Year: 2016

Sveta took a bunch of images yesterday. Her camera is a Samsung Smartphone, one of those Zoom Phones and it works in just about any temperature. Thus she is running around and she is getting me grouchy and taking images, even if I do not see her taking them and by taking so many images of me! 😉

Svetochka takes great pictures, I just wish I could take nice ones like her. She has a touch for finding the right spot. I just take a picture and go, she stands for ten minutes and finds what she wants to take an image of…

Sveta is a Sweetie Pie and it is so wonderful to have her in the village…

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It looks like maybe, I will be able to get the Volga out by the end of this next week. If the sun continues to shine and the temperature rises? Then out we will go and be able to get to the Big Village. Sveta is leaving Tuesday of next week and it seems that warmth is coming. I also have to plan a trip out of Russia and most likely will do that sometime at the end of march. Looks like business dictates a trip and hopefully the last trip to Ukraine. We will see, for I do not trust Ukraine anymore…

It is planned that by the next two years, that I will have citizenship in Russia and that will be a blessing of many types. It is a shame I am not some famous person, for they seem to get Russian passports left and right; and here is someone (me) who really loves Russia for who, what and where Russia is and I could no more get a instant passport than fly to the moon…

Hey Putin, I am over here!

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Time to see if Svetochka is up. She is making little noises and Boza is next to her watching her. Looks like soon she will gather herself back to the living and that means I must go and think about breakfast and more coffee…

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Last night I paid domain money issues due for this mess that has been created for and called Windows to Russia or known as WtR. At one time I was able to pay extremely cheap USA based hosting and that started with places like GoDaddy, HostGator and several others in North American based hosting. Then I tried India, Europe, Russia and several other countries. This all accounted to lots of money being spent for no reason and I even had to move domains and all, out of the clutches of the U.S.A.’s reach…

In fact all my troubles started when I was noticed and singled out on Blogger Blogspot. I had thousands of articles and it was all free for me to write and write and write, like millions of others do and they never have issues, for they love sock monkeys and are good little boys and girls. That started the onslaught of attacks by the US government and they have never stopped since. That is what I get for being a bad boy…

But lets get back to last night; as I meander around in memories!

Last night for the first time ever, I was able to officially pay for domains, fees and hosting for WtR and I did not have to “Rob Peter to Pay Paul!” It was an unbelievable feeling and almost made me cry, when I realized that after all these years, that WtR finally paid for itself and that really is all I wanted to start with…

Windows to Russia started on kylekeeton.com and after a few years I decided to put it on its own domain and bought windowstorussia.com; that was a mistake and Google hated me after that. Thus, Google has finally forgiven me and now WtR is growing again. Google does not appreciate too many and too much chaos on your site and after the attacks started, that sealed my come back issues and sat WtR in a deep hole to dig out of for many years. I never gave up and never stopped. I stood by this site, while other sites have come and gone and other sites are now in the dust bin of death. WtR has stood against the time and survived, albeit weakened and saddened, but still functioning…

Thus, I want to thank everyone who donated. The fact that I did not have to take from a food budget, or utilities budget to pay for WtR is a miracle and blessing. Yes, I still have money for other projects that was sent to me also and I promised and mean it, that, that money will go to what they sent me money for. One day they will see the fruits of their labor right here on WtR, as I post about such deals and stuffs… 😉

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul; Kinda sucks…

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I have put a weather widget on the sidebar of WtR and it shows about what it is weather wise in a nearby village. The village is called Paniki and it is just out of sight from our village…

It is winter still in the Tiny Russian Village…

Svetochka took a picture of my favorite tree. I am really happy and this image is a true illusion, that tree is over half a kilometer from the bell tower area. I like it…

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We made it to the Big village yesterday and restocked on food and such. Down to the last roll of toilet paper if that tells you anything! now we are stocked and fat, happy and sassy. The stores were busy, the people everywhere and the businesses thriving. Russians are tough and the fact that the US and EU are trying to sway Russians to believe in their lies and ways of life is really a sad state of affairs in the world. Illegal sanctions are nothing new by the west, but that does not make it correct: Does it? I would rather die than to go back to the western immorality of my soul. I will keep my soul happy and keep it away from the west…

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Defender of the Fatherland Day is a Russian holiday on February 23, 2016! This is the day that Sveta leaves the village and Vova has already determined that he will be drunk and I will have to drive his Niva to get Sveta to the train station. Yesterday, Vova bought three liters of Moonshine and I realized that if I made moonshine, I would be a rich boy here in Russia. Actually, that is an idea… 😉

Therefore, Vova has his medicine to have a wonderful day on the 23rd of Feb. Very strong high proof moonshine will make him wish for medicine the next day on the 24th, I am positive…

Have a nice day…

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Sveta keeps taking pictures of Boza and I. Every time we turn around, look up and or look at Sveta, we have our picture taken. I also get a bunch taken behind my back… 😉

So now you can see the grouch and Boza the wonder dog…

Boza finally found and dug up his favorite ball. Boza and his ball is a special thing and he plays ball all spring, summer and fall. Winter buried it and it was hidden from sight…

Now we have a dancing, prancing and happy dog…

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I think Obama has either lost his mental functions or he is so crushed under as a puppet that when he says things like these quotes yesterday. Either way he is mentally impaired…

“If somebody’s strong, then you don’t have to send in your army to prop up your ally,” President Barack Obama said on Tuesday, taking a break from the ASEAN summit in California to speak to the press about the US Supreme Court and the Syrian crisis.

“They have legitimacy in their country, and they are able to manage it themselves, and then you have good relations with them,” Obama added. “You send in your army when the horse you’re backing isn’t effective.”

Then as I read these things he said and look at how allies of the US are weak and inefficient and look at how the US has worked years to destroy Syria. I realize that if anyone is bought and paid for to say the things the higher ups want said, then Obama is that man. But maybe he is just plain doltish and if you think about it. Either way he is a controlled puppet…

Think about the slam he just made against Japan, South Korea, Germany, and dozens of other countries, where the US has huge military forces and bases. I guess, “If somebody’s strong, then you don’t have to send in your army to prop up your ally,” only applies to Russian allies?

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The U.S. is always in a turmoil, it has the uncanny ability to slither from one upsetting chaotic untruth type issue to another, just as a snake seems to be able to transverse a tree full of leaves and you never see it coming, until the last second. And the death of Judge Scalia is another in a long list of intentional screw-ups to keep the public dancing to a tune, that is better than the actual song of demise that is playing behind the scenes…

Presidio County judge Cinderela Guevara, a local justice of the peace, told the Associated Press that she declared the 79-year-old dead of “natural causes” without seeing the body herself, having “consulted with Scalia’s personal physician and sheriff’s investigators, who said there were no signs of foul play.”

and this…

“We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled,” said Poindexter.

and this…

Sorry no more, it is just that there is a dozen or more truths flying around in the wind…

I do know as with Bin Laden and his burial at sea. The fact that they do not perform an autopsy on Scalia is all the reason for me to understand that there is more to this than we will ever know. He was old (79) and he should die, as he was old. I only hope I make it that far in years. But the bottom line is; Our system, government and others have made this to be more than what it is…

One minute we have a death announced and no one really sees the body, except close personal doctors, a sheriff type and some friends. We then have a pillow on his head, on his face, then it becomes above his head and I just heard, under his head, now. We have we have we have…

This to me is simply an old man died, but being a “Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,” don’t you think that we could handle this in a way to stifle such run amok, crazy and loony crude that everyone and their brother wants to spout about?

