Saturday, March 07, 2026

The Hornets then took a 101-98 lead into the fourth, with the Heat entering 1-23 when trailing after three quarters, including 0-15 in that situation on the road.

Ira

Miami Snaps Hornets’ Surge with Gritty Victory

What a fun game in Charlotte between two teams battling for Eastern Conference playoff positionin

"Fun" is what it seemed like to me, regardless of who won.

Friday, March 06, 2026

Hi-Cs Snapped Queens 6-Game Winning Streak Tonight. Tyler Herro, 35 Points, 9 Rebs, 9 Asts

Herro...broke a 108-all tie with 7:06 to play. That came during a 9-0 run after the Hornets led by two and was essentially the difference in the game.

...

All the victories during the Hornets' winning streak had been by 15 or more points, tying the 2017-18 Golden State Warriors for the second-longest streak in NBA history.

AP

Trump Wants Marielito Marco as President of Cuba

MORE! George More Going Back, TOO!

Trump wants to overthrow Cuban regime ‘in a couple of weeks’

The president promised Jorge Mas, the Cuban-American owner of Inter Miami, he would be ‘going to go back’ to the island after its fall

The Times of London

This is getting better and better!

10:31 pm

Trump tells CNN Cuba is soon going to fall: ‘I’m going to put Marco over there’


I'm all in.

...Trump said at the White House that it’s only a “question of time” before American Cubans can return to their home country...

I like that idea, too! I think it could be expanded to others. 

Marielto Marco for Cuban Prez


HI CSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FULL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! QUEENS 120 HI-CS 128

Miami won it on WILL. A 30-19 4th quarter did in the young Queens.

120-124, :19.5, "Heat" FTO

114-120, 3:52 left

HIGH CSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! 111-120!

Bam takes ill-advised trey, misses, Queens rebound and get a trey themselves. 111-115, 5:04 4Q, "Heat" FTO

Mark that. That was a six-point swing.

7-17 4th! "HEAT" HAVE LARGEST LEAD BY EITHER OF GAME

 


"HEAT" 4Q RUN (15-8) TAKES (tie) LARGEST LEAD 113-108, 6:16 LEFT

Queens 104 Hi-Cs 102, 10:03 4th, Queens FTO

What a game! Charlotte 101 Miami 98, End 3Q


 

Queens 71 "Heat" 71, 7:32 3rd

"Heat" led 30-27 after 1; "Hornets" 25-19 so far in 2nd, lead 52-49, 2:55

Hoo doggie! Can you hear the buzz? It's the Game of the Year for Miami and Charlotte tonight!

In just a little over an hour the "Heat" tip off in North Carolina to play the "Hornets".  Charlotte is a hefty 7.5-point favorite. Both teams are in the play-in, separated by two games, and aspire to sixth place and the play-offs. The "Heat" are within a half game of that coveted position, Charlotte 2.5. THIS is March Madness.

Trump-Netanyahu Regime War of Choice by the numbers

1,230 killed in Iran

200+ killed in Lebanon

~12 killed in Israel

-6 Americans (military)

-110,162 people internally displaced in Lebanon following Israeli evacuation warnings 

Source: AP


 

@realDonaldTrump

There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. “MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).” Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Mar 06, 2026, 8:50 AM

Public Occurrences March 6, 2026

Trump Regime Demands "Unconditional Surrender" of Iran; Russia Aiding Iran With Location of U.S. Forces, Israel Bombing Tehran in "Broadscale Waves"

Thursday, March 05, 2026

San Antone took care of Zollner but good, 121-106

Hi-Cs (34-29, .540 --> 44-38) 126 Nyets (15-47) 110. 

With 19 games remaining, the Hi-Cs project to one less win over 82 games than Hotspurs and Zollner Pistons have over 62 and 61 games respectively. So our High Ceiling will be worse even if Hotspurs and Zollner go 0-20 and 0-19 the rest of the way. To put it in perspective.

HT Chaparrals 71 Zollner Pistons 55 :o

Hi-Cs 100 Rust 88, 10:47 4Q

"See you at Nuremberg 2.0"

Sen. Ron Wyden on Kristi Noem's firing.

And you, Stephen Miller. And you, Pete Hegseth. And you, Elise Stefanik. And, and, and.

Trump's Bums will have a Judgment Day come when he leaves office dead or alive.

Rust 8-0! 64-60

RUST 5-0! 60-61, 10:32 3Q

Rustcicles! HT Hi-Cs 60 BKLN 56

Jayson Tatum back for Beans Friday!

Hi-Cs 57 Rust 49, 1:46 2Q

Public Occurrences March 5, 2026

-more-

In "rare call for violence by an ayatollah", Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli Calls for "Trump's Blood"

Trump set the precedent. 


Iran Foreign Minister Says "U.S. will come to bitterly regret [the] precedent it has set,” in Sinking of Warship That Killed 87 in International Waters


“The U.S. has perpetrated an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles away from Iran’s shores. Frigate Dena, a guest of India’s Navy carrying almost 130 sailors, was struck in international waters without warning.

“Mark my words: The U.S. will come to bitterly regret (the) precedent it has set.”

 -Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in a post on social platform X.

The Iranian ship sunk by the U.S. Navy was returning from an exercise hosted by the Indian navy that the U.S. also joined. 


Israel Says it Has "Surprises" in Store for Iran

3:09 pm:

War Escalates, 14 countries, Iran Counterstrikes Force Closure of U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, Dow Down 1,000 as Oil Prices Rise

1:58 pm

Bimbo Noem Out

11:59 am

Iran war spreads as European nations drawn further in

UK to send more jets to Qatar as Greece and Italy bolster Cyprus defenses and evacuation flights for Americans get underway.

Noodles

Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Tomorrow night, the Hi-Cs play Rust (agayne)🙄

They will beat Rust (agayne). But that is the first of a back-to-back, for on Friday, they travel to play a rapidly-ascending, neo-glamour team: the Charlotte Queens, the hottest team in the Least, winners of six straight, a game and one half behind Miami for eighth place. Charlotte will win that game and move to within half a game of the "Heat." Charlotte is going to keep floating and stinging. They will pass Miami in the play-in seedings. Tonight they are only two and one half games out of sixth place and the playoffs. Rickety, teetering Phila. is in 6th. Joel Embiid has missed two of the three games designated for his latest tweak injury, whatever that is, there are so many. Phila. may hold them off, but hold them off will be what it will take because Charlotte is coming with alacrity, they are hungry and confident--19 point win tonight in Bean Town--and they will not be stopped. They will shove Miami and Orlando aside. They are taking aim at Phila. and sixth. I'm not betting against them. I'm predicting it and I'm rooting for them.

FTs: Oklahoma City Edges Mamdani City; Queens Blast Beans; 7' 6"ers Squeak by Moronis

Holy shit. Queens are crowning Beans 93-71, 10:21 4Q. Mamdani City -3 Oklahoma City, 5:53 left

NYC 28 OK 35, 8:22 1Q, NYC FTO; Beans 4 Queens 11, 7:59 1Q, Beans FTO

Beans 0 Queens 5. It's a little early.

Mamdani City 16 Oklahoma City 20, 3:04 1Q

Now let's say the United Israeli war on Iran lasts five weeks...

Let's also assume that there is no catastrophic strike by Iran that kills so many Americans that the conscience is shocked. The war is deeply unpopular in these first halcyon days. If such a war ends in such a fashion is it a good issue for Democrats in the mid-term elections in November?

Public Occurrences March 4, 2026

59% of Americans Oppose the Military Action in Iran


Three high-quality polls taken after the United States and Israel launched their attack Iran on Saturday show that a majority of Americans are not on board with the military action.

...
It is not uncommon for support to swell in the beginning days of a military conflict, but the approval typically fades over time. A vast majority of Americans supported the Iraq War, but their backing fell nearly 30 percentage points as the conflict wore on.

Public opinion has likely not yet crystallized in the days after the attacks on Iran. Nearly a third of Americans — 29 percent in the CNN poll — said they were not paying much attention.

New Twee Times

9:01 am:

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Iran since the war began, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.

via Noodles

8:53 am:

Good morning America First-Israel First Foreign Policy Enthusiasts

An Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity under military protocol, estimates there are 4,000 to 5,000 calls daily to coordinate between Israel and the U.S. across the chain of command.

AP

God, another one

Queens at Beans, 7:30.

And a big one if tenth place is your idea of a big time, Pigeons at Male Deer.

