#5
I guess if I spent all my time at a chit coffee house by myself at a table for two, trying snarky tweets and waxing feminism, not getting noticed by the girls, I guess I too would be wondering why the guys don't take me seriously.
#9
How did Gilbert Shelton put it? "A friend with weed is a friend indeed..."
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#10
Most guys have lots of friends but those friendships are paper thin (based on ...
That’s most people, male or female. Situational comrades rather than deep friendships. Females of all ages are better at acting like those activity-based social connections are kindred spirits by sharing lots of personal information, but in many cases the connection is no less superficial. I thought that we had just grown apart when I lost track of most of my high school girlfriends after we moved from university into adulthood, but the same thing happened with my adult friends when Mr. Wife’s career took us abroad for five years.
Direct translation of the article via Google Translate Edited. by Oleg Airapetov
At the first stage of the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian fleet was unable to establish control over the sea, its actions were generally unsuccessful. Nevertheless, it remained a fleet in being, a factor, a threat to communications, which the Japanese had to reckon with. This threat was not an obstacle to the transfer of the Japanese army from the islands to the continent, and above all to Korea. The failures of the fleet were followed by the failures of the army. All this did not meet the expectations of Russian society.
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#1
...Very much enjoying these posts. For a lot more background, let me suggest Black Night, White Snow by Harrison Salisbury, which covers the time from the first revolution to the end of the October revolution. It's a massive read, but as poetic and all-encompassing as anything by Tolstoy.
Mike
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#2
The local population did not support the Russians. Moreover, it was often tuned in favor of the Japanese.
The Japanese who'd run the place till 1945 spent a lot of time wiping out the Korean culture and language, not to mention many Koreans. For some reason, the Koreans still harbor ill feeling over that.
When retreating, part of the troops mixed with the convoys and began to lose organization. At the shouts of "Cavalry!", Which was constantly seen by carts, from time to time panic began, turning the retreating crowds into fleeing crowds. As a result, the chaos only intensified - the carts went without loads abandoned in flight, the artillerymen - without weapons lost in battle.
Sounds like the panic retreat of the US 2d Division from the Yalu, circa 1950, just vehicles rather than carts, and Chinese rather than Japanese.
TownHall
As our July 4th celebrations were beginning, the U.S. quietly closed and abandoned Bagram Air Base, the largest American military base between the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea.
Afghan looters were soon seen scavenging inside the base.
The long retreat of the American Empire is under way, and this longest war is likely to end in bloody retribution for the Afghans who sided with us against the Taliban and are left behind.
When the last American departed Bagram, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. is making plans for "an emergency evacuation of the American embassy in Kabul amid concern that a worsening security situation in Afghanistan could imperil the remaining military and diplomatic corps."
Apparently, we are preparing for a possible Saigon '75 finish to the war launched by George W. Bush 20 years ago. Pressed by reporters on the grim situation in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden did not want to reflect on or talk about what might be coming.
"I want to talk about happy things, man," Biden told reporters. "Look, it's Fourth of July ... it's the holiday weekend. I'm going to celebrate it. There's great things happening."
In that same edition, the Journal reported that China has moved 50,000 troops to the border region with India where forces of the two nations, in June 2020, had their bloodiest skirmish in decades.
Other reports suggest that China intends to fill the vacuum left by the departure of America's power and provide billions from its Belt and Road Initiative to build a highway from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Peshawar, Pakistan. But they can't make a vaccine for their own virus. Which leads me to a speculation that the rest of their high-tech abilities are a bluff as well.
..."China's emergence over the past four decades ranks as the biggest and longest-run economic boom in history. Its annual gross domestic product rose from a mere $191bn, or $195 per capita, in 1980 to $14.3tn, or $10,261 per capita, in 2019. It has raised more than 770m people from poverty and transformed the Chinese economy into a high-tech powerhouse that is on course to eclipse America's in size. This transformation is the landmark achievement of the Chinese Communist party, which celebrates its 100th anniversary on Thursday."
China's growth could not have been achieved had it not been for the U.S. decision to throw open the world's largest consumer market to Chinese-made goods, to bring Beijing into the World Trade Organization, and to sit idly by as a huge slice of U.S. industry and manufacturing was transshipped to China for production there and not here.
...In the Cold War with the USSR, time, it turned out, was on our side. But in the last decade, Xi Jinping might fairly see time as having switched sides. Either way, we are surely better off relying upon our abilities rather than our weapons to win the competition and settle the rivalry that may settle the future of mankind.
#1
"Win the competition"? That's the problem with these people. They can't see America for what it is - a place for Americans to live. To them, the world is a sports competition and all the countries players. A strange game. The only way to win is not to play.
China's growth could not have been achieved had it not been for the U.S. decision to throw open the world's largest consumer market to Chinese-made goods, to bring Beijing into the World Trade Organization, and to sit idly by as a huge slice of U.S. industry and manufacturing was transshipped to China for production there and not here.
