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Happy birthday tomorrow to the US Army and to DJT.
More great photos. Thanks for getting up at dawn and taking them!
Good news and bad from the crash of Air India flight 171 from Ahmedabad, India, to Gatwick Airport near London. The bad news is that the crash killed 241 people on board and something on the order of another 50 on the ground. The good news is that on man survived from on board, a British citizen named Vishwash Kumar Ramesh seated in seat 11A according to his boarding pass, managed to open an emergency exit and walk out of the crashed plane. In fact, I’ve seen a short video clip of him, bloody and looking dazed, walking unaided to an ambulance.
If I were him I’d refrain from buying a lottery ticket or playing poker anytime soon — he’s clearly used up his luck fof the next ten years.
11A sounds like it could be business class. The only thing I've heard is they did an intersection take off on a 11,000 ft runway with only 6,300 ft remaining. That could be doable ordinarily, but apparently not today. It was also a very hot day, which lessens performance. Still, all that stuff should be calculated by the pilots, so they know if they have margin.
I went to find my new year’s eve prediction comment but it and the comment from another poster about it have been disappeared by the human censors or the very evolved you can’t say that in an open thread algorithm. Funny, it didn’t get spammed immediately, it and the other were up for several days after posting…I had to go find the note in stickies I used for it. I’m doing very well, though stuff like ‘Elon ignored by St Patrick’s Day’ was a bit too early…
FWIW - Gear down, flaps up. Max Afterburner's take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVX_F39SKpY
…best part of the say was Senator Justaskingaquestion being escorted out of the presser he was disrupting. They were quite restrained, perhaps too much. justified in a body slam IMO…
“ Thanks for getting up at dawn and taking them!”
I’m up without an alarm. If it were winter, I’d be up for hours before the sunrise. I love being up early. When I wake up and look at the clock I’m hoping it’s at least 3:00 so I can get up.
…and since we were on about water the other day I’m trying one if those gimmicky hydrogen bottles so you don’t have to…
Reports of large explosions in the vicinity of Tehran.
No owl today?
…the deer were enjoying some plantings on and off today and I caught the tiny hummer at the feeder, so I’m stuck continuing supply…
Israel just made some strikes on Iran, very near or maybe in Tehran.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c93ydeqyq71t
JSM
This morning, I was listening to music by Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. When "Barbara Ann" came on, I let it finish and then hunted down the 1980 parody song "Bomb Iran" by Vince Vance and the Valiants. Kind of prescient!
https://youtu.be/s8hEtI9AI0U?si=o9U8mlwyTXMXM1QN
It's already Friday the 13th in the Middle East, so somebody is getting unlucky over there.
"Boom goes the dynamite!"
"This business will get out of control."
Let us pray.
Welp. Guess Israel is going to war with Iran.
I am pretty sure this was OK'd by the Sunni bloc in the ME.
Israel has always been at war with Iran. Iran is a mortal enemy of all Jewish people.
A few days ago it was reported that Israel was sending several Patriot batteries to Ukraine. Seemed odd.
I wouldn't want to play poker with these people.
It’s raining alligators here.
Nice pictures. I like the top one best.
@Leland, according to Mr. Ramesh, about 30 seconds after the plane got airborne there was a “loud noise” and then the plane crashed right afterwards. This is backed up by security camera footage that shows the plane lifting smoothly from the runway, then it seems to stagger for a moment, and proceeds to sink down — still in the same nose-up attitude as when it took off,l — until there’s a red and black fireball as the plane impacts the ground. The CCTV footage is 47 seconds long.
Since Clyde brought up Beach Boy parodies, a fellow-student in college 50+ years ago used to sing two lines of one of their biggest hits in a very competent falsetto:
"Wouldn't it be nice if we had testes,
so we wouldn't have to sing this way?"
Now I can't remember the genuine lyrics. (Don't tell me, I can look them up if I want to know.) Similarly, I have to be careful if I mention Flannery O'Connor's most famous short story in polite company. It's "A Good Man is Hard to Find", not (as a woman I once knew used to say) "A Hard Man is Good to Find".
Big Mike:
So a bomb or a bird-strike, it looks like. Should be easy to tell: are there chemical traces or feathers at the scene.
