September 30, 2024
Tim is apparently under the weather again
Dana Mathewson
We've noticed Timothy's lack of blogging over the past few days. I tried to contact him on the phone on Sunday and the call went directly to voice mail -- not a good sign. I left a message but he did not return my call.
I will make repeated attempts to contact him on Monday. It's the best I can do. I don't have a phone number for his wife. Meanwhile, for those of you who are believers, please pray for him!
Thank you!
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September 26, 2024
Harris Already Open to Impeachment
Diane M. Kimura
Biden and Kamala Harris just flew a foreign leader into a swing state, on a military plane, during early voting of an election year, so that this foreign leader could campaign on their behalf against Donald Trump.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-probes-biden-harris-administrations-use-of-taxpayer-funded-resources-to-fly-zelensky-to-pennsylvania-to-campaign-for-harris/
This is overt foreign election interference — the direct use of a foreign power, with its own interests, to meddle in America's elections. And it's all financed with taxpayer money.
Whether Harris wins or loses, this should be considered an impeachable offense.
Biden and Kamala Harris just flew a foreign leader into a swing state, on a military plane, during early voting of an election year, so that this foreign leader could campaign on their behalf against Donald Trump.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-probes-biden-harris-administrations-use-of-taxpayer-funded-resources-to-fly-zelensky-to-pennsylvania-to-campaign-for-harris/
This is overt foreign election interference — the direct use of a foreign power, with its own interests, to meddle in America's elections. And it's all financed with taxpayer money.
Whether Harris wins or loses, this should be considered an impeachable offense.
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September 25, 2024
By the Company She Keeps
Willis Eschenbach
Noon webline on the IRS Union endorsing Kamala:
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"Kamala Harris:
Loved by The 87,000 Armed IRS Bureaucrats who Want to Harass You Over Who that $600 Zelle Payment Went To"
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Seriously, do you want ANYONE who is endorsed by the IRS Union to be in charge of America?
Noon webline on the IRS Union endorsing Kamala:
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"Kamala Harris:
Loved by The 87,000 Armed IRS Bureaucrats who Want to Harass You Over Who that $600 Zelle Payment Went To"
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Seriously, do you want ANYONE who is endorsed by the IRS Union to be in charge of America?
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Arizona High Court Says Illegals Can Vote
Timothy Birdnow
The Arizona supreme court may just have stolen the state for Harris.
Arizona to allow 98,000 who's Citizenship is not certain to vote.
Almost a hundred thousand non-citizens may decide the election in Arizona. Biden won Maricopa county by 45,109 votes in 2020, which gave him the election in the state. So this could easily swing the state - and the Presidency - to Kamala Harris.
So the state's highest court has just openly meddled in the election. The state legislature needs to impeach these clowns.
The Arizona supreme court may just have stolen the state for Harris.
Arizona to allow 98,000 who's Citizenship is not certain to vote.
Almost a hundred thousand non-citizens may decide the election in Arizona. Biden won Maricopa county by 45,109 votes in 2020, which gave him the election in the state. So this could easily swing the state - and the Presidency - to Kamala Harris.
So the state's highest court has just openly meddled in the election. The state legislature needs to impeach these clowns.
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HandicappingPennsylvania
Roy W. Spencer
Pennsylvania is possibly the most critical battleground state in the upcoming presidential election. I plotted up the Real Clear Politics survey of different polls, with each poll plotted by average date of the survey vs point spread. NOTE: Each of these poll results were done by different polling groups, so there will be biases likely involved in some of them.
Pennsylvania is possibly the most critical battleground state in the upcoming presidential election. I plotted up the Real Clear Politics survey of different polls, with each poll plotted by average date of the survey vs point spread. NOTE: Each of these poll results were done by different polling groups, so there will be biases likely involved in some of them.
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A True Hero
Stuart Liss
The movie "Hacksaw Ridge" toned down the heroism of Desmond Doss because Mel Gibson felt audiences would find it too hard to believe. After taking the brunt of a grenade blast to save his fellow soldiers on Okinawa during World War II, Desmond Doss was left with 17 pieces of shrapnel stuck in him, an injury that's shown in the movie. He waited for five hours until fellow soldier Ralph Baker was able to reach him. Baker, along with several other men, carried Desmond on a litter through an intense enemy attack.
What's not shown is that as they were moving him, Desmond saw another soldier on the ground who was badly wounded. He rolled off the litter and crawled over to patch the man up. Desmond gave up his litter to the man. While waiting for help to come back, Desmond was wounded again, this time by a sniper's bullet that shattered his left arm. He fashioned a splint out of a rifle stock and crawled the remaining 300 yards under fire, eventually reaching the safety of an aid station. He was transported to the hospital ship Mercy.
The movie "Hacksaw Ridge" toned down the heroism of Desmond Doss because Mel Gibson felt audiences would find it too hard to believe. After taking the brunt of a grenade blast to save his fellow soldiers on Okinawa during World War II, Desmond Doss was left with 17 pieces of shrapnel stuck in him, an injury that's shown in the movie. He waited for five hours until fellow soldier Ralph Baker was able to reach him. Baker, along with several other men, carried Desmond on a litter through an intense enemy attack.
What's not shown is that as they were moving him, Desmond saw another soldier on the ground who was badly wounded. He rolled off the litter and crawled over to patch the man up. Desmond gave up his litter to the man. While waiting for help to come back, Desmond was wounded again, this time by a sniper's bullet that shattered his left arm. He fashioned a splint out of a rifle stock and crawled the remaining 300 yards under fire, eventually reaching the safety of an aid station. He was transported to the hospital ship Mercy.
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Conquiste-adore
Daniel Jupp
I’m currently reading Conquistadors by Michael Wood. I’ve liked Wood for years as a TV historian. He has a real enthusiasm and warmth, and he always quotes extensively from primary sources. He comes across as a very amiable guy who loves history and he combines a nice descriptive ability with an unfussy, clear narration that’s even more evident in his writing than his presenting. He’s both eloquent and never pompous.
For all these reasons he doesn’t really push an agenda purposely, and I would never call him woke. That said, Conquistadors really shows how deeply engrained a self-hating narrative in the West is now. It sort of makes it worse that he’s so nice and is no fanatic.
Because it’s amazing the differences in how the Spanish and the Aztecs and Incas are presented. He’s unflinching in talking about the cruelties, rapes, slave taking and greed of the conquistadors, their use of torture and the odd combination of reckless courage, boundless self-belief, personal fortitude and amoral cunning that let small numbers of men achieve astonishing feats of conquest (Pizarro had just 120 men when he entered the Incan Empire, with a population of between 5 and 10 million, and overthrew it).
But the human sacrifice of the native cultures is really glossed over. The scale of Aztec sacrifice isn’t really discussed, and it was vast. The sick cruelty of it isn’t commented on either. Sacrifices to Tlaloc for instance were often children, and the standard practice was sustained torture for days before final sacrifice. Even the considerably less bloodthirsty Inca practiced regular child sacrifice, favouring ‘unblemished’ ten year olds. Woods mentions this in a single line with no judgement and no offering of Spanish commentary on it (every Spanish cruelty is judged and has an Indian comment on it).
The most neutral language is used around the Meso-American pervasiveness of ritual torture and human sacrifice and child sacrifice, and it’s far exceeded by comment on the splendid spectacle of daily life, the wonders of large city states and road systems, and the ‘nobility’ and refinement of things like Aztec poetry or courtly language. Human sacrifice is basically cast as a standard Bronze Age practice that require no additional comment and doesn’t deserve moral response, whilst Spanish cruelty does.
With this framing, the destruction of these civilisations is of course tragic, and frequently described as such. But that’s only possible to believe if you’d really have preferred it if human sacrifice lasted longer in the world. For all the savagery that the conquistadores were capable of (attacking and enslaving unarmed opponents for instance, torturing innocents for news of where gold could be found) they didn’t have a society actually built on every level on making torture and mass murder the most sacred activities possible. The conquistadores would happily burn a native ruler alive to send a message….which is foul. But when they do that it’s not buried in a longer section on the beauties of Spanish literature and dance. And it’s not compared, as it probably should be, with Aztec priests skinning children to make them weep and scream because the gods favour such sounds.
There’s only one bit where direct comparison comes, and that’s when the obsession with death in Aztec imagery, all those skinless and flayed images, all those gods of the underworld and death and war depicted in horrific fashion, is excused with a ‘it’s amazing the things you can learn to take for granted, like a tortured man on a cross’. Only there is a difference surely, in a depiction of suffering where the suffering is not the thing being celebrated, but the endurance of it on behalf of all humanity, compared with detailed depictions of human sacrifice that ARE the thing being celebrated?
It’s amazing how deep western self-loathing now goes, where we will pretend that human sacrifice and ritual torture on an industrial scale were excusable and even beautiful in a melancholy way solely because they came from non-European cultures.
The uncomfortable truth for modern ears is that all the brutality of the conquest was brief and it was better for humanity in the long run for the last civilisations still practicing human sacrifice to fall. The Aztecs managed to industrialise death to an extent that the slave trade did not equal and that would only be rivalled by technologically advanced dictatorships in the 20th century. Courtly manners and poetry don’t compensate for that any more than the music of Wagner excuses Nazi death camps.
19th century historians tended to be both more eloquent and more accurate than anyone writing today, although today of course they would be dismissed as supremacists simply because they were honest about cultures like the Aztecs. Well, maybe cultural supremacism was, on the whole, accurate, and far more accurate than this suffocating guilt combined with a frankly embarrassing soppy sentimentality about every culture that wasn’t white.
Tim adds:
Right you are Daniel! Also, slavery was ubiquitous in the New World; the Spanish did not introduce it, nor did any other European power. It could be argued that the Indians practice of it encouraged the Spanish and other Europeans to take up the practice (which also was ubiquitous in Africa at the time.)
There is a reason why these major native states fell so easily to the invading Europeans; they were despised by all their vassals because they were, well, just evil. Most of the non-Aztecs joined Cortes enthusiastically because he offered them a way out of their bondage for the first time. They preferred Spanish control to being forced to send their children to horrible ritual deaths.
Ditto in Peru. The Incans were not as bad as the Aztecs but they were brutal and ruthless.
Yes, the Spaniards did some bad things, but imagine being alone with all those potentially hostile people around them. One major misstep and they were toast! So they got carried away sometimes (and that was not usually officially approved, at least where Columbus was concerned. He was put on trial for a massacre and other malfeasance and acquitted based on the evidence. He just had a hard time controlling the men he was forced to employ.)
This is so typical of our modern era - everything from the West sucks and everything from "native" peoples was just great. They never explain whey the West was so successful and why all sorts of native peoples were desperate to come here. Why were Chinese and Japanese immigrating to America in the 1840's if it sucked so bad?
I would also point out that the Aztecs and Mayans were not even aware of the Incans, nor of the Mound Builders in the American Midwest. They did no exploring, little trade outside of their regions (Mexico or South America) and they really didn't impose a "Pax Aztec" or "Pax Mayan" in the region. They didn't explore, or make trade agreements, nor do any of the things that make a great civilization. they didn't do that because they were despots and had to struggle to hold power in their regions while being brutal. These were ruthless city states out only for their own wealth and immediate power. The subjects were just that - commodities to be wrung dry. When push came to shove nobody defended them. It was so different when Rome fell. Rome was brutal and selfish too but it offered things you couldn't get outside of Rome, which is why all the barbarians invaded it - to get a piece of the pie.There were people willing to fight for Rome. Nobody but the Aztecs or Mayans or Incans fought for those nations.
But we won't hear that from modern people. Now it's always how bad we were and how good anyone from anywhere else was.
It's the truly Big Lie.
I’m currently reading Conquistadors by Michael Wood. I’ve liked Wood for years as a TV historian. He has a real enthusiasm and warmth, and he always quotes extensively from primary sources. He comes across as a very amiable guy who loves history and he combines a nice descriptive ability with an unfussy, clear narration that’s even more evident in his writing than his presenting. He’s both eloquent and never pompous.
For all these reasons he doesn’t really push an agenda purposely, and I would never call him woke. That said, Conquistadors really shows how deeply engrained a self-hating narrative in the West is now. It sort of makes it worse that he’s so nice and is no fanatic.
Because it’s amazing the differences in how the Spanish and the Aztecs and Incas are presented. He’s unflinching in talking about the cruelties, rapes, slave taking and greed of the conquistadors, their use of torture and the odd combination of reckless courage, boundless self-belief, personal fortitude and amoral cunning that let small numbers of men achieve astonishing feats of conquest (Pizarro had just 120 men when he entered the Incan Empire, with a population of between 5 and 10 million, and overthrew it).
But the human sacrifice of the native cultures is really glossed over. The scale of Aztec sacrifice isn’t really discussed, and it was vast. The sick cruelty of it isn’t commented on either. Sacrifices to Tlaloc for instance were often children, and the standard practice was sustained torture for days before final sacrifice. Even the considerably less bloodthirsty Inca practiced regular child sacrifice, favouring ‘unblemished’ ten year olds. Woods mentions this in a single line with no judgement and no offering of Spanish commentary on it (every Spanish cruelty is judged and has an Indian comment on it).
The most neutral language is used around the Meso-American pervasiveness of ritual torture and human sacrifice and child sacrifice, and it’s far exceeded by comment on the splendid spectacle of daily life, the wonders of large city states and road systems, and the ‘nobility’ and refinement of things like Aztec poetry or courtly language. Human sacrifice is basically cast as a standard Bronze Age practice that require no additional comment and doesn’t deserve moral response, whilst Spanish cruelty does.
With this framing, the destruction of these civilisations is of course tragic, and frequently described as such. But that’s only possible to believe if you’d really have preferred it if human sacrifice lasted longer in the world. For all the savagery that the conquistadores were capable of (attacking and enslaving unarmed opponents for instance, torturing innocents for news of where gold could be found) they didn’t have a society actually built on every level on making torture and mass murder the most sacred activities possible. The conquistadores would happily burn a native ruler alive to send a message….which is foul. But when they do that it’s not buried in a longer section on the beauties of Spanish literature and dance. And it’s not compared, as it probably should be, with Aztec priests skinning children to make them weep and scream because the gods favour such sounds.
There’s only one bit where direct comparison comes, and that’s when the obsession with death in Aztec imagery, all those skinless and flayed images, all those gods of the underworld and death and war depicted in horrific fashion, is excused with a ‘it’s amazing the things you can learn to take for granted, like a tortured man on a cross’. Only there is a difference surely, in a depiction of suffering where the suffering is not the thing being celebrated, but the endurance of it on behalf of all humanity, compared with detailed depictions of human sacrifice that ARE the thing being celebrated?
It’s amazing how deep western self-loathing now goes, where we will pretend that human sacrifice and ritual torture on an industrial scale were excusable and even beautiful in a melancholy way solely because they came from non-European cultures.
The uncomfortable truth for modern ears is that all the brutality of the conquest was brief and it was better for humanity in the long run for the last civilisations still practicing human sacrifice to fall. The Aztecs managed to industrialise death to an extent that the slave trade did not equal and that would only be rivalled by technologically advanced dictatorships in the 20th century. Courtly manners and poetry don’t compensate for that any more than the music of Wagner excuses Nazi death camps.
