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১০৯টি মন্তব্য:
Now I am getting upset. Amazon orders delayed. I may have to cancel my order, drive to Home D, find a parking spot, spend an extra five bucks .
War is hell.
There is that horizon and lake merger (where is that)
@FullMoon, I mailed off two payments back in late-ish February. The first payment cleared on March 3rd; the 2nd cleared today (late fees!). I don't think this had anything to do with War, but with weather.
(Yes, Yes, I know I should have the payments deducted automatically so I can save the cost of a stamp).
I think he was being sarcastic
The biggest difference between the Iran War and the Vietnam War is that Donald Trump knew how to get himself out of the Vietnam War.
If we'd been able to use Trump's weapons and tactics on Vietnam, there would have been no VN war for him to dodge. Ho Chi Minh and General Giap would have been under the wreckage of the capitol building in Hanoi the day after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. If you want to win a war, give it to a draft dodger. CC, JSM
Now cvs customer service involves routing packages through l5
Busting the chops of anyone who managed to stay out of the Vietnam war should be reserved for those who actually served in it. I suggest that many who criticize Trump for staying out of it were themselves demonstrating against it at the time.
"The biggest difference between the Iran War and the Vietnam War is that Donald Trump knew how to get himself out of the Vietnam War."
You could say the same thing about Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.
But you won't.
You really screwed the Duroc porker on that one, lonejustus.
Tulsi Gabbard’s Resistance Shop ~ WSJ
The Director of National Intelligence hires another Iran policy opponent.
"“It is not the intelligence community’s responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat,” Ms. Gabbard said, adding that such assessments were solely the discretion of the president."
I think that is about as stupid a statement as I have ever read. Who other than the intelligence community is in a position to determine imminence?
It seems very difficult to tell the truth and keep your job in this White House.
Like john kerret who pushes the iran deal which is why iran had 100 billion to buy weapons (many of which israel has destroyed)
You cant ignore the cold war and the prospect of direct intervention by russia and china
Last year I ordered prints from Shutterfly. USPS package tracking had the order in Phoenix a week or more. Ok Not in a hurry. But then I was informed via tracking that the package was sent to Scammon Bay Alaska! We're talking near visual range to Russia. Why? Who knows.
Moral to the story is that tracking info is an opportunity to discover wonderful new towns in our beloved country. A public service brought to you by the USPS.
Yeah they might as well send it to an asteriod like ryuko
Gabbard went from backing Bernie Sanders in 2016, to running for president and then backing Joe Biden against Sanders in 2020, to backing Trump in 2024.
In 2016, her stated reason for opposing Hillary Clinton over Sanders was that her military experience lead her to oppose "regime change wars" particularly in reference to the Iraq War.
Then in 2020 she decided it was her time, so she ran for president. Her campaign went nowhere. However, when it came time to endorse, instead of backing Sanders again, she backed Joe Biden. She did this despite the fact that Biden's foreign policy record has been virtually identical to Hillary Clinton's over the past 25+ years. Gabbard burned a lot of bridges within the party by backing Sanders in 2016. It almost seemed like a principled move. However, the Biden endorsement got her nothing. She was left out in the cold in 2020, and started rebuilding her professional career in the MAGA media eco-system. Her support for Trump in 2024 was really the icing on the cake. Yes, Trump made noises about being "anti-war" and a "peace candidate" in 2024, but given how much Trump lies, there were reasons to see those claims as highly suspect.
Even at this point, given all that has transpired, the fact that Gabbard is still supporting Trump despite everything, really speaks volumes about her lack of a moral core or principles. She is really the ideal Trump 2.0 cabinet official.
They freaked over a tiny meteorite (the size of a coupe) over ohio
A guitar buddy and I were talking about the best concerts we’ve seen and I really shocked him with one of my top five: A Flock of Seagulls.
In the mid-80’s - a few years after their peak - they came to town and played at a very small club that wasn’t known for live music. I wasn’t a fan, but I was curious to see them just for the heck of it.
We get there and their (very nice) gear is set up in a corner; a corner without a stage! And no lighting. At this point I’m feeling both dread and a little bit sorry for a band that was momentarily at the apex of the international music scene.
