Just scrolled back and saw your invite Lizzie – I should have contacted you in advance. We are driving back this pm. Next time.

Link to gas light post.

Hamas leaders reveal motive behind October 7 attack on Israel

Had an interesting discussion with a mate re “what do Hamas want?” and “what is their aim?” and why did they launch their attack etc the other day.

It was a bit of a mystery, but as the article suggests, Hamas basically were in danger of becoming a spent force. You can only get so much mileage out of swaggering around and having youngsters whisper “there goes one of the tough men”.

So in order to keep “the movement” alive they attack a bunch of defenceless civilians, and then fall back on the myths of “refugee camps” and “the river to the sea” and so on. It seems the majority of people who live in the Gaza Strip were getting on with their lives, but now they have become a bunch of human shields for gangsters who needed to keep the myth going to stay relevant.

Link.

Top Ender
Nov 10, 2023 1:51 PM

Hamas leaders reveal motive behind October 7 attack on Israel

So in order to keep “the movement” alive they attack a bunch of defenceless civilians, and then fall back on the myths of “refugee camps” and “the river to the sea” and so on.

It seems the majority of people who live in the Gaza Strip were getting on with their lives, but now they have become a bunch of human shields for gangsters who needed to keep the myth going to stay relevant.

TE,

NO – The Palestinian Gazans are taught Hate from the Day they are born – They do absolutely nothing and like Austraian Aboriginals are rewarded Sit Down Money by the Wolrd

Money For Nothing: The Radical Growth of the Gazan Population

To understand Gaza, you must understand what a welfare state on steroids looks like.

This is a state that produces nothing, living only on the largesse of others.

To hide this destructive parasitism, it has not only actual “workers” but also “idle workers,” a term I borrow from the Talmud. The former work and get value for their wages; the latter happily do little or nothing and get the same or lower wages. Those in the second category think they’re getting money for nothing, but they could not be more wrong—and Gaza is Exhibit A.

Now let’s attend to the Gazans. I arbitrarily chose 18-year intervals to chart their population growth.

From 1951-1968 Gaza grew from 278,000 to 354,760 or an increase of 28%

From 1969-1987 Gaza grew from 354,760 to 868,100 or 144%

From 1987-2005 Gaza grew from 868,100 to 1,500,000 or 72%

From 2005-2023 Gaza grew from 1,500,000 to 2,380,000 or 58%

None of these increases represent natural (normal) population increases.

The problem is that these substantial growth levels were experienced alongside unemployment rates from 50% to 80%.

Here is where we begin to understand the unusual nature of Gaza compared to the rest of the world.

Poverty has always been epidemic in Gaza but here’s an interesting factoid, which is that there’s always money for bureaucrats: Before 2006, there were 80,000 government workers in the pay of the Palestinian Authority (PA). When Hamas threw out the Palestinian Authority in 2006, the PA continued to pay their salaries to maintain their loyalties. They were no longer working but were receiving the same salaries.

They are pawns of the Iranian Mullahs who will fight to the last Gazan, Lebanese, Syrian, Yemini Houthi, and Shi’ite Iraqi to remove the Jewish State of Israel from the world.

The most insidious aspect of this circumstance is that the West, including most prominently the Biden administration, is willing to use the Palestinian Arabs to get at the Israelis.

As long as Gazans live on cynical welfare, their population will continue to grow in ways that can never be sustainable.

The ACT Greens have referred its own member Johnathan Davis to police after allegations emerged that he had sex with two teenage boys, aged 15 and 17-years-old.

What Does Catholic Just-War Doctrine Say About Israel and Hamas?

National Catholic Register – Interviews – November 9, 2023

REGISTER ROUNDTABLE: V. Bradley Lewis, Daniel Philpott and R.R. Reno
Assess How Church Teaching Applies to the Crisis in the Holy Land

Somebody earlier wanted this article posted. Here ‘tis. From the Oz.

