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Corey Booker Throws In The Towel
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Even if you don't have a gun rack in your truck, it's useful to have a truck gun
[Anchorage Daily News] "Too bad we don’t have a rifle," the driver sitting across from my open window announced as a coyote came out of a brush line a couple of hundred yards away. We had met and stopped along a back road outside of town that I frequented during lunch breaks, preferring the drive out to see what was up in the country to sitting in a restaurant.

"I have a rifle," I said, "but I’m not going to shoot that coyote."

I was dressed in a suit and tie for a court appearance in the afternoon, and showing up stinking of coyote and smeared with blood would not be a good choice.

"You have a rifle," my friend asked.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2020 10:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Me wantum gun truck
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#2  a coyote came out of a brush line


Been there. 80 yds road to ridge.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/13/2020 12:06 Comments || Top||

#3  If they are a threat, one usually doesn't have to shoot varmints too far away. A good pistol might do the trick and is more concealable; not as likely to get stolen.

The only time I ever had a firearm stolen was in a vehicle in a walled and gated community in a nice area of Atlanta. I'm still pissed--partly with myself.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/13/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Had a lot of cats when I lived on the farm in PeeAye. Paid plenty of vet fees for cats that got chewed but got away. Definitely lost some to coyotes. AR-15 by the kitchen door was the way I rolled.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2020 12:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democrats Always Choose America's Enemies Over America
[Town Hall] - Here’s an idea that our Democrat politician friends might want to try if they want to stop being back-stabbing garbage people. It’s kind of a radical notion and a little outside the box, but here goes: How about, just once, you stop sucking-up to the foreign bastards who are attacking our country and take America’s side?

Maybe you should not back and excuse the gay-hanging, women-stoning, airline-downing, Obama check-cashing, Israel-threatening, American-murdering cultists ruling Iran. Just a thought.

It’s kind of crazy, but it just might work.

...I know siding with America will infuriate a huge part of your base, since America-hating leftist pieces of Schiff are a key Democrat constituency, but you should try courageously standing up to the trash that forms the foundation of your reeking party instead of collaborating with those fifth columnist communists.

It’s called "character." Get some.
Lead instead of following?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/13/2020 03:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Butt the republicans and conservatives always let them go never prosecute them or imprison them call them out of do their jobs when it comes to imprisoning those who.have given aid and material support to the enemy ! So they really are all the same you see !
Posted by: Maggie Splat2887 || 01/13/2020 5:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Cause these are not the Democrats you are looking for. These are global socialists who've taken over the old institution, skinned it, and now wears its hide. However, they want you to pay the taxes and levies and expect you to obey the mercs they hire to strip you of those old 'rights' enumerated by a bunch of long dead white men.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/13/2020 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Because they ARE America's enemies. So naturally they band together with the rest of them.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/13/2020 8:46 Comments || Top||

#4  American taxpayers are to pay/support/allow in all non-Americans and our enemies per Democrats. You are their working slaves.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 01/13/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
News From Vidalia: Iranian Sleeper Cells Will Attack America (video)
[USA Watchdog] Former CIA Officer and counter-terrorism expert Kevin Shipp says the threat of outright war with Iran is over‐for now. Shipp says Iran will change its strategy from overt conflict to covert conflict against the U.S. Shipp explains, "Iran has backed down. There is no question about that, and even their so-called missile strikes against the U.S. are basically just kicking sand, intentionally missing their target.

Iran understands if they entered into a war with the U.S., they would be left with nothing more than a burnt stump. So, Iran is backing down . . . What Iran is going to do is engage in asymmetrical warfare. I think they are going to start activating their sleeper cells in the United States and other countries like Saudi Arabia. We are going to start seeing attacks on easy targets in places like Iraq and activation of cells within the United States."

Shipp is also an expert on the Deep State Shadow Government. Shipp says things are "quiet" on the prosecution of the failed coup plotters who tried to remove President Trump, but ’that is a good thing.’ Shipp says, "The evidence is already there to pass an indictment on Hillary Clinton and some of the others. So, there is not even an investigation in that regard. . . . Barr’s investigation is now a criminal investigation. They are trying to get a hold of Brennan’s (former CIA Director) emails and correspondence, through subpoenas, during this soft coup, and it looks like they are in the middle of that now, so, hence the silence. They are quiet now and that is a frustrating thing about any investigation. . . .They can’t come out and reveal where they are heading, especially when it comes to the CIA and intelligence agencies. You can’t tip your hand to the person you are investigating. Then they start destroying documents, and people start getting afraid and start covering things up."

