Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the state's appeal against registering civil marriages performed online through the US state of Utah.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Seeing G-d
Berachos (07a) R. Ishmael b. Elisha says: I once entered into the innermost part of the Sanctuary to offer incense and saw Akathriel Jah, the Lord of Hosts, seated upon a high and exalted throne. He said to me: Ishmael, My son, bless Me! l replied: May it be Thy will that Thy mercy may suppress Thy anger and Thy mercy may prevail over Thy other attributes, so that Thou mayest deal with Thy children according to the attribute of mercy and mayest, on their behalf, stop short of the limit of strict justice! And He nodded to me with His head. Here we learn incidentally that the blessing of an ordinary man must not be considered lightly in your eyes.
Sforno (Bereishis 12:02) A true blessing by G’d is when G’d rejoices in our deeds and actions. Our sages illustrate this when they quote a conversation between the High Priest Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha who, while offering incense on Yom Kippur, had a vision of the angel Katriel sitting on the throne of G’d. The latter said to him: “Yishmael, My son, bless Me.” He said to him: (in the words attributed as being G’d’s own ‘prayer’) “may it be Your will that Your mercy will subdue Your anger and may Your mercy exile Your justified attribute to punish Your people for their sins, and may Your mercy prevail so that You deal with Your children by applying the attribute of Mercy.” When G’d’s representative, the angel Katriel heard this, he touched the High Priest on the head, which the latter took as a sign that the blessing uttered by an inferior creature for a superior should not be dismissed as worthless.” G’d here blessed Avram, with becoming the one who would preach monotheism including awareness of the benevolence of G’d which He extends to all of His creatures.
Playing chicken with the Jewish state
What should happen is for the grownups in the opposition to work out a compromise with the government that will restore judicial balance without harming either side or the nation. This is perfectly possible.
What might happen is that the left has unleashed forces that cannot be controlled. In that case, the game of chicken could end in a fiery head-on collision.
Fox News Journalists Sound Off on ‘Soul-Crushing’ Dominion Filings
More than anything, the tranche of internal messages and texts Dominion obtained from Fox executives, hosts, and producers show a network in full-blown crisis over the fear of losing its relevance within the conservative movement—and a network whose top stars loathed the fact-driven journalists on the “hard news” side. Rupert Murdoch, the head of the Fox empire, privately conceded that Trump’s claims were “really crazy stuff,” and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott warned shortly after the election that they shouldn’t “give the crazies an inch.”
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Senator Johnson Distorts Report on Violence in Defense of His Remarks on BLM, Antifa
In his op-ed, Johnson cited the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project to “push back” at “leftists” who claim that last year’s protests were “mostly peaceful.” But the September report Johnson cited found that “more than 93% of all demonstrations connected to the movement” were non-violent.
“[T]he senator is taking the overall figures out of context and distorting the report’s key conclusions,” Sam Jones, an author of the report, told us in an email.
Jones also said that Johnson’s op-ed overstated the number of demonstrations that involved violence and the number of people who died during them.
Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’: legal filings
“We are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” Carlson wrote in one text to an unidentified Fox employee on Jan. 4, 2021, according to the filing. “I hate him passionately, I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can’t handle much more of this.”
White House goes after Tucker Carlson by name over Jan. 6 coverage
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/08/white-house-tucker-carlson-jan-6-coverage-00086077
“We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law — which cost police officers their lives,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said.
“We also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: that Tucker Carlson is not credible,” Bates added.
Rupert Murdoch: Hannity, Ingraham ‘went too far’ in promoting Trump’s false claims about 2020 election
Rupert Murdoch, owner and co-chairman of Fox Corp., worried to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott that top hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham “went too far” in endorsing former President Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election, new court filings show.
In an email dated Jan. 21, 2021, Murdoch wrote to Scott bemoaning the network was still “getting mud thrown at us” over the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and for suggestions that the rhetoric of top talent at the network could have contributed to the attack.
Supernatural causes problems
Sefer Chasidim (205) One who is involved in oaths for angels or demons or magic incantations will not come to a good end. He himself will suffer physically or his children all his life. Therefore a person should distance himself from such activities as well as questioning through dreams to know which woman to marry or what business investment will be successful.. rather he needs to simply trust in G-d. and pray to Him.
McConnell says Fox News made ‘a mistake’ by underplaying violence of Jan. 6
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) says Fox News made “a mistake” by depicting Jan. 6, 2021, as a largely peaceful if chaotic protest, a revision of history that the Capitol Police chief criticized as “offensive” and “misleading.”
Capitol Police officer dies after being hit in head with fire extinguisher during DC riots
https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/us-capitol-police-officer-dies-after-dc-riots/
A US Capitol Police officer has died from injuries suffered when he reportedly was struck in the head with a fire extinguisher during Wednesday’s riots.
Brian D. Sicknick collapsed when he returned to his division office Wednesday and was taken to the hospital, where he died Thursday, according to a Capitol Police news release Thursday night.
The department said Sicknick was injured “while physically engaging with protesters.”
Video shows Capitol rioter hit officer with fire extinguisher
https://nypost.com/2021/01/11/video-shows-capitol-rioter-hit-officer-with-fire-extinguisher/
Moments later, a rioter tosses the fire extinguisher toward a group of officers below, striking one on the helmet. It’s unclear if the cop who was plunked was Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, 42. He died at a hospital Thursday after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the melee, two law enforcement sources told the Associated Press.
Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick
WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger ripped Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday for spreading “offensive and misleading conclusions” about the Jan. 6 insurrection, including a “disturbing accusation” about Officer Brian Sicknick’s death that also drew rebukes from his family and partner.
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