China's campaign contributions to Bill Clinton in 1996 turned the tide and got him re-elected. Admission to WTO was the payback. Plus, our elites made a fucking mint from trade with China. And they fucked over our working class, always a bonus.
#2
China is a lone wolf in this world. No friends unless bought. The tide will turn. When Chinese leave China to infiltrate other countries and inter marry they are no longer pure bloods. No longer a connection with the homeland. The siblings integrate and no longer wish to be a part of hive. They will not be Chinese in the eyes of the homeland pure bloods.
#4
World will be divided between people who do what their cell phones tell them to do and everyone else. Let's rock.
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#5
China is welcome to Afganistan and Africa. Good luck. You're doing god's work if you can bring them, even a little, into the industrialized world. more likely you'll realize the White Mans Burden can apply to any race foolish enough pick it up.
#3
According to a headline I read from the Arizona Republic, - which you must subscribe to read - says the audit may continue for at least a couple more weeks.
[Last Refuge] In a remarkable display of how committed the Democrat party is to utilizing the narrative of domestic extremism for their own benefit, Nancy Pelosi is placing satellite field offices for the DC Capitol Police in key regions around the country. When we consider the FBI has field offices all over the country, you might ask: why does the Capitol Hill police need to expand beyond Washington DC?
#3
Interesting, does capitol hill security have jurisdiction in CA? Or did she just send a congressionally funded vigilante group from the district of Columbia into another state?
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#4
The Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo, started as a Prussian state department and spread nationally. Parallels?
#5
We already seem to have too blasted many armed police organizations wandering around the US with debatable public oversight. This seems, at the least, under the Federal Marshal, Secret Service, or FBI jurisdiction and not the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Pelosi seems to want the US to be a Parliamentary Democracy state with her as the Speaker-For-Life.
[American Thinker] The mental decline of Joe Biden accelerates. How long can he function as even a puppet president? The bigger question is: what happens when drugs can no longer keep Joe semi-coherent?
Let's pick a time, say, late November 2021, and fantasize.
At the end of November, the Democrat high command verges on a nervous breakdown. The President has not been seen in person or photographed for six weeks. Rumors abound that he no longer recognizes even his wife and that he wears Depends.
His wife assures everyone that Joe is okay and merely under the weather. He will return to duty after taking an extended break during the holiday season. Meanwhile Jill's hated rival, VP Kamala Harris, licks her chops.
The 2021 gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia have already shaken the high command. In ultra-blue New Jersey the GOP candidate came within two thousand votes of winning. In purple-blue Virginia Terry McAuliffe (D-Clinton) was blown out. In addition, the GOP captured both houses of the Virginia legislature.
The Democrats’ high command knows disaster awaits in the 2022 elections. Inflation, crime, and evictions show no sign of abating and the economy is beginning to tank. Add to that the complete absence of presidential leadership, the party faces a drubbing next November that would extend to the dog catcher level.
Joe needs to go and fast. Problem is that Jill has so far rebuffed any such suggestion. The 25th Amendment provides an alternative way to jettison a president, but this requires a two-thirds majority in both houses to be permanent. The Republicans would have to buy in.
But the GOP even more than Jill Biden cannot stomach Kamala Harris ascending to the Presidency.
Why? Let all the Karens and suburban wine sipping ladies live with what they created. You believe you rule by scarring people, they haven't been scared enough. Let them live with what they created because they were 'offended' by mean tweets. Don't ever let them have a pass, make them own it.
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#7
This is not a problem. You are assuming that they can not (or won't) change the voting machines like they did in 2020. They hack they did to Trump can be applied to any election down to dog catcher.
You are also thinking they have any shame. Think how the Iranian Mullahs responded to the "Green Revolution.'
Woo Hoo. What comes next might give the election fixers a tummy ache...
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07/07/2021 12:18 Comments ||
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#11
What if people decide elections are like using leeches medicinally? Obsolete. That might be fun.
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07/07/2021 12:21 Comments ||
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#12
There's this thing called "by acclamation." Look it up.
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07/07/2021 12:23 Comments ||
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#13
Could be the New England Group feels they have enough spots wrapped up they can thumb the California Group, in which case they will wheel the weeble wobble to '24.
Expect occasional Joe Headroom pre-records and more Harris is an Awful Person being discussed by east coast media.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Who needs friends, when you have got heavy weight internet buddies..
[Last Refuge] In a remarkable display of how committed the Democrat party is to utilizing the narrative of domestic extremism for their own benefit, Nancy Pelosi is placing satellite field offices for the DC Capitol Police in key regions around the country. When we consider the FBI has field offices all over the country, you might ask: why does the Capitol Hill police need to expand beyond Washington DC?
