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(1) The worse-than-worthless UN is heard from:

A resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, which made no mention of Hamas, was overwhelmingly passed by the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, drawing praise from the Islamist terror group and condemnation from Israel.

The UN has been part of the problem for decades.

(2) Robert Card, the Lewiston mass murderer, has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It is not at all unusual for mass shooters to kill themselves, so this was the most likely ending to his rampage. The community endured about two days of uncertainty, though, until he was found – by a dumpster near a recycling plant where he had once worked in Lisbon Falls, Maine.

(3) Denmark is tackling its problem of lack of assimilation of immigrants. The approach sounds both intriguing and very controversial:

Denmark’s new policy mandates integration in low-income neighborhoods inhabited by mostly “non-western” immigrants through reeducation, demolition, and policing.

The goal: a massive social engineering project to dismantle immigrant enclaves and force integration into Danish society. The policy will require young children from these neighborhoods to spend 25 hours a week in preschools to learn the Danish language and values.

In practice, the policy will look an awful lot like gentrification in the US, only driven by the government. Residents of low-income neighborhoods, where at least half the population is of non-Western descent, will be forced to leave their homes, and thousands of apartments will be sold to private investors and demolished. In their wake, housing catering to wealthier residents will be built to incentivize social mixing.

Critics are calling the policy ethnic discrimination and say it is unnecessary in a country where the generous welfare system minimizes income inequality, crime, and poverty. Nevertheless, it has broad support across the political spectrum.

With the welfare state comes more central control of people’s lives. I am actually quite surprised that this intervention has “broad support across the political spectrum,” but I think that desperation is the reason. Something must be done to improve things, and this is the plan Denmark has devised.

(4) Jonathan Turley on the AP’s absurd, offensive, and obscenely amoral refusal to call Hamas terrorists.

(5) John Kirby manages to get something right:

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Roundup — 71 Comments

  1. Kirby is responding to a question concerning innocent civilian casualties in Gaza? Do I get that right?

    What became or becomes of any mention of the rain of intended rocketfire DEATH down upon Israel going on every single day since Hamas began this war, day after day, night after night?

    Is it not plain, is it not unconscionable to complain to the Israelis of unintended civilan casualties in Gaza all while Hamas and Hezbollah fire willy-nilly at any person in Israel be they citizen, guest worker, or visitor there, Arab, Jew, Christian, Druze, Bedouin, Thai, whomsoever?

    It’s fucking appalling, this clownshow of preening going on.

  2. Meanwhile, percolating in the regime so hugely implicated in this whole mess that its pal and supporter—and protector—in DC dare not speak its name…

    “Israel prepares for war on multiple fronts;
    “Iran is threatening to attack Israel through its terror proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.”—
    https://www.jns.org/israel-prepares-for-war-on-multiple-fronts/

    + Bonus (with some “rather fascinating” insights):
    “Stronger Action Needed Against Iran”—
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20102/stronger-action-needed-against-iran
    Key “rather fascinating” insight:
    “The Biden administration, it appears, has been funding both sides of two wars: Hamas’s invasion of Israel, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

    “Seems”, he says…
    (Gosh, why might “Biden” do anything like THAT…?)

  4. The Danish approach sounds very sensible, particularly the part about requiring Danish language and culture instruction for immigrants and their children. We have a Swedish friend who for years denied there were “no go” zones in his country, and is now awakening to what denial has wrought.

  5. Oligonicella: I assume you mean the UN.

    Agree wholeheartedly. I’ve been wishing for years that a Republican administration would find the balls to tell them the lease is up and won’t be renewed. This isn’t 1959 and we’re not that country anymore. Find somewhere else to squat. The Democratic Republic of the Congo would be appropriate. Or Yemen. Or Somalia.

    Won’t happen, unfortunately. In the same category as wishing they’ll get around to defunding NPR and the Department of Education.

