Cory Wong on Spotify - www.woooong.com/spotify
Cory Wong - guitar
Chris Thile - mandolin
Seth Tackaberry - bass
Petar Janjic - drums
Steve Goold - percussion
Avery Bright - violin/viola
Cara Fox - cello
Animated Music Video by : Kolam Susu (sponsored by Bank Mandiri, Indonesia)
I think this is the winner 🤣
H/t @moodyfoodiedude pic.twitter.com/bINCpl1tyn— Wu-Tang Is For The Children (@WUTangKids) August 14, 2021
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
Actually, I’m going to be honest, at this point it’s just sad. Like, it’s legit depressing to me to see so many people who are out there willfully getting themselves sick, and then on their deathbeds, they regret all their life choices. It still breaks my heart, even though I know it’s their own damn fault, because I wish we could reach these people in time and heal all the political wounds and the brain-washing. But we can’t, and it’s killing them. Literally.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
This is a rerun of their rejection of Obamacare. Daily Kos has numerous diaries of people terminally ill who refused to sign up for Obamacare because they hated the black man in the Oval Office. A bunch of diaries quoted people saying they would rather die that get coverage…and others who said they were willing to die for their race.
What the FUCK is happening in this country?!? https://t.co/lsvA26WBmW
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) August 14, 2021
Goddammit did someone slip Maureen Dowd some edibles again, you KNOW how she gets,
— WokeMeansYouLoseHat (@Popehat) August 14, 2021
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
Not so much schadenfreuden as shrugging. I used to care and hope they’d come around. Now 🤷♀️. Whatever.
If you want to die so badly for your cause, go to God. 👋🏼
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
As a Southern boy born and raised, for me it’s not so much schadenfreude, but a profound anger that too many of us are so damned stupid, gullible, and contrary that we’d rather engage in self-destructive behavior than ever admit that the Satanic liberal hippie atheist homosexual communist science believers were right.
Of course I live in the South, but I won’t be bothered by any of your answers.
re: #3 Dopamine Fish
It’s hurting all of us. How do we ever get back to “packed houses” at restaurants and theaters? Although I myself blame the Delta variant mostly in terms of the surge.
Yet-The willingness to ignore or deny the threat of contagion of another gets me. One of the arguments against mandating vaccing is “informed consent”. How is the young lady with a family getting informed consent in a crowded elevator that includes the unvaccinated and careless type? Especially with the breakout factor?
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m fully overcome with empathy fatigue at this point. I could not care less what happens to the willfully self-endangered. It pisses me off that their stupid choices have the potential to have a horrific effect on others, though.
After ganging up on reporters, Proud Boy Adam Kiefer calls out an antifascist for a “one on one”, and then gets knocked out with a single punch. 📸 @waterspider__pic.twitter.com/JAZNirVF0o
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) August 14, 2021
A closeup photo of the attacker kicking people in the head makes it almost certain that it’s former professional MMA fighter Mike Ancheta.
Just two weeks ago, Ancheta attacked journalist @VPS_Reports and broke his nose and both eye sockets. @LAPDHQ has done absolutey nothing. https://t.co/YJ9MQFfHp4 pic.twitter.com/qaG2SXJWtH— Chad Loder (@chadloder) August 14, 2021
Another view of the Proud Boy shows he’s using either a metal kubotan or a short-bladed utility knife to strike or stab people.
This will puncture the skin — or break ribs if it’s a kubotan — but you’re not going to bleed out from it. https://t.co/KH8whtDvNL pic.twitter.com/FdiK7TBYhY— Chad Loder (@chadloder) August 14, 2021
Peering through blood-red slits for eyes, nose clearly wrecked, Junior is crying that the media picked on him all the time but leaves Hunter Biden alone. pic.twitter.com/udf7verVKx
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 14, 2021
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
that left nostril…yowser
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah, he’s completely fucking blazed.
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another thing I don’t miss about Twitter…reading about Don fuckin’ Jr.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
No, since I’m in the South.
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
I dunno if MMA has the same legalities as boxing, but… if a licensed boxer hits somebody outside the ring, that’s assault with a deadly weapon. The law in all 50 states recognizes that if Mike Tyson punches you in a bar fight, it’s the criminal justice equivalent of some regular guy swinging at you with a baseball bat or a lead pipe.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
I got news for the dipshit in that video. Most human beings don’t understand freedom, and they generally don’t like it when they do.
Why? Because freedom gets in the way of power. As the GQP demonstrates every day. When they say ‘freedom’ or ‘liberty’ they mean ‘power.’
Also that video demonstrated yet again that the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives hatred of Marxism is based on envy. How they want the same power that the Politburo had. Or Putin for that matter.
re: #20 sagehen
I dunno if MMA has the same legalities as boxing, but… if a licensed boxer hits somebody outside the ring, that’s assault with a deadly weapon. The law in all 50 states recognizes that if Mike Tyson punches you in a bar fight, it’s the criminal justice equivalent of some regular guy swinging at you with a baseball bat or a lead pipe.
It may be state-by-state, but here in Minnesota, we were always taught this in our tae kwon do classes. Men, in particular, were told, “If you use force for self-defense, you WILL be arrested. Full stop. You need to make sure you can prove your life is in danger, and even then, you still might be charged and have to answer for it in court. Make smart decisions about exercising your skills outside the dojo.”
re: #125 darthstar
I’ve known some sheep farmers in my life…can’t think of one that loses a sheep to a coyote and waits to see if it takes a half dozen more before acting.
Florida pastor holds vaccine clinic after losing a shit-ton of churchgoers.
This pastor actually held a first vaccination drive in March (it’s noted in this article and elsewhere). Blame the parishioners, and the disinformation.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
no, because I’m living here, which means I’m not feeling the delicious irony in knowing I’m in danger because of these motherfuckers.
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
Where is the media outcry about Hunter losing laptops? My kid would be in big trouble if he lost three!
re: #22 Dopamine Fish
It may be state-by-state, but here in Minnesota, we were always taught this in our tae kwon do classes. Men, in particular, were told, “If you use force for self-defense, you WILL be arrested. Full stop. You need to make sure you can prove your life is in danger, and even then, you still might be charged and have to answer for it in court. Make smart decisions about exercising your skills outside the dojo.”
There was also caution on kicking to the head. You may fall down and its a looong way from the ground all the way to a head. LOL.
This is the bad place.
Yesterday at active shooter training, we were told that if there was a shooting at our school, we could use our masks from the pandemic to stuff the bullet wounds of the children.
— Emily • she/her (@booksfightback) August 14, 2021
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
You could se that coming. His stance was poor and his hands were placed wrong.
Me? I’d have broken his knee first. He wouldn’t have been able to get it out of the way. Then I’d walk away and not look back.
I love people who learned how to fight from TV and movies.
re: #26 Rightwingconspirator
There was also caution on kicking to the head. You may fall down and its a looong way from the ground all the way to a head. LOL.
I didn’t have the flexibility to kick my opponents in the head, LOL. If you were on the receiving end of a kick from me, it was most likely a mule kick in the chest/abdomen, at which I was quite adept. Otherwise, I used kicks to make space to throw my unexpectedly fast left hand.
re: #29 Dopamine Fish
I didn’t have the flexibility to kick my opponents in the head, LOL. If you were on the receiving end of a kick from me, it was most likely a mule kick in the chest/abdomen, at which I was quite adept. Otherwise, I used kicks to make space to throw my unexpectedly fast left hand.
oh, my kicks are always targeted lower than chest level.
Cheering on an inchworm..
Enjoy.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/Ksfw2McJOH— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) August 13, 2021
re: #32 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
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Fun fact: Harrison Ford was suffering badly from 6 weeks of filming in the 130-degree-F heat. He improvised this scene basically on the spot, and it was so iconic, Spielberg accepted it on the first take.
re: #32 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
You know the story behind that scene. Harrison Ford was so sick that he could barely stand so instead of sword fighting with that guy he shot him.
re: #27 No Malarkey!
This is the bad place.
pro-tip:
tampons are perfect to stuff bullet wounds. Absorbant, expand to avoid leakage, individual sanitary packaging, applicator to put it in and string to pull it out… and if there’s adult women in the vicinity, somebody’s got at least a few of them within easy reach.
re: #27 No Malarkey!
This is the bad place.
Kicker: in the responses they get into explanations of how to properly wrap children’s gunshot wounds, and that sterile gauze is cheap so teachers should stock up on it.
Maureen Dowd: Hello Police, Barack Obama is having a birthday party. pic.twitter.com/tCYdTTS756
— Josh 🏳️🌈 (@Venti__Poet) August 14, 2021
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
For me, extraordinarily little. It’s too serious and too deadly.
Though along with the lack of schadenfreude, I find myself with a way-lower-than-normal level of sympathy for the anti-vaxx nuts, to say the least.
re: #35 sagehen
pro-tip:
tampons are perfect to stuff bullet wounds. Absorbant, expand to avoid leakage, individual sanitary packaging, applicator to put it in and string to pull it out… and if there’s adult women in the vicinity, somebody’s got at least a few of them within easy reach.
Case in point.
At least 304 people are now confirmed dead, with another 1,800 injured, after a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti, with widespread damage reported. The epicenter of the quake was about 78 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince. https://t.co/aMaC1eB6wN
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 14, 2021
re: #29 Dopamine Fish
I didn’t have the flexibility to kick my opponents in the head, LOL. If you were on the receiving end of a kick from me, it was most likely a mule kick in the chest/abdomen, at which I was quite adept. Otherwise, I used kicks to make space to throw my unexpectedly fast left hand.
Funny you say that, as I had exactly that going for me back in the day. Except my surprise was my right. High kicks lived mostly in styles other than ours.
re: #29 Dopamine Fish
I didn’t have the flexibility to kick my opponents in the head, LOL. If you were on the receiving end of a kick from me, it was most likely a mule kick in the chest/abdomen, at which I was quite adept. Otherwise, I used kicks to make space to throw my unexpectedly fast left hand.
It’s what I really loved about the only time I watched Hapkido. They do interesting mid-level kicks where it looks like the front of the foot rotates towards the outside of the victim’s body. My assumption is it’s because someone said to themselves, “Yeah, it looks flashy to connect with the front of the foot, but if I rotate my leg, I put the whole whoop-ass on him, rather than just the partial one.”
re: #41 Rightwingconspirator
Funny you say that, as I had exactly that going for me back in the day. Except my surprise was my right. High kicks lived mostly in styles other than ours.
Most fighters who fight left-hand front are right-handed, using the right hand for power hits. I was left-handed, and used the strength and accuracy of my left hand to hit people in the head in sparring matches. I earned the majority of my points with simple front punches or karate chops from that.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
I hate smug. A lot of liberals in my circles are gloating: “Those people” got sick because they were “stupid” and “immoral”.
I have no love for those selfsame people. But the concept of health as morality will blow back on us. I hate smug and too many liberals are that.
But don’t worry. I’m not smug about some Trumper being sick.
Just numb. If they don’t care when their little boy splatters his brains all over the living room, I don’t care either. They get sick, I won’t say a word.
We wanted to understand what’s happening in Afghanistan. So we talked to three unvaccinated Trump supporters at an Arby’s in Harrisburg
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) August 14, 2021
🐾 I’m spending the weekend with my cousin, Charlie First Grandpupper, at Camp David. Our main goal is to ensure that nobody disturbs my mom @FLOTUS, so that she can rest, that way her foot injury will heal faster. Nobody except dad @POTUS is allowed inside. Woof! - Major pic.twitter.com/ODWa4O2c4Y
— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 DOTUS Fans (@TheOvalPawffice) August 14, 2021
re: #44 Sherlock Hound
I hate smug. A lot of liberals in my circles are gloating: “Those people” got sick because they were “stupid” and “immoral”.
I have no love for those selfsame people. But the concept of health as morality will blow back on us. I hate smug and too many liberals are that.
But don’t worry. I’m not smug about some Trumper being sick.
Just numb. If they don’t care when their little boy splatters his brains all over the living room, I don’t care either. They get sick, I won’t say a word.
I’m not smug, I’m fucking out of my mind pissed off. Don’t mistake anger for smugness. Just because I think they’re dumber than a taco (because they are) that’s not smugness speaking it’s frothing at the mouth anger.
Cancer kills 550 times more adults aged 75+ annually than children aged 0-17 here in the US.
And yet I don’t hear people saying “let’s celebrate that cancer is safe for kids!”
🤔— Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) (@jeremyfaust) August 14, 2021
re: #47 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m not smug, I’m fucking out of my mind pissed off. Don’t mistake anger for smugness. Just because I think they’re dumber than a taco (because they are) that’s not smugness speaking it’s frothing at the mouth anger.
Yeah, I think I know the difference. After anger, you might be numb, too.
They thought that no President would ever want to take the blame for “losing” Afghanistan, so it would never come to that.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) August 15, 2021
re: #45 Barefoot Grin
Kind of interesting aside…
Some Afghan veterans of a historic bent have mentioned that reading United States Civil War accounts of the fighting in the Appalachians very much reminded them of their Afghan experiences.
re: #49 Sherlock Hound
Yeah, I think I know the difference. After anger, you might be numb, too.
Completely. That’s why I keep saying if they’re so intent on committing suicide, have at it.
Mind you, I’m perfectly fine staying home all the time. I was antisocial before it was cool. Yet I’m starting to want to go do something…I honestly can’t imagine how people who are generally normal socially are coping, or not coping. It’s those people, it’s the collateral dead people, it’s the Innocents what I have 100% empathy for. Those putting everyone at risk? Get on with it already. Stop going to the hospital. Stop hogging the resources. You selfish motherfuckers.
US actions in Afghanistan should have been limited from the start, but neocons in the Bush administration were pumped up after 9/11 and obsessed with the idea of “nation building,” without the resources or the planning OR THE INTENT needed for such a massive undertaking.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 15, 2021
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
The kids are breaking my heart.
The jackass adults are reaping as they’ve sown — there’s a sense of harsh justice watching the harvest, but no joy. Mostly what I’m feeling these days is helpless frustration at what they’re doing to the rest of us, with no apparent way to stop the SOBs who are egging on the chaos.
Only two and a half weeks until every upstanding citizen, every delusional lunatic, every belligerent drunk, every gang banger, every wannabe Rambo, every scorned lover with nothing left to lose, every fratboy show-off, every panicky paranoid, every self-appointed “neighborhood watchman”, and every other gun owner in Texas is legally allowed to carry their guns without a permit, or a proficiency test, or a background check. I’m sure it will all be fine and there will be no unintended consequences.
I’m not at all ‘anti-gun’, and I’m reluctantly in favor of people being able to carry concealed IF PROPERLY VETTED AND TRAINED. But we in Texas no longer give a shit about personal responsibility, it seems.
re: #14 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Beauty to commemorate love
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Don’t use tampons for wounds, thread:
If the wound is to an extremity use direct pressure or a tourniquet. IF you have QuickClot or other combat dressings designed to be used to stop an arterial bleed in a junctional area then use them. Otherwise: Direct pressure. No tampons. No masks. Pressure, Pressure, Pressure
— Mark Edwards (@ReasoningAloud) August 14, 2021
re: #55 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Only two and a half weeks until every upstanding citizen, every delusional lunatic, every belligerent drunk, every gang banger, every wannabe Rambo, every scorned lover with nothing left to lose, every fratboy show-off, every panicky paranoid, every self-appointed “neighborhood watchman”, and every other gun owner in Texas is legally allowed to carry their guns without a permit, or a proficiency test, or a background check. I’m sure it will all be fine and there will be no unintended consequences.
I’m not at all ‘anti-gun’, and I’m reluctantly in favor of people being able to carry concealed IF PROPERLY VETTED AND TRAINED. But we in Texas no longer give a shit about personal responsibility, it seems.
