Welcome to the first day of October: it’s Tuesday, October 1, 2024, and fall is upon us. As I do every year on this date, I give Thomas Wolfe’s “Hymn to October”, saying this:
I’ve put up the words of Thomas Wolfe several times on October 1 (he was born on October 3, 1900 and died of tuberculosis at just 37). This is a repost from exactly four years ago. The prose is gorgeous and evocative, and of course appropriate to the day. No writer has captured the color and feel of America better than Thomas Wolfe. From Of Time and the River:
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Now October has come again which in our land is different from October in the other lands. The ripe, the golden month has come again, and in Virginia the chinkapins are falling. Frost sharps the middle music of the seasons, and all things living on the earth turn home again. The country is so big that you cannot say that the country has the same October. In Maine, the frost comes sharp and quick as driven nails, just for a week or so the woods, all of the bright and bitter leaves, flare up; the maples turn a blazing bitter red, and other leaves turn yellow like a living light, falling upon you as you walk the woods, falling about you like small pieces of the sun so that you cannot say that sunlight shakes and flutters on the ground, and where the leaves. . .
October is the richest of the seasons: the fields are cut, the granaries are full, the bins are loaded to the brim with fatness, and from the cider-press the rich brown oozings of the York Imperials run. The bee bores to the belly of the yellowed grape, the fly gets old and fat and blue, he buzzes loud, crawls slow, creeps heavily to death on sill and ceiling, the sun goes down in blood and pollen across the bronzed and mown fields of old October.
The corn is shocked: it sticks out in hard yellow rows upon dried ears, fit now for great red barns in Pennsylvania, and the big stained teeth of crunching horses. The indolent hooves kick swiftly at the boards, the barn is sweet with hay and leather, wood and apples—this, and the clean dry crunching of the teeth is all: the sweat, the labor, and the plow is over. The late pears mellow on a sunny shelf, smoked hams hang to the warped barn rafters; the pantry shelves are loaded with 300 jars of fruit. Meanwhile the leaves are turning, turning up in Maine, the chestnut burrs plop thickly to the earth in gusts of wind, and in Virginia the chinkapins are falling.
It’s also the beginning of National Apple Month, International Music Day, Model T Day, Homemade Cookie Day, International Raccoon Day (this is cultural appropriation, since Procyon lotor extends only from Canada through the U.S. and Mexico and into Central America), National Black Dog Day (that’s for sure!), World Vegetarian Day, International Coffee Day, and World Vegetarian Day.
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the September 29 Wikipedia page.
Da Nooz:
*Kris Kristofferson died at 88. Rolling Stone gives an obituary:
As the songwriter of legendary compositions like “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” and “Me and Bobby McGee,” Kris Kristofferson transformed lyrics into literature, elevating the craft to a legitimate American art form in a way few had done before. Part Romantic poet, part folk troubadour, part country-music storyteller, Kristofferson died Saturday at the age of 88.
A spokesperson for Kristofferson, Ebie McFarland, confirmed the musician’s death, adding that the “artist, singer, songwriter, actor and activist … passed away peacefully in his home in Maui, Hawaii … surrounded by family.” A cause of death was not immediately available.
Songwriting was merely one aspect to the Renaissance man, who was also a Golden Globe-winning actor, Golden Gloves boxer, Rhodes scholar, author, U.S. Army veteran, pilot, and onetime record-label janitor. But it was his penetrating lyricism that caused a seismic shift in the perception of country music by the late Sixties. Well-educated (with a military discipline) though he was, he quickly fell in with the freshman class of “outlaw” singer-songwriters that would buck the star system and influence generations to come.
The eldest of three children, Kristoffer Kristofferson was born June 22, 1936, in Brownsville, Texas. His father, Lars, the son of a Swedish army veteran, was a pilot and a major general in the U.S. Air Force who went on to work for Pan American Airways. The family moved frequently, settling in San Mateo, California, when Kristofferson was in junior high. A model student who earned the nickname “Straight Arrow,” he graduated from high school in San Mateo in 1954, and went on to study creative writing at Pomona College, winning several prizes in a short-story contest sponsored by Atlantic Monthly magazine. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1958, he received a Rhodes scholarship to England’s Oxford University.