They finally roll out in all black leather, and the dude has his blonde hair in up in the Mohawk+, and they look ready to rock. And they did. To a crowd of about fifty people. But, in spite of that, I’ve never witnessed a live act that determined to nail it.
And while I’m still not a fan of their music, I am a fan of those musicians for making every person there respect their effort, musicianship, and professionalism. Props.
Now i have The earwig
https://youtu.be/iIpfWORQWhU?si=PuqK37UbfS387x0z
Apple AirTags are awesome.
DHL: "Your shipment is en route on Flight XX."
Me: "No, your tracking info says that's so, but in fact it's sitting on the tarmac at LAX, and I can tell you exactly where to within 10 feet. Here's a screenshot."
What do they look like now?
Ciso, yes, that's why I said "if we'd been able to use Trump's weapons and tactics." The weapons didn't exist, and the strategic situation didn't allow us to use the tactics. It was a different world. CC, JSM
So they employed proxies all over mpla anc plo ira with the certainly they would not be challenged
Also I must add that Trump was shot for his country. That erases his draft-dodger status and makes him an honorary veteran. If Bob Hope can get it for putting on USO shows, Trump can get it for losing a chunk of his ear. CC, JSM
I have airtags for the kiddos in places like gypsy infested European capital cities. An airtag on luggage is hit and miss. Airlines should have an airtag receiver/transmitter in the cargo hold of every plane. It's time.
Yes good point. The mullah regime thought they could do the same thing indefinitely: "hey that's Hezbollah, not us!" &c. They thought wrong. CC, JSM
That’s a perfect shot.
The first two have certainly become. Kleptocracies as for the pa (well)
We didnt really act against syria because it was a soviet proxy deapite beirut
One of the things I liked about The Americans is the story arc assumes without argument that everything we said about the Commies in the 80s was true: they were in the civil rights movement, the ANC, all the LatAm movements, etc. And it's not even presented as a criticism, since the title characters are sympathetic. Just uncontroverted fact. Thirty years too late, but better late than never. CC, JSM
Airtag story: Wife picks up airtags and we put in them in each checked luggage piece. Out of state trip, about a week, some distance from the city we land in. Very full flight. We land: No bags came out, on the carousel. Customer service in Baggage Claim doesn't know where they are. But: Airtags say they're around the corner, near another carousel, another airline. Sure enough, there they are. Plane was full and the airline used a cooperation agreement with a competitor to handle the baggage overload. They had actually beaten us there. Competitor's baggage services filled us in on the story.
We would never have known to look for them without the airtags, and we would have been miserable
The creator had briefly worked for the Company
Thats how the illegal directorate (drozdov) operated
"An airtag on luggage is hit and miss."
When they're at a terminal, they reliably show up. When they haven't updated for a few hours, it generally means they're on a plane. Wait a bit, they'll pop up when they arrive. That arrival may be the wrong airport, but you'll know where they're at.
With the current “un-personing” of César Chávez, I wonder if lefties has revealed their game plan: leverage their Muslim allies to gain power, and then “expose” Muhammad as a child abuser. Only I don’t think it’s gonna work out for them.
@Aggie: I had a similar experience. We had a long layover. As it turned out, the airline put our bags on an earlier flight to our destination. When we eventually get to our destination, airline personnel tell us they don't know where they are. But I did, they were in the building and I told them exactly where. Happy ending.
Same thing had happened to us a few years earlier, but without the AirTags it took until the next day and a return trip to the airport to sort it out.
I love them.
Righties can be smart. We saw JFK, Clinton, and Biden get passes for their sexual transgressions (and Obama for whatever the hell he does, with whomever). We won't let that sort of thing make us de-select our leaders. Lefties aren't quite as smart, so they keep unloading that Acme Sex Scandal from the crate and putting it in the road, thinking we'll fall right into it. CC, JSM
Finally a hummingbird sighting today. One at the feeder before sunrise- just happened to spot. Return or another in the early afternoon. I watched this evening to see if they returned but no. Maybe migrating or will watch and listen to see if here to stay…
AirTags with lithium batteries are prohibited in checked bags by some airlines. AA usually asks about lithium batteries. I make sure to pull the battery from my rangefinder if I check it…
Speaking of airports, isn't the current defunding of the DHS a golden opportunity to re-examine the purpose and effectiveness of the TSA? Do travelers really need to be subjected to 4 hour lines, when they could be trialing a different, more streamlined security protocol? Write your congressman ! They should be working this now.
