JoeWeber

Agreed.

When Israel controlled the Sinai David Ben Gurion sent the Jewish School of Archeology out to find the title deeds of Israel. They came back empty handed. No wandering, no nothing. If you are happy letting some other government give camping rights in your backyard to people who hate you more power to you. But let's not be surprised when others take exception.

Thanks for the schooling. I ask again: Seriously, what would you do? Would you be a partisan or a willing peon?

Negative. The point is that bombing a house and accepting that innocents might be killed is an appalling failing of humanity. That's Gaza. Now sending hundreds of bombs into another country to do that same is an horrific act of impersonal cruelty. The imposition of the state of Israel in the middle east has never been justifiable from a historical, not religious, perspective; no wonder the displaced residents are somewhat offended. Seriously, what would you do? Would you be a partisan or a willing peon?

Jerry, I don't find any humor in this. If Israel is behind this, and it's only an if out of courtesy, they knowingly set off hundreds of small bombs designed to maim and kill understanding fully that innocents would be injured or killed in the operation. That is completely indefensible and by supporting Israel we, by extension, own a part of it. The United States needs to publicly condemn this act of indiscriminate terror and privately tell Israel they are now on a very short leash.

Welcome aboard, I've been jamming pins in dolls for decades now and I highly recommend the practice. I have two perfect outcomes logged and several satisfactory results. Even if the ill that befalls the subject can be attributed to coincidence you still feel great doing it. Two thumbs up, for sure.

He said he had an MBA. He didn't say whose it was

And by god that's the standard. Hopes and prayers for other folks, as always.

So when Israel does it it's not terrorism? Imagine if Hezbollah pulled the same trick.

Don't be so sensitive. The point was that at an earlier time of great wealth disparity, when the US population was fewer, the system held.

Momentum is the issue and money raised is the metric. I'm kicking down $250 a month mostly aligned with Harris's better looks in the press. I think that's a number that is meaningful in my demographic as determined by her staff. I do think our ActBlue donations have a positive effect this election. But, as ever, to each their own. Slava Harris

You're right, for sure. Rockefeller and Carnegie were as rich or richer than our current slate of oligarchs yet the system held through some tough times. Obviously I can't know what the number is but it seems to me that at a certain point enough people will have enough personal power and wealth that the will of the people will become an inconvenience. Even now at least 40% of Americans can be talked out of democracy by a two-bit shyster so we must be getting close.

I'll take the Swedish commissions definition of electoral autocracy over democracy

I just think democracies are doomed to collapse at a certain population threshold. Probably somewhere around 350 million it appears.

You might also ask what could go right. I can not see our flawed system of choosing leaders working better with more people voting, and there will be more people.

Anarchy is not yet the answer.

Yes, and it's a real no brainer. We do not need, and should never want, our political leaders past or present being assassinated. We absolutely should want them held accountable for crimes committed but never slain extrajudicially. Things are bad enough as they are.

Yes. He has already defiled too many of our institutions. Lets hope he doesn't also permanently defile our secret service.

Let us hope not. As awful and odious as he is he is also a former American President under Secret Service protection. We must hope that he can be protected from harm.

This isn't like your etch-a-sketch; what you write here lives on. You don't need to remanufacture truths and self justify anything anymore: just vote Trump and sleep soundly. Biden caused world inflation and Covid, the Afghanistan war from start to awful finish is Biden's fault, Harris is a giggling idiot, whatever gays are doing to you won't stop without republican intervention, and you need a closet full of the kid killers gun of choice for when the transgender medical police come for your children. And to top it off, the world economy will blow momentarily but not until we get a rare historical two-fer: massive CO2 induced food production which, oddly, has failed to lower prices as some would predict and runaway world hunger that goes uncured because in turns out that corporate interests really don't give a fuck. And again it is all caused by that scheming, but still a dumb ass, Biden and his bobble headed marionette. No worries, you're good.

Please direct my attention to where Jerome Powell stated that my positions were false. Not yours, mine.

That's the problem. They don't always dribble spittle, pick out their nose hairs in distraction, or tell you about the time they were abducted, but in every case they absolutely identify with their captor and empathize with their abusers goals. Oh, and they vote.

They own that portion of inflation that can reasonably be attributed to the stimulus, maybe 30% depending on whose lies you believe. But then they also own any societal benefits that can be attributed to the stimulus. No matter, it is apparently the case that our increasing national debt is as salubrious, at least until those nasty economic feed back loops kick in, as increasing levels of CO2: more food, more jobs, higher wages and so on.

The individuals involved are also similar such that they are also members of the same species, which is interesting but hardly relevant. Like you, I also safe any gun handed to me no matter the qualifications of the giver. I also take great care where I point a gun regardless of whether I personally safed it or not. Nor do I consider any gun safe just because the safety is on. The point is that just because Baldwin plays a gunslinger on TV doesn't mean he has a good understanding or practice of safe fire arms behavior anymore than he would understand warp drives when playing an alien. It could be that just like a trusting student accepting a final gear check from a JM before jumping his accepting a "safed" gun from a qualified, SAG card carrying, gun handler was what he and his co-workers considered safe. Maybe his checking of the handlers work would be considered insulting in that line of work. As far as pulling the trigger goes, have you ever sat in a goose pit and the guy in the next pit over had a discharge as he was standing to shoot? Maybe Baldwin was lying about that but maybe he is also a victim of his own ignorance and has bouts of normal, human, mis-rembering. To my mind, unless the safety protocols on the set included a responsibility by him to recheck the "experts" work he should get a pass and the handler should get a cell.

That's ridiculous.