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Lessons!

10 Oct 23   Some Lessons:   1) Hamas terrorists are wearing chest-rigs over civilian clothing.   Quick in. Quick out!   2) Current anti-Israel protests in NYC and Harvard University display signs labeled “Party for Socialism and Liberation” These exact-same signs are seen at BLM and ANTIFA events (frequently preceding mayhem, arson, and looting, […]

Correction!

9 Oct 23   In my last Quip, when I said “BHO,” I meant “JRB,” although BHO was not very helpful either!   /John

1914!

9 Oct 23   Continuing developments:   The offensive situation in Israel is rapidly gaining momentum.   Intense fighting is imminent, and it will go on for weeks, maybe months, and will involve heavy casualties in any event   There is scant hope for hostages taken by Hamas.   What is less predictable is what […]

Update!

8 Oct 23   Update   A friend who was visiting Israel, got caught-up in yesterday’s invasion.   He is okay (for now), but his flight back to CONUS on Monday has, understandably, been canceled.   So he is stuck there, indefinitely!   I suspect that apprehensive circumstance is shared by hundreds, maybe thousands, of […]

Slaughter of the Innocent!

7 Oct 23   “The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not ‘this moment’”   Eckhart Tolle   It’s a “come-as-you-are” war!   Innocent Israeli citizens, including children, were murdered in their homes today by teams of Hamas militants who forcefully breached the international border […]

More Bear Stories!

6 Oct 23   “You can bet your life on bear-spray”   So say any number of “outdoor experts” seen on TV.   Yet, that proved a fatal fantasy one week ago for a couple hiking in Banff National Park in Canada’s Alberta Provence.   The couple and their dog were attacked and killed by […]

How do you do?

5 Oct 23   False gods!   A thirty-two-year-old, self-proclaimed “social justice activist,” was randomly (apparently) attacked and stabbed to death on a NYC sidewalk early Tuesday morning, as he walked with his girlfriend.   This “activist” received a fatal lesson on realities of self-protection as he tried (unsuccessfully) to deal with a maniac (presumably […]

Property Crimes!

29 Sept 23   “Instead of Gnostics, we have Existentialists and God-is-dead theologians   Instead of Neo-Platonists, devotees to Zen   Instead of desert hermits, heroin addicts.   Instead of mortification of the flesh, sado-masochistic pornography.   As for public entertainment, fare offered on television is still a shade less brutal than that provided by […]

New Normal!

28 Sept 23   “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident, which everybody has decided not to see.”   Ayn Rand   An organized, social-media-communicated, two-pronged attack on private businesses by “flash-mobs,” as well as organized caravans of looters, hit the City of Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, and again last night.   There […]

The Apostle’s Advice!

25 Sept 23   “When possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all”   The Apostle Paul’s advice to First Century Christians living in Rome (Romans, 12:18)   My long-time friend and colleague, Mas Ayoob, in a recent article reminded us that, at least within this current civilization, the vast majority […]

Holy Days!

20 Sept 23   High Holy Days   In Judaism, Rosh Hashanah, “Jewish New Year,” and Yom Kippur, “Day of Atonement,” and the ten days between them, “Ten Days of Repentance (Aseret Yemei Teshuvah), are know as “High Holy Days” on the Jewish calendar. There are other important Hebrew holidays, such as Passover, but the […]

Enough?

19 Sept 23   “Most ‘activists’ are just attention-craving hypocrites.”   Abhijit Naskar   In yesterday’s issue of the Washington Post, we see this gratuitous headline:   “Lawmakers are spending way more to keep themselves safe.   Is it enough?”   Enough?   Apparently, there can never be enough of our money spent to protect […]

Live From The Field

17 Sept 23   “Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed elites, always rank-closing, mutually self-defending”   Glenn Greenwald   Freedom is suddenly popular, even in NYC, despite the fact that it makes elite liberals nervous!   A NYC Council member from Brooklyn (Ukrainian-born practicing NYC attorney, Inna Vernikov, formally Democrat, but recently switched-over to Republican) is […]

What ever happened to “Bruen?”

15 Sept 23   Defying Bruen!   In NYS, all gun and ammunition retail sales must now go through an NYS background check.   In other states, FBI NICS System Checks are instant and done at no charge, but NY’s Democrat governor insists that all background checks in NY instead go through the NY State […]

Highly Appropriate?

13 Sept 23   “Most see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should be seeing; not what is really there”   Zoe Marriott   The notorious PA illegal alien prison-escapee, Danelo Cavalcante, was recaptured today, in PA, apparently without incident.   Having committed at least two murders (one in Brazil and […]

Freedom and Innovation!

12 Sept 23   “The little man felt ill at ease. He said, ‘Some bread sir, if you please.’   The waiter hollered from down the hall,   ‘Yuh gets no bread with one meat ball!’”   From “One Meat Ball,” originally written by George Lane in 1855. Most famous rendition was sung by Josh […]

KS1

8 Sept 23   “We know that they are lying, and they know that they are lying. They even know that we know they are lying. We also know that they know we know they are lying too. They of course, know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as […]

“The Plan”

5 Sept 23 “What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?”   Thomas Sowell   “The Plan”   Open borders, “sanctuary cities” (mayors of which are now having second thoughts!), openly enticing aliens to invade our Country illegally and immediately become non-productive metro denizens, dependants upon our various welfare systems, […]

Your Own Magnificence!

2 Sept 23   “‘Security’ is a state of mind. At any moment it can be shattered by someone who knows how to breach it.”   Bradley Lilly   “Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.”   Antonin Scalia Of course, with leftists words also have meaning, but meanings suddenly change, based on corrupt […]

Wake Up!

1 Sept 23   “Being armed with a deadly weapon and simultaneously thinking I am doing something ‘routine’ is simply impossible for me”   Frieling   We all need to wake up!   A middle-aged Navy veteran, walking his dog right outside his own home in a “nice part” of Philadelphia, was precipitously attacked and […]