Steve Dustcircle

It doesn’t swim.
It doesn’t bite.
It just waits for a light breeze and a poorly packed sand anchor.

This Fourth of July, one beach town will learn the hard way that the real danger wasn’t in the water…

…it was SPF 50 with a pointed metal pole.

“You’re gonna need a bigger insurance policy.”

From “the Necessity of Atheism” by DR. D. M. BROOKS, 1933

The Christian Church has had the audacity, in modern times, to proclaim

that it had abolished slavery and the slave trade. It is difficult to

understand how any “righteous” man could make that contention

remembering that it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century

that…[Read more]

Happy Summer Solstice too! This is near to where I live. Older than the pyramids of Egypt!

Thanks, Reg!!!

Have a great week!!

Crowds dissolve responsibility. Alone, a person may hesitate but in a horde they become like the Walking Dead. They can feel carried by history, destiny, the movement, the nation, the market, the platform, the faith, the “will of the people.” That is intoxicating. It turns ordinary people into instruments of something they would never fully end…[Read more]

Trumps treaty with Iran was the greatest Treaty of Versailles. If it gets broken he should sign the next one in Fort Laramie. Does Little Big Horn have an airport?

jakelafort wrote:
This gal got slammed by lefties. It was sexual harassment she committed!

Yes, I use “woke” to mean “ludicrous decisions taken in the name of equality”.  Progressive, I like.  Woke is ridiculous.

I knew of a school in the Washington DC area.  Many of the Black kids used to come in with their hoods up.  The teachers, inc…[Read more]

Strega, I would encourage you to keep it going…:-) Words be nimble, words be quick..

Love me some Jake verse in the morning!

The Art of the Non-Deal…..

Non-Deal, n.
A defeat announced at sufficient volume to be mistaken for diplomacy.

I guess Bierce’s verdict would be to call it a “peace deal” if you are selling it, a “ceasefire agreement” if you are insuring it, and a “framework” if you expect it to collapse but wish to sound constructive while it does.

From ChatGPT:

Peace Deal, n.
A ceasefire promoted by its authors before its clauses have survived first contact with…[Read more]

Is it a ‘Peace Deal’ or just a ‘Ceasefire Agreement’?

I knew I was getting old when my cellphone announced “Face not recognized” and I agreed with it 🙂

The IRGC just needs to survive. From them that is a win. Funding for its militia armies in Gaza and Lebanon – (Hamas and Hezbollah) – depends on that. Trump has won the war about 25 times already.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why Iran continues to choose war over peace.

Until then, the IRGC will pursue its “forever war,” threatening regional stability, the global economy, and U.S. national security.

I knew it – neither side wants to back down.  Trump doesn’t know how to cooperate, the IRGC just wants to keep doing its thing.

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week!

I once told some auditing Scientologists that if reincarnation were true, that I would like to return as “a football pitch in the West of Ireland for the ladies field hockey final on a warm but rain-soaked Sunday “. They were ‘shocked and disgusted’, much to my amusement.

“I don’t ask for enlightenment. I ask only to be use…[Read more]