Walter Wednesdays - October 18, 2023
Walter Fact: The simulation is failing.
Speaking of Tweaking - Tweaker of the Week
Speaking of tweaking, our Tweaker of the Week is Lenni Rodriguez Cruz, 28, who bit off a New York police officer’s finger. After leading police on a car chase and crashing into several cars, Cruz bit off the left ring finger of an officer who was placing him in a holding cell. Cruz is facing 25 years in prison.
Fat Bear Week 2023
Every year, Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve hosts an online competition where people vote on their favorite brown bear. After viewers watch bears compete for the best fishing spots to help pack on the pounds for winter, the most popular (and fattest) bears are placed into brackets where the public votes bear against bear.
After gaining a record-breaking 1,382,783 votes, 128 Grazer was crowned the champion of Fat Bear Week 2023. Grazer is the third female to win the title and is estimated to weigh 700 - 800 pounds after starting the summer quite skinny.
What’s Walter Thinking About?
Walter is thinking about how the IRS, Ukraine, and Israel are all fighting over who can steal the most money from my paycheck. Oh, who am I kidding? They’re all going to take however much they please. It's crazy how my money goes to fighting a war I don’t support and to a side I don’t support. “Hamas is a terrorist organization that kills children.” That is true. However, Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people (and yes, their actions fit the United Nations’ definition of an ethnic cleansing) should have them (the government of Israel) labeled as a terrorist organization too. But, to be a terrorist in a post-9/11 world you have to be brown apparently. I mean this country won’t even classify the KKK as a terrorist organization.
Also, let’s make this clear, you can be angry at the actions of the government of Israel and not be anti-Semitic. You can be angry at the actions of Hamas, and not be racist. The people of Israel and Palestine are different from the people leading their countries. Another good point, Hamas is not the only group controlling Palestine. Hamas has control over the Gaza Strip while Fatah, a part of the original Palestinian government, controls the West Bank. Speaking of Gaza and the West Bank, do not even try to argue with me about this conflict when you can’t even get the two correct. All that does is show me how ignorant you are voicing an opinion about something you clearly don’t know about. The Gaza Strip borders Egypt and is a strip of land Israel has forced Palestinians to after taking their land and breaking the two-state solution drafted by the UN in the 1940s. The West Bank is not in the west of the country, it is in the East but is West of the Jordan River.
Circling back to the Hamas killing children thing, Israel just bombed a Palestinian hospital. Don’t give me that he said she said bull shit that the two are blaming each other for it because a missile strike that large costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. A strike that large can’t be done by a militant group but can be done by a country backed by a nuclear superpower with a shaky trigger finger. Israel has also been bombing the Palestinian side of the border with Egypt so heavily that refugees cannot cross into Egypt and humanitarian aid cannot cross into Palestine. Yes, Hamas has taken hostages and killed civilians but that is NOT a counterpoint when Israel is doing the same stuff. Israel has cut off the food and water supply to Gaza, putting millions of innocent civilians (namely over half the population that are children) at risk. Both sides are breaking the rules of war that we’ve laid out with hundreds of carefully crafted treaties over literal decades of combat.
And once more let me reiterate, you can be mad at the actions of the Israeli government without being anti-Semitic. You can support the need for a Jewish homeland and disagree with Israel. You can be mad at Hamas without being racist and you can damn well be mad at all sides. But if you’re going to give me the “war is bad and the true victims are the civilians” shtick just shut up. That’s such a bland and obvious take like no shit war is bad and you’d be a moron to think civilian casualties are a good thing. Don’t tell me “It isn’t just black and white” when you don’t even know the history of the black and white, of the countries, of the suffering on all sides.
So, yeah, that’s what Walter is thinking about.
Actually, I think I know how we fix this mess. Give Palestine its original borders back and give Israel a chunk of land in England since it’s their fault anyway.
Today in History
1648 - Boston shoemakers formed the first American labor organization.
1775 - Poet Phillis Wheatley was freed from slavery.
1851 - Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was first published as The Whale.
1860 - The Second Opium War ended at the Convention of Peking.
1867 - The United States took possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million.
1898 - The U.S. took possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
1921 - The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was formed.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (now Corporation) was founded.
1929 - The Canadian Supreme Court declared that women were now considered “Persons” under Canadian law.
1944 - The Soviet Union began the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
1945 - The USSR received plans for the U.S. plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1954 - Texas Instruments announced the Regency TR-1, the first mass-produced transistor radio.
1967 - The Soviet probe Venera 4 reached Venus and became the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1991 - Azerbaijan adopted a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
2023 - Wikipedia asked Walter to donate $3 dollars.
“Are you deaf or dumb?” - Travis
Exactly but that's too complicated for the main stream media to explain.