Happy 100th Birthday, Jimmy

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Jimmy Carter turns 100 today.
A hundred years of caring, sharing, and helping the poorer among us to have a life.
Unlike all other Presidents who holed up in their compounds, ranches, or penthouses after their stint in the White House, Jimmy continued to serve people all over the globe.
If he wasn't building houses for the poor or monitoring elections in countries around the world he was negotiating the release of political prisoners in foreign countries.
Through all the faults of his four year Presidency, nothing obscures the good this man has done in a century of service to humankind.
Happy Birthday, President Jimmy Carter.
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enhydra lutris's picture

birthday as well. He, however, didn't make it this far.

We're prepping for a mini road trip, 9 days without getting N or E of Topaz Lake NV, or much south of Santa Maria. Half of the time we'll be in or along the Eastern Sierras and half the time along the coast. Weather and temps will be all over the map and some of the time will be in VRBO type places meaning we need to take food and we're taking the car instead of the truck, so packing is really a conundrum.

Very hot here yestereday, today and perhaps longer, as in 100 or so. Slowly pruning apricot, then grapes will follow.

The world continues sick, mad and crazy, especially the empire/hegemon.

be well and have a good one

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@enhydra lutris
Sounds like fun.
We are going to finish up our garden harvesting and put it to bed (pardon the pun) for the winter. And then think about taking off for a few weeks going south.
I'm thinking Morro Bay. Been awhile since we've been there.
A lot depends on the weather, increasingly more difficult to predict. We are supposed to have El Nino conditions this year.
Thanks for stopping by.

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@earthling1

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@enhydra lutris
in a MH park or campground.
We are, however, completely self-contained.

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@earthling1

park campground, but since we got rid of the trailer we are motel/hotel bound, and stay in either Cambria or Pismo. Was hoping you knew a good place in Morro Bay.

be well and have a good one

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@enhydra lutris

75th Anniversary. It's also Armed Forces day in South Korea, 76th anniversary.

Is this what people watch on regular US tv programming?

"Brace for impact!"

In the drama I don't know what the background is for the US to have three warships in the Taiwan strait at the same time. As I understand the A2/AD military strategy as described in publicly available US Navy related publications, this situation concentrating forces close to China is understood to be quite risky and normally is to be avoided. Of course, I don't know what the outcome is in the drama. Does the drama have Chinese subtitles?

Earthling1, I'm still absorbed in the The Korean War: A Civilian's Recollection video from the link you posted. It's very interesting. I knew a couple of South Koreans who went through this experience on the other side of the front in Seoul. I never got to hear a detailed read out of the refugee experience such as portrayed in this video.

This Arirang video of Armed Forces Day events in South Korea looks and sounds like a KCNA broadcast from North Korea. The Washington Times noted the similarity. It's no coincidence. South Korea is returning to its authoritarian posture during the dictatorships. A recent editorial in the Hankyoreh pointed out that Yoon doesn't have the authority under the conditions of the US-South Korea alliance to respond during wartime. OPCON of all ROK military forces comes under US control in wartime.

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He rescued all of them, kept 3 and found homes for the others.
After the icky news for so long it’s nice to have a happy story.

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@snoopydawg
And a happy ending, yay!
Thanks.

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Iranian missiles are raining down on Tel Aviv.

Time for an Adult Beverage.

https://x.com/runews/status/1841158123614072928
https://twitter.com/i/status/1841157510029345263

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

got their wish.

Edited to add:

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@humphrey

Iran showed that it has missiles that Israel couldn’t stop and instead of Israel backing off it doubled down.
I saw a few tweets of Israelis thinking that they are once again the fcking victim. No you’re not.

Also wow….AP says that Iran is firing missiles into Israel, but then it shows the destruction from Israeli missiles? What’s the message we’re supposed to take from that? Israel has no right to attack Lebanon nor assassinate a leader anywhere. And like the tweet I posted last night, the western world got their diapers in a twist over Russia invading Ukraine on a legitimate self defense campaign, but they stayed silent on what Israel does and actually supports it with weapons.

I’d like to see people in the dock for their hypocrisy.

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“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt

Theoretically, that is.
Iran fired missiles into Tel Aviv. Now what will Israel tell us to do?

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Wow..the 2nd video is brutal. The iron dome has failed.

Just saw a video of Palestinians cheering the massive bombing of Israel. Israelis think it’s okay to have picnic parties to watch Israel bombing Palestine. Watch the media call out Palestinians for their blood thirst.

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@snoopydawg

by Hamas always fell on empty fields or were shot down by air the iron dome.

However!

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@humphrey
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the Izzies asked for it, more than once.
Wonder how safe the population feels now?

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@humphrey

Plus the Houthis hit a major highway and Hezbollah is also send rockets.
Israel and the Zionist Americans had to know that there was no way to stop a coordinated attack from 3 countries. Only Syria is sitting this out.

