IGX

This website is dying. Bram and MJS are the only ones putting up content on a frequent basis. Is there even a webmaster? There were fund drives for this site. That doesn't happen anymore. Nothing lasts forever, but this just might.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyiGHFGCf2U

I heard this kind of music as a kid in 1953 when my babysitter played it. I hated it so much I walked out of the house and was gone long enough to have been kidnapped. She wouldn't have cared. My father would have been happy - one less mouth to spend money on. My mother was probably too fucked up to notice for a few days at least.

Happy New Year!

Ronnie, Luke, and you post as well. Haha, a five-person website. I kind of think it's a relief. We could be on things like Facebook with a thousand people constantly posting content. If a few more people toss in their perspective (miss you Fat Cat!) that would be great, but whatever.

Good song!

Bram
How long can this website last without you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dnUv3DUP4E

Domain names expire if they are not renewed including Irongarmx
I spent 30 minutes searching the internet to determine when this website will no longer support new posts
The website name is either http://www.irongarmx.net/phpBB2/
or http://www.irongarmx.net/

I found this post by Dux from May 18, 2021
http://www.irongarmx.net/phpbbdev/annou ... 32995.html
here is his post

After 15 years on this platform IGX, is now moving to a new URLhttp://irongarmx.net/new. All the accumulated wisdom of IGX will be maintained here in its current form but you'll no longer be able to post or edit any of the older posts.

Please join us @ http://irongarmx.net/new and keep the discussion going and freedom of speech alive.


Dux wrote that the website is http://irongarmx.net/new
Here it is https://irongarmx.net/new/

THERE IS ALMOST NOTHING ON IT.

WHERE IS DUX THE WEBSITE MODERATOR? WHEN HAS ANYONE HERE
BRAM, RONNIE, LUKE MJS CONTACTED DUX? I DID YEARS AGO.

AT SOME TIME IN THE FUTURE IRONGARMX WILL NO LONGER ALLOW NEW POSTS -
HERE IS WHAT I FOUND

When you register a domain name, you are able to use it for the period of time you registered it for, which is typically between one to ten years.
YOU CAN READ MORE HERE.

https://www.google.com/search?q=when+do ... s-wiz-serp

IT HAS BEEN OVER 3.5 YEARS SINCE THIS FUCKIN WEBSITE WAS RENEWED. IF THE ABOVE INFO IS CORRECT (MAYBE IT ISN’T - BUT WHY WOULD KAMALA HARRIS, JOE BIDEN (THE BIG GUY- WHEN DID HE LAST HAVE A FUNCTIONAL BRAIN)
SONNY BOY HUNTER WHO LEFT COCAINE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND SHUT IT DOWN

THIS SONG BY ASTROMAN SUMS IT UP AND ASTROMAN'S HOUSE WAS SEARCHED BY THE FBI WHO STOLE HIS STASH WHATEVER THAT WAS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgLD1yhxNik


A FRIEND WHO I GOT RID OF, BROUGHT BACK SEVERAL TIMES SAID THE WORLD IS GOING DOWN THE TOILET
HE ALSO SAID HE'S DYING.
I REPLIED YOU'VE BEEN DYING FOR YEARS NOW.
SO IF WORLD WAR III HITS OR I HAVE ANOTHER INCOMING MISSILE ALARM BEFORE I CAN SEND THIS OFF
THERE WAS ONE AT 4:22 AM JANUARY 3, 2024 UTC + 2 OR MAYBE UTC +2 OR 3. WHO IS COUNTING AT THIS POINT



HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR'S YOU SWEET BASTARDS. 2 POINTS IF YOU KNOW WHERE I STOLE THIS FROM.

I emailed Mario twice last year, once in December. I didn't get any reply.

That other Irongarm was a holdover until this one got back up and running.

I love being able to write here. Haha, I also love that almost no one seems to read my words.

It's enough accountability to not say horrible, fucked-up, things. And so little interaction that I can puzzle through thoughts, without the process devolving into a typical social-media shitstorm. I will be super sad if this place eats the dust, but maybe I'll try and recreate another wasteland to post on if that happens.

