THOSE OF YOU WHO REMEMBER THEIR GAL PAL BRIDGET ZIEGLER MAY ASSUME THAT THE MOMS WILL BE SCISSORING AND OTHER LESBIONIC THINGS TO ONE ANOTHER. BRIGET WAS A 'MARRIED MOM' LIKE THE OTHER GALS BUT WAS SWINGING IT IN BED WITH ANOTHER WOMAN WHICH IS NOW THE MOMS FOR BIGOTRY'S IMAGE -- SAD, DEPRESSED MARRIED WOMEN WHO SNEAK OFF WITH OTHER WOMEN TO BE "ENTANGLED IN EMBRACES THAT GOD WILL NEVER SEE."
REMEMBER, EVERY BOOK BANNING 'DISCUSSION' IS JUST ANOTHER COVER FOR THE MOMS TO LET THEIR HAIR DOWN WITH THE SHADES DRAWN WHILE THEY TASTE THE FLAVOR OF ONE ANOTHER'S EDIBLE PANTIES.
As we noted last night, day 163 finds the Israeli government again breaking international law as they attack another hospital with their military. THE NATIONAL reports on the attack of Al Shifa Hospital:
It said that around 30,000 displaced and wounded people and medical teams are still besieged inside the building.
It added that a fire has erupted at the gate of the hospital and there were cases of suffocation among displaced women and children at the facility and communications were cut off.
The government media office in Gaza has condemned the operation.
"The Israeli army's storming of Al Shifa Hospital with tanks, drones and weapons and shooting inside it is a war crime," it said.
A Palestinian journalist trapped inside al-Shifa Hospital has described the situation in the facility as “catastrophic” amid “intense clashes” and gunfire.
Wadea Abu Alsoud made the comments in a video posted to Instagram.
“This might be my last video,” he said. “We’re now besieged inside al-Shifa Hospital. We’re being heavily shot at. The occupation suddenly raided the hospital and its vicinity. As you can hear now, there are intense clashes in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital. We’re hearing sounds coming from the gate. There are shrapnels falling over the hospital’s yard.”
He added: “We’re currently besieged. Pray for us to get out safely. These are clashes as you can hear… we don’t know what’s going on outside al-Shifa hospital, but the situation here is catastrophic.”
This morning, THE SUN notes, "Gaza’s Health Ministry on Monday called on the United Nations (UN) and other international institutions to stop Israel’s ongoing operation in the area of Al-Shifa Hospital that has killed patients, refugees, and medical personnel." EURO NEWS adds, "The ministry says around 30,000 people are sheltering at the hospital, including patients, medical staff and people who have fled their homes seeking safety." THE STRAITS TIMES explains, "Al-Shifa, the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital before the war, is now one of the only healthcare facilities that is even partially operational in the north of the territory, and is also housing hundreds of displaced civilians." Andrew England and Neri Zilber (FINANCIAL TIMES OF LONDON) remind, "Israel previously raided al-Shifa in Gaza City in November, forcing thousands of people who had sought sanctuary at the hospital to flee. That raid drew widespread condemnation from aid agencies as Israel’s air, land and sea offensive pushed Gaza’s health system towards a state of collapse." That raid, remember, was based on the Israeli's claims that Hamas fighters were using the hospital. Rachel Pannett and Hajar Harb (WASHINGTON POST) explain, "A Washington Post investigation in December into whether the civilian harm caused by the IDF’s campaign against the hospital complex was proportionate to the assessed threat found no immediate evidence of a command and control node. Rooms connected to the tunnel network discovered by the IDF showed no immediate evidence of ongoing military use by Hamas and no evidence that the tunnels could be accessed from inside hospital wards." THE GUARDIAN notes:
Al Jazeera reports that Israeli forces have arrested on of its journalists at al-Shifa hospital. Other local media have also reported that Ismail al-Ghoul has been detained.
Al Jazeera writes:
We’re getting reports that Israeli forces have arrested Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul from inside the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. According to Palestinian writer and journalist Imad Zaqqout and other witnesses, al-Ghoul was beaten severely by Israeli soldiers before he was arrested with dozens of men and women within the hospital.
WE JOINED CROOKED CLARENCE AS HE ROLLED HIS NUDE AND PORTLY FIGURE AROUND NUDE IN BALUT AT DOI MOI. HE EXPLAINED HE DID THIS ONCE A WEEK TO REMIND HIMSELF OF THE VIETNAM WAR AND "HOW A LOT OF SUCKERS SERVED BUT I DIDN'T. NO LITTLE CLARRY KEPT HIS COWARDLY AND CUTE ASS OUT OF THAT WAR, F**K THE DRAFT. THAT'S WHY I'M THE PERFECT TO SIT ON THE COURT -- WHEN MY COUNTRY WAS AT WAR, I SOUGHT DEFERMENTS TO AVOID SERVING. SOME PEOPLE CALL ME CROOKED CLARENCE -- THEY SEEM TO FOGET THAT I'M ALSO COWARDLY CLARENCE."
