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I had the most interesting conversation with my neighbor today while we were chipping away at ice still blocking the corners of our blocks after that storm of a couple weeks ago. He's Indian-American who works in some military medical projects he couldn't discuss. He brought up that China attacked India while the Soviets were distracted by the Cuban Missile crisis. The Soviets had a tenuous alliance with India and were starting to dislike (Khrushchev and Mao were oil and water) the direction of the PRC. He said that he worries that Iran will be the distraction for us that might give Xi (who just got rid of the one person in Zhang Youxia telling him not to attack Taiwan) the chance to attack Taiwan. We were talking about arms control being an impossibility in a situation in which nobody trusts each other and there are no efforts to have confidence-building. To Trump, to Putin its all gangsterism. Xi might be willing to sign up to a rules-based order but nobody can trust the order if more than one of the lynch pins is totally unreliable.

W is doing not enough. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/george-w-bush-torches-trump-204806360.html

No organized religion that supported this man or this party deserves your time.

If it means a few midwesterners visit Sacramento and see the real California... (sarcasm)

I don't know if this is the case but having a CGM might be a problem in some security situations. I know there are waivers but I think it might actually be a problem for some situations.

She does pretty well for someone who lives in the good looking people bubble.

My paddle: the one Joola that came with the $60 package.

Arbeit Macht Frei

Meanwhile

Good message.

A word to my friends: Sometimes we respond to a primal scream with something heartfelt and detailed. Sometimes we respond with a nod. I do it, others do it. We just need to recognize that is what is happening. "I got you" responses or reacts are sometimes just fine. A lot of this forum is just primal screaming. We have to share with someone the awful just to register if for the moment that we see it. There are other times when we have a notion that we aren't sure others are seeing. I ask for patience in those instances as well. Sometimes during special crazy periods. We can be like a Lions game thread. I hope we aren't held to be too accountable for those times.

The JD Vance speech last year was the thud. The Mark Carney speech was the response. MAGA has sown the wind. Rubio's speech was the attempt to sell the same JD Vance crap in a nicer package.

Is this a Magazine-isn't-a-Clip level of self-cancellation?

I'll be interested to see if the Romulus concentration camp gets protested like it should.

Appears Kim Dotcom is spouting off about Palantir. Well just so you know KD is a Russophile (at best).