We were surprised by the pink. Seemed like it was going to be another one of those all-gray clouds mornings, but that just goes to show.Write about whatever you want in the comments.
March 24, 2026
Sunrise — 6:41.
We were surprised by the pink. Seemed like it was going to be another one of those all-gray clouds mornings, but that just goes to show.
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Oh this was interesting. trump will be represented by a Democrat whose area includes Mar a lOGO .Report states trump voted buy mail for the loser of the race. Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election for a Florida state House seat on Tuesday, flipping a district that is home to President Donald Trump’s estate, Mar-a-Lago.
The Republican president endorsed Gregory’s rival, Jon Maples. In a social media post Monday, he urged voters to turn out, saying Maples was endorsed “by so many of my Palm Beach County friends.”
Democrats celebrated the victory as the latest sign voters are turning against Trump and the GOP.
Mar-a-Lago just flipped red to blue. It is the 29th district that Democrats have flipped form GOP control since Trump took office.
Gas prices are spiking, grocery costs are up, and families can’t get by — it’s clear voters at the polls are fed up with Republicans at least here. Florida is still a Red state but DEMS seem to be sneaking up,no wonder with trumps incompetence and lies about America First,No new Wars and reducing the deficit the MAGAS bought in to.Interesting,lets see what the excuse in upcoming rhetoric from WH is.It cna't be mail in voting right?
https://x.com/HansMahncke/status/2036561182807433654
The guy who didnt have a clue before october 7th
Hmm
https://x.com/TheDebriefing17/status/2036388352358744446
Anybody want to tell him palm beach is a blue county
Forget it. He's on a roll.
Rule by extortion
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2036609011571667373
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I thought Cosby was dead, and Valerie Perrine, too, but I think I confused her with Rula Lenska.
She didnt look great at the end
https://youtu.be/V2bXcL3clF8?si=YjoBCyIrwS_ySf5F
Another who snippet
There was supposed to be a California gooobernatorial debate tonight at USC. It was cancelled because no candidates of color were included. To participate a candidate had to achieve a certain polling level and fundraising numbers.
“The six candidates invited to participate were Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, along with Democrats Matt Mahan, Katie Porter, Tom Steyer and Eric Swalwell.”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/24/ca-goobernatorial-follies-when-they-cancel-your-talk-for-lack-of-poc-n3813205
The definition of insanity any of those four democrats
"It was cancelled because no candidates of color were included."
Cancelling sounds like something racists would do.
"... It was cancelled because no candidates of color were included...."
Jim Crow for white people.
Every day we hear about air superiority and the crushing destruction of Iran's military offensive capability - and every day Iran launches missiles and drones, and sometimes serves up big surprises, like the attack on Diego Garcia.
Where's the analysis? Where's the free press, getting to the bottom of things? There's a pretty big silence, a lot of empty room between our statements to the press, and Iran's statements in the field.
"Anybody want to tell him palm beach is a blue county"
Once again the people in the place where Trump maintains his primary residence have figured out he's a loser.
Once again, the slow children are keeping the rest of the class back.
In case you were wondering, the party composition of the Florida State House is 85 Republicans and 34 Democrats. Might be a little early for DD to be celebrating.
“Surprised by the pink”. Lovely gift of wonder.
Dinky dau, you are stuck in the quicksand of democratic status quo. It would appear there is no way out for you. The country has just experienced the pleasant shock of an administration acting on policy goals previous administrations have had for decades, such as containing Iran. We have seen problems identified as hopeless — like crime in dc, a porous border, a nation in inexorable decline— vigorously tackled. And we like it. Democrats hate America.
I play a game with my cat. Our living room has a carpet on a hardwood floor. There is a path from the kitchen to my office, that is not carpeted. The rules are;
1 - The laser dot appears on the wall near the kitchen.
2- Cecil takes up a position on the carpet.
3 - The laser dot attempts to pass Cecil, and make its way into my office, where it can exit the house through the catdoor.
But Cecil leaps upon it, and it has to go back to the wall by the kitchen and try again.
Now, obviously, this requires some willing-suspension-of-disbelief-type thinking on the part of all concerned. I could easily move the laser-dot so fast Cecil can't catch it. Cecil could simply ignore the thing. Etc. But around this time in the evening, Cecil comes and scratches my pants-leg. Which means, "Do the Dot!".
So, I get the laser off the shelf, and shine it on the wall, and he races to take up his position, prepared to prevent the passage of the dot from that wall to that point of escape. And it begins.
So. It took us about 13 seconds -- once -- to communicate the rules of this game to each other. We both know the rules. I could break them. Cecil could break them. But, to quote a famous American, "It would be wrong".
"There's a pretty big silence, a lot of empty room between our statements to the press, and Iran's statements in the field."
Because "the press" is unable or unwilling to explain the relevant points of military tactics, strategy, and technology. They have the open source resources, and no doubt informed persons besides, to do so. But no, the press (and not just the US press) is incapable of anything substansive.
There is an aspect of the game I did not make clear. When Cecil leaps from his position on the carpet, to intercept the Dot, he lands on the hardwood, and slides. Then the Dot has to go back to the wall, and start over, while Cecil scrambles around in typical cat fashion on the hardwood, trying to get back into position for the next attempt. After a while, he gets tired, and lies on his side, and lets the Dot escape.
This is a cute-cat story, and I would apologize. Except, how is it, that we both understand the rules. I remember doing this as kids. I did this, you did that, this happened -- OK! That's a game! And we all know the rules already.
Fortunately its never been easier to get up to speed on open source intelligence. Amateurs can easily get reasonably close to a decent state of military analysis.
Some games overwhelmingly favor one player. He always wins. Those games are not interesting, and they are quickly discarded. The games that last are those that afford endless scope for maneuver and innovation. But always, within the scope of The Rules. And we play these good games for a long, long time, before anyone bothers to write down The Rules. I know The Rules. Cecil knows The Rules.
This evening, our other cat, Batty, happened to see the Dot at the start of a game, and, in typical cat fashion, went berserk over it. Which totally perplexed Cecil. He had taken his position, but Batty was attacking the Dot before it got anywhere near him.
They fairly quickly worked out the usual soccer arrangement, where Batty was the forward, but if the Dot got past her, it was Cecil's responsibility. This is apparently what mammalian nervous systems do with this problem.
"Amateurs can easily get reasonably close to a decent state of military analysis."
I think the difficulty, is that anyone can offer military analysis, but military affairs, by their nature, resist successful analysis. If the military situation was evident, the war would not have started, because both sides would know who was going to win. Someone is mistaken, but only the event can say whom.
So, the "military analyst", who wishes to trade upon his supposed expertise, is constantly out-guessed by some newcomer, who has no track record to defend.
There is information that the press wants and Arent getting. They aren’t getting it, because it would go immediately over the air, and the Iranians would immediately know what the press knows. They are getting high level operational details from SecDef and the CentCom commander. That’s not what they want. They want the down and dirty, thats what the Aren’t getting, and Aren't going to get. And remember, this goes far beyond just curiosity. The MSM people whining are trying to embarrass Trump and his Administration. That’s why they aren’t trusted with the information that they aren’t getting.
Yes, the old game was to create a second battle front, fifth column style, by waging warfare-by-leaked-inside-information. This administration has proven its competence in almost completely throttling this behavior. But what I'm pointing out is the complete inadequacy of the press corp when they are stripped of this status quo. They're unable to harness any independent thinking, and this includes the so-called independent press. I'm curious what the retired generals think, the think-tank experts, the defense establishment. They've gone very quiet, aside from the well-paying meal tickets as talking heads.
The bottom line is Iran still has absolute control of the Hormuz Gap choking off oil and fertilizer to Asia. You don't need to be a military genius level intelligence to see that. Everything else is just public relations hype from all sides trying to spin the news cycle.
Brought forward from earlier:
The fact is that the Apollo landings videos from the moon's surface could not have been filmed (“faked”) any place but:
a) on a low-gravity (1/6th-g) world, like the moon,
b) possessing wide-area vacuum, like the moon.
As a result of this fundamental lunar alienness, every step the astronauts took, spin they took in their rover, kicked up lunar dust—every particle of which thereupon followed an individually unique, parabolic ballistic trajectory—impossible to duplicate en masse, even today, on a high-gravity planet incorporating a heavy, dust-lofting atmosphere like earth.
Nor could (manual) animation—all that was available during the 20th century—have done the job. Nowadays we could computer animate such details, but those techniques were not available really until this century.
