JoeWeber
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Poor bastard. I'm glad you're still with us but it must cause real pain to start off a recollection with 55 years ago......
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Russia is mimicking Wagner by forming penal battalions. They're called Storm-Z units whose highest and best use is to go forward until shelled by artillery. Rumor is that regular military is right behind with automatic weapons to keep them motivated and heading in the right direction. That's one way to deal with overpopulation in your prisons, I guess.
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The 82 Air Assault Brigade is one of their most powerful brigades, to my understanding. It has been held in reserve so, if that's accurate, they are now committing reserves. The 82nd seems designed to exploit a breach in a defensive line. The leaked documents gave it 14 Challenger Tanks, 90 Strykers, 40 Marders and 24 M113's. If they take Tokmak they will hold the high ground while they finish cutting the land bridge. They won't need to make it to the sea to have effectively cut off Russian supply routes to Crimea. Now if we'd just send enough ATACMS's for Ukraine to take down the Kerch Bridge the counter offensive will have been a resounding success.
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They might be losing a bit in their war, too. It seems the Ukrainians have made it through a mine field and are attempting to take the high ground outside of Tokmak. They are confident enough that they've apparently committed their 82nd Brigade equipped with Challenger Tanks and Marder and Stryker fighting vehicles. If they are successful they will have a hill within artillery range of Tokmak. That could be a very big deal.
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Thanks for reminding me that the word can be an accurate descriptor.
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I posit that it is long past time to not use the word alien as accepted in the current usage. Anyone from Central America, or anywhere else, is no more an alien to Americans than life from any other place on or off our insignificant planet. For too many it is the most awful starting point for the "otherisms" that plague us and hold us back.
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The usefulness of Slim is that he is a wide open window into what we are up against. That has some value. Same with Winsor. He's right, of course, that relaxed standards in the name of inclusiveness might create a war zone situation where a 230# male shot through the pelvis can't be carried to safety by a beneficiary of those relaxed standards. However, that doesn't address the likelihood that if the 230# males that caused the war zone situation were beneficially shot through their pelvis's beforehand the disparity in physical abilities might never have come to notice.
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Bud Light isn't beer any more than a Shirley Temple is a cocktail.
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Separate then was a poor word choice of mine. But there is, apparently, a separate Women's league that the International Chess Federation wants to keep segregated. Look, I am no expert on the subject and don't know jack.
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Make no sense to me, either, but I'm guessing that some misogynistic Russians and other Eastern Europeans that are heavy into the Chess world thought it was a fine idea to separate the girls.
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From KelownaNow:
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In Kelowna, BC, according to reports, there is an out of control fire turning into a real emergency. According to some reports folks are fleeing into Okanagan Lake to escape or be rescued by boat. Totally normal evidence that what goes around comes around, no doubt. These things have always happened especially back in the salubrious period known as the Fire Optimum. So, without averaging these events into the last several Millenia you won't get the true picture.
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You, to be frank. Keep it up with your ridiculous contrarian intellectual schtick until you, and the likes of you, have degraded to the degree necessary to make you happy for just a moment Biden's ability to soundly defeat Trump in the next election. If Trump wins again you will own a part of it.
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Well, that didn't age well: "The International Chess Federation, or FIDE, has updated its policy on transgender players, effectively banning trans competitors from participating in official women’s tournaments." So much for a safe space, I reckon. I understand that the highest ranked female player is at +/- 165th on the world scale. But surely that's more owing to playing against a smaller size pool of players than individual ability. For example, I think I can guarantee you that if Eliana Rodriguez made 10,000 training jumps with me and my yo's instead of Craig Girard and the rest of the world elite her world ranking would have suffered very seriously.
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Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Maybe. But apparently, Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya told Trump at his arraignment in DC that the most important condition of his of release was not committing a state, federal or local crime while on release. DC isn't a state, which she knows, but Georgia is. So maybe his Truth Social post where he, again apparently, warned Rep. Jeff Duncan to not testify before the Fulton County, GA grand jury might be construed as an attempt at witness tampering in a State case and thus grounds to revoke his pre-trial release. -
Rum snob, actually.
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Some years ago I switched from coffee to tea on the theory that it was the coffee that made me such an asshole some days. It wasn't, of course, but still I never went back. You just can not beat a fine second flush Indian Assam.
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Not enough El Dorado 21 can cause severe bouts of anxiety and persistent cupboard rustling.
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Would you mind fleshing this out a bit?
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Pfizer. The shot is approved and it's safety is backed up with tons of data.
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Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Yep, and it can not be counted out. You're good and you and Amy also, probably, have an umbrella for you kids, T & I are good, and from what I can tell most of the liberal types here are also good. Same with most of the liberal types we know who are older than 50. But the way things will be for our friends who don't fit into the conservative world view is a very sad contemplation. -
Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Not to impugn your legal credentials but are you sure some paid to opine expert on MSNBC and Youtube is certainly correct. I hope so, absolutely, but you know, inquiring minds and all. -
Dude, take a chill pill. I've had seven Covid jabs, three under the Dutch system and four here in the US. As soon as the rejiggered bivalent jab is ready I will have had 8. Getting the vaccine is smart for the individual and smart for a member of society who is out and about exercising their free migration rights. Just like not speeding through a school zone it's what you do if you care more about not harming others than you do about being a several minutes to a critical doctors appointment. The jab is safe and all of the counter arguments are weak either factually or statistically.
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Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
And that sums it up entirely with the Trump and Trump enablers defense: it has nothing to do with right or wrong its all about landing on the Get Out of Jail Free corner. -
Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Grrrr... The Georgia case has been assigned to Judge Scott McAfee. +/- 35 years old, a lawyer for 10 years and a judge for seven months. Was Doogie Houser unavailable?