Plus there is some type of terrorist attack with 2 gunman shooting Israelis. 6 dead so far. Some say it’s Lebanon or Palestinians, but others say it’s Netanyahu doing another false flag.

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@snoopydawg
wait for Israel to empty all it's launchers in retaliation to Iran, and then target those launchers in a massive missile strike?
Stay tuned!

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@earthling1

Iran says that if Israel escalates then things will get much worse.
With 3 countries having tens of thousands of missiles I wonder how long Israel can arm the iron dome? And just how many missiles does America have left after giving them to Ukraine and Israel and after trying to shoot the Yemen ones down? Those ships over there need to leave to be restocked because the ships that did that were retired.

But sure we can also take on Russia and China.

Boy ima gonna keep watching that kitty video.

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@snoopydawg
came outta the brush like Iranian missiles.
That's the first thought I had.

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@earthling1

They sure did. It’s like guys sending cute ladies out to get a car to stop.
Pretty smart of the kitties to send only one.

“The ways clear, come on out.”

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You started it so deal with it.

Putin must have told Iran to go for it after holding them back for months.

Yup…

You have no idea what range of emotions I am experiencing watching this. This is literally one of the best things I have ever seen in my life. I have been waiting for this punishment my whole life."
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Holmgaard was good.

@snoopydawg

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is happening.

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Apparently the shooters have been killed. 10 people also killed.

https://www.rt.com/news/605060-israel-shooting-tel-aviv/

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how will Jill handle this?
The port strike will basically prevent rude oil from getting unloaded. Gas shortage is coming our way soon.
I did run across some article that discussed the enormous impact of the destruction of an interstate highway in NC that will cause store shelves to be empty pretty soon.
We have to get to Texas on Thursday. We need a couple of tanks of gas to get home.
The military needs crude. Is rationing or travel ban coming?
Jill needs to put her thinking cap on.

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@on the cusp
on gas cans!

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Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
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@earthling1 I would be at the store stocking up on necessities. Charcoal for the grill, in case I can't refill my propane tank. A cuople of more gas cans would be a nice addition to the inventory!

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@on the cusp

of the draft in 3... 2... 1...

I'm just trying to figure out how they will work it so that the younger folks won't find out who is actively starting the wars, prior to the start of voting. The Owners must be planning a free 30-day-long Taylor Swift concert, to be carried on all channels.

Jill needn't worry her pretty little head about any of this. I'm sure that Blinken has it all under control, Al Haig style...

I'll be stopping on the way home to stock up on booze. That's all the prepping I need.

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@usefewersyllables beer when the lock downs started. Liquor stores were deemed essential and were allowed to remain open. I had to move some furniture, but I made room for it.
High priority!

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@on the cusp

That’s what made the lockdown insane. Liquor stores and casinos stayed open while churches were closed. How did so many people fall for it being deadly?

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@snoopydawg when done perfectly, works well.

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@usefewersyllables
Simply offer citizenship to all those young males who have crossed the southern border.
There must be millions of them. And all of them think they will muster out without a casket.

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Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock @ABaerbock

Israel is currently being attacked by Iran with missiles. I condemn the ongoing attack in the strongest possible terms. We have urgently warned Iran about this dangerous escalation. Iran must stop the attack immediately. It is driving the region further to the brink of the abyss.

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@humphrey missed the memo that the attack is retaliatory.

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the White House. Iran is just humiliated in defeat...blah blah blah...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/01/biden-reaction-iran-isra...

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@on the cusp
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the spinners are working overtime
kinda puts to rest the notion of
the empire being supreme

does anyone else smell a fish?
if the Izzies are so victorious
then why are they still fighting?

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why is Biden pledging our military support?
More nonsense from the State Department saying the world should condemn this brazen attack (that isn't
working?)
whttps://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/state-department-calls-on-e...
It isn't healthy to speak out of both sides of your mouth, is it?

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@on the cusp

Frankly, I hesitate to express it, because some might think it's an excuse for an extremely misguided US policy based mostly venal considerations, money, elections, lobbyists, MIC profits, Central Command jockeying for primacy, etc.

Beneath the surface, there is a kind of reflexive or reverse nuclear blackmail going on. You can't let a nuclear armed state perceive that it is in an existential situation. I know that this phrase has been overused quite a bit lately. I'm not using it as a talking point as Israel has done to justify its actions thus far. In that sense I don't perceive them to be in an existential crisis, yet. They could rather simply extricate themselves by just stopping their military attacks. On the other hand, if they continue with this extremely aggressive course, they could easily be placed in an existential predicament, if the US stopped assisting them. Yet, the talking point is that Israel is now and has been in an existential situation. That hasn't been true so far. But it's becoming more uncertain by the day.

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@soryang
for Israel, I fear they will go nuclear on surrounding non-nuclear countries because as Netanyahu already stated, "Who will stop us"?
Who will?

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@earthling1

That sense of impunity is really alarming. For some reason the novel Fail Safe comes to mind.

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