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Putin attacks all over the Ukraine
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Football club bans players who have taken the coronary vaccine
[RESETT] The owner of the Romanian football club Steaua Bucharest has sensationally announced that the club will ban all players who have taken the coronary vaccine.

Gigi Becali - a Romanian businessman and politician - said he no longer allows vaccinated players to play because they "do not have the energy", writes the Daily Mail.

Becali claims that people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus die in hospital, in contrast to those who do not want to take the coronary injection.

He also claimed that players at Romanian rivals CFR Cluj and Rapid Bucharest are struggling after the players have been vaccinated.

- You'll laugh, but I may be right. The vaccinated lose their strength. It is scientific, he said according to the Romanian journalist Emanuel Rosu, writes Daily Mail.



he also has a clinic that provided free ivermectin for basically anyone that asked for it.
Becali also recently said that Steaua Bucharest striker Claudiu Keseru - who returned to the club in August after six years in the Bulgarian team Ludogorets - can no longer play at a high level because he was vaccinated.

In Romania, only 40 percent of the population has taken the coronary vaccine.

The authorities in the country have stated via a post on Facebook where they write that football players who are corona vaccinated do not lose energy or strength, in response to a statement to Becali.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/24/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This football coach is an idiot - Keseru 'can no longer play at a high level' because he's 35 years old. Why do you think Ludogorets let him go?
Posted by: Raj || 02/24/2022 9:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I just really don't look to any aspect of soccer for meaningful lessons about life.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2022 9:38 Comments || Top||





#7  These days I can hardly even follow the Raiders. What do I care about Romanian soccer?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/24/2022 13:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, for one, Steaua Bucharest makes the playoffs.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/24/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Scholarships for "Dirty Jobs"
[Townhall] Mike Rowe Scholarship Highlights the Lost Virtues of Hard Work and Sweat

Several months into her education, Wilson found out about the Work Ethic Scholarship Program from the Mike Rowe WORKS Foundation. The program provides financial support to students enrolled in trade school training programs who have demonstrated a continuing commitment to personal responsibility, a positive attitude, and a strong work ethic.

"I was like, 'Hey, I am a huge 'Dirty Jobs' fan,'" she said of Rowe's wildly popular Discovery Channel show, in which he does every trade job created that makes the clocks, trains, planes, and automobiles run on time and keeps your toilet flushing, too. Rowe made a reality show out of unglamorous yet essential jobs that make everyone's lives safer and more comfortable. He brought to the forefront not just their existence but also the value these jobs have for the people who do them.

For generations, high schools have geared young people to apply to universities and colleges. They have largely ignored and dismissed trades as either beneath them or not part of achieving the American dream.

As a result, many young people obtained expensive degrees that have few job prospects, and their debt lasts them well into their 40s. This has also created a culture that has lost its connection with the value and appreciation of skilled labor and the joy of getting your hands dirty.

"But everywhere I went on 'Dirty Jobs,' I saw 'Help Wanted' signs. It slowly dawned on me that high unemployment did not necessarily stem from a lack of opportunity. I remember being surprised to learn that 2.3 million jobs were open when the unemployment rate surpassed 10%."

When a financial reporter at the Wall Street Journal asked his take on how such a skills gap could exist during times of high unemployment, Rowe shared his theory.

"Much of society had waged a war on work," he said. "And I talked at length about the stigmas and stereotypes that surrounded many of the jobs we featured on the show, along with the myths and misperceptions that keep so many people from exploring a career in the trades."

On Feb. 23, Rowe's scholarship application process opens for 2022. Across the country, there are thousands of Tracy Wilsons out there attending community colleges, trade schools, and apprenticeship programs, eager to show their value, even when so many do not acknowledge it. Wilson encourages anyone who is even remotely considering applying to do it.

"Not just for the money -- which was nice by the way -- but because you also get to experience expressing and understanding the importance of work," she says. "It is a virtue we don't value enough in society, but we can change that one job at a time."
I worked with engineers for 30 years, then with construction dudes for 15. Good folks.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/24/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First job at 11 shoveling out the neighbor's pony stalls. Then car wash, steel mill, pizza delivery and aerospace/defense. Now at 70 Ah'm back to shoveling stalls.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2022 6:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Part of the consequences of allowing the education establishment convert post elementary school education into a feeder system for colleges. Back in the 60s a lot of schools had skill programs, aka 'shop'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2022 6:30 Comments || Top||


#4  The administrator class decided that shop class was "a lawsuit waiting to happen" also... Besides if you don't go to college you will be 'stuck in Iraq'.
Posted by: magpie || 02/24/2022 12:48 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Is Putin's Next Target the Baltic States?
[PJMedia] Who's next?

