Sunday: Hili dialogue

March 24, 2024 • 6:45 am

Welcome to Sunday, March 24, 2024 and National Chocolate-Covered Raisins Day.  When I used to buy these at the movies as a kid, we called them “rabbit turds.” To wit:

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It’s also International Day for Achievers, Palm Sunday, National Cheesesteak Day (I still haven’t had one in Philadelphia—or anywhere), World Tuberculosis Day, National Cocktail Day, and International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.

Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the March 24 Wikipedia page.

Da Nooz:

*The death toll in the ISIS attack on a crowded Russian rock concert keeps rising. Last night it was fewer than 100 people killed, now it’s 133.  But the perps, so say the Russians, are all in custody. (How did they get them alive?)

The Russian authorities said Saturday that they had arrested the four people responsible for a mass killing and arson at a suburban Moscow concert venue, which left at least 133 people dead in one of the worst terrorist attacks to jolt Russia in decades.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the brutal attack late Friday, raising fears of a global resurgence by the extremist group. U.S. officials said they believed the atrocity was the work of a branch of the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Khorasan, or ISIS-K, which has been active in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.

The Russian leader did take a swipe at Ukraine, saying that the suspects were apprehended while traveling to the Russian border, where he alleged a crossing was being prepared for them from “the Ukrainian side.” Kyiv has denied any involvement in the attack.

Russian state news broadcasts largely ignored or cast doubt on the ISIS attribution, and commentators focused on trying to blame Ukraine. As of Saturday, the authorities had not disclosed the identities of the alleged gunmen.

But state news media did show what it described as footage of interrogations of at least two of the suspects, including one who spoke in Tajik through an interpreter and another who said he carried out the killings for money after being recruited over the messaging app Telegram. Russia’s Interior Ministry said the four suspects were all foreign citizens.

In his video address, Mr. Putin said the four main perpetrators had been apprehended, as well as seven other individuals.

I doubt that this had anything to do with Ukraine. What would they have to gain from killing a bunch of civilians? And Tajik is a variant of Farsi, which is, of course, not spoken in Ukraine. But Putin will lie like a rug to pursue his ends.

*And once again—this is getting familiar—the Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill to keep the government from shutting down this weekend. Is this our fate forever: an endless series of threats that the government will fold, all saved at the last minute by cobbled-together legislation?

The Senate approved a $1.2 trillion spending bill in the wee hours of Saturday morning to prevent a brief partial government shutdown, sending the bill to President Biden to sign into law.

The bill, which passed by a 74-24 vote, funds about three-quarters of the federal government for the next six months, while also raising military pay, eliminating U.S. funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees and bolstering security at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Passage came after a 12:01 a.m. deadline, meaning some federal funding technically expired, but the White House budget office said it would not declare a shutdown because the vote was imminent, and Biden will sign the bill later Saturday.

The House had passed the measure, the product of an agreement between Biden, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), on Friday morning.

But the vote there succeeded on a jarringly slim margin for Johnson and the House GOP leadership and ignited a rebellion among far-right extremists in the lower chamber, testing the speaker’s tenuous grip on his conference.

That foreshadowed unrest in the Senate later in the day and night. A group of Republican senators demanded amendment votes to the legislation on politically thorny issues, including immigration, Iran sanctions and government spending. But altering the bill in any way would have assured a shutdown; the legislation would have had to be approved again by the House, which had already adjourned for a recess slated to go longer than two weeks.

That kept the Senate in session into early Saturday morning as Schumer and the Republicans haggled over a deal. An agreement emerged just as the deadline arrived, allowing weary lawmakers to finally vote.

Everybody who voted against the bill was a Republic save one Democrat (Michael Bennet of Colorado) and one independent (Bernie Sanders, of course).

*Antonyt Blinken is still trying to prevent Israel from winning its war with Hamas. The Times of Israel reports that the Secretary of State, who is Jewish, is doing all he can to efface the Jewish state. Fortunately, Israel’s war cabinet, as well as the people of Israel, aren’t paying attention to the U.S.’s interference in the war. Netanyahu and the war cabinet, as well as government ministers, have emphasized that Israel will go into Rafah, as that’s the only way to get rid of Hamas.

After meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on the message he has expressed in recent days — that while Israel will happily work with the US on improving the humanitarian situation and evacuating civilians from Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, a military operation there is inevitable.

