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-Lurid Crime Tales-
"It Should Be that He Is Simply Reinstated, That a New Inauguration Day Is Set" – Sidney Powell Speaks in TX on What Happens After the Fraud Is Exposed (VIDEO)
[Gateway] Attorney Sidney Powell spoke at the For God and Country Rally this Memorial Day Weekend in Dallas, Texas.

During her on-stage discussion, Sidney Powell was asked about what will happen if several states overturn their 2020 presidential election results.
Sidney Powell: We’re definitely in uncharted territory. There are cases where elections have been overturned. But there’s never been one at the presidential level where everybody will jump to point out. That doesn’t mean it can’t be done, though. There’s always the first case. And as far as I know, this is the first case of abject fraud and obtaining a coup of the United States of America. So, it’s going to have to be dealt with. It should be that he can simply be reinstated, that a new inauguration day is set. (cheers) And Biden is told to move out of the White House. And President Trump should be moved back in.

Via The Storm Has Arrived:

TRENDING: Arizona Senate is Reportedly Considering An Additional Audit of Maricopa County - This Time Including All the 2020 Election Results
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 01:59 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Face it.
America and the World knows the 2020 election was rigged.

Many of us suspect more than just the US Socialist-Democrats party was involved (China, Ukraine, Russia and etc).

But Wait For It...
Likely some Liberal House Rep will submit bill outlawing any RE-DO of the election.

While suggesting a process that installs a "Ruling Committee" to manage things until "THE COMMITTEE" can insure a honest vote/Election process. Which would be a moving target for years to come.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2021 7:21 Comments || Top||


#3  Mulligan. This time with EVERY ballot cast in person, observed by both parties' representatives, and hand-counted with both representatives present and certifying, on paper and videotaped, every individual vote.

No absentee ballot bullshit.
No midnight vans bullshit.
No fire-alarm, "now y'alls white folks done gots to get outta da room" stunts.
No internet-connected computers run by third parties nonsense.

Just photo ID and paper ballots and real-time verification and certification of EVERY VOTE, EVERYWHERE.

And if it takes a week, or two, to get the results, then so be it.
Posted by: Gremp Speaking for Boskone5612 || 05/30/2021 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Getting a little tired of Powell...just one-too-many "bombshells".
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#6  And if it takes a week, or two, to get the results, That would still be an improvement over the current situation. Now we don't have real trustworthy results, and have run up expenses doing that.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/30/2021 12:37 Comments || Top||

#7  And required everyone to re-register, in person, with photo ID and proof of citizenship.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/30/2021 13:27 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
A Jew is a Jew is a Jew
[JPost] ...One has to be willfully obtuse to not see the steady unfolding of ominous events, ranging from random attempted lynchings in the streets of Blue cities (not strongholds of white supremacy), to cynically manipulated pronouncements in prominent media, to unhinged rants by celebrities and muscle flexing progressive Democrats in Congress.

Some in England see residual "Corbynism" resurfacing, while in Western Europe, the pretext of supporting Hamas has meant that any and all Jews are fair game.

There are many attempts at trying to explain why it’s all so intense, and why now. Some see this as part of a sustained reaction against all things Trump; to others, the Biden administration’s cozying up to Iran has been read as a license to lash out at all things Israeli.

Ultimately, any and all conceivable explanations fail to capture the maniacal quality of the hatred being unleashed.

...Antisemitism oppresses Jews, but it is ultimately a threat to the overall society since antisemitism never ends with the Jews. Antisemitism is the unmistakable sign that a society is in trouble.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 08:36 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some speech is freer than other speech. And remember, the SCROTUS has defined a variety of things (flag burning, nude dancing, panhandling) that don't have "words coming out of your mouth" as a primary or necessary component as "speech."
Posted by: M Murcek || 05/30/2021 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  It's finally becoming obvious to pretty much everyone that Israel practices apartheid.

I found out the other day that they actually have anti-miscegenation laws. For real. It's like something out of the 1840s South.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 05/30/2021 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  I found out the other day that they actually have anti-miscegenation laws.

Where did you find it - in your a$$hole?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ While they most certainly don't, it would be good to know conservative communities practice some unwritten convention of keeping their gene pool clean.

The day is not far when people shall realize that apartheid, anti-miscegenation and the Jim Crow south was a much better bet than self-righteously legislating a chance at revenge for inherently recidivist irredeemables.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 14:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Israeli matrimonial law is based on the Millet system employed in the Ottoman Empire. According to this confessional community system, issues of personal status such as marriage and divorce are governed by the religious law of the parties concerned. For example, Israeli Islamic law courts have exclusive jurisdiction in matters of personal status concerning Israeli Muslim citizens. Therefore, Israeli citizens can only marry spouses of the same religion and only by their own recognised religious authority. That is to say, interfaith and non-religious marriages are not allowed in Israel.

That's an anti-miscegenation law. I'd like to be proved wrong. If it's not, then why is there such a thriving wedding market in Cyprus offering packages specially tailored for couples with an Israeli member?
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 05/30/2021 14:31 Comments || Top||

#6  The day is not far when people shall realize that apartheid, anti-miscegenation and the Jim Crow south was a much better bet than self-righteously legislating a chance at revenge for inherently recidivist irredeemables.

Who knew alt-right thought was taken so seriously on this website? This sort of thing is deleted everywhere else, and rightly so.

Pro-apartheid

Pro-Jim Crow

Wow.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 05/30/2021 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  #4 Things work out without such laws - after all, you don't need laws forbidding people to walk on their hands, Dron.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||

#8  #5 State of Israel recognizes civil marriages. Getting one through rabbinate is a matter of choice.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#9  For example, Israeli Islamic law courts

Islamic law is an accommodation unfortunately allowed to mohammedans in almost every liberal country. How that makes Israel an apartheid practicing state is beyond me.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 15:04 Comments || Top||

#10  I notice how you completely dodged the alt-right Pro-apartheid, Pro-Jim Crow comment and went on to another one.

Israel is the only western society to deny construction permits to people on the grounds of race. Until 1992, so did South Africa.

Israeli law also restricts where non-Jews may live. "Muslims and Christians are barred from buying in the Jewish quarter of the old city on the grounds of "historic patterns of life of each community having its own quarter'," says Seidemann, in a phrase eerily reminiscent of apartheid's philosophy.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 05/30/2021 15:23 Comments || Top||

#11  ^Look a$$hole, you may think you're original - but I've heard all your clever "anti-Zionist" arguments a hundred times. Look bandarlog, your kind been trying to solve the "Jewish Problem" for 3000 year - and we are still around. And nowadays, we have an equalizer. So, find another - safer - hobby.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 15:42 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 Yupp, sidestepped it all like a pile of shit.

As for the jewish quarter... it's a duhh, jewish quarter? When any community gets a bug up their ass to agitate until they're granted what they desire against the majority will, I believe it's the job of the State to draw lines for them [there, I'm a fascist too].

I wouldn't allow a single muslim to live in any chicken coop I was responsible for anyway. And christians, the true ones don't go about carrying their papist agendas with them, they click a pic, say a prayer and buzz off. Israel is a jewish nation; they have sovereignty and the majority to decide how they wish to run it.

This conversation is terminated.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 15:56 Comments || Top||

#13  As to the Jewish Quarter, try to buy, sell or renovate any property in or near a historical landmark and you run into a absolute sh*tstorm of bureaucratic red tape. So, no, not buying that without more info.
Posted by: magpie || 05/30/2021 21:13 Comments || Top||

#14  And... how many Jews (or Christians) are allowed in Mecca?

(hint: Only Moslems are allowed in the Mecca region).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/30/2021 21:23 Comments || Top||

#15  Why Herb McCoy, how very interesting to see you pop up again, this time without the long lead in where you pretend to be a conservative Rantburger of long standing before you launch into your Jew-hate spiel.

Israeli religious marriage law for Jews is based on 2500 years of rabbinic rulings referring to the Old Testament, looooong predating the Ottoman empire (14th-19th century) and its millet system. There are also, as g(r)omgoru points out, civil marriages, and Israel recognizes marriages contracted outside the country, either which of allows for mixed marriages.

America also allows both religious and civil marriages; Communist China only recognizes civil marriages.

You really are a nasty little pseudo-intellectual, not nearly as intelligent as you fancy yourself. But no doubt you are a genius compared to those at the usual sites where you get the information you parade here from time to time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 21:58 Comments || Top||

#16  I just love how Herb tried to spin the bs practices of "Israeli Muslim"s as being Jewish. HAHAHA!
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 05/30/2021 22:39 Comments || Top||


Woke in the City That Never Sleeps
[TAKIMAG] The Big Bagel is getting so bad, even the baddies are demanding the fuzz do something. As the body count rises, it is obvious that the victims of violence are predominantly poor and minority. Last week, a woman killed in a drive-by shooting had been attending a vigil for a friend who was rubbed out after stepping on a gunman’s shoe. A man mortally slashed on a Manhattan subway platform had recently been paroled for an attack on a Jewish woman and her mother. Brazen gunslingers are shooting the daylights out of each other in the Bagel, and there was a shooting spree in the middle of Times Square that left three innocents, including a 4-year-old girl, among the victims.

