Tuesday July 30th – Open Thread

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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109 Responses to Tuesday July 30th – Open Thread

  1. citizen817 says:

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  2. citizen817 says:

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    • Pale rider says:

      Why are they abandoned?

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      • GB Bari says:

        Because the poor have no money to make them habitable, and the rich have no incentive to invest in rehabbing them since the resale / real estate value is as rotten as the areas they’re in.

        Pulte said it right in the video – it’s like cancer. You cannot just rehab one or few homes. That will not work since NO one wants to invest in and live in a renovated house surrounded by lots of other run-down & abandoned houses that are full of rats, drug users, homeless etc.. You have to rehab the entire area of abandoned homes. The entire neighborhood must be transformed back into one that attracts people who are willing to invest and live there.

        And according to Pulte, very few philanthropists have been willing to invest that much money or, more critically, been willing or able to pull all of the various government entities together who have some jurisdiction over some aspect of these areas and the usage (zoning, permits, utilities etc.).

        A good illustration – There have been sporadic efforts in Baltimore (especially the West Side which is in Racist Rep. Cummings’ district) over the past 40 years to do this in various neighborhoods across the city. But AFAIK, never has any one or group of philanthropists or investors been willing to invest in a large enough area so as to renovate ALL of it AND make sure it is surrounded by vibrant, occupied neighborhoods as well.

        Many have tried renovating specific blocks or small areas with very limited success. Pulte’s argument in the Twitter video above is the bullseye solution to the problem. Not economically easy, but it gets rid of the cancer and, once occupied by 0responsible homeowners, leaves very little room for the cancer of drug users and rat infestation to return and flourish.

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  3. Deplorable_Infidel says:

    Maker Of The Universe

    The Maker of the universe
    as Man, for man, was made a curse.

    The claims of Law which He had made,
    unto the uttermost He paid.

    His holy fingers made the bough,
    which grew the thorns that crowned His brow.

    The nails that pierced His hands were mined
    in secret places He designed.

    He made the forest whence there sprung
    the tree on which His body hung.

    He died upon a cross of wood,
    yet made the hill on which it stood.

    The sky that darkened o’er His head,
    by Him above the earth was spread.

    The sun that hid from Him its face
    by His decree was poised in space.

    The spear which spilled His precious blood
    was tempered in the fires of God.

    The grave in which His form was laid
    was hewn in rocks His hands had made.

    The throne on which He now appears
    was His for everlasting years.

    But a new glory crowns His brow
    and every knee to Him shall bow.

    By F. W. Pitt

    https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/maker-of-the-universe/

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  4. jx says:

    The ACLJ has just obtained previously unreleased documents related to the Clinton investigation and immunity agreements given to top Clinton aids. These agreements reveal that James Comey’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Loretta Lynch’s Department of Justice (DOJ) granted immunity to Hillary Clinton’s aids and lawyers, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, from prosecution for anything found on their laptops violating multiple felony criminal statutes governing the mishandling of classified information and/or the removal or destruction of records, including Espionage Act provisions. Further, the DOJ and FBI also agreed to evade the statutory requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by purporting to deem the contents of the laptops as not under DOJ or FBI “custody or control.”

    https://aclj.org/government-corruption/aclj-obtains-obama-dojs-immunity-agreements-with-hillary-clinton-lawyers-cheryl-mills-and-heather-samuelson-to-dispose-of-evidence-and-refuse-to-comply-with-federal-law

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  5. Garrison Hall says:

    Muskrat love 🙂

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  6. dogsmaw says:

    Congress Recess in Venice/Where in the World are Pelosi&Cummings 😛

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    • Dave says:

      That song was Jack Paar’s theme on the old Tonight Show, IIRC. Re: “Where in the world are Pelosi & Cummings?” If you’ve ever smelled the stench that occasionally wafts from Venice’s canals, you’ll know where those dems are scuba diving!

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  7. Deplorable_Infidel says:

    A response to NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Red Flag Law by a citizen of Allegany County whose Constitutional rights have been infringed upon

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  8. nwtex says:

    Be still my heart!

    The Largest Aircraft in the U.S. Air Force • C-5M Super Galaxy

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    • piper567 says:

      thanks tex, just Super!!!

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    • Joe2pt.0 says:

      I flew a C5 as a passenger across the Atlantic once upon a time. There were only a couple of dozen us on that flight and it had no cargo, only a few jump seats along one side. So there we were in an empty C5 running and jumping around playing catch with a Frisbee while flying home over the Atlantic. It was a blast and maybe the best flight I’ve ever been on except maybe that one time on our way to Tokyo…never mind. Anyway the C5 is even bigger inside than it may look from the outside and when you see a C5 in the air it appears to be flying very slow across the sky but it’s just an optical illusion because it’s so friggin huge.

