This happened to me, landing (well, almost landing) at LAX; the front wheels touched down, and then we pulled up sharply and circled the airport. No crew said anything, and my fellow passengers seemed unconcerned, but I was terrified.
We don't know how many people have been killed in Gaza. The figures you hear in the news all come from government organizations in Gaza, that is, Hamas. The same people that accused Israel of killing 500 people blowing up a hospital whose parking lot was hit by a Palestinian-fired rocket but wasn't blown up and where not nearly that many people died.
She had been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for years, but kept losing mayoral elections and had announced her intent to leave politics. Then she became mayor when George Moscone was murdered by Dan White, served for ten years, did a fine job both administering The City and healing its wounds, and eventually turned that into a Senate seat.
About 15 years ago, I was driving my son and his friends home from high school. One of them asked if he could play his new favorite album on the car stereo. I shuddered internally, but, sure, I could be the cool dad, so he plugged in his iPod and out came ...
BTW, I presume the reason a plea deal for KSM is being sought is that he can't be convicted at trial; too much of the evidence is inadmissible because it was obtained via torture. (Remember when willingness to torture was a measure of patriotism?)
It's crazy, which is why even gun control advocates are running away from it. Unlike, say, Vivek's promise to declare birthright citizenship kaput and deport US citizens, which is likewise crazy and unconstitutional and has gotten almost no pushback from the Right. It's good not to be a cult.
On “Sunday Morning! “Napoleon” by Ridley Scott”
Napoleon was a major character in Woody Allen's 1975 film Love and Death.
On “Money’s on the Nightstand, Jimbo Fisher”
It's ironic that Kiffin started his own coaching career by being screwed out of the reminder of his contract after getting fired by Al Davis.
On “Settler Colonialism is Just History”
Clearly Hamas's intent in slaughtering a thousand people was to foster a modern secular multicultural state.
On “The Alaska Airlines Attack”
This happened to me, landing (well, almost landing) at LAX; the front wheels touched down, and then we pulled up sharply and circled the airport. No crew said anything, and my fellow passengers seemed unconcerned, but I was terrified.
On “Echoes of History”
We don't know how many people have been killed in Gaza. The figures you hear in the news all come from government organizations in Gaza, that is, Hamas. The same people that accused Israel of killing 500 people blowing up a hospital whose parking lot was hit by a Palestinian-fired rocket but wasn't blown up and where not nearly that many people died.
On “Powell’s Gulty Plea is Bad News for Trump”
Yes, and all but $6,000 of what she "fund-raised".
On “Crossing the Jordan”
The votes pulling away from him is the Jordan Peel.
On “Joe Biden Doesn’t Need Wolf Blitzer”
He got thr Israelis to turn the water back on in Gaza.
On “Kevin McCarthy Ousted As Speaker of the House”
He managed to alienate anyone who might have saved him.
On “POETS Day! On James Joyce’s Ulysses with a Few Poems Thrown In”
Ecce Puer
Of the dark past
A child is born;
With joy and grief
My heart is torn.
Calm in his cradle
The living lies.
May love and mercy
Unclose his eyes!
Young life is breathed
On the glass;
The world that was not
Comes to pass.
A child is sleeping:
An old man gone.
O, father forsaken,
Forgive your son!
On “Trump Lawyers Fail to Demand a Jury Trial: Malpractice, Strategery, or Both?”
But this isn't a poor defendant; it's the man Justice Thomas's wife thnks is the real president.
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trial and error
Very nice.
On “From NBC News: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a trailblazer in U.S. politics and the longest-serving woman in the Senate, has died at 90.”
1918 stands out (7 deaths). That's probably influenza.
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Gephardt should have run with Dukakis. Between them, they have average eyebrows.
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A new VP can be now be confirmed only during a trifecta.
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She had been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for years, but kept losing mayoral elections and had announced her intent to leave politics. Then she became mayor when George Moscone was murdered by Dan White, served for ten years, did a fine job both administering The City and healing its wounds, and eventually turned that into a Senate seat.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/18/2023”
About 15 years ago, I was driving my son and his friends home from high school. One of them asked if he could play his new favorite album on the car stereo. I shuddered internally, but, sure, I could be the cool dad, so he plugged in his iPod and out came ...
Abbey Road.
On “Who is This “They” of Whom You Speak, Russell Brand?”
I've been kind of crushed by the revelations about Isaac Asimov, who was a childhood hero, but I don't doubt them at all.
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Where did this meme come from that it's hard to find Ukraine on a map? It's almost the size of Texas.
On “Thursday Throughput: Decongestant Edition”
And phenylephrine was used as a replacement for pseudoephedrine because ... they rhyme?
On “Can She Do That? New Mexico Governor Suspends Gun Carry Laws”
Is a Testa with full AI a Turing car?
On “9/11 at 22: Are We Forgetting?”
It's very true for me.
BTW, I presume the reason a plea deal for KSM is being sought is that he can't be convicted at trial; too much of the evidence is inadmissible because it was obtained via torture. (Remember when willingness to torture was a measure of patriotism?)
On “Open Mic for the week of 8/28/2023”
It's crazy, which is why even gun control advocates are running away from it. Unlike, say, Vivek's promise to declare birthright citizenship kaput and deport US citizens, which is likewise crazy and unconstitutional and has gotten almost no pushback from the Right. It's good not to be a cult.
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Also from David Hogg.
It's not that surprising; it's going to be invalidated by the first court that it's appealed to, so why be tarred with that brush?
On “From Politico: An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve”
Pretend not to notice and keep looking at the floor numbers.