Several bits about Russia and its neighbors
Interesting moment about Lukashenko view of peace plan vs Viktor Orban's view
Warning a couple flashes of bleepable language toward the end.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
SIXTY years of EYEGLASSES
That's it. That's the post.
Oh wait.
Use your favorite search engine. Find some images of retro children's cat eye glasses, not too big because before the age of high index lens materials, bigger lenses would have meant the lenses had to be too thick.
If you do it right, the effect should be more than scary enough for Halloween.
True confession: RantWoman has not been able to find anything that looks even half as dorky as her first pair or two of glasses.
RantMom says the package arrived on Halloween.
RantMom says she did not notice much difference from the surgery RantWoman had before the eyeglasses arrived. But the eyeglasses really mattered.
They mattered so much that RantWoman remembers glasses fights when RantMom would try to make RantWoman take her glasses off at bedtime.
Now when RantWoman sees a new eye doctor or sometimes even when a young doc is tailing a regular doc, RantWoman hears things like "we do things differently now." In other words, RantWoman is officially a relic, a data point about the middle of last century.
But definitely NOT DEAD YET
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Otherwise use your imagination for eye and glasses images as we round out #NDEAM and assorted other #Disability themes
Monday, October 30, 2023
Monthly on-line Authoritarianism Reading Group. Next Meeting November 5.
Monthly online Authoritarianism book group sponsored by UFM P&SC Committee in response to the Quaker Call to Action to protect our democracy.
Our book club will be gathering on Sunday Nov 5th at 1pm via zoom to discuss the book, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twenty Century," by Timothy Snyder. A short book with important lessons and definitions about authoritarianism and what to watch out for and do in these times.
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/2065476449
This book has a new extended version that offers twenty lessons and discussion on the Russia/Ukraine war so if you have not read it please look for the extended version ("On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition): Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine") . If you have read the book consider watching this interview with the main points discussed in the revised edition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mrWr1Guwck
Hope to see you then!
Eva Otto
University Friends Meeting Clerk, Peace and Social Concerns she/her
Or absorb ideas on video
WEF Timothy Snyder on why Ukraine has to win in the war for democracy
Timothy Snyder speaks about the graphic edition of On Tyranny
Frontline Interview series Timothy Snyder: Putin and the Presidents
Part of a series of interviews with different specialists.
Ukraine from propaganda to reality
2015 lecture at Chicago HUmanities
Apropos of Nothing and Everything
Such popcorn kernels as have heaved up from RantWoman's soul
Election Denier Rep. Mike Johnson is House Speaker | Trump Threatens Meadows .
Hillary should just maybe cool it. It is unhelpful both to refer to half the country as a "basket of deplorables" and then again to speak of "deprogramming."
Nice to have massive women's marches and occupations of airports to protest any new Muslim ban AFTER inauguration in 2021. It would be a REALLY good idea not to have to do such in 2025.
Earth to EVERYONE: NO ONE should be allowed to run opposed, not matter how red (or blue) a district looks!
After #SpeakerMike #MagaMike or whatever hashtags are out there was named, the House #MAGA cause, in the finest tradition of the Pharisees of old held what RantWoman is referring to as a Pray in at the Capitol. RantWoman is all for praying in the Capitol. In fact, RantWoman has herself done so, with women whose spiritual direction and Mary Daly reading list recommendations came from really radical nuns.
It's just that in this case such an austentatious display of Christocentrism is enthusiastically embraced while #MTG goes on about how PEACEFUL people calling for a cease fire in Gaza are an "insurrection," and the #J6 choir are political prisoners.
LORD HELP US ALL, people of many faiths, people of no faith. All of us.
On the bright side, much of the Christian right actually has a lot of trouble living up to what they proclaim so would it be so terrible if they don't actually get around to all that they promise.,..?
Seriously what are we called to?
