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[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Towards the end, the book mentions that the last 50 miles of the animals' journey will be the hardest they've yet encountered.

Absolutely nothing of this final stretch is brought up after this mention because the final two chapters instead focus of the human characters freaking out that their pets disappeared before the animals just suddenly show up. How boring. I think Mrs. Burnford simply couldn't think of a good way to portray that part of their adventure and simply jumped to the end of the story.

[Tails82]

Scorched Earth by Michael Savage. He writes like he talks, and a lot of it is against Islamism. So if you've heard his show before, you've heard a lot of this. It's also pre-Trump and already dated (I actually read it because it was going back from the library off loan), but he did correctly predict the outcome. So I just wrote down a few takes he had on the individuals behind the current appeasement.

There's the former so-called human rights leader in the UK, Trevor Phillips, who gave us the term "Islamophobia" but now admits he got almost everything wrong about immigration and that extremists don't integrate, they look to set up their own nations within the country. There's Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Kuwaiti who wanted to build a mosque over the ruins of 9/11 and said we held blame for the attacks. And then there's the liberal elite who ignore everything about the terror problem and adopt the Stalinist attitude that "there is no homicide in paradise" which lets the terror attacks keep happening.

What Savage wants to do is investigate left-wing groups with ties to terrorism and bring back the House Un-American Activities Committee (use the left's tactics and call it the "Love America Committee"). He points out that the HUAC was started in 1938 to go after people with Nazi connections, as well as communists. (And I'll point out that this fact is conveniently ignored by people who want to forget that the Nazis and commies were both in the same left wing boat and working together to carve up Europe). Why did Hollywood raise such an outcry after HUAC upped its focus on communism? Because it was just a fact that Hollywood had been infiltrated by a lot of commies. Despite Hollywood's propaganda, can anyone show us anyone targeted who was innocent? McCarthy keeps being proven right, particularly with the release of more info like the Venona papers in the mid-90s.

Savage paraphrases an old saw to describe the left's tactics: "First they came for the rich, then they came for the middle class..." no one would be immune from their crosshairs. They go to bring the biggest players to heel first, sometimes by purges like the communists but also sometimes by taking 'em over. Hillary speeches with the big banks, pay to play, pay to remain around. Protection money, basically. Hitler did this cozying up to the arms interests during his rise.

Bella Abzus: the one behind trans bathroom madness. Randi Weingarten: AFL head, makes sure molester teachers aren't punished. Antonio Gramsci: Italian commie who stressed taking over cultural institutions. Timothy Leary: big on LSD, hired Savage back in the day to make sure his drugs didn't get stolen. Alan Ginsberg: briefly appealed to Savage. Wrote against capitalism and about gay sex. This crowd also wanted to have sex with animals too. Went to a mental institution after pleading insanity to stolen goods charges. "In leftist circles this made him an intellectual." Savage says he was once a leftist who had been influenced by all these people, but while he grew up, they didn't. There's a good chance he could've kept going their way and ended up as some leftist professor somewhere, but he woke up and also realized that there was actually a glass ceiling against white males in these circles. Today he speaks on radio to a much bigger audience.

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini: wanted to follow Hitler and gas all the Jews in the Middle East. For you leftists keeping track, what follows all occurred before the modern state of Israel existed. Palestinians were never the innocent little underdogs. In some cases they did sell land to Jews, rocky and worthless terrain they thought nobody would ever be able to put to use. Over 700,000 Jews during this period were driven out of their countries, mainly from North Africa by Islamists. They went to Israel because it was the only place that would take them.

The Muslim Brotherhood was created in 1928 with Husseini as one of its earliest members. In 1929 he fully signed on to the statement "he who kills a Jew is assured a place in the next world." Palestinians flew Nazi flags, put up swastikas and photos of Hitler in their homes, under direction of the Gestapo's Department of Jewish Affairs after Husseini met with them in 1937. Husseini lived in Berlin during WWII and was in top Nazi circles, staying in Hitler's bunker towards the end of the war. He issued a fatwa calling for the Germans to bomb Tel Aviv, and Hitler personally assured him in 1941 that his goal was the murder of all Jews everywhere. Hitler also gave Husseini a monthly budget to wage jihad against Jews back home. Husseini regularly preached genocide from his radio messages. All this before "imperialist" Israel existed or "occupied" a speck of land. Yassir Arafat, meanwhile, helped smuggle weapons in this war against Jews. Husseini was the most powerful Arab at the time and many reports either referred to Arafat as his nephew or cousin.

[Tails82]

1,001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

Played: 102
Beat: 53
Heard of: if there's a message board on gamefaqs for it, I've heard of it

And I don't mean pansy "beat" either. I mean the full thing.

[Tails82]

Sonic the Hedgehog 25th Anniversary Art Book - bonus points for the 2-page spread of Big

[Tails82]

Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book o' Fun - FLIP O RAMA

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Runaways the complete collection volume 1

[Umbreon]

Pax. I didn't like the ending.

[Tails82]

Bridge to Terabithia

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

A Wrinkle in Time

What if HP Lovecraft were a hippie - Hippie Lovecraft, if you will - and wrote a story about creatures beyond our comprehension, but were friendly and benevolent?

I remember really enjoying this in elementary school, but it came across as pretentious as an adult. All the good guys that aren't human are described invariably as being the best most beautiful things ever, or at least having the greatest personalities if they aren't. I found the Ixchelians to be rather condescending to the human cast. "Oh, your simple ways of thinking are soooo cuuuuute!" Anything philosophical is only vaguely alluded to without ever exploring, and I found it bizarre how L'Engle keeps tiptoeing around the Christian God being a thing in this universe.

Also, "the fifth dimension is a tesseract," no it isn't, you twip, a tesseract is a four dimensional cube!

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

A Wind in the Door

Meg doesn't believe her brother when he talks about dragons. Like, girl, you just got finished with an intergalactic space-folding adventure in order to rescue your dad from a giant brain, who are you to judge?

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Okay, L'Engle, seriously, acting like certain words are profound, especially the ones you came up with, is not the same as being prodound.

[Tails82]

Tuck Everlasting

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

And now A WindIn The Door appears to be making an oblique reference to L. Ron Hubbard's experiements in plants feeling pain, acting like it's legit science. This book is so ridiculous.

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

A Wind in the Door was a bunch of malarky, no where near as cool as when I read it in middle school.

Now for A Swiftly Tilting Planet, where Charles Wallace has to team up with a time travelling unicorn in order to stop a South American warlord from launching a nuke.

Line from chapter 3:

"Are you not able to go Within your sister?"

[Tails82]

Bolivar by Sean Rubin - a dinosaur lives in NYC but nobody notices