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Juan Cole
Posted on 11/18/2013 by Juan Cole
The health minister in the Gaza Strip has warned that the territory is on the verge of a major health catastrophe.
Children are risking cholera and worse because they have to walk through raw sewage to get to school. The sewage has flooded the streets in Gaza City because the sewage treatment plant has no electricity. It has no electricity because the Israelis are blockading the strip, including its children (50% of the population). The Israelis are not letting cheap fuel in. Some inexpensive fuel used to come in from Egypt, but the military there has blocked smuggling tunnels leading into the strip from the Sinai Peninsula.
The Israeli military has since 2007 punished the whole Palestinian population because the Hamas Party won the 2006 elections. It actually produced figures on how much nutrition could be let in while keeping both children and adults among the Palestinians “on a diet.” US State Department cables revealed by Wikileaks show that the Israelis are deliberately keeping the Palestinians of Gaza just on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. As a result, 56 percent of residents are “food insecure.” They aren’t starving but they are just one or two lost paychecks away from starving. This kind of social engineering experiment on human beings (i.e. keeping Palestinians “on a diet”) is unconscionable to anyone in their right mind. It is also illegal in international law to impose collective punishment on an Occupied population. Some 70% of the 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza are from families expelled from what is now southern Israel by the 1948 ethnic cleansing campaign of Jewish settlers. Many could walk home in an hour or two but they are kept in refugee camps by the Israeli military. They are besieged on three sides by Israel and on one by Egypt, whose officers are cooperating with the Israeli-imposed blockade.
“A Palestinian official in Gaza City , Gaza Strip, said that treatment plant sewage is overflowing into the streets because of the shortage of electricity needed for waste treatment . Gaza officials said that the spill could harm the environment and affect 20,000 people. The smell is rancid and the water is lapping at car tires. Gaza has been suffering from fuel shortages and power cuts that cause hours of outages. The electricity brownouts are due to closure by Egypt of smuggling tunnels on the border with the Gaza Strip , which provides fuel to the Palestinian territories. The transfer of higher-priced fuel prices by the Israelis continued.”
BBC Monitoring quotes from the Israeli Arabic press:
“Al-Ittihad [organ of the Communist Party] [From editorial] “As though the accumulated tragedies which the people of Gaza Strip live as a result of the occupation, its crimes and siege, are not enough, power cuts for 18 hours a day constitute a tangible danger to life, safety and health of Gazans… The power cuts are caused by a fuel crisis… The matter has reached the extent of threatening lives of premature babies in hospitals and poverty stricken quarters where the evil has reached the extent of sewage water flooding streets and homes… It is the duty of those with a conscience to make a resounding call in order to save the people of Gaza from this killing darkness, killing siege and killing silence…”
You don’t see a problem here? The US is supporting such a country? The American people will go to war for such a government?
ReplyDeleteThe Israelis have no responsibility for Gaza at all now.
ReplyDeleteOther than to keep missiles from there being launched at them.
The Gazans can think of nothing else to do but turn the place into a launching pad.
Not even the Egyptians want them.
You should send them some food packages if you are so concerned. Make a donation. Though your money will likely end up in Switzerland or Paris.
Bob
More of the same.
ReplyDeleteNow the Israeli will post links to the opulent apartments and compounds, the black market markets.
Then they will tell us how good the people in Gaza have it.
The plight of the people of Gaza is well document.
Just not well publicized in the US media.
Leslie Moonves does not think it consequential content.
Or does not think it is politically correct or expedient to show the US audience the fruits of their labors blossoming in Palestine.
Truth pains the propagandist ...
DeleteSoon we will watch 'em ride the riffling wind up and scream bloody murder ...
Power outages in Gaza cause sewage to overflow into streets
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The Associated Press
| Nov 13, 2013 | Last Updated: Nov 13, 2013 - 7:01 UTC
A Palestinian official says sewage from a treatment plant is overflowing onto the streets in the Gaza Strip because of a shortage of electricity needed to process the waste.
Saed al-Atbash of the Gaza City wastewater department says the spillage could harm the environment and affect 20,000 people.
The liquid was submerging the tires of passing cars and smelled rancid.
Gaza has been enduring fuel and electricity shortages that have caused hours-long outages.
The shortages are due to political infighting as well as Egypt's closure of smuggling tunnels along the border with Gaza that provided fuel to the Palestinian territory. Egypt also has halted transfers of Qatari-funded fuel because of militant attacks on Egyptian security forces in the lawless Sinai Peninsula.
Higher-priced Israeli fuel transfers are continuing.
And mortar pins cause killing devises to land in Israel.
DeleteSince, like Jenny, you see both sides of the Jewish Problem, I sure we can expect a breathless expose on the cruelty of the Jewish-Egyptians/Egyptian-Jews.
If the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and we didn't declare war on them, but sent them oil instead, I would expect the prices we charged Japan to drift a bit higher, at a minimum.
DeleteThe electricity brownouts are due to closure by Egypt of smuggling tunnels on the border with the Gaza Strip , which provides fuel to the Palestinian territories.
ReplyDeleteWhy then are you blaming Israel?
The Israeli will not allow the Palestinians to open the port and freely import the fuel.
DeleteIt is an blockade, a state of civil war exists, in Eretz Israel.
Why then are you blaming Israel?
DeleteI know you can get this in one guess. :-)
Because the Israeli started the war, when the state of Israel was declared, in 1948.
DeleteInstead of creating an open and modern liberal Western State,
they followed the South African/ Rhodesian path of post colonial segregation and apartheid.
That is why the Israeli get the blame.
They own it, by force of arms.
Maybe if the damn rockets stopped flying, Israel would open the port. I know if rockets flew at me from Victoria I'd call for shutting Canuckistan down hard.
