That sh*t always gets me too…
Not to be confused with surprised… it never surprises me…
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I hope they are charged individually for each death they caused…
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I used to carry around a guitar case that had a big RESIST sticker on the side. Took it to the Cowboy Church and everything. I’m not scared of saying my beliefs.
I gave that guitar away, I need more stickers.
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There’s been a wad of bits in the news asking “what’s happened to Rudy” . Nothing has happened to him. What’s changed is folks can see him for what he always was. A poser and a phony. “he guided New York past 9/11”…horseshit. He was out of office a few months after that tragedy. “he cleaned up the streets of NYC”. Bullshit. He had one of the best Chiefs of Police in NYC history and the cleanup was the Cop’s doing. “America’s Mayor”. Yup…and that’s why he brought his mistress to Gracie mansion while his wife was upstairs. All great mayors do shit like that.
He’s always been a drunk, a lecherous creep and a poseur. We can see that now.
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“Beware the self-righteous man, for he will destroy the world many times over before he sees his folly.” ― Stewart Stafford, The Vorbing
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Better late than never?
I suspect Abraham Lincoln has the best quote for this:
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.
Personally, my money is on both, but that doesn’t lessen the devastation in Gaza.
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More on Alito: This, from Law Dork:
According to Fix the Court’s Gabe Roth, who downloaded the report, it was one of a handful of new reports available this past week in the database and he had "no reason to doubt their veracity.”
Alito’s behavior is similar — both in timing and in substance — to other boycott-related activity and coverage.
Whether Alito was participating in the boycott matters, moreover, for one of the several reasons it matters why there was an upside-down American flag flying at his house on Jan. 17, 2021, as The New York Times reported earlier this week, and what he knew about that.
The answer to both sets of questions says something about whether his participation in related cases is ethical. As Alito agreed to when the justices announced their code of conduct, “A Justice should not engage in other political activity.”
As The New York Times explained it in their report about the inverted flag — which was being used at the time by those who had tried to overturn the election and were decrying the fact that Joe Biden would be taking office on January 20, 2021 — judicial ethics codes “stress the need for judges to remain independent and avoid political statements or opinions on matters that could come before them.”
Participating in a boycott is undeniably a political statement. And there are pending cases for which participation in an anti-trans beer boycott could be seen as his having a finger on the scale of justice on the side of the anti-trans advocates supporting — and in some cases, defending — these laws such that recusal could be required.
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The only “truth” that could be trusted from trump would be when he states his name. Everything else would be suspect
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Last night the formally feral kitty jumped up on my lap for the first time to get herself some petting. 
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From the CNN article:
Benny Gantz, a member Israel’s war cabinet, criticized Khan’s decision immediately after it was announced, saying that Israel was fighting “with one of the strictest moral codes in history, while complying with international law and boasting a robust independent judiciary.”
“Drawing parallels between the leaders of a democratic country determined to defend itself from despicable terror to leaders of a blood-thirsty terror organisation is a deep distortion of justice and blatant moral bankruptcy,” he said, adding that the decision by the prosecutors “is in itself a crime of historic proportion to be remembered for generation.”
There are several mentions of “No one is above the law.” And a few about how Bibi cannot be indicted along with a domestic terrorist like Sinwar. Where have we heard this kind of argument before?
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truth
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Inigo Montoya
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In one of PJ ORourke’s great essays on how we perceive the developing world, he said something like: “If a newspaper reported that a million people in Bangladesh died in a plane crash, Americans would just shake their heads sadly.”
We don’t do numbers or scale well.
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“You know, FDR 16 years — almost 16 years — he was four terms”
History is a tough topic for Trump. FDR was elected to a 4th term, but died soon after his 4th term started. He served barely more than 12 years.
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That’s not stupid, per se. That’s Musk petitioning favor from Dump. That, and screwing with carmakers who just recently chose to switch to Tesla charger protocols for next year’s models. Oops.
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Nobody can say Gouliani doesn’t know how to celebrate.
Imagine getting served an indictment at your birthday party. All I got was cake.*
*German Chocolate
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That period of “some time now” has actually been decades, starting with the Lavon affair of 1954:
Continuing through the assault on the USS Liberty:
Selling arms to revolutionary Iran even as our embassy personnel were held hostage:
Through the Pollard affair, and so on:
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