"My dog gives me no advice."

Javier Milei, Argentina's President. He is very effective. 

Alberto Fernández

@alferdez

Si el presidente se refirió a mí llamándome “títere” quiero decirle que no lo soy, no lo fui ni lo seré. También debe saber que mi perro no me aconseja (y está vivo), que las “fuerzas del cielo” no me mandan señales y que mis acciones y reacciones son el resultado de la reflexión y no de alteraciones psicológicas .

Translation of the above dialogue of Argentina's presidents:

If the president referred to me as a "puppet" I want to tell him that I am not, I was not and I will not be. You should also know that my dog does not advise me (and is alive), that the "forces of heaven" do not send me signals, and that my actions and reactions are the result of reflection and not psychological disturbances.

Background:

Javier Milei's dogs are named after famous economists. He has five dogs, Conan the mastiff and four clones of the now-dead dog, who are named Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas after economists Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman and Robert Lucas. After winning one round of polls, Mr Milei thanked his dogs in his victory speech.

Israeli babies per UNICEF

 

174,648

Cats and cats

 

The Malaysian Wild Cat is a beautifully colored hunting cat.  Its look could be used as a camouflage pattern for jungle warfare uniforms. Nature is more creative than human imagination.

Who gets the bigger chipotle?

 

Somebody made a statistical analysis of the weight of chipotles bought online (blue) vs. those who bought them in person (red).  There is a 30% difference. If you want to get Chipotle for your money, you better buy it personally.  

Nothing works without personal presence. 

Chatarra

 

Scrap metal (chatarra) in an Air Force installation in the South. These are the rests of an Iranian ballistic missile that fell in the Dead Sea. On my basis, we too had a collection of Iraqi missiles sent to us free of charge by Saddam Hussein.  They have grown impressively since then...

BTW, there were no such girls in our place. Everybody had to wear military hide boots. Some things have improved. 

Trauma Society

 

I read that 50 survivors of the Nova massacre - killed themselves. That others are in closed mental hospitals. This surprised me as I grew up among Auschwitz survivors, most of them having lost their families and husbands and children, and they had remade their lives quite normally. My uncle Joshka remarried, moved to Buenos Aires, and had no more children because of his luxury-loving wife Etha. Why does a simple massacre - a seven-hour event - cause them such mental harm? I am really astonished that the day after having been targeted by 300 missiles, everything here continues as always, and the children go to school and people continue working like nothing. Today, the war cabinet is deciding how and when to attack Iran. The streets are full and I am going to the Rami Levi supermarket because today is Tuesday - יום שוק

I may be depressed or what

 

In the last three days, I have been unable to do any work on my projects. Why? Possibly, the Iranian attack and today, the preparations for the counterattack. Wifey is also at home, and we talk a little. Nothing is happening in Kfar Saba, children are in school, and no queues at the supermarket. Yet it does affect me. 

Hope that tomorrow my working spirit will be back. I want to help my youngest daughter to buy an apartment. Could be in Harish. I shall need money.