Riley, an ex-Marine, was deployed to Iraq in 2008 and Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010, where he was designated a sharpshooter.

This is the monster who today killed a family of 4 in Florida. A 5th person, the 11 year old daughter, he shot 7 times, but miraculously (and I'm using that word rhetorically because I don't believe in miracles), she survived. We made this monster what he is. Killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan is what made him the killer that he is. The whole wars were liken to this. How many families did we kill in those countries? What he did today was demonic, but so were the wars. It's the group-think of a vast Military that gets everyone on the same page that now we're going to kill people, and it's OK because....

General Mark Miley, the Joints Chiefs Chairman, says that civil war is now likely in Afghanistan, and his rant has gotten a lot of media coverage. Why? Because: we want that to happen. We think that would be just great after the Taliban defeated and humiliated us. And even though it would mean raining more war down on the long suffering Afghan people after 40 years of it, we don't give a shit. We'd still delight in it. Anything that brings woe to the Taliban is a pleasure to us. 

Well, I've got news for you: General Miley is dead wrong. He's wrong about this, just as he's been wrong in all of his predictions and assessments about Afghanistan. He's never been right about anything. 

Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the group fighting the Taliban, just announced that he accepts an offer from religious scholars in Afghanistan to mediate an end to the fighting.

The leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley north of Kabul said on Sunday he welcomed proposals from religious scholars for a negotiated settlement to end the fighting.

Ahmad Massoud, head of the National Resistance Front, made the announcement on Facebook. Earlier, Taliban forces said they had fought their way to the provincial capitol of Panishir after securing the surrounding districts. 

"The NRF in principle agrees to solve the current problems and put an immediate end to the fighting and continue negotiatiions," Massoud said in his Facebook post. 

I expect that they are going to work out their differences, and the pressure from the religious leaders can only help, as it will force compromise. But, you know this guy is in touch with the U.S., and the worst thing we could do is give him arms and money and encouragement to continue fighting. For Christ's sake, let those poor people be at peace. Haven't we tortured them enough already? 

There are so many fatal problems with the case against Oswald as Kennedy's killer, and one of them concerns his motive and mental state. 

It's often pointed out that a prosecutor doesn't have to establish motive, but that's just a technicality. Usually, he does try to establish motive because he knows the jury expects him to. And in this case, it's a huge problem because the evidence shows that Oswald liked and admired Kennedy and never said a harsh word about him.  Marina said he defended Kennedy to her relatives. It was reported that he read James Bond novels because he heard that Kennedy liked them. And, there can be no doubt that Oswald's politics were closer to Kennedy's than they were to Johnson's, knowing that Johnson was more hawkish towards Castro and Cuba than Kennedy was. So, why on Earth would he kill Kennedy only to propel Johnson to the White House? One thing that Oswald wasn't was stupid. 

Even Vincent Bugliosi recognized the problem of establishing motive to Oswald. So, what he came up with was the claim that Oswald's hatred was not for Kennedy but for America, that he killed Kennedy as a proxy for America. 

There isn't the tiniest shred of evidence for that. Oswald NEVER formally renounced his American citizenship, and the letters that he supposedly wrote about it are all of dubious authenticity. But, even those letters don't evince enmity. He was never alleged to write or say words that could be interpreted as hatred. Never was he rageful in his words, spoken or written. Hate is an emotion, and he never evinced the emotion of hate. 

Buliosi pulled his claim from out of his ass. It was based on nothing but his desperate need to come up with a motive for Oswald. So, he made one up.

But, there is more that we have to consider about this. Even if hatred exists, and as I said, it is an emotional state, it takes more than just hatred to have the capacity to kill someone. Lots of people are capable of hatred. Hell, I have hatreds. There are people I hate; I admit it. But, there is no chance that I am going to commit violent acts against them. To do that, I would have to be not only be hateful, but mentally deranged. I would have to be out of my mind. Likewise, Oswald would have had to be out of his mind to kill Kennedy. 

Oswald had values, and it appears, that what he valued most was his family. He returned to Dallas. Why? Because his family was there. He took a job at the TSBD because he could do it and still be relatively close to his family. When he wasn't working, it appears that seeing his family was his top priority. He had to cover his own basic needs, but other than that, his money went to his family. And his foremost ambition was to get his family back living under his roof again. These things are not in dispute.  

Even if Oswald hated Kennedy or America- and there is no evidence that he did and no rational grounds to think that he did- how likely was it to commandeer his mind and wipe out all his other values? How likely was it to generate the extreme self-destructiveness that would have been involved in him shooting Kennedy? 

The point is that Oswald would have had to be insane to do it. For anyone to be going along, living their life, and in a responsible manner, and then, on their lunch-break at work, to glimpse a motorcade route in a newspaper, and instantly get the sudden impulse to kill? One would have to be stark raving mad. 

And that idea, that Oswald was stark raving mad, was and is a central component of the official story. It's the reason why the phony story of him shooting at General Walker was fabricated. It's the reason why Marina was drilled with the phony story that he sought to kill Nixon. And there were more phony stories that were added, some of which were meant only to depict him as unstable and brutish, such as having him shoot diagonally at other people's targets at the shooting range. All of this was scriptwriting; storytelling. 

But, at the heart of it was the idea that he was going along, living his life, working a job and being focused on his family, determined to get his driver's license because he thought it would improve his job prospects, and then suddenly, his finding out about the motorcade route flipped an evil switch in his brain and caused him to undertake a deranged, demonic, maniacal, and totally self-destructive course that reached the extreme limits of psychopathy, sociopathy, and insanity.    

