Just TEN wishes?

Well, we certainly have had a lot of issues in the news this week, many of which I wish we could change. But failing that, maybe we need to understand them a little better. Like:

What is Gavin Newsom doing in China?

A partnership on environmental issues is supposed to be a big part of the budding friendship between California and China. Does this mean that China will be suing California oil companies (like the State of California), or will California maybe be building some coal-fired power plants like China? They're having some fun with EVs.

Newsom's visit underscores electric car reality: China holds the keys to battery industry

When it comes to California's efforts to tackle climate change, China and California are linked in a critical way: The world's most populous country processes the vast majority of rare metals needed for electric car batteries.
This week Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is touring China with an emphasis on the environment, namely on how California and China can cooperate on climate.

Well, well. @GavinNewsom gets behind the wheel of@BYDCompany’s newest vehicle & checks out the self turning mode. Hmmm.
Wasn't it @BYDCompany Newsom purchased $1 Billion of masks from Chinese company BYD at outset of COVID pandemic using taxpayers funds? Oh yes, it was.… https://t.co/tX9LRGF6i8
— Katy Grimes (@KATYSaccitizen) October 24, 2023

Same company got an over-priced contract for Chinese COVID masks.

Compare and Contrast:

The Volkswagen Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche by order of Adolph Hitler. The name “Volkswagen” translates to “people’s car.” As Hitler was a socialist, he felt that members of the National German Socialist Worker’s Party (Nazi Party) needed affordable transportation. pic.twitter.com/HbXyKBiDOn
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) October 27, 2023

That Chinese EV looks awfully fancy compared to a VW bug.

Meanwhile, Why are California schools so crazy?

California's War on Math

Math made California prosper.
It's most obvious in top universities like Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, and UCLA. Those schools funneled great minds into California STEM enterprises like Silicon Valley, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and aeronautical engineering. Both the Central Valley and Hollywood--America's main providers of food and fodder, respectively--rely upon engineering to mechanize production and optimize output.
All of this has made California's GDP $3.6 trillion--making it the fifth largest economy in the world as of last year.
But now "California is America, only sooner" is a warning, and not just because of the exodus of people and jobs and the decay of our major cities, but because of the state's abandonment of math--which is to say its abandonment of excellence and, in a way, reality itself.
Perhaps you've read the headlines about kooky San Francisco discarding algebra in the name of anti-racism. Now imagine that worldview adopted by the entire state.

Maybe Oregon is worse, deciding that high school graduates don't have to be able to read or do math. Don't know.

Ethnic Studies

Know anybody who needs this? Stop the proposal:

Dear University of California Board of Regents, President Drake, and UC Chancellors,
We, the undersigned University of California stakeholders and supporters, strongly condemn the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council's appalling letter justifying Hamas’ massacre, torture and kidnapping of Israeli citizens and "celebrating" BDS.

Background

Is California losing a Young Turk? (well, her name is Armenian, but she's on the program):

“Experiencing what I’ve seen on the ground in California has made me question a lot about left wing ideology.”

Ana Kasparian blasts Gavin Newsom for the rampant crime in California on @patrickbetdavid Podcast. pic.twitter.com/BhifBxEbRP
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) October 26, 2023

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Why is the USA so involved with Qatar?

2014, BBC Business:

Former American Vice President Al Gore is suing Al Jazeera America over the sale of a TV network he founded.
Mr Gore and his partners agreed to sell Current TV to the Qatari-owned broadcaster last year.
But Mr Gore and other former shareholders in the company claim Al Jazeera America is trying to retain $65m . . . of the purchase money.
They have filed a lawsuit claiming the terms of the contract have not been honoured.
Mr Gore's lawyer, David Boies, said in a statement: "Al Jazeera America wants to give itself a discount on the purchase price that was agreed to nearly two years ago."

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the Arab League, calls #Hamas a murderous terror organization#Qatar's Emir walks out

(Reminder: #Hamas billionaire leaders live luxurious villas in Qatar)pic.twitter.com/YNmJZGalKB
— Zechariah Shar'abi | זכריה | زكريا (@ZechariahSharab) October 22, 2023

Maybe we should start evacuating students from all the Qatari campuses of American universities before the IDF starts gunning for Hamas bigwigs in Qatar. The wiki on Qatar seems fairly straightforward, considering.

In September 2023, Qatar mediated the US- Iran prisoners swap deal. Iran freed five Americans in exchange for five Iranians held in the US and transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar. [175] In October 2023, United States President Joe Biden thanked to the Qatar's Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for his help in mediating a landmark prisoner swap deal with Iran. [176] Furthermore, Iran and the US have a history of prisoner swaps dating back to the 1979 US Embassy takeover and hostage crisis following the Islamic Revolution. Their most recent major exchange happened in 2016.[177]

I wouldn't want to be there right now. But maybe they could provide refuge to some innocent civilians from Gaza.

10 days before the Hamas attack https://t.co/WQYjOhwjLn
— Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) October 23, 2023

IN HIS OWN WORDS: Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh, from the comfort of his home in Qatar: "We need the blood of women, children, and the elderly of #Gaza... so as to awaken our revolutionary spirit."

Listen to this vile terrorist scum sacrifice his own people, while living in the… pic.twitter.com/GL7ZTfa5Dw
— Embassy of Israel to the USA | #IsraelUSA75 (@IsraelinUSA) October 27, 2023

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Miscellaneous Notes

Reminder from Florida. Yesterday was National Civics Day. Can we teach university kids how to discuss civics?

From a mosque in the UK: Don't feel sorry for Palestinians. Dying in battle is glorious.

Interesting piece. We need to help kids think beyond headlines again. This oppressor/oppressed obsession makes them seem like robots.

The vast majority of us in Gen Z were raised on Instagram and Twitter—our ideas are tweet-length and infographic-sized. And the oppressor/oppressed framework was made for us.

My latest for @TheFP:https://t.co/vXOuQowCfO
— Julia Steinberg (@juliaonatroika) October 26, 2023

This piece also predicts the description of what Ilhan Omar retweets.

The Nazi Case for Hamas is similar to the presentation given by the Queen of Jordan.

“Western activists for Palestinians are dedicated to two nearly theological precepts: that Israel is evil and that no Palestinian action is ever connected to any Palestinian outcome.” Superb piece in ⁦@WSJ⁩ by Shany Mor explaining global reactions: https://t.co/IdFz0jzmxf
— Dr. Einat Wilf (@EinatWilf) October 24, 2023

"no Palestinian action is ever connected to any Palestinian outcome"

Striking.

The same WSJ piece is discussed, along with others, at the links here. I think that this perplexing phenomenon deserves some discussion.

* * * * *

Poetry

"400 years old and clear as a bell in the right hands"

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened: pic.twitter.com/CIhP39b4Bs
— Justin Sherin (@wychstreet) October 27, 2023

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Music

Danse Macabre

Prayer for Israel

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, October 21, Two weeks later . . . .

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:11 AM

Comments

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1 Others have been summoned.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 28, 2023 11:11 AM (qPw5n)

2 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 11:12 AM (fwDg9)

3 Isn't it when you only get 3 one is doomed to take out the other 2?

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 11:13 AM (fwDg9)

4 Howdy, KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 28, 2023 11:18 AM (u73oe)

5 Some grace notes emerge out of the devastation and horror that occurred in Israel on Octbober 7.

Here, a cantor from a Brooklyn synagogue visits an injured IDF fighter in Jerusalem hospital. The soldier had enjoyed hearing Cantor Schwartz's music online:

https://tinyurl.com/bdzn68ct

about 2 minutes long

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2023 11:18 AM (teuEU)

6 What am I doing in China?

Gettin' groomed, baby!

Posted by: Gov. Gavin Douchebag at October 28, 2023 11:19 AM (RIvkX)

7 Heh I just posted in the past these about Ana. Too bad she went full Jew hate later in eh podcast.

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:21 AM (bWsRe)

8 Gee, it's been so long since I thought of Judi Dench that it took me a moment to recall who she is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2023 11:22 AM (XeU6L)

9 I for one welcome Gavin Nuisance negotiating with Chi Nah. And Meatball sending weapons to Israel.

Maybe this is how National Divorce actually happens. In practice, with absolute disregard for the actions of DC, treating those soulless clowns like the obsolete savages they are.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:22 AM (QBaJw)

10 Wow- what a wonderful group of riches in todays post. Love the Judi Dench Shakespeare jukebox.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2023 11:23 AM (c7eMl)

11 "Can we teach university kids how to discuss civics?"

Wouldn't they have to be able to spell "civics" first?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at October 28, 2023 11:24 AM (Hzdm0)

12 Maybe we should start evacuating students from all the Qatari campuses of American universities before the IDF starts gunning for Hamas bigwigs in Qatar.

No, we should have started evacuating them long ago. I'm sick to death of these egotistical asses putting the country in a position that requires helping our enemies and putting better men than them in danger.

You want to stay there? Fine, sign this piece of paper stating that you do NOT wish any efforts to be made on your behalf when TSHTF.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2023 11:25 AM (I/Qkd)

13 You never get the truth out of the State Police...

Steve Robinson
@BigSteve207
Maine State Police knew Card was dead at 7:45, according to the Mills appointee who runs the Maine State Police.

But they waited until 10p to do a snap briefing, answer no questions, and shuttle a tipsy governor off stage.

