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Please try to bring data, not opinions, to the discussion. That would include things like answering the questions about what the metal thing was coming out, how a rig was packed, and other things. "XXX sucks donkey dogs" is not data. Wendy P.

And the answer appears to be yes. When 20th anniversary of 9/11 rolls around the Taliban will be in complete control of Afghanistan. I can understand why the people there would want to see the end of what is essentially a puppet government installed by an invading army. But I don't envy them their fate. There are a lot of lessons to be learned and most likely forgotten once again for the west in general and the US in particular with this sad ending. My feeling is that both Trump and Biden are correct in deciding it long past time to leave. And they both deserve some credit for making it happen.

I'd be more concerned that a racist right wing mob stormed the US Capitol and threatened the VP, Speaker, and other elected members, urged on by the loser of a fair and free election, on Jan 6 2021 and that the GOP is doing its utmost to cover it up and rewrite the history of that day.

Georger claims bait money is never sent out in paper straps... he cites experts and protocol. Georger is manufacturing a premise to influence perception. Richard Floyd McCoy ransom money in what,,,, paper straps. Even though the evidence strongly suggests paper bands were used it isn't really material. Carr believed that the packets were randomized in count. CKRET.. "November 29, 2007 · Report reply The money was packaged in varying amounts, so one bundle would have $500.00 another $1,000.00, there was no uniformity to it. I have been searching for the evidence report from the lab but have not found it yet, lots of files to go through. When I get it you'll be the second to know." Here he makes two errors, 1st he is referring to the packets of 100 as bundles and 2nd they were not random counts, they were in 100's.. Georger and Carr got this wrong a decade ago and this error plagues the case today. The important takeaway is the individual packets (100 bills) were not randomized in count, the rubber banded bundles of individual packets was. That means the money went to Cooper in individual packets of 100's and those packets were rubber banded into random sized bundles. What does that mean,, the TBAR money likely arrived as one rubber banded bundle of several packets (100 bills each). And that means the idea that the money could have ONLY arrived on TBAR as three separate packets thereby limiting how it got there is BUSTED. Welcome to 2017.... strapped packets were not opened and recombined.

August 13 came and went. What a let down.

But July in Paraguay was a degree COOLER than last year! So much for global warming.

What stopped in 1998 wasn't the global warming, it was their thought process. Non-paywalled version straight from the NOAA: https://www.noaa.gov/news/its-official-july-2021-was-earths-hottest-month-on-record Prediction: we're not going to get a July update from the troll. (we'll probably get an update in October or something, saying "today was cooler than yesterday, ha!")

I suspect it was a rhetorical question.

Gun murders per 100,000 people (rounded to 1 decimal place) UNITED STATES 3.4 CANADA 0.6 FRANCE 0.4 SWEDEN 0.4 ITALY 0.3 SWITZERLAND 0.2 AUSTRALIA 0.1 GERMANY 0.1 SPAIN 0 ENGLAND, WALES 0 JAPAN 0

No other industrialized nation has gun violence at anywhere close to US levels. Our rate of firearm homicides is nearly six times Canada’s, nearly 16 times Germany’s and more than 21 times Australia’s. It’s not that the United States has a higher crime rate in general; our rates of property crime are pretty similar to Western Europe’s. But we have a much higher rate of lethal violence. Americans are estimated to own nearly half of the 857 million civilian-held guns in the world. The United States has 120 civilian firearms per 100 people — i.e., more guns than people. That’s by far the highest rate of any country.