Neither were the Van Allen belts an important issue. As noted up-thread, the astronauts traversed the belts quickly—but also avoided a great deal of them by launching along a northerly trajectory; the Van Allen belts are donut shaped with big holes over the poles.
As far as Stanley Kubrick and his 2001: A Space Odyssey are concerned, the 1968 film that he directed shows that Kubrick's (and many other peoples') idea at the time of what the moon ought to look like was very different from what we now know to be the case.
Specifically, mountains and crater walls on the moon before Apollo were thought to be pristinely jagged—unchanged from their violent, meteoritic formation—due to the lack of atmosphere thus wind and other kinds of earthly erosion (e.g., rain and flowing water, not to speak of glaciers) on the moon.
But now we know that a steady rain of micrometeoroid (and larger) impacts over the ages has eroded and greatly softened the appearance of mountains and craters all over the moon, so that 2001's portrait does not reveal lunar mountains' true appearance.
Somewhat similarly, Kubrick's presentation of what earth looks like from space is also quite unlike what we now recognize our planet really looks like. The cloud patterns, for instance, are different from what he anticipated in that film.
Hormuz Strait, Howard.
No, the landings weren’t faked. It’s just a shame they were stopped.
Well said, Caroline, @9:57pm!
So 5000 Marines an 2000 more from a single brigade from the 82nd Airborne can hardly contend against 600000 IRGC active-duty ground pounders. Why are we spending the money? We have already spent $30 billion and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
Trump tried to claim that an Iranian tanker filled with Iraqi oil passed through the strait yesterday, but that never happened.
Is it time for impeachment, and maybe criminal charges to boot???
Mike Davis
@mrddmia
Democrat DC U.S. district judges illegally worked in secret with Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith to bring charges against President Trump:
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Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
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According to newly released documents by Sen Grassley office, it appears Special Counsel Jack Smith conferred with both DC Chief Judges Beryl Howell and James Boasberg as to their legal strategy in targeting the president and his associates.
https://x.com/mrddmia/status/2036467704559788340?s=20
It weird, the things you can get away with if you are a Progressive in this country....
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Senator Cruz CONFIRMED that Biden’s FBI wiretapped Susie Wiles during a PRIVILEGED CALL with her lawyer without the consent of EITHER party.
To make it HORRENDOUSLY worse, they then tried to HIDE evidence of their actions by marking the file “prohibited.”
This makes Watergate look like CHILD’S PLAY. Accountability is not optional. These people MUST be held accountable.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2036485464987984063?s=20
"Our entire airline industry has been flashing neon red danger signs for years. There have been a lot of serious runway incidents, near collisions, congestion, communication problems, staffing issues, and controller overload. All of this has been building up while the people in charge kept pretending DEI was the way of the future.
They were wrong. Dead wrong.
Years ago, Revolver dug into the aviation mess and found something the regime-controlled press won’t touch with a ten-foot pole. The decline in air safety is clearly tied to a much bigger collapse in air traffic control, driven in part by staffing shortages and by the Obama administration’s decision to move away from merit-based hiring and toward DEI. Obama’s dangerous policies put all of this into motion.
Granted, Obama didn’t get out there and personally steer a plane into a fire truck. But his failed policies weakened one of the most high-stakes industries in the country. And when you weaken a system like that, eventually the blood starts flowing."
https://revolver.news/2026/03/theres-a-chilling-update-in-the-laguardia-plane-crash-story/
Finally...Congress shouldn't be treated any differently than any other American citizen that is inconvenienced because of the inactions of a do nothing Congress....
“Due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta,” Delta said in a statement Murphy quoted.
“Next to safety, Delta’s No. 1 priority is taking care of our people and customers, which has become increasingly difficult in the current environment.”
“The perk is just one of a bundle that have made flying a lot easier for the frequent flyers in Congress, who often are on an airplane twice a week or more commuting to Washington and back,” Murphy wrote.
“Along with skipping the lines, some members of Congress also request local police escorts to their gates. And they all get access to major airlines’ dedicated Congressional service desks to book trips, make last-minute changes, and even reserve seats on one, two or three flights on the same day, depending on congressional vote schedules.
