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It looks like the globalists want to create an environment for a ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Within that context, the various national leaders (who are mugging it up for the cameras) should state their position on the extradition of Hamas leadership to Israel for prosecution. Their answers to that simple question will show the world they are honorable/noble people who have the best of intentions.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/12/02/frances-macron-says-he-is-going-to-qatar-to-work-on-new-gaza-truce/
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/12/02/what-arab-nations-are-telling-israel-privately-is-quite-interesting-n2631920
A torrent of hate and mild-blowing hypocrisy. It’s amazing that someone would actually believe this rubbish, and sad for him if he actually does. It’s a longish piece and repetitive, but worth reading just to see how unhinged President Trump-haters really are.
He is blind to the devastation to America that the Biden Regime has caused. He fears a fantasy dictatorship by Pres,Trump, when he is is living under a real one.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7auziRk1eP0J:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/&hl=en&gl=us
Wow, JB. I’d love to see the comments from the readers of that Far Left rag. Thanks for the warning, it was a tough read.
one of my favorites, acquired here at Treehouse from someone
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https://allisrael.com/hamas-drugged-israeli-children-according-to-new-testimonies-of-released-captives
“We now know that Hamas terrorists who held hostage 13-year-old Yagel Yaacov and his brother Or, used a boiling hot motorcycle exhaust to “imprint” a burn on their legs as a way to identify them if they try to escape. “
Nadav Eyal, a journalist from the Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth recalled the horrifying story of Eitan Yahalomi, a 12-year-old French-Israeli boy who was recently released by Hamas after some 50 days in captivity in Gaza.
“A 12-year-old, kidnapped alone after his father was shot, was beaten by Gaza residents and forced at gunpoint by Hamas to watch videos of their murder spree and massacres,” Eyal noted.
“The Hamas terrorists forced him to watch films of the horrors, the kind that no one wants to see, they forced him to watch them,”
I thought that was Jane Fonda! 😂🤣😂
LOLOL!!!!! Just think how horrified she’d be!!! 😂
More horrified than she is now embarrassed by the orgasmotron scene in Barbarella?
Or they usher you to the self-serve checkout area where they pointedly hover over you, as if you are not to be trusted. Then you have to exit through a screening electric gate, the first one, at the do-it-yourself check out section, then the main one, the electric doors that beep very loudly sometimes, even if you are innocent of any wrongdoing and everyone stares accusingly at you until a greeter comes to check your sales slip,…. and they say, Sorry ma’am, it does that sometimes if you have bought a meat product! … going out of the store where, what were once ‘greeters’ but are now unsmiling ‘guards’ standing threateningly by the one-way-gates to enter the actual shopping area., aimed to stop shoplifters trying to avoid checkout areas, and you hope all these scanning electric gadgets you walk through, will not damage your pacemaker 🙂 How humiliating to have a Cardiac arrest at Walmart. People will wonder, was it a ‘roll back price?
I’ve always told the people at the neighbourhood WM I shop in they should have defibrillators at the checkout.
Once my husband was doing a bit of shopping for me there and after he checked himself out, he noticed a line of people whose receipts were being examined at the door. One man had enough, took his cart out of the line and headed towards the door…whereupon the checker screamed at him that she needed to see his receipt. Without turning around he waved it in the air and kept walking. People were really furious. As he reached the door everyone else broke out and walked past the hapless employee designated as the Walmart gruppenfürher
Next day when I went there was no one checking.
Mass noncompliance works.
yet no one will arrest rampaging bands of lawless negros emptying retail shelves and running out the door, right?
Right!
Nope…
Fantastic!
https://www.independentsentinel.com/reformed-mobster-knows-people-doing-what-the-bidens-do-getting-20-to-life/
“I don’t understand how the country is just sitting back listening to these things, and no action is being taken,” Sammy the Bull said. “If you want my opinion, there are so many guys that I know who would go to prison for 20 to lifetime sentences for this kind of stuff, and when it comes from the president, the Vice President, and people like that, it’s beyond theft. It’s treason to a country.”
