No, dummy. The real threat is people like you who try to turn every single issue to your political advantage.
We have had and we still have racial problems in this country, and they must be faced and ameliorated, a fact that cannot be blamed for what happened yesterday.
JAMES SAID: All you have to do is watch the video and see how a President of the United States SHOULD respond to this sort of disaster.
CH"TRUTH" SAID: Reverend... With all due respect the speech was a flop by all accounts and he even made the mistake of telling Americans that as President he is being "instructed" as to which media members to call on.
But if you really want to see how this particular President has handled this crisis... you don't watch a speech.
You watch the news of 13 dead American soldiers and at least a 100 civilians. You look at the video of the bombs going off. You look at the pictures of the dead and injured.
That, Reverend is what this President is responsible for.
His speech? Who the fuck cares about a speech. If it was your wife dead because of this President absolute incompetence I hope to got you love her enough not to have been appeased by a half assed teleprompter fucking speech.
But thanks for proving that you can miss the point no matter what.
August 27, 2021 at 8:11 AM
JAMES SAID: Thanks for showing us again that you do not understand what American greatness really is. August 27, 2021 at 8:14 AM
CH"TRUTH" SAID: Reality: Over a hundred people are dead (including 13 dead American soldiers) in a terrorist attack made possible because of possibly the most completely botched military withdrawal in American history.
The Reverend: Well that's okay. The President gave a 30 minute speech so everything is good.
What a fucking brain dead tone deaf idiot!
JAMES SAID: When Ch has to resort to the f word, it is obvious he is wounded.
The speech did not make "everything good." But it did bring focus and understanding and even solace to many who needed it.
Flags are now at half mast, and they are fluttering in our hearts for heroes who this President would never call suckers and losers.
August 27, 2021 at 8:21 AM
JAMES ADDED: The speech also fittingly strengthend our resolve.
Did James just expose himself as being more concerned with name calling than heroes getting killed?
This is all on Biden. Even we know that you evacuate the military last, not first. This is incompetence on steroids. Trump was an ass. But he got the job done the right way.
I will forever be reminded of a President who said he preferred heroes who did not get killed or captured, and he said that both in reference to one of our greatest captured prisoners of the Vietnam war and of other heroes killed in WWI, whom he called suckers and losers.
My 102 year old WWII bomber pilot fifty-one missions veteran uncaptured hero father told me that the McGovern slam was the moment when he lost all respect forever for Trump.
With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News.
Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time, or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch, inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport.
The Pineapple Express' mission was underway Thursday when the attack occurred in Kabul. Two suicide bombers believed to have been ISIS fighters killed at least 13 U.S. service members -- 10 U.S. Marines, a Navy corpsman, an Army soldier and another service member -- and wounded 15 other service members, according to U.S. officials.
MORE: US special operations forces race to save former Afghan comrades in jeopardy There were wounded among the Pineapple Express travelers from the blast, and members of the group said they were assessing whether unaccounted-for Afghans they were helping had been killed.
As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets and enablers and their families into the airport in Kabul overnight, handing them each over to the protective custody of the U.S. military.
Special Opts Veterans, surrounded by hostile forces, without support of their country, has managed to rescue 500 Afghans Allies and their families who were sure to be executed by the Taliban.
This is the real America James. Not the socialist "paradise" in your dreams.
Meanwhile, Biden gave the Taliban a kill list of Afghans who helped the US.
Biden is a coward and represents the very worse in the American intelligentsia.
On day of bombings, over 12K evacuated The White House on Friday morning released the latest numbers on of Kabul airport evacuations. From about noon Thursday to noon Friday, Afghanistan time, approximately 12,500 people were evacuated. They left the country on 35 U.S. military flights, carrying 8,500 people, and 54 coalition flights, holding 4,000 people.
Evacuations resumed Thursday following the ISIS-K suicide blasts outside the airport that killed dozens of people.
That brings the total evacuated by the U.S. directly or with U.S. help to 105,000 people in the last 13 days.
– Katie Wadington
Obama 'heartbroken' over bombing Former President Barack Obama offered his condolences to the families of service members killed Thursday in bombings in Afghanistan, saying he and former first lady Michelle Obama are "heartbroken."
"As president, nothing was more painful than grieving with the loved ones of Americans who gave their lives serving our country," Obama said. "As President Biden said, these service members are heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others. Our hearts go out to the families who lost a loved one, and to everyone continuing the mission in Kabul."
Obama also expressed his sympathy for families of Afghans killed, "many of whom stood by America and were willing to risk everything for a chance at a better life."
Scott Johnson has become a victim of QAnon movement anti CRT movement who fear replacement culture movement.
We also had a president who called our heroes suckers and losers.
No, we had a lying media who said he said that when the cemetery visit was cancelled due to weather... but all four people who was there in Paris with Trump denied it was ever said.
But there are suckers and losers who believe everything they read.
We watched the Biden disaster of a speech last night first hand. I am not criticizing him based on made up media lies from weak anonymous sources from suckers and losers who apparently don't have the guts to stand up and tell their lies openly.
