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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Lee B on 12/4/25 at 7:32 pm to Coeur du Tigre
I wonder if Witkoff or Kushner got bored and absentmindedly got on their phones on the guest wi fi (again...)?
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re: Spanish Town parade could leave Baton Rouge amid city-parish budget cuts
Posted by Lee B on 12/4/25 at 1:34 pm to winkchance
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How much money in sales tax does the city parish reap off the parades running downtown?
The parades may not have covered the cost of the security but the parish made bank in sales tax. Revenue.
And they sold all the barricades or did something corrupt with them.
What's going on here is targeting things people will get upset about to manipulate the public.
Be honest about where the budget problems are and why.
Someone told me the Department of Public Works is out of funds... well, that's an important department if people value things like roads and sewage. How did it get to that point, exactly? Who would vote against a millage to directly fund the Department of Public Works?
re: Spanish Town parade could leave Baton Rouge amid city-parish budget cuts
Posted by Lee B on 12/4/25 at 1:24 pm to F1y0n7h3W4LL
Just cut out the city-provided security for LSU games and keep the Mardi Gras parades, St. Patrick's Day Parade, Live After Five, Blues Fest, etc.
re: What album was on repeat for you in high school?
Posted by Lee B on 12/3/25 at 12:19 am to Kenna City Solja
I succumbed to a Sherwood Green/mint pickguard Squier Jazzmaster XII on sale for $299.
It actually plays and sounds great! Onstage, I usually play a Charvel Surfmaster 12 from the late 90s but this one might get some time... if the big gumby headstock isn't too much of a pain to deal with (I probably have to put it in a bass case).
It actually plays and sounds great! Onstage, I usually play a Charvel Surfmaster 12 from the late 90s but this one might get some time... if the big gumby headstock isn't too much of a pain to deal with (I probably have to put it in a bass case).
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That's neat! I've had my eye on something like this for a while:
I have one of these... a MIJ Fender from '87, I think. Great tones with that combination of pickups.
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It’s not big business and hasn’t been for years now. Casinos are struggling across the country.
There's definitely a slump going on because of the economic slump.
But the "destination (resort)" Casinos do okay... the one in New Orleans on the edge of the French Quarter does okay.
A lot of them that aren't heavy hitters with all sorts of stuff to get people from elsewhere to come stay there for a few days tend to just suck money out of the local poor population.
re: What is stopping LA from putting Casinos on the coast and in Lake Ponchatrain
Posted by Lee B on 12/1/25 at 9:20 pm to lsugorilla
If there was more money to be made, someone would be making it.
The regulations have been changed whenever $$$$$$omebody lobbied to have them changed.
The regulations have been changed whenever $$$$$$omebody lobbied to have them changed.
Ivanka is the only non-full idiot Trump kid... except possibly Tiffany and Baron, which time will tell...
But this "testimony" is so "I saw someone buying lobster and filet mignon with food stamps" that I can't believe it wasn't posted as a joke. :rotflmao:
But this "testimony" is so "I saw someone buying lobster and filet mignon with food stamps" that I can't believe it wasn't posted as a joke. :rotflmao:
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Actually, what you say is for the most part correct. AI will eliminate you and a lot of others in the near future, also. In the end, the elite will basically need no one.
I'm investing in pitchforks, torches, guillotines...
I feel like this board would've called this guy an unreasonable lunatic...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Lee B on 11/26/25 at 11:10 am to VolSquatch
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Who are they convincing? World leaders know the game here.
There's one world leader who seems dense about that subject.
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"The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal," the U.S. official told CBS News. "There are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to A peace deal."
Good move... notice, they agreed to A peace deal, not the one offered by the US... so now Russia gets to be unreasonable and unwilling to seriously negotiate.
Rinse, Repeat
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Yea imagine being totally dependent on china for basic manufactured goods.
imagine that!?!
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Lee B on 11/24/25 at 4:22 pm to Coeur du Tigre
What China is doing to Russia at this moment is what they would love to do to the rest of the world. That's their tactic... conquest through dependency.
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America first should always be the policy, but it can’t be America only.
We need other nations, and we need other nations to behave themselves.
We'd have to have a discussion on protectionist policies and command economies...
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Everyone knows Trump has backed Putin in this thing, and while I can see a rationale for doing this (outside of wanting to take over the damned world together) it was a fundamentally stupid thing to do, even without ending the war.
Trump's "America First" viewpoint is a resuscitation of Linderg's America First ... The US controls this hemisphere (The Americas) and whoever else can seize Europe, Africa and Asia and do whatever they want with it... focus military power internally to control the population. This site is full of people wishing for this to work out.
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The strategy was never to win, or to even end the war, which is absolutely what I propose they do. They have never even come out collectively and officially said "We want Ukraine to kick the Russians out." Maybe Poland or the Baltic States have said this, but certainly not the United States, or even Great Britain, which a number of people have criticized both the Biden and Trump administrations for.
The Pentagon thinks if Russia was outright militarily defeated by NATO, it would launch nukes in retaliation, which is their official doctrine. Just the typical sabre rattling?
Biden's goal was pretty much what you stated... incapacitate Putin in every way imaginable and make him no threat to anyone else... but then he still has those nukes to fire in spite, right?
Trump... I don't think he wants Russia to collapse or Putin out of power.
I think Trump doesn't want much to change regarding Russia, just the fighting in Ukraine to stop, then instantly right back to 2020 business as usual. I don't think that is possible... Trump's way of viewing everything as just a business deal is naive and dangerous.
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Russia had absolutely zero problem with NATO setting up in Finland. Russia knows that NATO poses zero threat, except to its imperial ambitions.
Russia has a HUGE problem with Finland joining NATO... Russia considers Finland to be Russia, and tried to retake it in the Winter War in WWII. They screw with FInland all the time... but, they can't do anything about it, especially not at this point, and FInland was too strong for them to do much about them before that... but make no mistake, in the Kremlin's dream map Finland is once again part of the Empire, it's just probably dead last on what they could actually achieve in any event.
Reality is not the dominant thing in Russia's worldview. NATO is a defensive-only pact... they don't really believe that... standing in the way of their Imperial ambitions is "aggression" in their telling.
But yeah, Russia is much more threatened by EU memb ership for it's immediate neighboring former satellites. That would foment rebellion when they get more prosperous and the Kleptocratic Oligarchy is exposed.
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Lee B on 11/24/25 at 12:30 pm to VolSquatch
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That almost caused a nuclear war, and it was no where even close to the level of presence there would be in Ukraine.
The Russian presence in Cuba was in response to American nukes in Italy and Turkey, which the Russians weren't happy with BUT did not even tell their own people about, because they didn't want to cause global panic. Krushev's deal was that he would not put Russian nukes in Cuba IF the US removed the nukes in Italy and Turkey... nobody knew they were there, thus nobody knew they were removed. Krushev "won" that crisis, Kennedy ultimately screwed himself by making it a big deal and having to remove US nukes... Krushev never made it public, and lost power for appearing weak. There's a lesson in leadership there... and I honestly think Krushev should be re-evaluated overall... not that he wasn't a Communist leader, just that he might have been the Communist leader that was the most benevolent, along with Gorbachev (and ultimately doomed the Soviet Union by de-Stalinizing).
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