March 21, 2026

Sunrise — 7:07, 7:08, 7:21.

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It looks a bit gray, but the clouds quickly dissipated, and today, the second day of spring, was brilliantly sunny and quite warm — over 70°. Is there anything left of last weekend's big blizzard? Yes. There were a few little piles of snow here and there — amusing mementos. Meade and I took 3 walks today — sunrise, midday, and early evening — totaling 6.4 miles.

Talk about whatever you want in the comments.

93 comments:

Achilles said...

Question for Ann, are you still interested in a new webapp with searchable comment database?

Original Mike said...

First sunrise of spring!
(good things come to those that wait)

Iman said...

“You should get married and have kids”, my friends used to say. “Your kids will take care of you when you get older.”

I can see it now. I’m 90, in a wheelchair and my kids’ll be standing over me asking “what’s the PIN number?”…

“Where’s the money, old man?”

h/t Larry “Bubbles” Brown

buwaya said...

Last year I gave my wife, my sister, and each of my kids an envelope with my accounts, passwords, PINs, etc. All done, and so should you lot. I should have done so years before but my recent health issues were a wakeup call. Yes thats part of estate planning.

buwaya said...

The international atmosphere in re Iran is approaching that of the Boxer Rebellion. Back in 1900 it was the "Eight Powers" alliance, that took the Taku forts and sent field forces towards Peking, now it seems it will be more "powers". I suspect the organizer will be MBS of Saudi Arabia. The objective will be of course the coastline and hinterland of the straits of Hormuz.

imTay said...

This is the Shah's regime that Netanyahu and Trump are claiming that the Iranians want back so badly that they welcome the bombing of their country and the killing of their schoolgirls and destruction of their hospitals:

According to a declassified CIA memo citing a classified U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, the CIA played a significant role in establishing SAVAK, providing both funding and training.[7] The organization became notorious for its extensive surveillance, repression, and torture of political dissidents. The Shah used SAVAK to arrest, imprison, exile, and torture his opponents, leading to widespread public resentment. This discontent was leveraged by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile, to build popular support for his Islamic philosophy.[8]

At its peak, SAVAK reportedly employed approximately 5,000 agents operating under the Pahlavi dynasty.[1] Iranian-American scholar and ex-politician Gholam Reza Afkhami estimates that SAVAK had between 4,000 and 6,000 members,[9] while TIME stated in a publication on 19 February 1979 that the agency had 5,000 members.[10]
- Wikipedia

The Shah was installed by the British and the CIA to overthrow the first democratically elected prime minister of Iran, in order for Britain and the US to claim control of Iran's oil.

"You show me the oil, and I will show you the justification to invade the country." - Saying

Iman said...

CBS Radio News is toast and anchor Deborah Rodriguez and legal analyst Laurie Levenson gone.

Oh, for shame… /sarc

I was wondering how long it would take Paramount to start the haz mat clean-up…

buwaya said...

I think I mentioned that MBS is incandescent (from private communications with friends-of-friends in Saudi). He would dearly like to send his air force to bomb something yesterday, but the Israelis and Americans seem to have already bombed everything obvious. So it will have to be troops to occupy a significant part of Iran.

Beasts of England said...

Since The Masters is only three weeks away I’ll share another oblique Augusta story…

The son of a mover and shaker in our state worked for my dad when I was a teenager and we got invited on a deer hunt back in the day. The hunt was on the vast acreage in south Alabama owned by the Drummond family (Drummond Coal and Rancho la Quinta) and we stayed in their ‘cabin’ - a cabin with eight bedrooms, a cook, and a bartender…

Among the other hunters there was a coach called ‘Bear’, Bill Harbert (Harbert Construction), and noted civil rights activist Hall Thompson (Thompson Caterpillar and Shoal Creek).

