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Monday, September 02, 2019

Cone of Uncertainty



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It almost seems like old news now, but this is the orange man's position on democracy as supplied by Latuff and MONDOWEISS.NET.  Good sources both.


THE CONE OF UNCERTAINTY
BY
Czar Donic

[Ed. Note: One worthwhile that has emerged from the last few weeks during the last hurricane is the term "cone of uncertainty".  Surely, that describes our current situation as to the degree of absurdity to come on any specific day, and hence our title.]  

Hello.  I'm Czar Donic and you're not.  I've been wanting to steal that construction for some time and now its mine.

These are the days for journalism noir.  We've had it in film, novels, and so on, and now, given current events, journalism. 

We can see the start with the inauguration of Trump.  "The largest crowd ever to attend an inauguration," and DON'T BELIEVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND TELEVISION COVERAGE!!!  People are easily led astray by what they see and hear.  We must learn not to listen of watch.  Simply take their words for it.  Even the person whose professional life was ruined by the lies he told in support later made fun of it on national television at, if we remember correctly, an Oscar presentation.

Almost everyone who has left this administration, according to Anthony Scaramucci, has described the place as insane to work in, in other words, a madhouse.  In fact, we would do well from now on the simply use the term "Mad-house" rather than "White-house" in discussions and reports.  The Mad-house today confirms that the President is the least racist person in the "whole world," and also be confirmed as the "Greatest in History, including the President's close friend Frederick Douglas."  The "Mooch," recently, has been trying to organize some sort of movement to get rid of this great man and replace him with someone more sane, more typical of the republican party (sort of a contradiction in terms).  At least, the "Mooch" came up with a quotable line in speaking about his only11 days working at the Mad-house "I thought I'd last longer than a milk carton."  But even Mike Pence is reported to have once thought of a journal called "Torts Illustrated," so one line just doesn't do much.

This is fairly recent:  A friend of mine who is a fairly well-known Physicist once demonstrated and then told me "Damn, I had never thought I'd be marching in favor of facts one day!"  (He never read much science fiction.) I remember seeing a woman marching hlding a sign that read "Deregulate my uterus."  There was no comment on this from the Mad-house.  Yes, the term fits.

[We owe this to Arthud C. Clarke: in the ancient days, there was a famous rug maker called Ali Hasan.  One day at court, in front of the Calif (king, leader, whatever), he farted.  He left the court quickly to avoid being beheaded, packed his rugs, and traveled other countries.  He prospered for many decades.  Finally, in his old age, he wanted to visit Bagdad once more.  He stopped at an inn where people were talking about the latest scandals at court amidst much laughter in which he shared.  He felt he was quite safe now and relaxed.  After one extremely funny story, he asked the teller when it happened.  The response was "I don't remember the exact year, but it was about 5 years after Ali Hasan farted."]  Well, the U.S. farted and other countries will never let us forget.

Keeping up with each new fart is simply silly these days.  Recently, he decided to buy Greenland.  There is a history behind Greenland going back to Erik the Red who "discovered" it, but why bother?  As a matter of fact, who remembers the Greenland fiasco now?  Disloyal Jews have voted for Democrats, so [draw your own conclusion here].  It is simply not worth it.

One of our readers responded to a reference we made that Thomas Jefferson once said that we needed a revolution every 20 years but that we were not going to try to look it up.  Well, he did and here is the full quote as supplied:

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Hence, the "resistance" inspired by Daffy Don.  Of course, a major problem is posed by Daffy's supporters, who are the ones most likely to be dreaming of going out and shooting up some mass of people.  Few, if any, consider carrying out such a movement against Daffy.  It is often said that people get the sort of government they deserve; well, with Daffy, the Republican Party now is saddled by the sort of member it has had coming to it for years of abuse. 

Ever heard from Sitting Bull?

The love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor worship, but the rich will not! They even take tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbor away. ... If America had been twice the size it is, there still would not have been enough.

Sounds like Karl Marx?  It certainly becomes more relevant today. 

