Thanks, AU.

I'm way behind on my booklist, so no promises.

For light, quick, and humorous reading, may I recommend Damon Runyan?

Hah!

Well said, mi fraterno.

Iran posed only a military threat to Israel by counterattacking on behalf of the genocided Palestinians and vulnerable Lebanese in the south of their country-- their fellow co-religionists who founded Lebanese Hezbollah after the 1982 IDF invasion.

Shia Iran poses an ideological threat to the non-democratic Sunni Arab fat cat emirates and is a petro-competitor to them.

The EU and NATO realize that Iran is not a real threat: KGB veteran Vladimir Putin is the real threat to world peace and EU security, as seen by his "Special Military Operation" killing Ukrainian civilians and destroying the environment.

Who else is killing civilians and despoiling nature?

The US and Israel.

James Talarico (D), Zohran Mamdani (D), and Graham Platner (D) will be pilloried from both sides of the political aisle because they do not receive AIPAC funding and represent a genuine grassroots threat to the well-entrenched status quo.

That is why we see the ridiculous and illogical attacks against them.

Voters that stayed home for midterm elections (35% - 45% historic turnout) and Presidential elections (65% historic turnout) because they were stuck choosing between Scylla and Charybdis-- a Republican or an AIPAC Democrat-- will now come out to vote for these peace-loving progressives on the Democratic ticket.

We saw it in Texas with James Talarico's primary win and last year in NYC with Zohran Mamdani, but we failed to find an antiwar POTUS candidate in 2024.

The antiwar movement, a movement as old as our very own American Revolution, finally have excellent candidates to choose from in 2026 and beyond.

The Sunni Arabs and Persian Shias have a long rivalry, now punctuated over oil wealth.

Many of these Gulf States have Shia minorities which are oppressed, like the Houthi tribe

The Iranian people's revolution of 1979 continues to pose a threat to the Sunni Arab Gulf emirates and Saudi Arabia.

CIA, DIA, CENTCOM J2 all knew that Shia Iran would retaliate against the Sunni Gulf States that host US military bases and do everything they can to undermine one of the few non-monarchies in the Middle East-- which is also a petro-competitor.

Moreover, the Iranian theocracy exposes the hypocrisies of the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia.

I watched caravans of wealthy Saudis drive across the King Fahd Causeway into Bahrain to drink, gamble, and whore around on the weekend.

The pious Iranian leadership doesn't do that.

This causeway was recently struck by an Iranian drone.

Poor hypocritical Saudis can't booze it up safely in Bahrain now.

Hi AU

Are you enjoying the book about the Kurds?

My wife and I have an extensive library and I'm eager to lend out my books.

But these two books never leave my home:

Yet again, C0RI0LANUS must burn out his mind's eye today.

Thanks for the amplification, AU.

Footnote: The two greatest imaginative artistic forces in history, William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven, did not attend college, led unhappy romantic lives, and died tragically early (52 and 56) without male heirs, something they both desperately wanted.

My wife and I have a portrait or bust of both of them in every room of our condo.

This nasty she-MAGAt is Pat Summerall's daughter.

Head in the toilet sickening and tragically sad.

Organ harvesting stories keep trickling out of Gaza.

Tomorrow, Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin has to put up with the imbecilic warmongering pedophile at the White House.

Oy, gevalt!

PM Martin will surely ask the Dotard about the fate of several Irish nationals in brutal ICE custody, the first time I can recall where an Irish leader had to express concern to a POTUS about his fellow countrymen in America.

Hi Doc Sarvis:

Shakespeare, although not college-educated like his predecessor the great Christopher Marlowe, was well versed in the Greek Classics and the Old and New Testaments.

The Immortal Bard may have had this particular Scripture in mind when he wrote the blood-curdling revenge counter-revenge play Titus Andronicus.

We're all waiting for this gaffe from the morbidly obese draft-dodging silver-spooned golf cheating pedophilic president:

"Dotard Blurts Out Neil Dunn Ghislaine Maxwell Will Be Dead By June by 21 Jan 2029."

Hear that, you cowards in Congress (Republican and Democrat) who didn't want to impeach Dummkopf Trumpf the first time he illegally attacked Iran in June 2025?