US intelligence was given a tip that Iran was planning to assassinate Donny and he was to go to Turkey for a NATO summit….the Secret Service came up with the bright idea of using a dodge to keep him safe…..
Donald Trump secretly swapped planes as he left a Nato summit in Turkey last month, as part of an elaborate ruse in response to a possible Iranian threat, US media report.
The US president boarded Air Force One in view of television cameras before being transported to a military aircraft with the help of a catering truck, according to the Washington Post. Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know he had been smuggled out.
Officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS News that the US had detected a credible Iranian threat to fire a missile at the plane. The White House has not confirmed the secret switch.
Trump had earlier said he was Iran’s “number one target” during the summit in Ankara.
Now some are calling the ‘hot’ tip about the assassination as a fake report…..
Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday.
The Washington Postfirst reported on Monday that the US thought there was a credible enough threat against Trump that he secretly swapped planes when he departed Turkey. The president flew into Ankara on a new version of Air Force One donated by Qatar, but made a public show of departing on the older Air Force One, saying he was doing so for “old time’s sake.”
According to the Post report, after boarding the older Air Force One, Trump was then moved to a third plane, an Air Force C-32A, via a catering truck. Some White House staffers and reporters on the older Air Force One thought President Trump was also onboard as they flew to the UK, making them unwitting decoys.
Missing from the Post report was where the intelligence about a plot against Trump came from. According to Middle East Eye and also a report from The Wall Street Journal, it came from Israel, which aligns with reports from the time.
Sources told MEE that the Israeli intelligence report warned that Iranian covert forces could target Air Force One at the airport in Ankara using shoulder-fired rockets, known as MANPADS, from just one kilometer away. Due to the alleged threat, the Secret Service moved the departure point from Ankara Airport to Esenboga Airport and wanted to switch from the new Air Force One to the old one.
The report said Turkish officials believe that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu devised the plot to make it appear that Israel was protecting Trump, further derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, and also strain relations between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom the US president repeatedly praised during the summit. Israel has strongly opposed the idea of the US selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, something Trump has said he’s strongly considering.
Another source, described as an Ankara insider, told MEE that it was ironic that the Secret Service’s decision to move Trump has been leaked just one month after it happened. “I guess they need heroes for an attack that never happened and, most likely, was never planned,” the insider said.
(antiwar.com)
After years of watching the Israeli government I tend to agree with Turkey….this does sound like a load of crap for Israel wants Donny to keep up his attacks on Iran and they will do anything to preserve the attacks now that they finally got a president dumb enough to believe their lies.
With that firmly in your mind there is a very good piece written by Nick Licata….
While Wikipedia identifies two dozen different kinds of socialism, two primary approaches support its goal of upholding a society’s welfare. One approach is to realistically regulate the marketplace to ensure it provides everyone in society with their basic needs, allowing them to lead a satisfactory life. The other is pursuing the ideal communal society without a marketplace that forces competition for obtaining basic needs.
Capitalism’s active practice is maintaining a marketplace to exchange goods, services, and access to them through a price system. Money has the greatest exchangeability value because it allows for the acquisition of various types of resources, one of the most critical being political power. However, exchanges can be made through a barter system, in which tangible items, including human labor, can be directly exchanged between seller and buyer. This was the dominant system before the advent of written history.
Capitalism’s belief system is limited to preserving the marketplace because it results in greater accumulation of resources that can be used for many purposes. There is no aspiration to create a new society; rather, it is to protect the current market-based one. It is a continuation of Adam Smith’s philosophy, as presented in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which appeared just as the Industrial Age was dawning in the late 1700s. He believed that individuals pursuing their self-interest in the marketplace would benefit society through increased productivity and wealth.
Socialism as a practice can be seen as a popular response to the marketplace system that replaced the barter system. It aimed to regulate the marketplace so that no concentration of material or social advantages occurred to the extent that it disrupted a community’s cohesion.
Socialism, as a pronounced belief system challenging the marketplace, emerged in the 19th century, when the term “socialist” was introduced. It was first used to describe the effort to create cooperative businesses and communities as an alternative to capitalism’s marketplace economy.
If one is afraid of socialism then fix capitalism…..
Everywhere I look, I see people expressing alarm about the popularity of socialism. It polls in the mid-to-high 30s, and considerably higher among younger people. Older people, who have a living memory of the various socialist regimes that once dotted the planet, which at best didn’t deliver prosperity to their people and at worst threw them in jail by the thousands, can’t understand how this could be and seem to want to talk endlessly about it.
I, however, marvel at the other consistent result of all these polls, which these people don’t seem nearly as interested in talking about. I refer to the ratings Americans give to capitalism. They’re terrible. A big Gallup poll from last fall is representative. Socialism won the approval of 39 percent, while capitalism’s positive number was 54 percent.
That is pathetic—barely half the country! In the country that invented modern capitalism and where it is worshipped by the elite class! And you know what? It’s entirely deserved. In fact, it deserves to be a little worse (as it is among Democrats). The kind of capitalism we’ve been practicing in this country over the last 40-plus years is cruel, corrupt, and a perversion of what humane capitalism ought to be. The people who are so freaked out about socialism ought to realize that the only way they’re going to arrest its rise is to change capitalism for the better.
From the founding of the country until the stock market crash of 1929, the general belief was that government should be small and markets should not be regulated. Some people say it worked pretty well until 1929, but in fact, that isn’t true. It worked well enough to perpetuate itself, because if capitalism is anything it’s elastic and dynamic, but that’s about it.
Unfortunately to fully understand is to say that critical thinking needs to be foremost in one’s mind….but sadly those days are gone….that is why I try to give my reader as much information as I can without too much thought.
It is a complex subject that needs more study than one can receive here but at least it is a start.
This group leading the country has already but our children at risk by depriving them of the food that some need to survive and now he, Donny and RJK,Jr, want the children to expose themselves to debilitating diseases….
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order advocates separating the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots administered in separate appointments, and directs the nation’s health department to improve vaccine research, according to a White House fact sheet on the order. Separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines for children are not currently available in the United States, and vaccines are already extensively researched, the AP reports.
Speaking about the order at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder, even as scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link. He also touted several changes to the childhood vaccine schedule that his health department has already attempted, but that have been blocked by a federal judge. He said his administration would no longer recommend COVID-19, flu, and hepatitis B vaccinations for children.
Trump said he wants to find out “what’s going on with autism,” Mediaite reports. “It’s many, many times what it used to be years ago, and it gets progressively worse, and we’ve had progressively more and more vaccines,” he said, adding, “Very simply, large amounts of vaccine—large amounts—like vats of vaccine are currently pumped into your child’s body.”
The renewed focus on vaccines marks a departure from his administration’s recent efforts to emphasize less controversial health policies related to healthy eating, drug price negotiations and medical fraud crackdowns ahead of November’s midterm elections, the AP reports.
Public health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots as Trump suggests can lead to an increased risk that children become infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit. Childhood vaccines—and how and when to give them in combination—go through rigorous studies, and safety tracking continues for years as the shots are used.
“I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong,” Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy said on X. “The President does not have the expertise to make these changes.” Vaccines, Cassidy said, are effective, “overwhelmingly safe,” and do not cause autism. “Breaking up vaccines will mean children have to get more shots to get the same protection, not fewer shots,” he said. “It will increase hesitancy and make children less safe. Parents should listen to their child’s pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order. This is so wrong.”
Even as the order calls for revised vaccine recommendations, states, not the federal government, have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren. The order advises states with school vaccine mandates to consider updating their laws to reflect the administration’s preferred schedule, the fact sheet said. Many states have already said that they no longer follow federal guidance and instead rely on recommendations from groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Washington Post reports.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist before he entered politics, set out to overhaul immunization guidance in the first year of Trump’s term. He fired an entire 17-member vaccine advisory committee, installing replacements who made far more restrictive recommendations that have since been halted by a federal judge. He also personally directed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism, without supplying any new evidence to support the change.
Scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded that there is no link between childhood vaccines and autism. On Monday, Kennedy repeated his assertion that he believes an unknown environmental factor is to blame for rising autism diagnoses and said that his department will deliver research findings “as soon as they are ready.”
If this goes forth stand back and watch the problems that he creates…..think Whooping cough and measles, and you cannot see this as a good thing.
For months now the conflict with Iran has been on again and off again….someone needs to make up their mind and pick a course preferably a peaceful one…..so once again Donny may have shift in tactics?
President Trump appears to be shifting into a new strategy with Iran for the time being, one that emphasizes economic pain over military strikes. “We are low-keying it,” Trump tells Axios. “We are only semi-negotiating with them,” he said, asserting that Iran is buckling under inflation, lack of cash, and a US-led naval blockade. With oil prices back under $80, Trump said Americans are feeling less strain and likened the standoff to “a chess game.” (Has he even looked at a gas pump?)
