This word has been ruined forever for me. Everytime I see it, I think of Mr. Creosote (thanks, dad!)

"Oh, but it's only a wafer thin!"
 

 

 

1 hour ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

not to mention giving people STD's. 

I think he gave me cancer after I read a couple of his posts.

Biden to announce withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021. Is 20 years long enough?

But we were about to win!

1 minute ago, VanHammersly said:

But we were about to win!

 

I didn't know the ghost of Robert McNamara posts in CVON

I read somewhere that a few troops will remain to try to keep the Kabul government from falling to the Taliban. 

10 hours ago, Gannan said:

I read somewhere that a few troops will remain to try to keep the Kabul government from falling to the Taliban. 

 

I think we call them "advisors."

16 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Biden to announce withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021. Is 20 years long enough?

wait, where's the never ending wars the trumpcucks claimed would happen under biden ? 

12 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

wait, where's the never ending wars the trumpcucks claimed would happen under biden ? 

We are no longer dropping bombs, to busy dropping bombshellzzzzz

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The Moment When Joe Biden Returned a Toy That Slain Officer's Daughter Dropped at His Memorial
"A greater compliment does no one have than the president of the United States looking after your toys"

A brief moment of heartwarmth came amid heartbreak on Tuesday when President Joe Biden picked up a toy that had been dropped by the daughter of Billy Evans during a ceremony to honor the killed police officer in the Capitol Rotunda.

As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks during the service, Biden could be seen jumping out of his seat to grab the toy, shaped like the Capitol dome, and handing it to Abigail Evans, whose father was killed earlier this month after a driver rammed a barricade outside the Capitol.

"A greater compliment does no one have than the president of the United States looking after your toys," Pelosi said.

In another scene, 7-year-old Abigail was photographed wiping tears from her mother's eyes during the service, while her 9-year-old brother Logan could be seen wearing his father's police hat.

Both children clutched stuffed animals throughout the ceremony.

Evans was an 18-year veteran of the Capitol Police, having joined the department in 2003, according to a statement from acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman.

During the altercation, other officers fatally shot the suspect, 25-year-old Noah Green. 

"It is with profound sadness that I share the news of the passing of Officer William 'Billy' Evans this afternoon from injuries he sustained following an attack at the North Barricade by a lone assailant," Chief Pittman said in an earlier statement. "Officer Evans had been a member of the United States Capitol Police for 18 years. He began his USCP service on March 7, 2003, and was a member of the Capitol Division's First Responder's Unit. Please keep Officer Evans and his family in your thoughts and prayers."

As his flag-draped casket was brought into the Capitol on Tuesday, where it was lying in honor, Biden delivered a speech to the assembled crowd.

The president — long called upon for eulogies — drew on his own history of loss for his remarks. (His first wife and baby daughter were killed in a Christmastime car crash in 1972 and his older son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in 2015.)

"Mrs. Evans, you have — I have some idea of what you're feeling like. I buried two of my children," Biden said. "And people have come up to you and are going to come up to you for some time and say, 'I know how you feel.'  ... And after a while — you know everybody means well — you feel like saying, "You have no idea.' "

Shannon Terranova (left) and Abigail Evans

| Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty

The president continued, speaking directly to the family: "That's how you're all going to know that you're going to make it: By holding each other together and, most importantly, by holding Logan and Abigail as tightly as you can. Because as long as you have them, you've got Billy. As long as you have them."

"Losing a son, daughter, brother, sister, mom, dad — it's like losing a piece of your soul," Biden said. "But it's buried deep, but it comes back."

Friends and colleagues have remembered Evans as someone who was "always happy, always laughing," and loved his kids.

Jason LaForest, a North Adams City Council member and childhood friend of Evans, told NPR that he "had an infectious laugh and an infectious smile."

"There isn't a picture of those kids that doesn't show them not just smiling but smiling broadly, and you know that there's a laugh behind all of that," LaForest said. "Billy's a guy who could make a trip to the dump look like a truly good time, and he certainly made every moment count with his children."

In his remarks delivered before the Evans family on Tuesday, Biden called Evans "a hero."

"Your son, your husband, your brother, your dad was a hero. And he's part of you. It's in your blood," the president said. "My prayer for you is that moment when a smile comes before the tear, quicker than longer."
 

https://people.com/politics/the-heartbreaking-moment-joe-biden-picked-up-a-toy-during-fallen-capitol-officers-memorial/

 

 

 

 

                                                                            

2 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Biden to announce withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021. Is 20 years long enough?

Another failed war on drugs, too.  Unless the CIA is now running the opium trade there and not the Taliban.

18 minutes ago, rambo said:

Unless the CIA is now running the opium trade there and not the Taliban.

 

Watch it, Hoss.  We don't want to be reading in the paper something along the lines of,  "Area man, known by many simply as 'rambo,' unexpectedly died by suicide last night, succumbing to numerous self-inflicted gunshot wounds to his head and back."

@Gannan

So did Biden surrender??

So glad we're getting to the fun part of the Biden administration when all of the libertarians-turned-radical leftists will have to start twisting themselves into knots to defend our anti-hero POTUS they elected bc orange man bad

5 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

@Gannan

So did Biden surrender??

So glad we're getting to the fun part of the Biden administration when all of the libertarians-turned-radical leftists will have to start twisting themselves into knots to defend our anti-hero POTUS they elected bc orange man bad

You think Libertarians will have to stretch their ideology to defending ending a war?  Not very familiar with Libertarianism are you?

 

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Exclusive: Texas nonprofit got massive border contract after hiring Biden official

Lachlan Markay, Stef W. Kight

 

A Texas nonprofit that recently hired a Biden transition official got a contract worth as much as $530 million to help manage the influx of migrant children at the southern border, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The contract is by far the largest ever awarded to Family Endeavors. It's potentially worth more than 12 times the group's most recently reported annual budget — a sign of the demand the new work will place on its operations.

• The no-bid contract also is the second largest ever awarded by the agency overseeing the migrant child program.
• The award comes as the Biden administration rushes to deal with an influx of migrants at the border, including more than 21,000 unaccompanied minors currently in government custody, according to the latest data.

Between the lines: Family Endeavors won the contract just months after it hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait as its senior director for migrant services and federal affairs.

• Lorenzen-Strait, a former official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, previously advised the Biden-Harris transition team on Department of Homeland Security policy and staffing matters.
• He also ran a consulting firm advising companies on federal procurement practices, according to his LinkedIn page, with specific expertise on agencies that include the Administration for Children and Families — the division of the Department of Health and Human Services tasked with detaining and processing child migrants.
• The Washington Examiner first reported on Lorenzen-Strait's role at Family Endeavors, in the context of an $87 million DHS contract awarded to the group last month.
• ACF officials did not respond to a request for comment from Axios. Family Endeavors said its contracting work on the border is "a continuation of services we have delivered to the migrant population since 2012."

What's new: ACF contracted Family Endeavors last month to provide "emergency intake" and "wrap-around care" services at a temporary facility in Pecos, Texas.

• According to federal procurement records, ACF has disbursed $255 million to the nonprofit under the new contract, which has a maximum potential value of $530 million.
• Family Endeavors' most recent publicly available annual tax filing, covering calendar year 2018, showed its annual budget for the year was just $43 million.
• Before last month, it had never received a prime contract award from HHS, though, according to a source familiar with Family Endeavors' operations, it did provide staffing services at migrant intake shelters run by another HHS vendor, BCFS, in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2019.

The big picture: Other large ACF contracts went to for-profit firms with more experience working on such large-scale operations.

• The agency awarded more than $320 million to Rapid Deployment, a company whose CEO has been nicknamed the "master of disaster" for the extensive relief work his firm has done. It's also received nine-figure Pentagon contracts for work on military base camps.
• The only ACF contract larger than Family Endeavors' was a $719 million award to Deployed Resources last month, of which about $273 million has been obligated. That company also does extensive work for DHS and the Defense Department.

 

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https://www.axios.com/texas-nonprofit-border-contract-biden-official-23a493f4-6779-44f0-a5d4-db8690f11aec.html

20 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

@Gannan

So did Biden surrender??

So glad we're getting to the fun part of the Biden administration when all of the libertarians-turned-radical leftists will have to start twisting themselves into knots to defend our anti-hero POTUS they elected bc orange man bad

Answer my question first... do you support Biden's decision?

Just now, Gannan said:

Answer my question first... do you support Biden's decision?

Of course I do

 

Just now, Mike31mt said:

Of course I do

 

Fair enough. I believe if the Kabul government falls to the Taliban then it was all for nothing. We shouldn't trust anything the Taliban says and if we negotiate with them, we are negotiating with terrorists and in effect surrendering to them. 

1 hour ago, Gannan said:

Fair enough. I believe if the Kabul government falls to the Taliban then it was all for nothing. We shouldn't trust anything the Taliban says and if we negotiate with them, we are negotiating with terrorists and in effect surrendering to them. 

Its an impossible situation.  Sure, we could have gotten a piece of paper that said theyll carry on this fight.  But it wouldnt have meant much.

As an anecdote, my boss is an OIF veteran.  He has shrapnel is his leg.  You cant come up from behind him or startle him.  One of my staff is an OEF vet. Hes killed a bunch of people. They would go town to town and just clear them out.  My brother is an active duty marine (hes also currently in the state police academy, btw).  I don't want him going to some desert in the middle of nowhere defending a pile of sand just in case some terrorists decide to build a hut. 

So thats just my perspective. When you say it will have been all for nothing, Im not sure it ever was.   

That said, I was in HS during 9/11 and I cant blame anyone for wanting revenge. Just impossible.

They weren't building huts, they were building terrorist training camps. That being said, I'm fine with leaving so long as we are not hanging allies out to dry and it's supported by military advisors. I think most people agree that long-term engagement is insanely costly and unsustainable.

2 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

They weren't building huts, they were building terrorist training camps. That being said, I'm fine with leaving so long as we are not hanging allies out to dry and it's supported by military advisors. I think most people agree that long-term engagement is insanely costly and unsustainable.

This is where I am at. If it wasn't done for political points, and the people "in the know" thought it was the correct course of action, then it was the right thing to do and it's always a good thing to get our guys out of bad situations.

3 hours ago, Boogyman said:

This is where I am at. If it wasn't done for political points, and the people "in the know" thought it was the correct course of action, then it was the right thing to do and it's always a good thing to get our guys out of bad situations.

I would love to send an army of queers to your house to infiltrate your a hole. Then Biden would tell his army to roll out of your anus like Afghanistan and awkwardly touch another female employee to celebrate.

7 minutes ago, Blobeph said:

I would love to send an army of queers to your house to infiltrate your a hole. Then Biden would tell his army to roll out of your anus like Afghanistan and awkwardly touch another female employee to celebrate.

You keep an army of queers around for any particular reason?

3 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

You keep an army of queers around for any particular reason?

Yes. For gay posts like this.....Queers!!! Attack!!!

9 hours ago, Blobeph said:

Yes. For gay posts like this.....Queers!!! Attack!!!

you type pretty good for having one of your hands deep up your arse playing with last night's man batter deposits.