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rinselberg
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APR 04, 08:34 AM
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williegoat
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APR 04, 09:57 AM
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[This message has been edited by williegoat (edited 04-04-2023).]
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williegoat
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APR 04, 06:00 PM
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MidEngineManiac
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APR 04, 08:59 PM
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Patrick
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APR 04, 09:23 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
...maple-syrup poutine
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Definitely not a west coast thing. Maple syrup nor poutine. Goes to show Canadian diversity... good, bad or otherwise.
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MidEngineManiac
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APR 04, 10:31 PM
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williegoat
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APR 04, 11:06 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
Guess this means we can now send them maple-syrup poutine duty-free 
(yeh, yeh, yeh, I know....try it before ya ***** about it )
(Yes, I am talking about fries smothered in cheese curds and beef gravy topped with bacon and green onions, then just the right helping of syrup on top. No, your follow-up artery-clearing surgery isnt included in the price. )
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Here you go: https://foodperestroika.com...06/vladimir-poutine/
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rinselberg
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APR 16, 11:29 PM
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I have the perfect musical rendition for Finland... or any other country on the occasion of their becoming the newest additional member nation of NATO. It's from "A Dangerous Man", which is a movie of recent vintage. This should queue it up to the start of the performance; hopefully, to the 2 minute 22 second mark. Takers (if there are any) may have to endure a product endorsement or something of that kind that would appear first.
https://youtu.be/BHLtJGPwh_U?t=142
 [This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 04-16-2023).]
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Valkrie9
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APR 17, 12:21 AM
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Nuke missile batteries poised
to strike hundreds of targets within Russia should Putin deploy nukes in Ukraine.
Far greater danger today than the '62 thing.
Thirteen Days
 [This message has been edited by Valkrie9 (edited 04-17-2023).]
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Valkrie9
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APR 17, 01:10 AM
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A relevant passage. originally in Russian.
' At no time has the world been without war.
Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years.
Neither the wisest of leaders, nor the noblest of kings, nor yet the Church — none of them has been able to stop it.
And don't succumb to the facile belief that wars will be stopped by hotheaded socialists.
Or that rational and just wars can be sorted out from the rest.
There will always be thousands of thousands to whom even such a war will be senseless and unjustified.
Quite simply, no state can live without war, that is one of the state's essential functions. … War is the price we pay for living in a state.
Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states.
But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings.
The state was created to protect us from evil.
In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand foci of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable.
The state is called upon to check these impulses — but it generates others of its own, still more powerful, and this time one-directional.
At times it throws them all in a single direction — and that is war. '
Father Severyan,
in November 1916: The Red Wheel: Knot II
[ p. 1984, translated to English in 1999 ]
~ Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
' ,Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. '
~ Leo Tolstoy
' Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool... '
~ Alexander Pushkin
' Turns out far too much has been written about great men and not nearly enough about morons.
Doesn't seem right . '
~Tyrion Lannister
fjb for the nuke war he'll start.
If you're not getting a clue to just how dangerous the political strategic position is, you may be ignorant of reality.
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