You call that a birthday? I could sh*t a better birthday than that.

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□ [“Cuban Dictator Díaz-Canel Begins Negotiations with the United States"]

They must be scared.  Cuba has been totally dependent on Venezuela for decades and now they're getting nothing.  Can't just suddenly get help from China, Russia or Iran, not sure what other allies they'd really have.  But Díaz-Canel even announced this on tv so the whole nation sees that they're giving in to Trump.

How is the left supposed to react to this?  Cuba has been their idol for generations but think they're able to deal with Trump, what does Cuba know that Democrats don't?  They're trying to do something about the War Powers Act to stop Trump from attacking Cuba, don't they see what's going on?  Well, no, Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real thing.

Not just Venezuela, it's been pointed out that Cuba's funding ended when USAID did.  That's something Trump has been able to push throughout the world although it may be a long time before we really see the effects.  US money was being funneled everywhere to support our enemies in countless ways.  By nature Cuba was a long-time stronghold for leftists and it looks like it's ready to fall.  I suspect the dictators are just trying to negotiate their survival.  Since Cuba has no gas anymore, they may be in a rush.

DOJ Documents Show Tony Blair Met Jeffrey Epstein at Downing Street, Discussed ‘Religion’
March 13, 2026

□ [“'Watch What Happens to These Deranged Scumbags Today!' – Trump Warns Iran"]

Apparently the bombing has been getting even bigger and today was the biggest bombing ever.  Something like that.  I do support this but we can't just have day-after-day of bombing, that's not going to work.  We've taken out the main leaders but the lower ranks will stay hidden.  If all we're doing is bombing, they can try to wait it out.  I get that there are other things going on but there needs to be progress.

Trump also says the new Ayatollah is "I think he's damaged, but I think he's probably alive in some form."  To me that comes off similar to George W. Bush having little interest in where bin Laden is these days.  I get the point, there's a much bigger battle to face and in the Muslim world, the defeat from the infidel is even more humiliating.  But bin Laden was and the Ayatollah is still the primary target so it doesn't look good to just shrug them off like that.

Apparently Iranians are helping guide our drone attacks.  That's good but they need to be more involved.  We can't just maintain air attacks and we don't want boots on the ground so the Iranians need to finish the job.  They deserve it and we're still there to support them, get rid of these tyrants.

We're also seeing gas prices shoot up.  That suck, especially after the last year of low prices.  Trump is trying to do something about that too, releasing 172 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  Not sure that's a good idea, neither is discussions about removing some sanctions, at least temporarily.  Russian ships that are already at sea have those taken down.  Meanwhile France and Italy have made a deal with Iran to get their ships through.

And just a note, France has another problem.  One of their soldiers in Iraq died from an Iranian drone strike.  When did France get soldiers?  Why am I always the last one to hear about these things?  And wtf are they doing in Iraq?  We are not remotely being told the whole story about this war.

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March 13, 2026

□ [“Hungary To Declassify National Security Report Proving Globalist Opposition to Viktor Orbán Is Illegally Funded by Ukraine"]

I'm less interested in what they're doing against Hungary itself than about what else they've used this funding for.  That's one of the mazes that needs to be taken down, how the money is passed through NGOs to foreign accounts, cybercurrency, all the ways the elites control.  And then what are they doing with that money?

Americans see this with DOGE, with the cuts to USAID and the exposure of Somali daycare centers in Minnesota.  That's clearly just a small piece of what's going on.  Whatever globalists are named in Hungary's report will probably be found listed elsewhere, imposing their will on the rest of us.  I'm guessing that most of these people, at least the ones who matter, are in the EU and this was the real reason for this war.  They've been trying to infest Russia too so Russia responded the normal way, invasion.

Doesn't sound like there's any peace talks going on so Zelensky doesn't have anything to do.  He's not worried about being re-elected and has consistently lost the war since... well since it started.  But he has nothing to add to any part of this situation.  Trump's even denying Ukrainians being sent in to help against Iranian drones.  That seems odd, the Ukrainians would have experience with Iran's ally, I'd assume they can bring something to the table.  I suspect that it's more about keeping them from getting useful information from us, or Iran for that matter.  They are not to be trusted.

Michigan synagogue shooter who drove car into Jewish temple praised by neighbors in his Muslim enclave
March 13, 2026

□ [“Armed Muslim Man in Military Gear Arrested After Walking Into Texas Elementary School"]
□ [“Ground Stop in Place at all DC Area Airports Due to 'Strong Chemical Smell'”]

It's going to get hectic.  Security companies are going to need a lot of employees but the guy going into the Texas school claimed to be security.  Turns out he's unemployed but that's not a mistake security can afford to get wrong very often.  This is where it's dangerous because you could guard a million possible targets and there's still ten million others.

We don't really know how the Muslim world is responding to this and couldn't really trust any response they'd have.  It comes down to the individuals.  I probably have a higher opinion of Islam than most people but it's also clear that sanity is optional for the most determined ones.  How much of the Muslim world are willing to stop these attacks before they happen?  We really don't know if there are any of them and that's going to be a huge problem to face.

25 years after 9/11, I still wonder if the people in charge really did make a long-term plan for this conflict.  Don't know which side they were on but at least on our side, it's basically been impossible to perceive the opponents as a unified force, making them difficult to fight.  With Iran funding Muslim terrorists around the world, now that we've finally taken the mullahs out, we have an opportunity to actually work out who's on which side.  Both sides have a lot of military-aged men who only know a post-9/11 world.

Gene Simmons Tells Celebrities to Shut Up About Politics Before It's Too Late!
March 13, 2026

What trigger words would you like for your birthday?

