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A Turkey Poll or Poll of Turkeys?
Was out food shopping today and the wife suddenly needed to supply a turkey for a New Years Eve deaf friends get-together minus me.
She always leaves everything to the last second. I am the opposite, as I constantly plan ahead.
Well in Toronto good luck finding a turkey! There is a shortage of these birds! I did find 2 young turkeys to replace one big bird. The wife wasn’t too happy but I said to her the good thing about
2 small birds is they will take less time to cook than one big bird would. So now she is happy.I believe Ukrainians prefer $46 billion hams from the turkeys in Ottawa and Washington.
AFKTT;
Yes, early German success in France was due to the use of radios to communicate.
But there were a few other reasons too.The need for radios became rather clear from early disastrous army armor maneuvers. The Germans began practicing mobile army maneuvers well before they had any tanks. They would take ordinary cars and trucks and dress them up to look like tanks, etc. with cardboard and plywood. They even had wooden guns!
In one such early maneuver, they were practicing moving from one side of a town to the other side. The entire maneuvers ended up creating a grid locked traffic jam in town where nobody made it to the other side of town! There were honking horns and fist fights galore over who had right of way first such that nobody moved!
But there was another strange Germany army regulation that played a crucial role in France’s downfall that had nothing to do with the French. This Germany army regulation (slipped in) stated that if the Panzer units were within radio contact with their infantry army division, then the Panzer commanders were under the direct command of their respective infantry army generals. (This was supposedly done to (not) make the army generals happy. The writer of the rule surely knew exactly what would happen!)
Ever wonder why Guedarian and Rommel accidently lost radio contact, for days on end, with their respective army infantry generals? If they stopped and waited, they would catch shit immediately! If they kept going, they wouldn’t catch shit until much later! Both were briefly court marshalled as a result!
As to why German officiers were so free to change plans, is a whole different story which goes way back to the end of WW1.
Ever since the Russians decided to call up 300,000 more troops, everybody has assumed that the Russians are planning a winter offensive. I am not so sure this is actually the case.
When the Russians started their special military operation (SMO) back in February they started and stayed small. Whatever plans they had, lasted only until they got punched in the face. In the early days, the Russians took quite a few casualties. Russian commanders then quickly change tactics to minimize casualties as they knew they would not be getting any replacements, especially infantry.
Late this summer a new Russian commander was appointed. Based upon what he saw, he requested the mobilization of more troops. He then set about centralizing the 3 separate army command structures (Russian and 2 break-a-way republics) into just one. This a big operational change.
He also began replacing exhausted frontline troops, fighting since February, with new troops as quickly as possible (despite many costly mishaps) because he could see these tired troops were no longer effective fighting forces. They badly needed rest and maintenance. Thus we saw the unpopular Russian troops pullbacks to more defendable positions like rivers (Russia losing territory and the war.).
The new general has also set about revising the Russian main battle groups, consisting of about 4,000 men. One hard lesson learned is that these battle groups did not have enough infantry support which meant these highly mobile units often took heavy losses especially on the flanks from ambushes, something the Ukrainians were good at.
Another thing this general noticed was the uneven training of different Russian army groups. Russian army groups operating in northern Ukraine for example didn’t adhere as closely to military doctrine as did army groups in the south of Ukraine. These regular Russian army groups also did not have any experienced infantry support from the 2 break-a-way republics, only their limited numbers of regular Russian infantry.
For example, in the north, Russian army groups often lead with their tanks not their infantry in armored infantry carriers. Often tanks operated individually without other tanks nearby to support them. Camouflage was conspicuously missing. Or armored infantry carriers without tanks. This allowed the Ukrainian army to pick them off, one by one.
Russian army groups operating in southern Ukraine did somewhat better in operating as cohesive units. (Some speculate that these southern Russian army groups had learned their lesson in Georgia.) It is also possible that the regular Russian army groups operating in the south, had much more infantry support with experienced soldiers from the break-a-way republics who would have had little in the way of mobile armor forces. More infantry by default.
I think the new Russian general mobilized more troops so that he can reinforce and hold a rather long front line where the Ukrainians have switched tactics to attacking everywhere with just infantry (since they have little mobile armor left). He also wants to be able to rest 1/3 of his army at any given time so that his frontline troops remain a constantly effective fighting force every day.
