Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Biden confirms 14 dead Americans in Israel
IDF Says Bodies of 1,500 Hamas Terrorist Fighters Found Inside Israel
Gaza ‘will soon be a tent city’ says Israeli official
Dems Worry Their Caucus Will Soon Turn Against Israel
659 known, suspected terrorists captured in fiscal year 2023, most in recorded history
Federal budget deficit reached whopping $1.7 trillion for fiscal year 2023
Dem Megadonor And Alleged Fraudster Thought He Had A Shot At The Presidency, Ex Testifies
US automakers lay off hundreds more workers as UAW strike’s ripple effects grow
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
IDF Says Bodies of 1,500 Hamas Terrorist Fighters Found Inside Israel – thats a lot of virgins needed in heaven
Sorry, the translation was incorrect, you actually get 72 raisins.
Not necessarily female virgins….
659 known, suspected terrorists captured in fiscal year 2023, most in recorded history – is the definition clear?
I get the feeling that “terrorists” should be in sneer quotes.
They were wearing MAGA hats donated to third world countries after the 2020 election.
“It’s a bunch of Catholics speaking some crazy moon language. Also, they appear to be fans of the Buffalo Bills for some reason.” “Fuck it, whatever, put them on the list.”
Dems Worry Their Caucus Will Soon Turn Against Israel – well they should be in line with the global left i suppose to and all those “democrats would be right wing in europe” arguments
Soon? The dem caucus has been against Israel since before i was born…
No, no, no. They were anti-ZIONIST, not anti Israel.
/remembers hearing that far too many times when I was younger
“We’re not anti-semites, we just support the people who want to kill all the Jews. How is this so hard for you bigots to understand?”
Federal budget deficit reached whopping $1.7 trillion for fiscal year 2023 – and still you cannot spare 10 mil for poor old Pie
We’ll get that higher next year. There are so many opportunities out there.
You missed your opportunity to set up a fake company and get some of that PPP monies.
If it makes you feel any better, if Biden gets re- elected McDs is going to be hiring at a billion an hour.
But you won’t be able to buy a Cheesburger for less than a Trillion.
Doubtful. Don’t you know hamburgers are killing the planet? Your cricket burgers will be shipped to your door by Amazon.
If you think any of the Greenies are about to change their lifestyle, I’ve got a high speed choo-choo to sell you.
The monthly deficit was $166 billion in September alone as Congress debates an appropriations bill for 2024 before the Nov. 17 deadline to avoid a government shutdown.
Eighty-one million U.S. citizens who were eligible and registered to vote specifically asked for this back in 2020, with millions more confirming that choice in 2022.
Now they’re getting what they want, good and hard. Unfortunately, I’m getting what they want too, and I didn’t ask for any of this.
Well….
Cleanest, fairest, elections ever. Unlike that travesty of election integrity that happened under Obama’s watch in 2016.
You are undercounting. Most of the Repubs in DC are fully on board with deficit spending, so you need to count the ones who voted for them. Including Trump.
This isn’t a Dem problem, or even a DC problem. This is an American problem.
Yay Team Black[-pill]!!!
No shit?
The most reliable members of their base are busy cheering for more dead Jews.
I spy with my little eye, a First with Brochettaward’s name at the top.
Little brown eye?
Nah, given his proclivities, it’s a big brown eye.
🤢
There is no one in and cube directly adjacent to mine, yet someone has used personal care product so perfumed that it’s choking me.
Seriously, how can you use something that makes the whole office smell like floral baby powder?
I could go on for days about that.
We had a guy who was 500 pounds, he would go shit up the bathroom so bad it stank of unwashed balls and shit for hours. The smell went down the hall. He had a special chair for his fatness, and he anally leaked in it and stank up a whole section of the floor.
Also had a lady who microwaved shrimp and fish for lunch.
Never again will I work in an office.
You should have given him some floral baby powder-smelly but it beats the shit outta shit.
Sounds more like the guy needed medical attention and a change of diet.
Fatphobe
I didn’t realize SF was posting in the AM links today.
“That’s over. Okay? The media is going to turn from all of that real soon. And the only images we’re going to see for the next couple of weeks are dead Palestinians.”
Alright, what’s the downside?
The debate over which side should get more of our borrowed money? The compromise will of course be both.
This guy gets politics 101!
Borrowing against our future generations to give money to foreigners.
One of our more disgusting practices.
Maybe the open burgers people are right, let the foreigners help pay. 🤡
Open burgers sounds better than open borders.
OpenBurger was a great idea, but failed, since you weren’t allowed to use a fork.
Well that’s just silly
I had one of the odder moments in my life happen to me earlier this week. After a Track Day weekend near Savannah, I rented an AirBnb on St. Simons Island to use as home base while I went fishing with a friend for a couple of days. I parked my SUV with my track car on a trailer in the house’s side yard, next to the street. Apparently, someone in the neighborhood walking his dog or something noticed my car and its specialty license plate.
I came back from dinner with my friend the first evening and found this note on my Expedition. Bizarre.
Later, my buddy looked up the cryptic set of letters at the bottom. Apparently it’s authentic QAnon gibberish, translated as “Where We Go 1 We Go All.”
Frankly, I’m baffled as to where the writer got his pejoratives from. Because I can unequivocally state that I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Society of Jesus.
I’d hang it on my fridge.
Agreed. At least that way the police will find it if you vanish. My guess is a prank from high-spirited lefty commie students.
I’m not sure those exist on St. Simons. I was thinking “avid OAN watcher” myself.
