Baymule’s Journal

[Weldman]

We have morons running this country.

Taliban Gets $239 Mil in U.S. Afghanistan Aid after State Dept. Fails to Vet Awardees - Judicial Watch

Less than a year after Judicial Watch reported that the Taliban has established fake nonprofits to steal millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Afghanistan, a new investigation reveals that the terrorist group has also received hundreds of millions in development assistance from Uncle Sam because...

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Don't get me started with what I seen first hand over there.

 

[farmerjan]

It is just disgusting and disgraceful.... We ought to just STOP any humanitarian aid to anyone.... PERIOD..... sorry for those that suffer... I truly am.... but..... for every starving suffering person we help, there are 10 more that are taking advantage of us.... and turn it against us. If we just stopped sending money to all these places, we could pay off the national debt in a year or 2.... then start over.....
Called COLD TURKEY and TOUGH LOVE in other circumstances....

 

[SageHill]

It is just disgusting and disgraceful.... We ought to just STOP any humanitarian aid to anyone.... PERIOD..... sorry for those that suffer... I truly am.... but..... for every starving suffering person we help, there are 10 more that are taking advantage of us.... and turn it against us. If we just stopped sending money to all these places, we could pay off the national debt in a year or 2.... then start over.....
Called COLD TURKEY and TOUGH LOVE in other circumstances....

BINGO !

 

[Margali]

I wished they would take all that aid money going oversees and put into helping our people! The VA and veterans' support is a joke (per FIL's struggles) so non-profits like Wounded Warriors have to shoulder ALL the burden. Ditto on foster care. Note I am NOT saying system on which kids get put into care is perfect, far from it! A coworker is a foster mom and most kids show up with almost no clothes carried in a trash bag. Once a kid is in system, it should actually provide care not expect the foster parents to spend hundreds out of pocket on basic necessities per kid.

 

[Weldman]

I wished they would take all that aid money going oversees and put into helping our people! The VA and veterans' support is a joke (per FIL's struggles) so non-profits like Wounded Warriors have to shoulder ALL the burden. Ditto on foster care. Note I am NOT saying system on which kids get put into care is perfect, far from it! A coworker is a foster mom and most kids show up with almost no clothes carried in a trash bag. Once a kid is in system, it should actually provide care not expect the foster parents to spend hundreds out of pocket on basic necessities per kid.

Been about 4 months waiting for a tooth pull from the VA after one broke off in the back. Guess I will try again in the winter.
Not all vets are equal, one down below from here gets 80 or 90% service connected disability cause "somehow" got diabetes in the 5 years they were in the service never seen action or been deployed, works full time job and gets state assistance for the 4 kids they have. Something dealing with communications tech in the service, yet dumb as box of rocks. Seriously... cob/straw bale houses don't work out here and neither does dirt floors!
Tried helping them by teaching, but the wife runs the house and what she says it what goes.

 

[Baymule]

This is creepy. Just WHY does the NFL need facial recognition of the fans at the games?

 

[SageHill]

This is creepy. Just WHY does the NFL need facial recognition of the fans at the games?

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I fear things are only going to get worse and keep going in the big brother direction.

 

[farmerjan]

I fear things are only going to get worse and keep going in the big brother direction.

Agree.....

 

[farmerjan]

This is creepy. Just WHY does the NFL need facial recognition of the fans at the games?

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It will eventually be used to identify people that maybe cause a ruckus at games, it will give them an "in" to find people that they may have some sort of "trumped up" reason to want to investigate. Wait until this AI (as in artificial intelligence as opposed to artificial insemination that I think of first) starts to get used for things... it will be able to "create" situations and superimpose your likeness onto things and into things that you have no connection to... it is going to get worse. I won't go to a stadium like that anymore, for anything, I also will not get a "REAL ID" when I renew my license.... I probably will not be getting on a plane again, and if so, can still do so with my license and my birth certificate.... but I am not submitting all that stuff to DMV....I do not neeed to have access to a "federal facility".... Deb does because she works for a company that does government contract work and works on a gov site.... and she is retired military.... but at this stage of my life, I don't see where I need it... and they don't need that much more info either...

 

[SageHill]

It will eventually be used to identify people that maybe cause a ruckus at games, it will give them an "in" to find people that they may have some sort of "trumped up" reason to want to investigate. Wait until this AI (as in artificial intelligence as opposed to artificial insemination that I think of first) starts to get used for things... it will be able to "create" situations and superimpose your likeness onto things and into things that you have no connection to... it is going to get worse. I won't go to a stadium like that anymore, for anything, I also will not get a "REAL ID" when I renew my license.... I probably will not be getting on a plane again, and if so, can still do so with my license and my birth certificate.... but I am not submitting all that stuff to DMV....I do not neeed to have access to a "federal facility".... Deb does because she works for a company that does government contract work and works on a gov site.... and she is retired military.... but at this stage of my life, I don't see where I need it... and they don't need that much more info either...

Adding in the AI is more than scary and we all k ow it’ll go that way.