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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2022 22:30:45 GMT -5
Photo by Vitaly Nevar/Reuters
The S-400 Triumph surface-to-air missile system after deployment at a military base near Kaliningrad, Russia, March 11, 2019
Off Topic: Russian warship "The Moscva" has sunk ... Ukraine takes credit while Moscow says it was an accident when ammunition blew a hole in the hull from a fire onboard. Any way you slice it, more ineptitude from the Russian military! Oh, and this was their flagship guided missile warship, no doubt responsible for a great deal of the scorched earth policy carried by Putin to destroy cities and their inhabitants targeting hospitals, schools, apt bldgs and major population centers. This loss should now limit the random targeting of bldgs within major metropolitan centers to land based military equipment (tanks & mobile launchers [though not as big as that pictured above] which are vulnerable to stinger, neptune & javelin missiles) or fighter jets that have been countered by satellite targeting with an assist from the west and switchblade drones.
The Slava-class cruiser was the third largest vessel in Russia's active fleet and one of its most heavily defended assets, naval expert Jonathan Bentham from the International Institute for Strategic Studies told the BBC.
The cruiser was equipped with a triple-tiered air defence system that if operating properly should have given it three opportunities to defend itself from a Neptune missile attack.
In addition to medium- and short-range defences, it could engage six short-range close-in weapon systems (CIWS) as a last resort.
Mr Bentham said Moskva should have had 360-degree anti-air defence coverage.
"The CIWS system can fire 5,000 rounds in a minute, essentially creating a wall of flak around the cruiser, its last line of defence," he said.
If the strike is proven to have come from a missile it "raises questions over the capabilities of the modernisation of the Russian surface fleet: whether it had enough ammunition, whether it had engineering issues".
"Essentially, you'd have thought that with that three-tiered anti-air defence system it would be very hard to hit," the military expert added.
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61103927
On another note, former Trump campaign mgr Paul Manafort's Russian connection in Ukraine (Viktor Medvedchuk) has been captured and faces treason charges ... Quite a good week for Ukraine! www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/world/europe/viktor-medvedchuk-russia-ukraine.html
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Post by cole on Apr 15, 2022 4:49:06 GMT -5
Give em hell Ukraine
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Post by puddin on Apr 15, 2022 5:42:14 GMT -5
As mama always said....
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Post by dfries13 on Apr 15, 2022 8:29:28 GMT -5
As mama always said....
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Point takin but Brooklyn natives don't know jack shit about bears.. Come hang around the mountains old fart.
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Post by puddin on Apr 15, 2022 9:28:40 GMT -5
As mama always said....
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Point takin but Brooklyn natives don't know jack shit about bears.. Come hang around the mountains old fart. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> See what happens when you poke da bear!
He be mad....
Pud
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2022 10:32:13 GMT -5
WEST Play-In RoundTues 4/12: T-Wolves vs Clippers
Minny advances 109-104 and gets Memphis in the next round. Clippers must now play another game (Friday 10pm) vs the winner of the Spurs-Pelican Play-In.
Here are the results of the other two Play-In games for round I (Wed 4/13) ...
Now that we have the round I results we know that in the East, The Nets (7th seed) will play the Celtics (2nd seed) and in the West, the T-Wolves will play the Grizzlies. The Spurs & Hornets were one and done!
That takes us to Round II of the Play-Ins (Friday 4/15) for the losers of the Round I games ... Cavs (East) and Clippers (West) and the winners of the elimination round - Hawks (East) who defeated the Hornets and the Pelicans (West) who beat the Spurs.
The winners of this Play-In Round get the benefit of matching up against the #1 seed in their respective Conferences ... The Suns (West) and The Heat (East) to be announced for Sunday once this round is complete.
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2022 10:51:27 GMT -5
With the Play-Ins completed Friday 4/15 ... here is the schedule for Conference Quarter Finals for Saturday (4/16) and Sunday (4/17) less the Heat/Suns games yet to have their opponents decided. There is room for a 1PM game on Sunday and another at 8PM Sunday so expect the Heat & Suns to play on Sunday also.
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2022 14:15:02 GMT -5
Moar bad news for the Clippers who look destined to be added to their local rivals as the latest losers in L.A.
Paul George Out Friday Due To Positive COVID-19 Test April 15th 2022 at 11:20am CST by Luke Adams
Clippers forward Paul George has entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols and will miss Friday’s win-or-go-home play-in game against the Pelicans, sources tell ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Tim Bontemps (Twitter link).
George has tested positive for COVID-19, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link). President of basketball operations Lawrence Frank said that George started not to feel well on Thursday and registered a positive test on Friday morning (Twitter link via Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN).
