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4 అక్టోబర్, 2026

Sunrise.

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RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: A great photo. And Thanks to Althouse to her blog and support for freedom of speech.; 04-10-26 7:46 PM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: Here's an popular song from WW 1 and WW 2 from Irving berlin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O928hGPQ6yc&list=RDO928hGPQ6yc&start_radio=1

What a great song. And i loved it. And I wondered why. What does it speak to us? The love of social equality? The love that all that peacetime nonsense is over, and now we have a war?

It was written in 1918, and recycled for WW2. Amazing how all the "Smarties" know how to push our buttons and get us average joe-six-packs to go out and fight.; 04-10-26 7:53 PM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: I had to double-check it, but it is true. The Jewish Rahm Emanuel endorsed that Jew-hating Muslim who is running for Senate in MI.

Dem party discipline is stronger than the Mafia’s. And the omertà is too.; 04-10-26 9:06 PM
Eva Marie చెప్పారు...: Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is Jewish and backed his primary opponent, has endorsed him. So has Al Franken.
So has Mort Halperin, Mark Halperin’s dad.; 04-10-26 9:53 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper చెప్పారు...: Rahm Emanuel also want Ds to talk ethics during campaign; 04-10-26 9:56 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper చెప్పారు...: https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/food/2026/10/03/culvers-brew-crew-cheesecake-milwaukee-brewers/92069247007/; 04-10-26 9:59 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: Apparently Jewish voters are free to vote however they like—as long as they vote the “right” way. Funny how quickly “individual liberty” becomes a religious loyalty test.

And there’s an obvious irony: Jewish voters are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves whether a candidate’s positions are acceptable. Disagreeing with their choice is one thing; treating their religion as evidence that they should have voted differently is another.; 04-10-26 10:01 PM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: IEE:

Yeah, Jews can vote however they want, but supporting Muslims like that MI guy is a death wish. I guess self-loathing Jews are a real thing.; 04-10-26 10:08 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: Calling Jews ‘self-loathing’ because they support a Muslim candidate is quite a way for an attorney to argue that Jews are entitled to vote freely—provided they choose correctly.; 04-10-26 10:15 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: Apparently, the Omani co-pilot asked the Indian pilot if he could leave his seat to go pray. The Indian pilot granted this permission, at which point the Omani co-pilot retrieved the rescue axe and proceeded to attack the pilot, in an attempt to crash the plane.

Isn't that a terrific metaphor for what's going on in the West, especially in cases where a Muslim politician promises his credentials as a moderate just before an election? The post-election playbook is crystal clear, even more clear than the playbook of those western politicians that pander to their Muslim constituents for their votes, until that magical 10% threshold is reached.

Funny how some become offended when the predictable future consequences of voting for your demise are highlighted as a reminder during the political season, especially when such a consistent track record of the same phenomenon that has already taken place, in other locations, is available. Why the protest, one wonders. It's not as if they're literally wishing for your eradication as an ethnic religious-based group. Oh - wait.; 04-10-26 10:15 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: @ DB: The interesting contradiction is that your comment says Jews can vote however they want, then immediately explains why Jews who make a particular choice supposedly aren’t thinking properly. That isn’t really an argument about political freedom; it’s a loyalty test dressed up as concern.; 04-10-26 10:19 PM
James K చెప్పారు...: I would distinguish between Jewish politicians like Emanuel and Nessel from rank and file Jewish voters. The Free Press had a story about the Detroit-area synagogue that had the terror attack. Virtually all liberal Democrats who'd never voted for a Republican in their lives (it's a Reform synagogue), but ot suggested 70% were going to vote for Rogers. You might wonder about that 30%, but that's still a big deal.; 04-10-26 10:24 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...: "Apparently, the Omani co-pilot asked the Indian pilot if he could leave his seat to go pray."

