A swimming hole in Israel that looks like a Texas Hill Country dam and hideaway.
Wadi Arugot, Ein Gedi National Park in Israel
Like a swimming hole outside of Rock Springs, Texas
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Great pictures and it does look a lot like Texas swimming holes. Yawn stretch snap crackle pop. I’ve decided that dragging limbs is real good exercise works your legs and arms and although the limbs might not be heavy, they’re usually 25 feet long and tangled up in other limbs and or vines so it takes a lot of oomph to get them loose, working all sorts of muscles.
Well we never did get a real rain, just a constant drizzle from about 10 AM yesterday up until now. .33″ when I went to bad last night @ 9:30 and .44″ now, so that slow soaking rain will really help but I’d sure liked to have that 2.5″ the weather guessers promised. Checked the radar and the rain is still north and south of us but it has moved over into Georgia and will be gone by daylight. FWIW; Most of the rain was out in the gulf.
SO! Mornin’ Gang
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Greetings from Niagara Falls, Canada. Partly cloudy today, 49° now climbing to 60 later. Not bad.
Astros win their series! LA Dodgers get swept by Arizona, so sad lol. Astros to play the Rangers.
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GJT
On your way back, go by Texpat’s and pick me up a pot of coffee and some of that special tuna salad.
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GJT good to hear from you, I failed to mention that I highly approved of your 2 week Road Trip and this is a good time of the year for one even up there in Yankee country. I.E. Buffalo hasn’t froze over yet.
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I guess that some of y’all’s religion is rubbing off on me, this dropped into my mailbox today;
For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.
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Over-Yonder isn’t always a cultural wasteland, I spotted this and it does seem to fit in with today’s events.
“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that it will soon be destroyed. Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills; those who are in the city must leave, and those who are out in the country must not go into the city. For those will be ‘The Days of Punishment,’ to make come true all that the Scriptures say. How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies! Terrible distress will come upon this land, and God’s punishment will fall on this people. Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up. “There will be strange things happening to the sun, the moon, and the stars. On earth whole countries will be in despair, afraid of the roar of the sea and the raging tides. People will faint from fear as they wait for what is coming over the whole earth, for the powers in space will be driven from their courses. Then the Son of Man will appear, coming in a cloud with great power and glory. When these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your salvation is near.” Then Jesus told them this parable: “Think of the fig tree and all the other trees. When you see their leaves beginning to appear, you know that summer is near. In the same way, when you see these things happening, you will know that the Kingdom of God is about to come. “Remember that all these things will take place before the people now living have all died. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. “Be careful not to let yourselves become occupied with too much feasting and drinking and with the worries of this life, or that Day may suddenly catch you like a trap. For it will come upon all people everywhere on earth. Be on watch and pray always that you will have the strength to go safely through all those things that will happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Luke 21:20-36 …..
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I’m sorry I only speak in kilometers/meters right now.
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Kevin Sorbo and wife are on KSEV touting their latest offering, which is, of course, family friendly with good values. IIRC, it’s the story of Spindletop, “Miracle in Texas”. I’d like to get a ticket, but…driving.
I’m getting so tired of not being able to do things. I’m going to be a very cranky old person when my wings get permanently clipped.
As per SuperDave’s previous post:
although the limbs might not be heavy, they’re usually 25 feet long and tangled up in other limbs and or vines so it takes a lot of oomph to get them loose, working all sorts of muscles.
Years ago, just as Hubby was clearing the last little bit Mirkwood, he brought in his 2 man crew to cut down all of the vegetation that had sprouted up behind the hill. Some of them were pretty tall trees, which were cut down in one piece and dragged into the front yard. When they were finished hauling the bushes and trees, our front yard was full. I mean about four feet high, from driveway to driveway. We couldn’t put it into the ditch until the weekend or risk getting a fine, but as long as it wasn’t in the city right of way, it was all okay. From what I understand, Polo (the Lazy One) gritched the whole time. He could dig all day long which is the only reason he kept his job, but otherwise – he would do only what he was told to do, when he was told to do it. He could be a real PITA, but he worked well in the dirt and did okay as long as he was supervised.
