Talking and Walking

while chewing a gummy war.

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Author: patd

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

40 thoughts on “Talking and Walking”

  1. Alternative thread title was “Blessings and Curses” if one considers the effect higher fuel prices have on the motivation to produce and purchase electric vehicles and on highway speed reduction to save gas (and lives) as a blessing and the continuing hectoring by media toward uncle joe no matter how much he accomplishes as a continual curse.

  2. meanwhile, major unhappiness in mudville aka lexington KY

    Saint Peter’s oust Kentucky in one of NCAA tournament’s biggest ever upsets | NCAA tournament 2022 | The Guardian

    After the 15th-seeded Peacocks bounced storied Kentucky from the NCAA tournament on Thursday night, they calmly exchanged handshakes with the Wildcats before heading over to the opposite sideline to celebrate with a small contingent of true believers.
    The tiny Jesuit school from Jersey City, New Jersey, got 27 points from Daryl Banks III as it took down basketball royalty, beating second-seeded Kentucky 85-79 in overtime and sending countless brackets into the digital wastebasket.
    “It was an amazing feeling,” Banks said. “You grow up you watching March Madness, the tournament, so to let that sink in – knowing the game was over – it felt really good.”
    The Peacocks became the 10th No 15 seed to win a first-round game since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 and handed Kentucky their first opening-round loss under coach John Calipari.
    [continues]

  3. Volodymyr Zelensky Should be Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize—Lawmakers (newsweek.com)

    The expired deadline for accepting nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize should be extended so Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky can be considered for the award, a group of European politicians have said.

    The Nobel Committee has been sent an appeal to re-open the nomination procedure and push the deadline of January 31 to March 31, so that Zelensky and the people of Ukraine can be considered for the award.

    “Although we are aware that this is a break with procedure, we do believe it is justified by the current unprecedented situation,” said the letter signed by 36 past and present politicians from the Netherlands, U.K., Germany, Sweden, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia.

    “It is our democratic duty to stand up to authoritarianism and to support a people fighting for democracy and their right to self-government.”

    It said “brave Ukrainian men and women are fighting to preserve democracy and self-government” and that people all over the country invaded by Russia on February 24 “are rising up to resist the forces of authoritarianism.”

    “Our words of sympathy and support can hardly do justice to the sacrifices they make for the principles of human rights and peace,” said the letter dated March 11, which finished with words, “the veneer of civilization is paper-thin, we are its guardians and we can never rest.”

    A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize can be made by any person who meets the nomination criteria.

    These include members of national assemblies and national governments, members of The International Court of Justice in The Hague as well as certain university professors, professors emeriti and associate professors.

    [continues]

  4. Hug Zelenskyy fan, here, but how does advocating for armed resistance qualify one for a ‘Peace Prize’?!
     
    Give that man a ‘War Prize’, after he wins it

  6. i was literally happy to pay $4.15 a gallon to stick it to Putin in my small, personal way, fuck that killer of pregnant women and children, even though India is profiteering from the conflict by buying all the Russian crude at huge discount

  7. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/16/texas-fossil-fuel-divestment-ban-inquiry/

    “A new law prohibits the state from contracting with or investing in companies that divest from oil, natural gas and coal companies.”

    “Senate Bill 13, which went into effect in September, prohibits the state from contracting with or investing in companies that divest from oil, natural gas and coal companies. The law defines divestment as refusing to do business with a fossil fuel company because that company does not commit to environmental standards higher than expected by federal and state law.”

    “Firms that received a letter include U.S.-based companies, like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Company, and foreign companies like Jupiter Fund Management PLC and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.”

  10. I now know my home is well protected from Mus musculus, house mouse.  I had a YouTube video running in the background while working.  Chunky was curled up in my arm doing kitty sleep.  All of a sudden her head pops up, I looked over at the television and it was showing a man had trapped a mouse in a live trap.  Chunky then Boo looked over at the screen to find the mouse.  It was in the trap, I could not hear anything, even with my ear to the speaker.  The man took the trap outside to let the mouse go.  Right now Chunky is outside looking for the mouse.  Boo is still looking around the family room too.  Amazing how good the kitty radar is.