Lets say as in Bin Laden we had given proper data about his death and let the world see that we did kill the demon that we proclaimed terrorized America and the rest of the world. Maybe no one would have any questions about Bin Laden and his death…

Now we have what most likely is an old man dying, we do that you know? Die at old age. You will die and I will die, we all will die, unless we found the key to immortality. I doubt that though, thus we die…

So lets say we be truthful and upfront and do an autopsy as they would do to you, when they find our body laying in bed stiff as a board. They determine death! In the case of a man who is one of the most powerful men in the USA, it seems prudent to have an autopsy to determine if, by some accident, there is foul play and in the same stroke of being thorough, we will stifle conspiratorial issues that are unnecessary…

But instead, we fan the flames of uncertainty, we light fires under the facts and we allow the games to commence and we use them to cover up important issues…

As in the case with Bin Laden; we do not see the body of the most notorious terrorists on the face of the planet. The man who single offhandedly, according to the news, brought down the twin towers on 9-11. The man who was a super-god of terrorists, is not even brought before the adoring public to witness the final resting place of such a magnanimous man to all terrorists on earth…

Scalia deserves to have the truth about his death known. But alas, as in Kennedy, Bin laden and a thousand more. We most likely will have to settled on all the expert opinions of the “he did it, she did it” theorist and make a Hollywood movie out of it sometime in the near future…

And that is exactly what our governmental services want you all to do. For then the truth is never necessary and or even needed by the masses. Thus chaos rules again…

So please, do not demand truth of what really happened. For the games are so much more fun to play and besides the truth means that someone is correct and someone is wrong and neither side wants to be the one wrong…

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Omnivore is what most humans are. We eat both animal and plants. Animals fall into three basic categories, carnivore (meat only,) omnivore (meat and veggies) and herbivore (veggies only.) I have altered my life style since coming to Russia and one thing I have done is to basically kick beef and pork out of my life. Expense is the main reason to begin with, because chicken and fish were much cheaper in the old days in Russia…

Things have changed now, but I can not change back with the pricing drop of all meats. Beef has become reasonable in price and pork is cheaper than in America, in fact it seems that beef is very competitive with all world prices now in Russia. (The herds of cattle are growing exponentially in the Russian Siberia!)  Chicken is still cheap and fish is downright decent prices. Fish in Russia is a mainstay and the price is why…

Fish farms are thriving and a left over from the Soviet era. Our Fish Village is just one of thousands of lake systems growing carp and I mean really good carp, farm raised carp and darn easy to fix and eat…

I have tried beef a couple of times in the last year and I am not able to eat it anymore. It makes me feel yucky inside after I eat it. I cleansed myself of beef over the years and my body just does not want it anymore. that tells me something! I occasionally eat pork now and feel almost the same way after eating that. Pork and beef are too heavy of meats and they seem to lump in my system after I eat them…

I tried ham yesterday and today, I feel like I have a lead weight in my belly. It is not as bad as beef would do, but still, why eat something that weighs you down?

I eat chicken as the mainstay now and even though pork has become as cheap, I stay with chicken. It just seems to be light on my system and the broth I create is great for staying healthy. Fish is mainly canned now in the village, but in the summer, if you remember, fish is plentiful in this Tiny Russian Village. Fish is literally free for me all summer and is a great way to gather protein to grow stronger…

I have increased my vegetables and decreased my meat consumption. I have increased my fruit consumption and now after all that; eating beef makes me sick feeling. Pork is borderline and chicken, plus fish is just fine. Therefore, I have decided something…

I will get the chicken coop ready this spring and we will have chickens year around. This move will supply eggs and meat at very low cost and when I get the goat barn done, we will have a milk supply available after tending to the situation properly. Plus I can eat goat and lamb meat with no issues. Just too expensive from the market…

So why am I telling you this?

I find it interesting that after eating beef all my life in America and thinking it is the only meat worth eating. I get away from beef and find that even the smell of it anymore turns my stomach. That is any beef; beef from Brazil, Russia, USA, Canada and or anywhere. Beef smells terrible and it makes me sluggish, very sluggish after I eat it…

I use to love my steaks; rare and so rare they mooed as I cut them! No wonder I had heart attacks and such for issues. Beef is a good thing to get cleansed out of your system, you will appreciate other food better after that. Kinda like smoking covers up the taste of good food and you have to season well to taste it. Beef gums up your system and makes everything then seem the same. Okay maybe not to you, but to me it was and my life on chicken is working good for me…

