When I reach things on top shelves for short people, I often say, “I’m happy to help,” but I could go with “It was no trouble at all.” The other options are too British for this Anglo-American.
A suspect has been arrested in the arson of the synagogue in Jackson, MS. The nineteen-year-old was turned in by his father. The arsonist called his target “the synagogue of Satan” and, when read his rights by a judge, he replied, “Jesus Christ is Lord.” The Catholic Diocese of Jackson (the suspect was raised Catholic) says the arson was “senseless, reprehensible and wholly incompatible with the values taught by the Catholic Church and upheld in our Catholic schools.” Sounds to me like an acolyte of Candace Owens. Hate-filled speech has real-world consequences.
I guess one can play along and enjoy it. Or one might hear such responses as “I am a pretentious pedant.” It would help if he didn’t tilt his head back so often and look down his nose at the viewer.
I’m not sure how well that plays outside England and without a three-piece tweed suit.
WWJS – What Would Jeeves Say
I think it’s done somewhat tongue-in-cheek, actually.
Crows are probably the smartest of all birds.
Perhaps your are aware of the experiment in which glass cylinders are filled with treats, but the cylinders are filled only half way up with water, and there are two piles of objects next to these cylinders–one of light weight, small pieces of styrofoam, the other a pile of small stones.
A Crow is introduced into this situation, he looks things over, and picks up the rocks, adding them one by one to the cylinder, raising the water level until the treat floats close enough to the top that the Crow can grab it.
Here is just one rather startling finding in the linked YouTube video, about the results of AI investigation of crow vocalizations–that crows can recognize individual humans, communicate a description of that human to other crows, and that this information is apparently passed on, so that even after the crows who originated the identification are all dead, the description is apparently is passed on to new crows, who act on it.
Thus, it appears that crows apparently have some form of language, able to convey complex information, even across generations. *
I wonder, are we humans moving through a world filled with animal communications –going on all around us–which we humans are totally unaware of?
I don’t know if we should believe any of it, but certainly the outcome stats of the operation strongly suggest that some incredible actions must have happened.
A side note: I think I saw/heard a very early prototype of something like the LRAD acoustic device 20+ years ago. In that instance it was intended to beam mid audio band sounds in a very narrow beam, from a compact sound source, over longer distances. Generally, a radiation source that is wavelength sized, or smaller, will create very divergent sound radiation, but not with this thing.
I’m reluctant to go into any details, as it seems to now be a rather incredible “weapon” for our military. However, as expected, it looks like most of the details are out there on the web. This one is not a terribly good explanation, but most the basics look correct.
Air interferes with sound waves as they pass through it. As the LRAD’s sound waves interact with the air, they create additional frequencies within the wave. Such waves are referred to as parametrically generated, and many speakers try to prevent them. The LRAD uses them to create a greater range of pitches and to add volume.
They are trying to describe the crux of the principle in the above, but I’d grade that blurb with a C.
“Air interferes with sound waves as they pass through it?” Really?! That’s quite weak.
“… to create a greater range of pitches and to add volume.” Ha. Yes, new pitches, but no added volume. Converted volume perhaps.
– – – – –
The American Thinker article ends with this: It certainly appears that the money spent by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has not gone to waste.
I’d second that. I don’t have any comprehensive knowledge of gov. science funding, though friends often said derogatory things about NSF. I once did some research under DARPA funds funneled through a major military contractor. The DARPA management doesn’t mess around. Top grades for them.
I don’t know about that Venezuela sound weapon thing… didn’t seem like a very reliable source. There’s all kinds of rumors about secret wonder weapons. I remember reading twenty years ago that lots of Iraqis thought American battle dress had integrated air conditioning.
This talk of a “sonic weapon” makes me think of the problems we had some years ago with apparent sonic attacks on our embassies in semi-hostile nations. Embassy employees were complaining of headaches, etc that were not explained by presence of the usual source of headaches. I don’t recall if this was ever resolved…
I would gladly “settle for pedestrian politeness” of “you’re welcome”. The response I most often receive to “thank you” is a desultory “no problem”, to which I refrain from saying “oh, F-U”.
Re: Sonic weapons
I recall Beat writer William S. Burroughs raving about government research into infrasound weapons back in the sixties.
Of course, everyone knew that Burroughs was a paranoid, drug-addled pervert, so who cared.
But he did have a great love for the Second Amendment.
