By Peloni
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Everyone will be happier.
Yes, Sebastien. “Monk”, etc. are very entertaining.
Back to the real world, I notice that Davyd Davydov gives a more unbiased picture of the situation in Ukraine than, say, British intelligence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOF2jmracx0
@Michael Yes, and he was also great in “The Amazing Mrs. Maisel” (2017-2023) and “Quick Change” (1990) in which he plays a taxi driver. I wonder if he was influenced, as an actor, by Andy Kaufman, who played a taxi driver in the tv series “Taxi” (1978).
But, the writing in “Monk” is also brilliant. In one episode in which he is investigating a murder in a circus, “Mr. Monk goes to the circus” (2003), he oberves that a circus performer must have not admitted she was a witness because she was waiting to take her citizenship exam and didn’t want to draw attention to herself.
When she asks how he could possible have deduced that, he says that she has a copy of the U.S. Constitution half sticking out of her purse, which the camera, shows, and no U.S. citizen would ever study the U.S. constitution. 😀
Hi, Sebastien
Tony Shalhoub is a great actor. I loved his performance in “Galaxy Quest”.
https://youtu.be/CxhFXNoG1Uc
@Michael
I’m guessing he’d say, “even a stopped clock is right twice a day” though I also respect Wikipedia but no encyclopedia is perfect and I also respect his scholarship and his corrections even if he can be snotty about it, at times. I’m really a novice in this area but one thing jumped out at me from what you said.
I thought Chresto was just the name of an American toothpaste, yaknow? transliterated into Hebrew with the gargling sound in the back of the throat – like the Krauts and the French, and one Korean word, I’ve notice, also have – by way of prefix. (Foreigners are so strange, aren’t they? Oh well, when in Rome. Thank God for English Subtitles.)
I am also reminded of this funny article concerning a recent case between Heinz, which is owned by John Kerry’s wife, and an Israeli Ketchup company that didn’t want Heinz to be able to call it Ketchup in Hebrew because there’s almost no tomato in it.
But, I mean, why would you want there to be any tomato in ketchup? Yuk. You wouldn’t be able to leave it out for months without it going bad! Reagan was smart, anyway. In the debate over school lunches he told us that Ketchup is a vegetable. And he shoulda’s known. He was old enough to have known Suetonius!
Gosh, that exhausted me. I have to go take a little break and enjoy myself. Back to Netflix. I’m re-watching, “Monk” (2002-9). I never realized how hilarious it is. The series came to an end pretty much around the time that Hollywood became boring and East Asian, mostly Korean dramas picked up the ball we dropped and have been running with it ever since. Perhaps, not coincidentally, the year Obama took office.
There really should be a course called, “American products in Ancient Rome.” I mean, I don’t remember learning much in school about any other country, so it would be a nice segue into widening that a bit, wouldn’t it? And of, course, they couldn’t mention slavery in Ancient Rome because that might confuse students and lead them to question the fact that American Exceptionalism means that we invented slavery and that that pretty much sums up our history. And that wouldn’t be good.
ANYONE-
Any news about Trump’s choice for Vice P. I’ve seen all the lists , just want to know if anything more definite has emerged.
They all seem flawed and even some at one time Anti-Trumpers,
I’d pick a black or minority skilled politician, male of female. If female
the trump rape stories will proliferate, but no denying a female would be an advantage. 51% of the voters are women.
Edgar,
Have you finished copulating?
That Michael crapper can’t stop twisting. He must be like a havdalah candle by now.
Accorsing to the “gospels” the mythical jesus was not a man.
Therefore the most talked about man in History was Napoleon Bonaparte hands down.
As for Zeitlin and Wiki, I have no control over what they write. When it comes to tchnical and professional data like as with Zeitlin, who was world famous, they can and do get it right as they are repeating what the experts have said.
I am not disputing this, but twister MS is trying to make a full set of clothes from a few scraps of rags, the latter being his intellect and thoughts issuing from his by now long addled (hashsish, mary-jane, cocaine, Amanita Muscaria???) thinking processes, such as they are
Religious lunatics always deteriorate, never get back on an even keel..
Hi, Sebastien.
Let’s see… Put that together with,
Now, isn’t this a quandry? In one breath, the man despises Wikipedia, and in the next he lauds a book commended by them! Let’s be honest: Edgar agrees with those who agree with him, but despises those who don’t; and often the same source is cast into completely opposite lights, depending on Edgar‘s preconceived notions.
This, in itself, is not a grave sin, and I haven’t called the man on it until now; but let’s call a spade a spade.
