Wednesday: Hili dialogue

July 17, 2024 • 6:45 am

Welcome to a Hump Day (“Yim Humpbe” in Kanuri): Wednesday, July 17, 2024, and National Hot Dog Day, which really celebrates Chicago, the City of Great Dogs, and fie on those who disdain them! Get a Vienna Beef dog with the works–“dragged through the garden”, as they say. Lookie!:

 

It’s also World Day for International Justice, National Peach Ice Cream Day, International Firgun Day, and World Emoji Day.

Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the July 17 Wikipedia page.

Da Nooz:

*Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey has the honor of being the first U.S. Senator to be convicted for acting as a foreign agent. He’s facing a long time in stir:

Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey was convicted on all counts in a sweeping scheme to sell his office to foreign powers and crooked businessmen in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, a luxury car and bars of solid gold.

A jury of 12 New Yorkers convicted him of all 16 counts he faced, on charges including honest services wire fraud, bribery and extortion. Their verdict makes Mr. Menendez, a Democrat whose term expires at year’s end, only the seventh sitting U.S. senator to be convicted of a federal crime.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, called on Mr. Menendez to resign minutes after the verdict was read. New Jersey’s Democratic governor, Philip D. Murphy, also said Mr. Menendez should step down and said that he would make a temporary appointment to fill the seat should it become vacant.

. . . The jury, which spent about 12 hours deliberating, also returned guilty verdicts against two businessmen accused of bribing the senator, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana.

Sentencing in the case was set for Oct. 29. Several of the counts carry terms as long as 20 years in prison.

Here’s what to know [JAC: I hate this condescending phrase which is implicitly followed by “for those who can’t figure out what’s important.”]

  • The core of the charges: Prosecutors accused Mr. Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, of orchestrating a bribery scheme while he was the Democratic leader of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The government contended that the senator acted as an agent of Egypt and interceded to quash criminal prosecutions in New Jersey in exchange for the payoffs and then sought to cover it up. . . . .

  • A historic prosecution: Mr. Menendez’s storied political career had absorbed a near-lethal blow thanks to the gravity of the charges. Mr. Menendez was the first senator to be charged with acting as a foreign agent, and the first in the Senate’s 235-year history to be indicted in separate bribery cases. (His first prosecution ended in a mistrial in 2017.

So it goes.  Menendez is 70 now, and given the gravity of the charges, he is very likely to die behind bars.

*As if the Secret Service didn’t screw up enough in its failure to protect Trump from getting shot, we now know that the Secret Service was in fact inside the building when the young and now-extinct sniper was shooting from its roof:

Local police who were assigned by the Secret Service to help spot threats in the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally Saturday were inside the building where a gunman positioned himself on the roof to shoot at the former president, according to a Secret Service official briefed on the incident.

From inside the Agr International building, they spotted a man acting furtively, walking back and forth around the building with some gear, and radioed a Secret Service command post to alert them, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

The revelations add to the growing list of questions about the Secret Service’s plan for securing areas outside the perimeter and about the failure of law enforcement to act quickly enough on multiple early warnings of suspicious activity. The Washington Post reported in a video analysis Monday that bystanders at the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., warned local police that they had seen a man clambering onto the roof of the building. A video posted to social media shows one man shouting, “Officer! Officer!” as others point toward the building. “He’s on the roof!” a woman says.

Local police who were assigned by the Secret Service to help spot threats in the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally Saturday were inside the building where a gunman positioned himself on the roof to shoot at the former president, according to a Secret Service official briefed on the incident.

From inside the Agr International building, they spotted a man acting furtively, walking back and forth around the building with some gear, and radioed a Secret Service command post to alert them, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

The revelations add to the growing list of questions about the Secret Service’s plan for securing areas outside the perimeter and about the failure of law enforcement to act quickly enough on multiple early warnings of suspicious activity. The Washington Post reported in a video analysis Monday that bystanders at the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., warned local police that they had seen a man clambering onto the roof of the building. A video posted to social media shows one man shouting, “Officer! Officer!” as others point toward the building. “He’s on the roof!” a woman says.

So now we know that even local police alerted the Secret Service, as did some private citizens nearby.  What happened? Nothing. These are major-league foul-ups, and there will be punishment affixed. What I want to know is how the sniper got onto the roof.  Don’t you need a ladder for that, and wouldn’t that attract attention?

