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RIP, Doughboy. America thanks you and your distinguished colleagues
for your contribution to the obesity epidemic in America.
Morning, MG. Good one.
Stay safe and eat well.
Be patient. It's not the end of the world. Monday isn't over yet...AND
Preview just worked for me.
Yee Haw! THANKS, @IH Geek [Meatloaf]
Have a good one, All.
Hang in there. The fix is in the works: https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173062443
P.S. Woke up thinking... like whoops. I should have made screen shots.
Thanks to whomever for removing the questionable post.
Bizarre it was.
@IH Geek [Meatloaf] @IH Geek [Tom] @IH Admin [Shelly] Yipe. What's going on with the post I'm replying to?
"More" is not spelled 'Moor'. On this guy's post, it does not have the option to report it.
The post prior to his, it's still spelled 'Moor', but you have the option to report it. I'm about to clean my history, cookies, etc. etc. I'll log on again in the morning.
Edit: I went back to look at the post. 'More' was normal and I reported it as spam.
When I clicked on 'here' to go back to the post, it was screwed up again.
No. I have not had anything to drink and my pot-smoking days are long ago history.
Edit 2: Reported the post again to see what would happen. Clicked here, went back to the post, and saw 'More' change to 'Moor'. Ay-yi-yi Caramba!
Maher: Don’t Go to an Elite College Like I Did, They’re Bigoted North Korean Re-Education Camps That Make You Dumb
IAN HANCHETT21 Oct 2023 3:36
(Could not agree more.)
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher urged students not to go to elite colleges because doing so “just makes you stupid” and that these elite schools are “a North Korean re-education camp” that are racist towards Asian applicants that don’t teach history and “if ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market.”
Maher began by saying, “As an Ivy League graduate who knows the value of a liberal education, I have one piece of advice for the youth of America: Don’t go to college, and if you absolutely have to go, don’t go to an elite college, because, as recent events have shown, it just makes you stupid. There are few, if any, positives to come out of what happened in Israel, but one of them is opening America’s eyes to how higher education has become indoctrination into a stew of bad ideas, among them the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone either an oppressor or oppressed. In the case of Israel, oppressors being babies and bubbes. The same students who will tell you that words are violence, and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings. They knew where to point the fingers, at the murdered. And then it was off to ethics class.”
He added, “Now, I recognize that a certain amount of foolishness is expected of college kids, but mixing Jägermeister and tomato juice isn’t the same as siding with terrorists. Thirty-four student groups at Harvard signed a letter that said, ‘the apartheid regime is the only one to blame,’ proving they don’t know what constitutes apartheid. They don’t know much of anything, actually. But it doesn’t deter them from having an opinion. They’ve convinced themselves Israel is the most repressive regime in history, because they have no knowledge of history, or even a desire to know it, and actual history doesn’t come up in their intersectionality of politics and genderqueer identities class.”
Maher further stated, “Now, to be fair, at least five of the student groups have rescinded what they signed, saying they didn’t read the letter closely and they promised not to make that mistake again after they graduate and start running the world. I actually believe them that they didn’t read the letter closely. I think they scanned it, [saw] it was blaming Israel, and went back to surfing TikTok. Because college life today is a day spa combined with a North Korean re-education camp. It’s a daycare center with a meal plan, except the toddlers can fire the adults. The fact that college presidents, who usually love to speak out about anything, couldn’t find their voice to condemn the worst attack [on Jews] since the Holocaust says a lot about who really controls colleges, and why, if ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market.”
He added that elite schools are “the mouth of the river from which…all manner of radical left, illiberal — yes, illiberal — nonsense flows, supporting all-black — that is, segregated — dorms, segregated graduation ceremonies and orientation programs — which occur on hundreds of campuses — is illiberal. So is the racism against Asian applicants, and chasing speakers off of campus.”
Maher further rattled off a list of right-wing figures who went to elite institutions and stated that it’s “repulsive” to watch them pretend they hate elitists.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/21/maher-dont-go-to-an-elite-college-like-i-did-theyre-bigoted-north-korean-re-education-camps-that-make-you-dumb/
Good observation and GM, Gmenfan.
Forget Taylor Swift, a 120-year-old subway station is NYC’s hottest ticket
By Alex Mitchell Published Oct. 20, 2023, 4:44 p.m. ET
(Having lived in Manhattan for 21 years, I'd love to see this. However at this point, I have no desire to set foot in there.)
