A crowd-sourced solution. This will render the “service” useless in a matter of days. Much more effective than a bunch of litigation against CNN… and less costly.
David Zini is much closer to becoming the next Shin Bet chief following yesterday’s hearing in the High Court of Justice.
So, the court ruled that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s nomination of Zini was valid? Not quite. I’ll explain.
Much to his disdain, Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit was outflanked by the other two conservative justices on the panel, leaving him in the minority. […]
So, where to from here? Given the stance of the two justices on the panel, if the government and attorney general can’t come to an agreement, the court appears set to rule in favor of the government, allowing David Zini to replace Ronen Bar as the next head of the Shin Bet.
Don’t forget: This would be a significant victory for the prime minister. After all, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has seemingly made it her life’s mission to thwart every meaningful policy this government pushes—and she’s backed up by the Supreme Court President, the opposition, and much of Israel’s mainstream press. […]
Anyway, back to the court hearing. The judges had more in store for Amit, arguing with him—the Supreme Court President—on live television. If ever there was a sign that the justices are fed up with Amit and his politics, here it was, for the whole country to watch in real time.
Amit was also taken aback by the crowd’s rowdiness, slamming the continuous heckling as an “injury to democracy.” After pausing the hearing twice, he then emptied the court of public observers. The hecklers in the crowd, according to Amit, were trying to “thwart the judicial process.”
And here is where he faces his next problem. The court has changed—and he’s played no small role in it. With the court having taken on ever increasing authority, including the ability to void laws passed in the Knesset, it has, in some ways, turned into another Knesset.
And the more it becomes like the Knesset, the more it will behave like it too, as was evident yesterday in the live-streamed clashes between the justices.
President Amit can go down that path if he so desires—but if he thinks he can do so while retaining the respect of the Israeli public, he’s in for a nasty surprise.
Speaking of Trumps big, beautiful bill (BBB):
If the demonkrats were running the show in DC trying to get their own membership in line to vote for their version of a BBB, they would have finished the job in 1/3 the time it has taken the dumbpublicans and probably no demonkrats would have broke rank.
But leave it to the dumbpublicans to actually try and get something done and they find it next to impossible.
When it comes down to politics, the dumbpublicans are inept and incompetent.
Many conservatives are talking up how the demonkrat party is in disarray, etc. but just you wait and see; come the 2026 elections, the dems will become the majority in the Senate and the House and Trump will be neutered (if not subjected, yet again, to impeachment proceedings.)
One big topic the Dems will use is that the dumbpublicans “cut” Medicaid.
Personally,
I really do not know if this is really true or not – I suspect not – but if Trump’s BBB finally is passed, the Dems will use “they cut Medicaid” line – which will be repeated by the MSM infinitum- and have 89% of all voters believing it.
I realize in DC that reducing the increase in spending for a particular item is labelled a “cut” in spending as is prohibiting Medicaid going to illegals.
And IIRC, every time in the past that the govt. has cut taxes, revenue to the govt goes up. Yet, we can count on the CBO to conclude a cut in taxes will be a huge loss of revenue – a “cost” – to the govt.
Too bad the DOGE folks and Trump have not moved to totally defund and get rid of the CBO. It’s just another politically partisan agency disguised as a non-partisan bureaucracy that sucks up taxpayer $$$ .
If I have to take a guess, for every dollar of waste, fraud that DOGE uncovers within the govt. agencies, there are an additional $ 15 or $ 20 of waste/fraud that remains to be discovered but never will be.
Iran on Wednesday formally suspended its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, a measure drawn up in the wake of unprecedented Israeli and US strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear sites.
Following a parliament vote on the matter last week, the bill was approved by the Guardian Council, a body tasked with vetting legislation, before it received a final ratification from the presidency.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian “promulgated the law suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency,” state TV said.
Regarding the BBB and our ballooning debt and increasing debt ceiling and Mamdani and ICE and Alligator Alcatraz and everything else covered in neo’s round-ups:
To me it all comes down to the economy.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it can rhyme and to there is a lot of rhyming right now with the late ’70s, early ’80s.
The hippies had a grip on the culture.
The ecology was a huge, political topic.
We were at “peak oil.”
Malaise…
It seemed like forces promoting, “America’s best days were behind her and the future of America would be managing decline,” held the zeitgeist. The Reagan Revolution did not happen overnight. It’s victory didn’t seem certain for several years and there was tremendous pushback against it. Many, many people and organizations domestic and foreign insisted Reagan would bankrupt us and start WWIII. Fear was being sown.
But the economy opened up and hippies started making money.
I think we are at a similar, precarious precipice and we see forces fighting hard against correcting course. Nothing succeeds like success. We need an economic boom in America soon.