Even putting aside the attempted mass murder, WTF? 'Can I be relieved from *flying the plane* so I can go pray?' Your responsibility is to the 180 people (IIRC) onboard. Why must we put up with this shit?; 04-10-26 10:26 PM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...: So Dave, are you are Self-loathing white man?; 04-10-26 10:31 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: If El-Sayed beats Rogers, perhaps we should ask what voters saw in the candidates rather than declaring Jewish voters “self-loathing.” Voters don’t surrender their political judgment to a religious identity card. They can disagree with El-Sayed on Israel, support him despite that, or simply decide other issues matter more. Calling that “self-loathing” doesn’t explain their vote it reveals Dave’s assumption about how Jews are supposed to vote.; 04-10-26 10:33 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: IEE, your portentous navel gazing about what we should ask ourselves contingent on future outcomes really interested me.; 04-10-26 10:55 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...: “verisimilitude“. I’m watching “Vugonia” 2025; 04-10-26 11:03 PM
Josephbleau చెప్పారు...: Interesting paper from the NBER, 2 to 6 cents of each us supplied foreign aid dollar is deposited is someone’s cryptocurrency account, sounds like it’s well spent.

Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid
Sumit Agarwal, Peiyi Jin, Eswar S. Prasad & Daniel Rabetti
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WORKING PAPER 35655
DOI 10.3386/w35655
ISSUE DATE August 2026
The 2016 Panama Papers leak tightened regulatory enforcement around money laundering and offshore banking. We investigate whether the diversion of foreign aid in developing countries led to a shift to cryptocurrency as an alternative laundering platform. We develop a disbursement-timed forensic measure of cryptocurrency activity, combining on-chain Bitcoin transactions and wallet creation, off-chain exchange records, and IP-linked web traffic, and apply it to World Bank aid disbursements covering $238 billion across the 93 recipient countries in our estimation sample during 2018-2024. Exploiting the administrative timing of aid tranche arrivals, we find sharp, short-lived surges of crypto activity at the disbursement month, driven mainly by anonymous and newly created wallets on both tax-haven and mainstream exchanges. Blockchain forensics reveal patterns consistent with the placement, layering, and integration sequence of conventional money laundering. We estimate an implied leakage of 2 to 6 cents per aid dollar, which amounts to roughly 1.7 to 4.4 billion dollars of aid diversion across the tranche arrivals we study. Capture carries no funding penalty: the four sectors where we detect it, Transport, Water and Sanitation, Social Protection, and Governance, still absorb half of subsequent World Bank funding. Cryptocurrency facilitates aid diversion, but its transparent ledgers also leave forensic traces that may help detect and recover diverted funds.; 05-10-26 12:52 AM
john mosby చెప్పారు...: Is another possible explanation that even/especially honest 3rd World officials use crypto as an alternative to their countries' unreliable banks and creaky access to the global wire system?

And/or the final aid recipients, classically unbanked, use crypto as their primary finance method? CC, JSM; 05-10-26 2:31 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: Yeah, why??? I have seen some antics from women who were drunk and they were the aggressors. This is why you don't get yourself into these situations to begin with.....

link text; 05-10-26 3:02 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
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9h
Brazil just counted 116 million ballots in four hours

LA took weeks to count 850k ballots

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2106903675486847212?s=20; 05-10-26 4:30 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: Question for El-Sayed: "Sharia law says that a man who leaves Islam ought to be put to death. What do you say about that?"

I would love it if Muslims in public life would push back on the wrongs of sharia law. They damn well should not be able to sneak into public office, believing in a theology that is a direct contradiction of our U.S. Constitution. So ask the question!; 05-10-26 5:17 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: There are Muslims who take the progressive or liberal view. But El-Sayed campaigned with Hasan Piker, the hater and the terrorist fan. So this is a more than fair question.

"Do you think Muslims who leave the faith ought to be put to death?"

"Why did you campaign with Hasan Piker, who celebrates Hamas and their rapes and murders of innocent people?"

"Do you think Israel ought to be wiped off the map?"; 05-10-26 5:44 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: Brazil tired of socialism.; 05-10-26 5:51 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: Norm Macdonald tells a Bob Uecker story; 05-10-26 5:56 AM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: IEE

People believe what they want to believe.

The strain of Islam that says “Death to Israel” means it and, in Iran, has been doing it for decades. Serious stuff.

I know there is a difference between Sunni and Shia Islam, but I refuse to learn what it is. Something about who was in charge as heir after the Prophet died.; 05-10-26 5:58 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: another joke from Norm, can't find the audio

Norm described Uecker calling a baseball play-by-play normally ("Ground ball to shortstop..."), hitting the cough/mute button to casually drop an unhinged/vulgar remark ("...look at the f***in' tits on that whore..."), and immediately flipping the mic back on to finish the call ("...over to first, two outs").; 05-10-26 5:59 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: I know there is a difference between Sunni and Shia Islam, but I refuse to learn what it is.