It’s not fare.
New Yorkers are clamoring to get a peak at the splendid Old City Hall subway station that that served the city from 1904 to 1945.
But, the only way to get a good look is via tours offered solely to members of the New York Transit Museum. They go on sale three times a year and sell out in minutes.
“It really is like Taylor Swift tickets,” said Phil Carracci, a 66-year-old retiree who lives in Murray Hill and has been trying to see the station for years without success. “So few people have seen it.”
Last August, Carracci finally snagged a ticket for a fall tour by making sure he was at his computer at 9:59 a.m., prepared to click at 10 a.m.
A chance to see the Old City Hall subway station is the hottest ticket in town. It’s also one of the hardest to get your hands on.
Patrick Cashin/MTA NYC Transit
It’s a good thing he was at the ready.
This fall’s 16 tours sold out in 20 minutes.
It was even crazier for the spring tours, which sold out in seven minutes.
The first car of the 6 train transports tour goers to the hidden stop.
Courtesy of the New Yrk Transit Museum
“It’s like trying to win the lottery, it’s almost impossible,” said Sindi Schorr, a real estate broker from the Upper East Side who managed to snag a ticket for a fall tour.
Even tour guides are sympathetic to the fact that a trip to the station is more exclusive than field level seats for the World Series.
“People will come up to me and say ‘I tried the last three offerings you’ve had and I haven’t been able to [get tickets]’ and they’ll give me all their sob stories,” museum tour guide and transit expert Polly Desjarlais told The Post.
The rounded staircase for Old City Hall station is shown.
The Old City Hall station is a destination for many New Yorkers.
Patrick Cashin/MTA NYC Transit
“I feel for them, I really do.”
The stunning stop — one of the original 28 — is the only station to feature arched tile ceilings and one of just a few with skylights. Other notable features include chandeliers and a distinctly rounded platform.
Architects George Heins and Christopher LaFarge, along with Spanish artisan Rafael Guastavino, had just designed the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights when recruited for the station.
Old City Hall is the only station to feature arched tile ceilings.
Marc A. Hermann/MTA NYC Transit
They incorporated some of the Byzantine-Romanesque elements they’d used uptown.
“It just gives you just a wonderful feeling when you walk in, especially when daylight pools through the skylights on the platform,” Desjarlais said.
“It’s a very romantic subway station.”
Old City Hall station was a filming location for “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
While striking, the station wan’t very practical, and it was one of the least popular stops.
The 250-foot curved platform could not be used by cars with center doors without modifications, and the platform’s shortness meant those in the back of the train had to walk forward.
Another inconvenience was that those who wished to travel south beyond City Hall or into Brooklyn would have to stop at the nearby, currently existing Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station, go upstairs and transfer to another train to make their way.
Tour goers also get to explore the upper platform of the station.
Marc A. Hermann/MTA NYC Transit
Since the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall stop was so close, it made sense for people just to walk there.
By 1923 Old City Hall was one of the few stations not to have turnstiles.
It was decommissioned in 1946 in favor of more modern stations.
Passengers are seen boarding a train at Old City Hall during its original use in a black and white picture.
Old City Hall station operated from 1904 to 1945.
New York Transit Collection
But, its beauty continues to enthrall.
It was featured in a magical duel in 2016 “Fantastic Beasts” and inspired the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” hideout.
Tours begin above ground at Broadway and Warren Street — where a guide like Desjarlais will give a detailed history of the NYC subway — before heading underground at the current City Hall.
There, guests pile into the first car of a 6 train which will take them a few klicks down-track to the olden station, where they can get off and walk around the curved platform for about a half hour.
Then, everyone heads up a round, arched staircase to see the former control house, ticket booth zone, and entrance area.
(Above ground, that entrance is now a bulkhead exit in Steve Flanders Square that’s closed off and used only for emergencies.)
The journey ends by catching the subway from Old City Hall and heading uptown to the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall stop.
“It was pretty awesome,” said Caracci, who toured the station earlier this week.
“The care, the design and the engineering of this is amazing.”
For Schorr, it was a truly transformative experience.
“It feels like there are spirits down there and they’re like wearing their clothes of the time and top hats,” she said.
“That train is like a time machine.”
Tours cost $50 and the necessary memberships begin at $65.
A director’s circle membership, costing $250 to $1,000, earns a priority presale for the tickets.
Corporate partner members, who must contribute at least $1,000, get a private tour of Old City Hall.