It was Edgar, who first brought up this recent spate of argumentativeness, and I have not been eager to engage in it. His doctrine, all the time I’ve known him, has been of beginning with the thesis of the supposed “fact” that the most talked-about man of history never existed. Does he have a right to such a doctrine? Of course! But then, he doesn’t have an inherent right to insist that I agree with it.
Edgar bases his fantasy on timelines of his own invention. When he gave a sloppy treatment of the dates and ages of Jesus (of whom he denies the existence) and John, I supplied the correct dates — correct according to the New Testament, of course, which has been widely distributed since ancient times. cf the books of Clement, Ignatius, Barnabus and the Didache, which were roughly contemporary (based on internal evidence) with the Revelation of John; the Dialog of Justin Martyr with Trypho, which was roughly contemporary with the messianic Bar Kochba Revolt, and of course, the secular works of Josephus and Suetonius.
Concerning Suetonius, let’s again quote the ubiquitous Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius_on_Christians
Notice that it’s EDGAR‘s position, that Chresto was not Christ, which is completely without basis.
What this all boils down to, is an argument foisted on me by a hot-headed, dogmatic diehard. It isn’t the first I’ve encountered, and it probably won’t be the last.
cf. https://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/65/2018/08/military_and_religious_life_in_the_middle_ages_and_at_the_period_of_the_renaissance_1870_14784757102-516×640.jpg
Caption: “Chrestos worships his god”
Seb-
Michael our resident Christian lunatic doesn’t seem to know that Wiki can be written even by a liar like HIM. It says very little for his intellect to have cribbed word for word from Wiki. I happen to have Suetonius and read it several times. Although he wandered a bit-which historian doesn’t- He had all the Imperial records to get his info from, as well as people who’d actually lived in much of the times of which he was writing.
So I tend to believe him.
Of course he was writing post facto and during the time of Hadrian, a different dynasty, who may not have been fond of the Caesars, ,and which might have coloured his tales a bit…That’s to be expected.
@Michael [to Edgar]
😀
Edgar hates and despises Wikipedia, Michael. I guess you missed those exchanges. That one was like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
But, good news. All three volumes of “The Rise and Fall of the Judean State” by Solomon Zeitlin, which Edgar was kind enough to recommend and whose author Wikipedia describes as “the world’s leading authority, in his time, on the second commonwealth also known as the 2nd Temple Period,” have finally arrived and when I manage to get through them (let’s see I’m at page 108 in volume 2 and xvii in vol 3, and they are each about 400 pages long) I will know all. See in you in 20 years or so. 😀
Though I must say, I had a dream about Suetonius, last night, I met him at a party, and he said he didn’t remember either of you!
So sue me! 😀
Hi, Edgar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTB46FJOF5w
Michael-
It is useless to debate you as you are not honest, an attribute noticed and commented on by several other prominent posters.
so I need say no more than that you are again obfuscating positive historical facts which disagree with your total reliance on the fabricated NT.
As one wise Jew said 40X0 is still Zero. Quoting from an undeniably unreliable source seems to be your only fallback.
This conversation is OVER, I have no more time to waste .threading through your pseudo-innocence of fault, and twisty Christian “innocence”.
I notice that the 2000 years you mention does not include that every year contained horrible persecution of Jews, inspired by your ludicrous NT. Nor that all the good in those 2000 years came directly from TORAH-although the source was hidden by false claims of the kind sponsored by you and your like..
And there are your positions in a nutshell. No need for you to act as a rubber wall .
FINIS…..!
Hi, Ted. You posted a very good message:
Four years ago, this would have been unbelievable. Unfortunately, it is true and VERY believable now. America has been under attack, since before I was born. What is becoming obvious nowadays, is that objective truth itself is under attack — mainline, and full throttle, like a speeding locomotive. I sense that there’s a tressle out up ahead:
https://youtu.be/yCH-tUmMl7Q
Truth will prevail: The whole universe is built upon it. Sooner or later, the lies will be spit out.
Edgar, you said,
You said it, and it’s ALL you said. Now, before going any further, look at your hand, the one with the finger pointed at me. Notice the three fingers pointing back at you. What you are doing is called “projection”: You are accusing me (out of the blue, actually — I did not provoke this attack, nor ask for it) of what YOU are doing.
Fabricating? That’s Edgar. You’ve taken the main narrative of Western Civilization, the one upon which our calendar is based, the one which inspired most of Western literature for the past 2000 years, and declared not that it contained errors, but that it DIDN’T EXIST!
