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HUMAN MENAGERIE
On Halloween, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano soared across the International Space Station 250 miles above the earth in a single bound.
I will guarantee you that that young man has never heard those words said to him before.
ELECTION OBSERVATIONS
(for amusement only)
In his first interview after the election, Hershel Walker asked if he was red or blue.
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Lauren Boebert's been preparing for her next job by practicing saying "You want fries with that?"
Weird how paranormal investigators always assume the ghosts speak English.
Of course, babies cry on planes. As far as they know they’re about to be eaten.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Speaking of...
Gardener Dan Bull works from a cherrypicker to trim a section of the 14-meter-high yew hedge at the National Trust’s Powis Castle. The famous tumps are more than 300 years old and it takes one gardener 10 weeks each autumn to clip them.
We've discussed the Turkish Flaw but that's ridiculous.
That's every chain restaurant in America.
Of all the great things that guy has done, that will be his legacy.
Look at the height of that fence!
Brilliant!
Get your design perfect and never change.
I had a great dog named Oreo.
"What did you do, Ray?"
Relativity For Babies
Water Wheel
How very wonderful.
One of my favorite cartoons of all time.
Several old jokes are using the same format.
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play.
Well, Jacqueline, how was Dallas.
Can you think of any more?
Is there any way to tell a woman she has nice skin without her thinking you want to turn her into a jacket, especially one who really would make a nice jacket?
My wife is in the kitchen and will not bring me a beer here in the living room. That’s it…gonna text her and say “I cannot believe how lazy you are.
THEN AND NOW
*Viewer Contribution
Either way, it's a total lack of individuality.
Same here...
I see no difference.
Dear Electric Company,
You’re welcome. Go buy yourself something special.
- Every Southern family in the summer
I would like a mode of transportation that only allows me to travel one foot at a time with maximum effort requiring stellar balance.
*pogo stick inventor* I got you.
GET LEARNT
Farsi version of "Bella Ciao"
"Bella ciao" ("Goodbye beautiful") is an Italian protest folk song from the late 19th century, originally sung by the mondina workers in protest against the harsh working conditions in the paddy fields of Northern Italy.
It is generally accepted that the song was modified and adopted as an anthem of the Italian resistance movement by the partisans who opposed nazism and fascism and fought against the occupying forces of Nazi Germany, who were allied with the fascist and collaborationist Italian Social Republic between 1943 and 1945. However, some historians argue that there is little to no evidence that Italian partisans actually sang the song.
Versions of "Bella ciao" continue to be sung worldwide as a hymn of freedom and resistance.
This version is now popular in Iran, performed by hijab-less women to protest their treatment by the current regime.
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"The soil of wheat is in the streets, and our collective anger is thirsty for rain.
We don't have fewer rights [?], and we will not get on our knees in sadness.
Our hearts are not far from each other, this new life is the beginning, and your window of dreams is open.
Either we're all together or all alone Bella ciao! Bella ciao! Bella ciao ciao ciao! We'll jump out of bed up in the middle of the night, We’ll stay up until tomorrow.
In the end, our chains of oppression will be broken by us!"
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A seirocrinus from Baden-Württemberg (195 mln years old)
Colors of the medieval world
Think about planning out the route and measuring every turn.
Manhattan for scale.
This guy salvages bottles of vodka from an eddy of containers that settled off the west end of a bridge into Fort Myers Beach on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, after Hurricane Ian devastated the area.
Russian Equipment
Breaking out the Tsar reserves
*I have no way of knowing if that piece of equipment was actually abandoned.
WARNING: I present this as part of my research. I DO NOT claim that it is factual. I understand that all countries (including the U.S.) have right-wing extremist groups. Just read it and tell me if you can confirm or refute anything in the article. Thank you.
Probably very few of us paid much attention to Ukraine before the Russian onslaught affected gas prices, food prices, and revived fears of nuclear Armageddon.