As it turned out, decades later, Hall’s daughter was a pledge sister with my ex. And while it would have been cool to have a billionaire and an Augusta National member as a father-in-law, she looked just like him. But, dang, she liked me a lot. lol

But, wait, there’s more: she had two other pledge sisters with fathers who were members. One’s dad was a sugar magnate from Louisiana - and she was a babe. The other, also a babe, was from Chattanooga and had a grandfather who was one of three gentlemen who paid a dollar each for the exclusive rights to bottle a certain carbonated beverage flavored by the coca leaf and cola bean. The name of the soft drink escapes me…

The choices we make, huh? ;)

narciso said...

That leaves decidedly meh

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rehajm said...

CBS Radio News is toast and anchor Deborah Rodriguez and legal analyst Laurie Levenson gone

Hawaiian judge orders all of them to return while John Roberts demands you don’t criticize the decision..

narciso said...

The cbs news

Achilles said...

My coordinator protocol agents went off the rails today, they managed to spawn 600 or so dev processes that got killed immediately by the reaper daemons.

=(

I built a full rust kernel and a rust frontend for the app. I rebuilt my brothers website. building an android native version of my app now. created a complete test harness template and full set of fault injection protocols.

=)

Little Excursion™️ said...

Trump Threatens to Hit Iran’s Power Plants if Hormuz Isn’t Reopened in 48 Hours ~WSJ

That’s an aggressive move in a war that’s already over. I thought we won last week. It's so hard to keep up.

buwaya said...

The Shah was already "installed" while Mossadegh was his PM. Mohammed Reza Shah succeeded his father in 1941.
Both were "installed" as part of the Soviet/British/US agreements.
It would reduce the annoyance of this comment section if certain people took the time to understand a bit of history.

imTay said...

Not to mention that about three days ago, the US dropped a bomb about nine hundred yards from Iran's nuclear power plant. What could go wrong? Well, Today, Iran hit the town that was associated with Israel's nuclear reactor, but the Iranians were nice enough to hit 12 kilometers from the reactor itself, and hit where they though that the scientists and engineers associated with the complex lived.

There is video of the attempts to intercept the missiles, which were pretty pointless, as it came in at hypersonic speed.

This war is getting out of hand and it was a stupid war for the US to fight in the first place. It's Israel's war. Israel misses having their secret police in control of Iran

n January 1979, Bakhtiar approached Israel's newly appointed Mossad chief, Eliezer Tsafrir, with a request to assassinate Khomeini, who was then in exile in France.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/what-is-savak-a-look-at-irans-dreaded-shah-era-secret-police-amid-protests-10753955

The point is that they are lying to you on Fox News. Netanyahu is lying to you, and Trump is lying to you. This information is there for all to see as it has largely been declassified. There is even a BBC documentary about how Britain and the CIA installed the Shah over the Iranian people called "A Very British Coup."

imTay said...

What happened to the democratically elected prime minister of Iran in 1953?

imTay said...

I am sure you would like it a lot better if people didn't point out uncomfortable facts, but the Shah was put in control of the state, supported by his brutal secret police, SAVAK, in 1953.

buwaya said...

Savak (Iranian internal security) was mostly a response to ongoing Soviet efforts to destabilize Iran. Iran was a major player in the Cold War and a major target of Soviet efforts at subversion. The Mullah regime inherited much of the old Savak as they had the same USSR problem (until 1991).

buwaya said...

The Shah WAS in control of the state.

buwaya said...

Mossadegh was removed by his parliament (which he had tried to dissolve). He then was held in house arrest the rest of his life.

wildswan said...

I'm slowly buying seeds and bulbs for a garden. But I know that next week it will be snowing again. Then this poem I came across will apply:
"Bolt and bar the shutter,
For the foul winds blow:
Our minds are at their best this night,
And I seem to know
That everything outside us is
Mad as the mist and snow."

But then two weeks after that, this will apply:

"Loveliest of the trees ihe cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide."

A New England spring. You see why they left the place; you see why they missed it.



TickTock1948 said...

