Good Tuesday morning from my office perched between two stadiums in Seattle. It is 0515, and I am in the Engineering shop playing with a new toy I bought on Amazon yesterday.
That little grey box you see here? It’s a complete Mini-PC that I bought off of Amazon yesterday. It has a 1 TB solid state hard drive, 16 megs of RAM, running Windows 11 Pro. It has three HDMI slots for three monitors, four USB slots, and is super-duper fast and snappy.
The cost, you ask? Are you sitting down?
$239, same day delivery.
Headlines That Caught My Eye This Morning
Item 1: World Central Kitchen charity halts Gaza operations after apparent Israeli strike kills 7 workers
In case you weren’t aware, Israel considers anyone helping Palestinians at all to be legitimate targets. Don’t believe me? Check this out: World Central Kitchen had not only gotten written permission from Israel to deliver meals inside of Gaza, they were also in constant communication with the IDF to coordinate their movements and prevent exactly what happened to them yesterday.
There is NO way you can convince me that Israel didn’t deliberately target this group. Their fucking emblem was emblazoned ON TOP OF THE VEHICLE, so that there would be NO mistaking who the fuck they were. They had just cleared their movements with the IDF — and were fired upon twenty minutes later.
Item 2: Trump barred from attacks on judge’s daughter in New York “hush money” case gag order
Raise your hand if you believe that Donald J. Trump is being treated unfairly. Raise your hand if you think that Donald Trump is being treated differently than any other criminal defendant.
Okay, if you raised your hand on the first one, you would be wrong. If you didn’t raise your hand on the second one, you would be wrong again.
Trump is hardly being unfairly treated. He is also being treated completely different than any other criminal defendant ever to be hauled before a court on criminal charges.
Most criminal defendants going through a Federal court get arrested, mug shot, fingerprinted, and held in a holding cell until they can make their first appearance before a magistrate. Almost no one gets released immediately after their first appearance — a bond hearing is usually set in ten days minimum for Court services to investigate the background of the defendant to determine the eligibility for release on bond and the proposed conditions of that release. Almost always, a bond will get you home confinement, with orders not to leave the bounds of the District without prior permission from an assigned probation officer.
With the exception of one person in this country, most criminal defendants could never make the argument that they are “running for president” and not get laughed out of a courtroom. HINT: running for president does NOT take precedence over being prosecuted for committing a series of crimes. (can you imagine it if every defendant tried to make that claim in order to stave off a criminal prosecution…)
Finally, no other criminal defendant would ever be allowed — even once — to talk shit about the judge, the prosecutors, and their families the way Donald Trump has been doing. You can count on being tossed into jail for the duration of the prosecution if you had done that even once.
Item 3: Iran’s Khamenei Vows to Punish Israel After Deadly Syria Strike
Well, good luck with that.
Item 4: Fact Check: Did Joe Biden Create Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter?
Okay, this has got to be one of the more stupid ‘outrages’ that MAGA has ever done — and that’s saying a lot.
While I have never heard of the Trans Visibility Day before now, apparently it has been a thing since May 31, 1999, and Easter doesn’t change that. Wait until next year: Easter falls on 4/20, the marijuana day.
All you people losing your tiny little minds over transexual people need to get your OWN life. Worry about your own stinking shit, and not be concerned about the stinking shit of others.
If you stop caring about what OTHER people you don’t even know are doing, then you will probably start feeling a lot better about your own life.
I’ve got enough to deal with in MY own life that I really don’t have time to be concerned about where you stick your dick and with whom.
You should try that.
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Memes From the Meme Box
I receive dozens of memes in my Meme Box on a daily basis from people all over the landscape. Some are political, some topical, but most are just everyday events with a little fun inserted. My absolute favorite are just photos that will speak those thousand words clearly.
I KNEW you would blame Israel for what was a mistake.
Faced with pressure from radicals and Hamas sympathizers within his party to increasingly distance himself from being allied with the cause of Israel, President Joe Biden was quick to leverage the accidental deaths to that end.
“I am outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen, including one American, in Gaza yesterday. Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen,” the president’s X account read along with his statement that demanded the planned investigation by Israel “be swift, it must bring accountability, and its findings must be made public.”
Shot: Biden attacks Israel for accidentally killing 7 civilians in a drone strike…Chaser: Biden’s final act in Afghanistan was an airstrike killing 10 civilians, including 7 children,” he posted with over a side-by-side of the president’s post and a report from August 2022 about the strike in the lead up to 13 U.S. service members getting killed in a bombing along with nearly 200 Afghan civilians.
“And he has not faced a single journalist who has asked him a single question about this, in an interview or a press conference,” added The Spectator contributing editor Stephen L. Miller.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/04/03/biden-reminded-of-his-final-act-in-afghanistan-after-blasting-israel-for-accidental-drone-strike-1449855/
There is no way that Netanyahu would have ordered such a strike, not with the world and Biden’s pressure on him. And Biden is a senile hypocrite.
