I remember the oil shocks of the 1970s. A visit to a gas station was a spectacle of road rage without the road.
Of course they're Floorshimes. Did you expect Ceilingshimes?
Tattooed in reverse on the forehead so they can read it whenever they squeeze a whitehead.
…while Trump has reduced the price of eggs by 400%. Obviously, Republican messaging is premised on the total innumeracy of the public.
I don't think the "47-year war" myth will have the staying power of the Nazis' "stab in the back" legend.
What a visionary. I'm using "visionary" in the lysergic-acid sense of the word.
A squirrel to some is a squirrel,
To others, a squirrel's a squirl.
Since freedom of speech is the birthright of each,
I can only this fable unfurl:
A virile young squirrel named Cyril,
In an argument over a girl,
Was lambasted from here to the Tyrol
By a churl of a squirl named Earl.
— Ogden Nash
They had me at "lit up." He's gotta be smoking something good.
Straight outta Ruritania.
The Future Sausage dangles perpetually in front of the consuming public's face just beyond its reach, always receding into the future, never attainable. If you vote Republican a few dozen more times, maybe you will get close enough to smell it.
The first thing that came to mind on seeing the photo was The Sopranos, Season 3, Episode 13 ("Army of One"), in which A.J. gets dressed up in Napoleonic-era uniform. Don't know why these associations between Trumps and Sopranos keep intruding into my mind. It's a mystery.
I stayed awake during overnight duty in the Army reading field manuals such as "Viet Cong mines and boobytraps." I couldn't help but be impressed by the ingenuity of people with no wealth or technology to improvise effective armaments out of wire coat hangers and soup cans. Now it's Iran's turn.
Its propinquity to the Strait of Hormuz is a powerful strategic weapon in Iran's hands. Why would it refrain from using it? After the US and Israel have exhausted their inventory of bombs, the Strait will still be there — it's not just powerful; it's inexhaustible.
The next step is blaming the media for lack of progress in the war. This is the point in the movie where I came in…fifty-six years ago.
How much scapegoat mileage does Joe Biden have left on his odometer?
Hitler was so confident of victory in the east by the onset of the winter of 1941-1942 that the army didn't bother to issue cold weather gear to the Landser, who would, by Christmas 1941, be housed in cozy heated barracks in Moscow, singing carols around the jolly old Tannenbaum…
Translation: there was no plan, and there still isn't one. That's because the Iranians have the US over a barrel. They can fire cheap homemade weapons at oil tankers until the cows come home, and all the bombing in the world won't make a dent in it. See Yemen for the precedent.
"When those are met, we'll set the tempo of when those are met"? Kegsbreath hasn't the foggiest notion of what is exuding from his oral pore.
"Blindly" was right the first time.
Or this hardy chestnut: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Under control? Trump? Consequences? Surely you jest.
War with Iran *will* prevent it from closing the Strait of Hormuz? Forgive me if I'm being dense, but aren't we *already* involved in a war with Iran, and hasn't it *already* closed the Strait because we're at war? Or am I just having a senior moment?
I didn't know that India attacked us on 9/11. Thanks to Senator Tuberville for clearing that up!
In asymmetrical warfare, the low-tech side has the advantage. We learned that in Vietnam…well, some of us did. I can remember when the hawks were exulting about how we were annihilating North Vietnam and how a few years later, we were leaving Saigon by helicopter from the US embassy roof.
"As a thought experiment, imagine that I can make myself invisible and live on sunshine and dewdrops."
Thank you for rephrasing what I just got through saying.
The memory of Nixon calling the US invasion of Cambodia an "incursion" is still fresh in my memory. The flavor of the bullshit has changed slightly in the last 56 years, but the substance is still the same.
Correction. What Iran is doing is, frankly, ingenious. We have all the technology and all the fancy hardware, and they have us stymied using parts they can recycle from any junkyard.
Get back to us in six months and tell us about "short-term" pain again, Chris.
The US will never destroy Iran's ability to threaten energy markets because Iran : US :: roadrunner : Wile E. Coyote.
