Alright Dave.... he's a phony
Look closely
#220
So the anatomical feature with the hole isn't his ear. We get the rest.
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So the anatomical feature with the hole isn't his ear. We get the rest.
North Korean officials looking for medicines for Kim's obesity-related health problems, Seoul says
HYUNG-JIN KIM / Mon, July 29, 2024 at 7:06 AM EDTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has regained weight and is suffering from obesity-related health problems including high blood pressure and diabetes, and his officials are looking for new medicines abroad to treat them, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Monday.
The 40-year-old Kim, known for heavy drinking and smoking, comes from a family with a history of heart problems. Both his father and grandfather, who ruled North Korea before his 2011 inheritance of power, died of heart issues.
Some observers said Kim, who is about 170 centimeters (5 feet, 8 inches) tall and previously weighed 140 kilograms (308 pounds), appeared to have lost a large amount of weight in 2021, likely from changing his diet. But recent state media footage show he has regained the weight.
North Korean officials looking for medicines for Kim's obesity-related health problems, Seoul says
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has regained weight and is suffering from obesity-related health problems including high blood pressure and diabetes, and his officials are looking for new medicines abroad to treat them, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Monday. The 40-year-old Kim...
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Maybe he should revert to a 100% McDonalds diet - after all, it hasn't killed ....
- fine -
I'm still with the - guzzle a gallon of bleach - on that one.
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Vietnam War's My Lai Massacre leader Lt. William Calley dead at 80
Vietnam War's My Lai Massacre leader Lt. William Calley dead at 80 - UPI.com
Former Army Lt. William Calley Jr., 80, died of natural causes Sunday at a hospice center in Gainesville, Fla., decades after being convicted of leading the infamous My Lai Massacre.
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War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left. With an 8 billion population, and all the IQ wafting about the solar system, and the millennia of human accomplishment today is based on,
surely by now we should have found a better way.
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." sometimes attributed to Seneca the Younger (c.3 BCE - CE 65) *
In near total ignorance of the ostensible applicable Holy Scripture, I'll merely confess my ignorant skepticism. I hope OT doesn't actually defend this.
But if it does, does it also say who has to pay for dinner first?
* I know this quote is commonly attributed to Seneca, but it is mistakenly attributed to him. How do I know this? In Volume 1 of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", written by Edward Gibbon,he writes, "“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." making sense Administrator Rob W. Case https://makingsense.proboards.com/thread/720/young-boys-search-god
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Re #227 & #228 - the Nakba never really ended
A top hostage negotiator dismissed GOP concerns that the massive prisoner swap orchestrated last week will encourage Russian President Vladimir Putin to detain more Americans.
Roger Carstens, the special envoy for hostage affairs who was appointed by former President Trump in 2020, pushed back on the claims Monday, saying there was no precedent for that in his experience.
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Skinner explained both positive and negative reinforcement. "there was no precedent for that in his experience" ?!
Then his experience is monumentally limited.
There are millions of years of Earth history extending back to before the human race, demonstrating reward. Savannah predators loiter at the water hole, knowing thirsty prey animals will soon arrive. They may blunder into it the first time. It doesn't take long for the behavior to be reinforced, rewarded.
a) Sadly, Carstens is wrong.
b) It's immaterial. The alternative, to NOT negotiate the release of such hostages is not a viable option.
Roger Carstens, the special envoy for hostage affairs who was appointed by former President Trump in 2020, pushed back on the claims Monday, saying there was no precedent for that in his experience.
Trump-appointed hostage negotiator pushes back on GOP prisoner swap criticism
A top hostage negotiator dismissed GOP concerns that the massive prisoner swap orchestrated last week will encourage Russian President Vladimir Putin to detain more Americans. Roger Carstens, the special envoy for hostage affairs who was appointed by former President Trump in 2020, pushed back...
Skinner explained both positive and negative reinforcement. "there was no precedent for that in his experience" ?!
Then his experience is monumentally limited.
