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You know what's funny jeff, is I am right FAR more than I am wrong with my predictions.

I only comment on subject that I am confident in my knowledge.

I have been posting the consensus of numerous (majority) of experts in the applicable topics who say the Iran war is an unmitigated disaster that is getting worse by the day.

------- trolls like you can only muster a modicum of tepid criticism against Piggy, because you're scum and want to position yourself for the rare "I told you so" when a Piggy policy actually succeeds.

I would LOVE to be wrong, but you or any of the piggy -------- cannot counter with ANY argument of even slim logic that this war is anything but a catastrophe.

Again, I would LOVE to be wrong, because that would mean all of the coming disaster that will harm me and my loved ones doesn't come to pass

But I am not wrong, my argument IS reality. The counter arguments are weak.

And keep in mind it may be the next 48 hours that decide the next century if Piggy can be believed. Iran won't open the strait meaning he will destroy their power plants which means Iran will retaliate against the gulf countries' oil and water, which if their successful means the collapse of several countries, because the rely nearly completely on desalination plants. Destroying a 1/4 of the world's oil production will have catastrophic effects that will last decades.

Piggy drew a red line in the sand.

It is scary and sad that our best hope is Piggy is lying or Tacos.

It is my deepest hope that he tacos, but I doubt he will given Israel and the US have already attacked Iran's oil production and just yesterday (or the day before) attacked Iran's nuclear plant.

Netanyahu and Piggy are insane.

Assaulting Kharg Island

There are 2 ways to assault Kharg Island-sea and air.

To assault KI by sea would require traversing around 800 miles from open sea to the island. At 25 knots that's around 30 hours. All the while subjected to attack (regardless of what ever defensive measures are taken). A significant portion of that is along a very narrow strait that could be easily mined, requiring even more travel time.

I don't see that as feasible.

To assault KI by air would require helicopters and Osprey aircraft. A Blackhawk helicopter carries 11-12 soldiers or marines. The Osprey between 24 and 32 soldiers and marines

One Marine Expedition Unit (MEU) has around 1200 to 1400 ground combat marines. Supporting troops that might be expected to land would be around another battalion

So, let's say around 1,500 marines in first wave or around 125 Blackhawk helicopter trips or around 50 Osprey trips or combination thereof.

And that is just the initial assault phase

Kuwait is around 150 miles from Kharg Island (I don't believe we have any closer bases)

A Blackhawk can travel that distance in around an hour all out.

I would be literal madness to attempt an assault on KI.

Because ALL that time the marines would be assaulted by artillery, drones, rockets and missiles. I think it fairly safe to assume that Iran has KI surrounded and zeroed in for all of these weapons

While certainly without a doubt the US would attrit this force and would be very active during operations to respond to any attacks, it is insane to think that Iran won't be able to decimate our forces

FWIW Peleliu was attacked by 2 Marine DIVISIONS we are talking 2 marine BATTALIONS for this assault

We are NOT attacking Kharg Island, that is a simple fact

Graham to Trump: Consider removing US bases from countries who won't let us fly from them
thehill.com

Lindsey (girl's name) Graham is too dumb to realize that he is proposing we give Iran exactly what they want. Leaving.

Not that I don't agree. We have troops in the Middle East to provide stability and security so we can get cheap gas. And prop up Israel. We have failed at all of that, except doing Bibi's bidding. Iran knows it, and with enough pressure from Iran, countries are going to start politely telling us to kindly ---- off. Some might not be so kindly.

Everybody except Trump and his corrupt band of -------- knew this would be a --------. And here we are.

I was raised all over the South, traveling with my Military family. I saw some of the mostest 'Suthren' --------- locales in the Nation. Smerna TN, Ardmore OK, Warner Robins GA (the gnat Capitol of America).
As a USAF recruit, I also saw San Antinio, Biloxi, and Altus OK. My experience creds are well earned.

When Dad separated from the USAF, we returned to my birth place, Peoria Il. As a 3rd grader, I had become keenly aware of how the 'Whee Doggy! people' sounded. I didn't want to sound like that, and I very intentionally used TV announcer's pronunciations to model my own diction.

The Peoria area and really all of Central IL, broadly represents lots of Southern Migration roots. Grampa was from KY, Gramma, was from rural Iowa (is that redundant?) , One hears lots of Suthren accents in the river city, , but it signals a different...read 'lower'... economic and social class attitude which has decided to maintain the Clampet Family speak.

If you don't think that poor grammar, bad diction, low vocabulary command and exaggerated 'Suthren' dialect doesn't matter in economic and social stratification, and that it has no impact in one's destiny, I would suggest a reexamination of that assumption.

Disregard for grammar, diction, proper pronunciation and a poor language skills, and the embrace of 'semi closed societal dialects' will likely carry a negative outcome impact, and can limit opportunity for personal outcomes.

Reread George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' for a clearer metaphorical explanation.

