Sunday Jazz: Taylor Eigsti Quartet, “Hutcheonite”

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“Hutcheonite” - Composed by Taylor Eigsti
Live at GSI Studios - New York City

Featuring:
Taylor Eigsti (piano)
Eric Harland (drums)
Charles Altura (guitar)
David Ginyard (bass)

Music from the new album “Tree Falls” on GSI Records
Available everywhere! Link below
gsi.lnk.to

“Hutcheonite” was written in tribute to the
late cosmochemist Ian Hutcheon.

Produced by the GSI Studios, Eric Harland, Taylor Eigsti
Videography: Matt Lyons
Recording Engineer: Josh Giunta
Photography: Anissa Martell

Filmed June 23, 2021 at GSI Studios
Recorded on a Yamaha C6
tayloreigsti.com
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350 comments
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Belafon  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:04:46pm
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No Malarkey!  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:05:35pm

It is 1:04 am in Kyiv, and sunrise is at 6:58am, a little less than 6 hours from now. If Russia is attacking today, it should begin soon.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:09:30pm

This got cl’ed. An amendment has been filed to the “Don’t say gay” bill in Florida to require schools to out LGBTQ+ students to abusive, homophobic parents, in the hopes they will be abused, killed or at least abandoned.

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:10:57pm

Speaking of Ted Cruz…

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:12:12pm

re: #4 darthstar

Speaking of Ted Cruz…

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Jesus…sounds like a CPAC convention.

More than 1,100 dead rodents were recovered from the facility following a fumigation at the facility in January 2022.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:14:22pm

re: #4 darthstar

The warehouse was in Arkansas. FDA found “decaying rodents” at the facility.

Because who cares about a few rats around when you don’t have to worry about pesky regulations?

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:15:15pm

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b.d  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:15:44pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

It is 1:04 am in Kyiv, and sunrise is at 6:58am, a little less than 6 hours from now. If Russia is attacking today, it should begin soon.

One theory I heard was that Putin promised Xi he wouldn’t overshadow his Olympics, well, the Olympics ended today

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:16:23pm
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nines09  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:16:26pm

Family Dollar AKA Crakka Bodega.

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Jay C  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:18:31pm

re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg

The warehouse was in Arkansas. FDA found “decaying rodents” at the facility.

Because who cares about a few rats around when you don’t have to worry about pesky regulations?

That article closed with the note that Dollar General is planning on raising its prices: why do I think it’s NOT a because they want to spend more hiring exterminators…..

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:20:53pm

re: #10 nines09

Family Dollar AKA Crakka Bodega.

Though towns here in Texas that have 300 people finally have a store to go to without having to drive 40+ miles.

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steve_davis  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:26:51pm

re: #5 darthstar

Jesus…sounds like a CPAC convention.

yeah, but without any enriched hookers.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:28:13pm

Mateus is so good.

Youtube Video

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:28:30pm
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nines09  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:31:13pm

re: #12 Belafon

Though towns here in Texas that have 300 people finally have a store to go to without having to drive 40+ miles.

They serve a purpose. Just like city Bodegas.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:31:17pm

Daughter fishspawn in the kitchen, popping popcorn. Suddenly, she turns around and says, “Oh my gosh. Mom, come over here real quick. I have never seen this animal before.” Curiosity sufficiently aroused, Mrs. Fish and I wander over to the kitchen, where we have a sliding door that opens onto the deck. Lo and behold, there be a possum, eating from our cat’s food dish. Mrs. Fish took a picture of it and shooed it away; it was shaking, which made her suspect it may be sick.

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nines09  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:32:11pm

re: #17 Dopamine Fish

Throw that food out and wash that bowl with bleach.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:34:24pm

re: #17 Dopamine Fish

Daughter fishspawn in the kitchen, popping popcorn. Suddenly, she turns around and says, “Oh my gosh. Mom, come over here real quick. I have never seen this animal before.” Curiosity sufficiently aroused, Mrs. Fish and I wander over to the kitchen, where we have a sliding door that opens onto the deck. Lo and behold, there be a possum, eating from our cat’s food dish. Mrs. Fish took a picture of it and shooed it away; it was shaking, which made her suspect it may be sick.

The good news is that possums don’t get rabies. aaanimalcontrol.com

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nines09  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:34:51pm

re: #19 No Malarkey!

If true I just learned something.

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:36:20pm

re: #20 nines09

If true I just learned something.

It is true. Possums are great critters.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:37:26pm

re: #21 darthstar

It is true. Possums are great critters.

They eat ticks — always a good thing.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:37:33pm

The critter in question.

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nines09  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:38:39pm

re: #23 Dopamine Fish

Well give him his glove back…

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:44:17pm

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b.d  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:44:25pm

re: #23 Dopamine Fish

The critter in question.

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He was probably shivering because he was cold, you should let him inside to warm up……

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:46:21pm

re: #26 b.d

He was probably shivering because he was cold, you should let him inside to warm up……

I did suggest that he might be nervous (of being close to the house, or of the cat sitting literally feet away), or perhaps he was just really bloody hungry. She maintains that, possums being nocturnal animals, one being out in the day is a sure sign of illness.

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:46:23pm

re: #26 b.d

He was probably shivering because he was cold, you should let him inside to warm up……

They have very sharp teeth. I used to be a science museum docent in college (for elementary school tours) and we had a possum. I wore heavy leather gloves when I held her and she would loop her tail around me and was very friendly. But man, those teeth were a fright.

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b.d  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:48:59pm

re: #28 darthstar

They have very sharp teeth. I used to be a science museum docent in college (for elementary school tours) and we had a possum. I wore heavy leather gloves when I held her and she would loop her tail around me and was very friendly. But man, those teeth were a fright.

50!!!

Opossums have 50 sharp teeth in their mouths, which is more teeth than any other mammal in the U.S. If a predator approaches, they’ll open their mouths nice and wide to show those teeth off, hoping to scare that predator away!

zooatlanta.org

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:50:25pm

re: #29 b.d

Flossing’s a bitch.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:50:39pm

Despite the earlier tweet thread claiming the Russian troops are in the throes of the pandemic, it would be surprising if these forces are truly disabled by COVID-19. They are not in the age group to suffer widespread serious illness and most of them probably recovered recently (a month ago or so) from a bout with omicron. I’m sure they are healthy enough to mount a serious attack, unless Putin has reconsidered his strategy.

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b.d  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:52:00pm

re: #30 darthstar

Flossing’s a bitch.

They play dead when the hygienist asks about their flossing habits

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:55:30pm

Re: Covid. Nothing’s less reliable than weekend reports of Covid statistics. And for the United States, 3 day weekends are notorious for their lack of value. So it will be Tuesday or Wednesday before anything useful shows up, especially here.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:57:48pm

re: #23 Dopamine Fish

Throw some cat food or in the yard. He’s probably hungry, maybe starving. Poor thing.

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mmmirele  Feb 20, 2022 • 3:59:13pm

Those guys and their caravan traversing I-40 are going to run into some rough weather starting right about now…first of all, it’s windy (not good for 18 wheelers) and Flagstaff is expecting snow starting tomorrow night through Wednesday. This is what you run into at this time of the year. Not that I want to be making any *suggestions* to the MAGA Freedumb Caravan, but they’d probably do better to take I-10 from California to where it splits to I-20 in Texas, and then take I-20 east to Dallas, and then I-30 northeast. Or something. Really, you don’t want to mess with the weather through the Intermountain West during February/March. Just not a smart thing to do.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:06:45pm
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nines09  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:07:17pm

re: #35 mmmirele

The trailers will be empty. I hope they run into ice and high winds and snow on top of snow.

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darthstar  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:09:05pm

re: #35 mmmirele

This is exactly what I want them to do. May they be ill equipped and not have chains. Forecast for the southwest doesn’t look too bad but there is some L & H convergence in a few days…things can change rapidly.

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nines09  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:10:48pm

re: #38 darthstar

An empty trailer in a snow or ice storm is a kite waiting to fly.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:12:16pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:13:08pm

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:16:13pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:19:30pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:21:10pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

No you are not crazy; you are just completely out of it.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:34:56pm

It looks like another entry for Philly Pretzel’s Thread Killers. Very discouraging.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:35:24pm

re: #45 PhillyPretzel

It looks like another entry for Philly Pretzel’s Thread Killers. Very discouraging.

