Monthly Archives: September 2022

Putin Finds Out About The Kharkiv Counteroffensive

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Downfall parodies! The lazy blogger’s friend! Got to admit I laughed at this one. And of course, Putin is more like Hitler than the average target… My one main criticism is that they didn’t work the shout of “Stalin!” into … Continue reading →

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Breaking: Ukraine Retakes Izyum

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Lawrence Person

As Ukraine’s Kharkiv counteroffensive developed earlier this week, it was apparent that the occupied city of Izyum, the linchpin of Russia’s northeast line, was in danger of being encircled. I anticipated a few weeks of hard fighting while Ukraine slowly … Continue reading →

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Holy Crap, Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory is Huge

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Lawrence Person

This may fall into the “old news is so exciting” category for many of you. I knew that Tesla was building it’s Gigafactory east of Austin, and that it was large, but since I almost never travel to that part … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 9, 2022

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Ukraine is carving out big gains in Kharkiv, Texas is in the money, Biden taps Clinton’s bagman to divy up the graft manage climate change funds, more groomers unmasked, and some big changes in the UK. Plus a bit about … Continue reading →

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Then: Commercial Investors Are Sucking Up All American Housing! Now: They’re Losing Their Shirts!

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Lawrence Person

If you can remember all the way back to pre-Flu Manchu 2020, housing prices were soaring and there were a raft of articles decrying how commercial investors were snapping up housing as fast as they possibly could, pricing ordinary Americans … Continue reading →

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Ukrainian Counteroffensive In Kharkiv?

Posted on September 7, 2022 by Lawrence Person

There are indications that Ukraine, in addition to the Kherson counteroffensive, is conducting a counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast, and has apparently captured Volokhiv Yar, Balakliya and Yakovenkove, towns between Kharkiv and Russian-occupied Izyum. It’s unclear whether this is a feint, … Continue reading →

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When Storage Wars Meets Gun Hoarders

Posted on September 6, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Back when I’d visit my parents a decade or so ago, one of my father’s guilty pleasures was watching Storage Wars. If you’re unfamiliar with this cable staple, it features competing teams of people bidding on abandoned storage units, then … Continue reading →

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Ukraine: Don’t Assume Russia Will Win

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Defense analyst Anders Puck Nielsen says there’s a tendency for many to believe that, although Ukraine has put up a good fight, a Russian victory in the Russo-Ukrainian War is inevitable. (I assume he’s seeing these on the various MSM … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Beast

Posted on September 4, 2022 by Lawrence Person

As I did with Fury, here’s a review of another movie that follows a tank crew driving deep into enemy territory. But instead of an American Sherman driving deep into Germany in 1945, it’s a Soviet T-55 taking a wrong … Continue reading →

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The Ukraine War Map Problem

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Lawrence Person

When the Russo-Ukrainian war kicked off back in February, I relied on https://liveuamap.com/ to track military action in the war, just as I had used their similar map when tracking the war against the Islamic State. However, after the initial … Continue reading →

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