WTF!!!!!  Has the big orange baby completely lost it, or is he just showing his true colours as a completely spoiled brat?  Its a pity that the metaphor in the title refers to the plastic dummy in the baby's mouth, and not to throwing the actual baby out of the Whitehouse pram.  Of course, it could be more sinister than that too, see below. Just imagine sending a NATO ally,  Norwegian Prime Minister,  Jonas Gahr Støre a text that is essentially a threat of war, because Trump claims that the Norwegian government did not give him the Nobel Peace Prize! In case you have inhabited a completely different reality this morning, the text in question is:  "Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America." Surely a ...

 If you like reading the views of those living in places like the USA as the news is happening, then Thomas Day's general thoughts site has now been added to the sidebar. Tom is also the author of the Geezer with a Grudge site and he ran a hugely popular regular column in Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly when it was still going.  His 'tell it as it is' style is both entertaining and informative, and is a real breath of fresh air compared to the endless nonsense that the Trump administration and its cronies spout on a daily basis. Have a read at one or two of his posts and you will see what I mean.  The truth is out there, but it isn't coming from Trump! T.W. Day Stories and Rants on Random Subjects | Thomas Day | Substack While on the subject of Trump.  Is it just me, or do you also wonder how two such contradictory views can come from the same administration at the same time?  Trump is both threatening the Iranian government with retribution if it harms the protest...

 "Above all, don't lie to yourself.  The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. " Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov __________ 1)  Join a political party and through what ever means are at you disposal (whether legitimate or not), rise to become its leader.  2)  Exploit a crisis, whether it is real or invented.  Blame it on a relatively powerless group in society, then use the anti-minority feeling that you have created to to work up a mass movement against whoever you have chosen as your scapegoats.  A bit of rabble rousing should get you elected (this seems to have worked in numerous countries throughout the world.  So far as I can see, the end result has never been good). 3)  Stage a coup claiming to have all the answers to the supposed problems you have highlighted.  Even if your c...