👆MAJOR TERRORIST!
Thursday, September 18, 2025
I just went out in the ANTIFAmobile. I even put the dome light on a la Tom Dewey. Nada. Now it was raining! Maybe that's PROFA's excuse, but I didn't even get shot at.
The rain was just an excuse for antipresbyterianism. I DEMAND A PRESBYTERIAN HOMELAND WHERE WE CAN BE UNSAFE!
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA SHALL BE PRESBYTERY!
Public Occurrences September 18, 2025
'Cataclysmic' situation in Gaza City, UN official says, as Israeli tanks advance
The situation in Gaza City is "nothing short of cataclysmic", a UN official has told the BBC, as Israeli tanks and troops continue to advance on the third day of a ground offensive.
Olga Cherevko, a spokeswoman for the UN's humanitarian office, said she had seen a constant stream of Palestinians heading south during a recent visit to the city, but that hundreds of thousands remained.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that overwhelmed hospitals were on the brink of collapse because it was being prevented from delivering lifesaving supplies.
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...the offensive on Gaza's biggest urban area, where one million people were living and a famine was confirmed last month, has drawn widespread international condemnation.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Public Occurrences September 16, 2025
UN Commission of Inquiry Israel Committing Genocide Full Report
Wow, Israel says, huh? Don't seem regretful about it.
Israel pummels Gaza City in new ground offensive as UN commission accuses it of genocide
GENEVA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu incited these acts - accusations that Israel called scandalous.The U.N. report, issued as Israel announced the start of a ground operation in Gaza City, cites examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to a scholars' association and rights groups that have reached the same conclusion.
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Egypt escalates its rhetoric against Israel
Egypt’s president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, described Israel as “an enemy” in a fiery speech at the Qatar summit Monday. It was the first time an Egyptian leader used the term since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1979, said Diaa Rashwan, head of Egypt’s State Information Service.
5:38 pm
Israeli Ground Invasion of Gaza Begins
On Assassinations
The dominant public occurrence in America this day continues to be the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Illinois-born, college dropout, Arizona-resident, anti-everything Trumpist.
Murder is illegal and immoral.
Assassination is a type of murder. It is illegal, particularly illegal, one might say, in that it is an "aggravating factor" or a "special circumstance", the language varies by state, justifying the state, key term that, state, in seeking the death penalty against the perp., in this instance Tyler Robinson.
Assassinations thus are different from other murders. They are different because it is not "just" one individual who is killed; to some people he is an instantiation of the state that they want and that state's values. In assassination, it is the dead person's political thought, speech and action that are killed along with his corporeal being. Therein lies the rub with our reactions to assassinations. To be 1,000,000% clear, all murder is illegal, assassination is a species of murder, ergo all assassination is illegal.
As all murders are not created equal, even more so all assassinations are not created equal. Is every assassination immoral as well as being illegal? Not an academic exercise. People are getting fired in academia over it. Do you agree with the dead guy's politics? Do you agree with the perp's? Those are not legally relevant to guilt or innocence but they are very relevant to our reactions to the assassination: How "wrong" was it? One man's savior is another man's oppressor.
Reinhard Heydrich, whom history has judged the darkest man in Nazi Germany next to Adolph Hitler, was assassinated by Czech partisans. To Hitler Heydrich was a martyr, the same word applied by Trump to Kirk. To Trump, there "were good people on both sides" in the American Nazi march in Charlottesville and the counter-protest in which a (presumably "good") American Nazi killed an anti-Nazi protester. The Nazi state hunted down Heydrich's assassins and killed them, as Trump's American state intends with Tyler Robinson (after trial and conviction of course (due process, you know)). For good measure, the German Nazi state razed two villages, their residents executed. In all, 5,000 Czechs were massacred in "chickens coming home to roost" (with extreme prejudice) justice. Heydrich was given an elaborate state funeral. Kirk's body was carried to Air Force Two by the state vice president and flown to his home state, Arizona, for burial. State flags were lowered to half staff in mourning of Kirk. Heydrich's death mask, considered the epitome of Nazi beauty and serenity in death, was used on a state commemorative stamp.
Tell the people of the Czech Republic that the assassination of Nazi "Protectorate" administrator Reinhard Heydrich was immoral. They celebrate it!
Tell the Czechs that the three perpetrators were not martyrs!
How about this? Remember this one?
Luigi "Pep" Mangione murdering United Health CEO Brian Thompson.
That was just a few months ago. It was called an assassination (e.g. "a brazen assassination", "I was deeply horrified by the assassination"). Trump's reaction was to again call for the death penalty. The reaction of many other people, however, including physicians and the undersigned, all but celebrated (inter alia, "UnitedHealthcare’s own bereavement message online was cruelly mocked by 77,000 laughing response posts") the killing, characterizing it as "misdemeanor murder" or "shooting into occupied clothing", and cheered Mangione's audacity and his temporary successful flight from arrest (all me). And guess what? Just today, and just as I was researching for this post, the trial judge DISMISSED first degree murder and terrorism charges against Mangione. The highest degree murder charge he can now be convicted of is second degree murder (not exactly "misdemeanor murder" but a FAR piece away from first and the DP.) My reactions to Thompson's killing were wrong. Full stop.
The points are two-fold: 1) We can separate emotional our emotional reaction and our ability at dispassionate legal analysis. 2) What we feel about assassinations depends on whose ox is gored or whose neck punctured.
Reinhard Heydrich was pro-fascist, Brian Thompson was corporate amoral, putting money over people's lives and health (Fittingly, he died at a hospital to which he had just denied payments.); Charlie Kirk was pro-fascist, the Czech people were anti-fascist. I am anti-fascist. I condemn Heydrich. I guess I celebrate his assassins, but 5,000 for one doesn't seem much to celebrate on a practical, i.e. non-emotional level. I do not condemn the Czech people for celebrating the assassination of their oppressor; Since Thompson's killing was not an assassination, is not even now a first degree murder, I don't grant the same leeway to differences between emotional and intellectual response. I don't celebrate it. I do condemn it. I do condemn Luigi Mangione. I would with free conscience prosecute or defend the case. I do not celebrate Kirk's assassination (as it stands now); He wasn't Heydrich. I'm not going to be attending any "Free Tyler" demos. I could prosecute and defend Robinson easily. We can separate emotion and intellect. So don't tell me I have to mourn Heydrich or Thompson or Kirk. I can't and I won't.
Can we just say that we would do our duty as jurors? Can we grant ourselves the grace to either mourn the loss to violent death of one who to us was the extinguishment of a point of light in humanity; or conversely to feel that the heavens did not darken with someone's killing and move the fuck on?
Monday, September 15, 2025
Public Occurrences September 15, 2025
President Donald Trump later told reporters at the White House that he would consider conferring the designation of domestic terrorist organization on Antifa, the loosely affiliated anti-fascism activists that he has used as a catch-all to describe left-wing protesters and activity.
It's unbelievable. We have to be PRO-fascist or we're terrorists. I may NOT make it out of the next 3 years 4 months!😂
One of my best friends has had a rough 2025. He had to switch jobs, and both he and his wife have been in the hospital. He texted me last night:
"Good night
Has been an awful week
Awful since 1-21
"But I am going to slow down and focus on the good in my life which is filled with good things and not focus on other stuff"
I didn't know what the date ref was at first--the date a new boss, who had mutual loathing for one another, took charge? Then it hit me. It has been less than 8 months of Trump II. It seems like YEARS.
Sometimes first impressions are truer than when you have time to think and rationalize them and my first thought-feeling was "I don't know if I can take 3 yrs 4 mos more."
Background: I love kids, always have. I goof on them, give them nicknames. When my girl child was young, I infrequently took the similar-age daughter of one of my (second) ex-wife's friends into the school the kids went to. Emma Acker. I nicknamed her "Your Eminence."
Me to (second) ex-Mrs. Harris, 7:39 am today:
you don't have emma acker's email do you? i want to hit her with a "Hello Your Eminence" out of the blue after 25 yrs. you must have sarah's, could you text me that?
The Second Unfortunate did and I thanked her.
👏 i can't wait. i can picture the look of confusion, shock, and then delight on emma's face😂
I then texted Emma at 9:09,
Hello Your Eminence.
-Benjamin Harris
Called it!
Holy SHIT
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
!!!!!!!
Me:
🤣
That was everything that I expected:
Emma:
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Man from Pluto
Coming into the season,
One of my goals for the Browns was for them to be “watchable.”
One of my goals for the Browns was for them to be “watchable.”
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Concussions Are Us FTs
Steel Taffy 17 Starbucks 31
Black Birds 41 Brown Turds 17
HAPPY ART MODELL DAY BALTIMORE!
Minnows 27 N.E. 33
MCDC 52 Midgets of the Midway 21
Fast Planes 10 Bulls 30
That's five concussed franchises there: Pittsburgh, Victimland, Miami, Chi., NYJ.
HT Stillers 14 Starbucks 7
Right before half, barista Sam Darnold was INT'd (his 2nd) at his 21. It took SIX plays but Aaron Rodgers finally was able to get the TD on a tyoo-yard pass.
HT Black Birds 10 Brown Turds 2.
Miami 17 N.E. 15, 10:41 3rd.
Miami 0 New England 12, End 1Q
Four FGs for "Patriots"? Uh, no. Tyoo missed extra-points after touchdowns.
Elsewhere, Balteemore leads Victimland 3-0, 1:26 1Q.
And on a lonely field beyond Fort Pitt, Seattle is up 7-6 on the "Steelers" at the end of the first segment. (Steel did not miss a PAT. Two FGs.)
Manchester City 3 Manchester Unitard 0, 69'
Phil Foden in the 18'.
Erling in the 53rd and 68th.
Might this destruction cause Ruben Amorim to quit?
Erling Haaland has destroyed Manchester United
GOAL! Man City 3-0 Man Utd (Haaland 68)
Maaaaagnificent!
55 min: Haaland hits the post!
GOAL! Man City 2-0 Man Utd (Haaland 53)
Erling Haaland’s superb performance is rewarded!
University of Miami Doctor Fired for Post on Israeli Palestinian Genocide and Trumpist Assassination*
*I have altered this post with lede since original posting 9/14/25, 12:47 pm. In place of terming Dr. Michelle Bravo's firing "justified" I write that the firing was in the judgment of the institution to make and they made it. I did not characterize it further.
"What was done to Charlie Kirk has been done to countless Palestinian babies, children, girls, boys, women and men not just over the past two years of the ongoing genocide, but decades. And whenever it happened, and it’s on camera and we all saw it, Charlie Kirk came out to say: ‘I love this, I want more of this. The people who did this are great and I love them and they should keep doing it forever.’ As Malcom said, the chickens have come home to roost.”
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The Instagram account @stop_antisemitism posted about Dr. Bravo’s statement on X, screenshotting it and including an image of her UHealth profile. Dr. Bravo’s profile has already been removed from UHealth’s website and appears as unavailable.
At the time of publication, the post on @stop_antisemitism has more than 6,500 likes and almost 1,000 comments.
One user cited that the post is especially concerning given the large Jewish population in Miami. User @beatrizshafran also noted that the Miller School of Medicine was named after a Jewish family.
Then I'm an antisemite. Wow, I didn't realize. I thank @stop_antisemitism for showing me the light. In the interest of transparency, should I just go ahead and order an ANTISEMITE bumpersticker to match my ANTIFA?
@stop_antisemitism is creating a radicalizing, socio-politico analog to Newton's "equal and opposite" Third Law of Motion. Chickens do roost, but intelligent humans don't. Two wrongs do not make a right, in the patois. This Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip are war crimes and genocide. It is the defining issue of our time. This America's support for This Israel's actions there is the defining issue of Americans' time. To support it in the words that Dr. Bravo attributes to him, makes Kirk pro-Netanyahu, pro-genocide and pro-war crimes, aside from being on the record as an antisemite. Unless one shares those incommensurate views I do not see how Kirk's murder can be mourned. That is not the equivalent of minimizing murder as "he had it coming to him". No, Kirk didn't have it coming to him and his views cannot be used by Tyler Robinson in his trial for Kirk's murder. That is not only the law, but it is moral law.
Intentionally or not, in writing "chickens have come home to roost", Dr. Bravo, and her source, the unidentified "Malcom" (A colleague? Malcolm X?) used coded, not legally recognized, and amoral language. Eighteen years ago, another academic, Ward Churchill, was fired by his university for authoring a 2001, i.e. post-9/11, essay "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens", in which Churchill, a faux Native American wannabe, characterized the victims of 9/11 as "little Eichmanns". As I remember, somehow in Churchill's mind, white Americans' 19th century wars against Native Americans being genocide (a much-disputed assertion), those actions were linked inextricably in a straight, unbroken line leading directly to Islam's attacks on the World Trade Center in the 21st century. (?) Whether the University of Colorado accepted Churchill's starting position, it found many broken links in the chain from then to 9/11 and fired him after hearing. Dr. Bravo's chain is much less attenuated but no matter, the amorality of two wrongs don't make a right stands unbroken. It was the University of Miami School of Medicine's judgment to make on Dr. Bravo and they made it.
As to @stop_antisemitism, the logic employed is pathognomonic for a bone in the brain, of right-wing Wokeism, of a censoring Witch Hunt, of pro-Netanyahu-ism, pro-fascism, pro-genocide, pro-war crime, of a paranoid, nihilistic masochistic Jewish state of mind. I am not going to put an ANTISEMITE bumpersticker on my car; I'm not going to turn on American Jews (those at @stop_antisemitism however are on my shit list). I am anti-THIS Israel, anti-THIS America, and was anti-Kirk. However, in consideration of all of the foregoing, I will not defend against the logical conclusion of @stop_antisemitism that I am an antisemite. It is good to have enemies.
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