Shipp says the Democrats know they most likely will not win back the White House in the upcoming Presidential election. Shipp contends, "Their chance of winning in 2020, especially now with Trump’s success, is getting slim, and they are getting desperate. When they get desperate, and they have done this before, I think we can count on voter fraud. They are going to have to use it, and they have used it before. In any event, they have very little chance of winning now, in my view, because the majority of Americans find their platform distasteful. So, I think this (voter fraud) is going to happen."

Shipp says the Deep State is worried that Trump will have a second term. Shipp says, "I think they (Deep State) are in a state of shock. They want to get rid of Trump because for the first time in their careers, they can be prosecuted for what they have done. I think they are afraid of that, and that’s why John Brennan and others are coming out as mocking birds on CNN and MSNBC and constantly attacking the President."

Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with former CIA Officer Kevin Shipp.

Author's website hound here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2020 02:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pick your targets carefully.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/13/2020 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Nothing yet from Soetoro, Vlajar, or Brennan on this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2020 8:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Two can play this game.
Posted by: gorb || 01/13/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  prosecution of the failed coup plotters who tried to remove President Trump

The evidence is already there to pass an indictment on Hillary Clinton and some of the others

Barr’s investigation is now a criminal investigation

They are trying to get a hold of Brennan’s emails and correspondence

Please, PLEASE let it be true and not a book sale pump!
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/13/2020 13:50 Comments || Top||

#5  I doubt Iran would have had the patience to have let sleeper cells stay asleep this long.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/13/2020 14:38 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Another Green Tea - Live Longer Article
[Market Watch] New research suggests sipping this drink lowers the risk of death from heart disease and stroke

This drink lowers cardiovascular disease, stroke and death risk.
This beverage is steeped in all kinds of health benefits.

Research abounds about the benefits of sipping tea, which is the most popular drink in the world, after water. Previous research has linked drinking tea with lowering blood pressure, boosting the immune system, preventing cancer and increasing longevity ‐ particularly green tea, which consists of unprocessed and unfermented tea leaves that retain their signature green color.

And a new Chinese study published Thursday suggests that drinking green tea three times a week not only reduces the risk of developing heart disease or stroke, or dying of cardiovascular disease ‐ it also lowers the risk of dying by any cause.

Researchers analyzed health data from 100,902 Chinese people with no history of heart attack, stroke or cancer, and sorted them into two groups: regular tea drinkers who sipped three or more cups a week; and those who never drank tea or who drank it less regularly (aka, less than three times a week.)

The research team followed up with them after seven years. And those who drank tea three or more times a week had a 20% lower risk of heart disease and stroke than the never or non-habitual tea drinkers. What’s more, they had a 22% lower risk of dying from heart disease and stroke, as well as a 15% decreased risk of dying from any cause.

And green tea appeared to be especially protective, as those who sipped it regularly had an approximately 25% lower risk for heart disease and stroke, fatal heart disease and stroke, or mortality in general.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2020 02:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When the Chinese come here and adopt our ways in eating they experience the same problems as the rest of us. Then currently in China as food products like rice are mass produced with new treatments their problems are increasing there now as well. I worked among the Amish and they it appeared to me they suffered more problems in their area than non Amish. Many of the young teenagers had to have all their teeth extracted. Cancer and diabetes plus heart problems even as active farmers.
Posted by: Dale || 01/13/2020 6:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Recent studies show that most recent studies are bullsh*t. Especially ones that try to reduce complex phenomena down to a single variable like tea drinker/not tea drinker.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/13/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  #2👍
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/13/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Often served at retreats.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/13/2020 13:53 Comments || Top||

#5  I drink green tea and I'm not dead yet...
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/13/2020 16:07 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
How fragile is Iran's regime?
h/t Instapundit
Spengler, of course.
[Asia Times] - Smartphone videos of anti-regime protests in Tehran circulated in global news media this weekend, after the Iranian government admitted it shot down a Ukrainian civilian airliner. The latest demonstrations followed a national wave of protests last November in which up to 1,500 demonstrators were killed. Hard information about the origins and extent of the anti-regime protests is difficult to find. But there is a good deal of evidence of extreme dissatisfaction with the regime due to economic stress.

Iran’s average monthly after-tax wage was US$318.53, according to the website Numbeo, which tallies thousands of user inputs to arrive at wage and price data.

Using Numbeo’s prices I constructed a monthly survival budget in US dollar equivalents:

One average salary pays for a small apartment outside the center, utilities, enough calories to keep body and soul together, and bus fare, which is subsidized. Throw in cell phone service, clothing, fruits and vegetables, and one or two meat meals a month, and an Iranian couple will require two average salaries. According to official data, food price inflation was 28% year-on-year as of December.

...Reduced consumption has taken a toll on Iranian family life. According to the Tehran Times, citing Mohammed Javad Mahmoudi, head of the committee on population studies of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. According to Mahmoudi, the number of babies born in Iran fell by nearly 25% between 2015 and 2019.

That short-term decline in absolute numbers of births is unprecedented outside of wartime. The number of Iranian women of child-bearing age increased slightly over the same period, so the collapsing birth rate clearly reflects decisions not to bear children.

...Iranians face desperate conditions, if not actual hunger, due to the effect of economic sanctions. Add to this the long-term effects of mismanagement of the country’s scarce water resources. Afshin Shahi wrote recently in the Journal of Asian Affairs: "Approximately 97% of the country is experiencing drought conditions. Due to gross water mismanagement and its damaging impact on the country, Iran faces the worst situation in the water resources of any industrialized nation. Tens of thousands of villages have been deserted and most of the major urban centers have passed their limits to absorb new rural migrants. Some officials predict that in less than 25 years, 50 million Iranians would be displaced from their current homes because of the pressing ecological conditions."

Few countries have endured this level of deprivation outside of full war mobilization, and few have seen such a drastic decline in the number of births. The only modern comparison is Venezuela. Governments with a monopoly of economic resources and the willingness to kill significant numbers of their own citizens can stay in power for quite some time, but there seems no question that Iran’s regime is fragile and prone to destabilization.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/13/2020 03:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  old joke

what's difference between Iran regime and an egg

one has a fragile shell, shallow contents and is very yucky when broken

the other makes omelets
Posted by: lord garth || 01/13/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#2  "All Power comes from the barrel of a gun." Mao Zedong

Protestor Dead - 1,500 / "Fragile" Regime Dead - 0
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 || 01/13/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#3  So they are approaching Venezuela and heading for North Korea. If you want your Mullah, you can keep your Mullah. Ball is in your court, people.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/13/2020 16:02 Comments || Top||

#4  As long as they can pay and feed the Basij ... not fragile at all.
Posted by: magpie || 01/13/2020 21:35 Comments || Top||

#5  slowly at first...
Posted by: Lex || 01/13/2020 21:50 Comments || Top||

#6  thenallatonce!
Posted by: Voldemort Trotsky1976 || 01/13/2020 22:48 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2020-01-13
  Corey Booker Throws In The Towel
Sun 2020-01-12
  Detention of UK's ambassador to Tehran (released an hour later)
Sat 2020-01-11
  Iran fesses up, admits they shot down airliner
Fri 2020-01-10
  Iran invites American investigators to take part in the probe into PS752 plane incident that killed 176 people on board
Thu 2020-01-09
  U.S. Officials Confirm Iran Shot Down Ukrainian Airliner
Wed 2020-01-08
  Iran informs the United Nations and #UNSC that they ''do not seek war and warn of any military adventures"
Tue 2020-01-07
  Iraq Under Missile Attack From Iran
Mon 2020-01-06
  3 Americans Dead, 6 Aircraft Destroyed Or Damaged, Including A Rare Spy Plane, In #Kenya Attack
Sun 2020-01-05
  Iran Puts $80M Bounty on Trump's Head for Soleimani Hit
Sat 2020-01-04
  6 More Iran-Backed Leaders Zapped, incl. Shibl al-Zaidi, commander of Kataib Imam Ali
Fri 2020-01-03
  Lebanon Hizbullah: "It's war!"
Thu 2020-01-02
  Qassim Soleimani, head of Iran's elite Quds force, zapped in Iraq
Wed 2020-01-01
  Hashid Al Shaabi #PMF leader Abo Alaa Al Walae threatens to attack Embassies of #Saudi, #UAE, #Bahrain and others in #Baghdad.
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  Crowd storms US Embassy compound in Baghdad
Mon 2019-12-30
  Qais al-Khazali was a close associate of Qassem Suleimani - killed by USAF.

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