Obamas monkeys on Planet of Apes, Trump?

Mr. Barry and his husband Michael Obama may be many things but not monkeys or apes.

(The Young Turks) Trump posts horrifyingly racist meme

A passionate rebuttal to Trump: "Eugenics"?

Speed (Adderall) freak Trump still pooping his pants as previously reported

Oldest Sphinx statue found at Giza

(Ancient Architects) The oldest Sphinx statuette found at Giza, Egypt! Aug.18, 2025: Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest Sphinx statuette ever found at Giza, hidden in a long-forgotten dump. Kromer Dump artifacts suggest there was a predynastic civilization or culture in Giza before the Fourth Dynasty related to the Maadi culture. The Oldest Sphinx Statuette Found at Giza

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  Pyramids are very old, Sphinx is older

  Was a 'vast city' discovered beneath Egyptian pyramids?
• Great Pyramid timeline shattered as new clues point to older origins
• The Oldest Sphinx Statuette Found at Giza | Watch
• This ‘25,000-Year-Old Pyramid’ Is Older than Egypt’s—but Scientists Say It Was Not Built by Humans
• Indigenous researchers on Easter Island discovered an undisturbed Moai statue after climate change revealed terrain long buried under a lake
• 13 Objects Found in Ancient Ruins Without Explanation
• Ancient Antikythera mechanism reveals advanced tech
• A 1,700-Year-Old City Hidden Beneath the Pacific | Watch
• American Anatomy Expert Examines A Strange Ancient Skeleton In Peru | Watch
• Abrego Garcia coerced to take guilty plea or be deported to Uganda, his attorneys say
• At least 5 people killed after tour bus traveling back from Niagara Falls crashes: Police - ABC News
• 6 dead in accident at Colorado dairy farm: Fire chief - ABC News
• Judge rules hot Trump attorney Alina Habba unlawfully serving as US attorney for New Jersey - ABC News

Short Attn Span Theater: Underdogs

• Migrants moved from secretive UK/US military island after three years
• Diego Garcia asylum seekers feel unsafe on remote British island territory, where they are sexually victimized and worse
• Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

The Gnostic Creation Story (Eric Dubay)

The Gnostic Creation Story

Who Rewrote the Bible?

(Eric Dubay) May 1, 2024: Before the establishment of the Roman Orthodox Church, dating back to the first century A.D., the Gnostics were a sect of Christians with a very different set of beliefs from what the new blossoming religion of Christianity would soon become.

The Gnostics insisted they were in fact the original Christians and that the Roman Church leaders were imposters co-opting and changing their mythology.

Many original founders like Marcion [the creator of the first Bible] and Tatian were actually devout Gnostics who would later leave the Orthodoxy, claiming the church was “setting up the fraud of historic Christianity.”

• Is Marcionism true original Christianity?
• 17 common misconceptions about what's in the Bible
• Gnostic meaning (bing.com)

Gnosticism continued to flourish alongside the Roman Church until it was declared heresy and outlawed by Emperor Constantine in 325 A.D.

Once the Orthodox Bible became canonized, all extra-biblical Gnostic gospels (the Apocrypha) were considered heretical and either hidden or destroyed on threat of death.

By the turn of the next century, any remaining Gnostics still openly practicing were hunted down as heretics...

• What's so special about Marcion? Marcion concluded that many of the teachings of [good, kind, merciful] Jesus were incompatible with the actions of [genocidal, jealous, angry] Yahweh (YWVH, Jehovah). He concluded this by studying the Hebrew Bible [a simplistic version of the story told in a crude language with only 8,000 original words, which was derived from the much more sophisticated Ancient Greek and its half million words, according to classicist Dr. D.A.C. Hillman], along with received writings circulating in the nascent Church. Yahweh is characterized as the belligerent god of the Hebrew Bible. Marcion responded by developing a di-theistic system of belief around the year 144 [Note 2]. This notion of two gods — a Higher Transcendent One [a kind of Brahman] and a Lower World-Creator and Ruler [a kind of Maha Brahma] — allowed Marcion to reconcile perceived contradictions between harsh Christian Covenant theology and the nicer gospel proclaimed by the New Testament.

