But first, a segue into the make-up White House Correspondent's Dinner last night, the one added to the first attempt on April 25, when a Trump assassin showed up.  This second one was almost as chaotic. Of course, you must know that President Trump refused to attend any of these dinners in his first term. His first appearance was on 25April2026. From the liberal viewpoint, CNN : Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and proved its point Members of the media mocking a leader’s dismal performance on live TV and all across the internet? In some other countries, that’s a criminal offense. But in the US, it’s the norm, so maybe Trump’s speech unwittingly underscored the theme of the dinner: America’s robust First Amendment protections. In a rambling hour-long speech, Trump insulted journalists by name, repurposed old nicknames for political opponents, made a strange number of fat jokes that weren’t funny at all, and sounded mad at his unnamed writers for giving him w...

  The USA is 245 years old.  Russia is only 104.   China is just about 3500 years old,  for the Shang Dynasty began ruling the country from the 17th century BC...for 600 years.   Some say modern China came into existence around 220 BC.  Thus perhaps China is only 2242 years old today. My past few postings have been way too long, so today, only Ukraine.  Will Putin attack?  When?  Why? Remember Chernobyl?  This is the Ukraine town located 66 miles from Kyiv that 36 years ago was destroyed by the nuclear power explosion with 400 times the radiation of the Atom Bomb that fell above Hiroshima.  At one time there were 14,000 residents.  Today, 1000. Malaysia Airlines never found flight 370, which disappeared on 8March 2014.  Lost forever were 227 passengers and 12 crew.  On July 17 of the same year, MH17 flew out of Amsterdam towards Kuala Lumpur.  Flying over eastern Ukraine, the plane was shot down by a Bu...