nardwuar doesn't want to break old don's hip.

he'd have to go to sweden for surgery.

i think that nardwuar should give his order of canada to don cherry in return for you know what. that's right.

....if you want to know what i think of the order of canada.

see, my position is that the fact that the americans are allowing the iranians to continue to use the strait of hormuz, and want to open it rather than blockade it, indicates the americans are not really serious and are not using the full force of military power available to them, because it's not really their intent, and never was.

i told you at the start that i supported doing this viciously and swiftly without mercy or possibility of compromise, and i didn't support trying to create leverage for negotiations or otherwise fucking around.

they actually blockaded venezuela, but they are not blockading iran.

my proposal is as follows:

(1) if the americans are serious, they will blockade the strait of hormuz and sink or capture any iranian vessel transiting it. the desire to open the strait rather than close it suggests that they aren't serious.

(2) there needs to be a ground invasion on the southern coast of iran. it should not use european soldiers, it should use arab soldiers.

(3) the punishment enacted on iran for it's behaviour should be the permanent loss of coastal territory and the loss of the area called baluchistan, which has a muslim and pakistani popuation, via annexation by the uae.

(4) the kurds should ignore washington and just seek to peel off the areas of kurdistan, luristan, gilakistan, mazandaranistan and some of the other iranian-speaking secular regions.

(5) the azeris have their own self interest and are on their own. they aren't anarchists, and they're smelly turks. i have less solidarity for them. but they will do something. what isn't clear, and i don't have that knowledge, as i'm not interested. they may want to build some kind of coalition with azerbaijan, which would be up to them. i would be more interested in protecting the armenians. connecting the two segments of azerbaijan via iran could solve some problems.. 

(6) the israelis need to step it up by focusing on serious targets. if i was picking targets, i would be trying to decapitate the iranian deep state, which includes the clerics, the judiciary and the "guardian council" and "council of experts", in addition to the irgc. wiping out executive decision makers, who are nominally elected, will have little effect if the unelected councils remain in place. it's the unelected decision makers that need to be evaporated. if this was a norse saga, the usurping king would invite everybody to a party, get them drunk and burn the house down. i don't know where they meet, but it can and should be targeted. this is what they have not done yet and will do if they are serious. if they don't do this, it won't work; the councils will just pick new executives. the councils need to be eliminated in order for this to work.

(7) what europe, and perhaps canada, should actually do is focus on training lebanese security forces to wipe out hezbollah. this is a more traditional anti-terrorist operation, and it could potentially minimize harm done in lebanon. some displacement of the non-lebanese muslim population is required in the south of lebanon, but it doesn't have to be in body bags, they can be deported.

china and europe should not send ships to open the straits. that does not help topple the government in iran, it just keeps it in place so that don coyote can make a sneaky deal for the oil.

the guardian in the uk is unfortunately identifying itself as a mouthpiece of the far right and should be appropriately censured for it. the opinions it is printing as of late are worthy of publication in a reboot of völkischer beobachter, but deeply anti-western and deeply illiberal in content and scope.

they are becoming a national embarrassment and should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

it's interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/1ogsfna/lebanese_christians_are_some_of_the_closest/

the name jew, as everybody knows, comes from jerusalem, but that seems to be an addition to the city's name which was anciently ursalem or rusalem. the ur part of this seems to be of importance.

the hebrew legend is of course that abraham came from sumeria and while this is difficult to impossible to corroborate the ur part of jerusalem does seem to actually be sumerian, rather than semitic. that seems to be correct.

the best we can do with archaeology is point out that something happened after cyrus. there may or may not have been an assyrian destruction horizon. it's not entirely clear. but something happened with the persians, and the people that we call the jews after about -550 showed up with them, from iraq, under heavy zoroastrian religious influence, and apparently adopting phoenician language when they got there.

what exactly happened to the sumerians is a really foundational question because we know now that they were so important. they weren't semites - they weren't babylonians, assyrians or arabs. they weren't elamites or any of the early indo-european groups. they seem to have come from the caucasus mountains, where kartvelian and armenian people live today.

and they may have kind of become jews, sort of, in a way we don't really understand. that seems to be what happened to them, somehow.

joseph aoun is the most sumerian-looking middle eastern politician that i've ever seen.

https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/how-did-ancient-sumerians-look-like-video

we need to return to higher entrance requirements.

we're allowing far too many muslim hooligans into the country.

canada needs to do a lot more to protect people who speak out against fascist governments from reprisal by them.

we're losing our reputation as a free society and becoming a global laughing-stock on the brink of backwardsness.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/world/canada/canada-iran-arrests-death.html

so, the caramel shit is like a yellow custard. it's actually kind of bland, as custard tends to be, which is surprising because it smelled very strong. alas. i would not suggest trying to use this as caramel milk mix after all.

the cookies ended up having too much chocolate, so i had to eat them with a fork, and then they froze to the plate, so i scraped them off into the custard. i now have yellow custard with crumbled peanut butter and chocolate-butterscotch chip cookies with caramel topping, which is also pretty good. 

i used the rest of the chips up in the second bowl of custard. 

is this a dessert? i found it contained enough calories to be a meal. i won't eat anything else today.

that gets one of the last more abstract items out of the cupboard. i still have a lot of cans of soup, tomato sauce, canned tomatoes, crackers, oxo cubes and tamarind sauce that can be used in the other things i've mentioned but only the hot and sour soup, and the broccoli soup, which i think is going to be a normal addition to my diet, is extra to my regular meal cycle. i've really managed to eat through just about all of it.

for context, i had three food bank runs - one in may, one in august and one in october. i went to three places each time. i am trying very hard to make sure i actually eat everything, no matter how outside my normal diet it might be. somebody gave me free food when i needed it. i appreciate that and i'm going to fucking eat it. all of it. some of this stuff is from august of last year, but what's left is mostly canned items from last october, and it will disappear as i catch up on the salads.

people say the left is dead in israel.

you might want to take a closer look at likud before you say that too loudly.

particularly annoying is when you see these far right protesters repeating iranian or hamas propaganda and calling themselves socialists.

there is nothing socialist about ethnic nationalism. that is the definition of far right extremism.

it is extremely important that actual leftists confront these people when you see them on the ground and tell them they are not socialists and don't represent the left, but are fascist foot soldiers advancing the politics of the far right. at best these are progressives/conservatives, but most of them are open fucking nazis.

no leftist would support these far right islamist political organizations on the grounds that they are vehicles for ethnic nationalism. that makes no sense at all.

we need to take our streets back and chase these fascist scumbags polluting them back into the gutter where they belong.