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Light My Fire

hanukkah fire.jpg“Hanukkah isn’t really ‘happy,’” she said to me. “That’s just something the goyim say. Because Hanukkah is around Christmas, and so since they have ‘Merry Christmas,’ they think we should be in ‘Happy Hanukkah.’ But we don’t really have happy, here in the Jews. For one thing, it’s dangerous. History shows that as soon as we get happy, what happens? Cossacks ride over the hill, and there’s a pogrom. So we try to keep the happy to a minimum. Otherwise some goyim will say: ‘Hey, look over there. Some Jews being happy! We need to put a stop to that! Let’s go!’”

The Weekly Watch

Documentary Day

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documentary: a presentation expressing or dealing with factual events

Documentary Film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. Knowledge comes in different ways through our five senses. Hearing, watching, touching, smelling and tasting are the only doorways to the outer world. The wise men say that if something is not truly experienced with all our five senses, the experience will be partial, not total. Therefore in a way almost all our gained knowledge through life is partial.

So all the films below the fold offer a partial look at: first our problems, and then some possible solutions. Hope you find one or more of interest and value.

The Dose - 11-27-2021

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Looks like we are back back in the circle of disease control.

  1. Prevent initial infection in community or individual.
  2. After infection minimize ability to spread to rest of community or body.
  3. As infection spreads minimize symptoms of community or body.
  4. Minimize complications due to community or body responses to treatments and preventive measures.
  5. Treat or adjust to longterm complications of Covid infection or treatments to community or body.
  6. Repeat cycle.

A few articles of interest.

Waving the Bloody Shirt: Then and Now

According to Wikipedia, and what I learned in public school, the term "Waving the bloody shirt" is a pejorative phrase, used to deride opposing politicians who made emotional calls to avenge the blood of soldiers that died in the Civil War.
In other words, it's a metaphor for unhelpful, grievance politics.

Except that wasn't true.
The origin of the term was far different.

Adoption and children of Chernobyl.

Belarus got 70% of the radiation.
Caution, this documenmtary has video images of incredibly malformed orphans and radiation contaminated people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrYuSAgkcec

Radiation inhibits protein synthesis and ionizing radiation uses up the body's repair capacity. There is no safe dose of radiation.

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