Monday, February 28, 2022
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Hahaha! His shield is made of Ukrainium! Dude's gone from comic, to president, to folk hero. Even if the Russians catch up with him, he can't say he didn't live an interesting life.
Update: It's going commercial.
On a serious note, there are a surprising number of nations pledging military support in the form of weapons to Ukraine. It's turned into a David v. Goliath, Bully v. The Underdog thing. Everybody supports the underdog when they see an unprovoked attack.
I'm thinking Putin didn't anticipate that (among many other things).
Meanwhile, here at home, our leaders are afraid of their own people.
Biden’s militarized State of the Union speech will showcase the Democrats’ insecurity.
While the Ukrainians fight a real army for their lives and freedom, and their unlikely leader declines to follow our advice to flee his capitol city, here at home the "leaders" call out the National Guard and set up fences in ours to keep the people at a safe distance while the "President" tells them lies about how good things actually are.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
This M-F'er, against all odds, has proven to be a brass balled, steely eyed, mad man leader the Ukrainians can be proud of.
He spits in the howling face of death.
The Russians might catch up to him and off him at any time, but the legend will live on. Quality rises when the going gets rough, and is it ever rough where he is now.
Example:
The AP News reported President Zelenskyy defiant response to Washington:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of the U.S. government but turned down the offer.
Zelenskyy said in response: “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” according to a senior American intelligence official with direct knowledge of the conversation, who described Zelenskyy as upbeat.
Invading Russian forces closed in on Ukraine’s capital on Saturday, in an apparent encircling movement after a barrage of airstrikes on cities and military bases around the country.
1962. Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) and Gherman Titov (1935-2000) with Soviet artistic gymnast Larissa Latynina (b.1934).
Larisa Semyonovna Latynina is a former Soviet artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 individual Olympic medals and four team medals.
A 1910 photograph of a New York City taxi cab.
In August 1907 the first metered taxicab took to the streets of New York City. A passenger, Harry N. Allen, incensed at being charged five dollars ($126.98 in today’s dollars!) for a journey of 0.75 miles (1.21 km), decided “to start a taxicab service in New York and charge so-much per mile."
Later that year Harry Allen imported 65 gasoline-powered cars from France and formed the New York Taxicab Company. The cabs were originally painted red and green but Harry repainted them all yellow to be visible from a distance. By 1908 the company was running 700 taxicabs.
