He was a Shakesperean to the core.

And his portrayal of MacBeth was superb.

~

"Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."

Hamlet, (Act V, Scene II)

Nota Bene: The symphonic saturnalia on WQXR-FM starts at 0900 HRS; the NYC marathon starts in staggered fashion at 0940 HRS to allow the horde of runners room and time to complete the race.

The potential for a pardon from Senile Satan -- as pointed out by Reinheitsgebot -- is obvious. These three Israeli-Americans are filthy rich.

This is why NYS AG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg should be ready to prosecute and indict these three pit fiends with different NYS charges to avoid the legal stigma of "double jeopardy" and neutralize any federal pardon.

Moreover, damaging civil lawsuits should be started in both SDNY and EDNY (if JFKIA or LGA airports were used to traffick the victims).

This is a gumshoe or lawyer's dream case because the evidence has already been gathered and publicly available.

Years ago for a wealthy client, one of my PI friends easily followed the SDNY evidence against arch-goniff Bernie Madoff.

These three nasty kobolds should not be confused with these three benign siblings from yester-century.

The point of this OP wasn't to bash Joe Biden per se as he slowly nears "that undiscovered country from whence no man has returned," but to provide an insight into the mindset of conservative Pennsylvania where he grew up.

Joe Biden's previous insensitivity towards People of Color manifested itself in 2024 with his insensitivity towards the Palestinian people being slaughtered in Gaza wholesale by the Israeli Death Forces (IDF). It was no secret that the late Pope Francis disapproved of Biden's handling of Israel.

The midterm elections are right around the corner. Pennsylvania is basically a Red State sandwiched in-between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. We could see the right-wing nature of the state today with politicians like John Fetidman (D-Israel) or Josh Shapiro (D-Israel), staunch vanguards of AIPAC, ICE, and the status quo.

If one watches That Championship Season (1982), one could visualize Joe Biden as one of those white Catholic basketball players attending their annual reunion. In fact, one is a politician in a heated campaign which he may lose. These are the same bigots who would oppose desegregation and busing, as Kamala Harris pointed out about Senator Biden's 1970's record and his ability to "reach across the aisle" to white racist senators.

The corollary film to watch -- if one has time -- is the epochal movie The Deer Hunter (1978, directed by Michael Cimino). This movie depicts white patriotic blue collar Pennsylvanians during the Vietnam War.

As the tragedy of that useless war befell two of the patriotic Pennsylvanians in the film, in real life the tragedy of the useless Iraq War would later befall the son of POTUS Joe Biden, Beau, whose exposure to lethal carcinogens in the US military burn pits in Iraq led to his cancer.

Sometimes art can reflect life better than strict textbook political analysis.

No hard feelings towards anyone (even the Israeli and AIPAC stalkers who troll drudge.com).

"Run, Coriolanus, run!"

"Oh! My hair!"

Clownshack

If you don't like what I write, simply ignore it. That's what I do when I come across OPs that I don't particularly care for.

For some people, the info I provide may not be a re-hash.

As I am posting at other blogs under a different pseudonym, as well as doing my own fiction writing, I do not post at drudge.com as much as I used to because of the trolls and personal attacks.

Succint enough for you?

Poor, poor Coriolanus, our resident Shakespearean has either suffered a stroke or completely missed the mark.

But somebody thought my comment was "FUNNY" (guess who?).

[Eyeroll]

Propaganda, Clownshack?

Ouch! I thought we were pals!

"Trumpf has given Putin and Netanyahu everything they've wanted and more."

We can contend the same about "Genocide Joe" who gave ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu everything he wanted in 2024.

This OP was just a gentle reminder for all of us in Amerikkka that we are in the middle of this massive maelstrom and economic meltdown because of AIPAC Democrats and their acquiesence to Israel in 2024. Putting the needs of Israeli Jews (7.2m) ahead of American Jews (7.7m) has cost the US dearly.

With "Genocide Joe" eventually reaching the "country from whence no man has returned" because of cancer, this commentary was meant to analyze his mindset.

This OP was also for the younger folks on drudge.com who may have never watched That Championship Season (1982) and its stellar cast.

But back to the present: AIPAC Democrats and the blood of 75,000 slaughtered Palestinians on their hands will now pander for our votes on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026, get them, and the horrible status quo will continue.

These very same AIPAC Democrats are the dinosaurs that want to "fix" or "reform" ICE and DHS, not completely abolish them and return INS to its pre-9/11 state with Immigration Judges (IJ) and due process for aliens, migrants, amd refugees.

