The Dubliners - The Black Velvet Band (ft. Christy Moore)
"Her eyes, they shined like a diamond, you'd swear she was Queen O'er the Land... and her hair hung over her shoulder, tied up with a black velvet band..."
(or worse really: not to be killing the children yourself outright, but to be paying off people who are continuing the slaughter and even expanding their killing grounds...) As Israel moves into Lebanon after decimating the people of Palestine, the horrors grow. Our legacy media turns away, our Christians refuse to reckon with what they've unleashed and are financing... good people stay silent.
We all know how this ends. I didn't ask to be smart, an independent thinker, or prescient, but you've got to be a fool to think Americans can deliver such death and doom upon the world, and still think ourselves untouchable on our own allegedly sovereign soil...
if you read the newspapers, you know the horrors of everyday life are real enough...
This is a local story -- two years old now -- about how the wilderness that surrounds our urban areas came for a lost young man who had been out drinking, took a wrong turn, and never made it home:
Now we're seeing a number of people posting garbage bags on their front lawns and signs saying, "Garbageman reporting for duty!" Joe Biden should have stepped aside or been content to remain hidden in the shadows...
Unless the Democrats and the media are determined to edge us into another Civil War at home, we really need to stop attacking the "other side".
She was good in the films of my generation, often playing a Mom figure, but funny as hell. And she didn't get much sexier than those bits on Late Night sparring w/David Letterman, even showering once on set, iirc... Her style of classy femme humor is missed.
or, What do Donald Trump and Cheryl Reeve have in common? "Stolen From Us"
It's hard to complain, after the fact, when you believe the officiating went to your opponent, but sometimes indeed, it happens... Go get em next year, Lynx and voters*! It's the American way.
* For voters: next year is now. Been a long time coming, these past few years... let's pray everybody is alive and standing still after Election Day...
I'm sorry, but I love that our presidential candidates aren't just going into the food places and interacting anymore, but getting behind the counter and roleplaying working in that industry's workforce...
I love it! Put JD in the front-end managing a Walgreens next?? lolol.
And Kamala can be folding sweaters at Benetton (is Bennetton still around?) and flipping up collars on Izods in the display window. Tim can work the gun counter at Cabela's...
MORE please! ;-) Makes my heart happy to seeing the interaction between the working and political castes, with the media -- as always -- standing to the sides watching... heh. Lil voyeur class always trying to write themselves in... "I'm a *fill in the blank* and here's what I think..." As if.
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* I love ketchup! Lot of salt in ketchup... Look at us finding common ground... Give him his due, the man is good like that.
Don't knock me for pointing out, we could use skills like that in changing what we've been seeing out of DC and from the uniparty people who have been in charge far far too long, not even roleplaying wanting to know what it is like for other workers...
** "Have a good time!" instead of "Have a good day!"... I like that too. lol
*** "I want more money..." No, just kidding. It's a great franchise. He is just cracking me up... He owns that drive thru, and enjoyed his 15 minutes of fast-food fame.
Know your Native American moon naming and why they called them what they did? The harvest was last month, now is the time to track prey to have meat for the long winter months... Good luck to you too.
Let's get these wars ended now so American taxpayers can go and live in peace? We shouldn't be on the line subsidizing the cleanup *(again) for teh IDF endless destruction...
How will they ever learn to stop behaving like that if the world continually cleans up after them? No, it's time for the Israeli people to roll up their sleeves and start financially sacrificing for their war aims, I think. America cannot protect them from consequences forever, and I think we've helped enough by arming them like a good American street gang capable of terrorizing and controlling their turf.
Trouble is, Israel tends to overreach and try to take things that do not belong to her. And now saddled with the understanding that these people are proud to be Child Killers... this won't end well for them with that mindset, I don't think...
"If the Boys Want to Fight, You Better Let Them..."
The wisest military move for the world right now would be to send armed troops, led by the United States of America, into Israel. If our "ally" starts firing as the armed troops invade, fire back...
The IDF one day must be tested against another army, prepared and ready. FullyArmed. Mano v mano, with the IDF co-ed staffed if necessary, but I do not think those rules hold in combat. (The women we see on video appear to be there more as comfort troops to the young men, to be honest...)
Give em a fucking man's war already. Let them fight other armed men. No rock-tossing kids (18 and up are adults, call them teens if you like, but adults); no civilian women; no elders...
