Donnie's Hero, Vlad has started the war

[abbey1227]

Sept 30, 2022 15:01:42 GMT merh said:

Sept 30, 2022 14:25:19 GMT abbey1227 said:

Bloody hell!

Yeah, first aid.
The class we took every other year mentioned tampons are good for nosebleeds or bullet wounds.

The military...........and I think some EMTs these days, have started using a new age sorta foam that fills in the open wound to stop the blood flow.

[merh]

Sept 30, 2022 15:13:44 GMT abbey1227 said:

Sept 30, 2022 15:01:42 GMT merh said:

Yeah, first aid.
The class we took every other year mentioned tampons are good for nosebleeds or bullet wounds.

The military...........and I think some EMTs these days, have started using a new age sorta foam that fills in the open wound to stop the blood flow.

Plastic?
LIke Hawkeye said in. Ultron?

[abbey1227]

Sept 30, 2022 19:32:39 GMT merh said:

Sept 30, 2022 15:13:44 GMT abbey1227 said:

The military...........and I think some EMTs these days, have started using a new age sorta foam that fills in the open wound to stop the blood flow.

Plastic?
LIke Hawkeye said in. Ultron?

researchers developed a sprayable foam made of modified chitosan, a biopolymer derived from the shells of shrimp and other crustaceans that is already being used in other types of non-foam wound dressings. In tests on pigs, the spray reduced blood loss by 90 percent. The authors acknowledge funding from the National Science Foundation.

[merh]

Trump Blames U.S. for 'Almost Forcing' Putin to Invade Ukraine
BY ANDREW STANTON ON 10/8/22 AT 5:36 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump blamed the United States for "almost forcing" Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

Trump's remarks came as Russia continued to stall in their struggling "special military operation," ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin more than seven months earlier on February 24, 2022. The ex-president has been critical of how President Joe Biden, who he may run against in the 2024 presidential election, has handled diplomatic relations with Russia. But critics accuse Trump of taking positions seen as favorable to Putin.

During an interview on Real America's Voice, a right-wing network favorable to Trump, the former president criticized the Biden administration. He argued that their "rhetoric" in the months leading up to the Ukraine invasion contributed to Putin's decision.

"They actually taunted him, if you really look at it. Our country, and our so-called leadership, taunted Putin. I said, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying. The rhetoric was so dumb."

He claimed, without evidence, that the Ukraine invasion would have "never" happened if he were still president. He also did not provide any specific examples of how the U.S. "taunted" Putin into invading Ukraine

Trump also touted his working relationship with both Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky when Real America's Voice host Wayne Root suggested Biden could send Trump to negotiate a peace deal.

"I got along very well with both Zelensky and Putin," Trump said. "If you remember, Zelensky was very nice because when they asked him about the Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax—that was the phone call—he looked at them and said 'What was wrong with the call? He did nothing wrong.'"

William Pomeranz, the Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, cast doubt on Trump's comments in an interview with Newsweek, pointing out that Biden said Ukraine would need to work on its corruption in order to gain entry to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) but that Putin's given justification for the invasion was unrelated to NATO.

"It's something Putin has been thinking about for many years," he said. "I think Putin basically launched this campaign to annex what was two territories—but is now four territories—to expand the Russian Federation. I think this was an example of imperial intent. He wanted to expand his territory and the Russian empire."

He said it will never be known if the invasion would have occurred if Trump won the 2020 election but that he did not believe Trump would have "stood up for Ukraine."

"Did Trump think that he had such a great relationship that he could dismay him from attacking, I just don't think so," he said.

Trump Faced Criticism for Past Russia-Ukraine War Comments
Trump has faced criticism for several comments about the Russia-Ukraine war. In the days leading up to the conflict, Trump said Putin was a "genius" for moving troops into Ukraine.

"Here's a guy that says, you know, 'I'm gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent.' He used the word 'independent,' 'and we're gonna go out and we're gonna go in and we're gonna help keep peace.' You gotta say that's pretty savvy," Trump told Clay Travis and Buck Sexton in February.

In March, he again renewed controversy after appearing to push Putin to release any information he has about Hunter Biden's alleged business dealings in Russia during a conversation on Real America's Voice about an accusation that Biden's company received $3.5 million from the widow of a former Moscow mayor.

"She gave him three and half million dollars. So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer," he said.

[abbey1227]

Oct 9, 2022 3:48:11 GMT merh said:

Trump Blames U.S. for 'Almost Forcing' Putin to Invade Ukraine
BY ANDREW STANTON ON 10/8/22 AT 5:36 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump blamed the United States for "almost forcing" Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

Trump's remarks came as Russia continued to stall in their struggling "special military operation," ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin more than seven months earlier on February 24, 2022. The ex-president has been critical of how President Joe Biden, who he may run against in the 2024 presidential election, has handled diplomatic relations with Russia. But critics accuse Trump of taking positions seen as favorable to Putin.

During an interview on Real America's Voice, a right-wing network favorable to Trump, the former president criticized the Biden administration. He argued that their "rhetoric" in the months leading up to the Ukraine invasion contributed to Putin's decision.

"They actually taunted him, if you really look at it. Our country, and our so-called leadership, taunted Putin. I said, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying. The rhetoric was so dumb."

He claimed, without evidence, that the Ukraine invasion would have "never" happened if he were still president. He also did not provide any specific examples of how the U.S. "taunted" Putin into invading Ukraine

Trump also touted his working relationship with both Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky when Real America's Voice host Wayne Root suggested Biden could send Trump to negotiate a peace deal.

"I got along very well with both Zelensky and Putin," Trump said. "If you remember, Zelensky was very nice because when they asked him about the Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax—that was the phone call—he looked at them and said 'What was wrong with the call? He did nothing wrong.'"

William Pomeranz, the Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, cast doubt on Trump's comments in an interview with Newsweek, pointing out that Biden said Ukraine would need to work on its corruption in order to gain entry to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) but that Putin's given justification for the invasion was unrelated to NATO.

"It's something Putin has been thinking about for many years," he said. "I think Putin basically launched this campaign to annex what was two territories—but is now four territories—to expand the Russian Federation. I think this was an example of imperial intent. He wanted to expand his territory and the Russian empire."

He said it will never be known if the invasion would have occurred if Trump won the 2020 election but that he did not believe Trump would have "stood up for Ukraine."

"Did Trump think that he had such a great relationship that he could dismay him from attacking, I just don't think so," he said.

Trump Faced Criticism for Past Russia-Ukraine War Comments
Trump has faced criticism for several comments about the Russia-Ukraine war. In the days leading up to the conflict, Trump said Putin was a "genius" for moving troops into Ukraine.

"Here's a guy that says, you know, 'I'm gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent.' He used the word 'independent,' 'and we're gonna go out and we're gonna go in and we're gonna help keep peace.' You gotta say that's pretty savvy," Trump told Clay Travis and Buck Sexton in February.

In March, he again renewed controversy after appearing to push Putin to release any information he has about Hunter Biden's alleged business dealings in Russia during a conversation on Real America's Voice about an accusation that Biden's company received $3.5 million from the widow of a former Moscow mayor.

"She gave him three and half million dollars. So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer," he said.

Well, at least Trump is out of DC..........now the Military Industrial Complex and the Establishment can get back to cashing in on never ending war.

[merh]

Oct 9, 2022 12:49:30 GMT abbey1227 said:

Oct 9, 2022 3:48:11 GMT merh said:

Well, at least Trump is out of DC..........now the Military Industrial Complex and the Establishment can get back to cashing in on never ending war.

Trump Faced Criticism for Past Russia-Ukraine War Comments
Trump has faced criticism for several comments about the Russia-Ukraine war. In the days leading up to the conflict, Trump said Putin was a "genius" for moving troops into Ukraine.
"Here's a guy that says, you know, 'I'm gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent.' He used the word 'independent,' 'and we're gonna go out and we're gonna go in and we're gonna help keep peace.' You gotta say that's pretty savvy," Trump told Clay Travis and Buck Sexton in February.