~

"Whence is that knocking?
How is 't with me when every noise appalls me?

What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red."

(MacBeth, Act II, Scene II)

"But, hey! In 2024 we got the 140 gosh-darned Israeli hostages home. So there, you stupid peaceniks, antiwar Samaritans, pro-Palestine volunteers, pacifists, and military veterans against war!"

The notorious French police forces have one of the largest arsenals in the EU and France has been under a "state of emergency" on and off over the past several years. The recent "license to kill" draft law in the National Assembly would further empower police brutality against the vulnerable and minorities.

Between 2022 and 2025, over 100 French police officers from every level (local, provincial, or federal) committed suicide, ostensibly an unintended consequence of guilt over police brutality.

Notably, this past weekend France hosted its first NFL game in Paris and there were no reports of disturbances or violence against the visiting Americans. Pittsburgh Steeler QB Aaron Rodgers led his team to victory 16-10 against the New Orleans Saints, completing his 540th regular season TD pass, placing him third on the list behind Tom Brady (649) and Drew Brees (571).

Y'know, in terms of social unrest, I'd rather have Mexican and Latinos immigrating to the USA, legally or illegally, than Islamic immigrants.
#30 | Posted by moder8

As this Democrat below would say, "that's very white of moder8."

Oof, Corky!

From 1919 to 1920 or so, the Vatican attempted to gain control of the Holy Lands during the tortured peace negotiations following The Great War. They wanted to make up for the Papal territories they lost during the recent Italian Resorgimento. During WWI the Vatican was plied with hundreds of thousands of dollars by both the Central Powers and Allies to get the Catholic Church as an ally in the war. But Pope Benedict XV hedged, never took sides, kept the pelf, and was finacially ready for that failed endeavor.

After the British finally absorbed Palestine as a mandate through the League of Nations, the Pope was later disgusted to see the British allowing casinos, liquor, and brothels in Palestine, remarking: "Ugh. The Holy Lands were better off in the hands of the Mohammedans" [sic].

Alongside Albert Einstein and other notable Jews, Hannah Arendt co-signed the 4 Dec 1948 letter to the New York Times about the evils of Israeli fascism and ethnic cleansing.

In 1948, who stood up to the murderous Israeli fascists and wanted to share the new country with their Palestinian neighbors who lived there for centuries?

Jewish communists -- AKA the Makis.

Coda: American and English writers such as A. Conan Doyle, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, and F. Scott Fiztgerald used subtle or overt language to ensure the reader knew the character was Jewish: e.g. "Hook-nosed" or "beady eyed." Everyone knew that the "Napoleon of Crime" -- by narrative description -- Professor Moriarty -- was Jewish. This was a needless aspersion, as in the case of Fagin in Oliver Twist.

What would it matter if Lex Luthor or the Joker were Jewish or Arabic?

When the comic book The Fantastic Four debuted in 1962, everyone knew that test pilot Ben Grimm -- who would become the orange rocky golem super-strong The Thing -- was Jewish. This was implicit by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Back then, the Comics Code prevented overt identification of one's religious denomination.

Ernest Hemingway wrote that the best thing to have ever happened to a Jewish protagonist -- a skilled pugilist from Princeton University -- was to have "his nose flattened" (The Sun Also Rises, 1926).

Shakespeare did not disparage the money-lender Shylock any further than he had to -- just as he treated England's eternal enemy -- the Irish. He ridiculed the Irish just enough during a late 17th-century insurrection just to please the London audience -- but no more. (Nota Bene: Jews were expelled from England in 1290 and were finally allowed to return to Old Albion in 1656 under authoritarian Oliver Cromwell, years after the Bard of Avon's short life (23 April 1564 - 23 April 1616).

To his immortal credit, New York City writer Damyon Runyan did not disparage other ethnicities or races in his canon of work. When Runyan wrote stories which included the character "Big ---," everyone realized the colorful individual was an "HBM" (huge black male). But this was not a slur on "Big ---" and his character was not maligned. This "HBM" was accepted in the mostly white and rowdy Broadway crowd, part of Gotham's tapestry, just like Nicely-Nicely or Sky Masterson.

The slang use of the term "Shylock" originated from Shakespeare's money-lending character in the Merchant of Venice.

When the all-Sicilian "Black Hand" was finally suppressed in NYC by the NYPD at the fin-de-siecle --
Ernest Borgnine portrayed an Italian NYPD officer battling the "Black Hand" in Pay or Die! (1960) -- the Italian mafia began to absorb other ethnic gangs into their midst to make money together.