If we win this conflict concerns about Taiwan get pushed back a decade or likely more. If we lose it, we won't be able to build domestic chip manufacturing plants fast enough. That's my read.

Rustygrommet said...

buwaya.
Tim is the hero in his own narrative. History just interferes.

TickTock1948 said...

Should have said earlier, the pictures today are very nice.

TickTock1948 said...

Should have said earlier, the pictures today are very nice.

buwaya said...

When there is a new regime in Iran it will very likely hunt down its global enemies. A fair number of US politicians, "influencers" and such will fall into that category. Not to mention quite a few Euros.

Eva Marie said...

“If we lose it . . . “
No chance of that.

wildswan said...

A friend of mine suddenly went over to the Tucker Carlson side of things and so, ai last I began listening to the "arguments" of the antisemites. But it was all just as I thought before; it is all based on the fixed belief many Americans hold that we can pick and choose our wars - and that the wars we picked were disasters - and now we've picked another war and let''s just quit it all before we spend the money, not after.
These people are fixed in the ideas appropriate to the post-WW II situation where we could pick and choose our wars. For example, Iran was nasty to us in the Carter era - but we could just ignore it all, Iran weren't really hurting us. And it still isn't and it still can't (they think) and so let's mot be stupid and get into a war.
But I believe that over the last seventy years other countries have grown in strength and grown as threats, Iran and China being the prime examples. For example, Iran now calls us their "Great Adversary" and Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombs. And all these people sit about saying "there's no imminent threat" - meaning, I suppose, that that Iran doesn't have intercontinetal missiles and neclear weapons - yet. It's matter of a few years, still. And we should wait till they attack us with nuclear weapons. Then, with a hundred million dead, it would be OK to fight back, but only with with conventional weapons since it would still not be OK to harm civilians.
This is madmess, in a way, but it's more that people simply are thinking that things are going to go on for us the way they have been going since the end of World War II. War descends on others; we lean back before our screens and decide whether to join in.
To me, that immunity is over.
Iran has declared war; Iran is going to try to destroy us. You think not? You think there is a fatwah preventing the use of nuclear weapons because in Islam you don't attack civilians?
Right now, Iran is attacking civilians all across the Mid-East. It is bombing civilian targets - hotels, beaches, resort complexes, residential neighborhoods in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, No one is talking about a fatwah against attacking civilians. When Iran attacks us. they will attack civilians if they feel like it.
The old order is gone and we, like all the others, cannot choose our wars. Like it or not, war is at the door for us, for the fortunate, the happy, the lotos eaters. Can we face an unpleasnt reality or we we strolling about in the garden of the Finzi-Continis, so to speak? Some surely are but, I hope, not a majority.

Original Mike said...

"No chance of that."

You're forgetting the democrats.

buwaya said...

Normality bias or normality fallacy.
The mistaken idea that things seem more or less ok now, so we dont have to do (or spend) anything to mitigate likely crises.
The principal enemy of disaster planning.
Also why most people hate engineers.
My first lesson to new engineers. "We are all Greek Princesses" (gets a laugh, that). "The Princess Cassandra. She was cursed with fortelling the future, but no-one would ever believe her".

bagoh20 said...

Was an awesome day yesterday on our Lake Mead. 95 degrees, light wind, which is a cool spring day to us. Water was already warm enough to swim and clear as bottled water. Just got my boat fitted with sunscreens all around, which makes it into a huge Bedouin nomad tent less the camels. Just a lovely day for the kids and old folks with music, sandwiches and a full cooler. Life is good.

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCNDD6

Eva Marie said...

“You're forgetting the democrats.”
That’s a good point. But the damage that they can do is limited by their stupidity. I thought I found one smart Democrat in another thread but he turned out to be an Independent.

bagoh20 said...

"Last year I gave my wife, my sister, and each of my kids an envelope with my accounts, passwords, PINs, etc. All done, and so should you lot."

That's scarier than base jumping.

Achilles said...

If I don't tell my manager agents to create context spawn thread they just start doing the work themselves.