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Various media: Russian troop loses, collapse of Ruble and other economic indicators, historical snapshot of attitudes in Russia
Scope of Russian mobilization, factionalism within Wagner PMC
Why Israel will not endorse Ukraine. Jews should just get out of Russia.
Russian propaganda concern for US taxpayers but most of the US $$$ stays with US defense contractors
John Sweeney: "US aid keeps coming too late"
Russia's goal is just not to lose.
Evolution f views, media, propaganda themes since 2014 seizure of Crimea, assertion that Ukraine and Russia are one country. Ukrainians look for "good soldiers." Mobile crematoria and no family notification of casualties, contempt of Russian elites for West.
Makhachkala is the capital of Dagestan, a mainly Muslims republic in the Caucasus
Friday, October 27, 2023
Special Invitation for Quaker Process Nerds
Come one, come all.
Come experience the power of continuing revelation.
Come wade into all manner of Do Better Next Time zones
Come experience the ups and downs of audio partly enhanced by half-blind mic runners.
Come appreciate the transformative technological dimensions of Zoom.
RantWoman for the kajillionth time since becoming painfully aware of her capacity to drive people crazy in meetings cordially invites Friends to come observe Blind people Getting Things Done in business meetings in spite of many challenges that seem like another universe to the sight-dependent.
Digression which most certainly does, in RantWoman's YEARS LONG clear call to be faithful to her Light relate to disability: By kajillionth time, RantWoman means certain sponsors of clerking workshops, all members of a certain Care and Accountability committee, and two members of the UFM committee on Disabilities before RantWoman was summarily exiled.
One member of the disabilities committee went to a blindness event and had a very helpful observation: sighted people expect to be looking at each other during conversation. Blind people can be looking all over the place but that does not mean they are not listening.
The second disabilities committee member came to a different event where there were a few moments of talking over. The visiting Friend noticed the kind of multi-sound track chatter that breaks out when a bunch of blind people are interacting with talking devices and then said that Friend did not see how any of that related to Meeting for Business. Ummmm? To be fair the livestream will probably spare listeners most of the talking device chatter so hopefully it will be easier to focus on other process points.
Now the actual invitation:
Please join RantWoman and probably hundreds of others for The WA Council of the Blind annual BUSINESS MEETING live streamed on ACB Media 9 (use the google for the exact link).
1:30 pm Pacific Time,
Saturday October 28, 2023
Come watch blind people in action! Come watch blind people GET STUFF DONE.
Sure it might be Quaker heresy to recognize Divine presence all the more so in spaces run more or less under Roberts Rules of Order.
Celebrate! The multi faith soreheads on the Advocacy committee helped get rid of the convention-opening usually highly Christocentric invocation. The awkward and almost idolatrous Color Guard remains to remind everyone of both patriotism and chagrin on behalf of the US. But a kick-ass DEI committee has also taken shape and there may or may not be very many moments of silence.
Process nerds may appreciate:
--a clear agenda posted below.
--preparatory Zoom sessions both about the budget and about constitution and bylaws.
--What other points do readers notice?
Agenda: Annual Business Meeting
The annual business meeting of Washington Council of the Blind will include agenda items such as:
In Memoriam, Elections of Officers (President, 1st Vice President, and Treasurer) and Board Directors (3 two-year term positions), Proposed 2024 Operating Budget, Proposed Amendments to the WCB Constitution and Bylaws, Resolutions, Old business, and New business
Virtual attendees have received Zoom links; WCB members eligible to vote are asked to enter the Zoom webinar in advance of the call to order to facilitate the determination of a quorum.
4:30 PM
Business Meeting is Adjourned
Dear God, will Business Meeting really last THREE HOURS? That's what the schedule says; sometimes meeting angels hold the room so well it finishes early.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Former Young Quaker Voices Fellow to give Keynote address at WA Council of the Blind convention Friday October 27
Abby Griffiths, the Young Quaker Voice Fellow from two years ago is doing the keynote speech Friday morning starting at9:50 am.at the WA Council of the Blind state convention.
