Joe Manchin is "Republican Light."

Joe Manchin is dead wrong! He thinks he has something to do to right the inherent wrong of Progressives and Liberals, but, he could not be more wrong.

September 9, 2021
By Paul Waldman

To be honest, (click here) I liked Joe Manchin III better when he didn’t believe in much of anything.

That’s an exaggeration, of course — the West Virginia Democrat has always believed in some things even if he’s the classic kind of “centrist” who knows where he stands only once he has a right and left to position himself between. But as Democrats try to negotiate a budget reconciliation bill, Manchin has gone from general expressions of concern and demands for appeasement to a more specific brand of threats and demands. And it isn’t pretty.

As long as Manchin was shrouding his objections in vagueness, everything was negotiable. Yes, he would insist that the dollar figure on the bill be smaller, and he would want benefits and supports other Democrats sought to be made stingier and less effective. But Manchin’s typical political play offered plenty of room to limit the damage....

Manchin forgets who pays the taxes in the USA. It isn't his cronies, he sees to that. It is the Middle Class that pays bills with monies in the USA Treasury. I am a little tired of the Middle Class paying for wars and Wall Street excesses with blood and treasury they work very hard for and that their children need to grow up.

Oh, so you think Joe Manchin is a pure as the driven snow when it comes to being corrupt. "W"RONG! All those high-minded ideals are nothing but political fluff for his electorate.

"Open Secrets" (click here)

All those high-minded ideals back up his cronies PAID FOR BY THE MIDDLE CLASS, including those that work the mines of West Virginia.

There is no moral that Manchin brings to the US Senate. He is playing with fate to try to continue to occupy the power of the USA government from a boat along the Potomac.

The problem always is how to move the greedy's grip of power to facilitate the taxes necessary to get the money in the hands of the Middle Class so the USA Treasury FINALLY has a real income rather than a ZERO contribution by the wealthy and big oil and big pharma and big distributors like Amazon. 

President Biden looked across this country and saw the Middle-Class struggling and their children in need of new shoes. There was so little talk about the American Dream that something had to be done. The $3.4 Trillion is supposed to be paid by folks like Manchin's cronies above. See, the taxes from the wealthy, the privileged, and big business doesn't exist. They don't pay taxes. Our favorite billionaire, Warren Buffet, will tell you that his secretary pays more in taxes than his entire financial company.

This ideology by the political right-wing, including Manchin, is so perverse they rather pay their bills in Bitcoin than USA Greenbacks.

The facts are clear, most of the wealth in the USA is sequestered to a small percentage in the upper crust of the country. It is impossible to get the money to circulate to the Middle Class and Poor even if they work 60 hours a week while paying for childcare. The people that do the work that provides the profits to the few billion-millionaires need help. They need their dreams returned to them and those dreams have to be attainable and not sincerely a dream that will never come true.

The USA has the greatest economy in the world. Why? Answer that! Why? Because the wealth is sequestered in the top of all the wealthy? Why? Why is the USA the greatest economy in the world? 

BECAUSE OF THE USA MIDDLE CLASS THAT PURCHASES ITEMS SOLD HERE!

THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE ALL THE WIDGETS ARE THE BACKBONE OF THE GREATEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD!

The $3.4 trillion that is before a 51 vote margin in the US Senate is VITAL to the future of the economy, the SAFE AND SANE future of the children of this country, and the American Dream that includes high moral content to sustain the peoples that need excellent educations for their children to fill our brain trust and rescue those disabled by the COVID-19 VIRUS and it's variants.

Joe Manchin should not be in the USA Senate and he needs to get off his high horse and become the people of this country need a real human being rather than just another politician bought and paid for by his cronies.

For 50 years the flood controls held until Ida the Climate Crisis storm.

Strange name for a town, isn't it? Manville. It was originally named after the owners of "Johns-Manville" the asbestos kings. The town should consider changing its name. Johns-Manville is not a proud heritage. Johns-Manville filled this country with lung-destroying asbestos and made plenty of money doing it. I don't think the plant is operating anymore. But, as a girl growing up in Manville I remember how every year there was a father of a senior high school student that died of lung cancer. Just one. Every year. I think Princeton University grad students did a study of it. I remember them sitting in the living room speaking with my parents. My father worked for Union Carbide. He was lucky. He lived to be 80 before lung cancer took him.

But, as to Ida.

I think the year was 1971. I worked as a dental assistant for a local dentist. Back then dentists trained their own assistants. I didn't do what dental assistants do today, but, it was a good job for a high school student. It was a normal Saturday when I got up and readied myself for work. I hopped in my 1960 Chevy Impala with a straight six-cylinder and set out to drive to work like every other Saturday. I came done Kennedy Blvd., but, when I got to Main Street there was a river running there rather than a street to drive on. I didn't have work that day.

Hurricane Doria came through the day before and when I arrived home, my mother said, I don't think you are going to have work today and pointed to the television. To make a long story short, the government went to work immediately with an ongoing clean-up. The homes in a section of town called "Lost Valley" where the Selody Sod Farm grew just a foot or so above the Raritan River Canal were all flooded. Some people waded through the water to safety and contracted dysentery. They were treated at the local hospital because they had no homes that were safe.