Blinken said he told Netanyahu in response, however, that a major ground offensive in Rafah was not the way to defeat Hamas. And he warned starkly that it would risk more civilian fatalities, undermine aid assistance, risk greater isolation for Israel and endanger Israel’s security and international standing.

In a video statement after meeting with Blinken, Netanyahu said, “I told him that I deeply appreciate the fact that for more than five months, we have stood together in the war against Hamas.”

“I told him that we recognize the need to evacuate the civilian population for the war zone and of course to take care of humanitarian needs, and we are working on that,” he continued.

“But I also told him that we don’t have a way to defeat Hamas without going into Rafah, and eliminating the remaining battalions there. And I told him that I hope that we will do it with America’s support, but if we need, we will do it alone,” he said. Israel says it has dismantled most of Hamas’s original 24 battalions, but the final four are deployed in Rafah, bolstered by gunmen who have fled south as the IDF moved through the Strip.

*Apropos, the WSJ has a new article on “Why Israel plans to attack Rafah despite U.S. doubts.”

The Biden administration is hoping to persuade senior Israeli officials visiting Washington in the coming days that suppressing Hamas, which the U.S. and Israel agree is a terrorist organization, doesn’t require a full ground invasion of Rafah. U.S. officials fear the operation could become a bloodbath that adds to global anger over Israel’s war in Gaza.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel’s military would press ahead with a ground operation in Rafah with or without U.S. support. “We have no way to defeat Hamas without entering Rafah and eliminating the remnant of the battalions there,” Netanyahu said.

His comments came after a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who warned against a ground assault in Rafah. “It risks killing more civilians, it risks wreaking greater havoc with the provision of humanitarian assistance, it risks further isolating Israel around the world and jeopardizing its long-term security and standing.”

Yes, some civilians will be killed (but the ratio to dead terrorists is relatively low), and a targeted assault is better than just bombing the hell out of the city, which would kill more. And of course Hamas is ensuring that the civilians stay in the city. What can the U.S. possibly as a strategy that doesn’t risk civilian lives at all but also avoids bombing and strategic targeting of Hamas from the air? And Israel doesn’t much care if the world comes down on it more, for that is the fate of the Jewish state. Finally, not attacking Rafah risks the existence of Israel.

Netanyahu has vowed to fight on until Hamas has been annihilated. Senior U.S. officials including Blinken have warned Israel that it risks global isolation without making any lasting improvements to its security, and have criticized the lack of a plan for who should govern Gaza after Hamas.

Around 1.4 million Palestinian civilians are sheltering in Rafah on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, most of them refugees from other parts of Gaza that Israel has heavily bombarded as it tries to destroy Hamas. The scale of destruction and shortage of humanitarian supplies in much of the strip has left refugees with nowhere else to go.

That last sentence is a lie. Israel has not only set up a refuge for Gazans along the Mediterranean, and has also given civilians in Rafah a map of where to go and when, revealing to Hamas its attack plans. No other army in the world has done something like that, all to protect civilians. Still Blinken runs his mouth.  One more bit:

Netanyahu’s reluctance to make the difficult decision on who should govern Gaza after Hamas has led to simmering tensions with Israel’s military, which has warned for many weeks that a political vacuum risks benefiting Hamas.

Hamas, outgunned by Israel’s military, is seeking to outlast the Israeli war effort and declare victory by surviving. Even further tactical victories for Israel in Rafah, such as the destruction of Hamas units there, wouldn’t necessarily secure a lasting strategic gain if the group later reconstitutes itself, analysts warn.

That last paragraph is true, and if Hamas is trying to win by surviving, why is the U.S. trying to help it survive? So it goes. . .

*AOC finally came around to calling the Israeli attempt to destroy Hamas a “genocide”. You know she wanted to, as she’s one of the Israel haters among the so-called “progressive” Democrats. She also called for a permanent cease-fire.  I wonder if she’s called Hamas’s attack on October 7, and their repeated calls and written aims for the extermination of Jews, a genocide as well.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned on Friday that Israel’s blockade of Gaza had put the territory on the brink of severe famine, saying publicly for the first time that the nation’s wartime actions amounted to an “unfolding genocide.”

In a speech on the House floor, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, forcefully called on President Biden to cut off U.S. military aid to Israel unless and until it begins to allow the free flow of humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip.

