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Hezbollah: We, ah, Need to Reduce the Numbers of Martyrs We're Producing [...] Reuters reports that Hezbollah has lost so many soldiers already that they're beginning to talk about dialing down the martyrdom a bit [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/10/31/hezbollah-we-ah-need-to-reduce-the-numbers-of-martyrs-were-producing-n588949

And, one hopes, his birthday suit. I used to have a devil of a time finding shirts in stores. Men's sleeves typically come in 34"-35" and then 37"-38", and I'm an exact 36". I probably have close to 200 shirts, and something like 90% came from resale shops or estate sales. I also have more than 200 ties, and if I paid more than $4 apiece for most of them, I'd be surprised. Absolute gems available resale/estate sale. Another mystery is men's underwear sizes: 36"-38" or 40"-42". Why not 38"-40"? A real cop-out is shirts (and underwear) labeled "XL" or "XXL" -- what does that mean? Give precise measurements. Even worse are boys' sizes -- M, L, XL are all over the place in actual size. Agreed, si Y ma'am.

Step aside Hillary, Joe Biden may become king of email scandals as new stash alarms investigators The National Archives' stunning admission that it has located 82,000 pages of potentially government-related emails from Joe Biden's pseudonymous private accounts not only threatens to supplant Hillary Clinton in the annals of email scandals, it could also provide a boon to the ongoing federal and congressional investigations into the Biden family. [...] https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/step-aside-hillary-joe-biden-may-become-king-email-scandals-new

Yes, a cool video and story, but we must remember that that there are rats in the first place. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NYC subway rat shares donut with nearby rodent friend In a TikTok video taken by Carly Hittner, a Manhattan rat is seen grabbing a donut from the subway tracks and sharing it with a rodent friend. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-subway-rat-shares-donut-124725670.html

NYC exterminators' new weapon has eliminated nearly 100% of rats from over 100 burrows — and they already have their next targets mapped out New York City officials have found a new way to kill rats that's so effective an entire population on an Upper East Side street has been all but exterminated. Councilmember Julie Menin told Gothamist the method has successfully eliminated over 100 rat burrows on a section of East 86th Street since the effort was launched last year. The strategy involves [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-exterminators-weapon-eliminated-nearly-010312061.html

Perceptive comments as always, Y ma'am. I have something like 19 suits, and either 13 or 14 came from estate sales or thrift shops. Some fit me off the metaphorical rack, and others needed only minor alterations. Many are 4-button suits by the big names. I can't recall having paid more than $20 for a suit for years -- it's usually been far less -- and I kick myself for having bought retail for so many years prior.

Halloween (Tuesday, Manytober Many'st) would have been ex-Mrs.-T-B.'s and our Many'th ([2x2x2x2 -1]th) anniversary, sigh or whee man. We shall spend it in coordinated team activity, with ex-Mrs.-T-B. tailing Mini-B. + amigos as they trick-or-treat, and with us handing out mini-Hershey bars (without almonds) to whatever neighborhood offspring show up at the casa, si man. Between visits, we shall eat what is to be handed out, opportunistic we man.

Zombie Wandering Capitol Hill In Search Of Brains Starves To Death WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to first responders, a member of the undead community has starved to death after lumbering around Capitol Hill in search of brains for several weeks and finding none. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/zombie-wandering-capitol-hill-in-search-of-brains-starves-to-death

Capitol Trick-Or-Treater Dressed As Zelensky Receives $40 Billion In Candy [...] "Jackpot! I knew this costume would pay off big time!" shouted young Tommy Billington after being notified of his candy haul. "All my friends thought I was stupid for dressing up like that Zelensky guy who is always on the news, but now they look like the stupid ones. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/capitol-trick-or-treater-dressed-as-zelensky-receives-40-billion-in-candy

McDonald's Now Offering 36-Month, 0% Interest Financing On All Value Meals [...] "We know how hard it can be to feed a family in a McDonald's drive-thru these days on a middle-class budget," said CEO Chris Kempczinski. "We hope our simple financing plan provides much-needed relief to people trying to afford our $200 value meals that we sell to pay the six-figure salaries of our employees in a time of runaway inflation." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/mcdonalds-now-offering-36-month-0-interest-financing-on-all-value-meals

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ White House Accidentally Hands Out Plastic Baggies Of Cocaine To Trick-Or-Treaters [...] According to sources, the President and First Lady accidentally handed out fresh-cut bags of cocaine to trick-or-treaters at the South Lawn of the White House instead of candy, endangering both children and poll numbers. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/white-house-accidentally-hands-out-plastic-baggies-of-cocaine-to-trick-or-treaters

'I Wouldn't Have Gone Along With The Nazis In 1939,' Says College Student At 'Kill The Jews' Rally CAMBRIDGE, MA — A local university student expressed her own tremendous virtue by proudly announcing she would never have gone along with the rise of the Nazi party in Germany as she walked across campus to attend a "Kill the Jews" rally taking place on the Quad. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/i-wouldnt-have-gone-along-with-the-nazis-in-1939-says-college-student-at-kill-the-jews-rally

Experiences? Parties? Number of trick-or-treaters? Describe them here.

