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Have you checked if your hair is on fire today? Here comes an eclipse of the sun. Our moon will cast a totality of its shadow in a path about 100 miles wide arcing from Del Rio Texas to Bangor Maine, with lesser effects outward on each side of the path so that night will seem to fall at mid-day over most of America east of the Big Muddy. This event typically freaks out primitive peoples, and brings out the latent archaic terror even in supposedly civilized minds, reminding us in a powerfully spooky way that the cosmos runs things, not us puny humans.
You might ask: Are we hostages to cycles, Astronomical, Kondratieff, the Maunder Minimum, Fourth Turning, the Great Wave. . .? Considering the feckless doings of our own society, we seem to be yielding to some final act of cosmic punishment. What is not falling apart? Our livelihoods? Our politics? Our money system? Our morals? Our common sense, our families, our relations with other societies, our infrastructure, our culture, our business models, our education, our medicine? Alas, our government still lurches along, gone mad-dog on its citizens as it desperately sucks all power and resources unto its inner engine like a red giant star preparing for death.
Today is also the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, prayer, atonement, and reflection. What follows this pause in the troubled Middle East, a.k.a. Armageddonville? I daresay most adult citizens of sore-beset America actually don’t care. . . can’t care, because they have trouble enough of their own keeping a roof overhead, a car on the road, and food on the table. The Woke-Marxist college kids are wailing over the actions of Israel in Gaza — as they will for anyone within their dumb-ass equation of victims-and-oppressors, especially involving brown and white people. It is a brutal operation in Gaza, for sure, but so was the Hamas act-of-war on October 7 that many want to forget about now. They still hold and torture hostages, you know.
I doubt that Israel wants to exterminate the Gazans, but at this point they would probably like to export them to other nations that share their Arab culture. Those other Arab nations are not eager to take in the Gazans. The fractious minority in the USA who militate against Israel because, you know, the Jews, never ask if the Palestinians have some other plan, some other position other than From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! — meaning Death to Israel. Can you name any alternate proposal they have proffered? No, because there is none.
Not only have they no intention of getting along somehow with Israel, but they give every sign that they prefer to continue making war on her one way or another: rocket attacks, café bombings, rape and murder ops. Because they’re oppressed. They might have turned their 40 kilometers of Mediterranean beach-front into a world-beating resort, but instead they spent billions in international aid building a tunnel network and purchasing arms to wage war against Israel. And with October 7, they got war.
So, the rest of the world is very concerned now that this will lead to World War Three, world wars being the grand prize at the end of many historical cycles. Of course, the Iranians have been chanting Death to Israel in so many words for decades, so no one can mistake Iran’s intentions. And Iran has funded and deployed Hezbollah military bases on Israel’s northern frontier with Lebanon. They are said to have thousands of high-tech rockets capable of decimating Tel Aviv. Everybody knows that launching such an operation could result, ten minutes later, in Tehran becoming an ashtray.
And what if Mr. Netanyahu launches a peremptory attack against southern Lebanon to destroy those bases? Does Iran ride to the rescue? And does Russia ride to Iran’s rescue? And does China rush in to secure the sea lanes in the Persian Gulf and the oil refineries of Iran that Israel doesn’t manage to blow up? And what does the USA do? Or Europe (watching much of its oil supply go off-line)? Looks World War Three-ish, a little bit.
There is also, lest we forget, the mess in Ukraine, another world war flashpoint. There, the stark reality is that Russia is in control of the tactical situation on the ground. The WEF syndicate’s project — fronted by NATO — to weaken Russia and eventually loot its resources is a flop. The indignities heaped on Russia in sanctions and foolish objurgations will not be forgotten. There will be a Great Reset for Europe, but not the one it ordered. Not the nirvana of transhumanism and social control; rather a cold plunge into neo-medieval poverty, the breakup of large states, and a shocking simplification of daily life.
Everything that the USA and NATO are doing these days is pretense: pretending that they have the military mojo to directly enter the Ukraine War; pretending to continue pouring money into the hopeless and unnecessary conflict; pretending that the ill-conceived project even matters. The hidden truth now is that the USA war blob needs to cut its losses in Ukraine and wants to bug out. The trouble is: how to do that in a way that does not amount to another gross American strategic humiliation? That’s Russia’s problem, too: how to adroitly work the conclusion of this fiasco in a way that doesn’t humiliate the USA to the degree that we resort to some new act of geopolitical insanity in compensation. Do you remember the half century when Ukraine was indisputably within Russia’s sphere-of-influence and was not a problem for the world? I assure you this was so, and will have to be again. It will be all right.
So, if you are among those who believe that the cosmos seeks to convey an occult message in this eclipse that will supernaturally darken half our country today, maybe it’s this one: just stop it, America! Stop meddling in every flashpoint across the planet. Look to yourself and your own monstrous problems: your jive-tragic government, your fake economy, your breached borders, your sick-and-depressed population, your racketeering corporations, your broken banks, your buggered election methods, your faithless news media, your political mental illness. Or else, get ready for bang-and-whimper.
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So if you move $1 Million of IRA assets from your current broker to Robinhood, they will give you $30,000 cash. This seems too good to be true. Where do they get the money to pay this since they don’t even charge stock trading commissions.
Is this another “hustle” Jim often writes of?
There seems to be no skeptical commentary of the web about this great offer. The CEO is from Bulgaria and his parents work for the World Bank.
Sorry this isn’t a reply.
I couldn’t find where to comment.
10/7 Happens. Israel retaliates. And Hamas won’t release the hostages.
Still holding the hostage as they scream and cry to the world that they are being Genocided.
Am I missing something here?
This is basic stuff.
And Now for some strange reason…. Our crazy Gov and Media are trying to get the whole world to gang up on Israel. Of course it’s not working.
All of a sudden There has been a dramatic shift from our government to bash Israel.
Which has nothing to do with Palestinians.
Israel is not going to turn into fools land like our Gov did. They get shit done right.
Bibi is defending his country and the people in it. Like any real leader would do.
Look at the comparison between the US and Israel.? We are the joke.
Wish this gov wouldn’t wear their insecurity and cowardice for all the world to see. It’s embarrassing and a damn shame.
The US will be fine. But we need to bring the heavy hitters back to leadership. And let these idiots go home.
@Kristiyn
Reading what you just said gave me cancer.
I hope you have a good oncologist. Get well soon!
@Kristiyn
What your ass need to understand is the world isn’t Israel’s bitch just because your country aka America wants to be their bitch. America is what Japan currently is to America, owned by someone else as property and a slave. Can’t get mad at the world because they are sick of Israels shit. After all who forced all the Muslims on Western Europe in the first place? They did. Who is running around using blacks to dehumanize and humiliate whites? They are. Yet you go off the deep end over the world turning on them. Grow up.
Actually, George Soros and his gang blessed Western Europe with the refugees of Barry Soetoro’s magnificent Arab Spring in order to cause the shit they’ve brought with them from the Middle East. If you’re going to blame that Jew-hating Jew for what he and his WEF cronies have done, fine; but don’t blame Israel for the evil wrought by one of the most wicked, sinister, God-hating sick fucks the world has ever seen.
Spot on Uncle Bon.
Soros is Jewish and in all probability, the point man for the Rothschilds.
You helped make his point even as you thought you were disproving him.
The reason that idiot criminal (or criminal idiot) Biden is yelling incoherently about Istael being the villain hereis because he’s deathly afraid the Islamist voters in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin will stay home in November and cost him the election. He figures most Jews will vote for him anyway, but he can’t risk losing Moslems. Ergo, Bumblefuck is currying favor with the terrorist bloc in hopes it’ll get him reelected.
See how crazy multiculturalism is? How can such an entity be governed?
I don’t necessarily agree or disagree with this take:
Israel Is Risking Losing This War by Caring What People Who Hate It Think
Kurt Schlichter
Israel is risking losing this war because it is focusing more on avoiding criticism from its enemies than winning. I blame Benjamin Netanyahu in large part, but also our incompetent and loathsome alleged president. Now, I’m not one of those reflexive Bibi haters, and while I certainly don’t think the United States should have a say in who Israel chooses to lead it, I do believe in accountability. The disaster of October 7 happened on his watch, and he should’ve resigned the day after, but that’s not up to me or up to any American. What is up to me as an American is who our president will be next year, and it can’t be Biden again. But the desiccated old zombie aside, Bibi needs to go. He screwed up on October 7, and now he appears to be screwing up this war.
The problem is not that Netanyahu has been too harsh, as our idiot president claims. It’s that Netanyahu has been too gentle (Yes, I understand a war cabinet is leading Israel, but he is still the face of it.). And too slow. Joe Biden has betrayed every ally America has had, from South Vietnam to Afghanistan and Bibi somehow imagined that creep would not sell-out Israel? Speed was of the essence. Why was Rafah not glass months ago? Netanyahu waited, and that gave Biden the time to sell out Israel.
townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/04/08/israel-is-risking-losing-this-war-by-caring-what-people-who-hate-it-think-n2637467
and why TF is any of this a continuing concern of the USA? not our circus, not our monkeys.
this was once common sense, until truman vs dewey demonstrated how an executive could be bought through the weakness of blind ambition.
““In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim.
So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.””
Creatures like you, fortunately are getting thinner and thinner on the ground. Lots of information is coming through, and is being assimilated! You, and the likes of you, can go pound sand. Capish?
That was a reply to Kristiyn.
“Stop meddling in every flashpoint across the planet.” ~ JHK
Ok, Jim, but that would seem to include Israel.
Is he advocating for the US to continue meddling in Israel?
Maybe it’s along the lines of lies of omission.
The US has never interceded to help Israel in wartime. Even durung Israel’s most dire situations when they faced annihilation — 1967 & 1973 — did Israel request assistance from the US military.
Um, ok
So we aren’t giving Israel $3B in aid every year.
And the thugs in our government didn’t bind aid to Ukraine with aid to Israel in their budget fights last year.
$3 billion what’s that amount too?
A lot of dead Palis.
A lot of dead Palis. -og
Does it really?
How many were killed by Israel and how many were put on the front line by Hamas on purpose?
At least one of the hamas held hostages starved to death and was dumped on the side of the road like garbage.
Hamas armed wing says Israeli captive dies due to ‘lack of medicine and food’ CAIRO, March 23 (Reuters) – The armed wing of Hamas said in a statement on Saturday that a 34-year-old Israeli captive had died due to “lack of medicine and food”.Mar 23, 2024
About those that have submitted to the will of Allah…aka Muslims.
oann.com/newsroom/u-k-poll-46-of-british-muslims-support-hamas-terrorist-group-only-1-in-4-admit-murder-rape-occurred-on-october-7
According to a recent survey conducted by polling company JL Partners and the Henry Jackson Society think-tank, nearly half of British Muslims say they sympathize or support Hamas, while only 1-in-4 think that the Palestinian Islamic terror group committed rape and murder during the attack on Israel on October 7th.
The poll serves as the most recent, largest study of Muslims living in the U.K., conducted in the six months following Hamas’ massacre of at least 1,200 people and kidnapping of hundreds more in Israel, many of whom have still not been released.
The Henry Jackson Society think-tank commissioned the study, which revealed that 46% of British Muslims support or sympathize with the terrorist organization that supports the destruction of Israel and the West.
Furthermore, a mere 24% of British Muslims expressed their belief that Hamas was responsible for murder and rape on October 7th in Israel, while the entire public in the U.K. held this view at 62%. On the other hand, 39% of Muslims in the U.K. stated they did not believe Hamas was responsible for atrocities, while 37% stated they were unsure.
The survey also revealed that younger and college-educated British Muslims were the least likely to think that Hamas was responsible for rape or murder during the terror attack; 40% of those with a university degree and 47% of those between the ages of 18 and 24 denied that the Palestinian terrorists had done anything wrong.
This is despite the mountains of evidence provided by the IDF and Israeli residents who endured the atrocities themselves.
The results show the “failure of counter-extremism policy over the years,” according to Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, who spoke with The Telegraph outlet.
“What is probably going wrong is an unwillingness to tackle this kind of extremism for fear of being labeled Islamophobic or racist. There is a reluctance to call it out in the same way that people are very happy to call out far-Right extremists,” Mendoza said.
“The Government needs to find a way of supporting and strengthening the voice of moderate Muslims and drive the extremist narrative to the sidelines.”
MI5 chief Ken McCallum stated in 2020 that “[right-wing terror] threat is not, today, on the same scale as Islamist extremist terrorism… Islamist extremist terrorism by volume remains our largest threat.” Despite this, the government has been accused for years of spending an excessive amount of time and resources focusing on threats “posed by right-wing extremists.”
However, just last month, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared in a speech to the country that the “far right” and Islamic extremists were attempting to destroy British democracy. This came after months of massive pro-Palestinian protests featured genocidal and anti-Semitic rhetoric on the streets of Britain, and after far-left George Galloway won a seat in Parliament on the backs of a campaign specifically focused on Muslims.
“We have recently set out a series of measures, which will promote social cohesion and counter religious hatred. Our plan will tackle division in our communities and ensure that we are protecting our democratic freedoms across the country,” stated a U.K. government spokesman in regards to the poll.
Additionally, according to the survey, 46% of British Muslims and 16% of the general population, respectively, think that Jews have “too much power” over the U.K. government. Of those surveyed, 52% believed that it should be against the law to display an image of the prophet Mohammed, and 32% of British Muslims stated that they would support the imposition of Sharia law.
Previously, a former religious studies teacher from the small West Yorkshire town of Batley was forced to go into hiding with his family as a result of threats from Muslims after he showed his pupils a caricature of Mohammed during a 2021 session on blasphemy. This act prompted protests and he was later suspended, according to the BBC.
“He’s living far away from the Batley area and has been given a new identity. He’s slowly trying to rebuild his life, but it’s not been easy,” according to a family source who spoke to Daily Mail.
benr, Israel as a contrived State doesn’t belong there. Simple. You don’t have to pretzel it up for OG and me.
Right. Over 30,000 dead. Most women and children. Hamas front-liners all. Got it.
Shame on you!
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What? Do you expect British Muslims to believe obvious lies and propaganda?
benr, Israel as a contrived State doesn’t belong there. Simple. You don’t have to pretzel it up for OG and me. -Obvious idiot
Let me get this straight a group of people that have lived in that region for thousands of years does not belong in that region but the group of people that moved into the region less than a hundred years ago does?
Talking about pretzel illogic.
Before Israel there was tumbleweeds and sand nothing existed away from water.
Mark Twain once quipped it was an empty region devoid of life.
A natural skeptic, Twain was not taken by the splendor of the Holy Land. He wrote irreverently about the country’s legendary sites. The Sea of Galilee was, “a solemn, sailless, tintless lake, as unpoetical as any bath-tub on earth.” The Church of the Nativity was “tricked out in the usual tasteless style observable in all the holy places of Palestine.”
Throughout Innocents Abroad, Twain explicitly states that the area was desolate and devoid of inhabitants. His group entered Palestine from the north, passing through such sites as the Sea of Galilee, the Banias, Nazareth, Jenin and Nablus.
Riding on horseback through the Jezreel Valley, Twain observed, “There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent – not for 30 miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride 10 miles, hereabouts, and not see 10 human beings.”
He continues, “Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince… Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land? “Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies.”
Twain was not alone in his poor impression of the land of milk and honey. Historians and travelers alike made similarly dreary observations over the centuries.
Six hundred years before Twain’s visit, another famous visitor with a nom de plume was struck by Jerusalem’s desolation. Rabbi Moses ben Nachman, known as Nachmanides (1194-1270), fled Christian Spain for the Land of Israel. After a long and perilous journey, Nachmanides arrived at the Port of Acre before traveling to Jerusalem in 1267, where he couldn’t even find nine other Jews to pray with. He wrote to his son, “Many are Israel’s forsaken places, and great is the desecration. The more sacred the place, the greater the devastation it has suffered. Jerusalem is the most desolate place of all.”
And yet we are to believe that all these people that just showed up after there was something to actually subsist off of have more right to the area?
Buddy you are living on stolen land then you have ZERO ancestral claim to it.
Better pack up and move back to Europe which was stolen from neanderthals.
Tom Sawyer Abroad was produced at the very outset of the Zionist movement. In just the year preceding when Twain set this exchange to manuscript, William Blackstone produced “Palestine For The Jews” (1891) and what would become the Israeli flag was hoisted at Zion Hall in Boston.
The emergent Zionism in Europe and the US is explored in great detail in Hilton Obenzinger’s American Palestine (Princeton UP, 1999), a book which was inspired by Zionist’s selective appropriation of Twain’s earlier commentary on “the Holy Land” in Innocents Abroad (1869). Obenzinger detailed the origins of this research for the Center For Mark Twain Studies a few years ago.
As Obenzinger describes it, during a debate with Zionists in 1986, “my opponent read passages from The Innocents Abroad of Mark Twain’s impressions of the Holy Land” which allegedly supported the position “that Palestine in the nineteenth century was a barren, backward, underdeveloped country” and Israel brought “a productive people to an empty land.”
Though Obenzinger’s book unpacks and thoroughly debunks this pernicious myth, it remains a common refrain from Zionists. Prime Minister Netanyahu himself has been citing Twain to support this argument since at least 2000, when he mades passages from Innocents Abroad central to his book, A Durable Peace.
That sounds like a refute Directly from stormfront.
ad hominem, attempted dismissal by association
fail
Thanks, justanotherguy.
Nope direct hit pretty sure it amounts to stormfront and is akin to the elder protocols of zion.
dig deeper fool
ttps://marktwainstudies.com/mark-twains-dispatches-from-palestine/
good to know that Princeton University Press is an outlet for stormfront…
(Hilton Obenzinger’s American Palestine (Princeton UP, 1999))
@justanother guy
Quoting leftist Princeton University pushing woke idealogy and then calling me a fool…hahahah you know where you can stick that bullshit.
‘President Eisgruber’s commencement speech was a disgrace,’ one mother said
PRINCETON, N.J. — A large contingent of parents of graduating seniors who sat through Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber’s recent commencement address described it as hypocritical and a “woke sermon” in interviews with The College Fix.
They scoffed at his claim that the Ivy League institution is a bastion of free speech and bristled at his embrace of all kinds of diversity except intellectual diversity.
“President Eisgruber’s commencement speech was a disgrace,” a mother of a graduating senior told The College Fix in an email. “The primary assault on free speech takes place on every campus in this country – including Princeton.”
“It takes the form of blocking and shouting down faculty and invited speakers who dare to stray from the liberal orthodoxy,” she said. “…He chose to use his 2023 commencement address to deliver the rantings of a demagogue.”
Eisgruber told the audience “we must stand up and speak up together for the values of free expression and full inclusivity for people of all identities.”
“There are people who claim, for example, that when colleges and universities endorse the value of diversity and inclusivity or teach about racism and sexism, they are ‘indoctrinating students’ or in some other way endangering free speech,” he said.
Eisgruber also criticized Florida legislation without specifying which bills, suggesting students in Florida are now living in fear. He denounced other newly passed laws across the nation that have reined in illiberalism.
“Some of these bills prohibit discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity. Some prohibit teaching disfavored views about race, racism, and American history. Others seek to undermine the institutional autonomy of colleges and universities or to abolish tenure, thereby enabling politicians to control what professors can teach or publish,” he said.
More than 10 parents who attended the graduation ceremony expressed their disappointment and anger with Eisgruber’s speech in interviews with The College Fix. Most asked to remain anonymous.
“I was taken aback by the audacity of [Eisgruber’s speech] and the disingenuousness of it, even the dishonesty of it. As far as I can tell, no one else in the country has done more to undermine the protections that tenure gives to independent thought and independent scholarly activity than he has,” Christopher Nadon, the father of a graduating Princeton student, told The Fix.
Nadon, a professor at Claremont McKenna College, added that former Princeton Professor Joshua Katz was “stripped of tenure obviously for his political speech.” Katz, a longtime classics professor, was fired last year after he published an op-ed criticizing faculty proposals for anti-racism initiatives at the University and criticized a group of far-left black activists.
Katz had previously faced a fourteen-month investigation for a consensual relationship that occurred over fifteen years ago with a then-undergraduate, for which he had already been disciplined with a one-year suspension without pay. Princeton opened a second investigation after Katz published the op-ed.
“It was so hypocritical to say, ‘Oh, tenure is being threatened, and books are being censored,’ when voices are being censored and opinions are being censored and run off the campus,” Nadon said.
Several parents interviewed by The Fix also compared Eisgruber’s speech to a religious address.
“Eisgruber’s woke sermon was inappropriate for a college commencement and a captive audience that was forced to sit through it,” said a father of two Princeton alumni, one of whom graduated in the class of 2023. “As a father, I felt a great deal of cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, Princeton University has been very welcoming and generous to my child.”
“On the other hand, Eisgruber was indirectly condemning Governor [Ron] DeSantis’ Florida law that is aimed to protect their children from physical and chemical mutilation before they reach age 18 and can make a more informed and rational decision,” he added.
Another parent of a graduating senior told The Fix that Eisgruber’s speech attributed personal political views to the institution, thereby instructing students “what” to think and not “how to think.”
“Eisgruber gave a very biased, sermon-like, condescending commencement speech that was disrespectful of at least half the audience, both in the student population and in the parent population,” a parent said via email. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there are consequences on the donor front.”
Robert Gagnon, the father of a graduating senior and a professor at Houston Christian University, wrote directly to President Eisgruber to express disapproval.
“As a President, you undoubtedly believed that you were exercising your free-speech rights,” he wrote. “Yet in doing so you were trampling on the rights of others to free speech by using your office to make those under your authority feel that what would happen to racists would happen to them if they expressed a dissenting view on ‘LGBTQ’ orthodoxy.”
Gagnon shared his letter to Eisgruber with The Fix.
“You have a greater obligation at Princeton than all others, precisely because you occupy the highest office, to assure people who disagree with you that they are respected and valued, not that they are the moral equivalent of racists,” Gagnon continued. “You expressed no concern that studies have shown that conservative college students already feel like pariahs and are afraid to express their point of view in the classroom for fear of administrative retaliation, including at Princeton.”
A parent of a graduating senior in the humanities similarly criticized Eisgruber for espousing an “orthodoxy.”
“Eisgruber’s commencement remarks were not only disheartening. He delivered a one sided angry polemic from his bully pulpit leaving no doubt about the preferred orthodoxy at Princeton,” the parent wrote. “It begged [the question of] who he was pandering too and why? It certainly didn’t seem [to be] a message intended for the students.”
A recent survey of Princeton students found a majority of self-described “conservative” and nearly half of “moderate” seniors are “very uncomfortable” or “somewhat uncomfortable” sharing their views on campus. By contrast, the survey found that less than five percent of students who identified as “very liberal” reported being “very uncomfortable” or “uncomfortable” sharing political views.
Another recent survey of Princeton students found 76 percent believe it’s acceptable to shout down a speaker.
“President Eisgruber’s speech made good points about equality and freedom of expression but was hypocritical,” said a mother whose graduating daughter was the second child to attend Princeton for an undergraduate degree.
“While he speaks out against censorship in virtuous tones, Mr. Eisgruber’s administration fosters a campus environment where minority viewpoints (conservative, traditional, religious, etc.) are canceled, and those who would express such views are intimidated,” she said.
“Senior survey results indicate Princeton students feel under a gag order. Practice what you preach.”
Another parent, who is a teacher at a Christian school, wrote to The College Fix that “President Eisgruber displayed either a shocking lack of comprehension of his audience by assuming that all the students and parents would be on board with such a left-leaning speech or else he simply did not care about offending his audience.”
“I believe the latter is probably the case. He himself is surrounded by a liberal bubble in which all are convinced that they have the moral high ground and that anyone who does not support their policies is a bigoted danger to society,” the parent continued.
In addition to parents who attended the ceremonies, undergraduates also criticized Eisgruber’s speech.
“Any reasonable person observing Eisgruber’s sermon would conclude that its content has no place in the President’s Commencement address,” rising Princeton senior Matthew Wilson, a College Fix alumnus, wrote in the Daily Princetonian. “It was a grave mistake for Eisgruber to offer such ideological and divisive remarks at Commencement — purportedly under the moralizing banner of inclusivity, but in reality with the express aim of excluding, marginalizing, and suppressing the voices of those who dispute his particular account of social justice.”
Junior Danielle Shapiro wrote in The Princeton Tory, the undergraduate conservative publication, that “Eisgruber’s departing message was misguided for its substantial focus on political activism and its departure from the core purpose of Princeton and universities like it: truth-seeking and the production and dissemination of knowledge.”
Another aspect of the president’s hypocrisy, according to Nadon, played out in more than his main speech.
Nadon also attended the Princeton ROTC commissioning ceremony, where Eisgruber delivered remarks which contrasted what he had said just hours earlier to the entire graduating class and further revealed the president’s hypocrisy, he said.
“As a student of our country’s Constitution, I find myself inspired by a singular fact about this ceremony every time that I participate in it: each of you will make a solemn promise to defend the Constitution of this United States — not our land, not our wealth, not even our people, but our Constitution,” Eisgruber told the newly commissioned officers.
“It shows Eisgruber’s political trimming: he’ll say basically whatever is required by the particular audience,” Nadon told The Fix. “For the president of an institution that has a thirty billion dollar endowment to be complaining about people trying to rein in some of the craziness on campus—through a democratic representative process—is just another element of hypocrisy.”
#######MORE: 76 percent of Princeton students say it’s acceptable to shout down a speaker: survey###################
^^ Gish gallop? ^^
No a direct refutation of his source and the reason why.
A tainted source by reason of leftist Jew hatred.
so you’re an antichristic?
GFYS
and a direct comparison of the institution and a book published there in 1999 and the current work insanity.
what a desperate reach.
i suppose you’re about to cancel that hack einstein who was there just a little earlier?
what a maroon.
Totally wrong..Nixon saved Israel’s bacon in 1973 by shipping military equipment and supplies night and day, even stripping active US military units to supply Israel…Otherwise, Egypt would have won….In 1967, of course, Israel attacked and almost sank the USS Liberty, which was observing Israel’s execution of many prisoners and other war crimes…Lyndon took the Jewish money and did nothing, even forcing the surviving Liberty crew to sign non-disclosure agreements….
I wouldn’t worry too much about the fate of the Palestinians. Most of them will end up in places like my hometown, Windsor, Ontario, taking the entry level jobs that white kids do or collecting generous government welfare checks and driving out what’s left of the middle class white population, and making life miserable for those who can’t afford to flee. I’m talking about white kids being bullied and beat up for no reason other than the colour of their skin and getting away with it while the white kids are forcibly indoctrinated in the latest DEI propaganda. I talked to lots of white folks who’ve fled the city because they’re tired of living next to newcomers who don’t respect Canadian values. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s crackheads and homeless were few and far between. Now they’re everywhere. Downtown Windsor looks like downtown Detroit circa 1985 while downtown Detroit has become a gem. The government of Justina Trudeau doesn’t give a shit about the Canadians who are already here because they’re too busy catering to all the third-world refugees. BTW every year the tomato growers in Essex County are forced to import Mexican labour at great expense while able-bodied white and third-world people collect welfare.
Windsor sounds just like Montreal.
There used to be a little Italy there, now it’s some other MENA hellhole. Downtown is just needles and homeless sleeping/drinking in doorways.
A sad sight in a once beautiful city.
If by this you mean, “request and receive American military boots on the ground and wings in the air fighting directly against Israel’s enemies,” you are right. At least I can’t recall any such occurrences.
Not quite true Heck. Or maybe we have different definitions of “intercede”.
Remember Operation Nickel Grass?
October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked the Sinai and the Golan Heights. On October 9th, Golda Meir requested assistance – which Europe refused, while the US complied. Initially El Al flew in supplies from the US but this was not sufficient.
On the 12th the USAF took over the airlift. We strung out aircraft carriers through the Mediterranean to protect the airborne armada. Over 100 modern F-4 Phantoms were flown over by the 4th TFW, and 33rd TFW to counter the threat of modern Soviet SAMs – which the Israeli Air Force was incapable of defending against. These fighters and their state-of-the-art avionics were key to Israel gaining air superiority and turning the tide of the war.
So yes, in 1973, Israel requested assistance, and the US supplied assistance, in spades.
The US also covered up the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 – if that is not “assistance”, well it’s damn close.
@Blackbird
Really? The 4th TFW from Seymour Johnson flew SEAD missions.
I did not know that. Based on your track record here, I believe you.
Wow! I have a link to the Yom Kippur War. I was in the 4th TFW a few decades later…
I do know that during the Yom Kippur War, the Greek government allowed the US to use bases in Greece to resupply Israel.
But America’s other “ally”, Turkey, refused to allow the US. However, the Turks DID allow the Soviets to overfly Turkey to resupply Syria.
And America thanked the Greeks less than a year later by letting Turkey invade Cyprus.
(Cyprus is Greek, but it was forced to become “independent” by Britain, who possessed the island. The British got it from Turkey in 1878, together with Egypt, as compensation for Britain’s role in diplomatically rolling back Russian gains (at Turkey’s expense) at the Congress of Berlin. Turkey got it from the Venetians, who got it from the Byzantines (aka the Eastern Romans. Cyprus has been Greek since antiquity, at least for the past 2800 years)
The one and only. “Fourth but First”. As far as I know, the 4th didn’t fly missions in Israel, they just delivered their F-4s. But I assume they also gave the new owners instruction on how to use them.
So you were in the 4th? Cool – the greatest group in the history of the USAF, and one of the greatest in the history of air combat. I should have been born 40 years earlier. From the ages of 12 to 18 my dream was to fly with the 4th – nobody else, just the 4th. When were you in?
@Blackbird
Early/mid 1990s. I was not a pilot, FYI. We still had the Cold War when I signed my life away. Perhaps you remember KAL-007?
So as a teen, that was your dream? That is VERY specific–obviously very knowledgeable, for any age, let alone a teen. Most folks don’t know about fighter wings or squadrons.
Well, if that’s what you wanted, I hope you had the chance to be a fighter pilot, or a shot at it. It’s not easy–my roommate, very sharp and smart, didn’t make it.
By some accounts it was LBJ ordering the attacks on the Liberty for a false flag against Egypt or Russia.
Sox, were you with the 4th during Desert Storm?
My fighter pilot dreams were shot down before I got to college.
benr, my current understanding of the USS Liberty episode was that it was a false flag conducted in an attempt to get us to join in on the 6-Day War. I expect that another false flag will get us into a larger middle east war – against Iran.
My current hypothesis is that the coming “cyber attack against banking” (ask the WEF about it) will be blamed on Iran as an excuse for the US to go to war for Israel.
We did however rescue France in 1917, 1944, and in Vietnam in 1954. Nobody seems too bent out of shape over it.
Who’s ‘we’?
“…and in Vietnam in 1954”. Huh? I might go along with France in WW1 and WW2, but Vietnam in the same sentence?
Really? March 13 – May 3 1954, Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
Frenh army gets its ass kicked by Viet Cong guerrillas.
Ike: “Step aside Pierre, we’ll take it from here.”
Adding: … and then proceeded to horribly lose.
…proceeded to lose, and 1.5 million Vietnamese died for nothing.
60,000 Americans died for nothing. xxx,000 Americans were wounded, some of which became mental or physical cripples.
The billions spent on the war helped destabilize the US economy by sowing deficits and inflation.
The fall of Vietnam made absolutely ZERO difference to the lives of middle Americans–or even the blob.
But, “victory was around the corner”. “Communism had to be stopped”.
Vietnam (and the Civil Rights) proved the US government, like all governments, is mostly scum and liars.
That’s why the US was founded as a Republic with a Federal Govt with limited powers. Because the English aristocrats who rebelled and dumped the execrable British Crown knew the classics and wanted a better way of governance.
The loss of public trust has damaged US society to its core. The US has never recovered.
But Americans don’t learn. And we are lazier and more ignorant than our parents, and mass media is more effective on us.
Iraq. Afghanistan. Syria. Libya. The “War on Terror”. COVID. THE Ukraine. Palestine.
We’re doing remarkably well, but our luck is about to run out–any day.
I’m glad it did not run out today. It was a nice day in Michigan, great weather, good day to watch the eclipse of the sun.
Yeah Heck, gotta disagree with ya on Vietnam too.
France got their butts kicked out – we did not rescue them.
Then we got our butts kicked out a generation later.
And regarding WWI, more than rescuing France, I’d say we beat Germany. If we had stayed out – as we should have – the major powers of Europe would (in my opinion) have fought themselves to exhaustion, most likely leading to a more equitable peace. Instead we intervened and set the stage for WWII and the resultant division of the world into Communist and Capitalist blocs.
BOOM
One of my other comments that suggested that Jim invite Norman Finkelstein to one of his next podcasts and where they talk mostly about Israel-Palestine got taken out in the explosion.
XD
We have long known that Jim has a blind spot for Israel. In recent months it has been revealed in its full distasteful depth.
A large majority of the human race, including, I daresay, of this readership, has lost all sympathy for Israel, not because of the weaponized accusation of antisemitism, but because Israel has utterly forfeited the moral high ground – not just in the past six months, but progressively for decades.
I recognize that this post may get me banned from this forum, and regret that fact but, unlike our host here, I am bound by a single standard of decency, and am obliged to see things as they actually are.
It’s actually not just him. There are very few of us who take a conservative position domestically, while taking a hard line against the Israeli government.
On 10/7 the electorate split on the perpendicular axis.
I especially liked JHK’s suggestion that the Gazans should have made Gaza a world class beach resort instead of nurturing grudges against Israel.
Likewise, the blacks in Soweto should have turned their neighborhoods into a vast network of water parks and mini golf courses to capture the tourist trade. Why even address apartheid?!
Well under the new South African government they have turned the country into paradise…if you like raping children, murdering whites, stealing farms that have been in the same family for over 300 years and giving it to blacks who migrated from the north to the south and have zero interest in farming.
They just wanted the land to sell it to someone.
Seems we are facing the same Marxist shit bags that destroyed countries like Venezuela and South Africa.
Many of the Zulus lament about the former government being destroyed.
On average they lose power for 8-16 hours a day and now are running low on fresh water forget about being the breadbasket of Africa that ship sailed as well.
The ruling black politicians of South Africa have certainly met the standards we see throughout that continent – corruption, waste, oppression, and incompetence. But that’s a separate discussion
The message of the Jewish ruling elite to the American people is that the Palestinians are subhuman, evil, and violent. Everyone of them. And this has nothing to do with what the Jews did to them. Oh no, perish the thought!. They’ve always been like that.
The Palestinians refuse to negotiate with their adversaries and preach genocide against the Jews, hence they must all be expelled (if not euthanized) for the greater good of humanity and the ethically advanced Jewish people.
Does that about summarize the talking points, Uncle Abraham?
Works for me.
I would honestly think all you jew hating nazi types would love all of them pesky jews in one small area.
I love the idea of a Jewish state triple the size of Israel and begin the law of return already.
Benr, morality is based on applying the same ethical rules and standards to people across the board. That’s what makes the “woke” ideology so abhorrent.
You believe in a privileged status for the Chosen Race. I believe the same moral rules apply to all of us equally.
Apparently, in your opinion this makes me a jew-hater. I wish I could say that surprises me.
@hmuller
Nope your constant negative comments make me think you’re a Jew hater.
Does every Jew consider themselves superior to goy?
I see many a self-hating jews out there.
With all that said it is not illegal to be a bigot.
I don’t care who you are everyone is a bigot in some form.
Thank you benr for your (almost) gracious comment. Over the years we’ve agreed 98 percent of the time.
And I’m not against the existence of Israel. I went to college there in 1975.
In my years I’ve seen how karma bites people in the ass. The Jews and Palestinians (and other parties) have flung a lot of shit at each other. What they don’t realize is that all the harm one does comes right back in a self-reinforcing cycle.
But perhaps the metaphysical, woo-woo talk is not for this forum
As for the condition of Palestine circa 1870, one reason it was desolate is because the Ottomans taxed trees. Everyone cut down their trees and the land suffered.
Be that as it may. Let’s say you live in a crappy house. Someone forces you out with the comment you’ve got lots of relatives to go live with. They then fix up the house really nice. Are they morally entitled to the keep the house? Just asking.
Yes, we live in world where we must be prepared to fight for our rights. But if we don’t respect the rights of others, what are we?
Here’s an item on point. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas says black Americans should pay no taxes. Can you guess Jasmine’s pigmentation?
At some point we as a nation quit pretending to believe in equality and justice for all. Now it’s about privileges and benefits for “my people”, and fuck your people.
This is not a good mindset.
As for the self hating Jews, is it possible to hate yourself and love others? Maybe you’ve hit on a part of the problem.
I don’t doubt that Nahmanides had a hard time forming a minyan in Jerusalem in the 13th century. But by 1880 there were several thousand Jews in Jerusalem. Mostly, they were retired rabbi’s, some with wives, who came to the holy land to die and be buried
Then around1880 Zionism and Jewish immigration to Palestine kicked off
Paul Johnson (very pro-Zionist) wrote an excellent book “A History if the Jews”. He writes on page 430 that by 1917, “there were between 85,000 and 100,000 Jews living in Palestine, out of a total population of 600,000”. By 1948 it was about 700,000 Jews and about twice that number of Arabs (both Moslem and Christian)
Lemme guess: But somehow, you still think Blacks belong in Western Civilization. Victory (full integration) is just around the corner.
Just as somehow, fatuously (but no more than you), BRH still thinks that America won the Vietnam War.
Just curious, when was the last time you said anything nice to anyone, Jarek.
I know, I know, you’re not in the nice business.
What I said about the mindset, “hurray for my people, fuck your people.”
You’ve got a severe case, Jarek.
What I said about the mindset, “hurray for my people, fuck your people.”
You’ve got a severe case, Jarek.-hmuller
Hahahaha
Thank you benr for your (almost) gracious comment. Over the years we’ve agreed 98 percent of the time. – hmuller
I just get so sick of the one-sided arguments against Israel believe it or not I am not:
Pro-Israel with that said I am not anti-israel either.
Same thing with Russia.
I am anti-China.
I am VERY Anti-palestinian state they have had the chance over and over to create one and have not come to the table in earnest to solve the issue so fuck them.
They want it all and the damn Muslims have conquered almost all of the middle east through demographic shifts and outright dhimmi creation.
I like the fact Israel is a stick in the Muslim eye.
Muller: The answer is a two state solution, is it not?
For both them and us. Get rid of your normalcy bias. Don’t be a status quo junky.
If you went to school there, you are probably Jewish. You are a good Jew not a bad Gentile. But be willing to grant us full rights as you do the Palestinians, ok?
Israel didn’t control Gaza after 2005. It would have been perfectly possible for the Palestinians to put their efforts and resources into turning their prime beaches into places for people to go and fry themselves.
Instead they chose Hamas who put those efforts and resources into trying to destroy Israel. Hence the blockade and multiple wars.
I do wonder if Ariel Sharon wanted to give the Palestinians enough rope to hang themselves by letting them demonstrate what they would do if given land to control. Unfortunately he was proven right.
In my opinion, you see things quite clearly. And, it’s beginning to look like the Israeli population is also seeing the same things. Netanyahu’s days are numbered and a cease fire is in the works.
@shotho
My impression is that 60-70% of the Israeli public supports the current war in Gaza. That is not the SAME as supporting Netanyahu and voting for him–but they support THIS policy (which for the time being may be HIS policy, but reflects the Israeli government consensus).
They support “destroying Hamas” (understandable) and whatever collateral damage that may cause.
My impression ALSO is that the Israeli government is carefully managing the new and images the Israeli public sees.
I get this impression from what I’ve read/seen from Gideon Levy, Miko Peled, who are Israelis.
I bet, like most Americans (though, no offense meant, I think the AVERAGE Israeli is better educated and smarter), most Israelis don’t go far from mainstream news–the radio, TV. Just like Americans.
I think if Israelis took the time to look at images or video or read articles that are beyond the mainstream, some of that 60-70% would reconsider its support.
In any case, when you are unpopular but are running a play that enjoys 60-70%, you’re gonna keep running it.
The US “criticism” is simply a charade to try to avoid losing votes and the election in November.
Schumer and Biden (or Biden’s advisors) KNOW the war is popular in Israel, and putting another Israeli in charge won’t change it.
The only thing that will make the Israelis stop is stopping aid.
In 198x, after the Ariel Sharon, the “Butcher of Beirut” allowed the slaughter of Palestinians in refugee camps, even Reagan was so upset, that Reagan called Israeli PM (and former Irgun terrorist) Begin and told him to stop. A five-minute call. And the killing stopped.
But since the 1980s, the Israeli Lobby has an iron grip.
Perhaps Biden revels in Arab blood, like many Israelis do. Perhaps not. But he knows there is a politcial price to pay if he does not do as the Israeli lobby wants.
They all know it.
So the slaughter will continue. And since there is a God, at some point in time, America will get what it deserves.
The Great Harlot in Revelations. Merchants will weep–who will buy their wares, for she is no more.
Maybe that’s it?
God holds back judgment so that those who will get saved can get saved before the SHTF. Once it does, however, it’s too late. The door closes for redemption, just like when God shut the door to the ark. I know on TV they show Noah shutting the door to the ark, but in actuality, God did that.
@tuco22
Perhaps. I respectfully disagree.
Where I go to church, walls are full of icons of Saints who were killed, several of them tortured and killed.
Among the greatest Saints were Christ’s disciples, were they not?
The only disciple who did not die a violent death was St. John, who wrote the Book of Revelation.
Orthodox Christians don’t, or should not, fear death. They don’t, or should not, embrace death, or seek it out–“let me kill myself, so I can go to heaven”, or “so I can end this predicament I’m in”. No. Suicide is a sin.
However, Orthodox Christians do not, or should not, be afraid of dying.
The reward is eternal life in heaven. The soul is eternal, so the alternative is…..hell.
It’s not easy to be a Christian, in general. Not easy without a lot of faith.
And it’s harder in the USA, IMO. Because “it is harder for a rich man to enter heaven, than it is for a camel to go thru the eye of the needle. BUT, with God, all things are possible”.
And those that don’t “get” SAVED are going to burn in Hell forever. That’s love!
You can’t talk with a fundamentalist. Even when they seem to agree, they don’t really. They’re really and fundamentally wrong about everything.
Can’t wait for Christ to come back and dissolve the Abrahamic religions – all three – completely.
“The reward is eternal life in heaven.”
SocDet,
You are going to have to come up with a better offer than that.
The “church” next door is offering 72 VIRGINS!
Bah. I’d rather have one woman with experience than an all-you-can-eat buffet of virgins. Have you ever had a virgin, ‘field? They’re boring. Well, I guess I was also boring too then. ^u^
” Well, I guess I was also boring too then. ^u^”
Well, perhaps we can be bored together?
I believe I’ve had several…at least they said so, and then they laughed….
Once, in Mexico, I found another…five dollars, and she SWORE on the Lady of Guadalupe that I was her first….
Zaz,
Your comment reminds me of a story.
A young Canadian woman marries a man from the States. She is very proper, demure, would not discuss sex before marriage, and even blushed at the mention of a kiss. On their wedding night, the husband, naked, approached the wife, and, pointing to his manhood, asked her if she knew what it was?
She replied, “That’s a pee pee”
The husband replied “No, dearest, that is a cock”
She then replied, “No! a cock is black and about THIS big (spreading her hands apart)…that’s a pee pee.”
Recently, one of our neighbours was caulking the underside of his entryway, while his woman held the ladder. As I was passing by, I stopped to take a quick look and said, “Nice caulk!”
If God could save everyone, would He do it?
“If God could save everyone, would He do it?”
Druid,
If there was a God, he would not have given me a pee pee…also I would have won the lottery….
Those would cause you to be full of piss and vinegar.
Humor me with an answer.
Well, Jarek, you have the opportunity now to seek God, ask for forgiveness, repent of bad things (such as hating Jews, for example), and follow Him. Otherwise, if you don’t, you’ll face the consequences of your own actions. What, is God supposed to say, “You hate me, mock me, abuse my followers, spend your time talking trash about things you have no interest in understanding, loudly proclaim that you don’t need me or a savior because you’re fine the way you are, so come spend eternity in my kingdom”? Fuck no! The wages — consequences — of sin is death, not a pat on the back and a “good job!”
Piss or Vinegar? “Humor me”
Druid,
Well, I usually find myself full of one or the other…I will respect your judgment as to which it is…..
This short video explains how to tell;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfBXz23uyY
God being that big Zionist in the sky, looking like Karl Marx.
Rabbis are bearded while our preachers are clean shaven. The Rabbis look more like God. Our preachers are eunuchs in comparison.
That’s how the Manx cat lost its tail: The wind (God’s hand) slammed the door on it.
And the Unicorns wouldn’t come in and get left behind. That’s why they died out. Dinosaurs too?
Adam rode a Bronto!
Jarek – God is a farmer. The Lord is growing wheat. His (our) enemy has sown tares among the Lord’s wheat. When the time comes, just like any good farmer, the Lord will separate the wheat from the tares. First, he will put the wheat (harvest (rapture)) up in the barn for safe keeping. Then he will bind the tares into bundles and burn them on a fire.
God DOES NOT love the tares. Psalm 7:11 KJV “God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.”
God instructs us to hate those that hate the lord. Psalms 139:21 KJV “Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?”
The analogy has a limit since we are supposed to convert the tares. But as far as it goes, I think I’m covered.
Correction. It’s not the 80s, I meant to write
“..since the 1990s, the Israeli Lobby has an iron grip”.
I’ve lived in Israel and am here presently. You really don’t know what you’re talking about in the main. It’s armchair quarterbacking without ever having been on the field.
No, it’s the guy in the field who doesn’t know what he’s doing or why he’s dying. The guys in the armchairs do.
In olden days, leaders led their men into the battle, sometimes even fighting themselves. Exceedingly rare now.
I’m delighted to hear that you live in Israel, Abe.
You’ll get yours.
@Jarek
They are too much of a coward to do it now, it’s easier to talk trash and then have other people go die for you while you hide out somewhere making money off the whole thing.
Well then… do enlighten us Uncle Abe!
No, it’s the guy in the field who doesn’t know what he’s doing or why he’s dying. The guys in the armchairs do.
In olden days, leaders led their men into the battle, sometimes even fighting themselves. Exceedingly rare now. -jarek
Are you attempting to say that Benjamin Netanyahu has not fought his enemies face to face?
Leaders who control military actions probably should have worn a uniform in their past to many of them don’t seem to respect the military enough.
Netanhyahu’s brother was killed in the famous raid in Entebbe in 1976.
So, his brother died in a famous raid (I was in elementary school, and even I remember the raid on Entebbe).
The brother Netanyahu and his group actually killed militants, and rescued Israeli hostages. THAT Netanyahu was a hero, literally.
PM Netanyahu publicly said, promised, to “eliminate Hamas and free the hostages”.
Six months later, Netenyahu has killed tens of thousands of civilians (and more are dying every day). Yet Hamas STILL operates (albeit in degraded form), and still holds 130 hostages.
Uncle A – If the country of Israel is “God’s chosen”, as you claim, why do they so readily support the lgbtqia2s+ propaganda? Do you think God is on board with lgbtqia2s+? Just wondering…
Hate the sin not the sinner.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women – Conan the Barbarian
Does one cheer on the people who wish to see you murdered in your sleep or drown in the ocean?
Hamas deserves a quick death and their supporters are no less guilty.
This calls for a serious discussion between our host JHK and George Galloway.
This would be the show of shows!!
You are speaking for yourself not the vast majority of people. The fact that Israel is a nation today proves that the Bible is true and God is real. That is a true miracle.
Ted:
The fact that you made this statement proves that idiots still exist.
I barely had time to purge myself and now I see this stupidity from Zoltar?! So the prophets foretell the expulsion of Israel to the four corners of the world. Check. They also foretell, by the Spirit of God, the eventual restoration to the land of Israel. 2,000 years later, check.
Who has ever heard or seen anything like this?
But you call someone that believes this proof of God’s sovereignty an “idiot”? Your arrogance knows no bounds, Satan. Be gone, devil.
Yes, Satan is man full of himself.
How’s that for reality, all you devils on this blog – there are several if not more of you here.
It’s not America or Russia or China or Israel or Hamas or any of these that are your real problem. You are your real problem. Keep embracing lies and destruction while criticizing and complaining your way through hell. You have loved and chosen it.
Do I hear an “amen”?
Amen.
Uncle Abraham that thing where you bully people into submission, it doesn’t work anymore. It worked, and well, on American boomers, a good portion of them, and you got them on your side for the rest of their lives. But other than them, you are on your own. You made your bed. The world is calling you out on your ways. These are the end times that your magic prophesied, but that’s just a fancy way of saying just desserts.
To be practical about it, it was obviously a recipe for disaster to choose a supposed homeland at the exact middle of a billion sworn enemies.
Elk, “bully people into submission”? Do you think that’s how God works? It’s Him you’re calling a bully.
“With the pure You show Yourself pure, And with the perverse You show Yourself a wrestler” Psalm 18:26
Abe, prophecy is clear: The Jewish messiah is the Antichrist. Most of you are going to get it completely wrong AGAIN. As ever, your arrogance is your undoing.
I agree with Jarek. The Messiah of the Jews is not the same Messiah of the House of Israel.
Too many people equate the Jews as the entirety of the House of Israel. Even if they were direct descendants of father Abraham, they would only be 1/12th of the original house. Jacob had 12 sons and each son had posterity that eventually became 12 tribes (13 if you count Rueben who lost the birthright). Eventually, 10 of the tribes were taken captive by the Assyrians. Overtime the 10 tribes migrated north, became the Schythian people and ultimately migrated north into Germania, Gaul, Britannia and Scandinavia.
All of the prophesies of the restoration of Israel apply to the House of Israel, not the Jews and may play out entirely different than predominant interpretations of scripture.
IMO.
Hey Canker, maybe you should teach checkers first. Get them used to the board, and bring in the chess pieces later.
Uncle Abraham, are you from my neck of the woods, aka Metro-Detroit or Windsor-Essex? What did you think of the celebrations in America’s Jihad Capitol, Dearborn to commemorate Death To America Death To Israel day? All my feelings of solidarity with the Palestinian cause died that day and the following day when thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors angrily blocked traffic in downtown Toronto to celebrate Hamas October 7 attack on Israel. I feel like a complete dupe and idiot for ever believing the Palestinians were the victims and Israel the aggressor. Can i ever be forgiven?
Cank, I think you are conflating the Scythians with the Yamnaya – their ancestors who preceded them by about two millennia.
The Yamnaya were the proto-Indo-Europeans and spread from the Pontic-Caspian steppe throughout Europe (including southern Scandinavia) and west Asia (as far east as the Tarim Basin). They predate the arrival of the Israelites by about two millennia. The language, culture, and genetics of the two groups, Yamnaya and Semites, show no relationship.
The Scythians, for their part, were absorbed by further waves of Iranian steppe warriors, primarily the Sarmatians. I know of no evidence of them spreading beyond the steppes, certainly not as far as Scandinavia which had developed its own iron age culture by the time of the disappearance of the Scythians. But I do suspect – though I have not seen the genetic or literary evidence – that the ancestors of the Scythians contributed to the birth of the Slavs.
Oops – I meant the descendants of the Scythians contributed to the birth of the Slavs.
Everyone on this blog is a Jew. Everyone reading this post has Jewish blood coursing through their veins. Everyone posting on and reading this blog, whether they agree with what the country called Israel is doing right now or not, is a Jew, has Jewish ancestry and is a part of Israel. Prove me wrong…
Bonus round: All of the “Palestinians” are also Jews and have a similar amount of Jewish blood in their veins as well. Prove me wrong…
He’s a Jew, She’s a Jew, I’m a Jew, You’re a Jew, Wouldn’t you like to be a jew too?
But enough about your own ignorance, Zoltar.
It’s not ignorance its willful omission of facts based upon observable reality.
Teddyboy46, the Jews are not all of Israel. Remember that House of Israel consisted of 12, even 13 tribes who were the direct literal descendants of Jacob whose name was changed to Israel.
I grow weary of people assuming that the Jews are the entirety of Israel. They are not. Many Jews aren’t even of the blood of Israel or the tribe of Judah. Some may be, but most are Khazars or descendants thereof.
The Bible is complicated scripture. Much of the prophesies of old are metaphorical gibberish, hard to understand. Israel is much more than the Jews.
A blind spot? Is it just possible that you’re blind, Zoltar? I say you are. I say you have no idea of the actual history or what it’s like on the ground in Israel. I say you’ve never negotiated with practitioners of taqiyya, or have been terrorized. I say you were never attacked for simply living in a place that was once inhabited or shared with other people. I say you’re a self righteous virtue signaler presuming to be morally pure and above our “distasteful” host. Now excuse me while I go puke.
Thank you, Abe.
Your repudiation is the highest affirmation I could hope for here.
Mock while you still can, devil. You’re finished now.
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power drives from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you
I saw that movie, degrowth. Great movie.
Well, I have not lost sympathy for Israel. It has been a country under siege, one way or another, ever since 1948, and way before that, under Roman occupation. Israel exists as a nation, on the land God gave to Abraham, as a reward for his faith and obedience in not only obeying God’s command to leave Ur in Babylon but also to offer Isaac, what we call a shadow and type of Jesus on the cross, as a sacrifice. Of course God didn’t intend for Abraham to actually kill Isaac. He wanted to see how strong his faith was. All of this doesn’t mean that they’re “special” people, it just means that because of Abraham, they’re precious in His sight.
And they have the right to live on their own land just like every other nation on the earth. By the way, the word Palestine was invented by the Romans after the diaspora. They even renamed Israel Palestine on their maps. It’s history.
God gives land to people? Where do I sign up? What’s the phone number?
First you need to be dislocated, losing everything, and become a stranger in a strange land. There you need to be occasionally pogromed and persecuted – for thousands of years, with some successes interspersed throughout the process. Then, when you finally come to your land, you have to fight hostiles that hate you just for being what you were born and build a new nation – infrastructure and all.
Ready for you and your progeny to embark on this journey?
Mac, that number is Joshua 1:4 – “All the land from the desert and the L’vanon to the great river, the Euphrates River – all the land of the Hitti – and on to the Great Sea in the west will be your territory”
The Balfour declaration was the Rockefeller run UN attempt at restoring some of the land to Israel. See, Israel is a people, not a patch of land.
I suggest those who accuse the nation of Israel of genocide get a map of the middle east. Take a colored highlighter and color in the spec of map that is designated Israel. Then take a different highlighter and color in the Arab countries all around Israel. Finally, tell me with a straight face that it is Israel who is committing genocide.
Interesting that Uncle and C.O. use or cite the word “you” or “your” when referencing land, some of which was outright confiscated. The only land I have ever owned I paid for. God doesn’t hold deeds and therefore cannot gift land to anyone.
“First you need to be dislocated, losing everything, and become a stranger in a strange land. There you need to be occasionally pogromed and persecuted – for thousands of years, with some successes interspersed throughout the process. Then, when you finally come to your land, you have to fight hostiles that hate you just for being what you were born and build a new nation – infrastructure and all.“
Without out realizing it, you are describing the Ten Lost [ appolumi ] Tribes [ and the others were welcomed ].
Mac, nothing would exist, from subatomic particles to the universe itself — without God. That means that he can give land to men if he so desires. Not to recognize this means you’re benighted by arrogance.
Well my friends, it’s complicated.
Book have been written on this issue. We’re not going to somehow settle it in back-and-forths here on Jim’s comments to his bi-weekly essays.
Thinking it can be settled in this way is just vanity and egoism.
I couldn’t disagree more….if Jim has a blind spot, you have a total eclipse….
Indeed, Jim appears to be blind to the rampant execution of Doctors, nurses, journalists, aid workers, and children by Israel…All of which are blatant war crimes…
Blatant crimes committed by Hamas. Every drop of blood shed in Gaza is on them and their supporters/enablers, which includes you.
Hamas could have surrendered on day one. Instead they chose to hide behind those they were elected to serve.
Now if Israel really wanted to execute the civilians of Gaza, there would be hundreds of thousands already dead. A small child could figure that out, but grown-up fools know nothing when they think they know it all.
I tend to agree. This wasn’t happening until Hamas attacked innocent Israelis on October 7th.
The USA invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, sovereign nations, because of 9-11. How many Iraqis and Afghanis died as a result of these invasions? I’ve heard in the hundreds of thousands but nobody knows for sure.
Yet when Israel responds to its “9-11” now they are committing genocide. Seems like a double standard too me. Israel should be able to protect itself by all means.
Yes, Uncle Abraham – that is the method of operation for Hamas. Commit unspeakable violence and demand a cease-fire to bring in “negotiators.”
Nothing says the Children of Israel are required to be nice. The Children of Israel from the Old Testament and the God of Israel were brutal.
So, it means not brutal. No reference to polite or pleasant or harmless or meek or just?
The deaths of these people is not deliberate. Such people always die in wars, especially when urban combat is involved.
Hamas started this war with its Al Aqsa Flood, cheered on by Moslems around the world, who are now crying and playing victim as a result of the inevitable massive retaliation by Israel.
I say the Arabs are lucky Israel hasn’t done to them what they’ve been promising to do to Israel for decades. If Israel were less decent, it would have wiped them all off the map long ago.
Have to say I stand with Zoltar on Israel forfeiting its moral high ground. I used to think that the Jews are just a people like any other who just want to get on with life but for some incomprehensible reason have been repeatedly trampled on by others. Well, thanks to analysts like Ron Unz, Paul Craig Roberts and Israel Shahak, my eyes have now been opened to a lot of things about the Jews. Things that are… not so nice.
I don’t want to be too provocative here, so I shall desist from sharing here what the said analysts have revealed to me. Those interested can find out for themselves.
Sometimes I wonder if the world might not actually be a more peaceful place had the three Abrahamic faiths never existed.
Jews are also great imposters. Claiming to be the direct descendants of Judah and comprising the Tribe of Judah. Not so. Most of them are descended from the Khazars of the Ukraine region. If Christians understood the true nature of the House of Israel and the fulfilment of the Abrahamic Covenant through the House of Israel (Christianity), things might be significantly different.
A jew is a jew is a jew…Religion as well as a people.
First the saturday people and then the sunday people.
Exactly, the hardcore Moslems are the enemies of the Yahood and will then come for the other Kuffars when the Yahood are all dead.
The war in the middle east has provided a clear choice for people that illustrates whether they are decent or inherently evil. If you choose the side of a terrorist state over the only democratic state in the ME, and the most oppressed people in history, you are a moral failure.
Isn’t a democracy the one where 51% of the electorate can vote to have the other 49% for lunch?
Can I choose neither?
OH WOW! What a superior being.
BS!
Good Bye Mr. Kunstler.
If ever you pull your head out of your ass with respect to Israel, I might consider patronizing your writing again.
The score is 30,000 to about 1,200
When do you stop beating the horse?
That would appear Jim’s paradox, contradiction and/or hypocrisy; big on analyses at/about home, but woefully inadequate overseas, in particular, Israel, vis-a-vis USA. Eat cake and have it too.
Another misinformed and incalcitrant devil. Have your fill of your fruits, they will correct you.
That all? Want a nappy for that foam in your mouth’s corners?
Go have a word with Norman Finkelstein once you dab that out,
Norman Finkelstein, I thought this was you?
Instead of jumping up and shouting, I am Spartacus! Let us jump up and shout, I am Norman! And then in a whisper, Finkelstein.
I heard that when Russian authorities tried to find out which officer cut off the terrorist’s ear, the entire squad claimed that it was them.
I definite I am Spartacus moment.
@Jarek, sounds like a plan.
A few corrections. Bangor is outside the totality, in the 90% range. (Otherwise I could reach the totality in an hour or so, instead of the 2.5+ hours I’ll have to drive). Iirc, the path through Maine starts around Jackman & runs through downtown Houlton.
For historical context of the war on Gaza, I recommend googling the Balfour Declaration and the Habka.
For current understanding as to why surrounding countries refuse to take in Palestinian refugees, google the map of Greater Israel, which Netanyahu & other senior officials were displaying & referring to in recent Knesset meetings.
For context of Oct 7, google the Oct 2 Israeli attack on Al Aqsa (3rd most holy Islam site). Also consider why Israel ignored warnings from its own military, took hours to respond, moved the Rave just 2 days earlier to adjacent to the border. Also look at aerial views of the Rave & consider how a couple guys on paragliders armed with kalishnikovs could possibly have caused that carnage. Israel’s own air force has admitted they blindly targeted anything that moved. Google the Hannibal directive.
As to motive, look for the video of Jared Kushner going on about the seaside real estate development potential after Gaza has been razed.
Everything you’ve read in the mainstream media is a lie. Everything
Or do you honestly believe they told the covid & jabs lies & suddenly decided to be truthful?
Forget msm, that’s not a reliable source, but actually everything you say is a lie, Mary. There is no such thing as a “habka,” and if you mean “nabka,” that is a tale told by liars and losers.
For a real catastrophe, the Arab nations actually did exile their Jewish populations, stealing their land and property in the process. Israel absorbed this refugee population, unlike the Arab nations that told the
The problem for you, Mary, isn’t telling so many lies, but after being corrected, not doing your homework and reading something other than a jihadist leaning or jihadist owned information source to find out the truth.
Posted prematurely. Continuing paragraph 2:
…unlike the Arab nations that told the Arab inhabitants to flee from their homes as they attacked Israel FOR NO REASON other than they didn’t want the Jews to have a country (one that they built and made a good place for Arabs to live).
Jared Kushner talked about the tragic misuse of funds given to the Gazans, which could have gone to constructive economic development and that such should be the case in the future, if they will have it.
I freely admit that I don’t know what the hell to think about the Israel situation, since I cannot trust ANY of the news, from EITHER side, right now.
But I do remember, years ago (2005, was it?), when Israel EVICTED ITS OWN Jewish citizens from Gaza, in order to give the land to the Palestinians in hopes that it would buy some peace.
Jews in Gaza had built hugely profitable large greenhouse operations, growing all kinds of wonderful things… and they simply GAVE these enterprises to the Palestinians, just outright gave them away. They thought that helping Palestinians to be successful entrepreneurs, hence self-sufficient, would benefit EVERYBODY in the long run….
And instead, the Palestinians smashed and burned all those greenhouses. Utterly destroyed them.
Aa Golda Meir said, there will be peace in that land when the Arabs love their own children more than they hate Jews.
Summarizer
Golda Meir, the former Prime Minister of Israel, once said, “When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.” This quote is from a press conference in London in 1969.0 Meir is widely regarded as a leader and visionary, and has been quoted as saying, “There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”
The first is the real quote. Way too hard for gullible, hero worshiping Christians. The second seems to be fake one edited just for the suckers.
Jared, you totally missed my point.
Those multimillion-dollar agricultural enterprises that the Jews just flat-out GAVE to the Palestinians in Gaza — did not even sell them, just gave them as a gift, to help them be prosperous… and the maniacs spitefully DESTROYED them. No reason other than vile, ugly hatred. No concern to give their own children a chance at a decent life. Tell me how that is anything other than pathological, suicidal evil.
They don’t want anything from a people who hate them and whom they hate. The Jews in contrast were glad to move into Palestinian villages and take over – a pragmatic mindset.
@Heartlander is that like displacing people and/or enclosing/stealing land and then ‘giving’ some of it back? Out of the kindness of their hearts?
For Gaza, there is the not-so-obvious but important historical context of the relative decline of the power of the Islam-Arab World in the 19th century.
This has now changed with the rise and development of a new formation of Islam as a Transnational Force – a military/intellectual power spread our over a large region covering many states.
This region is the ground for assertion, a massive base for coordination, and, if necessary, for the projection of lethal force.
Hey Alf, it seems like you’re miffed because Israel is winning.
Good riddance.
Good riddance, devil.
Your diapers are too loose again today, the shits coming out.
The retort of a devil – just helping out those that don’t know where Satan goes when he’s lost it.
Your halo is your toilet seat.
Your Marxist leaning are showing.
benr, don’t fool yourself in not sharing the bed with someone or more of some other ideology or more.
Besides, there’s disagreement as to what Marxism even is…
“Marxism has developed over time into various branches and schools of thought, As a result, there is no single, definitive Marxist theory.” ~ Wikipedia
Bizzarro world statement and you have been unmasked.
As if you’ve never heard of the term, ‘strange bedfellows’.
Alfred,
You do not understand war. Think of the intentional Allied bombing of German civilians in WW2, all done to hasten the end of the war and minimize Allied causalities. It was considered unfortunate, but necessary.
War is terrible. But the actions of the Israelis against Hamas reflect the fact that a just cause — defeating Hamas — will harm civilians. And you refuse to see the flip side of the coin. Hamas ensures that a maximum of Gazan noncombatants suffer as it makes great press.
You’re being played.
More Germans died after the outbreak of your peace. The massacre of Volga German for example. The hundreds of thousands of German POWs in Eisenhower’s death camps. The systematic starvation of the German population after both World Wars, etc.
Explain how bombing civilians hastens the end of war.
Then explain how Russia is winning in Ukraine, although they do not bomb civilians but the Kiev regime does.
If you think Russia is not killing thousands of Civilians you got some learning to do.
With that said the population centers are night and day.
Ukraine has lots of open country to flee to The Arabs now calling themselves Palestinians have nowhere to go.
They need to bust down that wall between Egypt and GAZA and tell them to flee.
The Russians are being too humane, at their expense.
Why are the lights on in Kiev and Lviv? Why are the trains running?
The Russians should take them out.
The Ukrainians are pretty close to the Russians. They are led by traitors who are willing to (try to) do America’s dirty work.
You’ve got Nazis in Ukraine’s upper echelons–but it’s OK, because they are “our friends”.
Zelensky cancelled the elections. So much for “democracy”.
It’s easy for me to say, as I’m not a Russian soldier putting my life on the line, but I hope the Russians kill more. God bless ’em!
And the Russians are killing Ukrainians who are armed–armed by the US and NATO. The Ukrainians have artillery and drones and planes–unlike the Palestinians.
You’re probably against welfare for poor people–but no problems sending billions to Israel, because the Israeli Lobby owns both parties.
Hell, yes, I am against welfare!
I am not against social safety nets within reason.
I have seen to many people abuse the ever-loving shit out of welfare so they can sit on ass and watch teevee all day.
Welfare should be limited in nature and length.
While on welfare they should be forced to attend some formal schooling to get off welfare and develop a skill.
Not against social safety nets for people not capable of working for a living but I see way too many people standing on street corners begging for change who are also on some form of assistance but offer to help them get a job and they say no way I will lose my benefits.
I work and have a job I have seen people missing body parts working and perfectly healthy people refuse to work because they got in the system and now don’t have to.
Not sure what that Marxist play book you have been reading has done to your brain, but it seems like it burns holes in logic centers.
And then there’s corporate welfare, corporate squatters, corporate inequity, wage slavery, tax slavery, debt bondage and gutted/clusterfucked true communities/family units/traditional cultures, etc..
Remove those and we would have actual welfare, rather than the pocket-change our governpimps hand out that was ultimately stolen from people.
Presumably, benr’s reading the fine-print of the joke for the so-called ‘social contract’.
Naw I really don’t think you have one iota of common sense nor understanding of how the world actually works.
Anarchist don’t believe in welfare every person for themselves.
Big government handouts should be a no go from the start whether to private citizens or other countries to vote the way we want and support the US cause de jour.
Your values you seem to spew all over this website are at times ridiculous and counter to what you post and profess to believe in.
What I meant by ‘welfare’ is in its ‘actual healthy thriving community’ sense. We don’t have the latter. We have a dystopia.
I deal in reality not what could be or should be and your own special meaning to terms is irrelevant and annoying to be honest.
When you say welfare, the reality is a broken system being abused often by people perfectly capable of working and the government spending hundreds of billions a year to keep it afloat.
What’s worse it is working as intended a permanent under class of people dependent on government for their existence who get rabidly angry and defensive over the gubberment check.
They just added another 10-30 million welfare gimmes in the last three years.
In fiscal year 2022, the federal government spent $1.19 trillion on more than 80 different welfare programs. That represents almost 20% of total federal spending and a quarter of tax revenues in 2022 or $9,000 spent per American household.
Yeah $9,000 per household and that is just on welfare!
If you deal in reality, that’s what I’m talking about: The people’s welfare.
Handing out funny-money-as-welfare to people of trashed/gutted lives and communities is a bandage solution.
Wow, that’s a clever rationalization.
You should change your name to Mi Lai.
Here’s an idea. Why don’t we give the Palestinians all of Israel and see how that turns out? Would you expect the churning out of new inventions and ideas, of a peaceful people living freely amongst their neighbors? The civilized world will never take that chance. The Palestinians had their chance to be decent human beings, but they failed, because of their hatred. I agree with JHK on this.
Yeah, nothing says love like: A land without a people for a people without a land.
Btw, they love to say that Whites don’t exist either.
You’re a sucker.
It will be interesting if the Palestinians prevail and 4 million of them (after 70 years of “genocide”) move back onto the land their forefathers left, all 700,000 of them.
I’m sure there will be peace and harmony, as they learn to live on that patch of land together.
There is no such thing as overpopulation, by the way. I have it on good authority from commenters here.
Because…..human ingenuity.
Look up the word Genocide and then tell me how a population grows 4x- 5x in less than forty years.
Ok, how about plain ol’ State-sanctioned large-scale serial murder then?
But hey when the Palestinian state run by Hamas decide they want to murder 1,000 people that’s A OK in your book huh?
There are still Americans being held by these retrograde maniacs.
Israel a functioning state that actually gives something back to the world verses Palestinian welfare terrorist state that exports Jihadis no comparison.
“But hey when the Palestinian state run by Hamas decide they want to murder 1,000 people that’s A OK in your book huh?” ~ benr
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That’s a logical fallacy. Look it up.
Oh no that is a logical reality!
I notice you didn’t bother to say no it’s not ok for Hamas to kidnap, rape, torture and murder people.
Can’t and won’t say it huh!
That should go without saying… except to you apparently.
benr’s Detail Challenges
“Let me get this straight you whine about Israel getting aid but never mention the following:
Israel
$3,308,801,618” ~ benr
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“On a per capita basis, Israel consistently gets more aid than any country.”
~ Socrates-Detroit, April 9, 2024 at 12:06 pm
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“If true, that seems to be yet another case of those pesky details/fine-pints that some people often neglect to factor in.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle
@ezinmn
That’s a good idea! Let’s make it one state, and give everyone one vote, and give them all the right to bear arms. I’m for that.
The rest is BS.
The Israelis had their chance to be decent human beings. They could’ve just stayed in the 1967 borders and left the Palestinians to Jordanians and Egyptians.
But they didn’t. They invaded these areas, and over time, proceeded to slowly take them over and squeeze the natives in the West Bank, take their land, their water (and many of the West Bankers are originally pre-1967 “Israel”.
And they basically cordoned off Gaza and kept it on subsistence diet.
Yes, Israel is so good and great.
Instead of making the Arabs leave, let’s apply that logic and make the Jews leave. The majority of Israeli Jews have been there not even 80 years. There were 5,000 Jews in 1900. So send most of the rest of them back to Germany, Poland, the US, wherever they came from. The Arabs have been there for a lot longer.
Enjoy your bloodbath.
When America financially implodes tomorrow, are you still going to insist that the US give Israel $3 to $15 billion a year?
Let me get this straight you whine about Israel getting aid but never mention the following:
1
Ukraine
$12,432,081,637
2
Israel
$3,308,801,618
3
Ethiopia
$2,190,256,514
4
Afghanistan
$1,389,022,902
5
Yemen
$1,375,803,516
6
Egypt
$1,368,911,286
7
Jordan
$1,188,991,957
8
Nigeria
$1,154,875,460
9
Somalia
$1,137,089,455
10
South Sudan
$1,123,918,275
11
Kenya
$1,028,281,844
12
Congo (Kinshasa)
$907,530,821
13
Sudan
$859,064,945
14
Syria
$826,163,970
15
Uganda
$790,252,008
Odd how you only single out Israel I am beginning to think you just hate them pesky JOOooOOS.
usafacts.org/articles/which-countries-receive-the-most-aid-from-the-us
Twelve billion to murder Russians and pay off the oligarchs of Ukraine?
Wonder how much of a vig is being kicked back to the big guy and his Democrat cronies?
A billion here and a billion there starts adding up to big money.
Not sure why we are giving money to most of the countries on this list other than oil.
@benr
I actually agree with your last paragraph. Well said.
I like your list (I thought Ukraine got $60 billion, or $100 billion total, but whatever, they are the top recipient the past two years).
Israel is among the top recipients, or the top recipient every year, in total dollars.
On a per capita basis, Israel consistently gets more aid than any country.
Those are reasons enough to single out Israel. But getting all that aid and basically destroying Gaza is beyond unacceptable. And it is beyond unacceptable the way the Palestinians are treated in general–since the 1990s.
Gideon Levy of Haaretz blames all that American aid–this is in 2015!
youtube.com/watch?v=DGO3eBxQX7Q
I’ve always thought our financial reckoning is coming–my whole adult life, and before, the debt has been skyrocketing.
1980, crossed $1 trillion. 1997, $5.5%. 2023, $33T.
Bill Bonner says sometime in next four years.
@Neurodoc says it’s coming this summer (Apr 08, 12:05). He makes a plausible argument.
“On a per capita basis, Israel consistently gets more aid than any country.” ~ Socrates-Detroit
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If true, that seems to be yet another case of those pesky details/fine-pints that some people often neglect to factor in.
@benr
Regarding Ukraine, we are BOTH way off.
Try $125 billion.
Don’t take my word for it. Sen JD Vance (R-OH), and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) write the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) that the feel the administration has under counted US “aid” to Ukraine.
Here is the letter. Long and nauseating
If you go to antiwar.dot com, you can find “Biden Administration has undercounted Ukraine by $14 billion”, and you can actually find a copy of the letter Vance and Taylor-Green sent.
antiwar dot com dated April 10, 2024. FYI. If anyone is interested.
Wow, Jim has really fired up the anti-semites today.
They still have the hostages, you ignorant nazi, and they should continue fighting until they’re all back.
They starved at least one to death.
Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way out!
Civilization is an inhuman constraint separating those who deserve from those who earn. Slavery defines this world, relegating maids versus discriminatory slavist room occupiers. As we peer across the Earth we cannot avoid the existential crisis of skin pigmentation being universally inversely related to”intelligence” and wealth,
We must embrace nuclear warfare as the only viable alternative to knowledge, ability, and prosperity that have enabled the infinite torture of hunter gatherers by dress salesmen. Liberate humankind! End the clock and calendar, end transportation, end agriculture. end communication! Be!
“Civilization” has always been a system of slavery. Is this the best we can do? Is it time for an atomic reboot?
“separating those who deserve from those who earn”
Do you think you are not getting what you deserve even though you earn nothing? Perhaps you ARE getting what you deserve which is nothing.
Oh boy! I detect the unpleasant aroma of Marxism Uncle.
Unk admits Whites are smarter but then slyly put intelligence in quotes.
It’s nihilism. Dadaism. Down with intelligence! was their motto.
My first instinct was to call this Uncle.AI post ridiculous. “separating those who deserve from those who earn”. “Nuclear warfare as an alternative to knowledge, ability and prosperity”. Hunter gatherers tortured by dress salesmen. End the clock and etc, yadda, yadda. Now I’ll call it what it is. Insanity, utter stupidity. I really don’t know what to make of it. Maybe ridiculous does fit.