So was Putin a genius as Donnie claimed or did we force Putin to invade Ukraine?

It's not both

[abbey1227]

Oct 9, 2022 19:04:08 GMT merh said:

Oct 9, 2022 12:49:30 GMT abbey1227 said:

Well, at least Trump is out of DC..........now the Military Industrial Complex and the Establishment can get back to cashing in on never ending war.

Trump Faced Criticism for Past Russia-Ukraine War Comments
Trump has faced criticism for several comments about the Russia-Ukraine war. In the days leading up to the conflict, Trump said Putin was a "genius" for moving troops into Ukraine.
"Here's a guy that says, you know, 'I'm gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent.' He used the word 'independent,' 'and we're gonna go out and we're gonna go in and we're gonna help keep peace.' You gotta say that's pretty savvy," Trump told Clay Travis and Buck Sexton in February.

So was Putin a genius as Donnie claimed or did we force Putin to invade Ukraine?

It's not both

it is both.

Putin is having to deal with the maneuvers of the US and UN..........and figure out how to not become the next Muammar al-Qaddafi

[merh]

[merh]

[abbey1227]

Nov 18, 2022 6:10:17 GMT merh said:

Brilliant.

We won't even cut off our own prisoners from that stuff........and more 

And it ain't like China, Iran and others won't deal with them. they're not quite the hypocrites that the US is

[merh]

Nov 18, 2022 14:14:01 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 18, 2022 6:10:17 GMT merh said:

Brilliant.

We won't even cut off our own prisoners from that stuff........and more 

And it ain't like China, Iran and others won't deal with them. they're not quite the hypocrites that the US is

Hey, flavored vape is gone here.
63% voted against it.

[abbey1227]

Nov 21, 2022 0:58:18 GMT merh said:

Nov 18, 2022 14:14:01 GMT abbey1227 said:

Brilliant.

We won't even cut off our own prisoners from that stuff........and more 

And it ain't like China, Iran and others won't deal with them. they're not quite the hypocrites that the US is

Hey, flavored vape is gone here.
63% voted against it.

A good day for democracy? The majority got to deny a sizeable minority? hurray?

Cuz it'll keep the kiddies from getting into it? meanwhile they're using meth and Fentanyl?

[merh]

Nov 21, 2022 3:11:06 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 21, 2022 0:58:18 GMT merh said:

Hey, flavored vape is gone here.
63% voted against it.

A good day for democracy? The majority got to deny a sizeable minority? hurray?

Cuz it'll keep the kiddies from getting into it? meanwhile they're using meth and Fentanyl?

Late ballots propel San Diego’s Measure B to likely win, ending no-fee trash pickup for single-family homes

CITY SAN DIEGO - MEASURE B – SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
(VOTE FOR 1)
Candidate Name Total Votes Percentage
YES. 201,760. 50.41%
NO. 198,446. 49.59%

11,000 ballots outstanding.

[abbey1227]

Nov 21, 2022 22:31:14 GMT merh said:

Nov 21, 2022 3:11:06 GMT abbey1227 said:

A good day for democracy? The majority got to deny a sizeable minority? hurray?

Cuz it'll keep the kiddies from getting into it? meanwhile they're using meth and Fentanyl?

Late ballots propel San Diego’s Measure B to likely win, ending no-fee trash pickup for single-family homes

CITY SAN DIEGO - MEASURE B – SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
(VOTE FOR 1)
Candidate Name Total Votes Percentage
YES. 201,760. 50.41%
NO. 198,446. 49.59%

11,000 ballots outstanding.

You're apparently fine with the Govt taking away THAT service then. huh? Remember that when you cry about Social Security or Medicare.

What used to be paid for with property taxes........is now an additional fee on top of the property taxes?

