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- Fri May 03, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 240
- Views: 36536
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Very interesting comments by Ben Wittes of Lawfare today on their podcast about this case. He was one of those people who felt that is case was the weakest and least important of the four cases in which Trump was charged, but after sitting through the first week of the case, he has changed his mind...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:51 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2013
- Views: 300190
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
President Biden today announced the expansion of two national monuments in California by more than 100,000 acres:
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 375
- Views: 57848
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
I don't know enough about this subject to discuss at length, but I would imagine genocide is not determined by sheer numbers alone. I would think the percentage of the population would be more descriptive. In WWII, by number, more Jewish people were killed than Roma peoples, but by percentage, beca...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 375
- Views: 57848
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
I had no idea that Samuel L. Jackson, probably the most financially successful actor ever, kidnapped Martin Luther King Sr. in 1969. (That's the father of the famous civil rights activist, who had been killed in a year before that.) I think this piece is very good as it urges the public to redirect ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:46 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 127275
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
So the Republicans who control Louisiana's state legislature, faced with the likelihood that a court would force the creation of a second Black congressional district (in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act), created that district on their own, but they deliberately made it gerrymandered in ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 127275
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
While I had a general sense that this was true, I'd never seen this particular comparison of Donald Trump speaking in 2015 and speaking in 2020:
Maybe the selections were cherry-picked, but hat certainly appears to show a mental decline.
Maybe the selections were cherry-picked, but hat certainly appears to show a mental decline.
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:11 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 127275
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Another reminder that Donald Trump's awfulness is just taken for granted and not treated as news: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1785740908190736479 He's right. If 51% of Democratic Congressional staff said that they doubted Joe Biden had the mental and physical capacity to serve as preside...
- Thu May 02, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 127275
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
I do think there are people trying to turn us all into nihilists.
- Thu May 02, 2024 3:47 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 621
- Views: 89455
Re: Chaos in Congress
This could go in any number of threads, but since he's a sitting Senator, I give you J.D. Vance stepping on a rake:
- Thu May 02, 2024 3:44 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 127275
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
It is our business to help them find them again.Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 2:42 am Do you think it will matter? People seem to have lost their collective minds.
- Thu May 02, 2024 3:34 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 375
- Views: 57848
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
But the decision as to whether to charge Sally would still be independent of the decision as to whether to charge Jack. One would hope so, but I think one would often be wrong. Edited to add: international bodies don't have the best track record here: "Since the UNHRC's creation in 2006, it ha...
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 375
- Views: 57848
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Some levity from South America:
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I agree with this: "It’s weird to organize protests and then complain that they are getting covered."
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I agree with this: "It’s weird to organize protests and then complain that they are getting covered."
- Thu May 02, 2024 1:53 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
- Replies: 1318
- Views: 404542
Re: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
Arizona Supreme Court rules that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable Three weeks later, Arizona's House and Senate have both voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban. It was a close vote in both chambers (16-14 in the Senate today), with most Republicans voting to leave the 19th century...
- Thu May 02, 2024 1:30 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2013
- Views: 300190
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
If you were once arrested, but the arrest was then expunged, are you required to answer yes when completing a legal document that asks if you were ever arrested? I think the answer should be no, because to me an expungement means the arrest never existed, and I think I'd hold that position consisten...
- Thu May 02, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 375
- Views: 57848
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
While I certainly see your point, on the whole I think the analogy does not hold. [... various interesting arguments undercutting my Dresden/Poland analogy ...] Let me try a different analogy. If Jack stabs five of his neighbors to death, including the husband and kids of Sally who lives across the...
- Thu May 02, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 375
- Views: 57848
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
I did not know that the Holocaust Museum in D.C., in its Arabic language translations, refers to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis as the "Warsaw Intifada."
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:55 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 127275
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Donald Trump today said that on "Day One of the Trump presidency" he will be "restoring the travel ban" and "suspending refugee admissions".
(Video at link. It's from the Biden campaign. I hope they blast that clip all over Dearborn, Michigan.)
(Video at link. It's from the Biden campaign. I hope they blast that clip all over Dearborn, Michigan.)
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 375
- Views: 57848
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:48 pm The Daily Mail today says that Israel fears that the International Criminal Court is going to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel's actions in Gaza.
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:27 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 375
- Views: 57848
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Donald Trump said last night that "We have to let Israel complete their war on terror," adding, "You have to get the job done. It's a horrible job to do, but they have to respond. When they do, when there's an attack, a sneak attack, like on October 7th, that's so violent, and such ha...
- Wed May 01, 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 127275