Hilarious.LOL,
Reminds me of my UK school days. First days in a grammar school.( I had passed the 11+ ) I wondered in my first geometry class, when I was about 11-12, the teacher explaining how to prove that two triangles were equal, and I wondered, what was the point of proving such a thing? who cares if they are equal or not ? and anyway, I can see by looking at them that they are equal. It is obvious. This is going to be very boring…
.( I was always an’ asking questions’ kind of child, Why did it do that? what caused this or that? or that what does that do? what is the reason to do that, what will it tell me? what is it for? etc)
The first day in my science class, Ist class in Chemistry. Class sitting(about 30 students) waiting for the teacher to come in. Large chart hanging on the wall in front of us over the blackboard labelled Table of Elements. It had letters and numbers on it in small squares. I stared at it wondering what the heck it was.
The door opens, in bounces a short energetic young woman who said, ” Good morning girls!, I am Miss Bowen (and she had a delightful Welsh accent) and I am your chemistry teacher. Sorry, I am a bit late..In front of you is a chart, she waved her right arm and pointed vaguely in the general direction of the chart. “Learn it!” she commanded, and left the room.
I sat in disbelief and wondered , how can I learn it I don’t know even what it is, and a few of us looked around at each other in bewilderment, so I wasn’t the only one who had not got a clue what an ‘elements chart’ was, or therefore what was the point in learning it, and wondering also if she meant learn it NOW.
She returned after a few minutes with some books papers etc, I suppose she had forgotten them before, and she started talking about something else,(subject now lost in the mists of time) and I breathed a sigh of relief. I did not have to learn that meaningless chart right away (actually I never did memorize it. )
Despite being put off chemistry for life in my first class, I always liked Miss Bowen. She had a nice personality and was not a walking piece of wood, or a weirdo, like most of my bored teachers.
Marvelous, jb!!!!!! I enjoyed that story. Threw you all in the deep end, did she? My greatest good fortune would to be planted in Wales. I came to love the accent…and contrary to what I had always heard about the Welsh being clique-ish, I never found them so. They were so tolerant of this American; and the greatest compliment I ever received from the people in my town was when a tourist noticed that I did not have a Welsh accent (though it was fair to say after twenty years my American accent morphed interesting a more British one) and said, “Oh, so you’re not a local then…”
To which a few of the beautiful friends I had made said, “Oh, yes she is!” I could have wept…
Like you, I took chemistry because my dad insisted. Hated it. Might have liked it better and done better in it had I had a teacher like your Miss Bowen .
(Why am I all of a sudden thinking of the characters in Father Brown 🤔😁💕)
Delightful and mysterious surprise, I just sat down to have my supper an few minutes ago. I wanted some soup and my mind drifted off to the way of life I knew that is gone, and I though of Father Brown!!! I can’t believe it. I thought of his village and the gentle slower pace of life, and I do miss it as I know you do, and I even thought if had lived there, I would have been a Roman Catholic as Father Brown is my idea of the perfect priest. That is amazing indeed.
How lovely the people were so welcoming and warm to say that you were a local when you lived in Wales. Your home was there so you were. Wales is lovely. Like what they gave done to all of the UK and also Ireland it makes me very angry and very sad. Remember that song, ‘ you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone’… that is so true. When I was young I sort of assumed, without thinking about it much, as most people do, I think,.. the way things are, it will remain like this..I wish I had taken hundreds of pictures then but without a digital camera it would not have been so easy. I just have a few precious black and white.
My father was also science oriented although he was not a doc. He was into the electronics of his day and worked on secret stuff re improving the practical application of radar in planes. He was also interested in Radio astronomy. I think he had hopes for me in the sciences too.
Your American accent I am sure would have been regarded as charming, 🙂 I always loved the American accent even when I had never left the Uk and it sounded pleasant and ‘friendly’ to to my ear . It is strange how our accent changes depending on where we live, it happens slowly and we don’t really notice it ourselves. I think as I have lived away from the UK for a a very long time, I do not have a English accent anymore but people still say to me “What part of England are you from?”, which always surprises me. Often its another Brit asking 🙂
Told my husband don’t you dare lose yours. He hasn’t. We have our pictures stored away in our hearts and our minds…what I call mental cocktails which we imbibe very liberally. I know your memories are precious, jb. Ours are, too. Thomas Wolfe said one cannot go home again, and he is so right.
I learnt it by using mnemonics.
Harold Hunter
Lets Bessie Bunter Catch Nice Old Fish Near
Nag Mag Al Si P S Cl Ar et ( Nag Mag Al siPS Claret) etc etc
That’s marvelous. I wish I had had that when I was at school. I got to know most of them gradually some more than others.
I did have one, a memory assist, for a section of French verbs, now I only remember a bit of the sentence and don’t remember which French verbs . I think it was. Mrs D.R,Vanderkamp…..
I know there were a lot of verbs for ‘leaving’ in some way, in French, Partir Sortir etc maybe that was the list.
French alphabet. parts of it were, ‘jai’hache ( abbe I have an axe) ijk (eejgee kah, a lovely lady) Elle aime Eno, (she loves enno) pq (Paycu a guard in the palace) arrestez ! arrest him!, then are called uvwxyz ( oovay, dooblevay, etc) are other guards called to assist in the arrest.. ( I have never forgotten how to say the French Alphabet)
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Never mind camping-I’d like to live in one of those!
I could make that work, Charlotte 👍🏻
Me too.!
Lots of harassment by Hezbollah from South Lebanon. They required a response, they keep sending missiles at north Israel. This is the response into south Lebanon.
https://youtube.com/shorts/wDiSDqmftTo?si=6zhQfq8452k_4F4r
Hamad is a neighborhood next to Kahan Yunis. I said before that Hamas will break in Khan Yunis and it’s the toughest area.
Hamad is built by Qatari money and is named on the Leader of Qatar. It is also on a main road that will probably be used by the entering IDF forces. I am sure that Hamas built positions in those buildings which oversee the main road. I am sure the residents were given time to leave.
If I had a question as to Bibi succumbing to Biden and risks IDF soldiers this video indicates that “NO”. IDF is removing the buildings one by one. It’s a crazy video. It’s new.
Excellent video, Excellent precision.
Thank you to CTH for bringing Devin Nunes’ new wine venture to my attention. The promotions at the bottom of the pages were effective. Since I left his area for the forests of Oregon I’d lost touch. Hopefully he’ll get patriot support in what is to come. I’d like to see him advance from Truth Social CEO to VP myself; regardless, I wish him well in his viticulture/winemaking endeavors.
EVENING REFLECTIONS
Just finished watching Its a Wonderful Life. Nice to remember the past and why.
It’s a Wonderful Life and Bing Crosby 45’s playing; that’s how I remember Christmas. We’d wander the neighborhood caroling and then, back at home, warm up and have some of the snacks the neighborhood mothers made for us.
🙂
I would say FJB’s crew have no idea how to handle geopolitics. Case in point:
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4339335-lloyd-austin-israel-risks-defeat-if-civilians-not-protected/
75~80% of the palestinian population support Hamas. What happens if that number goes to 85%? What about 90%?
Does it matter?
FJB’s crew are a criminal organization. The United Nations is a criminal organization. International Red Cross is a criminal organization. I expect they will turn on each other.
The simple answer is the world should extradite the Hamas leadership to Israel. Play with the bull… get the horn.
