Friday 13th March 2026

[refitman]

Morning all.

[Frog222]

Good afternoon from a damp Normandie, where Little Boy just came in to rub his wet fur against my legs.

Splendid message to all Amurricans , rising gas prices are --

" Short term pain for long term gain "

Repeated by all the WH parrots to then go out from the thousands of TV channels nationwide . ( really impressive how so many repeat exactly the same message)

[Frog222]

That was a good morning message, until I was informed that FTN had reached a data limit, or something like that .

[Frog222]

I love it when a manufactured AS hatecrime becomes unstuck

In the UK we had the "Corbyn and supporters are AS" fomented by McSweeney and the sinister Labour Together Gang, ably ( tho unwittingly ...) assisted among others by Pogrund at The Times. Of course we mustn't forget all those '284 abusive mails' that Margaret Hodge chose to believe came from labour Corbynistas .

Another variation on the theme were the Moscow-financed Bulgarians daubing AS slogans in Paris, well anything to sow dissension, and incidentally they also secretly pleased some of the local Zionists !

[Frog222]

Fraser Nelson in The Times just now , repeating his QT spiel that the bombing could result in Freedum and Democracy -- https://archive.ph/58xfi

As Europe runs for cover and America frets about the pump price, Israel seems to be the only country serious about giving Iranian democracy a try and clearing the obstacles for insurrection. So far, protesters have been told to stay put, wait for the signal. There’s talk of it coming around Nowruz, the Persian new year, on Friday next week.

Stopping now would betray the Iranian people

Risks are high but the US should see, like Israel, that the Islamic Republic will terrorise its population until it falls

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Wow, such crazy stuff, unless he is privy to a super-duper Israeli plan involving local insurgents, Israeli special forces with a tactical drone army and 24h ground attack air power ....

Somewhat unlikely since Israel is concentrating on Hezbullah at the mom, but then a two-front war never bothers the armchair people !

[Frog222]

Local news ! I went to the neighbour for my regular organic loaf baked 30m away on cereals from the farm, and some braised ham from piggies raised on the same .

The War has already struck, as the neighbour had ordered a diesel delivery the Friday before the Saturday the bombing began, and the supplier only had stock on Tuesday when the price had jumped from 85cents to €1.35 ! He gave up .

One good thing, at least he's organic and doesn't buy any fertiliser !

[refitman]

Quite the cover on this weekends FT

[Frog222]

Diddums . Lindsay Graham is not happy about the Gulf States not going to war with Iran

[Frog222]

In 2006 Walt and Mearsheimer wrote a LRB article exposing AIPAC ( followed by a 20007 book --" The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" ), and I agreed with them, leading to a civilised two week debate with two American jews .

My friends on that small US site spectated and let me get on with it !

( In the meanwhile I've strongly disagreed with M on Ukraine ... )

Twenty years later , a brief Youtube with Piers Morgan --