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Taliban Troll Biden On Twitter By Posing With Ice Cream https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taliban-troll-biden-twitter-posing-ice-cream The message is clear. They know Biden is a weak, mentally disabled joke of a man, and they have zero fear of America under his leadership. This is the image Biden has projected to America’s enemies. During a “press conference” in which Taliban leaders took questions from reporters (something Joe Biden refused to do Monday) they even commented that free speech in America is under more threat than in Afghanistan owing to the administration’s use of Facebook to censor dissent, and general big tech erosion of freedom of expression: Biden waited and waited until Kabul had been overrun by the Taliban and chaotic images started to emerge before he finally said anything to the American people on the matter. Sources also claim that Biden tried to get Kamala Harris to deal with the situation while he was at Camp David. National Security advisor Jake Sullivan also admitted Monday that Biden has not spoken to any foreign leaders on the issue. .... Truly a weak POTUS.

Looks like MAY has become HAS: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-vaccine-booster-shots-a10daad08f6d47aa5beca0b4da9da9d2 *sigh* This will be never ending, just like the seasonal flu vaccine. And record profits for Big Pharma, of course.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brett-favre-urges-no-tackle-football-children-under-14-n1276974 I agree with Mr. Favre, although the age should be under 18.....................

https://mises.org/wire/pentagon-and-generals-wanted-disastrous-war It's doesn’t take an immense amount of imagination to recall the images of those who were desperate to escape from the US embassy in Saigon. Blame the Generals and the Pentagon So now we reach the stage of figuring out who is to blame for this total strategic failure in Afghanistan. Some politicians will try and use the US regime’s failure in Afghanistan to score points against the Biden administration. We already see it with some Republicans who still haven't figured out that the American public long ago stopped caring about the war. It’s easy to see the partisan reasons for this, but if we want to honestly focus on who’s to blame for the utter waste of time and resources that was the war in Afghanistan, we have to look far beyond just a handful of civilian politicians. Yes, much of the blame should go to the civilian bureaucrats, because they share an immense amount of the blame in bringing about this strategic blunder. George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Madeleine Albright are just a few of the politicos who encouraged the continuation of this lost war. But the fact is the civilian war architects were encouraged and enabled every step of the way by Pentagon bureaucrats (i.e., the generals), who were only more than happy to have an excuse to pad their budgets and increase their relevance on Capitol Hill. As Ron Paul put it this week: Or, as Timothy Kudo describes it, Nor did the military officers council caution or peace. Douglas MacGregor at the American Conservative correctly recalls: Moreover, Petraeus and countless military technocrats continued to call for more military action while trying to place the blame on others.1 Doug Bandow sums it up: Indeed, the incompetence of the US’s military leadership has been on clear display in recent weeks as the US-trained and US-armed military personnel have been impotent in the face of Taliban advances. The US’s military hierarchy was specifically tasked with training these Afghan forces, yet it’s now clear how well that directive was carried out. Unwarranted Trust in Military Brass The complicity of the military brass’s role has always been especially damaging, because the generals have long banked on the unwarranted amount of credibility they enjoy with the public. As Kudo notes: Unfortunately, because of this, military personnel are likely to continue to be shielded from the criticism they deserve. After all, there is a persistent habit among many Americans to repeat the narrative that all wars will be won if only the politicians listen to the generals, and “let the generals do their job.” One still hears this today from those who still engage in wishful thinking about the Vietnam War and who still cling to the idea that the war could have been won if only the military “experts” had been in charge. In actual experience, however, the lost war in Afghanistan is what we get when we listen to the generals. But don't expect any meaningful reform. In the United States, when bureaucrats fail, they usually get rewarded with larger budgets, such as when the US's "intelligence community" allowed 9/11 to occur right under its collective nose. The same is likely—at least in the short term—for the Pentagon. The generals will simply "pivot" to argue for ever-larger military budgets in the name of fighting China, Iran, Russia, and other perceived enemies. In other words, the generals and the civilian politicians are hard at work planning the next Afghanistan. Let's just hope the taxpayers who pay for it all may be a little less naïve next time. Agreed. The military-industrial complex runs Washington D.C. It needs to be fed. "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." - Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some Ohio Judges Are Mandating Vaccinations as a Condition of Probation. That's an Abuse of Power. https://reason.com/2021/08/16/some-ohio-judges-are-mandating-vaccinations-as-a-condition-of-probation-thats-an-abuse-of-power/

Hoosiers debut at #17 in the AP Top 25: https://apnews.com/article/sports-college-football-nfl-arizona-alabama-85baad21f0a05d7bdf6523ce3643efe2

I'll agree with your there. I don't believe Mr. Eason or Mr. Erhlinger have much hope yet against a first string NFL defense.

