i want to clarify that a full scale invasion of iran is probably a bad idea. well, almost. there are ways to do this. the turks, for example, could lead a nato force into iran. american or european troops would generate the worst kind of backlash, and potentially undo any tentative gains made over the last few years of massive street protest against the tyrannical regime in place.

i would, however, support taking out iranian leaders of all and any sort (it would be a good day for the world if they could take out mr. khamenei) and would tentatively support providing air cover for key groups that the american military almost certainly wouldn't provide air cover for. kurdistan could be due for some major growth. the kurds are a broadly more tolerant style of governance (that's the real reason the turks hate them), and a bigger, deeper kurdish toehold in iran could be enough to get those dominos falling, without doing things that are counterproductive. there's enough people in iran that want out of the islamic state governing model that a parallel state could get some traction, if it can get up and going.

i mean, the other idea is carpet bombing, and that kind of sucks. i'm ultimately in solidarity with secular, socialist and democratic (and white. let's be honest.) groups struggling against the mullahs (and the arabic colonialism in the area). i don't want to blow up iran. i do, however, think that (unlike iraq, which was a brutal secular dictatorship keeping the fundies in check at the butt of a machine gun because it had to, as we witnessed), iran might appreciate some help liberating it, if it's done the right way.

trade irritants aside, what does canada gain by actively interfering with american strategic goals in eastern europe and the middle east?

trump is basically right that the g7 is a waste of time, and that it would be a better use of time if the russians were there. there's been this visceral response in canada that the russians are war criminals, as though the rest of the countries invited (they invited saudi arabia and the uae) are not, and as though that even matters. it's a very juvenile approach to a negotiation process, as though bad decisions made by putin make him less important.

trump is saying "i want to talk to important people with decision making authority and get important things done on a global scale.".

canada is responding "why don't we just hang out and smoke a joint in the rockies and be friends instead?".

and, trump is telling us we're a waste of time for it. he's right.

it actually tastes more like onion soup, with potatoes instead of bread.

cool..

the next thing in this fridge to eat is a large pile of red potatoes. what am i going to do with this?

- fill up a pot of potatoes with cold water

- bring to a boil

- let sit for fifteen minutes

- take each out to a plate, chop in half or four

- dump into a large serving bowl

they're cooked; kind of mashy, but they're red potatoes. i've had these before, at dinners like christmas or thanksgiving.

- dump margarine on the potatoes

- dump sour cream on that

- add a chopped avocado

- add a tbsp of hemp seeds

- add some fresh dill

- add ceasar

- add nutritional yeast

- mix

meanwhile, fry up four or five strips of bacon and add four ox cubes to three cups of water, and dissolve. wait.

- grate about 200 g of mozzarella and dump it in

- mix it up

- turn heat off the gravy and let sit. stir occasionally while waiting for bacon to finish.

- chop bacon and add

 - add gravy

- add pepper

- add frank's

i should get three, maybe four of these out of the bag. it's a good mea.