{"id":149508,"date":"2023-11-10T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149508"},"modified":"2023-11-08T19:03:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:03:49","slug":"friday-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149508","title":{"rendered":"Friday Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"I_ZkbNhI D_FY W_6D6F\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body\">\n<div class=\"msg-body P_wpofO mq_AS\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body-content\">\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"yiv7796409394\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"yiv7796409394yahoo-style-wrap\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-149512 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/p07kfh1t-391584542.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/p07kfh1t-391584542.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/p07kfh1t-391584542.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/p07kfh1t-391584542.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/p07kfh1t-391584542.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I lied. No follies, but I needed something alliterative, because.<\/p>\n<p>Seems the BBC is in hotter water nowadays &#8211; they characterize Hamas terrorists as &#8220;militants&#8221; despite the British government and most everyone else calling them terrorists. They blamed the Israelis for the famed Palestinian rocket debris explosion which &#8220;killed 500&#8221;, which Sir Michael Ellis\u00a0 described as &#8220;worldwide reputational damage&#8221;.\u00a0 But wait &#8211; there&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out in 2004 the BBC did an internal report which documented its anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish bias.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was carried out by Martim Balen, a senior journalist, but has since been suppressed with the corporation going to court to keep its findings secret.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/11\/06\/bbc-must-publish-israel-bias-report-suppressed-for-10-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Telegraph<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, the BBC has spent over 350,000 pounds in legal fees keeping the report secret. Almost 20 years? Hmm&#8230; makes you wonder just how embarrassing it is.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_149511\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149511\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-149511\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/453349850telhami-3971288075.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/453349850telhami-3971288075-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/453349850telhami-3971288075-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/453349850telhami-3971288075-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/453349850telhami-3971288075-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/453349850telhami-3971288075-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-149511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And Saturday pro-Palestinian marches left a trail of graffiti and destruction through Washington.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House is silent after pro-Palestinian demonstrators vandalized its gates with signs and paint during a rowdy protest over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people descended on Washington, D.C., on Saturday to demand a cease-fire between Israel and terror group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters could be seen vandalizing the White House fence and wrenching at the gate as antisemitic graffiti was left on several buildings along the protesters&#8217; path through the city.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters on Saturday could be seen defacing multiple statues in downtown Washington as well, wrapping Palestinian flags around a statue of Benjamin Franklin and another of General Marquis de Lafayette near the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/white-house-silent-secret-makes-203606843.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2023-11-08T19:05:19+00:00\">Capitol Police arrested hundreds well and will try to get them all sentenced to years in prison\u00a0<\/del> nope, apparently these were &#8220;mostly peaceful&#8221; and only one was arrested by Metro cops.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-149513 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7181511137_3641bb3cff_k-1533137503.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7181511137_3641bb3cff_k-1533137503.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7181511137_3641bb3cff_k-1533137503.jpg?resize=444%2C333&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7181511137_3641bb3cff_k-1533137503.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7181511137_3641bb3cff_k-1533137503.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7181511137_3641bb3cff_k-1533137503.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7181511137_3641bb3cff_k-1533137503.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco is really tough on drug dealers now that their ultra-lib DA Chesa Boudin is gone, right? Not really.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of this month, there are 535 suspected drug dealers with open bench warrants who failed to<br \/>\nshow up in court to face narcotics sales charges. Judges granted their freedom from custody pending trial.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 140 of the 535 suspects have been arrested and released from jail, multiple times, the DA\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The District Attorney\u2019s Office said it filed 316 motions to detain the most egregious drug dealing<br \/>\nsuspects because of the \u201cextreme public safety risk they pose.\u201d San Francisco judges only granted 32 of those motions to keep the suspects in custody.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/da-more-than-500-accused-san-francisco-drug-dealers-failed-to-show-up-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">KRON4<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t look\u00a0 like the drug dealers are worried&#8230;why should they? This is the definition of a revolving door system.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-149514 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/th-1123435442.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/th-1123435442.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/th-1123435442.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, in partially GOOD news for once, Congress managed bipartisan cooperation\u00a0 in censuring Rashida Tlaib<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The censure resolution, authored by Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., passed 234 to 188, with 22 Democrats voting for it and four Republicans opposing the measure. A censure vote only requires a simple majority to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have seized on Tlaib\u2019s words and actions criticizing Israel, joining several Democrats in condemning a video she posted on social media showing protesters chanting \u201cfrom the river to the sea\u201d \u2014 a phrase that has been used by Hamas and that Jewish groups consider an antisemitic call for the elimination of Israel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/house-vote-censure-rashida-tlaib-israel-hamas-palestine-remarks-rcna124005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pity they didn&#8217;t throw her out so hard she&#8217;d still be bouncing, but I guess this is as good as we can expect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"H_7jIs D_F ab_C Q_69H5 E_36RhU\" data-test-id=\"toolbar-hover-area\">\n<div class=\"D_F W_6D6F r_BN gl_C\" data-test-id=\"card-toolbar\">\n<div class=\"D_F ab_C en_0 b_Z14vXdP e_3mS2U I_ZkbNhI P_Z1otBpf\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"D_F cdPFi_Z1oI2WW cdPFi4_Z29WjXl\" data-test-id=\"popover-container\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lied. No follies, but I needed something alliterative, because. Seems the BBC is in hotter water nowadays &#8211; they characterize Hamas terrorists as &#8220;militants&#8221; despite the British government and most everyone else calling them terrorists. They blamed the Israelis for the famed Palestinian rocket debris explosion which &#8220;killed 500&#8221;, which Sir Michael Ellis\u00a0 described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,692],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-gaza-2023"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-CTq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}