Lessons from Afghanistan

Never vote for a democrat is my take away from the Afghanistan disaster.   

Shameful

 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."

 The TV is doing all Afghanistan, all day. Biden comes off as a senile liar. A bunch of administration spokesmen are no better. We need to get our people out of Afghanistan, US citizens (native born or naturalized) and Afghans who worked with us and fought with us. We owe them.

Ivanhoe 1982

 

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 Taylor and Taylor version.  Robert Taylor, long time Hollywood leading man, played Ivanhoe and a young ultra cute Elizabeth Taylor played Rebecca.

   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 Sherwood Forest.  A good watch.

 

Fablehaven Brandon Mull 2006

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.  

Biden is not showing up well

 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??

Big Pharma loves the idea of a booster shot for Corona virus vaccine

 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?