Trusted...

 

The US military negotiated a secret arrangement with the Taliban that resulted in Taliban members escorting groups of Americans to the gates of the Kabul airport as they sought to escape Afghanistan, according to two defense officials.

One of the officials also revealed that US special operations forces set up a "secret gate" at the airport and established "call centers" to guide Americans through the evacuation process.

The officials said Americans were notified to gather at pre-set "muster points" close to the airport where the Taliban would gather the Americans, check their credentials and take them a short distance to a gate manned by American forces who were standing by to let them inside amid huge crowds of Afghans seeking to flee.

Throughout the evacuation, Biden administration officials stressed that the Taliban was cooperating and senior officials stated they had committed to provide "safe passage" for Americans.

The Taliban escort missions happened "several times a day" according to one of the officials. One of the key muster points was a Ministry of Interior building just outside on of the airport's gates where nearby US forces were readily able to observe the Americans approach. Americans were notified by various messages about where to gather.

Just a thought.

Vaxed...

 

Less than 1% of fully vaccinated people experienced a breakthrough infection, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of official state data.

The federal government only reports data on breakthrough infections that result in hospitalization or death.

According to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than 0.004% of people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 experienced a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization, and less than 0.001% have died from the disease. That’s about 6,600 severe breakthrough cases out of more than 163 million fully vaccinated people.

But the KFF analysis shows that breakthrough infections of any kind are also extremely rare.

About half of states report data on Covid-19 breakthrough cases, and in each of those states, less than 1% of fully vaccinated people had a breakthrough infection, ranging from 0.01% in Connecticut to 0.9% in Oklahoma.

Also, more than 90% of cases – and more than 95% of hospitalizations and deaths – have been among unvaccinated people, according to the KFF analysis. In most states, more than 98% of cases were among the un vaccinated.  Just a thought.

Double...

 

Moderna Inc.’s Covid vaccine generated more than double the antibodies of a similar shot made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE in research that compared immune responses evoked by the two inoculations. 

The study is one of the first to compare levels of antibodies produced by the two vaccines, which are thought to be one of the important components of the immune response. It didn’t examine whether the antibody differences led to a difference in efficacy over time between the two shots, which both were more than 90% effective in final-stage clinical trials.

The research looked at antibody levels against the coronavirus spike protein in about 1,600 workers at a major Belgium hospital system whose blood samples were analyzed 6 to 10 weeks after vaccination. The participants hadn’t been infected with the coronavirus before getting vaccinated. Levels among those who got two doses of the Moderna vaccine averaged 2,881 units per milliliter, compared with 1,108 units per milliliter amon.

The results, published in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested the differences might be explained by the higher amount of active ingredient in the Moderna vaccine -- 100 micrograms, versus 30 micrograms in Pfizer-BioNTech -- or the slightly longer interval between doses of the Moderna vaccine -- four weeks, versus three weeks for Pfizer-BioNTech.  

Focus

 

It is their problem now.

T...

 

Without...

 

Yikes...

 

The first thing the Dems go for is taxing someone they say they are rich. So although NYC is very crowded all around, they wanted to give Amazon 3 Billion Dollars credit to come to NYC which would cause more congestion to the city. Rezoning various areas for a sky scrapers approved by the politicians cause more additional congestion to the city.

In the same time, they want to tax those who drive to work in Manhattan rich or just above the minimum wage.   Just taxing..

Not to mention Corona Virus' killing machines that impacted rich and poor who are exposed to it in the sardines packed trains, buses, offices of NYC.   But it is all about the collection, more money, more money.  Just a thought.

Ugly ..

 

The Sept. 14 recall to decide the fate of California Gov. Gavin Newsom is beginning to look like it could get ugly for Democrats. Recent polling has shown that the state a bastion of blue is basically split in half on the question of whether to recall the governor. 

Structural quirks in the recall system paired with the Democratic Party’s approach to the challenge could make it hard for Democrats to retain power if the recall succeeds, despite a sizable statewide advantage. 

But the worst possible outcome of the recall challenge goes far beyond Newsom. The true nightmare scenario for Democrats would be this: What if Newsom loses, a Republican replaces him, and then 88-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein becomes unable to finish her term?
This is not some kind of paranoid thought experiment.

