The Evening Blues - 1-22-25
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This evening's music features blues piano player Curtis Jones. Enjoy!
Curtis Jones - Highway 51 Blues
"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
News and Opinion
Bat Shit Insane Religious Fanaticism Is A Requirement For US Empire Managers
During her Senate confirmation hearing for UN ambassador, Trump nominee Elise Stefanik was asked by Senator Chris Van Hollen if she agreed with Israeli Nazis Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotritch that Israel has a “Biblical right” to the West Bank. Stefanik said yes.
It’s so wild how bat shit insane religious delusions are almost a prerequisite for acceptance in the highest echelons of Official Washington. These confirmation hearings are like,
“Are you mentally ill enough to do US foreign policy?”
“Yes, I have the requisite mental illnesses to do US foreign policy.”
“Your brain is a festering stew of psychosis and you have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality?”
“Yes, I promise that is the case.”
The world is ruled by religious fanatics with nukes. If a normal person says they’re the second coming of Jesus Christ they get medicated and institutionalized. If you make equally insane religious claims on the Senate floor, they let you run an empire. ...
If “international law” was a real thing that actually existed, every nation which facilitated the destruction of Gaza would be forced to rebuild it immediately and war crimes tribunals would already be underway.
But international law does not exist in any meaningful way. Domestic laws exist because states have the power to enforce them, but there is no international body which has the power to force the US-centralized empire to stop committing mass atrocities. The reality is that we still live in an ultimately lawless world where tyrants do as they please, and the only rules of any real consequence are the ones which benefit the tyrants.
Domestic laws exist because it would never do for the masses to start killing the rich and powerful and taking back what’s been stolen from them. The ruling tyrants pretend international laws exist in order to justify “humanitarian interventions” and economic sanctions against disobedient governments. In all cases what we’re really seeing is the people with the guns and the bombs dictating how everyone else is allowed to act. That’s not the rule of law, it’s just garden variety totalitarianism with some narrative spin painted overtop it.
We will never live in a world where true justice is allowed to flourish as long as we are dominated by a tyrannical globe-spanning empire. Until then we remain in this wild west environment where the biggest band of thugs with the biggest guns make the rules.
Israeli security forces launch operation in West Bank city of Jenin
Israeli security forces have launched an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, a day after bands of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians, smashing cars and burning property and the new US president, Donald Trump, announced he was lifting sanctions on violent settlers.
At least eight Palestinians were killed and 35 people were injured, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said its first responders treated seven people injured by live ammunition and that Israeli forces were hindering their access to the area.
The director of Khalil Suleiman hospital in Jenin, Wissam Bakr, said that three nurses and two doctors had been injured by Israeli fire during the military operation.
The operation, codenamed “Iron Wall”, took place as the Gaza ceasefire entered a third day and was described by the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as “another step towards achieving the goal we set – strengthening security in Judea and Samaria”. He said it included police, military and the Shin Bet internal intelligence agency. ... Sources quoted in the Israeli media said the operation was expected to last several days.
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'There Are Bodies in the Streets:' Israel Launches Attack on Jenin
Israeli security forces on Tuesday launched an attack on the West Bank city of Jenin, just a day after U.S. President Donald Trump rescinded Biden-era sanctions that were levied on extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank accused of carrying out violence against Palestinians.
Trump moved to overturn the sanctions even after Israeli settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank carried out attacks against Palestinians communities earlier this week. The events highlight the threat of future violence in the West Bank.
A resident of Jenin, Asaad Salim, told the outlet Middle East Eye that the Tuesday attack on Jenin began with Israeli special forces infiltrating a neighborhood in the east of the city. Salim reported Israeli warplanes firing on the city and the Jenin refugee camp and armed clashes took place between Palestinian resistance fighters and the Israeli army, per Middle East Eye.
"There are bodies in the streets, and many people are injured, but no one can reach them. Ambulances can't move due to the intense and sudden assault," Salim told the outlet.
At least eight Palestinians were killed and 35 people were injured, per Reuters, citing Palestinian health services.
"There is no cease-fire for Palestinians," wrote Palestinian writer Yara Hawari, reacting to an Al Jazeera news alert that Israeli forces had attacked the Jenin refugee camp. Her remarks were in reference to a cease-fire deal that went into effect on Sunday, halting hostilities in the war-torn Gaza strip.
Israel INVADES West Bank Days After Ceasefire
Israel’s top general resigns, citing ‘terrible’ 7 October security failures
Israel’s top general has resigned, citing the “terrible failure” of security and intelligence related to Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 that triggered the war in Gaza.
Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), is the most senior Israeli figure to resign over the security breakdown when thousands of Hamas-led militants carried out a land, sea and air assault into southern Israel, rampaging through army bases and nearby communities for hours.
The Israeli opposition leader, Yair Lapid, said he saluted Halevi’s decision and also called on the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government to resign.
“Now, it is time for them to take responsibility and resign – the prime minister and his entire catastrophic government,” he said.
Halevi, who has been targeted for criticism by far-right members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition, will formally step down in March as the first stage of Israel’s ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza comes to an end.
Harvard agrees to controversial definition of antisemitism in legal settlement
Harvard University has agreed to embrace a controversial definition of antisemitism as part of two settlements reached in a US court over complaints brought by Jewish students in a development likely to be watched closely by Donald Trump’s new administration.
The students accused the university of failing to protect them under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, colour or national origin in programmes or institution receiving federal funding.
Two separate groups of students said they had faced harassment and discrimination from fellow students and faculty members, partly stemming from campus protests after Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel in October 2023 and the overwhelming Israeli military retaliation that followed.
Now Harvard has agreed to observe the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism in a settlement reached in federal court in Boston. The definition, defines antisemitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews”.
However, critics of the definition say it is designed to protect Israel by punishing legitimate criticism of the country. The examples of antisemitism attached to the definition include “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour” and “applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation”.
Trump UN nominee backs Israeli claims of biblical rights to West Bank
Donald Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to the United Nations has endorsed Israeli claims of biblical rights to the entire West Bank during a Senate confirmation hearing, aligning herself with positions that could complicate diplomatic efforts in the Middle East.
The New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Republican, was confronted on Tuesday over her backing of a position that aligns her with the Israeli far right, including Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and former national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. “You told me that, yes, you shared that view,” the Democratic Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen said during questioning. “Is that your view today?”
“Yes,” Stefanik said. ...
And while the position puts Stefanik at odds with longstanding international consensus and multiple UN security council resolutions regarding Israeli settlements in occupied territories, it remains sharply in line with widespread Trump administration posturing.
Mike Huckabee, Trump’s ambassador to Israel, has echoed similar sentiments over Israel’s sovereignty, declaring “there’s no such thing as a West Bank” during a 2017 visit to Israel. Huckabee has also dismissed Palestinian identity entirely, once claiming “there’s no such thing as a Palestinian”.
Stefanik’s statement came hours after Donald Trump rescinded US sanctions on far-right settler groups and individuals accused of involvement in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, which also coincided with Israel’s military launching a “large scale and significant” operation in the territory.
On the Eve of Trump, Iran and Russia Launch Historical Deal
Timing is everything in geopolitics. This past Friday in Moscow, only three days before the inauguration of US President Donald Trump in Washington, top BRICS member leaders Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement, detailed in 47 articles, twice as many as in the recent Russian–North Korean deal. This strategic partnership is now set in stone just as the – unpayable – humongous debt of the US government reaches an unprecedented $36.1 trillion, equivalent to $106.4k per American, and just as the US share of the global economy falls below 15 percent for the first time, based on World Bank/IMF figures. ...
The wide-ranging strategic Tehran–Moscow partnership boosts collaboration in the security and defense realms, and places particular emphasis on the smooth development of the International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), a trans-Eurasia axis uniting Russia, Iran, and India, solidifying Iran as a key transit hub for Russian gas and goods sold to several Afro-Eurasia partners.
It’s enlightening to highlight Putin’s own interpretation of the partnership, which he calls a “groundbreaking document” that sets “ambitious goals,” focused on “sustainable development.” He added that Russia and Iran align on “most” foreign policy issues, are independent nations, and that both civilizational nations “resist external pressure and oppose illegitimate sanctions.” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stressed how the partnership replaces “unilateralism with cooperation and respect,” in a deal meant to provide Iran and Russia with the tools to build “a new order in which cooperation will replace hegemony and respect will replace imposition.” ...
Although the agreement is not constituted as a formal military alliance, the partnership institutionalizes military exchanges at the highest level – from joint drills and weapons development to intelligence-sharing projects. Moscow will inevitably sell Sukhoi S-30 fighter jets, Pantsir, Tok, and Buk missiles, and S-400s defense systems (and in the near future, S-500s) for Iranian air defense against possible instances of US–Israel adventurism while buying a vast array of made-in-Iran missiles and drones. Exchanges on Artificial Intelligence research will also be boosted. Both Iran and Russia are on the global frontlines of rewriting the rules of asymmetric warfare. The partnership stipulates that Russia will provide Iran with “assistance.” In practice, that means not only weapons but also Moscow defending Tehran at the United Nations and other international forces against diplomatic threats and minimizing the effects of disruptive economic sanctions.
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New Secretary of State Marco Rubio Says Ukraine War Needs To End
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was sworn in on Tuesday, has said the war in Ukraine needs to end and that the new Trump administration would work to bring it to a close, although it’s still unclear how that will happen. ...
Ahead of his swearing-in ceremony, Rubio was asked in an interview about Trump’s promise and the situation in Ukraine. “The promise the President made, really if you look at it, is it’s going to be the priority – it’s going to be the official policy of the United States that the war in Ukraine needs to come to an end. It is a stalemate,” he said.
“We are going to engage in making it end in a way that is sustainable, meaning we don’t just want the conflict to end and then restart in two, three, or four years down the road. We want to bring stability,” Rubio added.
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Oxfam says world ruled by “aristocratic oligarchy,” as billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion
The wealth of the world’s billionaires increased by more than $2 trillion in 2024, according to the anti-poverty charity Oxfam’s annual report Monday. Oxfam warned that global society is increasingly dominated by an “aristocratic oligarchy.” The charity reported that the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew from $13 trillion to $15 trillion in 2024, a rate that is three times faster than in 2023.
The wealth of each of the richest 10 individuals grew by almost US$100 million a day in 2024, on average. The number of billionaires grew by 204 to 2,769. Collectively, their wealth grew by about $5.7 billion each day, and there were on average four new billionaires created per week. In its report, Oxfam predicted that the world would have five trillionaires by the end of the decade, compared with its estimate last year that there would only be one.
“The capture of our global economy by a privileged few has reached heights once considered unimaginable,” said Oxfam International Executive Director Amitabh Behar. “The failure to stop billionaires is now spawning soon-to-be trillionaires. Not only has the rate of billionaire wealth accumulation accelerated—by three times—but so too has their power,” he said. ... “It’s not about one specific individual,” he added. “It’s the economic system that we have created where the billionaires are now pretty much able to shape economic policies, social policies, which eventually gives them more and more profit.”
The massive enrichment of the financial elite comes amid a spiraling cost-of-living crisis for the vast majority of humanity. While the richest 1 percent of society owns almost 45 percent of all wealth, 44 percent of humanity is living below the World Bank’s poverty line of $6.85 per day. The Oxfam report also points to the increasingly entrenched character of what it calls an “aristocratic oligarchy.” The report states, “The idea that extreme wealth is a reward for extreme talent is pervasive and strongly reinforced in our media and popular culture. But this perception is not rooted in reality.”
It continued: “In 2023—for the first time—more new billionaires got rich through inheritance than through entrepreneurship. All of the world’s billionaires younger than 30 inherited their wealth.”