Hubby had an out of town trip planned, and was going to bring the backhoe to the house the next week and push it all into the ditch for heavy trash pickup. I remember looking at the pile and realizing that a backhoe was going to be useless, since the branches were all tangled together and I got the great idea of moving it all myself.
I had to wear long sleeves in the heat, since there was probably some poison ivy mixed in, and that made it fun. Some of the trees were 10 feet or more in height. I had to literally untangle the leaves and branches, move the smaller stuff, and then drag the bigger pieces into the street and then roll them onto the growing pile of vegetation filling the ditch. I didn’t have a chainsaw, which would’ve been a big help – it was all done by hand. For some of the larger trunks, I came up with a method of hand walking the trunk to a vertical position and then toppling it over closer to the ditch. It saved me a lot of dragging.
It took me two days, but I got it done before Hubby returned. I remember the look on his face when he came home: “Did you do all of that BY YOURSELF?” The next day, he drove Polo by the house and told him “My wife did all of this by herself, and she has a bad back. I don’t want to hear any more complaining.” From what I understand, Polo didn’t complain about anything for quite a while.
Never underestimate a determined woman.
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I’m so glad GJT is taking this trip. I’m sure it’s marvelous to be on the road right now.
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BOMBSHELLS ☙ Thursday, October 12, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Good morning, C&C family, it’s Thursday! Tons of uplifting news in the roundup today along with the usual briefings. Your roundup includes: fired Canadian detective who was suspended for investigating jab deaths might be back to work soon; possible path to peace emerges in Israel war; Israel forms united government; Biden sends aircraft carriers to Israel for some reason; other war updates; former Hamas leader sets off social media hot takes after calling for jihad; Rand Paul reveals new evidence against Fauci; SADS mystery ‘allergy’ death of celebrity chef; SADS Springsteen painful peptic ulcers; Ethical Skeptic finally off the CDC’s chain; new version of Governor Newsom takes up the social wars banner — for conservatism; voters lean into border walls; and an uplifting video for your Thursday viewing pleasure.
NEWS:
The Ottawa Citizen ran a hopeful story this morning headlined, “Suspended detective accused of seeking links between child deaths and COVID-19 vaccines set to return to work, lawyer says; OPS says no timeline set.”
What?! A detective doing detecting and it’s punished? But we live in crazy world now, so why am I surprised? Her suspension *might* be lifted. Might. I’m not getting my hopes up.
Why the suspension? She was “conducting an unauthorized investigation” into SIDS deaths, to which she’d been assigned. She was asking the mothers if they’d recently been jabbed, found a connection, and began to run with what she’d learned. When her superiors discovered her work, ” they charged her with “discreditable conduct” and commenced a human resources trial to get her fired or demoted (apparently that’s how it works in Canada public service).”
She’s been sidelined now for about 9 months. She had reached beyond her assigned SIDS cases in attempting to get to the bottom of all of those baby deaths. Nothing like having her hands handcuffed while trying to do her job, eh?
In March one of the mothers — “Karen” — was notified by Helen’s department that Helen has accessed Karen’s baby’s death records, and that Helen was not the assigned investigating officer. So Karen told the Ottawa Citizen she felt her privacy had been violated and expressed outrage at all the terrific support Helen has received from people opposed to mandatory jabbing.
She goes to trial in December, and her job return is murky.
This story should have gotten more visibility earlier this year. Helen’s friends setup a GiveSendGo to help with her legal expenses, and it has not done as well as it should. I’m not calling for a multiplier, but I did chip in. Here’s the link if you also want to give detective Helen a little C&C love this morning. (Note it’s in Canadian dollars, and watch out for the automatic ’tip’.)
