Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, and his wife and daughter “were accosted and threatened at a Las Vegas restaurant on Sunday by at least two men who shouted racial and anti-government epithets at them,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Monday, February 28, 2022 (see story a[...]
Archive for February, 2022
Proud Boys are “patriots”? Really?
Andrew Walls, 26, a leader in a Proud Boys gang in Akron, Ohio, sucker-punched a black female passerby who objected to his racist language. He also “attacked another woman at the scene,” Huffington Post reported (read story here). The incidents occurred outside a bar on Sunday, February [...]
Rams are gonna ram (video)
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February 28th, 2022 - 2:36 pm § in Russia
How Putin sees the rest of the world
Russia’s ruler is fond of brandishing his nuclear arsenal. As for humanity, “He’s said many times: if there is no Russia, why do we need the planet? … this is a threat that if Russia isn’t treated as he wants, then everything will be destroyed.” (Read story here; [...]
Stupid China left citizens in Ukraine
The U.S. warned Americans to get out of Ukraine. China didn’t warn its citizens to leave, so now about 6,000 Chinese are stuck there. “Unlike nationals from many other countries, they did not receive instructions to leave the country before the invasion began, as Chinese officials pushed[...]
You gotta live in Russia to boycott Russian vodka
“Less than 1% of vodka consumed in the United States is produced in Russia,” CNN says. “In fact, more than half of all vodka consumed domestically is actually made here.” (Forbes says 1.3%.) Russian Standard and Green Mark are the only brands sold in the U.S. imported from Ru[...]
February 27th, 2022 - 4:50 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
Map: What Russia holds on Day 4
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Row, row your boat
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GOPers cover themselves in dung
Hoo boy. It’s been quite a weekend: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) denounced “fellow Republicans who have sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he believes any such support is ‘almost treasonous.'” (Story here) Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) refused to denounce Trump’s p[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Invincible
… this Russian tank is not! I don’t know what took it out, but I’d hate to have been inside. If this was a T-90, and it looks like one, there’s about $5 million of Russian government funds smoking in that ditch. (Photo from Foreign Policy magazine; the same tank is seen in th[...]