One major difference (I think) is that Sunni Muslims believe that Muhammad married an underage girl. And Shiite Muslims do not.

I worked with a Muslim attorney, nice guy. And I asked him what he thought about Sufis. These are the spiritual Muslims, Rumi was a Sufi poet.

Boy, did he go on a rant. He really hated those Sufis.; 05-10-26 6:02 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: A Michigan kid asked El-Sayed about the evil government in Iran. I figured he was a Muslim, but he's a Christian. He's got family in Iran, and they're being chased on the streets. Now, here in the USA, his family is being threatened; 05-10-26 6:10 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: The main difference between Sunni and Shia is that after the prophet died there was a succession disagreement. There was the Sultan who most of the people followed and some relative of the prophet another group followed.

The Sultan put all of the dissenter's heads on pikes. The winners became the Sunni.

The losers became the Shia, and created a holiday where they run around and cut themselves and wave bloody shirts to remember how awful everyone else is and how they are going to kill everyone that opposes them ruling the world.

The Shia are another tribe that just needs to not be a tribe anymore.; 05-10-26 6:19 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Dave Begley said...

IEE

People believe what they want to believe.

The strain of Islam that says “Death to Israel” means it and, in Iran, has been doing it for decades. Serious stuff.

I know there is a difference between Sunni and Shia Islam, but I refuse to learn what it is. Something about who was in charge as heir after the Prophet died.

You guys need to stop punching that tar baby.

We should not give a fuck about Israel beyond whether they are useful to us or not. They should take care of themselves.

That has nothing to do with what we are doing in Iran. You people need to start studying history and stop being gullible dupes.

Chatham house designed the entire middle east starting in the early 1900's to be a festering war torn shithole. Every single country in the middle east was created with lines that boxed in several tribes of people that hated each other and then Britain put one of the minorities in charge of the country. Syria was majority sunni and kurd and they put the Alawites in charge. Iraq was minority shia and kurd and they put the sunni in charge. This pattern was repeated so that no tribe in the middle east would have control over the majority of their population and there would never be peace.

In 1948 britain created Israel but they put the Jews in a country and then moved a huge number of people into the country and called them "Palestinians." Britain created Israel to turn the Middle East into a festering war torn shithole. Putting the Shia in control of Iran and putting them over the majority Persians was just another move in this effort.

Trump is undoing all of this. This war has always been about rebuilding the post world war II consensus towards a more peaceful world.

I wish Trump would have more faith in his supporters to understand this.

I wish Trump could have more faith.; 05-10-26 6:53 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: Octavian 🇪🇺🦉
@posta_octavian
A well funded, beautiful school in a problematic neighbourhood gets named after Nelson Mandela — for racial peace diversity happiness & friendship.
The kids still burn the school down because, well, it belongs to the French state.
Liberalism is running out of arguments. The left is being pushed to the extremes just to keep the "youth" on their side.
If, IF the West renews itself, if will start here, in France.

Guillaume Herblot 🎖️
@Guigz75116
Translated from French
The inhumane conditions at Nelson-Mandela High School in Nantes. You had to see it to believe it.
Glass roof, light wood, nave of 26,000 m², positive energy. Boarding facilities with 166 beds, rooms with bathrooms, study rooms, patio.
Two gymnasiums and a climbing wall with 24 routes.
International sections, BTS, preparatory classes.
Original bill: 52 to 64 million euros, twelve years ago.
The kind of facility that would make 95 percent of French high schools turn pale.
And it’s this high school they set fire to—the lobby and glass roof—in the name of a lack of resources.
The site is closed until All Saints’ Day, classes online, restoration costs estimated in the millions.
The conditions were so inhumane that they had to set it ablaze to make them visible.

But who are they trying to fool?

https://x.com/posta_octavian/status/2106772423781552618?s=20; 05-10-26 6:54 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: More like britaim empowered haj amin abd that led to the 1920 and 1929 riots and the peele commission and lord moyne and bernadotte getting blown up thats shorthand; 05-10-26 6:58 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Israel arose in spite of the foreign office that betrsyed the hashemites and enabled ibn saud; 05-10-26 7:02 AM
Bob Boyd చెప్పారు...: Concerning:

"Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness.

