Tenhigh

You can put up concrete barriers, check points, have bomb sniffing dogs, there's plenty you can do. Now that we've drawn down so many of our soldiers and abandoned any strategic advantages we have there's no choice but to trust the Taliban.

I think he's got to secure the airport with everything he's got, and then continue with the evacuation.

I think Orange Bills covered it pretty well. We should have first beefed up our soldiers on the ground, pulled our civilians our (both American and Afghani) and then pulled out our military, taking every piece of equipment we could get our hands on. Frankly, the best thing we have going for us right now is that the Taliban is trying to gain some legitimacy on the world stage, and not killing as many civilians as normal isn't a bad way to start, considering where they came from.

It's true, not sure what's going to change though, besides making the 8/31 evacuation deadline impossible to meet. There will be Americans and interpreters trapped in that @$#%hole, it's time for the president to stand up and do something here.

Choice really has nothing to do with it here, unless you are talking about choosing not to spend. An pay increase for our lowest paid workers will generally spell a cost increase to our lowest income segments. It's essentially robbing Peter to pay Peter. Nice political theater, but in reality it's probably not going to help.

By everything I am seeing from you in PPP, that label applies to you.

You do understand that the cost of labor generally gets passed on to the consumer, right?

Lol, says the guy who rushed here to call someone a piece of **** to look like an internet tough guy. Try dialing it back and being a little more civil, kid, you'll see it'll get you farther in life. Do they have these quaint plastic cubes the kids have to look through?

We need to have a better approach than a #$%&ing soundbite. Vaccines are strategic, monoclonal antibodies are tactical for those who already have covid. You, sir, are quite the internet tough guy. Your family must be super proud.

I am fully vaccinated as well.

My kids are teenagers. If little Johnny has full blown COVID, and my kid sits next to him all day in class, you think one of those crappy cloth masks is going to prevent him from catching it in a poorly ventilated school room?

AHEM..... Here you go, brother: https://www.charityboats.org/pwc-watercraft.html Make sure to show us the receipt.

My kids both got vaccinated as soon as they were available to them. Because my wife and I wanted them to and because the kids also wanted to do it. I wouldn't be really comfortable sending them back full time without it. The makes they can wipe their asses with, IMO. Edit: I wouldn't be comfortable sending them back unvaccinated because one of them has a really rare but thankfully mild heart issue that could be exacerbated by COVID.

IDs aren't necessary, but make sure that the student isn't in the Bills coverage area, or you will get knocked out. Look up Sunday ticket in ebay, it's a great option.

You keep beating this drum, but isn't putting any kid back in school wirhout a vaccine playing with lives? Masks aren't going to end the pandemic nor have much effect on kids forced into crowded schools. Its the vaccines that will make the difference, people arguing about masks are all just playing politics.

Even worse.

Ah, should have known, Basking Ridge. Over the years I've found that you can generally judge a town by the quality in which they keep their sports fields. Yours, sir, blow.

I tried to tell them that I rented my house, and my evil landlord wife wouldn't allow installation of a dish. No avail, so I went to EBay. Best $30 ever spent.

Not everyone thinks the government is the devil. A problem? Maybe. Devil? No.

I don't think there is a decent answer, in reality. Not one that isn't politically motivated. Student loan forgiveness is essentially saying that there are no consequences to choices that you make. Trade your cow for some magic beans? Don't worry, the government gives you a new cow. Magic beanstalk grows from the beans resulting in a golden goose? Don't bother climbing, the government will just take it anyways to pay for the cow they are giving you. Let someone else climb.

It's not wrong though. If you really want to get people vaccinated, I"m not sure why Biden isn't pulling out the "duty of every American citizen" card, other than the fact that he lacks credibility. Frankly, if I were a smart GOP senator who had dreams of the White House, I'd be all over the airwaves pushing that message now that Pfizer is FDA approved. Trump already said it's good to be vaccinated, It makes you seem like you care about voters, and it also makes you seem like you aren't afraid to put the country ahead of politics. Probably not a bad stump for Desantis, if only to put more shame on the AP, if that's possible at this point.

Didn't he admit to it? I remember a pretty damning NYT article.

What are you doing for all of the people who already paid their loans to accredited universities? Or even non-accredited ones?

What do you propose instead?

Stop waving that Trump b0ner around, you'll put someone's eye out!