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sourmash
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FEB 19, 11:00 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by randye:
You need to read and understand the rules.
It's NOT a violation of the rules unless he accused you of monkey waxing along with toad licking.
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Yeah, I know. That's why I said it wasn't suspension worthy. But we've got our eye on him. If he makes one false posting move.....
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82-T/A [At Work]
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FEB 19, 12:01 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
Yeah, I know. That's why I said it wasn't suspension worthy. But we've got our eye on him. If he makes one false posting move..... |
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I think I was put on temporary ban many, many years ago... but I cannot remember. Probably in the months following 9/11.
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sourmash
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FEB 19, 12:06 PM
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maryjane
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FEB 19, 04:58 PM
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About 4 hours until closing ceremony of the games in Beijing.
If it's going to be played, sometime after the closing the bigger game can get under way.
Ukraine calls tails, loses the toss, Putin elects to kick it off...........
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Patrick
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FEB 19, 05:09 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
But we've got our eye on him.
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So are you on like what, a committee?
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sourmash
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FEB 19, 05:18 PM
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Patrick
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FEB 19, 06:20 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
Double secret probation.
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
It's double secret.
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So, does it take some sort of special membership here to be made privy to all these "double secrets"?
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rinselberg
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FEB 22, 04:07 AM
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| quote | On May 2, 1998, immediately after the Senate ratified NATO expansion, I called George Kennan, the architect of America’s successful containment of the Soviet Union. Having joined the State Department in 1926 and served as U.S. ambassador to Moscow in 1952, Kennan was arguably America’s greatest expert on Russia. Though 94 at the time and frail of voice, he was sharp of mind when I asked for his opinion of NATO expansion.
I am going to share Kennan’s whole answer:
“I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the founding fathers of this country turn over in their graves. |
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"This Is Putin’s War. But America and NATO Aren’t Innocent Bystanders."
Thomas L. Friedman for the New York Times; February 21, 2022.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...in-ukraine-nato.html
After the demise of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and its longtime NATO allies pursued a policy of rapidly expanding NATO eastwards, bringing Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia--all nations that had been part of the former Soviet Union or within the Soviet sphere of influence--into the NATO alliance.
William Perry, who was the Clinton administration's Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1997, argued against it.
"Russian hostility 'partly caused by west', claims former US defence head"
| quote | | William Perry says US contempt toward Russia as ‘third-rate power’ after end of Cold War played a big role |
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Julian Borger for the Guardian; March 9, 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com...artly-caused-by-west
I don't remember being apprehensive about it myself, but maybe if I had been "in the loop" when the policy was being argued...
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Wichita
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FEB 22, 05:46 AM
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rinselberg
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FEB 22, 06:07 AM
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"In the long run, wars make us safer and richer"
Ian Morris for the Washington Post; April 25, 2014.
https://www.washingtonpost....587891b57_story.html
I'm not "All In" with that. I think this is likely more significant. It may not be the polar opposite of "In the long run..." in its interpretation of history, but I don't think it's congruent with it. Or, to put it another way: hardly the same, but maybe not a full 180 degrees apart.
"Human History Gets a Rewrite"
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William Deresiewicz for The Atlantic; October 18, 2021.
https://www.theatlantic.com...ory-humanity/620177/[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 02-22-2022).]
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