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The Landmark edition of Julius Caesar's war diaries is excellent. Marvelous annotations and maps help you orient yourself to modern place names, and the nations and events and personalities tied to the same vicinity before and after.
The Landmark series also includes Herodotus, which will be next up. I've already read Travels with Herodotus by Kapuściński, which I think will pair nicely with it.
Then on to Thucydides, Xenophon, and Arrian's Alexander....
You should have posted your 6:25...
(after his...)
“The mayor is in great spirits. He’s a beast. He survived 9/11,” bankrupt and disbarred Rudy Giulliani's security chief said.
Giuliani, 81, was hospitalized with a fractured vertebrae and multiple cuts and bruises, including injuries specifically to his left arm and lower leg, after his rent-a-car was hit from behind, in Manchester, NH.
Indeed, he survived the the attack on the Twin Towers along with eight million other New Yorkers.
Your generous spirit and care for your fellow Americans is duly noted, ‘fly 🪰.
It sure is easy to spot the non-Christians in the wake of the Catholic school shooting. Mocking “thoughts and prayers” is a pretty good clue.
Wow, gad.
Just before the crash, Giuliani had stopped to assist a woman who flagged him down as a victim of domestic violence. He contacted police on her behalf and remained at the scene until officers arrived. The collision occurred shortly after he resumed driving and was unrelated to the earlier incident.
It's interesting how some people reveal their true character - either through actions - or comments on an Internet board.
Putin is the reason that Canadians don't feel safe!
https://x.com/katewerk/status/1962152726550434052
Not just that, but Putin is behind all of the immigration problems Europe is experiencing!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/29/european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-blames-russia-for-eu-immigration-crisis/
Honestly, the propaganda they expect us to buy seems designed for unusually credulous twelve year olds
I wonder if gadfly thinks that he is winning friends and influencing people.
They play like the statement we control the narrative is still true. Now even Ann doesn’t buy anything they’re selling…
…except subscriptions…
gadfly continues to keep it classy. Hate based as always, if it's not the Joooos, it's TDS max. as usual, leaves out nonessential items, because 'score points' , and more hate.
good exercise for him would be to look at pics of famous Jew haters and TDS sufferers, before and after. all that hate eats your soul sweetie.
Great photos today!
…They were really really counting on the Supremes backstopping all their shit. I can’t tell if they’re hoping to hang on long enough to reconstitute tue Supremes in some way or if they’re already defeated with nowhere else to go…
An interesting google search is "Syrian christian massacre." Remember when Obama moved US troops into Syria to bleed them dry by occupying their wheat fields and oil fields, starving them and creating a huge refugee crisis in Europe, then Trump ordered US troops out, and the US military disobeyed, and we kept sanctions on Syria over some disputed claims about chemical weapons, which Stephen McIntyre maintains were not at all credible, and then the US and Israel and Turkey finally destroyed the government there and put the head choppers in charge? Oh yeah, and we took the $30 million price, which was there for terrorism, off of Syria's new leader's head, that was cool.
The US Open hat stealing guy, Piotr Szczerek, defended his actions by saying he's faster and stronger (than a child). His wife posted that the kid got a "pro bono life lesson".
These people seem perfectly matched. It's so nice they found each other.
I keep saying - it's hard for Democrats to be plain old Democrats now, since the party has declared its hills to die on to be things that make no sense to the normies. And the few who are trying to be moderate - wasn't it Wes Moore who finally admitted that he didn't want his daughters facing dongs in the locker room or biological males on the playing field? Isn't it Ezra Klein who's trying to get them to abandon their bizarre obsessions with who has sex with whom to focus on how to get housing built? - get dragged mercilessly by their own side.
The problem is that Trump is mostly a Clinton Democrat with a few fiscally conservative policies. Where does that leave today's Democrats?
They play like the statement we control the narrative is still true.
It must be extraordinarily frustrating to be an elite newspaperman or a TV talking head, especially an old dinosaur who remembers the days of Walter Cronkite and Punch Sulzberger, and have to come to grips with the fact that half the country is not just suspicious of everything you say, but will consider it proof to the contrary until demonstrated otherwise. The Democrat Party bigfoots miss those days even more acutely. No wonder they have been working so assiduously to censor the public on social media, here and elsewhere in the so-called "free world".
I look forward to the day when former TV producers and newspaper reporters are selling flower bouquets on street corners to support their families. Let us work for the complete and total destruction of the journalistic establishment. There is no way that any human being can hate the news media as much as they deserve.
Personally, I have decided against using the term "normies" anymore. I have used it plenty as shorthand, but people think that it is an insult, when really, what I mean by "normie" is a "kind-hearted person of strong morality who wants what is best for the world." These people are the easiest to manipulate. Their kind hearted morality is like the tuning knob on a radio to propagandists.
Where is the picture of Meade taking the picture of Althouse taking a picture of sunrise?
I greeted the sunrise this morning, having been up all night observing with the 12.5". It was a good night.
I knew that newspapers were getting thinner. I didn't realize the print was also getting smaller. If you get the NYT paper edition I'd imagine the temptation (if reading glasses or a magnifying glass weren't close at hand) would be just to ignore everything and cancel the subscription. It seems like the actual newspaper is now just a feeble adjunct to the website.
