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Wednesday Genocide Open Comments

The Yazidi people were targeted by ISIS.  I did not hear then – nor do I hear now – any outrage against Muslims who murdered, raped, and enslaved these people. I had heard so little for so long that I thought they had been completely annihilated as a people.

I remember seeing a video of ISIS fighters congregating in a hallway, discussing the distribution of the “spoils of war”. I can only imagine the women huddled together in the next room, waiting to be made sex slaves for their captors, forced to live under a strange and hostile culture, separated from their families and mourning the loss of husbands, fathers, and sons. One ISIS soldier was very excited, reminding me of a dog knowing his owner is just on the other side of the door.  He happily exclaimed “I hope I get one with green eyes!” with a sickening grin on his face.

Islam codifies and encourages slavery, especially slavery as spoils of war.  The Yazidi people may cease to exist unless they are protected.  As more of them are taken or killed, there are fewer Yazidi to procreate new generations.

From the comments:

Someone tell the purple hair pronoun people that this is what an actual genocide is.

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58 responses to “Wednesday Genocide Open Comments”

  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Let me tell you what I think needs to happen to the jihadis: types deletes types deletes. I can not do this thing as it would greatly upset Hammies Granny and Bob from NSA might get his attention peaked to no one’s benefit.

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon’s reaction to my comment about this story. My batting average on predictions would get me fired from a 2A farm team, but my prognostications many years ago about the disaster that would occur if the federal government became involved in the marijuana business have come gloriously true. It’s almost comical.

    On Martha’s Vineyard, they’re running out of government-regulated marijuana, and that has some of the locals up in virtual arms. Slowly, one imagines.

     

    The Associated Press told the story on Tuesday of an unnamed 81-year-old Vineyard resident who drove to the Island Time pot shop to pick up her usual dose but “owner Geoff Rose had to tell her the cupboard was bare.” He’d had to close up shop three weeks earlier after selling out the last of his inventory of weed and edibles.

    then, 

    Texpat 7:49

    Who knew that the black market would always be a more dependable source than government-approved?

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    George Orwell despaired at the linguistic atrocities of propagandists, but he did offer one bit of hope in his famous essay, “Politics and the English Language.” While lamenting that “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible,” he noted that some abuses of the language were vulnerable to “jeers” from a few critics. “Silly words and expressions have often disappeared,” he wrote, “not through any evolutionary process but owing to the conscious action of a minority.”

    and,

    Sure enough, “Didn’t Earn It” has become an Internet meme, a buzz phrase on social media, and a conservative talking point on cable television, radio, and podcasts. It appears in posts linking to Kamala Harris, the plagiarism accusations against DEI officers at Harvard and MIT, the 50 percent failure rate on tests of medical students at UCLA, and the sentencing of a DEI executive for stealing $5 million during her work at Facebook and Nike. In the surest sign of its success, “Didn’t Earn It” has been solemnly denounced by DEI executives, progressive pundits, and the left-wing watchdogs at Media Matters, which was so alarmed that it published a report documenting the phrase’s popularity and—inevitably—labeling it “racist.”

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    “Manhattan Institute” president Reihan Salam hosts Phil Gramm and John Early, winners of the 2024 Hayek Prize for a book that promotes the ideas of liberty, to discuss “The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate.” 

    Phil Gramm is a former U.S. Senator from Texas who unsuccessfully challenged Bob Dole for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination and taught economics at Texas A&M University for 12 years. He discusses the book’s finding that when calculating levels of “income inequality” between quintiles of the U.S. population, the Census Bureau is not including government benefits and programs paid to the bottom quintile of earners and is counting taxes paid by the higher earners as income. 

    “It’s interesting because ‘poverty’ is based on an estimate from the USDA about the cost of a nutritional diet, and yet the Census Bureau measured the poverty rate without counting food stamps,” Gramm said. “They didn’t count Medicare and Medicaid, where the government pays your total healthcare bill, they didn’t count rent subsidies, and we found when we started working with John Early, they didn’t count 100 other programs that cost over $100 million per year at a minimum.”

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Garland was born too late and in the wrong place. He would have fit very comfortably in the Politburo of the Soviet Union. Garland is the dangerous gasbag.

    Attorney General Merrick Garland is responding to what he says are “unfounded attacks” that are endangering Department of Justice (DOJ) employees and, by extension, the state of democracy in the United States as the GOP pushes back against what they see as partisan law fare.

    The Washington Post published an op-ed on Monday in which Garland called for an end to a wave of conspiracy theories, lies, intimidation and threats of violence that he said have escalated against public servants under his charge — including the FBI — in recent weeks.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      In a purge of the evil from our government, Garland definitely qualifies to be ‘removed’ in the first wave.

