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2024-2025 California and Southwest Weather Thread
roadtonowhere08 replied to Anti Marine Layer's topic in West of the Rockies
Nope. Completely died. Oh well. The cell I made a .gif of had probably the most consistent thunder I have ever heard in Southern California. Nothing close or loud, but it was nonstop cloud to cloud. Pretty rapid intensification for here. -
2024-2025 California and Southwest Weather Thread
roadtonowhere08 replied to Anti Marine Layer's topic in West of the Rockies
I think we might have a winner with the developing cell to my immediate north. We'll see in a few minutes. -
2024-2025 California and Southwest Weather Thread
roadtonowhere08 replied to Anti Marine Layer's topic in West of the Rockies
The cell passed to the east, but the more defined rain shaft has brought more visible lightning. Really cool to see the evolution of a thunderstorm during the day here. Great visibility with these isolated cells. -
2024-2025 California and Southwest Weather Thread
roadtonowhere08 replied to Anti Marine Layer's topic in West of the Rockies
Near constant light thunder from the dark cell overhead. Gotta be high altitude cloud to cloud lightning. Very little precipitation. -
2024-2025 California and Southwest Weather Thread
roadtonowhere08 replied to Anti Marine Layer's topic in West of the Rockies
HA!!! Just like that a small cell to my NE got its act together. Thunder every 15 seconds or so. No rain, but at least it's something to look at and hear. I'll take it! -
I wouldn't count on it. Islamic jihadists and messianic Zionists don't seem to be in short supply unfortunately. Higher ups are all too happy to use those useful idiots for their own benefits as well. It's only going to get better when the average Muslim/Jew has decided that true compromise is in order and either violently or nonviolently rises up and demands "enough". Who knows when that might be. I'll tell you this though: The citizens of Israel have a lot more power to enact meaningful change than those of Palestine. Money and freedom gets you influence. Palestinians have neither.
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2024-2025 California and Southwest Weather Thread
roadtonowhere08 replied to Anti Marine Layer's topic in West of the Rockies
Lucky guy. That's a nice healthy pair of cells to the southeast. Perhaps something will come together slightly to the north. -
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I think I have what might finally unite all of us: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/entertainment/elizabeth-hurley-son-direct-sex-scenes-liberating-intl-scli/index.html All together now:
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While conflict in the region is as old as time, it is a cop out to take that attitude with the current state of affairs. When you have the time, this article puts my opinion into words nicely: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/the-real-reason-the-israel-palestine-peace-process-always-fails Israel has all the power in this current equation. There literally is no incentive for them to change their actions or attitudes. Making peace costs more than maintaining the status quo, and it is getting more entrenched each year. The U.S. has gone from this: The second option is to make the fallback worse. This is what President Eisenhower did following the 1956 Suez crisis when he threatened economic sanctions to get Israel to withdraw from Sinai and Gaza. This is what President Ford did in 1975 when he reassessed US relations with Israel, refusing to provide it with new arms deals until it agreed to a second Sinai withdrawal. This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977. And this is what Carter did when he made clear to both sides at Camp David that the United States would withhold aid and downgrade relations if they did not sign an agreement. This, likewise, is what the US secretary of state James Baker did in 1991, when he forced a reluctant Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to attend negotiations in Madrid by withholding a $10bn loan guarantee that Israel needed to absorb the immigration of Soviet Jews. That was the last time the United States applied pressure of this sort. To this: Since Oslo, in fact, the US has done quite the reverse, working to maintain the low cost of Israel’s fallback option. Successive US administrations have financed the Palestinian government, trained its resistance-crushing security forces, pressured the PLO not to confront Israel in international institutions, vetoed UN Security Council resolutions that were not to Israel’s liking, shielded Israel’s arsenal from calls for a nuclear-free Middle East, ensured Israel’s military superiority over all of its neighbours, provided the country with more than $3bn in military aid each year, and exercised its influence to defend Israel from criticism. It develops an attitude thusly: The former Israeli defence minister Moshe Dayan once said: “Our American friends offer us money, arms and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.” The U.S. is basically in the same situation: We keep writing the checks and providing cover because it is easier and cheaper than strong arming both parties for peace. We could force it. We don't want to. Just like we are too chickenshit to force aid into Gaza as well. We can start wars unilaterally without permission, but apparently we cannot stand up to Israel when it comes to keeping innocent people alive. 9/11 was a result of our horrid policies in the region over the decades. What did we do? Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm worried that our actions (or inactions depending on how you want to frame it) in Gaza recently have made our security much more vulnerable: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/11/cia-israel-gaza-ukraine-ai/ We did not learn after 9/11 because we did not have to. We are not learning now. We don't have to. When you are on top, you get global freedom to basically do what you want. Peace costs money. War makes money. But for every action, there is a reaction, and innocent U.S. civilians are at risk based on our selfish actions. The truth usually is, but the Hamas numbers are the only ones we have, and Israel is not exactly truthful with numbers either. The IDF lies like a rug. When you have a country that actively keeps aid out to starve it's occupied population, you either go with the Hamas numbers or you throw darts at the wall. Not like we can go in there and count the bodies.
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You know Netanyahu has lost the long game when Chuck Schumer, a staunch ally of Israel and most of its policies, basically calls for the his removal. Netanyahu's response? Thanks for all the yearly U.S. aid. Get stuffed. We're going into Rafah. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/politics/netanyahu-schumer-us-israeli-relations/index.html Israel: A global pariah. Whatever goodwill they had after October 7th is gone. 31,000 dead Palestinians, mostly women and children will do that. And the part that floors me? There were more mass protests in Israel over Netanyahu's attempt to neuter the courts than their government leading a genocide against the Palestinians.
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Hehe, he really wants Boebert to work for her seat in the west instead of being the heir apparent for his. I'm thinking that sting has got to put a smile on his face. https://newrepublic.com/post/179864/ken-buck-lauren-boebert-resignation “I think this place is dysfunctional.”
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100% this. Trump takes the transactional nature of politics to a whole new level of stupidly obvious.
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Because sanctions on a place like Iran only hurts the civilians. Their economy is in the toilet. Most regular people in Iran are no different than Americans. They want what we want. Remember all the protests a short while ago that were brutally crushed? Many want to be democratic and have self determination. We gotta play our cards right and not just punish them all due to the actions of their government. We are also a big part of why they have religious nutjobs in power in the first place. They remember that detail.