“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes,” she said. “It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their bodies consume themselves, while trucks of food are slowed and halted just miles away.”

The comments were a sharp rhetorical escalation by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, the de facto leader of the Democratic Party’s left wing, and they illustrated the intense pressure buffeting party officials as they grapple with how to respond to Israel’s war tactics and the deepening humanitarian crisis.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, defying party leaders, has been a proponent of a permanent cease-fire since Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7, and has called for putting conditions on American military aid to Israel. But she had resisted describing the ensuing war, which has killed 30,000 Gazans and left the territory in ruins, as a genocide.

All this adds up to the fact that Rep. Ocasio-Cortz would be delighted if Israel would just disappear. And she can’t resist the g-word any longer.

*Finally, the AP’s “oddities” section, a reliable source of weird news, reports a nefarious act.

A Texas man is accused of trying to sneak on board a flight by taking a photo of another passenger’s boarding pass, and authorities say he was caught because the flight was full and he didn’t have a place to sit.

Now the man faces a felony charge of being a stowaway on an aircraft.

Wicliff Yves Fleurizard of George, Texas, was arrested Sunday after boarding a Delta Air Lines plane in Salt Lake City for a flight to Austin, Texas, federal prosecutors in Utah said.

According to a police officer’s affidavit filed in federal district court, Fleurizard boarded the plane and opened the door to a storage space for emergency equipment. A flight attendant helped him get to the lavatory in the front of the plane.

After everyone else boarded, Fleurizard moved to a lavatory in the back of the plane. When he exited — at this point, the plane had started to taxi to the runway — he told a flight attendant that he was in seat 21F.

There was already somebody in seat 21F, a girl traveling alone, and the flight attendant confirmed that she was a ticketed passenger.

When the crew searched, Fleurizard’s name didn’t pop up in records for the Austin-bound flight “or any other Delta Flight for that matter,” according to the affidavit.

According to the complaint, a review of surveillance footage from the boarding area showed Fleurizard taking pictures of several passengers’ phones and boarding passes when they weren’t looking, then using his phone as a boarding pass to get on the plane.

You’d think that would be clever, but I suspect that the boarding scanner would detect a “double entry.” So how did both he and the girl both get on?  At any rate the guy would be toast if the plane were full, as it was. Now he’ll be a convicted felon.

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Editor Hili is doing her job at Listy:

Hili: Everything has to be changed.
A: Why?
Hili: I see in my phone that there is a more important subject.
In Polish:
Hili: Trzeba to wszystko zmienić.
Ja: Dlaczego?
Hili: Widzę w telefonie, że jest ważniejszy temat.
Here’s her post as official editor of Listy:

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From Outside the Litter Box, via Merilee:

From Barry:

From America’s Cultural Decline Into Idiocy:

From Masih: A well known Iranian rap singer, which of course is a practice forbidden in the oppressive Islamic Republic of Iran. Here Justina (real name Farima Habashizadehashi) speaks (English translation) about that regime. And she has been arrested. Read more about her here.

Guess the animal.  I know!

From Jez: The Playhouse Cinema in Hamilton, Ontario has “postponed” (Jez thinks its canceled) a Jewish Film Festival—on the grounds of “security and safety concerns”. Safety my tuches: they are cowards afraid to stand up to the mob. And note that this is the only tweet on their site for which you can’t leave comments.  Is that for safety and security, too?

From Malcolm; “Stationmaster cats” on Japanese railways appear to be a thing, now:

From Luana, who sent in a real reference to “pain equity” to sell Advil. Yes, it’s Rufo, but he has a point:

From my feed.  My comment is “Damn right! Good thing he can’t!”

From the Auschwitz Memorial, a 14-year-old boy, gassed to death upon arrival:

Two tweets from Dr. Cobb. First, another station cat, this one ensuring that patrons have their cards:

Matthew’s daughter published a first-authored paper! How time flies: I remember her as a babe in arms.

39 thoughts on “Sunday: Hili dialogue”

  1. Mostly rhetorical question of the day: Why, when events are postponed or canceled over concerns about potential violence, do people never call out the groups that are perceived as the threat?

