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I have always loved history. A history teacher was my second desired profession when I was a youth — my first was an anesthesiologist, simply because I could spell it.
My interest in history demands that I attend air shows whenever and wherever I can. Started that as a freshman at Texas A&M University in 1973.
Our "Wings Over Gillespie" air show was this past weekend in El Cajon, and I was there to see one of the biggest, baddest birds to ever fly the skies:
That's a Douglas C53-D (DC-3) Sky Trooper — parked to takeoff to flight to landing. It is based in Riverside, California, as part of the Commemorative Air Force. This specific Sky Trooper, M2-R 268830, actually took part in delivering paratroopers to the beaches of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. A big, bad bird.
And here's the second of our biggest, baddest birds to ever fly the skies:
That big, bad bird is a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), the national bird of the United States of America. Rescued as an injured juvenile and rehabilitated by the San Diego Zoo, its injuries prevent it from being released back into the wild. It has to live out its life at the San Diego Zoo's Safari Park. Big, bad bird.
And one final picture from the "Wings Over Gillespie" Air Show in honor of our living soldiers and in memory of our fallen soldiers who gave their lives so we could live:
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My brand new housemate piped up, incredulously, over his steaming hot cup of strong coffee whilst sniffing at the strong rich caffeine fumes. It was early on Saturday morning on the August Bank Holiday weekend and it was probably not the best news to have given him before he had his daily espresso drink.
'Sure! Hastings!'
I gave him a flash of my winning smile and carried on munching on my breakfast bar. Ross had just asked me what I was doing for a day trip out the next day, and I told him of a place where I've always wanted to visit ever since I opened my very first history book at the age of five. Hastings is where British history is agreed to have started with the invasion of the Normans in 1066. (I dispute this as there is Anglo-Saxon and Viking history long before that date) but really, 1066, is when many children across the UK study from marking the time of William the Conqueror who set foot on these shores before battling King Harold Godwinson at Battle close by.
'Surely, you could visit cooler places than Hastings?'
He grumbled as he slowly drank whilst giving me a fixed stare. I began to explain to him my reasons why particularly on the historical side.
'1066 country?'
He questioned me.
'Sure, don't you remember being around at that time?'
I cheekily bantered and avoided his throw of a cushion as I skipped, laughing back to my room to read up more on 1066 country.
Yes, the area around Hastings is getting popularly known as 1066 country, on the south eastern coast, taking in Hastings, Bexhill, Rye, Battle, Pevensey and more. You can find out more by downloading their app here:
Download: Official 1066 Country app
My journey to Hastings
Waking up as early as I could on a Sunday (what? It's rest day!), I headed over to London Victoria to undertake my two hour journey (costing £20 day return with my disabled railcard) with SouthEastern railways. Taking a fast train to Tonbridge, I remained in my carriage while the train split, the front going to Dover and the rear going to Hastings.
It was rather a pleasant fast journey and I eagerly awaited to explore this beautiful corner of England, but I couldn't prepare for the immense surprise how pretty Hastings is.
A day out in Hastings
Blinking in the scorching sun at 11 in the morning, I stepped out of the train station and slowly ambled my way downhill towards the beachfront taking in the sights.
Here's what I did.
Walking along the promenade
Well, talk about beauty! As soon as I rounded the corner of the road leading up to the station, I was greeted with the sight of the English Channel lapping on the rocky shores of the beach. But as I looked around, I was struck with the sight of the buildings on the promenade. Here's my favourite – The Palace
It's a great route to strut and whistle to the tune 'I do like to be beside the seaside!' But don't forget to lather on the suncream as I almost got burnt to a crisp on this balmy August bank holiday weekend! (See my burnt face at the end of this post!)
Hastings Pier
Oooh, this is where I spent most of my time in Hastings. Offering great views of the city and the sea, Hastings Pier feels absolutely brand new. That's right, as it rebuilt and re-opened to the public in Spring 2016 after a series of calamities that hit the old pier including storms, fires and more.
Walking on the wooden floor, my footsteps echoed as I strode right to the end, but not before checking out some beauties including these gorgeously colourful beach huts.
But you do get a sense that Hastings Pier is actually bigger than it looks.
Turning back around, I could see Hastings in all its glory.
And you can even see out to the sea using the sea binoculars at the end. Will you see a new batch of Normans coming?
I was told that Boyzone performed here the night before. Imagine how devastated I was to miss them!
But if you need a refreshing break after walking alongside this tardis of a pier, I recommend sampling a local beer in The Pavilion Restaurant and Bar near the entrance of the pier and take in the views outside.
You can see I'm happy with a big grin on my sweaty face!
Hastings Beach
Gingerly stepping onto the rocky stone beach, I soon grew accustomed to there being no sand and actually rather liked it (no more finding sand in your pants days after!). Paddling in the sea was such a refreshing experience that I confess I fist pumped in the air, startling a lovestruck couple canoodling nearby.
There a few neat art installations along the beach as well. This was my favourite. While I was admiring it, an older woman stood next to me and we began imagining what this represents. We couldn't agree whether it was a Giant's gardening fork, a beach rake, a feather until her husband rolled his eyes and shouted:
'It's a goddamn boat!'
West View Funicular
Spying the Norman castle on the hill from the beach, I knew what I came to Hastings for: to step foot in the very first Norman castle in the UK.
But it's on top of a MASSIVE hill and after shamelessly relaxing on the pier and the beach, I wondered how I would get the strength to walk up.
But there's a solution! The West Hill Cliff Railway Funicular!
With £2.70 a trip, you pay the quirky Victorian style gate toll and clamber aboard the wooden carriage that will transport you up through a dark tunnel right all the way to the top. It's a great experience and the families absolutely loved seeing their kids get enthralled by the journey.
Definitely one to do in Hastings!
Views over Hastings
After the funicular journey, you'll be astounded by the views over Hastings, in the distance, Beachy Head, where I was a couple of years ago.
Read more: Eastbourne in Pictures
After all that hungry work, you're best treating yourself to an ice cream here to spoil yourself.
Hastings Castle and 1066 Experience
So, here I am! I made it! Taking a wild path through the wild flowers, I have arrived at Hastings Castle! With £4.70 entry, you can find out all about the history of Hastings and how 1066 was an important year in British history.
It was all rather romantic, I have to say. With a strong breeze on top, I could perch my foot on the stone and bend the knee to look across the English channel with a serious brooding look on my face.
That was until a group of lads starting guffawing at my posture. But little did they know I would have looked AWESOME with a cape!
Hastings Old Town
Avoiding the touristy areas of the arcades and funfairs back down on sea level, I took a detour into Hastings Old Town. Quaint, charming and pretty, it was a shopper's paradise with independent shops and antiques stories that you can play with their knick knacks. It took all of my energy not to buy EVERYTHING.
The Fig Rye Hastings Restaurant
Right, after all this walking around, I was truly starving! With my vegetarian diet in full swing, I wanted to find a restaurant in the Old Town that served fresh produce and make my eyes as big as dinner plates. Enter the Fig Rye. It seems they have opened this second restaurant of theirs in Hastings as the main restaurant is in the town of Rye further along the coast.
I entered this cool, happening and trendy restaurant staffed with suave waiters. Selecting my seat, I immediately grabbed the menu and carefully studied. They were so much delicious selections to choose from but in the end after a painstakingly 10 minute wait, I opted for Poached Eggs, Halloumi, Guacamole, Rocket and cherry tomatoes, all washed down with Berry Boost juice.
It was a meal to remember! Don't you agree in the photo below?
Check out more pics from their Instagram page here: The Fig Rye
The end of my time in Hastings
With prior commitments for the evening, 5pm suddenly rolled by and it was time for me to jump back on the train to London.
But I was left with a HUGE impression of Hastings. I do admit that before I arrived, I was expecting an old person's beach. But having explored this lovely town, Hastings is young, stylish, colourful and wonderfully trendy.
With other sights to see in 1066 country such as Battle (where the Battle of Hastings took place), I wouldn't be surprised if I find myself back in Hastings for another turn on the pier.
But next time, Boyzone will definitely be there!
Want to find out more about Hastings?
Check out these great websites:
1066 country website: https://www.visit1066country.com/
On the Luce: A Sussex Seaside Break in Hastings
Pack Your Passport: 11 Reasons You Need To Take A Day Trip To Hastings
Wanderlust Chloe: London to Hastings: A Perfect Seaside Trip

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For. The. Love. Of. Christ.
Look, people, words mean things, and, Humpty Dumpty notwithstanding, they mainly mean what they are understood to mean by the people who create and employ them. Wittgenstein also notwithstanding, we mostly don't have trouble agreeing about most of the things that fall into most of the categories we choose to assign to the phenomena we observe.
Somebody posted a link to a very clear definition of "concentration camp" as the term is employed by people who spend their whole damned lives talking about, thinking about, and teaching about things like concentration camps. Nonetheless, there are people on this site who continue to insist on disputing the definition. Well, nobody gives a flying fuck if you think "concentration camp" means "A place where people are rounded up and murdered," or in fact, means anything other than what it does mean, which is this: A place where civilians are collected and kept, normally without evidence or even suspicion of a crime, nevermind an accusation, so that they can be controlled. The "concentration" being referred to has nothing to do with whether they are overcrowded or underfed or gassed or raped or anything else -- it just means, they are put together, in one place, so that whatever power put them there can keep an eye on them.
The original concentration camps were a colonial measure for rounding up a dispersed population so that they could easily be policed and kept separate from insurgents. That's the "concentration" in question: Rather than having them scattered around the landscape on farmsteads and in rural villages, they were all in one place, gathered up and put behind fences, where they couldn't lend aid to insurgents -- couldn't feed them, or hide them, or give them information. That was the whole deal.
There is simply no disputing that the internment camps in which the US placed people of Japanese ethnicity were concentration camps. They were practically definitional concentration camps. Anybody arguing that these internment camps were not concentration camps might as well be arguing that the buildings in which NHL teams play their games are not "arenas". Or that American high schools aren't "schools". Or that Kroger's venues are not "grocery stores". You don't get the choice. You don't get to argue. You don't get to have a contrary opinion on this, anymore than you get to have a contrary opinion on whether grass is a plant or bats are mammals. It. Is. A. Fact. Live with it.
Your own (or anybody else's) emotional response to the most horrifying exemplars of concentration camps does not somehow overrule the perfectly functional definition of "concentration camp", which subsumes the Nazi death camps and a lot of other appalling instances as well. Concentration camps existed before the Nazis. They have existed since the fall of the Nazis. They are likely to exist for as long as our civilization teeters along. Himmler and Speer didn't invent concentration camps, and their "innovations" didn't change the definition of the phenomenon.
Note finally that people who know what the fuck they're talking about generally don't include PoW camps as concentration camps -- though in some instances they might be thought to meet the definition. Similarly, prison camps (such as prison farms) where people have been sent to serve out sentences under much different conditions than, say Leavenworth, are usually not considered concentration camps. Pay no attention to Solzhenitsyn. He was a bigot, a religious fanatic, and an idiot. (That said, in casual usage, some people might extend the definition of "concentration camp" to include those categories, particularly under certain circumstances -- but that is (or should be) casual usage, and when done it degrades and blurs the more precise and accurate definition, to the overall detriment of our language.)
Is Gaza a concentration camp? Yes, we can debate that question. It sure fucking looks like one. The fact that people come and go does not violate the definition. Internees in concentration camps often come and go. How else are they to earn their keep? Even in Nazi Germany, inmates came and went from the camps -- marched off to work in factories as slave labor, then marched back to their fenced-in barracks. Arbeit Macht Fucking Frei, and all that.
I can't believe we even have to argue about this.
It's frustrating.
The latter-day brainwashing of groups used to police political thought in the US has become cartoonish and buffoonish. They will not be tolerated endlessly, as they grow more obvious.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King
I've always referred to the Reservations
...as concentration camps, because that's exactly what they were and are today. This predates the current poison pill of the Thought Police lobby.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King
Thank you UT. For an opportunity to discuss this rationally.
