couldn't possibly agree more!

besides, that particular kind of back and forth must be infinitely boring for any newcomers testing the waters here and, if I were one of them checking in here, I'd check out pretty soon.

We need some new blood here, so ...

don's right - why are you wasting your time?

semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit.

instead of trying to show why he is being wrong or foolish, you should be out getting yourself some pie.

JL

they may change their ways, but they won't change their beliefs - which are both fundamentalist and fundamental.

JL

Even though they defeated yet another foreign invader the Taliban need foreign aid to run the country as well as at least some diplomatic capabilities with the rest of the world. The better our relations are with each other, the more both sides get what they want.

And don't forget, an isolated Taliban could go ahead and shut down female participation in education, employment and society in general. An engaged Taliban would likely be very careful about doing such thing.

The Taliban control the whole country and they need lost of foreign aid to actually run the country.

Foreign aid won't be forthcoming until the Tabiban prove through their actions that they will respect international rules and norms.

This might be a reasonable way to circumvent the August 31 deadline.

Nice work there, goode trickle.

BACK to Afghanistan, the West ought to buy our Afghani allies their freedom. Pay them thousands for each man, woman and child that wants out and has a legitimate connection to the US, UN, NATO and whomever.

Wartard, a guy that y'all absolutely should check out, said "Money is honorable in the desert." An example of this being true immediately springs to mind: remember when Obama resurged us into Iraq and got the Shia western half of the country to fight on our side...by bribing them massively? When the money and the American presence went away they all went home and ISIS filled the power vacuum.

This is a win-win solution!

The West -- which has done so much damage for two decades -- gets to provide millions to the Taliban to help them fix their country. Good for all concerned, as the West gets to undo some of the mess (good for the soul) and it certainly benefits the Afghani people.

Such aid will facilitate decent rather than abysmal relations with them, which can only help in the future vis a vis say, the Taliban no longer hosting al-Queda type terrorists.

This will also give the West time to properly vet and evacuate our Afghani allies, preferably in-country. And it spares the Taliban of having to murder thousands of their own countrymen in retribution, which would surely be a terrible way to launch their new Afghanistan.

Comments?

Still waiting on your EIN... (We will completely ignore that I have spent the past year setting up drive through testing sites, mass vax sites, expanded various meals on wheels programs and helped increase food bank food access all of which require me to check out the NP entities I am working with and I know how to do it without an EIN before I hand them money.) It isn't required to discuss One Dumbman, we can do that anytime. It is required to prove the veracity of your claim that you are a registered NP.

It's simple, provide proof that you are in fact a registered NP and we will be able to say " that DonQui looks to be on the up and up, it's too bad no one wants to buy into his fatally flawed idea to get money out of politics."

OR

Don't provide any proof that you are a registered NP and we can all ask "Why on God's green earth would I discuss how to get One Dumbman off the ground when it's "leader" can't even tell the truth about being a registered NP."

Like I said it's simple.

They sent Ingenuity on it's longest and highest flight to the top of Mons Tarus Excretus and they captured evidence of life up there in the form of hieroglyphs.

Scientists think they spell out DonQui.

It Can Happen

NOW IF JOE passes both infrastructures along with the For the People & John Lewis Acts,

1- "I'll be so impressed I'll be as impressed as ten Liberals!"

2- Among other things it will hopefully affirm the notion that if you want pro quality governance you need professional politicians to run the show, thus hopefully dissuading folks like Oprah and Sean Hannity from running for anything

Once the President receives a bill s/he* would have two calendar weeks to sign the bill. If s/he signs it, great. If s/he vetos it, fine. If s/he does nothing then the bill automatically passes as though signed.

This gives our President something besides the binary choice of either signing or vetoing a bill. It offers a "I'm not crazy about this but I won't stop it" option. To send messages and stuff.

*As far as I know I did think up "s/he" as a quick way to say "he or she." I pronounce it "shuh HEE." Your welcome

ALICE IN CHAINS

But again, he acted on the consensus conventional wisdom. Also, please note that if Afghani evacuations had begun months ago that would 1-panic the Afghani government (and hastened it's fall,) and 2- leave our troops without translators etc for the intervening months. So that was never in the cards.

And that's what's going to push both over the finish line. Neither wing of the Democratic Party can afford to blow this.

As a bonus the passage of both should at least somewhat grease the rails for the We the People and John Lewis Acts.

Hey Elizabeth I sat down the bed to cuddle with my Husky Betty and the next thing you know I wake up and it's 02-something. Sorry I wussed out on you. Not getting my full Sunday Night Canadian* Music Appreciation Festival and Dance Party

*and other countries

fix has left an unease in my soul.

Replace 'all Democrats' with ALL AMERICANS and you'd be on to something ... :)