The immediate flashpoint is the partially closed Strait of Hormuz. A US-Iran-Oman deal to reopen it, granting Tehran some new authority over shipping, has stalled as Iran’s Supreme National Security Council chief unveiled tougher conditions, including sanctions relief and compensation. The president’s new posture comes amid widespread reports that the US is running short of key weapons, which the White House denies. Still, Bloomberg reports that Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg asked defense companies to “accelerate” munitions production days after Trump called him about the issue. One US official tells the outlet it will take years to replenish the stocks.
I guess a shortage of missiles can have that effect on the on-going conflict.
Iran has issued a list of demands….
Iran issued a broad, new set of demands to the US on Saturday for the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, a senior security official, laid out the conditions including an end to the US naval blockade and sanctions, withdrawal of American forces around Iran, payment of war reparations, release of frozen assets, and a halt to attacks on Iran’s regional allies. The list complicates ongoing talks between Iran and Oman over how to manage the strait, which Iran largely shut down after the US and Israel began their attacks in February, the New York Times reports.
The strait will not open until the US “corrects its behavior,” the statement said, per the AP. White House officials did not immediately comment. The strait runs between Iran and Oman; Iran’s foreign minister said it’s close to a deal with Oman on a temporary shipping route but insists any reopening hinges on US compliance with a June cease-fire memorandum that the two sides interpret differently. Traffic through the strait has fallen from about 130 ships a day to just over a dozen, per the Times.
Of course could not stand by and let Iran grab the headlines.
Iran has called for reparations from the US and not to be outdone Donny thinks Iran should pay to the US…..(seriously?)
resident Trump is trying to flip Iran’s push for war reparations back on Tehran. In a Truth Social post Monday, the president said he’s told his negotiators to demand compensation from Iran for Americans killed or injured in attacks linked to Tehran, calling Iran’s own reparations demand “an interesting idea” to copy. He cited deaths from roadside bombs, “many conflicts,” and even the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole—an attack attributed to al-Qaeda, not Iran, the Independent reports. The government blames Iran-backed militants for the deaths of more than 600 US troops in Iraq and the bombing that killed 241 US military personnel in Beirut in 1983, reports the AP.
In a follow-up post, Trump said, “Also, with respect to the Iran negotiations, Iran should be responsible for the damages and death caused to the people of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza! (they did not killed themselves….Israel is the aggressor)
Trump also said Tehran should pay compensation to the “hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months.” The Independent notes that it’s not clear where Trump got the 52,000 number. US and Israeli estimates of war deaths so far are a little over 6,000. The Times of Israel notes that it’s also not clear how significant Trump’s announcement is, “given that negotiations with Iran are said to have hit a dead end.” On Sunday, Trump said the US is “low-keying it” and only “semi-negotiating.” (should the US pay reparations to it’s innocent protesters?)
Over the weekend, a senior Iranian official laid out six conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, including lifting sanctions, ending US military operations in the region, and paying compensation for “imposed wars.” An interim ceasefire framework expires in just over a week, with no clear path to an extension.
I apologize for I feel I must be blunt….Donny could f*ck up a wet dream.
This so-called ‘diplomacy’ that he and Little Marco and Pistol Pete play at is laughable if it were not so f*cking sad.
Donny and his Merry Band of Morons has done a great job in making sure the country goes hungry while the Tech Bros fiddle.
About 1.5 million children will go hungry thanx to Donny and the Boyz….
At least 1.5 million children have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits since US President Donald Trump signed the Republican budget package into law last summer, enacting the largest cuts to federal food aid in the nation’s history.
The new estimate of food aid loss among children comes from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), which said Tuesday that SNAP participation was down by over 4.5 million people overall between July 2025 and April 2026. Refuting the Trump administration’s narrative, the liberal think tank emphasized that the unemployment rate nationwide has been roughly flat since last July, meaning it is “very unlikely that reduced need is driving the decline in SNAP participation.”
Arizona has seen the most staggering decline in SNAP participation. It has fallen 48% overall and 49% among children in the state since enactment of the Trump-GOP budget law, which instituted new work-reporting requirements for some recipients and punishments for states with elevated payment error rates. Under Republican law, states will for the first time have to pay a portion of SNAP benefit costs, which previously were fully covered by the federal government.
“Grotesque and indefensible,” policy analyst Michael Linden wrote in response to the new data, noting that the Republican budget law slashed taxes for wealthy households while decimating SNAP.
