The threat of destroying a whole civilization and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure cannot be morally justified. There are other ways to resolve conflict between peoples. I call on President Trump to step back from the precipice of war and negotiate a just settlement for the sake of peace and before more lives are lost.
After his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples in Jerusalem, and his first words were ‘Peace be with you.’ As the Holy Father, in his Urbi et Orbi message on Easter reflected, the peace that ‘Jesus gives us is not a peace that merely silences the weapons, but one that touches and transforms the heart of each of us! Let us make heard the cry for peace that springs from our hearts!’
Pope Leo has invited everyone to join him in a prayer vigil for peace on Saturday, April 11. I make a special plea to my brother bishops, the priests, the laity, and all people yearning for true peace to join the Holy Father’s Vigil for Peace, whether virtually, or in parishes, chapels, or before the Lord present in the quiet of their hearts to join with our Holy Father as we pray for peace in our world.
Let us entrust to the Lord ‘all hearts that suffer and await the true peace that only he can give. Let us entrust ourselves to him and open our hearts to him! He is the only one who makes all things new (cf. Rev 21:5).
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Baby boomers—the most selfish generation in American history, the most self-centered generation, the least sacrificing generation American history. You look at Biden and Trump in particular, and they personify that
I commented on it on Twitter, defending what he said.
There's a large element of truth to it.
People reacted overall to the statement with outrage. Lots of Boomers died in Vietnam, it was pointed out.
Biden and Trump sure didn't serve in Vietnam.
Christie is fat, was all some people could say. Well, yep, Christie is fat, and Biden and Trump are demented due to age. I'll take fat over demented (indeed, from personal experience I'll note that demented people really like to point out when somebody is fat, oddly enough, and Trump does that a lot).
There are "some" good Boomers. Oh come on, there are lots and lots of good Boomers. Defending a generation with a reserved "some" means the person making the statement basically agrees with the underlying comment.
"Biden isn't a boomer". True, he was born in 1942, not 1945. But as one person posted in reply to that, "he's close enough".
"Christie is a boomer". Yeah, so what? And to add to that, he really isn't. Both the Biden comment (1942) and this one (Christie was born in 1962) point out that the guardrails to generations are somewhat fluid. Moreover, the fact that late Boomers in no way whatsoever fit into the Boomer generation has caused later demographers to define them as being in Generation Jones. Their experiences, including getting the shaft from Boomers, is completely different from the real Boomers.
And indeed, Boomers just can't grasp that. There's a lot, and I do mean a lot, of discontent, and even outright animosity, towards the Boomers, and its largely justified.
Boomers are a unique generation. There are a lot of them, for one thing, but they also came into the country at a unique time. They were the children of the generation that was young during the Great Depression and which fought World War Two. We're not going to use the "Greatest Generation" moniker here, as while that generation is admirable, it doesn't deserve that title.
The World War Two Generation was a broken one. As with the Boomers, you can't take a sweeping statement like that and apply it to everyone, but there are generational characteristics. That generation's attachment to home and family was weakened by the desperation of the Depression. As an example, my mother was pulled out of school at age 16 in order to work, and while she was always close to her family, she left home when still a teenager as she was tired of her income being treated as just the family's, and not her. Her mother begged her to stay, and then begged her to return. She didn't (she lived with an uncle who gave her a job across the continent).
And an entire generation of men was trained to kill with a large number of them actually experiencing that. Killing other people, particularly in that fashion, is not normal, and every other human vice opens up after it. Not everyone who killed or was trained to kill engaged in that vice, but more did than Americans cared to acknowledge. That helped bring about postwar domestic instability everywhere, with some of those Boomers born not so much into idyllic families but into ones that were struggling with parental infidelity, violence, brutality and alcoholism. Not all, to be sure, but more than you might suspect.
They also came home to a United States in an economic boom which meant a massive transfer in economic status for people who hadn't expected it and who didn't really know how to handle it. Those pictures of ideal American families in the 50s don't address a culture that was beginning to be taken ever by consumerism.
By the time the first Boomers, the real ones, were entering their adulthood all that was in full bloom. And their parents wanted them to be free of the horrors that had been inflicted upon them, so they handed them educations and businesses when they were young, not trying to really hold on to them.
The Baby Boom Generation early on figures that all the rules that preceded were stupid, and like people who succeed in business and life early on (the latter of which they really didn't), they came to believe they were really smart. And they often held the generations, including Generation Jones, that came behind them in contempt. Handed businesses, they wouldn't hand them over. Handed advantage, they didn't see that they needed to help others obtain it. Handed wealth, they felt free to use to use it for personal and societal destruction.
American society has become one, as one commentator noted, that's being run by oligarchs. Well, the Boomer focus on money, making it, and career, which really started to come into focus in the 1970s, helped get us there. The mess they made of their family lives and indeed even the topic of sex, in which everything was all about themselves, has made a mess of domestic life that current generations are trying to fix.
And they won't let go of things now.
And that's the main thing.
Now, let me take a step back. I've written here as if all the Boomers are a monolith. They are not.
Thousands of men volunteered to fight in Vietnam, and a lot of them did not come back. Environmentalism, which the Republicans have struggled against, was something started by their parents, but which was adopted to an enormous degree, had a huge positive impact, may have saved the planet for generations, and my save it in its entirety yet. The same is true of conservationism, which dates back well over a century but which was very well expressed in the Boomers. The combined legacy of environmentalism and conservationism is so deep that younger generations truly cannot grasp it.
So then, what of reality?
Well, the record is mixed. It always was. The World War Two generation did save the country, but in doing so they were rising to a challenge that they had to, and many sacrificed not only their bodies, but frankly their temperaments. The Silent Generation built much of the post war world in their shadows and without their acknowledgement, even fighting a war without complaint that costs the US as many lives as the Vietnam War but which is in fact largely forgotten. The country started yielding to the young Boomers by the 60s and in their heyday they tore everything down and when they went to build back up, they managed to forget and dump much of the humanity that had characterized prior generations, no matter how flawed they were.
So what now?
The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Boomers can rightfully take credit for some great things, although the current ones, in the age of Trump, don't seem to want to. They can be blamed for a lot of things that caused the rise of Trump and MAGA, which is a movement largely in younger generations, something that's often missed. The liberal "Me Generation" aspect of the demographic was harmful in ways that we are still desperately trying to recover from, and turning, oddly, to Boomers who exhibit the trait, such as Trump, to try to fix.
They won't.
The Boomers want to remain relevant. Post anything on this topic and you'll be accused of agism. But the truth is, they needs to step back to the sidelines now in everything they are in. The biggest favor they can do for Gen X and Gen Y (it's too late for Gen. Jones, our day is already over having never started) is to step back, and out of the way. If in office, get out. If heading a business that isn't you alone, step down. If hoping for a Bishopric, stop.
The United States Constitution actually lacks a budget provision. What provisions it has provide the following:
Article I, Section 8 (Spending Clause): Grants Congress the power to lay and collect taxes, pay debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare.
Article I, Section 7 (Revenue Bills): Dictates that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives.
Article I, Section 9 (Appropriations Clause): States "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law," ensuring Congress, not the executive branch, controls spending.
We need a specific set of controls on the budget.
For decades Congress has spent more than it brings in through taxes. It's at the crisis level presently, with Congress busing the budget and adding to the deficit at a monumental level.
At one time, pundits use to ponder if national debt and deficit spending were bad things. They are, but no credible person doubts that the current levels will actually destroy the American economy in the near future. Trump, listing to extreme pundits and having graduated from Wharton, which apparently is a preparatory preschool based on his level of lack of understanding of economics, believed that tariffs would fix this and everything.
Well, it hasn't, and it won't.
We are now at the point where we need a severe austerity budget, or a massive rise in taxes, or both. We have no real choice.
Anyhow, on fixing the budgetary process, it can be fixed. The Constitution should be amended to require a balanced budget, with a provision to retire 10% of the national debt as part of it, annually, save in the instance of a Declaration of War, or a Declaration of National Emergency.
To put this plainly, this would require ever budget to be balanced and the national debt completely retired within a decade.
Of course, what if Congress ignored that.
The amendment would provide that if Congress failed to pass a balanced budget, but passed a budget by a set day, taxes of all types and government fees of all types would automatically proportionally rise to cover the budget. Additionally, government payments, outside of payments for debts, medical obligations, and wages would cease. Payments of all types to Congress would completely cease, including payments for their staff.
Yes, that's harsh. The harshness would be the club that would put the pressure on to keep it from occurring.
If no budget was passed, say by February 1 of each year, the last balanced budget would come back into effect (it was during the Clinton era), with the additional provision of 10% of the national debt being paid for. If taxes had to go up to make that work, and the other provisions noted, they would.
Yes, this is severe, but the severity of it is what would cause Congress to actually take this seriously.
We know what a Declaration of War is. What would the Declaration of an Emergency be?
Well, predicting an emergency is tough, but I'd require 3/4s of the Congress to declare it and it could only last for one year. To renew it a second time would require 3/4s of the Congress and 3/4s of the state legislatures.
One final thing. No government assets of any kind could be sold to balance the budget or help retire the debt.
Violet Gibson shot Benito Mussolini, but only grazed his nose. The attack seems to have been a lone wolf type event with Gibson not being mentally well.
On the same day, although unrelated, three staffers of anti-Fascist newspapers were murdered in the country and journalist Giovanni Amendola died from injuries sustained nearly a year earlier.
The First Battle of Ciudad Juárez commenced at the border city with 1,500 men under the command of Maduro, 500 under Villa and another 500 under Orozco, with American mercenaries under Captain E.L Holmdahl and Captain Karl Linderfeldt, launching their assault on Temosachi and Bauche.
The surrounded the city, which retained only one route to the outside.
Long time readers here may recognize Linderfeldt for his role at Ludlow, Colorado, which of course lay in the future at this point in time.
Homdahl had fought in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection, joining the Army at age 15, under Lee Christmas in Central America, and then as a mercenary in the Mexican Revolution. He's serve in the U.S. Army during World War One. He's one of the people accused of stealing Pancho Villa's head.
Homdahl as a Mexican Revolutionary.
Unlike Linderfeldt, Homdahl served the revolutionary side for most of the Revolution, before becoming disenchanted with Pancho Villa. He had some fairly substantial commands under Madero. In 1915 he was convicted in the U.S., along with some other Mexican Revolutionaries, of violating the neutrality laws. He turned against Villa shortly thereafter and sought to join the U.S. Army as an officer, which was denied to him because of his conviction.
During the Punitive Expedition he seems to have served as a scout for the U.S. Army, although the details are murky as the records were destroyed after the event. He began an extensive campaign to be pardoned which paid off in July 1917, although it also exhausted his financial resources. He thereafter rejoined the Army, but with difficulty due to prior wounds at first disqualifying him.
After the war he was a prospector and spent time searching for the "buried gold" of Pancho Villa. As noted, he's suspected of having stolen Pancho Villa's head, but he's not the only suspect. He died in April, 1963.
Linderfeldt certainly lived a life of adventure, but not a wholly admirable life. Linderfeldt certainly didn't live a wholly admirable life.
The Department of Justice obtained its first conviction of a member of the Black Hand, that being of Gianni Alongi for his role in sending death threats to butcher shop owner Garmila Marsala.
A fire at the Price-Pancoast Colliery at Throop, Pennsylvania, near Scranton, Pennsylvania, killed 73 coal miners, many of them boys.
Donald J. Trump, who fancies himself a Wile E. Coyote level genius, is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business.
It certainly doesn't show, or Wharton isn't all it has been cracked up to be.
Having gotten the United States into an illegal war as Bibi Netanyahu talked him into it, Donny appears to have been taken off guard that Iran could and would close the Straits of Hormuz, hit tankers, and hit oil and gas facilities throughout the Middle East.
Why wouldn't they?
Perhaps if Melania lets Barron go see his father over Spring Break, assuming they're not perusing travel brochures entitled "where we can go to live after Don dies where people won't know we're Trumps", and assuming that Barron isn't doing the right thing and enlisting in the United States Marine Corps, they can break out some hex and counter games and play Naval based Superpower v. Land based regional power" and see how that works out.
Anyhow, Donny Trump (did we mention that he fancies himself a Wile E. Coyote level genius?) has lifted sanctions on already loaded oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, which means that Iran now has a source of cash it didn't before the war started.
So, we didn't wipe out their nuclear capabilities in the Twelve Day War, their government hasn't fallen in this one, people have not risen up to toss out the Iranian government, the Straits of Hormuz are closed, we didn't stockpile oil before the war, the price of oil has skyrocketed, and now the Iranians can legally transport some oil
Assuming that Trump isn't secretly trying to destroy the American economy and benefit Iran (and Russia), it's hard to see the smarts in any of that.
Petroleum is back up over $100/bbl, basically because King Donny is a liar.
March 26, 2026
And the war inflation hits packages:
U.S. Postal Service Announces Transportation-Related, Time-Limited Price Change
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service filed notice today with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) regarding a time-limited price change to better align its costs of transportation with the market. This temporary price adjustment will provide needed flexibility for the Postal Service by helping to ensure that the actual costs of doing business are covered, as required by Congress.