And...yes to your thoughts and comment.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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Are so trained to shift the narrative on anything by arguing based on emotion or their "side" it's no wonder we "debate" this stuff. Thanks for this clear, concise, factual essay.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Let me be the first
to note here that even the author of Godwin's Law, one Mike Godwin, commented that AOC was right to call them concentration camps. (per today's Thom Hartmann Live program)
I recall seeing even one Holocaust scholar concurring w/AOC. And there have been enough name analysts and commentators out there also in agreement to make me feel I'm not off base in finding her description apropos.
AOC continues to impress by not tiptoeing around delicately to avoid essential harsh truths. I wish more lefties had her cojones.
Very helpful thread post commentary by UR.
Women, men were separated when they arrived per cattle wagon
at the camps, their children were separated from the mothers. And one should may be aware of that not all the KZ = concentration camps at first had the same 'set-up'.
May be this link will help to get a picture of what it meant to be in a "Concentration camp" (= KZ = Konzentrationslager) during the end of wwII.
If that is propaganda or the well known images most elderly Germans have in their memory when speaking about the concentration camps is propaganda, I think some people should check in themselves to somewhere...
Excerpted from another link that somehow I can't get to post here:
In a case in which a mother did not want to be separated from her thirteen- or fourteen-year-old daughter, and bit and scratched the face of the SS man who tried to force her to her assigned line, Mengele drew his gun and shot both the woman and the child. As a blanket punishment, he then sent to the gas all people from that transport who had previously been selected for work, with the comment: "Away with this shit!" (Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors.)
Photos: Children of Auschwitz share stories of survival
A KZ is what an average German thinks about when he/she hears the English term 'Concentration Camp' and that was all I was trying to say. This is specific and not comparable to what happened on most reeducation camps or forced labor camps or POW camps in other parts of the world.
You can look at the original photos taken from the KZ in Germany and compare them with the photos snoopydawg posted from the Japanese internment camps in the US. I would say the differences are visible and can't be denied.
"Trauma is not what happens to you.
Trauma is what happens inside you,
as a result of what happens to you."
— Dr. Gabor Maté
AOC: her mouth often goes where her brain does not
She's right about concentration camps, a concept in which conflation with Death Camps has become almost inevitable.
AOC continues to impress by not tiptoeing around delicately to avoid essential harsh truths. I wish more lefties had her cojones.
But she also does air-headed things like propose a ridiculous Green New Deal which would ban airplanes, unless atomic powered ones, I suppose. AOC is a ticking time bomb for the Dems--actually one of many. How many Bathroom Bookers and non-Cherokee Liz Warrens have before people realize the current iteration of the Democrat Party are escapees from a looney bin?
I'm not feeling the hysterics about airplanes.
I'm seeing a serious plan for the future based on technologies that exist today. Serious people with something worthwhile to contribute to society will consider all solutions in their intended context rather than allow right-wing hysterics to do their thinking for them.
The Green New Deal will convert the decaying fossil fuel economy into a new, green economy that is environmentally sustainable, economically secure and socially just. The Green New Deal starts with transitioning to 100% green renewable energy (no nukes or natural gas) by 2030. It would immediately halt any investment in fossil fuels (including natural gas) and related infrastructure. The Green New Deal will guarantee full employment and generate up to 20 million new, living-wage jobs, as well as make the government the employer of last resort with a much-needed major public jobs program.
Our nation – and our world – face a "perfect storm" of economic and environmental crises that threaten not only the global economy, but life on Earth as we know it. The dire, existential threats of climate change, wars for oil, and a stagnating, crisis-ridden economic system require bold and visionary solutions if we are to leave a livable world to the next generation and beyond.
These looming crises mean that the question facing us in the 2016 election is historically unique. The fate of humanity is in our hands. It is not just a question of what kind of world we want, but whether we will have a world at all.
Building on the concept of FDR's New Deal, we call for a massive mobilization of our communities, government and the people on the scale of World War II – to transition our energy system and economy to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2030, including a complete phase out of fossil fuels, fracked gas and nuclear power. We propose an ambitious yet secure economic and environmental program that will revive the economy , turn the tide on climate change, and make wars for oil obsolete – allowing us to cut our bloated, dangerous military budget in half. [1]
The Green New Deal is not only a major step towards ending unemployment for good, but also a tool to fight the corporate takeover of our democracy and exploitation of the poor and people of color. It will provide a just transition, with a priority on providing resources to workers displaced from the fossil fuel industry, low-income communities and communities of color most impacted by climate change. The Green New Deal will provide assistance to workers and communities that now have workers dependent on the fossil fuel, nuclear and weapons industries, and to the developing world as it responds to climate change damage caused by the industrial world.
The transition to 100% clean energy will foster democratic control of our energy system, rather than maximizing profits for energy corporations, banks and hedge funds. It will promote clean energy as a human right and a common good. It will include community, worker and public ownership, as well as small businesses and non-profits.
We will cut military spending by at least half to bring our troops – currently stationed in over 800 bases worldwide – home to their families, deploying our valued servicemen and women in their own communities to build up our country's future and prosperity here at home. Maintaining bases all over the world to safeguard fossil fuel supplies or to shore up repressive oil monarchies could no longer be justified as "protecting American interests."
The Green New Deal not only saves us from climate catastrophe. It also pays for itself through health savings alone, from the prevention of fossil fuel-related diseases – which kill 200,000 people every year and afflict millions more with asthma, heart attacks, strokes, cancer and other illnesses. This program not only addresses the urgent crises facing our society, but puts America's leading role in the world to work in a constructive way: to build a just, sustainable, and healthy planet for our young people and future generations.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King
For the planet's sake, I hope you are correct.
But the quote, which constitutes the totality of your content, strikes me as pure propaganda. How, for instance, would replacement of fossil fuels guarantee full employment? What are the mechanisms by which the touted yellow-mixed-with-blue produces such an economic miracle. Give me some facts, please. In the meantime, those of you GND-believers, please reduce your carbon footprints so that Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, et. al. can whiz around in their airplanes.
The link in my post above
...leads into the longer discussion. That is followed by links to the specific and underlying science and intelligence. I posted the link so that we could have an informed discussion.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King
A link too far
Heh. Well, there we are.
