Weekend Open Thread
Don’t ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or a Ukrainian farmer where he got his Russian military vehicle. Enjoy your weekend.
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Magic 8 Ball, will Hack Stone score three consecutive First Posts on the This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread? Magic 8 Ball says…
All signs point to Yes.
Holy Crap, we have a NEW ACE!!!!
Scrolls down thread to see KoB shitting himself….
*crickets*.
MAYDAY !!! MAYDAY!!! WE HAVE A MIA, KOB BFD EYYY EYE EYYY OOOHHHH!!!!
Or something like that.
Present and accounted for SIR!!!
God Save the
QUEEN!!!Hack Stone!!(I mean I have no idea what he identifies as on his off time… 😅 )
No Bidenitis here Chippy. My BMs are as regular as a German Train Schedule. And I am so very proud of Hack Stone for getting his Trifecta of FIRST. There is not too many of those around. Even fewer quad forty Bofers, 4 in a row, and of course there is only ONE (1) True ACE, 5 in a row, THE King of First, The Gun Bunny Hisself. (Multiple times I may add)
Now, what you needz to be doing, instead of prattling around on this thread, is gettin’ yo’self over to the Fake AF Major and that Farr from an Angel Thread and get with the deploying of the TAH As(s)teroid of Insults on BOTH of them POSers. IMHO, a “Do It Baybee” should suffice for an AYE. Thaank yah…Thaank yah verruh much!
Dang! Have a great weekend you!!
Better to have a Magic 8-ball than be behind the Proverbial 8-ball.
Or smoking an 8-ball with Hunter.
That’s methed up.
Methy, methy, methy… 😜
But what will it say next week?
Regardless – Rata-Congs Upon You, Hack!
4th..earliest for a while
actually third after Hack and Roh-Dog… serendipity.
What about asking a 47 year old Connecticutian how he has a 2 ID patch?
He lied about his age and joined when he was 16… yeah, that’s it.
Hack Stone gets a trifecta! Three in a row … two more and he’s an ace!! Congratulations, Hack!
Having seen Hack Stone anointed again as FIRST in the WOT, I offer in tribute this week’s trivia!
DID YOU KNOW…?
What Russian city was renamed three times during the 20th Century?
By Jack Bagley
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
I must correct yet another error from a previous column, it seems.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that the most difficult character in Chinese writing uses 62 strokes to write. It’s prnounced “biang” and actually has no meaning.
Some dear friends at valorguardians.com pointed out that while “biang” might indeed have no meaning, it uses only 57 or 58 strokes (depending, I guess, on who’s writing it).
I stand corrected, but I also ask: What’s four or five strokes between friends, anyway?
If you spot me in an error, I appreciate a correction. E-mail me at didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and I’ll make sure the correction is noted.
Now, on to this week’s trivia!
Did you know …
… the law in Louisiana says that if you use false teeth to bite someone, you are committing aggravated assault? (What do they call it if you use your natural teeth? Biting commentary?)
… in the United States, about 75% of all households possess at least one jar of peanut butter? (Whether they eat it or not is another story.)
… when a double rainbow occurs, the colors of the second arc are the reverse of the colors in the first arc? (It’s really cool to see that, even if it makes you do a double take at first.)
… the odds of a person being born on February 29 are not great? According to those who determine such things, the chances of a person being born on Leap Day are 1 in 1,461. (Long odds for a short day, I think.)
… the last man to visit the Moon left his daughter’s initials in the dust? Just before climbing back into the Lunar Module of the Apollo 17 mission on December 14, 1972, astronaut Eugene Cernan (1934-2017) took a moment to draw the initials “TDC” in the lunar dust. The letters are the initials of his daughter, Teresa Dawn Cernan (born 1963). It is expected that her initials will remain undisturbed in the Moon’s airless dust for at least 50,000 years. (Imagine the lunar archaeologists who stumble on those initials centuries from now … “What’s a TDC?”)
Top Dead Center. Any mechanic knows that.
(confession: I named my youngest, whose initials were ACP.)
Tongduchon.
With the bar strip and hookers… er… juicy girls outside the gate.
