O. Henry; oh Henry; oooh Henry ...

 

Who knows if the google bot got the Pashto right ...

 سره ښکتهد تیوکراټانو او تیوکراسیانو 

(It was meant to say "death to theocrats and theocracies").

And here's a treat for those who saw the bearded lady in the Tamworth show way back when ...

Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son or The Bearded Lady is a 1631 oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera. It is now part of the Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli collection and displayed at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.

Another joke:

Get with the program bigots of the JD Vance kind, why that bearded lady could fool a Taliban fundamentalist, and all thanks to high end surgery conducted in American schools, with beard transplants a cheap optional extra ...

Here's a joke ...

Strange, wasn't he once a bright young thing with the world his oyster, and then he went off to work for the Daily Snail, a moronic decision, though no doubt overpaid, with the position requiring the daily enraging of Australians ... guess who no one talks about these days?

Sorry, at this point, an explanation is past due, because the pond is allegedly on a break. It still is, but the pond realised that to keep the comments section open for anyone wanting to shout at clouds there had to be a post, so our Henry, oh Henry, was the bunny of choice ...

Hmm, no mention of the current genocide? 

Yet that google bot works just as well for Zionist fundamentalists intent on running a theocratic state from the river to the sea ...

מוות לכל התיאוקרטיות והתיאוקרטיות

(though perhaps it should have suggested Netanyahu go to jail without passing Go, or collecting more corpses).

Never mind, on with the usual array of snaps, including a truly weird one for FDR ...

Then it was back to our Henry's standard game, citing sources in his usual pompous, pedantic, portentous way usual...

On a scale of references up against the usual - surely Thucydides had something to offer? - the pond would rate this well under an eleven ...

Even worse that link didn't lead to more talk of Alberico Gentili of the 16th century, it was just a way of staying inside the hive mind ... because it led to this ...

That piece also had nothing much to say about the current genocide ... though there were notes elsewhere, as per the Graudian, Scientists are closing in on the true, horrifying scale of death and disease in Gaza.

...The Lancet medical journal recently published an estimate of deaths in Gaza from several respected scientists, who outline their process of estimation (comparison with similar conflicts) and final numbers. They estimate that about 186,000 total deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza, which is roughly 7.9% of its population, by mid-June 2024. This high number is despite various ceasefire agreements over the past six months. If deaths continue at this rate – about 23,000 a month – there would be an additional 149,500 deaths by the end of the year, some six and half months from the initial mid-June estimate. Using the method, the total deaths since the conflict began would be estimated at about 335,500 in total.

And if you followed that Lancet link, there was more:

...An immediate and urgent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is essential, accompanied by measures to enable the distribution of medical supplies, food, clean water, and other resources for basic human needs. At the same time, there is a need to record the scale and nature of suffering in this conflict. Documenting the true scale is crucial for ensuring historical accountability and acknowledging the full cost of the war. It is also a legal requirement. The interim measures set out by the International Court of Justice in January, 2024, require Israel to “take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of … the Genocide Convention”. (11) The Gaza Health Ministry is the only organisation counting the dead. Furthermore, these data will be crucial for post-war recovery, restoring infrastructure, and planning humanitarian aid.

Ah, the Genocide convention. 

Funny how our Henry never seems to be aware of the Genocide convention ...

Still there are all sorts of genocides under way ...

... so what's another one ...

Then it was back to the humbug ...

There's barbarism, and then there's barbarism, and talking about one form of barbarism doesn't hide another ...

And so for some extracurricular reading for our hole in the bucket man.

Relax, they're stories in a Jewish newspaper, though just the headlines convey a world of pain ...

And so on and on, and so to a final gobbet, but at least the comments section stays open without the pond having to tweak the settings ...

When it comes to genocide, there's always, predictably, a deadly silence from a genocide enabler entirely supportive of an Israel stretching from the river to the sea, with nary a Palestinian to be seen ...

As for playing the Nazi card, go tell that to Tuckyo Rose ... or perhaps JD ...JD Vance To Join Tucker Carlson After Carlson Hosted Nazi Apologist On His Show, The former Fox News host recently platformed Darryl Cooper, a Nazi apologist who said Winston Churchill — not Adolf Hitler — was the "chief villain" of WWII.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance plans to join former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a live event following Carlson’s hosting of a Nazi apologist on his program.
Vance will be in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 21 as part of Carlson’s “Live Tour,” according to PennLive. Vance is currently campaigning alongside his running mate, former President Donald Trump.
The news comes just days after Carlson hosted Darrly Cooper on his show, a Holocaust revisionist who said it was then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who was the “chief villain” of World War II.
“I thought Churchill was the chief villain of the Second World War,” Cooper told Carlson. “Now, he didn’t kill the most people, he didn’t commit the most atrocities, but … he was primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did.”
Cooper claimed it was Adolf Hitler ― who was responsible for the deaths of millions, including 6 million European Jews in the Holocaust ― who pushed for peace. Cooper referred to Churchill’s bombers’ actions in the war as “rank terrorism.”
“They were wiping these places out, as gigantic-scale terrorist attacks, the greatest, you know, scale of terrorist attacks you’ve ever seen in world history,” Cooper told Carlson, who did not push back on Cooper’s points.
Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney was one of many to correct Cooper’s dangerous claims.
“Actually, this is pro-Nazi propaganda, including, ‘Churchill was the chief villain of WW2’ and Hitler ‘didn’t want to fight,’” Cheney wrote Tuesday in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “No serious or honorable person would support or endorse this type of garbage.”
Cooper is one of just over 1,100 accounts Vance follows on X.
On his X account, Cooper bragged about the new followers he’d gotten since Carlson platformed him.
“You take the good w/the bad,” Cooper wrote. “I’m tarnished with people whose opinion means nothing to me. Meanwhile, my podcast listeners have increased by an order or two of magnitude, my subscribers are through the roof, and I’m blessed that these are the only people I have to please.”
A spokesperson for the Trump/Vance campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Now there's some fine Nazis for our Henry and the lizard Oz and the bromancer to get behind ... and now to end on a lighter cat lady in a shoe note ...