GOP candidates' lip service to getting out of the Iran war

 #Iran #ICE #GOP

quite the laundry list of tepid comments not even backed up by feeble tgestures

Family and Community in the 21st Century: how we care for each other: ONE interest group

 RantWoman is working at as much "homework" before Pacific NW quarterly meeting as can be managed.

The only interest group that has made it onto the online listing is one by two Friends with a leading to address Christian nationalism. Here is the declaration they want to seed group discernment.

Statement of Faith Toward a Shared Declaration

RantWoman is getting very good at trying to witness movement of God in ways that are not always obvious.

Case in point: The Secretary of War Crimes whose job is to protect Freedom of Religion not cram his religion down others' throats.

Enough said?

Jake Broe: Zelensky at the UN. Putin after his election

 #Ukraine #Russia #MilBloggers #FuelRestrictions #WarCrimes #Europe #sanctions #terrorism #EU

A bunch of videos YouTube served up. All worthy of more commentary than is offered here.

Putin Is About to Make His Most Desperate Move Yet | Inside Russia

Ukraine Just Absolutely HAMMERED Moscow…Again!

Konstantin got out of Uzbekistan

Konstantin FINALLY Got Out of Uzbekistan! He NOW Reveals What REALLY HAPPENED!

"War is coming home to Russia"

And re Greenland

Europe Just Exposed Trump in the Best Way Possible

Blame Volkswagen for Diesel prices?

How Volkswagen’s Flagrant Fraud Screwed Over Russia’s Refineries a Decade Later

Sean Hannity interviews Darlin Graham

 #SCsen #DarlineGraham #SeanHannity

If RantWoman were a slightly more responsible commentator, she would go look for the entire interview clipped here. RantWoman is pointedly not offering some observations related to the comments below.

Instead, RantWoman offers the rant she posted in the comments.

Y'all aren't following enough #SCsen social media. Ralph Norman set an example for #GOP candidates everywhere. He lost the runoff to Darline. He said "I don't like it but I accept it." A whole bunch of #GOP voters don't like Darline for a bunch of different reasons. Some of them plan to write in Ralph Norman. Some will vote Democrat. Among Darline's "sins:" --as Commissioner of the SC Commission for the Blind she, HORRORS, had a strong #DEI program --She once gave money to Lisa Murkowski --She supported an SC legislator taking a pro-choice position. --Her travel budget for the year after the pandemic lockdowns ended was about 10x the previous year when NOBODY was travelling either for trainings to maintain certifications or to serve agency clients. As a social services professional and head of a state agency, she certainly would have worked closely with the governor. To me that makes the leap to appointing her to fill Lindsay's seat justifiable but I don't live in SC I get that Darline does not know much about foreign policy. As screwed up as US foreign policy is right now, someone willing to engage about fresh ideas could be really valuable. But I don't live in SC and I can't tell how hot the supposed hot buttons really are.

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RantWoman notes to herself:

--There will be a debate. What questions would RantWoman ask

--SC has a lot of both active duty military and vets. Neither candidate is talking about the war but what strands of discontent are there?

Stay tuned.

Jake Broe interviews Eileen Laubacher, running against Lauren Boebert in CO-04

 #CO-04 #Ukraine #Russia #veterans #Iran #NoWithIran #Hegseth #SecDef #VoteVets #MailInVoting

"Stupid wars in the Middle East"

"3-day special military operation"

Full disclosure: RantWoman has visited places in CO-04 a handful of times.

Retired general running against Anna Paulina Luna

 #NationalSecurity #StockTrading #Corruption

RantWoman continually argues with herself: is the point more and better more professional military that treats all branches, all levels with respect: enough money to live on without SNAP, no forever wars, COMPETENT leadership.

OR can we count on people with military experience to bring important insights and make badly needed improvements for EVERYONE.

And we are not even going to go very near comprehensive revisioning of national security. Anyway, another strong woman on a Congressional ticket.

Ian Bremmer speaks about Antonio Gutierres and the UN

 #UnitedNations #AntonioGutierres #AI #InternationalLaw #RuleOfLaw

Really impressive optimistic comments about the use and importance of the #UN