=(

So then I have to spawn another manager agent.

Achilles said...

maximize context density: proper punctuation, remove social padding, no pronouns, direct reference

learn about vectors and embedding, new language

DINKY DAU 45 said...

Remember the fake story of Obamas pallets full of cash for Iran? Check out the senile guy incharge and making a mess.Everybody but MAGAS struggling to keep up with this guys fkups.
Trump just gave Iran a $14 BILLION handout. (8x the "pallets of cash" to Iran while bombing them during a war he started. On purpose.YUP!
The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on 140 million barrels of Iranian crude oil sitting on tankers at sea, because the war Trump started has sent oil prices so high that the entire global economy is starting to SOIL itself. At current prices, that oil is worth over $14 billion. To Iran. The country with the missiles. The ones currently aimed at American soldiers.
This stupid son of a (rhymes with itch) spent TEN YEARS screaming that Obama "gave Iran $1.7 billion." Every rally, every Truth Social meltdown, every unhinged 3am Fox News call-in. The crowd would lose their minds on cue. "He gave them the money! He funded terrorism!"
Except Obama didn't give Iran a cent. It was Iran's own money, frozen since 1979, returned under a legal settlement at The Hague.(no sense using facts MAGAS are blinded by the light, will not hear) Every fact-checker on earth confirmed it. Trump didn't care. He just kept lying because it worked.
Now this absolute inter galactic brain genius has handed Iran MORE THAN 8 TIMES that amount. Not because a court made him, because his own war broke the oil market so badly he had no other choice.(Hey check Russia too, also stopped sanctions for VLAD)
He bombed the hornets' nest, got stung, and is now offering the hornets a cash settlement while they're still stinging him.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted this only buys 10 to 14 days of relief. Two bloody weeks. They've already torched 172 million barrels of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, lifted sanctions on Russian oil. (remember whining when sleepy Joe did it)trump admits Russia helping Iran with intel that will help kill Americans and says oh well.
The Iranians are playing grand master chess. Trump is eating the leaded crayons that came with his McHappy Meal and complaining they don't taste like the red ones used to. Hows that America First and NO NEW WARS working out for the MAGAS. The Pied Piper got em running toward the cliff ,holy Mackeral Marge have you ever seen such a sight? VLAD making millions ,Iran now buying more STUFF thanks to Don, the guy is clueless and the team worse.NO NEW WARS the most explicit lie so far but all the others pretty close.Lord ,forgive them for they "really dont know" what they do... Say 10 Hail Mary's and make a good ACT OF CONTRITION.(and a love offering to cement it) Lord,Whats the deal, how about a hint?

Eva Marie said...

The list of top one hundred books sold on Amazon has been taken over by children’s books. The Democrats made a big mistake at the State of the Union. There was one partisan book (D) on the list a couple of weeks ago but it dropped in the rankings very quickly.
Meanwhile, Melania is listed at #2150, ranked higher than Kamala’s book at #2533.

Eva Marie said...

Dinky, please write longer posts, my scrolling thumb needs the excercise.

DINKY DAU 45 said...

Qatar handed Trump a $400 million jet and got $20 BILLION in blown-up gas infrastructure in return.
That’s what happens when you make a deal with the devil. Of course just a drop in the bucket of the BIG GUYS!

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Jim at said...

I thought I found one smart Democrat in another thread but he turned out to be an Independent.

Someone who has to virtue signal how much they don't like Trump - in the midst of a comment that needed no such statement - is more of a NeverTrumper than any sort of independent.

He gave the game away with that one, completely unnecessary statement.

DINKY DAU 45 said...

Who is in control of all three branches of government? Not a hard question/Unpaid Transportation Security Administration workers are struggling to stay afloat — and on the job — amid a partial government shutdown that has frustrated travelers inching through security lines that have sometimes stretched for hours, with unpredictable wait times expected to continue this weekend. Whos in charge of all three branches of government? Well they should FIX IT thats what governing is,fixing the broken things.

