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Something/Someone Old

I'm pretty sure I've done this one before, but I just found out something new about it. (So does that make this something old or something new? Well, it happened in around 2550 B.C., so I guess that makes it old.)

The gradual return of the Pink Tide is happening. This time it happened in the place where it first receded from - Honduras.

“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!’”

Documentary Day

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.

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

Hope Thanksgiving weekend has been enjoyable. Focused on the simple pleasures of life this week.

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.

Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving.
As always, post whatever you got.

Some bright colors for this late Autumn evening.