Although intent on becoming a novelist, Kristofferson concentrated his studies on the poetry of William Blake, and penned and performed his first songs while studying at Oxford’s Merton College. In England, he cut his first singles (credited to “Kris Carson”) for Top Rank Records, although they went unreleased at the time. After earning a master’s degree in English literature from Oxford in 1960, Kristofferson, who planned to resume his studies there, flew home to California for Christmas break. Reuniting with an old girlfriend, Fran Beir, the couple married and had a daughter, Tracy, and a son, Kris. Instead of returning to Oxford, Kristofferson enlisted in the Army.
Kristofferson served as a helicopter pilot while in the Army and attained the rank of captain. During a three-year tour in West Germany (with his wife and daughter in tow), he organized a band, learning the Bob Dylan songs as recorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary (his band’s Dobro player gave him the folk trio’s LPs). On leave in the spring of 1965, Kristofferson took his first trip to Nashville. He had been tapped for a position teaching English literature at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point after leaving West Germany, but his two weeks in Nashville scuttled that plan. He became enamored of the songwriting circle, befriending songwriter and music publisher Marijohn Wilkin (“The Long Black Veil”), Bobby Bare (“Detroit City”), and producer Cowboy Jack Clement.
“I came down to Nashville,” Kristofferson told Rolling Stone in 2009. “I’d been playing in an Army band, so people introduced me around like I was somebody. Everybody still called me ‘Captain.’ And I wrote seven, maybe 11 songs that first week. I thought if I didn’t make it as a songwriter I would at least get material to be the Great American Novelist. The people and places I was seeing were more exciting than anything I’d ever come across.”
Kristofferson became a janitor in Columbia Studios, and the rest is history (read the piece, which for now is free). Below is a video in which he’s talking to David Letterman, and revealing that he dated Barbra Streisand (start that bit at 6:45). Barbra!!!!
*Well, the Chicago White Sox, stink to high heaven and have finally set a Major League Baseball Record. And it’s a shameful one:
The Chicago White Sox fell 4-1 to the Detroit Tigers on Friday for their 121st loss of the season, the most in MLB history. The mark broke the previous record set by the expansion New York Mets in 1962.
Chicago won 93 games and the American League Central division in 2021 but has been in a steady decline since. The White Sox won 81 games in 2022 and 61 last season. They’ve won 39 games so far this season, with two games left.
After the Friday loss, the White Sox posted a picture to social media of a computer desktop with a list of “Things we’d rather do than read comments” and a photo of the team mascot sitting against a wall with the caption “slams laptop shut til tomorrow.”
Offense has been Chicago’s most glaring issue. The White Sox are ranked near the bottom in many major statistical categories, and entered Tuesday last in the MLB in hits, runs, home runs, batting average, runs batted in, total bases, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. (The team is second-to-last in walks drawn, however.)
The team’s owner even tweeted out a written apology to the team’s fans:
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) September 29, 2024
*The U.S. is sending more ground troops to the Middle East, apparently to bolster U.S. forces, not to aid Israel:
The US is sending an additional “few thousand” troops to the Middle East to bolster security and to be prepared to defend Israel if necessary, the Pentagon says.
The increased presence will come from multiple fighter jet squadrons, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh tells reporters.
The additional personnel includes squadrons of F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16, A-10 and F-22 fighter jets and the personnel needed to support them. The jets had ben supposed to rotate in and replace the squadrons already there. Instead, both the existing and new squadrons will remain in place to double the airpower on hand.
Yesterday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also announced that he was temporarily extending the stay of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and its associated squadrons in the region.
The jets are not there to assist in an evacuation, Singh says — “they are there for the protection of US forces.”\
Also, yesterday afternoon Israel said that a ground operation against Hezbollah may be imminent, and has informed the U.S. of its plans:
Israel could launch a ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon within hours, CBS News reports, quoting an unnamed US official who says this is the message Washington has received from Jerusalem.
