The Evening Blues - 12-15-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 12/15/2023 - 3:00pm
Open Thread - 12-15-23 - To the Victor Belong the Spoils
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 12/15/2023 - 7:19am
The history of mankind is basically a timeline of war, from the first empires to the present. Many great civilizations, cultures, histories and knowledge down through the centuries have been lost to war. There are many examples of the victors erasing a peoples existence and replacing it with their concept of national identity. For example, The Old Testament is full of war, genocide and slaughter. History books are chronicles of war with intermittent smatterings of peace and prosperity. How much knowledge has been lost to the scourge of war? We will never know what the world has missed or how different it may have been because of the antiquities that were conquered and lost forever.
If the victor rewrites history in its favor, how can we trust anything that has been handed down to us, considering the possibility that the other side of the story may have been lost or altered for all of posterity? How much knowledge has been lost due to war, and the rewriting of history. The Library of Alexandria is just one example of ancient histories and knowledge lost to conflict. What knowledge and wisdom was lost forever in that fire of conflict? We'll never know.
Attribution: Sanjiv Banga
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Three unrelated news items, or maybe not?
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 12/15/2023 - 3:17amThey blockaded the 110 freeway in Los Angeles:
The Evening Blues - 12-14-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 12/14/2023 - 2:44pm
The Orange Fart Cloud Offers Irony While Asking for Money in Email
Submitted by fire with fire on Thu, 12/14/2023 - 12:14pmFriend,
Crooked Joe’s prosecutor just made an emergency request for the Supreme Court to TAKE AWAY MY PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY.
He’s bypassing the Appeals Court, skipping normal procedures and arguments, and asking for an IMMEDIATE RULING to ROB me of a right that has been granted to every other President in history.
The Biden Administration is DEADSET on having my trial begin and end before the 2024 Presidential Election.
The Evening Blues - 12-13-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 12/13/2023 - 3:27pm
Open Thread WE 13 DEC 23 ~ Horse Day
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The Evening Blues - 12-12-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 12/12/2023 - 3:36pm
Postcard
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 12/12/2023 - 10:17am
Wanted to post a picture from yesterday and spent 15 minutes loading it up. Sub-smartphone.
Arrived here yesterday to 74° temperature and sunny skies. Spent the day barefoot on the beach.
U.S. "solution" to Yemen problem: foreign mercenaries
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:21pmOne of the few nations to actually do something to support the Palestinians has been the Houthis in Yemen. The Houthis have been suffering under a barbaric, genocidal assault by Saudi Arabia and the UAE for nearly 8 years, an assault fully supported by the U.S.
