Ida is a dual system with the Pacific storm.

The Pacific system is Nora and is heading north. The eye could be moving quickly by displacing over hotter waters. The coast is receiving higher surf now. The Coast Guard needs to be careful. The coastal waters are warmer than the gulf waters. The image below is the most current and is nearly three hours after the image below it. If the "near-shore" system is developing that fast, it will make landfall before the eye in the gulf. The gulf eye and the nearshore eye appear to have the same velocity.

Hurricanes Nora and Ida (click here for loop)

August 28, 2021

Mexico City - Hurricane Nora (click here) formed in the eastern Pacific on Saturday and was brushing the coast of Mexico's Jalisco state as it approached the Puerto Vallarta area, ahead of a possible close encounter with resorts at the tip of Baja California Peninsula.

Nora had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph) late Saturday afternoon, with tropical storm force winds extending out 160 miles (260 kilometers) in some places.

The storm's large wind field and heavy rains meant much of Mexico's central and northern Pacific Coast could see flooding, mudslides and perilous surf even if it missed the very heart of the hurricane.

The weakened remnants might even bring rains next week to the U.S. Southwest, the Great Basin and Central Rockies, forecasters said....

It is time to leave Afghanistan. 

Now.

Soldiers are not disposable.

The allies left. Every county that was begging the USA to stay just a little longer no longer is. 

Leave!

FOX News is reactionary and knows no facts.

August 26, 2021
By Dr. Tyler Olson

President Biden (click here) is being attacked from all sides after the deaths of at least 13 American service members Thursday in an ISIS-K terrorist at the Kabul airport, with calls for his impeachment and resignation from some....

This is some of the worst propaganda ever in the media. It is about politics and has absolutely nothing to do with the country. They want the war back and worse simply to fill their political coffers.

They are trying to gloss over January 6, 2021, and replace it with ranting about a president over the age of 75, including Senator Menedez (click here).

This attack wasn't the Taliban. This is the Islamic State and they are not the Taliban. The ISIS leader in prison was executed by the Taliban. The Taliban are famous for executing anyone that fits the plan for the day. But, the Taliban do not send suicide bombers to kill. That is ISIS.

President Biden is more than capable. This exit from Afghanistan should have occurred a long time ago. It was never going to end unless someone came into office to bring about an end to this idiot war.

Afghanistan will never know peace. It is just a corner of the world that has little ability to resolve any future violence.

August 27, 2021

U.S. forces helping evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule (click here) were on alert for more attacks on Friday after an Islamic State suicide bombing outside Kabul airport killed at least 92 people, including 13 U.S. service members.

The White House said the next few days of an ongoing U.S. evacuation operation that the Pentagon said has taken about 111,000 people out of Afghanistan in the past two weeks are likely to be the most dangerous.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the United States believes there are still "specific, credible" threats against the airport after the bombing at one of its gates.

"We certainly are prepared and would expect future attempts," Kirby told reporters in Washington. "We're monitoring these threats, very, very specifically, virtually in real time."...

He is perfectly capable of being president and leading this country. Some people don't like to see a person being real. When President Biden bent his head down, it was probably an expression of "Why did I ask a journalist a question?" There is nothing wrong with the President and he is absolutely correct in everything he has stated is due to the previous commitment by Trump.

I don't want to hear it. The angry Republican pundits are trying to return a treasonist to the White House and it won't happen. Sorry, Menedez spoke out of political desperation because he is wrong. The Taliban did not carry out that bombing.

Flint has been traumazied by poisoned water and now the people are being targeted for exploitation.

August 26, 2021
By Ron Fonger

U.S. District Judge Judith Levy speaks as she address one of 15 Flint residents objecting to the $641-million Flint water crisis settlement at Genesee County Circuit Court on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 in downtown Flint. After a three-day fairness hearing this week, the judge must make a final decision whether the settlement of civil lawsuits by residents against the state of Michigan, city of Flint, McLaren Regional Medical Center and Rowe Professional Services is fair, reasonable, and adequate

Flint - A New York company (click here) is offering a sort of payday advance to those with claims related to the Flint water crisis, and a federal judge says she is “deeply troubled” by the development.

MC Law Funding is soliciting residents who have registered to file claims in the $641-million proposed water crisis settlement, offering to pay them now in exchange for the right to their claims against the state of Michigan, city of Flint, McLaren Regional Medical Center, and Rowe Professional Services....

There is a clear understanding about bomb makers in Afghanistan.

 11 May 2020

The leader of the Islamic State group (click here) in South Asia and the Far East has been arrested in Kabul, Afghanistan's intelligence service says.

