Year: 2020

They become delusional…

~~ Come on America; enough of the games. Just flip a coin and name the winner of the coin toss the president….think about how much money we could save if we just coin tossed the election in the first place. ~~

Sarcasm aside: That coin toss concept makes a hell of a lot more sense than what we are watching right now unfold across the once proud country of the USA, now a unvarnished Banana Republic…

Paranoid and delusional Kingdoms/Countries, its dictators/puppets Leaders, its collectives, its dwellers & multiples of idiosyncratic individuals; say the darnedest things when they can’t make sense of the world and or their place within it…

They become delusional…

WtR

Update in the delusion arena…

“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.” ― A. E. Housman

I suspect Trump will go full retard before this is over and you all know that you never go full retard! Trump is living on Twitter… Tweet Tweet…

(CNN)In the space of 30 minutes on Thursday afternoon, the two candidates for president both put out statements on the ongoing 2020 vote count.

Here’s what Joe Biden said: “Be patient, folks. Votes are being counted, and we feel good about where we are.”

And here’s what President Donald Trump said: “IF YOU COUNT THE LEGAL VOTES, I EASILY WIN THE ELECTION! IF YOU COUNT THE ILLEGAL AND LATE VOTES, THEY CAN STEAL THE ELECTION FROM US!”

Before you ask, no, my “Caps Lock” button wasn’t accidentally on. That’s how the statement from the President of the United States actually read.

Source: Will Donald Trump’s final act be defining the presidency downward? – CNNPolitics

They need to take Trump’s phone away from him until this is over! He is inciting and doing it on purpose…

I am for neither guy as president, yet Trump is being an ass right now….as he always has been….and now is not the time!

Yes, the USA is always #1 – even in a good scandal soap opera…

The Bidenites and Trumpies all have their panties in a twist….there is some serious “putting on the pedestal” issues going on right now in the USA…

Jeez Louise, talk about the greatest race between two old guys, whom neither one is cognitive enough and or able to morally run a country like the USA!

From Russia the USA is all about Soap Opera…

A funny thing happened on the way to the Soap Opera…

Just when there was only a Buffoon to vote for?

What to say? Soap Opera Time…

Looks kinda like a soap opera…

Soap Opera perfection is at play right now in America…

The propaganda has flown like cow dung from the tractor tires on a rainy day…

It is all here folks: Lying, cheating, finger pointing, threats, lawsuits and Super Soap Opera Day…

All over an election about “Nobody”, because “Nobody” wants the job, “Somebody” is trying to get the job. “Nobody” or “Somebody” it is all the same…

WtR

PS: Peak Government = Peak Chaos…

The only truth about the oil tankers that the USA illegally confiscated back in August 2020 is that “We” (USA) admit that “We” took the tankers against the wishes of others, “We” (USA) now proclaim that “We” sold it and “We” (USA) do not seem to care that facts, legality and morality are completely lacking in the US actions…

Everything else about this situation is rubbish…

The United States said Thursday that it had sold Iranian oil seized on its way to Venezuela for more than $40 million. Washington announced in August that it had confiscated 1.1 million barrels of petroleum from four tankers en route between the two countries, which are both under US sanctions. “We estimate that in excess of $40 million will be recouped by the United States related to the sale of petroleum from those four vessels,” Michael Sherwin, the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, told reporters by telephone.

Source: US sells oil seized from Iran to Venezuela for $40 million – France 24

Tidbit: Always look at the wording of what is said: “recouped” means – to have regained (something lost or expended)….It has been stated as if the USA lost the tankers and oil in the first place. Like it was stolen from us and we finally got it back…

The USA: Greatest Pirates of the High Seas…

Again we have reached that #1 spot…

WtR

You can tell Sveta is around. Now pictures of me are common. Even if I do not want them taken….I am worn out in this image and yet, I really realized how much weight I have lost…

The first thing in my mind as I saw this photo above; That is my Grandpa Stroud!

I have lost at least 50 kilos in the last four years. (110 pounds for you in America and 7.87 stone for those in Britain.) I have lost at least 60 + kilos total since getting my act together here in Russia away from the hell in the USA…

I remember seeing 340 lbs and now I am definitely below 200 lbs…

WtR

It is amazing when the realization of normalcy hits home again. I can hear the slight breathing of Svetochka in the other room. She sleeps much longer periods of time than I do. Thus, during her sleep times, I do all my writing and whatnot’s…

While the weather is not cooperating for happy walks and getting more work done outside….the weather is not near as bad as it could be and for that we are thankful…

It is also interesting to me, as I have been so busy these last seven months, that I missed my better half, who was isolated in Moscow and I have been isolated in the Tiny Russian Village. I think I had the best end of the deal, to be honest with you…

Yet, there is something so perfect at this moment, as I write this post and realize that my better half is around again…

I believe that I tried hard not to think about the separation that Sveta and I had to deal with and I believe that she did the same. Now, after finally getting back together in the same home, it is a relief to not have a pretense hanging over your head all the time…

Never say it is over!

Sammy the Volga has finally for the moment, gotten all her major issues done. The latest, but I am sure not last, issue was one of the carrier Bearings on the drive shaft(s). Sammy the Volga has a three piece drive shaft….when I have constantly asked why? Two piece? Maybe? Three piece? Why?

Then the young guy who has been working on Sammy asks, “Did you replace the driveshaft at one time?” – “No! Why?”

Then we find out that many Volga’s came with a one piece shaft and that it was considered much more reliable and better by far…

The three piece shaft is in a straight line. Is not a lot longer than my arm in complete and makes no sense as to ground clearance and reliability type of standpoint. The opposite in fact is true. We have so many more moving parts and so many more things to go out in such a short space, that it makes no sense…

After looking around and investigating. It looks as if whatever was available at the time the car was built? Was put in….it could have been a one piece, two piece and or three piece driveshaft!

Interesting….for now Sammy has stopped her squeals and knocks in the drive line! This is the second time to have to keep replacing universal-joints and when it crops up again, I foresee a single drive shaft future for Sammy!

While my brain wants to stay in the Tiny Russian Village, my heart knows and accepts that it is time to get back to Moscow and help Sveta through the winter. I know that I will be back after winter decides to go back to sleep. I have to paint mom’s home, rebuild her brick wood stove and do as I did to Nikolai’s home this last summer. That means re-fence mom’s yard also…

Yes, I can do just fine in the TRV for winter but, “Why?” If Sweetpea wanted to stay with me there? That would be a great reason to stay all winter. No Boza anymore. Can’t do anything but wait for Old man Winter to go away!

Therefore, time to pack and get on the road to Moscow!

Besides, I want a hot shower!

WtR

Russia going to to annex everything east of the Dnieper in Ukraine…

WtR

Tomorrow on Saturday about noon. I will pick Svetochka up from the big main highway, which is about a two hour drive from TRV. She is taking a taxi (Six hour trip from Moscow.) to a gas station on that highway and I will get her from there…

Then a week later, Svetochka and I take Sammy the Volga and get back to Moscow…

~~ Oh Noes

I gotta be good again! ~~

But seriously: I am so glad that Sveta has finally been able to break away from work and family to come down to TRV….but darn the spring summer and fall are all gone. I have been here from the complete spring, summer and fall of a typical Russian year. Old Man Winter was dancing when I came to TRV and he woke up from his nap and is dancing again…

Time flies!

WtR

“The transfer of long-range missiles from Iran to Venezuela is not acceptable to the United States and will not be tolerated or permitted,” said Elliott Abrams, the State Department Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela.”We will make every effort to stop shipments of long-range missiles, and if somehow they get to Venezuela they will be eliminated there,” added a senior administration official.

Source: US threatens to destroy Iranian missiles shipped to Venezuela | Fox News

We actually threaten constantly, illegal activities against most of the worlds countries…

For many years; Almost all actions by the United States of America against other countries is and are illegal in the court of law both internationally & domestically. This does not stop the U.S. from doing what it does. Yet illegal is illegal. The US does it even knowing that what they do is illegal. Simply, they do not care…

USA; Leave Venezuela and Iran alone! Better yet….leave the whole damn world alone and solve the internal issues at home…

WtR

MOSCOW, October 29./TASS/. Former National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, who has obtained an open-ended Russian residency permit, is going to be a father soon, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told TASS on Thursday.The baby will have citizenship of the Russian Federation, Kucherena affirmed. “They [Snowden and his wife Lindsay Mills] are expecting their child soon. The citizenship will be that of the place of birth,” he added, saying that the child is due at the end of the year.

Source: Snowden expectant father, baby to get Russian citizenship, says lawyer – Society & Culture – TASS

Interesting….Wonder what name they will give?

I like Ivan (Иван or Іван – Meaning: “God is gracious”) for a boy and Ivana (Ивана meaning: “Gift from God”) for a girl, good Russian name!

And very fitting for their circumstances…

WtR

PS: Russia has been very good to you Snowden. Respect that…

Little creatures seem to like me. I do not know why, but they seem to…

The yard down the way has sunflowers everywhere. The birds do not touch them. They are exactly the same as what I put out for the flying piggy’s in our yard…

Yesterday, I watched at least a hundred Chickadees, better known at this point, as Flying Piggy’s, eating and socializing and really enjoying life. There is a flock of sparrows that come through and they try, yet they just cannot deal with sunflower seeds. So they move on after attempting to be a flying piggy. There is also a Eurasian Jay and he is a Hoggy. I tell him to get lost when I see him. He is easy to sneak upon and scare…

I have to laugh when he looks at me (After I say in my grouchy bear voice, “What the hell do you think you are doing?”) and his eyes get the size of a coffee cup saucer. Then he screams and flies like a bat out of hell…

The Chickadees or Flying Pigs, all sit there and laugh. They seem to know that I am not talking to them. The sparrows….well they just keep fighting among themselves. I could reach up and grab one of them, for they only pay attention to the game they play….I call it “squabble”…

We do have one Nuthatch and he is my very favorite bird of all. He is just a bit bigger than a chickadee, yet he flies like a rocket compared to a jet. He has a straight line attitude. Go through it not around it. Including me it seems at times….I have had the bejeebers startled out of me as he cuts the hair on my head at times. My hair is not that long…

I went back to the sunflower field yesterday. People have really cleaned it out, yet I know and will get muddy to find more seeds for the babies (piggies) in our yard…

Yes I found more sunflower heads. Sammy the Volga and I were caked in mud…

Gotta feed those Flying Piggy’s…

WtR