PGV.... seems to me, whatever that is worth, you consistently fall prey to the narrow menu Bill gently warns against. You are choosing from the narrow menu of either Putin good-Ukraine bad or Putin bad-Ukraine good. You have clearly chosen sides- Putin bad, but you give no evidence that you have even considered Bills main point... it is a defective menu and the truth is not on it. Both sides of the menu are equally false (covid is weaponized coronavirus vs naturally occurring, either Putin is bad or Ukraine/NATO is bad, “if we could just pass the Republican agenda” vs “if we could just pass the Democrat agenda”... A slightly broader view demands that we consider the possibility that all of these narrow menus are a distraction from understanding the core issue being obscured by such passionate debates. As I read Bill, I think he believes the core issue is that the money is going. And when the money goes, “everything goes”. I fear he is correct
Ah yes, the challenges of raising cattle. I know it well having done it for the past 60+ years. Unless the bulls were in very close proximity to each other or there were physical signs of a lightning strike where each bull was found, I respectively suggest the bulls be examined for alternative causes of their demise (gunshot wound, toxic plants, clostridial disease, etc.). Good luck and Best Regards.
I'm looking forward to updates from the ranch in Argentina. I enjoyed those very much last year. It's such a different world, like going back in a time machine to the old west.
Have a hard time reconciling the analogy of Canadian truckers and Putin invasion. Were any public officials or people in Canada intentionally murdered?
Perhaps a closer review of the Emergency Act would be beneficial such that it would put it in context as to its legality and subsequent approval by a majority vote in Parliament.
In any case the 'freedom convoy' is now the subject of lawsuits that would bankrupt most of the participants.
It would also be useful to understand the manifesto of the protest which was to dissolve Parliament and have the country run by a protest committee plus the Senate and Governor general...thereby stealing the votes from the Canadian voting public.
In other words Bill, the start of an autocratic committee. Sounds good?
Friday February 25th I spent 9 hours at a hospital undergoing tests. 80% of the time was just waiting, done in a room that had a TV tuned to Fox News. (I don't watch TV news generally.) This was in the first couple of days of the Ukraine invasion, and throughout the day news on that invasion was the only news presented. I think there was once a brief, maybe five minute, segment on national USA weather. All the rest was on Ukraine. My conclusion: All the varied news that could and would have been presented on a normal day, in the absence of a Ukraine invasion, must pretty much be useless drivel, not worth mentioning if 'real' news is suddenly available.
With respect - on this one you should have thought before writing this nonsense
What was The West supposed to do?
Just wring their hands and lament at the UN ?
( drop these silly Hillary remarks- the woman is history)
Yes sanctions are a fairly blunt sword - and as a non- yank I hate how the US has used it in the past - but , short of risking a nuclear war, doing simply nothing was hardly an option in these outrageous circumstances .
Putin is punching way above his weight ( the GDP of Texas is 25% bigger than Russia ) an incredibly large country but a relatively economic minnow ( as they would say at your French abode ):
I too will not and cannot post my resume: sworn to secrecy for life. The Russian businessman part is probably "fake news". You don't advertise those kinds of things, whether you are in Russia or not. Putin will be taken care of, one way or another. Just saying. Florida Jimmy.
AMIGO nice to hear you're heading back to the pampas to enjoy life with the originaros .. once they get better PR and backing from Putin/Syria/Venezuela/ consortium they'll be taking what was always there's and always should be .. and gringo capitalists are only good for the ovens eh .. no laws no rules no ethics morals just the law of the gun .. hope you have some big ones!
Too bad you don't play golf, Bill. I would love to spend about four hours with you driving my "Titleist v-8" into the woods, the water, and the sand bunkers.
Keep it up! First let me say that I've enjoyed reading your analysis of daily happenings, thank you. I read the energy, money, and trust. Was really tracking with your reasoning and getting into the logic and then you showed me a picture of a dead cow, a bull to be exact as was evidenced by the photos from different angles. You really know how to brighten ones day; the world is going to hell in a hand basket, inflation, war, but here's a cow that was so unlucky as to be hit by lightning. At least the lucky cuss didn't see it coming. Would that we could be so fortunate. Have safe travels.
PGV.... seems to me, whatever that is worth, you consistently fall prey to the narrow menu Bill gently warns against. You are choosing from the narrow menu of either Putin good-Ukraine bad or Putin bad-Ukraine good. You have clearly chosen sides- Putin bad, but you give no evidence that you have even considered Bills main point... it is a defective menu and the truth is not on it. Both sides of the menu are equally false (covid is weaponized coronavirus vs naturally occurring, either Putin is bad or Ukraine/NATO is bad, “if we could just pass the Republican agenda” vs “if we could just pass the Democrat agenda”... A slightly broader view demands that we consider the possibility that all of these narrow menus are a distraction from understanding the core issue being obscured by such passionate debates. As I read Bill, I think he believes the core issue is that the money is going. And when the money goes, “everything goes”. I fear he is correct
Ah yes, the challenges of raising cattle. I know it well having done it for the past 60+ years. Unless the bulls were in very close proximity to each other or there were physical signs of a lightning strike where each bull was found, I respectively suggest the bulls be examined for alternative causes of their demise (gunshot wound, toxic plants, clostridial disease, etc.). Good luck and Best Regards.
I'm looking forward to updates from the ranch in Argentina. I enjoyed those very much last year. It's such a different world, like going back in a time machine to the old west.
Have a hard time reconciling the analogy of Canadian truckers and Putin invasion. Were any public officials or people in Canada intentionally murdered?
Perhaps a closer review of the Emergency Act would be beneficial such that it would put it in context as to its legality and subsequent approval by a majority vote in Parliament.
In any case the 'freedom convoy' is now the subject of lawsuits that would bankrupt most of the participants.
It would also be useful to understand the manifesto of the protest which was to dissolve Parliament and have the country run by a protest committee plus the Senate and Governor general...thereby stealing the votes from the Canadian voting public.
In other words Bill, the start of an autocratic committee. Sounds good?
Friday February 25th I spent 9 hours at a hospital undergoing tests. 80% of the time was just waiting, done in a room that had a TV tuned to Fox News. (I don't watch TV news generally.) This was in the first couple of days of the Ukraine invasion, and throughout the day news on that invasion was the only news presented. I think there was once a brief, maybe five minute, segment on national USA weather. All the rest was on Ukraine. My conclusion: All the varied news that could and would have been presented on a normal day, in the absence of a Ukraine invasion, must pretty much be useless drivel, not worth mentioning if 'real' news is suddenly available.
Bill
With respect - on this one you should have thought before writing this nonsense
What was The West supposed to do?
Just wring their hands and lament at the UN ?
( drop these silly Hillary remarks- the woman is history)
Yes sanctions are a fairly blunt sword - and as a non- yank I hate how the US has used it in the past - but , short of risking a nuclear war, doing simply nothing was hardly an option in these outrageous circumstances .
Putin is punching way above his weight ( the GDP of Texas is 25% bigger than Russia ) an incredibly large country but a relatively economic minnow ( as they would say at your French abode ):
Il pete plus haut que son cul
Bon voyage
Christian
I too will not and cannot post my resume: sworn to secrecy for life. The Russian businessman part is probably "fake news". You don't advertise those kinds of things, whether you are in Russia or not. Putin will be taken care of, one way or another. Just saying. Florida Jimmy.
In the Putin verse Ukraine something does not add up? The Cow picture you have a Big problem &it is not Russia .
AMIGO nice to hear you're heading back to the pampas to enjoy life with the originaros .. once they get better PR and backing from Putin/Syria/Venezuela/ consortium they'll be taking what was always there's and always should be .. and gringo capitalists are only good for the ovens eh .. no laws no rules no ethics morals just the law of the gun .. hope you have some big ones!
Too bad you don't play golf, Bill. I would love to spend about four hours with you driving my "Titleist v-8" into the woods, the water, and the sand bunkers.
Keep it up! First let me say that I've enjoyed reading your analysis of daily happenings, thank you. I read the energy, money, and trust. Was really tracking with your reasoning and getting into the logic and then you showed me a picture of a dead cow, a bull to be exact as was evidenced by the photos from different angles. You really know how to brighten ones day; the world is going to hell in a hand basket, inflation, war, but here's a cow that was so unlucky as to be hit by lightning. At least the lucky cuss didn't see it coming. Would that we could be so fortunate. Have safe travels.