“In regular times, these could be seen as prudent security measures for high-profile flyers or simply good customer service for some of the airlines’ best customers. But taken together, they also inoculate Congress from the chaos Washington is causing.”
https://x.com/MurphyAJC/status/2036402602649276683?s=20
wendybar said...
Finally...Congress shouldn't be treated any differently than any other American citizen that is inconvenienced because of the inactions of a do nothing Congress....
“Due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta,” Delta said in a statement Murphy quoted.
“Next to safety, Delta’s No. 1 priority is taking care of our people and customers, which has become increasingly difficult in the current environment.”
https://x.com/MurphyAJC/status/2036402602649276683?s=20
Delta’s move comes after the Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would prohibit members of Congress from skipping airport security lines manned by the TSA....
“The perk is just one of a bundle that have made flying a lot easier for the frequent flyers in Congress, who often are on an airplane twice a week or more commuting to Washington and back,” Murphy wrote.
“Along with skipping the lines, some members of Congress also request local police escorts to their gates. And they all get access to major airlines’ dedicated Congressional service desks to book trips, make last-minute changes, and even reserve seats on one, two or three flights on the same day, depending on congressional vote schedules.
“In regular times, these could be seen as prudent security measures for high-profile flyers or simply good customer service for some of the airlines’ best customers. But taken together, they also inoculate Congress from the chaos Washington is causing.”
And the really sad thing is that DA Alvin Bragg will slap his wrist and let this illegal go back to doing what the Progressives say illegals aren't doing.....
"A Guatemalan illegal alien who was released into the US by the Biden Regime was arrested for brutally raping a 5-year-old girl in Long Island, New York.
Carlos Aguilar Reynoso was indicted this week after he violently raped a child so badly that she needed surgery to treat the injuries.
Reynoso was charged with first-degree rape, predatory sexual assault against a child, sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child."
https://longisland.news12.com/guatemalan-man-accused-in-5-year-olds-rape-arrested-by-ice
IRGC is @150,000 all in, and most of them are needed for internal security to keep the Iranians from revolting. The idea (I guess) at the moment is to seize a few islands. The IRGC will not be able to infiltrate back into these islands. Any significant number of IRGC moving/concentrating for a counterattack, in any case, will just make themselves a target for allied air power.
@wendybar (2:44), the thing that bothered me yesterday when I saw a redacted copy of an Email exchange among Jack Smith and judges Howell and Boasberg was that they were collaborating to select targets who were not guilty of any crime but under threat of prosecution might be pressured into giving false testimony against Trump. No doubt Prof. Althouse will come along to explain why this is not really a breach of judicial ethics, similar to the way she explained and defended prosecutorial discretion to us some years ago.
"The idea (I guess) at the moment is to seize a few islands."
We only need the Strait; the IRGC can do whatever the hell they want with the rest of their country.
And if we can't hold a few islands, I want to know what the hell they've been doing with my tax dollars all these years.
Chris Cappy is one of the more credible military commentators out there. This applies to Ukraine, Iran, etc. Yes, he lags behind the news and his analyses are sometimes out of date before they are released. Still, you can learn about what military analysts think about as you feed the AI models your questions. (Eye roll).
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisCappy
Note that hosted, but did not own, the Task & Purpose channel until a year ago. I haven't watched their new hosts much.
https://www.youtube.com/@Taskandpurpose
@Humperdink on white Democrats only appearing in the California debates.
The Party continues to fight with itself. This has continued since Clinton was "the first black President" 30+ years ago. They put up Biden, Newsom, and the current crop as they try to serve two or eight different masters.
If not for Trump, the Party would have split wide open during a Hillary presidency. Trump made the stakes too high, so they circled the wagons and continue to put forward facsimiles of leaders. Any cardboard cutout of a white person will do, as they are all puppets of the donors and DEI interest groups.
With this debate cancellation, some of the members didn't get the message. Given the gerrymandering and large majority, California's internal Democrat wars are pretty severe. Race vs. race and rich vs. poor hatred is strong.
Chris Cappy is no longer with Task and Purpose. He has his own channel and provides content not allowed on YouTube at Pepperbox. I agree he has good commentary.
I also pay attention to Sal Mercogliano on the trade stuff. On a slightly different subject, Mover and Gonky had a good breakdown of the LGA event.