The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.

The agency played down the link between the researcher’s death and her work.

“No micro-organisms associated with the employee’s professional duties were detected in samples taken from the patient,” it asserted, adding that the “epidemiological situation” in the region was stable.

Nevertheless, the agency’s head, Anna Yuryevna Popova, traveled to Irkutsk on Friday, according to the local governor, Igor Kobzev, for what he described as an extraordinary meeting of the regional anti-epidemic commission.

Regional authorities are implementing a “comprehensive set of anti-epidemic measures,” according to Maxim Modin, the mayor of the Shelekhovsky district in eastern Russia, near the Mongolian border.

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/10/04/europe/russia-laboratory-plague-accident-intl; 05-10-26 7:04 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: In another blow to the European Empire Bolsonaro is going to win in Brazil.

Not even the remnants of the USAID funded fraud can keep the socialists in power. Funny how after USAID got zeroed out socialists are getting wiped out in south and central america.; 05-10-26 7:17 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: So there's this new crime called "criminal clergy sexual assault," which makes it illegal for a priest to have sex with anybody in his church. This Catholic priest was convicted to life in prison for having consensual sex with an adult in his church. And a baby.

I find this mind-boggling, honestly. Aside from the laughable attempt by the Guardian to pile on with a "child neglect" charge because he didn't have a car seat. I didn't have a car seat, growing up. These are not crimes.

I get that he violated ethical norms, and Catholic theology. It's not rape to have sex with a woman! Do these people realize that they are saying MLK should have been sentenced to life in prison?

I call bullshit on this idea that women have no agency. You are not a child!

If your having sex with your priest, you are having sex with your priest. I call bullshit on this whole idea that you were raped by Christianity and your belief in God, and the church.

Faith was his weapon.

a serial rapist whose weapon was neither force nor fear, but faith.

You are insane prosecutors.

Odiong, a Catholic priest, sexually abused multiple women over 15 years by exploiting their devout Catholic faith

Yeah, you can't lock people up for having sex while Catholic. That's not a crime. Life in prison for a priest having sex. Get your laws off my theology. Priests can marry! I'm absolutely appalled by this.; 05-10-26 7:26 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: He has a constitutional right to the free exercise of religion, and you cannot put a man in jail based on his status as a priest. You can't create specific rape laws that only punish priests, and nobody else. And this idea of stripping adults of their agency and defining them as children who cannot consent? How is that helping anybody?; 05-10-26 7:34 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: He had sex with a baby. Sick bastard deserves life in prison and worse.; 05-10-26 7:36 AM
rcommal చెప్పారు...: I think a lot of time-scheduling for schools has more to do with the schedule of adults, not kids, at least at its origin. Just sayin'.; 05-10-26 7:36 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Saint Croix - The priest should convert to Islam. The prison doors will open for him.; 05-10-26 7:37 AM
rcommal చెప్పారు...: Sorry, I accidentally put that in the wrong thread! Carry on.; 05-10-26 7:37 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: He had sex with a baby.

Who had sex with a baby? What are you talking about?; 05-10-26 7:38 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 05-10-26 7:39 AM
Bob Boyd చెప్పారు...: @ Leland

LOL! That's the way it reads.; 05-10-26 7:39 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: Obviously, this priest should have converted to the Episcopal church, married his girlfriend, and had a happy life. I don't know why he didn't do that. But the punishment for his failure to convert to the other side of the aisle should not be life in prison; 05-10-26 7:42 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: Can’t go a thread without Muslim bashing, it’s almost like you work for a troll farm being paid to justify killing people, or you believe to be less than human, but I know that can’t be true, because, well…

There is another semitic race besides Arabs who were constantly accused of all kinds of nasty things, in the thirties, in Europe, but that was different, right?; 05-10-26 7:45 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: Okay, I get it, your mocking my post for saying he had a baby with his girlfriend. He didn't fuck the baby. Nobody is alleging that.

You think this is funny? The man raped no one. And he's sentenced to life in prison.; 05-10-26 7:46 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Jaq said...

Can’t go a thread without Muslim bashing, it’s almost like you work for a troll farm being paid to justify killing people, or you believe to be less than human, but I know that can’t be true, because, well…

There is another semitic race besides Arabs who were constantly accused of all kinds of nasty things, in the thirties, in Europe, but that was different, right?