I use "normies" in the same ssense that gay people began using "gay" and "queer" (the latter of which is now off limits again to the gay folk) - to wrest it back from those who want to use it to deride.
"The problem is that Trump is mostly a Clinton Democrat with a few fiscally conservative policies. Where does that leave today's Democrats?"
An even better question is where does that leave an actual conservative while Democrats are bitching about a mostly Democrat in the White House?
"His wife posted that the kid got a "pro bono life lesson."
The pro bono life lesson is that there's always going be an asshole somewhere in your life, and you gotta be ready to punch that motherfucker right in the balls.
"Their kind hearted morality is like the tuning knob on a radio to propagandists."
See: Borat
"Their kind hearted morality is like the tuning knob on a radio to propagandists."
See: Borat
That guy Cohen is one of the most despicable assholes on the planet. People were nothing but nice and accommodating to him and he shit all over them. A very typical leftist. I'd spit in his face if I ever met him.
Mason G @6:27, a question I ask myself frequently! But given the real-world alternatives of "Clinton Democrat with some fiscally conservative policies and a bunch of people in the cabinet concerned about the economic condition of my country who do not subscribe to MMT" versus "any declared Democrat" - I have to go with the Clinton Democrat.
"I have to go with the Clinton Democrat."
Oh, I'm not arguing against that. What I'd really like to know is why conservatives can find a way to accept (because they don't really have much of a choice not to, I suppose) a Clinton Democrat while the Democrats can't.
I mean- aside from the obvious observation that way too many Democrats are just assholes.
I'm gay, except when I'm serious, and even then I'm lighthearted, and never albinophobic. #HateLovesAbortion
"Normies" used to be the regular, mainstream Americans. Lately, though, it's come to signify those who aren't in the know about what's really going on. Regular, mainstream Americans to be sure, but those who still listen to the network news (or to no news at all) and aren't aware of the bitter conflicts going on in the country (at least in the eyes of those who use the word).
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"Conservatives" were mostly just for show. I don't have a problem with a 1980s Democrat in the White House if he makes the right decisions on the issues that matter.
"I don't have a problem with a 1980s Democrat in the White House if he makes the right decisions on the issues that matter."
I'm not arguing against that, either.
Why is Trump trying to start a war with Venezuela?
Probably trying to encourage a coup vs Maduro. Or discourage Venezuelan adventurism in Guyana.
Any time Jaq begins "Remember when" I know he's going to write things I don't remember because they didn't happen. The overthrow of Assad was done by the Syrian people, with a lot of help from Turkey and a little from a few Ukrainians training the rebels to use drones. Neither the US nor Israel had any part in it. Assad fell because he'd murdered half a million of his fellow Syrians and tortured at least as many more. He fell the same way Ceaucescu did: gradually, then suddenly, when everyone turned on him except his guiltiest accomplices, who abandoned him to save their own hides.
As for the idea that "Putin is behind all of the immigration problems Europe is experiencing", that's an exaggeration, it's not all, but he and his lapdog Lukashenko are certainly behind a lot of it. The fact is that Belarus imports tens of thousands of Third World refugees and buses them straight to the Polish border, encouraging them to cross. They do it to screw over Poland. It's only been a few weeks since Poland had to authorize its troops to use live ammunition in blocking the crowds cutting holes in the fence, since they were getting more violent. I believe Russia has done similar things on a smaller scale on its borders with Finland and other countries, encouraging Third Worlders to sneak across on bicycles. Anyone who doesn't already know this doesn't know much about the cold (or lukewarm?) war Russia and its allies are waging against NATO and the EU. I'm pretty sure Iran and Qatar are also financing the 'migrants' crossing the Mediterranean from Libya and Morocco.
"Why is Trump trying to start a war with Venezuela?"
Or is he trying to create a diversion away from his health issues or maybe Epstein?
It would be more honest to write "his alleged health issues".
"Why is Trump trying to start a war with Venezuela?"
“Or is he trying to create a diversion away from his health issues or maybe Epstein?”
Wag the dog…
Theres not enough on station to make a significant attack on Venezuela. 7 -8 ships. A show of force not a serious threat.
First time I read normies it was by one of us describing us. Never heard it used despairingly. Perfectly good term.
Someone using it in a negative manner is calling themselves abnormal. Think about that for a second- calling themselves abnormal. How many supporters is that going to garner?
The Washington Post Metro section today had an article about the paltry amount of rain we had in August following lots of rain in June and July. They explained that “ Extreme dry and wet spells, often in short succession, are a hallmark of human-caused climate change.”
When I mentioned this to my wife she said, “Huh. We used to call it‘weather.’l
Obama's ethnic Springs? Second Iraq war and regional conflicts? Biden's progress and Afghan affair?
Epstein as in Democratic nondiscrimination for sexual orientation (e.g. homosexual, pedophile)? As in abortion of the "burden" of evidence in sanctuary states? The wicked solution?
Sequester the thought.
Climate is defined as a normal weather distribution over a 30 year period. Yeah, unattributed single digit temperature anomalies with irregular modeled features is change in the cisclimate sense without evidence of catastrophic transitions, anthropogenic or otherwise. Look out for subsidence and islands tipping.
