Althouse: Sunrise — 7:33, 7:35.

November 1, 2023

Sunrise — 7:33, 7:35.

54 comments:

Political Junkie said...: Bob Knight - RIP; 11/1/23, 6:13 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Political Junkie said...

"Bob Knight - RIP"

I just threw a chair across the room in his honor.; 11/1/23, 7:21 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: "Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is,...of far profounder import than the desires,...of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land."

- The racist Balfour Declaration (1919) that Israel is built on; 11/1/23, 7:46 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: King David Hotel bombing

"The southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem [was] bombed in a terrorist attack on July 22, 1946, by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization the Irgun during the Jewish insurgency.,...The Irgun committed the attack in response to Operation Agatha"

Operation Agatha

"The officially given purpose of the operation was to end "the state of anarchy" then existing in Palestine. Other objectives included obtaining documentary proof of Jewish,...sabotage operations,...."

There. Now - show me proof the Zionists didn't start this trouble - and that they didn't start it dishonestly.; 11/1/23, 8:19 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Orthodox Jews against Zionism; 11/1/23, 8:28 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: The Arabs were negotiating for Palestinian independence as early as 1915.; 11/1/23, 8:51 PM
Narr said...: The Brits were in Palestine by mere right of conquest over the Turks, who had been there by right of conquest over people even more hapless than they were.

If native Jews used sabotage or terrorism to make them go away, well, what do you think decolonization looks like?; 11/1/23, 8:53 PM
Old and slow said...: I thought you had your own blog Crack. I'm sure it is missing you.; 11/1/23, 9:01 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: "The whole Jewish community by 1914 constituted barely 8% of [Palestine's] population."; 11/1/23, 9:07 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: "The allies [had] been doing all kinds of deals behind the scenes, with which they have handed out to each other large sections of the world, meanwhile openly preaching that they are fighting the war in defense of democracy and of course also telling,...the Arabs, they are supporters of self-determination for the peoples of the Ottoman empire."

- How Britain Started the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Y'all are gonna have to come up with some new lies to defend this shit. White people, today, coming up with lies - to defend the lies that white people told years ago - is kind of funny.; 11/1/23, 9:27 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Now I know why none of you wanted to provide links to evidence on the subject of Israel's creation: Because you knew it was white people performing a(nother) double cross and betrayal in the service of white people.

Shame on y'all.; 11/1/23, 9:40 PM
Political Junkie said...: How bout them Texas Baseball Rangers!; 11/1/23, 10:19 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: From Small Dead Animals:

“More than 13,000 people in Canada were euthanized in 2022, an annual rise of 31.2 percent since 2021. In 2022, 4.1 percent of all deaths in the country were the result of euthanasia; MAID could now be listed as the nation’s fifth-leading cause of death. Nearly 45,000 people have been euthanized since 2016, when Parliament first introduced MAID legislation. This number will keep rising as stigma disappears and MAID advocates continue to push for relaxed standards. The Canadian government seems to be on board with that agenda, as it reportedly plans to make MAID available to anorexics and drug users.”

Maybe Elon Musk is on to something. I’m just saying.; 11/1/23, 10:44 PM
Jamie said...: Let's add some context, from the same Wikipedia article on Operation Agatha:

The searches [of Jewish settlements; see below] were resisted by large swathes of the Jewish population, many of whom were Holocaust survivors. Roadblocks were constructed [by the British] and British troops were attacked while conducting searches. Some Jews conducted lie-ins to prevent the movement of military trucks, and others publicly displayed their concentration camp tattoos to the British in order to try to elicit their sympathy. A few British soldiers exacerbated the tense atmosphere by shouting "Heil Hitler" and scrawling swastikas on walls while they conducted searches.[6]

Here's the part about those searches of Jewish settlements and other objectives:

The Chief of the Secretariat, Sir John Shaw, outlined the official objective of the operation at a press conference in Jerusalem: "Large-scale operations have been authorized to end the state of anarchy existing in Palestine [it's useful to bear in mind that Britain was notably and pretty openly anti-semitic at the time, so I'd suggest more research on this point] and to enable law-abiding citizens to pursue their normal occupations without fear of kidnapping, murder, or being blown up". [Always a goal when you're in charge of an unsettled - in the sense of chaotic - area.] Shaw believed that the British should end the existing situation by partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states and then leaving [we've seen how eagerly the Palestinians have welcomed a 2-state solution over the decades] or by dismantling the Jewish Agency, which claimed administrative authority but secretly supported acts by the underground Zionist military organizations and governed without the authority. Thus, Shaw approved of the operation.[2]

