For another sort of fun: here’s CNN on the shooting at the CDC in Atlanta. Notice the way the blame is shifted to Trump and Kennedy.
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Why did the shooter allegedly target the CDC?
After speaking with family members of the suspect, police are operating under the hypothesis he was either sick or believed that he was sick and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine, a law enforcement official told CNN.
The CDC, one of the world’s leading health agencies, is tasked with protecting the health of Americans. But it has come under fire during the second Trump administration as conspiracy theories continue to plague the vaccine credited with halting the spread of the global pandemic.
The shooting occurred on the same week that US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – a longtime critic of Covid vaccinations, with a history of spreading vaccine misinformation – announced the cancellation of a half-billion dollars in investments in mRNA projects.
—– https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/09/us/atlanta-cdc-emory-university-shooting-hnk
Alex Berenson on an alternative explanation for this shooter’s descent into madness and murder. He was a regular cannabis user; he’d had repeated run-ins with Las Vegas police in recent years; his mother said he was suicidal. The shooter’s theory that he was ill because of CTE from high school football is unlikely to be true.
Taking a leap into analogy: how many people see the news like these illusions – some see only one interpretation, others see two (not always the same two!), and those that only see one cannot be convinced to see the other without a lot of work.
However, once the illusion is broken, you can no longer NOT see both sides.
(Note: seeing a viewpoint does not entail agreeing with it, and some can be ruled out by objective facts — if the viewer believes in facts — whereas illusions are objectively both true simultaneously.)
Of the two familiar (to me) illusions in the video, I have never been able to see the blue/black dress, but the old/young woman is an illusion-book standard.
The horse/woman is the only other one I missed completely, and got all the others within the time limit. Some took a few seconds longer than others.
IMO the skull/girls was the cleverest.
the vaccine credited with halting the spread of the global pandemic.
Credited by whom? Does anyone actually make the argument that the vaccine stopped the spread of COVID?
Nothing “halt[ed] the spread” of COVID. It reached every corner of the earth. It mutated itself out of dangerousness. The most that can be claimed for the vaccine is that it may have reduced the severity of illness for some people.
P.S. I can’t see the woman/horse one at all. That’s just a horse. I think they’re punking us.
Re: ChatGPT 5 is out
I’ve been taking it for a spin though I’m not trying to trick into going Skynet on the East Coast.
Chat 5 is a refinement, not a breakthrough. Which suits me fine. It goes deeper, it holds a long conversation better, and it’s not as mechanical sounding. It’s advertised as being less prone to hallucinations. I haven’t seen any so far.
On benchmarks it’s a step up from the previous Chats.
I saw a person (me) staring!
Amit Segal: “Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says that for the first time since the start of the war, he has lost faith that Netanyahu can and wants to lead the IDF to a decisive victory in Gaza.” https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1954253788790878387
Implying at least a partial victory of the OlsoFanBoi faction of Israeli politics, to the extent that the political leadership in Israeli govt acceeds to the sovereignty of the IDF and judiciarchy of the state. Pity, should this partial victory result in a debilitating fracture of the governing coalition, the thing most devoutly desired on the minority left in Israel if or insofar that fracture can result in the ouster of Bibi Netanyahu, which latter is their most cherished aim. That left (nominally “the Kaplans” in current parlance) would prefer to allow Hamas a win than allow Netanyahu to remain and victorious to boot.
So details of the Trump/Putin peace plan for Ukraine are beginning to emerge:
1) Russia keeps the vast amount of territory it has seized in 11 years of warfare (with the exception of some small segments of disjointed territory in Sumy and Vovchansk). Russia will “temporarily” hold this territory for 49 years (giving Russia the chance to fully Russify it) before a decision is made on permanent transfer.
2) Ukraine will hand over without a fight the large swath of the Donbas that Russia has sor far been unable to take. This territory includes several large cities and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens.