Combined with the solid suspicion that this new law won’t really apply for blacks and Latinos; e.g. if they open carry they get harassed and/or shot by the police.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
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This is what comes of “American exceptionalism”-thinking. Naturally everyone else in the world envies us and wants to be like us, so if we just give them a glimpse of what we’ve got they will join us (caveat: we’ll still sneer at them).
We have great academic experts—anthropologists, historians, political scientists, etc.,—who could have well predicted what would happen in Iraq (and did predict), and we had the experience of the Soviet Union (not to mention centuries of other examples) of what happens to those who invade Afghanistan.
Posted Nancy Griffith singing No Expectations earlier and now I’ve learned it. Glad to have that under my future campfire drunken sing along belt.
re: #35 sagehen
pro-tip:
tampons are perfect to stuff bullet wounds. Absorbant, expand to avoid leakage, individual sanitary packaging, applicator to put it in and string to pull it out… and if there’s adult women in the vicinity, somebody’s got at least a few of them within easy reach.
Yup! In the prepper and survivalist communities there are a lot of recommendations to collect women’s hygiene products, such as pads and tampons, for use as sterile bandages for wounds. (Yes, tampons for gunshot and stab wound hemorrhaging.)
Also -
Tampion
A tampion or tompion (in the Royal Navy) is a wooden plug, or a metal, canvas, rubber, or plastic cover, for the muzzle of a gun or mortar.[2] Tampions can be found on both land-based artillery and naval guns.
en.wikipedia.org
I understand that this term was also used for the musket bore plugs that kept out rain, snow, mud, and dirt.
What is wrong with Republicans and antivaxxers…..synonymous? https://t.co/59gqk6vXFQ
— Macinca19 (@Macinca19) August 15, 2021
That’s Tony Moon. He was at the Capitol riot https://t.co/okd6t7CcOa
— LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH (@LCRWnews) August 15, 2021
re: #42 steve_davis
It’s what I really loved about the only time I watched Hapkido. They do interesting mid-level kicks where it looks like the front of the foot rotates towards the outside of the victim’s body. My assumption is it’s because someone said to themselves, “Yeah, it looks flashy to connect with the front of the foot, but if I rotate my leg, I put the whole whoop-ass on him, rather than just the partial one.”
Hapkido was my favourite style of martial arts. So well rounded.
In addition to the usual blows and kicks there was also training in moves similar to aikido, along with break falls and weaponry at the higher levels.
I really enjoyed it.
All I can say now is that I hope the Biden administration is doing everything possible to help as many Afghans as possible. My heart breaks for the women of Afghanistan most of all. They’re being pulled back into the theocratic dark ages again, after glimpsing freedom.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 15, 2021
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
So he’s a professional agitator. Fuck that guy.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
I’m old enough to remember that Bush ran as opposing the “nation building” efforts of the Clinton Administration, before they took on both Afghanistan and Iraq.
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Canada is bringing tens of thousands of Afghans and their families who helped the Canadian forces to Canada now. The US is arranging for them to go to Qatar for the moment. It’s not enough but it’s a start.
re: #66 No Malarkey!
I’m old enough to remember that Bush ran as opposing the “nation building” efforts of the Clinton Administration, before they took on both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Yes, that was specific and repeated. Thank you.
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Women in #Herat, now under Taliban control are telling me when they tried to enter the grounds of their University today they were told to go home. Women working in offices also turned away. Schools have been shut down. 60 percent of University students in Herat were women. https://t.co/Cr0SLPJUED
— Yalda Hakim (@BBCYaldaHakim) August 14, 2021
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s heart breaking; these independent, educated women are going to experience The Handmaid’s Tale in real life, and it’s horrifying to think about.
If you’ve already seen 2 seagulls laughing at a hawk falling off a ledge today just keep on scrolling… https://t.co/5PpgbMfYXb
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 15, 2021
Certain wingnuts:
[on masking and vaccinations for their children]
“I will NOT be told what to do about my children’s health! I know where you live and I will hunt you down!”
[on the issue of mass deaths of Native children and residential schools]
“It was important that they be taken from the dark understandings of their parents and be assimilated to the shining civilization of the white man. Some of them couldn’t assimilate.”
ETA: Ok, I have no real examples of this exact situation, but it doesn’t burden the imagination, I think.
About 53 percent of US counties shrank during the previous decade. Of those, 90% voted for Donald Trump.
Thanks to @MarkMuro1 for help with this one. https://t.co/W2oj8aJvtt— Jordan Weissmann 🗽 (@JHWeissmann) August 14, 2021
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Birmingham is landing heavy for me.
Took a walk with my son past the old Greyhound station where Freedom Riders once arrived and departed.
1/ pic.twitter.com/piHju6SK19— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) August 15, 2021
Crossed the street to the haunting memorial.
A little girl with arms outstretched to the sky is pulled heavenward by doves.
It is the empty shoes on the pavement that got me.
3/ pic.twitter.com/x8pHsSoVbp— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) August 15, 2021
💡NEAT PROTECTION by Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine & Tetanus-Diptheria-Pertussis (TDAP) vaccine against serious #COVID19. Likely via T-cell response also cross-protects against #SARSCoV2 by 20-30%. Lesson here? Get your measles & tetanus shots too!https://t.co/JQ9qNvc366 pic.twitter.com/bkEHVfvRbH
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) August 14, 2021
why is she doing that https://t.co/cWTLDvgifG
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 15, 2021
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Movement without meaning.
I’m all for people dancing.
I’m all for people taking dance lessons.
Yet, performing what appears to be a common lyrical dance excerpt in a … rally? … is odd at best.
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Also, it could be that this is supposed to be “white people dance” as opposed to, you know, their kind of dancing (hip hop.)
I’m getting the feeling that LA is full of people has a few people with exaggerated words and actions whose broken dreams are finding expression in the pandemic.
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
Tony Moon is in these shots as well
It’s not just LAPD!
Why is Delta so much more infectious than Alpha?
The P681R mutation is a key culprit, in this work that pinpoints its role by reverting it back to wild-type, showing 🦠 replication drops to less than Alpha’shttps://t.co/IiD2Epp9sN pic.twitter.com/1EQn1b6sUF— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 14, 2021
re: #35 sagehen
pro-tip:
tampons are perfect to stuff bullet wounds. Absorbant, expand to avoid leakage, individual sanitary packaging, applicator to put it in and string to pull it out… and if there’s adult women in the vicinity, somebody’s got at least a few of them within easy reach.
*Some* adult women. Us older adult women don’t have tampons in our purses. (I will admit that it was a few years after I finally went into menopause before I finally got rid of my last box. You know, because of the fear that Shark Week might return.)
re: #86 darthstar
Filled under what the fuck, that doesn’t go on your martini!
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Quiet, sir! Everybody will want one.
re: #57 Sherlock Hound
Having gone through training for wounds, the goal is to stop the bleeding. A tourniquet is useful if you have enough. If you have to, you pack it. Anything that you out in will have to be removed the hard way, but it’s better than bleeding out and will work if you can’t apply the right pressure. We were taught that rolled up gauze can be used. The mask, if rolled up, will work.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
No, not really. There is a lot of irony. We told them so, for damned sure, but I cannot gloat: It is too sad. An enormous number of people are dying, many more will suffer lifelong pain and disability. There will be many orphans and blighted families. We did not choose this or cause it, we did everything we could to prevent it, to no avail and for damned little thanks. Our responsibility is only beginning, too. We must make sure that those who did cause it, the liars and grifters and opportunists, do not escape retribution. We must correct the social, cultural and economic flaws that allowed them to come to power.
hi
Severe thunderstorm warning issued by the NWS.
People and animals caught outside will be severely injured or killed by large hail.
re: #59 Eclectic Cyborg
Today is my birthday. I am now 40. Not quite young, not quite old yet.
I can’t celebrate it the way I want (fuck you, Covid) but I went to a local comic book store this morning for Free Comic Book day, then swimming at my favorite river spot and tonight I am having a small dinner with a few (vaccinated) friends. I’m still here, hanging in and healthy. Can’t complain too much I guess.
!!! Enjoy !!!
re: #88 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What is that?
Shiv “Another view of the Proud Boy shows he’s using either a metal kubotan or a short-bladed utility knife to strike or stab people.”
This will puncture the skin — or break ribs if it’s a kubotan — but you’re not going to bleed out from it.
I went over to take a peek at Reason to see how the Libertarians are taking the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Considering their position on troops stationed overseas and especially warfare in foreign countries, I figured they would have at least something about it.
Nope.
They do have a disingenuous and strawman article about the four teachers who died from Covid-19 in Broward County, Fla., claiming that liberals are focusing on DeSantis’s mask prohibitions when school is not in session yet so they obviously didn’t die from exposure in school.
No shyte. The idea is what happens when it opens.
They also give an either/or choice for vaccines and masks, when the solution is “both.”
And of course being Libertarians, the solution is to privatise all schools.
#TrumpReinstatementDay Mwahaha! pic.twitter.com/NXmxlTZWBb
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) August 14, 2021
re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Movement without meaning.
I’m all for people dancing.
I’m all for people taking dance lessons.
Yet, performing what appears to be a common lyrical dance excerpt in a … rally? … is odd at best.
And it’s a very right-wing song, so that’s certainly part of the semiotics of the performance.
A women working for good instead of money or personal advancement.
Can we clone her?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) August 15, 2021
Here ya go…… pic.twitter.com/FSU1x4EAfj
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 15, 2021
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s so jealous that Joe loves Hunter and his dad thinks he’s a piece of shit.
Oh Florida. This is so bad https://t.co/PkLJ2pyK0p
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 14, 2021
re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Movement without meaning.
I’m all for people dancing.
I’m all for people taking dance lessons.
Where else can she find a dancing gig that doesn’t involve a pole? Or a lap?
BREAKING: An 8th grade Mississippi girl died this morning hours after testing positive for COVID-19. She attended classes throughout the week at a school that began with no mask mandate.
Yesterday, Gov. Tate Reeves downplayed the danger to schoolchildren. https://t.co/Hd3o0U6Di0— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) August 15, 2021
Gotta love NYC. pic.twitter.com/8Ya9RLWtUx
— Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay) August 14, 2021
re: #102 No Malarkey!
Ron Deathsantis really working to earn his nickname.
re: #99 No Malarkey!
A women working for good instead of money or personal advancement.
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First time ever the YouTube comments are good reading.
Having recently posted about how often people “worry” about Muslim women as a kind of bad faith exercise, I want to say the opposite, that I’m confident the people on here are sincere in their fear and compassion.
Chances are real good shit about’s to get bad for everyone. Taliban’s both broad in it’s application of takfir and has lashings of Pashtun nationalism.
re: #101 GlutenFreeJesus
He’s so jealous that Joe loves Hunter and his dad thinks he’s a piece of shit.
To be fair, most people think he’s a piece of shit.
Night Lizards. Today was another small step forward in the healing process. Sleep well.
re: #82 JOE 🥓
It’s not just LAPD!
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That’s right. There was a report issued a few days ago about the Phoenix PD and without saying “The DoJ ought to look into this”, it said “The DoJ really should look into this.”
The report was part of a larger investigation into arrests last summer at George Floyd protests. The Phoenix PD and our DA, Allison Adel, who is a complete and utter shit for this reason, decided to say that anti-police brutality protesters were members of a gang called “ACAB”. They presented evidence of same to a grand jury, and the jury indicted these protesters on charges that they assisted a street gang. The charges were dropped last February, but the protesters (rightly, IMO) are suing Adel and the Phoenix PD for violation of their civil rights.
Yeah, I live over in Mesa, where we have our own problems, but I’ve protested in other towns/cities in the Phoenix area, and I can tell you, it sent a chill down my spine when I saw people were charged with being associated with a gang. I didn’t go to the Black Lives Matters protests last summer only because of (a) COVID and (b) It was too damned hot (we had 53 110F+ days last summer). But I do protest churches, and I can tell you, people DO get VERY weird about church protesters. So I appreciate every smackdown that the local police get when it comes to civil rights, because they do violate them every chance they get.
re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Pedant Off.
re: #96 Dave In Austin
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And if men want to tackle it, and women are so culpable for it, maybe they should do all the child rearing and see how they get on.
— Dr. Jessica Taylor (@DrJessTaylor) August 14, 2021
An asshat named Diane weighs in:
In the case of this most recent male murderer, his father was violent and is also imprisoned at some point. But yeah, it’s the mum. 🙄
— Sian (@SianySE) August 14, 2021
Ron DeSantis was harshly criticized on CNN on Saturday after comments he made during an appearance on Fox News. Jim Acosta played a clip of DeSantis telling Tucker Carlson that public health measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic are the “most significant threat to freedom” since the fall of the Berlin wall.”“Dr. Jonathan Reiner said…….”I have news for the governor. a greater threat to freedom is being paralyzed in a drug-induced coma on a ventilator in an ICU.”
“The governor of Florida is violating the rule of holes,” he explained. “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. He has dug himself an enormous hole in Florida, he has handcuffed himself, he has removed the tools to suppress a pandemic …… enforcing masking requirements, closing down crowded venues, incentivizing people positively or negatively to get vaccinated.”
“He has removed all of these tools and found himself in a deep, deep hole, yet he keeps digging,” he said.”….. (Rawstory)
in the process he’s burying thousands of Floridians including an increasing number of children because like his Dear Leader, he’s a narcissistic sociopath who’s psychoemotionally incapable of admitting that he’s wrong or doing anything that might endanger his presidential aspirations.
And ps the fall of the Berlin wall was a threat to freedom?
The storms passed about two miles to our west. We survived.
I tuweeted it:
God sent scientists, doctors, masks, and a vaccine, and yet has hardened the hearts of some against them. Sounds familiar to me.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) August 15, 2021
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Figures, right? Men blaming women for men behaving badly. What a surprise (not)
— Manksy (@TheManksy) August 15, 2021
re: #99 No Malarkey!
A women working for good instead of money or personal advancement.
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Panola, AL is halfway between Tuscaloosa, AL and Meridian, MS, probably a couple of miles from the MS border, but about 10 miles from the I-20. It’s pretty isolated and in the heart of the Black Belt.
re: #121 darthstar
$20! And now I can switch from clean practice mode to shred concert mode with my big toe! Whoot! God I’m going to be annoying.
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re: #121 darthstar
$20! And now I can switch from clean practice mode to shred concert mode with my big toe! Whoot! God I’m going to be annoying.
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Whose toe?
So LAPD is being pretty clear about what side they’re on. Man did the proud boys write this? https://t.co/QA9shXsvXA
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 15, 2021
Anti-vaxxers: I’m not taking your experimental jab! What’s in that anyway? What about the side effects?
Oh a livestock deworming drug. Do you have that in suppository form? https://t.co/6veGDmLLp6— Devin Nunes’ Alt-Mom (@NunesAlt) August 14, 2021
re: #127 No Malarkey!
Ivermectin Paste Eating Is Freedom!!!!
re: #124 Belafon
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By dog they’re right! They could be twins. Almost like it is the same person.
Two things: first, I don’t have schadenfreude for the sick fucks crashing the health care system in the south. I just fucking hate them. No love. Selfish assholes burning the country down. Second, you can’t win a war if winning hasn’t been defined. Thus, Afghanistan.
re: #128 jaunte
Ivermectin Paste Eating Is Freedom!!!!
Turns out that even “you are all sheep” was projection.
Think about the cold, cynical country-charming snake-oil salesman running that feed store, willing to kill off his neighbors for a few bucks.
Tonight’s tropical weather advisory, brought to you from the safety of western Nebraska.
Fred has been downgraded to remnants, as it passes the Dry Tortugas. All warnings and watches have been dropped.
That said, Fred is expected to reintensify. The storm’s track has been moved further west, and is now expected to strike as a tropical storm somewhere near Mobile Bay.
LOCATION…23.8N 84.3W
ABOUT 125 MI…205 KM WNW OF HAVANA CUBA
ABOUT 530 MI…855 KM SSE OF MOBILE ALABAMA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…35 MPH…55 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…WNW OR 300 DEGREES AT 9 MPH…15 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1012 MB…29.89 INCHES
Interests in the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico from
Mississippi to the central Florida Panhandle should monitor the
progress of the remnants of Fred. Watches and warnings could be
required for portions of this area early Sunday.
Tropical Storm Grace is moving through the Leeward Islands now.
LOCATION…16.8N 62.4W
ABOUT 170 MI…275 KM ESE OF ST. CROIX
ABOUT 265 MI…430 KM ESE OF SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…40 MPH…65 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…WNW OR 285 DEGREES AT 20 MPH…31 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1010 MB…29.83 INCHES
The Government of Haiti has issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the whole coast.
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for…
* Saba and Sint Eustatius
* Sint Maarten
* St. Martin and St. Barthelemy
* U.S. Virgin Islands
* Puerto Rico, including Vieques and Culebra
* Dominican Republic from Cabo Caucedo to Samana
The storm is predicted to move over the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola. Afterward it is expected to travel just north of Cuba, and aim for Louisiana or Mississippi by Thursday.
re: #130 Dragonomics
Two things: first, I don’t have schadenfreude for the sick fucks crashing the health care system in the south. I just fucking hate them. No love. Selfish assholes burning the country down. Second, you can’t win a war if winning hasn’t been defined. Thus, Afghanistan.
Plus said selfish assholes carry their disease and attempts to crash the healthcare system to other areas (looking at you, Sturgis).
A more reasonable approach from my opinion would have been a surgical attack to capture or kill Bin Laden, then get the hell out. Use our soft power of economics and politics to completely isolate the Taliban government of Afghanistan from the whole world, while helping people escape who wanted to.
That doesn’t make conservative donors richer though.
LOLOLOL!!
I think @RadioFreeTom is having a Barry Manilow-thon in the “Barry Manilow room” that he never mentions.#AT40 https://t.co/VOivexKc88 pic.twitter.com/fpe43NUoPi
— DeanXRiley a.k.a. “Al” (@DeanxRiley) August 14, 2021
cc: @GovAbbott. What are you going to do now?? https://t.co/GukU4cefw1
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 15, 2021
A Himalayan Griffon Vulture, the second largest of the Old World Vultures, showing off its fake eyes.
These are the birds that complete the cycle for “Sky Burials”. Personally, not a bad way to go. A corpse is prepared and set out for the Birds high in the Mountains. They consume the corpse completely Bones and all.
re: #137 Dave In Austin
Good heavens! It took me a minute to find the real head!
aurora and lightning and clouds oh my! good light show in Southern Manitoba this evening @TamithaSkov @UWCIMSS @weathernetwork @johnsauderCBC pic.twitter.com/fBBlWRvu9p
— Deb Maluk (@dmaluk1) July 28, 2021
re: #139 Dave In Austin
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re: #142 retired cynic
Made that one private. I think I may have grossed people out. I apologize.
re: #129 Eventual Carrion
By dog they’re right! They could be twins. Almost like it is the same person.
Inconceivable!
YES PLEASE pic.twitter.com/VCJCoIgocz
— haunted dog (@zandywithaz) August 8, 2021
“What makes me the maddest,” one of my doctor friends told me, “is that these people will reject science right until the second they need everything I have to keep them alive, and then they feel that they can come to our door and be entitled to that help and that hard work.”
— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) August 12, 2021
Seems the NFL model is working:
Kaiser Family Foundation poll showed top 3 reasons holdouts get vaccinated:
1. Concluded nobody is dying/sick from vax
2. Persuaded by family/friends
3. Required for things they need/want to do
We haven’t been making life to onerous enough for those who only respond to #3. https://t.co/XKjWo5OptN— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 14, 2021
re: #146 Belafon
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There are too many anecdotal stories about people dying from the vax. That’s what is hitting some loved ones here.
I don’t see the problem here. https://t.co/UhYJPZjOUL
— Fred Will Not Go To Space Today (@LesserFrederick) August 10, 2021
i *am* one of those people who is extremely angry, and i’m not really sure what there is to worry about. the worst thing i realistically want to do to unvaccinated people is force them to get vaccinated in order to go to work. there’s a big asymmetry between the two groups. https://t.co/0R9H8X47u8
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 11, 2021
i’m going to be disgruntled and hate these people all my life, and i still think they should have health care and jobs that pay well. this is concern trolling.
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 11, 2021
College Football starts in the South soon. No capacity restrictions in any stadiums around here (except maybe in Louisiana).
I don’t need to tell you how this will end.
These Republican assholes would rather CRASH THE FUCKING HOSPITAL SYSTEM IN THE ENTIRE SOUTHEAST than take reasonable measures to try and get things under control.
And they are already demanding billions in resources and health care personnel from the Federal government to deal with the surge they refuse to do anything to stop.
re: #28 Romantic Heretic
You could se that coming. His stance was poor and his hands were placed wrong.
Me? I’d have broken his knee first. He wouldn’t have been able to get it out of the way. Then I’d walk away and not look back.
I love people who learned how to fight from TV and movies.
I mean, can’t we just shoot them? It’s self-defense.
This shouldn’t be surprising! A solid majority of Americans have been vaccinated or plan to get vaccinated. Why would they turn around and oppose a mandate for, say, their kid’s teacher to get the shot that *they themselves* got? https://t.co/g9kzTGrkmg
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 12, 2021
I see the media is moving seamlessly from “interviews with Trump voters in a diner booth” to “interviews with Trump voters in an ICU bed.” https://t.co/Er4lnNTEsi
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 10, 2021
sobriety is being required for driving - here’s how drunk drivers feel about that https://t.co/Xur5FlmrGP
— kilgore trout, terminal hiccups patient (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 10, 2021
Here’s the weirdest thing of all:
If CNN interviewed this guy about his refusal to get vaccinated he’d make a pouty face at the camera, tell them about how he’s worried about side effects and missing work, then go back on 4chan to brag about how hard he owned the pedo globalists. https://t.co/gm3L7pjWc5
— Syndicalist Weedle Collective (@Weedledouble) August 14, 2021
Well the road to Peshawar, Pakistan (~200 miles, ~6hour drive in the best of times) has been severed. Everybody that doesn’t have an airplane seat is pretty much fuqued.
In other news, the Czech Republic is pulling their last two diplomats from Kabul.
The Taliban seized the city of Jalalabad early Sunday, cutting off Afghanistan’s increasingly isolated capital Kabul to the east as the insurgents’ blitz across the country continued ahead of the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from the country after two decades of war.
The collapse of Jalalabad, which had been the last major city standing besides Kabul, leaves Afghanistan’s central government in control of just the capital and seven other provincial capitals. In a nationwide offensive that has taken just over a week, the Taliban has defeated, co-opted or sent Afghan security forces fleeing from wide swathes of the country, even with some air support by the U.S. military.
Taliban seize Jalalabad, cut off Afghan capital from east
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re: #151 Belafon
Eventually this will end at:
“Conservatives accuse funeral homes of charging too much for their loved ones burials.”
Update — all six of the apparent #OathKeepers in this @nytimes Visual Investigation who guarded Roger Stone and entered the Capitol have been arrested:
№ 1 #DriverOK James
№ 2 #FlagOK Ulrich
№ 3 #LeatherOK Berry
№ 4 #SmurfOK Grods
№ 5 #SourOK Dolan
№ 6 #GogglesOK Minuta https://t.co/v6tySXqMlw pic.twitter.com/1qUbjHC9mr— benny bryant (@bennybryant17) August 12, 2021
re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron
I got a tetanus booster shot about a month ago after my yearly physical. Interesting and good to see that it may assist my Covid shots.
re: #153 ckkatz
I may have been overly generous in my estimate that Kabul will hold out for another one or two weeks. Hell, Kabul might fall by the middle of the week at this rate.
re: #103 The Pie Overlord!
Where else can she find a dancing gig that doesn’t involve a pole? Or a lap?
No shaming honest workers please.
re: #158 Dr Lizardo
I may have been overly generous in my estimate that Kabul will hold out for another one or two weeks. Hell, Kabul might fall by the middle of the week at this rate.
Saigon, April 30, 1975 redux.
Unfortunately for the people of Afghanistan, the Talibs are not as decent as even Communists.
re: #136 jaunte
Don Winslow: What are you going to do now??
Block the data like Nebraska does, in violation of state law. No tests, no contact tracing, no reporting, no pandemic.
FYI I’m inviting Barack Obama AND Maureen Dowd to my birthday party and seating them next to each other
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) August 15, 2021
re: #160 William Lewis
Saigon, April 30, 1975 redux.
Unfortunately for the people of Afghanistan, the Talibs are not as decent as even Communists.
That was the conclusion I and my “reasonable conservative” friend reached this morning, that the situation is quickly moving to a desperate last-ditch effort to airlift as many people out of Kabul as we can before the city falls. Figure those of the legit government who haven’t already fled the country will be evacuated to our embassy, and then airlifted out once the sacking begins in earnest. They’ll wind up setting up shop somewhere else as the “government-in-exile” while the Taliban returns to the states quo antebellum of ruling from Kandahar.
it’s no use trying to cheer us up https://t.co/xgsGbKYetq
— Emo Philips (@EmoPhilips) August 15, 2021
Walking Dead speculation and theories (I have no inside info, I’m pulling this out of my ass)
Plotlines on Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead and Walking Dead World Beyond will converge. Some of WD people will be VERY happy to see Morgan, Dwight and Sherrie again. Dwight and Sherrie will kill Negan. Rick and Michonne will return, together.
Carol and Daryl will request, and be granted, a mission to unexplored territory for their spinoff.
re: #164 No Malarkey!
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Preet should also invite Hillary and place her on Maureen Dowd’s other side.
Susan Sarandon, Jill Stein and Nina Turner are invited, but once they arrive discover they’re seated at the kids’ table and have no chance to interact at all with anyone but each other.
The issue about sympathy for the unvaccinated is that the image most people have in their minds now is not of the single mother who can’t take time from work to get an appointment, or the guy living out in the country who would have to drive hours to the nearest pharmacy offering shots, or even the cancer sufferer who simply can’t get the jab in the first place.
No, the face of the unvaccinated in America is that Tucker Carlson, of Laura Ingraham, of MTG and White Trash Barbie (aka Lauren Boebert). It’s of the “Karen” who screams at school board meetings about how her little baby can’t breath while wearing a mask, it’s the dipshit who makes a scene at Whole Foods because he wants his 15 min of internet fame, or the assholes who burn masks at demonstrations. And it’s the dumb schmucks who make the nightly news from the ICU, begging doctors for the vaccine as they’re about to have a tube jammed down their throats just to breath.
It’s hard as fuck to build sympathy for somebody who takes pride in not only gambling with his own health, but does so at the expense of you and yours.
Saturday’s calling - It’s asking you to take your Sinch out😜
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•#Aventon #MyAventon #Ebike #Ebikes #ElectricBike #Uphill #Fitness #ElectricBikeLife #ElectricBikeLovers #EbikeStyle #EbikeLife #EbikeAdventures #Ebikestagram #EbikeShop #Ebiker #Health #Bikeride #Bikelife pic.twitter.com/fHryHYrna0— Aventon (@AventonBikes) August 15, 2021
I rode earlier today but came in when it got hot and was 8.5 miles short of my goal so I squeezed in an evening ride to make my target of 800 miles in 11 weeks. I’ll hit 1000 miles in week 14. I’m still having fun but I need new places to ride. I’ve got almost all the big bumps memorized on over 50 miles of roads and paths.
In “the Panhandle is on fire” news:
The Hackberry Fire burning in Banner and Morrill Counties has expanded to 6,177 acres (2,500 ha). It was fully contained, but jumped the fire lines yesterday. The winds have shifted since yesterday, now blowing out of the south-southeast, blowing the fire into new unburned areas.
The Cross Fire (burning in Banner and Scott’s Bluff Counties) has expanded to 2,460 acres (995 ha). It is in the Wildcat Hills, now 13 miles south of the county seat of Scott’s Bluff County (Gering). The wind is blowing toward Gering and Scottsbluff (the two largest cities in the Panhandle).
Apply by September 10 for #LassenNF Fire Apprentice positions. #AlmanorRD #EagleLakeRD #HatCreekRD pic.twitter.com/O7wr4zUrtn
— Lassen NF (@LassenNF) August 14, 2021
#DixieFire above the Cresta Dam, Feather River Canyon in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, and Tehama Counties is 552,589 acres and 31% contained. Unified Command: @CALFIRE_ButteCo, @CALFIRETGU, @CALFIRELMU, @LassenNF and @NatlParkService https://t.co/vMYsruB5cn pic.twitter.com/WF1bcg1usc
— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) August 15, 2021
I see the media is moving seamlessly from “interviews with Trump voters in a diner booth” to “interviews with Trump voters in an ICU bed.” https://t.co/Er4lnNTEsi
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 10, 2021
re: #132 jaunte
Think about the cold, cynical country-charming snake-oil salesman running that feed store, willing to kill off his neighbors for a few bucks.
What have you got against Capitalism? Why do you hate America?
This is on par with NY state using incarcerated peoples’ labor to produce hand sanitizer while they were dying of COVID at nearly 4x the rate of the general population https://t.co/HzR8iyRn4B
— Arrianna Marie Planey, MA PhD (@Arrianna_Planey) August 14, 2021
A few ‘free’ (as in no extra charge :) ) thoughts..
On Afghanistan -
An orderly retreat is the hardest military maneuver to conduct. I suspect that we will largely succeed in that. At least as far as Western personnel are concerned.
We are apparently currently deploying 5000-8000 US military combat personnel plus additional allied personnel to theater. Plus, likely major air and ballistic assets (guided missiles).
My guess as to timeline before we’re evacuated from Kabul: Days- possibly; Weeks- likely; Months - highly unlikely.
However, what is going to suck for the soldiers are two things:
1. Returning fire at Talibs embedded in groups of fleeing civilians.
2. Denying desperate refugees entrance onto aircraft. And stopping them by force if necessary.
Additionally, I suspect that Russian, Chinese, Pakistani and Iranian purchasers will be looking for opportunities to acquire US military technology.
I suspect that it will be another year or two before the internal power and control questions begin to clarify. With the associated bloodshed, winners and losers. (And I expect Pakistan and China to heavily put their thumbs on the scale.)
Globally…
We have been left in a deteriorated strategic/diplomatic situation by tfg. Hong Kong and Afghanistan currently lost. I suspect Syria/Kurdistan and Iraq next. We are in for some retrenching. And the American passport will be a bit diminished as a result.
Next, I suspect, will come more confrontations along the Russian border in the Baltic, Ukraine, possibly Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan). And confrontations along the Chinese declared zone of interest. Fortunately, we are buying a significant portion of their National product, and all of their leading families are part of the industry owners, so I suspect that the Chinese will try to keep things to a low level.
Otoh, I don’t think that it is as serious as the 1970’s were. Our position in Southeast Asia collapsed, USArEur pretty much collapsed, and the US economy just about collapsed.
Of course, the Republicans could always create enough damage to the country to ensure we are in worse shape.
Well, it’s thunder-boomering here in the eastern side of the southern end of the western corner of Northern Virginia. Supposedly a cold front is making it’s dramatic entrance. And time for me to head to bed.
G’night to all
re: #141 Dave In Austin
Very Cranky Northern Mohave Rattlesnake.
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I follow this guy on Twitter. I watched the video and then turned to my cat, who was sitting in a catloaf position next to me, “You would warn me about a snake so I can call these guys, right?” I got no response. Cats.
re: #179 ckkatz
Well, it’s thunder-boomering here in the eastern side of the southern end of the western corner of Northern Virginia. Supposedly a cold front is making it’s dramatic entrance. And time for me to head to bed.
G’night to all
Remind me to not ask for directions in Virginia.
re: #181 Dread Pirate Ron
Remind me to not ask for directions in Virginia.
