Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I think the analogy is that 2014 was the Anschluss, and this is Czechoslovakia. Agree with the larger point. Putin doesn't need to invade Moldova or Kazakhstan to have them in his orbit. The Baltics are definitely threatened, and I would think Finland too, more than Sweden. See the Fiona Hill interview for an explanation.

But also, the problem is not that Russia is a strong state. That's China. The problem is that Russia is a weak state, with grievances and a desire to overcompensate and punch above its weight. A stronger USSR couldn't control Afghanistan, nor could. Where do the warm water ports come from?

Warm water ports were a key goal of Russian imperialism and statecraft all through the 19th century - part of why the Crimean War was fought back in 1850s and undoubtedly part of why they want Crimea and Ukraine now.

[Replaced_Texan]

Sorry all for the brief downtime! My credit card number changed and I forgot to update the host. All is clear, and I also renewed the domain for another three years. Hopefully that'll keep us up and running for awhile.

Also, my son was born two weeks ago today, and I've sort of been distracted.



His pictures are all over my facebook and twitter if you follow such things.

I'm in love.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Thanks RT! He's beautiful.

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Sorry all for the brief downtime! My credit card number changed and I forgot to update the host. All is clear, and I also renewed the domain for another three years. Hopefully that'll keep us up and running for awhile.

Also, my son was born two weeks ago today, and I've sort of been distracted.



His pictures are all over my facebook and twitter if you follow such things.

I'm in love.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Sorry all for the brief downtime! My credit card number changed and I forgot to update the host. All is clear, and I also renewed the domain for another three years. Hopefully that'll keep us up and running for awhile.

Also, my son was born two weeks ago today, and I've sort of been distracted.



His pictures are all over my facebook and twitter if you follow such things.

I'm in love.

C'mon, I really hope no one annoyed you about this. Congrats!

[Icky Thump]

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Sorry all for the brief downtime! My credit card number changed and I forgot to update the host. All is clear, and I also renewed the domain for another three years. Hopefully that'll keep us up and running for awhile.

Also, my son was born two weeks ago today, and I've sort of been distracted.



His pictures are all over my facebook and twitter if you follow such things.

I'm in love.

He's wonderful.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Sorry all for the brief downtime! My credit card number changed and I forgot to update the host. All is clear, and I also renewed the domain for another three years. Hopefully that'll keep us up and running for awhile.

Also, my son was born two weeks ago today, and I've sort of been distracted.



His pictures are all over my facebook and twitter if you follow such things.

I'm in love.

Big time congrats!!!

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Sorry all for the brief downtime! My credit card number changed and I forgot to update the host. All is clear, and I also renewed the domain for another three years. Hopefully that'll keep us up and running for awhile.

Also, my son was born two weeks ago today, and I've sort of been distracted.



His pictures are all over my facebook and twitter if you follow such things.

I'm in love.

Thank you for keeping us around, let me know if I should send on something for the costs.

But in all cases, baby before imaginary friends.

Congrats again. It really warms my heart to sign on to FB and see the photos. If it makes me happy I can only imagine how happy it makes you.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Thank you for keeping us around, let me know if I should send on something for the costs.

But in all cases, baby before imaginary friends.

Congrats again. It really warms my heart to sign on to FB and see the photos. If it makes me happy I can only imagine how happy it makes you.

Does anyone else feel we should sue the site for the time we lost? Icky, a possible class action?

Of course then we would have to claim we have something in common with flower, which has to quell plaintiffs joining?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Initially, I thought it was insane to attack Jackson as being soft on pedophiles. The only character indictment this could support is the suggestion she has a secret affinity for child molesters. Could any sane person really believe she (or for that matter almost anyone other person who could reach her level) is sympathetic to NAMBLA sorts?

Everybody blames Biden for starting this mess with Borking. But Bork really did suck, all the dicks, from here to the Rockies. He was a bought and paid for advocate playing judge who paved the way for our current monopoly-addled economy. Biden was right, even if he didn't know why, to Bork Bork. And smart people can look at that and say, decades on, thank god that happened.

But nothing is gained, and everything is lost, to allow Lindsey Graham to discuss his lack of faith with a SCOTUS nominee, to have Hawley and Cruz soil the chamber insinuating she's soft on kiddie porn aficionados. If these SCOTUS confirmation hearings are going to be what they apparently have become - spectacles where firebrands can score points with the primary voters back home by lobbing preposterous charges - they ought to remove the cameras from the room.

The behavior of the GOP in that chamber this week - the same people who bristled at Schumer's hit-job on Kavanaugh - was comical. And it'd be funny. Calling an eminently qualified person a pedophile coddler is excellent dark humor. Absurdist. Except that, I fear, it's effective, and received without hint of irony by the only audiences the Hawleys and Cruzes care about.

Get the cameras out of these hearings. This shit debases us on the global stage, to the extent that remains possible.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Initially, I thought it was insane to attack Jackson as being soft on pedophiles. The only character indictment this could support is the suggestion she has a secret affinity for child molesters. Could any sane person really believe she (or for that matter almost anyone other person who could reach her level) is sympathetic to NAMBLA sorts?

Everybody blames Biden for starting this mess with Borking. But Bork really did suck, all the dicks, from here to the Rockies. He was a bought and paid for advocate playing judge who paved the way for our current monopoly-addled economy. Biden was right, even if he didn't know why, to Bork Bork. And smart people can look at that and say, decades on, thank god that happened.

But nothing is gained, and everything is lost, to allow Lindsey Graham to discuss his lack of faith with a SCOTUS nominee, to have Hawley and Cruz soil the chamber insinuating she's soft on kiddie porn aficionados. If these SCOTUS confirmation hearings are going to be what they apparently have become - spectacles where firebrands can score points with the primary voters back home by lobbing preposterous charges - they ought to remove the cameras from the room.

The behavior of the GOP in that chamber this week - the same people who bristled at Schumer's hit-job on Kavanaugh - was comical. And it'd be funny. Calling an eminently qualified person a pedophile coddler is excellent dark humor. Absurdist. Except that, I fear, it's effective, and received without hint of irony by the only audiences the Hawleys and Cruzes care about.

Get the cameras out of these hearings. This shit debases us on the global stage, to the extent that remains possible.

the nature of the attacks is such that it destroys the credibility of The Court. No one respects the decisions as possibly being fair as they are written by people half of whom half the country think are jokes.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

the nature of the attacks is such that it destroys the credibility of The Court. No one respects the decisions as possibly being fair as they are written by people half of whom half the country think are jokes.

The Republicans have already done that, it's just playing out slowly. It's taken them decades, but they packed the Court with ideologues, and the Court's legitimacy can't survive that.

We'd face reality faster if so many Senators weren't geriatric, but you have Senators like mine (DiFi) whose deteriorating neurons play in a bygone fantasyland of bipartisan comity.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

the nature of the attacks is such that it destroys the credibility of The Court. No one respects the decisions as possibly being fair as they are written by people half of whom half the country think are jokes.

Really? I think it destroys the credibility of the Senate.

People who'd think less of Jackson because of the crazy shit thrown by Cruz and Hawley are idiots. What they think isn't going to be changed. And arguably, they're not worth trying to reach. If you think Jackson is a friend to pedophiles, you're in humanity's sphere of deviancy. You're a lost cause, a thing the absence of which would assist humanity. Your consciousness is gift undeserved and your being here, breathing our air and sharing our space, is a liability, a damage to the rest of us.

Got that off my chest...

The people I care about are the sane people who view these hearings and say, "My God. The fucking country is a laughingstock. The US is really, truly fucked." We need some semblance of respect to conduct ourselves on the world stage. Televising these hearings is an unforced error - an incentive for the likes of Cruz and Hawley. Audio only isn't a complete fix, but it gets them off TV, and that's something.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Initially, I thought it was insane to attack Jackson as being soft on pedophiles. The only character indictment this could support is the suggestion she has a secret affinity for child molesters. Could any sane person really believe she (or for that matter almost anyone other person who could reach her level) is sympathetic to NAMBLA sorts?

Everybody blames Biden for starting this mess with Borking. But Bork really did suck, all the dicks, from here to the Rockies. He was a bought and paid for advocate playing judge who paved the way for our current monopoly-addled economy. Biden was right, even if he didn't know why, to Bork Bork. And smart people can look at that and say, decades on, thank god that happened.

But nothing is gained, and everything is lost, to allow Lindsey Graham to discuss his lack of faith with a SCOTUS nominee, to have Hawley and Cruz soil the chamber insinuating she's soft on kiddie porn aficionados. If these SCOTUS confirmation hearings are going to be what they apparently have become - spectacles where firebrands can score points with the primary voters back home by lobbing preposterous charges - they ought to remove the cameras from the room.

The behavior of the GOP in that chamber this week - the same people who bristled at Schumer's hit-job on Kavanaugh - was comical. And it'd be funny. Calling an eminently qualified person a pedophile coddler is excellent dark humor. Absurdist. Except that, I fear, it's effective, and received without hint of irony by the only audiences the Hawleys and Cruzes care about.

Get the cameras out of these hearings. This shit debases us on the global stage, to the extent that remains possible.

It's worse than that. It is Q-Anon type conspiracy stuff. They are using the same insinuations behind their Don't Say Gay bills too. Vile stuff.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Sorry all for the brief downtime! My credit card number changed and I forgot to update the host. All is clear, and I also renewed the domain for another three years. Hopefully that'll keep us up and running for awhile.

Also, my son was born two weeks ago today, and I've sort of been distracted.



His pictures are all over my facebook and twitter if you follow such things.

I'm in love.

Congratulations! That's awesome.