5. Ontario State -12
6. Hotlanta -12.5
___Playoffs___________
7. Seven Foot Sixers -13
8. Queens -14
9. Yo-Yos -14
10. Lo-Places -14.5
Friday, March 27, 2026
Public Occurrences March 27, 2026
Russia is sending upgraded drones used in the Ukraine war to Iran
Russia is sending a shipment of drones to Iran including upgraded versions of the drone technology that Tehran originally supplied to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine, U.S. and European officials told The Associated Press this week.
...While Iran has its own stocks of Shahed drones, Russia has made improvements to the design during the war in Ukraine, including adding better navigation capabilities.
...
Russian specialists have adapted and refined the Shahed drone by creating decoys with no explosives that are designed to overwhelm air defenses. They also have variously added jet engines, cameras, advanced anti-jammers, radio links, AI computing platforms or Starlink internet devices.
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More advanced drones create problems for the U.S and its allies
The delivery of advanced Russian drones to Iran could challenge the ability of the U.S. and its allies to intercept incoming drones, depending on how many Russian drones are sent or what Iran does with the more advanced Russian technology, the official said.
Jet propelled drones are faster and therefore significantly harder for the U.S’s anti-drone system currently in the Middle East to take down without relying on limited stocks of expensive high-end weapons.
Iranian missile attack wounds 10 US troops at Saudi air base
5:59 pm:
Israel's Plan, Same as it was in Gaza:
People in Lebanon are being cut off from care as Israeli attacks intensify
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 23 March, more than 63 attacks on healthcare facilities have been reported, with 40 healthcare workers killed and another 91 injured.
AP is calling Israel’s attack on Lebanon an invasion
March 26Fears Israel could replicate its 'Gaza model' in Lebanon as satellite imagery captures widespread destruction
Today
Too Sensitive?
Last season Sensitive City lost 18 games total. This season with 9 games left they have lost 28. Their season win percentage decimal is .616. They are 6-4 in their last 10, as close to .616 as you can get over 10 games. Last season after humiliating Miami in the first round they were gentleman's swept by Yellow in the second. This season Drunk Toby Altman intentionally ignored November and December to better prepare physically and mentally for the playoffs. Maybe they will be. With the regular season winding down however, they are not surging but meandering.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
We fell from 8th to 10th without playing!
A day after we rose from 10th to 8th by beating Sensitive City.
Queens beat Mamdani City and Magicschizoid beat "Kings" There is now (there was once a four) a three-way tie on records, Orlando, Queens, Miami in the Middle East. Orlando on top of both on tie-breakers, Queens ahead of us on same.
I called the Orlando schizoid. They were 7W from March 3-14. Then they were 6L March 16-24 before winning tonight.
The "Heat" are 1.5 games behind Ontario State for the sixth and final playOFF spot not earned via the playIN. Ontario State has a game in hand.
Public Occurrences March 26, 2026
I had NOTHING to do with it!
Sharks in the Bahamas test positive for caffeine, painkillers and even cocaine, study finds
CBS
Trump’s Signature to Be Added to U.S. Dollars, a First for a Sitting President
8:27 pm:
And he is mentally debilitated
Money is all it is to him. In this war, in the presidency, in life. Money. He's not the absolute worst person on Earth, but he is in the bottom one-tenth of 1%.
AP
Trump tells Iran to ‘get serious soon’ on negotiations after Tehran dismisses ceasefire plan
AP
Trump interrupts a Cabinet meeting dealing with the Iran war and rising prices to talk Sharpies
During a Cabinet meeting Thursday that discussed the war in Iran, record-long security lines at many of the nation’s top airports, rising oil prices and skittish stock markets, the president interjected by holding up a custom-made black and gold Sharpie and offering a long story about how his preferred marker came to be a White House fixture.
“See this pen right here?” Trump said at the start of a roughly five-minute, on-and-off diatribe on the Sharpie. “This pen is an interesting example.”
It was one of several lengthy asides the president made during the meeting that sometimes felt especially jarring given how many more important things his top advisers could have been discussing.
The Sharpie monologue came after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered sobering comments about missile strikes, Tehran’s uranium enrichment efforts and the U.S. troops that remain in harm’s way.