  6. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Re: Government Regulated Marijuana

    My predictions that once government took over the Mary Jane was costs would skyrocket and quality would plummet have not come true, it appears to be a thriving industry in states that have legalized it.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The California pot industry has been in meltdown because of huge oversupply and exorbitant pricing due to government taxation and regulations.

  7. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Great reading this morning Texpat. Thank you.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      you are welcome.

  8. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I had not seen any of the pushback on Didn’t Earn It, I see it is out there though. When I first saw it, I thought it was referring to Obama’s They Didn’t Build That, which I don’t think aged well.

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I guess I’ll eat breakfast this morning instead of waiting until lunch time. I meet my new dentist this morning, right about the time I’d be getting hungry. Hubby’s is working on my car, but will interrupt his day to drive me.

    He wants me to put me in a workable car soon.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think I have enough time for the C&C before leaving for my appointment:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! This morning offers a tight but thought-provoking roundup of today’s essential news: corporate media beside itself comparing Hunter to Trump after jury convicts the drug-addled meth addict in three hours; climate change alarmists disappointed with June temperatures; 10th circuit authorizes involuntary medication in a troubling case posing tough questions; Wall Street Journal runs a surprising exposé on fake science; and terrific news from the presidential campaign.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First: the narrative that Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict is how the left will portray the DOJ as “impartial” or “fair” or “unbiased”. And the sky is not blue, it is red.

    The significance of Hunter’s conviction is debatable. Immediately following the verdict, Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt argued, “This trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine.”

    It might be a legal distraction as well as a political one. Last August, a New Orleans federal court ruled the Constitution protects the Second Amendment rights of drug users. In that case, the Court explained, “our history and tradition may support some limits on an intoxicated person’s right to carry a weapon, but it does not justify disarming a sober citizen based exclusively on his past drug usage.”

    To what then does it amount? Predictably, BBC’s ‘analysis’ compared the Hunter and Trump convictions. The government-funded broadcaster first lamely argued Hunter’s conviction proves that blue state juries can be fair:

    and

    What do you think? Is Hunter’s conviction conclusive evidence that “no one is above the law?” Or is Hunter a willing Scapegoat of the Empire, as Representative Greene suggested?

    Yesterday, corporate media widely reported that Hunter’s sentencing could take months, because these things take time. But Trump will be sentenced in a few weeks, right before the GOP Convention. Trump’s trial dragged on for weeks; Hunter’s was rammed through in only a few days. Hunter’s charges were routine firearms violations; Trump’s charges were unprecedented creative lawfare based on political conduct in office.

    and

    Finally, it’s worth considering how Hunter’s prosecution helps slam open wider the Overton Window of political prosecution. Now, presidential family members are also fair game. It won’t be so historic next time when some local prosecutor charges Hunter with felony drug possession or human trafficking.

    The debate is just heating up. This morning, commenters argued hotly that the Hunter-Trump Trial debate is a distraction.

    There is so much SQUIRREL! involving the Biden Crime Syndicate that it’s hard to follow the ball, much less keep score.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Here’s one from the C&C for Texpat, as I believe he’s posted several times regarding the failure of scientific journals to be respectably…scientific:

    What have I been telling you about $Science? Three weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an exclusive headlined, “Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures.”

    Publicly traded John Wiley & Sons, one of the largest and most well-regarded science publishers, has been polishing its sterling reputation for over 200 years. But over the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than eleven thousand papers that turned out to be faked, and last month Wiley announced it was closing nineteen journals “infected by large-scale research fraud.”

    Trust the science!

    ***

    Ten years ago in 2015, Richard Horton, chief editor of top journal The Lancet, also raised the alarm, and he was even more pessimistic than Marcia:

    “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.”

    ***

    Given the stakes and the dollars involved, and how the system markets “peer review” as some kind of false scientific gold standard, of course pharma will try to get its fake studies published. Fake studies mint billions. But, if “peer review” is to be used as the gold standard, then editors like Wiley must ensure their products are not just a shiny artifice.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Oh yes, I quoted and linked to that story when it hit a couple of weeks ago. The number of retractions of articles in scientific journals in the last few years is staggering. The whole idea of “peer reviewed” has become a joke.

      Also, the quote from The Lancet editor, Richard Horton, is ironic. I featured him the other day with his unhinged tirade against “populists” and far right vaccine critics, etc, etc. Horton is an elitist moron.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I put this phrase into a DDG search and received quite a few stories on the woes of the legal pot industry, not the least of which is the plentiful illegal pot available on the streets in every state.

    Soon, I believe the federal government will legalize pot, put their regulations on it and as well as federal taxation. The prices will be ridiculous. The feds will also make illegal pot growers and dealers like bootleg whiskey makers of the past. The feds will then have serious reason to go after them because they’re cutting in on the revenue action of the federal government.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. Childers wraps up his column with the revelation that even in deep blue cities like San Francisco, Trump is overperforming in the fundraising and participation departments. He is making inroads into the traditionally Dem voting blocs such as the black vote, et al. While the left sits either dumbfounded with jaws agape, or wringing their hands while wailing into the empty air, or clutching pearls and screaming “Racist!” – Trump is simply traipsing into their strongholds and stealing their gold right from underneath their noses.