Like F-16s, Patriot batteries are 40-year-old American technology that is still very effective against the latest Russian hardware. Israel has better stuff of their own.
So it's another war over "weapons of mass destruction."
"Like F-16s, Patriot batteries are 40-year-old American technology that is still very effective against the latest Russian hardware."
Most of us here are American citizens, there is no patriotic duty for Americans to believe Ukrainian propaganda.
"'Oh, it's worse than that,' he said, holding up a memo on his desk. 'Here's the paper from the Office of the Secretary of Defense [then Donald Rumsfeld] outlining the strategy. We're going to take out seven countries in five years.' And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran." - Salon.com
But remember, they always start it, the other guys.
Reddit : Video of supposed Israel attack on Iran
If Jaq provided a link, or even named the "he" who supposedly said the quoted words, we could judge whether they are likely to be true, or even could possibly be true. The fact that they come from Salon, and come via Jaq, is not encouraging.
This just in: Israel attack Iran.
There is of course no duty to assume that things are "Ukrainian propaganda" just because they're incompatible with your own idiotic historical and geopolitical opinions.
I"m glad everyone is giving me current news updates. Because that's why I come to Althouse.
ok - THIS is awesome
Keys to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s conviction ( Buenos Aires Times)
"(2007-2015) will spend the next six years in detention with a lifelong ban on public office after the Supreme Court confirmed her conviction for corruption in the so-called ‘Vialidad’ case probing the awarding of fraudulent highway contract allocations.
What did this trial consist of? And what other legal woes does she face? Here, we break down the case against the polarising 72-year-old – the driving Peronist force on Argentina’s political left for the past two decades and leader of the opposition to President Javier Milei's budget-slashing agenda.
Prosecutors accused Fernández de Kirchner of "fraudulent administration" and "illicit association" when adjudicating public works tenders in southern Santa Cruz Province during her two-term 2007-2015 presidency.
Most of the contracts went to Lázaro Báez, a business associate of Fernández de Kirchner and her late husband, ex-president Néstor Kirchner.
At her trial in 2022, the prosecution asked for a 12-year prison sentence and a perpetual ban on public office, triggering protests in several cities.
The trial began in 2019. Three years later, she was found guilty by a court of first instance of fraudulent administration but not illicit association, which is why she was convicted with a six-year prison sentence and the ban on political activity.
Both Kirchner and the prosecution, which pushed for a heavier sentence, appealed the verdict, but it was confirmed by an appeals court in 2024.
The defence and the attorney-general then appealed again, this time to the Supreme Court, the former requesting acquittal and the latter a stiffer sentence. The top tribunal on Tuesday dismissed both requests, thereby rendering the 2022 conviction and sentence definitive.
Fernández de Kirchner’s defence
The ex-president denies any wrongdoing. She has dubbed the case “lawfare,” saying it is designed to drive her out of politics and intimidate her centre-left Peronist party, the main opposition to the Milei government.
She argues that there is no evidence directly linking her to the contracts since the budgets were approved by Congress and distributed by office of the Cabinet chief, not by the President, and implemented by the Santa Cruz provincial government, where the works were carried out."
More at the link.
Incredible that Israel attacked Iran. They've never done that before. Look for Trump to cut aid to Israel. Or take immediate action against our client state for starting a war without our permission. Oh wait.....
Here's some more news: Michael Jordan's furious response to being named in twisted Diddy roleplay fantasy with Shaq.
I'll provide links later. For those of you who can't use google.
NFL star Jimmie Ward arrested at home at 5:30am on family violence charge
WOW to all photos but the first is quite stunning.
I know it is impossible to dream - but it sure would be dandy if someone could relieve the world of the Islamic Supremacist leaders of Iran.
Reminder to the decadent American left: Daughters of Persia.
Whatever. You say stuff, time passes, it turns out not to be true. The Ukrainian Constitution clause about protecting Ukrainian DNA is "about Chernobyl," for example, but then Ukraine shells nuclear power plants held by Russia and tells us that Russia is shelling itself, shelling its own nuclear power plant. I know Ukrainians think we are stupid, but...
I could come up with examples all day, the war has been going on for three years.
JK Rowling stands with the women of Iran.
And Jaq lies again! Russia is not shelling its own nuclear power plant, it's shelling a Ukrainian power plant it currently occupies but does not own, intentionally inflicting minor damage to blame it on Ukraine, so gullible clowns like Jaq will repeat its lies. If they screw up and break the containment, most of the damage will be in Ukraine, so they don't care. They knocked a couple of holes in the containment shell at Chornobyl a few months ago, too.
There was a rwo month pause while Trump negotiated with Iran. It ended June 12.
One gets the feeling from Trump's remarks on Israel and Iran, that he's lost his juice with Netanyahu.
@Jaq "they always start it, the other guys."
Iran invaded our country. Pretty sure they started it.
Yes, Iran invaded the United States in 1979 and took our territory. And held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days until the election of Ronald Reagan scared the living sh|t out of them. 8 servicemen died attempting to rescue them.
They possess this territory to this day and we're going to take it back and our pound of flesh.
@Weevil, I saw another video, less grainy, from a different angle. It may be the case that the pilot took off without flaps (or retracted them too soon).
Mel Brooks, almost 99 years old, is making a SpaceBalls sequel. Clint Eastwood just turned 95 and is apparently starting a new project. Mel's looking good.
Trump is not a micro-manager. Could be wrong, but in the case of both Iran and Gaza, after trying other things, he told Israel, "Take care of your problems- they don't want to listen to me."
Sometimes war is the correct answer, sometimes it isn't. Getting involved in someone else's war is almost always the wrong answer. WWII may have been an exception. WWI probably wasn't.
Yes, the first sunrise. Your photos serve as a great reminder to close each day with wonder and gratitude.
" I love being up early. When I wake up and look at the clock I’m hoping it’s at least 3:00 so I can get up"
While I doubt it would be your thing, I enjoyed Scotland last summer over the solstice. In the north sunrise was just after 4 amd sunset after 10.
When my biological clock woke me up around 4ish, I could go walk and photograph quiet streets and closes in Edinburgh or check out the tpurist hotspots all alone, except for our fellow early risers.
My only tegret is that coffee shops do not open early like here, you have to solve your own morning perk.
I was wondering a few days ago why Trump redirected critical anti-drone technology we had allocated to Ukraine was rerouted to Israel. Well now we know….
Remember this:
“Ye Mengyuan, a 16-year-old Chinese student who survived the initial crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 on July 6, 2013, at San Francisco International Airport, only to be tragically killed when she was run over by a firetruck during the chaotic rescue efforts.”
I would just like to point out that most of the country of Iran currently isn't being bombed.
On June 11, I wrote...
I don't know what intel Tulsi Gabbard has seen. She might just be having an emotional reaction to her visit to Hiroshima. It may be she wants to scare Putin and/or Zelensky and/or NATO.
Trump is probably not a micro-manager. She may or may not have asked him before she did it. Maybe she's pushing Trump a little. Anyway, she's warning us about nuclear holocaust. So I hope Putin and/or Zelensky and/or NATO are all paying attention. And I hope the people of those countries (and other countries) are also paying attention.
I ask everybody who prays to pray to God to avoid nuclear war. Divine intervention is a thing, and sometimes we need it.
On June 12, Israel attacked Iran and tried to demolish its nuclear capabilities.
My take-away is that Tulsi Gabbard is open and honest.
I ask people again to pray that we avoid any nuclear war.
I also think it's a horrible idea for Iran and its terrorist proxies to have access to nuclear weapons. They are way too willing to kill innocent civilians.
I've been scared of their nuclear capabilities for over a decade now. The Obama administration and the Biden administration did us all zero favors by funding Iran.
Israel will be blamed, as Japan was blamed for Pearl Harbor. My hope and prayer is that they were successful, and that Iran's nuclear program was bombed into nothingness. God bless.
Here's Bibi
Headline: “Federal judge orders Trump to return control of California National Guard to Newsom”
I love this. Under what circumstances will they blame the riots on Trump?
“I was wondering a few days ago why Trump redirected critical anti-drone technology we had allocated to Ukraine was rerouted to Israel. Well now we know….”
Grok doesn’t seem to think this actually happened, Kak.
If the riots stop, Trump wins, because he will continue ICE operations unimpeded.
If the riots continue, Trump wins, because he will continue ICE operations, even if rioters try to impede them. Forcing Newsom to explain why he is letting the riots continue.
Trump couldn't have asked for a better outcome.
Be careful what you wish for, Democrats now have it.
Had Judge Breyer been around in 1965, Lyndon Johnson would have been forced to return control of the Alabama National Guard to segregationist Governor George Wallace and Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Civil Rights leaders would have been killed somewhere between the Pettus Bridge and the city of Montgomery.
@Eva Marie, I understood that the coroner determined that Ye Mengyuan was thrown from the plane and died upon contact with the ground. That meant she was already dead when she was run over.
The thing I find so stunning about Israel’s attacks today (and the hit on Mohsen Fakhrizadeh) is the meticulousness of their research and the competence of their execution. Imagine the clowns at the CIA trying to pull off something like the Fakhrizadeh assassination in a hostile country. Not on their best day.
Clearly, Israel has a shit ton of assets and operatives in Iran. Imagine what a country like, oh, China, could do in an open society….
In Defense of Terry Moran
God bless Israel for talking on the mission of saving Western Civilization (in addition to itself). No one else could or would be willing to do this.
Only time will tell how successful the Israeli attack has been, but I'm hopeful that moderate forces in Iran will retake control of their government. I believe that Iran can be a prosperous and peaceful country and change the entire trajectory of the Middle East, once the theocracy running it is replaced. Time will tell.
Dr Weevil said...
And Jaq lies again! Russia is not shelling its own nuclear power plant, it's shelling a Ukrainian power plant it currently occupies but does not own, intentionally inflicting minor damage to blame it on Ukraine, so gullible clowns like Jaq will repeat its lies. If they screw up and break the containment, most of the damage will be in Ukraine, so they don't care. They knocked a couple of holes in the containment shell at Chornobyl a few months ago, too.
Russia owns it. Russia will own it going forward if it is in provinces it occupies.
You are right, Ukraine isn't shelling the nuclear plant. It is US operatives.
Ukraine should have signed the Mingsk accords. Too bad their dictator chose war at Boris and Joe's request.
One reason for Trump to keep some distance from Isreal is to be in a position to negotiate the peace after the attack and possible regime change.
Well, that was quick. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed District Judge Breyer’s ruling until at least Tuesday, when —as I understand it — the 9th will hear the case en banc. Whether the panel did so because of Lem’s analysis at 10:46, or whether they considered both precedent (including Johnson protecting the Selma marchers in 1965) and the plain language of the law I do not know.
Had Judge Breyer been around in 1965, Lyndon Johnson would have been forced to return control of the Alabama National Guard
Oh, please. Stop thinking these judges are applying the law consistently and without political considerations.
The media need their headlines: “Trump Stopped. Trump Illegal. Trump Overreach. Trump Tramples Constitution.” These go on page 1 while the Appeals and Supreme Court overturns get quick asides.
The Dems have no plans, no power, and almost no party left. What they retain in influence will be used to continue the “we’re saving democracy” fantasy to the remaining TDS zombies. 🧟 🧟♀️ 🧟♂️
President Donald Trump ordered the arrest of protesters simply for wearing masks. “MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests,” he posted on social media on Sunday. “What do these people have to hide, and why???”
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, unidentified agents of the government are arriving at privately owned businesses and residences, wearing masks, carrying long guns, and dressed to go to war, while refusing to provide identification or warrants. But it is easy to buy tactical gear online. And around the country, bigots and criminals have already begun taking advantage of chaotic, masked immigration raids to further their ends. Civilians have impersonated ICE agents while committing robbery (Pennsylvania), kidnappings (Florida, South Carolina), sexual assault (North Carolina), and other forms of public intimidation (Washington state, California).
“What do these people have to hide, and why???” Lawyers representing arrested people are unable to locate where those arrested were taken, which is against the law.
My prayers are with Israel tonight.
They need to destroy their existential threats.
…I’m reading Julie Kelly’s essay on the Hawaiian judge Boasberg, the kook that ordered the airplane of illegals to turn around mid-flight, out of US airspace. The essay is only highlighting what anyone paying attention already knows about the corruption of the judicial system with these absurd rulings. I’m frightened to learn however this Boasberg is a ‘friend’ of Justice Roberts and law school roommate of Kavanaugh. Silly me to assume all these Hawaiian judges were C averages groomed by DC consulting firms to do the left’s bidding. The link is here…
“[Boasberg’s] increasingly fantastical injunctions continue to threaten serious harm to the Government’s national-security and foreign-affairs interests,” the Trump DOJ wrote in a motion this week.