Hoorah! Congratulations! You must feel wonderful, and deservedly so.

Thrilling Monday report, see man: Colder than an illegitimate male child outside, Texas weather not Many man. We, in our usual diminished morning capacity, had to roust Mini-B. into action, shoot us now man. Of course, he left one skool bag in the T-B.-mobile, and man. Two coffees didn't help us, beyond help we man. We went back to bed for an hour's nap, zzz we man. Several frantic errands, mostly on behalf of Mama T-B., needful senior she man. Lunch (after 2 p.m.) was a hot roast beef sandwich + potato salad*, ingest we man. *at Mama T-B.'s complex, courtesy of Mama T-B.'s leftover monthly meal funds, whee man Made deliveries to Mama T-B. and got lectured about the Usual Topics, and man. We lay down for a half-hour doze before skool pick-up, exhausted we man. Of course, a phone call came in precisely halfway through, voicemail it we man. Mini-B. in fairly good mood after Robotics extra class, congenial wee man. Din-din was breaded chicken fingers in honey-mustard + nuked corn, ingest Two Guys man. Mini-B. kept delaying checking for hoamwurk, reluctant wee man. When he finally did, we found a History thing due by midnight, man. Mini-B. spent 2 hours + half an hour diddling with this 2-page thing, man. We somehow got him to bed only half an hour later than "latest optimal," proficient we man getting wee man to zzz man man. We are certain that a needy miu will keep or wake us up, throw up hands we man re miu man man. Aside from the sleepy stress, not a bad day, we guess, guess we man.

This can be a discussion-worthy article. Read the comments below it, as a start to ours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What the fall of men's clothing stores says about America https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/what_the_fall_of_mens_clothing_stores_says_about_america.html

Hmm. Thoughts? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How to Defeat Hamas Fast, Cheap and Easy https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/how_to_defeat_hamas_fast_cheap_and_easy.html

Israeli Security Forces Announce They Freed Soldier Held Hostage in Gaza in Overnight Operation Finally, some good news coming out of the Middle East—Israel's security forces on Monday announced that they'd free a soldier who had been held hostage by Hamas since their October 7 terror attacks. The Israeli Defense Forces said the soldier, Pvt. Ori Megidish, was rescued in an overnight information in Gaza, but they did not provide further details. [...] https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/10/30/israeli-security-forces-announce-they-freed-hostage-from-gaza-in-overnight-operation-n2165726

Biden Can't Even Hand Out Halloween Candy Without Problems Arising https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/30/biden-cant-even-hand-out-halloween-candy-without-problems-arising-n2165723

Interesting. Comments? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dirty Jill [...] The reasonable criticism goes that any person who pushes their mentally incapable husband to become president is naturally a bad person committing an act of elder abuse, but Jill Biden's happy warrior-like smiles may hide something even more sinister. Could Jillary be the force behind the so-called Biden Crime Family? [...] https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2023/10/30/jillary-n4923456

This addresses itself to several of Boiler's observations, generally and specifically. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm Struggling to Find My Empathy https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/10/30/im-struggling-to-find-my-empathy-n588565

Thread is locked at OP's indication.

It's too glorious to hold back on. The clowns are showing an unbelievable combination of open glee and lack of self-restraint. Maybe the IDF was getting its ducks in a row, coupled with some hesitation born of astonishment at the reaction noted above. The massacre was precisely the excuse that these clowns were looking for. It's part of Hamas' P.R. strategy, which the media have readily fallen for. Perhaps same as above. Is there even a power plant, if Israel supplies the electricity? Perhaps again sensitivity to world reaction. As several cited authors have stated, Egypt despises Hamas and its supporters, too. Progressives perhaps view things as purely political and of an oppressor/oppressed nature. The Jews in support of it have Leftism, not Judaism, as their religion. If it's the same incident, I read a story about it just tonight. Will try to find it. Jews worldwide are going to live in conscious fear for a very long time.

What do we think about the suggestions in the final 2 paragraphs? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cornell University Jewish Center Receives Death Threats https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/10/30/cornell-university-jewish-center-receives-death-threats-n588646

This needs readin'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pogroms are back. Did you know that Jews make up only 0.2% of the world's population? One-fifth of 1%. Statistically speaking the Jewish population is only a rounding error. And if many people get their way, Jews will be rounded up and then rounded down to 0%. [...] https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/10/30/pogroms-are-back-n588605