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    • GB Bari says:

      Anyone who goes in person to watch one of these loaded behemoths taxi down a runway and lift off the ground and up into the air will quickly begin to appreciate the tremendous power of “aerodynamic lift”, the fundamental principle of aviation.

      I have seen up close a C-5A (or might have been a C-5B) Galaxy back in the late 1980s. It was immense – larger than a 747. I watched it load, and take off. You do not easily forget that sight.

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      • czarowniczy says:

        I used to think of it as a flying elevator. It felt as if it went more up than forward and up, I wish I could have been on a mass jump out of one, that would have been spectacular.

        The C-5 was a key to the US’s ability to project power, it could move masses of troops and equipment great distances and, with the addition of inflight refueling, its range was limited mostly by the amount of coffee and donuts on board.

        The Russians never quite got the ‘power projection’ thing down pat. They developed the AN-124 beast in an attempt to get in the C-5 game but the USSR fell through before they could get into the game and the 124’s a flying work-in-progress, it has a team of engineers running around inside fixing leaks and other assorted problems to keep it from landing unexpectedly.

        The Russians collaborating with the Ukrainians did build the AN-225, a monster that way out-lifts the C-5 family, but the first one got airborne just in time to see the USSR crash. The one in the air fly commercial lifts, as do the remaining AN-124s, that are too big to move economically otherwise or have to be somewhere most-ricky tik. The AN-124 I saw was transporting a huge oil rig that could only have been transported by disassembling, trucking/barging the pieces and reassembling it on-site. Despite the cost of bringing the 124 to the site and it flying the rig to someplace else it was still far, far cheaper than the alternative.

        The rig was too large for even the C-5 to load, even were one available, and when the 124 took off it used every bit of the runway and bets were made as to whether it would use some of the road in the housing area south of the runway. It was a sight.

        China’s bought an interest into one AN-225 as a cargo plane but I’m betting that, ad China’s closely and deeply studied US logistics and power projection methods for decades, we’ll see a C-5/AN-225 type fleet in the PLAAF in the near future.

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    • mandy says:

      I remember when I was a kid, the C-5A was built at Lockheed Martin in Marietta Georgia. We lived in a good piece away in an outlying area, but when they would test flight that thing, it would sometimes come past us. When it would be within sight, the WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD would come running outside to get a glimpse of it.

      Ah, memories….

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  9. nwtex says:

    Awesome! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 USA USA!!

    Published on Jul 13, 2018
    TRUMP UK VISIT: 2 US Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy’s AWESOME Landings & Takeoffs (Prestwick Airport)
    3,329,894 views

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  10. nwtex says:

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  11. nwtex says:

    Aha! This is what I was trying to post last night (Monday) but the link was wonky. I happened to come across a different link ………… so here is a little over 2 minutes of love, admiration and appreciation going out to Frank Sinatra from those who “get it”

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  12. nwtex says:

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  13. Linda K. says:

    Freedom is the word I really use without thinking, uh huh…

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  14. citizen817 says:

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  15. nwtex says:

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  17. nwtex says:

    Mapping Los Angeles’ Homeless Encampment Fires: See Your Neighborhood
    Jul 25, 2019

    Fires that start in Los Angeles’ homeless encampments pose a serious safety threat because they often spread to nearby apartments, homes, businesses and other buildings.

    The map above, illustrating fires that started at homeless encampments in 2018, shows just how widespread the problem is in Los Angeles County. You can zoom in on the map to see how big the problem is in your neighborhood or near where you work.

    https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Map-2018-Homeless-Encampment-Fires-Los-Angeles-513201591.html

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    • NCPatrick says:

      Such a timely song for today, tex! My darling brother, John, would have been 72 today and our entire family misses him daily. He truly was a special person who will never be replaced and I sent your video to the family. Thanks much.

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  18. Dora says:

    John Singer Sargent – Mountain Stream, 1907

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  19. Tim Holden says:

    The silver bullet against the zombies who scream “racist” at any opportunity has turned out to be their overuse of the term.The enemy’s ammunition now explodes in their faces.

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  20. duchess01 says:

    Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn

    Jesus Loves the Little Children…Pray for the Little Children

    Jesus Loves You…Run to Him

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  21. WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ infidels!

