Another week and more lives lost. Until the Democrats stop propagating the false narrative nothing will change.
Black lives matter - I support the words but cannot support the organization because it propagates the false narrative that systemic racism is the primary cause of the disparities(incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.
Racism exists, it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it. Excess police force is bad and we should continue to work to reduce it.
BLM organization’s positions and policies do not address the problems (murders, fatherless households, teen pregnancy) and do not address the key root causes (it’s not excessive police force or systemic racism.)
A key part of the Iran Nuclear Deal, in addition to the "anywhere anytime" inspections (that in reality were only as/if Iran chose to allow - which they didn't) was complete disclosure of all nuclear activity.
Just this month the IAEA said its investigators found nuclear material at another undeclared site and that Iran’s explanation was “not credible.”
This is in addition to the discovery in May 2018 of the existence of a secret Iranian nuclear archive — a curation of Iran’s past work on nuclear weapons, which had never been disclosed to international inspectors or nuclear deal negotiators.
What else don't we know.
Too bad Iran's top nuclear weapons scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was just assassinated in an ambush.
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate’s Middle East subcommittee, said on Twitter that “this assassination does not make America, Israel or the world safer.” Huh???
Robert Malley, who served as Iran adviser to Obama and is advisor to Biden’s team, questions Fakhrizadeh’s killing, "One purpose is simply to inflict as much damage to Iran economically and to its nuclear program while they can, and the other could be to complicate President Biden’s ability to resume diplomacy and resume the nuclear deal”
Can anybody imagine, well I guess half the country can, what the Democrats would be doing if Trump had won and was doing the things Biden is doing?
Strong possibility you’d be seeing more Democrats dying from burst blood vessels than COVID.
Biden‘s climate policies cost more than they save.
The proposed changes essentially eliminate very low cost power sources for very high cost power sources meaning they significantly reduce the GDP in early years and only slightly increase GDP in late years.
Also, importantly, the changes make only a slight difference in what will be an increase in temperatures.
Some important changes would be to significantly increase R&D dollars and to fully back nuclear.
A great article https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/09/climate-economics.html
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Joe “leave no one behind” Biden
Afghan interpreter who helped rescue Biden in 2008 left behind after US exit
Lawmakers and media organizations are calling on the Biden administration to help get more than 500 government-funded media employees and their families out of Afghanistan, where they risk retribution from the Taliban for their affiliation with the U.S. government.
A State Department official said in a private ebriefing to reporters that “the majority” (10’s of thousands) of special immigrant visa applicants were left in Afghanistan due in part to the complications of the evacuation
Hundreds of American citizens left behind -US State Department
Not to mention the tens of billions of dollars of weapons left behind
SCOTUS doesn’t rule the Texas law is Constitutional. It actually followed precedent by not ruling on the law until there is a person with standing bringing a case. Ultimately the Supreme Court will find the Texas abortion law unconstitutional: “…we stress that we do not purport to resolve definitively any jurisdictional or substantive claim in the applicants’ lawsuit…this order is not based on any conclusion about the constitutionality of Texas’s law, and in no way limits other procedurally proper challenges…”
Turkey - This order concerns whether a court can enjoin the law before any final review on the merits. Any challenge to the law could be expedited on appeal.
The problem is that the challengers to the Texas law picked defendants (a state court judge and a court clerk) that do not enforce the law. Indeed, they appear virtually random.
I listened to “The Daily” (NYT) podcast about hurricane Ida. My heart goes out to the millions of people who are suffering and at risk due to the lack of air conditioning when it’s extremely hot and humid down there, lack of water, lack of food, and lack of gas.
However, there were two aspects that bothered me.
The first was the speaker’s us of the word “privileged” when comparing those who lived in areas or that had more resources that were better able to deal with the horrible conditions. Priviledge is defined as, “a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.”
I know of nothing in the US that prevents anyone from working harder, longer, smarter to better their position, other than any inherent limitations a individual has. I find it particularly unfair, and a threat to our country, when people claim that disparities in outcomes is primarily due to some undefined and unclear “privilege” rather than effort, self reliance, individual responsibility, and environment during developmental years.