NoVa roads are 4th dimensional; it’s a nightmare driving there, so best avoid.
re: #181 Dread Pirate Ron
Remind me to not ask for directions in Virginia.
Well, you go up the road about a mile then take a right. If you see the K-Mart, you’ve gone too far and gotta turn back around. You’ll know you’re on the right road when it turns to dirt and gravel after half a mile…
re: #157 stpaulbear
I got a tetanus booster shot about a month ago after my yearly physical. Interesting and good to see that it may assist my Covid shots.
I just got my tetanus and shingles shots. The tetanus still fucking hurts after two days.
Serious sunburn
Naturally mummified remains were discovered along the arid Atacama coast in Chile. They date back to around 7000 BC. Read more: https://t.co/xJEACSjMZ1 pic.twitter.com/MLAuLyj3OB
— All Things Interesting (@mrstrangefact) August 15, 2021
re: #184 I Would Prefer Not To
I just got my tetanus and shingles shots. The tetanus still fucking hurts after two days.
I had my first shingles, I’m about due for second. My worst tetanus shot experience was when I had a 72 Dodge Challenger with a Schaeffer racing clutch which took about 120 pounds on the pedal to push it in. (when I had it installed I told the mechanic it must be broken. It took me a month to build up my left leg) I felt that shot every time I pushed in the clutch for days.
Sometimes the cops just say the quiet parts right out loud.
New Hampshire PD’s Recruitment Pitch Lists Qualified Immunity As A Job Perk (Techdirt, August 13, 2021)
The Manchester Police Department is looking for reliable, motivated, and personable recruits for both entry level and certified positions. Located less than an hour from Boston, Manchester enjoys proximity to great schools and attractions, the beach, and the White Mountains. The department offers many opportunities to advance and additional unique benefits including qualified immunity. Click the link and apply now! There is no application fee and remote testing is now available. Come enjoy the high quality of life NH offers and work for a great department backed by community support!
(more)
Wait for it…
TikTok: https://t.co/mjYAZ1t4HO pic.twitter.com/n8lum4y3iR
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Facebook post of the Manchester Police Chief’s apology for the advert on Twitter is saved at Internet Archive. They took their Facebook page private, but not before they got hammered by lots of people both for the advert and the non-pology.
“Earlier today Manchester Police published a recruitment post that referenced qualified immunity. This post was not the place for the mention of qualified immunity and was not appropriate. The post was removed and archived appropriately. As Chief of Police I take full responsibility for this post and the inappropriate mention of qualified immunity”. -Chief Allen Aldenberg
(responses at the link)
The inappropriate mention of qualified immunity.
What I am feeling and thinking about the situation in Afghanistan, I can never fit on Twitter. But one thing that is definitely sticking out is that I haven’t gotten one constituent call about it and my district has a large Veteran population.
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) August 14, 2021
The two groups who are declaring political disaster over Afghanistan are the veterans who were there, met the people, worked hard to make things better, and are seeing it all collapsing; and the GOP and media who really really want BIDEN’S KATRINA.
It’s terrible what’s happening, but it was baked into the cake long ago. Biden did what needed to be done: that’s it. We need to take as many refugees (or get them settled somewhere) as we possibly, politically, can.
Another angle of the Proud Boy stabbing someone with some kind of small knife or metal tool. pic.twitter.com/Ky9p77f2kT
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) August 15, 2021
This formerly alt-right Milo-worshiping clown is now simping for the Taliban
No Talib ever forced me to pay bribes in exchange for not arresting me.
No Talib ever falsely arrested me in order to extort sex from me.
No Talib ever solicited sexual favors from me in exchange for granting me a business license.— bibi janey (@janeygak) August 12, 2021
Set the countdown clock for covid outbreaks and school closings in Fort Worth.
Anti-mask plaintiff in Fort Worth ISD case: ‘Personally, I’m really tired of the mask part of COVID’ https://t.co/mF7GaecwVq
— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) August 14, 2021
re: #190 ericblair
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The two groups who are declaring political disaster over Afghanistan are the veterans who were there, met the people, worked hard to make things better, and are seeing it all collapsing; and the GOP and media who really really want BIDEN’S KATRINA.
It’s terrible what’s happening, but it was baked into the cake long ago. Biden did what needed to be done: that’s it. We need to take as many refugees (or get them settled somewhere) as we possibly, politically, can.
It’s 2011 all over again: Dem in office who is following the withdrawal agreement made by the previous Repub admin gets shit on for the occupied “ally” not having their shit together by the agreed deadline. It doesn’t matter how many experts have weighed in that Afghanistan is a basketcase of a kleptocracy whose book of “What To Do If Shit Hits the Fan” has page after page saying “Call The Americans!,” we’re going to be told that Biden just abandoned our “allies” to the wolves and he bears the full responsibility for whatever the Taliban does going forward.
re: #127 No Malarkey!
Further downthread… My contribution…
On the plus side, they will be free from intestinal parasites
— Kay “Not a Cat” Too (@kaytooesq) August 14, 2021
And maybe an unspecified amount of braincells.
It’s neurotoxic in the larger approved dose range.
One thing I see again and a gain in research reports, legit ones, is:
/1— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) August 15, 2021
Human metabolism often add complications that mean you have to up the dose for the metabolism to work in the right way.
There’s a reason FDA & EMA say:
“Use only in a controlled medical experiment under medical supervison”, folks…
/END— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) August 15, 2021
Meanwhile, in San Diego….
A controversial anti-vaccine thread in an online forum is causing concern because it involves members of the San Diego Police Department.
The post calls on hundreds of officers “willing to risk it all” to fight city and state pandemic-related rules.
In the post, a police sergeant allegedly claims he and a growing number of officers have vowed to “never take the vaccine, be tested or wear masks — unless by choice.”
A local activist named Tasha Williamson posted screenshots of the thread on Facebook. It’s said to have come from a forum on the San Diego Police Officers Association website. In the post, the sergeant claims he and a growing number of officers are vowing to “Never take the vaccine, be tested or wear masks - unless by choice. Titled “(Vaccine Mandate) Will You Stand? 1776 again!!!…,” the post by the officer claims he and another “God fearing patriot” within the department are building up a coalition of officers who will “stand up for our God given freedoms and are willing to risk it all.”
nbcsandiego.com (Note: autoplay video embedded at link)
re: #198 Dr Lizardo
Meanwhile, in San Diego….
nbcsandiego.com (Note: autoplay video embedded at link)
Who knew that defunding the police was as simple as telling them to get vaccinated?
re: #199 Targetpractice
Who knew that defunding the police was as simple as telling them to get vaccinated?
Seems like there’s a whole lotta wingnuts in police departments. Looks to me like this is one way to weed them out.
Looking at the vaccination data for our county almost all of the rich people towns are >90% fully vaccinated while us poorer towns are only low 60% to low 70% fully vaccinated. My town is doing surprisingly well at 81% fully vaccinated. Those rich towns vote Republican because they are rich, not because they are rubes.
Mixed messages from Kabul this morning. https://t.co/Y5jEsXOwQD
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) August 15, 2021
There’s mixed reports right now of Taliban fighters already in Kabul, while others are saying they’ve stopped on the outskirts in anticipation of a negotiated transition.
re: #198 Dr Lizardo
Meanwhile, in San Diego….
nbcsandiego.com (Note: autoplay video embedded at link)
SD should take this opportunity to let the bad apples self-select themselves out of the police force.
re: #204 No Malarkey!
SD should take this opportunity to let the bad apples self-select themselves out of the police force.
Yep. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
re: #203 Targetpractice
There’s mixed reports right now of Taliban fighters already in Kabul, while others are saying they’ve stopped on the outskirts in anticipation of a negotiated transition.
I wouldn’t trust the Taliban as far as I could throw them. Its Saigon 1975; time to grab the last helicopter out of the country.
re: #203 Targetpractice
#Breaking: Taliban militants have started entering the capital, Kabul from all sides: Reuters.
— Ahmer Khan (@ahmermkhan) August 15, 2021
There seems to be no battle for Kabul #Afghanistan
— Yalda Hakim (@BBCYaldaHakim) August 15, 2021
Live coverage: bbc.com
“Liars do not fear the truth if there are enough liars.” - Fox Mulder
re: #208 No Malarkey!
Remarkable how quickly and completely the regime collapsed; apparently no-one wanted to be the last soldier to die for this lost cause.
Yeah, looks like pretty much everyone in the Afghan National Army said, “Fuck this, I’m not gonna get myself killed for those asshats in Kabul” and boogied off.
Heroes on the overnight shift.
From me to you.
Cause I love you. pic.twitter.com/AYvadcmF1u— YS (@NYinLA2121) August 14, 2021
re: #208 No Malarkey!
Remarkable how quickly and completely the regime collapsed; apparently no-one wanted to be the last soldier to die for this lost cause.
I’ve never really gotten the impression that the people of Afghanistan were ever really invested in the government that we installed. The people put in charge fell somewhere on a sliding scale between “incompetent” and “totally corrupt,” were either bribing the warlords or looking the other way on the opium trade, and continued the country’s biggest industry: Making foreign aid magically disappear into their bank accounts. The locals certainly loved the idea of freedom and democracy, but the experience left a lot to be desired.
re: #210 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, looks like pretty much everyone in the Afghan National Army said, “Fuck this, I’m not gonna get myself killed for those asshats in Kabul” and boogied off.
“Be glad to trade you some ANA rifles. Ain’t never been fired and only dropped once.”
re: #208 No Malarkey!
Remarkable how quickly and completely the regime collapsed; apparently no-one wanted to be the last soldier to die for this lost cause.
And our own Christian fundamentalists would be happy to do the same to women here if they could get away with it.
There really isn’t a lot of difference between the Taliban politicians and religious leaders and the Republican Party and their religious leaders.
Different book, same shyte.
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And our own Christian fundamentalists would be happy to do the same to women here if they could get away with it.
There really isn’t a lot of difference between the Taliban politicians and religious leaders and the Republican Party and their religious leaders.
Different book, same shyte.
I don’t know if you have watched or read The Handmaid’s Tale, but it horrifies me thinking about what is dystopian fiction here is becoming all too real for the women and girls of Afghanistan. The young women who were earning college degrees now face a future of being literal prisoners in their own homes.
re: #201 Dread Pirate Ron
Those rich towns vote Republican because they are rich, not because they are rubes.
In San Diego county, the wealthiest parts have the highest vaccination rates too.
And the lowest vaccination rates? The lower income regions, and the wingnut territory (mountains and rural.)
Welp, this sure looks familiar.
US helicopters seen this morning at US embassy Kabul. It seems the evacuation is underway. Photo by @AP pic.twitter.com/YxMQQeRF29
— Liz Sly (@LizSly) August 15, 2021
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And our own Christian fundamentalists would be happy to do the same to women here if they could get away with it.
There really isn’t a lot of difference between the Taliban politicians and religious leaders and the Republican Party and their religious leaders.
Different book, same shyte.
And beards. Don’t forget the beards. Makes all the difference in the world.
re: #216 No Malarkey!
I don’t know if you have watched or read The Handmaid’s Tale, but it horrifies me thinking about what is dystopian fiction here is becoming all too real for the women and girls of Afghanistan. The young women who were earning college degrees now face a future of being literal prisoners in their own homes.
Margaret Atwood has said that every single horrible thing described in the book, every law, every policy, every indignity visited upon the women, every punishment for every offense… she didn’t invent ANY of them. They were all real things done somewhere in human history.
re: #221 sagehen
And the sad reality is, the US military can’t stay in Afghanistan forever. The Taliban only needed to wait us out - and they have succeeded in doing so.
re: #222 Dr Lizardo
And the sad reality is, the US military can’t stay in Afghanistan forever. The Taliban only needed to wait us out - and they have succeeded in doing so.
But you can bet that the GOP is going to try to lay the blame at Biden’s feet, even though the exact same thing would’ve happened in the Spring under Trump’s withdrawal timetable. Biden was correct to not just let this continue to fester after 20 years of war, and the timing is good politically as well. No-one in America is going to give a damn about Afghanistan by the time the midterms roll around.
If it was up to me, absolutely, until a vaccine is approved by the FDA for children. Then I would make the vaccine mandatory for attendance, and the vaccinated kids could go to school without masks.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) August 15, 2021
re: #223 No Malarkey!
But you can bet that the GOP is going to try to lay the blame at Biden’s feet, even though the exact same thing would’ve happened in the Spring under Trump’s withdrawal timetable. Biden was correct to not just let this continue to fester after 20 years of war, and the timing is good politically as well. No-one in America is going to give a damn about Afghanistan by the time the midterms roll around.
The “liberal media” is gonna attack Biden with the same angle they went after Obama for in 2011: “Optics.” They won’t try to articulate what a “win” in Afghanistan would have looked like, they’ll moan about veterans watched “all those won” being “abandoned.” They won’t find experts to argue in favor of an indefinite occupation of the country, they’ll bring on political hacks to declare that choppers airlifting people out “looks bad” on TV screens. And they won’t ask Repubs to explain why they shouldn’t be dubbed hypocrites for damning Biden after they praised Trump for trying to negotiate with the Taliban, they’ll instead ask them if voters should blame Biden for “losing.”
re: #223 No Malarkey!
He’s just following Fat Donny’s playbook.
re: #216 No Malarkey!
I don’t know if you have watched or read The Handmaid’s Tale, but it horrifies me thinking about what is dystopian fiction here is becoming all too real for the women and girls of Afghanistan. The young women who were earning college degrees now face a future of being literal prisoners in their own homes.
Read the book and watched the Hulu adaptation. Margaret Atwood implied it was the Reagan Administration which inspired her to write the book.
I’ve also read her sequel “The Testaments,” on life in Gilead some twenty years later, and the forces working both within and without the regime to bring it down.
‘We’ve Seen This Before’: Margaret Atwood on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and How History Repeats Itself (Rolling Stone, May 19, 2021, on the Trump Administration, the show, her sequel book, &c)
2/2 Home Office officials are right now working to protect British nationals and help former UK staff and other eligible people travel to the UK
— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) August 15, 2021
BREAKING — The Afghan president Ghani is relinquishing power and an interim government led by Taliban is formed — Al Arabiya
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) August 15, 2021
re: #229 No Malarkey!
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Dr. Lizardo, Dr. Lizardo, you have a call on the white courtesy phone. Dr. Lizardo, white courtesy phone.
re: #158 Dr Lizardo
I may have been overly generous in my estimate that Kabul will hold out for another one or two weeks. Hell, Kabul might fall by the middle of the week at this rate.
The situation in Kabul continues to move fast with fluid reporting.The acting Afghan interior minister has appeared in a video, broadcast on local outlet Tolo TV, saying there would be a “peaceful transfer of power” to a transitional government. He said Kabul would not come under attack.
The Associated Press news agency, citing an Afghan official, said Taliban negotiators were heading to the presidential palace to prepare for a “transfer” of power.
The Taliban earlier said they had instructed fighters to wait at the city’s gates.
re: #232 No Malarkey!
I guess after decades of war, a near bloodless end when people were fearing a bloody battle for the capital is a silver lining.
American conservatives are already all over social media blaming this on Biden.
re: #233 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
American conservatives are already all over social media blaming this on Biden.
Of course they are.
Evergreen Onion headline. You can’t shame the GOP, and the mainstream media will never call them on their hypocrisy. https://t.co/A5jMfbHhP9
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) August 14, 2021
re: #230 Targetpractice
Dr. Lizardo, Dr. Lizardo, you have a call on the white courtesy phone. Dr. Lizardo, white courtesy phone.
Now I certainly didn’t expect Kabul to fall by lunchtime today. That’s a surprise.
re: #234 Targetpractice
I wonder if Ghani realizes that relinquishing power as you beat feet for the nearest chopper out of the city does not qualify you for “government-in-exile” status. You can’t claim to be the legit government of the nation if you gave up power willingly.