IMHO, Grammar matters. Diction Matters. One ignores that advice at one's own economic risk.

Sources:

Ron DeSatan Wants Contractors to Make More Money Off of American Taxpayers and Air Travelers

GOP and AIPAC Money Recipients Want to Maintain DHS and ICE to Enforce US Police State

Status quo and AIPAC-funded politicians from both parties do not want to abolish ICE or DHS, but rather they want to "fix" it. There is no "fixing" ICE and DHS other than completely scrapping these two organs of the American police state. Nobody wanted to "fix" the Gestapo of the Third Reich at the end of the Second World War. Progressives in the US Congress must stand firm on defunding and abolishing ICE and DHS.


Amerikkka's Masked "Disappearance Squads"

More than 100 boats and 3,000 Samaritans from around the globe are set to depart from Spanish and Italian ports for Gaza on 12 April.

Six Canadians were detained by Israel for attempting a similar mission several months ago.

Health-care workers, journalists, and builders hoping to provide aid and help in Gazan reconstruction efforts will sail on the fleet of ships, along with medicine and other life-saving supplies.

Hanging over the planned sailing is the possibility the boats will be intercepted by Israeli forces and passengers detained, as has been the case for dozens of ships in the past two decades, with none reaching Gaza since 2008.

In late 2025, the IDF mercilessly harangued Greta Thunberg's flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea. After capturing her and hundreds of other humanitarians, the IDF abused poor Greta Thunberg by forcing her to watch films of dead bodies.

On 21 Sep 2025, Canada PM Mark Carney finally recognized the State of Palestine and declared that he would arrest ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu should he step foot in Canadian jurisdiction. Similarly, popular and effective NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) declared that he would order the NYPD to arrest notorious international fugitive from justice Benjamin Netanyahu should he step foot into NYC jurisdiction. Link: War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

On 2 May 2011, the US government held al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden accountable for the deaths of 2,977 people from 93 nations killed on 9/11. Yet ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has been evading justice for the deaths of over 77,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

International arrest warrants for war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague remain active for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former IDF General Yoav Gallant. In addition, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor in Turkiye issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 30 other suspected Israeli war criminals.

INTERPOL Red Notices have been internationally diffused for these dangerous fugitives from justice. Any government can arrest them based on "universal jurisdiction." In 1960, the Israeli Mossad abducted mass murderer Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina for crimes he committed in Europe for which he was then tried and executed in Israel.

Indictments are merely allegations. To ensure a fair trial, Messrs Netanyahu and Gallant must both be presumed innocent until they are proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt at an international tribunal to be held for them in the Hague at future dates.


The US midterm elections are on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

On his first day of seizing power on 20 Jan 2025, Dummkopf Trumpf signed a ukase to restore and promote the death penalty across the US.

Link: POTUS: "Execute Enemies of the State ASAP"

The barbarity of executing people: 11 Minutes to Die

Since 1973, at least 202 innocent people have been wrongly executed in the US.

14 people have been scheduled for execution in the US in 2026, including one this month.

On 31 March, Florida intends to separate the soul of James Duckett from his body. This convicted child murderer and serial sex offender is a former police officer and suspected in other unsolved cases. Once dead, Duckett takes to the grave any information he may know about those victims and other unsolved cases.

Link: Legalized Lynching in Red States


Cash Brothers - Night Shift Guru (2001)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Oh I know my job's just working in a store
I've got an L on my forehead and a stupid uniform
It's 7/11, it's twenty-four seven
I'm the night shift guru, made to serve you

How do you do

And I'm watching myself performing on tv
And it's an 8 by 5, 7/11 screen
And I'm punching in potato chips
And sugared water and cigarettes and dream magazines

Flourescent ceiling light, well it's alright in the day
But it lights the nighttime like a freak show parade
Grandmothers and lovers, kid brothers bus drivers and whores
But they're looking for more, they're looking for more

And I'm watching myself performing on tv
And it's an 8 by 5, 7/11 screen
And I'm punching in potato chips
And sugared water and cigarettes and dream magazines

Presidents and condiments and cheese
Squeeze 'em hard and what you get is grease
And I'm punching in anti-freeze and condoms and processed cheese
And me here to please
...

Poi Dog Pondering- Everybody's Trying (1989)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
I know you're bitter, but why, why, why?
Don't you know that two wrongs don't make a right?
It's not that simple, no
It's not that simple

[Chorus]
But everybody's trying to figure it out
Everybody's trying to work it on out
Everybody's trying to figure it out
Everybody's trying to work it on out
...


If I may be so bold as to divert this comment away from "instruments" and towards "songwriters" ...