The increased number of Russian troops now available simply isn’t enough to conquer and occupy all of the Ukraine. It should be enough to conquer the rest of Donbas currently held by the Ukraine. I think the new Russian general has simply readjusted the SMO for 2023. The meat grinder will continue until the Ukraine and US/NATO can no longer feed it.
After that who knows what will happen. I seriously doubt the Russians will find anybody left to negotiate with. I don’t think they are planning on negotiating with anyone. That might be their plan.
On the Allies so called phantom army of air blow up rubber Sherman tanks and trucks in Southern England. The Germans went along with the Schrade, by dropping wooden bombs on them!
In the early days of radar, the British accounted for their success in the air, due to their fighter pilots eating their carrots! You were being misinformed even back then!
AFKTT: Please prove me right on any of the above. Don’t just say I am right.
Sorry, I am tired of proving you right!Everybody thinks in WW2 the German army was 100% mechanized as in Panzers. Not so. For 2 basic reasons.
First, Germany didn’t have the domestic industrial capacity to produce enough vehicles, like trucks. (Canada produced more trucks than Germany.) In the lead up to WW2 Germany had trouble finding soldiers who knew how to drive, as most Germans took public transportation.
Second, Germany didn’t have access to enough oil to fuel a 100% mechanized army which also limited the number of it’s army’s Panzer Divisions. During Normandy, one captured German soldier asked the Allies where their horses where? German generals had assumed that they held the advantage in France because they had adequate food for their horses, while the Allies would have to bring feed to support their horses.
The Toronto Star is reporting that the number of prisoners dying in custody in Ontario, nearly doubled, from 2020 to 2021 despite less people being incarcerated. No mention of the vax, of course.
To end on a funny note. During WW2, women in Canada would hold sewing bees to make single serving packages of tea, which they would send to England. While very grateful to receive these small sown bags of tea, one relative said the tea bags were so well sown, that they had trouble opening them! (On the subject of tea, Canadians used tea bags, while the English used loose tea leaves!)
Aspnaz:
I think you need to appreciate Bosco’s incredible way with words. Very few of us can write the way Bosco writes! Yes, Bosco is one of a kind! So appreciate the difference!
It is all part of what makes our world go round and not necessarily the way our masters want it to go!
You are one of a kind too, which is why I appreciate your comments so much!
Arctic Sea Ice
Canada is in the middle of building a fleet of new arctic patrol boats.
These boats can only handle ice less than meter thick.
To do their intended job they will need to be accompanied by an ice breaker which Canada has few of.One bright blub in the Canadian Senate is wondering if taxpayers are getting value for their money.
Obviously these boats were designed with global warming in mind.The arctic sea ice had better be getting thinner, not thicker!
Afktt:
Here is the problem the Russians are having knocking out the Ukrainian electrical grid.
You see the Ukrainians have convinced themselves that their government is just turning out the lights to confuse the Russians and to keep them in the dark.
So every time the Russians fire a bunch more missiles, the Ukrainians then turn out the lights to fool the Russians into thinking they hit the Ukrainian’s electrical grid.
Obviously this is just a wack-a-grid game that the Ukrainians are quite happy to play with the Russians for as long as it takes to “win” the war.In a race to see who will reach Berlin first, the Ukrainians have clearly beaten the Russians. An Ukrainian missile hit a 246,000 gallon aquarium in the lobby of a hotel in Berlin, freeing over 1,500 fish. Native Berliners were all seen out fishing for the freed fish. So far those using Ukrainian worms are catching the most fish, disproving the rumor that the Russians did it. Prices at the local fish market have fallen suddenly. The number of fish mongers that have died unexpectedly has soared to a new high. The US ambassador said this event was sweet nothing compared to the Great Boston Molasses flood.
In other news today, Congress is holding their annual “put lipstick on a pig” pork barrel festival. This year’s festival with over 7,500 pigs is the largest and best ever, said peaker Nancy Pelosi. Sadly this year there is a shortage of red lipstick due to the arrest of a certain cross dressing administration official caught stealing women’s suitcases. Yeah, it was unfortunate that he got caught, otherwise we would have had plenty of red lipstick available for this year’s festival, Mitch McConnell said.
