When they start reminding of me something that feels less like "Nice Taliban" energy.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Heart!
Theirs is a pretty happy picture, honestly!
"Greta Thunburg dines at Oxford restaurant..." (Photo with the owner, Jaya Patal)
Strangely, it feels like I am momentarily becoming more like a six-year-old who loved the feel of the warm sun and the smell of the very non-vegan bbq cookouts of childhood...
Just having a simple little life today.
Tori Amos - "Datura"
See? Get it together for the planet, guys.
"Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce romance is bad for the planet. Couple burns a whopping $70,779 jet fuel in the last three months"
Air pollution from private jets is still a thing
"Conservative senators tell the right: Drop the Taylor Swift fixation, enjoy the Super Bowl
'Everyone should embrace the Travis and Tay-Tay story,' Sen. Roger Marshall said."
Entertainment loves Trump, but will they be mean to Taylor Swift
" Snoop Dogg has 'nothing but love' for former President Donald Trump after previous feud"
Dad, you didn't marry anybody off for political reasons.
"There Are Dads Way Worse Than You:
Unimpeachable Evidence of Your Excellence as a Father"
"Be Greatfull You Had the Fun Grand-Dad."
"He made jokes about his son, and he never said 'Nepo-Nancy hangs out with Lame Losers at her Liberal College."
Long Lost Son and Married Into The Family have some Good Insights for Our Daughters.
Apparently the Taliban are more liberal because they actually enjoy watching TikToks, and Isis doesn't do that.
"Lord Miles After 8 Months In Taliban Custody"
I think the highlight of this is watching the "Barbie" movie with the Taliban (around minute 13)?
"Lord Miles After 8 Months In Taliban Custody"
Humph.
"Volunteers say the vast majority of households they interact with in Behsud district lack male breadwinners to provide for families of seven people on average."
~ Ali M. Latifi
"In a neglected part of Afghanistan, foreign aid cuts lead to hard winter choices
‘Families are now forced to choose between eating their one meal during the day or at night.’"
| The New Humanitarian
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2024/01/30/afghanistan-aid-cuts-hard-winter
Well, this has been worthwhile.
"Exclusive access inside the Taliban's palace" | Witness Documentary
"This is an apartheid." ~ Mahbouba Seraj
"Exclusive access inside the Taliban's palace" | Witness Documentary
Back to Trauma! Humanity's #1 Topic opens
"Exclusive access inside the Taliban's palace" | Witness Documentary
Those people who acted (lol!)
like you were a LESSER HUMAN BEING BY DESIGN in this lifetime just had some HUGELY IMPORTANT NEEDS TO FULFILL, would you say?
"LESSER HUMAN BEINGS BY DESIGN"
"This week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court responded to that conclusion: no. On Monday, the court issued a landmark opinion declaring that abortion restrictions do amount to sex-based discrimination and therefore are 'presumptively unconstitutional' under the state constitution’s equal rights amendment. The majority vehemently rejected Dobbs’ history-only analysis, noting that, until recently, 'those interpreting the law' saw women 'as not only having fewer legal rights than men but also as lesser human beings by design.' Justice David Wecht went even further: In an extraordinary concurrence, the justice recounted the historical use of abortion bans to repress women, condemned Alito’s error-ridden analysis, and repudiated the 'antiquated and misogynistic notion that a woman has no say over what happens to her own body.'”
"A State Supreme Court Just Issued the Most Devastating Rebuke of Dobbs Yet"
BY DAHLIA LITHWICK AND MARK JOSEPH STERN
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/pennsylvania-supreme-court-dobbs-sam-alito-abortion.html
Reasonably.
"With a single ruling, five justices wiped out millions of women’s access to basic health care and handed control over their medical decisions to politicians and judges. It wasn’t just the court’s judgment, though, that relegated women to a lesser place in the constitutional order; it was also the court’s reasoning, which used the centuries long oppression of women to justify an ongoing oppression of women by way of a deprivation of their rights. Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion rested largely on the views of dead white men who condoned the rape, beating, and murder of women to maintain female subjugation in every realm of life. And he dismissed his ruling’s ruinous impact on gender equality in a single conclusory paragraph asserting that abortion restrictions could not possibly discriminate against women."
~ DAHLIA LITHWICK AND MARK JOSEPH STERN
"A State Supreme Court Just Issued the Most Devastating Rebuke of Dobbs Yet"
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/pennsylvania-supreme-court-dobbs-sam-alito-abortion.html
Dear Friends Who Are Fans of Basketball
It would be so much harder to achieve your dreams of being in the WNBA if you were a teenager with a baby, wouldn't it?
"NBA guards Chris Paul, Malcolm Brogdon give an assist to filmmaker"
Dear Dudes Who Love The Dads That Entertain Them...
"She has witnessed how 13-year-old girls bear the children of 65-year-old men while neither families nor authorities seem to be concerned. On other occasions, she said, parents 'give away' their daughters because they cannot support them or because they discover that they are no longer virgins.
'It's not regarded as sexual abuse because, if my grandmother got pregnant and married at an early age, and my great-grandmother too and my mother too, then it means I should too,' Cabrera said.
In southern Dominican communities, most girls can relate to this, or know someone who does.
'My sister got pregnant at 16, and that was very disturbing,' said 14-year-old Laura Perez. 'She got together with a person much older than her, and they have a baby. I don't think that was right.'"
"Dominican Women Fight Child Marriage, Teen Pregnancy Amid Abortion Bans"
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Be Less Demoralizing.
Dehumanizing people because that's what the elders role-modeled for you to do is a trauma response.
Chivalrous Patriarchal Trauma Symptoms
"Gaza: After two months of war, women last to eat and children first to die"
Goofy Men! Someone had to be pregnant with them once.
