Cooked, mashed potatoes are essential to the potato pancake = Latke, etc. Not The NY Times spoofed a "Style" interview article to malign Nobelist I.B. Singer, thus: "I have a new theorem on the demise of the Novel. But first Let me give you my latkes recipe [if that's the Yiddish plural here] ... Gn...

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“War is God’s way of teaching us Americans about geography.” – Ambrose Bierce

DMZ, else cordon sanitaire? Rus "asks" Bulgars to Leave NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY FRIGGINGLY UNDISORGANIZATION. (Kremlin could only wish it were so, i.e., discombobulated, at odds one or more w/ another, instead of a trained Lithuanian cyber-nuclear officer existing, &c., &c., &c.) Bulgaria on the Black...

"Tory leadership hopefuls ... saying not cricket"? A posteriori, what's a googly, and is there a spin doctor in the palace Lord Chamberlai n's office distracting the
media with the "Queen Consort to be" (bombshell [sic!]) matter? ...

(Earl) Atlee's Labour Party's election victory on policy/demolishly: N,B.: -- On the UK National Health Service (NHS): Policy implemented to create the NHS because Nazis (PM Churchill's fave term) bombed the shit out of the hospital system. For many nights. None dare speak for those who did not come...

Tories held N. Shropshire constituency some two hundred (200) years, Beeb stated.

My bad. It's 'Stoltenberg'

@ Jamiet99uk -19 allegation was made on this Thread that the UK Tory Party was or is corrupt. Good Luck!! with past & present COVID-19 Xmas fetes at #10 Downing st. The Ghost of your Dickensian Christmas Future points to the graveyard. At this juncture it appears the principal heads of state are bla...

Without going two comments to one, two news developments: NATO's Secy. Genl. Stellenberg/USA's FM Blinken/EU's Council Prez. Von der Leyen: All on the same page and said so, all 3. But obviously EU there are 27 nation-states, and in USA muy complicado ahora. UK by-election, the (alleged) corrupt Tor...

While EU & USA sabre rattle putative economic sanctionings - EU more worried by Belarus, it seems - the Ukraine/NATO quasi-misalliance's unsettling. The stooge behind the puppet within the player is meeting today, December 2, in Stockholm with the USA foreign minister (a-k-a) Secretary of state. Doe...

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If 45K voters in as3 USA states had voted Republican for the presidential line, under the Electoral College obtaining now, D J Trump would now hold office. Complacent democrats ... Conversely, the Establishment democrats in the USA are seeking to get judicial convictions. A felony (1 year and a day)...

As soon ask, 'Whither Liberalism?', or ... is there a Force out there.
Bombarding an asteroid as NASA just intends - explain Gravity.
Does the Zuckster huckster op lack gravitas? Will he continue on his path to Empire? Will his COO drown her drink with his vomitus?

THE USA's New York Times's Page 1 Linkage of the Ukraine troop border buildups addressed in the original msg in this Topic, the natural gas supply & delivery to the EU nations plus the immigrant shuffling & shuttling back and forth near Minsk - all reminiscent of Santayana's "Those who ... " and/or ...

The smiler with the ... stiletto

Sadly, to the List of 3 nation-states plus Britain involved in the Belarus-Poland, anti-EU human propulsion strategy, must be added the sovereign nation Estonia, bordering on this strategic future quagmire. To be exact, Estonian troops are moving to its South East border and Russian overflights are ...

The Old Testament books of Kings, Chronicles, Judges offer a plethora of military and diplomatic examples, if slightly legendarily dippy and/or bloody in parts. Your "average" cliche peacenik may be slightly offended. Am told it may be more palatable in the original Hebrew - of that era. Lost in Tra...

In the UK Parliament, the Commons is looking (In Committee) at a proposal to: Make provision about nationality, asylum and immigration; to make provision about victims of slavery or human trafficking; to provide a power for Tribunals to charge participants where their behaviour has wasted the Tribun...

There's little profit in a psychological study of Kremlinology at a time when Russia's puppet is disrupting the EU with force-feeding humans into Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. British troops are enroute there, if not there already. Belarus seeks the status quo ante. So restore the Austro-Hungarian E...

In some of the Paleolithic bands, humanoids had much leisure time, men and women were equal, and grapes were fermented into wine. Bands of 25 to 100 Neanderthals or humans were the standard, though for shamanistic purposes larger groups gathered together. Meat was seldom eaten but if an antelope, sa...