New Canadian covid study shows that the unvaxxed all vote the wrong way!
Justin Trudeau, who’s Liberal government commissioned this recent study, said it is totally unacceptable that the unvaxxed continue to vote the wrong way. This is is all the science I need, to justify vaxxing all the unvaxxed people, to protect our democracy. We can’t allow this threat to our rules based democracy to exist. I have just issued an Order in Council rule that all unvaxxed people must be vaxxed before the Happy Holidays.
Speaking of Russia, Napoleon’s downfall when invading Russia is that by the time he reached Moscow, he had run out of the one critical high tech system of warfare needed to defeat the Russians.
The Russians on the other hand did not run out of these critical high tech systems of warfare.
The horse!Russia running out of ammunition, 152mm artillery shells, and 4,500 high precision missles later.
More useless information you didn’t need to know!
During the long cold Russian winters, Peter The Great didn’t live in any of his big fancy palaces.
They were all much too cold with theor high ceilings for Peter’s liking.
Instead Peter spent his winter days and nights with his army drinking buddies in a small cosy warm cottage with a low ceiling and a big fireplace tended by just a few servants!
One of Peter’s favorite drinking buddies was an English army officier.
I can’t remember how Peter the Great died, but his liver was likely a prime suspect!Noirette:
About hit ler.
During WW2 it wasn’t the Panzer Divisions that laid Europe to waste.
Following right behind the foot steps of the Panzers were German Bankers!
It was the German Bankers that left Europe in total ruin.
The Panzer Divisions were all destroyed in WW2, o but all the German Bankers survived!Hit ler’s problem was he didn’t understand the power of banking!
But the German Bankers didn’t forget what WW2 taught them!Thus today’s EU! (With a little help from US/London bankers.)
Round Houses versus Square/Rectangular Houses
I understand why the old folks built round houses. There is economy of material for maximum area.
But what everyone seems to forget is that round houses were for communial living!
Like people and their animals all living together for safety and warmth!Now try dividing a round house into separate rooms!
Yeah, an engineering nightmare! Maximum material for minimum area!Now you know why you currently live in a square/rectangular house!
So now we have light, medium, and long covid!
All brought to you by Goldilocks and the 3 bears.And now we have the vaxxed telling us unvaxxed how unhealthy and accident prone we are!
Aspnaz:
The original reason the Dutch became big food producers is a direct result of the food shortages in WW2. Dutch farmers need to remind the Dutch what starvation is like. Plenty still alive who remember no food.
Oh look a Fried bird over there! (No Hunter Biden squirrel seen.)
Oh look a Twitter censor bird over there! (No Deep State censor squirrel seen.)
Oh look a long covid bird over there! (No vaccine crime squirrel seen.)Are you being distracted?
General Winter
General Mud
General Complainer
General Safe And Effective
General Died Suddenly
General Died Unexpectedly
General Died In Sleep
General Lies
General Misinformation
General Disinformation
General CorruptionGlobal Warming/Global Cooling Historical Cycles
Whenever it gets too hot, we make more ice to cool ourselves down.
So when the earth gets too hot, it too makes more ice to cool itself down.Monkey see.
Monkey do!After reading the deep wisdom expressed in today’s TAE comments, I have concluded that Russia is waging a war in the Ukraine to free all of the Ukrainian’s electricity slaves!
Indirectly, this will force the Ukrainians to get more exercise, thus reducing their glucose and fructose intake, while saving them from dying of diabetes!
If the hollywood chimp running the Ukraine has less HFCS in his system, then peace is possible.
It is OK.
I am returning to my cave to resume hibernating!
My next scheduled outing is mid-February to tap my maple syrup tree.
Until then, sweet dreams!Redneck:
It might amuse you to learn that when Napoleon entered the city of Moscow, the Russians emptied all the prisons and told them to go out and loot and burn all they wanted!
French troops initially actually tried to round up and stop them from looting and burning Moscow!
Aspnaz:
To save Granny;
The government legally took away her medical rights by committing her to a nursing home.
