It’s bad enough that some people allow themselves to get morbidly obese but allowing a dog to get that fat is essentially animal abuse. These people saved this poor little creature’s life.
That brought a smile to my face. A nice way to begin the day! Thanks, neo.
The water treadmill was interesting. I wonder if they do that for humans?
“She just needs love. That’s all she really wants.” Those two sentences probably sum up what ails most Americans who are struggling.
In the first weeks of February, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides was urging the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, both publicly and privately, to slow down its plan to reform the judiciary. On Feb. 19, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli responded to Nides in a radio interview. “Mind your own business,” Chikli said. “You’re not the sovereign here. … We’d be happy to debate with you international or security affairs, but respect our democracy.”
Nine days later, Nides fired back. “Some Israeli official—I don’t know who he is, I don’t think I’ve met him—suggested that I should stay out of Israel’s business,” Nides said during an interview at a conference hosted by a think tank in Tel Aviv. “I really think that most Israelis do not want America to stay out of their business.”
Chikli may be a minister in Israel’s government, Nides implied, but so what? When the U.S. ambassador needs the opinion of the Israeli people, he turns to his friends among the Israeli elite, who are openly gleeful to see the United States support them against their domestic political foes. Nides’ intervention in domestic Israeli politics has become so open and self-assured that it is impossible to dismiss his behavior as the freelancing of an undisciplined envoy. His repeated public comments reflect the will of the president. In doing so, they also reveal, at best, a faulty reading of the American interest by Joe Biden.
Rufus T. – yes, there are water treadmills for humans too! I used one in physical therapy for my degenerative disc disease. It allows you to walk/run and do all many of exercises while relieving pressure on your joints/discs. http://www.hydroworx.com is a manufacturer/supplier.
Funny, I was doing this PT during the worst of the covid lockdowns and mask mandates. So I was using the same water as the patient before me (it was slightly chlorinated). I had to keep my mask on during the entire time, as did the therapists. But when the therapists gathered in their meeting room, which had a glass wall, you could see that each and everyone of them would take off their mask.
I wonder if, many years from now when people look back and see pictures of people masked-up and “practicing” social distancing, if those future people will wonder, “WTF was up with that?”
Nides was no 2 or three at state under hillary and before was a fannie mae exec so a criminal twice fold
“Breaking News: A pro-Ukrainian group may have carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggested.”
Is this trustworthy? Just as much as all the other “officials” in news reports who told you Putin blew up Nord Stream.
Mike
What Rufus T. said. A warm and fuzzy start to the day. 🙂
Time will tell, Bunge.
Maybe as trustworthy as the Quincy Institute.
On the War in Ukraine:
I’ve been hearing a lot messages from US reporters, like:
“The Ukrainian government MUST win this war against Russia!”, and “The [US] MUST help Ukraine win this war!”, and “Ukraine’s people MUST not be taken over by a tyrant country!”
I see.
Where were these pro-war…Democrat reporters, and pro-war…liberal reporters, when the US was fighting in [the 2003, WAR IN IRAQ?]
Is there some secret rule that I missed, like: if a Republican President, like President Bush Jr., gets the US into a war, then the press’ view is always:
“Oh no! war is terrible!…military action is terrible!…DON’T do WARS at all!” “Don’t support the military!”
But, when a Democrat President, like President Biden, puts us in a war, then the US press starts shouting:
“Free the oppressed! Our military MUST help these poor people…with weapons + tanks + bomber planes! WE MUST save our friends! Support Ukraine in this war!”
To me, This sounds a lot like hypocrisy.
Too bad, President Bush Jr….after you went to war, in the [2003 war in Iraq], you should’ve joined the Democratic Party.
If you had been a Democratic President, the US press, and their Democrat party friends, would’ve backed you completely, and let you do what ever you wanted to do.
It looks like, in The US- wars can only be fought, if you are a Democratic President.
How unfortunate.
When Brandon puts the US into a war you might notice it.
Until then Ukraine is at war with The Russian Federation, but The Russian Federation is only engaged in “a Special Military Operation” in Ukraine (or in Russian provinces). Now some Russian media figures claim that the West and the US is at war with Russia, but you will have to check with Bunge or Miguel to confirm that.
om-My CNN-advocating IT guy a couple weeks ago assured me there was no way to fix our border debacle here in Southern California. As a person of modest means with an open vein to the tax system here in our country who is daily negatively affected by the criminal negligence that is our border I countered him with, I would love to see what the $32.8 billion (see link) that our government admits to, would do to fix the situation. That ended that conversation.
