Timmah!

It doesn't matter who else did what to whomever else....innocent people are losing their lives...citing any country's dark deeds obviously doesn't justify or mitigate the evil of any person or country or nation killing innocents...the United States administrations' obvious hypocrisy notwithstanding...

Mothafuckin'! Right

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Nice selective regurgitation...Go back hundreds of years & you would know- that the Ukrainians have been murdered en mass, oppressed, forbidden to speak their own language, kicked out of their homeland by Russians vis a vis Catherine the not so great....the only reason there's Russians in Eastern Ukraine is because between her & Stalin, MILLIONS of Ukrainians were starved to death in an engineered famine, millions more forced to leave to make room for the Russians relocated there. .& the Ukrainians left were forbidden to speak their mother tongue, with only Russian being taught in their schools...but let's just gloss over that crucial history & paint them as the bad guys after a THOUSAND YEARS of systematic murder and oppression so that it fits your disingenuous narrative....you wanna make an argument, stick to the facts instead of dissembling & pointing your finger over there, setting-up straw man arguments with irrelevant whataboutisms in an attempt to, for whatever reason, justify the indefensible, latest round of murder & destruction perpetrated on an innocent people. The facts, all of them. And for someone who cries about their tender hurt feelings, and dramatically announces they're taking their ball & going home, leaving forever, it's farcical to return & open your sloppy, slanted, misleading revisionist history fiction with the tough guy 'Ok Motherfuckers' opening. If you want to debate facts, great; but spewing garbage in an effort to prove you're right & those 'Motherfuckers' are wrong is an entirely different discussion. You'd think you'd have some semblance of empathy for the 4 - 5 million Ukrainians murdered by starvation considering the relative cake walk of a million that died in the Potato Famine, but no.....motherfucker.

Nah, I just fed the wh0re; times are tough; negative attention is better than none for his ilk.

Don't come back with that ersatz victim bullshit after you enter the conversation with exclamation points & blanket condescension of most others' viewpoints with no substance whatsoever; your intent was to be bombastic & irritating, not unlike a churlish 3 year-old demanding attention for nothing more than throwing up bullshit articles from dubious-at-best sites that nobody who isn't an intellectually lazy attention whore would even waste their time reading, much less share as proof of some farcical top-level, in-the-know bullshit. That's what most attention-starved, lazy people do in an effort to convince others, if not themselves they are somehow 'special': Invest no effort. Well, I'm here to tell you, since you want attention: You're definitely fucking special. Go necro your 20-page doofus thread that lost legs a week ago if you want to approach anything resembling a dimly-distant facsimile of effort...I'm sure the other knuckleheads will happily dive- once again- headfirst into the shallow end of the latrine pit with you. Have a great evening, shithead. Your pal, Tim To Recap: Fuck outta here with that bullshit.

I feed him a blend of proteins I buy & prepare...

Russian sons returning home to their mothers in body bags isn't helping him either...

Yeah, any time you observe any hungry animal hunting, you can easily see it is definitely paying attention

Messy, quickly gone...& you wish you had more. Late-night, just before eating is when I find information retention is best...related to the basic mechanism of hunger on brain centers such as the hippocampus. Sleepy also helps...so both, combined. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/this-is-your-brain-on-an-empty-stomach/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2063745/#:~:text=Gut hormone ghrelin (bottom) increases,(arrowheads) and improves memory.&text=The growling stomach produces the,a center for forming memories. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section1C.t-1.html 'Beyond increasing appetite, ghrelin is also known to be associated with regulating metabolism, modulating inflammation, increasing cardiac effectiveness, and increasing the growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor 1. It therefore principally works as an energy consolidation hormone...' 'Remarkably, it has been observed by researchers that the ghrelin receptors are functioning in tandem with the dopamine receptors to allow for proper functioning of the hippocampus in memory consolidation, as well as synaptic reorganization and synaptic plasticity....refers to the brain’s ability to remain cognitively adaptive to new and different mental challenges. It does this by growing neurons and expanding neuronal connections.' If you wanna learn: Do it when you're HUNGRY. There's quite a bit of information that points to diet's role in inflammation, Alzheimer's, cognitive maintenance/optimization, cardiac health, overlapping metabolic-attenuated coordination of these effects on the systems individually & as a whole. Food for thought...& so much more. So, a way to a man's heart is, literally, through his stomach.

