Alina Kabaeva, Retired Russian Gymnast, Russian Politician
Ms. Kabaeva may or may not be married to Vladimir Putin. Reports indicate he sired her three children. She reportedly spends most of her time at a nice place in Switzerland.
Perhaps Tucker asked him about her.
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Perhaps Tucker asked him about her.
As usual I missed it but I’ll go back and check out the Tucker Putin interview.
Well it’s Friday! Again.
Mornin’ Gang
Somehow I don’t think Tucker would have asked Vlady Poot Poot about his relationship with that lovely young lady. He’s much smarter than that.
I heard about the Hur report that declined to prosecute Joe “The Dip$#!t” Biden because he would come across to a jury as an elderly, well meaning man who is quite forgetful.
A talking head stated that he is either 25thed or he is prosecuted, you can’t have it both ways. It is obvious to any and all who care to look that FJB is unfit for POTUS due to mental infirmity, and that he serially violated the law by retaining all those classified records going back to when he was a senator. At no time prior to Bidet being installed did he have the capacity to deem those documents ‘de-classified’ while Trump always had that authority. Trump’s documents were in a locked room inside a secure compound guarded by the Secret Service, while Biden’s documents were in an unguarded garage and in an unsecured office suite shared with the Chi Coms. To continue to harass Trump while giving Biden a pass is too grave a double standard to be ignored.
Trump can now, quite successfully argue the double standard and unequal application of the law for purely partisan political purposes. Jack Smith should be hung by the neck until dead.
I’ve alwasy know that Micheal Steele is a weasel but I juts saw him on PMSNBC Butt Smouching them, discussing the FACT that Donald Trump is in total control of the Republican party. You see, the reason the Republians in the Senate didn’t go along with the disasterous “Keep the Border Open” Bill was to appease Trump NOT that the Bill stank so bad that no one wanted any part of it. I think Trump Derangement Syndrome has mastitisized and consumed their brains. They are deathly afraid of Trump and evrything they throw at him makes him stronger. BTW; Did you see Trump’s interview yesterday? The stupid Clowns in Colorado gave him yet another free political ad and photo op.
One last thing, I’ve not seen Michael Steele in a coon’s age but to see him on the Morning Joe Broads Show tells me that he has reached the apex of irrelevance.
My wife just saw a Gray Fox out by the tractor shed. He heard her beating around in the bathroom and looked toward the house and then ambled off down the trail and crossed the road. We see them occasionally but I have them on my game camera out back a lot. It’s set up in the edge of the woods along a terrace where we put scraps out for Foxes, coons and possums. Just after dark on Sunday my wife put some trash out on the back porch by the door since it was cold and she didn’t want to take it all the way out to the trash. 10 minutes later she opened the door and there was Mr Possum digging through the bag. FWIW; He was a big boy, might go 20 pounds. 😉
We were discussing Versa Tube structures the other day and when I think about them, I think of this.
There are a lot of these used as carports and also RV storage. They’re great for RV’s since they can be any size like 10′ X 40′ X 20′ H with or without sides or sides part of the way.
I knew there was Biden pressure on the auto industry about electric vehicles, but I now realize it’s driven directly down to the dealership level in ways I wasn’t thinking about.
It is anti-capitalistic and un-American to distort a free market this way. The election can’t come soon enough.
Oh, and by the way, Buick is dead. It just doesn’t know it.
Two Buick dealerships in Wyoming have jumped ship rather than sell electric vehicles.
Denny Menholt Chevrolet GMC in Cody and Yellowstone Motors in Powell have confirmed buyouts from General Motors as opposed to making the necessary investments to sell the Buick brand’s upcoming line of battery-powered EVs.
“If they had kept a strong mixture of [internal combustion engines] and EVs like GMC and Chevrolet, we would have kept Buick,” said Bert Miller, general manager of the Cody dealership.
Travis Montague, general manager of Whisler Chevrolet in Rock Springs, Wyoming, said he’s one of the last holdouts in the state to turn a cold shoulder on EVs.
EVs are not ready for prime time, Montague said.
The franchise manager said that he couldn’t justify spending $500,000 on EV tools, a power charging system and new lift the for the EVs that weigh a few thousand pounds more than a gasoline car.
“I can’t justify spending that kind of money and not realize a return on my investment,” he said.
The sentiment was the same elsewhere in the state.
This is from Financial Times and I take everything they say with a dose of skepticism.
Global investors expect falling prices in China to push down inflation rates worldwide this year, as excess capacity in its slowing economy prompts Chinese exporters to cut prices on goods they sell abroad.
Prices of Chinese exports have been falling at their fastest rate since the 2008 financial crisis, indicating the world’s largest exporter is starting to send deflation outward to countries that have been battling high inflation.
“China will be exporting deflation to the rest of the world, and you will find various countries dealing with the fact that China has built up overcapacity,” said Chetan Sehgal, lead portfolio manager at Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust, a UK-listed fund.
The major fundamentals driving inflation here are fuel, energy costs and food. Cheaper Chinese goods in Walmart and Target won’t be making a significant dent in domestic inflation.
This makes a lot more sense from Bloomberg. Chinese investors dumping commercial real estate in major urban markets will help inflation some in the US, but it could very well hasten the real estate crisis I’ve been predicting by depressing rental rates even further.
(Bloomberg) — Chinese investors and their creditors are putting up “For Sale” signs on real estate holdings across the globe as the need to raise cash amid a deepening property crisis at home trumps the risks of offloading into a falling market. The prices they get will help finally put hard numbers on just how much trouble the wider industry is in.
The worldwide slump triggered by borrowing-cost hikes has already wiped more than $1 trillion off office property values alone, Starwood Capital Group Chairman Barry Sternlicht said last week. But the total damage is still unknown because so few assets have been sold, leaving appraisers with little recent data to go on. Completed commercial property deals globally sank to the lowest level in a decade last year, with owners unwilling to sell buildings at steep discounts.
Regulators and the market are nervous that this logjam could be concealing large, unrealized losses, spelling trouble both for banks, who pushed further into bricks and mortar lending during the cheap money era, and asset owners.
The major fundamentals driving inflation here are fuel, energy costs and food. Cheaper Chinese goods in Walmart and Target won’t be making a significant dent in domestic inflation.
I would say the major driver is the bazillion bucks pumped into economy because of Kung-flu. It shows most in goods that are absolute necessities the most. Increasing fuel/energy costs drives the cost of everything up. Food (and housing) see the deepest and most sustained inflation because they are the absolute necessities that remain after people get priced out of all the discretionary stuff.
9 wagonburner
Of course, you’re right, but I was speaking of commodities rather than monetary policy.
Next week we’re flying out to Kalifornia to see the Boy and family and I decided I needed a new suitcase instead of the old hand-me-down soft sided one that I use when I fly. Wife researched it and we decided that we may as well get a larger one than the hard-sided nesting set that my wife has. When the smoke cleared I decided to get a new larger set for my wife and take her old set since she needs a larger bag than I do. The new one is much larger (29″ X 20″ X 12″) than the old one (26″ X 17″ X 12″) and should be great for my wife when she makes her solo plane trips. As a general rule she flies about 3 times a year but I only fly once a year. Oh and my wife has the packing down to a science, no carry-on’s allowed well except for a small bag. One last thing, MOST of the overhead bin users are MO RONS!!!! I’m really surprised that more of them aren’t killed, right there on the tarmac. 😉
I love headlines like this.
On Friday, strikes by U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers demolished 85 aimpoints at four Iran proxy militia target areas in Syria and three in Iraq. And they did it launching from Texas.
Problem is they did not bomb Iran. <<<<<<<<<< Easter Egg hidden here.
Buck is worried that there will be some inappropriate giant sexual thing. I am more worried about what I alluded to a few days ago.
The Houston Texans had players named both offensive rookie of the year and defensive rookie of the year, CJ Stroud and Will Anderson Jr. Head coach DeMeco Ryans just barely got beat out for Coach of the year. Andre Johnson was voted into the Hall of Fame.
Did y’all know that this is a leap year? 😀
Edward N. Luttwak has been an advisor to the US government for a long time. I don’t think they listen to him much. They should since he’s one of the smartest warfare scholars alive.
The overwhelming pessimism of all these television generals going on about how Israel was ill-equipped and unprepared to fight an enemy in urban street warfare struck me as incredible ignorance and nonsense. I’ve seen the same BS in Jewish publications from armchair commanders and it is sad and ridiculous. There are few armies in the world more skilled at this kind of combat than the IDF.
Why Israel Is Winning in Gaza
That is why, from the start of Israel’s counteroffensive into Gaza, almost all the media military experts, including colonels and generals festooned with campaign ribbons (though few if any had ever seen actual combat) immediately warned that Israel’s invasion of Gaza could not possibly defeat Hamas, but would certainly result in a horrifying number of Israeli casualties, before resulting in a bloody and strategically pointless stalemate.
That must be said and emphasized before adding that the actual number of Israeli soldiers killed in the counteroffensive until now is not in the thousands suggested by the beribboned skeptics who were gleefully echoed by the malevolent, but under 300 as of this writing. In other words, only a very, very small number, given the magnitude of the forces involved on both sides, and the exceptional complexity of the battlefield. By way of comparison, 95 U.S. Marines and four British soldiers were killed in the six-week-long, 2004 battle of Fallujah, the famous Pumbedita of the Talmudists but a small town, fighting some 4,000 Sunni fighters. In Gaza, estimates are that Israel faced approximately 30,000 trained Hamas fighters at the start of the war.
The sensational 1 to 50, or near enough, kill ratio achieved by the IDF in fighting Hamas in Gaza is all the more exceptional for reasons that neither official Americans nor official Israelis care to mention, albeit for different reasons.
The first is tactical and technical. Without saying more, it is fair to conclude from news accounts that Israel’s very innovative methods to surveil, penetrate, and destroy Hamas tunnels have been markedly and unexpectedly successful.
RTWDT.
Good morning, HamBoneDogs! I need to Get Crackin’ and head to Kroger. When I’m down to 2 cans of cat food in the house, I am amazed how little attention I’ve been paying lately…
Busy, busy this morning. Popping in so y’all know I’m still vertical.
In 2011, Tablet Magazine’s published a history of the the creation of the AFL, its merger into the NFL and all the innovations that followed. Tablet is republishing this article for the 100th anniversary of the NFL. There is a lot fascinating historical information I think every football fan would find interesting even if you’re an NFL-hater these days.
The short-lived American Football League, merged into the NFL after Super Bowl IV, invented the modern media spectacle that is pro football. And three Jews invented the show that was the AFL.
And Sid Gillman, Sonny Werblin, and Al Davis—three Jewish men—were among the AFL’s boldest and most creative innovators, and through the AFL had among the greatest impacts on the shape, success, and direction of the game you will watch on Sunday night.
and,
However, arriving in the AFL, Gillman noticed a few things. First—at least at its outset—AFL defenses were not quite up to the NFL standard and frequently played man-to-man coverage. Second, the actual ball was a Spalding J5-V, which was a quarter of an inch longer and slimmer than the Wilson model in the NFL, which made it slightly easier to throw. Finally, Gillman found an excellent set of toys to play with: quarterback Jack Kemp, an NFL cast-off who, like so many others, found the second act of his career in the nascent league…
and,
“If you look at today’s game, Sid Gillman still has a tremendous impact,” says Ron Jaworski, the ESPN analyst who as a quarterback—and with Sid Gillman as his quarterbacks coach—led the Philadelphia Eagles to the 1981 Super Bowl. “Gillman was a vertical stretch guy who believed in attacking down the field, as well as the horizontal stretch, sideline-to-sideline.”
and,
In the AFL, necessity was the mother not only of invention but of tolerance. Most famously, when it became clear that New Orleans was neither big nor easy on the prospect of black players competing in the 1964 AFL All-Star Game, the squads refused to play, and, a day later, the League moved the game to Houston.
Lots of great stuff in American history.
Lance Alworth, one of my childhood heroes, was on that magical Sid Gillman San Diego Chargers team in the early AFL. Alworth was one of the greatest receivers in football history and a truly phenomenal athlete.
After I was devastated to learn I couldn’t grow up to be a wide receiver for the UT Longhorns as a lifelong career, I decided I wanted to grow up and be Lance Alworth.
These mind-boggling stats are from his Wikipedia bio:
Born in Houston, Texas, Alworth was raised in Hog Chain, Mississippi. He played football at Brookhaven High School before attending the University of Arkansas. While in high school, he earned 15 letters. Alworth’s sister Ann was fast enough in the 50- and 75-yard dashes in track to be invited to the Olympic Games trials, though she declined the invitation. After high school, Alworth was offered baseball contracts by the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
At Arkansas, the six-foot (1.83 m), 180-pound (82 kg) Alworth was a flanker who led all colleges in punt return yardage in 1960 and 1961. He also was a track star competing in the long jump and running the 100 and 220-yard dashes (in 9.6 seconds and 21.2 seconds, respectively). Alworth was a three-time Academic All-American, graduating with a degree in marketing as a pre-law student. In 1962, Alworth was on multiple All-American teams: Look magazine, Associated Press, United Press International and Coaches. Alworth was a key member of Arkansas teams that won, or shared, three consecutive Southwest Conference championships between 1959 and 1961, winning 25 games in that time span.
#19 Tedtam – I am soooo jealous… my new normal is reclined with leg elevated even further and an icepack in the bend of my knee… but at least I DO have an appointment with the ortho doc that saved my sis-in-love’s foot after a motorcycle accident – not for 2 more weeks, but she assures me he’s worth the wait. MRI showed meniscus tear and “deficient cartilage”
Hog Chain, Mississippi.
