TheEncogitationer

Reg:

Is it a ‘Peace Deal’ or just a ‘Ceasefire Agreement’?

It is two new modern entries in Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.

The term used on Trump’s side is something like “Formation of a Concept of a Plan” a diplomatic way of saying “Trump pulled this out of his ass alongside his enbedded head.”

The Islamic Arabic word for this is Hud…[Read more]

Jake:

Interesting bit of little-taught American history there. First time I ever heard that.

Here’s something you never hear amid all the non-stop barage of anti-Israel hatred:

Israel actually has a micronation in it’s borders called Akhzivland, founded by Iranian Eli Avivi. Avivi legally resisted attempts by the Israeli government to seize…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s the latest of 39 proclamations of “Peace In Our Time.” Trump and whoever he’s negotiating with don’t agree on even a “Memorandum of Understanding” proceeding a “Deal,” with Israel not even in the loop except for Trump restraining Israel from fighting back against Hezbollah.

Oh. and…[Read more]

Reg and Simon:

Where Trump messed up is not taking out both the Mullahs and the IRGC first, preferably by inciting Iran’s regular Military to mutiny and/or parachuting arms to dissenting Persian citizens. Let the military and dissenters be the “boots on the ground.”

Without the Mullahs and IRGC, arms wouldn’t ship themselves to Hamas and…[Read more]

Reg:

I once told some auditing Scientologists that if reincarnation were true, that I would like to return as “a football pitch in the West of Ireland for the ladies field hockey final on a warm but rain-soaked Sunday “. They were ‘shocked and disgusted’, much to my amusement.

“I don’t ask for enlightenment. I ask only to be useful, trampled up…

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Reg:

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints.

I guess The American Diabetes Association can make rules for admission to their little tree-house, but they sure can’t claim to be for the best interests of Diabetics, especially if they did this on behest of Trump stoolies. Well, they just Streisand-ed…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

When I first heard this, I thought that maybe Zero Hedge was doing some Bababooey media prank making fun of Girl Bosses, meatless “Soy Boys,” and DEI “Box-Tickers.”

Turns out Alpha Gal Syndrome is a real condition spread by ticks, it’s just that it’s surrounded with lots of silly conspiracy talk.…[Read more]

Jake:

The economic shutdowns and government stimulus packages responding to COVID-19 had all kinds of destructive effects, brought out the worst in tyrannies and tyranny-lovers all over the world, created inflation that distorted economics and broke a lot of people, including eventually me.

Prior to the vaccine, the best thing to have done…[Read more]

Reg, Jake, and Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s someone Michael Shermer could talk to about Antisemitism, as well have a friendly, spirited debate on the comparability of Science and Religion:

Joel Kotkin
The Rise of the UnJews
Anti-Zionism is rising among diaspora Jews; the future of Jewish identity may be increasingly…[Read more]

Jake:

Rest unassured, the problem of Batya and Frau Megyn, is not Jewish-ness, but shrewish-ness.

It’s like they were hatched from Zeus’s head fully grown, but with no content in their own brains. It’s like they were never children themselves.

And Megyn Kelly herself has 3 children, all below age-of-majority, so what up with her flippance…[Read more]

Reg:

The article from from Kai James in The Conversation entitled

Could aliens ever visit Earth? An aerospace scientist unpacks the challenges of interstellar spaceflight

was very well thought-out. It left no stone unturned in answering the question, at least in terms of space travel as we currently understand.

Best of all, it brought some…[Read more]

Reg:

Michael Shermer could have picked many other better people than Batya Ungar-Sargon to discuss Anti-Semitism on the Left. Batya’s interview with Megyn Kelly was what cinched it for me.

Listening to Megyn Kelly parsing about the age of Epstein’s abuse victims and Batya blank-staring and apple-polishing over Trump’s treatment of this horror,…[Read more]

Reg:

Before serving as an exorcist through the St. Michael Center, Monsignor Rossetti was a prominent advocate for the prevention of child abuse in church settings, and a psychologist specializing in clerical sex abuse.Before serving as an exorcist through the St. Michael Center, Monsignor Rossetti was a prominent advocate for the prevention of…

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