It’s a Friday in the Realm, and I am here in my Hunker-Bunker at 0500 Pacific working my fingers to the bone to provide you the headlines that caught my eye, seasoned by my stupid commentary as a chaser. I had to go far and wide this morning to find something that didn’t provoke a “meh’ in me.
First, the Headlines that Caught My Eye This Morning:
1. U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter
2. Israel’s Army Is Ready to Invade Gaza. Its Divided Government May Not Be.
3. Grandson of ‘Dear Abby’ to Take on Biden in Primary
4. Court Rules on Law Requiring Sterilization for Gender Change
5. Iran’s foreign minister: Armed groups are poised with ‘their finger on the trigger’
6. A federal judge says Georgia’s political maps must be redrawn for the 2024 election
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Not much to work with here… could one of you go out and do something to make some news?
Next, My Stupid Commentary Based Solely On the Headlines:
Remember, I haven’t actually read the articles attached to the headlines. I may have heard the story on the radio
, but other than that, I am just winging it here. I could be totally correct, or spectacularly wrong. That’s the fun here.
1. “Unexpected” GDP Growth. From my personal POV, this past fiscal year was making up for the previous two years of a shrunk economy. This past quarter was phenomenal in the hospitality industry here in Seattle.
Did Joe Biden do that? No, of course not. It’s fun to claim it, but that wouldn’t make it so. He neither promoted the growth nor stood in its way. I said this during the Bush administration, the Obama administration, the Trump administration and I am repeating it again now: current administrations have very little to do with the performance of the immediate economy. It usually takes 4-8 years for the policies of an administration to effect the economy. It’s only the unexpected disasters that will immediately effect the economy. Like a global pandemic shutting down the global supply and trade.
2. Israel will go when Israel is ready. The longer they wait, the more Hamas burns through the fuel they use to provide ventilation in their ‘underground city’ of tunnels. THIS is the goal of Israel: go after the tunnels to eradicate Hamas. Then, they have to figure out a way to prevent them from digging more tunnels after this is over. One idea I heard was to drill a series of tunnels from the sea running vertical across the width of Gaza. Any attempt to tunnel would cause that tunnel to flood.
As much as Israel would love to completely obliterate Hamas, they cannot do it without killing tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, which would cause an escalation in the war, and the loss of support of many of Israel’s current allies. It is also sure to draw the US into the conflict.
Talk about red-headed step-children, the Palestinians are the one group in the entire world that NOBODY wants. For all the rhetoric among all the Arab nations over the past 70+ years, there isn’t a one of them who want to take the Palestinian people in as their own. Israel can’t even GIVE the Gaza strip to Egypt as long as there are Palestinians on it.
3. I would be happy to see an organized slate of challengers to Biden. But some guy nobody has heard of?
If the 2024 presidential ticket was Biden v. Trump, then I’d vote for Biden, just like 60 percent of the population who do not want to see Trump as president ever again. But if it were Biden v. Anyone Else? I’d have to give the “Anyone Else” a good, hard look. It would be a hard “NO” on RFK Jr. or DeSantis, but Haley…? Scott? Someone young, without baggage, and well, normal?
I like Biden because he isn’t doing anything. Oh, he does manage to gargle out a few statements that will rile some people looking for things to be riled about, but if you actually see what it is that BIDEN is doing, it’s really not all that much. Biden could take a nap from 0900-1100 and again from 1300-1500 and nobody would notice. It’s because Biden is actually acting “presidential”. He’s delegated all of his work to his cabinet, which is what an effective executive does: delegate. The bad executives don’t delegate, and they try to do everything themselves, up front, to gain ALL of the ‘credit’. Those types of executives usually end up with all the blame in the end.
I have a confession: I have never sat down and listened to Joe Biden address anyone since he’s become president. He might as well be speaking Klingon — it doesn’t matter to me. It’s all rhetoric. I’m more interested in what he is doing or not doing. More importantly, what is he doing or not doing that is effecting MY life personally. Right now? I’m good. There is no such thing as “utopia”, so “the promise of a better future” is just a slogan. We make our own happiness, not some elected clown.
4. Japan wanted to sterilize transsexuals? Gender reassignment surgery does that by default. There is no going back from that.
5. Iran is being bombastic. But they do have to be very careful and not actually cause more of the groups they finance and supply to fly off the handle and enter the fray. Iran has a lot more to lose than they can ever gain.
6. Georgia, like Alabama, aren’t drawing political maps as much as they are trying to reduce the influence of their black populations. A politically-drawn district is like the one that Gym Jordan represents. Apparently that’s considered ‘constitutional’.
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I was surprised that I like Irrational, but then I am…irrational. 😀
Yeah, I stumbled across it yesterday, and wound up watching all five of the available episodes in one sitting.
While the story itself is fiction, the series is based on a non-fiction book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely.
Regular as clockwork, I’m notified of the status of my ballot. The system works flawlessly.
Videos, eyewitness accounts and the IDF reveal the Gaza residents who followed Hamas terrorists into Israel were mostly “young men with knives, overweight dads, and at least one elderly man on crutches,” confirms an investigative report from the Washington Free Beacon.
“The second wave of Arabs who came into the country were just as cruel as the terrorists of the first wave,” Eshkol Regional Council mayor Gadi Yarkoni told the publication. “We saw that it was not only Hamas who came to slaughter us. It was all the residents of Gaza, including people who worked in our kibbutzim.”