The lithium battery rules on flights are complex (I read them every year), but I believe that a little battery installed in a device is allowed. I pretty much pull all my batteries too, but not the AirTags.
We just flew domestically within New Zealand. I kept looking for the security line. It took awhile to dawn on me that there wasn't one! It was so nice.
"Do travelers really need to be subjected to 4 hour lines, when they could be trialing a different, more streamlined security protocol?"
Let the airlines (and through them, their passengers and not taxpayers in general) pay for the security check. I'm sure there's plenty of incentive to get it right- more of an incentive than the government has, anyway.
The FAA has explicitly said that Apple AirTags are ok
My son’s commercial moving van with his furniture from Colorado beat him back to his new house in PA. It was a few miles down the road from us. He told me to grab two suitcases off the moving van as they contained some valuables. I put them in my car and after a mile or so of driving, my phone received a message that we were being tracked. He didn’t tell me he put Apple air tags in the suitcases.
24 Hours After Trump Said USA Might Leave NATO, Europe Says ‘Ships on the Way’
Can our "allies" be any more feckless?
This photo looks like a Rothko painting.
AirTag adjacent story here:
A couple of years ago, I left a small bag on a hotel bus after reaching the airport in Oslo. Among other things, it had my iPad in it. I contacted the travel coordinator who arranged the bus, but they couldn’t really do anything about it. Then I remembered to use Find My, and I traced my bag to some fancy golf resort in the Norwegian countryside (no doubt it was the next pickup destination for the bus, and someone found my bag and dropped it off at the concierge desk). Long story short, I was able to look up the email address of the resort that Find My had identified, and after some weeks of arranging for an international shipment pickup, the bag was returned to me.
I listened to about ten to fifteen minutes of Tucker’s interview of Joe Kent. They said the Jews made Trump attack. Unhinged.
On our current trip, we arrived at our hotel hours early. Hand our luggage to the concierge and head to check out Wellington. When we return, the afternoon staff can't find them. Air tags say they're in the building. "Look harder", I say. They eventually find them, but we were able to relax while they searched.
Mar 7: 2 commits — first day, project structure
Mar 8: 1 commit — templates
Mar 9: 8 commits — learning the framework
Mar 10: 9 commits — still finding footing
Mar 11: 2 commits — pause
Mar 13: 1 commit — quiet
Mar 14: 4 commits — ramping
Mar 15: 87 commits — breakout day (agents online, first autonomous work)
Mar 16: 161 commits — nearly 2x day before (MVP completed, 330+ tasks)
Mar 17: 232 commits — 1.4x again (coordinator mesh, consensus, threads)
Mar 18: 153 commits — cascades + recovery + rebuilding (pain day)
Mar 19: ??? — today, still going
I just finished "away mode" agents maintain quorum ELI relay maintains agent quorum DOM update messaging response time of interface will be seconds not minutes, voice controlled audio feedback loop core ELI operation separated from project infrastructure multiproject infrastructure in place
The biggest difference between the Iran War and the Vietnam War is that Donald Trump knew how to get himself out of the Vietnam War.
War isn't a punchline of some stupid joke, asshole.
I listened to about ten to fifteen minutes of Tucker’s interview of Joe Kent.
Living adjacent to the district Kent ran in (and lost twice), there is no way that guy should've been anywhere close to the position he had.
He's a whackjob. I've lost count how many times he's changed parties.
In addition, do notice his resignation letter - which was also released to the media - was addressed to Trump ... and not his direct report, Tulsi Gabbard.
He's perfect for Tucker, Owens and the rest of the mouth-breathers who blame all the world's ills on those dirty Jooooooos.