Sorry Reverend.
Dead American Marines!
And you want to talk about fucking Trump and stupid fake news stories???
The eightyone million Americans who voted for this man whom you already hated so much will decide what kind of country we really want, one for the rich, or one for everyone.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
My bad mood right now is because of the dead marines and total chaos in Afghanistan and the fact that according to just about everyone with a pulse we are going to be leaving Americans behind in a terrorist state because our leadership is incompetent.
People like you who believe that Biden was a great President yesterday and showed true leadership last night as Marines died because of his decisions and lack of planning... yeah, you make me sick to my stomach.
BUt it's certainly not because you are going to win any arguments with me that Biden has done well in ANY of this. You will only continue to make me sick to my stomach for demanding that the events of yesterday was about great leadership.
Trump also denied he called McGovern a loser, but we have that on video.
The eighty-one million Americans who voted for this man whom you already hated so much will decide what kind of country we really want, one for the rich, or one for everyone.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
I will forever be reminded of a President who said he preferred heroes who did not get killed or captured,
He prefers live heroes coming home to their families instead of a body bag and unimaginable grief for their families.
As for capture prisoners of war, it is a relatively recent development that the media drummed them up as heroes. They weren't considered heroes from the Revolutionary War through Korea.
It was only since Vietnam were they considered heroes. (And solders are embarrassed.There is nothing heroic about getting capture.)
The so called kill list was an agreement with the Taliban militants to allow Afghanistan civilians to immigrants access to the immigration system, that has tens of thousands of Afghans access to places in Germany, where they are being vetted by the German government with the support of the United States.
They have so many people, that France and Italy have been opening similar places.
The President had negotiated with the Taliban, and so far they have cooperated with the United States and our allies .
The right wing media websites have distorted this story..
This column appeared in our local paper this morning, and online as follows:
editor's pick FROM THE PULPIT The prophet John the Baptist was confused
JIM BOSWELL For the Pantagraph 4 hrs ago
THE prophet John the Baptist was confused. He had predicted that a “mighty one” soon would come who would “separate the wheat from the chaff,” the good people from the bad, in order to gather the good into “his barn” while the chaff, the bad, he would burn “with unquenchable fire.”
Later, after John was arrested and imprisoned near the Dead Sea, he began hearing about Jesus’ activities up in Galilee, and so he sent two of his followers to ask Jesus, “Are you the one who is to come, or must we wait for someone else?”
In other words, John was asking, Are you – or will you yet become – the mighty one I predicted?
Jesus answered by saying neither “yes” or “no,” but by instructing John’s followers to return and tell John about the wonderful things they had seen Jesus doing – how he was healing and helping people and bringing good news to the oppressed. And then Jesus added, as a kind of warning, “And blessed is anyone who is not offended by me.”
What a strange thing to say! Who could possibly be offended by all the good things Jesus was doing?
And yet some people were, because Jesus was not doing what John had said the mighty one would do. He was not separating good people from bad, wheat from chaff, by gathering the good into safety while casting the bad, the chaff, into eternal fire. Instead, Jesus was sitting at table and eating with the chaff, the rejected and despised, the outcasts, the “sinners” – eating with them, accepting them, loving them. And the religious leaders of his time found this action so unacceptable and so offensive that they called Jesus “a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of sinners” – which was a way of saying that he was a reprobate so despicable that he deserved death by stoning (Luke 7:21; see Deuteronomy 21:18-21)!
Clearly, Jesus practiced a love so radically inclusive that the society of his time could not allow it, and ended up killing him. And if Jesus were here among us today, who would he now seek out to sit with at table? Who among the excluded would Jesus include, associate with – and love?
What rejected people would he now accept? What despised people would he value? What outcast people would he invite? What unacceptable people would he embrace? ________
Boswell, a retired pastor of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in Normal, can be reached through Jesus Laid Bare at youtube.com.
The so called kill list was an agreement with the Taliban militants to allow Afghanistan civilians to immigrants access to the immigration system, that has tens of thousands of Afghans access to places in Germany, where they are being vetted by the Germa
They gave names for the Taliban to hunt them down.
'Scary week' ahead in DC as Jan. 6 rally planned and 9/11 anniversary brings new terror risks
Travis Gettys
August 27, 2021
A Capitol Police officer stands guard in front of the US Capitol Building, on June 14, 2017 (AFP)
Lawmakers and law enforcement officials are increasingly worried about upcoming rallies to support jailed insurrectionists and to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Sources told CNN that discussions were underway to reinstall temporary fencing around the U.S. Capitol's perimeter ahead of the "Justice for J6" rally planned for Sept. 18, and a Capitol police memo warned "violent altercations" may be possible, and a Homeland Security bulletin showed heightened terrorism risks around the 9/11 anniversary.
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"It's a scary week," said one former intelligence officer. "It's a week from hell for DHS, for the ATF, for the FBI, for DOD and for the intelligence community."