There are millions of years of Earth history extending back to before the human race, demonstrating reward. Savannah predators loiter at the water hole, knowing thirsty prey animals will soon arrive. They may blunder into it the first time. It doesn't take long for the behavior to be reinforced, rewarded.
a) Sadly, Carstens is wrong.
b) It's immaterial. The alternative, to NOT negotiate the release of such hostages is not a viable option.
‘I was freed in the prisoner swap – but I would have stayed in Russia if I could’
Nataliya VasilyevaSun, August 11, 2024 at 10:53 AM EDT
After spending two and a half months in solitary confinement, freedom was the last thing on Ilya Yashin’s mind when the prison chief dropped by his dingy cell at the IK-3 prison in western Russia last month. The prison official was ostensibly on a routine round of inmate visits and, while flicking through papers, asked in passing: “By the way, how come you have never written a plea for pardon?”
This is how the Russian government started preparing 16 prisoners, including Ilya Yashin, the Russian opposition politician, and Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter, ahead of a historic prisoner swap last week.
The rare deal between Russia and the West saw the release of three American citizens and a dozen Russians, from rank-and-file protesters to veteran opposition figures such as Yashin, who kept up his blistering criticism of Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine even in prison. The swap took place at Ankara Airport, in Turkey, and after his release, Yashin was sent to a military hospital in Koblenz, western Germany. After being discharged, he took the train to Berlin to meet friends.
Russian dissidents Vladimir Kara-Murza, Andrei Pivovarov and Ilya Yashin were all released to Germany - Leon Kuegeler/REUTERS
Today, when we meet in Berlin, Yashin, 41, dressed in a grey hoodie and brand new snow-white trainers, says “the first thing I thought about when I ended up in Ankara was, get a ticket and fly home to Russia” but FSB officers told him his potential return would put an end to any further prisoner swaps. He admits he has yet to adjust to opposing the Kremlin from exile, a role he had eschewed, saying that fighting for power from outside Russia was futile.
“I don’t know how to be a Russian politician in exile but I will have to learn,” Yashin, who still looks sickly pale, says.
‘I was freed in the prisoner swap – but I would have stayed in Russia if I could’
After spending two and a half months in solitary confinement, freedom was the last thing on Ilya Yashin’s mind when the prison chief dropped by his dingy cell at the IK-3 prison in western Russia last month. The prison official was ostensibly on a routine round of inmate visits and, while...
Stockholm Syndrome?
Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition or theory that tries to explain why hostages sometimes develop a psychological bond with their captors. It is supposed to result from a rather specific set of circumstances, namely the power imbalances contained in hostage-taking, kidnapping, and abusive relationships. Therefore, it is difficult to find a large number of people who experience Stockholm syndrome to conduct studies with any sort of validity or useful sample size. This makes it hard to determine trends in the development and effects of the condition, and in fact it is a "contested illness" due to doubts about the legitimacy of the condition.
Emotional bonds can possibly form between captors and captives, during intimate time together, but these are considered irrational by some in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims. Stockholm syndrome has never been included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the standard tool for diagnosis of psychiatric illnesses and disorders in the United States, mainly due to the lack of a consistent body of academic research. The syndrome is rare: according to data from the FBI, about 8% of hostage victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.
Stockholm syndrome is paradoxical because the sympathetic sentiments that captives feel towards their captors are the opposite of the fear and disdain which an onlooker might feel towards the captors.
There are four key components that characterize Stockholm syndrome:
- A hostage's development of positive feelings towards the captor.
- No previous relationship between hostage and captor.
- A refusal by hostages to cooperate with police and other government authorities.
- A hostage's belief in the humanity of the captor, ceasing to perceive them as a threat, when the victim holds the same values as the aggressor.
Are Republicans winning the $Federal $Spending jiu-jitsu match against Democrats?
For years political critics have oversimplified the partisan view of U.S. federal spending:
- For Democrats: tax and spend,
- for Republicans: borrow and spend.
Republicans may favor the federal spending issue during (re)election campaigns, but tend to use it as a tool for obstruction otherwise.
It's relatively simple.
As many credit card holders know, spending generally produces short-term gain, long-term pain. The benefits of spending manifest before the detriment, the pay-back.