Well, I have to say THIS is my favorite time in the NBA

November, December? Nah, that wasn't right.  Tonight Mamdani City vs Oklahoma City in Peoples Square Garden. The hits just keep coming. Never saw so many beeg matchups as in the last week or so. March Mandness.

Oh my goodness, lol City

Manchester City, hot on Arsenal's tail at the top, played near-bottom Nottingham Forest today in east Manchester...and drew! Love you, City, but that was a faceplant.

Meanwhile table-toppers Arsenal won one nil at midtable Brighton. 

City have eight matches left, Arsenal nine, and trail the Gunners by seven points and five goals.

Tuesday, March 03, 2026

State of the Least, end March 3, 2026

-Least Conference Champions-

1. Zollner________

-Playoff Homeys-There are no Playoff Homeys who realistically challenge (</= -2 games) Z.

2. Beans -4.5
3. Mamdani City -6
4. Sensitive City -7.5____

-Playoffs- None of the two remaining Playoff teams are a realistic challenge to the Homeys

5. Ontario State -10.5
6. Seven Foot Sixers -12.5. All depends on Joel's health

-Play-In-

7. Disney -13 -Playoff Hopeful- one-one-thousandth of a percent over Miami
8. Hi-Cs  -13 -Playoff Hopeful- I have no faith in Miami but they are what they are and that's a playoff contender. They are 6-4 in their last 10 and are on, perhaps meaningless 2W, a more meaningful 5-2 record. And they have Rust again in Bleak House Thursday night. They are legit contenders for the Playoffs sixth seed.
9. Queens -15. Tie-breaker on Pigeons below. Not a Playoff Hopeful on this particular night, but, I predict will be.
10. Pigeons -15. I do not predict Hotlanta will challenge for he Playoffs_____

The drama is three teams, and I predict a fourth, Queens, who will compete furiously to snag the final Playoff slot and avoid the Play-In.

No team is a Play-In hopeful

FT Miami 124 BKLN 98

Queens Rule! They beat Fat Cuban Horse 117-90. One more time: FIRE NICO!

Sensitive City beat Zollner 113-109. They're not catching Z. Z is too damn good.

Rust went away. Hi-Cs 91-75, end 3Q. The Least is an aborted, deformed fetus of pro basketball.

We started:

Wigo
Bamo
Davion
Herro
The Taking of

Which is mediocre enough! They started:

Solitary
Poor
Nasty
Brutish
Short


Zollner is good at basketball. Sensitive City 110-105, 1:22 4Q

Rust accumulating up: 78-67, 3' 3Q

HT Phila. 53 San Antone 78. Lord have mercy.

How about 71-47, Derrick?

 


Derek Bodner

@DerekBodnerNBA

Spurs have blown this game wide open, jumping out to a 60-36 lead with 4:16 left in the half. 


If this gets too far out of hand, might be worth considering shutting Maxey and JV down to prioritize tomorrow's game against the Jazz. The Sixers have nothing right now against the (much better) Spurs.

9:05 PM · Mar 3, 2026

·1,426 Views


60-36 isn't "too far out of hand"?

Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod

@big_business_

Spurs went on a 16-0 in 2 minutes

9:10 PM · Mar 3, 2026

·112 Views

👀In 2 mins? How is that even possible?

Seven Foot Sixers (sans Joel) 41 San Antonio Hotspur 65, 2:44 SECOND quarter

God, Philly. "If" they lose and if Miami wins vs Rust, we will move within one-half game of Phila. in 6th place.

Hi-Cs 76 Rust 62, 7:19 3Q. We were -12.5.

4, should the game be called?

2!

1-0 10:54 1st

Hi-Cs 0 Rust 0, 11:58 1Q. Very early.

This is a first

An author of five books who can't write but whose story ideas are so great that three of the books are made into major motion pictures.

Such is the case of Joe David Brown, author of Stars in My Crown (1947, made into movie), The Freeholder (1949), Kings Go Forth (1956, movie), Glimpse of a Stranger (1968), and Addie Pray (1971, Paper Moon).

Addie Pray was the last on my to do list in researching the extraordinary Paper Moon. Why last? Because  I didn't want two takes, the film's and the book's, I wanted just one, the film's. I got the book yesterday. 

