As John Kirby, White House national-security communications adviser, emphasized in a press conference this week, the State Department has “not found any incidents where the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law.”
..at al-Shifa hospital – doctors accompanied the forces to help Palestinian patients if needed. They were also reported to be carrying food, water and medical supplies for the civilians inside. The critics, as usual, didn’t call out Hamas for using protected facilities like hospitals for its military activity. Nor did they mention the IDF’s effort to minimize civilian casualties.
The predominant Western theory of executing wars, called maneuver warfare, seeks to shatter an enemy morally and physically with surprising, overwhelming force and speed, striking at the political and military centers of gravity so that the enemy is destroyed or surrenders quickly.
This was the case in the invasions of Panama in 1989, Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003 and the failed illegal attempt by Russia to take Ukraine in 2022.
In all these cases, no warning or time was given to evacuate cities.
Every once in a while, it’s nice to have a reminder that you’re not crazy.
Hours and hours of coverage about a 4.8, which would have rated maybe 45 seconds on local news if it occurred anywhere on the west coast.
The moral? “National” news, to a very large extent, is not. It is Acela corridor news, and is why most people are drifting away from it.
“The reality you’re NOT seeing in the media is that Hamas is failing to win support in the Arab world; that Israel is close to achieving its objectives; and that Iran lacks the stability to sustain a war if it reaches the home front. Victory is closer than mainstream media allow.” –Joel Pollock.
This has been my sometimes ‘read between the lines’ impression, too.
Back in the 90s i read the war against the jews largely about various deep state schemes of the uk and the us the authors seem to paint the democrats as well intentioned at every turn and the gop as demonic in almost similar proportions
The lead author had been an investigator for the osi the nazi hunting branch and somewhat manic in his obsessions
‘Joe Brandon’s oldest
son died of cancer after he was exposed to dust and debris at the WTC on 9/11/2001’ …. has Brandon said it yet?
If not, because now 9/11 was America’s chickens comming home too roost. Once only said by a black racist, now said by the elites, and college students.
I think the speculations is it was the burn pits, which contained carcinogenic agents, like dioxin, that brought down another generation of young fighting men, but he was a jag so the likelihood of serious exposure, seems unlikely,
On a lighter note, based on the number of commercials I’ve seen recently featuring Iowa star Caitlin Clark, I suspect she will have to take a pay cut when she turns pro.
Miguel:
The burn pits have been known about and speculated about for decades but F. J. Brandon uses every occassion no matter what to twist his son’s death into the story, as noted by neo.
Before it was Agent Orange (with dioxin contamination) in Vietnam, and there were burn pits. Or depleted Uranium AP rounds in Iraq. To say nothing of the widespread use of asbestos insulation on warships or asbestos mittens issued to machine gunners for changing hot barrels. Brandon will have a hard time fitting Beau into some of those situations.
So far as I know glioblastoma, the brain tumor which killed Beau Biden, is not tied to burn pit exposure, and of course Beau B. served in headquarters and was unlikely to have much burn pit exposure.
A friend of mine is a Vietnam Air Force veteran and had Agent Orange exposure. He’s dealt with lymphoma but is okay, thank God.
There are even people profiting from the practice by acting as intermediaries.
…a payment of around €3,000 is usually enough to secure a sham marriage to a disabled woman.
Free enterprise: It’s a good thing.
My USAF father died from lymphoma. He was exposed to Agent Orange in RVN. His B-36 (the last B-36) flew into the radiation clouds from Operation Redwing to collect samples. I found in his papers after he died that his case was not handled by the VA but rather the DOJ.
From Wikipedia
“Operation Redwing was a United States series of 17 nuclear test detonations from May to July 1956. They were conducted at Bikini and Enewetak atolls by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF7).“
Re: “Total Eclipse of the Heart” video
Yes, it’s goofy fun to see the dog respond to the “Turn around” lyric! 🙂 That dog hears English better than I hear French.
As it happens, I’m watching “The Hunger,” the glossy vampire film by Tony Scott (Ridley Scott’s younger brother) with Catherine Deneuve(!), David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. I notice the same dark, gothic, billowing curtains imagery, which came out the same year, 1983, as the “Total Eclipse” video.
Consulting wiki I can’t tell which came first or who influenced who. However, turns out the songwriter wrote “Total Eclipse” as a vampire love song!
___________________________________
…with ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, I was trying to come up with a love song and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love song. Its original title was ‘Vampires in Love’ because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu, the other great vampire story. If anyone listens to the lyrics, they’re really like vampire lines. It’s all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love’s place in the dark…
Boned loser finds cases from Ukraine of men who will do anything to avoid serving in the military in a time of war.
Golly gee, that has never happened in Europe or the United States (Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam).
Boned Looser here is a clue. I’ve read about Russian men fleeing The Russian Federation to avoid patriotic service in Vlad’s Special Military Operation.
Some men just won’t go to war. That’s why conscription exists and why governments make evasion of conscription a felony. You have heard of Russian penal battalions and that quaint Russian practice of having reliable military units in the second echelon of battle whose purpose is to shoot any Russian soldiers who try to flee the front line once things get hot?
Regarding the Golden Retriever and that song.
They wanted a video. The dog has been trained to do a 360 degree turn on command. It could be a visual gesture off camera or conditioned behavior to that specific cut from that song. To the Golden Retriever it doesn’t matter what the owner has used as the command/cue to perform the 360 behavior. Golden Retrievers are very smart dogs and generally want to please their owner/trainer.
They wanted a video. The dog has been trained to do a 360 degree turn on command.
om:
Quite possibly.
_______________________________
Things are seldom what they seem;
Skim milk masquerades as cream.
I spent part of today pondering a Russian woman’s video claiming that she learned French on her own well enough to test as C1 in ten months. C1 means basic native speaker fluency. A year later she reported achieving C2, which is high native fluency and as high as the CEFR scale goes.
I doubt it.
It’s Internet 101 that it’s easier to write something up or shoot it than to actually do it.
But ain’t G & S grand?
Om — same thoughts exactly.
I recently watched a video by a sheepherder on the commands for his sheep dogs. One of the things he said was that it wasn’t just the command to which the dog responded, but the way he said the command: words + pitch / volume / tone / emphasis, etc. He said the words may not carry in the field, but the WAY you say the command would.
I barely train my dogs to do much, but I have trained them to do some basics. I hadn’t really thought about it before but I did do what the sheepherder did. Because the way I command my dog to “sit” is never a way I’d say “sit” in any other context.
If the dog in the video is genuinely responding to the words in the song it is because he was trained to respond to that command in THAT tone, THAT cadence, THAT emphasis, etc.
But it is kinda cute, once I willingly suspend my disbelief.
Open Thread Sunday: Don’t drone on and on –
Drone Technology in Ukraine – Automation, Lethality & The (Scary) Development Race – Perun
00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:00:40 — What Am I Talking About?
00:01:11 — Caveats And Content
00:01:55 — The New Drone Ecosystem
00:05:00 — The Drones Get Better
00:06:26 — Sensors And Night Ops
00:10:43 — Range And The Value Of Reach
00:19:20 — Targeting & AI
00:27:38 — Lethality
00:39:44 — Countermeasures
00:48:43 — Production
00:57:47 — Implications And Projections
01:10:58 — Channel Update
anyways from my study of robert massie, successive bios of peter the great and
then Catherine, I had grokked some understand from the Great Upheavals chapters on Russia, one sees how conflicts to the North with Sweden and to the South with the Turks, are engrained in Russian character, Mazeppa sided with the Swedish king and his Cossacks were crushed, in the aftermath, as it was with the proud Zaporizhians, three generations later,
Biden administration planning to label products made in the West Bank by Jews. As the X commenter says, what’s next, yellow stars?