Well that made the story interesting no matter what else was said. It does make you wonder how the community got it’s name. And NO Eufaula didn’t get it’s name from the old Indian Chief warning the White Man to not back up and fall off the cliff into the Chattahoochee. Oh and ifin’ you didn’t know Eufaula is situated on a high cliff above the river. 😉
This information has been known for decades. It has been exposed on a daily basis by investigative websites like MEMRI and CAMERA, among others. It has been presented to the US State Department over and over and yet they continue to pretend it doesn’t exist.
An international human rights lawyer is telling the world that Hamas and UNRWA are indistinguishably tied together, with the terrorist group exercising immense control over the alleged humanitarian agency.
[Hillel] Neuer’s Jan. 30 testimony before Congressional committees was filled with fascinating and important information, including the fact that there are “about 1,200 UNRWA staff who actually belong to the terrorist organizations; 3,000 UNRWA teachers in this Telegram group [that celebrated Oct. 7]; 6,000 UNRWA employees whose family members belong to Hamas or Islamic Jihad. This is not a problem of ‘bad apples’; UNRWA is rotten to the core.” UNRWA schools also train kids to glorify and emulate jihadis.
But Neuer’s efforts didn’t stop with the testimony, and the information he shared should be read and heard by every American and Westerner even remotely inclined to give UNRWA the benefit of the doubt. This is especially true since our tax dollars funded these jihadis; until the current suspension, America was UNRWA’s biggest donor, providing $300 million a year, according to Neuer. The attorney has extensive documentation to back up his arguments, as he has been reporting on UNRWA terror ties for nine years.
For some comic relief go to youtube and search for SNL celebrity jeopardy. the Sean Connery ones are the best.
Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about science book
Don’t know much about the French I took
But I do know that there ain’t no DEI at Troy University
Auburn University and the University of Alabama reported DEI budgets of $3 million each, according to AL.com. The University of Alabama enrolled 4,344 blacks in 2022 (less than 12% of its student body) and Auburn University 1,560 blacks (less than 5% of its students), according to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
How about outside Alabama? The University of Michigan reportedly spends more than $18 million on DEI staff and benefits, yet in 2022 blacks made up less than 5% of undergraduates there. George Mason University in Northern Virginia has “a ratio of 7.4 DEI staff per 100 faculty,” yet blacks made up just over 11% of students there in 2022.
How much did Troy University, where I teach, spend on DEI? Zero dollars.
Yet Troy enrolled 4,421 blacks in 2022—almost 32% of its student population.
Instead of feeding bloated DEI bureaucrats on Troy’s campus, the school actively recruits international students from across the world to our small town in southeast Alabama—hence our nickname “Alabama’s international university.”
#26 Texpat, I did not know that but that’s just another reason to like the small college up the road.
The boy just texted me and said it was pretty bumpy, knocked stuff off his office wall and desk. The epicenter was 7 miles south of Thousand Oaks where his office is.
I think every football fan would find interesting even if you’re an NFL-hater these days.
i didn’t leave the Nfl.
the Nflblmdeilbgqrstlmnop left me.
where have you gone Roger Staubach
Captain America they once called you
in seventy-two.
nevertheless my prediction for the wokester bowl is the referees will win by making just enough bad calls to help the Taylor Swifty Chiefs prevail 24-20.
I mean it is an election year and all and as one faker to another she did endorse the fake real, real fake wooden dummy.
now on the other hand if the Taylor swifty Chiefs were playing the mike ditka of 1986, not the bears, just Ditka by himself, then I’d say Ditka would win 17-14.
28 Super Dave
It’s funny you bring that up.
On this day, February 9th, 1971, Los Angeles was hit with the Sylmar Earthquake that collapsed buildings, destroyed multiple hospitals and crumbled dams, bridges and freeways. It was devastating and miraculous only 64 people were killed in a region where millions lived.
I arrived nine months later in November of 1971 thinking I would be retrieving my girlfriend and go on to Colorado. It’s a very long story. We ended up staying there and I needed a job. I left my panel truck with my girlfriend and took off on my new 10-speed bicycle and started cold-call walking into every business on a major boulevard. After striking out 6 or 7 times, I walked through the front door of the Catalina Sports & Swimwear factory in Anaheim. The general manager was standing in the foyer and hired me on the spot. I actually went to work that minute.
Two months later, on February 9, 1972, I was working the fabric cutter table with the man for whom I was an assistant. This factory primarily made bikinis and had around 60 people in the cutting/pattern dept. and about 250 women in the sewing area.
