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[sandtown]

Just to clarify what I posted earlier, unless you are a highly trained athlete,

if your at rest heart beat is less than 45 or so, go to...

[sandtown]

Way to go - it is all uphill from here, if you both work at it....

[sandtown]

Not at all. There are myriad ways a good teacher can and should teach values and social justice in math courses.

The numbers just jump...

[sandtown]

Lives are just so cheap when they are not yours....

[sandtown]

They were not "allies" - see above....

[sandtown]

You are partly right and partly wrong. Right in that the deal did go beyond non-aggression;

but wrong in saying they were "allies"....

[sandtown]

All sides seem intransigent at this time, but if "all concessions" were to be from Ukraine,

why did the West feel it necessary...

[sandtown]

Good review here of recent "end the war" news and views . .

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion...lks-in-ukraine...

[sandtown]

In Charleston we heard it pronounced "ball" - humor attempt !...

[sandtown]

somehow I sense a right-wing smear coming on . .

what, was Jordan Peterson not available ??...

[sandtown]

Swimming is even less impactful - but there is no available pool around here so I walk and sail....

[sandtown]

You want history ?? No, they were not "allies", Molotov-Rippentrop was merely a non-aggression agreement.

And the USSR only did...

[sandtown]

You write that seeming to suggest that it happened by chance.

It did not....

[sandtown]

Those things used to fly from the US to Afghanistan loaded with nothing but Red Bull.

Some of it no doubt made its way to the Taliban ....

[sandtown]

What with A-Fib and all, mine has ranged from 35 to 200.

Under better control now with an ablation.

Thanks VA !!

[sandtown]

You mean the perspective in which you get to put words on my keyboard ?

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[sandtown]

Go away ya pathetic stalker. I tried being civil to no effect.

My views are similar to the majority of those on the planet.
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[sandtown]

One cannot help but root for Ukraine, which means not bleeding the country out for no purpose.

If it holds, a peace agreement will likely...

[sandtown]

So you would prefer to banish the truth from this thread ??

I believe it.

And here is more truth that you would rather not hear...

[sandtown]

. . . looks like a low country ball....