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Lunar New Year Love Story (graphic novel)

CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

My book club likes it. Lunar New Year Love Story has 4.6 out of 5 stars with 63 ratings. And it's an editors' pick for Best Young Adult. Graphic novel superstars author Gene Luen Yang and illustrator LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love. She was destined for heartbreak. Then fate handed her love. Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed: No one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion-dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever? Lunar New Year Love Story

• Here & Now | LAist
• LAist Radio Lunar New Year NPR for Southern California - 89.3 FM

Heroic girl fights IDF soldiers: Ahed Tamimi

MSNBC, 9/22/22; Democracy Now! 2018; Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

When they thought I was a Ukrainian standing up to Russian invaders, the mainstream narrators were all behind me. When they found out I was a Palestinian standing up to IDF invaders, silence.

• Israel takes West Bank activist Ahed Tamimi hostage in a raid | But, wait, Hamas isn't in the West Bank
• Israeli troopers storm in and arrest Ahed Tamimi for making them look bad | Reuters
• Ahed Tamimi: Palestinian activist detained in West Bank crackdown (france24.com)

After going viral for slapping an Israeli (IDF militant) soldier, Ahed Tamimi shares her story

They Called Me a Lioness

(MSNBC) From a young age (9), Palestinian lion cub Ahed Tamimi ("the Rosa Parks of Palestine") became a symbol of resistance, helping to shine a spotlight back on the plight of Palestinians living in the "[Illegally] Occupied Territories," Israel's dismissive name for its settler colonial projects in the West Bank (which it grew by supporting Jewish-occupier violence against Palestinians) and Gaza (from which it withdrew but still terrorizes on a daily basis). Now, Tamimi’s out with a memoir, They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom, to tell her side of the story in her own words. Co-author and Palestinian-American journalist Dena Takruri joins Mehdi to discuss.

Subscribe to MSNBC: on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast

Meet Ahed Tamimi, 17, West Bank activist jailed for 8 months for slapping Israeli soldier

Ahed Tamimi: Girl who Fought

(Democracy Now!) Aug. 6, 2018:  Seventeen-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi has been freed from Israeli prison after eight months behind bars. Known to some as "the Rosa Parks of Palestine," Tamimi became a heroine to Palestinians and people around the world last year [2017] after a viral video showed her slapping a heavily armed Israeli Army soldier near her family’s home in the illegally occupied [by Israeli "settlers" trying to colonize the] West Bank.

The incident was prompted by Tamimi learning that her cousin had been gravely wounded in a headshot by an Israeli soldier who shot him in the head using a rubber-coated steel projectile [misleading called a "rubber bullet" as if it just bounced harmless off victims when in fact the massive energy transmitted is deadly, blinding, and capable of breaking bones and exploding organs, though sometimes it is less lethal than uncoated lead bullets].

A Girl who Fought Back

Video of Tamimi confronting the soldier went viral, elevating her into a symbol of Palestinian resistance. She was soon arrested in the middle of the night IDF raid and charged with assault for slapping the armed IDF terrorist in an Israeli military court. She was sentenced to eight months in an Israeli prison and celebrated her 17th birthday behind bars. Her mother was also arrested and charged with "incitement" for, in part, daring to stream the video online that showed the interaction between Tamimi and the heavily armed Israeli soldier. Tamimi and her mother, Nariman, were released in late July. Democracy Now! speaks with Ahed Tamimi from her home in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.

Vikings had welfare and other odd history

MSN.com, Oct. 28, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom  Quarterly

1. Vikings had a welfare program taking care of one another, unlike Republicans or the Ayn Rand Society would do for them but quite like DINOs or actual Democrats or Greens or Socialists or even Communists would do for them.
2. Persian Empire had air conditioning
3. Ancient Rome wasn't "white"
4. Ancient Greece wasn't all about reason
5. Neanderthals used plant medicines
6. Native Americans figured out the Enlightenment before it was cool
7. Christians weren't thrown to the lions in the Colosseum
8. Eskimos (Innuits) had sunglasses
9. Ancient Greeks had alarm clocks
10. The past isn't what is used to be:

• 10 ways the ancient world was different than we imagine

They 'll say you guys fought all the time, but will they know how we loved one another?

P-22 Mountain Lion Festival, LA (10/22)

Fiona Ng, LAist.com, Oct. 21, 2023; Xochitl, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

A mountain lion stalks by hillside homes in the LA suburbs. Long live P-22 (Johanna Turner).

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Nearly a year after its death, the Mountain Lion Spirit of P-22 lives on in Los Angeles

I thought I loved my cat. I love this one!

This Sunday (10/22/23), Griffith Park is celebrating its most influential transplant: LA's Lion King.

It's a native son who made the trek from the Santa Monica Mountains to its new digs by crossing the 101 and 405 Freeways — and in so doing inspired Los Angeles to dream the impossible dream of building the world's biggest freeway overpass for animals to use, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.

"We were told we were crazy, and here we are. It's underway," said Beth Pratt. "It actually started because of the P-22 story and the effect it had on me."

A drawing of a bridge for wildlife to cross over a busy freeway A rendering of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, slated for completion in 2025 (National Wildlife Foundation).

Pratt leads the Save LA Cougars campaign, which helps support efforts to get the historic wildlife crossing built.

The organization is also behind the annual P-22 Day Festival at Griffith Park, where all of Los Angeles is invited to celebrate the city's urban wildlife and its titular king.

LA's Lion King

P-22 Day Festival, Oct. 22 (urbanwildlifeweek.org)

Like the majority of the city, Pratt first heard about P-22 in 2012, shortly after she started working with the National Wildlife Federation.

"I couldn't believe the headlines I was reading that a mountain lion had made a home in Griffith Park," she said.

She learned from biologists working in the area about the plight of P-22 — having arrived after a treacherous journey in Griffith Park only to be trapped there.

"It wasn't just P-22, there were mountain lions all around the Santa Monica Mountains that were facing the same struggle. I asked that day how I could help."

Beth Pratty, Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing

More than a decade later, Pratt and Save LA Cougars have raised some $100 millions toward the construction of the wildlife crossing near the Liberty Canyon exit on the 101 Freeway.

The project broke ground last year. Currently, Caltrans crews are putting up the support system on both sides of the freeway for the bridge to be placed across early next year. The entire crossing is set for completion in 2025. Source (LAist.com) laist.com/news

[Let's kill P-22 then feel sorry for it, like we did the Native Americans, the Palestinians, and most of the other wildlife that used to roam wild throughout the basin, from the foothills to the bay.]

NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! live (9/28)

WFSB 3; WTTW; Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Los Angeles Greek Theatre

"Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me" on the road

(WFSB 3) June 20, 2023: The iconic NPR quiz show is recorded each week with some of the funniest comedians alongside Host Peter Sagal and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis.

Local News from WFSB (wfsb.com, YouTube Content: @wfsb).

Thomas E. Perez on Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me! with host Peter Sagal in Chicago (Wiki)

Host Peter Sagal and new young trophy wife

The funniest and by far the most popular show on NPR is "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" because it tells the week's news in a digestible way -- through humor. Who knew it traveled around to different parts of the country to be in front a live audience?

"Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" NPR gameshow

It does though it seems to usually be at one live venue in Chicago called home. Tonight, it's made it to the big time, Hollywood! The secret life of the show, icon Carl Kasell, will be in attendance in spirit.

• Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! | 7:30 pm, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 Los Angeles Greek Theatre (TICKETS)

Los Angeles has a "Central Park" called Griffith Park, a wilderness above and behind the glittering lights of Tinsel Town, in Hollywood's backyard, connected to the largest public parkland in the country, which is the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

Chicago Tonight visits "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!"

(WTTW) Nov. 19, 2008: #WTTWnews goes behind the scenes at a taping of "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"  The popular NPR comedy game show celebrated its 10th anniversary in June 2008. (Chicago Tonight: wttw.com/chicagotonight).

"I Love P-22" mountain lion memorial for LA's favorite wild cat (LAist/KPCC.org)

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It's so big that man-eating mountain lions (pumas or nonhuman cougars) -- like LA's beloved dead mascot P-22 (whose funeral was at the Greek) -- can live there, hunting by night, sleeping under people's houses in the Valley by day.

• History of the Greek Theatre (lagreektheatre.com)

(WWDTM) What is Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!? Bob Seger 9/2/23 episode

Remembering Los Angeles' own lion, P-22

Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; LAist 89.3 FM (scpr.org), 2/4/23

Why did you have to kill me on purpose, why?

