Wikipedia has big long article about that Russian thing, and this is the lead paragraph. The last quote is of particular interest. It appears that the Russians not only wanted Trump to win, they wanted to "undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process". I suspected from the beginning that the reason Trump was running for president was to give somebody a bad name. At first I thought he was trying to give conservatives a bad name by pretending to be one and then acting like he does. After he got the nomination, I figured that he was trying to give the whole Republican Party a bad name, probably because he wanted to help Hillary win. Okay I was wrong about that one, maybe because I wasn't thinking big enough. Now that Trump is president, he's giving the whole country a bad name which, according to Wiki, is exactly what the Russians were trying to do by helping him get elected. The question remains whether or not Trump was in on the scheme. I have long held the opinion that, when somebody like the president does something that appears to be stupid, he probably did it on purpose, because you don't get to be President of the United States by being stupid.
You know, Communism is not that bad in theory, it's when it's put into practice on a national scale that it becomes bad. The first country to do that was Russia, which would have surprised Karl Marx, because he figured it would be an industrialized country like England or Germany. Back in the 50s, lots of people said bad things about the Russians. I used to correct then by saying the Russians aren't bad people, it's Communism that gives them a bad name. Well, maybe I was wrong about that too. Maybe it was the Russians that gave Communism a bad name. Think about it: The Russians were always trying to give us a bad name when they were Communists, which was to be expected. So why are they trying to give us a bad name now, 27 years after they renounced Communism? Maybe that's just what Russians do, maybe it's part of their national character. For all we know, the last Czar might have been a really nice guy, and the Russians just gave him a bad name.
This doesn't explain why Trump wants to give us a bad name. Trump doesn't sound like a Russian name, but maybe it has been Anglicized, or maybe he's a Russian on his mother's side. I find it hard to believe that the Russians hired Trump to do this because he has more money than they do. I would sooner believe that Trump hired the Russians, or that they were in it together, which still doesn't explain what Trump is getting out of this. Okay, he gets to be president for awhile, but it still appears that the only reason he wanted to become president was to give the country a bad name, not the other way around. One may hope that, with all the investigating going on, somebody will get to the bottom of this eventually.
I didn't know that possums ate ticks, but I knew that birds did. They'll never get them all, though. Too many ticks, not enough birds and possums.
Conventional opinion has long been that humans and dogs got together because they hunted the same game and probably scavenged each other's kills. At some point, people started adopting orphaned wolf cubs and kept the ones that were naturally more docile than the others, thus selectively breeding them for compatibility. I saw a thing on PBS some time ago that advanced the theory that the dogs might have selectively bred themselves, not on purpose of course. The wolves that followed the humans around likely ate better than the ones that kept their distance, leading to a higher survival rate. The Russians have been conducting an ongoing experiment for decades with captive wild foxes. The ones that seem to like humans are kept for breeding, which has generated a whole different kind of fox. They look different and even smell different than their wild counterparts, to the point that some of them have been adopted by staff instead of being sent off to the fur factory when the researchers are done with them. I don't know if anybody gets a bad name out of this, but you never know with those crafty Russians.
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