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  22. duchess01 says:

    Verse of the Day

    “Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.”
    Psalms 4:5 (KJV)

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  23. just stevie says:

    THE DISCIPLINE OF DISILLUSIONMENT

    “Jesus did not commit Himself unto them…for He knew what was in man.” John ii. 24-25

    Disillusionment means that there are no more false judgments in life. To be undeceived by disillusionment may leave us cynical and unkindly severe in our judgment of others, but the disillusionment which comes from God brings us to the place where we see men and women as they really are, and yet there is no cynicism, we have no stinging, bitter things to say. Many of the cruel things in life spring from the fact that we suffer from illusions. We are not true to one another as facts; we are true only to our ideas of one another. Everything is either delightful and fine, or mean and dastardly, according to our idea.

    The refusal to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering in human life. It works in this way – if we love a human being and do not love God, we demand of him every perfection and every rectitude, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; we are demanding of a human being that which he or she cannot give. There is only one Being Who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Why Our Lord is apparently so severe regarding every human relationship is because He knows that every relationship not based on loyalty to Himself will end in disaster. Our Lord trusted no man, yet He was never suspicious, never bitter. Our Lord’s confidence in God and in what His grace could do for any man, was so perfect that He despaired of no one. If our trust is placed in human beings, we shall end in despairing of everyone.

    Oswald Chambers
    July 30th Devotional

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    • Pale rider says:

      Hosea 1 & 3 an example of Gods love for us, even when unlovable by our own standards.
      People tell you if they are worthy of love by their own standards, standards not based in truth.
      Children are more obvious but in each person a child resides. If you can reach that child, you change that life.
      “The lord trusted no man”

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  24. youme says:

    Amazing and Funny

    The Best of Action Movie Kids

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  25. Dora says:

    Definitely Strange.

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  26. Dora says:

    Beautiful!

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  27. SwampRatTerrier says:

    Why is Modern Art so Bad?

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  28. SwampRatTerrier says:

    MONTREAL—So now San Francisco is banning e-cigarettes, because a City Council member discovered there are still people making personal decisions about what to do with their lives. They’ve been trying to eliminate these people for three decades now, but some individuals just refuse to learn.

    https://www.takimag.com/article/who-cut-the-balls-off-san-francisco/

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  29. SwampRatTerrier says:

    The future does not belong to elderly Marxists.

    San Francisco Lefties Battle Over a Communist’s Anti-American Mural

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274397/san-francisco-lefties-battle-over-communists-anti-daniel-greenfield

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    • czarowniczy says:

      New Orleans had its own Leftist public-artist, Enrique Alferez. Over the decades he did a lot of sculptures throughout the city, a lot of it funded thru the WPA. Now folks just walk by the works in the city or at his display in City Park, its social implications lost in the past and holding little interest even in the new NOLA Left. Time for new progressive idols…or idles, take your pick.

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  30. SwampRatTerrier says:

    Sharing memes and photos on the internet could be an expensive no-no.

    A bi-partisan bill working its way through Congress could drastically change how copyright claims are processed, and would create a system to impose up to $30,000 in fines on anyone who shares protected material online.

    In other words, the Congress wants to make it easier to sue people who send a meme or post images that they didn’t create themselves, essentially a giveaway to lawyers who sue unsuspecting suckers for a living.

    Sharing memes and photos on the internet could be an expensive no-no.

    A bi-partisan bill working its way through Congress could drastically change how copyright claims are processed, and would create a system to impose up to $30,000 in fines on anyone who shares protected material online.

    In other words, the Congress wants to make it easier to sue people who send a meme or post images that they didn’t create themselves, essentially a giveaway to lawyers who sue unsuspecting suckers for a living.

    The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019,” which “creates a voluntary small claims board within the Copyright Office that will provide copyright owners with an alternative to the expensive process of bringing copyright claims, including infringement and misrepresentation …. in federal court,” according to the Copyright Alliance.

    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=382544

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  31. SwampRatTerrier says:

    FYI

    Dilbert creator Scott Adams denounced for using Gilroy shooting to push app

    “If you were a witness to the #GilroyGarlicFestivalshooting please sign on to Interface by WhenHub (free app) and you can set your price to take calls. Use keyword Gilroy,” Adams tweeted.

    The app, Interface, allows people to connect to experts through video chat, text or calls. Experts can charge money for their time, and WhenHub takes a 20% cut of the payments. Adams immediately drew criticism for seeking to profit from the tragedy.

