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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
King Donald's War, Part 5. After 13/15 U.S. deaths, Hundreds of Iranian deaths, $50B spent fighting it, and a massive increase in the price of oil, King Donny surrenders to the Iranians. The "If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied" edition.
April 8,2026
What MAGA wizard King Donny said at the start of the war:
Only some of the names of the 170 some Iranian girls the U.S. killed during the war are known. Those names, including a few of the names of their teachers, are:
1. Hana Dehqani, eight years old
2. Fatemeh Salari, 34 years old
3. Reza Habashian, seven years old
4. Arya Bahadori, nine years old
5. Ali Asghar Zaeri, eight years old
6. Zahra Bahrami, seven years old
7. Ahmad Soltani, eight years old
8. Hamed Par-ashegh-nezhad, seven years old
9. Fatemeh Yazdan-panah, young girl, age unknown
10. Mahdis Nazari, seven years old
11. Athena Chamani-nezhad, six years old
12. Amirghasem Zaeri, seven years old
13. Fatemeh Dorazehi, 10 years old
14. Arad Ahmadizadeh, eight years old
15. Saman Karimzadeh, seven years old
16. Fatemeh Shahdadi, age unknown
17. Nadia Shahmiri, nine years old
18. Parham Ranjbari, nine years old
19. Mahmoud Gholamyani, 35 years old
20. Fatemeh Rahdar, 10 years old
21. Amir-Hassan Rasouli, eight years old
22. Zahra Behrouzi, eight years old
23. Mohammadhatam Raisi, 10 years old
24. Asna Raisi, 12 years old
25. Benyamin Jangjou, eight years old
26. Mohammad-Sadra Zarei, eight years old
27. Maryam Pazark, 10 years old
28. Liana Mohammadi, seven years old
29. Mandana Salari, 29 years old
30. Sara Shayesteh, five years old
31. Zoha Pasand, eight years old
32. Esra Zakeri, nine years old
33. Salma Zakeri, six years old
34. Fatemeh Taherifard, 29 years old
35. Zahra Ansari, seven years old
36. Fatemeh Fadavi, 10 years old
37. Mahna Zarei, two months old
38. Athareh Zarei, 10 years old
39. Alireza Zarei, nine years old
40. Mohammadreza Shahsavari, eight years old
41. Samira Basarde, 38 years old
42. Ehsan Saleminia, six years old
43. Fatemeh Zahra Karimi, seven years old
44. Zeynab Bahrami, 10 years old
45. Mohammad Shah-dousti, eight years old
46. Reza Barani, seven years old
47. Athena Ahmadzadeh, 10 years old
48. Khadijeh Darvishi, nine years old
49. Roqayyeh Karimi, 42 years old
50. Reza Ranjbar, six years old
51. Marzieh Bashiri-far, 38 years old
52. Mohammad-Mehdi Chegini, 10 years old
53. Mohammadian Bahrami, 17 years old
54. Ali-Akbar Karyani Pak, eight years old
55. Hananeh Mehdikhah, seven years old
56. Fereshteh Sangarzadeh, 44 years old
57. Mohammad-Ali Karyani Pak, seven years old
58. Parsa Mokhtari-nasab, 12 years old
59. Arina Arab-Kish, eight years old
60. Makan Nasiri, 12 years old
61. Esra Farahi-Zadeh, young girl, age unknown
About half of the American lives were due to a mid air accident, but they're just as dead as they would be had they died fighting. All of the Iranian lives lost that are listed are due to a targeting accident.
What the death toll for anybody in Lebanon, which opened up as a theatre of war while this was going on, we don't probably really know.
May the perpetual light shine upon them.
If any question why we died,Tell them, because our fathers lied.
None of these people had a choice in the offering of their lives for Trump's desperate attempt to have a legacy. American voters do have a choice on allowing him to continue to kill in an attempt to gain one, however. They'll have that choice in November, and through their members of Congress, they have a sort of choice now. The second it becomes clear to Republican members of Congress that their phony jobs are in danger by supporting a madman, they'll suddenly have never supported him.
April 9, 2026
Nothing is going through the Straits of Hormuz yet. . . a sign that shippers doubt the ceasefire will hold.
And it hasn't in Lebanon, where Israel continues to conduct operations arguing, logically enough, that it doesn't apply there anyway.
April 13, 2026
Well negotiations are going badly so now King Donny is threatening to blockade Iranian ports.