Point of interest, Trump voted by mail for this special election, despite saying doing so was "cheating". The man is just a walking butterball of hypocrisy, venality and abject failure.
Fun fact: Democrats have flipped 10 seats in state legislative special elections under Trump while Republicans have flipped a big fat zero. So. Much. Winning.
Republicans have controlled the State House seat since redistricting in 2020. The former Republican incumbent won the district by almost +20 points in 2022 and 2024.
If you want to be a Trump apologist you might note that this was a "low turnout special election". Calling it a Democratic seat is false. Since the 2020 redistricting cycle this has been a safe Republican seat.
Palm Beach County, Florida, tends to be more favorable to the Democrats, however, this is a district within Palm Beach that includes a lot of Trump friendly territory.
Althouse will come along to explain why this is not really a breach of judicial ethics, similar to the way she explained and defended prosecutorial discretion to us some years ago.
…NYT not reporting on it is proof it didn’t happen Big Mike…
The Althouse community is interested in art. I highly recommend to you the latest edition of the Nick Bahe podcast on the topic of Greg McDermott’s retirement as coach at Creighton. Remarkable.
Mac in Full. The Mac version of “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
That podcast was an artistic masterpiece.
Interesting development yesterday in Missouri v. Biden, see links below. Apparently, the U.S. Supreme Court decision on 6/26/2024 in Murthy v. Missouri wasn't the last word on the matter.
Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/schmitt-celebrates-historic-first-amendment-victory-in-landmark-missouri-v-biden-case/
Eugene Volokh
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/03/24/trump-administration-agrees-to-consent-decree-in-missouri-v-biden-social-media-case/
Democrats flipped a Florida state district in a special election. Palm Beach County. Our favorite word appears in this article.
I think all the people involved are evil traitors, but the Smith/Howell/Boasberg meetings are not necessarily evil in and of themselves. The emails describing them are pretty terse: I am not sure how the X posters are extrapolating some kind of conspiracy. The process of getting subpoenas, court orders, warrants, etc, is necessarily ex parte, with just the court and the prosecutor let in on the details. This principle applies for garden variety bank robbery or tax evasion cases just as much as for alleged crimes by the POTUS & Co. The process becomes more efficient if the prosecutor can describe the case as a whole once, rather than popping in at random times to get paper for various tiny parts of the case. Notably, Boasberg is currently trying to require the 47 Admin to notify him of grand jury no-bills, apparently in an effort to see if the GJ process is being abused against political enemies.
One of my favorite catchphrases is "Imagine Jim Crow." I could see a 60s southern fed judge doing all these things to supervise an evolving case against alleged civil-rights violators.
Now Boasberg is indeed a Dem operative who is himself abusing all these processes. But the processes themselves are neither new nor illegal. CC, JSM
Trump should immediately deluge his new state rep with all kinds of concerned-citizen letters. Sidewalk cracks outside Mar-A-Lago and the like. Highlighting the amount of property tax he pays on the place. Etc. CC, JSM
Now let’s build some wind turbines alongside Trump’s golf course.
Cold winds are blowing of Trump’s own making.
Trump is saving the world. But will it be enough to save the Republican Party?
According to Zerohedge Trump wants a thirty day cease-fire, you know, to get his army in place and restock Israel's interceptors, and to take some pressure off of the price of oil for a while because he is not going to be able to talk it down forever, but his jawboning does seem to be working now.
I give up on this whole thing. Plainly enough people who voted for Trump want this war for him to go ahead. It's like a Tom Stoppard play, which was, I guess, Stoppard's point. Maybe there is a Shakespeare play happening somewhere that we just can't see.
Here's an idea for Trump, if you want a cease-fire, stop shooting, since you are the one who started this war.
Timmie is very stupid or are you a little dutch boy now
Maybe Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead is an enactment of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. I could ask AI, I guess. But what's the point. I would rather own the idea than find out that somebody thought of that decades ago.
It is stupid, I guess, to not take every idea spoon fed to you by Fox News as gospel truth. How could anybody not understand what they are explaining to us so clearly?
But why the insults? Why not just show me where I am wrong? It makes me wonder if maybe you can't.
John Mosby:
That description - while terse - suggested way more. The thing of it is that we know the Jack Smith crew was deranged and the two federal judges are partisan hacks.