Auto-Tune has been around for over 25 yrs now: a sonic weapon if there’s ever been one.
What’s worse than a bad drummer? A loud, louder, bad drummer.
Ranger Suarez is leaving the Phillies and off to the RedSox. Damn, I was hoping the O’s would land him. So, fingers crossed, I guess it’s down to Framber for my rooting interests. Go get him, Mike.
Remember when we used sound weapons against Noriega, playing AC/DC songs until he ran out of the Vatican embassy screaming for the military to stop?
Hogwash. Replying to an expression of thanks for assistance or support with a simple “You’re Welcome” conveys respect and honor. Those suggested elite responses are narcissistic nonsense.
Manners matter.
But they’re not the most important tool in the shed when dealing with a threatening, intimidating mob…
Cf. Orwell’s “rough men”….
sdferr,
Doran’s long exposition gets off to a very good start, making some excellent, and crucial, points; alas his concluding contention—really a woefully thought-out threat—is flat-out absurd and totally undermines (one might even say, “entirely demolishes”) his carefully-built—and essential—argument.
Which is really too bad (in all seriousness) but it needs to be said…viz:
a) There is no way that Israel will “pivot” to China should the US decide to jettison the US-Israel relationship. Note that such a shift MIGHT have been thinkable a decade or more ago (though it was also tenuous then); but China has in the interim made its extremely antagonistic attitude (and policies) vis-a-vis the Jewish indisputably clear. Moreover—and no doubt because of China’s decisions, at least in part—the Israel-Taiwan link is very strong. (Think of the relationship as one between two innovative powerhouses, with much in common, under severe threat.)
b) Basing one’s argument on a THREAT—especially one that CANNOT materialize—is, for a policy analyst, a foolish card to play. In this case, Doran is deploying FEAR in order to persuade the reader of the justness and rightness of sustaining the alliance, and in doing he basically shot himself in the foot.
As I said, it’s really too bad.
It can’t be for me to argue on Doran’s behalf Barry; for that I’d seriously suggest you take your quite substantive criticism to Mike himself and see how he responds. For my part, in the main it isn’t difficult to agree with you, as it is next to impossible to imagine Israel in need of Chinese help to sustain itself, even given the nasty neighborhood in which it resides.
Did you see a “but” coming? Heh.
But Biden. Or, rather, worse than Biden (another Obama) out in 2032, say, supposing the progs figure out a means to return to power. What then? Or retrospectively, what had Trump not won in 2024? Yeesh.
I imagine that many others here know that DARPA was formerly known as ARPA, which developed ARPANET, which grew into the Internet.
= = = = =
I don’t know if the tale of the debilitating sound weapon is true, though it sounds plausible to me. A reporter on Air Force One asked Trump for details of the guards’ casualties in the Maduro raid, which he wouldn’t divulge, only saying that it was very bad. (The source of the sound weapon story said hundreds were killed by a USA force of about 20.)
Klingon disrupter. Must have gotten it from aliens or something.
Or perhaps — as it belatedly occurs to me Barry — I’ve overlooked the possibility we are merely confronted by a simple reductio ad absurdum, eh?
About the multiple prosecutors quitting the DOJ in protest over lack of Ice murder investigation as wildly claimed by the propaganda media? Perhaps started by the Wash Post?
Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon calls out fake news because no one “suddenly quit” the DOJ to protest the recent incident leaving an AWFL dead.
Via X.com, “Fake news media, foiled again! The news of ‘mass resignation,’ was bogus, and now debunked…” she writes.
Want to bet that any of our mass indoctrinators will run the correction?
In truth, the five resignations concerned taking early retirement arranged before this death occurred.
The Daily Caller expands on the story: it wasn’t any sudden surprise! These prosecutors applied for early retirement as long as a months ago!
These “people gave notice weeks before the shooting took place, and the fourth person mentioned in the story put in for retirement in early December, over a month before the shooting took place.”
Harmeet Dhillon herself has received threats and have been reported to Federal law enforcement.
“This lie is causing insane people to level threats at me, including some of my neighbors in Sonoma, California, who are spending the evening fantasizing about how they plan to get in my face and confront me at the market or whatever when I’m next there,” she writes.
Mass Deportations lower the cost of housing in the US. Only “sanctuary cities” see modest recent rise:
Kevin Lynn pointed to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – a community once labeled “the refugee capital of America.” There, he said, newly renovated apartments are now being advertised with three months of free rent because demand from immigrants has vanished. “This is what happens when you take the immigrants out of the equation,” Lynn said.