  11. Texas thinks it’s going to bully Chase and Wells Fargo?  I’m thinking gnat, flick is going through the top execs in those companies right about now. And I’m guessing that the Cubans and Waltons and Musks of the world aren’t going to stop doing business with 2/3 of the top 3 banks, which hold assets of $4.62T. If the billionaires in Texas (there are 27) continue to do business with Chase, etc., this stupid legislation is as hollow as an empty crude barrel.

  13. “But any people, and even more so the Russian people, will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors, and simply spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths, spit them out on the pavement,” he said.
    For Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of the political analysis firm R. Politik, Putin’s speech proved the leader’s plan has derailed.
    “It seems to me that everything is starting to crumble with Putin. This speech of his is despair, strong emotion, impotence,” she wrote on her official Telegram account.
    Pointing to the situation in Russia, Stanovaya argues that Putin is losing the battle of popularity, too.
    “This is the beginning of the end. Yes, they will twist everyone’s elbows, lock them up, imprison them, but it is already all without a future … Everything will crack and slip.”
    Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said Putin’s speech reflected how isolated the Russian leader had become.
    “What we saw as the war began, and what we have seen since — including last night’s speech — is really the result of a man whose entire world takes place inside his head,” Braw told CNN, explaining how Putin had isolated intensely during the pandemic and was now more cut off as Western sanctions batter the Russian economy.

     
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/europe/putin-speech-russia-ukraine-conflict-intl-cmd/index.html
     
    I saw a clip yesterday of Russians fighting over sugar in the store.  Salt is in short supply as well.
     
    It’s only a matter of time before he starts shooting Generals .

  16. China’s call to Biden not good for Putin. Xi said: “The Ukraine crisis is not something we want to see. The events again show that countries should not come to the point of meeting on the battlefield. (China State Media)

  17. The clip of the first light image from the Webb shows a star , and  points of light in the back ground that look like other stars..
    They are galaxies  we have never seen before Billions of light years away.

  19. Wouldn’t surprise me to see the next headline is about a “palace coup”.  Mish-Mushful thinking.

  20. one of the many ways the GOPers can prove voter fraud, they are the perps

    the guardian:

    Mark Meadows, who served as former President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff and has echoed his false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, is being investigated in North Carolina over his voter registration, state authorities said.

    North Carolina’s state bureau of investigation was assigned to lead the inquiry after a district attorney referred the matter to the state department of justice special prosecutions section, a department spokeswoman, Nazneen Ahmed, said in an email.

    The investigation is in response to claims that Meadows, who represented North Carolina in Congress from 2013 until joining the Trump administration in 2020, registered to vote in September 2020 at an address he did not reside at, own or visit, the News & Observer newspaper reported, adding that the state board of elections was conducting a joint investigation.

    […]

    In North Carolina, voters must live in the county where they are registering and have resided there for at least 30 days before the election date, according to the state elections board website.

    The New Yorker magazine first reported the voter registration allegations earlier this month. The outlet, quoting the director of the Macon county board of elections, said Meadows was registered at an address in the county and voted absentee in the 2020 general election.

  21. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine has captured Russian soldiers “some who refuse to go back to Russia.” Zelenskyy also said death notices have been sent to the Russian troops’ homes “while they are alive in our captivity.”

  22. full statement which contains segment above and more in audible english version

    [ENGLISH AUDIO] Zelensky’s Address: March 18th, 2022 President Zelensky references the current situation in the war for Ukrainian freedom against the Russian conquest. He discusses some recent developments in Ukrainian economic policy. Zelenskiy also addresses those who are being offered money to fight for Russia, warning them that “A long life is worth more than the money you can be paid for a short one”. He discusses the situation in some Key Ukrainian cities, and mentions conversations that he has had recently with other Key European leaders. President Zelensky official address with: SPOKEN ENGLISH audio ENGLISH subtitles [All English language audio read from English subtitles or transcripts provided by official Zelensky government publications]

  24. Nothing like giving away  5 Bucks a head to get people to attend your rally .  Then watching them turn right around after they get their tickets punched. 
    Putin puts the “Moe” back in moron.

  25. Seeing that “First Light” image from the Webb set me to thinking of all those people laying on their backs watching the stars whirl over head for thousands and thousands of years. 
     
    It’s such a pity this epic milestone in human history is being drowned out by a sea of tears.   