  6. Will the Danes insist on their drinking Akvavit or Kirschwasser? Possibly not a problem though, come to think on it.

  7. ToI, “Netanyahu evades question on whether he bears responsibility for Hamas massacres”: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-evades-questions-on-whether-he-bears-responsibility-for-hamas-massacres/

    He is asked whether his government’s judicial overhaul distracted attention from addressing security challenges, and says the legislative proposals to weaken the courts are “no longer on the agenda,” and that the leaderships’ disagreements have been resolved.

    The premier also defends a 2011 agreement to release over 1,000 Palestinian terror prisoners in exchange for captive soldier Gilad Shalit, while denying his policies have strengthened Hamas. “There were some very difficult things in it,” he says regarding the Shalit deal, adding the day will come to debate its wisdom.

    The political left is focused. “Don’t let a crisis go to waste”, the watchword.

    Hostage families, desperate to recover their loved ones, in some instances do not scruple to allow their heart-rending stories to be put to use, and useful those are indeed. And its only just kicking into gear, much worse is yet to come.

  8. Re Kirby:

    VDH in his interview by Glick basically says that because a large majority of the public and even some Democrats support Israel, the administration is basically forced into their support. They hate it and will try to wiggle around, but are caught in a political bind.

  9. We visited Denmark way back in 2006. Their immigrant problem was obvious then. Some Danes were incensed that the Muslims refused to assimilate but the Muzzies didn’t mind taking support money. Apparently, enough Danes have gotten incensed enough to do something about it.

    Victor Davis Hanson has just written an essay about our own assimilation problem. He’s absolutely right.
    ttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/victor-davis-hanson-premodern-diversity-vs-civilizational-unity/ar-AA1iV3Wq

  10. well do the best mili vannili impression, but they are clearly playing for the other team, what we have seen looking over the oslo era, this was a bad deal for israel, giving up the northern approaches in 2000, and gaza in 2005 just made things worse, imagine if they had given large parts of judea and samaria, how much worse would this be, for Hamas would have taken over there,

  11. The Biden regime and its Jewish supporters are awakening to the harsh reality of the lust for Jewish blood on their side of the spectrum. Life is mostly for awareness, which in Kali Yuga is often harsh.

  12. the jewish supporters should have, but personnel makes policy, so this was the result they wanted

    kind of a broken record, but everything they touch they destroy, they persecute the regional allies most likely to have backed up israel, with petty gestures

  13. Apropos of the Maine shooter: I remember Neo’s comment from several days ago that Lewiston has a sizable Francophone population. Now that the names of the dead have been released, I noticed that five of the people Card killed have French-sounding names: Asselin, Deslauriers, Morin, and Violette (two people, a husband and wife in their 70s). Of the 18 dead, 16 were males, the oldest being 76 and the youngest a boy of 14, killed alongside his father.

    May they all rest in peace.

  16. A (potential?) changer observed during the metamorphosis process?

    Matt Taibbi: “I gave votes to the party for thirty years. Which elected Democrat would have performed basic constituent services in my case? Feel free to raise a hand. If silence is the answer, why should I ever vote for a Democrat again?”

    https://www.racket.news/p/thanks-to-a-politician-who-did-his

    BEGIN PASTE

    Thanks, to a Politician Who Did His Job
    When the IRS visited my home, Jim Jordan actually did something about it. Why couldn’t I call a Democrat?
    Matt Taibbi
    Oct 28, 2023

    A new report about IRS home visits has just been released by the House Weaponization of Government Committee, chaired by Ohio congressman Jim Jordan. It outlines disturbing issues, including confirmation that IRS agents making home visits may come without warning, using aliases, and without informing local enforcement agencies of their presence.

    One of the cases outlined is my own. My home was visited by the IRS while I was testifying before Jordan’s Committee about the Twitter Files on March 9th. Sincere thanks are due to Chairman Jordan, whose staff not only demanded and got answers in my case, but achieved a concrete policy change, as IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel announced in July new procedures that would “end most” home visits.

    Anticipating criticism for expressing public thanks to a Republican congressman, I’d like to ask Democratic Party partisans: to which elected Democrat should I have appealed for help in this matter? The one who called me a “so-called journalist” on the House floor? The one who told me to take off my “tinfoil hat” and put greater trust in intelligence services? The ones in leadership who threatened me with jail time? I gave votes to the party for thirty years. Which elected Democrat would have performed basic constituent services in my case? Feel free to raise a hand.

    If silence is the answer, why should I ever vote for a Democrat again?

    END PASTE

  18. In re Denmark:
    ==
    1. Process asylum claims thus: (1) take the claimant into detention, (2) call in a legal aid lawyer, (3) take a DNA swab from the claimant to get a fix on his most likely point of origin (to be used in conjunction with his documentation and oral testimony), (4) ascertain the route he took to arrive in Denmark, (5) hold a hearing where there’s an airing of all the available evidence, (6) deny the claim unless the claimant can show he (a) was already present in Denmark on other business when his situation at home changed or (b) Denmark was the first place he landed when he high-tailed it out of his home country, (7) if you deny the claim, put him on a plane to a country proximate to his point of origin. If the claim is not denied, the man’s immediate household back home would also be granted asylum.
    ==
    2. Any time you detect a possible illegal alien, (1) take them into custody. (2) call in a legal aid lawyer, (3) take a DNA swab from the claimant to get a fix on his most likely point of origin (to be used in conjunction with his documentation and oral testimony), (4) hold a hearing where there’s an airing of all the available evidence; (5) if it be determined he is present legally, indemnify him for his time behind bars; (6) if he is determined to be unlawfully present in the country, impose a penalty for the offense and send him back to jail. (7) at such time as his sentence is up, deport him and debar entry into the country of any reason for a term of years.
    ==
    3. Make preventive detention the order of the day for any alien properly arrested for a suspected public order offense. If no information or indictment is ultimately secured, or if charges are dropped, or if he be acquitted, indemnify him for time spent behind bars. If he be convicted of an offense and his time in detention exceeds the sentence, indemnify him.
    ==
    4. If he be convicted and have additional time to serve, leave him in prison for his full sentence. It should be public policy that aliens are categorically denied parole and are never offered alternatives to incarceration for penal code offenses bar corporal punishment. At such time as his sentence is complete, suspend his right of domicile for a term of years and deport him. If he wishes to return, he has to pass a background check and (if he has been gone more than four years), a proficiency test in Danish. If he’s later found to have deceived consular officials, jail him and impose criminal penalties for that, including suspension of right of domicile.
    ==
    5. Any alien lawfully present and working earns credit for so doing, prorated for p/t employment. He earns credit for himself, credit for his wife, and credit for any child or ward under 14. He works for a quarter, and a quarter’s worth of credit accrues to all of these parties. He earns a half-quarter for any child or ward between the ages of 14 and 21. An adult woman working earns credit for herself and partial credit for any child or ward equal to (1-r) where ‘r’ is the credit her husband has earned on their behalf. When a person has accrued 48 credits worth of full-time work, they are to be treated as if they were a native citizen for purposes of access to common provision. Certain welfare benefits are offered as the credits you accrue pass certain milestones and a few (e.g. access to legal aid lawyers) you receive right off the boat. Access to common provision is earned incrementally.
    ==
    6. Do not subsidize people’s mundane expenditures. Large-scale sectoral subsidies should be limited to medical care, long-term care, and schooling. Small scale subsidies should be available for legal services and shipping and transportation. Deductibles and co-pays should be the order of the day for medical care and (contingently) for long-term care. Everything else a household purchases should be acquired with their cash income at market prices.
    ==
    7. One implication of that is that no more than about 6% of the population should be in the pool eligible for housing provided by public agencies or corporations, most of these would be due berths in institutional group quarters, and many of those so eligible would elect to make other arrangements or live in such housing only seasonally. Public housing would be prisons, asylums, barracks, dormitories, &c, seldom family-style housing.
    ==