It’s a stark reversal from the years under Joe Biden, when roughly 14 million legal and illegal migrants entered the country, coinciding with surging rents and home prices that outpaced wage growth. Now that the pressure is easing, the administration has an answer ready for Democrats hoping to campaign on “affordability.” Trump’s team is framing border enforcement not only as a public-safety measure but as a direct economic benefit for working households.
“Rents are down. You know the story that the Biden administration doesn’t want to talk about: The mass unfettered immigration that pushed up rents, especially for working Americans,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last month. “The connection between illegal immigration and skyrocketing housing costs is as clear as day.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/are-deportations-making-affordability-winning-issue-gop
Snow on Pine: “I wonder, are we humans moving through a world filled with animal communications –going on all around us–which we humans are totally unaware of?”
We don’t have to go outside of the species homo sapiens to agree to this. 🙂
Funny how some topics just seem to appear “all of a sudden” as a bunch of similar remarks or comments. Last evening I also heard about some allusions to sonic weapons being very effectively used on Venezuelan (or Cuban?) defenders – something perhaps along the lines of “we learned what was the cause of the Havana staff disturbances and made an even better version for ourselves.”
“The connection between illegal immigration and skyrocketing housing costs is as clear as day.”
Right.
And golly be! Canada has been experiencing the exact same problem since the Boy Wonder wedged himself into the Prime Minister’s spot over a decade or so ago and opened the immigration spigot in the “True North [once] strong and free”…
A coincidence? (Jus’ askin’…)
Probably also a coincidence(?) that Canada’s State-Run media—just like its ideological comrades pretending to be “journalists” south of the border—doesn’t seem all that eager to report much on the “Biden” / Somali Gold Rush…
(Wouldn’t want to have those uber-virtuous, righteously-indignant folks up there start askin’ the wrong questions, now…)
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Mike Doran, TabletMag, “The Jewish Test“:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jewish-test-michael-doran
Positively poetic, or insufferably affected?
insufferability infected?
When I reach things on top shelves for short people, I often say, “I’m happy to help,” but I could go with “It was no trouble at all.” The other options are too British for this Anglo-American.
A suspect has been arrested in the arson of the synagogue in Jackson, MS. The nineteen-year-old was turned in by his father. The arsonist called his target “the synagogue of Satan” and, when read his rights by a judge, he replied, “Jesus Christ is Lord.” The Catholic Diocese of Jackson (the suspect was raised Catholic) says the arson was “senseless, reprehensible and wholly incompatible with the values taught by the Catholic Church and upheld in our Catholic schools.” Sounds to me like an acolyte of Candace Owens. Hate-filled speech has real-world consequences.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15461421/Stephen-Pittman-arson-Mississippi-synagogue-burns.html
Re: You’re welcome
I guess one can play along and enjoy it. Or one might hear such responses as “I am a pretentious pedant.” It would help if he didn’t tilt his head back so often and look down his nose at the viewer.
I’m not sure how well that plays outside England and without a three-piece tweed suit.
WWJS – What Would Jeeves Say
I think it’s done somewhat tongue-in-cheek, actually.
Crows are probably the smartest of all birds.
Perhaps your are aware of the experiment in which glass cylinders are filled with treats, but the cylinders are filled only half way up with water, and there are two piles of objects next to these cylinders–one of light weight, small pieces of styrofoam, the other a pile of small stones.
A Crow is introduced into this situation, he looks things over, and picks up the rocks, adding them one by one to the cylinder, raising the water level until the treat floats close enough to the top that the Crow can grab it.
Here is just one rather startling finding in the linked YouTube video, about the results of AI investigation of crow vocalizations–that crows can recognize individual humans, communicate a description of that human to other crows, and that this information is apparently passed on, so that even after the crows who originated the identification are all dead, the description is apparently is passed on to new crows, who act on it.
Thus, it appears that crows apparently have some form of language, able to convey complex information, even across generations. *
I wonder, are we humans moving through a world filled with animal communications –going on all around us–which we humans are totally unaware of?
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABHZ38HfA8s
Here is an amazing rumor about the invasion of Venezuela and capture of Maduro.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/the_sound_of_freedom_2_0.html
I don’t know if we should believe any of it, but certainly the outcome stats of the operation strongly suggest that some incredible actions must have happened.
