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Can you connect to the hallingblog?
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Mirrors show me a not so young as they say tell reflection too.
I know why.
I can remember what I USED TO LOOK LIKE.

I shudder to think

Thanks, dino. People have said I barely look over 50, but I look in the mirror and say "yeah, I wish!". Ha ha.

Yep, those pull-the-lever machines! My choice was Old Gold.

I smoked cigarettes from 16 to 32 and quit. Then at 38 I had a sweet cigar and kept it going until 61. I still want one from time to time and can swear I smell that sweet tobacco.

"Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it hundreds of times" - Mark Twain

Sh-t happens, LOL! The Manchurian president exposed. Can you imagine if we got Hitlery after that instead of Trump 1.0?

Very interesting collection of graphs. One recurring thought jumped out at me right away. "Productivity" is a misleading economic indicator. I've always thought of it as "fewer people working harder". I don't see it as a great thing, overall. It can look great when overall employment is in the toilet and those working are working like scared bunnies trying to stay ahead of the wolf. Not healthy. Not how I want to live...Because I've seen too much of it in my generation.

Well written. I remember the one time I was at a DUI checkpoint. Didn't feel natural for me. The cop stood there holding and staring at my license for a good couple minutes, saying nothing. I just stared at him - zero emotion - until he handed it back and let me go.

Lately, I've been seeing a few videos of people rolling their window down just enough to pass the license - then saying, "I don't answer questions" to every question...and they let them go. My problem is that I think it's all bullshit and I'm at risk of saying so. Then, I know the Gestapo will get all wound up with the alpha dog act. I respect authority to a point...but respect is earned.

Haha...yep.

Me dino never cared for menthol. I'd smoke one if I had to bum one (for the nicotine fix) but I never liked it as much.

I was a Kool guy

Whoa, that reminds me! Of me! And coin operated cigarette machines! Now it all comes back to me.
There were times when little Dino would pedal his little bicycle over to a gas station's cigarette machine, make sure no one looked my way, dropped in the correct coins, pulled the lever and~~hey, remember all the cigarette jingles advertised on TV like "Winston Takes Good Like A Cigarette Should." Those were the very first smokes I tried for some peculiar reason,.

I started smokin cigars in college after the service. Before that it was cigarettes, thanks to my older sister when I was 10.

How come both of you smoked cigars? Y'all part Irish like me? I started out with cigarettes but during my last years of poisoning myself I was smoking Swisher Sweets.
After I quit for good, I had to throw everything hanging in the closet into the washing machine to get all the lingering tobacco stink out.

Happy birthday tomorrow. I'll be 79 March 17 and the bandage nurse who came today said I look younger than that. But then so does everybody.
I'm a quarter Irish but on my Saint Patrick's Day birthday I become 100%. How? Leprechauns, I guess.

I must have quit a 1000 times, it was easy but never made it past a week or so, the last time, I prayed for a little help/distraction/ or anything to keep me from picking up another Hava tampa jewel. ( I liked the wooden tips). Evidentially, I got the help I asked for and never went back although I think about it often. I just think about how hard it was and don't want to ruin that victory.

I can still taste and smell it right now . . .

Awe, man!, I used the wrong one, I accidentally scrapped the complete one. I screen print on the fly as I view/read.
Like Gilda used to say: "It's Always Somethin".

China waiting for the next Democrat (commie) regime that they have some control over does make sense. Why poke the eagle with Trump at the helm when you can wait to slap it around when your operatives/sympathizers are in the WH? Could fall either way at this point. The mid terms and 2028 will write the next chapter in this saga.

It was a bit different for me. I was always active and when I was 61 (birthday on March 3rd) I was still rollerblading in the mornings. I was visiting family in Florida and on March 4th, 2013 I went out in the morning and got really really short of breath and figured it had to be those damn cigars (sweet aromatic Backwoods Smokes), which I really really loved, but when I got back to the house I threw them all out and never went back. My loving wife, who never smoked (God bless her), says I was a real a--hole for about two weeks before I could hold a decent conversation. Like you, dino, I love tobacco but I know if I have one I'll start buying them again, so I must abstain. Bless you my friend and condolences on your loss.

Russia could replace the crazy EU as an ally to the US.
Their needs and assets are a good complement to the US in terms of trade,
and their people could be a more logical match in terms of basic sane beliefs as well.
The EU has sacrificed Europe to Islam.
Perhaps US immigration should shut down immigration from Africa and Latin
America in favor of productive native Europeans fleeing from the EU's tyranny.
Here's another article on the China strategy and Iran as a part of it, and
it looks at it as thwarting Russia as well..
https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-us...