You should be arrested as a serial thread murderer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:37:16pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:40:22pm

jeebus

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:41:47pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

Does he really understand what he is saying? PA has had mail-in voting for a few election cycles and it works pretty good. I guess Rand thinks there are too many people voting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:42:35pm
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:42:46pm

re: #49 PhillyPretzel

Does he really understand what he is saying? PA has had mail-in voting for a few election cycles and it works pretty good. I guess Rand thinks there are too many people voting.

That’s exactly what he thinks. Remember, they’re pretending to use the bogeyman of “insecure elections, Democrats are the party of ‘vote early, vote often’,” but what they REALLY want is to make it so only their privileged few can vote.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:47:19pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:48:28pm

re: #51 Dopamine Fish

lol. I just got a call today from my ward leader and it seems that I will have less time to get signatures because someone (or more) are challenging the new redistricting maps. This is a mess.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:48:56pm

re: #17 Dopamine Fish

It was shaking with rage from being shooed away from some good food. 😂 😂

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:50:48pm
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:51:26pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

The difference, of course, is in how many units you have to purchase to get the lower price. But still, it’s a good meme.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:52:20pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 4:55:57pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:15:54pm

re: #58 Patricia Kayden

Trump has found a lot of marks.

And they will continue on being marks.

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EstebanTornado1963  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:17:03pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:21:36pm

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:24:23pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:25:24pm

re: #62 Patricia Kayden

Probably profit from them. That sounds like something he would do.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:31:14pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:33:14pm

Man, have you guys watched the video up above? I’ve never heard of that drummer before, but his solo near the end of the tune is straight up amazing. Reminded me of Steve Gadd.

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b.d  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:36:01pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:36:33pm

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:39:23pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:46:09pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:46:18pm
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:47:04pm

re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hey Matt, are you Canadian? No? Then FUCK OFF. Us Americans have no business sticking our noses into Canadian internal affairs. (And for the record, they’re right. So double fuck off.)

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:47:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:49:44pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:50:44pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:54:19pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:56:40pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 5:58:31pm

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

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jeffreyw  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:02:59pm

A young, bold possum.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:03:11pm
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sagehen  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:05:48pm

Before he won any skating competitions, Nathan Chen was a ballet dancer.

Youtube Video

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:10:41pm

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:11:56pm
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DodgerFan1988  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:16:28pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:17:12pm

re: #82 Patricia Kayden

I hate this fucking argument so much. How many majorities that you know of are mostly silent?

Come the fuck on.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:19:43pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:26:48pm
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jeffreyw  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:28:47pm

Youtube Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:30:43pm

niterz, lizardz!

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Dangerman  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:42:26pm

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Teukka  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:45:43pm

Foxtrot. Uniform. Charlie. Kilo.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:48:05pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:49:29pm

Yikes!

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:51:28pm

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A Cranky One  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:52:37pm
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Belafon  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:53:31pm

re: #92 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Yikes!

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There’s an ICD code for that: V97.33. Add XD to the end if it isn’t the first time.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:54:18pm

re: #94 A Cranky One

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We would look weird without our outer layer, though we’d be screaming.

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Teukka  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:54:21pm

re: #90 Teukka

Foxtrot. Uniform. Charlie. Kilo.

To put it bluntly and far less diplomatically, it appears they have intel of planned systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity. SHIT.

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sagehen  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:55:41pm

re: #90 Teukka

Foxtrot. Uniform. Charlie. Kilo.

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I want to believe the Biden admin is scrupulously honest about their intel, and that they’ve correctly interpreted what they heard and whether to trust who it came from, but… imma need actual evidence. Because Colin Powell.

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:57:15pm
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Teukka  Feb 20, 2022 • 6:57:56pm

re: #98 sagehen

I want to believe the Biden admin is scrupulously honest about their intel, and that they’ve correctly interpreted what they heard and whether to trust who it came from, but… imma need actual evidence. Because Colin Powell.

Given the track record of Wagner PMC and Kadyrov’s Boys, Imma give Biden the benny of the doubt…

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:03:41pm
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Belafon  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:07:04pm
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Captain Ron  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:08:25pm

From Daily Kos, a couple of their pick for “tweets of the week”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:13:24pm

re: #103 Dread Pirate Ron

From Daily Kos, a couple of their pick for “tweets of the week”

Isn’t Ivermectin made by “Big Pharma” as well?*

* - Looks like they discovered it. Or at least a scientist who appears to have been working with/for Merck at the time.

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Cheechako  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:19:37pm

Important info:

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Your choice may vary
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:32:59pm

re: #105 Cheechako

Important info:

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Your choice may vary

I will keep this wise chart for the future, but for the immediate moment I’ll say that all problems are solved by pairing with a nice sativa, or hybrid, or indica.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:34:36pm

re: #103 Dread Pirate Ron

From Daily Kos, a couple of their pick for “tweets of the week”

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Regarding Ron Duguay…

I remember this guy playing for the San Diego Gulls in the 90s when they were in the IHL. He was grandfathered in before the helmet rules, so he was playing Pro Hockey without a helmet.

That tells you everything you need to know about him and this.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:36:19pm

re: #82 Patricia Kayden

Yeah, the False Dilemma logical fallacy that underpins much of Republican/Fox News argument is making its way up North I see. Either you are Conservative or Far Left/ Socialist/ Communist/Whatever is bad.

The center-left that dominates actual policy on an item by item basis has no voice whatsoever in this new media reality.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:36:19pm

Also… not that I keep up with her, but isn’t Palin still married?

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A Cranky One  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:38:17pm

re: #106 Barefoot Grin

I will keep this wise chart for the future, but for the immediate moment I’ll say that all problems are solved by pairing with a nice sativa, or hybrid, or indica.

You can’t have your cannabis and cookies too.

At least not for long.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:38:47pm

re: #109 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Also… not that I keep up with her, but isn’t Palin still married?

They got divorced in 2020.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:39:00pm

re: #109 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Also… not that I keep up with her, but isn’t Palin still married?

Palin’s divorce was finalized 2 years ago.

Fine Christian woman, divorced and everything. What’s even better is her living in NYC, that Liberal hellhole where no proper Conservative would willingly move to.

Fucking total hypocrite.

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Belafon  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:40:27pm

re: #110 A Cranky One

You can’t have your cannabis and cookies too.

At least not for long.

Can we make that a wishful thinking comment: you can’t have your cookies and your cannibas, too.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:42:40pm

re: #113 Belafon

If anyone manages to come up with a strain that makes you not want to eat, they’ll make a fortune.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:45:02pm

re: #49 PhillyPretzel

Does he really understand what he is saying? PA has had mail-in voting for a few election cycles and it works pretty good. I guess Rand thinks there are too many people voting.

In Republican-run states with diverse populations, Republicans everywhere are working overtime to silence voters who don’t support their party. Even those who hate Trump and believe his views are toxic have no problems with this march to widespread voter suppression.

AFAICT Rand Paul is a racist as well as a Putin-supporting traitor. In March 2017, McCain accused Paul of working for Putin and in 2018 Paul delivered a Trump letter to Putin.

I guess the GOP is going to have to decide whether it’s more important to stop the Democrats or stop Putin, since the goals seem incompatible.

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Teukka  Feb 20, 2022 • 7:54:14pm

re: #90 Teukka

Foxtrot. Uniform. Charlie. Kilo.

Link to actual letter: washingtonpost.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:03:19pm

re: #98 sagehen

I want to believe the Biden admin is scrupulously honest about their intel, and that they’ve correctly interpreted what they heard and whether to trust who it came from, but… imma need actual evidence. Because Colin Powell.

Certainly Saddam Hussein was as evil as Putin, though without nuclear weapons, and we used those dishonest claims to launch a war against him and bring death and devastation in Iraq and elsewhere. One key difference here is that we are not launching a war; and we will only be imposing economic sanctions if Putin actually launches one.

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:10:08pm

“Tara Reade” is employed by RT, in turn, employed by Putin:

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BlueSpotinAL  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:20:36pm

re: #105 Cheechako

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:38:26pm

re: #98 sagehen

I want to believe the Biden admin is scrupulously honest about their intel, and that they’ve correctly interpreted what they heard and whether to trust who it came from, but… imma need actual evidence. Because Colin Powell.