IMO Kazakhstan. Look at a map - adjoins the most targeted part of Ukraine. Resource rich. Home of Russia's spaceport. Not subject of any NATO or similar treaties. At risk of Chinese co-option (Uighurs are essentially eastern Kazakhs.)

Combine that with our exodus from A'stan. Add in the meetings today between Russia and Pakistan.

What have I missed?
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/24/2022 13:45 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What have I missed

North Korea and their excursions to Africa.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2022 23:36 Comments || Top||


NYT reporter suggests Putin didn't take military action under Trump because he was unpredictable
[FOX] The New York Times' chief White House correspondent said Wednesday on MSNBC it was "a good question" of why Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in the military operation in Ukraine under the Biden administration, and not under Trump.

Former President Trump said Tuesday that Putin's aggressive actions in Ukraine would never have happened while he was president.

"I know [Putin] very well. Very, very well [and] ... this never would have happened ... had I been in office, not even thinkable," Trump said.

New York Times reporter Peter Baker said, "[Trump] said yesterday ’this wouldn’t have happened when I was president,’ or somehow he was too tough ... It is a good question whether President Trump was volatile enough that President Putin didn’t know how he would react to, you know, something more aggressive in Ukraine."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2022 03:25 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't forget, that under Trump we were a energy exporter and not buying Russian oil. We set the price of a barrel, not the outside world. That's called having them by the balls.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2022 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2  They said the same thing about Ronald Reagan. Unpredictable. Not a potato like Biden or commie-symp like Barry Soetoro
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2022 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  How about a mandate to send every journalist to Ukraine to report on the batlles.
Posted by: Chris || 02/24/2022 9:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Anyone who is arguing we have skin in that game while letting our own border be a joke can go f*ck themself.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2022 9:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Anyone remember the base which got thumped in Syria(?) after the (very questionable) Chemical Weapons use?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/24/2022 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6  How about a mandate to send every journalist to Ukraine to report on the batlles.

Too bad the battles won't last much longer.
Posted by: Jatle Sinatra9653 || 02/24/2022 15:08 Comments || Top||

#7  NYT reporter suggests Putin didn't take military action under Trump because he was unpredictable

A feature, not a bug. However, being the NYTs, it might have been a criticism of Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/24/2022 15:34 Comments || Top||

#8  I do wonder if all of the Trump is a crazy warmonger nonsense from the left gave Putin the idea that maybe there is something he doesn't understand/know about Trump.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/24/2022 19:23 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Donald Trump: 'China's going to be next,' will ‘absolutely’ invade Taiwan following Russia-Ukraine crisis
[Yahoo News] Referring to the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Trump praised Putin as a “genius” and stated that “China is going to be next” under Biden’s watch.

In a recent interview with the conservative talk radio program “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,” former U.S. President Donald Trump confidently stated that “China is going to be next” and would “absolutely” be going after Taiwan.

He accused the Biden administration of being weak and assured the hosts that an invasion would “never have happened” under his own presidency. Trump also praised Putin as a “genius” for sending Russian troops into Ukraine under the guise of “peace keepers.” He stated, “Here’s a guy who’s very savvy.”

The hosts mocked President Joe Biden’s tweets from two years ago in which he wrote: “I’m the only person in this field who’s ever gone toe-to-toe with [Putin].” They claimed Russian invasions also took place under the Obama administration, suggesting the two leaders had weak positions on foreign policy.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/24/2022 00:45 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Trump should quiet down.

Taiwan is an island and an invasion by China is a different kind of conflict than the Russian action in Ukraine.

Also, calling Putin a genius is not very helpful. Yes, it is true that Putin can out think Biden but then so can most 3rd graders.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/24/2022 9:38 Comments || Top||

#2  I agree your Lordship. The less said right now the better.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2022 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump gonna Trump. He has no other mode.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2022 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  These are the same comments that were shown yesterday to be sarcasm, DM-cherry-picked and context stripped.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2022 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  OK, then. Putin can whip our asses and subjugate Ukraine because he's a dumbass.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/24/2022 10:20 Comments || Top||

#6  How big a dumbass does that make us?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/24/2022 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  How big a dumbass does that make us?