A side note: I think I saw/heard a very early prototype of something like the LRAD acoustic device 20+ years ago. In that instance it was intended to beam mid audio band sounds in a very narrow beam, from a compact sound source, over longer distances. Generally, a radiation source that is wavelength sized, or smaller, will create very divergent sound radiation, but not with this thing.
I’m reluctant to go into any details, as it seems to now be a rather incredible “weapon” for our military. However, as expected, it looks like most of the details are out there on the web. This one is not a terribly good explanation, but most the basics look correct.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/lrad.htm
They are trying to describe the crux of the principle in the above, but I’d grade that blurb with a C.
“Air interferes with sound waves as they pass through it?” Really?! That’s quite weak.
“… to create a greater range of pitches and to add volume.” Ha. Yes, new pitches, but no added volume. Converted volume perhaps.
– – – – –
The American Thinker article ends with this:
It certainly appears that the money spent by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has not gone to waste.
I’d second that. I don’t have any comprehensive knowledge of gov. science funding, though friends often said derogatory things about NSF. I once did some research under DARPA funds funneled through a major military contractor. The DARPA management doesn’t mess around. Top grades for them.
I don’t know about that Venezuela sound weapon thing… didn’t seem like a very reliable source. There’s all kinds of rumors about secret wonder weapons. I remember reading twenty years ago that lots of Iraqis thought American battle dress had integrated air conditioning.
This talk of a “sonic weapon” makes me think of the problems we had some years ago with apparent sonic attacks on our embassies in semi-hostile nations. Embassy employees were complaining of headaches, etc that were not explained by presence of the usual source of headaches. I don’t recall if this was ever resolved…
I would gladly “settle for pedestrian politeness” of “you’re welcome”. The response I most often receive to “thank you” is a desultory “no problem”, to which I refrain from saying “oh, F-U”.
Re: Sonic weapons
I recall Beat writer William S. Burroughs raving about government research into infrasound weapons back in the sixties.
Of course, everyone knew that Burroughs was a paranoid, drug-addled pervert, so who cared.
But he did have a great love for the Second Amendment.
Auto-Tune has been around for over 25 yrs now: a sonic weapon if there’s ever been one.
What’s worse than a bad drummer? A loud, louder, bad drummer.
Ranger Suarez is leaving the Phillies and off to the RedSox. Damn, I was hoping the O’s would land him. So, fingers crossed, I guess it’s down to Framber for my rooting interests. Go get him, Mike.
Remember when we used sound weapons against Noriega, playing AC/DC songs until he ran out of the Vatican embassy screaming for the military to stop?
Hogwash. Replying to an expression of thanks for assistance or support with a simple “You’re Welcome” conveys respect and honor. Those suggested elite responses are narcissistic nonsense.
Manners matter.
But they’re not the most important tool in the shed when dealing with a threatening, intimidating mob…
Cf. Orwell’s “rough men”….
“I don’t believe it but have to accuse Israel of genocide due to political pressure, legislator [says]…”—
https://www.jns.org/i-dont-believe-it-but-have-to-accuse-israel-of-genocide-due-to-political-pressure-legislator-tells-jns/
sdferr,
Doran’s long exposition gets off to a very good start, making some excellent, and crucial, points; alas his concluding contention—really a woefully thought-out threat—is flat-out absurd and totally undermines (one might even say, “entirely demolishes”) his carefully-built—and essential—argument.
Which is really too bad (in all seriousness) but it needs to be said…viz:
a) There is no way that Israel will “pivot” to China should the US decide to jettison the US-Israel relationship. Note that such a shift MIGHT have been thinkable a decade or more ago (though it was also tenuous then); but China has in the interim made its extremely antagonistic attitude (and policies) vis-a-vis the Jewish indisputably clear. Moreover—and no doubt because of China’s decisions, at least in part—the Israel-Taiwan link is very strong. (Think of the relationship as one between two innovative powerhouses, with much in common, under severe threat.)
b) Basing one’s argument on a THREAT—especially one that CANNOT materialize—is, for a policy analyst, a foolish card to play. In this case, Doran is deploying FEAR in order to persuade the reader of the justness and rightness of sustaining the alliance, and in doing he basically shot himself in the foot.
As I said, it’s really too bad.
It can’t be for me to argue on Doran’s behalf Barry; for that I’d seriously suggest you take your quite substantive criticism to Mike himself and see how he responds. For my part, in the main it isn’t difficult to agree with you, as it is next to impossible to imagine Israel in need of Chinese help to sustain itself, even given the nasty neighborhood in which it resides.