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Trump fires Mark Milley and José Andrés amid plans for mass purge of Biden administration
Donald Trump fired Mark Milley from his role on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council on Tuesday. Milley is a retired army general who served as the most senior uniformed officer at the Pentagon as chair of the joint chiefs of staff under Trump and Joe Biden. Trump announced the firing in a social media post, after Milley sharply turned against him in the years between his presidencies, ultimately branding him “a total fascist”.
Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that his administration was also “actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand presidential appointees from the previous administration”, in a mass purge in his first 24 hours in office.
José Andrés, a celebrity chef known for his human rights activism, who served on the council on sports, fitness and nutrition, has also been fired. So has Trump’s former special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, who served at the Wilson center for scholars. Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, has also been dismissed from the president’s export council.
Milley became a fierce critic of Trump after the president’s first term in office. Last year he told Bob Woodward, the veteran Washington Post journalist, of Trump: “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country.”
“He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country. A fascist to the core.” Biden pre-emptively pardoned Milley on Monday morning, in one of his final acts in office.
Trump says immigration authorities can arrest people at churches and schools
US immigration authorities will be able to arrest migrants at schools, churches and hospitals after the Trump administration overturned policies banning immigration enforcement from so-called “sensitive areas”. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection had been restricted from doing so for more than a decade. The US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both agencies, said in a statement: “Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest.”
“The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense,” the statement said. The directive was one of two issued on Tuesday from Benjamine Huffman, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
The second directive reinstates with immediate effect so-called “expedited removal” nationwide. Under this authority, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) can quickly deport any undocumented person arrested inside the country who can’t prove they have been here continuously for more than two years.
The changes come as Donald Trump’s administration executes a major crackdown on immigration in the US.
Garth Hudson, Multifaceted Musician With the Band, Dies at 87
Garth Hudson, whose intricate swirls of Lowrey organ helped elevate the Band from rollicking juke-joint refugees into one of the most resonant and influential rock groups of the 1960s and ’70s, died on Tuesday in Woodstock, N.Y. He was 87 and the last surviving original member of the group.
His death, at a nursing home, was confirmed by Jan Haust, a close friend and colleague.
Mr. Hudson did far more than play the organ. A musical polymath whose work room at home included arcana like sheet music for century-old standards and hymns, he played almost anything — saxophone, accordion, synthesizers, trumpet, French horn, violin — and in endless styles that could at various times be at home in a conservatory, a church, a carnival or a roadhouse.
He was the one who set up, installed and maintained the recording equipment in the pink ranch house in Saugerties, N.Y., where Bob Dylan and the Band recorded more than 100 songs that came to be known as the basement tapes.
When the Band became a force on its own, he arranged the music on the group’s albums and painstakingly tweaked and honed its recordings. He added brass, woodwinds and eclectic flourishes that accentuated the group’s homespun authenticity, a quality that set it apart from the psychedelia and youthful posturing of the rock of its era.
During its peak, the Band was famously a collaborative operation informed by the songwriting and barbed guitar playing of Robbie Robertson and the soulful singing and musicianship of Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel. But critics and his fellow band members agreed that Mr. Hudson played an essential role in raising the group to another level entirely.
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A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the frozen north.
For millennia, Arctic land ecosystems have acted as a deep-freeze for the planet’s carbon, holding vast amounts of potential emissions in the permafrost. But ecosystems in the region are increasingly becoming a contributor to global heating as they release more CO2 into the atmosphere with rising temperatures, a new study published in Nature Climate Change concluded.
More than 30% of the region was a net source of CO2, according to the analysis, rising to 40% when emissions from wildfires were included. By using monitoring data from 200 study sites between 1990 and 2020, the research demonstrates how the Arctic’s boreal forests, wetlands and tundra are being transformed by rapid warming. “It is the first time that we’re seeing this shift at such a large scale, cumulatively across all of the tundra. That’s a pretty big deal,” said Sue Natali, a co-author and lead researcher on the study at the Woodwell Climate Research Center.