Little Excursion™️ said...

Trump is 'winding down' operations but at the same time planning to send thousands of soldiers to seize Kharg island? Has also claimed total victory while at the same time begging 'cowardly' NATO members to help in opening up the Strait of Hormuz in a conflict where he doesn't need any help at all?

Please, who can take Trump's posts seriously anymore? The man is a walking contradiction. All that matters in the end is what he does, not what he says.

William said...

Here's some interesting little known facts about Iran. Truman's pressure on the Soviet Union was instrumental in them relinquishing control of the northern half of that country. Does this count as interference in their internal affairs?.......During the Iran/Iraq war, Iran suffered about 200,000 combat deaths and 500,000 casualties. Nothing that we inflict on them during this current conflict will compare to that. That's a war that never would have happened if the Shah had been in power. A country can suffer a worse fate than having an American backed dictator installed......Iran been around for over 2500 years. It has been conquered by the Macedonians, the Greeks, the Arabs, Mongols, the Turks, Tamerlane, the British, and (partially) the Russians. Most of these conquerors carried out their campaigns with far more brutality and lethality than has been witnessed during our current campaign......It gives the Mullahs and their minions comfort to think that the only thing that kept Iran from becoming a peaceful, prosperous country was that one CIA thing back in '53, but perhaps other forces are at play.

William said...

I agree that it's hard to figure out what exactly Trump is planning to do or what his exit strategy is. The plus side of that is that the Iranians also have problems guessing his next move.......I don't think Trump is entitled to count this as a win, but he's in a far better strategic position than the Ayatollah. Just for one thing, he's alive.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

YouTube: Toonces meets Candice Bergen’s cat Spunky and let’s just say they don’t hit it off. LINK to video

Eva Marie said...

Here’s a clip from the Jon Stewart Show from 2 weeks ago.
His guest: Christiane Amanpour
Huge leftie. With friends and extended family in Iran.
https://youtu.be/BnQf1FpWplM?si=I5w75mCDa_U3MgP3

Achilles said...

Little Excursion™️ said...

Trump is 'winding down' operations but at the same time planning to send thousands of soldiers to seize Kharg island? Has also claimed total victory while at the same time begging 'cowardly' NATO members to help in opening up the Strait of Hormuz in a conflict where he doesn't need any help at all?

Please, who can take Trump's posts seriously anymore? The man is a walking contradiction. All that matters in the end is what he does, not what he says.


Is is fun to watch the little worms squirm as Trump takes down the Post WWII global order.

There are a lot of worthless takers who have useless jobs in government and NGOs that wont have those useless jobs much longer.

Eva Marie said...

James Talarico, Democrat running for the Senate in Texas:

Eva Marie said...

here’s the link:
https://x.com/rncresearch/status/2035040202578669913?s=46

Ralph L said...

I filed the second annual report for my dad's estate Friday, the deadline. Working on it for 3 hrs Tuesday hurt my brain so badly I couldn't sleep and came down with a cold, which I hope I passed to the idiots at the courthouse.

One guy couldn't understand paying estimated income tax, the woman forgot to make me sign the form in front of her, and no one in the office could grasp that reimbursements to the estate should not have to pay probate fees twice (I'm hoping their lawyer will).

If you're ever an executor, hire a lawyer to do most of the work if it's at all complex. Wish I had two years ago, as I keep making mistakes that have been bothers to correct.

Original Mike said...

I will be the executor on my mother's estate. I am absolutely dreading it. You bet I'm hiring a lawyer.

wendybar said...

THIS is why we laugh at the idiots on the left.....

The Constitutional Conservative
@TheCCShowcast
In Connecticut, Dems just RAMMED THROUGH an emergency bill FORCING PEOPLE TO SHOW ID at recycling centers.

The kicker? BOTH Dem Senators from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy are AGAINST showing an ID to vote and are against the SAVE America Act.

https://x.com/TheCCShowcast/status/2035408399509147701?s=20

imTay said...