Carry on as before.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King
Okay, Pluto, I give up
I read your prime link but after reading the whole Intercept article, I failed to see the mention of "full employment". I know that as a lowly swamp dweller, the intricacies of GND financing are beyond the level of my understanding. But where, do tell, is the link to the magic full employment? All I saw were continuous references to trillions of dollars.
A different link, actually...
At this link in my post to you, above:
Over all 50 states, converting would provide 3.9 million 40-year construction jobs and 2.0 million 40-year operation jobs for the energy facilities alone, the sum of which would outweigh the 3.9 million jobs displaced in the conventional energy sector.
Jacobson's jobs estimates are only for electric power production. They do not include jobs from the two most potent job creators in an energy transition: mass transit/freight rail and retrofitting buildings for insulation and efficiency. It is estimated that every dollar spent on investments in renewable energy creates 3 times as many jobs as investments in nuclear power or fossil fuels [7]. Also missing in the Jacobson study are manufacturing jobs for clean energy generation equipment and jobs for retrofitting the grid into a smart grid.
The Center for American Progress estimates that $100 billion in green economic investment will translate into two million new jobs in two years.[8] And a 2008 report by the Center on Wisconsin Strategies suggests that roughly 8 -11 jobs can be created by every $1 million invested in building energy efficiency retrofitting.[9] The American Solar Energy Society has estimated that jobs in energy efficiency industries will more than quadruple between 2007 and 2030, from 3.75 million to 16.7 million.[10] (see also Scaling Up Building Energy Retrofitting in U.S. Cities [11])
There is less data about how many jobs would be created by transitioning to a comprehensive national mass transit program. However, an analysis in 2011 by Smart Growth America, the Center for Neighborhood Technology and U.S. PIRG, found that every billion dollars spent on public transportation produced 16,419 job-months, while the same amount spent on highway infrastructure projects produced 8,781 job-months; meaning that investment in public transit creates almost twice as many jobs as investing in highways.[12] (See also a study by the Transportation Equity Network.[13])
You're a good sport, Alligator Ed. The best sort of chap to think with.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King
Thanks, Pluto
I value your input. Your comments are most fitting, even if occasionally some differences of opinion occur.
@Pluto's Republic
Love it. My #1 grandson "Adams" was quoted in this article in the Intercept. Paying for climate change is his specialty. He works for Swedish Environmental Institute.
"The Green Climate Fund's ability to handle that level of investment is another question. "The Green Climate is good at upscaling ideas, and it's crucial that the approaches it is developing are closely linked to the principles of the Convention, but you'd have some practical issues to it handling that much funding," said Adams of the Stockholm Environment Institute. "While the replenishment is currently ongoing, scaling it up 200 times to $2 trillion would be an enormous institutional challenge." Indeed, the Green Climate Fund's capacity to review projects is limited, and it can only distribute money to countries that apply with a robust project to pursue — not a quick or easy task.
Adams said industrialized countries should "do more and contribute more" toward the effort of climate finance, which is more important than a focus on the exact figures needed. "While $2 trillion might be in line with the scale of the climate challenge, it is so far beyond the $100 billion goal currently enshrined in the Paris Agreement and which contributor countries are struggling to meet, it's hard to see that figure gaining much political traction," he said."
He's speaking to the Green Climate Fund, a project that SEI is operating to "supplement" and not "supplant" climate change efforts in various applicant countries. I've read several articles on why we need to transition to the MMT. Paying for climate change would be one of them. IF the American public was ever lucky enough to get leadership that wasn't corporate and corrupt, they would demand health insurance and education before they'd give up a dime to anyone but themselves for anything.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Your grandson, really?
That is impresssive! Important work.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King
Yes it is my grandson. He will be 26 in January.
Just got a full 3 year scholarship to the London School of Economics to get his PhD in his field. He's done some work for the UN, travels the globe working on climate projects, what a fantastic life he's had for someone so young. Long future ahead of him if the planet doesn't die.
Just have to brag a minute. He deserves it. Works his behind off to reach his goals.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Glad, so glad to hear of this.
Made my spirit soar to know there was such a person amongst us. Thanks for producing him my friend.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King
If AOC may have been right about concentration camps, so was
this article. It may have occasioned her remarks, but I am too tired to compare dates.
Did someone say
Atomic powered airplanes?!
We can't save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Is Gaza a concentration camp?
The fact that people come and go does not violate the definition.
Coming and going under guard surely doesn't count.
Did Israel round these people up and place them there and not allow them to leave FREELY OF THEIR OWN VOLITION from any side at all?
I'm asking an honest question. I don't know the answer. I think they are free to leave to the West into Egypt, but I don't know. If they were rounded up and forced to remain there, then yes, it is a concentration camp. If the CHOOSE not to leave unless it's into Israel which is forbidden, then "no" it does not meet the stated definition.
EDIT: I see your answer downthread. If I understand it correctly, you are saying Israel does not let them leave into Egypt either. That is a very foolish policy. Even England let Irish dissidents leave to go to the USA.
EDIT2: So why aren't the other countries demanding that their "Arab brothers" be allowed to leave and receive succor in their Arab countries? Because, like the DNC, they get more political mileage by leaving them suffer? Couldn't KSA say that they won't sell oil to any nation that doesn't take an allocation of refugees? BTW, where does Israel get oil? Does KSA's concern for their "brothers" bow before the mighty shekel?
We are so screwed.
Deleting my reply because I'd rather UR respond.
I guess I'm missing the relevance of your question
and comment to the question whether what we are calling Palestine is a concentration camp or not, according to the definition you respect.
The answer to your geographical question, though, is "to various countries." Until relatively recently, emigration information was not available. Or so one of my sources said. But, I did post a couple of links to information about emigration by Palestinians on the thread about the Laos concentration camp. Here they are:
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Palestinians-reveal-emigration-statist... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_diaspora; https://hcef.org/106-report-on-christian-emigration-palestine/
There are more available, but, for my purposes in the other thread, those sufficed.
How the ability to emigrate fits in (or not) to the definition of "concentration camp" that you respect, I don't know. I have not looked for the definition yet, nor have I been able to read your OP yet. I'm more tired than I was a few hours ago and it now looks like sleep is not a possibility. Oh well.
