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We had a very nice vacation and thankfully the weather was not too bad. A small rant though about men these days. I know of course not all men, but there seems to be a generation of men that are very aggressive and entitled these days. We had gone to my husband's favorite pub while in town, it was a nice night so it was packed and mainly filled with couples. Seating is always first come first serve, so we grabbed one of the remaining tables outside. My husband went back inside to place an order at the bar and chat to a friend, while I waited outside holding our table and waiting for the server. A young man with his much older, inappropriately dressed for this location, and very drunk date??? stumbles onto the sidewalk and begin having an argument with each other. She approaches another man seated at a table waiting for his date to arrive and when not given a response she wants then storms off into the bar. Her 'date' now sets his eyes on me, and begins to aggressively demand that he sit at my table because he has "some life **** to sort out", asks if I'm actually going to eat something, if I'm with someone. He's getting more angry every time I tell him that yes I'm waiting for a server and no he cannot sit with me. He starts pacing in front of me, gripping my husband's empty chair and again wants to know if I'm waiting for someone. I tell him in a firm tone that I am waiting for my husband. This immediately provokes him to start shouting that he's not interested in me anyway and several other expletives. I decide to start ignoring him because such children aren't worth my time, and I start texting my husband to hurry. Other patrons are now looking immediately concerned and thankfully my husband had arrived back at the table, which quickly scared him off. The 'date' got tossed out of the pub and they stumbled away arguing down the street. I am still so bewildered what it was all about, but sure made me uncomfortable!

Yes if you're an alcoholic. No if you're not.

I just wanted to follow up that the images shared here of the subject is not him. https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.7672466

Our 10th wedding anniversary coming up so we're off for our annual vacation. Supposedly the husband has plotted something special, so we'll see what that's about. Been absolutely exhausted these past two weeks. Between my dad always not listening to doctor instructions, my mom's crown falling out (my dentist bless him had to do emergency surgery) and also not listening to the dentist instructions, my sister's 5th COVID infection (but we are all thankfully still negative), cleaning everything, packing suitcases, and finally getting up the courage to pack the dog's things away... it's been a lot. We've had a few potential dog prospects come up, but they've been snapped up quickly. And while they are cute... I'm tearfully reminded that it's still not quite the right time, and none of them feel like the one. I mean who am I kidding? I'd adopt every single last one of them if I could... but that's not practical.

Bullying is not the answer... and it has never stopped. I think... for some of these kids their parents just aren't around, they aren't there for them. They don't know that they love them, they don't feel like they'd ever be accepted by them, and some of them really should never be exposed to shooting guns. We all remember going through some period of our lives when we felt like our parents or anyone really just couldn't understand us. I think it's getting worse now because there are lots of parents just checked out. They aren't even trying! They had kids... but don't actually want the kid. They don't want to know what they are up to. They don't want to know the messed up thoughts and feelings they might have. They don't want to learn what they do or enjoy. Kids are suffering emotionally and spiritually.

Det Sgt. Cody Becker was one of the officers that was murdered. He was honestly an amazing guy.. in 2010 he was recognized for his heroism in rescuing a family from a burning building. In his school days he was known for intercepting a pass from NFL QB Chad Henne and running it back 47 yards for a TD. As fate would have it, his catching skills came in handy the day he saved that family. The story of his heroism: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/09/18/fallen-officer-cody-becker-lauded-as-hero-in-2010/86211813007/

Horrific violence and unstable men with guns don't just happen in big cities, but small towns too. Yesterday 5 cops were shot, 3 murdered by a 24 year old man that was stalking his ex-girlfriend and her family on their rural farm. After the family had fled, fearing for their lives, the cops went to serve a warrant and remove him from squatting on the property. They were ambushed. This was in a small town on the outskirts of York, PA and is the second time this year cops have been killed in the line of duty from this department.

