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Posted on 10/17/2024 5.00 AM

JCM 10/13/2024 5:10:38 PM


Posted by: JCM

Occasional Reader 10/17/2024 5:33:45 AM
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BBC says: “Teenage guns for hire: Swedish gangs targeting Israeli interests”


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e85l701y3o


What could motivate young Sven and Bjorn to do such a thing?!


”… That spiralled in 2023 when Foxtrot gang leader Rawa Majid entered into a deadly feud with Ismail Abdo, a former friend who had become leader of a rival gang known as Rumba”


Oh.




Occasional Reader 10/17/2024 5:36:25 AM
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US bombers hit Houthi weapons sites


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kzy2klyko

vxbush 10/17/2024 5:39:10 AM
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In #1 Occasional Reader said: BBC says: “Teenage guns for hire: Swedish gangs targeting Israeli interests”

How much of violence from our gangs is related to Mexican drug cartels? 

vxbush 10/17/2024 5:49:24 AM
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During Trump's first term, one of his goals was to build the border wall with Mexico. Dems scoffed at that, saying better technology would solve the problem cheaper and faster. "Just put cameras everywhere." 

Now, four years later, we find out that 150 of the 500 cameras on the border are broken. That's bad enough. But do you know who is officially in charge of those cameras? Not border patrol. Nope. The FAA is in charge, and they can't seem to figure out how to meet the needs of the border patrol and fix the cameras. 

The stupid, it burns so bad....

vxbush 10/17/2024 5:55:55 AM
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I didn't watch the Bauer-Harris interview, but I did just see this clip showing how poorly Harris answered a direct accusation by a mother whose daughter died and the mother lays the responsibility upon Biden and Harris. Harris didn't cover herself with glory here. 
vxbush 10/17/2024 5:57:46 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 5:

Harris thinks she's doing a masterful job of blame shifting, but it highlights a mental process of always assuming someone else has to do the job. That's my biggest beef with Kamala. She's vapid, stupid, won't do the work she's been given by her own staff to do in order to read policy or position papers, but in the end she won't do the work. 

vxbush 10/17/2024 5:59:32 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 4:

More snippets of the interview are here

vxbush 10/17/2024 6:09:33 AM
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You know someone probably isn't very smart if they attack a restaurant over Israeli flags--and then learn that the flags were actually Greek. 
vxbush 10/17/2024 6:16:28 AM
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Kamala thinks George Conway is going to help her bring in Republican voters. Yeah, I'm not thinking that will work so well. 

Of course, what really matters is who is counting the votes and how many fake votes have been created....

Occasional Reader 10/17/2024 7:09:27 AM
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BREAKING


Yahya Sinwar likely is dogmeat


https://www.reuters.com/world/live-updates-yahya-sinwar-2024-10-17/

vxbush 10/17/2024 8:24:31 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10:

That page recently posted the following: 

"It seems that the military leader of Hamas has been killed and I believe that from this point of view Israel may have carried out its self-defence against the Hamas terrorists. I hope that the disappearance of the Hamas leader will lead to a ceasefire in Gaza," Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was quoted as saying by Italian news agencies.

Clearly Tajani is just playing along for the press. Surely he knows that Hamas has desired the destruction of Israel since the beginning and getting rid of one man isn't going to change anything. Now, getting rid of all the leadership, which I think Israel has done, that might possibly help. 

Occasional Reader 10/17/2024 8:37:28 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 11:


"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." 


-Curtis LeMay

Occasional Reader 10/17/2024 10:44:43 AM
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What was the last thing to go through Sinwar‘s mind?

120x570mm NATO canister

Occasional Reader 10/17/2024 10:53:23 AM
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Sinwar was really ungrateful regarding his previous Israeli-supplied brain surgery, so they generously decided to give him a do-over.
JCM 10/17/2024 3:26:46 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10:

Is pronouns are now here, there, was and were!

Occasional Reader 10/17/2024 7:42:15 PM
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Occasional Reader 10/17/2024 7:44:05 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16: 

Note the black band across the UNRWA logo.


They are mourning Sinwar.


Good fucking grief.


(Hat tip: Insty)

Occasional Reader 10/17/2024 8:00:37 PM
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FWIW- New York Times obit of Sinwar (it’s not as bad as I thought it would be):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/world/middleeast/yahya-sinwar-dead.html


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