Yay Bari Weiss!!! I've had a subscription for The Free Press for a number of years. They do good stuff. She left The New York Times because of the bias & restrictions, so I'll be very curious about CBS/Paramount.
I'm not under 50 but would not hesitate to vote for a woman president. Others I know would also not hesitate. People I know don't care about the person being a female. Of course, the dems always shout "race, gender". That woman would, of course, not be a far left ultra liberal. She would also not be a far right. I'm still hoping for a strong candidate to actually bring our country together rather than continue this divisiveness. BARI WEISS for PRESIDENT!!
---- you know what I've heard a lot during this term? People who supposedly hate Trump (which I can claim a strong dislike to a lot of his character & traits) & his name calling - these same people turn around & do name-calling.
----And women talk about other women being too pretty to be in the role they're in. IMO, just as an example, Karoline Leavitt is very attractive & also extremely intelligent & young, & by far is superior to any who were in that role during Biden's term.
and YAY for Walmart!!!
AND LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST: ISRAEL, 2 years ago:
c/p from The Morning Dispatch:
Minutes earlier, they had been dancing.
And as the two dozen or so festivalgoers at the Nova music festival ran from gunfire to one of the nearest havens they could find—a roadside shelter—they could not have known they had entered what would later become known as the “bunker of death.”
“We thought it was a safe place where we would wait awhile, then go home,” Ziv Abud, a 26-year-old survivor from Tel Aviv, told the New York Times in November 2023. Abud had arrived early to the Nova rave with her boyfriend, 26-year-old Eliya Cohen—who was taken hostage and released in February after 505 days in Hamas captivity—and her nephew, 19-year-old Amit Ben Avida, along with his girlfriend, 20-year-old Karin Schwartzman, both of whom were murdered by Hamas terrorists.
Ayelet Arnin, a 22-year-old news editor for Israeli public broadcasting, recorded video clips within the shelter showing the harrowing hours before her eventual murder by Hamas terrorists. The footage, which was later broadcast in the documentary series Zman Emet, captured background audio of the moment Hamas terrorists approached the bunker.
Osama Abu Assa, a 36-year-old Bedouin at the festival, can be heard raising his voice to tell approaching gunmen that he was a Muslim. They responded, “Are there Jews inside?” According to survivors, Assa begged them not to enter the shelter and to spare their lives. He was later found dead.
In the footage, Staff Sgt. Aner Shapira, 22, is also seen intercepting with his hands a grenade that terrorists had tossed into the bunker, and throwing it back out—one of seven grenades the off-duty soldier would successfully hurl out from the shelter, helping ensure some survivors could make it out. It was the eighth that ultimately killed him, detonating in his grasp.
Nitzan Rahoum, 28, is heard shouting, “They took Lidor,” shortly after Lidor Levy, her fiancé and the father of her unborn baby, was gunned down. Rahoum was killed by what was believed to be a grenade blast in the shelter.
It’s been two years since the events of October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists broke through the Gaza-Israel barrier, attacking military bases and massacring civilians in 21 communities. Across southern Israel, including at the music festival—held near the Gaza border as a celebration of “friends, love and infinite freedom”—terrorists murdered more than 1,100 people, including 39 children. Three of those were toddlers. Rape was endemic. If their crimes weren’t caught on security cameras or recorded by people in hiding, the terrorists livestreamed and posted them.
Who do we blame for this? I wonder what they were doing before the bombs began falling.
“The tragic death toll from the violence in Gaza has far exceeded 44,000, seventy percent of whom are women and children. Over 13 thousand children have died, close to 800 under the age one.
Over 1,700 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed since the war broke out last year on 7 October following the attacks by Hamas and other armed groups in southern Israel, and more than 100 Israelis are still held hostage in Gaza.
According to Australian human rights lawyer, Chris Sidoti, "the number of children killed is the greatest number of any conflict in this century" in addition to the many children "wounded and affected by deaths of parents, siblings, grandparents, loss of limbs, traumatizing experiences, multiple displacement from their homes...affecting a larger number of children than any modern warfare has experienced."
Bill, todays newsletter fits right in with a book I just read about a month ago. It's the greatest leadership book I've ever picked up. I actually finished this one. It's titled, "Turn the Ship Around" by L. David Marquet. He was a Navy submarine captain who took over one of the worst performing subs in the fleet. The approach you talk about is similar to his. It's Leader-Leader instead of Leader-Follower. That someone in the military would create a system like this, when everything we know about the military is that orders come from the top down, you don't question them and you do what you're told, makes it all the more remarkable. I'm not spoiling it when I say it worked. He wouldn't have written the book if it didn't.
I cut the cable cord several years ago and now subscribe to HBO, AppleTV+, Netflix, Prime, and PBS. I was also a Paramount subscriber and just cut that cord yesterday. Since this is a psychological safe space I can freely say I will not financially support Ms. Weiss and CBS.
