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Friday ES report, see man: We got a very late start (q.v. Thrilling Friday non-ES report later tonight, q.v. man), si man. We attended the Many (2+1) itineraried ESs, attend we man. Ran out of time to visit the GS, oh well man. Two of the Many (2+1) ESs yielded the take, see man: -- hair-dryer with actual "cool" setting = $Many ($2+2+1), OK man -- toucans Arrid pit-spray, coat for Mini-B., 2 pro sample Breztri inhalers = $Many ($2x2x2 +2+2+1), OK man Total = $Many ($2x2x2x2 +2) We shall check again, but nothing else seemed feasible for Saturday, oh well and weekly streak still alive man.

He's really asking you to prune away all branches that extend over his casa, si and see mam ma'am. Ain't never heerd o' tis tr'dishun, Li'l Darlin'*. [Translation from Texish, see mam ma'am: "We are unfamiliar with any such tradition, mam ma'am."]

76 Sacrificial Goats Delivered To Pizza Parlor For Hillary Clinton's Birthday Party [...] "Hillary Clinton has served our country with impeccable moral character her whole life, so it's nice to honor her every year with a night of pizza, human trafficking, and eldritch incantations as the blood of a goat is spilled under the light of a waxing moon. Nothing weird about that." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/76-sacrificial-goats-delivered-to-pizza-parlor-for-hillary-clintons-birthday-party

Colleges Graciously Offer Attics For Jewish Students To Hide In During Violent Rallies U.S. — Construction companies have reportedly been contracted by the nation's top universities to fabricate attics for Jewish students to hide in during violent antisemitic rallies. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/colleges-get-to-work-installing-attics-for-jewish-students-to-hide-in-during-violent-rallies

Hamas Clarifies They Only Want Israel To Cease Fire GAZA — In an urgent message intended to clarify its stance, the terrorist organization Hamas explained they were really only wanting Israel to cease fire. "There seems to have been a misunderstanding," said Hamas spokesman Abu Ubeida. "When we requested a ‘ceasefire,' what we really wanted was for the Israeli forces — may they die like dogs — to stop shooting at us so we can continue firing thousands of rockets without any pesky interruptions. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/hamas-explains-they-only-want-israel-to-cease-fire

Guess What Happened to Violent Crime Rates After Ohio Adopted Permitless Carry? [...] Did Ohio become a more dangerous place because of permitless carry? [...] https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/10/24/guess-what-happened-to-violent-crime-rates-after-ohio-adopted-permitless-carry-n76474

A little ray of sunshine... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Surprise! The 'Doxxing Truck' Makes Home Visits To Expose Student Leaders Who Signed Anti-Israel Letter Well, Harvard students who decided to spew bigoted statements against their fellow Jewish students might get a visit to their home from the doxxing truck. The truck will display pictures of the only the leaders of the student groups that basically blamed the kidnapped people for their own victimization. [...] https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2023/10/26/doxxing-truck-harvard-students-at-their-house-n2389063

VDH. Comments? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Premodern Diversity Vs. Civilizational Unity [...] Some nations can find collective success as a single homogenous people like Japan or Switzerland. Or equally, but with more difficulty, nations can prosper with heterodox peoples -- but only if united by a single, inclusive culture as the American melting-pot once attested. [...] https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2023/10/27/premodern-diversity-vs-civilizational-unity-n2630454

There's More Bad News for Hostages Being Held by Hamas [...] Hamas continues to hold more than 200 hostages, including at least 10 Americans, in the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli Knesset member Merav Michaeli, the government of Iran is attempting to gain direct custody of the hostages. [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2023/10/26/is-iran-trying-to-take-custody-of-hostages-currenlty-held-by-hamas-n2630434

Let's discuss this (interesting reading). Are the points valid? If not, who can rebut what's said here? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Political Risks of Mandating EVs for Everyone [...] With so much money combined with political mandates and PR momentum, we should not be surprised to find no auto maker dare avoid genuflecting to the grand vision of an all-EV future. But money can't buy a change in the laws of physics and underlying engineering realities. [...] https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/10/25/the_political_risks_of_mandating_evs_for_everyone_988506.html

A defense of Trump — from the ACLU Millions of people support former President Donald Trump. They come from all walks of life. But one place it is hard to find Trump defenders is in the upper reaches of the legal establishment. Now, though, a certified part of that establishment, the American Civil Liberties Union, has filed a brief on behalf of Trump in special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 case against the former president. On Wednesday, ACLU lawyers argued against the gag order Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed on Trump. Their argument is a solid defense of First Amendment rights — even for a former president hated by so many on the Left. [...] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-defense-of-trump-from-the-aclu

Sad, and worse are the links within the article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My Old Friend Is Ripping Down Posters of Kidnapped Children https://www.thefp.com/p/my-old-friend-is-ripping-down-posters

'Eyes were gouged out, a woman's breasts cut off and a daughter had her legs severed': Horrific details of Hamas massacre emerge as rescue worker recounts how entire families were slaughtered [...] the IDF showed a 45-minute-montage of Hamas murdering, torturing and abducting Israeli civilians to journalists who have told of the horrors with which they were confronted. The lengthy compilation, pieced together from material recorded by Hamas gunmen on bodycams and smartphones, was shown by the IDF to a closed pool of journalists in Tel Aviv yesterday. One Breitbart journalist said audience members began weeping as they sat in their chairs, while others whimpered 'make it stop' after a matter of minutes. 'There is no moment of redemption in the footage,' he said. 'After the video was done, we were allowed to go outside to retrieve our equipment... I had to sit down. I leaned against a wall and cried.' Another journalist for The Atlantic said some audience members were heard retching and heaving - a violent, involuntary response to the level of evil and gore on display. 'I certainly hope I never see any of the extra footage again,' he wrote. By all accounts, the footage was stuffed with clip after clip of civilians being shot, stabbed, tortured and burned. Their corpses were arranged for all to see - bound, gagged and riddled with bullet holes and knife wounds. Others were decapitated with knives - and one pour soul was partially decapitated with a garden hoe as he lay cradling a bullet wound in his stomach. And one young girl was seen hiding under a desk, waiting as the terrorists decided what her fate would be. Moments later they decided to gun her down from point-blank range. The full unedited footage will not be shared with the public, Israel says, unless all of the families of those killed within view it and give permission, meaning it is unlikely the whole clip will ever be released to the world. [...] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12666289/Eyes-gouged-womans-breasts-cut-daughter-legs-severed-Horrific-details-Hamas-massacre-emerge-rescue-worker-recounts-entire-families-slaughtered.html

