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Democracy In Between

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on January 8, 2024


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Beau of the Fifth Column on Fact, Opinion, and the Democracy In Between
MAD Magazine’s Iconic Alfred E. Neuman Turns 60 This Year
42 survivors of the Nova rave massacre sue defense establishment for negligence
Two Israeli Ministers Say ‘Resettle’ Palestinians from Gaza and Build Settlements …
Taylor scouring flat earth for GOP primary candidates by The Grifter With No Name
Neocon crusader Ayaan Hirsi Ali gained fame with misleading life story Max Blumenthal
MASS RAPE By Hamas on Oct 7th? NYT Coverage QUESTIONED By Max Blumenthal …
Family of KKK Leader General John B. Gordon Asks that His Statue Be Removed in Atlanta
How I Convinced Libs of TikTok to Publish a False Story The genesis of fake news
The Language of Astronomy Is Needlessly Violent and Inaccurate
Harvard Remembers Tommy Raskin, an ‘Extraordinary Young Person’ with a ‘Perfect …
Max Blumenthal Torches Unhinged Tulsi Gabbard | Con Woman: Breaking Up …
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Black Twitter, Reacts to Jaw-Dropping Katt Williams Interview with Shannon Sharpe
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Conversations I Am Tired Of Having ~ this is the first monday morning reader of 2024. Russell Lee took the picture shown in Rupert ID, July 1942. ” Japanese-Americans eating supper in the community mess hall” ~ “You should learn from the mistakes of others, because you will not have time to make them all yourself.” Alfred E. Neuman The spell check suggestion for Neuman is Humane. ~ At the end of the day, Lake Superior State University slays once again, leaving a lasting impact on the linguistic world with the release of their 2024 Banished Words List 1. Hack 2. Impact 3. At the end of the day 4. Rizz 5. Slay 6. Iconic 7. Cringe-worthy 8. Obsessed 9. Side hustle 10. Wait for it ~ Lake Superior State University’s 2024 Banished Words List 1. Hack 2. Impact 3. At the end of the day 4. Rizz 5. Slay 6. Iconic 7. Cringe-worthy 8. Obsessed 9. Side hustle 10. Wait for it ~ @zora Joke a Syrian friend in Germany told me: -An Arab, a Turk and an Albanian are in a car. Who’s driving? -die Polizei ~ Coleman Hughes is a pro-Israel content provider. If you go to @coldxman, you have the option of paying $7.00 a month for his tweets. Jack Delano took the picture in October 1940. “Mr. Lawrence J. Brown, Aroostook potato farmer operates a small seed foundation unit in Eagle Lake, Maine. His three sons and one hired man do all the work. The little boy on the left picked fourteen barrels of potatoes before lunch.” The infant seen here is in the right side of the picture. ~ Lior Haiat 🇮🇱 @LiorHaiat “Israel rejects with disgust the blood libel spread by South Africa in its application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). South Africa’s claim lacks both a factual and a legal basis, and constitutes a despicable and contemptuous exploitation of the Court. South Africa is cooperating with a terrorist organization that is calling for the destruction of the State of Israel. The Hamas terrorist organization – which is committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and sought to commit genocide on 7 October – is responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by using them as human shields and stealing humanitarian aid from them. …” I thought this was just some random whacko, until I saw “Israel Foreign Ministry and Israel ישראל 🇮🇱” at the bottom. This is an official government response! ~ Joe Pyne was an abrasive TV host. Harry Hay was a seminal figure in several “radical” communities. There is a wikipedia urban legend that Mr. Hay was a guest on “The Joe Pyne Show.” Youtube does not have a video of the show. ~ MK Gandhi was trained as a barrister, and could crank out a wordcount. His thoughts were well thought out, and much more complex than the motivational Mahatma on facebook. ~ I enjoy listening to things on the stationary bike. Shows that guarantee enjoyment are best, because turning it off mid ride is trouble. I have learned to be leery of The Writers Voice, the fiction podcast at the New Yorker. While the ones I enjoy are terrific, TWV has a high washout rate. Still, when I was preparing to go to the gym today, I took a chance on Wagner In The Desert by Greg Jackson. ~ WITD was originally published in 2014, which was a very different time from now. In the tale, four young people go to a house in Palm Springs, for a drug fueled vacation. WITD turned out to be a fun story, with enough big word snark to entertain the exercising listener. At one point, the author described himself as having the mental capacity of a rock, or something like that. I laughed loudly, and got a funny look from the yoga mat lady in the front of the room. ~ My time on the bike ended at about 24 minutes, and I paused the show. When I got back to it, I had baked in the sauna, and ate dinner. My mood had changed. While there was no doubt I would finish the story … it was only 17 more minutes … WITD was not as much fun when I got back. ~ A subplot involves meeting a moneyman named Wagner. When the players meet up with Wagner, they are assured of financing, but then they have to give the old bastard the rest of their coke, and listen to his putrid opinions. The story-teller gets turned down by the woman he is chasing, and has to listen to a world weary soliloquy. May I would have been better off to quit the story while I was having fun. ~ “10 Conversations On Racism I’m Sick Of Having With White People” was a viral post during the Bush administration. This reaction was written during the Obama administration. The pictures are from the deep state, and are better than the text. ~ calamus ~ in 1998 Crazy Owl left the property on Flat Shoals Road. At some time after that, the land was developed. One of the cul-de-sacs was Shawn Wayne Court. Last night, someone was shot dead there. ~ “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” is one of Oscar’s greatest hits. Unfortunately, it is not included in his wikiquotes. Google has a bunch of meme-mongers, who paste the quote on pretty pictures, without giving a source. One source says: “The cleric and writer Charles Caleb Colton appears to be the first person to have stated the saying exactly as we know and use it today, in his 1820 work “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words.” Oscar was a man of letters, with most of his work published, available, and scrutinized endlessly. If he really said something, there should be a source. While Oscar may have said this to one of his boyfriends, it does not appear in his work. ~ January 6, 2024, was less eventful than the famous 0106. The high point was reading a report of an accidental homicide, in the same spot that used to host a Friday night sweat lodge ~ Sometimes I get in the mood to be a pedantic as**ole, and debunking quotes is a good excuse. dubious quotes on facebook are the gift that keeps giving ~ “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde. This quote is real. It is found in act two of VERA; OR, THE NIHILISTS. … Prince Paul. When you are as old as I am, Prince, you will understand that there are few things easier than to live badly and to die well. Czare. Easy to die well! A lesson experience cannot have taught you, whatever you may know of a bad life. Prince Paul (shrugging his shoulders). Experience, the name men give to their mistakes. I never commit any. Czare. (bitterly). No; crimes are more in your line. ~ VERA; OR, THE NIHILISTS. A DRAMA IN A PROLOGUE, AND FOUR ACTS. ~ @MichaKobs The circumstances of Gal Abdush’s death raise very serious questions indeed. The first question is the time of death because, according to countless witness accounts, no one actually escaped the NOVA site to the north after 6:00. ~ A few days ago, I wrote about how Rachel Maddow has almost nothing to say about the tragedy in Gaza. In the time since then, facebook has been telling me about new posts at “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Today, her staff continued supporting Genocide Joe, and made an ironic comment. “As House Republicans try to exploit border conditions as an election-year issue, the White House has a compelling reply: “Actions speak louder than words.” … When I try to post this comment to Facebook, the browser keeps crashing ~ Rachel Maddow Watch: “The Rachel Maddow Show” continues to ignore Gaza, and focus on the re-election of Genocide Joe. Today, there was an ironic comment on facebook. “As House Republicans try to exploit border conditions as an election-year issue, the White House has a compelling reply: “Actions speak louder than words.” ~ The Protocols of the Deputies of Netanyahu ~ every sunday night you keep the flame burning, for crappy zoom bomber people to exist, talk to jesus while keeping wicks yearning, onamodapeia until you cease and desist, there is a difference between making good trouble, and just being a useless jerk, living in a nihilist recipe bubble, is guarnateed to never work, you need fourteen lines for a sonnet, whether you put bluebonnet on it, iambic pentameter bomber go away, the poetry police are not going to play, you have a lesson to be learning, remember to keep the flame burning ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress ~ selah

Chinese Paperwork Load

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on January 1, 2024


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Coleman Hughes: The Struggle for Black Freedom Has Nothing to Do with Israel
“What Do You Think of Western Civilization?” “I Think It Would Be a Good Idea”
Styxhexenhammer666 is Married to Wife: Elizabeth Philosophy. Kids
Netanyahu Says He’s Looking for Countries to ‘Absorb’ Palestinians from Gaza
Plaintiff The New York Times Company (“The Times”), by its attorneys Susman …
New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
Hamas “raped the women then they burned them alive” … the dignity of the dead. …
“photographs of woman’s corpse … with dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin”
“Keep thee from the evil woman” Proverbs 6:24 [720×447]
Israeli tech firms startled by post-war Chinese paperwork load
When angry white men can’t give up hating Beth Moore
Can private markets replace academic scientific research? In which I argue that …
Federal judge approves redrawn Georgia congressional districts
Scandal-stained Israeli ‘rescue’ group fuels October 7 fabrications Max Blumenthal
Coleman Hughes: The Struggle for Black Freedom Has Nothing to Do with Israel
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When you download the non-primo version of the show, the file is 1:14:06. The last notes of the show music are heard at 1:09:22. This leaves 4:44 of dead air time, if you can tell the difference. ~ God is in the details. Banning “hate speech” sounds good in theory. In practice it is a mess. We do not have a clear consensus on what words are HS. The classic is the six letter racial slur. Will this word be off limits to everyone? Or will people who “have the right” to say the 6LRS be able to say it. There are two 6LRS in use today, and both could reasonably be called hate speech. One ends with R, the other begins with R. One I, as a european american, am forbidden to say. The other 6LRS I am forbidden to NOT say. The required 6LRS is racist. If you believe the people who say racists should be hated, you can say that racist is hate speech. ~ pics from the gsu library. The picture shown here is the Pig’N Whistle. PNW was located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, where the Krispy Kreme is today. ~ i create graphic poems. the text is the easy part. right now, i am at the stage of a project where i question everything about the universe, and my minuscule role in it ~ @HotepJesus Slavery was NOT the cause of the Civil War. It was the EXCUSE. The cause was the banking cartel plans for financial domination in the new colonies and the undoing of Andrew Jackson’s work to decentralize banking. ~ @HotepJesus had a few tweets today about the economic motives for the War Between the States. I wanted to send him this post. “… the value of slave property, some $4 billion, enormous amount of money in 1861, represented actually more money than the value of all of the industry and all of the railroads in the entire United States combined.”… I searched for this post using google, to no avail. I did the same search with duckduckgo, and it was the first result. ~ Most wartime rapes happen after the battle. Hamas/IDF were trying to do as much damage as possible, then get out fast. While a few rapes might have occurred, it is unlikely to be a pervasive policy. ~ @chamblee54 I am losing respect for @coldxman Most wartime rapes happen after the battle. Hamas/IDF were trying to do as much damage as possible, then get out fast. While rapes might have occurred, it DOES NOT justify what IDF has done to GAZA. This is a tragedy of historic proportions. ~ With public figures, you can ALWAYS find something written in the past that does not line up with something written in the present. Hypocrisy arguments are boring. ~ this is the last monday morning reader of 2023. The 1942 photograph is Japanese-American farm workers in Rupert ID. They were relocated there as part of the war effort. ~ Barbra Streisand Mel Tormé Liza Minnelli ~ This is a repost, with pictures from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. SFFILK, aka Michael Liebmann, passed away on July 26, 2016, due to complications from surgery. On June 5, 1999, Mel Tormé went to the chestnut roast in the sky. Frances Ethel Gumm met her maker June 22, 1969. ~ Mel Tormé wrote “The Christmas Song” on the hottest day of July, in 1945. Eighteen years later, he was the music director of “The Judy Garland Show.” The picture shown here is the Pig’N Whistle. PNW was located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, where the Krispy Kreme is today. ~ in 2013, after the Niners went to the Super Bowl, a restaurant in Turlock, CA, held a contest to name a hot dog in honor of the Niners young quarterback. “Kaepernick Special: Hot dog wins competition in Turlock” ~ Kenneth Anger croaked May 11, 2023. ~ Pictures are from The Library of Congress. ~ the yard sale perp asked, “how much is Hollywood Babylon worth?” “Judging by the amount of truth in it, about a nickel.” ~ Kenneth Anger , who died May 11, 2023, had the copyright for “Hollywood Babylon.” ~ fwiw Dr. Einstein pondered the God question from time to time. While video of Dr. Einstein does exist, there is little way of knowing whether students asked him about God, at every lecture. The facebook wisdom-fest does not offer a source, for Spinoza’s ideas about Mary’s babydaddy. I am not a Spinoza scholar, and quit reading the facebook post after a few sentences. I did look at a wikipedia page, and a document from Stanford University. A search was done for the phrase “God would say: Stop praying.” The terms “stop” and “pray” do not appear in either source. Instead of “do you believe in God”, the question could be “do you believe in a facebook meme?” ~ “Your post was removed due to low karma low account age.” Enforcement of LKLAA seems to be selective. Yesterday I had a comment offed. I commented on the poor battle performance of the IDF, and asked why Israel would want to expand the war. ~ This is a repost from 2021.. On March 30, 2023, the Tennessee Three staged a disruptive protest during a session of the Tennessee House. ~ Nikema Williams and Park Cannon were arrested inside the Georgia Capitol for disruptive protest. Stacey Abrams supporters prevented Stacey Evans from speaking at the Netroots convention. The Tennessee Three disrupted a session of the Tennessee house. All of these incidents display a lack of respect for democracy. ~ Most wartime rapes happen after the battle. Hamas/IDF were trying to do as much damage as possible, then get out fast. While a few rapes might have occurred, it is unlikely to be a pervasive policy. ~ was slavery the cause of the War Between the States, or the excuse? Most wars have economic causes. The leaders will tell the people something to get them worked up, then go count the money. A recent example of this is WMD and Operation Iraqi Freedom. ~ This was a repost from 2017. ~ Immigration is to Republicans what Racism is to Democrats. It is a free lunch issue. You can rabble-rouse to your heart’s content, knowing that there is nothing you can do about it. ~ “Keep thee from the evil woman” Proverbs 6:24 [720×447] ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress ~ selah

Existential Risk

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on December 25, 2023


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From Fact Deserts to Fact Streams: Expanding State and Local Fact-Checking in the U.S.
Duke lab gives fact-checkers, researchers new tools to thwart misinformation
No, Twitter — Bari Weiss is not responsible for the death of Refaat Alareer
Effective Altruism, AI, and Existential Risk | Robert Wright & Émile P. Torres
Effective Aspersions: How the Nonlinear Investigation Went Wrong TracingWoodgrains
Second Senate Sex Video Reportedly Exists …explicit videos circulated across …
Congress Widens Investigation into Harvard to Include Plagiarism Allegations …
Race, class, and criminal adjudication: Is the US criminal justice system as biased as …
The headline hit hard: “Israeli troops mistakenly killed 3 hostages in Gaza.”
Is life worth living? A nihilistic perspective. 21 Dec, 2023
The Noble Game You should be rewarded for doing good things and punished for …
The American Association of Biological Anthropologists denies the sex binary in humans
Calvin’s Conversion and Change Of Calling – by Dr. J.H. Merle d’Aubigne
Israel should make Gaza look like Auschwitz – council head
Why do gay porn stars kill themselves? Who is responsible?
RFK Jr. Executes Takedown of Host, ‘Should Have Resigned in Disgrace’
How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism From pre-K lessons on ‘ethnic noses’ to …
Unwashed and underfed, babies born into Gaza war face hardship in tents
Bishop Nicholas Loses His Cool (At The Council of Nicaea)
Euro-Med Monitor calls for probe into Israel’s torture and murder of Gaza detainees
I’m a Great Believer in Luck. The Harder I Work, the More Luck I Have
The Atrocities In Gaza Are The Perfect Embodiment Of ‘Western Values’
Religion Is Not the Antidote to “Wokeness” We can’t fight dogmatism with more …
Hamas leader visits Egypt amid intensive talks on new ceasefire
Michelle Bachmann Calls For Full Genocide Of Palestinians | The Kyle Kulinski Show
merciless anger / evolution including / lessons of darkness
Joe Rogan Fact-Checked For Calling Biden Mentally ‘Done’ … Something Said By Trump
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will see oneself fragile ~ King of Kings – Percy Bysshe Shelley [720×447] Ida Gneaux ~ Max Blumenthal confronts Maddow on Russiagate lies Jun 2, 2023 ~ coming to a substack newsletter near you ~ @SabbySabs2 RFK Jr’s campaign messaged me about Ballot access. I responded “GENOCIDE.” They actually responded back and said,”Mr. Kennedy has a plan for the region.” ~ @aaronsibarium It is true that Democrats have never attempted anything like January 6. It is also true that Republicans have never attempted anything like this. ~ @chamblee54 Actually, they have, except on a much smaller scale. After the 2018 Georgia Governor’s race … where @staceyabrams lost by a narrow margin, and refused to concede … @RepNikema was arrested, inside the state capitol, while protesting the results of the election. ~ just because I don’t argue with you does not mean I agree ~ if i don’t argue with you, that does not mean i agree Ida Gneaux [720×380] ~ What Does Hamas ACTUALLY Want? ~ this is your monday morning reader for today. The pictures are haiku reductions. The text originals are lost to antiquity. ~ Gus Kaufman Luther I am genuinely curious about how it is you support white supremacist world views consistently, yet have always hung out in alternative spaces. Have you written about this? Luther Mckinnon Questioning the validity of a facebook post is not supporting a white supremacist world view. Vinod Babu It absolutely is when you’ll accept no standard of evidence presented in support of the claim. No one here is fooled by your indifferent truth-seeker act. ~ and in your mind its ok to have standup comedy where you talk about eating pussy. Is that correct? ~ did Bari Weiss call her connection at the IDF, and arrange for the murder of Refaat Alareer? Probably not. However, her high octane rhetoric made the targeted assassination a lot more likely. ~ mithras is a Persian deity, from the Zoroaster tradition. Mithras was born on December 25, and is similar to Jesus in other ways. Per the Catholic Encyclopedia: “Some apparent similarities exist; but … it is quite probable that Mithraism was the borrower from Christianity.” ~ if i don’t argue with you, that does not mean i agree Ida Gneaux [720×380] ~ @JeremySternLA Jake Sullivan wrote an essay for Foreign Affairs that went to print before Oct 7. For the online version that came out yesterday, they let him not just add new material but scrub the sections embarrassed by events. Some deleted gems from the original, not available online (1/6): ~ I was curious, and asked mr google about ea…. We and our partners use cookies, including to review how our site is used, to improve our site’s performance, and to serve personalized ads and content. For more information see our cookie notice. By clicking on “Accept all” you consent to our use of cookies and to the sharing of this data with our partners. ~ Internet nonsense quiz served as a writing prompt. It got -6 upvotes on reddit. … The photo was taken by Russell Lee, in July 1942. “Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans leaving camp for a visit to town.” ~ Photo #8c25440 was taken by Russell Lee, in July 1942. “Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans leaving camp for a visit to town.” ~ The moment where BlockedAndReported comment 180hi1 was employed as a writing prompt. The first edition got -6 upvotes. As usual, the pictures are better than the text. Many were taken in July 1942. “Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans leaving camp for a visit to town.” ~ if you go to “The Rachel Maddow Show” on facebook, you will see dozens of comments about Donald Trump. If you scroll back to December 12, you will not see one word about the tragedy in Gaza. ~ you had very fine people on both sides ~ 416,121 views Oct 17, 2023 #Maddow #Israel #Gaza Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace react to the latest developments out of Gaza after the bombing of a hospital which has left hundreds dead. ~ UPDATE I stumbled onto a quote from RAM about Gaza. “you can’t say, it doesn’t matter what the truth is here” The quote is from October 17, “Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace react to the latest developments out of Gaza after the bombing of a hospital which has left hundreds dead.” 50 seconds after RAM says truth, Nicolle Wallace says “we … does not include Hamas terrorists. They don’t care what the truth is.” ~ #rachelmaddow on #Gaza. “you can’t say, it doesn’t matter what the truth is here” 50 seconds later Nicolle Wallace says “we … does not include Hamas terrorists. They don’t care what the truth is. … Hamas will use … civilians as human shields” ~ @normfinkelstein Hanging Out with Bill Maher Last night I had a dream. Like MLK’s dream, it was about Justice. But it wasn’t about white supremacy. It was about Jewish supremacy. It was about Bill Maher. He was in a courtroom. Like Julius Streicher at Nuremberg, he was being prosecuted for his diabolical lies and disgusting jokes as a people was being martyred—systematically murdered and starved; their homes and hospitals methodically destroyed. The verdict was pronounced. I woke up with a bittersweet smile. No one can bring back the dead but, at least, Justice was done. ~ pedagogic miserabilism nihilistic antinatalism ~ pictures for the last monday morning of 2023 are from The Library of Congress ~ selah

O Cosmic Birther

Posted in Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on December 18, 2023


