This Merry Warrior Monday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KMAG/KAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Yes, it’s Monday…again.
But it’s okay! It’s a Holiday!
You can go back to bed:
Or have a nap:
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With the Storm upon us…please remember to Pray for our President.
Wheatie’s Rules:
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition from A Shamaluev Music, titled ‘Beauty’:
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Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
Y’all
“Y’all” is a contraction of two words, that has been around longer than most people realize.
These days, we think of it as a contraction of the words ‘You’ and ‘All’.
But it dates back to a contraction of Ye and All, from the Old English that our Scots-Irish ancestors brought over with them.
Used in a sentence:
Ye all will perish if we listen to the lay-about fools who tell us that we should all share in the fruits of each others’ labours.
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Today is Presidents Day.
Presidents Day is celebrated on the 3rd Monday of February, and started out as a holiday for Washington’s Birthday on February 22nd, established in 1885.
Then, some states added a holiday for Lincoln’s Birthday on February 12th.
In 1968, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act was passed and went into effect in 1971, which combined the two birthday holidays.
There is some confusion, however, as to whether or not an apostrophe should be used after “Presidents”…because we see it both ways, and even before the ‘s’.
I don’t know which way is the proper way…but I don’t consider this guy to be in with the Presidents who are celebrated.
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Found this…and thought I would post it for our Wolfie:
And by the way…Happy Q Day!
Hahaha…obummer is lizard peeps. Explains a lot..including his willingness to eat dogs.
Right? Creepiest darned thing! (And wouldn’t surprise me a bit…….that boy ain’t right!)
Minimike is a winner of a meme title.
Gil!!! What?!!! LOL!!
Hehehe!
Hiya Wheatie!!!! Great post!!!!So Good to see you!!!! 😘💖💖
Hi Marica!
Thanks…and good to see you too!
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LOL.. Da Wolfie… on da bench!!!! Makes me giggle!!!!
Heheh.
Yeah, I found that and it immediately made me think of our Wolfie…who works so tirelessly for us.
LOL I should post a pic of my puppy sleeping! Nap time is nice
Yes you should!!!! I’d love to see your puppy!
Awww I’ll see if I can find a cute one of her sleeping! 🙂 trying to take a photo of an active puppy results in a lot of blurry photos. 🙂
How are. You doing Sylvia?
And Mrs. Wolfie!!! We are…Really blessed! I am not sure i would put up with us!!! LOL!!
Wheatie, one of those pics sucks. Guess which one.
The one of Obarky the lizard-man?
Heheh, yeah, sorry about that one.
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Hey pgroup…………….you may have already seen this. They aren’t going to be happy until we get to experience rolling blackouts, too…….
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/oregon-governor-calls-for-breaching-4-snake-river-dams-washingtons-gop-house-members-outraged/
Well, they don’t have enough spine to authorize their destruction before the election. Fortunately, we have an EPA (never thought I’d say THAT).
BTW, Eymann is trying to screw up the gov race. Wife and I are all in for Culp, who seems to have managed to convince Ted Nugent to help his campaign. Gov BlameClimate approval rating is down to 41% so he is over-ripe fruit waiting to fall from the branch.
Wife went to a candidate kickoff yesterday and was greeted with “P-E-G-G-Y!!! The legendary Peggy!” due to her reputation as a grassroots mover & shaker. She is assisting TWO congressional challengers campaigns this year so I’m going to have to put her pic on my desk lest I forget what she looks like.
She thinks that two or three DJT rallies in WA state will flip it red. Can’t say she doesn’t think optimistically.
God bless your wife!!!!
I was taught President’s Day (if it’s one president) or Presidents’ day (if it’s multiple presidents) is sort of a fusion of Lincoln’s birthday (the 12th) and Washington’s (the 22nd) though like many things elementary school teachers tell us, it could be Fake News.
It has been ‘expanded’ over the years, to honor all presidents.
So in that regard, using no apostrophe at all works as a celebration of all Presidents.
I guess it depends on whether you think of the Day as belonging to the Presidents. If so you need the apostrophe after the S, if not…no apostrophe. But “President’s” is just wrong even if “Presidents’ ” looks funny.
Setting the precedence of the precedents of Presidents’s day precedences…
(Ducks and puns)…
“to honor all presidents”
But that’s not fair–Obama has his own day–November 10th.
it’s National Jackass Day
… snicker .. 😬👍‼️ ..
https://twitter.com/GeorgWebb/status/1228330018998226945?s=20
TruthLeaks – Investigative Journalist George Webb
@GeorgWebb
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Feb 14
Yesterday, I was a conspiracy theorist that Mayor Peter Was Navy Intel (I have been saying this for months). Today, everyone knew that all along. Follows a pattern doesn’t it?
Stephen Miller got married!
Congratulations, Stephen!
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Text from Reince Priebus:
Spectacular and very special wedding tonight with new bride and groom Stephen and Katie Miller! So much fun and still going with @realDonaldTrump having fun and the band is going strong!