As of this morning it seems like they gave up that rumored endeavor and reverted to "let's just do whatever we did in 2020...?" at least according to the USCIS's social media this morning linking to an 'exclusive' article. It claims it will just use the 2020 version of the test, with updated questions and needing 12 correct answers that was scrapped.

George Zinn has apparently been a 'fixture' in Utah since the 1980s. He is regularly on the scene of events (not just political ones) to cause trouble, and has been repeatedly arrested for false claims, trespassing, and obstruction. He's also made bomb and terroristic threats and the LDS has a restraining order against him. The DA sort of nonchalantly refers to him as a 'gadfly'. It is amazing that officials just sort of shrug and act like "that's just crazy old George... he does this a lot.." He admitted to having the porn, and likely did it intentionally. Here's the story of his arrest in 2013 which references his priors in the 80s! https://www.staradvertiser.com/2013/04/23/breaking-news/utah-man-charged-with-making-bomb-threat-at-marathon/

It started in the late 70s-80s. But hey didn't your generation have swingers, hippies, and free love? But as I've said from my old moderation days before social media was a thing... the very concerning kids back then are now adults and apparently raising their own concerning kids and are as completely dense as their own parents were back then as to what is going on. Kids that feel completely abandoned and isolated will turn to dark corners of the internet and social media for validation and acceptance, and.. well the love they don't believe they have in the 'real world'. They can find validation of their unstable thoughts and feelings. Based on the documents today there was quite a bit of contention between the values and expectations of his father and the person he wanted to be. Everyone wants this killer to fit into some neat little box to exploit, and the truth is the kid was an absolute mess. Lately, there's a been a bunch of these type shooters like this.. individuals who have been exploited online - some by new types of extremist groups that society does not have a handle on. It's hard not to laugh at some of the bizarre clearly insane types that are produced... at a hearing about Luigi today there was a woman that is adamantly claiming she's in an online AI relationship with him. There's been many articles posted lately about people having 'relationships' with AI. This is similar, it's not a bot convincing someone to kill, but anon users ****posting brain rot to vulnerable kids willing to consume and act on it. The parents will say they had no idea, all the while there was probably warning signs, but they continued to blindly feed guns and online access.

Also just pointing out, that your future spouse will need to come to terms with any marijuana use if she does eventually enter the US. It does not matter if marijuana is legalized in the state where you might reside or if you travel to one where it might be legal. It is still federally illegal, and thus any use could put her status in the US in jeopardy. Stress is a big part of life unfortunately, so finding assistance to deal with it different is important for her future health and status.

Agree with the above, but just to add do you have any student loans? If you do welcome to the sweet fresh hell only the SLC can provide to your life. You'll need to follow the procedure of notifying them, and then notifying them again when you are employed, sending them pay stubs every year for a reassessment, and then paying every month. If would also be advisable to keep a UK bank account if you do have a loan.

The limp was observed on the house camera of him walking toward the college... which is odd to me because supposedly he drove his fancy car there. You can see on the college cam that something might possibly be jammed all the way down his right pant leg. It looks like based on the mom's pages all of her boys were well trained in using all sorts of weapons from a very early age. Kind of a common trend with these types of shooters. Also it kind of now sounds like his father wasn't entirely going to turn the son in. It was the pastor that did the right thing. There was also a friend that was supposedly asked by the shooter to get his gun for him. I guess that friend also wasn't interested in contacting the police...

My mother did not participate in this study. 😉 But we all don't fall into little neat checkboxes.

From what I can piece together - looks like his mother is making attempts at scrubbing pages. Straight laced conservative family, she's very much all into being a "boy mom". He seemed educationally bright probably a lot of expectations on him. Can't say what he was involved in (I can imagine we're going to find out some activities online), but all the boys seemed to be experienced with guns and shooting. Everyone thinks Kirk's been killed by a person that hated him, and that may well be. But it could actually be for a completely different reason. We often forget how many have been murdered for a whole host of strange reasons. A good deal online still don't even believe this is the guy in favor of other suspects. No doubt in my mind Kirk died pretty instantly. Which made comments from people like Glen Beck at the time (who was trying to convince people he was just fine and stable), kinda gross and unsound.