You have created an entire universe out of your personal imaginations. Does that qualify as “fabrication”?
Untruths? We used to call this “lies”. How have I lied? Concerning the gospel, I have said that it says what it says. Is that a lie? Concerning Suetonius, I have directly quoted Wikipedia — word for word, and in context. Is that a lie? God only knows, what additional past sins you’re trying to dredge up; and speaking of sins, does your personal religion include Edgar sitting on the Great Throne of Judgment? If it does, you are free to believe it: Both Canada and the US presumably allow such things.
As for “anyone with one half-blind eye”, I dare say that these visually impaired people don’t want to waste their eyes, time and energy watching you spout off with personal attacks that have nothing to do with anything remotely relevant to anything interesting.
Cheers (please!)
TED-
That certainly is very possible, But, since the present success against Hamas, which will drive the LIKUD’s ascendency is led by Netanyahu it is more than likely, in my opinion that, assuming he is still leading the Party and not incapacitated by illness, he will be returned again as PM.
This is only logical. At the same time we have no idea what will eventuate in the US , and even assuming a Trump victory,( not certain because of Democratic Party crookery), who knows if he will rake up his recent animosity towards the PM. Although I believe he is larger than such pettiness on such an important matter.
If ill or defeated in a leadership vote, of course your inference will be true. He is getting on in years but the US is setting an example with octogenarian leaders. The PM will still be a youngster of 76.
@EDGAR
Rather than look at the polling of the parties, I prefer to look at the long run. Perhaps in two years when the elections will take place.
Providing Bibi pursues his right wing policies and achieves Total Victory, the right will form the next government not necessarily with Bibi as PM.
PELONI-
I totally agree with your puzzlement as re Smotrich. It is not reasonable that Ben G’vir get’s about 10-11 seats and Smotrich, who walks hand in hand with him , gets only 4, and in other polls gets none.
Even though you quote the most reliable polling Group, I still don’t know why LIKUD gets only 25 instead of about 40,and Gantz gets a whopping 22.. with Lieberman almost doubling the numbers he’s been mired in for many years.
Gantz, based on hsi performances should not even pass the threshold.
Your point about Sa’ar bolting is very telling for me also.
Mark Twain who said he heard it from Benjamin Disraeli.
MICHAEL-
Being right up to par, you are fabricating another set of untruths. ANyone with 1 half blind eye can see this without my spelling it out.
TED-
He has been pursuing those policies from the beginning, and also fending off the impossible demands of Biden, yet his numbers have NOT changed one iota…..WHY??
Also, why tell Peloni, why not include me, as it was I who brought up the issue
@Peloni
As Bibi proceeds to total victory his numbers will continue to improve. He is pursuing the policies the majhority of Israelis want.
UNBELIEVEABLE.
tHIS IS CLEARLY INTENDED TO BE PUNITIVE.
Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million in defamation lawsuit and was fined $355 million for the NYC fraud case.
@Edgar
You make the case very well for why the polls make no sense at all. In fact, I would argue that if the polls were believably accurate, many in Likud, in particular, would be moving to join Gantz, and instead, we see Sa’ar breaking free of Gantz to stand on his own as he mumbles that he will drop his Never-Bibi stance in the next election. If Gantz were truly that far ahead of the pack, would Sa’ar really have chosen this moment to break from him as he makes concessions to the Right to take him back? I am as flumoxed as you in making this make sense. In any event there is a new poll out from Ch. 14, which Glick recently reported had the most accurate data in the last election. In that poll, Likud was the largest party with 25, but only because Sa’ar, with 6, bolted from Gantz leaving National Unity with 22. Yesh Atid has 12, Shas has 10, Yisreal Beitenu has 9, Otzma Yehudit has 9, Torah Judaism has 8, Raam has 6, Meretz has 5, Religious Zionism has 4, Hadash Tel has 4, and Balad and Labor fail to meet the threshold.
This poll did not include Bennett, so there is that to consider.
The poor numbers by Smotrich leave particularly puzzled.
ON a completely different subject.
Can anyone tell me in simple terms and concisely, WHY LIKUD is constantly doing so poorly in polls cut by 50% and Gantz, a holtzhaker doing so well as are Bennett a traitor and turncoat, and Lapid also a traitor as well as an ignoramus.
And why Lieberman who for 20 years could never get more that 6-7 seats now polls at nearly double…AND why the Religious Right, would be wiped out.??
Israeli politics have always been a rather roulette wheel bet, but this seem amazing to me right in the middle of a deadly War that the LIKUD PM is conducting with great success.