It is certainly a ticket to an asylum to try to keep up with the blithering, blathering Babbel that comes out of the Mad-House.  I certainly expect his protoge Bolisinaro to keep burning down the Amazon forests as he encourages oil and other fossil exploration in Alaska.  Why not?

Now, as the the Democrats: right now, we are very far away from there being any such thing as viable candidates.  We are inundated with the results of polls constantly that determine the cast of debates to be shown of television.  All very profitable media exercises.  At present, three are pretty much tied as the leaders: Biden, Sanders, and Warren (listed in alphabetical order as that makes as much sense as any other).  In political philosophies, Sanders and Warren are fairly close (although Bernie is still ahead of her on that) and together they comprise about 40% of the vote.  Biden 20%, and the others combine to make up the rest. 

A problem here arises from ignorance of the voters, or a significant portion of them.  There are many who simply hate Sanders since he did not call himself a Democrat officially and who was a male who opposed the female in the last election, a corporate shill called Hillary Clinton.  Many females saw this as an attack on their gender.  Some Sanders supporters found the statement "Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a grandmother as President?" as ridiculous, and it was ridiculous.  During her debate with Daffy Don, he hovered behind her and she did not react.  At the time, most wished that she would turn and say "Get back to your box like a good little boy, or do you want a spanking?"  (Cortez would have, certainly, and so would Tulsi Gabbard.)  She said nothing.

It was clear that corporate forces worked very hard through the DNC to "rig" the nomination for her and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz would up taking the fall for that, but it was a concerted effort.  Moreover, it still seems clear that Daffy Don did not expect to win, nor did he want to win.  It was simply good marketing.  However, that is what happened and is how we would up with him as "White Power" and other such racist groups supported him.  (There is simply not enough time to explain why such right-wing corporate types like the Kock-Brothers (one now dead) are not that exhuberant about him.)

Oh, yes, Biden.  It does look as if his lead and popularity within the party will fade as time goes by, but there is still a great deal of time left.  No polls, especially those with about 5 or 6% (+or-) degree of error have any real significance today.   Actually, the only one of them, especially female or otherwise, is Tulsi Gabbard, so they will keep her out of future debates by not taking any polls, even though with the degree of error she could have 8% support.

This is too silly to bother with, but why are the Democrats suddenly or recently against Russia and the Republicans defending it?  That goes against the natural order of things.  It doesn't matter, though, nothing matters.  Dorian, named after the novel by Oscar Wilde, will do whatever it takes to screw with Daffy Don of Orange.  What else?  Oh, yes, instead of fake news, why don't we have fake tweets?  Whatever he tweets is fake.  He seems to sit of the toilet with constipation and tweet out insults at whomever until he gets relief.  Maybe he won't even complete his term by the time the election takes place.  There will always be scandals at the Veteran's hospitals and so on because once a person leaves the "service," he/she becomes a human being again rather than government property and therefore a liability.  I know because I worked with addicts at the VA for awhile and learned not only how they were treated, but also what they went through. 

* * * * * *    &&&   * * * * * *


Well, after a break, I looked back at this thing and think it's time to add a few things.  For one thing, Dorian skipped Peurto Rico (part of the U.S., whether the orange man thinks so or not) and seems head for Trump properties.  Perhaps there is some order in this universe after all.

Too much argument lately over Christianity and God.  So far as I can tell, our belief in some infinite creator stems from our habit of noticing cause and effect.  In other words, if something happened, something must have caused it.  In fact, we have never known anything else.  In ancient mythology, the earth was help up by Atlas.  Well, what did Atlas stand on?  Er, a giant turtle.  Yeah, a turtle.  Ok, what did the turtle stand on?  And so forth.  The best answer so far had been, sorry, but it's turtles all the way down.  (In other words, infinity.)