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From CitizenFreePress:
Trump attends wedding of Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman
President Donald Trump attended the wedding of senior adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday evening, according to the White House. Upon returning from a weekend in Florida, the president’s motorcade made the trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to Trump International Hotel, where Miller wed Katie Waldman, press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence.
Stephen Miller, 34, has been a senior policy adviser to Trump since the beginning of the administration.
Katie Miller, 28, was spokeswoman for the Homeland Security Department during the tenure of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen before becoming a press secretary to Pence and special assistant to Trump.
The couple did not meet in-person until 2018 when introduced by mutual friends.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/stephen-miller-got-married-tonight-photos/
Pretty bride, beautiful gown! I hope they are very happy together!
wonder if he wrote his own vows–giggle–
*laughing*
Only you, Pat…………….
just saying…I bet they were awesome!!
I bet they were, too. I hope “the best is yet to come” for them!
i can’t wait to hear what he comes up with for POTUS’s second inaugural speech!!!
The balding young un’ gets the girl. Sounds like a movie script. 🙂
The Brainy guy with the silver tongue (or is it pen) gets the beautiful girl.
EAT YOUR HEART OUT Mini – Mike!
Wheatie, fun opening post! I love your choice of gifs!!!!
Thanks, Syl!
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I’m so glad you like them!
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Life, Liberty, and Levin was very interesting tonight. Mark’s guest was an economic historian from Hillsdale College, Dr. Burton Folsom. He has written a book about FDR, New Deal or Raw Deal? Very enlightening. The things FDR got up to! And got away with! Playbook for Obummer to use.
Particularly interesting was the way he set the WPA up yes for jobs, but the jobs were created in precincts, counties, states that FDR wanted to flip from Republican to Dim. They were political patronage jobs. To get one, in most cases you had to be a Dim. They used a lot of the workers to campaign in the month of October before elections, and they laid workers off in most cases AFTER the elections. And of course tax dollars were used to pay for these jobs.
Japanese internment camps were created against the advice of the military and FBI who said the Japanese weren’t a threat, but FDR wanted them to woo support/win House seats in California and other Western states where there was a lot of prejudice against the Japanese.
Only a couple of points, lots and lots more. FDR really built the modern Deep State. Sickening.
Oops………..book title above is FDR Goes to War. I gave the wrong title, sorry……
Andrew McCarthy gets down in the weeds (remember he was with the DOJ for years) as to why he thinks the DOJ did not charge McCabe. It is interesting if a little dispiriting.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/why-wasnt-andrew-mccabe-charged/
I’ve read and reread 4 times. THIS is a must read.
Oh, I’m glad you saw it daughn. Was going to post it on one of your work group threads about DOJ because I thought it might be helpful…….but I fell asleep instead. Now you can share it if it’s pertinent.
I read it a couple times, myself. It’s dense and lawyerly (so many WORDS) but it explains from an insider’s perspective what may well be going on.
You’re right.
Hehe, probably why I had to reread it so many times.
Also, I was looking for what was NOT said. Too many years with BigT taught me that trick which lawyers use so often.
I found it to be BULL SCHIFF.
Since when did a prosecutor toss a case, WHERE THE PERP. CONFESSED (McCabe), just because he has a hostile witness (Lisa Page)
I wrote it up on Wolfie’s new work thread.
J. Christian Adams, former DOJ employee, writes about Jessie Liu and PDJT’s actions:
‘This was the week that President Trump really started to drain the swamp. It came when he yanked the nomination of Jessie Liu to a Treasury Department post. The decision was all Trump’s and occurred after Trump learned details about what was going on when she was United States Attorney for the District of Columbia…….’
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/president-trump-starts-to-drain-the-swamp-yanks-liu/
THIS is a must read. VSGPDJT is just getting started with DoJ. As all of this comes to the surface, the normies are getting red pilled, hopefully.
I thinkk so, too…..
The included picture of Liu with “Stop Gun Violence” printed in green on the palm of her hand says a lot.
She made her own meme without realizing it.
Doesn’t it, though?
Thank you for the article Sylvia
..money quote : “President Trump got his sea-legs this week”
It occurred to me over the weekend, with the removal of Liu’s nomination our VSG had fired a warning shot to all future judges with similar aspirations …You WILL be held accountable, or NO career promotion.
EARN IT !!
He refused to indorse promote and ( REWARD ) a sitting judge who had recently run up a track record of going along with an equally abusive ,corrupt run-away DOJ prosecutorial team.
A key quality of great business leadership , is ;selecting’ the best person from the field for the position.
Liu’s recent record left a lot of un-answered questions , raised red flags .Thus , She disqualified herself.
VeryTrumpian
Great points, Chris, thanks!
A must read if you wonder how the idiot AOC went from barmaid to Congress critter in mere months. There’s a plan. The devil always has a plan……..
When Communists Can’t Get Through The Door
I’ve been watching Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) since she became the youngest congresswoman in Congress. Something seemed out of focus. Something was not right. My curiosity was spawned. The following will seem outrageous, but read on.
AOC was hired to play the part of a socialist congresswoman from Brooklyn
AOC was the first assault by a group so nefarious, so iniquitous, that they don’t even hide their intentions. They readily admit to their activities. The organization is within the Democrat Party and they are called Justice Democrats, initiated in 2017.
In that same year, the group called for auditions, people they can interview and be put up as candidates for political offices around the country. They were looking for people who were malleable, ignorant of politics, that they could bend in any shape they needed in predominantly low turnout, liberal districts.
They got 10,000……….
https://canadafreepress.com/article/when-communists-cant-get-through-the-door
Yep…AOC auditioned for the part with that Young Turks guy, Cenk Uygur, who is a socialist.
Yes, the article goes into all of that, and all about Cenk Uygur. I think he is a commie not a socialist.
Communist…socialist.
Most commies masquerade as socialists.
They lure people in by making socialism sound good…but their goal is communism!
Yep. Sure enough!!!
Cent Uygur is a despicable human being. I’ve seen the clip of him from election night, 2016, he was in a rage.
It’s his type who fill the ranks of Antifa.
This article was really something, I thought. It filled in some gaps in my understanding and confirmed things I had suspected. Horrifying, really.
Another must read.
Grrr…Bloomberg is calling Pres Trump a “bully”.
😠😡
Our President is not a bully! He STANDS UP To bullies!
https://twitter.com/ChristinePolon1/status/1229292575762202624?s=20
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Text of tweet from Lady War Anon:
You lie. You pay people to like you. You put down farmers, machinists, and people who actually work for a living. You made billiond through dishonest China trade deals, & theft. You don’t care about “our” kids, especially black American kids. You’re right. Our kids ARE watching.
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Mini Mike is the one who is a bully!
He’s a control freak who tries to push people around and tell them what to drink, what to eat and what to think.
Interesting piece about what has been going on in Germany. It is very Soviet-like, politically, which is unfortunate because we could really use Germany as an ally. But the way it is currently, it’s not.
“This is Germany today — a deeply divided, confused, and frightened country, governed by a small group of career politicians who are prepared, for a variety of motives, to employ any methods necessary, including anti-democratic, extra-constitutional, and illegal means, to utterly suppress the only organized political resistance to its immigration policies, which a large percentage of Germans believe will to destroy German civilization.
I leave the readers with a critical, and current, example of how far Merkel’s budding tyranny has gone in employing means contrary to the German constitution, the rule of law, and parliamentary democracy in its efforts to destroy dissent and the AFD…..”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/angela_merkel_and_the_destruction_of_german_democracy.html
Appointing Richard Grennel as our ambassador to Germany, was a genius move by our VSG.
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1229164331738312706?s=20
Text of Richard Grenell’s tweet:
@realDonaldTrump just called me from AF1 and instructed me to make clear that any nation who chooses to use an untrustworthy 5G vendor will jeopardize our ability to share Intelligence and information at the highest level.
I think so, too. He’s doing an amazing job. I knew things were bad in Germany, but I didn’t realize it was quite as bad as it is per the author of that AT piece. SMH. Grennel is loyal and effective. I wish we had many more like him throughout the government.
Night, Wheatie……….Dream time for me! 🥱😴🛌👋
G’night, Syl…and sweet dreams!
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And BTW, that is like the third tweet of Grennel’s I have read this weekend that was GREAT!!!!!
Yep…I saw this one earlier and it made me want to give him a hug.
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1229185589297197056?s=20
I know what you mean!
Sweet Wheatie
Germany is lost. Their culture will have to live on elsewhere. Its citizenry have lost heart.
I’m afraid you’re right…………..what a waste. We reunified them for this?????
The USA did NOT reunite Germany. The “occupation” ended in 1955. After that, Germany pretty much has led (for better or worse) its own affairs.
Unfortunately, the deep state over here (Satan Soros, et. al.) leaned VERY HARD on Helmut Kohl to push the reunification, ostensibly to make the East more like the west, BUT, in fact, to make the West more like the East. Merde-Kuh is nithing if not an “Ossie”, i.e. an East German Communist, or to be blunt, a NAZI with a new coat of paint (much like “Die Linke” is described, as the followon to the SED).
We have had the “Solidaritätszuschlag” (basically a tax on our already excessive taxes) to fund rebuilding the former East Germany, to the point that their Internet access is often FTTD (glass fiber to the door), which we’re bumbling along on 70+ year-old copper pairs, with software-pimped performance in hopes of approaching even the most primitive of our European neighbors’ throughput. BAH!
Forgive my sloppy inaccurate shorthand, Cuppa. I didn’t literally mean the USA had reunited Germany. I was actually thinking about winning the Cold War and calling for the Wall to come down. What followed was Germany’s business, of course.
Thanks for the further info.
