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Does anybody know what happened to Louie Howell? He frequented ZHills in the 70s and was one of the nicest guys you’d ever meet.

Good information and it's always great hearing from Slim. Now, back to the war: Ukraine, after feinting the long awaited counter attack in the Kherson Region, poured through Russian lines near Kharkiv and are pushing fast towards the Russian border. Surely they'll soon turn North and South to widen the salient, consolidate the gains, and resupply but there is no doubt the Russians are once again proving incompetent at war fighting while the Ukrainians are showing real ability. For 6 months the Ukrainians have allowed their Territorial Defense Forces (TDF) to bear the brunt of holding the Russians to a minimum of gains while they trained their regular forces in combined arms tactics and the use of Western arms. This is the result of that long game. My hope is that all who thought it was good money wasted in Ukraine will now agree it was a great investment in World Democracy and resolve to do more right now.

Mr. Poutine claimed that Nazis were operating in Eastern Ukraine, which gave him an excuse to invade. Mr. Poutine also has slim historical evidence to back his claim. Many centuries before Mr. Hitler invented Nazisim, Jews were employed by the Russian Tzar to collect taxes in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, etc. This practice made theses Jewish tax-farmers unpopular symbols of the oppressive Tzar, so poor peasants reacted with pogroms (riots, stampeding, arson, lynching, etc.) for many centuries. Pogroms against any Jews were a recurring theme in Eastern Europe. Then during World War 2, some Ukrainians aligned themselves with the invading Germans and helped ship a few thousand Ukrainian Jews to concentration camps. Circa 2014, the Ukrainian Azov Battalion resisted the Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine. Some Azov Battalion members were severely right-wing, bordering on fascist or Nazi. They even held torch-light parades and waved their version of runes. Please remember that the runic alphabet was the founding alphabet of Kievian-Russ, a good 1,000 years before Hitler. Yes, some Azov Battalion members counted Jew-bashing as a popular sport, but that element was suppressed when the Azov Battalion was integrated into the regular Ukraine defense forces. The most ardent right-wing Azov leaders drifted into politics. Please keep in mind that Mr. Poutine's distorted definition of "Nazi" no longer meshes with Mr. Hitler's definition of Nazism. Instead, Mr. Poutine includes anyone who opposes him. So, yes, there is slim evidence of Nazism in Ukraine (circa 2104), but you really need to drink Mr. Poutine's brand of Kool-Aid to understand his attitude.

Nazism in your head worries me more than in Ukraine, in the Kremlin, in Washington or anywhere else.

Aortic ice - I hate when that happens, usually when snowblowing my driveway.

I miss rushmc. He was always good for a laugh.

Why? Because the FBI are not morons! Spent an hour talking to one agent this afternoon - we had a blast. Learned a lot about the mechanics of filing for Lab work in 71 ... (Lab was in Wash DC). We think the frags collected at T Bar were sent to the Lab and may still be stored there! Then (agent was cleaning out his barn as we talked) I asked: "tell me exactly how the twelve groups turned in by the Ingrams got separated into single bills and placed in evidence folders, who did that ...." ? "Was done by the Lab, submitted by the case manager in Seattle.... must have been a huge job ... they may have farmed it out to the Treasury Lab .... but everything came back to Seattle in folders ..... maybe took a month .... was told it was 'one helluva a job!' ? ... and there were still fragments stuck they didnt get separated! " Lot of fun. to be continued ....

Nobody cares about your nonsense..

That is why you always demand a ground floor room if you are hospitalized in Russia. Oh, and don't drink the tea.

Welcome. Hopefully your enthusiasm doesn't attract the wrong type of attention. Skydives out of hospital windows is the type of base jumps to be avoided.

Reca is an example of a suspect who was basically slipped by the researchers. That team went straight to the press and tried to get a foothold. That story fell apart very quickly under minimal scrutiny. Any white male aged 35-55 could have been made up to be Cooper given Reca's public relations team. The book was also published by borderline religious zealots in my mind, people who may have a history of taking things on faith and not looking at facts. I'm ok with that in a spiritual sense, but this is not church. Reca was clearly a storyteller, who barely fits the age range, and looks nothing at all like any Cooper description.