Post by M KfivethousandPost by M Kfivethousandderpy sounds like a ukrainian word
my mom does that, where she converts stuff into a ukrainian word
like Juan Samaranch, she is convinced he is Ukrainian
also Macauley Culkin is Mykola Kulkin to her
probably a lot of immigrants do this
samaranch sounds more Ukrainian than Macaulay Culkin which was her greatest stretch.
But his first name is something like Juan Antonio.
Michelle Kwan is another one
Michelle is not too ukey sounding. But dig. Kwan is totally Polish.
Didn't you ever play that game Kvanka Kvanka Huska
Lviv put in a bid for the Olympics, which obviously was not awarded
i would I not live to the day when this occurs, because I just couldn't
handle the idea of the poor athletes slipping and sliding on the brookivka
streets. Too funny, watching them fall flat on those slippery stones while
carrying their flags. Passing the torch and thudding on down. They would
disable like the entire olympics careers of everyone
mk5000
Likely the most significant aspect of Samaranch’s presidency was his work with the South African question. After years of apartheid ended in 1991, Samaranch worked quickly to see that the South African Olympic Committee was re-admitted to the IOC and South Africans again competed at the Olympic Games in 1992 at Barcelona.
Samaranch worked to end the international sporting segregation between amateurs and professionals and open the Olympic Games up to professionals in many sports. --olympedia
it took forever for me to tell ma a hawk got the chicken
It’s almost as if she missed her more often
I didn't know how much longer I could lie
mk5000
Keeping a journal implies hope.--How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Erica Jong
I’m having a hard time with the remaining red chicken since the hawk attack
Yesterday I let her out on grass and it was too cold had to go back in
Ma pooed herself while I was out there even tho it was short. She is almost ninety and quite ill. She is allowed
I’m trying to reteach ma how to call me when I’m out
So I basically can’t go out to sit with the chicken as long as mas home til ma feels more comfortable or isn;t as scared to call me when I am out
Later that day when physical therapist came it was reasonable at about 45 degrees so I let the chcken out for a half hour while pt worked with ma
Today red spent all day out of coop in pen except for around ten
She didn’t sit under the canopy but perched on the compost frame almost all day
I gave her layer mash at ten when in coop, hand fed her, holding the dish which is about the only way she will eat after the attack, she is so scared
She would not stop eating but would cry if I tried to put it down so I held the damn dish for a half hour which made my foot really flare up, neither sitting nor standing was comfortable
Any time she saw me from the window she’d scream she wanted out but she is scared to stay out
I don’t have any rain wear, warm sweaters, winter clothes, all that clothes is at the other house
I wore Tato’s rain coat which works except he was six feet tall and I’m not
I caved to the squawking at one
She came out grazed a bit looked at the tree, I literally saw her shake her head nope and say I ain’t going under it, because that was where the hawk nailed the other chicken
Then after literally no more than five minutes turned around and went back in the pen
Did find that she kind of likes cabbage, mostly the darker leaves so chucked an old cabbage and cauliflower in the compost and the borscht cooked veggies
She needs something interesting to kick around while she’s penned
Tho I think she was out there today mostly because insects were more accessible in the mud
Can’t use the phrase cooped up doesn’t work here,she is in the coop scared to come out
Still I’m not going to put in the types of things In the compost that I used to put in there, because she’s not as fascinated by compost as the deceased Purny black chicken, don’t want to attract critters, and we don’t have much raw veg., oatmeal is always slathered in butter, so she won’t eat it, same with the other veg.
Putnya used to try anything I’d throw in there even if she’d eventually reject it she would try it, but she’d eat ninety percent of it, and I didn’t have to worry about critters
Which leads me to my next comment
I never really enjoyed this chicken, she’s demanding, difficult to understand what she wants, changes her mind every second, she wasn’t any fun before and she isn’t much fun now
I don’t care what all the websites say about her reputed laying abilities, she wasn’t even reliable at that whereas putnya barely missed a beat even when molting, her eggs were better but I think she’s what’s called a production red which means that after year two, she pretty much stops laying
I feel responsible and sympathetic for red, but don’t enjoy her, I wish I liked her more
Which next comment here, I read that some people on reddit said that when you end up with a singleton, sometimes it helps to get them a stuffed animal
Sounds stupid but I bought a stuffed rhode island chicken with a baby chick
I thought about getting a fake barred rock to fake out Ma so she would think the black chicken was still alive but I can’t face that right now maybe in a month
Anyway I’m going to see if I can relieve some of this insanity with a stuffed animal
mk5000
He doesn't necessarily love grass the first week because it's green and slippery, but if the weather's hot and it gets quick and bouncy, watch out in the second week.--Mats Wilander
I think my sisters also inherited my mother's tendency to convert things into Ukrainian
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma was sentenced today criminally for their role in turning the drug into a dependency and homicide issue
Purdue sounds like the word for fart
<<Article by Ryan C. Thomas
Recent decisions by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission highlight the serious consequences, for individuals and companies alike, of making false representations in government antitrust investigations. And as so always in Washington, the "cover up" can create more problems than the underlying conduct.
On April 6, 2009, a former senior executive of Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), Andrew Bodnar, pleaded guilty in federal district court for his role in BMS' dishonest dealings with the FTC over a patent litigation settlement between BMS and Apotex. He now faces maximum penalties of a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. If the court accepts the government's Federal Sentencing Guidelines recommendation, Mr. Bodnar will serve from zero to six months in jail. His employer, BMS, agreed in 2007 to pay a criminal fine of $1 million for filing false statements with the FTC.>>
so I looked up Bodnar for my sister who swears he must be Ukrainian
It's a pretty common last name, I told her. I checked his bio. I think he may have gone to Harvard. It also suggests he has both a JD and MD.
The bio I read said he is 58 which makes him enough older than me that I don't remember him exactly
Maybe he is from Saudi Arabia
here's a photo
http://i.bnet.com/blogs/340x.jpg
So in light of today's Farty Farma conviction I wanted to know what happened to Bodnar
THis is what happened to him
<< https://www.fiercepharma.com/regulatory/ex-bms-exec-finishes-book-and-sentence-conviction
mer Bristol-Myers Squibb ($BMY) executive has completed his sentence. In fact, he has completed quite a few sentences as part of an unusual punishment for his conviction for lying to regulators during negotiations over a generic version of Bristol's Plavix blood thinner.
When Andrew G. Bodnar pleaded guilty in 2009, the judge ordered the former Harvard English major to write a book about his experiences with the idea that it might serve as an example to others, reports The Wall Street Journal. The 253-page book has now been entered electronically into the court record, and therefore is theoretically available to anyone with an account for accessing federal court documents.
The WSJ says the book recounts Bodnar's immigrant life, starting when he escaped communist Hungary as an 8-year-old and includes special insight into the Plavix case, including his questioning by then-U.S. attorney, now New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.>>
Under President Clinton, America suffered its own military declines, as he and others saw the collapse of Communism as "the end of history," slashing defense budgets to spend on politically beneficial domestic welfare programs. This "peace dividend" illusion never ended in much of Europe, but it ended in America with the September 11 mass murders in New York and Washington by Islamicist terrorists. NATO's future has been intensely debated among national-security experts for decades, with many urging a broader post-Cold War agenda.
John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir (2020), p. 133-134