Costing the earth: support for climate action and renewable falls

As the financial reality of decarbonising our lives becomes increasingly clear – and expensive – there’s growing evidence that it’s a price many individuals are neither willing nor able to pay.

By GRAHAM LLOYD

It might be tempting to look down from on high in the renewable energy transition on the protests of ordinary people worried about the cost and discomfort of change, but evidence is growing that this would be a mistake. Cost overruns and delays are making the federal government’s target of achieving 82 per cent renewables by 2030 appear increasingly unlikely. Together with engineering and financial concerns, there is a public revolt by those who feel they can neither afford it nor understand the need to destroy their piece of nature to save the planet.

This is a phenomenon not confined to Australia. It has been a feature of renewable energy deployment from the start. What has changed is the scale of the ambition and the pushback. It is important that government and industry understand what is happening and where it might lead. Early signs of unravelling are snowballing through Europe where governments in Britain, Germany and France are walking back their ambitions on net-zero, which peaked in the lead up to the 2021 Glasgow climate conference.

Cambridge University academic and social commentator Rob Henderson has explored the concept of “luxury beliefs”, which he says are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while often inflicting costs on those less well off. Henderson is controversial for his views on a range of issues but it is possible to see the public swell of support both for renewable energy and climate-change action in terms of them being a luxury belief. Pro-climate action helped propel the Albanese government, together with a raft of climate-focused independents, most notably the Teals, into office. The danger for the political class is that once a specific luxury belief loses social value, people are eager to discard it.

Public protests at the rollout of large-scale renewable-energy projects and the transmission lines needed to support them is a reflection of social licence under strain. Rising energy costs and less-certain supplies of electricity are now firmly a mainstream concern. Henderson argues that a core feature of a luxury belief is that once a believer is no longer insulated from the consequences of his or her belief, it dissipates. So, does greater public awareness of the size and cost of the challenge involving action on climate change signal the souring of a luxury belief?

For evidence, despite publicity about extreme weather events and negative impacts of climate change, research by global analytics firm Dynata holds some uncomfortable truths. It finds that Australia has one of the largest proportions of people globally who report not being worried about global warming. More than half of Australian consumers (58 per cent) are also unwilling or slightly unwilling to adopt a more climate-friendly lifestyle if it costs more money.

Compared with 12 months ago, about the time of the election of the Albanese government, 41 per cent of those surveyed said they were less interested in buying a hybrid or electric car and 36 per cent were less interested in renewable energy. Rising cost-of-living pressures can help explain the change in sentiment. Older generations said they were less likely to make financial sacrifices to adopt a more climate-friendly lifestyle: 65 per cent of Gen X and 69 per cent of Baby Boomers were unwilling or slightly willing. When it comes to adopting climate-friendly behaviours, people said they were more willing to sacrifice time and convenience than money. This was especially the case for younger generations.

Dynata’s research report draws on responses from 11,000 consumers across 11 countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, China, Japan and Australia. The results show that waning interest is not confined to Australia. In the US, 44 per cent of respondents strongly or slightly agree that they are less interested in buying a hybrid or electric car than a year ago because of inflation and rising costs. Forty two per cent strongly or slightly agree that they were less interested in renewable energy than a year ago.

In the United Kingdom, 43 per cent of respondents were less interested in buying a hybrid or electric car and just below one third (28 per cent) were less interested in renewable energy than a year ago. And if it cost more money, 57 per cent were slightly willing or not at all willing to make lifestyle changes.

The trend is also true in China where 37 per cent were less interested in buying a hybrid or electric car and 35 per cent were less interested in renewables. If it costs more money, 35 per cent of Chinese respondents were slightly willing or not at all willing to make lifestyle changes. The fall in support explains why Chinese president Xi Jinping puts energy security and coal-fired power ahead of environmental posturing and British Prime Minister Riki Sunak has applied the brakes to the UK’s net-zero transition. Political leaders in Germany and France have been quick to follow Sunak’s lead.

Implicit in Sunak’s retreat was a recognition that elite opinion had lost touch with the average person. “What I have concluded during my time so far as prime minister is that those decisions can be so caveated, so influenced by special interests, so lacking in debate and fundamental scrutiny that we’ve stumbled into a consensus about the future of our country, that no one seems to be happy with,” he said.

Sunak said Westminster’s politicians did not have the courage to look people in the eye and explain what was really involved. Plans included a ban on gas heating, mandatory home upgrades for property owners, taxes on eating meat and compulsory car sharing if you drive to work. “Now I believe deeply that when you ask most people about climate change, they want to do the right thing, they’re even prepared to make sacrifices,” Sunak said. “But it cannot be right to impose such significant costs on working people, especially those who are already struggling to make ends meet, and to interfere so much in people’s way of life without a properly informed national debate.”

Australian politicians must closely watch what is happening abroad. Many of the imposts, including gas prohibitions and mandatory building regulations, are being introduced by state governments. New building regulations in NSW that mandate higher levels of insulation and double glazing that took effect on October 1 increase the cost of building a home by up to $50,000 at a time of rising political concern about a housing shortage.

Those pushing net-zero can expect the same sort of political disruption evident in Europe. Already there are signs the issue of nuclear power has become more pressing. Public sentiment is changing. And there is reason for government to take notice. In the 2023 update to its Net Zero by 2050 Roadmap, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said much of the momentum was in small, modular clean-energy technologies such as solar PV and batteries, but these alone were not sufficient to deliver net-zero emissions. “It will also require large new, smarter and repurposed infrastructure networks; large quantities of low-emissions fuels; technologies to capture CO2 from smokestacks and the atmosphere; more nuclear power; and large land areas for renewables,” the IEA said.

Globally, electricity transmission and distribution grids will need to expand by approximately two million kilometres each year to 2030. Investment will need to climb to about $US4.5 trillion a year by the early 2030s from the current $US1.8 trillion. Despite the level of investment, carbon emissions from the energy sector reached a record high of 37 billion tonnes in 2022, one per cent above their pre-pandemic level.

For Australia, a sobering statistic is that China is building enough new coal-fired electricity capacity every six months to equal Australia’s total coal-fired capacity. Australia is only at the beginning of its journey to net-zero. Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen is developing plans for decarbonisation across the economy. Areas include electricity and energy, industry, the built environment, agriculture and land, and transport and resources.

Bowen says the “level and quality of dialogue and collaboration with industries, experts and citizens will set these plans apart from anything that’s been done before”.

“This is a shared endeavour: we must work together to do what’s both possible and practical to stop dangerous climate change and realise the economic opportunities of net zero,” he says. “The end result will be six net-zero sectoral plans that are robust, ambitious but achievable, and accepted by the broader community.”

Evidence abounds that maintaining public support is becoming the priority challenge.

Graham Lloyd is The Australian’s environment editor.

Somebody earlier wanted this article posted. Here ‘tis. From the Oz.

Thanks Mak.

On visit to Israel, I have seen the horror that the world must not forget

By Douglas Murray

It is the nature of the news cycle that huge things get passed over.

But what happened just over a month ago in Israel should not be passed over.

The scale and catastrophe of what happened is still becoming clear.

Her friend, holding a banner, actually said, “I mean, I’m not sure I’ve seen anything that shows that that’s actually happened.”

These two ignoramuses should have come to Israel with me this week.

Specifically, they should have come to the site of the music festival massacre, and seen the remains of that “peace rave” where people their age, and very similar to them, were gunned down and raped just as the party was “coming up.”

Ever since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and Hamas got elected and killed their rivals, the people of these communities have known that their neighbors might not love them.

But few could have imagined the sheer human hate and evil that came down on their community one Saturday morning last month.

Nir Oz is — or was — a community of 400 people. Today it is a ghost town.

But the terrorists broke in, wounded them and stole them — taking them into Gaza.

