The language portending the Drowning of the Federal Gov't in a Bathtub

The GOP agenda that media doesn't much talk about:

The R's want to undo the Federal Government and replace it with a Confederacy of Conservative States... a process now grossly out in the open in Republican led Texas, but including many Red State rejections of Federal policy and refusals to enforce it. All the movement seems to be to circumvent the inconvenience of the US Constitution, its governance, it's incorporated rights and federal law and regulatory agencies.

What they can't win nationally through fair elections they seek to transform into a patchwork of independent state governments, each state's laws organized to produce independent definitions of liberty so to guarantee life within their unique values, which secure the favor and guidance of their definition of a supreme being.

A very nice synopsis of their project was written in the last century as the Constitution of the Confederacy. I offer for your consideration of these catastrophic coming changes a paragraph from that document's Preamble. Having read it, you may then consider whether recent history and contemporary events make ever so much more sense in light of it:

"We, the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity – invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God – do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America."

GOP bill seeks to deport anti-Israel protestors to Gaza

Not a joke.

A House Republican has told Newsweek why she is introducing new legislation which would deport any foreign national charged with a crime at "pro-terrorism or antisemitic rallies" anywhere in the United States.

Rep. Beth Van Duyne, from Texas, who has sponsored a proposed amendment to immigration laws, said legislative change is needed due to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on American campuses which she claimed had promoted "violence" and "extremism" with "college after college not responding."


https://www.newsweek.com/republican-bill-calls-antisemites-deported-1898244

2019 story on Israel exploiting gas reserves of Palestinians

from the UN Commission on Trade and Development

https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves

I post it with no comment other than that like myself, I think a large majority of Americans knows nothing about a $254 billion issue.

Worst postcard ever... I'm invited to a pizza party w/ strangers to plan my funeral

I don't know what dumb undertaker's Gen X offspring thought this was a GREAT idea but I found it insensitive, crude and demeaning.

So much so that I am writing the Town Board, and the WI Department of Trade and Consumer Protection to complain. After all, they got my name and address from gov't records. And I strenuously Object to their exploitation of those records for this crap.

They think they will win my after-life bankroll, by offering a piece of luke warm pizza (of their choosing, no doubt with pineapple) in a conference room filled with strangers in a budget flea bag motel.

Damn.

If they can't do THIS business in person, perhaps one of the most emotional, personal, and in many ways intimate transactions I'll ever encounter, then they CANNOT have my business. If I wanted funeral planning, I think I could find someone to do it in a much more sensitive and personal way

This is so crass, I am not only insulted and demeaned by this assembly line treatment, but my confidence in the place has plunged to zero. If they think $1.50 piece of pizza is going to get me into a contract for $12k funeral, they are deranged and maybe even interested in selling my body parts on the black market.

The difference between a Demonstrator and a Protestor?

Demonstrators are Pro-something, and protestors are Anti-something.

Is this just semantics, or is there forensic meaning to be had in this distinction? Whether or not your pro-palestinian or anti-Israeli policy if you are doing either while violating a private property owner's expressed desire to leave that owner's property you seem to be guilty of trespassing. But maybe policy, ordinances and laws are written to acknowledge the distinction. I don't know, anyone know?

I regularly hear on the national news that campuses are full of "Pro-Palestinian Protestors". IF, and I know it's a big IF, if there is actual meaning to the distinction, then the media and many social media users are mistaking their characterizations.

Yet, I have the feeling that people believe it's absolutely impossible to be a demonstrator for Palestinians and NOT be a protestor of IDF actions/Israeli policy. The one demands the other and evidence of demonstrating is evidence of protesting

Can being a Demonstrator be a legal shield for person against treatment intended on punishing Protestors?

Dinner tonite is the last of last summer's Butternut Squash

Which we will bake then squash and serve with pork sausage in the seed cavity.

This years squash is in the 6 inch pots awaiting last avg frost date to pass before planting

As a citizen interested in world democracy, I must say

that governments can only improve where they see democratic demand to improve.

Consequently, on the global scale of things, -ALL- countries must be subject to reasonable criticism.

If they don't get that criticism, -ALL- countries will tend to regress into more and more undemocratic behaviors.

So, I respect, and I expect, everyone to continue to do thier part in making reasonable criticisms of -All- governments as each of us sees the need.



By reasonable, I mean something that would be seen as rational criticism of policies and implementations of policy that generate cause for concern among people of goodwill, free of existing prejudice(s).

Tying a bowtie was something my grandfather could do

He was born in 1889

Being able to tie a bow tie is NOT a characteristic Boomer Skill, no matter what the MSN aggregator says.

What kind of cultural ignorance is really promoted by digital media providers in the interest of promoting ageism in the under 50's?

Being able to spin a rolodex to find an alphabetically ordered name card is a skill?????

I think any gen Z could do this if they choose to, but they have different and potentially better tools to do it. At least until Putin's electromagnetic pulse fries all the chips. But then, at that point, who's going to be available to pick up a call?

Consider: Israel has reason to destroy Iranian Drone Factories...

Iran provides Russia with drones. One of Russia's drone factories was blasted a week or so ago.

Russia still needs drones, and they are consuming them at a high rate, have turned to using them in large waves to try to overwhelm Ukraine's air defenses. Russia needs lots of drones. Iran provides them. And Israel now attacked by Iranian drones, has good reason to destroy Iran's drone industry.

The drone attacks on Israel will FORCE Israeli retaliation on Iran. That's just a given considering how Israel's population must feel. And what better for "our interests" than an Israeli attack on Iranian Drone production? We get a very willing proxy to do something our other ally, Ukraine -fighting to save Europe from Russia's pseudo-czar- really would benefit from having happen.

The US wouldn't need to strictly "participate". Biden wouldn't have to lie. Sure we might provide some targeting data, maybe access to secure GPS. But, our closest ally in the region, perhaps in the world, has the means to deliver such an attack without US weapons being involved. Biden clearly doesn't want to invite attacks on our assets, here or abroad, and an Israeli attack would give the US plausible deniability of having been part of the plot. That deniability is so desirable it borders on being PERFECT cover.

Probably take a week to 10 days to 'suss' out all the details.

I'll be watching to see the outcome.

Haaretz: Aid Workers Killed Because 'IDF Officers on the Ground Do What They Want'

Haaretz: Aid Workers Killed Because 'IDF Officers on the Ground Do What They Want'

The army's killing of seven aid workers in the Gaza Strip on Monday night stemmed from poor discipline among field commanders, not a lack of coordination between the army and aid organizations, army sources said on Tuesday.

A source in the intelligence branch said the command "knows exactly what the cause of the attack was – in Gaza, everyone does as he pleases.

Army regulations say that final approval for any action against sensitive targets like aid organizations must be given by senior officers – the division commander, the head of the command or even the chief of staff. But in Gaza, the source said, "every commander sets the rules for himself" and gives his own interpretation of the rules of engagement

What it can be considered is reckless and delinquent military action that failed to observe orders put in place.

And THAT suggest that elements of the IDF have gone rogue and are no longer truly controlled by the Israeli government.

Either Israel arrests and confines all the perp's or it is a willing partner to these actions.

Legitimate war doesn't create war crimes intentionally under flimsy excuses such as "poor" communication. The IDF is out of control.