Day: July 14, 2026

Will It Be Money Well Spent?

News has come forth about the funds that the EU and Allies will send to Gaza for its rebuilding.

This rising so many questions for me…..

Europe and a roster of allies on Monday promised Gaza $1 billion, but it’s a down payment on a bill that’s much, much larger. The European Commission announced the “Team Gaza Initiative,” a package of aid projects aimed at basic recovery in the enclave more than 2½ years after the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October 2023. The money will go toward clearing rubble, repairing water and sewage systems, and reviving health services, the commission said after a donors’ meeting in Brussels, Reuters reports. “Our objective is clear: to help build hope, resilience and a better future for the Palestinian people,” said EU Commissioner Dubravka Suica.

Participants include Spain, Germany, and France, along with Britain, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, the World Bank, and the European Investment Bank; Australia and Canada are expected to join. President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner attended the meeting. UN estimates put Gaza’s reconstruction cost at about $70 billion. Most of the territory’s roughly 2 million residents remain displaced, many in tents or damaged structures, as Israeli forces maintain control over much of the strip in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls a buffer zone. The EU did not say how the new money would be divided among partners. “The ceasefire in Gaza remains fragile, and the situation on the ground for civilians is not getting better,” Suica said, per the AP.

Seriously?  Rebuild Gaza and as soon as it becomes prosperous Israel decides it is some sort of security risk and starts it’s destruction once again.

Who will get this cash?  Donny and his Israeli-centric Board of Peace is not there to do what is best for the Palestinian people but rather to feather the monetary bed of Israel.

Plus Israel has some sort of strike almost daily to kill more Palestinians and now they want us to pay for their destruction.

I say one thing to BiBi and Israel….KISS MY ASS!

Until the world guarantees Palestine and Gaza existence then there will be just a continuous rebuild then destruction by Israel.

I think it is admirable that the world is stepping up but they need to do so against the warmongering state of Israel or this will be money wasted.

I notice the US is not part of that coalition….they cannot be bothered with the rebuilding of Gaza as long as their lips are affixed to Israel’s ass.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The Socialist Guillotine

I would like to wish all my French followers a very HAPPY BASTILLE DAY.

The Right is involving the subject of fear during the French Revolution, the Guillotine, to try and ‘explain’ the coming of the ‘socialists’.

These conservs are running scared and they should be doing just that…..the Right wing noise machine is trying to use ever opportunity and historical event to try and change the tide in Dem politics.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.

We’re watching a modern-day French Revolutionary-like takeover of the Democratic Party. We could call it the Reign of Terror or the Democratic guillotine.

What I mean by that, in 1793 and ’94, when the French Revolution was well on its way to fruition, a group of radicals called Jacobins, led by the Robespierre brothers, hijacked that revolution and decided that they were going to go far, far to the left of the effort to abolish the monarchy and rename the days of the week, the months, start with a year zero concept, go out and attack private property, and execute people.

Now, I don’t think the democratic socialists are going to do that, but their takeover is similar to the Jacobin takeover. And what is their agenda? Their agenda is a radical Green New Deal, war on fossil fuels, open borders, no deportations, no deportations even for criminally convicted.

In addition to that, cut the defense budget, defund the police, institutionalize diversity, equity, inclusion, chauvinism.

We’re all going to go by our incidental affiliations.

If you’re trans or gay or female or black or Asian, that’s going to be what you identify in as, a large group of the victimized with complaints against the white male, etc., victimizer class.

The New Socialist Guillotine Is Coming for the Democratic Party

This is one of the Right’s echo chambers to help pass out lies and misinformation.

Let me say so there is NO confusion….I think this is all bullshit and mostly misinformation.    Period.

I post it as an FYI of the shit being passed on by idiots.

And since it is Bastille Day many are thinking of a second revolution for the USA….and this is a thought or two about that…..this is the author’s thoughts on that possibility….

https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/radicalism-and-revolution-in-america-opinion/

Anything to say about either postings?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

We Have Our Winner!

The news of the death of South Carolina’s senator started a whole panic to quickly pick a person to replace him….the GOP needs his vote in the Senate…..the front running was Graham’s little sister…..and so it shall be…..

Darline Graham Nordone, who was appointed Monday to serve the remaining months of the Senate term that her late brother, Lindsey Graham, left behind when he died over the weekend, hasn’t been in office before. But through her brother’s decades of public service, Nordone has been by his side, supporting him in speeches, appearances, and even campaign ads, the AP reports. Besides being a frequent attendee at Graham’s political events, Nordone is woven deeply into her brother’s personal and political biography. After both of their parents died in just over a year, Graham, then age 22, became legal guardian for his 13-year-old sister.

Now, after South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster tapped Nordone to serve in Graham’s seat until January, Nordone is heading to Washington, tasked with representing the interests for which her brother advocated with passion. Sources tell the AP that Nordone will be sworn in Wednesday. She will be the first woman to represent South Carolina in the Senate. A special primary held next month will sort out which Republican moves forward in the general election to face Democrat Annie Andrews in November.

  • While Graham was in his early 20s, his life—and that of his sister—was turned upside down. Their mother died in 1976 after battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Fifteen months later, his sister, then 13, discovered their father after he suffered a heart attack in his sleep and died. Graham was just beginning law school at the University of South Carolina. With both parents gone, he pivoted, saying that his chief goal was to ensure his sister was cared for.
  • Making regular treks from school in Columbia to Seneca, where his sister was being looked after by relatives, Graham kept tabs on his sister from then on and became her legal guardian. After he became a military lawyer in the Air Force, he adopted her, to ensure that she would receive his military benefits.
  • Graham, who never married or had children of his own, once joked as he ran for president in 2016 that his sister could be among a “rotating” cast of White House hosts standing in as first lady. But the bond between the two, aside from being integral to Graham’s own biography, was evident in their public appearances. When Graham filed his candidacy paperwork in March for this year’s election, Nordone was by his side, along with her children and grandchildren.
  • “What have I learned in this life I’ve led? I take nothing for granted. I count every blessing, every day,” Graham said then, going on to recount how he and his sister forged through life together from that point. “I understand what a blessing my life has been and the only way I can pay you back for the blessings I’ve received is to be the most thoughtful, relevant, aggressive senator.”
  • Nordone has worked with people with disabilities. Since 2019, she has been Commissioner of the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, “where she has worked to expand opportunities for South Carolinians who are blind or have low vision to achieve employment and independence,” Gov. Henry McMaster’s office said in a statement announcing her appointment. Talking to C-SPAN in 2015, Graham said of his own life that his sister’s success “is the highlight of it, by far.”
  • Bob McAlister, a former consultant to Graham on several campaigns, reflected on how the difficulties in their growing up bonded the siblings in a way that most would not understand. “He grew up with nothing … and I think the way he and Darline grew up just had an indelible impact on him, and for some reason, it gave him the drive that he had to do what he did,” he said, adding: “A lot of people have different ideas about Lindsey from what they’ve seen on TV and all that, but everything about him can be traced back to his boyhood, the way he grew up, the way he took care of his sister.”

Will we move on from this now?

Will she be a MAGA acolyte?

We shall see.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”