At 79, Trump is the oldest person to assume the presidency for a second term, and age-related health concerns are a natural point of discussion, especially given his history of heart disease risk factors (e.g., weight, lifestyle) and family history of dementia.
Concerns are not issues, and pretending that they're the same thing is an obvious Motte-and-Bailey defense of a false statement.
Dr. Weevil said:
"Anyone who doesn't already know this doesn't know much about the cold (or lukewarm?) war Russia and its allies are waging against NATO and the EU."
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Last night, you claimed that if a person wrote "Kiev" instead of "Kyiv", they knew nothing about Ukraine or its politics.
Utter rubbish.
So here you are again, committing the same egregious fallacy.
"Academic logicians might categorize this under "faulty syllogism" or as a type of non sequitur, since the conclusion (no knowledge of the broad subject) doesn't logically follow from the premise (ignorance of one specific fact)." --AI
FAIL
"age-related health concerns are a natural point of discussion,"
Unless it's a democrat in office.
The fact that Russia and its allies push thousands of migrants across the borders into the EU and NATO as a weapon of war is not "one specific fact": it's a major aspect of contemporary history. You didn't know it either, did you? Here's an interesting sentence from the Russianists at Harvard (link): "In 2020, the Polish border guard detained 122 migrants crossing the [Belarusian] border illegally; in November of 2021, they recorded twice that number in a single day."
As for Kyiv vs. Kiev, calling the capital of Ukraine the latter is a political act, just as much as calling Izmir 'Smyrna' or Istanbul 'Constantinople' would be. People who do that are sometimes just not thinking, but sometimes they are - as Jaq always does - acting as shills or dupes for Russian propaganda.
Try calling Zimbabwe 'Rhodesia', or Sri Lanka 'Ceylon', or Taiwan 'Formosa', and see what the locals think.
Maduro is weakening. His greatest coup, the election of Colombias President Gustavo Petro, is turning very sour.
https://thecitypaperbogota.com/news/petros-disapproval-rises-to-64-as-colombians-abandon-leftist-agenda/
I was in Madrid shortly after Petro's head of state visit in 2023 and went to have a look. The city of Madrid puts on a good show for these things, at the 16th century Plaza de la Villa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_la_Villa_(Madrid)
complete with a squadron of cavalry (in retro uniforms, with lances) supplied by the mounted police.
@ Weevil: Trump’s reported weight has varied across official records. In August 2023, he claimed 215 pounds during his Fulton County Jail booking. Earlier, in April 2023, he reported 240 pounds at his New York arrest. Most recently, a White House physical exam in April 2025 listed him at 224 pounds. These self-reported figures, often inconsistent with public perceptions, have fueled debate, as they rely on Trump’s own disclosures rather than independent verification.
Given the historical precedent with figures like JFK, whose health details were concealed for decades, the full truth about Trump’s health may remain obscured until long after his public life, as such information is often tightly controlled or selectively released.
Lukashekos (Belorussia) repeated threats to acquire or use nuclear weapons is part of the coordinated harassment/saber rattling. Lukashenko is Putins puppet.
Via Substack : If Guns kill people, Pencils misspell words, Cars drive drunk, and Spoons make people fat.
Your concerns are noted. Still no evidence that he has health issues, and the fact that he had a 3-hour cabinet meeting just a few days ago suggests that he's more than healthy enough to do his job.
buwaya:
It's always worth remembering that Lukashenko allowed Putin to use Belarusian territory to invade Ukraine in 2022. Looks a lot like a war crime to me. When Putin falls, I expect Lukashenko to follow within days.
Weevil, just keep pretending you're a geopolitical mastermind, and everyone else is stupid. You presented your original claim as the sine qua non of modern Cold War politics---instead of it arguably being an important aspect of it---and you assert it again here, committing the same fallacy!
And as I said last night, the entire world pronounces the national and place names of other countries according to their own practice and language. Germany, France and Italy all pronounce Ukraine's capital as "Kiev". So calling people ignorant because YOU don't like the common terms contining to be used is just plain perverse.
If you wanted to slam Jaq for using Kiev, you should have sharpened your statement. But you made it a universal. Still, he's not under any compulsion to comply. What if he's Russian, as many here suspect? Why should he now pronounce what was known as Kiev in....the Ukrainian language?
Your attempts to invoke Rhodesia , Ceylon and Formosa are wildly off the mark. YOU were the one who took offense to a variant spelling and pronunciation of a city name--NOT to a country name--and attached a political sting to it.
Further, it's been 50 years or so since the countries you mention have been recognized by their new names. The Passage of time has allowed them, like "Istanbul", to become "standard" . Anyone using the old names would be meant with puzzlement, not offense.
Chill
"Given the historical precedent with figures like JFK, whose health details were concealed for decades, the full truth about Trump’s health may remain obscured until long after his public life, as such information is often tightly controlled or selectively released."
Completely ignoring the elephant in the room.
"Why is Trump trying to start a war with Venezuela?"
Because he is dead.
The historical spelling of Kiev was changed following the coup and subsequent desire to approve the Slavic Spring in Ukraine.
Yeah, and why can’t we call it the Ukraine anymore?
Epstein was last week -- and soon to be last month. I don't know what happened, but Trump didn't need to wag the dog to make that go away.
If Trump is sick, we'll find out about it soon enough. It's not like he's a Democrat.
