Category: Russia

It takes a few days to sink in. 2018 is here and we are now counting down a new year….actually hard to get a grip on, for it seems that 2017 just started to me. It was a good year here in Russia and the Russian people moved forward far in life this last year…

According to the past:

1. We should be out of oil.
2. The ozone hole should have killed us all by now.
3. Y2K was the end of technology.
4. Religion televangelist Pat Robertson said, “I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on the world,”.
5. Halley’s Comet, 1910 the end of times.
6. The upcoming ice age turned to a heat wave in propaganda.
7. Mass starvation the world over.
8. Pollution would end life way before now.
9. Nitrogen build up was inevitable.
10. Computers would never be a home and personal item.
11. TV and other media stuff would become boring and end in its usage.
12. Reading and such, would cause us to loose an eye and become cyclops.
13. Lots more was predicted.

But some things happened…

1. Nikola Tesla predicted personal wireless devices would be real.
2. H.G. Wells talked about Nukes.
3. Isaac Asimov talked about the Internet and learning.
4. Driver less cars.
5. AT&T told us about tablet computers.
6. TV will make future generations stupid.
7. Organ transplants.
8. lots more happened…

All I know is this:

We are able to do anything and everything, if we could just get over our stupidity. Nothing is beyond our reach as a species, but ignorance and self-contentedness keeps getting in the way all the time…

Will we grow out of it?

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is. – Abraham Maslow

Can we keep from killing, suppressing and devaluing the tips of growth?

WtR

Source: “#FrozenAmerica”: Locals Panic As 92% Of US Below Freezing

I find this article above interesting, for Russia is the opposite and is really very nice weather here…

I am not complaining….for it is great to walk around in just 0 Celsius temperatures instead of -20 below and that my friend is a needed break for us Russian types…

I have always said, “Keep the natural gas at home and use it for your own people! Life is not a dollar bill and staying warm is worth all the gold and dollars in the world.”

Why Britain is being beat to death over extremely high gas prices, that Russia is having to ship excess gas LNG to Britain so that the British do not run out of fuel this winter…

Hmm! Maybe Russia needs to ship some to America?

Stay warm America…

WtR

January 1st till January 8th and all of Russia literally comes to a halt. I kind of like it and have grown use to it. When I first came to Russia many years ago, I was taken back by the fact that the whole country shut down and people partied until they ran out of money and or booze. Russians have lots of extra spending money and the ones who drink? This is the holiday of all holidays….plus Russians shoot fireworks like no tomorrow and this shooting of fireworks will last about the whole week they are off. Once again, the limitations is when everyone runs out of money, booze and fireworks…

Though as the title suggests….this holiday is sleepy and quiet. You can walk the daytime streets of Moscow and find at best 25% of the normal people out and about. Svetochka and I take advantage of such moments in life and go see things…

Yes I like the holidays in Russia and below is a table of the 2018 holidays to come…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Here comes Santa Claus Ded Moroz…

Is There A Santa Claus in Russia? (Audio)

Have a happy New Year from Svetochka, Boza and Kyle at Windows to Russia…

WtR

U.S. Military To Allow Transgender Recruits After Trump Administration Drops Appeal

An LGBT activist says the Trump administration has waved “the white flag,” dropping an appeal of court rulings blocking a ban on transgender troops.

Source: U.S. Military To Allow Transgender Recruits After Trump Administration Drops Appeal

Maxwell Q. Klinger played by Jamie Farr was a well loved part of MASH, but Klinger has been grounded….no chance of getting out now, transgenders are welcomed with open arms in the USA military. 😉

Time to be who you want to be and get to crawl on the ground at shoot someone at the same time…

Yes I know that Klinger was just acting and really desired to just get out of the hell hole of war, but he will have to find another way out now….he is no longer unique… Now it is no longer acting to get out, it is soon to be, what “prom dress” do I get to wear to the front line? A girl has to look good you know?

I wonder if we will accept all (100+) genders? Will we allow all aspects that go hand in hand with these gender names? (and or) Will we pay for all gender reassessment or realignment of body parts, including mental adjustment and what-knots?

There is still a ways to go (but we are over half way to the bottom) before we slam head first unto the floor of the pit. Many years ago we threw ourselves off the edge and decided that the ride to the bottom was worth it. But one day that bottom will come and then paying the piper will become foremost important. Funny thing about leaping off a cliff and or into a big hole, it is like selling your soul to the devil!

I am going to have a cup of coffee and then go laugh until I cry…

Happy New Year America!

WtR

Again we are interfering in Iran and we wonder why they hate us…

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-30/us-state-department-hints-iran-overthrow-are-we-witnessing-early-stages-regime

The US State Department has issued a formal condemnation of the Iranian government following two days of economic protests centering in a handful of cities, calling the regime “a rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos” while announcing support for protesters. It fits a familiar script which seems to roll out when anyone protests for any reason in a country considered an enemy of the United States (whether over economic grievances or full on calling for government overthrow).

Happy New Year from the instigator USA…

WtR

First tanker of Russian gas arrives in UK to keep Britons from freezing this winter — RT Business News

Russian tanker Christophe de Margerie has brought the first batch of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Yamal to the United Kingdom. London had to urgently turn to Russian gas targeted by US sanctions due to supply outages.

Source: First tanker of Russian gas arrives in UK to keep Britons from freezing this winter — RT Business News

A week ago…

Britain is having indigestion gas issues…

A Summary of the $5.6 Trillion in Costs for the US Wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Post 9/11 Veterans Care and Homeland Security…

PDF link: Costs of U.S. Post-9_11 NC Crawford FINAL

Seriously people, why we pay for healthcare in America, when we spend money like water flowing out of an open faucet over war?

What we could do for our people and our country if we had spent that money on education, healthcare and infrastructure…

Wake up people…

WtR

Sometimes Sveta does things that makes no sense to me and yet they do make sense. Does that make sense?

Yesterday, Svetochka brought home four packs of Gingerbread Cookies….now understand that gingerbread cookies are the base for the pie crust of the pumpkin pies I make. But….a pack of gingerbread cookies will make three pies…

So since we do not eat the cookies for any reason other than pumpkin pies and the cookies are available everywhere. I have to shake my head and come to the conclusion that Sveta wants me to make twelve pumpkin pies in the future. Actually eleven, for one will be made very soon as in the present for New Years… 😉

The recipe that I use is this one below…

Simple – A Pumpkin Pie Recipe…

Yes, Svetochka has given me a big hint, that Pumpkin pies are on the New Year list of foods to make…

Love that girl, she is my sweetie!

WtR

Just some images of our life in Russia…

Svetochka has her camera back and is taking images constantly. She is now back to sneaking around and catching Boza and I and Moscow at doing their thing. She is a happy girl when her camera works and I would say that the best Christmas gift was to rebuild her Samsung Galaxy 4 Zoom…

No one is safe again from her camera… 😉

Boza knows when daddy cooks, good stuff too munch on is coming. For the holidays, I have rotisserie a Pheasant and a Cornish Game Hen. Boza and Svetochka gave their approval of these delicacies and Svetochka even got her Bear style Pumpkin Pie…

The big computer died…

Honey I blew up the computer, so lets have coffee…

We ran on our laptop for a week or so and then after I gathered up parts. Motherboard, CPU, RAM and other tidbits. I rebuilt the computer. Svetochka had to help me for the last several connections, I needed a navigator on the PDF manual for the last tiny front panel connections on the motherboard and we got it done, thanks to Sveta…

Yesterday, I finished the final check list on what I did and fired it up. I had my flash drive with Windows 7, 64bit and in a few minutes she came to life and in a few hours, ready for Svetochka to get back online with. Therefore, here I am today irritating the world with Russian stuff…

Better than new, the lifeline to the outside world….good or bad, however you want to see it…

Gotta walk the doggy…

WtR