Day: June 19, 2026

Scotland Forever

The World Cup has begun and the country of Scotland is setting records….not on the pitch but on urban society….

First they set a record while singing the Scottish national anthem….

Scotland’s World Cup fans made some noise—and possibly a bit of history—outside Boston. A sound meter at Gillette Stadium hit 125 decibels during the singalong for the “Flower of Scotland” anthem before the team’s 1–0 win over Haiti, reports the Times of London. If verified, it would be the loudest noise ever recorded at a World Cup match. The mark also smashes the stadium’s previous record (at an NFL game) by nearly 20 decibels and tops the 116-decibel mark Brazil fans hit at a past tournament, per the Scottish Daily Express. It is, however, well short of the loudest crowd noise on record, 142.2 decibels for a 2014 Kansas City Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium.

Audiology experts are less celebratory. They liken 125 decibels to standing next to a rock-concert speaker or siren, with “safe” exposure measured in seconds, not minutes. That kind of sound can trigger immediate ringing, muffled hearing, or permanent damage, and they urge supporters to use earplugs or step away from the stands periodically if things get that rowdy.

Then there is the beer thing…..

The parent company of Sam Adams said its Boston Taproom ran out of the brand’s flagship Boston Lager over the weekend because Scotland soccer fans in Boston for the 2026 World Cup drank four times as much as the bar usually sells.

Boston Beer Co. said in a news release that from Thursday to Sunday, the Tartan Army — Scotland’s supporters organization — drank four times what the company normally stocks during a typical four-day holiday stretch like the Fourth of July, adding that it had to schedule an emergency delivery of beer Saturday morning and are adding extra deliveries this week to make sure it has enough.

“We’ve never seen anything like it,” Billy DeCain of the Sam Adams Boston Taproom told NBC Boston.

“The White Bull Tavern, there was no beer,” Scottish fan Dave Orr told NBC. “The Scottish fans just drank the place dry and all they had was Bud Light.”

“Pretty much everything. We ran out of everything,” Paul Morris of The White Bull Tavern said. “Tennent’s being number one.

“The fans have been unbelievable. They’re great — fun, drinking, partying — having a great time.”

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/49096272/scotland-fans-drink-boston-dry-local-bars-run-beer-world-cup

Okay I am starting to like Scotland and its fans….after all I am a fan of Sam Adams Boston Lager as well…..

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Talks Postponed (Go Figure)

Israel said it did not like the deal with Iran and that they would wreck it as soon as possible.

Well that was quicker than I had thought….

Israel’s military said Friday its forces struck targets throughout southern Lebanon overnight as Hezbollah reported intense fighting in the area, threatening the nascent agreement between Iran and the United States to end their war. Talks planned for Friday in Switzerland between Iran and the US, which Vice President JD Vance had been scheduled to attend, were postponed as the fighting intensified. Mediators worked to reschedule the meetings crucial for starting talks over a permanent end to the Iran war, with much of the attention focused on Lebanon, regional officials said.

Meanwhile, the death toll in Lebanon rose sharply. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported at least 18 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes, which the Israeli military said were ongoing. Israel said four of its soldiers had been killed in fighting in southern Lebanon, including a lieutenant colonel. An explosive drone attack hurt another five, it added.

  • Continued fighting in Lebanon could unravel the newly signed deal, which calls for an immediate halt to military operations “on all fronts, including in Lebanon,” where Israel has been battling the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, and for ensuring Lebanon’s “territorial integrity and sovereignty.”
  • The deal aims to end the war and has reopened the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping, while bringing the US and Iran back to the negotiating table over Tehran’s nuclear program. Israel and Hezbollah are not parties to the agreement. Iran insists Israel must withdraw from the large swath of southern Lebanon it is occupying, but the wording of the interim deal doesn’t explicitly require that. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces elections later this year, has refused to withdraw. He said Thursday that Israeli forces will remain in a “security zone” of southern Lebanon as long as “Israel’s security needs require it.”
  • Two regional officials, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door talks, said mediators were focused on calming the fighting in Lebanon. One said Iran pulled out of the Switzerland meeting specifically over the fighting and Netanyahu’s comments, describing them as violating the interim deal between Iran and the US. Two other regional officials, similarly speaking on condition of anonymity, described Pakistan as being “stunned” by Iran’s decision not to go to the talks Friday.
  • The AP reports that Vance had been prepared to make an overnight flight Friday to meet with his Iranian counterparts at a mountainside resort in a tiny Swiss village and begin the technical talks. His staff and a small pack of journalists had even gathered at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington in anticipation of the trip. Meanwhile, dozens of White House officials, advance staffers, and more media gathered in Switzerland to prepare for Vance’s anticipated arrival. “The logistics of these negotiations have never been simple or predictable,” the White House said in a statement after the trip was abruptly called off.

It will be interesting to see just how Donny takes his master plan of a deal will shape out while Israel continues it’s blood lust for civilian deaths in Lebanon.

Any thoughts on this turn of events?

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It Was A Matter Of Time

Before the Sharpie is even dry on the ceasefire deal with Iran Israel is doing what many of us thought they would do….be a thorn in the ass of the world.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel’s military will stay in southern Lebanon, where it has occupied up to 6 miles from the border. In his first comments since the US-Iran deal was signed, Netanyahu said Israel must “maintain a security zone in southern Lebanon, and it requires that we must not leave there as long as Israel’s security needs require it,” the AP reports. He has made similar comments in the past about Israel’s refusal to withdraw from southern Lebanon.

The US-Iran deal to end the war in the Middle East, signed overnight, also calls for an end to the war in Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting the militant Hezbollah group, but it’s unclear what that means in practice. Speaking to a Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese news outlet Thursday, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry said a continued Israeli military presence in Lebanon would mean the “annulment” of the memorandum of understanding, the Times of Israel reports.

“It was not acceptable for us to abandon our brothers in Lebanon,” the spokesman said. “We cannot talk about ending the war while parts of Lebanese territory remain under the occupation of the Zionist entity. As long as the occupation continues, it can be said that the war is still in place and has not ended in essence.” President Trump has repeatedly criticized Netanyahu and Israel’s military actions in Lebanon in recent weeks. Israeli sources tell Reuters that Israel is holding “stubborn” talks with the US over extending the Lebanon deployment.

Many of us knew this was coming….Israel will not stop its pathetic imperial desires.

The Israeli money will start working overtime….

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is aiming to influence the terms of the final US-Iran deal through pro-Israel “right-wing” media figures, CNN reported on Thursday, citing an Israeli official.

The only media figure mentioned by name in the report was Mark Levin, a long-time radio broadcaster and Fox News host, who is extremely pro-war and pro-Israel and has been harshly critical of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding to end the conflict.

Levin suggested in a post on X on Thursday that the US should pursue a different strategy to get through the midterm elections and then restart the war.

Time for a change in strategy. We should consider slow walking the enemy, building up our munitions, our oil reserves, get the price of gasoline down, get through the midterms, then knock them out,” Levin said. “Instead of rushing to a deal, building up their oil industry, transferring billions to them, etc.”

During the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, Trump defended Levin from criticism from other conservative commentators who opposed the war. “Mark Levin, a truly Great American Patriot, is somewhat under siege by other people with far less Intellect, Capability, and Love for our Country,” Trump said in a long post on Truth Social in March.

(antiwar.com)

Israel will use the MAGA pipeline to sell their lies and misinformation and the MSM will go along with these lies….and Israel will be allowed to torpedo the peace deal.

Only a matter of time before this whole situation flares again.

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