This morning I was visited by a doe with two fawns in my yard. I have also seen a lot more deer this year when driving. I believe it's because of more housing out here and most of the younger generations would rather shoot in video games than go hunting. I can't think of anyone I know who goes hunting anymore, mostly because everyone I know is old, disabled, or dead.

All that Israel/Hamas War business has been on the news nonstop. When stuff like this happens, I just turn off the TV. Those people have been killing each other for thousands of years and I expect they will just keep on until the last one is dead. You can only push people so far before they begin to fight back.

Sorry to hear earthling has problems. Hope they are quickly resolved.

We're hoping for a rain tomorrow and again on Friday...both are iffy, but we need them both. The garden is doing well, but we're keeping it watered almost daily. Still picking peppers. We've put up more than a years worth so I give most of them away....beautiful reds, yellows, and greens...most are sweet but we have a few hot ones too. Still a few tomatoes coming in as well.

Trade day was busy this AM. Bought some more clamps. Realized I needed some more during a gluing project last week. Also bought some long bungees, lemons and avocados. Then went for the weekly grocery run, and dropped in the feed and seed. They had just gotten a shipment of broccoli seedlings, so I bought a couple of packs to set out this evening. That should fill out the fall garden. We still have sweet potatoes to dig, and then we'll get a load or two of horse manure to put on most of the garden and set it up to sleep for the winter.

Always something.

As to all the wars, at least at this time the US is saying there is no evidence Iran was involved. That's a good thing. Perhaps that escalation won't occur.

Hope you get through all your professional development BS without too much hassle. Thanks for the OT!

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I have been asking if it’s true that Israel helped create Hamas and I found this today.

Meanwhile the world watches as Israel destroys Gaza and kills thousands of innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the Hamas attacks on Israel. And the fcking world knows that!

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Palestinian human rights advocates and historians called an interview broadcast on CNN late Sunday a "must-watch" for anyone seeking the broader context for the violence that erupted over the weekend, as Palestinian politician and advocate Dr. Mustafa Barghouti told anchor Fareed Zakaria that the surprise attack by Hamas followed decades of occupation and apartheid as well as the killings of thousands of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in recent years.

Zakaria introduced Barghouti by saying that the political leader of Hamas "has blamed the violence squarely on Israel's occupation of Palestinian land," adding Barghouti would provide "another Palestinian viewpoint" for viewers of "Fareed Zakaria GPS."

While condemning violence against civilians, Barghouti said the fighting has evolved as "the direct result of the continuation of the longest occupation in modern history" and used the same term accepted by the United Nations, thousands of academics, and international human rights experts—apartheid—to describe the system Palestinians have been forced to live under.

"There is one way to stop any violence and that is to end the Israeli occupation," said Barghouti. "And that is for the United States to be fair. They cannot say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but we the Palestinians don't have the right to defend ourselves... The only way to stop it is to tell Israel, 'You have to respect international law, you have to end this illegal occupation and accept Palestinians as equal human beings.'"

Meanwhile, he said, 20 communities have been evicted "in an act of ethnic cleansing," Israeli extremists have attacked Muslim and Christian holy sites, and far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for the entire Palestinian town of Huwara to be "wiped out" by his country's military as well as saying that "Palestinians have one of three options: only either to immigrate or accept a life of subjugation to Israelis, or die."

"Unfortunately, Fareed, what you have described is exactly what we already have, by 560 Israeli military checkpoints," said Barghouti. "The whole West Bank has been divided into 224 small ghettos separated from each other, and the settlers are everywhere attacking Palestinians. "Can we stop what's going on now? Yes, of course, all these Israelis who are now in Gaza can be released tomorrow... if Israel also accepts to release our 5,300 Palestinian prisoners who are in Israeli jails, including 1,260 Palestinians who are in jail without knowing why under the under the so-called "administrative detention." *

* means that habeas corpus in Israel is just as dead as it is in America.

Barghouti concluded the interview by noting that Israel and its allies have identified no way for Palestinians to resist the decades-long occupation.

"If we struggle in a military form, we are terrorists, if we struggle in a nonviolent way we are described as violent, if we even resist with words we are described as provocative," he said. "If you support Palestinians and you are a foreigner, they describe you as an antisemite, and if you are a Jewish person—and there are many of those who support the Palestinian cause—they call them 'self-hating Jews.'"

"We should all have equal life, we should have all peace, we should all have justice, and we should live in dignity," he added. "The main way to achieve that is to end occupation, end the system of apartheid that I am sure no Jewish person can be proud of. Time has come for that and time has come for justice and freedom."

I guess I can imagine how the world would react if the Native American ethnic cleansing was happening today including the slaughter of millions of buffalo that they relied on to eat. It’s not just America that has 2 justice systems.

'Course, in the US, once the neocons drift into either 1) proposing a complete militarization of society in imitation of World War II (after having sold America on the notion that "supporting Ukraine is a good investment") or 2) a dramatic ramping-up of US war effort under the current encode-money-and-hand-it-to-the-rich dispensation in which "Western ammo stocks" are ostensibly "at bottom of the barrel" -- well, it won't be long after one of those events before there's an exposure of the criminality of the whole enterprise... say, wasn't Netanyahu going to be indicted for what I'm sure was one of his many crimes?

My most sincere condolences to earthling1.

The current trouble is Palestine, like so much trouble that has preceded it goes directly back to London, England; the 1917 Balfour Declaration. A colonial power arbitrarily and capriciously deciding to rearrange a piece of the world in a most irrational manner simply because they could.

be well and have a good one

Turned on the TV to watch General Hospital. It was a rerun again. Couldn't figure out why until they interrupted it with Biden going on about Israel. What did he say? I have no idea. His cottonmouth is getting so bad I could barely understand him and then I fell asleep within 5 minutes.

How can this man run for president? He can barely walk and barely talk. He's got to be taking a shitload of drugs to even function as good as he is.

UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE

When will humanity become humane