Addendum to Thrilling Thursday non-din-din report, see man: Siesta #2 successfully zzz'd, zzz we man. Highly local but really anemic Friday GS/ES itinerary, sigh man. Just Many (2+1) ESs and a multifamily GS, gee whiz man. Rant, grrr man: One ES co. (that we'd never heard of before) had trouble with the correct address of its own sale, and man. Of all the things to be sloppy about, man...

I really think that the Bureau of Consular Affairs should be consulted about what to do and how to proceed.

Thrilling Thursday non-din-din report, see man: We awoke a couple of minutes before the alarm did its sadistic thing, let us zzz more man. Miu indicated an intense interest in miu-breakfast, comply we man. Weather forecast was for periods of heavy rain, even more on Friday man. We reluctantly decided to mow the lawn, couldn't delay any longer man. But then, pop-up shower, timely man.' Lunch was the remaining 2 corn dogs, ingest we man. By then, rain had stopped and steamed off, rendering lawn fit for mowing man. Mowed front and undead one-Many'rd of back yard, mow we man. Blew detritus from driveway/sidewalk, blow off we man. Just Many minutes thereafter, a heavier shower started, How Dry We Aren't man. This one would have rendered lawn unfit to mow for the rest of the day, timely we man. We commended ourself on our impeccable innate sense of timing, self-congratulate we man. Job consumed 2 sweatbands, one job one recovery man. Went to sit under ceiling fan to dry off, perspirational we man. Watched one episode of The Twilight Zone, good stuff man. Miu occupied our lap for most of this time, sweaty miu-hair all over ourself man. Showered and siesta'd, both intensely needed man. Mama T-B. call with an update about Many (2x2x2 +2+2+2) minutes before alarm rang, oh well man. Mama T-B. doing OK, complaining about too much mealtime food man. This is when we left for din-din, leave we man. [insert Separate, Special, Stupendous Din-Din report here, see separately specially stupendously man] The skool campus where din-din was hosted was adjacent to a supermarket, grocery for week we man. On return to casa, got text from ex-Mrs.-T-B., offering free pasta/meatballs, too late man. That would have been another free din-din, die and go to heaven we man. We are undecided about another siesta, self-debate we man. Party with the rubias later tonight, cavort we man. Need energy for cavorting, consider we man. Have not yet compiled Friday ES/GS itinerary, must do man. The man who straddles the fence gets a sore crotch, conclude we man. Maybe we shall siesta, zzz we man.

Separate, Special, Stupendous Thursday Din-Din report, see separately specially and stupendously man: Mini-B.'s skool district hosted food-vendors who were vying for the skool district's breakfast/lunch contracts, big shindig man. This looked like a good opportunity for free din-din, of course intensely interested we man. We T-B.-mobiled to the location where samples were being served for 2 hours over din-din time, not far man. Place was mobbed with parents and kids and Many00 vendors, BIG shindig man. We made our rounds, asking for samples, vendors only too happy to oblige man. We absolutely stuffed ourself with all types of din-din food, ingest and self-stuff we man. We went back for more of the especially tasty stuff, return we man. It was like a buffet served by heaven, ingest we man. It was even better than the samples at Costco, no comparison man. There were no vegetables, either, take that man. And the price was FREE*, ZERO*, NOTHING*, NADA*, heavenly man. *thus "refunding" some of our outrageous skool taxes, take that man Once stuffed with this din-din, we congratulated ourself, financially savvy brilliant ingenious we man.

So in other words, you have rocks in your head, eh mam ma'am. Got it, first try, insightful we man!

Arkansas family trees have no branches. Ain't no 'fisticated part o' Arkansaw, yew idjit!

More authentically, "Didja git yer..."

This is cruel albeit usual punishment, sigh man. Need to use black, yellow, something neither of those, and dotted or dashed lines, si man. --- So what is our degree, huh mam ma'am -- PetrE, Geology, both, neither, Skool of Life, huh mam ma'am?

Mama T-B. underwent cranial MRI the other day, recall we man. Nothing noteworthy was found, no man. We conclude that "They imaged Mama T-B.'s head, and found nothing!" si man.

It sounds quite boreing, si mam ma'am. English-only outside the regional forums, si mam ma'am! Reported!!!

Oh, deer...

Go Hawks. ----- A new computer was set up at the University of Iowa Student Union. Students could pay a quarter, insert their index finger, have their I.Q. measured, and enjoy a 3-minute conversation with the computer on the basis of their I.Q. The first student put in his quarter and stuck in his finger. The computer said, "Beep beep! Your I.Q. is 187; let us discuss nuclear physics." After the first student left, the second student repeated the process. The computer said, "Beep beep! Your I.Q. is 123. Let us discuss politics." His time ran out, and the third student put in his money and stuck in his finger. The computer said, "Beep beep! Your I.Q. is 12. How about them Hawks?"