Day of the Five Lost Havens, 19th of Summer, 525 M.E. (Castor): It's Friday the 13th by that other calendar but that's the least of our problems right now. Israel and Iran have taken to bombing each other - initiated by Israel, I should add - in what portends to be a long and possibly wider war. Harbinger of WWIII. For those with short memories, former U.S. President Obama, concerned that Iran was getting close to developing nuclear-weapon capability, reached an agreement with Iran to unfreeze seized assets in return from then stopping their uranium enrichment (with supervision and verification, of course). After Trump's election, he set out to undo everything Obama had accomplished because racism (coupled with stupidity) and reneged on the agreement. Then, after Iran resumed enriching uranium and got close to developing nuclear weapons again, Israel decided to act unilaterally and began bombing Iran's nuclear sites, also targeting top Iranian scientists and military leaders. Iran, naturally, is retaliating. Israel, of course, will retaliate the retaliation and so on and so forth until, as Sun Ra put it, they push that button and your ass gotta go.

So how is the Trump administration responding to this situation that they allowed to develop? After initially saying that we had no involvement in Israel's strike and that they had no knowledge of the attack, they reversed position and said of course they knew, and the strike was so successful because Israel used the pure, Grade-A, American-made weapons, the best in the world, that we sold them. Also, while the Middle East teeters closer and closer to all-out Armageddon, Trump has the National Guard and U.S. Marines stationed in Los Angeles because of a handful of protesters and his petty grudges with the elected leadership in California. Those military resources not occupying L.A. are busy preparing for tomorrow's vulgar military parade in D.C., which probably will get rained out anyway.

The American people aren't going to stand for this shit, muchibus thankibus. We're not going to stand for the unconstitutional use of military personnel patrolling the streets of an American city, especially when there's no crisis anyway. We aren't going to stand for masked goons snatching people off the streets and departing them to third-world hellholes without any due process. We aren't going to tolerate U.S. senators being thrown to the ground and handcuffed for asking questions. And we're through with a handful of corrupt, greedy oligarchs lining their pockets at the expense of the rest of America. 

The course correction starts tomorrow.