Republicans and their hatred are like a dog chasing a car.

When the dog finally catches the car, what does the dog do?

Yup, that was a shot heard 'round the world.

I remember the Oslo peace plans and how Israel and Palestine could have shared the land for both their benefits.

Israel has large elevated highways and the idea was to construct such a fenced in 20-mile superhighway linking the West Bank and Gaza.

The Palestinian security forces were to patrol the elevated roadway to ensure no vandalism, but a stainless steel mesh fence was supposed to cocoon it anyway.

Israelis wouldn't see the Palestinians up there and vice versa.

Israel would have continued getting the cheap labor from the Gaza Strip and Palestinian farmers in the West Bank could have hired Gazans as well.

And Israel could have had better relations with its Arab and Iranian neighbors. The theocratic regime in Iran wouldn't have had to counterattack Israel every time the IDF decimated the Palestinians.

The cost of that bridge in 1994 or 1995 would have been far cheaper than the billions and billions of dollars hardworking American taxpayers have been forking over to Israel since 1948.

More importantly, how many lives from both sides could have been saved?

Hi Doc Sarvis:

Thanks for posting.

Israel is a country I no longer recognize and I'm never going back.

Israel recorded its first net migration loss last year because of the bellicose Likud regime.

Israelis have been filling out paperwork at German consulates and embassies in order to emigrate there by proving their ancestors were once citizens.

Israel has been cited as the greatest cause of instability in the Middle East by the analysts at Responsible Statecraft

The sooner the Democratic Party of JFK, FDR, and Zohran Mamdani rids itself of AIPAC and that dibbuk Bibi Netanyahu, the sooner we can oust the nefarious Trumpf junta and Republicans from power on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

BTW: Many academics avoid reading Thomas Friedman for manifest reasons. He is the Alan Dershowitz of journalists; his awards and accolades be damned. This is a book I lend out to friends.

Strange, the suspect wasn't executed on the spot.

Guess the USCP officers aren't ICE.

In prosecuting federal cases, proving motive is immaterial, but the USCP (and maybe the FBI) want to determine Carter Camacho's motive.

In these turbulent times "that try men's souls" and untreated mental illness cases in the US, I wonder what USCP investigators will discover.

An initial wave of subpoenas in Nov 2025 asked recipients for documents related to the preparation of a USIC assessment that detailed a sweeping, multiprong effort by Moscow to help Dummkopf Trumpf defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

Though the first subpoenas requested documents from the months surrounding the January 2017 publication of the Obama administration intelligence assessment, the latest subpoenas seek any records from the years since then.

The subpoenas represent continued investigative activity in one of several witch hunts undertaken by junta apparatchiks into Trumpf's political opponents. An array of former intelligence and law enforcement officials have received subpoenas and lawyers for former CIA Director John Brennan, who helped oversee the drafting of the assessment, have said they have been informed he is a target but have not been told of any "legally justifiable basis for undertaking this investigation."

Carter Camacho (18) of Smyrna, GA was arrested without resistance for Unlawful Activities, Carrying a Rifle without a License, Unregistered Firearm, and Unregistered Ammunition.

Camacho also had multiple rounds of ammunition and was wearing a tactical style vest.

USCP officers found the suspect's SUV in front of the US Botanic Garden on Maryland Avenue, SW. A gas mask and helmet were spotted inside the vehicle.

The USCP's Threat Assessment Section is investigating to determine the suspect's motive. He was not on file with the USCP.

And how many youngsters died in that terrible flood last year because Texas Republicans had an aversion to FEMA?

Another awful calamity coming out of Texas.

Texas, the gift that keeps on giving: Capital punishment, Christian proselytizing in the classrooms, rampant firearm deaths, rabid Islamophobia, petro-chemical disasters, the Waco cult disaster, and George "Dubya" Bush.

Plus the Lone Star State inflicts two good-for-nothing Republican US Senators on the rest of us every six years like precision clockwork.

Republicans: The party of "Family Values."

Where poor Republicans have to shop for groceries because they voted to destroy our economy: "Family Dollar."

And AIPAC champion Randy Fine (R-FL) is inter-galactically stupid for disparaging Muslims, many of whom are Israel's allies.

Israel has strong relations with Azerbaijan, a Muslim country. Israel helped Azerbaijan in its war with Armenia a few years ago.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's flights to and from Moscow always stops in Baku, Azerbaijan to "refuel."

Moreover, the Kurds in Iraq and Iran help the Israelis out whenever possible. They are Muslims.

The assassins who target Iranian scientists are from the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) or Baloch separatists, both Muslim groups.

"The Middle" or the "Center": "I'm not in the top strata of economic and political power, but I'm not angry enough to do something about it."

@1

And standing an arm shot away from Dummkopf Trumpf is good-for-nothing Israeli-American oligarch Miriam Adelson.

Was that a US or Israeli inauguration event? I couldn't tell the difference.

Have fun killing Palestinians in Gaza so you all can make money from their deaths, you gang of filthy rich ethnic cleansing swine.

Rush Limbaugh dead for five years?

Wonder if anybody check the Epstein files for his name.

He lived in Florida, if I recall correctly.

$71m could feed 1.42 million American school children for 100 days (AI snapshot).

We must support the most progressive candidates in the field to take back the House and Senate in 2026.

Americans are sick and tired of the status quo which led us into the ditch we are in today.

For more granularity, see the results of the NYC Mayoral win and other elections last November.

A true socialist won in Washington State and a true communist won in Ithaca, NY.

The "center" is a myth that supports the status quo, not changes it.

For more granularity, read about the French, Russian, and Iranian Revolutions.

The status quo anywhere would love to see the "center" take over, like the short-lived White government of Kerensky in 1918.

Thanks for the informative vignette, Johnny Hotsauce.

Hi Moder8

Thanks for that info about FIFA.

Remarkable that a country blowing things up in Africa, the Caribbean, and soon the Middle East, and a nation that abducted the leader of a foreign country, wouldn't be sanctioned by FIFA and the IOC as a Rogue nation and Pariah state.

Look at Russia.

Hi A Friend:

I believe that figure.

Towards the end of the apocalyptic American Civil War, some civil servants in the Washington DC area considered an idea to help heal the wounds of the nation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line when the war would finally end.

They created an American fraternal order called the Knights of Pythias, based on the Freemasonic Three Degrees system.

The major stipulation for any member to join was that they must have have all their limbs.

I guess the K of P didn't want members to see the horrendous injuries they inflicted on each other which would only serve to remind them of the war and ------ healing.

Freemason FDR would later initiate into the Knights of Pythias, wheelchair and all.

Sad, turning the US Military into the WH Gangster's new Murder, Inc:
en.wikipedia.org

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 04:29 PM | Reply | Flag: History Repeats Itself

During WWII, many of our pilots proudly painted "Murder, Inc" on the sides of their fighters and bombers, except the Tuskegee pilots who painted the tails of their planes red.

The Germans shot down such a Murder Inc-decorated bomber and got a small propaganda piece out of it, saying that all Americans were gangsters.

"Republican candidate for Texas Attorney-General Aaron Reitz says he is ready, day one, to wage a war on Americans."
Trump did a magnificent job of convincing republicans to hate America.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 04:28 PM | Reply: More Than We Think

Hi Clownshack

During the American Civil War which cost hundreds of thousands of lives, research and interviews revealed that many soldiers from both the North and the South fired above the heads of the enemy; they didn't want to kill their fellow Americans or kill anybody in general.

Not enough hatred.

AI Snapshot:

Total deaths: Approximately 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers died (includes deaths from battle, disease, accidents, and other causes).
Battle deaths: Around 213,000 soldiers killed in combat.
Disease deaths: Over 400,000 soldiers died from disease, which was the leading cause of death.
Wounded: About 275,000 soldiers were wounded, many with permanent disabilities.

Imagine if Faux News, CBS, and OANN were around in 1861 to generate hatred like we see today?

The above US Civil War casualty rates would have been much, much higher.

Hi Corky:

I bet young master James Talarico gets along well with everyone, even those across the aisle.

There is no well deep or wide enough for sleazy, unprincipled mouth-for-hires Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz to be chucked into forthwith.

Both of them made tidy sums of money as legal kapos and should be disbarred and ostracized nationwide for their blasphemies.

How these two miscreants smugly live with themselves is anyone's guess.

**** Idiotic Islamophobia from Lunatic Florida Republican Randy Fine ****

Muslims make up a tiny 1.34% of the US population, but 21.1% of Israel's population.

Hatemongering of Muslims in the US makes ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Gaza and the West Bank easier for Israel.

This is how billions and billions of dollars of hardworking American taxpayer funds automatically go to a country that has universal healthcare for all its residents because the poor Israelis are dealing with savage Muslims.

This vulgarity is to be expected from Republicans; but Democrats that take AIPAC money will pay a price on Election Day from the vast antiwar bloc, a movement as old as the American Revolution itself.

For more granularity, please see results of the 5 Nov 2024 and 5 Nov 1968 elections.