We're Outta Here!

The U.S. ends the war in Afghanistan.

 

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Americans spent years to capture one of these guys.

The United States has formally ended the longest war. But the war at home continues. The far-right and the bad faith actors on the left as well as war hawks on CNN, MSNBC, Fox and other entities are calling this withdrawal a "defeat."

The War on Terror was launched in December 2001 when the Afghanistan government led by the Taliban rejected the request to turn over Osama bin Laden, one of the key planners of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The Republican president George W. Bush failed to read his briefing and it led to the deadly terrorist attack on New York City, Washington, DC and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The junk food media gave Bush praise for telling the world that "we're going to respond" to the attack. 

Bush who was not popular saw his popularity rise eight months after September 11th. With the water carrying Fox leading the news cycle with bias coverage of the Republican president, questioning the war in Afghanistan meant you either were for the troops or for the enemy. 

The U.S. military overthrew the Taliban government. They established a western-back democracy that collapse the moment the U.S. abandoned its three bases.

Barack Obama, then Democratic president ordered the hit on Osama bin Laden. The al-Qaeda spokesman and chief operator was found in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a middle class neighborhood.

He was killed by the U.S. Navy Seals in May 2011. His body was captured and dumped in the sea.

Since the death of Osama bin Laden, the U.S. continued to be in Afghanistan taking on Taliban fighters.

The Taliban fighters were well prepared for any type of military assault. They managed to kill more American troops through proxy attacks like car and suicide bombings. The Taliban was also doing a media campaign to turn opinions against the U.S. and western back governments.

Washed Up 45 laid the groundwork for an immediate pullout. President Joe Biden followed through and ended the war in Afghanistan.

The United States has withdrawn the last of its military out of Kabul, officially ending a 20-year war in Afghanistan that has become known for its massive failures and lies that cost trillions of dollars and the lives of Americans and Afghans alike.

Afghanistan will run its own path.

The last C-17 plane departed from Afghanistan at 3:29 p.m. EDT Monday (11:59 p.m. Kabul time), putting an end to the country’s withdrawal, which was rushed by the Taliban’s quick takeover and threatened by a deadly suicide attack that the Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan claimed responsibility for.

“Tonight’s withdrawal signifies both the end of the military component of the evacuation but also the end of the nearly 20-year mission that began in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11, 2001,” said Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who leads U.S. Central Command.

McKenzie added that he can say with 100% certainty that every single U.S. service member is now out of Afghanistan and that there were no evacuees left at the airport when the last U.S. flight left Kabul.

About 123,000 people have been evacuated since Aug. 14 in one of the largest airlifts in history, though the increasing danger to Kabul’s airport resulted in some Americans and thousands of Afghan allies left behind. The White House said Monday that about 6,000 Americans have been evacuated or otherwise have left Afghanistan in that same time.

The Pentagon said there were no non-military Americans on the last military flights, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that there are “likely closer to 100” Americans left in Afghanistan who want to leave. McKenzie also stressed that some Americans expressed they wanted to stay Afghanistan.

“I believe our Department of State is going to work very hard to allow any American citizens that are left” in Afghanistan to be able to leave, he said. “I believe that we’re going to be able to get those people out. I think we’re also going to negotiate very hard, very aggressively to get our other Afghan partners out. The military phase is over, but our desire to bring these people out remains as intense as it was before.” 

Earlier Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Taliban has publicly stated it will allow people to travel outside of Afghanistan after Aug. 31.

“That does not mean we trust what they say, but there is an enormous amount of international leverage,” Psaki said. “There is a discussion about what our diplomatic presence may look like moving forward. Our current plan is to not have an ongoing diplomatic presence in Afghanistan” for now, but the U.S. would like to find ways to work with Afghans.

U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal that a small handful of remaining U.S. diplomats also left on Monday and are safe in Kuwait. This means there are currently no U.S. diplomats left in Afghanistan.

Biden tearfully mourns the deaths of 13 troops killed last Tuesday in Kabul.