JNS: ‘Iranian general killed in Damascus strike planned Oct. 7 attacks’
The Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces applauded IRGC Brig. Gen. Mohammad Zahedi’s “silent efforts” in directing attacks against Israel.
Following om’s opening comment, I did some research on Ukraine’s UUV (Unmanned underwater vehicle) about 8 months ago – TLK 1000, TLK 400, and TLK 150 UUVs.
Armed AUVs have the obvious advantages of surprise, stealth and survivability. And although they are likely to be more expensive than the current USVs, they will be reusable and thus cheaper in the long run. At the same time, they do not require the logistics and personnel footprint of regular submarines.
Ukraine is looking to limit Putin’s prized Black Sea Fleet to being homes for the fishes on the bottom of the Black Sea – AND, that TLK 1000 & Project FURY look like potential Crimean Bridge busters…
” ‘Iranian general killed in Damascus strike planned Oct. 7 attacks’ ”
B-b-b-b-but THAT’S SIMPLY NOT POSSIBLE!
Honest A. told us himself that there was absolutely no indication that Iran was in any way involved in October 7.
And who could possibly doubt Honest A.???
yes hes the one behind the dancer upstairs the novel about the Shining path, that was made into a film by bardem, and he has a sophisticated spy thriller, under his belt, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52239837
Bond, who was named after a favorite ornithologist, was a fantasy of sorts, that gave rare acknowledgement to the real state of the service, well ohmss gives hints to it, deighton’s more hard boiled version of mandarin skullduggery, the palmer series was probably more accurate,
Israel pulls out of southern Gaza. Well, that was stunning news to me this morning – even tho it shouldn’t have been.
Looks like 3-month cycles—pulled out of northern Gaza after about 3-months, and 3-months later they are pulling out of southern Gaza.
Khan Younis got its buttocks seriously kicked, and Israel would only be stomping a Mudhole in it if all the troops remained.
(Note: am no wrestling fan, but a fanatical one told me about what Steve Austin said—back whenever he had said it – quote stuck with me tho) 😉
Just another much needed ‘Rest and Refit‘ planned break, IMHO.
Biden & UK threatening to stop weapon shipments, accidental killing of the Hamas WCK “aid” workers, purposeful killing of Gen. Mohammad Zahedi (was involved in the planning and execution of Hamas’s October 7 massacre), and a high-pitched news cycle that has become so piercing that everyone needed a break from it.
People have mentioned here of the incredible success that Israel had recently on its return to the Al Shifa Hospital – so ‘Surgical Strikes’ may be in order for awhile. Hamas doesn’t appear to be going away quickly anyway, and may be years before it is done…
Sheer fantasy driveling if you ask me, but that seems to be their modus operandi, which, go figure.
Will Boned Looser need new nappies if the funding for military stuff for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel is approved by the House?
After all it is WWIII if those funds are approved, just ask Vlad.
I’m becomming concerned that the word Freedom in Freedom Caucus doesn’t mean what you might assume, sort of like the absence of justice in The Department of Justice.
What are they smoking over there, the only problem was meshaal wasnt killed (this was a tent pole in the first allon) the problem is yassin meshaal et al lived at all
If biden is for it so fervently there is something wrong with the proposal unless you think blinken and sullivan are smarter in the caucasus then they are in the levant
“…funding for military stuff for Ukraine…?”
If that was all it is. Of the now $65 billion for Ukraine only about $15 billion is for military equipment/ammunition. $20 billion is to restock US reserves depleted by past shipments and the rest of the money is for other security measures and running the Ukraine government.
I wish the Republicans would force a compromise where we provide the $35 billion of military aid and let the EU come up with the rest for the Ukraine government. The EU will benefit long term from Ukraine being part of the EU.
Europe and the Democrats have been beating up Republicans for the last several months. The military funding should stabilize the front lines and slow/stop any Russia advances.