It’s a brutal blow for the Clippers, who appeared to be getting healthier at just the right time entering the postseason. George recently returned from an elbow injury that caused him to miss three months, while Norman Powell came back last week after being sidelined for nearly two months due to a broken bone in his foot.
The Clippers will still have Powell available for Friday’s play-in game, but star forwards George and Kawhi Leonard, who continues to make his way back from ACL surgery, will both be on the shelf, opening the door wider for the Pelicans to clinch the No. 8 seed.
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2022 14:33:42 GMT -5
Meanwhile, while the Hawks have lost Collins and Lou Williams with Bogdan questionable, the Cavs are adding Allen and could have an obvious advantage over the injury riddled Hawks.
Jarrett Allen Set To Play On Friday by Rory Maher
APRIL 15: Assuming there are no setbacks during the pregame warmups, Allen will play on Friday night, tweets Charania.
APRIL 14: Cavaliers center Jarrett Allen, who is officially listed as questionable on the team’s injury report, is going to attempt to return for Cleveland’s play-in game against the Hawks on Friday, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski states (via Twitter) that Allen considers the odds of him returning to be “50-50,” as the pain in his fractured left middle finger is still bothering him quite a bit, but he’s intent on helping the Cavs make the playoffs. Allen missed the last 18 games of the regular season and Tuesday’s play-in tournament loss to Brooklyn after sustaining the injury on March 6.
A first-time All-Star in 2021/22, Allen had a stellar season for Cleveland, averaging 16.1 points, 10.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocks while shooting 67.7% from the field and 70.8% from the free throw line. He appeared in 56 games, with an average of 32.3 minutes per contest. The team was just 9-17 in the 26 games Allen missed this season.
Hawks big man John Collins has officially been ruled out for Friday’s game, tweets Chris Kirschner of The Athletic. Collins has been dealing with a right foot sprain and plantar fascia tear, as well as a right ring finger sprain. He was considered unlikely to play in the matchup to determine the No. 8 seed in the East, so the fact that he has formally been listed as out isn’t surprising.
In other injury-related news for the Hawks, Bogdan Bogdanovic is listed as questionable with a left ankle sprain, while Lou Williams has been ruled out with lower back discomfort, per Kirschner.
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Post by puddin on Apr 15, 2022 17:15:48 GMT -5
Ladies/Gents:
Something to think about!
********** washingtonpost.com A restaurant manager flew a Ukrainian flag. Hateful messages followed. Jonathan Edwards 5-6 minutes
Ben Ashlock thought he had settled things with a customer complaining about the Ukrainian flag atop the Kentucky steakhouse he manages.
Ashlock had opened up to the man about his personal connection to the war-torn country: He and his wife had adopted a teenage son from Ukraine three years earlier and forged friendships in the process. When Russia invaded, he wanted to show his support.
The 41-year-old general manager of a Colton’s Steak House & Grill franchise figured that was it.
It wasn’t. About a half-hour later, hate started coming from all fronts — the restaurant’s phone, Facebook page and reviews on Google. Over the past week, the firestorm has kept raging in Bardstown, a city of about 13,500 in central Kentucky. Ashlock, describing himself as an uncontroversial person, said he had planned to keep the flag up until Russia left Ukraine.
“I would love to take the flag down … because that would mean that they’re not at war anymore,” he said.
Ashlock and his wife of 19 years, Darrci, forged lifelong friendships in Ukraine while there to adopt their son. The 16-year-old is one of the couple’s 13 children — eight biological and five adopted or in the process of being adopted.
When the Russian military attacked on Feb. 24, Ashlock felt helpless. The owner of the steakhouse, who had helped Ashlock raise money for the adoption and paid for all three of the trips he took to Ukraine, sent the country’s blue-and-yellow flag days later. Ashlock decided to fly it outside the restaurant. Once it was up, he took photos and sent them to his friends in Ukraine.
“You just let them know, even in little old Kentucky, we see you, and we’re supporting you,” he said, adding that he didn’t think it would be a problem.
And for more than a month, it wasn’t.
Until April 9 — what Ashlock called “that fateful Saturday.”
That afternoon, Ashlock was working when someone sent the Colton’s Facebook page a direct message: “My family eats at Colton’s steakhouse, but will not eat there again until the Ukrainian flag is replaced with our national Flag.”
Ashlock replied about 30 minutes later, explaining that Ukraine’s flag had not replaced an American one but one of two Texas state flags the steakhouse uses to cultivate the chain’s Wild West, old saloon theme. Ashlock also told the man about adopting his son “whose hometown is now in ruins and under occupation.”
“I am sorry you feel this way, though,” Ashlock wrote. “And I hope you’ll reconsider.”