SO TODAY, WE ASKED, YOU DECIDED THAT THE CONSTITUTION DID NOT MATTER?
"NO, YOU'VE GOT THAT WRONG!" HE THUNDERED AS HE GRABBED HIS CLOTHES PREPARING TO GET DRESSED WITHOUT SHOWERING THE BALUT OFF HIS BODY. "WE DID NOT DECIDE THAT TODAY! WE DECIDED THAT YEARS AGO! I LAUGH AT THE IDIOTS WHO CALL FOR ME TO RECUSE MYSELF. WHEN HAVE I EVER THOUGHT IT WAS BOUND BY THE LAW? WHEN MY SUGAR DADDIES WERE BRIBING ME WITH MILLIONS OVER THE YEARS? HA!"
AN OBVIOUSLY MIFFED AND HALF-DRESSED (TOP ONLY) CROOKED CLARENCE BEGAN ROOTING AROUND AND THUNDERING, "WHERE IS MY PENILE SHEATH! AS A MEMBER OF THE BLADDER & BOWEL COMMUNITY, I CANNOT GO OUT IN PUBLIC WITHOUT MY PENI PAD TO ABSORB MY INCONTINENCE SPRAYS THAT HAPPEN ON THE HOUR! WHERE IS MY PENILE SHEATH! WHERE!"
AS THESE REPORTERS WALKED OUT, WE OBSERVED LEGAL GOSSIP AND PROFESSIONAL HOMOPHOBE JONATHAN TURLEY SCURRYING IN ON ALL FOURS, WAGGING HIS SAGGY ASS AND EXCLAIMING, "I'LL LICK IT UP, JUDGE THOMAS, I'LL LIKE IT ALL UP!"
We start in the US with major campaign news. Marianne Williamson announced yesterday that "as of today, I am unsuspending my campaign for president of the United States."
The
moment is important for a number of reasons. First, if you suspend you
campaign, you can start it back up. Something Ron DeSantis reminds
himself daily as he waits to see Donald Trump convicted. So it's
teachable. Second it also shows the need for something more. Marianne
suspended her campaign. And then we ended up with Michigan's primary
this week which was noteworthy for a number of reasons including that
despite having suspended her campaign on February 7th, this week she
still got 3% of the vote. She beat the forgettable and unlikable Dean
Phillips who was still in the race. She didn't campaign, she did do
meet-and-greet, buy ad time, phone bank, media, you name it. And she
beat Dean Phillips giving it presumably his best shot.
There
is a hunger for something more and there is a need to push the
Democratic Party presidential candidate -- whomever that may be -- to
fight for the American people.
Yesterday, her campaign released a video of her explaining why she was unsuspending. You can also read that at her website:
As of today, I am unsuspending my Presidential campaign.
All of us have noticed America’s political dynamics are
moving in a disturbing direction. Donald Trump’s power is on the
incline, and President Biden’s is on the decline. More and more people
are saying the quiet part out loud: that despite the fact that the
President deserves credit for many of his accomplishments, he is clearly
a weak candidate to defeat Donald Trump in 2024.
I, however, am not. My ability to arouse in Americans
the angels of our better nature is the most powerful antidote to Trump’s
dark and authoritarian vision.
I suspended my campaign because we were losing the horse
race. But there is something much bigger than the horse race that’s at
stake here. In the words of Mohammed Ali, ‘When the mission is right,
the odds don’t matter.”
We cannot sit idly by while the D.C. political class
sleepwalks this country into disaster. Too many have followed the
directives of the status quo for too long, but we are awakening now. We
are ready to act, to take the wheel of history into our hands and turn
it in another direction.
We need a President who stands for a new beginning in
America, and whether I can help do that as President or in some other
way, unsuspending the campaign is a necessary next step.
We will win on the promise of restoring America’s middle
class and waging peace both domestically and internationally. From
#MedicareForAll to #CeasefireNow in exchange for the hostages, from
tuition free college and tech school to a guaranteed living wage, from
waging peace to repudiating America’s forever war machine, from
subsidized child care to ending America’s War on Drugs, our platform is
the winning one.
I will respond to the cult-like personality of Donald
Trump with a light-filled vision of hope and possibility. We will become
once again a “government of the people, by the people, and for the
people” at a time when corporate interests have taken Washington
hostage.
I hope you are as moved by this vision as I am. You have
supported the campaign before, and I hope you feel moved to support it
again.