Abby's speech will be streamed live on ACB Media 9 and probably will get turned into a podcast sometime after that. Here is a link with info about how to find the livestream https://www.acbmedia.org/home/streams/
9:50 AM
WCB, Putting Our Best Foot Forward!
Presenter: Abby Griffith
Abby Griffith was born in Areka, a city in the Wolaita Sodo region of Ethiopia. In 2008, at the age of fourteen, she moved to the United States. Abby speaks three languages -- Amharic, Wolaita, and English-- and is the first college graduate in her biological family. She graduated Clark College in 2018 with an associate’s degree and earned her bachelor’s degree in 2021 in human development with a Certificate in Human Services Case Management and Administration from Washington State University, Vancouver.
In 2020, Abby became involved in advocating for transportation through Disability Rights Washington, where she was interviewed as part of a Transportation Access for Everyone story map project.
In 2022, Abby won the Holman Prize grant to implement a technology program for blind and visually impaired students in her hometown in Ethiopia. She enjoys advocating for non-drivers. Currently, Abby is the Bus Riders Unite! Community Organizer at OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon.
The Young Quaker Voices program of Quaker Voice on WA Public Policy has been renamed the Quaker Voice Legislative Advocacy Fellowship. Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 fellowship. See Quaker Voice Legislative Advocacy Fellowship
Other WCB convention events are also streamed on ACB Media 9 Friday and Saturday October 27-28. RantWoman just posted here what she considers most interesting
Wait: Scratch that. There are other events starting at 8:45 am. Friday and Saturday also on ACB Media 9. Special note for Quaker process nerds, if anyone is interested in how Blind people business meeting, check out ACB Media 9 Saturday afternoon at 1:30
Monday, October 23, 2023
40th anniversary of the corum nobis Supreme Court decision overturning Korematsu vs United States
RantWoman is taking a break from her abundance of topics in need of rants to note the October 18, 2023 40th anniversary of the US Supreme Court overturning Korematsu vs the United States.
RantWoman is going to let others explain.
And a bit about Quaker Gordon Hirabyashi because Hirabyashi vs United States was also a Supreme Count case that permitted denial of equal rights of citizenship based on race / national origin
RantWoman wishes it were possible to pretend that the present national mood would ensure that such outrages never occur again. Sadly, the main strand of hope has to do with bad decisions getting overturned.
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Putin, military mobilization, ruble collapse
Yep. It's still a war. It's still going badly, and Russia wants to send still more people to the "meat grinder."
GIANT steps backward from early post-soviet work about conscientious objection
here as FYI about point of view
and a dollop of Break the fake with all the greats, Putin, Lukashenko, Orban, Simonyan
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Paths to SANITY in the US House of Representatives?
How utterly something (exhilarating? messy? muddling?) to be following 3+ major media streams along with all the more or less work related themes RantWoman keeps getting sucked into.
Tonight both the Russia / Ukraine situation and the Israel Palestine situation get to sit on background while RantWoman fishes for hope and plausible engagement about the US democracy.
"so the Republicans keep making history."
RantWoman comment:
Voting to certify the Biden election should definitely be a bright line MUST HAVE for a bipartisan vote.
Dealing with some different rules to pull back from always trying to do process on the brink also feels like a must have.
But can we please also avoid the aroma of sex abuse that comes with Gaetz and Jordan.
I have been watching Arnold Schwarzenegger flak his book and I wonder whether Dems would consider helping draft him. The love child with the nanny detail as long as he acknowledges paternity at least seems more responsible than either Jordan or Gaetz.
Also probably Arnold's name would be a LOT less radioactive than Liz Cheney
Various Russia Ukraine vids thrown together
A mish mash of #Russia #Ukraine vids RantWoman flagged for various reasons.
Latvia is what some post-Soviet voices call "the near abroad."