DeleteChicken and egg.
DeleteThe Israeli have a perspective, but that does not justify starving the population of Gaza.
From Wiki -
DeleteA study carried out by Johns Hopkins University (U.S.) and Al-Quds University (in Abu Dis) for CARE International in late 2002 revealed very high levels of dietary deficiency among the Palestinian population.
The study found that 17.5% of children aged 6–59 months suffered from chronic malnutrition. 53% of women of reproductive age and 44% of children were found to be anemic.
After the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip health conditions in Gaza Strip faced new challenges.
So, even before i went to total shit, one in five, six of the children weren't gettin' enough food.
Can't blame Hamas, for that. Israel was still inside the walls, in 2002. Large and in charge.
Deuce,
ReplyDeleteWar is hell...
You, of all people, should know that...
Your latest relationship has seemingly clouded your awareness that the Israelis are waging it in the most humanitarian way the world has ever seen. Their enemies, and ours, the muslims, know no such bounds...
I too have had my judgment muddled by entanglement in a woman's wiles...
Until you escape I wish you well. I appreciate your efforts in keeping the Bar alive... But I miss the days of more even handed postings...
I am being even-handed. This does not get reported anywhere. This is what gets reported everywhere else:
DeletePhilippine envoy thanks Israeli government, NGOs as aid and assistance continues
By BENJI ROSEN
11/13/2013 00:55
IDF, Foreign Ministry and Israeli, Jewish humanitarian organizations are all sending aid workers to the Philippines.
(Soldier preparing supplies for the Philippines
Soldier preparing supplies for the Philippines Photo: Courtesy IDF)
Philippine Ambassador to Israel Generoso D.G. Calonge expressed appreciation on Tuesday for the assistance Israel has offered to his storm-ravaged country, saying it made him “so happy.”
“I can’t describe the feeling right now... that my host country cares about our stricken people,” he told The Jerusalem Post. “I hope the people of Israel will maintain their attitude of people who are stricken with this crisis and who are on the losing end of natural disasters.”
Related:
IsraAID sends medical team to Philippines to help after monster storm
IDF to send field hospital to Philippines for typhoon relief
The IDF, Foreign Ministry and Israeli and Jewish humanitarian organizations are sending aid workers to the Philippines to provide rescue and relief efforts in the wake of super-typhoon Haiyan. The confirmed death toll from the storm was at least 1,774 as of Tuesday, with estimates reaching 10,000.
This is the same IDF that is making the life miserable for Palestinians unfortunate enough to border Israel.
DeleteSome “stricken people” are more worthy than others. I don’t pretend to be a Christian or anything else, but I do remember my Catholic and Baptist schooling. There was not one set of humanitarian rules for some and a slap up the side of the head for others.
DeleteHave Christians changed since 911? Has Jesus changed made some revisions in the moral code? This is fucking bullshit and you know it. It should not be tolerated by Israel, Egypt and the USA.
DeleteThey are children.
DeleteWill it shock anyone if they grown up to be terrorists?
DeleteYou don't think that they are feeling "The Love"?
DeleteAge structure:
0-14 years: 43.5% (male 394,108/female 372,897)
15-24 years: 20.9% (male 188,626/female 179,529)
25-54 years: 29.6% (male 268,122/female 254,630)
CIA factbook
Looking at those demographics, provided by the CIA, we can see a wave coming.
Where's "The Love"?
They are going to be one radicalized group of teens, no doubt of that.
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
Deletemale: 18,805
female: 17,903 (2010 est.)
The IDF is not making life miserable for anyone other than Hamas. Indeed, you have the IDF confused with the savage oppressors of the Palestinians. I just wish the Palestinians would vote them out... ...Oh, that's right, they don't vote as other nations understand that.
DeleteFor the hundredth time, when Hamas declares its acceptance of a perpetual Jewish state and agrees to live in peace, the lives of everyone will be better. I am sure our de facto allies the Egyptians agree.
You seem to be surprised to hear that there are still problems of 1948 to be solved, the most important component of which is the right to return of Palestinian refugees.
DeleteThe Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not just an issue of military occupation and Israel is not a country that was established “normally” and happened to occupy another country in 1967.
Palestinians are not struggling for a “state” but for freedom, liberation and equality, just like we were struggling for freedom in South Africa.
The Palestinian state cannot be the by-product of the Jewish state, just in order to keep the Jewish purity of Israel.
DeleteIsrael’s racial discrimination is daily life of most Palestinians.
Since Israel is a Jewish state, Israeli Jews are able to accrue special rights which non-Jews cannot do.
Palestinian Arabs have no place in a “Jewish” state.
Apartheid is a crime against humanity.
Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property.
It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality.
It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians,...
.... contrary to the rules of international law.
It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children.
Reuters
ReplyDeleteNovember 14, 2013
GAZA — Children waded through sewage submerging the streets of a central Gaza neighborhood on Thursday, a day after one of the blockaded Palestinian enclave's largest waste water treatment plants stopped for lack of fuel.
Fetid muck, which bubbles up from manholes and overflows from the idle plant when waste goes untreated, could soon spill into the homes of tens of thousands more residents in downtown Gaza City, officials and residents said.
Egypt's months-long crackdown on cross-border smuggling tunnels that used to bring fuel in cheaply has already forced Gaza's only power plant to stop, meaning two weeks of daily 12-hour blackouts for the territory's 1.8 million residents.
“This is the start of a catastrophe and unless the world listens to our cries, a real disaster may hit Gaza and its people,” Gaza municipality's Sa'ad El-Deen Al-Tbash said.