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March 12, 2026

□ [“Trump: We Know Where Most of the Iranian Terror Cells Are Located – 'Eye on All of Them'”]

Well he has to say things like that.  This is a place where honesty wouldn't actually help, 'we know where an estimated 50% are located'?  Even this would bring an obvious question, 'then why aren't you doing anything about them?'  But this would have an understandable response, for legal reasons we can't do anything until they're ready to strike.  And that's what they're doing.

□ [“Reagan National Airport Evacuated as Authorities Investigate 'Suspicious Package'”]
□ [“Driver Rams Car Into Temple Israel in Michigan, Opens Fire – Update:  Gunman Dead"]

Iran has been funding terrorism for decades, now they're telling these people to do something now.  Sounds like a good time to invest in security companies.  I haven't even been tracking all these news reports but these are the people who will eagerly die for the cause and this is the best option they can think of off-hand.  Pretty sure they're all Muslim.  Enough of them have been identified that if there are Muslims who don't want to be associated with these people, start doing something about it.  Start turning them in before they try to kill people.

□ [“Iran Hits Major International Airports, Oil Refineries, and Commercial Ships"]

Bahrain, Iraq, Dubai, didn't they just apologize for hitting other countries a few days ago?  It sounds like they're trying to raise oil prices to hit us as hard as they can.  One of their better weapons but it's going to get negative responses on them.  Other countries will fight back against the expense and places like China will expect a massive reduction in price.

They're trying other things too.  There was just a report that four military drones have been stolen at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.  Not sure how you could possibly do that but even weirder, it happened last November.  And it's only being announced now?  Meanwhile Shi'ites in Nigeria are protesting against the US and Israel.  Not sure what this will do but it's worth noting that a nation seems to be standing up to support Iran.

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March 12, 2026

□ [“Transgender 15-Year-Old Florida Teen Plotted to Murder Classmate as ‘Blood Ritual’ to ‘Resurrect’ Sandy Hook Shooter Adam Lanza"]

I still haven't found any arguments that these creatures aren't basically being funded by Iran and similar Islamic powers.  If they can push the infidel far enough, all the sane people will rush towards the truth of Islam for protection.  It's quite possible that rich leftists are the ones paying for these creatures but even there, I suspect that they're still being used as pawns.

They're trying to push these people out to kill as many as possible and as we see here, it's about death worship.  It might be interesting to look into what ancient societies really believed in made-up genders but the history of civilization has been about getting away from that.  These kids here were obsessed with a mass murderer who had also been obsessed with mass murderers.  It just keeps growing on itself.

So I think this is both the ultimate goal of leftism and also a weapons used by tyrants to make their own side more appealing.  In a strange way, the evil side is more understandable and normal.  It's the left who will always twist everything to encourage the evil side because 'diversity!'  Death-worship is always looming over their heads, something to be inspired to which will automatically encourage everyone else to join in.

U.N. Committee Accuses Trump of ‘Racist Hate Speech’ and ‘Grave Human Rights Violations’ Over Immigration Crackdown
March 12, 2026

□ [“Mojtaba Khamenei Still Nowhere To Be Seen; Reports Suggest He ‘Lost a Leg,’ Is ‘In a Coma’"]

If it wasn't enough that we're suddenly in a war, we're also being hit with A.I. and leftist media making up everything they can think of.  I am taking seriously the news articles I comment on but keep in mind there's a decent chance they're completely false.  We're getting all this from the internet which isn't always the best source of truth.

I've heard that Iran's constitution appoints the Ayatollah as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.  If he can't speak out, they have no leadership.  In some ways that's a good thing but in other ways, Iran might have planned for that and the IRGC is prepared to operate on their own.  No one can command them to stop.  It's not that different from the threats of abandoned Japanese soldiers in the Pacific that went on for decades after Japan's surrender.  They may be prepared to lose but take as many people as possible with them.

Iran is trying to spread this conflict globally.  I'm guessing the US military has prepared for that as much as possible although there's no way to know how in-depth their plans can be.  The Department of Homeland Security has conveniently just been defunded, I hope the military has plans to take over that without a hitch.  In some ways, Trump has already won but in others, the conflict has just begun.  If (God willing) the Iranians finally overthrow the mullahs, the worldwide terrorists and their leftist allies will have nothing to retrain them any longer.

NYC Firefighters Angry After Bosses, Muslim Firefighters Modify 9/11 Memorial Area for Ramadan
March 12, 2026

Just a note, I'm still trying to think about Marvel and DC Comics' plans over the decades, trying to figure out what they thought they were doing.  The concept of "multiverse" has been around for a long time but I've wondered if Marvel and DC have been using that to oversee their respective IPs.  In a legal sense, each one was effectively in its own universe.

It's one thing if a company manufactures a tire and another company manufactures a windshield wiper and they send their product to Ford to build a car.  It's different in an artistic medium where writers and artists create stories on a monthly basis for characters that go on to make a lot of money in many other mediums.  I can't think of any real precedent.  You might do books or movies putting characters together, the Three Stooges meeting Frankenstein or something, but those are much less important to the audience or the corporations than the original IPs which remain separate.

The DC characters had specific meetings.  They didn't fight each other's villains or interact with their supporting cast otherwise.  Marvel was specifically created to be a franchise.  Spider-Man met the Fantastic Four in Spider-Man #1, cover-dated March 1963, the same month as Fantastic Four #12 where they met the Hulk.  This was maybe a year-and-a-half after the Fantastic Four had first appeared and they were already meeting.

That much is believable for building a franchise.  What I've been trying to figure out is why DC had been rebooting their old characters in the first place.  Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman are the main examples but if you want to update them, why not just keep the original names and redo the characters for a modern audience?  It finally occurred to me that this might an issue for copyright and trademark.

I don't remotely understand how that works but Superman and Clark Kent both fall under the same rules.  By 1966, those rules were changing, so DC lawyers must have been working on what to do for many years.  If nothing else, that's what they were paid for.  Most businesses didn't have to think about these things but comics companies needed to keep their trademarks active in other ways.  That's when I noticed a few relevant events happening across a few years.