    8. Any extant public housing is properly sold at public auction. Any rent controls applicable to any sort of housing should be eliminated incrementally by allowing market rents on units vacated due to evictions of abusive tenants, allowing market rents on units voluntarily vacated, limiting succession to controlled units to spouses of a deceased tenant and disabled children in residence of a deceased tenant, and providing for landlords to make a registered purchase of a tenant’s right to a controlled rent via a lump sum payment. In the interim, allow rents in any commuter belt to rise pari passu with annual increases in nominal income per capita in said commuter belt.
    ==
    9. In regard to income transfers and cash indemnities paid out in installments, finance them as a rule with payroll taxes, recording the work credits accrued and expended. Insist workmen’s compensation be a business expense financed by employers with actuarially-rated premiums. Have unemployment compensation financed half out of payroll taxes and half out of actuarially-rated premiums imposed on employers. Finance chintzy disability benefits for those disabled from an early age out of income taxes, but require in re aliens that they have accrued sufficient work credit on behalf of their disabled relation to be eligible. Finance veterans’ benefits out of income taxes (recalling you have to be a veteran to receive them). Have tax rebates which function as income supplements for the elderly and disabled and matching funds for earned income for everyone else, but require that the rebates paid to aliens be a function of work credits accrued. Bar these tax rebates, income transfers should be limited to the elderly or the disabled, and the definition of disability should not include anxiety disorders or mood disorders.
    ==
    10. Leave only a residue of anti-discrimination law. In service provision, it should apply only to services rendered by government agencies, government corporations, natural monopolies, and a selection of commercial enterprises providing services for travelers. In employment, it should apply only to public sector institutions (with the burden of proof on the plaintiff), natural monopolies, and commercial companies whose hiring, promotion, and disciplinary standards are governed by collective bargaining agreements. In workplaces, certain activities which map to common crimes like extortion and harassment should be defined as tortious, with individuals liable and companies sometimes liable.
    ==
    11. Any child found on oral (or written and oral) examination to not be proficient in Danish should be immediately remanded to Danish immersion programs and not returned to common-and-garden classrooms until he can pass a proficiency test. No exceptions. If the child has to board to attend such an immersion program, so be it. Do not provide common-and-garden instruction in any language but Danish, whether at the primary, secondary, or tertiary level.
    ==
    12. Limit the issuance of temporary residency visas to (a) accredited employees of foreign governments, (b) authentic refugees, (c) students and teachers, and (d) dependents of these. Have a moratorium on the issuance of educational visas until such time as the stock of temporary residents falls to about 23,000. When you resume offering them, limit the issuance of educational visas such that the stock of temporary residents bounces around a set point of 24,000.
    ==
    13. Limit the issuance of settler’s visas to 7,300 annually. Require that every person over the age of 14 pass a written and oral proficiency test in Danish before they are permitted to enter. Require that applicants from one of 27 problem countries either prove they are from a confessional minority in that country, apply jointly as an older and established married couple, or apply en bloc as a nuclear family. Have preferences only for Danish citizens who wish to adopt a young child from abroad and Danish citizens who have a fiancee from abroad (examining the latter applicants very skeptically). Everyone else is in a single global queue.
    ==
    14. Limit naturalization to persons who have the status of ‘settler’ or ‘denizen’, who are at least 25 years of age; and who can demonstrate that there have been periods in their life when all of the following were true simultaneously, and that these periods account for a majority of their natural life: they were a palpable resident of the country, they were in the country lawfully, they did not have a formal domicile in another country, they were not incarcerated (or on probation or parole), they were not under an order of civil commitment (or an adult guardianship). Require they pass a proficiency test in civic knowledge given in Danish, that they sign a statement under oath renouncing their citizenship in each foreign country to which they have a claim to citizenship (with copies sent to consulates), and that they swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen of Denmark.
