“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”- Mark Twain

Ahhh. That’s the reason for his recent love letter to North Korea. He’s puttin’ da squeeze on dose Sout’ Koreans ta pony up some bucks.

And UXB squads. Pacifist doesn’t mean no balls/labia, and you need a big swingin’ pair of 'em to sit and de-fuse a 500lb. aerial bomb.

You’ll need emerald spectacles to read 'em.

Well, that trumpet blowin’ dude on their temples is the Angel Moroni.

" Just because you’re a member of an ethnic minority, it doesn’t mean you can’t be a small-minded bastard." - Capt. Samuel Vimes (Terry Pratchett)

The enemy of my enemy is mein freund für mein kampf. Realpolitik can be a right bugger.

Instead of erasing that twit’s name from everything, why don’t we just tuck all the reminders of him into a set of warehouses down some little used side-street. We could call it ‘Damnation Alley’…

♪ The patterned jester does not play/ But softly pulls the strings/ And smiles as the puppets dance/ in the Court of the Crimson King ♫ - King Crimson

From AP News:

In explaining the need to move France’s aircraft carrier, Macron cited Monday’s strike on a British air force base on Cyprus, adding that Cyprus was a member of the European Union with which France has recently signed a strategic partnership.

Not (yet) WWIII, but t’ain’t no ‘brush fire’ war.

And Merz is from Jupiter- a large ball of gas.

And now, they’re executing a prepared plan to sow chaos, in the hope that they can make things uncomfortable enough for the attackers and their allies, that they can negotiate an end (for now) to hostilities. From the article:

Part of the regime’s approach has been to decentralise military decision-making to prevent its forces from being incapacitated by assassinations of top commanders, with Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi suggesting Tehran’s forces were acting independently. “Our military units are now, in fact, independent and somewhat isolated, and they are acting based on general instructions given to them in advance,” he told Al Jazeera television network on Sunday.