He thought that, at worst, they ended in an agree-to-disagree stalemate.
His employees soon started noticing Facebook users swarming the restaurant’s page to tar workers as disrespectful and unpatriotic. Some vowed never to eat there again.
Then the phone started ringing. Ashlock took the first call, a man asking why he “took the flag down.” Again, Ashlock explained what had happened before food orders pulled him into the kitchen. He passed off the phone.
But it kept ringing. At one point, one of the restaurant’s hosts came to him crying. “I felt horrible,” he said.
Meanwhile, the negative comments kept coming. Many were removed, but before they disappeared, Ashlock took screenshots, some of which he shared with The Post.
One said: “Take that trash flag down! May Ukraine be leveled to the ground!”
Another read: “It seems the only thing you accomplished flying this foreign flag is to further divide your fellow americans. One can’t even [sit] down to a meal these days without having politics flown in ones face.”
“I hope that Ukrainian flag is gone,” one user said, adding a face-with-monocle emoji. “I prefer my steak without a side of Nazi.”
Over on Google, someone left a one-star review of Colton’s: “food tasted woke, management is a war monger.”
“I hate to say it, because I try to be thick-skinned,” Ashlock told The Post, “but it was hurtful.”
Ashlock said he tried a compromise. After the blowback and misunderstanding that they had replaced an American flag, Ashlock swapped out the other Texas state flag for the Stars and Stripes. He consulted with military friends to make sure he was practicing proper flag etiquette by flying it higher than the Ukrainian one.
Doing that wasn’t a “crisis of conscience” — Ashlock said that’s who he is. Twenty-five years working in the service industry have trained him to be the first to apologize, to defer to customers, and to admit when he or the restaurant has made a mistake.
“I’ve never been in a predicament before where I couldn’t make someone happy and not, like, violate my conscience.”
Until now. While Ashlock said he was happy to fly the American flag, he didn’t think it would be right to cave in to demands to take down Ukraine’s as people there — including his friends — fight for their freedom.
So he hasn’t.
At a steakhouse chain in the middle of Kentucky — more than 5,000 miles away from its mother country — the Ukrainian flag still flies.
Jonathan Edwards is a reporter on The Washington Post's Morning Mix team.
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Post by cole on Apr 15, 2022 17:28:56 GMT -5
I'm not sure I could care about a game any less than Cleveland vs Charlotte
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Post by dfries13 on Apr 15, 2022 19:14:25 GMT -5
Ladies/Gents:
Something to think about!
********** washingtonpost.com A restaurant manager flew a Ukrainian flag. Hateful messages followed. Jonathan Edwards 5-6 minutes
Ben Ashlock thought he had settled things with a customer complaining about the Ukrainian flag atop the Kentucky steakhouse he manages.
Ashlock had opened up to the man about his personal connection to the war-torn country: He and his wife had adopted a teenage son from Ukraine three years earlier and forged friendships in the process. When Russia invaded, he wanted to show his support.
The 41-year-old general manager of a Colton’s Steak House & Grill franchise figured that was it.
It wasn’t. About a half-hour later, hate started coming from all fronts — the restaurant’s phone, Facebook page and reviews on Google. Over the past week, the firestorm has kept raging in Bardstown, a city of about 13,500 in central Kentucky. Ashlock, describing himself as an uncontroversial person, said he had planned to keep the flag up until Russia left Ukraine.
“I would love to take the flag down … because that would mean that they’re not at war anymore,” he said.
Ashlock and his wife of 19 years, Darrci, forged lifelong friendships in Ukraine while there to adopt their son. The 16-year-old is one of the couple’s 13 children — eight biological and five adopted or in the process of being adopted.
When the Russian military attacked on Feb. 24, Ashlock felt helpless. The owner of the steakhouse, who had helped Ashlock raise money for the adoption and paid for all three of the trips he took to Ukraine, sent the country’s blue-and-yellow flag days later. Ashlock decided to fly it outside the restaurant. Once it was up, he took photos and sent them to his friends in Ukraine.
“You just let them know, even in little old Kentucky, we see you, and we’re supporting you,” he said, adding that he didn’t think it would be a problem.
And for more than a month, it wasn’t.
Until April 9 — what Ashlock called “that fateful Saturday.”
That afternoon, Ashlock was working when someone sent the Colton’s Facebook page a direct message: “My family eats at Colton’s steakhouse, but will not eat there again until the Ukrainian flag is replaced with our national Flag.”
Ashlock replied about 30 minutes later, explaining that Ukraine’s flag had not replaced an American one but one of two Texas state flags the steakhouse uses to cultivate the chain’s Wild West, old saloon theme. Ashlock also told the man about adopting his son “whose hometown is now in ruins and under occupation.”