@Ruggerxi Could you be so kind as to remove above-inflammatory-attention-whore shit-stirrer's ad-hominen dumpster fire bullshit posts from what has been a civil big-boy discussion of the current events?

Sure, Check out Daytona Beach during Spring Break or Biker Week: When masses of college students or bikers gather to party.

Napoleon Bonaparte was known to rope-a-dope some of his battlefield opponents; show a portion of his troops on a crest or plateau, to the enemy; have them retreat back down a hill; when the other side pursued, they found the rest of the army waiting on the other side. Natives living in the jungles in some areas of our world have been documented using this tactic against their enemies....

Except that the 'known quantity' might be replaced by something worse... Who else is going to hold all the disparate bad actors in line in that whole region? Like the saying goes: Measure twice, cut once.

Started watching just before she made the scene, visiting with friends or something. You could tell she liked him, but didn't know what would come of it, since she left for a time.

Exactly; taking the Donbass & the rest of that Eastern area will effectively annex Ukraine's manufacturing/defense industry; also giving him more natural resources & supporting infrastructure. Putin has basically stated he wants his own Monroe Doctrine; no missiles on his doorstep. In what ways is it different from Kennedy's assertion of The Monroe Doctrine vis a vis Cuba in his request for Ukraine to not join NATO & military infrastructure be placed on his western border? I recognize Ukraine's right to sovereignty & self-agency. I ask these questions in that while the U.S. asserts authority over the entire Western Hemisphere; how much elbow room should Russia be afforded? The last instance I remember of assertion was Reagan deposing Noriega because he was a drug dealer. The main difference being that Putin is an absolute dictator with no qualms killing his own people to maintain control; ie journalists, political opposition. That notwithstanding, should there be a recognized military-free zone afforded him/Russia? Or is that he is a bad man justification for carte blanche actions in the region? And how much nicer would life be for Russia if they played nice like the rest of Europe?

Maybe ima watching Mr. Beefcake. Seriosly though, been watching the channel before Mrs. Hotness was a permanent member of the channel.

I don't think the Ukraninian people will stand for allowing the eastern provinces to become independent. Additionally, there is then the consideration of Transnistria on the western border of Ukraine, located in Eastern Moldova....it's officially part of Moldova, but in name only....the people all along that border are autonomous, having their own government, currency & warriors...most of it's inhabitants define as Russian, & there's at least a couple thousand Russian troops in that area. It's something to keep an eye on; especially considering it's geographical location vis a vis this conflict. & it'd be even more of a buffer, with Russian loyalists...it's already a Russian-friendly staging ground, & a not-unlikely spot for attacking Ukraine from its Western flank.

chicken thighs!!! OMfg. Batch frying some chicken thighs marinated overnight in buttermilk, then plunged into a nice Paulaner beer batter...it's dark meat, so I cook until an internal of 175 or so, to allow the collagen to melt. If you cook it to only 160 or so like white meat, it's gonna still be rubbery; Ridiculously tasty & moist!! Went ahead & did 10 lbs... Chicken like this is good for 3 months...& we KNOW it's not lasting anywhere near that l0ng!

It's the Ukrainian National Bank's site, it's legit & easily verifiable many ways, not the least is contacting any of the world's major banks listed at the bottom of the donation page against the routing number...come off $10 or $20.

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Floyd's 'Barn Jams', recorded in converted barns on Gilmour's property are a nice discovery; filmed while the personable Mr. Wright still graced our presence. Gilmour's riffing on the steel guitar with Richard expertly supporting is a treat. As an aside: Gilmour even has a recording studio on his private boat.

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Thx, mang...added to my library

It's a fun channel set in gorgeous scenery....always taking you on a fun adventure. I'm sure he makes enough off the channel to fund doing this full time. Has lifted my mood on many a dreary cold Winter's day. Can get lost in the episode, forgetting for a time where I am. He produces the videos to bring you along.