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Eagle Rare, here. With an Oliva V smoldering by its side. Listening to Miles Davis (Ascenseur pour l'echafaud) with Purdue-Iowa on the TV with the sound off. Mancaves (converted garage, lol) are awesome. It’s goddamn outstanding to be an American.
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Might be Purdue’s best team under Painter but given that it’s Purdue it’s hard to shake the feeling they’ll bounce out in the Sweet 16Comment
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AA- Your thoughts on Sketches of Spain?Comment
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It’s very good. Moody. Ascenseur pour l'echafaud is my fav album with Kind of Blue and Birth of the Cool at 2 and 3. I love everything he did prior to 1961. 1961 and after is a mixed bag. I’m not a fan of Bitches Brew, for example, no matter how popular it was.
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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Before you read this Ukraine update, be aware that I'm biased to any news that depicts the Russians having their asses kicked by Ukrainian forces .....
I posted a couple of days ago that a new Russian ground offensive appeared to be underway. It is believed to be westward oriented with two divisions (normally that would be a shit ton of troops and equipment) focused on breaking Ukrainian defenses on the western side of this front I described from Savatove in the north and Kreminia in the south. Centered on the offensive thrust is a small town of Vulehdar.
Reports from milbloggers I trust indicate the offensive thrust is a cluster fuck. Video evidence of this is posted on one of the Twitter feeds I follow. You may recall an incident in early summer where a Russian regiment sized unit tried to forge the Dnipro river and got absolutely destroyed trying to do it. Hundreds killed or wounded and dozens of armored vehicles destroyed or rendered unserviceable.
Well, it's happening again in Vulehdar on a two division scale of Russian forces (The Russian army does not have fully manned and equipped divisions due to battle attrition). The Russians mounted an armor heavy thrust across open terrain ideal for tanks to the west with supporting artillery and air assets - a true coordinated combined arms attempt - that was a disaster. As soon as the tanks encountered resistance from Ukrainian defenses, they turned tail leaving the troops they were supporting without armor support - the soldiers got hammered. Videos of MI24 Hind (ground attack helos) - getting shot down by the Ukrainians (or possibly from friendly fire) - are going viral.
Estimates from overhead imagery in the public domain indicate 400 Russian troops killed and more than that taken out of action by wounds; 30 tanks destroyed and dozens of BMPs laid to waste. The analyst consensus is that given the current state of the Russian army, they are incapable of mounting effective combined arms operations and this is nothing new. They were bad at it to start with when they had a full compliment of soldiers and equipment to man a true Russian division. Given attrition of experienced officers and hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed or wounded, it has become impossible.
None of this bodes well for the achievement of Putin's most recent orders to his generals to seize and control the entirety of the Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts by March 27th. Its not going to happen. It could if the Russian army could coordinate an armor intensive offensive but it seems to be pretty clear they can't in the face of well organized and equipped Ukrainian defenses.
The provision of jet "fighters" to Ukraine from the west is dominating the news reports. If that happens, none of them will be in the hands of the Ukrainian air force and operational in the near term (the next 3 months). So it's stupid to talk about their impact which is what analysts within the MSM are writing about. The real story is that the Russians are bad at war fighting and there is plenty of evidence that they are.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.Comment
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Don't worry...it was just a weather balloon...Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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“Elon’s not surrounded by throne-sniffers and taint-lickers. That’s just disgruntled employee kinda talk!!!!”
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O’Keefe’s fate at Project Veritas is reportedly being decided today.
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This Day in DeSantis:
Florida legislature expands Ron DeSantis' program to fly migrants to blue states
The measure, passed during a special session, formally creates the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program under the state’s Division of Emergency Management.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...rican-studies/
DeSantis Exposes College Board’s Apparent Deceptions on AP African-American Studies
Florida’s letter also contains a detailed chronology of communications regarding APAAS between the College Board and the FDOE, going back to January of 2022. That chronology casts considerable doubt on the College Board’s version of events. Florida’s chronology shows that the FDOE had been raising concerns since July of 2022 about APAAS’s compliance with the Stop WOKE Act. (The law went into effect on July 1, 2022.) So, while the College Board may have “largely” completed its APAAS revisions between September and December of 2022, Florida’s DOE had raised serious concerns about the course’s content long before DeSantis’s public remarks in January.
Florida House approves plan to give DeSantis new power over Disney
“There’s a new sheriff in town, and that’s just the way it’s going to be,” DeSantis said at Wednesday news conference.Comment
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DeSantis: I RUN DISNEY NOW. DISNEY BELONGS TO THE STATE. VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!! GLORY TO CHE! GLORY TO LENIN!
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STFUShut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Glad to see you're on board, DSL!! Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?!Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostComment
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DSL couldn't pick the winner of a one horse race...Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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