America's Back, and the Taliban Cowers
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I think we’ve seen this before
Not the Bee
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Twitter says that Taliban spokesman can stay, “as long as he doesn’t get too violent”. Trump, of course, remains banned.
I believe former state senate candidate Gevanter takes the same position
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Taliban confiscates civilians’ guns — “we’ll take it from here”
The Taliban are now collecting weapons and ammunition from civilians in Kabul following its swift takeover of Afghanistan.
A Taliban official told Reuters that people no longer needed weapons for personal protection because “they can now feel safe,” since the insurgents have taken over.
“We understand people kept weapons for personal safety. They can now feel safe,” the official said.
“We are not here to harm innocent civilians.”
It came as reports emerged a woman had been shot dead on Tuesday for not wearing a burqa out in public — after insurgents vowed to usher in a new “inclusive” era that honors “women’s rights.”
It probably seemed like a good idea at the time
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Lots of homes closed above their asking price while I was gone, but not all. 29 Hillside Road, for instance, sold for $7 million after originally looking for $8.295. That must have come as a disappointment — the sellers paid $9.8 for it in 2006 on an asking price of $13.5, and no doubt thought they’d achieved a bargain.
Unvaccinated, red necked, Trump-voting morons can be found in the most surprising places.
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Lamont to “work with” the nursing home workers’ union over members’ refusal to be vaccinated.
Only 28% of young blacks have submitted to being vaccinated.
The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs.
CNN’s Don Lemon has the answer to these “idiots”: Don’t let them shop for food.
Is there a single American institution that still deserves our respect?
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The CDC?
Academia?
Either political party?
The scientific community?
Our intelligence services?
The FBI, which conspired with the intelligence services to bring down a sitting president?
The press?
The military? For this one, see the letter from a General Officer published by Glenn Reynolds this morning.
They actually said this
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we’ll dwarf the peanut farmer’s accomplishments
White House: Kampallawalla’s been dispatched to Asia ”to build on the Biden-Harris Administration’s message to the world: America is back”. Back to the Carter administration, then lower.
Coming our way
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New Zealand orders all citizens locked in their homes after a SINGLE Covid case was detected.
Australia to round up children and forcibly vaccinate them in stadiums. Parents will not be allowed to accompany them, but don’t worry, there will be police and soldiers on hand to ensure that all goes smoothly.
Of course, this is a humanitarian gesture because it will spare more children from being pepper-sprayed by the police.
Reminder: the Australians voluntarily surrendered all their guns a few years ago when the authorities demanded it. That wasn’t the cause of today’s meek submission to the politicians, but a symptom of a once-proud country’s demise. We’re showing the same danger signs here though not I’d say, in South Dakota, Wyoming, and even (south eastern) Montana. I’ll post on surprising Arkansas later, but its Northwestern corner is, thriving and independent, due, no doubt, to a scarcity of Coloradans and Aussies.
Look for Greenwich Democrats to push for ranked-choice voting
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Thank you, john blankley
Fazio defeated Kasser-endorsed corporate lawyer Alexis Gevanter by about 500 votes, according to unofficial results. Fazio received 8888 votes to Gevanter’s 8416. Petitioning candidate John Blankley, a Democrat, received 391.
To the (somewhat-limited) extent to which I understand the ranked-choice voting procedure, it would only kick in if any one candidate failed to garner 50% of the vote. Here, Fazio met that threshold (8,847 of 17,695 total votes cast), but barely: 41. Assuming a Blankley voter would otherwise be a supporter of the communist on the ballot, a few more Gevanter or Blankley voters at the polls would have deprived Fazio of his majority and Gevanter supporters’ second-choice ballots would have been added to her total, for the win. Thank God for Martha’s Vineyard summer soirees.
This “loser wins” is exactly what happened in 2018 in Maine in that state’s first election conducted under ranked-choice voting rules: Incumbent Republican Congressman Bruce Poliquin was unseated by a Democrat despite winning a majority of the votes: 46% — 45%, when Democrats’ second choice votes were added to their preferred candidate’s total.
With the Green Party, the Socialite Socialist Ladies, and the Suburban Moms Give Belle Haven Back to the Indians Party proliferating and drawing votes away from officially endorsed candidates, attention must be paid, and our local Democrats will see that it is.
