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Setting The Record Straight – Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine
On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians. …the bombardment dramatically intensified as the week went on until it reached a peak on February 19, when a total of 2,026 artillery strikes were recorded. Keep in mind, the Ukrainian Army was, in fact, shelling civilian areas along the Line of Contact that were occupied by other Ukrainians.
…What their data shows is that Ukrainian Forces were bombing and killing their own people. This has all been documented and has not been challenged.
So, the question we must all ask ourselves is this: Is the bombardment and slaughter of one’s own people an ‘act of war’?
We think it is. And if we are right, then we must logically assume that the war began before the Russian invasion (which was launched a full week later) We must also assume that Russia’s alleged “unprovoked aggression” was not unprovoked at all but was the appropriate humanitarian response to the deliberate killing of civilians. In order to argue that the Russian invasion was ‘not provoked’, we would have to say that firing over 4,000 artillery shells into towns and neighborhoods where women and children live, is not a provocation? Who will defend that point of view?
Situational Awareness
(Tom: This is a stellar example of situational awareness. It was a post on Quora.com, one of the social media sites of which I am a member. You can post questions and other members will post answers.
1. You cannot be this aware when you are drunk or stoned. Hence I do not drink or do drugs.
2. You cannot be as aware of your present time environment if your attention is hung up on past losses and upsets. I have read that the average person has 70% of their available attention units stuck in the past and only 30% available to them in present time. This is why I have devoted a good portion of my life to recovering attention units from past mistakes and failures.
3. You cannot be this aware of a natural environment if your total experience of life is digital.
It takes knowledge of an ideal or normal scene, accurate observation of the existing scene, analytical comparison of the two, certainty of your observation, intelligence to conceive of a handling, decisiveness and personal integrity to follow through on a survival plan despite objections.)
The Post On Quora:
Have you ever had a really bad feeling about a place, and immediately abandoned what you were doing, and got the hell out of there? Tell us about it.
My Grandfather in 1959.
He was with a group planning to camp in Yellowstone park. They had no sooner started to set up camp then he demanded, in his loudest, most demanding German fashion, they leave. They did.
That night the earthquake hit. The entire campground was buried. Where he was camped, there were no survivors.
The friends and family he was with grumbled all night about his irrational behavior. He made them drive for several hours before stopping. They felt the ground shake, but had no idea how bad it was until they heard the news reports.
The following day, they no longer grumbled.
Grandpa said it “felt bad,” he then noticed “a wrong silence” and the complete absence of birds. He also said there were no ants on the ground.
Decide What To Do
If you need some inspiration, here’s a good place to start:
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Daily Doses Covid Jab
From Trudy Seivwright MD on Twitter: As of today, February 12th, any UK citizen below the age of 50 will need a doctor’s note for the C19 vaccine.
I strongly doubt letters will be in high demand… …more like disposal units.
They’re going to have a lot of expired vaccines.
Rough Week
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Hollywood Squares – Those were the days.
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you’re going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years…
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q. You’ve been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knott: That’s what’s been keeping me awake.
Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to ask him if he’s married?
A. Rose Marie: No. Wait until morning.
Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.
Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question, Peter, and I’ll give you a gesture you’ll never forget.
Q. Paul, why do Hell’s Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q. Charley, you’ve just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I’m too busy growing strawberries.
Q. In bowling, what’s a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.
Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.
Q. When you pat a dog on it’s head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?
Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.
Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.
Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.
Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.
Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh.