Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 24, 2026 in Blog |
BUSTING MYTHS AND EXPOSING LIES:
THIS WAR IS OVER, IS EASY, AND/OR “WINNABLE”
All too often, many Americans reveal an appalling lack of knowledge about other countries — including their cultures and histories. Current perceptions of Iran might be the very best (meaning the worst) example of this costly mass hubris.
Our ignorance and arrogance has cost us dearly before — in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Afghanistan. All were inferior military powers, and two were almost primitive by the standards of America’s supreme military firepower. But, look what happened.
And, it’s now happening. Yet again. The steps are so frighteningly similar. Upon the smoldering ash heap of a mountain of lies already spewed about the Iran-USA/Israel War is the outrageously naive idea that the Islamic Republic of Iran would (1) fall quickly, or just in case they were wrong about that…..(2) the war would be easy, or winnable within only a few days….and just in case they were also wrong about that (3) the U.S. could bomb its way to victory, without “boots on the ground.” So far, they’re 0 for 2. This is/was criminal insanity to believe this. Any of this. It’s Bonkers. A high schooler playing the old war game “Risk” could have figured this out.Yet, the President of the United States said all of this, and millions believed it. With no one brave or sane enough to counter maniacal naivete, the President even went so far as to announce he initially ordered attacks on Iran because he “had a feeling.”
How does one make sense, or argue with that?
One month later, here we are. Iran may be even more menacing now than when this war first began. They’re certainly better stocked, more capable, and much more ready than Trump and his regime of blind loyalists expected. Trump (and Israel, which shares guilt for many of these miscalculations and wrongs) blew it, big time. The state propaganda from their “War” Department might look impressive as a video game, but then war is always “sold” to the public. We’ve bought these lies before, but there’s no return policy in wartime.
Anyone foolish enough to believe Iran would fall quickly, or will experience a change in government anytime soon should not be nowhere near any decision-making or policy desk. That level of ignorance gets people killed and ends up costing billions, sometimes even trillions. We can’t afford either.
A very short history: The Persians (Iran) have been around for 2.500 years. That’s ten times longer than the United States has existed. During multiple periods of a long and proud history, Persians were one of the most advanced civilizations in the world. Sounds like us, doesn’t it? A generation ago, Iran fought a brutal war against its neighbor Iraq (then ruled by Saddam Hussein, backed by the United States). Iran lost an estimated 300,000 troops and close to another million Iranians were seriously injured. Yet, Iran NEVER came close to surrender, nor was the hardline government in danger of falling during that entire time. Oh, they’re stronger today than then. History proves, this is a determined population, with a sizable fanatical core in charge of things.
America’s blind war hawks and loyal Trump cultists are at it again. Another unsubstantiated threat. Weapons of mass whatever. Now, they’re even claiming that Iran is nothing at all like Afghanistan. In part, they may be right — because they’re much bigger and stronger:
— Iran is huge! It’s roughly the size as Alaska, 2.5 times the size of Texas, and covers about one-quarter of the continental US land area.
— Iran has lots of people! It has twice the population of Iraq, a war where were were bogged down for nearly two decades. The same comparison applies to Afghanistan.
— Iran knows this war has been coming and is prepared for it! It is far more more advanced militarily than either of our previous Middle East adversaries. We’re learning that now, the hard way. “Intelligence” on Iran has been unreliable and outdated, at best.
— Iran has capable weapons and combatants! It has a military trained in high-tech warfare. Iraq and Afghanistan (including the Taliban) were far inferior to the Iranians.
— Iran has powerful friends! It has established relationships and supply lines with Russia and China, who could provide them with assistance.
In short, Iran is a much more powerful adversary than anything we’ve seen before in the Middle East. And once again — this cannot be overstated — the American President has already made several miscalculations. Can he really be trusted to act wisely in any prolonged engagement?
In fact, this excursion-incursion-war, whatever the President tries to call it, has EMPOWERED the most extreme elements of the Iranian regime. It has not weakened them (domestically). We made the beast stronger.