3) Ukraine will hand over to Russia the heavily fortified defensive lines that mark the boundary of the front line. Thus, when Russia breaks the ceasefire, it will have a heavily fortified line from which to attack. Ukraine will have no defensive positions between the front line and the Dnieper River, making an additional 30% of Ukrainian territory undefendable should Russia break the truce.
4) Sanctions will be immediately lifted, allowing Russia to rebuild and modernize its military with Western technology.
5) Russia will pass a law that will make it illegal for Russia to invade Europe or the rest of Ukraine. (Stop laughing. Witkoff actually negotiated this.)
These terms were decided in bilateral meetings between Trump’s team and the Russians. Neither the Ukrainians nor the Europeans were even present.
Since the Ukrainian constitution forbids the government from giving up Ukrainian territory, Trump’s strategy is for him to make a deal with Putin and then force Ukraine and Europe to accept it. To this end, America has already cut off arms shipments to Ukraine, even those already paid for.
If the lives of millions of people weren’t at stake, the ridiculousness of these terms would be hilarious. But millions of lives are at stake, so the comedy is, as they say in the movie business, unintended.
mkent:
If I were you, I’d wait for official word instead of relying on the press’s unnamed sources.
…where “Over Time” can be up to three years, which is supposed to be comforting, I guess…
Huh???
RE: Tommy Robinson
Because of his views, and his fearless espousal of them, Tommy Robinson has been, and is, a very controversial figure in the UK, with the government arresting and imprisoning him—some eight or more times—for those views—trying, in every way they can, to intimidate and to silence him.
But fearless Robinson continues to speak out.
Linked below is a long interview with him on the subject of his belief that “The British Public is Ready for a Revolution.”
P.S. From the coverage I’ve seen, here and there, the British government has arrested Robinson on the flimsiest of charges, locked him up in the most violent jails they can find and, is perhaps hoping that something “unfortunate” might happen to Robinson in one of these violent prisons.
@Aesop Fan: “once the illusion is broken, you can no longer NOT see both sides.
… Of the two familiar (to me) illusions in the video, I have never been able to see the blue/black dress, but the old/young woman is an illusion-book standard. …
The horse/woman is the only other one I missed completely … ”
Well, I had seen the young/old women one before and had seen both views, but this time I just could not get my mind to see the young women version within those 10 seconds, which was frustrating since I knew I had solved it before.
Agree on the blue/black dress and I missed the horse/women view, too.
But, @Jamie, I did see the women once it was identified as the other view to see, but I suspect that display does require the photograph to be at just that angle – a change of a few degrees either side of the horse’s head and that women might disappear, too. Is that cheating?
Sunday morning Open thread:
Here’s a very interesting lady with some views on what should happen to those of us with the idiotic notion that Trump is a good president. Courtesy of Drudge.
What a shame. The WSJ has another noteworthy lead editorial and I can’t seem to find a free version. Not a sexy topic, but an important one. Here it is for those with access.
Trump Is Right on ‘Debanking’- Regulators have abused their power to cut off political opponents.
Banks admit to de-banking, though they fault their regulators. Much as Biden officials pressured social-media companies to censor dissenters during the pandemic, bank examiners have pressed banks to cut off certain groups, businesses or individuals.
Starting in the mid-1990s, financial regulators started considering “reputational risk” in grading banks for safety and soundness. If a bank provides services to an unsavory business, examiners could sanction it. During Operation Choke Point, Obama regulators pushed banks to cut off gun retailers and payday lenders by deeming them reputational risks.
Legislation is the best way to stop another Operation Choke Point. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has introduced a bill to prohibit financial regulators from considering reputational risk, and Reps. Andy Barr and Ritchie Torres have offered a bipartisan companion bill in the House. Perhaps Mr. Trump could broker a bipartisan deal.
Violations of the Bank Secrecy Act can lead to penalties of hundreds of millions of dollars, so banks close accounts to protect themselves. Even Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren acknowledges this problem, saying that banks “may be taking shortcuts when it comes to assessing risks” rather than “identify true criminal risks and shutting down those accounts.”
Those outtakes do not appear continuously in the editorial FYI.
Speaking of the WSJ, this appeared in the weekend Review section, and it is on a topic that has perplexed me for some time:
Why the Far Right Hates Churchill
– The accepted historical narrative of the past 80 years—that it was morally right for the U.S. and the U.K. to fight and destroy the Third Reich—is now under assault. https://archive.md/217pN
Churchill has long been hated by the left, blamed for opposing socialism and communism, breaking Britain’s general strike of 1926, supporting the British Empire and so on. Yet lately a new and particularly virulent strain of Churchill-hatred has broken out on the ultraright on both sides of the Atlantic, where he is blamed for a quite different set of supposed crimes.
Meanwhile in Britain, many representatives of the right-wing populist Reform Party have similarly demonized Churchill. Ian Gribbin, a general election candidate, posted on the Unherd website that “Britain would be in a far better state today had we taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality…but oh no, Britain’s warped mindset values weird notions of international morality rather than looking after its own people.”
Again I’ve taken liberties with the excerpts. The conclusion of the author, which seems reasonable to me since I have to latch on to something reasonable:
So why is the ultraright targeting Churchill?
In the simplest terms, it is because his practical aims and principles as a leader of the West were directly opposed to the new strain of isolationism in America and Britain. Today’s revisionists project their views about Iraq, Afghanistan and now Iran backward through history and denounce the leading global interventionists of yesteryear. They blame Churchill (along with Franklin Roosevelt) for “escalating” the conflict with Hitler and thus associate him with any effort to confront today’s aggressive tyrants.
“…though they fault their regulators…”
Only “following orders”, eh?
Well THAT’s certainly “convenient”….
– – – – – – – –
As for the “reconsideration” of Churchill, I’ve long believer that Covid has driven huge swaths of people insane…(either that or a combination of Covid AND the ubiquitous instantaneity of both social media together with a seriously warped, twisted, corrupt—and saturating wall-to-wall Media…).
ironically, had churchill had prevailed, probably the territory in the mandates might have prevailed longer, he was also a Judeophile, unlike Attlee,
Tucker is one of those who focused on the debanking phenomena as well as other unpersonings,
the problem is with leftists who want to disarm the people, cripple the churches and destroy the institutions that stand in their way,
would Churchill have welcomed millions of persons from the colonies, like MacMillan did, with his experience in India and the Sudan probably not,
had Clinton and Obama not been snuck under the camel’s tent, well things might not have gotten this way, not that W for instance had any real objection,
Liz Warren is another who’se firewater is nasty,
now is Ian Gribbin really any figure of influence rather then say Lammy or the odious Diane Abbott, not too mention Jeremy Corbyn
who determined the reputational risk, frankly george soros should have been starved of capital, as far back as the mid 90s, after all he enabled the crash of the Pound, as one of his Duke and Duke wagers, but he bought the stage, and for a generation or longer, called the tune, it was instructive how the Open Society was a tax scheme incorporated in South Africa of all places, first, like the Hydra of Marvel infamy it coopted government agencies and academia all over the world,
he funded the likes of Bill Ayers in his various schemes, to cite one example, frankly Ayers and co, should have dealt with more finality in many ways as it was with many of the progressives, who have set to consume the nation, in a world where the late David Horowitz would have had more purchase then the wretched Tom Hayden is he still around,
not that it matters,
It’s not even a tiny bit peculiar that — fielding a question from a Cherman journalist in his press conference/public relations campaign today — PM Netanyahu referred to the Chamberlain-Hitler Munich Conference and posits that public pressure for “peace” may sway leaders elsewhere but that, Netanyahu said, “is their” problem, not Israel’s problem: Israel’s problem is to defeat the Nazis in Gaza utterly and not leave them in place in “Berlin” to rule, to regroup, to rearm and to begin all over again with the war,
like Samuel Jackson’s* character said ‘you say peace, but you mean the other thing’
Israel was at peace on October 6th, we must remember
‘freedom is life’s great lie’ another notion that the left seems to believe, take fareed Zakaria and Flathead Friedman, Taibbi almost in spite of himself, takes the opposite view as does Alex Berenson, is there a major opponent of statist overreach at the two leading newspapers the Times and the Post, not that I can tell,
it took Bill Ackman to smell the frog pot in the Hamas protests, to notice what was going on,some people still don’t get it,if we are to believe the polls out of Gotham,
*he has shown in real life, he believes crap trap like every good progressive,
The Israeli Supreme Court instructed the government on Sunday to submit a focused response that would justify its policy regarding the end of the war and returning the hostages who are being held by terror organizations in Gaza.
