Ever notice that in "Friend of the Devil," there's a line "Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills" and then later "I ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there/He took my twenty dollar bill..."? Seems like the imagery is muddled. First, there are 20 bills and later, there's a 20-dollar bill, which is a single bill.
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Thomas Sowell Daily
@DailySowell
Thomas Sowell on engineers vs intellectuals:
“The engineer is judged by the end product: if he builds a building that collapses, he’s ruined.”
“Conversely, if an intellectual who is brilliant has an idea for rearranging society and it ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.”
Comments from the left on X.
Middle East Celebrates Ceasefire With Massive Fireworks Display
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It was revealed today in court that Decarlos Brown, Jr., the homeless man accused of murdering Iryna Zarutska, had been psychiatrically evaluated and found to be incompetent to stand trial. Not exactly a surprise. Hopefully the next step will be to send him off to a psychiatric facility where he cannot hurt any more young women, there to stay until he leaves in a zipped-up body bag, but as he’s in Charlotte, NC, that is by no means guaranteed. However if he’s put back on the streets he surely will kill again, and hopefully the judge is sufficiently sane to realize that.
First of all, the devil lent (verb) (not loaned (noun)) 20 bills — which sounds like $2,000. By the next time he saw the devil he was down to $20.
So basically Trump just lied to Iran about Lebanon, and the reason that he said it was never part of the deal was that he didn't take the demand seriously.
https://youtu.be/rg1EE9rYH3I?si=c8aZZbxs_nBsLlDq&t=528
Who can take this guy seriously? Is the constant lying "smart negotiating"? Well, the Strait is closed again, and Israel is bombing and killing more civilians to make way for its seizure of southern Lebanon as part of its "Greater Israel project" that Mike Huckabee is all for, and who knows, maybe Jesus will come back if we kill enough "heathens."
"Bill" is also slang for a dollar, no matter what form it takes. E.g., "that burger costs fourteen bills!" That's how I interpreted Robert Hunter's "twenty bills" in the song.
It is confusing, though: "the Whole Foods lady said that apple costs twenty bills, so I handed her a twenty-dollar bill."
CC, JSM
Thats some apple or a giant pie
itshay and others are upset that some people aren’t being nice to the murderous Iranians.
My favorite band - Widespread Panic (see avatar) - is coming to Birmingham next weekend, and I usually go with the older Beastette and her husband, but with a new baby, we weren’t sure if it would all gel. She decided the other day that she’d be up for it and we started looking for tickets on the secondary market, and decent seats are about three hundred per. Ugh…
So she’s talking to the mother of my grandson’s best little friend about trying to find tickets and the mother mentions that her parents were sponsors of the new amphitheater and get tickets for every show as a perq.
She calls them - and they’re not going - so she hooks us up with their fantastic box tickets: fifth row center! Plus a parking pass and access to the venue’s Vinyl Room: a VIP club with air conditioning, private bathrooms, comfy chairs, and a bar. For free!!
My three year old grandson has the connections! lol
If Iran launches missiles at Israel, you will see they've done it, ten minutes before the missiles hit at https://www.timesofisrael.com/.
So don't pass around false information when you could know the truth. So far Iran is not launching missiles. Hezbollah and Israel are a separate issue. And none of us know what Iran said to Trump nor will we for some time. But it wasn't: "You will pay for rebuilding our Army, Navy and Air Force.
Nor was the agreement signed by Khameni's son.
"Moral leaders" who ignore Iran's attacks on Gulf and Israeli civilians and Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, and the steady flow of fentanyl from the Caribbean which was killing 40,000 A,ericans a year but who squeal their outrage when some who ordered those attacks and that fentanyl smuggling are killed are "moral leaders" who have lost moral credibility. The same goes for American judges who noticed nothing till foreigners who had been killing with impunity began to be killed in their turn. You are only "judges" to the TDSers. To the rest of us, you are abusing the system, like those you defend. FAFO
All caps, except for “President”. If ever there was a cry for help…
Never thought I’d see the day where the President of the United States wants to blow up NATO while the VP is actively stumping for a Russian supported dictator.
NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!! President DJT
Davey Lopes dead at 80. The great dodger gone to the Big Game in the sky. What a great team the Dodgers had. Lasorda as Coach. Garvey, the Penguin, Dusty Baker, etc.
Sports always seem more important when you're young. Also fun to look at the 2026 Masters dinner photo. And there they are, all the "giants" of the past. Tom watson. Gary Player, Jack, even craig statler "The Walrus" with his now grey mustache.
Way in the back is the still - relatively - young Jordan Spieth. Man, the future looked so promising for this guy 10 years ago. The next Jack Nicklaus. But Golf is a cruel game.
Is anyone starting to get the feeling that Israel is the main barrier to peace in the Middle East?
The solution to the Strait of Hormuz issues is to go around it with pipelines. Muslims often choke off any trade that passes in their area. That's why Columbus sailed west. That's why we fought the Barbary pirates. That's why the Baltic trade route worked. Those who choke off trade in a bid for power or wealth think they'll get rich but history shows them getting poorer and poorer. That's because in the end a way is found to bypass them and their temporary power turns into centuries of ruin.
Tim. Shut up. In the fairyland of a state you live in a 14 year old is running for governor. He'll probably win.
You make these outrageous assertions as if you are involved with Trumps negotiations.
"RCOCEAN II said...
Davey Lopes dead at 80. The great dodger gone to the Big Game in the sky. What a great team the Dodgers had. Lasorda as Coach. Garvey, the Penguin, Dusty Baker, etc."
Lopes was good, not great. And those Dodgers teams were also good, not great. The only won a single WS in Lopes' ten years.
"Little Excursion™️ said...
Is anyone starting to get the feeling that Israel is the main barrier to peace in the Middle East?"
Their existence? For sure. You're just figuring that out now?
Americans don't mind paying tolls on highways. So why should they care about ships having to pay tolls to pass through the Strait of Hormuz?
EZ Pass to now allow pre-loading with Bitcoin.
The Islamic Republic now accepts EZ Pass.
Iman - true.
Newsum lives in a 9 million dollar home.
Mandy Connell Blog:
"WANT TO HEAR FROM AN IRANIAN AND AN ISRAELI ON THE WAR? I've got the podcast for you! I recorded this last week on Passover with Khosro Istafani, an exiled Iranian journalist who still has family and friends in Iran, and Daniel, a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces Special Forces who currently lives in Tel Aviv with his family. I let them talk to each other and ask questions including what needs to happen for the Iranian people to be able to rise up and take their nation back. The two cultures are deeply entwined and share more similarities than differences. It's a fascinating interview ..."
"IRAN COMMITS MORE WAR CRIMES AGAINST GULF STATES But I'm sure we won't hear about them bombing desalination plants and power plants in Kuwait. Iran says the ceasefire isn't holding because Israel is attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon, which shouldn't be a problem because Hezbollah isn't a proxy, right? Right? "
Tim wrote: Is anyone starting to get the feeling that Israel is the main barrier to peace in the Middle East?
This, my friends, is the voice of the Democrat Party. Never forget it.
When talking about currency it’s best to stick with a buck, a Finn, a sawbuck, and a double sawbuck. Don’t use 50s and call a 100 a yard, or possibly a c.
"...Americans don't mind paying tolls on highways. So why should they care about ships having to pay tolls to pass through the Strait of Hormuz?...."
So in other words, 'I've got a great suggestion for things other people should spend their money on, in the way I think is best.'
Formally identifying as a Progressive at last.
The art of the deal. Ending up in a worse position than you started. Well done Trump.
TinyE®… his Li’l Smokey® fingers type furiously, his brain never catches up.
Coincidently our meeting tonight was about "our bedevilments"
AI: "In Alcoholics Anonymous, the "bedevilments" are a list of eight specific symptoms of spiritual and emotional unmanageability found on page 52 of the "Big Book" (Alcoholics Anonymous). They describe the internal state of a person who is struggling with alcoholism—or even a sober person who is not actively practicing spiritual principles."
