Have a Hamas Christmas!

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On Gathering Crows & Dogs of War

Returned home Sunday from a restorative week away to come down with a 24 hour bug and receive today's unexpected surprise of 6-12 inches of wet heavy lake effect snow falling in our area  We're currently on generator power, as the whole town is out of juice due to downed limbs that sound like gunshots cracking as they go. October is over, with winter blowing open the door for November to walk in and stomp its wet boots. Meanwhile, out in the left field of Cornpop World, dogs slobber and crows continue to gather and squawk,  

The case of greasy infidel

 

My dear Holmes,

It is your most humble petitioner, Inspector Lestrade. I know that I have continually requested your assistance in the troubling matter of the disappearance of Lord Douchebag and the obscene affairs of the odious Lady Chatterley and her grass-stained lover. Be that as it may, I would request that we put that matter in abeyance so that I can ask for your assistance in an entirely different matter

We here at the Yard are well aware of the secret work your brother Mycroft does with the Foreign Office. It is the reason we have not inquired too closely into the comings and goings of various swarthy sepoys and tattooed lascars in his rooms at the club. We presume that he is simply gathering information that would educate rather than edify. However, a recent difficulty with certain foreign powers has caused some concern with my superiors and I would like to address them with you.

It seems that several members of a Bedouin cast have made visits to your brother’s abode. They are obviously clearly Musselman and we have followed several of them back to their place of worship which you might know as a “mosque.” On further investigation, we have determined that they are part of a plan to protest and cause disorder in the public square to protest the actions of certain Hebraic factions in the Holy Land. They plan a disorderly protest as well as acts of violence that can not be tolerated by Her Majesty’s government.

This would not be a problem if the Honorable Disreali were still in power. Unfortunately, the advent of Prime Minister Gladstone has led to a tolerance of violence towards the Jews. The Yard is therefore at an impasse. We can not take action for fear we will not be supported by the government when the Arab moves to kill the Jew. I would ask if you had some inkling of what we can do to effect change and prevent further disorder and criminal activity. Perhaps you could enquire of your brother as to the actual policy extant as to these disorders so we might take guidance as to what we might do.

Although we at the Yard are not enamored of the Hebrew in general, we do not want to see them killed in the street. Especially on our watch despite the popularity of that course of action among many of the party in power. Although the Wigs often claim to support the people of the book, they in fact cleave to the mercenary alliance with the vast pockets of the sheiks and sultans who are the bitter enemy of the Hebrews and who seek to destroy them root and branch.

I would beseech you to question your brother as to what he is doing with the visits of these disreputable desert dwellers and to find out if he is associating with them as part of his employment or for a more personal reason.

My best to Doctor Watson and I hope he is enjoying marital bliss since his recent wedding. I presume that he is fully recovered from the swelling and painful discharge he evidenced after his bachelor do. When last I saw him as he left the water closet, he was in pain to such a degree that I ventured to jest that he had begun to resemble a Chinese woman. Please assure him that was not in fact an allusion to the size of his breasts. We all increase in weight as we age. I trust he will forgive my impertinence and join you in your efforts in this most serious matter.

I remain as always,
Your obedient servant,
Inspector G. Lestrade
November 18, 1884

Robert Theobald, I know how you felt.

A few days ago, Brandon mumbled something about an issue in the situation room he had to deal with. A day later, word came about a possible recon by US spec ops guys (Ranger Recon Company, mayhap) to find where the hostages are and how they and their Israeli counterparts had gotten shot to pieces.

Under ordinary circumstances, people might chalk it up to unnamed sources, but, if you consider how Brandon wheezed his way through an assertion that “We’re the United States of America for God’s sake. The most powerful nation in the history of the world, We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense. We have the capacity to do this and we have an obligation to, we are the 'essential nation'”. Sounds a bit like Adolf to his generals, March '41, don't it?

After all, this is the guy who won the election at 4AM carrying only 1/6 of the counties in the country. Clearly, there is room for doubt. The Demos have tried manfully to turn the fight for Idiot's slush fund in Ukraine into the Battle of Britain to no avail. Now comes Israel and even talk about reinstating the draft (these are the Lefties who shut down the draft, remember?).

I've theorized that the Demos are trying to create a rally 'round the flag mood to justify their re-election. What better way than a heroic Cabanatuan-style raid by Our Boys that would ramp up an attack on the Moslem world?

And they're going to need it. Former Gray Lady reporter Bari Weiss did a piece for the Free Press about how Americans (read Lefties) are seeing how Trump was right and how they're coming out of their ‘Woke Slumber’ about  and Gateway supplemented it with other quotes like, Liberal friends were suddenly talking about buying guns. Progressive friends were texting about topics like border security and immigration. In a whisper, one even admitted to watching Fox News, I am left yet again with an appreciation, despite the messenger, of the message of the Trump administration because what those guys did was pretty incredible in hindsight, and seeing all the chaos in the country and the world convinced him former President Donald Trump was right about many things.