Several other objectives underlay the official one such as to obtain documentary proof of the Jewish Agency's approval of sabotage operations by the Palmach and an alliance between the Haganah and the more violent Lehi (Stern Gang) and Irgun in carrying out violent acts. Another was to forestall a coup d'etat. In June, members of the Jewish Agency's Executive and the Haganah High Command had met with delegates of the Irgun and Lehi at which the latter, according to intelligence, had stated its intention of asking the Yishuv to participate in a coup "for the proclamation of a future Jewish State and the interruption of all relations with the existing Palestine Administration". [And yet it's been the Palestinians, again and again, who have either refused to come or walked away from the bargaining table.] In the wake of the "Night of the Bridges", [an operation of militant Zionists to blow up a bunch of bridges, resulting in minimal loss of life but intended to demonstrate the ability of the militant Zionists to exert control over the region] another objective was to break the military power of the Haganah. Since the Haganah had appeared to be acting in co-operation with the Lehi and Irgun, the British authorities believed mistakenly that breaking its military power was also necessary because the Haganah might co-operate with the prospective Irgun and Lehi coup. Lastly, Montgomery had stated that the operation was required to boost army morale.[2]

So - several militant Zionist movements, indeed. But not any that targeted civilians. And made up of Holocaust survivors and those who watched their coreligionists literally slaughtered for their religion. And movements that dissipated, or coalesced, into an organized and disciplined and Western-style state military once order had been achieved (more or less), and have continued to operate in such a fashion since that time.; 11/1/23, 10:59 PM
gadfly said...: The Crack Emcee said the Zionists did it, but when the rubber hit the road, Menachem Begin successfully led the Zionist charge to establish a Jewish state for the displaced European Jews because of hatred imposed by the Nazis in the form of the Holocaust.

Of course, if you want history we can go back 2000 years to find the dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Captivity, referred to as the Diaspora.

Now that is an idea. The UN should peacefully disperse the so-called Palestinian Refugees who don't want to be part of Israel to neighboring Arab countries with common religious preferences.; 11/2/23, 12:28 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: America Rises; 11/2/23, 3:34 AM
wendybar said...: "We are digging our own national grave. We won't even close our border. And our news outlets, at least many of them, don't seem to care."-NOVEMBER 1-2, 2023

https://urgentagenda.net/; 11/2/23, 4:34 AM
wendybar said...: I guess the Daily Beast isn't used to speakers who got rich by being the QUEEN of Insider Trading??

Matt Gaetz
@mattgaetz

The Daily Beast is furious that @SpeakerJohnson isn’t rich, corrupt or rich from being corrupt.

He doesn’t have shady business deals. He doesn’t trade stocks as a congressman.

Cry more, I guess? 🤷‍♂️
Matt Fuller
@MEPFuller
Mike Johnson doesn't have any retirement savings, own a single stock, or have any assets at all. He has less than $5,000 in his bank account.

He's got a 250-500K mortgage, a home equity loan, and a personal loan.

So what's his retirement plan? To lobby? https://thedailybeast.com/does-new-speaker-of-the-house-mike-johnson-have-a-bank-account?ref=home
10:52 AM · Nov 1, 2023; 11/2/23, 4:42 AM
wendybar said...: Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2

Also from today’s hearing. Jack Smith told judge the classification review of 340 or so documents had been completed. Defense said they have memos confirming material is classified per intel review but no underlying evidence to support claim.
JD Sharp
@imjdsharp
Replying to @julie_kelly2
Here's what happened:

1. Biden asked NARA to remove Trump's executive privilege over documents
2. NARA granted it
3. Biden declared documents reclassified
4. Biden used new classification to order Mar-A-Lago raid
4:20 PM · Nov 1, 2023

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/trump-lawyers-drop-bombshell-revelations-about-biden-regime/; 11/2/23, 5:05 AM
wendybar said...: We are SO fucked with these two imbeciles destroying what is left of us as fast as they can...

