That 0.7 Stone for the rest of us non-SI unit types…
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This has been such a propaganda bonanza for America that even aliens come in ahead of China.
Though personally I don’t fear aliens as much as I fear some humans.
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Not with those big teeth!!
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Maybe it’s all the balloon/UFO talk?
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Gonna be an awesome couple of nanoseconds as we stare into the heavens and see the initial glow of the death ray.
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Our first meet was at the Tucson Art museum where Mel was showing his photos ( he was avgifted photographer). I met Paul. He asked what I was doing aside from working. " remodling my kitchen " I said. It was true out of body cuz for two hours he and I applied thin set mortar to tile and built the surface of my sink counter. Three days pass and i see him in my grocery store. He was with Linda and his daughter Heather. I saw a look of recognition in him and he then pointed at me and said “tile”!. We laughed about it. I think he appreciated that I dudn’t harp on his celebrity.
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He’s part of a show that opens on Friday and runs till May.
it’s at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near the Tunnel
Road exit.
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Moldovan President: Putin Plotting Against Us
Moldova, a small former Soviet republic sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, is concerned about an attempt by the Kremlin to subvert its government and create a Russian client state in its stead. Earlier today, Moldova’s President Maia Sandu described a plot by Russia to infiltrate saboteurs and agents to create chaos and attack government facilities. The Associated Press reports:
"Moldova’s president outlined Monday what she described as a plot by Moscow to overthrow her country’s government using external saboteurs, put the nation ‘at the disposal of Russia’ and derail its aspirations to one day join the European Union.
President Maia Sandu’s briefing comes a week after neighboring Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country had intercepted plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova, claims that were later confirmed by Moldovan intelligence officials.
‘The plan for the next period involves actions with the involvement of diversionists with military training, camouflaged in civilian clothes, who will undertake violent actions, attack some state buildings, and even take hostages,’ Sandu told reporters at a briefing.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly a year ago, Moldova, a former Soviet republic of about 2.6 million people, has sought to forge closer ties with its Western partners. Last June, it was granted EU candidate status, the same day as Ukraine. [snip]
She defiantly vowed: “The Kremlin’s attempts to bring violence to our country will not succeed.”
For roughly 30 years, Russia has militarily supported the pro-Russian Moldovan breakaway province of Transnistria, stationing 1,500 troops there on its border with Ukraine. Putin no doubt sees an opportunity to turn Moldova into a friendly base – like Belarus – for potentially launching attacks into Ukraine. He also would like future membership of Moldova in the European Union and potentially NATO to be off the table.
Moldova’s in much of the same situation that Ukraine was in prior to Russia’s attacks. We and our allies have no mutual defense treaties with them, they have a desire to be part of the West, and they have a minority ethnic Russian population that Russia asserts needs its “protection.” Whatever intelligence and material support we can provide to head off Russia’s subversion would be wise.
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I’ll be glad to, but I am learning how to use my new laptop, so it might take me a bit.
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It will be a spiritual enlightenment ray man!
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Well, the resignations a few days ago were now clearly the results. Looks like that was to head it off.
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Do you mean this one? I would be 
as well…
Thank you for being willing to try!
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Money makes the world go around…
They’ll be back.
The Dems in the Virginia Senate have once again slapped down Youngkin. He got off on the wrong foot with them early on in 2022, just after he was sworn in, when he vetoed a bunch of bipartisan bills with Dem sponsors because the Senate had refused to confirm his appointment of Andrew Wheeler (former EPA chairman under Trump) as Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources. There’s been tit for tat between Youngkin, the House Republicans, and the Senate Democrats ever since.
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I will have to use the desktop computer
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