I see no reason to believe that any western government is looking for excuses to join in a war against Russia — and if they wanted to, a Russian attack on Ukraine would be all the cause they’d need. Unlike Bush and friends.

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:41:29pm

re: #91 Belafon

Aw, right! Which of you motherf***ers have the balls to come up here and try and knock me off?

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:45:29pm

re: #112 Florida Panhandler

Palin’s divorce was finalized 2 years ago.

Fine Christian woman, divorced and everything. What’s even better is her living in NYC, that Liberal hellhole where no proper Conservative would willingly move to.

Fucking total hypocrite.

Granted but would you want to live in that meth cooking hellhole that is Wasilla?

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:45:32pm
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Sherlock Hound  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:45:54pm

re: #120 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I see no reason to believe that any western government is looking for excuses to join in a war against Russia — and if they wanted to, a Russian attack on Ukraine would be all the cause they’d need. Unlike Bush andfriends.

If Putin threatens the Baltics, Article 5 is going to come into play.

Whatever we’ve done in the past, we can’t look aside and do nothing now just because the US has done harm in the past, and we fear doing harm again. I’m waiting for Ilhan Omar to go on Twitter to say she won’t vote yes on some resolution on Ukraine, because we committed genocide against Native Americans in the past. (Tara Reade and her fellow bots have been making this point.)

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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:53:25pm

re: #123 jaunte

Wait, they want to shut down IH 495, the Capital Beltway?

Oh dear, I don’t think they know just how many vehicles that are available to push their trucks into the ditches on the sides of the Beltway.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:56:19pm

re: #123 jaunte

Brilliant. He and his friends get to piss off a lot of Maryland and Virginia state troopers in addition to whoever they rile up in D.C. itself. Plus a lot of of non-DC residents I am sure will be highly amused with some sort of mobile disruption.

Or there is the possibility that this guy goes completely unnoticed in the traffic snarl that is the Beltway.

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:56:21pm

re: #125 austin_blue

Bolus encounters national security response.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 20, 2022 • 8:59:17pm
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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2022 • 9:00:59pm

re: #127 jaunte

Bolus encounters national security response.

Well, there’s that, too. Fucking up access to D.C. just might get you killed.

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Tahitinho  Feb 20, 2022 • 9:01:16pm

re: #123 jaunte

I’ve driven that Beltway. It regularly shuts down just fine on its own.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 20, 2022 • 9:01:26pm

re: #124 Sherlock Hound

If Putin threatens the Baltics, Article 5 is going to come into play.

Whatever we’ve done in the past, we can’t look aside and do nothing now just because the US has done harm in the past, and we fear doing harm again. I’m waiting for Ilhan Omar to go on Twitter to say she won’t vote yes on some resolution on Ukraine, because we committed genocide against Native Americans in the past. (Tara Reade and her fellow bots have been making this point.)

All I know about Ilhan Omar’s position on Ukraine is that she retweeted Mehdi Hassan on Putin ‘s contributions to Ukrainian solidarity — why would you expect her to do any such thing? (I can think of one or two more likely candidates on the democratic side, but I’m hoping from some party discipline, in a situation as grave as this one.)

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jaunte  Feb 20, 2022 • 9:04:02pm

re: #130 Tahitinho

I have a feeling these guys aren’t going there to screw things up anonymously; they want the spotlight.

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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2022 • 9:10:55pm

re: #131 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

All I know about Ilhan Omar’s position on Ukraine is that she retweeted Mehdi Hassan on Putin ‘s contributions to Ukrainian solidarity — why would you expect her to do any such thing? (I can think of one or two more likely candidates on the democratic side, but I’m hoping from some party discipline, in a situation as grave as this one.)

Ilhan Omar speaks for herself and herself only. That will always be the D spin. She speaks for her constituents, not the D party.

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stpaulbear  Feb 20, 2022 • 9:25:14pm

I was playing Wordle archives today.

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austin_blue  Feb 20, 2022 • 9:37:58pm

Well, I’m off for the rack. But some notes.

We have booked our flights to the UK in early April and got a split-city fare (Austin —> Edinburgh, London—>Austin) for $648 each, round trip, the best fare we have ever gotten, and it’s on British Airways, where the food is good and the wine flows freely.

Y’all may want to look at spring travel, there are some fantastic deals out there.

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BeachDem  Feb 20, 2022 • 9:43:24pm

re: #126 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Brilliant. He and his friends get to piss off a lot of Maryland and Virginia state troopers in addition to whoever they rile up in D.C. itself. Plus a lot of of non-DC residents I am sure will be highly amused with some sort of mobile disruption.

Or there is the possibility that this guy goes completely unnoticed in the traffic snarl that is the Beltway.

I was just going to say the first time I drove on the beltway, trying to get from Rockville to Silver Spring, it was shut down for 2 hours because someone dropped a suitcase out of their car.

(I then figured out how to go all surface roads, which was fine, except for the time I turned one street too soon and pulled into Walter Reed and was surrounded by peeps with guns.)

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2022 • 9:57:16pm

re: #136 BeachDem

I was just going to say the first time I drove on the beltway, trying to get from Rockville to Silver Spring, it was shut down for 2 hours because someone dropped a suitcase out of their car.

(I then figured out how to go all surface roads, which was fine, except for the time I turned one street too soon and pulled into Walter Reed and was surrounded by peeps with guns.)

There are a bunch of nearby govt facilities that are unmarked. But if you accidentally pull into their driveway at all, a bunch of security comes out to greet you and have a little chat. I suspect that they are so used to lost motorists by now, that the show is somewhat pro forma.

There is also a local building in a nearby urban area that is unmarked. But if you try to take a picture of that local street, a bunch of security comes over to direct you to delete those pictures.

On the other hand, a highly secure facility used to be across the street from the DC Juvenile Detention Facility. Escapees were well known to cross the street, go into the facility’s parking lot, hotwire employees’ cars and later ditch them in DC. The parking lot had high barbed wire fences and signs saying that the guards were authorized to shoot. I have not heard of anyone actually getting shot. Probably too much paperwork.

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:03:35pm

The DC Region’s roads do tend to get snarled up by traffic. Although not as bad as before the pandemic.

However, I suspect that those deliberately contributing to the traffic mess are not going to be appreciated. Not by local commuters. Not by local businesses. And not by the various constabulary.

DC and Maryland politicians will also likely be actively and aggressively against these idiots. As will Regional Virginia politicians.

I do not know about the Virginia State level officials such as Youngkin, though.

Here’s an idea. Maybe these truck idiots can go down to the county of some ‘Constitutional’ Sheriff and screw with their traffic instead.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:04:47pm

I wonder how committed China is to any alliance with Russia. They need us — not their neighbor — for their economy to prosper. Other than some natural resources, what economic advantage does Russia really offer to China? Or is there some military Russian military asset that China believes will help them? Doesn’t China’s plans involve world domination through non-lethal economic and social domination, rather than use of their military?

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BeachDem  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:06:57pm

re: #137 ckkatz

There are a bunch of nearby govt facilities that are unmarked. But if you accidentally pull into their driveway at all, a bunch of security comes out to greet you and have a little chat. I suspect that they are so used to lost motorists by now, that the show is somewhat pro forma.

There is also a local building in a nearby urban area that is unmarked. But if you try to take a picture of that local street, a bunch of security comes over to direct you to delete those pictures.

On the other hand, a highly secure facility used to be across the street from the DC Juvenile Detention Facility. Escapees were well known to cross the street, go into the facility’s parking lot, hotwire employees’ cars and later ditch them in DC. The parking lot had high barbed wire fences and signs saying that the guards were authorized to shoot. I have not heard of anyone actually getting shot. Probably too much paperwork.

Well, after reading that, I’m glad they just told me to turn around and leave. (I meant to turn on Jones Bridge Road, but got ahead of myself. Never made that mistake again.)

That’s why I was so amazed when the vulgar yam was at Walter Reed and all of his “fans” were gathered in the street with loudspeakers etc. that they didn’t get run off immediately.

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:07:26pm

Some details on the size of Russia’s military deployment against Ukraine

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Jay C  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:17:20pm

re: #139 Hecuba’s daughter

I wonder how committed China is to any alliance with Russia. They need us — not their neighbor — for their economy to prosper. Other than some natural resources, what does economic advantage does Russia really offer to China? Or is there some military Russian military asset that China believes will help them? Doesn’t China’s plans involve world domination through non-lethal economic and social domination, rather than use of their military?