Who would take him seriously? I assume he has squirreled away enough US taxpayer money in overseas accounts to keep him comfortable for life.
This will help.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call MPs back to the House of Commons next week for urgent talks over the situation in Afghanistan, a No 10 source has told the BBC.
The day and time will be confirmed with the Speaker of the house, it says.
The Taliban say they have taken over Bagram airfield and prison, on the outskirts of Kabul.
The complex was the epicentre of the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda for some 20 years until last month, when the US military left in the dead of night without notifying the Afghans.
The US-led coalition forces moved in during December 2001, and Bagram was developed into a huge base capable of holding up to 10,000 troops.
George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all visited the base during their tenures as president.
Bagram also contains a prison, with a reported 5,000 Taliban inmates left in the facility. Taliban sources have claimed that they have released these prisoners.
Bagram prison famously became known as Afghanistan’s Guantanamo - after the infamous US military prison in Cuba.
It was originally built and run by the Americans but was handed over to Afghan control in 2013.
The chairman of the UK parliamentary foreign affairs committee has criticised Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab for remaining silent on the Taliban advance in Afghanistan.
Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat told the BBC: “This is clearly the biggest single disaster of British foreign policy since Suez [in 1956] and we’re yet to hear a single word from the foreign secretary in the last week so I’m afraid I don’t know what he thinks.”
He says: “It is pretty extraordinary that our focus has been on minor negotiations with Nato and European partners and allies who we’ve worked with and traded with very, very closely for the last 70, 80, 90 years - rather than on the lives on 28 million Afghans, several thousands of whom have genuinely risked their lives in order to save the lives of British soldiers or to serve the interests of the British people in preventing terrorism keeping our country safe.”
The BBC has contacted the Foreign Office asking for an interview but no one has been made available.
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well then, the UK is free to invade and conquer Afghanistan at their earliest convenience.
I hope that finally the myth of nation-building will die.
It’s a very colonial idea.
Nations come and go. People have to govern themselves or they won’t be governed.
I have no idea what the Taliban will do once in total control of the nation. Then again, I’m not sure what the Taliban even is anymore.
From what I gather, this will be just another theocracy that will rule over an increasingly impoverished nation.
We’ve heard in the last few minutes that the UK prime minister is expected to recall parliament for urgent talks over the situation in Afghanistan.
A statement by the leader of the opposition said MPs need to abandon the summer recess and return to the House of Commons to address government plans on how to avoid a humanitarian disaster in the region.
“The situation in Afghanistan is deeply shocking and seems to be worsening by the hour,” said Sir Keir Starmer.
“The immediate priority now must be to get all British personnel and support staff safely out of Kabul.
“The government has been silent while Afghanistan collapses, which - let’s be clear - will have ramifications for us here in the UK.
“We need parliament recalled so the government can update MPs on how it plans to work with allies to avoid a humanitarian crisis and a return to the days of Afghanistan being a base for extremists, whose purpose will be to threaten our interests, values and national security.”
re: #242 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I hope that finally the myth of nation-building will die.
It’s a very colonial idea.
Nations come and go. People have to govern themselves or they won’t be governed.
I have no idea what the Taliban will do once in total control of the nation. Then again, I’m not sure what the Taliban even is anymore.
From what I gather, this will be just another theocracy that will rule over an increasingly impoverished nation.
I’m getting tired of the keyboard warriors on Twitter who are criticizing Biden. If they want someone to fight the Taliban, they can fuck off, grab a rifle and go do it themselves, because no-one in Afghanistan wants to. Biden is under no obligation to continue to send US troops to fight and die there.
Both Republicans and degrowthers insist that there’s a tight link between economic growth and emissions. But consider the UK, where per capita CO2 is back to the levels of the 50s — the *1850s* pic.twitter.com/nPdj4TWCv3
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 15, 2021
re: #242 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I have no idea what the Taliban will do once in total control of the nation. Then again, I’m not sure what the Taliban even is anymore.
From what I gather, this will be just another theocracy that will rule over an increasingly impoverished nation.
The first time around, they had barely 5 years, and for most of that they were Al Qaeda’s puppets.
Now they’ve had 20 years to think about it, and plan for it, and forge cooperative bonds with whatever anti-American nations were willing to offer them advisors…
This super-quick takeover would indicate they have very specific intentions that cover a lot more than just a few months.
re: #245 No Malarkey!
But.
The atmosphere does not care about “per capita”.
The idea that one should care about C02 per capita is entirely a political strategy to greenwash not reducing total C02 output enough.
re: #247 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
But.
The atmosphere does not care about “per capita”.
The idea that one should care about C02 per capita is entirely a political strategy to greenwash not reducing total C02 output enough.
The UK’s population hasn’t been growing rapidly, so I’m sure they have been cutting actual emissions as well. The point is, you can cut emissions and still grow the economy; the GOP is lying when it says cutting emissions is a jobs killer.
re: #248 No Malarkey!
The UK’s population hasn’t been growing rapidly, so I’m sure they have been cutting actual emissions as well. The point is, you can cut emissions and still grow the economy; the GOP is lying when it says cutting emissions is a jobs killer.
Of course they are. But turning cutting emissions and shifting the industries which cause emissions to lower emissions in a way which creates jobs costs money and effort, they’ve grown addicted to to creating growth without costs and effort.
re: #248 No Malarkey!
The point is, you can cut emissions and still grow the economy; the GOP is lying when it says cutting emissions is a jobs killer.
Yes, but the GOP has been increasingly deceitful all during the past 50 years.
As for CO2: 6 metric tonnes per capita per year, if the whole world did this, would mean 45 gigatons per year, which is considerable.
So the UK is still taking more than its fair share of the atmosphere.
The IPCC meeting this fall will be full of posturing, and the UK needs to make an argument that they are reducing CO2. But the poor nations of the world will point out that the UK is still using up too much of the atmosphere.
Furthermore the UK, like the US, off-shores CO2 emissions by importing finished goods and, importantly, importing high-emissions items (like refined metals.)
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
Only if they are not taking anyone else with them who could not be vaccinated. I would love to see Darwin work his magic, but it is never that simple.
Regarding mitigation:
Here in the US, since we ignore for the most part the urgency of the situation of so many nations who are facing sea level rise, I wish Congress would pass a law that says the US government will not back any mortgage on any property that is within 1 meter of projected sea level rise for 2050.
This will kill 30 year mortgages (as it’s already 2021) for sea-front properties,
Doing items like that is what is needed to drive home that climate change itself is going to be a tremendous impactor on life, which includes the GDP of this nation.
To avoid the worst scenarios going forward wrt climate change, the average global CO2 emissions per year has be down around 1 metric ton/yr/capita.
That is drastically below what Americans currently emit, and drastically below any current G20 nation’s per capita output.
We won’t do that.
Therefor, we as a nation (along with the rest of the G20) have decided that we are going to take more than our fair share of the atmosphere, and the poor countries of the world are just out of luck.
I’m on Twitter probation for 12 hours for telling too many keyboard warriors to fuck off and go fight the Taliban themselves. Not suspended; my followers can still see my tweets.
re: #27 No Malarkey!
Yesterday at active shooter training, we were told that if there was a shooting at our school, we could use our masks from the pandemic to stuff the bullet wounds of the children.
So there is a mask mandate of sorts!
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
It shouldn’t. I live in Florida, my kids and I are vaccinated, wear masks at school etc. We are lucky but still at risk (Who knows what the long term effects are even in mild cases?)
But I have plenty of like minded friends who have younger kids and are freaking out. At some point you have to send them to school.
Nation building failed.
Yes, it is bad for those who will not be treated decently by the Taliban.
But perpetual war and occupation isn’t really an option.
This is going to be hard to swallow, but we failed.
And it won’t be the last time.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) August 15, 2021
re: #256 Axolotl
It shouldn’t. I live in Florida, my kids and I are vaccinated, wear masks at school etc. We are lucky but still at risk (Who knows what the long term effects are even in mild cases?)
But I have plenty of like minded friends who have younger kids and are freaking out. At some point you have to send them to school.
So glad both my kids are vaccinated. I don’t know what we would do if they were under 12 and in a school district without a mask mandate.
re: #257 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
What do the British, The Soviet Union, Alexander the Great, and now the United States have in common?
They all are on the roster of big shots that got licked by them Afghanis…
Thread of Proud Boy violence in LA yesterday, with the support of their friends in the LAPD.
Here is 30-year LAPD veteran Sal LaBarbera congratulating Capitol rioter Tony Moon (@RoofKorean7) and his Proud Boys friends today for attacking reporters.
The @LAPDHQ supports the Proud Boys, period. That’s why LAPD headquarters has become a safe space for right-wing violence. pic.twitter.com/DdPRXl8W4V— Chad Loder (@chadloder) August 15, 2021
re: #257 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That stream started thusly:
You (@ProfFrancesca ) mean well, of that I am sure.
But you are also implying that “the West” have to play savior (a religious concept) to the world.
We failed to build a free nation in Afghanistan. However, in hindsight why do you think would have succeeded?— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) August 15, 2021
Far-right extremists wore shirts with the Nazi SS logo and shirts saying “F*ck China” today in Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/78frP6uoE4
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) August 15, 2021
re: #138 retired cynic
Good heavens! It took me a minute to find the real head!
that’s what she said! (da-doom doom!)
re: #220 sagehen
And beards. Don’t forget the beards. Makes all the difference in the world.
Biblical Patriarch, Confederate Colonel, Hassidic Rabbi, Muhajedin or member of ZZ Top, it all fits…
re: #262 No Malarkey!
“Stop Socialism (unless it is National Socialism)”
re: #149 Eclectic Cyborg
College Football starts in the South soon. No capacity restrictions in any stadiums around here (except maybe in Louisiana).
I don’t need to tell you how this will end.
These Republican assholes would rather CRASH THE FUCKING HOSPITAL SYSTEM IN THE ENTIRE SOUTHEAST than take reasonable measures to try and get things under control.
And they are already demanding billions in resources and health care personnel from the Federal government to deal with the surge they refuse to do anything to stop.
I live in Clemson. got two degrees here. there are maybe half-a-dozen places in this country where you go if you want to worship Kalimah, God of Football, and this is one of them. I’m going to laugh my ass off the day Clemson ends up canceling a home game, or at least canceling fan participation, because of our escalating covid crisis, caused in large part by a governor who thinks masking is a “personal choice.”
Remember, George Bush had the chance to take the shot at Bin Laden and didn’t. This allowed him to escape to Pakistan. This could have been finalized years ago.
Morning Lizards. It’s going to be a lawn care day today.
Kabul. pic.twitter.com/RyZcA7pktj
— Lotfullah Najafizada (@LNajafizada) August 15, 2021
re: #160 William Lewis
Saigon, April 30, 1975 redux.
Unfortunately for the people of Afghanistan, the Talibs are not as decent as even Communists.
presumably losing for much the same reasons. hopelessly corrupt government, military forces that had a “tower” philosophy, where instead of going out on patrol, you sat safe in various fortifications and let the insurgents wander all over the countryside.
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Serious sunburn
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re: #269 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Religion poisons everything, Islamic version. “Half-naked woman.”
Why is it sad ? Why do u wana c half naked woman on your walls ? Respect her
— رضوان (@chaudry9212) August 15, 2021
Keep those pictures to yourself then. No need to flash them on walls.
— Shahid (@Shahid86023249) August 15, 2021
Theocracies do not do well by their people, if by “well” we mean freedom.
And if you want to use KSA or another oil rich country as a counter example, I propose that if it wasn’t for the oil then the KSA would be in as bad a shape as Afghanistan has become.
Modernity and theocracy can not survive together. They are antagonistic by nature.
re: #273 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
No more idle chadors!
re: #271 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
However 50 years on and Vietnam today at least is a functioning nation which to some degree has evolved so its people have a chance at a decent life.
I do not think the same thing will be said of Afghanistan.
The Communists, for all their flaws, truly wanted to help the people of Vietnam and have done so. The Talibs want power and to impose their world view on as many people as possible regardless of anything else.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
Magical Thinking strikes again. The inherent religious fabric woven into the American Conservative framework under the Bush Administration included a magic power being associated with the words “freedom” and “ democracy.” (The latter being largely degraded now that democracy is just another enemy of modern Conservatism). These two words were bottled and sold as a gift from God by Bush himself.
It was sold to the American public that once the people of Afghanistan tasted the sweet sweet nectar of democracy they would immediately throw aside thousands of years of tribal and Islamic traditions and that they would never again allow a religious cult to take power by defending their own country from extremists.
The irony is that our current American equivalents, the Proud Boys, III%ers, Oathkeepers, etc would also like to be able to sweep across the country and seize power throwing aside notions of freedom and democracy. They would likely also have the support of many local police and soldiers just like today’s Taliban have. They also would like to institute possession of multiple women, harsh punishments for political foes, oppression of minorities, etc etc.. so like the Taliban.
Afghan women had the freedom to dress as they liked under the regime that the Soviets came in to support and we helped topple by supporting the insurgents…
Your religion is not the problem. The problem is in your head. You want to control women. You want to control others to make them control women.
Theocracy is a disastrous approach to society and very backwards. You want to instill theocracy because you want to control people.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) August 15, 2021
re: #262 No Malarkey!
File assault charges against him. Have him arrested. Take him to court. Make him pay a lawyer. Hurt these fuckers financially and they will stop.
For as much as the Trumpers on twitter are trying to make hay over Afghanistan, and I expect plenty of elected Republicans to follow suit, I am fairly confident that the population as a whole will not be interested in fighting over Afghanistan.
As in, I expect the Republicans running for office to discover they can’t get much traction out of it.
The war was never popular with the the US electorate. Obama did all he could to avoid it in campaigning, knowing he’d be obliged to keep troops there though the majority in his party was against it.
re: #280 darthstar
File assault charges against him. Have him arrested. Take him to court. Make him pay a lawyer. Hurt these fuckers financially and they will stop.
Who’s going to arrest him? The same cops protecting him?
Hiring a lawyer to sue someone also costs money.
The Proud Boys and other groups raise millions of dollars from the Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo. I can only presume it’s Christians funding the fascists. Theocracy and fascism have a lot in common.
Proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site (The Guardian, April 10, 2021)
GiveSendGo is where all the groups too fascist or racist went when payment processors like PayPal kicked them off. The Christians running the site welcomed them with open arms, noting their libertarian leanings (we won’t ban anyone).
All sorts of fundraising for criminal prosecutions go on there, which is banned at sites like GoFundMe.
A data breach from Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo has revealed that millions of dollars have been raised on the site for far-right causes and groups, many of whom are banned from raising funds on other platforms.
It also identifies previously anonymous high-dollar donors to far-right actors, some of whom enjoy positions of wealth, power or public responsibility.
Some of the biggest beneficiaries have been members of groups such as the Proud Boys, designated as a terrorist group in Canada, many of whose fundraising efforts were directly related to the 6 January attack on the United States Capitol.
The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, shows the site was used for a wide range of legitimate charitable purposes, such as crowdfunding medical bills, aid projects and religious missions.
But the site’s permissive stance towards far-right actors meant groups who had been banned from other fundraising platforms and payment processors following episodes of hate speech and violence have also used the platform.
Across at least 11 crowdfunding campaigns associated with the Proud Boys, members of the group, including some now facing conspiracy charges related to the Capitol attack, raised over $375,000. Some of these fundraisers netted large amounts of money in a short period.
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re: #281 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
For as much as the Trumpers on twitter are trying to make hay over Afghanistan, and I expect plenty of elected Republicans to follow suit, I am fairly confident that the population as a whole will not be interested in fighting over Afghanistan.
As in, I expect the Republicans running for office to discover they can’t get much traction out of it.
The war was never popular with the the US electorate. Obama did all he could to avoid it in campaigning, knowing he’d be obliged to keep troops there though the majority in his party was against it.
