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Cake day: November 13th, 2024

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  • At this point I’m wondering if there really was a ceasefire.

    Everything this guy says is a lie until proven otherwise.

    If I were a betting man, it seems very likely he just made the whole thing up. Perhaps he pitched the idea and was turned down by either Israel or Iran (probably both). Went to social media to proclaim his victory. Leading both countries to attach each other to show the whole thing was bullshit.

    Let’s not forget, he claimed he was the lynch pin behind the India and Pakistan ceasefire, only to have both sides say he wasn’t involved at all.







  • From the link:

    Dick Carter, Chair of the Delaware Heritage Commission, states that the name of Murderkill River is taken from the original Dutch for Mother River. Mother is moeder in Middle Dutch, and river is Kille. Later, under British rule, the word “River” was added to the waterway’s name, effectively making it “mother river river.”

    The term “kill” is used in areas of Dutch influence in the Netherlands’ former North American colony of New Netherland, primarily the Hudson and Delaware Valleys to describe a creek, river, tidal inlet, strait, or arm of the, sea such as Bronx Kill in New York and Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania.

    Delaware’s creeks and rivers are slow-moving and there is deep mud associated with marshy rivers. Dutch “modder” = mud, a false cognate to “mother.” Modder Kill = Muddy Creek or Muddy River. The word is still used in Dutch, such as this Dutch video of a tractor stuck in mud (“vast in de modder”).[12]







  • Interesting timing, with 75 Democrats bowing to the GOP and voting against the party to “[express] gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland.”

    One could argue, those 75 Democrats are the epitome of the old, feckless, Republican-light lawmakers that should be facing primary opposition (which is why Hogg has been kicked out).

    If one of your congressmen is on that list, give them a call and voice your displeasure.