That’s actually a pretty interesting point when it comes to international competitions: just maybe an off-the-cuff opinion (worth every penny one doesn’t pay for), but with the possible exception of energy imports, I can’t see China - in the longer term, which they always think in - being anything but a rival to Russia, not an “ally”. I think the main arena for any conflicts is likely to be in Central Asia (the “‘stans”), which Russia has considered its backyard since Czarist times, and still maintains a lot of influence in. Although I have read that the Chinese have outlined serious plans (like the “Belt and Road Initiative”) to tie that whole region to China as economic dependencies, making them look East, not West (to Russia), for trade and development. Which is probably a more-attractive prospect - as China never seems to care how local governments behave…

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:17:57pm

Today’s Wordle!

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Targetpractice  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:19:12pm

re: #123 jaunte

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White privilege is announcing you’re planning an act of terrorism to the public and knowing you won’t have the FBI on your doorstep by day’s end.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:21:00pm

re: #32 b.d

They play dead when the hygienist asks about their flossing habits

But that’s a violation of their HIPAA rights.

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:21:32pm

re: #140 BeachDem

Well, after reading that, I’m glad they just told me to turn around and leave. (I meant to turn on Jones Bridge Road, but got ahead of myself. Never made that mistake again.)

That’s why I was so amazed when the vulgar yam was at Walter Reed and all of his “fans” were gathered in the street with loudspeakers etc. that they didn’t get run off immediately.

Yes, I suspect that they are used to lost motorists turning in the wrong spot. Glad that they didn’t give you much aggravation.

By the way, if you were heading inbound on Wisconsin Ave, pay very careful attention to the speed limit signs. That area is, or used to be, a really bad speedtrap.

I suspect that the group at Bethesda Naval Hospital was carefully positioned by tfg operatives after coordination with base officials.

I know of Syrian Christian immigrant while heading to a client’s office, turned one driveway too soon into an unmarked Govt facility. He realized his mistake and started to back out, but was stopped by security.

The security folks had a talk with him and then let him go. And did not take him out of his car. But still, not a good way to be late to an appointment with a client.

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:41:14pm

re: #139 Hecuba’s daughter

I wonder how committed China is to any alliance with Russia. They need us — not their neighbor — for their economy to prosper. Other than some natural resources, what does economic advantage does Russia really offer to China? Or is there some military Russian military asset that China believes will help them? Doesn’t China’s plans involve world domination through non-lethal economic and social domination, rather than use of their military?

Richard Engle tweeted a NYT article about this earlier today.

My guess is that China is using Russia to see if the US is in retreat. Which would allow China to grab up portions of Asia, such as Taiwan, without risk.

From the article:

The Biden administration plans to build up global coalitions to counter a pact between Vladimir V. Putin and Xi Jinping, portending a new type of Cold War.

*snip*
In recent weeks, the two nations negotiated a 30-year contract for Russia to supply gas to China through a new pipeline. They blocked a demand from Washington that the United Nations impose additional sanctions on North Korea for new missile tests, even though the two nations had agreed to similar sanctions before. And Russia moved large numbers of troops from Siberia to its west, a sign that Moscow, in preparing for a potential invasion of Ukraine, trusts China along their shared border in the east.

*snip*

“It’s certainly concerning, and it is not a positive development from the standpoint of U.S. national security or U.S. national interests,” said Susan Shirk, the chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego, and a former State Department official. “They have a kind of common perspective on the U.S. right now, and there is this affinity between the leaders.”

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China and Russia are not united by ideology, and they are in a marriage of convenience that Russia needs more. While Mr. Xi appreciates Mr. Putin’s defiance of the United States, he does not want the economic uncertainty that a European war would bring. China also traditionally insists on respecting every nation’s sovereignty, as Mr. Wang made clear on Saturday.

There are limits to what China would do to help Mr. Putin if he invades Ukraine. After Washington imposes sanctions on Russia, Chinese companies could buy more oil and gas from Russia and help fill some technology gaps, but the major Chinese state-owned banks would probably refrain from overt violations of the sanctions for fear of being shut out of the global financial system.

nytimes.com

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2022 • 10:54:38pm

Speaking of Information Warfare. Olga Lautman discussing possible fake twitter accounts:

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Targetpractice  Feb 20, 2022 • 11:02:05pm

re: #147 ckkatz

Richard Engle tweeted a NYT article about this earlier today.

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My guess is that China is using Russia to see if the US is in retreat. Which would allow China to grab up portions of Asia, such as Taiwan, without risk.

From the article:

The Biden administration plans to build up global coalitions to counter a pact between Vladimir V. Putin and Xi Jinping, portending a new type of Cold War.

nytimes.com

Yeah, the long and short of it is that Beijing is likely to take advantage of any damage done to the Russian economy to feather their own nest, but this is not the beginning of a new Russo-Sino Alliance. They’ll happily buy up Russian oil and gas while it’s cheap, and they might provide some materiel help, but they’re not going to help Moscow defy any economic sanctions or launder their money through Chinese banks.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 20, 2022 • 11:10:07pm

re: #92 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Oh god I remember that.

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2022 • 11:17:09pm

Heh….
(Can’t say one way or other about the allegation. But Lautman has some credibility with me.)

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Targetpractice  Feb 20, 2022 • 11:21:44pm

re: #151 ckkatz

Heh….
(Can’t say one way or other about the allegation. But Lautman has some credibility with me.)

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Download the file to a flash drive that you’re prepared to lose, then use a beater laptop that’s had all LAN connections (hardline, wifi, and bluetooth) walled off to open the file(s). Preferably after one of your IT guys has gone over it with a fine-toothed comb.

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2022 • 11:24:59pm

Amazing how many details there are:

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ckkatz  Feb 20, 2022 • 11:29:30pm

re: #152 Targetpractice

Download the file to a flash drive that you’re prepared to lose, then use a beater laptop that’s had all LAN connections (hardline, wifi, and bluetooth) walled off to open the file(s). Preferably after one of your IT guys has gone over it with a fine-toothed comb.

Reminds me of back in the 1990’s, somebody announced to the local Linux User Group that there was some malware designed for linux. A bunch of hobbyists reported that they had downloaded it and then dissected it, like some insect. In the end, they sounded unimpressed and even disappointed with it.

Apparently times have changed.

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Targetpractice  Feb 20, 2022 • 11:37:19pm

re: #154 ckkatz

Reminds me of back in the 1990’s, somebody announced to the local Linux User Group that there was some malware designed for linux. A bunch of hobbyists reported that they had downloaded it and then dissected it, like some insect. In the end, they sounded unimpressed and even disappointed with it.

Apparently times have changed.

Decades of being on the internet have taught me that the people most likely to encounter issues with computer viruses are the ones who will, when asked what they did, admit to doing the very things that they were warned dozens of times in various languages not to do.

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 20, 2022 • 11:56:16pm

Evangeline Lilly is “Lost.”

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Targetpractice  Feb 20, 2022 • 11:58:20pm

re: #156 DodgerFan1988

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Evangeline Lilly is “Lost.”

Yeah, I can’t imagine how someone could see a sea of assholes waving Nazi and Confederate flags and conclude that they’re racists…

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Captain Ron  Feb 21, 2022 • 1:01:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 1:24:08am

re: #1 Belafon

The entire right wing is so pissed that [AOC] won’t date them. It’s creepy as HELL.

And that is the main reason. On top of the fact that she is ethnic, urban, educated and media-savvy, their main issue with her is that she is really hot and they know that they don’t stand a chance in hell of ever getting over on her - and that drives them to distraction

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Targetpractice  Feb 21, 2022 • 1:27:12am

re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And that is the main reason. On top of the fact that she is ethnic, urban, educated and media-savvy, their main issue with her is that she is really hot and they know that they don’t stand a chance in hell of ever getting over on her - and that drives them to distraction

They’re the assholes at the bar who tell themselves that the hot chick who keeps blowing them off “must be a lesbian.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 1:29:29am

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

Virginia House passes bill to exempt religious organizations from nondiscrimination laws

Time for the Church of Satan to declare Contraception and Abortion as sacraments.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 1:53:22am

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate because of Biden’s open border.