Further, the IDF struck and killed the head of Hamas in Lebanon, who turned out to be (surprise!) a former UNRWA teacher:
Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon and central Beirut overnight killed the top Hamas official in Lebanon and senior members of another Palestinian terror group, the organizations and the Israel Defense Forces said Monday.
Hamas said its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was killed, along with his wife, son, and daughter, in a strike that targeted their house in a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern city of Tyre early Monday. A statement from the terror group identified him as a “successful teacher and excellent [school] principal.”
The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency in a joint statement confirmed that Sherif, who they described as the “head of the Lebanon branch of the Hamas terror organization,” was killed in the strike.
And the WSJ says that Israel has already made a few ground raids in Lebanon:
Israeli special forces have been carrying out small, targeted raids into southern Lebanon, gathering intelligence and probing ahead of a possible broader ground incursion that could come as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter said.
The raids, which have included entering Hezbollah’s tunnels located along the border, have occurred recently as well as over the past months, part of the broader effort by Israel to degrade Hezbollah’s capabilities along the border dividing Israel and Lebanon, the people said. The timing of any ground action could change, the people said.
The Biden administration expects an imminent Israeli invasion of Lebanon, U.S. officials said. Much of the fighting is expected to take place along the Israeli-Lebanese border, though there is concern in Washington that the war could expand geographically and last longer than a short-term campaign.
Note as well that the U.S. is apparently collaborating with Israel in preparation for a reprisal from Iran for the IDF’s killing of Nasrallah:
The U.S. is gearing up for a possible Iranian strike on Israel, CNN reported Sunday night, in response to the assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday.
Nasrallah, who headed Hezbollah for the past 32 years, was killed, along with 20 other Hezbollah terrorists, when a squadron of Israeli F-16I fighter jets struck Hezbollah’s underground headquarters in Beirut, dropping over 80 heavy bombs on the complex.
Citing a U.S. official, CNN reported that the Biden White House fears that Iran could attempt a major strike on Israel in retaliation for the killing of Tehran’s senior ally – and a close friend of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The U.S. is working jointly with Israel to prepare for a possible attack, the official said, while declining to specify what kinds of threats are considered realistic, and what preparations are being made.
Finally, Malgorzata sent me this speech of Netanyahu addressed to the people of Iran and added: “I may be totally mistaken but I suspect that this is a preparation of Iranians for an Israeli attack on Iran.” Note that the PM says that the moment that Iran is free “will come a lot sooner than you think.” and that Israel stands with “the people of Iran.”
Even if you don’t like Netanyahu, have a listen: it’s only three minutes long and it’s a good address. In the end, I think Israel will have to mount some attacks on Iran given its status as a perpetrator of terrorism against Israel and, especially, because it’s close to getting the bomb (“the abyss”, perhaps) and nukes in the hands of Iran spell the end of Israel, for, in my view, the religious fanatics that control Iran and its possible nukes may well be willing to obliterate Israel with a few missiles, while Israel can’t destroy the much larger country of Iran, and the mullahs may be willing to sacrifice millions of their people (if Israel can even retaliate) to destroy Israel.
*One of Tom Jones’s most famous songs is “She’s a Lady.” But due to the pressure of wokeness, he won’t sing it any more.
Sir Tom Jones, 80, released his single She’s A Lady, one his best selling hits, in 1971. Reflecting on the lyrics, the hitmaker said he will no longer sing the song on stage. The Voice UK coach spilled: “My old song She’s A Lady from 1971 is the only one of my songs I won’t do on stage anymore.
“That song doesn’t sit right any more.”
Tom went on to point out there were other songs of his that “aren’t right” for him to sing anymore, such as Sex Bomb.
“I wouldn’t record Sex Bomb as a dance track like it was on the record if I was to make it now,” he spilled.
The song was recorded in 1998 and released two years later.
In another recent interview, Tom revealed which song he can’t listen to as it reminds him of his late wife Linda.
The latter died after a short battle with cancer in 2016.