“This is a humanitarian, not a political issue. Gaza's children did nothing to deserve being stuck in sewage,” he told Reuters.
Gazan municipality officials said the treatment plant served 120,000 residents. They warned that other waste water facilities may soon run out of petrol to fuel generators.
Along one street, passersby covered their noses, and some residents driving donkey carts helped those slogging through pools of waste.
Egypt's closure of most of the estimated 1,200 tunnels run by the Islamist Hamas group has virtually stopped Egyptian fuel coming into Gaza, forcing Palestinians to buy Israeli imported petrol at double the price - 6.7 shekels ($1.9) a liter.
Why does Egyptian fuel have to run through tunnels? They don't want to support their Muslim brothers with pipelines into Gaza?
DeleteIsrael eased up on building materials such as concrete earlier in the year. Tell me how that material was used, and you do know. Now, how can you blame Israel for the misdeeds of the gangsters that run Gaza?
DeleteJew guys could have had actual Libertarian topics, but NOOOOO, that isn't what Jew wanted. Jew posted paragraphs one line at a time and three digit numbers to see me scramble. Now Jew get all Israel all the time.
ReplyDeleteYou are a real piece of work.
DeleteYou seem to be asking the Israelis to feed, clothe, heat and provide medical care for a group always shooting missiles at them who say in the Charter they wish to push Israel into the sea.
ReplyDeleteThere are no Israelis in Gaza any longer. They left, left their greenhouses for the Gazans, who promptly destroyed them and began shooting at the departed Israelis.
On all things Israeli you simply make no sense any longer. Excellent on other things, but have contracted some kind of tunnel vision syndrome on Israeli issues.
Since the thread will deteriorate like the others always do, I will try to stay out.
Doug!
D O U G !!
Every one in Gaza is Israeli or everyone in Israel is Palestinian.
DeleteBut it is one land, two people.
They have a problem, don't they.
But the Israeli created the problem, it is their's to fix.
The Gaza Strip is the same size, geographically, as Scottsdale, AZ.
DeleteThere are 225,000 people in Scottsdale. It is a mix of Arizona suburbia and empty space, parks and preserves.
Pretty sweet, desert community, water is pumped from the Salt river and ground aquifer,
transported from the Colorado River in a massive concrete ditch.
There are a half dozen hospitals, more golf courses than that.
A jet capable municipal airport, some world famous architecture and
Sarah Palin's winter residence.
There are a 1,657,000 people in Gaza.
Scottsdale's population is 13% that of Gaza.
Gaza Strip has over 7 times the people as does Scottsdale.
I always feel a little hemmed in, when in Scottsdale.
Traffic, crowds, lines at the check out counter in the Safeway and the bank.
Just imagine how those folk in Gaza must feel.
Anonymous Mon Nov 18, 08:28:00 PM EST
DeleteYou seem to be asking the Israelis to feed, clothe, heat and provide medical care for a group always shooting missiles at them who say in the Charter they wish to push Israel into the sea.
You gotta problem with that? Huh! Huh! "I'd like teach the world to sing that all the Jews are gone..."
What in the world are you talking about.
DeleteNo one is going to push the Israeli into the sea.
They are a nuclear weapons capable state.
They have a quantitative and qualitative military advantage against any opponent in the region.
The social polices they instigated in 1948 and expanded upon after 1967 are the cause of the crisis.
David Ben-Gurion, is a well documented politician, oft quoted.
His determination to create Eretz Israel by military means, to the exclusion of the Arab residents, the quotes you have provided of Moshe Dayan, the vast numbers of Palestinian home demolished.
They all tell the tale, dating back to before WWII, before WWI.
It is a long time conspiracy, plot, plan, operation.
Call it what you will.
A European invasion of the Middle East
"The First Jewish Crusade"
"Homecoming", which many may have believed in 1918, but has proven to be a fallacious claim.
I was gone three days, came back and read about you quitting when I saw your post that it was a done deal, all except removing your name. I checked on the admin page and in fact, you removed yourself as an admin.
ReplyDeleteI post what I believe and accept the consequences from the comments. Unless you want to post recipes, you will get hammered by some. I set my limits but leave more latitude than any other blog that I know of.
You gave me admin responsibilities but not admin power, as I could not delete any posts at all. I won't ask for another go-around, since you are probably tired of dealing with me, but if you understand up front that all I can do is post new topics, let the dice fly high and send the email again.
DeleteHigh maintenance ole boy, high maintenance. If that turns your crank go for it!
DeleteI begged her to resume her fine work. She would have none of it...Hmm...That has a familiar ring.
DeleteCan't resume until Deuce gives me the powah again. I'll pick it up again if I don't have to babysit, and if I don't have to wait too much longer for an answer.
Delete“Your whole life is a life of lies,” the narrator rebukes himself.
ReplyDelete“Year after year you sit in Kipling-haunted little Clubs, whisky to right of you, Pink’un to left of you, listening and eagerly agreeing while Colonel Bodger develops his theory that these bloody Nationalists should be boiled in oil.”
What was the real extent of Burma’s spell over Orwell’s mind?
It was explored in depth by Emma Larkin in her book “Finding George Orwell in Burma,”
in which she makes a sinisterly compelling argument. Orwell’s great trilogy of novels (“Burmese Days,” “Animal Farm” and “1984″),
she contends, presciently track the development of Burma —
a colonial society transformed, through independence and the socialist military coup in 1962, into a version of “Animal Farm,” and then “1984.”
Fortunately, the evolution continues with recent reforms and the 2010 release from house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi,
the famous dissident and now opposition leader.
Orwell was posted to the Irrawaddy Delta in 1924 and spent his days doing crime-scene forensics and surveillance work,
a job that gave him an invaluable insight into how police states work.
