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    2. That crow video is amazing. Yet you can put out a plastic owl and a call and shoot them all day.

  2. More “Things they’re feeding us”

    “90% of U.S. Cheese Contains GMO Made by Pfizer”

    “Rennet is used as a clotting agent to curdle the milk into cheese, separating the liquid parts of milk from the solids. Pfizer makes a genetically modified rennet, but because of a labeling loophole, cheese containing Pfizer’s rennet does not have to be labeled as containing a genetically modified organism.”

    More at

    https://www.theqtree.com/2024/03/06/gmos-cheese-oh-my/

    An interesting question for your cheese makers – IMO

    1. Interesting. Thanks. I live in dairy country but can’t remember the last time I saw a sheep. Non-human that is- Maybe 4H fair 30 years ago?

      A few years ago I would have skipped right past this.
      dismissed it without a second thought. But…After covid and The Shot, I’m paying more attention.
      Not going to stop me melting some modified bacterial cheese on a big plate of GM tortilla chips tonight.. but certainly worthy of more scrutiny.

    2. Ian, perfect example of regulations lowering standards and eliminating competition.

      It’s an intensive form of lawfare disguised as a public good and benefit for humanity.

      Pfizer really sucks.

  4. I remember being naive as a kid and assuming that movie stars were something special. I even thought that characters that made certain celebrities famous just might share certain qualities making them special. One of the first celebrities to ruin that perception for me was Raymond Burr. I enjoyed the Ironside series (even thinking that Burr was truly unable to walk at the time). I thought his antagonist role in Rear Window was one of the best understated villains in film.

    Back around that time I remember waiting in the line of a grocery store and biding my time by reading one of the tabloids….and there was an article on Raymond Burr. The article exclaimed that he made up stories about his past to gain sympathy. He claimed one wife died in a plane crash. His second wife and 10 year old son died of cancer. The strange thing was that he was never married. The article didn’t state it (because they likely didn’t know)….but it turned out Burr made up the stories to cover for being gay.

    Anyway, it was my first real exposure (and disappointment) to learn the fact that most of Hollywood is screwed in the head. So you could say Raymond Burr ruined Hollywood for me.

    1. Going to “The Show” as a kid in the 1960’s, I was pissed if the movie was in black and white when the “coming attractions” posters were all in colour. I learned to look for the “In Color” sign on the poster – if it wasn’t there, you were being scammed.

  7. For military buffs (if there are any left here): some speculations on what’s likely enabled Ukrainians to shoot down “a plane a day” for two weeks, which Flinny from 20000 BC confidently said they could take, but the Russians themselves decided that they couldn’t and stopped or scaled down their sorties.

    The one clever trick Ukraine uses to shoot down Russian planes
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/07/ukraine-war-russian-planes-shot-down-air-force/

        1. Not seen, but Australia sent theirs late last year. I dont think its a coincidence.

    2. This bit of info too

      It’s not possible to independently confirm all the kills, and it’s possible the real number of shoot-downs is somewhat lower – or even higher.

      1. Here’s the interesting part. The Russian Telegram channels would be the first to report su34 or su35 losses normally. They’d usually claim friendly fire. These would be matched by Ukrainian claims. But there would never be a Ukrainian claim without a Russian one.

        Once the intensity of shoot downs increased the Russians started mocking the Ukrainian shoot down numbers and stopped reporting on them.

        To me this points to one thing: it was always Ukraine shooting them down, and they have new capability in doing so. But the Russians don’t want to admit this.

      2. Majority of kills have been confirmed by both sides. Of the recent batch, there is only three or four kills claimed by Ukraine that were based on the loss of radar contact, at the predicted time of impact, alone. Previous such claims were later confirmed true by russian forces.

    3. “The development of IBCS isn’t totally complete, yet, but it’s close. The Americans haven’t deployed any major IBCS components yet, but the Poles have. And the Poles, it’s worth noting, are among the biggest suppliers of air-defense equipment to the Ukrainians now that Republicans are blocking U.S. aid.”

      This is a bit misleading. There has been no ICBS components installed yet, if by components we mean the system connecting and integrating the batteries to work together in the manner described in the article. The two (partial?) Patriot batteries (of the eight planned) and the two CAMM equipped batteries (of 20 something planned) are not yet plugged into ICBS. For now Polish Patriots work using the same radars as those supplied to Ukraine. In addition an interceptor site for the land based AEGIS has reach full readiness. This too will be plugged into ICBS, but for now, there is no Polish ICBS.

      Polish deliveries of air defence to Ukraine included very modern manpads the mighty Piorun (arguably world’s best and certainly NATO best) and a lot of old junk both gun and missile the ubiquitous ZU-23-2 guns, some Kub and Osa short range missile systems and even ancient Neva and Vega SAMs. None of this with the possible exception of Vega fits the bill re A-50. I am increasingly leaning towards Ukrainain air force getting their hands on SM-2 missiles, ridging them onto their fighters and firing them in with control of ground based radars. Which would be spectacular …

      1. Yes, that author (David Axe) is more than a bit of a BSer (that’s why I said “speculation”). His articles can make an interesting read, but should not be taken as a reliable source.