Israel has had plenty of years playing "warm up" by pre-emptively attacking other armies, and "mowing the lawn" (their words) multiple times against civilians.
An actual armed army*, complete with the best in the world US military equipment, which will also be used against us in what we have previously supplied our former ally. If Bibi dares fire back in his ongoing suicide mission against the world...
Now let them fight another army, preferably via an invasion of allies. Call it Operation Tough Love. Let the Israelis fight back, or accept an international force on "their" soil, with the IDF laying down their weapons and being conscripted...
The Great Rebuild of Gaza, like the Marshall Plan, would then commence...
A real strategy for coercive U.S. diplomacy to change Iran’s behavior.
By Thomas L. Friedman
Oct. 15, 2024
Yeah, wake us up when you've got a plan to convince the US Congress -- which allegedly represents the American people -- to put Bibi N and old Israel over its knee for a good, hard spanking, Tom...
You want to... convince Iran to be on better behaviour? Lolol.
Clean up your own house, and come up with a plan now to discipline your own people, Tom. Has the MSM seen the images on social media? Is the Times still barring their employees from logging onto Twitter and following the discussion there?
I really don't think the old media Israel beat reporters understand how things have shifted... Israel isn't the little guy being bullied anymore. They're not the skeletal naked figures piled like cordwood in the corner... Congrats, I guess.
The US media and military was unable to convince Bibi's IDF to get into those tunnels and pursue the hostages and Hamas. Instead of performing heroically -- and taking military losses like the American GI's did going in armed only with grenades and flamethrowers into the tunnels under Iwo -- the IDF balked at pursuing the bad guys and instead performed mightily in scorching to death civilians. In hospitals and refugee camps. Alive...
The tide has turned, Tom. If you don't have any good advice for either Israel or the US Congress now, just... take the damn buyout. Don't end your career shilling for this. History will not judge you kindly either playing at being the judge here.
The deal is off, God says. You didn't keep the commandments, so you lose the promised land. Your people breached, Tom, and now you're judging o/Others and giving advice? lol. Wise up. Open your eyes and see what is happening while you advise, sir...
Stephens has children at home still to feed... what's your excuse, Tom?
That's the real Question as the East Coast legacy media like Ezra Klein advocate on, pushing Kamala for Prez.
(Imagine if the reporters had only been doing their jobs, reporting honestly all along... Kamala would already be president through the backdoor because honest reporting about Joe's condition of being an incapacitated president means he would have stepped down...)
Kamala Harris has never won anything herself on a national stage (she was the "plus-one" VP on the Biden ticket): it's hard for the political operatives playing in the field of journalism today to see that, as they only know and accept the political views (mostly anti-Trump) of politics-playing people like themselves...
Off the coasts where there is more diversity of value and more people live closer to the earth in a natural state, there's a great distaste for all this destruction and loss of life... we don't want to be complicit in these crimes; we defend innocent children being slaughtered for nothing; and we know the costs of unending war because we've paid the price in the past...
Life matters here still.
You're free to vote for more Cheney/McCain in the cover of a black woman; we won't because morally we can't, Maureen. We're not that hard and we don't need more money to live because we are not as dependent as those on the coasts cut off from the land... and life.
Praying for you, sister... wise up before DC is hit?
"Many of the same people who shouted with joy—yes, joy!—when Biden stepped down and Harris and Walz stepped up are now recoiling. Harris needs the base to turn out, and we already know Harris is hemorrhaging votes, especially in battleground states like Michigan, by arming Israel’s genocide. Young people will stay home or vote third-party, because they are being told that there are no electoral avenues for them to change a morally abhorrent policy in the Middle East. In Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, about 35 percent of Democratic voters say they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the person supported an arms embargo, compared to just 5 percent being less likely to vote, according to an August poll conducted by the Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding. And in an October poll, among Arab Americans deemed most likely to vote, Trump is leading Harris 46 to 42."
The NYT newspaper hasa new feature up, this one digitally morphing Madeline Albright and Al Pacino. What will those journnolist/activist/entertainerswith the Times think of next??
Meanwhile over in Israel, America's war footprint expands and citizenswonder if Americawill be attacked before our election...
If only we had astrong leader, understanding what is going on in the world, but no... we've got Hunter's Daddy in charge and all hell is breaking loose while the old man is clueless...
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Thomas L. Friedman