Well, the same problem happens with a first cause.  What created the universe?  In Physics, this is usually known as the "Big Bang".  Ok, what happened before that?  Well, now is where it gets interesting.  Einstein managed to get time considered a dimension somehow unified with the three usual dimensions.  However, we have since learned that there are other dimensions as well.  We need not name them (we really can not), but as we look backward into the original source of the big bang, we find that the gravity and time and the others become co-mingled to the degree that it is no longer sensible to separate them from one another.  In fact, time no longer exists by itself as a dimension.  (At least this is what Stephen Hawkings told us.)  So, without time, cause and effect is meaningless so to even consider a cause of the universe or even the original particle or whatever is impossible since time is essential for cause and effect.  Therefore, whether or not there is a God, or first cause, is meaningless.  Does that help?  No?  Well, I don't have it in me.  You can use a search engine.  :ook up "History of time," or "string theory" and don't worry if it's Wikipedia (it gets bad press.  Still, if you are still somewhat skeptical after all of that, the best recourse is to screw yourself.

Here is a religious tract one sent me recently:

My instinct was to make a sandwich, and play John Prine loudly.    
I heard Allah and Buddha were singing at the Savior's feast
And up the sky and Arabian rabbi
Fed Quaker oats to a priest
Pretty good, not bad, they can't complain
Cause actually all them gods is just about the same
Pretty good, not bad, I can't complain
Cause actually everything is just about the same"


Greta just landed in her yacht from Sweden (so chosen as to leave as little "greenhouse" effect behind).  Not just carbon dioxide by also methane gas is dangerous.  If you don't believe it, well ….  Let me tell you a story:  In High School once I was making Nitro-Glycerin in Chemistry lab.  (If you try it, don't forget the hydrocloric acid to drain off the water.)  Now, I know, teen age stuff, sure.  But this ape next to me, Steve (long slavick name ending in ick) asks me what I'm doing and I tell him and say "Now, don't mess with it."  Well, he decides to be a hero, grab the tube, and throw it out the window.  Well, we were on the third floor and the window faced a brick courtyard.  As the contents of the tube descended downwards, they seemed to pop like shots from a gun.  The teacher got up on the desk and shouted, pointing at me.  (I have no idea why he would think I would be responsible for something like that and I said "Well, he threw it out the window," pointing to Steve.  After that, the glycerin was locked up.

Now, why do I mention that?  Well, if you fart, what you fart is combustible.  Once, a friend of mine challenged me about it and I said 'If you don't believe me, next time you fart, hold a match to it."  He actually decided to challenge me on that.  When asked about what happened, he confessed to the others "I nearly blew my ass off."  So, I guess that proves that we do have climate change.

Even Fox News now uses the term on occasion, and the Orangeman has now added it to the area of "fake news," leaving nothing left as one is not supposed to believe what you see or read, either.  I am afraid; we also are beset by fake tweets.

Well, finally, as it is now September: Two mass shootings in Texas, but rest easy.  As of the first of September, you all in Texas can carry guns into your local church.  That way, if someone wants to interrupt your prayer to Jesus, you can draw yer gun and shoot him down.  Modern day smiting!  Lots more in the Walmart, but they were Mexicans.  Seven in Odessa.  Yes, we have Odessa in the U.S.  In Illinois we have Cairo and, I seem to remember, Damascus.  Who needs the rest of the world?

Of course, when Orange Leader found out that his property was in peril, he sent Magic Mike (Pence) to Poland instead and stayed here to protect the twelve Trump loosing properties in Florida.  Had to be here to sign the insurance claims.  If you suffer from Trump fatigue, you are not alone.  During that last hurricane he warned people in Alabama to shelter in place, so the Governor of Alabama had to get on the media and tell everyone that Dorian was not headed for Alabama.

Now, he says that if he is not re-elected, he will not leave.  So, what we have to do (and I'm sure the Secret Service will co-operate on this one) is go in, lasso him, and drag him to New York.  From there, he can be shipped to the other Odessa.  Problem solved. 

Now, I've already spent too much of my time and yours on this crap, so I'm sending it along.  Also, send your thoughts and prayers to Texas, or anywhere else but here. 

