The Israeli Death Forces, blood-thirsty sequence killers of the Middle East, slaughtered five more Palestinians in Gaza, bringing the death toll in that charnel house to 73,250 per the Palestinian Health Authority; the The Lancet UK suggests the number is well over 75,000 human beings. At least 173,751 Muslims in Gaza have been maimed, mutilated, or wounded by the US-funded IDF in an area the size of Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

Results of the maniacal IDF rampage in Lebanon: 3,783 killed, 11,699 wounded; 247 children, 363 women, 133 healthcare workers. IDF soldiers have been videoed desecrating Christian sites and looting homes of Lebanese people, displacing one million Arabs in what the UN calls a "humanitarian catastrophe."

The peace loving, hardworking American taxpayer is funding ungodly levels of human misery and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as a slow death trickle of Arabs in the West Bank through barbaric Israeli Settlers, per former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.

Barring Republican Party interference, US midterm elections are scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

*** DHS Guidance: USG to Starve Immigrants ***

"Roughly 588,000 people file adjustment-of-status applications each year, the formal process for obtaining a green card while already in the US. All of them will now face public charge review under the reinstated framework. An estimated 950,000 people living in immigrant households may choose to forgo or disenroll from benefits they currently receive, out of concern that enrollment could complicate a future immigration proceeding."

Tattoed white racist with lifelong 'roid rage.'

Perfect ICE recruit.

"Hey, Ma! Come meet my new boyfriend David!"

"Child, what have I ever done to you to deserve this?"

Dummkopf Trumpf's enormous girth also damaged MX-1.

Typo corrected to: "The young actor playing the Messiah will later portray the ill-fated shipbuilder aboard Titanic (1997)."

"Stupid furry paws!"

As a devout atheist, I recently recommended Godspell (1973) to a pious Chrsitian who never saw the film or play.

(A few weeks ago a fellow blogger had mentioned a Biblical line which reminded me of the play and film).

Zed,
You should learn more about how religion and faith shape different cultures.
Religions are not interchangeable, and they do not all influence people or societies in the same way.
I'm no expert, but you do not seem to understand even the basics.

Thus spake Zarathustra....

US Secretary of Homeland Gestapo Markwayne Mullet at a recent junta meeting discussing the abominable living and food conditions at an ICE gulag: "This is not Howard Johnsons." [sic]

Even POWs are entitled to eat sufficiently under the Geneva Conventions.

This is the Brahmin Hindu wife Usha Vindaloo Kukri Masala behind this (I suspect).

My cousin had "high priestess" roommates at her fairly prestigious university in the US NE corridor last century.

Wealthy and snobbish -- and having grown up with servants -- these haughty high huckamucks automtically expected my poor cousin to do the dishes, housekeeping, and beastly chores in their abode, just by their respective stations in life. After a semester of cleaning up after these obnoxious Brahmins, she moved out.

My cousin got a nice looking regular roommate afterwards who was also happened to be nice on the eyes, so my visits to "D.A." became even more enjoyable.

Komchoor is the term for "lazy" or "lazy one" in Urdu.

"Did the komchoor vacuum the carpet yet?" or "Have those komchoors fly the dauphin to stupid golf practice in a helicopter, Dear."

Trumpf Needs a White House Maxipad -- He Sought No Approval from Melanoma

That's a tad better.

Boy, do I bigly remember the name Major Roberto D'Aubuisson.

Blech!

I use *Killfile* for a reason.

Anyways, I am deciding between reading "On the Beach" by Nevil Chute, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," or a Dorothy Sayers mystery.

So to decide, I'll flip my three-sided coin.

Too many books, not enough time.

Iran is a country of 93m people with an experienced military and security apparatus, heirs to the Savak and therefore CIA-trained.

The Iranians became expert at asymmetric warfare operations and hence their success against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Iran is ranked 16 out of 145 countries in the Global Firepower Index (GFI).

Iran is a top ten global producer of oil and natural gas.

Oil-poor Israel of 10m people (7.7m Israeli Jews) is ranked 15.

Regarding US military morale in this quagmire which is bankrupting the US Treasury and further depriving Americans of inching closer to universal healthcare as enjoyed by Israelis, Germans, Spaniards, Canadians, 95% of Iranians, Cubans, Greenlanders, Albanians, and in 2027, Mexicans, from the Interweb:

"US military morale is reportedly extremely low following a 40-day war against Iran that ended in a ceasefire.

Active-duty US personnel have expressed disillusionment with the Trumpf junta's war strategy and its perceived lack of purpose other than helping Israel.

Troops are concerned that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has emerged from the conflict with more regional control than before.

The 40-day military campaign is described as a strategic failure that effectively backfired against US interests."

"Ichorous"

Hah!

"Iranian negotiators believed Witkoff and Kushner were more interested in trying to profit off the talks in financial markets than reaching a lasting agreement."

One side acting in good faith -- the "detestable" Iranians -- and the other side acting like voracious capitalist vultures.

And Steve Witkoff -- Dummkopf Trumpf's Special Peace Envoy -- called the two million Palestinians in Gaza Nazis.

So this good-for-no-one mega-oligarch is "neutral" in the negotiations between the underdog Palestinians and the US-armed Israeli Death Forces (IDF)?

Uh-huh.

Hi again Doc Sarvis:

There are plenty of "detestable" regimes in the world -- including the Trumpf junta -- but the US is not attacking them: North Korea, Israel, Russia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan.

When the shooting occured at the White House Press Corps Dinner earlier this year, Kashyap "I'll Have The Vindaloo Chicken" Patel was caught on video wandering around outside the hotel like a bewildered by-stander, eyes all agog and wits nowhere to be found.

Did anyone catch what planet Kashyap said he was from?

Maybe RedLightRobot's heliograph might offer us all a clue.

Thanks for that awful imagery, Doc Sarvis! Now I must burn out my mind's eye with my morning coffee and smoke.

BTW: Last century when I was working at the NYC bookstore, like you, I had to tear the covers off paperbacks to get a refund for the unsold copies. I could keep any ruined book.

But I didn't have the heart to tear the gilded cover off The Jackal Helix by Gloria Vitanza Basile, so I dropped a shekel or two on it and kept this paperback for over three decades.

Her espionage/conspiracy tome was not too bad and this may have been a "one-hit wonder" for this authoress.