The shift is occurring despite the Arctic becoming greener. “One place where I work in interior Alaska, when the permafrost thaws, the plants grow more so you can sometimes can get an uptick in carbon storage,” Natali said. “But the permafrost continues to melt and the microbes take over. You have this really big pool of carbon in the ground and you see things like ground collapse. You can visually see the changes in the landscape,” she said.
The study comes amid growing concern from scientists about the natural processes that regulate the Earth’s climate, which are themselves being affected by rising temperatures. Together, the planet’s oceans, forests, soils and other natural carbon sinks absorb abouthalf of all human emissions, but there are signs that these sinks are under strain.
‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around a Great Barrier Reef island were killed last year in the most widespread coral bleaching outbreak to hit the reef system, a study has found.
Scientists tracked 462 colonies of corals at One Tree Island in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef after heat stress began to turn the corals white in early 2024. Researchers said they encountered “catastrophic” scenes at the reef.
Only 92 coral colonies escaped bleaching entirely and by July, when the analysis for the study ended, 193 were dead and a further 113 were still showing signs of bleaching.
Prof Maria Byrne, a marine biologist at the University of Sydney and lead author of the study, has been researching and visiting the island for 35 years. ... Byrne and colleagues set up the study in early February last year. The team used temperature loggers, video and direct observations to track the welfare of 12 different types of coral.
Southern California braces for vicious winds as new fires break out in region
Southern California was bracing for more dangerous winds on Tuesday as new wildfires broke out across the region, which is continuing to grapple with the major fires that have ravaged Los Angeles communities.
Forecasters warned that strong winds would hit southern California for at least two more days. The winds had eased somewhat on Tuesday afternoon after peaking at 60mph (96kph) in many areas, but gusty conditions will return on Wednesday, said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s office for Los Angeles.
The fresh high winds – that are coming amid still bone-dry conditions – mark the end of a break in dangerous high fire-risk conditions that have allowed the beleaguered city’s firefighters to largely contain the disastrous blazes that have burnt thousands of homes. The fires have killed at least 27 people and destroyed more than 14,000 structures since they broke out during fierce winds on 7 January.
“If a fire were to get started it could grow pretty fast,” Kittell said. Red flag warnings for critical fire risk were extended through Thursday at 8pm across LA and Ventura counties.
The weather service had issued a warning of a “particularly dangerous situation” for parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego counties from Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning due to low humidity and damaging Santa Ana winds. “The conditions are ripe for explosive fire growth should a fire start,” said Andrew Rorke, a meteorologist with the weather service in Oxnard.
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A Little Night Music
Curtis Jones - Reefer Hound Blues
Curtis Jones - Lonesome Bedroom Blues
Curtis Jones - Down In The Slums
Curtis Jones - Cool Playing Blues
Curtis Jones - Moonlight Lover Blues
Curtis Jones - Roll Me Mama
Curtis Jones - Trouble Blues
Curtis Jones - Black Gypsy Blues
Curtis Jones - Tin Pan Alley
Curtis Jones - Heavy Hip Mama
Comments
If I was Hamas
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I would halt releasing the Israeli POWs until Israel releases the new prisoners it took last night and I’d tell them that this would continue until they release all the Palestinians and promised not to take any more. Yes Israel can go back on the deal, but maybe that would wake up the world to what Israel has been doing. It’s worth a try.
And maybe tie in a ceasefire in the West Bank too. Israel shouldn’t get to set the rules.
lol… I read last night’s EBs thinking it was today’s and only recognized reading half of the articles before. It wasn’t till I got to the comments that I realized what I’d done. Some seemed familiar, but I thought Joe screwed up and repeated them.
Now you know why I can read the same books and watch movies more than once and think it’s the first time.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
evening snoopy...
seems to me that it is a foregone conclusion that israel will restart the war, hamas may as well play its cards to arrange for maximum advantage in the timing of the restart. israel is going to do what it is going to do, they are genocidal maniacs you can't expect anything else from them any more than you can expect fancy table manners from a crocodile.
Biden’s rotten legacy on freedom of the press
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https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/21/bidens-legacy-the-world-is-more-unsafe...