9/11 writ large.

So, with blacks talking about Uncle Trump and Lefties seeing the light of self-preservation, one can see where a soupcon of suspicion might be possible. Fact is, Brandon paid the mullahs 6B to get that round of hostages freed, and got a whole lot of backlash on it, and next thing you know, Hamas hits Israel in a very Pearl-esque raid. Now, presumably, some of our best soldiers got caught in an ambush after 3 years of diversity, Pride, cashiering of a lot of experienced, patriotic soldiers, and waste of  much hardware in a war that's none of our business. This is no Last Stand on Bataan, more like Willie's Black Hawk Down or Bucketmouth's Desert One, complete with a Joint Chiefs Chair who palled with his Soviet counterparts (Milley, football buddy of Richard Levine, just retired, after all).

If the Lefties are finally being hoist on their own petard, I can only say I just wish it hadn't taken such a mess to do it.

But I do understand how Robert Theobald, a man once described as having one of the best brains and one of the worst dispositions in the US Navy, must have felt. 

On Humanity, Inhumanity, Plots & Machinations,

 

Life, Mystery, and the Wonder of Online Connection often bring surprises that intrigue and lead me down some unusual paths. Today, one of the paths followed brought into view a painting/icon done/written by Ostap Lozinski, an artist from Lviv in Western Ukraine. Lviv is situated about 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the border with Poland. According to the website, Lozinski died unexpectedly in his 39th year (2020) as the result of Covid, which means this work was completed prior to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.  Yet, my first thought on seeing it, was that I was looking at a depiction of current events.

The Plot of every movie these days.

 

It's getting old. I had to shut off the new Indiana Jones movie for just this problem.

They don't make movies or TV shows for men these days. And they wonder why their box office is shit.

(I stole this from Powerline)

The Spinners - I'll Be Around

Thats right baby!

The Babe Abides

 

"Simle for the camera Babe!" 

"You too babe. Smile and look nice and later I will show you the shark."

"The shark? Why whatever do you mean sir."

"Wait and see babe. Wait and see."

On Easier & More Convenient

The medical community in particular seems encumbered with communication inadequacies, glitches, and poorly set-up and/or difficult to navigate programming in their attempts to save money and time by going paperless.  As I spend 20 minutes filling out the necessary forms online, I wonder who will focus on spending their time reading through and taking note of the plethora of answers I'm required to provide?  I'm also uncomfortable misrepresenting truth in order to make the program work.  While I can't say for sure which month it was that the pain in my knees from arthritis first started to affect me adversely, I'd be willing to guess it was close to five years ago, but there's no room for that.  A month must be designated in order to move forward.  For all the times I have specifically listed the month and year the plate in my right ankle was put in to stabilize a break in February 2001,  I was asked again by the nurse at my most recent appointment for a cortisone shot, if I have any plates or artificial joints in my body, since that important info was apparently not included in the file she had on hand.  Whatever the tradeoff has been, under the guise of making things easier and more convenient, something major in the way of pertinent and meaningful communication appears to have been lost in the transition.   

On Sleeping & Sweeping

 

On Best Wishes & Sympathy

 Sometimes cartoonists, with their creativity and perceptions, present a visual that helps me smile and find center again the midst of human atrocity, by presenting a glimmer of coded truth. This time it was the red stuff dripping from the hands onto the shoes, the ever present sippy cup, and the ubiquitous bag of personal R.L. Peters loot, along with the tiny empty cloud over the head as another "things are/are not as they seem" transaction takes place.     

In the immortal words of Chester A Riley

"What a revoltin' development this is".

I have nothing for this, if accurate (and, yes, we do have a year to go), but consider the possibilities..

Latest Rasmussen Poll Shows 30% of DEMOCRATS “at Least Somewhat Likely” to Vote for President Trump – and 50% of Black Voters!

On Stoking the Furnace & Tending the Barbie

 

On Baskets of Jokes, No Jokes & Deplorables

 

On Identification & Agreements

 

Define "Hoist on their own petard"

Headline on the Washington Times:

Mayorkas declares "immediate" need for border wall in Texas, waives 26 environmental laws

They wanted Brandon and moved Hell and Earth to get him in. They let the hoodla run wild and made the cities unlivable. They drove the economy into the ground. They made as many people as possible get the shot. They encouraged their state governors to get in touch with their inner Adolf, Benito, Hideki, Josef, and Mao. 

They wanted to flood the country with illegals so they could "honestly" fake the vote.

Be careful of what you want. You will definitely get it.

The next year is going to be interesting.

On Changing the Way People Vote & Other High Tech Wonders