    1. Sometimes the reason is just that the venue itself doesn’t really want to put on the event anyway and it uses the slightest peep from the usual suspects, sometimes from its own staff, to cancel it, even if no one has uttered a criminal threat. From my contacts in Peterborough, that seems to have been the case with the Leah Goldstein affair. That’s how we weaponize “niceness” here.

      Hamilton has a large Muslim population, many of them foreign students at our university and community colleges. The city council, school board and powerful industrial and public-sector union executives are hard Left from the city’s days as a centre of steel-making, and arts organizations are fully captured by progressive totalitarianism on which they depend for their government grants. What could go wrong?

      This piece suggests that the antisemites didn’t have to push very hard to get the Playhouse to capitulate.
      https://forward.com/fast-forward/594841/jewish-film-festival-canada-canceled-security/

  2. Congrats on the paper!

    It’s Sunday – I’m going with that and a jazz playlist. Billy Eckstine keeps coming up – I added him because of the recent Eckstine post!

    1. That capybara managed to maintain the level of composure that the species is renowned for, thankfully.

  4. On this day:
    1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.

    1603 – James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.

    1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.The

    1829 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.

    1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

    1854 – President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.

    1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

    1921 – The 1921 Women’s Olympiad began in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women’s sports event.

    1944 – German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.

    1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. [Coincidentally, today is the anniversary of Steve McQueen’s birth.]

    1946 – A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.

    1949 – Hanns Albin Rauter, a chief SS and Police Leader, in the Netherlands, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.

    1961 – The Quebec Board of the French Language is established.

    1972 – Direct rule is imposed on Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom under Edward Heath.

    1989 – In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.

    1993 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 is discovered by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker, and David Levy at the Palomar Observatory in California.

    1998 – Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

    1999 – Kosovo War: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

    1999 – A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 38 people.

    2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

    2018 – Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. [Has anything changed in the six years since?]

    Births:
    1693 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (d. 1776). [Also the anniversary of his death.]

    1820 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (d. 1891).

    1820 – Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer (d. 1915). [Wrote more than 8,000 (!) hymns and gospel songs, with more than 100 million copies printed. She is also known for her teaching and her rescue mission work. By the end of the 19th century, she was a household name.]

    1826 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist and author (d. 1898).

    1834 – William Morris, English textile designer, poet, and author (d. 1896).

    1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (d. 1920).

    1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor (d. 1926).

    1883 – Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1945).

    1887 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1933).

    1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (d. 1971).

    1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (d. 1990).

    1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006).

    1912 – Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (d. 2010).

    1926 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016).

    1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (d. 1980).

    1935 – Mary Berry, English writer, chef, author, and television presenter.

    1935 – Carol Kaye, American bass guitarist.

    1938 – David Irving, English historian and author. [And Holocaust denier whose arrest in Austria for things he hadn’t yet said in the country outraged Hitch.]

    1946 – Kitty O’Neil, American stuntwoman (d. 2018)[210]

    1949 – Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer.

    1960 – Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and model.

    1960 – Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress. [She has sold over 25 million records, making her the most successful German pop singer in chart history.]

    1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and violinist.

    1973 – Jim Parsons, American actor.

    Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. (Mitch Albom):
    1684 – Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband. [While awaiting execution by burning at the stake, she confessed to previously poisoning her mother, a fellow servant, and a lover.]

    1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807).

    1905 – Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828).

    1915 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848).

    1951 – Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887).

    1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884). [Known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth’s upper atmosphere.]

    1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873). [Today’s Woman of the Day, see next post below.]

    1978 – Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (b. 1916).

    2016 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (b. 1947).

    2018 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (b. 1924).

    2021 – Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (b. 1941). [Played a psychotic and obsessed fan of a disc jockey in the 1971 Clint Eastwood film Play Misty for Me and later the role of Lucille Bluth in the sitcom Arrested Development.]

    2023 – Gordon Moore, American businessman, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation (b. 1929).

    1. Woman of the Day:
      [Text from Wikipedia]

      Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (née Guy; French pronunciation: [alis gi blɑʃe] ; born 1 July 1873, died on this day in 1968) was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont’s Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special effects.

      She was artistic director and a co-founder of Solax Studios in Flushing, New York. In 1912, Solax invested $100,000 for a new studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the center of American filmmaking prior to the establishment of Hollywood. That year, she made the film A Fool and His Money, probably the first to have an all-African-American cast. The film is now preserved at the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute for its historical and aesthetic significance.

