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August 31, 2021

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15 comments:

Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Very nicely framed. Beautiful shot.; 8/31/21, 5:25 PM
Francisco D said...: I understand from Sleepy Joe's speech that his Afghanistan withdrawal was "an extraordinary success", but any problems were Trumps' fault.

I am wondering what people think about Joe's extraordinary empathy as demonstrated by repeatedly looking at his watch as the Marine caskets were delivered. He apparently had more important things to attend to, such as his evening nap.; 8/31/21, 6:47 PM
cubanbob said...: I fervently hope real audits are done of the 2020 election ballots. More important than making visible the fraud and corruption but for the restoration of the assumption that the average American voter isn't completely brain dead stupid and a gimme dat.; 8/31/21, 7:03 PM
Skeptical Voter said...: It's a good day to think about the natural world around us; right now the political world doesn't offer a lot of joy. But it was also a good day to order a couple of things through our host's Amazon portal.; 8/31/21, 7:34 PM
Gospace said...: The West, well, the rest of the world, has been at war with islam since the 7th century. Our role in Afghanistan before the disastrous withdrawal is but a small part of it. Once in a while the USA has a role in the front lines of the war. The Barbary Wars were our first foray against islam, to stop their brazen piracy of our merchant ships.

It is pretty well documented that islam, established anywhere, when it gets to a big enough percentage of the population to start wielding power, starts wielding it to establish the full range of sharia.

There are a few ways the war of islam against the world ends. One is- they win, we surrender. That won't happen in my lifetime. Then- they'll start fighting each other to establish the true islam.

Another is- the rest of the world gets together and commits genocide on grand scale, killing every imam, caliph, ayatollah, muezzin, and any other identified islamic leader, razes Mecca, Isfahan, Medina, all other cities of importance in islam, and plows into the ground every mosque, religious school, and cultural center of islam, and establishes the death penalty for anyone who is found to practice or preach islam.

Or, the least likely way, islam could undergo a massive reformation, and compete equally for believers, without threatening death for non-believers. If you think that's likely, you're living in a dream world or alternate reality.

islam pushes out when it's strong, retreats when it's weak. That's been it's history since starting up. As long as they stay confined to the current boundaries of sharialand, the rest of the world, today, ignores them. Except for buying raw materials from them- like oil. Sharialand doesn't actually produce any manufactured goods. Legal ones, anyway. Afghanistan is known for it's poppy fields and heroin. Afghanistan my soon become another rare earth source- by virtue of Chinese mining. Raw materials.; 8/31/21, 8:01 PM
DanTheMan said...: I just watched Biden's speech.

Today:
Apparently, our evacuation was a brilliant success, one of the all time great events in military history.

Yesterday:
This disaster is all Trump's fault. We were forced to follow his plan.

Does somebody want to make an attempt to square this circle?; 8/31/21, 9:11 PM
Achilles said...: Michael Moore is right.

We do have a domestic taliban.

Joe Biden is a rapist and likes them young. Just like his son who is on tape with underage girls.

Fits a pattern.; 8/31/21, 9:35 PM
Another old lawyer said...: My wife and I drove through Madison today, and stopped at the university's bookstore for some Bucky Badger merchandise. I don't know why but my wife loves the stuff even though neither of us have any connection to the school other than going through Madison on a couple of vacations.

And I may have driven down a street that was closed to pedestrian traffic only . . . In my defense, if I had actually done that today, seems like last time I was in Madison, it was open to autos.; 8/31/21, 10:04 PM
DanTheMan said...: >>More important than making visible the fraud and corruption but for the restoration of the assumption that the average American voter isn't completely brain dead stupid

Facts don't matter. Evidence does not matter. Audits, ballots, and counts don't matter.
Election officials could admit in signed and sworn statements that they stole the election. They could certify that Biden won 200% of the votes cast.

And nothing would happen.

Because the Party of More Government has merged with the government, and each protects the other.; 8/31/21, 10:26 PM
walter said...: As of May 14, 2021, the FDA has expanded eligibility criteria for mAb treatment.
Per each EUA, high risk for all patients older than 12 years is now defined as meeting at least one of the following criteria:
Older age (for example aged 65 years or older)
Obesity or being overweight (for example, (for example, adults with BMI greater than 25 kg/m2, or if age 12-17, have BMI greater than or equal to 85th percentile for their age and gender based on CDC growth charts.
Pregnancy
Chronic kidney disease
Diabetes
Immunosuppressive disease or immunosuppressive treatment
--

Hmm..perhaps I can identify as pregnant, if I go to UW Hospital.
Otherwise, I'm too healthy. But simultaneously flirting with death if unwilling to endure gene therapy.; 8/31/21, 10:26 PM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: Was archiving some of Ms. Gritzkofe's artwork yesterday, which included a series of pre-Columbian deities. A question occurred: why do Pagan Pantheons commonly include a Goddess of Fertility, but rarely a God of Potency?; 9/1/21, 5:26 AM
tim maguire said...: Gospace said...Or, the least likely way, islam could undergo a massive reformation, and compete equally for believers, without threatening death for non-believers. If you think that's likely, you're living in a dream world or alternate reality.

I agree with your three possibilities, and that any discussion is academic as there will be no significant movement in our lifetimes, but I consider this the most likely scenario, not the least. As with the usual path for viruses, the natural tendency is to become more transmissible but less deadly. It’s what happened with Christianity and I see no reason to think it won’t happen with Islam. (Many millions of muslims living in non-muslim societies are happy with how things are and have no more wish to live in a theocracy than you or I do.)

Islam may need a reformation. In fact, it may already be in one (as you note—they are fighting over “true Islam”). For all the chaos they inflict on us, they inflict far more on their own. As with Christianity, eventually enough people will get tired of the violence that they will stop using so much of it.; 9/1/21, 5:40 AM
gilbar said...: Achilles said...
Joe Biden is a rapist and likes them young.

Well, when someone MARRIES THEIR BABYSITTER, you kinda have to expect it

Fun Fact Check Fact... If you look online, fact checkers will tell you this is FALSE
And their justification is: "According to the Bidens, this is false"
They Also say "According to Media Accounts", which means; Fact Checkers quoting Other Fact Checkers; 9/1/21, 6:49 AM
wendybar said...: ISN'T this impeachable??? It would have been if Trump were President. "According to a transcript of a July 23rd call that Biden had with former Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani that has been obtained by Reuters, Biden tried to pressure Ghani to change the “perception” of what was going on – which was that the Taliban was quickly taking over large swaths of the country and had by July taken much of the country. So he had cause to know that things weren’t as rosy as he was saying in July to the American people. Biden wanted Ghani to change that perception and suggest that wasn’t the case “whether it is true or not,” he allegedly told Ghani."https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/08/31/theres-that-impeachable-call-biden-pressured-ghani-to-create-perception-that-they-were-beating-taliban-n436289; 9/1/21, 6:56 AM
Drago said...: And now more "courageous" covering up of pro-marxist LLR Chuck's Beloved Installed *"president"/democraticals performance by the complete scrubbing from government websites information and data on Dementia Boys massive weapons giveaway to the terrorist taliban.

This follows a 50 year pattern of Dementia Boy gleefully rewarding our enemies, particularly islamic supremacist enemies, while drectly attacking our actual real allies.; 9/1/21, 10:08 AM