I still call it Kiev. I still call Paris, Paris verbally- I don't call it "Paree". I call Germany, Germany, not Deutchland. I call Spain, Spain, not Espana. An English speaker is properly calling it Kiev without fear of being wrong.
Telling someone who's not at all angry to 'Chill' looks like some kind of logical fallacy. It's certainly asinine.
Speaking of which, has effinayright figured out yet that I'm not the one who brought up the question of whether Putin is responsible (in whole or in part) for the 'migrant crisis' in Europe? That was Jaq, who said (5:44pm) that the statement "Putin is behind all of the immigration problems Europe is experiencing!" is obvious propaganda aimed at 12-year-olds. Apparently he not only didn't know that there is a great deal of truth to the statement, but couldn't be bothered to find out before sneering at it. Pointing out that rather large gap in his knowledge is not a logical fallacy, and only a fallacious or fellatious pedant would think it was.
I'm old-fashioned and still attached to Lemberg.
'The Ukraine' is what Russian triumphalists call it because etymologically it means 'Borderlands' and they use it to imply that it's not a real country and deserves to be re-enslaved to Russia. If 'Low Countries' implied something bad - low as in debased or degraded - and the people of the Low Countries asked us to stop calling them that, decent people would of course do so. Come to think of it, that's just what happened with 'Gypsies' and 'Bushmen': decent people say 'Roma' and 'San' these days.
“Epstein was last week -- and soon to be last month. I don't know what happened, but Trump didn't need to wag the dog to make that go away.”
Wishful thinking. It’s not going away.
“At a press conference on September 3, 2025, several victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's abuse will speak publicly, with some making statements for the first time.
The event is organized by Democratic Representative Ro Khanna and Republican Representative Thomas Massie to advocate for the release of all Department of Justice (DOJ) files related to Epstein.”
So we have the Ruskies to thank for The United States? Sly bastards.
In re Taiwan/Formosa - the Taiwanese aren't upset at "Formosa", it just sounds obsolete/quaint. Its really a compliment in Portuguese, it means "beautiful", as that island is in fact, and the Taiwanese understand it that way. Taiwan is the normal term.
I always thought calling the country The Ukraine gave it cachet. Here’s Poland, Russia, Finland and The Ukraine. Sets it apart like the United Stated is set apart from Canada, Mexico, etc. Change was for the worse not the better.
There's many things untouchable. Epstein, government bloat, the Israeli lobby, what's inside Fort Knox
Inga:
I've pointed this out at least three times on this blog, but I guess I have to point it out again. If the DOJ files related to Epstein include films of people having sex with children, they cannot be released publicly. It's illegal to even look at such films, unless you are an authorized law enforcement officer, and even then only under the strictest of conditions. Everyone seems to think that those films exist, which means that anyone who demands that "all files" be released is being either very stupid or very dishonest. Which of those groups includes Khanna and Massie, I will not try to decide.
Eva Marie said...
Yeah, and why can’t we call it the Ukraine anymore?
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Or the Sudan, or the Lebanon, the Congo, or the Yemen? I suspect it was the BBC, which dropped the "the's" a long time ago.
They were colonial-era naming conventions, so they were likely ended gradually when the colonies won their independence.
@Inga: They should title their Epstein "bombshells" , "A Cavalcade of Hearsay".
I don't know about the others, but I believe the government of Ukraine says that "Ukraine" without the "the" is the correct name of their country in English. They would know. In other words, not the BBC, at least in this case.
Dr Weevel, you’re right. I just think it sounded better the other way but that’s just a matter of taste.
Iman: Blame the New York Post. I couldn't have made that up their story on "America's mayor." It was almost as good as his Four Season's Total Landscaping press conference.
The Ukraine was descriptive of an unincorporated territory between empires before it became an independent nation in its own right.
and Spoons make people fat
That’s just silly. Everyone knows it’s forms that make you fat.
So, the boys and girls play as couples in gay delight on the Isle of Lesbos. Lesbians are a fetching Mediterranean sight to behold. It must be the mild climate, sea breeze, and unprocessed diet.
Dr Weevil said...
'The Ukraine' is what Russian triumphalists call it because etymologically it means 'Borderlands' and they use it to imply that it's not a real country and deserves to be re-enslaved to Russia.
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YES! And if you don't know this really, really, important FACT, You know NOTHING about Ukraine's historical conflicts with Russia!
Right, Weevil?
SNORT
Dr Weevil said...
I don't know about the others, but I believe the government of Ukraine says that "Ukraine" without the "the" is the correct name of their country in English. They would know.
>>No they wouldn't . They can't control how other countries and other languages refer to their country. But:
"In 1993, the Ukrainian government explicitly **requested** that, in linguistic agreement with countries and not regions, the Russian preposition в, v, be used instead of на, na, and in 2012, the Ukrainian embassy in London further stated that it is politically and grammatically incorrect to use a definite article with Ukraine"
>>So it was a political thing.
>> In any case, it's very clear it's not something Dr. Weevil gets to decide. Let's see if he tries to use that reasoning on the Congo, the Levant, the Lebanon, the Yemen, the Argentine, the Sudan..........
And so, to bed.
You guys must all be lawyers. You fucking argue about anything. Who really gives a shit about any of this?
