Actually, this is been a remarkably busy week for me. And now I’m down in Miami at the Florida retro SuperCom. So I’m afraid I don’t have time to produce one this week. However, if any of you would like to volunteer information, this is the place to do it. Go nuts.
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Well, I’m a wee bit concerned about the bombs going off of late. He bombed Syria and the media had an orgasm and told him he was a Real Boy now. (Never mind that they said the same thing when he calmed down and read from a TelePrompTer.) So he dropped a bigger one in Afghanistan and killed DOZENS of people (three dozen, to be precise, which seems like rather a waste of bomb) and now he feels like he’s doing something.
I’m afraid of where the next one gets dropped.
The Korean peninsula awaits.
Go nuts? Sure! Don’t mind if I do!
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It takes going back a little over the last week, but it’s been an interesting week for Trump-watching.
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After Assad used a WMD, Trump blew the hëll out of an airbase. He gave Russia enough advance notice to get its people out of there, but not enough time to try to stop or counter the attack. He also timed the attack to go public right during his dinner with China’s president. (This could have been a very entertaining dinner conversation. “President Xi, nice to meet you. By the way, we’re currently blowing up a Syrian airbase. Isn’t it annoying when petty little rogue dictators start playing with WMDs? Very troubling. Please, try the lobster. It’s great. Now, we should talk a little about trade. I understand your country uses a lot of coal, and buy a lot from North Korea. Well, I told the US coal miners that they didn’t have the US government against them any more, and I bet they’d like a chance to sell to you. Why don’t we take a look at that, and see if we can get some of those trade imbalances squared away a bit?”
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So Russia – who signed off on Syria having gotten rid off all its poison gas weapons a couple of years ago, with the cheering cooperation of Susan Rice, John Kerry, and Barack Obama – has just seen that the new administration feels free to respond to the use of WMDs without first checking with Russia. Meanwhile, at the UN, Nikki Haley is calling out Russia for their support of Assad while he uses WMDs. So they have some serious incentives to keeping him on a tighter leash.
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Meanwhile, China is being offered a nice carrot if they put a few checks on North Korea. They are North Korea’s biggest trading partner, and they turn a few ships full of North Korean coal back while still fully loaded. They also make a few statements about how North Korea really ought to dial it back a bit.
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To go with that carrot, Trump quite visibly sends a carrier battle group towards North Korea. Trump has just demonstrated that he will strike against countries that use WMDs, and North Korea is threatening to test another nuclear weapon.
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And over in Afghanistan, we get word of a big ISIS gathering. We respond to it by the first-ever deployment of the MOAB, the biggest conventional bomb ever developed by the US. It kills about a hundred bad guys, with apparently zero innocent casualties and almost zero risk to US forces. When asked if he had authorized the use of the weapon, Trump says no – he’d told the commanders to use what they thought best, and he’d trust their judgment and not micro-manage.
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Which tells the military that they are trusted and respected and valued by their Commander In Chief.
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It also tells our foes that, should they get too rowdy, they can’t count on a delayed response while the local commanders get on the horn to DC to get approval. If they attack the US military, they can expect to get hit back swiftly and firmly.
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That’s just a few things that happened this week by the syphilitic moron. Imagine what Trump might do if he was healthy and smart.
Where did this idiot find vowels?
Nice recap Jay! And a good balance to what is usually found here.
That’s better!
For the benefit of anyone trying to read what George wrote and having trouble making sense of it, here it is with vowels added back in:
“Once recoop Joy! Andy aged blince [[an obvious typo for blintz]], ate wheat, so Sally fined her.”
Seriously?
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Is a differing opinion that threatening to you guys?
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I wasn’t censored back in October when I posted during the Vice Presidential debate about Catholic dogma. Jay wasn’t censored last week when he posted advice to Peter about his tax issues.
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But this? Wow. This is… enlightening.
Kath here. Then we missed something as we were going along. According to Peter, Jay Tea is on a vowel light diet due to behaviors previous. That his comments were voweled when he talked about Peter’s tax issues is my fault and mine alone. It’s not a double standard but more that we have been a little busy/stress/depressed(that would be me) that some things have slid so, even though I know this is a heated issue, can you cut me a little slack here?
So what behavior of mine has warranted me being labeled a troll as evidenced by my post at 8:33 AM yesterday? Simply agreeing with Mr. Tea, which I did after he was called an idiot?
Why does the personal blog of an individual require balance? Why should we even think we can expect it?
George, are you at all familiar with Jay Tea’s previous comments and behaviors here? Are you aware at all of the tolerance shown him by our host? Of the many warnings PAD gave to Jay Tea that his comments were well over the line, all of which were repeatedly ignored, before he finally felt it necessary to disemvowel Jay Tea?
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Or are you opining on something you have no knowledge of, just jumping to a conclusion and blindly coming to the defense of someone who is really undeserving of you support and not one who reflects well on your side?
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“I wasn’t censored back in October when I posted during the Vice Presidential debate about Catholic dogma.”
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Which should suggest the tolerance PAD shows to commenters. So trust that, if he feel’s it necessary to disemvowel someone, it’s well deserved.
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He could have banned Jay Tea outright. He did not. He still allows him to post. And, despite knowing he’s not welcome and his comments will be mostly giberish, Jay continues to post here. Seems to me that JT’s insistence on continuing to comment is the action that should be viewed as offensive, not PAD’s.
From Peter David’s Wikipedia entry:
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“He is an advocate of freedom of speech…”
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Advocating freedom of speech includes speech you don’t like.
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If he only invites like-minded commentary he should just say that up front. And disemvoweling someone is just snarky. It’s not censorship because PAD is not the government but neither is it the free expression of ideas.
This website is the online equivalent of my home. If Jay Tea showed up at a party I was having, stood in the living room and shouted the types of idiocies that he stated here, I would not hesitate to throw him out. I have no problem with contrary opinions. I have a problem with lack of courtesy in my place.
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PAD
* The “go nuts” is only intended for Trump haters. For those who do no sufficiently hate Trump, this way to the egress.
Says so right on the tin, Mr. Tea. Why would you demand otherwise? Is martyrdom on a web site for a guy who writes comic books really that emotionally satisfying for you?
“However, if any of you would like to volunteer information, this is the place to do it. Go nuts. ”
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Don’t know why in hëll I took that at face value.