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Re: Political Thread Right now the voices in my head are telling me.......
« Reply #12240 on: June 18, 2025, 08:46:17 am »
Quote from: Tish on June 18, 2025, 08:09:48 am
You haven't heard me say one word about it.
Didn't hear a thing but read what you posted......So sad.....Woe is you...
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« Reply #12241 on: June 18, 2025, 12:12:42 pm »
Quote from: positronium on June 18, 2025, 08:46:17 am
Didn't hear a thing but read what you posted......So sad.....Woe is you...

Oh spare your sorrow for someone more deserving. I am doing just fine.
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« Reply #12242 on: June 18, 2025, 01:17:28 pm »
Those voices say…Stay away from Mr Blue

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« Reply #12243 on: June 18, 2025, 01:20:41 pm »
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« Reply #12244 on: June 18, 2025, 05:52:06 pm »
Too much hate....
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« Reply #12245 on: June 21, 2025, 08:28:04 pm »
Impeach Trump, immediately...if not sooner. How I wish Kamala had won.
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« Reply #12246 on: June 21, 2025, 08:36:06 pm »
S President Donald Trump says American forces have conducted “very successful” strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan and that all US planes are now out of Iranian airspace.
Israel’s attacks on Iran continue, with Israeli forces targeting military facilities and nuclear sites. Iran responds by launching dozens of drones towards Israel.
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« Reply #12247 on: June 21, 2025, 08:49:50 pm »
Quote from: Tish on June 18, 2025, 12:12:42 pm
Oh spare your sorrow for someone more deserving. I am doing just fine.
No you are not....Get a job, find happy and stop being a prick.....
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« Reply #12248 on: June 21, 2025, 09:05:34 pm »
Quote from: odyssey on June 21, 2025, 08:36:06 pm
S President Donald Trump says American forces have conducted “very successful” strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan and that all US planes are now out of Iranian airspace.
Israel’s attacks on Iran continue, with Israeli forces targeting military facilities and nuclear sites. Iran responds by launching dozens of drones towards Israel.
GOOD!
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« Reply #12249 on: June 21, 2025, 09:18:27 pm »
Quote from: positronium on June 21, 2025, 08:49:50 pm
No you are not....Get a job, find happy and stop being a prick.....

You're a buffoon and know nothing about me.
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« Reply #12250 on: June 21, 2025, 10:18:32 pm »
Quote from: Tish on June 21, 2025, 09:18:27 pm
You're a buffoon and know nothing about me.
I don't care.....You harbor a great deal of hate......Go find happy and STFU.....
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« Reply #12251 on: June 23, 2025, 11:33:37 am »
Trump really isn’t better than Biden..
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« Reply #12252 on: June 24, 2025, 07:55:12 am »
Quote from: odyssey on June 21, 2025, 08:36:06 pm
S President Donald Trump says American forces have conducted “very successful” strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan and that all US planes are now out of Iranian airspace.
Israel’s attacks on Iran continue, with Israeli forces targeting military facilities and nuclear sites. Iran responds by launching dozens of drones towards Israel.

When Incompetence Goes to War
Bombing was the easy part

DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY
JUN 23
 
Watching Donald Trump deliver the news of an American attack on Iran Saturday night, I wondered how many viewers had the same reaction I did: How can the United States be going to war — and that’s exactly what it is — with advisers whose collective experience managing international conflict is see-through thin?

There was Trump, a draft dodger who has long derided the military, surrounded by his war cabinet of second-rate choices, who owe their professional and political souls to him. Will any of them ever question Trump’s decisions? We know the answer to that.

Trump did not have solid evidence Iran was building a nuclear bomb. Nearing the time when they might be able to build one is the best that can be said. Similar, although not identical, to the situation when George W. Bush didn’t have hard evidence that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction. Bad intel back then led to a war that lasted eight years and killed nearly 5,000 Americans and reportedly 200,000 Iraqis. No WMDs were ever found.

Lessons learned? Hardly. Bombing Iran was easy enough. Did anyone at the White House think about what would happen on Day 2?

Forty-eight hours after the United States launched bunker-busting bombs and dozens of cruise missiles at Iran, the Iranian regime retaliated. Iran launched missiles at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East. The Defense Department said there were no injuries because Qatari air defenses were able to intercept the Iranian attack. Also, the Iranians gave advance warning to minimize casualties.

No one should be surprised by this escalation. And no one should think this is the end of hostilities. Forty thousand U.S. troops are stationed in the region.

It is a consequence of going to war, which is exactly what Donald Trump did when he called for strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites. Even if Vice President JD Vance says otherwise. “We’re not at war with Iran. We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program,” he said on “Meet the Press” Sunday. The Iranian people likely quibble with Vance’s semantics.

Iran has other retaliatory options from which to choose.

In an internal FBI email obtained by The New York Times, American officials warn that Iran and its allies have “historically targeted U.S. interests in response to geopolitical events, and they are likely to increase their efforts in the near term.”

The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow strip of water between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, is one of the world’s most important strategic choke points. And Iran controls the north side of it. The 20 million barrels of oil produced daily in the region — a fifth of global output — must travel through the strait.

Some influential Iranians are calling for Hormuz to be closed, including Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor-in-chief of a popular hard-line Iranian newspaper, who has the ear of the supreme leader.

“It is now our turn to act without delay. As a first step, we must launch a missile strike on the US naval fleet in Bahrain and simultaneously close the Strait of Hormuz to American, British, German, and French ships,” Shariatmadari wrote in his newspaper.

