Couple of points:

Crime is rising in many urban areas of the country.

Police are making fewer arrests.

Crime in general, and shootings (of black people by black people) are near record highs….and are more public and blatant…

Oddly, this summer, Black men are either smarter about their behavior when stopped by police, or the Media is simply not covering the story when they get shot by police…..of as is most likely, the Media is not hyping the shootings and no one is keeping things worked up on Facebook…likely because the DNC no longer needs to have the Black People riled up so they will vote for the DNC candidate…

And no one will until the DNC needs the black vote next cycle.

In that there is no reason to keep troops in Afghanistan if the Afghani army and people won’t defend their own country.

On the other hand, and more importantly, it appears that if there are 3 mistakes that the Biden folks have not made in this debacle, no one can think of what they are.

Typical Liberal thinking demonstrated here: Wish things would be a certain way and Hope that they happen, without a real plan, or forethought, or any real basis in reality.

This is a sad embarrassment to our country and a devastating betrayal of those Afghanis who worked it and supported the invasion and occupation.

ETA: Having said the above, any Afghani who did not make plans to leave the country, or who has not moved family and assets out of the country starting 6 months ago is a fool. I won’t go so far as to say they deserve what they are getting, but it was obvious that the end result of the US leaving would be bad…..

CBS News:

“Almost everyone who died or had serious complications from Covid after vaccinations has a serious underlying medical condition”.

Strangely, that is true of nearly everyone, “Vaccinated” or not…..Almost everyone who dies or has serious complications has some sort of serious additional health issue.

Odd, the similarities, aren’t they?

I mean, now that the US is out of Afghanistan, one can expect that the Chinese will soon be exerting influence.

Bet on it.

And since Slow Joe and his family are indebted to, and financed by, the ChiComs, I fully expect that not only was the choice to pull out, but also the timing, driven by “suggestions” from the Chinese Party.

‘Cause trying to re-seat a tire on a rim using two bars is getting a bit harder for me than what it was a few years ago.

Yeah, I rolled the front tire of the tractor off the rim. out in  muddy area… pulled it off the tractor in the field, and took it home and used bars to put the tire back on the rim. I’m gettin’ to old for this shit, I tell ya.

Sadly, the bead is damaged and I could not get it to seal.

Off to the tire store tomorrow morning.

I really need to get a tire machine or at least a holder so I don’t have to do this on the ground standing on the tire.

The Media (both CBS and NBC) tell us that Covid Hospitalizations are rising and that staffing at the healthcare Facilities is low….

And that (implied but not stated), due to covid the ICU beds are in short supply. Both media outlest stated that people wait DAYS for an ICU bed….Which makes me wonder….do these folks really need an ICU bed? Is it necessary to survival? (we aren’t being told that they are DYING  because they can’t get an ICU bed) so…..do do they really need to be in ICU?

I’m not a health care professional  nor a doctor (but I have played one) so I am unable to determine when and how, exactly, the folks decide when an ICU bed is needed, but I have noticed that people in hospitals follow “procedure” like automatons, and seldom bother to think, they just Do What the Procedure says….So do these folks that are somehow surviving without being in an ICU room really need the ICU????  Or is that assignment to ICU just “Procedure”?

So the Lollapalooza festival, in Chicago, was fer sure not a Superspreader. (“There is “No Evidence” that this event was a Superspreader event”)

We know this because the powers that be, the ones who assured us that such an event was OK, have told us so.

(Of course, this was an APPROVED gathering, of Approved people, and others, like Sturgis, Were Not Approved.) Plus, of course, the Mayor of Chicago and many of her adherents made BIG money off the attendees of Lollapalooza. And those attendees were of the Right Party, unlike those folks in Sturgis.

Funny how that works, innit?

How all those women suddenly decided to tell their horror stories about working with Cuomo All At The Same Time….

Odd that, Innit?

Almost like someone had orchestrated it.

“Enough debate, fer chrissake: Just go out and get it. It protects you, your family, and everyone in the community. It has been scientifically, mathematically, statistically proven to make everyone safer. The communities where the majority of people have gotten one are overwhelmingly safer. The chances of side effects or accidents are overwhelmingly, unbelievably small that it is not rational to get one for yourself already.

Stop being selfish, stop arguing, and fer chrissake, go get a firearm and learn how to use it. ”

(Sent to me by my brother for posting here, I have no idea where he got it)