down the road a bit, we have a neighbor who has lost her hubby, 2 kids, 3 sisters and a brother..

She has a little bit of trouble getting around so my wife has taken her shopping each week for a couple of years.. While a passenger in wife car, it got totaled back in 2018, she never knew they had been in an accident..

But as things tends to do, she got some other problems with her eye, she got an "ulcer" in her right eye, it burst and the decided to remove it.. after waiting for over a month for the occasion, last Friday she got the surgery and they removed her eye. as an out patient.

Living just down the road and only a son to tend her a bit. My wife has gone up and cked on her and talked with her.. said the old gal is grumpy and in a bad mood but other wise claims to be OK..

today the wife went to her quilting group at the church and got 3 quilts done and gone.. they only "tie" the quilts wh**ever that is.. these are Freedom Quilts, while I do not think many are used in the ME, they are sent by the 1000s to all sorts of groups, but mostly military and refugees. been doing so for years and just got back on track last march or so..

But she stopped to see her friend and the old lady who eye was removed last Friday, insisted she bring home a cake for being such a helper to her... this old lady is 94 years old... what a brave lady she is..

You are absolutely correct Platoon Leader. In a perfect World you would be an excellent liaison between our nation’s interests and securing rights from the host country.
An excellent starting point would be Venezuela. We target the corrupt; install good people; try our best to assist them in destroying the drug trade. Secure oil, gold, … mineral Contracts. Treat the people well. And then leave. Our nation needs to ‘win the hearts & minds’ of other nations By treating them well, Not as plundering colonial powers did.
Business makes the World go-round. As a side note- we show no mercy/ give No quarter to terrorists, despots, predatory bankers… etc

This is a Veteran’s stance on Afghanistan.
1) there are three reasons why powerful ‘outsiders’ intervene in the affairs of Afghanistan: (a) all warfare enriches the so-called Military/ Industrial /CONgressional/ Banking cartel Complex
(B) warfare trims down the population of ‘potential’ Revolutionaries( aka- young men) ; (c) the invading mega-power, that is Russia and the U. S. had hoped to ‘win’ to gain the Trillion dollar assets in “Rare Earth Minerals,” the Lithium deposits, and Copper and ……
2) it didn’t work for Russia. Nor the U.S.
3)is it all Bush’s fault? Obama’s fault ? Trump’s fault ? Biden’s fault ? They were all puppets of the So-called NWO ( New World Disorder).
Unless we , or any superPower k**l off the majority of Moslem MEN there will NEVER be any freedom for Moslem women. No Moslem country will Ever be Westernized the way we expect.
4) THAT is Why our US trained and equipped Afghan Army folded and welcomed in the taliban. They are all the same. A few Western-thinking police fought the Taliban; the British SAS are still fighting them, but not the Americans.
Biden/ Harris/Pelosi/ Schumer/ Schiff /Reid and others, as well as turncoat generals should all be tried and convicted of Treason.
5) now ‘guess who’ is going to reap the benefits? Yep, anti-Moslem China. They have the most modern mining technology and it will earn them (and terrorists) billions upon billions.
6) what could and should the US have done ? Make contracts with whomever we invade. We say “we k**l your terrorists; we build Airports; we build roads; Schools; hospitals; and you let us mine lithium; drill for oil; mine copper. We get the product ‘TO OFFSET THE COSTS OF THIS PROTRACTED WAR, and nation-building.”
Thank you. Nice doing war/ business with you.

All trump supporters should be very, very concerned that trump is slipping into severe mental disease.

Read his words about getting civilians out, then the equipment, then Blow the hell out of the bases, and then, and only then to remove the military.

Sounds like a crazy person




https://www.rawstory.com/trump-afghanistan-2654726682/



Former President Donald Trump on Thursday put out a new statement on Afghanistan that appeared to call for bombing American forces.


Via reporter Andrew Feinberg, Trump attempted to state the order of operations for how things would have gone down in Afghanistan if he were still commander-in-chief of America's armed forces.

"First you bring out all of the American citizens," Trump wrote. "Then you bring out ALL equipment. Then you bomb the bases into smithereens -- AND THEN YOU BRING OUT THE MILITARY."

Trump concluded his statement by saying that "you don't do it in reverse order like Biden and our woke Generals did."




But Twitter users noted that Trump appeared to be calling for the military to bomb U.S. bases before American troops were moved offsite.

So trump ran his yap and announced he was getting out of Afghanistan, which is what everyone wanted. Too bad the orange clown and his sock puppet pompeo had no plans to do anything.

Consider this, the orange buffoon is now yapping that he would have all equipment removed from A-stan, Bust as of December 2020, not a single piece of equipment had been removed. A detail the two lying buffoons must have overlooked in their 5/31/21 timeline

More evidence of the trump failures. When he took office, there were 15,000 troops in country. By the end of 2020, there were only 2500. And nobody from the trump lying cabal will even mention how many of the 2500 were actual 'combat troops'. And even a junior officer knows that the ration of support troops to combat troops ranges from 5-1 to 7-1. So in reality, those 2500 troops on the ground could do very little in an emergency.

Of course there were the air assets, but contractors were providing the maintenance

So for all of the yapping by the rightwing media types, the facts are trump screwed up and dumped the mess on President Biden.



https://www.politicususa.com/2021/08/17/joe-biden-is-cleaning-up-donald-trumps-mess-in-afghanistan.html

With 300,000 employees, CVS now recognizes to value of hiring and retaining employees. And will raise wages to 15/hour by nest summer.

Market forces and capitalism at work. And of course some prices will increase, so all of the whining, crying conservatives who h**e inflation will have to find another pharmacy to shop at.

Perhaps bubbas redneck discount drug will be happy to fill their scripts and pass out trump recommended theraputics.



https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/business/cvs-minimum-wage/index.html

To all. Your personal encounters are all heart warming, but I think the author of this thread was referring in generalities. Indeed, he provided statistics which are verifiable. When you stop being egocentric and look at the statistics as a whole...can you justify the numbers? The real question is, what would happen if all b****s in the USA were raptured tonight? How would the overall fabric of our nation and our nature change; prisons, homelessness, a******ns, or criminal activities? Would there be a vacuum that would be immediately backfilled by non-b****s? Look at nations that are primarily white, such as Poland. Poland's crime rate is 0.73. How does that measure up to predominantly black nations outside of Africa. Crime rate of Dominican Republic is over 11 percent. Taking this as a measure, would crime decline if all of a sudden the b****s 'disappeared', 'relocated', or 'raptured' by JC?

WHAT IF ALL B****S SUDDENLY LEFT AMERICA, WHICH IS 12.9% OF THE TOTAL US POPULATION:


The prison population would go down by 34%.


There would be 35.3% fewer gang members.


The obesity percentage would drop 49.6%.


Average SAT scores would go up almost 100 points.


Average ACT scores would go up 5.5 points.


AIDS & HIV would go down by 65%.


Chlamydia cases would go down 54%.


Gonorrhea would go down 69%.


Syphilis would go down 58%.


Homelessness would go down 57%.


Welfare recipients would go down by 42%.


DEMOCRATS WOULD LOSE 76% OF THEIR V****G BASE.


And many criminal defense attorneys would have to go into real estate law.


So, you see,
Black Lives Do Matter!