    I think it is a brilliant move to wrest control of the raw data that is the lifeblood of the ghouls of the media. That they claim some moral high ground here is a joke. These are the people who would love to have gun camera video of the next mass murder!

    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=382558

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  32. SwampRatTerrier says:

    Wow! Rahm Emanuel Warns Democrats Their Open Borders, Free Health Care for Illegals Agenda Is Crazy Stupid (VIDEO)

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/wow-rahm-emanuel-warns-democrats-their-open-borders-free-health-care-for-illegals-agenda-is-crazy-stupid-video/

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  33. getfitnow says:

    Exclusive–GOP’s House Campaign Arm Launches National Ad Highlighting Socialists Burglarizing America

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  34. czarowniczy says:

    Wheeeeee! Well they’s just afittin’ right on in with their American hosts, they’re ass-imilating jes gooder’ ‘ we ever coulda hoped!

    https://clarionproject.org/houston-extremist-mosque-launches-cub-scout-troop/

    If that ‘Slitting the throats Infidels’ badge ain’t hard enough to get, how’re ya gonna pin that ‘Martyrdom’ badge on?

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  35. jx says:

    h/t vladtepesblog.com

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  36. getfitnow says:

    FTA – On Monday, the president tweeted his support for Daniel Cameron, a Republican running for Kentucky’s attorney general who also happens to be black. Imagine my shock when I read the replies to President Trump’s tweet and saw Democrats calling Cameron an “Uncle Tom.” We’ve all seen the attacks on Kanye West and Candace Owens, where white liberals will eagerly type the name “Uncle Tom” in an attempt to brush off any black Americans’ increasing support of conservative values and the GOP.

    If you’re like me and actually read the book, you would understand that Uncle Tom’s character is nothing like what Democrats portray when they use it as an insult. Uncle Tom was rightly the hero of Stowe’s story. He saved a white child from drowning and saw the good in people regardless if they were influenced by a cruel system. More importantly, he helped countless slaves escape their abusive masters. Uncle Tom chose to die rather than obey cruel Simon Legree, the evil whip master. His quote “I won’t be taken, Eliza; I’ll die first!” mirrors founding father Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death!”

    Uncle Tom was a Christian hero whose last words were full of virtue and heroism: “What a thing ‘t is to be a Christian!” Republican President Abraham Lincoln even credited Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book and her Uncle Tom character with motivating the North to end slavery.
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/07/dissecting_uncle_tom_as_an_insult.html

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  37. czarowniczy says:

    Local news is giving top billing to a recent study that shows combat vets, especially ones with PTSD and/or mild traumatic brain in juries have an enlarged amygdala: https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/05/01/combat-related-brain-injury-with-ptsd-tied-to-larger-amygdala/145058.html

    Over the last eight years or so this issue has gone back and forth from ‘they have a smaller’ to ‘they have a larger’ amygdala, an issue that gets tossed back and forth as long as there’s a funding source and an issue that will live on as long as there’s a funding source.

    If you’re a PTSD junkie you may know that the DoD has]d small medical teams that, during Vietnam, visited forward fire bases or places like Khe Sahn early in the war. These teams took blood and urine samples from troops who’d spent days/weeks/months under constant combat conditions, sending them back for testing – they knew about ‘PTSD’, aka ‘Delayed Stress Syndrome’ aka ‘Shell Shock’ aka ‘Soldier’s Heart’ in the Civil War. The DoD knew it was stress hormone related and, along with the VA, lied their lying asses off for decades about what they knew and when. Now we’re seeing them say that some 93% of combat vets are thought to have enlarged amygdalas, fitting right in there with Feinstein’s ‘vets are batshit crazy’ pronouncement.

    Let’s see how this latest ‘study’ fits in there with the Democrat’s attacks on veterans’ gun and voting rights. Back when Congress was looking at banning ‘assault’ rifles an amendment was floated exempting veterans from AR ownership, which may have been implicit in Feinstein’s latest attack on veterans who don’t think as she does. She and her Rat brethren have been suppressing the Federal voting rights of active duty members and their families, especially overseas, for decades – a problem Congress doesn’t want to deal with. Now they have a reason.

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  38. auscitizenmom says:

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

    Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.

    Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.

    Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.

    Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
    Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.

    We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
    Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  39. auscitizenmom says:

    A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn:

    Prayer to St. Michael

    St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
    be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
    May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
    and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
    by the power of God,
    thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
    who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  40. I have a gut feeling the RAT, RINO and GOPe Senators are lining up to torpedo Ratcliffe’s nomination. Anyone else feel that way or is it just my pissy attitude against the Republicans in the Senate.

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