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I just came from filling the gas tank on my vehicle and a guy was saying that we'd better get our tanks filled before the prices skyrocket

I'm guessing this DUmmy hasn't gassed up at a station in California in the past 4 years...

Sometimes.  Some of the little chains and just folks who put a pizza oven in their gas station do pretty good, though.

Off-topic, some of the big chains seem to be faltering - Pizza the Hut, Round Table, Papa John's, Straw Hat Pizza (regional chain) seem to be shrinking.

I don't know how much of this is really what Trump plans and dreams of, https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2029404892838945128 , but:

A solid theory I recently read claims blasting drug boats was to flood the airspace around Venezuela with military air traffic so as to cloak when the real strike was in-bound.

Venezuela, on the other hand, was to offset oil disruption anticipated to be brought on by the operation in Iran.

The operation in Iran is to haul China over a barrel - an oil barrel, to be precise - so as to discourage them from any adventures in Taiwan or elsewhere. We basically hold Xi's balls in our oily hand.

The pizza oven in the gas station convenience store? Is gas station pizza like gas station sushi?

Sometimes.  Some of the little chains and just folks who put a pizza oven in their gas station do pretty good, though. 

Gavin Newsom Goes Full Antisemite

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/05/gavin-newsom-goes-full-anti-semite-n4950280

California’s golden boy just took the mask off. At an event in San Francisco this week, Gavin Newsom finally said the quiet part out loud, and it wasn’t pretty. While promoting his new self-congratulatory memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, Newsom told a friendly audience that critics were “appropriately” calling Israel an “apartheid” state.

That one word — “appropriately” — wasn’t a slip. It was a tell.

And a terrifying one.

Remember, Newsom is not only the governor of the largest state in the union, but he’s also a top contender, if not the frontrunner, for the 2028 Democratic nomination for president. His words signal not just his own moral collapse but the direction of his party. The Democratic Party’s flirtation with antisemitism has turned into a full-blown affair, and Newsom is now leading the dance.

None of this happened overnight. Barack Obama mainstreamed hostility toward Israel within Democratic circles; the antisemitic wing of the party has grown louder and more powerful ever since. Obama taught the base that hostility to the Jewish state and even Jews was not a bug but a feature of the modern left. It only got worse from there. The “Squad” made it fashionable to call Israel a “racist endeavor.” Campus activists followed suit with chants of “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea,” and the Democratic Party has realized that this faction of the party is too powerful not to pander to.

This article uses an "unofficial" definition of "Antisemitism" (with which I agree, FWLIW). When persons who should know better condemn Israel based on gross falsehoods and gross double-standards, it's because Joooooos.

Dems being Dems, the only surprise in this for me is that Noisome said it publicly. He's not the brightest bulb in the knife drawer, since Kammie is not currently in it and Jasmine got the boot.