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For whatever reason, the news is filled with many stories about Ukraine's amazing victories over Russia.  One thing I find strange is that there's never any mention of casualties, no listing the number of wounded, dead or those taken prisoner.  Is this one of those new-fangled wars where nobody gets hurt?

At least at the beginning of the war, the news constantly gave us the number of Russian casualties, which was higher every day than British casualties in World War II, but they never mentioned the number of Ukrainians who'd suffered the slightest injury in the process.  But now they're not even doing that much, it's just win after win after win and nobody gets hurt.  That's totally believable.

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Kamala Harris visited the region last week so North Korea is launching missiles at Japan again.  Remember, North Korea is China's vassal, i.e. puppet.  I've always assumed China lets them exist because the alternative is taking over the entire peninsula which would mean fighting the US.  They sure don't seem to be as reluctant these days, maybe because they're in charge of the people running the US.

For some reason China and North Korea aren't promoting how heroic their women-with-penises are in battle.  They don't even promote how much time and effort they spend making the sissy little girls-with-vaginas shut the hell up about whatever gender nonsense they're whining about.

Which side is eager to fight a war and which side is actually prepared for it?

It's also reported that Japan has just offered Russia a peace treaty.  They never signed one after World War II, I think Russia had declared war in-between the two atomic blasts, and for some reason Japan has decided right now would be a perfect time to catch up on that.  But Russia isn't interested.  Japan is siding with the western countries who unofficially declare war on Russia so Russia sees no reason to negotiate.

Ok, I guess so, although you'd think it would make a convenient break among Ukraine's allies.  But why did Japan decide now that this needs to be done?  Not ten years ago or ten years from now.  That just seems odd, why now?

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As is more typical these days, I just can't find much in the way of news events to write about.  The tyrants are growing in strength as far as we can tell.  The winter is getting closer every second.  It really looks like we're all waiting for the collapse.  I'm not close to anybody so I don't know what plans others are making for defense or productivity so I don't have anything to say there.

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This is what qualifies as news these days, the guy demanding credit for gas prices refuses to accept blame for gas prices.  His spokesman just recites nonsense to avoid the point.  This is what these people do.

I've always found it odd that so many candidates for POTUS have come from the Senate.  Especially among Democrats.  I'd swear some people were saying 'no more senators' years ago, probably after 2004, arguing that candidates with experience as governor were more qualified.  Obviously that didn't happen.

Trump and Eisenhower weren't in government before becoming POTUS.  GWB, Bill Clinton, Reagan, Dukakis, Carter, Adlai Stevenson II, Dewey and FDR had been governors before taking a step up.  Bush Sr. had only been Veep.  Mitt Romney was a contradiction, he was governor who lost the run for POTUS and then went to the Senate.

Al Gore, Nixon, Mondale, LBJ and Humphrey had all been in the Senate but were also Veep, a better credit on their resumes.  Some were even in the House.  JFK was in the House and the Senate before becoming POTUS, Ford was only in the House before becoming Veep.  Biden, Obama, McCain, Kerry, Dole, McGovern, Goldwater and Truman made the national level via the Senate.  So did Hillary but, well, you know...

So since 1944, there's 2 candidates (2 R) who won without any government experience and 6 more (3 D, 3 R) who won without ever being in the Senate.  If we pretend Biden actually won, there are 6 victorious POTUS candidates (5 D, 1 R) who came from the Senate, whether or not they'd been Veep and 1 from the House (1 R).  4 candidates (2 D, 2 R) lost without having been in the Senate at some point and 9 more lost despite their Senate background. (7 D, 2 R)

Obviously this is a simplicity, just in defining and counting the candidates, never mind winning, losing or anything else.  But what strikes me is that there must be some concept for the Senate which I'm not sure anyone even comprehends any more but clearly existed for a reason.  It's a given that everyone in the House has to run for reelection every two years, the Senate gets to skip four years.

I quite like that numerical simplicity, obviously it gives the Senate a sense of authority and not having to deal with the voters.  We can see major problems with it, yes, but the concept itself is quite simple and lovely.  We also see how those who spend decades there become mind-bogglingly full of themselves.

I've never been a supporter of the arguments to limit the number of terms one can win, precisely because it lets such creatures waddle through their own feces for life.  It costs us something, true, but the alternative would be to have them just pick their replacements as subordinates.  People who would do that don't care about elections in the first place and people who think they're qualified to be Senator would rather get all the attention forever.

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