19th century historians tended to be both more eloquent and more accurate than anyone writing today, although today of course they would be dismissed as supremacists simply because they were honest about cultures like the Aztecs. Well, maybe cultural supremacism was, on the whole, accurate, and far more accurate than this suffocating guilt combined with a frankly embarrassing soppy sentimentality about every culture that wasn’t white.
Tim adds:
Right you are Daniel! Also, slavery was ubiquitous in the New World; the Spanish did not introduce it, nor did any other European power. It could be argued that the Indians practice of it encouraged the Spanish and other Europeans to take up the practice (which also was ubiquitous in Africa at the time.)
There is a reason why these major native states fell so easily to the invading Europeans; they were despised by all their vassals because they were, well, just evil. Most of the non-Aztecs joined Cortes enthusiastically because he offered them a way out of their bondage for the first time. They preferred Spanish control to being forced to send their children to horrible ritual deaths.
Ditto in Peru. The Incans were not as bad as the Aztecs but they were brutal and ruthless.
Yes, the Spaniards did some bad things, but imagine being alone with all those potentially hostile people around them. One major misstep and they were toast! So they got carried away sometimes (and that was not usually officially approved, at least where Columbus was concerned. He was put on trial for a massacre and other malfeasance and acquitted based on the evidence. He just had a hard time controlling the men he was forced to employ.)
This is so typical of our modern era - everything from the West sucks and everything from "native" peoples was just great. They never explain whey the West was so successful and why all sorts of native peoples were desperate to come here. Why were Chinese and Japanese immigrating to America in the 1840's if it sucked so bad?
I would also point out that the Aztecs and Mayans were not even aware of the Incans, nor of the Mound Builders in the American Midwest. They did no exploring, little trade outside of their regions (Mexico or South America) and they really didn't impose a "Pax Aztec" or "Pax Mayan" in the region. They didn't explore, or make trade agreements, nor do any of the things that make a great civilization. they didn't do that because they were despots and had to struggle to hold power in their regions while being brutal. These were ruthless city states out only for their own wealth and immediate power. The subjects were just that - commodities to be wrung dry. When push came to shove nobody defended them. It was so different when Rome fell. Rome was brutal and selfish too but it offered things you couldn't get outside of Rome, which is why all the barbarians invaded it - to get a piece of the pie.There were people willing to fight for Rome. Nobody but the Aztecs or Mayans or Incans fought for those nations.
But we won't hear that from modern people. Now it's always how bad we were and how good anyone from anywhere else was.
It's the truly Big Lie.
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Gang Green Losing the Narrative
Diane Kimura
The Climate Panic Brigade is losing their narrative war, no matter how hard they jump up and down and froth at the mouth and run around screaming their heads off that ...
The world is ending unless we give them endless trillions of dollars to change the solar radiation which gives life to everything on planet Earth.
PANIC HARDER DAMMIT !
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"In recent years, particularly around mid-July (the peak of the Northern Hemisphere summer), there has been a noticeable surge in headlines featuring the "hottest day" ever on record in corporate media outlets - which is of course pushed by climate alarmist journalists citing questionable studies.
This timing coincides with hot weather, so naturally, it's quite convincing to persuade readers that the world's oceans are boiling and planet Earth will ignite into a fireball unless drastic actions are taken - such as more climate taxes, 'carbon credits,' banning cow farts, prohibiting new petrol-powered vehicle sales by X date, and pushing spending bills to procure more solar panels from China, to save the planet.
The problem is that corporate media only focuses on recent history - and not "in context" (as they love to say).
Context is particularly important when it comes to climate change - as their narrative collapses when looking at a long enough timeline.
To wit... a funny thing happened when the Washington Post tried to map out half a billion years of global temperatures and the "disaster of global warming" ...
WaPo journalists cited a new study about Earth's global surface temperatures over the last 485 million years.
In 2023, Earth's average temperature reached 58.96 F (14.98 C), well below the average 96.8 degrees F (36 degrees Celsius) the study showed around 100 million years ago.
The trend shows Earth's temperatures have been sliding [steeply downward] for 50 million years.
... Maybe, just maybe, the level of human-caused global warming doom porn pushed by the government, corporate media outlets, global NGOs, and far-left billionaires is not as apocalyptic as they make it sound.
Which of course means (and as we knew), all those idiot kids running around the West, throwing paint on private jets and artwork, and gluing their hands to highways, are doing it for nothing - and are indeed in a cult. ..."
MSM Journos Inadvertently Reveal Shocking Truth About Global Warming
zerohedge.com
The Climate Panic Brigade is losing their narrative war, no matter how hard they jump up and down and froth at the mouth and run around screaming their heads off that ...
The world is ending unless we give them endless trillions of dollars to change the solar radiation which gives life to everything on planet Earth.
PANIC HARDER DAMMIT !
—————-
"In recent years, particularly around mid-July (the peak of the Northern Hemisphere summer), there has been a noticeable surge in headlines featuring the "hottest day" ever on record in corporate media outlets - which is of course pushed by climate alarmist journalists citing questionable studies.
