@Jolly said in MAPA: @Jolly said in MAPA: Make America Poor Again. [image: 51K8Lvbb0tL.__AC_SY300_SX300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg] And my initial point is that Biden will be given the blame for record inflation. Most Americans in the working sector do not remember the miasma of the Carter presidency. They are in for a rude shock and Mr. Biden is going to get torched. My daughter is married to a union steward. God Bless him, he's quit defending Biden at all. Having to buy a car, put gas in it and buy groceries will do that to you. Speaking of things one seldom hears, I don't hear much rah-rah over Biden at all. Through Afghanistan and some other COVID nonsense, Biden himself paved the way for liberals to ignore him without their losing face with the Right People.

@Doctor-Phibes said in 17,000 ATGMs in a week?: Irest of the world is willing to keep on isolating Russia, or whether they'll cave if things get more difficult. What is more important a the people of Ukraine or the price of my gasoline? That's an easy question.

@Doctor-Phibes said in 5,000,000: @Aqua-Letifer said in 5,000,000: saying Britain was a generous country but Yeah, let's take the opportunity to make this about how great the British are, meanwhile doing sweet FA to help. Send The Resident an email. I'm sure he'll get right on it.

My plan is to wait until most of the nutters with guns wipe each other out, then I'll walk in and disarm them with my cheery British accent and self-deprecating humour, and snaffle all the goodies while they're busy polishing their weapons and arguing about who's in charge. Pretty much what the Brits have always done, IOW.

In other news, American diplomats are in talks in Venezuela, offering to lift sanctions for oil... My, how things have changed.

@Jolly said in Death by chloroform: That's what she said... lol

Day Eight of the Russian Column Held Hostage (by the usual Russian incompetence) I have posted on twitter about the Russian Army columns North of Kyiv decaying into immobile blobs due to the Rasputitsa, poorly maintained Chinese truck tires and shear “follow the plan” Russian incompetence. The head and first dozen or so kilometers of the southernmost column north of Kiev have been stuck there for EIGHT DAYS. The Russians have since rammed more and more vehicles into this monster traffic jam (idiotically “following the plan” Soviet-style) so the whole thing is now 65-70 kilometers long (almost 40 miles). And, because the trucks can’t go off-road due to the Rasputitsa mud and tire problems, they’re stuck on the roads and the roads’ shoulders three vehicles wide for the whole @40 miles. That means fuel and resupply trucks can’t move on or off road to deliver anything to anybody. So all the columns’ heads are now out of fuel and battery power. They can’t move north, south or sideways, and everything behind them is stuck because of the mud, and rapidly running out of fuel and vehicle battery charge too (assuming they haven’t already). Nor can any of those columns defend themselves because they’re too densely packed. They’re just targets waiting for the Ukrainians to destroy them. Only the Ukrainians had something better to do. They opened the floodgates of reservoirs around those columns to flood them and turn the surrounding areas into impassable quagmires for months – probably until July or August. (See photo below) Probably several thousand Russian vehicles in those columns will be irrecoverable losses. Hundreds of Russian soldiers might have drowned. This was not just a debacle, but an EPIC one. About 1/5th of the Russian force in Ukraine is now flooded or trapped, and are definitely out of the war for good. Much more interesting stuff at the link.

5% would be more like it. OTOH, why do I have a smidgen of trepidation, contemplating most European nations armed to the teeth?

@Jolly said in Kuwait vs Ukraine: To compare Russia with Iraq is laughable. He kind of just ignored the Russian nuclear arsenal in one passing sentence. Noticed that, did you? LOL.

@Renauda said in Fiona Hill on Russia: Fiona Hill never disappoints. Thanks for posting. Great hear from folks who know where of they speak. She sure does.

Answer to #3 is no, you don’t pay property taxes on your own assessment of value, the city assessed it for you.

No comment as he didn’t give specifics, but he is concerned. Get drunk when you can and Jon put out some very sage advice.

@George-K said in Genius: there are good people on both sides Agreed, and it is good to always keep this in mind. Political affiliation doesn't say much about whether one is a good person. (With the obvious exception of Democrats, who are all bad.)

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@Aqua-Letifer said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition: @Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition: @LuFins-Dad said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition: @Jolly said in American Thinker du jour - Chiropractic edition: Back to this one... I think we can agree a lot of it is horseshit, but I threw this one in here for a reason...Yes, it is outrageous in many ways, but what can chiropractic treat? Back aches, yes, but what else? I've heard people testify it helps with headaches, sinus problems, etc. The question remains, what is it actually capable of? And for what percentage of people? I'm not sure I've seen any exhaustive studies done one way or another, with an open mind and a scientific approach. Placebo effect. Maybe. Or maybe there's something that works for some people... Not masks, though. There is no placebo effect on masks, unless you mean a psychic rather than physical effect. Viruses ain't people.