What are the odds that Mika Brzezinski doesn’t have a passport?
How many fox links do i post twit
Her father was national security advisor mother the daughter of a czech prime minister slim and none
How she can still be this stupid
I was never impressed with pop brezinsnki he came up with the grain embargo
Chat says that my idea is not a common one among critics, but it came around to saying that my analysis "holds up surprisingly well," which I thought was a funny way to say it, because I don't find my take of the Stoppard play and Plato's allegory "surprising," it reminds me of the playground baseball jibe when somebody makes a good catch of "Look what I found!"
The thing is that he had the power to do it, under Jimmy Carter, and the wars he talked about have all happened.
Here he is speaking to the photo-Taliban in Pakistan in 1979 sending them in to, as he later explained to Jimmy Carter, who signed off on it, to provoke a Soviet invasion of Pakistan.
9-11 was just blowback? Or was it almost too convenient?
I agree he was a moron, but where we differ is that you imagine that this would keep him from having power over events and future strategy of the US.
I think that your real problem with "Speg" as Clinton called him, is that he broke omertà just to brag.
That's "proto-taliban" thank you auto-malapropism feature.
"Surprised by the Pink" would be a great album title. CC, JSM
“Chat says that my idea is not a common one among critics, but it came around to saying that my analysis "holds up surprisingly well,"
That’s AI’s job. Praising humans is probably AI’s biggest attraction. I haven’t yet given AI an idea that hadn’t been received with praise.
Based on March 2026 reports, the US Marines and 82nd Airborne are expected to open the Strait of Hormuz through a joint forcible-entry operation. This includes seizing Iranian-held coastal islands, destroying coastal missile batteries, hunting fast-attack boats, and establishing, via the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), forward operating bases to secure the waterway.
www.thenationalnews.com
www.thenationalnews.com
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Operational Methods to Reopen the Strait:
Seizing Coastal Islands: Marines may conduct amphibious assaults to seize fortified islands such as Qeshm to eliminate radar and anti-ship missile sites.
Securing Critical Terrain: The 82nd Airborne Division, known for its ability to deploy within 18 hours, would likely secure critical terrain and neutralize shoreline threats to shipping.
Neutralizing Fast-Attack Boats: Marine AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters and Navy assets will actively target Iranian fast-attack craft.
Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO): Marines will establish temporary, mobile missile batteries on islands to control the sea space.
Securing Commercial Traffic: Armed Marine security detachments could be placed directly aboard commercial tankers to prevent hijackings.
www.thenationalnews.com
www.thenationalnews.com
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Force Deployment and Objective:
Forces Involved: Over 2,200 Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit are arriving on the USS Tripoli and USS New Orleans, supported by the 82nd Airborne.
Objectives: The primary objective is to stop Iran's effective closure of the waterway and allow oil tankers to pass.
Strategic Focus: The operation aims to secure the coastline, neutralize missiles and mines, and ensure the free flow of shipping within 72 hours of operations, potentially targeting Kharg Island, which handles 90% of Iran's oil exports.
www.thenationalnews.com
www.thenationalnews.com
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These actions come in response to Iranian-led disruptions that have caused oil prices to rise
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/03/23/mamma-mia-italian-anarchist-couple-blows-themselves-up-while-trying-to-make-mass-casualty-ied-n2200522
“How she can still be this stupid.”
It’s the praise. Just like you can be flattered into believing the ideas you share with AI are genius. It’s the constant praise by people who have their own motives, that stops people from thinking critically.
Not a land invasion of the whole country.
@wendybar, "...What this latest chilling update shows is that the LaGuardia crash wasn’t a surprise. As a matter of fact, some might call it destiny...."
That revolver article, sorry to say, is pure, complete bullsh*t. They're winding up their reader base and pre-bunking the story to be all about 'the danger of DEI hires' without actually providing any kind of evidence that the crash at La Guardia had anything to do with DEI. Shame on them for sloppy and sensationalist reporting, and double shame for linking to other revolver articles doing the same thing. Just my opinion of course, but revolver has shown they can report honestly and it's sad to see them take this path.
THIS is who Progressives are fighting for...NOT the 14 year old victim.....
"Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, a 31-year-old Colombian immigrant, pleaded guilty to second-degree rape in Manhattan Supreme Court for sexually assaulting the teen in East Harlem last year and was promised a sentence of just six months — which she has already served.
That means the creep will be free to go when she is sentenced April 27 — unless federal immigration agents are there to slap on the cuffs again to deport her."
"Suarez, was already wanted in Massachusetts on robbery, prostitution and weapons charges, followed the teenager into a bodega across the street from Thomas Jefferson park on Feb. 11, 2025 and raped him, according to prosecutors.:"
https://nypost.com/2026/03/24/us-news/trans-migrant-gets-sweetheart-plea-deal-in-rape-of-14-year-old-boy-inside-nyc-bodega-bathroom/
Those were mahsoods fighters the ones al queda had murdered your brains are dripping out of your ears
Exactly, Eva. It's like commenting on a MAGA dominated blog. The handful of Libturds are constantly told to STFU go away and pleas made to the Blogmama to ban the more prolific lefties. The dirty little secret of the dunning-kruger effect is that everybody thinks they are immune from it.
John Mosby @ 7:09, that’s an interesting leap from “this process exists” to “this judge is abusing it as a partisan actor.” In the real world outside of the Mango Alter, that claim would need more than inference or analogy.
If there’s specific evidence of procedural violations or overturned rulings, that would be worth examining. Otherwise, it seems like we’re filling in gaps with assumptions.
The “Jim Crow judge” analogy is emotionally powerful I suppose but logically weak. That math seems to demand that if something could be abused, it is being abused.
Also, a good deal of the “alleged crimes by the POTUS & Co” have moved beyond allegations.
Also, a good deal of the “alleged crimes by the POTUS & Co” have moved beyond allegations
Oh- where did they go?
@Howard: The dirty little secret of the dunning-kruger effect is that everybody thinks they are immune from it.
"...where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average"
-Garrison Keillor
Bloody Hell, RJW, I was actually standing up for Boasberg a little bit. I was comparing him to an anti-Jim Crow judge. That whinny you hear is coming from the gift horse....CC, JSM
Jupiter - I have been searching all my life for an intelligent cat. Would Cecil have any offspring by chance?
Jupiter, my fellow planetary friend, I enjoyed your description of the game you play with your cats. It reminds me of the game we play here with Little Excursion as he endlessly chases our very own laser red dot called, "Trump". He knows The Rules. We know The Rules. Even with the help of his litter mates, baby gadfly, imTay, and others, they never quite catch it. The red dot remains ever elusive.
Endlessly entertaining.
@planetgeo:
"Little Kabuki Theater"
But why the insults? Why not just show me where I am wrong?
We tried that. You ignore facts you don’t like and prefer made-up “facts” from the DNC. “Reality” is a foreign land to you. So now we just laugh at you.
The Senate will probably pass funding for DHS now that Delta has suspended the special check-in desk it maintained specifically for members of Congress. The suspension is until TSA is funded.
JM, ex parte coordination and how these cases develop isn’t unusual. That part I agree.
That’s not what I pushed back on—it was on calling the judge a partisan operative abusing the system. That’s a pretty serious claim, and I didn’t see anything in what you laid out that actually supports it.
If the point is the process itself isn’t inherently improper, we’re on the same page.
The Hormuz Blues
It’s much worse than
the Too Tight Shoes
I just woke up to
Give youz the News
It ain’t no Sea Cruise
So Free the Hormuz
Got too much to lose
I go now
Regarding LGA and breaks in the “Swiss-cheese” model; unless the DEI employee was driving the firetruck; I don’t think that was a direct cause. The controller was definitely task saturated, and staffing shortages may play a role in the final findings. However, what I’ve seen of recreations is a controller managing 3 routine flight movements, 1 flight emergency that had 1 or 2 previous aborted takeoff events, a convoy of emergency vehicles, and ramp control. All these events near midnight in about a 5 to 10 minute span.
The final hole in the safety system were functioning automated runway intersection lights (RILs) blinking red noting that a vehicle was already on the runway and it would be dangerous to cross. Runway status lights (RWSL) were a NTSB recommendation in 1992 which required technology development with initial trials at DFW in 2007. LGA is one of 20 airports with this system. Had the firetruck driver been trained on these lights and how they function, they should have ignored ATC clearance and held short of the runway. That is how flight crews are trained to use the system because flight controllers could become task saturated. That’s not to blame the fire truck driver, because I do not know what training they receive.