A bomb scare last week reminded those who work on Capitol Hill of the ongoing threat posed by the Jan. 6 insurrection, although Republicans downplayed those risks and questioned the need for additional fortification. -----
If there are violent incidents, they will not be Muslims, they will be angry white supremacist like the people who invaded the Capitol building on January 6th.
The Reverend truly believes that Biden exhibited "greatness" yesterday. His explanation will be that Biden gave a speech. He will cut and paste the speech again and put the parts he really thought were special in bold.
Apparently being President is not about the execution of day to day responsibilities as Commander in Chief or anything like that. He just needs to give speeches when speeches are expected. The fact that we heard nothing from him until last night on a day when 13 American soldiers were killed and he couldn't be bothered to show up on time for this most important speech makes no never-mind to the Reverend.
Nor does the fact that almost everyone who watched the speech saw is as lackluster, missing in empathy, and devoid of any attempts to take responsibility or provide any plans to correct the course. He just had to say what ANY President would say (he will go after the terrorists, he is sad, etc) and that made him...
At least Trump has a valid medical waver. And it was valid. Physician are ethically bound (and legally bound in most states) to keep accurate medical records for each patient they see. This includes any recording treatment given related to the condition.
To say that Trump got a Physician to issue a fake waver is absurd.
U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport, a choice that's prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials.
The move, detailed to POLITICO by three U.S. and congressional officials, was designed to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan as chaos erupted in Afghanistan’s capital city last week after the Taliban seized control of the country. It also came as the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security outside the airport.
In actual fact, it was a horrible speech that did nothing to instill confidence in the American public and went quite a long way towards convincing people (as if they needed convincing) that Biden is physically and mentally unable to be president and is little more than a puppet who has to be stage managed.
The so called kill list was an agreement with the Taliban militants to allow Afghanistan civilians to immigrants access to the immigration system, that has tens of thousands of Afghans access to places in Germany, where they are being vetted by the German government with the support of the United States.
They have so many people, that France and Italy have been opening similar places.
The President had negotiated with the Taliban, and so far they have cooperated with the United States and our allies .
The right wing media websites like the Pjmedia etc. have distorted this story..
Aug. 27, 2021, 3:02 AM PDT / Updated Aug. 27, 2021, 7:09 AM PDT By Ahmed Mengli and Rhea Mogul KABUL, Afghanistan — Crowds returned to Kabul's airport Friday in an increasingly desperate attempt to escape the country a day after suicide bombings killed more than 100 civilians and 13 U.S. service members.
Evacuation flights resumed with fresh urgency as U.S. forces braced for more attacks ahead of President Joe Biden's deadline on Tuesday to withdraw from the country.
America's longest war will soon end in the shadow of Thursday's blasts, which targeted U.S. troops and the thousands of civilians seeking to flee the Taliban's takeover.
By early Friday the number of civilians killed had grown to 113, according to an unnamed Afghan Health Ministry source. At least 180 people were injured.
Afghan Health Ministry reports at least 113 killed, 180 injured in Kabul airport attack The Islamic State terror group's Afghan affiliate, ISIS-K, claimed responsibility for the "martyrdom attack" outside Kabul airport, which involved two suicide bombers who detonated explosive belts at a gate and a nearby hotel.
Video taken in the aftermath showed civilian bodies in a sewage ditch, their efforts to escape a militant group's rule destroyed by a far more radical terror group.
Dayum funny how the rat, who supported Trump whose every word coming out his mouth was either a lie or bullshit calls everything reported as lies!!!!!!! Why is that???? PJ Media?????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Scott it was extremely dangerous forces that killed 13 Americans soldiers. Not angry white guys.
The terrorist group behind the Kabul suicide bombing Thursday that killed U.S. Marines and dozens of others and derailed the ongoing Afghan evacuation is a competitor of the Taliban — and even more extreme.
The Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K, is the Afghan offshoot of the Islamic State terror group, which publicly beheaded foreign journalists and inflicted brutalities on captured Kurds and others in Iraq and Syria.
“They have a higher proclivity to target civilians they regard as infidels,” Seth G. Jones, a counterterrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said of ISIS-K.
They were actually acting like rrb when he says that James and I and the Democrats are traitors.
And the ISIS-K attack wasn’t just aimed at the Americans, it was also meant to embarrass the Taliban, the experts said.
“This attack will look bad to the West, but it makes the Taliban look as if they are not in control of their own environment,” said Raffaello Pantucci, senior fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. “It undermines the idea that they rule this place.”
And there's a big part of the problem. All these "experts" from their perch in the peanut gallery, with absolutely nothing at stake, have royally fucked this up.
senior fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
The architecture of the hasty U.S. withdrawal and the inevitable deadly chaos that has followed was constructed by the previous commander in chief.
