| second: In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear.
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war. [go to link] |
| second: Missiles worth $40 million a shot rack up America's Iran war costs [go to link] "Our thinking is based around these exquisite, boutique, very expensive solutions that will only be able be afforded for a very small number of missiles," he said.
"We can't be continuing on this trajectory if we want to win the next war. We have to fundamentally shift direction." |
| Brenda: I can probability get to my passwords when things aren't frozen. Cause that looks like it is partially frozen as well. I'm not sure. My name is highlighted in blue but page for that is white. Tried the window beside the search bar. It turned blue and the word "start" is stuck above it. |
| Brenda: And that is from that blue page menu? I know stupid question because I just froze everything again by trying something. I wish they still have the books "Windows for Dummies". I can sure use one right about now. |
6ixStringJack: Try a restart. If there aren't any hardware problems, which there likely isn't, everything should be right when it comes back up. You should familiarize yourself with that process anyhow.
One of my PCs is pretty old and has a slow hard drive so it takes about 5 or 6 minutes to restart, so I only do it when I absolutely have to, but eventually things get messed up. It probably takes a lot longer for that to happen to you because you aren't using 40 different programs and you don't have 300 tabs open in 7 windows in Chrome.  |
| Brenda: The icons disappeared from the taskbar. The shortcut is still there. |
| 6ixStringJack: Grow up, loser. |
| second: Trump has made repeated claims about vandals cutting 350-foot slits into the Reflecting Pool — saying at different times they used a knife, a box cutter and a razor. He called the alleged vandals “thugs” and said they were “sick” and “terrible.” But today the Justice Department drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation.
The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.” [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Grow up, loser. |
| second: America Isn’t Supposed to Have Political Prosecutions
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Hampered by career public servants and political appointees who followed traditional democratic norms (refusing to prosecute people merely because the president hates them), Trump was unable to make good on this threat and settled mostly for tweeting out demands that Comey be imprisoned. During his second term, however, Trump has sought to bring criminal charges against anybody who defies or displeases him. He has flexed this power by repeating his claims that Comey was a “dirty cop” who deserved prison, ordering the Justice Department to charge him with crimes, and orchestrating the entire plot in public view. |
6ixStringJack: I'm going to have some pictures tonight, Brenda.  |
| 6ixStringJack: I'm going to have some pictures tonight, Brenda. |
| 6ixStringJack: When you say your icons disappeared, do you mean from the task bar? Or do you mean shortcuts on the desktop above the task bar?
I think you should do a letgitimate restart, Brenda. You never did one before. You powered it down, which saved the state of the computer and brought that back, more or less, when you booted it back up. A restart will give you a fresh session. Either use the Power/Restart from the Start Button menu, or do the CTRL+ALT+DEL and hit the power button and restart on that menu. |
| Brenda: Icons disappeared but nothing frozen. Afraid to try to bring them back as might freeze taskbar again. |
| second: Later in Trump’s remarks, a reporter asked him if Americans should expect Iranian attacks to continue. Called upon to inspire his countrymen to endure ongoing sacrifice, he replied: “They’ll get weaker. They’ll get a little stronger, maybe, now. But they’ll get weaker, and then they peter out. Uh, yeah, sure. I think so.” Churchill could not have put it better. [go to link] |
| second: Speaking to reporters today about the war with Iran, President Trump delivered an inspiring pep talk praising the courage and resilience of a brave nation retaining its fighting spirit in the face of adversity. Alas, the subject of his praise was the Iranians.
“Their entire navy is laying at the bottom of the sea,” he said. “They had 200 airplanes—they’re all gone. Every one. They don’t have one airplane. They had anti-aircraft weaponry, very good, but it didn’t work, and it’s all gone. Their radar is all gone. Their leaders are all gone. Everything is all gone! But they’ll fight onward.”
It was probably the most Churchillian rhetoric Trump has managed to muster throughout the entire conflict. Iran shall fight on the beaches, they shall fight on the landing grounds, they shall fight in the fields and in the streets, they shall fight in the hills; they shall never surrender. [go to link] |
| Brenda: I know tags was a little slow for me last night. I was thinking about it being a weekend. It's a long one up here. Man, you sure are getting things done. Hope you can get your pictures up. |
| THG: Imagine a mob boss. He is completely for the destruction of the rule of law. That's Trump which is one reason why he keeps pardoning criminals. |
| second: The IRS Is Imploding Thanks To Trump. Tax-cheaters can rejoice [go to link] “There are 93,000 agents at the IRS,” he said in June. “I think we should put a padlock on that building and put every one of them down on our southern border.” |
| second: Trump’s War With Iran Is Hopeless. The president should have heeded this lesson about war before he got into this mess: [go to link] One major, little-recognized reason for President Donald Trump’s failure to push the Iranians into surrender—even after hitting more than 13,000 targets with bombs dropped from planes or with missiles fired from long range—is this plain fact: No nation has ever won a war with air power alone. To the extent bombs and missiles have played a role in victory, they have been in coordination with forces on the ground, an escalation of involvement that Trump wisely wants to avoid. |