*I don’t much follow Elon Musk, though there is a group of people seemingly obsessed with hating him. I think he’s wicked smart and a great innovator, but having watched him on video I also think he’s “on the spectrum”, which is really neither here nor there. I have no dog in the Musk Fight, as I don’t know enough about the man, but I have to say thatI’m distressed that he’s gone for Trump: big time. He’s giving big money to the Republican campaign.

Elon Musk has said he plans to commit around $45 million a month to a new super political-action committee backing former President Donald Trump’s presidential run, according to people familiar with the matter.

Other backers of the group, called America PAC, include Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, the Winklevoss twins, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft and her husband, Joe Craft, who is chief executive of coal producer Alliance Resource Partners.

Formed in June, America PAC is focused on registering voters and persuading constituents to vote early and request mail-in ballots in swing states, according to one of the people. The coalition assessed that the Democrats have historically had very robust “get out the vote” campaigns and took note of the amounts of money that the Biden camp has dedicated to what are called on-the-ground efforts in swing states. America PAC will try to counter that.

After this article published, Musk on X posted a humorous meme responding to it with the caption “FAKE GNUS.” Subsequently, he wrote “Yeah” in response to a post that said: “Elon Musk went from being an Obama voter to pledging $180 million to elect DJT. The woke left really f*cked up. Badly.”

Musk is currently the world’s richest person, with an estimated fortune exceeding $250 billion. The amount that he has said he plans to commit to America PAC is an extraordinary sum.

$45 million a month is $62,500 per hour—and that’s a lot of dosh.

*Belgium has refused to host a soccer match between its own country and Israel, citing concerns about “safety.”

Belgium will not host the Nations League match against Israel on September 6 over security fears, the Belgian Football Federation (RBFA) announces.

The city of Brussels said last month that the match would not be played at the King Baudouin stadium because it could spark demonstrations.

Authorities had deemed it “impossible to organize this very high-risk match” in the city due to tensions linked to the Israeli-Hamas war.

Other Belgian cities also refused to host the match.

The host city has not yet been designated, with Budapest being cited as an option.

Concerns were likely raised by the attack in Brussels in October in which an Islamist gunman killed two Swedish football fans before a Euro 2024 qualifier between Belgium and Sweden.

France and Italy are in the same Nations League Group A2 as Belgium and Israel.

My advice to the Belgians: GET MORE DAMN SECURITY!  They are punishing the Israeli soccer team because it’s Israeli, using security as an excuse. The Belgian’s responsibility is to provide ample security for a match like this. In effect, the “security” excuse constitutes the deplatforming of Israeli soccer in Belgium. But as I know from my friend the Maarten Boudry, a Belgian philosopher, hatred of Israel is widespread in that country.

*The NYT tells us “The best and worst habits for your teeth“, and you better pay attention! If you take care of your gums and choppers, they’ll take care of you.  First, the important information:

The secret to healthy teeth and gums isn’t much of a secret: Brush twice a day, floss once a day and visit a dentist regularly for cleanings.

“It’s not sexy or surprising, but this is what works if you want to avoid cavities and gum disease,” said Dr. Matthew Messina, a clinical director and assistant professor at Ohio State University College of Dentistry.

But dentists say there’s more we could be doing in the name of oral health. Here are some good and bad habits they suggest starting — or stopping.

The tooth roolz:

  1. Don’t use toothpaste that contains charcoal
  2. Brush gently with a SOFT toothbrush (using a hard brush is what wrecked my dad’s gums!)
  3. Don’t drink sports drinks, soda (even diet soda) or flavored coffee. It’s the sugar and acid, Jake, and there’s acid even in diet sodas. One diet soda a day is okay, BUT
  4. Rinse your mouth with water after eating and consuming the above, AND
  5. Wait 30 minutes after meals before brushing your teeth (I never knew that)
  6. Don’t use toothpicks
  7. And do NOT open packages with your teeth (this is one of my own bad habits).

I will add that after years of experimenting, I’ve discovered that Reach (formerly Listerine) Ultraclean mint floss is the very best. I originally got it from my hygienist, but she told me it was no longer made. That’s not the case, but the only place I can find it is on Amazon. Try it! $15 for a six-pack.

