i still don't know why trump assassinated frodo, though.

the harry potter guy better keep an eye out.

it is not surprising for the far right to stand with right-wing islamic extremism. that makes sense.

what doesn't make sense - and needs to stop - is fake leftists siding with the islamic right, which is at it's core a movement for arabic and islamic colonialism, in the ignorant and misguided perception that it's trotskyist. it's not.

when you look at yourself in the mirror, and you see marjorie taylor greene looking back, it's time for some soul searching, kids.

....and, then, marjorie taylor greene proves to everybody that she really is an anti-semitic dark age christian, and a member of the american taliban, by siding with the backwards crazies in the openly fascist islamic "republic" of iran.

put your niqab on, bitch.

no, really. please. you're a prime candidate, to hide the ugly. was your mom so into the dark ages that she had a thing for horses on top of it? you could actually marry your horse back then; just ask nero. america would be better off if this bitch put her niqab on and just went to some cold, dark alley to pray for peace for the next ten years. it's the same make-believe nonsense anyways, right?

the nad--->yamaha system cannot do subsonic frequencies. it distorts badly.

it has consequently had problems with recent peter gabriel records, which are apparently mixed for an audience of elephants (i haven't tried adrian belew yet...), and with a few of my own recordings, which i acknowledge were absurdly built via sample manipulation in cool edit. i took a short piece of music and pitch shifted it in the wave editor to fit specific pitch shifts, like a sampler. this utterly floored the bass frequencies and created a mess, which is intentional, but it means you need to be able to reproduce it or it just crackles and pops.

something like pelican's australasia sounds a little thin, but it does dance music (nin's the perfect drug single) fairly well. it excels at pearl jam, which makes sense - that is the type of music the nad does. ymmv.

i think it's the nad, mostly, and that these speakers have limitations but the nad is struggling nonetheless. i'll have to see how it handles something like "fall of civilizations" coming right from youtube via the chromebook, as there's a direct a/b. the cr-620 drove these speakers quite well. if the nad can't, it's the weak link.

well, they told us they were going to do this.

my understanding is that there were not serious nuclear programs in these facilities, which does open the question: what was down there?

whatever it was, the united states just spent a lot of money on a very sophisticated attack that amounts to a show of overwhelming force. it sends a message to everybody that the anericans still see themselves as the superpower, until further notice. 

the russians know what was down there. my guess is that, whatever they say, they're glad it's gone, too.

this poses minimal threat and minimal harm, as it is. the danger is somebody miscalculating in overreaction, but i think that is unlikely. 

so long as that's it, we'll have to keep wondering what they actually did, but that should be the end of it. i'm more concerned about opposition forces on the ground.