The Coming Iranian Liberation

​It may be weeks, or even days, when we wake up to find that the Iranian citizens have risen up to take back the country from the Regime and the IRGC, which have occupied and had taken the Iranians hostage back in 1979. Soon enough, the rats will scurry away, hoping to find friendlier countries to grant them asylum.

The streets of Iran are near a breaking point over public executions, economic collapse and a war that’s been raging on for more than five months, anti-regime figures in Tehran told several American reporters.

“A revolution can happen any day now, people want revenge,” a protest leader said, referring to the regime’s brutal January crackdown that President Trump said killed 52,000 people.

An independent journalist active in the Iranian underground said that preparations are already being made for the next uprising, and that activists from all walks of life are determined to make a final, decisive blow against the regime.

“We’re studying the protests from January, determining what tactics worked and which didn’t; we’re analyzing maps to determine the safest and most dangerous areas to congregate,” the journalist said.

Small groups are working clandestinely to procure firearms to distribute to demonstrators, utilizing guns stored in certain private homes and smuggled from abroad, the protest leader claimed. They did not specify who would be providing these weapons.

It certainly seems like a “day of reckoning” will soon be upon Iran and the world. And it is time for American critics of the war to shut up and take a seat, so that the Iranians can finally know that all Israelis and Americans support the goals to liberate Iran from the tyrants which are destroying their country.

Much like our forefathers needed and achieved 250 years ago.

One Man Asks “Mea Culpa”

​One MUST give credit when a critic apologizes for a previously held position when he is faced with piece of evidence which contradicts his previously held beliefs.

ESPN personality Stephen A Smith issued a shocking on-air apology to Kyrie Irving for blasting the much-maligned NBA superstar’s refusal to comply with mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, which derailed the Brooklyn Nets’ 2021-22 season.

Smith interrupted his scheduled vacation Friday after watching Dr Anthony Fauci deflect questions from Congress about the origins of the pandemic by pleading the 5th Amendment, saying he “felt compelled” to issue a “mea culpa” to Irving who was ruthlessly shamed for deciding against getting the COVID shot.

 “I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving,” said Stephen A.

“There’s several people that we all owe apologies to, and I’ll put myself at the front of the list, but none more so than the apology that I owe to Kyrie Irving,” the 58-year-old said at the start of his near 20-minute monologue.

“The reality is that Kyrie Irving, no matter what we think, may have been more right than we have given him credit for and unquestionably was more vilified than he deserved. And ladies and gentleman, it starts with me,” Smith continued.

“We saw vaccine mandates and booster mandates and you know distancing stipulations and mask mandates and all of this other stuff. And along the way, there were a select few individuals in the world of sports especially that stood up and said, ‘Nah, I’m not down for this,’” Smith recounted.

It takes a brave man to say publicly “Mea Culpa”, knowing he will be criticized for reversing his long-held position. He knows he may lose ratings and is williing to sacrifice them in order to maintain his integrity.

But reasonable people will respect him  for admitting he made a mistake. I certainly do.

Meandering Through the Year

​Today is July 31. We are 2/3 through Meteorological summer, almost 70% through the baseball season, not including the playoffs and World Series, and 1/3 through the Atlantic Basin hurricane season.

Oh, and graduations and those parties have been celebrated for High School and College graduates.

For many of us, some are looking forward to Fall and Winter. And for some of us, we wish it were Spring and Summer all the year long.

We are experiencing one of the craziest summers on record, with each day giving us something to talk about. Whether it is “feels like” 110* in Florida, endless rainy, cloudy days on Long Island, or pleasant days on the West Coast, we all have something to say.

As well, we are well into the Midterm Primary Season, with the final primaries wrapping up by September 9 in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Then, we can look forward to the November 3 General Election.

We are about a month away from the start of the 2026 NFL season, where all teams start off with an equal chance of competing for a playoff berth. But by Halloween, we will have a better look at which teams may succeed to achieve for the prize.

And then, suddenly, the 2026 Holiday Season will be upon us, with Christmas music filling the airwaves right after Election Day. Which will be the sound we hear through Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Finally, we will welcome 2027, with the hope we will again have a Happy New Year.

And Welcome August First!

The Abuse of the Fifth Amendment

“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question on the grounds it might incriminate me.”

​After watching the Senate-Fauci hearings today, one can say that the good Doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment more times than any Mafia figure in American history. 

This Amendment was written by James Madison in order to prevent the government from forcing a person to give evidence against themselves or face trial twice for the same crime. Congress added the phrase "in any criminal case" to limit self-protection rules to criminal trials rather than civil ones.But it was not a “get out of jail free” card.

Unfortunately, people who are guilty of the crimes for which they are accused, use this Amendment indiscriminately to the point of madness. This is abuse of the purpose of the Amendment.

Eventually, a Mafia Don or his subordinates generally will be found guilty of the crimes for which they are accused. Also, most criminals when offered immunity, will answer questions without fear of indictment, even if his answer would otherwise incriminate him.

However, Dr Fauci, who held a Presidential pardon in his pocket, decided to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights over SEVENTY times. This was his narcissistic way of obstructing justice on a whole level of self-preservation reasons.

But, instead, the die may be cast for Fauci to be held in Contempt on Congress. . Deservedly so. We The People have the right to know what happened, from soups to nuts, to cause the disaster known as COVID-19.

