Thank you!

Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"

Witness: "No."

Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"

Witness: "No."

Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"

Witness: "No."

Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"

Witness: "No."

Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"

Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."

Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"

Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."

Personal opinion as opposed to facts.

Please stop the drugs. They are causing delusions.

Or, both!

Who is in charge of popcorn for the viewing event?

There is no Palestine nor Palestinians. It is completely made up. A simple research of history will show that fact, as will a map. They are Arab descendants.

Coddling Iran Brings War to the Middle East
Francis P. Sempa for American Spectator

It cannot be stated too frequently that during Donald Trump’s presidency the Middle East was at relative peace and the Abraham Accords charted a new course for U.S. foreign policy there. This accord removed the irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict from center stage and replaced it with a realism that hadn’t been seen since the Nixon administration. In Trump, America had a president who didn’t care what Thomas Friedman wrote about the region in the New York Times, and who was determined to break through the bureaucratic inertia of the State Department (like Nixon and Kissinger did) to make deals that would benefit U.S. interests.

Trump’s approach, as Edward Luttwak points out in an insightful essay in Unherd, broke with the “delusional” policies of the Obama administration, which unfortunately have reappeared under Biden. As a result, Iran has been emboldened, launching proxy wars against Israel, supplying the Houthis with weapons to cause havoc in and around the Red Sea, and most recently attacking Israel directly with ballistic missiles and drones. Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian forces within the United States hold public anti-Israeli/anti-American demonstrations on college campuses and elsewhere. The world is reaping what Obama sowed.

Luttwak notes that Obama’s Iran policy “has achieved the exact opposite of what he had wanted.” The U.S. and Iran, instead of reconciling, are fighting a proxy war in the Middle East. The Obama apology tour of the region in 2009, his nuclear deals with Iran, and the removal of sanctions against the regime have reaped a foul and dangerous harvest. Obama’s policies, Luttwak explains, gave Iran’s leaders “the time and the oil revenues to recruit Shi’a m*****as from Lebanon to Yemen now holding the Middle East to ransom.” Luttwak writes that it was delusional of Obama to believe that he could persuade the Mullahs to abandon their “‘death to America’ hostility.” And while Luttwak gives Obama credit for refraining from following the advice of some neoconservatives to attack Iran militarily (Trump, too, wisely rejected similar advice), the overall approach to the region during his eight years was a combination of Wilsonian imprudence regarding the so-called Arab Spring, hostility to Israel, and deference to the region’s Islamic regimes.

Trump reversed Obama’s deferential approach and was openly and substantively hostile to Iran and its proxies in the region. But that changed when Biden took office. Luttwak writes: “Partly because Obama compelled Biden to take on [Robert] Malley as his own Iran coordinator (until he lost his security clearance), the Biden Administration moved very fast to repudiate Trump’s hostility to the Ayatollah’s regime, going overboard in its own attempt at reconciliation.” Luttwak describes Malley as a “law-school buddy” of Obama’s who had “extreme hostility to Israel.” Biden, Luttwak notes, removed the Houthi m*****a from the terrorist list. Biden also renewed a sanctions waiver that Trump had rescinded in early 2020 in an effort to revive the flawed nuclear deal that Trump had rightly abandoned.

Israel has succeeded in blunting Iran’s proxy and direct attacks despite the flawed Obama/Biden policies. And Luttwak believes that Iran’s strategy in the region has backfired. Iran’s Shia control of Damascus and Baghdad, he explains, has caused Sunni Arab states, including Jordan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia to “abandon their hostility [to the Jewish state], openly or discreetly.” And Israel’s response to Iran’s air assault, Luttwak notes, likely terrified the Mullahs because it demonstrated the vulnerability of Iran’s chief nuclear installation.

Meanwhile, Thomas Friedman, who people in the Biden administration undoubtedly read, keeps calling for regime change in Israel.

Biden, Blinken, Obama, et al want a spineless sycophant as Israel’s leader. They give not a farthing for the existence of Israel!

Please tell us you are a cop.

How are they going to find over three millions guns to confiscate?

The chance of them succeeding is nil. If you go back a decade, CT, MD and NJ instituted new restrictions on certain weapons. Owners were to report ownership. Approximately 5% did so. The MD and NJ governors ask why the state police did not do something. The response was to inquire how would they find them? To date, nary a gun has been confiscated.

Speaking of, annd off topic, I may have to give up my morning banana. It seems they arrive with a whole swath of fruit flies.

I absolutely unequivocally do not believe your first statement!

Has there been flies around, when I read the news, they could have been dinner as my mouth was agape at the news indicating they had no vests on.

In late 2021, Scotland reported birth defects, in one town, for 90% of the new borns. That was the first and last that was heard on that matter.