Absolutely shocking!!
(And they were cooperating so nicely—so splendidly—before this….)
Such a shame…(or as the one and only—fortunate, that—Ben Rhodes said, “What a waste…”
File under: “If you don’t allow us to destroy you, well then…we’ll just HAVE TO destroy you ourselves….”
Trump also endorsed a proposal by Florida Gov. DeSantis to deputize members of the Florida National Guard as immigration judges.
So this morning, all the left minions have apparently got the memo from above that the opening of Alligator Alcatraz is to be equated with the opening of Dachau. Complete with posting of pictures of laughing Nazis next to a picture of DeSantis, Noem, and Trump laughing at AA. They are claiming it will soon be used for political prisoners and other “concentration camps” will soon open.
They just keep slipping further down the insanity hole. Of course, the comments express shock and despair that the rest of the country can’t see how we are becoming 1930s Germany.
I don’t care which party is in power – there needs to be ” Line Item Veto” power at the Presidential level. Someone should have to ability to cut things out with only a direct – line item by line item – 60 Senator vote to override that veto.
The congress gave it to clinton and he squandered on potatoe subsidies
I think we have to conclude the possums dont really want to improve things* but they will find ways to break things
*one could conclude nafta and wto admission of china was a net loss to cite two examples
Hudson Inst., conversation with David Albright on “The State of Iran’s Nuclear Program and What’s Next in the Middle-east ” (1:00:28): https://www.youtube.com/live/dW6qF6T38cY
A fairly interesting video on the history of wheelbarrows. I am kind of a sucker for these types of analyses. Although he mostly skips over actual answers to the questions at hand, and instead discusses how to look at the question and why there is so little documentation about it.
I’m reminded of the book “How the West Won” by R. Stark. He has a few possibly answers to these sorts of questions. The video author mentions that farmers simply never envisioned any kind of tech progress in their work life. Stark mentions that the Islamic religion doesn’t really allow for its adherents to go beyond what is set down in their 3 main religious texts.
I had Catholic nuns in high school teaching me science. My good friend asked one about reconciling advanced science with her religion. She responded with what I much later learned was rather standard theological dogma for Catholics & probably Christians in general. She felt that God wants us to become more like Him, and that our advancement takes us in that direction. In effect, advancement has a holiness component to it.
Stark also mentions that the Romans conquered European peoples who had some advanced technology like the water wheel driven milling plant. Yet the Roman’s never adopted it. Stark conjectures that the failure stems from ubiquitous slavery. Why try to save a slave’s labor?
But the video author makes one great point. What was the laborer’s daily tasks really like? I mean if a modest sized construction site has a well defined point A and point B, and a lot of material needs to be moved between the two…, and if the path between A & B is rather flat, hard, and smooth, then the wheelbarrow makes sense. Any added complexity tends to negate the advantages.
All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump. Thank you to the career @CIA officers who conducted this review and exposed the facts.
@TommyJay: I had Catholic nuns in high school teaching me science. My good friend asked one about reconciling advanced science with her religion. She responded with what I much later learned was rather standard theological dogma for Catholics & probably Christians in general. She felt that God wants us to become more like Him, and that our advancement takes us in that direction. In effect, advancement has a holiness component to it.
This sounds like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was a French Jesuit priest, theologian, philosopher, and paleontologist. The Catholic Church suppressed much of his work while he was alive (died 1955).
His core idea was that evolution—both biological and spiritual—is a process moving humanity toward greater complexity and consciousness, ultimately culminating in what he called the Omega Point, a final unity with the divine. He saw scientific progress, particularly in understanding the universe and ourselves, as part of God’s unfolding plan, not in conflict with it.
Teilhard de Chardin was a hot ticket in the 60s. He is still controversial today.
As a paleontologist he was involved with the discovery of Peking Man and Piltdown Man. The latter turned out to be a hoax. Some, including Stephen Jay Gould, believe Teilhard de Chardin was a conspirator.
Fascinating man.
Yes but why standard His standards are different than ours
I don’t see a wheelbarrow as a particularly obvious thing. For reasons you point out regarding terrain, I don’t think wheeled conveyances are of much practical use until there are reasonably flat surfaces to convey things over. I would think four wheeled carts are the first, most obvious wheeled things humans would create. Two wheeled, chariots and carts also seem obvious. But a one wheeled cart? Yes, it’s handy for moving stuff over uneven terrain, but I don’t think that becomes obvious until you have 4 and 2 wheeled carts first.
Thanks for the comments huxley & Rufus. Almost forgot about this.
I think wheelbarrows are great because they combine two of the simple machines, wheel and lever.
