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To: maceng2 who wrote (1582532)	1/10/2026 5:34:57 AM
From: Maple MAGA	2 Recommendations Recommended By longz maceng2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583608

I am not primarily anti-Muslim; I am opposed to pushy, bossy people who believes they have the right to impose their will on others. I am also critical of bureaucratic overreach, institutional Catholicism, the contemporary environmentalist movement and the influence of Big Pharma. It is a fact of life that many people prefer to be directed and to have decisions made for them. Faced with the uncertainties of life, they willingly surrender their autonomy to others who are more than happy to assume that role.

To: maceng2 who wrote (1582532)	1/10/2026 11:52:19 AM
From: miraje	2 Recommendations Recommended By longz maceng2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583608

If it is true, I see a good reason to use cash only in as many transactions as possible. The only reason I can see to use cash for purchases, at least in the US, is if you are offered a discount for using it. Otherwise, using a no fee credit card can offer cash back or other rewards and paying them off in full every billing cycle, as I do (and the banks hate), means no interest charges. It's like a short term free loan every month, thank you. Lots of people lack the discipline to control their spending this way and that's where the banks screw you over, big time. You pay 20% plus interest and I get 3% to 5% cash back and the banks pocket the difference.

To: maceng2 who wrote (1582532)	1/10/2026 12:25:07 PM
From: Maple MAGA	3 Recommendations Recommended By longz miraje tntpal Respond to of 1583608

John Cleese Denounces the BBC Jan 9, 2026 2:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald 10 Comments John Cleese has been following the BBC, as it attempts to ignore or minimize the anti-regime demonstrations in Iran, and he has had quite enough. More on his well-merited fury can be found here: “John Cleese tears into BBC over Iran bias row as actor fumes he’s ‘ashamed’ of broadcaster: ‘It doesn’t want to offend Islamists!,'” by Alex Davies, GB News, January 8, 2026: John Cleese has joined the growing list of voices expressing their dismay at the BBC over its coverage of the ongoing protests in Iran. The widespread civil unrest in the Islamic Republic is said to have been sparked by the country’s economic woes, which as seen inflation skyrocket to more than 42 per cent and food prices surge by 72 per cent. However, hostilities had been threatening to boil over for months prior to the latest protests against the regime’s corruption, civil rights abuses, and critical energy shortages. Despite the monumental moment in the country’s history, the UK’s national broadcaster has been accused of “ignoring” developments in its coverage, both online and via broadcast. In one of the most high-profile rows, the Israeli embassy publicly slammed the BBC over its reporting on the Iran protests, with embassy spokesman Alex Gandler claiming the broadcaster has maintained “near-total silence” on the demonstrations while devoting excessive attention to Gaza. Iranian journalist Mani Barsharzad has added to the criticism, telling GB News that many Iranians perceive the BBC as biased in its coverage of the protests. “There is a bias there because it doesn’t fit the narrative,” she said. “The narrative, which they want to say is ‘it is their own culture’. ‘If the Islamic Republic is oppressive, it’s because the people want that.’ But this is not the reality.” Now, Mr Cleese has joined the critics. He took to X, where he reposted criticism of the broadcaster from the likes of Sharron Davies and Jake Wallis Simons, among others taking aim at the Beeb over the supposed lack of coverage from Iran. Mr Cleese also reacted to a post claiming the BBC was “deliberately ignoring” the protests as it “does not want to offend Islamists in the UK”. The actor endorsed the suggestion, replying: “This is the best explanation I’ve read so far. Incredible as it seems. I am so ashamed of the BBC.”… The BBC apparently had to go back a full ten days to find a broadcast in which it discussed the protests in Iran. Otherwise, the “coverage” of the protests it claimed it had carried daily “across all platforms” had been so slender that very few people, including the estimable John Cleese, appear to have noticed it. Was it perhaps a sentence here, two sentences there, such as “protests continue in Iran,” or “more trouble in Iran as protesters give no signs of stopping” that the BBC now claims constitutes real “coverage” of the upheaval in Iran? Well, it’s one thing for the BBC to be taken to task by such NGOs as HonestReporting and UN Watch. It’s quite another when this pillar of British entertainment, John Cleese, (Fawlty Towers, Monty Python) with his vast audience and millions of admirers, deplores the BBC’s hardly noticeable coverage of the demonstrations in Iran. And it’s positively damning when he endorses the suggestion on social media that the only explanation for the BBC’s “deliberately ignoring” the protests is that it “does not want to offend Islamists in the UK.” Cleese replied online that “this is the best explanation I’ve read so far. Incredible as it seems. I am so ashamed of the BBC.” John Cleese is one of the most popular comedic actors in the U.K. When he is outraged, people listen. The BBC had the wind knocked out of its sails by the man from Fawlty Towers. Maybe now it will start to give more attention to the Iranian protests that it has largely been ignoring so as not to offend Islamists in the U.K.. And at the same time, one hopes that the BBC will give less attention — right now it seems to be close to 24/7 nonstop coverage — to that phony morality play about wretched Gazans and ruthless Israelis.

To: maceng2 who wrote (1582532)	1/10/2026 12:27:48 PM
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Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, a convert to Islam, calls Oct. 7 ‘legendary day’ that led millions to ‘accept Islam’ Jan 10, 2026 11:00 am By Robert Spencer Tony Blair’s sister-in-law calls the October 7th massacre in Israel a “legendary” day. Lauren Booth said the massacre, where 1,200 people were slaughtered, would help millions of people “accept Islam because of this.” H/T @NatalieLisbona pic.twitter.com/LKoAzjTVbR — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 9, 2026 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20) How can shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain survive when this sort of thinking is at the very top of the British intelligentsia? Britain is finished.