    ==
    15. Consequent to a constitutional amendment, retrospectively review every naturalization granted after 1965. Any person who does not on the date of their review meet all of the criteria necessary to take the citizenship test under the new dispensation would have their status downgraded from ‘citizen’ to ‘settler’. Retrospectively review the status of every person born in Denmark without citizen parents in that time, and, if they were not formally subject to examinations and oaths subsequently, downgrade their status to ‘denizen’. With respect to this last review, if a person suffers loss of naturalization or would have suffered such had they not died in the interim, he would be deemed to have been an alien at the time of the birth of any children. Also, require all naturalized citizens to sign statements renouncing their citizenship in any foreign country to whose citizenship they have a claim.
    ==
    16. Expand your police forces and deploy them optimally. They’re optimally deployed when in every precinct, the effect on public order of an additional increment of police manpower is about the same.
    ==
    17. Make incarceration the default penalty for penal code offenses. Make no use of community service, conditional discharge, unconditional discharge, or ‘restorative justice’ hoo ha. Use fines, restitution, and forfeiture only as supplementary penalties. Make use of probation only for defendants under 25, in re the younger the offender, the higher the share of the penalty for which probation is substituted for the standard sentence of imprisonment. Prescribe incarceration for youths as young as nine (with young convicts grouped in compounds containing only 2-4 age cohorts) and make use of ordinary courts for all defendants. Alternatives to incarceration for penal code offenses would be limited to corporal punishment and capital punishment.
    ==
    18. Have formulae determining criminal sentences incorporated into statutory law and leave judges only two bits of discretion: (1) whether or not to ratify a plea bargain and (2) one vote of three in a judge-and-assessors panel convened to make factual determinations which define arguments in sentencing formulae (e.g. amount of money stolen, drugs possessed &c).
    ==
    19. Have shortish determinate sentences in prisons with few amenities (bulgar wheat the modal foodstuff, no television, no internet, no weight room, no vocational training, no factories, no conjugal visits, convicts in individual cells about the side of a train’s sleeping car). Grant parole some time after half the pronounced sentence has been served. Have juries of prison system employees undertake blind reviews of a convict’s disciplinary record, and make parole determinations on that basis.
    ==
    20. Structure income tax liability to favor the fecund. Have a broad definition of taxable income, with no sectoral preferences incorporated in the code. Define a filer’s liability is a flat % of one’s taxable income, less one’s payroll tax withholdings, less a dollar-value credit (adjusted annually with the change in nominal personal income per capita) for each member of the household. Those whose calculated liability was negative would be due a net rebate. For the elderly and disabled, the rebate would be capped at a particular percentage of personal income per capita in the country, for others, it would be capped at a particular % of their earned income. Affordable family formation.
    ==
    21. Scrap land use regulations which unduly inhibit real estate development, minimum lot sizes and greenbelt sequestrations specially. Affordable family formation.
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    22. Issue vouchers redeemable at public schools and tuition-free private schools alike. Allow parents to return the vouchers in return for a partial refund of their direct school taxes if they wish to home school or make use of tuition-charging private schools. Have general voucher issuance for primary and secondary schooling and rationed issuance for tertiary schooling, with examination performance determining entry into the ration pools. Parental sovereignty, affordable family formation.
    ==
    23. Scrap certain regulations which bloat expenses associated with child rearing. (e.g. the effect of car seat requirements on the size of vehicles you have to purchase). Affordable family formation.
    ==
    24. Have cohort-specific retirement ages which are adjusted according to the population pyramid throughout your worklife and then freeze when you hit 55. The ratio of the elderly beneficiary population to the working population should bounce around a spot value. Limit the degree to which you finance the old at the expense of the young.