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili must make a difficult decision:

Hili: It’s time to decide.
A: What about?
Hili: Hunting or the bed.
In Polish:
Hili: Pora podjąć decyzję.
Ja: W jakiej sprawie?
Hili: Polowanie czy łóżko.

And a picture of the loving Szaron:

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From Kitty Lovers:

From Science Humor via Hanif Khan. The Noah’s Ark Story:

From Strange, Stupid, or Silly Signs:

From Masih. Iranians are really getting fed up with the “morality police”.

J. K. Rowling’s views in a nutshell:

From my feed: Larry the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office is getting used to the new Cabinet:

From Bryan; Ceiling Cat is pissed off because everybody is full of hate.

From Malcolm. Today I am cat #3.

From the Auschwitz Memorial; one that I posted

Two tweets from Dr. Cobb. First, ANOTHER Ceiling Cat!!!!!

And more on Noah’s Ark:

36 thoughts on “Wednesday: Hili dialogue”

  1. …we now know that the Secret Service was in fact inside the building when the young and now-extinct sniper was shooting from its roof.

    I am not able to read the article, but from what’s quoted it looks like it was the ‘local police who were assigned by the Secret Service to help spot threats’ who were inside the building. It does not say that the Secret Service was inside building.

    Because religion is high on miracles and God’s ways are mysterious, if God wanted a penguin couple on the Ark, He would have made sure that they got there 🙂 . He could have beamed them up from the south, or he could have created a couple right there by the Ark, or he could have made sure the pennies walked all the way with no problem. The possibilities are endless! How could God have done it? Miracles! Why would God have done it? His ways are mysterious!

    1. Yes, the distinction there is important. Likely the reason the Secret Service snipers didn’t react until shots were fired is that they knew that that building was the responsibility of the local police, and they were thus wondering whether the armed man on the roof was a member of the local police. Miscommunication between different entities is the source of many a cockup.

      1. “Ambiguity is the Devil’s volleyball”, as Emo explained.

        But- The Secret Service director has lost all credibility. She is now claiming that they did not have people up there because it has a sloped roof.

        So, I have no special knowledge of the workings of the SS, but I have trained and worked a bunch in physical security. I don’t think there is any realistic requirement to occupy all the points that constitute high ground. But you had better keep those places under very close observation. The two guys who ended up taking out the shooter probably had that responsibility.
        I hope there were more than just the two guys on overwatch, as they could not reasonably cover all those people and buildings.
        I would warn against micro analysis of the incident, especially as many of the facts are not available to us.
        One factor that I think contributed to the delay between sighting and neutralizing the threat is the nature of the SS. I would imagine the vast majority of SS snipers join the service, train more or less continuously, sit on an assortment of roofs, then retire having never fired at someone threatening their principal.

        So they are well trained, but lack the practical experience that their military peers would have. The first time you take the shot is a really big deal, and it is a normal reaction to have to take a bit of time to realize that this is really happening.

        The thing that strikes me as very odd indeed about the incident is that as soon as they SS reached Trump, they pulled his shoes off, carried them to the edge of the stage, and threw them into the grass. That makes not practical sense to me at all.

  2. Dark stuff first:

    Yes, there’s a pic of the ladder. I will note : ladders are not trivial to haul around. Do-able, but noisy and obstructive. The ladder for that “sloped” roof is perhaps .. 36 feet… maybe 24 feet… you have to really want to get on a roof.

    A guy was in a video who was convinced of his idea that the entire thing was staged, including the actual people that lost their lives, because that’s how evil you-know-who is.

    OK, lighter fare:

    I was jogging the other day and visualized Cardboard Cat to push me through – it worked!

    Electrician Cat has potential as well.

    😃

    … love those penguins into high adventure travel. 😆

    1. … oh dear, I mean of course not that the victims were in on it… you’d need to hear this guy, lemmee find it…hang on…

      Here:

      x.com/endwokeness/status/1813064515350851611?s=46

  3. From Malcolm. Today I am cat #3.

    Cat number 6 seems to have human male genitalia in its mouth.

