I know, I've been MIA for awhile. Life gets crazy, you know? I've actually discovered a better way to keep this blog going, so we'll see if that works.
I've decided not to delve into the Afghanistan situation (I was going to say "debacle", but I'm trying not to come out swinging...all the time.) First, it would take more than a paragraph, and second, my tear ducts simply can't take a rehashing of that event, when there are others here that will give them plenty of a workout.
I'm not a big fan of Bob Woodward. Frankly, I think the man has been churning out the book equivalent of tabloid magazines for years in hopes of reclaiming his Watergate glory. Since his expose of that coverup, there isn't a President he hasn't tried to take down, and each time he claims it's far worse than Watergate. It's not just Republicans either. He's tried to nail them all. Give him time, and he'll have some sordid tale about Joe Biden too. I say all that, because I have been largely skeptical of his claims that General Mark Milley did what Mr. Woodward says he did. Until General Milley himself didn't deny that he did it, only stated that what he did was well within his rights. Say what? Unless your head is buried under a rock, you know by now that our Allies, our actual Allies, felt completely blindsided by the way the US withdrew from Afghanistan. You would think, if General Milley really thinks he was within his rights to gather military leaders to by pass a sitting President, and if he thinks he was within his rights to contact his counterpart in China (not exactly an ally) and give assurances that he would warn him if we chose to attack, he might have considered calling our allies and letting them in on our withdrawal plan. Apparently he didn't. As other news stories have shown, our own *President tried to convince the Afghani President to paint a better face on the actions of the Taliban whether it was "true or not." General Milley didn't seem all that concerned that our *President was bold faced lying to the American public about what was really happening. No, he was worried about Donald Trump starting a nuclear war, a completely unfounded worry. I humbly suggest it might be time for General Milley to retire, possibly to a military prison.
Do you know what the FBI was doing in 2015 and 2016? We know what they weren't doing. They clearly weren't arresting Larry Nassar for multiple instances of sexual assault with multiple minors. This does not, in any way, absolve USA Gymnastics and the USOPC. There are a lot of people walking around free who deserve to be in jail. The rub here, is that maybe they would be if the FBI hadn't sat on claims that a rampant pedophile was on the loose and had been given access by these very organizations to a full compliment of victims. Instead, for 17 long months, they didn't do a damn thing. Honestly, if the stories are true, that they were offered jobs and benefits by USAG and USOPC, it's frightening that FBI agents can be bribed to allow a prolific child predator to go free. The FBI director at the time was James Comey. That guy so many people trusted on the fairy tale of Russian Collusion. Yeah... he should hide under a rock too. Do yourself a favor. The next time you think the FBI has any integrity, go watch the Senate Hearing with Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols and Ally Raisman. That should cure that delusion.
I saw an article this weekend about a transgender female who competed in MMA. He/She completely annihilated the biological female he/she was facing. This is bad enough. What was worse was finding out that he/she had served 6 years in the US Special forces, a division of the armed forces that, until very recently, was the province of men. We are watching women's sports become obsolete as we allow more and more biological males to compete as women. It's simple. Get a female hairstyle, get some boob implants, cut off your penis and be given a fake vagina, and you can now, legally, beat up on a women. No amount of hormones changes basic biological facts, you know that thing called science that everyone wants to follow, unless of course it's the science of biological gender. We don't want to follow that science. I remember a time when a man knocking around a woman was a crime, one that could cost you everything, including your career. Ray Rice remembers too.
Last, I came across a nice little tidbit this morning. It appears that Facebook (I know, you are laughing before I even say it, but it's not funny....at all), anyway, they apparently hid internal company studies that show instagram increases mental issues in young girls. Young females who spend time on instagram are more likely to have an eating disorder, suffer depression and anxiety and even commit suicide. And Facebook knew this, even while telling everyone that their social media platforms are doing nothing of the sort. It shouldn't really be a surprise, considering I also discovered this past week that Facebook has a small group of untouchables. People on their platform that can say and do pretty much anything, even if it violates the community standards that keep landing us peons in facebook jail. Those people are celebrities, big corporations who subscribe to Facebook groupthink, and politicians of the same persuasion as Facebook. Yeah, really not surprising.
Until Next Time....
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