In 1953, Fawcett Comics went out of business.  DC had been endlessly suing them, claiming Captain Marvel was a rip-off of Superman.  It wasn't but they kept paying lawyers until they had the same effect.  These lawyers would have put a lot of thought into what does or doesn't constitute a rip-off.  One lawsuit against Fawcett was that an issue of Captain Marvel had copied the story from an issue of Superman.  The court ruled that this story theft had happened but DC had waited too long to sue so it was invalid.

In 1954, the Comics Code was formed.  The people who ran the various comic companies all got together to impose decency on everyone.  I'll ignore that decision and just point out that these companies now had a reason to talk about the business and how to run things, there's no reason to think they wouldn't have discussed trademark and copyright in the process.  They all had lawyers who thought about this stuff, both as protection from parents groups suing them and trying to negotiate with movies, tv, toys, coloring books, international publications.

In 1955, Mad the comic book quit and became a Magazine.  As with the Comics Code, I'm not looking at the decision itself, but this would be considered in all the legal discussions.  This is a visual medium so the look is very important.  For recurring characters, there must have been discussion about when a parody becomes theft.  Or how far you can go without being a theft.  There's also the need to keep IPs active by using them every so often.

In 1956, DC rebooted the Flash as a new character with the same name and powers but a different secret identity.  It might be based on legal technicalities which few people are remotely interested in but this might be the reason the secret identities were changed.  It was a way to reuse the superhero's name as an IP in a different fashion.

This does line up with the superhero fantasy, having amazing powers but needing to keep them secret for some reason.  This has always been part of the genre and is extremely nerdy, as well as unrealistic.  You have these unbelievable powers and want to help people with them, the costume and the code name are believable to a point but then you go and live two separate lives and nobody ever figures it out?  But this self-absorbed fantasy became a selling point for the IPs.  And now they could be expanded with different copyrights using the same name.  In interconnected stories that took place over years.

Marvel and DC used different policies but the new Flash met the old Flash in "Flash of Two Worlds," cover-dated September 1961.  The Fantastic Four's firs appearance was cover-dated November 1961.  Flash #123 followed by Fantastic 4?  Seriously?  The FF did not have secret identities and didn't even have costumes for the first few issues, they were instead generally a rip-off of Jack Kirby's previous DC comic, Challengers of the Unknown.

This would be testing out the legal efforts put into superhero IPs in a company DC had a lot of control over.  Not only with the threat of lawsuit but they were Marvel's distributor to the newsstands.  They'd know almost as much about what the company was doing as the Marvel publisher, editor and creators.  My main theory was that it was just an experiment and if anybody got hurt, it was just Marvel, no big deal.  There may have been other reasons but I think they'd been developing this for a long time, on a 20-year-or-so basis.

In the early 40s, the two separate companies that would eventually become DC put their IPs together as the Justice Society.  In the early 60s, the rebooted DC characters had formed a rebooted Justice Society, which the DC publisher told Marvel's publisher about during a golf game.  Marvel's publisher went back to the office and told Stan Lee to do a rip-off of Justice League and that's when the Fantastic Four were born.

In the late-70s, early-80s, Marvel and DC had started teaming up their characters, and I still want to know why an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz was the first thing they teamed up on.  Their goal was to do a Justice League/Avengers crossover but that failed to happen.  In the late 90s, they started team-ups again and successfully built up to that crossover in the early 2000s.  And now they're preparing to do another one, after decades of development on these IPs.

They're doing movies and tv shows which have little in common with the comics characters, or even other movies and tv shows.  Many of the main characters get rebooted and I don't pay enough attention to know how long that lasts.  It clearly degrades the IPs they've had for so many decades but perhaps they're preparing to lose copyright, or to be challenged by A.I.

There are some obvious contradictions - why does the MCU say it's "Earth 616" when that's what the comics have been for so long? - but an argument could be made that this all falls under the legal definitions of 'multiverse' that they've been using all this time.  And that may be why they relentlessly push the secret identity-aspect of the genre, even as they keep switching characters.  They've been thinking about this for a long time, or at least their corporate lawyers have.

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March 12, 2026

This post is not approved by the Comics Code Authority. There! Didn't think I had the guts, didja?

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February 22, 2026

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Van Smashes into White House Security Barricade – Driver in Custody
March 11, 2026

□ [“Trump and Rubio Give Final Offer to the Castros and Díaz-Canel"]

If they give up power, they can live in Cuba peacefully.  Otherwise they can join Maduro in jail.  Oh my.  They're having negotiations with Castro's descendants and acolytes and have made this public, I'm guessing it's got a scheduled target date.  I'm also guessing that no one ever bothered to cancel the laws and regulations of the last 70 years so Trump will have all the authority he needs for whatever he's going to do.

I'm ambivalent on if this will work.  Getting rid of the Castro regime is fine but I doubt Cubans will let them just go on with their lives.  The Castros probably know that too.  It's probably closer to the situation Maduro was in just a few months ago, grab what loot you can and get to a plane, you've got one hour left.  If they're not at that stage now, they're very close.

Kind of amusing to realize that the 'new world order' is supposed to be about getting rid of long-time governments and Trump has more success to show for that in the last year than they do.  Makes you wonder what he's going to do to the EU.  I'm not in favor of Trump getting another term but things like this just make it look really appealing.

But as to Cuba, this will be strange to see.  As far as we know, their society hasn't changed since the revolution.  They're still driving the same cars and using the same cellphones.  It's probably less isolated than North Korea but the effect is similar.  Not sure what to expect, freedom itself might be overwhelming.

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March 11, 2026

□ [“FBI Bulletin Warns California Police Departments of Possible ‘Surprise’ Iranian Drone Attack"]

This just seems odd.  Yes, considering the problems going on everywhere, all protection services should be wary of attacks.  But Iran, drones and California seems a bit off.  From Iran, it seems more likely they'd use their sleeper cells to attack somewhere, and not just California.  Haven't we already taken out as many of their drones as possible?  This is where I'd be worried about Russia, China and anyone else trying something, especially if Iran gets all the blame.

□ [“Tracking Iran’s Suspicious Cryptocurrency Movements"]

Another part of the war that's more believable, even if it's still confusing.  Few people know anything about cryptocurrency but those who do say Iran uses a lot of it to fund terrorism around the world.  They've shut down the internet but are still using crypto.  Not sure how that works but to the extent I understand it, this actually makes it easier to track what the government is trying to do with crypto.

This is another thing that will probably be relevant with other nations.  I'm sure the US government uses crypto as well but for the moment, let's just focus on how BRICS is using it.  This could be a good way to launder money since few people would have any clue how that even works.  Legally or otherwise, you can transfer a few million to an ally or asset around the world without being noticed.

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March 11, 2026

□ [“Liberal Woman Melts Down and Flees After Being Told Basic Facts About Iran and Palestine"]

For at least a few months, there have been numerous videos of people - often non-white, non-male - discussing Israel, Islam and Palestine with leftists who are very shocked at what they hear.  They just seem dazed by the experience, they can't even ask any questions to see if they've been missing something.  Safe to assume they'll forget this ever happened and carry on as always.

That said, I suspect that a number of liberals are finally starting to question what they've been told all their lives.  Anybody can point to things that don't make sense and ask questions about it but only one side refuses to even acknowledge the questions and continues to push their own agenda.  Why do gay groups support Palestine but there are not gay Palestinian groups?  Why are we suddenly glad that gas is getting more expensive when it's still cheaper than it was under Biden and we ignored that?  Is anything being done about the Somali tax theft?

It's almost inconceivable but it really does look like the left lives in a very small bubble yet somehow insists they're the knowledgeable ones about everything.  They've deliberately avoided looking into anything beyond what leftist elites tell them to believe.  That makes no sense and normal people can't believe anybody would do that but it's about the only explanation.  Or the most positive one, they might be the stupidest people on the planet and/or the most evil.

Being smart means you know that you don't know everything and that even experts can be wrong a lot of the time.  At least I'm capable of wondering if these videos are even real.  Maybe they're A.I. generated and I fall for it because they reinforce my opinions.  But the left just accuses everyone else of that and never questions it for themselves.

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March 11, 2026

□ [“Jill Biden Claims Joe Made the ‘Unprecedented Decision’ Not to Seek Reelection in 2024"]

She's promoting a book and I assume she was paid millions of dollars in advance money she won't have to repay if the book bombs.  Ok, she has to say something but she's going with this?  It's easy to look back and see that Biden's decision was to stay in the race.  Everybody else wanted him out.  They didn't want him gone and deliberately ignore that issue but he was toast.  The fact that he was in that situation is evidence that he wasn't the one making any decisions.  The party would have ignored him anyway.

The party had rushed the primaries and the first debate because they knew he couldn't handle the pressure.  The left still tries to excuse his debate disaster that he'd just been travelling and was tired.  They ignore that he had finished travelling a couple weeks earlier and was taking the week off to do nothing except prepare for the debate.  Then he resisted the urge to drop out for the next month.  I still think they were planning to have Trump assassinated and hopefully that would end the discussion about Biden.  That didn't work so finally he was out.

The Clintons defended him until the end.  Obama barely spoke up except to vote 'present.'  At least publicly, Nancy Pelosi appeared to be the decision-maker and she waited a few weeks and then said it was over, he was out.  If George Clooney has any real status in the party, Democrats are in much bigger trouble than they realize but he was speaking out too in the media.  All these people were finally admitting to the problems Biden had which normal Americans had seen for years.  They would have all unanimously supported Harris no matter what but here their excuse were that she was coherent because of senility.

The Bidens have to keep fighting to be relevant but they don't have much to work with.  The party wants them forgotten because it raises questions about how they let this happen.  The Bidens won't be around much longer but the mess Joe made over the last 50 years is still here.  I'm still hoping Hunter will become so desperate for money that he'll just start spilling the beans on everyone involved.

LA Activist ‘Took Matters Into Her Own Hands’ to Help ‘Unhoused Residents’; Beaten with Metal Pipe by Homeless Person
March 11, 2026

I didn't send those sexual texts to other women, it was the cat who did that. Why doesn't my wife believe me?

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March 10, 2026

□ [“Shots Fired at US Consulate in Toronto - RCMP Confirms it’s a ‘National Security Incident’"]

Iran supporters (or ignorant puppets) around the world are starting to make attacks.  The guy who tried to throw bombs into a crowd in NYC has made a statement that Islam takes action when criticized.  There's going to be a lot more attempts to attack something nearby.  If there's any sane leftists out there, they'll have to ask why they're on the same side as Muslim terrorists.  Of course the insane ones will be looking for ways to do the same thing.

□ [“Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CN) Says Briefing on Iran Left Him 'Angry'"]

And those in charge have to figure out how to handle these people.  Blumenthal is 80 years old and has been in public office since Elvis Presley was still alive, he's definitely not one of the normal people.  He's very rich which also helps with Democrats.  But his public statements on this just sound like empty rhetoric, what he's expected to say regardless of the truth.

Oh, he's worried that we'll put boots on the ground despite everything being done so far being about not doing that.  I'm sure there's a chance it will happen but not a big one and it'll be about the Air Force wiping out everything from the shore to wherever the destination is before the troops move in.  Oh but there might be deaths!  Dude, they're government property, that's already accounted for.  And of course he goes on to whining about the "cost" which leftists never care about when it's their orders being given.