But it appears Boasberg’s actions are doing much more than that. And when the smoke clears in Los Angeles and other cities preparing for more unrest this weekend, Americans should look to the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse in the nation’s capital for who to blame.
I’ve mentioned before I believe there was more to the story of Hillary’s election loss. There was something about the reaction of the minions that night that looked like more than a reaction to xer losing, as if a grander plan was spoiled. If so now we know…but that Supremes margin is way narrower than the numbers would suggest. How joyous would Breyer be to helping implement their grand scheme right now?
One of the problems with prayer is that there are evil spirits in the afterlife who will try to deceive you and lead you away from God. You might ask why God allows these evil spirits to exist. You might as well ask why God allows Hitler or Stalin to exist. God allows us free will -- his great gift to humanity -- and he's not going to strip us of our free will in the afterlife.
Jesus is the one who introduced us to Satan. He was fasting for 40 days, in an attempt to strengthen his prayers and his communications with our Father. He was perhaps surprised when an evil spirit answered his prayers. Jesus called this evil spirit Satan, which means Opposition. Christians sometimes refer to this spirit as anti-Christ. If you want to gauge where somebody is spiritually, ask them about Jesus and what they think about him.
Anyway, I'm sure Muhammad did a lot of praying and seeking for God. I have no doubts about that! But you have to be careful when you pray, and recognize that evil spirits might be responding to your prayer.
I have not read the Koran. Hamas cites the Koran for its terrorism. From the Hamas charter...
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."
I ask Hamas, and now I ask Iran, what if Israel is the Gharkad tree?
The vibe I get from CNN is that they are pulling for Iran.
The reporter calls it an "unprecedented attack." What unprecedented means is that it's never been done or known before. I don't know what to say to that, other than "wow."
I think you mean "surprise" attack, not "unprecedented" attack.
The reporter also tells us that...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the operation — whose scale already stands alone in history — is not over.
I'm not sure what you mean by "stands alone in history."
Also not sure what you mean by "scale."
If I had reporters who were reporting that this is the first time one country has ever attacked another country, and that this is the biggest attack in world history, I believe I would give my reporters a little vacay and ask them to calm down before they report on another war in the Middle East.
Our leftists seem to think that Israel is to blame for all of the conflicts in the Middle East. This is not true.
What is true is that hatred of Israel is to blame for many of the conflicts in the Middle East.
You could, as leftists suggest, attempt to murder all the Jews in the Middle East in an attempt to bring peace to the region.
Another path would be to recognize Israel and its right to exist. That might also bring peace and stability to the region.
CNN has always had a thing for the mullahs. Used to be Delta would have CNN on their lounge tv and at 4 in the morning on east coast live coverage of the fatwas, filmed cinematically, like a royal wedding…
Rehajm, ref liberal tears as a sign the fix was supposed to be in:
All that's needed to explain the gnashing of teeth is the lefty true belief that their positions aren't political - they're just the right thing to do. The purple hairs honestly couldn't believe that so many Americans were blind to the obvious righteousness of Hillary's cause, especially since the country had just elected a black president - twice!
Plus, no way a ballot gathering plan would be entrusted to so many low level activists.
JSM
gadfly said...
President Donald Trump ordered the arrest of protesters simply for wearing masks. “MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests,”
Yeah, that’s a federal law put in place the last time a President ordered the National Guard to stop Democrat protesters. Reminding us of Democrats long history of violent protests isn’t the flex you think it is.
@Big Mike
“The San Mateo County Coroner’s Office, in its July 19, 2013, report, concluded that Ye Mengyuan was alive after the crash and died from multiple blunt-force injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle. The autopsy found no evidence of fatal injuries from the crash itself, such as internal bleeding or severe trauma that would have killed her immediately. Instead, her cause of death was specifically attributed to being run over by a firetruck, with injuries including massive damage to her skull and torso. The coroner noted that Ye was found in fire-retardant foam, in tracks left by a rescue rig, supporting the conclusion that she was struck after the crash.“(Grok)
Police officers file civil lawsuit seeking court order to hang Jan. 6 plaque at U.S. Capitol
"Two police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack filed a federal civil lawsuit, asking a judge to order the hanging of a plaque to honor police heroes who protected the Capitol, lawmakers and staff from rioters.
The lawsuit cites a 2022 law signed by President Biden that required the honorary plaque be hung by March 2023. The plaque has been completed and in storage since at least last year, but GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson has not committed to installing it at the Capitol."
"The finished plaque, as seen in the poster replica, does not list individual officers, but instead features the names of law enforcement agencies. It bears an image of the west side of the Capitol with the words:
“On behalf of a grateful Congress, this plaque honors the extraordinary individuals who bravely protected and defended this symbol of democracy on January 6, 2021. Their heroism will never be forgotten.”
Dunn and Hodges, the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, are represented by Brendan Ballou, a former lawyer at the Department of Justice who helped prosecute Capitol rioters."
I checked with Perplexity, just in case Grok was hallucinating:
“There is some dispute: A later report by San Francisco authorities claimed Ye was already dead when the vehicles ran over her, but the coroner, who performed the autopsy, disagreed and maintained that she was alive when struck.”
"Big Mike said...
@Weevil, I saw another video, less grainy, from a different angle. It may be the case that the pilot took off without flaps (or retracted them too soon)."
Pretty much impossible to take off without according to this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7EZkungFEE&t=819s He's a 777 pilot and has a youtube account where he analyzes airplane crashes. The 787 (and 777) have audible and visual warnings if the aircraft is not properly configured for takeoff. No bird strike issue as you would see evidence of fire/sparks and for sure smoke from the engines. He thinks the pilot not flying accidently retracted the flaps instead of the landing gear, why the gear stayed down long after they should have been retracted. Also the composite wings of the 787 bend up from the lift, theirs stayed flat. So loss of lift from the accidental flap retraction and continued drag from the gear being down ultimately resulted a power on stall.
Flaps up wheels down. He doesn't have the lift or the speed to gain altitude.
"Rusty said...
Flaps up wheels down. He doesn't have the lift or the speed to gain altitude."
Or the altitude and time to recover.
Now how the Heck is the "King" supposed to do KING THINGS if pesky Congress people keep interfering? Grassley may see early retirement huh? Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released his committee's changes to the judicial section late Thursday night. Notably absent was a "jarring, one-sentence provision that House Republicans buried in their 1,116-page bill,"
The provision in question "would restrict the ability of any court, including the Supreme Court, to enforce compliance with its orders by holding people in contempt." The King will find a way.
Saint Croix said...
Jesus is the one who introduced us to Satan.
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Did you forget about the book of Job? It is the oldest book of the bible.
AP radio news reported this morning that Senator Padillo was thrown down and handcuffed for attempting to ask a question.
That’s it. No context. Just trying to ask a question.
We don’t don’t hate the media enough.
Achilles (11:30pm) thinks it's "US operatives" that are "shelling the nuclear plant". Hahaha! Utterly and obviously false. Of course, anyone who brings up the Minsk accords (not "Mingsk", bozo!) is a liar or a fool: there were several, and Russia violated every one from the moment it was signed, as they have violated every single other agreement signed with Ukraine. A wag once noted that the only treaty Stalin never broke was the Hitler-Stalin pact, and that is still broadly true for nominally post-Soviet Russia.
AP radio news reported this morning that Senator Padillo was thrown down and handcuffed for attempting to ask a question.
He’s a State Senator, which most of us wouldn’t recognize our own in a crowd. He’s in street clothes with no credentials barging into a press conference to ask questions, when he is not the press. He was arrested to protect himself and everyone around him.
Alejandro 'Alex' Padilla is not a "State Senator", Leland. Wikipedia, which is still pretty reliable on this kind of thing, says he's been a member of the US Senate since 2021. Still a total non-entity, of course.
IIUC, Padilla took the seat that Kamala gave up.
It has been a while since I mentioned how terrible a place the US Senate has been for breeding good presidential candidates and presidents.
Did you forget about the book of Job? It is the oldest book of the bible.
Oops! I ought to know that.
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