Thoughts on Israeli Election

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Tuesday March 17, 2015 · 6:54 PM PDT

2015/03/17 · 18:54

It's fairly clear at this point that Benjamin Netanyahu has won re-election by a fairly substantial margin. And much of the punditry before the election has turned out to be very wrong. Let's look at some of the results.

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Sunday October 05, 2014 · 9:40 AM PDT

2014/10/05 · 09:40

In his inaugural speech a couple of days ago, the incoming PM of Sweden said that his government would recognize Palestine. This had some importance because it would be the first time a member of the EU did so. (A couple nations had recognized Palestine before joining, however). It probably wasn't as big a deal as some were making it out to be, but there's no doubt that Israel wasn't happy about it and expressed that.
Well, they don't need to worry any more. Sweden has totally caved.

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Saturday September 27, 2014 · 2:04 PM PDT

2014/09/27 · 14:04

All I can say is 'Beam him up!'

James Traficant, the populist Ohio politician who served in the House of Representatives for 17 years before becoming the second person to ever be expelled from Congress since the Civil War, died on Saturday. He was 73. Traficant, who was convicted on corruption charges in 2002, died at a hospital in Youngstown on Saturday only days after suffering a tractor accident at his daughter’s farm, which left him in critical condition. Traficant was flown to hospital Tuesday night “after a vintage tractor tipped over on him inside a barn at the farm in Green Township,” reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Police think the tractor tipped after Traficant struck a piece of farm equipment with a bar installed on the front of his 1943 Ford tractor.”

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I know Traficant went to jail and all, but I can't help thinking that there are lots more members of congress that do worse than him. He was just so off the wall and such that there was nobody looking out for him like there would have been a normal congrescritter.

IDF Kills Murder Suspects

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Monday September 22, 2014 · 9:45 PM PDT

2014/09/22 · 21:45

So the IDF caught up to the two people suspected of kidnapping and murdering three Israeli teens this summer. They were hiding out in Hebron and when the house Marwan Kawasme and Amer Abu Aysha were staying in was surrounded, they decided to shoot it out and were killed.
I don't think there was much doubt that they were responsible for the murders of Gil-Ad Shaer,16, Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16. They were also indirectly responsible for kicking off Operation Protective Edge (though they had plenty of help from their Hamas brethren for that). I would have liked to have seen them stand trial, but I have a hard time feeling much pity for them if they were the ones responsible.
Now I wonder how long before streets and buildings in Gaza are named after them?

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Thursday August 07, 2014 · 8:13 PM PDT

2014/08/07 · 20:13

Well, Hamas was talking about not renewing the cease fire which was due to end at 8AM (1AM EST). But it turns out they couldn't wait that long. They fired two rockets as Israel a short time ago. They really must love death, because they have to know what the response will be if they keep up this crap. (Turns out the first to shots were mortars and nobody claimed them - probably Islamic Jihad did it, though).

Edit: Switched out a link to a bad website for a better one on one of the stories.

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Thursday July 31, 2014 · 9:37 AM PDT

2014/07/31 · 09:37

Sigh - I'm not sure why I'm writing this article as I'm very pro Israel. There's enough bashing of Israel from everybody else. But every now and then I see something and I just want to hit somebody over the head for their stupidity. And the article I read a few minutes ago in the Jerusalem Post just created a whole diary in my head. For some reason, I feel the urge to write it, so here goes.

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Monday May 19, 2014 · 12:58 PM PDT

2014/05/19 · 12:58

So, I live in mostly in The Bahamas, though I spend some time in the US. I'm from here - my family goes back here 8 generations. We're a friendly nation. And now I find out that the NSA under Barack Obama - who was cheered on by the vast majority of Bahamians - have been taking EVERY SINCE PHONE CALL made on our cell phone system. I have a cell phone and I'm damn furious.

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Wednesday March 12, 2014 · 8:03 AM PDT

2014/03/12 · 08:03

In 1983, Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards quipped to reporters "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy". Edwards was a very quotable politician and this one entered the political lexicon to describe a situation where a candidate is a shoo-in and would have to really screw up to blow the election. But has anybody really thought about what it means, of it it's even accurate anymore?

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Sunday November 24, 2013 · 9:45 PM PST

2013/11/24 · 21:45

So there was an election today in Honduras. Results are preliminary but it looks clear that the winner is Juan Orlando Hernández, the candidate of the ruling National Party. Of the two traditional political parties, the National Party is the right wing one; the Liberal Party is the left wing one, but the candidate they fielded, Mauricio Villeda, was not considered Hernandez' main competition as he seemed to come across rather weak. The politics of Honduras has been somewhat upended in the last four years; partly as a result of the removal of Manuel Zelaya by the Supreme Court and the Armed forces due to his apparent attempt to amend the constitution to allow himself to run for a second term. But also due to the ongoing drug violence and corruption that is impacting the lives of every citizen of Honduras.

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Thursday April 12, 2012 · 8:00 AM PDT

2012/04/12 · 08:00

While you were waiting for George Zimmerman to be arrested, a new nation was born. What, you didn't hear about it? Don't worry; you probably weren't alone. It was just a group of people who have been around for centuries finally managing to carve out their own nation. No one else recognizes it yet and they've got a long way to go, but I've got this odd feeling that they might actually manage to pull it off. Follow me after the jump to learn about the new nation of Azawad.

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Monday March 12, 2012 · 9:15 AM PDT

2012/03/12 · 09:15

Well, the optics of this do not look good.

Former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson crashed into a Lynx bus in downtown Orlando about noon Saturday.
Investigators said Grayson was driving a Mercedes, when he ran a red light and hit the bus.

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