… brain development is the reason most people can’t remember the first few years of their lives? Our brain stores the memories of everything, but because one special part of the brain which controls access to memory – the hippocampus – is not fully developed until a person is around four years old, the earliest memories are inaccessible. (In my case, it’s because I didn’t do anything worth remembering until I was six.)
… a Russian city was renamed three times in the 20th Century? In 1901, the first year of the 20th Century, the city of St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea served as the capital of the enormous Russian Empire. In 1914, with the start of World War I, the city’s name was changed to Petrograd to remove the “German-sounding” –burg ending. The capital was moved from Petrograd to Moscow – which had been the capital of Russia until St. Petersburg was constructed – in 1918. In 1924, the city was renamed again, to Leningrad, in honor of Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), founder of the Soviet Union. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the city on the Baltic was again renamed, this time back to its original St. Petersburg.
Additional trivia note: A joke that made the rounds in Russia in the late 1990s tells of the elderly man who went to apply for his pension, having lived in the same house his entire life. Asked where he was born, he said, “St. Petersburg.” Asked about where he went to school, he said, “Petrograd.” Asked where he retired, he said, “Leningrad.” And asked where he was living at the time, he said, “St. Petersburg.” (I never said it was a funny joke.)
Way I heard it, he’s asked where he wants to live and replied St. Petersburg (meaning not under Communism). Funnier when it was current.
I heard that version too … and chose the one I used to show the full progression. You’re right, it was funnier back in the day.
TCFKAL (The City Formerly Known As Leningrad).
… no nation in South America had a woman as head of state until 1974? In that year, Isabel Perón (born 1931) became head of state of Argentina. Perón succeeded her husband, Juan Perón (1895-1974), who had taken power after a return from exile in 1973. Isabel Perón served as president until 1976, when she was deposed in a military coup. (I wouldn’t make a joke here if my life depended on it.)
… the “Red Baron” was not considered a good pilot? Flying for the German Army in World War I, Manfred Freiherr von Richtofen (1892-1918) was at first considered a below-par pilot, and even crashed his airplane during his first flight in 1916. For the next two years, however, von Richtofen was the true terror of the skies. He shot down 80 British and French aircraft before he himself was shot down by a sniper on the ground on April 21, 1918. So great was the respect that the British had for the Red Baron, he was buried by them with full military honors. (And no, it wasn’t Snoopy who shot him down, either.)
Some men transcend the symbolic barriers of guidons and boundaries.
All real men pray for worthy foes.
… the first baseball team to win a World Series after being relocated was the Milwaukee Braves? The team won the 1957 World Series against the New York Yankees just four years after moving from Boston to Milwaukee. (A Brave move, no?)
… a village in the Netherlands has no roads? The town of Giethoorn instead has underground paths and canals that its residents use. Nobody walks around on the surface, since the entire village is connected by the underground canals. (It could be worse. You could have to swim from house to house.)
“…Brave move…”
Groan.
A bit of Boston Braves/Bees/Beaners/Red Stockings history according to Wiki, “Charles ‘Old Hoss’ Radbourn(standing, far left) giving the finger to the cameraman, the first known photograph of the gesture (1886)”
Edit: that image if that image no work,
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series
in their 2nd year, after moving from Brooklyn, NY.
Milwaukee won the World Series in their 5th season.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season
The Dodgers were the fastest to win it after relocation, but the item said “The first team to win a World Series after relocation.”
That’s the Braves in ’57. The Dodgers did it in ’59.
… the World Custard Pie Championship is held each year in England? Since 1967, the town of Coxheath has staged the competition annually. Originally it was held to raise funds for the construction of a new town hall. (Now it’s just for the pie, nothing but the pie. Custard’s last stand, you might say.)
Now … you know!
CW:
Thank You again for all the very interesting trivia…!!!
Peanuts. George Washington Carver.
BTW, George Washington Carver did NOT invent peanut butter.
But he sure found lots of ways of using peanuts.
What a great guy.
Following up on a discussion from another thread on TAH, when do we expect a tell all book about the secrets of his success from the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics)?
I mean, it has to be the next step in the overall evolution of a top-ranked and “Grade A” poser!
