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93 komento:
Does the sturgeon-fishing craze extend to Madison? It seems to be a fishing craze unburdened by the actual catching of fish. (FYI, there are sturgeon in Lake Mendota.) From the WSJ:
For Two Weeks, Wisconsinites Try to Spear an Elusive 200-Pound Fish
Locals huddle in ice-fishing huts, toast the gods and wait for the haul of a lifetime; ‘It’s like duck hunting through a chimney’ …
Most years, fewer than 9% of the 11,000 or so people who buy licenses on Lake Winnebago catch a fish. Last year, thanks to unusually cloudy water and dodgy ice, the figure was cut to 5.3%. …
Steve Jordan and Mark Livingstone have gone empty-handed many years, but keep coming back. 'We’re not too bright,' Jordan quips….
David Naiser had low expectations when he decided to join friends on their fourth sturgeon-stalking expedition. The group had only seen a fish once….
On opening day, Micheal Boushele grilled brats next to his family’s fishing shanty under sunny skies. The 35-year-old Oshkosh native has been coming since he was a kid, but lets others do the spearing. He prefers peering into the water and keeping the traditions going.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/for-two-weeks-wisconsinites-try-to-spear-an-elusive-200-pound-fish-f009711e
I was reading an article on The Athletic today about the MLBPA's new Executive Director, Bruce Meyer. There was a blurb for another article about him, which noted that he is "known for his blunt negotiating style" and adds that he has "developed a reputation for unwavering conviction and limited interpersonal charisma." The last three words made me laugh out loud. It's like saying, "He's not a [jerk], he just has 'limited interpersonal charisma'."
And what's with the naked dude up in Wisconsin who stole the ambulance with a patient in the back and led police on an 18-mile chase? He's muscling in on Florida Man's turf!
I'm a big fan of Olympic curling. Amazing sport. I tried curling once on a professional sheet in Minnesota, and it was great fun. Beers all around.
But like its' analogue, bar darts, it is a sport truly meant to be played with a glass of beer near at hand. Seems almost obligatory.
The Olympics needs to combine beer drinking with curling as an event. I'll leave it to other commenters to suggest details, but if nothing else, think of the sponsorship opportunities.
I like the rockpile in the picture. It's good to change things up occasionally. It reminds me of some of the rocks I've seen on my Great Lakes trips in Michigan. On a trip to the U.P., we visited places on both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. The rocks in the latter were more irregularly shaped, while the ones from Lake Superior were all smoothly rounded from the incessant wave action.
True, curling is a thinking person’s sport with a little athleticism vs an athletic person’s sports with a little thinking aka strategy. Knowledge of physics and thermo goes a long way…. Oh and psych goes for both.
https://www.lakechamplaincommittee.org/learn/news/item/giant-sturgeon-washes-ashore
They are protected in Vermont, if you hook one you are required to cut your line immediately, and if you get one on a tip up ice fishing it can cause quite a bit of havoc among the neighboring tip ups.
I went to college outside of Buffalo, NY, and we often spent Saturday afternoons in a local bar drinking beers and watching proper curling on the TV, so here is my suggested refinement to your idea. Make them use brooms again. What's with these damp mops?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOG0Yp59SU0
I mean, listen to the sound of those brooms fluttering against the ice. Curling lost something when they got rid of those brooms.
Now look what yu did with KID ROCK SHOW for alternatives!
Democrats are plotting to boycott President Trump’s State of the Union address next week and host an alternative rally instead after being widely panned for their rowdy behavior during his marquee speech last year.
Dubbed the “People’s State of the Union,” multiple Democrats are planning to assemble on the National Mall near the Capitol and rail against Trump during his primetime spectacle.
Lefty media outlet MeidasTouch and the progressive group MoveOn are organizing the State of the Union knockoff.
of Congress.
