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Breakfast was good. Fresh blueberry pancakes, serviceable coffee, and a very friendly waitress AND I got some cheap toys from the clearance section for the grandkids.
A+++. Would dine there again."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln
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I love Waffle House. Get the same thing every time. Double order of hashbrowns with cheese, onion, and a side of bacon.
Douse the hashbrowns in hot sauce and enjoy. Good stuff.
But I’m a breakfast food lover."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln
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Originally posted by AlabamAlum View PostI love Waffle House. Get the same thing every time. Double order of hashbrowns with cheese, onion, and a side of bacon.
Douse the hashbrowns in hot sauce and enjoy. Good stuff.
But I’m a breakfast food lover.
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Tine Turner has passed. She was 83 and had been ill post Kidney transplant with rejection, intestinal and stomach cancers for at least a year, probably more.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
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There were two shadow organizations, the Russian Volunteer Corps and Freedom of Russia Legion, named as units that crossed the Russian-Ukrainian boarder into the Belgorod Oblast of Russia. The Russian MoD has been careful to characterize the incursions as failures with the FSB (responsible for boarder security) along with the regular army driving the invaders back into Ukraine. Today, MoD prese releases show US manufactured military vehicles along with assertions that these show the heavy involvement of the west in supporting Ukraine (no shit).
Ukrainian and US spokespersons continue to deny they had anything to do with the attack. The most interesting commentary is coming from the milbloggers and, not surprisingly, Prighozhin of the Wagner PMC, warning that the neither the political elite or the Russian army are prepared for these kinds of challenges. He adds that unless the Kremlin and Russian MoD get their act together in Ukraine, they will "face a revolution." First it will involve disaffected professional soldiers, followed by their families and other civilian nationalists forming a core of resistance to the current government of Russia.
Prighzhin notes Putin's silence on the incursion is strange. An article I read today at Meduza written by a Kremlinologist and Putin expert now living and writing in Europe reports Putin's silence is intentional as he prefers to work secretly behind the scenes minimizing the war in Ukraine to the public by not commenting much on it and carrying on as if he is the head of the Russian state simply carrying out his routine duties. The author remarks that Putin believes western resolve will ebb, that Russia will outlast that fading resolve bringing about the collapse of the Ukrainian state. She also believes political elites inside the Kremlin infrastructure are getting impatient, want a quick success in Ukraine, an end to the fighting and a return to the way Russia was before the invasion.
Maximillian Andronnikov, the self-proclaimed commander of the Freedom of Russia Legion posted a video on line today outlining the goals of the incursion to be to bring the war in Ukraine to Russians, create fear that Putin cannot protect the Russian state and to demonstrate that Russian boarders are undefended. This will create a circumstance where the Russian MoD will have to augment sparse FSB resources with regular Russian army soldiers drawn from those already deployed inside Ukraine. There were also two other significant operations, one, unmanned drone speed boat attack against a Russian intelligence collecting ship in the Black sea fleet and an airborne drone raid from Southern Russia into Russian territory. Military analysts offer that all of these events could be shaping operations for a future Ukrainian counter offensive. Others believe Ukraine is more likely to continue to execute smaller, highly impactful operations like these designed to weaken Putin's resolve under pressure from his courtier and to bring him to the negotiating table without the ridiculous preconditions he continues to assert.
The two organizations claiming responsibility for the Belgorod incursions have been around for a long time. They are comprised of nationalist Russians who are opposed to the Putin regime and have been involved in other plots within Russia to sow discord and weaken Putin's hold on power. They don't get talked about much and their impact may be a minor one with Putin not taking them seriously. They're getting a lot of press but I can't say what we hear from western sources about these groups is what the Russian public hears from state censored and controlled news. Good article outlining their history here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...itias-belgorodMission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
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