Jupiter @ 10:09
In an odd kind of way it's just like you and the belief that we never landed on the moon.
Trump’s presidency won’t survive the deaths of 100 Marines.
The area around the strait has been compared to the Dardanelles where the Turks thrashed the ANZACS over 100 years ago. Of course the US can take Kharg Island but then what? Iran stops pumping oil there and still shoots at shipping.
That means that, even if an operation to seize the island were to go flawlessly, it may change little for the US position in the Iran war. The big question is then what?
Trump is being seduced by Netanyahu and his supporters yet again, this time on the false premise that if the US escalates
further and seizes Kharg Island, Iran will capitulate to US/Israeli demands. But this is misguided thinking. Even if the US takes the island, Iran could respond by further targeting Gulf infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, water desalination etc) and could still continue to close the Strait of Hormuz. The pro war lobby would then advocate for invading and capturing Iranian coastal areas to create a "buffer zone" and so the cycle would continue. The longer this war continues, the greater the
damage to the global economy and the faster US/Israeli stockpiles of interceptors and high end stand off missiles are depleted. Iran is fighting for its survival and they are prepared to die for their cause, the US isn't. The US will reach its pain threshold long before Iran is prepared to surrender.
I would not be surprised if the government and trump would not be deterred from dropping a nuke on Iran,.He hates being made to look a fool,first Bibi saying the war is over when he says it is,not trump and the Iranian guy saying stop your nonsense. Iranian military spokesman Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaghari fired back with derision, asking if Trump was “negotiating with himself” and made it clear that Trump has burned all of his off-ramps out of this war.
“Do not call your defeat an agreement. Neither will your investments in the region happen or return, nor will you see the previous prices of energy and oil.”
“Until our will is present, no situation will return to the previous state; this will arises only when the thought of action against the Iranian nation is completely erased from your filthy minds.”
“Our first and last word from day one has been, is, and will be: No one like us will come to terms with anyone like you. Not now, and never ever.” Total loss of respect not only from enemies but of allies. Wonder what KELSHI has on this, someone made 1/2 millionn on the 5 day stop deal 15 minutes after it came out.How coincidental huh? WAY INSIDE....
The Senate will probably pass funding for DHS now that Delta has suspended the special check-in desk it maintained specifically for members of Congress
…ha that’s interesting. I somehow found myself in a shouting match with Warnock’s toadie driver at the airport a while back. He was a regular at the departures level but I haven’t seen him for a while. He must…somehow be a victim of the shutdown, too…
“That description - while terse - suggested way more. The thing of it is that we know the Jack Smith crew was deranged and the two federal judges are partisan hacks.”
If the prosecutor, and esp a partisan hack, like Jack Smith, reaches out and asks judges on the court that is likely to get his cases, for assistance in getting his case through them, it is unethical for them to respond. It’s ex parte communications. A big judicial No No. Which they should have done, then reported him to the local bar disciplinary body.
“ I would not be surprised if the government and trump would not be deterred from dropping a nuke on Iran.”
That is, frankly, idiotic. There is nowhere left in Iran that could profitably be nuked. Nothing that conventional munitions haven’t already destroyed. You are suggesting that Trump would take out hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, just to get a handful, or fewer, of the enemy. Yes, I can see how you would want that. But it’s no longer on the military options for plausible contingencies, if it ever were.
I like the cloudy ones best :-)
Hayden: " It’s ex parte communications. A big judicial No No. "
When you're in the subpoena/warrant/indictment/Title 3 etc stage, it's all ex parte communications, by design, by the book, and of necessity. How else are you going to get a wiretap order, search warrant, etc, without giving the target warning?
And if you have a buttload of warrant applications and other paper to do at once, there's nothing wrong with trying to facilitate the logistics, rather than backing a dump truck up to the duty magistrate's office.
If there's any wrong being done, it might be by the judge, asking for information beyond the four corners of the documents. But even then, the judge always has a duty to ensure the greater interests of justice, and if she smells something bad cooking, she's allowed, maybe even required, to ask questions.
I still think these are a bunch of colluding traitors, but the mere act of telling the judge your theory of the case and your plan of investigative actions is neither collusion nor treason. CC, JSM
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