The father-of-one has said he can no longer listen to Frank Sinatra’s song The Hungry Years because it makes him emotional.
He explained: “This song is about missing ‘those hungry years’.
Here’s the canceled song:
And a meme:
*A reader advised me to post only lighthearted and happy news to help assuage the anxiety that keeps me awake at night. Well, I can’t really do that given that I’m both lugubrious and a Jew (I think they’re synonyms), but here’s an AP headline that caught my eye (click to read); the article is by Amy Beth Hanson:
An excerpt:
An 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing in federal court Monday in Great Falls for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.
Prosecutors are not seeking prison time for Arthur “Jack” Schubarth of Vaughn, Montana, according to court records. He is asking for a one-year probationary sentence for violating the federal wildlife trafficking laws. The maximum punishment for the two Lacey Act violations is five years in prison. The fine can be up to $250,000 or twice the defendant’s financial gain.
In his request for the probationary sentence, Schubarth’s attorney said cloning the giant Marco Polo sheep hunted in Kyrgyzstan has ruined his client’s “life, reputation and family.”
However, the sentencing memorandum also congratulates Schubarth for successfully cloning the endangered sheep, which he named Montana Mountain King. The animal has been confiscated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.
“Jack did something no one else could, or has ever done,” the memo said. “On a ranch, in a barn in Montana, he created Montana Mountain King. MMK is an extraordinary animal, born of science, and from a man who, if he could re-write history, would have left the challenge of cloning a Marco Polo only to the imagination of Michael Crichton,” who is the author of the science fiction novel Jurassic Park.
. . . . In 2019, Schubarth paid $400 to a hunting guide for testicles from a trophy-sized Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep killed in Montana. Schubarth extracted semen from bighorn sheep testicles and used it to breed large bighorn sheep and sheep crossbred with the argali species, the documents show.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Todd Kim described Schubarth’s actions as “an audacious scheme to create massive hybrid sheep species to be sold and hunted as trophies.” Kim said the defendant violated the Lacey Act that restricts wildlife trafficking and prohibits the sale of falsely labeled wildlife.
He apparently used semen to artificially inseminatee normal ewe, getting hybrids with Marco Polo sheep, but that wouldn’t work. Cloning would get you back a ram or ewe, but you’d need two to perpetuate the species, and would need to implant the nucleus of a Marco Polo cell into a normal ewe egg. I can’t believe that he was able to do that, but that’s why you’d need to ship testicles back from Asia.
Wanna see the sheep? First, Wikipedia says this:
The Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) is a subspecies of argali sheep, named after Marco Polo. Their habitat are the mountainous regions of Central Asia. Marco Polo sheep are distinguishable mostly by their large size and spiraling horns. Their conservation status is “near threatened” and efforts have been made to protect their numbers and keep them from being hunted. It has also been suggested that crossing them with domestic sheep could have agricultural benefits.
Indeed. And here’s a video. Sadly, virtually every video on this sheep involves hunting and killing them. In this one, one killer says, “We have to kill that big ram no matter what the costs.” Trophy hunting, particularly of a threatened species, makes me sick. CONTENT NOTE: BRUTUAL EXECUTION OF SHEEP. Go to 16:15 if you want to see the size of a dead ram but want to avoid the shooting.
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is upset because, says Malgorzata, “She wants to eat at the table, like we do, from a plate, and not sit alone on the window sill and eat out of a bowl as if she were some ordinary cat.”
Hili: And where is my plate?A: Your bowl is on the window sill.Hili: Scandal.
Hili: A gdzie jest mój talerz?Ja: Twoja miseczka jest na parapecie.Hili: Skandal.
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From Cat Memes:
From Strange, Silly, or Stupid Signs: 1¢ off!!!
From Science Humor:
From Masih, mocked by a bunch of Iranian cowards:
Security forces made a video to mock me for giving voice to protesters in Iran. I challenge them: instead of killing unarmed people, why not face the real fight in Lebanon? Or does your courage vanish when the other side has guns?#WomanLifeFreedom
pic.twitter.com/3HmhgY9gbL— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) September 30, 2024
This is how the Jews respond to pro-Palestinian demonstrations celebrating the butchery of October 7. They go to class and LEARN!