Some intrepid New Yorkers who can’t snag a ticket make use of a hack to get a glimpse.
Since the 6 train terminates at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, it uses the old station as a turnaround point to go uptown.
Conductors typically call for “last stop” and ask all passengers to disembark, but if you remain on the train, you will get a quick glimpse of Old City Hall.
Staying on the train is within the rules of New York City Transit, an MTA spokesperson confirmed to The Post.
“I often joke that it’s like the worst kept secret in the city that you could actually do this now,” Desjarlais said.
“It really is this beautiful thing just hiding beneath your feet.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/old-city-hall-subway-station-is-nycs-hottest-ticket/
Hold your cursor over the number. The names of the people who liked the post should show.
Thanks, Meatloaf. I'll be patient.
Good luck with it and whatever else gets thrown your way.
Take care.
Hiya, Mr. G. I don't remember him from the movie but
I recognized him instantly.
He played Louis the Serial Rapist in a Law and Order episode.
Thanks, Shelly. I appreciate the quick response.
Thanks also to @IH Geek [Meatloaf] .
The preview option doesn't seem to be working.
Happened last night around 8:00 (EDT) and is still happening this morning.
I hit preview and it just hangs. Message is " Loading preview, please wait..."
Is it me? Lenovo laptop/Win7/Edge browser.
Thanks.
@IH Geek [Tom] @IH Geek [Chuck] @IH Geek [Meatloaf]
Burt Young, ‘Rocky’ star, dead at 83
By Erin Keller and Michael Blinn Published Oct. 18, 2023, 10:07 p.m. ET
Burt Young, the actor best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as Sylvester Stallone’s sidekick in “Rocky,” has reportedly died.
He was 83.
His death was confirmed Wednesday by his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, according to The New York Times.
The Post has contacted a rep for Young for comment.
Young’s breakout role as Paulie Pennino in “Rocky” — playing the titular boxer’s best friend and brother of his love interest — came as one of the movie’s more veteran actors at the time.
“I was the only actor that didn’t audition in the first ‘Rocky,’” he told The Rumpus in 2017. “And I got the most money for it.”
The 1976 part in the Stallone written film earned him an Oscar nomination for supporting actor — even if the New York Times shredded the rest of the movie.
“Burt Young is effective as Rocky’s best friend, a beer-guzzling mug,” the critique read.
“I made him a rough guy with a sensitivity,” Mr. Young later said of Paulie, a role he reprised five more times in the series, most recently in “Rocky Balboa” in 2006. “He’s really a marshmallow, even though he yells a lot.”
The character of Paulie died in 2012, keeping Young out of 2015’s “Creed,” but his importance to the franchise remains.
“To my Dear Friend, BURT YOUNG, you were an incredible man’s and artist, I and the World will miss you very much…RIP,” Stallone wrote in a tribute posted to Instagram.
Born in Queens in 1940, many of the facts surrounding Young’s youth have remained in dispute.
Young grew up in Corona before his father sent him outside the neighborhood for schooling to keep him off the streets — not that it helped.
At the age of 16, he enlisted in the Marines — “my pop fibbing my age to get me in,” he wrote in the foreword to “Corona: The Early Years,” (2015), by Jason D. Antos and Constantine E. Theodosiou — serving from 1957-59.
During that stint he became a boxer, going on to a brief professional career with an approximated 17-1 record, by his own varying accounts.
Even his last name is a matter of debate, as he began using Burt Young when he decided to become an actor, studying under Lee Strasberg for two years in his late 20s.
Young had over 160 film and television credits to his name, including “Chinatown” and “Once Upon a Time in America.”
https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/burt-young-rocky-star-dead-at-83/
Suzanne Somers dead at 76 following cancer battle
By Ian Mohr and Emily Selleck Published Oct. 15, 2023, 3:21 p.m. ET
Suzanne Somers lost her years-long battle with cancer just one day before her 77th birthday, Page Six can sadly confirm.
The actress died early Sunday morning at the age of 76, the star’s longtime publicist, R. Couri Hay, told us.
“Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of Oct. 15. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years,” he said.
“Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband, Alan [Hamel], her son, Bruce, and her immediate family.”
Hay noted that Somers’ family had planned to gather on what would have been her 77th birthday Monday.
“Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly,” he concluded his statement.
“A private family burial will take place this week, with a memorial to follow next month.”
A friend of the “Three’s Company” star told Page Six she died beside her husband, Hamel.