And oh by the way the body of Maine's most notorious mass killer was discovered 5,000 feet from his abandoned vehicle near where he worked.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 28, 2023 11:25 AM (TGPs7)

14 Maybe this is how National Divorce actually happens. In practice, with absolute disregard for the actions of DC, treating those soulless clowns like the obsolete savages they are.
Posted by: BurtTC
-----

Sadly, in divorce, it is often the children who suffer most. That would be us.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2023 11:26 AM (XeU6L)

15 Gee, it's been so long since I thought of Judi Dench that it took me a moment to recall who she is.

M. Duh.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2023 11:26 AM (I/Qkd)

16 Shakespeare is still allowed in Britain?

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:26 AM (bWsRe)

17 One proposed edit:
Maybe we should start ~~evacuating students from~~ closing all the Qatari campuses of American universities
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Cornell's Weill Medical College, named for its primary benefactor, Sandy Weill, a great supporter of Israel, has a satellite campus in Qatar.

Abandon it. Let the Qataris staff it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2023 11:27 AM (c7eMl)

18 Ha!

Judi Dench recited the sonnet I had to memorize in high school.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2023 11:27 AM (ufFY8)

19 kallisto at October 28, 2023 11:18 AM

Awww. . . They all join in.

Posted by: KT at October 28, 2023 11:27 AM (rrtZS)

20 Hi, everybody!

Posted by: KT at October 28, 2023 11:28 AM (rrtZS)

21 Phone typing is for experts and I am not one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2023 11:28 AM (c7eMl)

22
Piers Morgan
@piersmorgan
·
2h
Where are these Palestinians going to live when the war is over? So many of their homes are being destroyed.
Does Israel have an answer? Does it care?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 28, 2023 11:28 AM (TGPs7)

23 My English teacher said that if you are testing a mic, instead of saying "Testing, one, two, three", just start reciting that sonnet.

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2023 11:29 AM (ufFY8)

24 Where will the Palis live? In London,
Paris and Wyoming.

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:29 AM (bWsRe)

25 National divorce may be off the table soon. After all, if Hamas can red pill Ana Kasparian....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2023 11:29 AM (c7eMl)

26 And me being the cynical sot I am, I see Judi Dench reciting a poem, and I don't think "oh gosh, she has all of Shake a Speare memorized," I think "I wonder how long they had to strenuously rehearse that little skit."

She is an actor, after all. Not a scholar.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:30 AM (QBaJw)

27 Where are these Palestinians going to live when the war is over? So many of their homes are being destroyed.
Does Israel have an answer? Does it care?
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 28, 2023 11:28 AM (TGPs7)

Piers is assuming that they will live.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2023 11:30 AM (ufFY8)

28 London has been conquered.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 28, 2023 11:30 AM (u73oe)

29 You go to an Arab shithole to study, even a gilded shitlhole like Qatar, you are a target. Suck it up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 11:31 AM (pcHBR)

30 Mollie
@MZHemingway

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah -- with very long and well-established track record of racism --decides to up the ante and support brutal killing of children so long as they're Jewish. No repercussions. About what you might expect of the Post tbh.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 28, 2023 11:31 AM (TGPs7)

31 Piers Morgan
@piersmorgan
·
2h
Where are these Palestinians going to live when the war is over? So many of their homes are being destroyed.
Does Israel have an answer? Does it care?
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Ask Hamas, dipshit. Israel doesn't run Gaza.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2023 11:31 AM (c7eMl)

32 Kindltot, if you are still here I left you aa response at the end of the coffee thread.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 28, 2023 11:31 AM (l4B/J)

33 22 Where are the palis going to live? Why in a tent, just like in the golden days of the seventh century they love so much. Goats welcome, be sure to kick the sand around after you take a dump.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 28, 2023 11:32 AM (0EOe9)

34 My homies: don’t get all guahy over Ana. She said some things about Gavin you like. But she also went into a diatribe about how Israel is commuting genocide in Gaza.

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:32 AM (bWsRe)

35 From a mosque in the UK: Don't feel sorry for Palestinians. Dying in battle is glorious.

-
Not that they're a death cult or anything.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 11:34 AM (FVME7)

36

Feed the homeless Pali's to the hungry Pali's!

Posted by: Ped Xing at October 28, 2023 11:34 AM (sTkLK)

37 And me being the cynical sot I am, I see Judi Dench reciting a poem, and I don't think "oh gosh, she has all of Shake a Speare memorized," I think "I wonder how long they had to strenuously rehearse that little skit."

She is an actor, after all. Not a scholar.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:30 AM (QBaJw)

Shakespeare should have written limericks. Then he'd have been famous, like Muldoon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 11:34 AM (pcHBR)

38 34 My homies: don’t get all guahy over Ana. She said some things about Gavin you like. But she also went into a diatribe about how Israel is commuting genocide in Gaza.
Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:32 AM (bWsRe)

I saw that. She says some decent things once in a while, but she's still a muzzie loving Nazi and always will be.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 11:34 AM (i9ffA)

39 It is extraordinary. Hamas brutalizes its neighbors in an unspeakable manner, but English pundits rush to asking the victim to reward the perps. Our own State department does the same.

Its bizarre.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2023 11:34 AM (QE2RS)

40 That Shifa hospital needs to go.
It became a legitimate target when Hamas uses it as an HQ.

Can't wait for the PR propaganda when that place gets levelled. Sheesh.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2023 11:34 AM (ufFY8)

41 Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare.

-
Geez! I knew she was old but I didn't know she was THAT old.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 11:36 AM (FVME7)

42 piersmorgan
·
2h
Where are these Palestinians going to live when the war is over? So many of their homes are being destroyed.
Does Israel have an answer? Does it care?

..

Send them to his neighborhood.

Not joking. Send them by the thousands.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at October 28, 2023 11:37 AM (/qa9n)

43 You go to an Arab shithole to study, even a gilded shitlhole like Qatar, you are a target. Suck it up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 11:31 AM (pcHBR)

This is a standard tactic, talking about "Americans" trapped in these places that might soon be war zones.

What were you doing there in the first place. Take some ownership of your own decisions, fellas. And I suspect MOST of those "Americans" in Qatar are not named Fred and Steve and Chet. I assume they have more exotic names.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:37 AM (QBaJw)

44 Is there much difference between the V-2 rockets bombing England vs the Gazans sending rockets into Israel? Not much.

Ok then, I guess Dresden-type action is also justified.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2023 11:37 AM (ufFY8)

45 he war is over? So many of their homes are being destroyed.
Does Israel have an answer? Does it care?
-----------

Coming from you Morgan, that is an incredibly stupid thing to say.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2023 11:38 AM (uSHSS)

46 Where are these Palestinians going to live when the war is over?

-
Well, the continent of Antarctica is available. That's a two state solution I could live with.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 11:39 AM (FVME7)

47 New propaganda effort...

Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom 3h [yes, very pro-IDF account]
Iran's ‘Tasnim’ news agency said that about 5,000 American troops took part in Israel's ground operation against Gaza on Friday.

The information is not confirmed.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 11:39 AM (krqg6)

48 Shakespeare should have written limericks. Then he'd have been famous, like Muldoon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 11:34 AM (pcHBR)

I love language. It's a tool. Muldoon's limericks have a way of using that tool for fun and profit.

Most poems though, by the time I'm done reading or hearing them, I don't have a frickin' clue what the guy was trying to say. Which defeats the purpose of language.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:40 AM (QBaJw)

49 Piers might ask himself why neighboring Arab countries won’t accept Pali refugees. He won’t though.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 28, 2023 11:41 AM (u73oe)

50 Ana has gotten kinda hawt as she’s aged. Something about her.

And yes yes I know she’s ugly on the inside, blah blah blah.

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:41 AM (bWsRe)

51 Geez! I knew she was old but I didn't know she was THAT old.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 11:36 AM (FVME7)

Same graduating class as Taylor Lorenz!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 28, 2023 11:42 AM (PiwSw)

52 My English teacher said that if you are testing a mic, instead of saying "Testing, one, two, three", just start reciting that sonnet.

-
There once was a man from Nantucket?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 11:42 AM (FVME7)

53 37 And me being the cynical sot I am, I see Judi Dench reciting a poem, and I don't think "oh gosh, she has all of Shake a Speare memorized," I think "I wonder how long they had to strenuously rehearse that little skit."

She is an actor, after all. Not a scholar.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:30 AM (QBaJw)

Don't discount all actors, especially the extremely good ones. We were talking about Vincent Price movies last night, and I remember reading that one of the reasons other actors and directors loved to work with him in both film and stage is that before production ever began, he would memorize not only his lines but the lines of everyone else in the production, so he could instantly help or improvise if anyone else stumbled. It's a big reason why he could have so much fun with his characters.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 11:42 AM (i9ffA)

54 Well, the continent of Antarctica is available. That's a two state solution I could live with.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 11:39 AM (FVME7)

Seriously? Round them up, and dump them in Yemen. Place is already a shithole, more or less constantly at war with Saudi Arabia, and they already speak Arabic. And let the Saudis kill them, instead. Nobody will whine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 11:42 AM (pcHBR)

55 || John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre Oct 27
Pro-Hamas and anti-semitic protests at a state school in Texas, while administrators do nothing.

Hmmm…

Interesting that Texas A&M has received $486,000,000 in grants and contracts from the Qatar Foundation. ||

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 11:44 AM (krqg6)

56
Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom 3h [yes, very pro-IDF account]
Iran's ‘Tasnim’ news agency said that about 5,000 American troops took part in Israel's ground operation against Gaza on Friday.