Frank J. Fleming
@IMAO_

There's been an outbreak of antisemitism like we haven't seen since before WWII, so here comes Kamala Harris to the rescue.

Vice President Kamala Harris
@VP
Taking on hate is a national priority.

Today, @POTUS and I are announcing the country's first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia.

This action is the latest step forward in our work to combat a surge of hate in America.; 11/2/23, 5:08 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: I agree - end the occupation of Gaza.

No more money to Gaza.
Everyone leave Gaza except for the precious and holy pure race of Palestinians.
They need to fend for themselves.
They can fetch their own water and electricity.; 11/2/23, 5:11 AM
wendybar said...: The adults int he first video disgust me and make we cry for what America has become, but the boy in the next video gives me hope for humanity....

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/two_separate_halloween_incidents_captured_by_doorbell_cameras_display_a_stark_contrast_between_cultures.html; 11/2/23, 5:29 AM
wendybar said...: “In my memory, it also appeared to happen overnight, just like it did here in America in 2020 . . . Overnight, we were told the country we lived in was rotten to the core and needed to be dismantled.

“Instead of looking for racists, we were ordered to look for ‘counterrevolutionaries’ . . .

“People turned against each other in search of enemies and in defense of Mao. Friends turned against friends, neighbors against neighbors, co-workers against coworkers, and family members turned against each other. As children, we were taught to report on family members, including our parents.”

“Cancel culture ensued, and on its path anything that was not pure Maoist — including our Chinese heritage — was literally destroyed. Statues were toppled by mobs. Books and art were burned.”

It was all too familiar to Van Fleet when America started tearing itself apart in 2020.

https://nypost.com/2023/11/01/opinion/maos-america-author-xi-van-fleet-reveals-how-us-is-on-the-verge-of-becoming-a-communist-state-like-china/; 11/2/23, 6:15 AM
Humperdink said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/2/23, 6:30 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Neo explains something that I’ve had a hard time wrapping my head around:

“One of the tenets of leftism is the idea that the world divides neatly into oppressed and oppressor. You are one or the other, and there’s no escaping it. What’s more, the oppressed are defined as good no matter what their behavior; there are no objective standards for judging them except their defined status as oppressed. That is why we see it said that black people cannot be racists, even when they obviously are expressing hatred towards other races. That is why the George Floyd riots were perfectly okay and the J6 defendants were evil. That is why Nick Sandmann had a face so many wanted to punch, and his harassers were protected by the press and the left.”

But why do supposedly intelligent people fall into thinking this way? Or maybe thinking is the wrong word.; 11/2/23, 7:02 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: "The conventional wisdom,....has no evidence to support it" - John Mearsheimer; 11/2/23, 7:09 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/2/23, 7:12 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: "Why Americans don't understand,...basic logic escapes me" - John Mearsheimer; 11/2/23, 7:20 AM
Saint Croix said...: One thing we might consider is cutting off Islamic funding of our universities.

These "non-profits" love money so much!

Over the last six years, the Middle East gave $4.6 billion to U.S. higher education. They are using oil money to buy access and impose Islamic ideas into young people who believe what they are told -- hate the Jews and hate Israel.

So this leftist movement to divest corporate money from Israel? How about divesting all that oil money from the Ivy League!

Saudi Arabia and Qatar alone provided $3.7 billion to higher education in the U.S.

Qatar is linked with Iran and Hamas.

Qatar specifically is linked to Cornell.

From Hamas to Qatar to Cornell to some mentally ill Asian kid who is now talking like a Hamas terrorist.

Shut down that money.

It's certainly not helping us or our country.

We do not need terrorist indoctrination camps in this country.

The countries who can sign the Abraham Accords are our friends. People who cannot are on the other side. Hamas is definitely on the other side.; 11/2/23, 7:27 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Biden is heckled by rabbi at Minneapolis fundraiser who demands 'ceasefire now!'- then takes credit for tempering Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and calls for a 'pause'; 11/2/23, 7:31 AM
wendybar said...: When will we realize that Democrats ALWAYS cheat...even against their own??

"The video on the Gomes campaign’s Facebook page shows a woman dropping stacks of ‘illegal’ ballots into an absentee ballot box outside the Bridgeport government center, where the city’s Registrar of Voters office is located.