"Lord Miles After 8 Months In Taliban Custody"
What were the Vikings like? Angles? Saxons? Jutes?
"Tourism In Taliban Controlled Afghanistan" ~ Brittanica
This could be enlightening.
"CPTSD Behaviors That LOOK Like Narcissism - The Crappy Childhood Fairy"
https://crappychildhoodfairy.com/2021/12/08/cptsd-behaviors-that-look-like-narcissism/
Do you really think so?
"All that bigotry that depressed you would feel much worse to you if you were living in another country right now."
Let's say you're living in a body on Earth right now.
Would you say that your values more aligned with the Taliban's or with some other, more feminist kinds of people?
Ha~ha.
*I think it's time for us to start seeing other people*
"Sona says she has zero to add to their conversation"
When they used to say, "It's so-and-so's world, and the rest of us just live in it"
What did that mean?
"I grew up in a man’s world. I know the damage narcissism can do."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/27/mans-world-narcissistic-men-girls-inferiority
"Sweet T" & Other Wounded Brothers Need To Clear Their Traumas in Healthier Ways, IMO.
"How the Taliban Enables Violence Against Women" | United States Institute of Peace
https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/12/how-taliban-enables-violence-against-women
"Prodigiousness is for Sons" Customs
"China's President Receives Afghan Ambassador; Taliban Seek Recognition From Russia, Iran"
Gee, how come?
Although you need not oppress women and girls, the conservative Taliban wants to, anyway.
Exodus, Exodus, Exodus. Were people nicer to women when you were written?
"Some contend that life begins at conception. Hence, abortion at any time is murder. Taken to its logical consequence, 1) a natural miscarriage is murder, and a formerly pregnant woman must be punished; and 2) incarceration of a pregnant woman punishes an innocent person. Yet, the concept that a fetus is a person contradicts teachings in the Old Testament, the core of Abrahamic religions. Exodus 21:22-25 says fatal harm to a woman (pregnant or not) is punished by execution of the offender, whereas fatal harm to a fetus merely results in a fine.
States are passing or contemplating laws banning abortion after six or 15 weeks of gestation, or defining personhood at conception. Are such laws medically sound? To answer this, let’s pose the converse: What are the criteria for death? The consensus among medical and legal professionals is for three concurrent signs: failure of the heart, lungs, and brain.
The rudiments of the heart, lungs, and brain appear during fetal development, but when they function is the critical issue. Though cardiac activity begins at six weeks, lungs are only capable of independent function by 24-28 weeks. Ask parents sitting in neonatal intensive care units while their prematurely birthed offspring teeter on the brink of life. Brain activity is complicated. Let’s take control of opposition of the thumb as an indicator — after all, this action distinguishes humans. Volitional control of the digits develops after birth.
Thus, if the three criteria for death guide our definition of the onset of life, there is no time when abortion should be illegal. Distressing as it may be, that includes rare third-trimester abortions. Such heart-rending decisions must be made by the woman and her physician, not politicians.
Using conception, six or 15 weeks of gestation as when life begins is flawed religiously, ethically, and medically. Abortion bans disrespect the diversity of the composition and religious practice of Americans, contradict medical knowledge, and destroy the separation of the church and government. Gage warned, 'Unless the American people rouse to instant action we shall soon find our government turned into a monarchy, church and state united, and the people no better than serfs.'
We must address abortion rights with knowledge, intelligence and respect."
Michael Miller lives in Florence.
Did Acceptable Bigotry stop bothering you after you turned 46?
"They were primarily interested in what happened to the mental health of women ages 18 to 45—a window they defined as childbearing age—after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion in June 2022. They zoomed in on women who lived in 13 states with so-called 'trigger laws,' or preemptive abortion bans designed to snap into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
From June 2022 through the end of the year, these women had larger increases in depression and anxiety symptoms than those in the 37 other states. 'The pattern is abundantly clear,' says Jennifer Payne, professor and vice chair of research in the University of Virginia’s department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, who was not involved with the study. The finding reinforces that the Supreme Court’s decision 'was a shock,' she says. 'This is not something that most women were expecting.'”
~ Hailey Weiss
"Abortion Restrictions Hurt Women's Mental Health"
https://time.com/6588761/abortion-restrictions-hurt-mental-health/
Dear Gratitude Journal App, we're still in the mewing phase!
"Crunchy mom darkness retreat" ~ CM
https://youtube.com/shorts/HDkfFhzNYPA?si=Qil4RkuJU8KNyvaO
"learning about life in a winter cottage - what the season has taught me" ~ CF
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sAWRZycfCcI&si=xGFXYDsRh0u2y6Cr
"If crunchy mom lived in the 1700's..." ~ CM
https://youtube.com/shorts/QCpTvOXqexk?si=DtI09tGCSBKq0DuP
""a personal update + we found out the gender of our baby" ~ CF
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-CPvKzh2OZM&si=AOf9WeyNRMsParJe
"The air we breathe..." ~ CM
https://youtube.com/shorts/1YchYi-AWvg?si=_Owz6bOoQygi9rNW
That's enough! It's 12:02, and I think it's past time for my noonly constitutional.
Hang on there. Maybe I was mistaken!
"Students at The Park School of Baltimore were five minutes into a Zoom call with two Swarthmore College professors on Friday when the screen went black. School leadership had shut down the internet.
The video call was an attempt by some students to take matters into their own hands when school leaders abruptly canceled an assembly on the war in Israel and Gaza. Angry with the decision, student government members contacted the professors who’d been scheduled to speak — Sa’ed Atshan, a Palestinian, and Moriel Rothman-Zecher, a Jewish Israeli citizen — and announced in a schoolwide email that the talk was on.
The school’s leadership wasn’t having it."
~ Kristen Griffith and Liz Bowie
"Baltimore’s Park School canceled a talk on Israel and Gaza"
Oooh. Ahhh!
"Sofia Coppola in Praise of Edith Wharton’s Beloved Antiheroine, Undine Spragg"
https://lithub.com/sofia-coppola-in-praise-of-edith-whartons-beloved-antiheroine-undine-spragg/
It's a "Custom of the Country" Thing.
They used to do drugs on this bridge, but now, things are better! But where did everyone's sisters go? We'll figure it out eventually.
"Taliban"
داخل معقل طالبان في أفغانستان - الإمارة الإسلامية
~ Joe HaTTab
Fine, I'll get some books to read, too.
"Having Trouble Raising Investment in Your Startup?"
"Oxford Professor's Latest Book Examines Roots of Project Failure"
https://www.enr.com/articles/55774-oxford-professors-latest-book-examines-roots-of-project-failure
Mmmm, thin pancakes! With honey.
"We went to a shaman in the Ural mountains! (Bashkortostan, Russia)"
~ Eli from Russia
Time for Food, Glorious Food...
I am going to enjoy raisin bread toast!
"Breakfast in Jane Austen's England" ~ Tasting History with Max Miller
Humans on Film...
"‘Israelism’: The promised land needs a new narrative"
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/29/israelism-the-promised-land-needs-a-new-narrative
How???? By Hiding Her Face.
"I teach in secret, defying the Taliban ban and fighting despair
The biggest challenge of teaching girls and women in Afghanistan is not the security risk or the bad internet connection, but the creeping hopelessness."
~ Maryam Ahmadi
Motivational and Spiritual Things.
When Our Health & Human Rights met Our Egos in Our Patriarchal Capitalist Society.
Other way around.
"To understand the conservative fervor around abortion, contraception, and LGBTQ rights, we have to understand the impact these relatively new rights have on the labor market."
~ ELIZABETH GREGORY
"From 'Don’t Say Gay' to Abortion Bans, A New Pronatalism"
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/abortion-bans-pronatalism/
&
"Study estimates 64,000 pregnancies from rape in states that enacted abortion bans post-Roe"
US and THEM, man...
"Study estimates 64,000 pregnancies from rape in states that enacted abortion bans post-Roe"
&
"To understand the conservative fervor around abortion, contraception, and LGBTQ rights, we have to understand the impact these relatively new rights have on the labor market."
~ ELIZABETH GREGORY
"From 'Don’t Say Gay' to Abortion Bans, A New Pronatalism"
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/abortion-bans-pronatalism/
How can money help a man? Well, firstly, it's not just about money...
"Veiled rebellion: Female medical students go underground"
"Taliban
داخل معقل طالبان في أفغانستان - الإمارة الإسلامية"
~ Joe HaTTab
Monday, January 29, 2024
It's time 4 me to drink Maker's Mark with Angostura Bitters and a Luxardo Cherry!
AKA an OLD FASHIONED! After I watched a proudly successful in the Patriarchal World of Ramen Noodles female chef, and then the Taliban explained why women and girls still aren't in school as of a few days ago, (and in between I was imagining a kinder, gentler version of "Game of Thrones," for some reason.)
I hope your daughters have access to great, phenomenal, excellent healthcare, you guys. I hope you have it in your next life.
"Abirz Kitchen"
الطباخة الأشهر بالعالم على التيك توك !! لبنان
Joe HaTTab
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b-LNcTlvSlo&si=Yigy0jr945rVXQPi
"inside the Taliban's palace"
من داخل قصر حكومة طالبان في أفغانستان
Joe HaTTab
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MYAUGtGlgZs&si=U4musKrwL9hIIwv0
"POV: A Man Experiences Empathy For The First Time
#comedy #parody #satire #comedian"
~ Caroline Easom
Bravo.
"My thorn hurts" (intorno al quarto minuto) LOL.
"making an italian recipe but i instruct ONLY in italian to my boyfriend" ~ Rosie Maio
The internet of good things: how fun, to be able to watch this!
Ah, it is the 2020s...
"How we celebrate Carnival in Italy 🎭"
~ Rosie Maio
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UFqjCauKWtw&si=yvp8HDufAzTCLyYy
Munching away on American cuisine...
Alas, it is difficult for some young peoole to make an affordable living in Italy...(around minute 3).
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Datura 3x
Karl William Lund - "Breaking The Law & Datura [Emeli Sand & Tori Amos] cover"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wnS-nb5Yoj8&si=Evm7hePe8Z2xUmPp
Tori Amos - "Take To The Sky/Datura @ Berlin 2014"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NKR93zGR24
Tori Amos - "Datura"
Ah. Getting Spiritual! 3x
"Russell Brand explains desire for 'personal relationship' with God"
"Russell Brand Says Reading the Bible Is Important To Him"
"Russell Brand says Christ is becoming
'more important,' desires a 'personal relationship' with God"
https://www.christianpost.com/news/russell-brand-says-christ-is-becoming-more-important-to-him.html
Get Thee To The Greek?
“'I appreciate y'all's professionalism,' Bunn said.
'No one wants someone showing up on their doorstep early in the morning,' Hastings said. 'The way I look at, man, if it was me on the other side of it, I would want you to do the same for me.'”
~ Katie J.M. Baker
"Get Him to the Greek Official Trailer #1 - (2010)"
Lots of people can be more like Michael Rondini than those who make excuses for guys like "Sweet T" Bunn in 2024.
“'At this point, it’s about helping others,' Michael Rondini said. “There’s nothing I could do to bring Megan back, but the things that Megan and my wife Cindy wanted were for other women that claimed sexual assault not to have to go through what we went through.”
~ Melissa Brown
T.J. Bunn settles wrongful death Megan Rondini lawsuit
"A College Student Accused A Powerful Man Of Rape. Then She Became A Suspect "
"This country..." Oops, I mean...
"This house..." & "Muhammad my friend..."
Tori Amos - "Take to the Sky (WTSF 2003)"
What Values Are You Communicating Because Of Your Needs?
Mornings are tough lately. It is as if I feel more bothered by the war and by what's been happening to women in my country than others feel. Where's their compassion? I feel grief about human carelessness and coldness. I feel physical symptoms and worried about my health. I feel disappointed by how sad some people are...I am going to get better, and process it all, but how heartbreaking it has been.
Friday, January 26, 2024
I want her to sleep and heal.
I think my body might be crying with so much grief and sorrow and exhaustion.
Higher Healing Powers, I Pray For Your Help
Everytime I think I am getting well enough and then my body gets sick and exhausted by GRIEF.
God, help me have more healing today.
This morning I am in a body that just needs healing for my respiratory system and also such grief and trauma...
Thursday, January 25, 2024
I am grateful for the artists!
Tori Amos - "Take to the Sky - Scarlet Sessions..."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RRfRl53hi5s&si=1U6SnN3jXT0qaQl9
I think if she ever saw it, she might like this place:
"Uptown Wine Merchant"
I do! I mean, I have only been there twice, but it was lovely.
Of course I never met her. Or ... Lots of others ... Why did the universe give me my near death plane experience next to Elon? "Only the shadow knows" how weird it is to walk into the little community library and stare at the bookshelf and be like, oh, that guy again.
(I will look up the radio programme that came up with that phrase lay_ter...)
Humans need to eat.
"Everyone in Gaza is hungry.”
– @antonioguterres says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is appalling, with a quarter of the population – more than half a million people – grappling with catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
https://x.com/UN/status/1750292897373536488?t=-z1a9RAd3E_yA0F5rmKMkw&s=09
Likeable! Unlikeable!
LOL, THIS GUY.
"What people eat in the coldest city on earth? Yakutsk, Russia" ~ Eli from Russia
Gee, that seems old-fashioned.
"Sofia Coppola, Florence Pugh Project Scrapped Due To 'Unlikable' Women"
In the 1990s: Why do all the freshmen girls need to read "The House of Mirth," of all novels in this language.
In the 2020s: I wonder if I should reread it now.
"The House of Mirth: Jennifer Egan on Edith Wharton"
Her younger brother seems to be an excellent cook!
"A week with my family in Ufa, Russia | Bashkortost - the land of Bashkirs and Tatars"
~ Eli from Russia
This house is like, a great place to wash dishes, yay, I love having access to clean running water!
"This house is like Russia..."
Tori Amos - "Take To The Sky" (Official Audio)
Angels...
Destroying all the schools and hospitals in Los Angeles would not be a good solution to the problem of violence.
"Israel destroys hundreds of educational institutions"
What is a lifetime of processing nightmares and a variety of weird experiences for, anyways?
Do you suppose there were times in the past when some groups of people didn't always discriminate against other kinds of people on purpose?
"Former Mt. SAC student claims school covered up on campus rape"
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2015/04/21/former-mt-sac-student-claims-school-covered-up-on-campus-rape/
It's just that when they get dysregulated, they tend to treat some kinds of people better than other kinds of people, for a variety of reasons?
"RIVERSIDE: Woman protests college hiring decision"
https://www.pressenterprise.com/2016/04/05/riverside-woman-protests-college-hiring-decision/
And also, some of them were trained by Our Patriarchal Society to have very low self esteem.
"Mt. SAC will not take action against Brian Crichlow Despite Sex Abuse Allegations"
"Investigating Lawsuits Against Mt. SAC" – SACMedia
https://sac.media/2022/07/27/investigating-lawsuits-against-mt-sac/
"2023 Mt SAC Alumnus of the Year Sona Movsesian"
That video was weirdly superfocused on a guy who never even went there, for some reason.Eat your nursery rhymes.
There's a secret verse they never taught me when I was a kid!
"Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her well.
Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had another and didn't love her;
Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he loved her very well."
"Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater" | Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose
https://nurseryrhymesmg.com/rhymes/peter_peter_pumpkin_eater.htm
And also
"'Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?' - AgriLife Today"
https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2021/10/26/is-a-pumpkin-a-fruit-or-a-vegetable/
Hi, Cat.
"I am here to tell you and your throat that feels especially icky on the right side this morning that you need to give me some pets before you make the soup with the garlic."
"There's a lot of that here"
"Yeah that's desperation, unfortunately."
@InsightfulNomad
"This is the Dark Side of Tel Aviv"
"They could have done better with the colors, but..."
"Jewish neighborhood full of Palestinian flags in Jerusalem"
@InsightfulNomad
Staying alive...ah, ah, ah ah....
People in certain industries who are still acting like they are addicted to perpetuating very chauvinistic, narcissistic, insensitive behavior patterns as a way of staying alive in certain environments are actually pretty traumatized in their own ways, and for their own reasons, huh?
Please help me choose healthy healing now
I'm so very tired.
Body's feeling it and fighting off something.
Please please please please please.
Thank you.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
It looks like it is a different quality of life...
"The Most Anti-Zionist Jewish Neighbourhood in Israel" ~ Insightful Nomad
Wow, seventeen years ago...
"Ajjaq was born and raised in Gretna, Louisiana, across the river from New Orleans. Last summer his parents brought him and his siblings to al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya, a village in the West Bank, to help the children reconnect with Palestinian culture.
'[He was] a New Orleans native – a New Orleanian just like me and you,' Mohammad Abdeljabber, the boy's uncle, told WDSU, a television station in New Orleans.