The USA (and Israeli) attacks have only served to PROVE that all the dire warnings over decades about foreign invaders were ACCURATE. Those chants about “Satan” became prophetic. Any moderate point of view inside Iran has completely disappeared (Iranian moderates, including some secularists, were steadily growing in power during and immediately after the working Obama nuclear deal, a.k.a. JCPOA, before Trump ripped it apart, thus leading to Iran to become more hardline in response). As for other incendiary mistakes, bombing and murdering 170 Iranian schoolgirls (then repeatedly lying about it) doesn’t help either. Not exactly a positive for “liberation.” Just wait to see how these events play out with 1.2 billion Muslims all over the world.
Today, every Western military analyst using any reliable metric lists the Islamic Republic of Iran as one of the world’s top-20 military powers. Even with heavy attacks and many strikes, including losses, Iran remains defiant. They’ve been here before. And Iran met the test. The “enemy” has been underestimated. Yet again. That’s a very bad thing to do in any engagement. It can be suicidal in a war.
Even if the war is finally “won” in some undetermined form and fashion (likely returning right back to where we were before), the real problem ahead may be repairing the damage. Getting anyone to trust the United States after all the lies, all the inconsistencies, and all the false provocations won’t be easy. Insulting allies and demeaning other nations won’t make this task any easier. Whoever gets elected President in 2028 may be walking into a an impossible situation, with America’s reputation in ruins by then.
Finally, assuming a “dream outcome,” which would be Iran’s complete downfall and a government change, that still leaves about one-third of Iran’s population as fanatical Islamic fundamentalists who will be eager to do Allah’s work and extract revenge upon the Invaders and occupiers. That’s potentially 25-30 million hostile unmanageable people, combatants, suicide bombers. U.S. military might couldn’t overcome anything even a fraction of that population size — in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Hence, even under the best-case scenario, the test wouldn’t just be winning militarily without it bankrupting us and costing thousands of American lives. After war, it’s even harder to occupy, and run a nation, and prop up a fragile new government lacking in any credibility that hasn’t earned it’s “revolutionary” stripes.
The war is not won, as we’ve been told. The war was not easy, as we’ve been told. The war is not winnable, which is what we’re being told now. Each of these is a myth.
If anyone with a brain in the White House remains and has any influence with someone who doesn’t read briefings or listen, they will explain this to the President and he can scrap up some performative “deal” — though we all end up with an even more hardline regime in Iran and America’s credibility is shot in many parts of the world. In a sense, that means Iran likely wins, no matter what.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 23, 2026 in Blog |
Announcing:
Free trip to Iran, but you’re fucked when you come home
–if you come home at all.
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While Trump is preparing to land troops to fight in the Middle East (here we go again!!!!), let’s keep in mind what he and his reckless and incompetent DOGE cutthroats have done to OUR AMERICAN Veterans here at home over the past 14 months, all on his watch.
All documented in the link HERE:
The Veterans Administration (VA), the federal agency dedicated to running programs and services that benefit veterans and their families, has been utterly decimated.
The Trump Administration cut nearly 28,000 VA employees overall (about 6 percent of all agency staff) between January and December of 2025. This is despite an increase in workload and those who need treatment and care!
Included in these losses of TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND medical professionals were — over 2,700 nurses, over 1,000 medical officers, and more than 1,000 psychologists and social workers, as well as over 1,800 people tasked with evaluating veterans’ claims for benefits.
Slash! Gone!
Think of that. Nurses. Medical officers. Maybe most important of all….psychologists and social workers who are so vitally important not just to doing the right thing for these veterans but also dealing with those who have suffered PTSD, which creates a wide array of problems domestically and especially for those who are around them including their own families.
Gone.
All those medical professionals cut. Heartlessly. Without any concern whatsoever for the well-being of people who served.
Oh, but look at him saluting the veterans by saying a couple of words off of a teleprompter. Meanwhile he sends another generation off to the Middle East to needlessly risk their lives, kicking their dad’s and uncles and friends out into the VA parking lot.
Quit lying and believing all the bullshit. Does shutting down crisis hotlines for veterans sound like the right thing to do? Is this even the smart thing to do? Seriously think about that! For fucks sake, think about all those hundreds of thousands who believed the last Republican lie and obscene war in the Middle East who are still living and fighting daily battles. Cutting VA social workers? Really? Does this sound like somebody who gives a shit about those who served?
And to anyone in the military who may be reading this (and I doubt there are many but still) he doesn’t give a shit about you and he never has and never will. If and hopefully when you return home you’ll also find that out when you try to get medical care or psychological treatment. You’ll be on your own assuming these maniacs are still in power.
Of course, the MAGA circus world of hate for profit freaks and performative clowns and blonde talking head bimbos will never report any of these things, nor point the blame where it belongs.
Trump’s false praise of veterans which so often borders on stolen valor is always purely for the cameras, but when it comes down to actual concern and treatment making commitments to their care, he doesn’t give a bone spur on a flying airman’s ass.
Remember that, as the troops risk their lives for another big lie.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 23, 2026 in Blog |
TRUMP KILLS TSA AGREEMENT, SENDS IN GRAVY SEALS, AND CREATES AIRPORT SHITSHOW
It’s all on him.
Right here. His own flunky admitted it. On FOX News.
TRUMP KILLED A BI-PARTISAN BILL TO END THE TSA CRISIS.
Long check-in lines? Diminished security? Missed your flight?
Sucks. huh? Who did you vote for in the last election? You think he cares? That’s all on ONE MAN.
Sen. John Kennedy admitted on FOX News that Republicans and Democrats reached a deal to fund the TSA, but when he heard about it Trump said, “No. No deals with the Democrats.”
Quoting Sen. Kennedy directly: “It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week.”
LINK TO FULL STORY: CLICK HERE
He’s fucking over Americans again, and lying about it, while blaming others.
IT’S ON HIM.
His own MAGA stooge said so.
[oh, and we’ll take that apology from those of you who tried to blame Democrats]
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 20, 2026 in Blog |
THE THINGS WE MISS
#1 : Slamming down the phone.
Remember those old black rotary phones? When you needed a phone, there was only one company. Bell Telephone. You called the installer (from someone else’s phone). They arrived and they gave you a phone. A black phone. Always a black phone. Later, they had white phones. That was it. Options? Would you like the neck brace attached to the receiver? Remember those? Those curved neck braces were about as repellant to the rest of humanity as pocket protectors and a warm can of Schlitz Beer.
Those old Bell telephones were built like Sherman Tanks. Shrapnel just bounced off. Those were the phones deep inside the nuclear bomb bunkers, though I wonder–who do you call after the big boom? And those black Bell phones weighed a ton. But they always worked. And, we could abuse the hell out of them.
Which brings me to the question, if you are of a certain age and generation: Who didn’t love slamming down the receiver?
Freudian ejaculation.
Bill collectors calling? I’m broke! BAMMMM!
You’re breaking up with me? Screw you! Have a nice life! BAMMMM!
You want me to help you move furniture from your upstairs apartment this coming Saturday? Hello? Hello? I’m losing you. Are you still there? Shit. must be a bad connection.
The kicker of satisfaction and glorious ecstasy was when you slammed down the phone so hard that the little bell inside gave off a ring, with the echo. Ding………..ing…..ing…ing…ing. Like when the bell rings in a prizefight. The knockout punch.
Damn, that bell sounded so beautiful when you were doing the slamming. So satisfying. I never did figure out if the schlub on the other side of the call had his eardrums blown out. I mean, what did they hear? No matter. This was our telephone party. We’re doing the slamming. The ultimate power trip.
Of course, you can’t slam down our phones anymore, not unless you want to crack the glass and end up buying a new $700 iPhone. And when the next clown or bill collector calls, you might just end up breaking that one, too. So sad. And they say technology is making our lives better. Well, fuck that. I demand we return to the Black beast! The Bell war horse. I want my SLAM phone!