        By the way, believe it or not, there are now reports of the Russians strapping rocket motors to their glide bombs, something I said would be possible to do, but hardly cost-effective. I wonder, how much it increases their range and whether they would be able to implement it on the mass scale.

        1. I heard that. We will see how these will work. Such mod will increase the thermal signature thus making them easier to spot. The game of action reaction continues.

          1. I always thought the glide bombs themselves would be susceptible for attack by the LPWS (Land Phalanx Weapon System), but apparently it never happened, whether because Ukrainians have requested it or weren’t given it. I imagine, it should be easy to develop a system that would isolate the bombs from the other stuff in the air based on their speed and trajectory. When close to the target, they should be slow enough to attack them with projectiles.

          2. The problem with LPWS is that they are relatively immobile and short range. They are by design meant to offer the last ditch capability when protecting a high value target like warship not to protect field fortifications. I don;t know if they were used at all on the front lines.

          3. Actually, they can be very mobile (the HEMTT platform can carry one and it’s been done). For a town the size of Avdiyivka, you don’t really need a lot of them).

          4. True, you don’t need many but how long will it last given the number of artillery shells flying? You can’t position them well behind town because the effective range is only slightly above 2km. So you have to place very large soft target near direct fire range of attacking enemies and within artillery range. I am not saying it is impossible but not easy for sure.

        1. “Never, keep the cash cow going.
          Sorry to say.”

          Same here. Saddest part is that they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.

          When the Ukrainian people have seen enough of their sons, daughters, sisters and brothers die while they watch the rich get even richer, this will come to an abrupt end. Zelensky and his corrupt cabal will take their ill-gotten gains and either flee the country or die.

          1. As I have said before, you’re visibly deteriorating. Your original prediction of a peace on Russian terms was hardly justified and certainly worthless (because you wouldn’t give a deadline), but at least it didn’t sound too foolish. This, on the other hand… If you don’t get the help you need, people will start thinking you’re the same poster as “Kahane Tzadek” or something like it before you know it.

    2. Well we know what his position on Sudetenland in 1938 would’ve been. Appeasement of thugs never works.

      1. “Well we know what his position on Sudetenland in 1938 would’ve been. Appeasement of thugs never works.”

        Nor does dying in an unwinnable war for a futile cause.

      2. So, what would have been the effect of declaring war on Hitler in 1938? Would it have provoked the second coming of Christ, and an army of angels would have defeated Hitler magically? Would we have seen the phony war, the occupation of the North Sea coast, and the collapse of France one year earlier than we saw them, and Hitler attacking Russia in collaboration with Poland? Who would have benefitted, and how?

      3. Applies double to thugs who cannot prosper without conquest. Any ceasefire would only mean time for russia to regroup and attack again from a better starting position, while resettling more people from Caucasus and Asia into occupied territories (a process well underway and as old as russia). Pootin’s plans are to wipe out Ukrainian nationhood, carve Ukraine into pieces and turn what is left into Belarus 2.0. Witness recent trial balloon by Medvediev https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/26354625/vladimir-putin-dmitry-medvedev-russia-ukraine-future-map/ … some would rightly call it genocide.

    4. “It is clear that there is no military solution to the #RussiaUkraineWar.”

      Yeah, that was pretty evident over a year ago….unless you’re a Simpleton ™, that is.

      (they don’t do math very well)

      1. What could a living walking embarrassment that confidently said Russians could take their aerial losses of a plane a day just a couple of days before the Russians themselves decided they couldn’t and ceased their sorties (or at least severely reduced their intensity) possibly know about math??

        If you ever tried an IQ test, I’m pretty sure you scored below 90 on your first try, though you probably tried it again and again until you manged to get over 100.

        1. “What could a living walking embarrassment that confidently said Russians could take their aerial losses of a plane a day just a couple of days before the Russians themselves decided they couldn’t and ceased their sorties (or at least severely reduced their intensity) possibly know about math??”

          (…says the Simpleton ™ who just confused math with political will. So precious!..;)

          1. Actually, it is “math” and not “political will”, duh. If they could replace their planes and pilots as fast as they were losing them, they would have continued.

    1. Yea quite the contrast:

      2022: Mounted Toronto Police trampling actual Canadian citizens.
      2024: Toronto Police Now, a wholly owned subsiduary of the Muslim Brotherhood.

      Thank a Liberal

      1. Agreed, the Toronto police were probably waiting for Trudeau to engage the crowd with the Emergency Measures act and it never came.

      2. Actually this has been going on for quite a while.

        In the spring of 2005 I was walking on the west side of Queen’s Park Circle.

        On the grounds of the Ontario legislature there was a small group of protesters with signs of the Iranian Ayatollah, there for his 1979 made up holiday of “Al Quds Day”. They were shouting, “death to America”, “death to Israel” and a few times “death to Jews”.

        There were two TPS officers accompanying them.

        Two hospital staff, from the hospital wear they were clothed in, shouted back “shame” and the police crossed the 3 lanes of traffic to threaten the two hospital workers to leave or they would be arrested. The hospital workers were in no way threatening, they weren’t even physically large, one was Philipino and yet they were threatened with arrest, not those across the street shouting for “death” who the police obviously heard the shouts of.

    1. Great!

      With this new law I can file complaints and have everybody who verbally assaults me online by using the wrong pronoun, permanently put under house arrest, if not in jail!

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