Did you see a “but” coming? Heh.
But Biden. Or, rather, worse than Biden (another Obama) out in 2032, say, supposing the progs figure out a means to return to power. What then? Or retrospectively, what had Trump not won in 2024? Yeesh.
I imagine that many others here know that DARPA was formerly known as ARPA, which developed ARPANET, which grew into the Internet.
= = = = =
I don’t know if the tale of the debilitating sound weapon is true, though it sounds plausible to me. A reporter on Air Force One asked Trump for details of the guards’ casualties in the Maduro raid, which he wouldn’t divulge, only saying that it was very bad. (The source of the sound weapon story said hundreds were killed by a USA force of about 20.)
Klingon disrupter. Must have gotten it from aliens or something.
Or perhaps — as it belatedly occurs to me Barry — I’ve overlooked the possibility we are merely confronted by a simple reductio ad absurdum, eh?
About the multiple prosecutors quitting the DOJ in protest over lack of Ice murder investigation as wildly claimed by the propaganda media? Perhaps started by the Wash Post?
Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon calls out fake news because no one “suddenly quit” the DOJ to protest the recent incident leaving an AWFL dead.
Via X.com, “Fake news media, foiled again! The news of ‘mass resignation,’ was bogus, and now debunked…” she writes.
Want to bet that any of our mass indoctrinators will run the correction?
In truth, the five resignations concerned taking early retirement arranged before this death occurred.
More from Matt Vespa https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/01/14/the-lib-media-says-federal-prosecutors-are-quitting-over-the-mn-ice-shooting-doj-says-fake-news-n2669425
The Daily Caller expands on the story: it wasn’t any sudden surprise! These prosecutors applied for early retirement as long as a months ago!
These “people gave notice weeks before the shooting took place, and the fourth person mentioned in the story put in for retirement in early December, over a month before the shooting took place.”
Harmeet Dhillon herself has received threats and have been reported to Federal law enforcement.
“This lie is causing insane people to level threats at me, including some of my neighbors in Sonoma, California, who are spending the evening fantasizing about how they plan to get in my face and confront me at the market or whatever when I’m next there,” she writes.
Mass Deportations lower the cost of housing in the US. Only “sanctuary cities” see modest recent rise:
Kevin Lynn pointed to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – a community once labeled “the refugee capital of America.” There, he said, newly renovated apartments are now being advertised with three months of free rent because demand from immigrants has vanished. “This is what happens when you take the immigrants out of the equation,” Lynn said.
It’s a stark reversal from the years under Joe Biden, when roughly 14 million legal and illegal migrants entered the country, coinciding with surging rents and home prices that outpaced wage growth. Now that the pressure is easing, the administration has an answer ready for Democrats hoping to campaign on “affordability.” Trump’s team is framing border enforcement not only as a public-safety measure but as a direct economic benefit for working households.
“Rents are down. You know the story that the Biden administration doesn’t want to talk about: The mass unfettered immigration that pushed up rents, especially for working Americans,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last month. “The connection between illegal immigration and skyrocketing housing costs is as clear as day.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/are-deportations-making-affordability-winning-issue-gop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW7YYt0F-K4
Snow on Pine: “I wonder, are we humans moving through a world filled with animal communications –going on all around us–which we humans are totally unaware of?”
We don’t have to go outside of the species homo sapiens to agree to this. 🙂
Funny how some topics just seem to appear “all of a sudden” as a bunch of similar remarks or comments. Last evening I also heard about some allusions to sonic weapons being very effectively used on Venezuelan (or Cuban?) defenders – something perhaps along the lines of “we learned what was the cause of the Havana staff disturbances and made an even better version for ourselves.”
“The connection between illegal immigration and skyrocketing housing costs is as clear as day.”
Right.
And golly be! Canada has been experiencing the exact same problem since the Boy Wonder wedged himself into the Prime Minister’s spot over a decade or so ago and opened the immigration spigot in the “True North [once] strong and free”…
A coincidence? (Jus’ askin’…)
Probably also a coincidence(?) that Canada’s State-Run media—just like its ideological comrades pretending to be “journalists” south of the border—doesn’t seem all that eager to report much on the “Biden” / Somali Gold Rush…
(Wouldn’t want to have those uber-virtuous, righteously-indignant folks up there start askin’ the wrong questions, now…)