As virulently anti #Israel orgs (and some truly irresponsible faculty & staff) organize campus walkouts for 10/7, a group of courageous students are urging a different response:
going to class to learn, participating in civil dialogue, and addressing tough questions. ❤️⬇️❤️ https://t.co/uA7kT7hBFK pic.twitter.com/BYURIrMIcK— Miriam F. Elman (@MiriamElman) September 29, 2024
Breaking: 17 members of Congress have joined forces to call for an arms embargo on Israel.
12% of them lost their primaries and will no longer be elected officials. Rooting for terror groups over America’s ally is bad policy. pic.twitter.com/XUEgYdPAav
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 28, 2024
A flying carpet wingsuit, with a safe parachute opening. This is a brave dude:
60 missed calls from Red Bull pic.twitter.com/USqUGn1hFM
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) September 22, 2024
From Simon, who asks, “Will this ever die?” I think “Yes, but it’ll take a while.”
omfg crying pic.twitter.com/2GOT9111SL
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) September 29, 2024
From the Auschwitz Memorial; one that I posted. Read the entire original tweet. He was murdered because he was gay.
A German man put in Auschwitz because he was gay. He lived but five days in the camp. https://t.co/BNOzSZTcyq
— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) October 1, 2024
Two tweets from Doctor Cobb. He says of this first one, “This is not a joke.” Indeed: here’s the book.
The Condom Cookbook, by Kyosuke Kagami (2014).
It’s a new take on ‘boil in the bag’. pic.twitter.com/BBuIU5ai1G
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) September 29, 2024
Oy! I have plastic in my prostate!
A new study in 113 men demonstrated every one had microplastics in their semen and urine samples, one of which PTFE (think Teflon), was associated with a markedly reduced sperm quality by count, concentration and motility (with dose-response).https://t.co/Ima0HFCdzD pic.twitter.com/af6s55bfAr
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) September 28, 2024
Ahhh, there it is – I was reciting parts the past few days. Oh, and a barred owl looked at me this morning!
Perfect.
I always enjoyed this as the predecessor to Wolf. By Keats…
Ode To Autumn
1.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
2.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
3.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Saving that – thanks!
Lovely. Thanks.
Re: Tom Jones, I thought that Delilah, beloved of Welsh rugby fans, was the controversial one. (“She stood there laughing I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more”)
My thoughts as well. I would have posted but you beat me to it.
While “She’s a Lady” contains the line “Always treat her with respect, I never would abuse her,” it also has the line “She can take what I dish put” which may be the trouble. It also has the line “She always knows her place,” which sounds un-PC today, but the next line makes it clear that it means “She knows her worth:” “She’s got style, she’s got grace, she’s a winner”–at least that’s how I always interpreted it.
Now, let’s examine the Beatles’ “She’s a Woman” . . .
(Come to think of it, the Fabs had a lot of gender-bending lines: “Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face, and in the evening she still sings it with the band;” “You should see Polythene Pam/She’s so good looking but she looks like a man;” “Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman, but she was another man.” There’s a subject for someone’s doctoral dissertation.)
“He apparently used semen to artificially inseminate normal rams”
Now that is an achievement!
Jimmy Carter is 100!
Not only that. He is eligible for another term.
About a week ago, I was driving out of the parking lot of our grocery store. And there, surprisingly, but unmistakably, stands a majestic chinkapin tree. Large and well-formed, and shedding nuts as Wolfe describes above, the tree is full of the beautiful, partially opened burrs that are unmistakably chinkapin. I was reminded of our home in rural southwestern Virginia where we lived for ten years, and where the chinkapins were an annual source of joy. To my neighbors here in the Pacific Northwest who know not about the chinkapin, it’s just a tree shading the tiny park adjacent to the parking lot.
The post on X, GoToClass in Commemoration of October 7 (#GoToClassForIsrael), is so, well, so Jewish! It makes me smile.
