Friday Photography - Crescent Moon and Venus
Submitted by janis b on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 6:11pm
The Evening Blues - 8-13-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 3:02pm
Our defeat in Afghanistan is very close now
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 1:30pmPreparations for the evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Kabul are officially underway.
The embassy will be evacuated and a very small consular staff will work in Kabul, the memo noted.The embassy staffers were instructed to destroy sensitive documents and desktop computers before they leave, according to the document.
To My Brothers and Sisters at c99
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 9:32amI do not hate you. I will not hate you. No matter how much the main stream media tells me to do so. No matter how much the alternative media tells me to do so. No matter which side of an issue you may fall upon.
Despite the propaganda.
I refuse to hate you.
As I look into the abyss I refuse to become that monster.
Hunter Biden Laptop Challenges
Submitted by Linda Wood on Thu, 08/12/2021 - 8:17pmThe Hunter Biden story is intriguing. Apparently now there are 3 laptops he has lost track of: one he may have left at a repair shop that wound up with Giuliani, one seized by federal agents at his psychiatrist's office, and one Hunter says in this video was stolen by his drug dealers, who were Russian. The video provided to Daily Mail, is from the Guiliani laptop, as far as I can understand.
The Evening Blues - 8-12-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 08/12/2021 - 3:21pm
On Good and Evil
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 08/12/2021 - 12:14amThe oldest law of the internet is Godwin's Law. When a Hitler/Nazi comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever made the comparison loses whatever debate is in progress.
This is what I thought of when I read this headline: This Is 1938, With the Nazis! First, They Came for the Unvaccinated!
Neofeudalism and Billionaire Warlords: If things keep going in the same direction
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 08/11/2021 - 3:21pmIt's always a hazard to make any long-term predictions, and they are generally wrong.
However, there is value to making a statement of "...if things don't change..."
The Evening Blues - 8-11-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 08/11/2021 - 3:07pm
Open Thread WE 11 AUG 21 ~ memory hole
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 08/11/2021 - 4:00am
..the chief problem in historical honesty isn’t outright lying, but rather the omission or de-emphasis of important data.
Howard Zinn