Move to a Muslim country.

Until then you are just an intellectual coward.; 05-10-26 7:48 AM
Bob Boyd చెప్పారు...: From the linked article:

"Odiong’s path to prison began in earnest with his likening members of the LGBTQ+ community to “monkeys and chimpanzees” while preaching to St Anthony congregants at a Sunday mass in November 2023."; 05-10-26 7:48 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: “ You can't create specific rape laws that only punish priests”

In Israel they have specific terrorism laws, that carry the death sentence, that can only be applied to Arabs, probably because Jewish settlers in the West Bank would be falling afoul of them every day.; 05-10-26 7:48 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: I bet if we stopped bombing them, or fomenting coups in their countries to take their oil, like we did in Iran in 1953, a lot fewer would be showing up here, and they would not be so angry.; 05-10-26 7:51 AM
boatbuilder చెప్పారు...: Nice pic. You can almost hear the roosters.; 05-10-26 7:53 AM
Bob Boyd చెప్పారు...: No, it's not funny that the guy is in prison for having sex with consenting adults. I agree with you on that.
. But the way you wrote the comment was funny. We knew you didn't mean that, but it came out that way. We're just giving you shit.; 05-10-26 7:55 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Poor Israel hating JAQ. F off.; 05-10-26 7:59 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: Thanks, Bob

I come in hot sometimes; 05-10-26 8:00 AM
boatbuilder చెప్పారు...: "Interesting paper from the NBER, 2 to 6 cents of each us supplied foreign aid dollar is deposited is someone’s cryptocurrency account, sounds like it’s well spent."

Sounds like it's way low. I presume that's just the transaction fees for the real graft.; 05-10-26 8:04 AM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: Denise Powell is the Dem House candidate from Omaha's Blue Dot. Hot race. She had Lin Manuel-Miranda in town over the weekend and Hillary is coming to town. Surely, Warren Buffet or Susie Buffet paid both. I'm guessing $100k each.; 05-10-26 8:04 AM
James K చెప్పారు...: "In 1948 britain created Israel but they put the Jews in a country and then moved a huge number of people into the country and called them "Palestinians." "

Yikes, this is like saying "In 1776 Britain created the USA but they put Europeans in a country and then moved a huge number of people into the country and called them "Indians." "

Palestinian Jews (yes, that's what they were called) revolted against the British, and the Brits ceded control to the UN. The UN's partition plan carved out areas of primarily Jewish population to be Israel. The only reason post-1948 Israel had a substantial Arab population (no one called them "Palestinians" until they took the identity in the 1960s) was because the Arabs attacked the Jews in 1948 and lost most of the territory that had been allocated to them by the partition plan.; 05-10-26 8:05 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: Achilles actually has a kernel of fact in his screed about the Middle East. .

There’s some real history here, but it has been put through the conspiracy-theory sausage grinder. Britain and France meddled heavily in the post-Ottoman Middle East, drew problematic borders, and backed favored rulers. All true. But Chatham House didn’t secretly blueprint a century of war; France, not Britain, administered Syria; Iran’s Shi’a identity predates British involvement by centuries; and Britain didn’t manufacture “Palestinians” in 1948 Palestinian Arabs were already the majority population of Mandatory Palestine.

Imperial meddling is history. A century-long master plan to keep the Middle East at war is fan fiction. The bit about Trump finally undoing the whole thing is apparently the sequel.; 05-10-26 8:08 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: Here is the Texas penal code

the actor is a clergyman who causes the other person to submit or participate by exploiting the other person’s emotional dependency on the clergyman in the clergyman’s professional character as spiritual adviser;

another "potential rapist" is a doctor who has sex with a patient, or a former patient.

the actor is a mental health services provider or a health care services provider who causes the other person, who is a patient or former patient of the actor, to submit or participate by exploiting the other person’s emotional dependency on the actor

that's rape in Texas

you have sex with somebody who is emotionally dependent on you

they can't consent

they got the emotions and it's made them child-like and unable to say no, apparently

I remain appalled.

the actor is an employee of a facility where the other person is a resident, unless the employee and resident are formally or informally married to each other

Don't fuck the janitor, or it's life in prison

George Costanza asks, "Is that wrong?"

Yeah, apparently, life in prison.

what the fuck, how insane is this?