This is not something to be proud of and yet the GOP and the Dems just keep plugging away at the entitlements.
What to do?
Seems every time Donny opens that useless mouth food prices go up….what to do?
What’s for dinner? Lately, at Apral Jack’s house, it’s whatever is on sale. Jack scouts an app for deals at her local supermarket before she buys groceries. When she reaches the store, she grabs the weekly circular to look for coupons she might have missed. If the shelf prices look too high, she scratches items off her list or tries to find lower prices someplace else, the AP reports. “The apples went up here, the ones I eat, so now I’m not going to get them here. I’ll go to Market Basket, where I can get them cheaper,” Jack, 50, said as she pushed a cart into a Stop & Shop near her home in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Couponing, comparison shopping, and cutting back on favorite foods are new habits for millions of Americans as they absorb the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century. Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in US cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7½ years before that, prices rose 6.4%. The historic increase happened for numerous reasons, per the AP:
The coronavirus pandemic snarled supply chains and raised labor and transportation costs.
Droughts, hurricanes and diseases like bird flu drove down production.
Tariffs raised prices on foreign products like coffee, tomatoes and chocolate.
Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine disrupted oil and fertilizer supplies.
With a fresh conflict in the Middle East accelerating food price inflation again this year, the cost of filling American refrigerators, freezers, and pantries has become a frustration for Americans and made affordability a central issue in the fall midterm elections. And consumers are developing their own ways to deal with the prices, a market researcher said. The AP’s full report, which includes some of those strategies, can be found here.
The key is to get creative and watch for deals. Of course this only for some not those that think we should just roll with the punches and it is no big deal…..yes they are out there.
We are stuck in this cycle of price increases for the foreseeable future.
Every year I post on the dastardly attack by Israel on the US Naval ship, USS Liberty…..I would like to now post on one of the survivors of that attack that is died.
On Friday, July 31, 2026, Lieutenant Commander James M. Ennes, Jr., US Navy, ret., slipped his cable and unfurled his sails. With the Great Pilot at the helm, he set a course to his final home port.
LCDR Ennes, then Lieutenant Ennes, was serving aboard the USS Liberty (AGTR-5) when, on June 8, 1967, Israeli forces began a combined aerial and naval assault, lasting over an hour, that killed 34 Americans and wounded more than 170 others. LCDR Ennes was seriously wounded in the attack. The official record indicates that Navy medical staff expected him to remain on medical leave for seven months as he recovered from multiple shrapnel wounds and multiple fractures of his left femur. LCDR Ennes did recover sufficiently to serve in the Navy as a cryptologic officer until his retirement in 1978.
On the day of the attack, the Liberty was repeatedly reconnoitered by Israeli military aircraft over the span of several daylight hours and positively identified as an American ship flying the American flag. The Liberty never approached closer than thirty-eight nautical miles to the Israeli coast. Nevertheless while steaming in clear weather and calm seas in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea northwest of the Egyptian city of al-ʿArīsh, the Liberty came under repeated aerial attack by Israeli forces at approximately 2 PM, local time, followed by an assault by Israeli motor torpedo boats.
There is a plan for Gaza that could stop most of the killing but as if right on cue BiBi reject the plan….yes I wrote about the plan when it was announced….
I said then the BiBi would crush any and all attempts top stop Israel’s killing spree….
And now fast forward to this week….
Israel has slammed the door on a Trump-backed roadmap for peace in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said his government is “ruling out” the 15-point proposal, which envisioned Hamas surrendering its arms in stages to a new Palestinian authority while Israel gradually pulled out of the parts of Gaza it still occupies, reports the New York Times. Israel instead wants Hamas to fully disarm before it pulls out, but Hamas says it won’t disarm until Israeli forces are gone
“Israel rejects the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said at a Cabinet meeting on Sunday, per the BBC. His public dismissal marks an unusual break with President Trump, who touted the deal with his “Board of Peace” and Hamas as a major advance late last month. The prime minister, heading into a challenging reelection bid, has pledged “absolute victory” over Hamas since its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israeli communities. A US-brokered ceasefire in October 2023 paused the fighting but left key questions—above all who ultimately rules Gaza—unresolved.
Of course BiBi had to make it sound like he was open to improvement….
But even with the BoP adopting his talking points, Netanyahu has still rejected the deal. “They (the US) have ideas, some of which are acceptable to us and some of which are unacceptable to us,” he said on Sunday.