The president offered the winding tale as an example of how his business sense can lead to better, cheaper outcomes in federal spending. He was also seeking to drive home his broader, long-standing criticism that renovations to the Federal Reserve building in Washington are too expensive.
“We’ve gotta get our priorities straight,” Trump said.
8:09 pm:
Trump interrupts a Cabinet meeting dealing with the Iran war and rising prices to talk Sharpies
Trump delays Strait of Hormuz deadline as Wall Street has biggest loss of war
APMoney is all it is to him. In this war, in the presidency, in life. Money. He's not the absolute worst person on Earth, but he is in the bottom one-tenth of 1%.
9:29 am:
Iran and the US harden their positions as Tehran tightens its grip on the Strait of Hormuz
Using Pakistan as an intermediary, Washington has delivered to Iran a 15-point ceasefire proposal, which includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
A day after saying Iran wants to cut a deal, Trump posted on social media Thursday that Tehran needs to “get serious soon” on negotiating an end to the war “before it is too late, because once that happens there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!”
He did not elaborate, but said Iran should be negotiating because “they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview on state TV that his government has not engaged in talks to end the war and does not plan to.
Araghchi said the U.S. had tried to send messages to Iran through other nations, “but that is not a conversation nor a negotiation.”
Press TV, the English-language broadcaster on Iranian state television, said Iran has its own five-point proposal, which included reparations and recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Zollner 103-100 Pigeons, 9:49 4Q, Pigeons Full Roost. PUHLEAZE Zollner
Pigeons led by EIGHTEEN at HT.
HT Sensitive City 46 Low Places 63
Spo went with the incompatible Tyler and Norman as starters. He started four guards and Bam: Andrew, Bam, Davion, Norman, and Tyler
Queens Crown "Kings", Leap Over "Heat" into 9th place (tie-breaker) in Middle East
Miami is now TENTH.
There is a triple tie: Orlando, Charlotte, and Miami have identical records. Orlando is 8th on tie-breaker over both, and Charlotte owns the tie-breaker on us. All three teams are only one game behind Phila., 7th, only two behind Hotlanta in 6th and the playOFFS, and trail fifth Ontario State by 2.5. Ontario State has a game in hand on all the rest, 11 left to play, 10 to go for the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th teams. There are only 15 teams in each conference so we're really talking about the Lower Middle East. Two of the four play-IN teams will make the 8 playoff places vie the play-IN round robin.
I haven't compared other schedules but I would be surpised if any other Lower Middle East team plays as intimidating a schedule as Miami: a double-header Wednesday and Friday in Cleveland; at a decrepit but dangerous Yellow team, home for Phila, who have at least Paul George back, home to Beans, home for Lizards, a double-header in three nights in Ontario State, at Lizards, at home to Majestic Soaring Predator "Hawks, We are u.d.s Wed. in Sensitive City, and probably will be Friday, unless we beat them Wednesday (but maybe not); I don't know who will be favored in Indy or in Bleak House against Phila.; underdogs to Beans and the two against Ontario State, favored over Lizards, and u.d.s to Atlanta.
No team in the Middle East or the Lower Mid-East can fall out of the play-In. Beer is 9.5 behind Miami for the last play-in slot. If the chalk holds, Phila would play Disney. The winner becomes the 7th seed in the playOFFS. The loser plays the winner of Miami vs. Queens (as it stands now) and the winner of that match becomes the 8th playOFF seed. Miami would play a win-or-go-home against Queens.
I see the "Heat" going 5-5 in the remaining games, finishing 43-39. There is little chance as I see it that Miami can escape the play-in.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Sensitive City 32 Disney 39, end 1Q
Queens "lead" "Kings" 106-68, 2' 3Q
HT Mamdani City 66 Katrina 60
Public Occurrences March 24, 2026
von Ribbentrump:
Did Iran "UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDER", Liar?
"This war has been won."