Jeffries told reporters Wednesday. “We’re not going to Donald Trump’s house. He’s coming to our house. It’s my view that you don’t let anyone ever run you off of your block.(Jeffries going to regular Show.MAGAS set the prescedent now history will take over,never gonna be the same again..PEOPLES STATE OF THE UNION. Now Lefties will be saying just like righties did for SUPERBOWL "I KNOW WHICH ONE IM WATCHING! MERIKA gottta love it! try that in Syria or Russia or .......
DINKY, please go back to using all caps. I accidentally started reading your post.
JP Morgan Chase admitted today they debanked Trump.
Susan Rice said any business that works with Trump will be persecuted by democrats when they take power.
Democrats are just fascist pieces of shit.
Not just that, but we now find out that the Biden White House not only authorized the use of deadly force in the Trump Mar a Lago raid, but worked with the FBI and the records guy for a year to create the pretext for the raid.
The more I watch them, the more I'm impressed with "The young turks". yes, they are libtards on domestic issues. But like the guys on "breaking points" they're the only leftists who seem to have any morals with it comes to Israel, or any US International action.
BTW, just saw some "Bob and Ray" clips from Lettermann and Carson on Youtube. They're bits have held up and they were "Old school" when they on those 2 shows. Of course, their humor is intelligent, low-key and not sexual so their appeal was always limited. But still funny.
"Susan Rice said any business that works with Trump will be persecuted by democrats when they take power."
That's an astounding statement on her part. How dare a business work with the democratically elected president? The nerve!
Fascist is not too strong a word.
And Tucker's intereview with Huckabee was dynamite. You can see why the Huckster almost got elected POTUS. This guy could've sold Judaism to Hitler. What folksy con-man. "Aw-shucks, the Jews can have the whole middle east, why thats in Genesis." LOL. I loved he proudly boasted 100 trips to Israel since 1973. And this was as "Christian" pastor and politician in Arkansas!
And what about that "Private Conversation with Pollard - Convicted spy and traitor"? Why, that was just good ol' Jason Pollard thanking the Huckster for being kind Christian Gentleman and saying a few nice words about Pollards wife. Yeah sure, 30 minutes of just sayin' thank you.
We believe you Mike.
Tucker got rousted by Thugs at the Tel Aviv Airport and then Huckabee put out Israeli lies to attack Tucker. So, underneath that "Gosh gee whiz, Im just a good ol' Christian minister" facade Huckabee is a back-stabber par excellance.
Tucker should be offered a seat at The View. Wrong sex, but he has the brains for it.
What does the Professor think about the Wisconsin lawfare kerfluffle about which the WSJ wrote? The editors are especially riled about a Trump-hating former judge apparently writing the opinion signed by the current WSC Chief Justice. (And I thought clerks usually wrote the first draft of opinions…)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/wisconsin-lawfare-jim-troupis-john-hyland-frank-remington-josh-kaul-dane-county-b74ed305?mod=opinion_lead_pos4
Huckabee has always been a nasty piece of work, no matter how churchy he sounds.
I wonder if Susan Rice has been burned, i.e., I wonder who the intended audience was for that clip. It certainly is making the rounds to a larger one.
Nobody working retail/foodservice says "You're welcome" to a "Thank you" anymore. It evolved some time back into "No problem" and recently seemed to have morphed into "Of course".
The Mexican Plum tree in my back yard has declared war on winter, and announced early spring. It's starting to bloom, and very fragrant.
This particular tree, for some reason, is usually about 2 weeks ahead of the others here, and about 3 weeks ahead of other native Mexican plums in the surrounding rural area. The last average frost date for this area is mid-March, so it's pretty early. I would have guessed we still have one light freeze to go.
"Locals huddle in ice-fishing huts, toast the gods and wait for the haul of a lifetime; ‘It’s like duck hunting through a chimney..."
I think drinking alcohol has to hold the record for ceremonies, holidays, and methods for why and how to do something. Yes, even having sex, which often requires at least two of the above to authorize it's practice.
Don't forget who Susan "By the Book" Rice is. A founding member of the Russian Collusion Hoax.