It's a Mauser is what was floated around this morning. Just a question for those that are familiar with firearms. How skilled would you have to be with this rifle to pull this off at that distance? There is a TMZ video showing the individual walking around a neighborhood nearby. He's walking very odd, a limp perhaps, or maybe he has the gun strapped under a pants leg. The gun obviously wasn't able to be taken apart, so how did the guy conceal it while walking around campus? Surely he would have had to scope out and plan for multiple scenarios... We also unfortunately seem to be having something happening at the Naval Academy right now.

Unfortunately there is a very graphic up close video being shared online. Based on that video, I do not believe he is alive.. The shot was fired a remarkable distance away and in such a way to ensure maximum effect. Not sure why they grabbed the wrong guy, but I think they need to look for a suspect that's an expert marksman.

They are banned here AND you have to ask someone (if you can find them) for paper bags which you have to pay for. Of course when you have a cart full of groceries trying to estimate how many small paper bags you're going to need is.. interesting..

I rarely go to Home Depot these days, most everything was locked up - even the candy/drinks. We usually go to Lowes, but they also use the same camera technology. Most places do these days. Since we are masked I don't think there's a ton to worry about. There has been a lot of pushback lately about the license plate readers being put up in town though.

Not as of yet, though I've heard musings something may be coming soon. One theory is that this is leaking now in an attempt to stop the administration from repeating this rather dumb idea again. Strange enough though is that this article mentions it was not the first attempt - there was another failed mission during the Bush admin. There were absolutely no details on the nature of that for this story, but I'd sure like to know more.

I'm a bit confused... So when my husband came here we got him his SSN before we married, there was nothing that needed to be verified. I added him to my bank account. He got his own phone plan and added me to it. I added him to my health insurance. I had no credit accounts to speak of, so by the time he was working he was the one getting his first secured credit card and adding *me*. No one, not the bank and certainly not the credit card company ever requested us to verify anything. You have an SSN it's yours and is a valid number. If a credit card company or a bank doesn't want to accept your business, go elsewhere. When we had issues with Chase giving us the runaround and demanding to physically see his SSN we told them to take a hike and got our visa elsewhere.

I thought that, but the NYT is specific that it is not coming from Bolton.

Sharing the CNN article here as the NYT's is paywalled. But the gist of it is that in 2019 we sent Seal Team to North Korea to plant a listening device. It describes the very dangerous mission and how it went completely wrong. It is easy to see how it went wrong and it is strange why no one in charge thought there might be significant risks which could culminate in nuclear war. The men arose out of the water to encounter a fishing boat, and promptly murdered innocent civilians who probably had just witnessed something strange but could have blown our cover. It's unclear how they thought they could accomplish planting the said device, if they had successfully landed, without detection. The NYT's article is gruesome in it's detail and specifics, but is also cautious about what it's revealing - as the information is classified. I wonder whom is spilling this tale? https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/north-korea-navy-seal-mission-nyt

Asking people to write essays is a nonsense idea. Becoming an American isn't like writing a thesis to get into college of why you think you should be one. It's not an exclusive club reserved for who writes the best sentences. If you can answer the test questions effectively and pass the other requirements that's all is needed. Do I think that individuals should know a good basis of English? Sure, but I know everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to learning languages. It's not like we're requiring potential citizens to take some kind of mandatory language classes. If essay writing becomes a thing I guarantee you will have letters written by other people or worse.. AI. Most Americans cannot answer the 100 questions.... but I made darn sure I drilled them into my husband.

There is a pinned thread about health insurance at the top of this forum section that you may find useful. The simple answer is someone is going to have to pay out of pocket for it. And that is going to be very very expensive. In some states now you cannot 'get' Obamacare until actually having the green card due to ongoing litigation and changes via the current administration.