There Are No Children Here...*

*apologies to Alex Kotlowitz

Monet Day at Clear Lake

Enough is Enough...

 If the world really wants to help save Israel, we'd bomb Tel Aviv today...

The minimal loss of civilian lives might save the country as a whole, a la Fail Safe.  The Israeli people are not strong enough at this time to rise up and overthrow Netanyahu, who is leading the country to the gates of hell, insistent of dragging the U.S. down with his own people.

Enough is enough.  This needs to end today.  Where are the wiser minds and military strategists as we see escalation upon escalation. Thank the heavens Iran is too disciplined and wise thus far to take the bait...

We're Cheering Israel's Attack on these Two Residential Buildings in Lebanon Today...

 the same way our enemies cheered when the Twin Towers fell on September 11.

Difference is, there were only adults in the office buildings the terrorists targeted here. Next time, I suspect they will not be as kind, and will see fit to take out residential buildings too.  It sucks to see Netanyahu changing the rules of warfare like this, while unarmed civilians will pay the price.

#ThyWillBeDone     #AsForMeAndMineWeWillServeTheLord...NotBenNetanyahuNorSatan

They are not even trying to avoid civilian deaths now...

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Israel Targets Hezbollah Leader in Strike on Residential Buildings Near Beirut

Officials said the target of the strike was Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. It was not clear whether he was killed in the attack.

Such evil will rebound on US, wait and see.  Remember, there's no crying in warfare.  If you accept that innocent unarmed civilians are fair game, you have to play by the rules you create...

God help those who will be sacrificed as consequeces of the new rules of warfare.  The men have abandoned all pretenses at fair fights -- if you call the people fighting this way "men".  I sure don't. They're going to get a lot of good people killed, and too many cowards are too afraid to call them out on this new strategy of targeting civilians, and sons and daughters of evildoers, because of who their fathers are...

I learned from the Holocaust that's not the way justice is achieved, but it seems a lot of people -- Jews too -- didn't take that lesson.  "Thy Will Be Done..." 

#AsForMeAndMine... ✟  We don't need to shed innocent blood to save ourselves for we know it was already shed for us... Poor Jews.  May they one day as a people collectively know salvation and justice...

Why the American media is what it is...

Ben Smith is a businessman, not a journalist.  He's about making money, not reporting the truths Americans need to know about how their government operates today.  Ben's time too will pass, along with the Ezra's and the Megan's and the other white children of privilege who have temporarily seized power* (lol):

 Not everyone finds Nuzzi’s conduct objectionable on journalistic grounds. Ben Smith, the former New York Times media columnist who now runs the outlet Semafor, used his newsletter to ask what all the fuss was about. He claimed that British journalists had texted him to the effect of: “If you’re not sleeping with someone in a position of power, how are you even a journalist?”

The NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik characterizes this statement from Smith as “bananas”. We might also add that it is insulting to Smith’s colleagues, be they American, British or anything else – and in particular, to the women. It implies that there are large numbers of female journalists trading sex for access. There are not. It is rare, and more than frowned upon, for journalists to sleep with their sources or subjects: doing so compromises the integrity of the work. And most female journalists, like most female professionals in any field, are not interested in trading on their sexuality for professional advancement.

More Moira Donegan :

The most ungenerous interpretation of Nuzzi’s career – which is not necessarily the most likely one – is that she used her youth and good looks to her advantage, flattering the egos of men who could get her jobs or serve as sources. In this scenario, she would have made a trade-off – sexual attention for professional opportunity. There is a tendency to demonize this kind of use of sexuality by women (and a less pronounced, usually tardy tendency to criticize such trades when they are demanded or accepted by men). It is this tendency, feeding off the unspoken and unproven assumptions about just what Nuzzi and RFK Jr were offering each other, that has led to all the slut-shaming of Nuzzi in the media.

Women who make such trades are not necessarily unequipped for the jobs they get by them: talent and corruption often coexist in one person. (And whatever the controversies and uncertainties about Nuzzi herself, there is no dispute that she is very talented.) But the problem with such transactions, where they do happen, is not that the women who make them are sluts. It is that they are scabs. Such trade-offs can be consensual, but they can never really be ethical: they make it harder for other women in their industries who are not willing or able to use their sexuality to advance to do so; they set the precedent that sex for opportunity is an acceptable trade to make to female workers; they encourage men to leverage their professional power to extract sexual favors. They cast all female professionals under the suspicion of corruptibility and unseriousness. 

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* "You can fool some peoples sometimes. But you can't fool all the peoples all the times... Now you've seen the light; stand up for what's right!"  ~Marley 

 lol.

Love Is Not an Easy Thing...

The only baggage that you can bring... is all that you can't leave behind. U2

Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now (Full Album) [Official Video]

You Bit It Off, You Chew It Up...

Hezbollah Is Everyone’s Problem

The United States must help Israel defeat it.

4h agoBy Bret Stephens

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You got billions in weapons to feather your bed, lie comfortably in it yourselves now? Good night. Rest easy people of good will... #PeaceHasGreatValue

Outdoor, Indoor.

Make it a great week no matter where your feet fall...

 

Gwen Stefani - Keep on Dancin'...

Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star (Live)

Shaggy - Strength Of A Woman

Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star (Official Audio)

Yesterday.

 

Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

Michael Jackson - Black Or White (Official Video - Shortened Version)

Never saw this video before...

though I know the song.

Boomer Gonna Boom.

 and take all of us with them... lol.

I choose peace over war myself.

Life goes on... Always does.

* "as for me and mine... "

Make that CHANGE ?

Brittney Griner & Rickea Jackson EJECTED after physical altercation | WN...

Oh, Rickea totally initiated that. Both cases of contact. Griner was merely brushing her off...  Rookie mistake.

Here's the link to enlarge the picture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwB3IopB37Y

Who is Mossad sending a message to? Hm.

 CONGRESS FACES GROWING THREATS; LAWMAKERS FEAR FOR OWN SAFETY...

Life in a low trust, no trust world... no thanks. 

"As  for me and mine..."

Confirmed: Israel Kills Kids.

 I'm glad Americans do not fight like this.  I'm glad our intelligence services are smart enough not to pull this type of stunt... how stupid to turn the world against you like that.

A 9-Year-Old Girl Killed in Pager Attack Is Mourned in Lebanon

“The enemy killed us using this small device!” mourners chanted at the funeral for Fatima Abdullah, a fourth grader.

Halloween III Silver Shamrock Commercial

Halloween III: Season Of The Witch (1982) Official Trailer

Can We Be Honest?

The pager thing is piker level compared to whoever came up with the plan to crash two fuel laden planes successfully taking down two major buildings ... just saying.

*Be careful what you brag of.  "Hold my beer" takes stupidity, not balls. There is no "bottom"to hit when playing evil... It can and will go lower unless that promised Change shows up soon on the scene, I suspect...

ADDED:  I always said, still maintain:  Halloween III was the best of the lot.  No Jamie Lee, true, but the storyline was the scariest in reality...  

a Terror.

Alon Mizrahi

@alon_mizrahi

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Israel disgusts the whole world. A psychotic bully protected by his mafia boss uncle. A sensation of true global revulsion is all that's left. Who can still identify with this house of creeping terror? It's a Frankenstein in the form of a country. A freaking historic curse

He wants to see her to crush a Palestinian child's skull with her bare hands, doesn't he?

 Bret Stephens:

What Harris Must Do to Win Over Skeptics (Like Me) 

It’s not enough to be “Not Trump.” 4h ago

If they can kill by exploding electronic devices over there...

they can do the same over here.  I'm glad America is a Constitutional democracy, where we presume defendants' rights and give them a trial before assassinating others...

Imagine trying to live in a land where there are no trials or judges, and the politicians can assassinate others and their own, in their own nation or elsewhere...  

Where the fighters do not stand and fight like men, but justify killing children to advance their cause.  It's so sad to see Israel becoming a pariah terroristic religious state under Benjamin Netanyahu.  All the cries of anti semitism in the world will not protect the Israeli people from the consequences of their collective politcal actions now...  They are becoming their enemies, fighting like outlaws themselves, allegedly to protect their own people, but... how many hostages died in captivity in recent days, do you think?

Nevermind the little Lebanese girl killed in the exploding pager attack... why doesn't the IDF go pell mell into those tunnels, killing the people who took their own?  Are the soldiers afraid?  Is it easier to drop bombs from above, and asssasinate leaders in sovereign lands, and explode pagers?  Sure it is?

Imagine how the IDF would fare on an honest battleground fighting other armed men... they're too afraid to try, so they pull these "tricks" that will only end up exploding on their own children one day, because their military men and those leading them are afraid...

What a world, what a world...  The truly civilized and powerful make rules to live under*, so that we don't have to live in fear and terror that others will decide to unilaterally destroy the property of innocents and take their children's lives out of their own fears of survival...

Tough times do not last. People who play by the rules, in the long run, do.  Shame on those who think they will kill their way to a win...

"Turned the stone and looked beneath it... Peace on Earth, was all it read..."  As for me and my house...

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* I remember when the Jewish people were traditionally the lawgivers and those to be emulated in living civilized lives before they turned to worshipping their guns over God.  Sad to see the decline as Israel has upped the death count and revealed herself to the world as nothing so special or better than the rest of the human tribe afterall...  God weeps.

I like to watch a murder mystery...

I like to know the killer isn't me... 

(maybe focus on the beat, not the lyrics?)

Happy Monday, all y'all out there.  

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What does it mean that a little child shall lead them in Isaiah 11:6?

Answer

Isaiah 11 is centered on the theme of Israel’s restoration and includes a description of the Messiah, the righteous kingdom He will establish, and the remnant who inhabit it. After describing the Messiah (verses 1–5), Isaiah begins to elaborate on the ideal conditions of the kingdom He will set up: “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11:6, ESV).

In the utopian environment of the Messiah’s future realm, all dangers of the animal kingdom will cease. Isaiah couples each animal with its natural prey. The lamb will be safe from the threat of the wolf, the goat will be unharmed by the leopard, and the fatted calf will not fear the menace of the lion. Under the perfect dominion of the Prince of Peace, the state of the world will be so tame that even the most ferocious wild beasts will submit to the leading of a little child.

Human superiority over animals will continue in Messiah’s millennial kingdom but be amplified. Even small children—who would ordinarily be preyed upon by wild beasts—will not only be safe from these predatory creatures but will have control over them. This serene relationship between predator and prey is used often in prophetic Scripture to portray the state of life under the Prince of Peace: “‘The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,’ says the LORD” (Isaiah 65:25).

Ezekiel describes the harmony and safety of a restored creation in similar terms: “I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of savage beasts so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety” (Ezekiel 34:25; see also Hosea 2:18). The apostle Paul seems to echo this future expectation: “For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time” (Romans 8:19–22). In the restored kingdom, all creation will be at peace because the curse will be lifted.

When Isaiah said, “A little child shall lead them,” he meant that even a small boy or girl would be safe to lead former predators and prey together as if they were domesticated animals, like a dog on a leash or horse on a lead. Under Messiah’s restored kingdom, peace and security will reign over all creation, even in the wild animal kingdom, and nothing will be able to disturb or threaten that tranquility.

Epstein Compromised Too Many Politicos from Both Parties... ?

Kamala, the woman with no family baggage, is seen as clean... ?  Is that the face of a person who will lead us through the next world war? Color me doubtful...

Israeli Strike in Gaza Kills 18, Officials Say, Including 6 U.N. Workers

 Middle East Crisis

 ​​Israel Bombs Humanitarian Zone ​​

Israeli Strike in Gaza Kills 18, Officials Say, Including 6 U.N. Workers 

Israel hit a shelter for displaced people, saying Hamas used it as a command post. UNRWA called it the deadliest incident for its staff since the war began...

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*Yes, there will be an answer... 

Let It Be.

Love Is Like A Rock

Carl Douglas: Kung Fu Fighting (Original Music Video) or, "Those Cats Were Fast as Lightning"

"For anyone wondering why there was no audience reaction it was because he was moving as fast as lightning, time slowed down around him..."

Balance...

... and still the children cry...

Put a little love in your heart...

America is missing a commander in chief during Wartime.* 

God help the people covering this up.. may justice soon be served to them, and their innocents, if that is needed to open their eyes and end the war against civilians continuing on in our name for yet another day.  #ParityBringsPeace

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*  The nation cannot run on autopilot and happy happy joy joy forever. No matter that the college football season has begun...  Childish games need to be put away by grown men now, if this country has any left in power today.  They are but boys, and beasts, it seems...  maybe the influx of new immigrant blood will save us from ourselves again?  Men needed, preferably men of minds, not those believing killing innocents and destroying civilian infrastructure on other people's dimes makes them strong.

If you need kill other people's children to "protect" your own, you've already lost the game...  Why cheer that? (Can't you see the deadly backlash coming, or are you calculating you and yours are "safe" from retribution? Best start using your eyes while you've still got them, no?  Grow up and sober up, for the sake of your children...)

Star Tribune

Review: Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan deliver the last - and most momentous - doubleheader of the summer

John Mellencamp set the table for the two musical giants outdoors in Somerset, Wis.

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