"We are weeks ahead of schedule" —DJT last night
"Open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hrs or else!" —DJT an hour or so later.

Hmmm.

Ann Althouse said...

"Question for Ann, are you still interested in a new webapp with searchable comment database?"

You're asking if I'm "still" interested in something that I don't even know what it is. It's like a voicemail from a spam call.

imTay said...

The dire consequences and the rapidly ticking time bomb for worse of closing the Strait to the Western economies is forcing escalation to happen fast in this war.

It's making Trump unhinged. He is totally panicked.

imTay said...

Apparently, according to Axios, our military is saying that we need another month to weaken the "obliterated" Iranian defenses.

Even though they have no air defenses, they shot down an F-35... Trump is delusional.

Enigma said...

All of this 20/20 hindsight history of the Shah and SAVAK reflects willful denial of the Cold War context and the shades-of-gray proxy wars on every continent at that time. The leftists (Communists) of that era pushed the USSR's anti-west propaganda and some continue to parrot that line.

Yes, the west funded the Shah and Iran was manipulated for its oil during the fading colonial era. No kidding. There was an invisible line around every west vs. soviet country during the Cold War. Yes, the west also funded the sketchy Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, and the Suharto in Indonesia, etc.

This was offset on the moral purity scale by the USSR funding every tin-hat dictator they could find, to include producing or giving away cheap AK-47s in every backwater so tha spears and swords turned into shooting wars. Also see Pol Pot, the Greek Civil War, "Finlandization," Vietnam, Korea, the Berlin Wall, Cuba, and many, many, many more.

Iran today is unfinished Cold War business. Plus, the majority of their Arab neighbors hate its violent leadership and would be happy to see its destruction. This is the latest chapter in 1,000+ years of Persian vs. Arab battles -- and a history that's just as dirty and gray as the 20th century Cold War.

For context, Iran makes an appearance in a very long list of Cold War conflicts here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_related_to_the_Cold_War

Howard said...

Iran still controls the Hormuz Gap. You MAGA cheerleaders have been in denial for at least ten days that Iran maintains the military capabilities to threaten oil tanker passage. This isn't a Lloyd's of London insurance problem. I see you all are laying down the ground work to blame this on the Democrats and NATO. This is the natural course of cult worship. That said, I hope that Trump's department of War can pull a rabbit out of the hat without going full Netanyahu Gaza.

Breezy said...

Everyone should be rooting for Trump et al to get the Strait tankers moving. It’s not an impossible task. It will take some time and deal-making. Democrats are useless here, as usual. 20 countries have already pledged to help in some way. It’s more critical for a few of them to do so than it is for us.

Little Excursion™️ said...

Achilles mews: Is [sic] is fun to watch the little worms squirm as Trump takes down the Post WWII global order.

Did you not read? It’s going to be over in “48 hours”.

Ukraine war? “Day one”
Inflation? “Day one”
Healthcare? “The moment I take office”.

The goals of the war change every day, if not more often. As ever, Trump appears to be on a random walk.

Little Excursion™️ said...

Althouse dressing down Achilles: "You're asking if I'm "still" interested in something that I don't even know what it is. It's like a voicemail from a spam call." 🤣

Little Excursion™️ said...


"We are weeks ahead of schedule" —DJT last night"

Operation Epic Failure does indeed appear ahead of schedule.

imTay said...

I would feel better about it if Trump had run on taking down every enemy of the West rather than as the peace president who was going to put an end to forever wars.

Even if we win this one, it's just going to lead to more wars. I have accepted that these wars will not end in my lifetime, unless of course they go nuclear, which is less out of the question every day.

Humperdink said...

As anticipated, Penn State won the NCAA wrestling championship last night with 4 champions in the 10 weight classes. Oklahoma State had 3 champions including freshman. Look out for them next year.

narciso said...

Game, Set, Match: ICE - American Thinker https://share.google/ibWJomBEfW6rc2zgT

narciso said...

