Now, why would he need a fortress? Hmmmmmm.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Thank goodness for electric vehicles
Regular gasoline in Northern Illinois: $5.09/gallon at Love's - one of the cheapest places.
Luckily, I have a hybrid and last filled up on Thanksgiving right before the price started to climb. Still had 100 miles worth when I filled up a couple days ago. And yet, I know that even at $5, we don't pay the actual cost to the environment of driving in this country.
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Trump world running like a well-oiled machine
Yeah, soldiers don't need training. Especially pilots.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Ouch
Actually, this is not surprising. Elite college educations for elite spawn. It's the American way.
Monday, May 11, 2026
This is where we are, folks
They know 2026 is going to be a blowout if they don't interfere.
If by some miracle Democrats get back in control of Congress, they need to do some serious Supreme Court reform. They need to do a lot of things, but none of them are more important than that.
UPDATE 05/12/2026:
Friday, May 8, 2026
And so it begins
Three huge volcanic eruptions have occurred in the past three days in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, and the Pentagon is releasing UFO files.
Also...
Those two things have opposite intentions. What will the universe assume?
They fired on "unladen" tankers? What blockade are "unladen" tankers breaking? Anyway, I thought we were supposed to be in a ceasefire.The US Central Command (Centcom) claims it has struck two “unladen” Iranian-flagged oil tankers it said were attempting to violate the US blockade by entering an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman.
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Centcom claimed it had “disabled both tankers after firing precision munitions into their smokestacks”. The statement added that US forces had also disabled a third Iranian-flagged vessel on Wednesday. “All three vessels are no longer transiting to Iran.”
On Thursday Iran accused the US of violating the ceasefire by targeting two ships at the strait of Hormuz and attacking civilian areas. The US insisted it struck in retaliation.
The Guardian
This just gets crazier and crazier. WTF?
And Trump is just as delusional as ever...
In case you're wondering, he has settled exactly 0 wars.
The victory in Iraq???
In case you're wondering - he hasn't been reading. He doesn't read. But the part about him knowing nothing about it could be said about everything.
UPDATE 05/13/2026: Another huge volcanic eruption.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
The truth will set you free
No, not Spain. Well, yes Spain, but more impactful...definitely more shocking...President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.
NBC
Trump thinks he can just command the world, and the world is letting him know he's delusional.Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing “Project Freedom” on social media Sunday afternoon, the officials said, angering leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort, the officials said.
A call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not resolve the issue, the two U.S. officials said, forcing the president to pause Project Freedom in order to restore U.S. military access to the critical airspace.
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The source said Saudi Arabia was “very supportive of the diplomatic efforts” by Pakistan to broker a deal between Iran and the U.S. to end the war.
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A Middle Eastern diplomat said the U.S. did not coordinate Project Freedom with the Omanis until after Trump made the announcement.
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Trump had announced the operation over the weekend as a way to break Iran’s blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, and his top national security leaders spent much of Tuesday talking up the effort in public briefings at the Pentagon and White House, only to have the president suddenly halt the operation roughly 36 hours after it began.
The U.S. military had been lining up a number of additional ships in the Gulf for transit through the strait when the operation was stopped, a U.S. official said. U.S. Central Command had earlier announced that two U.S. flagged ships had made it through the strait as part of Project Freedom.
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Military aircraft were critical to protect ships during Project Freedom, essentially providing a defensive umbrella.
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Saudi Arabia and Jordan are critical for allowing aircraft to base there, Kuwait is critical for overflight, and Oman for both overflight and naval logistics.
But what did he tell us was his reason for pausing Project Freedom?
No mention of Saudi Arabia cockblocking him.Trump said Project Freedom would be “paused for a short period of time to see whether or not” an agreement to resolve the war “can be finalized and signed.”
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Monday, May 4, 2026
Sunday, May 3, 2026
It's Sunday
I marvel at the symbolism for Trump's MAGA "Christian" voters. Do they not see it?
The story in the Old Testament book of Exodus (from Bible Gateway):
When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”
2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.
4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[b] Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the Lord.”6 So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
7 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt.8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
9 “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people.10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
11 But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God. “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.
13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’”
14 Then the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
15 Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.16 The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
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19 When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.20 And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.
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30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
31 So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.32 But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
33 The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.34 Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
35 And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
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