If Newsom is replaced by a Republican and Feinstein is not able to serve until a new governor enters office in January 2023, a GOP governor would be the one to appoint someone to fill her seat, potentially tipping the balance of power in the U.S. Senate. It’s not a small thing.

Medicated...

 

 Over the last five decades, feminism has made a long march through American culture. But it isn’t clear that feminism’s fruits are helping everyone. Happiness metrics confirm that women are struggling: Suicides, depression, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted infections have all increased dramatically over the last five decades. 

Women aren’t becoming happier, just more medicated. A 2020 Pew Report showed that over 50 percent of liberal white women under 30 have some sort of mental-health issue. That statistic alone is stunning enough to indicate that something is going very wrong for the modern woman, despite the steady uptick of feminist advances.

 A crisis-pregnancy center, with unusual stories about the challenges their residents face and the rough living most have experienced  being trafficked, pimped, addicted, incarcerated, abused, and on and on. 

Crisis-pregnancy homes, do amazing work to protect and help rebuild the lives of new mothers. But it is striking to consider that as a culture do precious little to help women avoid these troublesome situations from the beginning. 

It is only when some women get this far down the road and in this much trouble that mentoring women can step in and say, “Something has to change.” And those in crisis are willing to listen because they have tried everything else.  

Earlier...

 

Disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer says Andrew Cuomo is 'dirtiest, nastiest political player out there'.

The hooker-happy Spitzer, who quit the governorship in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, said Cuomo's tough-guy image goes back to when he was an aide to his dad, then-Gov. Mario Cuomo.
"He has brass knuckles and he played hardball," said Spitzer, the self-proclaimed "steamroller." "He has a lot of enemies."
Spitzer still harbors resentment toward Cuomo for an investigation into the so-called Troopergate scandal that found wrongdoing by top Spitzer aides.
Cuomo's findings of political shenanigans started Spitzer's downward spiral, climaxing in his resignation after being outed as "Client No .9" in a prostitution sting.

Repeat...

 

 

A decade...

 

In one decade in NYS, a span of 10 years, Two Full term Governors resigned. How lucky the people of the State. Just a thought.

Unifier...

 

It seems that Biden is taking the Democratic Party to a new Heights with south of the borders, Afghanistan departure, handling of the Pandemic and many other issues. Just a thought

Quality of Life...

 

The Politicians started giving guidelines after the initial failure to protect  NYS residents. As they proceed doing talks, blaming every body else, they started to like it. With the bias Blind Media boosting few politicians for their heroic performance, things got so complicated for the regular folks.

In order to pile more businesses in NYC, giving them great tax break, rezoning various areas for the builders to reach the sky, and in the process donate more money to the politicians political campaigns, they destroy the quality of life of the NYC residents for their own selfish benefits. 

In the process, kicked poor people out of the areas they can afford and replaced with luxurious towers for well to do folks.

To accommodate the plan, the subway system and Buses became a trap for Covid-19 and other diseases as millions are packed as Sardines in it.

With that the housing authority and other services of transportation deteriorated while the politicians wanted more money to spend wastefully.

Open the school, close the school. Mandate the vaccines to continue not correcting the real resons of this destruction of the Quality of Life.

Regret...

 

The Liberal Media create Hero's and Villain's based on their own attempt to control the viewers' opinion. A gimmick that became obvious lately as we have seen the Covid-19 virus spread like wild fire and took out thousands of NYS resident.  Just a thought.

More death...

 

New York's new governor Kathy Hochul  said that the state's Covid-19 death toll now aligns with the count from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after the state added nearly 12,000 deaths that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration didn't officially tally.

The announcement by Democratic Gov. means that New York's Covid-19 death toll is now at 55,395, a significant jump from the tally under Cuomo, who left office in disgrace earlier this week.

The nearly 12,000 deaths are not new, but Cuomo's administration had tallied deaths from an internal reporting system that accounted only for hospitals, nursing homes and adult care facilities. It did not factor death certificate data submitted to the CDC, which included deaths in any location, including at home.

Cuomo, who along with his administration has been widely criticized for Covid-19 death toll calculations, reported 43,404 total Covid-19 deaths on Monday during his final hours as governor.  

What else is there?     Just a thought.

Plan...

 

How to exit Afghanistan is extremely difficult ... while invading, bombing the country for twenty years?

Pull...

