Teen Israeli girl killed as family hit

by bomb at West Bank spring 3 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply A teenage girl was killed and her father and brother were seriously injured in a terrorist bombing at a natural spring outside the central West Bank settlement of Dolev on Friday morning, Israeli officials said. Rina Shnerb, 17, of Lod, was critically wounded in the attack and received treatment at the scene from civilian and military medics before being pronounced dead of her injuries. Her father Eitan, a rabbi in Lod, and brother Dvir, 19, were taken by military helicopter to a Jerusalem hospital in serious condition, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. Teen Israeli girl killed as family hit by bomb at West Bank spring. Israel Defense

Why Obama dropped Biden 7 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply One of the more poignant moments of Barack Obama’s presidency came at the very end, in January 2017, just days before he left the White House. He awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Obama spoke at great length about their personal friendship and praised Biden’s leadership. In response, Biden said he knew that, no matter what, Obama would always be there for him. Obama: “It was 8 1/2 years ago that I chose Joe to be my vice president. There has not been a single moment since that time that I have doubted the wisdom of that decision. …

Trade Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 7 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply Wars happen because the opposing sides have different views of the likely outcome. In the case of wars between Asians and the West, the West chronically underestimates the Asians. The Romanov Dynasty fell in large part because it lost its entire fleet in two catastrophic engagements with Japan's Imperial Navy, at Port Arthur in 1904 and the Tsushima Strait in 1905. Britain would have lost the whole of its Asian Empire to Japan after the fall of Singapore in February 1942, except for the United States. Just before Singapore fell, Churchill told a journalist (as Andrew Roberts reports in his new Churchill book) that the Japanese were "the wops of

Hasbro Has a New 'Monopoly: Socialism'

Game and Socialists Are Not Happy 10 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply A few weeks ago, my wife and I took a deep breath and then reluctantly replied "sure" to our kids' request that we play Monopoly for family game night. As most of us can attest, Monopoly requires a level of commitment that no family game night should require, and it's not really that fun to begin with. Hasbro's new "Monopoly: Socialism," though, sounds like a hoot and a great way to continue to teach my kids why socialism is for the math-, economics-, and history-challenged among us. Sadly, I have been completely unaware of this new game that mocks socialism as only a brilliant capitalist company can.

Serial killer who targeted gay men

executed in Florida after eating hearty

last meal 6 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply A mass murderer known as the “I-95 killer,” who spent the majority of 1994 targeting gay men -- including a Navy World War II veteran -- ate three burgers, fries and bacon before he was executed late Thursday in Florida. Gary Ray Bowles, 57, was pronounced dead at 10:58 p.m. Thursday evening after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said. Bowles had already eaten his last meal by 3 p.m. that afternoon, prison officials told WJXT. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal filed by Bowles’ attorneys earlier Thursday that argued their client was not mentally fit

Trial in the Clearwater parking lot shooting:

Day 4, making the case 4 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply KATHRYN (3:39 p.m.) The state rests its case. KATHRYN (3:38 p.m.) We’re back from the break. Drejka attorney Theresa Jean-Pierre Coy is up for cross-examination. Coy starts off establishing that Goldberger is not a medical doctor. He has a doctorate degree but not a medical degree. Coy asks about MDMA. It’s illegal? Yes. If it’s found on someone’s person it’s a felony? Yes. Symptoms of taking MDMA also include anxiety? No, that’s not likely, he says. “Anxiety is not a usual symptom,” he says, citing a study in which patients were examined on the day they took the drug, and the fourth and seventh days after. Coy asks if they could have had anxiety on the other

'I-95 Killer' Gary Ray Bowles, serial killer

who targeted gay men, to be executed

Aug. 22 14 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply Serial killer Gary Ray Bowles is on death row in Florida. He is expected to face execution on August 22. Sometimes known as “The I-95 killer,” Bowles admitted to the 1994 slayings of six men along the interstate corridor between Daytona Beach and Maryland. Bowles targeted gay men. According to a 1994 profile by the Washington Post, Bowles already had a history as a violent criminal before he embarked on the 1994 killing spree. After leaving an abusive home at 14, he earned money working as a prostitute. In 1982, 20-year-old Bowles was sentenced to eight years in prison for the brutal beating and sexual assault of a girlfriend in Tampa.

The Collapse of English Lit at Columbia 8 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply Scenes from the higher education apocalypse: I don’t know whether Columbia University’s graduate program in English literature is as premier in the field as it was back in the glory days of Lionel Trilling, but yesterday the Chronicle of Higher Education reported this: Columbia Had Little Success Placing English Ph.Ds on Tenure Track. “Alarm” Followed, and the University Responded The story is unfortunately behind the Chronicle‘s paywall, but when you get into the story it turns out the headline is misleading: It should read “No Success” rather than “Little Success,” because the number of Columbia English Ph.Ds placed in tenure-tracked jobs this year was Zero.

Neighbor called ‘hero’ after killing domestic

violence suspect, helping children to safety,

Pasco sheriff says 8 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply A Pasco County man is being called a “hero” after authorities say he shot and killed a domestic violence suspect and helped several children to safety Wednesday in Trinity. The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 6:50 p.m. concerning neighbors that were involved in a shootout, Sheriff Chris Nocco said during a news conference Wednesday night. A person inside a house was screaming for help “as they were being attacked," Nocco said. Detectives later found evidence inside the house, including blood, that indicated an attack had occurred. The house was in disarray, and a “physical altercation was going on,” Nocco said.

Is Snopes a satire site? 8 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply The Babylon Bee, which describes itself as “Christian news satire,” has been engaged in a running battle with Snopes.com, a liberal “fact check” site that serves mostly as a mouthpiece for the left. Snopes has repeatedly undertaken, with a straight face, to “fact check” Babylon Bee stories that are obviously humorous. This has given rise to considerable ridicule, but some suspect that Snopes has a more sinister purpose in mind: to give liberals at platforms like Facebook an excuse to downgrade or even ban the sharing of Bee posts. The humorless left has nothing like the Bee, and would like to get rid of it.

The Cage 23 replies Posted by Hazymac — Post Reply The notion that the world might not be real may seem like madness but it is a serious proposition at least in academic circles. Max Tegemark, an MIT physicist invited to a debate over whether the universe was a simulation, finds it suggestive that everything we see is driven by information. (Snip) That weirdness may have impelled Preston Greene, an assistant professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, to opine in the New York Times that we would be better off not finding out. "I am writing to warn that conducting these experiments could be a catastrophically bad idea —