April 26, 2026

This is a very relevant and timely discussion.

April 7, 2026

If you are familiar with Malcolm you know he rants, but today he is well over the top and rightly so.

Skip forward to the 0:05:30 mark.

Stay to the end. He summarizes recent, as in today's, military actions. It's clear that both sides are already escalating and getting crazy.

April 7, 2026

I can't think of a movie more appropriate for this moment in time.

It is a dramatization of the Scopes Trial of 1925. It is stunning how little things have changed in 100 years.

At one point Henry Drummond (Clarence Darrow for the defense) says, "Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding. And soon, your honor, with banners flying and drums beating we'll be marching backward! Backward! Through the glorious ages of that 16th century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind." America is moving backward at a a staggering pace

I recommend it to everyone.

If I needed an example of how we are going backward at break neck speed, I found when I pressed Preview that this movie is age restricted. Presumably because the topic is evolution. vs legislated religious belief. How far we have fallen.

March 30, 2026

They have done a very good job of keeping these sorts of videos hidden.

This is a graphic example of the reality that Trump has unleashed in the Middle East. I have to assume that some of the people under this bombardment were wounded or killed. I'm sure the casualty numbers are also being hidden.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5SizFdGH1w8

This is what ground troops landed in Iran will encounter. Think of Custer's Last Stand. Good men being ordered to their death by an incompetent commander that is a deranged ego maniac.

It is insane.

March 13, 2026

Another DUer said this yesterday. It's been rattling around inside my head ever since.

"I didn't want any of this in my golden years. I just wanted to live in peace with my cats."

Now I find my life book ended by two unnecessary wars. I am outraged that we have allowed one deranged old bastard to do so much damage. The entire world hates us.

No matter how the Epstein War ends, that peace I was looking for will never return in my life time.

I'm going to find a cat to pet.

March 10, 2026

There are three bits of information I have been able to glean through all of the noise today.

First: There are far more American wounded casualties than the DoD has admitted to. The number could be as high as 150. Of course if they are lying about wounded, they are almost certainly lying about killed as well. They are lying to us again as usual. No surprise there.

Second: Trump's flunky son-in-law negotiator Kushner approached the Iranians about some sort cease fire or deescalation. They told him no (or maybe HELL NO). Why would they agree? They are winning militarily and psychologically. This will end on their terms, not Trump's. This will become the greatest humiliation ever to befall any American President.

Three: The Iranians have announced that they are going to focus their retaliation entirely on Israel. I think for the most part Israeli air defenses have been depleted. The Israelis are doing their best to cover it up, but it looks like Iranian missiles and drones are hitting Tel Aviv and the rest of the country at will. The Israeli people aren't stupid. They do know that Bibi is responsible for this fiasco. I would guess his and his governments days in office are numbered. Unless he makes a run for it he will be in a jail cell soon.

Trump will have to do one of two things. He will have to unilaterally back down or go full scorched earth on the Iranians. If he ops for alternative two, the Iranians will go full scorched earth on the entire middle east. They could essentially shut down oil production for a very extended period of time. The implications for the world economy would be nothing less than a major disaster. We are talking about a world wide super depression. We, U.S.A., will pay an extremely heavy price for electing lunatic President.

March 9, 2026

Lets be absolutely clear. Destroying oil refineries and storage sites in and around Tehran,

turning streams and sewers into rivers of fire, poisoning the air and water that millions of people depend on while also poisoning food producing irrigation systems is a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. It is a form of mass murder or genocide if you like. It is the very thing that we tried, convicted and hanged Nazi leaders for 80 years ago.

Don't comfort yourself by saying that the Israeli's bombed those sites. That doesn't matter. We have financed and armed Israel for decades. One phone call to Bibi by a rational President could have prevented this entire war. We have a totally irrational President. We are responsible. We are complicit.

We are now careening down the road in a clown car hell bent on disaster. We, all of us, will pay a terrible price before this is over. On that point, U.S. intelligence services have just issued warnings that they believe Iran has activated Iranian sleeper cells in the country.

Hey Vance, if you ever want to be President, here is your chance. Invoke the 25th Amendment today.

March 5, 2026

Senator Steve Daines of Montana has dropped out of the reelection race.

February 22, 2026

Video speaks for itself.

February 4, 2026

This is very wonky so I'm putting it here rather than General Discussion.

There are two parallel time lines running. Almost all of us are totally immersed in the time line I will name, Crazy Town. Crazy Town is 24/7 chaos. We can't get away from it. But there exists small groups of experts that live in the time line I will name, Reality. This video is from Reality. In Reality it is understood that the accelerating rate of use of fossil fuels will render the planet unrecognizable and uninhabitable. Those are the facts.

In Crazy Town virtually no one in power will even talk about Reality. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is one of the few exceptions. He details how a vast array of systems, man made and organic, all interact with one another. The effects of climate change causes each of these systems to become more unstable, and that makes every adjacent system more unstable. Eventually systems collapse and take civilization with them.

If you like numbers this worth your time.

Thank you Senator Whitehouse