Maggie's Farm

Taliban Terrorists Celebrate in Clown World

Are they "terrorists," or just Islamists? 

At BB, of course

Related,  Twitter Offers Word Salad to Explain Why It Won’t Ban Taliban Spokesman

As I opined here many times over the years, Afghanistan is not a nation. It's a place on a map. It is run by warlords and poppy-growers. There has not been any central government with any power.

The Russians pulled out of there decades ago, rightly realizing it was hopeless to mold that place into any sort of modern nation with any outside allies or help.  

Guardian is right:

 Behind the scenes America’s senior leaders have known, almost from the beginning, that the war was unwinnable, that the Afghan government was fatally corrupt, and that the Afghan security forces would never be up to the task. Instead of acknowledging reality, instead of coming clean to the American people, they hid the truth or outright lied about it. The result?

America's (and NATO's) longest war accomplished exactly nothing. I'll give Trump and Biden credit for publicly recognizing the sad reality.

Taliban seize power amid chaos in Kabul. The U.S. Embassy was being evacuated as Afghanistan's president fled the country.

Is this woman really standing on top of Burj Khalifa?

At ZH

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 The Silent Majority is Going to Get Loud

"Systemic Racism" vs. "Racial Inequities": Glenn Loury with John McWhorter

Biden begs the Taliban as terrorists move toward Kabul

Losing a rudder in mid-ocean. Nice boat. I have a friend who hit a whale en route from New York to Ireland, which destroyed their rudder. They remain grateful to the Canadian Coast Guard.

As they say with boats, things always go wrong, and usually at night. What a good couple they are.

Seems as if English is the new langua franca. 

It does not surprise me.

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This is so inspiring. It takes brains, and ears.

Largest automaker in the world is not buying the Green Fad. Sure, they do make hybrids.

The main issue is what kind of cheeses to use. Many choices for that, but supermaket white bread, cooked in lots of butter, is required.

I like ketchup on the side. 

Trying (hopelessly) to bury Donald Trump isn’t the answer. Restoring integrity to the electoral process is.

Her problem with Trump is not that he was effective, but because he is declasse. So was Clinton, but he hid his inner redneck. Worked for him. 

"In an ideal world,..."

Scott's podcast:

"I used to like Donna Brazile, at least her personality, but she is a huge f-ing piece of s-t.: 

Hinderaker at NY Post:

As the Democratic Party becomes a party of the white metropolitan class and its government-dependent clients, the GOP has emerged as a multiracial party of the working class. Democrats no doubt hope that sharpening racial divisions will help slow that process, but former President Donald Trump did alarmingly well with minorities, from Dems’ point of view.

There is a great deal of pent-up frustration and resentment over the inconvenience, the loss of freedom and the general climate of hectoring that the government’s pandemic response has created...

What's up with wolf-hunting in the US?

 America’s ‘Deep Divisions’ That Weren’t

 Americans have already tired of Biden’s hyper-partisan agenda: Optimism in nation’s future plunges after 6 months

It's about human nature

Just two people (not young either), sailing her (how can a her be a Beofwulf?). Lots of good tech, with lots of redundancy.

From 2018, Peterson interviewed by Helen Lewis:

The best people I have met are the men and women of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary.

As serious boaters, they know water vessels, but they volunteer their time for boat checks and boating skills. Even if you pass their checks, they have lots of useful info.

Never refuse their offers.