No chance of dissonance. The book is boring.

Goodness gracious

Wolverhampton Wanderers won just their third match of the season today at Liverpool Slavetraders.

Trump the pusher

"If anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand.”

cnbc

 

Trump shares a new reason why the U.S. attacked Iran

President Trump on Tuesday said the United States began striking Iran over the weekend because Iran was "going to attack first."

His remarks in the Oval Office came on Day 4...

Neutralize Malign Activities War

 

Trump Letter to Congress Justifying Iran Strikes Outlines No Imminent Threat

The president told lawmakers that the objective of the assault was to “neutralize Iran’s malign activities,” 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/middleeast/trump-congress-letter-iran-strikes.html

For All the World to See, This is Who the American People Are

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.



Trump throws a temper tantrum after tariff loss

NPR

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.


On and on...







Trump: "I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine. Nobody knew that that was at the end."

When asked if he would apologize for an overtly racist video clip of the Obamas posted on President Trump's Truth Social, the president said Friday, "No, I didn't make a mistake."

Trump said he looks at "thousands of things" when he spoke to reporters on Air Force One en route to Palm Beach.



















Pottery Barn Rule: If you break it you own it.

Alternative: Better Rubble than Rabble.

Antetokounmpo Happy to be Back

And I'm happy for him. You're where you're supposed to be Ante, where you belong, where you're happy. So STAY THERE forever and be shitty and happy.

American-Israeli Murder by War. The numbers so far.

787 total

168 children

14 teachers


Monday, March 02, 2026

Public Occurrences March 2, 2026

You're always wrong when you give Trumpbecile any break from criticism. So I type this with trepidation but it is what I feel. I think feels used. I think he knows that Netanyahu played him for the fool that he is. I think Trumpbecile is embarrassed and troubled. "What di I do?" If so, we all know how this is going to end. He will blame his aides. He will also, if he feels as I, with great hesitation believe he feels, will lash out at Netanyahu and Israel. And for whatever reason one chooses, I am behind any lashing out at Netanyahu, at his pariah state, at American Jewry like those in AIPAC, who have led non compos mentis Trumpbecile by the nose and unleashed a brutal war with Iran that could be long, is already estimated by Trumpbecile to have a life of 4-5 weeks, or as long as it takes, and that has already killed six servicemen and wounded an equal number. 

11:00 pm:

It is UNBELIEVABLE, even for TRUMP! A COWARD! 

Didn't have the Balls ("cojones" for Marielito Marco) to Tell Netanyahu "NO!"

How Trump Decided to Go to War

President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was spurred by an Israeli leader determined to end diplomatic negotiations. Few of the president’s advisers voiced opposition.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel walked into the Oval Office on the morning of Feb. 11, determined to keep the American president on the path to war.

...the Israeli leader wanted to make sure that the...diplomatic effort did not undermine the plans.

...

Two weeks later, the president took the United States to war. 

He authorized a vast military bombardment in conjunction with Israel that swiftly killed the country’s supreme leader, pummeled Iranian civilian buildings and military nuclear sites, thrust the country into chaos and triggered violence across the region, leading to the deaths so far of six U.S. troops and scores of Iranian civilians. Mr. Trump has said more American casualties are likely as the United States digs in for an assault that could last weeks.

...

The U.S. decision to strike Iran was a victory for Mr. Netanyahu...

No-oh SHIT!

...During a meeting at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in December, Mr. Netanyahu had asked for the president’s approval for Israel to hit Iran’s missile sites in the coming months.

Two months later, he got something even better: a full partner in a war to topple the Iranian leadership.

...

War inevitable

The White House insisted that its diplomatic talks with Iran were not mere theater. But it became clear over the past month that there was never the space for a deal that could satisfy Mr. Trump, Mr. Netanyahu and Iranian leaders at once — or one that could put off a war more than a few months.


There were few voices lobbying against military action. One exception was Tucker Carlson, the right-wing podcaster and close ally of the president, who has met with him in the Oval Office three times in the past month to argue against an attack.

...He told the president that he should not be boxed in by Israel, arguing that its desire to attack Iran was the only reason the United States was even considering a strike. He encouraged Mr. Trump to restrain Mr. Netanyahu.