Justin Hayward – The Day We Meet Again (Live at Bennett Studios 2004)
Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward – In My World (Live at Bennett Studios 2004)
Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward – I Dreamed Last Night (Live at Bennett Studios 2004)
Justin Hayward
MAYBE JUST MAYBE
Been thinking much of this and that
Not really sure of where we are at
Why this flirtation came to be
What is going on tween you and me
Fascinating to think of what fun it is
To banter back and forth in the whiz
Of getting to know me you and you me
Of wondering what in the world will be
Virtual hugs and smiles unseen appear
To taunt us daily and yet to hold dear
Imagining what the real would be like
For a brawny beau and a little tyke
The flowers paintings and songs oh so sweet
Have really dost become a daily treat
Silly poems come in a moment’s time
Funny how they rip roar and somehow rhyme
What is it that percolates in the mind
Unabated unassigned undefined
Is it the mystery that fascinates
These two mimes and avangarde advocates
The novel remains and is unwritten
Of these two fools obviously smitten
The game is on and the winner unknown
As each conceals lest their cover blown
Are you sitting comfortably right now
A song so pertinent and yet somehow
Still a quirk of the imagination
That feeds and fuels the fascination
Out there somewhere you reside and strive
Under God’s protection you live and thrive
To make your life worthwhile and true blue
You need to remember why God made you
You have a divine appointment unique
That takes you soaring from peak to peak
What is it that daily just spurs you on
From the hither here to thither yon
Who are you and what is it you have done
That sustains you and sturs you so to stun
The birds and the bees you can co-command
As if by God’s Hand was perfectly planned
There is a reason for this gift of grace
Properly peculiar to your private place
Only God knows why he planted your there
And why He put you out there somewhere
What is the reason for this confusing rhyme
And why is it suddenly I am out of time
Maybe because there is no solution
No ready release or resolution
Maybe just maybe it is time to rest
And to thank you for being my guest
Maybe just maybe time will reveal
What is hidden in the heart to unseal
D01: 07/07/2023
Justin Hayward – One Lonely Room (Live at Bennett Studios 2004)
Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward – Voices In The Sky (Live at Bennett Studios 2004)
Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward – Bless The Wings (Live at Bennett Studios 2004)
Justin Hayward
Sigh…..😉
Something touch your heart, Bet ? ❤️
Justin Hayward – The Best Is Yet To Come (Live From Her Majesty’s, 03.11.1985)
Under the weather today. Head ache, body aches, fever, chills, malaise. Buckley the cocker just doesn’t understand.
Feel better, Rah.
Sorry to hear that, rob… hope you’re “up and at ‘em” again soon.
Bless, rah… we’ve been under the weather for over a week but not like that. You know the drill with supplements. Plenty of fluids and sleep as well, my friend. Chicken broth would probably help. So so sorry 🙏🏻
Same here rah. Husband started first…day three I started. Head cold, chest cold cough fatigue…good old fashioned bug. Friend asked if we would test for covid or are we believers. Answered back oh yes we believe there is covid but won’t bother to test…treatments all the same unless we get short of breath. Then it could be rsv. I think it’s just a flu bug. My mother in law used to say three days coming, three days with you, three days going. I will stick by that!
I have loved reading your work stories even though I didn’t know exactly what you were talking about sometimes..love your stories about Sherrie and your neighbor and just you writing about being a normal American. Blessings to you and your circle as well as Nikki. I don’t often post on this thread but lurk every day.
Michigan Catholic school challenges judicial ruling that mandates they accommodate transgenderism
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/michigan-catholic-school-challenges-judicial-ruling-that-mandates-they-accommodate-transgenderism/
‘No government official has the right to force a Catholic institution like Sacred Heart to affirm positions contrary to the Church’s teachings on marriage and sexuality,’ said ADF attorney Kate Anderson.
That rule/law/belief was in a long ago World. Government “officials” do whatever they want to do, now.
Question, Sturm: Do you remember this subject even being a concern before 2007 when –
out of nowhere – a certain someone made a speech at convention ?
I had not seen this video prior to this date, even though I was aware of Edward Snowden and his expose on government(s) surveillance of citizens. This program CEMENTS my personal view that Snowden is very definitely Heroic.
tubitv.com/movies/465487/citizenfour
It didn’t take long for the threats and pressures to work at stifling news agencies continuing coverage on this.
Thank you! I reached that conclusion a long time ago. Not for anything in particular. Just intuition…history will bear it out I think.
Thanks Sundance on showing us how to spot the marionette strings!! This lecture tells the direct core of what the left is actually doing. Aslo, it looks like Ukraine was far from the first “World War Reddit.” I can’t recommend it enough.
” The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. This is a core maxim of Marxist activist thought, and it explains so much. “
Interesting video. similar to what I have thought for many years, that marxism /communism, and Nazis and WEF loons etc. are not opposites like opposite ends of a see saw, as so many people seem to think. They are the same in that they are both Totalitarian forms of Government.
Like Sundance said, re the leftist Dems and the Rino Republicans, they are two wings on the same vulture. The opposite of these Totalitarian systems is Freedom.
Good point on not being distracted by their games.
” The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. This is a core maxim of Marxist activist thought, and it explains so much. “
Amen
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen!
Amen.
Amen
Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
Pray Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzany9kt2DA
One of the best descriptions of the situation. A very powerful video.