Oh a quick DDG search leads down a strange rabbit hole of insanity from all walks of life.
Well at least you’re a Satanist Jesuit, as opposed to one of those Papist ones.
Nice penmanship though
I went to Bapist school for a brief period and the Masons as satanists thing would come up fairly often. I was Catholic, they also thought I was a satanist. I had to explain Catholics were the ‘original’ Christians thing several times. They weren’t having it.
Yes. I’m sure Jesus Christ would approve of Vatican City.
Splitter!
🙂
And Martin Luther was a vandal!
Don’t forget his obsession with feces.
There were christians before Catholicism. Indeed, the whole church as it developed was a perversion of the original, and much of the dogma and doctrine written by the church is deviant and at odds with the original materials
UCS said it better.
The Catholic Church is what you get when you combine a messianic religion with a Roman governance structure.
That would be pretty good on a t-shirt.
Day 2 recovering from my vasectomy.
https://youtu.be/NEhOwEDyYnM?si=dQp1Hb7hB4U_zN06
Good luck to your balls.
Have some music to lighten your mood.
bitch about traffic
Some idiot in an Impreza wouldn’t get out of my way. Then he tried to at the same time I opted to go around him. I doubled back to the left lane. He did as well. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt to try again. He maintained his course and I floored it to go around him. Asshole.
Oh, you said bitch to my coworkers…
I keep waiting to show up on the reddit idiots in cars as an offender of a left lane camper. I despise people who camp in the left and don’t treat it as a passing lane. If I’m on a rural stretch and am passing someone on the right who’s camped in the left, I will frequently feign distraction about when they’d be in my perceived blind spot (I don’t have a blind spot, my mirrors are adjusted properly) and drift into their lane just to spook/annoy them.
That would be the entirety of the the tri-state area here.
I can’t stand it either, but it what everybody does.
I frequently use the right lane because it is moving fastest. *Shrug* no use swimming upstream.
If Trump was smart, he would take his video predicting Iran would use the money Biden gave them to turn around and fund Hamas and make that his primary campaign video.
Or, he could use that bandwidth to take another juvenile shot at DeSantis.
I know which way I’m betting.
Lol – sad but true.
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When has Trump ever given evidence of being smart?
By ‘predicting Iran would use the money Biden gave them to turn around and fund Hamas’?
It might not even be true, but it looks like a smart thing to have said.
He’s smart especially by comparison to the stupid/evil combination of our current rulers.
Meh. Thinking it just makes you not stupid/lying.
Trump’s stupid/evilness is hidden by his narcissism. He’d turn on his supporters in a hot second if it suited him. Just look at some of his criticisms of DeSantis.
Very true.
Even when he’s been right about something, it is usually for the wrong reasons. Now, pragmatically I don’t care – except for his lack of resolve. He got talked out of all kinds of things he was actually right about and that’s because he had no confidence in what he was saying – it just got him some applause. And that is his motivation.
Or take a video of Joe building the wall he crowed about for 5 years.
Biden confirms 14 dead Americans in Israel
I expect the USG to fuck up any attempt to get Americans out of Israel.
No doubt.
I’m expecting something like this only worse. (Could he screw up a whole air wing off the Ford?) He seems damned determine to out-Carter Carter, after all.
Operation Three Eyed, Three Toed Eagle? (I can’t find the video clip, use your imagination)
He absolutely will. Even Obama said that if something could be screwed up, Biden would find a way.
Gaza holds its breath as Israel masses its forces on the border ahead of invasion and power runs out in besieged enclave
I’m not sure what the benefit of invading is.
Me neither. Seal it off, bomb/shell it as advisable. Allow ships into port only to take refugees (who cares where?). How the hell did Gaza go from tens of thousands of residents to millions, anyway?
Something about a wasteland and peace, here. Because that’s the only way you’ll get peace.
‘How the hell did Gaza go from tens of thousands of residents to millions, anyway?’
Well, when a man loves a woman…
That and being kicked out of your land and forced to move there.
Sorry TX. As usual the cancer spreads.
California to Texas was the most popular interstate relocation route in the country in 2021, according to an analysis by storage-space search site StorageCafe using Census Bureau data. During that year, about 111,000 people—about 300 a day—moved from California to Texas.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/texas-housing-california-migration-affordability-a50c78f?st=e0d82axrpbcaqn6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
2023 – California transplants “We cannot afford California and have no idea we can’t because we don’t think it has to do with the politicians we vote for”
2024 – California transplants now registered to vote
2028 – Texas a formidable bastion for Democratic policies
“No matter where we go, the same thing keeps happening!”
+1 MA refugee in NH.
Honestly, how much of California’s bullshit is the result of dumb white people and how much was from illegal immigration?
I’m not saying the homeless population is 0 illegal immigrants, but most of them come to work to send the money back. They’ll certainly sign up for ‘free’ gov’t handouts, but they aren’t lazy. All the homeless I have had to deal with in/around Austin are lazy/drunk/drugged white or black people.
I think they view government as a slush fund. It’s what they vote for in their own countries. It’s naive to think they won’t do so here.
Living in Florida, I see it on a daily basis. The percentage of Hispanics on food stamps and medicaid is astounding and seems to dwarf that of the natives. They do work, but they have no qualms about taking free shit and they will vote for it.
Illegal immigrants can’t vote, so in theory, 100% the result of dumb white people.
Reagan granted amnesty to large numbers of them. in ’87.
Then in 1992, California went blue and stayed blue and became ever more blue.
There are a lot of reasons for why California went stupid. There is no reason for it to remain stupid, save one – they haven’t run out of other people’s money, yet.
Nonsense, they had a republican governor 20 years ago. Served 2 terms.
I would say, in theory illegals can’t vote. As the Bro notes, tt remains an astonishing coincidence that CA went solid Blue and became Bluer as the illegal population went up.
I don’t have any idea, and I suspect the data isn’t available, at all, as to how many of the recent millions of illegals are working as opposed to living off government money laundered through nonprofits.
you are assuming that the actual votes matter. I’m not convinced that is true.
It’s just as possible that getting bluer made them more welcoming of ever more illegals. +1 sanctuary +1 “no human is illegal” etc etc
When there is no way to actually verify if you are eligible to vote, along with the voter rolls not being purged on a timely basis, and yet you pass out ballots to every possible address, you will get illegals voting.
You will also get people who are really passionate casting extra votes in their kids name, who might be registered twice.
There were definitely changes in who could be on the ballot which caused a lot of this. This article is interesting but does not discuss the legal changes made to the system over time which resulted in the monoparty.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-voting-history/
Dems Worry Their Caucus Will Soon Turn Against Israel
Having actual islamists in your caucus will do that.
Feature, not a bug.
There’s still plenty more Zionists than Islamists in the power structure of the DNC. What that ratio looks like in the general voting block of the party is, I don’t know, but I imagine it’s similar to the Republicans with regard to Ukraine. Almost every R politician can’t wait give them more money and I have yet to meet any Republican voter that cares about Ukraine.
Hell all the noecon zionists defected from the republican party back to the Dems when Trump got elected.
Correct. I wonder how this will change that migration.
More known or suspected terrorists have been apprehended at the northern and southwest borders in fiscal 2023 than any other fiscal year in recorded history.
People from all over the planet are crossing the southern border, being invited in by the USG. They (I.e. the USG) are creating a situation where sleeper cells can and will cause problems.
You can’t change the composition of the electorate without breaking a few eggs.
And you absolutely need some broken eggs to ramp up the surveillance and “security” state.
suspected terrorists
That should be in air quotes. You know how the USG defines terrorists. A good number of those suspects were probably guilty of carrying either a Koran or a copy of Atlas Shrugged. The USG has repeatedly said over the past couple years that domestic right wing extremism is the greatest threat in this country.
Federal budget deficit reached whopping $1.7 trillion for fiscal year 2023
Chump change. Obviously we have to continue funding bullshit around the world, even funding both sides of every conflict.
Biden-Appointed Prosecutor Ignored Potential Conflict Of Interest In Hunter Biden Case, Testimony Shows
*shocked face*
Err, that’s not a potential conflict of interest, by the way. That’s an actual one.
I’m sure the guild, err Bar, will get right on that!
To the extent the Palis were kicked out, it was by their ‘allies’ who told them they were going to kill all the Jews and so they should get out of Israel.
When it turned out the Arab militaries sucked ass and got their asses handed to them, then the Palis became a useful political tool.
It turns out people have a hard time coexisting with people who wear suicide vests and like to blow themselves up..
US automakers lay off hundreds more workers as UAW strike’s ripple effects grow
I, too, want to be paid twice as much for doing half the work. I also want a unicorn.
If the striking workers wives are like mine it would be something like:
“OK Dumbass, now what? How much are you making now?”
I played https://squaredle.com 10/11:
41/41 words (+7 bonus words)
⏱️ In the top 29% by speed
🔥 Solve streak: 2
Blossom Puzzle, October 11
Letters: A G I E N O S
My score: 362 points
My longest word: 13 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 625
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first decent score in a while.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 10/11:
20/20 words (+5 bonus words)
📖 In the top 17% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 10/11:
41/41 words (+11 bonus words)
📖 In the top 12% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 17
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 10/11:
*20/20 words (+2 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 23% by accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 10/11:
41/41 words (+7 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 30% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 17
I feel like I should go watch SCTV now.
‘Outgrowing’ autism? For some kids, the disorder seems to disappear by age 6, ‘encouraging’ study finds
As a high-functioning, undiagnosed autist, I am dismayed.
If you’re undaignosed, how do you know?
Self-diagnosed.
Pretty sure coming to this site puts you somewhere on the spectrum.
At the very least, it puts you on a list.
Good morning, Banjos!
Oh good. If they are admitting 1.7 million, whats the real number? The end game for the regime is a mystery to me. People claim it’s to “destroy America” but then what? It’s an underwear gnome problem.
Cause problems, expand government power to “solve” those problems, use that expanded power to reward friends and punish enemies…it really is that simple.
While that is true for some of them, we should never forget good old fashioned incompetence is rampant, as well.
If it was incompetence, they’d be supportive of throwing more taxpayer money at the border and the agencies that deal with it. They aren’t.
Another way to be incompetent is to not recognize how big the problem is and to keep doing nothing.
The VA communist party is upset.
The memo claims Republicans would ban abortion, try to make voting harder and ease the state’s gun laws if they take control of the Virginia General Assembly.
With all 140 state legislative seats on the ballot (some candidates are running unopposed), both parties are vying for control of the General Assembly to help pass their agendas next year. …
The Democratic memo framed the elections as a clash between “common-sense” Democrats and Republicans controlled by right-wing hardliners.
“The MAGA Republican party wants to take total control of state government, re-electing their majority in the House and flipping control of the Senate – putting extremism in control of our Commonwealth,” the memo reads.
“It’s not theoretical. The threat is real. We’ve seen the extreme policies they’ve put forward in the past and know, if elected, they will do everything they can to ban abortion, weaken gun safety laws, and put middle class families at risk,” the memo continued. “This is a battle between extremism and commonsense.”