The world's worst dealmaker screws up the Iran negotiations
Forget the "Art of the Deal” myth.
April 17, 2026
There apparently is an agreement for a ceasefire in Lebanon.
April 18, 2026
A suspicious package caused a lockdown on parts of F. E. Warren yesterday.
Related? I don't know, but then, I don't know.
The Straits of Hormoz were announced open yesterday, and then Iran announced that they are under strict Iranian control today.
April 20, 2026
The United States announced a second round of talks in Pakistan and even discussed the delegation, with Trump claiming the parties were close to a deal.
Iran said nope, it wasn't going to any talks.
April 21, 2026
Some reporters are indicating that the US and Iran were close to a deal to end the war and that it was blown up by Trump's tweeting.
April 22, 2026
Trump was going to rain down destruction if things weren't moving yesterday, yadda yadda, yadda. . .
It's well known that Hegseth has the Secretary of the Army in his sights but hasn't been able to pull that off yet.
Interesting . . .
In other news, Iran is reporting that its Revolutionary Guards seized to vessels. Granted, that's not the Iranian Navy, but it does show that Iranian forces are more resilient than the US claims.
April 24, 2026
Trump's war on the global food supply
Just the latest moral and logistical atrocity.
April 25, 2026
Talks that were supposed to start today, aren't.
April 26, 2026
News has leaked that an Iranian Air Force F5 hit a US base in Kuwait awhile back.
The F5 was a great airplane. They haven't been made since 1987 but they're in the class of weapons, like the A10, that just keeps on keeping on.
The interesting thing here is that we've supposedly completely destroyed the Iranian Air Force and Navy, and yet the Iranians are still capable of flying (they were pretty limited in this before the war) and putting small boats in the sea. In order to really defeat Iran, we would have to be troops on the ground, and the Iranians will fight.
April 27, 2026
Guests and panelist on This Week made it clear that the momentum with the war is now with Iran and that if proceed on the current path, Iran will come out of the war stronger than they went in it.
April 28, 2026
It's hardly been noticed, in part because of the attack at the Correspondence Dinner, but the US is on the verge of basically formally surrendering to Iran and leaving Iran a more powerful nation than it was when the war started.
Trump Blinked
This will close out this edition. The man who is attributed with the Art of the Deal, which of course was ghostwritten, is being shown the Art of the Squeal by a nation that's not impressed with him, and which is run by people vastly more intelligent than he is. He's going to surrender. He won't call it that, but that's what he's about to do.
And with the surrender imminent, we'll go on to a new edition of this thread.
Last edition:
King Donald's War, Part 4. The Raving Madman threatens to resort to mass war crimes.
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Gas and Electric Stoves Promoted a Hundred Years Ago
A really interesting topic (and actually on point for the supposed purpose of this blog):
Gas and Electric Stoves Promoted a Hundred Years Ago
Friday, April 17, 2026
Hamburg Sandwich, American Style, 1928.
My mother made hamburgers this way when I was a kid.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Julia Child’s 1961 Masterpiece
Monday, April 15, 1946. Introductions.
1946 End of Special Session of the Legislature concerning funding of the University of Wyoming.
The first television network, DuMont Television Network, came into being.
The Florida Foods Corporation introduced frozen concentrated orange juice. The product was called Minute Maid, which of course still exists.
The comic strip Mark Trail was introduced.
Last edition:
Sunday, April 14, 1946. Chinese Civil War resumes.
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Friday, April 3, 2026
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Preserving eggs 1909
Preserving eggs 1909
It's always interesting to see what people did for food preservation before refrigeration was common.
There's no way you'd use some of these methods now.
Saturday, March 28, 2026
The Aerodrome: Casper/Natrona County airport resumes food drive for TSA employees
Casper/Natrona County airport resumes food drive for TSA employees
The TSA isn't getting paid as the Democrats have been opposing additional funding for ICE, the masked cowards who go around shooting protestors.
The Democrats are right.
Anyhow, Mike Johnson, sycophantic toady, held up a Senate passed bill to resume funding for everyone but the masked cowards as a political stunt which means that TSA will continue not to get paid, resulting in this headline in the CST:
Casper/Natrona County airport resumes food drive for TSA employees
The article noted the following:
Airport spokeswoman Katie Reed confirmed that Thursday, adding the airport is also accepting nonperishable household items like paper towels, toilet paper, and detergent on top of the standard nonperishable food items.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Perfection Salad (Anything But)