Our old lizard, Gus, is all Afghanistan now. He even said that Hillary would not have let this happen (!)
This is not even wrong.
I wish he and others on Twitter would catch a flight to Pakistan and fight the Taliban there. Most Trumpers would rather beat up people at home: less effort.
Numerous Republican funders have used GiveSendGo to fund far-right groups, as the data breach revealed.
Candyce Kelshall, the president of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies-Vancouver, who at at Simon Fraser University researches violent transnational social movements, said that far-right crowdfunding on GiveSendGo was just “the tip of the iceberg”, and similar efforts were happening across up to 54 other crowdfunding sites that her research had revealed.
She said, however, that GiveSendGo was “particularly insidious” due to its presentation of such crowdfunding in the guise of religion-based charity.
re: #122 Barefoot Grin
What is your stringed instrument?
Squire Stratocaster…Xmas gift from the missus. I’m learning a ton of new stuff and enjoying the hell out of it. Started using backing tracks from youtube (blues in A minor) so I can ‘play with a band’…
re: #123 Dangerman
Whose toe?
Merle…he’s always near by.
re: #123 Dangerman
Whose toe?
Diverting the topic because you mentioned “toe,” my fourth phalax on my left foot is considerably better this morning. The swelling is way down, and the terrible bruising is starting to fade.
Apparently I didn’t break it, I just jammed it really badly somehow asleep in bed a couple nights ago.
re: #283 Sherlock Hound
Our old lizard, Gus, is all Afghanistan now. He even said that Hillary would not have let this happen (!)
This is not even wrong.
I wish he and others on Twitter would catch a flight to Pakistan and fight the Taliban there. Most Trumpers would rather beat up people at home: less effort.
There is a lot of weirdness in his thread.
I like to get the anti-war crowd angry.
— Gus (@Gus_802) August 15, 2021
Have at it, Hoss. Go pick your ass up, go to Afghanistan, and take on the Taliban with like-minded individuals. Filibustering is a long-time tradition amongst American conservatives.
What’s that? You only want other people to do it? Too cowardly to join up with a mercenary unit or join a military?
(To be fair, as a former military recruiter, I would show someone like that the door and say “no thanks.” As they taught us in recruiting school, “don’t put anyone in you don’t want to serve beside. You might have to.”)
We watch in complete shock as Taliban takes control of Afghanistan. I am deeply worried about women, minorities and human rights advocates. Global, regional and local powers must call for an immediate ceasefire, provide urgent humanitarian aid and protect refugees and civilians.
— Malala (@Malala) August 15, 2021
US officials say diplomats are being ferried by helicopter from the US embassy in the fortified Wazir Akbar Khan district to the international airport, Reuters reports.
The tarmac is busy with troops, contractors, diplomats and civilians, all trying to get out of the city, one US reporter says.
Those who are able to fly out are given special bracelets, showing their status as non-combatants, he adds.
Afghan forces have abandoned the field to Western forces, a pilot, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press.
Earlier, an Afghan flight loaded with troops who had surrendered to the Taliban landed at the airport, from Kandahar - despite shrapnel damage from a mortar attack, he added.
re: #223 No Malarkey!
But you can bet that the GOP is going to try to lay the blame at Biden’s feet, even though the exact same thing would’ve happened in the Spring under Trump’s withdrawal timetable. Biden was correct to not just let this continue to fester after 20 years of war, and the timing is good politically as well. No-one in America is going to give a damn about Afghanistan by the time the midterms roll around.
We know they will. Biden knows they will. Maybe we should be like Biden on this and say we had to do what we had to do and leave it at that.
re: #242 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I hope that finally the myth of nation-building will die.
You can’t half-nation build.
re: #292 Belafon
You can’t half-nation build.
You also have to have nationable material to work with. Might as well try to induce nuclear fission with silly putty.
re: #293 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You also have to have nationable material to work with. Might as well try to induce nuclear fission with silly putty.
Well, you start by sticking the Silly Putty to a cartoon drawing of a nuclear weapon to transfer a negative image of the ink to the putty… .
New York Times reporter:
Around Kabul, I’m witnessing government forces put on plainclothes and walk away from their posts, heading home to find loved ones. Streets are peaceful, mostly empty.
— Matthieu Aikins (@mattaikins) August 15, 2021
re: #294 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, you start by sticking the Silly Putty to a cartoon drawing of a nuclear weapon to transfer a negative image of the ink to the putty… .
But then the drawing will be bass-ackwards…
The first evacuation flight from #Kabul lands in Islamabad. The second flight has got permission to fly as well. PIA will run three more flights tomorrow to evacuate Pakistani nationals and foreign diplomats stranded in Afghanistan.
— Wajahat Kazmi (@KazmiWajahat) August 15, 2021
re: #291 Belafon
We know they will. Biden knows they will. Maybe we should be like Biden on this and say we had to do what we had to do and leave it at that.
The rapid implosion of the Afghanistan military has sort of been blowing some holes in the recently established Republican narrative of 300,000 brave Afghani soldiers who would totally be able to hold their own against the Taliban but for lack of US air support. The biggest mistake during the withdrawal appears to have been not blowing up all the bridges and highways to block the army’s retreat.
Meanwhile, in Brexitland:
Post-Brexit jobs crisis sparks huge backlog of pigs on farms
A “potentially disastrous” backlog of thousands of pigs is building up on East Anglian farms due to labour shortages at meat processing factories, said industry leaders.
A shortage of workers is affecting many business sectors following the post-Brexit changes to immigration rules, which have ended free movement across borders and forced many Eastern Europeans - which food and farming firms rely on - to seek employment in other countries.
Last week, the National Pig Association warned consumers it could “lead to empty retail shelves, which is likely to result in more imports”.
[…]
All this was expected. And still the UK decided to leave the biggest thing going for its ag sector - an open market to 7x the population of the UK. I wonder how many of these pig farmers voted for Brexit.
While you type insults on Twitter, Jimmy Carter is getting ready to teach Sunday School after building homes for the homeless all week. Afghanistan is not a Biden mistake. It has been an issue for 20 years. We should have never been there and wouldn’t have been but for GOP lies
— BlueMomInARedState516@🏠😷😷😷 (@GeauxTigers516) August 15, 2021
re: #300 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You probably also complained, like so many other Republicans, that Biden was a failure because he didn’t stick to Trump’s May deadline for withdrawal.
The fact that it didn’t take a week for the government to collapse is not on Biden.— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) August 15, 2021
re: #299 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Not to mention all the fish that Britain cannot sell abroad.
They voted first and then negotiated.
Imagine if they had first had to come up with a deal and then let the population vote on that…
re: #300 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I gotta disagree with this a bit. After 9/11 we were going into Afghanistan regardless of who was in charge and there was little lying involved.
Afghanistan was not Iraq.
re: #303 danarchy
I gotta disagree with this a bit. After 9/11 we were going into Afghanistan regardless of who was in charge and there was little lying involved.
Afghanistan was not Iraq.
I thought the point back then was to shut down the terrorist training camps.
re: #303 danarchy
I gotta disagree with this a bit. After 9/11 we were going into Afghanistan regardless of who was in charge and there was little lying involved.
Afghanistan was not Iraq.
We didn’t have to go into Afghanistan. That’s the lying part.
The GOP played the public like a fiddle, particularly with their “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” rhetoric.
If we wanted retaliation against the Taliban government, we could do what we do best (bomb the crap out of their government buildings). We could have used our soft power to completely isolate Afghanistan from the entire world (but that doesn’t make billionaire Republican donors richer or create photo ops for Republican politician junkets to a war zone). We could have gotten Bin Laden without taking on the whole country. We could have kept his Saudi relatives in the country for questioning after 9/11 (still haven’t heard an explanation why they were allowed to leave).
“We give them billions and THIS is what they come up with” is an argument for giving them more money, actually.
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) August 9, 2021
This story has been buried somewhat. And I am not really surprised with everything else that is going on.
And that the Trump administration intentionally made climate information less visible on government websites.
The NCDC likes to bury the lede:
As a whole, the July 2021 global surface temperature was the highest for July since global records began in 1880 at 0.93°C (1.67°F) above the 20th-century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F). This value surpassed the previous record set in 2016 (and subsequently matched in 2019 and 2020) by only 0.01°C (0.02°F). Because July is the warmest month of the year from a climatological perspective, July 2021 was more likely than not the warmest month on record for the globe since 1880. Nine of the 10 warmest Julys have occurred since 2010, with the last seven Julys (2015-2021) being the seven warmest Julys on record. July 1998 is the only July from the 20th century to be among the 10 warmest Julys on record. July 2021 marked the 45th consecutive July and the 439th consecutive month with temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th-century average.
and
The global land-only surface temperature for July 2021 was 1.40°C (2.52°F) above the 20th-century average — the highest July land-only surface temperature on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2017, and again in 2020, by 0.17°C (0.31°F). The warmth across the global land surfaces was mainly driven by higher than normal temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere land, which also had its highest July temperature at 1.54°C (2.77°F), exceeding the now second warmest July set in 2012 by 0.19°C (0.34°F). Overall, the Northern Hemisphere land and ocean surface had its second warmest July on record at +1.14°C (+2.05°F). This was only 0.06°C (0.11°F) shy of tying the record warm July of 2020.
More big news: The other major teachers union, the American Federation of Teachers, has changed their official position on vaccine mandates as well. They now support them, following a unanimous vote by their executive council last night, per @AFTunion
— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) August 12, 2021
More like incredible bulkshyte.
Credible report that the US is offering vast sums of cash to the Taliban in order to allow evacuations to proceed. Hope US media is on top of this story
— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) August 15, 2021
Pillow fight update:
IKEA out here taking shots at Mike Lindell with their pillows. pic.twitter.com/lsKsJGO55Z— /S Holbeck (@HolbeckDavid) August 11, 2021
Obviously the terrorists in this movie are American white supremacists.
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) August 14, 2021
“Looks like someone brought guns to a knife fight”
Flexes
“And it looks like it was me.”— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) August 14, 2021
Governments around the world have reacted to the impending collapse of the Afghan government. Many have announced evacuation efforts in the last few hours, although Russia say they have no plans to follow suit.The Russian state news agency reports that the Taliban promised to guarantee the safety of the Russian embassy in Kabul.
Spain’s defense ministry says it has not yet begun evacuating Spanish nationals and Afghan staff including translators who are expected to be flown out alongside its citizens, but was speeding up its plans.
Germany however is sending military transport planes to Kabul to begin the evacuation of its embassy staff Monday.
Tropical Storm Fred Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL062021
840 AM EDT Sun Aug 15 2021
…REMNANTS OF FRED RE-DEVELOP INTO A TROPICAL STORM…
Reports from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft
indicate that Fred has regained tropical storm status over the
southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Warnings will be
issued for portions of the northern Gulf coast on the 11 AM EDT/
10 AM CDT/1500 UTC advisory.
SUMMARY OF 840 AM EDT…1240 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…25.9N 84.7W
ABOUT 350 MI…565 KM SSE OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…40 MPH…65 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NNW OR 335 DEGREES AT 9 MPH…15 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1008 MB…29.77 INCHES
re: #298 Weaselone
The rapid implosion of the Afghanistan military has sort of been blowing some holes in the recently established Republican narrative of 300,000 brave Afghani soldiers who would totally be able to hold their own against the Taliban but for lack of US air support. The biggest mistake during the withdrawal appears to have been not blowing up all the bridges and highways to block the army’s retreat.
Frankly, though, I really can’t blame anyone for not wanting to be the last soldier to die for a lost cause.
re: #298 Weaselone
The rapid implosion of the Afghanistan military has sort of been blowing some holes in the recently established Republican narrative of 300,000 brave Afghani soldiers who would totally be able to hold their own against the Taliban but for lack of US air support. The biggest mistake during the withdrawal appears to have been not blowing up all the bridges and highways to block the army’s retreat.
The Republicans are already out saying that was the established Biden narrative.
re: #299 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Meanwhile, in Brexitland:
Post-Brexit jobs crisis sparks huge backlog of pigs on farms
All this was expected. And still the UK decided to leave the biggest thing going for its ag sector - an open market to 7x the population of the UK. I wonder how many of these pig farmers voted for Brexit.
You mean those dirty Poles weren’t stealing jobs from hard working Brits who needed them?//
Everyone is posturing this morning:
Sasse knocks ‘Trump-Biden doctrine of weakness’ as situation deteriorates in Afghanistan
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.) is blasting both the Trump and Biden administrations for a “doctrine of weakness” that he said resulted in the current situation in Afghanistan as a government takeover by the Taliban now appears to be imminent.
Playing both-sides with a new back-beat and a shiny new guitar.
re: #317 No Malarkey!
You mean those dirty Poles weren’t stealing jobs from hard working Brits who needed them?//
Maybe they ought to pay more. Cue capitalist complaints that people just don’t want to work, and there’s a labour shortage (not a pay shortage).
Prisoners leaving Kabul jail after being broken out by Taliban. pic.twitter.com/B84F2UrtEA
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 15, 2021
Witnesses say people, not Taliban, rushing police in two Kabul districts and stealing their weapons. A sign of how completely the security forces have collapsed
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 15, 2021
re: #318 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Everyone is posturing this morning:
Sasse knocks ‘Trump-Biden doctrine of weakness’ as situation deteriorates in Afghanistan
Playing both-sides with a new back-beat and a shiny new guitar.
Hey, Senator, I didn’t see you volunteer for the military any time during those twenty years.
Care to enlighten us on your plans for this? No plans? Quitcherbitchin’.
re: #319 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Maybe they ought to pay more. Cue capitalist complaints that people just don’t want to work, and there’s a labour shortage (not a pay shortage).
The shortage of heavy goods truck drivers is not just a matter of more pay, there are simply not enough trained drivers because that was the sort of hard, underpaid work that the Brits were happy to leave to foreigners.
Guinea Pig Highway.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/ovBLDHb7a7
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) August 15, 2021
re: #310 Belafon
“Kråkklöver” is actually the name for Comarum palustre in Swedish, believe it or not… https://t.co/udShrhlEeV
— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) August 15, 2021
thread
“So you see, the incel movement is a response to feminism…” pic.twitter.com/awgs9DGOgV
— Joanne Harris (@Joannechocolat) August 15, 2021
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
See, the Taliban are the real liberators.
re: #314 No Malarkey!
Frankly, though, I really can’t blame anyone for not wanting to be the last soldier to die for a lost cause.
Also it would seem a lot of the Afghan military was just plain not loyal to the government.
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
“So you see, the incel movement is a response to feminism…”
yes, a response on the part of a lot of pathetic dateless wonders who cannot get their heads around how things are done today and are convinced they would have fared a lot better before feminism
(guess what: they woulda been losers back then, too)
Secretary of State Blinken: “Remaining in Afghanistan for another 1, 5, 10 years is not in the national interest… the Russians were there for a long time in the 20th century. We’ve now been there twice as long as the Russians, & how that’s in our national interest, I don’t see” pic.twitter.com/hO0xhc2vTS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 15, 2021
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
This guy, Engel?
Lots of blame to go around for Afghanistan on the US side. Trump made a terrible deal with the Taliban, effectively promising them the country and empowering them. But Biden then implemented the deal, so the buck stops with him.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 15, 2021
Blame the Democrats for implementing a Republican deal. Same as always.
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Read the book and watched the Hulu adaptation. Margaret Atwood implied it was the Reagan Administration which inspired her to write the book.
I’ve also read her sequel “The Testaments,” on life in Gilead some twenty years later, and the forces working both within and without the regime to bring it down.
‘We’ve Seen This Before’: Margaret Atwood on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and How History Repeats Itself (Rolling Stone, May 19, 2021, on the Trump Administration, the show, her sequel book, &c)
I read The Testaments which incorporates the TV series into the narrative. The “Testaments” are the voices of Aunt Lydia, Aunt Victoria (June’s daughter Hannah/Agnes who was adopted by a Gilead family) and Nicole/Daisy/Jade raised in Canada.