 

In February 2019, CBS revealed that former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe told "60 Minutes" that he and other Justice Department officials met to discuss whether they could get a majority of Cabinet members to remove Trump from office after Comey's firing. Trump fired McCabe in March 2018. 

Today there is another call to remove the sitting president Biden due to continue failure all around. But then we will get the VP's failure...

Do we have an alternative Amendment to pull?

 Just a thought

Grim...

 

President Joe Biden just got some deeply unwelcome news: The pandemic that he was elected to end could drag on deep into a midterm election year, with all the political and economic destruction that could bring.

The warning by the government's top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, that the crisis won't be under control until spring of next year -- and even then, it will need most American vaccine skeptics to change their minds -- came as a severe jolt to a weary nation.

A pandemic that stretches through another grim winter and beyond risks slowing the economic recovery on which Biden is relying for a strong performance next year. It could demoralize the public and trigger the kind of sour mood among the electorate that always spells danger for incumbents. 

Already, the President's personal approval ratings and public confidence in his management of the pandemic have been ebbing, according to recent NBC and CBS polls.

Biden's partial declaration of victory over the virus on July Fourth looks highly premature.

The death from Covid-19 virous is mounting, and the return to school will exaggerate the problems to its max. 

That failure is happening in spite the available vaccines this year, a powerful tool that wasn't available most of last year.  Just a thought

Pink Hair...

 

The original video begins with a crowd gathered around a stack of black and blue milk crates as a woman with pink hair, dressed in a sports bra and leggings, begins her ascent up the pyramid.

She places her foot on the first crate, then the second stacked crate, and somewhere around the third stack the tower beneath her white flip-flops begins to wobble and she falls, sending the pyramid of milk crates toppling across the lawn.  Just a thought.

Stonewalling...

 

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a metaphor depicting the end of times in the New Testament. They describe conquest, war, hunger, and death respectively. We use this metaphor to describe communication styles that, according to our research, can predict the end of a relationship.

The first horseman is criticism. Criticizing your partner is different than offering a critique or voicing a complaint. The latter two are about specific issues, whereas the former is an ad hominem attack. It is an attack on your partner at the core of their character. In effect, you are dismantling their whole being when you criticize.

The second horseman is contempt. When we communicate in this state, we treat others with disrespect, mock them with sarcasm, ridicule, call them names, and mimic or use body language such as eye-rolling or scoffing. The target of contempt is made to feel despised and worthless.

The third horseman is defensiveness, and it is typically a response to criticism.   When we feel unjustly accused, we fish for excuses and play the innocent victim so that our partner will back off.

The fourth horseman is stonewalling, which is usually a response to contempt. Stonewalling occurs when the listener withdraws from the interaction, shuts down, and simply stops responding to their partner.   Just a thought.

Advise...

 

Are you aware of the danger of giving advice? 

Most people claim to want input, claim that they try to hire people smarter than they are.  But in fact, many if not most people are more motivated to preserve their self-esteem. 

Every time you offer an idea, you may well make them feel less than. 

Ironically, the better your idea, the more inferior they feel and thus the more likely to distance themselves from you in favor of people who make them feel better about themselves.

Humans are not computers that means defaulting to:

• Phrasing advice as a question and in a face-saving way, for example, “I’m wondering if an alternative approach might be X. What do you think?” And when they yes-but you, even if irrationally, the most you can usually do is to take one more crack at it, providing new information to justify a new decision.
• Realizing that no matter how tactful, every time you offer an idea, especially one that one-ups someone else’s idea, you pay a price.  
• Where possible, give someone else credit for at least part of the idea.  
• Providing your ideas in writing. That gives recipients time to diffuse their defensiveness. It's particularly wise to put your idea in writing when you have an idea during a meeting. Offering it in the meeting risks turning off a number of people. 

Elementary

 

An unvaccinated elementary school teacher who took off their mask to read to students ended up infecting more than half of them last May -- and they went on to infect other students, family members and community members, California public health officials reported Friday.

It's a prime example of how easy it is to undermine efforts to protect children too young to be vaccinated, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.

The teacher came to work even though they had Covid-19 symptoms and then took off their mask to read to the young students, a team at Marin County Public Health reported in the CDC's weekly report on death and disease. The teacher assumed the symptoms indicated allergies, not infection, the investigators found

 the classroom of 22 students, 12 became infected -- including eight out of 10 students in the two front rows.