Then there were the Thai workers who helped in the kibbutz and had their own accommodation. The terrorists had gone from door to door, shooting them.

As in so many other places in the settlements, you could see the stains on the floor where someone had crawled during their last moments or been dragged out half-dead. At the end of this row of accommodation was their bomb shelter.

It was plain from the inside that this was the site of a massacre.

Hamas packed the Thai men and women into this small room and then butchered them. The floor was still thick with their congealed blood.

And here it looked like Hamas had tried to save their bullets. The walls and ceiling — even the air conditioning unit — were all covered in blood spatter.

Here, like so many other parts of the community, there were occasional handprints in blood, where people had tried to stand or avoid being dragged in their dying moments.

These imprints should not be forgotten. These were all people who had done nothing wrong.

To a man, woman and child, they were all just going about their lives.

Most had some dream of peace. Some houses still had their shopping lists on their fridge doors. Others had signs saying “Live and let live.”

Hamas didn’t allow them to live. The world must never forget this.

Israel cannot live with Hamas. The world must realize this.

Why Trump’s rally mattered more than the GOP debate in Miami

Most people are swayed by intangibles: by moods, sentiments, feelings

Do you believe in coincidences? I used to. But like Macbeth I have just “supped full with horror.”

That is, I have been flipping back and forth between the glitzy but pointless Republican debate in Miami and Donald Trump’s rally in nearby Hialeah, Florida.

And here’s Exhibit One in my brief against coincidences: my office reading group is just now, as I write, reading Dante’s Inferno. Yes, could there be any more apposite reading?

I am going to take a page here from that priest W. H. Auden talked about who advised the people who came to him for confession to “be brief, be blunt, and be gone.” An admirable imperative which I intend to obey.

It was pleasantly (mostly) surreal flicking back and forth between the tidy, well-laundered and well-pressed debate and the raucous free-for-all that was the Trump rally. The 10- or 15,000 strong crowd there was prepped and pumped up by Kimberly Guilfoyle, Don Jr. and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who endorsed her old boss tonight. “USA, USA, USA” — the crowd was young, enthusiastic, unruly.

Over in Miami, it was a different scene. I doubt there was 1,000 people there. Like a middle chapter in an Agatha Christie mystery, the crew on stage had been whittled down. Once there were eight. Now there were five: Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott and Chris “Michelin Man” Christie.

Anyone wanting to know which event mattered more — the official debate, or Trump’s free-for-all down the road — need only avail himself of an applause-meter of the sort that they used to use on Queen for a Day.

By that measure, Trump won in a landslide. His thousands of fans generated enough energy to illuminate a small city.

Clothes make the man, Laurence Fox:

https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1722249176350912664

🙂

Had an interesting discussion with a mate re “what do Hamas want?” and “what is their aim?” and why did they launch their attack etc the other day.

It was Iran trying to derail the Israel-Saudi-UAE trade deal.

From The Oz.
The ACT Greens have referred its own member Johnathan Davis to police after allegations emerged that he had sex with two teenage boys, aged 15 and 17-years-old.

Cassie of Sydney:

You know, everyday the left’s endless smug hypocrisy and double standards are exposed. For far too long the right have chosen to ignore it. This must stop. Everyday the dung heap that is the progressive left in this country, and this includes racist progressive scum like Harry Hunter, not only need to have the dung thrown back at them, but they need to have their faces rubbed in the dung they defecate.

This will only happen when we get a conservative media group, and the Right is too fractured and vulnerable to disruption to have that happen. Government and Unions will descend on any conservative networks like sharks on a school of swimmers and tear it apart with lawfare, regulation and lies.
I’d support a Conservative newspaper and internet site with money but how many others would? Conservatives would nit pick it to death.

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Indolent
Nov 10, 2023 3:44 PM

TheRealJohnnyBravo
@BouchellJohn

Imagine being so gas lighted that you go out and protest Israel, but have no idea that Hamas invaded Israel on October 7th.

They are not alone, it’s the vibe for most of them.
A sad indictment on today’s young people, all feels no facts.

Then this person, a person who’s not one for hyperbole, said something that made me wince, this person said that the halcyon days for Australian Jews and a thriving Jewish community on this continent are over, finito.

Seems like the magic % had been reached and it’s too dangerous politically to oppose.
Why did we let it happen?
There was no sane reason for it.

Kneel:

If they are charged, tried and found guilty, then it would be appropriate for the prosecutor to ask for, and the judge agree to, a suitable punishment as per Sharia law.

I suspect under Sharia Law, they are totally innocent because Heroic Soldiers of Islam.
Under the normal Rules of War, rape is a capital crime.

The virgin affair haver Vs the Chad Lock changer…

While I was away, visiting my elderly parents, he had called a locksmith to our marital home and locked me out of it. Even now at 53, a long 14 years later, this moment remains one of the most emotionally charged of my entire life.
….
Yes, I was in the wrong to cheat, but the pain and humiliation I felt at the way my marriage of eight years ended — also within hours of my husband’s discovery — affected me every single day for years.

Was my immediate exile from the marriage really the right thing for my husband to do? Is horribly wounded pride a good enough reason to throw away years of mutual support and, yes, happiness?

I knew he knew about ten hours before I came home to the changed lock.
….

Being locked out by my husband felt like being paraded through the street naked with my head shorn as if I were caught collaborating with the enemy.
…
I have tried to contact him many times over the years, but he has locked me out of any communication. I am dead to him.

Now thats how you educate people.

The Green….

Mr Davis, a former real estate agent, has led the ACT Greens’ push for a rent freeze, short-stay rental accommodation regulation and a voting age lowered to 16.

Some of the big names in the ACT Real Estate business have dents in their poo. That this little pedo was in it doesn’t surprise.

Greens thrive on these types as members.

At Brighton Le-Sands for lunch. Posters on the power poles near the beach saying “Israeli ships” should not be allowed to dock in Sydney. Named a shipping line I had not heard of.

I’m a bit more sceptical these days.

Scepticism is essential these days Bear.

But, in this case, I suspect the narcissistic little Green poof has been sprung.

One wonders if, at some stage, he hit the mud button of the Chief Minister given the incestuous Labor/Greens alliance in the Canberra town council.

At Brighton Le-Sands for lunch. Posters on the power poles near the beach saying “Israeli ships” should not be allowed to dock in Sydney. Named a shipping line I had not heard of.

In Linda Burney’s electorate. No surprise for me there.

I grew up in the Division of Barton, went to school and was a nurse in that electorate.

My brother has lived in Sans Souci for the past 40yrs and tells me who lives there now.

Gabor:

Seems like the magic % had been reached and it’s too dangerous politically to oppose.
Why did we let it happen?
There was no sane reason for it.

This is what gives me the irrits – We didn’t let this Mohammedan invasion happen, it was imposed on us by our governments and 10% of the population.
There has never been a referendum to find out if we want more immigration, our political elites refuse to hold one. And now it looks like the bastards are going to dump a stack of Hamarse supporters on us from the Gaza Strip.

OldOzzie

Nov 10, 2023 5:20 PM
A great many people will agree with Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary.
There is indeed a widespread perception that the police treat protests by particular groups differently to others.
It is true that the scenes witnessed at the pro-Palestinian marches in recent weeks have been disgraceful.
As Mrs Braverman wrote in the newspaper article that has proven so controversial, at these demonstrations “terrorists have been valorised, Israel has been demonised as Nazis and Jews have been threatened with further massacres”.

That may be so, but what has she and her supporters done to deal with the problem?
There is no point in standing up and talking about the issues, when, as soon as she is out of camera range, the problem is ignored.

Even though she cannot be held directly responsible for “technical” network faults, she is certainly responsible for managing the response.

Be fair. How could a woman who doesn’t understand the issues explain to customers far too ignorant to understand the explanation, and a bunch of politicians even more ignorant, what went wrong?

