Monday, April 04, 2022

With Thanks to Alan!

 


Zaporizhian Cossacks drafting a reply
to the Ottoman Emperor's demand that they surrender.



Ukrainian soldiers drafting a reply
to Putin's demand that they surrender.

Posted by listener at 1:00:00 AM

12 comments:

  1. listener4/04/2022 12:14:00 PM

    Ah, sorry this didn't actually post at 1:00am (more like Noon!!). Comes of setting photos while you have a fever, I guess. Just hadn't clicked on "Publish" so it was still in "Draft." 🙄

    On the plus side, we have FINALLY come through the rye into real retirement! About to take an afternoon drive...just because we can.

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    1. Alan in CA4/04/2022 06:03:00 PM

      Now do you and Wil need a couple of these bumper stickers? [Click]

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    2. Alan in CA4/04/2022 06:04:00 PM

      Re the photos, I figured there were plenty of art lovers here; and here is another similar bit of classic performance art:

      Onze helden zijn terug! [Click]

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    3. Alan in CA4/04/2022 06:12:00 PM

      Looking more carefully at the Ukrainian soldier on the left front, without a shirt--it looks to me like he is seated on a tripod-mounted medium machine gun. Gotta keep up with the times!

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    4. listener4/04/2022 07:01:00 PM

      🤣

      I think we're fine without the bumper stickers. Everyone in Vermont goes at a gentler pace anyway. Well, except those of us in a Mini Cooper...we tend to be more zippy, our wheels being so nimble.

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  2. Alan in CA4/04/2022 06:07:00 PM

    Russian Oligarchs Laundered Billions Through U.S. and Other Western Banks [Click]

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    1. Hannah4/04/2022 06:27:00 PM

      Yes, and Putin's rainy day Billions are also in foreign bank accounts. What's that Texas saying? All hat no cattle? Whenr ruthless reputation does not work, the autocrat has nothing else.

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  3. Alan in CA4/04/2022 06:31:00 PM

    Satellite Photos Contradict Russian Claims [Click]

    I doubt that when the US and USSR agreed to monitor compliance with the Nuclear Arms Treaty by "technical means" [i.e. satellite photos] that they expected such resolution to become readily available.

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  4. Alan in CA4/04/2022 10:42:00 PM

    Ukraine War: How the weather could hamper Russian offensive [Click] Warm weather and rain coming = mud.
    "In Poland we have found a fifth element," said Napoleon; "it is mud.”

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    1. listener4/05/2022 12:21:00 AM

      Mud Season is the 5th season here in Vermont too.

      I have seen what a road can turn into, and hope it does them in for good.

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  5. puddle4/04/2022 10:49:00 PM

    From Maha,
    ***Dutton, Boyanowsky and Bond quote a famous psychoanalyst Erich Fromm (1900-1980) who referred to sadism as “the conversion of impotence into the experience of omnipotence”. Fromm contended that sadism produces an emotional high, because absolute control over another, exemplified by inflicting pain or humiliation, provides a unique sense of power. Total dominion over another creates an illusion of transcending the limitations of human existence. It becomes particularly addictive for anyone whose reality is ‘deprived of productivity and joy’. ***

    Sound like anyone we know? (In context it was about the Russians in Ukraine.

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