I'm sorry I deleted my response to Voice. I didn't want to get in the way of your reply to Voice. I didn't realize that you had already replied to me. If I remembered what it said, I'd recreate it.
The Terror season two will be about the Japanese American
Interment camps starring George Takei who actually lived in one when he was young. Here's the trailer for it.
Here's the write up on the show.
'The Terror: Infamy' brings creepy supernatural folklore to WW2
"Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful second season of the horror-infused anthology The Terror: Infamy centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man's journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible," reads the official synopsis.
"Anywhere you go, it follows you," warns George Takei's Yamato-san, a community elder well-versed in its lore..
'It' being
racismevil shapeshifting spirits that haunt at least three generations of a Japanese-American community in what is expected to be an eerie follow-up to a successful first season.
Season one was excellent if a bit confusing.
Here's George talking about when he was in the camp.
George Takei: At least during my internment, I was not taken from my parents
Actor George Takei argued that "in one core, horrifying way," the family separations occurring at the United States' southern border are "worse" than the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
"At least during the internment, when I was just 5 years old, I was not taken from my parents," he wrote in an op-ed for Foreign Policy magazine that was published Tuesday. Takei, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry who was detained with his family at camps in Arkansas and California, wrote that there was a "hideous irony" in the comparison.
"At least during the internment, my parents were able to place themselves between the horror of what we were facing and my own childish understanding of our circumstances," Takei wrote, describing the ways his family protected him from "the grim reality" of their circumstances.
"At least during the internment, we remained a family, and I credit that alone for keeping the scars of our unjust imprisonment from deepening on my soul," he continued. "I cannot for a moment imagine what my childhood would have been like had I been thrown into a camp without my parents. That this is happening today fills me with both rage and grief: rage toward a failed political leadership who appear to have lost even their most basic humanity, and a profound grief for the families affected."
What life was like in the camps.
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams
Thank you for this good discussion. I did bring up the
question of Palestinians. I fell into this subject after years of avoiding discussions on TOP. So on one hand I accidentally brought up a very fraught subject. But, OTOH it does seem to me the controlling of groups of people and their ability to or not to move about freely is a good portion of the basic definition.
This exchange encouraged me to look up what is going on. Wiki has an exhaustive history of Gaza. There are also entries on Palestinian Territories. The DNA portion of the discussion is interesting.
Maps on Google show various iterations of a map starting with 1948 to present. Many are subtitled in an inflammatory way. But there is some consistency of what has constituted Palestine and Israel over the last 70 years.
To me the whole situation is undeniably sad. There have been brief periods where some attempt at peaceful co existence was attempted, but short lived. It does appear there are more Palestinians living outside the Territories than within.
Other ethnic groups have had to leave their lands, e.g. Irish and Italians, usually because of poverty and promise of better life elsewhere. There is discussion of larger populations outside the countries of origin.
The use of Fort Sill for detaining children from South of the US border, is being protested by American Japanese. Fort Sill was one of the internment camps for Japanese during WWII. the water colors of the Japanese camp are 'awfully' beautiful.
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For the record, I was hesitant to publish this comment, because I do not want to cause fights here at C99. My feeling was at TOP and now here, that we can propose ideas, report research, discuss solutions without resorting to anger, labeling the writer of whatever thought on this subject. Self censoring unfortunately becomes an option.
I did however, go looking at all of this history on my own, now that I see the degree of concern these topics raise. So if anything good comes of all this, I personally, am more educated today.
And even sadder about the world we live in.
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Due to fatigue, I will have to return to read most of
your OP. However, my eye happened to fall on this.
The "concentration" being referred to has nothing to do with whether they are overcrowded or underfed or gassed or raped or anything else -- it just means, they are put together, in one place, so that whatever power put them there can keep an eye on them.
con·cen·tra·tion camp
/ˌkänsənˈtrāSHən ˈˌkamp/
noun: concentration camp; plural noun: concentration camps
a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.
For purposes of this post, we can ignore the last sentence, which, unfortunately, would harken back to the incorrect position that concentration camps are so connected to Germany, and only Germany, that any use of the term references the Holocaust, etc. which is untrue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps
Aside from the above definition, in every photo I've seen of inmates in a concentration camp, crowding has been evident. Also, one doesn't expect that nations that use concentration camps build commodious accommodations for that purpose.
However, I have not seen photos of the camps where the US "interned" US citizens of Japanese origin and descent. They may or may not have been exceptions in that respect. Those camps were built for the purpose of containing families, from the very elderly to newborns, no member of which anyone claimed had done anything wrong. Also, political considerations in the US were at least theoretically different in the US than in other nations with concentration camps.
In any event, facilities that are often inadequate for the numbers of inmates in any number of ways, including space, are a typical characteristic.
I posted a photo and a video of the
Japanese American camps above in case you missed them.
Also, political considerations in the US were at least theoretically different in the US than in other nations with concentration camps.
Ehh? The camps are facilities in which large numbers of people are being detained under overcrowded, inhumane conditions for political, nationalistic and ethnic reasons, in violation of national and international law. The temperature in buildings are kept very cold and the lights are never turned off. Children aren't sleeping in beds and they might just have one blanket and have to decide whether they place them on their bodies or on the floors. Sleep deprivation is considered torture and I've seen some reports saying that not only the lights are kept on all the time, but so is the music. This is considered torture.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying?
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Thank you, snoopydawg. I did not question in the least
that the "internment" camps were concentration camps. I questioned only if they may not have been as crowded as other concentration camps. I didn't even say they were not as crowded as other concentration camps. I said I didn't know. However, I also speculated as to reasons that they may have been built differently than other kinds of concentration camps.
Sorry if I was unclear, but I was tired (and am more so now).
"I can't believe we even have to argue about this."
update: I think I mixed up comments I made in Ban Nock's essay and this one.
me neiher, UntimelyRippd, and I feel put down, because obviously I was the user, that somebody, you were talking about.
Somebody posted a link to a very clear definition of "concentration camp" as the term is employed by people who spend their whole damned lives talking about, thinking about,
(and did not teach about it and never will)
For whatever sophistication, intelligent knowledge and emotions you bring to the discussion, certainly it has nothing to do with "Christ".
Apparently it is not reasonable to mention, how other people feel what concentration camps mean to them and how they would use or not use the term.
To which I say, the "Lord" tells me otherwise.
Pfft ...
"Trauma is not what happens to you.
Trauma is what happens inside you,
as a result of what happens to you."
— Dr. Gabor Maté
It's the difference between lower-case concentration camp and
Auschwitz. Those with an agenda to whitewash contemporary America will always point to Nazi Germany to absolve themselves of the charge that we, too, commit human rights violations and crimes against humanity.
Nazi Germany's Auschwitz justifies concentration camps when we do it, because the similarities get obscured by false or incomplete comparison. The US doesn't run concentration camps because we aren't Nazis, so this flawed argument goes. Because of this, we are virtuous, we try to convince ourselves. This self deceptive heuristic device has been the driving engine that continues to justify The Myth of American Exceptionalism many decades after it was laid bare.
Here's another example of ongoing justification and self deception by false comparison:
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No. The Blue Ink Tech App and the BIT web portal are free to use, so you can create a BIT account to try them out before you decide to buy our ELD. Download the app from Google Play or the Apple App Store and log into the web portal at blueinktech.com to see how easy it is to record or edit your HOS logs.
Yes. Blue Ink Tech's ELDs are FMCSA registered. See https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/ELD/List
BITELD model #BIT17001
BITOBD model #BIT17002
When you buy the BIT ELD you own the ELD. There are no ongoing monthly costs to use the BIT ELD to record your HOS logs or for access to BIT Customer Support.
The BIT ELD comes with a 1-year manufacturer's warranty on hardware defects. If your BIT ELD breaks or malfunctions due to a manufacturing defect within a year of the purchase date, you can return it for a free exchange.
No. There are no ongoing fees to use the BIT ELD, the Blue Ink Tech App and the BIT Web Portal to record your HOS logs.
No. There are no ongoing charges or fees to use your BIT ELD and Blue Ink Tech App to record your HOS logs for ELD mandate compliance.
We offer a 30-day money back guarantee, so if you decide the BIT ELD system isn't right for you or your fleet, you can return the ELD(s) for a full refund within that time period.
No. Our Support Team is happy to work with you to fix any issues you may have with the ELD, and we will make free exchanges for hardware malfunctions, but we do not issue refunds more than 30 days after your original purchase.
Yes. Track your drivers' in-state miles and fuel purchases with a BIT Full Service plan. More details are available here.
The BIT ELD adapter plugs into your vehicle's diagnostic port, which is directly connected to the vehicle's ECU.
The BIT ELD device can be connected to the diagnostic port in most trucks. The 9-pin connector meets SAE J1939 and the 6-pin connector meets SAE 1708 and J1587 standards for serial communications in heavy-duty vehicles.
Yes, you can send data to your carrier by connecting to a wifi hotspot and sending logs at the end of your day. Keep in mind that many DOT officers will ask you to send your logs to the DOT email or web server.
You can unplug the BIT ELD to free up your diagnostic port for maintenance. This will not affect the ELD or your logs. Just remember to reinstall it before you hit the road! We stock splitter cables if you need to plug more than one device into your diagnostic port at one time, or if you don't want to bother with uninstalling your ELD every time you need to do maintenance or clear fault codes. See our Purchase page for all of our adapter cable options.
Yes. We require a valid email address so if you forget your password we can send you a password reset email.
No. Each driver needs their own email address to create a unique account on the Blue Ink Tech App to record their logs.
You can download the latest version of the BIT ELD User Manual from our Support page.
Yes. You can print both cards from our Support page.
The BIT ELD transmits vehicle data to the Blue Ink Tech App on your mobile device through a Bluetooth connection. You can see the last 8 days' data on the app. The Blue Ink Tech App uploads its data to Blue Ink Tech's server where it is kept for 6 months and can be accessed through the BIT web portal at blueinktech.com.
You can see your HOS logs for the current day and the past 7 days on the Blue Ink Tech App. You can see your HOS logs for the past 6 months on the BIT web portal. The FMCSA requires that ELD providers store your data for a six month period.
You can print your logs from your BIT account on the Blue Ink Tech web portal. Log into your account and go to the Logs page. Click "Save to PDF" to create a detailed copy your logs that can be printed or saved to your computer.
Yes. You can edit your logs in the Blue Ink Tech App or on the BIT web portal. The only duty status events that have limited edits are drive times, which can only be assigned to other in-motion statuses such as "Personal Conveyance" and "Yard Move".
You cannot directly make changes to your drivers' logs, but you can make suggested edits to their logs on the web portal. The suggested changes will show on the driver's Blue Ink Tech App home screen for them to accept or reject before certifying their logs.
The FMCSA mandates that Driving events recorded by the ELD when the vehicle was in motion cannot be changed to a non-motion status such as "Off Duty" or "Sleeper Berth". You can only change drive time to another in-motion status such as "Personal Conveyance" or "Yard Move".
Blinking Red – Your vehicle is moving but the BIT ELD adapter is not connected to the Blue Ink Tech App
Blinking Yellow – Your engine is on but the BIT ELD adapter is not connected to the Blue Ink Tech App
Blue – The BIT ELD adapter is ready to connect to the Blue Ink Tech app
Green – The BIT ELD adapter is connected to the Blue Ink Tech app
Purple – The BIT ELD adapter has Unidentified Driver records
Cyan – There was an error. Unplug the ELD and reinstall it
For Apple devices: open the App Store and select Updates. Press the Update button next to the Blue Ink Tech App. For Android devices: open the Google Play store and select the Blue Ink Tech App update. You can set your phone to automatically update by going to the Apple Store or Google Play and searching for Blue Ink Tech, then choosing auto-update from the menu.
Your Blue Ink Tech App Home screen will alert you if an update is available. You can set your phone to automatically update by going to the Apple Store or Google Play and searching for Blue Ink Tech, then choosing auto-update from the menu.
The ELD and your phone connect via local bluetooth, so they will still communicate and you can record your HOS logs even if you lose cell service. You do need cell service, or some type of internet connection, if you need to send your logs to the DOT during a roadside inspection, and for your Blue Ink Tech App to send data to your carrier. Per the FMCSA frequently asked questions, if you do not have cell service during a roadside inspection, it is sufficient to show the DOT officer the Roadside Inspection screen of your Blue Ink Tech App. This screen has all of the information required by the FMCSA. See here for more details.
The FMCSA requires that an ELD read the engine odometer, which is based on engine shaft rotations. This is separate from the dashboard odometer, which is usually based on wheel shaft rotation, and is less accurate due to changes in tire pressure and size.
No. The 5mph threshold for automatic "Driving" status is mandated by the FMCSA.
To free up storage space on your phone or tablet, your saved DVIR is stored on the Blue Ink Tech web portal. You can see your DVIRs for the last six months on the web portal.
The FMCSA instructs ELD manufacturers to display location information this way. Exact location is not needed for ELD mandate compliance, and it provides added privacy to the driver.
The only duty statuses automatically recorded by the BIT ELD are "Driving" and "On Duty Not Driving". The BIT ELD detects when your vehicle is in motion and when it stops. All other duty status changes must be made by the driver.
The mini-USB port on the ELD is for future firmware updates.
You can connect your ELD to your computer with a USB cable to download programming updates directly to the ELD.
You can also use the port to plug Android phones or tablets directly into the ELD with a mini-usb cable. This will not charge the Android device, but does avoid having to connect via Bluetooth.
Your ELD should reconnect on its own after a few minutes. If it doesn't reconnect, you should try one or more of the following steps:
1. Turn off your Bluetooth, then turn off your phone or tablet.
2. Unplug the ELD.
3. Power your phone or tablet back on, then turn on your Bluetooth.
4. Plug in the ELD.
5. Navigate into the Blue Ink app to reconnect.
If these steps do not work to reconnect your ELD, please call Support at (304) 840-0142.
Select "Roadside Inspection" from the Blue Ink Tech App menu. All of the required data will be displayed on this screen for the DOT officer. We provide an Inspector Instructions card with your ELD. You can give this card to the DOT officer to help them navigate the "Roadside Inspection" screen and see how to send your logs to the DOT email or web server. You can download and print this card on our Support page.
You can send your logs to the DOT email or web server. On the "Roadside Inspection" screen tap the green gear icon in the bottom-left corner to bring up a menu of options. Tap "Send Records to DOT Web Server" or "Email Records to DOT". The officer should give you a routing number to enter in the comment field so they can easily find the file. Your logs will be sent in the comma-separated-variable format required by the FMCSA.
Per the FMCSA's frequently asked questions, if you do not have cell service during a roadside inspection,
it is sufficient to show the DOT officer the Roadside Inspection screen of your Blue Ink Tech App.
This screen has all of the information required by the FMCSA. See here for more details.
We provide an Inspector Instructions card with your ELD. You can give this card to the DOT officer to help them navigate the "Roadside Inspection" screen and see how to send your logs to the DOT email or web server. You can download and print this card on our Support page.
Yes. Most bluetooth capable tablets and phones have the capacity to pin or limit screen content. Use the links below for your Apple or Android phone:
Apple Guided Access - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612
Android Pin Screens - https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6118421?hl=en
You can submit a request form in the FMCSA's DataQs to have that violation removed from your record.
We can help to answer questions or provide evidence about our product for your request.
Choose the pack number that matches the number of tires on your vehicle.
If none of the standard packs fit your set up, call our Sales Team at 304-840-0142 to discuss a custom pack.
No. BIT TPMS works in the existing Blue Ink Tech App and web portal.
No. You need to use the Blue Ink Tech App to get BIT TPMS readings, but you don't have to use a BIT ELD or any of the ELD functions in the app.
No. BIT TPMS Packs come with all the hardware you need to securely install your sensors.
BIT TPMS falls under our BIT Full Service plan that gets you access to TPMS, BIT Air Scale, IFTA, Maintenance, and Fleet visibility
We offer a 30-day money back guarantee, and you can send back your sensor packs for a full refund within that time period.
No, we don't issue refunds for hardware more than 30 days after your original purchase, but you can cancel your TPMS monthly plan anytime.
Check out the battery replacement video from the BIT TPMS Training Series.
Email or call your Account Manager, or the BIT Support Team if you need a replacement battery.
Administrators for your carrier can set and lock alert limits in the BIT web portal. Limits that have been locked will show a padlock icon in the app. If you have an admin account, you can log into the web portal and edit the limits there. If not, you should contact your carrier admin to get them unlocked.
There are many factors that will affect a tire's temprature. Some of these are: direct sunlight, heat from the road, and friction from use.
Direct sunlight: Tires that are facing the sun vs. tires in the shade will read higher tempratures and higher pressures.
Heat from the road: The roads are hotter than the air and can make tires read different tempratures
Friction: Tires that are slightly off from its neighbor in P.S.I can cause increased friction on the lower tire causing more heat to build up inside.
Tires do not stay the same pressure all day. There are many factors that can change a tires pressure during normal use.
Temprature: Pressure and temprature are directly related. When the temprature of a tire increases its pressure will also increase.
Loading/unloading: When a load is added to a truck/trailer that load is distributed to the tires and increases or decreases the pressure depending if it is being loaded or unloaded.
Being able to monitor tire pressures more times in a day can give users an idea of how their tires are behaving and which ones are going through more wear-and-tear. This can help identify what could lead to blowout if unaddressed.
The BIT app never has a constant connection to the TPMS sensors. The TPMS sensors will send their reading every 3 minutes and the BIT app will get the data and process it. If the app is not open to get the reading it will not update or make alerts.
Quick fix: Using the BIT ELD will keep a constant connection with the BIT app while it is in a background or inactive allowing the TPMS sensor reading to come through much more reliably.
Typically you will need two sensors, one for each leveling valve. One on the truck and one on the trailer.
Call our sales team at 304-840-0142 to discuss a custom BIT Full Service plan for your vehicle. We can work with any setup.
Yes, our push-to-connect tee fittings can be installed in minutes on your suspension system air lines.
No. You may need a knife or hose cutter to cut through the air hose for installation. If you need to remove the pressure sensor from the tee fitting you will need an adjustable wrench.
Our calibration process uses empty and full certified weights to establish two known data points. Once calibration is complete, the app interpolates current weight on all three axles using those data points.