This was a fictional character that they made up. The evidence shows that Oswald was less explosive, less mercurial, and less enrage-able than most people. For instance, there is the radio discussion in which Oswald was arguing on the radio with the man who had taunted him in front of the Trade Center in New Orleans, and Oswald never got riled or rankled; he never got agitated. Yes, that's the word: agitation.  Oswald was not one to get agitated. Look at him at the Midnight Press Conference. He was impassioned; even eloquent in his self-defense; but he never evinced agitation. I admit that I have a MUCH higher propensity to agitation than Oswald. There's no doubt about that. But, in my case, it would only translate to physical violence if the other guy initiated physical violence. If he did, I would make the transition to combat instantly.  

From everything we know about Oswald, and what we see and hear of him in the films that we have, there is absolutely no reason to think that he could have been browsing the newspaper while eating lunch, saw the motorcade route, and decided to kill Kennedy. There is no more reason to think that he was capable of that than anyone else that you can name, including yourself. Simply put, it is a preposterous story in a case teeming with preposterous elements. 

To paraphrase myself, the big question is: how long can they keep up the charade that Oswald killed Kennedy? What they have going for them is that Americans have plenty of other woes with which to be concerned, including ones that affect their own lives directly, such as Covid, unemployment, etc. But, a growing number of people realize that the whole case against Oswald is a farce, and it is surely going to collapse like the house of cards that it is. The case against Oswald is going to tumble by the sheer weight of its incredulity and absurdity. 

"The big question is: how long can they keep up the charade about 9/11? What they have going for them is that most Americans are gullible and stupid. But, most of them tend to remain quiet. It's the people who know better who tend to be vocal. Surely, it is going to fall, just as the U.S. foray into Afghanistan was sure to fail by the sheer weight of its sin and corruption."   

 

Ann Coulter is praising Biden and bashing Trump. She said that Trump promised to bring the troops home from Afghanistan, but he didn't do it. But, he reduced the number to 2500, and he probably would have removed the rest by the May 1 deadline that he agreed to. 

Biden, on the other hand, sent 3000 troops back and got 13 of them killed. That doesn't bother Ann, but if she knew and was close to any of the 13, then it would bother her, and she would be bashing Biden.

This war was going to end badly no matter who was President. And that's because it started badly. It started out of badness. Badness and lies. And if we had stayed and fought for 40 more years, it would have still ended this way, with us being driven out. And, it's the fundamental evil of our starting the war that our government and our media will never admit to. Yet, it is a fact that our crossing an ocean and two seas to attack Afghanistan was one of the most vile  aggressions in all of human history. Was it worse than Hitler invading Poland in 1939? It was much worse. That's because: there was some truth to Hitler's claim that atrocities were being committed against Germans by Poles. But, there wasn't a speck of truth to our claim that the Taliban was involved in 9/11. 

There has been much criticism and outrage about President Biden checking his watch during the ceremony honoring the Americans who got killed at Kabul Airport.  So, Damage Control has set in, in which the Media is now claiming that it was only after the ceremony that he checked his watch. And it's based upon the "full video" of the ceremony as shown on C-Span, which you can watch here:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?514338-1/president-biden-pays-respect-us-service-members-killed-afghanistan

And sure enough, it's at the end that he glances at his watch.

However, if you compare the two images, you can see that they're not the same. In the originally posted one, he glanced at his watch without removing his right hand from his chest. In the "full video" he starts by lowering his right hand. Here is the comparison.

In the video, he started lowering his right hand before his other hand was raised. They are clearly different shots. Have you played those games where they show you two seemingly identical images and they ask you to find the differences? Well, in this case, Jill's bangs look different; the man behind her is turned differently; and we don't see the red hat on the man who is two behind Biden in the top image. 

You can't find the disputed shot in the video. He never looks at his watch while his other hand is against his chest. It must have happened at a different time, earlier, and they cut it out. There is no frame of the disputed shot in the video. 

So, did Biden check his watch not once but TWICE?  

The U.S. State Department had a Level 4: Do Not Travel warning against going to Afghanistan even before the Taliban took Kabul. So, what were thousands of Americans doing living there? They didn't all work at the U.S. Embassy, did they?  It is my opinion that Biden should never have sent thousands of American servicemembers over there. He should have anticipated that this could happen.  

Of course, I think the entire war on Afghanistan was a crime. It was never justified. It was never based on anything but lies. The Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11. But, even if they were involved in it (and they weren't) no one has the right to launch a war that you know, beforehand, is going to kill thousands of innocents. Do you have any idea how many innocent Afghans were killed by our bombs and that of our proxies? And we are talking about over a period of 20 years. How many wedding parties did we bomb? 9 that I know of, following each with apologies and regrets for having killed innocents. The point is that our government and media are never going to be honest with us about what we did in Afghanistan, the toll of our actions. i.e. the horrific death toll and slaughter of innocents that is blood on our hands.

I believe I just caught the media once again lying with phony images. It concerns Afghanistan and the Taliban. These are supposed to be Taliban fighters. Notice the unusual way the guy is holding the rifle. 

Here's another image of him, still posing with the rifle that way. I guess he walked around like that a lot. 

All right, so that doesn't prove anything. But, those two images are from years ago. The next one appeared very recently, and I believe that it's the same guy.

That's the same guy on the right. He is an actor. These aren't real Taliban pictures; they are staged ones. 

Yup, staged images. And do you know what other images were staged? Well, I can't say directly because a certain media company doesn't like it and will say it goes against their community standards. But, somebody lost something and gave a speech before he lost it. And believe me, I would not make light of such a thing if I thought it was real. But, I don't think for one second that it was real. It wasn't even well done.