AIPAC: American Israeli Propaganda and Cash

As of 2025 AIPAC reports more than 5 million members in the U.S.,[19][20] 17 regional offices, and "a vast pool of donors".AIPAC was founded in 1954 by Isaiah L. Kenen, a lobbyist for the Israeli government,[21][16] partly to counter international criticism of Israel's Qibya massacre of Palestinian villagers that year.                        |

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                                                                        |__The Qibya massacre occurred during Operation Shoshana, an Israeli reprisal operation that occurred in October 1953, when IDF's Unit 101 led by future Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank, which was then under Jordanian control, and killed more than 69 Palestinian civilians, two-thirds of whom were women and children.[1][2][3]

Forty-five houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed.[4] Ariel Sharon wrote in his diary that "Qibya was to be an example for everyone," and that he ordered "maximal killing and damage to property". Post-operational reports speak of breaking into houses and clearing them with grenades and shooting.[5]

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The massacre was condemned by the U.S. State Department, the UN Security Council, and by Jewish communities worldwide.[7] The State Department described the raid as "shocking" and used the occasion to confirm publicly that economic aid to Israel had been suspended previously, for other non-compliance regarding the 1949 Armistice Agreements.

...reporting has found that AIPAC's political spending has often supported efforts against candidates—mostly Democrats—considered "insufficiently supportive" of Israel. In the lead-up to the 2024 elections, The Guardian reported that AIPAC had recruited and supported challengers to candidates who had been critical of Israel's actions in the Gaza war.[16] AIPAC has also been criticized as unrepresentative of the diversity of views among American Jews who support Israel, and for aligning closely with policies of right-wing Israeli governments.[17][18]

AIPAC was founded by an American agent of Israel to counter criticism of an Israeli "reprisal" massacre. It has supported Israeli terrorism since. It is a Fifth Column except that it is not secret; it funds terrorism, but cannot be formally labeled a terrorist organization because it is not considered to be foreign. It may not be a domestic terrorism organization, but if it met the criteria, no federal statute makes "domestic terrorism" a crime. 

There have to be legal mechanisms, e.g. law suits as against the NRA, that can shut down AIPAC.

White House Felon's Mind: 70% on Monuments to Himself

Estimate by Maggie Haberman, nytimes, to colleague Ezra Klein. The 70% solution

Posted that previously. Just hard to believe and worth repeating.

Public Occurrences August 11, 2026

Trump hid in catering truck in secret plane swap over Iran threat

😂

 I just received this spam text message...from BRITISH COLUMBINA!

Swine.

This is my day so far. I wake up and the most beautiful creature I ever saw writhes in excitement and scrambles out of her cat bed to run and greet me.

In a few minutes I will call my perfect daughter-in-law and will begin study with her an hour later.

Life's pretty good for the Barnesboro boy on Miami Beach.

A friend has asked me to canvass Publoccians on which is the scariest photo of Eleven:

Okay, he's going to win this. Email me at publocc@gmail.com if you'd like your vote (anonymous) to count.

 

10,000,000. Overwhelming. 🫶

Public Occurrences August 10, 2026

111 Now Dead in Columbia

1:57 pm:

73 People Dead in Earthquake in Columbia 

🎵I know that painting; I know that painting🎵

Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure Guardian

The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1510, Hieronymus Bosch.

Hemingway saw the painting in the Prado and his decadent mind was enraptured. The experience led directly to his decadent (and best) (unfinished) novel The Garden of Eden.

Among the bites of the forbidden fruit in Bosch's fantasies are several that strongly imply interracial sex. I've snipped several that I saw in brief examination:

That was the 15th-16th century, practically modern compared to 79 AD. That was the year that Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii. Destroyed and preserved evidence of the life that the ancient Pompeiians lived. Yet, there too.

I imagine that in the age of exploration, Europeans would have had knowledge and contact with the exotic people of Africa. But in the first century?

Unlike Bosch, the Pompeiian frescoes were not fantasy. This was real life.

I mean there are a lot.

There are a lot of depictions of explicit interracial sex--during a time when I would have expected none. I am not a historian and may be making assumptions regarding travel capabilities that are not warranted. But I am not making assumptions about the sexual practices of ancient Pompeiians. My eyes do not deceive me.

When Eleven is in heat, there are several complications caused me. 

