@joe shikspack

The US is run by the Deep State and they cannot be trusted.

#2

damn, i was going to avoid the news, but this is a big damned deal.

a quick read of the nyt take on it suggests to me that this was a mossad hit done with the permission of the trump administration.

it appears to me that trump is at least working with netanyahu to scupper the possibility of renewing the jcpoa. trump and netanyahu might be after something even more evil, but they are probably at least going to be successful at scuppering the deal.

Hard-line protesters calling for war with the United States staged a demonstration in Tehran outside the residence of President Hassan Rouhani on Friday night, hours after the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist.

“No to submission, no to concession with America, only war with America!” a crowd of dozens of men chanted at the protest, as seen in videos shown on Iranian television and posted to social media. The demonstrators also called for expelling the international inspectors who are monitoring Iran’s nuclear program.

They held up signs reading “Silence is permission for more assassinations” and “Mr. President, they killed your minister’s adviser. Stop negotiation.”

Mr. Rouhani’s administration was already facing a tough battle with the country’s hard-line faction for any revival of the nuclear deal with the incoming administration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.

The assassination is likely to harden the position of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has maintained Washington cannot be trusted regardless of which party is in power.

Mohammad Imani, a prominent hard-line columnist for the Keyhan newspaper that serves as Mr. Khamenei’s mouthpiece, wrote on Friday that the “Gentlemen sitting across the negotiating table are the same terrorists of Baghdad airport,” referring to the assassination in January of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s top security and intelligence commander.

He added: “We cannot trust them.”

@joe shikspack Iran has no reason to trust the USA, Joe. Thanks for responding.

OTOH, Rouhani and Javad Zarif did give us reason to trust them.

We want their oil. We are the bad guys. we will invade, occupy, destroy entire civilizations in order to enrich ourselves. The entire world understands this.

Now what?

#2

damn, i was going to avoid the news, but this is a big damned deal.

a quick read of the nyt take on it suggests to me that this was a mossad hit done with the permission of the trump administration.

it appears to me that trump is at least working with netanyahu to scupper the possibility of renewing the jcpoa. trump and netanyahu might be after something even more evil, but they are probably at least going to be successful at scuppering the deal.

Hard-line protesters calling for war with the United States staged a demonstration in Tehran outside the residence of President Hassan Rouhani on Friday night, hours after the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist.

“No to submission, no to concession with America, only war with America!” a crowd of dozens of men chanted at the protest, as seen in videos shown on Iranian television and posted to social media. The demonstrators also called for expelling the international inspectors who are monitoring Iran’s nuclear program.

They held up signs reading “Silence is permission for more assassinations” and “Mr. President, they killed your minister’s adviser. Stop negotiation.”

Mr. Rouhani’s administration was already facing a tough battle with the country’s hard-line faction for any revival of the nuclear deal with the incoming administration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.

The assassination is likely to harden the position of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has maintained Washington cannot be trusted regardless of which party is in power.

Mohammad Imani, a prominent hard-line columnist for the Keyhan newspaper that serves as Mr. Khamenei’s mouthpiece, wrote on Friday that the “Gentlemen sitting across the negotiating table are the same terrorists of Baghdad airport,” referring to the assassination in January of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s top security and intelligence commander.

He added: “We cannot trust them.”

@joe shikspack

...and i invented blackened cajun turkey.

it was actually pretty good. i kid you not.

Hmmm. I do believe you, considering how well blackened seasonings work with mild fish. I may just do some experimenting...

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evening traveler. heh, i remember back when i was in my 20's i was living in a house with a whole bunch of hippies and we got the biggest turkey that i have ever seen and baked it for thanksgiving. we were expecting a bunch of guests, but it started snowing the night before and nobody showed up. so we had this huge turkey (quite delicious) which we did our best to demolish, but we had tons of leftovers. we made turkey salad, turkey noodle soup and all kinds of turkey stuff out of it but long after my taste for turkey had run out, well, we still had turkey.

so after some particularly effective afternoon hippie treats, i went rooting through the spice cabinet and i invented blackened cajun turkey.

it was actually pretty good. i kid you not.