i'm a strong advocate of the idea of historical process.

the reclamation of israel by it's indigenous jewish population has been a long process, and there is no way to reverse or prevent it. it will run it's course. 

the stupid thing to do is to try to interfere with this process. the smart thing to do is to get out of the way.

netanyahu keeps signing off on everything that trump puts in front of him because he knows hamas will never live up to any agreement it signs. then, the americans go after netanyahu for being dishonest, but the truth is that netanyahu is humouring the americans.

i can predict the future without a crystal ball: within a week to ten days of signing, hamas will break the agreement.

that is why the premise of a negotiated peace in israel is utterly retarded on it's face. the words from hamas, and their signatures, are not worth anybody's time; there is complete certainty that hamas will break the agreement within two weeks, at the absolute max. so what's the point? the point is that the delusional president doesn't want to look at the data, he wants to imagine things that aren't real. what can israel do, but humour him?

when hamas breaks the deal, and israel resumes the bombing, you cannot blame israel. the problem is that trump is wasting everybody's time seeking a peaceful way out of a conflict that has to run it's course. when you have your enemy cornered, with a boot on their neck, and a gun on their forehead, you don't show mercy and relent; that is stupid, and that is weak. that is slave morality, slave logic. it's typical christian idiocy to forgive people you need to destroy, and just a prolongation of something that has to end violently. we can either burn the place down now and get on with it, or we can pretend there's some way to save the furniture, drag it out, and burn it down ten years from now. the result is the same, in the end.

i don't see the value in wasting time pretending that hamas can avoid total slaughter. they need to be completely killed off, to the last one of them, and the sooner it's over with, the faster we can move on. pretending otherwise is delusional and stupid.

it's relatively clear that there's no business case for expanded pipelines out of alberta. if there was, the private sector would be building them, and it isn't happening. so, why is the government in alberta so insistent on this? the reason is that the government's base thinks it will create jobs, and therefore wealth. albertans don't want the pipeline, exactly; they want more high-paying jobs. so, the government is forced to constantly push this idea, which is a non-starter, because the people want the labour.

it might be helpful for alberta to - quietly if necessary - find more realistic ways to generate these kinds of job opportunities.

do these people not have some kind of due diligence, a fiduciary responsibility, to take better care of this retarded swedish woman than this?

these boats have a fraction of the food of a single truck. it's a poorly put together, stupid stunt.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-aid-flotilla-intercepted-greta-thunberg-1.7648834

i couldn't imagine owning a computer that bans me from installing software, based on decisions made by the manufacturer. that's absurd. you don't own the computer at all, then.

i don't understand why people buy products from this terrible company.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/apple-removes-iceblock-app-criticism-trump-administration-rcna235333