Twinings.

Every little while ( more frequently these days) i hear the voice of Anita Hill in my head.

Should vulnerable members of our society be exploited?

I watched this when it first aired on tv. It's super weird to remember watching it as a teen and now watching it again as a parent.

How is the car going to know if I'm drunk or not? Anyway, I'm not concerned, because if I can be confident of anything it is that someone will quickly figure out how to disable, trick or overcome any government mandated safety equipment installed.

Thanks, Obama!

Now this don't make a damn lick of sense. If we need guns to protect ourselves from gubmint tyranny, and y'all plan to put that feller back in the gubment, then what the hell does he need a gun for?

How many? Do you have a number?

Since you mention it I wonder how many Israeli hostages the IDF killed with their indiscriminate bombing.

One of the hostages released in December said "We were in tunnels, terrified that it would not be Hamas, but Israel, that would kill us, and then they would say Hamas killed you,"-this was Ina report from Ynet.

Another released hostage: "The reality is that I was in a hideout that was bombed, and we became wounded refugees. This doesn't even include the helicopter that fired at us on our way to Gaza"

So it seems pretty sure IDF killed at least a few of their own while bombing the shit out of Gaza.

I wonder how many hostages they killed.

I don't 100% know if this is what mockingmoniker is getting at, but I want to give a word of possible explanation from my own perspective: Christians make a distinction between "sin" and "sinner" - or are at least supposed to. It's my understanding from being sent to Christian school that people are decieved or led astray or get tempted or whatever, but it's the actions that are "sinful" or "evil" or "demonic," not the persons. This is the meaning of "hate the sin but love the sinner" - which is not actually in the bible btw. There are some verses that address this, for example Romans 5:8 or Ezekiel 33:11 in which God says he isn't happy about the death of wicked people but would rather they turn from their ways and live. Look up that one- it literally says "turn back from your evil ways, for why do you die, Oh house of Israel?" Still relevant. But I'm going off topic.

Of course, Christians are people too, and are generally pretty poor at following their own code of conduct. Also there are plenty of wolves in sheep's clothing that use theological language for their own worldly goals, and it can be difficult to know which is which. Generally people in worldly positions of power that use theological language are the latter.

Great! The bankers are doing well. However, people with jobs are still showing up at community kitchens. The community kitchens that got their funding cut.

"... we were able to back the prosecutors into a corner ...Forcing the prosecutors to drop the hate crime is a huge victory for Cassidy and for religious freedom"

It's funny how taking a plea bargain equates to "forcing the prosecutors" and then claiming it is a victory for religious freedom.

I think he's probably right, or he could be right.

It's no wonder that ecology is often used as a metaphor for economy. They are both very complex systems with many subsystems that interact in multiple ways. An event or input can have short term results, but also long term consequences that manifest after years and last for years.

If we accept that as true, then we must also accept that some of the economic difficulties we are facing today can't be laid entirely at Biden's feet, but were in fact caused by the short term thinking and mismanagement of the previous president.

Clear-thinking observers will go further: one of the members here likes to repeat "life under Trump was good" but it stands to reason that much of the ecconomic success during Trump -or perhaps more properly despite him- were actually due to Obama.

Obama was a disappointing president in many ways, but his administration did a somewhat ok job of digging america out of a financial crisis. That financial crisis he inherited -due to republican deregulation.

In conclusion, the real issue here is capitalism, and the ongoing problem caused by commodifying things that should never have become market commodities. It doesn't matter who tries to operate this shitty ill-designed system, whether it is republicans or democrat collaborators. The results are the same.

You are wrong. Olives are great.

False

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-un-halve-gaza-death-toll-1900325

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-says-gaza-death-toll-still-over-35000-not-all-bodies-identified-2024-05-13/

So far, Newsom has not gutted some of his splashiest policy advancements, including free kindergarten for all 4-year-olds

Is kindergarten not already state sponsored in California? How is this a "splashy" policy? Was the age lowered? Is that what makes it "splashy"?

WOAH WOAH WOAH did Biden cut off bombs to Israel because they wouldn't dig up dirt on Barron? Then yes, I don't see any other course of action possible.

Edit: I am told it may be because members of the democratic constituency are demanding an end to the indiscriminate bombing of unarmed noncombatant civilian baby-children.

If there was no favor or quid pro quo demanded in return for these bombs, but instead the move is actually a half-assed attempt to reduce civilian casualties then it's not the same thing at all.

But New Hampshire is full of damn yankees!

EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY

Best advice in the whole thread.

Ok, I will admit to some hyperbole.

But what about this: I have read here and there that Netanyahu has for years supported hamas. There were accusations of leaked secret military plans and suitcases of cash being delivered to hamas. Of efforts to curb the activities of the palestine authority but no such effort to disrupt hamas. Of course I don't know if any of these accusations are true or not. This is the kind of stuff one reads in Haaretz, which admittedly, as all media, has a bias.

Still, could these allegations be true? And, if so, how striking that when Netanyahu was in both political and legal trouble, the pogrom of Oct 7 preserved his position. The suspicious and conspiratorial minded among us might try to make something there, however I don't want to make any suggestions like that.