And he says Russia and China are also involved.  No doubt, they've been allies with Iran for a long time, they're tied together whether they like it or not.  I'm sure they're actively changing that relationship no matter which way they expect to go and may have already decided whether they'll stick with the mullahs or not.  My guess, no evidence, is that they'd prefer to stick with Iran but won't fight to keep the mullahs around.  If they keep the oil and other economic deals, they'd be fine with a new Persian government.

So Blumenthal's idiocy isn't going to help anybody and it shows the problems the left is having these days.  At least with Maduro, they'll forget about the country as soon as this conflict is over, it's just that Iran is going to take more time than Venezuela did.  In the meantime they have to side with whoever the current Ayatollah is which is tough to do when you're also promoting abortions for transgender homosexuals.

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□ [“Iranian TV Says New Supreme Leader Moitaba Khamenei Was Wounded by US-Israel Strikes"]

It's Iranian TV so we can't trust it but they wouldn't have to say anything if *something* hadn't just happened.  Since taking power, he hasn't made any public appearances or even internet videos.  This is not a good time to go on vacation so there's a good chance he's injured or dead.  Doesn't say much about the Supreme Leader if he can't even keep the job for a week.

This is something I don't think we've seen since the early years of this century when we were invading Afghanistan and Iraq.  Muslims believe that God is on their side and have had enough victories in the last 1500 years to justify that but then there's the times where He isn't helping them.  This is also why groups like Al-Qaida and ISIS fall apart so quickly after someone - usually Trump - hits them hard.  Muslims are self-aware enough to realize that if God doesn't protect them, it's their own fault, but that makes it hard to build long-lasting organizations.  [Note:  I was never a scholar of Islam and have forgotten most of the stuff I used to know so I'm not citing anything specific, it's just the overall impression I've had for the last 20-some years.]

□ [“IRGC Says Any Nation Who Expels US and Israeli Ambassadors ‘Allowed’ to Navigate the Strait of Hormuz"]

The mullahs and the standard government are being pushed to the side, to the extent they aren't already crumbling.  The IRGC is calling the shots, it's probably their best chance to survive.  The Straits are quite important so on the one hand, it makes sense that they'd do something to try to keep it, but on the other hand, it seems a bit strange.  You're not going to beat the US military so trying to get some international terrorism isn't going to help.  So then why are you bothering with the Straits in the first place?

Trump has already made a statement on the issue that the US will handle the Straits.  Glad that's settled.  The US and Israel are still hitting Iran where they need to.  Apparently there are disagreements about what needs to be hit but that may just be noise.  Trump has spoken to Putin on the war, as well as Ukraine.  No idea what they actually said but officially Trump basically told Putin to not get involved or share intelligence with Iran.  Under normal circumstances I'd expect Putin to listen to that as long as Russia isn't affected but these aren't normal times so we'll see.

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March 10, 2026

□ [“Mrs. Gavin Newsom Made a Fortune Through NPO Pushing ‘Gender’ Films in California Classrooms"]

Why can't he do what Aunt Nancy does and invest their money to get richer?  Well maybe that's what the NPOs are for, they handle that for these people.  It's interesting how more attention is going to Newsom even as he tries to move over to winning the 2028 Democrat Primary.  I'm guessing he's going to be hit hard long before getting around to that and he never struck me as the sort of person who could handle that very well.

There hasn't been much attention for a while to the elites looting public funding or any of the scams that had been exposed a few months ago.  I'm guessing (or at least hoping) that those investigations are still on-going, they just aren't getting noticed because Iran is more important.  The information being uncovered will be used at the right time, long before upcoming elections.  At least I hope so, there's been too many other potential reveals in the last however-many years that went nowhere.

□ [“A Panicked Chuck Schumer Says SAVE Act Would Purge Millions From Voter Rolls"]

Meanwhile this is going on over in DC.  I'm ambivalent on the bill itself, the goal is any way which gets rid of people having their illegal votes counted.  But that's what Schumer is promoting by this idiotic opposition.  Most Americans want votes to be trusted and there's been too much fraud discovered to continue as we've been going.

The conflict over this is going on deeper than most of us can see.  We know leftists will oppose it and it's become clear that Democrats heavily rely on these fake votes but then there's the rest of the Uniparty.  I don't recall if any Republicans have been caught using this recently but I'm willing to bet at least some of them do.  It gets even more complicated, the politicians themselves may be partially or entirely ignorant of this, it's their handlers who take care of fake votes and they know what trouble they're in, especially considering DOGE and all the other investigations.

As always, I have to stress that it's taking way too long to release any useful information to the public and it just keeps building.  Trump himself is doing fine but everything depends on him and there's no stable progress to be made that way.  All the enemy politicians are still in power, all their secrets are still hidden and there's no sense that anything will change.  The left is panicking but they always do that.  Something different has to be done and it always seems like Trump falls back on staying quiet and following standard policies just at the time when he could be more like the Trump we know.

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March 10, 2026

□ [“Transformers Movie Reformat 1986"]

A.I. is quickly becoming better.  And more seductive.  I usually check every night if anybody's put out a decent cover song and although it's getting monotonous, it's still much better than it was six months ago.  It's also nice to hear actual music again, one thing that long-ago pushed me away from listening to much of anything.

I'm much less interested in what they'll do with movies or tv shows, even ones I used to like, but even someone as resistant as me can see potential.  They just put out a remake - or at least an edit - of the 1986 Transformers:  The Movie.  I saw it five times in theaters and had no clue it was a bomb until years later when I started using the internet.  But now there's a full version of the movie with actual good animation, something I never thought I'd see.

I've seen this movie get attention elsewhere on youtube recently and that seems very strange.  Did the few people who actually saw it as kids actually become so obsessed with it that it's the top priority as soon as we get A.I. access?  Even more important than the team-up between Daisy Duke and Kelly Bundy?

It's still quite unnerving how quickly this is growing and how useful it can be with no human interaction.  I criticize A.I. all the time but had no problems using it to look something up when I can't immediately recall specific details.  In general I think I limit it to questions where I'll recognize an answer being totally wrong but even when I see an error, it usually gets fixed when I re-write and re-ask the question.  It's almost spooky to consider where this might be in a year or so.

But I will suggest that it can become somewhat repulsive.  Let's say I come up with a random idea for A.I. to generate, let's say, re-do the conclusion to the Newhart tv show where it's reversed, Bob Newhart wakes up in bed with Joanna and says he just dreamed about being married to Emily.  I come up with ideas like that every day or so, that would very quickly become way too much footage for anyone to watch even if they're remotely interested.

And hundreds, thousands, millions of people are doing the same thing for whatever they come up with.  There'd be too much for anyone to even consider looking at, along with the fact that we aren't actually doing any work to make it happen.  It'll come to a point where we can write a script for it but it's still A.I. doing everything.  I just don't think most people would want to put up with that.

New Mexico Police Move in To Search Epstein’s ‘Zorro Ranch’, Looking for the Buried Remains of Two Girls
March 10, 2026

Nice little internet post you got here. Be a shame if someone re-tweeted it.

West Virginia Senate Passes Bills to Shield Children from Drag Shows and Transgender Locker Rooms
March 9, 2026

□ [“Shots Fired at Rihanna’s Beverly Hills Mansion, 30-Year-Old Woman Arrested"]

The Nation of Islam's security wing provides security to all black celebrities.  Iran has sent messages out to all its sleeper cells to do *something* right away.  No idea if this is connected to an attack on Rihanna but these celebrities might be some of the easiest targets.  An attack like 9/11 won't work with four simultaneous plane hijackings and three direct hits.  And a lot of these people would automatically go for what's easiest.

□ [“Woke Christian Leaders Issue Letter Against Rise of ‘White Christian Nationalism’"]

In a decade or so, it might make an interesting study to determine how many of these people worked directly for Iran, how many worked for intermediates and how many are just like normal leftists trying to grab onto anything if they think it'll help the revolution?  I've also suspected for a long time that many right-wing celebrities are installed as frauds, controlled opposition to keep people in line, especially those in media.  A lot of those have been exposed by establishment Republicans who had no problems voting for Hillary, Biden or Harris but we'll see even more come out now.  This may reveal what's been done to the church in the last 30 or 50 years.

□ [“Obama 'Made a Mistake' by Not Supporting Iranian Green Movement Calling For His Help in 2009"]

And he finally admits that going-on-17 years later.  The United States Congress got together and publicly condemned the mullahs before Obama bothered to speak out.  He doesn't really say anything about this mistake, he just talks for a few minutes and used the phrase "made a mistake."  He certainly doesn't say anything to support the protesters now.  He voted 'present' back then and he's voting 'present' today.

They probably aren't all working for Iran but I suspect a lot of them are, especially across the internet.  I've noticed that transgender movement is trying to make a comeback.  All of a sudden my facebook is flooded by pro-trans posts.  They don't realize that oppressed people can't constantly irritate everyone which is why I'm starting to believe that this whole movement has been pushed by militant Islam all along, just to show how horrible the infidel will be if you let them.  Which again leads us back to Iran as the funding source to their proxies.

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March 9, 2026

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□ [“Iranian Women’s Soccer Team Appears to Cry for Help with Subtle Hand Gesture"]

They're currently touring in Australia because I guess that's the most important thing for them to do these days.  They were supposed to sing the Iranian national anthem a few days ago and did not.  Now they're subtly calling for help.  Iranian tv has already reported that traitors in wartime are dealt with severely.

Hey liberals, you have the slightest interest in helping people who self-identify as female?  You going to to just shrug and let the government punish them for [checks] not singing the national anthem?  Because it sounds like you'd like Trump more if he did that.  Maybe you just continue to ignore it because you're so oppressed or something.

Australia wasn't doing anything about it so Trump has spoken out and reportedly the girls are being helped now.  I hope the refuge they're getting is only temporary.  This is one of those solutions that looks bad either way.  Don't want them hurt, don't want to put them in danger by forcing them back to Iran right now but we don't want them to stay here.

I'm not that interested in the soccer team either way, although it's better if they're kept safe, but this is yet-another example for sane people around the world to look at and see serious problems which their leftist elites refuse to do anything about.  Why isn't every feminist on the planet screaming to keep these women safe?  Because there's no "proof" that they're in danger?  Well that never stopped you any other time, why does Iran deserve your silence but nobody else does?

Brazilian healer John of God, promoted by Oprah Winfrey as an inspiring figure of spiritual miracles, sentenced to 118 years for rape and sexual abuse
March 7, 2026

Virginia Democrats Moving to Require Schools to Teach That January 6th Was an ‘Insurrection’
March 7, 2026

San Francisco's Public Defenders Refuse to Take New Cases, Defendants Set Free if They Can't Get Lawyer
March 9, 2026

□ [“Trump Declares Iran War 'Very Complete' — Iran’s Navy and Air Force Annihilated Ahead of Schedule"]

Nice to hear and I hope it's true but now we might be in for a waiting game.  We can eliminate all the people in charge, one after another but the rest of the government is effectively waiting to be conquered so they can resist.  Trump says he has no messages for the new ayatollah, he won't last long.

As far as I know Iran isn't still trying to attack its neighbors although there's been a few missiles shot at Turkey.  Trump says he intends to take control of the Strait of Hormuz so oil ships can get through.  I'm guessing that's one reason (of several) that we've got at least three aircraft carriers in the region, widespread protection through the region.  This is why I support the US as 'world policeman,' we can set this up so that if you're peaceful and legal, just go about your business.  If you're not, prepare to die.  A Greek oil tanker has already taken them up on the offer and gone through the straits to ship oil to China.  See?  They need us to keep working too.