  21. (2) Interesting point about the dubious efficacy of manhunts:
    https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/10/28/maine-shooters-location-had-been-searched-twice-before-finding-his-corpse-n2165635
    “Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck said the teams scoured the Maine Recycling Corp. property that features as many as 60 trailers on Thursday night. He said another state police team returned to the site Friday and found Robert Card’s body in a trailer that hadn’t been searched.“

  22. Another good word… 😀

    kakistocracies /k?k??-st?k?r?-s?, kä?k?-/
    Plural form of kakistocracy

    noun
    1 — Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
    2 — Government by the worst men in the state: opposed to aristocracy, government by the best men.
    3 — Government by the worst men.

  23. I stopped at 1. Not here to read a book
    ==
    It would amount to about four pages of typescript. That’s a letter.

  26. Would love to see the UN kicked out. Sell the property to the Trump organization. Would be awesome to see Trumps name across the top of the building.

  27. Re: Denmark, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.”

    Instead of learning the local language and customs and applying their time and energy to useful work, Denmark’s welfare system enables pampered immigrants to cling to the dysfunctional cultures of their countries of origin.

  28. RE: AP.
    Are these decisions made by committee, or by a single person?
    Who are the people making the changes, and how are they selected?

  30. @ Art Deco

    • Nice work.

    • Are any of the 24 items in place today – Denmark, elsewhere – or are they proposals?

    • If asked to categorize the proposals – by Concern, Opportunity, etc. – which proposals would fall into which categories?

    • Do you have an ’80/20 Plan’? ^^

    • Thank you for sharing.

    ^^ = A plan that targets the implementation of proposals/ actions that will provide the most benefit (see 80/20 Rule, Pareto Principle).

  31. From the Harsanyi article:

    But Obama’s most corrosive legacy is foreign policy. Democrats have become obsessed with turning Iran into a regional counterweight to Israel…

    The English language lacks a proper term for this level of stupidity. Israel is a democracy, not expansionist, and an ally of the U.S. – they need no “counterweight”.

  32. But try to look at it from Obama’s POV.
    The problem is, How’re you gonna get a Palestinian State?
    The answer is, Yer not…since the Palestinians want all of the land between the River and the Sea(TM).
    BUT you HAVE TO KEEP STRESSING the “two-state solution” (which is really the one-state solution as far as the Palestinians are concerned and the no-state solution as far as Israel (RIP) is concerned.)

    Nonetheless, you have to TRY to force the “two-state solution” (which sounds so reasonable) on the Israelis. You have to DO YOUR BEST.
    How are you gonna do that?
    You’re gonna have to convince/persuade/coerce/force Israel to withdraw to the May 67 cease-fire lines—call it “justice”, call it “responsibility”, call it “the only road to peace”, call it what you want.
    But how’re you gonna DO that.
    You’re gonna need a “counterweight”. That is, yer gonna have to find a way to strengthen Iran, hoping that the threat from Iran will force Israel to “do the right thing”.
    (IOW force Israel to agree to commit suicide.)

    Only then will you be able to FULFILL the solemn commitment you gave to Rashid Khalidi that glorious evening…long ago…in LA….

    Yeah, you really HAVE TO TRY to look at it from Obama’s PO

  33. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-biden-hold-latest-phone-call-about-war/

    Earlier, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN that Biden would stress “the need for the IDF to make every possible effort to distinguish between terrorists and Palestinian civilians during the ground operation in Gaza.”

    “There have been deaths of thousands of Palestinian civilians in this conflict and that is an absolute tragedy,” Sullivan said. “Those people did not deserve to die. Those people deserve to live lives of peace and safety and dignity.”

    Jake Sullivan is a disgrace to the United States and an open enemy of the State of Israel.

  34. sdferr, I’m not so good at timely snappy responses, but how about an IDF spokesman saying, “Gee Jake, we’re not so good at making that distinction. Can we count on you to come over into Gaza and point them out for us? Pretty please?”

  35. Billy Budd’s natural response to Claggart’s accusations come to mind, Bill. And we see of course Israel in Budd’s position should she emulate him, so much the worse off, I reckon.

    To slip reference then, a Scylla/Charybdis “son-of-a-bitch . . . who’s got to take it in the neck this time, Odysseus?”

  37. I suppose Bibi could say something along the lines of…
    “Whaddaya talkin’ about Jake? This is the most peaceful period the Middle East has experienced in the past 20 years!… You mean, it’s not? What are you telling us? We took your word for it!!”

  40. sdferr:

    From your link, then to “X” (Twitter0

    Visegrád 24
    @visegrad24
    BREAKING:

    A lynch mob has stormed the International Airport in Dagestan, Russia to search for Jewish passengers as a plane from Tel Aviv is landing.

    Putin’s propaganda has been heavily targeting Jews in recent days.

    Thousands of angry men on site.

    Nothing to see, Vlad not involved!

  42. Kabul airport, you forgot that already jake, dagestani who are avars, where the Chechens went for round 2

  43. Well sure, Russian muslims, yet my memory has big brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev living in and after leaving there, traveling back to Dagestan where he pcked up training, if not his radicalization ab initio.

