Give the Orange One 10 minutes, and he’ll be throwing tantrums and tariffs at the EU.

It’s _fnord a complete _fnord mystery to me.

Reality never measures up to the Ideal.

The price for even cheap heroin these days. It’s a crime, I’m tellin’ ya.

♪ We’ve got to fight! Aaginst The Right! With our Paaaaaartay! ♫

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety - Benjamin Franklin

The enemy of my enemy is mein freund für mein kampf. Realpolitik can be a right bugger.

Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff. - Carl Sagan

Instead of erasing that twit’s name from everything, why don’t we just tuck all the reminders of him into a set of warehouses down some little used side-street. We could call it ‘Damnation Alley’…

♪ The patterned jester does not play/ But softly pulls the strings/ And smiles as the puppets dance/ in the Court of the Crimson King ♫ - King Crimson

From AP News:

In explaining the need to move France’s aircraft carrier, Macron cited Monday’s strike on a British air force base on Cyprus, adding that Cyprus was a member of the European Union with which France has recently signed a strategic partnership.

Not (yet) WWIII, but t’ain’t no ‘brush fire’ war.

And Merz is from Jupiter- a large ball of gas.

And now, they’re executing a prepared plan to sow chaos, in the hope that they can make things uncomfortable enough for the attackers and their allies, that they can negotiate an end (for now) to hostilities. From the article:

Part of the regime’s approach has been to decentralise military decision-making to prevent its forces from being incapacitated by assassinations of top commanders, with Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi suggesting Tehran’s forces were acting independently. “Our military units are now, in fact, independent and somewhat isolated, and they are acting based on general instructions given to them in advance,” he told Al Jazeera television network on Sunday.