"Nobody working retail/foodservice says "You're welcome" to a "Thank you" anymore. It evolved some time back into "No problem" and recently seemed to have morphed into "Of course"
What do want, a reach around?
""Lord, I apologize, and be with the starving pygmies down in New Guinea."
"What do want, a reach around?"
Well, I was kind of hoping someone might have an idea about why people don't say "You're welcome" anymore.
I'm just curious- when I was a kid, "Please", "Thank you" and "You're welcome" were taught and it seems that's not happening now.
I don't think anyone would go to a MLB game unless they had beer.
We've watched less than usual Olympics this year, which has been the trend the last decade, but for the first time, Curling is getting my attention. It's ridiculous, but it's also relatable if you play shuffle board, like we do occasionally. A lot of Olympic sports surprise you and grab you for some hard to define reason beyond it's just people trying to do their absolute best at something after years of practice, and they are competing against others who have done the same. It's humanity trying to outdo itself at something peaceful. Maybe that alone is humanity outdoing itself.
"it's just people trying to do their absolute best at something after years of practice, and they are competing against others who have done the same."
Showing off, according to the NYT.
"I'm just curious- when I was a kid, "Please", "Thank you" and "You're welcome" were taught and it seems that's not happening now."
I think it's just changing up traditions, which has always been a thing, but lately it's a virtual requirement.
Another one is people, saying "I appreciate you" rather than the standard "I appreciate it" when someone does something for you. I think it was just changed for the hell of changing it, but I also kind of like the new version better, although I have never used it myself... yet.
RCOCEAN II said...
Tucker got rousted by Thugs at the Tel Aviv Airport and then Huckabee put out Israeli lies to attack Tucker...
2/21/26, 8:06 PM
Oh FFS, it's on video, dude. Carlson meeting and greeting, signing autographs, posing for pictures, grinning and glad-handing. All done and on his way in 5 minutes.
No "held-up". No "manhandled". No "detained". No "rousted by thugs". None of that libtard Hamasnik, Democrat Party dumb bullshit you feed on. Thanks for playing, again and again and again and again... Do tell us more about those upstanding honors students "The Young Turks" again, though.
I can't figure out if Huckabee is the US Ambassador to Israel or Israel's lawyer. What is going on with Lindsay Graham? It's all about getting evangelical Christians to support the bombing and destruction of an ancient nation of 92 million people, I see that they are already putting out propaganda that Iran's armies are using hospitals for meetings, setting up pretexts to bomb hospitals, same as Gaza, because the goal is to completely tear down civilization there.
Iran is shot through with bunkers, and caves, and mountains. They don't need to hide in hospitals, it's just evil.
Evil to claim that they are using hospitals for military purposes, in order to justify bombing them, I mean.
Leftists:
1) No! JP Morgan Chase didn't debank Trump. He's lying!
It's all a MAGAt conspiracy!
2) Well, there may have been some debanking going on, but it's not as bad as Trump is saying. He's not a victim. He's lying.
3) It's a good thing JP Morgan Chase debanked Trump. He deserved it!
Fuck you people.
Thanks Mike "Fitzgerald". top of the morning to ye.
Tucker addresses the "Smiling and laughing" in his video. He took a video with his Israeli driver *before* the interview. That's it. Thats where the "laughing and smiling" came from.
After the interview, the israeli thugs took their USA passports and forced the producer and assistant producer to a interrogation. Very Gestapo. Very KGB.
And just makes clear, we're Israel's colony and client state. Not the other way round. Personally, I don't get upset at the Israelis being obnoxious and acting like the USA is their bitch, since Americans obviously want to be Israel's bitch.
You can say "What a bunch of gutless, money grubing clowns" But that's what 'murcians are. And they like it that way. You literally cant get them upset at anything. Hopefully, some foreign power never invades us, because you'll find plenty of 'muricans who'll help load the cattle cars to the Gulag for two-bits.
