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A PA really doesn't warrant refutation. You're right, as far as you can tell.

The following tweet seems to cover most of the bases: Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling It’s been amazing this week to watch the left invert every rhetorical device they’ve used since 2020, all to avoid having to criticize terrorists dedicated to Jewish genocide. It would be hilarious, if it weren’t so reprehensible. 2020: Silence is violence. 2023: People can’t be expected to comment on every situation. It’s okay to just keep silent, especially while events are still unfolding. ———————— 2020: If you’re nitpicking small details instead of focusing on the big picture, you’re doing so to avoid your complicity in atrocities. 2023: 40 babies weren’t actually beheaded. 40 babies may have been killed, and some of them may have been beheaded, but that’s not the same as 40 getting beheaded. Details matter. ———————— 2020: Universities must proactively take a stand and speak out in opposition to racism. “Academic freedom” is a false concept used to enforce oppression. 2023: Universities need to maintain neutrality and ensure that they do not make any statements that jeopardize the principle of academic freedom, which is a paramount virtue in the realm of scholarship. ———————— 2020: You must immediately and forcefully condemn an attack, even if investigations are ongoing. 2023: You can’t expect us to release statements opposing an attack within four days, when the facts are still being discovered. Israel hasn’t even allowed UN investigators at the scenes of these “alleged massacres.” ———————— 2020: People are responsible for their words, even if they are just working-class teenagers in small towns. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences. 2023: Graduate students at the most prestigious university in the world are just kids and cannot be held accountable for statements they sign. This is cancel culture. ———————— 2020: Believe all women. 2023: Where is the physical evidence of these “alleged rapes”? ———————— 2020: It’s not enough to be non-racist. If you are not actively anti-racist, it means that you are, in fact, racist. 2023: How dare you question whether I support terrorists just because I haven’t actively spoken out against Hamas freedom fighters. ———————— 2020: We don’t get to tell people in affected communities how to deal with their pain in the aftermath of violence. 2023: It is Israel’s responsibility to ensure that violence doesn’t escalate. ———————— 2020: Anything that disproportionately affects one group of people is oppression and must be condemned. 2023: Settlers—a term that includes all Israeli Jews—are not civilians and are therefore all valid targets for attacks. You can't fix stupid. Ron White

BDA shows that it was a short round from Gaza. Israel has no reason to hit a hospital and every reason to avoid doing so. The nice people in Gaza seem to have fucked up and had a rocket fail. Anyone with experience with things that go bang can point out the characteristics of the point of impact that point to the damage being caused by the local team. Having screwed the pooch, SOP has them blaming Israel. The reality is that we didn't do it. End of story.

He's the kind of guy who gives a bad name to whoever and whatever he is.

It's that river in Egypt again. Similarly, when the "children killed by gun violence" statistics are bandied about, the fact that the lion's share are teenage gang bangers working out business disputes is somehow overlooked. It turns out that, absent these numbers, juvenile fatalities due to firearms are well less than drownings, traffic accidents and the like. Go figure.

What, you don't?

I'm getting weary of the showmanship that is the drive to impeach whoever is in charge. It brings to mind the lazy Barrister who gets to court. and reads the brief from the Solicitor to the effect of 'no case - abuse the plaintiff.'

In grad school there was a guy who fancied himself as a real car guy. He had a Volkswagen on which he put a fiberglass body (Replicar), and he then tried to register it as a 1938 Frasier Nash. He was incensed when the dullards at DMV insisted in identifying it as a 1968 Volkswagen. There are all kinds of custom cars out there, some of which are latish model Chevys with vintage looking bodies installed. Very nifty. I've known people who had wonderful replica autos, AC Cobras come to mind. One guy had an AC Cobra replica that was head and shoulders above the original. Having said that the difference in price between an original 427 Cobra and the new manufacture version is orders of magnitude. Regardless of how wonderful is the new version, if you were to put it up for sale as an original it would constitute fraud. Having been around original equipment women and the aftermarket variety for rather a while, I am fine with either (socially, at least). When someone claims that there is no difference, I take the DOT stance. BSBD, Winsor

