Slava Ukraini style
A few days ago, a certain Russian ass claimed that there was no such thing as the Ukraine nation. He was wrong, of course, but it is not from the lack of trying by either the ass or his predecessors in the Soviet Union and Czarist Russia. If there was never a Ukraine national identity, why have they been trying to stomp it out for so long. One hundred and fifty years ago when Mykola Lysenko was busy collecting Ukrainian folk songs and writing operas in the Ukraine language Czarist Russia was doing its best to stop him from publishing his works. Here is a Wiki article that gives you a little background
As you listen to today’s selection, think some good thoughts and if you are so inclined a prayer for the People of Ukraine.
Enjoy, Jack
Valse “La Separation” by Ukrainian composer, Mykola Lysenko
jack, perfect selection
there have been many many great ukrainian artists
Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York performs Prayer for Ukraine.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Russia invading Ukraine.
Ukraine Sets up ‘International Legion’ for Foreigners to Fight Russians (businessinsider.com)
(3) Zelensky accuses Russia of “terror,” calls for an international tribunal (cnn.com)
From CNN’s Victoria Butenko and Ivana Kottasová in Kyiv
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also today at same link above:
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I don’t know what the “block” is but the Afghans didn’t know how to WANT to be free. The Ukranians do.
Afghanis are tribal.
jack – A good find, but a sad piece. I am inclined to pray for Ukrainians, and I’m also inclined to wish something awful upon Vlad and his troop of invading murderers.
I sobbed during the cold open of SNL.
Z should not leave Ukraine, nor should he go to Belarus (they are at fault for allowing military staging on their land), as he will likely be disappeared.
What is there to discuss? At the meeting, Vlad should be arrested for war crimes.
How much harder will the world fight Russia if there is an assassination attempt on Z? Or, if the bastard succeeds?
I guess tribal would be the block.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/26/economy/russia-economic-power-sanctions/index.html
“Russia is incredibly unimportant in the global economy except for oil and gas,” Jason Furman, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration, told The New York Times this week. “It’s basically a big gas station.”
Goober has started WWIII.
Listen to Greta.
what would really scare vlad would be prison guards letting free Navalny.
add to that the release of the 3 thousand plus protestors throughout russia.
‘course Xi could stop all of this nonsense by pulling the plug on vlad via cyber incapacitation.
Ukraine, Russia diplomats to meet on Belarus border | AP News
the hill:
Jack
This week is particularly beautiful and definitely appropriate. Thank you.
Did anyone else see the interview with the lady with a parrot? She acted as an interpreter for the reporter with many of the families who had traveled for days to get to the border with their children to leave Ukraine. The beautiful bird who had come all the way with her snuggled under he jacket for warmth. It kept coming out to sit on her finger, shoulder, and head while giving away ear nibbles and kisses before diving back in for warmth.
Somehow that beautiful bird seemed like a bright emblem of hope in a dangerous place.
i like the title but not enough to buy the book coming out 3/8 just in time for the jan6 hearings maybe.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bill-barr-launches-blistering-attack-on-trump-in-new-book/ar-AAUnaav?ocid=uxbndlbing
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General: Barr, William P.: 9780063158603: Amazon.com: Books
Ya know, I would love to get Vlad in a poker game. That is a dumb bluff. The problem with nukes is you really can’t use them for anything except bluffing.
Threat and bluster, rinse and repeat.
Meanwhile where is the US Submarine fleet? Probably not in the middle of the Pacific.
Jack
Pat, Alternate title
Damn, I seem to have lost my reputation.
For some reason a new tell all by a political whore just seems irrelevant in this new post Thursday world.
Jack
So, yesterday The Russians were demanding that Ukraine come to Minsk and surrender, that was the only negotiation they were interested in.
And today they are going “Well, OK we could talk a bit”
And the President of Belarus. “I didn’t realize what those crazy Russian boys were up to, they are basically good boys but if they worry you, we will leave them home.”
Russia has run into a slight problem, Putin has been bluffing all along. It has been working and it has been working, pretty good. But it appears that Ukraine has called their bluff.
The world has always wondered if Russia was really a superpower, with a dominating military. It looks like Ukraine has answered that question.
As Mark Twain said, “sometimes it is better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt”
With the Russian offensive moving at a speed that makes me think I could be an Olympic sprinter. Putin and Russia have problems. They are completely surrounded by non Russian ethnic groups that really don’t like them. And for good reason. With the Ukraine handing out Kalashnikovs like lollypops some of those are going to leak across the border and cause problems.
Just rambling thought on a Sunday morning.
Jack
Bill Barr, AKA “Slug”, got problems too. Maggots ain’t gonna buy his book cause he told truth about the election; and normal people won’t buy it because he’s Bill Barr. Did he get a big advance from the Murdoch-owned company which published the book? Inquiring barr-despising minds wanna know.
ok you should all be able to guess today’s worldle on the 1st try:
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
Pretty sure Mr President Biden has gotten word to select russki generals that there will be extreme consequences for any one of them who might be foolish enough to follow any orders regarding use of nuclear weapons.
Spot on there Mr. Whiskey –
Mo Rocca did a brief history of the Krian’s and the Bear this morning with Annie Apple. Saw your praise of her yesterday , I failed to Hear, hear your words.