“According to a video that was posted online, Gazans used a bulldozer to tear down a section of Israel’s border fence, and hundreds of unarmed men and boys—wearing T-shirts, baseball caps, sneakers, and flip-flops—crossed into the country. They came mostly on foot but also by bicycle, scooter, and motorcycle. Someone appears to have brought a donkey. Other online videos show ordinary Gazans taking selfies on and around Israeli tanks and ransacking a military base on the border. All the while, cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’ rang out.”
A former Israeli commando, Rax Cohen, survived Hamas’ attack on the Nova music festival, where hundreds were killed.
He said in the report he hid in a bush with friends for almost seven hours, and watched as “Gazan civilians,” men “wearing Adidas and armed only with knives and axes,” raped and murdered a woman.
“They always laughed. I can’t forget how they laughed,” he told the Free Beacon.
Let them all be bombed into smithereens, along with all their supporters, including college students and various actors who are now dead to me.
Hamas needs to be neutralized and eliminated with prejudice, along with any other like-minded group or organization being supported by Iran, Russia, and China. You will not get a different argument from me. But while Hamas is made up of Palestinians, this does not mean that all Palestinians are Hamas, or even support Hamas.
There are roughly two million human beings in Gaza. Of that number, roughly 40 thousand of them are Hamas, who have run roughshod over the civilian population for decades, being financially supported and supplied by Iran, and to some extent, Russia and China. If you subtract the current Israel component out of the equation and it leaves roughly 1.96 million Palestinian civilians who have also been a victim of Hamas.
While I try to keep my emotions out of my comments, I do share your alarm and anger over this mess. My initial response was to nuke that entire region and move on. I felt that maybe that was too much, so I thought about gassing Gaza. But then that wouldn’t have a good look in Israel, so maybe Napalm? That would be a bit biblical, wouldn’t it? It was only after about an hour before I started thinking about the 1.96 million other people in Gaza. The Palestinians without all the guns. Or food. Or fuel. Or water, because Hamas diverted it all and horded it underground. These people are also hostages of Hamas.
Am I not supposed to give a shit about them?
There is no easy, clean solution to this. There never has been, and as long as there are the three Abrahamic religions all making a claim to the “Holy Lands” and who is to control it, there never will be. Not without your Armageddon. It always has been a land of conflict and atrocity, and always will be.
Thought for the Day:
Since 60% of them support Hamas, since they joyfully joined in to the mayhem, and since they teach them from birth to hate Jews and even train them militarily from the time they’re 6 years old, then I don’t care about them AT ALL. The only thing Middle Easterners, and by that I mean Muslims, understand is strength. Jews and Christians live together without problems, it is only Muslims who demand that the Middle East be Judenfrei and Christianfrei, indeed when the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem visited Hitler in Berlin, Hitler took inspiration from him. So, since they can’t live with other people, get rid of them. Let them live with their own kind and stop trying to take over the world.
You’ve got your numbers reversed.
A recent Washington Institute poll conducted in July 2023 had the following findings:
Other recent polling tells a similar story. Now, if you go back a couple of years, there had been a rise in approval for the political arm of Hamas, but that support has pretty much dried up even before October 8th.
Fourteen percent of Americans support Hamas. But then, Americans tend to be pretty damn stupid:
Only 60% of Americans believe in evolution.
More than half of Americans don’t trust the Big Bang theory.
Only 46% of Americans are confident that vaccines don’t cause autism.
41% of Americans believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted.
26% of Americans believe they won their independence from a country OTHER than Great Britain.
Half of Americans believe in a conspiracy theory.
19% of Americans believe that humans will be able to control the weather within a few decades.
More than one forth of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth.
27% of Americans believe that winning the lottery is a good financial plan.
45% of Americans believe in ghosts.
More than a third of Americans believe aliens exist and…
79% of Americans think the US government has kept some secret information about UFOs.
37% of Americans believe the FDA is intentionally withholding natural cures from the public because of pressure from drug companies.
Truth be told, I don’t care about anyone in that region. If I found that I was somehow left in charge of the World, I would nuke the entire region without hesitation, just to put an end to the argument once and for all. You cannot reason with religious zealots, so why bother?
Prolly a good reason why I don’t run the world, huh?
a large majority of Palestinians appear to support Hamas militants’ brutal weekend attack on Israel.
the breaking news of the surprise Hamas eruption had prompted celebrations on the streets of Ramallah, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, where people distributed sweets to gathering crowds.
In Gaza, however, they are widely seen as a breach in the Israeli-built wall that has trapped residents for 16 years and condemned them to victimhood.
[If only Israel had trapped them. Instead they let hundreds in on work permits, and these “workers” mapped out houses and attack points. It’s HAMAS who keeps them prisoner.]
“It may not be aligned with international law, but, for the first time, Palestinians here in Gaza do not feel helpless.” – journalist Hind Khoudary,
Oh, and by the way, WHO is sending THOUSANDS OF ROCKETS EVERY DAY into Israel?
Officials told Arab media that their goal was an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. WHAT OCCUPATION? THE ISRAELIS LEFT GAZA IN 2005 AND IT HAS BEEN UNDER PALESTINIAN CONTROL EVER SINCE.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2023/1010/In-Gaza-a-different-view-of-the-Hamas-raid-on-Israel
Also, here are some more:
News/Commentary
HUGE pro-Hamas London protest prompts concerns: ‘How are Jews meant to stay in the U.K.?’
https://twitter.com/i/status/1718269340837990647
The Jew haters also closed down the Brooklyn Bridge and defaced a synagogue in Brooklyn. They have been tearing down posters of the abducted.
Now they’re not for Hamas. They don’t regret the attack, they were all for that. It’s the CONSEQUENCES they don’t like. The biggest hypocrites in the world.
This is what Muslims do: