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“The Israeli Defence Ministry will appeal against a supreme court ruling banning the use of Palestinian human shields in raids, officials said.
“Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz is prepared to make a personal appearance in court to defend the practice, ministry officials added.
“Human rights groups have frequently condemned the use of human shields.
“The Israeli military believes that the use of Palestinian civilians can often defuse a tense situation.
“Mr Mofaz is also set to argue that alternative methods of apprehending suspects, such as through the use of bulldozers, would endanger the lives of both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians, a military source said.
“The Israeli supreme court issued its formal ruling last week, saying the practice violates international law.
“It had already issued a temporary injunction against the practice in 2002 after a teenager was killed when troops made him negotiate with a wanted militant.
“The court ruled out both the placing of civilians in front of soldiers on operations and an “early warning” procedure employed by the army.
“In this practice, the Israeli army would force local Palestinians to approach the homes of militants and ask them to surrender.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/mid…
This is why we need to stop repeating the hypocritical bullshit that Israel is some innocent peaceful nation-state just trying to protect itself against “terrorists.”
There’s gallons of blood on the hands of both Hamas and the IDF, only that the Palestinians don’t have propaganda spots running on the cable news network shrieking their innocence in this conflict.
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I’d never heard of that, armed military taking hostages and using them for shields.
That’s so incomprehensible to me.
I would have thought that it occurred when troops weren’t properly trained or led,
but this article indicates that this is an established policy, set by the Generals.
scandalous.
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This has been a widely discussed and condemned Israeli practice for many years. One of the policies most abhorred by many Israeli and American Jews. Difference is, if you are Israeli you don’t get accused of being an anti-Semite or disloyal Jew for failing to approve of every single Israeli policy.
..because the IDF has become a renegade terrorist organization, free of the bounds of government. Anything goes if the IDF wants it, in the name of protecting Israel.
Question our methods or tactics, and you’re a terrorist-lover and a traitor who needs to be disgraced and chased out of the country.
I don’t believe that the average IDF trooper is some anti-Arab monster bent on a campaign of genocide in Gaza, but the brutal tactics and racism present in the IDF senior staff who are pursing this action need to be reviewed and reigned in by the gov’t of Israel, if they can ever find the intestinal fortitude to do so.
…of the Zionist terrorists.
They just changed the name.
Present and past Israeli governments know all about this practice and accept it, even support it. Snatching some teenage kid to use him as a shield and put him at risk of getting blown away is something that has been fought in Israeli courts but continues to be business as usual. It’s way too common and broadly tolerated to be characterized as renegade.
Is there a reason we don’t require weather forecasters to stand for reelection? What a joke.
My wife and I were watching TV and they were still saying only 1-3″ for the Metro area. There were five inches on my car when we scraped it off.
He would still be insisting that it’s sunny outside.
My hair tells me what to expect at least 36 out and I can make up a number. I knew snow and how moist, put 6″ in the mix and I’m a genius. Send a check.
I’m betting big wigs like Kathy Sabine pull down enough that they’ll be paying more in taxes when Obama’s plan goes through.
An ice storm moved in and stopped everything north of Loveland.
The weather guys were saying, “Well, I guess we didn’t see that one coming, heh heh heh.”
Yes, like the military, meteorologists keep their jobs no matter how poorly they perform.
Back in the 80’s one of the TV channels imported a clown weather prognosticator. He would bounce all over the set, sometimes with an umbrella (foreign object in Colorado). Finally, he was sent back from whence he came.
I never thought about it, but you’re right about Coloradans not using umbrellas.
Back on the East Coast, I’d never use one, and would always have to dodge them on the sidewalks. I hadn’t noticed that it doesn’t happen here.
Presumably because even when it rains, it never lasts very long.
May we mock you for taking up smoking again, or did you really vote to PI?
Seriously, I didn’t understand your comment. Could you please reword it?
nicotine free.
Just curious; is it the “PI” that threw you?
Actually I got really paranoid and thought you were keeping tabs. I had a little slip on Sunday, so your comment was really eerie.
Glad it was only a little slip.
PI=Postponed Indefinitely, it’s how you kill a bill in committee. If you’ve never seen it happen, get off your ass and head to the Gold Dome. The discussion and vote range from sad and pathetic, to hilariously funny. I still remember the first I was there for, it was a funny one.
Congrats on your Eagles making it to the NFC championship game! I predict they’ll win, but will lose to the Ravens 20-14 in the Super Bowl.
Is it weird that I get my sports news from Eschaton? Atrios was kind of live-blogging it, and it was good enough for me.
Next game I’ll probably watch though, since I doubt they’ll make it to the Super Bowl. (You never know, though; I heard the Giants were predicted to win.)
Eagles-Steelers, with Pittsburgh taking the Super Bowl by a touchdown, 24-17.
A PA turnpike super bowl? (Well, no, it’s not a subway series, but it’s the closest you can get in Pennsylvania.)
n/t
I never went anywhere without an umbrella.
State College gets more rain each year than Seattle. One May, there was measurable precipitation on 29 out of the 31 days.
Then I moved from there to Casper. Can anyone imagine trying to open an umbrella in Casper?
That was 33 years ago. Kinda got me out of the habit and I haven’t owned one since.
I just remember tons of snow. Where you a kid, there, Ralpie? It was more than sixty years ago for me. When I saw Obama in State College touring that dairy barn, it took me back. That was a mandatory tour for kids way back then. I think it was the first time this city kid ever smelled manure.
Was in State College for grad school.
I hope when he was in State College he got to eat some ice cream from the Penn State Creamery.
I lived in State College in 87 and 88 (my Freshman year). The weather there was quite depressing and damn cold at times. I would get out of the shower and head to class and my hair would freeze.
I spent some time at Penn State too. Where the only late-night coffee shop in my neighborhood was a Subway. 🙂
All I remember is Schmidt’s, Iron City, and Rolling Rock.
Cold is not hard to predict. Thanks for the memories of happy valley.
I just love the visual!
Don’t know the exact channel, but in the 60’s a station in Tampa put the stereotypical breathy buxom dumb blonde up for the weather. I don’t know if she was dumb or not, but she played role.
Imagine a station trying that today. Yes, some things are better.
Considering the fact that I think most weather forecasters are nitwits that don’t seem to be able to predict the weather 12 hours from now with any degree of accuracy, I may be willing to sacrifice some of the “brains” for some nice visual aspects…
This way I wouldn’t be expecting too much from them…
Even good predictions have a margin of error, and sometimes (like today) that error shows up. Usually it doesn’t. Remember, chaos theory was discovered in weather simulations, so the whole “butterfly effect” complicates things quite a lot. Even if you have good measurements in lots of places.
Meteorology is not perfect, but it’s pretty good. The alternative is to sacrifice young virgins in hopes of appeasing the Sky God, and we all know how unreliable THAT is.
maybe not right away
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His last Presser as Prez just ended,
and it sounded like he didn’t know what happened for the last 8 years.
He still couldn’t think of a single mistake he’d made.
He started to say this or that might be seen to have been a mistake for which he was responsible, mentioning Katrina and Abu Ghraib and others, but helpfully explained that he was right after all on those misunderstood challenges.
He apparently hasn’t heard that the US is fighting against freedom in several places around the world. Somebody buy him a newspaper.
The kicker: he’s disappointed at how the tone of discourse has degenerated, unaware of his own ties to Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.
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the peacemaker when it comes to the political discourse in this country either. If only for the fact that it was only the 2006 elections which calmed the furor of Cheney and Rove’s partisanship.
Watching hat press conference this morning made me realize even more (if that was possible) that he will go down as one of the worst–if not the worst–president in history.
I can’t recall the tag exactly, but it’s narcisstic.
Yes, you who voted for GW voted to put a man into the White House who should have been, at the least, in therapy back in Midland. (Ditto Nixon.)
The motion to revoke his bail was denied. However the court incorporated into his bail:
(1) The restrictions on transfer of all property whatsoever, wherever located, in the possession or under the control of Madoff.
(2) The restrictions set forth in the voluntary restraint agreement signed by Mrs. Madoff on December 26, 2008, SHALL be incorporated into the current bail conditions.
