Martin World News, with prologue...

 Okay, so I've been much too distracted by life to do a regular posting schedule besides Wisdom Truck.  Well, that and the sum total of all my walk pictures this week was one half-sunlit shot of Misty and a woodpecker that turned his back on us.  Work has evolved back to normal levels finally, and I've been following my OU softball girls intently, and haven't really given posting much thought.

HOWever, I want to speak up about the attack on Iran.  I am disgusted by Congressmen who are whining about not being told when they WERE told.  I am tired of idiots like Tom Massie and Rand Paul trying to make points about it being an "illegal" war when the Constitution- had they ever bothered to read it- clearly gives our President the authority, and 45 of 47 presidents HAVE used it.  I am disgusted by Tucker Carlson declaring it an evil war, when it topples a regime that murdered 30,000 of their own people who Want. Them. Out.  I'd love to know how many Iranian $ went into the selling of his soul.  Ditto Marjorie Taylor Greene.  I salute the courage of Democrat John Fetterman in telling his fellow democrats- as well as Massie and Paul- that they are, indeed, idiots.  And if I never see Keir Starmer's face again, that would be good.  Say what you want about Trump, he had the guts to do what 'politicians' did not.

That said, let me break into Martin World News!

In lieu of the usual tag pic, here's that rude woody...

GB News- The Green Party in 2 stories

Multiple headlines

The Green Party is apparently a UK party which has been somehow able to actually elect people, strange as it seems to me.  On the same front page we have 2 stories.  First:

A Green Party spin doctor has denied that women were raped in the October 7 attacks in 2023.

Abi Wilkinson, appointed just days before the party’s victory in Gorton & Denton’s by-election, posted on social media that "there is no Israeli woman who’s said she was raped by militants".

She also wrote on X: “There’s absolutely no new evidence, there is not a single identified victim.”

The article then goes on to account MANY verified stories of these rapes and attacks, ending with, basically, "She hasn't been sacked- yet."  They go on to mention her X account is now gone.

Where have we seen this look before?

In a follow up, they mention other Pols who say that Green Party leader Zack Polanski should fire her, but it isn't likely to happen.  Why? Well, that's story #2:

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has called for Britain’s “special relationship” with the US to end after Washington launched waves of strikes against the Islamic Republic.

As news of the military action broke, the 43-year-old London Assembly member wrote on social media: "This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states."

"The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel."

So apparently Green is the color of anti-semitism in the UK.

CNN- But other than that, they're nice guys

Headline: Taliban allows men to beat their wives as long as they don’t break bones or leave open wounds

That's awfully generous, don't you think?  I bet Tucker Carlson finds it okay, aand Rand Paul has no prob with it, because they're against that USA rogue state. (Actually, I don't think that, just pointing out the stupidity of their thought processes, such as they are.) Oh, and by the way, our LGBTQ friends might be interested in this side note: in the same proclamation, sodomy was made punishable by death.

Moscow Times- Here's one you thought you'd never hear....

Headline:  Kremlin Clamps Down on Communists Ahead of State Duma Elections

Though we in the west tend to think of Putin as almost as bad as the old Soviet Union, one thing he isn't is a communist.  And in duma election campaigns across Russia, Communist Party members are seeing prison time.

Veteran Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov accused the Kremlin of waging a deliberate campaign to hamstring Russia’s second-largest political party as it prepares to compete with the ruling, de facto Putin-led United Russia party in the State Duma elections.

“Our opponents see that the Communist Party is getting stronger, and the people have come over to our side. KPRF is actively fighting to protect small and medium businesses,” Zyuganov said.  

Communists fighting for Bourgois businessmen and kulaks?  That's a hoot.

Xinhua- one of those stories that really sinks your credibility...

Headline: Hamas condemns U.S.-Israel "blatant aggression" against Iran

I have but one comment to this...

Oh, and here's one that will nicely finish this rather less-than-fun post... I was just on the BBC World, where they are still reporting that the US and Israel bombed a girl's school in Teheran, killing over a hundred... while @grok confirms...

Iran's IRGC admitted on March 1, 2026, that a missile strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, the previous day was an accidental hit during a drill, killing at least 36 children, after initially blaming Israel and the US.

With that I sign off, warning you once again, trust NO news report that you cannot dig into for yourself.