Zia ul-Haq, also known as Sheikh Omar Khorasani, was held with two other senior leaders of the militant group.

The Taliban are the main militant group in Afghanistan but IS has been active in some areas and has carried out several bomb attacks in Kabul.

Correspondents say the arrest will be a major breakthrough if confirmed.

The other two were named as his spokesman Saheeb and chief of intelligence Abu Ali...

First they freeze people to death and now there is virtually no ICU beds for Texans.

August 27, 2021
By Roberto Villanpando

Texas on Friday (click here) reached a new pandemic low on the number of available staffed intensive care unit beds — with only 303 beds available for more than 29 million people — the number eclipsed the previous record low of 306 set on Wednesday.

The Texas Department of State Health Services' 11-county Central Texas region that includes Austin metro area also continued to see a critical shortage in available staffed ICU beds, moving from five on Thursday to seven on Friday. On Aug. 14, the region hit a pandemic low of one bed available....

The Federal Government needs to sue Texas for gross negligence of it's citizens. Why? Because they can afford better!

Texas is ruled by greed and human rights is not in their dictionary. There is nothing decent or moral about Texas. The only compassion in Texas is from the woman's auxiliary of the churches.

TEXAS ENTERS 2021 AS WORLD’S 9TH LARGEST ECONOMY BY GDP (click here)

29 April 2021

...Gross Domestic Product is a measurement of the size and strength of an economy. As of 2019, the United States has a GDP of $21.4 trillion, making it the world’s largest economy, followed by China, Japan, and Germany, according to IMF. Texas has a GDP of $1.9 trillion.

\In 2020, Amazon, CBRE, Tesla, HP and Oracle moved to or expanded their operations in Texas, which has further bolstered the strength and size of Texas’s economy. This trend is expected to continue in 2021, Allen said.

This is religious bigotry. Is there any decency in that state?

August 26, 2021
By Brad Stuver

Since I was 4 years old, (click here) I have thrown myself into sports, playing soccer, tennis, baseball and basketball competitively. With my friends I would play football, frisbee, volleyball and any other sport we could think of.

All of these sports taught us different things. We learned physical skills like hand-eye coordination and stamina, and we learned teamwork, failure, triumph and mental fortitude. I’m blessed to play soccer professionally today, but that’s never been the most important part of sports for me. Sports bring kids together from every walk of life to work together towards a common goal. A new kid joining the game never posed a threat to us– it was an opportunity to make a new friend, and to learn new things

But in Texas, some lawmakers want to ban transgender kids from playing with their peers, and from learning these same lessons. One bill being considered in the state legislature as part of the current special session, called SB 2, would ban transgender kids from participating in school sports, from kindergarten through high school. The legislature held an all-night hearing on that bill Tuesday, and it could pass out of that committee and head to the Texas House floor soon....

Republican Lt. Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick is a racist.

August 27, 2021
By Brandon Mulder

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (click here) has criticized Nike for signing an endorsement deal with football player Colin Kaepernick and said he won’t buy the products made by the Oregon-based company.

Dan Patrick: (click here) "Democrats like to blame Republicans on (low vaccination rates). Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. The last time I checked, over 90% of them vote for Democrats." 

PolitiFact's ruling: False

Here's why:  Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, asked last week to defend the Texas response to surging coronavirus cases, blamed Democrats for the present COVID-19 wave, specifically African Americans, who he said are reliable Democratic voters.

"The COVID is spreading, particularly, most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated, and the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that,” Patrick told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “Well the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. The last time I checked over 90% of them vote for Democrats."...

I have since joined the "Nike Online Member's Club" (click here). I also purchased a great pair of sneakers, too. Love them. So comfortable and stylish.

July 21, 2021
By Minyvonne Burke and the AP

The Texas Senate (click here) has voted to pass a bill that would remove a requirement for public school teachers to teach that the Ku Klux Klan is "morally wrong."

The agenda item was included in some two dozen curriculum requirements that were dropped in Senate Bill 3, which the Republican-dominated Senate passed 18-4 last Friday.

The bill addresses Section 28.002 of the state's education code and is a follow-up to House Bill 3979, which was already passed and recently signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. That bill is set to become law in September, the Austin American-Statesman reported....

Sincerest sympathies

We live in a world where the cruelty of killing serves a greater purpose, a political purpose. In Afghanistan it has always been the struggle between good and evil. Afghanistan is a cruel land where extremists thrive. It is the global hideaway and while the USA’s purpose was noble there was little progress made to a stable country for an entire generation of Americans.

