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]

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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.’

The idea of progress is a dangerous lie.

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

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

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]

The purpose however is at least in part to terrorize the populace. And listen it worked. Those groups changed for the better. Correlation or cause and effect? I have already indicated my opinion. Just like the counter terrorism measures applied in the USA ya have to ask whether those have been difference makers.

What I think worked was…[Read more]

War on drugs was misguided. War on terror is not. And again killing the terrorists is insufficient. Islam will continue to indoctrinate little ones into lives of terrorism. To see the acts of terror by Muslims as simply a reaction to western colonialism or…[Read more]

Glad to see that I am not the only one to acknowledge that The War on Terror is not over. Also glad you acknowledge that inhuman ideas such as those of Islam are the root of terrorism. I just wish the influencer set would put down the toys and albums on their shelves and get back in the intellectual fight.

The definition of terrorism…[Read more]

The biggest customers of the BioCharger are probably Putineers who are proclaining: “Great Czar Ivan the Terrible’s Ghost! The BioChargers must have survived The Great Mud Floods that destroyed Tartaria! Now we can have eternal life too like Comrade Putin and Emperor Xi!”

(Caution: If you decide to read more about Tarataria, do so…[Read more]

In a pig’s rectum. The horror and despicable acts of terror are limited only by imagination particularly for members of a death cult. If you deny that you are essentially giving credit to the forces aligned against them as god-like or they are stupid and incompetent terrorists.

Shoot up…[Read more]

I read like half of that article and did so while sleep deprived. Don’t remember a goddamn thing i read but at times disagreed with it.

So here are some thoughts in re to terrorism. In terrorem.

So i don’t think there is a uniform or consensus definition of terrorism. And without defining terms as a starting point confusion and…[Read more]

To put it succinctly, if Jihadis are attacking the U.S. and our allies, and if we are fighting back, The War On Terror is not over and we haven’t won.

No matter what accomplishments we made against the Jihadis, nothing less than total victory is acceptable against Jihadis seeking totalitarian rule of the entire Planet.

The Afghan War was…[Read more]

World of Woo: The BioCharger.

The Biocharger looks like it would make a great improvement design on the roller grill at the Quik Trip gas stations. Just set it to heat and it could cook and warm egg rolls, flautas, burritos, and corn dogs set between the pillars of the wheel. Or set it to chill and Stuckey’s could chill their famous Nut…[Read more]

If your worldview can be predicted entirely from one label, you may have downloaded the bundle rather than examined the components.

RTFF.

Well, I found video of Tod Lindberg with Jon Podhoretz and Abe Greenwald on this very article above. No signs of distress, just a bunch of oblivious drivel with the sense of awareness and urgency of chitter-chatter about schmatta, schmatta. Schmatta like you find over the corned beef at a deli.

Mission Accomplished?…[Read more]

He contradicts himself. Can’t forget the “con” part. Someone at the Editor’s office of Commentary must be asleep. That, or maybe the office is being held hostage by Antisemitic activists and somebody’s trying to “blink” a distress signal.

I may have found someone who is just as delusional as Jewish Voice for Peace and Queers for Palestine:

How We Won the War on Terror
by
Tod…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

That’s a brilliant article that I agree with.  The author is saying that in order to get people to behave ethically, you have to teach them about ethics in general, or in other words, remind them of what they might already have known.  In any given s…[Read more]

Inflaming Anti-Muslim bigotry is the GOP’s desperate distraction strategy from MAGA failures.

Forget it, Reg; It’s Tater-Town (‘Cuz, ya know, his name is Tommy Tuberville. Sounds like a friend of The Toy Formerly Known As Mr. Potatohead.)

On a more serious note, even though Islam is making some sinister in-roads into U.S. Society, we a…[Read more]

An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

Problem is, The New York Times is so concerned about it’s paywall while shilling for Mamdani and not wanting anyone else to make money. Kinda undermines any talk of ethics and morality, especially the Reciprocity Ethic.

We could solve the charging-time problem by sending the fully charged battery backwards in time to before it was plugged in? No engineering deadlines required. Why is the patent office always closed when I go there?

Naturally, you’d have to time your going back in time to coincide with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) business hours.…[Read more]

The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years…

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Enco i never thought about the bicycle gender apartheid. I am not sure why. Usually i look junk up. Not this time. I may die never knowing why.

It’s not gender apartheid per se, since presumably it is mostly men who manufacture bicycles. It’s more lack of situational awareness by bicycle manufacturers and sales reps.

You may never ask…

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You should not make fun of Ben. Soon all Bens will be replaced by Benbots. They can’t be contained. Sandboxes are futile as you have probably read or heard. BTW how soon can i expect the brave new world…[Read more]

Stone age?

Agreed. We’ve bearly surpassed it. Jiggery-pokery on a bicycle spoke to me. It is my own shadow. It follows me wherever i go. Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly and without warning it disappears. Just as suddenly it reappears and follows me dispensing jiggery-pokery ensconced in foppery.

So when i summoned courage to punch t…

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Agreed. We’ve bearly surpassed it. Jiggery-pokery on a bicycle spoke to me. It is my own shadow. It follows me wherever i go. Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly and without warning it disappears. Just as suddenly it reappears and follows me dispensing jiggery-pokery ensconced in foppery.

So when i summoned courage to punch that man’s…[Read more]

Sick and tired of your jiggery-pokery foppery.

Whose “jiggery-pokery foppery”? There’s so much to go around.

That man will punch your mouth loose. Loose.

And which man? The only ones punching mouths loose are the strongmen of MAGA. CRINK. and the OIC. And sadly, few in the West anymore has the stonage to punch back.

That man will punch your mouth loose. Loose.

The European Court of Human Rights confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief in Europe.*

*Governments and legal systems still tend to conceptualize atheism and humanism merely as an absence of religion rather than positive philosophical convictions entitled to equal respect. Freedom of religion or belief doesn’t mean r…

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Do we need God? Steven Pinker vs. Ross Douthat debate.

This video was slightly disturbing at first. There were a couple of moments where Ross Douthat was so still, it looked like he died and was propped up by his podium!

I was thinking Piers, Tucker, Candace, and Megan were going to have videos entitled: “Atheist Jewish Sorcerer Steven…[Read more]