      See the Wikipedia article for the full details of her life.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Guy-Blach%C3%A9

        1. > “ugly”
          Well, if all their potential mates and objects of affection are blind, too…

  6. I doubt that this had anything to do with Ukraine.
    Indeed, on the BBC Radio 4 lunchtime news they were discussing the parallels with the Russian apartment bombings that helped Putin to win his first presidency. Regardless, the latest attack will certainly help justify a further tightening of Russia’s repressive atmosphere.

    1. Yep, and capturing vs. killing the attackers suggests a set-up, too. They could be bundled off to Siberia, and then quietly let go – who would know?

      The only thing that doesn’t mesh with this is ISIS claiming responsibility. All bizarre.

      1. ISIS released a video made by one of the attackers, which shows them doing Islamic extremist stuff, giving ISIS hand signals and trying to behead a wounded guy. Also a still image of the group before the attack in front of an ISIS flag.

        The Russians treated the captured men somewhat harshly. They made one of them eat his own ear.

        It seems like many people in the west are unaware of Russia’s history of Islamic attacks. There have been lots of them, Notably the Beslan school massacre.

        1. Yep, thanks, I was just reading about that in a WaPo piece. Count me as having been one of the many unaware!

    1. It’s brilliant. Please watch the video—even though the transcript is also available. The video illustrates Dermer’s passion and, more importantly, Israel’s resolve to destroy Hamas.

    3. I believe I posted that in the Hili dialogue either yesterday or the day before. Yes, it is a brilliant discussion. This is why it would pay to go through the Hili dialogue every day (also because it’s a lot of work for me!)

      1. I remember seeing it but didn’t see where I could read a transcript (I’m not a big fan of podcasts), though I may have overlooked it. On today’s link I found the transcript option and it is excellent, indeed

  8. I think that it’s good that the Israeli’s sent a delegation to Washington to discuss Rafah and to listen to the U.S. proposal. It’s not likely that Israel will accept the proposal to exchange Rafah for the American plan to block munitions coming in from Egypt, but the meetings will give the Israelis a chance to reiterate the necessity of their position.

    The best outcome would be for Israel to enter Rafah (and get rid of the four Hamas battalions there) *and* for the U.S. to help in locking future munitions coming in from Egypt. Both are needed. Maybe the delegations can get closer to that reality, but I fear that Secretary Blinken has gone too far to walk back his (in my view) dangerous threats against Israel. As Ron Dermer said so well in his recent interview, decades from now history will only remember whether Israel won the war or whether the terrorists won. Blinken will be either totally forgotten or will be a footnote on the wrong side of history.

    And, yes, I read about Orcasio-Cortez finally declaring a genocide in Gaza. She had been foaming at the mouth for some time and, for whatever reason, decided to come out and bring focus to what we already know about her. She can go pound salt.

  9. David Brooks has a good piece in the NYT about Israel’s predicament. He talked with many urban war experts to get a feeling for what alternatives are available to Israel’s current approach. He concludes, more or less, there are no good ones.

  10. Anyone have sources reporting Israel is not engaged in blocking aid? All I see are articles reporting or implying they are blocking aid. Although the evidence always seems questionable.

    1. Check this: https://twitter.com/cogatonline
      There are listed daily deliveries by Israel, pictures of long lines of trucks checked by Israel and already in Gaza, waiting for UN (or some other humanitarian organization to deliver it).

  11. Congratulations to Matthew’s daughter, but he didn’t mention her name.
    Good thing Bach didn’t get that job with the Margrave of Brandenburg.
    He moved on to greatness in Leipzig.

  12. I believe I posted that in the Hili dialogue either yesterday or the day before. Yes, it is a brilliant discussion. This is why it would pay to go through the Hili dialogue every day (also because it’s a lot of work for me!)

  13. When the crew searched, [Wicliff Yves] Fleurizard’s name didn’t pop up in records for the Austin-bound flight “or any other Delta Flight for that matter,” according to the affidavit.

    But it does feature prominently in the database of inbred hicks.

  15. Congratulation to Dr Cobb, and his daughter, for following in his scientific footsteps!

  16. Loved this week’s Hili dialogue! Always interesting to see the clever conversations that she has with her humans. And of course, it’s great to see that she’s learning about science and evolution.

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