Count on Brain E to whine about the other part of support for Ukraine resisting Russian aggression, you know the rest of the country that Russia seeks to destroy away from the line of contact. He will and has bitched that F-16 weren’t the right planes but when Gripens are to be provided by Sweden, crickets. I don’t recall Brain E advocating more tubes or rounds, more SAMs and reloads, more Bradleys or engineering armored vehicles, nor more tanks. Nope with Brain E anything provided is too much and always the wrong thing. It all encourages Ukrainian resistance and delays Vlad’s first victory. Because Vlad most certainly must win. Just being realistic don’t you know.
I see that the Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic, two anti-woke YouTube film critics, have appeared on Piers Morgan. Not that I think Morgan is that special, but he has prominence. It’s a step up for Drinker and Nerdrotic … and their point of view.
There’s a rather giddy sense developing — a Vibe Shift as it were — that we are winning and Woke Hollywood is losing. Sure, Woke can keep doubling down, and they do, but after a while even Hollywood “runs out of other people’s money” i.e. paying customers. It’s happening.
Anyway. Here’s the usual link. In this episode Morgan et al. are discussing the last Oscars and noting how hard Our Betters were avoiding controversy. Almost contrite, if such a gracious term applies.
Maybe I’ll skip Ukraine talk today 😉
Israel has become a model for protecting civilians
Every once in a while, it’s nice to have a reminder that you’re not crazy.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-october-disinformation-surprise-is-coming-election-9b67bf22?st=6ul8fsj8dkm3met&reflink=article_copyURL_share
In other news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZEa5u3YFU&ab_channel=WhatisGoingonWithShipping%3F
Telescreens are terrible everywhere
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240406-%F0%9F%94%B4-negotiators-expected-in-cairo-as-israel-hamas-war-nears-six-month-mark
A voice of sanity
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1xn23a1c
NYC had an earthquake.
Oh, no!
Anyway…
Hours and hours of coverage about a 4.8, which would have rated maybe 45 seconds on local news if it occurred anywhere on the west coast.
The moral? “National” news, to a very large extent, is not. It is Acela corridor news, and is why most people are drifting away from it.
https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1776639863674355968
https://babylonbee.com/news/9-signs-god-might-be-slightly-angry-with-your-country?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
Re M Cervantes X link:
“The reality you’re NOT seeing in the media is that Hamas is failing to win support in the Arab world; that Israel is close to achieving its objectives; and that Iran lacks the stability to sustain a war if it reaches the home front. Victory is closer than mainstream media allow.” –Joel Pollock.
This has been my sometimes ‘read between the lines’ impression, too.
Nice to see that I’m already on board with Joel.
The media is that lame and that transparent.
Wretched
https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1776359693859885473
Back in the 90s i read the war against the jews largely about various deep state schemes of the uk and the us the authors seem to paint the democrats as well intentioned at every turn and the gop as demonic in almost similar proportions
The lead author had been an investigator for the osi the nazi hunting branch and somewhat manic in his obsessions
‘Joe Brandon’s oldest
son died of cancer after he was exposed to dust and debris at the WTC on 9/11/2001’ …. has Brandon said it yet?
If not, because now 9/11 was America’s chickens comming home too roost. Once only said by a black racist, now said by the elites, and college students.
I think the speculations is it was the burn pits, which contained carcinogenic agents, like dioxin, that brought down another generation of young fighting men, but he was a jag so the likelihood of serious exposure, seems unlikely,
On a lighter note, based on the number of commercials I’ve seen recently featuring Iowa star Caitlin Clark, I suspect she will have to take a pay cut when she turns pro.
Miguel:
The burn pits have been known about and speculated about for decades but F. J. Brandon uses every occassion no matter what to twist his son’s death into the story, as noted by neo.
Before it was Agent Orange (with dioxin contamination) in Vietnam, and there were burn pits. Or depleted Uranium AP rounds in Iraq. To say nothing of the widespread use of asbestos insulation on warships or asbestos mittens issued to machine gunners for changing hot barrels. Brandon will have a hard time fitting Beau into some of those situations.