“My ideas are commonsense. You are just an extremist for wanting limited government.”
Hopefully we can make Virginia defiant again.
Common sense is what tells you the sun orbits around the earth.
I don’t believe I’ve heard that before. I like it.
As far as I know, I made it up. But I’m probably not the first.
I use it on my students a lot.
I’m already spreading it around to my coworkers. Thanks!
“A few notes on the Israel-Palestine conflict”
If you don’t follow Martyr Made, you are missing out.
Its atrocities all the way down.
The Kennedys are fucking assholes, Exhibit 987,163;
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brutal-rfk-jrs-own-siblings-denounce-him-and-endorse-biden
Stop making me like him.
I was a kinda fond of the guy, but he lost me this week with his pledge to send all the money, weapons, and troops that can be mustered to Israel.
His housing ideas are retarded as well. And he wants to ban fracking for climate.
Fuck him.
I wouldn’t vote for the guy but family selling you down the river in public is pretty scummy regardless.
The true Kennedy nature; remember his daddy was an assistant to Sen. McCarthy’s committee.
What about people who deserve it, like Harry and Meghan?
I mean I was ambivalent about him, but hey the Kennedy’s hate him I’ll give him another look.
He’s pretty good at identifying problems. Not so good with solutions.
The party and the people are one, so the needs of the party must always come first.
I’d still vote for him. I don’t really care about his positions, I just care about the chaos that it would cause.
Politicians are generally pretty malleable in their policies once they get installed in their new office…
“Sean on October 11, 2023 at 7:19 am
You missed your opportunity to set up a fake company and get some of that PPP monies.”
I had someone tell me at work that students deserved to have their loans forgiven because the government had given businesses PPP money. Tried to explain the difference between government forcing businesses to close and people making choices but she was having none of that.
And well..Congress appropriated and passed the PPP laws. Right or wrong, it went through the proper process.
In addition the PPP money was supposed to go to wages. The alternative was to have the companies fire everyone, and they would end up on unemployment, which would cost the taxpayers money too.
They are all on the same team.
A Telegram channel called South First Responders, which has been distributing shocking footage from scenes on kibbutzim and other areas devastated in Saturday’s attack, claims that soldiers found an flag of the Islamic State terror group on the vest of a terrorist killed during an assault on Kibbutz Sufa, near the Gaza border.
The picture’s authenticity cannot be immediately confirmed.
‘Outgrowing’ autism? For some kids, the disorder seems to disappear by age 6, ‘encouraging’ study finds
Yeah, this study is pretty much utter bullshit. It only involved children diagnosed between 12-36 months year old. Under 24 months is not reliable and then 24-36 months is still iffy unless a parent knows exactly what to look for (for example sibling of autistic child).
This research was also conducted during the lockdowns of the pandemic. So you basically had bunch of infants/toddlers, most already too young to be diagnosed and the compounded with not being allowed to play with other children or see anyone’s faces for 2+ years. No shit they seemed autistic and then that resolved once lockdowns ended.
See my comment below, I don’t know how iffy it is.
My daughter, btw, was diagnosed at 24 months and 3 days.
Shut up, Vlad.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday accused Russia of supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas in its conflict against Israel.
“We are certain that Russia is supporting, in one way or another, Hamas operations,” Zelensky said in an interview with the France 2 television channel.
“The current crisis… bears witness to the fact that Russia really is seeking to carry out destabilising actions all over the world,” he added.
“Everybody look at me!” You are the David Hogg of chief executives.
I’ve heard that accusation several times already and curiously without any evidence presented.
Something bad happened. Of course it was Russia. That’s all the evidence you need.
RE: the autism link
I didnt read the article (yet), but when my daughter went thru ABA therapy, they said that about 60% of kids who go thru it lose their autism diagnosis.
My daughter didnt, but it was still super helpful. I mean, amazingly so.
The director at the place said it this way…if someone tells you one of the kids in a room has autism, but you can’t figure out which one, do they really have it?
He was on the bahavioralist side. Others think of it as a lifetime diagnosis.
Would it be too cynical to suggest that a lifetime diagnosis is a lifetime of treatment? Vested interests.
I’m skeptical of the over diagnosis of everything. It’s like bureaucracy creating more reasons for its own existence.
Nope, not at all.
My daughter just restarted some therapy recently. We prompted it, due to some behaviors we were seeing it, but they seem far too eager to find reasons to continue it on.
ABA is a bit controversial. It can work extremely well at the right places and with the right kids, but there’s also a bit of snake oil vibe around it. I’ve interviewed many ABA specialists across the country and enjoyed talking with them. They do great work and care very much. But the ABA approach is frequently disputed by occupational and speech therapists. I recall talking with one OT in particular calling for the complete shutdown of the entire ABA profession as being fraudulent and dangerous. I’m somewhere in the middle (magic with the right kids, but ineffective and even potentially harmful with others). 60% rate of diagnosis disappearance sounds like the diagnoses are coming into way too early and then the kids are pushed through an ABA mill (making crazy $$$ for the owner).
For what it’s worth, my wife has treated hundreds of young children with autism and is considered the expert in her field for our geographic area. She’s seen maybe a handful of truly autistic children no longer display autistic behaviors in such a short time frame as reported in the study.
While I understand, yeah, dont get me started on speech therapists in particular. ESPECIALLY, speech therapists who sideline in feeding therapy.
