Cy

Maybe a repost or two. I eat vegetables, most of them processed through a cow first.

[Cy @cgj4]

@SamaHoole I mostly agree except for the inference that there was some evil intent. These things seemed to improve life. Who knew that heroin was addictive? It made a hard life easier. When the dangers become evident, great efforts are made to overcome the inertia.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

The ICC has become a political tool, and it is no longer about justice. I know good men who have been targeted by the ICC for fighting terrorism. There are also serious concerns that parts of the organization have been influenced or infiltrated by individuals sympathetic to Islamist causes, which has further damaged its credibility.

An organization cannot be reformed when corruption, political agendas, and terrorist sympathizing are allowed to take root. At a certain point, the issue is no longer fixing the system, but questioning whether the system can still serve the purpose it was created for.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

The Palestinian Authority Is Collapsing, And It Should Be Allowed to Die

I’ve watched the Palestinian leadership from the inside my entire life.

They have rejected every opportunity for peace and statehood, from the 1948 Partition Plan, all the way to 1993, 2000, and 2008. At every single junction, destroying Israel was more important to them than building a normal life for their own people.

Instead of building a functioning society, they created a corrupt system based on victimhood and permanent conflict.

The Palestinian Authority became nothing but a criminal middleman that stole from its people while living off international aid and Israeli tax money.

October 7th was the last bridge they burned with their own hands.

The Palestinian Authority is collapsing, and it should be allowed to die. The same goes for Hamas and every other failed Palestinian entity.

The Arabs of Judea and Samaria deserve a chance at a normal life. They deserve to raise their children in peace, send them to school without teaching them to hate, and build a future instead of sacrificing them for a fantasy.

The solution is not another Palestinian “state” or another corrupt authority. The real path forward is to remove the middlemen completely and work directly with the tribal and clan leaders, the people who actually care about their communities, not about slogans and resistance.

The Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and the whole “resistance” industry have been a curse on these people for far too long. It’s time to end this failed experiment and try a completely different approach.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

If THIS doesn't infuriate you, then you're not paying attention: black couple who posted about "white privilege" sentenced after taking the life of their 3-year-old white foster daughter.

Ariel Robinson and Jerry Robinson, who had publicly posted content attacking "white privilege," were the foster parents of 3-year-old Victoria "Tori" Rose Smith, a little white girl.

The child d*ed from severe blunt force trauma and internal bleeding caused by repeated beatings while in their care.

Ariel Robinson was sentenced to life in prison. Jerry Robinson received 20 years.

Where's the widespread coverage from the mainstream media? Oh - that's right- it doesn't fit their narrative.

Let's do their jobs for them. Make sure everyone sees this.

#FosterCareFailure #ProtectOurChildren

[Cy @cgj4]

@URPolicyAnalyst @Mrgunsngear Sorry, Italy requires a photo id and an "electoral card" to vote.

[Cy @cgj4]

@johnkonrad I imagine she already knows what you were doing. I'm certainly not as secretive as I think I am. She always knows.

[Cy @cgj4]

@Mrgunsngear Can't argue that these days but the original 10mm load was 200 grain FMJ-FP at close to 1200fps! I managed to use up 1100 in a week. Yeah, I'm surprised I can even remember that far back 🤔

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

Palestinians who deliberately put their own children in harm’s way for political sympathy have no right to demand either a state or compassion.

[Defender of the Republic 🇺🇸 @realdefender45]

A quick lesson in the age of AI.

The first picture is the image ChatGPT generated. The original (3rd) photo was actually taken on March 11th.

The second picture is today’s Washington Post sports section, the same one used in the recent Mitch McConnell “proof of life” photo.

I simply took an old photo of myself from March, uploaded today’s newspaper into ChatGPT, and within minutes I had a brand-new image of me appearing to hold today’s paper.

Boom. Apparently, I’m a time traveler.

The point of this experiment isn’t to prove anything about any particular person. It’s to demonstrate something much bigger:

In 2026, a photo of someone holding today’s newspaper is no longer unquestionable proof of when that picture was taken.

The technology is moving faster than most people realize, and our ability to authenticate what we see online hasn’t kept up.

If I can create a convincing “proof of life” photo in a few minutes using consumer AI tools, imagine what can be done by governments, media organizations, corporations, or anyone with significant resources.

The lesson: trust, but verify. In the AI era, even “proof of life” isn’t automatically proof anymore.

[Cy @cgj4]

@BurtMaclin_FBI Fair enough but my ooooold 12v critters from 25 or so years ago are working fine, except for the sad old batts. More power? Then the 18v (20v in some brands but same) to power through. I get you. I'm just too cheap to buy shiney new stuff.

[Byl Holte @SirBylHolte]

Just now on the train to Baltimore I sat down next to this KAREN.

She took one look at my hat, eyes bulging, and said:

“Are you really wearing that hat today, with all that *sshole has done this week?”

ME: “It’s a free country, I voted and I won and I’m proud. What has Trump done to you this week?”

HER: “My housekeeper is undocumented and now she’s terrified.”

ME: “And how is that our problem? If she came here illegally, she should be scared. And if you’re still keeping slaves, you should be scared too. We have laws against people like you.”

She bolted up and moved across from me.

I made sure I kept my Trump hat right on my head where she could see it😂

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

At ninety-eight, Fred Kummerow sued the Food and Drug Administration.

He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, born in Germany, and he had been trying to get someone to listen for a very long time.

In 1957 he took samples from the arteries of people who had died of heart attacks and identified what was clogging them: trans fat, the artificial kind made by pumping hydrogen through cheap vegetable oil to turn it solid. The margarine and shortening the new dietary advice was busy recommending in place of butter and lard were full of it. He published the finding in Science. He fed the stuff to pigs and watched the lesions form in their arteries too. And he said so, plainly, for decades, while the food pyramid pointed the other way and the money stayed with the cheap solid fat that never went off on a shelf.

The scale of it is worth stating plainly. By the time the ban finally arrived, artificial trans fats were being linked to something on the order of tens of thousands of American deaths a year. Kummerow was heckled by industry men at scientific conferences for daring to say so. Here was one biochemist, armed with a hospital's worth of diseased arteries and a lab full of pigs, up against an entire manufacturing sector whose cheapest and most convenient fat he was trying to condemn, and the sector had the ear of the regulator while he did not.

They did not listen. The oil was profitable and convenient and the story had already been sold. So in 2009, aged ninety-four, he filed a formal petition asking the FDA to act. Three years passed and they did not answer it. So in 2013, a few weeks short of ninety-nine, he took the federal government to court for ignoring him.

Two years later the FDA finally moved to ban artificial trans fats from the American food supply. Kummerow lived to see it. He died in 2017 at the age of a hundred and two, of the arteriosclerosis he had spent sixty years warning the country about.

The fat he identified stayed in the food for another half century after he found it, because taking it out cost money and leaving it in did not.

He was right in 1957. They agreed with him in 2015. Nobody has ever explained the years in between.

[Cy @cgj4]

@johnkonrad You're right on target. I've been thinking/saying for a long time that the movers and shakers on the left aren't as stupid as they portray themselves to be. They know exactly what they're doing.

[GustavoIbáñezPadilla @GustavoIPadilla]

🇪🇬 ▪️ El juez miró al hombre que había disparado contra el presidente egipcio Anwar el-Sadat y le preguntó con calma:
—¿Por qué lo mataste?
— Porque era seglar, respondió el asesino.
El juez frunció el ceño.
— ¿Qué significa “seglar”?
El hombre dudó un segundo.
— No lo sé.
…….
▪️ En otro juicio, el acusado había intentado asesinar al escritor Naguib Mahfouz.
— ¿Por qué lo apuñalaste?
—preguntó el juez.
— Porque escribió una novela contra la religión.
—¿La leíste?
— No.
…….
▪️ En una tercera sala, otro hombre enfrentaba cargos por asesinar al intelectual Farag Fouda.
—¿Por qué lo mataste?
— Porque no tenía fe.
—¿Cómo lo sabes?
— Está en sus libros.
— ¿En cuál?
Silencio.
— No lo sé. No los he leído.
— ¿Por qué no los leíste?
El hombre bajó la cabeza.
— No sé leer ni escribir.
…….
▫️ En los tres casos, el patrón era el mismo.
-Se mataba por ideas que no se entendían.
-Se condenaba por palabras que no se habían leído.
-Se odiaba por conceptos que no se sabían definir.
No era convicción. Era repetición.
No era fe. Era eco.
No era certeza. Era obediencia ciega.
La violencia no nació del pensamiento. Nació de la ausencia de él.
El odio no se propaga a través del conocimiento. Se propaga donde el conocimiento no llega. Y cada vez que una sociedad renuncia a educar no crea ignorantes, crea armas humanas que no saben por qué disparan, pero están dispuestas a hacerlo. Ese es el precio invisible de la ignorancia. Y siempre lo paga alguien que no hizo nada para merecerlo.
…….
Alaa Al Aswany
Escritor egipcio

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

I think Mamdani might end up being the best thing that ever happened to us.

Why? Because he is openly collaborating with our enemies in wartime. He is paving the way for Trump to declare the Dems as UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANTS!

The Dems are collaborating with our direct enemies in wartime, and that’s not even mentioning aiding and abetting our enemies with their consistent stream of anti-American and pro-Iran MSM propaganda and disinformation. Also, the Dems refused to enforce US law and defend our borders, allowing our enemies’ insurgents to walk across our border, in which the Dems harbor them in “sanctuary” cities.

Well over 99% of people have no idea just how severe our situation is. This is a zero-sum game between the American People, and Communist/Globalist insurgents seeking to overthrow this nation from within.

And if anyone thinks Trump doesn’t have the stones to do something about it, you are mistaken. The process is already long underway. Trump and the US MIL have been setting the stage this entire time. Trump is going to save this nation, and he told us many times he is willing to use the full array of powers as Commander in Chief to do it.

Bookmark this post. One day, the Dems will be officially labeled as “unlawful enemy combatants”, and we will try them as literal terrorists via military tribunal.

Clip is from Kavanaugh hearing in September 2018:

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

As someone who grew up in the Muslim world, I’ve seen this pattern repeat itself:

When Muslims are weak and in the minority, they speak endlessly about tolerance, coexistence, and peace.

When they become strong and gain power, that tolerance completely disappears, even toward their own people.

This isn’t an opinion. This is historical fact, proven across centuries and across many countries.

The West needs to understand this pattern before it’s too late.

Tolerance in Islam is not a principle. It’s a strategy.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Mick Jagger is one of the smartest people to ever be a rock and roll star.

Bruce Springsteen is one of the stupidest people to ever be a rock and roll star.

I say this as someone who went to the same grammar school as Bruce. (Not at the same time of course, he's an old. Hello, Sister Loretta.)

Artistic talent and intelligence are often not inside the same brain.

I can't get no.....

https://t.co/P87B2ub6P8

[Cy @cgj4]

@japan_nobunaga While riding with my Uncle and Cousin on the way to a backpack hike, Uncle did this. He said, "Always wave and smile at the locals. You never know when you might be broke down and need help." A minute later I realized he meant we would stop for them too!