While this price increase is a time-limited adjustment, it will provide a necessary bridge to a permanent mechanism to reflect market conditions in prices for competitive products that can support the Postal Service’s ability to achieve the universal service obligation in a more financially sustainable manner going forward.
The planned price change, which was approved by the Governors of the Postal Service on March 24, is an 8 percent increase that would affect base postage prices on the following retail and commercial domestic competitive products: Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage, and Parcel Select. No other products or services would be affected, including First-Class Stamps. Pending favorable review by the PRC, the price change would go into effect at midnight Central Time on April 26 and would remain in place until midnight Central Time on Jan. 17, 2027. At that time, the Postal Service can determine if a different long-term approach is needed.
Transportation costs have been increasing, and our competitors have reacted with a number of surcharges. We have steadfastly avoided surcharges and this charge is less than one-third of what our competitors charge for fuel alone, so even with this change, the Postal Service continues to offer great value in shipping with some of the lowest rates in the industrialized world.
The time-limited price change is consistent with industry practices and will support the Postal Service’s ability to continue achieving its public service mission — providing a nationwide, integrated network for the delivery of mail and packages at least six days a week — in a cost-effective and financially sustainable manner over the long term, just as the U.S. Congress has intended.
The PRC will review the proposed price change before it is scheduled to take effect on April 26. Complete USPS price filings, with prices for all products, can be found on the PRC website’s Daily Listings section at prc.arkcase.com/portal/filings. Price tables are also available on the Postal Explorer website at pe.usps.com/PriceChange/Index.
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March 27, 2026
More than 90% of new renewable power projects worldwide in 2024 were cheaper than fossil-fuel alternatives, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.
Guess they aren't as woke as Chuck and demented Don would claim.
And this two years ago before the tin pot dictator decided to destroy the world's oil importation system.
March 30, 2026
West Texas is at $100/bbl this morning. Brent is at $115/bbl.
With the Houthis now in the war, there's a fairly good chance the Red Sea will be effectively closed, massively widening the war, and propelling the world into a King Donny causes severe recession.
March 31, 2026
Brent is at $114.88. West Texas at $104.
The price of almost everything is rising.
This is your economy at war. An undeclared war by a demented octogenarian.
A bit late for Easter, unless I suppose you are Orthodox and on the Old Calendar, in which case Easter is next Sunday, but a fascinating look at the classic Eastertime bread.
The British are hosting talks on opening the Straits of Hormuz.
The intellectual toddler King Donny is threatening to take the US out of NATO, which he cannot legally do.
Things are going to get very bad.
The illegitimate demented octogenarian would be king will address the nation tonight.
April 2, 2026
King Donald, his popularity sinking like a rock and facing the inevitability that Congress is not going to vote to fund an additional $200B for his losing vanity project war against Iran, came on to television last night to try to explain and get support for it.
I didn't watch it. I've been to nursing homes and, while I'm ashamed to say it, they make me uncomfortable.
It was the usual pile of shit. The war will be over soon, we're going to bomb Iran into submission, they've been at war with us for 47 years, other people should do the hard job of fixing the Straits of Hormuz that we broke.
We haven't been at war for 47 years, nobody is going to take on the ground fighting opening the Straits would require, the war won't be over soon. We didn't for Bibi.
It won't be over this time next year, but Americans, by that time, will be fighting and dying on the ground.
Oh well, Cuba will be easier, right?
Cont:
Pete Hegseth took to social media today to post "Bomb them back to the stone age".
Pete is a Princeton graduate, so this is yet another example of my totally losing any sense of respect for Ivy League schools. Do they not teach history at Princeton?
That phrase arose with Curtis B. LeMay and is what he proposed to do to North Vietnam. LeMay fist used the phrase in 1965, and by the end of the war, we were using B-52s on targets in North Vietnam.
We lost the war.
At this point, I feel that somebody should see if Classic Comics has published a series on the Vietnam War. If they did, we ought to send a case of them to the Department of Defense.
April 3, 2026
A forty nation video conference was held on opening the Straits of Hormuz following the end of King Donny's War. The U.S. did not attend.
It's really clear at this point that there are major cracks in the U.S. defense establishment and a large number of officers are on the verge of an open break with Secretary of Defense Hegseth. We might be edging up on a Curragh Mutiny.
A look at some interesting connections.
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A U.S. F-15E was shot down. The fate of the crew is unknown, but gunfire has been heard in the area where the two man crew may have gone down.
