Sunday, December 29, 2019

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5 people stabbed during Hanukkah party at rabbi's home in New York by African-American Grafton Thomas. Governor Cuomo called the incident “frightening” and “inexplicable.” He said the suspect did not make any statements before stabbing people. “Nothing said, just hate. Hate and violence, that’s all it was,” Cuomo said Sunday. Grafton Thomas Has a Criminal History, Including Being Accused of Punching a Police Horse, Reports Say
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/multiple-victims-reportedly-stabbed-rabbi-s-new-york-home-n1108271
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/29/us/new-york-stabbing-rabbi-home/index.html
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/12/28/stabbing-monsey-synagogue-attack/
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/12/29/us/ap-us-hanukkah-stabbings.html

Congressman John Lewis diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. The man will be remembered as a legend and true patriot. Highly recommend the graphic novel trilogy about him called March.
https://www.axios.com/john-lewis-pancreatic-cancer-c58898dd-16de-437d-82fc-9b1954c3201f.html
https://johnlewis.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-john-lewis-undergoing-cancer-treatment

Gold Star Families Sue Defense Contractors, Alleging They Funded The Taliban
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/28/792065458/gold-star-families-sue-defense-contractors-alleging-they-funded-the-taliban

Anti-Semitic Attacks Emerge In New York City During Hanukkah
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-semitic-attacks-new-york-city-hanukkah_n_5e06227ac5b6b5a713ada7f9

Biden, Reversing Position, Says He Would Comply With Impeachment Subpoena
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/us/politics/biden-subpoena-democrats.html

Suspect shoots and kills 2 inside a Texas church before parishioners fatally shoot him
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/29/us/church-shooting-texas/index.html

New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Facing Felonies
https://miami.cbslocal.com/video/4316755-new-england-patriots-owner-robert-kraft-could-be-facing-felonies/

Totally different era. Just look at the rules. In the 70s you could jam and ride receivers as much as you liked—anywhere on the field-UNTIL THE BALL WAS THROWN! You could blast the QBs ANYWHERE on their body. It was much tougher to throw TD passes then.
https://twitter.com/tonydungy/status/1210991097738080259?s=21

Just my personal opinion but I think if you are going to do a top 100 players you have to split it into Eras. Otherwise it’s just silly to do. From the start of football. Every decade would have been a great list. But comparing guys in leather helmets who very few saw play...
https://twitter.com/rsherman_25/status/1210930922272382978?s=21

Most challenges lost: Pete Carroll, 9 Jon Gruden, 8 Coaches who haven't won a challenge: Pat Shurmur, John Harbaugh, Dan Quinn, Vic Fangio, Matt Patricia Most challenges won: Bruce Arians, Sean Payton
https://twitter.com/fieldgulls/status/1210977608134823936?s=21

Bill Belichick on Peyton Manning: “When you play against Peyton Manning, you play against the quarterback and the game-planner and the offensive play-caller. It’s unusual to see a quarterback like that. That was all Peyton.”
https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/nfl-100-all-time-team-greatest-quarterbacks-ever-john-elway-peyton-manning

Two NFL sources told me last night that they expect more than just a head coaching change in Cleveland. 2020 will be interesting.
https://twitter.com/mlombardiNFL/status/1210917047208685568?s=19

The Dolphins' Week 17 53-man roster is composed of: * 4 2019 draft picks * 4 2019 undrafted free agents * 11 players claimed off of waivers * 8 players signed off of other teams' practice squad 27 young, developmental pieces on the roster. That's how you start a youth movement.
https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1211310908128952320

I've gotten DMs from Jews here in New York worried about wearing Jewish symbols or yarmulkes on the street. I can't make such a deeply personal decision for you. All I can say is I've worn my yarmulke on the streets of Hungary and I'm not about to stop on the streets of my home.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1211322376073428992

Sickened by the anti-Semitic graffiti on walls all over Hampstead and Belsize Park this morning. All decent people across Britain stand with our Jewish community - and we must move heaven and earth to eradicate this racist hatred, which was unimaginable just a few years ago.
https://twitter.com/OliverCooper/status/1211226428294991872

