71 Replies to “January 7, 2023: Reader Tips”

  1. “(Honest) Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former U.S. Secretary of State, will join Columbia University as professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and presidential fellow at Columbia World Projects (CWP). The news was announced today in a message to the community from President Lee C. Bollinger.”

    https://news.columbia.edu/news/hillary-rodham-clinton-join-columbia-community

    Columbia University just got smarter!
    This is the same university that The Messiah Barack Obama attended. Impressive accomplishment for Hillary Clinton, you have to be extremely smart to be a professyr.

    1. L – Helliary’s policy when Sec. of State, led to destruction and chaos in Libya and the
      re-introduction of the slave trade. Hence, how she earned the suitable nickname.
      Columbia’s campus police should add a necklace of garlic over their ballistic vests,
      based on the precautionary principle.

  4. A perfectly horrible song by Carly Simon & Schuster … but OMG! The BIG Lonnnggg Island hair of the 80’s … Holy!
    And geeze … look at the future stars named in the credits … EVERYONE … was in this film

    1. Kenji: Foofy hair was a thing. Ugly but brings back a few good memories. And the twin trade towers also appear in the opening credits. Who would have guessed then that one day Islamists (short for Islamic expansionists?) would destroy them?

    1. Disturbing. Sounds like the one short couple is starving their normal children to keep them small.

  7. Down The Primrose Path: Russia preparing to mobilise extra 500000 conscripts, claims Ukraine
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/06/russia-preparing-mobilise-extra-500000-conscripts-claims-ukraine

    This time they also expected to “close”, the borders to prevent another mass exodus of those who have enough common sense not to want to be used as cannon fodder, so with Russia being Russia I’m pretty sure that “border guard” will become the most prestigious (and highest earning) profession.

      1. You tell me; the only “Nazis” I know are Ruϟϟischeschweinazis.

        I don’t take the Ukrainians’ words for anything, but hey, we’ve seen a mobilisation in Russia already (sure was fun to watch), and their losses (e. g. several hundreds of “mobics” in a single strike in Makiivka alone) do suggest we’ll at least one more. BTW 500000 mobix = 2000 Makiivkas approx.

      2. Also, if you’re supposed to work with Indonesians, what are you doing on an English-speaking blog? And BTW, Bakhmut is still under Ukrainian control, thousands of dead Russians notwithstanding.

          1. Even if you didn’t write like a re:tard, it would still be obvious that you’re one, so if you’re doing it deliberately, you don’t have to.

        2. Thousands of Russians are dead… according to Ukraine. The reality of the situation is much different, now f off nazi pig.

          1. Nope, according to third-party sources. And, I repeat, Ukraine firmly holds Bakhmut; by now Russians have practically given up all attempts to seize it. That’s the reality you seem to challenge, but at least you do understand what Ruϟϟischeschweinazi means and where they should go and I agree about that.

          2. :: @$$ lives in St. Petersburg. Men in St. Petersburg and Moscow are exempt from mobilization. Two reasons – they are cowards and their moms won’t allow it. They send all the Chinese looking guys. Not only are Russians Nazis, they are racist too.

  25. https://tnc.news/2023/01/06/square-barber-payment/

    More harrasment of Convoy people by tech companies.
    “We recently reviewed your account, and found activity that our platform is unable to support,” the notice Square sent Barber said. “Because of this, we are sorry to inform you that your Square account is now deactivated.”
    They did not divulge specifics when asked, mentioning security reasons and pointing to the terms of service.

  32. ’bout an hour ago I poped into katewerk.
    ….”disturbance in the force” and all ..
    Still recovering. ..
    I don’t know if it’s my tendency to visualize people using the language they write… or the mirth of deserved net zero empathy.
    Gawd that’s funny. (drys tears, hits submit.)

  35. From Moon of Alabama Blog
    William Schryver aka imetatronink posted a Substack piece addressing the doubts of pro-Russian observers…

    Ok, Doomer
    Legendary Russian fatalism may be alive and well, but it will be ashamed of its doubts in the end.
    https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/ok-doomer

    I have struggled in vain for almost a year now to comprehend the frequently expressed fears of potential defeat from a great many Russian observers of this war – as though they are constantly haunted by a sense that inevitable humiliation is lurking in the shadows just ahead, and they’d best prepare themselves accordingly.
    The abundantly manifest facts of the ongoing NATO proxy war against Russia, as I have been able to ascertain them, are that Ukraine has now suffered approximately five hundred thousand irretrievable casualties and virtually the entirety of their original inventories of military hardware – the equivalent of ALL the personnel and equipment (both active and reserves) with which they commenced this conflict.

    Their military strength was partially reconstituted over the summer of 2022, infused with the best equipment NATO could spare, but which, in both quantity and quality, are simply no longer capable of being replenished.

    In addition to this substantial infusion of NATO armaments, several thousand “sheep-dipped” NATO soldiers appeared on the battlefield, mostly in the form of shock troops and technical specialists to operate and maintain the more complex systems such as M-777 howitzers and HIMARS rocket artillery.

    This partially rebuilt army has now been effectively wrecked over the course of the previous four months of futile – arguably suicidal – Ukrainian “offensives” against layered Russian defensive lines.

    We know this to be true because now the Ukrainian high command is desperately begging the west to provide it with yet a third fully equipped army to throw against Russia’s overwhelming firepower…

    From the perspective of this author and observer of events, and notwithstanding the fatalistic and often fearful inclinations of many who call themselves Russians, Russia simply cannot and will not be defeated in this war. Quite to the contrary, I am convinced it will emerge more self-confident, more self-sufficient, and more globally influential than it has ever been.

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