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The Debate Over Rafah A look at the conflicting views of President Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu. By David Leonhardt May 10, 2024 Updated 10:04 a.m. ET At the heart of the dispute between President Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu over invading Rafah is a larger disagreement about what Israel can reason...

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A contrary view . . . OPINION BRET STEPHENS President Biden Just Made His Biggest Blunder May 9, 2024 In announcing that the United States will pause delivery of 3,500 bombs to Israel, President Biden has the laudable motive of wanting to spare innocent Palestinians from the military consequences of...

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I'm sure Biden's assessment of Netanyahu is correct. He should do more than just threaten to withhold US aid. He should go ahead and do it Yes, but hasn’t Biden already done it? Publicly, by putting a hold on a weapons-system delivery to Israel for the first time since Reagan withheld F-16s from Is...

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Excerpts from today's New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/biden-bombs-israel.html “ I’ve made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet, they’re not going to get our support if in fact they go on these population centers ,” the president said in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burn...

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Neither do I, but once outsiders declared open season on the U.S., I, to somewhat even the score, resolved to invoke the law — of talion. I watched Lucille Ball’s I Love Lucy Show every week for years, along with Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, and Sid Caesar; and on the radio I listened to the ...

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Bizet, Carmen (original version, 1874) - Soloists, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, B'Rock Orchestra/René Jacobs (period instruments) (live, March 2024)

Audio: https://classicalmusicinconcert.blogspo ... acobs.html

Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5B_JvFm4IxE&vl=en-US

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I could mention all the comedies of Billy Wilder but that was essentially a European sensibility. I agree with that and everything else you wrote. Billy Wilder. European sensibility. You bet! Thumbs up to non-PC humorists. Norman Lear too. If you live in America and love comedy, even if you’re Cath...

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In contrast, Australian humor is like dark matter: we know it has to exist somewhere, but good luck finding it. Somehow I suspect you've put the usual effort that Americans do into Australia - none whatsoever. Or you wouldn't say anything quite so ill-conceived. May it please the Court to enter Exh...

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where are the developing situations and characters Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Jackie Gleason & Audrey Meadows, Lucille Ball & Dezi Arnez, to name some hubby/wife TV sitcoms. There really doesn't have to be a one-liner every 45 seconds One liners? Were not both Harold Ll...

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Stewart is just another activist hack who thinks ridicule is funny. Yes, well so is having my ears sawn off. C’mon, admit it, doing THAT bit, you’d knock ‘em dead!!! 😁 We agree about Bob Hope though, that bloke was an immigrant who grew up in my hometown. Hope was really funny and a decent guy, lik...

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She wants sex offenders back out on the street after serving shorter sentences. Inevitably then, there is going be a slew of toxic

’s for the

’s to be

’ing out for! 🫤

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Reminiscent of college campuses in the late sixties early seventies. The more disgraced war-monger old-farts like Greg Abbott and Mike Johnson try to quash student protests, the more there will be for them to deal with, like playing Whack-A-Mole.

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They all did this because they thought they could have "careers". Well, their lives certainly 'careered' out of control. Women have a responsibility to behave with decorum, discretion, personal responsibility and dignity - otherwise certain types of men will pounce. And they don't even have to be w...

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Meantime, just maybe, it's time for the girls to demonstrate some discretion and personal responsibility in keeping away from KNOWN sex predators - whether for career reasons or anything else. Right, Weinstein is a KNOWN sex predator who just got off in one state, the unanimous jury guilty verdict ...

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:44 am
Can it be that the adults in the room have finally found a spine?

Yes, but it’s not their spine they found, it’s their Johnson.

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The Humbling of Marjorie Taylor Greene https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/24/multimedia/24cottle1-jmbg/24cottle1-jmbg-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=1200 April 24, 2024 The New York Times OPINION By Michelle Cottle Ms. Cottle writes about national politics for ...

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they're all hugely intelligent and speaking out. If they were, they wouldn’t. That's a very dichotomous statement. Should they not speak out because they might be pilloried or is there another reason? It’s pretty clear who is being “pilloried” here and it ain’t the Woke-hunting tag team. Three crea...

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Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case Those charged included Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, and the fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf in Arizona after the 2020 election. The New York Times By Danny Hakim Danny Hakim covers st...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:47 pm
they're all hugely intelligent and speaking out.

If they were, they wouldn’t.

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Bibi blaming American students for protesting against what his own actions have brought about. Netanyahu Calls Student Protests Antisemitic and Says They Must Be Quelled “What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific,” the Israeli prime minister said in a televised statement. “Antisemit...

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Ditto! And the U.S. just did this. U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine Ukrainian forces for the first time used a longer-range version of weapons known as ATACMS, striking an airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in southeastern Ukraine. NYT By Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washin...

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The unrivalled comedian, Jon Stewart weighs in on the media’s overblown coverage of Trump’s criminal trial, from sketch-artist interviews to following his motorcade via helicopter... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqkf2U5jcE0

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And then there was the cadaver trade in enslaved people … Beyond the Slave Trade, the Cadaver Trade By Daina Ramey Berry Feb. 3, 2018 NYT OPINION The topic of slavery features prominently in each February’s reflections on African-American history. But when it comes to this darkest time in our countr...

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FORTUNE

https://fortune.com/asia/2024/04/23/aus ... ensorship/

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https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/trump-golf-2-1554229284.png?resize=1024:* He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie. —Mickey Mantle Donald Trump Never Cheats at Golf. His Caddy Does That for Him. https://www.esquire.com/sports/a26454538/donald-trump-rick-reilly-commander-in-c...

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Why Did Modi Call India’s Muslims ‘Infiltrators’? Because He Could. The brazenness of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vilification of India’s largest minority group made clear he sees few checks at home or abroad on his power. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India was criticized by the opposition fo...

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Vaughan Williams: 5. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Sir Andrew Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsQGFlcqUmA

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I'm criticising the credulous simplicity of Americans who think it's really clever and funny to find a news clip then introduce it by asserting the opposite. Even I could do that. And a lotta folks have tried ever since Jon Stewart basically invented parodic "fake news" as a comedy form some 28 yea...

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Jon Stewart 10 Years Ago: The Daily Show, 2014
We Need to Talk About Israel https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_contin ... e=emb_logo

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I am a huge Herrmann fan nonetheless.

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Joseph I've seen him commenting on among other TV stations MSNBC-he was on with Lawrence O'Donnell and they spoke about trump cheating at golf! In the Reilly 📕 🤓 … Stephen Colbert asked Tiger Woods which presidents he had played golf with. Bush, Clinton, and Obama, Tiger answered. Whatabout Trump? ...

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The most revealing book about the Donald, with the possible exception of Mary Trump’s.

Certainly it’s the funniest; and yet after reading it, I loathed Trump no less.

Reilly can really write!

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I'm criticising the credulous simplicity of Americans who think it's really clever and funny to find a news clip then introduce it by asserting the opposite. Even I could do that. And a lotta folks have tried ever since Jon Stewart basically invented parodic "fake news" as a comedy form some 28 yea...

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Bernard Hermann's "The Planets" I do not own. How does his compare with so many others? Ones I have including Karajan [2] (I thought excellent), Bernstein, Stokowski, various ones with Boult, one conducted by Holst, Levine, Mehta, C. Davis, Steinberg, Sargent, Maazel, Ormandy, Barbirolli (live exce...

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Jon Stewart 15 April — Talking World War III Blues, Trump’s dementia, his drooling at his trial, the “Is he Jesus or Mandela?” debate, etc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeLRtpC2WI I don't really understand why this guy is so popular. His technique seems to be find a bit of news coverage, say the ...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:32 pm
As I've said before, I'm not going into a battle of wits with the totally un-armed. It wouldn't be fair.

A wise strategy for the witless. 🥹

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You think so, Lance? "Tax dodgers", "wealth", "hiding". Hardly the badinage of the Algonquin Round Table and typically laced with bitterness and bile, sans facts. Good on you, dear 🔔 , standing tall for and making common cause with your own cohort!! :D I must say I played very hard ball when it cam...

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Jon Stewart 15 April — Talking World War III Blues, Trump’s dementia, his drooling at his trial, the “Is he Jesus or Mandela?” debate, etc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeLRtpC2WI

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:58 am

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Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:01 am

By contrast, Kari is a Lake, but in no way a Lady.
Joseph thanks-you sure have that right! Regards, Len

She’s a monster without being a myth, which is rather unfair (Oscar Wilde). Shouldn’t we feel shortchanged?

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Kari Lake Urges Supporters to Arm Themselves Ahead of Election Joseph did she steal the idea from Rossini's great opera! Regards, Len [fleeing] Thanks I was actually thinking of the Lady in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King that gives the sword Excalibur to Arthur. By contrast, Kari is a Lake, but in n...

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this explains A LOT. ALL CAPS TODAY, PARODIC of the sounding brass of a tediously tinkling 🛎️. Again, no argument, no facts Yes, but composing a ma’amsplaining missive, more elongated and discombobulated than an ayatollah’s fatwa or a Pettersson symphony — That's clearly Your Highness’s forte, not ...

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Dr. Boghossian describes American schooling as rubbish and it's not 6 degrees of separation distant from Australia either. Whatever America lacks in formal education — her universities being the envy of the world and attracting thousands of students and faculty from abroad — she more than compensat...

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Kari Lake Urges Supporters to Arm Themselves Ahead of Election https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/16/multimedia/16pol-swiper-kari-lake-glock-mvbh/16pol-swiper-kari-lake-glock-mvbh-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=1200 “We are going to put on the armor of God,” th...

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Cotton Urges Citizens to Forcibly Confront Pro-Palestinian Protesters https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/UK25kMR5qkdtSRMhdwjvcQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQyNw--/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2024-04/21d4a4f0-fc19-11ee-bbff-2879fccf47fd On Monday on social media, Mr. Cotton, ...

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https://independentaustralia.net/_lib/slir/w750/https://independentaustralia.net/sc/tours_800px.jpg The only thing that never changes is change itself. :lol: Oh, what a tragic!! A biased left wing organization like the ABC prints something to cover its own backside when they were up to their eyebal...

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Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty …

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Thanks. These critters are one of the unfortunate byproducts of British colonialism, causing the extinction of many native species.

If they can’t be culled, they should all be caged.

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Immigrants in Maine Are Filling a Labor Gap. It May Be a Prelude for the U.S. A wave of rapid immigration is taxing local resources around the country and drawing political ire. But it might leave America’s economy better off. The New York Times By Jeanna Smialek April 12, 2024 Maine has a lot of l...

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What these tax dodgers were doing was to exploit a loophole that allowed them to effectively shelter their wealth by moving it out of state after having employed their home state as a stepping stone for accumulating that wealth. It is a ploy similar to moving one's money to an offshore tax haven. Ca...

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I would not, Lance. The modest exit tax allows Cal (1) to recoup some of its investment in businesses and individuals who have enjoyed the unique dynamic economic environment offered by the state & used it to accumulate wealth; and (2) to close a loophole that allows wealthy people to avoid paying t...

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