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    there is a group of people seemingly obsessed with hating him. I think he’s wicked smart and a great innovator, but having watched him on video I also think he’s “on the spectrum”

    There’s a lot to unpack here.

    Firstly, most of the “haters” are just people who see Musk as he really is and can’t understand the godlike status his fans apply to him.

    Secondly, he is not a great innovator. His innovations largely fall into three classes:

    1: innovations other people made that he has taken on – some might say “stolen” – Tesla falls into this category. He did not come up with the idea of electric cars that are cool, the original founders who he ousted from the company did that.

    2: things that are rubbish or don’t work. Hyperloop and the LA Loop fall into this category. FSD, Cybertruck and the semi also fall here.

    3: ideas he may have had that have been made to work by other more talented people. The reusable Falcon 9 booster might be one of those, although the idea of a reusable rocket is not new.

    He’s also not wicked smart except at persuading people to believe the nonsense he spouts. His recent business decisions bear out that he is not smart.

    I don’t think he’s on the spectrum. He did once claim to be, but I think that was just his excuse for being an obnoxious a-hole. People who really are on the spectrum must get tired of that particular trope.

    1. I disagree—he is a typical inhabitant of part of the spectrum, the part we used to call Asperger’s Syndrome. That’s not to say he can’t be an asshole too!

    2. I did some poking around and found nothing to refute the claim that he has some Asperger’s (now I think it’s considered broadly part of Autism spectrum).

    3. First, it’s obvious that achievements such as Tesla and SpaceX require the combined talents of vast numbers of people. No-one is claiming that one person alone did it all. Regardless, Musk’s track record of success with multiple different companies (Zip2, PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink just for starters, leaving aside OpenAI, X, etc) is second to none; he really is a major factor in his companies.

      And yes, people had the idea of an electric car before Musk. It really is a rather obvious idea that many people had. The tricky bit is making it work. The tricky bit is taking a new startup company to point of being the world’s best-selling electric-car company, outcompeting all the existing car companies who were trying the same thing.

      In fact your mention of Hyperloop illustrates this. Musk did indeed sketch out the initial idea for Hyperloop, but he’s never been involved in trying to implement the idea (maybe that’s why it hasn’t been implemented?).

      Edit to add: I’m willing to bet that Musk’s Tesla will be the first company to produce Full Service Driving and driverless cars, and that it’ll be a game changer, and that Tesla will make a mint out of it.

      1. I agree emphatically with your first three paragraphs Coel. Innovation is not simply having an idea, but, rather, is taking or engineering the idea through to the point of it having societal or social impact…ie solving a societal problem. As I have commented before in this space, Musk identifies an idea, puts required resources (dollars, skills, regulatory law changes) in place and keeps them there through the time and costs to actual societal impact, or holds the idea in play until he can muster the resources. Btw, Dr Fauci has also shown himself to be an innovator through his accomplishments in the U.S. government bureaucracy. A good indicator of someone who is an innovator is that they catch a lot of flack from the comfortable, staid status quo. But one of my former navy aviator friends once advised me during some trying times that is you are not seeing flack, you are nowhere near the target.

        Wrt the final “edit” paragraph, from many years of experience with autopilots, I see these AI-like technologies as pilot and driver assistants, NOT replacements. Human drivers should always monitor their vehicle, having what is known as situational awareness. When something goes wrong,,,and it will!…people who are not aware can often not recover in time and die. In aviation, this is called being “behind the airplane”. I love cruise control on my car and use it always on highways, but never take my hands off the wheel, my eyes off the road, or put my feet in such a position that I cannot hit the brakes if needed. Having not to worry about keeping a steady speed is a huge relief, allowing me to engage in conversation and just point the car where it needs to go.

        1. Your reply illiustrates the psychological barrier before “the world” accepts fully-automated driving. And yet people worldwide already trust their lives to driverless trains, and Tesla FSD is now claimed to have an accident rate well below the human accident rate.

          1. Nope…more than psychological. I know the extent and limits of the modeling database on which the systems are trained. Re: trains. They enjoy very limited degrees of spatial freedom, ie they are on tracks. Plus I believe that they all have a human pilot monitor or manager onboard or providing oversight from a central control hub.

            Maybe someday, but not now.