Bear Necessities
Nov 10, 2023 4:13 PM

The ACT Greens have referred its own member Johnathan Davis to police after allegations emerged that he had sex with two teenage boys, aged 15 and 17-years-old.

Whilst I have no time for Greens philosophy, these are only allegations at the moment….

As much as I’d like to send all Year Zero (Greens) politicians and voters to Jabba the Hutt for his carbonite collection, we might consider that, should none of this be factual, comments here framed in a certain manner may leave the forum owner open to legal consequences.

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Famous magician Luigi the Unbelievable makes Pacific island disappear.

It is the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen since KRudd crying. Trying to dance on a Pacific island. We’ve had some horrible useless Prime Ministers from both sides over decades but this one is the worst.

FMD, the ranga gets a tick ahead of this f*ckwit.

A one term wonder and he knows it. Hence the AirBus for constant photo ops.

The dxealer’s missus doesn’t even have to sharpen the December knife because he’s so useless.

I’m just checking U.K. comedian Andrew Lawrence’s YouTube page for a fresh monologue. While many of his videos average views in the 20,000 to 30,000 range, his Fit in, or F**k Off from just three days ago has 110,000 views.

Heh.

I neglected to credit Cassie for introducing him here some days ago.

DrBeauGan
Nov 10, 2023 5:43 PM

Be fair. How could a woman who doesn’t understand the issues explain to customers far too ignorant to understand the explanation, and a bunch of politicians even more ignorant, what went wrong?

customers far too ignorant to understand the explanation

I disagree.

politicians even more ignorant

Michelle Rowland is a personal friend of my daughter (they are the same age) and she has known her long before her being a MP. Michelle is not ignorant.

I’ll add this one by Tony Thomas in Quadrant. Tuvalu is mentioned.

The King Canutes of Climate Science (2015)

We didn’t let this Mohammedan invasion happen, it was imposed on us by our governments and 10% of the population.

There were no Mosques in Sydney before the early or mid 1970s, and none in the rest of NSW apart from a disused tin shed at Broken Hill. The Lebanese civil war was the initial cause of increased Middle East immigrants, mainly Christians. That crossed paths with Al Grasby’s mouldykulturism stuff, opening the gate for indiscriminate Middle East migration in general.

Watched Ron Barassi’s state memorial held at the MCG today. Was really good. It’s on Kayo.

Obligatory welcome to country by “Aunty” someone; she went on to speak further about Barass, and was OK. I think they knew each other. Then Archie Roach’s son played a didgeridoo.

Katzenjammer
That crossed paths with Al Grasby’s mouldykulturism [my bolding] stuff,

Great word. Love it.

This is the creature judging Trump

His wife is also a full on lefty Trump hater who having been caught this week is presently removing all her social media posts and accounts. It’s rather funny.

As much as I’d like to send all Year Zero (Greens) politicians and voters to Jabba the Hutt for his carbonite collection, we might consider that, should none of this be factual, comments here framed in a certain manner may leave the forum owner open to legal consequences.

FFS Muddy. Dover can handle it.

Stop being an appeaser.

Time for all of us to start pushing back and stop worrying about egg shells!

The Optus bint. I’m curious is she the same idiot that wouldn’t answer phones outside hours of a few years back?

Leaving aside the issue that Intergenerational trauma was first diagnosed amongst the children of Holocaust survivors

Indigenous intergenerational trauma involves magical transference across gaps of a few generations to someone who discovers as an adult that their great-grandmother was aboriginal. Holocaust survivor children lived from birth in the same household as their survivor parents. We don’t know the extent of pherenome influence.

Mark from Mel

The reason the CCP is so interested in the Pacific isn’t just because it’s strategic… it’s because there are a lot of micro-nations easily and cheaply bought off. If we can buy them off with citizenship, all to the good.

Polynesians are more likely to become good citizens than the middle easterners that Immigration seems obsessed with importing in massive numbers.