That woman has one of the finest minds ever, and no one comes close to her reading of the mind of the Bear.
Saw pictures of Russian POWs this morning , nothing like looking into the eyes of bloodied 19 year-old kids that are scared out of their minds.
Let us all hope the Kraines treat them as well as they can.
Nukes –
When the Test Ban Treaty was sighed , one of the ole’ Rocket Doctors said that there should be an exception to it.
His proposal –
Every 5 years all the leaders in the world should be brought together. There, they should be stripped down to their underwear, and watch one of these things being tested.
His thinking was that over time , they would become an abstraction to the men who would use them.
NYpost:
So Putin made all these kids run around in the snow, and mud for months . Nothing like being dirty, cold, and wet for weeks on end , and being a thousand kilometers from Mama.
And then being sent into battle with a bunch of Slavic Texans who have never threated you at all.
One other item –
Kiev is the Russian spelling.
Kyiv is the Kraine spelling.
Annie Apple said that the Russians took a letter out of their alphabet way back when .
As my old friend Arley used to mutter when this topic came up ……
Fuckin’ Russians.
The country announced it will send 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 “Stinger” surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine shortly, saying the invasion “threatens our entire post-war order.”
I got news for the Germans that post-war order is a dead as Hitler.
The world has rolled over boys and girls the sooner we understand that, the better off we are.
Knock on effects –
This whole oil and gas station talk , while true misses the other big problem in the room.
And that is “grains” .
Both countries export their grain to the world via the Black Sea. Corn and wheat futures are up 30 % since this all started months ago.
Who eats the most wheat passing out of the Bosphorus ?
The world leaders 2,000 years ago, the Egyptians. And at government expense .
The Germans have been on the fence worrying about their trade with Russia , the Egyptians are under the same pressure .
The difference is the Egyptians only export is sand and babies.
Has anyone else noticed Army recruitment ads on TV today?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/27/politics/mitt-romney-gop-ukraine-russia/index.html
“Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah on Sunday blasted his fellow GOP members who attended a White nationalist event and those who support Russia President Vladimir Putin as the country invades Ukraine.”
“Look, there is no place in either political party for this White nationalism or racism. It’s simply wrong … it’s evil as well,”
Watch the Egyptians, and the Bosphorus as this mess drags on .
Ain’t nobody going to be out cutting hard red winter wheat this year , and shipping it out of Odessa.
Which reminds me of one of the greatest tales about the American West.
“The Tumblin’ Tumble Weed” also known as the Russian Thistel.
To build out the railroads in the West, we gave away huge blocks of land along their right of ways.
The Rail Roads sent agents out all over Europe to get immigrants to settle along these lines .
One of the best was the agent working for the A.T.S.F , the Santa Fe R.R.
He was working in Ukraine , and Russia .
In sealed jars the women who came , carried the future of the American Myth on their laps .
Hard Red Winter Wheat . It fit Kansas to a “T” .
But riding along with those big wheat seeds , were some really tiny ones the tumblin’ tumble weeds.
Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.
–Carlin
Morons! I’ve got morons on my team!
–Mitt Romney
(In reference to Gosar and Greene)
Maybe Russians will rise up and fight to have a democracy. Dump the dictator.
What happens when the Polish and the Ukrainians need to flee further NW? Vlad is deranged and he won’t stop.
That weed/wheat tale is true. I always thought it would make a great book.
The RR’s the efforts to get the people to make the trip . so they could make a buck.
My favorite ad from that time , “The rain follows the plow” .
Maybe Willard needs to start his own team, just to make the neo-nazis claiming to be Republicans pick sides. Sunlight is a great disinfectant. Vampires go poof!
Blue –
I’m up my to eyeballs in “Car Shield”, “Omega XL”, discount peter pills , and Mr. Pillow, who has slashed his prices by $ 50 bucks , because “Cancel Culture” has taken a bite out of his ass.
My corn bread effort moves on . ( One can do only so much with beans )
I am using only the premixed packets for the base .
They are really cheap , buy the fat ones.
Texas Style is a good one.
2 eggs is great, or.
Cut the milk with cottage cheese, about 60/40.
I have reloaded for whole canned corn and Hatch green chilies.
The juices will again cut the amount of milk .
Also , let the batter sit for 20 mins.
Eat half of the 8 in skillet with the beans , save the other for breakfast, serve with butter under the broiler , and fake maple syrup .
YUM !
Corned bread mix and a can of creamed corn and some jalapeños. No milk, no eggs. (Creamed corn had no cream.)
Never thought of using maple syrup. Good idea.
Teotihuacan, the Aztec, the Maya, the Mound Builders , The entire cultures of the Southwest , all were built on a diet of beans and corn.
Beans and corn combined and made a the complete protein that let all those people build all that stuff.
Squash rode along to relieve the treadmill of beans and corn. Like chilies , vanilla , and coco.
Blue –
Oh no , One egg and some milk just add the other stuff as a treat.
I plan to make this tomorrow , I have a bead on this , I am sick of white bread.
Nite all –
Try a splash vinegar on your pintos, you’ll be glad you did.
I came back for this , something I missed –
“Hot Lips” passed the other day , she was 84 , her great line :
” This place is an Insane Asylum ” Wet nude and in a blanket, and she sold it.
So long Sally
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