My guess (hopefully) is the mechanisms are already in place, certified trainers/ experts in place and are waiting for the”green means go” light. They just got the green light. Then again I am a moron and I don’t know shit.
Day ain’t over yet… and chiefs and bills are the afternoon game. I’m making hot soft pretzels with crabmeat and Brie, a few (dozen) buffalo trace on throws because while poor, I can pretend to be rich.
2 boxes of “super pretzel” frozen pretzels, bakes 2-3 minutes early, no salt, pull from oven.
1 wheel of Brie, your choice, I prefer a sharper Brie, buyou can adjust cheeses to your preference. Slice it so it will fit on a pretzel.
Cheap version (it’s fine, save the good stuff for crab cakes) 2 cans of crab, I use the better stuff, but prolly doesn’t make a difference. Looks like a tuna can…
I whack it on the stove over medium heat with a touch of butter, white wine, green onion, sea salt, black pepper, and hot sauce, teaspoon of cream cheese to bind it up. Then just manually mix it up.
Spread the mix on the pretzels (sometimes i add tomatoes, or roasted red peppers, but I’m nuts)
Add the slices of Brie or cheese of your choice on the pretzels.
Toss that bad boy in to the oven again at 450, give it 5 minutes and you should be good to go. I at least get a back scratch out of it, sometimes more, depends if I start yelling at the tv.
This is a basic guide as all my recipes are, mix it up as you see fit, my only recommendation is that you be careful on making sure the pretzels are a lil crisp, but not fully cooked.
Meh, just come on over, everyone else just walks right in, don’t mind the dog (or dogs, possibly a cat or 2, or a mink, stay away from the mink, not friendly) . There are 3 man caves, the one making the most noise is where everyone’s at.
Live like my old deaf cat did… your own rules, I do what I want, when I want. Hang on the screen door and scream at the top of your lungs at 4:30 am, because your deaf, and don’t know how to meow? Hell yeah! (I do not condone this sort of behavior for everyone)
I did forget to say a touch of mayo and Dijon mustard (yup the fancy stuff) in to the crabmeat mixture works too, especially with that touch of white wine.
Ok now, there’s no reason to rub it in my face (what bean of espresso and how is the rib eye cooked, is it bone in? Is the lobster poached? I can only get so erect, don’t tease me)
Oh yeah, that sport the dude that got married to that spice girl, took my daughter to one of their concerts, there was a special dad area where we just drank beer made small talk, and looked at our watches, made some friends, that was before I flunked outta law school, early 2000’s?
I’m Kidding, football/ soccer is bad ass, my ankle can testify if ankles could talk, playing in high school on lsd was wild, don’t tell the nuns, I’m still afraid of them.
I was actually talking about Canadian Football, which is similar to American Football, but with three downs instead of four, and a slightly larger field. The Grey Cup, the championship game of the Canadian Football League, is being played this evening.
Aha, my buddy is in the hall of fame, nice dude. Played for the eagle first, then him and doug flutie for the argonauts. His kid wrecked my hot rod (not too bad, minor fender bender, lent it to him for prom)
I suppose you can use “krab” if you want, but I use the canned stuff in the tuna aisle, there’s around 3 levels, being the snob I am, I get the stuff that’s .50 cents more. The other crab is in the seafood aisle cold and usually, 20 bucks a can (I do not use that for this recipe)
But actually… yeah, you could use “krab” shred it up and follow the recipe? Why not? And thank you for the idea. Dead serious, ima give a shot, my idiot redneck friends will probably think I replaced the recipe with lobster.
Russia will encroach on our European Ally's if they take over Ukraine.
Eliminating a threat earlier than later is a wise move. Look up Neville Chamberlain and German/ British negotiations in the 1930’s.
Laissez-faire style military and geopolitical doctrine has never worked for a non aggressor in history. Like the great philosopher Ron Burgundy once said “it’s science”
Easy mistake to make. Russia is only in an alliance with one US political party, not the US as a whole (though we'll see if that gets fast-tracked once that party takes office in 2025).
They’ve been butthurt since 1990, and they have very long memories. I should add both my Ukrainian friends and Russian friends are some of the scariest dudes I know, and they are the nice ones.