“I am sorry you feel this way, though,” Ashlock wrote. “And I hope you’ll reconsider.”
He thought that, at worst, they ended in an agree-to-disagree stalemate.
His employees soon started noticing Facebook users swarming the restaurant’s page to tar workers as disrespectful and unpatriotic. Some vowed never to eat there again.
Then the phone started ringing. Ashlock took the first call, a man asking why he “took the flag down.” Again, Ashlock explained what had happened before food orders pulled him into the kitchen. He passed off the phone.
But it kept ringing. At one point, one of the restaurant’s hosts came to him crying. “I felt horrible,” he said.
Meanwhile, the negative comments kept coming. Many were removed, but before they disappeared, Ashlock took screenshots, some of which he shared with The Post.
One said: “Take that trash flag down! May Ukraine be leveled to the ground!”
Another read: “It seems the only thing you accomplished flying this foreign flag is to further divide your fellow americans. One can’t even [sit] down to a meal these days without having politics flown in ones face.”
“I hope that Ukrainian flag is gone,” one user said, adding a face-with-monocle emoji. “I prefer my steak without a side of Nazi.”
Over on Google, someone left a one-star review of Colton’s: “food tasted woke, management is a war monger.”
“I hate to say it, because I try to be thick-skinned,” Ashlock told The Post, “but it was hurtful.”
Ashlock said he tried a compromise. After the blowback and misunderstanding that they had replaced an American flag, Ashlock swapped out the other Texas state flag for the Stars and Stripes. He consulted with military friends to make sure he was practicing proper flag etiquette by flying it higher than the Ukrainian one.
Doing that wasn’t a “crisis of conscience” — Ashlock said that’s who he is. Twenty-five years working in the service industry have trained him to be the first to apologize, to defer to customers, and to admit when he or the restaurant has made a mistake.
“I’ve never been in a predicament before where I couldn’t make someone happy and not, like, violate my conscience.”
Until now. While Ashlock said he was happy to fly the American flag, he didn’t think it would be right to cave in to demands to take down Ukraine’s as people there — including his friends — fight for their freedom.
So he hasn’t.
At a steakhouse chain in the middle of That is the real problem with Kentucky is that a high percentage of Kentucky residents are on the government dole and have been for generations. They want to blame the state government which does truly suck but its more than that and it involves the local communities in Kentucky producing next to nothing economically except people that end up going to the government office to apply for either a welfare check or a social security check when they are physically able to obtain a job and even mentally able if they are not lazy to get an education and move elsewhere. — more than 5,000 miles away from its mother country — the Ukrainian flag still flies.
Jonathan Edwards is a reporter on The Washington Post's Morning Mix team.
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Nice try Pud but Welcome to White Trash Kentucky where we don't have the ability to discuss various cultural issues, social issues, educational issues, economic issues and much more about the state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and things that in this authors personal opinion make it a horrid place to live. All opinions are mine and read our legal issues posted if you have issues with this blog. #Kentucky #Louisville #Lexington #Bowling Green #Owensboro #Paducah #Henderson #Florence #Covington Kentucky: Land Of Functional Illiterates and Deadbeats Functional illiterates in the sense that Kentucky has over 20% percent of its population which is considered by its own state officials as functionally illiterate. People who are incapable of filling out a job application, performing basic tasks, having problems doing basic math, writing and understanding logic. That is the real problem with Kentucky is that a high percentage of Kentucky residents are on the government dole and have been for generations. They want to blame the state government which does truly suck but its more than that and it involves the local communities in Kentucky producing next to nothing economically except people that end up going to the government office to apply for either a welfare check or a social security check when they are physically able to obtain a job and even mentally able if they are not lazy to get an education and move elsewhere.
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Post by elvissurfs on Apr 15, 2022 19:35:23 GMT -5
Point takin but Brooklyn natives don't know jack shit about bears.. Come hang around the mountains old fart. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> See what happens when you poke da bear!
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f**k Russia...nuke them into a sheet of glass...
NATO would overrun them in a week...
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Post by dfries13 on Apr 15, 2022 19:38:37 GMT -5
I'm not sure I could care about a game any less than Cleveland vs Charlotte Me to and these Minny Mouse playins need to go. Silver breaths dollars nothing more .
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Post by dfries13 on Apr 15, 2022 19:51:17 GMT -5
See what happens when you poke da bear!
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Pud
f**k Russia...nuke them into a sheet of glass...
NATO would overrun them in a week...
I despise Nukes But this is an exception..Going to happen any way Just well get the ist lick in
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2022 22:20:18 GMT -5
One down and one in progress:
Halftime for the Clippers - Pelicans:
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