So far as I know glioblastoma, the brain tumor which killed Beau Biden, is not tied to burn pit exposure, and of course Beau B. served in headquarters and was unlikely to have much burn pit exposure.
A friend of mine is a Vietnam Air Force veteran and had Agent Orange exposure. He’s dealt with lymphoma but is okay, thank God.
Combination land rush + bidding war:
Ukrainian Men Paying Disabled Women To Marry Them To Avoid Frontlines
There are even people profiting from the practice by acting as intermediaries.
…a payment of around €3,000 is usually enough to secure a sham marriage to a disabled woman.
Free enterprise: It’s a good thing.
My USAF father died from lymphoma. He was exposed to Agent Orange in RVN. His B-36 (the last B-36) flew into the radiation clouds from Operation Redwing to collect samples. I found in his papers after he died that his case was not handled by the VA but rather the DOJ.
http://www.ub88.org/researchprojects/b36peacemaker/thelastb36/the-last-b-36.html
From Wikipedia
“Operation Redwing was a United States series of 17 nuclear test detonations from May to July 1956. They were conducted at Bikini and Enewetak atolls by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF7).“
Re: “Total Eclipse of the Heart” video
Yes, it’s goofy fun to see the dog respond to the “Turn around” lyric! 🙂 That dog hears English better than I hear French.
As it happens, I’m watching “The Hunger,” the glossy vampire film by Tony Scott (Ridley Scott’s younger brother) with Catherine Deneuve(!), David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. I notice the same dark, gothic, billowing curtains imagery, which came out the same year, 1983, as the “Total Eclipse” video.
Consulting wiki I can’t tell which came first or who influenced who. However, turns out the songwriter wrote “Total Eclipse” as a vampire love song!
___________________________________
…with ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, I was trying to come up with a love song and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love song. Its original title was ‘Vampires in Love’ because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu, the other great vampire story. If anyone listens to the lyrics, they’re really like vampire lines. It’s all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love’s place in the dark…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Eclipse_of_the_Heart#Music_video
___________________________________
Interesting.
There’s something deep about the vampire mythos.
–Bonnie Tyler, “Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around) ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo
Starting to look like the real pandemic is government corruption:
“Fraudband for Everyone!”—
https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-meigs/broadband-infrastructure/
H/T Powerline blog.
Boned loser finds cases from Ukraine of men who will do anything to avoid serving in the military in a time of war.
Golly gee, that has never happened in Europe or the United States (Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam).
Boned Looser here is a clue. I’ve read about Russian men fleeing The Russian Federation to avoid patriotic service in Vlad’s Special Military Operation.
Some men just won’t go to war. That’s why conscription exists and why governments make evasion of conscription a felony. You have heard of Russian penal battalions and that quaint Russian practice of having reliable military units in the second echelon of battle whose purpose is to shoot any Russian soldiers who try to flee the front line once things get hot?
Regarding the Golden Retriever and that song.
They wanted a video. The dog has been trained to do a 360 degree turn on command. It could be a visual gesture off camera or conditioned behavior to that specific cut from that song. To the Golden Retriever it doesn’t matter what the owner has used as the command/cue to perform the 360 behavior. Golden Retrievers are very smart dogs and generally want to please their owner/trainer.
They wanted a video. The dog has been trained to do a 360 degree turn on command.
om:
Quite possibly.
_______________________________
Things are seldom what they seem;
Skim milk masquerades as cream.
–Gilbert & Sullivan, “H.M.S. Pinafore, Things are seldom what they seem”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML3WFR8N_z0&t=2s
_______________________________
I spent part of today pondering a Russian woman’s video claiming that she learned French on her own well enough to test as C1 in ten months. C1 means basic native speaker fluency. A year later she reported achieving C2, which is high native fluency and as high as the CEFR scale goes.
I doubt it.
It’s Internet 101 that it’s easier to write something up or shoot it than to actually do it.
But ain’t G & S grand?
Om — same thoughts exactly.
