War

The Schloss-Blog is concerned that we'll be going to war, along with Israel, against Iran, which vastly outnumbers and out-weapons Israel, even though the Israelis are the far superior fighting force.

When Hezbollah invades, when Iran declares war after Israel's next retaliatory attack, how will Israel offset Iran's advantages in numbers?

With the help of the United States. At first, it will be our planes and missiles fired from the sea. But how long, if war breaks out between Israel and Iran, before U.S troops are on the ground?

And with Donald Trump in the White House, Netanyahu has a green light to go full scale, accompanied by what he knows will be Trump's permission and promise to commit to combat.

Trump says he wants to stop the killing. But ultimately, he'll sacrifice American lives in the Middle East and destroy what relationships we have with the Arab world.

Meanwhile though, Antony Blinken will shuttle around the Middle East, campaigning for peace, but how did that work out between Russia and Ukraine? Between Israel and Hamas? 

And where are the hostages? Dead or dying. And while we campaign for peace and humantarian aid, we feed the "good guys" with the weapons they need to hold off the "bad guys," aka terrorists and invaders.

As we should. Right? They're terrorists, right? Yes, they are.

Is this any way to conduct a ceasefire negotiation?

Above all though, remember - Hamas is the bad guys here. Bad guys need to be gotten rid of.

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Did anyone notice that Donald Trump lost a debate to someone he says is "mentally disabled?"

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And in sports...

The Knicks got Karl-Anthony Towns.

Yes!!!

Stephen A. Smith will be happy - he wanted the Knicks to get rid of Julius Randle.

This trade makes me a little sad. There was a time when any major move by the Knicks would've prompted an immediate phone call from bestie Gary Kruh, with whom I grew up in Brooklyn. We would've lamented or cheered long distance for hours over such a move.

Or over getting Mikal Bridges. Or over the secret weapon throw-in in the Towns' trade - draft rights to James Nnaji.

We would've discussed the plusses and minuses for hours.

We were devout Knicks fans - along with Keith Corbin, we went to Knicks playoff games, stood in long lines for tickets, rode New York subways late at night on the way home and even went to Bill Bradley's first game as a member of the Knicks at the old Madison Square Garden.

Gary's been gone for 15 years now. Somewhere though, he's smiling.

R.I.P. And let's go Knicks.

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One last sports and entertainment note: within a couple of days of each other, the sports world lost Pete Rose and Dikembe Mutombo and then we lsot entertainment superstar Kris Kristofferson.

Sadly, Pete Rose, I'll bet, will be enshrined now into MLB's Hall of Fame.

You watch.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Sharon Kelley.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

Tramp

Here's what the Schloss-Blog is taking note of politically:

Trump is only trusted on the economy because of "The Apprentice." Kamala, where's that ad? In actuality, he's a failure; all those bankruptcies. And Trump media might be next. It's teetering, and if Trump sells his shares, cashes out, he'd be taking and leaving many of his friends and investors screwed. Kamala, where's that ad?

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Trump said in the 2016 campaign that he'd be in the office, "working (his) ass off," not playing golf all the time, like he accused Obama of doing. So, he played golf for just about a full one year of his presidency, 307 times, 25% of the time he was in office. The rest of the time, he never came out of his living quarters until about 11 a.m. everyday and just walked around the White House, seeing what channels the TVs were on and ordering them onto Fox News if they were on MSNBC or CNN. He never took his Presidential Daily Briefings seriously. Kamala, where's that ad?

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Trump and Vance keep saying that Haitians are eating people's pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. So far, it has caused bomb threats around town and general animosity and outright hatred toward that legal, hardworking community. Trump and Vance are racists. Kamala, where's that ad?

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We all know he's a convicted felon. For now, at least. Sexual abuser.  In other words, he's a pig. Kamala, where's that ad?

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Trump repeatedly dismissed COVID, including his famous it's at 15, going down to zero reference. What happened? It mushroomed into a mega-person death machine, killing more than a million Americans, bootstrapping the economy and backing up ports around the country. It left stores with shortages of goods and Americans subsequently paying ridiculous prices for goods and services. In other words, it was Trump, who so many Americans say they trust with the economy who sank the economy. Kamala, where's that ad?

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So, are you better off than you were four years ago? Trump says COVID knocked him off course. Of course, he failed to deal with it either, so, no wonder. The economy is doing better now than it was doing pre-pandemic. Yet, polls show pretty much consistently that Trump, with all his failures, is trusted more on handling the economy than Kamala is. It is, according to many, because of his reality-show reputation on "The Apprentice." 

But "The Apprentice" is not the economy and now comes new polling showing Kamala shortening the gap between her and Trump on handling the economy. This is especially as Kamala can hang her hat on people's confidence in the economy, in their own buying power, in their real wage growth, which has outpaced inflation for a year-and-a-half now and the stock market, which has posted record gains everyday as it pads people's retirements.

America is not a game show and Trump is a business failure, disinterested in running America and poised to ruin the economy, as studies by Penn-Wharton and Goldman Sachs reveal without exception. Trump's tariffs will blow the roof off inflation and kill America's pocketbooks disastrously.

And now comes new polling that Kamala, not Trump, will handle the economy better going forward. Yeah, Kamala. 

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Yet, Trump keeps on lying. And lying. He'll say anything to stay out of prison, which is the only reason he's running for president.

In his Aug. 8 news conference at Mar-a-Lago, he lied 162 times. In one hour.

And made outright 32 false claims in his April interviews with Time Magazine.

In a speech to the National Guard Association of the United States, he claimed he created the Veterans Choice healthcare program.

No, Obama did that. Trump extended it though.

He claimed China will pay the preposterous tariffs he's proposing.

Nope, consumers pay that.

It's an endless list, right down to Haitians eating cats and dogs. It's gotten so bad, Haitians have filed criminal charges against him.

Will he get arrested when he shows up there, as he's promised to do.

Hopefully.

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Bottom line, minstream media gives Trump a pass on lies. Stories should always start with,"Trump lied," regardless of the topic (economy, forgeign policy, immigration). Then tell the story. Bjut they never do...

The economy is great and getting better (hiring, jobs, GDP, inflation, wages). Kamala, where's that ad?

In other words, Kamala, your messaging needs freshening.

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On another note: The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) is reporting that 12 prep players have died this year due to football injuries.

Twelve!

The Association told The Daily Herald of Illinois that "it's something to be concerned about" but it's also "probably the safest it's ever been."

Twelve dead is not safe enough for me and this is my 50th year covering high school football.

Not safe enough...

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Erin - congrats on your surfing adventure.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.