If you have a kid who needs feeding therapy, don’t get it thru a speech therapist. Find a specialist. I recommend: https://healthcare.ascension.org/en/locations/indiana/ineva/evansville-peyton-manning-childrens-hospital-evansville-pediatric-feeding-program
New statement: BLM Grassroots calls for Hamas-style decolonization of America:
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1711785290439033296
I don’t think BLM activists would like where that would go in America. It would be quite a quality of life drop for them.
So they want to go back to Africa?
No. They have been deluded into thinking they are more than a small minority in this country by the media and that they can actually win a race war. Because that’s what they are calling for here.
They are even more delusional than your average modern day klansmen and exist in larger numbers, frankly.
I hear Liberia is nice.
Like one of our esteemed Glibs wrote recently, the left is doing the colonizing here. I don’t think they’ll enjoy being on the receiving end of decolonization.
VIENNA: Beer Party is polling at 12%.
Policies include:
🍺 A beer fountain for Vienna
🍺 New 50% tax on Radlers and “other atrocities”
🍺 Monthly barrel of beer to Austrian households (50L per adult, 20L per child)
🍺 Radler buyback programme, exchanging Radlers for real beer
https://twitter.com/moylato/status/1711830177414623668
I’ll argue that second point with them.
“Atrocities” opens the door for more government regulation. Remove that point, you have a winner.
Nope. Radlers (and shandies) are perfectly cromulent summer drinks. I have nothing against the use of adjuncts/additions in beers (even though I feel some have gone too far). I mean, based on that, they may include braggot (not so fun fact, the amount of honey used in it determines if you can make it under a brewery or winery license here in Ohio).
I think RJ was agreeing with you.
Ah, I was reading it as removing the “and ‘other atrocities'” clause only.
If “other atrocities” includes American Wheat, I fully support them.
Is is so hard to use a hefe yeast? And really, a Kolsch yeast (Im looking at you, Widmer)?
I went to the local DMV equivalent to renew my drivers license. I was is and out in 10 minutes. For Romanian bureaucracy I was pleasantly surprised.
You don’t renew online? I haven’t been to the DMV in a long time.
we do not.
They’re open at night?
A Palestinian explains Hamas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6of72XgiUg
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Israel uses rockets to defend its people; Hamas uses people to defend its rockets.
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Hamas means “enthusiasm” in Arabic, besides being an acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement”.
Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyah
HA M A S
As various health entities are determined to find XY autistic, I will say he had some hallmarks before he was aboit 8 or so, noise sensitivity, other things, but all testing came to naught when we started trying to test him around 11 or so.
The latest tester asked me what my understanding of autism is, and I said, “Anywhere from severely developmentally disabled to slightly quirky.” He just nodded. I don’t know if that was agreement or not.
He has his quirks and little obsessions, but the noise sensitivity is long gone.
If everyone who is slightly quirky is autistic, no one’s autistic.
I worked on Wall St. They really did run the spectrum.
Before my daughter was diagnosed, and before I found out I was tested in the mid-70s, I used to joke that everyone in IT was somewhere on the spectrum. No one ever disagreed with me. And I still believe it, its just not a joke anymore.
Apparently I was tested in first grade, I was “borderline”, and there was no point in throwing me into special ed, so they tossed me into the gifted program instead.
We’ve talked about this before in many threads.
I’ve taken the test for Asperger Syndrome. I score very, very high. Yet, I am not autistic.
Per Meyer-Briggs, I am hardcore INTP. I suppose to many people, INTPs would appear to be autistic. It’s not that I can’t read or relate to other people, I just don’t care to (most of the time with most of the people).
I am also INTP and a Leo (I consider Meyer-Briggs only slightly more accurate than astology). However, I also see lots of things in my daughter that I did at the same age. She is me turned up to 11. For good and for bad. Its a bit scary.
She will probably turn out to be an INTJ just to piss me off (actually, ENTP seems more likely).
It never occurred to me whether I was tested but now that I think of it – I must have been since my oldest sibling is very autistic.
I have some oddities I guess but I function more or less normally. I’ve always been a loner so I bet that threw a lot of red flags when I was little.
We didn’t have autism when I was a kid. War was going on and everything was rationed.
All seriousness aside those kids with learning to read problems red shirted 2nd grade and caught up. By junior high behavioral problems got after school detention. Seemed to help.
I was tested in first/second grade (my parents still had the testing paperwork with shit from my younger days), they used some testing method that has apparently fallen so far out of the standard that I couldn’t find anything about it online. It had me at borderline, and they suggested that my parents move me from the private school to a public school with a gifted program or advance me a grade. My parents did neither.
For me, autism means non-verbal, or at most definitely-246-toothpicks mathematical ability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kthFUFBwbZg
autism means non-verbal
By that standard, ABA therapy cured my daughter. She was non-verbal when she started (actually, she had a 1 word vocabulary, “Go”, which she would say if you said “Ready, Set”). Now she won’t shut up.
Nah. You can be normally verbal and still have great difficulty interacting with others in what the rest of us would consider a “normal” manner, and be considered autistic.
Yep, and that is also why its a spectrum.
My daughter was non-verbal, but that was fixed fairly quickly.
She also had a textural aversion to food. Lots of kids on the spectrum have this, some with clothing too. A boy in her ABA program wouldn’t wear shoes. Hers was just to food, she would immediately spit out anything more solid than apple sauce. The puffs that babies eat? She would spit them out. Stage 3 baby food? Nope.
It was about 6 months of feeding therapy before she ate her first solid food (she was over 3yo at that point). And a full year before we stopped using the blender for her meals. Its amazing what you can blend.
