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I was at work Monday morning and two guys and a girl that looked like she was maybe 14 came in. They ordered quite a bit of food and the girl just had a blank look on her face. At the end of their meal I asked where they were from. They were from Ukraine. The two guys live down in different parts in Brooklyn.
The reason the teenage girl was so quiet is that she had arrived from Mariupol less than 24 hours earlier. Loud noises scare her easily because of the PTSD from the repeated bombing of Mariupol. I could feel her sadness. I honestly wanted to cry because I cannot fathom what all she has seen the last three months and the years of work it will take in therapy to help her. I gave her some rugelach and gave her a fist bump to show that she is now among people who care for her well-being. She finally smiled when I did that. I wanted her to also know she is safe here. The guys said how thankful they are that America and other countries are helping their homeland. I told them how brave their fellow Ukrainians are for standing up to Russia. One of them plainly said “We have no choice if we want to survive as a country.” I told them that I am willing to help in any way I can even if it is just giving new arrivals someone to talk to as they settle into their new home. We have been given so much as a country and people. I feel that volunteering in some way is the least we can all do if it is possible to do so.
If you ever question why we should be committed to helping Ukraine I would point towards that young girl as a reason why. Her and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have seen horrors we will never have to witness. Do what you can wherever you are to help these folks out.
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23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Global pandemic. Violent insurrection. Collapsing grid infrastructure. Massive land war in Europe involving a nuclear superpower. Battle raging at a nuclear plant. The vast majority of the GQP want TFG to run again, and he’ll win.
Y’all ready for the ledge yet?I trust the rational people in this to stave off a world war.
Also if he wants to run again I’ll happily vote against him again and so will enough other Americans who do not want him in the Oval Office again.
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1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:
To the extent there was still any question about whether Putin is still a rational actor who just badly miscalculated or is he insane, I think we have our answer.
This seems like the kind of thing that the international community might have to step in on if this plant blows up. This is just all so sad to witness.
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7 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:I read a lot of your posts that you put on here. I have said this to 956 as well as others, but thank you for educating me better about what happens in parts of the world I do not know near as well or as intimately as you do. As a community here we are blessed to have you. Wearing that hoodie is cool in my book as well. Anything that helps raise awareness and maybe even engages people who don’t realize exactly what is going on half a world away is a good thing. Again thank you for your contributions here. They are much appreciated from many folks I would assume.
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15 minutes ago, Bullneck said:
What Irwin said.
What thing should he be doing that he's not?
I agree with what we have done thus far. I hope we keep letting other nations in Europe make the public decisions while we stay in the background doing work behind the scenes to aid the Ukrainians. I believe there is a lot we are doing to help the cause that we are not broadcasting and I am good with that.
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15 minutes ago, Chopper said:
They somehow ended up in a small town not too far from Pittsburgh. I got to Texas on my own in the '90s, thanks to some friends.
BTW here's an interesting thread about why the russians are having so much trouble driving in northern UKR winter weather - they apparently suck at maintenance, particularly in this case, tires.
Fantastic link man. This is the rare time that social media is doing good in connecting us as a world and educating us about seemingly mundane things that are actually a big deal.
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1 hour ago, Deej said:
Some dogs are meant for you. My dad passed in 2002. 2003 a friend came by the house and told me another friend had a puppy he needed to find a home for. Went to meet the dog and my friend mentioned the day the dog was born, which happened to be my dad's birthday.
Maggie, the Heeler/Rottweiler mix. She was a great dog.
Oh my gosh that’s a great story and man the adventures you must have had with her! What a great mix as well with heeler/rottweiler.
Reading stories about dogs, and pet family members in general, are the best. Everyone has at least one really cool story to share about their best friend. Thanks for sharing that one Deej.
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1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:
They go to 1/2 rations on vodka
Christ on a cracker how do they expect them to cut it down to just a handle a day?
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16 minutes ago, Macanudo said:
Um, that's what the Commander of Bastogne told the Germans when they asked for our surrender during the Battle of the Bulge.
Anthony McAullife was the acting Commander of the 101st Airborne at the time. It was the equivalent of Fuck You.
I am aware that McAuliffe said it and what it meant. It was a scene where they were relaying what McAuliffe said while Patton’s Army was on the march to Bastogne.
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52 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:
The proper response, of course, is “Nuts!”
Part of one of my favorite scenes in my favorite war movie, Patton.
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3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
So when they seize something like this, is it gone forever or do they get it back if they play nice?
I’d prefer they take that thing out into the North Atlantic and sink the thing on live TV. Let the other oligarchs decide just how long they would like to mess around before getting their own FAAFO moment.
