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More importantly...and this cannot be stressed enough. Milei is a clown but he's definitely making a great move for 21st century civilization by withdrawing Argentina's application to BRICS This is good with the usual expectation that the next party in power in Argentina will be the former flavor of kleptocrats who seek greater and greater bailouts from China and whoever else is trying to make the United States feel pain.

LFG

ok Stavropol is in the middle of the northern Caucasus

Very interesting that Judge refused to force prosecutors to hand over the names of the first three witnesses. Judge knows Trump would attempt to coerce them.

Finally the rich brat has real inconveniences

We have our jury

At 12 jurors and rising. Let’s hope they can protect them.

good!

it was too cold but I get where you were going with this.

I would not like that.

Kerry!

You know what I don't like Is triple bottom trucks on the OH Turnpike.

Trump beefing about the temp in the courtroom and Judge is not going to budge because its his courtroom.

My guess is he means Stonewall Jackson. That was probably what he learned from his father when he was hearing about the KKK meetings he went to.

There is a...according to some wag I taked to in the freight business a real increase in costs for goods in the part of Florida below Sanford (near Orlando) where the big freight lines stop due to the crappy conditions for rail south of there. I dunno if that is a real thing or just this guy talking. Freight is king. You do not want to get in between the freight rail companies and their stock prices or threaten to increase insurance costs. Particularly if you are warning them about the danger to moving hazmat through a built up area. They will fight that like mother bear protecting their cubs.

this might be part of the problem with jurors Trump campaign spokesperson and ally are in court today Trump ally Jason Miller and Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung are seated inside the courtroom, according to reports from journalists in court.

He might actually have been thinking of Armistead. He was in the movie and Trump might have focused on that. Brigade commanders are not usually what one thinks of in this regard. The Union lost a much more significant commander in John Reynolds on the first day.

My understanding from working the freight rail and passenger rail security coordination gig back in the aughts was that Europe has most of its freight travel by truck and ship (easier with all that coastline) and the US relies on rail for freight. The rates that industry gets from freight are much more reliable therefore passenger rail is second class citizen except in the NE corridor. I love travelling to NY on rail from DC but having tried it from DC to Western North Carolina where the train had all sorts of stops and maintenance issues, i would be hard-pressed to recommend it. Big fan of European rail networks though. Riding the train from Scotland to London or from Brest to Bayeux is very evocative of the history and culture of those places. Train trips from the Saar area to Frankfurt or Munich were also very cool trips in my younger days. I don't mind seeing ugly factories so long as I get a castle or two as well.

'Hitler Pig' - POLITICO

this story was wall to wall coverage on Fox

What makes me crazy is that Johnson had to finally get an intel briefing on the threats to Europe before he would support Ukraine aid. I wonder if that briefing included some veiled message about "we have seen how Putin likes to compromise members of both parties with salacious text messages he received from their personal accounts including accounts that the blackmailee might not have thought that any competent nation state intelligence service could easily find, like the ones you use to talk to your young male boyfriends about celibacy and the temptations of the flesh..."

Oh, and 50k dead is not beautiful. Maybe you might say the Gettysburg Address was a beautiful piece of oratory to commemorate the situation. And, Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves was killed by a traitor for doing that.

Some of the things wrong: If you go to PA to talk to a PA audience that is 2.5 hours away from Gettysburg... that would be like going to I dunno, Detroit to talk to people about Muskegon. If you talk to a PA audience about Gettysburg maybe celebrate the fact that the Union was saved there. Maybe not celebrate the confederate general who if he had only been better at his job might have been smarter about his disposition of forces. And General Robert E. Lee was a confederate general and therefore a traitor. Of course he wouldn't be in favor. Lee was not a leprechaun and didn't talk like he was worried about people stealing his gold. He lost his great general? Not at Gettysburg he didn't. He might have meant Stonewall Jackson who died in May 1863. Notable: Lee was never Bill or Ted from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" or a member of the Bluth family from "Arrested Development" and therefore did not say "Wow, that was a big mistake" Also, Lee ordered Pickett's Charge and the assaults on Little Round Top and Culp's Hill so he definitely did want his troops to fight uphill. Biden meanwhile just spent his Saturday night in the situation room of the White House coordinating with multiple allies and defeating an Iranian attack. He has been assembling coalitions in response to the threat to Taiwan and Russia's aggression in Ukraine. He may be older, but he's not a drooling adderal-sniffing idiot.

This is legendary stupidity