The ending is…
anticlimactic
It’s been a while since they’ve had a Spine. pic.twitter.com/oSMKaGWMw5
— saisjo (@saisjo1_saisjo) August 15, 2021
It’s a wrap, looks like Ghani is gone.
News network in Afghanistan reporting that President Ghani has left the country https://t.co/HbT78pelen
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) August 15, 2021
re: #271 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
However 50 years on and Vietnam today at least is a functioning nation which to some degree has evolved so its people have a chance at a decent life.
I do not think the same thing will be said of Afghanistan.
Communism was a 19th century religion that looked to progress and technology; the Taliban are ensconced in 7th century ideology. But the communist religion could be as brutal as anything the Taliban create: let’s not forget what Pol Pot did to Cambodia — and let’s not forget if it weren’t for our dragging Cambodia fully into our conflict, Pol Pot would never have had the opportunity to commit his crimes.
My question, though, are the warlords of Afghanistan submitting to the Taliban — or is it a live and let live philosophy?
re: #333 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
It’s a wrap, looks like Ghani is gone.
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Wonder if he pulled an Idi Amin and took a big chunk of the country’s gold reserves and hard currency with him.
Ghani is gone AF
re: #322 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The shortage of heavy goods truck drivers is not just a matter of more pay, there are simply not enough trained drivers because that was the sort of hard, underpaid work that the Brits were happy to leave to foreigners.
Its a skills shortage then.//
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins paints a dire picture of the Covid situation: “I will be surprised if we don’t cross 200,000 cases a day in the next couple weeks … 90 million people are still unvaccinated [&] sitting ducks for this virus … we’re in a world of hurt” pic.twitter.com/HcYismpwDk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 15, 2021
NIH Director Collins on DeSantis blaming immigrants for Covid spread: “Let nobody try to say that’s why the US is in trouble. The rate of infection in Mexico is actually lower than it is right now in places like Texas, Louisiana, and Florida.” pic.twitter.com/V4wRxB0nDg
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 15, 2021
A really poor headline in a pretty good article.
Unfortunate that headlines are more important than content.
re: #296 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But then the drawing will be bass-ackwards…
Maybe you could start with a cartoon of a fusion weapon, and wind up with fission image?
Oh, hello everyone.
re: #324 Teukka
*Giggles* Where do I get all my goofy ideas?
You’re welcome.
Generally, IKEA sheets, pillow casings and other bed accessories have the names of flowers and plants.
Could this be weaponized against Mike Lindell by utilizing flora that grows in the US and are product names for pillows in an ecologically sustainable way?
🤔— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) August 15, 2021
Blinken blames the Trump administration for Afghanistan hurdles: “We had to put in place an entire system to deal with this. Unfortunately none of that work was done when we came in.”
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 15, 2021
Blinken: “We inherited a deadline” to leave Afghanistan from Trump administration
Secretary of State Antony Blinken defends the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, during an interview with Meet the Press.https://t.co/zbs9KJJ9ar pic.twitter.com/t4ZVsGkCw5— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) August 15, 2021
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
The surprising part of this to me is they put a Democrat on from the administration to explain US policy regarding a major event, rather than put on a Republican to say why the Democrats failed us again.
An Afghan doctor in Kabul speaking to NPR says situation is confused. There are rumors ‘they are here.’ And they have seen some Talib-like looking people in the markets. But Taliban spokesman says they have not entered Kabul. Also, there is no power in Kabul right now.
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) August 15, 2021
re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yes, a response on the part of a lot of pathetic dateless wonders who cannot get their heads around how things are done today and are convinced they would have fared a lot better before feminism
(guess what: they woulda been losers back then, too)
But in the good ole days, women would’ve had to marry a man for support, because most employment opportunities were unavailable to them. And they’d be so much happier at home taking care of their children and their men.///
re: #287 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Diverting the topic because you mentioned “toe,” my fourth phalax on my left foot is considerably better this morning. The swelling is way down, and the terrible bruising is starting to fade.
Apparently I didn’t break it, I just jammed it really badly somehow asleep in bed a couple nights ago.
I kicked a tree root last week and/or stepped on a dog bone in the middle of the night and my left foot has been swollen and hurts to put pressure on since. Think it’s a minor stress fracture - got one about 10 years ago in the same place…took weeks to recover. Ordered a post-op walking boot from Amazon on Friday (should be here today) so I can walk the dogs better. Glad I’m home office as I fly to Hawaii in three weeks to go surfing.
A Taliban spokesman has confirmed that Taliban fighters have entered the city in response to a “law and order issue”.
Journalists on the ground including former Wall Street Journal reporter Habib Khan have confirmed the Taliban will enter the city in order to “control the chaos”
Taliban said that they will enter the city of Kabul to secure areas abandoned by the government forces and control the chaos. #Afghanistan
— Habib Khan (@HabibKhanT) August 15, 2021
The independent Russian news agency Interfax reports that Russia is “ready to cooperate” with Afghanistan’s interim government.
The interim administration is widely expected to be led by Taliban leaders,.
A spokesman for the embassy, which earlier said there was no immediate need to evacuate the Afghan capital, also said Russia was taking part in political contacts in Afghanistan.
However, the Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed that Moscow does not yet recognise the Taliban as Afghanistan’s lawful authority.
Omar* is in Kabul with his wife and children. He worked as a wartime interpreter for US and allied forces for five years - but now, he says, the US “has turned its back” on him.“The president of the United States said, ‘As you stood with us, we will stand with you’. So right now, where are they?”
Omar applied for a US visa in 2016, but was rejected for what the US embassy called a “lack of faithful and valuable service”.
Now, Omar believes the Taliban’s punishment will be worse for translators, despite a spokesman saying there will be “no revenge”.
“There’s no mercy for the linguists,” he says. “The Taliban has said before, interpreters were the eyes and ears of the Americans - so the punishment will be different for us.
“As an interpreter I saved many American lives. So, they’ve really left me behind. Now I’m about to be killed, as is my family.”
*Names have been changed
re: #348 darthstar
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Yep this is about right..#GetVaccinated #savelives #Covid_19 pic.twitter.com/MZICzzm1aO
— Dr. Fred A Jones (@FredAJones1) August 15, 2021
re: #352 The Pie Overlord!
I’m surprised we’re not getting “someone hast to pay for it so it’s not really free” from someone.
re: #354 Belafon
I’m surprised werr not getting “someone hast to pay for it so it’s not really free” from someone.
All the “we’re not the world’s police” Republicans sure changed their tune fast.
re: #355 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
All the “we’re not the world’s police” Republicans sure changed their tune fast.
The GOP only has one remaining principle; fealty to TFG and The Big Lie.
Louisiana or Mississippi look like the target for Tropical Storm Grace by Sunday.
Grace is currently approaching the SW corner of Puerto Rico. The track then carries it over Hispaniola, along the northern coastline of Cuba, then into the Gulf of Mexico.
Later all, I hope everyone has a good day and coming week.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: is there a sense of schadenfreude for any of you in seeing so many people in the South get hammered by a largely preventable serious illness because of their own stupid decisions?
You know they’re going to blame you.
Saw dozens of Taliban on streets of kabul, some in new Afghan security vehicles. I suspect over the next several hours/overnight many many more will be coming.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 15, 2021
Our Anniversary Week festivities come to an end. We’re hitting the road now. Will stay overnight in Clarion PA.
re: #361 JOE 🥓
Did Governor Ironass call for a Texas Day Of Prayer yet?
Texas had a day of prayer to eradicate Covid-19 on August 19, 2020.
As you can see, prayer given in faith and sincerity is quite successful, and there is no Covid-19 in Texas anymore.
re: #364 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Meanwhile, Gov. Ricketts declared a statewide day of prayer to eliminate Covid-19 on December 20, 2020.
As you can see by looking at maps of data collected from all states, Nebraska’s prayerfulness was quite successful, as no cases are reported anymore. (I’m sure it has nothing to do with the governor “goosing” God’s will by suppressing all reporting.)
Ducking out to the store for smokes and lotto. It’s Sunday, so it’s time to feed those vices. Be right back.
re: #362 DodgerFan1988
Richard Engel needs to get the fuck out of Afghanistan. That guy has been in more danger zones than I can count and if I recall got injured during the Iraq war…his luck isn’t going to last forever.
re: #366 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ducking out to the store for smokes and lotto. It’s Sunday, so it’s time to feed those vices. Be right back.
That’s what daddy said…
//
re: #223 No Malarkey!
But you can bet that the GOP is going to try to lay the blame at Biden’s feet, even though the exact same thing would’ve happened in the Spring under Trump’s withdrawal timetable. Biden was correct to not just let this continue to fester after 20 years of war, and the timing is good politically as well. No-one in America is going to give a damn about Afghanistan by the time the midterms roll around.
The Pre$$titutes are in full kneecapping Joe mode blaming him for what’s going on in Afghanistan.
My take—All we should have done is go in, take out Bin Laden and get the fuck out. The Neocons who got us into this mess should be held responsible for their actions and never again should they be allowed to fuck us up.
But the Republicans will make sure that those Shactmanites will get back into power and continue to fuck us up.
NEW: US AMBASSADOR HAS LEFT THE EMBASSY IN #KABUL. He and the flag are at the airport, per @CBSNews.
— Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) August 15, 2021
And this really is funny:
Let’s wrap this all up with a quote he gave to the Daily Beast before his arrest. He denied the sex trafficking charge with the remark, “There’s nothing to this case. It’s not some Matt Gaetz or whatever you think this is.” Dear God, even accused pedophiles don’t think they are as bad as Gaetz.
re: #355 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
All the “we’re not the world’s police” Republicans sure changed their tune fast.
re: #254 No Malarkey!
I’m on Twitter probation for 12 hours for telling too many keyboard warriors to fuck off and go fight the Taliban themselves. Not suspended; my followers can still see my tweets.
I won’t take the Twitter bait from the Twits. @jerk will dome down on their side as he always does.
“Four educators in Broward County, Florida, died from COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, as school officials continue to push back against Governor Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates in schools. At least three of the teachers who died were unvaccinated, CBS Miami reports.”
re: #369 JOE 🥓
The Pre$$titutes are in full kneecapping Joe mode blaming him for what’s going on in Afghanistan.
My take—All we should have done is go in, take out Bin Laden and get the fuck out. The Neocons who got us into this mess should be held responsible for their actions and never again should they be allowed to fuck us up.
But the Republicans will make sure that those Shactmanites will get back into power and continue to fuck us up.
Yeah blame the guy who oversaw the end of the final cutting off.
Not the former guy who made the deal to cut it off.
Or the people who, you know, actually caused it all
re: #82 JOE 🥓
If your police don’t follow the Peelian principles:
1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
3. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
8. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.
Then they are not police, they are an occupying army.
re: #260 No Malarkey!
Thread of Proud Boy violence in LA yesterday, with the support of their friends in the LAPD.
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— 🌹The Great Hero, Jim Thorpe (@abrasive_j) August 15, 2021
Complain about LAPD thugs to the City Clowncil? Gets you nowhere…
Not ONE refugee from Afghanistan needs to come to our country.
Not one.
Call Qatar. Call The UAE. Call Saudi Arabia. Call Egypt.
The US & Europe took ALL the Syrian refugees. We can’t do anymore.
AMERICA FIRST MEANS AMERICA FIRST.— Lavern Spicer (@lavern_spicer) August 15, 2021
America First Crowd:
“Biden let down the people of Afghanistan just… I don’t want those people in my country!”— 💀DeathMetalViking💀 (@DeathMetalV) August 15, 2021
Catching up:
On Afghanistan: The Taliban have to keep the toilets flushing in downtown Kabul and they have to keep the cash flow going to those warlords in rural regions who got used to Westerners giving out good bribes and supplies for 20 years. Good luck with the iron fist approach
On electric guitars: for garage level jamming loud enough to annoy your tract home neighborhood I strongly recommend the Boss Katana Mini. It’s so light and small and was like 100$ and has enough settings and knobs to adjust the sound to your liking. I also use garage band amps through my mixer plug in to iPad and have a mini studio that exceeds my requirements It may suck nowadays to try and cash a check as a musician but for the amateur hobbyist it’s actually sort of a golden age
On cattle dogs: see photo
Dr. Gold is a notorious Covid Truther and anti-vaxxer who is facing criminal charges for storming the US Capitol on January 6. She is now celebrating this recent anti-vaccine protest at the Oklahoma State Capitol. https://t.co/xv8bWEwmUV
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) August 15, 2021
re: #337 No Malarkey!
Its a skills shortage then.//
Of a sort, yes. They have considered mitigating it by lowering safety and rest requirements for truckers, always a good move…
re: #363 The Pie Overlord!
Our Anniversary Week festivities come to an end. We’re hitting the road now. Will stay overnight in Clarion PA.
May you have a safe journey home.
re: #110 mmmirele
ACAB isn’t a gang, it’s an observation.
re: #112 calochortus
Also, they’re not laughing, they’re threatening.
FCDO says British ambassador to Kabul remains despite reports he was airlifted last night. “We have reduced our diplomatic presence in response to the situation, but our ambassador remains in Kabul and UK Govt staff continue to work to [assist] British nationals and Afghan staff”
— Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) August 15, 2021
re: #382 So Cal Greek Hippie
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Cattle dogs and amplifiers…life is good.
re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Almost paid for your smokes.
Same with my wife the software engineer. That said, I probably couldn’t operate all that new-fangled stuff anyways.
I can add “rotary phone” to the list.
— hackerbot.eth (@hackerb0t) August 15, 2021
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A more reasonable approach from my opinion would have been a surgical attack to capture or kill Bin Laden, then get the hell out.
The Taliban proposed to extradite him, that was how scared they were
(video, 2:13)
The BBC’s Yalda Hakim was contacted on air by Taliban negotiator Suhail Shaheen to tell the people of Kabul “their lives are safe”.
“We assure the people in Afghanistan, particularly in the city of Kabul, that their properties, their lives are safe - there will be no revenge on anyone,” he told her.
“We are the servants of the people and of this country.”
re: #391 John Hughes
The Taliban proposed to extradite him, that was how scared they were
I seem to recall we gave them the option to turn him over and they refused.
re: #388 darthstar
Thanks. I try to have a good life balance nowadays 😎
Puppy thinks he’s a bunny.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/GoK4gQPX4g
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) August 15, 2021
re: #160 William Lewis
Saigon, April 30, 1975 redux.
Unfortunately for the people of Afghanistan, the Talibs are not as decent as even Communists.
Oh come on. They’re worse than the Vietnamese, but still way better than the Khmer Rouge.
re: #167 sagehen
Who cares about those losers, I just want to know more about the helicopter people.
re: #170 Targetpractice
No, the face of the unvaccinated in America is that Tucker Carlson, of Laura Ingraham, of MTG and White Trash Barbie (aka Lauren Boebert)…
Those people are all vaccinated.
A discussion is underway about the rise of cryptocurrencies and the Nixon administration abandoning the gold standard in 1971
The Nixon administration announced 50 years ago today that the US would no longer exchange dollars held by foreign governments for gold.
Thread:
1/ 50 years ago today, the US, lead by President Richard Nixon, unilaterally terminated convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods system to an end and rendering the dollar a fiat currency. #wtfhappenedin1971
— Anita Posch ⚡ (@AnitaPosch) August 15, 2021
We’ll skip the part that the fixed price of gold in the USA and the inability to trade gold by Americans was causing a raid by other countries on our gold reserves.
We’ll also skip the part where “panics” (the word used before “depression”) were often deeper and sharper under the gold standard.
In all the hullabaloo about Afghanistan, this bit of news went under the radar:
Canadians will be heading to the polls next month, two years earlier than scheduled, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau triggered a snap election on Sunday after weeks of speculation that a vote was coming.
