I hear there’s a war that’s not a war over there in Iran. It’s over but it’s not really over. We have a cease fire but we keep shooting and so do they, which is not what I think ‘cease fire’ means. Trying to make a deal with an unstable madman leading an untrustworthy and undependable government is a very difficult thing – but Iran keeps trying.

It’s clearly an important war – just so long as you don’t CALL it a war. We MUST prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. You know, like the ones they swore off as contrary to Islam in 2004, when they issued a fatwa that called it contrary to Islam to build, maintain, or use nuclear weapons. They seem to take their religion pretty seriously, likely part of the reason Christians don’t really get it.

These days, Christianity seem more like an a-la-cart religion. They like to choose the parts that work for them and ignore the rest. I mean, have you SEEN their new golden idol? They were very careful to note that it was NOT a golden idol before they dropped to their knees and supplicated the thing. It seems they STILL haven’t figured out that this particular object of worship ain’t grantin’ favors or answering prayers without a little taste for his own beak and, even at that, ONLY for the richest of the rich. Hope springs eternal, I guess.

Meanwhile, Israel is over there killing people in Lebanon at a, well, a Biblical rate. We’re in on that war, too. We’re not as directly involved. We just supply weapons to Israel and keep Lebanon’s protector, Iran, busy. Our unstable national embarrassment likes to say that he has solved <pick a number of> wars. (He just makes up the number. You can, too.)

So he has “solved” some unknown countless number of wars nobody knew anything about but can’t solve any of the current conflicts we can ALL see. You remember the wars he said he would end on Day One because it would be so easy? Sometimes, I suspect he hasn’t got a clue…

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It’s said on the left that 47 will do whatever the last person he spoke to convinces him to do. One example is in fruit-flavored vaping pods, which contain nicotine and are used in e-cigarettes. The US stopped selling them because the flavors made the nicotine products more attractive to kids and more people thought we should not be trying to hook children to nicotine than thought we should.

The cigarette companies, for example, really want to sell fruit-flavored vaping pods. It turns out, their product kills their customer base. They must recruit new addicts on a daily basis or there’s a real risk of losing market share. Why, yes, now that you mention it, that IS, actually and honestly, killing people for profit, a staple of Capitalism. Kids are easiest to hook and fruit-flavored vaping pods are a great tool for exactly that.

A representative from RJ Reynolds tobacco company met with President Pedo on Saturday, May 2, in Florida. It seems likely that the required bribes were paid or promised, though I have no specific information to that effect. The next thing we knew, the Dotard was demanding the FDA authorize the sale of the fruit-flavored vaping pods. For reasons we don’t know, the FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, dragged his feet a little. He didn’t authorize the sale until Tuesday.

Word is, there’s been a whisper campaign against Markary originating in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It’s possible, Markary isn’t insane enough for this team. According to Politico, Makary has “alienated a range of HHS officials and interest groups, including anti-abortion activists, opponents of vaping regulation and some drug manufacturers. He clashed with Chris Klomp — HHS chief counselor and the director of Medicare — over several matters including personnel decisions, according to a senior HHS official granted anonymity to discuss the interpersonal dynamics.”

Now the White House is scrambling to find someone worse. Markary, apparently, had that thing, that… what do you call it? Um, integrity? Is that the word? Yeah, that’s it. Markary had some. Not a lot, mind you. One does not last a year with Team Evil if they have much integrity, but he had some – and it was still too much. Out he goes. A newer, more loyal but dumber commissioner will be found – the US will take yet another embarrassing step into self-imposed darkness. Lovely…

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Speaking of the FDA, there’s a drug out there called metformin, and it’s the leading Type 2 diabetes medication. AS the leading Type 2 diabetes medication, lots of people are taking it. It seems to work. NOW, scientists are on the verge of figuring out HOW metformin works. Doesn’t that seem odd to you? It does to me.

“Here, this drug seems to do what we want it to do.”
“Great! How does it work?”
“Oh, we don’t know. We think it probably has something to do with the liver.”
“Well, if you don’t know how it works, how can you be sure it isn’t affecting some other part of the body?”
“Look, do you want the profits or not?”
“Of course. I understand the corporate priority. I was just curious.”
“I’ll tell you what, if metformin causes some long-term problem down the road, we’ll come up with a new pill for that, too. How does that sound?”
“Well, um, profitable. Okay, then!”

Now there’s a new theory that metformin works by increasing glucose in the gut and not by affecting the liver. A “theory.” Don’t get me wrong. It’s important that a drug does what it’s supposed to do. I just think it might be nice if we knew HOW it does what it’s supposed to do before we start giving it to thousands of people…

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Once a reality TV personality, always a reality TV personality, I guess. Sean Duffy is, ostensibly, our Transportation Secretary. Obviously, doing THAT job is verboten in this regime so he sought something else to do. He went on a road trip with his wife and nine children. They made a TV show out it. I’ll bet you buttons to beans you and I paid for it. “Reality.” That’s what they call it.

Maybe in the reality of a taxpayer funded government worker but in MY reality, a nationwide road trip would require a long-term loan just for the effing gas…