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#66 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-18 08:42 PM | Reply

Hi Corky:

I never understood why Ronald Harkai (the drummer for The Outsiders) wore his "Clark Kents" on national television.

As a former drummer I can tell you, for a simple non-Neal Peart or non-Stewart Copeland-kit, one doesn't need spectacles.

Thanks for posting this song. I posted a 1966 song on a different thread for a different reason.

Hang in there is right, EffetePoser.

Karen Philipp (the blonde singer on the right) resides in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Hmmmm, meanwhile HBCUs are seeing unprecedented enrollment.
What ever could it mean?

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-18 09:03 PM | Reply | Flag

And in a country awash with billionaires and oligarchs, nobody saved Lincoln College in Illinois from financial demise.

Suicide statistical information informs Congress, researchers, and senior leaders across the services on efforts to combat military suicide, a persistent problem. In 2023, there were 523 suicides among US servicemembers, averaging over one per day.

On Friday Fire Controlman 1st Class Alonzo Tablet Martin Jr, a sailor located at Naval Station Norfolk, VA, was discovered dead inside the command's building. He was an instructor at Surface Combat Systems Training Command Detachment Middle Atlantic and his cause of death is under investigation.

The 2023 DOD suicide report showed that young enlisted men accounted for the largest share of suicide deaths in the US military. That mirrors broader national trends. American men are nearly four times more likely to die by suicide than women.

Firearms were involved in roughly half of all US suicide deaths in 2023, and previous military reports have repeatedly identified access to firearms as a risk factor, particularly for younger enlisted personnel.

Some military leaders recently emphasized suicide prevention needs during the holiday season. In November, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll directed supervisors across the Army to conduct daily check-ins with their subordinates through mid-January.
Though the initiative was initially lauded, some supervisors and troops online have described the mandatory directive as unintentionally burdensome.

The broader Pentagon reporting delays coincide with certain organizational changes inside the Army. A September Army memo highlighted plans to disband its directorate responsible for overseeing soldier quality-of-life issues, known as a G-9, citing "administrative convenience." The responsibilities of that office have since been folded into the service's human resources directorate."

**** US Sending Soldiers to Military Exercise in Norway ****

"The upcoming Cold Response 2026 will be the largest military exercise in Norway in 2026 with an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 participants from more than ten countries. "There will be about 4,000 US soldiers," said spokesperson Vegard Norstad Finberg with the Norwegian Armed Forces when asked by the Barents Observer. The live phase of the exercise, which will train how quickly allied troops can be dispatched to protect the northern regions of Norway and Finland, kicks off on March 9 and will last for ten days. The US troops will for the most operate on land in Northern Norway. "This is primarily near the Norwegian Army's garrisons in Troms."

This is notable because in 2025 Dummkopf Trumpf signaled the US wouldn't be participating in NATO exercises after 2025.

The Dotard-in-Chief talked about the weakness of Canadian polar defenses to White House sycophants.

Dummkopf Trumpf bleated he may deploy the 11th Airborne Division ("Arctic Angels") to Minnesota under the "Insurrection Act."

The nefarious Trumpf junta is "shaking the mothballs out" of our arctic Soldiers.

I wonder why....

#49 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-18 05:34 PM | Reply | Flag: Thanks RLR.

BTW: The Immortal Maestro threw in his brief homage to the Bard of Avon in the Ninth Symphony.

Fascist leader of Hungary Viktor Orban plans to join Dummkopf Trumpf's so-called "Board of Peace."

Where this good-for-nothing will get the one billion dollars membership fee is unclear.

Ukraine President Volodomir Zelensky says the Kremlin is targeting Ukraine's nuclear power system in order to destroy the country's power grid and cause alarming levels of civilian suffering. Russia is also planning to ramp up production of attack UAVs in order to use up to 1,000 drones against Ukraine every day.

General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:

"The enemy plans to significantly increase production in order to use up to 1,000 drones a day." He also said the Russians plan to form at least 11 divisions in 2026 and "pursue the plans and tasks that were left unfinished last year."

Russia plans to draft 409,000 soldiers, adding that it has a mobilization reserve of more than 20 million, of which 4.5 million are trained and can be deployed to reinforce existing units.

Russia has lost 1,150 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day, bringing its total number of personnel losses to 1,223,090.

An international arrest warrant for war crimes issued by the ICC remains active for Vladimir Putin. An indictment is merely an allegation. Mr Putin is to be presumed innocent until proven guilty at an international tribunal to be held for him at the Hague at a future date.

*** Bruce Springsteen Performs Tribute To Renee Good: "Gestapo ICE Should Get The F Out Of Minneapolis" ***

"In an unbilled performance Saturday night at the Light of Day festival in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen took solemn time out during an otherwise celebratory 75-minute set to dedicate "The Promised Land" to the memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the "Gestapo tactics" that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be "murdered for exercising your American right to protest."

Reciting a list of what he considers core American values, Springsteen then said that anyone who believes in them should "send a message to this president. And as the mayor of that city has said, ICE should get the ---- out of Minneapolis. So this one is for you, and the memory of the mother of three and American citizen Renee Good."

"We are all [of us] in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

#28 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-18 03:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

And lifted from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, sung by Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders.

Top five female voice supported by Martin Chambers' excellent percussion.

***** Israel Violates Ceasefire Again with Deadly Strikes on Lebanon *****

"Israel on Thursday carried out new air strikes on Lebanon, in yet another breach of the ceasefire agreement that was meant to halt Israel's war on the country."

