Background:

The last Ukrainian forces have been holed up in the Azovstal steel plant for over a week... An estimated 3000 soldiers, including the Azov battalion... As well as an untold number of civilians....

Here's my question:

According to the MSM, Putin cares nothing for the lives of Ukrainians (civilian or military) and is intentionally trying to k**l as many people as he can... It's also being claimed that he is intentionally destroying as much Ukrainian infrastructure as possible...

So how come Russia hasn't flattened the steel plant??? What's holding them back???

I mean, it makes sense if Russia is trying to keep the casualties at a minimum... But we all know that's not true...

So what's the alternative explanation???

I don't know if I worded this the way I was looking for...blame it on two scotches and water (29 year old) and the last of some fantastic limited edition Canadian whiskey I've been savoring for years...

Things are getting freaky bad, blame is only necessary to determine what a problem is, not so much who did it...

and the main point here is that conversations can't be productive if people are calling each other names because you disagree with them...I've toned it down because after being suspended multiple times for calling people morons or i***ts I was served with a one more time and you are gone forever edict.

I actually have found that this causes me to be very careful with my wording, which has led to me reflecting on whether insults are really necessary, they generally are not, and degrade from what you are trying to say...

and of course there are those people who you could crack your jaw trying to be nice to them...sparky, wolfie, archie, ya'll know Lol

But no, I think people are trying to get nicer and it is a seriously welcome thing.

I'm, going to look back on this and try to figure out how drunk I was....actually no, I'm good, this has been working as I see people getting nicer.

A great short read. Farmers ask great questions regarding being forced to purchase electric farm equipment.

A close friend farms over 10,000 acres of corn in the midwest. The property is spread out over 3 counties. His operation is a "partnership farm" with John Deere. They use the larger farm operations as demonstration projects for the promotion and development of new equipment. He recently received a phone call from his John Deere representative, and they want the farm to go to electric tractors and combines in 2023. He currently has 5 diesel combines that cost $900,000 each that are traded in every 3 years. Also, over 10 really BIG tractors. JD wants him to go all-electric soon.

He said: "Ok, I have some questions. How do I charge these combines when they are 3 counties away from the shop in the middle of a cornfield, in the middle of nowhere?" "How do I run them 24 hours a day for 10 or 12 days straight when the harvest is ready, and the weather is coming in?" "How do I get a 50,000+ lb. combine that takes up the width of an entire road back to the shop 20 miles away when the battery goes dead?"

There was dead silence on the other end of the phone.

When the corn is ready to harvest, it has to have the proper sugar and moisture content. If it is too wet, it has to be put in giant dryers that burn natural or propane gas, and lots of it. Harvest time is critical because if it degrades in sugar content or quality, it can drop the value of his crop by half a million dollars or more. It is analyzed at time of sale. It is standard procedure to run these machines 10 to 12 days straight, 24 hours a day at peak harvest time. When they need fuel, a tanker truck delivers it, and the machines keep going. John Deere's only answer is "we're working on it." They are being pushed by the lefty Dems in the government to force these electric machines on the American farmer. These people are out of control. They are messing with the production of food crops that feed people and livestock... all in the name of their "green dream."

Look for the cost of your box of cornflakes to triple in the next 24 months.....”

The word is getting used by the right in the wrong context...that context being about censoring social media. Taking people's information off of a site for reasons has nothing to do with a lack of t***sparency if those reasons have to do with curbing stupidly false things, things that are easily proven as being wrong have no purpose except to enhance people's stupidity.

Defending efforts to clean up the internet of false and misleading information is exactly like defending your right to be fed weapons grade stupid and incorrect things that are literally designed and purposed to make people to where they do not know what to believe, so they will believe what and who they want to.

Put it like it is..."we have a right to be stupid, you are interfering in that right"