It was late morning when, all the sudden, I felt like the ground was going to fall out from under me. I became disoriented and the whole building seemed to roll. The strong tremors lasted about 10 minutes, but the aftermath was worse.
All around me I had grown men and women crying and some of the ladies were inconsolably hysterical. It was one year to the day from the LA Earthquake and unbeknownst to me, all of these people had come to work with that at the front of their minds. The kindly, old factory manager told anybody who wanted to go home to do so. An hour or so later the old man just sent everybody home and turned out the lights.
That was my California earthquake experience, in a bikini factory, 52 years ago today.
30 Bonecrusher
I’ve heard of that gas well. If truth were told, there were a number of bad blowouts in the Soviet Union and some burned for years because, despite offers of help from the USA, they refused any outside assistance.
I heard these stories from Red Adair and Boots & Coots people. They were ready to go, but the commies couldn’t admit they were unable to fix it themselves.
So Squawk wins the prize for best comment (#13) of the day with a link to Vince Vance and the Valiants.
If you haven’t been to one of their appearances in Southeast Texas over the years, then you’re just a youngster who is now and forever Kulturally Deprived.
Texpat
Steve McMichael (Houston native, raised in Freer, TX) was a Longhorn standout in the late ‘70s. He was announced as an NFL Hall Of Fame honoree last night. Played mostly for the Bears. Now fighting ALS.
#31 Texpat that’s a pretty good story. and it’s eerie to think that the second quake hit on the anniversary of the first one.
Oh and I 😀 at this;
That was my California earthquake experience, in a bikini factory, 52 years ago today.
When I worked with the drilling rig/well servicing rig manufacturer we supplied the drilling rig to drill nuclear test wells in Nevada in the trust but verify(?) program with Russia. I talked to some of the guys at an oil show that went on those tests, both here and in Russia. They said when they went over there the Russian equipment was so outdated and broken down our government ended up just shipping our (US) equipment over there to do the tests.
The parts guy at Oreilly’s said he needs a cereal break before he could look up parts for my car.
WTH?
36 GJT
The parts guy at Oreilly’s said he needs a cereal break before he could look up parts for my car.
I have been warning you folks about the infantilization of America for years and now it has come about at the lowly parts counter of O’Reilly’s Auto Parts.
Did he ask for Cap’n Crunch or Lucky Charms ?
God help this nation.
Shannon @ 6:06 PM
I remember Steve McMichael.
On April 23, 2021, McMichael announced that he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In the announcement, he also confirmed that he would be retiring from making public appearances going forward. The announcement came six months after one of McMichael’s contemporaries in the NFL, former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle and broadcaster Tunch Ilkin, announced his own ALS diagnosis; Ilkin died of ALS complications on September 4, 2021, at the age of 63.
On September 18, 2021, McMichael returned to Soldier Field to accept the ALS Courage Award from the Les Turner ALS Foundation, which supports McMichael and his family after his ALS diagnosis. Despite not making any more public appearances, with his and his family’s permission, photos of McMichael being visited by former teammates and wrestlers have surfaced on social media.
It is very sad. ALS is a horrible evil disease.
Did he ask for Cap’n Crunch or Lucky Charms ?
If it was one of those he wasn’t infantilized.
He was baked.
Finally slowed down enough to pop back in. The legs are tahrred, and the back ain’t fer b’hind.
I’m about to pull out my first batch of candy. I’m setting up some for the car club’s trip, and I’ll probably set some aside for Hubby and Handsome Son, who’ll be here on Sunday.
My lender/investor friend called me this morning and asked me to come by and visit his new office. He says it’s been too long since he’s seen his friend. I have a lot of Jolly Ranchers in that bag, so I think I’ll put some together for his office staff, too.
I like playing with my food.
I remember back when auto parts-house guys were old and knew their stuff. Knew when their catalogs were wrong. Knew about esoteric mid-year changes.
When Skittles are freeze dried, most of them split their shells along a midline and the white insides puff out. Some of them don’t, though, and little spindle of white stuff comes out of a hole and falls/curves over.
I’m calling them “skittle worms”. Because “skittle penis” just sounds rude.
For someone on a keto diet, smelling all of that sugar in the air was uncomfortable. Not quite nauseating, but it isn’t something I’m looking forward to when I pull out this next batch.
The parts guy story was a joke I saw on an equipment mechanics FB group I’m on. It’s funny because you can see it happening. It was common to go to the parts store to pick up parts for a forklift or whatever that used some automative part like a start solenoid or electric fuel pum, of course the guy would ask for car make and model, I’d give them the forklift info and watch them get puzzled lol.
Hey BSue.
My stepdaughter was singing the praises of Voltaren recently.
I think $77 for a license plate is BS.
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