https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub-a-dub-dub:
[...] In 1842 James Orchard Halliwell collected the following version:
Rub a dub dub,
Three fools in a tub,
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick maker.
Turn them out, knaves all three.[4]
[...]
I like it. Readers are on their own on this thought. Partisan? Perhaps just simple truth - the simpler, the better.
Not that the linked item gets into flag scapegoating privateers or anything, that's a Crabgrass note, with the link here.
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It is a game where talent and height are important, and having neither for the sport, it nonetheless captures my imagination and pleasure in watching it play out. Wemby is younger and taller, and the Spurs keeping Game 4 close despite his early exit for throwing the elbow in frustration for tight gaurding and double teaming is a thing saying the sports pundits may be correct, Spurs going on to face the Thunder. We in Minnesota hope not, with Edwards having said he told one opponent "If I had my legs you'd have been dunked on."
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The series is now 3 - 2 with the Spurs up. The smart money bet is Conference Final, Wemby vs. Holmgren, each with a talented squad. Regular season they were 1 and 2 in the division.
UPDATE: Google provides me search analytics. I have international readers. Not in vast numbers, but they are there. They should be grateful for these men in that link telling things as they are.
Trump did not invent lying and hypocrisy. He just invented how to lose a war and somebody's nightmare of a "World Order" where USA gives out world orders. How do you suppose Putin arose, who held a hammer and let things go where they must have seemed okay.
That video of the second paragraph fits the Trumpitistas cabals to a "T".
JD agrees. But they blew it underestimating Iran with Bibi's honeyed picturing and pitching war based on Bibi's objectives, independent from anyone else's good judgement or likely outcomes.
Of interest, perhaps, to others.
And some jackass schemes and wants you to fume over design of a flag? Are you that ignorant you'd be sucked in by that? Please just say no.
A mental exercise, what happens if Iran missiles really rain down on Israel's Dimona installation? All hell breaking loose? You tell me. Your guess is good, so act on it. Act on it in one nation means -- Somebody has to take USA leadership with a better way. A better outlook. A better promise of a future worldwide, and within the USA. Both.
A "World Order" with all downside to most in the world is a strange way to say "We have the better way."
UPDATE: A question - does Trump have an offramp might better be - does Trump want an offramp?
How you look at things is how you come to conclusions. Does Trump leave the USA an offramp? Try that one out. Driving on the wrong side of the road leads to what? Go figure.
FURTHER: Little pissants and their state flag or transgender oh my posturing bothers me. Did Nero really have a fiddle, or is that image meant in a fuller sense?
The world moves on and small impediments get the sidetrack their mischief has earned them.
Persian Gulf War = global warming goosed up
Hopefully we, the US of A, never will go to war to capture and "assimilate" Greenland.
Nature can adapt to a new equilibrium, the question there is how is human life affected when the adaptation happens?
AI is real and manufacturing will become more and more automated. That is not the question. The question is how wisely will politicians of power handle things. How humanly?
(random thoughts over morning coffee, here in Minnesota, USA - coffee is my favorite drug)
The internet is neither good nor evil. It is an ongoing exploration. It can be a tool to use in trying to fight off dementia in old age.
Trump should try it. Exploring the internet is better than crypto scheming.
UPDATE: If I liked how Trump operates, what his outcomes are, I expect I'd have a different outlook. Fact is, I don't like Trump. It goes from there.
FURTHER: Consider assimulating Greenland to be as the USA is. A damned cold place to be homeless.
Start here - an undated video, framing the issue and approach.
For people wanting something to read - dated April 29, 2026
https://progressives.house.gov/2026/4/progressive-caucus-announces-new-affordability-agenda
Politico indicates that besides the Progressive Caucus, the middle of the road Dems also have or are working on an agenda of their own.
It is encouraging to see such varied agenda proposals. It is something you're never get from any Republican group, or from the Trump administration. Can you imagine JD getting into specifics rather than platitudes without substance? This movement should pressure attention from the public and from the Republicans. Don't let them stonewall.
Expect growth of interest in detail ideas vs spin and obfuscation.
UPDATE: Housing, food, healthcare, mobility, and well being, those are goals, not pushing against Iran so US fossil fuel barons can run worldwide energy supply and access. People matter more than increasing the wealth of the Trump family. Homelessness can be addressed, while Hegseth says, "Give me a trillion."
What we have now is sick exploitation of a people, us in the US, via deliberate making their lives unsettled, so that billionaires and their companion millionaires can have endless power and luxury until they croak.
The young deserve the handing to them of a better world than the one Donald Trump is ruining. Anybody on the Trump agenda, wealthy or wanting to climb from local mayor here or there with ambition to reach something else paying better, is an enemy of everyone else. We need something better than bullshit excuses or disdain. When we seek reasonable relief after suffering ICE - Bovino, we deserve reform. Spin at any level is unhelpful, and sourced from some motives, good or more likely selfish and bad.
True reform gets buried when Hispanic people or Somalis get demonized and scapegoated by people with more in a year's income than fifteen or their firm's workers - at Walmart, wherever - where the Walton family in Arkansas have employees working full time yet in need of welfare assistance to keep their families together, and to stay housed, fed, and in good health. Trump is enemy to the people of the world. Not merely enemy of the people of the US of A. His evil reach is worldwide. His oil cronies have closed the Persian Gulf over bullshit and Israeli Greater Israel land lust, but mainly to cripple Arab oil producers so that Trump - JD oil cronies of Trumpworld can bandit the world. We can be better and have no excuse to not be.
Link, and here. Figure it out as you may. It's online, along with one hell of a lot of disdainful propaganda against others, where propaganda is, as Chomsky wrote, "manufacturing consent." See it where it exists. It is there to be seen. And disdained. But we do have our own propagandists, helpful to our causes, so be mindful of that. Good propaganda, bad propaganda? Figure that out.
Fuck Trump. That burdening the Strait of Hormuz would last years if Trump and company could get away with it by endless sabre rattling at one another by both the US and Iran. Fuck Trump's oil-evil corruption. End this insane war. Oust the Republicans from the White House. From Congress. Forever ideally, but for now is better than nothing. The children of the US and of the world deserve our doing so, so that they may face a decent future.
Opinions can differ. Try search = michael hudson
See what returns you get and do some reading or view video if that's in your returns. You might learn something, or, on the other hand, see things you disagree with. But you will be better informed however you gauge things that such a search may reveal. Link. Another link.
FURTHER: Try search = Aaron Parnas.
Search = Parnas Perspective
Link. Different than here. Video, and in approach. But popular. Hat tip to the gentle lady who told me I should know Aaron Parnas exists online. When we talk to friends we learn things.