No. Iran surrogates immediately went offensive when this started. They got heavily bombed in response. Yemen is just late to the party, and now their missile supply line doesn't exist.

#85 | Posted by sitzkrieg

All the Houthis have to do is threaten tankers and sea traffic will grind to a halt. They're already threatening to do so.

The 1-2m barrels of oil that leave Red Sea terminals in Saudi Arabia go to Asia. It takes a lot longer than 10 days to transit the Suez, then go all the way across the Med, all the way around Africa, and across the Indian Ocean. Means more oil shortages and economic pressure on the world.

#17 | Posted by Corky

The first time my wife and I went on a date it was to the Bluebird. John Prine and his brother, Danny, were doing a duo.

We still laugh about it. Danny towered over John, but was the obvious 2nd fiddle.

The asides Danny made - we all could hear - were hilarious! And he'd make this rock star faces ... like he was really into a lick.

"Quit telling me what to play!!"
"Mom loved you more ..."
"(response to unheard John comment to Danny)

It was like a comedy show. Roger Cook, who wrote "I'd like to teach the world to sing" and other classics, showed up, drunk on his ---, and added even more to the comedic tinge of the set. Fun time!!

With Iran now definitively able to close the strait, the Sunni powers will move to buried pipelines. They'll run through Jordan, occupied Southern Syria, Israel into the Med and circumvent the Arabian Gulf and Red Sea. Religious fanatics on one side aren't going to be held economically hostage by religious fanatics on the other side forever.

#73 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Yemen jumped into the fray today. Saudi Arabia transports oil through the Red Sea's "Strait Of Tears" between SA and Yemen.

This won't end well ...

#26 Tagged and bagged: "Maroon"

Pete Hegseth turned the bigot spigot to full gush

Wouldn't surprise if FBI Dir Patel fell for a phishing attempt ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter

"Hi Kash,

I'm really turned on by you. Click the link for my profile.

XOXOXOX
Karen

(actually Yuri in Vladivostok)

YouTube video of #12:

Arthur Hayes Sings - Do You hear me, Lord?

This video could be manufactured (or AI), but the song and performance are incredibly beautiful and heartfelt.

#14 | Posted by mattm

A man invites a couple of Jehovah Witnesses in on a hot summer day.

He asks, "so, what would you boys like to talk about?"

The two JWs look at each other, puzzled. One answers, "Don't know. We've never gotten this far before."

Who would have guessed the demented orange chomo is a racist ---------?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

And his sycophant, Hegseth. His Ted (Bundy) Talks are the rantings of a demented mind.

#24 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Your brain has obviously been injured by out of tune band instruments.

#10 | Posted by e1g1

Like a 4-year-old!

Sidebar:

Who would have guessed the demented orange chomo is a racist ---------?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

Beyond a shadow of a doubt ...

Benchmark Brent Crude is now over $114 bbl.

Self-inflicted Trumpflation is here thanks to his tariffs and this war. Entirely self-inflicted.

Oh, and the stock market - Trump's chosen measure of the economy - is falling down as prices rise on everything.

Well, we already have robots that have replaced First Ladies ...

#19 | Posted by ExpectingReign

Mrs. Trump is a bit robotic. A Stepford first lady.

And she doesn't even live in the WH, choosing instead to live in Palm Beach.

She's the first first lady to not live in the WH by choice.

After the passage of Medicare, Republicans worked with Democrats to fix and improve it.

After the passage of the PPACA (Patient Protection - which all insured benefit from - and Affordable Care Act), republicans did NOTHING but try to take it away from untold millions of people.

Now, thanks to the BBB, millions who buy private health insurance on the exchange can't afford the premiums.

But they have no problems spending hundreds of millions on a war of choice. Money that COULD have been used to keep subsidies.

Republicans don't give a flying &^#! about average Americans. That's the truth.

#6 | Posted by TFDNihilist

I will :-)

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email, publish photos and documents

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Iran-linked hackers have broken into FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet, the hackers and the bureau said on Friday.

On their website, the hacker group Handala Hack Team said Patel "will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims." The hackers published a series of personal photographs of Patel sniffing and smoking cigars, riding in an antique convertible, and making a face while taking a picture of himself in the mirror with a large bottle of rum.

DOC

How about Trump's participation trophy from Mike Johnson? Laughable!

Egomaniac Orange Dotard and his sycophant, Scott Bessent have a lot of nerve.

Especially since Trump is singlehandedly sending us towards a recession; GDP pitiful, unemployment rising, inflation rising thanks to Trump's tariffsm and now this war that'll drive prices up on everything thanks to higher shipping costs for everything we consume.

And Bessant says the move was appropriate for the U.S. 250th anniversary, given strong U.S. economic growth and financial stability during Trump's second term.

Operation Epstein Deflection

All or most of the devious Trumpf junta prosecutions will take place in the Southern District of Florida (SDFL) satellite courthouse where USDJ Aileen Cannon presides.

Isn't she just one of several judges the case could be assigned to by draw?

IIRC, she just happened to draw Jack Smith's prosecution over Trump & classified documents he stole.

Judge Rita Lin on Thursday sided with the artificial intelligence (AI) company in an order finding that directives from President Donald Trump and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that all government agencies immediately stop using Anthropic tools could not be enforced for the time being.

Judge Lin wrote in her order that the government was attempting to "cripple Anthropic" and "chill public debate" because of the company's concerns over how its technology was being used by the US Department of Defense. "This appears to be classic First Amendment retaliation," the judge added.

The order means that Anthropic's tools, like Claude, will continue to be used in the government and by any outside company working with the military until the lawsuit is resolved.

Oil futures are up again

Brent (the benchmark) is currently up to $110. Look for $4+ gas coming soon to a station near you.