Wow I’m going to give this to mom to read. She’s going to be shocked! So glad they stayed (legally) in the USA all those years ago. Germany from one extreme to another
The comments on that article are interesting, but most of the commenters don’t understand that the Kanzler/in is NOT and elected post (by the people) but rather is a SELECTED post, usually decided by underhanded backroom dealing in dank, dark, smoke-filled rooms,by crooked globalists and banksters [but I repeat myself].
There is a good comment by a German transplant (I think to Texas, based on the handle: good move, wish we could do the same…sigh):
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wolftxusa 18h
I was born in Germany and lived there until I was 27. Why am I not surprised about this article? Even back then, Germany has always adopted what the US did, typically with a 3-4 year lag. I was not too happy about adding 1/3 to the existing population (from the East), fearing they’d all lean left with their socialist upbringing. Combine the reunification with copying the US and you have virtually the same situation over there: A heavy leftist slant. I remember that CDU and SPD were fairly balanced before. We’ve had chancellors from either party, and sometimes they needed a coalition with the FDP or the Greens. However, I could not have foreseen Merkel’s takeover of the conservative party.
Germany is a glaring example why “diversity” doesn’t work. Some Germans feel like foreigners in their own country, and when bad things happen by those imports, the threat of being called a Nazi or Islamophobe mutes objective voices that point out the problem. To be fair, we also had issues with Polish and Russian people (their mafia) and with Turks and Greeks (bringing their fight to our turf). But bringing in massive numbers of Middle Easterners while neglecting native citizens is just a bad idea. It is backwards to even discuss whether Caucasian female German teachers should wear burkas to appease Muslims. They had a choice to come here, we didn’t have a choice to let them in. At a minimum, they should abide by our laws and customs.
If the US does not pay attention to Germany’s development, we will see the same here. Why don’t Muslims go to countries that are already Muslim? I bet there’s a method behind that madness. They will convert Western countries to Muslim-friendly countries and eventually destroy any tradition that does not sit well with their beliefs. If you are upset about “cultural appropriation” accusations and the Left’s hostility towards ICE, you just see the tip of the iceberg. Soon there will be no country for the Germans, French, English and American. Look at how many countries are left for them – they are all under cultural attack, and soon you cannot practice your traditions and follow your beliefs because they are deemed “hostile”, “supremacist” or “non-inclusive”. The more we accept the Left’s language, the more readily they can push the original citizens out – with nowhere to go. And I don’t mean that in a racist way. I bet 50 years from now, you won’t find any customs that made a Western country what it used to be. I don’t mind the people coming in – I mind those who don’t assimilate and eventually protest the core of the country. Just look at Ilhan Omar and her ilk.
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Excellent article, especially the explanation of the debacle in Thuringen. His choice of alternative news sources (rather thin on the ground and the net over here), led by http://www.jungefreiheit.de, parallels what we read. The YSM/MCM is basically controlled by Merde-Kuh’s “Göbbels v2.0”, along with the ARD (channel one, if you will) and ZDF (two) TV/Radio networks, which, yes, we are forced to support. Unless one is both blind and deaf, alone in a household!
As I’ve noted before, Merde-Kuh pushed the CDU far, far to the left (as she’s actually a Green, indeed a Watermelon, green on the outside and RED in the middle), with its sister party, the CSU, dragged along for the ride. The CSU used to be a national party, but due to some (more) dirty dealing by Helmut Kohl at the behest of the deep state, reduced its scope to Bayern (Bavaria) alone. They were to the right of the CDU, a barren spot of political vacuum which the AfD now (thank GOD) fills. The AfD (Alternativ für Deutschland), though characterized by the left (i.e. Die Linke, the Greens, the SPD, and an astonishing number of CDU’lers) as “Right-Wing Radicals” is actually occupying the place on the political spectrum held by the CDU, until Merde-Kuh. As with the DEMONicRATS, anything to the right of Stalin is considered Right-Wing Radical, or, worse, spoken of as NAZI, a bitter irony considering that National Socialism is, by definition, LEFT.
But facts and history matter not to the left.
I think the article is a tad over-the-top, but it explains quite clearly the pickle we’re in here, no mean feat for someone who isn’t actually living and working here. Would that the YSM/MCM journos (urnos?) on the German dailies had such insight into American politics, as opposed to echoing the jaundiced sentiments of the Washed Poo, the NY Slimes, and the Washed-up Journal…
Merde-Kuh fancies herself as The Great Dictator(ess) 2.0. But the only thing she really is is a ‘tater, a human potato, and a criminal (the pun being “tater” means perp)… She has instituted a scorched-earth policy of eliminating all her competition, both inside and out of the CDU. Having pushed von der Leyen “up” (Peter Principle) to the EC (European Comission), AKK (Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer) out, and purging folks far and wide, e.g. the fellow in Thuringen AND a CDU functionary who congratulated the FDP fellow on his win(!), Mrs. Potatohead continues to lay waste to the political landscape here.
BUT, the people, and even the YSM/MCM have noticed. A few articles today are saying that Merkel should leave before her term ends (in late 2021). The problem is, the only one left with Kanzler/in potential is the current leader of the Green party, Robert Habeck, who would institute the “Green Bad Deal”, and kill Germany.