The government then banned Granny’s family from visiting her to find out what was going on.
Granny was vaxxed and boosted to maximize government covid vax bounty payments.
Then the government killed off both Granny’s children and grandchildren.
The government banned groups of people thus sparing Granny from attending any family funerals.
Granny is hospitalized and injected with “Rundeathisnear” to drain the last money out of her.
Then Granny died suddenly, unexpectedly, in her sleep, earning the hospital $30,000 covid death benefit.It is said the British had a penal colony to fit every crime!
If you married for love instead of money, you got a one way trip to Canada to cool off!
If they didn’t like your politics or religion, you got sent to the 13 Colonies!
If you stole a rabbit from the Lord’s private game preserve, you got sent to Botany Bay!
Not sure what crime entitled you to go to New Zealand though.Gurusid:
Yes, many people do not realize how complicated managing a power grid is.
I used to work building large electric shovels and draglines for mines.
Before we could power up these large machines, the mine and local power company first had to prepare for this event.Power companies always put restrictions on the mines as to what the mine load reflected back into the power companies’ grid looks like. Often the mine had to take corrective actions before the power company would connect power to the mine. Surprisingly harmonics was a real big issue (and for very good reasons!).
Connecting a new electric shovel or dragging was a big event for the local power company. During initial powering up of new machines, I often knocked out local substations and power to local towns. Ideally we had radio contact between the mine and the local power company so there were people pre-positioned at critical points ready to quickly make the necessary power adjustments required to reduce start up power outages to just a few minutes.
Sadly, I also experienced the opposite situation where upon hitting the start button, I knocked out power to the entire mine not to mention to all of the local towns too! Then I would get a nasty phone call from the local power company wondering WTF I was doing (by just suddenly adding a town of 20,000 people to their power grid without first telling them about it)!
Once we were through this start up phase, then starting up these new machines no longer knock out power again. Yes, the good olde days of my youth!
Here is a pdf with more info on Pearl Harbor attack.
https://zamizdat.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-War-Starts-Tomorrow.pdf
My daughter did this but she won’t tell me how she did it. I had really wanted to copy a live (blue color) link but don’t know how, yet.
Bosco:
Your summary probably covers the truth of FDR pretty well.
We do know FDR was an aircraft carrier supporter, thus no aircraft carriers left as bait in Pearl Harbor.
FDR cut off Japan’s oil supply via both the US and Dutch Indies.
Before that he cut off all base metals supplies too.
Clearly FDR was goading Japan.Someone once complained to FDR that a certain US ambassador to South America was a bastard. FDR replied Yes he is a bastard, but he is our bastard!
I once knew a fellow who was a junior naval officier, who was badly hung over Sunday morning December 7th, when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor per FDR’s invitation. His ship was the first ship to sail out of the Harbor. I also know quite a few Americans who lamented the fact that the Japanese had failed to dispatch him.
Concerned that my supply of fresh blueberries from Peru might get interrupted, I have had the local police arrest the president of Peru! He is now busy picking a few pints of blueberries for me!
FDR’s Pearl Harbor
December 7th, the day FDR knowingly sacrificed the lives of several thousand Americans so he and his friends could join in the spoils of a hugely profitable world wide war.
Wash and Rinse, 9/11, several thousand American lives sacrificed for war of terror on American’s freedoms by the forth branch of government, the deep state, formed by FDR during WW2.
FDR’s legacy lives on to this very day.
Zerosum:
I guess, since I live in Ontario, I should be grateful that both the ferderal (located in Ontario) and provincial governments are so incompetent!
They forgot to vacinate me!Bosco:
Yeah that was real blood and it brings back very painful memories when I lived up in northern Quebec/Labrador as a boy.
The very cold winter’s meant the cold air had no moisture in it causing the dry skin inside of my nose to crack and bleed for no reason. (The dry skin on my finger joints all cracked and bleed too.)
The only way my Mother (a nurse) could stop the constant bleeding was to cut very long narrow strips of cotton bed sheeting and soak it in Vaseline before stuffing it t8ghtly up my nose nostrils, packing it in tightly enough to stop the flow of blood. (She couldn’t use short cotton strips in case one fell down my airways.)