Philip Sells on July 3, 2025 at 5:54 pm:
“I think wheelbarrows are great because they combine two of the simple machines, wheel and lever.”
But if you consider the Garden Way cart (or similar knockoffs), with two wheels and the axle moved about 40% towards the middle of the load, it provides even better control and allows heavier loads, etc. The typical product can handle up to 400 pounds, with some care in moving it. More force is aimed at the center of gravity, etc., as the handle is lifted and the center of the load moves forward towards or over the axle.
[Just be sure the wheels and axle can handle the load – from experience, typical bicycle wheels don’t cut it. 🙁 ]
Leave a Reply
HTML tags allowed in your
comment: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>
Now that’s some rollicking hilarity right there:
https://x.com/BoLoudon/status/1940175745143419378
A crowd-sourced solution. This will render the “service” useless in a matter of days. Much more effective than a bunch of litigation against CNN… and less costly.
https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1940394982092738915
Speaking of Trumps big, beautiful bill (BBB):
If the demonkrats were running the show in DC trying to get their own membership in line to vote for their version of a BBB, they would have finished the job in 1/3 the time it has taken the dumbpublicans and probably no demonkrats would have broke rank.
But leave it to the dumbpublicans to actually try and get something done and they find it next to impossible.
When it comes down to politics, the dumbpublicans are inept and incompetent.
Many conservatives are talking up how the demonkrat party is in disarray, etc. but just you wait and see; come the 2026 elections, the dems will become the majority in the Senate and the House and Trump will be neutered (if not subjected, yet again, to impeachment proceedings.)
One big topic the Dems will use is that the dumbpublicans “cut” Medicaid.
Personally,
I really do not know if this is really true or not – I suspect not – but if Trump’s BBB finally is passed, the Dems will use “they cut Medicaid” line – which will be repeated by the MSM infinitum- and have 89% of all voters believing it.
I realize in DC that reducing the increase in spending for a particular item is labelled a “cut” in spending as is prohibiting Medicaid going to illegals.
And IIRC, every time in the past that the govt. has cut taxes, revenue to the govt goes up. Yet, we can count on the CBO to conclude a cut in taxes will be a huge loss of revenue – a “cost” – to the govt.
Too bad the DOGE folks and Trump have not moved to totally defund and get rid of the CBO. It’s just another politically partisan agency disguised as a non-partisan bureaucracy that sucks up taxpayer $$$ .
If I have to take a guess, for every dollar of waste, fraud that DOGE uncovers within the govt. agencies, there are an additional $ 15 or $ 20 of waste/fraud that remains to be discovered but never will be.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-president-enacts-law-suspending-cooperation-with-un-nuclear-watchdog/
Regarding the BBB and our ballooning debt and increasing debt ceiling and Mamdani and ICE and Alligator Alcatraz and everything else covered in neo’s round-ups:
To me it all comes down to the economy.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it can rhyme and to there is a lot of rhyming right now with the late ’70s, early ’80s.
The hippies had a grip on the culture.
The ecology was a huge, political topic.
We were at “peak oil.”
Malaise…
It seemed like forces promoting, “America’s best days were behind her and the future of America would be managing decline,” held the zeitgeist. The Reagan Revolution did not happen overnight. It’s victory didn’t seem certain for several years and there was tremendous pushback against it. Many, many people and organizations domestic and foreign insisted Reagan would bankrupt us and start WWIII. Fear was being sown.
But the economy opened up and hippies started making money.
I think we are at a similar, precarious precipice and we see forces fighting hard against correcting course. Nothing succeeds like success. We need an economic boom in America soon.
Absolutely shocking!!
(And they were cooperating so nicely—so splendidly—before this….)
Such a shame…(or as the one and only—fortunate, that—Ben Rhodes said, “What a waste…”
File under: “If you don’t allow us to destroy you, well then…we’ll just HAVE TO destroy you ourselves….”
https://x.com/LegInsurrection/status/1940425446111207746
So this morning, all the left minions have apparently got the memo from above that the opening of Alligator Alcatraz is to be equated with the opening of Dachau. Complete with posting of pictures of laughing Nazis next to a picture of DeSantis, Noem, and Trump laughing at AA. They are claiming it will soon be used for political prisoners and other “concentration camps” will soon open.
They just keep slipping further down the insanity hole. Of course, the comments express shock and despair that the rest of the country can’t see how we are becoming 1930s Germany.
I don’t care which party is in power – there needs to be ” Line Item Veto” power at the Presidential level. Someone should have to ability to cut things out with only a direct – line item by line item – 60 Senator vote to override that veto.