This timing coincides with hot weather, so naturally, it's quite convincing to persuade readers that the world's oceans are boiling and planet Earth will ignite into a fireball unless drastic actions are taken - such as more climate taxes, 'carbon credits,' banning cow farts, prohibiting new petrol-powered vehicle sales by X date, and pushing spending bills to procure more solar panels from China, to save the planet.
The problem is that corporate media only focuses on recent history - and not "in context" (as they love to say).
Context is particularly important when it comes to climate change - as their narrative collapses when looking at a long enough timeline.
To wit... a funny thing happened when the Washington Post tried to map out half a billion years of global temperatures and the "disaster of global warming" ...
WaPo journalists cited a new study about Earth's global surface temperatures over the last 485 million years.
In 2023, Earth's average temperature reached 58.96 F (14.98 C), well below the average 96.8 degrees F (36 degrees Celsius) the study showed around 100 million years ago.
The trend shows Earth's temperatures have been sliding [steeply downward] for 50 million years.
... Maybe, just maybe, the level of human-caused global warming doom porn pushed by the government, corporate media outlets, global NGOs, and far-left billionaires is not as apocalyptic as they make it sound.
Which of course means (and as we knew), all those idiot kids running around the West, throwing paint on private jets and artwork, and gluing their hands to highways, are doing it for nothing - and are indeed in a cult. ..."
MSM Journos Inadvertently Reveal Shocking Truth About Global Warming
zerohedge.com
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Totally Untrustworthy
Jerry S Rainforth
Totally untrustworthy.
"Slowly rewritten over time, the latest revisions made in June now insist that Zionism is an "ethno-cultural nationalist movement” rooted in the desire to "create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.”
"The common ideology among mainstream Zionist factions is support for territorial concentration and a Jewish demographic majority in Palestine, through colonization,” the revision further states."
Wikipedia’s redefinition of Zionism draws severe rebuke: ‘History is being rewritten’
allisrael.com
Tim adds:
Israel has always been willing to share the land. It was that willingness that to "Palestinian" Muslims appeared weak and thus made them believe (a belief they cling to to this day) that they could win it all by warfare. Had israel actually held to this definition of Zionism the Palestinians would have been forced out over time. That didn't happen as Israel always sought a "kinder, gentler" approach.
So Israel accepts a few paltry acres of ground and is immediately attacked and fights back and is then branded "Zionist" and is so called every time they defend themselves against Islamic aggression.
I would add that every country on Earth would be happy to take more land; it's what nations do. It's what Palestine is trying to do right now. They have had deals offering them everything they want but they demand Jerusalem and "from the river to the sea" meaning ALL of it.
So this whole thing is a crock. Zionism was only a very reasonable idea that Jews - homeless by and large - should go back to their ancestral homeland, a land that at the time was rather desolate and unerinhabited. Now it's being portrayed as "Leibenstraum" by a bunch of Nazis in yarmulkas. It's a damnable lie.
Wikipedia is completely untrustworthy. I never use it except to look up pop-culture stuff. I don't know why it has so much credibility, except that it always appears first in any Google search (which also has no credibility).
Totally untrustworthy.
"Slowly rewritten over time, the latest revisions made in June now insist that Zionism is an "ethno-cultural nationalist movement” rooted in the desire to "create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.”
"The common ideology among mainstream Zionist factions is support for territorial concentration and a Jewish demographic majority in Palestine, through colonization,” the revision further states."
Wikipedia’s redefinition of Zionism draws severe rebuke: ‘History is being rewritten’
allisrael.com
Tim adds:
Israel has always been willing to share the land. It was that willingness that to "Palestinian" Muslims appeared weak and thus made them believe (a belief they cling to to this day) that they could win it all by warfare. Had israel actually held to this definition of Zionism the Palestinians would have been forced out over time. That didn't happen as Israel always sought a "kinder, gentler" approach.
So Israel accepts a few paltry acres of ground and is immediately attacked and fights back and is then branded "Zionist" and is so called every time they defend themselves against Islamic aggression.
I would add that every country on Earth would be happy to take more land; it's what nations do. It's what Palestine is trying to do right now. They have had deals offering them everything they want but they demand Jerusalem and "from the river to the sea" meaning ALL of it.
So this whole thing is a crock. Zionism was only a very reasonable idea that Jews - homeless by and large - should go back to their ancestral homeland, a land that at the time was rather desolate and unerinhabited. Now it's being portrayed as "Leibenstraum" by a bunch of Nazis in yarmulkas. It's a damnable lie.
Wikipedia is completely untrustworthy. I never use it except to look up pop-culture stuff. I don't know why it has so much credibility, except that it always appears first in any Google search (which also has no credibility).
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September 23, 2024
How Would You Feel?
A Greg Delany
Ask yourself what you are For or Against. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? if these things were done to "YOU" as a political candidate.
1. Would you be Okay with your political rival spying on you?
2. Would you be Okay with the FBI falsifying documents about you, "If you were an American Naval intelligence Officer working for the CIA as an informer and the FBI lied about you and your position to obtain a wire tape?”
3. Would you be Okay with your political rival paying for a false document from a Bias foreign intelligence agent to PURPOSELY smear your name?
