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underpants's JournalThis cold front. Crazy weather day here in Richmond Va
Today’s high was 76 - that was at midnight.
Currently 1/2 way through the day it’s 44 feels like 37 with a 17 MPH wind out of the NNW with a downpour of rain.
Oh and it may ❄️ snow this afternoon.
Today’s low will be at 11PM 37 degrees.
Where was the Pentagon brass in this disaster (Iran)? That's my question
I know we have civilian oversight and direction as we should.
I also know these Trump stooges don’t care about form, tradition, and reject convention as both a form of rebellion as well as upstaging/grandstanding.
Where was the second third and variables planning?
Where was curtailing operations by at least stalling?
There was no consideration of munitions inventory? (I do have questions about some of those reports).
There was no planning or consideration of the Strait of Hormuz (Sen. Chris Murphy)?
There was no evaluation of Irans weapons inventory and production capacity?
Not just militarily but this, as much as we are told it was planned and coordinated, is so incredibly badly planned I really can’t understand it.
Iran seems to be one of the worst countries to attack. It’s like a wasps nest.
Is it just fear of getting “fired”?
Was it just from the top? I think it’s clear Netanyahu got Trump to do this.
Was it just blow shit up?
I really can’t wrap my head around how this is this bad.
(X with transcript) "it is an excursion that will keep us out of war ...."
“You got a question Peter?”
(Douchey Fox News) “Yes, you just said it is a little excursion and you said it is a war, so which one is it?”
Trump “Well it’s both, it is an excursion that will keep us out of war ….”
https://x.com/spencerhakimian/status/2031806308811198584?s=46
Trump - 1st vs 2nd term. Staffing & options. A brief thought.
There were more than a few published articles about “handling” Trump in the first term. The Generals - his series of Chiefs of Staffs, Secretaries of Defense, Pentagon and Intel briefers as well as the revolving cast of clowns and jokers all workshopped how to place options and in what order. President Obama said, at the end of his terms, how remarkable it was that military options were always at the top of the list for anything related to foreign matters.
They did a good job. Frankly, Trump was weak in the first term. He pump-faked on several occasions.
The second term reflects the 3rd string JV staff and fealty of an inner circle don’t offer him any options other than ATTACK.
This is hyper aggressive, flippant, childish, uninformed, and uncontrolled …or controlled.
😂😂 "Melania" is already free on Prime Video (Amazon)
My wife and I were queuing up 
“Young Sherlock” to finish the season and it popped up. We cracked up.
I clicked on it expecting at least a trailer. No trailer. Straight to the intro. Basically straight to video.
Everything at least fishes for a rent or buy for a week or two. Nope
Budget $40 million (+ $35M in marketing)
Box office $16.7 million
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_(film)
The Atlanta Falcons picking up free agents 😂😂😂
https://x.com/thebrohioan/status/2031152135115592009?s=46Is It War? 1:38 😳 Very funny (sadly). The police have tanks now don't they, Carl?
?si=gEeUrOttDy8R57FORepublican Rep. Kiley (CA) leaves GOP - Independent. GOP House majority is now officially 2.
Rep. Kevin Kiley (Calif.) announced Monday that his decision to leave the Republican Party and register as an Independent will take effect immediately.
Why it matters: House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) two-vote majority just got even smaller.
Kiley said he will still caucus with Republicans for "administrative purposes" but noted that he's been a less-than-reliable vote for Johnson even as a Republican.
The California Republican did not give leadership a heads-up before announcing Friday that he was leaving the party, but he said he did speak with Johnson over the weekend about continuing to caucus with the conference.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/09/republican-kiley-gop-indepedent-mike-johnson
A Mysterious Code Is Being Broadcast on Shortwave Radio. Is It Iran?
The Atlantic. Gift link.
On February 28, the day that bombs started falling on the Islamic Republic, a man’s voice began broadcasting in Farsi on a shortwave-radio frequency. He announced himself—“Tavajjoh! Tavajjoh!” (Attention! Attention!)—and then read a string of seemingly random numbers. Anyone with a shortwave radio could hear him. But the announcer’s intended audience was likely no more than a handful of people using a centuries-old system to decipher his otherwise incoherent message.
The eerie and still-unattributed radio transmission came from a numbers station. You don’t hear them much anymore. But when the CIA and the KGB needed to communicate with their spies working undercover, such broadcasts were convenient and safe ways to send orders around the world. The intended recipient turns on their radio at a set time to a specific station and writes down the numbers they hear. Using a technique called a “one-time pad,” they convert each number into a letter, eventually revealing a message. The transmission is out in the open. But if only the sender and the recipient have the pad—which is written down and destroyed immediately after the message is sent—only they can understand the message.
The trackers reported that they heard the numbers clearly in their various locations across Europe and the Middle East. They tried different methods to locate the transmission’s origin, without success. We listened for ambient noises that might give us some hint as to who was reading. Some trackers thought they heard a fan blowing. Others said they heard the sound of a Microsoft Windows prompt. Not especially revealing clues, but ones that offered more information than we’d had about V32 when the broadcast started. After about 90 minutes, the reader stopped, and we heard only static.
We still don’t know who’s sending the messages, who they’re meant for, or what they mean. Even the jamming might be an unreliable clue. I found myself wondering if Iranian intelligence broadcast the message and then jammed it to make the Americans and the Israelis think it wasn’t them.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/asymmetric-warfare-iran-numbers-stations-cyber/686289/?gift=j8JiJIlliWfcdD_mDVMd9xKaluhLQaKRSCuVjEN8rG0
Source - Travis Kelce tells Chiefs he's back for 14th season
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Travis Kelce, one of the NFL's most illustrious tight ends and a three-time champion with the Kansas City Chiefs, has informed the Chiefs that he's returning for a 14th season with the team, a source told ESPN on Monday.
Kelce made his decision just ahead of the start of the NFL's free agency period, as he was set to become an unrestricted free agent. As one of the league's best tight ends, Kelce would've been an intriguing option for several teams, but a source told ESPN that he informed the Chiefs on Monday morning his intentions to stay alongside coach Andy Reid -- his only coach throughout his NFL career -- quarterback Patrick Mahomes and pass rusher Chris Jones.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48153654/source-super-bowl-mvp-kenneth-walker-agrees-sign-chiefs
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