This is the next shoe to drop.

Sitting...

 

1-Knees Together, Feet Spread:
You have a charming and personable nature but may be childish at times. You don’t always like to address problems and either ignore them or place them on the back burner. A glass-full type of person, you tend to see the positive in a situation. You are also very creative.

2-Legs Crossed One Over the Other:
You like to see things through, especially your own dreams and ideas. You are highly creative and very social, enjoying lots of friendships with different types of people. You are a wonderful, insightful conversationalist, but underneath that is also some insecurity. Because you love to travel, it’s not surprising if you prefer to move around a lot. Habitual leg-crossers are also out-of-the-box thinkers.

3-Legs Spread Apart

Things might be a little chaotic for you, but in your mind it’s organized chaos that you’re perfectly capable of living with. Staying focused isn’t your strong-suit, whether it’s during a conversation or a task. Drama may have a tendency to follow you but you don’t mind, it only makes you more motivated. In terms of your personal style, comfort is your go-to.

4-Knees and Feet Together, Facing Straight:
Self-restraint comes easily to these folks, but so does confidence. They are kind and gentle, but also straight-shooters, unafraid to be honest. These people are also very smart, and tend to shun confrontation of any sort. Instead, they are most comfortable when things are peaceful. One of their pet peeves is lateness, so they are typically punctual and would appreciate if you are too.

5-Legs at an Angel, Ankles Crossed or  Uncrossed

You are very ambitious and will work hard to accomplish your goals, knowing that in time everything will come to fruition. That’s why you are okay with things not being rushed. You’re also a great listener and confidant.
However, you are also very concerned with your outward appearance, and want to look good at all times. This hides some insecurities which flare up when you are hit with criticism. Your feelings do get hurt in those cases but you tend to internalize it.

Gimmick...

 

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration's Covid-related eviction moratorium.

"Congress was on notice that a further extension would almost surely require new legislation, yet it failed to act in the several weeks leading up to the moratorium's expiration," the court wrote in an unsigned, eight-page opinion

Landlord groups challenging the eviction ban pointed to a concurrence written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when the earlier version of the moratorium was before the Supreme Court in June. Kavanaugh said Congress had to act in order to extend it.

The landlords accused the Biden administration of "gamesmanship" for ultimately reviving the moratorium after several top administration officials said, in the wake of Kavanaugh's concurrence, that they did not think the Supreme Court would uphold an extension of the moratorium.

The court pointed to the "decades-old statute" the CDC was relying on to defend the moratorium that it "strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts."

Award...

 

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute  praised Cuomo, who first took office on January 2011, for fighting “for social, racial and economic justice for all New Yorkers.”

Under Cuomo’s leadership, New York passed a $15 minimum wage, the nation's strongest paid family leave program and some of its strongest gun safety laws, the institute said.

Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of Edward Kennedy, said Cuomo showed leadership during the early days of the pandemic when thousands were dying in New York.

Cuomo said the test of leadership is telling people what they don’t want to hear including the need for social distancing from those not in their immediate household.

“That’s when Gov. Cuomo became a household name," she said. “His dialing briefings became must-see TV.”

He continued to be a household name all the way til the bitter end. And I mean Bitter.

 Just a thought.

Baby Daddy...

 

Survive..

 

Some don't want to be forced to even accept new technologies. Why is this so hard for the Americans to understand. Don't we have the same here?

Some are living comfortably in their whatever century they are in. They would gradually move at their own pace to whatever time zone they can survive in.

Here comes the Americans........ to move women and girls few centuries ahead. Who wants that?.. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, husbands, sons, daughters?

We paid people to agree with us and with our plans. Just a thought.

Lives...

 

Over...

 

Distance...

 

..Mutates...

 

When the coronavirus surfaced last year, no one was prepared for it to invade every aspect of daily life for so long, so insidiously. The pandemic has forced Americans to wrestle with life-or-death choices every day of the past 18 months and there is no end in sight.

Scientific understanding of the virus changes by the hour, it seems. The virus spreads only by close contact or on contaminated surfaces, and then turns out to be airborne. The virus mutates slowly, but then emerges in a series of dangerous new forms. Americans do not need to wear masks. Wait, they do.