OG Mike writes: '24 Hours After Trump Said USA Might Leave NATO, Europe Says ‘Ships on the Way’
No, the claim isn't accurate or well-substantiated as presented—it's mostly a hyperbolic take from pro-Trump sources exaggerating limited or tentative shifts. The claim leans more toward optimistic spin than confirmed reality.
Trump can stay irrational longer than Americans can stay solvent.
I recently read Dante's Divine Comedy. I read it in translation. I didn't get much from it. I suppose it must have some great poetry, but I didn't pick up on it. It's like reading the libretto of a Mozart opera but not hearing the music.......Anyway, I noted some plot holes. I don't mean to second guess God, but it does seem some of his punishments are way too severe. In fact, the whole concept of Hell is dubious. Why would God create such fallible creatures as ourselves and then, when we get distracted by some graven image or neighbor's wife, send us to eternal hell for having the weak nature that he created.....Beyond that, Heaven doesn't seem all that great. You get to burn with a pure white light and listen to the music of the spheres. The better you were on earth, the purer and brighter your light. I guess everyone has the same sound system for the music. Things apparently might pick up after the resurrection of the body, but Dante doesn't spell out what will happen then. It doesn't sound promising.........I guess during the middle ages it was easy to imagine Hell, but Heaven was strictly an abstract concept.
“Maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded." - NY Gov. Kathy Hochul
"Come back home so we can tax you some more" would seem to be an ineffective message to me.
Anyway, believe them when they tell you who they are.
Purgatory was the junk bonds of the middle ages. Purgatory didn't figure in the early Church, but it was a real money maker for the Church. You could ransom relatives out of semi-Hell for a fee. This really got up Luther's nose, but ponder this: The sale of those indulgences financed the building of St. Peter's Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel and other enduring works. How much of Luther's days and works still survive. Well, it's all part of God's plan.
Watching where deliveries go can be so much fun. I ordered a valve from Ebay- half the price of Lowe's or Home depot. Shipped USPS. Got to Syracuse just fine. And someone there misread one number on the zip and sent it to a town on the other side of Syracuse. Who saw what county we were in and sent the package to Rochester= on the other side of us. All but one town in the county gets their mail from Rochester- my town. We get it from Syracuse... So Rochester sent it back to Syracuse who then sent it to our post office who got it to our house. An extra 3 days of handling since it got to the original wrong PO on Saturday morning. If I mail something to any other town in my county- including the ones our town borders, the mail goes to Syracuse then Rochester and then to the town.
And then there's phone service... If you live in our county and get a NEW cell phone number, the service providers try to give you a 585 area code. The entire county is in 315 territory. It's been this way since we moved here in 1997. Of course, today, with cell phones, doesn't matter much at all- but it USED to matter- in 1997. My son and daughter in law in FL have TX areas codes. My son in VA stayed with his 315 number.
I have a few questions about the newly uncovered 100 million dollars already spent on the incomplete California wildlife bride to nowhere. It's not carrying moving heavy vehicles. It's a static load. With, to be honest, a relatively light load for a bridge structure. How on Earth did they expend that much money without getting it completed? Massive graft in there somewhere. Makes the never built Alaskan bridge to nowhere look honest.
Reports of Chinese techs being killed, and others trapped in bunkers in Iran.
This is a rough war for China. Their 'advanced' tech failed completely, both in Iran and Venezuela .
And Kent jumping ship is pretty normal for a guy who married a bat crap crazy leftist loon, who hates America.
He has been identified as one of the leakers of classified info. Typical leftists- they either betray their own country, or get arrested for kiddie porn.
Rough couple weeks for leftists, as commie countries fall apart.
People don't hate the war, that's BS. they hate Trump, and most of America. Anything DJT does is bad.
And trolls saying Trump dropping the mic on NATO is just talk. America doesn't need to open the strait. Europe does, China does. And Europe can't raise a navy capable of escorting ships or defending their own interests in the ME. Why? because they followed the brain dead policies advocated by every leftist on this board.
Western Europe is a fragile shell, still thinking they have leverage or something. It's a damn joke.