It is all too easy to state forever wars are necessary when the majority of dead Americans hail from a small town where education and unemployment do not create a strong and sustainable future.

There are other ways the USA can prevent the country of Jihadists from exporting their ideology of hate, intolerance and death. 

We lost precious people today at the hand of those that resolve their hate with death. My sincerest sympathies to family and friends of the dead. They serviced the USA with dedication. We owe their memory respect.

It was easy to set bombs.

There were many people that ISIS hated, including Afghans leaving the country, milling about with suitcases and backpacks. It was impossible to set up a perimeter with people coming through all the time. 

Bring them home. August 31, 2021 date of leaving. SET UP A PERIMETER. If is causes problems in processing then the processing will have to be done at distant locations.

Kabul Airport will never be an asset to Afghanistan again. There will be a lot of destruction because of the new civil war between ISIS and the Taliban. Pakistan should close its borders to prevent migration of jihadists.

The USA cannot save every life….

 …in Afghanistan or other countries where we have footprints. That is why we advocate democracy and human rights at every turn. We can pass on the path to success and quality of life. Freedom is unwanted by the Afghan Islamic extremists, therefore, we are unwanted.

Every American soldier dating back to the first foreign war the USA fought have found friends and sometimes marriages among foreign nationals. Those relationships are hard to leave behind and even POWs, such as the Late Senator John McCain, have returned in more peaceful times to assist in establishing freedom and democracy and a sustainable economy.

It is time to leave Afghanistan. Those coming home need to leave now. 

Helicopter Taxi

 If Americans and others are having trouble getting to the planes on time have helicopters pick them up and taxi them to the airports.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=f_11w_e-3Go&feature=share

I think the cooperation with the Taliban is remarkable.

I find it remarkable the USA military is peacefully in contact with the Taliban to facilitate the evacuation of Americans and others. That has never occurred with a recognized enemy of the USA.

I don’t know the beginnings of the cooperation other than top level leaders of the USA agencies, but, I do remember General McChrystal was adamant about communing with the townspeople. I can’t help but believe that expression of unarmed friendliness changed the way the Afghan people, including the Taliban, saw American soldiers. I think General McChrystal did impressive groundwork to the cooperation we are seeing today.

I also find it impressive The American Soldier is viewed with humanitarian interests and not simply a killing machine. It is a very strong position the USA military has developed in this model at a critical time on Earth. I congratulate every one of the military leaders and our soldiers for bringing compassion, integrity and honor to our country’s purpose.

Taliban Coup

One of the reasons the evacuation from Afghanistan had gotten bizarre was because of the Taliban coup. Previous to the coup there was a predictable elected government of the people. Then the Taliban removed predictable with chaos and all hell broke out at the Kabul airport.

The USA had intelligence about such a possibility but until it actually happens there is no absolute daily routine at the airport with our troops that could be put I place. There weren’t enough troops, President Biden had to send more.

So, considering the impressive airlift now since additional soldiers arrived, order has been restored. To complicate things there is now a credible threat from ISIS-K since the execution of its jailed leader. Do our troops ever have an easy day in Afghanistan?

A good estimate is that there will be an effort by the Taliban to end any ISIS presence in Afghanistan. That will probably be met with an effort by Pakistan to secure its borders while escalation takes place between ISIS and the Taliban. I am sure the intelligence base of the Taliban regarding ISIS in Afghanistan was a topic of conversation with our CIA Director when he met with the Taliban leader.

The Afghan people should prepare for chaos and Taliban war with arrests and executions of ISIS. There will probably be false arrests and executions because there is no democracy or due process.

The circumstances regarding the withdrawal of troops became emergency evacuation due to the coup. Whatever economic growth Afghanistan achieved during the past 20 years will be lost dependent on the bloodiness of the burgeoning war between ISIS and the Taliban.

Actions have consequences and when it comes to Afghanistan the coup has caused massive upheaval of the people’s belief of their safety and security.

I wish our troops and their evacuation efforts the best. Come home safe, anything otherwise is not acceptable. There will be casualties of one kind or another and it need not be one more soldier’s life.

Afghanistan will become very upsetting. As greater chaos of this civil war grows death squads will be organized locally to protect citizens. Death squads have no rules, circulating and patternless leadership and frequently racist based in religious and ethnic divisions.

The USA needs to leave Afghanistan rather than trying to figure out what side our soldiers are on.  This two decades of USA involvement was a dedicated effort to bring a better quality of life; it has failed and today the reasons are obvious. 

Vietnam is today a friend that has grown out of a unified population and consistent leadership that saw The West as a potential friend. That effort with Vietnam was assisted by the Late US Senator John McCain. That effort was a historical model after a failed war. 