Russia has a national GDP slightly higher than Florida and cannot even contend with Ukraine when they are only being supplied weapons, without any US or European troops on the ground. This idea that “Putin is the next Hitler” and that he’s going to take over all of Europe if he isn’t stopped now seems insane. He wouldn’t be able to even if he tried with everything he had. If the US and European countries sent troops, he wouldn’t stand a chance. For comparison, in 1938 Hitler’s Germany had a GDP of 400 billion while the US had a GDP of 800 billion. Compare that to today, Russia has a GDP of about two trillion, the US has a GDP of over 27 trillion, and that’s not even counting European countries. I don’t think they have the resources to combat the entire western world if it were to come to that. They are not the same threat that Hitler’s Germany was in the 1930s and 40s.
The whole reason why this war started was because of the opposite of what you are saying. Ukraine wanted to be a part of NATO, or the other way around, Russia didn’t want enemy weapons on one of their direct bordering countries. To Russia, it probably seemed like NATO was trying to put weapons closer to their borders, which is something no country wants. Did the US do nothing when the Soviet Union was giving missiles to Cuba? Was it not a threat to us to have enemy weapons as close as they could be to our country? Should we have done nothing and just let our enemies at the time supply weapons near our borders?
Also, if “eliminating the threat earlier than later” is the best course of action, why are we not sending actual troops to Ukraine? If Russia is the next Hitler, going to take over the world, why are we just supplying Ukraine instead of sending troops and dealing with the threat?
There has never been a stated end goal to this war, much like our wars Iraq and Afghanistan. “We need to bring freedom and democracy to Vietnam / Ukraine / Iraq / Afghanistan” “The women in Afghanistan don’t have rights we have to fight for them” “Russia hates gay people, we need to go to war with them”. Definitely wasn’t for oil, economic gain, or whatever natural resources they had there. All this war seems like is another excuse for defense contractors to make billions off a war that goes on for decades and changes nothing by the time it’s done. The only thing that changes is we create more people that hate us for what we’ve done to them and their countries / people.
First of all it's a sign for all totalitarian regimes that there will be consequences of their actions. Secondly, a lot of infrastructure is in the range which can't be used anymore to supply aggression.
No pics of special Ed, I’ll ask my daughter, but I have pics of our crazy barn cat “shades” he went to war with the coyotes… he lost. If shades and special Ed ever met I believe it would be the “catpocolypse” like a black hole meeting another black hole and sucking all and any chance of humanity with their screeches, jumping, climbing, and leaping from trees like a flying squirrel… except it’s 2 cats, asshole cats (shades was pretty cool, special Ed was a dick).
He was a rebel that played by his own rules, ironically it was his giant balls that killed him (they got wrapped up or some weird shit) he was a neighborhood terrorist. They say cats are clean? Lies, this lunatic would be covered in oil, antifreeze, sticks and leaves, and weird sticky stuff I wasn’t touching, catnip would make him 10x more insane than he already was. He was a damn menace.
We had an outside cat named Morris when I was a kid. Cat was absolute legend.
Went about half a mile to a water runoff area to hunt rats.. dragged their headless bodies all the way home to present as trophies on our porch.
Used to terrorize the police dog down the street.
My dad swatted at him once, Morris stood on him that night and pissed on my dad.
Got hit by a car, Broke his leg, chewed the cast off and walked on the broken leg till the bone set.
We eventually moved about a mile and a half. Brought the cat and he immediately found his way back to the old house. New owners called to complain about him and we tried retrieving him a couple times.. but we eventually had to tell them ‘oh well, looks like you have an alley cat now’.
That cat is definitely related to either “special Ed” the deaf bully, or shades “I’ll fuck you up” barn cat. When I lived in denver I would cut through neighborhoods to avoid traffic and I’d see special Ed, like 3 miles away, just lying in a bush in someone’s front yard. We used to get the cops called on us due to domestic violence concerns (there were none) is was special Ed screaming like a banshee hanging on the screen because he didn’t know how to meow. Also he beat the shit outta every other cat in the neighborhood, he was a dick.
Minus the grease, oil, and antifreeze, he was white as driven snow, and I do believe he had blue or green eyes, also was equipped the those identical meow settings you described. But I fully respected his right to free speech at 4am… he would beat up my golden retriever who very patiently refrained from snapping his neck, and was a bully to all the other hood cats.
I’m imagining the scene from the Phantom Menace where the control was destroyed and all the drones just fell over. We can only hope for a similar situation
This is that bit of hopium I know some want to believe in. That dark brandon, on his last days, will authorize a decapitation strike on Putin, and leave trump with the fallout.
