I remember when, during the Gulf War

SCUD missiles rained down upon Israel and there was no retaliation as per the wishes of President GHWB in order that the US could maintain the coalition of the Saudis and the other avowed Israel haters/deniers in order to score a quick military victory over Iraq. In fact, we essentially eradicated their armed forces and could have marched unimpeded to Baghdad but did not for a variety of reasons. The Israelis took it on the chin for the world’s oil supply and other issues which were germane to the world at that time.

I also remember decades prior how the Egyptian army had massed to the west and Jordan and Syria from the east and north were clearly planning a simultaneous invasion of Israel. First on the agenda was the eradication of the Egyptian Air Force which lost their planes for the most part, sitting on the ground. That plus the destruction of the runways neutralized the army because it had no air cover. The Israelis defeated this massive Pan-Arab dream in six days, a work of military art the likes of which had never been seen before.

But the Israelis did let their guard down in 1973 and misread the activities of their enemies and was reeling from an invasion which commenced upon the holiest day of the year on the Jewish calendar. It is to be noted how careful the US and other Western nations are with respect to Ramadan and Arab sensibilities. The Israelis with reluctant assistance from President Nixon and Henry Kissinger turned back the invasion and learned many lessons. There was a great loss of life in Israel and much was restructured to attempt to prevent a similar occurrence.

Then there was the hijacking of the airline flight to Entebbe, Uganda and it was considered that Idi Amin was going to at the very least see to it that Israelis would be held, tortured, and then killed. The Israelis showed up and every media outlet spoke of the miraculous rescue of everyone, except of course Bibi Netanyahu’s brother Yonatan.

And then there were all the post-Shabbat terrorist bombings and suicide missions as well as bus bombings. How many Sunday mornings did I awaken to a Special Report showing dead bodies and body parts all over the streets and pieces of flesh blown into the walls of buildings?

Israel had war declared upon her literally minutes after her creation in 1948 and it has not ceased. Last night we watched hundreds of launched projectiles and drones not destroy a decent proportion of the country. When it is stated that Iran was just firing warning shots over the bow by announcing their intentions early, their intentions are always known. They want to eradicate not only the State of Israel, but to massacre civilians en masse, and they would do so without hesitation. Israel knows this and has ensured that it shall not happen.

Make no mistake, the attack was launched to kill and destroy and the fact that they utterly failed to do so demonstrates the advanced technology of the Israelis and of the US and Great Britain and the relative incompetence of the Iranians and their proxies. The Israelis, once again, are being instructed to hold back, for fear of a wider war, read: higher gasoline prices. We shall see what happens. Hamas mutilated, tortured, and killed Israelis and somehow the return of the hostages and the surrender of Hamas is rarely mentioned. Iran sent 300 lethal projectiles last night and has been sending rockets via their proxies for decades and Israelis are just supposed to lean back and call it a day. We shall see what happens. In the long run, nothing good for the Iranians I would bet.

I'm gonna go out on a BIG limb here re:the Middle East:

The Hamas attack and horror was designed to manifest the outrage of Israel and they absolutely welcomed the serious warfare waged against them and used the media and some easily-made-queasy folk to turn against Israel and the Jews.

They bided their time until this moment when they felt that they maximized global ill-will against Israel and that the forces were involved in Gaza and have launched an attack against civilian centers and air defenses most likely.

Now when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait we sent 400,000 troops to reestablish the sovereignty of that country. I expect that if Israel is truly threatened, there will be equivalent Hell to pay for the Iranians. I will add that it doesn’t matter one whit what any of us think or feel on this or any other message board. These decisions are made by people who have information and devices of which we know nothing.

The game has changed, and not for the better.

Olbermann's "eulogy" to O.J. Is brilliant:

It’s in the first block here:

https://overcast.fm/+7Jq18-IbI

You will learn much.

Benign almost-funny political joke for the day:

Not great but best I could do:


As I was driving to work one day, I noticed a sign on the side of the road. It said “Republican puppies for sale”. At the time I thought nothing of it.

But, a couple weeks later, I was driving by and it said “Democratic puppies for sale” so I stopped and spoke to the boy that had the puppies.

I asked him why the sign said Republican puppies two weeks ago, but Democratic puppies now.

His answer was priceless: “Well, sir, they have their eyes open now.”

Passover is coming:

This is terrific:

A gentleman named Jared Solomon is running for attorney general in PA. A portion of his TV ad is that received an “F” from the NRA (big red letter F) and he’s proud of that.

The only negative there is if he were on the ballot in November, the Rethugs would use this against him in this heavily armed state. However…

WTAF??? REALLY?

“Donald Trump has adopted a more moderate tone” is what I’m hearing in the vaunted MSM.

Really…? Hannibal Lecter has apparently also decided that he prefers kidney beans rather than fava beans with the cooked liver and Chianti.

When is somebody on TV going to literally throw down the prepared script and just do the equivalent of what Joseph Welch did to McCarthy? Enough is goddamned enough of this utter bullshit and lies, this modern Hitlerian regime, this tinhorn Stalin/Mussolini. It’s like going to the Carnival that opened outside of town and trying to win that game where you drop the discs and try to cover the red dot. When is it the end of being bullshat to? Wake the Fuck up America and stop listening to this already and send this asshole back to his lair where he can sell rancid steaks and putrid water to the complete idiots.

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If it's Monday, it's the platitudinous Jonathan Lemire

Actually, any day ending in a “y” qualifies

He just had a piece, interviewing a Republican advisor who you could tell was a real “pro”, about the mess o’ Republican Congressfolk leaving. All kinds of reasons were being given, and believe it or not, they actually touched on the fact that Republicans “may” lose control of the House.

Now, please allow me to say that if the House were controlled by Democrats with a tiny majority, just like this, Lemire would’ve been harping on a daily basis, at least, oh, maybe 17 times, that it is traditional for the House to flip. It would’ve been incessant, in the same matter in which he predicted the non-existent red wave back in 2022.

I’ll be frank with you, I’m not sure why he gets on my nerves more than the rest of them do… I think it’s because of the extreme unctuousness, sanctimony, and faux-surety with which he presents his so-called reportage. My own opinion of him is that he’s a third tier guy who agreed to get up at 2:30 in the morning every morning to do their show because he thinks that it will lead him to greater heights in the NBC pyramid. It well may, given their recent proclivity for mediocrity, but he ain’t no Lawrence Spivak, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, or Frank McGee, that much I do know.

I don't know about anyone else here, but

I’m getting dozens of emails daily grotesquely denigrating President Biden, these emails claim that they “knew he was out there but they had no idea he was this insane”. As fast as I unsubscribe to say, four sites, I start getting 6-7 other sites pounding me all day. Of course I trash these without even opening them but I swear that some hours I’ll get upwards of 10-15 per hour. These are largely “business-oriented” and suggest imminent collapse, ruination, you get the idea.

Of course I won’t repeat the insanity here, but I can see that after a while, a susceptible individual might begin to believe some of this trash. Makes me want to vomit, fast as a comet. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