Comments on: Open thread 10/26/23 https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:43:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705179 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:43:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705179 More stuck sheep, this time a ewe that needs to be rescued and shorn. Or shorn and then rescued?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/26/britains-loneliest-sheep-two-years-beach-scottish-highlands/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705096 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:37:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705096 WRT to Israeli intelligence sources in Lebanon, here’s a repost of Tony Badran’s take on how “Biden” helped Hezbullah roll them up. YMMV….

“Eyeless in Gaza;
“How the U.S. blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/america-leaves-israel-eyeless-in-gaza

]]> By: F https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705090 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:13:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705090 Neo:

Thank you for this fascinating bit of intelligence. Could you do post turtles next? The times (and the District of Columbia) call out for an analysis of post turtles, and what to do when you find one.

]]> By: Chases Eagles https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705061 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 22:20:04 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705061 My sister bought her sheep from the Benedictine nuns of the Our Lady of the Rock Monastery. Also got a llama from the same source to watch over them.

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705060 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 22:18:21 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705060 “On the ‘secrecy’ front, where did the Hamas Air Force learn to fly those powered paragliders? I don’t think it likely that the training happened in Gaza.”

Right, not in Gaza. It was in Lebanon.

]]> By: Le Mot Juste https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705059 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 22:16:21 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705059 Bill K –

You are mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
A Lamb said that. (Of Byron, but if the fleece fits…).

]]> By: Cornflour https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705035 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:29:33 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705035 I have some friends who keep a small flock of sheep. In the winter, they sometimes need to rescue animals who’ve wandered into snow too deep for their legs. Stuck sheep aren’t the sharpest animals, but they might provide us a lesson in the perils of too much domestication.

]]> By: sonny wayz https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705034 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:29:05 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705034 It’s hard to believe that Hamas’s attack plans could have been kept perfectly secret.

On the ‘secrecy’ front, where did the Hamas Air Force learn to fly those powered paragliders? I don’t think it likely that the training happened in Gaza.

]]> By: Oligonicella https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705015 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 20:27:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705015 OK – open thread. Time to inject a little brainless levity:

Jamie Brockett – Legend Of the U.S.S. Titanic (1971)

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/26/open-thread-10-26-23/#comment-2705011 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 20:12:04 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129840#comment-2705011 Watt:

I have read that only about 5 higher-ups knew what was actually planned. Everyone else knew that they were gathering info, and that some sort of terrorist event would occur, but they weren’t aware of the scope and details. Each person only knew his (or her) own role or that of a small number of like people.

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