The president said he understood the risks of an attack, but he conveyed to Mr. Carlson that he had no choice but to join a strike that Israel would launch.

"no choice". "NO CHOICE"! The half-man CAVED!

...

In the briefing [with congressional leaders before the State of the Union speech], Mr. Rubio argued that, no matter if Israel or the United States struck first, Iran would respond with a powerful barrage of weapons against U.S. bases and embassies. It was logical then, Mr. Rubio said, that the United States should act in concert with Israel, since America would be dragged in anyway. And Israel, Mr. Rubio said, was determined to act.

Rubio denied any agency on the part of the U.S.A., any agency by the POTUS! We had "no choice"! This is the "logic" of the MAGA imbecile. In fact, Marielito Marco, the U.S. and Trumpbecile could have not "be dragged in"--by refusing to join the Israeli regime change. In the event that Iran DID strike U.S. "bases and embassies" after an Israel-only attack, you, Boat Person, and Trumpbecile would have a free, legal, and moral hand to act as hard as it wished. 

Let me ask you a history, an American history, so you may have to call on a Cuban analogue, question, Marielito Marco: When did the U.S. declare war on Nazi Germany? 

We let Uncle Alf stew. We declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941. NOT on Nazi Germany. 

Why? One, because President Roosevelt wanted that moral and legal clarity. And two, because FDR was shrewd and had taken the measure of Hits. FDR knew that Hitler could not resist being the first to declare war on anybody. And so, on December 11, 1941, FOUR days after Pearl Harbor, THREE days after we declared war on Imperial Japan, Hitler declared war first, as Roosevelt knew he would, and gave Roosevelt the free hand to reduce the Third Reich to rubble if he wished. Maybe you can get a history of the period translated in Cuban, Marielito Marrco.

This logic sat poorly with some Democrats, who thought the Trump administration was letting Mr. Netanyahu dictate American policy — and was making a circular argument that the United States had to attack because its military buildup could prompt Iran to strike.

Right! So don't build up. If you don't want to get hit, stay the fuck out until you get hit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/politics/trump-war-iran-israel.html

7:36 pm:

The Tail Wagged the Dog: Israel was Going to Attack Iran Alone

AP

So? Why didn't Trump let them?

[House Speaker Mike] Johnson said Trump had a “very difficult decision” to make, and determined that Iran would immediately retaliate against U.S. personnel and assets.

Why was it very difficult? Why not wait, with all the resources we had in place over there, to see if Iran did attack us. THEN, no one could have denied Trump his "epic fury" in retaliation.

But Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said “there was no imminent threat to the United States of America by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel.”

Same thing David Sanger of nytimes said and wrote. You know what? I'm not buying this "explanation" that doesn't explain anything. I'm going to go with Trump wanting in on the glory.

Rubio, Hegseth and others briefed the lawmakers, but Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said he found their answers “completely and totally insufficient.”

YES.

The Trump administration will likely seek supplemental funds from Congress to pay for the operation, they said.

Good luck with that!

2:09 pm

Bret Stephens: "With Iran, Trump and Netanyahu are Doing the Free World a Favor"

We have declared war (legal)

We have preemptive war (legal)

We have preventive war (illegal)

We have war of choice (illegal)

Bret Stephens adds to the categorization of war with "favor war." 🤦😂

Like favor sex! "Hey guys, would you do me a favor and gang rape my wife?" Did the "Free World" ask for this "favor" or do Trumpanyahu know best and the Free World will thank them after?

10:29 am:

Israel "is going on the attack" (WSJ), Strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon

10:24 am:

Kuwait Shoots Down Three American Fighter Jets by Mistake

🤭 The six American crewmen safely ejected.

Beans HUMILIATES Beer! Blew the head right off that lager! Hohoho. FT 108-81

BEANS 10-2 2Q 40-22! Oh Male Deer, you're killing me lol.

Beans (without Tatum and Brown) 28 Male Deer (WITH Antetokounmpo) 20, End 1Q. lol Male Deer

'How is it with you, Sophocles, in regard to the pleasures of love?

 

'Are you still capable of enjoying the company of women?' 

And he said, 

'Hush, sir; on the contrary, most gladly have I escaped from love, as from a mad and furious master '.

(Plato The Republic 329)

American-Assisted Israeli Genocide Gaza War, Macro

 






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