Crap, I forgot, all this gun violence is caused by video games and mental illness so rather than spend money on the mentally ill, we might as well keep electing them to Congress.  Actually, I think any more time and thought on this subject will lead to madness, or, as Shakespeare put it, "That way madness lies."








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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Ship of Women Attack Zionists, Pussy v. Putin




THE ABSURD TIMES




Thanks to Latuff, sorry it took this long to put it up.


A documentary was made in 2014 of the concentration camps and released.  Actually, the U.S. And British war machines were producing it and they abandoned it and it was only lately that it was released.  I only saw this think this morning and reflected on how absolutely low and vile Israel has become when, a few hours later, I reflected again on its current practices and action against the Palestinians.  The temptation to link the two is too overwhelming to resist, so I'll leave that to you.  All we can really say is that Zionism today is a modern form of Nazism.  And lest anyone try the standard pitiful defense of "anti-semitism," present Zionism is in no way in keeping with any of the tenents of the Jewish faith and an overwhelming number of Rabbis concur.



83 billion dollars in military aid has been promised to Israel, by Obama, and they hate him because he is a "Schwartzer," and because he is "anti-semitic," or at least not supportive enough.  Imagine, thinking there is something wrong with the eviction on hundreds of Palestinians from their homes!  What a pussy!



Frankly, the whole topic disgust me to the extent that I can not continue.  I am putting an interview next that is more measured about how Israel "detain" a boat of women, 44 miles out in International waters, to protect the poor beleaguered oppressed Jewish people from these wild Amazons.



First, however, just a mild comment that was too long for twitter: Some academic, a visiting Professor from some eastern European country, a guy older, doesn't get out much, is buried in his books, put on the TV during the debates (he is not used to American Television either) was quoted as calling a colleague and saying "Otto! You haff to zee ziss.   A strange man is schtalking a voman on a schtage in Mizzouri!"



[No, I can't let it go that easy, not now.  The pussy grabber is making a major announcement on TV about how many liars there are and how the women are out to get him, but also we have the Clinton e-mails on Wikileaks.



Has Assange no shame?  Why we hear that Vlad Putin is behind all this and that makes Putin a pussy grabber enabler.  We can't have that.  Well, how do we know that the Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming are behind all this?  Well, because, anyway, the only real argument I've heard for that is the fact that they (probably that bastion of American Democracy, the NSA) found Cryllic letters in the code used and where would you get that kind of lettering?  Hmm? Y'all?  Where, here are a few in the following, using the paragraph just finished:



Имеет Ассанж не стыдно? Почему мы слышим, что Влад Путин стоит за всем этим и что делает Путину киске граббер активатора. Мы не можем этого. Ну, как мы знаем, что русские идут, Русские идут позади все это? Ну, потому что, во всяком случае, единственным реальным аргументом я слышал, что тот факт, что они (вероятно, что оплот американской демократии, АНБ) нашли Cryllic буквы в коде используется и где бы вы получить такую надпись? Хм-м? Y'all? Где, вот некоторые из них в дальнейшем, используя этот пункт только что закончил:



On the other hand, I've been given information that Ukranians are behind it.  See, Ukranians know that alphabet and that missle that hit the Malaysian airplane was made in Russia, after Kruschev, a Ukranian, gave Crimea to Ukraine.  I've been told that everyone knows that there are some great hackers in Odessa and Kiev and other places.  They do services for equipment that they want.  There was also a great deal of evidence concerning proxys and IPA addresses and other such geek speak that I didn't follow, but the case seems pretty solid given the source which of course is classified by me.]



But, after all, we need to get to the real story about the evil women on the boat that attacked Zion:



Und das is alles fur heute!