Okay, let’s get this thread started. Possible titles for Phil Monkress’ autobiography.
Confessions Of A Disingenuous Mind
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
I Know Why The Phony SEAL Commits Contracting Fraud
The Diary Of A Fake SEAL
The Autobiography of Phildo M
Coffee table book of glossy photos and brief descriptions of the ambiances, The Dumpsters I’ve Been Behind (A Journey of Working Balls).
The Thief of Merritt Island.
The Fraud of Florida.
The Blowhard of Brevard.
Stealing a’int Easy.
The Hobo Phil
Lord of the Phildo
The Simulation SEAL
Unfinished tails behind the dumpster
The Thief of Fagdad?
The Monkress Tribe: A 61-year Native American History.
Navy SEAL Team Four: An up close and behind the scenes look from a Commander’s Perspective by CDR Phil Monkress.
Fraud, Waste and Abuse: A comprehensive exspose on obtaining goverment set aside contracts through fraudulent means by Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics).
Hack Stone would like to reassure all of those who were in competition for the First Post of This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread is that Hack Stone will be a kind and benevolent First Commenter, and he will reward his friends with punishing enemas.
Now, there may be some grumbling amongst the great unwashed, otherwise known as the Adorable Deplorables, that the Hack Stone Administration have colluded with rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists to overturn the will of the people, but come on man, that is just a bunch of malarkey from lying dog-faced pony soldiers.
God bless you all, and may God protect our troops. Thank you. Go get ’em.
Ditto!!
Veep Knee Pad Harris is upset that people don’t stand up when she enters a room. Haha, well at least Willie Brown’s, and Montel William’s One-Eyed Trouser Snakes stood erect, eh…or used to. 😁
BTW, from what I understand people didn’t stand up for VPs Pence, Gore, Cheney, Biden, Quayle, Bush senior, Mondale, either – at least not in the White House. Doesn’t Cums-alot not understand she isn’t the president, and the VP isn’t in the military chain of command? You are essentially the senior most staffer in the POTUS’s cabinet. You are just the Veep!
For Mick and AW1Ed:
FIRST to comment about Kim Jong Un and That Movie That We Will Not Mention:
“North Korea: Kim Jong Un Stars In Wild Top Gun-Inspired Video To Showcase Newest Missile Launch”
https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-kim-jong-un-top-gun-missile-launch
Here’s a preview of the video:
Here’s what Korea Now posted on YouTube… music could’ve been better (Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone”?) to go along with the slick editing:
Well, you have to admit that he ages better than Tom Cruise, IF that is really him in the video.
We really need to be afraid, considering who is now the Commander In Chief.
Thank You for sharing.
Maybe Pedo Joe could send Mattressback Harris to Norkland to keep Kim occupied?
Uh-oh, such parodies are starting already… at least it’s better than when he rode that white horse before losing weight (which made him look like Humpty Dumpty):
Team America covered this.
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Pyongyang Style is proud of his dad.
He’s lost that lovin’ feeling.
— GROAN —
Presently Unaccountable.
Started radiation treatment yesterday.
Odd getting undressed (those hospital gowns!) for pretty young radiologists and have the relationship be so… clinical.
Should be done in May.
Hang in there.
Prayers are with you and your love ones. Graybeard.
Thank You for sharing this and for keeping the Faith. You are an inspiration to all of us.
You got this, GB. Radiation treatments aren’t nearly the adventure they once were. I’m thinking we need to start a TAH prostate cancer club.
Prayers, GB.
Stay strong.
Them young’uns is specially trained to not point and giggle Graybeard.
Positive waves sent your way and Prayers lifted up to the Great Healer for you.
I’m gonna ask His protection for you and yours.
May is just around the corner. Stay strong, Brother!
Prayers up GB
Keeping you in my prayers, GB.
Thank you all. I really appreciate your prayers and concern.
Consider yourself lucky, GB. Ol’ Poe’s radiology team consisted of two middle-aged good ol’ boys and a nurse who had to have been a graduate of the Ratched School of Nursing… 😜
Good luck to you…
Hack Stone seems to have that “populate comment field, copy paste” thing down pretty good. And no competition today either. You are now a Proud, but Humble member of The Society of Trifectas. When you are deposed, the Crown will need polishing, the Throne a thorough cleaning with Comet, and the Sceptuar need picking up at the Pawn Shop. May your Rats be as big as Kong.
Short trip escort duty again today, but the bestest good news is the Celebration continues. Box arrived full of Omaha’s Bestest Beast; Beef, Porcine, and Formerly Feathered. The Formerly Feathered is in the Crockett Pot as we speak soes it can be ready for a function with my Adoring Public on tomorrow upcoming. Coals are being prepared for the smoking of the Porcine Product, and grilling the Tendered Loined Strips. That will go well with the homemade cookies. And the Frosty Yuenglings. Adorable & d’Weeded Deplorables…Come on down. 🎂
The King of Battle has returned!
The Chipster and the rest of us missed you!
Hack Stone claiming “FIRST!” again? I could have sworn that Hack Stone was once a Crayon Eater…if so, that means Army Versus Navy is back on the books?
(I was informed the Marines are part of the Navy…)..
gabn/hbtd/rtr😉😎
Not to worry ninja, I weren’t too far. And, yep, Chippy might be missing me, but…according to him…his aim is getting better. No worries on that score, if he did want to fly into the danger zone to harm one little hair on this Sweeter than Southern Sweet Iced Tea Gun Bunny, OAM and nobunny would go all Maverick on his azz, put him on ice, man, and cook his goose. Be on him like a squad of Hack Stones on a Crayola Factory.
Saw an ad in The Bargain Shopper today; “For Sale, Low Mileage, Gently Used Military Vehicle. Runs but needs fuel. Towing Available. For more info call 1-976-UKRAINE.” 😜
gabn/rtr/hbtd
Belated “Hate you.”
Oh and I forgot…..Friday’s Ammo Free-For-All…I was gonna post on the FGS thread but either is as good as the other…
Here’s today’s rates for popular standard items.
Hollar if you want a particular one covered that’s not here and I’ll include it.
You’re dreaming with those price alerts! But I’ll be pulling for you (us?)!
Wtf is polycase .22LR? Off to duckducknope that.
updooted!
ACKCHYUALLY….for some reason my alerts wasn’t working but half of those had hit the alerts in the last week or two. Polycase .22 is like any others where the lead bullet is covered in plastic (poooooly 😂 ) to alleviate the lead spread/touching, and my range doesn’t like coated rounds or steel.
I have to say, the .223 and 5.56 are about $0.10 higher than they were a few weeks ago but it’s still not too bad.
you do get drops.
9mm has been consistent, a few cents around $0.30 this year so far.
Today, 25 March 2022, is National Medal of Honor Day.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/national-medal-of-honor-day-heroes-john-falkenbury
Let us never forget the sacrifices these brave men and woman made for our Country.
Word.
After all these years, this is STILL a classic to watch, especially with all the puns…
3 minute video.
“Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered!”
100% That shit never gets old and it never fails to amuse me to watch it
“The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds.”
Try saying that fast 3 times…😆😅🤣
They don’t make news like that anymore. What a shame…
Mistakes were made
We needed that laugh today…
Thank You!!!
😆
When you mentioned exploding whale, we thought that you were referring to Heavy Chevy or the Round Ranger. Have either of them done anything noteworthy or felonious lately?
I’m gonna say it..
Am getting tired of hearing about Ukraine..
Guess we are getting callous in our thought process…
We have our own problems in our own backyard…and yet, it seems $$$ is being poured into another Country…again…
Another political move on the Biden/Democrats for the upcoming November election….
Did we not learn from Vietnam/ Afghanistan/Iraq?
Ditto.
Ukraine should’ve thought about getting leaders that keep the people foremost in mind… kinda like this joint.
You forgot Macho Grande. Never forget Macho Grande!
You never get over Macho Grande!