“She died in her new ‘all green home’ in Palm Springs in her sleep with her loving husband by her side,” they said.
Another source told us that Hamel had given his wife of 46 years an early birthday present shortly before she passed.
“[It was a] handwritten love poem wrapped in her favorite pink peonies,” they revealed.
The tragic news comes less than three months after Hamel told Page Six that the TV icon’s breast cancer had returned.
The “Step by Step” star was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time in her 50s after battling skin cancer in her 30s and overcoming “two hyperplasia” in her 20s, Hamel explained.
“I have been living with cancer since my 20s. And every time that little f—ker pops up, I continue to bat it back,” Somers shared with “Entertainment Tonight” in July.
“I do my best not to let this insidious disease control me,” she added.
“It’s a recurrence of my breast cancer. Like any cancer patient, when you get that dreaded, ‘It’s back’ you get a pit in your stomach. Then I put on my battle gear and go to war. This is familiar battleground for me and I’m very tough.”
The blond beauty is survived by her son, Bruce Jr., whom she shared with her ex-husband, Bruce Somers.
She was also a stepmom to Stephen and Leslie Hamel from her husband’s previous marriage, and was a loving grandmother to six grandchildren.
https://pagesix.com/2023/10/15/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-following-cancer-battle/
When did it become acceptable to defend the slaughter of Jewish children?
By Michael Goodwin Published Oct. 14, 2023, 9:35 p.m. ET
The brutal success of the Hamas terror attack and the failure of Israeli intelligence rank as the biggest shocks of a horrifying week.
But not far behind are the open and chilling expressions of antisemitism in the United States and around the world.
Hordes of ignorant Americans, most of them college students who couldn’t find the Mideast on a map, played the role of Hamas stooges by skipping school and denouncing Israel.
Whether they know it not, their chanting of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a call for the elimination of Israel.
That puts them in sync with the charter of Hamas and makes them supporters of terrorism.
When did it become socially and morally acceptable to defend the slaughter of Jewish civilians, including children?
Is this what colleges are teaching?
Yet if they are appalled by their students, most administrators are doing a good job of concealing it.
Their reputations for spinelessness are confirmed given their sanitized expressions of sympathy for everyone “impacted.”
The leader of the pack is Harvard’s new president, who churned out three statements of pure mush that managed to please no one.
The blowback from donors and potential future employers was a wake-up call from the real world.
It turns out that pushing for a second Holocaust and defending rape and torture aren’t good career moves even if you have an Ivy League degree.
Youthful ignorance is certainly no defense at the United Nations, which always treats the only Jewish state as a pariah.
It stayed true to form, warning frantically about the danger to civilians in Gaza, but made nary a peep about dead civilians in Israel.
After all, they’re just Jews.
Fortunately, amid the distressing din and signs the whole world has gone mad, some people managed to see through the fog of war to separate good from evil.
Here are three reassuring examples of wisdom in a time of turmoil.
My favorite phrase cuts like a knife and comes from Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres.
He represents parts of The Bronx, but last week, Torres, a longtime supporter of Israel, became a voice of sanity when many in his party had their heads screwed on backward or played Chicken Little.
“There are those who are skeptical about words like ‘moral clarity’ and ‘evil,’?” Torres wrote on X.
“But there’s a danger of becoming so skeptical that one loses moral common sense.”
‘Hamas is evil’
“Hamas is evil,” he added.
“Its cold-blooded murder of Israeli civilians and children is evil. Both the actor and the act must be condemned with nothing less than moral clarity.”
Earlier, Torres also blasted the Democratic Socialists of America, part of the Dems’ far-left flank, which held a pro-Palestinian rally that drew open antisemites.
It later apologized, but Torres wasn’t having it.
The apology, he wrote, was so weak it couldn’t “even be bothered to mention, much less condemn, Hamas and its mass murder of Jews.”
He called the DSA “despicable, detestable, disgraceful, and disgraced.”
Now that’s moral clarity!
Mayor Adams also cut through the BS with an inspired speech at a “New York Stands with Israel” rally.
He began by saying that when an aide, presumably Jewish, said that “we are not all right,” it hit him in “my soul.”
“We are not all right when Hamas believes that they are fighting on behalf of something and their destructive, despicable action they carried out,” the mayor said.
“We are not all right when we still have hostages who have not come home to their family. We are not all right, and we’re not going to say we have a stiff upper lip and act like everything is fine.”