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Move that timeline up @hookemATL. My father passed away in April 2011 and his dog Autumn, a blue heeler, passed away two years later during the summer. My mom was adamant that she was not getting anymore dogs at that point. A month later I saw a listing on Craigslist for a German Shepherd/Australian Shepherd mix. It was a brother and sister that were around 5 months old. I should have gotten both of them in hindsight, but I took the male. They had named him Diesel. I went and got him and without telling my mom I brought him to her. It took her about 15 minutes to get past her no new dog decree. She was thinking of calling him Josey after the Clint Eastwood movie, but I said that his name was Diesel. She knew the dog was supposed to be with her because my dad, who was a mechanic his entire life, loved Diesel engines and had a work truck that was a diesel (1979 GMC Sierra with semi pipes and all just because he liked truck pipes). I guess that was kind of a sign for her with the name. Almost nine years later he’s still going strong and he’s getting to make memories with my niece.
Go find the dog that fits your family man.
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On 2/25/2022 at 9:54 AM, Sbbruin said:
Thank you for posting this SBB. The hurt does not go away, but neither do the great memories. If I have a choice between spending the day with people or with dogs it’s not a real hard decision. They are so much better to us than we deserve.
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1 hour ago, Parliament said:
That seems like alot.
Well it’s not 801, but it’ll do.
On a serious note I am in awe of what they are doing. An entire country that is mobilized for war and doing it so they can remain free. We better be giving those men and women whatever they request in the way of weapons.
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22 minutes ago, immamac said:
They couldn’t even take down ukraines sites and internet. They can’t even keep their kremlin website up. They are not good at cyber warfare either.
The mythical “Russian Bear” is just that, a myth. I am applying this not to the average Russian, but to their dictator and his sycophants who like to project an image of physical toughness. They are not tough. They just rule through fear like most bullies do.
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25 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:
they set the bar so low the romneys and rubios can slither right over it.
I do not trust Rubio, but whatever. Romney I at least trust to tell the truth. I thought that’s him getting out there and being part of a BLM protest in 2020 when he could’ve done nothing showed that as a human being he is probably a good guy. I also thought he handled himself well in that airport fiasco where he was confronted by a couple of misguided constituents.
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I FaceTime with my mom everyday and part of the reason is I call to talk to my recently turned three year old niece. She decided she would go lay down with her best friend Diesel. Diesel is so gentle with her. Somewhere in this thread is a picture of her laying on top of him and he was cool with it. When she came home from the hospital after she was born they put her in a crib and he sat right beside it. If she made even the slightest crying sound he went to go get my brother and the mom. He’s turning 9 on March 31st. He’s a pretty cool story about how he became part of the family that I’ll post sometime.
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Thank you @idigTexas for your post up above. You never know who you might help by posting your own journey dealing with anxiety. I hope that you feel better and better each and every single day going forward. I think @cactusflinthead would agree that this thread exists so we can learn from each other and share our feelings here without any worry of being judged. Fantastic contribution with that post. Everyone else as well, but I just wanted to highlight that message.
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19 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
Slovakia and Bulgaria said no, they can’t give up their fighters. The other issue here is that it’s just a count of each nation’s inventory (Slovakia only has 11– they crashed one in 2019). On a good day maybe half of a fleet of MiG-29s might be ready to fly as these are maintenance heavy aircraft.
DT thread moves fast but has a lot more on this.
I wanted to tell you thanks you for the contributions you are making in both threads. I am learning more about what is going on over there through reading your posts as well as several other people who have a far broader knowledge than I do about that part of our world. I think there are many others here who can say the same thing to you as well. Please keep on posting as much as you can about all of this.
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The young woman that spoke and was holding up that sign said her parents are still over there as well as her sisters, one of which is apparently 5. She said she is 16, but was pretty composed and I thought spoke well in the video. I thought that the donations for UNICEF might be good so that’s why that picture is posted. I will probably go back by there tomorrow and perhaps speak with a few of them. It can be good to hear someone’s story so you can better understand the depth and scope of what is happening half a world away from us and how it is affecting them. It’s also just good to be there for your fellow human beings in times of great sadness or situations like this.
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Hope this uploaded right. I was on my way to see a movie and I stopped for about 45 minutes to listen to several Ukrainians speak.
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Active shooter thread
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Millions of guns matter more than the life of a human being people have allowed our country to go completely off the rails. I have contemplated living abroad for reasons completely unrelated to this, but seeing how cold and uncaring that millions upon millions of people in this country are really reinforces to me that going elsewhere to live would be the best choice.