I’m wid ya ninja. I have sympathy for the folks that are being used as cannon fodder…by both sides. The Deep State/New World Order is world wide and the people are but pawns to their political masters. Marx grins. Fix our problems FIRST (ht 2 Hack Stone). And our biggest problem is the career, grifting politicians of BOTH Parties that have sold us out to the Globalists. If the elected official isn’t crooked when they get into office, it doesn’t take them long to get corrupt. Like Trump or hate Trump, he was making a very spirited attempt to do what he thought was right for this country. You will never convince me that 81 million people voted for joe and ho.
Black flag? Knife? Whetstone? I will Resist, Rise Up, Revolt, and Rebel. It’s in my DNA. 🇸🇴
You Be The Judge…
https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-14m-protesters-police-denver-demonstrations
Pure bullshit! But not surprising at all, Denver has become as bad as Portland.. We watched the riots on TV, they were throwing frozen water bottles and worse at the cops. The level of restraint shown by the cops was amazing, the Pantifa / Black Lies Matter crowd were out of control and destroying stuff. This is what happens when the left infests your city / state..
Instead of the gov’s theft (read: taxes) going to schools and street signs it’s going to crackheads and villainous scum.
On the upside, most will be dead within a year via George Floyding on that knockout sh!t.
And when the folks leave that nonsense and come here, it makes my property grow in value…..
SCOTUS ruling on unvaccinated SEALs:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/03/court-allows-department-of-defense-to-reassign-unvaccinated-navy-seals/
Well that’ll be a good thing for national readiness / National Security…
Not sure if we have any armor branch types here but if so, ol’ Poe would be very interested in hearing their assessments of what appears to be going on in Ukraine where Russian armor appears to be highly vulnerable to the Javelin system and other anti-armor weaponry.
Looking at some of those videos, Poe’s thinking that being infantry might be a good thing in this conflict. Of course, there’s a strong probability we’re being propagandized by the Ukes.
Not specifically armor, but was mechanized for a bit while a combat engineer. Long story short, tank killing was a side job that got major focus.
I can’t speak to the technical specifications of modern Russian armor (though I’ve yet to see evidence that any APS-equipped systems have been killed), but anything can be stopped if it can be canalized. It’s a lesson we should have learned in Iraq when we made our trucks too heavy to drive across sunflower fields. Ukrainian springtime mud makes roads vital – and roads, by nature, canalise.
I promise you, if I know where you’ll be and can’t kill you outright, I’ll throw you high enough in the air that you and all your buddies will die on impact.
The ultimate canalization:
The Highway of Death was the result of an American-led bombing of a highway full of fleeing Iraqis during the Persian Gulf War. Kuwait, 1991 : pics (reddit.com)
Somewhere long ago in galaxy far, far away I led a Bradley Stinger Platoon, also at some point a Stinger Platoon. I will tell you that there is a ton propaganda out there but the reality is that the Russians pretty much walked right in to a sucker punch.
The Stinger really is that good and so is the Javelin. Guys hiding in the woods with dismounted missiles are going to play holy hell with tanks, armored vehicles, logistic support vehicles and all kinds of air craft that aren’t capable of at least Mach 2 and even then. Russia has been unable to reliably get fuel to their force and it shut them down.
Historically, if you look through the lens of a highly resistant, high morale defenders versus an unmotivated dispirited invading force the defenders either win or make the cost so high that the invader has regrets. It doesn’t matter whether it is Spain, Finland, Yugoslavia or wherever, if the people have a vested stake in winning as opposed to losing they will fight to the death.
Best thing to come out of this invasion is the knowledge NATO has gained about Russian capabilities or, more, accurately, lack thereof. All these decades we’ve worried about the mighty Russian bear, especially their armored forces, and now we are seeing they can’t even handle a single neighboring country, much less the combined forces of the thirty NATO nations.
When this current war ends, the big downside, as ol’ Poe sees it, has to all belong to Russia. They’re going to have to sweat losing even more territory. The Turks have to be casting covetous eyes to their eastern and northern neighbor states like Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia, Chechnya, even all the way to the Caspian Sea through Azerbaijan and Dagestan. That could make Turkey tri-coastal and the major power in that region.
Also, Russia won’t have that armored bear threat looming over the table when negotiating contracts for their oil and gas to NATO states.
