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Iran and nukes
I agree. Iran should not have nuclear weapons. Neither should China, Russia, North Korea, Britain, France, the US, India, Pakistan, or Israel. Hello? Those things are either bad, or they aren’t. What...
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Thursday Reads
Good Morning!! I just love the New Yorker cover with Rick Santorum riding in the dog carrier on top of Mitt Romney’s car. Isn’t it great? Santorum has been “dogging” Romney’s footsteps around the...
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Open Thread: Hillary in India
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) watches a girl do karate during an anti-human trafficking event in Kolkata May 6, 2012. [Click on the photo to see more pictures of Hillary Clinton in...
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Tuesday Reads: Horses and Bayonets
President Obama temporarily wipes the smirk off Mitt Romney’s face. Good Morning!! The reviews are in: President Obama clearly won the third presidential debate. Now we’ll see if that is reflected in...
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Tuesday Night Updates
Just thought I’d put a few of the day’s significant news stories up. One story is pure theatre. The other one is actually significant because it’s a signal that the U.S. and Iran may approach their...
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Thursday Reads: Who’s Really Running Things in the Middle East? . . . And...
Good Morning!! There’s a long article in the September 30 New Yorker by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dexter Filkins about a powerful Iranian military leader named Qassem Suleimani. Sueimani is...
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Saturday Reads: Winter Solstice Edition
Beaghmore Stone Circles, Sperrin Mountains, County Tyrone, North Ireland Good Morning!! Today is the Winter Soltice, the shortest day of the year. In the eastern U.S. the solstice will take place...
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Monday Reads
Good Morning!! Things are not going well in Iraq, to put it mildly. John Kerry arrived in Iraq this morning and is currently meeting with Iraqi leaders, according to CNN: John Kerry holds talks in...
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Tuesday Reads: Netanyahu Speech, Hillary-Hate, and Nonsensical SCOTUS Case...
Good Afternoon!! I wanted to touch on a couple of issues this afternoon: the latest Hillary Clinton “scandal,” and the upcoming Supreme Court case that could doom Obamacare once and for all. But...
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Friday Reads: The Iran Deal
Good Afternoon! I’m running late again! My schedule is just upside down now and DST just double whammed me on the same weekend I started my late night work. Still getting used to the weird hours. I...
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Thursday Reads: tRump Against The World
Good Morning!! This post is illustrated with cute pics of cats and dogs from petinsurance.review, because I’m dealing with a very bad cold this morning; I’d like to just crawl back under the covers...
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Monday Reads: Wow! Talk about a Twitter Meltdown!
by unknown artist, Iran, Tehran, Seated Woman Pouring Wine, oil on calico, 1800-1830 Good Afternoon Sky Dancers! I don’t even know where to start today other than to state that KKKremlin Caligula is...
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Lazy Caturday Reads: So Much Winning!
Maine Coon Cat Good Morning!! Trump threw a tantrum and forced a partial government shutdown that will force some government employees to work with out pay and others to be furloughed without pay....
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Lazy Caturday Reads: The Latest News, Accompanied By Library Cats
Sir Eli, Los Robles Elementary School Library, Porterville, CA Good Morning!! Yesterday I called Dakinikat early in the morning to tell her about a long investigative piece at The Miami Herald: Trump...
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Thursday Reads: Another Crazy Day in Trump World
Good Morning!! Trump apparently worked himself up into a frenzy last night. He woke up an sent out a series of angry tweets, in one of which he admitted for the first time that Russia helped him get...
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Lazy Caturday Reads: Famous Authors And Their Cats (Plus News)
Good Afternoon!! Yesterday, Dakinikat highlighted this article at The Independent in which the owner of a tanker that the Trump administration claims was attacked by Iran says the Trump folks are...
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Thursday Reads
Good Morning!! This morning’s big news is that Iran shot down a U.S. drone. From The Guardian: A full-scale model of The RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned plane Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday...
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Tuesday Reads
Good Afternoon!! As usual, there’s way too much important news to cover today. I long for the days when Obama was president and there weren’t scandals and outrages every single day including Saturdays...
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Tuesday Reads
Good Morning!! Hurricane Dorian is finally starting to slowly move northwestward away from Grand Bahama Island. At 9 am Dorian was located 45 mi NNE of Freeport, Grand Bahama Island or 105 mi ENE of...
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New Year’s Eve Reads: Trumpschmerz
New Year’s Eve by Sabzi Good Morning! One more day until 2020 begins. Here’s what’s happening right now: As 2019 draws to a close with “Death to America” is trending on Twitter. The New York Times:...
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