Not much really.
I doubt there is anything that could have been done(reasonably) to stop Putin from invading Ukraine. The countries share borders and Putin has a well funded modern military. The west could make it hurt more but not prevent the invasion.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/24/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#8  When is Brandon gonna sanction importing Russian oil? That's really hurt them in the pocketbook! And the US.

By the way, why are we importing Russian oil?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/24/2022 10:31 Comments || Top||

#9  When do they drop the GBU-Vindman on Moscow?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Violates the Geneva Convention, as well as the Sausage Codes
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2022 11:05 Comments || Top||

#11  Regardless he's right. And we all know it.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/24/2022 11:37 Comments || Top||

#12  By the way, why are we importing Russian oil?

Because, as Biden said in 'his' speech, we are controlling fuel cost support for our allies by issuing them our strategic reserves. Giving them the $25/bbl oil and buying the $99/bbl oil from Russia.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2022 17:32 Comments || Top||

#13  Carter nullified the 'Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty' to appease Communist China, so there is no defense pact in place for the US and Taiwan. See 'Goldwater v. Carter'.

Carter's 'Taiwan Relations Act' removed defense from the equation, so the US has no legal standing
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/24/2022 18:44 Comments || Top||

#14  Bringing enough troops over to Taiwan to occupy would be a bigger feet than Normandy invasions. China would have to level Tiawan to be successful and three gorges dam is still a highly vulnerable target that Taiwan would hit before they went down.

Posted by: ruprecht || 02/24/2022 19:53 Comments || Top||

#15  Taiwan has to nuke up, and quickly.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 02/24/2022 20:01 Comments || Top||

#16  If they haven't already
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2022 21:24 Comments || Top||

#17  Payne: Why did the US import Russian oil at record rates last year?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2022 22:08 Comments || Top||


Economy
Carney: The Ukraine Crisis Is not the Cause of Inflation, High Gas Prices, and Supply Chain Issues
[Breitbart]

Related: 'You can have a margarita, but it will not cure Bidenflation': Ron DeSantis mocks Jen Psaki's telling 'angry' Americans to drink and slams the highest inflation since 1982
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  ...yep.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2022 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  5, 4, 3,2 1 Next it's the Orange Man's fault.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/24/2022 15:37 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Life may actually flash before your eyes on death - new study
Google Sync!
[BBC] New data from a scientific "accident" has suggested that life may actually flash before our eyes as we die.

A team of scientists set out to measure the brainwaves of an 87-year-old patient who had developed epilepsy. But during the neurological recording, he suffered a fatal heart attack - offering an unexpected recording of a dying brain.
Must.not.post.Joe.Biden.references...
It revealed that in the 30 seconds before and after, the man's brainwaves followed the same patterns as dreaming or recalling memories.

Brain activity of this sort could suggest that a final "recall of life" may occur in a person's last moments, the team wrote in their study, published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience on Tuesday.

Dr Ajmal Zemmar, a co-author of the study, said that what the team, then based in Vancouver, Canada, accidentally got, was the first-ever recording of a dying brain.

He told the BBC: "This was actually totally by chance, we did not plan to do this experiment or record these signals."

So will we get a glimpse back at time with loved ones and other happy memories? Dr Zemmar said it was impossible to tell.

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has all sorts of useful visuals.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Foreshadowed by this classic story
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 02/24/2022 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Skidmarks’s Daily Mail post on the subject stacked with thkis BBC article. Just before I deleted the other post, Crazy Fool commented:

Backing it up to external storage.
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-02-24 00:24
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/24/2022 0:28 Comments || Top||

#3 
I wonder what Hillary Rodham associates all see?

'The first time I shook hands with that bitch!!'
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/24/2022 2:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Alternate answer to questionasked in #3:
“So THAT’s what a speeding bullet looks like, head-on….URGGH”
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/24/2022 13:24 Comments || Top||

#5  loved ones and other happy memories

Optimist
Posted by: KBK || 02/24/2022 14:21 Comments || Top||



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