The move in the key benchmark could mean higher costs for Americans who want to buy a home, finance a car or take out other loans. read more
The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia. read more
Yemen's rampant Houthi forces have captured a strategic island in the Bab al-Mandab strait, expanding their control of the narrow waterway, one of the world's vital shipping routes. read more
In a post on his Truth Social network, Trump wrote: Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be "hotter" than ever before! read more
Robert Kagan: The dominant power in the Middle East from now on will not be the U.S. or Israel but Iran. read more
Trump is desperately trying to escape uncomfortable reality, but walling himself up behind rings of iron and platoons of goons won't do the trick. Someone, please read "The Appointment in Samarra" as retold by W. Somerset Maugham (www.emmanuelacc.net) to this fool.
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Asimov's laws as originally promulgated:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
en.wikipedia.org
Thanks for posting that, Clownshack. Also from Ike's epic 1953 "Chance for Peace" speech (www.presidency.ucsb.edu):
This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Yup, TWINPAC, watching a pair of clumsy porkos mud wrestling.