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and then actually causes something bad to happen though his overt acts.

My man. Xi has a big CCP congress meeting or Party for the Party if you will, in October. Basically its the trope of all those situation comedies when the wife has to prepare a flawless meal when the boss or bank manager is coming to dinner. Except in this case, Xi is probably dealing with a stacked deck and could have any individual complaining about his leadership sent to a reeducation camp.

This cannot stand He must be punished for this.

My immediate thought is that Xi is Hitler to Putin's Mussolini. XI is closer to Stalin than Hitler though. If he survives October that is.

Russia is spending a lot of theater weapons to kill some civilians

As I recall, the public water folks went with ozone water purification specifically to get away from large rail deliveries of chlorine. There was some confluence of the two critical vulnerabilities.

US passenger railcars and light railcars are tanks. This has been good for safety but bad for the cost of moving the peoples.

No, but I did have to do a report about kids who got stuck in water towers in NM and drowned and weren't found for a long time afterwards. Grim.

I used to work specific threats to surface transportation. It was fascinating. I got to work with the railroad industry security community group. They didn't like anything that would impact their insurance costs or stock prices so wanted every report to end with "we see no reason why the chlorine train shouldn't be routed through Manhattan" or whatever.

Railroads are profitable...very

The huge problem with the last 20-30 years since 1989 has been the slobbering adherence within political right to the comfort of the notion that capitalism = democracy. That definitely went on for too long wrt China. Made all the more clear as a problem by Xi's reembrace of central control of his State Owned Enterprises. With Russia, too much money crossed too many hands in the West.

lets hope they don't get along

We are going to find out that Aaron Rodgers is doing even worse stuff with public money, aren't we?

The Durham investigation ... what a let down for so many of the dead enders who think Trump is beyond reproach.

for all the "when will they overthrow Putin?" hot takes and suppositions that people make. Just remember Saddam Hussein was in power for a decade+ after having his ass kicked by the US in Desert Storm.

Hardees are the red neck version of the British Public House.

Every kid should have to clean up poop or food at some point in their lives.

Funnier still when you realize that Isabella Rossolini is the daughter of Casablanca star Ingrid Bergman.

Poor fella

The lady can dance and she's very smart

This seems way too optimistic

So, the atrocities and the war crimes....

The Fairfax GOP was once a gentle group of fine folk Then the loonies took over and...well, you know

colleague here in Northern VA says that while walking by the parking lot of a Mclean Little League field (Mclean is one of the gold-plated suburb where a lot of the DC types have their suburban abodes), that he watched Tom Cotton yelling at his 7 or 8 yr old son about lack of effort on the baseball field "Great Santini-style." My daughter's team plays a softball team on Saturday from Mclean. I wonder if we will see other congress people with that team as it rides up in its Bugatti team bus.

very enjoyable