And I would ask more questions of the collective, regardless of the general lack of response, but I'm in a habit of just asking people IRL.

BRAM
PLEAZE lemme know when your new wasteland appears.
maybe i'll make my own - NOT

Reminds me of this great song BRAM, RONNIE, LUKE MJS never heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGHxIKa31Jk
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGHxIKa31Jk[/youtube]

and the guests - 36 supposedly- what's there to read anymore , LURKERS, sherkers, beserkers and SODA JERKERS WHO never SAW AND HEARD

the original not the 2021 version
[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZah7sQNxH0[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZah7sQNxH0

Well, I’m lazy as fuck when it comes to website design, so the bar will be either really low, or hopefully this place will continue limping along.

Happy new year, assholes.

2026

FUCK OFF
JANUARY 9
IS TOO LATE TO BE NEW YEAR'S
EVEN IF YOU EMERGED FROM A COMA

JUST JOKING

Have a really good year
Love the people who are family that you can
and your friends.

I plan finally to visit America this year
I wouldn't expect to see you
but I do surf and skateboard and practice Krav Maga at the age of 76
I do all kinds of physical training and got a body weight deadlift from official
height not long ago for one rep. That's not great but I am about 5 foot ten
and weight 145 pounds so it's not terrible either.

Check out Barbell Medicine podcast #375 Sarcopenia the Deep Dive

Austin Baraki and Jordan Feigenbaum who used to work on Rippetoe's
forum. They left him and Rip did write on his forum somewhere that he hoped they did well on
their own. They have divorged enormously from his training protocol.
All the best

lenny

Lenny, where were you in October when they struck?

Happy New Year, gents!

Hold more grudges and stare at your phone every chance you get

Happy new year you filthy animals!

I was in a suburb of Tel Aviv not far from the beach so I could surf which I have hardly done due to viruses and sewage runoff in the winter when it rains so the sea is filled with bacteria. Also I am 6 miles approximately from this fuel storage depot.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/ ... 85da6c2c4/

the papers said at the time 10-15,000 people would have died. Now it would be a lot more since the problem wasn't fixed and there are a lot more people in the area. I probably will die because of all the underground gas lines. I was about a mile twice and Hezbollah tried to hit in about an hour or two after I left.

Israel's strategy in dealing with Hamas will lead Israel to all out destruction in my opinion. I have had people here tell me to go back to America because I am an American. they may as well have called me a dirty Jew. I stopped talking to most people. I thought I owed about 60 cents to a guy who worked at a gas station. He was an Arab and got enraged and may as well have been Hamas. If I had killed him after he attacked me the High court (all super woke leftists - the equivalent of the supreme court and they appoint their own members) would put me in jail where I'd probably get murdered. I said a few words in Arabic shukrun Thank you and Al Humdulilah the equivalent of All Glory be to God. I mean it. He smiled. this was before he got enraged. I swear he could have killed me over the equivalent of 20 cents. Another Arab who spoke English translated and said it was OK between us but I know it wasn't. I won't go back to that gas station.

There are so many of these Hamas simpathisizers who work and shop in Israel. I would force them all out. It sounds cruel but they want us all dead and that includes people in the West who are not Muslims. There are some wonderful Arab Muslims who I have met but they can't stop the violate ones from killing.

How about this.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skophmbcyg
Egypt claims Israel is their number 1 enemy despite a peace treaty that is more than 45 years old.
I expect the Egyptian army will attack and take the Southern half of the country and split this place in two. Plus a massive earthquake is due in the Jerusalem area. The buildings for the most part are poorly constructed so hundreds of thousands will die.
https://www.janglo.net/item/f2UsyX9AcIr

Yehiel Leiter Israeli ambassador to the USA had a son who was killed in the fighting. Israel is so fuckin stupid. they send in troops to occupy part of Gaza and then pull them back out only to send them back in after Hamas reoccupies Honestly they may as well give the country to Hamas who will perpetrate another October 7. Netanyahu is a dreadful leader whose own father said he should never be prime minister. There doesn't seem to be anyway to remove him. He goes into the High Court for 4 counts of bribery. He should step down while the war is going on or declare national emergency and stop the court case against him. I assume he is being blackmailed.