A petition submitted by the Hostages Families’ Forum stated that the main goal is not to obligate the government to agree to end the war, but to demand that it provide a detailed justification for its policy so it could “pass the public test.”
Justice Khaled Kabub ruled that the response must address the question of how and to whom the government must justify how it exercises its discretion in setting the conditions for ending the fighting and releasing the hostages.
According to the ruling, the government must submit its response by August 24th, 2025.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Yariv Levin responded: “By what authority, and by what right, Judge Khaled Kabub, do you seek to intervene in the Israeli government’s discretion in managing the war in Gaza? I tell you clearly: this is not your authority! Those who do not respect the law and the government’s powers should not expect to be respected or have their decisions honored.”
Hilarious, were it not so on the money exact.
i didn’t they could could get more ridiculous hold my ale,
@ miguel – quoting your link “The British Muslim Trust (BMT) — led by the Aziz Foundation and the Randeree Charitable Trust — has been entrusted with recording and monitoring anti-Muslim hate incidents. This is a role with significant potential to influence the ongoing policy debate around Islamophobia.
The Home Office has awarded BMT a contract of £2.6 million over three years to create the official mechanism for collecting and publishing data on anti-Muslim hate incidents across the UK, including those that fall outside police reporting systems. The money comes from a new taxpayer funded “Combating Hate Against Muslims fund”. ”
So — where’s the new taxpayer funded “Combating Hate Against Jews fund” if they are really interested in eliminating hate speech and violence.
Andrea Widburg reminds us of the scale and corruption of the debanking situation.
It recently emerged that being a multi-billionaire former president of the United States will not protect you from debanking. What’s horrific about the attack on Donald and Melania Trump’s ability to engage in normal banking commerce is that the push came from the Biden administration. Banks weren’t being stupid; our government was being tyrannical.
The first news was that the Trumps got the boot from JPMorgan and Bank of America. However, according to Charles Gasparino, the pressure to deny the former first couple access to banking extended far beyond those two banks:
…
While the pressure was subtle—no smoking gun memos—the regulatory “reputational” heat was so great that banks just decided it was easier to jettison the former president’s business than to deal with bank regulators.
As Gasparino warns, this kind of subtle regulatory pressure should frighten all of us because, “if any big bank can cancel a former president over politics as opposed to illegality, then every American citizen is in danger of facing the same mistreatment.”
No wonder ending this blatantly partisan and unconstitutional practice became a part of President Trump’s to-do list.
I recommend this essay by J. R. Dunn. It hits all the right notes for the epoch.
When I was a younger I read Wilson Bryan Key’s “Subliminal Seduction,” which explained subliminal advertising, then provided numerous examples.
So I made a hobby of looking for more subliminals in advertising. Here’s a couple that I turned into jpgs including explanations. (They are on my Google Drive. Let me know if the links don’t work.)
I found enough such ads that I was convinced, though I found convincing advertising professionals impossible. They would start sputtering how it wasn’t possible, I didn’t know what I was talking about, and I was obviously a stupid person.
I do appreciate a strong, substantive argument.
AppleBetty:
Thanks for asking. It’s still pretty complicated and difficult, but he’s improving. After I made a big stink, they relaxed the rules a tiny bit. He’s due to go back home Tuesday and I’m quite nervous about that. I’ll probably write a post with an update in the next couple of days.