Mohammad Ali Shabani, an expert on Iran, told CNN that Iran’s control of global shipping lanes gives the government the “capacity to cause a shock in oil markets, drive up oil prices, drive inflation, [and] collapse Trump’s economic agenda.”

If Hormuz is closed, oil prices will skyrocket. But perhaps the ayatollah will put his pocketbook before payback. China is the No. 1 buyer of Iranian oil. The money Iran earns from Chinese oil sales accounts for 50% of government spending, according to The Times. It has allowed the Iranian regime to fund terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.

By the way, need we remind ourselves that China, not Iran, is the most potent foreign threat to American security? Also that Iran, along with China and Russia, has the ability to launch destructive cyber attacks.

But now back to the strikes themselves. Trump claimed victory, saying the U.S. bombings “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program. No evidence has been given, and a bomb damage assessment has yet to be released. This administration is not known for truth-telling, so a wait-and-see approach is justified.

Using satellite imagery, the Israeli military’s initial assessment is that Fordo, the main nuclear site, where the U.S. dropped at least six bunker busters, was damaged but not destroyed. Israeli intelligence believes Iran moved equipment and uranium from the site prior to the bombing.

All this means that Saturday’s attack was not a one-and-done as the president would have us believe. Add to that Trump’s changing tune on regime change. Initially he said the goal of the bombing was “destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity.”

Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio were reading from the same script as they made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows. The administration’s view “has been very clear that we don’t want a regime change,” Vance said.

Perhaps the president didn’t get a copy of the talking points. Not four hours later, Trump took to social media. “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!” he posted.

No one thinks the Iranian government is made up of good guys. It has an abysmal human rights record and is the poster child for state-sponsored terrorism. These leaders have a long record of hating America and all for which we stand. They have been known to subvert our Arab allies in the region. But regime change seldom if ever works out the way the changers intend. See: Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.


But calling for regime change versus seeking to destroy a country’s nuclear capabilities — no matter how spurious the intelligence — are very different goals with very different long-term prospects.

It’s been widely reported that the U.S. defense secretary was not included in planning the Iran mission. Perhaps Hegseth’s Signalgate scandal has finally caught up with him. At least he was by Trump’s side as the president delivered his version of the war news.

Meanwhile, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been put on ice by Trump for testifying to Congress — in March — that the intelligence community did not believe Iran was close to building a nuclear weapon.

So Trump needs advisers who will guide him by telling him the truth, rather than what he wants to hear; because they are beholden to him for jobs they aren’t qualified for, they never will. Trump learned from his first administration: Don’t hire the smart people, elevate the sycophants.

A few closing notes from your reporter, who has spent a fair portion of his life covering wars:

-Truth IS the first casualty of war.

-The first things you hear often are untrue, and so are many of the things you hear later.

-Wars are by their very nature chaotic and unpredictable. What you most expect frequently does not happen; what you least expect often does.

-Up close and personal, wars are almost unbelievably savage. The television screen and the printed word do not come close to conveying their harsh realities.

Stay Steady
Dan
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« Reply #12253 on: June 24, 2025, 03:44:48 pm »
Both the same just different piles of shiit… both lied
Keep it real, Chuck
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« Reply #12254 on: September 08, 2025, 07:16:08 pm »
We all need a reason to smile now and again.


‘You Send Me’

A Reason To Smile
DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY
SEP 07, 2025


Sam Cooke, one of the all-time great singer-songwriters, released his first ever single, “You Send Me,” 68 years ago today. That sunny love song would launch Cooke’s career. And it is this week’s reason to smile.

Cooke is considered one of the most influential soul artists of all time, but he didn’t start out as a soul singer. Born in Mississippi in 1931, Cooke learned to sing in his Baptist minister father’s church choir. When he began singing professionally, it was as a gospel singer. In his early 20s, Cooke made the controversial decision to move from gospel to secular music.

“My father told me it was not what I sang that was important, but that God gave me a voice and musical talent and the true use of His gift was to share it and make people happy,” Cooke once said.

Our thanks to Reverend Cook for giving his blessing. And yes, the original spelling of Cook is without the “e.” Sam changed it in 1957 to help distinguish himself in his new career as a popular musician. And not a moment too soon. With the success of “You Send Me,” Cooke became a star.

“Overnight, with a single song, Sam Cooke became a secular superstar, with audiences consisting of black and white, men and women, young and old,” wrote Bob Gulla in Icons of R&B and Soul.



In 1957, popular music was still segregated. Cooke was one of the first Black artists to cross the color divide in popular music. And “You Send Me” was one of the first true crossover hits. It reached No. 1 on both the R&B and pop charts.

After Cooke’s recording topped the R&B charts, his record company released a version by a white singer, Teresa Brewer. But it was Cooke’s original that hit No. 1 on the pop chart.

Cooke also distinguished himself as a businessman. Early on he recognized that the musicians’ interests were not necessarily the music company’s interests. So he founded his own record label and publishing company.

But it was Cooke’s distinctive velvety tenor that set him apart. His instantly recognizable and highly adaptable tone made his music hard to resist.

Cooke had “an incredible natural singing voice and a smooth, effortless delivery that has never been surpassed,” according to biographer Bruce Eder.
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« Reply #12256 on: September 16, 2025, 01:25:46 am »
Let's enjoy some russian invaders meeting their well deserved fates


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« Reply #12257 on: September 17, 2025, 03:35:17 pm »
The invaders who destroyed Americans businesses in protest.. that's the ones
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