Tucker Carlson had an "Israeli driver"? Why? He never left the airport. The fact is that Carlson lied and lied and lied, on tape, that the US is not Israel's "bitch" or vice versa, we are in fact allies. And the US is not aiming at "the destruction of an ancient nation" but trying to save it from destruction by the Muslim barbarians who have been destroying it for 46 years now. The people of Iran are calling for the overthrow of Khamenei and the Islamic Republic, the restoration of liberty, and cheering for Trump and Reza Pahlavi, two democratic friends of the Iranian people.
"bombing and destruction of an ancient nation of 92 million people"
It would take a truly vast effort to accomplish that. Iran/Persia has survived much worse than what the US government intends.
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick's family firm bought up the rights to tariff refunds for 20-30 cents on the dollar after Liberation Day last year. Today, the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down. For every $100 invested, Lutnick's sons just made 3-5x. Welcome to Crony Corrupt America, Inside Traders!
"For every $100 invested, Lutnick's sons just made 3-5x" is something only a financial illiterate could have written. If you're multiplying your money by 3 to 5 times, you don't need to specify how much you start with, because it doesn't matter whether you start with $100 or $1,000 or $10,000. On the other hand, if you start by specifying the amount of your investment, e.g. "For every $100 invested", you don't specify the ratio, you just give the number of what you have afterwards, e.g. you say that that $100 will be turned into $300 or $500 or whatever.
Of course, a competent commenter would have given a link, too.
gadfly is claiming Lutnick knew what the Supreme Court was going to rule?
Alexandria Occasio Cortez shows how smart Democrat leaders are.
AOC is really stupid.
And she is smarter than the people that vote for her and support her.
New York City needs people to shovel snow. You only need 3-5 forms of ID. Don't need an ID to vote, but you need 3-5 forms of ID to shovel New York City for the Commie Mayor!!!!
https://nypost.com/2026/02/21/us-news/mamdani-blasted-for-requiring-5-forms-of-id-to-shovel-while-dsa-opposes-voter-id/
They were for common sense actions before they were against ANYTHING that Trump does.
Bridgett Fertig
@LightOnLiberty
A 30 year old clip of Nancy Pelosi criticizing China for ripping off America with their tariffs as she SUGGESTS RECIPROCAL TARIFFS IN RETURN!
President Trump stepped up and enforced them to benefit America. Now, this same party is attacking him for doing so.
https://x.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2025299238003831047?s=20
Congratulations Progressives!! Islam has conquered NYC!!!!
"Twenty-five years later, there’s a very Islamic mayor in Gracie Mansion and hundreds of Muslims are gathering regularly in Times Square to block traffic flow for their Ramadan prayers."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/02/25_years_after_9_11_muslims_dominate_times_square.html
Isn't she lovely?
Isn't she beautiful?
Somebody gave meade the job off of making music vids of his beautiful bride? It's a lifelong job, mate... you ran out of song material?
A baseball icon died yesterday. That would be Bill Mazeroski, aka Maz. Second baseman for the 1960 World Champion Buccos. Best known for his game seven, bottom of the ninth game winning, HR against the vaunted NY Yankees.
Vaunted you ask? The Yankee roster had such stars as Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Moose Skowren, Elston Howard, Whitey Ford, Bobby Richardson,and Bobby Shantz.
The Pirates won the series 4 games to 3. The three games they lost were by scores of 10-0, 12-0, and 16-3. Pirates Gino Cimoli commented in the locker room after game seven: “They broke all the records and we won the game”.
Ah, the "Our House" thing has been dusted off for use yet again. Some of us remember when the crowds at the Wisconsin Capitol were chanting that, and trashing the place.
Original Mike said...
gadfly is claiming Lutnick knew what the Supreme Court was going to rule?
Anyone who paid attention to the oral arguments knew how the Supreme Court was going to rule. It’s only wrong when Republicans do it.
“Congratulations Progressives!! Islam has conquered NYC!!!!“
This started 3 days after 9/11
Saudis were evacuated from the US starting on Sept 14th. On Sept 19th or 20th 13 to 20 members/associates of the bin Laden were flown out of the US. In total, about 140–160 Saudis were evacuated via roughly nine charter flights during that window, with FBI screening (including interviews for many passengers) conducted beforehand.
“The 9/11 Commission found no evidence of improper political intervention at high levels or any links to the attacks among those who left.” - I love this sentence.
How many other people left the US during this timeframe? Zero.
Reading Susan Rice’s comment on revenge should the Commies re-take power is astonishing. It is clear the left is not interested in policy changes, they want jail for Trump supporters.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-not-going-end-well-them-susan-rice-joins-call-revenge-purge-after-democrats-re-take.
As an aside _ How many US officials were fired for the security lapses that led to 9/11?
Zero.
Yeah, let's make sure to demonize Tucker so that nobody sees what Huckabee said:
TUCKER: “How much does it matter what Americans think?”
AMB. HUCKABEE: “It matters every bit.”
TUCKER: “80% oppose war with Iran.”
AMB. HUCKABEE: “We don’t live in a world where polls dictate policy.”
TUCKER: “Oh, I thought you said it matters what Americans think.”
and then there is this gem:
Carlson said that according to the Old Testament, the boundaries would be “basically the entire Middle East.”
He continued: “Does Israel have the right to that land?”
“Not sure we’d go that far,” Huckabee said in reply. “It would be a big piece of land.”
Carlson then pressed him: “Does Israel have the right to that land?”
“It would be fine if they took it all,”
and this
but they are asking to at least take the land that they now occupy, they now live in,
So Lebanon and parts of Syria legitimately belong to Israel?
Bibi is like that charming serial killer hanging out in a bar full of naive young people, promising a good time.
As an aside - How many U.S. military men and women died in post-9/11 operations?
7,053
“Bibi is like that charming serial killer hanging out in a bar full of naive young people, promising a good time.“
There’s nothing wrong with any leader of any foreign nation advocating for their perceived interests. Huckabee, on the other hand, should be fired.
Speaking of 911, here is an interview with Jimmy Carter's senior security adviser explaining how we armed and funded and trained the jihadis in order to provoke the Soviets to invade Afghanistan.
AI Translation: Zbigniew Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA assistance to the mujahideen began sometime in 1980 — that is, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979.
But the reality, kept secret, is quite different: in fact, it was on July 3, 1979, that President Carter signed the first directive for clandestine assistance to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that same day I wrote a memorandum to the president in which I explained to him that, in my view, this aid would lead to a military intervention by the Soviets.
So yes, the Saudis were almost certainly involved in our "dirty work" as the Pakistani defense minister called that countries support for terrorism at our request. The most obvious inference you can draw from the Pakistani statement is that they were harboring bin Laden for the US.
Why did the bombing at Tora Bora stop long enough for bin Laden to escape to Pakistan? Why was there a cease fire called by the US?
I’m wondering how many Democrat has-beens Susan Rice represents with those unconstitutional statements. Elections have consequences. People are free to their opinions and to associate with whomever they like.
Forgot the link, AI will translate it for you
"Yes, the CIA entered Afghanistan before the Russians..."
https://www.voltairenet.org/article165889.html
Eva Marie: "As an aside _ How many US officials were fired for the security lapses that led to 9/11?"
Well you could say that the whole Clinton coterie was fired in the 2000 election. The USS Cole bombing happened the month before the election. Much of W's campaign rhetoric was the standard "you can't trust the Dems with defense" stuff the GOP had been using since at least the 70s. The people threw all those bums out. You couldn't fire Gorelick, for example, after 9/11, because she didn't work here anymore.
I suppose you can blame the W tribe for not seizing total control of all national-security apparatus in eight months. But firing their people would have made things even more confused and disorganized - changing horses in midstream after you'd just changed horses and gotten dunked in the process. CC, JSM
ImTay:
Your link doesn’t work. Even if it did, why should I have to ask AI to translate the words of an American? The fact that your alleged source is not in English makes it utterly unpersuasive.
