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- Tue May 07, 2024 4:21 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 386
- Views: 60904
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Driving to band practice this evening, I heard on NPR that the deal to which Hamas agreed is not really the same deal that Israel had previously agreed to.
- Tue May 07, 2024 3:57 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
- Replies: 1320
- Views: 406390
Re: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
A Democratic candidate for Georgia's state supreme court, the former Congressman John Barrow, " filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block the state’s judicial watchdog agency from seeking misconduct charges against him for centering his campaign for a seat on the Georgia Supreme Court on a pledge...
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 386
- Views: 60904
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Per reporting in Haaretz , international diplomatic observers, echoing my take, actually said "the ball is in Netanyahu's court" because the deal to which Hamas has agreed is "at its core, the same as the Egyptian proposal which Israel has already approved," but Israeli sources a...
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 386
- Views: 60904
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1119
- Views: 132053
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Two polls over the weekend found President Biden leading Donald Trump among likely voters. ABC News had Biden over Trump 49%-45%, and NPR/Marist had Biden over Trump 52%-47%. Biden's four-point lead with ABC's sample shrinks to two points if the group is expanded from likely to registered voters, an...
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:24 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 386
- Views: 60904
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Yep, Hamas continues to be awful. - - - - - - - - - - Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, just weeks after the U.S. played a huge role in defending Israel against an Iranian attack, said today in an address to his nation that "if we don't protect ourselves, no one will" a...
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1119
- Views: 132053
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Lara Trump, the chair of the Republican National Committee, explained on Fox News today that they're suing Nevada to prevent the counting of votes after Election Day because "you cannot have ballots counted after elections are over." And of course, Republicans have previously passed laws i...
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 386
- Views: 60904
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Israel's Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and the entire cabinet unanimously made the awful decision today to shut down Al Jazeera offices in Israel, and the government has already seized the company's broadcasting equipment.
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1119
- Views: 132053
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
The ghostwriter just made up the meeting with the North Korean dictator? That's more like a poltergeist writer. Eta: "erroneously described" huh? So many ways for the journalists to avoid saying "lied about." In a CBS interview this morning, Gov. Noem was explicitly asked if she...
- Sun May 05, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1119
- Views: 132053
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
In that fundraiser, Trump also bemoaned the federal bribery charges recently brought against Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas. Trump suggested that the charges were brought because Cuellar takes a hard line on border issues. Obviously no sane person thinks that such political concerns w...
- Sun May 05, 2024 6:48 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1119
- Views: 132053
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
In a newly-leaked recording obtained by the New York Times , Donald Trump complains at a closed-door high-end fundraiser that Democrats "start off essentially at 40 percent" of the vote -- shades of Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign there -- because they "have civil service ... the unions a...
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:10 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
- Replies: 4055
- Views: 567826
Re: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
And you will be shocked, shocked to learn that L. Brent Bozell IV tried to blame Jan. 6th on Antifa.
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:05 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: US Supreme Court Discussions
- Replies: 599
- Views: 174614
Re: US Supreme Court Discussions
Apparently Leonard Leo's friends have taken to referring to the current SCOTUS as the "Leo Court."
- Sun May 05, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1119
- Views: 132053
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
I guess Marco Rubio was right back in 2016? https://twitter.com/NCGOP/status/1786739971929288901 Another aspect of that particular lightsaber is that the color was mostly used by the villains in Star Wars . But that would in keeping with Donald Trump's past comparisons of himself to Bane, the Empero...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 386
- Views: 60904
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
There were more protests in Israel tonight. One group marching around the military headquarters in Tel Aviv was chanting "Replace him! Save them!" "Him" of course means Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There were reports over the past 24 hours that Hamas is now willing to relea...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
- Replies: 4055
- Views: 567826
Re: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
The Sixth , a new documentary about the events of Jan. 6th, was released yesterday, but Politico reports that the Hollywood studio that paid for it now seems to want to bury it, for unclear reasons. It wasn't mentioned on the studio's website until after Politico called to ask, the studio hasn't be...
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1119
- Views: 132053
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Lots of politicians' "photo ops" are of course staged. But I do appreciate this analysis which points out that the pizzas that Donald Trump "delivered" to a New York firehouse this week had to be getting cold:
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1119
- Views: 132053
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Somehow I missed an episode that was reported about The Room Where It Happened , the 2020 book by Donald Trump's departed national security advisor, John Bolton. (I wonder if Bolton had even seen Hamilton , which obviously inspired his book's title, and if so, what he thinks about it.) Bolton writes...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1119
- Views: 132053
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
The ghostwriter just made up the meeting with the North Korean dictator? That's more like a poltergeist writer. Eta: "erroneously described" huh? So many ways for the journalists to avoid saying "lied about." Noem's people have implausibly claimed that this is a fabrication by a...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 625
- Views: 91604
Re: Chaos in Congress
I'm not sure how I feel about statutes of limitation. It seems to me that a criminal who cleverly hides his wrongdoing can exploit them to evade the law. And yet, if you're charged with a crime you didn't commit, and it's been a very long time, the government is surely in a better position than the ...