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James Bennet says NYT guilty of “illiberal bias” in new Economist takedown
When the New York Times lost its way America’s media should do more to equip readers…
Ilan Pappe on Israel: “We are witnessing the beginning of the end”
The testimony on antisemitism from college presidents. Isaac Saul
No, Mary Was Not an Unwed Mother When we hear that Mary is “betrothed” to Joseph…
FIXED – ‘Antimalware Service Executable’ High CPU Usage Issue
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Staffer Caught Filming Gay Sex Tape In Senate Hearing Room
Senate Staffer Caught Filming Gay Sex Tape In Senate Hearing Room
“O Cosmic Birther!” The Lord’s Prayer Meets the American College Textbook
Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus
Anti-Drug Backlash Pot smoke in public may prove to be drug warriors’ best friend
Forbes’ Gene Marks Needs To Check His Priv December 13, 2011
Raskin asks how Stefanik can question anyone about antisemitism, she supports Trump
The splashback of cold bog water up your ringpiece when dropping the kids off at the pool.
Letting British Israelis fight in Gaza is a threat to the UK’s rule of law
Why Mitch McConnell Just Might Want to See Biden Reelected
How Bad Are Plagiarism Allegations Against the Harvard President? It Depends …
‘Praise Kink’ Fetish is all the Rage. We’ll be a Good Boy and Break it Down for You
“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized they were inside us.”
Singal-Minded Apr 19, 2019 Singal-Minded, The Interview: Katie Herzog
What is white phosphorus, and what does it mean that Russia may be using it in Ukraine?
Report on Claudine Gay’s plagiarism and falsification will be available
One-fifth of troop fatalities in Gaza due to friendly fire or accidents, IDF reports
A Waiter Double-Charged Me For My Entrée. Is That Genocide?
Israel: Government to shut down critical media alleged to ‘undermine national security’
Tema Okun on Her Mythical Paper on White Supremacy
Northern Israel a ‘waking nightmare’ amid efforts to push Hezbollah from border
We Are No Strangers to Human Suffering, but We’ve Seen Nothing Like the Siege of Gaza
SCOTUS vacates ruling restricting president’s right to issue federal workforce mandates
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Take what you can use and let the rest rot Alice Walker [720×380] This is found in “Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O’Connor.” ~ I have always gone the most basic way of picking a politician … who is the best looking one? In that all important qualification, Vivek Ramaswamy in the clear winner here ~ the fall of minneapolis ~ Palestine will be free, from the rubble to the debris ~ because of its incendiary effects, the use of phosphorus in war is supposed to be tightly regulated under international law — but it is not banned. Phosphorus is not classed as a chemical weapon under the Chemical Weapons Convention. ~ @ScottGreenfield Can there be such a thing as hypocrisy when a core tenet of your ideology is the ends justify the means? ~ Certain actors are struggling to distract attention away from the Israeli perpetrated slaughter in Gaza. If it was not GTI or FTRTTS, something else would be called anti-semitic, or a call for genocide. This is taking a page out of the social justice playbook. A few years ago, anything you did not like was WHITE SUPREMACY or RACIST. This too will pass, hopefully before the ethnic cleansing of Gaza is complete. ~ I have long said there are some words we should retire. Liberal, conservative, racist, terrorist were first. Then white supremacist. If I tried, I could come up with more. It might be time to add genocide ~ The one thing that comes to mind is a story that Krystal told. It was about pre-mature babies in a Gaza hospital. They had been cut out of their dead mothers. ~ this is a clip of Ryan talking about Gaza. There is one of those details which drive home the horror of what Israel is doing in Gaza. “one of the poignant things that I thought that I I pulled from this was the way that their their staff are telling them that they’re they can’t really leave their house like so that nervous because if they leave their house they’re going to get killed but then and then they’re also nervous that if they leave their house their family might get killed without them so they’re making these decisions do we all stay in the same room so that if we if and when we’re killed we all die” together we don’t have to suffer the sorrow of going on with with nobody else uh or do we separate so that somebody can survive and that somebody can carry on kind of the legacy of of this family” ~ @zora It’s truly horrible that every time I see a pic of a cute kid in my timeline, it means they’ve been killed by an Israeli bomb. ~ This is your monday morning reader for another week. The Falcons are leading their division with a losing record. If you can’t say anything good, you can look at the pictures. They are usually better than the text. ~ Man is the only religious animal. ~ The Lowest Animal ~ This is a repost from 2011. It was a simpler time. … “If I Were A Poor Black Kid” was a bit of filler behind the paywall at Forbes magazine. One of the naysayer replies is available. Another, from Angry Black Lady Chronicles, is lost in an archive somewhere. The Root has a few selections from ABLC, between the popup ads. ~ Privilege was a buzzword in 2011, although it is tough to tell from 2023. We have moved on to other popular phrases. In some ways, nothing has changed. In other ways, things are very different. ~ In 2011, paywall-happy Forbes magazine ran a bit of filler, “If I were a poor Black kid.” This type of privilege product seems quaint today. ~ this has been removed because your account does not meet the minimum requirements. Don’t ask, just wait it out… ~ This is a repost from 2021. James Richardson is still alive. ~ “So many times I’ve made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.” An ivy league professor needed to publish something. He made a list of 56 smart things to say. A big ten university published it. This is how the world works. ~ @EylonALevy Since Hamas launched this war, the Israeli Air Force has struck 22,000+ targets in the Gaza Strip. Even based on Hamas numbers passing off terrorists as civilians, that’s less than 0.8 civilian deaths per airstrike. That’s what world-leading precision looks like. ~ one drunken night in 1930, Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell decided it would be fun to write a song. The result is “Georgia On My Mind.” Ray Charles Robinson, who would have a major hit with the song 30 years later, was born September 30, 1930. ~ “The Fall Of Minneapolis” is a documentary about the death of George Floyd, and the aftermath. It features body cam footage, and tells a different story than the one told in 2020. The word murder does not appear in the text. ~ Here is a blog post about TFOM. The word murder does not appear in this text. I wanted was a copy of the autopsy report. I googled “George Floyd Autopsy,” and found a lot of commentary. Next, I did the same search on duckduckgo. The top result was the HENNEPIN COUNTY AUTOPSY REPORT ME NO.: 20-3700. The document clearly states “No life-threatening injuries identified.”The first few minutes of TFOM was body cam videos. It was downright fascinating. George Perry Floyd was BOMBED. The store clerk commented on this in his 911 call, after GPF allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit twenty. After police arrived, the clerk pointed to a parked car across the street, where GPF was sitting in the driver’s seat.The parked car was not part of the popular narrative. Why did GPF sit there in the vehicle, instead of leaving? As high as GPF appears to be, was it a good idea for him to drive? An officer … not DMC … approached the vehicle. GPF opened the car door, instead of rolling down the window. Is this important in what happened later? ~ Posting deliberate misinformation is against Reddit TOS. – Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/JoeRogan. Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose. ~ u/Chamblee54 is permanently banned from r/JoeRogan Hello, You have been permanently banned from participating in r/JoeRogan because your post violates this community’s rules. You won’t be able to post or comment, but you can still view and subscribe to it. If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team by replying to this message. Reminder from the Reddit staff: If you use another account to circumvent this subreddit ban, that will be considered a violation of the Content Policy and can result in your account being suspended from the site as a whole. ~ “Did anyone see the Obama/n-word post when it first appeared? What was the time and date? Is there a cached copy available? Do you realize how easy it would be to fake that screen shot? If an incendiary post like that appeared, why wasn’t it noticed at the time?” ~ Gus Kaufman Luther I am genuinely curious about how it is you support white supremacist world views consistently, yet have always hung out in alternative spaces. Have you written about this? Luther Mckinnon Questioning the validity of a facebook post is not supporting a white supremacist world view. Vinod Babu It absolutely is when you’ll accept no standard of evidence presented in support of the claim. No one here is fooled by your indifferent truth-seeker act. ~ “We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.” There are indications that this quote is an invention of the modern internet. The Darwin wikiquotes does not have an entry with “monsters.” ~ there is no evidence that Mark Twain said that. It is not a good sign when you google a quote, and the second result is Quote Investigator®. It is even worse when the first result is Brainy Quote. ~ margarine was invented in the 19th century. The name comes from the Greek margarite, meaning pearl, for its presumably pearlescent luster. The dairy industry saw this as competition, and forbade dyeing margarine yellow. In some states, margarine was dyed pink. ~ God, thank you for letting us be here today [720×380] ~ “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” This is one of Oscar’s greatest hits. It was spoken by Lord Darlington, in “Lady Windemere’s Fan.” Here is the exchange: Lord Darlington. What cynics you fellows are! Cecil Graham. What is a cynic? Lord Darlington. A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Cecil Graham. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing. ~ “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” “And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.” ~ There was an exchange once. It was many years ago, when this was still semi-plausible. A person made the argument that Churchill and Roosevelt drank and smoked, while Hitler was a vegetarian. The response was that Churchill and Roosevelt were both dead, while Hitler was alive in Argentina. ~ so i answer this ad, and the man acts like he wants me to come over … i say i am going to take a shower, send me your room number and phone number … two hours later, he says … after i send him a message … that he was locked out of his phone, do i want to come over … i ask for his room number … never hear anything more … this does not surprise me anymore ~ God, thank you for letting us be here today ~ If you listen to “War All the Time: Israel vs Palestine, 1948-82,” by Darryl Cooper/Martyr Made, you might understand why nobody wants to accept Palestinian refugees. In the last part of this show, Darryl goes into the story of Lebanon. The former Phoenicia took in some refugees. Somehow or another, Israel and the refugees got started fighting, and Lebanon got caught in the middle. (This is a greatly simplified version of the story.) Anyway, Israel invaded Lebanon, and did enormous damage. After listening to this disturbing story, I totally understand why nobody wants the trouble that comes with accepting these refugees. If Israel broke Gaza, then Israel should fix it. I am not going to hold my breath, waiting for that to happen. ~ I was looking for the George Floyd autopsy report. Google has a collection of articles, mostly denouncing Derek Chauvin. On duckduckgo, the first result is the Hennepin County report that says “No life-threatening injuries identified.” ~ Leaked Sex Tape Shows U.S. Senator’s Staffer Being Fucked Up The Ass In Senate Hearing Room On Capitol Hill Posted December 15, 2023 by Zach with 86 comments [Note: The staffer has now been identified, and this story has been updated multiple times below.] An unidentified staffer to a United States senator has filmed himself being fucked up the ass doggy style in the Hart Senate Office Building Room 216 on Capitol Hill, and leaked video of the bareback Senate sex tape was obtained by right-wing website Daily Caller. Here’s the clip, which blurs out the anal penetration and the staffer’s face: It’s not clear who the staffer is, but several right-wing internet personalities are calling him out by name and also naming the Democratic senator for whom he works. Str8Up can not confirm his identity as of right now. The twink staffer being fucked raw in our beloved nation’s capitol also had a photo taken of himself while he was on all fours and wearing only a jock strap with his ass and hole showing. The Daily Caller doctored it up with some graphics and more blurring: (Note the tip of the U.S. Capitol dome looking like it’s being shoved up his ass. Someone prove to me that whoever made this for the Daily Caller isn’t a flaming homosexual.) It’s not known if the tape was being filmed for private use or if the staffer was planning on uploading it to OnlyFans (maybe it was a custom PPV request!), but his identity and his reasoning will undoubtedly be revealed in the coming days (or hours). Via DailyCaller: A source identified the room to the Daily Caller as Senate room Hart 216- The Judiciary Room. The Caller blurred out his face because his identity has not been confirmed. Daily Caller reviewed the chat where the video leaked and confirmed it was shared in a private group for gay men in politics. If I’m not mistaken, I believe this is the first time gay pornography starring a United States senator’s staffer has been filmed on Capitol Hill, so it’s nice to see the gays making a little bit of history in Washington D.C. And if that hearing room looks familiar, that’s because it’s room Hart 216, which is the same room where Louisiana GOP Senator John Kennedy read two passages from the books Genderqueer and All Boys Aren’t Blue back in September during a hearing on book banning. ICYMI: Str8UpGayPorn can now confirm that the staffer being fucked bareback on camera in the Senate hearing room is named Aidan Maese-Czeropski, and he’s a staffer for Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland). A source tells Str8Up that Maese-Czeropski shared the sex tape of himself in a group message to several of his friends on an Instagram account he operated under the name “aidansanto” (the account is now pulled down). Before sending the video, Maese-Czeropski posted the below image to his Instagram stories, boasting about how he was fucked by a hung German man in the same room where Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing was held: Maese-Czeropski added text over the image of himself in Senate hearing room Hart 216, and it reads, “In this very room, Sonia Sotomayor had her confirmation hearing. James Comey testified on Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Aidan got some thick German sausage and a Jager sauce finish. ” ~ the government building capitol is spelled with an o. remember, the capitol has a rotunda ~ This quote is a total fabrication. I have written about this on my blog. When people get caught peddling bogus quotes, they often say that even if the attribution is false, the words are true. What about the featured quote today? It sounds good, and is great for promoting attendance at an event. But is it the truth? Look at the 9/11 attacks. They did change the world. (Nobody said that the world was changed for the better.) While it is true that nineteen men pulled off the caper, they had a lot of help. Somebody financed the operation. Other people built the airliners, and the airports where they took off. Somebody dug an oil well, pumped the crude oil, shipped the crude oil to a refinery, and produced the explosive jet fuel that propelled the attacks. In fact, it was the profits from pumping that oil that financed the attacks. “A small group of thoughtful, committed citizens” flew a plane, that someone else built, into the World Trade Center. They were not “the only thing that ever has.” ~ “God, thank you …” Gnarlene Widget [720×380] ~ selah