“Everything is not fine. Israel has a right to defend itself.”
His passion rising, Adams, speaking without notes, went on:
“Your fight is our fight. And right here in New York we have the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. This is the place that our voices must raise and cascade throughout the entire country. We will not be all right until every person responsible for this act is held accountable.”
‘You marched with us’
The speech lasted just four minutes, but managed to cover every base, including the historic alliance between blacks and Jews.
“Your fight is my fight,” the mayor said.
“That swastika not only displays the pain of antisemitism, it displays the pain of racism among African Americans.”
“You marched with us with Dr. King. You stood with us with all the fights we have. And I’m saying we’re going to stand with you and stand united together.”
“And we don’t have to be all right. We should be angry at what we saw.”
Bravo! It was Adams at his best, and there’s a must-see video online.
The third public person who got it right is Ben Sasse, a former Republican senator from Nebraska and now the president of the University of Florida.
In the same spirit as Torres and Adams, his letter to alumni is a model of moral clarity that shames his cowardly colleagues.
He begins: “I will not tiptoe around this simple fact: What Hamas did is evil and there is no defense for terrorism. This shouldn’t be hard.”
“Sadly, too many people in elite academia have been so weakened by their moral confusion that, when they see videos of raped women, hear of a beheaded baby, or learn of a grandmother murdered in her home, the first reaction of some is to ‘provide context’ and try to blame the raped women, beheaded baby, or the murdered grandmother.”
‘Sickening’ thinking
“This thinking isn’t just wrong, it’s sickening. It’s dehumanizing. It is beneath people called to educate our next generation of Americans.”
“In the coming days, it is possible that anti-Israel protests will come to UF’s campus. I have told our police chief and administration that this university always has two foundational commitments: We will protect our students and we will protect speech.”
“This is always true: Our Constitution protects the rights of people to make abject idiots of themselves.?.?.?. When evil raises its head, as it has in recent days, it is up to men and women of conscience and courage to draw strength from truth and commit ourselves to the work of building something better — to the work of pursuing justice and pursuing peace. That is what we aim to do through education, compassion, and truth here at the University of Florida.”
Given the horrors of the last week, optimism is in short supply in the civilized world.
With Russia’s continuing war in Ukraine and now with Iran pulling the terror strings, Israel and the West are entering into an extremely dangerous period.
All the more reason, then, to treasure these three examples of courage and moral clarity.
We will all need lots of both in coming days.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/14/the-ongoing-fight-in-the-middle-east-is-your-fight-too-as-israel-prepares-for-invasion/
GM, Gmenfan. Interesting perspective.
I don't know what to believe.
My primary thoughts are two memories.
Many, many years ago, a Coastie helped me out of a jam, He had spent time in the Middle East.
His take on the situation: Build a wall around it, throw the weapons in, and let them destroy themselves.
That is the only thing that will end this conflict which has gone on since the beginning of time.
My brother-in-law had heavy-duty hostage rescue training.
The Americans and Israelis approached the exercise with different goals.
American: The hostages must get out alive.
Israeli: The hostage takers must die.
Batten down the hatches. This is going to be very ugly.
There will be no winners.
I thank God every day I was born in the USA.
Exclusive: House Republicans Introduce ‘GAZA Act’ to Stop Biden from Importing Palestinians to U.S.
JOHN BINDER 13 Oct 2023 2:13
(Totally necessary. Let's see how far this bill gets.)
Reps. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) and Andy Ogles (R-TN) are introducing legislation that would ban President Joe Biden’s administration from importing Palestinians to the United States to be resettled in American communities.
The bill, exclusively shared with Breitbart News ahead of its introduction, is titled the “Guaranteeing Aggressors Zero Admission Act” or the GAZA Act. The legislation would prevent Biden’s administration from issuing visas to those with Palestinian Authority passports.
“Following the horrific attack by Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists on innocent Israeli civilians, the last thing America ought to do is trust identity documents issued by the radicals that oversee these territories,” Tiffany said in a statement. “We need to put our security at home first and that starts by closing the door to bad actors who might be seeking to enter our country.”
Likewise, the bill would prevent Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from funneling Palestinians into the U.S. through the agency’s parole pipeline.
“At a time when the threat of terrorism is not only grotesquely on display but being encouraged and justified, it is critical that we do our best to ensure the security of our nation,” Ogles said.
Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden used his administration’s parole pipeline to resettle nearly 100,000 Afghans across American communities — many of whom were not interviewed in person beforehand and who were found to be linked to terrorism.
As Breitbart News reported, in Fiscal Year 2022 alone, Biden’s DHS gave green cards to about 63,000 legal immigrants to permanently resettle in the U.S. who arrived from countries previously included in a national travel ban list due to their involvement with terrorism.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/13/exclusive-house-republicans-introduce-gaza-act-to-stop-biden-from-importing-palestinians-to-u-s/
Morning, bbotcs. Just got through watching the last half hour of a Modern Marvels devoted to the Statue of Liberty and subsequently, Ellis Island.
The vetting process was brutal -- checks for health, financial means available, etc. Many were sent back.
The ones who got in were treated like trash. Eventually, they assimilated.
We need the vetting process back in place and NO welfare benefits for noncitizens, especially illegal aliens.
The culture that built this country is being destroyed by the free-for-all at the border.
Not surprising, Larry.
I've long admired your taste in music.
Rest in melodic peace, Rudolph Isley. This Old Heart of Mine
was one of the first five 45s I bought when we came back from Kwajalein in 1965.
I still have it in its original sleeve and I still love the song. Thank you for the music.
Watch: Sen. John Fetterman: ‘America Is Not Sending Their Best and Brightest to Washington, DC’
SIMON KENT 12 Oct 2023 4:01
(Videos and Tweets at the link.)
Good Morning, Mr. G. Could not agree more:
A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack
By Ariel Zilber Published Oct. 11, 2023, 6:38 p.m. ET
(Good for them. Rah rah ree... kick 'em in the knee.
Rah rah razz... kick 'em in the other knee.)
At least a dozen business executives have endorsed Bill Ackman’s call to deny hiring members of student groups at Harvard who signed on to a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ deadly attack on Saturday that killed more than 1,200 people, including at least 22 Americans.
Jonathan Newman, the CEO of salad chain Sweetgreen, was among a group of business honchos who seconded Ackman in urging that the signatories of the letter circulated by the a coalition of 34 Harvard student groups who “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Newman wrote in response to Ackman’s post on X on Tuesday.
“Same,” David Duel, CEO of healthcare services firm EasyHealth, wrote in response to Newman.
The backlash and possible blacklisting has led to a flurry of backpedaling by four of the initial student organizations attached to the inflammatory statement — while board members of other groups have quit to distance themselves.
Late Tuesday, 17 other Harvard groups joined around 500 faculty and staff and 3,000 others in signing a counter-statement attacking the other groups’ letter as “completely wrong and deeply offensive,” according to the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson.
A third letter from nearly 160 faculty members also ripped Harvard’s response to the scandal, writing that it “can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality.”
Fears that some of the nation’s brightest young minds had doomed their futures led former Harvard President Larry Summers to caution against singling out students who were “naive and foolish” about what they were signing.
“I yield to no one in my revulsion at the statement apparently made on behalf of 30 plus @Harvard student group,” Summers posted Wednesday on X, the rebranded Twitter site. “But please everybody take a deep breath. Many in these groups never saw the statement before it went out. In some cases those approving did not understand exactly what they were approving.”
“This is not a time where it is constructive to vilify individuals and I am sorry that is happening,” he added.
The former Treasury Secretary had taken school administrators to task for failing to explicitly condemn Hamas and denounce the student letter on Monday.
On Tuesday, Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, posted an item on his X social media account demanding that his alma mater release a list of names of those who belong to the student groups who co-signed the controversial statement.
“I have been asked by a number of CEOs if Harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members,” Ackman, who is married to Israeli-born MIT professor Neri Oxman, wrote on X.
I second this.
— Jake Wurzak (@JWurzak) October 10, 2023
Howdy, al. I think of Ihan Omar as...
the Somali Slut.
BTW Was Tlaib born here?
Since she is of Palestinian blood and sympathizes with them,
she ought to head over there and put herself on the front line.
Let the chips fall where they may.
Ilhan Omar stokes outrage with plea against sending US weapons to back ‘war crime’ in Israel
By Ryan King Published Oct. 9, 2023, 6:50 p.m. ET
(The X messages -- or are they still tweets? -- are at the link.)
Rep. Ilhan Omar elicited outrage Monday with a public entreaty for the US to shift from giving Israel “unconditional weapons sales and military aid” to diplomacy.