But the monotonous, disorienting plains may also have shaped him in darker ways.
Burma was one of the most violent parts of the British Raj. Dacoits, or armed gangs, roamed its waterways, visiting terror on the populace.
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/in-myanmar-retracing-george-orwells-steps/?hpw&rref=t-magazine&_r=1
As I wandered every night through the heart of Burma’s old colonial city
Delete— known in Orwell’s day as Rangoon —
down the length of Merchant Road and the wide avenues dripping with interwoven trees,
I sensed how that long-dead society with its secret police and its neurotic surveillance bureaucracy
had given rise directly both to the authoritarian government of today and Orwell’s masterpiece of yesterday.
But the verdant capital, to which officials like Orwell longed to return after lengthy stints in the jungle, remains alluring.
“Oh, the joy of those Rangoon trips!” as Flory puts it in “Burmese Days.”
“The rush to Smart and Mookerdum’s bookshop for the new novels out from England,
the dinner at Anderson’s with beefsteaks and butter that had travelled eight thousand miles on ice, the glorious drinking-bout!”
I couldn’t find Anderson’s and its beefsteaks — it has long disappeared, or perhaps it has been renamed.
Still, the British buildings remain, with their curious resemblance to the fictional London slums described in the opening pages of “1984,”
“sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken houses” —
except that they are also monumental, lovely and haunted.
Often painted aquamarine and dark liver-red, garnished with creeping moss and ferns, and adorned with dripping laundry,
they are the ruins of an older city that is still alive — accidentally beautiful things preserved by failure.
Around the corner from the Strand, I often passed a pale gray columned classical European building,
flying a state flag out front and bearing the Orwellian label Bureau of Special Investigations.
A man was asleep on the porch, his head resting on a tray of cauliflowers.
...refreshingly concise...Come on boys, have at it.
ReplyDeleteJenny Mon Nov 18, 07:34:00 PM EST
Let me save them the trouble. I am more anti-asshole than anti-semite. In your case, assuming you are a semite, I’m both.
allen Mon Nov 18, 09:08:00 PM EST
"Anti-asshole" has no universally definition, but "anti-Semite" does. At long last, an honest NAZI with the sane banality as Eichmann.
:-)
Delete
Well!
DeleteI must jump in here.
I, too, like Jenny,am "anti-asshole'!!
:)
And of all the assholes out there, professional assholes are the worst.
bwabwabwabwahahahahaha
Bob
Which means what? Nothing on the "anti-Semite" riff...Odd
DeleteJenny Mon Nov 18, 07:34:00 PM EST
DeleteLet me save them the trouble. I am more anti-asshole than anti-semite. In your case, assuming you are a semite, I’m both.
I hate to disturb your screed, but I think she is saying she doesn’t like him. Or is there some secret twist imbedded in the English language that is not apparent to me.
She made a comparison. She is less anti-Semitic, but anti-Semitic nonetheless. That is English. But I thought it would give you a problem. Jenny tells us she is an anti-Semite. It really isn't that hard to grasp.
DeleteThe tension between the national security adviser and the secretary of state spilled over into public view in the past week, when Rice laid out her critical appraisal of the Egyptian government, which contradicted Kerry’s assessment that Egypt was “on the path to democracy.
ReplyDeleteJohn Kerry doesn’t agree with Susan Rice on big portions of our Egypt policy
There are real differences in the fundamental approach to Egypt between Susan Rice and John Kerry
Nevertheless, officials and experts said the administration’s Egypt policy is hampered not only by internal tensions but also by being ad hoc and reactive, without a long-term strategy dictated by President Obama.
In Egypt, officials are receiving diverging messages from the U.S. government’s various parts, causing confusion as they try to decide how to react to recent U.S. actions
They are getting different messages from different people in Washington. There is confusion in Egypt as to what is actually U.S. policy,” the source said. “There is a vagueness and an unclear policy.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/18/exclusive-john-kerry-defies-the-white-house-on-egypt-policy.html
Exclusive: John Kerry Defies the White House on Egypt Policy
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DeleteIt is all part of the 'Plan', Allen. Just ask the rat.
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Ah...No
DeleteNeedless suffering is not ennobling, it is masochism. ___Frankl ;
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ReplyDeleteIn this place, even if your boss is a Jewish carpenter, if you oppose giving free money to anyone, including Israel (especially if we have to borrow the money from China in the first place), then you are a Nazi.
DeleteYou are not a Nazi, but the money we have given to Israel and Egypt has been a good investment over the years. It has helped keep the peace between the two, and it has helped the Egyptian military get a grip over the MB.
DeleteSurely you don't want the MB running Egypt.
Bob
No, you are being vindictively obtuse. Jenny said she was an "anti-Semite". How would you carpenter friend judge your honesty. But then, millions of the carpenter's so-called followers had no problem with genocide...funny sort of religion you have there...
DeleteSo Bob, we pay Egypt NOT to attack a member of the nuclear club? That's like paying Tom for the privilege of white warshing Aunt Polly's fence.
DeleteEgypt attacked Israel when they were a member of the nuclear club.
DeleteAnd they could have harassed Israel in many smaller ways and haven't really done so.
And they have booted the MB out again.
All this deserves a smiley face to the Egyptian military since the days of the last Israeli/Egyptian war. IMHO
Bob
Israel became a member of the nuclear club in 1976.
DeleteThe Sadat-Begin accord was 1978. No attacks since then.
Being antisemtic is not the same as being a Nazi.
DeleteThe two cannot be conflated. Should not be.
it devalues the terror of real NAZIs.
As Quirk noted, every poster here has been label an anti-Semite by quot.
By quot's Standard, he has made at least two antisemitic posts.
One pro Hitler post.
Doe that make quot either an anti-Semite or a NAZI?
Both or neither, allen?
The term antisemitic was not in fashion, had not been invented until 1879, NAZIs, they burst on the scene in 1920.
So were anti-Semites considered NAZIs before there were NAZIs.
Or are NAZIs like Fudds, you know 'em when you see 'em, in a Humpty Dumpty world?
As Quirk noted, every poster here has been label an anti-Semite by quot.
DeleteActually again not true.
I never called bob or allen or mat or sam or doug an anti-semite.
I called deuce, rufus, jenny and ms t anti-semites and quirk a prick.
Ed, I'll think about that, you being the resident expert on all things Jewish and NAZI. I suggest a look at etymology of "anti-Semite." Try anything that doesn't have "dirty Jew" in the lead. Try this:
Deletehttp://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1603-anti-semitism
Ed,
DeleteI have little time or tolerance for your quasi-intellectual meanderings. Find someone else with whom to play.
Israeli hospital treats Hamas PM Haniyeh’s granddaughter
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-hospital-treats-Hamas-PM-Haniyehs-granddaughter-332193
They should treat every child.
DeleteMake no exceptions for the Hamas PM's family.
But it is just another round of Baksheesh paid to the house boys of Palestine.
So obvious it hurts.
Mr Ed,
DeleteOnce more your abysmal ignorance of all things Jewish is showing through. Jewish medical care is given to thousands of Palestinians every year.
During 2012, Jewish hospitals cared for nearly 220,000 Palestinians. That is Two hundred-twenty THOUSAND. I know, you will say it should have been a bazillion, but we do the best we can. How about you.
DeleteGazans who desire medical care in Israeli hospitals must apply for a medical visa permit. In 2007, State of Israel granted 7,176 permits and denied 1,627 - wiki
DeleteLet us focus upon the 1,627 denied.
22% denied when compared to those admitted.
We are speaking of GAZA, not all of Palestine, allen.
Do not attempt to change horses in midstream.
The WHO reported that, in 2007, approval was given for 81.5 percent - 7,176 of 8,803 - of the requests submitted by patients in Gaza for an exit permit via Erez Crossing.
DeleteAccording to the report, in the first three months of 2007, which preceded the Hamas takeover,
Israel approved 90 percent of the requests;
in the last three months of 2007, following the Hamas takeover, the figure dropped to 69 percent.
http://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/medical_system
B'TSELEM - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories was established in February 1989 by a group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists, and Knesset members. It endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel.
B'Tselem in Hebrew literally means "in the image of," and is also used as a synonym for human dignity. The word is taken from Genesis 1:27 "And God created humans in his image. In the image of God did He create him." It is in this spirit that the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "All human beings are born equal in dignity and rights."
As an Israeli human rights organization, B'Tselem acts primarily to change Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories and ensure that its government, which rules the Occupied Territories, protects the human rights of residents there and complies with its obligations under international law.
Let us focus upon the 1,627 denied.
DeleteSure, they can go to any of the 21 arab nations that surround them.
Israel is 1/900th of the middle east.
I suggest those 1,627 denied travel to egypt.
Liberman: Palestinians oppress their own refugees
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Liberman-Palestinians-oppress-their-own-refugees-332125
Teresita RedingerMon Nov 18, 10:07:00 PM EST
ReplyDeleteIsrael became a member of the nuclear club in 1976.
The Sadat-Begin accord was 1978. No attacks since then.
*****
The great weight of opinion is that Israel had nuclear weapons before 1973.
Here, for instance -
"The Dimona nuclear facility was completed in 1960. Those same foreign reports say Israel had several dozen nuclear weapons in October 1973, as well as the means to deliver them: French-made Mirage and U.S.-made Phantom aircraft and the Jericho missile, an Israeli improvement on a French model. All of these, the reports said, were at full readiness.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh called his book on Israel's nuclear program "The Samson Option." The implication is that Israel would use atomic weapons if it viewed itself as facing certain, imminent destruction.
If these reports are accurate - and the documents released this week do not confirm them, but possibly only hint at them through portions blacked out by the military censor - this would be neither the first nor the last time Israel's leaders have discussed their so-called "doomsday weapons."
International researchers have posited that Israel had a nuclear device even before the 1967 Six-Day War."
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/did-israel-ever-consider-using-nuclear-weapons-1.317592
There are hundreds of similar articles.
Bob
I recall when Deuce asked us if we believed the unemployment numbers put out before the 2012 election - most did not -
ReplyDelete>>>>Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report
By John CrudeleNovember 18, 2013 | 8:06pm
In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.
The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated.
And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it.
Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the economy.
And a knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one employee — that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking reelection in 2012 and continues today
“He’s not the only one,” said the source, who asked to remain anonymous for now but is willing to talk with the Labor Department and Congress if asked.
The Census employee caught faking the results is Julius Buckmon, according to confidential Census documents obtained by The Post. Buckmon told me in an interview this past weekend that he was told to make up information by higher-ups at Census.<<<<
http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/census-faked-2012-election-jobs-report/
It was all just too damned convenient.
Here is the video of the Toronto Mayor pushing over the Councillor Lady -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/11/18/Vdeo-Toronto-Mayor-Rob-Ford-Attacks-Female-Councillor?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Looks like an assault or battery to me.
>>Assault and Battery
Two separate offenses against the person that when used in one expression may be defined as any unlawful and unpermitted touching of another. Assault is an act that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent, harmful, or offensive contact. The act consists of a threat of harm accompanied by an apparent, present ability to carry out the threat. Battery is a harmful or offensive touching of another.
