A picture worth 1,000 words

 

US attack on Iran nearly two weeks on

 

I have a guess answer:  Shipping companies don't want to try to make the run, so there's no client to escort.

I wonder if he said that on Fox News.  I'm sure MAGA is willing to suffer.

Newt is still alive?!  He happens to be right about this.

I'm sure MAGA is willing to suffer.

I was living in San Francisco at the time.  We were limited to either odd or even days to even go the gas station depending on the number on our car licenses, and then we had to wait in very long lines, burning gas while we waited.  People were often in bad moods.

UPDATE 07:14 pm:

Somewhere I heard 150.  I guess that could be considered approximately 140.

The dead and wounded would like a word.

UPDATE 03/12/2026:

I'm shocked.

It's happening

 

The shortages are happening - and it's not just dolls

 

According to Donnie Two Dolls, little girls can just get by with fewer.  

What's this woman going to do?

There is power in a union

Yet another union voted down a proposed contract with the freight railroad industry Wednesday, again pushing the nation toward an economically crippling rail strike as soon as next month.

Wednesday’s vote by the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen makes it the second rail union to reject a compromise since Sept. 15, when eleventh-hour deal-making by the Biden administration averted the threat of an immediate work stoppage.

[...]

Despite that momentary political victory, a strike could still happen as soon as Nov. 19 unless 12 rail unions approve their contracts, or Congress steps into the fray — another looming dark cloud for the U.S. economy as voters head to the polls for the midterm elections.

  Politico

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.