• One, I have to wear my heavy Eleven body armor shirt against her claws. 
• Two, I am made uneasy by the proximity of Eleven's razor-sharp hind claws to my carotid artery and button the heavy shirt at the neck to guard against puncture and Charlie Kirk Syndrome.
• Three, a cat's normal body temperature is 100.4-102.5. 
• Fo', it is mid-August in Miami. 
• Five, I sweat blinking my eyes. 
• Six, Eleven in heat perched on my shoulders is deleterious to my performance on USMLE (30% Friday!).

Seems like the White House Felon's coattails have gotten short

Trump-backed candidate in battleground Michigan district loses to opponent who dropped out

Amir Hassan lost to Tom Smith, who had suspended his campaign but is now jumping back into the race for the purple 8th District.

Poly

The Toilet Nation was built on the backs of African slaves. The greatest slave trader was James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island. DeWolf became a U.S. senator. When he died he was the second-richest man in America. A nation cannot outrun that legacy. Neither can a family. The DeWolf's have their own cemetery in Bristol. James DeWolf's burial mound has been vandalized so many times that there is now a heavy steel plate at the entrance. I went to the cemetery on a visit to see my daughter some years ago. I took this photo of the headstone of another DeWolf slaver descendant.

Public Occurrences August 9, 2026

Israel Rejects Trump's 15-Point Gaza Peace Plan

Have a peaceful night's sleep, hear?

Public Occurrences August 8, 2026

                     Third World Nation

As Blanche’s path to confirmation is cleared, Trump’s tax audit immunity remains in place

AP

4:03 pm:

Statement issued by the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad-Bagher Zolghadr

There are six explicit conditions required from the United States for Iran to alter its current position and consider reopening the strategic waterway:

• End all threats: Stop threatening Iran and insulting the religious beliefs and sacred values of the Iranian people. 
• Halt regional aggression: Permanently end all military actions and wars against Iran and its regional allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq.
• Lift the blockade: Remove the naval blockade of Iranian ports and completely withdraw all U.S. naval and air forces from the region surrounding Iran.
• Pay war damages: Provide full financial compensation to Tehran for damages resulting from what he described as two aggressive wars imposed on Iran. Remove economic restrictions: Lift all U.S. sanctions targeting Iran.
• Remove economic restrictions: Lift all U.S. sanctions targeting Iran.
• Release blocked capital: Unconditionally release all frozen and seized Iranian assets globally.

T'ain't happenin', Mo Zo! You want endless war. I very, very much doubt you can win a full-scale war against the U.S.

8:43 am:

"Iran is going after the enemy’s defeat — not an agreement.”

-Mahdi Mohammadi, Iranian national security analyst and advisor to the chief negotiator with the U.S.

GOOD SATURDAY MORNING PUBLOCCIANS! I ❤️ YOU!

Eleven can look so strange. In the last photo, malevolent, bat-like, her eyes so strange, two different colors, and up there next to the gaping mouth of the shower head like a bat gargoyle. In the photo before, the question-mark tail that she has always had.

I think I can explain the bat-gargoyle photo. I tried to get her with the lights out but the phone said turn on flash so I did, but I then turned the bathroom lights on and snapped the photo. I'm not positive but I don't think I turned the flash off. I'm pretty sure that's the camera flash off the shower head. Maybe the flash caused her right eye to appear yellow? Her eyes are green. Maybe her left eye is picking up some of the green in the towel causing her eye to look more green? Idk, but lordy, lordy, that is still a strange photo.

In the previous photo I don't think the question-mark tail has ever been that prominent. And I just didn't happen to catch the tail in one photo, I took five or six others in rapid succession. She just woke up and is stretching, she's not arching her back in anger. 

Eleven is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. I mean that, and lord knows I have posted dozens, maybe hundreds of photos where she looks as angelic as she is live. ...But not those. Those are two strange, chilling photos.

Normal

 

👀

It's Friday Night...

 

Public Occurrences August 7, 2026

U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO’s Resolve With Limited Incursion

New assessment updates past forecasts that Russia’s leader wouldn’t provoke the alliance during the Ukraine war

The assessments, described by U.S. officials, come amid a shortfall in certain critical munitions that the military would need to confront Russia or China in a potential future war. The U.S. has severely degraded its stockpile of these weapons because of transfers to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, as well as the U.S. conflict with Iran. 

Wally

3:30 pm:

U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, delivering political setback to Trump

Wally, AP

Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself

BBC

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10:40 am:

Trump won't drop war, tariffs or monuments to save the GOP

😂

Him. Only him. Doesn't care about country. Only himself.

Even some longtime insiders fear he's trapped by a war he shouldn't have waged, tariffs he shouldn't have levied, monuments he shouldn't be obsessed with.

These three topics chew up much of Trump's time and attention. All three are widely unpopular in polls.