Per Beau of the Fifth Column the US is shipping to Ukraine a decades old missile model of a missile that has somewhat longer range than a previously shipped version. A model with even longer range dueat some point. Russian airfields unlike Ukrainian apartment buildings attacked by Russian are at least legit military targets.
Clean out the storehouses so there is need to build new ones?
Margarita Simonyan gets yelled at and threatened by a member of the Likud party.
War not going well for "Bunker Grandpa"
Lavrov goes to N. Korea and meets with foreign minister whose name if slightly mispronounced is obscene in Russian
Member of the Russian state Duma manages to be way more disgusting that anyone in the GOP.
Real Russians flakking for life in Russia
(Various footage of carnage available on Military Mind from TVP world.)
or "The boss meets the general nearer the front than Moscow:
Finland probably doesn't want to be considered "the near abroad," but...
Friday, October 20, 2023
Happy Birthday RantBrother.
Think extravagant yet homely chocolate Birthday cake
Think trees with leaves only discovered after RantBrother got his first glasses.
Think a whole lot of trees and grounds keeping faithfully tended for a long time until substances and health issues, some tied to substances, robbed RantBrother of the ability to think through the steps of different kinds of projects.
Think arguments with authorities who dispense state ID's. The town where our father was born no longer exists. However, despite RantBrother's certainty that information on his birth certificate is wrong, the same parents and the same parental birthplaces are listed on all three Rant Children's birth certificates. So...possibilities...
Think hopes of intersection with innovative street person initiatives in Denver.
Maybe that is enough for this year.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
The Constitution and the US House of Representatives....
RantWoman is coping with deceased cat grief partly with a lot of vicarious video cats.
Once in awhile, RantWoman lands on something serious, such as, well, it might be telling too much of the truth, the #GOPClownShow.
Tonight one of RantWoman's favorite RESPECTFUL Youtube voices offers the following comments, augmented by RantWoman bluntness below.
Other reminders: one does not even have to be a member of the House to be Speaker.
I personally think Hakeem Jeffries would be a great speaker. HOWEVER the Democrats have suggested options including Angus King, Liz Cheney, a third person I don't remember. I would add Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In terms of demonstrated willingness to uphold the Constitution, a few further points:
For the Democrats to work in coalition or power-sharing with Republicans, there HAVE to be some rules revisions. I am sure Democrats can suggest a number of very helpful changes.
NO ONE who voted not to certify the 2020 election should have a committee leadership position, let alone be Speaker UNLESS they are willing to say that Biden won fair and Square and that #J6 was the single biggest one-day violent crime wave in the US since 9/11.
Anyone questioning the election of Biden is also implicitly questioning the fairness of their and / or their colleagues because the same voting and counting practices are used for both Presidential and Congressional elections. Do they REALLY want to be questioning the fairness of their own elections? I mean there are some states where a whole lot of voters probably voters likely to lean Democratic got purged from voter rolls so how far are people willing to take this?
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Articulate Independent Journalist battling Fox News AGAIN, ONE STRIKE from ENDING my channel
RantWoman sometimes is both very grateful for people who jump on needed bandwagons AND the sort of independent thinker who balks at bandwagons.
One of RantWoman's approaches to the Quaker Call to support democracy is just about making connections.
David Pakman, from the Youtube channel below is a passionate articulate independent journalist. RantWoman does not agree with all his stances but absolutely values his perspective. Plus Fox News seems to be coming after him! RantWoman is not familiar with all the legal issues of copyrights, fair use, and other considerations.
HOWEVER RantWoman is posting this video both to invite others to check out the channel and to see whether, after watching the video there might be some Quaker lawyers or Quakers who know lawyers with relevant expertise who could offer help or suggest pathways to topical health. Please click through and reach out to David directly.
Just one voice: Ian Bremmer - Understanding Israel & Palestine | The Daily Show
The late night comics are BACK.