4. Would you be Okay with the heads of the CIA, FBI, DNI, The Ambassador to the UN and the Attorney General of the US, "Unmasking Intel from the NSA to obtain information about 16000 American Citizens, for the purpose of spying on your campaign?”
5. Would you be Okay with the Head of the FBI and DOJ trying to use a hidden microphone in private meetings to prove you are unstable and therefore unfit to serve your country after you were elected?
6. Would you be Okay with the Media accusing you of lying?
7. Would you be Okay with the Media accusing you of being a foreign agent?
8. Would you be Okay with the Media accusing you of being a racist?
9. Would you be Okay with the Media accusing you of being Unstable and incompetent no matter what decision you make ?
10. Would you be Okay with the Media using photos from two years prior to your election to prove you purposely caged and separated children from their parents at an immigration facilities that Obama built to use for that purpose?
11. Would you be Okay with the Opposition Party of the Legislative branch of the Government openly saying they are going to try and impeach you on the Day you won your election?
12. Would you be Okay with the Media trying to convince Americans their life and their economy is terrible, even though you were responsible for the biggest economic turn around in US History?
13. Would you be Okay with the media and the opposition party inventing a false claim against a Good and Just Judge you nominated to the Supreme Court?
14. If you had promised America you would get fair trade and make our Allies in NATO pay their fair share and the Media ignored your accomplishments
Ask yourself what you are For or Against. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? if these things were done to "YOU" as a political candidate.
1. Would you be Okay with your political rival spying on you?
2. Would you be Okay with the FBI falsifying documents about you, "If you were an American Naval intelligence Officer working for the CIA as an informer and the FBI lied about you and your position to obtain a wire tape?”
3. Would you be Okay with your political rival paying for a false document from a Bias foreign intelligence agent to PURPOSELY smear your name?
4. Would you be Okay with the heads of the CIA, FBI, DNI, The Ambassador to the UN and the Attorney General of the US, "Unmasking Intel from the NSA to obtain information about 16000 American Citizens, for the purpose of spying on your campaign?”
5. Would you be Okay with the Head of the FBI and DOJ trying to use a hidden microphone in private meetings to prove you are unstable and therefore unfit to serve your country after you were elected?
6. Would you be Okay with the Media accusing you of lying?
7. Would you be Okay with the Media accusing you of being a foreign agent?
8. Would you be Okay with the Media accusing you of being a racist?
9. Would you be Okay with the Media accusing you of being Unstable and incompetent no matter what decision you make ?
10. Would you be Okay with the Media using photos from two years prior to your election to prove you purposely caged and separated children from their parents at an immigration facilities that Obama built to use for that purpose?
11. Would you be Okay with the Opposition Party of the Legislative branch of the Government openly saying they are going to try and impeach you on the Day you won your election?
12. Would you be Okay with the Media trying to convince Americans their life and their economy is terrible, even though you were responsible for the biggest economic turn around in US History?
13. Would you be Okay with the media and the opposition party inventing a false claim against a Good and Just Judge you nominated to the Supreme Court?
14. If you had promised America you would get fair trade and make our Allies in NATO pay their fair share and the Media ignored your accomplishments
15. If your job entailed, making sure you did not give aid to countries
that were not spending the aid money for the purpose it was given, and
you found corruption on the part of your Government in past financial
aid. Would you just turn your eyes away and ignore it or try and get to
the bottom of the corruption.
16. If you promised America you would
expose and bring to justice widespread corruption and perversion in you
government. Would you stop when the corrupt and perverted try to stop
you and the complicit Media smear your name because they are guilty too?
17. If your military has worked with our ally Turkey in the past, to
avoid American Casualties in Iraq and Syria. They ask you to pull back
from the border area so they can attack the PKK terrorist group working
in the area. Would you ignore them and risk casualties because the
Media is calling you a traitor?
18. If you hunted and killed the
two most dangerous terrorist in the world and the Media claims you
assassinated them and the Hollywood clowns start apologizing to foreign
despots for America's actions. Would you be silent of praise the
actions of our magnificent military.
19. When our Embassy comes
under attack in Iraq. Would you worry about starting WW3 and do nothing
like America did in Benghazi or would you send in the Devil Dogs and
secure the Embassy?
20. Now that you have survived the stolen
election and the many false trials to prevent you from running for
office. They seek to kill you to prevent you from stopping their agenda!
There are too many more question like this to add.
If this had been your election and the full weight of the Government
under the oppositions control and the corrupt , bias Media, tried to
undo your election result because they did not get the result they
wanted.
You would be pissed off too!
We now see just how far this Counterfeit Corrupt Marxist Machine will go to destroy America.
The Media is all praise for the Unfit Usurper that stumbles his way into trouble every day and embarrasses America !
Every action this Counterfeit Regime takes is designed to destroy our Constitution and our Economy!
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Apologies for Light Blogging
Dear readers (all three or four of you)
I have been a bit under the weather this weekend and haven't been up for blogging. Apologies.
Hopefully I'll be back in the saddle by tomorrow; feeling much better.
Tim
I have been a bit under the weather this weekend and haven't been up for blogging. Apologies.
Hopefully I'll be back in the saddle by tomorrow; feeling much better.