And it's almost impossible to see the public suddenly warming to war, tariffs or more statues.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman estimates 70% of the president's mindshare goes to renovations and monuments. "It's a legacy thing," she told her colleague Ezra Klein.

Axios

"Dad you are making far too many movements on the bed."

Miami Beach Occurrences

 

Golf-cart traffic stop deepens beef between Miami Beach police, city commissioner🙄

Two hours of good sleep beats a night of tossing and turning anytime.

"And of course, we are Yankees"

Today is the first time I have ever seen this photo. It is also the oldest photo of a member of my family that I have ever seen.

That is a man of evident prosperity, well-earned pride, with an intelligent face that promises covert humor and great benignity. That is Peter Garman, my great-great-grandfather, and my son's namesake, in 1900 when he was 78 years old.

Peter's granddaughter, my maternal grandmother*, and great-granddaughter, my mother, were also namesakes. And then there is the eponymous Garmantown, formerly the village of Garman, originally Garman's Mills. 

Circa 1940, with identifying turret top from the hill above the road leading into Garmantown. 

Same angle from the Sulfur Creek, aka the Shit Creek (acid mine drainage).

                                 The mill in 2013

    The inviting road leading into Garmantown in 2010

Across the street from the mill was the family homestead which lodged employees at the mill and had a dining table that seated twenty-two. The Garman House also hid runaway slaves as a "documented stop on the Underground Railroad." 

Peter and another man owned all of the land that became Northern Cambria, originally Barnesboro (named for the co-founder of the Barnes and Tucker Coal Mine), my hometown. Peter had another home, a large brick house where he retired, in Indiana, Pennsylvania. That structure also still stands and has for many years been an administrative building of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Peter died at age 87 in 1909. Obituary "from The Indiana Democrat of March 10, 1909 (page 1)":

Peter Garman, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of this county died at his residence in this place Wednesday evening, March 3, 1909, aged 87 years...

The deceased was born and reared at Chambersburg, Franklin county. Later he moved to Garman's Mills, on the west branch of the Susquehanna river and in Cambria county just across the line, where he engaged extensively in the lumber business. He retired from the lumber business in 1881 and moved to Indiana (county), where he has since lived a quiet and useful life keeping in close touch with church and business circles. Mr. Garman was married August 14, 1845, to Lucinda Dunkle [or Dunckle], and after her death to Carolyn W. Bracken [sic, Caroline] (note - abt 1861)...All the children with the exception of Mrs. Kirdendall [Spokane, Washington] , attended the funeral which was held at the Garman home, Friday afternoon, with the interment following in Greenwood cemetery.

Peter Garman died as he lived, in honored prosperity. Greenwood Cemetery: "The cemetery’s design and layout were the work of a professional gardener from London whose plan featured lots and sections arranged in unique shapes with wide, graceful driveways."

It does have the look of an English cemetery.

Peter Garman was the greatest man on my mother's side of the family. The name Garman is scattered throughout the generations and Peter Garman's legacy still is present in tangible form in the area where he settled. It is thus strange that I never was taken to, never visited, or even knew where the Garmans were buried.

*In 1971 "Gram", as we called her, wrote a family history. One line in particular on the Garman family's origins has always tickled me:

"The Garman family came from around the Dutch border of Germany and in Ireland there is a Loch Garman indicating that the name was common there. This gives us a Dutch-German-Irish descent, and, of course, we are Yankees."

The guy's got game

Abdul El-Swiftie

USMLE Today

I suck :(. 20%. Dr. Ana is always in sync with her fellow PROFESSIONAL medical students. I am always in sync with random dart throwing. BOO HOO HOO :)

We had a question today that only 12% of real medical students answered correctly, by far the fewest of the thousands of questions Dr. Ana and I have had in these over two and one-half years. There is no teaching moment in a question like that, it is just designed to lower students' scores. Bullshit question.

 

The motherfucker's half asleep. Camp David, July 26.

Do you know what my name would have been had I been a girl? TONI! Frigging TONI!! I would have committed PARRICIDE if I had been a "TONI". What was my middle name going to be, huh? Can't use Franklin. Henrietta, my grandmother's middle name? Can you imagine going through life as Toni Henrietta Harris? My initials would have been a stutter, THH. That's child abuse. 

I don't know where they got Benjamin, I never did know, unless once they settled on my middle name (Franklin was my doctor Uncle Harry's middle name) they just decided in for a dime in for a dollar.

I think I have repressed trauma from "Toni". 

Cat Bath

 

Kitties is soo silly.