Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.
Happy Sunday, dear friends! We’ll get to reviewing some of the continuing weirdness of this past week, but let’s just pause a moment in memory and tribute to the Israelis and Americans murdered on Oct 7 and prayers for those kidnapped by the terrorists. And it certainly hasn’t been easy to watch hordes of terrorist supporters run amok pretty much unchallenged. Well, an occasional challenge. This, my dears, is what unregulated, unvetted immigration and non-existent borders gets one. So, let’s stir up a pitcher or two of martinis and get to it.
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Even with inflation, if I had a quarter for each time I heard the bleating about how Gazan Arabs* are just as much a victim of Hamas as others, I’d break the US Mint. Not only is Hamas popular with Arabs in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, but mobs of Gazan “civilians” followed the Hamas terrorists into Israel to commit murder and mayhem with glee.
As Hamas terrorists carried out a highly choreographed massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, they received a source of support that amplified the horror that took place that day. A mob of ordinary Palestinians spontaneously joined in what became the deadliest pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust, according to videos, eyewitness accounts, and the Israel Defense Forces. (snip)
“The second wave of Arabs who came into the country were just as cruel as the terrorists of the first wave,” Gadi Yarkoni, the mayor of the Eshkol Regional Council, which encompasses most of the Gaza border communities, told the Free Beacon. “We saw that it was not only Hamas who came to slaughter us. It was all the residents of Gaza, including people who worked in our kibbutzim.”
I have one response: Turn Gaza into glass.
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Courtesy phone for Anne Frank.
A day after Jewish college kids found it necessary to barricade themselves inside a library in the center of Greenwich Village while a mob of repugnant terrorist lovers banged on the locked doors trying to get at them, the message is being broadcast that, on this Sabbath, Jews in Brooklyn had better remain at home.
Stay inside.
Lock the doors.
A pro-Palestinian protest is scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday in front of the Brooklyn Museum.
That’s a mile from 770 Eastern Parkway, the headquarters of the largest ultra-Orthodox sect in the world, the Lubavitch Hasidim. (snip)
Why do you think the marchers are meeting near Crown Heights anyway?
This is why.
Their purpose isn’t to call for a cease-fire or to advocate for the Palestinian people.
Their purpose is to make known what October 7 made known: There will be no peace or security for any Jew anywhere in the world if they get their way.
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Call me shocked, but unsurprised, at the sheer amount of students on American college campuses that have turned into contemporary Hitler Youth celebrating the savage, barbaric acts of Hamas slaughtering Jews. The Left’s hierarchy of identity based value has lumped Jews, Whites and Asians together as privileged. Hence, oppressors and always to blame, even when they are the victims of beatings or murder.
That too many college administrators are either ignoring these disgusting displays or, sometimes, praising them is alarming. What’s worse is that foreign students, here in America as guests, should be participating. The very least the Biden administration could do is revoke these students’ visas and send them packing home. But nooooo …
After a number of Republicans urged Biden’s State Department to revoke the visas of pro-Hamas foreign students who hold F-1 visas, National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby said the administration will not do so. (snip)
Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) are leading a resolution urging the Biden administration to revoke the visas of foreign nationals in the U.S. who are involved in pro-Hamas demonstrations — especially those on F-1 student visas.
To hear other Biden spokesholes, their administration is 100% in support of Israel. But they allow (as Tom Cotton expressed) fifth columnists to operate at will?
This is the failure of not demanding immigrants assimilate into the nation’s culture. Don’t like American principles and values? Go back to the hellhole you came from.
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Not many of us who watched Biden’s prime time teleprompter address missed that he had retreated from his earliest expressions of horror at the ravages of Gazan Arabs on Israelis and Americans. Suddenly the “equivalency” arguments came forth. As Joey’s handlers are Obama people (hostile to Israel), they decided that his speech needed to be vetted and approved by Muslim and Arab officials to get the Jew-cooties under control.
Sure, you may have thought that the people mowed down at a music festival by hang-gliding terrorists or the babies who were burned alive alongside their parents were the story. You’d be wrong, though, because those atrocities simply can’t match up to the nebulous scourge that is “Islamophobia.”
According to a new report, those working inside and outside the White House are upset that Biden isn’t showing them their required level of deference.
Hours before President Joe Biden gave a rare primetime address last week, his head speechwriter sat down with a group of senior Arab and Muslim-American officials to go over the draft and take suggestions.
Dissent was sprouting even inside the White House, where some aides worried that Biden hadn’t shown enough empathy for Palestinian civilians and a Muslim community facing a torrent of anger, said a person familiar with the discussions who, like others, requested anonymity to talk freely.
The hour-long editing session reflects a vigorous outreach effort the White House is undertaking to reassure Arab-Americans who feel they’re being scapegoated for the atrocities that Hamas has committed a half-world away.
I’m really at a loss for words on this, dears. Please pass the Gray Whale Gin and a long straw.
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This is the guy not-so-secretly running for President.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on Oct. 8 requiring the governor’s office to report the ethnic breakdown of its appointees the same day he signed a bill requiring that venture capital firms report the racial and sexual diversity of companies they invest in, according to statements released by the governor. (snip)
Under SB 54, venture capital firms will be required to report the gender identity, race, ethnicity and “LGBTQ+” identity of each member of the founding team of start-ups they invest in, according to the bill’s text.
Meritocracy should be the only concern of venture capital, not some racial spoils system. VC investors, firms and funds are picky because the rate of failure of startups is high. But in California, ideas don’t matter as much as melanin.
Think of what Gov. Hairgel can do to the nation!
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I have a special place in my heart for NICU nurses. My twin grandsons, premies, spent 4 weeks in NICU and if angels wore scrubs, it was those ladies. Here’s another one.
A NICU nurse makes over 50 Halloween costumes by hand each year so that her tiny patients and their families can enjoy a sense of normalcy during an otherwise difficult time.
Lilly Fox, a NICU nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Alexandra Cohen Hospital for Women and Newborns, picks a theme for the costumes and then gets to work constructing them by hand ahead of Halloween. (snip)
This Halloween 2023 will see the NICU filled with an array of tiny “food” offerings — including a box of popcorn, a strawberry and a burrito.
The Halloween costumes are “a really great way for families to get to experience the holiday and get to act like any other family with a newborn baby, even if they have to be in the hospital,” said Fox.
“We just try to create some normalcy for them while they’re here,” she added.
The NICU can be a very intimidating place, full of medical equipment that dwarfs the tiny patients. Any sort of soft, fluffy addition helps soften the edges. Kudos to Ms. Fox.
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That brings another Sunday to a close. Halloween is just two days away and it can, and should be, a day for children to make wonderful memories and adults to be there to help. Then it’s onward to Thanksgiving and it should give us all an opportunity to count our blessings and to participate in something sorely lacking in our present culture.
Gratitude.
Know right now I’m always thankful for you, dears. See you next Sunday … Cheers!
featured image, original graphic by Darleen Click
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Scott says: “I have one response: Turn Gaza into glass.”… I like the way you think…That IS the only way there will ever be peace with the muslims..
“I have a special place in my heart for NICU nurses.”.. You and me both! My son spent his first 100 days there, and the nurses allowed me access any time day or night, when the ambulance I was working on transported to that hospital. After taking care of our patient, I’d leave my partner to pop in for a few min, and they never once turned me away.
Darleen Click says: And kudos to you, Scott for being (been?) a first responder. My eldest daughter is a CCT RN married to a paramedic. I know the jobs require great dedication.
Scott says: Yep, still plugging along.. will hit 38 yrs in March.. and Thanks!
Cameron says: My mom and brother got their start as EMTs, then Paramedics and finished as Nurses. I like you guys. -:-)
Scott says: Thanks man! I started as a kid, volunteer firefighter, then got my EMT, went paid, then got my medic as well. I’ve progressed to the point where my main focus is no longer as a field medic, but I do run an entire EMS division now. Luckily I do still get to run calls.