Thousands of soldiers have been killed or suffer heavy trauma. Hundreds have killed themselves. Many have lost businesses. Jews are one fuckin sick bunch. I am here for now. I never expected to live this long. Maybe I'll survive longer than I expect.

There are a lot of wonderful people here including Christians, Moslems, Druze, other minorities and Jews. They can't organize to change government policy. I could go on and on how sick this country is. There is no genocide. I wrote a long letter to a forum post that I can't find right now about how according to the definition of genocide this country is not engaged in it.

Palestine (by the way the Arabs can not even pronounce the letter 'P" they sound out 'B' has 19,000 buildings built illegally right up against the border of Israel. I assume at some point they will launch another Oct 7 into the center of the country. I can't get a gun. I thought between Ilan Musk and Doge saving a lot more, and getting rid of a lot of regulations so new homes could be built along with Treasury Secretary Luttnick who thought he could bring in close to a billion dollars through tariffs the economy would be a lot better and I could move to Florida.

I don't understand how Trump let the affordability care act Obama care expire. Millions of people had their insurance premiums raised. Trump is not fit to be president.

Nafod
I won't argue with you about your perception of ICE and other government agents acting the way you criticize. I have not lived in the USA for decades and last visited ten years ago. obviously you know more about the USA than I do

I read yesterday that Netanyahu wants Israel to stop taking foreign aid by 2038. he is a despicable incompetent bastard. The USA should cut off funding to Israel. If the Democrats win the presidency in 2028 I assume that's what will happen. it's for the best. if this country that has nukes can not survive then it deserves to be destroyed. This was has been a terrible tragedy for almost everyone involved. That's unfortunately human history
All the best
lenny

Thanks for the reply, Lenny. I can’t imagine what October 7 was like for the people involved. I often wonder what Hamas thought was gonna be the outcome of that action, what they thought Israel might do in response. Are they declaring mission accomplished now? How did that work out for them?

Big fucking sigh.

From various sources which I don't remember at the moment probably Douglas Murray from Britain and maybe an Israeli former general whose name eludes me at the moment Hamas leaders thought Israel would not respond in any militarily and they could destroy the country in days with the help of Hezbollah, Iran and the West Bank launching another October 7. They were wrong.

I see no evidence that Israel will not be destroyed and almost everyone here including Moslems, Christians, Druze and other minorities killed. I hate to say this but as much as I reject Jewish orthodox beliefs and what I learned from working in a stock brokerage company with a seat on a major stock exchange that past performance is no predictor of future results when it comes to Jews there is a lot to be learned from history that has repeated itself in cycles over and over again. There are numerous problems with reading the Bible in any foreign language except the original Hebrew and a few other words from languages such as ancient Ethiopian and ancient Egyptian and that includes modern Hebrew been heavily mistranslated, some on purpose. If you understand the ancient Hebrew some of the words could have up to 5 o 6 meanings and possibly many more depending on the context of what's being described.

Here is a post in the following paragraph I wrote to a forum for which I never received a reply by what I can only assume is someone who hates Jews for whatever reason. The author does reply to many people over the few years I have read the forum wihich includes many other authors. He was in a partnership with an MD who gave general medical advice I thought was important enough for people my age (I'm currently 76) to take into consideration.
Haliva is responsible to a large extent, in my view, for allowing the massacre of Oct 7, 2023 to take place and may or may not have called for retaliation (I never read or heard what he said in Hebrew which is often mistranslated and distorted on purpose.

Haliva absolutely does not represent the majority of Israelis or the government's policy. Hamas in its charter calls for the destruction of the state of Israel which means the killing of every Jew and probably many Arab Moslems in the process. Israel sends food to Gaza. This is like sending food to the Germans during World War II. Would you have supported that?

Israel could have finished the war in a few hours if it wanted to and obliterated all of Gaza which was handed over to them in 2005. Hamas was overwhelmingly elected and has controlled Gaza for almost 2 decades. That was the only election.