I think the BOM has been over cooking this ElNino since its inception.

Joe Bastardi yesterday:

Winter forecast (9 Nov)

The period from December 1, 2023, to December 1, 2024, could be one of the most impactful 366-day periods on record. I expect many El Niño-driven storms this year to plague the Gulf Coast and the East Coast, some of which are liable to be quite strong. Not only would that warrant concern about wind and tidal flooding on the coast, but heavy rain in the interior will also be a factor. The reversal of the El Niño to a La Niña for next year means a hurricane season from hell could be on the way, with the highest threat areas resembling a devious blend of 2005, 2017, 2020, and 2021.

This is not climate change; it is the natural ebb and flow of the weather. we had virtually no winter on the East Coast last year ( Jan-Feb and Dec were cold). Well, it’s the opposite look this year.

The UAH temperature number suggest a strong and sharp el Nino, like 1998. I haven’t seen data suggesting an immediate sharp la Nina after that, but Bastardi is no slouch. And the la Nina after 1998 el Nino was pretty deep.

Who knows though? The one thing I’d bet is that the climate-addled government agencies will be wrong. NOAA usually is diametrically wrong, it’s funny.

Reposted for excellence – an excerpt from mole’s heartwarming link at 4.01, and at the point after old love told her hubby she’d been playing away games:

I spent the flight home from Chicago in a state of barely repressed hysteria. It felt like a chasm had opened up in front of me and I was falling into it. He had timed that call well, inflicting maximum pain with no prospect of relief.

I tried calling and texting in the cab on the way home from Heathrow, but there was no reply. It was midday London time and I had no idea if he’d be in.

Ideally, he’d be ‘in’ someone else by then.

Absurdly, my bags were full of American goodies, including huge jars of peanut butter, and they weighed a ton.

It’s the details that sell a story.

The driver helped me drag them to the entrance of the mansion block, but I needed help to get them up the steep stairs to our flat. I rang the buzzer once, twice, several times more, in vain. Looking up into the large front windows, I saw one of the heavy curtains twitch. Yes, he was at home but he wasn’t answering the intercom.

The rotter.

I dragged the cases through the communal hall and up the stairs myself.

The patriarchy getting another run.

Does my ex ever wonder today — as Amanda does — whether he was too hasty with the locksmith? Too vengeful? I have no idea.

I have an idea.

All I know is that as soon as I realised the keys did not work, I pounded on that door, screaming ‘let me in, oh please let me in!’ and feeling sorry and sickened and furious. I kicked the door several times, shaking it on its hinges. I swore and pleaded and wept.

It will come as no surprise whatsoever to readers that the author of this self-serving exercise in self-pity is named Karen.

Did Dave Sharma completely miss the Abraham Accords in his potted history of Jewish-Arab detente ?

If labeling me an appeaser makes you feel all warm and fuzzy … go for it. I’m pleased I’ve been able to fill some kind of void for you.

Muddy, I always read and appreciate your comments.

But there comes a time when, as a civilized society, we need to push back against the evil forces of the likes of islam.

Being nice and polite doesn’t work when dealing with evil.

As much as I’d like to send all Year Zero (Greens) politicians and voters to Jabba the Hutt for his carbonite collection,

Recycle, repurpose, reuse!
Bantha fodder.

It will come as no surprise whatsoever to readers that the author of this self-serving exercise in self-pity is named Karen.

Bloke must have had a mate with him sharing a slab. Laughing at the bangs on the door. Maybe even had her best mate in the cot. Hahaha.

Interesting. Old, but worth looking at a hero of lefties.

Stephen J Gould, was full of it.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-stephen-j-gould

MSNBC are pushing a crazy b/s TDS and anti-conservative media mob called raw story.
This is the way the west ends.

“Queers for Palestine”
“Blacks for the KKK”
“Jews for the Nazis”

It’s all making sense now.

“Greens for Hitler”