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Friend of Iran wrote: Sun Feb 15, 2026 1:11 pm Predictable as the sunrise.

Truth generally is.

By the way, expect Butler to compare the Iranian protesters to Alex Pretti and Renee Good.


Well, both the Iranian religious leaders and ICE killers are willing to discard the enlightenment principles. You can fairly easily call the Iranian murderers part of a religious dictatorship. It is ...

And once they do hear of it, they will buy that off too?


Why should we presume that every anti-establishment movement in the US is aligned with the enemy?

The origination of the nation was by anti-establishment people, was it not? But we also have to be aware that stirring up internal ...

I'm figuring on something like the normal crisis - high boundary. While Putin is trying a war of expansion, Israel is practicing racism, Iran is short on water and dealing with a secular revolution against religious rule, and Trump is active in Venezuela and maybe Greenland and Canada, we'll have ...

There seems to be a lot happening just now. The Russia - Ukraine conflict is hitting a military peak and real Russian economic problems. Various NATO countries seem to be getting involved. Iran has significant water problems and revolt strains the religious political structure. Trump has got ...

I'd like to think that in a Crisis people learn that a particular flavor of conflict is considered ugly and the cultures involved squish that form of conflict. Optimistic,

I've seen some otherwise well educated and intelligent people say something like this. Probably because they think this ...

Whenever I hear the Christmas song "Do you Hear What I Hear?" I can't help but think of the original intent from the writer. It makes me think of the perspective of the WWII generation and how they saw a third World War wherever they looked - the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam.

They are gone now and we ...

WAR IS A RACKET. That's a good book that apparently never took hold. The greatest book also had fundamental lessons that most don't embody or embrace.


Ah... Good ol Smedley Butler. My father used 'Smedley' as his password for a time. If you ever wondered where the Japanese got the idea of how to ...

I can agree with much of what Navigator says about immigrants only bringing in immediate family, and both parties having questionable motivations, but lining up a job when not in country would be hard. How would that work?

Tariffs would not be working as intended. They are not supposed to be issued ...

I wouldn't be surprised to see China have an ability to completely neutralize our aircraft carriers. The same way battleships became obsolete and the way the use of tanks has changed because of drones, China might have the ability to overload aircraft carrier defenses by using some AI powered ...