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Pooky

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  1. The most effective move made against Russia in the recent past was when DJT crashed the price of oil. If course, to do that now is impossible, since US energy independence has been thrown out the window 🙁
  2. The part that struck me was … Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney criminally investigating his attempt to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia has “developed evidence …” Now, I’m no lawyer, but evidence is usually discovered, as it is something that already exists. When something is developed, that means it was not there in the first place and had to be manufactured. Not at all fishy. 🤧
  3. Tap the responsible party and ask for their cut of the swindle? 😒
  4. With Hitler and Stalin, how do you know that the alternate timeline would not turn out to be worse without them?
  5. Looking at the comments for the article, I am dumbfounded by the number of people calling this misinformation. It is not. Misinformation infers that the information is imparted by mistake. There is no mistake here. There is intent, purpose and a definite intention to deceive. This is disinformation.
  6. No. He was still giving his speech when protesters were already in the Capitol Building. As far as I know, mass time travel is still science fiction, not to mention there are a million and one more useful things to do if it was possible 😎
  7. Remember, this is a Governor fighting a war with the House of Mouse, where the outcome remains uncertain.
  8. Frequent bowel movements can mean one of two things: 1. You can’t have sch*tt for brains, as you keep emptying it. 1a. This also means you keep losing your sch*tt 😁 Bad juju. 2. You have ADDS, aka Attention Deficit Different Sch*tt, whereby you keep worrying about lots of different sch*tt as you can’t hold onto the same sch*tt long enough to focus.
  9. It can’t be a NATO peacekeeping force. Russia will not tolerate that and consider it almost the same as Ukraine joining NATO itself. Only bad outcomes proliferate in that scenario. it would need to be a UN peacekeeping force and there ain’t no way certain players are gonna let that happen. 🙁
  10. Contractors are usually better at it than the government’s own people 😉
  11. Interesting article. I can somewhat see things from Zelensky’s point of view. For all the military aid the West has sent, how far has it moved the needle with regard to the war in Ukraine? At this point in the war, the most pertinent appraisal of the situation I have read likens things to the Western Front in WWI. Movement of the front line is slow and attrition is the name of the game. In that kind of war, a continuing supply of munitions is only useful so long as there is a continuing supply of personnel. Can Ukraine sustain its armed forces? Russian tactics puzzle me. They have the weapons, they have the manpower, but their tactics leave much to be desired. I understand their air forces are built around supporting their ground forces, but they seem scared to commit in any numbers. Sure, they will lose a few, but if used correctly, they could decimate the Ukrainian front line. It’s as if they’re happy to fight a containing action and drag this thing out for a long time. Ukraine, on the other hand, doesn’t have the air assets to fight the war as it needs to win. Hence the push to acquire F-16s, even though they are unsuited to the conditions in Ukraine. Without good tactical air support, Ukraine is never going to make serious, rapid headway. And Ukraine cannot afford to fight a war of attrition. Where I disagree most strongly is rapid, or even immediate, membership of NATO. The war needs to be over before this goes anywhere. To grant membership now is to invite Putin to use nuclear weapons in Europe and that is wholly unacceptable. Putin is not the kind of leader to think that If NATO becomes involved, he will lose everything and back down. His mindset is that if that happens, he’ll take everyone with him. That cannot be allowed to happen and the NATO leadership is smart enough to make sure it doesn’t. What the Biden administration needs to do is take a chill pill. Ukraine is fighting a war that the US does not want to and is losing good young mean and women doing so. The US is spending (other people’s) money, nothing more, to keep the war going. Maybe, just maybe, they could see why Zelenskyy might want a little more help, even if they can’t give it to him.
  12. True statement. But in a country where almost half the AG’s are prioritizing criminals over victims, where legislation is continually being advocated to control legal gun owners but nothing is being done to lessen the real drivers behind gun crime, where even the EPA has SWAT teams (and not to combat those darned cockroaches), an AR-15 may be a nice-to-have. 👍🏻 And if anyone is interested about how organized government action against wildlife usually fares, look up “Australia”, “1932” and “emu” 🤣
  13. Nicola Sturgeon screwed up royally. Alex Salmond wasn’t great, but Nicola Sturgeon, with the misdeeds that took place under her administration, has wrecked the SNP and probably set back any chance of Scottish independence by at least a generation. Her name is poison in Scotland and they are an unforgiving bunch. Trust me, I’m outnumbered by them where I work. I’d still be interested to know if anything like this could be brought before the courts here. There is enough evidence out there to make people rather worried if so.
  14. So, interesting question. Is there a comparable charge to corporate manslaughter in the US? https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/cold-case-homicide-cops-investigating-30506943?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_mobile&fbclid=IwAR256KpOOhfQAnBXR33_Ja9ykzoqhxa1Z1Q6a0M28TwBr8Ced0Ykkapk0qw_aem_AZkHyymEOPRqiEhPdSaT5Cwye8ht4FhlVdfeovt8JJy7KrMI3S-YPV7peLO8zFWhqDA#lkewi6kixrcbpw8e08b Because if Nicola Sturgeon goes down on such a charge, then I can see a slew of similar cases being brought here, if such a route exists. I bet Andrew Cuomo et al are watching this case vewy closely.
  15. I rather think next door’s cat had a little something to do with this
  16. Well, that would cover the exposure 😁
  17. Well, Portsmouth can fill Fratton Park almost every home game and Wembley every time we get there (the novelty value is immense). The popularity of women’s matches is growing and I would expect the coverage of the Euros last year and World Cup going on currently to help that continue. Exposure and engagement are what the women’s game need. Right now, they are getting more of that.
  18. Which club? When Barcelona’s Women’s side can pull in 90,000 crowds (women for the football, men to watch Alexia Putellas), the England women’s team can get 87,000 at Wembley and the worldwide push to televise the wWorld Cup, I think the women’s game is on a definite upswing. I hope they continue to do well 👍🏻
  19. On this, I must disagree. When compared to tennis, the women play football, not a shortened, or simplified version of the men’s game. Not one half, but two. Not 60 minutes, but 90, plus time added for stoppages. All the same rules apply. When you look at the skill levels of the top teams, it’s up there. The physical strength may not be at the same level, but the tactical awareness and ability of the players is well worth watching. Not only that, but the women are markedly less cynical than the men, which tends to keep the matches flowing. And the entertainment value is just as good, if not better.
  20. Meh, what’s half an hour between impeachments? 😒 Neither impeachment was anything other than a continuation of the Democrats’ cynical attempts to destabilize and disempower the sitting President.
  21. Two hundred random protesters, apparently “led” by a guy in a moo-hat, does not a coup make. The propensity of the Democrats and their media cronies to bandy about serious words like “insurrection” and “coup” only shows their obvious contempt for the education level of the American public. Ask the Hungarians what a real insurrection looks like and then see how 1956 turned out for them. If you want to look back in history, look at Taiping, China, between 1850 and 1864 and then fathom how many people died. January 6th was not an insurrection by any sane definition of the word. And calling it a coup attempt is even more of a stretch. No sane person would try and equate what happened with Greece in ‘67, Pakistan in ‘99, or Ukraine in ‘04/‘05. January 6th was a protest at an election many believed to be rigged and still do to this day. Calling it anything else is a gross exaggeration.
  22. https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/rfk-jr-slams-dems-for-trying-to-censor-a-censorship-hearing/amp/ It’s like they don’t even care any more 😒
  23. The only thing in the world more irritating than mosquito bites. 🦟
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