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."
Chris Sidoti needs to take a look at the Christian Genocide in Nigeria as well, where more than 100K innocent people have been killed, 18,000 churches bombed or burned to the ground (although Al Jazeera will tell you it's a lie). Who is responsible for this? Same demographic, different faction. The jihadists don't want to coexist with western cultures and religions, they want world domination and are patient enough to roll it out over decades. The rest of the world better wake up.
I still blame Hamas. They knew full well that Israel would retaliate when they planned their raid but still chose to go ahead with it. Should not start something without considering the consequences. My heart aches for the people in Gaza, but what did Hans’s think would happen? It’s usually the innocents who pay in armed conflicts, rarely the generals.
Especially when the Hamas hide in tunnels & hospitals & schools & use civilians as shields. They only want to kill every Jew on this earth of ours & if any of them die they get 7 virgins in heaven. Y’all heard the young Hama man call his mom bragging he killed a Jew!! They ran into the streets with their hands covered in Jew blood shouting joyfully!!
If you didn’t hear or read that then you had your head buried in The New York Times or NPR
At this point I blame Hamas AND Israel; one started this particular situation and the other one won’t stop. This tribalism has been going on since ancient times. It is racism and it works both ways.
We clearly have tribalism in the US, it’s just a bit more sophisticated - for now. All bets are off once trump is able to incite matters in Chicago, Portland, and elsewhere. Then he thinks he can bring in the military and declare marshal law. That’s the playbook from history.
I wonder how many Israeli soldiers brag about killing Gaza civilians?
because they can, & get away with it? Because if a race or gender was blamed it would raise a huge ruckus! But Jew haters hate. And people think it's ok to shout & believe "Kill them from the river to the sea!!" Those Jew haters don't realize they'll be after others who don't bow down to their Allah next. Don't give up their belief that it's ok to kill gays. Don't think it's ok to not allow women to be educated.
but saying if Oct 7, 2023 had never happened, if Hamas prior to that had not taken over Palestine for 17 yrs & infiltrated w/ their propaganda, & by then the teenagers had learned to hate the Jews, & further saying that if the hostages would not have been taken, OR if every other country would have immediately cried for the release of the hostages & they would have been release on Oct 8, 2023, then no more deaths would have occurred - oh, then what would Jew haters say? But media, such as The New York Times had to retrack their headlines after the terrorist attack & hostage taking & RAPES of the hostages... The dearly beloved NYT didn't want to publish the truth, hmmm? But then they HAD to.
All haters hate someone or something. Perhaps we could begin with the hate here in the USA and work our way out. Real patriots embrace diversity. When you love your country, you love the people who reside there. Only by being better neighbors and taking a stand together against an evil, fascist regime do we create true power to the people. Anything less is a wannabe dictatorship and a political *%&#-show.
Totally agree. Being civilized is being able to hear and accept differing viewpoints, knowing that is does not lessen your views or who you are, just builds a stronger community. Diversity is not a bad word.
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.
Real safety comes when you have managers who know how to manage and trust their staff to do the jobs they were hired for. The worst kind of boss is a micromanager, so afraid of being wrong that they can’t have others be right. I have worked for both kinds of managers, you get a lot better results if you actually know how to manage let your people make mistakes and learn from them rather than punish them.
The Sr Manager I have worked for the last 2.5 years is the poster boy for worst manager ever. He is a micro manager, he does not trust, he doesn't want anyone but him making even the smallest of decisions - he is quite oppressive, but I am older and expensive; i.e. there are not a lot of opportunities out there so I keep my head down and work on keeping my team motivated. Your article has given me a new focus, "talk about what you are all trying to achieve togehter." It also give me hope to get some positive mojo going on vs always weighed down by the the constant disappointments our manager brings to the table. Thank you for sharing.
That is typically the sign of an insecure manager (it’s not you, it’s them). Luck won’t help but a strategy will; play to that and life will be happier for everyone.
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
Chris Sidoti needs to take a look at the Christian Genocide in Nigeria as well, where more than 100K innocent people have been killed, 18,000 churches bombed or burned to the ground (although Al Jazeera will tell you it's a lie). Who is responsible for this? Same demographic, different faction. The jihadists don't want to coexist with western cultures and religions, they want world domination and are patient enough to roll it out over decades. The rest of the world better wake up.
