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Deja effin' vu all over again - ER - 9/21/2022 2:58:19 PM
- A very big difference... - BuckGalaxy - 9/21/2022 8:36:37 PM
  - There are many differences. - ER - 9/21/2022 10:18:10 PM
    - NATO - podrock - 9/21/2022 11:13:30 PM
      - "Nato had little to do with this." - ER - 9/21/2022 11:42:22 PM
        
        I cannot help but think - podrock - 9/22/2022 1:48:37 AM
        
        iIron bomb shelf life. - ER - 9/22/2022 2:53:15 AM
        
        And one more thing... - ER - 9/21/2022 11:59:47 PM
        
        The big change in the US Military... - BuckGalaxy - 9/22/2022 1:00:47 AM
        
        Funny you should mention Grenada - ER - 9/22/2022 2:37:20 AM

The winter of discontent - RL - 9/22/2022 12:48:08 AM

New geopolitics blog - Pebble - 9/13/2022 9:57:37 AM
- The Granule has a good teacher. - podrock - 9/17/2022 12:40:48 AM
  - His teacher tells me that he makes her read widely - Pebble - 9/17/2022 7:30:12 AM
- Yo, Pebble! - ER - 9/16/2022 8:21:57 PM
  - I had to register to leave a comment - Pebble - 9/17/2022 3:06:45 AM
    - I did register. - ER - 9/17/2022 3:58:52 AM
      - I didn't register - podrock - 9/17/2022 5:33:06 AM
        
        I’ve spoken to him - Pebble - 9/17/2022 6:37:17 AM
        
        It seems to be working now. - ER - 9/17/2022 12:13:58 PM
        
        He’s replied to both your comments - Pebble - 9/18/2022 12:51:56 PM
        
        I was impressed. - ER - 9/18/2022 2:26:27 PM
        
        I agree - BuckGalaxy - 9/18/2022 11:34:25 PM
        
        Smart Kid - BuckGalaxy - 9/19/2022 8:23:24 PM
        
        Thank you. - Pebble - 9/18/2022 6:28:35 PM

Ukes reportedly shelled targets in Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast, Russia - BuckGalaxy - 9/18/2022 2:44:21 AM
- Border country. - ER - 9/18/2022 5:52:54 PM
- More: - podrock - 9/18/2022 3:54:47 PM

This should have happened in Florida. - ER - 9/18/2022 4:50:52 PM

Russia, Russia, Russia - podrock - 9/17/2022 4:11:16 PM
- I'm only speculating here... - ER - 9/17/2022 7:56:54 PM
  - I'm also getting a whiff of - podrock - 9/17/2022 9:05:55 PM
    - It’s a strong enough whiff to be detected over the ocean - Pebble - 9/18/2022 1:24:53 PM

Great. Now I have to learn about Armenia and Azerbaijan. - podrock - 9/13/2022 1:35:17 AM
- And along the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border, apparently?? - podrock - 9/17/2022 4:02:09 PM
  - BBC link: - podrock - 9/17/2022 4:14:58 PM
- Russia’s military failures in Ukraine are likely continuing to weaken Russia’s leverage in the former Soviet Union. - BuckGalaxy - 9/14/2022 8:01:07 AM

Biden intervention averts economic catastrophe - BuckGalaxy - 9/16/2022 3:51:03 AM
- He's turning out better than I expected. - ER - 9/16/2022 12:31:45 PM

So how did the Ukes pull this off? - ER - 9/14/2022 3:07:06 AM
- Top-down attack against a bottom-up response - BuckGalaxy - 9/16/2022 3:46:35 AM
- A combination of factors - BuckGalaxy - 9/15/2022 12:28:47 AM
- Yes, and, - podrock - 9/14/2022 4:56:03 AM
  - Interactive war map from full theater to street level - BuckGalaxy - 9/14/2022 7:52:33 AM

Will the Ruskies fully mobilize after this stunning defeat? No, they can't... - BuckGalaxy - 9/14/2022 7:57:30 AM

So, apparently- when royalty dies- NOTHING else newsworthy happens... - RL - 9/10/2022 8:36:31 PM
- You need to be more selective where you get your news from - Pebble - 9/13/2022 9:59:45 AM
- Like Ukraine's impressive counter moves? - podrock - 9/11/2022 2:03:01 AM
  - Yeah... maybe when they kick the Russians out of Ukraine perhaps they will follow them all the way back to Moscow? - RL - 9/11/2022 3:50:55 AM
    - And the ruskies have been flawed in almost every way - BuckGalaxy - 9/11/2022 6:37:22 PM
      - Ukraine has been incredible militarily, but also... - RL - 9/12/2022 3:38:19 PM
        
