Republican senator calls on Trump to fire Secretary of Defence Hegseth
Senator Thom Tillis accuses Pentagon chief of inept mismanagement' as US military is strained by war on Iran.

More FTA: Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who have represented the Army, Navy, and Air Force have all been fired, resigned, or replaced under Hegseth.

General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., a Black fighter pilot who served as the Air Force's chief of staff and later became the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was fired last February and replaced with a white man. Admiral Lisa Franchetti, a white woman who also served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff as chief of naval operations, was also fired that month, replaced by a white man. General Randy A. George, chief of staff of the Army, was fired in April of this year. General David Allvin, the Air Force chief of staff, retired early last year. . . .

Heads of intelligence services too have left. Lieutenant-General Jeffrey Kruse, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was fired last year after his agency reported US air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities had not been effective.

Other high-ranking personnel who have left under Hegseth include: General Chris Donahue, US Army commander Europe and Africa; General David Hodne, US Army commander of transformation and training command; General James Mingus, US Army vice chief of staff; Lieutenant-General Joseph McGee, director for strategy, plans and policy at the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, US Navy representative to NATO; Rear Admiral Milton Sands, commander of Naval Special Warfare Command.

The sidelining of top-ranking women and minorities, experts say, will make others below them question whether they should be devoting decades more of their lives to an institution that could get rid of them because of their identity.

"It is far past time for President Trump to recognize the lasting harm that Pete Hegseth is inflicting on the Department of Defense," Senator Jack Reed, a former Army officer himself, said in a statement in response to news of Driscoll's resignation this week. "Secretary Hegseth is cultivating a culture where dissent is punished and competence is secondary to personal allegiance."

9. Everyone forgets the Dijon mustard. What an outrage!

You guys still not believing BullJohnson and BullBringer are the same person yet their MO are identical.
#6 | Posted by ClownShack

I think the only thing they have in common is one could wonder about the other people in their lives. Although I do think they have them.

Some of the others here who claim spouses or acquaintances, I either doubt it entirely, or you'd have to feel really sorry for them.

He calls Trump "smart."
He is smart at trolling.

"I got mine ordered.
Who wouldn't want a coin with Trump on it?
#1 | Posted by BillJohnson"

Flies with that?

7. Trolltrolltrolltrolltroll.

Oh, attention whore.

My wife does not ignore, I won't quite say embrace, the less fortunate parts of her southern culture ... moreso as she slides into Alzheimer's. Thankfully no racism, but she can rationalize some of the plantation owner's arguments.

But then again, she was born in Montgomery 1954. Kids can sense a tense time.

Nothing but love for the maid, of course.

She's now a staunch liberal whose father was in the White Citizens Council in the 50s.

So much to say ... too much restraint.

The secrets don't last long in DC.

Sexual abuse of robotized dogs is a future headline.

Boaz redux.

Outrage as Trump Official Refuses to Name Source of U.S. Beef
A Trump Cabinet secretary's inability to say from which country the U.S. will import beef is spurring online outrage.

"DJT himself told me it's coming from whoever supplies his Big Macs."

I mentioned to Boaz at one time he'd have been some strange fruit and linked the song, but I doubt he clicked.

It is Sunday.

John Coltrane, "Alabama." When the law doesn't help, art steps in.

Wikipedia: It is widely believed that Coltrane conceived of and performed the composition in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963 -- an attack by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four African-American girls: Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Carol Denise McNair (11).

Jazz historian Bill Cole, in his 1977 book, John Coltrane, states that Coltrane composed "Alabama" as a memorial to the four victims. The date of the first recording -- November 18, 1963 -- was sixty-four days after the bombing and four days before the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cole asserts that the melodic line "was developed from the rhythmic inflections of a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King."

Coltrane, Tyner, Garrison, and Jones, again, recorded "Alabama" for a 30-minute TV episode of Jazz Casual, hosted by Ralph J. Gleason.

And here it is. The classic Coltrane quartet where you can see them. And it doesn't go on (unfortunately?) for 45 minutes.

Was it a day of the week in the US that ended in "day"?

So, let's sum up
Iran will now be pursuing nukes
Saudi Arabia will be pursuing nukes
Likely Egypt will pursue nukes, probably Turkey too.
How does this look now?
#162 | Posted by truthhurts

Like what Israel wants.
#163 | Posted by Effeteposer

Like what the defense and surveillance industries want.

You're calling Astronauts bimbos?
#7 | Posted by madbomber at

You go back and forth between interesting and ignorant. I suppose many of us do.

Line up the world's most qualified astronauts/scientists based on every important metric you personally can imagine, from flight experience to lab work to the notion that the US military is a gift to the universe.

Regardless of everything else, which one is the US commander in chief going to pick, and why?

Lighten up.

The album is John Lee Hooker, "Live at Soledad Prison." One of my sons now has this album, but on the disc this song ends with "Yard Recall, Yard Recall," as the prisoners were ordered back to their cells.

"Bang Bang Bang Bang"

Even the term "Palestinian" didn't emerge until the very end of the 19th century.
#26 | Posted by madbomber

About the same time as Zionism then.

144. With the state of the world right now, I'm more concerned with nukes in Trump's and Hegseth's hands than Iran's.

Damn. Saw the headline and was hoping it was TRI.

[Jara] also played a pivotal role among neo-folkloric musicians who established the Nueva cancin chilena (New Chilean Song) movement. This led to an uprising of new sounds in popular music during the administration of President Salvador Allende.

Jara was arrested by the Chilean military shortly after the 11 September 1973 coup led by Augusto Pinochet, which overthrew Allende. He was tortured during interrogations and ultimately shot dead, and his disfigured body -- with 44 bullet wounds -- was thrown out on the street of a shantytown in Santiago. The contrast between the themes of his songs, which focused on love, peace, and social justice, and his murder, transformed Jara into a "potent symbol of struggle for human rights and justice" for those killed during the Pinochet regime. His prominent role as an admirer and propagandist for Che Guevara and Allende's government, in which he served as a cultural ambassador through the late 1960s and until 1973, made him a target.

15. Yes.

The Clash, "Washington Bullets" (YT video with lyrics on screen)

Jefferson Airplane, "Law Man":

When it suits his purposes, he'll still use her to leak an uncredited story.

She's kind of a double agent, isn't she?