Good shot. I forgot that tune.

Many talented athletes, musicians, boxers, become eclipsed by the greats and their works become forgotten and less appreciated.

But they were good too.

Andy Roddick in tennis. He won only one Grand Slam.

The great boxers in the 1960s that Muhammad Ali beat.

The Zombies, Yardbirds, Kinks etc against the Beatles, the Who, and the Rolling Stones.

Great movies were also eclipsed by even greater ones and too many to name now.

Fine, thanks Clownshack.

My buddy's cooking for us tonight, so we'll play Spades and listen to Schubert afterwards.

White wine never hurts and I enjoy the whiffs of his medicinal "herbs."

The words of California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) at the Munich Security Conference earlier this year ring so hollowly when he beseeched our allies not to give up on the US: "Trumpf is temporary-- he's gone in three years."

But ICE, SCOTUS, Republican Senators, AIPAC, oligarchs, Trumpf's name on currency, streets, and an airport, and the TCF will still be here on 21 Jan 2029.

And who will the next non-Republican Party administration fill his/her new cabinet with?

The same re-treads and dinosaurs who brought us Weimar Republic 2.0-- with a much depleted treasury to work with to boot, thanks to the BBB.

Unless hardcore ethical progressives win each election in 2026, 2027, and 2028, we'll still be in the same boat-- just a new Skipper running the SS Minnow.

"Gilligan!"

Ken Griffin's head would have been in a Parisian wicker-basket in Sep 1789.

You said it, Clownshack.

How are you, Clownshack?

I'm still enjoying Elmer Gantry as you may have noticed in my other OP.

Anyways, this ukase is just another example of the "Israelization" of Amerikkka.

ICE has been using hi-tech Israeli surveillance equipment in the US without a warrant and DHS has been conducting training with the IDF for years.

*** RUMINT: Teetotaler Dummkopf Ready to Fire Alcoholic D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel ***

One more drunkard still aboard the fast-sinking USS Trumpftanic: US Secretary of War Crimes Pete "Hic!" Kegsbreath.

Ameriikkka's de facto Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Director of ICE:

USCIS, CBP, and ICE can now consider having this imagery in a Smartphone as grounds for denying an immigrant applicant a Green Card or prohibiting a foreigner entry into the US, like Peace Samaritan Greta Thunberg.

Hi DBT2

Years ago I heard a similar story about Ray Davies but didn't know the sympatico was poor Joe Frazier.

BTW: Chrissie Hynde was 14 years old when "You Really Got Me" debuted. A few years later she attended Kent State when the National Guard massacred the students.

As "Mayor of the World," Zohran Mamdani (D) has already met former Irish President Mary Robinson on St Patrick's Day and over the next four years he will meet more world leaders when they visit UNGA in Sep 2026.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum and Ukraine President Volodomir Zelensky will enjoy meeting NYC's popular and effective young mayor.

That's why Zohran Mamdani is a painful pebble in the shoe of AIPAC and why Islamophobes John Fetterman (D-Israel), mega-oligarch Michael Bloomberg, Laura Loomer, Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Cuomo, George Santos, House Republicans Chip Roy (R-TX) and Randy Fine (R-FL) ad nauseum all try and discredit the poor guy.

But with the help of New York's Finest and clean living, Zohran Mamdani should be around for the next four years as mayor and probably more after his re-election in Nov 2029.

*** Dummkopf Trumpf is All-at-Sea Over his Idiotic War Against Iran on Behalf of Wealthy Israel ***

"I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be (Their naval ships are ALL, 159 of them, at the bottom of the sea!), that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our mine sweepers' are clearing the Strait right now. I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level! Thank you for your attention to this matter. DUMMKOPF J. TRUMPF"

The four pro-Kremlin operatives are accused of backing Russia's armed aggression against the people of Ukraine, publicly demanding the abuse of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and calling for Russian airstrikes on civilian cities. One of the clerics used Telegram chats to encourage violence against Ukrainian servicemen held in Russian captivity: "Keep them for long periods without food or water and 'put them through hell'."

Calling for torture of defenseless prisoners is real Christian behavior, right?

~snip~

At the battlefront, Russia lost 1,230 soldiers killed or wounded over the past 24 hours, bringing its total number of personnel losses to 1,324,690.

