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Greco:
I have a sneaky suspicion that the real reason Vermeer was forced to do all of his painting in just one room of his house, was because his good wife!
The reasons for this suspicions lies in the nature of a good wife. You know like the never ending demands to take your outdoor shoes/boots off before walking into the house!
No, you can’t paint in the kitchen! No, you can’t paint in the living room either! You are always spilling your paint on the floor! Keep your mess in one place! No, the entire house isn’t your painting studio! Look, you just spilled paint on the kitchen table! How many times have I told you, no painting in the house! The paint stinks up the house! Now look what you have just done! Got paint all over the living room furniture! How could you be so careless! How many times have I told you!
Naturally she never got credit!
Dr. D:
Just more sofiscated deep state propaganda!
Just do the mirror effect.
Replace Russia with the US.
Replace Putin with the deep state.
Replace war in Ukraine with the war on covid vaccine misinformation.Re-read!
We are accusing the enemy of what we are doing!
Last night my Wife informed me that an elderly 84 or 85 year old aunt, suffering from Parkinson, living in Vancouver B.C. will have a medically assisted death (called MAIDS in Canada – a so innocently nice sounding name isn’t it?) on February 28th. (I suspect if she was vaxxed, that this could have speeded up her illness’ down hill progression.)
I have rather mixed feelings about all of this.
I watched both my Mother and Father slowly and painfully die of cancer long before MAIDS was an option.
So I can see that at a certain point, life is no longer worth living, due to the extreme level of suffering.
So, MAIDs could be appropriate.My observation is too often MAIDS is being performed rather too quickly, with little checks and balances.
This seems to be a feature not a bug.
A person goes into the hospital, with a none life threatening illness, then a day or two later the family finds out, too late, that the person was MAIDed.
Sadly, Canadian veterans are routinely offered MAIDS as a solution to their on going illnesses.
I believe the doctor’s fee for performing MAIDS is about $1,400 to $1,500.
Some Canadian doctors have performed over 300 and 400 such MAIDS, so it is very lucrative.Trudeau is now planning on offering this service to the mentally ill.
Only the patient’s signature is required and no public notice is required to be made to next of kin.
Basically there seems to be few external checks, or second opinions, before performing MAIDs.
Legalized murder.
To meet the needs of both dying people but mainly the state’s Death Panel’s need to kill off undesirables.I see in Bukhmut, the Russians are following Sun Tsu’s strategy by allowing the Ukrainians a retreat exit by Shank’s Mare.
After buying a US Himar rocket from the Ukrainians, the Russians have updated their S-300, S-400, and S-500 air defense missile software so these US missiles are now routinely shot down just like all the other Ukrainian missiles. Before the software upgrade, the Russians dispursed and camouflaged all of their ammunition depots.
Looks like total US government and private liabilities now exceed total assets. Could defaults be far behind? The Great Reset?
DR. John Day – A new Medical business opportunity in the Ukraine!
Desparate Ukrainian summoned draft age male, visiting his Doctor. “I have just been summoned!”
Doctor: “I can fix your draft summons, for a fee!”
Desparate Ukrainian. “How can a fee fix it?
Doctor. “Simple, I break your arm, then fix you up!”
Relieved Ukrainian. “Yes, that will work! But only for a few months.”
Doctor. “I can fix that too, for another fee!”
Desparate Ukrainian. “How?”
Doctor. “I will simply break your other arm!”
Relieved Ukrainian. “Yes, that will work!”Good luck to FTX creditors trying to collect the big donations made by SBF to politicians!
The politicians are all busy creating new charities, that they 100% control, so they can “donate” the FTX donations to their own charities, which will then return the said donation back to the politicians, as clean money. All perfectly legal!So Raul has choosen a sunflower painting today.
Painted in New Mexico, a state I lived in for several years.
Maybe to honor AFKTT’s sunflowers? Coincidence?Somehow I think “DAN the AI” will do better than “GPTchat” in the AI community, simply because it is a psychopath!