The U.S. deadline to fully withdraw its military from Afghanistan came on the heels of a suicide bomb that killed 13 U.S. service members and about 180 Afghans near Kabul’s international airport. President Joe Biden vowed at the time to retaliate against those responsible for the attack, but said the U.S. would continue its evacuation operation. 

Since then, the U.S. carried out a drone strike it said hit a suicide bomber on the way to the airport, though the attack also killed 10 Afghan civilians that included small children. Early Monday, ISIS-K fired a wave of rockets at the emptying airport, one of which the Pentagon said was intercepted by its missile defense system.

The War in Afghanistan led to nearly 259,000 people killed. Of those people killed, 2,420 American troops killed. 

Regrets!

Texas far-right activist leaves his pregnant wife a widow. 

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The remnants of Hurricane Ida has complicated things. The southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and Florida are in the path of the storm. The state of Louisiana has 70% of power loss. The state of Mississippi has 65% of power loss. These two states also have some of the worse cases of COVID-19. 

Arkansas, Missouri and Florida are leading in the most cases of infections.

As we are approaching 675,000 dead from the coronavirus, we keep hearing more and more Americans still refusing to get vaccinated. The coronavirus has mutated into strains that could infect vaccinated Americans. It has become apparent that an unvaccinated person could launch a deadly pandemic within approximately 10 days.

The White House had to reimpose the mask mandate for its staff and journalists. The House of Representatives and the Senate are imposing the mask mandate after numerous lawmakers tested positive for the coronavirus despite being vaccinated.

We are hearing about Americans regretting their decision not to get vaccinated.

A Texas anti-vaxxer and anti-mask mandate agitator died over the weekend.

Caleb Wallace, the 30-year-old founder of a group called the San Angelo Freedom Defenders who protested against masks and business closures in Texas, died on Saturday of COVID-19.

His wife, Jessica Wallace, who is pregnant with their fourth child, announced his death on a GoFundMe page. Wallace lived in San Angelo, Texas, and in July 2020 organized an event called the Freedom Rally, where participants demonstrated against lockdowns, the media, and the science behind COVID-19, The Associated Press reports. In April, Wallace demanded San Angelo's school district get rid of all of its COVID-19 safety protocols.

Jessica Wallace told the San Angelo Standard-Times that on July 26, her husband began experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, and instead of going to the hospital to get tested, he started taking high doses of Vitamin C, zinc, and the anti-parasitic medicine ivermectin, which is used for livestock. Health officials have urged people to stop taking this medication for the coronavirus.

On July 30, Wallace was admitted to the emergency room, and eight days later was put on a ventilator. Jessica Wallace wrote on the GoFundMe page that her husband was "an imperfect man but he loved his family and his little girls more than anything." She said to those who "wished him death," she is "sorry his views and opinions hurt you. I prayed he'd come out of this with a new perspective and more appreciation for life. I can't say much more than that because I can't speak for him."

An Alabama woman regrets telling her son to avoid getting vaccinated. He died and her family is in the path of that hurricane. The woman shares her story and urges Americans to get vaccinated.

These days, Christy Carpenter finds strength in her family and faith. But on some days, one question keeps ringing in her head: "Why?"

After weeks of battling through oxygen treatments, her 28-year-old son died in the hospital two months after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

Now in Carpenter's Alabama home, the room belonging to Curt, her "beautiful baby boy" and firstborn, remains empty - a painful reminder of a life that could have been saved if the family had decided to get vaccinated, she said.

"It took watching my son die and me suffering the effects of covid for us to realize we need the vaccine," the mother said. "We did not get vaccinated when we had the opportunity and regret that so much now."

Although for her it will always be impossible to understand the reason for Curt's passing, Carpenter said she is determined to not let her son's death be futile.

"If Curt were here today, he would make it his mission to encourage everyone to get vaccinated," Carpenter said. "Cayla, his sister, and I are carrying out that mission in his memory."