Dawes - A Little Bit of Everything (2011)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt...

genius.com

...
With his back against the San Francisco traffic
On the bridge's side that faces towards the jail
Setting out to join a demographic
He hoists his first leg up over the rail

A phone call's made, police cars show up quickly
The sergeant slams his passenger door
He says, "Hey son why don't you talk through this with me?
Just tell me what you're doing it for"

"Oh, it's a little bit of everything
It's the mountains, it's the fog
It's the news at six o'clock
It's the death of my first dog"

"It's the angels up above me
It's the song that they don't sing
It's a little bit of verything"

There's an oldr man who stands in a buffet line
He is smiling and he's holding out his plate
And the further he looks back into his timeline
That hard road always led him to today

Making up for when his bright future had left him
Making up for the fact his only son is gone
And letting everything out once, his server asks him
"Have you figured out yet, what it is you want?"

I want a little bit of everything
The biscuits and the beans
Whatever helps me to forget about
The things that brought me to my knees

So pile on those mashed potatoes
And an extra chicken wing
I'm having a little bit of everything

Somewhere a pretty girl is writing invitations
To a wedding she has scheduled for the fall
Her man says, "Baby, can I make an observation?
You don't seem to be having any fun at all."

She said, "You just worry about your groomsmen and your shirt-size
And rest assured that this is making me feel good."
I think that love is so much easier than you realize
If you can give yourself to someone, then you should

Cause it's a little bit of everything
The way you joke, the way you ache
It is getting up before you
So I can watch you as you wake

So on the day in late September
It's not some stupid little ring
I'm getting a little bit of everything
Oh, it's a little bit of everything
It's the matador and the bull
It's the suggested daily dosage
It's the red moon when it's full

All these psychics and these doctors
They're all right and they're all wrong
It's like trying to make out every word
When they should simply hum along

It's not some message written in the dark
Or some truth that no one's seen
It's a little bit of everything
...



Trik Turner - Friends & Family (2003)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Some call me a loser
Some call me a cheater
Some say I'm a selfish untalented dreamer
Cause all's I try to do is keep my dream alive

But it's so hard to do when you're working 9 to 5
I've never been one afraid to die
But I'm afraid to leave behind
The precious life that grows through the sands of time
Cause now I've got two daughters
And I know they need their father
To help them make it through all of the devious things that people do

Cause every moment counts from the good times to the bad
I don't have time to envy those that got things I've never had
Cause the one thing most important is the one we take for granted
And until your life is on that line I think it's the way god had planned it
To open up your eyes and make you realize
That to some life is money
But what's money without life

Cause all's I need is the air that I breathe
And my friends and family to believe in me

[Chorus]
As deep as the abyss where the waters run
As deep as the land of the rising sun
You know I'm down
And even when them odds are against us
It doesn't even matter
Nothing else matters

As deep as the abyss where the waters run
As deep as the land of the rising sun
You know I'm down
And even when them odds are against us
It doesn't even matter
Nothing else matters

[Verse 2]
We bleed the same blood
We cry the same tears
We have the same fears
We pass the same years
We see the same stars
Under the same skies
We pass the same time
We all live and die

Cause friends and family wash thicker than blood
And if ya' never felt love than I feel for you cuz'
Cuz' lives pass above us 747's
Deceased dwell below us
Before they go to heaven

Deep like seven leagues life intrigues intelligence
Got no time for clutter, you're late if there's hesitance
Put your foot forward and there will be a helping hand
Take a step back and you're stuck in the quick sand
Ingesting toxins keeps us locked in, a mental jail trap
2000' where's your family at

[Bridge:]
Oh, and I might fail
Oh, I might succeed
Whatever the outcome is
Just keep your faith in me
Just believe in me
And I will be there

[Chorus]
As deep as the abyss where the waters run
As deep as the land of the rising sun
You know I'm down
And even when them odds are against us
It doesn't even matter
Nothing else matters

As deep as the abyss where the waters run
As deep as the land of the rising sun
You know I'm down
And even when them odds are against us
It doesn't even matter
Nothing else matters

As deep as the abyss where the waters run
As deep as the land of the rising sun
You know I'm down
And even when them odds are against us
It doesn't even matter
Nothing else matters
...


Luna - Superfreaky Memories (1999)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Well they're swapping pharmaceuticals in Mussolini Park
And they're wigglin' and wobbilin' and dozin' in the dark
And it's winter in New Jersey and it's Christmas in New York
With a giggle and a stare and a bottle and a cork

And Kristina took your photo with a needle and a spoon
But she said we got to hurry cos her dad will be home soon
And these superfreaky memories have put me in my place
But then my superfreaky memories are gone without a trace

Please excuse my eyes
Please excuse my hands
Please excuse my eyes
Put me in my place

Please excuse my eyes
Please excuse my hands
Please excuse my eyes
Put me in my place

In a dirty little room in a nasty little world
You were out of your mind you were throwin' up your hands
You were makin' crazy plans left a message on the mirror
And your mouth was making words but there was nobody there

Now the years are rolling by and you don't get any wiser
And the years are rolling on but you're going round and round
And these superfreaky memories have put me in my place
But my superfreaky memories are gone without a trace
...


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