Trump just told them that he doesn't care if the Strait ever opens. Europe, and ME countries will have to figure it out.
""Come back home so we can tax you some more" would seem to be an ineffective message to me."
Inertia keeps people where they are. But once they actually make the decision and leave, they ain't coming back.
Original Mike - I’ve been gradually transitioning away from vanguard and into fidelity. I contacted vanguard many times over the years that their customer service is so painful only I Eita keeps me with them. Gradually though I’ve been moving the accounts to fidelity that aren’t too painful to move.
I just received a call this week from them asking about customer service. I said it’s terrible a most of my accounts have moved. And I said I I gone a lot of people are moving accounts because your customer service the worst.
Well I hear that a lot she said and we are investing in making that experience better.
I said it must be really bad because I’ve brought this up many times over the years and this is the first time anyone actually responded.
And I said it’s a lot cheaper and easier to keep a customer than it would a to get one back. It’s too late for me to I’m gone and I’m not coming back.
That’s what I thought of watching everyone leave California and watching hotchuls speech. They’re not coming back. You screwed them. They’re not stupid.
It’s the same with the billionaire asset seizure in California. Some massive amount of California taxes is paid by billionaires. They’re not coming back. And they’ll open their new businesses in tx and fl not ca. the government won’t learn. They won’t spend less. So us normals now will have to pay the taxes that used to be paid by billionaires and then the millionaires will move out. And so on.
Interesting article about the use of AI in the Iran war
https://theconversation.com/iran-war-shows-how-ai-speeds-up-military-kill-chains-278492
Interesting Keith (may I call you Keith?). Half our money is with Vanguard and half with Empower. I would like to have it all in one place and I assumed it would be Vanguard. It would be done already, but I have heard bad things about Vanguard customer service (although I have not personally had a problem) which has given me pause.
Luther would take credit for Bach and maybe Rembrandt.
They said the Jews made Trump attack. Unhinged.
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We can garnish aid to Israel and Garner back!
Joe Kent was deployed to combat 11 times and lost his wife Shannon in what he calls a war manufactured by Israel. He is closely aligned with the populist 'America First' wing of the Trump administration, including Gabbard and Vance, who have both warned against new Middle East entanglements.
Kent, a close ally of Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, presented his resignation letter to the Vice President 24 hours before resigning. Gabbard was also present at the meeting,
Does this mean that Kashyap's investigation of Kent, as ordered by Trump, includes Hillbilly and Tulsi as well?
None of the above comment is true.
Hochul is a hoot. NY spends billions on illegals.
People who are mad about the Iran war ought to think about the events that led up to the Iran war. Obviously, the #1 culprit is Iran itself. They're the ones who funded the Hamas war crimes, the rapes and kidnappings and murders of innocent people. That attack on Israel led to the war with Hamas. And then, once Hamas was finished, Israel turned and faced off with Hamas' not-so-hidden masters in Iran, who was trying to get nukes.
Okay, but take a step back from this. What made Iran take this dangerous step?
It was the weakness and stupidity of Joe Biden and his administration. Joe Biden is the one who unfroze $6 billion dollars, in order to free up five American hostages. This was done on September 11, the anniversary of the worst Islamic terrorist attack in history. Just rubbing our faces in it.
That's been the Democratic m.o. for dealing with terrorism -- fund it, give them money, pay them off, given them more money, give in, do whatever they want. It's what Obama and Biden both did with Iran. It's weak, it's stupid, it's craven, it's dishonest, it's reprehensible. In Biden's case, it led to the atrocities of 10/7. Not only because of all the money, but because of the jubilation of criminals dealing with a soft, decadent (and very scared) mark. Iran knew that Biden was weak, and would never attack them.
At least Obama killed Osama bin Laden. (Something Biden, supposedly, was opposed to). Biden's first foreign policy disaster was to completely give up in Afghanistan and run away, leaving the Taliban with $7 billion worth of military equipment.
So Iran wanted some of that Taliban billions, and it got all of that money unfrozen. $7 billion here and $6 billion there, pretty soon we are talking about real money!