Trudeau, whose Liberal Party secured a 157-seat minority government in the last election in 2019, is hoping to get back a majority in the face of what analysts have described as a divided and weak opposition Conservative Party of Canada.
“Canadians will … go to the polls on September 20,” Trudeau told reporters in the capital, Ottawa, after he visited the residence of Governor General Mary Simon to ask her to dissolve parliament. Trudeau said Simon had accepted his request, which triggers the election campaign.
“In this pivotal, consequential moment, who wouldn’t want a say? Who wouldn’t want a chance to help decide where our country goes from here? Canadians need to choose how we finish the fight against COVID-19 and build back better,” Trudeau said, rebuffing criticism that he was calling an election during the pandemic.
Yard mowed. Going to have to restrict Minnie to the patio from now on while I am mowing. Little twit kept circling, charging and barking at the mower while it was running. Now off to Lowes to pick up my order. “Should” be a quick in and out while avoiding the majority of covidiots that refuse to wear a mask.
This is the coins they use right? pic.twitter.com/gj7oPffmED
— Cami (@dotdot427) August 15, 2021
re: #378 DodgerFan1988
Yeah, because Jesus totally said “Fuck those poor people who have almost nothing. Shut your doors to them and do not help them.”
re: #378 DodgerFan1988
Another lying Republican. Quelle surprise.
Taliban commanders are saying they have taken control of the Afghan presidential palace. There is no confirmation of this from what remains of the Afghan government at this point, Reuters is reporting.
The Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, has, by all accounts so far, fled the country earlier today.
Taliban leaders had been understood to be at the 19th-century palace in Kabul for negotiations but now claim to have taken it over.
re: #198 Dr Lizardo
The post calls on hundreds of officers “willing to risk it all” to fight city and state pandemic-related rules.
Willing to risk it all everything but their jobs nothing really.
re: #408 John Hughes
Willing to risk
it alleverything but their jobsnothing really.
A tiny handful might quit, but I suspect that most of ‘em are just a lot of big talk.
re: #404 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, because Jesus totally said “Fuck those poor people who have almost nothing. Shut your doors to them and do not help them.”
The #1 verse that Xtians love!
2 Thessalonians 3:10
10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
re: #206 No Malarkey!
. Its Saigon 1975; time to grab the last helicopter out of the country.
Not a good image. You’re forgetting the 100’s of thousands who has no helicopter seat.
re: #276 William Lewis
The Communists, for all their flaws, truly wanted to help the people of Vietnam and have done so. The Talibs want power and to impose their world view on as many people as possible regardless of anything else.
Remember how the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan. They are destroyers of civilization. *scowl* (And YES, I completely understand that my religion did the same thing. I’m saying it’s WRONG. Don’t Do It.)
re: #414 mmmirele
Remember how the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan. They are destroyers of civilization. *scowl* (And YES, I completely understand that my religion did the same thing. I’m saying it’s WRONG. Don’t Do It.)
Similar to fundamentalist Muslims destroying tombs in Mali.
A woman who once did a single good thing reverts to type.
The Trump/Biden calamity unfolding in Afghanistan began with the Trump administration negotiating with terrorists and pretending they were partners for peace, and is ending with American surrender as Biden abandons the country to our terrorist enemies. https://t.co/PQ1i5W6zZt
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) August 14, 2021
Earlier this morning (our time), US forces were deploying flares to jinx heat-seeking missiles.
Reports are coming out from US embassy staff in Afghanistan that the Kabul airport is taking fire. The embassy has instructed US citizens the “shelter in place”, ie stay put wherever you are right now and try to find a safe place to wait.
The security situation in Kabul is “changing quickly, including at the airport”, according to a report from Reuters.
re: #330 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This guy, Engel?
Blame the Democrats for implementing a Republican deal. Same as always.
That the GOP does not honestly negotiate and keep “deals” is part of the expected narrative I guess.
re: #416 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
When all is said and done, Afghanistan is not the 51st state of America. And we cannot fight their battles for them.
Hopefully, one day, the Afghans will rid themselves of the theocratic loonies but until that day arrives, there’s not much we can do aside from offer Afghanis immediate political asylum, much like our Cold War-era policy in regard to the denizens of the Eastern Bloc.
Am I too evil when I toy with the idea of when the Afghan Emirate and GQP policies overlap, e.g. with stopping vaccinations, we should call it “US Republican Policies” when describing Afghan Policy, and “Afghan Emirate Policies” when Describing GQP policy?
re: #216 No Malarkey!
I don’t know if you have watched or read The Handmaid’s Tale, but it horrifies me thinking about what is dystopian fiction here is becoming all too real for the women and girls of Afghanistan. The young women who were earning college degrees now face a future of being literal prisoners in their own homes.
you do understand that you’re taking about a small middle class urban minority?
Most Afghans have been under Taliban rule for decades, and those that haven’t have been preyed on by a kleptocrat government that they see as being supported by an occupying power.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
Memories of America before Social Security.
Grandma Bacon volunteered to work at the town Poor House. Back then you had to sell everything you had and in return you were required to sign a contract stating you would work every day even if you were sick or infirm to receive any form of assistance.
When people had strokes, wound up bedridden they were in violation of the contract and in good Xtian love they were denied food and water by the Overseer who answered to the good Gawd Fearing Xtian Men who sat on the Poor House Corporate Board.
Couldn’t work, sick in bed. No food. You starved to death.
Grandma made the fatal mistake of sneaking pie slices to the infirm…until she was caught by the Overseer and banned from working there. Grandma was also blacklisted and denied employment anywhere in the Roaring 20s. She turned to taking in boarders which is all a blacklisted Bolshevik was allowed to do and of course good Xtian people could not board at her house.
Which turned to the advantage of the CIO when John L Lewis started massive recruitment drives for the Steelworkers, Electrical, Mineworkers and Autoworkers Union organizing committees. Grandpa and Grandma’s home was the command center for union organizing. So quite naturally those fine Xtian capitalists didn’t like that too much so they sent their thugs called the Coal & Iron police to Grandma’s house where the thugs with the assistance of the County Sheriff and local police continually beat union organizers and terrorized Dad.
Ended in 1935 when the Democrats took control of the Pennsylvania legislature and Governorship and they banned the Coal & Iron Police.
The Coal & Iron Police of the 1920s are the Proud Boys, 3 %ers and other assorted assholes of today.
re: #219 No Malarkey!
Welp, this sure looks familiar.
Hope they remember to get the last marine squad off this time.
re: #420 Teukka
Am I too evil when I toy with the idea of when the Afghan Emirate and GQP policies overlap, e.g. with stopping vaccinations, we should call it “US Republican Policies” when describing Afghan Policy, and “Afghan Emirate Policies” when Describing GQP policy?
Nope. They are both rooted in religion.
There is no difference between Christian fundamentalists, Muslim fundamentalists, American conservatives, and Afghan conservatives, other than one: Afghanistan has been more successful in banning women from public life and denying education to them above the age of twelve.
re: #220 sagehen
And beards. Don’t forget the beards. Makes all the difference in the world.
Taliban=Republican hipsters.
The last reports were that the US embassy would be closed by Tuesday and was currently being staffed by a skeleton-level team. The situation on the ground is not completely clear.
There is “pandemonium” at the airport, according to CNN’s reporter in Afghanistan, Clarissa Ward, just now. The road to the airport is completely choked with traffic as Afghan people desperately try to reach it to take or seek a flight out.
This could account for the so-far unconfirmed and isolated reports of gunfire - ie chaos in the approach to the airport and frustration boiling over.
British prime minister Boris Johnson’s public appearance to give a statement after an emergency meeting is delayed. He was due to talk 10 minutes ago, no word yet on the new schedule. We’ll keep you informed and will stream the PM live, here.
re: #222 Dr Lizardo
And the sad reality is, the US military can’t stay in Afghanistan forever. The Taliban only needed to wait us out - and they have succeeded in doing so.
Well, no. You only needed to convince the Afghan people that there was an alternative.
Ok, I admit that that was a difficult project.
But the US/NATO never really tried.
And don’t forget that the Taliban is a Pakistani ISI invention (possibly with CIA nods and winks).
🔴 Over 40 wounded people arrived at our hospital in #Kabul. Most came from fighting in the #Qarabagh area. 22 have been hospitalised, the others (less serious) referred to other facilities. We are receiving more casualties. #Afghanistan
— EMERGENCY (English) (@emergency_ngo) August 15, 2021
re: #427 John Hughes
Well, no. You only needed to convince the Afghan people that there was an alternative.
Ok, I admit that that was a difficult project.
But the US/NATO never really tried.And don’t forget that the Taliban is a Pakistani ISI invention (possibly with CIA nods and winks).
Maybe deep down, the Afghan people viewed us as merely the latest in a long series of adventurer-conquerors, knowing that in the end, we too would pack up and go home, just another empire to inter in their historical graveyard.
Afghan troops have surrendered Bagram air base to the Taliban.
That base housed thousands of ISIS Terrorists who will now be released.
https://t.co/GhsWwu6XfC— Benny (@bennyjohnson) August 15, 2021
French ambassador to Afghanistan (video, 0:19)
Leaving the former Green Zone @Kabul pic.twitter.com/GAL3Fu2osF
— David Martinon (@david_martinon) August 15, 2021
There is no such definition as a “Gold Star Mother-In-Law.”
Moreover, if such a designation actually existed, it would not define grandchildren.
This smells like more conservative stolen valour.
As for hellholes, I lost my father in the Vietnam War. I think getting out of Vietnam was the single best military and political decision we made in that war.
If you did lose grandchildren in Afghanistan as a mother-in-law, I can sympathise with your loss. Let’s not lose any more grandchildren.
The war has been going on long enough that people who weren’t even born when it started are serving there now.
re: #432 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gold Star Mother-in-law here. Thanks for letting me know that my granddaughters lost their father over in that hell hole for nothing. This breaks my heart. IMPEACH BIDEN and GET that “woke” dumbass Milley OUT NOW!!!!!!
— Workin4ALiving3 Trump WON & we all know it. (@Diane65150066) August 15, 2021
re: #433 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Diane bunchofnumbers here’s account seems an awful lot like divisive propaganda rather than a concerned “Gold Star Mother-in-Law.”
She’s still going, posting unverified crap (lies).
[[[ Dee ]]]
*drily* from a friend of mine whose father died in Vietnam and is an actual Gold Star American family—THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOLD STAR MOTHER IN LAW. What you’re doing is STOLEN VALOR. Stop it!
— (((Dee *still a Professional Cat Herder* Holmes))) (@mmmirele) August 15, 2021
CNN was on earlier while I was prepping lunch. They’re on the full on ‘Biden and Biden alone is responsible for this disaster and has proven he and Dems are all monsters’ kick.
We’re going to have another election of the media whipping up a fervor again leading to people screaming ‘Save us, Daddy GOP! Save us from the evil inept supermonster Dems! Thank you for keeping us safe and strong, Daddy GOP!’, aren’t we?
And again only so much we can do about it when the media is full all-in on ‘Dems are to blame for everything’ mode….fan-fucking-tastic.
I’m having trouble signing in on my phone again. I enter the code and it just spits me out. My laptop is fine. What’s the name of that sign in app again?
re: #436 Citizen K
Hi, K! I haven’t seen you around in awhile. Have I just missed you, or have you been on a break?
Extremely local news:
There is a massive crowd at the church. More people there than I’ve ever seen (except for the funeral of our village clerk, which I attended).
I don’t know what they’re up to. Better keep an eye on them. /s
The Biden presidency is effectively over https://t.co/wd8UXvpKFs
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) August 15, 2021
The Taliban took all this territory in days? I call bullshit. The fix was in from way back. “You Talib guys stay out of sight, and we split the proceeds from the west until they quit”. Win for the Pashtun.
re: #436 Citizen K
CNN was on earlier while I was prepping lunch. They’re on the full on ‘Biden and Biden alone is responsible for this disaster and has proven he and Dems are all monsters’ kick.
We’re going to have another election of the media whipping up a fervor again leading to people screaming ‘Save us, Daddy GOP! Save us from the evil inept supermonster Dems! Thank you for keeping us safe and strong, Daddy GOP!’, aren’t we?
And again only so much we can do about it when the media is full all-in on ‘Dems are to blame for everything’ mode….fan-fucking-tastic.
So, basically, they’ve turned into the last three days of “The Twitter of DaedelGus,” but presumably slightly more coherent.
re: #441 Rightwingconspirator
The fix was in from way back. I agree. Would you say from the time of Queen Victoria?
re: #438 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Hi, K! I haven’t seen you around in awhile. Have I just missed you, or have you been on a break?
Been sparse with a bit on my RL plate. Work schedules, transfers, and just general mental health breaks. Twitter alone has been mentally exhausting keeping track of the state of things, so…yeah.
#Breaking A Taliban official says they will soon declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul
— PA Media (@PA) August 15, 2021
re: #444 Citizen K
Been sparse with a bit on my RL plate. Work schedules, transfers, and just general mental health breaks. Twitter alone has been mentally exhausting keeping track of the state of things, so…yeah.
There is something to be said of the old days when there were only three commercial networks with news at 6 and 11 PM, and the morning or evening newspaper.
re: #435 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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*blush* I didn’t think it worthy of LGF, I was just snapping at someone who was annoying the fuck out of someone I know.
re: #439 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Extremely local news:
There is a massive crowd at the church. More people there than I’ve ever seen (except for the funeral of our village clerk, which I attended).
Let me guess: No masks.
re: #447 mmmirele
That was annoying but that is how a lot of these people are. Many are also looking to start a fight too.
re: #450 PhillyPretzel
That was annoying but that is how a lot of these people are. Many are also looking to start a fight too.
Her tweet read to me as if she had made some terrible sacrifice of her granddaughters (as a mother-in-law), and you should be blaming Joe Biden for her loss.
Jake Tapper is pissing me off this morning. The man refused to hold Trump accountable but calls Biden out on Afghanistan? Trump is who forced this drawdown?
— ReesusP Irreverent Bastard (@ResusCGMedia) August 15, 2021
re: #440 DodgerFan1988
This Monica Crowley?
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In December 2016, the Donald Trump administration announced that Crowley would be appointed a deputy national security advisor for the National Security Council. She withdrew a month later following reports that she had plagiarized portions of her 2012 book What the (Bleep) Just Happened? and her 2000 Ph.D. dissertation.
..snip…
In the mid-1990s Crowley wrote a regular column for the New York Post.
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On July 16, 2019, President Trump announced Crowley’s appointment as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the Treasury Department.
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Crowley has on multiple occasions spread conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama was a secret Muslim. In 2010, after Obama defended the right to build the Islamic community center Park51 in lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center, Crowley suggested he had dual loyalties to Islam and the United States, and asked, “How could he….support the enemy?” In 2013, she said that the Muslim Brotherhood had “found an ally” in Obama.
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In 2015, she shared an article which described Obama as an “Islamic community organizer” who was “conforming US policy to Islam and Sharia.”
Monica Crowley
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re: #451 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Her tweet read to me as if she had made some terrible sacrifice of her granddaughters (as a mother-in-law), and you should be blaming Joe Biden for her loss.
Well the tweet said her granddaughters lost their father, so it was her son-in-law who died, not the granddaughters.
re: #222 Dr Lizardo
And the sad reality is, the US military can’t stay in Afghanistan forever. The Taliban only needed to wait us out - and they have succeeded in doing so.
Well, no. You only needed to convince the Afghan people that there was an alternative.
Ok, I admit that that was a difficult project.
But the US/NATO never really tried.
And don’t forget that the Taliban is a Pakistani ISI invention (possibly with CIA nods and winks)
re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He says: “It is pretty extraordinary that our focus has been on minor negotiations with Nato and European partners and allies who we’ve worked with and traded with very, very closely for the last 70, 80, 90 years - rather than on the lives on 28 million Afghans,
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