Indeed.
Damn you Tundra!
I teed up the softball, glad someone went for it. I got two of you to post it so I didnt have to.
Ive sat and watched more of those stupid videos than I care to admit.
A blast from the past:
Will it Blend?
Oh man. I forgot about that guy. Good stuff
My brother is autistic. Not trying to gate keep or anything, but if you met him you would say “yes, appears to be autistic.”
It is wildly over-diagnosed because money.
This woman has no reservations.
On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we celebrate the contributions, the extraordinary resilience, and the rich cultures of tribal nations and Native communities. Today and every day, the federal government must recommit itself to honoring its promises to Native peoples.
Or self-awareness. Dayum.
So she should take it back?
Faux Indian Giver!
Saw a funny on the internet yesterday. It was a Happy Indigenous People’s Day post on X.
With a pic of the Aztecs ripping someone’s heart out on top of the pyramid.
At least we know the sun will rise for another year.
That was yesterday’s afternoon links
The Israel situation is going to be a problem for the Dems. Their rabid base is not only cheering on Hamas, they are advocating the same “decolonization” here. Now that large scale Islamic terrorism is back, two years of open borders is looking worse and worse. And to top it all off, their inspiring leader Joe Biden, who keeps sending money to Iran, took a lid at 9am the other day. I’m expecting a bump for Trump pretty soon.
Hitching your wagon to Hamas is not gonna be a winning strategy.
I feel like that’s not even McMansion territory.
This is why the money men are sharting themselves right now.
There was a reason Regan did so, so well against Carter, and it wasn’t just the economy.
What we need is more racism.
California’s newly enacted “Ebony Alert” law is the first of its kind in the nation to prioritize the search for Black youth gone missing.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 673 into law on Sunday, making California the first state to create an alert notification system — similar to an Amber Alert — to address the crisis of missing Black children and young women.
The law, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, will allow the California Highway Patrol to activate the alert upon request from local law enforcement when a Black youth goes missing in the area. The Ebony Alert will utilize electronic highway signs and encourage use of radio, TV, social media and other systems to spread information about the missing persons’ alert. The Ebony Alert will be used for missing Black people aged 12 to 25.
I thought “Amber Alerts” covered everyone. I guess I was wrong.
The yellow alert system is pretty bad. You get a letter in the mail 3-5 days later.
That’s just so hilariously awful and racist that I can’t even. How can leftist MSM even report that with a straight face?
Amber was the girls name,
/racist fucks
☝🏻
Amber too often has bugs in it, so it’s not vegan.
Amber is the color of your energy, woah-oh…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_WUs-zlNU
🙂
https://x.com/NBCNews/status/1712086970107605432?s=20
This is the way.
I like this trend. We watch sports to escape and enjoy ourselves. We have 1000 other opportunities every day to get a woke lecture.
Agreed. I’m pretty militant about it. As I said to a lefty coworker one day who picked a fight with me apparently hoping to hear me say something like Military Appreciation day was still ok, I don’t even want to see pink on Mother’s Day. Just play the fucking game.
If gay rights was really about gays I wouldn’t mind so much. But apparently it’s actually about 35 year old dudes wearing a skimpy dress and demanding to
be called ma’am.
Sorry for that crazy spacing there. I blame the Russians.
If it was even actually about rights, we’d have grounds for a discussion.
I caught a few minutes of the NFL this weekend and I thought they were wearing pride gear. Turns out they just have some initiative where every cancer is now recognized and it just looks like a rainbow (probably not unintended).
October is always breast cancer awareness month.
I know this because September is breast cancer awareness month awareness month.
I learned a new word today (which I will have forgotten by tomorrow)
misprision
noun
1. Mistake; error; misunderstanding.
2. In law: Criminal neglect in respect to the crime of another: used especially in connection with felonies and treason, to indicate a passive complicity, as by concealment, which falls short of the guilt of a principal or accessory.
3. More loosely, any grave offense or misdemeanor having no recognized fixed name, as maladministration in an office of public trust: also termed positive misprision, as distinguished from negative misprision, or mere neglect or concealment.
Man, those arabs are a surly bunch.
Swarthy they is,
Isn’t it more of an Islam thing? Not that I have a big sample size but I used to hang out with a couple of Arab Christian girls and they were fun to say the least-or maybe it’s more of a male thing in an honor culture.
According to Wikipedia, Hunter Biden’s involvement with Burisma is just a conspiracy theory:
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The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of false allegations that Joe Biden, while he was vice president of the United States, improperly withheld a loan guarantee to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor general Viktor Shokin to prevent a corruption investigation of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son, Hunter Biden, who was on the Burisma board.
***
Let’s roll the tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Ibbq_LG-4
With all of the gaslighting I really don’t understand how Wikipedia can ever be carbon-neutral.
Easy – turn off their datacenter.
The person who started Wikipedia has recently said that the site has become useless garbage.
Ah, but it does still have information on the msukule, the zombie of East African folklore. I translated the article:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/10/msukule-zombie-of-east-african-folklore.html
Don’t bury me! I’m not dead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rO-ZMoLUSI
Sure, on anything remotely political.
I use them a couple dozen times a day for non-political stuff and it’s a great resource.
Given the intent of some that everything is political, eventually it will all be corrupted.
Seems to me that you should only have the flag of your state outside your congressional office.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib still has a Palestinian flag hanging outside her House Office amid Hamas’ invasion of Israel.
I’m sure there’s no Israeli flags anywhere to be found.
My statement stands.
And I agree with it. But I’m not the one criticizing only her.