An international arrest warrant for war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague remain active for Russia President Vladimir Putin.

An INTERPOL Red Notice has been internationally diffused for this notorious fugitive from justice.

An indictment is merely an allegation. To ensure a fair trial, Mr Putin must be presumed innocent until he is proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt at an international tribunal to be held for him in the Hague at a future date.

When King Charles III visits Washington DC, there is a potential that he might address the US Congress. This is not confirmed.

Sidenote: Queen Camilla's brother Mark Shand (62) died on 23 April 2014 outside the Gramercy Park Hotel bar in Manhattan. A smoker, Mr Shand went outside to the designated area for a puff and somehow stumbled on the curb, fatally dashing his head.

Good thing King Charles III and Queen Camilla won't have to suffer with either of these two banal super-losers during the NYC portion of their state visit to America, but they will have to deal with Dummkopf Trumpf and First Strumpet Melanoma at the White House.

Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel walks in the footsteps of J. Edgar Hoover, William Webster, and Robert Mueller. American national security is in good hands today, isn't it?

*** Christian Youth Pastor Gets Two Life Sentences for Raping Pre-Teen Girls ***

A Cherokee County Georgia judge sentenced Reyes Hernandez-Macario (26) to two consecutive life sentences after a jury found him guilty of raping two girls under the age of 13 in separate attacks in Canton and Woodstock.

The charges included:

Two counts of rape
Two counts of child molestation
Two counts of false imprisonment
Two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree

Just as Sinclair Lewis pointed out about the Christian clergy 100 years ago.

"Oh, a lovely record!"

*** Sinister Trumpf Junta Considering Using Defense Production Act to Take Over Spirit Airlines ***

For a coward who avoided the military during Vietnam, Dummkopf Trumpf is using the American military everywhere: DOD JAGs assigned as Immigration Judges, US Soldiers on the streets to support ICE, militarizing the Mexican border, and now this.

"He Fires the NAVY Secretary, has him walked out of the building' by security."

Dumpster fire is right. What a shhtshow at the Pentagon.

No wonder morale is rock bottom there.

The American Weimar Republic lost its incumbency in 2024 and now we live in a nuclear-armed Banana Republic.

Too bad USAG Merrick Garland didn't unleash the locusts on Dummkopf Trumpf by giving Special Counsel Jack Smith access to the Epstein files the moment he returned from the Hague in the spring of 2021.

Nice ring indeed.

Our favorite Marine hits a bunt double.

"Argh! Leave the God-awful remains of my prez-nint alone, you Demon-crats! Blargh!"

Here's a "frickin intellectual genius," Marine.

Indeed, the race would not have been close in a normal society or nation like Canada, the UK, or Germany.

If we subtract the seven million pacifists and antiwar Samaritans who didn't support Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in 2024 (leaving them 73,912,254 supporters), the Democrats should have still beaten the "conman, liar, felon, rapist, insurrectionist, multi-divorced, cheater, mocker of the disabled, dumb, corrupt, fraudster, self=admitted violent sexual predator, pedophile, immoral, depraved, thief, stealer of state secrets, anti-democratic, venal, selfish, narcissist, sociopath."

So, who the heck are these 76,535,898 imbeciles that voted for fringe politician Dummkopf Trumpf on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024?

Just a reminder: Congress crafted the Big Beautiful Bill in an insidious manner so that the horrible effects will impact everyday working Americans after the midterm elections on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

The superrich got their unneeded tax break, sacrificing our already meager social safety net.

If life is hard for us now, just wait until the austerity measures kick in after 3 Nov 2026.

I know struggling people today-- close to 70 -- who are still forced to work instead of retiring.

Things will become far worse economically for poor Americans in seven months, despite which political party wins the mid-term elections.

In a few weeks, PBS and NPR will air shows all month long about the Holocaust and the genocide to remind the Gentiles of America to support Israel no matter what, despite all the ethnic cleansing and war crimes the IDF commits in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran.

Maybe Canadian broadcasters will air such shows as well. Canada has AMI, an analog of sorts to American PBS.

If you still watch TV, you'll notice the run up to 14 May.

And please send that check every year!