The second point is that I can’t help but wonder how the New York Times along with the rest of the main stream media would be talking about the role of the government and the failure of the government to immediately resolve the problems and issues millions of people are suffering right now if there was a Republican president. Note this is not a criticism of Biden or the governments response. It is a criticism of the NYT’s and main stream media’s and complete hypocrisy.
Hmmm. Why is it that now using certain words like “birthing person” instead of “birthing mother” is more important than keeping our word “we will leave no one behind.”
AND given the price of something in infinite supply is its marginal cost of production,
HOW can anybody justify the current values of crypto currencies?
Not to mention that the transaction cost driven by the cost to validate transactions is not free. In fact this cost can be significant.
Another week and more lives lost. Until the Democrats stop propagating the false narrative nothing will change.
Black lives matter - I support the words but cannot support the organization because it propagates the false narrative that systemic racism is the primary cause of the disparities(incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.
Racism exists, it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it. Excess police force is bad and we should continue to work to reduce it.
BLM organization’s positions and policies do not address the problems (murders, fatherless households, teen pregnancy) and do not address the key root causes (it’s not excessive police force or systemic racism.)
Democrats continually say that they want everyone to pay their "fair share". The most recently available data on household income shows that there is already a very progressive Federal taxing of households with the bottom quintile of households paying zero tax and the richest households paying 46.2% of their income as tax. How much fairer do they want?
In fact, what would be unfair if somebody works a little harder, a little smarter or a little longer and makes a little more that they pay the same percent on the extra as everyone else. Wouldn't it be fair to treat everyone the same? Wouldn't it be better if everyone contributed (pay taxes) instead of developing an entire group of people that are not asked to contribute but at the same time are being promised more?
Military genius - abandoning your large, secure, easily defended airbase in order to use a small airport surrounded by a congested city that you have allowed your enemy, known terrorists, to surround.
Allies thoughts. London Telegraph
“A few days ago, the G7 met – not to agree any plan of action, but to beg Biden to hold the airport for a few days longer. He refused.
The integrity of Nato is certainly up for question now. Afghanistan was supposed to be a Nato mission but it was ended by Washington without involving any of the supposed allies.”
Washington Post - “Every stoning. Every beheading. Every terrorist act that is born in Afghanistan over the next many decades can be traced to the events of August 2021. When the Taliban attacked Forward Operating Base Chapman in March — violating the Doha agreement signed the year before — Biden chose not to abrogate the pact. This passive response was the only signal the Taliban needed. Biden unleashed the dogs of war by not fighting back, just in time for the spring fighting season.”
Lara Seligman - SCOOP: U.S. officials gave the Taliban a list of names of U.S. citizens, green card holders & Afghan allies to grant entry into the outer perimeter of the city’s airport, prompting outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials.
My Analogy
[Biden ]IS TO [Biden’s claims about his Afghanistan withdrawal]
AS
[A fireman starting a fire in an apartment] IS TO [that fireman bragging about saving 1/2 of the lives (ignoring the 1/2 that he killed)]
There’s no Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
We needed tens of thousands of troops and trillions of dollars to maintain the stalemate in Afghanistan
Nothing but respect from our allies
There’s no national interest in stopping Afghanistan from becoming a terrorist state again
We will protect women’s rights in Afghanistan
We planned for every contingency
Washington Post - This is a moral disaster, one attributable not to the actions of military and diplomatic personnel in Kabul — who have been courageous and professional, in the face of deadly dangers — but to mistakes, strategic and tactical, by Mr. Biden and his administration.
Biden not willing to enforce Trump’ agreement. He’s more than willing to abrogate Trump’s other policies and agreements.