. . . . . “the cosmos runs things . . . .” And who runs the cosmos?
The cosmos runs the cosmos.
We’re lucky to have such a smart cosmos.
It is what it is.
Spoken with concise scientific materialism.
There is no God, there is no Spirit, it’s all matter.
It’s possible that you and your kin are right.
I’ve looked at both sides, and like Pascal, decided to choose God.
This path leads to a better lived life than believing ‘it’s all meaningless’.
Just my two prutahs.
God had a word with me and told me that ‘God’ is the anthropomorphization of the cosmos.
(shrug)
…Like those children’s cartoons with the talking and smiling animals or SpongeBob SquarePants. A happy-go-lucky sponge.
And ‘GodBob SquarePants’, so to speak, told me, rather unlike how Barbara Streisand sang that her heart belonged to her, that Israel as a State contrivance is really for no one in particular, including the so-called Jews, including the ones who eat pork, like JHK, if we are to believe him.
Of course, we got on the time-phone with cooksonia, the world’s first land plant, and asked them if they were down with the Israel thing. They said, well what do we care, we’ve long split, and that I had to understand that Israel was not even in the place it was during their rein, what with continental drift and plate tectonics and stuff like that. It might have even been under water.
They asked me what the hell a Jew was anyway and I said, dunno, but it appears like maybe some kind of proto-antique-woke identity fusion thing with a religion, if not a furry, say, and we all have to accept it or else we will be fined or damned or bombed or something. Like the Palestinians I guess.
When you start using irrationality to rationalize your place on the planet, you’ve already lost, if not the war, then your mind.
My Heart [if not Israel] Belongs To Me
youtu.be/buynV7phNbM?feature=shared
Who wound the clock? It is running down in any case. What then? Nothing? Doubt it.
The clock was always wound.
How would something finite know this?
We’re not finite. We are open systems.
So, we are really discussing the accuracy of our various revelations.
It’s turtles all the way down, and we live atop that stack of turtles.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Looks like a mutiny among the sycophants…..
Seasickness
by Sleepy Town Manufacture
youtu.be/1lVWcJGgh-4?si=q3l9AoKJ2vTry2KI
“The men are talking below deck, sir…
They’re talking mutiny…”
Gotta ask….why this link? 73 views in 9 years. Guessing you are playing keyboards for Sleepy Town….ami right, ami right!!!!
Pirates & Privateers
No. I just had that one before spilling raspberry juice on one of my previous laptops.
Sleepy Town Manufacture might be out of Russia.
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balding generation (losing hair as we lose Hope)
by port-royal
youtu.be/tpxUHmd5fj0?feature=shared
Yet another tune where the navigator is kind of compromised. You might also notice the girl with the cell who snaps the battle without actually looking at it. So, through the screen. ‘Screenerism’. Through, in other cases, what and how media channels frame things.
Port Royal was also some place in the Caribbean with a curious history and speaking of ships…
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“Port Royal was once home to privateers who were encouraged to attack Spanish vessels, at a time when smaller European nations were reluctant to attack Spain directly. As a port city, it was notorious for its gaudy displays of wealth and loose morals. It was a popular homeport for the English- and Dutch-sponsored privateers to spend their treasure during the 17th century. When those governments abandoned the practice of issuing letters of marque to privateers against the Spanish treasure fleets and possessions in the later 16th century, many of the crews turned pirate. They continued to use the city as their main base during the 17th century. Pirates from around the world congregated at Port Royal, coming from waters as far away as Madagascar.” ~ Wikipedia
‘Mr. Parker, we have a mutiny on our hands…I shall speak to the men”.
‘All hands aft, if you please, Mr. Parker’, he said.
‘Men’, said Jack, ‘I know damned well what’s going on. I know damned well what’s going on; and I won’t have it. What simple fellows you are, to listen to a parcel of makee-clever sea lawyers and politicians, glib, quick-talking coves. Some of you have put your necks into the noose. I say your necks in the noose…Damned fools to listen to such talk’. – Post Captain, page 364-365 [Norton PB edition].
Cool
Psycho-Pants would be a cool nick.
Sponge Bob Psycho-Pants
Even better.
One week ago Kunstler told us, and I quote, “What I am predicting,” he said, “is a massive, massive tsunami” of illness and death among highly-vaccinated populations”. Hospitals would be overflooded and shut down, mass death everywhere. That hasn’t happened, of course. Perhaps by next week? The Chicken Little says the sky is falling stuff is really getting old. . .
Dilbert — No, that’s what Geert Vanden Bossche preedicted. I was quoting him. — JHK Admin
Oh, the sky is falling, make no mistake, but it is falling by one continuing resolution to the next. Slowly, deliberately, almost un-detected by the American masses.
I have long given up on the massive tsunami theories.
Hurriyet.com (the biggest Turkish newspaper, like a Turkish version of the NY Daily News (for those familiar with NYC), not necessarily a journalistic powerhouse, in a country without a totally free press) ran a story a few days ago about the “Big increase in cancers lately”. I found that interesting.
Besides JHK, others have taken note of the Dr. Vanden Bossche. We will see.
On You tube the comments are interesting at some pages.
People mentioning ‘sudden deaths’ of friends and relatives.
A lot of myocarditis [whatever that is].
My two siblings who got the “vax” (I didn’t), have now both gotten myocarditis.
Coincidence, undoubtedly.
I do not dispute that the vax causes myocarditis, and is killing some folks. I didn’t get it, neither did anyone in my family. That said, going from “it’s a dangerous vaccine that doesn’t work” to pretending that there is about to be”a massive, massive tsunami” of illness and death among highly-vaccinated populations” is ludicrous. Kunstler breathlessly prophesied that, telling the readers that “This Is Not an April Fool’s Gag” and quoting “I’m sorry for the harsh message, but somebody needs to tell the truth,” virologist Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche. Well a week later none of what was promised has happened, it absolutely does look like an April Fool’s joke. None of the ominous predictions appear to even vaguely resemble “the truth.” One of the reasons most people don’t take sites like this seriously is the endless Chicken Little promises that never actually happen.
@dilbert — it doesn’t work! Or not very well!
People I know got moderately sick–COVID positive.
We are not getting the impartial truth–so absent that, yes, the naysayers are probably onto something.
When a US Senator (Ron Johnson) holds a hearing with the vaccine-injured in Nov 2021, and we hear FOUR hours of testimony from, IDK, 8 to 12 people, who have all kinds of issues, or lost relatives, and who CDC, FDA, Pfizer pretend to not exist, and there is not a SINGLE mainstream news outlet–not even Biden-opponent Fox, what does one believe?
Do you know why big pharma runs those TV ads with all their helpful drugs?
Not to get you and me to tell our doctor, “gee Dr. Smith, Ozempic or Lipitor sounds right for me, what do you think?”
No. NO! The huge advertising budget is to buy the silence of the news media. It’s part of the cost of doing business.
Well, the Deagle report does predict a population of 100 million by 2025 in the US. That’s out of the current 300+ million. How do you think they’ll achieve that?
It’s absurdity engineered to discredit the reality of their carefully engineered slow genocide.
So, if something doesn’t happen within one week of its prediction, it won’t happen…
Please. It won’t happen next week, or the week after, and you know this. It’s fearmongering, scary stories about disasters which are about to happen, no fooling. . .that never happen, of course.
It looks like James hinself has now descended into a Zionist – yank cluster fuck himself.
After following his poignant verbage for years and reading the books I draw the line at this.
I am no war mongering jew or yank.
Slava Russiya!
I find his candor refreshing compared to ignoring it.
Disagreeable, but refreshing. I’ve disagreed with it already.
I also like Russia, BTW. Russia is LITERALLY fighting the Blob, which at its core, is Zionist.
That said, I don’t agree with insulting our host. And by doing so, you don’t help the cause of truth, which you seem to support.
Please use facts to make your point, my friend. Thank you.
It’s true. Our foreign policy is controlled by the dual citizens with a singular interest.
“Stop meddling in every flashpoint across the planet. Look to yourself and your own monstrous problems: your jive-tragic government, your fake economy, your breached borders, your sick-and-depressed population, your racketeering corporations, your broken banks, your buggered election methods, your faithless news media, your political mental illness. ”
I would love to see this happen. I am exhausted with America’s empire building in shit hole countries that hate us while the homeland crumbles from years of decay and neglect.
Nobody gives a damn.
Flint Michigan doesn’t have safe drinking water, and we spend money on weapons to kill people we don’t even know, in places we have never been and never will be.
Flint, Michigan, is just another Democrat-run sh!thole. They did it to themselves. They are so in over their heads on pension obligations they don’t have enough money remaining to run the town. Exhibit A for “Things that can’t continue, won’t”.
All caused by government.
So instead of going abroad to break more stuff, try fixing the broken stuff here.
Lindsey and Mitch say we are getting a bargain because we build the weapons that foreigners are using to kill each other.
How about building something to replace something vital, where the replacement will las 100 years instead of hours or days like a tank often does?
It isn’t just Flint. It’s anywhere the plumbing is antique.
“So instead of going abroad to break more stuff, try fixing the broken stuff here.” ~ Beryl of Oyl
Amen Beryl – love it!
Flint’s problems are caused by gross fiscal mismanagement, but that is municipal government malfeasance rather than the feds. Flint MI is powerless to do anything on the world stage. Flint is so busy giving free money away that now they don’t have enough to safely run their town, and as things deteriorate there, more and more of their tax base moves away. This is happening all over the US, but it’s not a federal problem. You can certainly make the case that government needs to get its fingers out of 95% of the things that it is into, though.
TG, I know Flint is mismanaged at the local level.
I also know communities all over America are facing problems with crumbling water systems.
Some of these places just got poorer as people moved away from them.
So, why not MAKE it a federal program?
Would that be so terrible? The United States of America with uniformly safe and abundant drinking water? First world standards?
Just cut the budgets of virtually all other federal programs.
This one is rather fundamental.
They charge us tell dollars per bolt on navy ships. What a great relationship – for them.
Beryl – good idea. The Federal Government is constitutionally tasked with:
1) Providing for the national defense of the country
2) Minting of the currency
No more, no less.
Let’s add 3) Safe and abundant drinking water and call it a day. Disband every other thing the Federal Government is involved in. UBI will work out perfect for all newly unemployed. How’s that for a plan?
Ron – And isn’t it comforting that they do neither of the original two anymore either…
Water…eh, we’ve still got plenty of Brawndo at Walmart. ‘Sgot ‘lectrolytes, at least.
Actually, they did fix Flint’s water, a while back.
And they didn’t do it to themselves, it was one of those decrees from the top that Americans are so often subjected to.
All the other contaminated water sources in the US, however, remain unfixed.
Flint was financially strapped. They tried to save some money (a few million–about $50 per resident) and diverted from drawing water from the Detroit Water System to using the Flint River.
That is the ROOT CAUSE of the issue.
Apparently, the ramifications of this were not fully thought out, and the impact on the pipes caused the tragic leeching of lead and contamination.
I used to know Flint fairly well. It was nothing great by the 1990s. I lived nearby, I worked there. I remember people of my parents’ generation, immigrants to the US, telling me “what a wonderful place Flint was, the downtown, the SHOPPING”.
The city had been in decline for 2-3 decades at this point. Lots of issues. And municipal finance is a big challenge.
When people of questionable ability (but the correct demographic) simply put two alternatives on paper and say “B will save us $3 or $7 million a year” , or about $50 per person, which was probably one month of cellphone bill in 201x, when things are that tight, this is what happens.
When one has no money, and is incompetent, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS. In government, or personal life.
America is over $30 trillion in debt–that’s about $100,000 thousand per person. What’s gonna happen? Where will that come from? Do you CFNer have $100k for everyone in your household?
The average household income is what, $60k. How will the debt be brought to a manageable level–like $30k to $60k per household?
Soc., is the any truth to the claim that the esteemed residents of Flint never bothered to pay their water bills? In Chicago water bills weren’t being paid, and the system was deep in arrears. Mayor Beetlejuice solved the problem with a stroke of genius: All water service from here on in is free. The City of Chicago picks up the tab.
I thought that the state appointed an emergency city manager and he made that decision. I could be wrong.
Yeah, I remember driving my dad past East St. Louis, and he told me it was a Look (or Life) magazine Best City In the US, back in the 50s.
It looks like a nuclear bomb hit it now.
@BackRowHeckler
I can’t answer.
Perhaps you are confusing some residents of Detroit with the residents of Flint?
I do KNOW there was an issue, for quite some time, that some Detroit residents were NOT paying their water bill. Eventually the Detroit water authority (got whatever legal paper they needed, and) got them to pay, or cut off their water. Their was some commotion of the cutting off of water as “inhumane”.
Make what you will. I think the water authority was more than patient.
@Paula What you’re saying sounds correct–I don’t really know.
My memory is hazy, the water crisis did not affect me or my family.
But what stay with me was the figure (I think) of $7 million. THAT was the “cost avoidance” by going from water treated and delivered by the reliable Detroit water company to changing to the Flint River….
Setting aside the visual of the Flint River, $7 million for a city of 100-140,000, or $50 to $70 per year per resident is what stayed with me.
When you are that broke that you fiddle with your most important utility because it seems a less bad choice; when you save a few nickels and dimes, and incur a real risk of many dollars COST, not to mention the human cost of sickness and suffering. In this case, the risk came true, and in the end, the bill to the state, the Feds, and society was much higher than the $7 million “saved”.
I might be off.
One of my coworkers drove through Flint just to get a bottle of water from the tap.
It was nasty and smelled worse than it looked.
The water in San Diego is nasty as well.
Out of the tap using my water tester it reads 458 ppm and my zero water filter lasts less than two weeks.
Norfolk Virgina I just tested their tap water and they were at 86 ppm and I was blown away I figured their water would be full of salt.
I suspect if I had tested that Flint water it would have been thousands of particles per million.
ZeroWater TDSmeter-20 ZT-2 Electronic Water Tester, hand held, Blue
*ppm = particles per million
TDS Level Chart for Drinking Water
TDS in Water (measured in PPM) Suitability for Drinking Water
150-250 Good
250-300 Fair
300-500 Poor, not good for drinking
Above 1200 Unacceptable
The national debt is probably the biggest Bullshit lie the .gov has gotten the electorate to believe. The national debt is %100 the money paid to the international bankers to print our money for us. The treasury is supposed to print our money. We don’t need to fed. The federal reserve is about as federal as federal express…
Michael Moore for Mayor! He lied about coming from there so he should be forced to live there and drink the water.
Ah, didn’t someone from the Biden junta say Flint’s water problem is due to white people? I thought someone said it was racism.
Well forcing black people to pay bills, rent, electric, water, work, insurance is all racism.
Agreed 100 percent. The USA has money for everyone, giving countries like Egypt billions, arming Ukraine, protecting South Korea, and so on, but when it comes to maintaining our own power grid, bridges, roads, tunnels and infrastructure generally, we don’t appear to have nearly enough money to do that. It is a sad and absurd state of affairs. I remember W. Bush braying about how proud he was that the US was building roads/schools/hospitals in Iraq. . .and the outcry from US citizens asking why aren’t we building those things here, to help our own citizens/businesses/communities.
That was one of the things that attracted me to candidate Trump, back when he was just a blowhard.
He questioned why he would go someplace in the Middle East and see beautiful modern airports and here they would be run down.
I had been questioning that myself. The standard answer would be “no money”, but then you would look at the taxes being paid and the amount of government spending, and know that “no money” wasn’t the answer.
That’s also one of the (many) things that turned me off about “conservative” radio.
I heard Rush Limbaugh one day talking about how women differed from men in that we though more of our budget should be going for schools and things that made Americans’ lives better.
He said it as if it was an odd and uninformed point of view.
Valid points all, BO. But I’ll ask a simply question: When you think “virtue signaling” which gender do you picture?
I don’t picture genders.
QED
The schools are just an employment agency for liberal women. They make our lives worse in every way.
Actually, most of the hoi polloi don’t know about that and neither do they care. They don’t care about a lot of things nationally, generally speaking, unless they’re directed politically to care about a specific thing, a specific issue that gets them frothing at the mouth, like abortion. And as long as Secretary Pete’s up there extolling the virtues of the Biden bipartisan infrastructure bill, that’s all they care to know.
Abortion matters, if for no other reason than that a society that kills its own children will not survive.
Bingo!
Jews versus Gentiles works even better than black versus white or male versus female at getting people fighting.
Here’s feminine “wisdom”! There are no real conflicts!
Everything you have is the result of White Men winning their conflict over who control North America.
What absolute ingrates American women are.
Jarek what has it got to do with wisdom, or femininity?
It’s a fact, every time Mr. Kunstler posts something on the topic of Israel there is absolute uproar.
Too many words with multiple definitions will do that.
Everything is connected to everything else. As Bilbo said, A road (even a road of thought) is a dangerous thing.
Great opening quote! Putin is brilliant!
I’ll set aside JHK’s standard American/Israeli Lobby boilerplate about how the Palestinians could have done so much more to alleviate their plight, if only they had behaved like “good negroes”, and how bad they are, though I do appreciate the veiled candor–“I doubt the Israelis want to kill them, they would like to export them”. Killing them is just a motivational tool, that’s all people! They can always leave!
And I’ll set aside the fact that US foisted a dictator on the Iranians every bit as brutal as Saddam in practice (but the Shah was “America’s boy”–at least until the late 1960s–and had a penchant for fine European women and cars. He also started, in 1971, the Iranian nuclear program that many of you are so concerned about. I am not), and thus must now reap four decades of Iranian enmity.
Elsewhere in the blogosphere, along the line of “cycles”, one Bill Bonner, who like JHK is usually an very astute observer of events and teller of unpleasant truths, has a very interesting e-mail today.
He writes that when “debt” reaches 130% of GDP, that’s the point at which finances become unmanageable, the point of no return. And he (or any of us for that matter) predict the US will cross that threshold in the next four years.
Bonner also reports that David Stockman writes:
“During the quarter-century between Q4 1997 and Q1 2022 the public debt soared from $5.5 trillion to $30.4 trillion or by?453%.
As it happened, Uncle Sam’s interest expense only increased by 73%, rising from $368 billion to $635 billion?per year during the same period.? By contrast, had interest rates remained at the not unreasonable levels posted in late 1997, the interest expense level by Q1 2022, when the Fed finally awakened to the inflationary monster it had fostered, would have been?$2.03 trillion?per annum.
Annualized Federal interest expense was fully?$1.3 trillion lower?than would have been the case at the yield curve in place in Q4 1997.”
My eye caught that the debt rose over FIVE-fold in 25 years, from 1997. Because I remember when the debt crossed $1 trillion.
I remember candidate Ronnie railing against how Carter had pushed the debt to one trillion dollars. I know a lot of you LOVE Ron, but between him and the Democrats (it takes a President AND a Congress), the debt doubled before he left the White House. And from 1980 to 1997, increased 5.5 times.
Ironically, young David Stockman, was Reagan’s Budget Director early on…. but I digress.d
We’ve enjoyed outsize debt at very low, DISTORTED, interest rates from 2010 to about now. And they are still on the low side. Will they stay low with 18% inflation? (Bonner has written that if inflation was measured today as it was during the Carter/Reagan era, it’s 18%).
But it’s good to see JHK acknowledge that some people are concerned about an escalation (outside of genocide in Gaza, and the attack in the occupied West Bank).
JHK seems to dismiss the Iranians ability to cause mischief. I would ask, what happens if Zionist entity, so beloved by our host and many of you (and even myself once upon a time) nukes Iran. How does that play out? Or worse, if as Seymour Hersh wrote in the 1970s, Israel attempts and succeeds in hitting Russia with a nuke(s).
(Why is Jonathan Pollard considered by to have been the most damaging spy in US history? Best I know, he didn’t give or sell info to Russia. It was to Israel.
Those Americans who put Israel first should be pleased to know that today Pollard is living, free, in Israel.)
I don’t really know. But I don’t think it well turn out well for Americans–even for prepped CFNers. An event like that might be a tidal wave on top of all the other bad currents JHK has noted over the decades.
Enjoy the eclipse! Perhaps it’s a metaphoric prophetic sign.
Correction– “Iranians ability to cause mischief”.
That should read
“Iranian reactions to Israeli or US attacks or provocations that lead to potential escalation or a wider war”.
If you’re implying that my position is “Israel First” then you do not read with comprehension.
It’s true that Israel is the only country in the world that has to continually justify its own right to simply exist. Nobody demands this of any other country.
Years ago, I read a book by Yaakov Lozowick titled “Right to Exist.” It was well-written, and presented a lot of history most folks don’t know.
The only point I really remember, all these years later, is Lozowick’s discussion of the moral spectrum. There is no purely good person or country, nor any purey evil person or country, but everyone is located at different points along a moral SPECTRUM. With absolute evil on one end and absolute good at the other, we can all — including countries — be located somewhere on the continuum. Therefore, some people, and some countries, can actually be judged as being OBJECTIVELY BETTER than others.
Israel, like every other country, must be careful to stay on the good side of the spectrum. The question now is whether it is in fact doing so. Since I don’t trust the veracity of any news source now on this issue, I honestly can’t offer an opinion. But I hope that Israel is examining its conscience daily.
I’ve listened to Israeli Defense spokesperson Jonathan Conricus describe the great lengths Israel goes to minimize civilian casualties, unlike the Palestinians who use their own people as human shields within schools and hospitals. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, or an intellectual, to see what side of the good/evil spectrum each side lies on.
They’ve outschmarted themselves. They foisted Muslims on Western Europe. Poor boys always join the army, right? So say, the French army will be majority Muslim long before the nation is. And it’s an army with nuclear weapons. As is Germany’s and England’s.
You do not apply to the same standard to the Middle East that you do to other hot topics.
I don’t know whether your position is “Israel first”. Your writing seems to imply that, because your writing is explicitly “Israeli/Likud/Neocon point of view only”.
“…It is a brutal operation in Gaza, for sure, but so was the Hamas act-of-war on October 7 that many want to forget about now. They still hold and torture hostages, you know.”
Let’s deconstruct that.
Hamas act-of-war. Yes. Absolutely. (The war started before Oct 07). Brutal. Yes.
I’ve seen various reports, from credible sources saying about half of the 1200 killed were uniformed IDF or police. So they are occupiers and legitimate targets in a war, not unarmed women and children.
You say Hamas “tortures hostages”. Do you have proof? Many of the sensational Israeli claims have been debunked. Your peers, Larry Johnson (of the CIA) or Max Blumenthal of thegrazone, have written the facts the mainstream media prefer to be kept out of view.
Israel tortures prisoners. Not just after Oct 07, but before. That’s a fact.
Hamas has every motivation to keep the Israeli hostages alive, so they can exchange them for Palestinian hostages (prisoners). The old lady Israeli hostage I saw released was angry, naturally, but she said to the TV cameras, “we ate what they ate, they gave us meds, and had a doctor look at us”. Another hostage, Yasmin Porat, said they were not abused, and that she was lucky to be alive—because the IDF killed the other hostages in their zeal to kill to Hamas fighters.
When Israeli soldiers or police arbitrarily arrest Palestinians and imprison them, isn’t that hostage taking?
Don’t Israelis shoot Palestinians in the West Bank, pretty much at will? Not just soldiers and police, but even “settlers”? That’s murder.
Can Palestinians travel from one town to the next without going through checkpoints? No.
And you totally ignore the root cause of all this, which is the continuing displacement of Palestinians for the insatiable Israelis. In short, the native people of Palestine had to pay for the sins of the Germans.
I don’t know, maybe if the Israelis had stopped displacing the Palestinians in 1948, perhaps things might be better. Or maybe if they had acted in good faith after 1967 and not colonized the West Bank or put Gaza on a “starvation diet”
I will just touch on some Israeli crimes against America, like the spy Jonathan Pollard (convicted, sentence to life—he’s free in Israel! He’s a hero there), or the murder of 32 US sailor on the Liberty in 1967, or even the murder of an ordinary American Jew, Rachel Corrie, in Gaza. I’ve never seen any of that in your columns, just the theme that Israel will deal with these pesky Palestinians.
When it comes to Palestine, there is a big blind spot at Kunstler.com
Prove me wrong about the blind spot. Call your peer, a professional reporter and writer, Max Blumenthal and do a podcast with him.
Soc-Det – see the Chapwood Index for confirmation of real inflation. No adjustments, no substitutions, no BS. Simple, not rocket surgery.
the mixed metaphor is at least concise…
Interesting you bring up Iran.
I just got back from a Norfolk trip and both my Uber drivers going and coming back were Persian a distinction they made and got pretty hot about when I said “so Iranian.”
Unlike most Americans I am not actually anti-Iran I just hate their Islamis theocracy form of government.
The funny part is both of these Persians got angry enough to say screw their five star rating and tip when I said “so Iranian.”
One of them went on for almost twenty minutes about just how horrible living in Iran is for anyone not Shite.
He was Zoroastrian and left under pain of death with his entire family.
I actually was tempted to give him my cell number so I could take him out for coffee and discuss this subject at greater depth.
The other guy got sullen and refused to discuss it beyond just saying no Persian.
Both reminded me of the Cubans I ran into in Florida that would get really angry about Castro and Commie Cuba.
They would then go on epic rants about how bad Cuba is and then say they missed their home country because.
Lots of two way propaganda about Iran and most of it is lies from either side Iran is something more horrible than Iran would like people to know and something different then the US would like people to know.
The state of Iran joined the IMF on 29 December 1945. There have been two occasions during which Iran used IMF funding. In other words they are not controlled and beholden to IMF funding.
After the obvious and intentional Kung Flu Hustle and the ensuing ‘vaccinations’, why give a half-crap about what happens in other countries?
The oligarchs didnt care what race you were and their injections have already become the 2nd biggest cause of deaths in recent history.
We have real problems, as the author states, and should not have time or concerns for someone’s strip.
If Americans are having a hard time figuring out current events, may I suggest, as a culprit, their stubborn refusal to drop, discard, throw away discredited “history”. For instance, how many people still believe Ukraine was ever a “democracy”? The current regime has canceled elections (kinda important in “democracies”, huh?) &, in fact, never even appeared on the ballot in Crimea or the Eastern breakaway republics. Then “Z” ran on a dishonest platform (the Minsk accords) that he knew his fascist handlers would never allow.Yet we hear calls for “defending U’s democracy”! Like cars stalled on a snow-swept freeway that block all efforts to clear the lanes, media LIES get in the way of clear thinking (&never seem to die)! JHK references Hamas’ (alleged)”rapes”. Anyone else notice that, after 6 months, Israel has not offered the name of ONE VICTIM? Yet we know Israel has LIED constantly, from “20 beheaded babies”, disemboweled pregnant women (names?), constant excuses for attacks on hospitals & ambulances…always with “unverifiable” accusations. Or the silly obsession with Oct 7 (“an act of war”!) as though the last 75 years of brutality and land theft never happened…and, besides, if Oct 7 justified this overt genocide, then any ONE of the 6 armed assaults on Gaza since 2009 (esp. “Operation Cast Lead”, same death count but ALL civilians) would be payback….by the same “logic”. But, like the guy w/the snowplow, I have to constantly swerve around abandoned vehicles that no longer function. About time for honesty!
Not taking any sides in the conflict, or claiming anything about the victims one way or another, it has been six months and still no official explanation of how this was allowed to occur.
Six whole months is sufficient, in a country of that size, to pinpoint the failures.
Are we supposed to believe the government didn’t already investigate this, that they didn’t care?
In a nation as security-conscious as Israel?
This reminds me of Mandalay Bay in some aspects, except they at least bothered to come up with a bogus story with holes in it big enough to drive a Mack truck through, in that case.
@Beryl
Inside Israel, many Israelis (not just the relatives of the casualties of the Hamas Oct 07 attack) are asking
“how could this happen?”
“why were signs of an attack ignored?”
“WHY was wall/border security lightened up?”
You don’t need PhD to figure it out. Netanyahu has already told us:
“This is our 9/11, our PEARL HARBOR”.
We now know the highest level’s of FDR’s government knew PH was coming, and let it happen, in order for FDR to change public opinion and join WW2. 9/11 was used to take away more of our freedoms.
“We are gonna PERMANENTLY remake the Middle East”.
That’s code for get rid of the Palestinians once and for all.
It’s not hard to understand. If you love Israel, it may be hard to accept, because ultimately the AMERICAN PEOPLE are going to pay for this. YOU are going to pay for Israel’s sins, sins enabled by, and made in, the USA, by YOUR government (which has the veneer of a republic, but is really at this point a racket controlled by the blob).
It isn’t just the “surprise” nature of the attack, it’s the fact that it went on so long.
As if we don’t have instant communication in this day and age.
Israel is just not that big.
It’s not like Margaret Thatcher’s naval task force, chugging toward the Falklands.
Why didn’t help arrive faster?
It is very suspicious, indeed. How did they get through the wall unnoticed? How did they kill for so long? And how did they manage to haul all those hostages back?
Of course, the Hamas supporters try to tell you that the Israeli military simultaneously did not respond AND did all the killing themselves.
They pretend that there are no hostages.
And they superciliously tell you that attacking civilians in a neighboring country is “self defense” and “justified”.
A pox on both their houses.
@Paula D
You’re very informed. I’m sure you know that Israelis can arbitrarily arrest and jail Palestinians indefinitely, without any charge.
Israel is not America. And Palestinians are not American Coloreds in Alabama, circa 1925. At least the Negroes had rights.
So, the Palestinians need hostages, so they can trade.
Very logical.
Yasmin Porat was taken hostage, but freed. She considers herself lucky to be alive. She was interviewed. She said that once taken, she was not happy, but felt “safe” in the sense she would not be killed or molested. Because she’d be of no use to Hamas dead or maimed–they needed her alive to trade.
Later, Hamas released two old ladies. Like most old people who had endured that ordeal, they were angry. But, like most old people, they tend to tell the truth. They said “we ate what they ate, we had a doctor check on us, they gave us meds”.
Yasmin Porat’s fellow captives were not so fortunate. You see, the KILL HAMAS AT ALL COSTS rules of engagement meant that most of her fellow captives were killed–by the IDF.
Why would an Israeli Jew say this if it wasn’t true? Would you?
youtube.com/watch?v=rTQcjyhPOIk
There are tens of thousands of Palestinians “detainees” or prisoners in Israeli jails.
Somehow, we gloss over that.
But, when Hamas takes captives, they are criminals. Is that because they don’t have a uniform or a badge?
Israel tortures prisoners (so does America, of course, does it not?).
Israel treats prisoners inhumanely often, having them bound.
Israel sexually assualts prisoners (again, like the US has done, we now know).
Just putting some balance in the conversation here.
It’s like they believe that only Jewish lives matter or something. So from their pov, they aren’t leaving out anything that matters.
@Socrates-Detroit Even if you’re correct that Netanyahu deliberately let the Palestinians attack Jewish civilians, the act occurred and now the Palestinians are getting what they bargained for. Their bad.
“I’m sure you know that Israelis can arbitrarily arrest and jail Palestinians indefinitely, without any charge…Israel is not America”. Or, America is not Israel? What about all of the innocent sight-seers on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol? Were they not arbitrarily arrested and jailed?
Yes, in many ways America is Israel.
Yes, if you accept God’s definition.
@Breck Pardon me, I generalized about the US. Yes, people were arbitrarily arrested on Jan 06. As I understand, quite a few were denied a reasonably fair and speedy hearing, and quite a few were put in solitary.
An African-American cop, who in the past forgot his weapon in the men’s room, shot an former US Air Force female vet to death and got away with it.
That’s an outrage also.
OK, I went back to re-read to determine if the criticism is warranted.
Israel is a country that never should have been in the first place. Why do the Jews get a homeland when hundreds of millions could claim the same right of irredentism?
There is a large undercurrent of Western religious fealty to Biblical prophecy that cannot be denied.
I gave a brief history of the founding of Israel on Nov 19 at borderlandjournal. com folllowing the Hamas attack.
But, given the situation as it stands right now, I think JHK is probably right about the direction the conflict could take.
On another front, I have noticed a glitch in the matrix here at CFN. The writing seems…different and I’m not talking Israel/Hamas or any other political position.
“Why do the Jews get a homeland when hundreds of millions could claim the same right of irredentism?”
…Jesus?
It’s in the book….
They get a homeland because of Abraham’s obedience to God. Just like we get salvation because of Jesus’ obedience to the Father.
And what about the other 10 tribes? If the Jews are in fact the tribe of Judah, that is only 1 out of 12 (13 if you count Rueben who lost the birthright). The other tribes are also entitled to the blessings promised to Abraham for his obedience to God.
CP,
The other 10 tribes? They studied liberal arts rather than business….
Jesus Saves,
Moses Invests.
Good old tuco. 22 skidoo! We’re getting raptured out of here. Get the goyim out of the way. They’ve served their purpose. Israel is the apple of his eye. We’re just the core.
Note: This has nothing to do with real Christianity which believes the Church is the new Israel, the new Chosen People. God had a contract with Israel. They broke it. Contracts can be broken and once broken, are null and void.
“Contracts can be broken and once broken, are null and void.”
Jarek,
Unless you have a good lawyer….
And…the link;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgstfuAhhWw
Hardrock – can you describe the glitch?
…Relative civility?
Awww, just like black-and-white cookies, side by side, equal shares, not dispersed like on a checkerboard. A man’s a man, we all bleed.
Cue Janos in 3,2,1…
Yes. You have seen it too?
click the link on my handle and send me an email from there.
Israel never should have been in the first place? Do you have even the slightest understanding of history? At least we know where you would have been in 1940.
Ancient Israel itself was divided into 12 regions, each belonging to a tribe. If we are going to claim that the Jews should inherit Israel because of Biblical prophesy then it should be according to the entire House of Israel, not just one tribe.
Please tell me where I would have been! Everyone on this site knows more about me than I know myself.
Yes, as one Irish descent, I am of the Tuatha de Danna. The Tribe of Dan. I want my 40 acres and a mule in Palestine too.
My forty is in Issachar. You can have it. The mule too.
“Israel is a country that never should have been in the first place.”
Isn’t that true for any country? Why should the USA exist? Should the land be given back to its original inhabitants?
My point exactly. To clarify, the original statement, “Israel should never have existed in the first place” was about MODERN Israel. So the question before us is “do we return the map of the world to 733BC (or maybe 70AD) for EVERY NATION?
Everyone please proceed to the land you were in before one of these dates. Don’t know where you should go? Antarctica for you Bub.
Re: Ukraine..”The trouble is: how to do that (leave) in a way that does not amount to another gross American strategic humiliation?”
Simple. Just bug-out like Afghanistan and leave $9 billion of weapons behind. The media will cover it up like it never happened.
The terrorists will be happy because they can use the weapons in Israel or maybe even within the United States? Problem solved, everyone happy. (sar off)
90 Billion….right?
Yes, thereabouts.
Yes, I stand corrected. (Google is not my friend) 🙂 It’s hard to narrow down an exact figure.
I forgot to add in the Apache helicopters at $35 million apiece, and thousands of Armored Humvees. All factory fresh equipment, ready to roll.
Google sez, snip… ” Leaving $85 billion of equipment. Vehicles, weapons and ammunition, night vision goggles, medical supplies, biometric devices and data of our allies. All of it falling into the hands of the Taliban.”
Good Grief…dunno how that giant smiley got in there? I’m still learning.
It’s all good…..not into “correcting” anyone, just interested in facts. There are too many ad hominem responses here as it is. We all need to just focus on the facts.
As if Russia will allow terrorists to have the weapons you seem to think are still there.
Remember the part about the Blob telling you that Ukraine is out of weapons and needs us to send more?
Russia blows them up. They are not the basically unarmed goat herders that the US terrorized for 20 years in Afghanistan.
Some of you here sicken me. I’m glad you claim you’re leaving CFN. Bye!
Jim is EXACTLY right when he says Gaza could be a paradise overflowing with beach front resorts and the influx of cash that comes with it. No. They chose war on so many occasions with October 7th being the latest. They chose to build miles of tunnels and collect and use thousands of weapons.
Did you know they cut a baby out of the mother, beheaded the baby while she watched, then beheaded the mother.
There was a two state solution put forth once. Do you know who rejected the deal? Wasn’t Israel.
I can’t speak for Jim, but I know what Scripture says. Here is the dividing line between us – I believe what it says.
Goodbye and good riddance.
The Balfour Declaration called for a “national home for the Jewish people.” The goal appears to have been the support of British and American Jews for Allied efforts in WWI. When the letter was written in 1917, Palestine was 10% Jewish. In the next years leading up to 1948 when the British relinquished the Mandate and the Jews declared Israel to be a new independent nation, around 380,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine.
When illegal immigrants in the US take control of our government and our land (which we did in fact “liberate” from Native Americans ourselves) will we stand by and do nothing? I think an objective observer would understand why the Palestinians would not submit to the idea of creating a resort on the Mediterranean beaches they were “given.”
Chinese take over. I do not think 3rd world miscreants will take over. they are cannon fodder.
No, we won’t do “nothing” when illegal immigrants take control of our government and our land. We’ll vote democrat.
The Jews improved living conditions and opportunities. The Arabs who live in Israel like it – especially compared to the Arab countries they came from (as many immigrated as well). So what’s wrong with living in a place that affords more freedom and opportunity? You know nothing about history, human nature, and particularly Islam and its pathological mind/spirit virus. What virus infected you?
Thanks for the insightful response…you know me better than I know myself!
How many of us would give up our freedom to be the well-cared for “pets” of a superior civilization? Is it time for all of us to return to the matrix? Don’t choose the red pill.
The aliens told Whitley Streiber that the Jews were the most advanced people on Earf. Seems like a lot of people here have been reading Whiteley…..
