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Saturday, February 15. 2025

Saturday morning links


The Free Press in Love - This Valentine’s Day, we’re sharing tales of
romance found in unexpected places—on rooftops, in newsrooms, across
continents, and in a fourth-grade crush that finally came true.


What's the difference between love and desire? The friendship component?


American Crocodiles Are Thriving in Florida’s Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Canals


Tick-tock


Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Bit of a Fad


Coffee is a cure


Liberal women the 'least happy and loneliest' in America, according to a new survey


Sorry, but government does not love you


‘Manifest Destiny’ on Mars: Trump’s remark stirs up disagreements in astronomy community


TESLA is a Nazi car


Saturday Miscellany


RFK Jr. Sworn In On Raw 32-Ounce Ribeye


NTSB Reveals New Details Regarding the Deadly D.C. Mid-Air Collision


The Department Of Education: A Boondoggle Since Its Inception. Parents should be in charge of the education of their children.


It's Your Own Damn Fault, Liberals


Trump has his framed mug-shot on the wall next to the door to the Oval Office.


A Master Troll


The Democrats’ reaction to the Department of Government Efficiency’s
necessary mission might seem a bit excessive. But it is understandable.
Their taxpayer-funded slush fund has been exposed.


It's not their $. Spending OPM is fun.


Surprise: HHS Wasted $22 Billion On Getting Cars And Homes For Fake Asylum Seekers


JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon GOES OFF on Employees Who Don’t Want to Return to Working in Person


Trump Revives Incandescent Light Bulbs, Puts an End to Biden-Era Ban


No more candles


Pampered greenie princelings set to jet into Brazil's COP30 rainforest summit advised to 'sleep under the stars'


James Carville admits Trump’s fast pace is leaving Democrats reeling: ‘We are overwhelmed’


Letitia James Steps on Multiple Rakes in Wild Rant Against Trump, Musk Over DOGE


Zeldin Cancels $50 Million Contract for Environmental Group Working for a ‘Free Palestine’. “The
days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist
groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over”


The Democrats are foaming at the mouth over everything the Trump administration does, but so far the public isn’t buying it.


Trump Is Unleashing DOGE on the Pentagon Budget: Here’s Where Musk Should Look


Full Charge: EPA Sent $160 Million to now Bankrupt Canadian Electric Bus Company


France, Arabs to Counter Trump Gaza Plan With Proposal to Keep Making
Same Mistake Again. The only alternative they can come up with is a
terrorist state.


Think more creatively....


Douglas Murray: Trump wants peace and an end to the war in Ukraine – it’s by far his toughest objective


No One Actually Objects to Resettling Gaza


Wasn't Gaza part of Egypt? Give it back...but they don't want it.


EU: Say, Maybe We Should Invest In Our Own Defense After All


The Guardian view on Trump and Putin: Ukraine’s future must not be decided without it: The US president wants to end this war – and is happy to do so on Russian terms


Sheesh. I guess Trump and I are Russian stooges.

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re No One Actually Objects to Resettling Gaza

Ok. Good. Resettle them.

But who wants to take them?

Greenfield makes no mention of where they should go, or who should pay for it.

Finally, does removing the Palestinians also remove their overriding desire to kill Jews?
#1 feeblemind on 2025-02-15 10:04 (Reply)
Events of the last fourteen or fifteen months indicate an overiding desire by quite a few Jews to kill Palestinians, not all of whom held or hold such desires to kill Jews. Your justification to tar all Palestinians, including even their children, with the sins of Hamas is not justified.

The Israelis are usurpers, invaders and thieves, no less than the immigrants that the people of the United States rightly want removed from their own country.
#1.1 DeGaulle on 2025-02-15 10:18 (Reply)
I have to ask myself - with dozens of tanks, and other vehicles, aircraft, hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, nuclear weapons, air to surface munitions, artillery, and 10's of thousands of troops, I wonder if Hamas would've left any Israelis, or anyone else who happened to be in Israel (40 other countries had nationals kidnapped or killed 10/07) alive. Probably not, based on what they did with just small arms and a few hundred troops and "civilian" auxiliaries in tow. You can peddle your make the world Judenrein/Israel is genocidal crap elsewhere.
#1.1.1 BornSouthern on 2025-02-16 15:01 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Wasn't Gaza part of Egypt?

Yes, under the Mamluks, having driven out the Crusaders and Mongols. Been a while. By the 1300s, Gaza was "large and populous, and has many mosques," indicating the long history of Palestinian life in Gaza.
#2 Zachriel on 2025-02-15 10:21 (Reply)
1967 map of Egypt showing them possessing "The Gaza Strip."

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt,_1967.jpg
#2.1 feeblemind on 2025-02-15 10:36 (Reply)
feeblemind: 1967 map of Egypt showing them possessing "The Gaza Strip.

That's correct. After the All-Palestine Protectorate dissolved, the United Arab Republic then Egypt briefly occupied Gaza, from 1959 to 1967, but that doesn't make Gaza "part of Egypt", which has its own distinct culture and history.
#2.1.1 Zachriel on 2025-02-15 10:58 (Reply)
"Moslem" and "Palestinian" are not synonymous. Nor does 1300 AD predate 1000 BC.
#2.2 James on 2025-02-15 14:06 (Reply)
James: "Moslem" and "Palestinian" are not synonymous.

Of course not. The people of Palestine largely converted to Islam and adopted Arab culture after the conquest, though some have remained Christians to this day. (Arabic speaking Christians use the word "Allah" for God.)

James: Nor does 1300 AD predate 1000 BC.

While Jews have an ancient history in the region, it's also clear that so do the Palestinians, confirmed by patrilineal genetic studies. Indeed, according to tradition, they share a common ancestor in Abraham.
#2.2.1 Zachriel on 2025-02-15 15:16 (Reply)
Most of the "Palestinians" are from surrounding countries and not native to Gaza. They have been known to travel to Jorden and Syria to visit relatives. Most of them came to that area in the 1920's as illegal immigrants.
#2.2.1.1 OneGuy on 2025-02-15 15:51 (Reply)
Note how y-chromosomes show Palestinians nestled within Jewish groups. See Hammer et al., Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2000.
#2.2.1.2 Zachriel on 2025-02-16 09:19 (Reply)
Pedantic much?
#2.2.1.2.1 Zachinoff on 2025-02-16 20:39 (Reply)
"What's the difference between love and desire?" Better question: What's the difference between love and lust. Lust at first sight? Sure. Love at first sight? No. Love takes time, sometimes a lot of time.
#3 Stargazer on 2025-02-15 10:32 (Reply)
For your comment to mean anything, you need to objectively define the ambiguous term "love." But even in its "highest" form, romantic love is inseparable from lust for most males. We fall in love with women we find sexually attractive. We do not fall in love with women we do not find sexually attractive. And we make our evaluation of a woman's sexual attractiveness within a few seconds of seeing them the first time.
#3.1 James on 2025-02-15 14:23 (Reply)
"Events of the last fourteen or fifteen months indicate an overiding desire by quite a few Jews to kill Palestinians,"

Exactly the reaction any reasonable person should expect towards a people who daily repeat the vilest antisemitisms and repeatedly target Jewish civilians with violence almost every day for decades.

There are over a million "Palestinians" living in Israel. There are no Jews living in Gaza. Yet you have the temerity to imply that Jews are the problem. They are not. But you are.
#4 James on 2025-02-15 14:14 (Reply)
Offer Gaza back to Egypt. If Egypt won't accept it, the Arab world has washed its hands of the matter and Israel can do what's necessary.
#5 TWS on 2025-02-15 21:15 (Reply)

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