Open thread 2/24/2025
I sure would have liked to have seen the waterfall:
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I feel like venting my spleen
As soon as I typed that title, I started thinking that you don’t often hear people talk about venting their spleens anymore. In fact, I began to wonder, did I ever hear it? Or did I merely read it in … Continue reading →
Today’s hostage return …
… was the usual sickening theater from Hamas. But it also engendered the usual joy at seeing the hostages return to Israel and their families. This time the cynical and abusive “ceremonies” around the hostage release seemed to feature even … Continue reading →
Roundup
(1) Rubio mentions some additional sources for Trump’s anger at Zelensky: The tensions go back much further … , though, with the Ukrainian president slamming Trump and now-Vice President JD Vance during the 2024 presidential election, presumably believing Kamala Harris … Continue reading →
Is Trump “politicizing” the military?
Trump has replaced the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., who is black and highly devoted to DEI in the military. Naturally, this change is one of the many many things that the … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/22/2025
Man stabbed near Berlin’s Holocaust Museum – plus, German elections coming soon
How symbolic: German police arrested a suspect after a stabbing at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial left a person seriously injured on Friday evening local time. Police haven’t yet given a motive or made any connection between the stabbing and the Holocaust … Continue reading →
More on the Bibas family
Now Hamas is saying they’ll give back the body of Shiri Bibas. It will, I’m sure, be examined and the DNA checked to see if it finally means that this kidnapped mother’s body has come home to Israel. Awful, terrible, … Continue reading →
Will Trump lift sanctions on Russia?
And if so, why? Commenter “mkent” offers this idea: Trump has said as a part of the ceasefire he’ll lift Western sanctions against Russia. It’s these sanctions which have ground Russian war production to a halt. They are having great … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/21/2025
It was bad before, but now it’s much worse: the forensics on the Bibas family reveal …
… that Ariel and Kfir were brutally murdered. And that the body of the woman that Hamas so kindly returned is not their mother Shiri Bibas, but is instead some unknown person. The military informs the Bibas family that the … Continue reading →
Kash Patel is the new FBI head
Patel has been confirmed by the Senate, and this time McConnell voted yes, and Collins and Murkowski voted no. When Pete Hegseth was confirmed, I wrote this post about Murkowski and Collins, and what I wrote there applies to the … Continue reading →