vxbush 5/23/2025 5:43:44 AM

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Occasional Reader 5/23/2025 9:17:43 AM

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vxbush 5/23/2025 9:43:51 AM

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In #2 Occasional Reader said: https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1925884412555632666?s=42

Being progressive means never having to face consequences.

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:26:59 AM

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Would someone from the UN lie about the scale of the need for aid in Gaza? Oh, you betch your bottom dollar--and your top one--they do it in a heartbeat. A UN bod said 14,000 babies would die in the next 48 hours if aid wasn't delivered. What's the truth? 

The BBC eventually reached out to the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which clarified that the "remarks were based on a report that warned that 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition were expected to occur between April 2025 and March 2026 among children aged between six months and five years." The report was created by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. Nowhere in the analysis does it suggest that any of these children will die at any point in time. 

While it's still a sad situation, it's also quite a different story from the extremely urgent and entirely false one Fletcher peddled on the air. The BBC later corrected the story, but it was pretty much too little too late. 

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:27:50 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

And, of course, Israel is always to blame, never Hamas' actions that were the reason anything is happening there now at all. 

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:30:14 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

And even when Israel DOES provide Aid, Hamas steals it and sells it back to Gazans, rather than giving it to them for free as intended. 

Israel facilitated the entry of 25,000 aid trucks during the cease-fire ending March 18. It was confident that Gaza had supplies for five to seven months, but after Hamas pilfered aid, shortages have already become imminent, only three months on.

What was the world to do—pressure Hamas to fork over what it has stolen or pressure Israel to let in more for Hamas to steal? The answer has always been the latter, even though it prolongs the war. Everyone knows Hamas would gladly let Gazans starve to score a win over Israel. President Trump doesn’t want that any more than President Biden did.

Mr. Biden promised on Oct. 18, 2023, that aid would stop if Hamas stole it, but he never kept his word. Mr. Trump backed the aid blockage in March but lately made clear that time is up.

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:35:03 AM

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Southern California Nabs Over 260 Alleged Child Predators in Sweeping, Multi-County Crackdown

The data geek in me wonders what the density of child predators is in large urban areas versus rural and coastal states versus inland states. 

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:35:44 AM

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The City of St. Louis Failed Its Residents When They Needed It Most - Why the Tornado Sirens Didn't Sound

And yes, DEI does make an appearance, apparently. 

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:40:06 AM

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Oooooooooo: 

Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:49:52 AM

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Oops.....Kim Jong Un Humiliated as New North Korea Destroyer Fails to Launch, Capsizes in Front of Him

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:52:57 AM

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US Treasury Confirms the Mint Will Discontinue Production of Pennies by Early Next Year

So, this assumes that there are enough pennies around to make change. What are businesses supposed to do for people who still want to use cash but they can't make accurate change? 

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:57:14 AM

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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire Labor Board Members in 6-3 Decision

What a crazy thought--the head of the executive branch gets to make executive decisions. 

vxbush 5/23/2025 11:58:35 AM

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