From what I have been reading, the Ukraine is in the middle of raising/mobilizing it’s fourth army as Russia is currently destroying what is left of the Ukraine’s third army.
Since there are no longer any willing volunteers left, the Ukrainian Nazis are now recruiting previously exempt government employees. They now go into government offices and round up everybody. Even SBU and border guards too.
There are still many Ukrainian men in hiding, as everyone in the Ukraine now knows the war is lost and they don’t want to die for a lost cause. Naturally this has made the Ukrainian Nazis behave even more ruthlessly.
Saw one comment saying there are no longer any young men to be seen on the streets of Karkow, Ukraine’s second biggest city. Another comment speculated if government employees in far western Ukraine were being replaced by the Polish, to free up more manpower for the war.
If the Ukraine keeps feeding in more cannon fodder to the Russian meat grinder, then I see no reason for the Russians to advance quickly. By advancing slowly, Russia keeps it’s supply lines short while forcing the west to maintain their very long supply lines.
I don’t think Russia will make any big moves until they have destroyed this fourth Ukrainian army.
NATO has declared it aims to double the number of Ukrainians being trained but I don’t see how the Ukraine can even find enough willing volunteers to send for train outside of the Ukraine. They certainly can not send the unwilling out of the country for training.
The Ukrainian Nazis are quite willing to trade more cannon fodder for more time. Once the fourth army is destroyed then what?
I have also noticed that the Ukrainians are still heavily shelling civilians with many hundreds of rounds of artillery every day. Several dozen Russian controlled cities and towns are sheeled everyday. Any missiles the Ukrainians have seem to be only targeting Russian civilian targets. I suspect this is in line with US policy of killing as many Russians as possible rather than supporting the Ukrainian army. Getting as many Ukrainians killed as possible, seems also to be part of US policy too.
The US is doing an excellent job of de-militerizing European armies of their hardware. The US is fully expecting the Europeans to buy newer replacement equipment. Maybe Europeans are going along with only the first and easy part of the US’s plan, gifting away their army’s current hardware. I think most Europeans know the US has lost in the Ukraine very badly and is now behaving like a dangerously wounded animal.
I think if I was in European shoes, I would simply drag my feet about ordering and buying any new equipment at all. First, this reduces the neo-con’s future options for new wars. Second, without new equipment European armies are no longer combat capable, now being more poorly trained than ever before. European armies, in a virtuous circle, will continue to shrink even more, as who wants to join a losing outfit as future cannon fodder?
I see Trudeau is currently doing this to the Canadian army. I see Britain is following suit. How are Australia and New Zealand armies doing these days? Shrinking I bet!
China on Ukraine:
I think China is sending subtle messages to the US about the US escalating the war in the Ukraine.
First they had their lacky in North Korea warn the US about the war in Ukraine.
Now a less subtle message sent via a ballon.
The bottom line is China supports Russia.
If the US escalates the war in the Ukraine into àttacks on Russia, China will escalate it’s support for Russia.AFKTT:
Good luck with your sunflowers!
During the depression, in Saskatchewan, Ukrainian farm students in my Father’s class used to eat sunflower seeds all day long, spitting out the shells onto the classroom floor. When class was over for the day, the teacher had to sweep up all the sunflower shells. There was nothing the teacher could do about it as they were hungry, not to mention much bigger than the little teacher!But don’t do what my uncle did. He harvested the sunflowers in bushel baskets leaving them in his garage over winter. In the spring he discovered several dead chipmunks that had died trying to eat all of the sunflower seeds! Too bad your new chipmunk PM couldn’t be enticed to do the same!
D B Smith:
An excellent example of the filtering layers of bureaucrats is the staff of the King of Thialand, keeping him in the dark about the vaccine injury re his own daughter. Hopefully the King will make someone pay the price for this.
AFKTT:
Big Brother’s war is against reality!
There, shortened it for you!Little boys learn not to piss into the wind.
Unless there is a tree in front!Jb-hb:
If you were inside Rome, your reality choices might be whether to stay with unreality or join reality.