839 pounds of deadly fentanyl was seized at the southern border in January alone.

As a rule, authorities seize no more than 10% of the overall volume, so that means another 3.8 tons of it most likely did get through

But blaming it entirely on Biden’s border policies is a conscious over-simplification of a much bigger problem.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 21, 2022 • 2:05:22am

re: #134 stpaulbear

I hear you. This was my first fail in like 40 games.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 2:08:04am

re: #99 DodgerFan1988

The Putinversteher are getting all fired up over at moonofalabama as well. To them, Putin is a peace-loving democratic hero and Biden a Zionist-Fascist warmonger…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 2:14:25am

re: #147 ckkatz

“New Cold War” is a term to be used with great care and caution: the Cold War was a global struggle for dominance over ideology and economic systems.

The new conflict is more about nations expanding their spheres of political, economic and military interest. And “recovering” lost territories (Former Soviet Republics/Taiwan).

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Teukka  Feb 21, 2022 • 2:37:20am

re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“New Cold War” is a term to be used with great care and caution: the Cold War was a global struggle for dominance over ideology and economic systems.

The new conflict is more about nations expanding their spheres of political, economic and military interest. And “recovering” lost territories (Former Soviet Republics/Taiwan).

What about “The Penis Length War”? I mean, that’s what this appears to be at the end of the day. Whose d*ck is the longest. That, and “chasing the dragon” (choice of expression very intended) of the glory of days gone past, just like any other junkie.

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Targetpractice  Feb 21, 2022 • 2:41:55am

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

Now imagine a world where even a fraction of the effort used to turn every drug bust at the border into major news was spent instead addressing the opioid crisis started and fueled by drug companies whose only opposition to illicit drugs is lost profits.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 2:44:15am

re: #166 Teukka

What about “The Penis Length War”? I mean, that’s what this appears to be at the end of the day. Whose d*ck is the longest. That, and “chasing the dragon” (choice of expression very intended) of the glory of days gone past, just like any other junkie.

Of course, any autocrat who can boast of military successes has a better hand, but again, Putin has a concrete short-term goal of re-establishing the Russian Empire either by direct annexation or forcing the countries into its political, economic and military sphere of influence.

China is pursuing similar goals in reoccupying Taiwan and expanding its hegemony over SE Asia.

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RoJo Must Go!  Feb 21, 2022 • 3:12:40am
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jeffreyw  Feb 21, 2022 • 3:48:02am

Good morning!

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The Squire of Logos  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:00:53am

Imagine my surprise…
cnet.com

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:02:07am

FDA may approve a second booster shot in the Fall, whether for all or particular subsets like the elderly, and if it should target omicron or be formulated differently. news.yahoo.com

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:04:35am

re: #171 The Squire of Logos

Imagine my surprise…
cnet.com

Once the bugs are worked out, I may have to get an account in the Fall to warn my fellow conservatives that participating in rigged elections is futile and the only principled stance to take is to boycott the midterm elections.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:23:59am

re: #170 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Good morning. Sunday’s Pizza dinner.

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jeffreyw  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:32:47am

re: #174 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Good morning. Sunday’s Pizza dinner.

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Extra sauce!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:34:35am

re: #173 No Malarkey!

Once the bugs are worked out, I may have to get an account in the Fall to warn my fellow conservatives that participating in rigged elections is futile and the only principled stance to take is to boycott the midterm elections.

Sounds quaint and Machiavellian, but in today’s climate that is playing with fire: they will see that call to “boycott” as an invitation to storm state capitols and/or polling places along with threatening poll workers and other election officials.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:36:05am

re: #175 jeffreyw

Extra sauce!

This is how it started. Added Canadian bacon, mushrooms, pineapple and extra sauce. I’ll be having left overs for lunch.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:44:57am

re: #177 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

How do you keep Canadian bacon from curling?

-Take away its little brooms!

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Dave In Austin  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:44:59am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:45:40am

And here we go….

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2022 • 4:56:28am

Good morning. Second guess wasn’t even a guess.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:12:22am

Because true geeks know to take precautions:

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ericblair  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:13:47am

re: #149 Targetpractice

Yeah, the long and short of it is that Beijing is likely to take advantage of any damage done to the Russian economy to feather their own nest, but this is not the beginning of a new Russo-Sino Alliance. They’ll happily buy up Russian oil and gas while it’s cheap, and they might provide some materiel help, but they’re not going to help Moscow defy any economic sanctions or launder their money through Chinese banks.

Seems China is happy enough to play along with Russia as long as it costs them nothing, but have no intention of changing any of their policies for Putin’s convenience.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:15:57am
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:16:20am

It’s been quite a while since I got one of these.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:18:36am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:21:18am

re: #183 ericblair

China is not going to take Russia to task for “recovering” its “lost provinces” as they have similar designs on Taiwan. Once the precedent is set and accepted, then their next move is all the easier.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:25:12am

First three in a while

Wordle 247 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:27:27am

While these are almost certainly Russian or separatist provocations (or combination thereof), the thing to really look for is a massive disruption of Ukraine’s communications, via cyberattack, more traditional jamming, etc. That’s when the shit hits the fan.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:29:31am

Space X launch this morning. 46 more Star Link satellites. Wonder if they actually checked the space “weather” this time and planned accordingly.

SpaceX is targeting Monday, February 21 for a Falcon 9 launch of 46 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The instantaneous launch window is at 9:44 a.m. EST, or 14:44 UTC.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:29:50am

The BRAINS IN VATS people once again try to comfort us that we have nothing to worry about when putting brain organoids into robots:

Youtube Video

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:31:46am

re: #166 Teukka

What about “The Penis Length War”? I mean, that’s what this appears to be at the end of the day. Whose d*ck is the longest. That, and “chasing the dragon” (choice of expression very intended) of the glory of days gone past, just like any other junkie.

Aren’t you describing wordle?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:35:33am

re: #170 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:38:15am

re: #191 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The BRAINS IN VATS people once again try to comfort us that we have nothing to worry about when putting brain organoids into robots:

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Davros approves of this development.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:39:04am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:41:49am

re: #191 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The BRAINS IN VATS people once again try to comfort us that we have nothing to worry about when putting brain organoids into robots:

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Tanks for the memories.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:43:49am

An anonymously written short horror story posted at sorryantivaxxer.com which is as good as any Stephen King has written, IMHO.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:44:23am

re: #196 Decatur Deb

Tanks for the memories.

Signed,

Abby Normal

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:47:33am

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

China is not going to take Russia to task for “recovering” its “lost provinces” as they have similar designs on Taiwan. Once the precedent is set and accepted, then their next move is all the easier.

I think the Chinese know that a full scale amphibious invasion of Taiwan won’t be anything close to easy, unless one thinks D-Day was a cakewalk.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:50:12am

re: #199 No Malarkey!

I think the Chinese know that a full scale amphibious invasion of Taiwan won’t be anything close to easy, unless one thinks D-Day was a cakewalk.

That will be a long-term project but they want to make sure that Russia has no room to object or even comment.

Don’t forget that China still has a large surplus male population. They can afford to lose six or ten million of them and it would actually help their demographics over the long term.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 5:52:36am

re: #199 No Malarkey!

I think the Chinese know that a full scale amphibious invasion of Taiwan won’t be anything close to easy, unless one thinks D-Day was a cakewalk.

And IIRC, China is still in the process of building their amphibious assault capabilities. They’re not quite to the point where they could launch a straight-up Normandy-style landing - that would take them awhile longer to get there. In any event, Xi Jinping strikes me as the type to play the long game.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:01:31am

Apparently, up soon is Russian Security Council meeting with Putin. If Putin decides to acknowledge the DPR and LPR as “independent entities” from Ukraine, then….well, all bets are off. Then he’s going in.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:02:55am

This morning’s breakfast pron: Mashed potato cakes.

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Ming5000  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:06:01am

re: #180 Dr Lizardo

And here we go….

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The request may have been an answer to a journalist’s question.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:07:13am

re: #202 Dr Lizardo

Apparently, up soon is Russian Security Council meeting with Putin. If Putin decides to acknowledge the DPR and LPR as “independent entities” from Ukraine, then….well, all bets are off. Then he’s going in.