And so it begins. As the air campaign continues, more and more of this will happen.
One crewman was recovered, another is alive but on the ground in Iran. An A-10 was shot down.
And, like the claims made by Herman Goering at the time of the Battle of Britain, Trump's claim of air invulnerability prove to be stupid.
No surprise there, however.
More leaked information reveals that J. D. Vance, to his credit, was adamantly opposed to the war.
The new budget being sought by the Administration seeks $1.5T for the Defense. This has reached the absolutely insane level. It's probably dead in the water, and should be, but frankly it's time to take the military way down in size and vest most of its resources of all types in the reserves.
April 6, 2026
Eine Tirade aus dem Bunker.
Oh don't worry, nothing to see here. Donny is completely well and in command of his faculties.
That went out on Easter, by the way.
On the same day Americans woke up to the news that a pilot on the run was rescued, which is or should be a relief to everyone.
Because it is, or should be, a relief to everyone, nobody is supposed to look at the overall story here. A F-15E was shot down by a country we told can't shoot anything down. An immediate rescue mission resulted in an Army Blackhawk being shot down and an A-10 being shot down, the latter being piloted to Kuwait airspace before the pilot ejected. The Special Forces unit that rescued the pilot used two C-130s of a special type and actually had them land, and had to destroy them. We're told the ground they landed on was too soft to allow for them to be taken off, but frankly I have my doubts about that.
Overall, it's amazing that this didn't result in an additional casualties. It's a tribute to the post Jimmy Carter era military we're busy destroying right now that they could pull this off, but it was a close run thing. We can't guarantee that will keep occuring.
And we have no way out, as we never had any concept of what we were doing in the first place.
While Donald, who is insane, was ranting about killing people, committing war crimes, riding around Washington D.C. and visiting a Golf Course, the Pope delivered his Easter address.
Brothers and sisters,
Christ is risen! Happy Easter!
For centuries, the Church has joyfully sung of the event that is the origin and foundation of her faith: “Yes, Christ my hope is arisen / Christ indeed from death is risen / Have mercy, victor King, ever reigning” (Easter Sequence).
Easter is the victory of life over death, of light over darkness, of love over hatred. It is a victory that came at a very high price: Christ, the Son of the living God (cf. Mt 16:16), had to die — and die on a cross — after suffering an unjust condemnation, being mocked and tortured, and shedding all his blood. As the true immolated Lamb, he took upon himself the sin of the world (cf. Jn 1:29; 1 Pet 1:18–19) and thus freed us all — and with us, all creation — from the dominion of evil.
But how was Jesus able to be victorious? What is the strength with which he defeated once and for all the ancient adversary, the prince of this world (cf. Jn 12:31)? What is the power with which he rose from the dead, not returning to his former life, but entering into eternal life and thus opening in his own flesh the passage from this world to the Father?
This strength, this power, is God himself for he is Love who creates and generates, Love who is faithful to the end and Love who forgives and redeems.
Christ, our “victorious King,” fought and won his battle through trusting abandonment to the Father’s will, to his plan of salvation (cf. Mt 26:42). Thus he walked the path of dialogue to the very end, not in words but in deeds: to find us who were lost, he became flesh; to free us who were slaves, he became a slave; to give life to us mortals, he allowed himself to be killed on the cross.
The power with which Christ rose is entirely nonviolent. It is like that of a grain of wheat which, having rotted in the earth, grows, breaks through the clods, sprouts, and becomes a golden ear of wheat. It is even more like that of a human heart which, wounded by an offense, rejects the instinct for revenge and, filled with compassion, prays for the one who has committed the offense.
Brothers and sisters, this is the true strength that brings peace to humanity, because it fosters respectful relationships at every level: among individuals, families, social groups, and nations. It does not seek private interests, but the common good; it does not seek to impose its own plan, but to help design and carry out a plan together with others.
Yes, Christ’s resurrection is the beginning of a new humanity; it is the entrance into the true promised land, where justice, freedom, and peace reign, where all recognize one another as brothers and sisters, children of the same Father who is Love, Life, and Light.
Brothers and sisters, through his resurrection, the Lord confronts us even more powerfully with the dramatic reality of our freedom. Before the empty tomb, we can be filled with hope and wonder, like the disciples, or with fear like the guards and the Pharisees, forced to resort to lies and subterfuge rather than acknowledge that the one who had been condemned is truly risen (cf. Mt 28:11–15)!
