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1. about 5 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   IE: never?

2. about 5 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   Yeah. Can’t have anything containing any spi-ces.

3. about 5 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   The nannybot is programmed to reject Magna C U M Laude as containing an antipathetic vulgarity.

4. about 5 hours ago on Mike Lester

   (Continued →)

   The days when fundamentalist Jihadists can run roughshod over their neighbors is gone. But like Trump, the leaders of Iran seem to be determined to ignore reality and insist that the world IS as they say it must be, not as anyone else believes. They refuse to let others be.

   War over religious beliefs is fundamentally stupid. Almost all known religions have tenets that subscribe to the concept of “Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” And none of them have tenets that require the religion to be a “doormat”, or to convert others by force or threat of force. I assure you that, having studied the Bible intensely and the Koran thoroughly for comparison, there is not enough difference between them to warrant a spoken curse.

   Yet the Iranian Fundamentalist Mullahs insist that their extremist “interpretations” of the Koran orders that they MUST destroy first Israel, then all of Judaism, and then ANY country (like, for instance, the US) that does not bow to their doctrine. That is NOT Islam, it is a collective religious cult. And HAMAS is their willing, enthusiastic, military tactical force, regardless of where they are located.

   Israel just wants to be left alone, to exist without threat. They only react to actual threats, not to posturings or political verbiage. When they DO react, it is for a specific, current reason, and in the words of the used car salesman, “Buyer beware!” Oh, and BTW, that philosophy also applies to Ukraine and its responses to the aggression by the Russian Federation. Attack either one, and wind up in hospital with rabies from the responding bites.

5. about 5 hours ago on Mike Lester

   Again, I understand your reasoning, but differ in interpretation. Israel has warned its political detractors and military enemies it will ignore rhetoric. However, it has said that ANY military movements against them WILL be met with overwhelming force in kind.

   Thus, its emphatic responses to Hezbollah rocket attacks, which for years have sought out launchers and destroyed them (admittedly with some collateral damage and deaths), and their ferocious response to Egyptian invasion. Their emphatic response to the latest of the ongoing decades-long string HAMAS attacks is one borne of weariness with dealing with these periodic unprovoked military attacks by HAMAS.

   it will be interesting to see how Israel responds to the entirely unprovoked 300+ missiles lobbed at them by Iran. The Iranian government does NOT have the advantage of the Iron Dome anti-missile system for its country, nor does it have the assistance of the EU or NATO in shooting down such attacks. If Iran chooses to respond in kind with one missile for each one that Iran lobbed at them (with similar targeting), the results on their population, infrastructure, and economy will be catastrophic – for them. Heck, if they responded with just 1 for 10, the results would be horrendous.

   This has been a series of stupid miscalculations on the part of almost every Arabic-Islamic country in the Middle East, thinking that they had any real backing from Putin’s Russian Federation that in any manner changed the calculus or advisability regarding attacking Israel. Smart people would learn the lesson that trying to remove Israel from their midst by armed force will not work, and start learning to get along with Israel instead of constantly seeking to attack them.

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6. about 19 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Your first question is irrelevant. Either you have proof for such an assertion, or you don’t. BTW, the Bidens are not billionaires, like those in another family … .

   RE: the second question: How do you think the Trumps have kept out of jail for so long?

   Let’s face reality. As much as the MAGAts would love to make some headway in causing retribution, Trump is facing 86+ felony charges, and Biden is facing 0. Jordan and other MAGAts have been trying desperately for years now to gin up some sort of charge that would not get laughed out of court – and have failed miserably.

   The far greater likelihood is that Joe has NOT knowingly or deliberately done anything that is unlawful. Trump has, over and over, and he continues to lie about it. Get used to it.

7. about 19 hours ago on Mike Lester

   “Lest we forget, Israel bombed a consulate, which is against every rule of war and a casus belli.”

   I understand your reasoning. However, lest we forget:

   1) A consulate is considered to be the “property” of its home country – part of its native soil.

   2) Iran allowed one of its generals (and several other military officers) to be in that consulate – specifically, the one who was planning the strikes and incursions into Israel. In fact, he (and they) had been there for some extended time, so it was not a “visit”.

   3) International law regarding military action against a consulate is that the members of the consulate must be either civilians or have military duties (IE: consulate security) that are strictly local.

   4) Allowing a known active belligerent to reside in a consulate makes the consulate a valid military target.

   5) Israel did NOT bomb the consulate UNTIL the general who was their target actively pursued conflict against Israel from within the consulate. The country in which the consulate was located was warned that this was an intolerable use of the sanctity of a consulate as a “forward command post”, and a “protective shield” for an active belligerent. They were asked to require the consulate to close because its international protection was being misused deliberately. Either the request never was made, or Iran ignored it. In either case, the result was predictable.

   “What if …”

   What if we don’t try too hard to find excuses for the inappropriate actions of Iran. BTW, you can add a surprise attack to Iran’s transgressions. There was no formal declaration of war, as far as I can find mention on the Web.

   Israel, on the other hand, has made it very clear for decades that they WILL respond against those who plan and execute military strikes against them. In that time, they have been quite successful in causing any other country who does attack them, or who supports such attacks, to regret having done so.

8. about 20 hours ago on Mike du Jour

   Ow.

9. about 20 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   Copy your whole post into NotePad. Then copy half of it back into the GoComics post window and try posting that. If if goes, you know the issue is in the second half. Delete that post and split the second half in half, plus the first half and post again. Continue to split the remainder down to half at a time until it no longer will post.

   If the first half will not post, split it in half and try posting that first quarter. Continue splitting and posting until it won’t post.

   BTW, mostly the GC nannybot does not care about facts. It has a list of terms that it checks for, and rejects anything that contains those. For instance, it looks for “h t t p” and “dot com” and the forward slash as being parts of a URL and rejects the entire message if it finds those in the text.

   It would be really nice of GC if they would amend the nannybot coding to include having it highlight the specific offending term, but I guess that won’t happen.

10. 1 day ago on Over the Hedge

    All true.