Trump declares victory and claims Iran offers a 'prize' in talks Iran has denied having
He would not specify what the offer was but said it was "a very significant prize" related to the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump Lies
8:44 am:
Trump Did Not Totally LieThere were, and are talks. Either indirectly through neutral nations or through intermediaries. Iran says no direct talks
Monday, March 23, 2026
For All the World to See, This is Who the American People Are
Toilet People! Iran "Bursts Out Laughing At" at Bum Trump and You
"Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
America is built on those worn out. not able to make a living elsewhere, and homeless. Americans are combined wretched refuse of others gathering hopeless on others' shores, taken in by this new country that needed bodies, able or not, intelligence and morals irrelevant. America has accumulated 200 years of garbage and are thrilled to elect one of their own. Garbage does not take itself out and toilets do not flush rhemselves. A new species of humanity, the ignorant, easily fooled Toilet People have taken root, flowered and spread their pestilent seed all across the land. Americans are the worst of the worst, laughed at by Iran, at the United Nations, by the world, who would flush them if they could, and may yet.
They are "marks", easily fooled, ignorant dullards. The world sees.
Bruh, did you see all the splosions? America, fuck yeah!
Because American marks might be fooled by this, but the world’s political, military, and economic leaders wouldn’t be.
The world LAUGHS at them:
[The president chosen by the American people twice] also jabbed at Ireland’s President Catherine Connolly, when asked about her criticism that the U.S. and Israeli operations have been “deliberate assaults on international law.”
“Look, he’s lucky I exist,” Trump said of Connolly, who is a woman.
Associated Press, March 17, 2026
The Iran war is "a big chess game at a very high level — very high-level chess, the highest.”😂
Not since the swiss-cheese brain of Idi Amin has any nation's leader been so mocked for his cognitive deficits. Never has a people so convincingly proved themselves too stupid to make democracy work than has the American people. They chose (twice) the Caddyshack president, The Apprentice president, the Saturday Night Live regular. Americans truly are the "wretched refuse" of humanity, as their national statue is inscribed. The world would be a cleaner, safer place if these Toilet People and the Toilet Nation they comprise were flushed from the surface of the Earth.
March 3, 2026, 2:41 pm:
“Look, he’s lucky I exist,” Trump said of Connolly, who is a woman.
Associated Press, March 17, 2026
"Big hitter, the Lama"
Not since the swiss-cheese brain of Idi Amin has any nation's leader been so mocked for his cognitive deficits. Never has a people so convincingly proved themselves too stupid to make democracy work than has the American people. They chose (twice) the Caddyshack president, The Apprentice president, the Saturday Night Live regular. Americans truly are the "wretched refuse" of humanity, as their national statue is inscribed. The world would be a cleaner, safer place if these Toilet People and the Toilet Nation they comprise were flushed from the surface of the Earth.
Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’
(...and always have been)
Pressed for answers on Iran, Trump is betrayed by his limited attention span
Monday offered the president an opportunity to explain and justify the war he’d started. He appeared far more interested in the White House decor.
Feb. 21, 2026, 6:17 pm:
"There's hatred there."--Brady Tkachuk, Team USA on Team Canada, who play for the Olympic gold medal tomorrow.
It is who we always have been.
As the Chief Justice put it, "Having just fought a revolution motivated in large part by taxes imposed on them" by the King of England without their consent...
The most absurd cause of revolution in the history of humanity. Born in a temper tantrum, die in a temper tantrum.
And on...
[Trump's racist Obama meme is] something which had, for many years, been confined to the dustbin of history, while still very much a part of the vocabulary of white supremacists.
But something has changed.
Maybe it's social media, maybe it's something else, but something has changed. We are in a new reality where, for more than 12 hours, Trump's White House thought this was OK.
sky.com (UK)
Trump: "I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine. Nobody knew that that was at the end."
Trump said he looks at "thousands of things" when he spoke to reporters on Air Force One en route to Palm Beach.
Public Occurrences March 23, 2026
Trump Caught Lying, Iran "Laughing at him"
Saturday, March 21:
If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
It has now been 48 hours.
Iran responded eleven hours later, Sunday, March 22:
محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf <--Note the name
@mb_ghalibaf
بلافاصله پس از هدف قرار گرفتن نیروگاههای برق و زیرساخت در کشورمان، زیرساختهای حیاتی و زیرساختهای انرژی و نفت در سراسر منطقه اهداف مشروع تلقی شده و به نحو بازگشتناپذیر منهدم خواهند شد و قیمت نفت برای مدتها بالاتر خواهد رفت. وألقِ ما في يمينك تَلْقَفْ ما صَنَعوا.
Translated from Persian by
Immediately after the targeting of power plants and infrastructure in our country, critical infrastructure and energy and oil infrastructure throughout the region will be considered legitimate targets and irreversibly destroyed, and oil prices will rise for a long time. And what you throw in your right hand will be what you have made.
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6:30 AM · Mar 22, 2026
This morning, March 23, 2026:
In a social media message timed before markets opened, Trump said he was putting off for five days plans he announced over the weekend to bomb Iran’s power plants unless Tehran opened the Strait of Hormuz by Monday evening.
I AM PLEASED TO REPORT THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE COUNTRY OF IRAN, HAVE HAD, OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS, VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS REGARDING A COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF OUR HOSTILITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. BASED ON THE TENOR AND TONE OF THESE IN DEPTH, DETAILED, AND CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS, WHICH WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, I HAVE INSTRUCTED THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR TO POSTPONE ANY AND ALL MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN POWER PLANTS AND ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A FIVE DAY PERIOD, SUBJECT TO THE SUCCESS OF THE ONGOING MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
So as he was threatening to obliterate, and as the Iranian Parliament Speaker Mr. Ghalibaf promised retaliation, Trump claims the U.S. and Iran were having "very good", "in depth, detailed, and constructive conversation".
Axios reported that Trump's interlocutor was...Mr. Ghalibaf.
Ghalibaf's response:
"Iranian people demand complete and remorseful punishment of the aggressors. All Iranian officials stand firmly behind their supreme leader and people until this goal is achieved.
"No negotiations have been held with the US, and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped."
Iran's general response:
Sure as Death and Taxes
All the ups and downs, hopes and despairs of a season level out as it nears the end. The "Heat" are not the Hi-Cs, but the Reversion to Means. As they prepare to entertain Wemby and the Hotspurs in Bleak House tonight they are on track for 44 wins, their average for the last twelve seasons.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Public Occurrences March 22, 2026
...we can still reasonably acknowledge the following: At some not yet determinable point, the current war against Iran could involve one form or other of nuclear weapon use.
Drifting Toward Chaos: Donald Trump, Iran and Nuclear War
It’s no longer the stuff of fiction. By his willful indifference to science-based explanation, US President Donald Trump is heightening the likelihood of a nuclear war.
There are necessary clarifications. For the first time, a threat of nuclear war links with the unsteady behavior of an American president. In the continuously dissembling Trump era, one casus belli atomicum is apt to be a presidential incapacity to understand complex military challenges. More precisely, scholars and policy-makers should now be focused on growing prospects for decisional miscalculation, psychological breakdown, cognitive impairment (including transient dementia) and (by both Trump and his Iranian counterparts) outright irrationality.[2]
EXCELLENT piece that goes beyond a news clipping service into analysis and reasoned prognostication from MODERNDIPLOMACY.EU I have bookmarked their page and intend to consult it frequently.
Good night.
Death Toll in Lebanon from Israeli Attacks: 1,029,
118 children, 79 women
11:15 am:
Schizo, ADHD, Child BrainTrump: From "winding down," Strait "will open itself", to
Trump says US will ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t open Strait of Hormuz
The template for Iran to win against U.S.-Israel is the Islamic Republic's "foundational myth", the Iran-Iraq War
From the Wall Street Journal article.
Iran liberated every inch of its territory by 1982—but only agreed to a cease-fire with Saddam Hussein’s regime in 1988, after massive destruction and hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides
With all its horrors, the Iran-Iraq war also created the foundational myth of the Islamic Republic, cementing its power for the ensuing decades. The regime’s most dangerous enemy now is the Iranian people: The Islamic Republic killed thousands of protesters as it suppressed demonstrations in January.
The current conflict may provide the regime—if it survives—with renewed strength at home, cautioned Nicole Grajewski, an expert on Iran and a professor at the Sciences Po university in Paris. “The regime could play this off as a new Iran-Iraq war,” she said. “There is an outcome of this war that makes the regime more entrenched and more militaristic, with a new mythology around survival and around managing to withstand the U.S. and Israel.”
TACO has no idea. TACO and his short attention span are what the Iranians count on. Trump and Izvassal could literally drop atomic and thermonuclear weapons on them, the Islamic Republic will not surrender. Like Britain in its darkest hour against the Nazis, Churchill said if the island were successfully invaded, the Empire would continue from Canada and the Dominions. For Iran, if their country is irradiated, the Islamists will scatter throughout the world. They will wage asymmetric warfare against the U.S. and Izvassal from wherever they are. They will target civilian gatherings with alacrity. They have threatened festivals and celebrations. The Alliance of Stupid will stop 95% of them, at great cost. But 5% will get by. And the damage from those small sleeper cells can be devastating. Trump and Netanyahu personally will be targeted.
But the grand strategic aim is control of the Strait of Hormuz and the world's energy supply. Iran will allow and has allowed countries, Turkey, India, China and others, to transit the Strait free of harassment and attack. They have stated explicitly that they will sink only ships of their enemies, the U.S. and Izvassal.
Kharg Island is their redoubt. From there they can do as they please in the Strait. TACO knows the threat but he has little stomach for it. The number of marines on their way has doubled. With determined, overwhelming firepower and, crucially, a Marines ground invasion, they could capture Kharg. But the marines on Kharg would be honey to Iran's guerrilla bees who would float and sting and cause hundreds of American casualties. The task for the Americans is not only to seize Kharg but to hold it. It is every guerrilla's wet dream to have enemy forces trapped on an island indefinitely surrounded by them. America and Iran have the same goal in the Strait, to make it theirs and to hold it forever. But this is not Staten Island surrounded by America, this is Kharg surrounded by Iran. Both want to make it their country's toll booth.
Who has the greater resolve? Iran. Who has the inestimable value of proximity? Iran. Who has the greater conventional arms? The U.S., obviously. But TACO is preparing for peace talks. The Iranians malevolently laugh at TACO's naivety and imbecility. TACO does not know, and he is preparing for "what peace talks with Iran will look like". He will find out. TACO can escalate but he will be alone and vacillating. Iran is alone but is not vacillating. The progress of the war from here will resemble the Iran-Iraq war if Iran can keep Trump from nuking Iran. Iran can escalate but the U.S. can escalate exponentially further. Exponential escalation by TACO will bring the world's opprobrium down on him. The U.S. will be further isolated, increasingly a pariah.
As long as the Strait remains closed to American shipping, the price of gas at American gas pumps will continue to inflict pain on Americans--which I support.
This is the American peoples' fault, not a dictator's. Trump was fairly elected. That is his legitimacy.
But Iran has its "foundational myth". That is its legitimacy, its motivation and that is worth a lot of materiel. America and Israel are not going to conquer Iran. A ground invasion will unify Iranians against the invader and will fail. Iran's goals are defined, it is closer to succeeding in accomplishing them than the Americans' with no or shifting, retreating, threatening, conflicting goals.
In short, Iran is winning the war. America is losing. That doesn't mean that America cannot snatch some claim to victory out of the festering asshole of defeat. But the chalk tonight is with the clearer-sighted Iranians. Good night.
"You stood tall and proud next to Cesar Chavez for a long time [actually all of his life and for 33 years after his death]. For people struggling to understand that fidelity and support..."
Huerta has some "Rape Measure" in her mind, some metric that weighs the quality and quantity of accomplishments that make a rape, two rapes, a hidden child here, one there (six years apart), not turning on the rapist all of his life and over three decades after, "worth it".
It is impossible for me to think and write about this without cynicism. Dolores Huerta, now near 96 years old, is an amazing human being who has led a life of meaning, purpose and service. But in Huerta's mind her life had no intrinsic "value", she was not "worth it"--to herself. Huerta is self-nihilistic.
"I think it was worth it because of all the things we accomplished. My coming out would have been pretty much the end of the movement from the very, very beginning." --Dolores Huerta on being raped by Cesar Chavez
It follows then that the "worth" of the two rapes to Huerta was dependent upon the success and longevity of the UFW. Half as long, half as successful, maybe only "worth" one rape, only one child.
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