The information is not confirmed.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 11:39 AM (krqg6)

That's just Retarded, Sir.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 11:44 AM (i9ffA)

57 Piers Morgan
@piersmorgan
·
2h
Where are these Palestinians going to live when the war is over? So many of their homes are being destroyed.
Does Israel have an answer? Does it care?
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 28, 2023 11:28 AM (TGPs7)

Crowder's segment on Thursday, detailing why nobody else in the region is going to take in any Palestinian refugees, was both hilarious and informative.

Nobody wants them. And yet, the world's barking dogs only howl about how Israel won't take them all in.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:44 AM (QBaJw)

58 Tinfoil hat on

The US allowed Hamas attacks to happen, knowing Israel’s counter would displace a million Palis. Those Palis will end up in the US, in red states as “refugees”, solidifying Democrat wins for the next 25 years.

Tinfoil hat off

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:44 AM (bWsRe)

59 Well I heard Qatar pronounced as Kuh-TAR. But the journalists all got together during Desert Storm 2 and decided to pronounce it gutter. Seems apt.

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 28, 2023 11:46 AM (xT7BI)

60 Try this again
Seen a traveling Vietnam War Memorial replica of the wall in DC and its in my township so parents came and got me to see it

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 11:47 AM (+U6lo)

61 Iran runs Tasnim. 5k troops is bullshit , any US troops involvement is BS. trying to sow discord, doubt. they read blogs just like anyone, see the so called "non-interventionists" crying, so give the conspiracy nuts fuel. *like they need any...wait until the regular trolls show up here and bring up 5k as fact....

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2023 11:47 AM (V13WU)

62 Andycanuck, thank you for your posts.

Posted by: Wenda at October 28, 2023 11:47 AM (Tji/p)

63 Does Israel have an answer? Does it care?"

Did the US and the UK care where the residents of Berlin were going to go after we bombed the shit out of it?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 11:47 AM (i9ffA)

64 I’d believe Iran if it said 5000 American troops were on the Hamas side. On the Israeli side? Lol.

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:48 AM (bWsRe)

65 Don't discount all actors, especially the extremely good ones. We were talking about Vincent Price movies last night, and I remember reading that one of the reasons other actors and directors loved to work with him in both film and stage is that before production ever began, he would memorize not only his lines but the lines of everyone else in the production, so he could instantly help or improvise if anyone else stumbled. It's a big reason why he could have so much fun with his characters.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 11:42 AM (i9ffA)

Clu Gulager tells the story of how, during filming of The Killers, Lee Marvin is expressing contempt for all the other actors, especially Ronnie Raygun, who was doing his last film. He said Marvin tried to trip up Ronnie, by doing one scene over and over, messing up something or other, and doing it a little differently every time.

And each time Marvin would muck up or change his line, Reagan would do his... EXACTLY the same, every time.

It frustrated Marvin immensely, to the point where I'm sure he went and got himself good and drunk afterwards.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:49 AM (QBaJw)

66 Given the sorry state the us military is in, would Israel even want 5000 American tranny soy boy troops?

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:49 AM (bWsRe)

67 Did Hamas care where residents of bombed out buildings from their rockets would live? Do they have a plan? Fuck off Piers.

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 11:51 AM (bWsRe)

68 Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom 3h [yes, very pro-IDF account]
Iran's ‘Tasnim’ news agency said that about 5,000 American troops took part in Israel's ground operation against Gaza on Friday.

The information is not confirmed.

Imma gonna call BS. It's Iranian propaganda. Why, it's almost as if they're trying to stir up the gullible. Again.

Tasnim had reported earlier that the American military commanders have practically taken charge of the situation in the Israeli army as the Zionist forces suffered a crushing defeat in the Al-Aqsa Storm operation and the Israeli leaders have lost trust in the management abilities and loyalty of a number of army personnel.

https://tinyurl.com/8whxe69v

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2023 11:52 AM (I/Qkd)

69 Did the US and the UK care where the residents of Berlin were going to go after we bombed the shit out of it?
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 11:47 AM (i9ffA)

Heck, did the Germans care where Hawaiians would go after the bombed Pearl Harbor???

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:53 AM (QBaJw)

70 Inc.Monocle @IncMonocle 3h
Huge numbers cross Westminster Bridge

https://tinyurl.com/yk28ww5w
15 seconds; ground view; Communist flags flying too as well as Trade Unions'.

Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho
🚨🇬🇧 London, UK
This will not end well.
I repeat - this will not end well…

https://tinyurl.com/5apm93df
9 seconds; aerial

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 11:54 AM (krqg6)

71 Tinfoil hat on

The US allowed Hamas attacks to happen, knowing Israel’s counter would displace a million Palis. Those Palis will end up in the US, in red states as “refugees”, solidifying Democrat wins for the next 25 years.

Tinfoil hat off
Posted by: Montec

Betsy McCaughey: Meet the Dems’ Latest Handout — Voting Rights for Noncitizens

https://tinyurl.com/3t7sv43j

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 11:54 AM (FVME7)

72 Bernardi @corybernardi 9h
How did Yasser Arafat make his billions of dollars before he died?

The answer might help explain the conditions of the people he claimed to represent.
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Unfortunately, no replies of "Gay porn" made.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 11:55 AM (krqg6)

73

You may find a cushy job and I hope that you go far
But if you really want to taste some cool success
Better learn to play Qatar

Posted by: John Melonhead at October 28, 2023 11:55 AM (63Dwl)

74 Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho
🚨🇬🇧 London, UK
This will not end well.
I repeat - this will not end well…

https://tinyurl.com/5apm93df
9 seconds; aerial
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 11:54 AM (krqg6)

It's a shame, there's never a daisycutter around when you need one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 11:55 AM (i9ffA)

75 "Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom 3h [yes, very pro-IDF account]
Iran's ‘Tasnim’ news agency said that about 5,000 American troops took part in Israel's ground operation against Gaza on Friday.

The information is not confirmed."
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It's good to know Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf landed a new job after he left Iraq.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 11:56 AM (QBaJw)

76 I never saw a VW flying the Nazi flags on Hogan's Heroes.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2023 11:56 AM (Mzdiz)

77 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 19h
BREAKING: Hamas calls on world to ‘act immediately’ to stop Israeli bombardment

The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee Oct 21
Hamas Clarifies They Meant To Start The Type Of War Where They Get To Do Whatever They Want And No One Fights Back
buff.ly/46P3TO6

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 11:56 AM (krqg6)

78 >>>Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

How great was that!

Posted by: m at October 28, 2023 11:57 AM (aWeTk)

79 Inc.Monocle @IncMonocle 3h
Huge numbers cross Westminster Bridge

https://tinyurl.com/yk28ww5w
15 seconds; ground view; Communist flags flying too as well as Trade Unions'.

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Old and busted: Big Ben

New and cool: Big Bin Laden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 11:57 AM (FVME7)

80 Al Gore, Iran and the Paleos all deeply connected Quatar. A Mt. Rushmore of goat fukers.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at October 28, 2023 11:59 AM (nnp+f)

81 I never saw a VW flying the Nazi flags on Hogan's Heroes.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2023 11:56 AM (Mzdiz)

Actual VW cars were pretty scarce in wartime Germany. They had barely gotten started with production of civilian cars when all German production went on a war footing. VW factory shifted making Kubelwagens, the Nazi's tactical car that filled the same role as the Jeep. There was one in that scene from Kelly's Heroes that got linked yesterday.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:01 PM (pcHBR)

82 Clu Gulager tells the story of how, during filming of The Killers, Lee Marvin'

Great, tough movie! Very hard to find for a very long time, which was a damn shame. Reagan was good; Clu Gulager was terrific and chilling, especially in a bizarre scene where he and Marvin go to question someone, and he picks up the telephone receiver off the desk and speaks into it with nobody on the other end! It's so random and psychotic.

The near-final scene with the line:

"Lady, I just don't have the time."

Posted by: LenNeal at October 28, 2023 12:01 PM (43xH1)

83 just saw some video from Acapulco on "X" (twitter). Wow. 165 mph winds, officials say that not a single power pole in the entire city is still standing. No word on deaths, but the city looks completely shattered.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 12:01 PM (i9ffA)

84 Well I heard Qatar pronounced as Kuh-TAR. But the journalists all got together during Desert Storm 2 and decided to pronounce it gutter.

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Like it smells.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 12:01 PM (FVME7)

85 Pity did not answer my question on how old threads have to be to be banned for commenting on them. I asked this morning.

Maybe 'they' want it to be vague.

*sideyes KT*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2023 12:02 PM (pYac8)

86 It's a good thing the Texas MoMe was last weekend - we've had nothing but rain - some of it downright torrential - the last couple of days. And the temps are getting lower and lower today.

Texas weather in October is crazy!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at October 28, 2023 12:02 PM (SRRAx)

87 85 Pity did not answer my question on how old threads have to be to be banned for commenting on them. I asked this morning.

Maybe 'they' want it to be vague.

*sideyes KT*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2023 12:02 PM (pYac

You wouldn't want that information to fall into the wrong hands!

Posted by: m at October 28, 2023 12:04 PM (aWeTk)

88 The Old Thread Trap is a guarded secret

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 12:05 PM (fwDg9)

89 'Don't feel sorry for Palestinians. Dying'

I have a 30 year head start on that.