The main distinction between the two offenses is the existence or nonexistence of a touching or contact. While contact is an essential element of battery, there must be an absence of contact for assault. Sometimes assault is defined loosely to include battery.
Assault and battery are offenses in both criminal and Tort Law; therefore, they can give rise to criminal or civil liability. In Criminal Law, an assault may additionally be defined as any attempt to commit a battery.
At Common Law, both offenses were misdemeanors. As of the early 2000s, under virtually all criminal codes, they are either misdemeanors or felonies. They are characterized as felonious when accompanied by a criminal intent, such as an intent to kill, rob, or rape, or when they are committed with a dangerous weapon.
Intent
Intent is an essential element of both offenses. Generally, it is only necessary for the defendant to have an intent to do the act that causes the harm. In other words, the act must be done voluntarily. Although an intent to harm the victim is likely to exist, it is not a required element of either offense. There is an exception to this rule for the attempted battery type of criminal assault. If a defendant who commits this crime does not have an intent to harm the victim, the individual cannot be guilty of the offense<<
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If that doesn't work, here-
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FACT Egypt is the world's largest Arab nation.
ReplyDeleteFACT Egypt historically controlled the Gaza Strip
FACT Egypt shares a long border with the Gaza Strip
FACT The arabs of the strip are the same people that live on the Egyptian side of the strip
FACT Hamas and Egypt USED to be friends until Hamas supported the Moslem brotherhood
FACT Hamas supports attacks on the Egyptian military on a daily basis
FACT Egypt COULD and SHOULD supply gaza with all it's material needs.
FACT Israel is an enemy of the rulers of the Strip whereas Egypt historically are their brothers.
Any problems with fuel, food or healthcare rests squarely at the feet of Hamas and it's arab brothers in Egypt.
Thanks for another thread proving who and what you have become.
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DeleteAny problems with fuel, food or healthcare rests squarely at the feet of Hamas and it's arab brothers in Egypt
Well, not quite all.
We already know that Israel is exploiting Palestinian oil reserves in the West Bank. What we haven't seen much reporting on are the roadblocks that Israel has been putting up to Gaza's exploitation of natural gas formations in Gaza territorial waters.
By late June, Israel was tapping into the little known Noa gas reserve in the Mediterranean off the coast of Gaza. Previously, Israel had “refrained from ordering development of the Noa field, fearing that this would lead to diplomatic problems vis-à-vis the Palestinian Authority”, according to the Israeli business daily Globes. The Noa reserve, whose yield is about 1.2 billion cubic metres, “is partly under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority in the economic zone of the Gaza Strip” - but Houston-based operator Noble Energy apparently “convinced” Israel’s Ministry of National Infrastructures that their drilling would “not spill over into other parts of the reserve.”
But the Gaza Marine gas reserves - about 32km from Gaza’s coastline - are unmistakeably within Gaza’s territorial waters which extend to about 35km off the coast. Israeli negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA) over the gas reserves have stalled for much of the last decade since their discovery in the late 1990s by the British Gas Group (BG Group). The main reason for the failure of negotiations was Israel’s demand that the gas should come ashore on its territory, and at below market price.
http://mondediplo.com/blogs/israel-s-war-for-gaza-s-gas
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Harvard Education
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DeleteAlberta was a good guess. So was Ontario, which got two guesses.
A Toronto City Council meeting looks a little like Japanese or South Korean democracy in the early days.
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ReplyDeleteIt has been laughable. The smug defense of a self-proclaimed anti-Semite...priceless.
ReplyDeleteWhat Israeli Historians Say About 1948 Ethnic Cleansing
ReplyDeleteBy Charley Reese
In an article in the Ha’aretz newspaper, Danny Rabinovitz wrote,
“What happened to the Palestinians in 1948 is Israel’s original sin...Between the 1950s and 1976, the state systematically confiscated most of the land of its remaining Palestinian citizens.”
Shahak stated in his article,
“In this context let me mention the pioneering work of Erskin Childers [Irish journalist].
Childers was first to show that the Zionist claim that Arab propaganda had called on the Palestinians to run away from their homes was a gross lie.
He inspected all broadcasts [the BBC recorded them and kept transcripts as did the American government] of the Arab radios of the time to find that no such call had ever been made.”
Finally, this quote from the diary of Yitzhak Tabenkin, a charismatic leader of the kibbutz movement. In his diary, Tabenkin stated,
“the ideals of Hitler which I like:
ethnic homogeneity,
the possibility of exchange of ethnic minorities;
the transfers of ethnic groups for the sake of an international order which for me are a particularly valuable feature.”
No wonder some people prefer myth to truth.
http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/179-washington-report-archives-1994-1999/september-1999/9607-behind-the-myths-what-israeli-historians-say-about-1948-ethnic-cleansing.html
In our political argument abroad, we minimize Arab opposition to us.
ReplyDeleteBut let us not ignore the truth among ourselves.
I insist on the truth, not out of respect for scientific but political realities.
The acknowledgement of this truth leads to inevitable and serious conclusions regarding our work in Palestine…
let us not build on the hope the terrorist gangs will get tired. If some get tired, others will replace them.
A people which fights against the usurpation of its land will not tire so easily…
it is easier for them to continue the war and not get tired than it is for us...
The Palestinian Arabs are not alone. The Syrians are coming to help.
From our point of view, they are strangers; in the point of law they are foreigners;
but to the Arabs, they are not foreigners at all …
The centre of the war is in Palestine, but its dimensions are much wider.
When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth.
As regards our security and life we defend ourselves and our moral and physical position is not bad.
We can face the gangs... and were we allowed to mobilize all our forces we would have no doubts about the outcome...
But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict which is in its essence a political one.
And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves.