[merh]

Nov 22, 2022 1:50:43 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 21, 2022 22:31:14 GMT merh said:

11,000 ballots outstanding.

You're apparently fine with the Govt taking away THAT service then. huh? Remember that when you cry about Social Security or Medicare.

What used to be paid for with property taxes........is now an additional fee on top of the property taxes?

Apartment dwellers have paid for trash pick-up for years & years.

[abbey1227]

Nov 26, 2022 23:13:16 GMT merh said:

Nov 22, 2022 1:50:43 GMT abbey1227 said:

You're apparently fine with the Govt taking away THAT service then. huh? Remember that when you cry about Social Security or Medicare.

What used to be paid for with property taxes........is now an additional fee on top of the property taxes?

Apartment dwellers have paid for trash pick-up for years & years.

Really? That's done how?

Here there's usually just a dumpster or two in the parking lot and tenants are allowed to toss their garbage bags into them.

About the only time I've even heard of this kinda fee is to take electronics recently...........or in some very rural areas, people pay for an amount of stickers, then you're allowed a sticker per each bag of garbage. No sticker, no picking up 

But like snow plowing, garbage pickup here is usually just part and parcel with our property taxes.......though the schools get the vast majority of it.

[merh]

Nov 27, 2022 2:27:09 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 26, 2022 23:13:16 GMT merh said:

Apartment dwellers have paid for trash pick-up for years & years.

Really? That's done how?

Here there's usually just a dumpster or two in the parking lot and tenants are allowed to toss their garbage bags into them.

About the only time I've even heard of this kinda fee is to take electronics recently...........or in some very rural areas, people pay for an amount of stickers, then you're allowed a sticker per each bag of garbage. No sticker, no picking up 

But like snow plowing, garbage pickup here is usually just part and parcel with our property taxes.......though the schools get the vast majority of it.

Measure B explained
Measure B is asking voters in the City of San Diego if they're willing to pay for trash service. Supporters say this is about fairness and preparing for the future, but those opposed say, for several reasons, this measure is garbage.

To understand the history, we have to take you back to 1919. San Diego voters passed "The People's Ordinance" which guaranteed free trash pick-up at least once a week. The idea was that the city could sell the trash to hog farmers and that would help cover the costs, but almost immediately the city lost money.

Today, the city spends more than $42 million a year to collect trash and expects that number to jump above $48 million in five years.

[abbey1227]

Nov 27, 2022 15:15:10 GMT merh said:

Nov 27, 2022 2:27:09 GMT abbey1227 said:

Really? That's done how?

Here there's usually just a dumpster or two in the parking lot and tenants are allowed to toss their garbage bags into them.

About the only time I've even heard of this kinda fee is to take electronics recently...........or in some very rural areas, people pay for an amount of stickers, then you're allowed a sticker per each bag of garbage. No sticker, no picking up 

But like snow plowing, garbage pickup here is usually just part and parcel with our property taxes.......though the schools get the vast majority of it.

Measure B explained
Measure B is asking voters in the City of San Diego if they're willing to pay for trash service. Supporters say this is about fairness and preparing for the future, but those opposed say, for several reasons, this measure is garbage.

To understand the history, we have to take you back to 1919. San Diego voters passed "The People's Ordinance" which guaranteed free trash pick-up at least once a week. The idea was that the city could sell the trash to hog farmers and that would help cover the costs, but almost immediately the city lost money.

Today, the city spends more than $42 million a year to collect trash and expects that number to jump above $48 million in five years.

I don't doubt they have $Millions in expenses.......but what does the property taxes pay for?

I guess it's just an example of the many different ways, different areas approach things.

I'll be burning a batch of lawn debris and cardboard in your honor this week. 

[merh]

A Telegram channel that claims links to his bodyguards said Putin bruised his coccyx as he slipped down seven steps and then 'involuntarily defecated' due to effects of 'cancer of the gastrointestinal tract'.