And yet, up here where I live, it could be Giuliani time, when crime disappeared and the numbers plunged like never before. One hears and reads about the daily gunplay, and compares the statistics to those of forty years ago. Robbery is up close to 30%, grand larceny 66%, and shootings 166.1%. Murder is up 32% from 2019. One wonders when the useless mayor will declare an emergency as the place is starting to resemble a war zone, and after the Covid crisis more and more New Yorkers believe the city is ungovernable and unlivable. Still, two of the numerous candidates running for mayor rant in their speeches about defunding the police. Violent criminals no longer have any fears, according to Pat Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association, and having done away with bail laws, criminals get booked and walk, free to continue shooting and robbing people. Cuomo and de Blasio, architects of these new laws, shamelessly go about their business, which is appearing on television and patting themselves on the back.

"Every message one hears nowadays is geared to one’s ego, how great, how beautiful, how wonderful everyone is."
It all began, methinks, with the spiritual and moral bankruptcy of woke, an idea that establishes bad as good, legal as illegal, and unfair as fair. A false consciousness that sees criminals as good and cops as criminals prevails, especially among minorities, the trouble being minorities are now the majority in cities like New York, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  1970s again
Welcome back again, Kotter (and Carter, and Abe Beame)
Posted by: Ulaviper Closing8233 || 05/30/2021 0:51 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Photolog: The oldest wooden church in Russia
Direct translation of the article.
Photos at the link

By Vladimir Stanulevich

[Regnum] Lavia is not only a beautiful place on the slopes of a wide ravine where the river flows, but also a significant historical place in the Russian North. Here in the 14th century the Novgorod posadnitsa Anastasia founded the Assumption Monastery on the burial site of her brother Stephen . It is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, in the Arkhangelsk region. In 1340, the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan I Kalita granted the monastery the Gospel, which was later named after the monastery in whose library it was kept, Siiskiy. Or the Siysk of 1340, since there is a second, magnificent Siysk Gospel of 1693.

The Aprakos Gospel of 1340 is the oldest Moscow manuscript, sheet-sized, written on parchment in direct charter and decorated with one headpiece and two miniatures. One miniature depicts the adoration of the Magi to the Theotokos, the second - Christ with the apostles.

The Gospel has retained the names of scribes, clerks Melentiy and Prokosha, and the artist who left his name in the inscription on the ornament: "Lord, help the sinful John write the sik gate . " The manuscript contains mesyatseslov where months but today is now the Roman names are and the name of the Slavic -.. Ryuin, falling leaves, jelly, etc. On the last page the author states that the manuscript was written in 6847 year "in the city of Moscow" , "poveleniem rabom Bozhiim Ananiyu Chernets ” - by the Moscow Grand Duke Ivan Kalita, who took monastic vows in the last year of his life and went “ to the Dvina to the Holy Mother of God ” .

When the Lyavlensky monastery in 1633 was attributed to the Anthony-Siya monastery, the Gospel was taken to Sia. The transfer of the monastery under the authority of Sia was accompanied by a scandal. In 1632, a priest from Nyonoksa, Pavel Kochurov, asked Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich for a letter of permission to serve him in Lyavl in a church that was supposedly empty.

And he hid the fact that there was a monastery here, and drove out the brethren. The abbot of the monastery Job and the brethren appealed to the tsar that “priest Paul falsely took the letter to serve,” and now the elders “walk between the courtyard, starving to death, there is no one to come to repentance and bury”. The elders asked to send them a monk from the Siysk monastery to help them, and "priest Paul should not be ordered to stay with them . " So Lyavia became the fiefdom of the Siysk monastery.

The only building left from the ancient monastery is the Nikolskaya Church built in 1584. This is the oldest wooden church in Russia. Another story is connected with the Nikolskaya Church, under which, according to legend, is the grave of the mayor's brother Anastasia Stefan - by 1844 it fell into disrepair, they were going to demolish it.

The Arkhangelsk military governor Marquis Traversay visited the temple and decided to repair it at his own expense. One can guess about the reasons for this decision, they said that the reason for it was the illness of his son and the vision of the wife of the Marquis that the son would recover if the church in Lyavle was repaired.


Posted by: badanov || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank you Badanov, very beautiful. I only wish there was a Russian Orthodox congregation in any remote travel distance. It would be a great relief to belong to a religion that doesn't do a lot of updating and actually holds core beliefs.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/30/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you Badanov, very beautiful. I only wish there was a Russian Orthodox congregation in any remote travel distance. It would be a great relief to belong to a religion that doesn't do a lot of updating and actually holds core beliefs.

Word.
Posted by: badanov || 05/30/2021 13:39 Comments || Top||


Why did Erdogan support Lukashenko?
Direct translation of the article
By Stanislav Tarasov

What was originally supposed happened. Turkey managed to soften and even to some extent neutralize the official NATO reaction to the incident with the emergency landing of a Ryanair passenger plane in Minsk and the subsequent detention of opposition activists.

The text of the statement, according to Reuters, did not include the wording present in the early EU statement and providing for punitive measures proposed by Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, as well as threats to suspend NATO's cooperation with Belarus. The reasons for such actions by Ankara have not been officially disclosed; the Turkish Foreign Ministry refers to the confidential nature of the negotiations.

But there are factors that lie on the surface. Ankara is acting pragmatically and exclusively in its own national interests. She does not want to lose profits in the next tourist season, of which Russian and Belarusian tourists are traditionally an integral part. Now, due to the coronavirus pandemic, air traffic between Russia and Turkey has been extremely reduced, and many Russian tourists travel to Turkey via Minsk.

It is significant that Turkish airlines make daily flights to Belarus, despite the demarche of the Baltic and other European airlines that have refused to use the Belarusian airspace. In addition, Russia has stopped issuing entry permits to flights that fly over Belarus, which is perceived as its reaction to the European "air war" declared against Minsk. Ankara does not want to be a member of it and is actively negotiating with Moscow to resume flights in connection with the holiday season. There is also another "gain" here: in the current situation, Russia may turn out to be more compliant in negotiations with Turkey on lifting restrictions on air traffic.

And now about the political issues. The fact is that in the triangle Minsk - Ankara - Baku a kind of trusting style has developed in building relationships. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko supported Azerbaijan in the second Karabakh war and offered Ilham Aliyev assistance in restoring the "liberated territories".

Therefore, Ankara refused to pay Minsk with ingratitude. On the other hand, there is Moscow behind Minsk, and Turkey understands this well, since it itself is in an alliance with Russia in the Syrian direction. Plus, Turkey's problems with France in Libya, US claims on Syria, a crisis in relations with Greece due to the development of minerals in the Mediterranean. Therefore, according to the Turkish government agency Anadolu,"It makes no sense for Turkey to play on the side of the West in relation to Belarus without any proposed positive conditions . "

Moreover, according to Turkish experts, the West, exerting strong pressure on Ankara and Minsk for various reasons, “pushes them towards Moscow, narrowing the opportunities to pursue a multi-vector foreign policy, and the sanctions decisions made by the West against Belarus and Turkey are becoming an important factor in their relationship with the West ” .

This position brings Lukashenko closer to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Let's mark one more point, which highlights the Turkish edition of Evrensel. It is beneficial for Ankara to act as an opportunist in relation to the West. In this context, Turkey's policy towards Minsk is understandable and logical.

Recall that on May 25, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking about Ukrainian affairs, brought up the idea that "at all levels we strongly recommend our Turkish colleagues to carefully analyze the situation and stop feeding Kiev's militaristic sentiments." In Ankara, Lavrov's hint was appreciated and taken in a broader sense, drawing their own conclusions.

Posted by: badanov || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:



Government Corruption
Postal Service Has Big Plans to Get Even Worse
[PJ] What should we do with a quasi-government agency that supplies a vital service to a small percentage of the American people but is becoming more expensive and less timely as time goes on?

The United States Postal Service once helped connect this continental country from end to end. For many, it was their only connection to the outside world. Even today, remote areas of Alaska with no internet or phones are connected to the rest of us only via the post office.

But maintaining a postal service that can service areas like that as well as compete in the larger world of package delivery is proving to be a ghastly expense. There are a few million people living too far from a pharmacy who need the postal service to supply them with medicines they need to live. But outside of a few pockets of shut-ins and rural residents, the necessity of the USPS has vanished.

The Postal Service has a deal with Congress to relieve the USPS of a $5 billion a year payment for health and pension benefits. It’s contingent on maintaining Saturday delivery and continuing service to rural areas. The Postal Service Reform Act would separate 2 million postal workers and retirees from the federal program, creating a smaller, riskier pool of participants thus raising premiums on some workers.

Related: Intelligencer - Using the U.S. Postal Service Is About to Get More Expensive
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 01:06 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile, packages that used to take 3 days for delivery now take 5-7 days.
Posted by: Spats Ghibelline1754 || 05/30/2021 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  A case study in affirmative action, union entitlement, and government mismanagement...but I repeat myself.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 2:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Article I, Section 8

The Congress shall have power..