We must rise to the occasion like never before; so much
is riding on what we do now. Even if the most I can do is influence the
President, that in itself is a goal worth striving for. For those of us
who are deeply committed to Trump not returning to the White House,
it’s imperative that we do everything possible to help mount a winning
campaign in 2024.
I hope you will help me do this. There is no time to
waste. Please give generously so we can restart the engines and race to
the top.
They also released the video below that gets to why she is running and why you should care.
Marianne
Williamson: I'm Marianne Williamson and when I was growing up, America
had a vibrant middle class. The average American worker had decent
benefits, could afford a home, could afford a car, could afford a yearly
vacation, could afford for one member of the couple to stay home if
they wished and could afford to send their kids to college. But over
the last fifty years, there's been a massive transfer of wealth to the
tune of 50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90% of Americans to the the
top 1% -- decimating America's middle class. We all owe President Biden
a debt of gratitude for defeating President Trump in 2020. But with
the things that they're going to be throwing at us in 2024? We need to
submit to the American people an agenda of fundamental economic
reform: universal healthcare, tuition-free colleges at state colleges
and universities, higher education including tech schools, paternity and
maternity leave, free child care and a guaranteed living wage. These
are things that are considered moderate positions in every other
advanced democracy . But in the United States, people have been trained
to expect too little. The American people have been played. What the
Democratic Party should do is to truly return to the principles of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- not just alleviate their suffering but
offer them genuine economic reform, not just help people survive in an
unjust system, the Democratic Party should end an unjust system.
Washington DC, with a few brave exceptions, is filled with two major
categories of leaders: Those who don't even care about all the suffering
that is going on out there and those who do not have the moral courage
to fix it. Let me in there, I will.
That's a powerful message and she's speaking to us.
I don't know a kind way to say this so let's not try to pretty it up: Who the hell is Junior speaking to?
My
phone hasn't stopped ringing since the e-mail his campaign sent out
late yesterday afternoon "Let’s send a powerful message" (afternoon my
time -- PST).
Marianne just spoke about the needs of the American people.
Bobby Kennedy Junior can't do that.
Junior yammered away for over 1600 words and the only time "you" were mentioned was to beg for money.
What did he offer instead?
More
attempts to climb on top of the shoulders of his father and the late
President John F. Kennedy. For variety, he threw two more men in the
mix -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- mentioned only in passing -- and
Malcolm X. The last one, that was the most offensive.
Right
now, as you read this, you're in the world and you're trying to learn
and grow. Some people stop. Junior stopped growing long ago. Which is
why he offers the Whitest and most insulting take on Malcolm X you
could imagine. I can remember when, in the 80s, his take began to
become a dominant take. Articles and books appeared. It was a
different take than the spit-on-Malcolm take that was so popular among
many. But I don't know that it was a better take. At least when the
enemy spits on you, they realize you're a force -- even in death -- to
be reckoned with. The new Malcolm was more like a child who returned
from a journey and was petted on the head. That's 'history' in Junior's
warped mind.
In fairness, it's history he was
'taught.' Lucy Hughes-Hallett wrote an excellent book entitled
CLEOPATRA: HISTORIES, DREAMS AND DISTORTIONS. The 1990 book is a must
read for critical thinkers and traces how history is flexible and how in
one time period one thing is emphasized and in another it's something
else. Same person: Cleopatra. But the history and the stories a
society tells itself change over time.
Bobby's
become fixated on the last century and that's becoming ever more
clear. It's the 21st century and he can't cope with it.
And
it's bad enough that Junior keeps trying to pretend he can speak for
his father (who does have eight other living children) and his uncle but
now he's trying to speak for MLK and Malcolm as well?
"What's next?" a friend asked over the phone, "His donation plea where he channels the ghost of Kitty Genovese?"
Exactly.
He's useless as THE DAILY SHOW made clear this week.
WE ADVISED THE CRAZED CONGRESSIONAL MEMBER THAT ONE OR TWO SWISHES OF SCOPE AND THEN SPITTING IT OUT WOULD WIPE AWAY THAT NASTY HALITOSIS AND PROBABLY RESULT IN FEWER PEOPLE HOLDING THEIR NOSES WHEN SHE STEPPED CLOSER TO THEM. THIS IS IMPORTANT NOW MORE THAN EVER SINCE U.S. HOUSE REP. JIM CLYBURN (83-YEARS-OLD) ANNOUNCED HE'LL BE STEPPING AWAY FROM LEADERSHIP ROLES WHICH MEANS MAJORIE WILL HAVE FEWER OPPORTUNITIES TO BLAME HER OWN "OLD MAN STINK" ON CLYBURN.