One of those things is not like the other. Brandon has no intention it seems to do anything positive on our borders regardless of what happens in Ukraine. That’s a feature of the junta.
CISA: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
A follow-up to the post on “Aging” from several days ago, here’s Virginai Postrel’s (reprinted) contemplations about the issue, stressing the concept of “adaptive reuse”:
‘From the Archives: Live Longer and Prosper;
‘Is “adaptive reuse” the secret to responding creatively to extended old age?’— https://vpostrel.substack.com/p/from-the-archives-live-longer-and
H/T Instapundit.
(Though perhaps some may prefer to see it as “re-tooling”…)
“Pro-Ukrainian”
Could be anyone. Anyone at all.
Or nobody, like ghosts.
Depths of the sea
Murky, shadowy
Breaking News: A pro-Ukrainian group may have carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggested.”
Sure was a pro-Ukrainian group- the Biden Administration.
Mitch McConnel says “It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official at the Capitol thinks”
Well, McConnell is not and never was on your side or mine.
can we stipulate there is no intelligence (in either sense) exhibited there, nor sound judgement,
Could be anyone, except Roosia.
Time will tell.
A country without a functioning navy of course has frogmen. Da!
“Sure was a pro-Ukrainian group- the Biden Administration.”
Well, OK, but it is essential to keep in mind that “Biden” is no pro-Ukrainian. He’s pro-“Biden”…and for the moment, it is in “Biden”‘s interest to APPEAR to be “pro-Ukrainian”.
For the moment…
IOW it seems at the current time as though “he”‘s supporting Ukraine; but such appearances could change on a dime…and I suspect it will when “he” decides the time is ripe.
IOW, Zelenskyy had better watch his back.
While I’ve generally admired Doran’s superb analyses, in particular of the ME, here he JUST DOES NOT seem to get the larger picture, viz. that “Biden” is NO fried of Israel’s—the opposite, actually—just as “he” is, in fact, NO friend of the USA (which twin “curiosities” are connected at the hip). That he does not appear to understand this obvious “feature” of “Biden” ME policy, is, for me at least, gobsmacking. And incredibly disappointing.
Examples:
1. Doran’s statement, “[Nides’s] repeated public comments reflect the will of the president” is indisputably true, since what “Biden” is currently fomenting is just another “color revolution” against a PURPORTED ally (though, once again, Israel is perceived as ANYTHING BUT an ally by “Biden”); but Doran follows this up with, “In doing so, [these public comments] also reveal, at best, a faulty reading of the American interest by Joe Biden.”
Huh? What’s that? “a faulty reading of the American interest”????
What planet has Doran been on for the past 14-15 years?
2. For similar, and obvious, reasons, the piece’s final two absurd sentences cement this egregious misreading and misunderstanding of “Biden” ‘s “relationship” vis-a-vis the Jewish State (as well as an inexplicably naive reading of “Biden” ‘s relationship with Iran…as well as “his” relationship and plans for the USA…):
“….Instead of tacitly encouraging the Israeli opposition to bring down Netanyahu, Biden should cooperate with him against Iran. That is the most effective way for the United States to defend not just Israel and America, but democratic values as well.”
As I said above, “gobsmacking…and incredibly disappointing”.
P.S. If events weren’t worrying enough, sending Milley to Israel to discuss supposed military “plans” WRT Iran should send a shiver down anyone’s back; that is, anyone who cares about Israel.
(OTOH, anyone paying attention already knows that “Biden” CANNOT be trusted. SHOULD NOT be trusted. MUST NOT be trusted. On anything….)
One might well assume, though, that following this line of thought, Milley will DANGLE in front of Bibi’s nose US assistance WRT Iran ONLY IF Bibi climbs down from his plans to reduce the inordinate powers currently held by Israel’s High Court for Justice (i.e., Supreme Court), which is the ostensible cause of the turmoil currently wracking the country, or a large part of it.
(The remainder of the “Biden” betrayal will come “with all deliberate speed” at some future date…)
File under: The final nail in the coffin? Or not quite “the final nail”…
@ Barry > “What planet has Doran been on for the past 14-15 years?”
I’ve seen that kind if “advice to President X” on a lot of pundit’s posts, with the same reaction as you.
However, I’ve finally decided that the writers do actually know that President X is not going to take their counsel, and probably will never even know they extended it, for the obvious reasons.
The writer is addressing Independents or uncommitted random readers or wavering allies who are looking for information or guidance about the topic at hand, and giving them a “benchmark” to compare to what President X actually does — which will NOT be what the pundit recommended.
And trying to be diplomatic about the solution to the asinine policies they are gently critiquing, because they are trying to preserve some kind of collegial amity with the politicians and opposition pundits.