          2. I am very skeptical of self driving cars ever being able to share roads with other traffic. Two main reasons for that opinion.
            First, there has to be a long period where the vehicles are mostly self driving, but need a human to take over in some circumstances.
            I have a lot of experience in operating huge ships, which have quite a bit of automation.
            The hardest bit of working with such systems is that when you do need to take over, you have to do so immediately. That means being alert and constantly keeping yourself oriented to the conditions and circumstances, including what is often very complicated arrangements of other traffic.
            The longer you go without having to take control, the harder it is to stay alert and oriented.
            You force yourself to do it, because the stakes are very high and you are a professional.
            Most regular people are never going to do that. They are going to be asleep or engrossed on their phones, and it will be well into the aftermath before they have time to orient themselves and decide on an action.

            The other thing is that the default response of such automation to unexpected circumstances is to stop. That seems to me a formula for epic traffic jams, which may take forever to resolve themselves. Literally forever once a few of them start running down their batteries.

        2. I use my Tesla cruise control all the time, even on local suburban roads. But I do not take my attention away from any aspect of driving except the speed.

          My wife has started to use the Tesla’s cruise control, too … and that makes me nervous … because using cruise control conflicts with the way one manually drives a Tesla.

          Driving manually to slow or stop, you simply lift your foot off the accelerator, and the car is slowed or ultimately stopped from the “friction” of the regenerative braking system. It’s pretty effective, but it takes some effort to gauge distances and decide when to lift your foot off the accelerator. (Using the actual brake means that you loose the energy rather than pumping it back into the battery.)

          If you’re using cruise control in the Tesla, the car will automatically slow or brake if the car (or pedestrian, or bicyclist, etc.) in front is too close. This can lull one into not braking if you’re driving manually and forget that you’re not in cruise control.

          My wife normally has difficulty judging distances, so the added uncertainty this presents makes me nervous that she’ll depend on cruise control when she’s actually driving manually. I’m trying to discourage her from using cruise control, at least on our suburban roads.

          With regard to Musk, one does have to admit his success at jump-starting the electric car industry and the reusable rocket industry — both amazing large-scale industrial accomplishments, even if he is just a tech-savvy “organizer” rather than a genius engineer himself.

          But his amplified social media presence shows a politically regressive and juvenile personality. My wife just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography, and I’ve just started it. One way or another he’s an outsized character well off the main sequence. I also got Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs for comparison.

      2. Musk was fired from PayPal before it even became Paypal. He pretty much bought Neuralink as-is and hasn’t contributed much except overblown publicity promises.
        And Musk’s companies did indeed host Hyperloop competitions, even if they didn’t go all in on the idea. The reason nothing came of the Hyperloop is that it’s a fractal arrangement of engineering nighmares wrapped in a sci-fi-looking bullshit business pitch, and everyone with half a brain could see that from the start.
        Edit: re. self-driving, from what I hear, Tesla is kind of trailing the pack, thanks to Musk’s insistence that cameras have to be enough and don’t have to be supplemented by other sensors.

      3. I bought a Tesla when my last car, after 16 years and almost 400,000 km, needed an expensive repair. The Tesla is by far the best and (considering all costs) by far the cheapest car I’ve ever owned. Musk gets stuff done.

        Musk used to vote democratic. He switched because of wokeness. The U.S. system offers only two possibilities. (Given a broader choice, Musk would probably vote libertarian.). The question is what the lesser evil is. The main reason the Democratic party can afford to become more and more woke is due to the large number of people who would always vote Democrat over Republican, or at least over Trump. It thus gives them carte blanche to do what they want. If someone had asked me ten years ago whether supporting the castration of children would be supported by a major political party, I wouldn’t have bet on it.

        Back to Musk. I like some things he does, I don’t like others. Compare him to other people who own car companies, or space-flight companies, or internet platforms, or whatever. The main difference is that people know more about Musk and his views because he is not only a very public figure, but his stuff comes out more or less unfiltered. (I’m pretty sure that he has Asperger Syndrome.)

    4. I don’t believe Musk is on the spectrum. I am fairly certain he is a sociopath of the narcissistic flavor, though. Relentless lying, open disdain for rules and laws, temper tantrums, self-aggrandizement, megalomanic plans – he quite literally checks all the boxes.

