Sanctions takes time to go into effect. Right now, Russian oil isn't being too welcomed here. The russian stock market has been shut down since this started. Russian ruble has fallen in value. Like it was worth much to begin with? 1.3 cents per US dollar on Monday, now it's worth one cent. It did fall off about 40%, that's something.
Putin has already been charged with war crimes by Ukraine, for attacking civilians. Two major no-no's has happened already, carpet bombing, and planting land mines around that major nuclear power plant.

In order to try Putin, after this is all done, you have to catch him. I'll guess, he will never be able to set one foot outside his country ever again. Lindsey Graham has said putin should be assassinated, but the USA won't allow that. It doesn't mean it has been talked about behind closed doors in government. Graham has been getting blowback for his remarks.
We'll just have to weather this mess out for now.

So, if someone comes in my house, threatens to kill me, and I don't have a gun to defend myself, I should die?
No way, no how will I do that.

Now you're probably thinking how could that ever happen, it's just a chance happening. I beg to differ.

I did some work for an older gentleman, when I was working part time for a local safe and lock company. We got called out to service his safe. What this guy did, was write on the wall above and behind his safe, the combination to his safe. It was behind a potted plant that sat on top of the safe. His reason for that was, had he gotten broken into and taken hostage, he could open his safe, and give whomever, the contents of his safe. He had been, in the past, and he was glad he's done it. Reason being, under a stressful situation, he'd forget his combination.

So, one night, A couple black kids broke into his house,and surprised him in bed. He had no chance to reach for his handgun that he kept in the nightstand beside his bed. They knew he had a safe, so they took him down to the room he had it in, and forced him to open it for the money. Well, a couple weeks before, his children had painted that room for him. They had inadvertently painted over the combination he's written on the wall! Of course he couldn't remember the combination, so they slashed his throat, and he bled to death in front of the safe. One of his children found him the following day, dead.

I suspect given a chance, he would have shot those kids dead. He struck me as someone who would have. In our state, you CAN do that. Several times in my area, that has happened, and the property owners did defend themselves, and got off.

One gas station owner right down the road from me had towed a customers car for him. This was on a Sunday morning when the station was closed. They were outside the station talking, when one would be thief tried to rob both of them. While they were laying on the ground, co-operating with the thief, the thief shot the customer dead! The thief took off running. The owner took control of the situation. He chased the murder down in his tow truck, and ran the S.O.B over with his truck! So what did the owner get for that? A commendation from the County Police. He had that hanging on his wall in the station until he retired, which was just last year.

Yeah, you can say we should outlaw guns. But if you do that, and take away guns, only criminals will have guns. Not everyone is a law abiding citizen.

They have been nothing short of OUTSTANDING during this mess.

This country deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for what they're doing.

We can only hope. If he does, we'll see a turnout that can make the last election look like they were just fooling around. I think they just dragged him into the race because of all the zeros they had to choose from.

Could you defend his idiotic moves? He can't be dismissed as just a senile old man, who is just talking to make noise. If he disappears to his home this weekend, we'll all know how much he cares about anything.

Well, no, Oppenheimer was the director. They had people that worked under him. My uncle worked with them in NYC, then, University of Chicago. He was drafted into the Navy, then got discharged to work at Los Alamose.

Aside from that he worked there, is all I know. And that he made a healthy chunk of change working there.

Here's something to think about. He worked at Los Alamose. But he commuted every day from Santa Fe. One way, 140 miles. And he did that for 35 years. Oh, and he knew Robert Oppenheimer.

The rest, I get to guess at.

I don't think so. So far, digital currency is too easy to hack into. Too many won't deal with anything but cash, including me.

One time, I sold an old boat for a hundred bucks. The dope that bought it talked too much. I happened to pick up just where he lived, but he didn't remember that he said it. Anyway, Like a fool, I let him write me a check for it, it bounced, and he had taken possession of the boat.

Me being the detective, I found that boat in his back yard. (it wasn't hard, I found it and him in about a half hour of driving around in alleys) Was HE shocked to find me at his FRONT DOOR! I gave him a couple hours to find me cash, and I got paid for it.

For thousands of years, people traded on the barter system. Many still do. Bitcoin is too flighty, so are others. Conversion to usable currency costs the person who has it. Those Coin Star vending machines that convert coins into cash, takes 15% of the value from you for just using the lousy thing.

I went to Walmart and spent $36 on a coin sorter. In three uses, it's paid for itself, and my credit union gives me coin wrappers. I'm worth $15 bucks an hour, which is about the amount of time it takes to count out $100.

If digital takes over, it has to be more secure than it is now. I have a Paypal account, but its got a $300 limit on it, That I put on it.Once I went over it. I made advance arrangements for that, and it was only one transaction. I won't do my income taxes online. I still write checks. (Old fashioned me) Eventually, it probably will, but not in my lifetime. (I Hope!)

So am I. Along with Harris claiming to be in the White house that day, when she was really at the DNC offices. How can you feel threatened when you aren't there?

And the name of this thread is called-

Politics, Current News and Events.

Down a bit farther is-

General Religion and Chat.

Find the thread you like and go there. Don't like the title? Don't go in.

How hard is that?

It would work, until it comes time to pay capital gains taxes on your cashed in crypto-currency. Yes, it's income, but with a bunch more paperwork. Then, crypto value can increase 100 fold. It can also circle the drain and be worth nothing too quickly.

Forget to add it to your income taxes come filing time, the IRS might forgive you if you forgot about it.BUT! They WON'T forget how to penalize you with the interest it accumulates.

Ok, just suppose all of the mental health experts can't reform some of these longterm mental cases? Pump drugs into them until they can only walk around in a drunken stupor?

I know personally of one kid that was adopted. His birth mother was a crackhead. This kid has been in and out of therapy, family counseling, He's been one big mess for them since day one. His adopted parents are going to turn this kid loose at age 18, and wash their hands of this kid.

Just what do we do with this potential menace to society? Let him cruise along until he kills someone? I'm not at all for abortion, but I have to admit that in this situation, it should have happened. And just how many more are out there like him?

Should we be cruel to him and lock him up until he's dead? Or wait until he murders someone, then lock him up? Would it be fair to the person he does murder?

This isn't a good situation.

In WW2, we were doing something called Lend-Lease to you. We were giving you tools to fight a war. What did we get in return? Ships being sunk by German U-boats.
Then, obama was giving Ukraine blankets, when they were asking for Tankbusters to defend themselves. Trump gave them the tankbusters.

Lyndon Johnson escalated Vietnam. Kennedy was going to pull out in early 1964. Now, I DON'T believe for one minute that Oswald was alone in killing Kennedy. Kennedy's headshot came from in front of him. The Zapruder film proved that. The who will never be solved.

A few wars, we were asked for help, and we gave it.

Now me, I think biden is a huge doofus, and so is Putin. Who in their right mind would take over a country, that has a thing called Chernobyl? You want that mess within your boarders? Fine. Guess what! We're sending a bill for housing that nuclear reactor, the rest of the world paid for.
Please bring cash.

It would be nice if Durham found evidence. He may have, and is just playing close to the vest. What he needs is someone to roll over on the clinton's. Much in the same way as John Dean did during Watergate. I think the dems were trying to get Paul Manaforth to do the same. But, since he probably didn't know what was going on, he wouldn't lie to keep himself out of jail. Since the dems seem to be running scared, perhaps he's found something.

Darn! And I was so looking forward for "his" logical answers to the questions you posed.

That is something I object to, kids getting the Vax. Three, out of one million kids could get it. At their young ages, their bodies can become immune to it, and it doesn't even make them sick. A friend's granddaughter got it. He said, aside from even testing positive for it, you couldn't tell she was even sick. This was known back when it all started.

I'll bet every truck that's in this protest, has a driver in it, or near it. Not one has parked it in the middle of the street and walked away from it. Unless they were arrested.

I'm loving to hear every squealing dem complain about this. And watching them dropping their mandates because, all of a sudden, they are not so sure of re-election. (Including beat-o, who all of a sudden has become pro second amendment? WHAT a LIAR!!!)

I hope the left is taking notes on what a peaceful protest this is. If Trucks start burning, we will know antifa is the cause of it.