The rushed evacuation and its vulnerability to Thursday’s deplorable attack were inevitable outcomes of the rapid collapse of the Afghan government. But while Biden does, indeed, hold his share of responsibility for that collapse, he wasn’t inaccurate when he pointed out in his news conference Thursday that the architecture of the hasty U.S. withdrawal and the inevitable deadly chaos that has followed was constructed by the previous commander in chief. Indeed, if there was ever a chance for a more orderly U.S. exit — and to be clear, that’s far from certain — one of Biden’s biggest mistakes might have been to adhere to the deal former President Donald Trump made with the Taliban rather than set his own terms and timeline.
Want more articles like this? Follow THINK on Instagram to get updates on the week's most important political analysis We need only rewind to February 2020, when the Trump administration signed the Doha agreement with the Taliban, in which the U.S. pledged to withdraw all U.S. and NATO forces by May 1, 2021, in exchange for the Taliban’s ceasing attacks on U.S. forces, forsaking ties to groups like Al Qaeda and agreeing to hold peace negotiations with the Afghan government, which then still controlled most of the country even though it was increasingly losing ground to the Taliban.
Those who pushed Biden to leave Afghanistan need to admit their part in this tragedy.
The Doha negotiations didn’t include the Afghan government — supposedly our partners in fighting the Taliban and terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, the group better known as ISIS — and the deal that resulted was widely recognized as having thrown our allies under the bus, as the Taliban were free to carry on fighting the Afghan army as long as they didn’t attack U.S. forces.
The Taliban proceeded to do just that, going on the offensive in March 2020 while repeatedly spurning or walking out on the Afghan government’s attempts to negotiate a power-sharing agreement. As the government’s sway diminished, the agreement gave the Taliban new legitimacy, making it harder to dissuade them from pursuing a total military victory in place of some accommodation with the government. In other words, it was immediately clear to all observers that the treaty comprehensively removed incentives for the Taliban to compromise.
Pentagon confirms 12 U.S. service members killed, 15 injured in attack at Kabul airport In another slap in the face — and a further destabilization of the already volatile scene — the Trump administration coerced the understandably angry Afghan government into releasing 5,000 Taliban prisoners a year ago, including 400 convicted of serious crimes, such as murder. This move was designed to appease Taliban peace negotiators, but it failed to yield more diplomatic concessions. Instead, many of the released fighters promptly reinforced Taliban forces in the field as they steadily gnawed away at the Afghan army, no doubt contributing to the unexpected speed of the Taliban’s swift recapture of the country.
Ironically, the Taliban then committed a similar error when they began to reclaim power in recent days. Two Taliban leaders told NBC News that the group’s “biggest blunder” was releasing prisoners from jails as they swept across Afghanistan..
The people who were released, committed the bombing that killed 13 American soldiers.
Setting hard deadlines was important to Trump — and then Biden for domestic political reasons, of course — but the looming certainty of American withdrawal made it easy for the Taliban to bribe demoralized Afghan commanders into surrendering without a fight, facilitating the Taliban’s rapid advance.
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No, dummy. The real threat is people like you who try to turn every single issue to your political advantage.
We have had and we still have racial problems in this country, and they must be faced and ameliorated, a fact that cannot be blamed for what happened yesterday.
Get a brain.
We also had a president who called our heroes suckers and losers.
JAMES SAID:
All you have to do is watch the video and see how a President of the United States SHOULD respond to this sort of disaster.
CH"TRUTH" SAID:
Reverend...
With all due respect the speech was a flop by all accounts and he even made the mistake of telling Americans that as President he is being "instructed" as to which media members to call on.
But if you really want to see how this particular President has handled this crisis... you don't watch a speech.
You watch the news of 13 dead American soldiers and at least a 100 civilians. You look at the video of the bombs going off. You look at the pictures of the dead and injured.
That, Reverend is what this President is responsible for.
His speech? Who the fuck cares about a speech. If it was your wife dead because of this President absolute incompetence I hope to got you love her enough not to have been appeased by a half assed teleprompter fucking speech.
But thanks for proving that you can miss the point no matter what.
August 27, 2021 at 8:11 AM
JAMES SAID:
Thanks for showing us again that you do not understand what American greatness really is.
August 27, 2021 at 8:14 AM
CH"TRUTH" SAID:
Reality: Over a hundred people are dead (including 13 dead American soldiers) in a terrorist attack made possible because of possibly the most completely botched military withdrawal in American history.
The Reverend: Well that's okay. The President gave a 30 minute speech so everything is good.
What a fucking brain dead tone deaf idiot!
JAMES SAID:
When Ch has to resort to the f word, it is obvious he is wounded.
The speech did not make "everything good." But it did bring focus and understanding and even solace to many who needed it.
Flags are now at half mast, and they are fluttering in our hearts for heroes who this President would never call suckers and losers.
August 27, 2021 at 8:21 AM
JAMES ADDED:
The speech also fittingly strengthend our resolve.
Did James just expose himself as being more concerned with name calling than heroes getting killed?
This is all on Biden. Even we know that you evacuate the military last, not first. This is incompetence on steroids. Trump was an ass. But he got the job done the right way.
I will forever be reminded of a President who said he preferred heroes who did not get killed or captured, and he said that both in reference to one of our greatest captured prisoners of the Vietnam war and of other heroes killed in WWI, whom he called suckers and losers.