There has been no genocide in Gaza. See this link.

https://aish.com/israel-is-not-committi ... planation/

The Palestinians have rejected every peace plan starting from 1947

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Na ... _Palestine

Clinton and Israel offered Arafat 94% of the West Bank with 4% of Israel with East Jerusalem as its capitol. Arafat rejected the plan culminating in the second intifada which killed hundreds of Israelis in terror attacks. Former President Bill Clinton talks about it starting at 5:35 of this clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIcH4x0Xbe4

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has said that in order to protect Gazans, Israel will sacrifice their own soldiers, many who have been killed.

Here he is talking about Israel and Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufi2ypuVEFk

I don't think the USA should give any money to Israel. I am an American Jew born and raised in the USA, who holds dual citizenship with Israel. My best friends in this life of 76 years are all Christians who I met at Columbia University in the fall of 1967. Two of whom are sadly deceased. There are wonderful people of all faiths as well as despicable ones.

Israel is not an apartheid state. Arab Moslems attend universities, work in Israeli hospitals, and are represented in Israel's governing body the Knesset. You can read this.

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pol ... sour-abbas

I don't think Israel has a very good chance of survival. I wanted to move with our family who are all dual citizens to the USA over 25 years ago, but because our daughter had cancer as a child, I was afraid she would be denied health insurance coverage with a preexisting condition. When she was being treated for cancer, a Palestinian teenager was in the same room with her. Israel paid for that girl's treatment which probably cost a million dollars.

The life of Yahya Sinwar the Hamas leader who planned the October 7 attacks was saved by Israel. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/20/midd ... inwar-intl

I don't know what you think of this country. Maybe you think Israel has no right to exist, or we should all die for the killing of Jesus. I have read numerous passages in what is called the Old Testament, King James version, that have been heavily distorted from the original Hebrew.

Tovia Singer gives a very detailed analysis in his two volume set Let's Get Biblical which I suggest you read.



I could write a lot more, but this is enough for now

Nafod
As you can see I spent probably an hour writing this post which does not include decades in Israel learning about this culture, Jewish religious studies including basic texts, Jewish mysticism, as well as reading books about ancient Israel, ancient Jewish practice by university professors specializing in various aspects of Jewish thought, history movements etc.. .

I have been a serious student since I entered junior high school in the fall of 1961. I could say a lot more but I'm exhausted. It's now 23:16 in Israel. I think every adult in this country is exhausted from this dreadful war that should have ended in a month with the defeat of Hamas who terrorize their own citizens. I haven't been to Gaza but I know soldiers who have. The human race in a lot of ways is very disturbed spending so much more money on war than peace. A butcher in a neighborhood grocery immigrated from Ukraine a few years ago. I asked some months ago about the current situation in Ukraine. He said in Hebrew there is no more Ukraine. I didn't understand because there was still a government and soldiers and a population. After I spent some time reading about the devastating war in Ukraine I understood that the Ukraine he had lived in was no more.

It can centuries and thousands of trillions of dollars to create a civilization and these days a nuclear war could destroy the human race and everything it built in 15 minutes. I can't live with the fear every minute I will most probably die in an extremely cruel way if I stay here for more than a year or two but I am facing the reality that even if I live past 100 I have lived almost my whole life. In childhood a day could seem to take forever depending on many factors, but now a year passes in a blink. I joined this forum over 13 years ago and it seemed like yesterday.

Thanks for responding
My real friends are from the dorm at Columbia university who I met in the fall of 1967. My best friend is dead, as is one other and as I have written before the two others are alive
One is on the East Coast and his first wife died after 39 chemotherapy treatments having decided to refuse the 40th. He had a kidney transplant and has remarried. The other is in Greece suffers from emphysema and other illnesses he has not disclosed. A son who he barely knew from a second marriage that ended in divorce after a few years is dying from HIV drugs according to his father. He lives on the East coast. I won't begin to describe the suffering the two of them have endured.

