Yyou forgot the ‘/s’.
Apart from the ‘9/11’ attacks killing nearly 3000 and injuring more than 6000, there was the 1993 shootings at the CIA Headquarters in Langley killing 2 and wounding 3 and the 1993 bombing of the WTC, killing 6 and injuring 1042. And after ‘9/11’, but before Obama there was the 2002 Los Angeles Aiport shooting, killing 3 and injuring 4.
[this is not counting attacks on US Embassies (eg. 1998 in Tanzania and Kenya) or ships, which technically could be considered US territory too, but let Us give him that]

That one didn’t count because most of the bombers came from ally Saudi Arabia, whose people have funded most of the Islamist terrorism for over fifty years. There are no cases of Iranian terrorists killing anyone in the US since 9/11 (haven’t checked before) but still they’re worse than Saudi Arabia. Their inhumane laws are almost exactly the same, but if you had to choose one worse than the other, it’s SA. In Iran, for example, the government funds gender reassignment surgery, though homosexuality is illegal still. There’s a huge limit to their level of understanding!

I found these art tweets stunning too.
Carnielo’s ‘Tenax Vitae’, how is it even possible to sculpt that skeleton skeleton arm and hand (if it is actually sculpted in stone?), what a fantastic display of skills! One wrong little hit…..

I’m quite worried about what Trump will do and say and give away at their meeting. Kim runs rings around him diplomatically.

Amy Carparelli reports that the Beetlemania video has been removed from the Natural History Museum channel. It’s a shame because it showed 4,000 year old wood, and insects (dead of course) from that time. They may have discovered it was a hoax or something – the find was brought in by a farmer.

Ann German said she and her friends used to hang out on the troll as teenagers.

Iran is protesting about the sanctions, but they can’t be feeling them already because they haven’t been put on yet, so they may be exaggerating on behalf of the Dems. This issue has become a Dem v GOP issue, though it shouldn’t be.

The oil prices going up is a really important issue. It was the main reason the US stayed in bed with the Saudis – they are able to control the international flow of oil and therefore keep the prices down, which squeezes Russia. SA has the lowest, or one of the lowest, extraction prices, so they can handle a big price drop. Russia can’t. It’s a real worry for Putin to have money again because bow that he’s been through a bad patch he’s using the new money to improve his military as he is even more paranoid than before. If only he would spend his oil.

I wrote about this a long time ago: https://www.heatherhastie.com/putins-russia/

If that’s the way they dish out money, no wonder their products are so expensive. They should have refused to pay and told Cohen to take them to court. Or maybe Cohen threatened them with bad-mouthing them to the president if they didn’t pay?

New Zealand would be lucky to get Dr. Dawkins…that was a nice piece.

FYI: the creepy-crawlies tweet said “unavailable”.

I read an article in the LA Times that the people in Iran are already feeling the squeeze as US sanctions take hold; there are also fierce protests. Nothing like stirring the proverbial pot and creating more world hate, right don? There was also a Daily Kos article highlighting the fact that Putin has much to gain with the oil price hike that’s brought on by limiting Iran oil export. The worldwide trend of dropping oil prices (a trend which the Iran deal assisted) was a powerful check against Putin’s economy and nefarious goals. Now he’s back in the money. Thanks Trump for your monumental help to Putin and his fellow Oligarchs. Of course, anyone invested in the stock market also gets a boost from rising oil prices. The poor, working poor and middle-class who by and large don’t invest in the stock market always get hit the hardest by rising fuel and food prices…both of which are guaranteed to inflate under the trump admin. Will the financially challenged trump voters get a clue? All evidence points to the contrary.

This posting qualifies for me having to say, “Well Done!”

Thank you.