That’s the “gobsmacking” point, since it has become blindingly obvious that the Democrats / Progressives / Leftists are in a no-holds-barred war against the values of the conservative writers, and sometimes against them personally.
In the Great Spending Race between Ukraine and climate change, Ukraine leads by a few billion. But it’s a long race. Don’t count climate change out just yet.
Still, I didn’t detect any irony on the part of Doran…just a depressingly hopeful kind of earnestness, as though he believed that “Biden” might just take his advice if only “he” would truly “think things through”.
But AF, you might well be right: it may be a purely rhetorical device (a subjunctive tone?) on Duran’s part; or perhaps a case of not wanting to burn bridges WRT any potential influence on the reader (or policy maker) that the author still believes he might have…
(Even if, between you and me, such hopes are merely wistful fantasizing…since “Biden”‘s mind is made up—it was made up in 2009 and exploded in late December of 2016 with UNSCR 2334.)
OTOH, Lee Smith just lays it out as he sees it, which seems to me to often be, “as it is”.
I had thought that Doran was of similar constitution….
“But it’s a long race.”
Indeed.
And just think how much “Biden” will be saving on his “investment” if inflation goes through the roof!
“if”??
Make that, “when”.
OTOH, if Ukraine is merely a distraction to distract everyone from noticing that the Mullahs have, somehow, gotten the Bomb, then it will be WORTH EVERY PENNY.
(Nonetheless, the Ukraine issue, especially if it “spreads”, may just well be a trick to create so much global chaos that the self-appointed elites (so-called) will “just be forced” to have to step in and “save humanity”…etc…using the much-admired CPC as their model(!))
Related:
On the off chance that Michael Doran happens to be looking for evidence that a) his assumptions about “Biden” might be faulty and b) that “Biden” might not be in the mood to listen to any of his, um, suggestions (except maybe to laugh at them)….
“Evasive, late, and confused State Department report finally released;
“As is usual for the State Dept., the Palestinian Authority is whitewashed in the report and Israel is condemned. Op-ed.”— https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/368370
The only thing I would to in the piece is the word “confused” in the headline.
Not confused at all.
Simply “Biden” POLICY.
(The word “confused” should be used to refer to those who are under the impression that it is “Biden” who is confused.)
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It’s bad enough that some people allow themselves to get morbidly obese but allowing a dog to get that fat is essentially animal abuse. These people saved this poor little creature’s life.
That brought a smile to my face. A nice way to begin the day! Thanks, neo.
The water treadmill was interesting. I wonder if they do that for humans?
“She just needs love. That’s all she really wants.” Those two sentences probably sum up what ails most Americans who are struggling.
Mike Doran, Tablet Mag, “How U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides Became Israel’s Arsonist-in-Chief”: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/tom-nides-israels-arsonist-in-chief
Rufus T. – yes, there are water treadmills for humans too! I used one in physical therapy for my degenerative disc disease. It allows you to walk/run and do all many of exercises while relieving pressure on your joints/discs. http://www.hydroworx.com is a manufacturer/supplier.
Funny, I was doing this PT during the worst of the covid lockdowns and mask mandates. So I was using the same water as the patient before me (it was slightly chlorinated). I had to keep my mask on during the entire time, as did the therapists. But when the therapists gathered in their meeting room, which had a glass wall, you could see that each and everyone of them would take off their mask.
I wonder if, many years from now when people look back and see pictures of people masked-up and “practicing” social distancing, if those future people will wonder, “WTF was up with that?”
Nides was no 2 or three at state under hillary and before was a fannie mae exec so a criminal twice fold
“Breaking News: A pro-Ukrainian group may have carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggested.”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1633128532833599488
Is this trustworthy? Just as much as all the other “officials” in news reports who told you Putin blew up Nord Stream.
Mike
What Rufus T. said. A warm and fuzzy start to the day. 🙂
Time will tell, Bunge.
Maybe as trustworthy as the Quincy Institute.
On the War in Ukraine:
I’ve been hearing a lot messages from US reporters, like:
“The Ukrainian government MUST win this war against Russia!”, and “The [US] MUST help Ukraine win this war!”, and “Ukraine’s people MUST not be taken over by a tyrant country!”
I see.
Where were these pro-war…Democrat reporters, and pro-war…liberal reporters, when the US was fighting in [the 2003, WAR IN IRAQ?]
Is there some secret rule that I missed, like: if a Republican President, like President Bush Jr., gets the US into a war, then the press’ view is always:
“Oh no! war is terrible!…military action is terrible!…DON’T do WARS at all!” “Don’t support the military!”