Militarily, it is we who are on the defensive who have the upper hand but in the political sphere they are superior.
The land, the villages, the mountains, the roads are in their hands.
The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down,
and in their view we want to take away from them their country, while we are still outside.
They defend bases which are theirs, which is easier than conquering new bases...
let us not think that the terror is a result of Hitler's or Mussolini's propaganda —
this helps but the source of opposition is there among the Arabs.
○ Address at the Mapai Political Committee (7 June 1938) as quoted in Flapan, Simha, 1979.
In our political argument abroad, we minimize Arab opposition to us.
DeleteBut let us not ignore the truth among ourselves.
I insist on the truth, not out of respect for scientific but political realities.
The acknowledgement of this truth leads to inevitable and serious conclusions regarding our work in Palestine…
let us not build on the hope the terrorist gangs will get tired. If some get tired, others will replace them.
A people which fights against the usurpation of its land will not tire so easily…
it is easier for them to continue the war and not get tired than it is for us...
The Palestinian Arabs are not alone. The Syrians are coming to help.
From our point of view, they are strangers; in the point of law they are foreigners;
but to the Arabs, they are not foreigners at all …
The centre of the war is in Palestine, but its dimensions are much wider.
When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth.
As regards our security and life we defend ourselves and our moral and physical position is not bad.
We can face the gangs... and were we allowed to mobilize all our forces we would have no doubts about the outcome...
But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict which is in its essence a political one.
And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves.
Militarily, it is we who are on the defensive who have the upper hand but in the political sphere they are superior.
The land, the villages, the mountains, the roads are in their hands.
The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down,
and in their view we want to take away from them their country, while we are still outside.
They defend bases which are theirs, which is easier than conquering new bases...
let us not think that the terror is a result of Hitler's or Mussolini's propaganda —
this helps but the source of opposition is there among the Arabs.
○ Address at the Mapai Political Committee (7 June 1938) as quoted in Flapan, Simha, 1979.
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"I don't understand your optimism," Ben-Gurion declared.
"Why should the Arabs make peace?
If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel.
That is natural: we have taken their country.
Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them?
Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it's true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them?
There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault?
They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country.
Why should they accept that?
They may perhaps forget in one or two generations' time, but for the moment there is no chance.
So, it's simple: we have to stay strong and maintain a powerful army.
Our whole policy is there. Otherwise the Arabs will wipe us out.
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ReplyDeleteHey, Anonymous-Bob, your buddy's rap sheet keeps getting longer.
Zimmerman was charged with domestic aggravated assault with a weapon, domestic battery and criminal mischief. His first court appearance was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. He will be housed in a single-person cell and guards will check on him hourly, Lemma added.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131118/NATION/311180082#ixzz2l4QiEMvt
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Not exactly my 'buddy' Quirk.
DeleteYou are starting to twist words like the sick-o Whacky.
You must avoid that trap.
You are too good a person.
The only thing I argued about Z was there was no or not enough real evidence to convict the man, and what evidence there was actually pointed to Trayvon as being the aggressor.
I accept your apology before you offer it.
Z seems to have some female problems, which may have been exacerbated by what he's been through.
You have found him guilty already, as you did before, and he hasn't even been before the judge yet.
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DeleteHere is Z's side of the story in which you probably are not interested -
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/os-george-zimmerman-arrested-20131118,0,1837318.story
I have no idea what happened, anymore than you. Maybe they are both embellishing and the truth lies somewhere in between.
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Z seems to have some female problems, which may have been exacerbated by what he's been through.
I was just jerking your chain a little as I could give a shit about the guy; but, I've noted you still comment about him on occasion. However, after the comment above I am starting to wonder (even more than usual) about you.
Da boy got more than women problems. He is a whack-job walking.
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I would never argue for instance that just because my lawyer lady got you off all those bad check charges pro bono that you are an innocent angel in all other matters.
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The "rubber stamp" defense.
DeleteReally, Quirk, that was genius.
And she presented it well to the Jury.
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Z is not as well balanced as you, that is for sure.
DeleteHe doesn't see the advantages of a preternaturally absurd defense that overwhelms a jury's ability to reason. You do.
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Delete"Pro boner, pro boner."
I still can't help smiling when thinking of her last words to me.
Also, that law degree on her wall made me chuckle, 2 ft across and 3 ft high, graduated Magna Cum from the Alhandro Institute of Law and Stuff, Jaurez, Mexico.
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Beats off your degree.
DeleteWhich reads at the bottom, in part, beat off your creditors by soliciting me
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DeleteBeats off your degree.
No. No. That's an insulting thing to say about her.
"Pro boner"
"Pro boner" was what she said.
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Is anti-semitism their fault?
ReplyDeleteNot exclusively, for sure.
But -
THE MUFTI OF JERUSALEM: ARCHITECT OF THE HOLOCAUST
by PAMELA GELLER
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The Mufti, whom his nephew Yasser Arafat called “our hero,” is famous for his fanatical Jew-hatred. During World War II, the Mufti lived in Berlin, where he met Hitler and traveled in top Nazi circles (he even stayed in Hitler’s bunker toward the end of the war). Among his close friends was Adolf Eichmann, who is commonly thought to be the architect of the Holocaust. Journalist Maurice Pearlman, author of the 1947 book The Mufti of Jerusalem, said that the Mufti advised Eichmann on the best ways to persecute Jews.
