Germany Carnival
Note the tub's colors.
Hmm, a PRIVATE outfit demanding govt subsidies, just like America.‘Putin’s Chef’ Leaks Grisly Corpse Photos in Public Betrayal of Kremlin
If there were ever a time for the Kremlin to worry about an uprising by its most out-of-control private army, now would appear to be it.
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has gone from accusing the Russian military of treason to flooding the internet with gruesome photos of the country’s war dead.
“Who is to blame for them dying? Those who should have resolved the issue of supplying us with sufficient quantities of ammunition are to blame,” Prigozhin said Wednesday in comments to a pro-war Telegram channel, singling out Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. A day earlier, he accused both of trying to “destroy” the Wagner Group by deliberately choking off their ammunition supply....
Russia loses major tank battle for Vuhledar due to ambushes NYT
... Details: According to NYT, the charred hulks of Russian armoured vehicles now litter farm fields all about Vuhledar, according to Ukrainian military drone footage – blown up on mines, hit with artillery or obliterated by anti-tank missiles.
Ukraine’s military said Russia had lost at least 130 tanks and armoured personnel carriers in the battle.
Wouldn't it be great to see putin fall while alive and in office due to Ukraine.Vrede too wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:52 amRussian tank explodes in ball of flames as Ukrainian Special Forces strike in Donetsk
Russian tank explodes as Ukrainian drone drops bomb into open hatch
Opps.
Huge explosions as Ukrainian forces wipe out tank convoy with US javelins
Ukrainian Paratroopers take out a Russian tank and infantry with bombs from a weaponised drone
Russian equipment that fired at Ukrainian army position was ambushed on its way back
Russian tank is blown to pieces in Ukrainian missile strike
Ukrainian Battalion destroys Russian tank with pin point accurate artillery strike
Russian ammunition warehouse EXPLODES in Luhansk as Ukrainian forces strike
Even so, Ike was probably the best post-WW2 Repug POTUS. Nixon did a few progressive things, but wrecked his legacy over an election he was destined to win, regardless.billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:35 amWouldn't it be great to see putin fall while alive and in office due to Ukraine.
Too bad lke is still likeable for:
starting the Vietnam War
overthrowing democracy in Iran
feeding the military industrial complex
and botching the interstate highway system
But of course any name that rhythms with "like" is a sure winner with the American voter, as with actual history and memories.
Ike was truly one of our worst.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of My Lai
too bad it took some 40 years to find out that our government knew about and investigated 300 more such incidents during the war and poor "cover-up colin" never became president.
Prior interstate discussions including you, billy.pilgrim, me, Stinger, Leo Lyons, Bungalow Bill, neoplacebo and rstrong:
Copy and paste at will. billy.pilgrim mentions towns displaced and destroyed. In my skimming I didn't notice reference to how often Black neighborhoods were divided, but there's that, too.
My favorite:Vrede too wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 6:45 pmRacist RepuQs being lying crybabies in denial, as usual:Vrede too wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 7:45 amI meant that "there's not one fucking thing wrong with" Eisenhower's interstate system being socialist, not that it didn't have negative effects. It also helped reshape our economy and culture into being so auto-dependent, with the downsides of that including everything from oil wars to AGW. Then, there's:billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:16 amI think ike's interstate system destroyed small towns, small business and mom and pop entrepreneurs all over, leaving us with big box stores, chain restaurants and low wages.
Buttigieg says America’s highways are racist and infrastructure bill will help fix it
Buttigieg responds to Ted Cruz (Mike Huckabee, Fucker Carlson and others) on racism in highway design
Bungalow Bill wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:29 pmIke got the interstate idea from Hitler, not directly of course.![]()
I'm a fence-sitter on the debate. I'd be interested in a serious portrait of what we would look like without them - communities, environment, economy, recreation, etc - or if we'd somehow done them differently.
Canada?
Damn phone call, I've lost this twice. I think I've left something out.
I drove to Montana from Florida and back on mostly 2 lane roads, probably 15%+/- on dirt and gravel, no interstates. What a peaceful interesting trip. The places and things I saw and the foods I ate have remained far more vivid than any interstate trip I've made.O Really wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 8:31 pmAcknowledging that some portions of the interstate system have been disruptive and particularly egregious in splitting Black communities, and acknowledging further that interstates and other "by-passes" are largely responsible for allowing Wal-Mart et. al. to ruin otherwise charming little downtowns, I still don't see a realistic and practical alternate solution. And I still say the good outweighs the bad.
BTW, I've been on the entire length of the 5,10,15, 26,40,70,81,85,95 and most of the 80,55, and a bunch of other shorter ones and loops. Counting pre-motorcoach travel too, they've provided a way for us to see a lot of places and things we would never had the opportunity to see if we were traveling on some two-lane road. And we've traveled on some backroads for one reason or another too, but it's definitely not the way you want to get from one place to another. Actually here, we usually go down toward SD on the 5, but almost always come home on the beach road, going through all the towns.
Ike was pretty much the backbone of everything we have wrong.Vrede too wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 4:16 pmEven so, Ike was probably the best post-WW2 Repug POTUS. Nixon did a few progressive things, but wrecked his legacy over an election he was destined to win, regardless.billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:35 amWouldn't it be great to see putin fall while alive and in office due to Ukraine.
Too bad lke is still likeable for:
starting the Vietnam War
overthrowing democracy in Iran
feeding the military industrial complex
and botching the interstate highway system
But of course any name that rhythms with "like" is a sure winner with the American voter, as with actual history and memories.
Ike was truly one of our worst.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of My Lai
too bad it took some 40 years to find out that our government knew about and investigated 300 more such incidents during the war and poor "cover-up colin" never became president.
Ukrainian Anti-tank missile destroys Russian tank and crew.
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billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:45 pmIke was pretty much the backbone of everything we have wrong.
Industry over people
War at every turn
Destruction of democracies
All Ike had was a rhyming slogan for a name and a history using the slogan rather than admitting the harm he caused.
Ford. And Nixon was probably better than Ike. Sure he prolonged a war, but it was like who started it.Vrede too wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:56 pmbilly.pilgrim wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:45 pmIke was pretty much the backbone of everything we have wrong.
Industry over people
War at every turn
Destruction of democracies
All Ike had was a rhyming slogan for a name and a history using the slogan rather than admitting the harm he caused.I set a low bar. Which post-WW2 Repug do you think was better than Ike?
Canada doesn't have interstate equivalents?O Really wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:28 pmCanada?
There would always be roads between places, and they would either be Interstate-lite, such as a bunch of California freeways that are state highways but if you're driving it looks like an interstate, or they'd be two or three-lane death traps. But consider that even though many communities might be better, and maybe the environment has cleaner air (like it did during the first year of covid), that there would be no way for commerce to flow and the economy to grow to the extent the interstates have facilitated. Actually, it's a long deep rabbit hole to start thinking what if there were no interstates.