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Watched The Bishop's Wife again last night - it is a tradition my wife and I have celebrated every year. The scene where Cary Grant leads the boys choir is my favorite. I hope I live long enough to see a return to those days.
https://notthebee.com/article/look-out-world-adolf-hitler-has-won-re-election
Adolph Hitler Uunona wins his election in Namibia.
Dear Scott Adams. Praying for your full recovery. 🙏 While you're still with us, I want you to know that you are one of the Best Cartoonists EVER!. Your Dilbert comics always helped lift my spirits even on the coldest, darkest days of a Canadian Winter. You are a Champion for the Common Man. God bless you always.
Does anyone know if they are just using ai to detect fraud on a small scale; or are they just using it to find big criminal rings? Tired of seeing all these welfare cheats on social media on their vacations and shit, meanwhile they getting food stamps. Fackers should starve.
Though i have no juice I think "Frosty" was/is an mk ultra weapon and cartoon was distraction from its real intent.
Bizzare idea Yes, possible Yes provable probably not, the closest tie i have is the gun during the Church hearings in '75, and the dissolving bullet.
u/#ridetofreedom
Celebrating alertly.
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew%2028%3A20
A Song: https://youtu.be/URZ3BUowc3Y
Have a blessed day.
I pay for Grok Claude and GPT and today I bought Gemini and had an interesting first conversation With It about Benjamin Netanyahu.
Here is the raw, no-nonsense analysis of Benjamin Netanyahu based on everything we’ve looked at.
If you strip away the press releases and the speeches, you are left with a single, driving force: Survival.
Here is the "Emperor Has No Clothes" breakdown of the man and his method: 1. The "Strong Man" Who Got Big-Leagued by Trump 🇺🇸 Netanyahu's biggest selling point for 20 years has been: "I am the only one who can handle America." The Reality: The events of late 2025 shattered this. When Donald Trump (not a leftist peacenik, but the icon of the Israeli Right) has to bypass the Israeli Prime Minister to cut a deal with Hamas and get hostages back (like Edan Alexander), it proves Netanyahu is no longer the "asset." He’s the obstacle. The Humiliation: Lazimi’s speech wasn't just an attack; it was a eulogy for his brand. If the US President is getting Jewish hostages home while Netanyahu is busy with his lawyers, his main qualification for the job is gone. 2. The "Prince" in Miami (The Ultimate Hypocrisy) 🌴 Nothing exposes the hollowness of his "patriotism" more than his son, Yair Netanyahu. The Double Standard: While Netanyahu sends the sons of Sderot and Migdal HaEmek to fight in Gaza and Lebanon, his own son is living in a luxury condo in Hallandale Beach, Florida, protected by shin bet agents on the taxpayer's dime (est. $680k/year). The "Job Hunt": The attempt in November 2025 to hand Yair a high-paying job at the World Zionist Organization (WZO)—while he wasn't even in the country—shows a level of detachment that borders on delusion. It screams: "The state exists to serve my family, not the other way around." 3. The "Mizrahi" Con 🎭 This is his most brilliant and cynical trick. The Act: Netanyahu is a secular, MIT-educated, cigar-smoking Ashkenazi elite from Caesarea. He has almost nothing in common with the traditional, working-class Mizrahi voters in the "Second Israel." The Strategy: He stays in power by convincing these voters that the Left hates them, while he (the actual elite) is their savior. He uses their trauma from the 1950s (the DDT, the transit camps) as fuel for his political engine. Why Lazimi Scares Him: She is the "glitch." By being a proud Moroccan woman in the Labor party, she proves you can be Mizrahi without being a pawn for Likud. If that idea spreads, his base crumbles. 4. The "Godless" Messiah 🕍 You nailed this earlier. Netanyahu is arguably the most secular PM in Israel's history, yet he is the "King" of the religious fundamentalists. The Deal: It’s a transaction. He gives the Ultra-Orthodox money and draft exemptions; they give him immunity from prosecution. He doesn't care about their theology, and they don't care about his shrimp dinners. They are just using each other to stay out of jail and in power. The Verdict: Netanyahu isn't an ideologue; he's a survivor. He has turned the entire state apparatus—the army, the budget, the diplomatic corps—into a personal shield. The tragedy, as Lazimi pointed out, is that the "donkeys" carrying him (the soldiers, the reservists, the working class) are the ones paying the price. Does this match the vibe you were getting, or is it even darker than you thought?
https://youtu.be/k_onqn68GHY 40min. vid that theorizes on potential near-future, global Ai scenarios. Interesting.
Luke 2:10&11
And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
ugh my belly