Kabul Has Fallen – But Don’t Blame Biden https://mises.org/power-market/kabul-has-fallen-dont-blame-biden Truth.

Noted. Mr. Eason couldn't improvise his way out of a paper bag. I'll take more football smarts and scrambling ability than a rocket arm any day of the week. The days of Brady, Manning, Roethlisberger, etc. are coming to a quick end.

One of my children received free tickets to yesterday's pre-season game again the Carolina Panthers, so we attended. Good seats, not so good football, although IMHO young Mr. Ehlinger was more impressive than young Mr. Eason.

Free Society Dwindles as Permission Requirements Grow https://reason.com/2021/08/16/free-society-dwindles-as-permission-requirements-grow/ A shallow slippery slope, but a slippery slope all the same. And it needs to stop.

"In loco parentis" is a phrase I have heard from a number of government school administrators over the years. It's one of their primary justifications for zero tolerance policies, mass indoctrination, etc.

Something I have been saying over in the OOB for a while now.

What is with the strange capitalization in your question?

Lafayette Jefferson High School has a 61.7% free/reduced lunch/textbooks population: https://inview.doe.in.gov/schools/1078558069/population Is that lower income?

You pass Go in the game of Checkers?

https://mises.org/wire/inflations-assault-family In the absence of any graphs or balance sheets depicting current monetary inflation rates, I recommend anyone interested visit the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) site and access their many tutorials to get started. Verifications aside, none of the following should come as a shock to those following government responses to covid-19. Having limited economic activity through lockdowns, global governments have turned to their central banks to bail out their citizens and businesses alike. Growing government reliance on central bank monetary policies was evident long before this "pandemic." Still, many have only recently become aware of the staggering rate at which the money supply has increased. To reiterate, this increase in money supply is what we call "monetary inflation" or simply "inflation." What does history teach us about this topic? Murphy's article demonstrates the dangerous effects by referencing three historical examples of hyperinflation, the US Civil War, the Weimar Republic, and, more recently, Zimbabwe, which experienced unimaginable price inflation. Regarding the latter, he writes, But how does increasing the quantity of money cause consumer prices to rise? In his book What You Should Know about Inflation, Henry Hazlitt explained their relationship like this, In the era of global lockdowns, we've seen increasing supplies of money, decreasing supplies of goods, and governments financing their citizens to forgo work and stay home. Fewer workers produce fewer goods, and as we've just learned, fewer supplied goods with increasing supplies of money lead to higher prices. Although we haven't experienced anything remotely close to Murphy's earlier precedents, many families are being squeezed. Fortunately, avenues do exist which lead to improved financial outlooks. Living within one's means, avoiding "bad" debt, implementing a budget, and substituting goods when specific prices soar, to name a few. Sadly, authoritarian governments equipped with central banking policies minimize the positive effects of making responsible personal choices. In my family's case, having exhausted all other options, increasing our revenue stream was the only card left to play. I can't say enough about my wife—she's a rock. Together, we know what we want for our family despite where the rest of the world may be heading. We knew there would be challenges and we would need to make sacrifices along the way—but it's been worth every last one of them. We're raising our children and leaving little to the state. We won't shelter them from opposing views. That wouldn't be right. Instead, we will introduce distinct topics and world views on our terms and will encourage our kids to think critically. Some say our aspirations will fail, and perhaps they're right. God only knows. Until then, you'll find us here in our home, building up our legacy—inflationary policies be damned. Yep, uncheck government spending, resulting in inflation, is slowly destroying families.

So it's the "Big School, But Not Quite Big Enough" classification.

A true system of promotion & relegation, with enrollment no longer part of the classification system. I like it.

Biden 'inflation tax' erases gains in workers' pay, as Democrats' own economists admit fears https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/thubidens-inflation-tax-already-erased-gains-workers-made-pay-even-democrats-fear-it Uni-party idiots like Mr. Biden are destroying this country with debt, a crushing load that will be born by our children and grandchildren.

Thank you. https://www.ranker.com/list/the-crusader-mascot-school-list/reference Obviously a little of of date now, but I'm sure all these institutions are hot beds of KKK activity.

? Please elaborate on the relationship between this new "Beacon" mascot/name and the KKK.

According to gonzo apparently so. lol, your ignorance of libertarianism knows no bounds.