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Is it at all possible to meet any of these beautiful souls from halfway around the world in person???

I am usually an optimistic person who is always thinking positively about any situation and having positive outcomes. However, the prospects seem daunting at this moment. With the demand of being fully vaccinated with an experimental drug in order to enter most countries, how do we overcome this hurdle? We so much hesitancy from persons, including me, how are we ever going to meet those we have met and established strong connections with?

As a friend once told me, I live behind god's back. Mind you Antigua is only 108 square miles with the farthest point being a 30-minutes drive. Imagine someone who's travelling from Europe or Africa, is it even worth their time and money to travel such distance only to be told that they don't meet the vaccine requirements?

Alas, I'm still hoping that someday soon, this madness will be over and we can all meet in person those beautiful souls we've been communicating with.

No big rallies, mostly just silence?

It seems that innocent Afgan lives mean zero.

One day after President Joe Biden criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is spiking again in Florida, the governor fired back.

"If you're coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I'm standing in your way," DeSantis defiantly responded on Wednesday. "If you're trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I'm going to stand in your way and stand up for the kids in Florida. If you're trying to restrict people and impose mandates and ruin their jobs and livelihood; if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way. I am standing for the people of Florida."

He finished by saying, "Why don't you do your job, why don't you get this border secure? Until you do that, I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you."

Numerous members of the British Parliament slammed President Joe Biden this week in response to the catastrophe the president created in Afghanistan with his disastrous pullout and handling of the situation.

The remarks came on Wednesday from members in the House of Lords, which is one of the two chambers in the British Parliament.

Members blamed Biden for the situation and shamed him for trying to cast blame on others, including the Afghan military. Many of the members said that America’s image was seriously damaged around the world and the West could suffer greatly in the years to come because nations may no longer trust the West to keep its promises.

The following are just some of the things that members of the British Parliament said about Biden:

Lord Dannatt: “First, notwithstanding his attempted explanation on Monday, the manner and timing of the Afghan collapse is the direct result of President Biden’s decision to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11. At a stroke, he has undermined the patient and painstaking work of the last five, 10, 15 years to build up governance in Afghanistan, develop its economy, transform its civil society and build up its security forces. The people had a glimpse of a better life, but that has been torn away. With US forces withdrawing, other NATO allies, including ourselves, had no option but to leave too, denying the Afghan national army the technical and training support that it needed and the moral support of friends who encouraged them to take the fight to the Taliban. Until a few weeks ago, the Taliban was being contained and may even have been persuaded over time that a military victory was impossible and a negotiated settlement was the better course. Those possibilities are now a closed chapter of history, an opportunity lost, and the world’s western superpower is looking enfeebled. The only glimmer of hope today is that the Taliban of 2021 is not the Taliban of 2001.”

Lord Howard of Lympne: “The responsibility for the decision to withdraw rests with President Biden. Up to now, many of us have been rather impressed with the president’s performance in his first few months in office, although that may in large part be due to the relief at the absence of his unlamented predecessor. But I am afraid that President Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan is, and will be seen by history as, a catastrophic mistake which may well prove to be the defining legacy of his presidency.”

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is responsible for the "breakdown" in security at the Capitol during a deadly riot on Jan. 6, and only wants to "stick to her narrative" as she appoints anti-Trump Republicans to the committee investigating the attack, Rep. Jim Banks said Sunday.

Banks, R-Ind., made his claims against Pelosi during an interview on "Fox News Sunday" while responding to Pelosi’s decision to reject him from the Jan. 6 inquiry committee and her intention to appoint Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., to the committee.

"Due to the rules of the United States Capitol, the power structure of the Capitol, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, has more control and authority and responsibility over the leadership of the Capitol police than anyone else in the United States Capitol," Banks said. "So she doesn’t want us to ask these questions because at the end of the day, she's ultimately responsible for the breakdown of security at the Capitol that happened on Jan. 6."

Pelosi as speaker does not directly oversee the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), according to the Associated Press, but does appoint a House sergeant at arms, who is on the Capitol Police Board that oversees the department. The department is also overseen by committees from both houses of Congress.

According to a new report from journalist Jack Posobeic, President Joe Biden is not sleeping well and wants to go home to Delaware after taking a separate vacation last weekend.

Biden telling staff he wants to go back to Delaware. Hasn’t been sleeping well all this week. Thinks he will be more functional if he stays over at home in Wilmington,” Posobeic reported.

Just an hour after Posobiec dropped this tweet, WMAL News reported that Biden would in fact be going home to Wilmington, Delaware for a long weekend.

“President Biden, who has spent the last few days traveling between the White House and Camp David, is scheduled to head to Delaware for a long weekend,” WMAL News tweeted. “That’s according to the FAA’s website.”

When America needs him most, Biden is going home to sleep in Delaware.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Biden State Department delivered devastating news when they announced that they “cannot ensure safe passage” to the Kabul airport for Americans trapped in Afghanistan.

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Mark.
Great. And do you and your guest have your vaccination cards?
We do. Can you tell us who our server will be?
Um, looks like Michael will be your server tonight.
Great. Can you show us Michael's vaccination card as well?
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And also, can you provide me with proof that Michael's is not a carrier of TB, HIV, Hepatitis A, B or C... or any other communicable diseases? And proof that Michael and any staff coming in contact with our food, has washed and sanitized their hands before touching our food or dinner ware?
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Also, we would prefer not to be served by someone who is on or uses recreational drugs such as cocaine, meth, fentanyl, etc, so if you could provide us with Michael's most recent tox screen, that would be great.
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After all, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander…..

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Kati Grabham is feeling emotional.

When we speak in aircraft numbers, and specifically of numbers onboard, we use the term “souls”. How many souls are onboard. Soul - the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life.
We don’t say “Americans” or “refugees” or “foreign nationals”. We say souls. Because to us, souls are what matter. “Souls” denotes humans and discounts all of the other adjectives we like to use to “qualify” people.
My prayers are with the C-17 crew that departed the Kabul Int’l Airport today. They had to make heart wrenching decisions. The aircrew had to taxi past hundreds of souls they couldn’t save. And knew they may have no choice but to run over the ones who would not vacate the tarmac, those running alongside and in front of the plane. The loadmasters had to shut the doors on panicked people - humans desperate for assistance - because their aircraft was overloaded, over weight and out of space. Crew chiefs had to inspect main landing gear wheel wells, hopeful not to find the remains of those who - in a last ditch effort to flee - may have stowed away there only to perish once the gear retracted.
When the crew of Reach 817 mission planned for this, they could not have known the sheer volume of life or death decisions they would have to make on this day. And they will have to live with the physical, mental, moral and psychological trauma of this singular mission forever. But they did more than we could have asked them to, in a situation none of us could have prepared them for, and they did it well.
I am incredibly proud to be a part of an Air Force comprised of ordinary Airmen doing extraordinary feats during unimaginable times. I am praying for this crew - and all the crews just like them - that they have all of the love and support they need today and into the future.
No one should be called on to do what they had to do, but when the call came, they did exactly what needed to be done. And that is all we as Airmen can ever ask of each other.

I had been gone for a long time and only some on a bit now for entertainment -but there are people that have the same picture as Like ten years or more!! Hey-Show us the real you! IS it even ethical to keep the same pic for a thousand years?
Come on, I could list some here but you all know who you are!!