Biden's announcement that we will pull of of Afghanistan on the 31st of this month, only a week away is totally shameful. We will be abandoning our people to the Taliban.
The proper answer is "We will get all our people out to safety. If the Taliban gets in our way we will kill them."
Just watched another Ivanhoe movie. This one made in 1982 originally for TV. It’s pretty good. None of the cast names mean anything to me
except John Rhys Davies who plays Front de Boeuf. Anthony Andrews plays Ivanhoe and does it
well. He is blond, which is correct for
a medieval Saxon. He is cute, clean
shaven, and it is clear why Rowena and Rebecca fall for him head over
heels. I would rate this version of
Ivanhoe right up there with my favorite version, the 1952
In the 1982 version
the Black Knight (King Richard) gets a good long role. We get a better look at Robin Hood and the
Merry Men running off cookouts in
A young adult (YA) fantasy. Must be doing well, I think the author got four sequels published. Kendra and Seth get sent to their grandparents place while their parents go on a cruise with a lot of family members. The children are not enthusiast about spending a month with grandparents they hardly know. The place turns out cooler than expected, a sanctuary for magical creatures, fairies, satyrs, a witch and others. Seth doesn’t listen well and gets turned into a walrus and later imprisoned in a huge glass jar for ignoring plain English instructions from his grandfather. After Seth opens a window on Midsummer’s eve (after he was told not to) a bunch of evil creatures fly in, wreck the house, and kidnap all the adults. With as lot of wandering around and guessing, Kendra comes up with a save for all the fallen.
We never hear of a mission that Kendra and Seth are supposed to go on. No scene where Gandalf explains the power of the Ring to Frodo. Far as I could see all Kendra and Seth wanted to do was wait for their folks to get back from that cruise and take them home again.
Not as good as the Rick Riordan YA fantasies.
They had Biden on TV this afternoon. He spoke for 4 minutes and answered questions for 17 minutes. He did himself a lot of harm with me. He told lies, he showed frightening ignorance of Afghanistan, he showed a touching belief in the word of the Taliban. He was evasive on the matter of getting our supporters out. How did we ever elect this turkey??
They have already sold 150-200 million Corona virus shots. Add on a booster and they can sell another 100 million shots. Nice work if you can get it.
The claim has been made that the new delta variation is slipping by conventional vaccines. I want to see real evidence of this before handing big Pharma a 100 million shot good deal. Data that has been published shows only 10 thousand "adverse reactions" over the 150 million or more shots given. That makes the vaccine 99.99% effective. Few things work that well in the real world.
And, I want to see data on the adverse reactions. Are we talking about a real corona virus case where the patient runs a fever, feels bad, and gets hospitalized? Or are we talking about cases where a new and poorly tested medical test shows a positive reaction on an other wise well patient? False positive anyone?
Native born Americans, Afghans holding US passports, Afghans who have helped us, we owe them. We fly in enough infantry to secure one or more airports, and hold open roads and streets leading to the airport[s]. We fly out anyone who has any kind of paper work, or who just wants to leave. They will make loyal citizens. We tell the Taliban if they interfere we will kill them. For that matter if they show their faces we will kill them just for grins and jollies.
Too bad Biden lacks the stones and the brains to do this. I am so glad we elected that turkey.