It’s a French website. Nothing wrong with getting other than American views on things. I didn’t find the article and not too impressed with the site so far. But it’s good to read views from other countries. Voltairenet.org
Google will translate.
It is clear the left is not interested in policy changes, they want jail for Trump supporters.
That’s because the don’t want to change their unpopular policies to win Democratically. They want power and to be unburdened by what has been.
Nobody working retail/foodservice says "You're welcome" to a "Thank you" anymore.
Have a blessed day.
Republicans, always focused on what Americans want:
"Two Tennessee Republicans are seeking to impose the death penalty on women who have abortions, requiring the same penalties for women “involved in the homicide of her own unborn child” as defendants charged with homicide.
An amendment drafted for House Bill 570/Senate Bill 738 that's not yet been voted on would allow prosecutors to charge women who obtain abortions with fetal homicide, punishable by life imprisonment, life without parole, or in some cases, the death penalty."
Another great talking point ahead of the midterms
“Well you could say that the whole Clinton coterie was fired in the 2000 election.”
No they weren’t.
Most relevant to 9/11:
George Tenet (CIA Director, appointed by Clinton in 1997) was retained until his resigning in 2004
Also Richard Clarke (White House counterterrorism coordinator) was held over from the Clinton NSC staff. He resigned in 2003.
“I suppose you can blame the W tribe for not seizing total control of all national-security apparatus in eight months. But firing their people would have made things even more confused and disorganized - changing horses in midstream after you'd just changed horses and gotten dunked in the process.”
Sorry, but no.
Changing horses after we were attacked would have been exactly the right thing to do. After 9/11 there should have been mass firings - if only as a lesson: Don’t fuck up or you’ll be fired.
USA vs Canada men's hockey for the Gold is on now.
US scores! 1-0
After the Bud Light fiasco, the woman in charge was gone. That’s called accountability.
BTW, no one died as a result of Bud Lite branding.
Trump Demands Netflix Oust Susan Rice From Board ~ WSJ
Republicans have opened Pandora’s Box regarding the weaponization of government and using it to pursue personal grudges and cry foul when others point that out.
Astonishing to think this is going on for 3 years at least and Trump's mental faculties and self control are only going to get worse.
This is going to get messy very quickly. With Trump's public outbursts Netflix have got good evidence to show any decision against them by the FCC was politically motivated.
Biden and the Democrats opened Pandora’s Box regarding the weaponization of government and using it to pursue personal grudges and cry foul when others point that out.
FIFY
Tar, feathers and a ride out of town on a splintery rail for Susan Rice!
Voltairenet.org self-describes as “non-aligned” and focused on developing critical thinking rather than promoting a single ideology, but external analyses (e.g., Wikipedia, media watchdogs, and academic sources) classify it as an outlet for pro-Russian, pro-Assad, and anti-Ukrainian (in recent contexts) narratives, often labeled as disinformation in reports from bodies like the European Parliament.
Thierry Meyssan - the guy who runs the site - wrote the book 9/11: The Big Lie (2002) which claims that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job orchestrated by elements of the U.S. military-industrial complex.
Read at your own risk.
It seems to me that in defining tariffs as taxes the Supreme Court has said that Americans paid the tariffs. So then any refund would be refund to the American people.
I do not think the American people did pay the tariffs. This is a factual issue and I believe the tariffs, mostly, were not passed on to the consumer. In the 19C the tariffs were passed on and the South was dee[ly embittered by that fact because the South paid for goods made more expensive by tariffs while the North had its manufacturing protected by those same tariffs. But I do not think the same situation exists now and, anyhow, I have seen arguments that the tariffs were not passed because they were altered and lowered by agreements which were fairly quicly reached. But that issue is moot since there is no court above the Supreme Court. So then we say that the tariffs which were collected from businesses were eventually paid by individual American consumers.
We say these costs imposed on foreign businesses were not part of the cost of the product as would be taxes or shipping costs imposed by the home countries . In the 19C tariffs had two purposes: to protect home industries and to finance the government. Trump's stated purpose was to use tariffs to protect home industries against unfair trade practices by other nations and to restore a level playing field. He asserted that the trade practices of other nations had become so unfair that our national security was endangered by the debts incurred bt the trade imbalance and by the interest on the debts. And nations did negotiate with him and unfair trade practices have been reduced or eliminated and when the trade balance in these individual cases improved, the tariffs have been reduced. Tariffs have been reduced which alone would suggest to a reasonable person that they were not taxes. But all these facts have been shoved aside by the highest court. Tariffs are taxes on Americans.
Very well. Then the refunds if any go to Americans. But, moving on, if the trade imbalance has been reduced so has the trade debt and associated costs. How do these two amounts stack up in relation to each other? Are the tariffs collected greater than the trade imbalances corrected? The tariiffs have been reduced but the corrections to trade imbalances are a permanent gain.
Just some thoughts on first looking into the tariff question.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who’s been hearing ‘of course’ instead of ‘you’re welcome’ more often these days. It seems to be more common with younger folks. At first it seemed odd but it’s grown on me - like people acknowledging the social contract ‘of course I’ll hold the door open for you.’
I hear "not a problem" instead of "you're welcome." That seems like a more negative glass-half-empty response, akin to "I guess so" versus "I'd be happy to!" in response to asking someone for a favor.
Just finished up a satisfying southern hemisphere observing night. Looks like I'm going to get 2 observing nights out of the 10 nights staying at this dark site. Hoped for more, but I've had less. And perhaps next month will be better. Off to bed for me.
Here is an interesting video content footage of Brzezinski using the Mujahideen on.
Brzezinski (1998) interview in Le Nouvel Observateur re Afghanistan (Annotated)
You can find plenty of links to the interview on plenty of sites, here is one from the University of Arizona.
https://dgibbs.arizona.edu/content/brzezinski-interview
Deny it all you like, but you should not be surprised that it is not emphasized by US news outlets, as our news is heavily... curated, yeah, that's the ticket! Curated!
That video I linked is very propagandistic, but the footage of Brzezinski and the jihadis at the beginning is authentic. Remember that the truth that your side doesn't want you to hear qualifies as "enemy propaganda."
Urging the Mujahideen on, in what he explained in the interview, was an effort to get the Soviets to invade, in 1979 he did this.
If you don't think that this is a crime against humanity, just google Afghanistan in the 1970s, before we unleashed the jihadis on them, armed them, trained them, and funded them.
We are doing the exact same thing arming ISIS right now to attack Iran. There are not that many plays, and you keep going to the ones that work.
The footage of Brzeznski in 1979 flying to the Afghan border to talk to the future Taliban is just a dozen miles or so from Tora Bora, BTW.
Betcha George W Bush called off the bombing of Tora Bora after getting a phone call, maybe from Brzeznski himself, or Jimmy Carter, or whoever, one of them.
Is imTay the latest blog-name of 'Tim in Vermont'? He's been calling himself 'Jaq' for a couple of years now: has he switched again to 'imTay'? All three make the same dishonest arguments, even after they've been repeatedly refuted.
'imTay' here pretends that Afghanistan was doing well until Brzezinski sent in the CIA, and insists that that was before the Soviet invasion of 1979 and the 10-year occupation that followed. That's true as far as it goes, but it omits some absolutely crucial facts. The destruction of Afghanistan began with the pro-Soviet coup d'etat of 1978. Here's a bit from Wikipedia on the Saur Revolution:
"Following the April coup, Khalqists also introduced severe repression of a kind previously unknown in Afghanistan. Khalqist chief Taraki was a hardline Leninist who advocated the implementation of a campaign modelled after the Bolshevik 'Red Terror' to impose Marxist policies in Afghanistan. Influenced by the practices of the Russian Bolsheviks, the PDPA regime launched a vicious crackdown across the country; arresting, torturing and killing tens of thousands of people, implementing a strategy of 'killing the population into submission'."