This item is Michael Kosta being honest and Learning!
RantWoman just posted a ton more material but this one nails a lot in a shorter clip.
MSNBC BENCHES Muslim Anchors After ADL Commands | Breaking Points plus other items
RantWoman here collects some commentary and various statements.
These commentaries are a few days old.
Breaking Point in outrage about MSNBC sidelining its Muslim anchors at the direction of ADL
thumbnail comments about all kinds of things: Sectarian dynamics in Muslim countries. Pay special attention to comments about navies and shipping toward the end.
"There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza."
RantWoman is going to stop. Youtube algorithms will point readers to all kinds of information sources.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Bassoon Lament and Moto Perpetuo from Lviv also with flight
Lament and summary
RantWoman chose the video above as musical theme for this post not at all to take away from the monstrous tragedies occurring in Ukraine right now, but rather simply because RantDad played the bassoon and therefore for RantWoman, bassoons can play lots of different roles in one's psyche.
Seattle is having passionate conversations about problems that the city cannot police their way out of. The Israel Palestine situation is that x about 1000.
Listen to the words of this version, especially at the beginning.
Israel has just ordered 1.1 million people in the North end of Gaza to evacuate south and by the time this posts, even more expanded ground invasion of Gaza than the "surgical" operations RantWoman has seen mention of. Israel has also called up 400,000 reservists.
In other words, despite multiple calls for restraint, what is already described as an open air prison is about to become even more genocidally unbearable for people who have no way to leave. NOR should they have to.
Last week's brazen Hamas military operations against Israel are monstrous. Israel's long history of wildly disproportionate killing sprees is not leading to regional peace. Voices in Israel recognize that.
PRAYER Matters here!
Hold the bomb threats
A question came up among fellow graduates of Princeton, RantWoman's alma mater, about what was happening on the Princeton campus. The short answer: nothing that has made the national news.
A slightly longer answer, two articles from The Daily Princetonian, the best-known student publication.
RantWoman will let the citations speak for themselves. RantWoman is not nostalgic about ALWAYS when helping organize events about Palestinian issues being offered a campus police officer for every event. One time there was also a bomb threat. RantWoman does lament that the general attitude about even trying to have discussion now seems much more volatile than decades ago.
I'll fly away
RantWoman why you gotta grab the flying symbolism THIS WAY?
TOTALLY fair Literature Brain question.
RantWoman will do her best to pull out reflection and NOT wander into an utterly tasteless zone.
Literature brain may wander elsewhere into thoughts of people sacrificing lives, their own and others for some or another Great Cause For now RantWoman will stash the thought for later.
A weighty Friend observed at the beginning of the #Pandemic that for all the military hardware and aircraft carriers and nuclear missiles the US has, the best weapon of prophylaxis against #Covid was soap, followed later by masks.
The 9/11 terrorists brought down civilian airliners with flight training, box cutters, and physics. During the attacks, US aircraft carriers and the submarine fleet put out to see, a gesture now also sometimes seen when the worsening storms brought by climate change. In other words, symbolically military hardware, no matter how much greenwashing it sometimes gets, by itself is no help about climate change.
The Hamas fighters who just invaded Israel on hang gliders evaded the Iron Dome, the Israeli air defense network touted as super powerful against incoming rockets. RantWoman considers this approach militarily brilliant even though RantWoman is as outraged as anyone by the killing spree that followed.
RantWoman needs simply to leave these popcorn kernels here. By now, events have moved past these initial reactions and RantWoman feels no call here to go further, at least for now.
Stop the war: Russia running out of Body Bags--and bodies, with other commentary
Various Jake comments about stupid ways to conduct a war, various flavors of glee that the west is distracted from Ukraine by Israel-Palestine, Putin's statement of support for Hamas, and oceans of weird disinfo.