And then there’s the Red Dragon, sharing all that border with Russia’s resource-rich Siberia and thinking it might not be so risky after all, to bite out a chewable chunk of that natural wealth from time to time.
Poe thinks Putin’s screwed the pooch… 😉
Something like this:
Actually that’s old (LOSAT), but here’s Javelin:
CBS news:
Can’t sleep. This missile prons ain’t helping. https://youtu.be/wndRKOF-9TQ
I find my lack of bottlerockets suddenly disturbing.
More Russkies trying to adapt… makeshift bar/slat armor against top-attack HEAT rounds:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-soldiers-appear-fixing-makeshift-103343532.html
This sub-Reddit, related to Ukraine, has articles and videos related to what’s going on over there… Many of these videos are uploaded by people who are actually there.
A lot of times, information shows up here before it shows up in the news. The terrible state of the Russian military, and how well the Ukrainians are doing against them, become more evident here than what the news sites are reporting.
The idea Ukrainistan will be paradise once/if they derussify is a big ol’ pipe dream.
You think things are bad now, wait for a period like The Troubles now that they’re awash with weapons and the natural response will be to purity-spiral down the drain.
Maybe that’s NATO/UN’s longterm strategy but I’d gd guarantee the scant civilian casualties marked down as of now will grow by magnitudes if they ‘peace keep’ the place.
But still, I’ll be praying for Peace.
Part 1
From the Ukrainian standpoint, this is not about “derussifying”, but about doing their own things, as Ukrainians, independent of being bullied or even dominated by the Russians.
The Russians were told that the Ukrainian government had gone full “NAZI” mode and were oppressing the people. The Russian soldiers were told that they would be greeted with open arms and even parades. The Russian citizens thought this too.
However, this was not the case. When Putin et al. talked about the “Nazification” of Ukraine, they were really complaining about Ukrainian leadership choosing an alternative governing and business model than what the Russians had. It also goes deeper.
Many in the Russian leadership do not recognize Ukraine as an independent country, but as a part of Russia. They are using their version of the salami slicing tactic to annex pieces of Ukrainian territory until all of Ukraine is annexed into Russia.
Oh noes, I’ll be getting thebesig treatment!
Some of them were even told they were on a training operation. Putin literally gives zero fucks about the soldiers in the Ukraine. Morale is hovering somewhere between zero and minus something.
Part 2
They want to be a part of the European Union, and even NATO. This poses problems for the Russians, even if they don’t join NATO. The Russians are corrupt to the core, this corruption extends into the military. They are also experiencing demographic challenges that would impact them in the long run.
Ukraine, by embracing Western models, and being a destination of Russian immigrants, challenges Russia’s perceived stance in the Russian/Slavic world. Ukrainians explained that the conflict between Russia, and Ukraine, has gone for centuries. What we are seeing is not new.
The Russian soldiers are committing war crimes, many of them are indiscriminately shooting civilians. This has contributed to the reasons to why mass graves are being dug, as the last thing they need is for rotting corpses littering their streets and cities. They are also having issues with the Russian soldiers refusing to pick up their dead soldiers. That adds to the problem.
Part 3
Civilians, by necessity, are joining the fight. I’ve seen pictures of “grandmas” armed with rifles. Civilians are serving alongside their military while fighting against the Russians. They are doing a good job presenting the case for our second amendment in the United States.
Now if our ‘leaders’ would care to listen… whole’nother story.
I get that some Ukrainians (by some polls a majority) would like to join the western systems but it doesn’t take much of an ideological foe to screw up any long-term planning.
I’m worried that the US et al are playing a very short-sighted game when half of the world is looking for reasons to de-dollar.
And I’ll say this again, I don’t want to be involved in ANY fight over there, it ain’t my business and how I feel doesn’t matter.
The process of their joining the Western system has accelerated, thanks to Russia. They just decoupled the power system from Russia and coupled it with the European Union.
The things that Donald Trump wanted some European countries to do, like cutting their dependence on Russian oil and beefing up their part of NATO? Many countries are now doing that.
The United States/West happens to be the center of gravity of the global economy. As long as the dollar remains important here, most of the others will want to remain with it. Russia is attempting to decouple from the dollar, but they increase China’s influence over them.