Hi Neo,
“It’s still pretty complicated and difficult” You’re right!
1) Be sure he takes all the meds, gets fluids and food.
2) Goes to all the doctor and nurse appointments and some therapist appts
3) If concerned, go to urgent care or the ER. Don’t second guess, go.
4) Read and highlight doctor instructions, but prioritize.
5) That’s plenty for the first month or two.
“I’m quite nervous about that.” Double right!
I’ll bet you’re more worn out, physically and mentally, than you admit to yourself. And, your ex’s home situation may be more “just getting by” than you suspect.
Please consider getting a homecare aide, if you can. It needn’t be full-time; it needn’t be forever, but for the first month or two. Look for an extremely well reviewed agency and don’t try to save a few hundred.
Hang in there!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbD_kBJc_gI
https://www.thecollegefix.com/whitelash-professors-say-white-students-get-angry-frustrated-by-anti-racist-education/
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A solution: shut down the social work faculties and put those teaching in them out on the curb.
For another sort of fun: here’s CNN on the shooting at the CDC in Atlanta. Notice the way the blame is shifted to Trump and Kennedy.
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Why did the shooter allegedly target the CDC?
After speaking with family members of the suspect, police are operating under the hypothesis he was either sick or believed that he was sick and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine, a law enforcement official told CNN.
The CDC, one of the world’s leading health agencies, is tasked with protecting the health of Americans. But it has come under fire during the second Trump administration as conspiracy theories continue to plague the vaccine credited with halting the spread of the global pandemic.
The shooting occurred on the same week that US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – a longtime critic of Covid vaccinations, with a history of spreading vaccine misinformation – announced the cancellation of a half-billion dollars in investments in mRNA projects.
—–
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/09/us/atlanta-cdc-emory-university-shooting-hnk
Alex Berenson on an alternative explanation for this shooter’s descent into madness and murder. He was a regular cannabis user; he’d had repeated run-ins with Las Vegas police in recent years; his mother said he was suicidal. The shooter’s theory that he was ill because of CTE from high school football is unlikely to be true.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-shane-tamura-the-nyc-office-shooter
SCARY!! Smartphones are transforming our lives in a Bad/Horrible way!!! And what to do about it . . . .
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/08/scary-smartphones-are-transforming-our.html
Taking a leap into analogy: how many people see the news like these illusions – some see only one interpretation, others see two (not always the same two!), and those that only see one cannot be convinced to see the other without a lot of work.
However, once the illusion is broken, you can no longer NOT see both sides.
(Note: seeing a viewpoint does not entail agreeing with it, and some can be ruled out by objective facts — if the viewer believes in facts — whereas illusions are objectively both true simultaneously.)
Of the two familiar (to me) illusions in the video, I have never been able to see the blue/black dress, but the old/young woman is an illusion-book standard.
The horse/woman is the only other one I missed completely, and got all the others within the time limit. Some took a few seconds longer than others.
IMO the skull/girls was the cleverest.
the vaccine credited with halting the spread of the global pandemic.
Credited by whom? Does anyone actually make the argument that the vaccine stopped the spread of COVID?
Nothing “halt[ed] the spread” of COVID. It reached every corner of the earth. It mutated itself out of dangerousness. The most that can be claimed for the vaccine is that it may have reduced the severity of illness for some people.
P.S. I can’t see the woman/horse one at all. That’s just a horse. I think they’re punking us.
Re: ChatGPT 5 is out
I’ve been taking it for a spin though I’m not trying to trick into going Skynet on the East Coast.
Chat 5 is a refinement, not a breakthrough. Which suits me fine. It goes deeper, it holds a long conversation better, and it’s not as mechanical sounding. It’s advertised as being less prone to hallucinations. I haven’t seen any so far.
On benchmarks it’s a step up from the previous Chats.
I saw a person (me) staring!
