Posted on 12/10/2015 1:17:32 PM PST by ArGee
Raqqa, Syria
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS, announced today that he would be disbanding all forces and returning all land to Syria and Iraq. The move was prompted by the ongoing Climate Conference in Paris.
"This is one thing we could not have anticipated," Mr. al-Baghdadi said in prepared remarks. "When we see the world coming together like this on such a dangerous subject as Global Climate Change, we realize that our Caliphate will never survive. It's only a matter of time before Climate Change is no more and the world's attention turns to us. At that point, we will have no chance. For the sake of the men, women, and children who have supported us, I can not continue a doomed campaign."
An emotional al-Baghdadi did not take any questions.
Sources close to al-Baghdadi who spoke on the condition of anonymity told us that it was becoming more and more difficult to recruit new fighters. "Even our existing people are extremely demoralized," one said. "The words of Donald Trump himself can not overcome our dispair."
According to their press release, surrender is total and immediate. Fighters are being paid and sent home by division. Any remaining money will be put into a fund to resettle Christians and Yazidis who have been displaced by the war.
"We thought the world was fragmented," one strategist was overheard saying to himself. "Who knew it could come together like this? This is a stinging rebuke."
So far there has been no comment from Damascus, Baghdad, Moscow, or Washington. One source inside the Kremlin said, "We are waiting to see if there will be any follow-up action. We want to make sure this is real before we decide on our next steps."
Step 1 will be to make sure your wireless adapter in the Dell is working. Is there a light on the outside that will tell you if the hardware is running? (Maybe it is either orange=off or blue=on or something like that.)
Yes, and I have the date/time page up.
So you’re at a normal new-user set-up? Do that as if you just took it out of the box brand new. If it gets stuck, let me know.
If you’d rather go through FReepmail, let me know as well.
OK. I have the page with the icons on it.
Message popped up: Configuration system failed to initialize.
Is this resetting to Win 8 or upgrading to Win 10?
They didn’t do anything to the system. If they had, they would have seen that it wouldn’t access the Internet. It is running Win 10.
If they had done their jobs, it would have been re-set back to Win 8, which is how I know they didn’t even try to fix it.
It also won’t respond when I try to access the shut off mode (Windows icon)
So I’m just going to email Dell again.
Welp. It gave me a message of Factory Recovery Media, but I don’t have a flash drive with enough capacity for that.
So there is nothing I can do until I get one.
I will try again later.
29 here, sunny, a bit of a north wind.
I lost 3.4 lbs. After lunch, I’m going to Walmart, like I do every day.
Thank God kitty doesn’t have a data plan.
Good for you! I think...I guess it depends on how skinny you want to be. ;o]
I want to be egregiously skinny, but WW will shower me with concerned tsk-tsk-tsking if I get under 120.
$150 in texts just this month!
I’ve never had to pay for my texts or long distance. I have cricket Wireless and I love it. $42 a month. :o])
Sorry - 11:00-12:15 local I have a bunch of stand-up status meetings. This is being typed between two of them.
The error message you’re seeing suggests it’s from an installed app, not from the system itself. If you just dismiss it, can you use Win 10?
Auugh! Then I never posted it. Ah, well, that’s today.
I want to be very slender, but because of my age, skinny is not becoming. It makes all the skin sag and bag in all the wrong places.
My biggest problem, of course, is hypoglycemia, and it needs to be constantly monitored because at my age, it can very quickly shift to diabetes. DO. NOT. WANT.
See 2330.
I need a flash drive with a 9.5 (at least) capacity before the computer will let me move on.
I figured you were busy. This IS a work day!
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