    Of course, the comparison between Trump and the Meat Puppet becomes more and more an issue as every day the MP seems to fall closer and closer to his eventual cognitive and physical demise.

    Maybe all those Biden problems are related to appalling absurdities, like Joe’s imitation of a wax dummy at a Juneteenth celebration this week:

    CLIP: What on Earth is wrong with Joe Biden (0:55)?

    If you didn’t watch this clip when I put it up yesterday, you should. The fact that this person is in charge of our country should scare the ever-livin’ daylights outta you.

    Obviously, this kind of thing doesn’t bother the hyper-partisan members of the Democrat base. But equally clearly, Joe Biden is in no condition to compete with Trump for normal, sane blue-city democrat voters. He can’t walk that far.

    It’s almost like folks are starting to realize that, sooner or later, the Democrats are going to get us all killed with their gain of function science, shrinkflation, proxy warmongering, mandatory medicines, wide-open borders, no-bail policies, and defunding police. People are voting for self-interest issues far beyond their personal pocketbook problems. Read the whole Fox op-ed, it will surely encourage you.

  15. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bucket List items:
    I want to see an 8 X 10 inch glossy color photo of the BIG PICTURE I am supposed to see
    I want to see the boat I am not supposed to rock.
    And just once I want to meet the “real supervisor”
    (Explanation explained on request)

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    North Korean defector and author Yeonmi Park told Breitbart News at Turning Point USA’s annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday that the hatred for the United States taught on college campuses is worse than the North Korean government’s.

    https://12ft.io/proxy

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Do Not Get Cocky.

    All the talk about Republican voter enthusiasm and engagement is, well, hopeful and overly optimistic. Voters on the Right talk a big game, but often don’t walk the walk.

    This congressional district voted for Trump over Biden in 2020 by 29% and yet their new representative wins by only 9% ?

    Rulli, of Salem, was leading Kripchak of Youngstown 54.6% to 45.4%, according to unofficial results Tuesday with 95% of the district reporting. He was ahead by a little more than 5,000 votes.

    Asked about the tight race, Rulli said, “I am absolutely surprised it was this close. We never saw a blowout. We saw 7-10%. It’s the district of Ted Strickland and Charlie Wilson (two Democrats who represented it several years ago). It’s a divided country.”

    The district has an 18% advantage to Republicans based on voting results in partisan statewide elections over the past decade. Republican Donald Trump won the district in the 2020 presidential race by 29% over Democrat Joe Biden.

  18. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    America Could See Surge in People Not Voting
    Gee… I wonder why?

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      My message is getting out. LOL

  19. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    All the talk about Republican voter enthusiasm and engagement is, well, hopeful and overly optimistic

    enthusiasm for republicant’s? Are you kidding me? The party led by a phony preacher and hundreds of other backstabbers. The party that perpetually kisses totalitariancrat butts and gives them everything they want. The joined@thehip busted open borders lawlessness party.

    enthusiasm for that party? Pffffffffttt.
    any enthusiasm is for Trump. Not the compromised no good for nothing republicant’s.

    as my sage old grandpa would’ve said the republicant’s aren’t worth a thimble full of bull pi$$.

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m thinking Biden will go ahead and pardon Hunter anyway right as he leaves office in January 2025 if he loses. If he wins, he can still commute the sentence next year leaving the conviction in place.

  21. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I did not know the legalized pot industry was not doing well. Does not matter as the narrative is, as the indulgers I know claim, it is doing just swell. I think they view it as a win against government authoritative types, when actually they just handed over to them.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      You’re exactly right. You can’t beat The Man. You just think you can.

  22. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    MSNBC’s Maddow Says She’s Worried Trump Will Put Her In A Concentration Camp

    what a projecting tool.

    my headline would be…

    MSDNC Propagandist Maddow Says She’s Hopeful A Possible Fourth Term of the Kenyan’s Totalitariancrat Regime Will Be Able to Throw 75 Million Trump Supporters in Concentration Camps if the Steal Succeeds Again in 2024

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/msnbcs-maddow-says-shes-worried-trump-will-put-her-concentration-camp

  23. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Tucker Carlson exposes just how hyper-partisan and corrupt the FBI is in this interview.
    Tucker can really irritate me at times, in this case he rips away any figleaf of dignity the FBI ever claimed to have. Invest the 15 minutes and watch.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      delete

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Note to self: stop hurting yourself! I have jammed my thumb, so I’m sitting here on the couch with an ice pack on my hand, and dictating this post into my phone.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I think I should ship down some hockey goalie pads for you to wear. You know, just in case you fall down so you can bounce back up again.