Then the question would be will it be a limited incursion into the separatist regions, or a full-scale invasion aimed at Kyiv?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:09:29am

re: #203 Dopamine Fish

This morning’s breakfast pron: Mashed potato cakes.

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Do those also have shredded potato’s in them?

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:10:51am
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:11:19am

re: #206 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Do those also have shredded potato’s in them?

No. It is 1 cup mashed potatoes, 1 egg, 1/3 cup flour, and “some amount” (I kinda winged it) of shredded cheddar cheese and diced ham. They didn’t quite get fried all the way through; one was still very soft in the center, the other kinda soft but not so much. Based on this information, I would say they should fry for about 4 minutes a side.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:13:24am

from Telegram:

“The Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of Ukrainian armored vehicles in Russia - two infantry fighting vehicles. In the Rostov region.”

We knew it was a matter of time before Ukraine invaded Russia…

I suspect that Putin has a sign above the bar in his datcha that reads “It’s gotta be 5:45 somewhere!”

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:14:31am

re: #207 Belafon

Great news!!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:17:45am

re: #208 Dopamine Fish

No. It is 1 cup mashed potatoes, 1 egg, 1/3 cup flour, and “some amount” (I kinda winged it) of shredded cheddar cheese and diced ham. They didn’t quite get fried all the way through; one was still very soft in the center, the other kinda soft but not so much. Based on this information, I would say they should fry for about 4 minutes a side.

Thank you. Favorited your post for future reference.

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:29:13am

A guy in Portland at a BLM protest (likely MAGA) shot 4 women and a guy (one woman dead). Police will not confirm if an arrest was made (or pretty much anything). This is the only article I could find with any detail whatsoever.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:29:29am

Dic pic incoming

Wordle 247 4/6

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:33:36am

T -12 till lift off.

spacex.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:36:05am

re: #180 Dr Lizardo

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:38:50am

Yes… Ukraine waited until 75% of the Russian army was arrayed along their border and then invaded Rostov with a small group of IFVs.

BS that is pretty much for internal consumption I guess.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:49:23am

Wordle 247 4/6

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:50:27am

re: #214 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Clicked your link with 16 seconds to lift off…watched until MECO. Thanks.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:54:52am
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darthstar  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:57:11am

The struggle is real.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:58:32am

re: #219 Dr Lizardo

So now he wants to just start annexing it in bits and pieces?

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Decatur Deb  Feb 21, 2022 • 6:59:26am

The distance from Kiev to Moscow is approximately 1/2 of a conventional Tomahawk’s effective range.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:02:51am
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Dangerman  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:02:55am

re: #221 darthstar

So now he wants to just start annexing it in bits and pieces?

…….

Salami slice Ukraine: Rather than a full-bore invasion, Putin could effectively annex a small strip of land adjacent to Russia. By not engaging in a massive attack, he might avoid the worst sanctions. Then, after he got a small strip, he could go after the next strip. Rinse and repeat. It has worked before. If you remember your world history, you know that on August 4, 1772, there was a country called Poland. On August 6, 1772, it was still there, but smaller. On January 23, 1793, it was still there, but smaller still. On October 24, 1795, there was no more Poland until after World War I. It could be a playbook for Ukraine, except this time Germany and Austria aren’t going to help out

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:03:47am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:04:00am

re: #220 darthstar

LOL, I saw that and the Dead Kennedys song “Winnebago Warrior” immediately popped into my mind.

Youtube Video

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:09:05am

re: #222 Decatur Deb

The distance from Kiev to Moscow is approximately 1/2 of a conventional Tomahawk’s effective range.

It’s Monday. My brain isn’t working well. At first I thought you meant Tomahawk as in the the throwing weapon and I was like “uhhhh….”.

Then I realized you you meant a missile.

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:17:50am

Of course she is

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:21:37am

re: #228 gocart mozart

Malignant trolls, unite.

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:22:31am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:27:55am

re: #221 darthstar

So now he wants to just start annexing it in bits and pieces?

worked with Czechoslovakia…

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:28:06am

re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As a rule, authorities seize no more than 10% of the overall volume, so that means another 3.8 tons of it most likely did get through

But blaming it entirely on Biden’s border policies is a conscious over-simplification of a much bigger problem.

Unless there is a more effective strategy in place. But probably not.

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mmmirele  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:29:09am

re: #212 gocart mozart

A guy in Portland at a BLM protest (likely MAGA) shot 4 women and a guy (one woman dead). Police will not confirm if an arrest was made (or pretty much anything). This is the only article I could find with any detail whatsoever.

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Apparently the mayor (Ted Wheeler) and the Portland Police Bureau are being very cagey about this, presumably wanting to get through the long weekend without having any riots as a result of police inaction. Some of the locals are fairly pissed off. This isn’t over yet.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:30:21am

re: #232 Hecuba’s daughter

Unless there is a more effective strategy in place. But probably not.

I am of the opinion that the cartel bosses let 10% get “confiscated” to make it look the the police and border guards they have in their pockets are doing their job.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:33:26am

I had to get out the ol’ Scrabble tiles to solve this one.

Wordle 247 4/6

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⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:34:42am
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:36:58am

re: #163 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I hear you. This was my first fail in like 40 games.

Wordle 247 X/6

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🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨
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So much luck in the game— all depends on the starting words. One puzzle took me 6 and my sister failed, while her son got in in 4 because his go-to word included the needed letter among a choice of 5.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:39:37am
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lizardofid  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:42:57am

re: #232 Hecuba’s daughter

Unless there is a more effective strategy in place. But probably not.

Odds are they were discovered during a routine inspection at a legal crossing, so it’s doubtful there’s a more effective “acceptable” strategy. It felt like we were hours away from another Jan 6 over delayed avocados.

//

Oh good morning!

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:43:02am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:45:43am
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:48:36am

Dang. My water heater just went. I put a call into the plumber. Hopefully he calls me back today. :(

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:49:30am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:49:58am

re: #239 lizardofid

Odds are they were discovered during a routine inspection at a legal crossing, so it’s doubtful there’s a more effective “acceptable” strategy. It felt like we were hours away from another Jan 6 over delayed avocados.

//

Oh good morning!

They will be smuggling the avocados concealed under shipments of fentanyl, cocaine and marijuana sprinkled on top.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:50:40am

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

Price is right losing horn

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:52:43am

re: #236 Dr Lizardo

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:54:45am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:56:34am

I guess the only question now is will Putin be happy with taking the separatist areas and annexing them to Russia proper, or will he roll the dice and try to take the entirety of Ukraine?

Stopping at the Dnieper River would be logical, but it presents a major problem, especially if the Ukrainian government relocates to Lviv and launches an insurrection to retake the Russian-occupied areas. NATO could quite easily supply a rump Ukrainian state with all manner of weapons, which would pose a real threat of a protracted and bloody insurgency war. Thus, in order to forestall that possibility, there is a likelihood that Putin could decide to continue a military offensive….right up until it runs into the borders of NATO members Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:58:16am

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Border post” is questionable. Looks like someone’s toolshed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:58:59am

Is it 5.45 yet?

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 7:59:43am

re: #241 Dr Lizardo

So a Russian incursion could involve attacking cities in Ukraine. I hope the West responds with the most painful possible sanctions for Russian oligarchs.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:03:38am

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

Guys. Please do the world, and yourselves a favor and get rid of this man.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:06:07am

re: #251 No Malarkey!

So a Russian incursion could involve attacking cities in Ukraine. I hope the West responds with the most painful possible sanctions for Russian oligarchs.

One of my Czech students earlier today suggested a new Beneš Decrees, though aimed at Russia.

en.wikipedia.org

The Beneš Decrees are still technically in effect, and as the article notes, are used to this day by the Slovaks to confiscate property from Hungarians in Slovakia.

That being said, there’s a strong argument to be made that the Beneš Decrees constitute war crimes, chiefly, ethnic cleansing and deprivation of due process of law. To which my student countered, “They’re (Russians) animals anyway. Europe will be a much better place without Russians contaminating it.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:06:48am

after all this experience, one would think they’d be better at making up shit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:07:09am
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:10:18am

Plumber just called back and he can give me more details tomorrow. He told me that there may be a delay with a water heater because of supply chain issues (COVID-19 most likely) and he can handle the other things easily.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:11:48am

re: #252 GlutenFreeJesus

Guys. Please do the world, and yourselves a favor and get rid of this man.