Hegseth has spoken of the intended destruction of everything that needs to be destroyed as the bombs hit harder and harder.  The internet isn't giving me any original source but it's long been understood that the point of war is to 'kill the enemy and break his stuff.'  Hegseth definitely understands that and it's being played out here for Iran.  Still skeptical that this will be a long-lasting victory but it is so nice to hear that it's being used the way it should with minimal casualties on our side.

Polling Pain for Newsom and Harris as Wild Percentages of Dems Hold Negative Views of Both
March 9, 2026

I could chose a ready guide in some celestial voice but I choose not to. Wait... They tricked me again!

Jesse Jackson’s Son Calls Out Obama, Biden, and Clinton for Politicizing Funeral:  They ‘Do Not Know Jesse Jackson’
March 8, 2026

□ [“Trump Put Senate on Notice, He Will Sign No Other Bills Until SAVE Act Passes"]

This is one of those Trump stunts that simultaneously cool, idiotic and irrelevant.  I'm guessing it's more about him being the psycho offering a deal, you never know what he's going to do next.  That's the cool part, along with the fact that he's threatening this to get a bill passed that makes voters require ID and eliminates a things like mail-in ballots unless there's a specific reason for them.

The bill also bans funding for mutilating children with transgender surgery.  That's just stupid, why is it part of this bill?  This shows the problem with Trump's threat, if Congress suddenly passes that bill separately, is Trump going to refuse to sign if the SAVE Act isn't passed?

He does have an advantage here, he's an individual handling his side of the negotiations.  Congress is a lot of people and each one has to handle their own groups.  But he still has to get through Congress, they need 60 votes just to end the debate.  If Trump is serious about this, it's similar to a shutdown since he won't sign anything from Congress.  We can think of a lot of good reasons for that but there's still the problem that something else will go wrong.

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March 8, 2026

□ [“Iran Has Chosen Ayatollah Khamenei’s son Mojtaba as New Supreme Leader"]

I'm a little behind on up-to-date methods of picking a new ayatollah but is the previous guy's son really the best choice?  These are trying times and it just seems like you should at least be checking every possibility, not just going with the same bloodline.  The previous ayatollahs weren't related to each other.  I'm ready to make a joke about how this is what separated Sunni and Shi'ite Islam but it was Mohammed's son-in-law that was supposed to be picked so that joke wouldn't work.  Anyway...

We're still bombing Tehran.  I assume Iran is still hitting back with at least some success but haven't seen any reports on that.  We know they still have allies even if they aren't rushing out publicly to help.  There's also a celebration of Iranians all around the world, thanking Trump and Israel for doing this.  In these days of anti-immigration, you can ask why they're still staying here outside Iran.  Or "Persia" rather, apparently there's already talk about returning to that name.

□ [“US Embassy in Oslo Rocked by Loud Explosion – No Injuries Recorded - ‘A Deliberate Attack’"]
□ [“Kansas City International Airport Evacuates All Travelers, Grounds All Flights; 'Serious Incident'”]

There's more incidents in this, someone reportedly screamed "Allahu akbar" and tried to throw a bomb at a NYC rally.  I assume they're Iran's allies although they might just be on-offs who see an opportunity so they go with it.  It might even be funded by China and Russia because what has BRICS got to lose at this point?  Or rich leftists for the same reason.

This is where it's going to get hectic.  Everybody's in danger so a lot of people will refuse to put up with leftist bullshit.  At least the worst-of-the-worst had a reason to go fight us in Baghdad, that option's off the table now so it can happen anywhere.  It probably won't but that's not going to stop people from worrying.  And since Democrats cut funding for DHS, now they have some problems, especially at airports.  What a coincidence.

The price of gas is probably going to go up but Trump's been pushing 'drill, baby, drill' for over a year now.  One goal is to take immediate control of the Iranian refineries to keep the supply flowing and I'm sure they've done what they can to prepare.  Now we'll get to see leftists suddenly upset about the price of fossil fuels, completely contradicting all their other beliefs just to attack Trump and showing how irrelevant they are to reality.

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March 8, 2026

□ [“5 Cuban cities protesting against the regime; begging for Trump to help them now"]

Well let's get this party started.  Guantánamo Bay has troops on the far side of the island, let's send the Marines on the near side and let them meet in the middle.  Or keep them there to back-up the Cubans taking the real risk.  What Navy and Air Force are available at the moment?  Do I have to plan everything?

Just speculation but this may be the point for the new Shield of the Americas organization Trump has formed.  Since the Department of Homeland Security has suddenly gone away, he moved over the lady in charge to handle this instead.  Not sure if she's being punished, if this is a major task or if it's just a distraction from whatever the real major task is but this could be about overseeing what's going on in this hemisphere, just another term for 'homeland security.'

Europe is where I want to see this.  At least according to the internet, they're getting ready to burst open.  It might actually be harder for them to rebel than for Cuba or Iran but it's where civilization came from so I'm sure all sensible people want to restore it from the decades of leftism.  I keep returning to the Amelia A.I. character singing various songs of British history.  If I spoke French, German or Italian, I'd be going for those too.  This is a rebirth of nationalism in Europe and opposition to tyranny everywhere.  I know I'm being overly optimistic but it's still early March and I'm sure Trump expects some major progress by the Fourth of July.

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March 8, 2026

I have a plan to stop Trump! All we need is a new Guns'n'Roses album!

NCAA Scandal: California Basketball Coach Was Moonlighting in Multiple States as a Pimp
March 7, 2026

□ [“'You Fat F*ck Trump!' – James Carville Has His Craziest TDS Melt Down Yet"]

He's specifically telling God to give him more Trump Derangement Syndrome.  He wants so much hatred that he's not capable of being able to see straight.  This is the leftist stereotype of stupid hate-filled right-wingers come to life.  Except that he's not a right-winger.  He just wants more hatred.  I don't know if an 81-year old should be allowed to drive a car anyway but you need to be able to see to do that.  Well he's probably rich enough to have a chauffeur but you get my point.