From Page 52: "We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view. We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people - was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was."
Couldn't we do both? Improve out lives and follow our on-and-off again affair with the Moon? #MinorityOpinion
Gas is up over $9/gal in L.A.
The Bloods and the Crips have resorted to carpooling.
I'm an American and I very much mind paying tolls on highways. It's been at least 10 years since I've done so, though I have paid tolls on a few bridges in that time, e.g. crossing into Canada at Niagara Falls. I've never owned an EZ-Pass. I find that there are generally alternate routes anywhere I want to go. For instance, living in the Shenandoah Valley, if I want to go to New York City I go through Harrisburg and Scranton and cut across northern New Jersey. As I recall - it's been 6-8 years - there are no tolls except the bridges out of New Jersey. (I always found it amusing that, whether crossing the Hudson to New York City or the Delaware to Pennsylvania, they charge you to leave New Jersey, not to enter. More psychologically satisfying, I imagine.)
As for "Friend of the Devil", surely the narrator found his wallet uncomfortably thick and stopped at a bank to trade his twenty $1 bills for a convenient $20 bill.
Number of civilians who have died in the Iran war: estimated 1,500.
Number of civilians who have died in the pre-war assaults by the IRGC on street protesters: estimated 30,000.
Ships supplying the world’s oil paying millions to the Ayatollah when they weren’t previously isn’t the utter failure by Trump that it seems.
First, there are 20 bills and later, there's a 20-dollar bill, which is a single bill.
He's a friend of the devil, Althouse, pay attention.
Also, bills got to rhyme with hills. And he's counting the syllables.
And his audience is potheads, not tax accountants.
My favorite band - Widespread Panic (see avatar) ....
I've listened to some of their work in the past. Love the jam aspect.
Ever listened to Pigeons Playing Ping Pong? Dogs In a Pile? Lotus? Lettuce? Dizgo? The Motet?
They're all more of a funk/jazz/fusion jam than Panic, but still good stuff if you like jam rock.
Dr Weevil said...
I'm an American and I very much mind paying tolls on highways.
You and me and 300 million other Americans. The suggestion at 9:08 that “Americans don't mind paying tolls on highways” suggests that that particular commentator is wildly out of touch — which lines up with the rest of his asinine comments.
Is anyone starting to get the feeling that Israel is the main barrier to peace in the Middle East?
Actually no one is “starting” to get that feeling — the hard core antisemites who pollute the Althouse commentariat have believed that for decades while the rest of us imagine the levels of peace and prosperity in a world where antisemitism was dealt with as a capital offense.
I've been on James kick lately. Can't get enough.
And now it turns out that the Atermis 2 toilet has been functioning just fine — the problem is dumping the urine outside the capsule because the urine has frozen inside the holding tank and cannot be jettisoned. (Does anyone besides me remember the “constellation ur-ion” scene from the movie “Apollo 13”?)
I suppose the design drawings for the mechanism to empty the holding tank have been lost over time. How did they do it on the space shuttles?
Space Wrangler is an amazing album. I could listen to it all day. Ain’t Life Grand. Never been a Phish guy. Widespread, yes, 100%. Saw them once in concert. Great fun. I love their studio work even more.
I feel like the Dead in the studio is sub-par. Their live stuff is what you want. Dick’s Picks. I never saw them live, though. Avoided the drug scene. Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John’s band. So many good songs.
When I was in college, I had a CD of reggae artists covering the Dead. Very cool. Fire on the Mountain. I forget who the artist was. Her voice was phenomenal.
Having never read "Friend of the Devil," I never noticed what you call muddled imagery. But there is no real image to muddle in the writing; the two descriptions simply do not match one another. That is an "oopsey"!
The band's name is Chalice. It's a man singing, not a woman. Fire on the Mountain. The whole album is named after that song.
I think I confused them with Judy Mowatt.
I actually bought this album before I started buying Dead music. I was on a reggae/ska kick in my youth.
Stop Go
Big Mike: Actually no one is “starting” to get that feeling — the hard core antisemites who pollute the Althouse commentariat have believed that for decades while the rest of us imagine the levels of peace and prosperity in a world where antisemitism was dealt with as a capital offense.
Agree with all of that, save for one thing: "antisemitism" feels to me like a euphemism.
I prefer "Jew-hatred", instead. Gets right to the point — moral cretinism.
Demented Don said on Truth Social "NATO wasn't there when we needed them, and they won't be there if we need them again."
So the Demented One will be withdrawing from NATO, since the alliance pledges support among members attacked by a common enemy - but there is no requirement to fight in a war where members disagree.
Before Trump started this war, 135 tankers and container vessels per day moved at no cost through Hormuth. Now the Iranian Military wants to charge $2 million per shipload and the King of all Gods said that was good, but he never asked the cargo and shipowners. Yesterday only one non-Iranian tanker moved through the strait.
House Democrat Slams TACO Jokes About Trump's Ceasefire with Iran.
How is she avoiding TDS? She's Iranian-American. Meanwhile, on the Althouse blog, we're hearing alleged liberals mocking the peace and mocking Iranian protesters.
It's not that the NATO members are 'refusing to fight' Iran: they're also refusing to allow the US to use air and naval bases in their countries, many of which we built or paid for, and even refusing to allow our aircraft to fly across their countries. And botfly doesn't know the difference, or refuses to admit that he does! Buzz buzz buzz!
So essentially, Trump lied to Iran to get them to accept his offer of a cease fire, then claimed that they came begging for one due to his threats.
Weird that Europe won't help us in a war for Iran's oil. Because Trump just said that Iran's nuclear material was buried so deep that they will need US help to dig it out, so it wasn't about an "imminent threat" of Iran having a nuke, was it. There was plainly time to negotiate.
Trump just can't keep up with his own lies anymore.
To follow up on my previous comment. It was JFK who said "We choose to go to the Moon… and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard".
“The Anna Karenina Principle states that success requires satisfying all key factors of an endeavor, while failure can result from breaking any one of them”. Maybe that’s why “happiness” is so hard, like going to the moon and back.
If gas prices are such a bedevilment, consider not having to drive.
Make Driving Luxurious Again.
"There was plainly time to negotiate."
We've been "negotiating" for years. Iran had no intention of giving up building a bomb because, until last month, they were under no real pressure to do so. Their goal was to string things out until they had it. Just like North Korea did.
"And botfly doesn't know the difference, or refuses to admit that he does!"
Botfly's posts have disingenuous turned up to 11; I'm guessing the latter.
Trump used the F bomb because he doesn’t want to have to do the hard stuff. Now that I worked Trump in to my train of thought I could call it a lid. 😉
Vivid.🇮🇱
@VividProwess
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Bill Clinton: “Palestinians were offered a state on the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem as its capital. Israel accepted, but Palestinians refused. They did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. All they wanted was to kill Israelis"
This must be shared every day.
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/2042068228902666352?s=20
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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🚨 JUST IN: Iranian refugee woman MIC DROPS the Islamic regime 🫳🏻🎤
"If America's the 'great Satan,' why do you send your OFFSPRING and LOVED ONES here?!"
"You have the same regime officials' children here enjoying what we have in the US, our free dress code, our amazing academic institutions, our basic human rights that their counterparts back in Iran, unfortunately, can't enjoy!" — Dr. Mahsa Tehrani
Truth.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2041951775389847598?s=20
@Hey Skipper (11:46), I’ll take that as a friendly amendment.
Vice President JD Vance Delivers Important Clarifying Remarks on Iran as He Departs Hungary
Always useful to hear from somebody who actually knows something.
“Is anyone starting to get the feeling that Israel is the main barrier to peace in the Middle East?“
How do you debate someone with that mindset? You don’t.
“ Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
1973 Robert A Heinlein
Well I’m Grateful that the Dead were clever enough to come up with a lyrical way to say “change happens.”
Big Mike, that was about his state murder charge. The USA's office for WNC tweeted that Brown is still in federal custody facing federal charges for violence on interstate transport. Another psych evaluation required.
