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Can it REALLY be the Fourth of July if no Republicans are spending it in Moscow?
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and can a severe storm with likely tornados really be severe if there’s only a hell of a lot of rain? and only a minute of lost power?
heck, in Floriduh that’s called a summer shower with a maybe water spout.
Sturge, thanks for the thread rescue. Pogo, you too. with your contribution tomorrow will be another day and another post, Miss Scarlet, thanks to you.
more of today’s weather news
Attribution: Smoke Clipper by Rivers, CagleCartoons.com
another but more serious conundrum (i.e. a confusing and paradoxical problem) in today’s world involves children in a war you started and are waging. rescuer or kidnapper?/p>
Moscow has removed 700,000 children from Ukraine, says Russian MP
Russia has brought 700,000 children from the conflict zones of Ukraine into Russian territory, the head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, has said.
Grigory Karasin said on his Telegram messaging channel late on Sunday:
In recent years, 700,000 children have found refuge with us, fleeing the bombing and shelling from the conflict areas in Ukraine.
Reuters also reports that Moscow says its programme of bringing children from Ukraine into Russian territory is to protect orphans and children abandoned in conflict zones.
However, Ukraine says many children have been illegally deported and the US says thousands of children have been forcibly removed from their homes.
Most of the movement of people and children occurred in the first few months of the war, which began in February 2022.
In July 2022, the US estimated that Russia had “forcibly deported” 260,000 children, while Ukraine’s ministry of integration of occupied territories says 19,492 Ukrainian children are currently considered illegally deported.
An international office to investigate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will open on Monday in The Hague, in the first step towards a possible tribunal for Moscow’s leadership.
Agence France-Presse reports that the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression (ICPA) features prosecutors from Kyiv, the EU, the US and the international criminal court (ICC).
It will investigate and gather evidence in a move seen as an interim step before the creation of a special tribunal that could bring Kremlin officials to justice for starting the Ukraine war.
Senior officials would hold a press conference at the ICPA at the headquarters of the EU’s judicial agency, Eurojust, scheduled to begin at 11.15am (0915 GMT), Eurojust said in a statement. They included Ukrainian prosecutor general Andriy Kostin, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, US assistant attorney general Kenneth Polite and EU justice commissioner Didier Reynders.
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and another conundrum on a another serious subject: when are treaty rights not really the rights the treaty promised? new term for them would be “just kidding treaties”
The tribal nations have an uphill slog. Why, 4 days ago the Navajo nation learned that their implicit rights in the treaty provisions that gave them tribal rights to land have the same force as rights based on an implicit right to privacy in th Constitution. LA Times:
The Supreme Court on Thursday dashed the hopes of the Navajo Nation for more running water.
The justices threw out a 9th U.S. Circuit Court ruling that said an 1868 treaty confining Navajos to their reservation came with an implied promise that they would have access to water.
The Navajo reservation in Arizona and New Mexico is the nation’s largest, the justices noted, acknowledging that it is desperately short of running water.
But conservative Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, writing for a 5-4 majority, said that the 19th century treaties that established the reservation “did not require the United States to take affirmative steps to secure water for the tribe,” and that tribes should look to Congress, not the courts, because “it is not the Judiciary’s role to update the law.”
“Allocating water in the arid regions of the American West is often a zero-sum situation,” he wrote, saying that situation “underscores that courts must stay in their proper constitutional lane.”
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Right. God forbid that the Court find that words written over a hundred or even 200 years ago should apply to conditions today.
Moscow not only popular for un-American Republicans, but could become a new summertime destination thanks to climate change…
Greece, France and Spain, which typically see peak tourist traffic around July, are notching record temperatures and even dealing with wildfires, the New York Times reports.
As a result, people are choosing cooler places — like Amsterdam and Copenhagen — for summer travel
The Bible tells a story. After they were evicted from Egypt, the people of Moses were directed by God, by god, to leave the mountains, where they’d been holed up for 40 years or so, and exterminate the people who lived down there in the valley, the Canaanites. Starting with Jericho, in city after city these ex-slaves put to death every Canaanite they could find. Can you imagine killing 20,000 peoples with a fuckin SWORD? But God supervised all this shit, with his March around the city blowin horns routine (no mention of tunneling under the weak spot in the walls which the Harlot had hipped them to).
So, that’s the story and they sticking to it; and even though there are further instructions in the next book, these adherents to the Christ take that Joshua story as Gospel. All about God tawkin and them doing the dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
Is it any wonder (especially given the inquisition) that these people would neither hesitate from pursuit of nor would they in any way shirk their god-given duty to exterminate anyone for whom they developed reasons for why “they gotta go”?
They claim Jesus but they idolize Joshua.
As a sidebar, it’s becoming so hot towards the equator that shit-tonnes of people are “vacating the premi-sees”. Go North, young man; Go North.
today’s meme…
today’s meme 2…
lol
Denmark sounds nice, but a lot of it will be under water one day.