Or in other words, remain uncivilized or join civilization.
History says civilization opened the gates of Rome.
And the barbarians left Rome.
Reality was painful for most.So are we really just dreaming or not?
Our dreams seem real to us!
Our lives seem real to us!
Maybe we are just dreaming and nothing is real?Polish Army Size:
Top Polish general just complained that 4,000 “professional” Polish soldiers just resigned in January 2023, one-third more than quit in January 2022. And new recruits are hard to come by.
So that 200,000 sized Polish “cannon fodder”army is now only 196,000!
Dr. D:
I love your history lessons!
It kind of reminds me of my Father.
It was a big mistake to mention the “good old days”.
My Father would quickly say things weren’t so good back then, listing practical examples.One morning during breakfast, I was reading a book on Egypt.
There was an illustration of a Pharroll being fan cooled with palm leaves by a servant.
I said to my Father. “It must have been wonderfull to have lived in Egypt back then”.
My Father quickly replied. “Son, you would have been born a slave!
That forever changed my view of history!Climate Modeling :
With all due respect to AFKTT and his CO2 focus, trying to set up a climate model that accurately reflects the real world is pretty much impossible.
As soon as you think you have set up the perfect model, someone will say did you include the effects ants have on the environment? Then someone will mention the currently changing alignment of the Milky Way?
So as a modeler, you will be forever trying to add in these new constantly changing effects into your model, never mind all the changes going on to what is already in your existing model!
You can not ever hope to get there!
The best you can do is to “assume” everything not already in your model doesn’t matter!
Then you will find that you just made an “ass_u_me”.
Assume is the most dangerous word in engineering!
Bug Fed Chickens:
While working in the Congo, bug fed free range chickens were daily staple.
Our waiter would ask us if we wanted a half or whole chicken for supper?
We used to joke it didn’t really matter, as there was no meat on either half!And the chickens had a barnyard flavor!
P.S. The frog leg entre really did taste like chicken!
After a week of trying, the Russians finally managed to find one Ukrainian tank!
The tank was in hiding but for some unknown reason was driven out into the open for a few minutes.
The Russian MoD actually mentioned that one tank in a footnote.Now we know why we had a paid military troll deflationist dedicated to sowing dis-information on TAE.
I noticed deflationist stopped attacking me, when I said my brother was looking for a new gig and he was much better qualified to be a troll than deflationist was. I don’t think he liked that very much! I think I hit a nerve!
Germ:
Thanks for the link to “I Am Fishead”.
I watched the video and realized several things.As social animals, we develop complex networks through the many people we meet.
It only takes about 6 or 7 percent of the people to figure out something, before everybody then knows.Now I much better understand, when the virus hit, why the authorities behaved the way they did.
It was all 100% scripted exactly like a Hollywood movie.First, the authorities had to isolate and silence the 6 or 7 percent of the people who could figure things out.
They did this by having the media identify and then censor and cancel the troublesome 6 or 7 percent.
They actively discredited ll those who were spreading mis-information.It was critically important to also destroy the existing networks that exists between people.
This was done through isolating people from seeing each other by imposing lockdowns on them.
Masking and social distancing was another method to isolate people and prevent them from interacting.
(Masking, the nose and mouth, totally dehumanizies people as the Arabs discovered 2000 years ago.)
They imposed limits on the number of people that could be together in a home or in public.
They limited how far you could be from your home.Once people’s social networks were destroyed, they were isolated, and dehumanizied, then getting everyone to drink the Kool Aid was a piece of cake.
Clearly this was all carefully gamed out and planned before hand.
Yes, we have been had.
Oroboros:
From yesterday’s comment.
Empire of Lies
Rules like the Lord of the FliesThe first two lines of a poem.
You will have to finish the poem, since I am not very poetic!AFKTT :
Yes 10 inches is a lot of rain over 24 hours but in the Congo they often get that in just 10 minutes several times a day during the rainy season!