One thing I’ll say about those old phone relics that *rings* true —– it never dropped a call. And there was never a battery issue. It was like the hot phone to the Kremlin. The thing ALWAYS worked.
Can you hear me now?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 20, 2026 in Blog |
THE THINGS WE MISS
#2 : The suspense of getting sports scores
Remember what being a sports fan was like before smartphones, computers, and thousands of sports channels?
Back then, we got one game on TV. That was it. On a really special day, maybe two ball games were shown. The backup? Radio! Trouble was, radio stations carried local teams only. If you were a fan of some other team or another place, you were shit out of luck. And if you were a sports bettor, getting scores sometimes required waiting until the next morning and reading the newspaper.
But, I’ll say this: All that mystery heightened the suspense! Remember Howard Cosell’s Monday Night Football highlights? Hell, that was the actual highlight of our week!
As I said, sports gamblers had it really rough. With no ESPN nor the internet, all major cities had “sportslines.” Sometimes they were called “scorephones.” Anyone else remember?
They were almost always run by sleaze bags, mostly paid (worthless) touts and fronts for organized crime. You dialed an 800 number. Then, you waited and and were forced to endure one mind numbing sales pitch after another from “expert handicappers” promising tomorrow’s “game of the year” or special “lock” for an extra fee. Finally, patience wearing thin, some guy with a scratchy voice who sounded like a hitman in Reservoir Dogs would bark out the scores of each game played that day on a recorded line.
Oh, and if it was college basketball season — with a hundred games — and you were waiting for a score on the Pacific Coast, you might be hanging on the phone for another ten minutes. Oh, and some of these sportslines cost 99-cents a minute. So, it might take 12 minutes to finally learn if Oregon beat Arizona and covered the spread. In the 1980s, I must have dropped a couple of thousand dollars in quarters, calling sportslines.
Even going to the ball game heightened the suspense. Those old stadium scoreboards were ancient. Talk about no frills! Many stadiums changed the scores by hand, with some guy tasked with sticking a placard in a window slot. I think Boston still does this. Several stadiums did not even respect the visiting team enough to put up their names. Take this sign from late ’60s Cleveland, which always seemed dark and muddy. Glancing at the photo, I have to wonder — who were the “fans” who decided not to show up with front row seats in the upper deck at a Browns game? Oh wait, it’s the BROWNS. It looks like the deck chairs on the Titanic. Given Cleveland’s miserable football and baseball history, the stadium should have just put up a sign saying — “HOME.”
Today, March Madness starts. Games will be shown and live updates will plaster the smartphones of every fan and bettor. On second thought, may I don’t miss the old days as much as I thought.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 20, 2026 in Blog |
—– $39,000,000,000,000.00 —–
Thirty-nine trillion dollars.
That’s what the UNITED STATES FEDERAL DEFICIT just exploded into as of yesterday.
THIRTY. NINE. TRILLION. FUCKING. DOLLARS.
On Trump’s watch. Despite his reckless Muskrat-driven DOGE cuts. Republicans now control EVERY SINGLE mechanism of the federal government at all levels, including the money appropriations from Congress and the Senate. Yes, this is on TRUMP and REPUBLICANS.
And yet, they are blowing up the nation’s credit cards like drunken Real Housewives of Mar a Lago. The federal deficit just exploded by another TRILLION dollars in just the last five months. Three months before that, Republicans exploded the deficit by another TRILLION. So, the party of “fiscal responsibility” (my ass!) added roughly THREE TRILLION DOLLARS to our debt load. This is criminal negligence. Good luck paying our bills, future Americans. Man, is the next generation fucked, or what?
Try and wrap your head around what an astronomical figure $39,000,000,000,000.00 represents. Wanna’ know how much money that is? Listen.
Last year’s ENTIRE federal budget was $5.2 trillion. So, we’ve ran up so much debt that the money now owed is is more than SEVEN TIMES the entire yearly federal budget! Then again, what did we expect from a con man and a fraud who bankrupted multiple casinos? Did anyone think this clown knows how to manage money and stay within a budget when he spent a lifetime STIFFING EVERYONE around him?
But listen to the derangement straight from the source who calls himself the “stable genius”:
“We’re going to become so rich, you’re not gonna know where to spend all that money. I’m telling you—just watch!”
— Trump (Mar. 9, 2025)
“I created the greatest economy in the history of our country.”
— Trump (Nov. 30, 2025)
“The economy is roaring, it’s phenomenal”
— Trump (Mar. 12, 2026)
Who believes this bullshit? Is anyone paying attention? Within a few months, it will be $40 TRILLION. What does it take to wake up — an economic collapse? A depression? People starving?
At least the billionaires are doing well. Those “tax cuts” for the super-rich Trump and MAGA Republicans shoved down our throats and bragged about (twice) have been responsible, in part, to adding $7.8 TRILLION to the federal deficit in his failed first term, and another $3 TRILLION since he took office in his second term. But hey, at least the top-1 percent won’t be struggling. So, you lost your health coverage? Tough shit. Man up. Somebody’s got to pay for those “tax cuts.”
Now, Trump has launched ANOTHER unprovoked war in the Middle East built on lies, and the financial situation is already so dire that the bloated war-pig machine is begging for another $200 BILLION from the American people. Two-hundred mil’ for more bombs? Sure, just stick it on the kids’ credit card. WHEN WILL IT END? Who knows how much more they’ll ask for next time?
This is mass madness.
Actually, it’s national suicide.
We saw this coming. We called it. We were proven right. We warned everyone that Trump would be a disaster. And, things are very likely to worsen because so many dirt dumb MAGA cultists continue guzzling the orange kool-aid.
$39,000,000,000,000.00…..and ticking by the minute. That’s the sound of a bomb. That is the real IMMINENT THREAT to America.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 18, 2026 in Blog |
Hey, you Trump MAGATS!
Here’s your reminder that while your cult leader is ramping up on another insane trillion-dollar war in the Middle East, the nation Trump said is the biggest threat to America …… China ….. continues building 300-mph bullet trains, managing its natural resources with government oversight, crafting alliances, investing in wind and solar energy, promoting 21st century technology instead of oil and coal which is out of the 19th century, and is solidifying alliances with constructive relationships all over the world especially in developing nations.
Wars cost money. Lots of money Wars cost lives. Sometimes, hundreds even thousands of lives Cheerleading destruction and ignorance like it’s a video game comes at a terrible cost.
See this 21st century bullet train. This should have been every major American city.
But it’s not. One reason? Wars. Unnecessary ridiculous wars. Wars based on lies.
Someone is getting rich, and it’s sure the fuck isn’t us.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 18, 2026 in Blog |
Let’s make sure all the wife beaters and child abusers have a right to their guns!
America! Fuck yeah! Are we great yet?
The Republican Party and the criminal terrorist organization known as the NRA in action. Right here. Right now.
They just voted to kill a bill that would have restricted access to guns from people who are known abusers. This is on you, MAGA. READ MORE HERE
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 15, 2026 in Blog |
60 YEARS OF OSCARS:
WHAT MOVIES WON VS. WHAT MOVIES SHOULD HAVE WON?
PART 5 OF 5 (2010-2020)
Thank your to readers for many interesting replies and comments here on Facebook in response to PART 1 (1955-1979) and PART 2 (1980-1989) and PART 3 (1990-1999) and PART 4 (2000-2009) of this multi-tasking series on Oscar-winning movies.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 13, 2026 in Blog |
60 YEARS OF OSCARS:
WHAT MOVIES WON VS. WHAT MOVIES SHOULD HAVE WON?
PART 4 OF 5 (2000-2009)
Thank your to readers for many interesting replies and comments here on Facebook in response to PART 1 (1955-1979) and PART 2 (1980-1989) and PART 3 (1990-1999) of this multi-tasking series on Oscar-winning movies. Next year, I’ll do a similar series on actors awards, which will be fun. Assuming the world is still in one piece.
Now, let’s move into the 2000s. As promised, here’s PART 4.
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