I could not become a vegetarian, I have to have certain flavors and milk products are important to me. Real cheese, cottage cheese and butter is important to me. So all veggy will never happen, for I will shoot a deer and enjoy life if I have to…

Really strange, the smell of beef fresh at the counter, just makes my stomach turn and the thought of a McDonald hamburger just makes me cringe and more. But, a chicken breast on a slice of wheat bread, with cheese melted and toasted all over, just makes my mouth water and sounds so good. And after trying to cook some beef the other day; Boza got the whole piece and I decided chicken is the way to go. For the broth of the beef after cooked is inedible and nasty. Just can not make a soup anymore from beef or pork. It would only be good to cook down and try to make suet for the birds…

Boza liked the beef though… 😉

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The weather warmed up, thus Sveta has been able to run around and take images that in the last few weeks I could not. The image above is Bald Mountain. That is what it is called by the locals and it really is not bald. Maybe at one time it was?

The image above is of the road going across Bald Mountain. As you see it is not bald, but the road is unused, because not very many 4×4’s could get up the southern face of the mountain, much less the twice as long, but less steep northern face. It is just terribly steep…

We are going to have two days of +2 and +3 temperatures. I hope to see some snow disappear and this morning it has really melted. Finally getting some serious melting. But as with all teasing desires that happen, we will then go subzero for the next few weeks, to bring us back to reality. We will have nice ice capades all around the Tiny Russian Village…

I am getting antsy and want to get working on my overdue projects that need to be doe. The warm weather brings that to the surface in my mind, but I know that it is just a teaser. I have several major projects that have to get done this summer…

I have to refoundation the outhouse and reroof it at the same time…

I have to rebuild the chicken coop…

I have to dismantle the fireplace innards and reline with new firebricks…

I have to dig out the basement area and insulate the underside of the home, after what I discovered, after Sveta told / showed me!!!! A huge basement under the home, but the entrance is almost closed / choked off…

I have to rebuild the firewood supply. It looks as if I will use three stacks of the four that I built up last year. I would say that is pretty good and this year, I will build a lean-to and fill it with all the wood, except for one stack by the front door. The Tiny Russian Village home did real good and when I am done this summer, it will be excellent for the next winter…

Plus 10,000,000 other things to do… 😉

Warmer weather just seems to have brought on a touch of spring fever…

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Svetochka found a Tiny Russian Village in a deep freeze and at first I think she was kinda stunned at how winter has not let go of our village. Then she warmed up to the place and now smiles, big smiles as she realizes how wonderful a frozen tiny Russian village can be. Her and Boza go on long walks and they come back all excited and she has images that she is taking of the whole area. I am getting a break from walking Boza and that is good. For I have no option – rain, sleet, sickness or shine. Boza needs to walk. It is a vacation for me… 😉

Boza adores Svetochka and loves to walk anywhere with her. They seem to be very much at the same mentality level, when it comes to exploring. Neither one leads, they just wander aimlessly, meandering among the trees, homes and valleys of our village area. They are two peas in a pod; I call Sveta a “Sweet Pea” and Boza a “Pee Pot,” it really fits then to a tee…

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My blood sugar levels are now running 5.2 to 5.5 at fasting consistently and 7.0 to 8.0 after eating. That means I am winning the battle of the sugar issues. Sveta is seeing it first hand and she is stunned. She knows that I have been 15 and above consistently in the past. This is a new quality of life for me and while I have to watch it still, for the rest of my life, I am feeling better…

My blood pressure is getting low and I am trying to adjust. Sometimes I get dizzy as I stand up. But when your blood pressure readings can be all over the place at the drop of a hat, then it makes it hard…

The thinner I get, the better my conditions. I am definable a poster child for having to much fat and what it will do to your body. Weigh too much and you have blood pressure and sugar issues. Weight is simply inactivity and what you put in your mouth… Just a fact…

Easy Peasy to solve, but mentally a real bummer in life for some people, including me at times…

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Tomorrow Svetochka and I want to go to the Big Village. We are going to walk to the bus stop 2 to 3 kilometers away and take a bus into the Big Village. Then shop at the stores, turn around take a bus back and walk through the demon snow drifts back home. All while carrying too heavy bags of food and such. I will take the sled and hide it near the bus stop. I will drag our stuff that way. Life has a way…