  44. and the russians tipped off the bureau and the company, and yet they were surprised by Dzokhar, (who was named after the first Chechen President,)

  47. Frankly, the people who use ‘X’ should still be called “twits”, because only an idiot thinks that every idea can be covered, much less solved in 250-odd characters, or even a concateny of same.

    The response, “tl;dr” should be reserved for things that aren’t filled with useful information.

  48. and yet the times can write 10,000 words and say nothing of importance, or many things wrong,

  54. oh they are already stark raving mad, with tom nichols, john diggler schindler and another crazy woman,

  57. My rule of thumb for comments is a screenful or less of text, two at the most.

    I’m interested in conversation, not essays.

  58. @ miguel – on the other extreme (sort of) from Qatar
    https://www.memri.org/reports/syrian-opposition-members-syrian-regime-hypocrisy-it-massacred-palestinians-syria-weeps
    “It Massacred Palestinians In Syria, But Weeps Crocodile Tears Over Palestinians In Gaza…The condemnation of Israel and its war on Hamas by the Bashar Al-Assad regime in Syria has been ridiculed by members of the Syrian opposition, who argued that the Syrian regime – which killed thousands of Syrian-Palestinians, including women and children, imprisoned hundreds, and displaced hundreds of thousands – has no right to weep for the bitter fate of Palestinians in Gaza.

    According to opposition members, since the war in Syria began in 2011, the Assad regime has attacked dozens of hospitals and hundreds of schools, and is even now attacking civil infrastructure in northwestern Syria. Therefore, they contend, its show of concern for Palestinians in Gaza is hypocritical, and any Palestinian hope for assistance from it will be in vain. Further, some oppositionists even called for supporting Israel rather than Syria if a war should erupt between them.”

  59. MEMRI is keeping the receipts.
    https://www.memri.org/reports/special-announcement-%E2%80%93-hamas-atrocities-documentation-center-hadc
    “MEMRI has launched the Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center (HADC), which will provide historical documentation for the years to come, for academic and educational purposes.

    Since we cannot post these horrific graphics and videos on Meta platforms, we will provide verbal descriptions of them, and make the videos available for viewing on the MEMRI Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center account on Telegram.”

    As of 10/29 they have archived 80 accounts of the killings by Hamas, some involving multiple victims.

  63. Perhaps this link should have been in the “Sharing Food” post.
    Or perhaps not.
    In any event, let’s call it, “Sharing Food for Thought”, or more specifically in this case, “Sharing, Selflessly, One’s Gender”…

    …as Andrea Widburg “shares with us”(TM) another piquant column…
    “Men Are Taking Over Women’s Brazilian Jiu Jitsu”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/men-are-taking-over-womens-brazilian-jiu-jitsu
    Opening grafs:
    ‘ I’ve been saying for a long time that the transgender takeover of women’s sports is going to end only when women stop competing against them.
    ‘ It makes sense that this retreat from competition is happening in Brazilian jiu-jitsu (“BJJ”), which is a close-contact sport in which women can get hurt, unlike racing. At a recent women’s BJJ competition, men completely dominated the event, with some events having only male competitors.…. [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]

    Time, indeed, to get the forks out.

  64. Barry Meislin:

    As in “stick a fork” in the transgender “women” in women’s sports, because one of them is completely done, over?

  65. there is a community of mountain jews in the caucasus, it was something I found out about in act of valor, it may have been remarked on here, at the films release,

  68. them too, but baku is pro israeli whereas armenia is pro iran, you can’t tell the players without a program,

  69. Iranian ministers were threatening Azerbaijan over the Azerbis’ alliance with Israel within two days of Oct. 7th, saying in effect “We’re coming for you, too. You’re going to fall.”

  71. it is unnecessary in a country where the generous welfare system minimizes income inequality, crime, and poverty.

    Bwahahahaha!!!!!

    Are they kidding me? A generous welfare system does the exact opposite. It makes people more dependent on everyone else. The above statement is the epitome of the progressive thought process.

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