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Benjamin Netanyahu: "There was a Palestinian state, it's called Gaza. We didn't get peace. We got the most horrific massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. They want to massacre again and also teach their children to be suicide bombers" He's 100% correct.
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Go for it Mike!!
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I’ve been in horse racing for over 20 years. The more my team, and now many passionate supporters of this sport, dig into the major issues that have plagued racing for decades, one name keeps popping up over and over again: Bill Lear. William “Bill” Lear is a powerful attorney in Lexington, Kentucky and Chairman Emeritus of the law firm Stoll Keenon Ogden. According to his own bio with The Jockey Club, his firm represents Breeders’ Cup, Keeneland, The Jockey Club, and Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. He is also: • A steward of The Jockey Club • A trustee of Keeneland • And by his own admission, the principal draftsman of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act. Optically… that’s a lot of influence concentrated in one place. When I began my legal battle with The Jockey Club, the first response letters we received came directly from his firm. Another interesting coincidence: The current CEO of Breeders’ Cup, Drew Fleming, and the CEO of Keeneland, Shannon Arvin, both previously worked at Stoll Keenon Ogden. So it raises a simple question. How many candidates were interviewed for those CEO jobs??? Because in most industries, CEOs of major organizations are usually operators, people with deep experience running businesses, building revenue, sales, marketing, and growth. Not lawyers from the same firm. To many people looking at this from the outside, it starts to look like a very small circle running a very big sport. Now let’s fast-forward to today. After three years of giving HISA a chance, many owners, trainers, breeders, and tracks feel the same thing: Costs going up. Participation going down. Small participants being squeezed. And the principal architect of the legislation is still sitting inside the governance structure of the sport. So I’ll ask the question many people in racing are already asking privately: How does it make you feel that the principal draftsman of HISA is also a steward of The Jockey Club and trustee of Keeneland??? Another question I’m curious about. During the 5 Stones investigation, which targeted certain trainers, I wonder: Were any trainers connected to Jockey Club stewards ever investigated??? Transparency matters. I’ve been in racing over 20 years and, interestingly, I’ve never met or seen Bill Lear at a racetrack. I also couldn’t find any record of him owning a horse over the past 30 years. Yet his influence over the sport appears enormous. You can draw your own conclusions. But the words I hear most often from many people in the industry when Bill Lear’s name comes up are: “Pain in the ass for the industry.” And “Puppet master.” Team Horse Racing…what do you think???

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Christians singing the Israeli national anthem in a church. I love this. 🙏🖤
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Jews make up just 0.2% of the world population, yet have won over 20% of Nobel Prizes. 40% in economics, 26% in medicine, 23% in physics, 19% in chemistry, 13% in literature, and 9% in peace. A breathtaking testament to outsized impact on human progress.
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