Eurocat

Winston Churchill was a dual citizen of the US.

Russia Today as the source. Nice going.

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Every airport serving NYC is awful.

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That's not true IMO.

LaGuardia now that it is renovated might be the best airport in America.

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JFK depends on the terminal. Jet Blue is gorgeous.

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Right now, senior leaders of Hamas, the perpetrators of the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, are huddled in Qatar. They’ve been there for years. But American foreign policy has turned a blind eye. Why? One reason might be that for the last 25 years, this small, energy-rich state has pumped billions into America to purchase influence and good favor.

The Qataris have spent their lavish fortune at American law firms, on lobbying contracts with former senior officials, and on junkets and partnerships with big media companies. The biggest recipients of Qatari largesse, though, have been major universities and think tanks.

The numbers are staggering. According to a 2022 study from the National Association of Scholars, Qatar today is the largest foreign donor to American universities. The study found that between 2001 and 2021, the petrostate donated a whopping $4.7 billion to U.S. colleges. The largest recipients are some of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.

One might expect that scholarly institutions that have benefited from this autocracy’s money would rethink their partnership after Qatar’s foreign minister said that “Israel alone is responsible” for the pogrom perpetrated by Hamas terrorists. Or after Qatar’s prime minister on Friday declined to close the office Hamas maintains in its capital. But these universities have given no indication that they will end their profitable partnership with Qatar.

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The reality, though, is much different. Many of these schools have had to compromise their values on their campuses in Doha. For example, in 2014 Qatar censored Love Comes Later, a romance novel set in London and Qatar written by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, an English professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Doha campus.

In some cases, the universities cooperated with Qatar’s strategic interests. The Qatar campus of Northwestern, whose U.S. journalism school is ranked as one of the best in the world, signed a memorandum of understanding with Al Jazeera, the Qatari-funded news channel that has provided a sympathetic platform for Hamas and other Islamist groups over the years, to help train its reporters.

But are Northwestern’s interests really aligned with Qatar? Al Jazeera aired a weekly program hosted by Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi between 1996 and 2013. Al-Qaradawi was denounced by the Anti-Defamation League in 2013—the same year that Northwestern signed its agreement with Al Jazeera—as the “theologian of terror.” In one 2009 sermon aired on the network, he said: “I will shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus I will seal my life with martyrdom.”

Underrated. --the spinners

Habeus corpus is literally article one of the constitution.

Hold on is this serious? Is the man mentally ill?

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My personal faves Musical-
Buena Vista Social Club

Best Play -
John Proctor Is the Villain

Both are terrific.

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And no don't be a jerk regarding unfaithfulness. C'mon.

My entire family - down to great great grandpa and grandpa size was normal size. Of course I was not around then, but so it has been told. The exact same thing is the deal on my wife's side. Normal height people. Everyone was in the five foot ten range (me too)

But I have a kid (fifteen years old) who loves basketball (and is damn good at it) and he is well over six feet. He is is like six feet four or inches (possibly more). Okay this is the tigerdroppings board so ha ha about unfaithful spouse, okay, got that easy knock/joke out of your system?

Seriously I don't get it.

He just scored 27 points in his NY HS League that sends kids to St Johns and Seton Hall, Iona, Forham. so, yeah.