The most interesting..
[ by Charles Cameron –a quick round ’em up, rawhide of news and views — read the first one, even if you skip the rest — some of which are frankly hilarious, and darkly sad too — and towards the end, there’s one mind-blower with gospel reference! ]
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Millennial mils debate Syria:
This, from WaPo‘s summary of the Democratic debate of 15 October 2019:
There was a point in the middle of the debate when South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) had an impassioned debate about whether the United States should be in Syria. Gabbard was the most noninterventionist candidate on the stage, while Buttigieg said Syria was perhaps the one place in the Middle East where we continue to need a presence. That disagreement aside, this was two millennial veterans of Middle East wars — the only two combat veterans among the leading candidates — having that debate on a presidential stage. That’s quite the moment.
That’s a debate within the debate, and the criterion for being on that stage is a lot stiffer than for the stage-of-twelve.
BTW, hey matryoshka! —
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Serpents I:
And then this, for a serpent-bites-tail moment, with the middle slytherin’ of the snake passing through time:
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R) offers a lesser time-inflected serpent on Twitter:
Wow. We bombed our own base on purpose, because of the impulsive decision by @realDonaldTrump didn’t leave time to evacuate the right way. Is this the America you grew up believing in?
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Word choices I:
Inside that Giuliani serpent piece, there’s this exquisite word choice by a company pertinent to the investigation:
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Word choices II:
But it gets better, once you look at the Giuliani associate twins, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas:
Snap!!
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Serpents II:
Here’s a serpent formerly biting its tail attempting to unbite it:
It’s a microcosm of the same Trumpworld shamelessness that has suddenly converted Donald Trump Jr. into an outspoken opponent of nepotism.
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Here’s a report of Bolton‘s grenade attack on Giuliani:
Giuliani’s growing headaches are political as well as legal. Yesterday Trump’s former top adviser on Russia and Europe, Fiona Hill, reportedly told congressional investigators that her boss, former national security adviser John Bolton, labeled Giuliani “a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up” by meddling in Ukraine…
That’s six, just from my first scan — seven would be enough for me to close this and post!
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Seventh:
Oh well, as you may know, my degree is in Theology from Christ Church, Oxford, and I’ve continued my interest in New Testament scholarship while broadening it to include Gnostic, Buddhist, shamanic and other sources..
Today’s haul [well, a day or two ago, but today at the time of writing!] contains a second matryoshka instance, this one from a piece about “Secret Mark” — the gospel fragment preserved by Clement of Alexandria and disclosed to the world by Morton Smith in 1973:
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