Ajjaq's relatives and local Palestinian news outlets said he was killed by Israeli forces using live rounds. The live ammunition struck him in the head, and he died en route to hospital."
~ MEE
"Family of American teen killed in West Bank..."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/family-american-teen-killed-west-bank-hits-out-aid-israel
Wow, only a year ago...
"The Unknown Lives of Palestinian Christians // Behind the Wall" ~ Nomadic Wes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZoTobSfySFQ&si=bP51sifladKC7hlt
Hello, traveling souls of this planet.
"Hebron: The Reality of Israeli Settlement in Palestine // Behind the Wall"
Here today, gone tomorrow...
The chanting that is described in this story sounds spiritual in my head.
"They were sitting in a circle when the police arrived.
'Where you go, I will go, my friend,' the students chanted as police officers began separating each of the 20 students before handcuffing them.
'Because your people are my people, your people are mine, your people are my people, your Divine my Divine,' they continued."
"Where you go, I will go, my friend."
~ Azad Essa
Violence is such a poor use of resources.
"'They are killer machines – they are using our tax dollars in the US to support the weapons to kill our own children,' Hafez Ajjaq, father of the late 17-year-old Tawfiq Hafez Ajjaq, said of Israel’s forces, according to the Associated Press.
'How many fathers and mothers have to say goodbye to their children? How many more?' he said during the funeral for his son on Saturday, as reported by the AP.
He further called on Americans to 'see with their own eyes' the ongoing violence, both from Israeli settler attacks and Israeli military raids, taking place in the occupied West Bank."
~ MEE Staff
"Family of American teen killed in West Bank hits out at US aid to Israel
Tawfiq Hafez Ajjaq's father calls on Americans to 'see with their own eyes' the ongoing Israeli violence in West Bank"
Words will never hurt as much as actually orphaned children undergoing operations and amputations without any anesthesia.
"Irish MEP Clare Daly calls US President 'Butcher Biden' for supporting Israel in Gaza"
Genocidal Nightmares? Processing Trauma Again.
"Rich dad forces mom and kids to be way worse to women than they actually had to be because of where all the money is coming from."
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
I heard Grandma X had just as much anesthesia for her C section as Grandma Y had.
How Lucky is That?!?!?!?
I wonder how long it will take to come back to life!
"Explore Palestine's Huge Local Market // Behind The Wall"
~ Nomadic Wes
What a Time to Not Be Pregnant.
"Pregnant Women in Gaza Are Undergoing C-Sections Without Anesthesia as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens
CARE International 'now has confirmation' that the lack of anesthesia from Israel’s blockade is subjecting pregnant women to the unthinkable"
https://jezebel.com/pregnant-women-in-gaza-are-undergoing-c-sections-withou-1850982366
Who would that help?
Why should your most revered Patriarchs be treated with so much disdain and contempt by a lot of brain-washed, patriarchal people in their next lifetimes just because they're living in a lot of different kinds of bodies?
And yet, they also make less money, sometimes due to health issues, too.
"Women pay billions more out of pocket for health care: analysis"
Is it normal to care about this healthcare issue in your culture?
"Miscarriages in Gaza Have Increased 300% Under Israeli Bombing"
https://jezebel.com/miscarriages-in-gaza-have-increased-300-under-israeli-1851168680
Hey, Beauty...
PJ Harvey - "Send His Love To Me"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rsUIl7qVzYw&si=McgOzOA_XovX9SvY
🎼💸🌬️☁️🏜️🌎
"Bullet the red, white and blue sky..."
Wow, she has a lot of money.
"My psychiatrist increased the Prozac by 5mg, then 10. I joined a support group, got two part-time nannies, which I am privileged to afford. I started EMDR for my traumatic birth experience."
~ Brett Murphy Hunt
"I Couldn't Look at My Newborn Babies"
https://www.newsweek.com/couldnt-look-my-newborn-babies-1859406
Hmmm, I wonder why.
"I Miscarried in Texas. My Doctors Put Abortion Law First."
https://www.newsweek.com/i-miscarried-texas-doctors-abortion-law-1861677
What About Student Loan Forgiveness?
Maybe she's actually secretly grateful that his wife and kids are probably a lot less chauvinistic than he is, although you couldn't always tell from the way they're all dealing with the system of oppressive patriarchal nonsense.
"Natasha Lyonne feels pretty darn grateful about..."
https://www.instagram.com/teamcoco/
Rolex and Bentley?
Monday, January 22, 2024
Visitors from all over the world were blessed by Happy Meal Toys
More languages were overheard in that little half hour visit...
https://californiathroughmylens.com/original-mcdonalds-museum-san-bernardino/
More to investigate soon...
"Fogleman (2003) examines the theological, demographic, and sociological roots of factional clashes between Moravians and their more traditional German Lutheran and Reformed coreligionists, focusing on mid-18th-century communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where these confrontations were frequent and sometimes violent. Moravians' beliefs centered on a feminized Holy Spirit, the right of women to preach, sacralizing the sex act, and metaphorically re-gendering Jesus Christ. These teachings were perceived as threats to more mainstream Christian articles of faith, which stressed the masculinity of the Trinity as the theological cornerstone of the nuclear patriarchal family, the core structure in upholding moral and social order. As Moravian preachers far outnumbered the very few Lutheran or Reformed clergy in the mid-Atlantic colonies during the 1730s–40's and because the Moravians welcomed anyone into their church services, most German Pietists viewed Moravians as more than harmless heretics. Moreover, in the temporal context of a period of intense European immigration to the colonies, the Moravians were seen as challenging the long-term social stability of the colonial community as a whole. Although the Moravians never became a dominant sect in the region, the perception of them as a serious religious and social threat highlights the significant role gendered power issues have played in religious controversy in North America."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravian_Church_in_North_America
Sunday, January 21, 2024
3 women before the foot binding started...
"As the practice of foot-binding makes brutally clear, social forces in China then subjugated women. And the impact can be appreciated by considering three of China’s greatest female figures: the politician Shangguan Wan’er (664-710), the poet Li Qing-zhao (1084-c.1151) and the warrior Liang Hongyu (c.1100-1135). All three women lived before foot-binding became the norm. They had distinguished themselves in their own right—not as voices behind the throne, or muses to inspire others, but as self-directed agents. Though none is well known in the West, the women are household names in China."
~ Amanda Foreman
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-footbinding-persisted-china-millennium-180953971/
Life experiences, dreams, words.
"NEXT WEEK, LAWYERS from the Center for Constitutional Rights will test the principles of the judicial branch of the U.S. government as they present arguments in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza charging that Biden, Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin violated U.S. and international law. One of the laws Biden and his underlings are accused of violating was actually sponsored by then-Sen. Biden in 1988, which officially made U.S. law consistent with the obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention, imposing criminal penalties for committing, assisting, or inciting genocide. The suit charges 'that these U.S. officials have failed to prevent genocide and are aiding and abetting genocide.' Similar to South Africa’s requests at The Hague, the U.S. lawyers are asking a federal court in California to 'order an end to U.S. military and diplomatic support to Israel' while the case is being adjudicated."
'The Biden administration knows what the law is internationally and it knows what the law is domestically,' said Katherine Gallagher, a senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and one of the lead attorneys litigating the suit. In an interview, she pointed to volumes of U.S. statements and legal assertions addressing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including filings submitted to the International Court of Justice in support of prosecuting Russia, and argued those apply to the war against Gaza. 'When the victims are Palestinian and the perpetrators are Israeli, we see the United States do a 180 and absolutely ignore its obligations to not provide the means by which a genocide is being carried out.'”
~ Jeremy Scahill
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/17/biden-gaza-genocide-israel-aid/
Not everyone has had the same life experiences, but people can read.
"There appears to be no Israeli crime grave enough for U.S. lawmakers to consider pausing, let alone stopping, the U.S. role in facilitating the mass killing of Palestinians even to review whether the White House is abiding by U.S. laws. Despite the common Republican characterization of Biden as running a lawless administration, only one Republican, Sen. Rand Paul, voted in favor of a resolution aimed at investigating whether Biden is actually breaking the law."
~ Jeremy Scahill
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/17/biden-gaza-genocide-israel-aid/
Because of seeing some other small shoes in a museum yesterday...
"The truth, no matter how unpalatable, is that foot-binding was experienced, perpetuated and administered by women. Though utterly rejected in China now—the last shoe factory making lotus shoes closed in 1999—it survived for a thousand years in part because of women’s emotional investment in the practice. The lotus shoe is a reminder that the history of women did not follow a straight line from misery to progress, nor is it merely a scroll of patriarchy writ large. Shangguan, Li and Liang had few peers in Europe in their own time. But with the advent of foot-binding, their spiritual descendants were in the West. Meanwhile, for the next 1,000 years, Chinese women directed their energies and talents toward achieving a three-inch version of physical perfection."
~ Amanda Foreman
"'Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium'
Despite the pain, millions of Chinese women stood firm in their devotion to the tradition"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-footbinding-persisted-china-millennium-180953971/
The cat is so blissfully unaware of tragic uses of tax dollars...
She is a holy and well-fed creature who pins a pair human legs to a mattress.
Farah, Farah, Farah...
At least three times I have woken up with the name Farah in my head.
I had a classmate named Farah when I was very young. She was nice.
"17. Faramund
It is an Old German name meaning protector of travelers. 'Fara' means 'journey' or 'to travel' and “munt” means 'to protect.'"
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Many pairs of small shoes.
"Amsterdam… thousands of shoes represent the children that have lost their lives in Gaza, while the names of the deceased children have their names read out…🇳🇱🇵🇸"
https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1746122214544674837?t=3m3RNM1W00bUFIakqkb9fA&s=09
They probably have unresolved trauma issues! Sigh.
"Two Columbia University students, both IOF soldiers, sprayed a chemical weapon on peaceful protesters. Skunk spray is used on Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli occupation. It is known to cause nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting. @Columbia must take action."
https://x.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1748729253770698944?t=cAaVQhEjJ18j9vqculIKRg&s=09
"Theatre etiquette." What is that?
"Something I am deeply passionate about is yelling at people. Especially when those people have no theatre etiquette. What happened to theatre etiquette?"
https://x.com/Rrrrnessa/status/1748669751373562224?t=nTcssHGp8Iu-l5rnfgfgeA&s=09
"It’s not just Israel on trial’..."
X has matured so much since college.
"It’s infuriating to realise that I am constantly seeing new [horrific] videos coming out Gaza. It’s constant. I’ve not yet seen a repetitive video. The worst thing is that most of these videos are not shared on the mainstream media platforms."
https://x.com/Rrrrnessa/status/1748694619443937465?t=RNEK_PLlKwxbMcMEw8l2kg&s=09
"Young Palestinian girl cry’s as she watches the Israeli army demolish her home…
There are over 15,000 demolition orders in Jerusalem alone, in some cases they give the family the choice to demolish their own home, or pay for the demolition…🇵🇸💔"
https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1747147661046845773?t=fvM_JyPRNz0gmuAOEwXlRQ&s=09
That's a better idea.
I seem feel better when I get more focused on truly caring about appreciating a balanced life, not neglecting this human experience by chasing after some shallow external markers of success like the unwell patriarchal society wants a lot of people to do.
Process, process, process.
It's a time to process how shocked your system got by how shallow some people chose to be when they needed to survive a life.
There was this very advanced person on the path
She was working in a gift shop and she was just very laid back and helpful and actually the Opposite of a Stereotypical Salesman.
They're crying?
I guess some people who used to be more open to lots of kinds of human beings got very traumatized and also more narrow-minded long the way and that's why they're acting out such heartbreakingly disappointing, insensitive, selfish behavior patterns now.
The Banality of Careless Human Behavior
"'War is stupid and I want it to end’: Injured Palestinian children speak"
Spend more time with nature and feel better.
How to survive systems of oppression and certain humans being absolutely unbearable.
Friday, January 19, 2024
Sometimes grief is bigger.
"Women and children are the main victims of the Israel-Hamas war with 16,000 killed, UN says"
https://news.yahoo.com/women-children-main-victims-gaza-010225795.html
Several minutes in and they seem nice
"what i eat in a week at my NONNA's house in ITALY"
~ Rosie Maio
Just imagining a good double feature in the future.
"'This is a film to make us unsafe in the cinema. As it should be."
"Mickey Rapkin on Carrying On a Conversation"
https://moveablefest.com/mickey-rapkin-anne-frank-gift-shop/
Post Traumatic Stress? What Post Traumatic Stress.
Wow, that spiral background really worked it's magic in that one. High High High High
"Conan, Sona, and Matt mess around with the green screen"
https://www.instagram.com/teamcoco/
Hopes for a Healed Future
You're the sugary coating and the caraway seed.
No, Patriarchal minions no! Indentured servitude is not the way to go.
WHO
"Mean Girls | Official Trailer (2024 Movie)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fFtdbEgnUOk&si=SZVC-Us1mBAo2LQ4
Oh wait, where'd that joke go?
"And that's when X said, 'Your health is very important, and I am here for you.'"
"'Thanks for doing that with the tax money,' doesn't really seem to change anything for the better."
Or you're gonna get it even worse next time, and don't pretend you don't know what we're saying!
"Don't even bother coming home until you've propped up a needy, abusive Patriarchal Ego in exchange for money."
X needed to make money the old-fashioned way.
Or what would X's parents say?
"X, you just haven't been fitting in the rest like we raised you, and we're very disappointed in your $tatus."
It's hard for them to visualize 20,000 babies, said the moms and dads standing up to the abusive patriarchal norms
"Live: Nearly 20,000 babies born into Gaza war 'hell', says UN"
We know you love US!
"Gaza children displaced by Israel’s war cling to to toys in al-Shifa Hospital"
It's an "Our Paychecks Come From Capitalist Patriarchal Sources, Stupid" thing.
Why some people still got that "Just because you tell me it's been very bad for you and your health when humans act desperate for compliments from insecure, abusive, narcissistic people who have been molded by an unhealthy patriarchal society doesn't mean I am gonna change at all because I found ways to work this system that makes me get those hits of dopamine I crave, in addition to the paychecks, of course" energy.
Need to look up "Sacred Economics" soon...
"SACRED ECONOMICS with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-GoFzU3cRE4&si=D_O3gkteX9ZX7J0M
What can put a restless soul into a good state of restfulness?
"I'm not sure how to trust myself - trying to find self confidence" ~ The Cottage Fairy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rSor0Rw3y0w&si=9lyQ4-U0dXdU15Ly
She recently posted about how some of her YouTube followers sent her dozens of Bibles and forty something baby blankets after she announced her pregnancy, and she was overwhelmed by all the "gifts."
I am not surprised because "traditional wife / mom" values are strongly inculcated in certain parts of American culture, but I guess there are reasons she took that post down...So maybe all those Bibles and blankets will just keep arriving anyway, and eventually they will get donated to others?
Thursday, January 18, 2024
So happy I got to enjoy nature today! Now I'm online again. And I was thinking, in regards to student loans...
If someone like me, who did part time public service work for many years, and was in school part time, because that was what seemed best for my health situation, also volunteered sometimes, and was able to volunteer in exchange for some student loan forgiveness, why couldn't that be possible in this world?
Get Well Soon, Humanity.
‘"It’s not just Israel on trial’: Bosnian war survivor’s support for genocide case"
So happy to have met a soul searcher.
When you were a narcissist and I avoided you like a schmoozing, soul-destroying suck-up, that was way less fun.
Recipes.
"Surprising color recipes #colormixing #paintmixing"
https://youtube.com/shorts/-MmxnwhCMbs?si=W87DrGDiUnfFFyab
"Joe Biden’s invisible Palestinians"
https://www.ft.com/content/90fb3df1-521d-45e8-b130-2a7efc8611ff
Who doesn't love ghost babies?
Their freedom from the trauma of being shackled to the Patriarchal Norms is absolutely so precious and adorable.
All the Mothers Of Late Night Television Shows Who Love Babies That Are Enduring Bombing Raids Paid For With Their Tax Dollars Unite.
"Jennifer Lawrence told Robert De Niro 'go home' at wedding rehearsal dinner"
Maybe some people will start to wake up more quickly.
Actually, the number of willful people from all kinds of backgrounds who in the past might have subscribed to the "I have been traumatized, so now I am entitled to abuse and gaslight others" mentality might find that it is a way of dealing with their traumas that gets less and less attractive to them.
Some of those who were addicted to that way of dealing with their own problems might already be growing and finding much better choices...
Traumatized by what they inherited from a capitalist patriarchal society...
Means that some people you could have gotten along with chose to participate in smaller minded ways of being alive on this planet. Their fears led them to places where they turned themselves into abusive, insecure narcissists. Fools.
Pray.
I need to pray for higher sources to help me feel better and more healed.
There are some people who had potential to be better, but their addictions to self-absorption, insensitivity and gaslighting, and their will to just "go along" with others for very shallow, insecure reasons feels really not okay, and really not healthy, and I feel I need to heal from that trauma.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Well, musical interlude of the day...
Thanks to watching "The Psychology of Israeli Propaganda" ~ Indie Nile
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_YCQV_iUGRE&si=-SZ3iVoYsLTDRE-W
I can't get a Taylor Swift song you might hear at a Panera out of my head.
Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero (Official Music Video)"
"LOVE" "lol"
"So I absolutely LOVE the salted caramel cream cold brew but the caffeine is way too much for me and makes me feel sick from my heart pounding lol, does anyone who works at starbucks have a way to recreate this but decaf or something similar?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/starbucks/comments/zpcwe7/decaf_cold_brew/
Maybe some of their ancestors weren't so into doing that...
The way some people clearly need to make themselves blend in with people who are being needlessly sexist and chauvinistic and untrustworthy in order to feel they have achieved anything in life is actually oppressively disappointing.
Humans really need to get better.
People being just as narcissistic as the Nazis were is a painful phenomenon. I doubt the Trump voters are any worse at being addicted to obliviousness.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
What if some of the outfits are cringing. Or wailing for the lost children.
"My feed is Emmy acceptance speech /child in Gaza with a leg blown off / acceptance speech / mother grieving a baby burned beyond recognition / red carpet outfits / father who had to amputate his child’s leg over a bucket
And no one says a word"
https://x.com/Vanessid/status/1747172474310299749?t=SMFpugT6YmLzaU7FvfSSEA&s=09
I feel music helps.
And that it's better to truly feel good than to become too addicted to mean laughs.
Maybe smelling the grass in a park and getting ice cream can help.
People need to learn how to take better care of themselves, too.
They mentioned empathy.
"Palestinian American official quits Biden administration over Gaza strategy"
~ Tariq Habash & Joy Reid
What does getting better feel like.
"Palestinian American official quits Biden administration over Gaza strategy"
~ Tariq Habash & Joy Reid
When you grow as a person a little more...
"You're going to be really great at accepting the grandchildren who aren't like you, and you might even learn how to enjoy the experience."
Walking down the street...the kind I like to meet...
She birthed and fed more kids than you! Ohhhhhh grouchy Grandma.
"Pretty Woman (Roy Orbinson); Cover by Beatrice Florea & Andrei Cerbu"
Looks like an eggplant, tastes like calamari...
"1989 Easy Spirit Shoes 'Looks Like A Pump, Feels Like A Sneaker'" 🎶
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DhhvnCl97mg&si=pxB8P7KvX_AFULnX
That is something from the food bank that did not get labeled but it's got egg and breadcrumbs and Parmesan and olive oil and it's baking.
Today! The Day After MLK Day.
"Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta among LA County Human Relations Honorees"
And Yesterday...
"Dolores Huerta: Don’t Let the Haters Divide Us"
https://www.latinousa.org/2023/11/17/doloreshuerta-2/
Eleanor Rigby Picks Up Some Rice and Reincarnates with A New Pedigree...
Lol! Sigh.
Lyla June - "All Nations Rise (Official Music Video)"
Would out-of-wedlock great great grand somebody like me?
Making some crusted baked Parmesan something in the oven.
Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq "You Got To Run (Spirit of the Wind)"
Of course.
Did you ever avoid eggs, and especially yolks, due to gall bladder issues, and get no feedback about nutrition from the doctors, and then get into watching videos about Choline, and start taking it, and feel better, and find out that egg yolks are an amazing source of Choline.
Wine Office versus Coffee Office.
Which one is better for your blood sugar and hormone make up? Vegan or Pescatarian or Carnivore.
Weirdly enough.
Do you know that some people have genetics that make them feel hungover and sick for hours after one cup of non-decaf cold brew (coffee) but relaxed and calm after one glass of wine?
If you have an internship in a certain kind of body
Which means part time paid public service work was not counted like full time paid public service work, should you use your unpaid internship in a certain kind of body to assist humanity somehow, anyway, and...um...
I feel very confused about the student loan situation.
If I am on the SAVE plan and have had loans since the late 90s and also since 2005, and if sometimes I paid but sometimes I was in school half time and didn't, and if I am paying regularly now, how do I get the information about eligibility for forgiveness based on number of student loan payments?
I do not know...
Joe Biden on X: "I encourage all borrowers who may be eligible for
early debt cancellation to sign up for the SAVE plan at http://StudentAid.gov. Already, 6.9 million borrowers are enrolled in the plan, and 3.9 million have a $0 monthly payment.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1747329123779764224
Expect Better.
I think that acting like girls' and women's experiences are not that important just because that's what the Patriarchal Culture wanted you to do is too mean for a society to be healthy.
Different Choices are Possible.
When people get mean just because that's what got role-modeled for them, and then they act like they want you to go along with whatever their mean coping mechanism programs are, you can find better options.
Did God create humans to be so mean to each other? Of course not.
"The couple decided they would not be getting pregnant again -- Gonzales had a surgical sterilization.
'Why on earth would she wanna risk that again? Because if -- if we were to have another child with a fetal abnormality, then we would have to go through all of this again. She barely got through it the first time,' Blackmon said.
'I couldn't be back there to support her in any way and she crumbled. And she could not take that again, nor could I, for that matter. I could never see my wife like that again,' Blackmon said in a group interview with the eight other men.
'And it wasn't until today that I spoke with all these men, 'cause men typically like to suppress things. We try to be strong for our women. But I didn't realize how much it affected me until today, and how much of it comes surging back to me,' Blackmon said."
By Nadine El-Bawab, Christina Ng and Tess Scott
'"Our hearts hurt'"