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Paxton whips Biden’s ass in Federal Court over Title IX rewrite – a huge victory to protect the women of America.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      And right in the middle of pride month to boot!

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      We eat pretty fresh with the Maywood Market fives minutes away and the only cans we eat out of are tomatoes for sauces and my HEB Spicy Charro Beans. The rest of the corporate agriculture can go to hell, but Kosta, who owns the Maywood Market, is totally wired into the Amish growers and they are off the grid anyway. The Amish keep us supplied with the very best of everything we need at or below grocery store prices.

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang I’m missing out on a lot this week but I’ve been real busy and haven’t been dropping by. I’ll try to do better.
    Meanwhile;

    Gotta love a science fair!

    😀

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Bwahahahahahahaha Now that is funny right there.

  27. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Well, it’s been one of those days – but I got this tossed in the crockpot, and have successfully shredded the chicken, stirred in a can of LeSeur Sweet Peas, and have water ready to boil for the noodles to go in it… I love coming up with dinners as easy as a “boxed Helper” dinner – but the only box involve was the one the cream cheese came in… I even “made” the powdered Ranch Dressing mix LOL
    https://bowl-me-over.com/wprm_print/crock-pot-ranch-chicken#

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I wrote a reply to this 30 minutes ago and then it vanished into thin air. Hmm.

      1. bsue54 Avatar
        bsue54

        I dunno what to tell you, Texpat – what did ya say??? 😉

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          I said we never eat out of a box or can unless it’s tomatoes for sauce or HEB Spicy Charro Beans. We have the great Maywood Market here whose owner is most obsessed with fine produce from the Amish country. They’re already off the grid so if everything hits the fan, they can at least bring it over on horse draw wagons.

  28. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Arrrrggghhh we have been blessed with a termite population. Found them under the corpse of laminate flooring. So far I do not know if they damaged the subfloor. The pest control people will start the eradication process next Wednesday. That is the best I could get in well established bug businesses. with other companies we were looking at multiple weeks for the initial inspection. $1250 for the treatment and $360 a year there after for prevention.

    It is my own dang fault I should not have been a cheap skate and got a termite control program years ago. Just makes me sick.

    I was going to use that money to refresh my speedo collection. Oh well a few holey speedos ain’t too bad to live with..

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Unless you’re Bsue.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        LOL

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Fortunately, when you have a house sitting on a basement it is much easier to inspect from below for termites which I do regularly.

  29. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The House votes to hold Gramma Garland in contempt of Congress.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Linkage: House Votes to Hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in Contempt | WSJ News (youtube.com)

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Termites are bad, evil Mojo. If they were under the laminate flooring, they most likely are already in the subfloor and joists. They work upwards usually. Maybe not…if you are lucky.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      We had termites. Then ants. Then they both disappeared.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        maybe the termite ants killed each other?

    2. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Gonna find out but only after they are eradicated. I knew and the tech said don’t disturb them cause it will make them spread farther. Needless to say i doing a lot of prayers for help.

      1. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        My late FIL was an exterminator; he said that if you had a fire ant mound in your yard, you would not have termites. The fire-ant eat termites.

        1. squawkbox Avatar
          squawkbox

          I believe that. One problem is termites like wet and it has been wet here in the woods. Wet and downfall = termites. We got dead tree all around here.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Had my first meeting with my new dentist. I really like him. He reviewed my chart with me briefly and we made two appointments: one more post op to check on my continued healing from the last trauma inflicted upon my mouth, and an August 9 appointment for next surgery. He just called me and we discussed changes to the schedule going forward. That huge gaping hole in my upper jaw will require another bone graft but he came up with an idea involving the extraction of the baby tooth next door that will make it easier on both of us.

    So he’ll send all of this to his faculty and Dr Gabriel (my past dentist) for approval and input.

    It’s a journey, but I keep reminding myself that it’ll be with it at the end.

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    BTW, new dentist shares my appreciation of funky socks and appreciated my patient attitude. He said he had a pair of socks that he’ll wear for my surgery. I’m curious to see what they are.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam, I was always struck by how beautiful and handsome the Yazidi people were from the photos back during the Iraq wars. The same goes for the Kurdish people. They don’t look at all like typical Arabs. It would be interesting to see the historical genetic profiles on all those people.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I saw my vascular surgeon today. Yeah, I have one. He said I should come back in a year. Did you know these guys use internal tubes they slide into the aorta or major arteries these days like pipe and pipeline repair contractors do ? Instead of going in and making a big intrusive mess, they just slide an interior tube inside the artery to neutralize an aneurysm. Surgeons like pipeliners…

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Texpat,

    I had the same type of surgery for my atrial fib. That is the way they do things now instead of a big incision.

    I’m to go back in a year to see how things are going. From my perspective things are fine. 🙂

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