But, when a Democrat President, like President Biden, puts us in a war, then the US press starts shouting:
“Free the oppressed! Our military MUST help these poor people…with weapons + tanks + bomber planes! WE MUST save our friends! Support Ukraine in this war!”
To me, This sounds a lot like hypocrisy.
Too bad, President Bush Jr….after you went to war, in the [2003 war in Iraq], you should’ve joined the Democratic Party.
If you had been a Democratic President, the US press, and their Democrat party friends, would’ve backed you completely, and let you do what ever you wanted to do.
It looks like, in The US- wars can only be fought, if you are a Democratic President.
How unfortunate.
When Brandon puts the US into a war you might notice it.
Until then Ukraine is at war with The Russian Federation, but The Russian Federation is only engaged in “a Special Military Operation” in Ukraine (or in Russian provinces). Now some Russian media figures claim that the West and the US is at war with Russia, but you will have to check with Bunge or Miguel to confirm that.
om-My CNN-advocating IT guy a couple weeks ago assured me there was no way to fix our border debacle here in Southern California. As a person of modest means with an open vein to the tax system here in our country who is daily negatively affected by the criminal negligence that is our border I countered him with, I would love to see what the $32.8 billion (see link) that our government admits to, would do to fix the situation. That ended that conversation.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-ukraine/
SharonW:
One of those things is not like the other. Brandon has no intention it seems to do anything positive on our borders regardless of what happens in Ukraine. That’s a feature of the junta.
Mitch McConnel says “It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official at the Capitol thinks”
They lie as they did with j 6
https://dossier.substack.com/p/biden-officials-claim-rogue-ukrainian
The house I live in is one of the dustiest I’ve ever.
Really irritates me as I couldn’t watch that video without wiping dusty tears away.
And from the “Transparency” Files:
“DHS agency appears to be ‘burying’ evidence of involvement with ‘domestic censorship activities’: expert;
“CISA has come under fire for activities to combat ‘disinformation’ “—
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-agency-appears-burying-evidence-involvement-domestic-censorship-activities-expert
H/T Hans Mahncke Twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1633112524055887873?cxt=HHwWgoC-qYTM_aktAAAA
CISA: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
A follow-up to the post on “Aging” from several days ago, here’s Virginai Postrel’s (reprinted) contemplations about the issue, stressing the concept of “adaptive reuse”:
‘From the Archives: Live Longer and Prosper;
‘Is “adaptive reuse” the secret to responding creatively to extended old age?’—
https://vpostrel.substack.com/p/from-the-archives-live-longer-and
H/T Instapundit.
(Though perhaps some may prefer to see it as “re-tooling”…)
NYT/Shit Show Joe admin brainstorm, shoot from the hip:
Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines
“Pro-Ukrainian”
Could be anyone. Anyone at all.
Or nobody, like ghosts.
Depths of the sea
Murky, shadowy
Sure was a pro-Ukrainian group- the Biden Administration.
Mitch McConnel says “It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official at the Capitol thinks”
Well, McConnell is not and never was on your side or mine.
can we stipulate there is no intelligence (in either sense) exhibited there, nor sound judgement,
Could be anyone, except Roosia.
Time will tell.
A country without a functioning navy of course has frogmen. Da!
“Sure was a pro-Ukrainian group- the Biden Administration.”
Well, OK, but it is essential to keep in mind that “Biden” is no pro-Ukrainian. He’s pro-“Biden”…and for the moment, it is in “Biden”‘s interest to APPEAR to be “pro-Ukrainian”.
For the moment…
IOW it seems at the current time as though “he”‘s supporting Ukraine; but such appearances could change on a dime…and I suspect it will when “he” decides the time is ripe.
IOW, Zelenskyy had better watch his back.
sdferr
Yes, that piece by Michael Doran is informative and largely correct, as part of a companion piece, I would assume, of Lee Smith’s slightly earlier “Biden Sets Israel on Fire”.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/biden-sets-israel-on-fire
While I’ve generally admired Doran’s superb analyses, in particular of the ME, here he JUST DOES NOT seem to get the larger picture, viz. that “Biden” is NO fried of Israel’s—the opposite, actually—just as “he” is, in fact, NO friend of the USA (which twin “curiosities” are connected at the hip). That he does not appear to understand this obvious “feature” of “Biden” ME policy, is, for me at least, gobsmacking. And incredibly disappointing.
Examples:
1. Doran’s statement, “[Nides’s] repeated public comments reflect the will of the president” is indisputably true, since what “Biden” is currently fomenting is just another “color revolution” against a PURPORTED ally (though, once again, Israel is perceived as ANYTHING BUT an ally by “Biden”); but Doran follows this up with, “In doing so, [these public comments] also reveal, at best, a faulty reading of the American interest by Joe Biden.”