Ahem, since when do you speak for any of “the arabs?”
@Hardrock
Thank you for the analogy and explanation about the Balfour Declaration.
Yes, Hardrock, Americans will stand by and do nothing. That’s all Americans know how to do.
Just look at the reaction of the majority of Americans during covid. Willingly destroyed families, businesses, their children over a fucking flu virus.
I anticipate the same reaction once the immigrants are running the show and herding white folk into the re-education camps.
Again I recommend googling “Balfour Declaration”, “Nabka”, and “Oct 2 Al Aqsa attack”.
Got any actual evidence of claimed beheading atrocities?
Because afaik, they have failed to provide any evidence if claimed atrocities.
Also, videos of media statements from released hostages give no evidence of abuse. More of “they treated us well”, they shared their water & food”, “they reassured us they would not harm us.” etc.
Mary, do you know where the Al-Aqsa Mosque is located? The Temple Mount.
One day that Jewish Temple will be rebuilt.
As for beheadings, plenty of evidence is available if you choose to look for it and view it. Personally, I can’t believe you’d ask such an ignorant question.
Someone else wrote how they don’t understand how a couple of paragliders could murder so many at the Rave. Do any of you watch the vids filmed by the killers?? There were many more Hamas killers than just a couple. They came on motorcycles, on foot, by car.
There is video that a number of American reporters have watched.
Lol, you believe the mainstream media?
Amazing how many people believe they suddenly became truthful.
@mary.m
No but the videos are pretty damning with the stolen iphones of the victims being used to post to their social media accounts to the shrill screams of allah akbar.
MX – I didn’t watch the video of the Oct 7 massacre, but have listened to others describe it as inhumanly horrific. Pure evil. I find it troubling that so many don’t see the existential threat these demons pose to Israel. Maybe a few of them need to visit Auschwitz (as I have) or another of the many memorials to the victims of anti-Semitism.
The Antichrist will make sure it rebuilt right next to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. You’re not getting rid of that Mosque, and you will have to submit or die. The Antichrist is the Jewish Messiah and the false Messiah of the entire world. You’re going to have to share him, and obey him. He will be both a great man of peace and war…..
Many Muslims won’t like it either, so they’ll be your brothers in that much at least.
The Israeli air force admitted they fired on the fleeing partiers.
We didn’t see any pictures of the victims of Sandy Hook, either, which was one of the points Alex Jones made about the whole thing being a hoax, but we believe those reports.
Evidence will never move you, Mary. You need something much stronger. A meeting with the Truth.
My hope is that when the Palestinians start getting moved around mary.m gets an entire city block of them living all around her.
It won’t take long for her to start singing a different tune.
Thanks for your persistence, Mary.
Unfortunately… “you can lead a horse to water, but…”
Over half of Gaza’s 30,000+ deaths are women and children.
Did you know they cut a baby out of the mother, beheaded the baby while she watched, then beheaded the mother.
eye for an eye n the world goes blind.
Source?
This page.
“Jim is EXACTLY right when he says Gaza could be a paradise overflowing with beach front resorts”
As could Detroit and Baltimore.
Or as Trump told the North Korean Dicktater, so could North Korea if they’d just give it a shot.
You know, sometimes I think Kim Jong Un is smarter than most of the leaders of the rest of the world.
indeed…check pontiac michigan.
what did the stadium sell for?
Or Haiti. Hell, much of Black Africa. As Podheretz (I think) said about nuking Mecca, What are we waiting for?
Jared is ready to make some money! Who’s in? As long as I get my 40 acres and a mule, I am.
Janos – you just gave me a flashback to what may be the original BLM expression of anger – or close to it.
Leaving a night pro football game in 1968, in Miami, FL, we took a wrong turn and ended driving through an area of Miami, ironically named Liberty City.
As a kid in the car, I was shocked by the number of blacks just hanging out at 1:00am in the morning – shooting dice, drinking, sitting around on old milk crates.
Then driving slowly by an abandoned building painted with graffiti – “To hell with 40 acres and a mule, give me a gun and I’ll get what I want”. Next building – “Freedom flows from the barrel of a gun”.
As a wide-eyed seven-year-old, I’ll never forget it, I can see it like it was yesterday.
Ron,
You developed a perspective, just driving through the neighborhood. Consider how you would feel if you spent eight hours every night driving those streets for four or five years. What truths would you uncover?
Errata :
Just up from a nap…delete comma after perspective and add ellipsis after streets
E – later in life for a period of a few years, I worked as a Night Auditor, midnight to eight, at a transient hotel – hookers, johns, pimps, strippers, dope dealers, truckers – you know the shift.
It’s a different society, people lay down their heads on their pillows at eleven o’clock and have no idea what goes on in the night. They come out after dark and slink away as the sun comes up.
Think about what happens when the lights go out.
later in life for a period of a few years, I worked as a Night Auditor, midnight to eight, at a transient hotel – hookers, johns, pimps, strippers, dope dealers, truckers – you know the shift. – Ron Anselmo
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I did exactly the same thing in 3 different hotels/motels and Oh Boy! I could write a book.
Q – this actually crossed my mind. Not writing the hundreds we could tell, but a compilation – a best-of-the-best stories.
Send out a simple questionnaire to about 1000 Night Auditors, asking for their craziest story. Then just compile them and publish.
For stories that got selected for publication, that person would receive a complimentary copy. The rest sold at bookstores from the NYT Bestseller List.
The stories, as you well know, would be epic.
Hope Peter’s doing well.
Q – loved the full moon nights.
Driving to work, I’d get that queasy feeling. One night, I pull into my parking space and there’s a girl buck-naked, not a stitch of clothes on.
She asked me what I was doing, and I said going to work, I asked her what she was doing, and she said just hanging out.
Here we go…I hadn’t even clocked in yet, and the story got better from there…one of those nights.
Q – this actually crossed my mind. Not writing the hundreds we could tell, but a compilation – a best-of-the-best stories. – Ron A
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I have related to family and friends over the years many anecdotes from my days (i.e. nights) as a Night Auditor and I would be hard pressed to eliminate any one of those anecdotes as not being among the best of the best.
We had a night guard who would go out and stroll through the parking lot to see what was happening. He’d return to the lobby and say to me “Q, it’s a shame you can’t leave the desk for a look outside. You wouldn’t believe the shit that’s going on out there.”
I once almost applied for a job as a night auditor, but didn’t have to take it as I got something else. I was never sure what night auditing actually meant and thought it was odd. I mean, why not audit during the day? What are you auditing anyway and what the hell does auditing even mean? Sounded kind of boring. Had I taken the job, I might have found out…
Zazzy – the hotel/motel business is a 24-hour business, so at some point, the “books” need to be closed, for the “old day’s business” and opened for the “new day’s business”.
The Night Auditor “audits” the prior 24-hour’s transactions of the day’s three shifts – 8:00am-4:00pm, 4:00pm-12:00am and 12:00am-8:00am (the auditor’s shift).
Q will confirm this – that these businesses, by their nature, were heavily “cash” businesses, so someone in the earlier shifts usually had their hand in the till (auditors sometimes too), So, the auditor’s job was to keep everyone honest, and protect the interests of the business (Ownership).
Always a “numbers guy”, I used to keep my own ledger of the cash to total receipts ratio every night, which represented the last 24 hours’ business. It was always in the 95% to 98% range, meaning that an average day’s receipts of $10K, would be $9500 to $9800 cash.
The daily cost of business might be $3000, so Ownership would report income of say $5000, and the balance of cash – $4500 to $4800 would go out the back door every night.
Rooms are the only “inventory”. So, very hard for the IRS to get a handle on true income. Our records were all hand-ledger – not computerized.
So, when the IRS would come calling, the Owner would just say all my records were at my warehouse, but last week, Tommy “The Torch”, that fucker, just burned it down.
The bar business used to be the best “cash business”, where an Owner could say I only sold 17 beers last week, but the IRS got smart and said, well then why did your inventory show you ordered 17 cases of beer. Hotel room rentals couldn’t be tracked, unless they had somebody on the inside.
“We had a night guard who would go out and stroll through the parking lot to see what was happening. He’d return to the lobby and say to me “Q, it’s a shame you can’t leave the desk for a look outside. You wouldn’t believe the shit that’s going on out there.”” – Q. Shtik
Q – same here on the security guards. As you probably experienced, there was high turnover with the security guards, and they were usually inexperienced.
Each new one, I would have a little 5-minute sit-down with them. Rule No. 1 – Anything anyone tells you here is a lie. Rule No. 2 – See Rule No.1, Got it? Good! Now get out there.
First night, I see the new security guard approach a girl in the parking lot. They talk briefly, and he lets her continue on. I call him on the radio and say what’s the story? He says, she says she’s going to her room.
I said what the fuck did I just tell you?! She’s a hooker, go get her and get her off the property!
Truth told, even though I was working 16-hour days, and that was my second job, I wouldn’t trade those days (nights) for anything. What a trip.
Thanks, Ron. I more or less figured as much and my questions were the ones I recall having at the time. I might have been eventually unable to do the job properly due to boredom and tiredness from night shift. Not too long before, I tried lifeguarding and managed it for a summer and a half, so two months one summer and one month the next. After that, I just got tired of staring at the same general spot for hours at a time, even though the kids that frequented the pool were cute and fun/funny and the odd friend would visit and keep me company.
“Always a “numbers guy”, I used to keep my own ledger of the cash to total receipts ratio every night, which represented the last 24 hours’ business. It was always in the 95% to 98% range, meaning that an average day’s receipts of $10K, would be $9500 to $9800 cash.”
Ron,
I can say with a straight face that I am more business oriented and thorough than most. Why, if in your position, I would keep TWO legers….
Detroit and Baltimore don’t have nice beaches. Gaza does.
On this day of the eclipse Martin Armstrong has as his top post: Trying to Save the Future – Redesigning Government —
“This is my proposal! The President, Vice President, and Chief of Staff create a TRIPARTITE Ticket whereby the Chief of Staff will oversee the agencies. This is absolutely critical!!!
RFK Jr. has experience as a lawyer. He will be overwhelmed as president, which is what they will do. However, he knows the problem, and we should have a Tripartite Ticket with RFK Jr. as the Chief of Staff Agency Czar, Trump, at the head of the ticket. I would select Rand Paul for VP.
In this third position, a Chief of Staff who effectively becomes the Agency Czar, supervises the agencies. He can be given the power to fire any bureaucrat in an executive order, just as Biden tried to make it impossible if Trump is elected to prevent him from firing the Neocons and Climate nut-jobs to ensure Biden’s bureaucrats are untouchable.”
I love this idea!! Unfortunately, the MM will not take such an excellent idea and run with it…
I read that the Biden administration is taking steps to ensure that a new president will have less authority over the administrative state.
Not that it is necessary, as anything Trump tried to undo was blocked by a piddling low-level court.
Obama could issue edicts, but Trump couldn’t issue new ones or revoke old ones.
Then Biden came in and could just sign a whole stack of documents put in front of him to destroy President Trump’s accomplishments.
Similar to (per The Epoch Times) the 15 State AGs protesting (via 2022 petition) the HHS decision on Jan. 19, 2017, “one day before President [Barack] Obama’s second term expired,” to give the Director-General of the WHO the authority to declare a public health emergency within the United States.
“Allowing an international organization to determine when public health emergencies exist in the United States necessarily allows that organization to use police powers that were neither given to it or to the federal government by the States,” the AGs stated, calling it “an extreme violation of both State and federal sovereignty.”
During a health emergency, the state AGs wrote, “HHS may provide for the apprehension and examination of individuals in certain infected states. Upon recommendation of the HHS Secretary, the President of the United States may also authorize the detention of individuals under certain circumstances.”
Unbelievable how much these sociopaths can get away with.
Keep voting for those elected representatives! How many of the hoi polloi even know about this, or would care if they did?
I think this is because the US will become a kind of vassal country to an organization of ten countries who will constitute the world government.
Along came Biden. That would make a great title for a book someday about what happened to the United States in the late 21st century.
You are speaking for yourself not the vast majority of people. The fact that Israel is a nation today proves that the Bible is true and God is real. That is a true miracle.
A miracle of land theft.
all lands are stolen?
Well the Palestinians lands & property were, & are being, stolen.
That doesn’t make them subhuman or wrong to fight to get back what was stolen from them.
But it does make Israelis thieves. Add to that their ongoing attempt to eliminate the Palestinian people, makes the Israeli’s genocidal mass murderers.
Not company I care to keep or lend a hand to.
What’re you…stoopid? Fuckin troll. You’re one of the most ignorant trolls I’ve encountered here at CFN.
It amazes me how many people believe that the same God that said thou shalt not kill, or steal, or covet turned around & ordered them to commit genocide, said you can keep their land & property, just give me their gold. The god of mammon.
I follow Issa/Yeshua (Ashoo in his own language of Aramaic).
He said Keep the Commandments & I do.
Hmm…
“When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire. “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Just sayin.
God gave the land of Canaan to Abraham for his obedience. God could do that, since He created the world. Canaan had forfeited its right to the land by its practices: child sacrifice, etc.
save the sermon.
Oo, don’t get all prickly on me.
He also told Israel that if they adopted those same practices, He’d kick them out of the land, too.
God chose Israel as His people, but He wasn’t “easy” on them. The surrounding gentiles almost had it easier than they did, because “before the law, there was no sin.”
and they did and they were.
They did and He has. As the Orthodox say, this is the false, unrighteous Israel of man and murder.
When the British protested their over-reach, the Jewish terrorists turned their terror on them.
Ironically, the children of Israel were also sacrificing their children on the altars of Baal. So God removed them from the land. 10 tribes taken by the Assyrians. 3 tribes take by the Babylonians.
All of Israel will one day inhabit that land again. Not just Judah.
What Tribe are you? I’m Tuatha de Dannan – the Tribe of Dan. Some say it means People of the Goddess Dana. But for today at least, I’m choosing the former.
You’re cherry picking, teddyboy.
It is Esau that was restored over a hundred years ago due to fraud. They just borrowed the name to fool the pew-packers.
“Once we understand that the prophecies regarding Esau come under all of these various names, it is apparent that the Bible is full of prophecies against Esau’s descendants in the latter days. Many do not realize this, however, because many prophetic statements are directed at one of the other names: Edom, Idumea, Seir, Teman, or Amalek.“
godskingdom.org/studies/books/the-struggle-for-the-birthright/chapter-2-the-story-of-esau/
Same story in Islam. The Sunnis say the Shia are Jews and the Shia say the Sunnis are.
Many Jews love being at the center of all conflicts! Else they would have taken Madagascar when it was offered.
It is an important point not raised often enough: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran are all Shia.
Hamas is Sunni.
Hamas fought Iran and Hezbollah on the side of the US Empire in Syria.
They have never been allies until the current thing.
Glen Greenwald’s Rumble show “System Update” is required viewing if one wants some proper perspective on the Israel/Gaza catastrophe. Recently he went into detail of the IDF’s “accidental” bombing—three times!—of a food aid convoy where they suspected an “armed militant” who wasn’t there. But they did manage to kill all the aid workers, so there’s that.
Greenwald also revealed Israel’s calculus for their “burn the haystack to find the needle” strategy, by which it is acceptable to kill twenty civilians for every Hamas operative. That ratio might go to 100-1 if it’s a commander.
Over half of Gaza’s 30,000+ deaths are women and children.
Yeah, and get the operative at home where he’s the most stationary.
God loves killing!
No, man loves killing. I believe God forbade killing in the ten commandments. Along with not bearing false witness.
I’m not religious, but doesn’t the saying go God created man in his image?
The religious rhetoric gets more esoteric as the death tally mounts. Not practical, dumb.
Yes. Satan corrupted that image by getting Eve to sin, she through her naivete, and Adam through his love for Eve, since if he did not also sin, he would lose her forever. So now, man became what we call “the natural man,” who wants what he wants when he wants it at anyone else’s expense, and God help anyone that doesn’t give it to him. That’s pretty much a description of fallen man in a nutshell.
Personally, I also believe this is when women got their “sixth sense.” As in, won’t be fooled again!
Interesting, eschewing logic using fairy tale as justification
Not trying to shit on your beliefs, and I know how easy it is to troll with this medium, but this seems such an emotional divisive issue…I think it is good we still have freedom to debate and disagree
Well, which g-o-d are you talking about?
Godzilla
Godzilla on a Mozilla Firefox browser eating mozzarella.
@Kornado
I’m not religious either because religious people are dumber than the ones who aren’t. They follow a lot of nonsense and then deny that their GOD isn’t evil because they don’t want to admit that their GOD does condone killing, and sacrifices. Christianity itself is a sacrificial religion that goes into detail about human sacrificing. I make my own decisions, following some book written by control freaks a long time ago to manipulate and brainwash the masses is no different than leftist using their gay indoctrination on everyone.
Tuco- I thought you said God gave them land for being obedient. Are you saying they got land after disobeying the commandment to not kill?
God is killing every day. He is not bound by his own Law.
Jacob have I loved. Esau have I hated.
Marcion believed that the God of the Old Testament was a psychopath. He suggested jettisoning the Old Testament from Christianity.
This is beyond the human paygrade. Christ, the teacher of men and angels, will have to explain which parts of it are good and which are bad when He returns
It is ironic, how many believers love God but despise the law, thinking that the path to freedom is to cast out the law [ become anarchists ]. To compound the matter, they hold fast to the Old Covenant. They ought to cast out the Old Covenant and keep the New Covenant [ based on the same law ] not the other way around.
And then a chapter or 2 later “God” ordered his “chosen” to genocide various neighbors, cousins, in-laws, take their land & livestock for themselves, & give the gold to “God.”
Sounds to me like 2 different Gods. Not sure about the God of thou shalt not kill, steal or covet. But the “God” who demanded the gold seems like the God of Mammon. Or a Mafia head.
At least he mentioned Israel in his blog. Maybe we should all die today, humans are fucking weak.
But being a natural man, you really do shit on my beliefs, as evidenced in your comments about “eschewing logic using fairy tale as justification.”
I just think it’s awkward to quote scripture when children are starting life without limbs…but hey I’m ready for rapture, if I can quote reverend ccr “there’s a bad moon on the rise!”
If you would attribute evil to its source [ a rule-maker ] instead of the Creator [ the rule-maker ] we could communicate.
Man, i wish i were smarter, I feel lost in your responses.
Are you being meta, am I you speaking to me or something.
or are you speaking to you through me
I like your arcane comments because they make me curious. I doubt this answers your comment here but the thing I think about evil, is, if you don’t know you’re evil, are you?
If you’re born a pedophile or a psychopath, how would you know until it’s explained to you. What if it’s enabled anyway.
Is evil one’s understood behavior. banality of evil, does it begat more evil.
I’m not religious but I am becoming more open to evil emerging.
So much for this subthread, which seems to have fizzled out at April 8.
(airport speakers, with the usual airport reverb, woman’s voice) “messianicdruid, please report to gate 666… messianicdruid, please report to gate 666. Thank you…”
I continue to be surprised at all the gushing sympathy people appear to have for the palestinians, especially seen in genZ at colleges. Most, I suspect, have never met and interacted with an actual palestinian. I’ve met many, throughout my medical career, and my impression is that they are rather similar to the average afro-american in terms of IQ (one SD below the mean), emotionality that overrides logical thinking, and a lack of predisposition to follow social rules and norms. Perhaps that explains why every country that has hosted palestinians (e.g. Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan) has thrown them out and refuses to take them back despite similar cultures and religion. Also, no one seems to recall that, just a few years ago, the palestinians voted overwhelmingly for hamas to run their country (something like 95% for hamas). Maybe its just a white guilt neurosis of some kind or just virtue signaling. But it gets tiring.
Most people don’t know about the Palestinian vote because that’s never mentioned anywhere in the media they consume. I didn’t know about that, either, and I had considered myself well read. I stand corrected.
I’m rather surprised, given that I generally agree with your comments, that you seem to overlook the reality that the Palestinians have had a raw deal from everyone, and that living in violent, hostile environment is not conducive to fostering high IQs.
If I grant your assertion that “Afro-Americans” are one standard deviation below the mean” in terms of IQ, it begs the question, where did these people come from?
The vast majority of African-Americans, until the 1960s, were descended from the slaves.
The “slaves” were sold to European slave traders by other Africans–that’s my understanding. It was not like a caricature of Planet of the Apes, where the whites went into the bush or jungle and captured the natives.
So, the “weaker” Africans wound up as slaves, and the stronger, tougher among them survived the journey AND the difficult life of a slave. And after that, they lived in society that was innately hostile to them (even the new European immigrants in the North) and kept them down.
So the environment has nothing to do with the outcome?
Because, as I remember Thomas Sowell wrote, a disproportionate number of prominent African-Americans were not 100% descended from slaves, like Bill Cosby or Colin Powell, to name two.
In any case, what I find tiring, and expensive, is the inordinate amount of my tax dollars that I send to Israel, so the Israelis can slaughter and abuse the natives.
There are many wars and injustices in the world, but in none of them does the US, which basically broke financially, give SO MUCH to SO FEW to commit so many crimes.
If you want to support Israel, write a check. Or become an Israeli.
You seem fine with them.
If I show up one day with a few armed thugs and tell you to leave, will display good social rules and norms, or will you fight back? Because I suspect you are armed, I’ll be sure to bring a lot of firepower.
I don’t think you would like that.
You do know that the Israeli government mandated COVID shots more and earlier than any other government.
I found some irony in that, given that at Nuremberg, based on the nefarious activities of deranged Germans, forced injections and medical experiments were classified as war crimes. And yet, there was Netanyahu, forcing the toxic injections.
Or perhaps they were all placebo?
placebo–I went to an activist meeting last week. Word is Israel
has increased disease and death rates, post vax.
true/
The Afro-American IQ is 85.
The Black African IQ is 70.
The increase is due to the White genetic input. Genes are around 80% of IQ, just like the rate of women who divorce as opposed to men who divorce.
You haven’t studied this as you have Israel/Palestine conflict.
There’s a high rate of women forced to initiate divorce because the husband took off for parts unknown.
Since I know three such women, I’m guessing it’s not that uncommon.
As I keep saying, the number of women who file versus men is not the own that you misogynists think it is.
Women always make up “reasons” when the usual reality is that they’re bored and/or think they can do better.
What does this have to do with my post anent Black IQ?
My iq tested at 155. Iq is just a measure of pattern recognition. I think a lot depends on the culture you grow up in.
Blacks grow up in our culture and continue to do miserably both on the test and in “real” life.
There are many smart women but very few who know how to use their smarts outside of their careers or practical issues, like buying a house or studying a contract.
They’re too emotional to do philosophy – as you just proved.
They deliberately target the young people who know the least about Israel v. Palestine, for indoctrination.
The groups that do this have said that they do it, I have posted about it here and it is a fact.
It’s really Marxist indoctrination, that’s the true goal.
I know what I know.
After I left the military, I went to Washington DC in spring 1999, to demonstrate against the illegal bombing of Serbia.
It was a planned demonstration.
It was educational. The majority of the demonstrators were there to protest the bombing. Many of them were of Serbian descent (understandable).
But quite a few represented other “aggrieved” causes, that I definitely would NOT agree with or I was totally opposed to.
I was not going to leave because I did not want to be seen with these people; I looked at it as having more bodies and making the protest look bigger, and hoping these people didn’t draw much attention from the issue at hand.
25 years later, some of the groups protesting the Israeli war, I don’t care for. But it’s the same idea.
That happened with Viet Nam. Ken Burns even refers to that in his documentary.
“I continue to be surprised at all the gushing sympathy people appear to have for the palestinians, especially seen in genZ at colleges” Maybe you just like “roasted human” for dinner.
I think the kids are reacting to the wholesale indiscriminate methods of death being thrown at non combatants. Their reaction is misdirected, but it is a human reaction.
Funny how growing up in a multigenerational war zone impacts physical & mental health & fitness, not to mention education.
I suppose next you’ll look on the children of this current famine as an inferior race, regardless of the known impact of starvation during development years.
As to the surrounding nations not wanting to take in the Palestinians, 1. As I posted above, it’s the camel’s nose under the tent. Israel’s long history of stealing land plus its waving of the Greater Israel map makes clear their long-term intentions. And 2. why should they be burdened with a sickened, crippled, starved & traumatized group of people?
I know they excel at chanting, waving Palestinian flags, and disrupting ordinary life in NYC, London & DC. What else they’re good for I’m not sure.
Not good for going over there and fighting themselves, that’s for sure.
If you give Israel the choice between the moral high ground and surviving, don’t be surprised if Israel chooses to survive. If Israel cannot survive, it will not go quietly. That is ultimately what “Never again!” means.
If there is an increase in anti-Jewish sentiment against Israel and domestic, and Jim is Jewish, supporting Israel is hardly a blind spot; rather, it would be denial of reality to do otherwise. The wold is unsettled, our country is unsettled, and, rather than face the social justice and third world bullies in our midst, many are going along and feeling virtuous about doing so. The sky is not falling yet, but the civilized among us are getting tired of holding it up.
The virtue-signaling element of the protesters makes it all the more tiresome.
I had the misfortune to be living (if it could be termed ‘living’) in the Twin Cities, MN, during the George Floyd debacle and a number of younger coworkers participated in some of the GF marches, obviously feeling righteous about doing so. The irony being that within the workplace they gossiped and generally treated others disparagingly. – They were so indoctrinated (and yes, there was also an element of stupidity) that they couldn’t see the blatant hypocrisy.
Israel is the seed of the woman, from the prophecy. God is talking to Satan in the garden after Adam and Eve sinned. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. And thou shalt bruise His heel, and He shall crush thy head.”
In the vision, Satan, in the form of a dragon, stands poised to catch the child the woman is ready to deliver.
So, it’s not only been war on women ever since, all over the world to one degree or another, but it has also been war against Israel since Israel’s inception.
So Israel is the Woman? We say the Woman is the Virgin Mary. But as Beryl (a woman btw) might say, There is no real conflict here.
And who opened our borders to the Third World? And now you expect us to support them in THEIR Nationalism?
Survive in what way? By throwing a bitch fit like a child and then nuking everybody? They wouldn’t survive, they would get their asses equally kicked by nuclear nations from elsewhere and then everyone loses. Don’t be so niave Joshua.
the debt rose over FIVE-fold in 25 years, from 1997.
So when hyperinflation?.
Malthuss: ‘So when hyperinflation?’
How about this coming june to july when the USCorporation has to pay betweenn 8 and 10 Trillion $s in USTbonds that are maturing in that time interval. They cannot get anyone to buy them to kick the can down the road so to speak, as the Tbond auctions have had ZERO bids for the past several months (and the Fed is bankrupt by any definition, and does not have the money to purchase them). Its either announce default and take the heat, or print $$$ (via zeroes on a computer); the latter yields hyperinflation.
Yep, this is far more dangerous than any of the foreign wars which don’t concern us at all.
Malthuss, I remember when I first learned about what is now called “macro-economics”. This was before the Federal Government defaulted on its Bretton Woods obligation to back the dollar with gold – I was in my early teenage years.
There was concern about inflation even back then. As I tried to wrap my adolescent head around that, I asked my Dad, who was a public accountant, what would happen if the dollar continued losing value. He replied, “Well son, then things would become more expensive over time, causing a lot of folks to get poor”.
I ruminated on this, and then I asked, “But what if the dollar lost all its value through this inflation”? Dad replied, in his usual blunt, succinct manner, “Well then son, we’re all fucked”.
America’s problems will not be solved. Those with the power to do so are not interesred and those without are unable. Thus do empires decline and, in the end, disintegrate. In our present case, the most likely form that disintegration will take is nuclear annihilation. Prepare accordingly.
Helix…happy Monday…did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? Good column today, Jimbo. Enjoy the eclipse there in your little corner of upstate NY.
Veering suddenly off that fascinating topic of Israel, what about that CERN?
It is more powerful than ever after years of upgrades. They plan to fire it up today, possibly during the state-of-emergency inducing shadow that will pass over the USA today.
Will they open a portal to another dimension? Will Moloch himself emerge to get on with the plan?
Just remember that no government spends that much money to build a machine that is not a weapon.
Hang on to your seats. Huddle indoors next to your pile of food water and fuel(?). Cover your heads and quake in fear.
Do not under any circumstances allow yourself to be exposed to the sun, or shade, as the case may be.
On a serious note, never ever look directly at the sun, even through clouds. Those invisible rays are just as powerful as the visible rays and some of them go right through clouds.
Too late.
You can look at the Sun a bit when it’s low on the horizon.
“…your own monstrous problems: your jive-tragic government, your fake economy, your breached borders, your sick-and-depressed population, your racketeering corporations, your broken banks, your buggered election methods, your faithless news media, your political mental illness.”
….your fealty to Israel.
The propaganda has definitely changed about Israel, and the usual suspects are happily jumping into the attack. There are the Jew haters, of course, and the purple haired Woke, but there are also others, who apparently are thrilled to have a scapegoat to blame the world’s woes upon.
I know! Blame the 7 million Jews in Israel and ignore the US Empire’s swath of death around the world. That way we can point fingers at their mote and pretend our log doesn’t exist.
Back to the propaganda change. This reminds me of when the US still officially supported Marcos, but somehow the propaganda changed, and the criticism of him was allowed to flow. I was working with Filipinos at the time, so I paid attention. I was baffled about that change, right up until Marcos was overthrown.
It was a weird kind of Color Revolution, in that the US didn’t officially make him a Bad Guy, but instead orchestrated a “grass roots” uprising that got rid of him.
I see the same thing happening now, with Israel. The US still officially supports Israel, but somehow the “world” is rising up in hate and reprobation. The Mighty Wurlitzer informs us that demonstrators in multiple countries are out on the streets. (Funny they ignored the Yellow Vests, and the Polish farmers, but are all over the Hamas supporters).
So what happens if Iran bombs the Golan Heights, which Israel is illegally occupying? (Ignored by all those screaming about Gaza).
I think the US will stand down.
That is my prediction.
This world rising against Israel must happen because that, too, is part of the prophecy of the present time. God miraculously rescues Israel from destruction at the hands of the coalition (my description) army going against it. I believe the US will be a part of this coalition army, another reason for Americans not to join the military. You’ll have to read Revelation to find out what happens to this coalition army, but suffice to say no one’s going home.
“…and you will say, “I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls, and having no bars or gates, to capture spoil and to seize plunder…”
This prophecy is past.
godskingdom.org/blog/2011/11/the-prophetic-effects-of-ungodly-unity-part-2/
Great post Paula!
The propaganda around Ukraine seems to be what’s in President Trump’s secret peace plan.
Is that supposed to keep people from voting for Trump, or to blame as the cause when Biden “wins” again?
Or just to keep us busy?
@Paula
Big capital and Zionism are interlinked. Balfour didn’t make his declaration in a vacuum–he made it to curry favor with big capital.
Zionism and the Israeli Lobby are linked.
The Financial Lobby and the Israeli Lobby are linked.
The Military Industrial Complex and the Israeli Lobby are linked.
Maybe big money and the MIC drive the Israeli Lobby?
So, the US policies you seem to dislike are the other side of the coin of Israeli/US (or maybe US/Israeli??) policy.
The question is, how much role does Imperial America play in Middle America’s success? (or perhaps past success).
If America had followed the Founding Fathers and not meddled, would middle America be better or worse off? Would you, or I, or other CFNers better off or worse?
Blame the 7 million Jews in Israel and ignore the US Empire’s swath of death around the world.
Jarek, what do you think?
Is Israel the overlord of Uncle Sam? US Empire’s swath of death around the world.
The Jews were behind the so called Russian Revolution. Thus anti-Semitism was a capital crime in the Old Soviet Union. Paula, an old Russian Communist is pining for this lost glory along with a the deluded Putin.
@Paula D
The word Jew hater is so stupid and dumb. Is that what you people say when someone refuse to kiss their ass, glorify and worship them as GODs?
No, it’s what I use to describe people who blame all the ills of the world on Jews.
No one is commenting on my question!!!!
If America had followed this founding principle* (no foreign entanglements or alliances *unless they really help us in here in the “New World”)
Would the AVERAGE American, perhaps you CFNers be better off, or worse off?
(unless we have Bill Ackman or one of the Koch brothers or Bloomberg or Musk or Pete Peterson writing anonymously here)
I KNOW that for big money, and the elite, US foreign policy since 1914, even more after 1917, and even MORE than that since 1945, has been tremendously profitable and enriching for the members of the elite, for the blob, that pulls the puppet strings, and give us the policies most of us don’t like.
The Income Tax, the Federal Reserve, going off the gold standard, elastic currency, huge deficits and debts enrich those in the “know”, the elite.
They grow richer and more powerful.
But, even as they do, does more trickle down to those who are able and willing to work, hopefully save, and retire?
Maybe there is more benefit to me than I realize?
Or, is the positive trickle-down era over, and as they need to own and control more and more, they are going to take a lot of it from middle America?
Is American Imperialism a good thing for you and me?
It’s hard to say, SD. They tell us we benefit from imperialism, but the immorality of it is difficult to justify, to me.
But bananas are cheap, so there’s that.
How many people had to die to get them that way?
We aren’t supposed to ask that question.
And then there’s oil……
@Paula
Yes–that’s what I’m talking about!
Are the bananas cheap because “Chiquita” and the US government put some dictator in charge, to make sure Chiquita plantations have good water and cheap banana pickers who live in squalor and are losing THEIR water to the big plantations?
If that’s true, our cheap bananas are subsidized by the exploitation of the natives.
I paid $2 for an avocado (that’s my new thing!) from Mexico. Are the avocado farmers/pickers living is squalor? Or do they have make a decent living?
The (legal) migrant workers picking lettuce in the California, their low wages are legal, they come here voluntarily. We have more affordable lettuce.
We also moved all this water to the Imperial Valley to make it bloom, right? Was that a good move?
I need to be careful, what I knock. My point is, for better or for worse, the events of the past five years, and especially the middle east since October, are making me think of things I didn’t think of before.
Maybe I don’t realize how much of what we have is at the expense of other people.
Maybe that was true before too. But before, I have this PERCEPTION (it was before my time, I was born in the mid 60s), that the US economy worked to provide most ordinary people who worked a pretty decent life. Maybe I’m just naive.
Maybe even in the golden era, 1946-73, we benefitted from things we wouldn’t like, if we knew, in subtle ways we didn’t realize.
It’s easy for me to rail against the rich and powerful–they are REALLY making out. It’s also easy for me to rail against the Communists–in practice, it’s a dictatorship where now EVERYONE outside the Party is poor.
But maybe I’m part of the problem, I just don’t realize it.
We aren’t supposed to ask. But I did.
Thank you for commenting.
There are Jew haters.
Paula never said anyone against Israel is a Jew hater.
And there are Gentile haters. Why is one a thing and the other isn’t?
Hi Jim: Saratoga Springs, will it get “totality”?
Seems like a lot of responses in defense of Israel come from “My Little Golden Book of Bible Stories.” C’mon.
Interesting that we don’t see any mass migration of Gazans into Jordan, or Egypt. There have been HUGE mass migrations of Muslims into western Europe, which is much farther away. We don’t see other Islamic countries generously taking pity upon the Palestinians, and volunteering to take 20,000. Isn’t there a disconnect here somewhere?
There sure is.
The Palestinians got kicked out of Jordan when they tried to overthrow the king, started a civil war, and then they hijacked a plane and killed its passengers.
Look up Black September.
It looks like Egypt was happy to give up Gaza in order to get rid of the problem, but I could be wrong about that. They sure have it blocked off now, though.
@Paula D
Not ALL of the Palestinians were kicked out in September 1970, when they tried to overthrow the “King”.
I think it’s more correct to say the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) was kicked out, the PLO fighters.
Hussein’s Arabs were clearly more effective (and more loyal).
Yasser Arafat set moved his headquarters to Beirut and the PLO moved to Lebanon.
There have also been 660,000 killed in the ongoing Syrian Civil War and 377,000 killed in Yemen. Nobody seems to give a sh#t about those Arabs, just the Arabs in Gaza.
Good point. About the other countries’ wars.
And how many million refugees in the Syrian war?
And who fomented and precipitated the war in Syria? The US.
Who did that in Libya? The US. Hillary Clinton cackled “we came, we saw, he died”. The bitch.
Who prolonged the war in Yemen? The Saudis, with US support.
The common thread is the US.
But the fact these wars happened and continue does not mean that Israel should get pass.
Exactly. You value Jewish lives over those of Arabs. Why?
Taking a stab at it for the same exact reason no one cares about black-on-black violence.
Arabs and more specifically Muslims murder each other at the drop of a hat.
The Long Emergency -Where “Your Future is a thing of the past”
Heckler, Jarek,
I WAS SEARCHING ‘JESSE MATTHEW’.
I found 2.
A black one who killed white women [hanna graham among them]
and a white one who killed a LEO and his om was a killer as well.
USA today.
oops…’om’ should be ‘mom’.
Om is better than Mom. Om is Father/Mother to us all.
“Here comes an eclipse of the sun. Our moon will cast a totality of its shadow in a path about 100 miles wide arcing from Del Rio Texas to Bangor Maine…”
State media has been heavily pushing this event into the National consciousness for many months now. And while this is a unique and amazing demonstration of our place in the Universe… one wonders what benefit the Dark State is getting from their hyper-hyping of this event other than diverting our National attention away from the ongoing atrocites in the Middle East and the collapsing of the United State Incorporated’s Feral Reserve Notes and the rising death toll from Big Harming Pharma’s injections of death.
The Moon will caste a long shadow upon the face of the Earth. Just like the Dark State casts all over our Planet all the time, every moment of every day of every year. The sun will return in its full glory once the Moon has done its thing today. But the darkness caste by the Dark Ones will continue to foul our Planet like the stench that emits from a thousand land fills of rotting waste. Too bad our Sun can’t clean out that stench when it comes back to full intensity.
“You might ask: Are we hostages to cycles, Astronomical, Kondratieff, the Maunder Minimum, Fourth Turning, the Great Wave…”
Actually, we are more hostage to the darkness in the human heart that is constantly manifesting itself as war, hatred, Chosenism, Wokeism, conjured racial tensions, predatory ‘Leaders’ who live solely to accumulate wealth and power unto themselves, selfish-ism in many forms, living a lifestyle of slack and lack, lack of human respect and kindness, etc. We are hostage to this human-spirit-of-darkness as long as we choose to be. The human family can break out of this cycle of rot any time we choose. And many have. But there are a great many that have not… and lack any desire to do so. Many of us seem to like rolling around in the mud.
“What is not falling apart?”
Things do not fall apart on their own. The falling-apart stage is just the last act in a long series of failings that lead up to the final orgasmic collapse. Once again, the collapse is born as a collapse within the human mind and spirit… and the lack of care and attention along the way to get the train back on the right track. Collapse never happens in a vaccum. In fact, it takes a lot of ‘effort’ to have full systen collapse… along with lots of willing partners that assist the destruction.
“I doubt that Israel wants to exterminate the Gazans…”
(?…!)
“… if you are among those who believe that the cosmos seeks to convey an occult message in this eclipse that will supernaturally darken half our country today, maybe it’s this one… Stop meddling… Look to yourself… Or else, get ready for bang-and-whimper.”
Much of the human family now suffers from a form of self-hatred. They have given up on Life and living with good purpose. They are empty of joy and spirit. They have bonded with Darkness in all its various guises. This is the true dark shadow being cast on our Planet today. The sun and moon — while amazing – can function on their own quite nicely without human intervention and purpose.
But sadly, the human family can NOT function well without a desire to live in accord with natural and spiritual truths. So our current times are an Eclipse of the Human Heart which is very badly in need for Light to return.
Nice post. However things DO fall apart on their own.
There is even a word for this, it’s called Entropy. It’s a thermodynamic physical process which is inescapable in the Universe.
Understanding that makes what you said much more believable.
I found this at breitbart–Colt is old,
however
Colt Ford had a heart attack.
He wrote and sang Dirt Road Anthem.
He got cancer first and then an autoimmune disease diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis and now is in intensive care from this heart attack.
Most like all caused by the jab because if they wanted to perform, they had to get it.
Malthus a You tuber calling himself Memoryfield has done a pretty good doc on Laurel Canyon. It’s a few years old but new too me. He walks around out there with his camera accompanied by a pretty good narration. I never realized how deeply Manson and his people were engaged with some of the musicians & show biz people not only Wilson and Meltzer but Cass Eliot, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Mothers of Invention and others. Some of it was thru shared drug connections. It seems like a pretty nice neighborhood nevertheless.
Dave McGowan did an awesome review of Laurel Canyon.
//centerforaninformedamerica.com/laurelcanyon/
Check out Programmed to Kill, the coincidences are astounding. No one solved the the Atlanta Child Killings. The person was charged with one murder and the murders continued, mostly of adults in a clean up fashion.
Steven Stills dad was in military. So was Jim Morrisons.
Mc Gowans research makes much of a military to music connection.
Jim Morrison’s dad was the captain of the ship involved in the Gulf of Tonkin Big Lie, as I recall.
Two years later his son springs, fully formed, into the music scene making best seller records, although he never before played music, sang publicly, or wrote lyrics.
Go figure.
right guy in right plce at right time.
talent.
“…the troubled Middle East, a.k.a. Armageddonville?”
The story of Armageddon has been told, retold, modified, and expanded for a long, long time. As a species, we love stories. It’s possible we require stories to help us contemplate and manage relationships to each other and our time on this planet.
Sometimes, when I find a particular story vexing or tiresome, I replace the names and labels the word “human.” Here is a snippet from JHK’s post this morning.
— I doubt that humans want to exterminate humans, but at this point humans would probably like to export humans to other humans that share their culture. Those other humans are not eager to take in the humans.
The fractious minority of humans who militate against humans because, you know, The Humans, never ask if humans have some other plan, some other position than From the river to the sea, Humans will be free! — meaning Death to Humans. —
You get the idea. Makes me wonder who causes all the trouble for humanity in the first place?
What is the moral to this story? Regardless of how we get to Armageddon….we have an opportunity to sort it out and lead each other home. Armageddon is a comma in a line of our story, not the final period.
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by Ezra Pound
IV.
THESE fought, in any case, and some believing, pro domo, in any case . . Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . .
some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some “pro patria, non dulce non et decor”. .
walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men’s lies, then unbelieving came home, home to a lie, home to many deceits, home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick and liars in public places.
Daring as never before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
Fair cheeks, and fine bodies;
fortitude as never before
frankness as never before, disillusions as never told in the old days, hysterias, trench confessions, laughter out of dead bellies.
V.
THERE died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization,
Charm, smiling at the good mouth,
Quick eyes gone under earth’s lid,
For two gross of broken statues,
For a few thousand battered books.
Jarek: Pound was a Prophet. We had best listen to him before it is too late and we have no ears or eyes left.
Ginsburg visited him at St Elizabeth’s to gloat.
.Ginsburg also visited Celine in the suburbs of Paris.
Celine & Pound, two prominent authors who sided with the Axis in WW2. Both became pariahs in their own countries.
“Both became pariahs in their own countries.”
BRH,
I’d rather be a piranha…like Lindberg.
Celine experienced things that no one should ever see or hear or feel. It overwhelmed him. Critics say he was ruled by hatred. It drove him, sure, but he was even more driven by disgust. IOW, his hatred was cold. Relentlessly so.
And he was even more of a vicious anti-Semite that Pound. Nevertheless, both were great creative writers. (And Pound was a great editor for Eliot, and a great critic.)
Celine’s “Death on the Installment Plan” would be worth a re-read for our current ills.
‘Journey to the end of the Night’ was one of the Great Novels of the 20th century, along with ‘Under the Volcano’ & ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’. Hemingway & Celine died on the same day (same as Cerventes & Shakespeare) but guess which death got the majority of the bews coverage?
And Roth, author of Portnoy’s Complaint, was a vicious, anti-Gentile, right?
Not a thing? Why not? And it’s alright to create a term if one is needed, right?
Have you read Roth? He was a Jew hater, too.
You’re playing semantic games. Substitute Jew-hater for anti-Semite, if you must. In either case, wear it.
Why won’t you play then? You don’t like anti-Gentile? Ok, Gentile hater then?
Semantic games! Yup, exactly why they dominate us. High verbal intelligence, and practiced in the use of it, both in their careers and inter-personally.
And you’re ok with it, it would seem. Interesting.
Though I have opinions on the subject, I stay out of the Israel/Gaza issue for the most part, for the following reasons:
– I’m not convinced that the Israelis have done anything worse than is done in every war. We’re spoiled and safe (so far) and have no idea of what goes on in war. Children, old people, animals, the helpless, these are fodder and always have been in every single war since war began. Mothers have wept over their infants and families have been destroyed utterly. That’s the truth of war, every single time. There is no gentlemanly war. The point is, after all, to win. I don’t know who is winning the war in Gaza at present because so much is in play, but I guarantee that none of the participants have any real scruples as to civilian deaths, though they make use of them to stir the pot. The Israelis have been accused of ruthlessness and it may be a just accusation, but I can guarantee that the Gazans are equally ruthless when the opportunity arises – as ruthless as they were on October 7. They clearly don’t like when someone strikes back hard enough to make sure they can’t do it again, and are counting on stirring up outrage at their plight, hoping people will forget that they started it. I know, “who started it” is also up for grabs, but I can’t resolve that argument as it goes back too far.
– I’ve never received an answer to the question of why the hostages have not been released. If they’re that concerned about the loss of lives in Gaza, I’d like to know why they fail to do one thing that might conceivably open the door to talks. I’ll answer my own question, in that I don’t believe they are interested in talking.
– I’ve seen nothing that indicates to me that the Palestinians will ever accept the existence of Israel, which leaves no possibility of a settlement of any kind. That being the case, it’s hard to see what else Israel can do. They could, of course, all pack up and go somewhere else but there’s no point in dwelling on what is manifestly never going to happen. We have to work within what’s possible.
– There is something fishy about the claims of oppression, and it’s an issue I’m not equipped to sort out. It seems that Gaza was not exactly a hell hole. It had modern hospitals, schools, infrastructure, and money pouring in (which has been used to build the infamous tunnels). Its population has increased enormously. As our host rightly pointed out, they could have made the place into a resort with the resources that were given them. Those are, I believe, indisputable facts (in particular, the huge increase in population). That seems at odds with the picture that’s being conveyed, of a people helpless and oppressed.
– I recall the Palestinians’ clapping, capering, joyful dancing in the streets after 9/11. Like everyone who hates us (admittedly many with good reason) they’re more than willing to harvest us and play on our sympathies and our guilt. When we comply and give them what they want, they don’t like us one bit more; on the contrary. I doubt that any of us would care much for the world that would result should Muslim culture become ascendant in the West.
– I notice how much Muslims everywhere loudly express their hatred for us, even in countries that have taken them in and been generous to them. I recall many outrages, including the slaughter of a priest on the altar of a Catholic church in France, as he was about to say Mass. And then there was the recent rant about Scotland being full of white people from the First Minister of Scotland, that clown Humza Yousaf.
– I’m aware that my intense dislike of Muslim culture and their activities around the world doesn’t provide grounds for genocide, but I admit that I don’t know just how far I would be willing to go, personally, to contain them and to put a stop to their cultural aggressions and violence. I’ll never have to answer that question. I could make many of the same complaints about my own country and culture but, let’s face it, I value ours nevertheless, and I place a negative value on theirs. I don’t enjoy seeing them turn the UK into a Muslim country, pushing their culture aggressively and violently, as they do everywhere they can. My attitude admittedly isn’t conducive to making fair and even handed judgments.
– Finally, I may be entirely wrong about almost every one of the above speculations. Depending on what source I consult, I can readily discover that the Israelis are monstrous beasts (proof attached) and the Palestinians angels (proof attached), or the other way round. I think of it as a dense web of truth, lies, fantasy, wishes, manipulations, myths, in which I soon become lost and begin to doubt my ability to discern anything at all. All of that being a good reason to be glad I’m not in charge of anything outside my own house.
Those pro Palestinian demonstrations in London & Wales for me were eye openers; literally hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the streets flying Palestinian & ISIS flags, vandalizing British war memorials, and tearing down Union Jacks & St. George’s banners when ever they came across one.
Incredibly, the London metro police appeared to side with the Muzzies. It’s pretty clear the Muslims not only hate Israel, but they hate the entire White Christian West too.
Some of them consider Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London as already part of the Caliphate. Are they wrong?
Yep and they HATE US and make no bones about saying it.
They demand we bow down to their ridiculous traditions and went special treatment.
Send them all back.
Very reasonable assessment, Rowdy.
@Rowdypiglet
Thank you.
It is easy to forget how appalling Muslim culture is in many ways. And how could it be otherwise, given the character of its founder and the atrocities he committed?
People should watch Geert Wilders’s short film “Fitna.” It’s all quotes from the Qur’an itself and from contemporary Muslim leaders.
The terrible things they say about each are true. Can you accept that? And both sides hate us. Now one more step: We don’t have to choose either side. Now for the final apotheosis: Can you imagine taking our own side?
@Jarek, I can definitely imagine taking our side; it was my intention. My problem in thinking about this is that it seems every position our side takes (including taking none and just washing our hands of it) will have immeasurable and unpredictable but direct effects on us.
Here’s a question I can’t answer: is it moral to show leniency and pity to people who hold a cruel ideology that, if it becomes sufficiently powerful, intends to destroy your own civilization without mercy – because you endanger your soul by taking on the characteristics of the enemy in order to defeat it? Or is it moral to be cruel and ruthless in the face of actual evil while you still have the chance to defend against it?
I’m utterly repelled by cruelty, and the cruelty of Islam appears absolutely evil to me. I’m concerned that any lenience we show or aid that we give could tip the balance – if there is a balance, and if it can be tipped. I have an impulse to say “this is simply too dangerous and must be destroyed at any cost.” But I don’t run on impulse or typically act on it. I’m a cautious person with limited understanding but who wants to do the right thing or, at least, have the right idea.
As bad as things are here at present, it seems to me the growth of Islam in the West would be worse beyond imagining. It’s still possible here to do what many of us have done by withdrawing to rural areas and making a life. That means there are not only pockets of potential resistance, but there are still people living more or less normal lives. In Islamic States of America it would no longer be possible to lay low or to hide, and I don’t think that paying the Jizya would suffice.
You said before you knew who opened our gates to them. That groups wants the same thing for us as the Muslims do. Worse actually, since they have no interest in converting us. The Muslims at least consider us human. The Talmudics do not. It’s said therein directly in so many words, if you care/dare to look for it.
Liberal Jews no longer believe in this stuff? No consciously, but they are still under its influence to a greater or lesser extent.
@Jarek, I’m uninformed as to Talmudics but I’ll try to remedy that. Always glad to know more and to have my weak places pointed out. I’ll repeat: this is why I hold sway only over my kitchen. As I grow older, I have ever greater sympathy for those who have to make decisions with real world consequences. Sometimes there are no good choices.
Some fairly objective and calm observations, Rowdypiglet. Thanks for contributing. I particularly appreciated your final summary:
“All of that being a good reason to be glad I’m not in charge of anything outside my own house.”
I said this many times during the pandemic. True leadership is a lonely, thankless task that may just get you tarred and feathered and run out of town, if not strung up on the closest tree or lamp pole. Not saying we’ve seen much approaching true leadership in the West this century.
Jarek, you make an excellent series of points too. The oppressor/oppressed paradigm is heavily flawed, and we would all do well to follow the Holy Spirit’s instruction from the Apostle Paul:
[Romans 12:9-21 ESV] 9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. 13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. 17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” 20 To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Thanks, @Nathan. I agree that true leadership is noticeably lacking, as are actual adults.
To be fair, many Jews want no part of all of this and crowd the ashrams and meditation halls of the East. Thus they escape the hell of Rabbinic Judaism without ostracizing themselves from their people by converting to Christianity.
I read a terrible book by a Jew who converted to Jews for Jesus type Christianity but went further, saying to Christians: Thanks for nothing guys. Jesus is Jewish. Get lost.
Well said.
My My, this mainly awesome missive from our host James Howard has certainly ignited the religiosity of certain CFNers. Can Tuco22 or any other biblically oriented CFNer explain this: DNA analysis has revealed that ancient Homo sapiens successfully interbred with not only Neanderthals but also Denisovans. Both groups were extent 55,000 years ago, with Neanderthals lasting until approximately 45,000 years ago.
Please square this with your Biblical narrative for my non religious self. Thank you in advance.
Getsome. Nuff Said.
Getsome,
Science is racist…all their lies Apostasy!
Have you considered “Gap Theory”?
v1 Creation, then [ huge cataclysm ] v2 recreation [ restoration ] v3 rest of the story…
Bishop Usher ushered us into the new Old Age by studying the genealogies of the Old Testament. He concluded that the world was created in about 4500 BC.
All the fossils and geological signs of older age? All placed there by God to test the faithful!
Yes, it’s a slave religion, but most people are slaves in the Aristotelean sense of being incapable of taking responsibility. If Tuco didn’t believe this, imagine what she would believe. Something just as ridiculous and far more harmful, say like Feminism.
getsome – Carbon dating is not at all accurate…prove me wrong
I went out this morning and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Perfect day for an eclipse.
But I noticed a plane on the eastern horizon laying a chemtrail.
Then I went outside to garden and was looking down, not up. But when my husband and I went for a walk he pointed out that the sky was covered with chemtrails.
WTF? We are in the path of the eclipse. Thousands of people are here to see it. Why would they lay down chemtrails?
I started complaining that the sun already seemed dimmer, but then I went into the house and saw it was 16 min. to the eclipse. How long does it take to get dim?
We sat outside and listened to the radio so that we would know when to look at it, but it wasn’t NASA, it was the local NPR station, so they didn’t really say.
No matter, we could tell by the darkness and the crowd cheering.
It was pretty damn cool. Even better than last time. I didn’t see any birds panicking, but I did hear an owl hoot.
20 minutes later, I could still see the moon clearing in the leaf shadows, so it does take a while for the process to happen.
Oh, and the NPR person said “There’s not a cloud in the sky”, even though the sky was actually covered with what could be construed as clouds, if you hadn’t seen them before they dispersed.
Tennessee’s bill to ban geoengineering has passed the House and Senate and only needs the Governor’s signature to become law.
It’s a start…
All of the research, development, and the actual geoengineering conducted over the past 70 years undoubtedly makes up a hefty chunk of the debt.
see DIMMING THE SUN.
There goes the eclipse.
“Its dark, too dark to see
I think I’m knocking on Heaven’s Door.”
Not really much too it in NW Ct.
“They might have turned their 40 kilometers of Mediterranean beach-front into a world-beating resort, but instead they spent billions in international aid building a tunnel network and purchasing arms to wage war against Israel. And with October 7, they got war.”
Well said! By the same token, the Jews of Auschwitz might have turned their 40 square kilometers of land into a world-beating bakery, given the abundance of ovens.
In case you’ve missed my point: Fuck you and fuck the whore that shat you into this world TOO, Herr Cunstler.
JHK is spot on and you are twisted.
USSA,
Such crudity…do you service your father with those lips?
Kiss your mother?
You need some serious help. I’m not talking about once a week for an hour therapy sessions. No. You need Vienna. You need a team of doctors studying you, analyzing you, having round tables, etc. That is your only hope.
This is SO perfectly said Jim:
“So, if you are among those who believe that the cosmos seeks to convey an occult message in this eclipse that will supernaturally darken half our country today, maybe it’s this one: just stop it, America! Stop meddling in every flashpoint across the planet. Look to yourself and your own monstrous problems: your jive-tragic government, your fake economy, your breached borders, your sick-and-depressed population, your racketeering corporations, your broken banks, your buggered election methods, your faithless news media, your political mental illness. Or else, get ready for bang-and-whimper.”
They are said to have thousands of high-tech rockets capable of decimating Tel Aviv. Everybody knows that launching such an operation could result, ten minutes later, in Tehran becoming an ashtray.
I believe that Nuke-lear “mutually assured destruction” is somewhat fictitious (like the manned moon landings).
” shocking simplification of daily life.”
Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t that what you have said needed to happen, one way or the other?
“New Speedway Boogie”
Please don’t dominate the rap, Jack
If you’ve got nothing new to say
If you please, don’t back up the track
This train’s got to run today
I spent a little time on the mountain
I spent a little time on the hill
Heard some say, “Better run away.”
Others say, “You better stand still.”
Now I don’t know but I been told
It’s hard to run with the weight of gold
Other hand I have heard it said
It’s just as hard with the weight of lead
Who can deny? Who can deny?
It’s not just a change in style
One step done and another begun
And I wonder how many miles?
Spent a little time on the mountain
Spent a little time on the hill
Things went down we don’t understand
But I think in time we will
Do we keep on coming or stand and wait
With the sun so dark and the hour so late?
You can’t overlook the lack, Jack
Of any other highway to ride
It’s got no signs or dividing lines
And very few rules to guide
Spent a little time on the mountain
Spent a little time on the hill
I saw things getting out of hand
I guess they always will
I don’t know but I been told
If the horse don’t pull you got to carry the load
I don’t know whose back’s that strong
Maybe find out before too long
One way or another
One way or another
One way or another
This darkness got to give
One way or another
One way or another
One way or another
This darkness got to give
One way or another
One way or another
One way or another
This darkness got to give
Songwriters: Robert C. Hunter / Jerome J. Garcia
Another moon hoaxer weighs in. Were you alive in 1969? Please respond as I can’t wait to fuck you up.
And like anyone with a functioning brain, I barely skimmed the wall of text/song lyrics you posted. Song lyrics? A sign of you not having an original thought.
My only original thought is that women can only conceive on Earth thus spoiling any hope of a long-lasting colonization in space X.
Conceived when IKE was President (59). Saw the MOON Landing on all three Tee VEE stations.
You never went on tour with the Grateful DEAD? Maybe only in the military?
Maybe you only do Bible versus? Bible Lyrics are OK?
Ever heard of GUS GRISSOM? Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun? Walter Elias Disney? Major General Smedley Darlington Butler?
Mother Earth
I have no Degrees Masonic or otherwise, I am probably not thinking correctly (unlearned). I apologize for posting such preposterous ideas (and lyrics). One day I hope to be original.
Tomorrow I will school you. It’s late here in S.Georgia, but look for your lessons at some point in the AM.
Valdosta? Jekyll Island?
Jekyll Island has some great fishing…
“No person with an original thought has ever quoted lyrics.”
You’re none too bright.
Speaking to me, OG? Let me know so I can respond.
Yes, I am speaking to you. If you truly believe that someone who quotes relevant lyrics has no original thoughts then you are none too bright because, obviously, quoting relevant lyrics and having original thoughts are not mutually exclusive.
[Chorus]
Excuse me while I light my spliff (spliff)
Good God, I got to take a lift (lift)
From reality I just can’t drift (drift)
That’s why I am staying with this riff (riff)
Robert Nesta Marley
OG, you can back someone that uses the words of drug addicts for inspiration, or to back their incoherent point, but I’m going to stick with reality. I’ve seen your posts here for years – pretty much admired them. Now…not so much.
I am “waiting in vain” for your TEACHINGS … “Tomorrow I will school you. It’s late here in S.Georgia, but look for your lessons at some point in the AM.”
“Please respond as I can’t wait to fuck you up.” Back at you MX.
“Like I said:
It’s been three years since I’m knockin’ on your door
And I still can knock some more
Oooh girl, oooh girl, is it feasible?
Bob Marley Tuff Bong
All this back and forth about justification or justice of causes brings to my mind some words from Garrett Hardin:
“Clearly, the concept of pure justice produces an infinite regression to absurdity. Centuries ago, wise men invented statutes of limitations to justify the rejection of such pure justice, in the interest of preventing continual disorder. The law zealously defends property rights, but only relatively recent property rights. Drawing a line after an arbitrary time has elapsed may be unjust, but the alternatives are worse.”
Since it is obvious that peaceful settlements of the world’s conflicts (Middle East, South China Sea/Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.) are not likely, then it seems to me that the things to be worried about are: 1) where are you going to be when the hard rain starts falling, and 2) what will be your plea to your Maker?
The rest is just crazy-talk.
“There is none righteous.”
This is a most interesting description of how JHK ‘finds’ America today…
‘Considering the feckless doings of our own society, we seem to be yielding to some final act of cosmic punishment. What is not falling apart? Our livelihoods? Our politics? Our money system? Our morals? Our common sense, our families, our relations with other societies, our infrastructure, our culture, our business models, our education, our medicine?’
Talk about negative expectations. It seems to me that all the people who believe they know ‘the truth’ about – the vaccine, Trump, the so-called ‘Deep State’, and every other bullshit theory I read most days are the ones living in the misery JHK describes above.
Me? Not so much, as I have a grip on reality, and when you have that, the world is just what it is, not some place teeming with ‘demonic’ forces (such as Democrats – yikes!!!) who want to ‘destroy America’ or Western Civilization and whatever other pathetic conspiracy theory is the current red meat for the masses (some never get old – Michelle Obama’s penis, Pizzagate, blood-drinking Hollywood elites).
It seems like too many of you guys are lost in a deep hole where everything is NOT what it seems, that everything has a dark, hidden explanation. A recent example was the hoo-ha when Cali crashed the bridge…unbelievable just how quickly that was blamed on so many different possibilities (though Jewish Space Lasers didn’t seem to quite make the cut….)
I think the only hope for our divided society is that Trump – and Trumpism – is rejected flatly & undeniably in November. If Trump himself is convicted of his campaign funds/business records/election interference in the trial starting next Monday, that cannot hurt. It will see quite a few of his less avid adherents perhaps finally wake up and see him for what he is and deprogram. At least, I sure hope so.
Grace,
I hope that the world as you know it never changes. It will be a true disappointment for you.
Yup…you’re one of the sad ones, in the bottom of a pit you’ve dug for yourself and seeing nothing but despair. Get a life, FFS. It’s not too late.
If you think that rigging another election against Trump will heal our divided society, you do NOT have a grasp on reality.
You seem deluded. Do you think that people have a gendered soul that has nothing to do with their sexed body?
You certainly seem like the type to think so.
Paula D – do you still believe that BS about the 2020 election? Even after you’ve seen the video of Bannon, Stone, and Miller saying – BEFORE the election (because they knew they were going to lose) “We’ll just claim victory and that’ll be that.”?
Anyone with a grip on reality does not believe the election was rigged – never did. Your Election Denier position says it all about you and how loosely you understand anything. The fact that you’re surrounded by ‘fellow-travelers’ doesn’t make it any less false.
you are a shiteGPT bot, rite?
Your “grip on reality” is totally ignorant. If you should respond back, I will spend my precious time responding to your ignorant post.
And Grace, they’re not Democrats. They’re communists masquerading as such. You would do yourself a service by reading the communist manifesto.
My guess is you have and are in agreement. If so. I spent 35+ years of my life to help defeat that wicked ideology. GFYS.
MX Vet 57 – you have no freaking idea of what the differences are between a Democrat and a communist. This is where you guys usually wind up – calling names speculating on the other’s views. Thank you for your service – was it CIA? Oh, and sure, I will GFM – certainly before I’d FY.
Grace – You claim the name democrat? Oh my!
You are repeating yourself. Do you suffer from PTSD or just dementia? Maybe you are just heavily medicated ?
Hey, jim e – your delusional rants on here are famously amusing.
But Jeffrey Epstein, P Diddy and the Pinettas really do exist, Grace.
OG, but you’re religious, which is just on more delusion.
Interesting post. I believe exactly the opposite, that the election of Biden will be the worst mistake ever made since Buchanan. His entire mob has one thing in mind, the destruction of the USA. So if you think that his election is the right direction, I know where you stand.
Yup. Your position is entirely predictable, and entirely opposite to actual reality…but there you go. You’re old, I think, so it doesn’t really matter, does it?
Grace –
“The walking dead will freeze in the coming cold; the thaw is for the remnant.” ~ justanotherguy
Love, you won’t be part of the remnant.
Wooo…that’s deep & mysterious, Ron. I’d ask for an explanation but I can’t be bothered. It would be just as obtuse as this remark, I do not doubt.
ron – you can lead a horse to water…
Grace – still butthurt from the USD schooling I see.
Huh? You quote an obtuse remark by another commenter that has no meaning. And, at least to you, this is evidence that *I* have a failed education? Talk about pretzel-twisting.
Oh…! right…I get it now – you’re referring to your ill-informed guesswork as to what MIGHT happen if blah, blah, blah…a la SSL.
You only demonstrated how shallow your grip on economics & fiscal policy actually is. Read anything by J K Galbraith if you really want to stop embarrassing yourself.
I’m sorry, class has already been dismissed.
Hardy, har, har, so you wrested with this for exactly 4 hours and five minutes before you figured it out. You make my point. Thank you. Talk about embarrassing oneself.
*wrestled*, embarrassing…
Blush away, QAnon Boy…
I hardly ‘wrestled with it. Your statement was ambiguous & weird…an epiphanic moment occurred (out of the blue, if you’re not sure what that means) and I had trouble stopping myself from laughing! So, you really think you ‘schooled’ me on the $US and how international fiscal & economic policy works? Extremely amusing, old man. You were so simplistic that if it were a 9th-grade assignment, you’d be headed for summer school.
Grace –
Slow down, you’re overthinking it. love. It’s not international fiscal & economic policy. It’s Econ 101 – simple supply and demand.
Try harder.
I’m proud of you, Ron.
You didn’t kiss her ass because she’s a woman.
kiss me
Did SSL attain totality?
I don’t know. You might ask the same question about Kesa Anna, who operates on the astral plane as well.
I have laid out my version of how Israel should have handled responding to the Oct. 7th atrocities- sealed the border until the citizens of Gaza handed over the terrorists and the hostages. No bombing, no invasion, just not letting the citizens of Gaza come to Israel. I think this would have worked much faster, and stopped the propaganda bonanza it provided for the Palestinians.
Here is my version of how self defense works. (Note that it was unnecessary for Gazans to attack Israelis in self defense, since they were not being attacked in Gaza.)
The people of the West Bank should set up self defense squads. That is where the land grabs are happening. If Israeli settlers attack a house or farm, a call should go out, and thousands of people should show up to protect the family and house, and stop the eviction.
Instead, the Palestinians let each theft happen, using it as propaganda, but not actually trying to stop any of them.
I find that suspect, especially when overrunning the border and attacking civilians is presented as “self defense”.
Sort of a Neighborhood Watch, complete with vigilante action.
In other news, MoA reports that Iran has agreed not to retaliate for the embassy bombing and murders IF Israel agrees to a ceasefire.
I’m guessing that will be the way out of this.
But I’m bummed about the Golan Heights.
The “Oct. 7th atrocities” were an inside job and staged for an excuse of all that we’ve witnessed since.
Bibi is bent and determined to have his Ben-Gurion Canal.
“Who wound the clock? It is running down in any case. What then? Nothing? Doubt it.” ~
Jarek (upthread)
—
Had this funny thought not too long ago that I thought to share:
Entropy. It exists within, but what about the entire universe? Where does the entropy go? So I thought, ‘How about nowhere? How about it has nowhere to go? As a whole. As a self-contained whole.’
So the thought process wandered over the expansion of the universe. That’s maybe the entropy. The expansion. But the energy is still ‘there’. Just that the expansion is making it seem from the inside (as we are) as though it’s dissipating. But dissipating into what? Nowhere. It can’t. A whole cannot dissipate its energy the way elements within the whole can. So in the context of the whole, the energy never dissipates. It always remains. It ‘dissipates’ vis-a-vis expansion, but that isn’t true dissipation because the energy remains within the whole.
That’s why I responded to your comment upthread that it was always wound. Your ‘clock’.
There are of course cosmologists who are talking about a heat death as the universe’s final end, but if so, it might only be seen or understood as such within the context and limits of our eyes and minds and place within the universe. I am unsure a heat death would be the case from a whole universe context. Why? Again, because the universe is the whole. The heat/energy can’t go anywhere else other than its own context. So it remains. The energy remains. From the inside, it might look like a heat death, but from the context of the whole, the energy doesn’t just disappear.
Roger Penrose seems to think that, at some point– perhaps at the final end of the heat death– another big bang happens. That’s possible if the heat/energy has completely ‘left’ the universe and entered somewhere else, thereby not really leaving at all per se, but being literally recycled, 100% or so– extracted completely from ours, to zero kelvin.
Your mind has more perturbations than the planet Jupiter.
Your useless speculations recall sequestered theologians arguing over how many angels can stand on the head of a pin.
Who cares about the solar system, except to revel in its ultimate mystery? The real world — Earth — is being destroyed, along with living things on it. Deal with that, or deal with your own spiritual liberation.
I’ve been part of the permaculture movement for over ~15 years. I also lead a relatively-frugal lifestyle what includes not owning a car. I also do gardening, have learned a fair bit of wild edibles, learned knitting, and learned about natural building. Among other things. I walk the talk. I’ve also more than once given my real name hereon, including a link to a draft essay about the creation of a better society and how it might be possible.
How about you? I mean, aside from hiding and virtue-signalling behind an anonymous moniker and climbing on top of people to elevate yourself?
More empty ad hominem.
Congrats on the permaculture interest. But you have to learn to match the micro with the macro. Permaculture inroads come to a dead end when overpopulation and resource blow-out are happening. Perhaps when things crash, they’ll get traction. Until then, though valuable, it’s only a benefit in tiny communities with the environmental requirements therein.
I also do gardening. Hardly something to boast about.
Knitting? OK, again a good skill. My wife knits, so I guess I have that down in my family as well, since, like all functioning couples, we trade off each others’ duties and skills (I cook, she cleans; I clean up outside and fix the house when possible, she deals with finances, etc etc). These are skills that almost anyone should have, so again, not something to boast about.
How about me? Aside from, among other things, working in a steel mill to build bridges (not the abstract utopian ones you favour), I’m adding to the needed artistic repository of worthy works in the universe. How’s that for arrogance, and as a comparison to planting a few garlic buds?
You seem to have a hard time with logical fallacies. That’s not an ad hom or personal attack as such because it describes your actions (or lack thereof) or how they are viewed rather than a direct personal attack on you. Presumably one can more easily change what one does than who one is. More accurate/scientific, too.
Anyway, I have little interest in writing books, certainly not for the current funny-money monopoly, nor in helping to build large-scale civil infrastructure such as bridges that fossil-fueled devices can then run on to help trash the planet, but in helping to create an alternative society that actually works and for a reasonable length of time– as per permaculture. It’s pretty humble stuff in a way, but I’m proud of it and that I can and have opted out of the current ‘living arrangements’ that you seemed to have more internalized and made your own.
I’m also interested in the idea of working smart not hard, your ‘a few garlic bulbs planted’ absurd reduction notwithstanding.
And a “draft essay”? What’s that mean? It’s unpublished? Well, what good does that do?
I co-authored and had published a book on equatorial zone deforestation in 1989, with little remuneration, back when such views were roundly mocked. (Nowadays, of course, one is feted and given large sums of $$ for doing something similar.)
It’s online, so it’s ‘published’ and I’ve previously posted its link hereon. It’s a quick-and-dirty brainstorm draft just to get it out there.
I don’t know, Zazelle, but I plan to have the party to end all parties with my loved ones at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Maybe eat one of those talking cows. 😉
I had no idea my semi-colon and bracket would produce this enormous wink. Now I’m embarrassed.
You should be extraordinarily embarrassed lol
“Now I’m embarrassed.” ~ Rowdypiglet
Especially with the video I just associated you with.
It’s like that WTF ultra-cheesy Eddy Murphy tune/video from the 80’s, my girl wants to ‘Party All The Time’.
Check out one of those guys’ fountain hair too:
youtu.be/iWa-6g-TbgI?si=JzMBOWtnjhamtQKS
Entropy. The dissociation of matter with time into chaos. Good example, life on earth, we age then die as entropy takes over our bodies. The opposite of entropy is creation, organizing chaos.
I recently stayed at a seaside resort here in the UK and this was the concept I kept coming back to as I wandered and looked around. The struggle to keep things maintained and in good repair. The struggle to keep up with changing times and tastes. The struggle of life itself. But amidst the decline and disorder there were many shoots of green. We seem to find a way.
I also had another thought: I feel done with airports and airplanes, rip-off parking, overpriced and overcrowded Mediterranean beachgoing, and slob Brits. I think one day such seaside resorts will see their renaissance. Perhaps the end of cheap air travel will be no bad thing.
Hey Slugger! Good to see ya!
Perhaps the end of cheap air travel will be no bad thing.
It’s just all that Mark-of-the-Beast stuff that comes with it in a Satanic package deal.
Agreed. Were it not part of the evil agenda, I’d be glad to see the end of most air travel. I suspect it will happen whether the WEF has their way with us or not. I like staying near home.
“The opposite of entropy is creation, organizing chaos.” ~ JohnAZ
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You have a balloon filled with liquid and then you somehow expand it but without filling it. What happens to the liquid? Presumably, it evaporates to fill the increasing expansion/space. If you look up evaporation as entropy, indeed it’s to be found.
So the universe is this increasingly giant, expanding balloon of a sort and all the ‘gas’ (energy) in it is getting increasingly dispersed, but it’s not disappearing at all. It’s just dispersed. What’s more is that from a quantum POV, it’s all still entangled. Extreme distances at least by our vantage points are irrelevant to the cosmos as a whole. Two particles trillions of light years apart might as well be side-by-side.
So how do we get a new Big Bang from a totally expanded balloon where the ‘air’ inside is just about 0 kelvin? Does the balloon start to contract in what cosmologists call an oscillating universe, like into a Big Crunch? Or does all the heat somehow come out the other side as a Big Bang? Remember, every particle in the universe might as well be side-by-side. So what does this mean? Are we still in the Big Bang? Are we still inside a ‘singularity’?
Zaz
Damn good questions?
Are you keeping up with the Webb telescope findings, that are rewriting to Physics books?
There is no limits to the universe, it is infinite.
The Big Bang is under assault, there are galaxies at the edge of the observable universe, 13.5 billion years old, that are just as developed , IOW old as the Milky Way. No infantile stars or galaxies where they should be. Latest data shows that the universe may not be expanding at all. Some data shows that there is no such thing as a black hole, That white holes exist, the other side of the singularity, that our universe is a white hole, or maybe we are in a black hole.
Even stranger are parallel and mirror universes that exist right in line with ours but shifted into another dimension. Is God a being from another dimension, advanced enough to travel through to ours? Can a being from another dimension invade our dreams?
Entropy says that eventually the universe will “dissolve” into chaos with all creation just going away. Well, I do not plan to be there to see that.
Food for thought?
Yes I have been keeping casual tabs on the results of the JWST, if not in a nose-smushed-to-the-glass kind of way. And yes, I’ve heard that some of it has challenged, maybe upended, previous theories. It’s possible that galaxies simply form faster than was thought, but who knows. Apparently a recent ‘tired light’ hypothesis (someone at the University of Ottawa if recalled) that would have suggested a much older universe has been debunked.
I’ve also conjectured about universes inside black holes as ‘new universe buddings from the branches’ before hearing about the same conjecture in official terms. White holes I guess they call them– the ‘other side’ of black holes.
I went through an interest in fractals phase and seem to recall they had something to do with chaos. It’s possible that chaos isn’t really chaos as is commonly understood and that it may be related to fractals, but I forget.
David Kipping’s group, who have a You Tube channel, has been granted official access to the JWST for the study of extrasolar moons. The distances are so crazy that I’d be surprised if we ever even manage to get our species to some sort of established colony anywhere within our own solar system, never mind outside of it.
While we may not plan to see some things, it’s possible that we get recycled along with our universe, and therefore, in a sense, ‘we’ may get to see more than we bargained for. ‘u’
Maybe in the next universe incarnation, one of us ends up being someone in Palestine who gets a limb or two blown off…
If we thought about our ‘future’ in these terms, if we had this kind of belief, I wonder if it would change how we regarded each other and the other living organisms on the planet…
I mean, if we believed that in the next universe, we’d end up being other entities that experience different things, many not so pleasant.
Walking In My Shoes
youtu.be/GrC_yuzO-Ss?si=nGmocnU7XwG7SUcm
“Maybe in the next universe incarnation, one of us ends up being someone in Palestine who gets a limb or two blown off…
If we thought about our ‘future’ in these terms, if we had this kind of belief, I wonder if it would change how we regarded each other and the other living organisms on the planet…” — Zaz
We can’t even abide our spouses, or our own thoughts and impulses. Yet you think a subjective, completely abstract rumination on “infinity” (whatever that means to you) will somehow enhance our ability to avoid blowing off the limbs of Palestinians in Gaza?
And why use that example instead, say, of a Syrian ‘militant’ blowing up a fellow Muslim?
Your thought process outruns your intellectual abilities by a magnitude of Usain Bolt vs. an ant on quaaludes.
You appear to be mixing/conflating different things and then running with them a la red herring/straw man/ad hom, so hopelessly-stuck in that groove as you appear.
Black holes may end up sucking up the universe. In the land of no space/no time. Everything is stored up until it just explodes, the explosion creating space and time, and then everything else.
Just like a tornado going through a junk yard creates jets. Happens all the “time”.
That’s certainly possible.
Brian Kilmeade and such kept saying after Oct 7, better known as the ol’ reverse trojan horse attack…that man, because of Israel’s population v.s. America, It was not only like 9/11, but ten 9/11s!!!!
How do you keep score like that? Are there strikes and spares, extra points, can it be a buzzer beater or can you win by submission?
You can argue with me, this number (I didn’t count the bodies) but currently 40,000 Palestinians and 75,000 wounded?
And I doubt ‘wounded’ means booboo, but gone piece of body or a constant pain and distraction.
So by the previous mathematical rationale, Gaza has gone through a million NINE ELEVENS.
The Ben-Gurion Canal must have its path to the Mediterranean Sea.
But that’s where Palestinians were supposed to build their Atlantic City deluxe beachfront, you know like prisoners for life succeed in building birdhouses with spit and sticks.
Of yeah, the failures in Gaza and the West Bank is the fault of the Israelis. They’re occupiers, they’re imperialists, they’re colonialists … all these stupid labels put on Israel to explain the squalid crapholes Arab territories surrounding Israel have become.
Gaza is responsible for it’s own disfunction. I often see Israel compared to SAfrica & running an ‘Apartheid Regime’. In a way that’s true. What we have here, similar to SA, is a highly efficient, prosperous, European first world nation living cheek by jowl with undeveloped & disorganized populations, which engenders envy & hatred on the part of the losers. Israel has seen what’s happened to SA, which was an Israeli ally — what a craphole its devolved into since Whites lost control. They’re also drawing on lessons of the holocaust, which is within living memory. They realize what’s in store for them if they lose their homeland; everything else is bullsh#t — what happened 2000 years ago, ‘viva Palastina’, the ‘Occupation’, 1948 — for Israel this fight is existential — a fight Israel cannot lose.
What if their fight results in a serious global escalation, like wwIII? You cool with that?
Marlin, you know where you are in my list of favorite posters.
Kornado
It will only evolve into WW3 if the asshole majors cannot keep their damn noses out of it. Iran and Israel need to duke this out to completion. If they nuke each other it is their problem.
That especially includes the damned Deep State and MIC of the USA.
IMHO, Israel, forcing the hand of the proxies, is going to get Iran to throw out the Mullahs and adopt a secular government.
I’m getting my 40 acres on that beachfront. Jared can buy me out. Any trickery and I’ll go to the Big Man, who the Fathers said will also be Tribe of Dan. So I’m set.
I’m worried about the rest of you. There’s all kind of undeveloped beaches in the Arab world. What is wrong with those loafers? Think of all the beaches in the Sinai? All the hotels and condos that could be built. North Africa? Enough for all of you if we would just deal with Ishmael.
Again, I have to laugh. All this vociferous arguing back and forth. And what has it gained any commenters?
In the meantime, the Earth is getting more and more polluted, which is a major threat to all life. The nuclear clock is just about at midnight. People of all races, are killing each other more and more. We’re about due for a big rock to come out from behind the sun and smack us a good one, but we’re not doing enough to protect ourselves. We’re wiping out many species for no real purpose. I could go on and on.
Yet we’re arguing about trivial matters in the whole scheme of things, like who owns 8,000 sq. mi. of semi-arid land. We’re arguing about 2,000 year old books.
As they say, sheesh!
The so-called smart CFN commentariat isn’t so smart. It has too many ignorant people, some of whom are really stupid. The people I look up to here, and there’s a good number of them ought to know who is who because over the years I’ve said good things about them from time to time. The ignorant and stupid ones are pretty ignorant and stupid. I just don’t have the same patience as I used to.
I’m surprised about how religious many of you are. I want to say, first off, I believe there is a higher power. But the religious seem to think they know the mind of God – at least to me it appears so. The universe is unknowably huge. There’s probably at least a trillion other galaxies with billions of stars, many of them with multiple planets. I have no idea how God operates in such an infinity. I can’t go by words written in an ancient book by a small number of people who most likely had some mental issues. To complicate matters, there’s more than one religion and more than one holy book. I know it’s a matter of faith. I have faith, but I can’t choose which is real. I do know that we should be good.
exactly, what’s so funny about peace love and understanding
where is the harmony, sweet harmony.
@Kornado:
My laughter has nothing to do with funny. It’s a head-shaking, sarcastic kind of humor.
Yeah, despite disagreements on this blog I imagine many of us share that same head shaking sarcasm. By the way, I was quoting an Elvis Costello song, great lyrics, I’ve sang it at my karaoke night.
kali yuga.
iron age.
Nothing is going to happen at midnight. If nuclear war happens it will happen. But this topic is boring so I’m going to sleep. I don’t care one lick about Israel let alone the Muslims other than I wish they weren’t flooding into all the use to be great nations of the West….Nowhere else left to go but head East now despite it’s problems, can’t be any worse than the damn Western world with all of it’s death traps, and politics taking the fun out of living.
TS1986
You have touched on an important point.
The people invading the United States are losers, losers in the countries they came from. I do not see many Jews immigrating from Israel, but oh boy, hoe many Muslims from the ME. Europe and the USA and eventually Canada are going to be overwhelmed by the world’s losers in coming decades. Ironically, another major is involved too, Russia from the Muslim states south of them.
Politics has not stopped them, mostly encouraged them. The Statue of Liberty saws to send your ‘wretched refuse of your teeming shore”, a good description. Will they help or destroy? Time will tell.
AND, BTW, they are all coming from broken down socialist states. Funny how that is, wonder who benefits from more socialist peons?
@ Kornado:
Of course I’m not cool with ww3. But your logic is not sound. So we let any group do whatever they want out of fear it may cause a world-wide conflagration? Life is tenuous at best, and fear cannot rule lest evil is allowed to prevail.
I wonder what the strategy was after the Oct 7 assault on Israel? Was there one? Like 9/11, like the Besnian School Massacre in Russia, like the Crocus City assault in Moscow, the plan seems to be let’s pull a surprise attack and kill as many Christian & Jewish civilians as we can and see what happens. That’s the strategy. And when we start our asses kicked by a regular proper military, we can claim we’re victims and call for a ceasefire that we broke in the initial sneak attack.
It’s the passive/aggressive approach to modern warfare. .
Beantown, I can only speak of my own experience. The higher power you acknowledge speaks to me through Christianity, it’s the song he sings that I’m able to hear. He sings a different tune for others and for some not at all. Maybe those, like you, who need no filter are closer to the truth than the rest of us who require rituals and devices. I sought him in other religions and in mysticism when I was younger, but didn’t find him there. I’m trying to think of a good analogy. There’s a whistle you can blow that only your dog can hear – that liturgy, those words, music, that tradition is, for me, God’s whistle. The other songs he sings are outside my range, but others hear them.
Years ago, my husband was asked by a Jewish friend to sing during a service at the synagogue because there were not enough good voices. He was happy to provide a voice, his is quite beautiful, and we went to rehearsals for quite a while and learned all the music. He’d never been in a synagogue, but when we first entered the building his antennae were visibly quivering (visible to me, anyway) and he said “This is a different God.” Then he paused and said “No, this is the same God but wearing a different persona.” These are subjective experiences, easy to describe but impossible to share. It’s all part of the great mystery which I’m content should remain a mystery. I’m fairly sure that being good is enough.
And I agree that religious people can be pretty obnoxious, but then all sets of people can be. I can’t find the C. S. Lewis quote (I think it was him) this brings to mind: Good people who get religion become better people than they were; bad people who get religion become much worse than they were.
Accidentally pushed the reply button prematurely.
Look, my statements about dumb posters here probably makes me an asshole and an intellectual snob. But you know us Jews. Lol. I’m not super smart, but I don’t care. I don’t have to have someone agree with me – different viewpoints expands the mind, but the disagreements have to be fact-based and logical. I don’t see that in the dumb ones here. Sorry.
I can’t wait until tomorrow to see the scathing comments.
You and I agree on much, Bill. We do not, however, agree on Israeli policy. Israeli policy is clearly indefensible but you’ve got your heart over your logic on the ridiculously strange goings-on of Oct. 7 and its subsequent genocidal aftermath.
I understand that it must be scary for you as you watch the entire world turn against Israel (on account of, of course, their policy). You are a good man and I wish you nothing but the best and always enjoy reading your thoughts.
Mazel tov!
OG, you’re also a good person, and I may have some differences with you occasionally, but I know you have a good heart and mean well, so you are all right in my book.
OG, why do you always talk and opinionate in the extreme.
The Palestinian people have screwed themselves over, over and over again allowing themselves to be used by Arab states to attack Israel. Iranian proxies fight the wars with Israel because Iran is a cowardly state. Sorta like us in Ukraine. Egypt and Jordan have made peace long ago with Israel and exchange goods and services to both sides benefit. 26% of Israel are yes, Arabs. Go ask those Arabs if they want to move to Gaza to be with their Hamas brothers. Hamas attacked Oct. 7 to stop the Abrahamic Accord between the Israelis and Saudi Arabia, Qatar and The Emirates. If that had been signed, Iran would be the only Muslim state using its proxies to fight Israel. Remember too, that Saudi Arabia and Iran are mortal enemies. Remember too that the Mullahs in Iran keep power by force, 50% of Iran would be happy to be secular.
You and I agree on much, but definitely not the Middle East.
My issue isn’t with individuals, the average Israeli or American, although there are plenty of assholes and idiots (myself included on occasion). It is always those who abuse power, who use it to manipulate, to lie, to obfuscate truth. Those that inflict pain on others.
I don’t understand why the Gaza conflict becomes so binary, lacking nuance. Hamas is not all Palestine, just like not all Israelis are Zionist. To think so seems racist.
I defend Gaza, but I’m just a white guy from the Midwest, I’m going on the measured belief of what I think I know, based on the input I get and follow, from sources I feel are being factual and honest to me.
I can imagine being Jewish and having a different take. But then can’t both sides have significance of having right and wrong aspects? Can you be sympathetic to Israel but also condone what the powers there are doing?
You support Gaza? Which Gaza, the Palestinian people or the Hamas conscripts from Iran than prey on those Palestinians, hide behind them, and use their infrastructure to attack Israel from.
Think, if there were no Hamas, would there be a war? So are the Pro-Gaza folks actually pro-Iran?
I wrote I defend Gaza, if I need to extrapolate, I defend the poor and powerless, people who struggle beyond what they should have to. I’m lower middle class living in a mixed race hood in the inner city.
I’m the first to criticize my neighbors and myself, but I have a pretty good understanding what we are all up against.
Why would I support Hamas, seems like they abuse power and exploit their people.
That is my point. You support the folks that have no say. Me too. We are all victims of the plutocracy.
BTW, you described yourself. You are the core of America, the American ideal. America is NOT the Deep State, even though they seem to think so.
You and yours are the core.
My ongoing point is, though, that the Dem Party. actually the entire Deep State feeds on the middle class mixed race population, making promises they have no intention to keep. When your hood and thousands of others realize this, the Deep State is finished,
If they haven’t taken away the vote by then.
Politics and religion, two topics that are verboten at any civilised dinner party, are frequently discussed here, and from behind a keyboard no less! Is it any wonder that it descends into unintelligible babble at times. I’ve noticed many new accounts over recent months that seem to be diluting the good posters and/or eliciting a reaction from them. Best just to ignore.
With you on the higher power. I reckon whatever the secrets of the universe are, they’re nothing like anything written in a book, and probably far more wondrous.
Slugoon once said to me, “I like minorities.”
In London & Manchester, Slugoon is the minority.
An individual is a minority of One.
Slugoon, you seem to have lost control of your country.
Do you sometimes feel like ‘A Stranger in a Strange Land?
Not where I live as it’s probably one of the more white middle-class areas in the country but if I go into the big cities or some of their satellites then yes.
I lost some sense of identity in the run up to Brexit after realising that half of the country was rabidly pro-EU and scornful of any form of patriotism. Then came Covid and I watched erstwhile sane people descend into the most irrational and craven behaviour, which persists to this day.
The Covid insanity didn’t fall along the same lines as Brexit, i.e. Eurosceptics did not make for Covid sceptics. Add to that decades of deliberate social engineering through uncontrolled immigration (since the Blair creature) I’ve found myself increasingly marginalised to the point where I am now completely disenfranchised with pretty much everything here.
Yep happening here in California.
covid insanity or plan demic?
Bill, we are all smart/genius in our own ways. As a social species, we parcel it out amongst each other, so that we can all share in our particular genius/smarts.
“The Church is intolerant in principle because
she believes; she is tolerant in practice because
she loves. The enemies of the Church are
tolerant in principle, because they do not
believe, and intolerant in practice because they
do not love.” Fr. Regnald Garrigou-Lagrange
Very good!!!
The clouds and rain set in before the eclipse started. But it got darker and darker even still until it looked like evening was setting in. And I could feel the temperature get slightly cooler and the birds were super chatty. And it was strange because the sky or rather the clouds i guess almost looked like they were glazed with a peach color. I think that was when the sun was most covered here and the rays of the Sun were magnified that much more. The shadow has passed over but the wake it left behind will ripple through us for a few more weeks. The energy waves are literally like ripples in a pond. If you felt way more hyper today or yesterday at this point then you were really tuned in. And what a wonderful message Mr. K. We can’t escape our inner shadows. But that the dark and the light dance together to achieve cosmic harmony.
Yeah, SSL, it seemed like an eclipse had never happened before. Such awe!
My only wish is that i could’ve seen the corona and the Black Sun in person. Otherwise honestly on an energetic level I’m still in a state of eclipse shock. I don’t know how long the recovery will take. Recover not in a bad way. Some people I listen to said that life will never be the same after the eclipse. This one was literally a change of historical seasons.
Did you not have the special glasses? Or were you not able to travel to see the Totality, thus not attaining Totality?
Yeah, in my area I think the totality was like 85% and of course there were clouds so the Sun itself and the Moon in this case too were not visible. However, i did achieve Totality!!
Infinity is greater than the power of our minds to comprehend it. So logic and facts can’t help you in that regard beyond certain horizons. Embrace it. Don’t let it make you grumpy :0)
The irony is that infinity may be what we need in order to get our minds and our consciousness that stems from it in the first place.
Embrace infinity.
Well, we are promised eternal Life by Jesus. You are right, it will have to be in another form that ignores the fourth dimension.
It is comforting than God’s plan includes “time” beyond death. Picture the time spectrum as continuous through time and space with each of us getting a chunk of it, but there is a before and an after.
Time is monitory. After monitoring is complete, there is no need for time.
Infinity is not eternal.
Yet the Garden is unending. There will be a kind of timeless time and spaceless space.
What I meant, John, is that if the universe is infinite, then infinity goes into who and what we are. We are children of infinity… which sounds like some kind of movie.
Or a soap lol. Picture it, instead of All My Children how about All My Infinity. Do you love it lol?
All My Children of Infinity
Wouldn’t the infinity include the children?
How would we know there is children in infinity though? Would it not help to be specific? Especially with soap?
you won’t be able to trap me within your concentric thought circles
To be frank, I thought ‘Children of Infinity’ as a name for a soap seemed fairly odd, but then I thought maybe they have odd names for stuff down there.
Parlez-vous, Français?
un petit peu
A soap bubble is perfect in its shape and shifting colors. But it is so easy to pop!
And even if you don’t, it dies. Have you ever watched one on a child’s wand? The colors dim and turn to brown? It is so sad. Thus go whole planets and galaxies.
Over here in Halifax, Nova Scotia, we caught a partial eclipse yesterday. The day was unusually, maybe even oddly clear– not a cloud in sight, not even on the horizon. For the past months, it’s been mostly rain and cloud.
So anyway, I’m on my way to the grocery store by bike during it and my take:
It’s like an overcast situation where the sun is kind of getting through, only the sky is a darker, crisper blue– not hazy at all– and the shadows are hard, not diffuse like they would be with an overcast sky to get the light down. Very interesting.
There were staff from the grocery store gathered outside with some looking at it throught special hard-paper-framed glasses. The store inside was unusually quiet, with far less customers than normal for the time and day.
Oh ya, it was also warm yesterday and happened to be the first day of the year I wore shorts.
One other thing: I also biked to my community garden to check my plot and all 23 garlic cloves that I planted last fall are sprouting. Every single one of them. They are about an inch or so high so far. First time I’ve ever planted garlic and when I planted the second batch, it was probably below freezing.
I should be able to relocate to Nova Scotia for free since my people or at least a chunk of them came from there originally. It sounds nice and pleasant up there and i love riding a bike but I haven’t done that in like forever.
For free? Who are your people?
the Acadians
Oh ok. Some outfits in Nova Scotia apparently forced many Acadians out, so down to where you are some of them went, and I guess to New Brunswick and Quebec, too, and wherever else. New Brunswick, our provincial neighbour, is apparently very Acadian and the most French-speaking after Quebec.
If understood correctly, there did remain Acadian pockets in Nova Scotia, such as on the Southwest and Northeast coasts, but I’m unsure of the whereabouts of any descendants. Maybe they’re still there.
arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/elon-musk-just-gave-another-mars-speech-this-time-the-vision-seems-tangible/
Unrelated to the topic of the blog, but didn’t someone here say that Musk finally admitted that life on Mars wasn’t possible? I’ve always wondered if living on other planets was possible. But I’m afraid of airplanes lol won’t catch me bordering a Space ship that goes even higher than planes do. Alright breakfast time then I’m off.
I posted that, TS. It was in a speech he made, maybe a TED talk. What he said is he could probably build a craft to get humans to Mars, but keeping them alive once they got there is somebody else’s problem to be solved.
We are too primitive to reproduce this environment adequately and since our bodies are part of this simulation we cannot leave it bodily.
Yeah, I think NASA is exploring Mars the correct way right now. The photos and data Rover sends back is fantastic.
Ha. Can you imagine anyone able to live in a Martian environment? Soylent Green, all the way.
We didn’t officially support Israel in 1967, but my fighter squadron in California was on alert.
I was in the Med in 1973. The ships were aligned in a row under the air corridor that arms were flying in to provide ground and air support. I got out right in the middle of it.
Saw the total eclipse up here in the Adirondacks. What was most breathtaking was how it got darker, but unlike sunset or sunrise, the color and quality of light remained the same. I hope I will always remember the sharp outlines of the mountains in that light; I’ll never see that again. The corona was bigger than I thought it would be. Yes, I looked at with naked eyes; at my age if I lose a little vision, it was worth it. There was a little bump in the lower left which might have been a flare.
I haven’t watched much Joe Rogan, but I hear that people like him because he allows people of different opinions to talk.
This is Coleman Hughes on Israel and Hamas:
“If you watch one thing today…
A lot has been and can be said about
@joerogan
but I gotta hand it to him for actually listening and having some integrity.
This is an important video.”
x.com/HilzFuld/status/1777301113412239442
That pier I keep talking about, I found a take on why we are going to build it:
“Interesting. See, when I think about US troops being intentionally put in harms way, my brain goes straight to Joe Biden sending them to the beaches of Gaza to build a port so that Michigan’s imported voters won’t be mad at him in an election year”
x.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1777110770020401461
Beryl
Think about it. Are there more Muslims in the USA Today than Jews to force Biden’s hand?
Talk about a divisor for the country, Gaza right here in our country. The spike in domestic anti-semitism coincides with the big intake of Muslims, not all of them, just the zealots, young males.
I just hope the Jews use the ballot box to help throw the bozo out.
Also, I wonder how much pressure the Mob is getting globally to destroy Israel?
The worst enemy of the Jewish People is the Jewish Elite (the Khazarian Mafia) which has no problem killing massive numbers of Jews in furtherance of the Globalist, Satanic agenda.
You think you know the full story behind October 07?
Well, ladies and germs;
Our betters are schooling us on planetary science!
Sheila is correct when she says that the moon is made up of mostly gasses…a very astute observation considering the current wisdom that it is made of green cheese. She is dead wrong, however, about the Sun. She says it is too hot to approach the star, but…what about at night?
Ya gotta think this stuff through….
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/sheila-jackson-lee-claims-moon-made-mostly-gasses-its-not
You can say that again: Richard C. Hoagland interview [ moon dome seen during eclipse ]:
sgtreport.com/2024/04/new-eclipse-interview-fmr-nasa-consultant-richard-hoagland-stunning-claims/
Thanks for that Messi!
Do not tell that MX Vet 57 or he may REBUKE you and Hoagland too…
“…reprove, rebuke and exhort with all patience…”
Yup. No one has a monopoly on stupid…
Lee & Majorie Taylor Greene:
‘Greene on Sharia Law.
“Islamic nations under Sharia law are places where men have sex with little boys, little girls, multiple women and marry their sisters and their cousins.”’
‘Greene on electric vehicles and Gay Rights.
We’re gonna drill oil right here in the USA. And you know what, Pete Buttigieg can take his electric vehicles and his bicycles, and he and his husband can stay out of our girls’ bathrooms.’
‘Greene on LGBTQ1
“Probably in about four or five generations, no one will be straight anymore. Everyone will be either gay or trans or nonconforming or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different options there are.”’
Do you think exaggeration is a form of lieing or do you feel it is a rhetorical tool like Jarek?
And yet much of what she says though incendiary is actually correct.
Ilhan Omar literally married her brother!
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9891015/Claims-DNA-match-proves-Ilhan-Omar-married-brother.html
I literally had an Egyptian captain tell me while I was in the US Navy women are for babies and boys are for fun.
Islamic law allows men to divorce women by telling them they are divorced and not sleeping with them anymore.
A movie was made about Afghani Muslims liking young boys and outlawing kite flying and fighting.
newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/the-true-afghan-history-that-inspired-the-kite-runner-book-movie-and-play
Women like Grace are the bread and butter of the Democratic party.
Where’s the beef!
In the sandwich, of course, messianicdruid. You’re as bad as OG…another religious weirdo who thinks it’s all ‘mystical’ and that you ‘know’ the universe & have some ‘god’ figure who talks to you. Good grief.
Grace is not a woman that is old man weirdo Majella aka legion of dunce back for another round of stupidity.
Won’t be long before this brain-dead idiot insults the host and gets tossed again.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is raising some eyebrows with a comment he made about the U.S. territory of Guam during a House Armed Services Committee hearing last Thursday.
In a discussion regarding a planned military buildup on the Pacific island, Johnson expressed some concerns about the plans to Adm. Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet.
“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize,” Johnson said. Willard paused and replied, “We don’t anticipate that.”
Online pundits have wasted no time lampooning the congressman for his remarks.
They tried to spin it as if he meant to many people will over tax the limited resources….um yeah no Hank Johnson is a moron like most DEMOCRATS.
Democrats? Not Blacks?
Maybe you should be a Democrat.
Pretty sure you already are a Democrat..
And at times dumb enough to fool everyone into thinking so.
Pretty sure Ben Carson (R) a renowned brain surgeon is black as pitch and smarter than you.
David Webb(R) another black man appears to be much smarter than you.
Biden a white man dumb as dirt and a Democrat.
CSchumer you guessed it a Democrat and dumb.
DDurbin (D) Dumb.
AOC (D) brown lady as dumb as Biden and also another Democrat.
Barney Franks(D) Dumb and probably your hero dumber than dirt and you guessed it a Democrat.
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
BY EZRA POUND
After Li Po
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Ch?kan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.
At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.
At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever, and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?
At sixteen you departed
You went into far Ku-t?-en, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.
You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me.
I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Ch?-f?-Sa.
Jarek: The perfect poem of feminine growth from scowling, ill mannered adolescence to loving maturity, feeling her husband to be her lord.
How few attain this maturity in the West.
If they do not raise their children properly, they will have to raise their grandchildren.
In the path of totality, here in Maine, it was eerie. At first, the quality of the light changed and everything looked different from any way that we’ve seen it before – as if someone used a new filter. Detail seemed sharper as it gradually grew darker. At no point was the dusk or darkness similar to daybreak or sunset. Both my husband and I had the sensation of the hair standing up on the back of our necks and along our arms. It felt supernatural, a bit like experiencing the end of all that is known – at least, for a brief time. Not entirely comfortable, but awesome.
Hey, somebody is firing missiles at the Zaphor???? Nuclear Power Plant in Eastern Ukraine. Russia is running the Plant and apparently is doing a pretty good job. Currently there is an Atomic Energy Commission on premises conducting a safety inspection. Nevertheless, articles on BBC & DW make it sound like Russia is shelling the facility; in effect, Russia is shelling itself lol.
All joking aside, this is the largest nuclear facility in Europe, and any kind of rupture or meltdown would pose a disaster for the world. If I’m not mistaken this is the first time a nuke power plant found itself in the middle of a warzone.
Meanwhile, in Dearborn, Michigan, at a ‘Vivala Palestina’ rally, of course “Death to Israel” being shouted out — no surprises there — followed up by “Death to America” chants. These people don’t seem very patriotic, nor do they seem happy to live here. In Dearborn, birthplace of the Custer family.
Immigration is the problem. legal or otherwise.
“Death to America”…these infidels are in merica. death to them too?
It shows the power of the Empire that there are actually IAEA inspectors at that plant, and the Ukies hit the canteen where employees eat, and the IAEA STILL won’t say who is attacking the plant.
It is a mystery, my son.
The US, of course, says that Russia is attacking a NPP that they control, in an area they control, because………don’t ask questions or use logic, that’s what.
Same as the US blowing up the Nordstream pipelines, and Germany, Denmark and Sweden all investigating, but being unable to find out anything. Go figure.
Sweden and Denmark flat out quit. No point in angering Scary Nuke Country, is my guess.
And then there is the OPCW, too afraid to point fingers at the actual perps in the gas attacks, even when two of their own investigators blew the whistle.
Just ignore what the experienced on-the-ground investigators say, and go with what the CIA tells them to say.
It’s safer that way. They know where your children go to school.
MX Vet 57 boasted, “Tomorrow I will school you. It’s late here in S.Georgia, but look for your lessons at some point in the AM.”
Can I sit in?
Please!
and Thank you!
It’s the 11th and still no schoolin! I searched the whole blog…disappointed. I love to learn!
The great poetry critic William Logan:
“Whitney Hanson is a TikTok phenom, the rear cover of Home boldly declares; if you get to be one, you might as well blast it out with cornets and trumpets.1 She clings to the lower case, that humble posture full of arch pretension—the copyright page is the only place inside where the restless eye can rest on capital letters. Hanson’s poems are fleeting as summer breezes, wailing about disappointed love with none of the dispatch or subterranean energy of haiku:
let me borrow the parts of you
that i need to make me whole
*
all my hope fell like petals to the floor
along with every i love you i ever said
*
i have a bad habit
of clinging to the people and places
that have been hurting me.
Such insights have all the weight of dandelion floss. I get it. It’s a terrifying, uncertain world, for which Gen Z is ill equipped. To members of the Greatest Generation, or the Boomers born to the specter of nuclear holocaust, or every new generation until the millennials took charge, wars, stock-market crashes, Category 5 hurricanes, climate change, and much else seemed merely the collective fate of life on Earth. For Gen Z, it’s the final exam for which they forgot to study.
Hanson’s lovelorn poems are haunted by the girl who got away, though quickie affairs later (with men and women) flare up and die like fireworks. It’s hard to know what makes the poet more irritating, the incessant moaning about being unlovable or the conviction that she has profound insight into the tenderest emotion. Hundreds of young poets write better than Whitney Hanson, yet none will ever become a TikTok phenom. For that you’d need the special gift of dumbing up to your audience.
The poet must be allergic to adjectives and concrete nouns, and when she attempts a metaphor it’s a fossilized cliché (“i am not your pawn”) or accidentally hilarious (“the file cabinet in my mind”). She writes a few lines that strut and fret; but just once, seemingly by accident, does she approach something that might be mistaken for poetry—“i’m going to get groceries today but to me the dairy aisle isn’t far from the insane asylum.” I’m not sure she knows how much that reveals. You do wonder, though, what’s being taught in high school when a poet thinks that “alright” is a word, or that a line like “you have to let the hostage go without reparations” means anything at all. (Did she intend “ransom” instead?) Just when you think Hanson has mastered “who”/“whom,” she stumbles twice in one poem.
Hanson loves to tag poems with New Age phrases that should have been forcibly retired when baristas started getting tips for tats: “toxic relationships,” “attachment issues,” “trust issues.” Whiny, childish, annoying as a squeaky bicycle wheel, the poems in their sad, fey repetitions and fourth-grade vocabulary remind me of those cardboard faeries that fooled the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or the rubbish the actor James Franco was writing when he was enrolled in, was it two, or four, or six mfa programs?
Concealed beneath Hanson’s wounded winsomeness is a heavy dose of Sacher-Masoch:
first, i shave off all my hair
if you want to run your fingers through it again
it’s on the floor where you left my heart
next, i peel off my skin
i cannot keep anything your hands have touched
then, i pull out my eyes.
Despite this brief visit to Plathland, Hanson’s poems are otherwise so sickly sweet the fda has issued warnings against reading more than two or three at a go.
Had enough? How about “you are not alone/ even the air you breathe/ was exhaled by your friends/ the trees” or “if you poke holes in my skin/ i’m quite certain/ that sunlight will spill out”? Even the rare half-decent line looks cheap and nasty in the company it keeps. This book of cozy, fortune-cookie sentiments; New Age emollients; and wisdom dispensed from a gumball machine drags Hanson into that pantheon of wretched poets who unaccountably became popular, one extending from Anne Morrow Lindbergh to Rod McKuen to Atticus to Rupi Kaur. (Hanson is the latest Rupi Kaur wannabe.) Readers so easily satisfied never want poetry more demanding and don’t really understand what poetry is for—that is, to chasten and subdue.
It would be shortsighted always to review the bon ton or Upper Ten of the poetry world, no matter whether the reputations are well or ill deserved. What’s really going on often starts in the lower depths. Hanson self-published this book two years ago, and the sales were so astonishing that Penguin has now reissued it with a smattering of new poems. Her new publishers are laughing all the way to the bank—yet they can’t afford a copy editor. A sequel is already scheduled.”
Me:
Obviously, this goes far beyond the assessment of one poetry book. It’s a wholesale condemnation regarding academic dumbing-down, social priority of self-esteem over accomplishment, the idiocy of the audience, grammatical incompetence, and narcissism.
I only have one quibble with Logan here: he mentions McKuen and others as being forerunners in a lineage of awful poetry. Yes, but at least McKuen, e.g., could compose a sentence and look outside himself. Things were bad 30 years ago, but they’re much worse now.
how is this post helping us?
Don’t dumb yourself down to become a consumable good for pigs. You sell yourself short and are way outside of the range of who and what you imagine yourself to be.
Class dismissed
Kornado confessed, “I’m not religious but I am becoming more open to evil emerging.”
That is not a requirement to obnose.
Evil is subjective, wickedness is not.
godskingdom.org/studies/books/the-problem-of-evil/chapter-2-defining-evil-and-sin/
I will try to use “obnose” in a sentence today, I think I grok what you are saying, stranger
To offer an example;
A hurricane off Key West coming toward your place would be considered evil because of potential destruction and loss of life.
Subjectively, a person in the glass/ window replacement industry could see increased need after a storm and stocked up on the products his customers required and should be rewarded for it.
No wickedness in this scenario.
Here is an example of the evil nature of the Left wing.
Arizona is being condemned today by the abortion nuts. Why? The Arizona Supreme Court just said that the 1864 Abortion law will prevail which is “No abortions except to save the mother” is now in effect as it was what was in effect when Roe was judicially put into effect by SCOTUS and then taken away by SCOTUS. No law in place, the old law goes back into effect.
Okay, Lefties, Constitution 101. The Supreme Courts cannot make law, PERIOD. They can interpret law even declare a law unconstitutional, but they cannot pass a law. Lefties, get busy in Arizona, get a new law on the books like all the states are doing right now, like all laws, compromise, a word Democrats hate, get passed by both houses, Hobbs will sign it and it will become state law. You are NOT going to get your murderous unlimited slaughter abortion bill you want, but you just might get a good 15 week, rape, incest and mom safety bill that makes sense,
Like every other state is doing.
IMHO. Abortion is a crappy excuse for a lack of individual effing responsibility. Abortion for convenience sake is murder.
BTW, precedence has been set for something very important. The Michigan murder case where the kid killed a college student has the parents going to the slammer for manslaughter for 10 to 15.
What a thought, parental responsibility. Parents might be responsible for what their kids do? Hey, not according to the Dems where the kids outweigh the parents rights. Good move.
JAZ I gotta disagree with you on the decision in the Michigan murder case. The parents are guilty of manslaughter because their kid killed 4 other students?
This was not a “conservative”, “law and order” decision about “responsible parenting”. This was an anti-gun decision. “You have guns in your house, you go to prison if your kid kills someone”.
The parents “ignored warning signs”? As if they knew their child would kill fellow students?
Meanwhile we release multiple offender illegal aliens after they have committed several crimes, who then go on to commit murder. The precedent set in the Michigan case should lead to the conviction for manslaughter for any judge who released these “newcomers”.
I’m for strict penalties for irresponsible gun ownership and irresponsible judge-ship. Hang them all.
Were the guns locked up in a gun safe?
Was the ammo for them locked up in the safe and in an ammo can?
Are their trigger locks on the guns?
Most of my guns are kept like the above and only the shotgun is ready to go for home defense and I mean come in my house uninvited you might get 00 buck shot to the face or a slug if I feel more forgiving there is always the Louisville slugger to the grill as well.
Yes, adults are responsible for their children but if they took precautions like the above that is a bad decision.
Just make damn sure of the intent of whoever comes into your house, such as if they’re somehow compromised and make an honest mistake.
So if you have guns in your house, your responsibility for both those guns and the kid’s access to them is not yours? Parents are responsible for every action of their children. I know the Lib scum are trying to remove that, but who else is responsible for the actions of kids.
Most of the slaughters are kids detected by folks prior to their occurrence and reported, usually to the FBI. There is drops into a hole due to the fact they are prioritized into getting Trump.
I do agree with your assessment on the “Newcomers”. Whoever signs off on them entering the US should be responsible in court for their actions. Just think if the asswipes in Dc had to take that responsibility.
The kid was tried as an adult.
Libtards having their cake and eating it too.
ETHAN CRUMBLEY was tried as an adult.
I would have voted the parents not guilty due to that fact.
As I heard it, both parents were remorseful at sentencing. Or were they just faking it?
April 10 2024
If they kill the red heifer tommorow, 2 Nissan,
make that sacrifice, burn it to ash
add that ash to water
cleansing the ritual impurity
The dead mens taint
Of all of the chosen
All of Israel
Even our very own Jim right here with us
Our very leader
We should rejoice.
For though I’ll turn away upon that very day
From screens that might show a
Jewish messiah ushered in by that ritual
That the temple might be built again.
I will turn away because that Jewish messiah will be
the Antichrist, and to look upon him
Is to be owned.
But either way, He stops the nuclear war
Negotiates a lasting peace
In both Europa and the Middle East
And here and there and where we have always been at war
And the Bear sits down
And the Eagle falls to ground
To worship Him
And together with the dragon He rules all the world
From His temple,
His throne in Rome
For a short short time.
A time and a time and a half.
2.5 years
Remember that martyrs were all quite scared to die
Until the first bite
When God heard their cries
And He filled them.
From his temple AND his throne in Rome.
I’ll turn away upon that very day
From screens that might show a
Jewish messiah ushered in by that ritual
That the temple might be built again.
I will turn away because that Jewish messiah will be
the Antichrist, and to look upon him
Is to be owned.
That is one scary trap. I pray that God will protect us.
Me too OG. God bless.
OG
Have you read the latest on the three secrets of Fatima?
The AntiChrist will be the last pope. Secret no. 3.
Hey JAZ. You don’t say! Do you have a link?
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Personally, when it comes to figuring out how it will be done, I’m humbled by His Word being fulfilled to the very letter in front of my eyes. I try to figure it out while a beast with so many heads but a different number of crowns has a (seemingly) mortal wound while we may not buy and sell lest we take Lucifer’s mark and …
I can’t figure it out. It’s humbling as I have prided myself in being able to figure shit out. Not this one. Not even close.
I consider myself a mere witness (and an amateur historian) to His Glory fulfilled.
***
Lahaina 8/8. Lest we forget.
Not very secret then…
Okay, OG. I probably read an interpretation of a bunch of articles on the three Fatima prophecies.
The three were centered on the role of Russia and the Church and the role of repentance in the church in stopping Russia. The third prediction happened later in the 1960s when St. Lucia was finally told to tell the third secret.
I googled. “Fatima last pope anti-Christ and came up with a lot of reading. The essence of the thing I had read came from the prediction of the eventual killing of the Pope of Fatima by the forces of evil and his replacement by the Anti-Christ in the papacy. It comes from the demise of the Bishop in White, thought to be the Pope.
The whole Fatima thing has fascinated me for decades as the three Secrets were given to the three kids in front of thousands and when the kids asked for a sign from Mary, a miracle of the Sun coming down and then retreating was witnessed by that crowd, including a bunch of gov. Types who were trying to squash Christianity for a new secular government.
Yeah, Revelation is humbling as hell, so to speak.
One thing I consider is that maybe, if we can accept a God from another Universe or another dimension, maybe the dialogue is literal and what we read is John’s interpretation of what he saw?
Like Ezekiel’ s vision of God and angels.
Boy, am I way over my head, or beyond my pay grade.
Jaz and Og,
If I remember correctly Lucia said, the Virgin told her, “The Pope will realize his mistake, but it will be (too), late.”
He will be martyred along with a multitude of religious and faithful, (that’s the bishop in white part), climbing their calvary while an angel collects their blood in a chalice.
Yes, I think the Antichrist is next as the thousand plus year old prophecy of the line of popes ends with Peter the Roman, this current pope. See Malachi popes prophesy.
See the Jerusalem standard for the red heifer explanation. Read the comment!
Og the beast heads and crowns and mortal wounds healed are apparently communism, back from the grave rebranded globalism. Trudy is a head!
You all know the mark, luciferase, jabzz in execelius, implanted biometrics, etc.
Fatima was witnessed by 90+ thousand, the whole miracle.
This is the conclusion of Fatima. The question is timing. And God is outside of time so it’s moot.
“In the end Russia will show the way.” Ol Fatima.
Qwibqwib, lots of faithful drank the poison,…. coof poison.
I cannot speak to the saved.
Jar, baby! That was me and my understanding of what’s going down.
Different religions, fine. Keep your eye on the ball boyo.
And the ball here is one worl government ruled by the peace maker antichrist. Worshipped by billion after stopping the nucs.
Much christian blood to follow.
Do not look at him.
Believe the warning.
Full warning info at Garabandal official webpage.
You said Judaism and Christianity are the same and quoted some wack job to that effect.
Utter nonsense.
Jar. I wrote a poem
A distillate of what I understand
Though derivative, Christianity and Judaism are not the same religion.
You might be confused by my mediocre poetry.
Mathew 23-24 KJV: [23] Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. [24] For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
“if it were possible” – It is not possible for a saved believer to take the mark. Prove me wrong…
It is possible, but then they are no longer a saved believer.
Your damnation is just a sin away. Always!
Yes, you’re on the plane. But you have the right to open the door and jump out.
John 1:12-13: “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name, who were begotten…of God.”
John 10:28-29: “And I give to them eternal life, and they shall by no means perish forever, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father…is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.”
If you believe of Jesus, you become one of Gods children. Once God has you in his hand, NO MAN, that includes yourself, can remove you.
All it takes is faith the size of a mustard seed. It truly is a great gift! It’s no longer a gift if it’s taken away. The good news!
Matthew 17:20: “And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
I usually stay out of religious arguments, but I think this is batshit crazy.
.songforisrael.org/news/indexphp/2022/9/red-heifers-arrive-in-israel-what-does-this-mean
Organized religion is batshit crazy.?
no animal sacrifices are evil.
Yes Paula D, “Let lose the gates of woo-woo.” It’s getting ever crazier. We should all be open to new ideas when backed by evidence.
I suspect there are revelations about our ruling elite coming out this year which will shock the normies.
Good ani. Just remember that so called prophet you quoted is wrong. The two religions aren’t the same. If they were why did Christ say to his disciples, Soon they will drive you from the synagogues and consider killing you a good deed? As he said, the new wine (teachings) need a new wineskin since it would split the old one.
From the catechism I was telling you about:
What of John 4:22 where our Lord says: “Salvation is from the Jews”?
Jesus Christ himself is fulfillment of this prophecy , whereas contemporary Judaism, also called Talmudic or Rabbinic Judaism – without temple, priesthood, or sacrifice – is not the same religion that God established in the Old Testament. Rejecting the true Messiah, the Old Law has thus become both “dead and deadly”.*
Section 1, Chapter 6, Question 205 of Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith by Bishop Athanasius Schneider
*Thomas Aquinas
In any case, Christianity is now gone as well for the most part. So we’re in much the same boat. But if we understand the above, we can explain it to the confused of both former religions.
The destruction of the second temple was the conclusion of that covenant from my understanding. And the modern state of Israel does not really factor into the biblical prophecy in that way accordingly. The Temple now resides in the remnant. Which can’t be Rome either because that is the throne of the modern day Sanhedrin. It is already here among us.
1 John 4:3
and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
1 John 2:18
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.
2 John 1:7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
The bad center is described as Babylon of the seven mountains. Rome was built on seven hills, as was many other cities around the world, including DC and Moscow.
Cincinnati is “Little Rome”, built on seven hills.
So if the bad guys are coming from Babylon, I wonder where that might actually be.
I could really believe it is DC.
I take it to be the heart. Each one being a battlefield. Billions of battles and wars taking place simultaneously.
No one messes with the Bidens! -Joe Biden
Aimme Harris, a Florida woman who found and later sold President Joe Biden’s daughter’s journal to the activist group Project Veritas, was given a one-month prison sentence and three years of supervised release on Tuesday.
Two months after Aimee Harris missed the initial sentencing date due to “an illness,” Judge Laura Taylor Swain handed down the sentence.
Although they did charge her with subverting the political process, the penalty is much harsher than what prosecutors had previously requested.
“She wrongfully exploited her physical access to the intimate belongings of someone whom she did not know personally, but knew as a public figure who whose property would fetch a handsome price tag,” prosecutors said. “Stealing personal belongings of a candidate’s family member, and selling them to an organization to exploit them for political gain, was wrong and illegal no matter the political agenda.”
In June 2020, Ashley Biden moved out of a friend’s home in Delray Beach, Florida, but left behind many personal items, according to the prosecution. She was given permission by the house’s owner to retain the belongings there.
Federal prosecutors claim that after Ashley moved out, Harris moved in, found the belongings, and decided to sell them with another defendant, Robert Kurlander. They first gave the information to the Trump campaign team, but they were turned down. Afterwards, they made the decision to sell the diary to Project Veritas, a conservative activist group.
In August 2022, Harris and Kurlander entered a guilty plea to a conspiracy charge, acknowledging that Project Veritas had given them $20,000 in payment.
“Highly personal entries” were found in the journal, according to the DOJ.
Although the journal’s contents were not published by Project Veritas, entries eventually surfaced online. One of these entries allegedly stated that now-President Joe Biden would consistently ask his daughter, Ashley, to take showers with him. The alleged diary entry stated, “I remember… showers with my dad (probably not appropriate).”
One month for selling what amounts to abandoned property?
People get less for stealing stores blind all over the country and then selling the purloined junk.
Could it be the allegations contained in diary is causing Joe Biden some embarrassment?
Naw who are we kidding he has sniffed and pawed at little girls in public right in front of their parents while on camera for years.
What is the penalty for making up fake dossiers on a political opponent and releasing them to the press?
Saying someone is a Russian asset with zero proof and nothing close to reality is the case?
Claiming Trump engaged in Quid Pro Quo while having actual video evidence of the other guy (JOE Biden) bragging publicly about engaging in exactly that?
Using the fake Dossier above to start a multimillion-dollar FBI investigation that took years and came up with next to nothing while bankrupting many people and jailing them for process crimes?
I FEEL LIKE WE ARE LIVING IN BIZZARRO WORLD HERE.
Well said, Ben. Bizarro World indeed.
You could have added the ‘Classified Documents’ accusations as well. Two Presidents are known to harbor classified docs, only one is taking the heat over it. On top of that, I’ve read every former President has in their possession materials that are classified and can be found in any Presidential Library. I know myself from my time in the Navy that anything and everything is classified information.
I figured someone would add on…thanks.
The real problem is what you have said in plain English.
We live in Bizarro World. It is the state of America now. So what do MAGA people do? Benr, you live in Newsom crazed California, BRH, you live in Crazy Connecticut. Both are in latter stages of socialization. I live in Airhead Mexican Arizona, in early stage of socialization.
We are residents of recently developed insane asylums. We have seen nothing yet, wait until the immigrants lose their welfare status. California will no longer be the “home of the free”, but the realm of the homeless. Arizona is a split personality, its liberal city, Phoenix and Maricopa county overwhelm its traditional conservative folks.
So what to do? I do not have a clue.
Be adaptable, go with the flow?
Move to a Red zone? Believe me, that is a temporary solution, Arizona is proof of that.
Expat? Lots more folks are taking that route. The Libs actually want the middle class to take this route. They want a society, feudal in nature with peons and plutocracy.
California is converting the entire West, the Libs are relocated when not able to keep up in California and bringing their damnable liberal dogma with them. Who, in a million years, would think Arizona could go Blue, but here we are. So far, states currently purple, getting readyto Californicate.
Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Texas, Kansas.
Mary Queen moved from LA to Idaho, at last report she was saying she was witnessing the California conversion starting up.
For me, I would rather see legitimate Latinos
Invade Arizona than the Lib scum from California. We have a few acquaintances in our social group from California, Liberal to a person. Ostracized by their own doing.
My wife wants to drive to Tuscon of all places.
Why?
They just opened up a Soup plantation.
I looked at her like she was crazy a five-hour drive for soup and salad.
She gave me a choice of that or Disneyland for her upcoming birthday.
9news.com/article/money/business/sweet-tomatoes-tucson-arizona/73-f04f23ed-1264-40a5-8e55-245a4c6fdd0e
Might throw the drywasher in the back and make a mining weekend out of it at one of my gold mining clubs claims out that way.
benr indignant reported:
‘“She wrongfully exploited her physical access to the intimate belongings of someone whom she did not know personally, but knew as a public figure who whose property would fetch a handsome price tag,” prosecutors said. “Stealing personal belongings of a candidate’s family member, and selling them to an organization to exploit them for political gain, was wrong and illegal no matter the political agenda.”’
I’m just imagining the horrified screams of outrage if Melania’s private papers were purloined and sold for profit. But because this is a ‘Biden”, it’s okay? No hypocrisy here at all…no…
But would they be prosecuted?
Doubtful instead they would get a ticker tape parade in New York.
More to the point these rumors have been circulating for years about creepy Joe and been denied much like Hunter Bidens laptop was called Russian disinfo.
That of course turned out to be all true!
Lil Grace seems to be taking over for the tossed out Majella.
Make sure not to use the phrase you have no truck in this!
Team legion of dunce is on the prowl.
I’ve not been round here that long, benr – a couple of years, maybe? You think I’m some resurrected ghost?
We all know exactly who you are as far as posting content don’t even bother saying you are not the idiot who posted as Majella.
You have unmasked yourself on your first week back from yet another banning.
You folks are in power. You don’t have the moral high ground anymore – to the extent you ever did.
As Trump said, Melania was shunned by every fashion magazine in the Anglo-sphere.
Jarek, Trump is well-known for his hyperbolic statements (that is, he lies and even chooses to exaggerate his lies).
I don’t know if it could be called a “snub” but none of the top fashion magazines chose to put Malania on the cover once she became First Lady. And since then, where’s she been? In hiding from embarrassment – look what shit she has to put up with from her dear devoted Loser Husband?
Look folks the absolute envy from this fool is oozing out of every nasty statement.
Play a different tune already.
the headline reads:
Fast Food Workers In California Are Now Some of the Highest Paid Employees In America!
Meanwhile they never get your order!
Many barely speak english and seem to have attitude issues or tell you to learn spanish!
Next headline!
Workers Face Mass Layoffs and Reduced Hours after CA’s New Minimum Wage Hike
The next headline!
McDonald’s $25 ‘deal’ goes viral, users blame California’s minimum wage increase: ‘Your new normal’
For a 40 piece nugget meal and two large fries!
Gee what a deal!
Does this come with a cricket meal sprinkle?
Morons one and all.
Meanwhile they never get your order right!
Hiya Benr. We are sitting here in Oceanside just enjoying this fine weather.
We have been here for two days and have observed exactly what you are saying.
In Oceanside, our favorite place was overcrowded and understaffed. We walked in, open tables everywhere, 45 minute wait. We walked out. We ended up at Chili’s which was okay.
In Temecula, waitress foreign born and hard to understand.
No fast food yet.
BYOB/BYOFood
If I were a paranoid, conspiracy theorist, I might think a $25 minimum wage was the Blob’s way of destroying more businesses. Sure some people will pay the higher prices, but many will have to cut back on fastfood.
This whole rotten system can’t be fixed. It must fall. We hope something better arises, but history is seldom kind.
“The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubricated.”
Good one, OG! It’s about time for the sphincter to wise up to the dildo’s agenda.
Cutting back on ‘fastfood’ is NOT a bad idea, in and of itself, is it? And why not pay the burger-flippers sufficient that they don’t have to camp on your street, outside your house, and crap in your driveway, hmuller?
Oh Grace, you are a socialist to the core. I’ll bet you believe free market determined prices and wages are a crime against humanity. (Not that we’ve had a free market in America for a very long time.)
@grace
Spoken like someone with zero clue about anything.
Why not $100 an hour?
When does this stop while the rest of us never get that raise at the same time?
Hell they should just be given the business and the actual owner told to fuck off.
How about keeping up with the cost of living? California is very expensive, right?
A game needs referees, right Ben? We understand that in regards to F Ball, B Ball, Base B, and Hokey, but not in regards to the Game of Life, especially Economics?
Insane.
Nice welcome back to San Diego.
One of these visits we should meet up and have a coffee.
Usually once a year, catch you next trip.
Can you hear that sound? It’s the sound of the crony-capitalist plutarchy model failing. Good riddance.
Agreed, Zaz.
However, what the heck do we put in its place. The Left has no idea what to do or where to go.
They are outstanding at tearing things down, but do not have a clue about building things. I read your later posts, the only people who know how to build things are in the plutocracy.
I am not a believer in equity, it is the path to socialism, totalitarianism and dissolution.
“I am not a believer in equity, it is the path to socialism, totalitarianism and dissolution.” ~ JohnAZ
Equity meaning the actual term, or the bastardized/Orwellianized version, as in DEI?
Equity meaning everyone gets the same results regardless of their inputs.
UBI , 1600 credit cards, Removal of merit testing, Freebies for the gimmes.
I guess your DEI.
Remember equity and equality are NOT the same.
Yes that’s your State governpimp Orwellian/basterdized DEI version of ‘equity’– rather like anarchy’s treatment.
Some people lap it all up like the kool aid it is.
“However, what the heck do we put in its place.” ~ JohnAZ
A gift economy.
That is exactly what the Deep State is trying to do.
Want to turn a people worthless, give them money for nothing.Another saying:
The worst enemy for democracy is when the people find out they own the pursestrings.
I think you’re talking about a ‘government-handout economy’, which is exceedingly different from a ‘gift economy’, where people work for themselves and don’t rely on a central bank’s issue of currency to get the job done.
Remember what kind of site you’re on.
All men and beasts are created equitable
But some are more equitable than others. And they’re the ones that get more gibs.
Some pockets are managing/will manage. Gotta watch those hasty generalizations.
A black hole can be considered a pocket. But what if your pants are all pockets? How will they then serve as pants to keep you warm and modest?
How can you give or when you have nothing to give? If your pants aren’t pants anymore, there is nothing to hold the pockets in place – thus they cease to be pockets.
As Obi Wan said. Balance is key. The Force imbalanced is the Dark Side. And thus those who seek to always to be too good are devils from the pov of the Sith Lords. The Jedis have become devils!
Interesting points and actually, that might make for a neat fashion experiment; pockets taken from many pants and then sewn together to form a single pair of pants.
Anyway, in the preceding case, I was thinking more along the lines of the Amish and ecovillages and the like as the ‘equitable pockets’ or at least non-coercively hierarchical pockets.
All creature may be equal but the half that are worthless yet get their UBI or welfare make it equitable.
Pure communism. Equitable and equal.
Capitalism. Non-equitable but equal in opportunity.
Equity denies talent or character. Everyone is the same,
NOT.
John, there’s a pic online that demonstrates an example of equity where they have a line of people looking over a fence at something– maybe a ballgame or parade or something– including a child who has been placed upon a bench. The bench, presumably, illustrates what they mean by equity.
We all know that children don’t know as much as we do and have not had life’s experiences as we have and are generally shorter than us. That doesn’t make them lesser human beings for it. There are many ways to look at things and life of course.
Stephen Hawking, the late theoretical physicist, was of course in a wheelchair and spoke through some kind of computer. That was his ‘equity’, his ‘bench’.
Going forward, it is possible that our societies may be less able to afford certain forms of equity. Hopefully for some, it doesn’t become more of an excuse, a rationalization. It probably will and many will, like they already are, such as many homeless in American and elsewhere, fall through the cracks that open up and have to shit in the streets that once were relatively clean/well-maintained.
an MD charged me $300 for a few minutes of simple diagnosis [visual].
Lawyers $400-500 an hour.
Highest Paid Employees In America!..really?
Next time ask me. I’ll use some divination methods to diagnose you. And I can beat those prices.
Those fees might make me more ill leaving than entering.
I believe the headline is “some” of the highest paid employees in ‘Murica.
$41,000 the median income is only $52,000 and that is “professional staff”.
I know managers who make only in the $50k region.
Pump-And-Dump Immigration & The Woke PTB’s MO
The Pump:
SJW/Woke/DEI/ID-Politics/Rainbows Everywhere/Gender-Ideology/Sex-Changes-For-Kids/Etcetera
The Dump:
Tens of Millions of Immigrants
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“Pump and dump (P&D) is a form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements (pump), in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price (dump). Once the operators of the scheme ‘dump” (sell) their overvalued shares, the price falls and investors lose their money.” ~ Wikipedia
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“They asked me what the hell a Jew was anyway and I said, dunno, but it appears like maybe some kind of proto-antique-woke identity fusion thing with a religion, if not a furry, say, and we all have to accept it or else we will be fined or damned or bombed or something. Like the Palestinians I guess.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle (upthread)
‘Israel and Identity Politics’: Think about it.
Classical ID politics. The Woke of antiquity. The Palestine-Israel issue as a decades-long religion-based ID political skirmish. A Torah-based pump-and-dump immigration.
I’m still trying to understand …
“Ten of thousand” Lahaina residents were trapped by FBI grad, Vegas Turkey Shoot incident commander [whatever the flip that is!], Maui Police Chief/Coroner John Pelletier’s incompetent nincompoops who barricaded all exits from the primo real estate that the simple residents refused to sell and then a raging inferno burned it all to a fine cinder … but the official death toll, eight months later, is 101.
Also, I keep waiting for the results of the investigation on Pelletier’s deadly barricades but … Russia, Russia, Russia!
God bless the souls of the rightful heirs of Lahaina – DEWed by their own government. DEWed to death.
*”Ten thousand”
– Ann Williams [eye-witness and last escapee as Pelletier’s nincompoops (at best) barricaded the last exit from the ultimate kill zone]
https://www.amren.com/news/2024/04/baltimore-is-selling-1-homes-amid-15000-abandoned-properties-and-high-crime/
That’s one dollar, volks. The Reconquista was started by two hundred White guys with swords up in the mountains. Who’s with me?
One the other hand, what entities dwell in those boarded up, supposedly vacant houses? What tunnels connect them? The Old Ones said that they would take over another human city, next time a much bigger than one than Innsmouth.
Perhaps the wisest thing would be too bring in Blacks from Detroit and encourage them to teach the locals about the tradition of Hell Night. Clear out those houses. Start fresh in a weed infested wasteland. Tripp said he know about fast ways to create top soil. In the meantime, hunt for rabbit and raccoon in the wilderness. Block any remaining roads to keep out those who would ally with the Black natives who will oppose our colonization.
I’m on the East Coast but I’d be tempted as that is sort of up my alley.
Topsoil’s pretty easy. Just compost your ass off from grocery store food for a few years. Deliberately grow weeds on it to fix the nitrogen and maybe mix it with soil brought in from elsewhere to get the natural organisms back into it too, into a probably more dead soil.
As for the houses, what you might be able to do is use part of them to retrofit/renovate the other. IOW, if the houses might have had additions/extentions added, they can be pirated for materials to renovate the rest of the house.
As for the surrounding neighbourhood, if enough $1 houses were available close to each other, then a bunch of you could do a few of them at once and create a kind of microneighbourhood, along with a crimewatch/copwatch sort of program. But at the same time, I’d try to appeal to the local residents already living there. Try to nurture a sense of community in your group and vis-a-vis the community– backyard BBQ’s, neighbourhood revilalization discussion meetings, even have some houses selected more as community gathering places (even with edible gardens all around) and that might include shared laundry facilities, cafe and a woodworking setup in the basement. Maybe a pool in the backyard.
Stuff like that. Stuff that matters. News for nerds.
Someone once joked: empty Detroit of it’s current occupants, bring in a half million Chinese immigrants and watch the improvement.
Sadly true, and perhaps ominously prescient.
Or teach the people already there who haven’t had much use for being useful in the contexts of their own lives. Governments, AKA Nanny States, are a disaster, if not now, then waiting to happen.
“Try to nurture a sense of community in your group and vis-a-vis the community– backyard BBQ’s, neighbourhood revilalization discussion meetings, even have some houses selected more as community gathering places (even with edible gardens all around) and that might include shared laundry facilities, cafe and a woodworking setup in the basement. Maybe a pool in the backyard.”
Zaz, with all respect, you have no idea…”
Well I’m sort of half joking but at the same time, you start with pie in the sky, and see where you can take it, how far you can walk. Like when you get up off your knees. And I seem to recall ages ago coming across some activity like that in Detroit.
Point is that as governments become increasingly ineffective, it’s up to the people again, acting more under their own volition. You know, shake the cultural infantillism loose, take the thumbs out of the mouths and put on those big boy and girl pants again. Do it more like our ancestors use to.
…Besides, how does Baltimore compare with Gaza.
Christiania
youtube.com/results?search_query=christiania
Yea, the east coast of the island would be a good beach head. For the Republic!
I can oppose you at every turn and in all things if I wish to
Sovereign and elevated beings are actually in no need of government whatsoever as the heart and mind are appropriately governed. Governments have developed because most hearts and minds are still Simian and crude.
Well said, hun.
…with the caveat, of course, that some ‘crude simians’ may inevitably take over and become government.
Will the next thing be bird flu in food and water? Is there actually a such thing as bird flu?
Israel threatens to drop NUKES if U.S. stops sending free weapons to the murderous Zionist regime
naturalnews.com/2024-04-10-israel-threatens-nukes-us-stops-free-weapons.html
In yet another temper tantrum, the welfare state of Israel is threatening to start nuking its targets if the United States stops supplying the Zionist regime with weapons.
Israeli MK Nissim Vaturi, a representative in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, issued the threat in an unsubtle way, invoking the perceived threat of Iran retaliating against Israel for bombing its embassy in Syria.
“In the event of a conflict with Iran, if we do not receive American ammunition … we will have to use everything we have,” Vaturi stated.
In other words, unless the U.S. continues to supply free weapons and ammunition to Israel in order to “bless” the Zionist regime – and thus not be “cursed,” according to a bastardized misinterpretation of Genesis 12:2 – then Israel will have no choice but to start dropping nuclear weapons on its enemies.
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Yeesh!
Omg I’m so frightened by the Zionists lol
If you say anything they don’t like, you will be targeted and harassed. Ask Clif High.
I’ll give him a call to check lol. But for real, yeah, like i’m pretty certain I’m on their lists. But I lack care or concern. The beams of burning light from Christ’s eyes will be far more conclusive than anything I can throw at them.
Why did you go to college there?
Right. Extortion is a horrific crime.
Yes, it is a very brutal tactic for sure. I actually believe there is a distinction between Zionists and Khazars. It may shock you that i say this but I don’t really think every Zionists is the enemy to you that you think they are.
it may shock you that I do not consider Zionists to be my enemies.
I see how you’re trying to change reality, and it’s not going to work on me, OG you’ll have to do better than that as i am unconvinced.
I was not even thinking of you, SSL, when I posted to CFN that Israel is, right now, extorting the USA with: “Keep sending us free conventional weapons or we’ll go nuclear.”
It’s not about you.
Wow, that is groundbreaking information, OG lol. Did someone make that claim? I certainly wasn’t thinking that. But this does reinforce the misdirection you are already working here. The conversation was about Zionists. I guess you’ve had a rough day and must not be at your best at the moment.
Huh? It was newsy and relevant that I post about:
Israeli MK Nissim Vaturi, a representative in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, issued the threat in an unsubtle way, invoking the perceived threat of Iran retaliating against Israel for bombing its embassy in Syria.
“In the event of a conflict with Iran, if we do not receive American ammunition … we will have to use everything we have,” Vaturi stated.
I have no idea why you are making such disturbing news about your assessments of me but I do understand that it is not relevant while posters here are “100%” behind this genocidal Israeli government and its despicable, child-like dangerous rhetoric.
It’s not about you, SSL. It’s not about me either. It’s about the announced Israeli extortion that is, right now, marching us into World War III. Now smarten up.
@JohnAZ
You and I disagree on several things, including the Middle East (and on several we agree).
If they nuke each other, it will be the world’s problem.
It will be OUR problem.
I don’t care if one is the most rabid Zionist, or one is the most rabid Israel-hater. There is no total victory over Israel, or over Iran.
Any kind of nuclear exchange, or even if only Israel is able to strike Iran only, and Iran cannot retaliate in kind
(and say that I just for the sake of argument, to indulge you. Iran can retaliate in lethal ways. Any serious government can unravel a fragile, “modern” society/economy.)
is going to wreak havoc on global petroleum production, and the consequences of that will not be good.
@OG
Iran is closing Tehran to commercial aircraft as of midnight local (so it’s closed). Before that, Lufthansa suspended flights to Teheran.
US CENTCOM commander, General Erik Kurilla will be in Israel Thursday to coordinate US/Israeli actions or advise on defense (I presume he’s not going for a round of golf).
All of this, probably not because of the bloodbath in Gaza, but because Israel took out an Iranian Consulate, which is an act of war.
Never mind. I just saw that Iran “denied that air traffic over Tehran is restricted due to military drills”. That’s a good sign.
Recall that the Iranians accidentally (they said, and I’m inclined to believe them) a Ukrainian passenger jet after the US assassinated the Iranian general in Baghdad, Iraq. They probably had itchy trigger fingers and incorrectly identified the airliner.
Simple solution: destroy Zionist nukes with Jewish space lasers
easy peasy..now calm your mind and return to your breathing exercises
Looks like there was shootout today at a Philly Muslim shindig celebrating the end of Ramadan. CNN isn’t saying who the gunmen were — which is always a clue — but this looks like it could be similar to the gunfight at the Superbowl celebration in KC, which started when Ty-rone, fully armed, said to Quantivarius “Whatchu looking at?” At which point bullets began to fly. In de hood, it don’t take much to initiate a shootout — a word, a look, a coveted pair of sneakers, that’s all
Wow. No doubt the media are joining together in prayer circles to summon a white nationalist perp! On the other hand it sounds like just another ho hum day in Philly. It takes the innocent phrase “those shoes are to die for” to a whole nother level (wah wah).
BRH,
Oft heard…”Say…I hear you been layin’ yo johnson on my old lady…”
Reparations are then suggested.
Yes Ely, reparations in the form of (stolen) 9mm rounds.
The Freetown of Christiania – Europe’s Greatest Social Experiment – turns 50
youtu.be/xFQMbWxpQew?si=O_v73UESUOvrIPrC
I was preoccupied with some other emotions this morning that I failed to note that we had a Derecho blast through this morning. I woke up and basically made the bed and did a few things here and there and next thing I know i hear this big wind slam against the house and like for a minute the big Nandina bush like disappeared it was being blown around so hard and the rain hit the window like it was a fire hose unleashed on the house. And my phone went off saying that there was catastrophic winds and to seek shelter immediately. I could hear tree branches flying and could see stuff flying and was like oh hell no and went into the hall lol. It was cray cray for like 10 minutes and then it basically calmed down and was just sprinkling with thunder. So literally it was a reminder once again that things can change in a few seconds. A tree snapped in the woods behind the house but luckily no big damage here or in the surrounding hood. Not looking good in Slidell.
Well, here we are…Who here loathes ISIS, Taliban & Sharia Law?
How is this different?
Arizona Senate floor:
youtube.com/watch?v=M8_RkrM4en0
Lol hilarious. This is nothing compared to what some people want to do. And they know who they are
Well Grace, here goes.
Do you believe that an unelected Supreme Court of any level can create law?
Like abortion right now, roe vs. Wade was thrown out because why? The Supreme Court finally admitted it did not have the right to make a law on abortion.
Judiciary is here to interpret law, not make law. If a passed law is unconstitutional, it is struck down by the Supreme Court. Period.
Abortion appears nowhere in the Constitution, Roe vs. Wade was a made up situation.
It is Congress’ job to make law, that is what the Supreme Court said, so go make the law.
Uh-oh. Whose job is it to make up this law? Hmm, look at the Constitution? It doesn’t say a thing about abortion. So amendment ten says any thing not called out in the Constitution passes to the states. Right?
Uh-oh again. SCOTUS just upheld amendment ten and said that a national law is not on the books.
States will have laws to regulate abortion. Arizona looked around and its Supreme Court said, Hey the only law present is the 1864 one so we will enforce that.
UNTIL A NEWER LAW IS ENACTED!!!
Ladies, the Declaration of Independence declare the rights of people to Life Liberty and the Pursuit.
So where does life begin? When does the Constitutional responsibility to protect a human life begin? Isn’t that what this is all about?
To a person who believes that a fetus is a human being, abortion is murder. To a person who believes than the union of an egg and sperm to create a new individual, a new DNA, a new creation, any abortion is murder. To some, a fetus is a scrap of flesh that is not a human being protected by the state, and can be killed at any time at the mother’s convenience.
Who is right? Depends on the law. Who writes the law? States, per the US Constitution.
The Arizona Supreme Court did its job and well. Now it is up to its legislature to enact a law that is a compromise so that in Clinton’s words, is available but very rare.
And by golly, not to the convenience of someone who does not have enough responsibility to avoid the problem in the first place.
BTW, if a compromise is not available in any state, abortion is off the table. Ladies, that is the Law.
And you too gentlemen, you are responsible for that new life just as much. How about we invest a lot of bucks into clobbering Dads who do not pay for their conquests?
Hmm, does that take us back somehow to the family unit?
Next?
Back in the olden days, I suppose that if a woman, man or family didn’t want the child, they’d do the whole term and delivery and then smash it against the rocks. Nowadays, the ‘Law’ does it overseas to older people using bullets and bombs.
Where did that happen Zaz? Perhaps in one of your primitive Neolithic hunter-gatherer societies you point to as fine examples of Anarchism in action.
Back then, it was just the regular lives of our ancestors– yours and mine. They had no word, anarchy, for it. It ‘just was’. Anarchy is, ironically or paradoxically, a response to the State and how it coercively operates. You live in an open-air prison, called America, BackRowHeckler. Calling yourself American is pretty much drinking the kool aid.
What about women who just walk out and take the kids and the house?
The homeless “conqueror” then has to support all of them, even if getting sick and losing his job.
They need to be dealt with too. People like Nicole Shanahan.
JohnAZ
If I understand it correctly, you’re an immigrant into Arizona, right? How much do you know & understand about this Law from 1864 and what it was intended to achieve?
From Heather Richardson, Professor of US History, Boston U (yes, it’s longish, but please do read it, it’s super interesting):
“With the federal recognition of the constitutional right to abortion gone since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, old laws left on state books once again are becoming the law of the land.
In a 4–2 decision, the all-Republican Arizona Supreme Court today said it would not interfere with the authority of the state legislature to write abortion policy, letting the state revert to an 1864 law that bans abortion unless the mother’s life is in danger. “[P]hysicians are now on notice that all abortions, except those necessary to save a woman’s life, are illegal,” the decision read.
The court explained: “A policy matter of this gravity must ultimately be resolved by our citizens through the legislature or the initiative process…. We defer, as we are constitutionally obligated to do, to the legislature’s judgment, which is accountable to, and thus reflects, the mutable will of our citizens.”
The idea that abortion law must be controlled by state legislatures is in keeping with the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. But it’s an interesting spin to say that the new policy is protecting the will of the citizens.
The Arizona law that will begin to be enforced in 14 days was written by a single man in 1864.
In 1864, Arizona was not a state, women and minorities could not vote, and doctors were still sewing up wounds with horsehair and storing their unwashed medical instruments in velvet-lined cases.
And, of course, the United States was in the midst of the Civil War.
In fact, the 1864 law soon to be in force again in Arizona to control women’s reproductive rights in the twenty-first century does not appear particularly concerned with women handling their own reproductive care in the nineteenth—it actually seems to ignore that practice entirely. The laws for Arizona Territory, chaotic and still at war in 1864, appear to reflect the need to rein in a lawless population of men.
The 1864 Arizona criminal code talks about “miscarriage” in the context of other male misbehavior. It focuses at great length on dueling, for example—making illegal not only the act of dueling (punishable by three years in jail) but also having anything to do with a duel. And then, in the section that became the law now resurrected in Arizona, the law takes on the issue of poisoning.
In that context, the context of punishing those who secretly administer poison to kill someone, it says that anyone who uses poison or instruments “with the intention to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being with child” would face two to five years in jail, “Provided, that no physician shall be affected by the last clause of this section, who in the discharge of his professional duties deems it necessary to produce the miscarriage of any woman in order to save her life.”
The next section warns against cutting out tongues or eyes, slitting noses or lips, or “rendering…useless” someone’s arm or leg.
The law that Arizona will use to outlaw abortion care seemed designed to keep men in the chaos of the Civil War from inflicting damage on others—including pregnant women—rather than to police women’s reproductive care, which women largely handled on their own or through the help of doctors who used drugs and instruments to remove what they called dangerous blockages of women’s natural cycles in the four to five months before fetal movement became obvious.
Written to police the behavior of men, the code tells a larger story about power and control.
The Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1864 had 18 men in the lower House of Representatives and 9 men in the upper house, the Council, for a total of 27 men. They met on September 26, 1864, in Prescott. The session ended about six weeks later, on November 10.
The very first thing the legislators did was to authorize the governor to appoint a commissioner to prepare a code of laws for the territory. But William T. Howell, a judge who had arrived in the territory the previous December, had already written one, which the legislature promptly accepted as a blueprint.
Although they did discuss his laws, the members later thanked Judge Howell for “preparing his excellent and able Code of Laws” and, as a mark of their appreciation, provided that the laws would officially be called “The Howell Code.” (They also paid him a handsome $2,500, which was equivalent to at least three years’ salary for a workingman in that era.) Judge Howell wrote the territory’s criminal code essentially single-handedly.
The second thing the legislature did was to give a member of the House of Representatives a divorce from his wife.
Then they established a county road near Prescott.
Then they gave a local army surgeon a divorce from his wife.
In a total of 40 laws, the legislature incorporated a number of road companies, railway companies, ferry companies, and mining companies. They appropriated money for schools and incorporated the Arizona Historical Society.
These 27 men constructed a body of laws to bring order to the territory and to jump-start development. But their vision for the territory was a very particular one.
The legislature provided that “[n]o black or mulatto, or Indian, Mongolian, or Asiatic, shall be permitted to [testify in court] against any white person,” thus making it impossible for them to protect their property, their families, or themselves from their white neighbors. It declared that “all marriages between a white person and a [Black person], shall…be absolutely void.”
And it defined the age of consent for sexual intercourse to be just ten years old (even if a younger child had “consented”).
So, in 1864, a legislature of 27 white men created a body of laws that discriminated against Black people and people of color and considered girls as young as ten able to consent to sex, and they adopted a body of criminal laws written by one single man.
And in 2024, one of those laws is back in force in Arizona.”
Well, that’s all a bit of an eye-opener isn’t it? The Age of Consent was set at 10 years, FFS. But the key point is that this despicable guy didn’t write that abortion law to protect ‘the lives of unborn children’ but to modulate the behavior of men even more despicable than him…that would be his ‘Deplorables’ in 1860s USA.
Jarek and Zaz’ Pocket Pants™: A Fashion Sensation!
kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/bang-and-whimper/#comment-867097
When is your engagement party lol?
We could move to JHK’s town and sell them in your gemstone-cafe shop.
Serve/chat with what few customers come in and just hang out and watch the world go by.
Maybe JHK can come in sometimes and bitch about national politics over whatever he likes to eat/drink. Do you think he prefers a coffee or tea and would he look good in a pair of pocket pants?
I would absolutely love that! I feel like he would prefer tea. I think he would look good in a pair of pocket pants. But he may also use the occasion to speak upon the profligacy of American suburban life.
Hard to tell whether tea or coffee for Jim. Maybe both. How about you? I prefer tea, but do like coffee once and awhile, maybe every 2 weeks, such as to ‘reset my tea palate’ and desire tea more once again.
Well our Greenwich gemstone-teahouse (what did you call it again before?) could be a bit of a venue– maybe live mic Mondays, say, and such as for discussions of that profligacy, or even related book clubs/reviews. And so forth.
Well, ok, tell you what. I am working on a business venture. It might flop or succeed. If it succeeds and we’re still here/alive, I might consider throwing some Greenwich’s way for something like that. We could even sell shares of it, or even co-ownerships, on CFN’s comment section.
I drink more coffee than tea. Dark roast preferably. What is your fave tea? I like chamomile tea. I think the name of the shop was Magical Enchantments And Tea. Something like that. I would have to go back to look for the exact name i came up with in the moment. I’m ready for a life change so let me know about your business venture. Or like if you wanted to be an investor in my start up.
Zazzy – I’m with you – your business venture will definitely either flop or succeed, not maybe. As a matter of fact, I guarantee it.
A cup is only a cup because of the empty space that makes room for the tea.
Was it Dirac who came up with the theory that ponderability varied inversely with reality? That space was far more substantial than the voids that we call things and bodies?
The Teachings of the Black Sun or Occlusion is just this study, of voids and their relation with Reality or Light.
Many great mystics don’t even care about things like the chakras or the functioning of the inner bodies. They’re just God junkies or Voidists in the Buddhists sense (not to be confused with atheist nihilists of course).
At a higher level in these Teachings, God is referred to as Divine Darkness or Hidden Light because of our inability to “see”. It’s too bright. Thus did Moses cover his eyes lest he lose them.
We’ll see more when our bodies are full of light, i.e, more evolved.
A woman should, must have the right to determine what is best for her own life and her own body. Reagan was right, ‘government is the problem.’ Conservative Republicans supposedly want limited government, except when it comes to a woman’s uterus.
Shame on Arizona.
‘Insisting abortion rights should be left to state governments, Donald Trump nonetheless said the rightwing Arizona supreme court went too far when it ruled on Tuesday that a 160-year-old near-total ban could be enforced.
Arizona’s abortion ban is a political nightmare for Republicans in the 2024 election.
“Yeah, they did [go too far],” Trump said on Wednesday to reporters at an airport in Atlanta, Georgia. “That’ll be straightened out, and as you know it’s all about states’ rights.”
Only on Monday, a day before the Arizona court said the 1864 ban could go into effect, Trump issued a lengthy statement seeking to stake out his position on abortion rights.
Such rights should be a matter for state governments, he said, while refusing to back rightwing calls for a national ban, a stance which has angered some close allies.’
I stand firmly with the individual’s right here and not with the states. Talking only about the political aspect and the Constitution regarding abortion neglects the huge moral question of a woman’s rights.
Ayn Rand clearly delineates the issue:
“Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to life.” A piece of protoplasm has no rights—and no life in the human sense of the term. One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy, but the essential issue concerns only the first three months. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable. . . . Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyone’s benefit, but for the sake of misery qua misery, for the sake of forbidding happiness and fulfillment to living human beings.
If any among you are confused or taken in by the argument that the cells of an embryo are living human cells, remember that so are all the cells of your body, including the cells of your skin, your tonsils, or your ruptured appendix—and that cutting them is murder, according to the notions of that proposed law. Remember also that a potentiality is not the equivalent of an actuality—and that a human being’s life begins at birth.
The question of abortion involves much more than the termination of a pregnancy: it is a question of the entire life of the parents. As I have said before, parenthood is an enormous responsibility; it is an impossible responsibility for young people who are ambitious and struggling, but poor; particularly if they are intelligent and conscientious enough not to abandon their child on a doorstep nor to surrender it to adoption. For such young people, pregnancy is a death sentence: parenthood would force them to give up their future, and condemn them to a life of hopeless drudgery, of slavery to a child’s physical and financial needs. The situation of an unwed mother, abandoned by her lover, is even worse.
I cannot quite imagine the state of mind of a person who would wish to condemn a fellow human being to such a horror. I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object. Judging by the degree of those women’s intensity, I would say that it is an issue of self-esteem and that their fear is metaphysical. Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today’s intellectual field, they call themselves “pro-life.”
By what right does anyone claim the power to dispose of the lives of others and to dictate their personal choices?”
TS
Her last paragraph, a searing penetration into the moral and spiritual confusion and perverted shallowness of female ‘pro-lifers’ applies to men as well. How many ‘pro-life’ men have insisted that their mistresses have abortions? Fucking hypocrites, nut swinging applejacks.
With men, it may be rooted deep in the sub-conscious. They lack a tremendous power, the power to give birth. Submerged, hidden resentments may be at work. They have the sperm but can’t go to term, can’t carry life and must emerge from between the female’s legs and the sacred sanctum.
How strange. See Alfred Kubin’s ‘Death Jump’ or ‘Death Dive’.
When we were rebellious kids, one of us did a brief comic about some kind of twisted superhero, called Abortion Man, while another did a song, called Shred The Baby. I even recall a skit from Saturday Night Live where the character (possibly played by Belushi) took the ceaselessly-crying baby and xylophoned its head across the bars of its crib.
Yet you stump for subhumans who would slit your throat amazing levels of disconnect.
The idea for the single cover for ‘Shred The Baby’ was a gloved doctor’s hand holding half of a baby against a cheese grater.
Some did a comic in San Francisco called Foreskin Man, an Aryan hero fighting Zionist doctors who kept circumcising non-Jewish babies without consent.
Sweet.
TS
You miss the point. I may agree or disagree with your ideals re:abortion. The Supreme Court of Arizona had no choice, the elimination of Roe vs. Wade removed a “superior federal law” and left the only thing in its place, the archaic 1864 law.
As I said, I do not care what anyone’s opinion of abortion is, the law that exists is the law. Until a new law is made, the judicial has no power to make a law, only interpret. You want to really screw things up, let the SCA void out the 1864 law and let things run open loop. Every OB GYN in this state will leave, afraid of what some local yokel judge is going to do to them. Total chaos.
What is happening right now is what drives me nuts about this country right now. Thousands of Karens are screaming out, “It’s my body, leave me alone with it.” Right now, no, it is not. No, there is no law that says when that unborn life becomes an individual protected by the state. The Karens want everything their way, the Pro-lifers want everything their way. Compromise is impossible, right?
Okay, until you combatants finally compromise on when that unborn person becomes a person,
You have 1864, NO CHOICE.
Instead of just bitching, why don’t you get to work and figure this out. Arizona’s legislature better get busy, the opposing lobbyists better get busy and hammer out a modern law that makes sense. It will be very difficult as one half calls freedom what the other half calls murder.
Oh, yeah, by the way, that is exactly what Trump is trying to do right now, find the middle ground. In this very stupid political country, I think that may be an impossibility. Give the man kudos for trying, the rest of the politicos are worthless.
Think what the FF were thinking. Restrict federal power and give remaining power to the states. Oh no, like every other issue, the damnable Left has to have everything their own way “or the highway”. Well, that attitude is about to destroy what little is left of the peoples power in this country. Actually, the Right is the same way.
John
‘You want to really screw things up, let the SCA void out the 1864 law and let things run open loop. Every OB GYN in this state will leave, afraid of what some local yokel judge is going to do to them. Total chaos.’
Explain ‘open loop’. If the archaic Arizona law is rescinded and nothing else is put in its place, then abortion here becomes legal, does it not? Why would doctors leave? That local yokel judge steps out of line, bring on the lawsuit.
Those you call ‘Karens’ are correct. It IS their body, and the state should have no control over it law or no law. Often enough you are against ‘state’ power, but in this case, you support it in a situation that involves a despicable intrusion into one of the most intimate and profound aspects of a woman’s life.
‘Pro-Life’ stupid, murdering slob; “Let’s blow up that abortion clinic and kill those people to save those cells!” Morons, low level, archaic, primitive killers. And idiots call abortion murder.
CHOICE
All very simple. If you don’t want an abortion don’t have one.
The issue is too often clouded by talk of when life begins, pain and suffering and other assorted distractions. Especially in this case, it’s the right of the individual that is paramount. Abortion causes society no harm, the opinions of pinhead Republicans notwithstanding.
Open loop means no control.
You are naive if you think that killing fetuses Wilber done without a law.
Can the SCA declare that abortion law unconstitutional? Maybe. Can it run without some kind of a substitute, I doubt it. Can it void it, absolutely not.
OB/GYNs are in low supply already because kids with problems that can be tied back to birth can sue the MD until age 18. I hate to think what women with remorse from having an abortion might attempt to do. It does happen.
Without guidelines, a law, that judge can rules a suit favorable to “hanging” the MD. Do not dismiss that with some of the heinous bullshit you have seen from our judicial system. A law makes it in print and legal, forcing everyone to operate off the same page.
Understand you are pro-choice, not everyone agrees with you. Even women. Not everyone would agree it does society no harm.
Note the infrahuman cunning of the woman who came up with the slogan: If men could give birth, abortion would be a sacrament. It IS a sacrament in both Feminism and Satanism, but of course they project that onto us rather than admit it. Because owning it would make them real people (even if not good) and not slaves or Satanists.
Anarchists and Enemies of the Open Society
December 1, 2022
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
“His book became a foundation stone of philosophical thinking about the nature of the state and the power it can wield, and although his thinking stemmed from his critique of the philosophers of ancient Greece, the lessons of his time were apparent to all who read the book.
In the book Popper decries the totalitarian tendencies of societies that adhere to the fallacy that progress is allied to historical positivism, pointing out that liberal democracy is the only form of government that allows institutional improvements without violence and bloodshed.
But what if democracy is used to introduce institutional change that is to the detriment of large segments of the population? Contrary to popular belief, a democratically elected government is not automatically concerned with improving the situation of the general public. As we are seeing in Israel now, the government that is in the process of being formed is concerned primarily to forward an agenda that suits a minority of the population which, because of coalitionary pressures, has gained the upper hand in the negotiations for ministerial appointments and their attendant powers.
A democratically elected government can introduce legislation that is racist, discriminatory and immoral, as Hitler did in 1933. The government now being formed by Benjamin Netanyahu panders to the demands of the ultra-right-wing, ultra-religious, misogynistic politicians who represent a minority of Israel’s population but by no means the majority. Some of those politicians have themselves been convicted of illegal actions. And as for Netanyahu, his own record has been sullied by accusations of fraud and corruption…
…I happened to find myself watching an interview with the latest recruit to Netanyahu’s government, the odious representative of Israeli fascism, Itamar Ben-Gvir. Asked about an incident in Hebron where a group of Israelis who had come to show solidarity with Palestians were physically attacked by some Israeli soldiers – a situation that makes my flesh crawl – he defended a soldier who felled and punched an Israeli demonstrator. ‘Don’t make excuses for them (the demonstrators)’, Ben-Gvir said, ‘They’re not left-wing. They’re anarchists.’
My concise Oxford dictionary defines anarchist or anarchy as ‘absence of government; disorder, confusion’, and so Ben-Gvir regards anyone who holds a view that differs from his as seeking to undermine the government and spread disorder and confusion. This would give the ruling regime the right to prosecute and punish anyone who holds views that differ from those of the government.
Welcome to George Orwell’s world of Newspeak, where war is peace, and bad is good. Only now we can call it Ben-Gvir-speak, where anyone who holds left-wing views is labelled an anarchist.
The enemies of the open society are fully entrenched among us.”
Huh, nothing about Hamas leadership on Gaza? One difference is Hamas is forwarding an agenda of a majority of its citizens, not a minority; 85% of the Gazan electorate votes for these criminals. As might be expected, as Hamas is Gaza’s chief employer, using international donations not only to pay for its leadership to live lavish live in Paris and Qatar, but also to pay laborers to dig an elaborate array of tunnels all over the territory. Digging tunnels appears to be the Gazans main occupation. Another ‘industry’ is using donated PVC piping, ostensibly for building a sewer & water supply system, into crude rockets they fire into Israel.
Israel is a top-down construct. It’s not a grass-roots thing. An identity politics.
It’s antiquity-Woke ideology with a religious bent.
Its ‘Israel, cuz God’…
Or you’re an anti-semite!
… And we’ll fine/ban/deplatform/jail/imprison/bomb you if you call our transvestites, men, imposed on the population in the region, in America and elsewhere.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, just take a look at the news.
This Israel-Palestine shit has been in the news for as long as I’ve been alive.
Israel-Palestine this and that for as long as I can remember. I’m sick of it.
I’m sick of the Jewish story too. I want my story and other people’s stories too. Where are they.
The Jewish story is a cultural lopside. My culture. What’s more is, what with the current Gaza/Palestine bombings, the allegory of the Jewish Holocaust is encircling the drain. After this, where will the force of it’s moral, it’s cautionary tale come from?
It’s like a couple of kids saying he did this and she did that and he started this and she started that. And it’s like, holy shit, both of you get in your respective rooms and I don’t want to hear a peep out of you until supper!
Israel as a State-religious-identity-politics ideology needs to wrap ‘n pack it up.
If the peaceful Jews want to hang around afterword and try make a lasting peace with the neighbours, then it’s more like grass-roots, the real deal. Not this impositional clusterfuck.
How about the State Religious Identity politics of the Islamic Republics of Pakistan, Iran & Qatar? Do you have any problem with that?
Of course not Muslims are a protected class and can do no wrong.
It was like pulling teeth to get him to sort of say kidnapping, raping, starving to death and murdering people in Israel was bad.
Lot’s of issues out there, kiddo, but we’re talking about Israel-Palestine ATM. Right?
Lucky for us you don’t control the ebb and flow of conversation.
If Israel is a construct name a country that is not.
All of the middle east was drawn up with straight lines that do not represent the people living within those straight lines.
More to the point many ancient bloodlines that have been major religious groups of people have been reduced to minority religious groups via warfare outright murder, rape, theft of daughters and married off to Muslims and taxed almost unto death as Dhimmi status.
Dhimmitude is a polemical neologism characterizing the status of non-Muslims under Muslim rule, popularized by the Egyptian-born British writer Bat Ye’or in the 1980s and 1990s. It is a portmanteau word constructed from the Arabic dhimmi ‘non-Muslim living in an Islamic state’ and the French (serv)itude ‘subjection’.
Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
@benr, one problem at a time.
Israel as a State-political entity shouldn’t be there. It’s not grassroots. If you want to argue that Muslims shouldn’t be there, that’s a different issue, if a way to shift the Israel-Palestine issue of course.
Iraq is predominantly Muslim. America waged a war on it apparently under false pretenses, in part using spent uranium no less. Assange is still in prison for illustrating some of its ‘tactics’.
America’s currently propping up Israel and NATO/Ukraine and has its hands in all kinds of pies, world-wide.
‘Yankee go home.’
(Leave Israel to its own devices. Call its nuke bluff. I say it’s bluffing. JHK says ashtray; I say tomato. Let’s call the whole thing off.)
” ‘Stop meddling in every flashpoint across the planet.’ ~ JHK
Ok, Jim, but that would seem to include Israel.”
~ The Man They Call Zazelle April 8, 2024 at 9:35 am
Yankee go home
“An outcry against the intrusion of the US and/or Americanisms into other cultures. As the spread of American culture has increased throughout the world, so have the calls of ‘Yankee go home!’ ” ~ TheFreeDictionary.com
…and take Israel with you.
…and worry about your own fucking backyard, like Baltimore or Detroit.
He brings up Israel and Jews, you bring up Palestine and Muslims. This is the perfection of two party politics. Want to break to log jam? Answer his questions without doing this. Talk about what he brought up.
Then you can do the same with him. But not until then.
Both of you seem to agree the Cult comes before Culture. He thinks we can do without Cult. You doubt it. I’m with you on that point. Individuals? Yes. The majority? No.
@jarek
He can’t because he has a very narrow understanding and won’t go beyond the Marxist playbook being used to take down Israel.
Just look at what they did to South Africa they are using the exact same playbook.
In the end the Whites lost control and hell on earth returned to this area.
South Africa was devoid of humans after Shaka wiped out every tribe in the region and the whites moved in and made a decent country out of it.
The blacks came south when there was something worth trying to steal and eventually convinced the world they were there first and the land was stolen.
Same exact shit.
“Albert Einstein, who once declined the Israeli presidency, said that ‘nationalism is an infantile disease‘ and after this journey, I would propose that madness is its root and its defining symptom. Various state agencies inflict madness on the Israeli and Palestinian populations. Their tactics are many. Every state inflicts some level of coercion and violence upon its population, but I know no state as brazen with its power as Israel, other than perhaps the U.S.” ~ Taylor Weech, Fifth Estate #390, Fall, 2013
There’s a lot of mythology about Einstein. In fact, he was a committed Zionist and thus a Nationalist – but exempting Israel from the above. We’ve seen this take before, right?
Maybe he wanted accord with the Palestinians, not sure. Some Jews did, especially early members of the Kibbutz movement. But pace Hegel, quantity has a quality in and of itself. Far too many Jews came in to ever reach any accord with Muslims.
Some of them welcomed the Jews at first and the capital they brought in. Then they realize they were going to be pushed out completely.
And yet the Middle east is huge and largely unpopulated.
“It is useless and… futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence against a government whose reply is only savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people…” ~ Nelson Mandela
“The philosophy is basically what we call intercommunalism– we’re not nationalists, we don’t believe in nationalism. Nationalism or nationhood is… akin to superiority, is akin to racism…” ~ Bobby Seale
“Patriotism is, as we know, the last refuge of a scoundrel. Now we’re talking about real scoundrels, like Nixon.” ~ Gore Vidal
Not just workers but I believe I read they had hired a german company to run a machine to dig these massive tunnels.
Billions spent on war that could and should have been spent to make people’s lives better in Gaza.
Not sure why anyone has given money to these people since the days of Yassir Arafat and his huge grift.
Another Marxist supported color revolution whether anyone wants to admit it.
I believe nothing from the mainstream press about Israel and a very small amount of what Israeli press says.
Weren’t they supposed to flood the tunnels at one point?
Uh, ZAZ, where do you think the hostages are?
Scuba-diving?
‘Billions spent on war that could and should have been spent to make people’s lives better in Gaza.’ – benr
Isn’t that more of that stinkin’ socialism?
Might be the absolute stupidest response ever.
Come on Maj you can do better.
Rather than soaking your hands in Palmolive trying sticking your entire head in the sink and breathing deeply the healing powers of soap and water might clear some of the fecal matter out of your cranium but first you will need to remove your head from your ass.
Israeli academics face backlash after signing letter accusing Israel of ‘plausible genocide’ in Gaza
By Asaf Elia-Shalev April 10, 2024, forward.com
” ‘They presented me with a mafioso-like choice: either go back to teaching without protections and with more limited freedom of speech, or remain on unpaid leave that dramatically affects my livelihood,’ Nathansohn said…
The petition is the fourth organized by Academics4Peace. The first, which went online in August, prior to the Israel-Hamas war, sought to direct attention to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amid mass protests against the government’s efforts to weaken the judiciary. The next three have focused on Oct. 7 and its aftermath…”
“They presented me with a mafioso-like choice…“
Zaz,
You heard about the Polish God Father?
…He’d make you an offer you couldn’t understand….
On purpose? Then it isn’t really an offer, is it. That’s what I’d tell him. But it would be interesting how I might end up in that situation.
Anyway, I just thought that that sentence was kind of cute/funny.
Bidenomics at work.
Tax…spend…print more money…but inflation is going down.
Until it’s not and the truth comes out.
Everything that matters to people is spiraling up and up and up.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices increased more than expected in March as Americans paid more for gasoline and rental housing, leading financial markets to anticipate that the Federal Reserve would delay cutting interest rates until September.
The third straight month of strong consumer price readings reported by the Labor Department on Wednesday followed on the heels of news last week that job growth accelerated in March, with the unemployment rate slipping to 3.8% from 3.9% in February. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has repeatedly said the U.S. central bank is in no rush to start lowering borrowing costs.
The stubbornly higher cost of living looms large over the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
“The data does not completely remove the possibility of Fed action this year, but it certainly lessens the chances the Fed is cutting the overnight rate in the next couple months,” said Phillip Neuhart, director of market and economic research at First Citizens.
The consumer price index rose 0.4% last month after advancing by the same margin in February, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said. Gasoline prices rose 1.7% after increasing 3.8% in February. Shelter costs, which include rents, rose 0.4%, matching February’s gain.
Gasoline and shelter accounted for more than half of the increase in the CPI. Food prices rose 0.1%, though grocery food inflation was unchanged amid declines in the costs of butter and cereals and bakery products, which recorded their largest monthly decrease since 1989.
But prices for meats and eggs rose. There was a modest increase in the prices of fruits and vegetables.
In the 12 months through March, the CPI increased 3.5%, the most since September, also as last year’s low reading dropped out of the calculation. That followed a 3.2% rise in February. The Fed has a 2% inflation target. The measures it tracks for monetary policy are running considerably below the CPI rate.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI gaining 0.3% on the month and advancing 3.4% on a year-on-year basis.
STALLING DISINFLATION
Though the annual increase in consumer prices has declined from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022, the disinflationary trend has virtually stalled in recent months.
Shortly after the data, financial markets pushed back their expectations for the first rate cut to September from June, according to CME’s FedWatch Tool. They now expect only two rate cuts instead of the three envisaged by Fed officials last month. A minority of economists see the window for rate cuts closing.
The central bank has kept its policy rate in the 5.25%-5.50% range since July. It has raised the benchmark overnight interest rate by 525 basis points since March 2022.
U.S. stocks opened lower. The dollar rallied against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury prices fell.
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the CPI gained 0.4% last month after a similar rise in February and January. The so-called core CPI was boosted by a 0.5% increase in rents after rising 0.4% in February.
Owners’ equivalent rent (OER), a measure of the amount homeowners would pay to rent or would earn from renting their property climbed 0.4% after a similar rise in February.
There were also increases in the costs of motor vehicle insurance, healthcare, apparel and personal care. But prices for used cars and trucks, recreation and new vehicles fell. Core goods prices fell 0.2% after edging up 0.1% in February.
Services excluding energy rose a solid 0.5% after increasing by the same margin in February. In the 12 months through March, the core CPI rose 3.8%, matching February’s increase.
Zaz self identifies as an Anarchist. Based upon his recent posts concerning Israel, it’s become clear what he really is.
And you have to give Jarek credit; at least he’s honest about it.
April 11, 2024 at 1:43 pm
It was pretty obvious what he was all along…a kook.
I can’t take some of you too seriously, what can I say. 😀
…So does that mean the honeymoon’s over?
Don’t believe your lying eyes! Everything is wonderful and everyone is about to join into a giant kumbaya circle.
Balls For Bombs
Maybe in some places, with some people after the dust settles and people don’t have the State hands wrapped around their balls for bombs and assorted MIC support.
Lol, I was picturing a tribe where the women were handing over their men as a trade so they could get missiles and rocket launchers
Were they nude?
Benr, the only reason that inflation has cooled is that the Fed and the GOP have slowed the Leftist inflation agenda, which is to let the economy overheat so that job creation bragging rights belong to the Dems. That is the socialist agenda, let the government run everything, not the markets. Well, Econ 101 Phillip’s curve says they are full of shit and historically, the 1970’s and 2000’s say they are full of shit. But oh no, Bernie et al says this time will be different.
What is it called when you keep trying the same formula and expect a different result?
Insanity. That is what is in charge of the USA right now.
@benr:
I don’t pay any attention to the government’s figures, which are bogus. I can determine the real numbers by looking at what I’m spending weekly. I figure my own inflation rate is now somewhere around 18%. It’s very important for us to eat healthy foods, so as long as we can afford it, we will consume good, proper meals. After all, just being healthy is worth all the extra money; and spending wisely, not foolishly is desirable, except for our gambling habit, which allows us to get away for a few days around 3 times a year if things work out over the next several days, we’ve already reserved a free room at Foxwoods for 2 evenings next week.
@Bill
Celebrated our 32nd wedding anniversary last night at Hells Kitchen inside the Harrah’s resort.
Beautiful Casino pretty interesting experience over all but dropped $400 on the meal and wine pairing.
Checked eating at Hells Kitchen off the bucket list.
harrahssocal.com/dining/hells-kitchen
Considering coming back for the resort it was really nice and a lot closer than Las Vegas.
As far as government figures it doesn’t matter which party is running things, they both fudge the numbers.
It just seems the Democrats really lie even when it’s obvious they are full of it.
Like now we all see everything has gone through the roof since 2008 and really spiked after they installed weekend at bernies candidate Biden.
I’m just back from a 5 day 700 mile USA Eclipse road trip. Up to the Canadian border and around the NE Kingdom of VT. Bernie country. Lots of lefties but great people. . America is unbelievably beautiful .We are blessed in in this country. I met lots of great people from around the country. WA. FL CA MI. etc. Obviously most of them were mobile and had time to travel. Lots of younger people also. A great experience all around. People were energized. No negative waves.
I did get a few head shakes from some old grey haired Vermonters. I have a “Let’s Go Brandon” decal on the back window of my Suburban.
So overall, retirement is treating you well. That’s good! Did you get to see the total eclipse?
SSL, yes I saw the whole thing. 100% clear skies. 3 minutes 17 second totality. Better than the one I saw in WY in 2017. That one was 2 minutes 20 seconds. I’m holding my breath until 2079 when the path of totality comes over my house.
Wow that is amazing!! I bet it was totally awesome!
Don’t hold your breath till 2079! I’m worried about that outcome.
“So overall, retirement is treating you well”
Well I’m retired from the Firehouse but I still have to babysit a few renters. Trash, snow, lawns. I’m busy all the time.
Wow I bet! Hopefully those renters don’t give you too much grief.
It is a beautiful country and for the most part, decent and resourceful people. That’s why I think people there will be able to manage the downhill energy slide well, perhaps especially once enough realize that’s what they have to do. Slide their sleeves up and get to it.
The greatest expanse of broadleaf forests in the world. And even west of that, it’s dryer but still great for growing grain. Truly a land flowing with milk and honey.
The Yellow Men want what the Khazars and Globalists have. And have no more regard for the White peasants than they do.
Will you cross that bridge when you come to it if you’re still alive to do so?
stelmosfire…how does that assessment stack up against Trump’s constant insistence that the country has gone to the dogs (which is parroted by his inculcated followers, usually word for word)?
Grace,”people are people” I don’t care if they’re white, yellow, red, brown. Treat them good and for the most part you will be treated good. I’ve had contact with people on death’s door more than you can imagine. We’re all the same when death’s knockin’. No time for hatred when God’s calling and the movie of your life is running fast forward in your frontal cortex
The Louisiana House just passed a bill which allows you to drive through a crowd of protestors blocking the road if the protestors attack you or intimidate you to feel that your life is in danger.
Don’t try it unless you have a Dodge Power Wagon with 33’s and a huge front bumper with a winch on it. Toyota electric Prius ain’t gonna cut it.
I don’t think i could do that at all. But I’ve not been in that situation so i’m not judgey automatically if someone has.
Banging on your windows with hammers, with your kids inside? The kids already screaming. Who know what you might be capable of?
“The weekend protests against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have returned with gusto — albeit dominated by a sense of despair that comes from battling a government most Israelis feel has failed them. The largest demonstration yet took place this past Saturday in Tel Aviv, estimated at 100,000 strong and marred by a speeding driver who plowed into the crowd, injuring five in a sign of unprecedented internal turmoil.” ~ David Christopher Kaufman, April 10, 2024, forward.com/opinion/601483/israelis-scared-abandoned/
RIP OJ Simpson
did “The Juice” take the juice?
It looks like he was battling cancer but not really sure
“The Juice” played in the last era before juicing. He starred in Buffalo in the early ’70s while Lyle Alzado was a pioneer in juicing as the ’70s turned to the ’80s.
Also, running backs weren’t into juicing. Juicing was mainly for lineman.
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I’d bet dollars to doughnuts, though, that O.J. had the Pfizer or Moderna swill.
lady killer.
Literally.
He was a talented athlete, one of the greatest ever, but lost his moral compass. Too bad he passed before finding Nicole Brown-Simpson’s murderer. I think he actually said something like that, that he would spend the rest of his life looking for her killer.
Not so sure he’s R’ingIP now.
We all know OJ had to go no further than his bathroom mirror to find that killer.
What always amazed me is other stupid white Nicole Brown looking women that would go out with this lunatic.
In other more important news, a morning dove is cooing in my backyard. Now I have to go out and attach a small wristwatch to it because it’s not morning now. Sigh! Life is tough, there’s always a problem I have to fix.
Coo, Coo, .22
problem solved
Hah ,hah. Naw, I’m too peaceful for that. The cooing is sweet, unlike crows cawing.
Lol coo coo ca choo
Mrs. Robinson doesn’t come around anymore since my wife found out about her. Lol.
I was always a sucker for black stockings. They drive me crazy.
@ stelmosfire:
Someday my wife and I will meet you and Marlin. I’ll remember to warn her about black stockings.
please allow me to introduce myself.
beans, it’s a mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) – named for its mournful call – not a morning dove, as I’m sure the bird itself will tell you if you try to teach it to tell time.
When the lottery stood at $1.2 billion, I decided to go out to buy a ticket. On the way out, I saw 7or 8 hawks circling around the same spot. I never saw so many in one place. I should have turned around and went home.
I’ll take that as a sign. I’m giving up on buying tickets, although I never bought very many at one time. If I spent $20 buying 10 tickets (which I never do) that would bring my odds down to only one in about 25 million. I hate being a sucker. At least in the casino the odds are only one or two percent against me the way I play- and even at that low level it’s very difficult to win.
What’s the most you’ve ever won?
A lot.
Wow, that’s amazing.
I spent / lost big money trying to win a mansion in Santa Barbara.
You gotta realize that gambling is a chancey proposition in which almost everyone loses except the one or two winners you hear about.
I believe the smartest way to look at it is to look at the losers. For example, in the big national lottery games, there’s maybe a few winners, but at least one or two hundred million losing tickets most every drawing. Seeing it that way can open your eyes.
Bill, just as long as you don’t place any bets with Joe ‘the Animal’ Barboza down on Scollay Square, you’re good. If you did, and you can’t pay up, well, that’s a problem lol.
I reference ‘The Animal’, but other Boston mobsters with classic mobster names operated at the same time as Joe Barboza. There’s Anthony ‘Tony the Beaver’ Asenzia — illegal sports betting.
Emilio ‘Bobby the Greaser’ Cuchiella — loan shark &
Peter ‘Chief Crazy Horse’ Limone — hit man & machine gunner.
Still, none of those names top Gambino soldier Benjamin ‘Lefty Guns’ Ruggiero. But ‘Lefty Guns’ was a NYC gangster.
Maltuus I’m 67 how old are you
“I have some ideas why Jews have predominated, but that’s not the purpose of this posting. Last year Senator Russ Feingold, buttonholed on CSPAN about why so many speakers on air were Jewish, said, ‘Well, we’re good at talking…’ That’ll do for now.
The real issue is, Does it matter? Most of my life I felt it didn’t. It’s just the way it is, at this point in history. It will change (as Clyde Haberman pointed out at that Yivo event). Jews are the latest flavor of the establishment. In his landmark book, The Jewish Century, Slezkine reports that Jews were the majority of journalists in Berlin and Vienna and Prague, too, in the late 1800s, if I remember correctly.
Now I think it does matter, for two reasons. Elitist establishment culture, and Israel. As to elitism, I worry when any affluent group has power and little sense of what the common man is experiencing…
…The result is that Americans are not getting the full story re Israel/Palestine. Slater says this dramatically in his paper–that the Times has deprived American leadership of reporting on the moral/political crisis that Israel is undergoing, one that Haaretz has covered unstintingly. At Columbia the other night, Jew, Arab and gentile on a panel about the human-rights crisis in Gaza all said that Americans are not getting the full story. Ilan Pappe has marveled in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, that the Nakba is all but unmentioned in the U.S.– while Haaretz has sought at times to document it, for instance a former officer saying in 2004 that if he had not helped to destroy 200 villages in southern Israel in ’48, there would be another million Palestinians in Israel. To repeat Scherzer’s admission: ‘We believe in the Israeli narrative of history…’ ” ~ Philip Weiss, February 17, 2008, mondoweiss.net
I proved to a friend that the Jews owned and/or controlled the vast majority of our media. He said, Yeah it looks like they do. But he didn’t think it mattered!
One perspective and one perspective only. Jews who disagree are out of the loop too of course. And once you know what the Hard Core have in mind, the whole thing becomes unbearable.
Is the Book of Obadiah retained in the Orange Bible?
People often don’t seem to operate in their own best interests, even if they think they do. And so one implication of that is that they may view someone trying to help as a threat.
Murder on the 405.
Black woman influencer kills her man, her baby and kills herself.
crashed her mercedes.
she was an astrologer. ‘bad energy from the eclipse’.
Yeah, but Malthuss, astrology is bogus, really. There’s 4 fundamental forces in the universe: Gravity, electromagnetic, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. The nuclear forces only occur inside the nucleus of an atom, but are too weak to penetrate outside the atom.
Gravity and the electromagnetic force can. But gravity is the weakest force. It’s strength is measured by the inverse square of the distance between objects. As an example, if the moon was twice as far away, it’s gravitational force on us would be only 1/4th as strong. Since space is so huge, distant objects’ influences are tiny. The moon, our closest celestial object of any size, is only 240,000 miles away. That does have an obvious gravitational effect – which we see by our tides. But that’s the maximum effect. The moon’s force on brains is very, very tiny. Scientists have done numerous studies to determine whether the moon can influence human behavior physically, and the answer is no, although psychologically, people’s beliefs can make it appear as if it does.
There’s so many scientific objections to astrology’s meaningfulness that I wouldn’t even bother to list them.
Short answer: the eclipse had no bad energy to have any influence on her behavior.
I was kind of stressed over the eclipse. Wondering where I would go. I was prepared to drive all the way to west Texas. The Gods smiled on me here and I was able to head to my friends lake house in Morgan, VT. All I can say is WOW! Once in a lifetime experience.
Your right Bill, Just a cosmic coincidence. But man, what a show!! Up in the Adirondacks and few miles north of JHK’s digs it was an event. It only happens every 375 years on a point of the Earth.
How were the chemtrails in upstate NY? I’ve seen footage from two different places of totality where the sky was made into an overgrown tic-tac-toe grid. Of course, many people have pointed out that it was the perfect time to poison millions. The innocents came from far and wide to be poisoned on the efficient sweeping narrow. Of course, many people have also pointed out that Disease X could have been in the 4/8 batches of chemtrails that they liberally dosed the eclipse viewers with.
Sad but true.
@stelmos:
I didn’t mean to belittle the eclipse – I was an asshole about it. It’s just that I’ve seen several before, I’ve studied the celestial mechanics of it mathematically and it wasn’t a new and near-miraculous thing to me. I took a course in celestial mechanics back in 1965, and at the time could have parsed the equations that described it. Of course, after nearly 60 years away from that study, I wouldn’t know my ass from my elbow about it.
Given that so many average people got into it gives me a little hope that maybe we will prevail in the long run. Then reading about the dufuses who damaged their eyesight after near-constant warnings about the dangers of viewing without adequate protection brought me down to Earth about man’s stupidity.
Still, it’s great that the eclipse fascinated millions. Maybe someday, with enough medical advances (soon), I’ll be able to view a future eclipse from Mars.
Bill , did you ever see totality? I doubt it. Unless you were in Nantucket in ’63. It is a rare thing. You’ve seen several? You must have traveled quite a ways for that. It is a rare event. I’ve never seen one until 2017 and I drove 1500 miles to WY. The path in ’17 was 60 miles wide. This one I hit it just right. I Only had to drive 150
miles to Northeast VT. 3 days of sunshine.What a show.
“Whoever doesn’t miss the Soviet Union doesn’t have a heart. Whoever wants it back doesn’t have a brain.” — VV Putin
Wtf? He believes and reveres (or so he says) Solzhenitsyn. How could anybody who does so miss the Soviet Union? This is more like what Paula would say – who doesn’t believe or revere Solzhenitsyn.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/boy-14-fatally-stabbed-trying-to-protect-girlfriend-in-wyoming-mall/
Blacks in Caspar? No pictures, but the sound of the names and of course the MO are all too familiar. Alaska has Black gangs in Anchorage. Wyoming is the last to fall, but fall it will.
In other news, the Black Juliette is being excoriated just because she’s homely. A Black Romeo would have been fine by today’s standards. Or even a beautiful Black girl. But they want to push the envelope. A homely White girl would have just been weird and not helped them. But this! This they can cry racism about.
I lived in Casper for 3-4 months back in ’77-’78. Worked the oil fields in the Teapot Dome.
Saint,
I drove by Casper a few times on the big slab. Also the top of the Empire State Building, and been on Judge Judy, too….
there is a post at UNZ.com.
OJ be hangin’ with Elvis.
Died suddenly at 76…
https://www.newsmax.com/us/oj-simpson-obituary-cancer/2024/04/11/id/1160602/
WTF “Suspicious Minds” want to know
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The Right is still delusional about the existential threat to America from
the Biden regime.
You think you will “vote” your way out of this mess.
You think you can “debate” with Democrats to reach “common ground.”
You’re wrong.
You’re in the middle of a communist takeover.
Jarek: And remember, communist implies capitalist since they are one system. Workers with hammers and farmers with pitchforks don’t get anywhere. You need a lot of money and know how to pull off a revolution. That’s the capitalist part. And the planning too. Everything, really. They’re Heads, the Cause. Communism is the tails, the effect.
Catbirds are cawing and screwing and the Forsythias are in their yellow glory. All is right with the world. I’m lovin’ it.
Climate change, Biden,Gaza, Ukraine, the ship of fools. Spring is here and The Earth is a beautiful place. Every day is a blessing.
In the past week I’ve seen unbelievable sites and met great people. Keep the faith.
You’re too cute. ^u^
Never been described as “cute”. Is a 6′ 4″ linebacker with a sz. 16 boot cute?
Actually I never played football. I was a “ladderman” As in, “Ladderman, vent that goddam roof, NOW.”