Various comments about room for improvement in Ukrainian government and other political realities
Cites Just and Unjust wars by Michael Walzer
Times Radio Putin's role in Israel conflict with Hamas
And for a nature overcomes human destruction story, Chernobyl and animals
And aside
(Calls Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" sophomoric)
Politics of inevitability
Politics of eternity
Refers to Ivan Ilin in Russia: "history never started," meaningless encounters. No truth, leader riding in on white horse.
No one should have to prove their subjecthood the way Ukraine has
Thursday, October 12, 2023
There is MAGA and then there is Russian Propaganda CELEBRATING Israel Palestine War
RantWoman simply can't handle physical carnage in both Gaza and Israel.
The word genocide hangs heavy, along with horror, outrage, and embarrassing respect for ingenuity.
Nor can RantWoman stomach even dabbling a toe into a number of social media torrents.
Mercifully, RantWoman has trusted video voices. Consider:
Also the view from Ukraine
Selling Israeli ground action as "limited"
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Peter Beinart: The way to bring peace in Gaza is through ‘a measure of j...
This arguing over whose civilians are ... is just FOUL.
RantWoman is talking about the Gaza strip, 2 million people 1/2 of whom are under 18 as well as Israeli civilians. Violence is HORRIBLE. It seems like there are many voices TRYING to get to other paths and LOTS of paths to more warfare and violence.
We now interrupt reflection intended to be serious for...a note of personal digital discontinuity.
Oh NOES! RantWoman's much revered smart phone, favorite window into the torrents of info-trash roaring through our electronic channels has gone belly up. It obstinately REFUSES to charge and now just lies on the table mutely dragging RantWoman into thoughts of "I TOLD YOU SO" and lament for failing to upgrade in a timely way.
The Good news: RantWoman would have to go through a lot of trouble to peer into the cesspool of disinformation pouring through X formerly Twitter, so RantWoman has more time to collect videos from sources she considers respectable.
Monday, October 9, 2023
"Friendship" through music and other commentaries
RantWoman is not ignoring new military horrors in Palestine / Israel. RantWoman is just not the best person to curate info about the topic. Plus there is abundant material about Ukraine / Russia
I consider Hillary's comments about "deprogramming," like her past comments about "basket of deplorables" cringeworthy. But it's not terrible to see the Russian version of steeped in propaganda. Speaking of "deprogramming," listen to the end about what I would call Sovietism
Russia now making friends with North Korea and South Sudan
And, remembering also the N Korean state media announcement about the death of Kim Jun Il as well as this vid, something about North Korean announcer voices.
And as an aside Volodymir Zelenskyi addresses NATO assembly
Quaker Voice WA Legislative Advocacy Fellowship: Apply by October 28
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Our organization is seeking Washington residents [18-35-year-olds] with a passion for social justice and action for a learning opportunity during the upcoming legislative session. Applications are due October 28th, with final selection in mid-November. Receive a $500 stipend to learn about Washington State’s legislative process, receive one-on-one mentorship and join monthly activist meetings. NOTE: NO religious affiliation required (Quaker or otherwise).
With questions, please contact yqvcoordinator@quakervoicewa.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
An opportunity to do more than apologize: support planning for a native healing center in Kake AK
Alaska Friends Conference, one of 2 yearly meetings in Alaska, has come to unity on and has written an apology to Native Alaskans for Quakers’ part in running boarding schools for Native Alaskan and Native American children and for the harm this caused: forcibly separating children from their families, communities, and culture and causing intergenerational harm. AFC Friends presented this apology at the 2023 Summer Conference of Alaska Yearly Meeting of Friends Churches attended by Native Alaskans. There, they learned that tribal leaders in the Organized Village of Kake, Alaska hope to turn a donated Forest Service building into a cultural treatment healing center. By the end of October, 2023, the tribe needs money for a feasibility study and for insurance and suggested that white Quakers could donate money to meet this need. This is an opportunity for reparation and the time is short.