It was the weakness and softness and stupidity of the Biden administration that invited all this aggression from Iran. And they miscalculated, and started a war with Israel.
Israel, alone, and seemingly hated by the world, destroyed Hamas. They did so without any help from anybody. They did so without any help from Joe Biden, obviously. And then the unthinkable happened. And a Republican was back in power. And not just any Republican, but Donald Trump. Who took very seriously the Iranian threat, specifically the nuclear threat.
First, he bombed their nuclear facilities. And now, he has brazenly attacked Iran itself, and assassinated most of the war criminals running that country.
So you can blame Trump for this. But the whole reason Trump was re-elected was to right the wrongs of the previous administration. That's why anybody is elected! And we'll see if the USA can win this war or not. But if you want to know why the war started? Blame the assholes in Iran who funded, and masterminded, a massive terrorist attack, not just murdering people, but kidnapping and raping them as well. But also blame the guy who gave the Taliban $7 billion and Iran mullahs $6 billion.
Obviously, Trump wants to avoid boots on the ground, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He wants to minimize human suffering, while bringing about regime change. Either a change in attitude, or a change in people. And he's adopted the new military tactics that we've seen in the Russian-Ukraine war. I hope we can pull it off. Regardless, while a new Democrat administration might invite further Islamic terrorism, I predict that it won't be coming from Iran.
How much of Luther's days and works still survive. Well, it's all part of God's plan.
I think Protestants are still around!
Lutherans: 80 million
Protestants: 1 billion, more or less
We're not following Luther, of course. We're following Christ. But Martin Luther freed us up from a hierarchical religious order, to a far more democratic one. He was filled with a lot of sin, and stupidity, but I also think he had a lot of Holy Spirit and righteous anger at what the uppity-ups were doing.
Why would God create such fallible creatures as ourselves and then, when we get distracted by some graven image or neighbor's wife, send us to eternal hell
I don't think he sends us there, I think people go there voluntarily. I think we have free will in the afterlife. And some people opt for hellish existence.
We view God with our human minds, and we know he has so much power. So we think he's like a judge. And we're afraid we will be judged.
But Christ spoke of God as a father who loves us. And remember the parable that Jesus told, about the prodigal son who returned to the Lord? The father ran to hug him. God is very forgiving, you just have to ask.
William,
Swedenborg had a very different take in his book "Heaven and Hell".
Not the easiest book to read.
The Director of National Intelligence hires another Iran policy opponent.
I would suggest (as Tulsi said), that it's not up to the CIA or any of the intelligence spooks to set policy. What she wants to avoid (obviously) is that trap of the CIA agents or officers who think they ought to run foreign policy. We've had way too much of that shit over the years. Tulsi Gabbard was put in at DNI precisely because she objects to the idea of the CIA or other lying assholes running foreign policy.
I suspect she's opposed to the Iran war. You ought to credit her for that! Instead you want the DNI, or the other CIA assholes, to resist our democratically elected president and challenge his judgment to the Senate, and the public, either out in the open or in secret leaks. And she refuses to do any of that underhanded shit that you and your CIA asshole buddies want her to do.
Good for her!
Maybe Trump wants an anti-war person in his cabinet to warn him about bad shit he wants to avoid. He wants to hear the opposition arguments from somebody opposed to the war. He doesn't want a lot of ass-kissers and boot-lickers who agree with everything he says.
To me, it speaks volumes that somebody got mad and left, and she hires another person who is also opposed to the war. I don't think intelligence officers ought to have narratives or ideologies running in their brain. But they're human, so all of them probably do. And it's probably useful to Trump to have at least one anti-war person in his cabinet. Good for him.
And she's neither a liar nor stupid for saying that it's the president's call, not hers. I don't think the Iran threat was "imminent" but that's not a fucking standard I would adopt. An imminent threat is when Iran has nukes and we're trying to find them. Why wait for a crisis when you can stop it before it's a crisis?
Eva Marie said...
None of the above comment (botfly @ 3/19/26, 2:29 AM) is true.