Copycat Recipe

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on December 11, 2023


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Did Hamas Make Millions Betting Against Israeli Shares Before October 7 Massacre?
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Copycat Recipe: Chipotle Mexican Grill’s Chipotle Honey Vinaigrette By Jenn Segal
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Madeleine Thien read Yoko Ogawa’s “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain”
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With All Eyes on Gaza, West Bank Palestinians Are Facing Unprecedented Violence
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Israeli Forces Have Started Flooding Hamas’ Terror Tunnels With Seawater
Yemeni Civil War Unleashes a Plague of Locusts Morgan E. Hunter December 15, 2020
After more than 32,000 votes, … Oxford’s Word of the Year 2023 is … rizz
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@robbysoave makes a statement about Hamas: “They’re fighting with violence”
College Elites Who Allow Antisemitic Speech Are HYPOCRITES, LYING About Censorship
Marc Lamont Hill DESTROYS Zionist in Debate About Creation of Israel
‘If I must die, let it be a tale’: a tribute to Refaat Alareer Max Blumenthal
The story of my brother, martyr Mohammed Alareer The Electronic Intifada 28 July 2014
Remembering Refaat Alareer, Gaza Scholar & Activist Killed by Israeli Strike
Frequency of Adverse Events in the Placebo Arms of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
A Psychologist Tells You What You Already Know in a Language That You Cannot Understand
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this is the monday morning reader for this no three-peat week. A writing prompt asked: what do you know? “water is wet” This is tough to disagree with. Some logic abuser could. People will argue about anything. ~ I enjoy listening to his videos about Gaza. Is William Scott Ritter a reliable source? I don’t know, even if I find a lot of what he says to be plausible. I like that he is taking a mostly military approach to the war, which is what it is. According to WSR, Hamas is winning militarily. I also find his take on the Iron Dome to be plausible. According to WSR, the Iron Dome uses interceptor missiles to take down incoming missiles. There is a limited number of these interceptors, and Hezbollah has a lot more missiles. This is both plausible, and something the corporate press is quiet about. ~ Pitrolux® works through the combination of deodorant and testosterone. “The “refreshing juniper scent” caused teenage girls to steal it out of daddy’s medicine cabinet, and grow beards.” This is a Florida story. ~ “is this binary the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard?” idk, some of the racism binaries I have heard are pretty stupid ~ This is a repost from 2017. It was a simpler time. Looking back six years, we had it pretty good in 2017. Our biggest problem was an orange haired idiot in the White House. In three years we would melt down over Covid. In five years Russia would invade Ukraine. In six years, Israel would crank up the lawn mower. In these six years, the national debt has gone from $20t to $34t. That is a $14t increase in six years. By comparison, the total debt in 2011 was $14t. America has borrowed more in the last six years, than it did in 235 years previously. … So much for today’s fantasy. This repost is a book report of More Tales Of The City, another fantasy from a more innocent time. MTOTC took place in the San Francisco of 1977. Talk about not knowing when you had it good. ~ More Tales Of The City ~ This is a repost from 2017. It was a simpler time. Looking back six years, we had it pretty good in 2017. Our biggest problem was an orange haired idiot in the White House. In three years we would melt down over Covid. In five years Russia would invade Ukraine. In six years, Israel would crank up the lawn mower. ~ I recently listened to Madeleine Thien read Yoko Ogawa’s “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain.” It was a recent podcast, in “The Writer’s Voice.” It is the type of story that I would usually turn off at the earliest opportunity, but for some reason it agreed with my mood. “The Cafeteria …” is about a young lady moving into an old house. On one of her walks, the lady, and her dog, meet a man, and his son. The lady and the man have a conversation about arcane subjects like cafeterias deveining shrimp, and a chocolate machine. We don’t know what the dog and the boy talked about, but it was probably more interesting. Maybe it was my easily amused tuesday state of mind that led me to listen to the entire thing. ~ the problem here is the yes/no nature of the question. If the person is sincerely calling for a final solution 2.0, then yes it is bullying/harassment. However, very few people are calling for a literal elimination of Jews. Usually, people call for something else, and someone hyper-interprets this as a call for genocide. ~ I got riffin’ on something today, and wound up talking about the national debt. The linked post has links for all the claims I make. … This is a repost from 2017. It was a simpler time. Looking back six years, we had it pretty good in 2017. Our biggest problem was an orange haired idiot in the White House. In three years we would melt down over Covid. In five years Russia would invade Ukraine. In six years, Israel would crank up the lawn mower. In these six years, the national debt has gone from $20t to $34t. That is a $14t increase in six years. By comparison, the total debt in 2011 was $14t. America has borrowed more in the last six years, than it did in 235 years previously. … So much for today’s fantasy. This repost is a book report of “More Tales Of The City”, another fantasy from a more innocent time. MTOTC took place in the San Francisco of 1977. Talk about not knowing when you had it good. ~ I am trying to figure out reddit. Mainly, I am trying to build karma points, so I can post to forums that have kp requirments. I have been going to random spots that will let me post, and trying to get it in. One problem I see is the lack of spaces that will let you post a picture. This is a problem when I try to post a haiku poem. Even r/haiku, which has been very uncooperative. I try to post a link, but setting up a link is a problem. Meanwhile, Jesse Singal made a tweet … or maybe an X-spurt … about a current controversy. Someone sent in a screen shot, and I did a haiku poem. Here is the reddit comment. “Jesse made a tweet about the insanity of considering the word “intifada” to be a call for final solution 2.0. There was a tweet from Jonathan Haidt thrown in. Here is the condensed version of the Haidtweet: universities / punish microaggression men / even residents” So I went into markdown mode, and I found the link in code:  … universities / punish microaggression men / even residents . I copied the code, and substituted the haiku in the [text] That did not work the first time, but I went into markdown mode, took a couple of dashes out, and the link worked. ~ national debt: 2008 $10,025 Bank bailouts; quantitative easing (QE), 2009 $11,910 Bailout cost $250 billion; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) added $242 billion, 2010 $13,562 ARRA added $400B; payroll tax holiday ended; Obama tax cuts; Affordable Care Act; Simpson-Bowles debt reduction plan, 2011 $14,790 Debt crisis, recession, and tax cuts reduced revenue, 2012 $16,066 Fiscal cliff, 2013 $16,738 Sequester; government shutdown, 2014 $17,824 QE ended; debt ceiling crisis, 2015 $18,151 Oil prices fell, 2016 $19,573 Brexit, 2017 $20,245 Congress raised the debt ceiling, 2018 $21,516 Trump tax cuts, 2019 $22,719 Trade wars, 2020 $26,945 COVID-19 and recession, 2021 $28,428 COVID-19 and American Rescue Plan Act, 2022 $30,928 Inflation Reduction Act ~ LifeSiteNews reported in 2021 that “Milo Yiannopoulos, the gay man whose conservative messaging and willingness to speak the truth sparked riots on university campuses may well trigger more outrage now that he describes himself as “Ex-Gay” and “sodomy free,” and is leading a daily consecration to St. Joseph online.” ~ Milo Yiannopoulos online consecration to St Joseph ~ If you ask google what Milo Yiannopoulos is doing today, you see that he is an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene. In 2021,LifeSiteNews reported “Milo Yiannopoulos, the gay man whose conservative messaging and willingness to speak the truth sparked riots on university campuses may well trigger more outrage now that he describes himself as “Ex-Gay” and “sodomy free,” and is leading a daily consecration to St. Joseph online.” Google does not have a site for the “daily consecration to St. Joseph online. ~ If you google “What is Milo Yiannopoulos doing today?” you learn that he is an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene. Another source says “he describes himself as “Ex-Gay” and “sodomy free,” and is leading a daily consecration to St. Joseph online.” Nobody seems to have a link to this “daily consecration to St. Joseph online.” ~ “what is Milo Yiannopoulos doing today?” He is an intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene. @LifeSite reports “he describes himself as “Ex-Gay” and “sodomy free,” and is leading a daily consecration to St. Joseph online.” ~ @AlonLeeGreenאני מצטער, אבל ככה לא נראה ביטחון. עשרות אלפי אנשים מורעבים, ניתוק מים, אלפים שמתגודדים בתור, כאן בווידאו, כדי לקבל טיפת מזון – זה לא מביא לנו ביטחון ולא משרת אותנו בשום צורה. הסבל האנושי וההרג של חפים מפשע רק מרחיק אותנו מבטיחון ולמען האמת, פשוט מחזק עוד יותר את חמאס. – I’m sorry, but that’s not what security looks like. Tens of thousands of starving people, water cut off, thousands who gather in line, here on video, to get a drop of food – this does not bring us security and does not serve us in any way. The human suffering and the killing of innocents only keeps us from security and, frankly, just makes Hamas even stronger. ~ an aspiring academic took the tough love approach to writer’s block. His “white paper” is a classic, and should be quoted more often. @ConceptualJames @peterboghossian @HPluckrose ~ this is just as bad ~ Nikki Haley says protesting mass murder is just as bad as “the KKK” marching on campus. ~ @hausofriya Could an Arabic speaker please help us with how to pronounce Refaat Alareer’s name so when we share his name, it’s respectful to how it’s pronounced please ~ atheist eat shit ~ I just consumed the monolog by @esaagar about the genocide-gate controversy at Ivy League universities. He makes some good points about DEI, hypocrisy and other tiresome topics. What Saagar does not mention is the fact that practically nobody is calling for final solution 2.0. Intifada does not equal Jewish genocide. There have been two Intifadas so far, and there are still millions of Jews. There are a lot of people crying wolf now about anti-semitism. It needs to stop. ~ There was a lady once on the Dick Cavett show. She said the conventional wisdom is that an actor puts a mask on, and goes on stage to play a character. The lady said that the reality is the opposite. People in everyday life wear masks, to play a character. The actor, on the other hand, takes the mask off, and lets you see them for who they really are. ~ Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom ~ “Dear Sir “Dear Sir The problem you had wished to propose to me was one which I could not have solved; for I know nothing of the facts. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie’s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” Thomas Jefferson ~ This quote is included in a letter Mr. Jefferson wrote to Nathaniel Macon on January 19, 1819. It begins with another entertaining thought: “Dear Sir The problem you had wished to propose to me was one which I could not have solved; for I know nothing of the facts. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie’s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” Links are included in a blog post, “A Real Jefferson Quote.” ~ Do these rules apply to comments? I had to delete a comment, because I did not have a title. Then I noticed that comments to not have a place for titles or images. ~ “Dear Sir The problem you had wished to propose to me was one which I could not have solved; for I know nothing of the facts. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie’s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. … “Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819. ~ “the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” Thomas Jefferson [720×380] ~ @numarqs Just heard from my sources in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem that no one, not even Netanyahu’s own cabinet ministers are allowed to come close to him. They all have to go through extensive body security check. Apparently Bibi Netanyahu has reached extreme levels of paranoia about being knocked off by his own ministers. Oops. @jeff_kaye Perhaps Netanyahu recalls how on Oct 26, 1979, at a dinner at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) safehouse inside the Blue House presidential compound in Seoul, the director of the KCIA and the president’s security chief, Kim Jae-gyu, shot President Park Chung Hee in the head! @DannysInferno Well I, for one, won’t ever forget that evening. Desert was delayed and then abandoned but in light of the awful nature of Asian sweets that was a relief. ~ I pause the show. We just learned that “Claudia” is the mod for both the adult diaper forum, and christian teens together. The show has 23 minutes to go. ~ your comment in /r/IntellectualDarkWeb was automatically removed because your account’s total comment karma is less than 25. You must have more than 25 comment karma, no exceptions. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. ~ as @briebriejoy looks on in shock, @robbysoave makes a statement about Hamas: “They’re fighting with violence” ~ Matthew 7:21-23Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. ~ there is a time to speak out, and a time to shut up. often, more speaking out translates into more noise I feel helpless to stop the slaughter. I also fear that Israel may be hurting herself worse than the Palestinians. ~ “They’re fighting with violence” ~ @mtracey This relentless confection of a fake anti-Semitism panic while Gaza gets obliterated with US munitions is an all-time brazen propaganda coup. You really do have to admire the sheer audacity ~ “Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O’Connor.” ~ “Take what you can use and let the rest rot.” Alice Walker ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress ~ selah

Israel’s Dark Future

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on December 4, 2023


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Campus vigil on Israel and Gaza, and college president’s role in the wake of world crises
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Luke 23:21 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
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Hamas is not as popular in Gaza as it seems. But Israel’s tactics will ensure their survival
Does #Israel have the right to defend itself from #Israel ?
I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You
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The Theory of African American Offending versus Hereditarian Explanations …
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@wildethingy They don’t need to tell a lie for you to believe. They just need to tell enough lies that you can no longer be certain of the truth. ~ Here is the monday morning reader for today. The Picture: “Dinner at the second annual field day at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers’ community. Yuma AZ March 1942 Russell Lee, photographer ~ Gloria Steinem was known for feminism, and wearing ugly glasses. She was also a CIA asset. Ms. Steinem allegedly produced a pamphlet, ‘A Review of Negro Segregation in the United States.’ @marina0swald “published near the height of the civil rights movement, the report states that the reason racism exists is because it’s self-perpetuating, and black people simply imagine they are oppressed. the report has steinem’s name stamped across the top.” ~ @chamblee54 Known for feminism and ugly glasses, Gloria Steinem was also a CIA asset. She allegedly produced a pamphlet, ‘A Review of Negro Segregation in the United States.’ ~ Does #Israel have the right to defend itself from #Israel ? ~ A facebook actor posted: “if you are going to claim NOT to be racist, I feel like you should … ” I thought about it. Why is they interested in my racism status, and how is this any of their business? ~ Israel has outsmarted itself. In the eighties, Israel, and her enablers, encouraged the Iran Iraq war. The idea was to keep them busy, so they would not fight Israel. Over a million men, and boys, died. The I-I war led to the Iran Contra affair, the use of wmd by Iraq 1/x ~ We are currently in an interesting phase in our view of the War Between the States. First the war, then the reconciliation/confederate mythology. Now the performative rebel-bashing. It will be interesting how this looks in a few years. ~ Back in Shanghai, Goulter sought to gain a permit to return to Hofei and to figure out how he could transport the numerous bales of clothing (which had arrived on the freighter) to the mission station. In the meantime he was aware of local groups that were desperately in need of clothing. Shanghai was full of refugees. Among them were some Jews fleeing from the horrors of Nazi Germany. They had only the summer clothes they were dressed in. Gaining access to his bales of clothing, Goulter was able to fit them out with warm clothes. This incident is possible the basis for unusual story told about Goulter (see following). ~ there is a Christmas urban legend, about a missionary, OJ Goulter, buying German pastries for Jewish refugees in World War II. After I posted a story questioning this legend, the grandchildren of the Dr. Goulter sent me stories about the man. ~ In 1893, Great Britain created a border between Colonial India and Afghanistan. Much of what is today Pakistan arguably belongs to Afghanistan, or an independent Balochistan. ~ This is a repost from December 3, 2017.. For 29 weeks, I published a post about people killed by police. 645 incidents were considered, with key statistics broken down in the summary. The series got very little attention. For all the hoopla certain cases generate, most people are not interested in the day to day grind. ~ this is a repost from December 3, 2017. For 29 weeks, I published a post about people killed by police. 645 incidents were considered, with key statistics broken down in the summary. The series got very little attention. For all the hoopla certain cases generate, most people are not interested in the day to day grind. The 22 people shown below are remembered only by their families. ~ this is a repost from December 3, 2017. For 29 weeks, I posted about 645 people killed by police. 645 incidents were considered. The series got little attention. For all the hoopla certain cases generate, most people are not interested in the details. ~ @annbauerwriter Also, I am no longer using the phrase “hate speech,” because it’s a propaganda tool that has lost all meaning. A friend told me he’s doing his mandatory corporate DEI training for 2024: Saying “preferred pronouns” is now considered hate speech—and is a fireable offense. ~ 1 thing you know you know about outside world, 1 thing you think you know ” , 1 thing you wish you knew ” , i am still motivated to make the world different – I know that water is wet, and heavy in bulk. Water is the wet element. Some say that earth is anything solid, air is a gas, and water is anything liquid. – That is what I think I know. Water is a metaphor for some arcane knowledge, which I don’t know and don’t especially care to know. – What do I wish I knew? How to ensure an adequate supply of adequate water. The fresh water supply is finite, and here in atlanta, where five million people depend on an overgrown trout stream, the supply of usable water is always precarious. A new drought could begin at any time, and we are powerless to stop. Praying for rain is a good idea, but I am afraid that god is not always listening. – water is a source of power, and a weapon of war. Israel has always coveted the limited water in their area, and is reluctant to share it with others. In this latest killing spree, the water for gaza … never plentiful or clean to begin with … is a weapon for evil. i am motivated to change this, but feel powerless. ~ Howdy … I gave into the temptation to engage with a commercial participant here. I should not that I am retired, and am not wealthy. I apologize for leading you on. I do not see what you are doing as being wrong, likewise I would not feel good about using your services. ~ Mr. Vonnegut’s wikiquote page calls this “misattributed” … “Part of a quote attributed to Vonnegut, but actually a response to tumblr post of a letter by Vonnegut by user three rings” This was in a tumblr called “Hardcore Emotional Smut” There is a letter there from KV that is more believable, and inspiring, than the “archaelogical dig” story. ~ there is a facebook fable about Kurt Vonnegut, rest his soul. The meme is about KV going on an archaeological dig when he is fifteen. I was in the mood to be an obnoxious pedant, so I asked Mr. Google what he thought. An article in snopes came up, and I copied a link to the fbf that posted the meme. Then I read the snopes article, and saw that it had nothing to do with an archaeological dig. Then I went to the KV wikiquote. The AD quote is listed as “Misattributed.” The source was a tumblr, hardcore emotional slut It turns out the AD story is shown below a letter KV wrote to a high school english student. The letter is classic feel-good KV. This letter is much more plausible, and inspiring, than the AD story. How many Indiana 15 yearolds went on archaeological digs in 1937? ~ @chamblee54 Did Kurt Vonnegut go on a archaeological dig when he was 15? The KV Wikiquote blames a tumblr, Hardcore Emotional Smut. The real KV letter is better. @QuoteResearch ~ Address of the International Working Men’s Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America Presented to U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams January 28, 1865 [A] Written: by Marx between November 22 & 29, 1864, and included in the Minutes of the General Council on 29th November 1864; ~ @ContrabandsM I haven’t been at work for 2 hours, & I’ve already had an extensive conversation w/ a colleague in which I told her (& she agreed) that she is ill-equipped to connect w/ & assist her Black & Latino students. I also talked w/ 1 of my autistic students about his experience. 1/9 ~ @JoeBiden Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace. To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek. We can’t do that. ~ @YousefMunayyer @YousefMunayyer This morning I got an email from a cable news network asking me to come on to talk about the “truce” and what happens next. I told them I’d be happy to do so. Then… @YousefMunayyerThey sent me an email asking for technical details to arrange the segment and also asked me for “A couple of brief pre-interview notes on your thoughts which we can use to help guide the interview” @YousefMunayyer I replied back with the technical info as well as three simple points in response to their request for “pre-interview notes” Here is what I sent them: @YousefMunayyer “This morning two unarmed Palestinian children were shot and killed by the Israeli military in occupied Jenin highlighting how even in a moment of “cease-fire” unending military occupation continues to claim the lives of Palestinians.”@YousefMunayyer “There is no military solution to this issue, the only path forward is one based on addressing the root causes which are the denial of basic rights to Palestinians.@YousefMunayyer”The Israeli government, led by Netanyahu, sold Israelis the notion that they could have unending occupation and security at the same time. This was always untrue but it became undeniable on Oct 7th…@YousefMunayyer ..Netanyahu knows his political career and his government’s days are numbered and he is hoping to put off the day after the war as long as possible. The US must not accept that.”@YousefMunayyer Six minutes after sending that email, I got an email back with this “sincere apologies but due to a last-minute change in plans with the show team, we will have to stand down on this request for today.” @YousefMunayyer Folks, I have done hundreds of segments, and countless ones for this same network over the years to talk about this issue. I have *never* witnessed the level of censorship and discourse policing by cable news that is taking place right now. ~ I have a question, and you might have the answer. Is anyone “in charge” of the green space? I have a project I want to do. There is a lot of debris in front of the curb, on the Skyland end. I would like to rake the leaves, and deposit them somewhere out of sight in the woods. I imagine there is some dirt there, which could be scraped up and put somewhere. It is probably good soil, if someone wanted to dump this on a garden. If I got help with this, that would be great. If I do it by myself, that is good as well. There is no deadline. This matter has been piling up as long as I know, so it won’t hurt to stay a bit longer. ~ @RBrulin These videos are SO problematic: Short snippets out of context & neatly packaged to generate buzz make it EVER HARDER to have the serious, reasoned discussions about terrorism that we NEED: About terrorism/resistance Terrorists/freedom fighters Non-state & state terrorism Etc 🧵 ~ #TuckerCarlson can make a strange noise when he laughs. Here he says “You’re out of control” followed by a psycho laugh. .@ComicDaveSmith ~ @martyrmade New Jocko: Unraveling #40 Jocko and I discuss media, politics, Israel and more w/Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar). Saagar is a great guy, a snappy dresser, and taller than expected irl. Oh, and he hosts a show called Breaking Points w/@krystalball ~ someone … either @aquadrunkard or @captainsdead … put “Fairytale in New York” up for download. They said it was #ShaneMacgowan’s finest hour. I downloaded FINY, and played it about 20 times on Christmas Eve, crying like a baby every time. ~ @ggreenwald @ggreenwald The world’s most pathetic people — and I mean this with no exaggeration — are those who think they become more masculine, who find purpose as a man, not by going to fight in wars or taking any personal risks, but by cheerleading wars from a safe distance that others go fight: ~ @MattPrinciple ***THREAD*** Status, Virtue-Signaling, and the Ascent of Liberalism: Towards a General Theory of Modern Politics, w/ Some Thoughts on the Road Ahead for the Right Right-wingers often gripe about the prevalence of “virtue-signaling” on the left: the practice of adopting an ~ Pictures for this no three-peat monday are from The Library of Congress ~ selah

Lawless’ E-Bike Riders

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on November 27, 2023


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‘Lawless’ E-Bike Riders Have Upper East Side Neighbors Demanding Police Action
Mow the Lawn: Israel’s Strategy For Perpetual War With the Palestinians
Analysis: 17 Palestinian militant factions identified in recent Gaza conflict June 4, 2021
Israel-Gaza war: only a two-state solution can bring real peace, China president says …
The rage behind Transgender Map An activist media ecosystem enabled Andrea James
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No Ordinary People Ron Henzel Nov 21, 2013 Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, John Kennedy
Israel has crossed the Muslim red line, the whole Middle East will eliminate them
“don’t we want gay people to walk straight down the street, et cetera et cetera”
Israeli intelligence ‘dismissed’ detailed warning of Hamas raid
Netanyahu avoids political rebellion over Hamas hostage deal but ally calls it ‘immoral’
Man Claims He Saw Will Smith Getting Packed By Another Dude
Will Smith’s Former Assistant Says Will Had Sex With Duane Martin
Behind the Scenes: The Role of the US and Europe in Israel’s Gaza Operations
Frank Sinatra – Smells Like Teen Spirit (AI Cover)
Locals on the Dublin riots: ‘What good is all that going to do for that teacher and the …
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moderated by leading prime-time pundit Sean Hannity, the debate will be presented live from Alpharetta, Ga., but will not feature an audience in attendance. ~ desantis contest ~ the West Begins to Dump Ukraine While Media Pretends This Was Always the Plan. Plus: Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made) on Israel-Gaza, Ukraine, 1/6 Tapes, & Censorship | SYSTEM UPDATE #186 ~ This is just my opinion. When talking to God, you should use DM, and not a public comment. One time, I heard a lady praying for entertainment on a co-workers radio. It led to my estrangement from Jesus. It is a complicated, personal story. ~ Ray, this is a thought I should have kept to myself. Please accept my apology. ~ A letter from a rainy day, Can find you in a drought, When getting water for your garden, Is all you care about ~ @I_Katchanovski Now head of Zelensky party faction in Ukrainian parliament & head of Ukrainian delegation in Ukraine-Russia talks confirms that peace deal could have been reached in spring 2022 if Ukraine agreed to neutrality. He said that Russia was ready to end the war in such case and that Ukrainian neutrality was main Russian condition. He also confirmed that Western countries told Zelensky not to sign peace deal. His original interview in Ukrainian ~ Hey How was your day? – ¿Oye, como estuvo tu día? – Soy pasivo – I am passive – I like sucking and kissing much more than fucking – Me gusta mucho más chupar y besar que follar – Lo se – I know – Yo soy sólo pasivo , no me gusta que me toquen el pene. Solo chupo y beso y que me follen activos – I am only passive, I don’t like having my penis touched. I just suck and kiss and get fucked active – I don’t like to top. I cannot get hard, and the pills do not work – Entiendo perfectamente. Solo quería dejarlo claro – I understand clearly. I just wanted to make it clear – Thank you for your honesty. I think you are a handsome man, and I would enjoy meeting. Ithis is not something you would like, I totally understand. – Gracias por su honestidad. Creo que eres un hombre guapo y me encantaría conocerlo. Si esto no es algo que le gustaría, lo entiendo totalmente – .No tengo amigos .. podría conocerte pero nada sexual Solo amigos – I have no friends.. I could meet you but nothing sexual Just friends – my conversation is totally google translate i do not speak spanish – mi conversación es totalmente traductor de google no hablo español – being men is what we have in common … i enjoy being with a man – ser hombres es lo que tenemos en común… disfruto estar con un hombre ~ self rightous proctologically inclined, opinion spewing on topics they know, little about for discretion they decline, expressing creations of go go go, what is a wheel without miss vanna, leaving eight minutes to buy a vowel, can’t have a fruit bowl without a banana, nor eliminate produce without a bowel, the first word tonight will rhyme with name, an emotion without any meaning or use, the same could be said for the game of blame, or an orange pulp after squeezing juice, a word that almost rhymes is plenty, not only rhyming but the opposite meaning, i have just enough time left to count to twenty, then it is over except for the screaming ~ this is the monday morning reader for this festive pre-thanksgiving tabulation. Many of the items are about the tragedy in Palestine. One of the saddest actors is Tulsi Gabbard. She has spoken out about the military industrial complex before, but now endorses it. ~ @MagiOtsri You do understand the fact that he is a poet leaves enough time for other hobbies, right? And do you remember that hundreds of civilians also entered with HAMAS into Israel on October 7, raping and murdering women and children (there’s actually videos of it posted in social media by Hamas themselves). All these people have a day job. They also have a hobby of killing jews. ~ @chamblee54 @robertwrighter I found this clip in the dungeon. The phrase “raving lunatic in the wilderness” is from @kausmickey “Then he becomes a raving lunatic in the wilderness, claiming that that he was robbed, even worse than Hillary and Stacey Abrams” ~ Mick Fleetwood wrote a book in 1991. If it had been a work of fiction, nobody would believe it. Mick does not make enemas, or name Cadillacs. The possibility does exist that he has used those two products. ~ today is the sixtieth anniversary of President Kennedy’s trip to Dallas. This is how a nine year old in Georgia experienced that day. ~ @MtZionAD33 ~ @abgutman IDF confirms the arrest of Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the director of al-Shifa hospital over night. The Shin Bet is interrogating him. “The hospital was a terror headquarter under his management.” IDF says that a pathological report confirms that hostage Noa Marciano died in Shifa. ~ Around 15:00, I needed to get out of the house. I put my shoes on, and went over to Murphy Candler Park. I had gotten about a hundred yards down the trail when a young man started a conversation. He was handsome, with a beard and tattoos. He spoke good english, but I got the sense that it was his second language. We talked about how some people are not happy, even though they lack for nothing materially. Finally we shook hands, and went on our way. I got to the end of the lake, and took a walkway across the wetland. When I got to the other side… after seeing a deer, with an impressive set of antlers … I needed to find a place to pee. There was an improvised path, that led behind some bushes. When I was through shipping the merchandise, I continued down the unofficial trail. I did not know exactly where it went, but noticed that it was beside Nancy Creek. I continued down this path, as it got sketchier and sketchier. Finally I saw a side creek coming in, and a wooden bridge across it. I made my way back to the vehicle, and went on. It was a good thanksgiving. ~ #Thanksgiving was a time our family cherished. It was the only time all of us got together under one roof and mingled. Except for me. ~ I was the the family embarrassment. They were Catholic. I played guitar, loved Heavy Metal, and worshiped Satan. ~ Hanine Hassan حنين @Hanine09 Reading Arab Twitter gives hope to a generational shift away from Western hegemony. Generating & propagating so-called universal human values to disseminate/impose them on the world, the West recently faced 3 consecutive setbacks that unveiled its hollowness in the eyes of Arabs: @Hanine09 The Russian-Ukrainian war, placed within Europe’s historical greed & attacks on Russian territories, then the World Cup & the overt Islamophobia that Western media spewed & most significantly, the Gaza genocide. The latter, constituting a profound blow, has diminished its standing @Hanine09 as a values producer in the eyes of Arabs. The West’s persistence on using a dehumanizing tone will bear the same consequences as the military defeat suffered by the Zionist forces on Oct 7th, which has irrevocably shifted Arab consciousness in regards to Israel’s military might. ~ @chamblee54 I paused the show during a rant by @GlennLoury The looks from @Tyler_A_Harper @dbessner are the thousand words for this picture. fwiw, people were burned alive on October 7. We now know that #IDF did it. @Tyler_A_Harper @dbessner ~ @chamblee54 “don’t we want gay people to walk straight down the street, et cetera et cetera” @GlennLoury means gay people should walk FORWARD down the street. And by all means, continue to et cetera et cetera. @Tyler_A_Harper @dbessner @robertwrighter ~ This is a double repost from 2017.. It was a simpler time. … ~ In 2017, @nytimes went to Ohio to interview Tony Hovater. The online mob did not think the article had enough hate. Their comments do not age well. The word was that the article made a dangerous man seem ordinary. In truth, the article took a boring man, and made him seem dangerous. ~ @chamblee54 In 2017, @nytimes went to Ohio to interview Tony Hovater. Twitter did not think they showed enough hate. The comments do not age well. Instead of making a dangerous man look normal, the article took a normal man, and tried to make him look dangerous ~ yea, today, i had a long chat, utilizing google translate to code my comments into spanish … this man whose profile i have been liking finally chatted with me. it turns out that he is a total bottom who does not like to have his penis touched … i don’t think this is going to work ~ This is a repost from 2015. It was a simpler time. … ~ I was too lazy to write anything, so I found something in the archive. The pictures were cool, so I retrofit the text to accommodate my lifestyle. If you look closely at the top picture, you will see a curious sign, on the Ponce de Leon side of the Fox Theater. ~ @JackMurphyRGR Here in America we need to realize that we have long since stopped discussing the realities of Gaza and Israel and instead just police each other’s speech regarding what we think people should be allowed to say about it. @chamblee54 Your opinions about Israel are the product of the information that you receive. It is like comparing feces to the food consumed. If you eat meat and junk food, you will be sticky and unproductive. If you eat healthy food, you will be easily productive. Details are omitted. ~ @JoelMartinRubin I’m often asked if women fight in the @IDF Here’s an amazing story of an all female Israeli tank crew that did on 10/7, and saved a kibbutz in the process. ~ we destroyed the kibbutz to save it ~ pictures for this cyber monday non shopping are from The Library of Congress ~ selah

Most Bizarre Grammar

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on November 20, 2023


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This Is the Most Bizarre Grammar Rule You Probably Never Heard Of
1. Opinion 2. Size 3. Age 4. Shape 5. Color 6. Origin 7. Material 8. Purpose
AI is about to completely change how you use computers And upend the software industry.
Steve Carell to make Broadway debut in Uncle Vanya, with further cast announced
Radcliffe Bailey, Artist Who Found Black History in the Everyday, Dies at 55
Coleman Hughes: The Struggle for Black Freedom Has Nothing to Do with Israel
The long, strange trip of Mountain Girl From Merry Pranksters to Grateful Dead …
What Belongs in a High School Library? A variety of books for entire student body
Ex-CIA Operative Mike Baker Gives His Analysis on Israel-Hamas War
Read Anne Boyer’s extraordinary New York Times resignation letter.
Evangelical Christian furries are worried they’ll be targeted for their faith
Group of Democrats urges Biden and Blinken to support a cease-fire in Gaza
National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration Get access Arrow
Käytämme evästeitä kävijätilastojen keräämiseen, käyttäjäkokemuksesi parantamiseen ja
The Gaza War Will Create More Terrorists | Glenn Loury & Robert Wright
Israel-Palestine and Ethnic Identity | Robert Wright & Matthew Yglesias
Apology for Printers Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 10, 1731.
The long, strange trip of Mountain Girl From Merry Pranksters to Grateful Dead …
When Middle East Politics (Almost) Tipped an American Presidential Election
@Timcast The Culture War EP. 38 – Israel Vs. Palestine, US Foreign Policy, And Terror
Peach Pundit The Podcast: We’re All-Stars! LG vs SOS. Kemp PAC Fills GAGOP Void
Harold Budd & Brian Eno – The Pavilion of Dreams (Full Album) [Stretched]
The Identity Trap | Glenn Loury & Yascha Mounk | The Glenn Show
Scott Ritter: Iran can destroy Israel with non-nuclear ballistic missile in a region war
“הרחבה ממנה יצאו מחבלים ארורים לטבח – נמצאת בידינו” בעומק הרצועה, ברחבת המסדרים של מוצב ה
What really happened in Israel on Oct. 7? w/Max Blumenthal | The Chris Hedges Report
As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, …
debate ~ Juanita MORE ~ perversion for profit ~ tom friedman ~ gaza
vocabulary ~ Jan. 6 ~ gaza ~ fahey ~ 511 sf bay
mountain girl ~ budowski ~ plan 9 from outer space ~ Rashômon ~ zabriskie point
zabriskie point ~ gsu ~ les crane ~ Les Crane ~ Deteriorata ~ The Elements of Eloquence
self compassion ~ hezbollah ~ Don’t copyrights expire ~ Rev. Frederick Kates
Les Crane ~ Deteriorata ~ 8b19291 ~ 8b19279 ~ mike baker
watermelon ~ rape israeli ~ mearsheimer ~ ashe ~ harvard
trace ~ niki hoeky ~ luke ~ be water ~ sunshine kesey
mountain girl ~ ed wood ~ henry’s ~ adrenochrome ~ bex burch
zandar vs the stupid ~ gaza ~ gaza ~ whire folks ~ watermelon
Georgia is in the far west part of eastern time. Alabama is in the far east part of central time. The sun is essentially in the same place, but Alabama is an hour earlier. ~ I don’t know if it is #Antisemitism but 40+ years of lies/propaganda/bad faith arguments are taking a toll. Blood libel myths are obsolete. just quote today’s government instead ~ my previous comment was tagged as hate speech i suggested that wtf stood for three words. The first was melanin challenged people. The second was a slang term for debris. The third word is fabulous. If fabulous is hate speech, we have a problem. ~ my first rule of 10-7: you can usually tell what side someone is on quickly. If they say hamas or Palestinians. The adjectives they use to describe the 10-7 attack. If they think the human shield argument absolves Israel of responsibility. If they believe Israeli propaganda ~ here is the monday morning reader for this week. The pictures are better than the text. 8b19291 is seen here. “Evicted sharecropper’s child eating orange from F.S.C.C supply.” Butler County MO Nov. 1939. Photographer: Arthur Rothstein ~ Desiderata has been a source of inspiration for many years, as well as a financial blessing for gift shop owners. Many people are suprised to learn that the D-poem was written by an Indiana attorney ~ Around this time 159 years ago, Atlanta was on fire. General Sherman was preparing for his March to the sea, and wanted to destroy anything of value in the city. The November fire was the second fire. On September 2, fleeing Confederates blew up a munitions depot. This is the fire Scarlet O’Hara flees, in “Gone With The Wind” ~ 159 years ago, Atlanta was on fire. General Sherman was preparing for his March to the sea, and wanted to destroy anything of value in the city. September 2, fleeing Confederates blew up a munitions depot. This is the fire Scarlet O’Hara flees ~ “can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you are” Henry Bukowski – Post Office ~ RuPaul Andre Charles was born on November 17. He or she? Ally or enemy? Racist or whatever? Labels are part of the packaging, and have little to do with the product inside the box. ~ White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack ~ I began to think, which is never a good sign. Was Socrates able to read and write? was on the screen a few minutes later. The speculation is mixed. Some say that that Socrates was stone illiterate. ~ This is a repost. ~ “Andy Warhol Hosts Frank Zappa on His Cable TV Show. “I Hated Him More Than Ever” After the Show.” Andy had a public access cable tv show in New York. One of his guests was Frank Zappa. FZ talked a lot, while Andy was silently uncomfortable. ~ One of the saddest actors is Tulsi Gabbard. She has spoken out about the military industrial complex before, but now endorses it. ~ More Israeli talking points. Just what we don’t need. ~ The Library of Congress ~ selah

Rassismus Finanzminister

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on November 13, 2023


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Time sorry ‘feminist’ was in banned words poll by Frank Pallotta @frankpallotta
Beigeschmack von Rassismus Finanzminister Bezalel Smotrich blockiert Zahlungen …
Towards untying colonial knots in Canadian health: net metaphor for settler-colonialism
Knesset … Criminalizing “Consumption of Terrorist Publications”
Netanyahu rejected ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, sources say
Broken Borders: AP & Reuters Pictures of Hamas Atrocities Raise Ethical Questions
Reuters denies any suggestion it had prior knowledge of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
News outlets deny prior knowledge of Hamas attack after Israeli government demands …
War All the Time: Israel vs Palestine, 1948-82 (Bonus Episode)
Jimmy Carter was cancelled in 2007, for his support for Palestinians.
Scott Ritter: Hezbollah will escalate to Total War in Israel if they break the red line in Gaza
Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death: What is Hellfire R9X missile Americans purportedly used?
Mattilda’s ‘Touching the Art’ Examines a Complicated Relationship Through Art
RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 U.S. ELECTIONS CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT …
Audit Finds No Issues, Concerns with Finances at Center for Antiracist Research
BREAKING: Bibi Declares ‘INDEFINITE’ Occupation Of Gaza
DIRTY DINING: Health District moves to permanently close Gandhi India’s Cuisine
Israel, Palestine, and America | Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas
Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so Arwa Mahdawi
Georgia Supreme Court Wrecks Felony Murder, Homicide by Vehicle Decision
Man Convicted Of Murder, Vehicular Homicide In Connection With 2016 Crash
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honest reporting ~ loc server ~ @IsraelMFA ~ zoophilia ~ schweitzer
ahmet ertegun ~ beltline ~ 2010 ~ Arlo put up the Gone Fishin sign ~ Woody Guthrie
Ride My Motorcycle ~ Per wikipedia: ~ 2011 ~ 2019 ~ 2012
gsu ~ arlo ~ banned words ~ repost. ~ mona of the manor
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@tracewoodgrains back when I was in the Air Force, someone put “It’s ok to be white” posters up in the bathroom once. so at the next all-call, the squadron commander took a few minutes to say that of course it’s ok to be white, of course the person putting the poster up was looking for a fight, and that the military was not the place for that sort of nonsense. then he told us to focus on commonalities, expect diversity including diversity of thought, and said we were welcome to start productive conversations but not to engage in dumb trolling behavior ~ Every item on this page was chosen by a Shondaland editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. ~ Come on Charlie Brown, kick the football. I’ll hold it this time. I promise. ~ @catholiccom Can Catholic grandparents secretly baptize their grandchildren? Believe it or not, this could cause more harm than good. ~ I heard a story about Mohandas Gandhi. Supposedly, he flew to Las Vegas, and stayed on the plane to avoid the temptation. I decided to google “Did Gandhi go to Las Vegas?” It turns out there was a restaurant in LV called Gandhi. Note that I used the past tense. “Gandhi was recently shut down for a multi-generational cockroach infestation. … Inspectors called the infestation “excessively active” and found the roaches housed inside an excessively greasy burner where food was actively cooking. Roaches were also in the prep area, near the sink and on the hot line. … In addition to the roach infestation, inspectors also saw a food handler using expired, 11-day old tomato sauce to cook with. There was meat was sitting in a damp and dirty cardboard box. And lots of food in the fridge, including sauces, meats and more were uncovered and subject to contamination. There was also freezer-burned chicken in a torn Ziploc bag. Dirty containers of utensils and a dirty food processor were stored as clean. And there were repeat violations for brown slime in the ice machine and food with no date labels.The sign on the door from Gandhi management says, “We are closed for remodeling. We apologize for inconvenience.” ” ~ I googled “Did Gandhi go to Las Vegas?” There was a restaurant in LV called Gandhi. “Gandhi was recently shut down for a multi-generational cockroach infestation. … brown slime in the ice machine … “We are closed for remodeling. We apologize for inconvenience.” ” ~ “The bible says that there is a time for peace, and a time for war. This is a time for war.” Benjamin Netanyahu uses the Bible to call for the murder of unarmed women and children. ~ 1492 words ~ Here is the Monday morning reader for this fine November day. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, November is the N-word. If you spell november with a lower case n, you will be “called out” by spell check. One sc option for november is nonmember. ~ Come on Charlie Brown, kick the football, I’ll hold it this time, I promise ~ Tuesday is Joni Mitchell’s 80th birthday. Roberta Joan Anderson was born November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta. … A facebook friend went on a Joni Mitchell kick. First it was a link to an interview. Then it was a quote from The Last Time I Saw Richard. … ~ this is a repost from 2014. It was a time when people were easily amused. …TIME magazine went on a word banning binge. The choices: bae, basic, bossy, disrupt, feminist, I can’t even, influencer, kale, literally, om nom nom nom, obvi, said no one ever, sorry not sorry, turnt, yaaasssss. ~ Arlo married Matri Ladd on December 8, 2021. ~ Steven Benjamin Goodman died September 20, 1984. ~ “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars.” ~ Thanksgiving is intimately connected to Arlo Guthrie. Unlike the turkey, Mr. Guthrie went on to have a flourishing career. He probably will not come down with Huntington’s Disease, which killed his father Woody Guthrie. ~ honest reportingHonestReporting | Exposing anti-Israel media bias HonestReporting monitors the news for bias, inaccuracy and other breaches of journalistic standards that create false, if not malicious, narratives about Israel, the broader Middle East and Jews worldwide. HonestReporting is not aligned with any government or political party or movement. ~ @HonestReporting Scoop: What were @AP, @Reuters , @CNN & @nytimes Gaza freelance photographers doing inside Israel on October 7? Coincidence or were they part of the plan? ~ @ChrchCurmudgeon A California man has just developed THC edibles for tropical birds using multiple different strains of cannabis. It’s called poly-juana cracker. ~ This is a repost from 2018.. The last five years have been fun to watch. Brian Kemp was inaugurated as Governor. Stacey Abrams became the darling of the chattering classes. In 2020, President Orangehair saw Stacey’s election denial, and took it to the next level. POTUS-TUBBY called Governor Kemp, and politely requested Georgia’s electoral votes. The Governor declined. Two years later, Governor Kemp beat the stuffin’ out of Stacey Abrams to win re-election. ~ this is a repost from 2018. It was a simpler time, but the politician/media confluence was just as dishonest as ever. Stacey Abrams almost got elected Governor. The line was that Brian Kemp was stealing votes. It turns out the counties count the votes, not the state. We were lied to. ~ @wildethingy A single cockroach will wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries but a single cherry will do nothing to improve a bowl of cockroaches. ~ @fakehistoryhunt I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can’t act like grown-ups get blocked ~ Hugh Pharr Quin CSA was my great grandfather. He served with the Georgia State Troops, in the War Between the States. I prefer the USA to the CSA, or whatever would have followed a Confederate victory. The Union army had to prevail, over the various Confederate Armies, for this to happen. Do I dishonor my great grandfather by saying, we are better off that the other side won? ~ good morning having a good day so far … i am downloading pictures from the library of congress, and there server is working … finally … so this is a matter of open the window, make sure i don’t already have the file, click to save the file, close the window … rinse repeat ~ so I sent danny_bbtm18 a like, he responded, and that was that … i was in waffle house, and they had a new kid. a few weeks later, i went into moes, and the same kid was working there, and remembered me from waffle house. I did not talk to him at wh … so today, i saw d_b18, and noticed a resemblance. I sent him a message mentioning this … he blocked me ~ I had content removed because I repeated a joke about the table manners of a German historic figure. I said he ate off other people’s plates ~ If America cared about the people of Mexico, we would open our border to the people fleeing the drug cartels. ~ It is a T shirt treasure, and a coffee cup classic. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” This gem is blamed on Allan Stewart Konigsberg, better known as Woody Allen. The percentage goes up and down, and life is sometimes substituted for success. ~ @chamblee54 It is a T shirt treasure, and a coffee cup classic. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” This gem is blamed on Allan Stewart Konigsberg, better known as Woody Allen. @WISTquotes @QuoteResearch ~ Anti semites of the future will not repeat blood libel myths. They will quote the current Israeli government. ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress ~ selah

Who Wants Another War?

Posted in Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on November 6, 2023


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Ep128: WHAT IF WE KILLED EVERYONE WHO WANTS ANOTHER WAR?
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@esaagar @krystalball“resolution of the president this also by the way explains the special role that president President Biden has fulfilled Israel has no government we do not have a leader and to a certain extent President Biden with his genuine love of Israel aside from being commanderin-chief became the surrogate father or the surrogate prime minister of Israel and is deeply respected Biden was vilified by a half of Israel who are uh trumpian there’s none of that left” ~ “the potluck dinner’s coming up soon, is there anything you’re good at making?” Me: “Excuses.” ~ @Higgins802 Look mom, I offended the shitty part of this hellsite, and went viral. LOL … @Higgins802 Apparently asking people to be mindful of their LGBTQIA friends while morning an actor is a bridge too far. 🤷‍♂️ Sorry, not sorry. ~ Here is the monday morning reader for your pre-halloween candy bowl. Included today are 1626 words, seven historic pictures, more links than a sausage factory, and a story from Chuck Palahniuk ~ Yossian: “There is no population in Gaza, there are 2.5 million terrorists – therefore there is no meaning to ‘knock on the roof” ~ @chamblee54 “… there’s a whole Hospital Wards full of pre-term babies who were cut out of their Dead Mother’s stomachs and who … have to be on ventilators …these hospitals are running out of fuel they’re also under threat of potential imminent bombing …” ~ “… one thing that I saw that completely broke me there’s a whole Hospital Wards full of pre-term babies who were cut out of their Dead Mother’s stomachs and who are now you know have to be on ventilators in you know the equivalent of a ncu and these hospitals are running out of fuel they’re also under threat of potential imminent bombing so you just can’t overstate what a humanitarian disaster this is …” ~ This is a repost from 2019. @BridgetPhetasy had a baby, and enthusiastically supports Israel in the disagreement over Gaza. … ~ @BridgetPhetasy bills herself as Writer, Comedian, Verified Nobody. She has a youtube show, Dumpster Fire. She likes to make fun of sjw goofiness … a topic that never runs out of material. ~ @NathanJRobinson This is an important point. If the British had responded to IRA attacks on civilians by launching relentless air strikes on Irish civilian neighborhoods, it would have appeared obviously psychopathic and deranged. Yet in Gaza this is considered a reasonable response to terror. ~ I finished looking through Trigger Warning, and googled your name to find your post @cameracub86 instagram. In so doing, I saw some very sad news. I am very sorry for your loss. The loss of your father is an incredibly tough experience. There is nothing I can say that will make things better. Have courage, and live your life. When you have the time, and emotional bandwidth, I would enjoy hearing from you. ~ at the time of this writing, there is no longer an official NaBloPloMo host site, but individual bloggers sometimes attempt a month of writing on their own, or join with other bloggers and host their own mini NaBloPloMos. ~ This is a repost from 2015. It was a simpler time. The worst problem we had was choosing a President. The options were a geriatric criminal, and an orange haired idiot. (Democrats still had to pick between BS or HRC, who are both geriatric criminals.) Most of the links in this post no longer work. One exception is Occupy Democrats, which has more toxic spam than ever before. … ~ This is a repost from 2015. It was a simpler time. The worst problem we had was choosing a President. The options were a geriatric criminal, and an orange haired idiot. (Democrats still had to pick between BS and HRC, who are both geriatric criminals.) Most of the links in this post no longer work. One exception is Occupy Democrats, which has more toxic spam than ever before. ~ @chamblee54 This is a repost from 2015. It was a simpler time. The worst problem we had was choosing a President. The options were a geriatric criminal, and an orange haired idiot. Most of the links in this post no longer work. @neonflag ~ when Gore Vidal told this story, it was about the petty corruption of American Politics. Another version said it was the best $2m Israel ever spent. I am curious who the quote above comes from. Without a source, it is just another plausible conspiracy. ~ December 31, 1988, was my last day as a beer drinker. Growing up in a teetotaling Baptist household, I never learned how to drink in good taste. When I did pick up the habit, I drank more than I should. After a while, I decided it was time to quit. I did it on my own, without going to AA. I never made a promise not to drink, I just did. That may be the one thing I have gotten right in my life. If I had not quit drinking when I did, there is a good chance I would not be here today. ~ Potentially Offensive Content Some content in our collection may contain graphic images, offensive language, or material that conflicts with strongly held values or beliefs. We provide access to this content to preserve the historical record. We do not endorse the attitudes, prejudices, or behaviors it represents. If you are sensitive to this material, please do not proceed. ~ There was a writers prompt, in November 2012. Write a letter to your 14 year old self, and one to yourself in 20 years. These letters have an election theme, and are a good excuse to recycle historic photographs 11 years later. ~ @chamblee54 “The Bible says that there is a time for peace, and a time for war. This is a time for war.” Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu uses Ecclesiastes 3:8 to call for the murder of unarmed women and children. ~ the lyrics for Turn, Turn, Turn were taken verbatim from Ecclesiastes 3. Now, Israeli PM Benajmin Netanyahu is using Ecclesiates 3:8 to justify the wholesale slaughter of unarmed women and children. ~ @aquadrunkard ~ This is a repost from 2008. It was a kinder, gentler time. … Something snapped in my this morning, when I found this piece. It is about a song, Turn, Turn, Turn. This song is based on Ecclesiastes 3. … We are in a time of war. One side is heavily armed, and is slaughtering unarmed women and children. The Prime Minister of this country uses Ecclesiastes 3:8 to justify mass murder. … I recently published a poem, that includes the line “Ecclesiastical abomination.” When I wrote that, it was just a clever phrase, rhyming with cultural appropiation. In fact, I considered saying cultural abomination/Ecclesiastical appropriation. Now, Bibi has taught me the meaning of Ecclesiastical abomination. ~ selah

Biggest And Dumbest

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on October 30, 2023


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Conservatism and Fairness in Contemporary Politics: Unpacking the Psychological …
reports indicate Israeli forces responsible for Israeli deaths following October 7 attack
Israel/Palestine: Videos of Hamas-Led Attacks Verified ICC Has Mandate to Probe …
@chamblee54 Does anyone have any jokes about procrastination? I’ll wait.
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalates, so must our commitment to free speech
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10/25/23 Meron Rapoport on Netanyahu’s Choice to Aid Hamas
Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza
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October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles
Genocidal Onslaught on Gaza Shocks Conscience of the World, w/ Abby Martin
Solving problems that don’t exist by Jason Shepherd October 28, 2023
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This is the monday morning reader for this bye week. … Why Israel’s bombardment of Gaza neighborhood left US officers ‘stunned’ … “you can’t say, it doesn’t matter what the truth is here” #rachelmaddow … Was Israel Warned Of Hamas’ Attack And What Did Egypt Say? ~ who shat on the floor at my wedding America ~ it is perhaps the most famous photograph from the depression. The semi official title is Migrant Mother. The Library of Congress says “Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.” ~ did the translators and scribes get it wrong? Maybe Jesus did not say to love your enemy. Maybe what Jesus said was to show kindness to everyone. This is a practice thing, rather than a belief thing ~ one guy he was a painter in Denver and he was really proud he did really the very best prep work he he said he he didn’t do any spray work it was all brush work just he was you know a fantastically good house painter and he had had a really checkered life he’ done a lot of intravenous drugs and he ended up uh HIV positive and he wasn’t married wasn’t in a relationship he had this little pug dog that he just adored he loved this little dog and every night before he he fell asleep he would uh jerk off in bed and he’ clean up with a water Kleenex and he’ drop it off the side of the bed and uh every morning he’d look down and there’d be the Pug dog shredding the kleenex and I kind of shot myself in the foot here because at this point he didn’t know he was HIV positive but he goes in for a test for new insurance or something and they say you’ve got to come in for a face to face and that’s never good so he goes in for a face to face and they’re talking about you know extending his life and treatments and regiments and on and on and all he can think of is every morning for God knows how many years my dog has eaten those Kleenex oh my God I gave my dog AIDS and he’s just completely freaked out it doesn’t matter whether he’s sick or he might die he is just completely completely traumatized over the idea that he might have killed this thing that he loves the most and so while the social worker is still prattling on and on and on he finally just he says you’ve got to stop just stop I only need to know one thing I only need to know just one thing just stop just shut up and she stops and you know it’s clear she’s got this sort of saintly look she’s given this this talk so many times and he goes I just need to know could I have given aids to my pug dog and he says in that moment the look on her face just hardens it’s not a smile anymore it’s just like a muscle cramp and he says he can actually hear her chair Creak this wooden chair because she’s so pushing herself back trying to distance herself in this invisible way and the room is deadly quiet and then Don some he he goes oh she thinks I [ __ ] my dog oh my gosh he thinks I [ __ ] my pug dog and he goes you think I [ __ ] my dog oh no no no it’s not like that and he tells the story about the kleenex and about the dog eating the kleenex and at that point the social worker goes from this complete disgust to this enormous relief and she starts to laugh and she says no there a reason it’s called HIV and not div it is human immuno suppressive virus not dog immuno and the two of them are so overwhelmed with relief and joy in this moment that his dog’s not going to get sick and she’s not counseling a guy who [ __ ] dogs that after that HIV is just something they can deal with they’re both so happy and life goes on and the guy was writing to me years and years after the fact and he still seems to be very well um I love that story but I ~ in 2012, I got a book about Mick Jagger at the library. It had been rejected by the National Inquirer … something about community standards. 11 years later, The Glimmer Twins are too profitable to die. ~ a recent conversation had this comment. “because the Palestinians continue to think that a strategy of causing atrocities will eventually convince Jews to leave a country.” If you like, you can read some commentary on this. You can also ignore the text, and look at the pictures. ~ “because the Palestinians continue to think that a strategy of causing atrocities will eventually convince Jews to leave a country.” You can ignore the text, and look at the pictures. Or you can read another commentary. .@robertwrighter .@EliLake ~ this is a repost from 2015. It was a simpler time. … It is the first full day back in town, after fall gathering. If you have to ask where I was, you don’t need to know. … ~ 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Circumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a … @millsalice144 ~ gaza population 2.3 m usa population 331.9 m israel 9.3m usa/gaza=144 ~ @chamblee54 @robertwrighter asks @EliLake what caused #Hamas to take control of #Gaza. @EliLake goes off on a rant about how bad #Hamas is. At some point, the correct thing to do is to say you ignorant slut ~ “because the Palestinians continue to think that a strategy of causing atrocities will eventually convince Jews to leave a country” ~ “because the ______ continue to think that a strategy of causing atrocities will eventually convince _____ to leave a country” “Jews” and “Palestinians” go into the blanks. @EliLake @robertwrighter #Gaza_Genocide ~ had a good morning. I did laundry, put it out to dry in the yard, backed up my computer onto an external hard drive … now i am finishing lunch, and will go to meditation group at 6pm ~ 17 “‘Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt. 18 “‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. ~ @DFlyAwayHome I want to start a two band cover band called ABBA-KISS but I worry it would seem too calculated ~ @Higgins802 Reminder that Friends has aged horribly & contains a lot of homo/transphobic content, especially around the Chandler character, so be careful what you share. That said, it’s a tragedy to lose Matthew Perry, especially after all he has gone through & survived with addiction. RIP … @Higgins802 Look mom, I offended the shitty part of this hellsite, and went viral. LOL … @Higgins802 Apparently asking people to be mindful of their LGBTQIA friends while morning an actor is a bridge too far. 🤷‍♂️ Sorry, not sorry. @ProfessionalJu2 Matthew Perry had been declared dead for literally an hour before this posts reminding us that transphobia is really really bad. What a cancer this ideology is. ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress ~ selah

Civilian Victims In War

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on October 23, 2023


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Why Israel’s bombardment of Gaza neighborhood left US officers ‘stunned’
“you can’t say, it doesn’t matter what the truth is here” #youcantmakethisup
A surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, which combined gunmen breaching security
NDTV Explains: Was Israel Warned Of Hamas’ Attack And What Did Egypt Say?
The language of conspiracy: psychological analysis of speech used by conspiracy …
Who was behind the Gaza hospital blast – visual investigation
How Israel’s Spies Failed—and Why Escalation Could Be Catastrophic
Why you might have lost all your Jewish friends this week and didn’t even know it.
New depostion that county medical examiner of George Floyd lied about cause of death …
Hannibal code and Dahiya doctrine: Israel’s controversial directives which could already …
Israel, Hamas, and the Laws of War | Robert Wright & Sarah Leah Whitson
Doctors Are Paid To Talk Nonsense With Patient Until Nature Heals Or Remedies Kill
17-year-old girl dies after being shot several times at home near southwest Atlanta park
The Israel Attacks: Beyond the Obvious with Efrat Fenigson, Bret Weinstein
Insider admits Israel attack was false flag to start holy war, usher in one world government
IS THIS THE END OF WAR IN UKRAINE? HAMAS, WHO IS BEHIND IT?
Scott Ritter, “Why I no longer stand with Israel” – MUST WATCH INTERVIEW!
Israeli Conflict Takes Eschatological Turn + Ukraine War Updates
Stop Bombing Gaza’: Jocko Sounds Off On Israel Military Tactics | Breaking Points
MSNBC BENCHES Muslim Anchors After ADL Commands | Breaking Points
How to Beat Stereotypes by Seeing People as Individuals We often judge people by ….
Exclusive: ‘Mutiny Brewing’ Inside State Department Over Israel-Palestine Policy
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth | Ep. 1: ‘The Hero’s Adventure’
How China and Russia can help us avoid escalation in the Middle East
5:05 / 35:31 Earthling Unplugged: Why Israel’s Anti-Hamas Strategy Is Failing
Israel’s current approach is clearly wrong. Here’s a better way to fight Hamas — and win.
@benryanwriter The term BIPOC had a moment, but now the @APA is arguing it is insensitive.
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Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde ~ this is the chamblee54 monday morning digest for this week. ~ is it cultural abomination or vulgar unsightly appropriation ~ use the plus sign with control shift as a backspace ~ mansplaining The Urban Dictionary has entries for both mansplain and womansplain. Neither entry is complimentary. This is a repost. Many of the links no longer work. The pictures are more entertaining. ~ at one point in their evolution, both the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground were known as the Warlocks. ~ at home in Berlin in April 1929, Albert Einstein received an urgent telegram from Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of New York: “Do you believe in God? … ” His reply: “Ich glaube an Spinozas Gott der sich in gesetzlicher Harmonie des Seienden offenbart, nicht an Gott der Sich mit Schicksalen und Handlungen der Menschen abgibt.” – Einstein received an telegram. His reply: “Do you believe in God? ” “Ich glaube an Spinozas Gott der sich in gesetzlicher Harmonie des Seienden offenbart, nicht an Gott der Sich mit Schicksalen und Handlungen der Menschen abgibt.” @QuoteResearch ~ the story is rather disturbing. (Spoiler to follow) Aoife is being sexually harassed at school, and files a complaint. The boy who gets metooed is the son of a laundry owner. … ~ This is a repost from 2020. It was a simpler time. … ~ this is a repost from 2020. It was a simpler time. … PG took his brother GP to early voting. Georgia/Dekalb county sent PG an absentee ballot in the mail, which he did not ask for. ~ what follows are selections from The Devil’s Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce. Many things could be said about Mr. Bierce. TDD began as a newspaper column, and was later published as The Cynic’s Word Book. … ~ terpsichorean diarrhea ~ I never meant to say conservatives are generally stupid, I meant to say stupid people are generally conservative ~ “What I stated was, that the Conservative party was, by the law of its constitution, necessarily the stupidest party. Now, I do not retract this assertion; but I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it. …” *In a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington (May 31, 1866). Hansard, vol 183, col 1592]. Pakington was referring to Footnote 3 to Chapter 7 of Mill’s “Considerations on Representative Government”: “The Conservatives, as being by the law of their existence the stupidest party” * Misquoted as “I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.” in “Life of John Stuart Mill” (1889) by W. L. Courtney, p. 147. *This seems to have become paraphrased as “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.” which was a variant published in Quotations for Our Time (1978), edited by Laurence J. Peter. ~ it is not scary to preach to strangers, but it usually creates ill will for jesus – this is what the third commandment is about … using sacred names without trust – this is for adults … i will leave it to your conscience about doing this to trick or treating children ~ Insider admits Israel attack was false flag to start holy war and usher in one world government ~ @iyad_elbaghdadi Good afternoon (or morning, or evening). I went dark yesterday, really dark. But I managed to sleep and I have some clarity about the Al Ahli hospital massacre that I want to share with you. I’ll only tweet this rambling thread today and then log off. Please read and share. – @iyad_elbaghdadi For 10 days we’ve been hearing openly genocidal statements fully supported and sometimes even endorsed by Western leaders, leaders who are supposed to stand up for “democracy”, “human rights”, etc. But not only for 10 days. This has been our entire lives. This has been 75 years. – @iyad_elbaghdadi It’s important to understand that we were primed to expect bloody massacres. For 10 days there’s been a long list of genocidal statements, clearly saying that everyone is a target, there are no civilian vs combatant distinction, hospitals aren’t safe, and vengeance will be severe – @iyad_elbaghdadi All of this was in our psyche *before* the news broke. That’s why when the frantic news came (I got it by whatsapp first) we were already primed to believe it. Because we were long expecting a bloodbath and every single second was a worse nightmare, wishing the worst won’t happen – @iyad_elbaghdadi This explains the virality of the news. What actually happened? There are lots of threads offering educated & uneducated guesses both ways and I’ll ignore all of them. There are few journalists on the ground. And we know there won’t be an independent investigation anytime soon. – @iyad_elbaghdadi But we’re past the point where the facts matter. Listen to Jordan’s FM explain why. Most Arabs & Muslims already formed an opinion based on a long history of Israeli brutality, disregard for human life, public lies, disinformation, and Western support. ~ apology to People of Color for APA’s Role in Promoting, Perpetuating, and Failing to Challenge Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Human Hierarchy in U.S. – Resolution adopted by the APA Council of Representatives on October 29, 2021 ~ Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curions children before the great mystery into which we were born. ~ “people like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.” – Albert Einstein in a letter to Otto Julius Birger, September 29, 1942. ~ this is a remarkable video. I cannot find a youtube link, so if you have a twitter account you can go there. Apparently, some Arabs are not happy with Hamas.@hxhassan I haven’t seen such relentless interrogation of Palestinian leadership before, esp. in Arabic. On Saudi Arabia’s main TV channel, Hamas leader is clearly startled by the intensity of the questions & responses to his answers. Crucial points in next tweets ~ Luther Mckinnon @chamblee54 @coldxman I had to turn this one off. John’s reaction to the brewing Gaza genocide is to talk about social media. ~ I turned it off at 50 minutes. I heard “Hamas” many times. I do not recall hearing “Palestinian” To be fair, I heard it after the hospital bombing ~ @Yascha_Mounk Actually astonishing that, because of the extremism of the Republican Party and the depth of dysfunction in Congress, America currently does not have ambassadors in Israel, Lebanon or Egypt. ~ Hamas Leader Abroad Khaled Mashal Rejects Accusations Of Transgressions Against Civilians On October 7 Attack: We Have Nothing To Apologize For; Hamas Only Fights Soldiers, But Sometimes There Are Civilian Victims In War; Hizbullah, Arab Countries Should Do More To Help Us ~ Expanded Homicide Data Table 6 ~ 1 -“the Palestinian narrative is denying the holocaust” This is where I quit reading. ~ 2 – I agree that it’s not accurate. I wrote this long post in a very shaken state of mind, as one can be in a state of war. It’s clear that you were checking every word I wrote, so I still invite you to read all of them and try to get my message as a whole. I think both narratives are misusing the holocaust. But perhaps you should read about Palestinian authority’s president, Abbas’s book “the other face”, and his interpretation of the holocaust, which does resonate with the works of authors which are denying it. I’m not referring to analogies being made between the holocaust and the nakba. Even though I see an essential difference between the two, both are great tragedies that defined the rest of history for the peoples that suffered them. I am referring to concepts like a cooperation between Nazis and Zionists that initiated the holocaust, that are a main message in Abbas’s book. So even if saying “the Palestinian narrative is denying the holocaust” isn’t accurate, it does play an important role in the narrative as it’s expressed by Palestinian leaders. ~ 3 – I was writing a reply to your reply, and facebook told me that the post had been taken down. I am going to send this by private message. I could write for hours about this, and only confuse and depress all parties involved. Truth be told, I did go back to your original post. I can see how the comment that “triggered” me could have several meanings. It is tough to make sense of this clusterfuck. So much of our information is not true. I also have a life outside of this … for which I am intently grateful … and should go back to. …Thank you for your thoughtful answer. It is a very complicated situation. I feel a great deal of despair when I try to go through the massive amount of rhetoric, talking points, misinformation, malinformation, etc. etc. So much of what I have seen and heard so far is lies. I feel as though my opinion does not matter, so why torture myself with trying to understand this. I feel the US government has a great deal of the blame. Our unquestioning support of Israel is very harmful, similar to the way a … at this point facebook showed a screen … Post Has Been Removed The post or object that you were commenting has been removed by its owner and can no longer be commented on. ~ 4 – Thanks for your reply. I wanted to edit the post, as I realized you are right about the way I phrased my thoughts on Palestinian narrative. I got a message from FB that the post is now pending approval by group admin. But my main message is that both narratives, as they’re being expressed in the media and in educational programs, belittle or avoid the other side’s suffering and connection to the same land. I’m thankful for this conversation because I feel that this war naturally widens the gaps in communication. I’ve experienced quite some negative energy from faeries because of being an Israeli, and it’s hard for me to except that people that are anti-nationalists treat me and my faerie community in a nationalist way… basically all faeries in Israel are fighting against right wing governments all the time… And it’s frustrating to be judged by your governments actions, especially when you’re scared for your life and grieving friends AND the many innocent lives taken in Gaza by Israeli attacks. I believe it’s possible to fight for Palestinian freedom without justifying Hamas’s attack (not saying you did, but some other queer people do) ~ 5 – I am reminded of a conversation I had in the eighties. A man had an Israeli bf. I started saying all of the complaints du jour about Israel. Basicly that they are a warmonger state, and that they treat Palestinians like shit. Remember, this was before the Palestinian Authority, when Israel unapologetically occupied the west bank and gaza. My friend agreed with every point I made. I don’t think the conversation ever concluded, except for one of us to get more food. Nobody was angered by the discussion. I saw this person recently, at a GSV conference. (GSV is a spin-off of the radical faeries. I say that GSV is the faeries with indoor plumbing. … Talk about history is like quicksand. In all of the denunciations of Hamas, nobody seems to say why they gained control of Gaza. During the period between 1967 and quasi-independence, Israel did not prepare the Gaza residents for the chore of governing themselves. It should surprise nobody that when there was an election … for a people totally not familiar with democratic government … and the choice was between Hamas, and Fatah … much reviled in the west bank, and connected to the PLO … that the people chose Hamas. Also remember that Israel created Hamas, to serve as an opposition to the PLO. I could go on ad infinitum. I have a lot of thoughts, which I may collect and post on my blog i will keep you posted ~ 6 – I’m aware of the fact that Israeli leadership created Hamas… after the murder of PM Rabin, Nethaniahu did all he could to kill any hope for a peace agreement. As in many other countries Israel became more and more right-wing over the years, I believe the majority of people gave up on the idea of peace (that was never given a real chance). Regarding supporting building a democratic government in Gaza, you know as I do how complicated it is- any formal intervention by global and especially Israeli factors will be seen as looking down on the Palestinians. And we already know the effects of “behind the curtain” interventions. But at this moment I think that only global intervention can help, although it’s hard to trust it as well. This conflict is such a good deal for the weapon industry… It’s so fucking complicated and frustrating. ~ 7 I had a conversation with ___ in a private chat. I think it is best to keep it between the two of us. Everybody feels the need to express their wonderful opinions regarding this  situation. Few of these opinions will help. I would prefer to talk less, and listen more ~ This monolog includes pictures from The Library of Congress ~ selah