Question 10

 

Question 10

How has the party of Benghazi and Afghanization avoided being characterized as the party of abandonment?

So, are we saying that we have made arrangements with the Taliban to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a terrorist state?

China has set rules limiting the time children can use cell phones and the internet. Is the China government a better parent?

The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) conducted a survey earlier this year of nearly 1,000 part-time and full-time employees ages 40 to 73, and found that 51% of them had less than $50,0000 saved for retirement. In the oldest age cohorts studied, one-third of workers ages 62 to 66 have zero in retirement savings, and roughly 20% of 63- to 73-year-old workers have nothing.

So, where do you think they will go for their money to live? Is the distinction between the Americans and the Europeans just a myth?

                             Is this what leadership looks like? 

I was searching for the Babylon Bee take-off of Biden sleeping ('dreams he met Israeli prime minister') when I came on this:

             Taliban Buys Hunter Biden Painting For Presidential Palace

According to Politico, the U.S. gave the Taliban the names of Americans and their Afghan friends they wanted to get out. Was that a good idea?

When I was a kid, I loved the Beat poets. Gregory Curso, Ferlinghetti, Ginzberg. They had a strange style that included the juxtaposition of forms and nature. Curso opened a poem "Radio belly! Cat shovel!" Now, this has become mainstream. How else do you explain "Food Justice?"

Did the planned optics of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 drive the decision for the government to leave Afghanistan the way we did? If so, is that an example of form vs. substance?

 

 In “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,” Winston Churchill described the Vikings as “salt-water bandits, pirates as shameful as any whom the sea has borne,” even as he lauded “the discipline, the fortitude, the comradeship and martial virtues which made them . . .the most formidable and daring race in the world." Are the Vikings a race?

Are we watching the assumption of diplomatic responsibilities by the administration in our management of the withdrawal from Afghanistan? Should these agreements be approved by congress or is the State Department as a separate entity enough?  Was Biden's interposition worse than Trump's? If Trump is criticized for his negotiations (to protect Biden), will Obama be criticized? 

Covid Statistics
Age Grp    Infection Survival Rate 

0-19         99.997% 

20-29       99.986% 

30-39       99.97% 

40-49       99.92% 

50-59       99.73% 

60-69       99.4% 

70+         (All) 94.5% 

70+         (non-inst.) 97.6%

Are these numbers bad? How do they compare with other diseases?

Harvard’s newest chaplain, Greg Epstein, is an atheist. There are many elements here: it is inclusive, interesting, provocative, challenging. But, is it sensible?

Are you surprised that no military man has resigned over the Afghanistan exit?

Transable: “We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa. This is a social paper, not a psychiatric one.

Can a culture become so open-minded that it is emptyheaded?

Nearly 2.6 million kids have switched from traditional school to homeschooling since the pandemic began, according to a new report from the Bellwether Education Partners, commissioned by the Walton Family Foundation.
Now the total number of homeschooled kids sits at about 5 million. According to census data, more than 11% of U.S. households are now homeschooling. 11%!!
And it's not just white families who are moving to homeschooling: 9.7% of white families with kids have pulled out of traditional education, as have 12.1% of Hispanic families, 8.8% of Asian families, and 16.1% of Black families.

Weren't we just told that everyone thought that children not going to school was bad for them? Will property taxes go down?

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”--Ann Coulter after 9/11. Crazy, no? But what would older cultures have done with small, hostile nations with leverage against them who presume upon their enemy's kindness? What would Rome or the Greeks have done with the Saudis?