Friday, March 13, 2026
Public Occurrences March 13, 2026
Ayatollah Trump is Going to Have the Marines Make Kharg Island American Real Estate
7:22 pm:
U.S. sending USS Tripoli, thousands of Marines to Middle East
JUST IN: Trump says US forces ‘obliterated’ *military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island, warns oil infrastructure there could be next
9:20 am:
Trump claimed in G7 call that Iran is "about to surrender"
Axios
7:40 pm
The first two reports below are buried among other reports of American action against Iran. They are right out of Israel's playbook: under that obscuring cover they are free to carry out war crimes and genocide in Lebanon. It's bad cop-worse cop, two-front deflection.
Israeli Strike on southern Lebanon health center kills 12 medics
- An Israeli strike hit a health care center in the village of Burj Qalaouiyah in the Bint Jbeil District, killing 12 doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty, Lebanon’s health ministry said. The toll was preliminary as rescue teams continued searching for missing people, it added.
The ministry said it was the second attack on the health sector within hours, after another Israeli strike on the southern village of Souaneh killed two paramedics and wounded five others when it hit a paramedic center.
The ministry condemned the attack and denounced what it called as continued violence against health workers.
Israeli strikes have so far killed 18 paramedics among 773 people reported killed in Lebanon since fighting between Hezbollah and Israel reignited March 2.
- Over 100 children are among the 773 people killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon after 10 days of fighting the Hezbollah militant group, the Lebanese Health Ministry said Friday. Israel said Friday its strikes are “continuing and intensifying” in Lebanon and Iran.
From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli
*See Lunatic's claim re Midnight Marshmallow
The president announced the action in a social media post as he prepared to fly to Florida for the weekend.
“Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island,” Trump said.
For reasons of decency, I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision.”
Trump Regime Sends 2,500 Marines to Help in Iran War Already "Won" in "First Hours"
[A senior] U.S. official said U.S. Central Command asked for the new force in order to have more options for military operations against Iran.
The Marine expeditionary unit will be able to conduct ground operations if ordered.
2:57 pm:
Six U.S. Airmen Killed in Mid-Air Collision of Two Air Re-supply Tankers Thursday
Axios
“We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time – Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.
“They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!
“We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning.
“Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth."
Thursday, March 12, 2026
FT HI-Cs 112 Male Deer 105, 7W for Miami, 38-29, .567 --> 47-35
6th place (playoffs) two one-thousandths behind Disney--who needed OT to finally squish the Lizards! The two Florida teams are on rolls. Miami 7, Orlando 6.
Hottest team in Least, though...Hotlanta. 8W, 9-1 last ten. The Pigeons are soaring!
HT Hi-Cs 59 Male Deer 51
Zollner's pistons are firing right on Phila.s head.
Mouse is eating Lizards.
Pigeons are just saying No to Nyets.
Public Occurrences March 12, 2026
Trump bragged about low gas prices. The Iran conflict has him doing an about-face
12:57 pm
“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” Trump said Thursday on his social media site.
It was only last month, in his State of the Union address, that Trump had bragged about gas prices at $2.30 a gallon, a figure that has since soared more than 50% to a national average of $3.60 a gallon, according to AAA.
I hate to hate. I especially hate to admit publicly that I hate a person. Can't mask how I feel, though, I hate him.
6:43 pm:
Building That Was Iranian School Mistakenly Was on U.S. TARGET LIST
Outdated intel is the current assessment; use of faulty Artificial Intelligence is the strong current suspicion.
Recall that in Operation Midnight Marshmallow, AI models, not human inspection, were the basis for Trump's statement that Iran's nuclear sites had been "totally obliterated." Now, in Operation Epic Fumble, AI is strongly suspected as being the geolocate tool.
What is the Trump regime supposed to do when they lack human intelligence?
Lebanon appeals to Israel’s allies to intervene as hundreds reported killed
Iran’s new supreme leader says Strait of Hormuz will remain closed in first purported message to public
CNNMideast Shipping Crisis Widens With More Tankers Hit in Gulf
Calls grow for Hormuz ship escorts as Iran escalates attacks
Axios
Thursday Night Hoops
Hi-Cs 39 Beer 31, 9:24 2Q
HT Zollner 69 Phila. 60
HT Disney 63 Lizards 56
Pigeons 30 Nyets 21, 11:02 2Q
"England is beaten and it is only a question of time when she will admit her defeat. The Axis Powers are, therefore, not considering how they can win the war, but rather how rapidly they can end the war which is already won."
-Joachim von Ribbentrop to Vyacheslav Molotov, November 1940
"We won. In the first hour, it was over. We don't want to leave early, do we? We got to finish the job."
-Donald Trump, March 2026
Molotov in reply: "If that is so why are we in this bunker and whose bombs are those which fall?"
In reply to Trump: "If that is so whose mines are those which have closed the Strait of Hormuz?"
For All the World to See, This is Who the American People Are
(...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.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
The Least Association
Sensitive City lost agayne tonight in Disney World. They are again trending in disappointing Land. They are in 4th place, 5-5 last 10, and are as close to Ontario State in the play-in at 7th as they are to Beans, who are creating gas in Zollner, in 2nd place and home court in the play-offs first round. Maybe their bold, reckless We-don't-care-about-Nov.-Dec. will pay off in the playoffs (or play-in). Or maybe Dead Dan Gilbert will guillotine Drunk Toby Altman and Kenny Atkinson.
