Kamaji...
And yet, you're asking those very same courts to simply disregard current PA law - however stupid it might be - and make decisions based on what you feel is the "right" reason.  How would that make them any the less corrupt?

I am not asking a thing.  I just know PA courts are corrupt with power.  Are you aware that in our nearly 250 years of history, only THREE JUDGES in all those years have been removed from office for cause in Pennsylvania.  THREE!!!  With that level of permanency, they pretty much do as they please and do not answer to anyone.  And when someone challenges them, you have from my experience total idiots at higher levels of court in PA.  I am talking total clown act.

When these judges operate with impunity, you do not have justice.  Plain and simple.  That is all I am saying.  And in terms of contempt, I don't know anyone who has appeared in PA courts to have anything but contempt for how they operate.  Once elected, they stay for life, regardless how poor they are in their jobs.  This approach is not one that promotes sound judicial practice.  These pukes should face a challenger every X years, where if they are not performing well, they can be removed via the ballot box.  PA has just a YES/NO retention question and does not open these judgeships up to be challenge.

And please do not assume because an individual is a judge, they hold some higher level knowledge of the law.  Far from it.  Last time I was in court, the idiot judge turned and asked my lawyer three times questions about what the law was in reference to 2 or 3 cases that were conducted ahead of us.  She was clueless.

An anecdotal story might help you understand.  My neighbor, a retired sheriff for Allegheny County in PA, he was in the yard, and we struck up a conversation.  He asked me where my wife and kids were, he hadn't seen them in awhile.  I told him we were getting divorced and she insisted on going to live with her mother in another state.  He asked who the judge was.  I told him.  He said, his oldest son was getting divorced, and he had the same judge.  He went on to tell me the nightmare his son was going through.  His son had three children.  The wife coached the oldest son, age 11, that if he killed his father, she will give him this and that (i.e. electronic game set, etc stuff).  The boy stabs his father in the back, does not kill him.  When he spoke to his attorney about what transpired, the attorney told him, no sense in bringing the matter up in this judge's court because she does not care what the mother did illegally.  She draws and quarters every father, no matter what.

That is PA justice.  And that was my experience.  When I got divorced, fathers had no rights.  Fathers had to sue to establish their rights as a parent.  That was a minimum cost of $8,000+.  Many fathers I knew did not have the money to spend.  My attorney told me, you could get joint custody.  It will cost $8,000+, you would absolutely get joint custody, and when your youngest turns 15 years of age in 14 months, you would not get to see your kids because the mother is no longer forced to provide you with access to children once they turn 15 years of age.  I got to see my kids a few times since then, and have not seen them in 13 years.  And by all standards, I was an excellent father.  My ex had mental issues that she refused to recognize, told my kids incredulous lies, and never once did I have an opportunity to share my side of anything.  I am now permanently estranged from my kids, and the courts and the way they operate played a major role in all that.  The legislature has since changed the law, giving fathers joint custody when couples part, but that change happened after my kids were grown.

I would never live in PA again.  I do not even enjoy returning to visit friends and family because of my rotten experience there.  I live in Georgia now, which makes an effort to treat both sides in a divorce more equitably.  Huge difference in the two states.

Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar
Israeli media is reporting that the Israeli government is unlikely to accept the deal as it is one-sided.
1:11 PM · May 6, 2024

Michael Kaplan 🇮🇱
@OfficialKappy
Yashar, Hamas didn’t agree to the deal on the table. They agreed to a separate deal, that is in fact one-sided, with the sole purpose to influence western media. Your tweet is the outcome of that intended outcome of Hamas. I hope you add context to this.
1:28 PM · May 6, 2024

Only applies to people making 1 million or more in taxable income and according to Forbes there are loopholes in the plan-it will only affect a very small amount of people. . Vast majority of Americans, even Republicans,  believe billionaires should pay a higher tax rate.

Yes they have the top tax rate but they have so many ways to take income as loans at the top tax rate is  never met or avoided entirely

NYT   article  top 400 billionaires only paid 23% of their wealth in taxes each year due to loopholes and such in 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/opinion/global-billionaires-tax.html

Says the tax the "rich" "conservative"...

All good as long as it is someone else that pays. While you cheat on your taxes...

Really love the "wealth" part in taxes... Not income, but wealth...

I just did a quick search. There have been threads posted here about Starliner for the past 5 years or more. I hope the doors don't fall off.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Although Boeing got $4.2 billion to develop an astronaut capsule and SpaceX only got $2.6 billion, SpaceX finished 4 years sooner.
Note, the crew capsule design of Dragon 2 has almost nothing in common with Dragon 1.
Too many non-technical managers at Boeing.
1:13 PM · May 6, 2024

Eric Berger
@SciGuySpace
Here's my deep dive into why Starliner is seven years late.
From arstechnica.com: The surprise is not that Boeing lost commercial crew but that it finished at all; "The structural inefficiency was a huge deal."
8:15 AM · May 6, 2024

 Biden Admin Officials Coordinated With Anti-Israel Group To Isolate Israeli Jews in West Bank, Emails Show
DAWN is leveraging clout with the Biden administration to push sanctions on Israeli military units for alleged human rights crimes


Adam Kredo   
May 6, 2024

Senior Biden administration officials have been coordinating since at least early 2022 with an outside anti-Israel group to isolate Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank, internal government emails show.

The previously unreported emails show top officials at both the State and Defense Departments fielding concerns from Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a human rights group that is highly critical of the Israeli government and has lobbied the Biden administration to cut off military aid to the Jewish state.

At the time, DAWN sparked an internal push at both departments to stop American officials from engaging with Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank and other contested areas of Jerusalem. DAWN is leveraging its clout with the Biden administration to push fresh sanctions on Israeli military units for alleged human rights crimes, having provided the State Department with a list of Israelis to punish. DAWN's anti-Israel lobbying campaign traces back to at least 2022, with the internal government emails shining new light on the level of access and influence it peddles inside the Biden administration.

In February of that year, DAWN's then-advocacy director, Adam Shapiro, emailed two top Pentagon officials—Dana Stroul, then the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, and Jennifer Zakriski, then the deputy director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

In the email, Shapiro raised concerns about U.S. officials engaging with Israeli "settlers," citing "media reports documenting a trip to Hebron by 2 US military officers, organized by an [Israel Defense Forces] commander and hosted by a settler affiliated with the Hebron Fund," a nonprofit group that provides education about the city of Hebron's Jewish history.

"From where I sit," Shapiro wrote, "I think this raises serious questions about the purpose of this trip to occupied territory and the ideological nature of the presentation and messaging—and seeming endorsement by US military personnel."

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https://freebeacon.com/israel/biden-admin-officials-coordinated-with-anti-israel-group-to-isolate-israeli-jews-in-west-bank-emails-show/