The Army Corp. came in within a week or so and dredged the Raritan River and its canal to make them deeper. Then the county and state kicked in some money and a new railroad bridge was built with an underpass for cars, but, this time it had a pump house to remove water that might accumulate there. All those changes to the landscape held beautifully until Ida.

Fifty years.

There was something like nearly 11 inches that fell on Manville in just a couple of hours. There was no place to run. The Raritan River once again assaulted the small Middle-Class town where people work hard for a living and had at one time risked their lives to bring home a paycheck to their family by working in an asbestos plant.

The Climate Crisis is upon us in a very big way. This little town is suffering for the sins of society in not heeding the warning of scientists for nearly as long as this return to flooding for Manville. The 1960s was the year everyone thought the climate crisis would be respected and change would take place. But, the petroleum industry had designs on profits at any cost. Today, the country is paying for those excesses.

It warmed my heart to see President Biden on the streets of Manville talking to the citizens. They are good people. Hardworking people that love their children and embrace the family as the center of their daily lives. I am confident that the presidential visit meant a great deal to them. 

Seeing my old hometown once again assaulted by a once tamed river, only drove home the point to me that this is a national emergency and the change MUST COME.

September 7, 2021

Manville - The clean-up from Ida (click here) in the hard-hit town of Manville is far from over.

On Wednesday, a day after President Joe Biden toured the destruction, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was assisting residents who lost everything.

CBS2’s Meg Baker was on Alice Street, which dead ends to the Raritan River. She saw a mini van that was completely submerged and spoke to the owner about his horrifying experience trying to save his relatives and pets.

“We lost everything. Our cars are under water. What we are wearing right now is what we have. We lost our animals, which drowned, and you just can’t imagine the loss,” Kurt Jelenek said.

Jelenek said the flood water went from his ankles to his shoulders in a matter of minutes.

“Have you ever been hit by a wave in the ocean? It’s your worst nightmare when you see a wall of grey at night and you realize you’re going to get hit and you grab on to what you can,” Jelenek said.

Baker met Jelenek at the Manville Library, where FEMA representatives are assisting locals. He said the website wasn’t working and he didn’t get a clear answer on what assistance will be given.

“There going to try to help with the after-expenses, what insurance doesn’t pay, and that’s where the real problem is. Insurance won’t pay anything,” Jelenek said. “Here in Manville, most people are listed not in a flood zone, but somebody forgot to tell the water.”...

Every other country in the world is working to move Afghanistan forward EXCEPT THE POLITICAL RIGHT WING OF THE USA.

On the eve of 20 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the USA, we have an accomplishment that heightens the good works of President Biden. Treat human beings like human beings rather than criminals and they might actually treat others as human beings.

The Taliban do not want to be thought of in the same character as Daesh. 

My understanding is that the Taliban are asking those that left for the foreign destinations, even if they helped the USA as translators and the like, can come back to their homeland. Interesting. I think those talking to Taliban leadership are having some effect on the governance of the country.

I know, I know, Haqquanis are involved in the new government. That is because the Taliban was backed financially by the Haqqani network. The Taliban don't see the Haqqani as dangerous. The Taliban need to hunker down with Qatar's Prince and learn the disease that drugs are upon the human mind.

I think this is a major accomplishment in the world. The Taliban are not lining up every Western person in a firing squad. They are not hanging women in the town square. Those that said we should not leave Afghanistan and criticized President Biden for his decisions are now eating their words whether they like it or not. There may be some hope for Afghanistan. Time will tell.

I thank all those involved, including Taliban leadership, that have worked diligently to secure these flights and saw people moved to safety either by air or by foot when they walked out of Afghanistan to awaiting friends. We are making progress. Where there is progress there is hope.

September 9, 2021

The first passenger flight to leave Afghanistan (click here) since the frenzied U.S. military evacuation ended late last month arrived in Doha, the Qatari capital, on Thursday with more than 100 foreigners, including Americans, aboard, and Biden administration officials said they expected more such flights in coming days.

“We can confirm that flight has safely landed in Qatar,” Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said in a statement on Thursday afternoon that expressed gratitude to the Qatari government for sending the plane and facilitating the flight.

The statement also offered a measured assessment of coordination with the Taliban, who have resumed control of the country after a 20-year war with the United States and its allies.

“The Taliban have been cooperative in facilitating the departure of American citizens and lawful permanent residents on charter flights from HKIA,” the statement said, referring to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. “They have shown flexibility, and they have been businesslike and professional in our dealings with them in this effort. This is a positive first step.”

At a news conference earlier in the day at the airport, Dr. Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani, a Qatari special envoy, said the passengers would head to their final destinations after reaching Qatar. He called the resumption of flights from Kabul “a historic day in the history of Afghanistan,” and said another passenger flight was expected to depart on Friday.....

Turn about is fair play

I saw a billboard with a picture of President Biden stating, “Coward” 

I would like to see billboards with Trump's picture and sprawled across it said

"TREASONIST."