FELIX-
Thank you for that article on Miliale. It was indeed nostalgic and not altogether happy for me to read.
The mention of Barney Hurwitz brought back memories . I used to visit their home as his wife Ceina, was my beloved mother’s first cousin having grown up together in Cork and resembling her a lot.
He was the President of the Community for about 25 years and was also a J.P.
Although the article says it closed in 1948, it must have reopened again some years later, as my nephew, who lives in Dublin was sent there age 16 to learn agricultural work and used to write to me about his pet tractor, which according to him, was almost human. He was there for 2 years, intending to farm in Israel.
He came out from Dublin to me in Canada for several years and we took a house at Point Roberts, actually in that tiny part of the US that is cut off from the main land mass. He is just verging on 80 years old. still in Dublin; the son of my recently departed sister, at the age of 103. So he’s still a youngster…….!!!!!
Edgar…I think the farm will have changed a little. Then there was flax grown from which they spun linen. The tenor of this protestants area inclined also to industry. Just imagine the Jewish boys walked three miles into the Regal cinema in nearest town where they saw Newsreel film. They must have suffered trauma.
https://www.visitardsandnorthdown.com/things-to-do/nature-wildlife-and-farms/ballyrolly-farm
Edgar
Fascinating that you touched base with the refugees in Mill isle which runs along the coast. It’s amazing it is co Down not Antrim. Hope this good article brings back memories.
https://www.historyireland.com/millisle-county-down-haven-from-nazi-terror/
Ballyrolly House Millisle
@Michael @Edgar Why don’t you ask Biden and you can invite Bibi since Biden seems to think he is curious, too?
various media, I won’t bother to cite specifically.
Edgar, you’ve just been talking nonesense. You’re welcome to your opinions, but I don’t want to play games with you. You consistently dismiss most of what I say as untrue, without supporting evidence, then complain that I am doing this to you. Let’s not waste each others’ time here.
Anti-Globalist, Anti-Woke Communist party wins 25% of vote in local Salzburg elections, up from 4%…
MICHAEL_
I partly expected that you would respond with obfuscation and no content.
Not surprising that you don’t “understand”; you show a marked expertise at sliding around a subject for which you have NO answer, after making an untrue or misleading comment.
When pinned down-as now- you pretend ignorance.
You don’t need to pretend; as one whith your beliefs fills the bill.
Edgar,
I have no idea what you’re talking about. I suppose you could start your own religion, if you wanted to, or your own alternate history. Many others have done such things.
Regarding the very astute analysis by Ms. Glick.
We must all carefully prepare. The US at present is to be handled by experts… not generals.
Michael-
There was one beautiful phrase I omitted. It was written by Hugh J. Schonfield, the author of “The Passover Plot”
“People are inclined to read the Gospels through rose coloured glasses”
One has to admit that it’s THE perfect, brilliantly descriptive phrase.
*******John 8 57-59. It was said by Jews during a dispute over the crazy claims “Jesus” was making about himself.
That it referred to “Jews” shows that John was likely written after the separation, which happened during Bar Kocheba’s War, according to that order on a sherd, written by him to his officer. Also, the successions of Jewish “popes” ceased after the War, and were Christian from then on.
Another explanation, that it is acknowledged by nearly all experts that none of the Gospels was written by a Jew. John 8 is an example.*******
I’m sure you knew the above yet pretended that you didn’t and threw in “historians”. Deceptive, and against Christian Law…… NO???
SEB-
I’ve seen the photos, and the record of Eisenhower having filmed what he found because it needed to be preserved .I don’t recall his exact words but they showed his horror.
And I could not avoid many references which were contained in books I read. I also know personally several people who survived. I was at school with a least 3-4 Kindertransport survivors and knew others.
In Northern Ireland there was a farm called Millisle, where quite a few were housed and taught farming skills. I visited there several times and some of the kids visited Dublin.
I just could not bear to see all the horror vividly shown on a huge screen, the piteous or vacant expressions on the faces…….Although aggressive I am by nature a “softie”..
If Hitler had conquered Britain, or Ireland joined Germany , I would have been one of them, if I’d survived.
I DID survive a bombing attack from a German bomber, whose bombs dropped just across the road from my house causing our home to be rendered unusable. We were all thrown around inside also. I’ve posted exactly what happened on this site.
By the way, what was your history period of study???