TEXT:

Vladimir Putin has fallen down stairs at his official residence and soiled himself while continuing to suffer from cancer, a Telegram channel which claims links to his bodyguards has suggested. 

The 70-year-old Russian leader, whose health has visibly deteriorated since he launched his war in Ukraine, suffered the fall on Wednesday evening when he slipped coming down stairs at his Moscow home, channel General SVR claims.

Putin landed on his coccyx, fell down five steps, then rolled on to his side and slid down two more. The sharp impact caused him to 'involuntarily defecate' due to 'cancer of the gastrointestinal tract', according to the channel.

General SVR has posted updates about Putin's health since the start of the war, though has provided no evidence to support its claims or proof that it does indeed have connections within his guards.

In the latest post, the channel wrote that Putin 'stumbled and fell to his back, after which he fell on his side and slid down a couple of steps.

'The incident took place in front of the president's bodyguards, who reacted quickly and rushed to Putin's aid.

'Three security officers helped the president to get to the nearest sofa and called the doctors who are on duty at the residence.'

The channel said that medics 'arrived within a few minutes, but could not immediately examine the president'.

This was due to him suffering 'oncology of the gastrointestinal tract, as a result of which he already experiences serious problems with digestion' - and the fall caused an 'involuntary defecation'.

'Before the examination, the doctors escorted the president to the bathroom and helped to clean up.'

The report said: 'After a complete examination, a bruise of the coccyx and soft tissues was diagnosed.

'Nothing critical was diagnosed and the bruising was treated with painkillers.

'An investigation is to be carried out into what provoked the 'fall'.

'He wears special shoes, even at home, with anti-slip coating, and the stairs in the residence are considered 'safe'.

'As it turns out, all precautions are meaningless when nerves are at stake.'

Despite the reports, Putin was filmed and pictured touring a laboratory in Moscow the following day with no apparent signs of injury.

Speculation about Putin's health has swirled ever since he ordered troops across Ukraine's border on February 24.

He has appeared unsteady during public appearances, including unusual fidgeting with his hands and feet in meetings with other world leaders.

Ahead of one meeting with Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko early on during the war, his hand was seen shaking in an apparent sign of Parkinson's.

Other images have shown him tightly gripping a table edge as if trying to steady his hand and stop a tremor.

His walk has also drawn suspicions because of an apparent limp.

Meanwhile Oliver Stone, a director who was given broad access to Putin for a 2017 documentary, also went on record to say he thought Putin had cancer but beat it.

Around the same time New Lines magazine claimed to have obtained a recording of a Russian oligarch - who they did not name - saying Putin was 'ill with blood cancer'.

Just a month earlier, a Russian investigative website called Proekt said it had obtained documents that proved Putin travels with a large team of doctors.

Among them were a specialist in resuscitation, a specialist in treating violent trauma, and a cancer specialist.

The Russian president has also frequently vanished from public view for days at a time with no explanation ever offered.

In 2015, he went missing for 10 days, prompting some to go as far as suggesting he had died.

Putin then went missing in 2017 for eight days, before another two-day absence in 2018 during presidential election campaigning.

On that occasion, the Kremlin was forced to admit that the president had 'a cold'.

The Kremlin has consistently denied reports the Putin is suffering poor health, particularly since the war in Ukraine began.

And no firm evidence has ever emerged to suggest his is seriously ill.

Bill Burns, director of the CIA, was asked at a security forum back in July about Putin's health and denied there is anything wrong with him.

'As far as we can tell, he’s entirely too healthy,' Burns told reporters, though noted that was 'not a formal intelligence judgment'.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11494595/Vladimir-Putin-fell-stairs-home-soiled-himself.html

[merh]

Nov 28, 2022 10:41:57 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 27, 2022 15:15:10 GMT merh said:

I don't doubt they have $Millions in expenses.......but what does the property taxes pay for?

I guess it's just an example of the many different ways, different areas approach things.

I'll be burning a batch of lawn debris and cardboard in your honor this week. 

My dad used to burn leaves in the fall.
One has to get a burn permit now