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Archive for 2023
October 8, 2023
MAKE SOME EXAMPLES EARLY, THEN:
🇳🇱 This was Rotterdam today.
Muslim communities all over Europe are coming out in support of Hamas’ efforts to wage their bloody jihad against Israel and its citizens.
Everyone with a sense of reality can see it coming from miles away: the Muslim
fighting-aged males throughout… pic.twitter.com/ztyinoLHMC— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) October 8, 2023
THE ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION ARE SELF-IDENTIFYING. TAKE NOTE:
Our @CAIRNJ Communications Manager Dina Sayedahmed said: "We stand with Gazans and Palestinians as they demand dignity. We also condemn New Jersey elected officials’ statements in support of Israeli apartheid." #Gaza #Israel https://t.co/nuclJnwyJy
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) October 9, 2023
Related: China responds to Israel-Hamas conflict with a call to ‘end the hostilities.’
BOXES HAVE BEEN OPENED THAT CANNOT EASILY BE CLOSED:
This is why China, Turkey, the UN and the left wing 'Squad' in Congress are all calling for 'restraint'. They are afraid — with ample reason — that the shit will hit the fan.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 9, 2023
BILLIONS, NOT MILLIONS, BUT THE POINT IS SOUND:
Here we are 78 years after the end of the Holocaust and once agains thuggish killers dressed in black are pulling Jewish elderly, women, and children out of their homes and executing them, and then throwing their bodies into the street. But in 1945 we were fighting the SS…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) October 7, 2023
UPDATE:
Biden giving Iran $6B will rank, along with Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, as among the 21st century's dumbest-ass moves.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 9, 2023
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend with style.
SO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MSNBC AND JOSEF GOEBBELS IS MOSTLY ACADEMIC AT THIS POINT? How Israel’s far-right government fueled tensions with Hamas.
“Tensions.” Like this is a couple fighting, not a war of extermination on the part of the people MSNBC is defending.
USEFUL IDIOTS (OR WORSE): Here is the very misnamed Human Rights Watch attacking Israel for trying to enforce a no-go zone by its border with Gaza: “Both before and after the confrontations, senior officials publicly said that soldiers stationed along the barrier that separates Gaza and Israel had orders to target ‘instigators’ and those who approach the border. However, the Israeli government presented no evidence that rock-throwing and other violence by some demonstrators seriously threatened Israeli soldiers across the border fence.”
Israel argued, correctly, that these “demonstrators” were Hamas operatives trained to create a distraction for an eventual Hamas assault on Israeli border towns. As I understand it, the no-go zone eventually gave way to a “high-tech” border fence that totally failed.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China wants a lunar satellite constellation to support deep space missions.
WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT EXPERTS?: Footage of Hamas assault on civilians shows likely war crimes, experts say. Ya think?
Of course, as non-uniformed combatants who hide among civilian populations, everything Hamas does is a war crime…
STACY MCCAIN: Israel and The Godfather.
SHOCKER: Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel over Several Weeks.
Aside from the obvious motivations, Iran may be hoping that a sufficiently forceful response in Gaza will cause a split in the Israeli/Saudi alliance. That could happen, but I think it would take a lot. Israel is undoubtedly talking to the Saudis, and the Saudis don’t, by all evidence, actually much care about the Palestinians.
ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Harvard Students Stand with Palestinian Terrorists After Attack on Israel.
I SUSPECT THIS PROMOTES HYPERGAMY: Female Animals Teach Each Other to Choose Unusual Males, Research Suggests. “The new study looked at whether females’ mate choices are based on watching more experienced females choose their mates. It is well-known that animals can learn from watching others. For example, young crows learn how to make basic stick tools by watching their parents. Learning has also been shown in mate choice as females observing others with a male are more likely to choose that male themselves, or one with similar traits.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: The Future of Medicine: Artificial Life Forms.
WILL GAETZ MOVE TO SUPPLANT TRUMP? Writing in American Greatness, Thaddeus McCotter predicts the Florida Republican will be so emboldened by his success in forcing Kevin McCarthy out of the House Speakership that he will come to see himself as Donald Trump’s successor. And act accordingly.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: A decade of data describes nationwide youth mental health crisis.
HMM: Ozempic, Wegovy may be linked to stomach paralysis and other digestive issues in large-scale study.. One of my doc friends is very negative about these drugs.
SHE’S DOING WHAT SHE WAS PUT THERE TO DO: Rep. Ilhan Omar demands ‘protection from the international community’ for Palestinians following Hamas attack on Israel.
What’s Arabic for “chutzpah?”
VDH:
A 50th Anniversary War?
Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead?
And how were the…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) October 7, 2023
SELF-PROTECTION: Stay safe by paying attention to what you’re paying attention to.
THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST:
Biden Admin: "We don't know if Iran was involved."
Hamas: "They were involved."
Biden Admin: "We just don't know."
Hamas: "No really, they were involved."
Biden Admin: "We may never know." https://t.co/cUJsAaQzy0
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 8, 2023
Totally unrelated: High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington.