i've been saying for years that my greatest fear is that islam and christianity build a common cause and start to work together to achieve common goals.

they may be easily defeated if divided, but western society will have a serious problem on it's hands that it will need to aggressively fight if we ever wake up to a serious political alliance between christians and muslims.

if these ultra-right demagogues like marjorie taylor-greene were to be truly honest to their principles, they might even consider converting to islam, as their brand of extreme conservatism is expressed far more aggressively in contemporary islam than it is in contemporary christianity.

the muslims actually believe this shit.

what is left of christianity is, at best, a cynical ploy to control people, and it's been that way for 200 years.

i don't think that europe is offering very inspiring leadership to the world right now.

i think we should make our own choices.

and is canada going to be a follower and get in line yet again, or are we going to write one of our own policies for the first time in decades?

let's get a round of applause and a warm statement of congratulations for the uk.

it took them decades to get here - world war two, decolonization, deindustrialization, "multiculturalism", brexit and now this. this is the end.

they are now officially irrelevant.

in response to the uk's threat to israel, netanyahu should send them an official Certificate of Irrelevance, with his signature at the bottom, and suggest they frame it on the wall at 10 downing, alongside the specious war crimes indictment, with neither jurisdiction nor grounds.

jews in north america tend to be secular and liberal and lean left.

muslims do not tend to be secular or liberal, and tend to have very right-wing political positions, but the fake left keeps going after them anyways because they're brown.

the far right is a bunch of nazis and it sees an opportunity to align with right-wing palestinian extremists, which it agrees with on most issues. 

the right being pro-gaza is not surprising; that is conservatives in the west aligning with conservatives in the middle east and makes clear ideological sense.

what has never made sense is the right's phony embrace of israel, which was not the case in the goldwater or nixon years, but is something that developed out of the oil politics of the 1970s, which young people don't remember or understand well. and what doesn't make sense is the fake left's alignment with palestine as an indigenous movement, in opposition to all facts in relation to the matter.

if this is flipping back over and conservative muslims are realizing that they align more with the right than the centre, that's of benefit to the left, which is suspended in amber until it can get past this attempt to absorb an ethnic group because it's brown, in the face of their own opposition to it.

the story here isn't about the right turning on israel, it's about the conservative movement embracing islam as it's own, which it should have done 20 years ago because it is.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/29/maga-is-turning-on-israel-over-gaza-but-trump-is-unmoved-00482891

i'll probably use cayenne, cumin, pepper and frank's.

the internet is telling me to use oregano and paprika, too. ok.

i don't know how to cook hamburger. i would never buy this; i think it's gross. apparently, i need to let it thaw in the fridge long enough to cut it into pieces. then i guess i'm going to try frying it in olive oil and putting it in my pasta, but this is different than the salami because i actually have to cook it. it's cooked when it's brown, right?

i'm going to assume that bison is essentially the same as cow.

as this has to sit in the fridge for a while, i may not get to it until early in the morning. i've consequently just consumed four more piece of white bread, which finishes the rest of the plum butter and opens up the strawberry jam.

it turns out there's an election in november, and she was actually already removed from consideration by her own party.

she's not running because her own political party asked her to step down and already replaced her.

to the people of montreal,

you're a pretty liberal city. unfortunately, your current mayor has proven repeatedly that she does not believe in free speech, and is a serious threat to a number of groups living in the city.

please punish her sufficiently by removing her from office at the earliest opportunity in a show of popular rejection.

thanks,

jessica

they should release marwan barghouti, and assassinate him on his way out of the facility.

hamas can come get the body.

"george doesn't like tariffs"

who know who's really in hard times right now though is george costanza. the import/export business is in hard times. vandelay industries is in bankruptcy protection.

he's about to give up and go back to school to study marine biology.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-costanza-a1956a129

almost everybody's missing the point. donald trump is trying to replace income taxes with consumption taxes, and get foreigners to pay off the united states' debt. it's hard to get your head around because it's wrong, but it is what it is. he's not failing to learn ricardian equivalence, and wouldn't know what the fuck you're talking about. this isn't a debate between free trade and protectionism, this is donald trump thinking he's got a sneaky scheme to get the united states out of debt to china by taxing europe, japan and canada. 

let's try to understand this. 

in principle, if the united states wants to tax canadian imports, it is just taxing it's own people. it's a sovereign state. canada shouldn't really care, in principle. nor should we see any logic in responding by hiking tariffs. europe was correct to accept 0% tariffs. that's a benefit for european consumers, that get access to american agricultural products at lower prices. europe will continue to tax income and other forms of wealth, like the economists tell them to. it's america's choice if it wants to tax european goods, and it doesn't really hurt europe because there's little to no direct competition.

the problem with that approach when it comes to canada is that we are competing over a lot of key items.

but, that's not what donald trump is thinking. donald trump is trying to raise tax revenue.

i think that breaking this impasse might have something to do with finding some other way for trump to generate tax revenue other than taxing canadian imports, because that's what he wants. nobody in canada wants to pay twice as much for orange juice, or thinks that hiking the price of food shipped into canada is sticking it to the yankees. that only hurts us. that's a stupid policy.

if canadian negotiators can find some other way to increase tax revenue coming into the united states from nominal canadian sources (even if americans actually pay it) that doesn't include making our goods uncompetitive in american markets, donald trump might be convinced that he's getting what he wants.

stop pretending this is an economics argument. it isn't. it's about taxation.

naw. it's not the donald that likes the phantom. 

it's just a nice memory.

he's allowed to have that.  

“My favorite Broadway show is Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, starring Patti LuPone,” he wrote. “I saw it six times, mostly with Ivana. Evita is not on Broadway right now, but I’m hopeful that they’ll bring it back.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/jd-vance-should-have-known-that-donald-trump-is-a-huge-theater-queen

when trump starts talking about cats again, it's because he misses ivanna, his first wife (and the mother of most of his kids). donald trump doesn't care about andrew lloyd webber.

it's the third anniversary of her death. they buried her in the golf course.

that might be why he's in a foul mood.

i'd give him the tiniest bit of slack. not much. just a teaspoon of empathy helps it all down.

i'm certainly not interested in getting married to jesus. fuck that.

i mean, he's dead. zombie vampire sex isn't my thing, no thank you.

this just popped up in a google search by accident, and i'm wondering if i accidentally struck gold.

these stalkers are some kind of cult. they reference islamic law, but they call themselves "the family". i thought they might be the mob.

maybe i didn't get the reference.

is this the group stalking me?

as an aside, this looks like a helluva party:

"Spirit Helpers" include angels, other religious and mythical figures, and departed humans, including celebrities; for example the goddess Aphrodite, the Snowman, Merlin, the Sphinx, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Nixon, and Winston Churchill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_International

i guess this christian love bullshit isn't completely out of nowhere, but it's certainly hitting me by surprise.

is this a post-pandemic thing?

it has precursors:

there are apparently a handful of casual references to eunuchs in the bible, as though it was just a part of the world that existed, and no analysis or critique of it one way or the other. there were in fact eunuchs back then, and the people that wrote the bible saw it as a fact of life not worth commenting further on.

fwiw, jewish religious law apparently recognizes seven or eight different genders, and that would have been the world that the early christians lived in, although the issue doesn't come up in the actual bible. these look to me like they're very similar to the categories recognized in indigenous law in north america as well as in hindu law in india, suggesting the recognition of multiple genders was probably quite widespread in antiquity. the idea of two genders appears to be relatively recent, and not sourced from any actual religious text, or not honestly. that doesn't seem to be something that early christians or jews were very interested in or concerned about, and they don't seem to have been that concerned about criticizing the culture, as it existed.

the gays, though, are going to hell. that's clear as day. don't listen to christians trying to 'splain that away, they're full of shit.

i mean, you can make stuff up about god loving you unconditionally all you want, but this remains the best description of christianity i'm aware of:

i'm really having difficulty understanding what the fuck these retards are thinking.

this comment is really baffling:

Dudley said her interpretation of Christianity believes God has "unconditional love for all people," while Feucht's controversial stances make the religion feel exclusive for those who agree with those beliefs. 

i do not know what textual sources dudley would use to source her claim that god has "unconditional love for all people", given that the canonical christian texts contain things like god burning down cities because there's gay people in them, god flooding the earth because people are wicked, god sending his own people into slavery for worshiping a statue, etc. the jewish (christian, islamic, mormon) god is a vindictive, cruel, piece of shit. if the question is who is adhering to actual christian values, it would appear to be the goof with the acoustic guitar; god is pretty clear that the gays are going to hell.

but, regardless, that's what free speech is. who the fuck does this bitch think she is, defining a religion for everybody else? i mean, that's a pretty christian characteristic, certainly, trying to tell everybody else what to feel and think and believe. but why does she expect anybody to give a fuck?

in a free society, where we have freedom of conscience and belief and thought, you get to make those choices yourself, you're not forced to defer to some pastor somewhere that you may or may not give the slightest fuck about.

where did this intolerant mentality that rejects free thinking come from, all of a sudden? has this authoritarian radical centre been here the whole time? it's something that the southern poverty law centre or the rcmp ought to take a closer look at it, to try to understand where this radical hippie christian sect came from, out of nowhere, as it's firebombing christian churches out of nowhere.

as a transgendered woman, i'm far more frightened of ms. dudley's intolerance than i am of sean feucht's stupidity.

i had never had or heard of plum butter before, but i'm deciding i enjoy this.

it's like a fig newton in spread.

i also think that this single state of israel should consider entering into a confederation with christian lebanon and the non-muslim parts of syria, which should be dismantled as a failed state now that the baathist regime is gone.

i want to be clear. i've said this many times before.

i support one state in israel, which includes the west bank. i think israel should annex the west bank. i also think gaza should be reappended to egypt. 

in this one state of israel, which would be called the democratic state of israel, all people should have equal rights, regardless of belief system or language. it should be a legitimate democracy, where people have equal voting rights, equal rights to own property, etc. a functioning judiciary should enforce this law equally. people should also have equal access to religious shrines.

a state of palestine could only hinder and retard the process of getting to a single country of israel where everybody is equal. the state of israel is the more pragmatic vehicle to get to that end point and the one that should be utilized.

the primary block preventing this outcome is that arabs continue to refuse to recognize the primacy and legitimacy of israel, as a functioning democracy in the region. arabs, including palestinians, need to come to terms with the existence of israel as the status quo, and israel needs to continue to be extremely aggressive and dominant with them, until or if they do.

speaking of which, israel is overdue for an election, and should really schedule one immediately.

i actually spent almost all day yesterday sleeping, took a shower late and fell back asleep in the morning. i'm well rested. i hope it takes.

this is night 4 in a row without marijuana, which looks good on it's face, but makes me wonder. i've been fighting with loser potheads for years. they don't care if they make me sick. 

what happened was i threatened to withhold the rent. it only makes sense that that worked if the potheads are the owners. otherwise, they've been told to stop 50 times already and didn't. this is verification that i'm right, i'm being stalked. it's not something i can use legally.

the kneejerk next step is to get out, but this is dwelling number three that they've followed me to, and it's clear enough that it's pointless to run. they're obviously wealthy. they can follow me; they can buy they next place, if they put down an offer. 

i have to fight them.

i had the 12th plate of pasta yesterday and used up the second jug of juice, the salami, the 2nd pineapple and almost all of the baguette. i'm having the second bowl of guac in cycle 2 tonight, with the second of two containers of white rice and a can of corn, exactly like before. i've added some white bread with margarine tonight, as it's a little expired. it will be pasta plate 13 and 14, and two bowls of quinoa, for the rest of the week. i'll post my adapted quinoa in a few days, but it will probably have a can of kidney beans in it

- june 16th: doubled up salsa with chick peas, cheese, spices and vitamins.

- june 17th: onion soup bacon poutine

- june 18th: basic doritos nachos and french onon soup with bacon

- june 19th: doubled up salsa reprise

- june 20th: caesar salad without subs

- june 21st: 2nd onion soup poutine with onion soup and last chance salad

- june 22rd: 3rd onion soup poutine with onion soup with beets

- june 23rd: caesar salad without subs

- june 24th: caesar salad without subs

- june 25th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 26th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa

- june 27th: ad hoc pad thai

- june 28th: broccoli soup

- june 29th: fridge-clearing meal (oranges & garlic bread)

- june 30th: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 1st:    kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 2nd:  kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise

- july 3rd:  10 packages of instant oatmeal, in 5 installments. spaghetti-os + spices & vitamins (cumin, cayenne, pepper, oregano, paprika, sunflower seed, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, frank's).

- july 4th:  a can of stew and a can of corn, plus spices & vitamins.

- july 5th: a package of jasmine rice i had put aside as a quinoa sub (it probably isn't), with a can of peas and a can of tomato soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 6th: a can of beans cooked in a can of vegetable soup, plus spices and vitamins.

- july 7th:  two cans of chicken noodle soup, plus spices and vitamins. tim's xl double-double coffee in morning. two builders protein mini bars in evening. 7-11 coffee with jalapeno taquito late at night.

- july 8th: food bank junk food eat through - two bags of "real vegetable chips" (one big, one small), a bag of goldfish crackers, one mini crispy crunch, some strawberry licorice, prime energy drink, two tim horton's donuts, little ceasar's pepperoni pizza with unlabelled chocolate milk product.

- july 9th: another prime energy drink with another unlabelled chocolate milk product, unlabelled food bank ginger bread (two loaves)

- july 10th: pasta with minor subs (1), third energy drink, sour cream n cheddar chips

- july 11th: sour cream 'n' bacon, sour cream 'n' onion chips

- july 12th: more licorice, pasta with minor subs (2)

- july 13th: jalapeno cheddar chips, pasta with minor subs (3)

- july 14th: 10 baby cookies, pasta with minor subs (4)

- july 15th: i ate most of the 14th pasta on the 15th and followed it with the remaining baby cookies (which are actually french butter cookies, not baby cookies. they look like baby cookies). i did not make pasta for the 15th.

- july 16th:.  pasta with minor subs (5)

- july 17th:  pasta with minor subs (6)

- july 18th (on the 19th):  pasta with minor subs (7)

- july 19th (on the 20th): cereal (one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and an apple)

- july 20th (on the 21st): pasta with minor subs (8)

- july 21st (on the 22nd): pasta with minor subs (9)

- july 22nd: cereal day 2 in cycle 2 (final cycle 2 cereal day): one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and two apples, one in the oatmeal and one standalone.

- july 23rd: cereal day 1 in cycle 3

- july 24: pasta with minor subs (10)

- july 25: cereal day 2 in cycle 3, same as 22 and 23, with the addition of 6 mini apple sauce containers.

- july 26: pasta with minor subs (11)

- july 27th - guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white broad with plum better.

- july 28th: pasta with minor subs (12)

- july 29th: guac with white rice and caned corn. two pieces of white toast with olive oil margarine, and then two pieces of toast with plum butter after.