        Even the postage stamp was excellent - podrock - 9/12/2022 5:25:04 PM
    - No. Just back to 2014. - podrock - 9/11/2022 4:15:19 AM
      - Brilliant counter offensive - BuckGalaxy - 9/11/2022 6:30:25 PM
        
        It's a start. - podrock - 9/12/2022 12:12:16 AM
  - You're lucky. I got no TV news at all. - ER - 9/11/2022 3:29:26 AM
    - TV news? Meh. - podrock - 9/11/2022 3:47:01 AM

What happens if Ukraine takes back Crimea? - BuckGalaxy - 9/11/2022 7:00:39 PM
- I think they're going to save it for last. - ER - 9/11/2022 7:41:14 PM
  - What about Russia after that? - BuckGalaxy - 9/11/2022 9:02:17 PM
    - I have no idea what will happen in the long run. - ER - 9/11/2022 11:19:33 PM
      - Anger is building on Russian TV. - podrock - 9/12/2022 6:17:16 PM
- A great link to follow the war in Ukraine - BuckGalaxy - 9/11/2022 7:10:15 PM

Should we assume? - podrock - 9/5/2022 4:59:53 AM
- uh... - podrock - 9/10/2022 5:32:15 PM
- Absolutely not - RL - 9/5/2022 10:33:50 PM
  - Do you have a link for that alert? - BuckGalaxy - 9/6/2022 6:19:23 PM
    - More: - podrock - 9/10/2022 11:41:15 PM
    - Here is one... - RL - 9/7/2022 2:11:33 AM

Files seized at Mar-a-Lago include material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities - RL - 9/7/2022 2:54:53 AM
- Now every spy agency for every nuclear power on the planet is trying to find out what was in those documents - BuckGalaxy - 9/8/2022 9:00:58 PM
  - Maybe it was insurance... - RL - 9/9/2022 3:40:24 AM
- Yeah, so what? - podrock - 9/7/2022 3:29:28 AM
  - GOP politicians are more concerned with advancing their careers than doing their job. - ER - 9/7/2022 2:07:59 PM
    - I guess I never got around to making my point... - ER - 9/7/2022 4:55:30 PM
      - Agreed. - podrock - 9/9/2022 3:33:32 AM

How long is it going to take The DOJ and Trump's lawyers to agree on a 'Special Master'? - ER - 9/5/2022 11:04:13 PM
- Until after the midterms. - podrock - 9/5/2022 11:17:29 PM
  - Read between the lines - ER - 9/6/2022 2:36:39 PM
    - Its got me jerkin' back and forth... - ER - 9/6/2022 2:46:11 PM

Dozens of the classified folders seized by the FBI had their contents missing - RL - 9/2/2022 8:34:45 PM
- What the hell was he up to? - ER - 9/3/2022 2:14:24 PM
  - Criming. - podrock - 9/3/2022 5:17:33 PM
    - Which is why he concentrated on putting inept, unqualified and easily corrupted judges in place... - RL - 9/5/2022 10:35:39 PM
      - He had help - podrock - 9/6/2022 1:39:17 PM
- That was the first thing that caught my eye. - podrock - 9/2/2022 10:20:00 PM

Shake up at CNN - RobVG - 9/3/2022 5:39:48 PM
- A twitter thread - podrock - 9/5/2022 4:06:43 PM
  - I like what I hear on MSNBC, - ER - 9/5/2022 5:10:45 PM
    - I stopped watching all TV news - BuckGalaxy - 9/5/2022 11:01:36 PM
    - I miss Headline News. - podrock - 9/5/2022 7:11:57 PM
  - So it's all about money. - RobVG - 9/5/2022 5:08:20 PM
    - Wherever money is involved, the Fascists are not far behind. - ER - 9/5/2022 5:11:43 PM

Can we have Boris back ? - Pebble - 9/5/2022 2:25:16 PM
- Call that a speech? - Pebble - 9/5/2022 2:28:08 PM
  - Conservatives are the same everywhere. - ER - 9/5/2022 5:18:55 PM