You don’t have to worry about the United States getting into a fight over there, as this is a repeat of history. All we have to do is to keep supplying them while they do the fighting. By some estimates, Russian KIA surpassed Soviets KIA in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The momentum has shifted in favor of the Ukrainians.
Unfuckingbelievable. Some dare accuse the world of authoritarian leanings yet this atrocity, among others, are laying at our feet.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-03-24/army-soldiers-coronavirus-vaccine-mandate-refusers-discharges-5466926.html
God help us.
I know you guys love to hate me, and I love a debate, but it is clear that most of you don’t.
I enjoyed the discussions on occasion, but those times have been getting fewer and farther between.
Therefore I am outta here.
For the record, I am a retired LTC, Infantry turned MI. I served in the first Gulf War (101st), Korea (2ID), Haiti (82nd), and Iraq and Afghanistan (various Joint and SOF operational and staff assignments).
I’m currently serving as a DAC and have some insight as to why a lot of the craziness happens (it’s mostly money and changing leadership priorities).
It’s been real, but it hasn’t been fun for a while. I wish you the best- especially Ol’ Poe.
Steeley Out
I’m sure your mama is very proud of you.
Well hells bells, you are indeed a colonel, just not the one I thought you were. As for it not being fun for a while, ol’ Poe will remind you once again that you could make your visits here a lot more enjoyable for everyone here, including yourself, if you could just give up that aloof tone of pedantry you almost always resort to, regardless of topic.
So you were 101st and 82nd, just like ol’ Poe, who would remind you of the driving mantra of both those Airborne units:
All the way, up the hill, all the way, Airborne, all the way, meaning of course that you never, ever quit, you never give up.
And that, Colonel, is precisely what you are doing here; you are giving up because you keep losing arguments here or, at least fail to convince with your condescending comments.
You were infantry…then you should damned well know that when you repeatedly fail tactically, you change your tactics, a lesson, Colonel, that you seem to have never learned.
Continued below…
You don’t have to pull out, abandon your position, simply because you have failed to achieve your objective of influencing the hearts and minds of all the dickweeds who frequent this site.
Rethink your tactics–lose the air of superiority and address the dickweeds as peers, meaning don’t lecture, but simply converse, and in doing so, impart the knowledge and insights you possess.
Steeley, you do contribute to this site, but in a discordant and obnoxious manner, primarily due to your unfortunate habit of talking down to the troops.
Ol’ Poe will hate to see you leave because you are an excellent source of insights as well as a worthy debate opponent. Should you decide to stay, just one simple request: quit talking down to us and treat us as your fellow veterans, okay?
Thanks for your service to the nation. And no, we don’t “love to hate” you. Just because we may disagree with some or even most of your political views is not hatred. In fact, your information and insights as to what is going on in Big Green have been useful, as many of us have been out of uniform for decades.
Sean Penn threatens to melt his Oscar statues if President Zelenskyy is not invited to speak tonight at the Oscar Awards tonight. Talk about an attention whore. Just glad that we have the Hollywood Elite here to tells us when US Military intervention is warranted (Ukraine), and when it isn’t (Iraq).
https://variety.com/2022/awards/news/sean-penn-zelensky-oscars-1235215806/
Surprised the cartels have not corrected the “Sean Penn” issue.
The Black News Channel lays off the remaining staff and hasn’t paid employees for weeks. Looks like they took their business plan from a proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government formerly located in Bethesda Maryland. Of course, we all know the reason why it failed, that’s right, racism.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-news-channel-shuts-down-permanently-fails-to-meet-payroll/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab
All-Points Logistics in always hiring…..
Nice to see the NFL taking affirmative action in hiring minorities under represented in their coaching staffs. How many slots will be allocated to Asians?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/nfl-will-require-every-team-to-have-minority-coach-in-key-offensive-role/ar-AAVAgIN#:~:text=PALM%20BEACH%2C%20Fla.%20—%20The%20NFL%20enacted%20a,of%20the%20NFL%27s%20two%20Black%20active%20head%20coaches.