Afghanistan

by on August 16, 2021 at 12:01 am
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A month short of the twenty-year anniversary of 9-11, the Taliban is taking over Afghanistan again. Everyone who paid attention to what the military and intelligence said knew this would happen in time. If America left, the Taliban would take over again. Biden said it wouldn’t when he defended his pulling our troops out. He lied. Simple as that. He tried to defend his policy of total withdrawal and just hoped it would be long enough before the takeover that he could escape blame. Well, now he’s hiding from everybody as the takeover happens quicker than most of us expected. And soon we will see if the Taliban will go back to their old ways. What will they do to all the Afghans who worked with us for twenty years? What will they do to the Afghan women and girls? How bad will it be? Or will they surprise us all? We will see.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on August 15, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Port of Mobile slowed down again after The War ended. The rebuilt ports in Los Angeles and New Orleans took much of their shipping business, and the American military began to downsize so needed little new construction. Mobile returned to civilian construction and shipping projects, and their market share has once again slipped as the decades have gone by. There are better locations to ship from, after all. The corporations of Mobile have always been able to overcome that location through numerous incentives, and they continue to prosper today. They are still one of the great ports in America, and the money and taxes they bring in make Alabama one of the richest States in the Confederation of Dixie. They will always have a place in the shipping business, as long as the corporations continue to innovate and acquire fresh contracts whenever a competitor gives them an opening.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on August 14, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Port of Mobile prospered during The War. Their space launch vehicles shipped food and munitions into orbit day and night, week after week, much of which would be sent to Sunnydale and the Hyades Cluster as The War continued. Their factories built thousands of fighters and bombers a year. And each of their yards launched a major warship or transport a month. The sun never set on the Port of Mobile because their artificial lights did not allow a single shadow to linger as shift after shift came and went to feed the insatiable appetite of an American war machine on the march to kick the Shangs’ collective asses to the other side of the galaxy. It was an amazing time for the Port of Mobile.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on August 13, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Shang attack that started The War changed the space launch industry in America forever. The Port of Mobile had been losing market share in the cargo launch market to larger competitors like the Ports of New Orleans and Los Angeles in the preceding decades. They were also losing their building contracts to the orbital Yosemite Yards. Everybody knows that the Shang attack destroyed Yosemite and dropped its rubble all over Western America. We have all seen the visuals of an obliterated Port of Los Angeles. New Orleans was a footnote compared to what that did to Pacific shipping patterns, but was just as devastating to the Gulf of America’s shipping. The Port of Mobile answered the many calls for increased shipping, and their yards accepted every military building contract they could physically jam into their facilities. Mobile made money hand over fist.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on August 12, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Port of Mobile remained one of America’s major space launch facilities throughout the decades after Contact that led up to The War. Their factories built numerous Alabama and American starships, as well as Class One, Two, and Three Colonization Ships for many colony projects. They launched, and landed, bulk cargo for trade and other projects in record-breaking tonnages decade after decade. It was a license to print money, and they did not miss a single trick they could imagine. They had very imaginative lawyers as it turned out, and an Alabama government that was happy to give them a great deal of leeway when it came to interpreting laws. The money flowed, the taxes came in, and the people of Alabama prospered like never before. It was a Golden Age that many thought would never end.

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