I always found it idiotic that so many Western ‘activists’ continue treating Hamas as an emblem of liberation. They bite down on the bait every time in order to confirm their biases. I am yet to meet one of them that has any real understanding of the history of the area. Maybe change does come from within. As “Bibi” said after October 7th, “Hamas…[Read more]

Jake:

BTW Enco i was ridiculing my own confirmation bias. It is nearly impossible to kill all of the time. We are human.

Nothing per se wrong with confirmation bias as long as you acknowledge it and keeping it in perspective.

My confirmation bias is assuring that I have coordinates on Earth as a living, rational, free, flourishing human…[Read more]

BTW Enco i was ridiculing my own confirmation bias. It is nearly impossible to kill all of the time. We are human.

Enco,

I was asking AI whether there was any intelligence. Not restricted to US intelligence. It seems AI interpreted my question that way or CHOSE to limit its answer that way. It would be nails in the coffin if we had knowledge of the documents/conversations among the high mucky much of terrorists. (Recently read about library of…[Read more]

Jake:

Recall though, that U.S. Intelligence Community, didn’t foresee either the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 or 9/11/2001, (not to mention Tiananmen Square, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of The Berlin Wall, the end of Communism in the Eastern Bloc, the end of Apartheid in South Africa, etc. ad nauseum). So again,…[Read more]

Enco,

For the first time i asked AI the following question.

Is there intelligence that Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates are trying to orchestrate major terrorist attacks in USA?

Answer from AI

United States intelligence assessments indicate that the main global core of the Muslim Brotherhood is not currently trying to orchestrate major…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Unlike the oblivious writers at Commentary, this writer somewhat gets it:

Arthur Herman
Did America Win the War on Terror?
It depends on where you look.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/war-on-terror-911

He does overestimate our foreign prowess against Islamic terrorism, however he does at least acknowledge areas where…[Read more]

Reg:

Yes, I doubt if Mr. Gray is ever the most colorful actor on the party scene. He probably belongs to some branch of the ‘reality based community’.

Ron Suskind would have really been the life of the party if he’d have just named the name of the one who made the quote, and he would have been really ‘reality based.’

Yes, I doubt if Mr. Gray is ever the most colorful actor on the party scene. He probably belongs to some branch of the ‘reality based community’. 🙂

Reg:

The idea of progress is a dangerous lie.

Phew! Bet John Gray’s the life of the party!
😁

Sunday Book Club: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker.

Cue the Leonard Cohen, who, according to Neal from The Young Ones, is both alive and yet dead: