I go back and forth  

I think there is no doubt we could beat them.  Russia I a small pretty insignificant power these days.  The economy is in tatters.  We have 10 times the resources and a massively more powerful military.

Clearly there is a group that wishes to remind him of this.

The FBI is investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, two sources familiar with the matter have told McClatchy....

...The extent to which the FBI has evidence of money flowing from Torshin to the NRA, or of the NRA's participation in the transfer of funds, could not be learned.

Glad to be of service.
This Torshin guy happens to be Butina's boss

Erickson is closely linked with a Russian woman named Maria Butina, a well-known gun rights activist who also worked as a special assistant to the deputy governor of Russia's central bank, Alexander Torshin.

Butina has bragged that she helped connect the Trump campaign with the Kremlin, according to The Daily Beast, and it's possible her statements were not just bravado. Torshin requested that Trump meet with him on the sidelines of the National Rifle Association's convention in May 2016. He never met with then-candidate Trump, but he did succeed in securing a meeting with Trump's son Donald Trump Jr.

So because of that extra $50 we should just ignore the fact that our president desperately wants to be a Dictator and is about to appoint someone to the Supreme Court who thinks Nixon should've been able to hide the Watergate Audio after all.

Isn't it so lovely we're all being nice about it.

I liked The Post. Great story writing and the best acting. But was I subjected to mansplaining after the film, `Did you learn something? It's about freedom of the press. That's the First Amendment.'

Deadpool 2 is still showing in theatre. It's rather amazing that the writers and producers made this film humorous enough (I'm clearly not the target audience or demographic) that even I was entertained. And then I was taken to an excellent Korean dumpling restaurant.

I've never heard of Small Town Crime. I liked Molly's Game.

MY NETFLIX LIST
The End of the FxxxING World
Okja
Talulah
Great Gilly Hopkins
Sadie's Last Day on Earth
Alias Grace (mini-series of 6 episodes)
What Happened to Monday (SciFi)

Wow

linea: "Croatia is a `scrappy fighter' having survived threats from the Ottoman Empire, French imperialism, Nazi Germans, and the Soviet Communists. Gotta love 💕 that."

... upon the Wehrmacht's conquest and occupation of Yugoslavia in April 1941. The Independent State of Croatia functioned as a willing Nazi puppet state, and the Croats were given free rein to persecute all non-Croat peoples residing within its borders, which included Jews, Roma and Serbs. And wielding their dreaded militia, the Ustaše Black Legion, they did just that with some real gusto, patterning their race laws after those of their Third Reich mentors.

The Serbs, on the other hand, resented and resisted the German presence, and suffered dreadfully for it, often at the hands of the Croat Ustaše militia. It's been estimated that some 400,000 Serbian civilians were wantonly slaughtered by the Ustaše during the Second World War, and those atrocities are often cited as the root source for the lingering animosity which still exists between present-day Croatia and Serbia.

After the Second World War, with Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić having escaped Allied capture to flee to Argentina, Yugoslavia was reconstituted as a communist-led totalitarian state under the heavy-handed leadership of Josip Broz, aka "Marshal Tito" or "Tito," who subsequently proved himself to be no Soviet puppet.

During the war, Tito had proved himself an effective military leader as head of the Yugoslav Partisan resistance, a fierce and formidable guerrilla movement that ultimately tied down nearly two dozen German divisions in the Balkans which were otherwise sorely needed elsewhere. And unlike the other nations of Eastern Europe, the Yugoslav Partisans had effectively liberated themselves by the fall of 1944.

Following the war, Tito soon defied Stalin, and by 1948 Yugoslavia had broken away from the Soviet-dominated Cominform, which was perhaps better known as the Warsaw Pact. Under Tito's post-war leadership as Marshal of Yugoslavia, the title he held from 1943 until his death in 1980, the country was well known for its non-aligned status and relatively harmonious relations with the West.

The Tour in 1985 was won by Bernard Hinault who was probably past his prime and got great support from his American team mate Greg LeMond, in return for a promise to support LeMond in the next years race.  When Hinault failed (according to some) to keep his word LeMond won the next year (becoming the first American to win the Tour) and Hinault who came in second retired.

In so doing, the prime minister is pandering to a vocal and belligerent minority which mistakenly believes that somehow, Britain can unilaterally dictate the terms of its own withdrawal from the European Union by sole virtue of their "Brititude." As now-former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson discovered to his chagrin, the real world doesn't necessarily work that way, and Whitehall can't just send the Royal Navy to Brussels to impose its will.

But the person I was purchasing from requested that I pick it up well before or well after the World Cup game. I told him no problem. When I went to get it I was greeted by a Croatian immigrant. Such a nice family too. They had just bought a house and the cabinet didn't fit. I felt terrible leaving with the beautiful cabinet though. When they first got here they furnished their home out of thrift stores and I was taking one of their precious finds.

Really, this might as well have been a hostage video. Like the July 4th GOP Captives.