Curt Carpenter was a young and otherwise healthy man. While at home, his mother said, he would spoil her with the "best hugs" and a daily dosage of kindness. Curt was autistic, but Christy Carpenter said he "lived life to the fullest" and had a passion for all things Pokémon, trains, video games and frogs.

The pandemic dealt a big blow to the tightknit Carpenter family on March 5, when Curt, his younger sister and his mother were diagnosed with the virus, which has claimed about 610,000 lives across the nation.

At first, the three experienced mild symptoms that slowly began to alleviate. Then, a week later, everything took a turn for the worse.

When their oxygen saturation levels dropped dangerously, the mother and son were rushed to Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham. A day later, they both developed pneumonia, and Curt Carpenter was put on a ventilator.

The constantly changing oxygen levels paired with a pneumothorax - a collapsed lung - were too much for Curt Carpenter's body. His organs began shutting down. He was declared dead May 2.

His last uttered phrase is still etched in Christy Carpenter's mind: "This is not a hoax, this is real," Curt said, according to his mother.

Alabama woman shares her son's death to COVID.

His mother said Curt Carpenter at first believed that the coronavirus was a hoax. The whole family was hesitant to get vaccinated when the shots became available.

"It took years to create other vaccines, and the coronavirus vaccine was created very quickly," Christy Carpenter said. "That made us very nervous."

The Carpenters' reluctance is not unique in a state with the lowest vaccination rates in the country. According to data from the Alabama Department of Public Health, only 33.9 percent of the state's eligible population has been fully vaccinated, and 41.6 percent has received at least one dose.

With cases beginning to climb in the state, health officials are attempting to boost confidence in the vaccine - but difficulties in rollout paired with distrust have become major hurdles.

"We find that there's a lot of mistrust with messages that come from state government, from public health, in particular, from the media," said Scott Harris, chief executive of the Alabama Department of Public Health. "It's just a multilayered problem. There's just a lot of different people who have a lot of different reasons for not getting the vaccine. And it's just hard to address them in a big way."

Much like the Carpenters, unvaccinated people are often the ones to endure the most severe effects of the virus. In Alabama, they account for more than 95 percent of the current COVID-related hospitalizations, Harris said.

Yet, for some, the disease does not end with a negative coronavirus test. Its aftermath can be just as harrowing.

Even after being discharged from the hospital, Christy Carpenter said, she could not drive or work until late May. She said she has been on pulmonary therapy ever since and still struggles with fatigue, hair loss and "covid brain."

"I lose my train of thought easily, can't remember parts of conversations, can't remember people's names that I have known for years," she said. "I sometimes think I'm going crazy, but I know I'm not."

Even worse, she deals with the backwash of memories of her son - a "social butterfly who knew no strangers" and whose time was cut short. Yet his death has inspired a renewed appreciation for life and a mission to protect it.

"If we can help keep people healthier and possibly save lives by encouraging others to take the vaccine, then Curt's death was not in vain," Christy said. "Life is a precious gift from God."

So much for that "freedom."

Grow the fuck up!

Stop pandering bullshit.

These folks are going to fucking around and then find out.

Although the coronavirus vaccines can prevent transmission and hospitalization, the virulent Delta variant has been the source of a small proportion of "breakthrough" cases that can affect older and immunocompromised people.

Of course, there's folks who are fully vaccinated but end up getting the coronavirus. As with vaccines, nothing is 100%. The vaccines are capable of preventing the coronavirus. At best, it's a 94% prevention rate which means 1 out of 500 could be infected even if they're vaccinated.

President Joe Biden had hopes that Americans would take this shit seriously. Unfortunately, Republicans so fucking eager to return to power will keep Americans fixated on the culture wars. Now vaccinations are part of this culture war.

But those fighting the culture war by not vaccinating, not wearing face mask in public, not following protocols, and deliberately ignoring federal and international rules when traveling are going to be the first casualties of the war. 

With this pandemic mostly affecting states where Republican governors are, we may have to return to wearing facial protection and cutting back services to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

Do you have sympathy for those unvaccinated Americans who caught the coronavirus?

Yes

No

We came so far only to have a bunch of selfish idiots set it back. Just because they hate President Joe Biden.

The Republicans are so devoted to destroying Biden and the country for what....to regain power.

Pathetic.

According to the CDC, there is still not enough information on antibodies for COVID-19 and whether they can prevent someone from getting reinfected. It still recommends that people with a positive antibody test follow recommendations for protecting themselves and others.

The coronavirus doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about anything. It's a living organism that causes mild symptoms that include: fever, sore throats, chills, respiratory issues, loss of taste or smell and other unknown symptoms. If you have a weak immune system or health issues, your risk increases.

Death does happen to at least 40% of those who are affected by COVID-19. 

If you're not vaccinated, your chances of death increases to 62%.

Healthy people can die from this. Take this seriously. You only have one life!

If you need more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at cdc.gov.

Marc Bernier Passed Away!

Another far-right ignorant talker paid the price for his macho talk.

 

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Another far right talker fucked around and he found out.

Daytona Beach, Florida talk radio host Karen Bernier passed away from complications of COVID-19.

The far-right agitator who said he wouldn't get vaccinated has died. The third on-air personality who voiced skepticism about getting the shot passed away this month.

The 65-year old agitator who dubbed himself, "Mr. Anti-Vaxx" died after three weeks of fighting the coronavirus. 

"It's with great sadness that WNDB and Southern Stone Communications announce the passing of Karen Bernier, who informed and entertained listeners on WNDB for over 30 years," his flagship station tweeted on social media.

"We kindly ask that privacy is given to Marc's family during this time of grief."

The Rhode Island native was initially hospitalized on August 7. The agitator's guests said that his anti-vaccination views were based on how he believed vaccines impacted other close to him -- rather than politics.

On December 19, about a week after Pfizer's vaccine received emergency use authorization, a co-host asked Bernier if he planned on getting the jab.

"I'm not taking it," he said. "Are you kidding me? Mr. Anti-Vax? Jeepers."

Republican sheriff of Volusia County Mike Chitwood said Bernier's death had him hard.

The far-right host from Nashville found his ignorant doomed him.

This marks the third conservative agitator to die of the coronavirus. The other idiots who died were Karen Farrel, a former Newsmax host turned talk radio agitator and the nationally syndicated Karen Valentine who made a mock song called, "Mr. Vaxman."

Valentine was the only idiot to repent for his ignorance. His family told the junk food media, that he wished he didn't mock Biden's handling of the coronavirus. Now he paid the price and his wife and two sons are with him.

So much for that "freedom."

Grow the fuck up!

Stop pandering bullshit.

These folks are going to fucking around and then find out.

Although the coronavirus vaccines can prevent transmission and hospitalization, the virulent Delta variant has been the source of a small proportion of "breakthrough" cases that can affect older and immunocompromised people.

Of course, there's folks who are fully vaccinated but end up getting the coronavirus. As with vaccines, nothing is 100%. The vaccines are capable of preventing the coronavirus. At best, it's a 94% prevention rate which means 1 out of 500 could be infected even if they're vaccinated.

President Joe Biden had hopes that Americans would take this shit seriously. Unfortunately, Republicans so fucking eager to return to power will keep Americans fixated on the culture wars. Now vaccinations are part of this culture war.

But those fighting the culture war by not vaccinating, not wearing face mask in public, not following protocols, and deliberately ignoring federal and international rules when traveling are going to be the first casualties of the war. 

With this pandemic mostly affecting states where Republican governors are, we may have to return to wearing facial protection and cutting back services to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

We came so far only to have a bunch of selfish idiots set it back. Just because they hate President Joe Biden.

The Republicans are so devoted to destroying Biden and the country for what....to regain power.

Pathetic.