Following Netanyahu’s comments, a US official told Israel’s Channel 12 that the US wasn’t concerned, framing his public position as purely political since elections are coming up in Israel. “We understand his political needs [in this election period]. We have no problem with that, as long as he continues to do what we ask — especially as regards reining in the strikes in Gaza,” the US official said.
And then there is Hamas….
Hamas has maintained it won’t go through with the plan unless Israel lives up to its commitments, which include ending its attacks in Gaza and withdrawing back to the original yellow line created after the ceasefire deal was signed more than nine months ago. At the time, Israel was left with 53% of Gaza under its control, but it has increased to about 70% as the IDF has been conducting ground incursions.
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim told Reuters that Hamas was still committed to the plan and called on the US to pressure Israel. “We expect the mediators and the US guarantor to press Netanyahu and his government to adhere to the roadmap and not obstruct the process for internal political and electoral reasons, while continuing to jeopardize the region’s security and stability,” he said.
There is the sticking point….Israel will always find something that they will threaten Israel’s security so they do not have to stop what they are doing in Gaza….and they are trying to rid Gaza of all Palestinians so that Israel can expand even further.
Just another week full of Donny’s mumbling and tirades….his useless war still is on (or is it….no one is sure these days)….
As usual Donny shows just how incompetent he truly is…..and it just keeps getting bad.
Does anyone remember that big fight that Donny had on the WH grounds?
Did not go as planned…..
Hosting cage fights on the White House lawn doesn’t come cheap. TKO Group Holdings, parent of the UFC, told investors on Monday that June’s “UFC Freedom 250” at the White House cost about $60 million to produce and ultimately shaved roughly $30 million off the company’s bottom line for the event, the Hill reports. The company had anticipated the loss, in part because there were no public ticket sales: About 4,000 guests, including Trump administration officials, lawmakers, business leaders, and service members, attended for free.
The one-off spectacle, held on President Trump’s birthday and attended by UFC CEO Dana White, also helped drag down revenue from live events and hospitality year-over-year. Still, TKO executives defended the show, citing more than $1 billion in “earned media value” and 25 new marketing partners, and said overall quarterly net income rose to $303.9 million, a boost of nearly $31 million from Q2 of 2025. Still, White says not to expect a repeat of the event he praised (“you couldn’t have had a better night”), which Bloomberg notes was the first time a combat sports competition had ever taken place on the White House’s South Lawn. “I can’t afford it,” White said, per USA Today. “We’ll never do this again.”
A loss of $30 million now they know what it cost to help Donny in his lame plans.
There were a couple of good news stories that made Donny fume….first more so-called terrorists at the ‘pool’ were freed….
Prosecutors are backing further away from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool accusations. The US attorney’s office in Washington has moved to dismiss misdemeanor vandalism charges against three more people, days after dropping a felony case against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn. The reversals follow an internal finding that the “widespread damage” to the pool’s new blue lining stemmed from shoddy contractor work, not vandalism, the New York Times reports. President Trump responded by ripping US Attorney Jeanine Pirro over the handling of the case, and he’s talked about firing her, per the Wall Street Journal.
Prosecutors want to drop the cases against Justin Carreno, Sophie Dennison-Gibby, and Cameron Thiers, who all were charged with destruction of property less than $1,000. Pirro said Interior Department officials initially pointed the finger at supposed vandals, even as the new coating began failing within 48 hours of installation. Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a small Virginia firm that received a no-bid contract to make the repairs, is now blamed for a flawed job. That conflicts with the president’s narrative. In the Oval Office on Monday, Trump accused Pirro of having “folded like an umbrella” and “choked,” again insisting, “It was vandalism.” A spokesman for the US attorney’s office declined to say whether any Reflecting Pool cases remain on the books.
At least some of his lies are being corrected.
And then Trump.org account suspended…..
Capital One is now publicly saying why it cut ties with the Trump Organization—and it’s not politics, the bank insists. In a new court filing, Capital One says it shut down hundreds of Trump-related accounts in 2021 after months of internal review over “transaction patterns” that raised anti–money laundering concerns, CNN reports. The bank, which did not accuse the Trump Organization of specific crimes, says a specialized team with long law-enforcement experience handled the analysis and gave the company months to move its money elsewhere.
The Trump Organization sued in federal court in Florida last year, arguing it was “debanked” for “woke” political reasons and suffered major financial fallout. A spokesperson called Capital One’s explanation “completely baseless” and claimed the bank “manufactured” a justification after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack to cover a “plainly” politically driven decision. Capital One is asking the judge to dismiss the case, calling the claims vague and unsupported. In Friday’s filing, the bank said the allegations of political bias are “misguided” and based on “cherry-picked quotations unsupported by the full context” of documents the bank submitted to the court, reports Reuters.