MARJORITE TOLD THESE REPORTERS THAT SHE IS CONSIDERING CARRYING AROUND A PET PIG OR SMALL DOG THAT SHE COULD THEN SCAPEGOAT FOR HER OWN ODORS; HOWEVER, HER STINK WAS SO BAD LAST MONTH THAT WHEN SHE CROUCED DOWN TO POUR A BAG OF PURINA ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR -- "I JUST LEAVE A BAG OUT ON THE FLOOR AT THE START OF EACH MONTH" -- SHE WAS SHOCKED WHEN "APPARENTLY DUE TO THE ODOR, SNICKERS STARTED BARKING AND LUNGING AT ME." FOR THAT SECURITY THREAT, WE RECOMMENDED MASSENGILL.
Isabele Debre (AP) reveals, "Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells." Kieron Monks (I NEWS) reports, "More than 40 per cent of the buildings in northern Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, according to a new study of satellite imagery by US researchers Jamon Van Den Hoek from Oregon State University and Corey Scher at the City University of New York. The UN gave a figure of 45 per cent of housing destroyed or damaged across the strip in less than six weeks. The rate of destruction is among the highest of any conflict since the Second World War."
Currently, Nasser Hospital is under attack. Yesterday, Amy Goodman (DEMOCRACY NOW!) noted, "In the city of Khan Younis, the Israeli army has forced hundreds of patients, staff and displaced Palestinians to evacuate Nasser Hospital, which has been under an Israeli siege for weeks. Israeli snipers killed at least three people at the hospital on Tuesday." Today, Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue (AP) explain, " Israeli forces stormed the main hospital in southern Gaza on Thursday, hours after Israeli fire killed a patient and wounded six others inside the complex." Two journalists at THE FINANCIAL TIMES OF LONDON manage to type, "During Israel’s retaliatory air, land and sea offensive in Gaza, which has killed more than 28,000 people, according to Palestinian officials, Israeli forces have targeted numerous hospitals, accusing Hamas of using medical facilities for military purposes." If that's an attempt at context it's missing a phrase that would be "while denying they had attacked hospitals early in the assault." Because that is what happened.
Grasp that.
An attack on a hospital is illegal. It is against all rules of engagement. And early on when the Israeli government was terrorizing Gaza and attacking hospitals, they denied it. And the gullible and whorish press would try to prop up the denial. But in a matter of weeks, the horrors have been so outrageous that the Israeli government doesn't even try to deny the assaults on hospitals anymore. And the world is just in shock. It's outrageous and people need to stand trial for it.
RTE notes, "Attacks on medical facilities in Gaza have caused particular concern throughout the conflict, including Israeli raids on hospitals in other cities, shelling in the vicinity of hospitals and the targeting of ambulances." Per the BBC " the Israeli military had demolished the southern wall of the hospital complex and entered that way." The Israeli government wants to destroy all of Gaza and that's obvious by what they've done. If you're not getting how far from humanity these actions are, Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso and Sana Noor Haq (CNN) report, "The news [of the assault] came after doctors and medical officials in southern Gaza said Israeli snipers had shot dead a number of people as they tried to flee the Nasser Medical Complex. An eyewitness to the shootings, who is a trauma surgeon at the hospital, said at least two people were killed by snipers on Tuesday, with more shot and injured." Multiple press reports are citing an unnamed trauma surgeon at the hospital who states one of the at least two killed was a 16-year-old boy. Adela Suliman and Claire Parker (WASHINGTON POST) add, "Updates from the Gaza Health Ministry said Israeli troops were putting lives in danger by seeking the transfer of intensive care patients and by instructing employees to evacuate amid bombings. It said the emergency doctor was injured when a drone fired at the room in the surgery department on the third floor of the Nasser Medical Complex." THE GUARDIAN notes:
Humanitarian chiefs stressed that states and especially Israel could not “offload” responsibility for the horrors unfolding in Gaza onto aid workers.
The Red Cross chief Mirjana Spoljaric told a Geneva briefing for diplomats on events in Gaza that their countries were responsible for ensuring the Geneva Conventions are upheld.
“It is not in your interest to offload (that) responsibility... onto humanitarian actors,” she said.
“If the way operations are conducted today limit our operational space to a minimum... we will not be able to resolve the problem,” she added.
In a front-page editorial in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano headlined “Stop the Carnage”, editorial director Andrea Tornielli challenged Israeli leaders on the ongoing Gaza attack.
Tornielli quoted a Rome-based Holocaust survivor, Edith Bruck, who has been highly critical of the Israeli government’s war, which she blames for the rise in anti-Semitic acts against Jews around the world.
“No one can define what is happening in the Strip as ‘collateral damage’ from the fight against terrorism,” Tornielli wrote. “The right of defence, the right of Israel to ensure justice for those responsible for the October massacre, cannot justify this carnage.”