So, we’re experiencing the Øbozo years, and probably a few of what Hell-the-BEAST would have done.
Here’s hoping and praying that the AfD can keep growing to the point that the CDU is forced to work with them. Thuringen was a test, that, sadly, failed.
A couple of points not noted in the article were that the left (banksters, etc.) are trying to strangle the AfD financially; Antifa are not only supported by the rats in government, but are actually FUNDED by the SPD (socialists); and the Black/Green coalition (CDU/Green) in Baden-Wuerttemberg (the ü didn’t show up in the article) is led by a very conservative Green (for the Greens), Winfried Kretschmann, who is sometimes to the right of Merkel. We have another conservative Green in the old University City of Tübingen, Boris (yes we have one, too) Palmer, who makes a lot of sense, and irritates the daylights out of the snowflakes here. Too bad he’s a Green, but then again, some of his policies are liberal…
My wife and son are constantly working on red-pilling most everyone they interact with, sometimes with good results, other times only getting shocked responses (like this morning when my wife said that child-trafficking and the like are not only ignored, but often ENCOURAGED by politicians and those in “high places”. Boy howdy did that ruffle some feathers… The “Generation Z” folks my son runs into tend to be more conservative, or at least open-minded about discussing and/or accepting conservative viewpoints. So there IS hope, even if it’s going to take a while.
That tweet from Richard Grenell set off a tweet storm.
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1229177869823246336?s=20
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1229179974281764866?s=20
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1229166947197181952?s=20
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1229166741399449600?s=20
Slovakia has got the right idea!
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Text of tweet from Amy Mek:
Did you know…
Islam is not recognized as a religion in Christian Slovakia nor is it allowed to be taught in school. Islamic marriages are not legal in Slovakia. No mosques or Islamic centers are allowed
Slovakia refused to submit to the EU-mandated migrant quotas & Soros-NGOs
ALL of Islam and its adherents should be removed from civilized countries and sent back to Saudi Arabia.
KSA probably wouldn’t want them back.
And they’re not all from there.
I would like to see “Jihad” declared unlawful and designated as “terrorist activity”, though.
Any ‘religion’ that advocates “death to the non-believer”…is not a real religion.
It is a death cult.
Islam is a bloody nuisance on the face of the earth – always has been – always will be.
Islam is the religious version of communism.
Similar control-freak ideology, for sure.
Islam is all-encompassing. Not the same as other religions.
Yes – and it’s amazing how fast Islam adhered with Nazism – like Siamese Twins – same hate, same murderous barbaric ideas and actions.
Communism, Nazism and Islamism condition all their adherents into sociopaths and psychopaths.
NYGuy – I wanted to let you know the thread on Corona Virus has interesting information (on the last page or most current) about the college in Buffalo (I am in Canastota) potentially have students that may have tested positive who returned from China over the holiday. I thought you would be interested.
Wow, Wheatie, great find!
What’s the deal with pork?
Entire religions forbid eating it. Ancient cultures had taboos against it. Meanwhile, pork is the national food of China, and bacon demand increased vastly increased under the Obama Administration (spoiler alert: The pigs are the literal Communists in “Animal Farm.”). It all leads me to believe those ancient restrictions were probably there for a reason, although I don’t have any logicial explanation why beyond seeing correlation between corruption and pork consumption.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_consumption_of_pork
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_mania
Always thought it was because of this…
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichinellosis/gen_info/faqs.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis
But if that’s the case you’d think there would be the same laws against eating chicken in regards to salmonella
Or maybe its just because some people thought…..
try again….
heh, Pulp Fiction quote “Pig is a filthy animal”….wasn’t that funny anyways 😉
This is explained in Leviticus 11:1-8:
and cancelled (for Christians) in Acts 11:5-10
Restrictions on pork were about a health concern. They’ll eat anything.
Modern pork which is farm raised, there is not much of a worry.
That being said, personally, while I love bacon, better cuts of pork are just too rich for me.
Correct it is a health issue. We share too many disease with pigs. Humans and Pigs are similar enough that they would be great medical test subjects except they have that ear piercing scream if they even THINK you are going to hurt them.
The pig: a model for human infectious diseases
The Japanese are considering using them
Diseases from pigs And that is ONLY diseases from handling pet pigs!
Be that as it may, prior to modern discoveries, Muhammad followed the lead of the Hebrews and eliminated all carrion eaters from the muslim diet. Anything that ate trash and feces just was not considered to be healthy.
Just read a short biography of Mohammad last night and he decreed no pork, and no wine of his followers and the 5x a day ritual (interestingly. In this version was not referred to as prayers.) The pork I can see because of worms and disease (same as Jewish religion, as I understand). The wine is pretty interesting and did not read any compelling reasons.
There are far more educated posters on this topic than me…I just quickly read through it.
Wonder if Obama eats pork? 😉
Are Dogs “pork”?