As for me, my 39 plus year marriage is over (I keep hoping it isn't) but I have to face the facts that M (I never refer to her as my wife) has repeatedly lied to me since the war began. She acts like she loves me and at times I think she does but I believe for a lot of reasons she wants me out of her life dead or alive. I'm not joking. It's such a complex issue and painful issue involving two adult children suffering clinical depression one of whom almost died from a very rare cancer in 2002 at the age of 11 who I never expected to have any contact with again that I won't go much further. I never hit them, and thought I was a good enough father. 5 trauma therapists said I was a good father. I've written this before. They got paid. They were wrong. I got burnt. If I could do it over again I'd never have been involved with women. I'm not gay but almost all my serious relationships end in a lot of emotional pain. I don't know how but I keep going. I have felt like killing myself but never even try for better or worse. I will do whatever I need to feel alive including listening or watching Jimi Hendrix who for me was the most incredible performer I ever saw including jazz greats Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner, and a few others who played with John Coltrane who died before I had even heard his name.

Miles was invited to the White House when Richard Nixon was president. I think it was one of Nixon's daughters who had never heard of Miles Davis and asked what have you done. He replied brusquely, "I changed music a few times."
I've changed music five or six times" is a famous quote from Davis's autobiography It's true from my having heard him play in concert 3 times (once in a club of about 100 people). He said I play life. Whatever that means I started to feel a lot better remembering how incredible music was for me starting when I first heard Jerry Lee Lewis in 1957 when I was 7 or 8 years old play Great Balls of Fire. this is not what I heard or saw on Dick Clark's TV Show American Bandstand but it's good enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rARVtbfAB8g Obviously I was too young to understand all the sexual innuendoes but it had such tremendous energy that counteracted a lot of the craziness of living with my parents, the oppression and discipline of public secular school and orthodox Jewish education for about 7 hours that it saved me from being a depressed child according to my mother years later. I am too tired to write any more but music has been an incredibly important part of my life. I thought in the late 1960s my generation could change the world and bring peace. I was naive and very idealistic. I am a lot more sanguine and hope the sane voices don't allow humanity to perish in a nuclear holocaust. It's now 23:57

What can I say I can't believe I heard Jimi Hendrix, saw the great mime performer Marcel Marceaux live, heard some famous opera singers went to Europe in the late 1960s when it was unbelievably cheap if you had American dollars, almost got killed 3 times, and almost arrested for smoking marijuana in London (it has been over 50 years since I smoked it and took what purported to be LSD twice - it wasn't. There are so many people who say the Grateful Dead changed their lives. Hearing them in a concert on May 5, 1968 changed mine (I had never taken any illegal drug and didn't that day. Jerry Garcia, the guitar player, who I thought was pretty mediocre at best, played incredibly.
There were 500 or so of us left from the original audience of about 10,000 (Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Jefferson airplane also performed) in a free concert in Manhattan's Central Park. We were all dancing on benches. I had never felt such ecstasy and freedom. It went underground a number of times but it's still inside. I now know it takes a lot of work for me to move in the direction of whatever freedom could be. I am so much a product of my genetics, childhood background etc.. I took a psychology class over 50 years ago and our professor quoted Professor Philip Zimbardo "by the time a person is in their early 20s, he is a museum of old habits." I wanted to scream that can't be true but didn't. I have been working in one way or another to
move out of that museum that all too many people are completely unaware of. I must have made progress, but a lot of times especially during this war I feel I completely regressed.

I had already heard Hendrix in concert twice before watching the movie Monterey Pop where this clip comes from. Hendrix came to regret what he did at Monterey but felt he had to for whatever reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVN8_7wVSG0

The videos and recordings and memories can never do justice to having been there live. He had some incredible wisdom for a person who didn't finish high school and came from a broken home. His father was drafted into World War II so James Marshall Hendrix (his given name) only met him when he was 3 or 4 years old having been shuttled around to different family members and neighbors. He barely knew his mother who was an alcoholic and a teenager when she married his father and was pregnant with him. She died when Hendrix was 16. I'll leave you with what he purportedly said
When the power of love overcomes the love of power there will be peace. I hope we meet again Jimi Hendrix. You gave so much to people like me. You'll never know. I'm not you and wouldn't want your life. I hope I have brought and brings some light to a world that seems to grow darker each day.

Nafod
all the best.
lenny