My 102 year old WWII bomber pilot fifty-one missions veteran uncaptured hero father told me that the McGovern slam was the moment when he lost all respect forever for Trump.
US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies
With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News.
Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time, or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch, inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport.
The Pineapple Express' mission was underway Thursday when the attack occurred in Kabul. Two suicide bombers believed to have been ISIS fighters killed at least 13 U.S. service members -- 10 U.S. Marines, a Navy corpsman, an Army soldier and another service member -- and wounded 15 other service members, according to U.S. officials.
MORE: US special operations forces race to save former Afghan comrades in jeopardy
There were wounded among the Pineapple Express travelers from the blast, and members of the group said they were assessing whether unaccounted-for Afghans they were helping had been killed.
As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets and enablers and their families into the airport in Kabul overnight, handing them each over to the protective custody of the U.S. military.
Special Opts Veterans, surrounded by hostile forces, without support of their country, has managed to rescue 500 Afghans Allies and their families who were sure to be executed by the Taliban.
This is the real America James. Not the socialist "paradise" in your dreams.
Meanwhile, Biden gave the Taliban a kill list of Afghans who helped the US.
Biden is a coward and represents the very worse in the American intelligentsia.
On day of bombings, over 12K evacuated
The White House on Friday morning released the latest numbers on of Kabul airport evacuations. From about noon Thursday to noon Friday, Afghanistan time, approximately 12,500 people were evacuated. They left the country on 35 U.S. military flights, carrying 8,500 people, and 54 coalition flights, holding 4,000 people.
Evacuations resumed Thursday following the ISIS-K suicide blasts outside the airport that killed dozens of people.
That brings the total evacuated by the U.S. directly or with U.S. help to 105,000 people in the last 13 days.
– Katie Wadington
Obama 'heartbroken' over bombing
Former President Barack Obama offered his condolences to the families of service members killed Thursday in bombings in Afghanistan, saying he and former first lady Michelle Obama are "heartbroken."
"As president, nothing was more painful than grieving with the loved ones of Americans who gave their lives serving our country," Obama said. "As President Biden said, these service members are heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others. Our hearts go out to the families who lost a loved one, and to everyone continuing the mission in Kabul."
Obama also expressed his sympathy for families of Afghans killed, "many of whom stood by America and were willing to risk everything for a chance at a better life."
Scott Johnson has become a victim of QAnon movement anti CRT movement who fear replacement culture movement.
We also had a president who called our heroes suckers and losers.
No, we had a lying media who said he said that when the cemetery visit was cancelled due to weather... but all four people who was there in Paris with Trump denied it was ever said.
But there are suckers and losers who believe everything they read.
We watched the Biden disaster of a speech last night first hand. I am not criticizing him based on made up media lies from weak anonymous sources from suckers and losers who apparently don't have the guts to stand up and tell their lies openly.
Sorry Reverend.
Dead American Marines!
And you want to talk about fucking Trump and stupid fake news stories???
You are one sick fucking dude!
The eightyone million Americans who voted for this man whom you already hated so much will decide what kind of country we really want, one for the rich, or one for everyone.
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Hey Reverend...
My bad mood right now is because of the dead marines and total chaos in Afghanistan and the fact that according to just about everyone with a pulse we are going to be leaving Americans behind in a terrorist state because our leadership is incompetent.
People like you who believe that Biden was a great President yesterday and showed true leadership last night as Marines died because of his decisions and lack of planning... yeah, you make me sick to my stomach.
BUt it's certainly not because you are going to win any arguments with me that Biden has done well in ANY of this. You will only continue to make me sick to my stomach for demanding that the events of yesterday was about great leadership.
Trump also denied he called McGovern a loser, but we have that on video.
The eighty-one million Americans who voted for this man whom you already hated so much will decide what kind of country we really want, one for the rich, or one for everyone.
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
I will forever be reminded of a President who said he preferred heroes who did not get killed or captured,
He prefers live heroes coming home to their families instead of a body bag and unimaginable grief for their families.
As for capture prisoners of war, it is a relatively recent development that the media drummed them up as heroes. They weren't considered heroes from the Revolutionary War through Korea.
It was only since Vietnam were they considered heroes. (And solders are embarrassed.There is nothing heroic about getting capture.)
The so called kill list was an agreement with the Taliban militants to allow Afghanistan civilians to immigrants access to the immigration system, that has tens of thousands of Afghans access to places in Germany, where they are being vetted by the German government with the support of the United States.
They have so many people, that France and Italy have been opening similar places.
The President had negotiated with the Taliban, and so far they have cooperated with the United States and our allies .
The right wing media websites have distorted this story..
This column appeared in our local paper this morning, and online as follows:
editor's pick
FROM THE PULPIT
The prophet John the Baptist was confused
JIM BOSWELL For the Pantagraph 4 hrs ago
THE prophet John the Baptist was confused. He had predicted that a “mighty one” soon would come who would “separate the wheat from the chaff,” the good people from the bad, in order to gather the good into “his barn” while the chaff, the bad, he would burn “with unquenchable fire.”
