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4 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Obama is so cool.
What Obama did to Biden is actually not too cool.
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14 minutes ago, PastaJoe said:
The cup and char pepperoni makes the difference.
They've caught on in NYC and have a few places that sell it now.
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4 hours ago, Greg S said:
Something has to change. It was a lot safer with stop and frisk. You can't deny that.
That's not true in my experience.
deBlasio ended stop & frisk 8 years ago. Until COVID, there was no problem.
1 hour ago, Just Jack said:I'll try to get it back on topic...
The wife and I go 1-3 times a year for a weekend, typically December to see the Christmas sights, and maybe one other time in the year to either see a concert or some of her friends. Even though we've been doing this since we met, almost 8 years ago, we still find things to check out that we have never done before each trip.
I think maybe people who don't like the City tend to see it as one giant, unmanageable mess.
If they take the City and break it up into neighborhoods, or boroughs, or any smaller segment, then it is easier to deal with. That's pretty much what the locals do.
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I met a fellow Bills fan on the subway just this morning.
We had a great talk about the Bills and the Sabres as we rode to wherever we were going. Left each other with a fist bump and a “go Bills”.
Big city, small world. That’s what I call it.
2 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:It's not just what I hear on the news. I've heard from people that work in NYC that things took a turn for the worse during the pandemic. Rampant drug use in and around the Times Square area was one example given. Personally, I have no interest whatsoever in spending time in NYC right now.
It was very bad during the worst of the pandemic.It is much more “normal” now, but not what it was in early 2020. Not yet.
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Slime, or Smart.
I suggested that to make it more difficult, my wife and I choose each other’s starting words.
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11 minutes ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:
Tater tots are not a French fry. Wtf is wrong with some people. The nerve!
I was with you on the steak fries, but you lost me here.
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57 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:
TBH
I don’t follow any of this garbage.
who in Hollywood hasn’t been caught up in some love twist.
It’s a very low #.
A whole industry of people with way too much time on their hands and way too much self-importance.
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2 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:
Until this I never knew she had alopecia
offended? If she was dying sure.
otherwise I’d have had no idea what the joke was. Prly still don’t
GI Jane got haircuts
Until this thread, I never knew she cheated on him.
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1 hour ago, sherpa said:
I'll leave the nuance of what is and isn't a war as defined in a war clause, but I am reasonably certain that one sovereign country launching an invasion against a neighboring sovereign involving all its' military ex navy meets the definition.
That aint 9/11
I'd hate to be an insurance adjuster in Russia covering anything going on in Ukraine.
Putin won't let anyone call it a war. It is a "special military operation". If you claim otherwise, then you go to jail. Tough spot to be in.
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14 hours ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
In Lieu of a full on moderator concept, if there were an poll to question blocking certain user’s that the community see as toxic and non value added, that could work.
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1 minute ago, BillStime said:
And Putin thanks YOU for voting for Conald Trump.
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4 minutes ago, BillStime said:
Nope, I’ll just let your post lay there as a prime example of how you are an irreparably broken whack job. You should switch to heavy duty tinfoil for your hat. That thin, cheap stuff it still letting the signals through.Putin loves you for your anger and divisiveness.
You support him so much by being petty, shallow, and angry.
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Holy crap ^^^^^^^^^ loon alert!!!!
🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪 ^^^^^^^^^-
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11 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
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How looks no can these Russian troops stay in the field and fight without losing their edge and effectiveness.
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1 hour ago, Motorin' said:
How much money does Swift process per year?
Page 9. In 2004 it was $5Trillion/day.Not a typo.
https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/Appendix_D.pdf
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I’ve been on this line for 8 freaking hours.
Someone gave me a bottle of water, it that still okay or is my vote invalidated?
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15 hours ago, ThurmanThomasEnglishMuffin said:
Largely agree.
If the USA and Europe are actually waging economic warfare against Russia they would block oil and natural gas exports from Russia. They are not. Russian energy exports to the USA and Europe continue. Russia is not exporting energy on the 'good credit' of the EU/USA/NATO during a war, where those same countries 'condemn them' in the media.
If a commodity is being exported, then a financial instrument remains in place to facilitate trade, despite what the Main Stream Media says.
If a loophole exists for energy exports why isn't this being reported? Wouldn't the Russian oligarchs have access to these instruments of trade and banking too?
It is naive and laughable that the Russian economy is being weakened, while energy exports, that fund 30-50% of the Russian Government budget continue.
I don't think the US has a problem cutting off Russian oil imports. I think our country should do that.
But NATO is comprised of 30 countries. I'm sure that there are a majority of member nations who can't realistically cut off Russian energy. When you sanction, you generally don't want to hurt yourself (too much), and until the alternatives to Russian energy are put in place, there will be a lot of self-harm to European countries.
I have heard that the Germans, as part of their about-face, have authorized two Liquid Natural Gas processing facilities to take in imports of replacement energy. I'd wager that until those are online (and probably other measures) the Germans can't really make a change.
About your last sentence: I think the Russian economy is being hurt -- just not as much as it CAN be hurt. Putin is afraid to open up the Russian stock market, and the currency has lost 30% of its value. There will always be countries to buy Russian oil (China) and wheat (China), and other Russian exports (Brazil).
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1 hour ago, sherpa said:
Its much worse.
Lying, coward, emotional poster.
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7 minutes ago, CountDorkula said:
Anybody know who this is?
His first name is Doug.Is he Canadian?
Edit: nope.
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17 minutes ago, sherpa said:
Biden didn't come to this conclusion, it was provided to him by US Intel sources.
He doesn't have that skill.
Based on the Russian military performance in this hideous operation, him taking this to WWIII would be as stupid as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
His only strength against NATO, even as weak as it is militarily now, is the nuc threat.
NATO is going to get stronger, and after a week of this Russian adventure, he has managed to alienate is country, largely eliminate them from intl trade, caused Germany to shred its pacifist posture, cause Finland and Sweden to lean towards NATO and now even sway Switzerland, who never opposed Hitler.
The only thing he has left is a nuclear threat, and hopefully, the Russians will realize that is an idiotic, course.
Whatever the Russian word is for Valkryie, they need to think about it.
The Russian military performance has been amateur and pathetic.
Yes on Biden's intel. Thank you for the clarification.
And yes on the Putin miscalculation. He's painted into a corner and the only thing he's considering seems to be more bloodshed. They say that the first Russian units into battle are poorly trained kids from factories, etc. I wonder how right that is. I think Putin's held back the quality troops and materiel. Stupid.
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43 minutes ago, John Adams said:
That's cute. Your opinion though comes with consequences no? You think Ukraine should have provoked Russia even more?
Very few people have suggested that was the prudent road.
Because ya know, WW3 and all.
For a month, Biden said there was going to be an invasion. Turns out, he was right, even though Putin couldn't even come up with a good reason to invade. He's protecting Ukraine from Russians? He's protecting Russians from Ukraine? He hates NATO, even though NATO never threatened Russian borders once in their history? But Putin went into Ukraine and actually made a case for why NATO exists in the first place. Not smart.
Maybe before that, NATO could have gotten their **** together and come up with an actual deterrent. The only real deterrent from Russia going into an unprepared Ukraine was to threaten Article 5 defense. Only, that isn't a credible threat because Article 5 doesn't apply to Ukraine. Hell, it may not be a deterrent at all, because it sure doesn't look like anyone wants to take on the Russians -- except poor Ukraine. All I know is that threatening sanctions after the fact was lame, and it isn't going to get Russia to do an about-face. Even Biden said "let's see what happens in 30 days". 30 days!?!? He should have added: "after Ukraine has been crushed".
So instead, after-the-fact, NATO and the EU countries make Ukraine their proxy, doing everything except committing forces. It is a loser play against Putin and yet it isn't too far removed from fighting directly. Talk about throwing money down a toilet. At this point, if Putin wanted to make this into WWIII, then all he has to do is claim that providing arms to Ukraine, and sanctioning Russia on behalf of Ukraine, and stopping Russian air flights and shipping are all acts of aggression against Russia. What's going to happen when Putin ratchets this conflict up to that next level? People will say that NATO lost its chance to stop Putin with strength, and an entire country was destroyed -- because maybe that's pretty much the only thing he responds to. Maybe the play now is to say that NATO will admit Ukraine in 5 days unless the Russians leave the country.
I've said it from the beginning that Putin is making a mistake. But that doesn't mean the mistake had to have been made in the first place.
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53 minutes ago, John Adams said:
Most of the crew here says the US should have done the opposite. Denied membership forever.I don't care what they say. I'm not a teenage girl.
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3 hours ago, John Adams said:
Tanking Russia's economy (while supporting Ukraine--I see another $6.4B is on the table today) is not some small feat.
And yeah, short of starting a direct war with Russia, that might be all we can do.
The reality of the world is when a nuclear power takes some lesser country, the options are limited. Wait for Taiwan.
Just spitballin'. What could have been done was make Ukraine a "provisional" member of NATO. Ukraine's GDP is $155Billion, so 2% of that is $311Million. The U.S could have paid Ukraine's dues for 2 years with the money we already threw at this problem. Russia wouldn't have invaded with Rule 5 on the table.
The Masters 2022
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That’s my biggest gripe about the decades of Masters TV coverage.
They have never successfully been able to present the course so that the viewer can understand it.