There was a find of a large oil deposit off the coast of Guyana, the old British Guiana. Exxon Mobil is pumping oil under licenses from Guyana and has built a headquarters building in Georgetown.
Since the border with Venezuela has been in dispute for over 100 years it appears to me that at least part of the reason for sending ships is to keep the Venezuelans away from the American oil facilities. Venezuela voted to recognize a disputed region as a Venezuelan province.
I am not following the story closely. Here is a Wikipedia article. The border dispute has an interesting history of actions.
I follow the energy industry. People regularly say that solar power gets unfair subsidies. It has taken the US Navy to protect the flow of oil from faraway places. No such military expense is needed when sunshine is the fuel that arrives at a solar panel. Not only is the US Navy not needed, Exxon Mobil is not needed, either. Sunshine arrives on its own for free. What a deal!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana%E2%80%93Venezuela_crisis_(2023%E2%80%932024)
Sunshine suffers from inconvenient technological facts. Among them are that solar doesnt scale at all well and it is very hard to use in most applicatons where oil is stiill vital. Just to begin with. Oil is a very big deal for excellent reasons.
read "The Prize", Yergin.
An Arleigh Burke class destroyer has a powerplant rated at 4MW (million watts). A modern solar panel under ideal conditions gives 400watts (3.25 ×5.4 ft). Under ideal conditions an Arleigh Burke class ship would require 10,000 solar panels to replace its gas turbines, which would cover an area larger than a squadron of Arleigh Burkes.
@Inga
Enough with Trump is sick or dead, and that that his slight acquaintance with Epstein will harm him.
Saw him in person a year ago. He was walking down the hall, with his entourage in front of and behind him. Walking faster than most people 20 years younger walk. Stopped on a dime when he saw us, waved (my partner believes at her - that he recognized her since she was in the front a year ago because she was temporarily on a walker). Then took off again at a fast walk, on the way to the garage, and a trip across town for an hour long speech. He’s 4 years older than I, and is more energetic than practically anyone else my age I have seen.
Rarely does a day go by that we don’t see or hear from him. Usually several times a day. He really doesn’t take vacations, but instead fits in a round of golf. But then, several months ago, when he was under attack for that, pointed out that he had just negotiated a peace treaty between holes. He does more on a daily and monthly basis than any President in your or my lives, many several decades younger.
And compare him to Biden who was, essentially, a vegetable, for much of his term in office. He might get 3-4 hours doing something in the working part of the WH, 3-4 days a week. Maybe. He spent most of his term in office on vacation. He was a front man for his WH staff, who would prop him up, fill him full of drugs, and pretend to be alive and engaged, maybe once a month.
We had a do-nothing President, followed by a do-everything President.
As to Epstein, there is still no evidence that Trump did anything inappropriate with him, whatsoever, beyond very occasionally jet-pooling between NYC and Miami, where they both had residences. No trips to his Pedophile Island (where Bill Clinton was a frequent traveler, and his corrupt wife even visited several times) or his Sex Palace in NYC. Epstein was banned from MAL. And in her day long interview last month, Maxwell stated on multiple occasions that she had no experience of or information on Trump having done anything inappropriate around her.
Frankly, your constantly bringing up these fake, wishful thinking, scandals is boring. Esp when you do it repeatedly on pretty much every thread you comment on. Boooring.
Two-thirds of the way through the Labor Day weekend there have been 43 people shot in Chi-town.
Ok JB, you don’t want the National Guard in Chicago, so what’s your plan? Oh, you don’t have one?
Meanwhile, while Inga tells us that Trump is either dead, or close to it, last week:
“The president issued a new directive ending collective bargaining agreements at NASA, the International Trade Administration, the Office of the Commissioner for Patents, the National Weather Service, the US Agency for Global Media, hydropower facilities under the Bureau of Reclamation, and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.”
Too late for me (I am retired), but I am excited by this, nevertheless. Incompetent patent examiners, protected by their union, have been the bane of existence for patent attorneys (and agents) since they were unionized.
"I didn’t just leave the Democratic Party. I ran screaming from them. On Friday night, I was reminded once again why.
The news hit X that Trump had died. It wasn’t true, of course, but for some reason, those who think that the only way to gain back power from Trump is “mess with him” or “troll him” seemed to think this was funny."
Sasha Stone - Trump Derangement Syndrome: The Movie
Amazing shows of anger and frustration in Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. People fed up with illegally immigrating Islamic people, in particular. I so hope those governments change course but not holding my breath. Scary to think a few western nations could be overrun and forever lost to history if nothing done to stop the inflow and remove the unwelcome asylum seekers.
Thankful for Trump.
A comment on my post above this. This is open to nonsubscribers and is best experienced by listening to the audio of Sasha reading the whole presentation, imho. Great to accompany a morning walk. This is a dead solid perfect bullseye from her. Amazing stuff to explain what TDS sufferers are completely unable to see.
Just across the border from Mexico in McAllen, Texas, cotton fields are about ready for harvesting. The National Farmworkers Ministry worries there won’t be enough workers available for the gins and other machinery once the fields are cleared.
Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
There will be no cradle rocking in McAllen or down in Louisiana about a mile from Texarkana in the them there cotton fields.
