Iran said Monday it will no longer talk to the U.S. as long as Israel pounds away at Iran’s terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, in Lebanon. “The Iranian negotiating team will suspend ‘talks and the exchange of texts through mediators,’” the semiofficial news agency Tasnim reported. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that Iran considers “the crossing of red lines in Lebanon and Gaza to mean direct war and the imposition of costs on its national security and the Islamic Resistance.”
This is some kind of weird schoolyard bullshit game for these people. They have somehow come to believe that we won't - or can't - squash them like the bug they are. I give DJT some credit for not having done so already, but the time of 'give them a chance to come around' is over.
Every time we hold out a olive branch, they smack us in the ass with it. It may well be the start of WWIII, but I think it's time that we, once and forever, show these third-world porch monkeys what real power is. I have said enough on this.
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“You know, I never thought I would run for governor, so I guess I should know better than to say any of it. Never say never,”
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New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is claiming victory after the federal government announced it would restore visitation rights at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark. Sherrill celebrated the decision, stating she had successfully pressured the feds to meet her demands and that the facility should never have been used as a detention center in the first place. However, the Department of Homeland Security pushed back sharply, stating that Sherrill and her allies helped create the violent protests and unrest that forced the temporary suspension of visitation in the first place.
DHS officials made it clear: “We did not cave to the Governor’s demands. Visitation was suspended because the violent riots outside the facility made it unsafe for our officers, detainees’ families and lawyers to visit the facility.” The agency added that now that they have secured the perimeter, visitation can resume safely. Sherrill and other Democrats had visited the facility amid protests and complained about conditions and lack of access.
This is peak Democrat hypocrisy. Sanctuary politicians create chaos by obstructing federal immigration enforcement and encouraging protests, then claim victory when the resulting mess forces a partial retreat. New Jersey residents deserve leaders who support law enforcement, not those who turn detention facilities into political battlegrounds.
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Lucille Ball and Paula Stewart enacting a scene from the Broadway musical Wildcat
on the television program The Ed Sullivan Show, 1961
An article in the Saturday Evening Post archives from 1961 quoted a TV critic who voiced what many Americans were saying: that watching television was a waste of time.
Television was a well-established medium by that year. Ninety percent of Americans had TVs in their homes and were watching six hours a day on average. Other than a few cultural and public-affairs shows on Sunday afternoon, critic Harriet Van Horne said there weren’t five hours of programing a week worth watching.
Television critics were given more attention in that era, when many Americans still hoped the networks would add artistic and intellectual content to their programing. Ms. Van Horne complained that TV didn’t try to raise the tastes of mass audience. She was particularly disapproving of westerns, which she said dulled the human sense of outrage at violence.
The only reason people watched the tripe on TV is because it was free and available.
“Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard on select public radio stations across the U.S.
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A small surviving detail from old Penn Station. These Art Deco-style escalator terminals in Manhattan’s Penn Station show the kind of craftsmanship once built into even the most functional parts of transit architecture. The original 1910 station was largely demolished in the 1960s, but a few metalwork details still remain like ghosts of its lost grandeur. Crafted when pleasing the eye was as important as function.
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"If you're bringing a helmet, googles and armor to a protest, it is not a protest. It is a riot"
ReplyDeleteQuick! Somebody tell these news to DJT! He seems to, "unknowingly", have pardoned thousands of rioters and is about to give the $1.8 Billion in reparations!
If these are rioters and not protesters they don't deserve a pardon or reparations.
Its unfortunate that you the liberal bullshit about J6. "Go home in peace" never was a code word for riot. The DC police opened the doors for the tourists to enter before declaring them trespassers. The FBI had over 200 people egging on the crowd to do the wrong thing. J6 was an inside job run by the Democrats and innocent Americans were caught in the cross fire. I just wish the Capitol police budget was used to pay the people back for the mistreatment the Democrats orchestrated.
DeleteHad to look up Paula Stewart. Married Burt Bacharat 5 years, broadway actress and very good looking.
ReplyDeleteLove your site, I visit daily. I'm a couple years older than you and we're very similar ('69-'73 veteran) but you and our gov't are so wrong about our ability to "squash" the Iranian, leadership, country or defense. Do I "know it all"? No, but I've been studying warfare since 7th grade, 1962. The only way to defeat Iran, would require so many nukes, it would collapse world civilization and turn us into "The Great Satan", because we are VERY LOW on appropriate conventional weapons, so that leaves nukes as our "superiority". We never should have started this unprovoked, originally, all out, Israeli demanded war. This "skirmish" (Trump's description) is going to wreck the decadent, declining West even faster. It's already wrecked our "allies" in the Middle East. Notice any changes in inflation, gas prices, supply chain issues in the last 3 months? Notice how the EU is eating shit? I have.
ReplyDeleteHEY! I still love you! In the Christian way, not the icky way.
How do you know we're "very low" on conventional weapons?
DeleteJust blow the crap out of their oil refineries and see how they like the shortages.
ReplyDeleteYou don't seem to understand the situation in Iran.
ReplyDeleteIran can keep the straight closed forever with 3 guys, one mule and couple drones. The straight is so narrow that drones don't fly very long before reaching their target. Short flight=very hard to intercept. Iran only needs the threat of damage to cargo ships to keep the straight effectively closed. They don't even need to hit a ship, they just need people to believe they CAN hit a ship. At the same time there is no weapon/umbrella we can deploy that can react that fast or that is economically viable. Even worse is the fact that Iran only needs to sink one ship in the right spot and the straight is closed for good without the need of them hitting any additional boats. They just need to threaten those that would need to come and remove the sunken/damaged ship.
There is no number of bombs (conventional or nuclear) we can drop on them that will reopen the straight of Hormuz.
The only way to open the straight against Iran's will is with boots on the ground. Several hundred thousand boots on the ground. The US bombing North Vietnam and Germany bombing England have proven that bombing without boots on the ground will never translate into territorial control. The nuclear bombing of Japan only turned into territorial control because we placed boots on the ground.
It took 300K soldiers to invade Iraq. Iran is 3 times larger and has almost double the population of Iraq. It will take over half a million soldiers to take Iran; many thousands of deaths and a decades long commitment on our end. Once we are in it will take decades to be able to get out. I don't think this is a realistic option. Neither Trump nor the American people are willing to commit to a ground invasion). Not to mention that we had 40+ partners helping us in Iraq. If we go into Iran we are alone. Not even Israel is willing to put Jewish boots on Arab ground (if they did every country in the Middle East will turn against them).
I'm of the idea that we should have never attacked Iran but now it is too late for that.
At the current junction our only way out for us is a negotiated agreement with Iran (IRGC). Iran is not willing to accept any deal that doesn't include Israel not attacking them or their proxies.
Unfortunately any deal that we CAN make today will likely be worse than the JCPOA. Any deal will require concessions on our end, likely sanctions relief, the regime will stay in place and probably will need to unfreeze Iranian assets.
Last year Iran was a global pariah. If we reach an agreement and leave today Iran is the country that took a very strong punch from the largest military the world has ever seen and barely flinched. Iran has not only proven how strong they are but they have also shown the world that they hold the key to destroy the global economy anytime they want. We will essentially leave a stronger Iran. No one in the Persian Gulf will want to stand up to them anymore. Saudi Arabia, UAE and others have seen that Iran can take a hit from a much stronger enemy. Also countries all over the world will think twice before imposing any sanctions given that Iran can now also sanction every other country by shutting down the straight or even preventing specific shits heading to specific countries to transit the straight. They can now impose targeted sanctions.
Finally Israel will likely windup more isolated. Public perceptions of Israel have significantly worsened in the US (in both parties) and globally. Going forward Israel will have a much tougher time protecting itself and finding partners willing to help. Netanyahu has proven to be an unreliable partner. They lied to us to drag us into a war that was not in our interest and that can't be won.
This Iran war will be studied as a strategic fuck up of legendary proportions.
Without income taxes government would be forced to fund only that which is necessary.
ReplyDelete"The only reason people watched the tripe on TV is because it was free and available. " Hate to tell you, but people paid money to see the same thing at the movies.
ReplyDeleteThe cultural snobs (most of whom were Lefties) may have hated it, but the people loved it.