Tim
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September 21, 2024
Trump More Popular Than Taylor Swift
Timothy Birdnow
Trump is more popular than Taylor Swift according to a New York Times/Sienna/Philadelphia Inquirer poll.
Swift, who endorsed Harris, seems to have hurt herself by backing the glue factory nag.
According to Breitbart:
Trump is more popular than Taylor Swift according to a New York Times/Sienna/Philadelphia Inquirer poll.
Swift, who endorsed Harris, seems to have hurt herself by backing the glue factory nag.
According to Breitbart:
The poll results, which were released Thursday, showed 47 percent of respondents had a favorable opinion of Trump while 44 percent viewed Swift favorably. More than 2,400 likely voters were surveyed for the poll.
The results are the latest indication that Taylor Swift’s recent endorsement of Kamala Harris is failing to live up to the hype.
The results are the latest indication that Taylor Swift’s recent endorsement of Kamala Harris is failing to live up to the hype.
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The Cowardly Teamsters
Timothy Birdnow
ChuckSpandrel calls out the Teamster leadership for it's cowardice in not endorsing Trump as most members want.
Charles Spindler: Teamsters Dismiss Membership Mandate
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ChuckSpandrel calls out the Teamster leadership for it's cowardice in not endorsing Trump as most members want.
Charles Spindler: Teamsters Dismiss Membership Mandate
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Harris: a Nugatory, and Otiose Blatherskite
Michael Smith
I have tried to find a word more interesting word for our illustrious Vice President and her penchant for trying her best to exceed her 8th grade vocabulary and brain.
Of course, moronic c**t is accurate but a bit too far into the camp of the vulgar.
I must admit I am rather fond of "blatherskite", a person who talks at length but says little of substance.
Perhaps a bit pretentious, but quite descriptive.
Tim adds:
How about nugatory, and otiose? They mean of little value, inconsequential, shallow. I find that to be Kamala in a nutshell.
I have tried to find a word more interesting word for our illustrious Vice President and her penchant for trying her best to exceed her 8th grade vocabulary and brain.
Of course, moronic c**t is accurate but a bit too far into the camp of the vulgar.
I must admit I am rather fond of "blatherskite", a person who talks at length but says little of substance.
Perhaps a bit pretentious, but quite descriptive.
Tim adds:
How about nugatory, and otiose? They mean of little value, inconsequential, shallow. I find that to be Kamala in a nutshell.
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Trump Campaign Hacked by Iran?
Diane M. Kimura
Per Politico, FBI reveals that the Harris campaign on the Trump campaign from Iranian hackers.
Tim adds:
The Harris campaign is now claiming they have not used the information. Color me skeptical.
More likely they had nothing they could use against Mr. Trump - or if they did they are saving it for an October Surprise.
I have a question; did Iran hack the Trump campaign or did they get some help from our own government? At this point I wouldn't put anything past these people we call our "public servants".
Per Politico, FBI reveals that the Harris campaign on the Trump campaign from Iranian hackers.
Tim adds:
The Harris campaign is now claiming they have not used the information. Color me skeptical.
More likely they had nothing they could use against Mr. Trump - or if they did they are saving it for an October Surprise.
I have a question; did Iran hack the Trump campaign or did they get some help from our own government? At this point I wouldn't put anything past these people we call our "public servants".
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September 20, 2024
The Shroud of Turin Does Date to Christ
Timothy Birdnow
The Shroud of Turin does indeed date to the time of Jesus, according to new reseach using a new technique. Previous dating using radiocarbon suggested the shroud dated to the Middle ages.
FTA:
The technique measures the natural aging of flax cellulose and converts it to time since manufacture.
The team studied eight small samples of fabric from the Shroud of Turin, putting them under an X-ray to uncover tiny details of the linen's structure and cellulose patterns.
Cellulose is made up of long chains of sugar molecules linked together that break over time, showing how long a garment or cloth has been around.
To date the shroud, the team used specific aging parameters, including temperature and humidity, which cause significant breakdown of cellulose.
The scientists obtained small samples of the shroud of Turin (left) and exposed it to Wide-Angle X-ray radiation to create an image of the linen sample (right) which was used for dating
The scientists obtained small samples of the shroud of Turin (left) and exposed it to Wide-Angle X-ray radiation to create an image of the linen sample (right) which was used for dating
What is the Shroud of Turin?
The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot-long linen cloth with a faint image of a crucified man.
The image on the shroud is believed to reflect the story of Jesus' crucifixion, giving rise to the belief that the cloth is the burial shroud of Jesus himself.
The authenticity of the shroud has been frequently brought into question over the years but there are also many studies claiming to validate its origin.
It is considered to be one of the most intensely studied human artefacts in history.
Since it first emerged in 1354 Vatican authorities have repeatedly gone back and forth on whether it should be considered the true burial shroud.
The shroud is currently stored at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin but is only publicly displayed on special occasions.
Based on the amount of breakdown, the team determined that the shroud of Turin was likely kept at temperatures at about 72.5 degrees Fahrenheit and a relative humidity of around 55 percent for about 13 centuries before it arrived in Europe.
If it had been kept in different conditions, the aging would be different.