I had it. About 3 weeks before the pandemic ever started. I decided to not do the shots. I was feeling sick for about a day and a half, then I went to work. After a day outside, I felt pretty good.

I got curious, I started searching for reasons why I didn't get as sick as others. It was that I wasn't obese, I didn't have contributing issues that would cause me to die. Since that time, when I got exposed to others that had come down with it, I never got it. I'm immune.

I decided to NOT expose myself to the virus again. My body is my body. Then the Johns-Hopkins study said that .2% of the people who got shots, wore masks, still got it. Besides, any booster is only good for 90 days anyway.

But we are not immune to government overreach. Their are waay too many government officials that get drunk with power and love to tell people what to do. Truckers are, for the most part, are Independent Contractors. They call their shots. If one company fires them for whatever,they drive down the street to the next terminal, pull in, walk in,"I'm a truck driver, here's my log book, I'm ready to drive." and the next company hires them.

Now, The Truckers are trying to deliver us freedom. Freedom from oppressive socialist dems, who want to tell us how to live. (I'm getting huge laugh that Tow truck drivers won't touch them!) And now, the government is trying to take away the money donated to them from GiveSendGo. Trudeau is in hot water, biden is trying to jump in to the same pot with him.

Let him.That way, he can get hung out to dry with the rest of dem party.

Much to your dismay. Dems censured Kiristen Sienna because she wouldn't toe the dem line.
The lies are surfacing about Jan 6. Harris swore up and down she was at the White House that day. Turns out she went to the DNC office, then supposedly walked close to a "supposed pipe bomb", planted the day before. Problem with that, is that it was not built right, they couldn't find any prints on it, and they claim they can't find the guy who planted it. Even with security photos.
I think it's all to cover up the usual dem BS they are all are famous for.

You will never hear about it. That would mean they admit there are some bad eggs in their basket.
Same way all whites are racist.
If that's the case, then the leadership of this country is racist.

Oh don't get me started! Lots of trips aboard my Gold Wings. Out west, down south, just day rides.

I did three Mystery rides for my now defunct chapter. One down to south east Ohio where I took them down the Dragon's tail.
Another one, in Southeast Illinois. We crossed over the Mississippi, rode along it to Winfield, Mo. The pavement ended on the edge of the Mississippi river. I pulled up at the very best time. All I heard was gripes about having to turn around. (I got that several times) Nobody knew it, at the time. I shouted to them,"Our Ride is coming!" Up came the Windfield Ferry, for a car ferry ride across the Mississippi. So, 16 Wings rode aboard, and we crossed the Mississippi in style. We rode around Calhoon county for a while, then up to Harden, IL., to the Miss Illinois, the only working car ferry on the Illinois river.

It was the first trip that made me Mystery ride co-coordinator. I managed to sell them on my skills later on that year, when our chapter leader took us down to the Ohio River. He got lost, and was going to take us back 30 miles to a bridge across the Ohio. I stopped him, told the group to just ride four miles upto the Markland Dam bridge, he didn't know about.

A few times I led our rides, I GOT lost! I kept my yapper shut! Three separate times, they never knew I was lost! I just knew if I rode in one specific direction, I'd trip over my road I was looking for, and I did.

One year, I rode to Florida on just state highways,NO interstates.(From Northern Indiana) I found out the road I picked, was the route of the worlds longest yardsale. Four hours to travel 100 miles. (US 127)

I wouldn't trade any of my road trips. Each has been different. I bet I've ridden over dozens of covered bridges. One of my yearly rides takes me to Dunn's Bridge. That one, is a bridge that was originally built from the Ferris Wheel from the Chicago World's fair. One place called Jungle Park, I rode past several times, I never knew what it was. Turns out, it was one of the most dangerous car race tracks in Indiana. During it's time, it had killed about 10 drivers, and several spectators.

I've seen Rabbit Hash, Ky., Hell, Mi. China, In., rode Road Rd., seen the last surviving Hudson car dealership. Been on a Y bridge.(That has a stop light in the middle of it)

Yeah, road trips are fun.

Clearly you're armed with the latest scuttlebutt from left leaning news feeds that have no clue about which end is up.