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The deceased defenders of Wake Island would like a word.

This might be wishful thinking -- but students of political psychology can clearly see that a spider if forming a web -- so the end result might not be that Vladdie is removed but it might be that a lot of blood is shed before he leaves the stage. .

different report about the President of Egypt being there. Also, seeing that the Ugandan foreign ministry is there.

A bit more detail https://eaworldview.com/2023/06/ukraine-war-african-leaders-kyiv-russia-attacks/ South Africa - being a member of the Commonwealth has a foot in a couple worlds. They warned Putin not to go to South Africa because of the ICC indictment. They are cold to the West's various obsessions with terrorism as the ANC were called terrorists back in their own revolutionary phase. None of these countries appears to have heavy Wagner presence unless I'm missing something.

Considering the Russian and Chinese full-court press in Africa....this very generic description of "African leaders" visiting Bucha is very interesting and requires further digging. My hope would be that some of the non-aligned World see what is happening as a major problem in international law/relations. Not that there isn't terrible stuff going on at wholesale in Africa.

This story has a happy middle https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox-news-parts-ways-producer-015908794.html

pathetic

fwiw.

Some reports of an amphibious landing near the dam that was destroyed. Lots of twitter reports of sounds of gunfire and shelling.

when I went there to check in on this cat, the first thing on the suggested twitter feeds was Kayley Mcenaney who Trump has tossed in the bin of females who no longer serve any purpose to him.

Is Brad why we only won 90 in 2014? I think so. Looking at our pythagorean w/l and we are only supposed to have won 86! I find that shocking with Porcello, Scherzer, Verlander, Sanchez and eventually Price. Justin Verlander was going through something that season as I recall. Something about the ball coming out of his hand in a way that batters were keying on. His ERA was higher than his elitest years.

lets focus on the non-success of 2014-2017 seasons with Brad: 2014: a team with the best starting rotation assembled in the history of time and which will never be rivaled until the heat death of the Universe, the Tigers were ousted in that season's ALDS by the Baltimore Orioles in three games. 2015: a team with most of the players from the previous season was under .500 (note this is the season Dombrowski left -- so likely the disfunction in the front office was strong when all this is going down) 2016: 86 wins....2.5 games back 2017: 98 loses.... Mike Illitch dies in February 2017 so the real rot had not started yet.

Which is all the more sad because of the breakdown in the successful team that the Brad hire created.

Gawd, imagine what this team could have done with maybe two more years of Jim Leyland managing, Mike Illitch living and Dave Dombrowski presidenting. Like most Detroit things the new, unproven manager Brad Ausmus came in with unassailable propaganda behind him and many including me needed to hope he would be good. He was not good. The bad became awful as the Dombrowski era gave way to the Avila years. Now, we are here. PLEASE BE GOOD Scott Harris. Please don't be seeing this as a stepping stone for your real career objectives. Please figure out how to make the sports business work in Detroit's market. We aren't small. Lots of money out there in those houses around all those lakes in the suburbs and up north. Figure it out. We aren't New England but we aren't nothing.

Trump would have hated Jesus if he met him.

Profiling saves a lot of time in the investigative business.

You'd think his life is all about recovering his ego from the psychological wounds he got on the playground with that name.

Hopefully Nauta gets to this point.

I'm not going agree with the arguement that the god botherers who annoy us with their certainty are the same as the cult-devotees.

I noticed something with the British rock group Wolf Alice. Lead singer is a very attractive female and she's quite good at the singing but the production of the tracks is such that you can barely understand the lyrics due to them having too much other stuff layered on top. They have some live stuff on youtube in which her vocals are much more front and center and its better than the album tracks.

They always overcharged for ammo. Pro: they fixed anything newish I brought them but Con: the millennial gunsmith was flummoxed by the 1944 Enfield No4 Mk1 I brought in. I was always amazed at the amount of people just wandering around the store wanting to make it a barber shop experience. If they couldn't sustain business because of insurance they really shouldn't have been in the business.

concur. It still looks like stink without Riley Green.

So, assuming the war does not end...a NATO member would be at war with Russia. I think this would be a strong incentive for Ukraine to reclaim as much territory as possible as soon as possible and get Vladdie to the peace table. Vladdie knows this though. He needs the war to continue or he faces a real problem.

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