They would likely be killed for tying.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:14:20am

re: #257 Eclectic Cyborg

They would likely be killed for tying.

Only if they fail.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:14:40am

re: #258 GlutenFreeJesus

Only if they fail.

“If you come at the king, you best not miss.”

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Teukka  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:17:38am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:18:57am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:20:57am

re: #253 Dr Lizardo

There is no International Law, there is simply What You Can Get Away With Internationally. Beneš knew that nobody would speak up, much less intervene on behalf of the Germans and other minorities he was expelling.

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:24:31am

re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As a rule, authorities seize no more than 10% of the overall volume, so that means another 3.8 tons of it most likely did get through

But blaming it entirely on Biden’s border policies is a conscious over-simplification of a much bigger problem.

The first part is a crappy framing that plays into the interpretation on the right. If only 10lbs were seized under Trump, that doesn’t mean that only 100lbs made it through. It really isn’t helpful to try to reason that the fractions are anywhere close to correct.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:25:37am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is no International Law, there is simply What You Can Get Away With Internationally. Beneš knew that nobody would speak up, much less intervene on behalf of the Germans and other minorities he was expelling.

Which is right. International law is playground law. There is no adult or other superior authority that is going to step in and enforce “rules”. It’s simply lesser, equal, or greater peers who may or may not decide to let you do something and get away with it.

The various agreements and the UN are attempts to make the major wars less likely and work out disagreements since the powers realized that WW1-WW2 caused themselves a lot of internal and external economic harm and to a large degree are not worth fighting compared to other solutions.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:27:52am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is no International Law, there is simply What You Can Get Away With Internationally. Beneš knew that nobody would speak up, much less intervene on behalf of the Germans and other minorities he was expelling.

Precisely. He knew he could get away with - and he did. IIRC, it was done with the knowledge and (tacit) approval of the WWII Allied Powers. To the best of my knowledge, no one said to Beneš, “Uh…you really sure you wanna do that, buddy?”

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Belafon  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:32:27am

Someone on DK I think gave a good part of the reason Putin is doing this: A truly Democratic Ukraine would cause Putin all sorts of problems domestically.

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lizardofid  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:36:18am

re: #266 Belafon

Someone on DK I think gave a good part of the reason Putin is doing this: A truly Democratic Ukraine would cause Putin all sorts of problems domestically.

There might be some Hong Kong parallels there.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:39:23am

re: #265 Dr Lizardo

Precisely. He knew he could get away with - and he did. IIRC, it was done with the knowledge and (tacit) approval of the WWII Allied Powers. To the best of my knowledge, no one said to Beneš, “Uh…you really sure you wanna do that, buddy?”

International law is enforced by the great powers, therefore it usually falls more heavily on smaller states than large ones. But this may be Putin’s attempt to back away without losing (too much) face, since those breakaway regions were already pretty much under Russian control.

It would be a very bad idea for western powers to let this pass, no matter how little it actually changes things.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:40:06am

re: #266 Belafon

Someone on DK I think gave a good part of the reason Putin is doing this: A truly Democratic Ukraine would cause Putin all sorts of problems domestically.

Also, there’s been rumors for several years that Putin suffers from some malady (the most common of those rumors is Parkinson’s Disease, but there’s stories about cancer scares as well) and that he figures he needs to act now while he’s still in relatively good health.

It’s been suggested that one motivation for Hitler’s rush to war in 1939 was his hypochondria - he was apparently obsessed with the notion that he was going to die of cancer (no doubt caused by the trauma of his mother’s untimely death from breast cancer) and that if he didn’t act right then and there, then Germany would have no future.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:42:07am

re: #268 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

International law is enforced by the great powers, therefore it usually falls more heavily on smaller states than large ones. But this may be Putin’s attempt to back away without losing (too much) face, since those breakaway regions were already pretty much under Russian control.

It would be a very bad idea for western powers to let this pass, no matter how little it actually changes things.

Of course. There must be severe sanctions and economic measures taken against Russia in response. That goes without saying. If I were POTUS, I’d be slapping Russia on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, with all the serious consequences that entails and then tell to Putin to go suck it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:42:28am

re: #263 Belafon

The first part is a crappy framing that plays into the interpretation on the right. If only 10lbs were seized under Trump, that doesn’t mean that only 100lbs made it through. It really isn’t helpful to try to reason that the fractions are anywhere close to correct.

The main issue is not the drugs getting smuggled/confiscated: that is all secondary compared to the reason behind the demand, one which America created “legally” on our side of the border.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:43:11am
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:45:27am

re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thanks. That was beautiful. Adult cat know her “person” likes the bed a certain way. Smart cat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:45:49am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:46:15am

re: #269 Dr Lizardo

It’s been suggested that one motivation for Hitler’s rush to war in 1939 was his hypochondria - he was apparently obsessed with the notion that he was going to die of cancer (no doubt caused by the trauma of his mother’s untimely death from breast cancer) and that if he didn’t act right then and there, then Germany would have no future.

His generals (and especially his admirals) really wanted him to wait until 1943 until he had the army and navy properly equipped and enough reserves or fuel and munitions on hand to win a war.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:48:08am
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Florida Panhandler  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:48:16am

re: #248 Dr Lizardo

I guess the only question now is will Putin be happy with taking the separatist areas and annexing them to Russia proper, or will he roll the dice and try to take the entirety of Ukraine?

Stopping at the Dnieper River would be logical, but it presents a major problem, especially if the Ukrainian government relocates to Lviv and launches an insurrection to retake the Russian-occupied areas. NATO could quite easily supply a rump Ukrainian state with all manner of weapons, which would pose a real threat of a protracted and bloody insurgency war. Thus, in order to forestall that possibility, there is a likelihood that Putin could decide to continue a military offensive….right up until it runs into the borders of NATO members Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.

Moldova and Romania, if they value independence, should be very concerned right now. Once they are “annexed” the now authoritarian Hungary will quickly pledge “sympathy” with Putin’s “repatriation of Russian peoples” and align with Russia. Dictators flock together.

Turkey is likely alarmed at once again having the Russian presence encircling and increasingly encroaching on their area of influence. This is not going to end well at this rate.

It is not exactly WW1 nor is it WW2. It is a new potential World War type initiated by malignant trolls with massive egos and access to nuclear weapons. The supposed deference to corporate and oligarchical interests avoiding hot war cannot be counted on when nationalist egos and the personal honor of a dictator is involved. The optimistic outlook is that the problem will ‘take care of itself” inside Russia (a body falling out of a Kremlin window) but with modern techniques and technology of internal security this cannot be counted on.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:48:56am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

His generals (and especially his admirals) really wanted him to wait until 1943 until he had the army and navy properly equipped and enough reserves or fuel and munitions on hand to win a war.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:50:26am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

His generals (and especially his admirals) really wanted him to wait until 1943 until he had the army and navy properly equipped and enough reserves or fuel and munitions on hand to win a war.

And his generals were entirely correct. Then again, it’s a good thing for us that he didn’t listen to such sage counsel.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:51:53am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:54:45am

heh

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:56:36am

re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth

The law working as intended.

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darthstar  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:58:03am

re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

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Wait list? Are they running credit checks on potential members to assure they can meet the donation/tithing requirements?

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:59:05am

re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth

In other words, the Texas voting effort to discriminate against black people by making it as difficult as possible to vote is going perfectly.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:59:37am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

His generals (and especially his admirals) really wanted him to wait until 1943 until he had the army and navy properly equipped and enough reserves or fuel and munitions on hand to win a war.

The problem with that theory is that the other countries were beefing up their militaries as well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 8:59:50am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:03:00am

re: #285 No Malarkey!

The problem with that theory is that the other countries were beefing up their militaries as well.

Especially Hitler’s main enemy, the USSR…

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:03:03am

re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth

The pessimistic outlook is that it will unfortunately take the Russian people seeing a steady flow of body bags back home to be enough to have them take care of business against Putin. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

Dictators suck.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:04:59am

it never ends…

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:07:09am

re: #289 Backwoods_Sleuth

It will never end as long as a Trump family member is alive.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:07:44am

re: #242 PhillyPretzel

Dang. My water heater just went. I put a call into the plumber. Hopefully he calls me back today. :(

Cold showers suck

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:10:03am

re: #291 Eventual Carrion

Yes they do. And I have a whole lot of moist towelettes. :)

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:10:25am

re: #288 Florida Panhandler

The pessimistic outlook is that it will unfortunately take the Russian people seeing a steady flow of body bags back home to be enough to have them take care of business against Putin. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

Dictators suck.

