Roundup
(1) Here’s a surprising development – Israel is on the brink of passing a death penalty law for terrorists:
A bill to impose the death penalty on convicted terrorists, who committed murder, passed its first reading in the Knesset plenum on Monday night by a vote of 39 to 16. It must pass three readings to become law.
“A terrorist who is convicted of murder out of motives of racism” and “under circumstances, in which the act was carried out with the intention of harming the State of Israel,” per the bill, “shall be sentenced to death.”
The obvious reason for the law is to prevent more hostage-taking in order to free the most dangerous terrorists in Israeli prisons. I wrote about the lack of an Israeli death penalty about a month ago.
(2) Democrat corruption in California charged:
Dana Williamson, former chief of staff to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, was arrested Wednesday morning, charged in a 23-count federal indictment with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruct justice, subscribing to false tax returns, and making false statements. The charges are related to an alleged scheme between Williamson and at least three other prominent California Democrat political operatives “to divert approximately $225,000 in funds from a dormant political campaign to an associate’s personal use.”
That’s not the surprise. This is the surprise:
The investigation began under the Biden administration, and the charges are the result of a nearly three-year investigation.
(3) The last penny:
The penny has been part of the U.S. currency since the very beginning. It was first authorized under the Coinage Act of 1792.
Back then, you could actually buy something with it. Even when I was a kid, penny candy was still sold – and for all I know, maybe it is today. But pennies cost four cents to make these days, aren’t used much, and there are so many in circulation – 300 billion – that we certainly don’t need any more. A penny saved is a penny earned, and stopping their production is projected to save fifty-six million dollars. That’s not chump change.
(4) Jack Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy’s son, has decided to run for Jerry Nadler’s House seat. Schlossberg is a very weird duck, but he’s got the chiseled cheekbones of his Kennedy ancestors:
Schlossberg, a mentally deranged internet addict who cracks jokes about guzzling “Jew blood” and “male jizz,” has sought to inject the storied Kennedy brand with Gen Z flare.
Schlossberg is undeterred by the fact that no one really wants him to run for Congress—not even his own mother.
The rest of the article goes on to describe some of his weird and offensive antics, and it’s just plain sad. Of course, it would be even sadder if he got elected.
(5) Student visas for foreigners are big business for universities in the UK. They charge them up to three times what citizens pay. Plus:
The Home Office projects that about 500,000 recent international graduates have remained in the country even after their visas expired.
There is also evidence that the student route is being misused. As Migration Watch has reported, cases have emerged of applicants inflating bank statements or pooling funds to meet visa requirements. Some enrol in courses with little intention of studying – nearly half of all asylum claims made by visa holders now come from those who were admitted as students.
(6) Keir Starmer might be finished soon as prime minister. But don’t get too excited; he’ll just be replaced with someone else from his party.
Death Penalty in Israel
The crooked AG and Corrupt Leftist AG will throw this death penalty legislation in the garbage. They run Israel not the PM or The Knesset.
Either that or every proposed execution will be overturned by them.
History and precedent predict that.
Stop taking terrorists alive. Trump and Rubio get this. The only reason to take them alive is for intelligence or to trade for Israelis alive and dead because the palis will still kidnap and carry off the dead order to torment the families.
Would Schlossberg’s election be sadder than Jay Jones’? Discuss.
Israel is on the brink of passing a death penalty law for terrorists:
Practical, and sensible, when encarcerated terrorists are considered ‘reasonable’ cause for Hamas to brutalize some Israelis, and use the survivors for ‘trade’ to return said terrorists so they can play their brutalities some more.
A. What exactly is his trade above and beyond occasional topical commentary? (NB, he passed the bar exam the 2d time it was held after he completed law school; in the intervening 21 months, which firm hired him?).
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B. Has he ever sat on a municipal council, a school board, a county council, or in a state legislature?
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C. Who is his wife and how many children does he have?
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D. Why does he have such an aversion to speaking in grammatically correct complete sentences?
1) Yes, of course. Pass that bill. I do think getting intelligence from terrorists is valuable, but that need not impede an eventual death sentence.
3) Clearly it is time for a $200 bill and probably a $500 bill. I vote for Ronald Reagan on one of those. Maybe recycle Madison or use Coolidge for another one.
https://www.thoughtco.com/faces-on-us-currency-4153995
Scroll down for the less familiar ones. Not all presidents!
FOAF, Jay Jones is worse, because he’s in charge of law enforcement in an entire state. Schlossberg woould just go be a useful idiot among other Dems in Congress. Is there someone sensible now representing the district?
Janet Lee (b. 1907, d. 1989) was Mrs. Bouvier from 1928 to 1942, Mrs. Auchincloss from 1942 to 1979, and Mrs. Morris from 1979 until her death. She bore four children between 1928 and 1948. Her children bore between 1955 and 1983 seven children who survived infancy. Her seven grandchildren bore or sired eight children between 1987 and 2006, of whom four are currently over the age of 25. The great-grand children have one child between them. That child is age 3; his mother is 35; his grandmother is 67.
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Back then, you could actually buy something with it. Even when I was a kid, penny candy was still sold – and for all I know, maybe it is today.
Way back when, my mom used to send me on errands to the corner store, and would let me have a “penny treat.” For a penny, I’d get a baseball card with a stick of gum. Pretty good value for a penny.
The investigation began under the Biden administration, and the charges are the result of a nearly three-year investigation.
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Even in corrupt administrations there will be people just doing their jobs.
One thing pennies are still used for is the “smashed penny” souvenirs at places like zoos and museums, and even Disneyworld (one AesopSon and his family just returned from there and his wife is a fanatical fan of that keepsake genre).
Of course, you have to put 50 cents in the machine (2 quarters) to turn the handle to press the penny flat and emboss it with the chosen design.
What a steal.
The Kennedy kid has done nothing that would disqualify him
from running for office…….as a dem.
John Spencer:
https://x.com/SpencerGuard/status/1988951780609470600
Unrelated, today marks the 10th anniversary of the Bataclan massacre in Paris.
https://x.com/BritishLandeur/status/1989013464782950449
schlossberg went to Harvard and has a D next to his name. That’s all one needs to ensure election. He’s obviously a superior being
THIS IS LEADERSHIP! Kristi Noem hands $10k checks to TSA Workers who did NOT call out sick during furlough – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/11/this-is-leadership-kristi-noem-hands.html
Schlossberg’s just another sick little puppy.
His family knows it (but AT LEAST he hasn’t wandered off the
plantationmanor like his first cousin once removed—though boy, wouldn’t they love to remove that cousin entirely!)OTOH, maybe he’ll grow up—having ALREADY demonstrated that he KNOWS how to delete Internet posts that prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that he’s an insane wanker (i.e., showing that he had some sense of SHAME / REGRET / CONSCIENCE?) so maybe there’s some hope there…
(On the third hand, maybe he’s just another—“the drugs made me do it”—psychopath…with political ambitions…)
Whatever…yes, alas, he’s probably a shoo-in to replace Jerry “Antifa’s just an idea, it doesn’t exist” Nadler…
SD on November 14, 2025 at 6:37 am:
“Kristi Noem hands $10k checks to TSA Workers who did NOT call out sick during furlough – Video”
I can’t tell from this video if this was done in Orlando last night (or early morning), but when I landed in Orlando at 2:30am this morning, and walked to baggage claim, there were a group of about a dozen TSA employees gathered at the exit lane, and they looked very similar to this group. Perhaps they were waiting for “someone” to arrive and give them $10K checks?
It is debatable whether those TSA (and ATC et al.) people that could hang on and not call in sick (unless truly ill) deserved this extra bonus over their colleagues who (for whatever reason) could not or did not show up every day they were required to do so. Some of the latter may not have had confidence they would eventually see their missing back pay or they had unanticipated costs, etc. [I know of one ATCer who arranged a low interest loan to carry him over this time span. That option might not have been available to everyone?]
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