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Reg:

…..and a 40-year-old female resident of Jefferson County died on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from complications associated with measles.

I’m doing my small part to see that there are no more victims of fully preventable killers.

I heard there was a flu season coming too, so I decided not to participate this past Labor Day weekend, as a…[Read more]

…..and a 40-year-old female resident of Jefferson County died on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from complications associated with measles.

Reg:

World of Woo: Pete Hegseth.

Pete Keg’s-Breath and Bobby Brainworm are the kind of idiots who say: “Welp! Ye go to war with the military you have!”

Uh, no! Not if you want to win that war!

During the last war the U.S. won–World War II, it’s been that long–we didn’t fight with the Military we had! We took the Military we had and made…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!

Have a great week!!

Secularism protects everybody from somebody else’s certainty. RTFF

Fellow Unbelievers:

An interesting piece of archeology to add to the ideosphere of the Middle East:

Jewish presence predates Islam in Arabia
08.31.2026, by Sylvie Dauvillier
Reading time: 10 minutes
https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/jewish-presence-predates-islam-in-arabia

The looney “Free Palestine” crowd are now going to “just ask the questions”:…[Read more]

Iran’s respite from attacking Israel may not simply be or be at all about not wanting their tops to die. I just wonder if it is true whether they plan to invade again.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-907636

Reg:

Hamas has “achieved” nothing but repression and destruction and the only way to “Free Palestine” is to free it from Hamas as well as their Palestinian Authority rival Fatah.

One can rightly criticize Bibi’s Intel for their failure of imagination, as well as Trump for his “Board of Peace” which is just his attempt to make the Israel-Hamas…[Read more]

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:

Jake:

2026 is the year of saying two things at once that seem contradictory at first blush but really aren’t.

Enco,

It has to be a bubble burster filled with excrement to believe so fervently in the German master race or in the living god Hirohito and then be crushed like an organ grinder monkey among killer chimps. I think that sentiment hits much harder when the counterpunch involves more than just Dear John letters. On other hand it can be done…[Read more]