Have American tax payers got their money’s worth?
In early October the Afghan war will be 17 years old. What’s been gained by the West intervening?
Would Afghanistan be better off now if they’d been left alone to solve their own problems?
The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.
… “It’s not a charter school, it’s not a private school, it’s a real-life school in my hometown.” …
Its lengthy school day runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., along with an extended school year that runs from July through May. During a seven-week summer session, the school will provide STEM-based camps. …
… free breakfast, lunch, snacks and drinks. They will have access to a fitness trainer. …
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The school is launching with third- and fourth-graders, but plans to add grades each year until it houses first through eighth grade in 2022.
Students get one other notable benefit: If they successfully complete the school program and graduate from high school, James will cover their full tuition at the local public college, University of Akron.
I was reading The Wayfinders (2009) by Wade Davis … and was captivated by his story of an African DNA study which concluded the San are likely to be the oldest population of humans on Earth.
The San, also known as bushmen, are directly descended from the original population of early human ancestors who gave rise to all other groups of Africans and, eventually, to the people who left the continent to populate other parts of the world.
The Gods Must Be Crazy films are based on one branch of the San people.
This Wade Davis book argues that ancient wisdom still matters in the modern world. And that humanity will be lesser if we lose cultures like the San.
For some reason(s) a small group of San migrated north about 350 generations ago. Most people in the world are likely descended from that intrepid group. Some of the San still live much like they did 350 generations ago.
Racists won’t like this, of course.
Fact is, humans are 99.99% the same.
more San photos
Today would have been Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday.
Wow.
Congratulations to 28-year-old Latina candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who defeated some 10-term incumbent old, white guy in New York’s 14th congressional district.
This shows me Democrats are will to change. Ocasio-Cortez is a bit of a radical.
Watch her superb political ad on YouTube.
Thanks Dvora.
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The girl’s father, Denis Hernandez, corrected the Time Magazine photographer: His daughter, Yanela Sanchez, and his wife are being held together in a family detention center in Texas.
Still … the image is legit. This is Trump’s GOP in 2018.
Donald Trump, toddler President, is the worst politician that ever happened to the USA. I’m embarrassed for the nation. 🤨
Fiscally conservative Economist Magazine put together stats on 11 key economic indicators. The numbers aren’t all bad. Yet.
I love freedom of speech. But also freedom from speech.
There’s no reason to listen to idiots or extremists. They can say what they want — within the law — somewhere I don’t have to see it.
From xkcd.
I don’t particularly like Bill Maher.
But when he nails it, he nails it. 😀
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