The Gomes campaign was able to identify the woman in the footage as Wanda Geter-Pataky, the Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic Town Clerk and a vocal supporter of incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim, who is seeking reelection. Gomes’ campaign claims that the video shows Geter-Pataky dropping off stacks of absentee ballots ahead of the September 12th primary."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/breaking-connecticut-democrat-judge-overturns-bridgeport-mayoral-primary/; 11/2/23, 7:41 AM
Saint Croix said...: Dr. Ali Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Defense Committee of UAE ��: “We want everyone to acknowledge and accept that Israel �� is here to exist and that the roots of Jews and Christians are not in New York or Paris but here in our region. They are part of our history and our future.”

That's what tolerance sounds like.

Abraham Accords is what tolerance sounds like.; 11/2/23, 8:06 AM
Enigma said...: The basic issue with all national/tribal conflicts is that people appeal to two incompatible 'authorities.'

First, all plants and animals exist only through environmental winner-takes-all or might-makes-right competitive battles. Evolution 101. Some species survived for millions of years, only to be taken out by a drought, disease, flood, or comet. Some tough species fall to tougher 'invasive' species when their historical rock-paper-scissors strategy provides no relevant defense. There is no consciousness nor right vs. wrong morality to consider here, just finding an environmental niche that allows continued survival.

Second, humans tend to adopt fuzzy universalistic morality systems with variable concepts of justice and an afterlife/reward system. This includes Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. They all seek to mitigate raw "unfair" competitive outcomes, but only if they and the in-group are allowed to survive or win.

When the second system slips into a genocidal first system (e.g., Romans throwing Christians to the lions, middle-ages anti-Islam Christian Crusades, German Nazism, the "From the river to the sea" version of Islam, etc.) then all players are required to adopt the first system or die. There can no longer be universal purity, just variable shades of compassion or destruction. Self-interest and competition supersede all else.

Claiming full moral authority merely reveals shallow thinking or hypocritical doublespeak.; 11/2/23, 8:14 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: There's a new phobia ravaging the land: Joebidenphhobia. That the fear that Joe Biden will kill us all with his imbecilic policies.; 11/2/23, 8:16 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: According the Neobarbarian News of Washington DC, aka the Washington Post, pumpkin spice has a problematic background and needs to be canceled. The spices which go into pumpkin spice are from colonized locations and are thereby RACIST! Bad spices! Must stop using them! No matter that the current producers rely upon the export of those spices to make a living. BAD SPICES!; 11/2/23, 8:33 AM
Rusty said...: Madisons version of the Battersea power station.; 11/2/23, 8:40 AM
Big Mike said...: Now that is an idea. The UN should peacefully disperse the so-called Palestinian Refugees who don't want to be part of Israel to neighboring Arab countries with common religious preferences.

What makes you think their neighboring countries want them? I’ve been a tourist in Egypt; our guide was candid about how terrifying it had been to be an ordinary Egyptian citizen in the time of of the Muslim Brotherhood. Why would the citizenry want more hard core terrorists living among them? It’s not as though Hamas has made life better for the people living in Gaza. Women raise their sons, not to be teachers or doctors or successful merchants, but instead to die as glorious martyrs. Good on the IDF for helping them to their martyrdom.; 11/2/23, 9:04 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Mike of Snoqualmie said...

"Crack is sure trying to make the case to implement "From the river to the sea.""

I have not said that, or even suggested anything like it. (Why do you guys lie so much?) I am making the case that we have been lied to, and I've been making it with evidence. As usual - and I've been forced to point it out too often - my critics show up with just their mouth. Lying and big talk or how we've gotten ourselves into wars all around the world. I would think, at some point, you guys would wise up and cut it out.; 11/2/23, 9:12 AM
Saint Croix said...: John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" has won David Duke's endorsement as "a modern Declaration of American Independence" and a vindication of the ex-Klansman's earlier work, presumably including his pathbreaking book, "Jewish Supremacism."

WaPo; 11/2/23, 9:14 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Like conservatives, who only know Martin Luther King through one line in his "I have a dream" speech, Amy Schumer is dumb enough to think that - because he was against antisemitism - Martin Luther King would've approved of Israelis going to war against Palestinians.

