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Post by mhbruin on Oct 13, 2023 8:05:30 GMT -8
When my boss asked me who is the stupid one, me or him? I told him everyone knows he doesn't hire stupid people.
Somebody Liked This Speech
Biden’s three sets of White House remarks – first over the weekend, then a forceful statement on Tuesday expanded upon in remarks to American Jewish leaders on Wednesday – were effective for different reasons. They had an extraordinary and immediate impact inside Israel. A commentator on Israel’s right-wing Channel 14 apologized to Biden on-air for questioning his commitment to Israel in the past, saying this was the “moment of truth.” Huge billboards sprung up on Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway declaring “Thank you, Mr. President” and quoting from his speech. Public reaction, judging from Israeli TV and social media, ranged from grateful to ecstatic.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 13, 2023 8:07:09 GMT -8
Here He Comes to Save the Day
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is quite the tough guy—in his tweets. “Today I signed an executive order authorizing rescue operations in Israel to bring Floridians home and transport supplies to our allies,” he tweeted Thursday. “We will not leave our residents behind. To the many Floridians who are stuck in Israel, trying to get home — help is on the way.”
”Rescue operations” makes it sound like a commando team charging in, doesn’t it? Top Gun DeSantis is the steely-eyed commander intent on rescuing his people no matter the danger. But while the executive order is silent on details, referring to only “logistical, rescue and evacuation operations,” what he’s probably talking about is charter flights. Which the Biden administration is already setting up.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 13, 2023 8:13:15 GMT -8
They Like Biden More Than BibiFour out of five Jewish Israelis believe the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are to blame for the mass infiltration of Hamas terrorists into Israel and the massacre that followed, a new Dialog Center poll released on Thursday found. An overwhelming majority – 86% of respondents, including 79% of coalition supporters, said the surprise attack from Gaza is a failure of the country’s leadership, while a staggering 92% said the war is causing anxiety. Furthermore, almost all the respondents (94%) believe the government must bear some responsibility for the lack of security preparedness that led to the assault, with over 75% saying the government holds most of the responsibility. Israelis blame gov’t for Hamas massacre, say Netanyahu must resign - poll
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 13, 2023 8:17:08 GMT -8
Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting Rights Restoration
After the governor restored hundreds of thousands of people’s rights in 2019, a coalition led by formerly incarcerated Kentuckians is working to inform people of their rights.
The outlook changed dramatically for Kentuckians with felonies in 2019, when Democrat Andy Beshear entered office with what he called a “moral responsibility” to help others like [formerly incarcerated Alonzo] Malone. Two days after his inauguration, Beshear issued a sweeping executive order to automatically restore voting rights for people convicted in Kentucky of nonviolent crimes once they finish all parts of their sentence, including parole or probation. The order instantly restored voting rights to about 180,000 Kentuckians and sliced the state’s disenfranchised population in half.
In the 2022 midterm election, three years on from the executive order, only about 7 percent of people whose voting rights were restored by Beshear’s order actually cast ballots, according to the Kentucky Civic Engagement Table, a voting rights organization. That’s compared to 42 percent of the overall electorate.
Part of the blame, Kentucky’s advocates say, lies with a Beshear administration that did little to notify people affected by the order. [...]
A coalition of activists and nonprofit organizations have been using public records and word of mouth to identify people whose rights were restored, traversing the state to tell those people they have the right to vote and to encourage them to exercise it. In addition to door-to-door canvassing, this coalition scours social media, meets people in barber shops and churches, in parks and county jails, and at public events like this Lexington festival.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 13, 2023 8:21:44 GMT -8
If You Don't Want a Bomb Dropped on You and Your Kids, Leave.
Israel has demanded that 1.1 million Palestinians evacuate areas of Gaza north of the Wadi Gaza within 24 hours. [Roughly 1/3 of the Gazan land area and the most densely populated]
How?
Even in the best of circumstances, this would be nigh on impossible but with the destruction of the last few days is a crazy demand. How do you evacuate the hospitals in time [WHO affirms that this is impossible]? The elderly? The Infirm?
Where do they go? There are already over 400,000 internal refugees. [Note: Everyone in Gaza is a refugee after the events of 1948]
With severely reduced power, water, food, or infrastructure how do you deal with the excess sewage?
The UN has asked/demanded that Israel rescind this order. Since when has Israel complied with UN requests/demands/resolutions?
There are over 500 Americans in Gaza, unfortunately, they have Palestinian associated with their citizenship.
Israel was always going to have a violent response to this kind of attack. Any nation would. It is justified, and no leader could avoid a strong respeonse and stay in office. However, a guy with a macho image like Netanyahu is going to overdo it. The fact that he is embattled will push him further. The death of a lot of Palestinians is inevitabley, but it takes a Bibi to make it far worse than it has to be.
Al Jazeera correspondents report that thousands have fled to the south, but there appears to be no mass exodus.
Israeli President Says There Are No Innocent Civilians In Gaza
As Israel engages in a massive air campaign ahead of an anticipated full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Friday that all citizens of Gaza are responsible for the attack Hamas perpetrated in Israel last weekend that left over 1,200 people dead.
“It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,” Herzog said at a press conference on Friday. “It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’etat.”
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 13, 2023 8:23:56 GMT -8
Loose Cannon Goes Off the Rails
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 13, 2023 8:26:33 GMT -8
Some Ways the QOP is Unlikely to Use to Fix the Speaker Mess, But They Are Clutching At Straws.
The first idea is that former President Donald Trump, who toyed with the idea of running for speaker before endorsing Jordan, could throw his hat in the ring and get elected on an interim basis — something Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) has been pushing in particular. The Constitution doesn't require a speaker be a sitting member of the House; on the other hand, House rules prohibit someone with major criminal indictments from holding a House leadership role.
The second idea is for McCarthy to be reinstated, as a small handful of representatives like Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) are advocating.in a new open letter. The immediate problem with this is that McCarthy would have to win over at least four of the eight Republicans who voted to oust him in the first place, and there is no indication he can do that — especially when his original election took multiple ballots, the first time in a century this had happened.
The third idea is that a small handful of more vulnerable House Republicans could cut a deal with Democrats to nominate a consensus speaker in return for a bipartisan governing arrangement. But there is currently no indication that any Republicans are currently desperate enough to sign on to such a plan, which would make any Republican who agrees to it a target for primaries.
The fourth idea is to simply change House rules to give extra powers to the current acting speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), effectively making him speaker without a formal vote. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) has been a key proponent of this idea. The issue is that already some of the Republicans who ousted McCarthy in the first place, including ringleader Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), are against this idea.
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