“The transaction patterns identified by Capital One are among the types of activity flagged by federal banking guidance,” the bank wrote. Reuters notes that the court has already rejected two complaints in the case, but has allowed amended complaints to be filed each time. Capitol One said the latest complaint, which was filed last month, “suffers from the same fundamental flaws as their prior two pleadings.”
I’m not surprised….are you?
Our aged Donny has his name of something else….But it is in Morocco…
Morocco has quietly turned a key desert highway into a tribute to the US president, the BBC reports. A newly published letter from King Mohammed VI confirms that the former Tiznit-Dakhla route—running more than 650 miles into the disputed Western Sahara—has been renamed in honor of Donald Trump. The king called the road a “strategic axis” linking northern Morocco to what Rabat describes as the country’s southern provinces. In the July 2 letter, he praised Trump’s 2020 decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, calling it a “historic” move that would remain in Moroccans’ memory “from generation to generation.”
The road—now known as the Donald J. Trump Highway, per the Hill—cuts through territory claimed by both Morocco and the Polisario Front, which seeks independence for the local Sahrawi people. While the UN still classifies Western Sahara as a non-self-governing territory and backs a long-promised referendum that has never happened, some European governments have recently shifted toward supporting Morocco’s plan to grant autonomy, but not independence, to Western Sahara. Trump, who had already thanked the king in a Truth Social post before Morocco confirmed the move, said he hopes to drive the full length of the road “someday, hopefully soon.”
He ought to strut around for awhile.
Then we have a MAGA moron….
Sen. Tuberville of Alabama (who is an idiot) has a plan to stop immigrants from voting in the state elections (there is NO proof they are doing so)
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville warned about immigrants voting in American elections Wednesday, and suggested Alabama may need to build its own border wall to protect against terrorists.
“I’m going to go back to Alabama and, hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state, because I know what’s coming. I can see it coming, I can hear it coming. You can just smell it out there, that they want to take this country over.”
“They’re a lot more aggressive than we are as Americans,” Tuberville said.
A spokesperson told AL.com Tuberville was referring to “radical Islamic terrorists who want to destroy America.”
A great idea! I live next door to Alabama I I do not want to go there…..
Donny hates alternative energy so m,uch that he will pay for it to shutdown….
A major offshore wind player just cashed out of the US—which was the Trump administration’s plan. German energy giant RWE will receive $1.22 billion from the federal government to surrender three offshore wind leases off New York, Louisiana, and California, with the money steered toward liquefied natural gas and gas-fired power projects instead, Reuters reports. It’s the largest in a string of deals this year in which the administration has paid developers to abandon offshore wind plans, part of its broader push to expand fossil fuels and roll back support for clean energy. The government has now spent nearly $4 billion on such settlements, per the AP.
RWE said US permitting made the projects unworkable, so it’s refocusing on projects with “certainty.” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum praised the deal on Thursday, saying Americans “deserve an energy system built on common sense, not one dependent on costly subsidies or technologies that can’t meet our country’s current demand.” Democrats and environmental groups ripped the strategy, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warning it could raise consumers’ energy costs. Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said the lease buybacks are effectively a bribe to companies to step away from clean energy that can displace more expensive fossil fuel plants, which in turn will raise costs for consumers. “They are creating this enormous money pump, pulling billions of dollars out of consumers’ pockets,” Whitehouse said. “That’s the real story of what is going on here.”
Gotta keep the oil giants happy.
Finally, someone has predicted Donny will resign within a month….
An experienced political strategist has suggested that President Donald Trump could quit his post as leader of the United States within months.
In recent months, there have been growing questions about whether Trump is fit to lead, with concerns raised about his health and mental acuity. Trump, who has been accused by his own staff of ‘letting his appearance go’ on purpose after a sloppy discovery, has been seen visiting the Walter Reed medical facility several times in 2026, causing greater attention to be drawn towards his physical as well as his psychological health. This comes as he veers from one strategy to another when it comes to the war with Iran, which has seen gas prices rise around the world, especially in the USA, where people are becoming more worried about the cost of living.