MICHAEL_
Thank you for your response. You left out a few things. No historian said “You are not yet 50 years old” in SPEAKING to “Jesus” I’m sure it was in one of the Gospels or Pauline writings, at any rate the Christian Bible. So don’t evade the point. My recollection is that it began “Thou art not yet….”
As for your dice roll (naturally) the Gospels, which are deemed by a large majority of scholars as very unreliable, historically, demographically and geographically, there is NO value in quoting “proofs” from it.
Being a scientist, you understand basic arithmetic. Since Herod is recorded in your Bible, to have killed all the babies of 2 years old and is historically known to have died in 4 B.C.E. “Jesus” would have to have been born at least more than 2 years before that time, and this is accepted by everyone.(everyone who believes the Herod story)
The date of 7 B.C.E or 9 B.C.E. are the most popular because of this unknown act of Herod, also likely because of the fact that Tiberius having died in 37, with John STILL alive and not yet having performed his supposed function of being the “forerunner”. This would make Jesus” at least more than 45 years old. John would have to have been even older, since he was already baptising in the year 6 (a census year) and obviously well known already Likely about 30 then..
So where does it leave us. Exactly as we were before your response, which proved nothing, because I quoted either from your Bible or from known historical data.
Sorry…..
@Michael
You mean Bea Arthur (nee Bernice Frankel) wasn’t a clerk in the ancient Roman Unemployment Office? I’m surprised. I knew she was old. I don’t know if Suetonius mentioned her.
Hi, Sebastien
I know.
@Edgar I never said I was uninterested in the past. Hell, I was an award-winning history major! it was the ancient world I had no interest in as I felt it as irrelevant to the present era – like most leftists and progressives – and because I have to practically learn another language – or several, and I’m talking about variants of English – to understand it and see if there are any lessons for today or patterns that need to be changed and what the origins are. And just to learn our people’s history since we are under attack.
But, enjoying it? I’ll give you the same answer you gave me when I said, Jean Renoir”s “This Land is Mine” (1942/43) starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O’hara, George Sanders, George Couloris, Walter Slezak and Una O’connor, is the only Holocaust era film before 1945 that actually refers, if only in passing, to the persecution of the Jews.
You said you can’t bear to watch anything about the persecution of Jews.
Well, I feel that way, these days, as well, but I’m gritting my teeth and reading these histories because knowledge is power. And then, now, and in the future, Jewish power is the answer for our survival.
Volume 3 of the Zeitlin just arrived.
And, I don’t suppose you care, but someone reading this might find it interesting (or else why are we discussing this in public, eh?) but the copy I ordered of “The Passion of Josepf D.” (a -parody of Stalin published in 1964 and then performed on Broadway briefly (Peter Falk of “Columbo” fame, later on, played Stalin, by one of the greatest playwrights America has ever produced, Paddy Chayefsky – who I was very please to read in the article about the kapo Jewish artists at the Oscar’s had publicly condemned Trotskyist – sorry, Felix – Vanessa Redgrave when she slandered Israel while accepting an Oscar for acting decades ago (he was very pro-Israel, I am happy to report) because I had lost my copy and I wanted to find this marvelous quote:
“When a barefoot fellow tells you he is revolting against tyranny, watch out: he’s only after your boots. There you have the class struggle in a nutshell.”
@Michael I said I thought Brooks was satirizing Twain not Suetonius.
– Letter from Mark Twain, San Francisco Alta Calfornia, Aug. 1, 1869
http://www.twainquotes.com/Astronomy.html#:~:text=I%20study%20astronomy%20more%20than,at%20it%20all%20the%20time.
– “Occupation?”
‘”Stand-up philosopher”
“What?”
“Stand-up Philosopher. I coalesce the vapor of human experience to a viable and logical comprehension.
“Oh. A bullshit artist.”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2RYhNhBdw
Hi, Edgar. You said,
No attack merited. As for those scholars saying Jesus was “not yet 50 years old”, this did not imply that “So he was no youngster”. It was intended to demean him, for not being as old as Abraham. Jesus’ approximate age was recorded elsewhere:
“Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry.”
— Luke 3:23 (NIV).
John the Baptist was six months older than Jesus:
“36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:24-37).”
I read Suetonius’ “Twelve Caesars” nearly 50 years ago. It was written in AD 121.
“The book can be described as racy, overly sensationalist, packed with gossip, drama, and sometimes humor. The book heavily relies on hearsay and rumor, and at times the author subjectively expresses his opinion and knowledge. Several important events are omitted.