Amit Segal: “Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says that for the first time since the start of the war, he has lost faith that Netanyahu can and wants to lead the IDF to a decisive victory in Gaza.”
https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1954253788790878387
Implying at least a partial victory of the OlsoFanBoi faction of Israeli politics, to the extent that the political leadership in Israeli govt acceeds to the sovereignty of the IDF and judiciarchy of the state. Pity, should this partial victory result in a debilitating fracture of the governing coalition, the thing most devoutly desired on the minority left in Israel if or insofar that fracture can result in the ouster of Bibi Netanyahu, which latter is their most cherished aim. That left (nominally “the Kaplans” in current parlance) would prefer to allow Hamas a win than allow Netanyahu to remain and victorious to boot.
So details of the Trump/Putin peace plan for Ukraine are beginning to emerge:
1) Russia keeps the vast amount of territory it has seized in 11 years of warfare (with the exception of some small segments of disjointed territory in Sumy and Vovchansk). Russia will “temporarily” hold this territory for 49 years (giving Russia the chance to fully Russify it) before a decision is made on permanent transfer.
2) Ukraine will hand over without a fight the large swath of the Donbas that Russia has sor far been unable to take. This territory includes several large cities and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens.
3) Ukraine will hand over to Russia the heavily fortified defensive lines that mark the boundary of the front line. Thus, when Russia breaks the ceasefire, it will have a heavily fortified line from which to attack. Ukraine will have no defensive positions between the front line and the Dnieper River, making an additional 30% of Ukrainian territory undefendable should Russia break the truce.
4) Sanctions will be immediately lifted, allowing Russia to rebuild and modernize its military with Western technology.
5) Russia will pass a law that will make it illegal for Russia to invade Europe or the rest of Ukraine. (Stop laughing. Witkoff actually negotiated this.)
These terms were decided in bilateral meetings between Trump’s team and the Russians. Neither the Ukrainians nor the Europeans were even present.
Since the Ukrainian constitution forbids the government from giving up Ukrainian territory, Trump’s strategy is for him to make a deal with Putin and then force Ukraine and Europe to accept it. To this end, America has already cut off arms shipments to Ukraine, even those already paid for.
If the lives of millions of people weren’t at stake, the ridiculousness of these terms would be hilarious. But millions of lives are at stake, so the comedy is, as they say in the movie business, unintended.
mkent:
If I were you, I’d wait for official word instead of relying on the press’s unnamed sources.
Plus, if I were you, I’d include links.
Some may find this of interest…
“Fermented Stevia Extract Kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells In Lab Tests”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fermented-stevia-extract-kills-pancreatic-cancer-cells-lab-tests
…and this, exasperating…
“Most COVID Lung Abnormalities Heal Over Time, New Guidelines Confirm”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/most-covid-lung-abnormalities-heal-over-time-new-guidelines-confirm
…where “Over Time” can be up to three years, which is supposed to be comforting, I guess…
Huh???
RE: Tommy Robinson
Because of his views, and his fearless espousal of them, Tommy Robinson has been, and is, a very controversial figure in the UK, with the government arresting and imprisoning him—some eight or more times—for those views—trying, in every way they can, to intimidate and to silence him.
But fearless Robinson continues to speak out.
Linked below is a long interview with him on the subject of his belief that “The British Public is Ready for a Revolution.”
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP5M3i5MdHA&t=873s
P.S. From the coverage I’ve seen, here and there, the British government has arrested Robinson on the flimsiest of charges, locked him up in the most violent jails they can find and, is perhaps hoping that something “unfortunate” might happen to Robinson in one of these violent prisons.
@Aesop Fan: “once the illusion is broken, you can no longer NOT see both sides.
… Of the two familiar (to me) illusions in the video, I have never been able to see the blue/black dress, but the old/young woman is an illusion-book standard. …
The horse/woman is the only other one I missed completely … ”
Well, I had seen the young/old women one before and had seen both views, but this time I just could not get my mind to see the young women version within those 10 seconds, which was frustrating since I knew I had solved it before.
Agree on the blue/black dress and I missed the horse/women view, too.