Later, after John was arrested and imprisoned near the Dead Sea, he began hearing about Jesus’ activities up in Galilee, and so he sent two of his followers to ask Jesus, “Are you the one who is to come, or must we wait for someone else?”
In other words, John was asking, Are you – or will you yet become – the mighty one I predicted?
Jesus answered by saying neither “yes” or “no,” but by instructing John’s followers to return and tell John about the wonderful things they had seen Jesus doing – how he was healing and helping people and bringing good news to the oppressed. And then Jesus added, as a kind of warning, “And blessed is anyone who is not offended by me.”
What a strange thing to say! Who could possibly be offended by all the good things Jesus was doing?
And yet some people were, because Jesus was not doing what John had said the mighty one would do. He was not separating good people from bad, wheat from chaff, by gathering the good into safety while casting the bad, the chaff, into eternal fire. Instead, Jesus was sitting at table and eating with the chaff, the rejected and despised, the outcasts, the “sinners” – eating with them, accepting them, loving them. And the religious leaders of his time found this action so unacceptable and so offensive that they called Jesus “a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of sinners” – which was a way of saying that he was a reprobate so despicable that he deserved death by stoning (Luke 7:21; see Deuteronomy 21:18-21)!
Clearly, Jesus practiced a love so radically inclusive that the society of his time could not allow it, and ended up killing him. And if Jesus were here among us today, who would he now seek out to sit with at table? Who among the excluded would Jesus include, associate with – and love?
What rejected people would he now accept? What despised people would he value? What outcast people would he invite? What unacceptable people would he embrace?
________
Boswell, a retired pastor of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in Normal, can be reached through Jesus Laid Bare at youtube.com.
The so called kill list was an agreement with the Taliban militants to allow Afghanistan civilians to immigrants access to the immigration system, that has tens of thousands of Afghans access to places in Germany, where they are being vetted by the Germa
They gave names for the Taliban to hunt them down.
I will forever be reminded of a President who said he preferred heroes who did not get killed or captured.
He said that about Senator John McCain during the primary campaign events.
The bone spurs draft dodger son of a bitch also called hundreds of thousands of heroes buried in Arlington and other graveyards, suckers and losers.
The Taliban militants have not yet been hunting down the people on the list.
But you believe the big lies about everything he says.
Biden didn't serve ether using draft deferments, As soon as one expire he got another, He basically hid out in college.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The Taliban militants have not yet been hunting down the people on the list.
All important word "yet". Beside how do you know they are not already hunting them down.
Whether they hunt them down today are someday in the future they will hunt them down.
As a person who lived during that era. I had a 1A deferment.
Millions of Americans who didn't have enough money to go to college, were drafted and sent to Vietnam.
I knew two or three who came back in caskets..
That's how the system worked.
We have a voluntary system now.
And of course the wealthy families rarely enlist.
Please tell us James.
"JamesNewLeaf August 27, 2021 at 8:14 AM
Thanks for showing us again that you do not understand what American greatness really is"
In your own words make your best intellectual case .
'Scary week' ahead in DC as Jan. 6 rally planned and 9/11 anniversary brings new terror risks
Travis Gettys
August 27, 2021
A Capitol Police officer stands guard in front of the US Capitol Building, on June 14, 2017 (AFP)
Lawmakers and law enforcement officials are increasingly worried about upcoming rallies to support jailed insurrectionists and to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Sources told CNN that discussions were underway to reinstall temporary fencing around the U.S. Capitol's perimeter ahead of the "Justice for J6" rally planned for Sept. 18, and a Capitol police memo warned "violent altercations" may be possible, and a Homeland Security bulletin showed heightened terrorism risks around the 9/11 anniversary.
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"It's a scary week," said one former intelligence officer. "It's a week from hell for DHS, for the ATF, for the FBI, for DOD and for the intelligence community."
A bomb scare last week reminded those who work on Capitol Hill of the ongoing threat posed by the Jan. 6 insurrection, although Republicans downplayed those risks and questioned the need for additional fortification.
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If there are violent incidents, they will not be Muslims, they will be angry white supremacist like the people who invaded the Capitol building on January 6th.
Kansas -
The Reverend truly believes that Biden exhibited "greatness" yesterday. His explanation will be that Biden gave a speech. He will cut and paste the speech again and put the parts he really thought were special in bold.
Apparently being President is not about the execution of day to day responsibilities as Commander in Chief or anything like that. He just needs to give speeches when speeches are expected. The fact that we heard nothing from him until last night on a day when 13 American soldiers were killed and he couldn't be bothered to show up on time for this most important speech makes no never-mind to the Reverend.
Nor does the fact that almost everyone who watched the speech saw is as lackluster, missing in empathy, and devoid of any attempts to take responsibility or provide any plans to correct the course. He just had to say what ANY President would say (he will go after the terrorists, he is sad, etc) and that made him...
GREAT!!!
And of course the wealthy families rarely enlist.
At least Trump has a valid medical waver. And it was valid. Physician are ethically bound (and legally bound in most states) to keep accurate medical records for each patient they see. This includes any recording treatment given related to the condition.
To say that Trump got a Physician to issue a fake waver is absurd.
CHT.
I saw that James loved the Biden reading.
Roger told us Biden was having "messaging problems".
Biden using his son's service again made this US Veteran puke.
The Deaths of our Troops is sickening.
A Wag the Dog by Biden IS COMING.
"And of course the wealthy families rarely enlist."
Liar
From the RIGHT-WING conspiracy website POLITICO:
U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport, a choice that's prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials.
The move, detailed to POLITICO by three U.S. and congressional officials, was designed to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan as chaos erupted in Afghanistan’s capital city last week after the Taliban seized control of the country. It also came as the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security outside the airport.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957
NOT the Gateway Pundit, alky live asshole fucking moron,* you complete fucking lying fucking imbecile..
*h/t: Indy Voter
I asked both Roger and James to stop Lying.
I am asking you again today James and Roger stop lying.
In actual fact, it was a horrible speech that did nothing to instill confidence in the American public and went quite a long way towards convincing people (as if they needed convincing) that Biden is physically and mentally unable to be president and is little more than a puppet who has to be stage managed.
5,200 American people were transported home from Kabul Afghanistan yesterday
Roger, do you wish to debate your topics?
The Reverend truly believes that Biden exhibited "greatness" yesterday.
For Slow Joe, navigating a flight of stairs without breaking his fucking neck is an exhibit of greatness.
That's how low imbeciles like the alky and the pederast have set the bar.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
5,200 American people were transported home from Kabul Afghanistan yesterday
According to who?
This administration has clearly exhibited that it cannot, under any circumstances, be believed.
Oh, and go wash your hands drunkard. They're covered in BLOOD.
Why did President Biden stand on Joseph Robinette Biden grave last night?
Roger and James, why?
The Pentagon spokesman said that just before I posted it.
The so called kill list was an agreement with the Taliban militants to allow Afghanistan civilians to immigrants access to the immigration system, that has tens of thousands of Afghans access to places in Germany, where they are being vetted by the German government with the support of the United States.
They have so many people, that France and Italy have been opening similar places.
The President had negotiated with the Taliban, and so far they have cooperated with the United States and our allies .
The right wing media websites like the Pjmedia etc. have distorted this story..
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The Pentagon spokesman said that just before I posted it.
As BWAA would say -
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Pentagon spokes liar. John Kirby. Good one alky.
That dumb fuck has been lying for weeks.
The death toll increased to 13.
The Gold Star families are in my prayers.
Roger, do you wish to debate your topics?
Aug. 27, 2021, 3:02 AM PDT / Updated Aug. 27, 2021, 7:09 AM PDT
By Ahmed Mengli and Rhea Mogul
KABUL, Afghanistan — Crowds returned to Kabul's airport Friday in an increasingly desperate attempt to escape the country a day after suicide bombings killed more than 100 civilians and 13 U.S. service members.
Evacuation flights resumed with fresh urgency as U.S. forces braced for more attacks ahead of President Joe Biden's deadline on Tuesday to withdraw from the country.
America's longest war will soon end in the shadow of Thursday's blasts, which targeted U.S. troops and the thousands of civilians seeking to flee the Taliban's takeover.
By early Friday the number of civilians killed had grown to 113, according to an unnamed Afghan Health Ministry source. At least 180 people were injured.
Afghan Health Ministry reports at least 113 killed, 180 injured in Kabul airport attack
The Islamic State terror group's Afghan affiliate, ISIS-K, claimed responsibility for the "martyrdom attack" outside Kabul airport, which involved two suicide bombers who detonated explosive belts at a gate and a nearby hotel.
Video taken in the aftermath showed civilian bodies in a sewage ditch, their efforts to escape a militant group's rule destroyed by a far more radical terror group.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kabul-airport-bombings-evacuations-resume-afghans-return-u-s-fears-n1277766
Talk Radio Host Glenn Beck has raised $32 million and removed 5,000 + people from Afghanistan.
Where are the Hollywood people doing work likethis?
The Pentagon spokesman said that we are cooperating with the Taliban.
They are different than before the President set a departure date.
Even the former President Trump has negotiated with the Taliban militants!
Roger, is done. Bye.
I ignore every one but Scott Johnson. But despite our differences we have rational arguments.
You think that, that is funny Roger.
The Bidenomics bonfire is getting worse.
Every worker that drives has lost $500 in high fuel cost because of Biden policy.
Affirmative action vP Harris is a coward.
She refuses to campaign for Gov. Newsome. Her active refusal means Biden believes Newsome is burnt toast
In history the Republicans said that they supported our armed forces during this war and especially during the Vietnam war era.
But in the modern media era, and since we elected President Joe Biden they are called four star generals like General Milly traitors.
Pjmedia etc. are the modern Pravda under the cold war.
They are undercutting trust in our armed forces.
Dayum funny how the rat, who supported Trump whose every word coming out his mouth was either a lie or bullshit calls everything reported as lies!!!!!!! Why is that???? PJ Media?????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Scott it was extremely dangerous forces that killed 13 Americans soldiers. Not angry white guys.
The terrorist group behind the Kabul suicide bombing Thursday that killed U.S. Marines and dozens of others and derailed the ongoing Afghan evacuation is a competitor of the Taliban — and even more extreme.
The Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K, is the Afghan offshoot of the Islamic State terror group, which publicly beheaded foreign journalists and inflicted brutalities on captured Kurds and others in Iraq and Syria.
“They have a higher proclivity to target civilians they regard as infidels,” Seth G. Jones, a counterterrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said of ISIS-K.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/what-isis-k-islamic-state-group-s-affiliate-behind-kabul-n1277750
They were actually acting like rrb when he says that James and I and the Democrats are traitors.
And the ISIS-K attack wasn’t just aimed at the Americans, it was also meant to embarrass the Taliban, the experts said.
“This attack will look bad to the West, but it makes the Taliban look as if they are not in control of their own environment,” said Raffaello Pantucci, senior fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. “It undermines the idea that they rule this place.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/what-isis-k-islamic-state-group-s-affiliate-behind-kabul-n1277750
...the experts said.
And there's a big part of the problem. All these "experts" from their perch in the peanut gallery, with absolutely nothing at stake, have royally fucked this up.
senior fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
Good God.
Flags are now at half mast, and they are fluttering in our hearts for heroes whom this President would never call suckers and losers.
TDS?
The architecture of the hasty U.S. withdrawal and the inevitable deadly chaos that has followed was constructed by the previous commander in chief.
The rushed evacuation and its vulnerability to Thursday’s deplorable attack were inevitable outcomes of the rapid collapse of the Afghan government. But while Biden does, indeed, hold his share of responsibility for that collapse, he wasn’t inaccurate when he pointed out in his news conference Thursday that the architecture of the hasty U.S. withdrawal and the inevitable deadly chaos that has followed was constructed by the previous commander in chief. Indeed, if there was ever a chance for a more orderly U.S. exit — and to be clear, that’s far from certain — one of Biden’s biggest mistakes might have been to adhere to the deal former President Donald Trump made with the Taliban rather than set his own terms and timeline.
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We need only rewind to February 2020, when the Trump administration signed the Doha agreement with the Taliban, in which the U.S. pledged to withdraw all U.S. and NATO forces by May 1, 2021, in exchange for the Taliban’s ceasing attacks on U.S. forces, forsaking ties to groups like Al Qaeda and agreeing to hold peace negotiations with the Afghan government, which then still controlled most of the country even though it was increasingly losing ground to the Taliban.
Those who pushed Biden to leave Afghanistan need to admit their part in this tragedy.
The Doha negotiations didn’t include the Afghan government — supposedly our partners in fighting the Taliban and terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, the group better known as ISIS — and the deal that resulted was widely recognized as having thrown our allies under the bus, as the Taliban were free to carry on fighting the Afghan army as long as they didn’t attack U.S. forces.
The Taliban proceeded to do just that, going on the offensive in March 2020 while repeatedly spurning or walking out on the Afghan government’s attempts to negotiate a power-sharing agreement. As the government’s sway diminished, the agreement gave the Taliban new legitimacy, making it harder to dissuade them from pursuing a total military victory in place of some accommodation with the government. In other words, it was immediately clear to all observers that the treaty comprehensively removed incentives for the Taliban to compromise.
Pentagon confirms 12 U.S. service members killed, 15 injured in attack at Kabul airport
In another slap in the face — and a further destabilization of the already volatile scene — the Trump administration coerced the understandably angry Afghan government into releasing 5,000 Taliban prisoners a year ago, including 400 convicted of serious crimes, such as murder. This move was designed to appease Taliban peace negotiators, but it failed to yield more diplomatic concessions. Instead, many of the released fighters promptly reinforced Taliban forces in the field as they steadily gnawed away at the Afghan army, no doubt contributing to the unexpected speed of the Taliban’s swift recapture of the country.
Ironically, the Taliban then committed a similar error when they began to reclaim power in recent days. Two Taliban leaders told NBC News that the group’s “biggest blunder” was releasing prisoners from jails as they swept across Afghanistan..
The people who were released, committed the bombing that killed 13 American soldiers.
Setting hard deadlines was important to Trump — and then Biden for domestic political reasons, of course — but the looming certainty of American withdrawal made it easy for the Taliban to bribe demoralized Afghan commanders into surrendering without a fight, facilitating the Taliban’s rapid advance.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/afghanistan-airport-explosion-happened-under-biden-traces-back-trump-ncna1277755
James , i have been very kind to you and Roger.
Please , can you stop lying.
Please.
Just stop it.
Stop attempting to avoid "The Buck".
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