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."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do_aWUpiFBs
Here’s the Mormon Tabernacle Choir orchestra with a guest soloist doing a Spanish children’s Christmas song. We’re going to do the song on Dec. 27: Asuncion has organized some children.
Oh, yes! David Archuleta is quite the guy! He just barely got back off his mission when he was asked to sing with the Choir, and he was moved to tears when he sang because they were so excited to have him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Archuleta
Cute young man, and very talented.
Yes, he is both!
My neighbor, the ex-Greyhound driver came by about 30 minutes ago. He looks absolutely awful. He had a triple bi-pass, and has sores on his inner left thigh and on his neck for whatever the doctors need them for, but he says there are two possible kidney donors for him.
He has lost more weight, and he really couldn’t afford to.
He brought me over a couple of his Christmas decorations, and I’m thinking that must mean he is going to be moving out. Not soon, but sometime in the next year. If he survives.
Poor old fellow!
Sometimes just glancing past words can leave you with the wrong exegesis...
At first glance I read that as "some ancillary but USED equipment."
Totally altered the meaning. :-)
Yah...he’s six years younger than I am but looks at least that much older.
I feel bad for him but I can’t do much except watch.
*choke*
Yes, that would alter the meaning...
Used equipment may still be useful, and is often “broken in” more than broken down.
I guess that would depend on your perspective...
;o]
Everybody likes to be useful. Nobody wants to be used.
How useful are the idiots against whom we devise our foolproof plans?
What plans? Like the *plans* we have for ISIS/IL?
God save this great Republic!
The lettuces recovered when it warmed up. I picked some for supper. When there are no home-grown greens, I eat spinach from the Walmart, but I figure many varieties of different-colored leaves have a variety of nutrients.
I don’t care for arugula by itself much, though. I don’t know what Dragonbaby sees in it.
We will try to get by without the familiar and useful information and observations that you so frequently make, for the specified interval of your absence from our forums, and our fivums as well.
Also, I won’t hold my breath waiting. (I probably could, you know. I’m good at it.)
Finally finished with today’s chapter of moving blues.
Will sleep in my new bedroom for the first time tonight.
Hope I didn’t forget any thing I’ll rilly rilly need first thing in the morning...
Well the only thing you’re likely to really, really need first thing in the morning is a bathroom, but most people don’t pack those along for a move.
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