“Although he was never a senator himself, Suetonius took the side of the Senate in most conflicts with the princeps, as well as the senators’ views of the emperor. That resulted in biases, both conscious and unconscious. Suetonius lost access to the official archives shortly after beginning his work. He was forced to rely on secondhand accounts when it came to Claudius (with the exception of the letters of Augustus, which had been gathered earlier) and does not quote the emperor.”
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Caesars#Vitellius
That being said, I give Suetonius’ work more credit than Brookes’ “History of the World,Part I” referred to by Sebastien.
Despite Suetonius’ handicaps, I do not believe he was a “stand-up philosopher” a la Sebastien and Brookes.
Danny Haiphong is another vicious antisemite. He’s probably a paid CCP shill. Why do you promote these people, Ted? Does it at all raise red flags with you that the same people supporting Russia and Putin are also supporting hamas? Are you that enamored with Putin that you just don’t care? Are you also ok with putin threatening nuclear war?
You call the occupation of Ukrainian territory “liberation”? Liberation from what? You sound like hamas. I think you love Russia more than Israel.
Like with Israel, Biden has no intention of allowing Ukraine to win. He sends them a limited amount of munitions to makes an appearance of support but not nearly enough to actually win. Likewise with Israel he wants to stop them short of victory. Taiwan should expect no support either. Biden is siding with the axis of evil on every front.
SEB-
It’s only NOW, after reading your post that I really am beginning to know you. You went to great depth to explain your thought patterns. All the same I find it hard to understand why you had no interest in past events.
In my opinion current events will only unroll as to their real intent and meaning , perhaps in 50 years time. There is far too much going on to generalise, so I concentrate on Israel and US Politics, where it touches Israel and Jews..We ordinary people are never cognisant of the real meaning or intent behind public political moves. Until much later.
Your post is such that needs re-reading several times and deep thought applied. Much I barely believed possible -except that you say so…… and I believe you.
Nothing constructed is as interesting as past history, and trying to get inside the minds of those concerned, allowing for the general beliefs and traditions. That is MY opinion only of course.
Also postulating about future events, but only in a subject of interest to me.
Yet I have the same habit as you, of going off in a tangent in the same post, but not a (to me) frivolous one, You may notice that in answering some innocuous question I then slide into what my be a condensed account of a connecting historical period.
Your post shows me that not only am I old-fashioned and with a different mind set, but beyond old fashioned.
But I would never want to be one of those who “forgets nothing and learns nothing”.. I learn all the time even at my advanced age.
And thank you very much for your post.
George Stephanopolous shames Rep. Nancy Mace for supporting Trump while being a rape survivor
This was a despicable display of the level to which the establishment will go to demonize those who stand against it. Stephanopolous should be horsewhipped for such craven tactics, and then he should be terminated. Unfortunately he will probably be rewarded for exceeding his already well established reputation of a political hack masquerading as a jounalist.
NYT: Ukraine will receive only six F-16 fighters out of the promised 45 by the end of spring.
@Edgar My mind works the way it works and I make connections the way I make them. These “tangents” are what is familiar to me. Everything you are recommending to me is unfamiliar and completely alien. It is a struggle to even understand what I am reading.
That’s always been the case with anything from or about any time before the Age of Enlightenment. I certainly never learned any of it in school. And it is really complex. Just the plot line is hard to follow. The Tanakh is the same way. I am trying to make them familiar.
And others might be reading this and finding my connections valuable. I had a secular New Age upbringing at home and we have in common the things we have in common, including Laurel and Hardy because nothing has every been before or after my time. Everything ever recorded or that will ever be recorded anywhere in the world is my time, if I can only understand it which means relating it to things I do understand.
And, sometimes, I believe valuable insights come about through thinking outside the box in this way. It also helps that both of my parents were born in the early 1920’s and my grandparents – who I never knew except for my maternal grandfather who died when I was 12 – were born in the late 1880s or early 1890s. I was born in the late 1950’s and my sister in the early 1950’s. Come to think of it, if my parents were alive, they’s both be turning 100 this year.
But, I grew up also watching silent films which my mother couldn’t bear to watch because they were from before her time. 😀
SEB_
I’m interested in your opinion of the books I have named to you to read, and have no interest in Korea either South or North.
(Nor Yul Brynner and Siam or others.) My film liking stops at Laurel & Hardy -a wonderful pair, and the 1933 King Kong. (not literally of course)
(the backdropsand much scenery were from the 1932 “The Most Dangerous Game” a famous short story, known to every schoolteacher who ever set it to his students) to s.ave money
Please forgive me that. You go off on tangents which to me (an expert st it) are irrelevant to the subject being discussed.
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