What he did was to abuse our rights under the Fifth amendment to save his own skin.

The Commemoration of a Solemn Anniversary Vilified

​Just under seven full weeks from today, on Friday September 11, we will commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the saddest day in our history, where we lost almost 3,000 souls, including 2,753 at the World Trade Center, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 at Shanksville. In addition, all 246 passengers and crew were lost in the four hijacked planes.

This is a sacred day in American history, much like Independence Day and December 7, a Day Which Lives In Infamy. It does not deserve to be besmirched by anyone.

And, of course, the families of 9/11 victims are demanding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani be banned from the 25th anniversary of the attacks at Ground Zero, branding him an apologist for Islamic terror whose presence would be an insult to the memories of those who died that day.

“Our objection is based on his public record, his failure to meaningfully acknowledge the horror of that day, and his employment of, support for, or association with individuals who have minimized 9/11, defended terrorists, or even suggested America ‘deserved’ the attacks,” said Giovanni Galante, whose 29-year-old wife Grace Catherine Galante was among 2,977 innocents killed by al-Qaeda terrorists.

Galante, 55, is one of the organizers of a petition drive that has collected over 1,100 signatures in a little over a week, including from at least 300 victims’ families.

“It is not political, and it is not a platform for those connected to such views. His presence would be deeply hurtful and inappropriate, like an unwelcome guest at a deeply personal ceremony.”

Galante and other petition organizers hope to gather enough signatures to convince local lawmakers and the ceremony’s organizers, the nonprofit 9/11 Memorial & Museum, to keep Mamdani away from the silver-anniversary ceremony planned for the former Twin Towers site in Lower Manhattan.

The petition posted on Change.org cites an array of concerns about Mamdani, who is the city’s first Muslim mayor and has promoted his religion since taking office in January.

Galante and many others have contacted the non-profit 9/11 Memorial and Museum to disinvite Mamdani from the event, due to his support for those groups who endorsed candidates and has been endorsed by individuals who openly said that ‘America deserved 9/11.

Mamdani spokesperson Jeremy Edwards said the mayor still plans to attend the ceremony, despite the petition drive or the wishes of the surviving families.

“Mayor Mamdani will proudly honor the families, survivors and first responders forever impacted by these devastating attacks by standing alongside them at this year’s 9/11 Commemoration, reaffirming that we will never forget the solemn day felt by all of us who call this city home,” said Edwards.

In actuality, Mamdani is a vainglorious, narcissistic, sycophantic POS, who cares only for his own wants and needs without considering the opinions of anyone who desires or would consider an opposing viewpoint. 

This is typical of EVERY Socialist or Communist. Only theirs matters.

He will disregard even his City Council should it consider the viewpoints of the families and their supporters. He will insert himself into the ceremony regardless.

In this most vile manner he conducts his every move. Let us pray he fails.

Murder in the Name of God

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Once again, the Occupied Government of Iran, known as the Islamic Republic, has executed two more men “in the name of God” because they belonged to an Islamic State cell that formed after the group’s territorial defeat in Iraq and Syria and had planned attacks inside Iran.

And of course, the executioners were “holy men” dressed in cleric’s clothes as they blasphemed their way to right the wrongs against Allah.

The report  broadcast on Iran’s Islamic State television were identified as Mohieddin Abdollahi and Hossein Palani.

This execution was conducted after the Supreme Court of Iran upheld (rubber-stamped) their death sentences. Kind of like the horrors meted out under Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.

But while those entities did not introduce God in their evil  acts against humanity, these monsters invoke God into every inhuman act, as if to give credence for the rest of us to accept. Well, decent God-fearing people don’t accept that sick, perverted blasphemy.

It is time to remove this satanic entity from the world forever.

Recognizing That Changes Have to be Made.

​Seventeen games under five hundred (40 and 57) pretty much sends the Mets packing it in at the All-Star Break. So much for any chance for a playoff berth.

Now, the “Boy Wonder”, David Stearns has to begin dismantling his band of has-beens and never-wases which he chose after he decided to trade or not re-sign the core of Alonzo, Nimmo, Diaz and McNeil.

The team is now in a rebuilding state, which has only a few certainties. These include Benge, Ewing, Soto, Lindor, McLean and the catching core. And maybe, one or two more pitchers. Everyone else is expendable.

Steve Cohen needs to shed payroll and bring some sanity back to the roster. As fans, we recognize that his five-year plan is not happening now and Stearns’ patchwork of misfits is a failure. 

The Boy Wonder may have been a success in a small market, but has no idea of what he is doing in New York. Even with unlimited resources. And his smug attitude has become tiresome, as he blames everyone else for his own shortcomings.

This team has brought back reminders of past years under the Payson and Wilpon ownerships. But at least we knew that failure WAS an option, and the cost of witnessing disappointment in person was not your monthly rent payment.

And the desperation of putting cheeks in the seats by offering giveaways to the first 15,000 people doesn’t cut it anymore, either. Perhaps, the ‘86 Mets World Series Ceremony and Carlos Beltran’s Retirement Day will provide a positive response to an otherwise disappointing season.

We can only hope that a new manager, coaching staff and a revamped roster will come to pass for 2027 and give us something better to root for than this disaster. Anything will be better than this.

Wait until next year. Let’s Go Mets!