Mamdani City won. They are in 3rd, 5.5 out of 1st, 2.0 behind Beans, who they will not catch.
The "Heat" are still 6th (playoffs), 6W, 8-2, one-half game ahead of Ontario State and two-thousandths of a decimal point behind Disney. Miami's next three games, Beer in Bleak House Thursday night, Borelando same place Saturday, and at Queens Tuesday, March 17, are more winnable than losable. Tonight, Wednesday March 11, the "Heat" is -5.5 vs Beer; the House hasn't set lines for Borelando and Queens, because they will change on the outcome of the Beer game.
The bottom of the play-in is set. Queens are 10th, five games ahead of Beer.
Public Occurrences March 11, 2026
Trump, in continued contradictions, says Iran didn’t have ‘nuclear potential’ after last summer’s strikes
AP
Trump, along with others in his administration, have said as they justified the strikes on Iran that the country was weeks away from a nuclear weapon — despite claiming last summer’s strikes had destroyed the program.
This is too much for Trump. He cannot handle this mentally and emotionally. He doesn't know what he is saying and not saying. His mind is shot. He is deteriorated and engaging in suppression.
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Trump in the same news conference also wagered that the slowdown in the Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s southern coast “doesn’t really affect us,” because the US now produces so much oil of its own.
5:08 pm:
Does Trump even know what’s happening in Iran?
It's a legitimate question, not solely snark.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump claimed it was Tehran that struck an Iranian elementary school early in the war, killing scores of children.
On Monday, he admitted he basically had no idea what he was talking about when he said that, then went on to suggest other countries, including Iran, use Tomahawk missiles, the type of munition that appears to have hit the school. Iran does not have Tomahawks.
When pressed at a news conference why nobody else in his administration was making the same claim about Iran being responsible (and instead pointing to an investigation), Trump said,“Because I just don’t know enough about it.”
Trump in the same news conference also wagered that the slowdown in the Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s southern coast “doesn’t really affect us,” because the US now produces so much oil of its own.
[And, the war will be over in four weeks, maybe five, maybe less. And United Israel is "running out of targets" to hit.]
Trump often seems to be residing in an elaborately crafted alternate reality.
Trump is not intelligent and he is in cognitive decline. But I don't think those are mainly responsible for these Alice in Wonderland fantasies. I think Trump does live "in an elaborately crafted alternate reality" in his mind. Advisors do not give him bad news. Recall how he handled COVID. "Kung Flu", "COVID, COVID, COVID", inject bleach (That was his last news conference on the subject and he simply walked offstage). I think history bears me out here: When a problem gets beyond his "instincts" to bludgeon into submission, he cannot handle the complexity and simply walks away or changes the topic of discussion. It's an ego defense mechanism, suppression.
4:45 pm:
1:41 pm
March 11, 2026, 10:06 a.m. ET4m ago
Rebecca F. Elliott
Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, has started speaking in Paris. “The conflict in the Middle East is having significant impacts on global oil and gas markets with major implications for energy security, energy affordability and the global economy.”
10:00 am:
9:58 am:
Tehran residents report explosions over city "with the distinctive smell of burnt powder and gasoline"
Google AI:
Ordnance that produces a distinct smell of burnt powder and gasoline (or, more accurately, petrochemicals/hydrocarbons) is usually associated with fuel-air explosives (FAEs), certain specialized thermobaric weapons, or munitions used in armored vehicles, as these systems rely on dispersing an fuel agent before ignition.
I don't know whether the U.S. or Israel is doing the bombing today (Iz used FAEs in Lebanon). It is indiscriminate bombing intended to burn and kill civilians, especially when used in a densely populated city.
Live updates: Global energy concerns mount as Iran effectively stops cargo traffic in the Strait of Hormuz
Updated 1:37 PM EDT, March 11, 2026
Major developments we’re following:
Iran attacked commercial ships across the Persian Gulf and targeted Dubai International Airport, escalating a campaign of squeezing the oil-rich region as global energy concerns mounted.
25 sec ago
Death toll in Lebanon climbs over 600 in the spiraling Israel-Hezbollah conflict
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB
Ninety-one children — nearly one in seven dead — were among the 634 people killed by Israeli fire since fighting broke out last week, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. At least 47 women have been killed and more than 1,500 people wounded.
10:17 am:
Rebecca F. Elliott
Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, has started speaking in Paris. “The conflict in the Middle East is having significant impacts on global oil and gas markets with major implications for energy security, energy affordability and the global economy.”
Spain Recalls Ambassador to Israel
At Least 3 Oil Ships Attacked in Strait of Hormuz, Iran Vows "not a liter of oil will pass"; Japan, Germany, Austria to Release Strategic Reserves Against Shortage
"Second in points, last in ethics?
🤦♂️ When a foreign outlet writes this, there's a stain.
"That will be the accusation against the Miami Heat and Bam Adebayo..."
I can't help my instant reaction to a thing. It's pure Id unmediated by reflection. Oftentimes when I sleep on it I have a different reaction. But in this case I don't. I feel sleazy and uneasy. We should not have brought this on ourselves.
WAS IT?!?!
Bam Adebayo just foulbaiting up 20+ against a tanking team that’s shamelessly playing along and he’s gonna break Kobe’s record with over double the FTA
The NBA died tonight
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