  4. 1. With respect to the sloped roof, I came across this quote in the Free Press from the Secret Service director:

    When pressed to explain why agents weren’t on the roof of the building from which Donald Trump’s would-be assassin opened fire, Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle noted the building had a “sloped roof” and “there’s a safety factor that would be considered,” when it came to placing someone on the roof.

    Wow! Too dangerous to put agents up there? That’s a bit weak, and it seems DEI hiring policies have damaged the effectiveness of their agents.

    2. J. K. Rowling has a (well-deserved) mega-yacht, which recently sailed through the maritimes on its way to the Carolinas. This led to a very snarky article in the Halifax Examiner:
    https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/j-k-rowlings-transition-from-childrens-author-to-wealth-displaying-superyacht-owner/

    As of this morning, the Samsara isn’t yet scheduled to depart, so I assume whoever’s on the yacht is yucking it up about town for a few days. If you see a middle-aged woman harassing nonbinary and trans kids in the north end, let us know.

    1. I would add that the slope of the roof that the assassin was on appears to be less than that of the roof that the Secret Service snipers were on.

  5. I believe flossing is the most beneficial way to maintain your teeth and gums, but I really like my water pick.

    1. I do all the things that are recommended *plus* I use a WaterPik. My teeth aren’t all that great, but they are probably better than they would have been had I not done all those things. (But I can’t know for sure.)

  6. What I want to know is how the sniper got onto the roof. Don’t you need a ladder for that, and wouldn’t that attract attention?
    He had a tall ladder that he purchased, and seems to have brought to the site earlier. Pictures have been published of it leaning up against the building undetected. Another major foul up.

  7. “Neither here nor there.” It’s actually been quite a while since I’ve heard that phrase; I need to work it back into my vocabulary.

    The penguins to Noah’s Ark is such a simple refutation, but one I’ve not heard or thought of before. It raises so many parallel cases, such as, How did Pumas get from the America’s to the Middle East? If someone says, God did it, that only begs the question, Why did he need an ark then, could he have just saved the animals?

    1. Just about the only place I’ve seen “neither here nor there” in the wild was Patrick O’Brian’s novels (“Master and Commander”), but I like the phrase.

      Re. Noah’s Ark, I hadn’t heard the argument “how did the animals get TO the Ark”, but I had heard the variation “how the hell did they get back to their habitats AFTER the flood, and why?”

      1. And I thought ‘neither here nor there’ is very common 🙂 . I use it often and so do some of my friends. Someone I know was rather offended when I said that his objection to something I said was neither here nor there.

  8. Our cops are turning into wienies. Police were INSIDE the AGR building while Trump’s shooter WALKED around the building before shooting at 45 from the roof. They notified the Secret Service. Why? It’s THEIR JURISDICTION…their call. One man is dead and two injured because of this cowardly incompetence. Shades of Uvalde and former Broward County deputy Scot Peterson.

  9. I think the ladder holds a lot of info. A report I saw yesterday said that he had bought a 5ft ladder @ Home Depot. I’m surprised that anyone even makes a 5′ ladder, or that it could possibly be used to get onto the roof of anything bigger than a playhouse, but the kid didn’t look like he could set any ladder much larger than 5′.

    So… if it was much larger than that, how did it get there? AFAIK, he was driving an ordinary-sized car. Had he cased the area earlier? And so forth…

    1. Hmm, never mind. Apparently he didn’t use the ladder, and climbed up A/C units on the bldg to get to the roof.

  10. Belgium should hold the soccer match, obviously. The claim that they can’t do so for security reasons is simply false. There are enough resources in this rich country to be able to secure the venue. It’s an excuse to avoid criticism by the Israel haters. They abound.

  11. Re teeth, I found out that drinking tea (with sugar) right before evening toothbrushing causes sour taste all night, even despite rinsing a few times overnight with water. So I avoid doing that. Also, I always wash toothbrush with soap and water BEFORE and AFTER every use. Not based on research, but it can’t be good to have bacteria on the toothbrush.

  12. Curious: I just noticed that if you rearrange the letters in Elon Musk’s name
    you get: LONE SKUM ! Sounds pretty satanic to me, but then I always believed that Santa was Satan in disguise.

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