Texas just adding large groups of adults to the "unable to consent" dictionary.; 05-10-26 8:10 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 05-10-26 8:11 AM
Bob Boyd చెప్పారు...: I think it's pretty shocking that what made him subject to prosecution for sexual assault in TX according to the Guardian was that another woman (not the mother of his child) told prosecutors he persuaded her to have "a form of sexual intercourse" with another man. What? He's guilty of sexual assault because 2 other adults had "a form of sexual intercourse?" This is in Texas! Unreal.; 05-10-26 8:15 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: Mandatory Palestine was the name for the territory that was administered by Britain under a League of Nations mandate from 1920 until 1948, after the Ottoman Empire lost the region in World War; 05-10-26 8:16 AM
Dave Begley చెప్పారు...: Get this. I just bet $1 on Kalshi that Trump wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

If I"m correct, I win $93.; 05-10-26 8:23 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: IEE - your answers match perfectly with AI - every time.
You really are a bot.; 05-10-26 8:23 AM
Bob Boyd చెప్పారు...: At the very worst this wayward and delinquent priest should have been defrocked by the church and made to pay child support.; 05-10-26 8:26 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: AI:
"In short, “Mandatory Palestine” is the historical name for that British League of Nations mandate territory (1920/1923–1948), not a present-day state. "; 05-10-26 8:26 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: Why a booming economy is not helping Trump ~ FT
𝘚𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦-𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘐 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘵. 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 25 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘐-𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 1 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦-𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴.

In other words this GDP growth is being bought with debt both Government and Corporate. If I had a credit card with no limits and my monthly repayments could be paid off simply by adding the repayment to the credit card, I bet I would give off the illusion of prosperity too. When US Nominal GDP grows faster than Federal Government debt, I will reconsider my view. Till then, the US boom is a debt-fueled chimera.; 05-10-26 8:29 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 1920 𝘢𝘯𝘥 1948. ~ Wikipedia; 05-10-26 8:31 AM
Saint Croix చెప్పారు...: I think pro-life states ought to make it a felony to coerce an abortion. That’s a new crime. How many abortions are coerced in our society? Millions, I suspect.; 05-10-26 8:40 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Thats taking a lot of short cuts; 05-10-26 8:50 AM
James K చెప్పారు...: Another tidbit: The British prevented Jews from entering Palestine in the late 1930s and 40s, but allowed Arabs to emigrate there. Everyone knows the Exodus story, but that was 1947. In 1941 they refused to allow 767 Jewish refugees from Romania to enter from the Struma. The ship was sent back out to sea and sank (probably torpedoed by the Soviets). There was only one survivor.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/voyage-of-the-struma; 05-10-26 9:11 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: The peele commission which blamed the jews and hajamin; 05-10-26 9:15 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: And not hajamin who started the hebron riot then with fritz grobbas assistence he started the 36 uprising which brought orde wingate into this; 05-10-26 9:17 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: The Peel Commission blamed neither “the Jews” nor simply Haj Amin. It identified competing Arab and Jewish national aspirations, British policy, immigration, land purchases and Arab opposition to the Jewish National Home as causes of the revoltand concluded that partition was the most workable solution.

That distinction matters because “the Peel Commission proved the Jews were to blame” is almost as misleading as the opposite claim that it proved the Arabs were solely to blame.

The 1937 Peel Commission itself is worth reading especially Chapter XIX. It didn’t “blame the Jews”; it identified competing Arab and Jewish national aspirations, British policy, immigration and land purchases among the causes of the conflict, then recommended partition.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Palestine_Royal_Commission_report; 05-10-26 9:26 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Wikisource lol; 05-10-26 9:31 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: Narciso -- here's something for you to chew on...