Beasts, my friends in Aisle 14 Band (jam band not the reggae group) have been playing the club after-parties for the Widespread Panic tour in the south. Their hope is that the gig leads to an opening spot for future tours. Their single “Island Jam” is pretty danceable stuff (on Spotify and Apple Music).
Thanks Original Mike. However, it is sad that Vance has to spell out the obvious. This is why the IRGC is a priority.
Someone just compared NATO to the U.S. Senate. A worthless organization that talks a big game but accomplishes nothing of note.
It's OK to wipe out a 5,000 year old civilization, destroy their water treatment, sewage treatment, pharmaceutical plants, schools, etc, because, in his own words "they are animals."
He is such a good Christian.
On another thread, I suggested that it might be okay for Iran to continue to mine the strait of Hormuz, and require everybody who wants to use the strait to pay for passage. That's a bad idea. It's an act of piracy, and war on your neighbors.
But it might be our best option? Trump might be leaning this way. His declaration to Europe was that if they want the strait of Hormuz to be free and peaceful, maybe they need to take it. We don't use the strait, and we won't be paying any tribute to Iran. Maybe the UN needs to enforce the peace in the area.
That's not a win, that's a draw, with both the USA and Iran declaring victory.
Another (bad) option is we invade Iran and completely demolish them, and try to set up a peaceful republic, like we did in Iraq or Afghanistan. That's expensive and a long-term commitment. Trump hates this idea. I can read his thoughts from here. Oof, the midterms.
I think Trump is sending JD Vance to negotiate with Iran, so they recognize, okay, this is the future guy we got to deal with, in 2028 to 2036. We're speaking to the next decade of American foreign policy. I can hear the Iranian diplomats now. "You will never win, JD Vance, Kamala will crush you. And we will have our way with Kamala, yes we will. You are finished. Bwaa ha ha." Probably they won't say that, but that's what they are thinking, right? Assuming they are thinking.
The main thing is to get the damn uranium out of the country. Also, we can give you money to rebuild, we are a generous people. But you have to dismantle the IRGC, first. And we have a red notice on Ahmad Vahidi and we will be enforcing that. Also free elections and human rights.
I'm glad I'm not president.
"Also, we can give you money to rebuild, we are a generous people. "
What extra money do we have laying around?
A year ago you told us DOGE hadn't gone far enough to address our deficit spending - now you are pro-deficit?
Thank you for sharing your ignorance Tay Tay. Zoroastrian and Christian people make up the majority of Iran’s population and one of them is about 5000 years old. The other dates to the 1st century. Neither of course would have been “wiped out” by the USA, which is at war with the psychotic mullahs and their death cult terrorist cartel.
All the “civilization” Iran enjoyed was pretty much reversed after 1979 when the 7th century death cult took over. They built nothing but war-making materiel. Losing their islamacist overlords would give the actual underlying civilization a chance to recover.
But you, China, Russia and the DNC are the only ones still rooting for the Death Cult. Even Pakistan and the Arab states are eager to be rid of the mohammedan murder hornets.
The Board of Peace has billions for rebuilding the middle east and every regional country has joined the club, Mark. I’m continuously surprised by the depth of your ignorance, which is only matched by your obliviousness to how often you expose it.
Americans don't mind paying tolls on highways.
That's a dumb thing to say.
So why should they care about ships having to pay tolls to pass through the Strait of Hormuz?
Would you like to drive through a minefield every day? With a trusty map given to you by Islamic pirates?
What extra money do we have laying around?
We've frozen $100 billion to $120 billion in Iranian assets. We can release all of that money to a peaceful, stable regime that disarms and hands over their war criminals.
Dutchboy reminds why market garden was a waste of time
Iran Tightens Its Grip on Hormuz Despite Cease-Fire ~ WSJ
'Despite US-Iran ceasefire deal fewer tankers passed the crucial waterway than during fiercest days of fighting'
This whole conflict has demonstrated the absolute intellectual ineptitude and strategic incompetence of the Trump administration. There is no strategy at work here. Just urges, tantrums and distraction.