Darleen Click says: Heh, that’s the route #1 daughter took — EMT/Paramedic/RN. She did 7 years ICU then decided she really wanted to get back into the ambulance.
#2 daughter went the radiology tech route — she’s the mom of the twins — one of them is now a Navy corpsman attached to the Marines.
Cameron says: A friend’s niece realized she didn’t like being in college so she put herself through an intense program to become a surgical technician. She’s doing well for herself.
As for my brother, he went to a company that did medflights and asked what it took to join. They presented him the hours required for different rotations (ER and regular hospital if I recall right). Normal time is 2-3 years. He did it in one and stayed a flight nurse for a long time.
Scott says: That’s awesome for both of your families.. I grew up with a family history of firefighters, so it just seemed the thing to do.. better late then never I’m close to finishing my degree, and I told my current Chief that I’d give him five years in this new spot. Plan on looking for my own Chief of Department or similar job at that point, and maybe go 5 more (will probably aim for 7, just so I can say I was a firefighter for 50 yrs.. we’ll see
GWB says: I did a few medivac flights when I was flying – trips out of far northern Maine to medical facilities where much deeper care could be given. Those flights were some of the ones that I felt proudest of. (Including the one that was only small pieces of a person – possibly radioactive ones, though. The guy turned out all right, but I was real unhappy when the guy carrying the samples to the airplane was in a radiation suit, and WE weren’t.)
GWB says: A mob of ordinary Palestinians
Let’s specify that Hamas is also “ordinary Palestinians.” The terrorists there are not extreme outliers. These folks live a life of violence towards the Other – in their case, Jews and Israel. The women participate in the atrocities, and they raise their children to do so, as well. It is the highest honor for a mother to raise a “martyr.” And, did anyone else see the video of the Palestinian children beating a Jewish child hostage? Yeah, the kids, too.
There is wisdom in ancient practices, though it might be a barbaric wisdom. But before Progressives denied human nature, the wisdom was that you had to destroy and/or disperse conquered peoples* who were apt to hold a grudge and rise up against you. Because some people actually believe in their religion and culture and people, and raise their kids to believe in it, too. And ancient rulers didn’t believe in putting up with perpetual grievance crap – it was tiresome and they had empires to rule.
(* Or, that you had to destroy them and salt the ground so they couldn’t live there, regardless.)
GWB says: on this Sabbath, Jews in Brooklyn had better remain at home
And there’s the problem. If they would arm up, man up, and band together to let these folks know they will not put up passively with their hatred, it would stop. But they’re for the most part Progressives – so self-reliance and self-protection are not in the belief system.
National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby said the administration will not do so.
Of course not. Because this is exactly what those same people WANT.
his speech needed to be vetted and approved by Muslim and Arab officials
My response to that if I were President? “F*** that s***. Go get Paulie in NYC, let’s see what HE thinks about it! He seems like more of an American than any of these other idiots. And no American passes his thoughts by other nations before speaking them. We ain’t like you and that doesn’t bother us one bit.”
“Islamophobia.”
Since a ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear of something, it’s wrong on both counts. The islamics deserve (unless they’ve had a reformation I don’t know about) every bit of loathing and hatred they earn with atrocities like these. If they stand up against it, then I’m fine with excluding those folks from the general animosity. But, muslims want to rule the world as a theocracy under an evil god. They don’t deserve any protection at all if they’re going to act on that or support it. Renounce it or suffer my ire.
Under SB 54
Yeah, my response would be “Go to h***, you racists!”
Am I cursing a lot today? Yeah, possibly. But evil should be cursed. Literally.
a box of popcorn, a strawberry and a burrito
Well, given the way they’re wrapped in their blankets, that costume should be an easy one! Blessings on this woman for what she does.
And blessings on you, Darleen, and all the Victory Girls for the work you do here.
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