Nor am I.
or Ukranian.
I don’t support that either.
Have you linked articles critical of other congress critters who have the flags of other countries in their offices? I guess I missed them.
I haven’t come across them. My general rule is that congress critters are in congress to represent their states. Ergo they should only have state symbols around, including their lapel pins. I do not care for the R or D “current thing” that they want to virtue signal about.
Remember that, apparently, if you criticize an act of a person, you must – before you can be taken seriously or have your criticism addressed, have a track record of addressing every instance of such a thing happening in the past. Or, baring that, track down several other instances, especially if said instance could be construed as inverting the players in your current criticism, and reference it in your statement. Otherwise, you’ll be open to implications of bias and not being consistent. Impure even, with ulterior motivation.
Cute.
Also remember that when you have an established track record of condemning only one group of people, you open yourself to a charge of hypocrisy for criticizing just that group when both sides of the issue are guilty of said behavior.
Does he – assuming gender, bad putrid -have a track record of condemning (condemning seems a strong word; seems it more an observation) only one group of people? I honestly don’t know. And I guess don’t particularly care – that does not detract from the accuracy of xer statement.
A more effective way to respond might be along the lines of “Totally, US representatives really shouldn’t be flying the Palestinian flag in their official capacity. And what’s with those asshats wearing Ukranain flag lapels and Israeli flag jock straps!” – the later is, IMNSHO, slightly less an affront than flying a flag in an official capacity, but still unseemly. A statement that comes off as accusatory and snide (as yours did, at least, to my ear, perhaps erroneously) is somewhat counterproductive and doesn’t address the substance of the statement.
Yes, I absolutely feel that he does. And it was snide because I am in a snide mood. Sick of a lot of the daily bullshit that goes on here and just kind of taking it out on the world. Sometimes this place feels like Qanon or a fucking Trump rally. I think few outsiders would come away from this site thinking it was a libertarian website.
or Ukranian.
You reap what you sow, motherfuckers.
Dumb shits.
Palestine is called that because of the Romans. It has been a Jewish area for thousands of years. Maybe do the research before siding with terrorists.
Or, better yet, just don’t take sides* in a conflict in which you have no interest or knowledge, especially when the conflict is a thousand+ years old.
*But do condemn terrorism and murder no matter who does it.
There wasn’t a modern Palestine until the Brits invented it after WWI. The Ottomans called it South Syria.
You sure?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine
The name of the region/ethnic group may have existed (after all, the Brits didn’t invent that), but there was no state. E.g.
Indeed you do.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
How many Nepali students are at Harvard? Is the “association” 2 people?
“…simply because they supported a terrorist organization in law school”
Simply. See, it’s no big deal. Why would anyone object to that? It isn’t like they have revealed themselves to be incorrigible shit-stirrers stirring shit because they were seen stirring shit.
Easy A?
SC Rep. Nancy Mace is wearing a t-shirt with the letter “A” on it.
When asked what it stands for, she said it’s her “Scarlet letter.”
It would make a lot more sense if that were Boebert.
The D that Mace defeated (I lived in the district at the time) was probably the furthest right Democrat in the House at the time. Or close to it.
The shift from him to Mace was pretty small.
Sure glad the border has been open for a few years now.
And what kind of heinous fuckery can we expect from fedgov to keep us safe?
I’m resigned to the idea that we will see terror attacks here, sooner rather than later.
We already have, I promise you.
I can’t recall where I read it, some dude was summarizing a threat assessment he did years ago for the DD on fire as a terror weapon
Anime babes make me think the wrong thing.
she said it’s her “Scarlet letter.”
I would adulterate with Nancy Mace, given the opportunity.
#MeToo
This made me smile: a home-made comic book about a tournament of prehistoric ocean creatures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OvUjlkqBuI
Wow. Shorter version of NPR – “she was asking for it”.
Team Blue is going to have some serious trouble holding things together among its various factions.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/11/1204923717/israel-gaza-hamas-palestinian-war
“He nominated someone who was convicted for eight times in inciting violence against Arabs,” Schneider said, referring to Itamar Ben-Gvir, the minister of national security. “This is someone who was outlawed, who was for us Israelis, someone who was not supposed to sit in government. Netanyahu made him a strong leader and someone who is fully engaged in politics.”
BLM Chicago posted on Twitter a graphic of a Palestinian paraglider. And college professors are advocating “decolonization” here. These people are openly inciting not just violence, but rape and slaughter of families. We are on dangerous ground. And the Dems have not disavowed any of this.
Paraglider fail.
Resistance is useless?
Allahu Akbzzt
Yeah… no thanks.
What allegedly smart students in University say these days shows that politics is just a fashion statement with 0 thought involved.
That’s true of just about everybody.
Nuclear war will cause a great deal of change in the climate.
Q: Does Biden stand by his comment that climate change is “more frightening than a nuclear war”?
JOHN KIRBY: “Absolutely he does — climate change is an existential threat!”
Q: “More frightening than nuclear war!?”
KIRBY: Yes
How about carnies?
https://youtu.be/ZXRfnIfFYFI?si=ux_ksW0VONqkeXnb
This never would have happened when Dorsey was in charge
A European regulator has issued Elon Musk a stern warning about the spread of illegal content and disinformation on X, formerly known as Twitter, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. Failure to comply with the European regulations around illegal content could result in fines worth 6% of a company’s annual revenue.
Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, said in a letter addressed to Musk on Tuesday that his office has “indications” that groups are spreading misinformation and “violent and terrorist” content on X, and urged the billionaire to respond within a 24-hour period.
