I've been challenged to write a hard boiled detective novel, where the figurative language is drawn from scientific language, or field specific vocabulary.
For example, in geology "spathic" means "having good cleavage".
I want to make it as funny as possible, if anyone has suggestions please post
"It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide.”
I'm reading a hard boiled detective novel and I just ran across the phrase "She was wearing a shirt dress that hugged her like the motive leaf on a man-eating plant"
And now I'm imagining a book where all of the figurative language involves the sciences.
Today is my last port flush. The PET scan was perfect and now I have 2 years of clinical monitoring every 3 months.
They broke the arm of a Marine in Congress today who was speaking out against going to war for Israel.
www.cia.gov/readingroom/...
The CIA was looking for the Ark of the Covenant, via remote viewing, in the 1980's. And they found it.
Please read to the end, because there are sketches.
Electoral victory is the only way to avoid a civil war. I would prefer that option.
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Is this Stupid WWIII, or are we still in the lead up?
Finally, people are starting to realize that someone who will throw trans women under the bus will throw any woman under the bus.
including a direct nuclear attack.
So if you are looking for logic and coherence from the current administration you aren't going to find it.
The US military is being run by a death cult.
the start of the war coincided with a total lunar eclipse.
This means that this war is being run by people who are trying to bring about the end of the world because they believe they will be safe in The Rapture.
They also believe the Israel will be protected against anything that happens next
For people who are trying to understand Operation Epstein Files, here is a piece of data:
In White Evangelical eschatology, a war between Israel and some country in Asia is supposed to trigger the Rapture and the End Times.
They are also obsessed with "Blood Moons", which is probably why
Anyone who wants to know what the Evangelicals are doing right now, go to Amazon and buy the Kindle editions of Fred Clark's essays examining the Left Behind trilogy.
Spoilers: a lot of them think that Israel will survive a direct nuclear attack.
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The Two Most Probable Outcomes.
Donald Trump made trade threats against Spain during an Oval Office meeting with reporters and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
Trump: "Spain said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it"
Not receiving consent and moving forward anyway is a consistent theme in his life — as E. Jean Carroll can attest
Butlerian Jihad Now!
I noticed that they said "Christianity", which contributes to the illusion that some Christians have that all Christians are going to become part of the ruling class.
Although to be fair they don't care about the denomination of the White Evangelical, if the person is sufficiently omnibigoted.
CNN confirming the F-15 went down in Kuwait — CENTCOM says it was actually 3 of them, calling it “a friendly fire incident”
At ~$350,000,000 worth of planes that’s some expensive “friendly fire”
There is a certain kind of Catholic who thinks that they are more Catholic than anyone because they only recognize the Councils of Nicea and Trent and no Pope but Pius X and Peter.
They are very loud, but the Catholic Church says they are heretics and schismatic. And 70% of US Catholic layity agree.
I don't pretend to be an expert on Iran, but my impression is that the only thing really tying the opposition together is wanting a revolution, and that there isn't really a clear leader in the diaspora.
And Trump is going to install whoever will give him the cheapest oil.
And we're going to install the son of the Shah.
Part of me thinks that this is a horrible idea and then I remember that there is still a legal claimant to the throne of Russia kicking around.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., said today:
“To those who say, ‘Well, President Trump said he wasn’t going to take us into any wars,’ he’s keeping us out of wars in the long run.”
He has to know that makes no sense. MAGA is a con job.
God's Propaganda by Dr. Kipp Davis is an accessible introduction, and if you want a quick explainer, Dr. Davis has a YouTube channel.
Dr. Justin Sledge, another academic on YouTube also has excellent videos on the topic, and is an observant Jew, as a bonus.
The idea that until fairly late,( most scholars argue for the Exile or early post-Exilic period, but a lot of ink is spilled on the details) Israelite religion (which is ancestral to, but not identical with, modern Judaism) accepted that other deities existed.
There are a lot of books on the topic
What an amazing coincidence
An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public.
It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests.
What else is the regime hiding from us?
My family fought for America's freedom, and to hold the country together in the Civil War, and in every war, declared and undeclared in the 20th century.
This give me the right to say that I will die before I give my sons to the cause of Trump's Empire
