And this reminds me; is anyone here in touch with Laura Rosen Cohen ("Writermom")? I e-mailed her over the weekend to ask if her loved ones in Israel were okay; I have not yet heard back.
buzzsawmonkey
10/9/2023 7:09:01 AM
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In #5 Occasional Reader said: I e-mailed her over the weekend to ask if her loved ones in Israel were okay; I have not yet heard back.
Since both Saturday and Sunday were the last two days of the holiday cycle, during which observant Jews do not switch electronic appliances on or off, she's probably catching up with the events of the weekend and accumulated messages.
Occasional Reader
10/9/2023 7:40:20 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 6:
Ah. Good point. Thanks.
Occasional Reader
10/9/2023 8:13:19 AM
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If, say, Mark Steyn had written a novel a decade or so ago, in which Pali terrorists in paragliders attacked an Israeli "peace rave" near the Gaza border wall; with the Canadian public service employees union promptly tweeting their support for the attack; Steyn's editor likely would have said, "knock if off, Mark, let's keep this thing a little more grounded in reality".
And yet, here we are.
vxbush
10/9/2023 8:26:45 AM
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In #8 Occasional Reader said: If, say, Mark Steyn had written a novel a decade or so ago, in which Pali terrorists in paragliders attacked an Israeli "peace rave" near the Gaza border wall; with the Canadian public service employees union promptly tweeting their support for the attack; Steyn's editor likely would have said, "knock if off, Mark, let's keep this thing a little more grounded in reality".
And yet, here we are.
Apparently the amount of insanity in existence today continues to outpace our imaginations.
Morning, campers. Prayers continue for Israel, although now I'm starting to see stories (on substack) saying of course Israel knew beforehand that Hamas was about to pull off these attacks. The argument hinges on how much our intelligence offices hate the US and are actively trying to tear down the presumptive Republican nominee to present the idea that it intelligence organization in Israel could hate Israel just as much. Let's just say one article isn't going to change my mind that easily.
JCM
10/9/2023 8:35:04 AM
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Local media is covering a Pali protest in Seattle.
One size, "Free Palestine"
Excuse you disgusting imbecile... Israel pull out of Gaza, "freeing" it some time ago.
Kosh's Shadow
10/9/2023 8:37:46 AM
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Reply to JCM in 10:
Free Palestine
FROM THE ARABS
buzzsawmonkey
10/9/2023 8:38:40 AM
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Reply to JCM in 10:
Gaza has magnificent beaches and lovely weather; were Hamas at all interested in doing so, it could make Gaza the Monte Carlo of the Eastern Mediterranean. But they'd rather go on rampages.
Occasional Reader
10/9/2023 8:40:42 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 9:
“ the idea that it intelligence organization in Israel could hate Israel just as much”
i’m sorry, that’s just stupid.
vxbush
10/9/2023 8:42:48 AM
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In #13 Occasional Reader said: i’m sorry, that’s just stupid.
I agree. Of course, I would say the same thing about our intelligence services, had they not already demonstrated a clear hatred of people who love the US. But that is no excuse to blame Israel or assume the same is true for her.
Occasional Reader
10/9/2023 8:45:36 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12:
“I’m the man who wants West Bank, not Monte Carrrrrrlo!”
-The ghost of Yasir Arafat, singing in his best Peter O’Toole voice
also, the Biden regime responded to the weekend’s atrocities by… holding a barbecue.
JCM
10/9/2023 9:41:44 AM
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This would be my "Hostage Deal".... if Hamas doesn't immediately release the hostage, in a week Gaza will cease to exist.
JCM
10/9/2023 9:48:08 AM
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Reply to JCM in 21:
Nothing less than full occupation is the only solution.
Kosh's Shadow
10/9/2023 9:51:10 AM
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Any other country would have bombed the shit out of Gaza, and the world would not have made a peep.
buzzsawmonkey
10/9/2023 10:13:20 AM
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In #17 Occasional Reader said: I thought that was pretty good, being on the spur of the moment, if I do say so myself…
I had to look the "Lawrence of Arabia" clip up on YouTube; I saw the film when it came out, and did not remember that sequence---so you get extra points for that.
Occasional Reader
10/9/2023 10:34:05 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 24:
That is lucius's favorite scene in the movie, I seem to remember him saying. (One of mine, too.)
Occasional Reader
10/9/2023 10:35:16 AM
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This weekend, Palestinian social justice activists carried out mostly peaceful protests in several locations in Israel. In response, the Zionist Entity has launched a campaign of genocidal terror against women, children, kittens, and puppies.
-Associated Press
vxbush
10/9/2023 10:43:59 AM
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In #26 Occasional Reader said: This weekend, Palestinian social justice activists carried out mostly peaceful protests in several locations in Israel. In response, the Zionist Entity has launched a campaign of genocidal terror against women, children, kittens, and puppies.
-Associated Press
Yup. Sounds about right.
doppelganglander
10/9/2023 10:44:35 AM
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There's a pro-Israel rally tomorrow night in my town, which has a sizeable Jewish community. I would like to go, but I think I'd feel weird being there by myself.
“ Whether they [self-declared “anti-Zionists”] are motivated by Islamism, leftist bs "anticolonialism," hostility to the West with Israel as their first target, or pure hatred of Jews is immaterial, it's much worse than mere antisemitism. Most antisemites aren't full-on Nazis, and as much as they dislike Jews would object to mass murder (just like most people who have racist opinions of black people would object to mass murder). The so-called antizionists do not, and therefore are much worse.”
Has James Taylor been dispatched by the State Dept. to Israel yet?
Kosh's Shadow
10/9/2023 1:55:11 PM
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These are the people Roger Waters likes. He should go and give them a concert in his SS uniform.
Kosh's Shadow
10/9/2023 1:56:45 PM
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Wasn't the massive purchase of Hamas Baby Armor a big warning?/////
JCM
10/9/2023 2:49:27 PM
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'cause I just have to!
lucius septimius
10/9/2023 2:49:31 PM
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In #25 Occasional Reader said: That is lucius's favorite scene in the movie, I seem to remember him saying. (One of mine, too.)
One of my favorites, no doubt. The question that Col. Brighton asks after mockingly clapping - "who are you?" - in some ways is the point of the whole film.
lucius septimius
10/9/2023 2:50:12 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 30:
Right on.
lucius septimius
10/9/2023 2:55:35 PM
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In #26 Occasional Reader said: This weekend, Palestinian social justice activists carried out mostly peaceful protests in several locations in Israel. In response, the Zionist Entity has launched a campaign of genocidal terror against women, children, kittens, and puppies.
-Associated Press
Meanwhile, an actual headline from Forbes (which they subsequently deleted).
lucius septimius
10/9/2023 3:01:34 PM
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I was thinking, were the old Swamp still around, how many bannings would be happening today.
Kosh's Shadow
10/9/2023 3:21:12 PM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 37: Germany defends itself from Poland after Poland invades.
Times bureau chief in Berlin, Guido Enderis, was a Nazi collaborator,” Rindsberg said.
Under Enderis, bureau reporters won Pulitzer Prizes as they drew on Hitler’s propaganda to cover the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the 1938 Munich Conference, when Britain and France tried to appease the fuhrer by giving him a chunk of Czechoslovakia. Times bureau chief in Berlin, Guido Enderis, was a Nazi collaborator,” Rindsberg said.
Under Enderis, bureau reporters won Pulitzer Prizes as they drew on Hitler’s propaganda to cover the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the 1938 Munich Conference, when Britain and France tried to appease the fuhrer by giving him a chunk of Czechoslovakia. Enderis even parroted the Nazis’ claim that Poland invaded Germany to spark the war in Europe in 1939, not the other way around. .
Now, it is one thing to say Ham-ass says "xxxxxx" and another to make it sound like that is the case.
In #35 lucius septimius said: The question that Col. Brighton asks after mockingly clapping - "who are you?"
Which question is later echoed by the anonymous motorcyclist at the Suez Canal, after Lawrence crosses the desert following Aqaba.
Occasional Reader
10/9/2023 4:09:15 PM
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In #42 Kosh's Shadow said: What about Biden?
He's still licking barbecue sauce off his fingers (and shirt sleeves, etc.).
buzzsawmonkey
10/9/2023 4:10:00 PM
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In #42 Kosh's Shadow said: What about Biden?
They should suspend funding for Biden, too...
Occasional Reader
10/9/2023 4:10:39 PM
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Reply to JCM in 34:
Pretty cool.
Sorry that it's overshadowed by events. (I don't mean that snarkily, by the way.)
Kosh's Shadow
10/9/2023 4:13:11 PM
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In #43 JCM said: Sanction and blockade Iran.
No; send them some weapons set to rapidly self-disassemble. All the IRCG and Basij bases, and all other military facilities, plus all government offices.
JCM
10/9/2023 4:32:45 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 47:
Not at all. It is overshadowed.
JCM
10/9/2023 4:34:26 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 48:
Can't argue that... stick a tactical nuke in the MOP and drop it on the Nuke Program cave.
Nobody will know..... because of the all the residuals from their program.
Kosh's Shadow
10/9/2023 4:40:50 PM
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Reply to JCM in 50:
Israel has to do it or the Iranian spies in the 5-sided building will warn them and set the wrong coordinates.
JCM
10/9/2023 6:43:01 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 51:
I really hope something major in Iran goes BOOM!
They only IIRC have two gasoline refineries... that would really put a crimp in things.
Kosh's Shadow
10/9/2023 6:51:43 PM
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Reply to JCM in 52:
A meteor on their underground nuclear sites would be great.
JCM
10/9/2023 6:57:29 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 53:
That is a necessity.
If anyone has any doubts would just give Hamas a warhead, or do it themselves an nuke Israel is not connected to reality.
JCM
10/7/2023 6:08:57 PM
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