TOPICS


·                                 Palestine

·                                 Gaza

·                                 Gaza Flotilla

GUESTS



retired Army colonel and former U.S. diplomat. She was one of the 13 passengers on the Zaytouna-Oliva, the Women's Boat to Gaza attempting to break Israel's nine-year naval blockade of the territory. Wright's recent article is titled "Women's Boat to Gaza Participants See the Israeli Imposed Perpetual Darkness on Gaza." She is also the co-author of the bookDissent: Voices of Conscience.

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A flotilla bound for Gaza carrying food, medicine and other humanitarian aid was intercepted and seized last week by the Israeli Navy. The Women's Boat to Gaza had set sail from the Spanish port city of Barcelona in mid-September in efforts to break the ongoing Israeli blockade. Organizers say the Israeli military seized the boat and detained the 13 human rights activists aboard in international waters about 40 miles away from Gaza's shore. The Israeli military towed the boat to the Israeli port of Ashdod and detained the women for up to four days before deporting them. We speak to passenger Ann Wright, retired Army colonel and former U.S. diplomat. Her recent article is titled "Women's Boat to Gaza Participants See the Israeli Imposed Perpetual Darkness on Gaza." Wright spent 29 years in the military and later served as a high-ranking diplomat in the State Department.




TRANSCRIPT


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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: A flotilla bound for Gaza carrying food, medicine and other humanitarian aid was intercepted and seized last week by the Israeli Navy. The Women's Boat to Gaza had set sail from the Spanish port city of Barcelona in mid-September in an effort to break the ongoing Israeli blockade. Organizers say the Israeli military seized the boat and detained the 13 human rights activists aboard it in international waters about 40 miles away from Gaza's shore. The Israeli military towed the boat to the port of Ashdod and detained the women for up to four days before deporting them.

AMY GOODMAN: We're joined now by one of the participants on the Women's Boat to Gaza, Ann Wright. She is a retired Army colonel, former U.S. diplomat. Her recent article is headlined "Women's Boat to Gaza Participants See the Israeli Imposed Perpetual Darkness on Gaza." Colonel Wright spent 29 years in the military, later served as a high-ranking diplomat in the State Department. In 2001, she helped oversee the reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, where she served as deputy chief of mission. In 2003, she resigned her State Department post to protest the war in Iraq.

Ann Wright, welcome back to Democracy Now!

ANN WRIGHT: Thank you.

AMY GOODMAN: Describe this ship of women that set sail and why you did it and what happened.

ANN WRIGHT: Well, the mission of the Women's Boat to Gaza, of course, was to bring international attention to the continuing Israeli blockade, naval and land blockade, of Gaza, this 25-mile-long tiny strip, five miles wide, with 1.9 million people living in it, a brutal blockade which controls all the electricity, the food, the—everything to come into Gaza has to come through Israeli hands now. It used to—Egypt was a part of it, but they've really blocked their southern border. So, our flotilla was to bring international attention to this continuing blockade.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And what happened, if you could give us a sense of when the Israeli military confronted the boat?

ANN WRIGHT: Well, it was actually a confrontation 34 miles off the coast of Gaza. The Israelis have kind of learned a different lesson from having—after they've murdered nine people, and subsequently a 10th person died from the 2010 flotilla with the Mavi Marmara, and 50 other people wounded. They knew that this was a boat of women, of unarmed civilian women, trained in nonviolent action, led by a Nobel Peace laureate and two members of Parliament, one from Algeria, one from New Zealand. And over the course of the three legs of this trip, which was 1,715 miles—it was a long trip, let me tell you—almost three weeks of educational activities, though, in Barcelona, in Ajaccio, Corsica, France, and then down in Messina, Sicily, Italy. So, we were doing an educational thing as we were heading toward Gaza.

The Israelis boarded the boat. It was very interesting. There were 30 people on the Zodiac boat that came up next to us. And when they came up, it was—the front part of it, the bow of it, had women sailors on it. Women sailors were the first ones to board our boat.

AMY GOODMAN: These are the Israeli sailors.

