Peter

From Fox News: . . . Biden topped Trump by razor-thin margins in the 2020 election in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to win the White House. However, according to the new polls, with just under six months to go until Election Day, Trump leads Biden among registered voters 49%-42% in Arizona, 49%-39% in Georgia, 49%-42% in Michigan, 50%-38% in Nevada, and edges the president 47%-44% in Pennsylvania, with Biden narrowly on top in Wisconsin 47%-45% . . . . end quote Not too shabby, so what can go wrong in six months? Don’t let it happen DJ Trump! Make America greater, safer, better off, and happier in 2024!

Late night on Fox News they were “arguing / speculating” that President Biden has joined the pro-Hamas wing of the democratic party. By holding up aid and munitions to Israel, he is continuing to destroy his legacy. Is Joe the worst President in history?

Warning Will Robertson! I was looking for AR quotes and typed in The Ayn Rand Lexicon and scrolled down and clicked on a site which gave one. Then my computer was hacked and a female voice said do not shut down your computer and call this number. So, I shut it down, rebooted, and I seem to be OK. Scary!

Fox quoted Hillary Clinton around 1 PM today. She was referring to anti-Israel student protests in Brooklyn, as saying something like, “Young people don’t know history.” It is odd (and not right,) that I have not seen any “student protests” against the killing, raping, kidnapping or the burning alive, of Jews, recently done by Hamas let alone, nothing about the Holocaust. I remember the student rebellion mainly against The Viet Nam War that Ayn Rand talked about in the sixties. Do todays, anti- Semites carry over the traits she mentioned? Are they todays, “Left?” Peter From IMPACT TODAY: . . . First, if you are interested in understanding the left today, the collection of essays contained in Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution is essential reading. The book (originally published as The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution) contains a number of essays written by Rand in the 1960s that analyzed various aspects of the new left’s philosophy along with a new introduction and several additional essays by Peter Schwartz. Turning to particular essays, the best overall for understanding the situation on America’s campuses right now is Rand’s “The Cashing in: The Student Rebellion.” Rand analyses the student rebellion that started on Berkeley’s campus in the mid 1960’s and the so-called Free Speech Movement that went along with it, the philosophical character of the movement, its goals and why it started. The title hints at her explanation of this latter point: what the students were “cashing in” on were the dominant trends in philosophy — “epistemological agnosticism, avowed irrationalism, ethical subjectivism” — which they were absorbing in the very schools against which they were rebelling. One can see these same ideas at the core of today’s student radicals, although it is becoming a bit clearer where they lead . . . .

Very interesting. My Dad was in charge of munitions at Sasebo Naval Base in 1966 and I lived there for a while, maybe a little over half a year. And then I moved to Madison Lane at UVA in Charlottesville to camp out in my brother’s apartment. I looked at some recent photos of Sasebo just now and only the gate seemed familiar.

It worked. "She," Christine is French. Very high pitched.

Hamas not only commits “war crimes” in a broader definition but they are the Hannibal Lecter’s of current reality. They are monsters who need to be eradicated and America needs to do more to assist Israel and to bring all of the hostages, and not just Americans, back home. And then Hamas, wherever it roams, needs to vanish from existence. We and Israel, do not need or deserve, another 9/11. Peter From Wikipedia. A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

Who are two of my possible picks, from the following article? House GOP conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) Maybe the campaign has started . . . for real. But which VP candidate fits the Trump posse best and who would bring in the most votes? Peter Here’s who was with Trump at RNC’s Spring Meeting at Mar-a-Lago Story by Rachel Scully . . . The fundraiser was largely seen as an audition for Trump’s vice president within the GOP. The guest lists included many of those who are rumored to be on that list, including South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.), Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R), House GOP conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla), and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) . . . . Trump reportedly called some of those on his VP shortlist to the stage, except for Noem, who left early, NBC reported. She has been under controversy after an anecdote in her book about killing her dog went viral. Trump, however, highlighted Stefanik, praising her as “an amazing talent, according to CNN. He also said Rubio was doing a great job. Other high-profile GOP leaders also attended the private event, such as Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) and Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) Dave McCormick, a Republican running for Senate in Pennsylvania, Bernie Moreno, the GOP nominee for the Senate election in Ohio, and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy were also in attendance . . . .

Thank you, Michael. I tried the "replica" you embedded but it doesn't work but the one you embedded in my contribution / email, did. I listened to it again. Very sad and wistful.

I thought I would add this to the “sad” thread. Christine and the Queens “Full of Life.”

I may have mentioned this before? Part of the song is used in an Amazon Prime commercial: Christine and the Queens “Full of Life.” ‘She” was a male when born, if I get the story right, but is now a female . . . in mind. Very sad sounding song with the “F” word.

Shooting your dog eliminates you from the running, even if she, oh what's her name, wants to show how tough she is.

From Explainer: Donald Trump has said the survival of Ukraine is important to the US, in what Reuters describes as a shift in tone days before Republicans are due to vote on a $61bn aid package in the US House of Representatives. “As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us! GET MOVING EUROPE!” Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social Thursday. The former president did not endorse the aid package directly, but instead dedicated most of his post to America’s European allies not spending enough to support Ukraine. The post is arguably one of Trump’s first acknowledgments that Ukraine’s survival is an important US security interest, according to Reuters. Some hard-right Republicans nevertheless interpreted the post as a signal that he opposes the current aid package, though Trump did not say that explicitly.

I keep hearing BS about the use of nuclear weapons from members of Putin’s staff and even his Russian allies. And there are stories about Putin detonating a nuclear bomb in the outer layers of earth’s biosphere which might destroy a lot of the world’s ability to communicate. And various NATO countries have been moving troops to border areas. Where’s Machiavelli when you need him? Is it in Putin’s “best interest” to spend lives and money on an invasion? No. Despite all the ‘IFS’ and past history, Putin started this “latest invasion,” he is the initiator of force, and attempted genocide AND he deserves what he gets . . . as long as it isn’t Ukraine. I have seen news stories about rebelliousness among Russian draftees too. In the meantime, his fighting capabilities may be eroding, and hopefully his popularity among the Russian people and his few allies is going downhill. NATO, militarily has one hundred times the capability of defeating Russia vs Russia defeating NATO. His ace in the hole is his nuclear threat. Peter