I used to be worried about having to idle on a hill while driving a manual transmission vehicle. Like backsweat.

But I got used to it. Time and practice. You start to see all the subtle motions and patterns; you start to know what you didn’t know you didn’t know.

Now it is just a basic part of the driving experience. It’s a road condition, like weather. Voting, especially in federal elections and especially the general one every four years for president, is not the only or even the main course of politics.

Same story with parallel parking–which would be, I dunno: primary voting in this metaphor. Where the promise of a better way gets crammed between two other poorly parked cars and you always end up a few inches too far from the curb.

Shit just having it would be a win in my book.

Whichever one is willing to say ceasefire now.

They know liberal sensibilities very well.

Like planting trees to displace Palestinians. They can play the uncritical like a fiddle.

There’s a red line somewhere in there.

Hundreds of thousands of temporary shelters would also be delivered.

Reconstruction will not be overnight and theres a lot of things like schools and hospitals to rebuild too.

The plan is to work with partners towards reconstruction. I know that terminology well: If I am to compare this to how this kind of stuff is handled domestically after say, a natural disaster: a lot of people are going to be left waiting a long time in rubble.

Palestinian civilians would also be allowed to return to their homes across the enclave

Oof.

They’ll be welcome to pick up the rubble and extract the remains of their family on their own time and labor.

This is the faction a lot of our elected leaders think should be ‘strong’.

It was more of a “You’re management material” type situation.

I think Miami or just Florida as a whole has the highest concentration of deposed dictators in the world.

So fucked it is even happening but at least we should get a good picture over which members of Congress are devotees to a foreign power so we can never vote for them again.

The most predictable result to the point this was arguably the intended result?

No way!

The United States and Israel are probably the two entities least able to criticize China’s response to Islamist terrorist attacks.

Everyone else? Uh sure, go nuts.

Regardless of the technicalities and nuances in the reporting: this is a good thing.

Or: dose them both the fuck up. Let’s see the both of them up there rolling like the old lady from Requiem for a Dream.

Sweatshirt when zipped, jacket when unzipped, always hoodie.

Hell I just mix strong black coffee with hot chocolate and add half and half or whipping cream for added decadence.

Bulk, cheapest grocery outlet store coffee and any hot chocolate that isn’t nestle because fuck nestle.

That’s a heavy sentence. I am curious if she is the most sympathetic case or what are the situations with those other 12 who appear to have received lesser sentences?

The court also announced sentences of between four and 14 years for 12 other participants in the demonstration for the same crimes.

Given the conditions the hospitals had been operating under and for how long, it is entirely plausible the mass graves were the hospitals trying to get the dead out of the building to make room for more wounded patients.

Thing is there have also been reports of bodies with their hands bound in them so there definitely seems to be something to investigate FFS.

Israel is pretty much Bernie’s worst position, and he still one of the best senators on the issue. His worst take is still the best take around.