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Jake:

I was unaware of that micro stuff Enco.

Not aware? Why, every politically aware teenager fantasizes about seceding from the house. The only things that get in the way are necessity for utilities like water, electricity, and natural gas, as well as delicacies like Hot Pockets, Pizza rolls, S’mores, and Coca-Cola, and use of the car on…[Read more]

Jake:

The Lancet needs only a few words in response to their boycott of the Israeli Medical Association: “First, do no harm..”

Or, if you really wanted to rub it in: “Andrew Wakefield.”

Reg:

So ChatGPT can write Bierceian? What about Bierceian and Bayesian? What are the chances? That of a batch of Botulism at a MAHA Conference?

They don’t hate Jews. They just hate Zionists and Netty. Oh and maybe this too cuz they should have ya know contravened the charter they signed onto to be apolitical and all about medicine and welfare of people but i mean ya know they should be excluded,…[Read more]

“Maine weather, don’t like it wait a minute.”

I was unaware of that micro stuff Enco.

All of those pin the tale on the Jew donkey is Captain Obviously distracting from humanitarian crises and human rights abuses. Perpetuating evil doers and evil ideologies unopposed that are the sine qua non to the ongoing nightmares. Gives a pass for evil if…[Read more]

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]

Reg:

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

It is two new modern entries in Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.

The term used on Trump’s side is something like “Formation of a Concept of a Plan” a diplomatic way of saying “Trump pulled this out of his ass alongside his enbedded head.”

The Islamic Arabic word for this is Hud…[Read more]

Jake:

Interesting bit of little-taught American history there. First time I ever heard that.

Here’s something you never hear amid all the non-stop barage of anti-Israel hatred:

Israel actually has a micronation in it’s borders called Akhzivland, founded by Iranian Eli Avivi. Avivi legally resisted attempts by the Israeli government to seize…[Read more]

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

Enco,

This deal is shakier than a Shaker with Parkinson’s disease. How things proceed is anybody’s guess.

Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1820. I would like to see a new territory perhaps in Maine in which the minority of Americans who are proudly uncaptured by ideological brain worm infestation syndrome reside peacefully and productively…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s the latest of 39 proclamations of “Peace In Our Time.” Trump and whoever he’s negotiating with don’t agree on even a “Memorandum of Understanding” proceeding a “Deal,” with Israel not even in the loop except for Trump restraining Israel from fighting back against Hezbollah.

Oh. and…[Read more]

Simon, neither side wants to back down? Trump does not know how to cooperate?

Read the article. IRGC is possessed of an evil all consuming religious ideology. Trump is just a bumbling stumbling would be dictator utterly self absorbed and apparently devoid of principles.

Trump has been played like a fool over and over. Trump wants to end this…[Read more]

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

Reg and Simon:

Where Trump messed up is not taking out both the Mullahs and the IRGC first, preferably by inciting Iran’s regular Military to mutiny and/or parachuting arms to dissenting Persian citizens. Let the military and dissenters be the “boots on the ground.”

Without the Mullahs and IRGC, arms wouldn’t ship themselves to Hamas and…[Read more]

Reg:

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 useful, trampled up…

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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.

Reg:

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints.

I guess The American Diabetes Association can make rules for admission to their little tree-house, but they sure can’t claim to be for the best interests of Diabetics, especially if they did this on behest of Trump stoolies. Well, they just Streisand-ed…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!