Huh? What’s that? “a faulty reading of the American interest”????
What planet has Doran been on for the past 14-15 years?
2. For similar, and obvious, reasons, the piece’s final two absurd sentences cement this egregious misreading and misunderstanding of “Biden” ‘s “relationship” vis-a-vis the Jewish State (as well as an inexplicably naive reading of “Biden” ‘s relationship with Iran…as well as “his” relationship and plans for the USA…):
“….Instead of tacitly encouraging the Israeli opposition to bring down Netanyahu, Biden should cooperate with him against Iran. That is the most effective way for the United States to defend not just Israel and America, but democratic values as well.”
As I said above, “gobsmacking…and incredibly disappointing”.
P.S. If events weren’t worrying enough, sending Milley to Israel to discuss supposed military “plans” WRT Iran should send a shiver down anyone’s back; that is, anyone who cares about Israel.
(OTOH, anyone paying attention already knows that “Biden” CANNOT be trusted. SHOULD NOT be trusted. MUST NOT be trusted. On anything….)
One might well assume, though, that following this line of thought, Milley will DANGLE in front of Bibi’s nose US assistance WRT Iran ONLY IF Bibi climbs down from his plans to reduce the inordinate powers currently held by Israel’s High Court for Justice (i.e., Supreme Court), which is the ostensible cause of the turmoil currently wracking the country, or a large part of it.
(The remainder of the “Biden” betrayal will come “with all deliberate speed” at some future date…)
File under: The final nail in the coffin? Or not quite “the final nail”…
@ Barry > “What planet has Doran been on for the past 14-15 years?”
I’ve seen that kind if “advice to President X” on a lot of pundit’s posts, with the same reaction as you.
However, I’ve finally decided that the writers do actually know that President X is not going to take their counsel, and probably will never even know they extended it, for the obvious reasons.
The writer is addressing Independents or uncommitted random readers or wavering allies who are looking for information or guidance about the topic at hand, and giving them a “benchmark” to compare to what President X actually does — which will NOT be what the pundit recommended.
And trying to be diplomatic about the solution to the asinine policies they are gently critiquing, because they are trying to preserve some kind of collegial amity with the politicians and opposition pundits.
That’s the “gobsmacking” point, since it has become blindingly obvious that the Democrats / Progressives / Leftists are in a no-holds-barred war against the values of the conservative writers, and sometimes against them personally.
America’s $100 Billion Bust on Climate Change
In the Great Spending Race between Ukraine and climate change, Ukraine leads by a few billion. But it’s a long race. Don’t count climate change out just yet.
Still, I didn’t detect any irony on the part of Doran…just a depressingly hopeful kind of earnestness, as though he believed that “Biden” might just take his advice if only “he” would truly “think things through”.
But AF, you might well be right: it may be a purely rhetorical device (a subjunctive tone?) on Duran’s part; or perhaps a case of not wanting to burn bridges WRT any potential influence on the reader (or policy maker) that the author still believes he might have…
(Even if, between you and me, such hopes are merely wistful fantasizing…since “Biden”‘s mind is made up—it was made up in 2009 and exploded in late December of 2016 with UNSCR 2334.)
OTOH, Lee Smith just lays it out as he sees it, which seems to me to often be, “as it is”.
I had thought that Doran was of similar constitution….
“But it’s a long race.”
Indeed.
And just think how much “Biden” will be saving on his “investment” if inflation goes through the roof!
“if”??
Make that, “when”.
OTOH, if Ukraine is merely a distraction to distract everyone from noticing that the Mullahs have, somehow, gotten the Bomb, then it will be WORTH EVERY PENNY.
(Nonetheless, the Ukraine issue, especially if it “spreads”, may just well be a trick to create so much global chaos that the self-appointed elites (so-called) will “just be forced” to have to step in and “save humanity”…etc…using the much-admired CPC as their model(!))
Related:
On the off chance that Michael Doran happens to be looking for evidence that a) his assumptions about “Biden” might be faulty and b) that “Biden” might not be in the mood to listen to any of his, um, suggestions (except maybe to laugh at them)….
“Evasive, late, and confused State Department report finally released;
“As is usual for the State Dept., the Palestinian Authority is whitewashed in the report and Israel is condemned. Op-ed.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/368370
The only thing I would to in the piece is the word “confused” in the headline.
Not confused at all.
Simply “Biden” POLICY.
(The word “confused” should be used to refer to those who are under the impression that it is “Biden” who is confused.)