Yay Bari Weiss!!! I've had a subscription for The Free Press for a number of years. They do good stuff. She left The New York Times because of the bias & restrictions, so I'll be very curious about CBS/Paramount.
I'm not under 50 but would not hesitate to vote for a woman president. Others I know would also not hesitate. People I know don't care about the person being a female. Of course, the dems always shout "race, gender". That woman would, of course, not be a far left ultra liberal. She would also not be a far right. I'm still hoping for a strong candidate to actually bring our country together rather than continue this divisiveness. BARI WEISS for PRESIDENT!!
---- you know what I've heard a lot during this term? People who supposedly hate Trump (which I can claim a strong dislike to a lot of his character & traits) & his name calling - these same people turn around & do name-calling.
----And women talk about other women being too pretty to be in the role they're in. IMO, just as an example, Karoline Leavitt is very attractive & also extremely intelligent & young, & by far is superior to any who were in that role during Biden's term.
and YAY for Walmart!!!
AND LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST: ISRAEL, 2 years ago:
c/p from The Morning Dispatch:
Minutes earlier, they had been dancing.
And as the two dozen or so festivalgoers at the Nova music festival ran from gunfire to one of the nearest havens they could find—a roadside shelter—they could not have known they had entered what would later become known as the “bunker of death.”
“We thought it was a safe place where we would wait awhile, then go home,” Ziv Abud, a 26-year-old survivor from Tel Aviv, told the New York Times in November 2023. Abud had arrived early to the Nova rave with her boyfriend, 26-year-old Eliya Cohen—who was taken hostage and released in February after 505 days in Hamas captivity—and her nephew, 19-year-old Amit Ben Avida, along with his girlfriend, 20-year-old Karin Schwartzman, both of whom were murdered by Hamas terrorists.
Ayelet Arnin, a 22-year-old news editor for Israeli public broadcasting, recorded video clips within the shelter showing the harrowing hours before her eventual murder by Hamas terrorists. The footage, which was later broadcast in the documentary series Zman Emet, captured background audio of the moment Hamas terrorists approached the bunker.
Osama Abu Assa, a 36-year-old Bedouin at the festival, can be heard raising his voice to tell approaching gunmen that he was a Muslim. They responded, “Are there Jews inside?” According to survivors, Assa begged them not to enter the shelter and to spare their lives. He was later found dead.
In the footage, Staff Sgt. Aner Shapira, 22, is also seen intercepting with his hands a grenade that terrorists had tossed into the bunker, and throwing it back out—one of seven grenades the off-duty soldier would successfully hurl out from the shelter, helping ensure some survivors could make it out. It was the eighth that ultimately killed him, detonating in his grasp.
Nitzan Rahoum, 28, is heard shouting, “They took Lidor,” shortly after Lidor Levy, her fiancé and the father of her unborn baby, was gunned down. Rahoum was killed by what was believed to be a grenade blast in the shelter.
It’s been two years since the events of October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists broke through the Gaza-Israel barrier, attacking military bases and massacring civilians in 21 communities. Across southern Israel, including at the music festival—held near the Gaza border as a celebration of “friends, love and infinite freedom”—terrorists murdered more than 1,100 people, including 39 children. Three of those were toddlers. Rape was endemic. If their crimes weren’t caught on security cameras or recorded by people in hiding, the terrorists livestreamed and posted them.
Yet people still blame the Jews. SMH.
Who do we blame for this? I wonder what they were doing before the bombs began falling.
“The tragic death toll from the violence in Gaza has far exceeded 44,000, seventy percent of whom are women and children. Over 13 thousand children have died, close to 800 under the age one.
Over 1,700 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed since the war broke out last year on 7 October following the attacks by Hamas and other armed groups in southern Israel, and more than 100 Israelis are still held hostage in Gaza.
According to Australian human rights lawyer, Chris Sidoti, "the number of children killed is the greatest number of any conflict in this century" in addition to the many children "wounded and affected by deaths of parents, siblings, grandparents, loss of limbs, traumatizing experiences, multiple displacement from their homes...affecting a larger number of children than any modern warfare has experienced."
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2024-11/gaza-war-deaths-exceed-44-thousand-over-13-thousand-children.html
Bill, todays newsletter fits right in with a book I just read about a month ago. It's the greatest leadership book I've ever picked up. I actually finished this one. It's titled, "Turn the Ship Around" by L. David Marquet. He was a Navy submarine captain who took over one of the worst performing subs in the fleet. The approach you talk about is similar to his. It's Leader-Leader instead of Leader-Follower. That someone in the military would create a system like this, when everything we know about the military is that orders come from the top down, you don't question them and you do what you're told, makes it all the more remarkable. I'm not spoiling it when I say it worked. He wouldn't have written the book if it didn't.
I cut the cable cord several years ago and now subscribe to HBO, AppleTV+, Netflix, Prime, and PBS. I was also a Paramount subscriber and just cut that cord yesterday. Since this is a psychological safe space I can freely say I will not financially support Ms. Weiss and CBS.