According to the CDC, there is still not enough information on antibodies for COVID-19 and whether they can prevent someone from getting reinfected. It still recommends that people with a positive antibody test follow recommendations for protecting themselves and others.

The coronavirus doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about anything. It's a living organism that causes mild symptoms that include: fever, sore throats, chills, respiratory issues, loss of taste or smell and other unknown symptoms. If you have a weak immune system or health issues, your risk increases.

Death does happen to at least 40% of those who are affected by COVID-19. 

If you're not vaccinated, your chances of death increases to 62%.

Healthy people can die from this. Take this seriously. You only have one life!

If you need more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at cdc.gov.

Ed Asner Passed Away!

Ed Asner passed away.

 

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WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!

WE'RE NOT THE ESTABLISHMENT! WE ARE THE VOTERS WHO SUPPORT CANDIDATES THAT AREN'T THE NOISE! REJECT EXTREMISTS ON THE LEFT AND ESPECIALLY ON THE RIGHT!

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!

EXPECT MORE!

Only a few weeks ago, Ed Asner has told the junk food media, there's no need to retire, he's still working hard and still getting paid. The legendary actor who appeared on television, movies and radio has passed away at the age of 91.

He will already be known for his role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. I also remember Asner as a very talented voice actor and progressive activist.

Asner, the burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and later in the drama “Lou Grant,” died Sunday.

Asner's representative confirmed the actor's death in an email to The Associated Press. Asner's official Twitter account included a note from his children: “We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully. Words cannot express the sadness we feel. With a kiss on your head- Goodnight dad. We love you.”

Built like the football lineman he once was, the balding Asner was a journeyman actor in films and TV when he was hired in 1970 to play Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” For seven seasons he was the rumpled boss to Moore’s ebullient Mary Richards (He called her “Mary,” she called him “Mr. Grant”) at the fictional Minneapolis TV newsroom where both worked. Later, he would play the role for five years on “Lou Grant.”

Asner’s character had caught on from the first episode of “Mary Tyler Moore,” when he told Mary in their initial meeting, “You’ve got spunk. ... I hate spunk!” The inspired cast included Ted Knight as Ted Baxter, the dimwitted news anchor; Gavin MacLeod as Murray Slaughter, the sarcastic news writer; and Betty White as the manipulative, sex-obsessed home show hostess Sue Ann Nivens. Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman, playing Mary’s neighbors, both saw their characters spun off into their own shows.

Asner is the third “Mary Tyler Moore” alum to die in recent months. Leachman died in January and MacLeod died in May.

The 99-year-old White is the lone surviving main cast member from “Mary Tyler Moore."

“Mary Tyler Moore” was still a hit when the star decided to pursue other interests, and so it was brought to an end in the seventh season with a hilarious finale in which all of the principals were fired except for the bumbling Baxter.

Asner went immediately into “Lou Grant,” his character moving from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to become city editor of the Tribune, a crusading newspaper under the firm hand of Publisher Margaret Pynchon, memorably played by Nancy Marchand.

Mary Tyler Moore built an empire of celebrities. Ed Asner was one of her best friends.

Asner won three best supporting actor Emmys on “Mary Tyler Moore” and two best actor awards on “Lou Grant.” He also won Emmys for his roles in the miniseries “Rich Man, Poor Man” (1975-1976) and “Roots” (1976-1977).

He had more than 300 acting credits and remained active throughout his 70s and 80s in a variety of film and TV roles. In 2003, he played Santa Claus in Will Ferrell’s hit film “Elf.” He was John Goodman’s father in the short-lived 2004 CBS comedy “Center of the Universe” and the voice of the elderly hero in the hit 2009 Pixar release, “Up.” More recently, he was in such TV series as “Forgive Me” and “Dead to Me.”

Nonetheless, Asner told The Associated Press in 2009 that interesting roles were hard to come by.

“I never get enough work,” he said. “It’s the history of my career. There just isn’t anything to turn down, let me put it that way.”

“I’d say most people are probably in that same boat, old people, and it’s a shame,” he said.

As Screen Actors Guild president, the liberal Asner was caught up in a political controversy in 1982 when he spoke out against U.S. involvement with repressive governments in Latin America. “Lou Grant” was canceled during the furor that followed and he did not run for a third SAG term in 1985.

Asner discussed his politicization in a 2002 interview, noting he had begun his career during the McCarthy era and for years had been afraid to speak out for fear of being blacklisted.

Then he saw a nun’s film depicting the cruelties inflicted by El Salvador’s government on that country’s citizens.

“I stepped out to complain about our country’s constant arming and fortifying of the military in El Salvador, who were oppressing their people,” he said.

Former SAG President Charlton Heston and others accused him of making un-American statements and of misusing his position as head of their actors union.

“We even had bomb threats at the time. I had armed guards,” Asner recalled.

The actor blamed the controversy for ending the five-year run of “Lou Grant,” although CBS insisted declining ratings were the reason the show was canceled.

Although the show had its light moments, its scripts touched on a variety of darker social issues that most series wouldn’t touch at the time, including alcoholism and homelessness. Asner remained politically active for the rest of his life and in 2017 published the book “The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs.”

Asner, born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1929, almost became a newsman in real life. He studied journalism at the University of Chicago until a professor told him there was little money to be made in the profession.

He quickly switched to drama, debuting as the martyred Thomas Becket in a campus production of T.S. Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral.”

He eventually dropped out of school, going to work as a taxi driver and other jobs before being drafted in 1951. He served with the Army Signal Corps in France.

Returning to Chicago after military service, he appeared at the Playwrights Theatre Club and Second City, the famed satire troupe that launched the careers of dozens of top comedians.

Later, in New York, he joined the long-running “The Threepenny Opera” and appeared opposite Jack Lemmon in “Face of a Hero.”

Arriving in Hollywood in 1961 for an episode of television’s “Naked City,” Asner decided to stay and appeared in numerous movies and TV shows, including the film “El Dorado,” opposite John Wayne; and the Elvis Presley vehicles “Kid Galahad” and “Change of Habit.” He was a regular in the 1960s political drama series “Slattery’s People.”

He was married twice, to Nancy Lou Sykes and Cindy Gilmore, and had four children, Matthew, Liza, Kate and Charles.

Ida Is Katrina's Cousin!

Hurricane Ida makes landfall.

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The president is dealing with Afghanistan, the global pandemic and now a deadly hurricane.

A superstorm is expected to hit the state of Louisiana, 16 years to the day of the most deadliest hurricane to hit the state.

Much needed break from the constant coverage of the military pullout of Afghanistan. 

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov, John Bel Edwards of Louisiana are warning Louisiana residents that every Parish is at risk of death and destruction. 

Hurricane Ida has made landfall in southern Louisiana and its path is direct impact on Baton Rouge.

The state has already declared a state of emergency and those who choose to stay are at risk of death.

The 911 system has crashed already in the state. 

The cyclone's path is basically stretching from Louisiana to Florida. The hurricane is a Category 4 which is considered catastrophic on the scale of 1 to 5. Hurricanes that are Category 5 are considered extremely catastrophic.

The hurricane churned out in the Gulf of Mexico last Monday and hit Cuba on Thursday. It was expected to pick up steam around Friday and those live in the impact zone were given ample time to prepare.

Ida made landfall over Port Fourchon, Louisiana, at about 11:55 a.m. CDT as the storm moved into the mouth of the Mississippi River, the National Hurricane Center said.

Air Force Reserve aircraft and radar data showed that "Ida's maximum sustained winds at landfall were estimated to be 150 mph," the NHC added. Rainfall projections topped two feet in some parts of southern Louisiana.

"This is going to be devastating — a devastating, a life-threatening storm," Biden told reporters after he was briefed by FEMA officials. "So please, all you folks in Mississippi and in Louisiana ... take precautions, listen, take it seriously."

The president also said he signed emergency declarations so those two gulf states will gain the "full resources and support of the federal government."

Bel Edwards told residents who didn’t evacuate to keep a loose mattress within reach — in case a home’s roof is ripped off by powerful gusts.

“Because of the possibility that severe winds will damage your home, it is a good idea to have a mattress nearby that you can use to put over yourself and other family members to protect yourself from any falling debris,” he said.

Despite all these dire warnings, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell told people who opted against evacuating not to panic.

“Be calm in the midst of this storm. You can be calm," Cantrell said during a briefing on Sunday, just as Ida was making landfall.

"You have everything that you need. We will get through this together. Be prepared. Stay where you are.”

Collin Arnold, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, warned residents that emergency services wouldn’t be able to reach them until Monday.

“You need to stay inside until tomorrow. We’ll look at this during the first light of day,” Arnold said. “There’s nobody coming right now. You need to stay inside.”

At landfall, the storm's wind speeds were just short of 157 mph, the level considered a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, which rates storms from 1 to 5 based on maximum sustained wind speed.

Only four storms have made landfall in the continental United States as Category 5 hurricanes in the last century: the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992 and Michael in 2018.

Biden Honors Troops Killed In Kabul Attack!

The president mourns the troops killed in the Kabul attack.

 

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Biden's most difficult duty is to call slain troops families to inform them of their deaths.

President Joe Biden and First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden went to view the bodies of the slain military officers killed in the Kabul attack.

The difficult thing the president has to do is call the families of slain troops. The president will obviously face flack from the far-right because they're supposedly the "patriots" while the left are "anti-American."

The politizing of troops has always been in the card deck of the Republicans. The very same shameless party that allowed the former president whip up a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol are doing armchair general and keyboard warrior in regards to the pullout of Afghanistan.

Biden stood witness with grieving families Sunday under a gray sky as, one by one, the remains of 13 U.S. troops killed in the Kabul suicide bombing were removed with solemnity from a military aircraft that brought them home.

The only sounds that could be heard during the mournful ritual of the “dignified transfer” were the quiet commands of the honor guards in battle dress who carried the flag-draped cases, the hum of the C-17 aircraft that had transported the fallen and the periodic sob of the sorrowful.

The Bidens met privately with family members of those killed in the suicide attack near the Kabul airport before the president became the fourth commander in chief over two decades of war to stand at attention at Dover Air Force Base as the remains of the fallen from Afghanistan returned home.

There were 13 members killed but 12 were identified at the time.

The dead ranged in age from 20 to 31, and came from California and Massachusetts and states in between. Five were just 20 — born not long before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that spurred the United States to invade Afghanistan in order to topple al-Qaeda and dismantle their Taliban hosts who ruled the country.

They include a 20-year-old Marine from Wyoming who had been expecting his first child in three weeks and a 22-year-old Navy corpsman who in his last FaceTime conversation with his mother assured her that he would stay safe because “my guys got me.”

At their deaths, the 13 young service members were on the ground for the U.S. coda to its longest war, assisting a chaotic evacuation of Americans and of Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort and are now fleeing the Taliban after their return to power.

“The 13 service members that we lost were heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of our highest American ideals and while saving the lives of others,” Biden said in a statement Saturday. “Their bravery and selflessness has enabled more than 117,000 people at risk to reach safety thus far.”

Biden held his hand over his heart and appeared to shut his eyes in prayer as each transfer case was taken off the military aircraft and placed in an awaiting vehicle.

Family members of the fallen often travel to Dover to be present for the return of the remains of their loved ones to American soil. Thursday’s attack left so many casualties that military officials said the Dover Fisher House, which the Defense Department provides for families of the fallen, was not large enough to accommodate all the grieving families, so some loved ones stayed off base.

Biden was joined by several top aides, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Eleven of the fallen service members’ families chose to allow their transfers to be open to media coverage. Two others took place out of view, but Biden was present for those as well.