With this in mind, and the potential for a cataclysmic loss in the upcoming midterms, political strategist James Carville believes that Trump will actually resign the presidency early next year. Speaking to the Daily Beast’s Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles, Mr Carville said: “He’s gonna quit. I think he’s going to get up and walk out of it. First of all, he’s not being paid attention to right now. “The Iranians won’t return his phone call. He’s going to lose so decisively in November. You’ve no idea how the world is going to change around him, his power is going to just seep right out. No one’s going to even care. People really don’t care what he says anymore. He is going to walk away.” On when he might walk away, Mr Carville suggested it could be as early as April next year. He said: “I tell people April 15th. “He has no idea what’s coming for him. He has no idea how tough and how difficult [it is]. He’s not up to this. He’s just too old, he’s too fat, he’s too stupid, he can’t do this.” It comes after Karoline Leavitt accidentally humiliated Trump as critics asked about his ‘diaper’.
(themirror.com)
As much as I would like this to be true I think it is basically wishful thinking.
Now to give you something to smile about after all the depressing crap I wrote about….
That does it for me…..please everyone enjoy the rest of your weekend….and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….
Another sweltering week in the Deep South and another week of news that did not make onto the front page….that is where I come in…..
Question of the week: Why do so many women want to be blonde?
Local–Not much interesting happening this past week other than the heat and the humidity.
Personal–After many doctor’s visit the conclusion of that extra shadow on my lung is most likely a scar from radiation but of course they want to keep an eye on it.
I bought a new washing machine, no bells or whistles just a standard top loading simple washer….cost $700 and then found that I have a weak valve that needs replacing and since my home insurance went up to $1500 a month I will have to wait before a get a hook up….ain’t retirement wonderful?
Shall we begin the ordeal?
This person gets my title of “hero”….
An animal-rights influencer in Texas has announced a bounty of $10,000 for the identities of any Wyoming hunters who might lawfully kill gray wolves that venture outside Yellowstone National Park.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department called the bounty an “outrageous” attempt to harass hunters.
Jonas Black of Austin published the reward to Facebook Wednesday. In a post of an AI-generated graphic titled “Wildlife Outlaws,” he offered a $10,000 reward for “information regarding anyone who would harvest [wolf] 1090F or a member of her pack.”
“Anybody harvests one of these wolves during Wyoming’s wolf season and somebody snitches? That snitch gets ten grand cash,” Black wrote. “And the person who pulls the trigger? We’re going to make them famous. What happened to the guy who killed Cecil the lion is going to look like child’s play next to the heat that comes with this one.”
Despite seeking information about lawful hunters, Black told Cowboy State Daily that he is not against hunting and that he supports fair chase. He claims hunting wild wolves that have lived inside Yellowstone is like “shooting a dog.” It is illegal to hunt or trap inside Yellowstone National Park, but game can and does leave its legal boundaries every year.
With all the ‘information’ and I use the term loosely….there are those that keep believing….
Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?
The idea that aliens assisted the builders of ancient monuments was promoted by the Swiss author Erich von Däniken in his bestselling book Chariot of the Gods – published in 1968. Von Däniken died in January 2026, but his vision of ancient astronauts still captivates millions.
The author had pointed to ancient structures such as the pyramids, along with enigmatic ancient artefacts, as supposed evidence that beings from beyond Earth shaped the civilisations of the past.
Though these ideas have been repeatedly debunked, television shows such as the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens continue to air similar narratives.
There are some scientists that are working on those near-death experiences…..
In the 1960s, while filming Cleopatra, the actress Elizabeth Taylor developed such a severe case of pneumonia that she fell into a coma and was pronounced dead by doctors, according to her own account on The Oprah Winfrey Show. While Taylor was in a nonresponsive state, she apparently had a near-death experience. She remembered seeing the doctors working on her in the operating room, and saying they thought they had “lost” her. She remembered a brief reunion with her ex-husband and producer Mike Todd, who had passed away a few years earlier. She remembered Todd telling her it wasn’t yet her time. When she eventually recovered from the coma and the pneumonia, she had lost her fear of death, she told Winfrey.
Taylor’s experience has some of the classic features of a near-death experience, or NDE, a term first coined in 1975 by psychiatrist, philosopher, and researcher Rick Moody, who had one himself. There are now hundreds of such accounts in the research literature, and yet they remain among the most mysterious phenomena known to neuroscience. This is partly because much of what scientists do know about them comes from subjective self-reports from survivors long after the experience is over. But as resuscitation science has improved, more people are surviving life-threatening events, such as comas and cardiac arrest, which is changing the tools we have to plumb their depths.
One Belgian researcher named Charlotte Martial, from the University of Liege, recently completed the first EEG recordings of patients in the throes of near-death experiences and helped to develop a neurophysiological model that she says can explain how they arise and why they might have evolved. I talked with Martial, who has been studying near-death experiences for over a decade, about how NDE memories shift over time, the possible adaptive value of NDEs for humans, and what mysteries remain.
I really do not buy into these things….I guess it is one of those things that one needs to experience.
Let’s venture into the world of weight lose….you know those GLP-1 thingys….
Weight-loss injections may be shrinking waistlines—and blowing up marriages. That’s an emerging concern around GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, as rapid physical change collides with long-established relationships. A Swedish study on gastric band patients found those who lost weight quickly were roughly twice as likely to divorce; its lead researcher tells the Telegraph similar patterns may follow the GLP-1 boom, as one partner’s “new life” leaves the other behind.
In interviews, spouses describe two main shifts: revived desirability and dampened desire. Some, like Emily, say newfound attention from others exposed how sexually dormant their marriages had become. Others report the opposite—partners who slimmed down but seemed emotionally “flat,” less interested in food, fun, and sex. Biologist Giles Yeo notes the drugs don’t just dull appetite; they can blunt reward pathways more broadly. That can mean fewer late-night feasts and wine-fueled parties—but also less enthusiasm for intimacy and shared pleasures. As one husband put it, he never expected his wife’s once-a-week shot would reshape his own life so much. His hope? That “one day soon she decides to go off them.”
There is so much on the negative side to these injections….but a fad is a fad….
This is the best and worse healthcare in the country….
New Hampshire may be better known for its foliage, but a new analysis says its healthcare is what really stands out. WalletHub ranked all 50 states and Washington, DC, on nearly four dozen measures of cost, access, and outcomes and found the Granite State on top. New Hampshire’s edge comes from having the lowest average monthly health insurance premiums in the country, at about $469, and the second-lowest out-of-pocket costs. Here, the top and bottom 10 states:
Have you noticed that most of the worst healthcare is in the South….once again….go figure.
How does your state measure up?
Finally more useless plastic research….
That plastic bottle you just threw away in the recycling bin? According to the latest US industry figures, there is still less than a one-in-three chance that it will be recycled. The US collection rate for PET bottles stood at 30.2% in 2024, while the average recycled content in US PET bottles reached 15.9%.
Even when a bottle is recycled, it may not be turned into another food or beverage bottle. It can instead become packaging, clothing fibre or another product. Repeated processing, contamination and additives can gradually damage the plastic’s properties and limit what manufacturers can make from it.
But what if there was a way to recycle plastic a third, tenth, or even one-hundredth time? Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder believe this is indeed possible for certain plastics designed with recycling in mind. They described how they broke down a type of hard plastic used in aerospace and microelectronics into its basic building blocks. They then used those building blocks to make the same type of plastic again without sacrificing its desirable properties.
It is no secret that I truly dislike the Pentagon boss, Pistol Pete, I believe everything he says and does is wrong on so many levels. His fascination with the male body, his disdain for women, his utter lunacy of warmongering and so on…..but recently he has taking to social media and posted some weird biblical quotes….
As senior military leaders privately warned that the war with Iran was straining U.S. forces, depleting key missile defenses, and leaving the military without sufficient naval resources to continue protecting Israel, the Pentagon turned to Christian scripture in its official social media messaging.
On Saturday, two Defense Department accounts on X posted images overlaid with the words “SEND ME.” The agency’s Rapid Response account published the phrase on a picture of a service member watching a helicopter above an aircraft carrier. Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell quoted Isaiah 6:8 in a post and included the all-caps phrase on an image of a soldier silhouetted in the dark. The Department of War’s official account amplified both posts.
Isaiah 6:8 is a verse that appears in the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament in which the prophet Isaiah answers a divine call. When God asks, “Whom shall I send?” Isaiah replies, “Here am I. Send me.” The passage is widely used in many Christian traditions as an expression of accepting God’s call to a divine mission. The verses that follow describe God sending Isaiah to proclaim a message of judgment that culminates in cities “without inhabitant,” houses emptied of people, and the land left “utterly desolate” before eventual restoration.
angelical culture “almost entirely as a standalone missions text,” commonly invoked at missions conferences, ordinations, and altar calls as a declaration of willingness to serve. “The most important context of Isaiah 6, the part most people miss, is that the devastation falls on God’s covenant people,” Tisby said. “The nation doing the sending, not a foreign enemy, is in view here.”
