But I'm pretty sure they considered me to be a terrorist years ago, what with my adherence to the US Constitution and what not.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein -
But I'm pretty sure they considered me to be a terrorist years ago, what with my adherence to the US Constitution and what not.
Might post later. Might not. Today is the first day in 13 days I haven't been working. I'm going to go enjoy it.
Yeah, that's going swimmingly, innit?
As anyone who wasn’t playing partisan politics predicted, the Taliban is retaking Afghanistan in an appalling fashion. The rapidly deteriorating situation is a humanitarian and national security tragedy.
On Thursday, the Pentagon decided to send troops to help evacuate personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and also assist at the Kabul airport. Kabul is expected to fall within a month.
The Taliban has captured nearly two-thirds of the country, including 10 provincial capitals in the last week, and now Ghazni, one of Afghanistan’s largest cities, strategically situated on the main road between Kabul and Kandahar.
Here's my question to those who want to stay in some form or fashion: Just exactly how long do you plan on staying there, and what's the objective?
We've been in Afghanistan for TWO DECADES. That's one full generation plus part of another, and the country is still a shithole of corruption and incompetence, filled with people who cannot keep the systems of a civilized nation running even after having it handed to them, shown how to operate it, and given craploads of dollars to keep it maintained.
How much more money are we going to throw at people who don't want to be western? Here's a thought - the Taliban could not have taken all these cities and towns unless there was a substantial portion of the people in those cities and towns who WANTED THEM THERE. These people had two decades to decide what kind of a country they wanted to live in, and they chose the Taliban. Hell, that's about the only thing they've agreed on in thousands of years, given that the country of Afghanistan is really just a geographic region, filled with nine different tribes of backwards, uncivilized pedophiles and rapists who all hate each other, and fight each other when they're not fighting whatever benighted western country has decided to wobble in to the Graveyard of Empires.
There were only two real courses of action in Afghanistan - go in and destroy anyone and everyone associated with the Taliban before you rebuild the country, or kill bin Laden and then get the hell out. What we've been doing over the past two decades hasn't worked. It won't work, because we're expecting people to act in a Western fashion when those people have refused to do so for as long as the people there have known about the West.
So let's go back to those two questions: Just how long are you planning on staying there, and what's the objective? Almost nobody clamoring for us to stay in Afghanistan can answer the first question, and damn sure nobody in the government can answer the second. "B-b-b-b-but HUMANITARIAN CRISIS!" Yeah. That's going to happen when the people who live in an area prefer fucking little boys and keeping women in burkas. That's sort of a thing when a population demands to live in the 7th century. And unless you're willing to go in with bloody sword, followed by the Bible for those left after the Taliban is purged, then YOU ARE GOING TO FAIL. I don't care how long you stay. I don't care how much you wail about the people there suffering. Reality is a bitch, and the reality of the situation is that we've done nothing to encourage Afghanistan to be anything more than an Islamic shithole filled with people who CHOOSE to be barbarians.
Yes, people are going to die. Yes, the Taliban is going to take over. The next time they act out, we just need to drop a fucking missile on the ragheads and turn their world into one giant smoking crater. Don't send one fucking troop there. Don't spend one dollar more than is required for the ordnance, and the fuel to get it there. Unless you're going there to change their entire culture, which would require the extinction of Islam and the establishment of Christianity, then don't waste a single American life on them.
We all know the USA doesn't have the political will to do what has to be done. So let's stop pretending they do, and cut our losses.
Now, with that being said, I'm happy that Drooling Joe's puppet masters are the ones fucking this up, because that'll just be another thing people remember about him. Serves them right. Fuck them all.
Yeah, I'm cheerful today.
Antibody. Dependent. Enhancement.
Folks, the not-vax is going to end up fucking up a huge number of people. And I'm sure the government will give them the same consideration they gave Viet Nam vets who had been doused with Agent Orange.
Hunter Biden claimed Russians stole another one of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Las Vegas hotel room, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The alleged incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers – the first abandoned at a Delaware computer store and the second seized by federal agents – each likely to hold sensitive information on President Joe Biden and the embarrassing pictures, videos and communications of his son.
The third laptop still appears to be missing – and was taken by Russian drug dealers after they partied with Hunter in Vegas, he told a prostitute in a conversation caught on camera.
Imagine if this was Don Jr. Imagine if our enemies had video of Don Jr. or Eric Trump high on crack and banging Russian hookers. Imagine the nightly, wall-to-wall coverage this would have. And the media is just yawning and acting like this never happened.
When the balloons go up, the media is going to be treated as enemy forces, because they are.
And do NOT get the jab. Period.
It might not kill you now, but it won't do your health any favors in the future.
Burn it to the ground, salt the earth where it stood.
With states like Oregon now eliminating the need to establish proficiency on basic subjects with standardized tests, American education faces the perfect storm. Despite record expenditures on public schools, we are still failing students, particularly minority students, in teaching the basis subjects needed to succeed in life. We will then graduate the students by removing testing barriers for graduation. Then some may go to colleges and universities that have eliminated standardized testing for admission. At every stage in their education, they have been pushed through by educators without objective proof that they are minimally educated.
You can replace it with a myriad mix of options, but damn near all of them would be better than the unholy pit of despair that publik skool is today.
COVID‐19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional approach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified coronavirus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery method, may worsen COVID‐19 disease via antibody‐dependent enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID‐19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials.
My fucking emphasis there. They fucking knew it, they know it now, and any attempt to mandate this vaccine should be met with violent force. Is it any wonder that they're screaming about booster shots right now? They're about to have a big chunk of people end up worse off than the unvaxed, and they know it. The evil, pathetic shitwads!
Not for killing tens of thousands of people with his actions, no. It's all about the sex assault and harassment. As if everybody in Albany didn't know what the hell was going on a long time ago.
I would have make them keep his ass. They deserve his pathetic ass.
But with the Covidiacy and the mask fascists all screaming at me every time I take a sip of coffee (which means lowering the damn mask) I want to start throat-punching every gullible piece of shit who claims that a flimsy piece of cloth actually stops a virus.
Bonus stupidity - a couple walked up to the ticket counter wearing N-95 masks. You know, the only kind of mask that might actually help you avoid the virus? Yeah, those. And they were told they COULD NOT WEAR THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE A VALVE ON THE BOTTOM.
So you have to wear a mask at all times, except for the ONLY FUCKING MASKS THAT ACTUALLY WORK! What a pathetic fucking joke!
I can't handle this level of stupidity and ignorance that the gummint is shoving down my throat. If I never flew again I would be happy.