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We'll have another fine day of Mid-Atlantic autumn weather.
The foot is stiff but okay. We slept decently last night.
FB tells us that 14 years ago we noted, '10 years ago we got our first substitute teaching gig', that is 2002. So, 24 years ago. Mrs. Guyton's special ed class. We still remember a few of those kids. We'd forgotten the date. Thanks FB!
Tell us about it, 'Online antisemitism has reached record levels three years after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, with none of the major social media platforms monitored returning to their prewar baselines, according to a new report by an Australian research institute..' The Arab online Juden hass we get is just dumb. Big surprise there. We haven't gotten much Juden hass from the left lately. The Juden Hass from the right comes from Tucker Carlson fan bois, or really religious types.
Never try to engage these people. Our response is usually something like, 'What, you're pissed off 'cuz your step-dad's getting more pussy than you?'* Or we just say they're gay and retarded.
Related...Israeli internet warrior Uri Kurlianchik writes, 'What I learned in Three Years of Being a Keyboard Warrior'. Do click over. Uri makes the same point we've often made, 'The goal of a debate is not to change the opinion of the other guy. It’s to change the opinion of your audience.'
A lot of the groyper types are just on line troll hobbyists. But we've had a couple of scarry incidents too.
Also...less than a decade ago Benny Gantz's Blue and Whites won 33 seats in the Knesset, today they can't break the 3.25% threshold and have withdrawn from the race. In 2021 Gantz made a unity government deal with Bibi. Never make a deal with Bibi - you fool. Gantz's withdrawl should help Yadi Eisenkot and the Opposition, a little.
This blog renews its call for a Netanyahu/Eisenkot unity government with Bibi stepping down after 18 month. Bibi, we can't miss you if you won't go away. Think of the war memoir you could write. It's time for President Herzog to push the deal across the finish line, with a blanket pardon for Bibi.
[Hey, how come you don't talk about the US election much?-Ed]. Mostly we just don't want to be wrong. We don't trust the polls...at all. But for what it's worth this blog believes the Dems will take the house [Bold-Ed], and the GOP will hold the senate. GOP loses NC and AK, but that's it. Picks up MI...maybe NH.
Northern version, you Canadian bastards still smarting from the Olympic loss...the Alberta referendum tells us there's a core of 20-25 percent of Albertans that want to secede. Beyond that we've no insights. Exit question: how would a Quebec secession vote go?
DOGE report.
Nothing. The Grognard is struggling mightily to get us new ideas. But the cylinders just aren't firing [Do you even have cylinders?]-Ed.
However, we did read through four short stories yesterday and they're looking pretty good. And we just knocked off another. Also, pretty good. Of course one can always nitpick. We will not, repeat, not, make the perfect the enemy of the good.
We've sent Last Salyut to one of our Sovietski comrades.
We are in a good place.
Huh, what about a prologue story?
*Thank you, Axl Rose.
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