a legal minute you may wish to consider;
President Joe Biden should “be careful” with his proposal to reform the Supreme Court , Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested in a new interview.
The plan — which includes term limits, an enforceable ethics code, and a push for an amendment to crack down on presidential immunity — came up during an interview conducted by “Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Bream........watch....
Here is the short clip that ended Kamala’s first presidential campaign, X do your thing, make sure everyone sees this..........watch........
mr peters explores the world of insult, both intentional and otherwise;
No one likes being insulted – especially people without a sense of humor. But whether one likes it is beside the point.
“Insult” are – or at least, can be – subjective. A matter of feelings. Some people consider it insulting – hateful, even – to (as they style it) “misgender” someone. That is, to use the pronoun (e.g., Mr. or ma’am, or sir) that objectively and so correctly corresponds with their biology rather than their feelings. There are many other similar examples of affronted feelings, with the affronted characterizing those who affronted their feelings as having insulted them.
This has elaborated into their being hateful – with that latter being tantamount to criminal.
Which is to say, actionable.
Not in the sense of flipping whomever the bird. In the sense of demanding the person deemed insulting – or hateful – be punished for his “crime.”
It is said – by the affronted – that this is necessary else “hate” will spread. In fact, what will happen is that truth will be suppressed, because practically anything that someone says can be said to hurt the feelings of someone else. Note that it does not matter whether what’s been said is true...........more.......
fred relates some of his adventures among the yellow peril;
Ages ago, for reasons I no longer remember, I was wandering across Asia and decided to spend some time in Taiwan. The Chinese interested me, and Taiwan was then as close as it was practical to get. Then, as now, the Chinese were thought by many to be exotic, inscrutable, devious and unlike normal people such as ourselves. You know, opium dens, dragon ladies, assassinations by puff adder, that sort of thing. Given the importance of China today, the nature of these multitudinous people might bear thought.
As was commonly done in those days, I found a (very) cheap place to stay in the winding alleys downtown and settled in. Nice enough place, I thought, agreeable people, pretty girls. It is curious how unweird people turn out to be if you actually live among them, this being a principle I had discovered among the Thais, Viets, Mexicans, and Cambodians. I shared an apartment with another wandering young gringo, and a little Japanese mathematician named Sakai–”whiskey well” if I remember the characters of his name–and two young Chinese guys. One of them, Ding Gwo, played the guitar and wanted to be a rock star. The whole bunch were extraordinarily ordinary. The Chinese are in fact as exotic as potatoes. The kids act like kids anywhere, the women like women. They are not another species.
The girls dressed to be attractive and pretty, hardly a novelty among young women, and were often wildly successful. (Oriental women tend to appeal greatly to Western guys, the condition being known as “yellow fever” or “rice fever.” It is not a matter of sexual availability, the middle-class girls being less promiscuous than American, but just lovely and feminine. Chilly they were not.)
At night we sometimes went to a local hangout for the young, pretty much like any other though more innocent than the American today: Taiwan was decidedly authoritarian and being caught with drugs would not have led to a happy ending. Dim lights, soft drinks, Western rock, and considerable flirtation. It could have been Memphis.........more......
caitlin exposes some aspects of current israeli' 'leadership' and how they see things;
In an article titled “Smotrich: Might be ‘justified and moral’ to cause 2 million Gazans to die of hunger, but world won’t let us,” The Times of Israel reports the following:
“Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich implies he believes that blocking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is ‘justified and moral’ even if it causes 2 million civilians to die of hunger, adding however that the international community won’t allow this to happen.
“‘We are bringing in aid because there is no choice,’ Smotrich says at a conference in Yad Binyamin hosted by the Israel Hayom outlet. ‘We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger even though it might be justified and moral until our hostages are returned.’”
Liberal supporters of the state of Israel often talk about Israel’s Naziesque far right leaders like Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir like they’re some kind of fringe element in Israeli society, when really they’re both high-level officials in the Israeli government and play a crucial role in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. Just the other day it was announced that Netanyahu has appointed a new spokesman who openly supports the ethnic cleansing and colonization of the Gaza Strip; these freaks keep getting elevated to prominent positions within the Israeli power structure because of everything Israel is as a state............more.......