Taliban violating key provisions: ceasefire;Afghan negotiations; not allow use of Afghanistan soil to threaten the US; and allow Afghans to seek asylum.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali “The recklessness of the Biden team continues to astound me. It really is as if they are deaf, dumb, and blind – ignoring not only what is happening on the ground in Afghanistan but also what has happened in multiple similar situations throughout history.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/28/joe-biden-deaf-dumb-blind-chaos-us-has-unleashed/
Allies thoughts. London Telegraph
“A few days ago, the G7 met – not to agree any plan of action, but to beg Biden to hold the airport for a few days longer. He refused.
The integrity of Nato is certainly up for question now. Afghanistan was supposed to be a Nato mission but it was ended by Washington without involving any of the supposed allies.”
BERNARD-HENRI LéVY - Worse than a crime, this is a mistake. And, worse than a mistake, it is a stain. A stain on the term of Joe Biden, whose first dramatic error this is. But also, in a greater sense, this stain dishonours the modern conscience. It will take a long time for that conscience to forget this failure, this shame.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/the-day-afghanistan-died/
It appears, hopefully, that the Delta wave may have peaked here in the US. Also, reassuringly, is that the UK, which opened up July 19th, does not appear to have run away hospitalizations or deaths.
Comment on vaccines. Vaccines are not force fields and do not stop the virus from entering your body. What the vaccines do is to have your adaptive immune system primed to fight the virus if/when it enters your body preventing you from experiencing symptoms or greatly reduce the morbidity and mortality of the virus.
Without random testing of representative populations, it is difficult to know for certain what is actually happening with the virus and vaccines in the population. It should not be a surprise, depending on the number and frequency of testing and the number of cycles used in the PCR amplification to detect virus or virus remnants in people, even with vaccination, if those people have been exposed to others with the virus (think Providence Rhode Island.)
Two movements
One was the BLM protests. Other was the Trump Protest. Which one looks more like an insurrection?
Over 70 million people voted for Trump. Tens of thousands of supporters went to Washington to support him on January 6. Thousands march to the capital. Hundreds broke into the capital. Tens had evil intent. This was wrong. It is condemned by all. It wasn’t a significant threat to our Democracy. It wasn’t an armed insurrection. The protesters did not kill anybody. [UPDATE August 20, 2021 - FBI concludes The events of January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol were not "the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, no evidence that President Trump or people directly around him were involved in organizing the violence]
There were over 1000 BLM riots in hundreds of cities, with repeated riots in multiple cities, causing billions of dollars of damage resulting in over 50 deaths
What f’ing idiots thought that Afghanistan could stand against the Taliban after we leave without air power?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/the-day-afghanistan-died/
Number 2Taliban leader is Haqqani-known Al Qaeda leader
Reuters November 2020 "The president{Trump) has acted appropriately in this, has never said: 'Hey, we're going to zero. Let's go tomorrow.' It has always been a conditions-based effort and that effort continues," the senior U.S. defense official said, without explicitly detailing future drawdown plans.
Pentagon Chief Says Hopes Fading for More Open Taliban Government in Afghanistan
June 6 2021 NBC News-Without the contractors' help, Afghan forces will no longer be able to keep dozens of fighter planes, cargo aircraft, U.S.-made helicopters and drones flying for more than a few more months, according to military experts and a recent Defense Department inspector general's report.
July 24th - Forbes “The United States has said it will provide Afghanistan’s military with “over-the-horizon” air support after completing its troop withdrawal from the country. How it can do so with the significant number of potential constraints that may soon emerge, however, isn’t all that clear.” But the official, speaking after the calls with allies, suggested that Trump would not push a withdrawal faster than conditions on the ground allow.
U.S. and Afghan officials are warning of troubling levels of violence by Taliban insurgents and persistent Taliban links to al Qaeda.
WSJ Aug 14 KABUL—The Afghan government outpost in Imam Sahib, a district of northern Kunduz province, held out for two months after being surrounded by the Taliban. At first, elite commando units would come once a week on a resupply run. Then, these runs became more scarce, as did the supplies.
https://twitter.com/saeedshah/status/1425861403089453062?s=21
https://twitter.com/julianroepcke/status/1425751441629716485?s=21
US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will not aid any Israeli counterattack on Iran , US media report,...
