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May 2, 2024 18:07:33 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 18:07:33 GMT -5
Now, is a "halt to the fighting" as a condition of freeing hostages the same as surrender? Yes. The state of the situation before Hamas attacked WAS ceasefire. Hamas needs to lose, not live to fight another day.
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May 2, 2024 17:56:17 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 17:56:17 GMT -5
I guess to some extent, this is “youth” rebelling against the status quo in the world; the world that accepts the killing of innocents in the name of justifiable retaliation; a world they don’t want to sit by peaceably and accept. It’s kind of a coming of age for some. In that regard it is similar to the anti-war Viet Nam era. “We can change the world” Except that it's not retaliation. We're so used to not fighting wars , rather retaliating and hoping that's enough to show "we mean business" that we have forgotten what it is like to have war declared on us. Our current consciousness goes no further back than 9/11. We retaliated and never stopped. Imagine it's 1944 and after a long bloody war Germany is finally on the ropes. Can you imagine an American press -- much less our government -+ calling for a ceasefire and acquiescing to any of Germany's demands,? No. We expected them to surrender.
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May 2, 2024 17:20:44 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 17:20:44 GMT -5
Right. They knew going in that our government would turn on Israel. It only took them a month or so. And the question that remains begged is an evidence that the majority of the Palestinians weren't in favor of the attack. Still, our government asks Israel to surrender, not Hamas.
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 16:27:45 GMT -5
It's not an easy movie to watch, but it is awfully well written and acted. The Judge. Robert Downey, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Duvall.
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 16:14:25 GMT -5
So, you don't think they should surrender either, but you're going to argue the accuracy of my post?
Yeah, that usually works.
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 15:57:15 GMT -5
I was trying to explain it to my coworkers the other day but couldn't remember who sounded like who. I knew google would remind me. (the change is at about the 1:15 mark)
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 15:42:01 GMT -5
Haven't thought about that one in years. Great song. I had Tower of Power in my ears while cutting the yard earlier.
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 10:34:01 GMT -5
I enjoyed this story shared on facebook this morning. (I shared her extraordinary song "Wolves" a couple of years ago):
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 10:26:59 GMT -5
I've heard (and googling seems to confirm it) that female red wing black birds flock (seasonally) by the thousands while males don't flock at all.
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 10:19:20 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 10:03:48 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 10:00:12 GMT -5
I haven't been following Stephen's online classes closely. I click on the occasional image the makes me curious. As part of his teaching he is always discussing the most admired and famous portrait artists. I guess he occasionally demonstrates or dissects the original in a way that helps him describe the process. I thought this was interesting:
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 8:54:27 GMT -5
She sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall.
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 8:53:22 GMT -5
I really enjoy having Merlin along on my walks in the woods, but I'm skeptical that in the span of 200 yards I really heard Chestnut-sided, Nashville, Tennessee, and Cape May warblers. I'm guessing the most common to Indiana has a call that sounds like the other three. But maybe not. Maybe Indiana is the warbler melting pot of the bird world. On my route I have a customer who owns both and English and a French bulldog. I wonder how the dogs communicate with each other? Does the Frenchy bark English or the other way around?
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Post by millring on May 1, 2024 19:18:23 GMT -5
Very well done.
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Post by millring on May 1, 2024 17:49:32 GMT -5
Marshall knows everything about pickups.
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Post by millring on May 1, 2024 17:26:13 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 1, 2024 15:57:18 GMT -5
Two of my nephews will become doctors this month. Max and Peter.
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Post by millring on May 1, 2024 4:36:52 GMT -5
The ditches are getting very colorful. Sky brought to you by M.C. Escher
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Post by millring on May 1, 2024 4:28:59 GMT -5
I guess the reason it is so hard to distinguish the antisemites from the anti-Israel folks is their steadfast unity. They both believe that Israel is an illegitimate State, and that's why they have joined forces to protest and call for a ceasefire. The anti-Israel folks see duly elected Israeli government under Netanyahu as morally equivalent to Hamas. And they believe they have more in common with Hamas than with Israel. If that were not the case, at least SOMEBODY would be calling for the true villain, Hamas -- they ARE the aggressor -- to unconditionally surrender.
If you don't want them to surrender, by definition you want them to succeed.
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