Harper's Magazine January 2021 article entitled The Armies of the Right: Inside Ukraine's extremist militias. Herewith are a few excerpts:
Ukraine is among the poorest countries in Europe and the closest thing the continent has to a failing state. It is mired in a smoldering conflict with Russian-backed separatists in its eastern provinces, and its state institutions have been almost entirely captured by competing oligarchs. Corruption pervades almost every level of government. Outside Kyiv’s metro stations, elderly women in headscarves and bedraggled war veterans beg for change, while nearby the streets are lined with luxury shops and petty gangsters run red lights in black SUVs without fear of rebuke. Millions have emigrated to Poland or Russia for work. The capital has the uncanny feel, at times, of a postmodern Weimar, where Instagram influencers brunch in cafés tricked out in the international hipster style opposite billboards adorned with the faces of Ukraine’s martyrs in the war against Russia.
But perhaps Ukraine’s clearest departure from the standard model of European liberalism is its proliferation of armed far-right factions, considered by analysts and ordinary Ukrainians alike to be the secretly funded private armies of the elite oligarch class. They fought in the trenches outside Donetsk and now patrol city streets, enforcing a particular vision of order with the blessing of overstretched and underfunded police departments. In some regions, they serve as official election monitors...
Ukraine’s complex ecosystem of far-right militias and activist groups is populated by many other organizations that, while less influential than Azov, still play a major role in public life. A variety of them—including Tradition and Order, Katechon, Freikorps, Sokil, and Karpatska Sich—appear at demonstrations with Azov, though their branding differs. Some are more overtly Christian in their imagery; some tend toward neo-paganism; others are more openly fascist. The groups promote one another’s posts on social media, especially on the Telegram channels used for organizing, indicating that some share members with Azov and thus may act as front organizations for deniable activity, according to Oksana Pokalchuk, the director of Amnesty International Ukraine. More often than not, however, the groups are committed rivals, competing for the largesse of the Ukrainian state and primacy in the country’s increasingly heated street politics...
Although Azov does not formally subscribe to National Socialism, members are known to tattoo themselves with Nazi imagery and fly the swastika flag over their fortifications in the east, in what is either a genuine display of ideological loyalty, an effort to troll their Russian enemies, or both. Ukraine’s bloody twentieth-century history creates a certain confusion, as so many symbols of Ukrainian nationalism and the struggle for independence against the Soviet Union are inextricably linked to those who collaborated with the invading Nazi forces against Stalin, a moral and political ambiguity that groups such as Azov exploit to the furthest possible limit. Azov’s official logo combines the Wolfsangel rune of the “Das Reich” division of the Waffen-SS with the Black Sun symbol, first employed by SS commander Heinrich Himmler at Wewelsburg Castle in Germany. The group’s slick propaganda videos feature young recruits with shaved heads and beards marching in torchlit neo-pagan ceremonies behind a Black Sun shield—imagery as inspiring to disaffected young Ukrainian men as it is discomfiting to the country’s Western backers.
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Dear Ralph,
I've just sent you am email with my view on the matter. I was not checking you blog for a while. Sorry for my late response.
Cheers,
Borys
Puzzle. Time: c
You have to have a triangle on top and a square on the bottom. Also, the separator between the triangle and the square has to be the same as the separator found in the others on the same row.
Re the Ukraine; when I have mentioned all this about the Ukraine to friends they just think I'm being "right wing extremist". The media/government coalition decided what we should think and ignored any evidence, just as with Climate Change and many other examples of ballocks and politicians' profit making schemes...They need blogs like yours...useful idiots...
My Dearest Mike, why so rude? Are you incapable of making a lucid point without rudeness? Please don't do it again.
RH
You know how Biden and the left go on and on about democracy being at risk? Well, Biden’s attempt to subvert the constitution and our democratic system by falsely using money authorized for emergency use during covid for his give away to cover student loans. This free money scheme had nothing to do with covid and he did it after he declared the pandemic over but just before the mid-terms. Slime-ball. Federal judge declared it unconstitutional but not before Biden bought tens of thousands of votes with his scheme.
Dear Political/Student Loan Guru, I agree with you. What's next healthcare and affordable housing?
RH
Wait, what....you agree with me? You do know don't you that sarcasm is the lowest form of humor.
"Political/Student Loan Guru"
Hell, that's better than my $120k degree in french poetry.
Dear Political/Student Loan Guru, Why don't you sign your name and I won't have to make shit up? Also, have you even read any French poetry? Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris is my favorite.
RH
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