Not only are they thoroughly evil, they are incompetent as a nation. Of all their enemies, their most determined ones are Palestinians.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 28, 2023 12:06 PM (roH4R)

90 Texas weather in October is crazy!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at October 28, 2023 12:02 PM (SRRAx)

just 120 miles east of you, temps are still 20 degrees warmer and will stay there all night. We're getting winds up from the gulf - but tomorrow the bottom is supposed to drop out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 12:06 PM (i9ffA)

91 WaPo, Home of the Whopper . . .

This bizarre article, with four @washingtonpost journalists in the byline, demonstrates such an absurd lack of self-awareness that it's bordering on self-parody.

WaPo criticizes @elonmusk for "displacing the mainstream media from a position of authority" on X, claiming that has led to "misinformation" proliferating about the Israel-Gaza war.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 12:06 PM (FVME7)

92 Well, an "open" or non-topical thread like this one is effectively dead once a new one appears, and the Corgis all migrate. No point in posting on a dead thread. Topical threads, like the Pet Thread, or the Book Thread, or the Gun Thread may get revisits for a few days, so an on-topic late post might get read by a few folks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:07 PM (pcHBR)

93 Piers Morgan
@piersmorgan
·
2h
Where are these Palestinians going to live when the war is over? So many of their homes are being destroyed.
Does Israel have an answer? Does it care?
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 28, 2023 11:28 AM (TGPs7)

FOAD, you Limey bastard. Take your worthless ass back to Merry Old England. Maybe YOU can take a few in at your estate. Fuckhead.

Yes, this crap is pissing me of to no end. Why do you ask?

Grrrr.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at October 28, 2023 12:07 PM (h4nev)

94

Palestinians are the Haitians of Somalia...

Posted by: Ped Xing at October 28, 2023 12:08 PM (sTkLK)

95 81 AOP, correct me if wrong. The original KDF cars were cranked out barely in the low thousands before switching to war production. IIRC most came about shortly post war for Brit military use and especially to get the factory up and running for economic reasons. I have only seen one true KDF, but have driven a couple real early split windows. 20 years behind the times.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 28, 2023 12:08 PM (0EOe9)

96 I would just like to point out, as a person eye-talian pallor, that we owned that land for close to a thousand years on and off. That means it's ours, right?

Now, all you people get off my lawn, or we can discuss rent payments. Weekly. Somebody'll come by for an envelope.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 28, 2023 12:08 PM (z+89e)

97 Holy fuck that London footage.
UK is truly and well dead.

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 12:08 PM (bWsRe)

98 Rain in South Texas is like a cow pissing on a rock.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 28, 2023 12:09 PM (68ETX)

99 You'd think that with all the money Gaza has gotten from other countries , international orgs and NGOs that since 2004 they would have built a water desalinization plant or a power plant. Nope, too stupid and corrupt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 28, 2023 12:10 PM (2edps)

100 A song for our times.

https://tinyurl.com/mu4k4sdz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 12:11 PM (FVME7)

101 AOP, correct me if wrong. The original KDF cars were cranked out barely in the low thousands before switching to war production. IIRC most came about shortly post war for Brit military use and especially to get the factory up and running for economic reasons. I have only seen one true KDF, but have driven a couple real early split windows. 20 years behind the times.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 28, 2023 12:08 PM (0EOe9)

I think you are right. Anna Puma is the one to ask, though. She is the voice of authority on that topic, here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:11 PM (pcHBR)

102 70 Inc.Monocle @IncMonocle 3h
Huge numbers cross Westminster Bridge

https://tinyurl.com/yk28ww5w
15 seconds; ground view; Communist flags flying too as well as Trade Unions'.

Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho
🚨🇬🇧 London, UK
This will not end well.
I repeat - this will not end well…

https://tinyurl.com/5apm93df
9 seconds; aerial
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 11:54 AM (krqg6)

How frightening.

Posted by: m at October 28, 2023 12:11 PM (aWeTk)

103 Pity did not answer my question on how old threads have to be to be banned for commenting on them. I asked this morning.

Maybe 'they' want it to be vague.

*sideyes KT*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2023 12:02 PM (pYac

They were becoming bottomless pits for spam posts. All kinds of vile shit, so the PTB made an automatic ban for any new comments after some period of time.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 12:12 PM (QBaJw)

104 Omar Abbas Hyat | عمر عباس حیات @OmarAbbasHyat 4h
Did you specially condemn the deaths of 200+ Palestinians between January 2023 and 6 October 2023 at the hands of occupying entity, that most likely resulted in retaliatory operation Al Aqsa flood by Palestinian government of Gaza on 7 October?

Piers Morgan @piersmorgan 4h
I specifically challenged Netanyahu about this when I interviewed him in March, as I did on many other issues including his unacceptable attempts to suppress Israel judiciary. But there’s no justification for the Hamas terror attacks on Oct 7. None.

Piers Morgan Uncensored @PiersUncensored Oct 26
TONIGHT: The son of founding Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, who spent many years in Israeli prisons, tells Piers why he denounced the terrorist group and turned on his own family.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a co-founder of Hamas, says the group has “opened up the gates of hell on the Palestinian people.”

"Hamas's cause is a sick one... only God knows what will happen next, if Hamas is not finished."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:12 PM (krqg6)

105 Piers Morgan @PiersUncensored Oct 26
👇👇
NBC News Oct 26
More than 80% of Gaza’s population lives in poverty, according to the U.N.

But Hamas has an investment portfolio of real estate and other assets worth $500 million, experts say, and an annual military budget of as much as $350 million. nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-…

Piers Morgan @piersmorgan Oct 26
I don’t seek to ‘appease’ anyone.. just want all voices on, then listen/challenge.

Piers Morgan Uncensored Oct 25
Israeli intellect Yuval Noah Harari says Hamas's control of Gaza needs to be ended to give a future to Palestinians.

"Hamas is intentionally destroying any chance for future peace."

TV News Now @TVNewsNow Oct 25
WATCH: Fox’s @piersmorgan calls out Gavin Newsom for “so brazenly and ecstatically sucking up to the leader of communist China” by meeting Xi Jinping. “Newsom is obviously going to run for President.”

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:12 PM (krqg6)

106 Hmmm, let's see, pompey eastward March around the Mediterranean was ... 50s BC. I am not sure when Constantinople lost control of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2023 12:12 PM (pYac8)

107 If the A-rabs don't want the Paleosimians, we sure as fuck dont want them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 28, 2023 12:13 PM (68ETX)

108 https://tinyurl.com/5apm93df
9 seconds; aerial
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 11:54 AM (krqg6)

How frightening.
Posted by: m at October 28, 2023 12:11 PM (aWeTk)

Where's an A-10 when you need one?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:13 PM (pcHBR)

109 99-maybe you have shown the way. Finacial audit. No records=no more aid money.

The flaw in my plans is Biden surely got some of that filthy money. DOJ deems Pali books good.

Posted by: DOYLE at October 28, 2023 12:13 PM (Z8Yh2)

110 I am not arguing against the need for the autoban. I am just curious. Plus, I said in another thread a week or two ago that I would ask.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2023 12:14 PM (pYac8)

111 I have only seen one true KDF, but have driven a couple real early split windows. 20 years behind the times.
Posted by: bill in arkansas'

There was a subscription drive and a lot of people paid into it but never saw the cars. Very few prewar examples. I seem to recall there was a rather bizarre publicity stunt in which a team drove Kdfs to Afghanistan?

Posted by: LenNeal at October 28, 2023 12:14 PM (43xH1)

112 Strangely England didn't worry were Germns lived in 1944

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 12:14 PM (fwDg9)

113 I'd like Shakespeare a lot more if he just spoke plain English.

Posted by: JT at October 28, 2023 12:14 PM (T4tVD)

114 93

As I recall, the UK bombed the shit out of Germany. Was there a plan? Does Piers care?

No. The answer would have been that the warmonger bastards brought it on themselves and could figure out the answer on their own.

Same answer works here.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 28, 2023 12:15 PM (roH4R)

115 Well, that settles it, then. The Palestinians can go to London.

Posted by: m at October 28, 2023 12:16 PM (aWeTk)

116 Well, that settles it, then. The Palestinians can go to London.
Posted by: m at October 28, 2023 12:16 PM (aWeTk)

Appears they already have.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:16 PM (pcHBR)

117 Palestinians are the Haitians of Somalia...
Posted by: Ped Xing
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Thread winner.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:17 PM (krqg6)

118 Seems to me that this whole "colonizers are evil" thing could work for us.
Aren't people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib colonizers?
Aren't they trying to change their "new country" to more closely resemble their ancestral homes?
Couldn't the same be said of the millions of other recent immigrants?
Doesn't their colonizer status make their policy desires illegitimate?

Posted by: Hank Archer at October 28, 2023 12:17 PM (rnCps)

119 Where's an A-10 when you need one?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:13 PM (pcHBR)

A little napalm for the win.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at October 28, 2023 12:17 PM (h4nev)

120 Thank you, Wenda.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:17 PM (krqg6)

121 Loved Judy Dench's recitation of that sonnet.

We recently bought the entire series of the BBC show "As Time Goes By." Publius and his mama were always talking about it, and figured it was time to introduce me. Judy Dench is hilarious.

We bring Mama down here to Publius Manor every evening for supper and a binge watch, and she'd really enjoying that.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2023 12:18 PM (Mzdiz)

122 Rain in South Texas is like a cow pissing on a rock.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 28, 2023 12:09 PM (68ETX)

Is it a flat rock ?

Posted by: JT at October 28, 2023 12:18 PM (T4tVD)

123 I am not arguing against the need for the autoban.

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Auto ban? Sounds good to me!

Posted by: Purple Haired Environazi Freak Blocking Traffic at October 28, 2023 12:18 PM (FVME7)

124 In the 70's VW came out with the Thing, it wasn't exactly a Kubelwagen but it was mighty close.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at October 28, 2023 12:19 PM (KbokB)

125 Israeli intellect Yuval Noah Harari says Hamas's control of Gaza needs to be ended to give a future to Palestinians.
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Ugh, that guy.

Posted by: Methos at October 28, 2023 12:19 PM (Dnobf)

126 A Mt. Rushmore of goat fukers.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at October 28, 2023 11:59 AM (nnp+f)

Fuke them!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2023 12:19 PM (Mzdiz)

127 They could move some of the palis to West AR. The running of the Democrats before the rodeos is getting boring.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 28, 2023 12:19 PM (0EOe9)

128 Piers was on The Five a couple nights ago giving another lecture on how superior England is because of gun control.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2023 12:19 PM (63Dwl)

129 How frightening.
Posted by: m

Where's an A-10 when you need one?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Or a London bridge falling down?

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:20 PM (krqg6)

130 Auto ban? Sounds good to me!
Posted by: Purple Haired Environazi Freak Blocking Traffic at October 28, 2023 12:18 PM (FVME7)

Jawohl! Oh, you said, "ban", not "bahn." Entschuldigung.

Posted by: Kraftwerk at October 28, 2023 12:21 PM (PiwSw)

131 As I recall, the UK bombed the shit out of Germany. Was there a plan? Does Piers care?

No. The answer would have been that the warmonger bastards brought it on themselves and could figure out the answer on their own.

Same answer works here.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

- Arthur "Bomber" Harris

Posted by: Purple Haired Environazi Freak Blocking Traffic at October 28, 2023 12:21 PM (FVME7)

132 I am not arguing against the need for the autoban. I am just curious. Plus, I said in another thread a week or two ago that I would ask.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2023 12:14 PM (pYac

I would further add, usually around Presidential election season, the number of trolls, spammers, and general muck makers increase, so the spambots that started to pollute the older threads were not necessarily just "innocent" spammers.

However many of them contained viruses and other malware, in addition to links to darker websites, I think it became a legal liability to leave them up.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 12:21 PM (QBaJw)

133 Is it a flat rock ?
Posted by: JT at October 28, 2023 12:18 PM (T4tVD)

Yes

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 28, 2023 12:21 PM (68ETX)

134 In the 70's VW came out with the Thing, it wasn't exactly a Kubelwagen but it was mighty close.
Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at October 28, 2023 12:19 PM (KbokB)

Heavier, clumsier, and less capable. A dude-Kubel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:21 PM (pcHBR)

135 128

I give Piers as much respect as I would any other sanctimonious gasbag.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 28, 2023 12:22 PM (roH4R)

136 Willowed, re: Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

***

ust a short synopsis...is it fag prose?

Posted by: BignJames at October 28, 2023 10:40 AM (AwYPR)

It's a poem about the hanging of a man at the jail, the prisoners and wardens reactions, and the idea that Christ enters into the hardened hearts that finally break. And lots more about the human condition.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at October 28, 2023 12:09 PM (oE3Hv)

Posted by: NaughtyPine at October 28, 2023 12:24 PM (oE3Hv)

137 However many of them contained viruses and other malware, in addition to links to darker websites, I think it became a legal liability to leave them up.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 12:21 PM (QBaJw)

Also, the Nazi opposition would seize upon "racist" posts, left by their collaborators, as evidence that we are "racist" or "Nazi".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:24 PM (pcHBR)

138 Four wishes:

1. Ford beats Carter.
2. Shah stays in Iran.
3. Joey Bidet at age 18 gets a nice union job as a garbage collector.
4. Gaylord stays in Indonesia.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2023 12:24 PM (dqilU)

139 bill in arkansas, a link with cool pictures:

https://tinyurl.com/3amkueex

Posted by: LenNeal at October 28, 2023 12:24 PM (43xH1)

140 I'd like Shakespeare a lot more if he just spoke plain English.
Posted by: JT at October 28, 2023 12:14 PM (T4tVD)

There's an interesting juxtaposition on this thread, the "ooh fancy" English of Shake a Speare and Damn Dudi Jench, and the overrun by Muzzies England that exists today.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 12:25 PM (QBaJw)

141 124 I owned a 1973 VW Thing. They only brought them in for two years. The only difference was the '73 had a gas heater and the 74 heater boxes. Really fun car and it was used in some military applications, mostly third, fourth or fifth world countries. Also used in a lot of resorts as a hack to get tourists around. Hecho en Mexico.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 28, 2023 12:25 PM (0EOe9)

142 131
'Arthur "Bomber" Harris'

Germany is lucky the UK didn't develop the A-bomb first.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 28, 2023 12:26 PM (roH4R)

143 However many of them contained viruses and other malware, in addition to links to darker websites, I think it became a legal liability to leave them up.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 12:21 PM (QBaJw)

Also, the Nazi opposition would seize upon "racist" posts, left by their collaborators, as evidence that we are "racist" or "Nazi".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:24 PM (pcHBR)

Yep, somewhere around that same time period, Ace was dealing with the very real concerns about leftists who were trying to track him down in meatspace. Or suing him for bullshit like that.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 12:26 PM (QBaJw)

144 99 You'd think that with all the money Gaza has gotten from other countries , international orgs and NGOs that since 2004 they would have built a water desalinization plant or a power plant. Nope, too stupid and corrupt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 28, 2023 12:10 PM (2edps)

Given that the Palis destroyed the infrastructure that Israel so generously left for them (because JOOS), in the unlikely event that the river-to-the-sea scenario should ever happen, they'd be working full time bombing everything to rubble so they could live like the scum that they are.

Would people still send them money, or would they starve?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2023 12:28 PM (Mzdiz)

145 Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 5h
Acapulco has been smashed to pieces by the category 5 hurricane Otis.

It could take years to fully rebuild the Mexican city

https://tinyurl.com/3jpywnhc
2:19 minutes helicopter video I think; loud; I think almost all of the windows are blown out as there are some window areas that look green/glass but the rest are black/brown.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:28 PM (krqg6)

146 Would people still send them money, or would they starve?

Palestinians would be getting lots and lots of money to launch terror attacks in the West.

After Israel comes us.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 12:30 PM (2tUFv)

147 If you want a history of early VW then find a copy of Small Wonder.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2023 12:30 PM (dqilU)

148 See you later, alligators.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:31 PM (krqg6)

149 I guess I’m just a stupid redneck because I am not enamored at all with Shakespeare.

Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 12:31 PM (MNhXM)

150 IIRC the KdF factory in Lower Saxony produced Kubelwagens, Schwimmkubelwagens, Commandeurwagens - Kubel pans with KdF bodies, and heaters for the Russian front during the war.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2023 12:33 PM (dqilU)

151 American universities in the Qatari terrorist state:

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Georgetown University in Qatar

Texas A&M University at Qatar

Virginia Commonwealth University – Qatar

Northwestern University in Qatar

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 12:33 PM (2tUFv)

152 Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 5h
Acapulco has been smashed to pieces by the category 5 hurricane Otis.

It could take years to fully rebuild the Mexican city

https://tinyurl.com/3jpywnhc
2:19 minutes helicopter video I think; loud; I think almost all of the windows are blown out as there are some window areas that look green/glass but the rest are black/brown.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:28 PM (krqg6)

It’s possible they could have had a real life sharknado. ( lots of sharks in Acapulco’s waters. )

Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 12:34 PM (MNhXM)

153 Has anyone else written off the hostages? or thinks they should be written off?

They are really not part of my couterattack plans.

Which worries me about myself, and makes me wonder about the people with real power and what they justfy.

Covid19 anyone?

Posted by: DOYLE at October 28, 2023 12:34 PM (Z8Yh2)

154 Has anyone else written off the hostages? or thinks they should be written off?

Hamas claims that 50 hostages have already been killed by "Israeli bombing".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 12:37 PM (2tUFv)

155 149 I guess I’m just a stupid redneck because I am not enamored at all with Shakespeare.
Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 12:31 PM (MNhXM)

you'd be amazed how many lines from Shakespeare you use daily, not to mention how many of the plots of our films and stories are derivative of what he wrote. Shakespeare and the King James Bible standardized and in essence created the modern English language.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 12:37 PM (i9ffA)

156 154 Has anyone else written off the hostages? or thinks they should be written off?

Hamas claims that 50 hostages have already been killed by "Israeli bombing".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 12:37 PM (2tUFv)

I shocked some here by saying from the very beginning that they have to be written off. You cannot allow your enemy to have leverage like that over you. If Israel were to learn the exact location of them, the best thing they could do would be to send a 2,000 lb JDAM to the spot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 12:38 PM (i9ffA)

157 I'd like Shakespeare a lot more if he just spoke plain English.
Posted by: JT

Then he'd be Johnny Cash.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 12:39 PM (FVME7)

158 Re: hostages

Think I said about the 8th said the following.

You assume they are dead but fight to save to them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2023 12:39 PM (dqilU)

159 Willowed, re: Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

***

ust a short synopsis...is it fag prose?

Posted by: BignJames at October 28, 2023 10:40 AM (AwYPR)

I can’t take away from Oscar Wilde’s literary brilliance because he was on the down low. He’s one quotable dude.

Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 12:39 PM (MNhXM)

160 From the River to the Sea
Palestine should cease to be

Posted by: Sign idea for suicidal one-man counter protest of local pro-Palastine protest at October 28, 2023 12:40 PM (NCgXW)

161 I'd like Shakespeare a lot more if he just spoke plain English.
Posted by: JT

Then he'd be Johnny Cash.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 12:39 PM (FVME7)

"Hello; I'm Johnny Cashspeare "

Posted by: JT at October 28, 2023 12:42 PM (T4tVD)

162 It could take years to fully rebuild the Mexican city

https://tinyurl.com/3jpywnhc
2:19 minutes helicopter video I think; loud; I think almost all of the windows are blown out as there are some window areas that look green/glass but the rest are black/brown.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:28 PM (krqg6)

Lots of sameness to the looks of all those buildings. I'm guessing one developer made a killing on them, financed no doubt by the same Richie Rich financiers who now tell the rest of us to fear Climatic Change.

I'm sure they're insured. They'll be fine. The cost of everything YOU buy will go up, but the oligarchs will be fine.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 12:42 PM (QBaJw)

163 Freakish hurricane Otis went from Cat 1 to Cat 5 in 24 hours. It was relatively small in size. A bit like Andrew. Everyone was pretty much writing it off. It didn't track well with the models.

Then BOOM!

Posted by: pawn at October 28, 2023 12:42 PM (5g9YU)

164 Then he'd be Johnny Cash.

"Hi there - I'm Billy Shakespeare."

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 12:43 PM (2tUFv)

165 you'd be amazed how many lines from Shakespeare you use daily, not to mention how many of the plots of our films and stories are derivative of what he wrote. Shakespeare and the King James Bible standardized and in essence created the modern English language.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 12:37 PM (i9ffA)

That’s the Shakespeare defender’s creed. It’s an exaggeration IMO. I realize I’m in the minority. I’m sure some Greek historians might agree with me though.

Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 12:43 PM (MNhXM)

166 159
'He’s one quotable dude.'

And funny as hell to boot.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 28, 2023 12:44 PM (roH4R)

167 Camille and Andrew were like Sherman going through Georgia - just smash everything.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2023 12:45 PM (dqilU)

168 The Red Chinese can keep Gavin and we can keep Moo Goo Gai Pan.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 28, 2023 12:45 PM (R/m4+)

169 135 I give Piers as much respect as I would any other sanctimonious gasbag.

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: the alta vista blimp at October 28, 2023 12:46 PM (edU/H)

170
Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 5h
Acapulco has been smashed to pieces by the category 5 hurricane Otis.

It is now Otisburg.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2023 12:47 PM (63Dwl)

171 Lex Luthor, "Otisburg?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2023 12:48 PM (dqilU)

172 Camille and Andrew were like Sherman going through Georgia - just smash everything.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2023 12:45 PM (dqilU)

I guess if you live on those coasts you're on a first name basis with the hurricanes over the years.

But for me, whenever someone says "do you remember hurricane Fred, hurricane Poindexter?"

No, no I don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 12:49 PM (QBaJw)

173 looks like Israel has finally knocked out all communications networks and all internet access to Gaza. Even those with satellite links don't have any power to run them. So no more breathless on the ground "Oh the humanity!" reports from Gaza.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 12:49 PM (i9ffA)

174 Well, off to meet the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2023 12:50 PM (6M/kp)

175 168 The Red Chinese can keep Gavin and we can keep Moo Goo Gai Pan.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 28, 2023 12:45 PM (R/m4+)

I'll take General Tso and his chicken.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 28, 2023 12:50 PM (i9ffA)

176 Even those with satellite links don't have any power to run them. So no more breathless on the ground "Oh the humanity!" reports from Gaza.

Hamas will provide enough fuel to maintain one link to the Internet, so the foreign reporters can continue to file their propaganda.

After all, the BBC is a huge asset to Hamas.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 12:51 PM (2tUFv)

177 Acapulco was riddled with cartel violence.

Not what it once was.

Too bad, I would have considered moving there.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at October 28, 2023 12:52 PM (/qa9n)

178 > Acapulco has been smashed to pieces by the category 5 hurricane Otis.
____________

Mexican construction... second only to China.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2023 12:53 PM (Q4IgG)

179 California isn't anywhere near being America's "main provider of food".

They grow a lot of high-dollar-value luxury crops, but the actually calories that stand between Americans (and much of the rest of the world) and starvation come from the corn belt, the wheat belt, and the grazing lands of the west.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 12:54 PM (Y6AXb)

180 Would people still send them money, or would they starve?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2023 12:28 PM (Mzdiz)

Starve or actually be forced to do something worthwhile with their lives.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 12:55 PM (zZu0s)

181 > Even those with satellite links don't have any power to run them. So no more breathless on the ground "Oh the humanity!" reports from Gaza.

They want to live in the Seventh Century and they've gotten their wish.

Primitive savages don't have internet, electricity, running water, or internal combustion engines.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 12:55 PM (Y6AXb)

182 Acapulco has been smashed to pieces by the category 5 hurricane Otis. It could take years to fully rebuild the Mexican city'

I'm scheduled to fly in for a conference on the Michicoan Coast in 10 days. I'll take photos and let you know what it looks like. Not Acapulco, further North, but I'll ask around. Things should be moving by then.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 28, 2023 12:56 PM (43xH1)

183 Where should the Gazans go? Since France always boasts such dipolmatic success with the Arab world, I think the answer is obvious.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at October 28, 2023 12:57 PM (nnp+f)

184 They grow a lot of high-dollar-value luxury crops, but the actually calories that stand between Americans (and much of the rest of the world) and starvation come from the corn belt, the wheat belt, and the grazing lands of the west.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 12:54 PM (Y6AXb)

Nuts. Tomatoes. Avocados?

IIRC from when I worked in the industry, for the big american pizza makers, something like 97% of the tomatoes used in pizzas nationwide are made in just one valley.

Los Banos, ho.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 12:57 PM (zZu0s)

185 Primitive savages don't have internet, electricity, running water, or internal combustion engines.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 12:55 PM (Y6AXb)

Toilet paper ?

Posted by: JT at October 28, 2023 12:58 PM (T4tVD)

186 Must see tv. The Israeli's exacting revenge.
https://tinyurl.com/zuy4cpsy

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 28, 2023 12:58 PM (2NHgQ)

187 179 They grow a lot of high-dollar-value luxury crops, but the actually calories that stand between Americans (and much of the rest of the world) and starvation come from the corn belt, the wheat belt, and the grazing lands of the west.

it's funny because things that come from the corn belt and the wheat belt stretch my leather belt

Posted by: anachronda at October 28, 2023 12:58 PM (edU/H)

188 183 Where should the Gazans go? Since France always boasts such dipolmatic success with the Arab world, I think the answer is obvious.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at October 28, 2023 12:57 PM (nnp+f)

There's a ton of undeveloped land in Siberia, iirc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 12:58 PM (zZu0s)

189 > Toilet paper ?
Posted by: JT at October 28, 2023 12:58 PM (T4tVD)

The devout Muslim wipes his ass with small rocks, using only his left hand.

No, I'm not making this up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 12:59 PM (Y6AXb)

190 A Palestinian scholar from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem sends a message to the “Queers for Palestine-crowd” in the West:

“The people of Palestine will not allow a single homosexual in our land," such perversion brings the wrath of Allah”

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 12:59 PM (2tUFv)

191 The Pacific has about 25 hurricanes a year compare to the Atlantic which averages about 6. The Atlantic has been below average past few years thankfully.

They were predicting between 6 and 11 Hurricanes to be developed from all the predicted named stormsfor 2023 . IIRC there have been 3 .

Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 12:59 PM (MNhXM)

192 185 Primitive savages don't have internet, electricity, running water, or internal combustion engines.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 12:55 PM (Y6AXb)

Toilet paper ?

lack of toilet paper is why the right hand doesn't want to know what the left hand is doing.

Posted by: anachronda at October 28, 2023 01:00 PM (edU/H)

193 Mexican construction... second only to China.
Posted by: Martini Farmer'

In GDL one visit my high-rise hotel had a concrete balcony. My Mexican colleague would absolutely, positively not go out onto it. Period, The End.
Since then I stay in the old hotels in the center part of the city; last one was erected in 1602 and quite cool even without using the A/C. Really nice.
US colleagues were all 'But is it SAFE?'
Well, judging from the obvious well-dressed, middle-aged (surviving) gangsters running the place, YES.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 28, 2023 01:01 PM (43xH1)

194 Where should the Gazans go?

Qatar.

They house the Hamas leadership, so they can house everyone else in Gaza.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 01:01 PM (2tUFv)

195 IIRC from when I worked in the industry, for the big american pizza makers, something like 97% of the tomatoes used in pizzas nationwide are made in just one valley.

Los Banos, ho.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 12:57 PM (zZu0s)

I don't know, most of the produce I buy seems to have a Mexican label on it.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 01:01 PM (QBaJw)

196 > Nuts. Tomatoes. Avocados?

None of those make a significant contribution to base calories, the ones that spell the difference between survival and starvation.

1 pound of tomatoes contains about 82 calories. To get the 2,000 calories in an average male daily diet, you'd have to eat about 24 pounds of tomatoes per day.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 01:02 PM (Y6AXb)

197 I don't know, most of the produce I buy seems to have a Mexican label on it.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 28, 2023 01:01 PM (QBaJw)

Mexican produce is a LOT cheaper. Chinese is even cheaper, but their soil sucks major ass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 01:03 PM (zZu0s)

198 Where should the Gazans go?

Red China. They have places set up already for them and work aplenty in their mines.

Win-win.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 28, 2023 01:03 PM (R/m4+)

199 > The Pacific has about 25 hurricanes a year compare to the Atlantic which averages about 6. The Atlantic has been below average past few years thankfully.

They were predicting between 6 and 11 Hurricanes to be developed from all the predicted named stormsfor 2023 . IIRC there have been 3 .
_______________

I imagine NOAA will change the criteria for what constitutes a hurricane. They've changed much of the climate nomenclature to make literally thunderstorms seem "extreme." And recolored maps so temps in the 80's are now "danger red."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 28, 2023 01:03 PM (Q4IgG)

200 1 pound of tomatoes contains about 82 calories. To get the 2,000 calories in an average male daily diet, you'd have to eat about 24 pounds of tomatoes per day.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 01:02 PM (Y6AXb)

I know, that was kind of my point: specialty and boutique items where people are MUCH less cost conscious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 01:03 PM (zZu0s)

201 Word is a entire population of freeloaders won't be welcomed anywhere, and it's a multi generation of learning how to freeloade

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 01:04 PM (fwDg9)

202 Nuts. Tomatoes. Avocados?

None of those make a significant contribution to base calories, the ones that spell the difference between survival and starvation.

1 pound of tomatoes contains about 82 calories. To get the 2,000 calories in an average male daily diet, you'd have to eat about 24 pounds of tomatoes per day.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 01:02 PM (Y6AXb)

I think they also almost all the least nutritious food in the world.

Iceberg Lettuce.

Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 01:04 PM (MNhXM)

203 > I know, that was kind of my point: specialty and boutique items where people are MUCH less cost conscious.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 01:03 PM (zZu0s)

Gotcha. The "Three A's": almonds, arugula, and artichokes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 28, 2023 01:04 PM (Y6AXb)

204 Palestinians don't do labor

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 01:05 PM (fwDg9)

205 I think they also almost all the least nutritious food in the world.

Iceberg Lettuce.
Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 01:04 PM (MNhXM)

Celery?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 01:05 PM (zZu0s)

206 Almonds takes a shitload of water to grow.

Shitload > Fuckton

Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 01:06 PM (MNhXM)

207 204 Palestinians don't do labor
Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 01:05 PM (fwDg9)

Row well, and live.

also,

Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.

Posted by: Quintus Arrius at October 28, 2023 01:07 PM (zZu0s)

208 Celery?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 01:05 PM (zZu0s)

Celery has way more fiber and decent source of potassium.

Posted by: Drive by at October 28, 2023 01:10 PM (MNhXM)

209 Palestinians don't do labor
Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 01:05 PM (fwDg9)

TBF killing Jews is work.

Posted by: Montec at October 28, 2023 01:12 PM (bWsRe)

210 Hmmm. Cannot tell if it is just my internet connection here or the site acting spazzy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 01:12 PM (zZu0s)

211 What is Greasy Gavin doing in China? Snuggling up with the only failing state larger than his.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at October 28, 2023 01:12 PM (nnp+f)

212 Several YT channels in Arabic that are like ME 'Cops' have sequences of Palestinians interacting with Israeli police and (?) soldiers, it's hard to tell which is which, or not, Israel has seemingly several tiers of authority so it's difficult to tell.

Anyway, they seem to be trying to present the Pali view of the Israelis as horrible oppressors but all the videos come across like inner-city denizens throwing bottles and filth at cops while their kids scream obscenities. Not flattering in the slightest.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 28, 2023 01:13 PM (43xH1)

213 Palestinians don't do labor
Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 01:05 PM (fwDg9)

Oh, yes they will.

(fingers safety on and off)

Posted by: Yi Ji Shang Jiang, PLA at October 28, 2023 01:13 PM (R/m4+)

214 I have to say I am shocked at the pro-Palestinian marches here in the US.... Never saw that coming but I should have looking at the viper pit that Universities are now...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2023 01:18 PM (bs+z0)

215 Hmm, I didn't think that hardly any Pacific hurricanes hit Mexico or the U.S. But I don't know, so maybe gale force winds were expected once in a while.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 28, 2023 01:19 PM (3cGpq)

216 My only wish is that Turtle has a massive stroke and is dead before his flabby face hits the floor.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2023 01:19 PM (l10hq)

217 189
'Muslim wipes his ass with small rocks'

A Texas flat rock?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 28, 2023 01:19 PM (roH4R)

218 >>> What is Gavin Newsom doing in China?

Learning ancient Chinese secret of "Ka-Ching".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2023 01:19 PM (cOq4q)

219 214 I have to say I am shocked at the pro-Palestinian marches here in the US.... Never saw that coming but I should have looking at the viper pit that Universities are now...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 28, 2023 01:18 PM (bs+z0)

Well, look at the BLM and various marches then. I'd say part and parcel of the same thing. Same suspect 'support'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 28, 2023 01:19 PM (zZu0s)

220 “As a Jew I’m ashamed of Israel”
A sign at the London Palestine rally today.

After they kill the Jews in Israel, they're coming for you, toots.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 01:22 PM (2tUFv)

221 198

'Red China. They have places set up already for them and work aplenty in their mines.'

And when they can't work any more, we can dispose of them right there as filler. Easy-peasy!

Posted by: China Mine Director Wun Hung Lo at October 28, 2023 01:22 PM (roH4R)

222 I have a bottle of nerve gas, oops I apologize, in this part of the country they call it 'propane,' that I'd like to donate to the effort to smoke out the rats in Gaza.

My contribution to a New World Order.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 28, 2023 01:23 PM (PbTeh)

223 216

Your 'only' wish?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 28, 2023 01:25 PM (roH4R)

224 I am shocked at the pro-Palestinian marches here in the US.... Never saw that coming but I should have looking at the viper pit that Universities are now...
Posted by: It's me donna'

Anyone watching my usually ONT posts would know I've been saying here for quite some time, I warned one of Israel's premier terror experts, Anna Geifman, that she was going to see Marxists and particularly apostate/secular 'jews' abandon/reject The State Of Israel and side with Islamic Terror. She did not believe me, got all offended, and cut off contact. Which was weird to me, because I drew the conclusion from her own research!

Posted by: LenNeal at October 28, 2023 01:25 PM (43xH1)

225 After they kill the Jews in Israel, they're coming for you, toots.

I must say, marching with people who would happily kill you does indicate a certain lack of the self-preservation instinct.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 01:25 PM (2tUFv)

226 The devout Muslim wipes his ass with small rocks, using only his left hand.

No, I'm not making this up.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

The devout Muslim is also supposed to sell his used up party goat to the next village.

I don't think they are complying with either rule.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2023 01:26 PM (cOq4q)

227 >>Where should the Gazans go?

Qatar.

They house the Hamas leadership, so they can house everyone else in Gaza.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Said it before, Saudi A. is something like 90% unpopulated. We're at the point where a 'refugee' city could be built with all infrastructure within a few years. -- If we had the motivation, we could also turn the Sahara into rolling fields within a generation. Where is Google, Apple, Amazon? Where are these world-striding titans? If they wanted to, they could turn empty places into livable countries. ( although, they'd probably turn them into techo-fascist serf farms as proof-of-concept for the Western states, so... )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2023 01:28 PM (IG4Id)

228 GARDEN NOOD IS BLOOMING

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 01:31 PM (+U6lo)

229 'Muslim wipes his ass with small rocks'

A Texas flat rock?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 28, 2023 01:19 PM (roH4R)

Now ya know why Goliath died.

Posted by: JT at October 28, 2023 01:32 PM (T4tVD)

230 I must say, marching with people who would happily kill you does indicate a certain lack of the self-preservation instinct.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 28, 2023 01:25 PM (2tUFv)

I’m a MotT, unfortunately this type of mental illness is not rare. What was that joke when some brothers were up against a wall to be shot; one brother demanded a cigarette, the other said, sush..don’t make trouble.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at October 28, 2023 01:33 PM (5J0gB)

231 I guess I’m just a stupid redneck because I am not enamored at all with Shakespeare.
Posted by: Drive
---------

He said it first:

‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2023 01:38 PM (XeU6L)

232 Another grim milestone.
"Bull" from Night court is mort.
I think John Larocette is the only major character left.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy MAGA Extremist at October 28, 2023 01:46 PM (Qfp8E)

233 The people of Gaza had a choice to be functioning integrated people in Israeli society.

They chose poorly.

Now they can live or die by their choice.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy MAGA Extremist at October 28, 2023 01:48 PM (Qfp8E)

234 What is Gavin Newsom doing in China?

Raising campaign funds.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy MAGA Extremist at October 28, 2023 01:49 PM (Qfp8E)

235 Cat Ass. Marsha Warfield is still among us.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 28, 2023 01:58 PM (2NHgQ)

236 And THAT is why Shakespeare should be studied by every student, everywhere. Thank you, Dame.

Posted by: GWB at October 28, 2023 02:06 PM (JgU20)

237 looks like Israel has finally knocked out all communications networks and all internet access to Gaza. Even those with satellite links don't have any power to run them. So no more breathless on the ground "Oh the humanity!" reports from Gaza.
Posted by: Tom Servo

However, from Donkey Chompers . . .

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Cutting off all communication to a population of 2.2 million is unacceptable. Journalists, medical professionals, humanitarian efforts, and innocents are all endangered.
I do not know how such an act can be defended. The United States has historically denounced this practice.

-
Yeah, that's much worse than decapitating babies!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 02:09 PM (FVME7)

238 Acapulco was riddled with cartel violence.

Not what it once was.

Too bad, I would have considered moving there.
Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at October 28, 2023 12:52 PM (/qa9n)

ALL of Mexico is owned by the cartels now. Too bad too. There used to be some very nice places to vacation there. The diving at Cozumel was second to none in the world. BUT, the island is saturated with drug money now. Also Playa de Carmen.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 28, 2023 02:13 PM (BdMk6)

239 I liked it better when Mexico was a violent shit hole and the US wasn't.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 02:20 PM (FVME7)

240 I don't see any outlet reporting this, but I want it to be true so I can laugh heartily:

@ShelbyTalcott
NEW: Mike Pence, at the RJC, says he's suspending his presidential campaign.

"I came here to say it's become clear to me: This is not my time."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2023 02:20 PM (IG4Id)

241 It could take years to fully rebuild the Mexican city

https://tinyurl.com/3jpywnhc
2:19 minutes helicopter video I think; loud; I think almost all of the windows are blown out as there are some window areas that look green/glass but the rest are black/brown.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at October 28, 2023 12:28 PM (krqg6)

If they hire a bunch of Mexicans, they can save some money.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at October 28, 2023 02:22 PM (h4nev)

242 Ok, looks legit:

@joelpollak 4m
Pence drops out of race at
@RJC

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2023 02:23 PM (IG4Id)

243 LOL@the dropout

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 28, 2023 02:26 PM (Mzdiz)

244 Ok, looks legit:

@joelpollak 4m
Pence drops out of race at
@RJC
Posted by: weft cut-loop

He didn't even get his 2¢ worth!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 28, 2023 02:27 PM (FVME7)

245 NEW: Mike Pence, at the RJC, says he's suspending his presidential campaign.

"I came here to say it's become clear to me: This is not my time."

Heh. Thoughts and prayers, douchebag.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 28, 2023 02:37 PM (V8he0)

246 >>245 NEW: Mike Pence, at the RJC, says he's suspending his presidential campaign.

"I came here to say it's become clear to me: This is not my time."

Heh. Thoughts and prayers, douchebag.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Now he can divorce his wife and lead the homosexual lifestyle that he always wanted.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 28, 2023 02:39 PM (l10hq)

247 I'll admit Pence fooled me. I bought into that Race Bannon, stalwart champion grift. What an absolute septic chameleon. Fuck him, fuck DC, and fuck the GOPe.

THat said, BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2023 02:40 PM (IG4Id)

248 Repulsive drunk lezzie landwhale fights LE in college town Urbana:
youtube.com/watch?v=SDxJYIoVkfU

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 28, 2023 02:45 PM (MvF+J)

249 Buh, bye, Pence.

Pencementum has run out.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy MAGA Extremist at October 28, 2023 02:52 PM (NYzgN)

250 249 Buh, bye, Pence.

Pencementum has run out.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy MAGA Extremist at October 28, 2023 02:52 PM

Did he get outperformed by Jeb! ? Jeb! got further in the race, but also WASTED a lot more money...so maybe Pence gets a "most efficient" award? Wonder what kind of money he may have pulled in? He...he didn't actually think he had a chance, did he?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 28, 2023 02:54 PM (NCgXW)

251 I find all the wailing and gnashing of teeth and "humanitarian" posturing absolutely delicious.

Playing by your rules now, baby! How do you like them apples?

Posted by: Gov. Gavin Douchebag at October 28, 2023 02:55 PM (RIvkX)

252 Pence is dead to me anyway, he can go sit on a cactus for all I care.

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 03:01 PM (+U6lo)

253 252 Pence is dead to me anyway, he can go sit on a cactus for all I care.
Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 03:01 PM

Us too! That traitor sold out to MAGA over the country! He helped undermine Democracy!

Posted by: The Bulwark at October 28, 2023 03:09 PM (NCgXW)

254 So Pence will endorse Haley?

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at October 28, 2023 03:10 PM (/qa9n)

255 /douchebag sock off

Posted by: Sa Franpsycho at October 28, 2023 03:14 PM (RIvkX)

256 Darnit!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2023 03:17 PM (RIvkX)

257 Man gets dragged out of campaign event for awful Shelia Jackson Lee -which included Hillary Clinton speaking-for asking, "Why did your husband visit Epstein Island 26 times?"

https://tinyurl.com/2nsec9h4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2023 03:18 PM (GVtPH)

258 He's basically a suicide bomber for the GOPe, trying to do anything to stop Trump...so he'll probably endorse Trump. I mean...any candidate Pence supports would make me reanalyze....

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 28, 2023 03:19 PM (NCgXW)

259 I find it hard to imagine a white guy getting elected Mayor of Houston over high profile, rude loudmouth DC politician , Shelia Jackson Lee.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2023 03:26 PM (iSLuO)

260
Total to BLM Movement & Related Causes
$99,329,948,029

I'm not good with numbers but that looks like
Ninety nine billion three hundred twenty nine million nine hundred forty eight thousand twenty nine dollars and no cents that corporate America has donated to communist anti-American causes. And we're still here. Amazing grace.

https://dc.claremont.org/blm-funding-database/

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2023 03:30 PM (gpUSD)

261 Read tell BLM never filed a tax form

You do that with billions and see if you get away with that

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2023 03:33 PM (fwDg9)

262 259 I find it hard to imagine a white guy getting elected Mayor of Houston over high profile, rude loudmouth DC politician , Shelia Jackson Lee.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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That video of her cursing and chewing out an aide probably put white man over the hump.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2023 03:36 PM (gpUSD)

263 Here is Matt Gaetz telling the full story on McCarthy the saboteur. It's not long and a good and worthwhile listen.

https://is.gd/KUlAIX

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2023 03:42 PM (gpUSD)

264 Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2023 03:36 PM (gpUSD)

If you put that story in a search engine you get link after link about Shelia Jackson Lee feeling remorseful for her language.
It didn't oocur to lots of people to wonder if she's like that all the time-because she is. We are ASHQ probably know that the turnover in her office is huge because she is a total witch to her staff.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2023 03:46 PM (RSbhh)

265 so he'll probably endorse Trump. I mean...any candidate Pence supports would make me reanalyze....
Posted by: Moron Analyst

Wont' happen. He pretty much called Trump supporters terrorists. He burned his bridges with glitter and blue flames.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2023 03:53 PM (IG4Id)

266 I dunno, I don't like Sheila Jackson Lee but I need to know more about her staff before I totally condemn her.

I've never hired people that need to be managed that way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2023 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

267 Sermon today was on the deception and lies of the world today.

Colossians 2

8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2023 03:58 PM (gpUSD)

268 The white guy running is also a Democrat- so, it's not like they're electing a retched, rancid Republican.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2023 04:01 PM (gpUSD)

269 I dunno, I don't like Sheila Jackson Lee but I need to know more about her staff before I totally condemn her.

I've never hired people that need to be managed that way.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

She's a viciously stupid marxist who would push you into a cattle car if she could get away with it. What more do you need to know?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2023 04:13 PM (IG4Id)

270 Total to BLM Movement & Related Causes
$99,329,948,029

If that's true, it simply boggles the mind. Color Revolution funding, I guess. Many of those "donors" will come to rue the day that they bought into this happy horseshit.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 28, 2023 04:20 PM (V8he0)

271 Pence's only regret is that he didn't do more for his beloved UniParty during his term as VP.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2023 04:26 PM (cOq4q)

272 Aetius451AD work phone at October 28, 2023 12:02 PM

I don't really know myself, but I've heard that it could be related to the "recent entries" list on the main page.

If the post you want to comment on is not there (or is the bottom post) I would not comment on it.

Posted by: KT at October 28, 2023 04:41 PM (rrtZS)

273 Also, if the post is at the bottom of the page when you scroll down, skip commenting on it.

Posted by: KT at October 28, 2023 04:44 PM (rrtZS)

274 >>>They were becoming bottomless pits for spam posts. All kinds of vile shit, so the PTB made an automatic ban for any new comments after some period of time.

Posted by: BurtTC
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I've seen words to the affect, 'I'm closing this blog'. If that can be done wouldn't the spam problem be easier solved that way?

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2023 05:00 PM (gpUSD)

275 Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2023 03:58 PM (gpUSD)

Sounds like a good sermon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2023 05:14 PM (RSbhh)

276 People just cannot get over the fact that Hitler was NOT repeat NOT a Socialist. If he was, the government would have simply taken over everything in sight. Now, yes, Herr Porsche was directed to come up with VW...BUT he PROFITED from this, as did other PRIVATE BUSINESSES that were ALLOWED TO EXIST and PROFIT in Germany in the 1930s.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 28, 2023 10:24 PM (8sMut)

277 Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 28, 2023 10:24 PM

Yes, that is the fascist model of government. Capital and labor in private hands, heavily controlled by government.

Even communist governments have to switch to it eventually, more or less. Real communism doesn't work.

Aspects of Hitler's government resemble today's "social democrats".

Posted by: KT at October 29, 2023 12:46 AM (rrtZS)

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