lucious leftfoot

Sounds like it. The question is when and how? Another thing I found interesting was that a decent number of younger Russians that fled after the invasion are returning. It's hard to get visas and in the places that they get in like Turkey or Georgia, they are treated pretty poorly and end up going back. They're not afraid of mobilization.

This is unfortunately true. I have a cousin that is married to a Russian Jew and they live in Tel Aviv. She fled Russia years back, but still knows a lot of people there obviously. Life in Moscow and St Petersburg is essentially unchanged. The war is not even on people’s minds. He likened it a bit to when the US was fighting the second Iraq war. Most people are against it, but it’s far away from most people and what are they going to do about it anyway? It doesn't look like a mobilization is imminent. They aren't having trouble recruiting because Putin doubled the pay. It's evidently a good bit of money for rural people. Also, their families are supposed to receive a lump sum in the event of their deaths. He thinks at this point the West will have to get more fully involved to stop Putin and wishes we had come in hard in the beginning and squashed him. Now that they’ve mobilized and transitioned their economy to war footing, this is going to last for a while.

I can't watch manbun hiker videos so no idea as to his reasoning. As far as higher for longer goes, I think they're more likely to stay elevated as long as fiscal stimulus is pumping at the current levels. Loose fiscal policy is fighting tighter monetary policy.

Maybe he actually handled it well, in hindsight. I hope the athletic department can survive all the Surly CR withdrawing financial support for the University as long as Hartzell is in charge.

Nudes in profile

Cross posted from the rain thread, but evidently a portion of the roof was ripped off the Christus hospital in San Marcos. On RR 12 just east of 35. Flooding on multiple floors. They're on diversion now.

Tornado hit, or near hit, ripped off part of roof on Christus Hospital in San Marcos. Massive flooding throughout multiple floors.

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A couple of things here. It looks miserable. How is it still snowing May 9th? Also, some African dudes sprinkled throughout. Specifically at about 58:00 there's some guy extra bundled up speaking with Putin through translator. Anyone recognize him? Guessing he's a leader of one of the African shitholes they're milking for resources. Ok the one area they do seem to have us beat at is the soldierettes and their uniforms.

A lot of soy and phytoestrogens in that crowd.

Seems like a good bet to make.

This clip is from a new documentary pumping MMT called Finding the Money. I find MMT to be an absurd premise on its face, but the way this top economic advisor fumbles over basics is pretty incredible.

Not a single chola in sight. Vic is sad.

But did you know that 687 faculty members signed a letter saying they had NO confidence in him?!?!?

He Is noT oUt StaNdaRd

Yeah camping on a remote beach in Mexico is asking for trouble.

Is this Biden getting a conscience, or our stocks running low?

There are a few places to put this, but I decided here because it's quite a shift in narrative from one of the most powerful men on the planet. The prevailing narrative has always been that you need population growth for economic growth and bankers support that, but if he's changing his mind then that has big implications. Maybe you don't need to encourage people to have kids. Maybe you don't need open borders like EU and America have to support economic growth via mass immigration. I tried to find a clip with less provocative caption, but it's an undercover clip. Also, if we decide to allow declining population, debt problem will have to be dealt with.

In this house, we celebrate Jobsgiving, even when it’s not as much as it expected. And even when it looks like the data may be consistently fudged.

I don’t know where this happened or the circumstances. I just love the trash can shields.

Don’t forget the lotion and knee pads