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Good thing you posted that photo. I had a very different mental picture of ginger nuts getting delivered.

Is that from CNN, MSDNC or direct from Victoria Nuland? I'm not a big fan of Oliver Stone as a documentarian but watch his 2016 movie "Ukraine on Fire". Don't watch it for his analysis. Watch it for the historical facts he presents. This kerfuffle didn't start in 2022 or 2014. It was decades in the making.

True, Brian. Although it is also true that the incompetent handling of grabbing students off the streets or jailing for free speech is, in fact, have in g a chilling affect. So what? Not the documented fact, fewer students, tourists coming to the USA so there is and economic as well as a “good will” cost as other nations warn their citizens that going to the USA currently is not advised. So you don't figure that 0.4% of them may be bad apples that need to go home? They don't have to go home, but they can't stay in the USA and commit more crimes.

He could have made them quit killing ethnic Russkies in the Donbass after the US orchestrated a coup. But it's impossible to have a meaningful discussion with anyone who thinks this kerfuffle started in 2022.

I looked it up and the factcheckers claim he didn't buy 2 yachts with USAID money. But nobody seems to answer the question, "Does Zelensky own a yacht?" Or even whether he bought one yacht using USAID money. Though I'm sure he wouldn't own the yacht if he did buy one. He'd have it under a corporate name. Probably flagged in Panama.

Yup. Just send a few more bucks and throw a few more Ukrainians on the fire. It's long past time for the dying to stop and the rebuilding to start.

Don't let your health insurance company see that menu.

I stayed in a Holiday Inn last night. But I think you'd have to have watched American TV to get that reference.

I wonder if this has something to do with it?

That's an interesting, albeit confusing, tidbit.

Slowed down? They've been pretty much at a standstill since Putin attained his stated objectives. CNN, from February 2023.

Years ago, back in West Texas, I had a great doctor who always wanted to examine my feet. I say he was a great doctor because he would actually spend time with patients and listen to us, while most of my doctors would shuffle me out the door in 5 minutes or less with a wild guess what pills I should buy and come back if they didn't work. (He also warned me against taking any shots made in France. Said he'd rather swim in sewage.) I always wondered if he just had a foot fetish. Maybe not?

Are we boycotting punctuation, sentence structure and coherent thoughts today? I didn't get the memo.

And here I thought it would be a trivial thing.

There's something morally wrong about including packets of ketchup in a pizza delivery.

In fairness, he just approved the funding. And signed off on the project(s). Then lied about it.

That's a simple math problem. It's like when I graduated in mechanical engineering in a class of 250, with about 6 of them being women and blacks. If companies had wanted to hire more than 12 engineers with a 50% female ratio, they'd have had to hire well into the bottom 50% of the females. If they wanted to hire 20 engineers with half being female, they'd have been SOL. That's how DEI works. Or they could have hired 125 engineers and chosen only from the top 50%. But they'd have to give up their notion of DEI.

Kinda like the head of Secret Service during the Trump assassination attempts had worked on the team that protected Dr Jill, then became head of the USSC, by ticking those 2 boxes. Female and Dr Jill approved. That worked out great, too.

I voluntarily took the Pfizer (2 of them) as a condition of helping my brother post heart transplant. I wasn't allowed into the hospital without my vaccine card, once the jabs were widely available. I'd give just about anything to go back and undo the damage after my 2nd Pfizer. Which I later found out came from a hot lot according to the VAERS data. In fairness, I also didn't want to be looked at as the guy that killed my brother had he gotten Covid in his fragile state.

Let's look at that, shall we? Even if you believe that they died of Covid (and not just with Covid or falsely reported to get the sweet Covid bonus), they were sure unlucky. Total population between 30 and 39 years old: 45 million. Total Covid related deaths in that age group: 19,700. That's one in 2,200. United States Population by Age - 2025 Update | Neilsberg COVID-19 deaths by age U.S. 2023| Statista It's even stupider criminal if you look at the teens and younger who had 1,642 deaths out of almost 80 million population, but they were still getting the jab. In spite of not knowing what the long term effects on them will be.

You forgot to ask how many died on a ventilator, which appeared to be deadlier than Covid itself. Of course, we'll probably never know.

100 Days of Being Trolled Looks like he's got another nibble.

Did hospitals back then get a big ass gub'ment bonus if they declared them to be Spanish Flu cases? And a doble bonus if they used the ineffective and harmful Remdesivir?

Don't forget that's the excuse they used to allow more mail in votes than ever before. Which party votes more by mail and which one votes more in person?

Yup. January 2029. It's going to be fun to watch the next 3.73 years.