Don’t know much about Kris Kristofferson except that he acted in Heaven’s Gate. I see that he received a nomination for Worst Actor for his role in that film.
FWIW, I just wrote to my senator, Tim Kaine, and informed him that I won’t be voting for him because of his vote on the Israel arms embargo. I won’t be voting for his Republican opponent, either, but stances like Kaine’s just infuriate me.
I wish you would reconsider this decision. As with Biden’s carrying on about 2,000 lb bombs a few months ago, yet from this week’s actions, clearly Israel had everything it needed, I expect Tim is making a point in his words but if push came to shove, he is a strong supporter of Israel. Plus even a half vote for opponent Hung Cao, which is what you are doing in withholding a vote for Tim, is a worse look than Tim’s performative alliance with Bernie on the weapons issue. BTW I don’t like him saying this either. It really pissed me off. But I trust his actions when needed. FWIW.
I read “Of Time and the River” when I was a young man – possibly the best time to read Thomas Wolfe – and I was hooked. Read “Look Homeward Angel” and “The Web and the Rock” as well. Magnificent stuff.
Good speech by Netanyahu. What a shame those religious nutcases ever got into power in Iran.
Just some Beirut observations from my time there, not long but eventful some decades ago;
The media define it as Dariya which just means “suburbs”, b/c it is legally Mt. Lebanon, the area south of Beirut proper. Contiguous to Beirut but quite different attitudinally.
Fine. Where the strikes are, and Nasrallah was 🙂 – was – in Ghoberri and Harret Hrik, are 100% shia areas where only the hardest line Hezbs and their families live.
Normal people – non terrorists – hold their breath as they drive through these areas (on the famous and terrifying airport road bisecting the place).
Media talks of .. as usual like in Gaza… BILLIONS of CIVILLIANS and puppies and kittens, mainly doctors, as collateral damage. Yet even the Leb. Ministry of Health can account for only 11 deaths. There are probably more, just guessing, and time will tell. Leb Health Min is more attached to reality than Hamas/Gaza Min Health.
But if Hezb is destroyed it will save orders of magnitude more people of all sorts. The defanging and now castration and blasting of Hezb will foremost save the people of Lebanon who have seen their state hijacked, menaced, bankrupted and murdered by these monsters since the 1980s. There won’t be a dry champaign glass in Christian Lebanon this week. Even the head lopping Sunnis will quietly cheer and raise a glass of orange juice. And the Druze… will dance! 🙂
If you’re still living in Ghobery or H.H., you’re part of the problem and totally devoted to the destruction of Israel. And I won’t weep for you.
D.A.
NYC
Seen a bunch of those wingsuit videos. Boy oh boy. A younger me would have been all over that incredibly fun madness. It is good they didn’t have it in those days or I wouldn’t be the old man I am today. I’d be a red stain on a rock somewhere high!
Fun to watch though.
D.A.
NYC
Ref to Netanyahu’s “sooner than you think,” I hope there’s something more in store, and I suspect there is.
And ref. to David Anderson’s comment a few days ago (I didn’t see his above when I started writing this) about the Hezbollah guys who were elsewhere when Nasrallah went down and suspicion unleashed everywhere among them, wouldn’t it be something if the mole turned out to be a wife in Iran who perhaps had a cousin or niece who had been blinded by one of Nilforushan’s thugs, who was quietly taking notes on (or recording?) her husband’s phone conversation while covered up in a burka?
Probably just phone tapping and nothing as good as that, but since we’ll never know, one can always speculate. There has to be immense hatred being generated by shooting women’s eyes out.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hqDEn7uUhFc
I love Tom Jones! He is a really good singer! 🇬🇧🎤🐱
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1693306938744832433
https://twitter.com/IndyMusic/status/1694077190441226733
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0
Queen’s Freddie Mercury’s famous song “Fat Bottomed Girls” has been partially cancelled. 🇬🇧🎶😔😿
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1112401813259448320
Of course, Freddie Mercury’s friend is Sir Brian May.
And Dr. Brian May’s friend is Professor Richard Dawkins. 🇬🇧🐱🐱