It’s anything that’s a carion eater, actually. Shellfish, birds of prey. They’re on the forbidden list as well.
Or the dislike of dogs!
Hydatids. A very nasty disease carried by pigs. Also in the Middle East the good ground was farmland and bodies were buried in cairns (under rocks) or in caves. Pigs used to break these open and eat remains
Quiet day???
So far
since you asked…can you please explain to me what I’ve missed here…
why is no one going (as) nuclear about the military refusing to investigate Vindman? everyone was freaking out over McCabe (which I thought would be a 50/50) but nothing about Vindman.
I thought the one area that things were pretty cut and dry was the military and Vindman’s insubordination. wth???
Well, Pat, many of us are. I’ve talked about Vindman several times.
I’m just guessing, but I think people are talking more about McCabe is because it was further along in the process and we had all the info for the leak and lies since spring of 2018. It was an open an shut case.
Whereas Vindman would still take the phase of accumulating evidence, etc.
there was always a possibility of McCabe flipping in my mind–but Vindman was the open and shut one to me. He admitted he told Ukraine officials to ignore the President’s wishes–he leaked and discussed classified conversations with others–why wouldn’t the military investigate him?
^^^ Bingo.
do you remember, not long ago, and I don’t remember all the details–but some military men (Army?) wore patches on their uniforms for when POTUS came and they were investigated and punished (IIRC)? that was swift and decisive.
but they won’t even LOOK into this?
Vindictive.
Not to surprising, the Army has decided to not pursue Vindictive testimony. Dunno if a case is there, on the testimony.
– Now, please, hold the darts. I’ll sit still for incoming later.
What I didn’t hear was anything about Vindictive intentionally working against the US, against President Trump’s policies while in the NSC. While Vindictive was in Ukraine.
^^^ his is where the Army could easily pursue a case against Vindictive. Probably a slam dunk case.
There is a very sliver of hope the Army will pursue this.
Over my time here at the QTree I have pointed out a number of times, “military justice is anything but justice.”
Military justice IS ALL POLITICAL. IMHO. Simple as that.
Easy bet to win is, Army is afraid pursuing Vindictive will create a huge backlash from D-Rats and MCM. Really that simple. Nothing to do with justice. Fucking politics. Simple as that.
Esper should step in quietly and direct a serious look. Dunno if he will.
– Esper, a United States Military Academy – West Point graduate KNOWS Vindictive should be charged under UCMJ.
As an aside, IIRC, one of Ms. Lindsey’s claims to fame is military lawyer. Navy I think. UCMJ fits all Services. IF so, Ms Lindsey should be discreetly, but very, very pointedly raising hell with the Army and Esper.
Pat, I’m guilty of only reading headlines on this………………so I’m NO EXPERT. But my understanding was the Pentagon said they weren’t going to investigate him, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t be investigated or disciplined within his normal chain of command. I swear I read something like that………..but I don’t recall where and no idea if it’s true…………because yeah that little sh!t should be investigated, court martialed, and tossed in a deep dark hole.
agreed…
i thought I read he was being shoveled off to some cushy military college assignment…where they said admittedly it’s not where you go to be promoted but still–it’s not prison either.
IIRC, it was reported that he would be attending military college, the Army one in PA. Attending is a lot different than being assigned. I wondered if he was going to take a “refresher” course.
wonder if he will be hazed as a newbie often can be?
What was done to one nasty apple when my ex was in the Army, was to send him to the FRONT LINES in Vietnam. He came back in a body bag a short time later.
No court martial just rough justice.
i read there were plenty of calls by fellow military personnel to investigate even court martial him…maybe he will receive justice in one way or another…
Hey wheatie!
Hey, TIM!
Thanks for the coffee!
😀☕🥰
Hmm…
An EU Empire?
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Text:
Farage reminds us of what we’ve just escaped
“Plans now for a European army, an expansionist United States of Europe, indeed an empire called Europe, are much clearer now than they were in 2016
“There’s no pretending in Brussels about what this is”
The UK wants no part of this.
everybody wants to be US…lol
PERFECT! Another reason to get the hell out of NATO.
More Lefty unintentional self parody courtesy of the Seattle City Council
https://youtu.be/30C84DQKSh4?list=TLPQMTcwMjIwMjBNfMxYoLleng
hmmmm…..guess I forgot how to copy a url or did WordPress outlaw youtube posts?
Are you using the ’embed code’ for the videos?
Some Youtubers apparently click a box that allows/doesn’t allow their videos to play on other sites.
So that could be going on here.
To get the ’embed code’…I do a right-click on the video itself, then choose ’embed code’ from that menu.
It will automatically store in your browser to paste here, or anywhere.
Thanks! I think I right clicked for the code on the ones I posted today, sometime I just copy the url
Okay, I tested the embed code below…and the same thing happened.
These vids you’ve posted must have that setting that doesn’t allow playback on other sites.
Going to test something:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries&w=640&h=360%5D
Verse of the Day
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“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:”
Romans 5:1 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!
