Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake

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The New Yorker writer who did the interview...

> Several years ago, I interviewed Michael Oren, Netanyahu's former ambassador to the US. I thought his answers here were worth thinking about now, in terms of both Gaza and the West Bank. > > Nitter

Oren is fucking nuts. The writer's part of the dialog is in bold.

> archive.today • Michael Oren Cuts Short a Conversation About Israel | The New Yorker > > ...I think it is our incontrovertible right as Jews to live anywhere in our ancestral homeland. > > Really? > > No question. No question about it. Anywhere. And a member of the Sioux nation has a right to live on Sioux-nation territory. These are our tribal lands. The cradle of our civilization. > > Just to be clear: You were born in New York, correct? > > I was. > > So you think that you, as a Jewish person born in New York, have a right to be anywhere in Israel— > > Absolutely. > > Plus the West Bank, plus Gaza. > > Absolutely. Not Gaza. We can debate whether Gaza is part of the land of Israel. > > O.K., Israel plus the West Bank. > > Even if you wanted to include Gaza, I'd say absolutely, yeah. The question is what is smart. What's possible. > > Who gave you the right to live anywhere you want in the West Bank? That's what I am trying to understand. > > Absolutely. > > Where did you get that right? > > It's my heritage for three thousand years. It's the same exact right I have from where I am talking to you. I am talking to you from Jaffa. I live in Jaffa. The same right I have to live in Jaffa I have in [the settlement] Beit El or Efrat, or in Hebron. Exact same right. Take away one right, the other right makes no sense. By the way, P.S., most of the lands of pre-1967 Israel are not even in the Bible. Haifa is not in the Bible; Tel Aviv is not in the Bible.

Did he actually say "P.S."? Who says that?

[Edit If you don't want to read the whole thing - you can read just the first two paragraphs.]

> archive.today • On Race, House Speaker Mike Johnson Says His Views Were Shaped By Raising a Black Child - The New York Times > > [...] > > Before this week, Mr. Johnson was an obscure southern Republican, with little known about his background beyond his home state; the story of Michael, who was 14 when he joined the Johnson family, was even less known. > > In his public remarks over the years, Mr. Johnson describes Michael as his son and did not correct an interviewer who described Michael as "adopted." Ms. Day said in an interview that the Johnsons did not formally adopt Michael because of the "lengthy adoption process." Ms. Day declined to say whether Michael was using "Johnson" as his surname. > > [...] > > When Mike Johnson, the new House speaker, talks about race in America, he often draws a striking personal connection, telling the story of how he and his wife, Kelly, "took custody" of a Black teenager 24 years ago and raised him as a son. > > "I have walked with him through discrimination that he has had to endure over the years and the hurdles he sometimes faced," he told a House committee in 2019, while testifying against reparations for slavery. "I know all this because I was with him." > > When Mr. Johnson was named House speaker this week, his relationship with his son, like much of Mr. Johnson's personal and political life, faced new scrutiny. There is no mention of the man, who is now an adult, raising his own family in California, in Mr. Johnson's official biography. And he does not appear in the family photos posted on the congressman's website. Mr. Johnson has four biological children: two daughters and two sons. > > On Friday, Mr. Johnson sought to explain the absence, saying it was in deference to his son Michael's request for privacy. [...] Michael could not be reached for comment. > > [...] > > Mr. Johnson has spoken publicly about Michael largely when he has talked about race. He has described Michael as a "success story" and likened the experience of being a white couple adopting a Black teenager to the movie "The Blind Side," the 2009 film that depicts a wealthy white family taking in an impoverished Black teenager who becomes a football star. > > In his testimony on racial reparations before a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Johnson said that Michael, too, opposed reparations because it defied an "important tradition of self-reliance." Mr. Johnson's comments drews boos from supporters of reparations in the hearing. > > [...] > > Mr. Johnson's remarks on race have also drawn criticism from the right. In a 2020 interview on PBS, he spoke with the journalist Walter Isaacson about racial tensions in America in the immediate aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer. Mr. Johnson described the killing of Mr. Floyd as "an act of murder," and said he had learned about racial disparities in America firsthand from raising a Black son. > > At the time, Mr. Johnson noted that his oldest biological son, Jack, was now the same age as Michael was when he came into the house. "And I've thought often through all these ordeals over the last couple of weeks about the difference in the experiences between my two 14-year-old sons," he said in the PBS interview. "Michael being a Black American and Jack being white Caucasian. They have different challenges. My son Jack has an easier path. He just does."

I never thought I'd be quoting The New York Post about the Gaza war yet here I go...

> Magazine scrubs sections of National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan's essay praising Biden's performance in the Middle East > > National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan lauded President Biden's "disciplined approach" to foreign policy that "reduces the risk of new Middle Eastern conflict" in sections of a [foreignaffairs.com] magazine essay — which were helpfully edited out of the online version. > > [...] > > "The Israeli-Palestinian situation is tense, particularly in the West Bank, but in the face of serious frictions, we have de-escalated crises in Gaza and restored direct diplomacy between the parties after years of its absence," Sullivan wrote in one passage edited out of the online article. > > When Biden, 80, assumed the presidency, "US troops were under regular attack in Iraq and Syria," Sullivan wrote in the print version, later adding, "Such attacks, at least for now, have largely stopped." > > [...] > > "Indeed, although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades," Sullivan wrote in another section scrapped from the online version. > > "The progress is fragile, to be sure. But it is also not an accident. At a meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last year, the president set forth his policy for the Middle East in an address to the leaders of members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan. His approach returns discipline to U.S. policy. It emphasizes deterring aggression, de-escalating conflicts, and integrating the region through joint infrastructure projects and new partnerships, including between Israel and its Arab neighbors. And it is bearing fruit," he added.

The original foreignaffairs.com article as a pdf

With the top all time option I searched for the word blocking in my account in posts - https://hexbear.net/search?q=blocking&type=Posts&listingType=All&creatorId=21005&page=1&sort=TopAll

The search doesn't find this post I made 8 days ago - A question about blocking Youtube's "Don't use an adblocker" nag.

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> Pence speaks at Penn Drug store in Iowa.

Inside Mike Pence's Sad, Dwindling Presidential Campaign - POLITICO

I'm looking for websites, particular webpages, Youtube channels, etc.

I'm about to google this stuff but I'd still like suggestions to help me just do it and make sauces myself for basic sauces like sweet and sour, tikka masala, butter chicken, curry (many kinds).

I've started to make most of my meals in a Dutch oven. I throw frozen vegetables in there along with some kind of frozen meat and cook it all for ~45 minutes.

The next thing for me to do is make sauces myself.

It's only very recently that I finally cured myself of my Pavlov's Dog habit of buying frozen meals so I could stick them in the microwave oven and hear that ding. The food usually isn't that good and I know even as lazy as I am - I can do better than that.

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> Found a dim sum spot in Flushing I really wanna go to > > Nitter

> Oh no. Oh nooooo. Oh noooooooooo. > > Nitter

> Today's my little brother's birthday. Time to get another theme cake. > > Nitter

It's Fudgie the Whale cake by Carvel.

The Beastie Boys wrote a song about another Carvel cake Cooky Puss.

Cookie Puss