The recitation of Kent's service record is accurate, as well as the fact that he appears to have become an anti-Israeli nutter(Powerline) like Tucker Carlson and a number of commenters here. This is a case of good riddance to bad rubbish. Donald Trump has been consistent on taking an aggressive stance towards Iran since the 1980s (Kent himself expressed support for that previously), and if people joined his administration thinking they were going to talk him out of it they are better off leaving.
Kent, a close ally of Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, presented his resignation letter to the Vice President 24 hours before resigning. Gabbard was also present at the meeting,
Source your shit or shut the fuck up.
I get tired of telling you that.
"Israel did it, not the U.S." —DJT
Oh kay... Keep your dog on its leash, Donnie, because gas just got a lot more expensive, and now there is guaranteed to be a fertilizer shortage.
J.D. Vance: "Nobody likes war."
This is surprisingly good commentary from Michelle Goldberg about Joe Kent: Joe Kent's Resignation Letter Is Dangerous Because It's Half True.
I have Verizon as my cell phone provider. I get a message that I have a voicemail but nothing is there. The voicemail then surfaces the next day. Very frustrating. I missed an important message from doctor. Any suggestions?
Israel blows up the South Pars gas field.
South Pars is part of the world’s largest natural gas reserve. Iran shares the gas field, which is located offshore in the Persian Gulf, with Qatar which calls its part the North Dome. The entire gas field contains an estimated 1,800 trillion cubic feet of usable gas — enough to supply the world’s needs for 13 years, Reuters reported.
Why so important? Iran’s production of gas from South Pars is the biggest source of its domestic energy supply. Iran has previously suffered power shortages because of disruptions to gas supplies, so any impact would affect its ability to produce electricity and heat homes.
Now for the insane part.
Iran retaliates against...
wait for it...
its ally, and partner in the oil field, Qatar
"We're going to kill Jews and Christians and Muslims and random innocent people who weren't doing anything. We're going to attack our friends! That's how mad we are."
It reminds me of these two Rottweilers who got so mad at my Golden Retriever that one of the Rotties bit the other Rottie. That is a mad dog right there.
Iran is about to go dark. Meanwhile, in the USA, gas prices go up, I don't know, a nickel? A couple of pennies? Your retaliation barely affects us at all. And attacking your friends and neighbors is a really stupid war strategy.
Why not call back if you don’t see the voicemail? Did you recognize the number as from your doctor’s office? Also services like myChart typically have all info in timely fashion.
I have no advice re why voicemail not there. I have ATT.
US exploring tying naval escorts in Strait of Hormuz to government insurance ~ FT
"Vessels seeking protection may be required to take out cover from program run by Development Finance Corporation"
Arsonist tries to sell fire insurance.
It doesn’t show a missed call nor a recent call. Nothing. Just a voicemail indication. No way that I know of to trace it back to the caller.
I missed an important message from doctor. Any suggestions?
..we wrestled with this with our office’s business account. There’s a few settings that might work but it’s really Verizon’s basic voicemail is crap and their proprietary voicemail app is worse. Settings > Notifications > Voicemail and ensure alerts are enabled, make push data available, clear caches, toggle airplane mode, manually turn your phone off/on, call in to *86 to check manually, ask everyone to text instead of call, dump Verizon…
Is it because I lived so long in and around Washington, DC, that I know what a CYA memo looks like and the commentators upthread apparently do no? Like many other people in the Intelligence Community, Joe Kent sought to influence foreign policy with selective leaks of classified information to one or more journalists not authorized to receive it. That doesn’t fly in this administration and he was about to be fired for cause, but terminating an employee who has high level clearances and had access to extremely highly classified data cannot be done in zero seconds flat. His CYA memo is there to reverse time — make it seem to the gullible as though he wrote the memo and now he’s under investigation, when in reality he was under investigation and in the process of being terminated, and then he wrote the memo.
Thanks rehajm.
“Oh kay”? No… oh tay.
Hegseth and Caine are doing the daily brief right now. Hegseth just prayed to JC for the troops. I can hear the gears grinding on the leftie talking points generator: do we point this out as cause for alarm? But the bitter clingers will love it! And so will our black church ladies….does not compute, Will Robinson! CC, JSM
great
Elizabeth Stauffer at Legal Insurrection has the receipts from Kent's big switch on Iran. As recently as April 2024 he was posting on X that "Iran is poised to attack".
His current wife is a big time TDS-er who writes for Max Bluementhal's Grayzone blog.
"It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat. The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president”, the director of national intelligence said.
I suppose because, when only Trump has the power to “feel it in his bones” we don’t need no stinking national intelligence?
Hegseth also said “it costs money to kill bad guys.” Beautiful. CC, JSM
So was Kent's KIA wife that cute redhead in the Turnbull T2T commercial?
St croix don’t forget when October 7 happened to Isreal Biden and Harris were theoretically running the country. For at least a week or two everyone agreed that the attack was a crime. Israel had hostages that it had to rescue. Very shortly after that the Biden administration would not resupply smart bombs to Israel, which were so effective in minimizing casualties. They would not resupply Israel with material necessary for them to prosecute the war. And when Isreal started to go into Hamas Strongholds Biden and Harris were furious. They said, of course, we cannot tell you not to rescue your hostages, but you cannot go where the Hamas people actually are. The Hamas stronghold are known. The Biden administration said you just cannot go there.
Her mom, just the tap. Hezbollah Was rocketing the north and all of the Israeli citizens in the north had to move out of their homes and into central Israel. Isreal was in circled by all of its bold and enemies. It seemed like a very bad place to be, and it seemed like there was no way out.
Then a miracle happened or I would say G-d Performed a miracle. His ways are not our ways. Let’s be honest. There were a lot of irregularities in the 2020 election. I think it was stolen personally, but certainly the least you can say is there were a lot of irregularities. Trump was doing everything that he could do to fix the country, but he did not recognize how organized the swamp was on the left hand on the right against him. There was only so much he could do.
When the election was stolen, I thought this was a catastrophe. But Trump really was hamstrung. He did not appreciate how all of the swamp, the intelligence community, the media, would plot against him. This gave him four years to organize. He put away all of the back stabbers and hired only allies. He is the only defense for western civilization in the world today. Israel, of course, is in the Middle East, but without Trump, I am not sure there will be Western civilization. Now we can look back and say the stolen election was the best thing that ever happened. Without it, Iran would have nuclear weapons and in control of some massive percent of the world‘s energy. Western civilization likely would continue to decline and Islam dominant.
In retrospect, what appeared to be the worst, the stolen election, proved to be the most valuable development in at least the last 20 or 30 years.
Quite a parallel with Purim.
Power corrupts When it corrupts a guy like our Prez hold on tight. Our new war is like Viet Nam and the aftermath of first Iraq war, sorta. We think they'll quit because of so much pain inflicted. Maybe they will after they crash the world economy.
That's One GREAT Photo!
Cherry: "Quite a parallel with Purim."
So where's the 50-cubit-high gallows? Lots of Hamans for it. CC, JSM
So now it's Seizeher Chavez.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 on X: "This is why @SecDuffy just launched a full blown investigation into IDOT/CTA and set deadlines for officials to comply with federal/state law. Duffy said local leaders should be "embarrassed for the chaos they’ve allowed on Chicago’s subways, buses, and rail lines."" / X https://share.google/SJxiRSOr9uPmivt18
By the scofflaw dad and his kid are being deported
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"We are finally respected around the world again" During a jaw-dropping press conference with Japan’s prime minister, a Japanese reporter asked a simple, reasonable question: "Why weren’t key U.S. allies warned before the strike on Iran?"
Trump’s response? "We wanted [the Iran war] to be a surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" The Japanese leader was thrilled with answer and really loves trump RESPECT!!
Dinky, that was a beautiful riposte by Trump. Dean Martin Celebrity Roast quality. Puts the whole room in their places. And hey, nothing says peace like complimenting a former enemy on their strategy.
Maybe next week Netanyahu will tell the German chancellor, "hey, you don't tell people they're going to a gas chamber - you tell them they're going for a shower, right?" CC, JSM
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