Walking early morning, before the world gets up…
It is so wonderful as the snow falls and maybe I will take another picture at this spot a month from now. The snow will not disappear and will just get deeper and deeper…
This is Russia…
WtR
Paint thinner, whale oil, black seed oil, or gasoline maybe even coconut oil??? I dunno, do you?
I thought the US was now a net oil exporter?
I assumed that meant we (America) produced enough oil to take care of ourselves….but we have to buy still half our oil. We either are an exporter, because we have excess or we are an importer, due to we do not produce enough…
Which one is it?
Neither! And that’s the problem…
The US consumes just short of 20 million barrels of oil per day. Recent figures show the US produced a record 11 million barrels per day. Do the math. The intentionally uninformed like to claim the US is energy independent because we produce more energy than we need, fail to realize and or care that figure includes all or most forms of energy such as coal and gas which a lot of gets exported. To the detriment of our own people in price and availability…
Canada supplies 40% of our oil. Saudis 9% with smidgens from dozens of other countries. The rest that we use is home grown. In 2017, the United States imported approximately 10.14 million barrels per day (MMb/d) of petroleum from about 84 countries…
So it seems to me that if we had our act together, we would be self-sufficient, with the exception of minor needs for different blends of oils from the world…
Thus, I seem to miss the boat with understanding. We do not produce more than we need. We produce about half. But we sell a bunch to the rest of the world and then buy from other countries, because we sell all of our oil, gas and such….We seem to relish in the fact that we sell our production of gas and oil and then turn around and buy it all back, because we would not have anything to run our country on…
Kinda seems to be stupid is as stupid does….twist it how you want, but playing with numbers to achieve a result that makes people happy to look at, is not the answer….GDP is part of the game and it is false GDP…
We still import a gosh darn bunch of oil…
WtR
I finally found the complete template. Not pieces and scarps, but the original template that I created. It just fits like a glove and I had to smile. I updated it and installed some protection corrections and maybe just maybe, DHS (Department of Homeland Security in the US) will leave me alone. I am really tired of being threatened by DHS, TSA, DC and several other alphabet letter wannabes.
Battleing denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) against Windows to Russia from my own Homeland…
Therefore, I am glad to see the actual original, most favorite template of mine. We have been running on a very light weight, yet ugly template. It was really good at resisting attacks and so I kept it awhile. But, I found my Grumpy Bear Template…
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I have been having issues and after saving up money to get some checkup done. It is time….it will cost around 50,000 rubles for all the work you see below. That is at today’s rate $752 and that hurts like hornet sting. But sometimes you have to bite the bullet and or in this case, get poked and prodded by mean Russian women… 😉
Comprehensive survey (check-up) for men expanded, maximum risks
Stage 1. Laboratory research:
1 Complete blood count
2 Biochemical blood test
3 Lipid profile (high and low density cholesterol)
4 Glycated hemoglobin
5 Coagulogram + D-dimer
6 TSH thyroid stimulating hormone
7 T4 free – thyroxine free thyroid
8 Testosterone
9 PSA common – tumor marker of the prostate gland
10 PSA free – tumor marker of the prostate gland
11 Complex HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C
12 General urine analysisStage 2 Diagnostic examination:
13 MRI of the pelvic organs
14 echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart)
15 ECG with transcript
16 abdominal ultrasound
17 thyroid ultrasound
18 ultrasound of the urinary system
19 Gastroscopy under sedation (in medication sleep)
20 Colonoscopy under sedation (in medication sleep)Can I have the iPhone instead of being picked on?
Stage 3 Specialist advice:
21 Consultation cardiologist
22 Consultation urologist
23 If necessary, consultations of a gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, rheumatologist, and neurologist are also included.
24 Consultation therapist
I am not looking forward to all this, but as I have said, the healthcare here in Russia is fantastic and the price is something that many readers from America could only dream about…
Heaven forbid! A damn iPhone costs way more than all this work to be done…
WtR
“The UK will have more spies than any one else”
Brits react after think tank @HJS_Org claims half of Russians in the UK are Kremlin informants.
MORE: https://t.co/B1yXayptKL pic.twitter.com/0phGIcOQUK
— RT UK (@RTUKnews) November 7, 2018
“Evil men have no songs.” How is it that the Russians have songs? – Friedrich Nietzsche
Good question, because I can attest that Russians have songs… 😉
WtR
Sayonara, ‘America First’! We Hardly Knew Ye!
Trump has the goods on them but just sits on his hands and threatens. (He should heed that great philosopher Tuco from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: “When you have to shoot, shoot – don’t talk.”) For those patiently waiting for Trump’s “4D chess” game to unleash QAon’s “Storm,” here’s a news flash: the cavalry is not coming to the rescue. The following are just a few names that will never be brought to justice: Rod Rosenstein, Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr, Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Lisa Page, Andrew Weissma
Source: Sayonara, ‘America First’! We Hardly Knew Ye!
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I was in on the Ukraine blocking of websites (2011) many years ago. WtR was being blocked by a new software be tested by Ukraine. This usage of Ukraine as a test site is nothing new…
Ukraine is Blocking Windows to Russia on a Permanent Basis – (Tuesday, August 16, 2011)
Now in another type of should be illegal (morally or not) activity…
This is just the testing ground for starting the rounding up of Russians in the west…
Very important and it is the start of UK/USA rounding up Russians…
Russians living in the west and lap puppy eastern states, better get their act together. They will be coming for you….sooner or later…
One step at a time…
Russians are the Boogeymen!
WtR
The country’s space agency, Roscosmos, has previously stated it will start building a lunar base in 2025 with humans being stationed there from 2030 or 2031. While there, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said they will check America’s claims. After being asked in NASA landed there, Mr Rogozin said: “We have set this objective to fly and verify whether they’ve been there or not.” While Mr Rogozin’s answer may have been tongue-in-cheek, this is not the first time Russia has had concerns over NASA’s
And days later…
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says the U.S. is within 10 years of having a continuous manned presence on the moon, which will lay the groundwork for expanding space exploration to Mars.
“Right now we’re building a space station, we call it ‘Gateway,’ that’s going to be in orbit around the moon — think of it as a reusable command module where we can have human presence in orbit around the moon. From there we want reusable landers that go back and forth to the surface of the moon,” Bridenstine told Hill.TV’s Jamal Simmons and Buck Sexton on “Rising.”
Source: NASA chief says US within 10 years of continuous manned presence on moon
This has become a weekly and almost daily thing for Russia to Troll the USA….and America falls for it “Hook, Line and Sinker”… 😉
Like fishing for Bluegills…
WtR
Biggest days of two companies. One from America and one from China… (Different days, but both in the last few weeks. And it is the biggest sales of each company for a day like period.)
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon: Safely back in their office cubicles, Americans let their fingers do the shopping Monday, racking up $6.59 billion in online sales by the end of the day. Cyber Monday topped out at a new online record, compared with Black Friday online sales of $5.03 billion, according to Adobe Analytics. That’s up from the previous record for Cyber Monday, which was last year’s $5.65 billion, a 16.8% increase.
Source: Cyber Monday: Biggest online shopping day in U.S. history pits Amazon vs. Walmart
Pretty good, pretty good. I wish I had that money to play with….yet…
But in China…
Alibaba on Sunday tore through last year’s Singles Day sales record, racking up more than $30.8 billion in the 24-hour shopping event. Gross merchandise value (GMV), a figure that shows sales across the Chinese e-commerce giant’s various shopping platforms, surpassed last year’s $25.3 billion record at around 5:34 p.m. SIN/HK (4:34 a.m. ET) on Sunday, and kept marching higher through the rest of the day.
Source: Alibaba sets a Singles Day record, beating Black Friday, and others
Svetochka and I tried to deal with Amazon and after being ripped off over some auto shocks that came defective, we will never again use that company. We shop Alibaba and or Aliexpress as we prefer and never have issues with quality and or returns…
Alibaba made some moolah, wouldn’t you say?
Interesting thing is all of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales do not equal this one day with Alibaba, from what I understand is Black Friday sales at Alibaba are still bigger than Amazons sales and Black Friday is not a Chinese event…
You think Black Friday shopping in the U.S. is huge? Yes, it is, but it pales in comparison to China’s largest one-day shopping day, Singles Day, a day when single people in China get to celebrate their singleness. And, this year, on November 11, 2018, Singles Day sales reached $30 billion in one day on Alibaba’s platform. Yes, you read that right $30 billion with a “b”. By comparison, in 2017, online sales on the Black Friday weekend, which now starts on Thanksgiving and rolls right into Small Business Sat
Source: China’s Alibaba Singles Day Sales Beats Black Friday and Prime Day by a Mile
Last link for some more thinkings to the wise…
WtR
Perhaps Putin should “stand up” to Trump over the Mexican border mess?
In light of the Russia-Ukraine standoff in the Kerch Strait, James Stavridis, a retired US Navy Admiral and former military commander of NATO, penned an article for Time to call on President Donald Trump to ‘strongly affirm’ US support for Kiev ‘in every dimension, including providing them with capable defensive armament’.
Perhaps Putin should “stand up” to Trump over the Mexican border mess?
Makes about as much sense…
In light of the American-Migrant border standoff at the USA-Mexican border, Joe Blow, a retired Russian Navy Admiral and former military commander of CSTO, penned an article for Time to call on President Putin to ‘strongly affirm’ Russian support for Honduras Migrants ‘in every dimension, including providing them with capable defensive armament’…
That is what I thought, stupid huh!
Then why do we do such stupid ass things and make us look like blithering idiots all over the world?
WtR