These cotton strips would often stay in my nose overnight or longer. If I was lucky the bleeding stopped after the cotton strips were removed. Often my Mother had to repack my nose again.
When I moved down to Montreal the severity of my nose bleeds was reduced, due to the higher humidity, but not the frequency. I continued to frequently bleed for no reason and I often had to lie down for a while until the bleeding stopped. I still got my nose packed with cotton ever once in a while, especially during the winter.
When I moved to Toronto to go to school, I finally saw a doctor who dealt with nose bleeding problems. He took a soldering gun with a longer and finer tip and burned the skin covering all the blood vessels on the inside of my nose. Smelling my own burning flesh was awful. I think he did this burning twice.
The result was he created tough scar tissue over all my blood vessels in my nose.
Thereafter, I would go see him every 5 years or so and he would do touch ups on the blood vessels in my nose using just a Q-tip and mild acid which only took a few seconds.
That Doctor helped make one of the greatest changes to the quality of my life, I ever experienced.
Today whenever I have a nose bleed, about all I need to do is tilt my head up while pressing my nostrils closed with a finger for a few minutes.
Robin, I really don’t know how you continue to cope. I guess we cope because it is just part of our lives.
AFKTT:
Just the empire trying to provoke Russia.
Russia refuses to be provoked, which is driving the empire crazy!Michael:
I worry you will accidently hit your head on those rather solid looking shelves (no give), and knock yourself out, coming up the stairs, or going down the stairs.
In other words you will forget you built those shelves, like I would 99 times out of a 100!
Can you move those shelves to a safer location?
Here is my take on climate change.
If I do nothing, the climate will change!The vaxxed are keeping covid alive!
If it wasn’t for the vaxxed, covid would have died out by now.General Mud is still vacationing in the Ukraine.
General Winter is being delayed by Global Warming!Geothermal energy sucks heat out of the earth’s core.
If we build too many geothermal plants, then the earth will die sooner!F.S.
When you are the empire, every ten years or so you need your Roman Legions to go and thrash a country to make an expample of it, to remind all the other countries what could happen to them if they displease the empire.
This time around I think the Taliban in Afghanistan have learned to leave the poppy crops alone. The first time around the Taliban tried to stop the growing of poppies. We know what the empire did.
So the poppies grow in Afghanistan fields,
Row on row.F.S.
Chris Letang, Sidney Crosby’s Pittsburgh Penguins teammate, supposedly suffered a stroke recently.
Everybody in my immediate family that has been double vaxxed has now caught covid.
Now unvaxxed people only want blood transfusions from unvaxxed people.
A bad attempt at humor.
A man looking to buy a cheap horse.
Farmer says: “Horse no lookie so good”!
Man buys the ragged looking horse anyways.
The next day the man returns with the horse, wanting his money back.
The man says to the farmer: “You sold me a blind horse”!
Farmer says: ” I told you horse no lookie so good”!Now we know how far the RNC RINOs are willing to go to prevent Trump from running again in 2024. Trump’s arrest is clearly in the cards (to protect Hunter Biden).
The RNC are currently doing everything they can to prevent Herchel Walker from winning a senate seat in Georgia, including publically recommending Republican voters not vote for Walker.
All of this is Mitch McConnell’s handiwork. Evil personified.
In case anyone is wondering about the first significance of the current Russian push in the Bakhmut area in the Donbas region, it is to gain control of a major water supply to the Donbas region.
The second significance is to punch a hole through the 8 year built up line of Ukrainian fortifications in the Donbas in preparation to recover the remaining Ukrainian controlled areas of the Donbas.
We have reached 1984!
Truth = misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech.So the goverment head of financial regulations, Gary Gensler, says he needs the power to regulate the FTX scam! No wonder Bankman-Fried is not worried about being criminally charged with fraud! Gensler just publically announced that he isn’t going to investigate the DNC’s swindle (because he doesn’t have the power)!
I don’t know how those FTX swindled folks are going to take this, but trying to use civil courts to get any of the missing money back looks pretty futile, especially since the crooks involved, the DNC, also run the government, and also make the laws.
A rock solid legal case for “Rules for you, but not for me”.
