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bolverk

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  1. Just checked her FB profile. I'm friends with five different people who are friends of her friends. Surely, someone on this site knows her.
  2. It just so happens that there’s a post from this morning in the Ukraine thread where Anne Applebaum is interviewed, and she describes how Russia treats food as a weapon, which, again, is a violation of international law and is recognized as a war crime.
  3. As the crow flies, NATO HQ in Brussels is about 1,400 km from Lviv in western Ukraine.
  4. Not saying the West should kowtow, bend the knee, or whatever to Syria, but what are we doing to coax them closer to us now that Assad is gone so the Russians lose rights, leases, or access to their bases there?
  5. I really like her. As a layman from afar, it’s tough to judge the various pundits and analysts, but she breaks big, complex geopolitical stuff down and communicates it so clearly for people like me that I think she’s one of the best of the bunch. Quite an insightful person, too, who's called things pretty well so far. Thanks for sharing.
  6. Wordle 1,579 4/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #857 🟨🟦🟩🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1360 5️⃣4️⃣ 7️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  7. "Why is your shirt so tight?" Yep, that one got me good.
  8. Also, keep in mind that Russia didn't lift a finger to assist Iran this summer. Could be some hurt feelings and a sense of betrayal there.
  9. Enchubben appears to have left the building as well.
  10. Nothing brought that asshole more pleasure than shitting on people he thought were his inferiors. It'd gotten so bad that he went on ignore several months ago, but he was quoted enough by other posters that I still ended up seeing most of his posts. I don't recall many (if any) where he had a positive thing to say about anyone or anything. Also, as a guy who touted himself as "statsman," he was terrible with numbers.
  11. Illegally conducting foreign policy while not in office and undermining sitting presidents is becoming a Grand Old Party tradition.
  12. Thanks for posting the link. It's not a country or situation I know much about, and that newspage had some background info that was helpful in partially understanding what's going on. csb: One of my best friends when I was going to high school in France was originally from there -- super-duper smart guy and very kind. He grew up to become a software developer, living in Dublin for a while, and I think still working in Bermuda. Doing what? No idea. The last time I saw him was in '09. His mom was Vietnamese and had fled that war to Madagascar, married a local, had him, and then the family fled Madagascar due to a coup in the '70s to France, where he grew up. I should reach out to Dihn. Hopefully, I've got his email because I think he killed his FB account. /csb
  13. Reminds me of Nixon (another criminal, cheat, and liar) sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks before the 1968 election.
  14. Wordle 1,578 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #856 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1359 5️⃣4️⃣ 6️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  15. Call it what it is: a Nazi rally.
  16. Fuck Hamas forever and ever. If I believed in hell, I'd hope all of them burn there for eternity. They, and all other religious extremists, are a horrible blight on humanity, as they use warped interpretations of their religions to manipulate and control the masses, often to horrible, violent ends. Despite you not saying you're sorry for accusing me of lying like Russia, I'll go ahead and accept your statement as a tacit admission that you've been duped by whatever media you consume or that you're hopelessly biased and prejudiced on this topic.
  17. Modern-day American Brownshirts.
  18. What's really funny about the name Amerigo is that it's a cognate of the name Emmerich, from Proto-Germanic *Haimariks, which co-evolved with the name Heinrich, which became Henri in French, and then eventually Henry in English. Since America is the feminine version, it'd literally be Henrietta, and therefore, we live in the United States of Henrietta. Love, love, love that factoid.
  19. If rights aren't universal, they aren't rights.
  20. A quote I first heard back in the '90s that's stuck with me since: "Remember your humanity, and forget all the rest. "
  21. Big enough to clog a toilet.
  22. Friend, welcome to warmed-over arguments from two years ago. Do yourself a favor and read the thread if you want to rehash those arguments.
  23. Gettin' the bodies to sink tho.
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