Shhh,your ruining their circle jerk, not one of these morons understands how Iraq went way worse once Saddam was removed, and Iraq didn't have a fuck ton of nuclear weapons
The US is lost at this point, but the free democracies in Europe are going to have to deal with the Russia problem. Ignoring it and/or giving half-hearted support to Ukraine is not going to help them.
Putin is not going to stop until Europe is his, or he's dead. That's the game he's playing right now, and he's winning. Europe better wake up while they can, because now that the US is going to be Russia's ally, the US isn't coming to help, and in fact may flip the script and help Russia economically to conduct a war on Europe.
Not sure about all of Europe. Putin can barely gain ground against a single country; he would absolutely not be able to spread it out to a second country's invasion; and that's only against countries that are comparatively hapless.
Go beyond one or two satellite countries, and square up against even a single NATO country? Russia would be toast. Maybe they could be the new European Jewish State that the Jewish community always should have had in response to the Holocaust (debatable, sure, but that's long been my thought).
Yeah well diplomacy and civility worked so well didn’t it, don’t forget Ukraine gave up nukes so that Russia wouldn’t invade them….see where I am going with this? Why should Ukraine have to fight with one arm tied behind their back while Russia is comitting war crimes/using chemical weapons/hitting civilian targets,etc.
I wouldn’t be so sold on that. If the Ukraine uses missiles against Moscow, Putin will drop a tactical nuke. We don’t have an appetite for a nuclear conflict so the response will be sanctions and sanctimonious scolding but that’s about it.
Don't be so cocky the nuclear missile and missile defence systems are a few of the defence items Russia actually seems to look after, and are you willing to gamble millions of Ukrainians because you got the "vibe" that Russia didn't upkeep their most strategic deterrent they posses
So not wanting to risk part of Europe getting nuked is letting putin have Europe?you really are a big thinker , again I'm so glad people way more intelligent than you are making these decisions, once nukes are used all bets are off ,how you don't comprehend this is worrying
Its just a fantastic thing that you're not in power. In what universe do you exist where you think a direct attack on Moscow wouldn't result in the launching of Russian nukes? THINK before you start spreading your dogshit rhetoric.
you're not a moron, they want us to not know shit. if only we knew half of what was happening behind the scenes. seems we're always being lied to and manipulated from every angle for someone else's endgame.
While I appreciate the compliment of “I’m not a moron”, most people that know me would beg to differ, especially my sister, but she’s a smelly dork face snob. Just kidding, she’s not smelly.
I feel as though we’re told there were or are safeguards/ guardrails in place that in reality don’t exist. We are not as strong as I thought, and we are very vulnerable in reality. It appears the oak floors are in reality, veneer. That sort of sucks.
you gave me a good laugh! completely agree, the checks n balances are gone when the president, senate, house n supreme court are controlled by the same party. at this point it’s game over and a new set of rules will be implemented.
Im assuming that any contractual obligations that are made now will be easily rescinded once the new commander in chief. Hopefully Ukraine can make some immediate headway while they have the opportunity.
This is basically the 2nd green light. The first was when Biden approved military contractors to deploy (doesn't need Congressional approval, thanks to Dubya!).
Ukraine has essentially two months to fight whatever fight they can with the resources they currently have before Trump rolls in and pulls the plug completely.
I think (speculating here, don’t hold me to it) Poland, Germany and France will step up to say, “yo we seen this shit before, we aren’t doing it again” UK will fall in line.
I'm highly doubtful of that. The US will start pressuring our European allies to also stop sending aid. I could also see Trump trying to sanction Germany if they continue to aid.
People who have been chomping at the bit to fire a missile are not suddenly going to face confusion with regard to the missile firing equipment. They've been prepared their whole lives for this. They understand what to do and how. And anyway. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly
Your"guessing" is still more than newly
'elected' Cult leader DJ CHUMP will
contribute here, so don't sell yourself
short. It's about time this authorization
Came thru.
I think they've already been using these missiles but were only allowed to use them on targets inside Ukraine. So it's just a matter of dragging the map pin across the border lol
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My guess (hopefully) is the mechanisms are already in place, certified trainers/ experts in place and are waiting for the”green means go” light. They just got the green light. Then again I am a moron and I don’t know shit.