Category Archives: Commentary

Shameful and real

Because “Freedom” is not free…. Hmmm. what would Jesus do? Oops!! That’s right!! I remember: Matt 21:12-13 12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned … Continue reading

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File under “Wow!” and “Holly Shit!”

Simply amazing. Harold Pinter – Nobel Lecture Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video December 7, 2005, in B

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Slaves with a return address…

The sad part is that they’ll still cross the border and try to make a decent living, even if they are used and discarded like disposable gloves. Very, very few make it in a first generation try. It is though, … Continue reading

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Falling justice…

Well, talk about neat metaphors… Pieces of marble fall from Court facade WASHINGTON — A basketball-sized piece of marble molding fell from the facade over the entrance to the Supreme Court Monday, landing on the steps near visitors waiting to … Continue reading

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Watch that space…

If this pans out, and it usually is the case with things I read at Debka, it will be the sad opening of yet another front in a war that will swallow the Mid-East… Sad day, indeed. DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, … Continue reading

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Well, that’s one way…

…to deal with opposing opinions… It would have certainly helped revamp pro-American sentiment in the region… Yo,!! yes you, the other half of the country that voted for this “….” (fill in the blank), where did you find him? Are … Continue reading

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Unclassified, unclassifiable…

Now, as a hypocrisy corollary of what I wrote below on mind-altering drugs, take a look at this “invention”… Huh?!?! So, you mean that a device that can make you a mindless, order-following-killing-machine drone is OK if it has, ahem!, … Continue reading

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Timothy Leary revisited…

Is it a “Rock on!!” in good order? I think so, but, let me qualify that: I’m, completely, against drugs that create dependency. That’s misery for anybody who is hooked on them. However, there are many ethnobotanical substances that are … Continue reading

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Red phones; Direct lines; God’s Fast-track

If I was religious, and for religious I mean dogmatic, churchgoing, smiling-backpatting-backstabber-handshaker, you know, one of those that give lip service to God while attending a social club with tax exemptions, and/or make a business of that lip service, I … Continue reading

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Semantics, V2.0

A rose, by any other name, is still a rose… Right? And here we go back to the issue of “intent”. For the maker of this software the product is just a long–and marketable–spaghetti of code. The weight of “intent” … Continue reading

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