The letter comes after numerous researchers, news organizations and other groups have documented a rise of misleading, false and questionable content on X, creating confusion about the current conflict.
I wonder what sort of misinformation concerns them most.
There were a shit ton of vids being posted that were supposedly from the recent thing but were actually from whatever long ago but it’s no reason for the government regulator cocksuckers to get involved.
I would laugh my ass off if Elon responded by blocking traffic from EU member nations.
“indications” that groups are spreading misinformation and “violent and terrorist” content on X“
That’s been going on the whole time. There’s lots of accounts, and have been since way before Musk, proselytizing for Islamist terrorism.
“Middle Eastern history between 12,000 and 400 B.C.E. … interpersonal violence—primarily in the form of head trauma—increased significantly during times of socioeconomic upheaval and shifting climate.”
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1711910333286125639
CLIMATE CHANGE IS TO BLAME
And here I was thinking all along it was mysterious monoliths that caused ape-men to start bashing each others’ heads in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wstIBq2H0z8
Alternatively.
“Middle Eastern history between 12,000 and 400 B.C.E. … interpersonal violence—primarily in the form of head trauma—increased significantly during times of socioeconomic upheaval and shifting climate.”
So precious.
Beach Flags | Basic Rules Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mReglERhdyA
I think we should ban human nature.
Two types of cats
Aw.
Awesome
He reminded Musk in the letter that the DSA “sets very precise obligations regarding content moderation,” and that X needs “to be very transparent and clear on what content is permitted under your terms and consistently and diligently enforce your own policies.”
Why aren’t you complying with our impossible-to-comply-with rules?
I very much would make sure I had no European offices and tell them to fuck off. But that’s the American in me.
I’m imagining something like the California “this #6 stainless steel flat washer is known to cause cancer in the state of California” warnings. Every tweet can include verbage stating “this platform is known to spread misinformation in the European Union”.
It sounds to me as if the “X community” is doing a fairly effective job of monitoring and flagging content.
Joe was just checking in to see how everybody was doing!
Then-VP Joe Biden’s Office Exchanged Nearly 20,000 Emails with Hunter’s Investment Firm
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/then-vp-joe-bidens-office-exchanged-nearly-20000-emails-with-hunters-investment-firm/
20,000 discussions about the weather.
And holidays, family events, etc.
Yoga workouts, how the kids are doing (well, not that kid), etc.
QUIET, YOU!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srjdRbGGSrI
And although the survey was conducted only in the eastern Coachella Valley, a vast agricultural area east of Los Angeles primarily populated by Latino farmworkers, “We cannot say that soda fountain contamination is only in the eastern Coachella Valley,” he added.
Science!!!!
https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/deadly-superbug-bacteria-detected-in-soda-fountains-study/
Political calculus
So who else could step in if Biden’s health deteriorates or some other factor emerges that makes him unable or unfit to run?
Among governors, Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer’s name has been mentioned as a possible presidential hopeful. As the governor of a swing state, Whitman has maneuvered through numerous delicate issues that give her experience that would be invaluable in the White House.
Two others who have shown interest include JB Pritzker of Illinois and Gavin Newsom of California. Given that both come from deep-blue states, they would provide little added value to the ticket in attracting moderate voters or snagging support in a purple state.
Nonetheless, it would serve the Democratic Party well to have all three positioned to pivot into the primaries to offer a viable choice if they are needed.
Among senators, a name that has received some mentions is Mark Warner of Virginia. He would provide an interesting selection, given that Virginia is a swing state. Cory Booker from New Jersey has also shown interest for the nomination. Given his relatively young age, he has a long runway before him that will almost certainly lead to a serious run for the nomination at some point in the future.
Any such discussions likely include Vice President Kamala Harris. However, her approval rating continues to languish at or below 40 percent, making her a less than ideal candidate. Whether the Democratic leadership would view her favorably remains to be seen.
The only name which does not fill me with utter dread is Warner, so we know he’ll never get a shot.
For pure entertainment value, Harris vs Whitmer is my choice.
Harris is retarded. Whitmer is evil. I guess that debate could be fun.
https://twitter.com/LaocoonofTroy/status/1711922144899199084
Interesting tweet
How much better are OTA tuners in TVs then say 15 years ago? If I get a new TV will I be able to get better reception/more channels?
(I refuse to pay the cable company for a 3rd box.)
I have a new Sony. Works perfectly even with a meh antenna
Yes, tuners have improved. Might look for comments on that before buying a particular set just to be safe. I use a Roku TV (whole TV, not just a box) with an antenna I mentioned here when I wrote up about getting away from cable. Lots of useful info, even prior to purchase:
https://www.glibertarians.com/2023/03/television-in-2023-part-one-over-the-air-channels/
Democrats remain mostly quiet about the issue. Yet behind closed doors, a Plan B has been formulated and people have been contacted and are ready to act. Far too much is at stake to allow an eleventh-hour crisis to derail their election hopes.
In an ideal world, President Biden’s health should not be a factor. In the real world, an octogenarian holding the nation’s most powerful position is a risk, not just to the Democratic Party but to the nation. Whether any Plan B ever gets put into action remains to be seen.
Why the fuck wouldn’t Biden’s age be a concern in an “ideal world”? Unless it’s because he would have been put out to pasture decades ago.
I would have thought those Plan B discussions would include some contemplation of potential candidates’ electability, but what do I know about machine politics?
“Far too much is at stake to allow an eleventh-hour crisis to derail their election hopes…”
Like an attack on Israel and some of your own party members celebrating?