From a New Jersey perspective, the indictment is nothing new. I also don't understand why anyone has a problem with legal actions against Trump. He's the worst thing to happen to the Republican party in living memory - he makes Tricky Dick Nixon look like a picture of dignity, integrity and competence by comparison. Perhaps the dumb sonofabitch has floated to the top one time too many, and people avoid being on his shit list as a matter of long term survival. My hope is that he can be removed from the public eye without becoming a martyr. Since the man is entirely without honor or shame, getting rid of him will take some doing. Maybe he could choke on a chicken bone and have enough brain damage that he would be a drooling, incontinent invalid thereafter. Once he's out of the limelight, I have little hope that we will have anyone worthwhile from either side of the aisle come to the fore. Policies such as forbidding childbirth without financial responsibility (birth control, sterilisation or mandatory abortion would be useful tools), immigration contingent upon acceptance of a fair proportion of the national debt (like $330,000 apiece now) and a zero -based budget would be a start. Other than that it's simply business as usual, and it's only a question of quite how we're doomed. The problem is that Trump, like Climate Change (tm), is but a symptom of much bigger problems. BSBD, Winsor

Should have flown there. The Los Alamos airport is an experience, the runway being on a finger mesa. You land uphill to the West and take off downhill to the East regardless.

Somehow showed up on my feed. The Devil must have made that happen.

Again, I sure as hell would. Religion is a communicable form of mental illness, and most religions have the potential to be seriously virulent. Islam pretty much pins the meter. I hold Islam in the same high esteem as I do National Socialism, and the Third Reich was underwritten by the Vatican. Thus I react to a hijab or a habit as I would a swastika.

If he was a follower of the Illiterate Pervert Psychopath rather than the Magic Jewish Zombie I'm sure I wouldn't give him a pass

I can only guess what this is thread is about, but I'm getting weary of the process of impeaching every scumbag we elect to the Oval Office. Trump was true to form from Day 1. Anyone who was surprised by Clinton's behavior didn't do their homework. Biden's been a lying, cheating sonofabitch for his whole career. In fact that has been his career. Looking at his identifiable income vs his assets, it is apparent that his 'money management' skills are on a par with Serbian cops I witnessed, who made like $100 a week and had a $100,000 car as a daily driver. Wanting to be president should be an instant disqualifier. Given our political system, we should get used to cretins and criminals getting elected. The scum rises to the top. BSBD, Winsor

The claim that he's the subject of an endless string of witch hunts tends to support the thesis that maybe he's a witch. The unpleasant kind.

I briefly had a Twitter account on the advice of a Rabbi. After rapidly coming to the conclusion that it was a waste of time, I cancelled without a moment's regret.

He was the best. I'm glad I could spend good times with him. Blue skies, Chuck!

Whe Whether or not you liked his music, he was an amazing guy.

Drano

You realize, of course, that everything you think you know is wrong. Let's start with your invisible friend, a supposedly omnipotent entity that took human form a couple of thousand years ago. You use a name for him that raises a number of flags. For one thing, there is no 'J' in either Hebrew or Aramaic, and I can't think of the Greek version. For another, the 'us' ending of the name is strictly Roman. The bottom line is that the fable upon which you depend is a Roman invention used to wield power, the Magic Jewish Zombie bears only passing similarity to anyone who may or may not have existed in Judea in the time frame in question, and the bulk of the narrative is demonstrably nonsense. As you were, Winsor

If you read Acts you'll find out that being rich is bad, and the solution is to give your wealth to the church. All of it.

Since Communism and its variants are based on True Belief (tm) in demonstrably false ideology, it qualifies nicely as religion. National Socialism is a pathological variant. Take this into consideration and the virulence of religion outweighs most other forms of evil.

Secular psychopaths do not typically kill in the 'name of secularism.' Delusional religious types routinely and explicitly kill in the name of their particular invisible friend. By all means feel free to demonstrate the fact that the distinction is lost on you.

Historically speaking, an awful lot of people have been killed in the name of the Magic Jewish Zombie.

An acquaintance once bemoaned the fact that people with mental illness were not accorded the same sympathy and consideration as, say, cancer patients. My response was along the lines that the mentally ill are, of course, sick, but they can also be dangerous. Having them burn down the house, or drive suicidally with passengers aboard, or hang people for witchcraft after getting advice from invisible friends is too close to the norm. The form of communicable mental illness we call 'religion' is among the most malevolent forms of insanity in existence. The number of otherwise innocent people butchered in the name of <insert deity> is simply breathtaking. I rate Communism as a religious grade delusion, so Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot's excesses are in good company. Reading pretty much anyone's religious text suggests that anyone who takes its contents at face value is batshit crazy. Cherry picking what parts of a particular holy book one wants to espouse is typical - if a true believer even sees fit to read it. As an aside, how many times inTorah is heaven, hell or any version of 'the devil' mentioned (hint - it's a round number). Remember, religion is like genitals. Fine to have and enjoy with pride, but waving it around in public is generally offensive. BSBD, Winsor BTW, the Applegate Fairbairn is a vast improvement over the V-42