Recent content by Cheerful Charlie

Both VP candidates seem to have been taking speed speaking lessons.

This article suggests that serfdom was easier than owning and dealing with slaves.

An interesting article on slavery in England. There seems to be a lot of mythology about slavery in England. In Anglo Saxon times, as much as 30% of English were slaves or concubines. Slavery faded away under the Normans for a time, but nobody knows exactly why...

And Taylor Swift just endorsed Kamala Harris. It is over now.

1386. Genoese ambassadors introduce vodka to Russians in Moscow.

Ukraine is not Russia. It is though, last resting place of tens of thousands of dead Russian invaders.

I worked for years at a business started by a Hungarian refugee from the 1956 revolution. He at age 16, was forced to flee Hungary with a price on his head for his counter revolutionary activities.

Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, Crimea, Moldavia, the Baltics. Russia has been attacking or threatening its neighbors for years now. It is opportunistic empire building. And to an extent, it has worked. But Putin overplayed his hand. Ukraine was not going to fall as his toadies assured Putin...

Part of the problem with treating criminal juveniles less severely than adult criminals is juveniles abusing that loophole. calculating that they can get away with criminal acts and if caught, be lightly punished.

Russia to invade Estonia? .... "Russia has chosen a path which is a long-term confrontation ... and the Kremlin is probably anticipating a possible conflict with NATO within the next decade or so," Kaupo Rosin told reporters at the release of Estonia's national security threats report. ...

Russia to invade Estonia? .... "Russia has chosen a path which is a long-term confrontation ... and the Kremlin is probably anticipating a possible conflict with NATO within the next decade or so," Kaupo Rosin told reporters at the release of Estonia's national security threats report. ...

Pootie has managed to get Russia into a futile war that Pootie cannot win, or quit. Russia has at most three years until Russia runs out of its military surplus weapons. Russia will have long before that run through it's monetary reserves. The futile Putin era is going to end. I suspect...

Trump: Chronic liar Unpleasant ad hominem attacks on Judges et al A long history of failed businesses. Abuses charities for grifting money If elected plans to shut down important government agencies Plans to use office of presidency to prosecute political enemies Has stated he will pardon...