  26. That clip I posted above had a great analogy  about it’s resolution. 
    If it was on the Moon , you could see the Sydney Opera House, 250,000 miles away.  
    That is one hell of a infrared eyeball / time machine .
    All those eyeballs , the Babylonians , the Maya , Copernicus, Edwin Hubble, the freakin’ Druids over all that time has come to the most perfect science instrument ever built , and put exactly where we wanted it.
    A 1,000, 000 miles from home.  This important , we didn’t have to spend fuel correcting it’s flight path , this added to it’s life span, by a lot. 
    I post this stuff , because  it points to a world where we can do anything , we chose to do.  It points to hope, to knowledge, to understanding, to discovery .  
     

  28. Now back to the ocean of tears –
     
    Russian missiles hit a fighter jet repair facility in the closest strike yet to Lviv
     
    The age of fighter jets is dying before our eyes. Ukraine doesn’t have a jet problem , it has a anti-missile problem. 
    The dog fights over the Yalu River, are as dead as Stalin. 
    The Kraines are fighting “This War” , for the most part.  Not the past wars.  While I praise president Z , his thinking about no fly zones  and jets is purely Pickets Charge thinking.
    Remember no general during our Civil War  understood what the simple idea of “rifling” did to a musket. 
    What that boy needs  are weapons that kill long range artillery , and shoot down cruise missiles. 
    A jet fighter is an airfield , a flyer , a plane, Jet-A fuel, a bomb dump , all the people and machines  to run it  .
    A few cruise missiles wipe all that out. 
    The Switchblade we’ve all read about comes in 2 versions .
    The little one weighs 6 lbs. , and can fly around 6 miles. 
    The Big one weighs  25 lbs. , and fly about the same distance as it’s weight. 
    One is a 2 man team in the woods , the other is a 4 man team in the woods. 
    Finding these guys  is a lot harder , than finding a jet sitting on an airfield  with holes in it.
    And a Hell of a lot cheaper to make , and deploy.  You don’t send these guys to “Top Gun School ” .  You send them a video .
    I am telling you all,  the world of air warfare as we all knew it is gone.  All those high tech jets  are junk. 
    To quote the first  MTV  broadcast –
    Video Killed the Radio Star. 
     

     
     

  29. That Putin  2 hour event  last Tuesday  that Frontline did , had this nugget  in it-
    He watched  the capture in that culvert of Muammar Gaddafi over, and over again. 
    Let us all hope when he orders up their nukes, the Generals will save all our asses. 
     

  31. So the latest guess of Russian dead is  7,000 , and 4 generals.
    In 3 weeks . 
    This  larger that all the blood we spent in the last 21 years. 

  32. Has Vlad done a rally like this before, because it looked for all the world like he was copying Orange Adolf. Quoting the Bible was a disgusting touch. The bastard should burst into flames.

    That coat was to make his body look swole. Is his face puffy from steroids or too much wrinkle filler?

  33. Putin sees people on a chess board  as pawns .
    They can’t move fuel to their tanks , let a lone bring their dead back home. 
     
    All this fighting he has done was on tiny poor victims. 
    In fact , the Russian Army  hasn’t  fought a land war for 33 years .
    We on the other hand , have over 20  years . Of lessons learned. 
    From people than can really bite your ass, wearing used knock-off  Nike’s.
     

  34. used knock-off  Nike’s.

    Anyone who believed  we would get out of Afghanistan clean is  a fool . 
    Everyone remember all those  helicopters  we dumped overboard  ?
    Wars do not end in a bow tie. 
    They end when one side is spent. 

  35. used knock-off  Nike’s.

    In another time we would have seen their fate  over this winter. 
    Not today .   I am guessing the “used knock-off  Nike’s”. 
     
    Did  a pretty bad job of running their country. 
     
     
    dis

  36. Blue –
    He was an only  child  in a one room flat, this is why he don’t play well with others .
     
     He made  a world in his head.  Hitler was an only child  as well. 
     

  37. The one thing we learned, Putin  is not an evil genius. 
    He’s a paranoid mad man.  Doing dog and pony shows .
     
    Little wonder Trump loved him.  Aside from the Russian whores pissing on him. 

  39. The russian picked u a lot from our orange cockwomble.  He didn’t know until he watched sfb’s actions that the US was so divided and had such a large number of ignorant, gullible, and malleable idiots.

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