How cotton is really picked, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8bRe-L02o4&t=71s
Randy Travis’ wife defied medical advice to ‘pull the plug’ during country star’s stroke recovery battle (New York Post)
"Randy Travis’ wife believes there was “never a doubt” in her husband’s head that he would make it through his debilitating stroke, even though doctors advised her to “pull the plug.”
During an interview with Fox News Digital, Mary described a crucial moment in Travis’ two-and-a-half-year health battle, and that was when doctors told her to end her husband’s life.
...
Mary went full “mama bear” on the doctors and told them that her husband wasn’t done fighting, and they were “going to fight with him.”
“And I meant that, and Randy meant it. And I knew at that point in time, because he had every odd in the world against him, and he wasn’t giving up. And I was so encouraged by that, to be honest. He was my inspiration,” Mary said."
More at the link.
I note that @gadfly's certainty of actual future performance is supported by the "worries" of a faith based group that allegedly supports farm workers. Did the "worries" come accompanied by any data? What group is responsible for verifying the reliability of the proffered data, if any is to be made available?
Are you making an argument, or are you just making yourself feel better, like those who fantasized about the DEATH OF TRUMP this past weekend? I note the dancing along to a song I would be nervous about spontaneously singing in a mixed race setting.
Be aware of what we see when we read what you write.
Did Putin destroy the government in Syria? Did he start the war in Iraq, did Putin overthrow the government in Libya? What about Afghanistan, which I have pointed out many times, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor has publicly bragged about starting by arming, training, and funding the Taliban, on Russia's border, in 1979, to bleed them by forcing them to respond. The same way we armed, trained, and funded the neonazis in Ukraine to give Russia heartburn.
It's the same pattern. If these refugees from Western wars end up in Russia, and they really want to go to the West, wouldn't it be some kind of war crime to keep them in Russia against their will? It wasn't Russia that destroyed their homelands, so that our terrorist proxies could rule over the rubble, like in Syria.
You are very good at giving half the facts. But I guess that is all that is contained in the propaganda that you read.
Imagine if China funded, armed, and trained a jihadi army in Quebec, who then took over the government and imposed Islamic law, would the US respond?
We almost started a nuclear war over missiles in Cuba when we had already but missiles in Turkey. Kennedy got us out of it, removed the missiles from Turkey (they don't talk about that in popular history (half the facts) in exchange for the Soviets removing their missiles from Cuba. Well then JFK's brains got publicly blown out, and the missiles went right back into Turkey.
Afghanistans troubles started with a Soviet supported military coup that overthrew the King. The coupists proved incapable of dealing with the reaction hence the Soviet invasion to protect their puppet.
Our interventions in Syria and Libya were the major causes of the flood of refugees into Europe. Not Putin. It was NATO.
gadfly said...
Just across the border from Mexico in McAllen, Texas, cotton fields are about ready for harvesting. The National Farmworkers Ministry worries there won’t be enough workers available for the gins and other machinery once the fields are cleared.
Democrats will never forgive us for freeing their slaves.
🪰 vs 🌎
Brzezinski: According to the official version of the story, the CIA began to assist mujahedeen in the year 1980, that is, after the invasion of the Soviet army against Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the truth that remained secret until today is quite different: it was on July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed his first order on the secret assistance to Kabul’s pro-Soviet regime opponents. That day I wrote a memorandum to the President in which I told him that that assistance would cause the Soviet intervention (…) we did not force the Russian intervention, we just, conscientiously, increased the intervention possibilities.
https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2014/08/brzezinskis-mad-imperial-strategy/
Basically we used the jihadis the same way we used the neonazis in Ukraine.
It continues, the interview:
NO: When the Soviets justified their intervention by affirming they were fighting against a secret American interference nobody believed them, though they were telling the truth. Don’t you regret it>
B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. Its objective was to lead the Russian to the Afghan trap, and you want me to regret it? The very same day the Soviets crossed the Afghan border I wrote the following to President Carter: “This is our chance to give Russia its Viet Nam.”
If you think that these means were justified to take down the Soviet Union, the subterfuge, the lying, the support for terrorism and naziism, just admit it. It would be more honest. Why not just say "what's a few exited Jihadis" the way Brzezinski did in 1999?
If you have heard different its the same leftover Soviet propaganda. It was going to the left in those days, now much has been recycled to the right.
The Soviet Union left behind a tremendous stock of operation, agents of influence and propaganda memes, which have continued to kill people long after their masters disappeared. Zombie memes.
“Meanwhile, while Inga tells us that Trump is either dead, or close to it…”
Inga did no such thing.
Grundoon said...
No such military expense is needed when sunshine is the fuel that arrives at a solar panel. Not only is the US Navy not needed, Exxon Mobil is not needed, either. Sunshine arrives on its own for free. What a deal!
It just requires child slaves to mine the materials.
You know why most solar panels are made in China? Because China just dumps the toxic waste that is produced while converting raw materials to solar panels. Same with batteries by the way.
Solar power isn't really going to be useful terrestrially. That would better be used as farm land anyways. Nuclear is better on the surface.
Save solar panels for space. We will need the shade up there anyways and the radiation isn't muted by atmosphere.
I just hate the lying. It's insulting.
Not to mention that had Afghanistan gone full communist, it would have ended eventually as communism fell, and you know what crime the communists were never guilty of? Treating women the way fundamentalist Islamics do.
"If you have heard different its the same leftover Soviet propaganda"
Did they use ventriloquism in that interview with Brzezinski? The author of The Grand Chessboard who proposed using Ukraine as the anvil to smash the Russian Federation and turn it into a collection of satrapies which we could then loot?
“@ Inga…
Enough with Trump is sick or dead…”
Just WHERE and WHEN have I ever said this? Your imagination? I made fun of people who declared presidents were dead prematurely. Get your criticisms correct.
Nazis were also a perennial in Soviet propaganda.
The Soviet system persists in the careers of its personnel, who have given a start to new generations of others. Institutional culture is remarkably persistent.
Eva Marie said...
So we have the Ruskies to thank for The United States? Sly bastards.
I always thought it was a conceit much like those college kids saying "THE Ohio State University" before a game.
But thinking about it it is hard to say United States since it is a grouping of nouns much like European Union. The Soviet Union or the United Arab Emirates.
So that would infer that people who call it "The Ukraine" are considering it a confederation of provinces.
The main driver of the war right now is European Warmongers. It looks like Ukrainians get to keep dying until Europe has some elections. Europe is very keen on fighting to the last Ukrainian to keep the Maidan Coalition together. Ukraine's losses are close to or have already surpassed the 30% threshold of military aged males killed where a political tribe surrenders depending on how you count the men who have left Ukraine over the last several years. This war is over unless western troops are deployed.
I am sure that any leader that declares war on Russia and starts deploying troops into Ukraine will be wildly popular.
"Satrapies which we could then loot" - That IS Soviet propaganda. Its how they referred to NATO members, EU members, etc. This is OLD, 1940s-50s stuff. I am curious how the US/EU "looted" Eastern Europe.
“Inga did no such thing.”
Inga mad now.
The chief driver in the 70s was the Pakistani ISI. US aid became significant only later, before that such attempts were derided in the ISI insider "The Bear Trap" - the ISI decided who would get what, not the US. Also check out "Charlie Wilsons War".
"European warmongers" like the Balts, Poles Finns Swedes?
Thats an awful lot of warmongers. Talk about diversity. Maybe its just that nobody likes the Russians?
"Nazis were also a perennial in Soviet propaganda."
So no reply to the substance, just thought stopping clichés, which are the hallmark of propagandists everywhere. When Brzezinski was asked this question, how did he respond?
When the Soviets justified their intervention by affirming they were fighting against a secret American interference nobody believed them, though they were telling the truth. Don’t you regret it?
He casually allows that there was an "official story" which buwaya swallowed hook, line, and sinker, and "the real truth."
I actually think that you are an intelligent guy, you should read Brzezinski's book, he agrees with you, he's Polish, and he carries a burning hatred of Russia because of what the Georgian Soviet, Stalin did to Poland, which was pretty bad. But what Hitler did was pretty bad too, IIRC. But read it with the thought "what if the US is really following this plan?" Because Brzezinski looks like Nostradamus predicting US wars. Don't just accept what you hear because you deeply want to believe it.
Or maybe you already know all of this, and are just pushing propaganda consciously, I have no way of knowing.
"The Bear Trap" Mohammed Yousaf on Amazon used, not available on Kindle. US aid was zip per the ISI. Brzezinski is not the best source as his nose was way in the air. Perfumed prince syndrome.
"like the Balts, Poles Finns Swedes?"
They got played like little children by the neocons. How is it working out for the Finns? The Poles are now on the side of the Bandarists, the ones who slaughtered Polish farmers to ethnically cleanse the part of Ukraine that Hitler and Stalin handed over. That has to stick in their craw. The Lithuanians? Polish and Yiddish were the most widely spoken language in the city of Vilnius, which was part of Poland, before the fascist took over. Oddly, the speakers of those languages disappeared during the Holocaust.
"Brzezinski is not the best source "
Brzezinski was Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser in 1979, at the time that these events happened. But I am sure that some coverup book that you would rather believe has the true facts.
buwaya said...
"European warmongers" like the Balts, Poles Finns Swedes?
Thats an awful lot of warmongers. Talk about diversity. Maybe its just that nobody likes the Russians?
People are under this misconception that you have to "like" the Russians to want this war to end.
You just have to actually give a shit about the little people in Russia and Ukraine who don't care about the Maidan Coalition's ultranationalism Or Putin's insecurities.
There is also this misconception that Russia will lose the war gracefully and allow regime change in Russia to happen. The chances Russia "loses" this war without a nuclear exchange are not good enough for any sane person to keep this foolishness up.
But if you want to vote for people who will declare war on Russia and send your kids to fight go for it.
Lots of Russians did bad things to Poland, not just "a Georgian". Lots of Russians did bad things to everyone on their borders.
'Also check out "Charlie Wilsons War".'
Please watch propaganda based on the "official story" which has been admitted by a US official at the highest level was a lie.
"Lots of Russians did bad things to everyone on their borders."
Lot's of Germans did bad things, lots of Ukrainians did bad things, when does this die? You go fight them. What has Russia ever done to America? They helped us defeat the Nazis and sold us Alaska. This is an Old World feud, you guys settle it yourselves.
Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health.
Kakistocracy said...
Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health.
Go back to the kiddie table. Adults are speaking.