The coming few months - RL - 9/4/2022 2:37:30 AM
- I'm inclined to agree with you. - ER - 9/4/2022 3:36:47 AM
  - The right-wing propaganda machine is doubling down on Trump... and it makes no goddamn sense - RL - 9/4/2022 6:43:48 AM
    - They realize they are at the peak of their strength. - ER - 9/4/2022 1:35:59 PM
      - But the collapse will be devastating for their profits... - RL - 9/4/2022 2:48:20 PM
        
        Again, the inevitable comparison with NAZI Germany - ER - 9/4/2022 4:41:54 PM

College loan forgiveness boogie-woogie - ER - 8/30/2022 3:07:40 PM
- College is more than that - BuckGalaxy - 8/30/2022 10:29:18 PM
  - I couldn't agree more. - ER - 8/30/2022 11:20:16 PM
    - Further... - BuckGalaxy - 8/31/2022 2:12:32 AM
      - I agree with some of that. - RobVG - 9/1/2022 7:36:37 PM
        
        What do you mean by "free education"? - ER - 9/1/2022 11:27:08 PM
        
        You see racism. I see the "dumbasses" as being white slackers. - RobVG - 9/2/2022 12:11:45 AM
        
        One of my redneck high school friends put it very well... - ER - 9/2/2022 1:01:17 AM
        
        Chris Rock had a whole bit on exactly this many years ago. - podrock - 9/2/2022 10:15:57 PM
        
        The same can be said for banks - BuckGalaxy - 9/1/2022 8:09:29 PM
        
        And think ITT tech. - RobVG - 9/1/2022 9:29:20 PM

it was a damned good speech. - ER - 9/2/2022 12:52:13 AM
- Those words to be repeated over and over and over... - BuckGalaxy - 9/2/2022 1:28:05 AM
  - If Trump should die... - ER - 9/2/2022 12:12:43 PM
  - An example must be made of the MAGA traitors- one that will echo through following generations - RL - 9/2/2022 2:01:05 AM
    - unfortunately. - ER - 9/2/2022 2:57:38 PM

Democrat Mary Peltola defeats Sarah Palin - BuckGalaxy - 9/1/2022 2:58:39 AM
- When there was speculation that the supreme court ruling on Roe vs Wade would lead to a massive backlash I was skeptical... - RL - 9/1/2022 1:54:01 PM
  - I'm hopeful too - BuckGalaxy - 9/1/2022 5:07:52 PM
  - Its possible this mid-term won't be the disaster the Dems fear. - ER - 9/1/2022 4:00:34 PM

In the movie, he will be played by Kevin Spacey - ER - 8/29/2022 3:51:01 PM
- Why does he always look - podrock - 8/30/2022 12:53:51 AM
  - The rumor going around DC is that he has one. - ER - 8/30/2022 2:35:15 AM
    - You don't have to say it - BuckGalaxy - 8/31/2022 8:08:39 AM
    - or more than one. - podrock - 8/31/2022 3:27:05 AM
      - In the good ole KGB handbook... - ER - 8/31/2022 12:24:58 PM
        
        And the former leads to the later. - podrock - 8/31/2022 10:38:06 PM

You'd think con men would be hard to con. - podrock - 8/26/2022 8:13:21 PM

Thoughts on busing Immigrants from border states to DC and NYC? - RobVG - 8/21/2022 8:19:20 PM
- It is a cruel stunt you can only do iif you don't consider them human beings... - RL - 8/22/2022 2:02:02 PM
  - Businessmen don't just want cheap labor. - ER - 8/22/2022 2:37:41 PM
    - From discussions I have had - podrock - 8/22/2022 4:38:17 PM
      - "Americans won't do that kind of work." - ER - 8/22/2022 7:06:18 PM
        
        Point taken. - podrock - 8/22/2022 8:59:45 PM
        
        Back in my day... - ER - 8/22/2022 9:59:46 PM
        
        Wise, as always, ER. - podrock - 8/22/2022 11:20:41 PM
- There is no "immigration problem". - ER - 8/21/2022 9:14:09 PM
  - "Wide open"? - RobVG - 8/23/2022 12:48:23 AM
    - Entry is wide open, not residence. - ER - 8/23/2022 1:57:11 AM
      - Case study. - ER - 8/23/2022 2:29:21 AM

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