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Childers has news of Israel:
Hamas is “open to truce” – at first met with derision, now there are chinks in the wall. Returning the hostages would be a good first step, but we shall see. The stories they have to tell will fuel more outrage. A captured terrorist admitted that they kidnapped females “to dirty them”. In their false religion, raping a woman makes her unclean and then she is consigned to Perdition with no chance of attaining Paradise. Emotionally, it’s a way for them “dirty” Israel. Rape is about violence and power, and this is one way their men feel powerful – raping women. /spits/ /spits again/ /spits one more time/ /actually, not stopping the spitting/
Any way you slice it, Hamas should immediately return the civilian hostages; it is a moral imperative. The vast majority of those taken seem to be women, young girls, and young boys. They must be returned promptly. If the hostages are returned, Israel may have a way to politically escape its own moral imperative to punish Hamas enough to restore deterrence. It would not resolve the conflict, not even close, but it could move the conflict out of the theatre to the negotiating table.
So there’s one thing to pray for today. It might be unlikely, but it’s a start.
Israel has managed to put together a somewhat unified government to deal with the emergency. Nothing like a common enemy to draw folks together, eh? Together, the leaders from the different parties issued a blunt joint statement saying, “Every member of Hamas is a dead man. Hamas will cease to exist.”
And Blinken is coming into the scene. Let’s save the Biden election chances?
Biden (aka, ‘his handlers’) has sent the carrier Gerald R. Ford into the area. Not really sure what it’s going to do, but it’s there.
There are rumors Team Biden is considering sending a second aircraft carrier and an entire battle group, possibly anticipating that Hamas will somehow assemble a massive navy that it has been hiding in a storm drain somewhere. (More seriously, all the U.S. hardware is probably intended to deter other Middle Eastern countries like Iran from piling on.)
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Israel has not started its ground offensive into Gaza yet. The IDF announced that 300,000 reservists have been called up and stationed outside Gaza. The IDF’s daily update suggested Israel is more interested in the vast network of terrorist tunnels dug underneath Gaza than in anything located above ground. According to its official statement, air strikes are meant to target either underground Hamas resources or buildings suspected of hiding Hamas leaders. Israel will not say when it plans to start the ground offensive. It will start when they’re ready.
Someone here posted the story yesterday of two men at an airport buying tickets for the returning IDF forces. When I saw the story, it was one man. I wonder how many American based Jews were doing the same?
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And on to a possible ripple effect here in the states:
A former Hamas leader sent out a statement from Qatar, encouraging other ME governments to join Hamas’ fight.
This story was widely misconstrued on social media as some kind of worldwide Hamas call for jihad this weekend and everyone is slightly over-reacting. I say “slightly” because we should be on heightened alert, lest what just happened to Israel happen to us. Imagine 1,000 armed terrorists launching a nighttime surprise attack on a small rural town somewhere in the U.S. and think about how all that might play out.
There are probably hundreds of thousands of armed terrorists here in the U.S. who’ve arrived ever since President Robert L. Peters threw open the borders. At least we have them in one place.
Maybe not right away, but I’m sure there are cells in place, and planning. Why make the trip and then sit on your hands?
A thought just crossed my mind – one way to make a statement would be to take out Amazon distribution centers. Amazon is a symbol of American capitalism, a lot of people depend on it, and it would put a lot of people out of work, at least temporarily. I think the symbolism would be the biggest reason. Terrorists like to make a statement.
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Next up: Rand Paul has “bombshell” evidence to finally take Fauci down
What? The “sexiest man” is guilty? The elf may finally face justice? Say it isn’t so!
Senator Paul also said new, difficult-to-get evidence proves Anthony Fauci personally shepherded the Wuhan gain-of-function research around a safety committee set up to prevent high-risk research. Paul said, “We also know that there was a safety committee that should have reviewed this and we know that Anthony Fauci went around the safety committee.”
Rand Paul said he thinks this evidence “will bring down Anthony Fauci.”
We can hope! Like cockroaches, which can survive a nuclear attack, Fauci — a human cockroach who would even terrify Franz Kafka— has proven hard to squash, as he scurries between various bureaucratic assignments and speaking engagements. I pray I live long enough to see Fauci in an orange jumpsuit.