Iranian regime strengthened, Strait of Hormuz under a Islamist regime's control now, oil and gas prices higher, inflation pushed up, well done....really, well done. So much winning...
So, there is the Iron Dome: not nuclear, but capable of repelling almost all missile attacks (I would imagine that Israel has reached some conclusions about the "almost" in that statement and is taking action to reinforce the Dome, post Oct. 7). It goes a long way toward leveling the playing field between that small country and its hostile neighbors (demonstrably less hostile now, thanks to the Abraham Accords and the recent actions of the mullahs in Iran). The Iron Dome renders Israel functionally able to do whatever it wants within its own borders, doesn't it?
And what was Iran busily building out? A screen, a shield, a dome shall we say, of conventional armaments that would render Iran capable of doing whatever it wanted within its own borders. Such as continuing to develop the nuclear weapons it's been going for for do long. And haven't our lefties been gleeful whenever Iranian drones and SAMs have been effective against American forces?
NATO wasn't there when we needed them
Iran attacked Cyprus, a UK protectorate. The UK still hasn't managed to get a destroyer to the island to provide air defense. NATO isn't there when they need them.
I just found out that my nephew was a stand in bass player for the 'Plain White Ts'. One of the PWTs band members played with my nephews band 'One Life'. I asked my daughter if she knew that. She said, "Dad, everybody in the family knew that." Meaning, of course, her and her sister. I remember when he ran around the house with a bag over his head.
"As for "Friend of the Devil", surely the narrator found his wallet uncomfortably thick and stopped at a bank to trade his twenty $1 bills for a convenient $20 bill."
Yeah, I need that verse.
White House Economic Adviser Hassett: Still Targeting 4-5% U.S. Economic Growth This Year ~ Fox Business
GDP very weak in Q4.. now just 0.5%
Real disposable personal income was -0.5% in February.. OOF.
That Blame Biden Era getting wider by the quarter.
Thomas Sowell is a self hating intellectual. Makes sense.
A regime that was born of kidnappimg well piracy was the next step
Their only ship the hms dragoon isnt seaworthy
20 bills is another way to say a 20. Besides looking at art, literally is a fool's errand.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them"
The world had free access to Straits of Hormuz before the US attacked Iran. Now Iran has control...no foresight, no planning no clue. Did Trump consult with Europe before starting a war on behalf of Bibi?
How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran ~ NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.orpX.IpyAxs8qqKVl&smid=url-share
I agree 💯, Lem. Humans need to be inspired by something greater than themselves. Weather it be nature, G_d, or the incredible accomplishments of human teams pulling together. Selling just the grind wearing a hair shirt is usually the fast track to self-destruction.
The president of Iran is Masoud Pezeshkian. He was the "reformist" candidate in the 2024 election. A lot of depressed turn-out in that election. Your reforms suck, Masoud!
The real power was the ayatollah, who's now dead. And the new ayatollah is in a coma, I think. The IRGC is now running the country. Its headed by Ahmad Vahidi. Instapundit reported him dead last week. He's still alive, still a bad guy. The #1 bad guy in Iran, it seems to me, responsible for 30,000 dead Iranians in the January uprising. There's an Interpol Red Notice on him for murdering Jews in Argentina.
I don't imagine he will be emerging from hiding anytime soon. So it'll be interesting to see if the negotiations actually happen, and if so, who shows up on Iran's side. According to AI, the Iran negotiators will be...
Abbas Araghchi: foreign minister and lead negotiator
Majid Takht-Ravanchi: deputy foreign minister
Mohammad Baqer Qalibar: Parliament speaker and former Revolutionary Guards commander.
How much power do these guys have? Can we cut a deal with any of them to bring about a new government?
#1 goal: Remove the uranium from the country.
#2 goal: Dismantle the IRGC and arrest some war criminals, especially Vahidi.
#3 goal: Remove the mines from the strait of Hormuz.
#4 goal: New Constitution, new elections, new government, regime change.
Our military is the stick and the $100 billion in frozen assets in the carrot.
Thank you Mike and St. Croix. See the Homa Darabi Foundation for the reasons we are at war. But, the Grateful Dead?
By efficaciously losing in Iran, Trump has put an end to America’s tradition of forever wars. Or as Pete Hegseth might say: 'The lethality of a quick loss.'
@imTay (6:08), can you show me where you complained when the USAF under Bill Clinton attacked bridges and power stations in Serbia on behalf of the Albanians? Or were you all for it then but against it now because Trump?
AS IT SHOULD BE!!! If they can't read English, how do they read the road signs??
Liz Churchill
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FLORIDA JUST WENT FULL ENGLISH ONLY
Driver’s license exams will be in ENGLISH ONLY. Florida is the first state to ax the multilingual madness.
NO MORE handing out licenses to invaders who can’t read a single road sign.
ASSIMILATE OR GET OUT
https://x.com/liz_churchill10/status/2041917623303086197?s=20
My favorite Dead song is probably Scarlet Begonias.
Here's some questions I posted in a recent Instapundit Open Thread.
Could the American Civil War have been avoided? Since the 3/5 Compromise skewed Southern representation in Congress and planter representation in the state legislatures, abolition was politically impossible in the slave states. There are wishful thinkers who believe that the Southern governments should have known well before Lincoln was a national figure that slavery was doomed and that they should have consigned themselves to the inevitability of history. People who have power and think they can keep it don't give it up. What if James Buchanan had sent a posse to arrest the South Carolina secessionist government before December ended? Would that have dissuaded further secession, or would acute lead poisoning have made John C. Breckinridge the 15th President for the remaining few weeks before Lincoln's inauguration? After Fort Sumter, some on both sides of the Mason-Dixon still wanted a diplomatic solution, but I can't think of one that would have worked.
One would think that minutes were kept at the state conventions voting on secession. Regarding the first wave, I'd like to know what the "yea" and "nay" votes feared from the incoming administration and what consequences they expected from secession.
Second question: could a large percentage of the Southern masses who had no vote over secession have been persuaded to reject the Confederate governments as legitimate authority and therefore to boycott fighting in the war? I tried to imagine average-folk conversations after SC secession: "What were they thinking? What will President do? What will the new President do? Will they come up with some kind of compromise like they did when South Carolina fought the Tariff of Abominations? Will there be war?" When that last question was answered...facing the alternatives of Confederate victory or life under military rule for an unforeseeable length of time, which one would be perceived as the greater threat to normal access to physical resources?
Howard - define self-hating.
Sowell is a highly intelligent black man who won't fall in line with the corrupt and evil white left?
Wendy Bar 353 - indeed!
Kabuki from a pair of fantasiats
Little MSNBC Kak-bot delivers the leftwing lies.
Original Mike at 3:57. Thanks for that link. So impressed with Trump's 2nd term cabinet, Vance and Rubio in particular. They are so good at speaking off the cuff.
It’s a global market, gang.
US oil exports to hit record as Iran war triggers race for supplies ~ FT
'US oil exports to hit record this month as Iran war triggers race for supplies, with an "Asian armada" of 68 tankers on route to pick up cargos'
https://as.ft.com/r/b67e774e-101d-48db-95fb-8dd28b0e5a78
https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2042048365983363367
The spiral down continues.
None of these people, including our own, very disappointing, NATO, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!! ~ Donald J Trump
Howard swings, misses, minces and falls on his couch.
Morning Toe was making fun of Todd Blanche for saying he would tell Trump "I love you, sir" if not picked to be the permanent AG.
Setting aside that Blanche might have been a bit jocular, I bet he does have a kind of band-of-brothers love for Trump. He defended him from prosecutions that would have seen him die in prison, and he watched him get shot.
He may indeed be the disciple Trump loves. CC, JSM
TinyE® prefers that the charade continueszzzz…
It was antisemitic of Trump to declare a temporary ceasefire in Iran without Netanyahu's permission.
https://x.com/RealTraderJill/status/2042271594773393543
Dr Weevil said...
"...there are no tolls except the bridges out of New Jersey. (I always found it amusing that, whether crossing the Hudson to New York City or the Delaware to Pennsylvania, they charge you to leave New Jersey, not to enter..."
Many years ago my son and I were on the east coast. When we had to pay 50 cents to leave New Jersey, he said, "I'd pay $50 to get out of New Jersey!"
US oil exports to hit record
Awesome. Good news for Texas and Louisiana.
Though it’s a near-term drag on their economy, China is one of the few winners from the Iran war so far. Its large oil stockpiles limit near-term energy risks, while elevated oil prices are boosting demand for Chinese clean-tech exports. Meanwhile, U.S. cruise missile stockpiles have been depleted—and replenishing them will depend on Chinese critical minerals.
If they can't read English, how do they read the road signs??
I support driver's license exams', especially CDLs', being offered only in English - regardless of a lack of an official congressional resolution Making It So, English is the language of the United States.
But I don't see lack of English skills as the most important factor in accidents caused by illegal immigrant drivers*. I see it as "coming from a country where road signs are only suggestions." I do not have data to back up this assessment, but I do have personal anecdotes aplenty. Changing someone's attitude about traffic laws is a lot harder than ensuring that he** understands the language in which the test is given - and if it is given in the person's native language, then there's no excuse for the person's believing that traffic laws may or may not apply to him.
* I know that most accidents are not caused by illegal immigrant drivers. But if there were no illegal immigrant drivers, there would be fewer accidents. And, in jurisdictions where police are directed to look the other way if the perp is "undocumented," well...
** I'm breaking my custom of using my own gendered pronoun for an indeterminate person and using "he" here because most CDL holders are male.
Jamie, interesting point. As someone who has moved around a lot, I have had to learn the informal driving cultures of a lot of places. Saudi Arabia, for one. People follow way too closely. Which normally breeds accidents. But if you leave a US-sized interval, someone will just squeeze into it, and increase the chance of an accident. So it's safer to drive unsafely, and leave less than a car length of space, so no one is tempted to jump in.
And this was before they let women drive there! (ducks)
And of course we know about NYC and Boston driving culture.
There's also the problem of not understanding the weather. Here in the DC area, no one is from here, not even the Americans. The first rain, the first time change (introducing direct sun in your eye during your commute), and definitely the first snow of the year, all claim victims from people who never had to deal with them before, because they weren't here last year.
Finally there are the illegals who just don't understand the equipment. The Indian guy who turned his tractor-trailer across a lane and had a family crash into him probably falls into that category.
But oddly I take all this evidence and reach the opposite conclusion from yours. Driver licensing has not done anything to make the roads safer. I took a road test in 1985 and my last written test in 2009, I think. Cars and road laws have changed a lot since then, but magically I have kept up without a government functionary blessing me.
OTOH, DC has an excellent vehicle inspection program. It is not contracted out to private repair shops (because we have like 3 in the whole District), but done by government employees in a very modern facility. One of the best-run parts of DC government. I have failed inspections a couple of times for fairly minor stuff - and again, they don't do it to give work to someone's brother in law, because we have hardly any garages. They actually do it for safety.
So unless you're going to apply that sort of standard to driver licensing, I say don't do it at all. Require insurance, and let the insurance industry figure out a driver training standard that people can meet with commercial schools and examiners.
And if you want a universal ID card, just sack up and make one. I am starting to think the benefits of a national ID card outweigh the detriments. Mainly because big data has us all identified anyway. It made sense to keep information from the government when only government had the resources to gather it. But now, why keep government from doing something any big corporation can do?
Sorry for the wandering. CC, JSM
Speaking of big data, Selective Service is going to start automatically registering men. In a DOGE-like flash of the obvious, someone figured out that fedgov already has enough information on American men to just make a list that's more accurate than what they get from the few that remember to go to the post office. CC, JSM
I remember when obtaining a driver's license in Texas required a driving exam with a state trooper in the passenger seat. I think that should still be required, and if it means fewer people can get a license in a year because of the time it takes, I'm failing to see a problem.
John.
I drove the Dan Ryan at rush hour for years. I can drive anywhere in the world. Except maybe India.
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