The current net result of this continuing blame-game is in part:
Republicans discourage spending during Democrat administrations, leaving the more centrist-minded Democrats to cooperate with Republican spending priorities.
No?
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver on Friday the first policy-centered speech in her new role as Democratic presidential candidate, tackling ways to lower costs, a concern that routinely tops voters' lists.
Exclusive: Harris to detail plans to cut costs in key policy speech in North
For years political critics have oversimplified the partisan view of U.S. federal spending:
- For Democrats: tax and spend,
- for Republicans: borrow and spend.
Republicans may favor the federal spending issue during (re)election campaigns, but tend to use it as a tool for obstruction otherwise.
It's relatively simple.
As many credit card holders know, spending generally produces short-term gain, long-term pain. The benefits of spending manifest before the detriment, the pay-back.
The current net result of this continuing blame-game is in part:
Republicans discourage spending during Democrat administrations, leaving the more centrist-minded Democrats to cooperate with Republican spending priorities.
No?
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver on Friday the first policy-centered speech in her new role as Democratic presidential candidate, tackling ways to lower costs, a concern that routinely tops voters' lists.
Exclusive: Harris to detail plans to cut costs in key policy speech in North
Invasive foreign species Burmese pythons have infested Florida's Everglades.
Making python common table-fare might have helped stabilize Florida's python population. BUT !
Python hunter Bayo Hernandez prefers his snake ground up like hamburger meat with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. Another hunter fancies the slithering scourge of the Everglades in a stir fry or chili.
And there’s always celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s recipe for diced python in a lettuce wrap with shallots, pineapple, and jalapeno.
But the Florida Department of Health has recently established an advisory of “do not consume python” caught in the state no matter the snake size because of the risk of unhealthy mercury levels in its meat.
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Making python common table-fare might have helped stabilize Florida's python population. BUT !
Python challenge: Why state recommends not eating Florida pythons
Kimberly Miller, Palm Beach Post / Wed, August 14, 2024 at 10:32 PM EDTPython hunter Bayo Hernandez prefers his snake ground up like hamburger meat with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. Another hunter fancies the slithering scourge of the Everglades in a stir fry or chili.
And there’s always celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s recipe for diced python in a lettuce wrap with shallots, pineapple, and jalapeno.
But the Florida Department of Health has recently established an advisory of “do not consume python” caught in the state no matter the snake size because of the risk of unhealthy mercury levels in its meat.
Python challenge: Why state recommends not eating Florida pythons
A Florida python hunter prefers his snake ground up like hamburger with ketchup, mustard, and mayo, however state recommends NOT eating the slithering monster. Here's why.
Phil Donahue 88 forever:
By Clyde Haberman
Aug. 19, 2024Updated 10:39 a.m. ET
Phil Donahue, who in the 1960s reinvented the television talk show with a democratic flourish, inviting audiences to question his guests on topics as resolutely high-minded as human rights and international relations, and
as unblushingly lowbrow as male strippers and safe-sex orgies, died on Sunday at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He was 88.
His death was confirmed by Susan Arons, a representative of the family.
“The Phil Donahue Show” made its debut in 1967 on WLWD-TV in Dayton, Ohio, propelling Mr. Donahue on a 29-year syndicated run, much of it as the unchallenged king of daytime talk television.
Almost from the start, “The Phil Donahue Show” dispensed with familiar trappings. There was no opening monologue, no couch, no sidekick, no band — just the host and the guests, focused on a single topic.
At the time, audiences were expected to be seen and not heard, unless prompted to applaud. Mr. Donahue changed that. He quickly realized from chatting with audience members during commercial breaks that some of them asked sharper questions than he did. And so he began his practice ...
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You made your mark Mr. Donahue. fare well
By Clyde Haberman
Aug. 19, 2024Updated 10:39 a.m. ET
Phil Donahue, who in the 1960s reinvented the television talk show with a democratic flourish, inviting audiences to question his guests on topics as resolutely high-minded as human rights and international relations, and
as unblushingly lowbrow as male strippers and safe-sex orgies, died on Sunday at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He was 88.