“Devin Nunes Steers Trump Media Company Into Dumpster Fire Defamation Suits”
“In April, Devin Nunes’s wildly self-destructive defamation suit against journalist Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines came to an ignominious end with a federal judge ruling that his family did indeed employ undocumented laborers on its dairy farm. The former congressman’s family spent a couple weeks chasing Lizza around rural Iowa to stop him nosing around their business, only to get dragged into the case and forced to throw open their books in discovery.”
“And now Nunes looks to be working that same magic for his new employer, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), with a pair of defamation suits against The Guardian and the Washington Post filed in state court in Sarasota County, Florida.”
“On the same day that TMTG docketed the Post suit, DWAC filed notice that it was in danger of being delisted from NASDAQ due to failure to file a timely quarterly report, and that it had “identified an error related to the accounting for certain expenses in the previously issued financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022” and thus its financial statements from last year “should no longer be relied upon.”
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Mr Biden’s overseas diplomatic trip – in which he will also travel to Lithuania and Finland – will take place from 9 to 13 July.
Buckingham Palace confirmed King Charles was due to meet the president at Windsor Castle on Monday, 10 July.
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After the UK, the US president will travel to Vilnius in Lithuania for the Nato summit, which takes place on 11 and 12 July.
On his final day, he will visit Helsinki, Finland for a US-Nordic Leaders Summit, where the focus of the talks is expected to be the Russia-Ukraine war.
I guess several of the foundingers had large amounts of debt cancelled by a timely revolution.
“Shortly after taking the stage, the senator playfully turned to audience members behind him where a woman in MAGA gear could be seen booing him to his face while holding out a pronounced thumbs-down.”
“However, Graham soon began to grasp that a large segment of this Trump crowd — some of whom were yelling “traitor” — was not kidding around.”
“The Greenville paper interviewed some attendees, who expressed that very sentiment. One said he was tired of Graham’s “wishy-washiness,” while another noted Graham only supported Trump when it helped him politically. Their message to all Republicans seemed to be: Remain completely loyal to Trump or you will face our wrath.”
“This demand for loyalty to Trump raises red flags since it’s a common trait of authoritarian movements. For example, Yale University professor Jason Stanley, author of “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” explained in a 2020 podcast interview with NPR member station KCRW that, “Fascism is based on power, loyalty, and fear of the other. The fascist leader is infallible.”
“Remember (Trump’s) comment, ‘I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and I wouldn’t lose a single supporter?’ That’s a fascist connection of total loyalty,” adding, “His rallies are classic fascist rallies.”
“That demand for unquestioning loyalty to Trump helps us understand why a crowd in Pickens County, South Carolina, where Graham was born, and only 15 miles from where he now lives would so quickly turn on him. Those booing did not care that Graham has represented their state in the US House of Representatives, and then the US Senate, since 1995. All that matters is absolute loyalty to their beloved Trump.”
poor lindsay NOT
poor SCREW lindsay NOT.
Thanks Ms. C.
The NYTimes thinks RFKjr is a good idea candidate against Biden. Just like Uncle Ted against Carter..
Jr is a whack job through and through –allyou need to know is he is an anti vaxer
KGC that fruitcake is also a “republican”, dirty stinking swamp creature.
I watched as he turned into trump’s little puppy dog….right there in front of god and everybody. Nice job, South fucking Carolina.
Time for the instant regurgitate moment – Ms. Kari Lke, loser, has been in the lair of sfb for a couple months. Get ready – there is no reason for her to be there, actually, anywhere. However, in the dark and dirty world rumours are circulating about some female going “pro” to be veep. Take it as you like. I understand someone is not there allowing the husband to do what he likes.
and can a severe storm with likely tornados really be severe if there’s only a hell of a lot of rain? and only a minute of lost power?
heck, in Floriduh that’s called a summer shower with a maybe water spout.
Sturge, thanks for the thread rescue. Pogo, you too. with your contribution tomorrow will be another day and another post, Miss Scarlet, thanks to you.
more of today’s weather news
Attribution: Smoke Clipper by Rivers, CagleCartoons.com
another but more serious conundrum (i.e. a confusing and paradoxical problem) in today’s world involves children in a war you started and are waging. rescuer or kidnapper?/p>
the guardian:
also in the guardian
Russia-Ukraine war live: Moscow has removed 700,000 children from Ukraine, says Russian MP (theguardian.com)
and another conundrum on a another serious subject: when are treaty rights not really the rights the treaty promised? new term for them would be “just kidding treaties”
Tribal nations push for seats at the table in Colorado River negotiations | The Hill
The tribal nations have an uphill slog. Why, 4 days ago the Navajo nation learned that their implicit rights in the treaty provisions that gave them tribal rights to land have the same force as rights based on an implicit right to privacy in th Constitution. LA Times:
Right. God forbid that the Court find that words written over a hundred or even 200 years ago should apply to conditions today.
Moscow not only popular for un-American Republicans, but could become a new summertime destination thanks to climate change…
The Bible tells a story. After they were evicted from Egypt, the people of Moses were directed by God, by god, to leave the mountains, where they’d been holed up for 40 years or so, and exterminate the people who lived down there in the valley, the Canaanites. Starting with Jericho, in city after city these ex-slaves put to death every Canaanite they could find. Can you imagine killing 20,000 peoples with a fuckin SWORD? But God supervised all this shit, with his March around the city blowin horns routine (no mention of tunneling under the weak spot in the walls which the Harlot had hipped them to).
So, that’s the story and they sticking to it; and even though there are further instructions in the next book, these adherents to the Christ take that Joshua story as Gospel. All about God tawkin and them doing the dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
Is it any wonder (especially given the inquisition) that these people would neither hesitate from pursuit of nor would they in any way shirk their god-given duty to exterminate anyone for whom they developed reasons for why “they gotta go”?
They claim Jesus but they idolize Joshua.
As a sidebar, it’s becoming so hot towards the equator that shit-tonnes of people are “vacating the premi-sees”. Go North, young man; Go North.
today’s meme…
today’s meme 2…
lol
Denmark sounds nice, but a lot of it will be under water one day.
https://abovethelaw.com/2023/05/devin-nunes-steers-trump-media-company-into-dumpster-fire-defamation-suits/
Speaking of those who look like Russian assets…
“Devin Nunes Steers Trump Media Company Into Dumpster Fire Defamation Suits”
“In April, Devin Nunes’s wildly self-destructive defamation suit against journalist Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines came to an ignominious end with a federal judge ruling that his family did indeed employ undocumented laborers on its dairy farm. The former congressman’s family spent a couple weeks chasing Lizza around rural Iowa to stop him nosing around their business, only to get dragged into the case and forced to throw open their books in discovery.”
“And now Nunes looks to be working that same magic for his new employer, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), with a pair of defamation suits against The Guardian and the Washington Post filed in state court in Sarasota County, Florida.”
“On the same day that TMTG docketed the Post suit, DWAC filed notice that it was in danger of being delisted from NASDAQ due to failure to file a timely quarterly report, and that it had “identified an error related to the accounting for certain expenses in the previously issued financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022” and thus its financial statements from last year “should no longer be relied upon.”
today’s meme 3…
The founding fathers weren’t all saints, Some information about the founding scoundrels. That helped make this country too.
Jack
looks like uncle Joe will be a busy boy next week. i do hope the GOPers behave themselves while he’s across the pond.
Joe Biden to meet King Charles and Rishi Sunak in UK visit – BBC News
I guess several of the foundingers had large amounts of debt cancelled by a timely revolution.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/opinions/lindsey-graham-booed-trump-rally-obeidallah/index.html
“Shortly after taking the stage, the senator playfully turned to audience members behind him where a woman in MAGA gear could be seen booing him to his face while holding out a pronounced thumbs-down.”
“However, Graham soon began to grasp that a large segment of this Trump crowd — some of whom were yelling “traitor” — was not kidding around.”
“The Greenville paper interviewed some attendees, who expressed that very sentiment. One said he was tired of Graham’s “wishy-washiness,” while another noted Graham only supported Trump when it helped him politically. Their message to all Republicans seemed to be: Remain completely loyal to Trump or you will face our wrath.”
“This demand for loyalty to Trump raises red flags since it’s a common trait of authoritarian movements. For example, Yale University professor Jason Stanley, author of “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” explained in a 2020 podcast interview with NPR member station KCRW that, “Fascism is based on power, loyalty, and fear of the other. The fascist leader is infallible.”
“Remember (Trump’s) comment, ‘I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and I wouldn’t lose a single supporter?’ That’s a fascist connection of total loyalty,” adding, “His rallies are classic fascist rallies.”
“That demand for unquestioning loyalty to Trump helps us understand why a crowd in Pickens County, South Carolina, where Graham was born, and only 15 miles from where he now lives would so quickly turn on him. Those booing did not care that Graham has represented their state in the US House of Representatives, and then the US Senate, since 1995. All that matters is absolute loyalty to their beloved Trump.”
poor lindsay NOT
poorSCREW lindsayNOT.Thanks Ms. C.
The NYTimes thinks RFKjr is a good idea candidate against Biden. Just like Uncle Ted against Carter..
Jr is a whack job through and through –allyou need to know is he is an anti vaxer
KGC that fruitcake is also a “republican”, dirty stinking swamp creature.
I watched as he turned into trump’s little puppy dog….right there in front of god and everybody. Nice job, South fucking Carolina.
Time for the instant regurgitate moment – Ms. Kari Lke, loser, has been in the lair of sfb for a couple months. Get ready – there is no reason for her to be there, actually, anywhere. However, in the dark and dirty world rumours are circulating about some female going “pro” to be veep. Take it as you like. I understand someone is not there allowing the husband to do what he likes.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/03/biden-should-watch-rfk-jr-pundits-say-kennedy-will-likely-win-new-hampshire-primary/
“Biden should watch RFK Jr., pundits say Kennedy will likely win New Hampshire primary”
I hope this not an accurate prediction. I hope that the folks in NH know that RFK Jr. is actually a Republican and a friend of tRUMPsky.
Everybody’ completely hip to Kennedy, he’s got a one way ticket to palookaville.