For the past four days, continuing to this hour I think, the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan are fighting and killing one another (at war? Can’t say, but could be). Pakistan is bombing Kabul and installations along the border, while Talibans are attacking and overrunning Paki border bases, capturing and killing Paki border guards. Much depantsing also. It doesn’t appear to be ending soon.
So many tsk-tsks given, so many “schades” uttered.
Ah, so much for the Muslim “ummah,” such a friendly place.
Trump intervened to stop the Pakistan-India conflict, but it may be we’d be better off to just let Afghanistan and Pakistan have it out, the only fly in that ointment being Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
Maybe POTUS Trump should leave those two to sort themselves out.
Oh… And about that dancing… I fell over just watching 😉
Was it Kissinger who said about the Iran/Iraq war something to the effect of “too bad it has to end.”
Let’s dance!! An uplifting little video. Don’t make war, just learn to dance together. Well, Ican dreamt, can’t I?
F:
I believe he said something like “Too bad they can’t both lose.”
Re: Dance video
He looks good but not brilliant. However apparently he’s picking up those moves on the fly and that ain’t easy.
I envy him.
If this video is true, everyone has been fooled by the people in Gaza.
Neo: I believe you’re right. I like my version better: as long as they’re at war with one another they won’t be making life difficult for us, while losing would allow them to turn their attention elsewhere. Either way, I would have to agree with him.
Liz:
“Everyone”? Not really. Hardly anyone here, for example.
because they want to keep the anonymous ‘sources’ game, going
I think it’s Snow on Pine that consistently presents information about UAP, and he/she might have already linked to this conversation between Jordan Peterson and Gary Nolan.
The first 3/4 of the conversation is about Dr. Nolan’s work– which is prodigious and I’m wondering why the title of the conversation. Nolan discusses his work for the US government on the Havana Syndrome and possible targeted microwave energy doing harm to government employees. It’s the last half hour that the tin foil hats appear. Only from a person of Dr. Nolan’s bone fides and accomplishments, it forces one to take serious the phenomenon observed from time to time over the decades/centuries.
As a believer in God, it isn’t a great leap to conclude this is likely an entire reality that moves in and out of our dimensions, but is not constrained by it. That would not be the conclusion Dr. Nolan would reach, but something is out there.
In The Lord of the Rings, when two armies of “bad guys” were fighting, someone (Gandalf or Aragorn?) said something like “The winner will emerge more powerful than either army alone.”
Some dances are esthetically gorgeous. Others are astonishing in the crazy moves the make. Looks as if there may be a future for a traveling orthopedic practices.
But the esthetically pleasing numbers were one or maybe zero. Crazy moves…good for you. And if it’s your culture…so’s your salsa and it doesn’t hurt my knees to look at the latter.
When I was a high school jock, maybe sixty-five years ago, the duck walk was beloved of coaches and usually tore up one guy’s knee(s) per season. I think it’s a capital crime to order that now. Or should be.
In jump school, we had to do eighty knee-benders, butt-to-boot, and then run a mile. The latter felt like wading in molasses. I feel considerably more fragile now, and wonder if they’re still dong the knee thing. You can get the same results running hard up hill.
But back to the dances…do your culture thing, folks. But the esthetic thing is what I like. As in…grace.
Richard, maybe your football or jump school training was really intended to bring you to a religious trance state [as are many dances], so you would not really mind banging up against other guys 30 pounds and 3 inches bigger than you; or to do something totally stupid like just jump out of a plane!!
Even those folks that just rappel down a building or out of a helicopter are amazing enough, let alone those of you who do the “say bye-bye to the airplane thing!!”
[I presume they tested the initial parachutes and their wrapping using a dummy, right? But at some point a real human had to volunteer to the first one to use it.]
R2L
I wasn’t the first, by a lot of years….WW1
And much of our OCS field training was in view of the drop zones for jump school, so we saw transports spewing trainees like, presumably, salmon spew eggs. One guy’s metaphor, anyway.
And we always had two chutes.
First jump, heading to the collection point, there’s a youngster with his main chute in his pack as required and his reserve gathered up in front–no pack for reserve. So on his first jump, his main failed and he pulled the reserve as taught, rode it down (harder to control than the main), landed okay, gathered up and set off for the collection point looking slightly bored. I really hoped I got that guy in my platoon eventually.
But the context is different. It’s …getmeoutofthisplanebeforeitgetsblownup. Crap! Here goes the command group. Now I’m in charge.
Jumping is a relief.
@Selfy:In The Lord of the Rings, when two armies of “bad guys” were fighting, someone (Gandalf or Aragorn?) said something like “The winner will emerge more powerful than either army alone.”
That’s often not the case in real life though. A few examples from the top of my head:
The Wars of the Successors, where Alexander’s successors consumed his empire fighting each other and it eventually got taken over by Romans, Celts, and Parthians.
The Thirty Years’ War, in which the Protestants and Catholics of the Holy Roman Empire destroyed each other, leaving France preeminent in Europe and with about 30% of the Holy Roman Empire’s population dead.
The War of the Spanish Succession, where Britain, the Dutch Republic, and the Holy Roman Empire fought France and Spain to keep the grandson of Louis XIV from becoming king of Spain. During 14 years many armies were destroyed on both sides and many bezillions of sterling were spent, and the end result was that the grandson of Louis XIV from became the king of Spain (as his descendants are to this day), and Russia used that time to defeat Sweden and become the Big Bad in the East.
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For the past four days, continuing to this hour I think, the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan are fighting and killing one another (at war? Can’t say, but could be). Pakistan is bombing Kabul and installations along the border, while Talibans are attacking and overrunning Paki border bases, capturing and killing Paki border guards. Much depantsing also. It doesn’t appear to be ending soon.
So many tsk-tsks given, so many “schades” uttered.
Ah, so much for the Muslim “ummah,” such a friendly place.
Trump intervened to stop the Pakistan-India conflict, but it may be we’d be better off to just let Afghanistan and Pakistan have it out, the only fly in that ointment being Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
Maybe POTUS Trump should leave those two to sort themselves out.
Oh… And about that dancing… I fell over just watching 😉
Was it Kissinger who said about the Iran/Iraq war something to the effect of “too bad it has to end.”
Let’s dance!! An uplifting little video. Don’t make war, just learn to dance together. Well, Ican dreamt, can’t I?
F:
I believe he said something like “Too bad they can’t both lose.”
Re: Dance video
He looks good but not brilliant. However apparently he’s picking up those moves on the fly and that ain’t easy.
I envy him.
If this video is true, everyone has been fooled by the people in Gaza.
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1978435180151878095
Neo: I believe you’re right. I like my version better: as long as they’re at war with one another they won’t be making life difficult for us, while losing would allow them to turn their attention elsewhere. Either way, I would have to agree with him.
Liz:
“Everyone”? Not really. Hardly anyone here, for example.
the question is why:
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1978495805385273781
we are a more curious lot,
this is probably why,
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-report-trump-secretly-authorizes-lethal-operations-in-venezuela-by-cia/
because they want to keep the anonymous ‘sources’ game, going
I think it’s Snow on Pine that consistently presents information about UAP, and he/she might have already linked to this conversation between Jordan Peterson and Gary Nolan.
The first 3/4 of the conversation is about Dr. Nolan’s work– which is prodigious and I’m wondering why the title of the conversation. Nolan discusses his work for the US government on the Havana Syndrome and possible targeted microwave energy doing harm to government employees. It’s the last half hour that the tin foil hats appear. Only from a person of Dr. Nolan’s bone fides and accomplishments, it forces one to take serious the phenomenon observed from time to time over the decades/centuries.
As a believer in God, it isn’t a great leap to conclude this is likely an entire reality that moves in and out of our dimensions, but is not constrained by it. That would not be the conclusion Dr. Nolan would reach, but something is out there.
“Something Non-Human Has Been Here A Long Time” | Dr. Garry Nolan | EP 563
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxVVz2Jorzk
In The Lord of the Rings, when two armies of “bad guys” were fighting, someone (Gandalf or Aragorn?) said something like “The winner will emerge more powerful than either army alone.”
Some dances are esthetically gorgeous. Others are astonishing in the crazy moves the make. Looks as if there may be a future for a traveling orthopedic practices.
But the esthetically pleasing numbers were one or maybe zero. Crazy moves…good for you. And if it’s your culture…so’s your salsa and it doesn’t hurt my knees to look at the latter.
When I was a high school jock, maybe sixty-five years ago, the duck walk was beloved of coaches and usually tore up one guy’s knee(s) per season. I think it’s a capital crime to order that now. Or should be.
In jump school, we had to do eighty knee-benders, butt-to-boot, and then run a mile. The latter felt like wading in molasses. I feel considerably more fragile now, and wonder if they’re still dong the knee thing. You can get the same results running hard up hill.
But back to the dances…do your culture thing, folks. But the esthetic thing is what I like. As in…grace.
Richard, maybe your football or jump school training was really intended to bring you to a religious trance state [as are many dances], so you would not really mind banging up against other guys 30 pounds and 3 inches bigger than you; or to do something totally stupid like just jump out of a plane!!
Even those folks that just rappel down a building or out of a helicopter are amazing enough, let alone those of you who do the “say bye-bye to the airplane thing!!”
[I presume they tested the initial parachutes and their wrapping using a dummy, right? But at some point a real human had to volunteer to the first one to use it.]
R2L
I wasn’t the first, by a lot of years….WW1
And much of our OCS field training was in view of the drop zones for jump school, so we saw transports spewing trainees like, presumably, salmon spew eggs. One guy’s metaphor, anyway.
And we always had two chutes.
First jump, heading to the collection point, there’s a youngster with his main chute in his pack as required and his reserve gathered up in front–no pack for reserve. So on his first jump, his main failed and he pulled the reserve as taught, rode it down (harder to control than the main), landed okay, gathered up and set off for the collection point looking slightly bored. I really hoped I got that guy in my platoon eventually.
But the context is different. It’s …getmeoutofthisplanebeforeitgetsblownup. Crap! Here goes the command group. Now I’m in charge.
Jumping is a relief.
@Selfy:In The Lord of the Rings, when two armies of “bad guys” were fighting, someone (Gandalf or Aragorn?) said something like “The winner will emerge more powerful than either army alone.”
That’s often not the case in real life though. A few examples from the top of my head:
The Wars of the Successors, where Alexander’s successors consumed his empire fighting each other and it eventually got taken over by Romans, Celts, and Parthians.
The Thirty Years’ War, in which the Protestants and Catholics of the Holy Roman Empire destroyed each other, leaving France preeminent in Europe and with about 30% of the Holy Roman Empire’s population dead.
The War of the Spanish Succession, where Britain, the Dutch Republic, and the Holy Roman Empire fought France and Spain to keep the grandson of Louis XIV from becoming king of Spain. During 14 years many armies were destroyed on both sides and many bezillions of sterling were spent, and the end result was that the grandson of Louis XIV from became the king of Spain (as his descendants are to this day), and Russia used that time to defeat Sweden and become the Big Bad in the East.