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Gerard Harbison

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Emeritus Professor of Chemistry. Irish and American; raised in Dublin, though born in England. Happily married (hope my wife feels the same!) Travels, watching birds. Grows plants. Snarks. Lives in Melbourne Beach, on the Atlantic Coast of the stupid state

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…any day now, they’ll do something bad to us!

05.03.2026 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
YouTube video by ConcertsOnVEVO Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia

Day 4: The Dead Kennedys

Holiday in Cambodia.

It just feels right this week.

youtu.be/Qr6NOsluHYg?...

05.03.2026 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fetterman once again disgraces himself and embarrasses the rest of us.

05.03.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For a few minutes, I thought this one might be a serious person. My mistake.

04.03.2026 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh woe is me, I should have rent my garments and beat my breast over a mass shooting 30 years ago. I live in America, bud. Mass killings of schoolkids are commonplace here. Bombings of schools that kill hundreds, for which no one takes responsibility, not so much.

No one is blaming victims.

04.03.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can't read for comprehension, apparently. The identification of the modern Beit Shemesh with the eponymous biblical city was made by Robinson, in the late 1830s using dicey linguistics. So much for your claim of antiquity.

04.03.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why, over 160 schoolgirls were murdered last week, in the joint US/ Israeli attack on Iran. But not being Israeli, they matter far less than 7 Israeli schoolgirls killed by a madman 30 years ago.

04.03.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beit Shemesh - Wikipedia

Well, you could have checked the link, which of course was skeptical the words are the same.

Why don’t you read it now, and become a little less stupid?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_Sh...

04.03.2026 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports
By Helen Regan
More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children.
More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported.
The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

04.03.2026 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4292    πŸ” 2372    πŸ’¬ 197    πŸ“Œ 195
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Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history -- and still gave him a hand.

I was actually referring to the attacks on the Fao Peninsula, where the CIA gave Saddam satellite data to use as targeting information for his chemical weapons. Of course, as you know, earlier that year, Saddam had also attacked the Kurds with chemical agents.

foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/e...

04.03.2026 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am amused though by the outrage with which Israelis greet a few domestic war deaths, oblivious to the carnage wrought by their own government in Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran. And that’s just this week!

04.03.2026 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nonsense. From the wiki page.

For Robinson and Smith, the natives unwittingly carry the "divine dialect" of the land. Based on information from their lips, Robinson turns Ain Shams into the Bible's Beit Shemesh, Ain and Beit being so seemingly common as to be interchangeable.

04.03.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Clash- I’m So Bored With The U.S.A- 5/28/1983
YouTube video by Jeremy Leafey The Clash- I’m So Bored With The U.S.A- 5/28/1983

Day 3: a bans whose name starts with C . There is only one possible choice: The Clash. And there is only one possible song, this week, of all weeks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYYK...

04.03.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They think wiping out the Iranian navy will take care of it. These people haven’t yet internalized the fact Iran doesn’t need a navy. It has tens of thousands of drones. Set one big oil tanker ablaze, and the job is done. No shipping company will risk a $100m tanker on a Trump promise.

03.03.2026 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US troops were told war on Iran was β€˜all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

When will US media cover this?

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

03.03.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But then he’s neither Franklin Roosevelt nor Harry S Truman.

03.03.2026 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So you would have barred Biden, Obama and Clinton from the Presidency? And before them, Abraham Lincoln?

03.03.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think he’s serious, for a few minutes. By tomorrow he’ll be mad at someone else. And the embargo will never happen. TACO.

03.03.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed. The US sent satellite data to Saddam Hussein, so he could accurately target his chemical attacks.

And Americans wonder why they hate the US. No, it’s not because we’re rich and successful. It’s because we murder them.

03.03.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

#notallmilitary?

03.03.2026 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bayt Nattif - Wikipedia

No, it’s not Jerusalem, it’s an Israeli town β€” Beit Shemesh β€” built partly on the ruins of a previous Palestinian village, Bayt Nattif, whose inhabitants were driven out in the Nakba.

03.03.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Poor Koo Stark. History has almost forgotten her.

03.03.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

States do not have rights. Rights to exist, or rights to anything else. The idea that Israel somehow has a β€˜right’ to be an ethnostate is cringe.

03.03.2026 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We’d mostly have preferred Texas didn’t join the Union.

03.03.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The bestest military in the world!

03.03.2026 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aaaargh no make it stop!

03.03.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Somebody undoubtedly told him it made him look smart.

Of course, it really makes him look like a imbecilic phoney

03.03.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

30 installations? Clearly coordinated, almost certainly by Kegsbreath.

03.03.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Saw him live in 1978. Brilliant!

03.03.2026 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember, the war with Iran is necessary because it’s unacceptable to have aggressive governments run by theocratic lunatics launching unprovoked attacks on the rest of the world

03.03.2026 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1041    πŸ” 235    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 7