(3) Madoff SHALL compile an inventory of all valuable portable items in his Manhattan home. In addition to providing this inventory to the Government, Casale Associates, or another security company approved by the Government, SHALL check the inventory once every two weeks. Casale Associates, or another security company approved by the Government, SHALL search all outgoing physical mail to ensure that no property has been transferred. The Government and Madoff shall agree on a threshold value for inventory items within one week of this Order.
Ya gotta love those private security cos … Blackwater, right?
http://www.denverpost.com/brea…
The take away is what you always suspected. Tom Shane appears to source his emeralds, diamonds and rubies from some middleman likely based in New Jersey.
As for the Shane Co. I know we all wish them well in returning to normal operations.
Senator Bennet made his first impression in front of CLUB 20. He and his trusty sidekick (Governor Ritter)and both were wearing jeans. So were their staffs. Thanks for dressing down for us hicks.
Senator Bennet’s speech hit all the right notes and introduced his background. It was perfect.
Do you were jeans when meeting with the Denver Chamber? Did you were jeans Ft. Collins Friday? Don’t dress down for us. Good Lord, Senator Bennet, you should know better. A poor start.
He’s probably never been to Grand Junction or Mesa County so how is he supposed to know how to dress??
The fact that he had probably never been there is not a plus.
Although I don’t think D.I.N.O. would be supporting Bennet in 2010 even if he wore a full ballroom gown.
Senator Bennet was instumental in getting Mayor Hickenlooper to the Western Slope early in the first term. Mayor Hickenlooper was the keynote speaker at the Grand Junction Economic Partnership within two months of being elected Mayor and Senator Bennet attended as the Chief of Staff. They set a quick refernce point that Mayor Hickenlooper was not Mayor Wellington Webb and recognized the Mayor of Denver has an impact on all of Colorado. Both were active in CLUB 20 trips to Denver and always attened the CLUB 20/ Denver Chamber events.
I was impressed by the outreach strategy. I am also impressed by the tough stands Senator Bennet took at DPS regarding the closure of schools. Senator Bennet actually has a record that appeals to Western Slopers.
I stand by early advice: Bennet should avoid Governor Ritter in public and establish himself as his own man, and now I will add he should dress for us the same as he dresses for others.
I am actually trying my best to find a Democrat I can support. It certainly is not Governor Ritter. But for the life of me, Denver democrats in statewide offices make it extremely hard.
Thanks for setting me, and the record, straight.
Know how to dress? For starters, don’t dress down for people. I think the Ivy League teaches this. That’s the point.
no presumption about it.
He is, though, the presumptive senator.
I wonder if they offer on-line options.
but you need to belong to the right associations or yacht clubs to get the passwords.
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Saturday morn, Penrose library – very crowded. I think they had jeans on. I didn’t notice their trou, so I guess I was OK with it.
But the entourage of local politicians (Apuan, Bidlack, Merrifield, etc.) were dressed to the nines. Even Republican Sallie Clark was there.
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People would complain that he was dressed too fancy for the regular folks on the Western Slope.
The West Slopers forgive a lot if you’ve got a bolo tie.
Roland Burris will now be ahead of Michael Bennet in seniority. I know I was saying he should be seated, and I’m glad he was, but it just doesn’t seem right.
I don’t understand your lament.
Honestly, I think I just hit the wall with that one.
of New York’s next senator. We just don’t want him to be last in seniority! Then he’ll at least get his choice of the two remaining offices instead of stuck with the last one.
..didn’t Ken S. occupy it in 2005?
He and Obama were the only two new Democrats that year.
Maybe it’s got a built-in hat rack …
Ken’s first “office”…which barely qualifies as an office…was in the basement of the Dirksen SOB. Kay Hagen has it now.
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NY, Minnesota and Colorado ?
Has something changed, again, and I’m the last to know, again ?
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NY and CO aren’t quite “vacant” yet. Hillary still needs space to keep her pantsuits and Ken for his bolo ties and hats… 🙂
What will Franken keep in his office? Maybe a six year supply of Lefse?
and Franken could be the last seated.
Regardless, if he doesn’t run in 2010 (or loses the primary or general) it won’t end up mattering.
“Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the vanity of pundits are so thick, that it is impossible for them to get rid of these.”
–Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Sometimes I like to find out more about people who I have no idea about:
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