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Fortunately, GJT chose the perfect time to travel through the Northeast and New England. Fall is a little late this year but there should be plenty of color on the trees. September up here is usually the same as October in Texas – the nicest month of the year. Mildly warm days, cool nights with clear blue skies. It rained a lot in September although we’re getting the nicer weather this month.
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From the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department, Cover-up Division:
Food Network host Michael Chiarello passed away S&U this week, supposedly from an anaphylactic shock from an allergy. But, as always, it’s “a mystery”.
That’s accurate. It is a mystery, for two huge reasons.
First, Chef Michael had no known allergies. There is extensive video evidence of him eating just about everything you can think of. Nothing has ever troubled him so far — and as anyone knows, he didn’t eat anything unusual before he died.
The second and bigger problem is that Chef Michael was in the hospital for five days. That’s a pretty weird fact for a death from anaphylactic shock….
Most of the time, the worst allergy reactions require an Epi-pen. I’m sure the hospital was well stocked for this kind of emergency. Most allergic reactions are hives, or other uncomfortable but not fatal symptoms.
The kind of immediate fatal anaphylaxis happens after you get a shot of something. That’s why they want you to stick around for 15 minutes after you get the covid jab.
/snip
What allergic reaction kills you slowly over a week — despite treatment? If they want us to believe that, they’re going to have to cough up a lot more info, which they seem determined not to do.
So. I’m betting Chef Michael did die from an allergic reaction. An allergic reaction to an experimental mRNA shot.
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More medical charting news:
The CDC unintentionally unleashed heterodox covid data analyst Ethical Skeptic when the health agency clamped down hard on its health data last week. Now, Ethical can’t get his mortality and morbidity data that he used to create all his eye-popping excess deaths charts. So he’s turning his giant brain toward other data points, and I think this could be the best thing that could possibly have happened.
His first post-CDC submission was Google searches for cancer topics. Guess which direction the graph goes?
[insert graph with a skyrocketing upward trajectory]
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And for more indicators that Newsom is running for president – he swatted down 100 very woke bills in California, wielding that veto pen with a flair not seen since the “Three Musketeers” movie made its debut:
Newsom is thinking about what the majority of voters want, and he’s tacking toward that. Like the rest of us, Newsom knows that the culture war is shifting toward sanity, otherwise he would not have vetoed one hundred California bills. I suspect that might even be a historic record.
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I saw this video a few days ago, but Childers show it today.
There is still hope for humanity. God bless those men!
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Olympian Mary Lou Retton has pneumonia, fighting for her life.
Gymnast Mary Lou Retton, who captured America’s attention while winning the gold medal in the women’s all-around at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, is in intensive care and “fighting for her life” in a Texas hospital, her daughter said Tuesday on social media.
Retton has “a very rare form” of pneumonia, Retton’s daughter McKenna Kelley posted to Instagram, and “is not able to breathe on her own.”
On Wednesday, Kelley posted to Instagram that Retton “continues to fight” and is “getting incredible medical care!”
Kelley said Retton, 55, has been in intensive care for more than a week.
Kelley started a fundraising campaign on Retton’s behalf for medical expenses, writing that Retton does not have medical insurance.
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I was mistaken about the rain, it seems that the .44″ was from midnight on and we got more after I went to bed last night. SO the grand total is 1.76″! Yes! That’ll help the turnip patch not to mention the wheat N rye. We got almost a quarter inch after I got up.
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11 Tedtam
Someone here posted the story yesterday of two men at an airport buying tickets for the returning IDF forces. When I saw the story, it was one man.
The story started on social media with a report of one unidentified, Charedi Orthodox Jewish man standing at the counter paying airfare for reservists who presented their call-up documents from the IDF.
The story was updated later to say another Jewish man, not Charedi Orthodox, arrived with a large stack of credit cards and also paid for reservists’ airfare.
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Alabama’s sole Jewish lawmaker speaks on emotions following Israel attacks, synagogue bomb threats.
Alabama’s only Jewish member of the State House is a Democrat!?!? Can anyone explain to me why so many American Jewish people are Democrats? The Democrat Party is antisemitic! SMDH
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11 Tedtam
An aircraft carrier is not just an aircraft carrier. It is a huge strategic carrier battle group with many components.
For instance, the carrier strike group, which is comprised of the carrier, a cruiser and four destroyers, could provide ballistic missile defense for Israel while its forces are preoccupied on other tasks, said Mark Montgomery, a senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“The Israelis are historically loath to ask another country to use that country’s troops in combat on their behalf; however, the one exception is in ballistic missile defense against Iranian missiles,” said Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral who worked directly with the Israeli military while on active duty. “Any ballistic missile defense ships in the [carrier strike group] can support the defense of Israel against an attack from Iran.”
However, Montgomery said the “geometry is such that” ships’ ballistic missile defense wouldn’t be effective against attacks from Gaza or Lebanon. And though some rockets have reportedly been fired into Israeli territory from Lebanon, the senior defense official said one reason the US rushed the strike group to the region was to deter Hezbollah from “making the wrong decision” and widening the conflict further.
The carrier strike group can also include a submarine and always a focused array of intense satellite surveillance in the region around and close to the carrier.
Resupply is another role with which the carrier strike group could assist, multiple analysts noted in comments to Breaking Defense.
“In all likelihood, [the Ford] can provide assistance with her helicopters for establishing aid and carrying supplies for sure. She also has a huge magazine of weapons,” said Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain and a senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute, an Indianapolis-based think tank. “That could be transferred to Israel, depending on whether they have any shortages.”
The broad intelligence collected by the carrier group could be invaluable to the Israelis. In combination with satellites, this little armada is a gigantic suction matrix of data and info.
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A few days ago in Iran, before the Hamas attacks on Israel, there was a big international soccer event. When it came time for the Saudi Arabian team to play the Iranian team, they got on a plane and flew back to Riyadh.
Regardless of what many might say about IRGC’s Qassem Soleimani and his role as a terror mastermind, even after his death he continues to disrupt good neighborliness.
The Iranian regime has displayed his banners, posters and dozens of statues and busts all around the country to honor its “hero”, which brings home the sense of how far the regime is from understanding the prevailing mood in Iran and in the region.
The statues and busts made of him are far from descent and are often mocked by not only art critics, not only from art critics but also from the public. Notably, the controversial bust located at the Naghsh-e Jahan stadium in Esfahan garnered attention when it irked members of the Saudi al-Ittihad football team to the extent that they returned to Riyadh before their scheduled AFC championship match against Iran’s Sepahan team.
If the Iranians are interested in building any kind of friendly relations with the Saudis, maybe they ought to think things through.
This sculpture, like all others, failed to convey grandeur or military might and fell short of capturing the essence of an internationally recognized figure, even if that figure happened to be a notorious terrorist despised by many regional countries threatened by him before he was killed by a US drone strike in 2020. In short, it was far from being a piece of art.
The individuals who commissioned these sculptures are the same hardliners who orchestrated the torching of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad in January 2016. Whether placing Soleimani’s bust in a football stadium right before a match with a Saudi team was a mere coincidence or a deliberate attempt, the outcome is nothing short of a blatant sabotage effort aimed at undermining the newly restored Tehran-Riyadh relations.
UPDATE @12:30 PM:
This was the once-every-four-years Asian Federation Cup championship series with 24 nations competing from China to Australia to India and Iraq. It is a big deal and for Saudi Arabia to leave was a much larger slap in the face to Iran than I realized.
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Well, Shannon, should I ever have the desire to process cherries again, I’ll certainly consider it.
But they were a PITA for Elsa.
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Having their baby murdering operations broadly prohibited, the ghastly, ghoulish asshats at Planned Parenthood have a new marketing plan.
The revelation came a few months after Fred’s best friend, who also has autism, began identifying as transgender. Concerned that this was another phase, but open to the possibility that it wasn’t, Fred’s parents tried to enroll their son, whom they were now calling by a female name at home, in the Gender and Autism Program at Children’s National Hospital, the only gender clinic in the country specializing in autistic youth. Fred was determined to take hormones, they told the clinic, which is known for its lengthy assessments. Before he did, they wanted to be sure his dysphoria wasn’t transient or peer-driven.
The clinic informed them in March that it had a waitlist of about a year. And Fred, who would be turning 18 in two months, wasn’t willing to wait.
In late July, while his parents were out of town and after he had come of age, Fred went to Planned Parenthood, which prescribes hormones to any legal adult without a letter from a therapist or a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria. The only requirement is a brief consultation, usually with a nurse practitioner, about the drugs’ effects, which range from mood swings and male pattern baldness to permanent infertility.
How brief? Fred arrived at his local clinic, on North Fullerton Ave. in Montclair, New Jersey, at around 11:00 a.m., according to phone tracking data his parents used to monitor his whereabouts. By 11:39, they received a text message from CVS: Fred’s estrogen prescription was on its way. Instead of a months-long evaluation by expert psychiatrists, a nurse practitioner had, in little over 30 minutes, prescribed their special-needs son a powerful drug without their knowledge or consent.
“It’s criminal what Planned Parenthoods all over the country are doing,” Fred’s mother, a New Jersey pediatrician, said. “And most people have no idea this is happening.”
The situation is so bad even the promoters of gender transitioning in the medical field are horrified by Planned Parenthood’s actions. The following are two of the most prominent pro-transgender figures in the world.
“I have always been a very strong supporter of Planned Parenthood and am pro-choice,” said Laura Edwards-Leeper, who co-founded the nation’s first pediatric gender clinic, at Boston Children’s Hospital, in 2007. “But they have taken on something that they are not equipped to handle.” The lack of gatekeeping is so bad, she added, that some of her patients received hormones from Planned Parenthood before coming to her for an assessment.
Others, like Erica Anderson, a former president of the US Professional Association for Transgender Health, say patients they’ve sought to delay from transitioning have simply turned to Planned Parenthood. “I’ve had patients desperate to get hormones where I’ve been the voice of caution,” said Anderson, who is transgender herself. “In some cases, they say, ‘I’ll just go to Planned Parenthood when I’m 18.’ Usually I can dissuade them but sometimes I can’t.”
If we passed legislation at the federal level to classify all of these hormonal drugs and puberty inhibitors abused and misused in this insanity as Schedule 2 Drugs, it would bring a lot more scrutiny and prohibit nurse practitioners and physicians assistants from writing prescriptions in most or all states. This would not be a game changer, but it would make it much more difficult to hand these drugs out like M&Ms.
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Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram feed from Israel has as the last post a short TikTok video of young women volunteers rescuing dogs in Southern Israel near Gaza. These dogs are obviously orphaned because their owners were kidnapped or most likely murdered.
The last scene of a terrified old dog in a bullet-riddled vehicle really got to me. Somehow he survived and he waited for days for his people to come back.
Thanks to Squawk for finding this guy.
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Got an ortho appointment Monday morning at 8:00, want me there by 7:45. That means I have to wake up and get dressed by….
Me getting out of bed that early — it ain’t always pretty.
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I got up even later than usual, got all the critters fed, including myself, and now need to tackle an unappealing task of some critical paper work.
There were lots of interesting posts here this morning, as I embark on steely concentration on this stuff I gotta get done. Check y’all later, gang.
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It’s Donkey Nation, Folks !
The author is John A. Lucas. John is an Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret. In Vietnam he commanded the aero-rifle platoon of 1st Cavalry Division. He was a partner at a major multi-national law firm and a successful U.S. Supreme Court advocate.
Sunday, on NBC’s Meet the Press, and CNN’s State of the Union. Blinken said, “In this moment, we don’t have anything that shows us that Iran was directly involved in this attack, in planning it or in carrying it out.”“In this specific instance, we have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack.”
What a weasel-worded evasion. These are people who carefully plan their statements and choose their words carefully. So, look at the qualifier: Blinken claims that we have no evidence that Iran was “directly” involved. That qualifier concedes that we do have evidence that Iran was indirectly involved.
Blinken’s claim that we have no evidence that Iran even “was behind this particular attack” crosses the line from evasion to outright falsehood. It has long been known that Iran is Hamas’ financial backer. Without Iran’s financial support Hamas would not have been able to launch this barbaric wave of terror. So, was the country that funded the attack “behind it”
As Iran International reports, “Blinken’s statement contradicts years of evidence which has proven that Iran pays Hamas around $100m annually, as was announced in 2018 by the then-Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, under the Donald Trump administration.” (bolded emphasis added)
Blinken says that we don’t have “anything” showing that Iran was “behind” the attack. We also do not have anything showing that, say, Iceland or Bolivia was involved. As I have written previously, we are led by Donkeys.
RTWDT.
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My comment @ 12:56 PM cont’d.
Dane-Geld
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say:–
“We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!It is always a temptation for a reach and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:–
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the
time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:–“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”– Rudyard Kipling
Never pay the Dane-Geld.
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Re: Amit Tsarfati
Yes.
I thought we lost him yesterday because he went quiet for so long.
The time stamp doesn’t help.
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There has been constant chatter about the Gaza Strip being impossibly dense and nearly unlivable in its population density. The Palestinian people are crammed in there like a prison, like a prison, I tell ya !
Yada, yada, yada…
Queens County, New York (2020)
108.72 square miles / total population 2,278,029
Population density: 22,125 people per square mile
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Hudson County, New Jersey (2022)
46.19 square miles / total population 724,857
Population density: 15,692 people per square mile
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Gaza Strip (2023)
141 square miles / total population 2,229,000
Population density: 15,809 people per square mile
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Austin County, Texas
646.50 square miles / total population 31,097
Population density: 47 people per square mile
Sources: US Census Bureau, Encyclopedia Brittanica
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I’m reminded of a popular locally produced poster from 1979-1980 titled, “Cowboys and Iranians”. It was in a black & white format. Anybody else remember the lynch party scene under a big tree with a bunch of cowboys on horseback getting ready to hang some jihadi looking guys in mullah gear ?
RE: “Try That In a Small Town”
I think Jason Aldean needs to do a different version for cowboys and Hamas. A really good third version would be a, “Go Ahead and Try That Again”, version for Israelis.
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Pro Tip on Israel:
The anger and bitterness over this attack among Israelis, young and old, left and right, is hot and deep. Our daughter here in NJ is monitoring a lot of social media in Israel with her many friends and relatives there.
There won’t be any political forgiveness for letting this happen. Once this war is over, and I suspect most or all the hostages have been murdered, Netanyahu, security and military leaders will be gone. There is no coming back from this for Bibi & co.
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I’ve been worried about Texanadian. We haven’t heard from him in awhile.
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Amir Tsarfati reports a US squadron of A-10 Warthogs have arrived in the UAE on the Persian Gulf.
The President of the UAE, Sheik Mohamed, told President Assad of Syria to sit down and shut up about Israel and their response to Hamas a couple of days ago.
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I’ve been worried about Texanadian. We haven’t heard from him in awhile.
Thank you for your concern. I’ve busy with the harvest and other things, I do check in regularly to see what is happening and to read you folks smart commentary.
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texanadian good to hear from you, what are we harvesting?
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We’ve been following Amir for many years – I believe I was pointed to his videos when I first started teaching Sunday School (back before our last trip to Maine, which was roughly 10 years ago)- because the assigned lessons were the Book of Revelation and he has amazing lessons/teachings on Bible prophecy… He even lives somewhere near/in/on the edge of the valley of Megiddo… and has taken us on many video “tours” of places I doubt I’ll ever set foot near, this side of heaven… I was glad he was able to get home, as he was here in the States when all this kerfuffle started.
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what are we harvesting?
Potatoes, carrots, peas the usual. We have a large garden, and then canning, processing, storing. No FD but we do dehydrate all the spices.
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The Short Dawgy has developed a “seroma” at her surgery site… So we get to do warm moist compresses 4 times a day, and try to keep her quiet (from running) for another week. I guess it could be worse – when I saw the lump on her belly I was imagining all sorts of horrid things.
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Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Miracle at Fatima, aka “The Miracle of the Sun”.
Possibly the most well-known, most witnessed miracle ever.
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30 Shannon
I’ve been bitchin’ and complaining about Michael McCaul for years. He is so ripe to be picked off by a really sharp campaigner. McCaul has a long history of ignorant, uninformed statements about virtually any subject you want to pick. McCaul, for some inconceivable reason, was appointed Chief of Counterterrorism and National Security in the US Attorney’s office in Texas in the 1990s. He has managed to pole vault off that title into serious positions of national security and foreign affairs in the US Congress.
If that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, I don’t what will. Mike McCaul is dumber than a stump and luckier than a leprechaun.
I can only surmise the one reason people are too scared to challenge McCaul is the $300 million his wife has in the bank her Daddy gave her after he sold Clear Channel Communications in San Antonio. It is a true shame.
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#31 Texanadian, man that’s a lot of work we used to can and freeze stuff when I was a kid. We grew 90% of what we ate, not sure I’d be up to it in my old age. We did freeze much more than we canned though we had a 22 and a 24 CF chest freezer filled with vegetables, meat, fruit and nuts.
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Here is the headline.
WATCH: Left-Wing Host Amanpour Blames Hamas for Israel War — CNN Aired It, PBS Edited It Out
Read the whole story. War slut and attention whore Christiane Amanpour actually spoke the truth today.
Damned shocking and you should mark your calendars with permanent markers.
On the other hand, PBS acted like the punks they are.
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A selectively cropped video left former President Donald Trump framed as an enemy of Israel in a new low to viral politicking.
It didn’t take AI or deep fakes to smear the president’s sterling reputation as a stalwart supporter of Israel, merely the removal of context in a dubious video that began circulating online. In fact, even the Associated Press saw fit to set the record straight after the words of radical leftist Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) were framed as Trump’s own.
The video, being proffered as cause to show support for Palestine after Hamas savagely attacked the people of Israel, killing more than 1,000 people and taking scores hostage, featured the then-president at a 2019 Minnesota campaign rally where he said, “Israel has hypnotized the world. May Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil-doings of Israel and the United States.”
Cheap crap from stupid low-life Gaza Ghetto thugs. Almost, but not quite as good as the garbage peddled by the DNC.
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Wow.
Seeing no pathway to win, Scalise has withdrawn,
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Breaking News…
Posted at approximately 10:43 PM EDT Thursday.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense and the IDF notified the UN just before midnight local time to evacuate its staff and notify Palestinians living north of Wadi Gaza that they should evacuate to the southern part of the Gaza Strip in the next 24 hours, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric and another source with direct knowledge.
The big picture: More than 1 million Palestinians live in this area. The message could be a signal that the Israeli military is preparing for an imminent ground operation.
- The sources told Axios that the IDF’s reason for the notification was in order for civilians not to be hurt by the military’s actions and operations.
- More than 1,530 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis have been killed, thousands have been injured, and hundreds of thousands of others have been displaced since the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas began. Hamas is believed to be holding about 150 hostages in Gaza.
NOTE:
Israel is 8 hours ahead of Central Daylight Time
Israel is 7 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time
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If Scalise can’t pull the votes, it looks like Jordan will be it.
Maybe.
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Heh.
Wall Street Silver@WallStreetSilvThe US Army and US Marines are running ads featuring white males again all of a sudden. I think this means we are definitely going to war.12:06 AM · Oct 12, 2023 -
Just checking in on today’s offerings about the insanity involving Israel and the evil ones in Hamas doing their best to destroy Israel. May Hamas and its evil ones all end up defeated from here to eternity after Israel turns them inside out and upside down.
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