"Bear Trap" is not a coverup book. It was published almost contemporaneously with the end of the USSR involvement. Its POV is Pakistani, not US. It is in parts both triumphant and bitter.
"when does this die?"
When, finally, the Russians start doing good things?
And here's Jaq (6:58am) repeating the same lie I've corrected half a dozen times before: that the US was "arming, training, and funding the Taliban, on Russia's border, in 1979". One more time: the Taliban was founded in 1994, five years after the Russians left Afghanistan. The Taliban is NOT the same thing as the Mujahideen, and most of the latter fought against the Taliban when they were founded. The US supported them, the 'Northern Alliance', not the Taliban, which was supported by Pakistan.
Jaq also writes (7:17am) that "had Afghanistan gone full communist, it would have ended eventually as communism fell". Really? North Korea and Cuba have been brutal communist tyrannies a lot longer than that, and China and Vietnam are just as totalitarian politically, though they've loosened up a lot economically. How can any thoughtful person write such crap? (That's easy: a thoughtful person didn't.)
Speaking of North Korea, Jaq vehemently denied that North Korean troops were fighting for Russia against Ukraine. Kim just held a big ceremony honoring the hundreds who were killed there. Will Jaq admit he was wrong? Will he be more careful in the future? All signs point to 'no' on both counts.
People who think it would be a good thing if Russia broke up into its constituent ethnic parts, turning pseudo-republics into actual republics, don't want to make them 'satrapies' and steal all their resources. They (we) just want them to act like normal countries.
The break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I, though messy, was a good thing, and all of the countries that emerged from it are better off now. The only mistake was that it didn't go far enough, and further divisions were necessary: the peaceful division of Czechoslovakia into two parts, and the unfortunately bloody division of Yugoslavia into seven parts.
Similarly, the breakup of the Soviet Union was a good thing, but didn't go far enough. It would be much better if the various ethnicities that were arbitrarily included in Russia were free, though first the Russians need to be convinced to give up the pieces of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia they either kept or have since seized back.
I note that Iraq is selling its oil on the world market for whatever the going price is, despite claims that the Bushes only fought Saddam so they could steal his oil. Jaq's claims about 'satrapies' are equally false, and obviously so.
Brzezinski tooted his own horn, er, quite a bit. It was Reagans crew tgat actually won the Cold War. And, NB, actually provided substantial aid to the Afghan rebels.
Dr Weevil said...
People who think it would be a good thing if Russia broke up into its constituent ethnic parts, turning pseudo-republics into actual republics, don't want to make them 'satrapies' and steal all their resources. They (we) just want them to act like normal countries.
Now do the European Union and the United States.
Dr Weevil said...
The break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I, though messy, was a good thing, and all of the countries that emerged from it are better off now. The only mistake was that it didn't go far enough, and further divisions were necessary: the peaceful division of Czechoslovakia into two parts, and the unfortunately bloody division of Yugoslavia into seven parts.
This is a good idea. The United Kingdom is a good place to start. Alberta wants out of Canada. Germany. France. Spain. Turkey. China. India. VanDerLuen is all over Europe right now banging the war drums on behalf of the EU.
Oh wait I am sorry your hatred of Russia doesn't allow you to think critically and you post stupid things. I forgot.
Anyone who doesn't hate Russia for its current actions in Ukraine, Georgia, and the rest of the world, is either evil or stupid, or both.
And I have no objection whatsoever to Scottish, or Welsh, or Albertan, or Catalan, or Puerto Rican, independence, if that's what the people want, and am very much in favor of Kurdish independence, since the Kurds overwhelmingly do want that. I do not support the efforts of the Russian minority in the Donbas (1/6th of the population when they voted, undoubtedly less now) to force the majority to join Russia.
The only one who seems to have difficulty thinking critically here is, as usual, Achilles.
I want the best things in the world for everyone more than you people do.
So there.
Dr Weevil said...
Anyone who doesn't hate Russia for its current actions in Ukraine, Georgia, and the rest of the world, is either evil or stupid, or both.
Scott Ritter is objectively more patriotic than you are and infinitely more persuasive than you are.
Really you are just a chicken hawk coward that doesn't really know what he is talking about and you are so morally juvenile and ridiculous you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
I would honestly like to hear what life experiences you have that make you in any way qualified to talk about whether people should fight a war for you.
Your hatred is born of obvious ignorance. Russians are just as human as we are.
You are a terrible person that just wants Ukrainians to die so you can feel less like a failure.
More stupid lies from Achilles, who admires twice-convicted pedophile Scott Ritter. I would honestly NOT like to hear what life experiences have made Achilles a Ritter fan.
Of course, no one is fighting a war for me, Ukraine is fighting a war for their own freedom and independence, and have never asked me or any other American to fight for them, only asked us to supply the weapons and ammunition we have a surplus of so they can defend themselves. As I have noted before several times, to deafening silence from Achilles, Jaq, and the rest, we have hundreds of surplus F-16s and thousands of M-1 tanks lined up in the desert that we will never use again, and it would cost less to ship them to Ukraine than it will cost to dismantle them and recycle their parts according to EPA standards, as will have to be done eventually if we keep them. It would literally cost less than nothing to provide these very effective weapons to Ukraine, as we are morally obligated to do by the Budapest Memorandum and common decency.
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