We use the steer axle weights entered during calibration to determine current steer axle weight.
For an accurate weight, yes. If you dump the tractor air bags to take weight off the fifth wheel when you move it, you definitely need to recalibrate.
No. BIT Air Scale works in the existing Blue Ink Tech App and web portal.
We offer a 30-day money back guarantee, and you can send back your sensors for a full refund within that time period.
No, we don't issue refunds for hardware more than 30 days after your original purchase
When your weights seem to be getting further from your actual weight tickets it is likely that there is a small leak in your air suspension line which is a common occurance. The BIT Air Scale sensors are reading the pressure from the suspension and using its calibration function to tell you the weight. If there is a small leak in the line then this can make your readings further off as the air escapes.
Quick fix: spray your air suspension and all connections with soapy water. If bubbles appear then you have found the leak. Repair and recalibrate to get accurate readings moving forward.
Trucks may seem like they are always the same size and weight at all times but they are not. Trucks consume a lot of fluids and use a lot of rubber. If you enter weights from memory your calibrations will be very inaccurate. Fuel, DEF, anti-freeze, and tire tread are always changing and if you don't use certified scales to get the most accurate weights possible you could be off over 1,000 lbs on your calibrations.
Trucks consume a lot of fluids and use a lot of rubber. If you enter weights from previous days your scale readings your air scales will be very inaccurate. Fuel, DEF, anti-freeze, and tire tread are always changing and if you don't use certified scales at the time of calibration to get the most accurate weights possible you could be off thousands of pounds/kilograms.
Log into the web portal at www.blueinktech.com and go to the "Subscriptions" page to sign up for BIT Full Service on any of your vehicles.
BIT Full Service subscription fees are billed monthly. Payment will be charged to your account on the first day of each month.
If you need to use a different card for your recurring subscription payments, please call our office at 304-840-0142. We can update your information for future payments.
Call us at 304-840-0142 before your next billing date to cancel service.
Yes. Our in-house Support Team is here to help you with technical issues or to walk you through any BIT products and features. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 304-840-0142 and select option 2 to speak with a Support Team member.
Yes. You will have access to your IFTA data for the entire month in which you subscribe.
No. IFTA Reports provides the in-state miles for your vehicles and tracks the fuel purchases based on your fuel receipt entries.
We use the GPS capabilities on your phone or tablet to record your location.
GPS tracking uses satellites, while cell service uses cellular towers, so losing cell service should not affect your Fleet Visibility breadcrumb trail.
No. Your tablet or phone must have GPS tracking capabilities for your location to be recorded.


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About the Port in 150 Words
The Port of Los Angeles is one of the world's busiest seaports and leading gateway for international trade in the Western Hemisphere, and has ranked as the number one container port in the United States each year since 2000. The Port is a major economic driver at the local, regional, and national levels, and a key generator of jobs, commerce and tourism in Southern California. Located along 43 miles of waterfront, 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles in San Pedro Bay, the Port encompasses 7,500 acres of land and water, and features both passenger and cargo terminals, including automobile, breakbulk, container, dry and liquid bulk, and warehouse facilities. The Port is strongly committed to developing innovative, sustainable operations that benefit the economy, environment, and quality of life for the communities it serves, focusing on supply chain efficiency, upgrading infrastructure, and transforming the LA Waterfront into a world-class visitor destination.


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Nestled in the heart of the Porthcurno Valley, The Telegraph Museum sits in its own beautifully kept gardens, worthy of a place on Gardener's World. The eco climate allows for a variety of hardy, sub-tropical and even tropical plants, amongst which visitors can find mysterious objects from the cableships, including grapnals, anchors, and repeaters, as well as art sculptures.
The museum is located on the South West Coast Path so is a great place to start a variety of coastal walks, including our own Valley Trail, which you can collect a leaflet for from the museum.
For the more ambitious, Land's End is a five mile walk. For cyclists it is on the First & Last Trail.
Porthcurno Beach and the Minack Theatre are on our doorstep. There are a variety of ancient sites and stunning traditional villages for you to discover locally too, including one of the best-preserved ancient villages in South West England, Carn Euny.


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For the first time in about a week, I'm sitting in my sitting room, dressed in jeans and a cozy jumper, instead of my pjs, almost like a real person. I'm still a bit of a snot-monster but definitely on the mend now. I even went for a little walk, because I've been getting cabin fever.
It's a Dublin kind of a day (I have to stop saying that, I used to say that in Canada when the weather reminded me of Ireland, but now I'm back in Dublin every day is a Dublin kind of a day really) – fierce mild and drizzling. Maybe it's the lack of sleep, or maybe it's the remnants of sickness but the world feels a couple of degrees removed from reality and shimmering on the edges. It's not unpleasant, just a touch trippy.
On Grafton Street Christmas decorations and lights, in Stephen's Green some trees are losing the last of the colourful leaves, while others, a few confused cherry blossoms, are blooming like they've decided December is not really a thing they could be bothered with. Half-walking, half-swimming through the misty, muted universe in which the seasons and moods change on a whim, without discernible rules.
My music selection only intensified the sense of the surreal. I made this massive eclectic list and put it on shuffle. For a while, as I was walking, my phone decided to play solely Polish songs for some reason. They sounded so out of place, a soundtrack of a bygone era, of another life, not well suited to Edwardian redbricks, uncomfortable strangers unaccustomed to the rhythm of Dublin streets, and all of a sudden, I found myself looking at familiar places like I never saw them before, missing a heartbeat of the town, and a step or two in the process. Shortly after that "How to Disappear Completely" came up, so painfully perfect, so at home in this city, in this day and this dreamlike state that I could feel every last note, every scrap of lyric pouring out of the headphones, straight into me, coursing through my veins, liquefying into perfect rain(or possibly tear)drops at my fingertips and falling onto the expectant ground, spreading in the mist, flowing down the Liffey, the canals, the sea, and for a couple of minutes the whole world vibrated enthralled, the impeccable reflection of the song as I stood rooted to the spot, letting it carry me, letting myself dissolve and disappear.
I feel such love for this city sometimes it's bruising my heart, it makes it hard to breathe…