His death was confirmed by Susan Arons, a representative of the family.
“The Phil Donahue Show” made its debut in 1967 on WLWD-TV in Dayton, Ohio, propelling Mr. Donahue on a 29-year syndicated run, much of it as the unchallenged king of daytime talk television.
Almost from the start, “The Phil Donahue Show” dispensed with familiar trappings. There was no opening monologue, no couch, no sidekick, no band — just the host and the guests, focused on a single topic.
At the time, audiences were expected to be seen and not heard, unless prompted to applaud. Mr. Donahue changed that. He quickly realized from chatting with audience members during commercial breaks that some of them asked sharper questions than he did. And so he began his practice ...
Phil Donahue, Talk Host Who Made Audiences Part of the Show, Dies at 88
Stalking the aisles, microphone in hand, he turned “The Phil Donahue Show” into a participation event, soliciting questions and comments on topics from human rights to orgies.
You made your mark Mr. Donahue. fare well
a) Politics·CNN
b) Politics·The Guardian
c)
Opinion
After stewing in Tim Walz’s “weird” label for several weeks, Donald Trump has finally cooked up a comeback: No, you.
“You know, he said we’re weird,” Trump told a small crowd in York, Pennsylvania, on Monday during an event that was supposed to focus on the economy. “That J.D. and I are weird. I think we’re extremely normal people.”
“We’re like you, we’re exactly like you,” the Epstein-socializing, family-separating, woman-hating, millionaire former reality TV star and convicted felon said about himself and his vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, who became the target of an online joke that he had screwed a couch.
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Exclusive: Conservative Republican endorses Harris, calls Trump a threat to democracy
Retired federal appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative legal scholar put on the bench by President George H.W. Bush, is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump, whose candidacy he describes as an existential threat to American democracy.b) Politics·The Guardian
Biden at the Democratic convention was unrecognisable from his disastrous debate
Biden’s voice was strong and clear, and the crowd was far warmer to him as an outgoing presidentc)
Opinion
Trump Insists He’s “Extremely Normal” During Incredibly Weird Speech
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / Mon, August 19, 2024 at 4:43 PM EDTAfter stewing in Tim Walz’s “weird” label for several weeks, Donald Trump has finally cooked up a comeback: No, you.
“You know, he said we’re weird,” Trump told a small crowd in York, Pennsylvania, on Monday during an event that was supposed to focus on the economy. “That J.D. and I are weird. I think we’re extremely normal people.”
“We’re like you, we’re exactly like you,” the Epstein-socializing, family-separating, woman-hating, millionaire former reality TV star and convicted felon said about himself and his vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, who became the target of an online joke that he had screwed a couch.
Trump Insists He’s “Extremely Normal” During Incredibly Weird Speech
Donald Trump still doesn’t have a comeback to Kamala Harris calling him weird.
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Don't forget dolphins ...
How many other celebrity Republicans will not vote for Trump, but keep it quiet to dodge the partisan blowback?
"I'm an extremely stable genius." President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump 19/05/23
J.D. ... ?!
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JD Vance ridiculed after dolphin-based social media post backfires
Editor's Note: This headline and story have been updated to reflect that there's no definitive proof Sen. J.D. Vance searched for "dolphin porn."Republican Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), a staunch ally of former president Donald Trump, was the subject of ridicule this weekend after attempting to...
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The obvious here is to snicker, & pretend superiority.
Mike Kinsley defines political gaffe as a politician telling the truth.
I've got enough sincere differences w/ Vance, to fiddle here. As long as Vance didn't dress the dolphin up in garters
the way Gene Wilder did in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask may not be so bad.
It may seem a lame argument, but I've learned a thing or two from attending some wild parties, & that includes some porn vids.
Is there a compelling reason we should abandon the "consenting adults" standard? It doesn't include non-humans?
It's OK to kill them and eat them, but not entertain them for the evening?
... BUT !
JD!
A sofa? Throwing cushion to the wind?