I recently watched a video by a sheepherder on the commands for his sheep dogs. One of the things he said was that it wasn’t just the command to which the dog responded, but the way he said the command: words + pitch / volume / tone / emphasis, etc. He said the words may not carry in the field, but the WAY you say the command would.
I barely train my dogs to do much, but I have trained them to do some basics. I hadn’t really thought about it before but I did do what the sheepherder did. Because the way I command my dog to “sit” is never a way I’d say “sit” in any other context.
If the dog in the video is genuinely responding to the words in the song it is because he was trained to respond to that command in THAT tone, THAT cadence, THAT emphasis, etc.
But it is kinda cute, once I willingly suspend my disbelief.
Open Thread Sunday: Don’t drone on and on –
Drone Technology in Ukraine – Automation, Lethality & The (Scary) Development Race – Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJnuTtUFiWM
anyways from my study of robert massie, successive bios of peter the great and
then Catherine, I had grokked some understand from the Great Upheavals chapters on Russia, one sees how conflicts to the North with Sweden and to the South with the Turks, are engrained in Russian character, Mazeppa sided with the Swedish king and his Cossacks were crushed, in the aftermath, as it was with the proud Zaporizhians, three generations later,
Biden administration planning to label products made in the West Bank by Jews. As the X commenter says, what’s next, yellow stars?
https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1776361252488372713
https://www.jns.org/iranian-general-killed-in-damascus-strike-planned-oct-7-attacks/
JNS: ‘Iranian general killed in Damascus strike planned Oct. 7 attacks’
The Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces applauded IRGC Brig. Gen. Mohammad Zahedi’s “silent efforts” in directing attacks against Israel.
Following om’s opening comment, I did some research on Ukraine’s UUV (Unmanned underwater vehicle) about 8 months ago – TLK 1000, TLK 400, and TLK 150 UUVs.
Looks like they have added or updated some of the technology to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs):
Ukraine is looking to limit Putin’s prized Black Sea Fleet to being homes for the fishes on the bottom of the Black Sea – AND, that TLK 1000 & Project FURY look like potential Crimean Bridge busters…
” ‘Iranian general killed in Damascus strike planned Oct. 7 attacks’ ”
B-b-b-b-but THAT’S SIMPLY NOT POSSIBLE!
Honest A. told us himself that there was absolutely no indication that Iran was in any way involved in October 7.
And who could possibly doubt Honest A.???
+ Bonus:
A marvelous book review….
“His Word Was His Bond;
“REVIEW: ‘Ian Fleming: The Complete Man’ by Nicholas Shakespeare”—
https://freebeacon.com/culture/his-word-was-his-bond/
H/T Powerline blog.
What a delightful surname for an English author!
yes hes the one behind the dancer upstairs the novel about the Shining path, that was made into a film by bardem, and he has a sophisticated spy thriller, under his belt,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52239837
Bond, who was named after a favorite ornithologist, was a fantasy of sorts, that gave rare acknowledgement to the real state of the service, well ohmss gives hints to it, deighton’s more hard boiled version of mandarin skullduggery, the palmer series was probably more accurate,
Diversity is our strength.
==
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/death-to-america-death-to-israel-chants-pour-out-of-muslim-protesters-in-michigan-on-last-day-of-ramadan/ar-BB1ldWak?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=7b23fc8c514e46d18a23738568531191&ei=9
Israel pulls out of southern Gaza. Well, that was stunning news to me this morning – even tho it shouldn’t have been.
Looks like 3-month cycles—pulled out of northern Gaza after about 3-months, and 3-months later they are pulling out of southern Gaza.
Khan Younis got its buttocks seriously kicked, and Israel would only be stomping a Mudhole in it if all the troops remained.
(Note: am no wrestling fan, but a fanatical one told me about what Steve Austin said—back whenever he had said it – quote stuck with me tho) 😉
Just another much needed ‘Rest and Refit‘ planned break, IMHO.