I notice I am seeing more and more illegal photos from the Ukraine showing armed Nazis/police trying to round up more cannon fodder in Ukraine’s latest mobilization drives. Clearly the Ukrainian Nazis have run out of ny more voluntary cannon fodder.
The cities are slowly but surely being emptied of Ukrainian men. Many cities don’t have enough workers left to provide services, such as buses, as the Nazis show up at their work places to round them all up. The electrical grid operators are now short electrical repair staff to fix damaged equipment.
I am guessing the Ukrainian Nazis now have daily quotas to meet.
Now all the Nazis can find are unwilling cannon fodder. Because these recruits are unwilling to fight, the Nazis are quickly sending them up to the frontline trenches with little or no training at all. None of these unwilling cannon fodder can be sent out of the Ukraine for NATO training because they will flee. This is affecting the number of new recruits who can be sent out of the Ukraine for foreign training.
There are reports saying now even the police are being sent to the frontlines along with current rear staff and logistic support troops.
Clearly cracks are starting to appear in the Ukraine war machine. I think Russia will be content to just sit tight and grind away until the Ukrainian army collapses.
Oroboros:
My Father was treed twice by Mama black bears! Once in Saskatchewan and once in Labrador.
What saved him both times was seeing/hearing the cubs and climbing skinny little Spruce trees that could support his weight but not Mama bears weight! Both Mama bears did get to claw of one of my Father’s work boots!
My Father had many exploration drill crews out in the bush in Labrador. When the blueberry crop failed, due to a cold spring snap, the strarving black bears would be driven by sheer hunger to enter the drill camps. Camp food was kept in an elevated bear proof platform. The drillers were not allowed to have guns due to an prior gun accident. If the drillers felt threatened by any particular bear, they would bait some food with a blasting cap and a stick of dynamite.
However, one time they only managed to blow off half of a bears face without killing it. My Father had to send out an Indian with the bear gun and track it down.
Jb-hb:
You also mentioned the American Civil War left a lasting impression on the US military in regards to WW1.
In 1993, my Wife and I honeymooned down in Pennsylvania (Gettysburg), Maryland (Harper’s Ferry), Washington DC, and Virgina, visiting many of the Civil War battle sites, as we both love history.
What struck me, was how rapidly the technology changed during the course of the civil war, something barely mentioned in the history books.
Early on battles were fought just like Napoleon did, with massed formations. Then with more accurate fire, digging in was the order of battle. Those officers and Generals who didn’t get it, that things had changed, soon died, being replaced by those who got it.
One other thing I noticed is the south seemed to start the Civil War off with more capable officers than the north, likely due to the south’s more military leaning culture, re-West Point.
We also learned how General Lee used his personal knowledge of Union Generals to great psychological advantage, likely and sadly prolonging the war by one or two more years.
It is interesting how General Lee is still honorably perceived by most Americans today.
Jb-hb:
You briefly mentioned US troops in WW1 not being used as cannon fodder. Unfortunately Canada had to learn that lesson the hard way.
Early on, all Canadian troops were under the commannd of British officers and Generals, who used them as cannon fodder quickly racking up huge death tolls with nothing to show for it. Just senseless slaughter.
It got so bad that Ottawa, after dragging their feet, was finally forced by Canadians to insist all Canadian troops had to be placed under the direct command of a Canadian General, abet still under British command.
Luckily Canada found the right man for the job. He reorganized Canadian troops into several Divisions as a Corp. Canadian division sizes were increased greatly (25K) to allow for constant troop rest rotations.
This General is the one who created the creeping artillery burritos just a few hundred feet ahead of advancing troops, to keep the Germans pinned down in their bunkers until it was too late. None of this shell the hell out of the enemy for a week, then stop shelling completely, then ordering the troops over the top to be mowed down by the waiting Germans.
I suspect American generals took careful notes of this.
Casualties were still high but the desired goals were achieved.
Sadly, this great Canadian General did not received a hero’s welcome home, in fact he received much worst.
Heads Up on Cookies:
No, not bad Cookies Nuland, but the hidden cookies your computer collects while browsing the web.
