Hi Nerfherder:

I enjoyed a few trips to Switzerland decades ago. I recall a little chapel on a tiny island in a lake on one of my drives. Someone pointed out to me hidden pill-boxes and bunkers on the sides of the mountains, too. One hotel I stayed at was near an old League of Nations building. I can't recall all the details now. My mistake was not buying a used Rolex or Omega from one of the second-hand shops in Zurich or Geneva-- they are just as good as new ones.

*** IDF General: "There is no ceasefire for IDF in Lebanon ***

No kidding. IDF attacks in Lebanon yesterday killed nine people, including two paramedics.

To the southwest, the death toll in Gaza increased to 72,969. By next week the IDF will reach 73,000 dead Muslims in Gaza. In the month of May, the IDF killed 119 Palestinians, despite the so-called "cease-fire." By pen and paper calculations at this rate of attrition, the IDF will have liquidated approximately 74,000 Palestinians in Gaza by the end of the year.

Estimating the total 2026 death count for Palestinians in the West Bank is a bit trickier, as the lunatic Settlers operate ad hoc, usually going on their rampages on Thursdays, but no casualty pattern has been established.

I'm sure you cadets called ROTC "Run Over To Canada" back in the day.

Like the Honeymooners, less is more with the Night Stalker.

They covered just about every ghoul, creature, and monster out there anyway.

When I used to watch TV, that was one of the series.

And Max von Sydow was just too good.

Puerto Rico has by far the highest per capita rate of military service of any state/territory. 23% of people born on the Island of Puerto Rico have served in the military dwarfing second place Alaska's at 8%.

Nearly 1 in 4 Puerto Ricans have served in the US military.

USMC aviation owes something to Puerto Rico. On 6 January 1914, 1LT Bernard L. Smith established the Marine Section of the Navy Flying School in the island municipality of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rican Infantry Regiment LTC Teofilo Marxuach (28 July 1877 - 8 November 1939) was the officer who ordered the first shots fired in World War I on behalf of the US when a German cargo liner tried to leave San Juan Bay without permission (21 March 1915).

My first unofficial military teachers in NYC were two Puerto Rican brothers who were Vietnam War veterans and they taught me a lot.

Good Morning Doc Sarvis:

Jeepers! The ink is barely dry on my OP and Max von Sydow has already been sh*t-canned.

You're right, at times the Vatican moves like a brontosaurus-- this time they attacked like velociraptors.

I am surprised you didn't catch the words of the Immortal Bard uttered by Kang.

BTW: In the early 1970s, the cult classic TV show The Night Stalker was cancelled over budget and salary issues. Anyway, the producers had an unaired script about Carl Kolchak uncovering a plot where US politicians are being secretly replaced by aliens.

Maybe Kang, Kodos, or both.

The canceled off-shore wind project would have saved New Yorkers $10bn in energy bills, brought more than 1,700 jobs to the Empire State, and powered 1.7m homes.

Joining NYS AG Letitia James (D) in the lawsuit are the attorneys general of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

NYSAG James and the coalition are asking the court to strike down the plainly unlawful agreement, vacate the lease cancellation, and stop the junta from taking further action to implement this illegal deal.

~snip~

The insidious Trumpf junta is directly hurting NYS " as well as other Blue States in this election year" as well damaging the environment to help the fossil fuel industry of Texas and their good-for-nothing Republican candidates and energy company magnates.

*** Bill Pulte is as Popular as JD Vantz or an Intestinal Blockage ***

"Senate Democrats are privately urging GOP leaders to pressure Dummkopf Trumpf to withdraw his appointment of oligarch Bill Pulte as acting DNI " and threatening to tank a bipartisan FISA deal if the Dotard refuses. Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use his influence with the White House to reverse Trumpf's move to install lickspittle Bill Pulte as overseer of the nation's 18 intelligence agencies."

*** Crapulent Broadcasting System (CBS) Fires Scott Pelley; No Surprises ***

*** Decomposing Dotard Wants to Name Worthless Todd Blanche USAG ***

"...with police firing water cannons at crowds that included children."

The Albanians must really be pissed at the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF).

Disgraced ex-NYC Mayor Eric Adams was just granted Albanian citizenship; guess that didn't help the most hated family on the planet.

Oy!

Reminded me of a Rorschach test.