Biden & UK threatening to stop weapon shipments, accidental killing of the Hamas WCK “aid” workers, purposeful killing of Gen. Mohammad Zahedi (was involved in the planning and execution of Hamas’s October 7 massacre), and a high-pitched news cycle that has become so piercing that everyone needed a break from it.
People have mentioned here of the incredible success that Israel had recently on its return to the Al Shifa Hospital – so ‘Surgical Strikes’ may be in order for awhile. Hamas doesn’t appear to be going away quickly anyway, and may be years before it is done…
Honeymoon’s over for lil Mikey:
Can America First Stop WWIII Funding If Mike Johnson Tries To Pass It Using A Mechanism That’s Literally Called ‘Suspension of the Rules’?
Caroline Glick translates the (insane) Israeli Leftist’s claims: https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1777108775448510654?t=nH9dDAf_sbfP5m6JOHZ08w&s=19
Sheer fantasy driveling if you ask me, but that seems to be their modus operandi, which, go figure.
Will Boned Looser need new nappies if the funding for military stuff for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel is approved by the House?
After all it is WWIII if those funds are approved, just ask Vlad.
I’m becomming concerned that the word Freedom in Freedom Caucus doesn’t mean what you might assume, sort of like the absence of justice in The Department of Justice.
What are they smoking over there, the only problem was meshaal wasnt killed (this was a tent pole in the first allon) the problem is yassin meshaal et al lived at all
If biden is for it so fervently there is something wrong with the proposal unless you think blinken and sullivan are smarter in the caucasus then they are in the levant
“…funding for military stuff for Ukraine…?”
If that was all it is. Of the now $65 billion for Ukraine only about $15 billion is for military equipment/ammunition. $20 billion is to restock US reserves depleted by past shipments and the rest of the money is for other security measures and running the Ukraine government.
I wish the Republicans would force a compromise where we provide the $35 billion of military aid and let the EU come up with the rest for the Ukraine government. The EU will benefit long term from Ukraine being part of the EU.
Europe and the Democrats have been beating up Republicans for the last several months. The military funding should stabilize the front lines and slow/stop any Russia advances.
Count on Brain E to whine about the other part of support for Ukraine resisting Russian aggression, you know the rest of the country that Russia seeks to destroy away from the line of contact. He will and has bitched that F-16 weren’t the right planes but when Gripens are to be provided by Sweden, crickets. I don’t recall Brain E advocating more tubes or rounds, more SAMs and reloads, more Bradleys or engineering armored vehicles, nor more tanks. Nope with Brain E anything provided is too much and always the wrong thing. It all encourages Ukrainian resistance and delays Vlad’s first victory. Because Vlad most certainly must win. Just being realistic don’t you know.
Copy & paste headline month after meatgrinding month:
Zelensky Warns U.S. Congress: Meet Ukraine Military Aid Demands or Russia Wins
Re: Woke Hollywood
I see that the Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic, two anti-woke YouTube film critics, have appeared on Piers Morgan. Not that I think Morgan is that special, but he has prominence. It’s a step up for Drinker and Nerdrotic … and their point of view.
There’s a rather giddy sense developing — a Vibe Shift as it were — that we are winning and Woke Hollywood is losing. Sure, Woke can keep doubling down, and they do, but after a while even Hollywood “runs out of other people’s money” i.e. paying customers. It’s happening.
Anyway. Here’s the usual link. In this episode Morgan et al. are discussing the last Oscars and noting how hard Our Betters were avoiding controversy. Almost contrite, if such a gracious term applies.
–“Are The Oscars FINISHED? | Nerdrotic And The Critical Drinker With Piers Morgan”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckbc1ORrr28
Someone said, “Politics is downstream from culture.”
Stone has a point:
Oswald had multiple clean shots available to him as the motorcade proceeded on N Houston Street. Why wait for the foliage obstructed view on Elm Street?
In case you were under the illusion that Belgium is a free country.
==
https://spectator.org/belgian-dissident-sent-to-jail-for-memes/