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- Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: World News Thread
- Replies: 796
- Views: 217961
Re: World News Thread
Iran has been increasing security on its borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan as a result. This could get interesting.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:32 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1247
- Views: 150666
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Rep. Lauren Boebert, the handsy Republican of Colorado, has announced that she instead of running for reelection in her state's 3rd Congressional district, which she won by only 546 votes in 2022, she's running to represent the 4th Congressional district. ("Boebert doesn’t have to live in the ...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2066
- Views: 318555
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Was it organic, raised outdoors, and sung to as it died or something? Or is he including some fancy single-malt he bought with the turkey? Kinda like the guy who complained about the price of his airport lunch...that included a glass of single-malt whiskey.
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:30 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Charged With 37 counts of Espionage, Obstruction and related crimes
- Replies: 1112
- Views: 135450
Re: Trump Charged With 37 counts of Espionage, Obstruction and related crimes
I guess the difference between owning a mistake and trying to lie your way out of a problem of your own making is too subtle for some to appreciate. I wonder how many of the people buying into Trump's schtick on this one also make a habit of trying to shift/evade responsibility for their own decisio...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 3:36 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 434
- Views: 71301
Re: Hamas' "50th Anniversary" Attack on Israel
I am not a fan of Netanyahu and what he's turned Israel into in his desperate quest to cling to power and avoid jail. That said, the more I look at Hamas, the less I understand how anyone with a firing synapse could possibly sympathize with this particular organization. With Palestinian people, yes,...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 6:50 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Myers-Briggs, redux
- Replies: 170
- Views: 150176
Re: Myers-Briggs, redux
So when you first mentioned it I was intimidated but then, watching the video, I've decided it looks like tons of fun and a great exercise in spatial reasoning. Which I happen to be good at (even by the standards of my peers). As for the quiz itself, eh. I can force myself into pretty much any type ...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 434
- Views: 71301
Re: Hamas' "50th Anniversary" Attack on Israel
The Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip includes sea access. Israel maintains the current naval blockade that has been in place since Hamas took power over Gaza and the blockade is supported by the Palestinian Authority ( source , the bit about the PA was news to me). The ICRC considers ...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:03 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2066
- Views: 318555
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
To be fair, it would be suicidal for the new Speaker of the House to make any move that looked like he was interfering with Comer et al's passion project.
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:49 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1052
- Views: 134585
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
And Turkey is finally in the process of approving Sweden's NATO membership (which came about as a result of Russian's invasion). Seeing as invading Ukraine utterly failed to stop NATO expansion, maybe Russia can just stop already? :P NATO controls the Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian, and North Sea. NATO a...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 5:47 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1247
- Views: 150666
Re: The much too early 2024 election thread
Yes, it did have the flavor of "I was at a shawarma shop eating hummus, and overhead a group of liberal naturalized Arab Americans..." Like they used to publish about mythical inner city, or university town, Starbucks where apparent liberals proclaimed their love of Trump. And then, when ...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:28 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 434
- Views: 71301
Re: Hamas' "50th Anniversary" Attack on Israel
You're being careful about claims and I'm still stuck at the babies... Again, what is Hamas's end game here? This looks like an organizational version of suicide-by-cop. And all these civilians are being taken along for the ride.
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:31 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 434
- Views: 71301
Re: World News Thread
Gaza's under siege now. Honestly, it makes me queasy. I have a feeling that it's all going to end with Gaza in rubble. What was Hamas even thinking? I've seen a lot of chatter that it was about disrupting the budding relationship between Israel and Saudi Arabia but something about that isn't adding ...
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 5:13 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 434
- Views: 71301
Re: World News Thread
This won't end well for the people of Gaza.
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 3:05 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
- Replies: 358
- Views: 92534
Re: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
His impeachment was for insurrection. That's not what he's being charged with, so I'm not sure how that claim even works.
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 3:01 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
- Replies: 2047
- Views: 611446
Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
Trump did successfully get one case dismissed. But it was the lawsuit that he himself filed against Michael Cohen. Wow. I was writing but abandoned a post in the other thread in which I was arguing that guilty people have a moral duty to plead guilty. And then Trump goes and does the right thing he...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:41 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Nobels 2012, etc.
- Replies: 197
- Views: 164268
Re: Nobels 2012, etc.
It's not the demotion that people are pissed about. It's the fact that now that Kariko played a leading role in saving the world Penn is claiming her as one of theirs...and she saved the world with the exact same research they demoted her over. In other words, Penn appears to be taking credit for re...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 4:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
- Replies: 2047
- Views: 611446
Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
When it comes to Trump, the dumbest, most self-serving explanation for anything he does is probably the right one. So I wouldn't be surprised at all if that is, in fact, the rationale behind his orders to elements of the House GOP. Now why they're taking said orders when they were actually elected t...
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:04 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 645
- Views: 99957
Re: Chaos in Congress
Boebert went door to door in her district and successfully primaried the incumbent. She has a pretty face, a full figure, and wouldn't shut up about the gun on her hip. That, plus the overall redness of her district, took her to victory in the general. The district lines were redrawn during her last...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
- Replies: 1327
- Views: 416426
Re: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
I wonder what was in her vape pen. Not that it matters for the pregnant lady behind her but I am old enough to get a giggle out of a social conservative indulging in recreational pot. My favorite bit of that whole sordid mess at the Buell theater was the part where she adjusts her skin-tight dress. ...
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 12:11 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2066
- Views: 318555
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
It's like he's just looking for excuses at this point.N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:59 pm "Through the travail of the ages,
Midst the pomp and toil of war,
I have fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon this star."
Quoted because of this.
Also, wasn't Biden just in Florida looking at hurricane damage?