Biden’s three most recent predecessors as presidents all attended such dignified transfers. It was Biden’s first time taking part in the ritual as president, but he has been here before.

Biden attended a dignified transfer for two U.S. soldiers killed in a suicide blast at Bagram Airfield in the final months of his vice presidency in 2016. In 2008, while a senator and at the request of the grieving family, he attended one for a soldier killed in a car bombing in Iraq. Biden told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he had to get permission from the Pentagon to attend the transfer.

The 13 troops who died in Kabul were the first U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan since February 2020. That was when the Trump administration reached an agreement with the Taliban that called for the militant group to halt attacks on Americans in exchange for a U.S. commitment to remove all American troops and contractors by May 2021. Biden announced in April that he would have all forces out by September.

Eleven of the 13 Americans killed were Marines. One was a Navy sailor and one an Army soldier.

Good Trouble!

To honor the March on Washington, Al Sharpton and Martin Luther Luther III March for voting rights and police reform.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

PROTECT BLACK WOMEN! 

STOP ASIAN HATE!

PROTECT AAPI WOMEN!

FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸!

WEAR A DAMN MASK! SAVE A LIFE! TRUST SCIENCE AND MEDICAL EXPERTS! THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS FUCKING REAL!

GET VACCINATED! IF THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE VACCINES ARE AVAILABLE, GET IT WHILE IT'S STILL FREE! THE MEDICAL EXPERTS SAY THE VACCINES DO WORK AND IT REDUCES THE RISK OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTION. OVER 650,000 AMERICANS ARE DEAD FROM THE CORONAVIRUS.

HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE NOW! VOTE THESE DUMBASS LAWMAKERS OUT OF OFFICE! STOP SUPPORTING ALL FORMS OF EXTREMISM!

GIVE PUERTO RICO, GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS! GRANT STATEHOOD TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MAKE IT THE DOUGLASS COMMONWEALTH.

GOOGLE'S BLOGGER IS STRAIGHT UP TRASH! THE BLOGGER INTERFACE IS A TOTAL DISASTER AND IT'S RIDICULOUS!

WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!

WE'RE NOT THE ESTABLISHMENT! WE ARE THE VOTERS WHO SUPPORT CANDIDATES THAT AREN'T THE NOISE! REJECT EXTREMISTS ON THE LEFT AND ESPECIALLY ON THE RIGHT!

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!

EXPECT MORE!

Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, Bernice King, Democrats, Ludacris, Common and others demand the Congress pass the For The People's Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Bill.

The March on Washington is on and the many other cities are participating in this movement to demand voting rights for all Americans.

Thousands converged to Washington, DC to demand the protection of voting rights, walking in the footsteps of the 250,000 Americans who marched on the city in 1963. The day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech which is praised a catalysis for moving voting rights.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) and Rep. Al Green (D-TX) join the protests as well.

The brother of George Floyd, Philonise is also demanding the Congress pass the George Floyd Police Reform Act.

The bills are stalled in Congress by the two Democratic senators who refuse to go against the grain and reform the filibuster. The two Democrats, one from Arizona and one from West Virginia have ignored the calls from civil rights leaders and progressives. 

Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, Montana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas and Florida have passed or in the process of passing legislation that restricts mail-in voting, early voting and cutting hours to in-person voting.

Republicans seek to redistrict areas to keep them in power for generations.

Since 1992, the Republicans have failed to win the popular vote. The electoral college is looking more like it's in their favor because of the redistricting.

The Republicans are not willing to admit that Washed Up 45 lost fair and square. I mean he's still running around saying the election was stolen from him. That led to the insurrection.

The Republicans are shameless.

Democrats have a slim majority in the House of Representatives and a slim majority in the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris being the tie-breaking vote.

With the junk food media focused on Afghanistan, the Republicans are licking their chops. They feel they can win over Republicans who voted for Biden. 

It's time to get things done. We need to get things done now!