Also recall The Godfather scene when the mustachioed man in the white suit is plugged on the street with a revolver by the young Don Corleone. The victim was a leader of the "Black Hand."

The first non-Sicialians to cooperate with the mafia in the US were the organized Jewish gangs -- e.g. Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel -- and the Purple Gang in Detroit -- followed later by the unruly Irish gangs which required more "convincing" (the "Westies" -- see State of Grace (1990) starring Sean Penn.)

African-American organized crime also cooperated with the mafia in the Bronx and Harlem -- something which led to the 24 Oct 1935 demise of Dutch Schultz (this week 91 years ago). An excellent film and cult classic about organized crime in Harlem is Across 110th Street (1972) starring Yaphet Kotto.

Uneducated Italians in the mafia were introduced to Yiddish terms when the cooperative era started.

The "Vig" derives from the Yiddish word viggorish -- the usurious interest rate forced on borrowers.

The slang term Shylock -- which evolved into an antisemitic trope over the centuries -- was used by the mafia to describe loansharks of any ethnic origin and was most likely introduced into their vernacular by either the Jewish or Irish gangsters who were slightly or more educated than their Sicilian counterparts.

When Dumpkopf Trumpf uses the word "Shylock," he is merely using the word he is accustomed to in NYC when he dealt with mafioso in the 1980s like Sammy "the Bull" Gravano and others. His racist father probably used that term also. Trumpf has no idea the word came from Shakespeare or that for many outside NYC this has an antisemitic connotation.

I used the term "Shylock" a few times in official reporting, alternating that word with loanshark, so as not to be repetetive in my writing and my supervisors did not diapprove.

"...unless they change their ways, rapidly," bleated the moronic pedophilic orange shht-gibbon.

Persian civilization has existed for several millenia and has given the world chess, the term zig-zag, and exotic musical syncopations. Iran produces world class wrestlers and powerlifters that American athletes want to compete against. This nation of 93 million people -- regardless of theocratic rule or not -- will have universal healthcare for most of her residents and will reach 100% in short time. Meanwhile the US healthcare system is completely broke dick.

Iran will not "change their ways" in the face of genocide in Gaza or Israeli Death Forces (IDF) aggression against them. Israel has already murdered a minimum of five Iranian nuclear scientists over the past several years, something the Iranian people won't forget. Dummkopf Trumpf also murdered IRGC General Qasim Soleimani, whose units helped USSOF seize the city of Herat from the Taliban in late 2001 which the Israelis watched on TV. This is something else the Iranian people won't forget.

Want to drive Iran any farther into the Kremlin's camp? Keep supporting the murderous Israelis.

And theocratic Iran continues to make money selling oil on the global exchage while selling drones to Russia while the US national debt reaches intergalactic levels.

The "Axis of Evil":

Child pornographer and overall degenerate Republican Daniel Halloran (USMS #68384-54):

Taking the life of the murderer does not return the victim to his or her loved ones.

State-run executions are political theater to terrorize the population to behave better, using the ancient "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" concept as the underpinning of their moral authority.

This is vengeance or wrath, one of the so-called Seven Deadly Sins.

But innocent people have been executed because of kangaroo courts, race-based misidentification, or the need for vengeance.

The Innocence Project has exonerated hundreds of death row inmates who were falsely convicted, an issue that affects poor people, not the wealthy elites.

Moreover, once the murderer has been executed, criminal investigators lose a vital source of information for other crimes the perpetrator may have committed.

Sidenote: The British aristocracy were appalled at the decapitations of French noblemen during the Reign of Terror (~est 17,000) following the French Revolution. But 57,000 executions occured under King Henry VIII's Reign of Terror. William Shakespeare lived at a time (the Elizabethan Age) when just one state executioner himself was responsible for an estimated 3,000 decapitations. That gruesome terminator was a man named Thomas Derrick.

And how many other executioners were employed under Queen Elizabeth I throughout England, Scotland, and Wales?

"Gentle Will" was appalled by state-run violence and war and cleverly steered clear of offending Elizabeth I and her Privy Council, even while cleverly barbing her in some of his plays.

Below, Mary, Queen of Scots, at her brutal and unnecessary execution (8 February 1587):

On 12 January 1928, a tabloid photographer snuck a camera into Sing Sing Prison and surreptitiously snapped this ghoulish photo of Ruth Snyder the moment 2,000 volts of electricity painfully stripped the soul from her body.

Within twenty minutes, her ill-fated lover, the feckless Judd Gray, would then follow suit in "Old Sparky" and be thunderstruck into this next plane by New York State Electrician Robert Greene Elliott.