ANN WRIGHT: The Israeli sailors, yes. They were not in combat gear. They had baseball caps. They had long-sleeved jerseys on, GoPros. So, the Israeli military has kind of learned a lesson. I wish they would learn the same in their treatment of Palestinians, though, because the treatment of us internationals was very different from what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to talk about the Nobel Peace Prize laureate you mentioned, Mairead Maguire, one of the 13 women on the Gaza flotilla. She released this prerecorded video message in anticipation of being detained at sea.

MAIREAD MAGUIRE: My name is Mairead Maguire. I am the Nobel Peace laureate from Northern Ireland. If you're listening to this, then you will know that myself and all of the women who sailed on the Women's Boat to Gaza have been arrested and are in detention in Israel. We were arrested, kidnapped illegally in international waters, and taken against our wish into Israel. This has happened to me before. We will be deported and, tragically, not allowed back to see our friends in Palestine and in Israel. This is totally illegal. As men and—as women from many countries, we uphold our freedom of movement in any part of our world.

So, for those who can help to call for the release of all those on the Women's Boat to Gaza, please do so. But even more importantly, because it's not about us, work for the freedom and human rights, the lifting of the blockade against the people of Gaza and for the freedom for the Palestinian people and peace in the Middle East. We can all do this together. It is not a dream. And we are here in person because we care for human rights, for human dignity for the Palestinian people.

AMY GOODMAN: That was Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire, one of the 13 women on the Gaza flotilla that was boarded by the Israeli Navy, women soldiers. And you were taken to Ashdod and then to a prison and then released, is that right?

ANN WRIGHT: Yes, that's correct.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, tell us, though, about the situation in Gaza, why you would risk doing this. One of the ships didn't even make it.

ANN WRIGHT: Well, that's correct. One of the ships had engine problems leaving Barcelona. And we had women from all over the world that had come in, and they were great people who continue to speak about the tragedy of Gaza. As we approached the coastline of Gaza, it was unbelievable. To the left, you could see all of the lights of Israel. To the right, a very distinct line, was darkness, all the way to the south, and that's Gaza.

And that exemplifies what's going on there, that the lack of electricity, usually less than four hours a day, the lack of medical supplies. Dr. Fauziah Hasan, who was our medical doctor from Malaysia, she said her organization, MyCARE Malaysia, is trying to reduce the time for operations, which—in Gaza, which now go on to 2025, there are people lined up. And they're trying to reduce the time that people who need life-saving operations have it. The issue of food, of water, of sewage—all of these things make for the United Nations now saying, by the year 2020, Gaza will be uninhabitable.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And yet the Obama administration, while continuing to increase its criticism of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, does nothing about the situation.

ANN WRIGHT: No, in fact, they give them $38 billion in military and other type of aid, which will be used to hammer the Palestinians both in Gaza and in the West Bank.

AMY GOODMAN: This $38 billion, the largest military funding package the U.S. has given any nation.

ANN WRIGHT: Any nation. And it will be used in the training fields of the Israeli military, which are in Gaza. Gaza is the place where military experiments are done, using U.S. military weaponry and done by the—by the IDF.

AMY GOODMAN: You're former U.S. military.

ANN WRIGHT: Yes, I'm a colonel, 29 years in the U.S. military. And I say the U.S. military and our government are complicit in the crimes against the people of Gaza and the West Bank by the use of our military hardware and by the training that the Israelis give us and we give them.

AMY GOODMAN: What happened to the aid on the boat?

ANN WRIGHT: Well, actually, it was—the aid was really minor. I mean, it was us coming as representatives of the international community. We only had a little 50-foot boat. We really weren't carrying substantial amounts of anything other than goodwill from the international community.

AMY GOODMAN: Were you deported?

ANN WRIGHT: Oh, yeah. Now I have a 20-year deportation, 10 years from 2010.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, we're going to leave it there. Colonel Ann Wright, retired Army Colonel Ann Wright, former U.S. diplomat, was one of the 13 women on the Zaytouna-Oliva, the Women's Boat to Gaza, attempting to break Israel's nine-year naval blockade on Gaza.