Hitler gave the Mufti a radio station, which al-Husseini used to preach Nazism and genocide in Arabic. In one of his broadcasts, the Mufti exhorted Arabs:
According to the Muslim religion, the defense of your life is a duty which can only be fulfilled by annihilating the Jews. This is your best opportunity to get rid of this dirty race, which has usurped your rights and brought misfortune and destruction on your countries. Kill the Jews, burn their property, destroy their stores, annihilate these base supporters of British imperialism. Your sole hope of salvation lies in annihilating the Jews before they annihilate you.<<
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2010/02/07/The-Mufti-of-Jerusalem--Architect-of-the-Holocaust
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Mr. Mufti & Company were of course just following orders as laid out in the Koran.
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ReplyDeleteEight Issues Obama Did Not Know About
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-obama-didnt-know/2013/11/15/86264212-4e12-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_gallery.html?hpid=z3
I checked out this WaPo piece just to see if there was anything new. There wasn't. However, I did glance at the comments and this one caught my attention since it parallels my views to a large degree on Obama and liberal elitism.
I Think, Therefore I Scare the DNC
11/16/2013 11:45 PM EST
I'm from the last generation before the digital revolution. That means pens, pencils, erasers, typewriters, libraries, long division, mimeographs, T-squares, slide-rules, and an emphasis on proper English as a defense against the root cause of most conflicts, misunderstanding. In other words, we were taught how TO think, not WHAT to think.
Obama's talking to the Twitter twits, an entire generation raised on the belief that conversations must be kept to 140 characters or less. These people never use the internet to perform research or to fact-find, to them it is for gaming, shopping, memes, and social media. They have the attention span of a Tweet. Those are the easiest people for the demagogues to control. They've been indoctrinated into political correctness to the point where racism is not a general term applicable to bigots of all ethnicities, but a term specific to white people and whichever minority we're oppressing at the moment.
They are so gun-shy about being labeled a "racist", they take it overboard in the other direction. They are uber-enlightened and so socially tolerant that they don't even QUESTION anything he does. "He's biracial and to prove how open-minded I am, I will never criticize him because I trust this black (but not too black for Liberals) man implicitly and aren't I just so much better than the RACISTS who dare question him!"
Simple messages for simpletons. Short, sweet, catchy and rythmic, and when confronted with facts, simply yell "Tea Party Terrorist", "Racist", "Christian Right-Winger" and they'll leave.
The intellectual Liberals understand with a wink and a nod that lying to the minions is necessary. "They are helpless and incapable of coming to the correct (liberal) conclusions and we needn't cause undue stress to their tiny minds." So they lie their tails off and work the mob with soundbites because in the end, we'll fall to our knees and thank them for us for their omniscient foresight.
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ReplyDeleteThe following link is from the WaPo,
Banks Aren't the Bad Guys
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-banks-arent-the-bad-guys/2013/11/18/fa1c7b1a-5073-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_story.html?hpid=z3
In the article, Charles Lane of the WaPo editorial board, offers every excuse imaginable for the conduct of the banks over the last decade; he excuses every action; and condemns every legal trial brought against them.
It would take to long to go over point he made; however, I would be willing to debate any one of them that someone might want to defend.
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Identify an issue Obama HAS known something about, that's the real challenge.
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ReplyDeleteThere has been some talk here of who the GOP could put up as nominee in 2016. Michael Gerson seems to like Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-gerson-mike-lee-urging-the-tea-party-to-a-brighter-future/2013/11/18/c7de3b80-5081-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html?hpid=z2
Seems a little early to me but I see Hillary supporters have already started the fundraising. IMO, the names mentioned so far, Cruz, Paul, Ryan would all be unacceptable to the American public. However, I have to think there is at least one of the current crop of governors that might be acceptable to a broader base. For instance, Gov. Snyder here in Michigan is a moderate who seems to be able to get things done although he currently lacks name recognition.
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ReplyDeleteThe American League of Lobbyists has made it official, approving a new name for the group that doesn’t mention the word “lobbyists.”
As The Post reported last month, leaders of the association said they wanted to make the move because their business has been changing. These days, they explained, lobbyists aren't just trying to shape legislation – they're also into grass-roots organizing, public affairs and other sorts of politics and advocacy.
But yes, they acknowledged, they also have an image problem.
With all that in mind, leaders of the group asked their members to approve a new name – the Association of Government Relations Professionals...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/11/18/lobbyists-lobby-approves-a-new-name-one-that-doesnt-mention-lobbying/?hpid=z4
A rose by any other name still smells...
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"Quirk Culture" comes in Japan -
ReplyDeleteFinally!
>>What Orgasm Wars reveals about Japan's sexual culture Don't just chalk it up to the country's "quirkiness" By Emily Shire | November 15, 2013
...And yet you can't look away.
...And yet you can't look away.
Today's two contestants: Ryou Sawai, a heterosexual Japanese porn star with a '90s boy-band haircut, and Takuya, a gay man who owns a bar called Cholesterol. The challenge: Can Takuya bring Sawai to orgasm against his will within 40 minutes?
If you thought Deal or No Deal was high stakes, welcome to Japan's Orgasm Wars.
Considering its scandalously "climactic battle," it's little wonder that the show has been getting a decent amount of attention. But it's more than the fact that it's a 40-minute blow job contest. It's a 40-minute blow job contest that begins with an exchange of bows and business cards, and proceeds to respectful pre blow job discussion featuring "trash-talking" that's as courteous and polite as a tea party.
The combination of sexual temptation, shame, and competition, framed in a formalized setting, is baffling to Americans — and yet it seems to fit with what we've come to view as Japan's "quirky" sexual culture.<<
http://theweek.com/article/index/252933/what-orgasm-wars-reveals-about-japans-sexual-culture
That Maria, in Albuquerque, I recall her telling me Quirk was .....preternaturally.......what a ......hombre magnifico.....doble viagra.....damn I'm sore.....
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Ol' Quirk, I'll you this about The Man, he's as straight as steel rod, from what Maria told me.
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