But, @Jamie, I did see the women once it was identified as the other view to see, but I suspect that display does require the photograph to be at just that angle – a change of a few degrees either side of the horse’s head and that women might disappear, too. Is that cheating?
Sunday morning Open thread:
Here’s a very interesting lady with some views on what should happen to those of us with the idiotic notion that Trump is a good president. Courtesy of Drudge.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fq8S2hQOoRk
What a shame. The WSJ has another noteworthy lead editorial and I can’t seem to find a free version. Not a sexy topic, but an important one. Here it is for those with access.
Trump Is Right on ‘Debanking’- Regulators have abused their power to cut off political opponents.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-debanking-executive-order-bank-examiners-biden-obama-operation-choke-point-8396e49d
Those outtakes do not appear continuously in the editorial FYI.
Speaking of the WSJ, this appeared in the weekend Review section, and it is on a topic that has perplexed me for some time:
Why the Far Right Hates Churchill
– The accepted historical narrative of the past 80 years—that it was morally right for the U.S. and the U.K. to fight and destroy the Third Reich—is now under assault.
https://archive.md/217pN
Again I’ve taken liberties with the excerpts. The conclusion of the author, which seems reasonable to me since I have to latch on to something reasonable:
“…though they fault their regulators…”
Only “following orders”, eh?
Well THAT’s certainly “convenient”….
– – – – – – – –
As for the “reconsideration” of Churchill, I’ve long believer that Covid has driven huge swaths of people insane…(either that or a combination of Covid AND the ubiquitous instantaneity of both social media together with a seriously warped, twisted, corrupt—and saturating wall-to-wall Media…).
ironically, had churchill had prevailed, probably the territory in the mandates might have prevailed longer, he was also a Judeophile, unlike Attlee,
Tucker is one of those who focused on the debanking phenomena as well as other unpersonings,
the problem is with leftists who want to disarm the people, cripple the churches and destroy the institutions that stand in their way,
would Churchill have welcomed millions of persons from the colonies, like MacMillan did, with his experience in India and the Sudan probably not,
had Clinton and Obama not been snuck under the camel’s tent, well things might not have gotten this way, not that W for instance had any real objection,
Liz Warren is another who’se firewater is nasty,
now is Ian Gribbin really any figure of influence rather then say Lammy or the odious Diane Abbott, not too mention Jeremy Corbyn
who determined the reputational risk, frankly george soros should have been starved of capital, as far back as the mid 90s, after all he enabled the crash of the Pound, as one of his Duke and Duke wagers, but he bought the stage, and for a generation or longer, called the tune, it was instructive how the Open Society was a tax scheme incorporated in South Africa of all places, first, like the Hydra of Marvel infamy it coopted government agencies and academia all over the world,
he funded the likes of Bill Ayers in his various schemes, to cite one example, frankly Ayers and co, should have dealt with more finality in many ways as it was with many of the progressives, who have set to consume the nation, in a world where the late David Horowitz would have had more purchase then the wretched Tom Hayden is he still around,
not that it matters,
It’s not even a tiny bit peculiar that — fielding a question from a Cherman journalist in his press conference/public relations campaign today — PM Netanyahu referred to the Chamberlain-Hitler Munich Conference and posits that public pressure for “peace” may sway leaders elsewhere but that, Netanyahu said, “is their” problem, not Israel’s problem: Israel’s problem is to defeat the Nazis in Gaza utterly and not leave them in place in “Berlin” to rule, to regroup, to rearm and to begin all over again with the war,
like Samuel Jackson’s* character said ‘you say peace, but you mean the other thing’
Israel was at peace on October 6th, we must remember
‘freedom is life’s great lie’ another notion that the left seems to believe, take fareed Zakaria and Flathead Friedman, Taibbi almost in spite of himself, takes the opposite view as does Alex Berenson, is there a major opponent of statist overreach at the two leading newspapers the Times and the Post, not that I can tell,
it took Bill Ackman to smell the frog pot in the Hamas protests, to notice what was going on,some people still don’t get it,if we are to believe the polls out of Gotham,
*he has shown in real life, he believes crap trap like every good progressive,
those actions they undertake,
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/08/10/florida-democrats-lock-themselves-in-a-cage-to-protest-alligator-alcatraz-n2417057
unfortunately they get out,
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/08/10/illinois-pritzker-hypocrite-redistricting-sunday-morning-cbs-n2417055
as they said in latin,
https://thecritic.co.uk/who-will-watch-the-anti-muslim-bias-watchdogs/
these instances have real life consequences in policy,
Neo,
Is there any news you can share on your ex in rehab or perhaps at home?