It's actually a bit spooky that he's been reduced to this and there's no one around him who will keep this private.  If you want evidence that our rulers are a demon-worshipping cult, here you go.  Who else would keep him around all these decades to make sure everyone can see this as an ideal to aspire to?  Drunk guys playing pool on Friday night can have better things to say.

The really scary part is that he's still prominent but otherwise there's a lot of leftists who are just like him in every way that matters.  It's why they know best and wake up every morning angry that the rest of the world doesn't understand that yet.  I really am trying to ignore any recent comments made by Carville because he's not that important but he still keep coming off as the stereotype of what leftism has been about all these decades.

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March 7, 2026

□ [“European Union Issues Half-Hearted Criticism of Zelensky For Threat To Unleash Ukraine Military Against Hungary"]

It might have been better if you didn't say anything.  You've already spent four years showing the world what the EU will sacrifice for non-EU members and now you're just doubling down on not standing by your own members.  Maybe if Hungary left the EU, they'd get more support and protection.  It's not like they'd need to repay any of it.  You don't see Ukraine acting like it owes any EU member anything at all.

The EU will need to realize that they have to appoint the government in their respective... districts?  States?  Regions?  Whatever term they use for subordinates.  I'm sure they want to do this, your mileage may vary on if they already do.  Notice that they never put this up to a vote.  Might be interesting to look into the highest levels of the EU where the people actually get to decide who's in charge.

They might have to tell Zelensky to be quiet.  I'll assume he'll listen to them although it's possible he'll just keep going after Hungary.  He doesn't have much incentive to stay quiet and it's not like he can be punished for anything.  What are they going to do, suddenly decide that Iran and Greenland are more important these days?  Not likely so he might as well tell them to stfu and keep sending in money and equipment and everything else just as they've been doing.  And punish Hungary because he says so.

Shield of the Americas: Trump Gathers Latin American Leaders, Vows To Use Military Against Cartels
March 7, 2026

□ [“Iran’s President Apologizes for Attacks on Neighboring Countries, Announces Suspension"]

It's probably like when you have to tell your wife you're sorry for hitting her yesterday.  Wait, do Muslim countries do that?  Probably not, they have wives who know their place.  Not like the western world.  Where was I?

It sounds like the IRGC has taken over at this point, they don't need to listen to mullahs or other government officials.  That's understandable, no one else would be capable of running the war so it'll be interesting to find out how many of them have already been taken out by the US and Israel.  Not enough to end the problem but a serious dent in their defenses.

The US and Israel have stepped up attacks, most notably on oil depots and refineries.  I'm curious how much we're hitting the government or military.  On the one hand, those seem like the most obvious targets but we're probably also trying to limit the 'population reduction,' even for the enemy.  The arguments could be made either way and it's above my paygrade.  Iran is still striking back, they have hit Israel at least a few times.

We've sent in a third aircraft carrier, I'm sure its about overseeing the entire region, not just Iran.  There's also talk about whether or not we'll send troops.  I automatically assume we have special forces on the ground because duh but there's little-to-no interest in sending any large groups.  Trump is deliberately vague about this, which make sense, as are most of the official commenters, even the anonymous.

There might be some cracks but the left and their pet media still continue to side with the mullahs overall.  I'm not sure if anyone in Iran is capable of speaking out yet but Iranians elsewhere in the world are pissed that the left is ignoring what's going on just because they hate Trump so much.  I would be looking forward to the upcoming humiliation of the left for this stance but the only thing that comes to mind as a similar situation is Jonestown.

In case you've forgotten, cult leader Jim Jones finally gave up and had all his followers kill themselves.  Before that he was quite popular in San Francisco, involved with noted politicians Dianne Feinstein, gay icon Harvey Milk and Willie Brown, who was in the middle of his 30-year career in the California State Legislature before becoming San Francisco mayor and needing an assistant you may have heard of.  No known connection to Nancy Pelosi but she was involved in San Fran politics and it's unlikely she wasn't aware of his popularity.

I know this isn't really connected to Iran but this is one of the places modern leftism really started and as we're seeing in their response, it looks like they're coming to an end.  Let's just hope they keep it to themselves.

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March 7, 2026

□ [“Protests Erupt in Havana After 60+ Hours Without Electricity; Anger Grows at Government"]

Oh.  My.  F*cking.  God.  Venezuela, Iran and now Cuba and we're still in early March.  Do you want statues the size of skyscrapers honoring you for thousands of years?  Because this is how you get statues the size of skyscrapers honoring you for thousands of years.

Interesting to note that Venezuela was specifically going after Maduro, whom the left has totally forgotten about since then.  Iran and presumably Cuba is trying to support the populous to do the rebelling.  I'm sure we have forces in place to help them where we can but at least in public, Trump is holding back on the powers under his command.  And that works for us as well as the population themselves, they're the ones who should be taking control and overthrowing the oppressors.

That's not going to happen in Russia or China.  I'd love to be proven wrong but I can't see that happening.  A less-positive outcome would be if Trump just announces that he is the 'new world order.'  He's winning over a lot of people, they might eagerly ditch any of the other international organizations to join up with him.  It does sound like the sort of thing Trump would like and he's been around leftists long enough, he knows how it works.

Hopefully I'm just being too negative, I really hadn't even thought Cuba was on the table, at least not yet.  I think there's been a few comments about trying to do something with it by the end of the year but if the people can't wait, that's what you get.  I'm also being too optimistic, there are still many many problems and this is the first news of anything really happening in Cuba.

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March 7, 2026