yeah... That's why they call them Opinion Pieces.

Trumpers are more 'easily excitable' than most Dem voters... they are going to have to be pretty worn out not to turn out.

"Moscow tested a conventionally armed Oreshnik " Russian for Hazel tree - against a target in Ukraine in November 2024. Putin boasts that it's impossible to intercept because of velocities reportedly exceeding Mach 10.

Putin plans to deploy the weapon "in Belarus to extend its range further into Europe," said John Foreman, an expert with the Chatham House who served as a British defense attache in Moscow and Kyiv.

Foreman said he also sees such a move as a reaction to the planned stationing in Germany next year by the U.S. of conventional missiles that include the intermediate-range hypersonic Dark Eagle.

The Oreshnik's deployment would come with only weeks left before the expiration of 2010 New START pact, the last U.S.-Russia treaty limiting deployments of strategic nuclear weapons by the world's biggest nuclear powers."

Sounds like it has more to do with velocity than range?

Quicker the better is what Mrs BJ always says!

#2

Glad you read it!

#18

In the 1980's a group of German music students in Univ there collected the formerly Banned original musical works of Jewish composers, many of them popular Broadway hits in NY, and are still playing them today.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear his intention to place intermediate-range Oreshnik missiles, with an estimated range of up to 3,400 miles (5,500 km), in Belarus, but the exact location has not been previously reported.

Deployment of the Oreshnik would underscore the Kremlin's growing reliance on the threat of nuclear weapons as it seeks to deter NATO members from supplying Kyiv with weapons that can strike deep inside Russia, some experts said."

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Obligatory:

Very optimistic, the idea that there will be a Pres Election in '28, but hey, I'll play along.

(Not posting snippets of the article because it's short and concise and deserves being read... and it's TheHill, so it's not radical in any direction.)

- He seems to have a real ------

How could anyone tell? Microscope??

Somebody did, it's at the thread link.

It's one of the reasons Blondi is whining so much about these vids.

- you sold the youth of America down the river.

Never happened. Read #2 as many times as it takes to penetrate your thick skull.

If you aren't too busy giving up your very DNA to the Chinese Ministry of State Security.

If you want to live longer, improve what you're eating and start moving your body more," said Dr. Linda Shiue, an internist and director of culinary and lifestyle medicine at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.

But knowing exactly which foods to eat for a longer life can be tricky. Shiue says that while no one needs to be perfect, it's important to fill up on "foods in their natural state, like whole grains, vegetables, fruits, fish, eggs and nuts."

By doing so, she said, we replace the "ultra-processed foods" in our diets, "such as shelf-stable foods that have refined carbs and high sugars, like white bread."

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And such as frozen food dinners and breaded meats that are also ultra-processed. Ice cream and frozen pizza (dammit!). I went 'veggie mostly' over 25 years ago... and never saw a doctor most of that time. Which was stupid, but still.

Of course, were we to overturn Citizens United, and all the laws that billionaires paid to have written for them, we prolly wouldn't need taxes like this one.

- Oligarchs Peter Thiel (59) and Larry Page (52)

(Musk-54)

Damn Billionaire Boomers!.... oh, wait: "Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are currently (in late 2025) between 60 and 79 years old."

Never mind.

NEW Strikes on Kyiv

"Zelensky says Kyiv strikes show Putin's true attitude' ahead of peace talks with Trump in Florida"

"It is called the illusory truth effect. Basically, this means that people are more likely to believe a statement is true simply because they've heard it or read it multiple times, even if initially they know it is false.

And Trump excels at this.

And I know that's kind of a strange thing to say that Trump excels at repeating the lies that he
wants people to believe, but he really does.

He will say things and then keep on saying them so many times that eventually people believe him. And more and more people on the right beginning to think that Donald Trump is this great truth teller even though he had a history being deceptive going back 40 years before even entering politics.

In fact, there was a poll back in 2023 that showed that Trump voters actually trust him more than they do their own families or religious leaders."

excerpt, vid and transcript at the link

"The agents then start to divvy up the man's groceries, as the bystander tells them they had previously detained and deported her husband.

"I ------- hate these -------------," the woman filming says as they drive off"presumably to the nearby Yakima ICE Detention Center.

Masked men abducting people and looting their groceries is unfortunately par for the course as the first year of President Trump's mass deportation campaign draws to a close.

"Fire their asses and arrest them for theft. If there were even a scintilla of decency at DHS, that is what would happen, but there isn't," political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote.

"Of course, when you have a leader who took $50,000 in a bribe in a cava bag, this is not surprising."

video at the article link

"Zelensky plans to meet Trump on Sunday for talks on ending Russian war
2 hours ago

Zelensky said he expected the meeting to focus on a US-brokered peace plan, and separate proposals for US security guarantees. But a senior Russian official said the plan was "radically different" to the one it was negotiating with the US."

"Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area

"In Jabo, we see Christians as our brothers. We don't have religious conflicts, so we weren't expecting this," he said.

Bashar Isah Jabo, a lawmaker representing Tambuwal in the state parliament, described the village to CNN as "a peaceful community" that has "no known history of ISIS, Lakurawa, or any other terrorist groups operating in the area."

He said the projectile had struck a field "approximately 500 meters" from a Primary Health Center in Jabo and that, while there were no casualties, the incident had "caused fear and panic within the community."

- Corky isn't wrong.

This is NOT news!

- (I'm the only one 'interacting with you,'shrimpsizedgenitalshiddenbyataco"Dan")

Shrimpdick is on one of my favorite Lists ever, this one:

"Status: user

Killfile: lfthndthrds, BellRinger, fortfisher, ScottS, shrimptacodan, easy_meat, sir_vicks, fishmarket, notmymonkey, john_savage"

Several times, actually. There's prolly only two or three troll posters there, and their socks.

(Occasionally I'll take one out and bonce it offa the wall a few times, but most of the time I'm happy not to have to read the same stupidity several times a day. Boring!)

"(J.D. Vance was not available for comment, but we are going to report on it anyway.)"

Good start!

Good article, short, but some more good subject commentary from the same author.

OK, first... I actually gagged a little when I read the thread title. And BJ isn't even here!

Recently saw the Pope had said this, and thought for the fourth or fifth time since he's been leading Catholicism from the Vatican that, gee, that's amazing... he actually knows what he's talking about when it comes to theology; Overturning the World Order is what the Christian Movement
(there's an argument that it's not really a religion) is all about, from The Beginning to The End Times.

As seen here:

Well, since no one is using this thread about Yahweh of the Elohim's Cunning Plan to Turn the World Order Upside Down; to replace the Elites with the common people...

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... I'll just put this nice Indie homey travel channel vid about Christmas in beautiful Vienna; Markets, Museums, and Ice Skating. They are usually on a beach in Sri Lanka or somewhere, but a married couple; him Brit/Brazilian, her Brazilian.... Jumping Places.

Last week was the same in Prague.*

(* see Europe while it's not covered in nuclear ash!)

How the long yet totally worthwhile article ends:

"Christmas Eve provides a much-needed break from politics, as children everywhere eagerly anticipate the arrival of Santa Claus, soaring south from the North Pole on his magical, toy-laden sleigh, getting as far as Milwaukee, where he and his undocumented reindeer are taken into custody by ICE.

So it has not been a stellar year. But it's almost over, thank God. It's time, at last, to put 2025 behind us and look ahead to the year to come, which is bound to be better, right? RIGHT?

Anyway, that's what we'll all be hoping for, as we gather on New Year's Eve with our friends and loved onesies to watch the big ball drop."

(cue dropping 2026 ball with Bernie's pic)

"Nigeria Clarifies What Really Happened With Trump's Airstrikes

The Nigerian foreign ministry is fact-checking Donald Trump.

The Nigerian government took the time to debunk President Trump's claims of Christian genocide in Nigeria after he announced the bombing of Africa's most populous (and most oil-rich) nation.

The issue with right-wing claims of Christian genocide in Nigeria is that terror groups and militias are killing everyone, Christians and Muslims alike. The Nigerian government, which says it provided intelligence to the Trump administration before the strikes, clarified what they were really about.

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"Nigeria has spent months attempting to clarify this point, as the right has spent months attempting to justify violent U.S. intervention to protect Christians"with Trump threatening to enter Nigeria "gun-a- blazing" just last month.

"This is not a Christian genocide, because the facts don't support it," Good Governance Nigeria researcher Malik Samuel said in November.

"If you look at the areas where this conflict is rife, even in the"even if you take Borno state alone, you look at northern Borno, many of these communities are Muslim-dominated. So most of the victims of Boko Haram violence are Muslims."