ICC-indicted war criminal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu asked Dummkopf Trumpf not to strike Iran yet and other Arab countries requested the same of the nefarious Trumpf junta.

The term they used is "Postpone the attack against Iran," not "Don't attack Iran."

On 31 Dec 2025, the IDF High Command issued an alert to the citizens of Israel to be prepared for a three-front war against Lebanon, the defenseless West Bank, and Iran.

"The IDF Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, had declared that 2026 was expected to be a "year of war," underscoring the seriousness of the security environment."

The IDF seems to want the larger war against its neighbors to begin in March 2026, perhaps to coincide with the spring thaw. In Pashtunistan, the Taliban similarly began offensive operations in spring, dubbed "the fighting season."

2026 will be the "Year of Mars" and the global body count of Muslims will be high.

An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for crimes against humanity remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu. In addition, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor in Turkiye issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 32 other Israelis accused of committing war crimes. An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law or at an international tribunal at the Hague.

Sources:

*** Trumpf Junta on Faux News Beating the War Drums to Seize Greenland, But Using Faulty Analysis ***

Jim Sciutto: "[The Trumpf junta] have clearly settled on the "Rent vs Own" logic which ignores the fact that [Republicans] are talking about forcibly owning someone else's home."

FTA: "Two battalions from the Alaska-based 11th Airborne Division are on prepare-to-deploy orders in Minnesota, according to a US defense official. It is unclear what tasks they would take on, though the official said it could include crowd control or support for law enforcement, similar to the role active-duty forces played in Los Angeles last summer."

In 2022, this unit was stood up under the Biden administration as a counter to Russian threats in the Arctic.

Now the "Law of Unintended Consequences" rears its ugly head.

The 11th Airborne Division ("Arctic Angels") would be the lead unit (along with the 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum, NY) to invade and occupy the populated regions of Greenland.

Minnesota may be the test grounds for the "Arctic Angels" to see how they do occupying territory and dealing with an angry white population. Neighboring Canada is no doubt monitoring this potential Alaska to Minnesota US troop movement.

There are not many left in the US, maybe none today, but once America had colleges where the curriculum was strictly reading classical literature and history books. (No karate, basket weaving like what Sheridan Bouquet studied, accounting, football, economics, pre-med/pre-law, engineering, etc).

Called the "Great Books Colleges," classes were small and students read the Greek and Roman classics, philosophy, Shakespeare, history books, Charles Dickens, French and Russian novelists, in order to learn the lessons hidden in those gems. Seniors were assigned as tutors to guide the juniors that needed help.

In terms of practicality for a career, the capitalist system would not know where or how to place these graduates.

However when their tassels are finally turned from right to left at graduation, these alumni would be quite literate and learned at the tender of 21, 22, or 23.

Hi DBT2:

A few years ago I met a gentleman who is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), an area I have the least amount of experience in investigating or analyzing (that and distasteful sexual offenses). Anyways we were discussing previous cases and I realized that his Arabic and Hebrew were both perfect. I finally got him round to confess that he is of mixed descent like Nora Bussigny, although not nearly as pretty as she. The poor guy was uncomfortable discussing the horrible situation in Israel.

Anyways, regarding the Nora Bussigny expose, the loathsome ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu did a masterful job with his reprisal pogrom (AKA the Nakba) against the Palestinians in Gaza and his allowing Settlers to steal land in the West Bank, that he globally collectivized antisemites, anti-Zionists, and anti-Israelis, as we see in France.

The "Crime Minister" put a target on the back of innocent Jews worldwide, whether they are Ashkenazi (like himself) or Sephardic (like the gentleman I referred to above), Haredim or Secular, Labor or Likud, 'Buddhist' or atheist.

Note that there is no antisemitism or Islamophobia within the Israeli Communist Party (the "Makis") because their common cause is standing up to oppression and the oligarchs. These poor devils might be irrationally hated by these French antisemites/anti-Zionists simply because many of them are Jewish (albeit atheist).

France has a history of exploiting Muslim (and Asian countries like Vietnam), but now has a fairly substantial minority of Arab-descent people in the country. In Paris you could see black and Arab-looking police officers and soldiers on patrol with their white colleagues. These people are loyal to the French state but sympathize with the victims of white colonialism, i.e. the Palestinians.

One feels for Nora Bussigny and history holds a lesson for her. Centuries ago, the Irishmen who owned land and worked with the English were never comfortable anywhere. In Ireland they were viewed as "English" and when they visited London they were viewed as "Irish." Oscar Wilde may have felt similar pangs as an Anglo-Irishman, but we can't be sure.

*** Democratic Senator John Fetterman is OK with US Attacking Greenland; CBS News Concurs ***

John Fetterman (D-PA) wants to bomb Iran as well and doesn't give a lick about the Palestinian people.

The Democratic Party I knew last century would defend the underdog.

All 435 Congressmen and 35 (out of 100) Senators are up for re-election on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

On Election Day, progressives and antiwar Samaritans won't be voting for any warmongers within the Democratic Party.

They will stay home in disgust.

John Fetterman is up for re-election in 2028.

It's always the same people.

#6 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-17 03:57 PM | Reply | Was there ever any doubt?

ICE Headquarters:

"Massive anti-American protest? Well, what are we waiting for? TDY money and overtime! Let's go boys!"

"But it's in Greenland, Sir!"

"How long is the drive?"

And now everyone wants to study abnormal psychology.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-17 01:52 PM | Reply | Flag: Quip of the Week

*** FAA Issues Another Advisory to US Aircraft Flying in Pacific Ocean Near Latin America ***

Hah! So true.