My in-laws thing Biden is doing a wonderful job.

They think banning the pipeline in the US will help stop global warming.
They are glad he is restricting oil and gas exploration on Federal land
They think we should be helping the poor and taxing the rich.
They think we should be out of Afghanistan.

But they don't care about Biden pushing other countries to pump more oil or subsidizing pipelines in other countries that benefit our enemies.
They don't believe that it is the middle class, and their kids and grand kids that are going to be taxed the hardest.
They are convinced that the fucked up Afgthanistan withdrawal was inevitable and Trumps fault. (They actually think both those things are true.

I"m with you guys on almost everything, but I disagree with you all on the Covid vaccine, so you can all go ahead and keep on being pissed at me.

Thought I’d post this here. Wife and I were at Darlington today, that may be a bit redneck for some of you and if you don't know what Darlington is, I can't help you, use your Duck Duck Go fu. Anyway, we’re i out seats and a guy comes up the stairs with anTrump hat on and a t-short with Fuck Biden emblazoned on it in very big bold letters. Loved it.

I flew over Darlington many times. It was a great VFR waypoint when I flew from Monroe, NC to Florence, SC.

I don’t dispute that the porta potty needs to be the right distance away. Not so far as to cause PPUs to not make it there in time, yet not so close as to have others hearing (and smelling) all what you’re doing in there. It also can’t interfere with the comings and goings of materials and supplies or otherwise cause a problem in the work flow or normal plant operations. And I’m sure it needs to be placed properly on a secure surface. But it’s not rocket surgery.

The question can and should be resolved with a 5 minute conversation between the contractor and the project manager. The theme here seems to be micromanagement. The larger and more bureaucratic an organization, the less it trusts the boots on the ground to make decisions on their own. Why bother paying my husband, who has 45 years of engineering and construction management experience, the big bucks for his talent, if they’re going to treat him like a kindergartner who can’t tie his own shoes by himself?

Agreed. I ran an airshow for 3 years. I had 6 chairmen in charge of various areas. They had people beneath them. And I still got called about where I want the porta potties, how we can get power to the food vendors, where the snow fences should go up, etc.

No one likes making decisions, so they delegate upwards. Companies have now gotten used to centralizing power, because decentralized power is scary for people.

Your husband is the victim of decades of this upwards delegation; companies are simply not used to people being bold enough as to have a strong opinion for where a fucking porta potty should be.

Ah yeah, the old Domino theory.  Where have I heard that before?

1914. 1938. 1940. 1950. 1965.

The world is full of evil people and evil regimes who want to rule the world.

If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.

-Osama bin Laden

Obama’s WH Communications Director Anita Dunn quoted “Chairman Mao” in a speech. Mao murdered between 40-80 million people. She got a 100% pass by the press and the left.

If a Republican quoted bin Laden, he would be tarred and feathered and his life destroyed.

We need to get involved in local politics and start reversing that.

That’s happening here in Wisconsin. In one school board a group of parents successfully recalled 4 school board members. They were called and chastised by “political consultants” for doing it incorrectly, but they fucking did it themselves.

This is what “consent of the governed” looks like.

Within two months after 9/11/01 the U.S. using its air power and a small number of elite ground forces to support the Afghan Northern Alliance had kicked Taliban forces from Mazar-i-Sharif  and Kabul. It shocked the U.S. command - they were expecting the Taliban to hold out for many months. Instead Taliban forces suddenly collapsed. The fortunes of both sides have changed hands over the years but U.S. forces remained dominant. From the Taliban perspective they’ve had their nose bloodied over the years by the U.S. who they know they can’t beat in any stand-up fight. Keep in mind they only just won because they were no longer fighting the U.S. So while some individual Taliban will beat or harm U.S. citizens, I would expect their leaders to issue orders that the bear not be poked further. (Besides, the Northern Alliance has just reformed to resist the Taliban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Alliance#2021_Reformation_and_return)

I disagree. I think their leaders will continue to poke the bear, at least until the first Tuesday in November 2024. What are we going to do - fight them?  They know they have a patsy, and they will continue to be the bullies on the block until a bigger bully gets elected.