues at the United Nations is being described to us as "a staggering act of appeasement."
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/a-staggering-act-of-appeasement/91963/

[Davod]

Re. The Dems Biden problem. They will let the Reps impeach him, and dethrone him, then use it as a campaign issue in 2024.

[Davod]

Twitter won't let me read anything unless I sign up.

[Narciso]

Youtube, throttling the truth about the great reset, I just drive through,

[Dave (in MA)]

You can browse to a specific Twitter link without being signed in, but you have to sign in to interact, or to browse from the top page.

[Narciso]

no follow through

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-ne-florida-man-pleads-guilty-threatening-rip-heads-congress-20220123-sfpe3ctqwjgi5hgslvj76qpd6m-story.html

[Dave (in MA)]

Sebastian Gorka DrG@SebGorka ·
Biden just went there.

He’s prepping more than 8,000 US troops to deploy Europe.

Remember when they said President Trump was the “warmonger?”

[Narciso]

where will they go to poland, bulgaria, romania?

[Davod]

Dave. No. I normal click on the Twitter links left here and I am able to read what is linked. Now, I am being asked to sign up or login.

[Davod]

8,000 troops to do what, paddle in the Black Sea?

Or maybe, prosletyzing about the efficacy of COVID vaccinations.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Russia v. Ukraine?

Putin proving he is the champion cherry-picker of International geo-politics.

[Davod]

Are we looking for a convenient radio station on the border?

Oh! And bodies missing from the morgue.

[Davod]

2021 Grand Prize Winner: Kathy McCulloch Wade
Short-eared Owl and Northern Harrier

https://cdn.birdwatchingdaily.com/2021/08/h-owl-and-harrier-wade.jpg

[matt - deplore me if you must]

8,000 troops could if he wanted be an entire wing of A-10's. That would put a hurtin' on Putin.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Reminds me of "Weekend at Bernies":)

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/dead-man-taken-to-post-office-to-collect-pension

Ireland, of course:)

[Narciso]

that was the subject in andrew marr's head of state,

[Narciso]

the most proximate incursion point, klimtsy was once Ukrainian territory, so it's like South Ossetia and Georgia,

[Davod]

After posting the photo of the birds, I looked up bird watching opportunities near here, and came across:

6. Huntley Meadows Park, Fairfax County, Virginia. Great. It's also wheelchair accessible according to this:

...Flat. Approximately two miles of wheelchair-accessible, gravel interpretive trails lead to a half-mile boardwalk, low-rise platform, and two-level observation tower overlooking wetlands..."

Have you ever, ever, tried wheeling on F.....g GRAVEL. The only thing worse is beautiful looking cobblestones.

[Davod]

Are beautiful looking cobblestones.