Americans are living with science as it unfolds in real time. The process has always been fluid, unpredictable. But rarely has it moved at this speed, leaving citizens to confront research findings as soon as they land at the front door, a stream of deliveries that no one ordered and no one wants.

Is a visit to my ailing parent too dangerous? Do the benefits of in-person schooling outweigh the possibility of physical harm to my child? Will our family gathering turn into a super spreader event?
Living with a capricious enemy has been unsettling even for researchers, public health officials and journalists who are used to the mutable nature of science. They, too, have frequently agonized over the best way to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.

But to frustrated Americans unfamiliar with the circuitous and often contentious path to scientific discovery, public health officials have seemed at times to be moving the goal posts and flip-flopping, or misleading, even lying to, the country.

Most of the time, scientists are “edging forward in a very incremental way,” 
“There are blind alleys that people go down, and a lot of the time, you kind of don’t know what you don’t know.”

Biology and medicine are particularly demanding fields. Ideas are evaluated for years, sometimes decades, before they are accepted.
Not this time, we got no time...    Just a thought.

Unavoidable...

Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan has led to scenes of pandemonium in Afghanistan, with as many as 11,000 Americans and tens of thousands of endangered Afghans scrambling to evacuate the country.

 Scenes of civilians swamping planes on the runway at the Kabul airport, desperate for escape, have triggered bipartisan criticism that the Biden administration handled the hasty exit poorly.

 President Joe Biden stood firm in his defense of the United States' withdrawal, and asserted for the first time that he believes the chaos was unavoidable.

"Now exactly what happened, I've not priced in," he said. "But I knew that they're going to have an enormous  Look, one of the things we didn't know is what the Taliban would do in terms of trying to keep people from getting out.  

What are they doing now? They're cooperating, letting American citizens get out, American personnel get out, embassies get out, et cetera, but they're having -- we're having some more difficulty having those who helped us when we were in there."

Anybody...

 

Ideas...

 

Pulled...

 

Message...

 

Dancing...

 

OutSource...

 

America’s war in Afghanistan presents a mystery: How could so much money, power, and good will have achieved so little? Congress has appropriated almost eight hundred billion dollars for military operations in Afghanistan; a hundred and thirteen billion has gone to reconstruction, more than was spent on the Marshall Plan, in postwar Europe. General David Petraeus, encouraged the practice of pumping money into the economy of Afghanistan. He believed that money had helped buy peace during his command of American forces in Iraq. “Employ money as a weapons system,” Petraeus wrote in 2008. “Money can be ‘ammunition.’ ”

 To minimize casualties, the military outsourced any task that it could: maintenance, cooking and laundry, overland logistics, even security. Since 2007, there have regularly been more contractors than U.S. forces in Afghanistan; today, they outnumber them three to one.

 When a House committee investigated the trucking system that supplied American forces, it found that the system had “fueled a vast protection racket run by a shadowy network of warlords, strongmen, commanders, corrupt Afghan officials, and perhaps others.” Its report concluded that “protection payments for safe passage are a significant potential source of funding for the Taliban.” The system risked “undermining the U.S. strategy for achieving its goals in Afghanistan.”

Sudden...

 

Senility...

 

At Least...

 

Band-aid...

 

Pumping...

 

America’s war in Afghanistan presents a mystery: how could so much money, power, and good will have achieved so little?

 Congress has appropriated almost eight hundred billion dollars for military operations in Afghanistan; a hundred and thirteen billion has gone to reconstruction, more than was spent on the Marshall Plan, in postwar Europe. 

General David Petraeus, a principal architect of U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, encouraged the practice of pumping money into the economy of Afghanistan. 

He believed that money had helped buy peace during his command of American forces in Iraq. “Employ money as a weapons system,” Petraeus wrote in 2008. “Money can be ‘ammunition.’ ”

The result was a war waged as much by for-profit companies as by the military. The military outsourced any task that it could: maintenance, cooking and laundry, overland logistics, even security.  ; today, they outnumber them three to one.

One result has been forms of corruption so extreme that the military has, in some cases, funded its own enemy. When a House committee investigated the trucking system that supplied American forces, it found that the system had “fueled a vast protection racket run by a shadowy network of warlords, strongmen, commanders, corrupt Afghan officials, and perhaps others.” Its report concluded that “protection payments for safe passage are a significant potential source of funding for the Taliban.”  Just a thought.