Omar (D-Minn.), a member of the so-called “Squad,” also harped on the plight of the Palestinians and suggested that Israel’s retaliation against terrorist group Hamas might be a “war crime.”
“The Israeli Defense Minister has called Palestinians ‘human animals’ and promised to cut off all electricity, all food, and all fuel to civilians in Gaza,” Omar wrote in a lengthy thread on X, formerly Twitter.
“This is collective punishment, a war crime, and the U.S. should oppose any violations of international law if we truly support a rules-based international order,” she continued.
The 41-year-old congresswoman who’s long been a vocal critic of Israel’s settlement policies and a defender of the Palestinians, further argued that “the solution to this horror, as ever, is a negotiated peace.”
“Instead of continuing unconditional weapons sales and military aid to Israel, I urge the United States at long last to use its diplomatic might to push for peace,” she stressed.
Her remarks struck a nerve among detractors who ripped her call for peace just after the deadly attack on Israel that has killed well over 1,000.
“Israel was just brutally attacked by terrorists, funded by Iran, and you want to cut off funding and military aid and equipment,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) fired back.
“You are out of your mind and unfit to serve in the House of Representatives. This is why you were removed from the Foreign Affairs committee.”
Omar was booted from the House Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this year following the GOP takeover of the lower chamber.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) cited her past comments on Israel as justification.
“Ilhan Omar and the squad using the days after Israel faced the largest terror attack in its history and the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust to call for cutting off military aid to those who were attacked,” an account named AG said.
“Ilhan calls for the U.S. to abandon Israel as Hamas parades rape victims survivors throught the streets of Gaza. May God have mercy on your soul,” Mediate writer Isaac Schorr chimed in.
“This is the literal definition of negotiating with terrorists,” said Gates McGavick, legal communications director at the Republican National Committee.
Follow along with The Post’s live blog for the latest on Hamas’ attack on Israel
Omar became the first female Muslim elected to the House of Representatives alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) in 2019.
Tlaib, the first Palestinian member of the lower chamber, described Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians as an “apartheid system” on Sunday while emphasizing that she grieves for both the “Palestinian and Israeli lives lost.”
“The path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance,” Tlaib said.
In contrast to Tlaib, Omar quickly denounced Hamas’ deadly assault the Jewish state that began Saturday.
“I condemn the horrific acts we are seeing unfold today in Israel against children, women, the elderly, and the unarmed people who are being slaughtered and taken hostage by Hamas,” Omar said at the time.
Omar on Monday also underscored that residents of Gaza overwhelmingly live in acute poverty and are mostly comprised of children.
“Just as we honor the humanity of the hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians and 9 Americans who were killed this weekend, we must honor the humanity of the innocent Palestinian civilians who have been killed and whose lives are upended,” she added.
Over 1,000 Israelis are believed to have died in the bloody carnage with an estimated 2,600 wounded, according to Israeli media.
So far President Biden has confirmed at least 11 Americans were killed.
Hamas has also abducted an unknown number of hostages and thousands of people on both sides of the conflict have been wounded.
Israel’s cabinet has declared war for the first time in 50 years and launched airstrikes on Gaza ahead of an expected ground attack.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/ilhan-omar-stokes-outrage-with-plea-against-sending-us-weapons-to-back-war-crime-in-israel/
Because the two Es in "steel" have the same sound?
Makes me wonder if I've been pronouncing "steal" correctly all these years.
Steeeel vs. stee-al.
Sorry, Admin. I'll knock off the off-topic chit chat now.
A "dipthong"... I love it!
Forgive me but I think I'll steal it.
Good one.
Good Morning and thank you for this, Tom.
The best programmers get to know the business and how the "customers" use the site.
So kudos to you and Chuck for leaping into the fray and getting to "know" us.
I do not envy you your jobs.
Good luck
@IH Geek [Meatloaf] And now Ctrl F5 clears the deck. Must have been my timing.
Thanks.
FWIW, I hope iHub remains solvent.
And (heaven forbid) if it doesn't, I hope we get a few days' notice so we can make sure we're able to stay in touch with the friends we've made here.
@IH Admin [Shelly]
Hi Janice. I agree and thank Dragon Lady for her post.
You both got a thumbs up from me.
However (at the moment), the thumbs up thing is not showing who clicked it.
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I like Abbott. I also like Gov. Glenn Youngkin of VA.
Here's to 2028.
2024 is turning into a major fustercluck.
JMO... worth nothing.