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When you live in the U.S. you have an issue that keeps you from seeing the pervasiveness of the government, because it is in your face and all around you, that is all you know…

Then if you move away and get away from that source of propaganda, you realize that you have never seen the forest, because you only looked at the trees…

A normal not filthy rich person from the U.S. is virtually not able open a checking account in the rest of the world anymore. No one wants that American to open an account in their bank! Why? Because the hell involved to allow an American to open an account is not worth it. If they allow you to open an account, they will have enough paper work to buy a house available to cover their asses. This is how bad it has become as America shoves their nose into the whole worlds business. That is wrong…

Did you know that if you are an USA citizen and get married to someone in another country, that the income that person makes in their own country is taxed by your country; The Good Ole USA? Did you know that?

Seriously think about the fact that one day you will be caught by the IRS (I have been audited a dozen times in my life! Never came to anything, but stress and loss of work time!) and they will try to gather all the income tax they can from your spouse, who lives in 10-buck-too and also try to collect from back to when they first started working as an adult in their country and they where not married to you. Did you garner the words, “THEIR” and “NOT MARRIED” ?

Since the IRS is used as a control factor in the USA and they go after people that irritated them (them as in governmental demons,) The IRS is a pit bull that will get you if they think that they can get some extra money out of you and your loved ones. Even if those loved ones are not American by birth, or has ever lived there, and or has ever even been there…

Think about that for  second and wonder what is wrong with America. From what I understand, there is only one other country that has tax laws like America does for overseas expats. I used a western link to point out my point being made below. So talk to the hand, if you do not like a western link from the media proving my point…

Only two nations in the world tax their citizens who live abroad. One of them is a small and vicious African dictatorship. The other is the world’s most powerful democracy.

Does the U.S. really want to share this distinction with Eritrea?

I have to tell you that it is the things like this about the USA that makes it one of the most unfree countries in the world. Scoff all you want, but superficial local internal freedoms are not the same as freedoms of your movements around the rest of the world. When we stifle our peoples dealings and abilities all over the world, then we have become the number one dictatorship of the world and capitalism seems to be a glorified dictatorship of the upper class of people, running the country…

Besides do we enjoy being a Eritrea wannabe?

You want to open a bank account in many countries? Good luck Mr., Miss or Mrs. American, they do not want your money!’ and that is simply wrong on all levels…

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Have a nice day and I am going to be quiet now. Sveta is sleeping and Boza is next to her snoozing away. They are both storing up energy to go walk in the forests of life…

WtR

Being an American and having lived in Russia for 10 years now, I’ve been finding more and more Americans renouncing their citizenship based on the governmental policies and the wars that America commits. There is many more doing this than the government of ours admits to. The numbers are skewed because of policies that make it almost impossible to leave. If they had easy exit (as most countries,) then many many more people in the US would leave in a heartbeat…

Last night I received three e-mails from individuals that are needing help to leave America and what I see as a predominate issue is that people are very uneducated and scared. The world is a scary place to an American that has been coddled and cuddled all their life by a government and to be more scared of your government says a big statement…

One thing that I can say while sipping a cup of coffee is, “That after watching Russians, whom are not cuddled and coddled by the Russian government!” That they in fact are freer than Americans, due to such lack of attention by the governmental processes to be…”

I myself think it’s very proper and very brave of someone to break the ties and take that first baby step into the wonderful wild world we have at our disposal. For it’s either exile or prosecution, if you are an American and refuse to pay for taxes that you have no say of where it is being spent. Your money you pay in taxes is spent as if it is the governments own money to spend as it pleases. Since when did that happen and why?