Monday Multiple Butterfly Blessing
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Children
Jesus Loves You – Come to Him
Good Monday Morning Duchess!
Hey, Pat! Hope and pray you had a Happy Birthday and God Blessed You Real Good!
Have a Blessed Day!
lol…the birthday curse struck again…
ever since i was little, birthday plans got ruined–snow, ice, etc–parties canceled all the time. this yr hubby took off a Friday 2 weeks ago and we had plans–we got a foot of snow…–yesterday? found out my son has the flu, granddaughter broke ANOTHER finger, and I had the worst sinus headache ever…I am officially changing my birthday to JUNE I think…LOL
Oh, Lord! What a mess! Think of it this way – you got all of the ‘bad’ out of the way – now –
GET READY TO BE BLESSED!!! Mkay?
ok…but you know patience is not my strong suit…better get me distracted…LOL
I know – yes – just something you need to work out with God – could tell you a whopper of a story about Patience – just remember to be careful for what you pray – but, God is Good – He wants what is best for you – and – in His wisdom – He knows – Trials work Patience – so there is still Hope.
You are great at distracting us from the daily woes – so you know what to do! Funny is as funny does – so try to see the humor in all of this – laughter is healthy!
laughter IS healthy and it burns calories!
win/win!!
* Smiling Broadly *
Oh no…sorry to hear that, Pat.
😬😕
It could be worse, though.
Try having a birthday close to Christmas.
Then you get one present instead of two…and they call it a “Birthday-Christmas” present.
😄😝
well…BH (before hubby) boyfriends would combine Valentine’s and my birthday. hubby does not…
Oh dear.
Yeah, that would suck.
And my hubby doesn’t do the combo thing either.
Sounds like you’ve got a keeper!
😊👍
yes he is–I am blessed right there!
well if I missed your birthday way back in December (?) I want to wish you a Happy Birthday now too!
Thanks!
Is okay…I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned when it is before.
😏😎
well, sorry I missed it…
Aww…thank you!
That’s so sweet!
LOL…maybe THIS one would have been more appropriate!
I didn’t realize you were a fellow Christmastime baby…….
Yep!!!!!! And birthday presents are wrapped in Christmas paper. And forget about a party………………………
Happy belated birthday, Pat!
thank you!
For those following this case, they have finally set a court date for the Cardinal.
I hope he gets a fair trial.
If you love Italy this will break your heart.
https://twitter.com/gemmaod1/status/1229155861551099909
so sad
Love the new avatar, Pat!
😄🥰👍
And I hope you had very Happy Birthday!
😀🥳🎂🎉🎁
thanks…she’s from one of the memes I posted yesterday…reminds me of Rosie the Riveter…
IN NAPOLI?????????????
Nooooooooo
Great and apt comment on that:
We see it here all the time. Not so much the tents, etc., on the street, but the violent behaviour and ignorance of the local laws and mores, along with the desire to CONTROL. They think WE owe everything to THEM, even though they are guests… They shouldn’t be here at all; there’s no war in their home lands, and if they made their homes into $#!+holes, there’s no reason they should be allowed to make Germany and Europe into a $#!+hole too!!!
Smile Time😁
From 1997…..here ya go….
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Text of tweet from Catturd:
Happy President’s day to the greatest President in U.S. history – Donald J. Trump.
Some of the replies are great:
https://twitter.com/Intuition412/status/1229382951525396481?s=20
what a 2-faced POS
FTA
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may is completely two-faced. She may condemn large companies like Amazon and Facebook when in public, but what she recently did with her husband regarding the two companies is raising a lot of eyebrows.
Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi, who is a venture capitalist purchased, $4.8 million of Amazon shares. But what’s even crazier is that when he made the purchase he exercised his options he held in Amazon and bought each share for under $300 than what the stock was trading for that day.
That’s not all though. Pelosi also purchased 5,000 shares of Facebook for $720,000 and he already held $500,000 to $1 million previously. 3,000 of those stocks were also purchased at a discounted rate below what the stock was trading at.
On the same day Paul Pelosi made the purchases, Senator Pelosi criticized Facebook for “schmoozing” with the Trump administration. “I think that they have been very abusive of the great opportunity that technology has given them,” she said in a press conference, adding, “My thought about them is that all they want is their tax cuts and no antitrust action against them.”
“They intend to be accomplices for misleading the American people with money from god knows where,” she said.
They literally just want full control and all the money they can get. This demonstrates the hypocrisy of Democrats.
https://thinkamericana.com/pelosis-recent-financial-disclosures-have-many-people-livid/
If the DEMONicRATS didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all…
true!
Gee, I think some of their stuff is good. Guess a person can’t trust anybody these days.
https://twitter.com/Ian56789/status/1229383979540897792
This guy Ian is right about the BBC.
Some of their stuff is fluff…but most of it is laced with propaganda.
Propaganda that is Pro-Left, Pro-Govt, Pro-EU, Pro-Globalism.