Perhaps he is looking at that. Do you know one way or the other?
You went somewhere else with a “what about” rather than responding to my question.
What is happening in Africa is sad and being ignored by the media in general. Between famine and civil wars, it’s a real mess.
I still blame Hamas. They knew full well that Israel would retaliate when they planned their raid but still chose to go ahead with it. Should not start something without considering the consequences. My heart aches for the people in Gaza, but what did Hans’s think would happen? It’s usually the innocents who pay in armed conflicts, rarely the generals.
Especially when the Hamas hide in tunnels & hospitals & schools & use civilians as shields. They only want to kill every Jew on this earth of ours & if any of them die they get 7 virgins in heaven. Y’all heard the young Hama man call his mom bragging he killed a Jew!! They ran into the streets with their hands covered in Jew blood shouting joyfully!!
If you didn’t hear or read that then you had your head buried in The New York Times or NPR
Some people consume more than the NYT or NPR. Others look at life like mors tua, vita mea.
I always wonder just how many virgins there actually are in heaven . . . .
Hahaha
At this point I blame Hamas AND Israel; one started this particular situation and the other one won’t stop. This tribalism has been going on since ancient times. It is racism and it works both ways.
We clearly have tribalism in the US, it’s just a bit more sophisticated - for now. All bets are off once trump is able to incite matters in Chicago, Portland, and elsewhere. Then he thinks he can bring in the military and declare marshal law. That’s the playbook from history.
I wonder how many Israeli soldiers brag about killing Gaza civilians?
because they can, & get away with it? Because if a race or gender was blamed it would raise a huge ruckus! But Jew haters hate. And people think it's ok to shout & believe "Kill them from the river to the sea!!" Those Jew haters don't realize they'll be after others who don't bow down to their Allah next. Don't give up their belief that it's ok to kill gays. Don't think it's ok to not allow women to be educated.
but saying if Oct 7, 2023 had never happened, if Hamas prior to that had not taken over Palestine for 17 yrs & infiltrated w/ their propaganda, & by then the teenagers had learned to hate the Jews, & further saying that if the hostages would not have been taken, OR if every other country would have immediately cried for the release of the hostages & they would have been release on Oct 8, 2023, then no more deaths would have occurred - oh, then what would Jew haters say? But media, such as The New York Times had to retrack their headlines after the terrorist attack & hostage taking & RAPES of the hostages... The dearly beloved NYT didn't want to publish the truth, hmmm? But then they HAD to.
All haters hate someone or something. Perhaps we could begin with the hate here in the USA and work our way out. Real patriots embrace diversity. When you love your country, you love the people who reside there. Only by being better neighbors and taking a stand together against an evil, fascist regime do we create true power to the people. Anything less is a wannabe dictatorship and a political *%&#-show.
Totally agree. Being civilized is being able to hear and accept differing viewpoints, knowing that is does not lessen your views or who you are, just builds a stronger community. Diversity is not a bad word.
Accept is the criteria
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.
c/p a great comment from someone on another site about Bari Weiss news:
Is a bunch of snowflake NYT's interns getting Bari Weiss to resign the biggest backfire in press history?
Real safety comes when you have managers who know how to manage and trust their staff to do the jobs they were hired for. The worst kind of boss is a micromanager, so afraid of being wrong that they can’t have others be right. I have worked for both kinds of managers, you get a lot better results if you actually know how to manage let your people make mistakes and learn from them rather than punish them.
The Sr Manager I have worked for the last 2.5 years is the poster boy for worst manager ever. He is a micro manager, he does not trust, he doesn't want anyone but him making even the smallest of decisions - he is quite oppressive, but I am older and expensive; i.e. there are not a lot of opportunities out there so I keep my head down and work on keeping my team motivated. Your article has given me a new focus, "talk about what you are all trying to achieve togehter." It also give me hope to get some positive mojo going on vs always weighed down by the the constant disappointments our manager brings to the table. Thank you for sharing.
Good luck, hold your head up
That is typically the sign of an insecure manager (it’s not you, it’s them). Luck won’t help but a strategy will; play to that and life will be happier for everyone.