Thursday, August 17, 2023

The Biden Admin snuck in ANOTHER 200 million for Ukraine...

Interesting. New York and other big cities are dealing with a migrant problem so bad that the schools are being stretched (lack teachers for the influx), public services are trashed and the police are getting slammed with another mini-crime wave --- YET --- despite New York's Mayor screaming for more money its being sent overseas. Make this make sense. We won't even get into the madness that is San Francisco and other Western cities but we do have our empire to maintain. This is how the Romans ended in failure. So focused on the outside that they couldn't see the building anger from within. The current greedy bastards in Washington that I'm convinced are ALL corrupt (yeah both Republicans and Democrats) will lose it all just to line their pockets. I wonder where they plan to run to? Jan 6 will look like a summer's breeze compared to the drama they're about to unleash (not calling for it just believe its coming). Back on task. More Money For Ukraine....INSANITY!!!

Sidenote.  Spare me the Lord Bebo hate.  He's posting what the Mainstream Media will not.  Save your hate for the govt for sending the aid or hate the govt cause they semi followed the law and put out a press release on it.

Open Comment Post. 17 Aug 23

 


Monday, August 14, 2023

Open Comment Post. 14 Aug 23

 

Couldn't find a fitness, thick fit or other chic to post...I'll do better tomorrow just cause it pisses some of you off.

Oryx might not be the "end all be all" for documenting equipment losses...

Thanks to Duke 7 for the link! I always suspected that his numbers were off. Additionally I found it amazing that anyone could properly document losses based on what we're seeing open source. Too much duplication, confusion etc...for anyone to actually put out good numbers. Only the Russians, Ukrainians and maybe a few intel agencies know what's really going on and they're playing those numbers to the public. We have to trust our sense of what we're seeing on the battlefield to properly assess things.

Sunday, August 13, 2023

The obvious is becoming mainstream (obvious to this blog that is)...Politicians preparing for counteroffensive next spring...

Its been obvious FOREVER that this counteroffensive had failed. Why its been so hard for so many to accept that reality is beyond me but EVERYONE could see it if they were honest with themselves. Now? Now they're prepping the sheeple for the fact that the counteroffensive has failed and that they'll have to try again next spring. The worse thing? I don't think the allies have anything left in the cabinet to give. Production will have to be massively ramped up and prayers sent to Jesus that nothing else kicks off in the world or Ukraine and the West is screwed.

PLA Infantry Fighting Vehicle Guide

Is it just me or does it seem like we're all over Russian gear and know its in's and out's strength's and weaknesses but when it comes to Chinese kit we're lost in the sauce? We keeping hearing all these generals talking about China being the pacing threat but the literature on their stuff is really lacking.

 

Play in the corners...

Note.  I popped out the article so it would be easier for ya'll to read.  Don't know if it worked or not but make the effort.  Great lesson here for your little ones. 

When he was 14, Wayne Gretzky moved from his small hometown to play in a more competitive hockey league in Toronto. He was undersized and during the first practice, he got pushed around.
After practice, his coach pulled him aside. “When you go home tonight,” the coach said, “the Toronto Maple Leafs are playing the Philadelphia Flyers—watch Bobby Clarke play.” Bobby Clarke was an undersized player on the Flyers who went on to be inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame. “He's not very big,” Gretzky’s coach told him, “but he's very smart.” “And I studied him and I studied him and I studied him,” Gretzky said. “I would take out a piece of paper and draw a rink and then without looking at the paper, I’d watch the hockey game on TV, and I would take my pen and I’d follow the puck.”
When Clarke got off the ice, Gretzky would look down at the paper and look for patterns. He began to notice two things. First, that Clarke “played the game mostly out of the corners.” Second, that players almost never went behind the net. So, Gretzky said, “I started playing out of the corner and from behind the net…I started using the net as a decoy. Consequently, I wasn’t standing in front of the net, getting knocked over, and being on my keister the whole time.”
Takeaway 1: In his books and on his podcast, Tim Ferriss talks about the question he likes to ask when setting out to learn a new skill: “Who is good at this despite being poorly built for it?” The idea is to study those, like Bobby Clarke, who found ways to excel even without the prototypical characteristics or advantages. Then you yourself can use what you learned and, like Gretzky, excel even without the prototypical characteristics of advantages.
Takeaway 2: Early in his career, in his lab, the neuroscientist Andrew Huberman kept a list of the scientists he loved and admired. “I would read that list over and over,” he said, “I didn’t realize it at the time, but this is what is called introjection.” In psychology, "introjection" is the process of absorbing the qualities and behaviors of others.
If you regularly listen to so-and-so’s podcast, Huberman explains, “the nervous system begins to ask questions like, what would so-and-so do? That’s a very real thing, and we’re not always consciously aware of it.”
As he regularly watched and doodled the play of Bobby Clarke, Gretzky introjected Clarke’s style, stopped spending so much time on keister, as he put it, and consequently, went on to set 61 NHL records—many of which he still holds—including most career regular-season goals (894), assists (1,963), and points (2,857). - - - “I started playing out of the corner and from behind the net because nobody had ever done that before…and by the time they sort of kind of figured it out, I’d retired.” — Wayne Gretzky

Something is going on with Ukrainian refugees wearing out their welcome

I've been seeing a steady drumbeat of Ukrainian refugees pushing back on the idea that they're rich and fled the war zone instead of helping to defend their country. It's mostly aimed at males and I haven't seen any of them pushback on the meme. Ukrainian women however ARE trying to pushback on it. I don't know cause I'm not there but apparently its big in Poland, Germany, Italy and Spain. This is a "minor" issue but one that bears watching. Zelensky needs to alter his public relations and start sounding alot more grateful for the support he's getting. As things stand now, people are really tired of demands for more, more and more!

Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard :: PLAN MY ATTACK

Another one from my workout hype mix. No days off -- plan the attack! Ya know stepping back a bit and looking at me I must seem strange as hell to most of you! No apologies. Gonna do me.

Spartan Rules For Life - The Philosophy of Sparta

This is part of my workout mix. This is what I use to hype myself to get it in!

Yasuke - The Story of the African Samurai - Historical Curiosities - See U in History

 

Open Comment Post. 13 Aug 23

 


Saturday, August 12, 2023

Tensions between Ukraine and Poland over grain

 via Stars & Stripes

Last week, Polish and Ukrainian officials clashed openly, after Marcin Przydacz, a foreign policy adviser to Polish President Andrzej Duda, said that Ukraine should "start appreciating the role that Poland has played for Ukraine in recent months and years."

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 "Ukraine really got a lot of support from Poland," Przydacz said in an interview with Polish radio in late July. "What is most important today is defending the interest of the Polish farmer."

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 Nonetheless, popular narratives in Poland and Ukraine still differ greatly about what transpired 80 years ago.

Poles call what happened the "Volyn massacre" and say it was part of a larger effort by Ukrainian forces to ethnically cleanse Poles from the region. Ukrainian nationalists say the events were the result of an ongoing struggle between Poles and Ukrainians at the time.

Duda and Zelensky jointly tweeted they were honoring "all innocent victims" of Volyn. But in a potential reflection of the divide between their countries, Duda wrote in a separate tweet that he had joined Zelensky to "pay tribute to murdered Poles."

The Volyn events are significant to a small but vocal minority of nationalist and far-right groups in Poland. Ukrainian news outlets reported in July that fans at a soccer match in the Polish city of Wroclaw unfurled banners saying "Ukrainians murdered children in Volyn" and "80 years of shameful silence for Volyn."

Here.

So what do we have.

We have domestic issues for Poland.  Economic issues for Ukraine.  A tired Polish populace.  A terrible history with Poland claiming lands in Ukraine.

And an apparently forever war going on right now.

At what point does taking care of Ukrainian interests take a back seat to domestic matters?

I think we'll find out real soon...all over the West. 

Sidenote.  Have you noted that many of Ukraine's biggest supporters are all stating that Ukraine should appreciate what is being done to support them?  Zelensky continues to read the room wrong.  He's still caught up at the beginning of the war.  He doesn't realize that war fever is fading and the whole thing is becoming background noise.

Ever heard of the watermelon diet? Was watching my workout vids and ran across one talking about it...

Seems like this is the latest craze that I never heard of and has no intrest in. Kali Muscle is internet famous and apparently alot of people are into it. Watch the vid and you will find out that he had a heart attack. Too much muscle and too many steroids (Tren is a helluva drug). Plus sizing to an absurd level always comes with drawbacks. But they dynamics of this dude are crazy. He's 5'10" and weighs 471 pounds. That alone is a heart attack on a plate. Weight lifting, steroids or not.

Put him to sleep...did not expect this...

I expected the win but NOT the knockout.

Why is Niger important? It always comes back to natural resources...the people of Niger are pissed

New Russian Anti-Drone System

Interesting. From reports that I've read the Russians have had great success using electronic warfare to knock down Ukraininan small drones. Wonder why they're moving to a kinetic solution now.

Open Comment Post. 12 Aug 23

NATO stands ready to reinforce the eastern part of Alliance territory at a moment’s notice