The congress gave it to clinton and he squandered on potatoe subsidies
I think we have to conclude the possums dont really want to improve things* but they will find ways to break things
*one could conclude nafta and wto admission of china was a net loss to cite two examples
More selective audience
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1940429711509008516
Hudson Inst., conversation with David Albright on “The State of Iran’s Nuclear Program and What’s Next in the Middle-east ” (1:00:28):
https://www.youtube.com/live/dW6qF6T38cY
A fairly interesting video on the history of wheelbarrows. I am kind of a sucker for these types of analyses. Although he mostly skips over actual answers to the questions at hand, and instead discusses how to look at the question and why there is so little documentation about it.
I’m reminded of the book “How the West Won” by R. Stark. He has a few possibly answers to these sorts of questions. The video author mentions that farmers simply never envisioned any kind of tech progress in their work life. Stark mentions that the Islamic religion doesn’t really allow for its adherents to go beyond what is set down in their 3 main religious texts.
I had Catholic nuns in high school teaching me science. My good friend asked one about reconciling advanced science with her religion. She responded with what I much later learned was rather standard theological dogma for Catholics & probably Christians in general. She felt that God wants us to become more like Him, and that our advancement takes us in that direction. In effect, advancement has a holiness component to it.
Stark also mentions that the Romans conquered European peoples who had some advanced technology like the water wheel driven milling plant. Yet the Roman’s never adopted it. Stark conjectures that the failure stems from ubiquitous slavery. Why try to save a slave’s labor?
But the video author makes one great point. What was the laborer’s daily tasks really like? I mean if a modest sized construction site has a well defined point A and point B, and a lot of material needs to be moved between the two…, and if the path between A & B is rather flat, hard, and smooth, then the wheelbarrow makes sense. Any added complexity tends to negate the advantages.
Related?
How the West was…Wrong…
“How the West got the Israel-Iran war so wrong;
“While analysts warned of Armageddon, Netanyahu and Trump drew lines in the sand – and the region held”—
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-the-west-got-the-israel-iran-war-so-wrong/
Key contention:
“Churchillian”…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe:
https://x.com/CIADirector/status/1940452440937263396
@TommyJay: I had Catholic nuns in high school teaching me science. My good friend asked one about reconciling advanced science with her religion. She responded with what I much later learned was rather standard theological dogma for Catholics & probably Christians in general. She felt that God wants us to become more like Him, and that our advancement takes us in that direction. In effect, advancement has a holiness component to it.
This sounds like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was a French Jesuit priest, theologian, philosopher, and paleontologist. The Catholic Church suppressed much of his work while he was alive (died 1955).
His core idea was that evolution—both biological and spiritual—is a process moving humanity toward greater complexity and consciousness, ultimately culminating in what he called the Omega Point, a final unity with the divine. He saw scientific progress, particularly in understanding the universe and ourselves, as part of God’s unfolding plan, not in conflict with it.
Teilhard de Chardin was a hot ticket in the 60s. He is still controversial today.
As a paleontologist he was involved with the discovery of Peking Man and Piltdown Man. The latter turned out to be a hoax. Some, including Stephen Jay Gould, believe Teilhard de Chardin was a conspirator.
Fascinating man.
Yes but why standard His standards are different than ours
Then there are no standards
https://x.com/ItsYourGov/status/1940418817383133402
Why we can’t lose any weight – – – It’s all about the diet folks!! Re-Post
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/07/why-we-cant-lose-any-weight-its-all.html
TommyJay,
I don’t see a wheelbarrow as a particularly obvious thing. For reasons you point out regarding terrain, I don’t think wheeled conveyances are of much practical use until there are reasonably flat surfaces to convey things over. I would think four wheeled carts are the first, most obvious wheeled things humans would create. Two wheeled, chariots and carts also seem obvious. But a one wheeled cart? Yes, it’s handy for moving stuff over uneven terrain, but I don’t think that becomes obvious until you have 4 and 2 wheeled carts first.
Thanks for the comments huxley & Rufus. Almost forgot about this.
I think wheelbarrows are great because they combine two of the simple machines, wheel and lever.
Philip Sells on July 3, 2025 at 5:54 pm:
“I think wheelbarrows are great because they combine two of the simple machines, wheel and lever.”
But if you consider the Garden Way cart (or similar knockoffs), with two wheels and the axle moved about 40% towards the middle of the load, it provides even better control and allows heavier loads, etc. The typical product can handle up to 400 pounds, with some care in moving it. More force is aimed at the center of gravity, etc., as the handle is lifted and the center of the load moves forward towards or over the axle.
[Just be sure the wheels and axle can handle the load – from experience, typical bicycle wheels don’t cut it. 🙁 ]