Ukrainians are so easy to recognize. I requested 3 Ukrainian stickers but got 4 in an envelope covered with happy hand-written messages. This is the very typically Ukrainian exuberance: whatever you ask for, you’ll get more just because the world is beautiful and the joy just has to be shared.

There is no Russian on the planet who’d do this. Not because they are inherently bad or anything. Simply because their stance vis-a-vis the world is a lot more suspicious. Remember the story of how N suspected, throughout the first year if our relationship, that I only said nice things to him to get him relaxed and then deliver a mortal blow? That’s very Russian.

Everybody keeps dumping on Fox News but how is MSNBC any better? I turned on the channel to hear about the conference on Islam held in DC but all I heard was endless and extremely offensive bellyaching about the poor Russians who  were not even invited and how is it possible not to invite a great country like Russia to this conference. Apparently, some Russians said they were upset over not being invited. And how can anybody possibly discuss Islam in the US without inviting the Russians? I’m guessing Russians are eager to share their expertise in killing Chechen and Afghani Muslims.

Ask me once again where I find all those Putinoid Liberals.

Russians are suffering enormous losses in Ukraine. At least two thousand were killed just in the battle for Debaltseve. 

I’ve seen the photos of their dead, mangled bodies, and I feel sad for them. Not for their families because those will just celebrate getting a bigger payout for a dead soldier and use it to get massively drunk. 

But these boys – why did they have to die? Why did they have to come all the way to Debaltseve to kill and be killed? There is no reason for them to be there other than that they are superfluous human beings their country has no use for. Russia spits them out into Ukraine where they will be ground up by the war.

They could have made something of their lives, created something. But nobody taught them anything but how to hate everybody and sacrifice themselves on the altar of that hatred. What a waste. What a horrible waste. 

N swept out the snow in the driveway, washed the floors and vacuumed the carpets in the entire huge house, cleaned all the bathrooms, did all the dishes, did 3 loads of laundry, cleaned out the chimney, and repaired the bird feeder.

At first, I wondered what was causing this bout of hard work. But then I saw he was wearing his new T-shirt:

The mystery was solved: he’d simply turned Ukrainian!

The stupid Neutrogena starts a commercial for an anti-wrinkle cream with the word “graveyard.”

Ad agencies keep hiring the most excruciatingly stupid employees in the world.

This is what happens when you allow a bunch of Scott Walkers to make decisions:

Oklahoma legislative committee overwhelmingly voted to ban Advanced Placement U.S. History class, persuaded by the argument that it only teaches students “what is bad about America.” Other lawmakers are seeking a court ruling that would effectively prohibit the teaching of all AP courses in public schools.

What an absolute disgrace that this should be happening, people. This is a story straight out of Putin ‘ s Russia. Is that the example we want to emulate.

From an article by a Russian scholar:

Russia is a poor country.” However much people focus on the limousines of its wealth,

the future pensions of its citizens are so small that they would elicit only pity “in the poorest of the EU countries” and the state of its villages and other rural areas is comparable to “the poorest countries of Africa

It’s all true what he’s saying.

A very easy and delicious vegan recipe. A cup of red lentils is brought to the boil and then allowed to simmer until the lentils achieve the desired firmness  (some people like them firmer while others let them fall apart completely).

While the lentils simmer, add your favorite spices and herbs. I do some Madras curry, a cinnamon stick (a cinnamon stick is really crucial, in my opinion), a bit of nutmeg, a few allspice, and some cumin seed.

Then throw in a handful of fresh spinach leaves. Remove seeds from a tomato,  cube it, and throw it in.

And that’s all you need to do!

So Scott Walker never even graduated from college?

How very unsurprising that this clown was too stupid even to get a Bachelor’s degree.

Let’s now stop embarrassing ourselves with suggestions that somebody who is this useless can actually lead the country. Low-achieving losers are not what we need in the world where education is everything.

A fierce battle is under way around the Ukrainian city of Debaltseve in spite of the “ceasefire” brokered by Obama and Merkel. Even as the agreement was being signed, Russian troops and weaponry kept flowing across the border.

The US State Department keeps expressing “grave concern”, which Russians find extremely funny. They welcome these impotent statements as a sign of the West’s weakness. And it’s hard to disagree with them here.

Obama still has almost 2 years in office. And there’s no way Ukraine can resist for as long as that. It’s an absolute miracle that the country has managed to beat the invaders back for an entire year.