His presidency started with supporting the Trump claim that Assange was guilty of violating the Espionage Act and it ended with Smirkula with Blinken’s permission to drag a journalist out of the press room just for asking 2 questions that Tony didn’t like.
But now we’re going to hear from the corporate media how much of a threat Trump is to press freedom. Maddow is already bloviating about it. She seriously thinks that Trump is going to throw her in a concentration camp.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
heh...
trump would be an idiot to throw her in a concentration camp when every night, of her own volition, she will go before the cameras on national teevee and make an utter fool of herself.
What a dumb ass….
Guess he forgot that he put sanctions on Russia and sent lethal weapons to Ukraine. And he admitted 4 more countries into NATO.
Hopefully Putin reminds him about that.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
yep...
he's a dumb ass and stupid shit just rolls off his tongue. on the other hand, he's capable of holding a press conference in contrast to his predecessor. low bar, i know.
Yeah that’s a low bar
I’d like to ask Trump if he would have taken Putin’s security concerns seriously and worked with him to stop the Ukraine war.
Also why he didn’t uphold the Minsk agreements when he was in office.
Trump said that Russia has lost over a million soldiers and Ukraine only 600,000. I wonder if when Tulsi gets confirmed if she will start seeing that he gets the truth on security issues. If she gets confirmed.
She has told republicans that she has no problem selling out her dignity.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
heh...
i could keep trump busy for quite a while with my questions, too.
i can't help but think that if tulsi gets confirmed, the quality of some of the information that gets to trump will improve. clearly what he's been getting has not been that great.
Fun old timey sounds
Black Gypsy Blues
Guess the good news is warmonger Bolton has been
shown the door by Trump 2.
On the tragic side L.A. is still aflame.
What a world we live in.
question everything
evening qms...
well, i can't really work up much sympathy for bolt-on. i'm sure that he'll continue to show up on the chattering class' talk show circuit whenever they need somebody to advocate for war, clearance or not.
la is certainly getting pummeled. i keep wondering if collapse is not coming within a few years.
Trump cancelled the secret service
for Bolton. He did kick Milley off some government board and a few others.
Not only still aflame, but new fires have started and the wind has picked up again. Very sad.
I agree with those who say that California had years to do something about the fire situation. Stopping development in fire zones is the first thing they should have done and cleaning out the dead wood and bushes and making sure that everything was ready for the fire season that comes every year. Cutting the fire department budget and not staffing it enough was a boneheaded move. That should be actionable. Dereliction of duty?
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Hi snoopy
Now if Trump would only use the money he’s saving by cutting off ss for Bolten, for something that benefits the american public, then I would be happy. I’m not placing any bets though.
And, if you snoopy, could be the prosecutor of those derelict in their duties, all would be well ; ).
Heh
I think because I’m a libra I always seek justice for those who need it. If I hadn’t been drawn to medicine maybe I would have been a lawyer?
Thought of you this morning when I saw Sam eyeing the bathroom sink and wondering if there was something in it. The look on her face was priceless.
There was and she found it this afternoon.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Our birthdays must be close
I'm on the cusp of virgo and libra, and injustice has always been a deeply felt emotion.
I am trying to guess what Sam might have found in the sink, and have no clue.
Hey, joe!
That Duran video with Prof. Wong was outstanding.
I guess the furor over Musk's "heil Hitler salute" has finally used up its' energy. Time to move on to something else just as stupid and meaningless.
I wonder if the Democrats will make fun of Fetterman's attire when he switches parties? That would be an easy target.
I think Trump's memecoin is a start in making CBDCs normal. We shall see.
Evenings will be cold for a few more days, then we will return to wearing tee shirts.
Thanks for the ebs, friend.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
i think we can look forward to 4 more years of relatively meaningless bullshit endlessly repeated by various large media outlets while behind the curtain, the danger sausage is made.
it's pretty darned cold here - 7 degrees on my back porch thermometer. i think we may see double digits by the weekend. woohoo!
have a good one!