In the light of Easter, let us allow ourselves to be amazed by Christ! Let us allow our hearts to be transformed by his immense love for us! Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!
We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people. Indifferent to the repercussions of hatred and division that conflicts sow. Indifferent to the economic and social consequences they produce, which we all feel. There is an ever-increasing “globalization of indifference,” to borrow an expression dear to Pope Francis, who one year ago from this loggia addressed his final words to the world, reminding us: “What a great thirst for death, for killing, we witness each day in the many conflicts raging in different parts of the world!”
The cross of Christ always reminds us of the suffering and pain that surround death and the agony it entails. We are all afraid of death, and out of fear we turn away, preferring not to look. We cannot continue to be indifferent! And we cannot resign ourselves to evil! Saint Augustine teaches: “If you fear death, love the resurrection!”. Let us too love the resurrection, which reminds us that evil is not the last word, because it has been defeated by the Risen One.
He passed through death to give us life and peace: “I leave you peace; I give you my peace. Not as the world gives it, I give it to you” (Jn 14:27). The peace that Jesus gives us is not merely the silence of weapons, but the peace that touches and transforms the heart of each one of us! Let us allow ourselves to be transformed by the peace of Christ! Let us make heard the cry for peace that springs from our hearts! For this reason, I invite everyone to join me in a prayer vigil for peace that we will celebrate here in Saint Peter’s Basilica next Saturday, April 11.
On this day of celebration, let us abandon every desire for conflict, domination, and power, and implore the Lord to grant his peace to a world ravaged by wars and marked by a hatred and indifference that make us feel powerless in the face of evil. To the Lord we entrust all hearts that suffer and await the true peace that only he can give. Let us entrust ourselves to him and open our hearts to him! He is the only one who makes all things new
Happy Easter!
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And more war news since we first posted.
Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey proposed a 45 day ceasefire which was hopefully reported on by the news. Fighting would stop for 45 days and the Straits of Hormuz reopen. Basically, what they cleverly were proposing was a 45 day break in the fighting as once it stops, it's not going to restart. That would give the US enough time to declare victory and get out, like in Vietnam.
Iran said no. It doesn't, it says, want to give time for the US to rearm.
That's amazing as they likely know that if the fighting stops the US will leave. Their thinking isn't clear, but they clearly don't believe they're losing.
Something that's been missed in reporting is that Iran is selling and shipping more oil now than before the war. About 1/3d more. And of course, they're getting more cash for the oil they are selling.
They are reportedly also repairing missile bunkers rapidly.
The only way the U.S. can actually win this war is through a massive ground invasion. Congress is not going to approve that.
If Donald Trump's illegal occupation of the Oval Office (he's an insurrectionist and not legally qualified to occupy the office with out Congressional relief) has shown us anything, it's that much of the way American government has been working is identical to the way the British one does. . . we just figure it works this way.
Trump, who is not a very smart man, smashed that as Trump is all about Trump, and doesn't what he wants. He's therefore demonstrated where all the holes are, although frankly quite a few of them have been obvious for some time.
In this series, we'll look at what needs to be fixed, and how to fix it.
Lex Anteinternet: New UW President chosen.: Today In Wyoming's History: April 2 : 2026 Brig. Gen. Shane Reeves, currently the dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Aca...
I posted this the other day.
As noted, I don't feel good about this choice.
What's more, I"m not really sure why I don't feel good about this choice. I just don't.
Part of it is that I'm tired of guys who leave the state, spend 30 years doing something for the Federal Government, and then coming back in when they're darn near retired or retired. But there was very little chance that we were going to get a local for UW President and indeed, for the most part, few locals would be qualified.
Except here, one actually was. The fellow who finished second works for US already and is in agriculture.
For that reason, he seems a better fit to me.
Added to that, right now I'm not trusting military figures too much. We're in an illegal war and it part of the way we got into one is that we have a military that's way too large. That made sense during the Cold War, but it doesn't now. In my view its time to go back to the original military establishment system for the US, which would mean that we'd have very little in the form of a standing Army and a Navy that had to rely on reservists I don't think we need West Point anymore at all.
And I fear that this fellow might have been brought in because of the Freedom Caucus's shots at UW. Where does a serviceman fit in, in that fight.
I know more than a few guys who were career servicemen and I considered it, so I'm probably just paranoid right now. And its not like I wrote to the Trustees either.
By the way, this is them:
To learn more about each Trustee, including their background, professional experience, and term details, please click on their name. This will take you to a dedicated page with a full biography and additional content about their role on the board.
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