Yeah, I agree on the BBC.
A Song for Pat and Everyone – to lift your spirits
#VanMorrison #WheneverGodShinesHisLight #Vevo
Van Morrison – Whenever God Shines His Light
“If you show up with cancer and you’re 95 yrs old, we should say ‘There’s no cure, we can’t do anything.'”
– Mike Bloomberg
What if you’re 86 yrs old, you’ve been treated for colorectal cancer, cancerous lung growths and pancreatic cancer?
And your name is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Biden speaking at an infrastructure conference in Nevada…
He’s stuttering and rambling and not making sense.
Some people in the audience are giving him the side-eye and laughing at him.
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Text:
Say It ain’t so Joe ..audience caught laughing at him not with him
Biden speaking at an infrastructure conference in Nevada …rambling on about high speed rails ..Time to tap out Joe
whoa…getting worse…
Why would his wife allow him to be made a fool of unless it’s all about $$$$. (And, it appears they have plenty…unless they think it might be taken away)
who knows why the left does anything anymore…
To save her son. As long as he’s running, he can claim any investigation of Hunter and Burisma is politically motivated.
Except nothing is going to save him, nor the Biden family. joe’s brother, James, place was evidently raided today…not much info about it.
I don’t think Hunter is her biological son…one would think the husband would come first…but that’s just me. Of course, she does refer to Hunter as a “child”…yeah, a 50 year old child.
Ooooh, a raid sounds promising, though.
… stick a
in him … he’s D O N E …
To paraphrase Yogi Berra, when you come to a fork in the lake, take it 🙂
LOL … 😜👍 .. ❤️ ..
reading a Red State article and they provided this link to a 2019 AP story detailing some of the complicated incestuous web of DC…
https://apnews.com/d416ed685d38afacb01eaa1998ca02b3
here’s the Red State article–it depicts the numerous examples of the left getting off scott-free while the right suffers. (so be warned: it’ll piss you off), and gives a detailed “plan” to decentralize power in DC.–which is needed imp. how can you seat grand juries in a corrupt environment like that and expect anything but corrupt outcomes? GIGO
FTA
DoJ’s non-prosecution of former deputy FBI director and serial liar Andrew McCabe is just the latest symptom of a much, much bigger problem: Washington DC is now an existential threat to the American Republic. Centralization of unbridled power in DC has become a cancer of corruption that is eating the heart out of the US Constitution. Let’s examine that premise, starting with some symptoms of the disease, and then detail some solutions that will address the “McCabe problem.”
https://www.redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2020/02/16/solving-the-mccabe-problem/
OT……….. totally…………..
G’mornin’ Pat… belated Happy Birthday. And I love your new avatar!
thank you! on both accounts!
Prepare for the Cornovirus numbers in the United States to double today. (currently 15 but expect it to go up to 29)
Situation Japan. Apparently Japan feels overwhelmed with their current case load of virus victims and have made arrangements for passengers to return to their country of origin.
Situation U.S. 438 Passengers aboard the Diamond Princess have been identified to travel to the United States. 300 of those passengers have arrived in the United States early this morning, coming in on two separate planes one to Texas and the other to California. 14 of those passengers test positive for the virus and were flown in within a quarantined section of the aircraft. No report given to which place they were landing however a plane landing at Kelly Air base (formally an AFB which is adjacent to Lackland, AFB and is used primarily by BOEING for service) was met by a ground crew in full protective gear. All passengers will now go though a separate quarantine process despite nearing the finish of their previous quarantine process in Japan and the infected passengers will move straight to a hospital for care.
There is a local radio report of which hospital they are going to however I did not catch the name though it sounds different than the one holding the one infected patient already in a San Antonio hospital.
Point of interest. The MSM has been fairly quiet about the epidemic over the weekend but now that their back to work expect news stories to amp up again.
how do you quarantine a “section” of a plane? doesn’t everyone breathe everyone else’s recycled air?
Yep.
That’s probably why they’re putting ALL the passengers into quarantine…which is good!
We’d have to ask a flight engineer about that one, but yes, I’d have the same question as I’d assume you’d have to get into the internal panels that service air to separate the air lines of the passenger cabin. I would be surprised if that was actually done, though if the air is in separate location throughout the cabin I imagine it could be calculated on where to put the separation. Likely the separate section is a partial solution to the problem and thus the new 14 day quarantine period.
Apparently some of the passengers were upset with this arrangement since they were nearing their original 14 day quarantine period.
Couldn’t they have used one of those “inflatable” rooms with it’s own oxygen source?
I have no idea how sophisticated the preparation and set-up for this evacuation was, but they may have been prepared for the eventuality. Were the planes regular passenger planes, or different?
dunno…just curious…if they have that capability why don’t they quarantine the pain in the ass passengers normally…just kidding
I’m flying this morning, and I couldn’t agree more! Especially misbehaving kids!
and people flying with support birds/monkeys/octopi/etc…
stay alert and stay safe!!!
Will do, thanks!