If the US government passed an amendment (or something) that gave us Americans the choice of where our taxes would go (Like I would refuse my taxes to be used to war on other countries! I would refuse to have my money sent to countries like Egypt and Israel!) – that would be true democracy. It would be moral, ethical, and chances are far more ground breaking than even the founding of the original United States. Could you imagine a country that asks her people where it is able to spend their money? How about a country that asks her people, “May it go to war?” How about asking her people to do anything, because we have a little address we over look: “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” said by Lincoln at Gettysburg…

I had to learn that address by heart and recite it in front of class when I was little. I have never forgot it and can to this day, say it from memory at the drop of a hat…

Things like this will only happen when the “people” start making the tough choices and sacrifices. Which is why America isn’t a democracy, much less even a republic – it’s a plutocracy, plutonomy and or plutarchy. (means rule by the wealthy)

But I hope that will change, I have a growing impression that Americans will be setting the stage again, like they had when they broke away from the former Empire or North fought the South…

If I am wrong – well then you can continue to live in a world that only seems to care if we talk about adoption, abortion, gay-isms, married with children-isms, dancing with stars-isms, LGBT-isms, gun control, torture, Kadashy-isms and rape to name just a few items of molehill interest. These are the true cover up molehills of a society. If we allow all the molehills to control us then the wealthy and the government has us under their control. For they know that as long as you are looking at a molehill, you will never notice the mountain they have made to obscure your life…

While our real issue and problem (The real mountain of an obstacle!) is an out of control governmental system that has been allowed to grow exponentially beyond the normalcy of moral, physical, mental and financial barriers…

“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Boza and I are quiet this morning. We are walking on tiptoes and trying; oh it is hard for boys to be quiet! Svetochka is sleeping and when she comes to the village she sleeps to noon the first day and any other day that I let her sleep that long. Therefore, Bozochka and I are really trying to be quiet and good…

Oh how hard for boys to be good and quiet! 😉

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Boza and I walked already a long time ago and Boza did his doggy stuff and he wanted to go home. He knows mamma is there and wants to stay by her side. This is normal, for he loves Sveta very much. But then again, so do I…

It is always strange when she comes, for Boza and I are so use to a certain pattern and we religiously follow that pattern. It is how I remember to do things that are necessary for my health. When Sveta comes, Boza and I get off pattern. That is okay though, for soon we will garner another pattern to match the time now and then go back to the old pattern when Svetochka is gone…

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Trip to Big Village was rough. The little Niva that Vova has, made it. We had a plowed road, but the Fish Village came and got their blown up bulldozer, with another bulldozer. Thus with a little imagination, you can think about one bulldozer pulling a broken down bulldozer, down a narrow kinda plowed road and as they crashed through the woods, they tore our nice plowed road to pieces…

Thus, it got hairy at times and I have to say the little Niva is tough. But needs a little more height and much better tires. We actually had to plow some areas with the front of the Niva and that was no fun…

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Here is are two Niva’s living outside of Russia. I really like them…

They both have alternate tires, but one has extreme alternate. I like them and it makes me wish to have a Niva also. I drove Vova’s last night and it is a good vehicle. Though I am use to the spacious Volga and I am a big guy, thus the Volga is more comfortable for me. But being able to crawl around in the deep snow means something also…

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I have had a few very interesting e-mails and it looks like I have found a couple of guys who are actually what they are! Guys and real! It is hard on the internet to discern things and like I talked about yesterday, websites are being systematically destroyed, if they do not meet criteria set up by the powers to be. Fake people are a huge part of that system of destruction. I also have people set up intentionally as people, trying to befriend me to nuzzle closer. Therefore, if I seem aloof when you first contact me? I have reason for such standoffish attitude at times…

When you spend daily combating Washington D.C. and her attacks against a site that occasionally talks out, with experience learned over the many years I have been alive, on the troubles in the Wonderland called the U.S. of A. Maybe that is why they attack me, I have been first hand on the front line of our great country killing other countries to savor their resources…

I appreciate pictures from other people, for I take a bunch of images myself and get tired of just looking at my shots of life. I love to see what the world has around it and images are part of sharing that makes the world go around…

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I guess I am done for today. Svetochka is here and I hear here stirring. Boza just, “Ooof ooof” and she heard him He ran under the bed to leave me to get in trouble! Thanks buddy, I will remember that… 🙂

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