Totally unacceptable.We will turn over every stone to find out who is responsible.This alongside attack in New York means ALL of us need to be vigilant for more anti Semitic behaviour&we are ALL responsible for helping stop it.For our Jewish friends- I am sorry this has happened.
https://twitter.com/MPSRajKohli/status/1211266078615191552

Heartbroken and deeply disturbed by the stabbing in Monsey and the many recent anti-Semitic attacks in the NY metro area, especially during this holiday season. We must condemn and confront anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry and hate wherever & whenever we see them.
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1211317940026576897

Sen. John Kennedy about Pelosi at November Trump rally: “It must suck to be that dumb.”
Sen. John Kennedy today on SOTU: think all public officials can try to do a better job of setting an example by being respectful in their disagreement...”
https://twitter.com/cathleendecker/status/1211319708202356737

I want to clarify something I said yesterday. In my 40 years in public life, I have always complied with a lawful order and in my eight years as VP, my office — unlike Donald Trump and Mike Pence — cooperated with legitimate congressional oversight requests.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1210946785847468033

But I am just not going to pretend that there is any legal basis for Republican subpoenas for my testimony in the impeachment trial. That is the point I was making yesterday and I reiterate: this impeachment is about Trump’s conduct, not mine.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1210946790104666113

The subpoenas should go to witnesses with testimony to offer to Trump’s shaking down the Ukraine government — they should go to the White House.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1210946792369610752

And sadly year closes with another reminder that hate is all too real and needs no stoking. By all accounts the stabbing in rabbi’s home in ny is just that - hate on display. It must be condemned AND countered with justice and better respect for diversity - America at her best
https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1211308484261748737

Meat industry responsible for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/01/meat-industry-dead-zone-gulf-of-mexico-environment-pollution

The "Justice" "Democrats" went 7-72 in 2018. They couldn’t even win in a Democratic wave year. Fun fact: No Justice Democrat won a house seat that was less than D+13 (AZ-03)
https://www.twitter.com/_Jason_Dean_/status/1211175614671138816

China Blocks American Books as Trade War Simmers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/business/us-china-books-trade-war.html

Rudy Giuliani (who is - evergreen reminder - serving as the "personal attorney" (he's not, his law licence expired decades ago.....) of Trump) was involved in back-channel talks with Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro last year
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-lawyer-and-the-venezuelan-president-how-giuliani-got-involved-in-back-channel-talks-with-maduro/2019/12/29/289dc6aa-235f-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html

Today, Jews were slaughtered because people vilify them for the very same ideas you put out there in this column. This is pathetic: Bret Stephens’ latest column (https://nyti.ms/39kgVpU ), which argues that culture and history drive Jewish achievements, has been edited to remove a reference to a paper widely disputed as advancing a racist hypothesis. We’ve added the following editors’ note to the column.
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1211378700069023744

NYT reports that Pompeo, Bolton, Esper met with Trump in late August to plead with him to release military aid. He rebuffed their effort.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/us/politics/trump-ukraine-military-aid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Patriots will play on wild card weekend for the first time since 2010


The Dallas Cowboys have missed the playoffs in 6 out of 9 seasons with Jason Garrett as Head Coach


Bears in Ukraine have started suffering from Insomnia because it’s too warm to hibernate
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-bears-insomnia-hibernation-warm-winter-1479038?f

Unsuccessful NY governor primary candidate, unsuccessful Congressional candidate, and unsuccessful NY attorney general candidate endorses Bernie Sanders.
https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1210702889263489029

Germany: 75,000th 'Stolperstein' for Holocaust victims laid — "Stolpersteine," literally "stumbling stones" or "stumbling blocks," are brass plaques inserted into sidewalks and roads throughout Germany and Europe to preserve memory of Nazi victims. Each stone features a victim name and information.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-75000th-stolperstein-for-holocaust-victims-laid/a-51827506

Australian NSW Bushfires: “To put it in perspective, in the past few years we have had a total area burned for the whole season of about 280,000 ha,” Burford said. “This year we’re at 3.41m and we are only halfway through the season.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/24/australian-bushfires-the-story-so-far-in-each-state

Private firms invited to run NHS services with cancer and kids treatments up for grabs in a stealth Tory sell-off
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/private-firms-invited-run-nhs-21178712

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