We’re talking Russia. They’ll likely never see such a thing.

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:11:11am

Youtube Video

Click to Reveal

Wordle 247 3/6

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:12:54am

re: #289 Backwoods_Sleuth

it never ends…

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I’m seeing Parade magazine…

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Jay C  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:14:05am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

His generals (and especially his admirals) really wanted him to wait until 1943 until he had the army and navy properly equipped and enough reserves or fuel and munitions on hand to win a war.

Except that Hitler was working along another timeline as well (AFACBD). After Britain and France basically did nothing after he annexed the Sudetenland (and reacted to the occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia mainly by “strengthening” their commitments to Poland) he knew he had a limited window to act before the Soviets got into the act: which he dealt with by the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact - launching the war in 1939 on the assumption that the Germans would win a quick knockout in Poland (with Russian help), and that he would be able to stall/temporize/”negotiate” the British and French into ending the conflict soon after.
He was wrong about that, of course, but was “proved right” by the results of the Battle of France in 1940…..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:14:22am

re: #288 Florida Panhandler

Many Russians are ethno-nationalists with a bent towards the old ways.

It will take a lot of pain and suffering to see Putin up-ended in a revolt.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:18:39am

A Cockroach in Lipstick……..

I’m forever using this.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:20:14am

re: #293 Dr Lizardo

We’re talking Russia. They’ll likely never see such a thing.

Just like in the US where a million dead from Covid are invisible to MAGA nation.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:23:21am
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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:24:17am
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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:24:33am

re: #285 No Malarkey!

The problem with that theory is that the other countries were beefing up their militaries as well.

And they didn’t have the resources to build enough weapons and ammo. They were too short on almost everything and lost the war by declaring war. See Tooz “Wages of Destruction” for details.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:27:29am

re: #293 Dr Lizardo

We’re talking Russia. They’ll likely never see such a thing.

They will hear about it…

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:30:03am
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retired cynic  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:30:16am

re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth

I need to show that video to Pippi. She always objects to me straightening the bedclothes.

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William Lewis  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:30:49am

re: #293 Dr Lizardo

We’re talking Russia. They’ll likely never see such a thing.

One word: Afghanistan

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:31:18am
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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:32:37am

re: #307 Dr Lizardo

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Putin is going to break somebody’s address?

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:34:05am

re: #308 wrenchwench

Putin is going to break somebody’s address?

From what I saw on my Telegram account…

Putin to recognise the separatist regions of Ukraine - announcement at 21:00 MSK on State TV. Source: @Donbassr Telegram

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b.d  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:36:04am

re: #307 Dr Lizardo

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I was hoping Putin would make his announcement on TruthSocial.

:(

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:36:07am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:37:19am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:37:27am

Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance tried to do damage control on Monday after retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey suggested that he is a Russian “stooge.”

After Vance said that he did not care if Ukraine is invaded by Russia, McCaffrey tweeted condemnation of the GOP candidate.

“JD Vance is a shameful person unsuitable for public office,” the retired general wrote on Twitter. “His comments are those of a stooge for Russian aggression.”

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:37:28am

re: #309 Dr Lizardo

From what I saw on my Telegram account…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:38:54am
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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:39:20am

The Russians didn’t pray in Uman. Or maybe they did but Breslov just doesn’t have the social media skills that Chabad has.

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retired cynic  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:40:46am

Opinion: Trump’s legal problems are about to get a whole lot worse
by Jennifer Rubin
washingtonpost.com

A federal judge ruled last week that a trio of civil claims against defeated former president Donald Trump for his actions on and before the Jan. 6 insurrection can proceed. The cases, brought by 11 members of Congress and two Capitol Police officers, are a reminder that civil liability could deal a substantial blow to the instigator in chief.

In a 112-page opinion, District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta dismissed certain claims against Donald Trump Jr., former Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), all of whom joined Trump in his rally preceding the violence. But the language of the ruling was devastating for Trump. “The first ever presidential transfer of power marred by violence was over,” the court explained. “These cases concern who, if anyone, should be held civilly liable for the events of January 6th.”

A deeper look into the opinion, which cut a lot of legs out from under TFG’s arguments.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:40:48am

re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth

“JD Vance is a shameful person unsuitable for public office”

So Vance responds by promising a retaliatory investigation of McCaffrey, proving the general’s point.

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Orange Impostor  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:42:54am

re: #134 stpaulbear

I was playing Wordle archives today.

Wordle 130 X/6

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🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩

I hate Wordle.

You peaked my interest in this one, and even though I got it, it was only by sheer luck.
Eighteen different letters in the first four words, with no carry-overs from word to word.
Wordle 130 6/6

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:44:48am

re: #291 Eventual Carrion

Cold showers suck

Years ago, due to me being well…not great with money at the time, I became unable to pay my propane bill and as a result lost my access to hot water (and my stove) for a couple of months.

Fortunately, we had a neighbor willing to let us use his shower in the short term. One night, I needed a shower but didn’t feel like going through the whole song and dance of dragging my stuff to the neighbors place so I took a cold shower.

I wasn’t fond of the experience, but after I got out I started thinking about how many people the world over don’t have access to clean water to be able to do what I had just done…and it made me realize how much those of us in wealthy nations really do take for granted.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:45:56am

Alexa, show me some Schadenfreude.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:46:25am

Wordle 247 3/6

⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:48:28am
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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:53:00am

re: #321 The Pie Overlord!

Alexa, show me some Schadenfreude.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:55:11am

From Ukrainian President Zelensky:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:55:35am

good grief, he is such a moron

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:55:35am
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EstebanTornado1963  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:58:45am
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Grunthos the Flatulent  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:58:47am

The next day, I walked into a bar. The barman said, “Wordle you have?”

Click to Reveal

Wordle 248 4/6

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gocart mozart  Feb 21, 2022 • 9:59:22am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:00:54am

re: #330 gocart mozart

Hold up.

Leonardo Da Vinci was Tommy Chong in disguise??

/

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wrenchwench  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:02:08am
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Captain Ron  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:03:17am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:04:06am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:04:52am
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jaunte  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:09:58am
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jaunte  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:11:02am

The Catherine Hall in the Kremlin Senate Palace.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:13:11am

re: #336 jaunte

A long line of officials - some enthusiastically, some looking terrified - urge Putin to recognize the DNR.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with the assault rifle.

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jaunte  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:14:00am

re: #338 Eclectic Cyborg

Two tea carts.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:14:06am

re: #327 gocart mozart

The “plummet” is 2% more than the next two highest on that list.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:14:46am

Vladimir Putin will recognize the independence of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine (Kremlin)

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No Malarkey!  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:17:02am
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:17:03am

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mathler.com 20 3/6

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:17:10am

re: #341 Dr Lizardo

Poutine?
thefreedictionary.com

The French must be having a laugh over that one.

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A Cranky One  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:18:26am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:19:51am

re: #342 No Malarkey!

That’s either the most uncanny coincidence in modern human history or this has been planned for at least the last year or so.

Right down to the time of launching an invasion…..0400 on 22 February, 2022.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:24:58am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:26:01am
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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Feb 21, 2022 • 10:42:54am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

Years ago, due to me being well…not great with money at the time, I became unable to pay my propane bill and as a result lost my access to hot water (and my stove) for a couple of months.

Fortunately, we had a neighbor willing to let us use his shower in the short term. One night, I needed a shower but didn’t feel like going through the whole song and dance of dragging my stuff to the neighbors place so I took a cold shower.

I wasn’t fond of the experience, but after I got out I started thinking about how many people the world over don’t have access to clean water to be able to do what I had just done…and it made me realize how much those of us in wealthy nations really do take for granted.

Absolutely. Nothing like a long, hot shower with an ice cold beverage with cubes to make you feel privileged.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 21, 2022 • 11:35:15am

re: #342 No Malarkey!

Some how this old Russian creep will never be closer than 500km from the actual shooting. Where are his balls? Where is his rifle and boots? What a coward.


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