May God, regardless of religious preference, walk with all of us today. 

What?

The Robert’s Court took a sovereign country outside the USA and assigned it the burden of maintaining climate refugees and asylum seekers with a destination to the USA in Mexico. The USA Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over Mexico.

Those people are destined to the USA. The jurisdiction in question is the USA, not Mexico.

I don’t get it. The USA has no right to impose domestic policy on Mexico UNLESS there is cooperation with the USA. There is no treaty supporting the Robert’s Court.

Those people in Mexico are not the responsibility of Mexico because they have no citizenship standing in Mexico. They are seeking asylum in the USA. Obstructing them from entering the USA violates USA existing law on asylum. 

The Robert’s Court is incompetent. The decision was nonsense and has no relationship to Dreamers. Dreamers are in the USA. The people in Mexico are not at all the same as Dreamers. It would be interesting if any Dreamers are trapped in Mexico for whatever reason. But, Dreamers and the Obama policy has no relationship to OUR asylum seekers.

The rules are clear for anyone seeking asylum including any Americans seeking asylum elsewhere. As long as a person can make it to a country within its borders to seek asylum they are safe. OUR asylum seekers are not here yet and may be in the same danger for the reason they left their homeland to come to the USA.

How long will American laws be trampled by a political Supreme Court? This is outrageous and can endanger Americans that could be seeking asylum elsewhere.

What is to prevent any country from DUMPING their asylum seekers in other countries?

More expensive than vaccine

Any Governor stating Monoclonal Antibodies is the way to go rather vaccines does not respect life. I understand Dr. Fauci has stated these antibodies are valuable to save lives and I applaud him, but, he is not stating this treatment is preferable to vaccine.

I remind that the SARS-CoV-2 causes microscopic clots that will cause damage that will cause increasing damage as time passes. Every measure to prevent infection of the virus is vital to human longevity and optimal health.

I am more than pleased there is a very effective treatment in the monoclonal antibodies for those infected with the virus. But, when Governors place politics before the well being of citizens by getting vaccinations, that is a human rights violation. Putting a “treatment” before the importance of a vaccine that is at the very least a maiming standard for Americans.

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The Taliban stated:

They were prohibiting Afghans from leaving the country because they are NEEDED to rebuild the country.

What have we been doing for 20 years? Have we not rebuilt the country? So what does the Taliban have to do with rebuilding when they have been doing nothing but destroying it. They can forget about war reparations because they weren’t elected, they couped the elected government.

Before the Taliban use excuses about detaining Afghans in the country they need to put forward exactly where the people are needed to rebuild the country. And get on with it. Why postpone it? Give the Afghan people hope and expectations for their country. Get started. Put people to work and pay them a living wage.

It is called governance. Governance is not about terrorizing the people. It is about peace and prosperity.

What normally occurs with coups is that the power structure views the people as the enemy. Ultimately, the people fall into poverty and those with the guns and tanks become the ruling class and have the wealth of the country sequestered with military dominance of the people. They rule with the people in fear of them. Considering the Taliban are attacking protesters, they are headed down the typical coup path.

Killing ISIS prisoners is the easy part, to be accepted as leaders of Afghanistan. Holding the people in fear is not at all an accomplishment. Those that might see the Taliban as desirable as leaders need to reflect on the benevolence of Islam and not The Jehad.

Child Endangerment

Throw DeSantis in prison. End of discussion.

Hostages

I hope all Westerners are making it to the airports because the Taliban will take hostages and prisoners if they haven’t started already.

It isn’t as though there was no notice about the withdrawal. There are plenty of videos coming out of independent sources. 

GET OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!

Americans live in artificial security bubbles. They don’t need vaccines and they don’t need to heed warnings about USA withdrawal from Afghanistan.

THEY DON’T LISTEN ANYMORE !!!!! 

Whatever false sense of security Americans have, they better shake it and GET REAL!!  

They are NOT their own authority!!!!

Surprise, surprise, surprise!!!!!

There is no reason to block anyone from going to Kabul Airport.

The Taliban has accepted August 31, 2021 as the  day the USA is vacating Afghanistan. The Taliban have no right to interfere with those that are leaving the country. That is especially true of the elderly, women and children. That has been the majority of those received as refugees by many other countries and not just the USA. 

There is no place on any inflammatory statements as stated by Former Prime Minister Tony Blair. 

The evacuations, especially of foreign visitors and workers should continue until the last flight on August 31, 2021.

The United Nations should be assisting with this difficult regime to quiet objections and threats by the Taliban.