I don’t blame Israel. I blame the current government of Israel. I am not the only one. Listen to the people of Israel. There is a growing call for new elections to remove Netanyahu and his Right wing coalition government. The huge demonstrations that were taking place all last summer and fall, prior to the October 7th Hamas attack, are back.
Yes, you did suggest that the strike on the aid workers was deliberate, when in fact it was the last thing in the world Israel needed, as it gave ammunition to all the pro-Hamas mobs and Jill Biden, who nobody voted for but is apparently running the country.
Netanyahu is finished politically, IMHO. But, and this is a big BUT, just about every Israeli is behind the war, and understands the need to finish Hamas. Or else Israel is itself finished. And 9 million people will be slaughtered and the world will do nothing, just like in WW II and Rwanda. And Israelis trust Netanyahu to wage the war. He himself is a decorated combat veteran of one of the elite divisions of the army.
Biden himself is so craven, or so senile, that he is ready to break his promise to keep delivering ammunition to Israel. Because a couple of thousand Muslims refused to vote for him in the Michigan primary.,,”We’re 100% with Israel” on October 8. April 7, they better stop or we’ll stop supplying them. Did you know that America has a weapons depot in Israel, to ensure quick delivery to American forces in the Mideast and that it is empty because it has all been shipped to Ukraine?
Israel will do what it needs to do, election year in the US or no election year. Biden is finished anyway, unless the Democrats have another plan to use drop boxes, fake mail-ins, and hacking the voting machines as they did to steal the last election.
I can’t wait for him to be kicked out. The worst president we ever had.
It was deliberate enough that Israel felt the need to “fire” two senior officers for “serious violations of command“. You don’t get fired for “accidents”.
There have been over 200 such ‘accidents’ involving the deaths of aid and medical workers in the past six month. To excuse those accidents, Netanyahu had to come out and claim that UNRWA is a ‘terrorist outfit’ in order to provide cover for the wanton killing of aid workers and civilians. To cover his ass on killing journalists, he conveniently labels those stringers as being enemies of the state of Israel.
Dehumanize the ‘enemy’, and it makes it okay to kill them.
à la Edith Bolling Galt Wilson? Unlike President Woodrow Wilson’s stroke that enabled his First Lady to basically run interference for her ailing husband after suffering a debilitating stroke, the modern-day White House would notice such a thing and it wouldn’t take but a minute or two before it is front page news world wide. The White House leaks like a sieve. It doesn’t matter who the POTUS is — the staff can’t keep their mouths shut on something like this.
Your news silo has let you down — again. This just happened in Tel Aviv this past Sunday:
VIDEO
Tens of thousands of Israelis rally in Tel Aviv demanding Gaza hostage deal
Remember when I told you back around October 8th of last year that people “knew” the Hamas attack was eminent? That it was impossible for Israeli intelligence not to know that an attack was being planned against Israel, and that you hadn’t really been paying any attention to the events leading up to that attack? Instead, I said, you were focused on Hunter Biden and all of his follies? (I believe I said you were focused mainly on Hunter Biden’s cock…)
I said this because the protest you see in the video above is just a continuation of the protests that were going on throughout the Spring, Summer, and into the Fall of 2023 because the people of Israel were calling for the dissolution of Netanyahu’s government and demanding new elections.
So yeah, Bibi Netanyahu is basically toast — and has been since before the Hamas attacks.
Remember, the reason Netanyahu was Prime Minister in the first place was because he ran on the idea of ‘security’. He has failed spectacularly in that arena.
Biden is stuck between a rock and a hard spot. He won the 2020 election because of a coalition of both Left AND Right voters who could not bring themselves to vote for Trump. More than a few Conservatives crossed the aisle to vote for Biden in 2020 because they could not, in good conscience, vote for Trump. In order to keep that 2020 coalition intact, Biden has to carefully walk a fine line between supporting Israel to keep his Conservative voters on board, while at the same time placating a shit-load of younger voters on his Left flank who are appalled at the Israeli treatment of Palestinian civilians.
Biden’s approval ratings are low, NOT because Trumpublicans can’t stand him. No, his low approval ratings are because the base of younger voters — a fickle bunch at best — are upset with him because he hasn’t delivered on their laundry list of Left-wing craziness. He’s no Bernie Sanders, and that’s what is twisting their nipples…
I don’t think that anyone has changed their tune on the idea that Israel has a right to defend itself. But that doesn’t give Israel carte blanche to indiscriminately kill anything that moves — especially civilians and aid workers. There has even been stories where the IDF literally gunned down a few of the hostages who escaped custody from Hamas only to be shot and killed by the trigger-happy Israelis.
There are proven stories of misinformation on the parts of BOTH sides in this conflict. We expect that most everything that comes out of the political arm of Hamas to be taken with a grain of salt, but we don’t expect Israel to misrepresent (nicer than accusing them of lying) the circumstances of more than a few of their ‘accidental’ killings of journalists and aid workers. And they have been caught lying through their teeth on a few of the more recent cases of dead journalists.
Were you aware that while Israel is intent on bombing Gaza into dust, that some of the more right wing extremists in the Israeli government? It’s been pretty much the wet dream of several of these right wing freaks…
I think you may be disappointed yet again…