King's daughter made sure to set her straight.; 11/2/23, 9:48 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Woman Discovers Her Ex Tattooed The Face Of The Woman He Had Cheated With On Her Arm Without Realizing

Hopefully, she can get the tattoo removed and let karma do its thing.

Karma - again? I hope that means, right after she gets it removed, somebody kills her,...; 11/2/23, 10:09 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Saint Croix said...

"John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" has won David Duke's endorsement,..." - WaPo

That definitely means Mearsheimer and Walt are racists, and antisemites, spreading bad analysis of the Israeli war. OBVIOUSLY. Fuck their facts that show the Israeli Lobby has, repeatedly, talked us, not just into trouble, but utter catastrophes. So, NEVER LOOK AT THE FACTS - All intelligent people know it's endorsements that tell us what's-what. I'm sure Saint Croix put this here because he knows this, AND how important the thoughts of David Duke are. I'm actually surprised I didn't check-in with him, myself, before I came up with my ideas about all this. He's always on top of the issues.

And the Washington Post? You should trust them more than your own mother. There are few publications with a better track record. Did you know (unbeknownst to readers) their former religion reporter was a witch who said she killed three men? THAT'S a publication you can trust.

I'm proud to report that she once contacted me and said, if I didn't stop fucking with her, she would put a curse on me.

I've never stopped fucking with that bitch,...; 11/2/23, 10:29 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: I apologize to Crack. I've deleted the post about the "river to the sea."; 11/2/23, 11:08 AM
Iman said...: Looks like dat curse is working!; 11/2/23, 11:14 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks Out Against Israel's "Segregationist Apartheid Regime" After West Bank Visit; 11/2/23, 11:16 AM
Big Mike said...: Instapundit links to an article about 147 women, described as "feminist scholars" who are "demanding an end to Israel’s genocide and occupation in Gaza" and the scholars go on to say that "they oppose all uses of pinkwashing, or the coopting of the LGBTQ rights movement, as well as Israel’s cynical employment of feminist language to cover up or justify its military atrocities."

So feminist scholars have no pity -- none at all -- for the young Israeli women raped and murdered on October 7th, reserving their sympathy for their Hamas rapists. Seems similar to how modern feminists have sympathy for young biological males who bounce into women's locker rooms and wag their male organs at young women while saying "Oh, by the way, I'm trans." (A half hour later they'll of course be male again.) And evincing no sympathy for the young women forced to sit through this display.

So tell me, Althouse, is this just a case of elderly biddies jealous of the younger women's youth and attractiveness? Or has feminism always been a grift to get a piece of the affirmative action pie for underqualified females and has never been about the needs and concerns of women as a whole?; 11/2/23, 11:32 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Mike of Snoqualmie said...

"I apologize to Crack. I've deleted the post about the "river to the sea.""

Whoa - that's a first - thank you. You are a gentleman, and I will look forward to your posts from here on out.

Really: thanks.; 11/2/23, 11:43 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Iman said...

Looks like dat curse is working!

Only if it's represented by white people hounding me on a blog that I spend a lot of time on.; 11/2/23, 11:44 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Irish MP Richard Boyd Barrett calls out the double standards on Ukraine and Palestine

We drive Putin to war, and claim it was unprovoked, as Zionists drive Arabs to war, and claim it was unprovoked.

Just shameful.; 11/2/23, 1:05 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Students walk out of Hillary Clinton’s class to protest Columbia ‘shaming’ pro-Palestinian demonstrators

They should've walked out because it was her husband who laid the groundwork for the Ukraine war.; 11/2/23, 1:17 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: The 'final' downfall of Israel was predicted by Einstein:

"When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations [built] up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people."

I told you it didn't take a genius to figure this out,...; 11/2/23, 1:28 PM
Michael K said...: Gee, I seem to have stumbled into Crack's blog. Sorry. I'm outta here.; 11/2/23, 1:54 PM
Drago said...: Michael K: "Gee, I seem to have stumbled into Crack's blog. Sorry. I'm outta here."

Sort of a Crack / Hamas joint venture blog.; 11/2/23, 7:36 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Rise and shine,thank your Maker for opening yours eyes one more time!All the rest is a bonus.; 11/2/23, 8:14 PM

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