Hoping for the best.
“Supreme Court to state: Justify your conditions for ending the war”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/413048
Hilarious, were it not so on the money exact.
i didn’t they could could get more ridiculous hold my ale,
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_gerrymandering_war_and_international_peace.html
@ huxley – me and Chat (well, not me specifically, the meme-maker)
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/17546297257358054219732143373351.jpg?w=500
@ miguel – quoting your link “The British Muslim Trust (BMT) — led by the Aziz Foundation and the Randeree Charitable Trust — has been entrusted with recording and monitoring anti-Muslim hate incidents. This is a role with significant potential to influence the ongoing policy debate around Islamophobia.
The Home Office has awarded BMT a contract of £2.6 million over three years to create the official mechanism for collecting and publishing data on anti-Muslim hate incidents across the UK, including those that fall outside police reporting systems. The money comes from a new taxpayer funded “Combating Hate Against Muslims fund”. ”
So — where’s the new taxpayer funded “Combating Hate Against Jews fund” if they are really interested in eliminating hate speech and violence.
Andrea Widburg reminds us of the scale and corruption of the debanking situation.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/understanding_the_sheer_scale_of_the_democrat_effort_to_destroy_trump_via_debanking.html
No wonder ending this blatantly partisan and unconstitutional practice became a part of President Trump’s to-do list.
I recommend this essay by J. R. Dunn. It hits all the right notes for the epoch.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/irony_can_mean_the_moment_when_reality_catches_up_with_you.html
Re: Sunday night fun — What do you see?
When I was a younger I read Wilson Bryan Key’s “Subliminal Seduction,” which explained subliminal advertising, then provided numerous examples.
So I made a hobby of looking for more subliminals in advertising. Here’s a couple that I turned into jpgs including explanations. (They are on my Google Drive. Let me know if the links don’t work.)
–“Genderbending: Jantzen Bathing Suit Ad”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eWGlNl57-05nKYqf3BXtyeI4BZnvIBOD/view?usp=sharing
–“Touch Me There: Kim Cigarettes Ad”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-4kdnvuvV7RgVxuylMtFXEHl2nHH6W9X/view?usp=sharing
I found enough such ads that I was convinced, though I found convincing advertising professionals impossible. They would start sputtering how it wasn’t possible, I didn’t know what I was talking about, and I was obviously a stupid person.
I do appreciate a strong, substantive argument.
AppleBetty:
Thanks for asking. It’s still pretty complicated and difficult, but he’s improving. After I made a big stink, they relaxed the rules a tiny bit. He’s due to go back home Tuesday and I’m quite nervous about that. I’ll probably write a post with an update in the next couple of days.
Hi Neo,
“It’s still pretty complicated and difficult” You’re right!
1) Be sure he takes all the meds, gets fluids and food.
2) Goes to all the doctor and nurse appointments and some therapist appts
3) If concerned, go to urgent care or the ER. Don’t second guess, go.
4) Read and highlight doctor instructions, but prioritize.
5) That’s plenty for the first month or two.
“I’m quite nervous about that.” Double right!
I’ll bet you’re more worn out, physically and mentally, than you admit to yourself. And, your ex’s home situation may be more “just getting by” than you suspect.
Please consider getting a homecare aide, if you can. It needn’t be full-time; it needn’t be forever, but for the first month or two. Look for an extremely well reviewed agency and don’t try to save a few hundred.
Hang in there!