Los Angeles lost its lion, Puma 22, to its favorite sport -- driving too fast on the freeway. P-22 could cross on his own, but 200 ponies were too much for him to absorb. His injuries led to erratic behavior and misguided veterinarians euthanized him. They give their reasons, couched in compassionate terms, but he could have lived. And this past weekend, he was eulogized at his former home, Griffith Park. The Greek Theater is on the other entrance to the park, behind the hill where the Hollywood sign shines. It was full of well-wishers and many beautiful speeches in memento mori, simulcast live by the local NPR affiliate (scpr.org).

• More: P-22 Memorial: Thousands gathered to remember LA’s famous mountain lion (LAist)
• What the death of P-22 means for Los Angeles, and how its life can teach us to better care for our big cats
• We rename P-22 the mountain lion on Off-Ramp for 2015 (AUDIO: "Puma Thurman," "Felix," "Pounce de Leon"?)
• The hunt for killer mountain lion P-45, what to do with CA's 102 million dead trees... (KPCC/SoCal NPR)

The Hollywood sign and Griffith Observatory by day, with the Valley (SFV) behind the hill.

LA's "Central Park" connects to the Santa Monica mountain range, home to wild cats.

Maybe we're taking this too far? Suddenly everyone loves a killer in the city? Save our wildlife!

Los Angeles LION P-22 funeral at Greek (2/4)

National Wildlife Federation (LA Greek Theater); Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhists love animals, particular vegetarian/vegan Buddhists, and Thai forest monks.

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P-22 CELEBRATION OF LIFE

California Compassion Meditation, Hollywood

P-22's Celebration of Life is being presented by the National Wildlife Federation.

Los Angeles — and the world — lost the beloved puma or mountain lion P-22 on Dec. 17, 2022 [when misguided scientists executed him in a murderous act of euthanasia* to spare themselves feeling bad that it might suffer after being hit by a car, becoming confused and erratic in a suburban environment populated by humans].

White Man kills then tries to save our lions.

We will all be grappling with the loss for some time, trying to make sense of a Los Angeles without this magnificent wild creature. Let’s come together as a community to celebrate his remarkable life.

Joining us will be special guests speaking about their connections to P-22 — and how it also connected us all. There will be musical performances, dancing, food, and much more.

• Free tickets for P-22 memorial at Griffith Park are available (Los Angeles Times, latimes.com)

EVENT INFORMATION

• Saturday, Feb. 4th, 2023, noon, 12:00-2:00 pm
• The Greek Theatre, Griffith Park
• 2700 North Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
• PHONE: 1 (844) LAGREEK
• Family-friendly event, to be held rain or shine
• Ticket information: Admission is FREE
• But all guests must have a ticket for entry

Why did you have to kill me in a misguided act of pseudo "compassion," humans?

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Tickets are available on a first come first served basis. Tickets are general admission. There is no reserved seating. Limit of four (4) tickets per person. Doors open at 10:30 am. Show starts at 12:00 pm. Parking is $20. The Greek encourages ridesharing and public transportation (with a bus stop right in front of the venue).

This is a privately sponsored event and a place where we come together respectfully to collectively celebrate and grieve P-22.

Please avoid conduct that is inappropriate or disrupts the peace and good order of the event or which may adversely affect the well-being or safety of others. Such behavior will be immediately addressed. Guests who violate the code of conduct will be subject to immediate removal. More: P-22 Celebration of Life | Greek Theatre (lagreektheatre.com)

• More info at savelacougars.org
• For media inquiries, please contact: nadia@puentestrategies.com

*Euthanasia is BAD karma

Bhante and Dhr. Seven, (ed.) Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

Kill the animals, dogs and cats, and call it "mercy"! It will be your bad karma and the doctor's.

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Bad thoughts lead to bad actions lead to bad results

Killing to avoid the pain created by our mirror cells and calling it an act of "mercy" and "compassion," because as well all know being murdered is better than being allowed to be in pain that makes others uncomfortable. The intention of taking life is a citta or mind moment that conditions the subsequent result. The motives for killing can only be of four kinds, which is true of all bad karma: greed, hatred/fear, and delusion (passion, angry aversion/cowardly aversion, and wrong view). When the act (karma) is willed and carried out, motivated by one or more of these intentions, it will ripen (when it comes to fruition, which it will do many times in the future) in unwelcome results generally called "suffering" (dukkha).