"So, what do you see here?"

"Chaos, cancer, turmoil, malice, nothing redeemable whatsoever."

"At the Federal Housing Finance Agency, good-for-nothing multi-millionaire Bill Pulte levied mortgage fraud allegations against several of Dummkopf Trumpf's perceived political enemies, including NYS AG Letitia James, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), as well as Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

None have so far resulted in any convictions.

Former CIA officer John Sipher said Pulte's track record suggests he's meant to run a detective agency for the morbidly obese draft-dodging geriatric pedophilic president using the director of national intelligence' office."

Good-for-nothing unpopular oligarch Bill Pulte has a net worth of $105m according to open source reporting.

US national security continues to be flushed down the toilet with incompetent, Islamophobic appointments, all to the Kremlin's and Benjamin Netanyahu's delight.

FTA: "A flesh-eating parasite that feeds on warm-blooded animals has been detected in the US for the first time since 1966."

1966!

Hi Clownshack

What did you think of Dummkopf Trumpf's portrait for the new $250 bill that I inserted?

*** Good-for-Nothing Empty Suit Marco Rubio Throws RFK Jr Under Bus Over Vaccines ***

"The US may resume funding for a global humanitarian vaccine alliance, reversing a decision by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to hold up the money because of vaccine concerns, vapid USSECSTATE Marco Rubio bleated to a US Senate panel.

Rubio sniveled to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the State Department was wresting back control of the US relationship with Gavi, an organization that distributes vaccines to developing countries.

Congress has long provided a large part of Gavi's budget, and the DOS has historically overseen Gavi funding. But RFK Jr and HHS have been holding up $600m in previously appropriated money because of vaccines he believes are unsafe."

Chief Exorcist Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti: "But there's a danger here ... as an exorcist, I wanted to raise that danger: and that is that demons like to hide, they don't want us to know they're around. They don't want us to know what they're doing because they're more effective when we don't realize it. And they can kind of get into your head ... and manipulate things in the world to influence us to do evil."

Rossetti said Ephesians 6:12 makes clear that humanity is engaged in warfare against spiritual forces of wickedness in high places and encourages Christians to "put on the armor of God" to resist them.

~snip~

*** Worst Person in the World Going to Make More Money for Himself After Screwing Over Las Vegas ***

SpaceX aims to make its stock market debut at $1.77 trillion value

"Creepy"

*** Nefarious Trumpf Junta Censoring "Stars and Stripes" Newspaper ***

This is the newspaper where the late, great war correspondents Andy Rooney and Ernie Pyle made their bones.

"Two advisory board members of Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence from the government, sued the DOD , alleging that an effort to impose new restrictions on the paper was an act of illegal censorship.

The complaint, filed in federal district court in Washington, comes from Susan "Suki" Dardarian and William "Bill" Church, two Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalists on the Stripes advisory board. Dardarian is a former editor and senior vice president of the Minnesota Star Tribune, and Church is the executive editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper.

In March, the DOD outlined a broad "modernization" effort for the newspaper. That memo followed up on a pledge made in January to overhaul the publication and rid it of "woke distractions." In April, Trumpf junta apparatchik Sean Parnell fired the publication's ombudsman, a role charged by Congress with safeguarding the paper's editorial independence."

"Coriolanus may be incessant, and there are killfile options if you stare unbearably annoyed, but he's essentially on the right track.
There is an element in the democrat party (and the left historically) which is PEP (Progressive Except for Palestine).
The democrats' greatest weaknesses are their support for Israel and the ever-increasing security state."

#15 | Posted by Nerfherder at 2026-06-03 07:31 PM | Reply: I stand with the underdog, that is all

"PEP" is an apt term for the Januses: Democratic Party in the US/Likud Party in Israel.

If 73,041 Israelis were slaughtered in the Gaza Strip, 20,179 of them children, I would be "incessant" about stopping the killing of those Jews.

The Gaza Strip is an American taxpayer-funded abbatoir which makes "suckers and losers" of us in the US.

Particularly galling is that nuclear-armed Israel is a wealthy country with world class universal healthcare for all of their residents AND Israel gets America to send them free money every year while our military helps kill Muslims for them.

Now the American taxpayer is on the hook for $101bn and even less money for our social safety nets-- never mind just thinking about universal healthcare.