Soviet involvement in the coup is unproven, but they were in fact the inspiration for it, and the Marxist coup is what put Afghanistan well on its way to destruction. The reaction of the people was so hostile that the coupsters would have been overthrown in a year if the USSR hadn't sent in a huge army to protect them, and army which committed vast numbers of brutal war-crimes.
As for the CIA being there before the Soviet invasion the following year, so what? I'm pretty sure the KGB was already there before the CIA got there, which is the appropriate comparison.
Here's another bit from the Wikipedia article:
In his book 'Soldiers of God', "[Robert D.] Kaplan stated that it was the Saur Revolution and its harsh land reform program, rather than the December 1979 Soviet invasion 'as most people in the West suppose', that 'ignited' the mujahideen revolt against the Kabul authorities and prompted the refugee exodus to Pakistan. . . . The communists violently imposed PDPA policies across the villages of Afghanistan, perpetrating mass rapes of Afghan women, killing religious clerics and village chiefs, looting houses, stealing food supplies and torturing captives."
Blaming the fate of Afghanistan on the U.S. is evil and stupid, and a favorite theme of Russian propaganda, trying to divert the blame from their own Soviet predecessors as they commit the same sort of crimes in Ukraine, Georgia, Transnistria, and elsewhere.
Yes, it's true, and whatever Afghanistan's problems prior to our siccing the Taliban on them, they were none of our business, and Zelensky says in the interview that I linked to from University of Arizona's website, that he did it to provoke an invasion by Russia of Afghanistan and "give them their Viet Nam,"
But I want to thank you for pushing back, because it led me to the video of Brzezinski urging on the jihadis to take over Afghanistan at the Khyber Pass, you know, just a dozen miles or so from Tora Bora.
Yeah, I updated my OS and now I can't recover my "jaq" account, and I moved out of Vermont, though I lived there a long time, and still feel connected, so it is what it is. I will probably figure it out sometime soon, but for now it's gone.
You can say what you want about the commies, they didn't force women into burkas or forbid them from attending school.
Yeah now the isi is a different matter and the likes of hamid gul and colonel sultan
"In his book 'Soldiers of God', "[Robert D.] Kaplan stated that it was the Saur Revolution and its harsh land reform program, rather than the December 1979 Soviet invasion 'as most people in the West suppose', that 'ignited' the mujahideen revolt against the Kabul authorities and prompted the refugee exodus to Pakistan. . . ".
So we have the word of the man who ordered it, had the power to get the money, training and weapons to them, and who flew to the Afghan border to urge on the Mujahideen, against a guy who wrote a book. I am sure that these were all pretexts used, every country has problems.
You would have no problem finding people in the United States to provide pretexts for a ChiCom funded civil war, I am sure, but our problems are none of China's business, and Afghanistan's problems were not so bad that it was justified for us to fund and arm jihadis to take over.
Gosh you are impossible this type of land reform was what didnt work in south vietnam in iran and el salvador
And here's imTay/Jaq/Tim-no-longer-in-Vermont doing his best, as always, to follow the pro-Soviet, pro-Putin, pro-Khamenei, pro-any-enemy-of-America party line. Has he ever written anything that contradicts Putinite propaganda? Even once?
He claims the communist Afghan revolutionaries of 1978 weren't so bad: "You can say what you want about the commies, they didn't force women into burkas or forbid them from attending school."
Did he even read to the end of my comment, the part about "perpetrating mass rapes of Afghan women, killing religious clerics and village chiefs, looting houses, stealing food supplies and torturing captives"? They were in fact at least as bad as the Taliban, maybe worse. And the Taliban were in fact radicalized by decades of murder, torture, rape, and so on from the pro-Soviet Afghans and their Russian allies.
Finally, the stupidest thing he says here (1:52pm) is "Zelensky says in the interview that I linked". He says "Zelensky" when he means "Brzezinski": all those anti-Russian Eastern Europeans with Z's in their names are the same to him!
But such things dont fit on a cue card
Brezinki was not as good a kremlinologist as pipes perhaps better than strobe talbott
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