US monitoring suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia, State Department official says ~ FOX News
𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦.; 05-10-26 9:33 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: I’d use the League of Nations/UN-hosted version of the original report:
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-197740/; 05-10-26 9:35 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: Another ministry of silly walks; 05-10-26 9:36 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: “Ministry of Silly Walks” is clever. But the Peel Commission report is a primary source, not a punchline; dismissing it with a Monty Python reference isn’t a rebuttal it’s an admission you lack one.; 05-10-26 9:46 AM
boatbuilder చెప్పారు...: I was playing golf one morning; our regular foursome was one short, and at one point things got backed up and we caught up with a guy playing as a single ahead of us. My buddy said "Hey, it's "Father Jim"; he's a priest--I'll tell you about him later." He invited us to play with him. Nice guy, very unlike my impression of a priest.
On about the third hole together, he three-putted from about fifteen feet and let loose some seriously unpriestly language. After about 6 holes he said he had to run and left.
My buddy explained that "Father Jim" is no longer actually a priest. One of his duties at the local parish was to provide marital counseling to couples having problems (Go figure--the Catholic Church!). He ultimately ended up comforting one particular woman "with his penis" (as Carrie Fischer said about her father and Elizabeth Taylor). It was a local scandal. He was either defrocked or voluntarily renounced his priesthood, and married the woman after her divorce. They are members of a local motorcycle club. I've played with him several times since. Nice guy, although I suspect that his wife's ex would not agree.; 05-10-26 10:01 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...: Moscow threatens nuclear response over tiny fortress wedged between US allies as clash fears grow ~ FOX News
𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘢 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘣 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦

Putin knows full well that the use of a nuclear weapon of any kind is a red line for Xi Jinping. If Putin crosses Xi he's finished.

Whenever Putin waves the nuclear threat around, I always think of Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons detonating a nuclear bomb, only for it to release a puff of smoke and disintegrate to reveal the inscription: "Best before, November 1959."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSFbfYtba64; 05-10-26 10:13 AM
Lazarus చెప్పారు...: Whatever Britain's nefarious manipulations earlier in the century, in the last years of the mandate they were trying to prevent the two sides from destroying each other and to keep the peace until a somewhat equitable resolution could be achieved.

The non-binding UN resolution proposed a division into a Jewish and Arab sector. The Arab sector was overwhelmingly Arab. The Jewish sector was 55% Jewish and 45% Arab in population. Ben Gurion and other Zionist leaders realized that was no basis for a Jewish state. Fighting began before Israeli independence was declared and the Arab states intervened. David and Goliath stories aside, the Arab forces were no match for the Israelis, all the more so since Jordan was only interested in acquiring the West Bank for itself, not in defeating Israel.; 05-10-26 10:46 AM
Narr చెప్పారు...: Yes, "Mandatory Palestine" was the name of the region administered by Britain under the League of Nations . . . Mandate.

Emily Litella had nothing on some commentors here.; 05-10-26 11:44 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: What Bob said. If you want revenge, 90% of my comments contain grammatical errors.

Otherwise, I find it interesting that Texas holds priest to that standard and not educators or bosses.; 05-10-26 1:06 PM
James K చెప్పారు...: "The Arab sector was overwhelmingly Arab. The Jewish sector was 55% Jewish and 45% Arab in population. Ben Gurion and other Zionist leaders realized that was no basis for a Jewish state. Fighting began before Israeli independence was declared and the Arab states intervened."

This glosses over important facts. The Jews under Ben-Gurion accepted the UN plan, as bad as it was, while the
Arabs rejected it.

"Fighting began" is a NYT-style euphemistic way of saying that the Arabs immediately began rioting and killing Jews, and then six weeks after the UN resolution launched a full-scale assault.; 05-10-26 2:11 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-demented-dominion-is-in-a-lather-69e?; 05-10-26 3:11 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Mandatory Palestine sounds made up. Excuse me. I've never heard of it before.; 05-10-26 4:44 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...: Mandatory Palestine sounds positively Portland.; 05-10-26 4:45 PM
Narr చెప్పారు...: Of course Mandatory Palestine sounds made up, because it was . . . over a century ago. A.k.a. Teh Palestinian Mandate

Read a history book.; 05-10-26 6:43 PM
Narr చెప్పారు...: Mandatory Palestine was just one of the territories formerly ruled by the Ottomans that the Sykes-Picot Agreement handed to the UK and France.

If the Russians hadn't abandoned the Entente it would be called the Sykes-Picot-Samsonov Agreement and Russia would have got Armenia and a chunk of eastern Turkey to have and to hold, and retained their rights as protectors of Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land.

The Brits and French even tried to tempt the US to join the party, but Wilson--leave aside the Republicans--didn't want Middle Eastern shitholes to add to the eastern European shithole problems.

It would take the discovery of Saudi oil and FDR's crush on the manly slaveowning Saudi king Faisal to pull the US into the region in the way we all love today.; 05-10-26 7:29 PM

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