To donate to the healing center, please send a check made out to Alaska Friends Conference, PO Box 241732, Anchorage, AK 99524-1732 with "Kake" in the memo line.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
On things that blow up.
Come oh readers. Feast at RantWoman's daily media diet; dine at the sizzling cafeteria line of topics making RantWoman's head explode.
First a bit of Christopher Titus.
cw: language
Next Hillary, oh Hillary.
Readers are invited to scrounge for your favorite video of Hillary Clinton suggesting that the Trump cult half of the country needs to be deprogrammed.
Hillary, Hillary, Hillary: that "basket of deplorables" thing you tried last time REALLY did not inspire confidence for RantWoman that you have a vision that can appreciate the needs and gifts of the whole country. In fact, it made me miss the Obamas.
That said, probably so blatantly trying to "deprogram" the #TFG cult SHOULD be even more of a lead balloon than the "deplorables." RantWoman has no clear light about how to grow better awareness of basic civics, how to inspire people with a sense they can make a difference. It's just that the cult is not going to deprogram itself until it is good and ready.
Nuclear submarines.
And more
By the way Putin is subjecting Russians to nuclea evacuation drills
And the speaker
Russians talk nuking things because they have nothing else
By the way, as in a video from last night's post Margo Simonyan wants to nuke Siberia so the EMP will clobber everyone's electronic devices
Friday, October 6, 2023
Today's vids: Ukraine, Russia, Black Sea Fleet; heroes; propaganda
RantWoman has been too engrossed in circuses in Washington DC and has been neglecting The War in Ukraine.
So here are a couple vids, including Jake Broe explaining the ouster of Speaker McCarthy to overseas audiences.
RantWoman absolutely means to read up about peacebuilding.
And breaking the Black Sea blockade is a big deal.
Kind of skips over Beau's point about the Black Sea Fleet but look we're giving away our old stuff and we get to build new. Think of all the US jobs.
No new Russian mobilization for this fall. Putin running for 5th term next year.
Russia to (TRY TO) ban VPN's in March 2024
Land transport of Ukrainian grain.
Iranian weapons seized by US navy on way to Yemen and given to Ukraine
Just listen to all of it: Georgia, US responses to arms shipments...
And a digression: RantWoman notes the SCANDAL of the former President, Mr #P01135809 passed along purported informations about US nuclear submarine information to an Australian billionaire. RantWoman has no opinion about law enforcement hopefully being on top of the issues.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Liz freaking CHENEY for SPEAKER????
Desperate times require desperate measures????
RantWoman is taking it for granted that readers know that today for the first time ever a speaker of the US House of Representatives was removed from his position after a vote on a motion to Vacate.
RantWoman hopes that she is not the only person singing the tunes of:
1.Mr. #P01135809 is responsible for the second biggest one-day violent crime wave in US history since 9/11
2. #TFG keeps telling us all daily, in many cases several times a day that he has no intention of living up to his oath of office if re-elected. RantWoman WANTS to say THANKS for telling us you are completely ineligible even to have your name placed on the ballot. Unfortunately other people besides RantWoman have to act or not act based on that reality.
3. Please enjoy the most cogent statement RantWoman has seen of why Speaker McC HAD TO GO.
Indeed, RantWoman crosses her fingers as she says this: the country could do far worse for a Speaker of the House than Liz Freaking Cheney.
One does not have to be a member of the house to be speaker.
She could propose rules more conducive to intertribal civility.
She could refuse to appoint anyone as committee chair who voted against certifying Biden's election.
There are small matters of MAJOR policy disagreements but RantWoman is indulging in hope that Ms. C could both keep the focus on policy merits rather than personal whims AND cultivate willingness and efforts by everyone to work across the aisle.
Okay, Okay. RantWoman will do the best she can to keep her feet on the ground as things unfold. In the meantime, let us celebrate the settlement of the writers' strike and the return of the "talentless low-rated CREEPS" of late night television.
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