To establish post offices and post roads;


It was never intended to be a profitable commercial entity. It is a Constitutional responsibility and should never have been spun off as to imply it could ever be. Return it back to direct Congressional control and make your representatives and senators directly responsible. You can then let them know how you feel about the quality of service every election day.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4 

How well is the USPS doing?
My actual recent given example.

Accepted May 20th, 2021 at 10:43am and scheduled Delivery by Friday 21 May 2021 by 12:00pm

Actual Delivered Date
May 22, 2021 at 11:22 am SAINT LOUIS, MO 63179


BTW:
Still trying to get the guarantee USPS delivery refund.

OBTW: Next Time I'll use FEDX.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  ...hmmm, you know Amazon dropped FedEx for a while because of delivery time failures?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2021 9:29 Comments || Top||

#6  We've had quite good service from USPS (who also have often been our 'last mile' UPS deliverer.) And we are at the 'end of the route' - postwoman turns around in our driveway to go back to 'town' (2010 pop 516.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/30/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#7  That article from the Constitution doesn't seem to specify any standard of performance for the "post roads" and "post offices". That leads me to think Congress has performed its duty, long ago. People have forgotten that at one time five first class stamps cost as much as an acre of government land.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/30/2021 12:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
This Weekend We Remember - The Left Is Evil
[PJ] If you remember one thing this Memorial Day weekend, let it be this — leftists are horrible, cloven-hoofed sub-humans.

The word, "evil" gets tossed around like Marilyn Monroe at the Kennedy compound. Leftists believe voter ID, the wall, ICE, Trump supporters and Christmas are all "evil." Words are like baseball mitts. The more you use them the softer they become. Kind of like how the word "racist" no longer has meaning.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 01:46 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This Weekend We Remember - The Left Is Evil

What about the rest of the year?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 12:20 Comments || Top||


If We're Going to Have a '9/11-Style Commission' on Anything, Why Not About Wuhan?
[Townhall] On Friday, Senate Republicans used the filibuster to defeat a bill to set up a January 6 commission, as Spencer reported, in a vote of 54 to 35. Before anyone points to how Republicans are evil and thus we need to bring back the filibuster, let's consider a commission which could receive support, overwhelming support. Why not a commission looking into the Wuhan virus, which is looking increasingly like it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?

That very idea of a "9/11 style commission" was offered on Thursday night by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), while on "The Ingraham Angle," because "someone has to be held accountable." He also offered:
We should demand in Congress, if we're going to form a 9/11 style commission on anything, it should be about the origins of the coronavirus and the negligence on the party of the Chinese Communist Party, and those in our own government that allowed the coronavirus to spread and became a worldwide pandemic like it did.
Such an investigation is crucial. How is it nothing but non-partisan to acknowledge we need to know where the virus came from, if only so it doesn't happen again?

President Joe Biden is looking into the theory that the Wuhan virus came from the Wuhan lab, sort of. It's also more of a matter that he's getting around to it. It's the Biden administration that is making the investigation political.

We've covered at Townhall that the president canceled an investigation which had been launched by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In addition to referencing this canceled investigation, Lauren Ingraham also noted that there is unexamined evidence Biden has yet to examine, as reported by The New York Times.

What are we waiting for? See, this is why we need the commission.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 01:29 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We all know why this will likely never happen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 1:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Never mind commissions. Somebody should show Chinese that they're not the only ones capable of making biological weapons.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 1:40 Comments || Top||

#3  We need a new elite altogether
Posted by: Ebbath Hupains3333 || 05/30/2021 6:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Why not? Because shut up.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/30/2021 16:24 Comments || Top||

#5  The left would use it to grandstand on how "Trump made it worse". Every word would be a lie, but that has never stopped them.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/30/2021 17:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Because investigators don't investigate their friends?

Professional courtesy, don't' 'cha know?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 05/30/2021 23:06 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza Round 4: Hamas Follows the Classic Terror Playbook
[Spectator] And the Biden administration and much of the West seems all too willing to play along.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  First when the IDF pulled to the East bank of the Suez Canal and began peace talks with Egypt they should have taken Gaza as part of the territorial settlement. Gaza has been the home to the most loathsome fanatics since 1948

We are seeing what became of those two (four?) plane loads of Euros ,Swiss Francs, and Pesos that Obamadded gave to Iran. Only a complete idiot would not have understood that. The only explanation I can find for the Democrats behavior is in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 05/30/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||

#2  SPOD, Israel tried to give Gaza to Egypt in Camp David accords - they wouldn't take it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  ^-- would you?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/30/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  It would seem that Gaza has been cursed and has been a curse from the git go. Kinda sucks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/30/2021 16:57 Comments || Top||



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