New Russian Military Training
Health Status Update
Latest Symptoms Log entry:
4 MAR 22: After 3 years of going through all the medications, surgeries and rehab, it seems I’ve finally arrived at a steady physical state. Still struggling with the psychological aspect of re-calibrating my life, figuring out what I can and cannot do, how long it takes to do what I can, and trying to prioritize necessary activities. Not yet sure where the Cannabis hyperemesis threshold is. I’m using at a rate about half what I was before that episode. Some clues point to real success with the weed. I’ve noticed not always grabbing for the cane every time I get up after medicating. The paralytic muscle sensation clearly diminishes with THC. Neurontin has a similar effect, but also seems to make me dizzy. CBD certainly helps with sleep. I’ve noticed a few episodes of REM sleep coming back over the past couple months. There’s a whole world of nuances in the strains I can’t really distinguish except to say the Indicas seem to work better on radiculopathy, for me. C-Spine decompression stops the arms from going numb during the night. That is a big sleep loss factor. Skipping decompression just one session immediately begins a slide back into the overnight arm numbing. i have to be real careful with small, spillable stuff because there’s almost no sensation in my hands anymore. I’m doing an average of 2 hrs/day various PT stuff, mostly foam roller and decompression. Still pretty miserable, but I can see a way forward.
Stonekettle Station
Just a friend’s incoming re-posted to start the day. All corporate media, both social and broadcast cannot be trusted. Independent sources are the only people to be taken seriously.
The State of U.S. Politics
So this is what it’s come to: A couple of stupid cunts spend the evening heckling the CIC during his SOTU address. BoBitch belongs behind bars for her role in the coup attempt, and MTG must be so cognitively dissonated, her appetite’s trying to make up for it. Fuck these stinking GOP whores. They’re probably too stupid to even know what they’ve been put up to, and certainly foolish enough to think they know what they are doing.
A friend recently mentioned to me they thought American politics today was a “shitwich.” It’s like I’m real hungry, but just can’t eat any more of this crap. Time to change the menu.
Frozen Russian Asset
Webasto OAT
It’s starting to look like the diesel heaters have a maximum exhaust pipe length somewhere between 5 and 10 feet. They seem to be doing fine now with good air filters after cleaning and running without the exhaust extensions and WMO for a couple weeks. I’ll get back to the WMO at some point if they stay good until spring like this. We’ll call this the (O)perational (A)cceptace (T)est phase.
Overall tho, I cannot recommend these things. The Chinese build quality is just horrible, resulting in numerous pitfalls. They can be installed and run safely and reliably by a competent handyman. But the potential safety issues overrule this system for most people, IMHO.
The are a few different ways these things can kill you with carbon monoxide, fuel leaks and resultant asphyxiation and fire. The worst problem I found was a loose plug in the injector chamber. Don’t know where it went or exactly when it fell out, probably the 1st time I cleaned it. You could easily have a fire on your hands if that let go running.
Under the best conditions, like other portable heaters or anything of this nature, they should never be run un-attended. Long-term longevity seems doable, being the simple device it is. Fan and pump are the only moving parts. If you can get them setup and running right and follow some simple safety precautions, they should be good. That setup part is going to be a challenge for many people – it was, for me.
Putin vs. Zelensky
Don’t know much about Putin’s nukes, but ours are always on high alert. It’s all about perceptions in politics.
Zelinsky is a Badass
Yesterday’s address from Kyiv gave this conflict a very different flavor from what we’ve recently seen in this type scenario. We saw that Afghani fuckwit just disappear with a carload of cash when the going got tough over there. Zelinsky is the real deal. Putin is gonna have alot of dead soldiers on his hands.
Time to “de-Militarize” Russia
One of the characterizations Putin made to justify his little imperialist adventure was a move to de-militarize Ukraine. Fair enough. We’ll just have to do this the hard way – like North Korea. And if China wants to formally join the axis, more power to ’em!
Authoritarianism is alive and well, for the time being. World War II in Europe ended right next door to where WW-III is starting. One of the things they just don’t get is economics. Capitalism and Democracy sure have their drawbacks, but at least we can make alot of money and weapons with ’em. Good luck, mutherfuckers.
With Oil ‘n Gas underpinning an already small, shaky economy, and renewable energy coming on strong, there’s gonna be alot of hungry Russians next winter. If they thought they were losing money to Uke petro deals before, they got another thing comin’ now.
Russian Vodka
Abbot and several other state-level fuckwits once again took advantage of an opportunity to demonstrate their dearth of common sense while patting themselves on the back:
It’s easy for the Texas Trump-sucker to decree whatever he likes and look good doing it, up against the fearsome Russian bear and all, right? Why doesn’t he ask them to stop stocking it, instead? Because he’s a moron who doesn’t think things through for anybody but himself. Things like abortion bans, power generation, etc, etc.
Now he just robbed his small businesses of how much more?
Mother Russia
You’ve been warned.
A Brief History Lesson
Testament to a Historic Truth
Mike Dense made a reappearance to enlighten us with some fascist wisdom in a Faux News interview recently. According to Pence, “weakness arouses evil,” blaming Biden for the Russian aggression in Ukraine. Sitting idly by while that bloviating fleshbag and his goons destroyed the country, emboldening Putin every step of the way showed strength? Waiting his turn at the wheel, who is he to talk about weakness? This POS is as much if not more to blame for this travesty than anyone else.
Might he be referring to the weakness of releasing all those Taliban from Bagram in his so-called “Peace Deal?” Maybe it was a weak reference to Russian bounties paid for Americans in the ‘Stan? Or possibly the notion that only he was the anointed one to save the country from Trump at the 11th hour?
Mike Pence is a testament to historically epic stupidity and political corruption. Rot in Hell, you traitorous cocksucker.
Putin Just Committed Political Suicide
That’s not a good thing in the near term. On the contrary, the prior Russian status quo, being by no means comfortable for anybody, would have been preferred to the Ukranian carnage now in progress. As bad as it gets, Putin may see worse himself, sooner than anticipated. Xi is probably prepared to carry him for awhile. How long that ends up being depends mostly on how much imperialist adventure the Russian populace including his well-heeled buddies, can tolerate.
The pundits all mention how Vlad and the ruling class have plenty of cash and gold on-hand. That doesn’t buy much or last long in a paralyzed country burying soldiers at an alarming rate. Might be longer than you’d expect in some other cultures, but everybody has a bullshyt tolerance level, and some things you just can’t hide and lie about.
And That’s the Way It Is
Mouth-breathing MAGA hillbillies don’t want news and journalism.
Watch it Unfold in Real-time
I remember the young Airman 1st Class epiphany when I fully learned and understood the concept of Realtime. In the context of software, it represents the most mission-critical sensitive programs supporting life-saving and life-or-death decisions. It underpins the systems in contemporary cars with all sorts of driver-assist networked whiz-bang tech.
It’s what’s happening in U.S. government NOW.