Yes was the shah worse than the alouyitr king of morocco and his years of lead or king hussein and his suppression of fatah

narciso said...

Twelver shia was always around back to the qajars but it wàsnt nihilist till khamenei kashani his predecessor even approved of the 53 ousting of mossadegh

narciso said...

Now vahidi who is nominally in charge was behind bombings in beirut and buenos aires went after dissidents in germany and austria

narciso said...

To be this stupid after 50 years is unforgivable timmeh

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Little Excursion™️ said...

The only thing we know for certain about how Trump’s war will end is this: no matter the actual outcome—whether any real objectives are achieved, regardless of the short- and long-term damage to the US and global economies, and irrespective of the human cost—Trump will declare total victory.

narciso said...

Cleanup aisle 12

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Iman said...

Excellent Nebraska—Vanderbilt game yesterday evening!

Chest Rockwell said...

Bagoh, that looks awesome. Have the lake water levels recovered?

Caroline said...

Buwaya- the problem with writing down passwords and PIN numbers for your kids is that they inevitably change. I can’t tell you how many times a website doesn’t recognize my login, just because I haven’t visited in a while. Or it makes you create a new one because you don’t have enough *;?@#.
I recommend creating an digital password vault. We use Keeper. Our kids only have to have the login for that, and we can update logins as needed.

imTay said...

Three days ago Trump: “Persian Gulf is not our problem.”

Trump in the middle of last night:”Open up the Gulf in 48 hours or it’s total war.”

Iran says “go ahead, see if there’s anything left, and then it won’t matter anymore, will it.”

Time will tell, but Trump reminds me of a guy I remember who got his ass handed to him in a “friendly” poker game with some college kids, and after losing his paycheck, he headed out to the ATM machine.

narciso said...

You want the commies to win, i want you to suffer the consequences of that

Breezy said...

“The only thing we know for certain about how Trump’s war will end is this: no matter the actual outcome—whether any real objectives are achieved, regardless of the short- and long-term damage to the US and global economies, and irrespective of the human cost—Trump will declare total victory.“

LOL - as if the left and never Trumpers would ever admit he achieved a victory of any sort.

Little Excursion™️ said...

Trump’s Hormuz Ultimatum Draws Threat of Reprisals by Iran ~ WSJ
‘President set a Monday deadline for Tehran to reopen the strait or face strikes on its power plants.’

Cornered, narcissistic madman discovers he doesn't in fact hold all the cards when in battle with even madder men, and so resorts to the madder men, and so resorts to the most nihilistic threats. From liberating Iranians to this.

Trump still hasn’t understood the concept of escalation dominance. He made the same mistake escalating his trade war on China, and we all know how that ended…

NKP said...

Picture one is "prettty". Picture two suggests pain and hope and movement between the two. There's the beginning of a story in picture 3.

narciso said...

Iran says acting intelligence minister appointed, name to be announ...

bagoh20 said...

"Have the lake water levels recovered?"

It was at its worse in 2023, but have been up about 20ft from then. Still 155 ft below full, which it rarely was. It's still 400ft deep in places and plenty of room. Never crowded, because it's so big. This was a very weak year for snow pack in the Rockies, so it's going to drop some.

narciso said...

No assessment Iran capable of striking London, Steve Reed says https://share.google/lIpGYDPmUb87uwLIP

imTay said...

LOL, now Trump is trying to figure out how to have "peace talks" when his pattern has been to murder whoever he talks with, he even tried to assassinate Putin, "Hold the phone, Vladimir, I will get right back to you!"

imTay said...

Oh and he just said that it's all over, time to work on the Democrats!

imTay said...

One plan is to stop invading their countries and stealing their resources, and I bet if you did that, you would have fewer angry refugees, and less worries about your country being struck by angry people whose resources you are stealing.

Little Excursion™️ said...

I am surprised Trump hasn’t threatened tariffs yet.

Iman said...

Turd Marker: the sign of the kak.

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