Researchers then compared the cellulose breakdown in the shroud to other linens found in Israel that date back to the first century.
'The data profiles were fully compatible with analogous measurements obtained on a linen sample whose dating, according to historical records, is 55-74 AD, found at Masada, Israel [Herod's famous fortress built on a limestone bedrock overlooking the Dead Sea],' reads the study published in the journal Heritage.
The team also compared the shroud with samples from linens manufactured between 1260 and 1390 AD, finding none were a match.
'To make the present result compatible with that of the 1988 radiocarbon test, the Shroud of Turn should have been conserved during its hypothetical seven centuries of life at a secular room temperature very close to the maximum values registered on the earth,' the study reads.
Lead author Dr Liberato De Caro said in a statement that the 1988 test should be deemed as incorrect because 'Fabric samples are usually subject to all kinds of contamination, which cannot be completely removed from the dated specimen.'
'If the cleaning procedure of the sample is not thoroughly performed, carbon-14 dating is not reliable,' he added.
The Shroud of Turin does indeed date to the time of Jesus, according to new reseach using a new technique. Previous dating using radiocarbon suggested the shroud dated to the Middle ages.
FTA:
The technique measures the natural aging of flax cellulose and converts it to time since manufacture.
The team studied eight small samples of fabric from the Shroud of Turin, putting them under an X-ray to uncover tiny details of the linen's structure and cellulose patterns.
Cellulose is made up of long chains of sugar molecules linked together that break over time, showing how long a garment or cloth has been around.
To date the shroud, the team used specific aging parameters, including temperature and humidity, which cause significant breakdown of cellulose.
The scientists obtained small samples of the shroud of Turin (left) and exposed it to Wide-Angle X-ray radiation to create an image of the linen sample (right) which was used for dating
The scientists obtained small samples of the shroud of Turin (left) and exposed it to Wide-Angle X-ray radiation to create an image of the linen sample (right) which was used for dating
What is the Shroud of Turin?
The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot-long linen cloth with a faint image of a crucified man.
The image on the shroud is believed to reflect the story of Jesus' crucifixion, giving rise to the belief that the cloth is the burial shroud of Jesus himself.
The authenticity of the shroud has been frequently brought into question over the years but there are also many studies claiming to validate its origin.
It is considered to be one of the most intensely studied human artefacts in history.
Since it first emerged in 1354 Vatican authorities have repeatedly gone back and forth on whether it should be considered the true burial shroud.
The shroud is currently stored at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin but is only publicly displayed on special occasions.
Based on the amount of breakdown, the team determined that the shroud of Turin was likely kept at temperatures at about 72.5 degrees Fahrenheit and a relative humidity of around 55 percent for about 13 centuries before it arrived in Europe.
If it had been kept in different conditions, the aging would be different.
Researchers then compared the cellulose breakdown in the shroud to other linens found in Israel that date back to the first century.
'The data profiles were fully compatible with analogous measurements obtained on a linen sample whose dating, according to historical records, is 55-74 AD, found at Masada, Israel [Herod's famous fortress built on a limestone bedrock overlooking the Dead Sea],' reads the study published in the journal Heritage.
The team also compared the shroud with samples from linens manufactured between 1260 and 1390 AD, finding none were a match.
'To make the present result compatible with that of the 1988 radiocarbon test, the Shroud of Turn should have been conserved during its hypothetical seven centuries of life at a secular room temperature very close to the maximum values registered on the earth,' the study reads.
Lead author Dr Liberato De Caro said in a statement that the 1988 test should be deemed as incorrect because 'Fabric samples are usually subject to all kinds of contamination, which cannot be completely removed from the dated specimen.'
'If the cleaning procedure of the sample is not thoroughly performed, carbon-14 dating is not reliable,' he added.
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Air Force Plot to Discriminate Against White Men
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. Air Force plots to reduce number of white male officers.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/19/exclusive-new-docs-shed-light-air-force-reduce-white-male-population-joining-officer-ranks/
Yes, they actually had a plan in place to discriminate against white men. The plan called to reduce white male ROTC candidates from 60% to just 43%.
And the armed services wonder why they are having trouble meeting their recruitment goals!
The U.S. Air Force plots to reduce number of white male officers.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/19/exclusive-new-docs-shed-light-air-force-reduce-white-male-population-joining-officer-ranks/
Yes, they actually had a plan in place to discriminate against white men. The plan called to reduce white male ROTC candidates from 60% to just 43%.
And the armed services wonder why they are having trouble meeting their recruitment goals!
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Democrats: Trump Staged the Assassination Attempt
Timothy Birdnow
Almost half of all Democrats think Trump staged the second assassination attempt.
You can't make this stuff up.
Given the Secret service actually fired shots at the guy how do they explain that away? Trump does not control the Secret Service.
Is it any wonder America is sliding down the toilet, with people like this as a sizable chunk of the electorate?
Almost half of all Democrats think Trump staged the second assassination attempt.
You can't make this stuff up.
Given the Secret service actually fired shots at the guy how do they explain that away? Trump does not control the Secret Service.
Is it any wonder America is sliding down the toilet, with people like this as a sizable chunk of the electorate?
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