It is apparently important to beware of these algorithum inserted Cookies on your computer when searching for the best prices on things like hotel rooms, airfares, etc. as these websites may insert Cookies detailing the original price these websites quoted you, should you return later looking for a lower price. The cookie tells the website what price they previously quoted you so as to not offer you a new lower price.
The key seems to be to clear your previous cookies before returning to a given website looking for a lower price. How one does that I have no idea. But I suspect someone will “learn”me very shortly!
AFKTT:
No the old math of 69 is correct, just the year should be 1954!
Dr. D and I share 1954.At the cottage we have a chipmunk we call “Chippy”. Now he is your PM!
MPSK:
Very nice poetry! You have a nack for it!
They remind me of my early school days where teaches tried to instill poem writing skills into me to no avail!
I love good poetry but I couldn’t write a poem if my life depended upon it!
tboc:
I was taught to stick my finger in the water for a minute. If my finger went numb, the water was deathly cold and that is how long you would last in the water if you decided to go for a swim.
Bosco and DBS are having a word fest! Nice word salad!
Greens turning green! As in green money.
Russia has gone almost a week without killing a single tank! Hurry up with those western tanks before the Russians forget how to kill tanks!
I still don’t think Russia will launch a big offensive in the Ukraine any time soon, simply because it is in Russia’s best long term interests to prolong the war. The US started the war thinking it was in their best long term interests to prolong the war. Time will tell.
The US and China are currently waging an international debt war. The US will lend 3rd world countries more debt dollars but only if the Chinese completely write off their 3rd world belt and road loans.
Sounds just like the US’s latest Ukraine peace proposal! Great propaganda!
For the US supporting the Ukrainian War to bleed Russia dry doesn’t cost them hardly anything at all, as they can make the rest of the world pay for the war costs whether the rest of the world wants too or not, by simply printing more world reserve currency dollars. That is why Russia needs to keep the war in the Ukraine local and burning slowly. It is the rest of the world that can’t afford the war in the Ukraine to continue for too long. The Russians don’t want the rest of the world to blame them for what happens next.
What might happen nèxt?
Printing more US dollars will export inflation to the rest of the world.
Higher interest rates will cause more debt problems everywhere.
One possibility is the worldwide flood of US dollars might suddenly decide to return home.
Returning dollars will import previously exported inflation back into the US.
The purchasing power of the dollar drops.
Then nobody will want to hold US dollars anymore.I wonder how Joseph Stalin would score on this test!
One thing about Stalin, is he later eliminated all those who got to know him (drinking/partying friends) during early years.
I doubt I need to take the test. I would likely score negative & negative.
Aspnaz:
In the Russian-Finnish Winter War, one Finish soldier disabled a Russian tank by using a crow bar to remove a track while the tank was moving! Must of been drinking some strong stuff or maybe he was just madder than hell!
Generally the Fins liked to BBQ Russian tanks using Molotov cocktails!
As for the word “tank”, I think we can blame the Brits for selecting this word as cover to hide their top secret WW1 “tank” project.
If they hadn’t selected the word “tank”, I wonder by what name we would be calling these mobile pillboxes?
Airstrip governments, by vaxxing most of their citizens, have already prepared their citizens so they do not need to prepare themselves. Socialism governments are here to help you, so you don’t need to help yourself!
Looks like Boris’s British buddies in Keiv are out and only US people left in charge. Maybe Boris was in Keiv handing out British passports for clean bags of money? Never let a good crisis go to waste!
MSM news says the earth’s core has; stopped rotating, has reversed rotation, is still rotating, is rotating slower than the earth! Please make up your minds!
Trudeau’s government is still pushing vaccinations hard in Canadian MSM and internet. Get both flu/vax shot ads everywhere! Dr. Tam has new vaccine video.
Canadian MSM lies; hybrid immunity, covid immunity deficit, lockdown immunity deficit, long covid. Sudden and unexpected deaths are perfectly normal and have always happened.
In other words. “Situation Normal”.
