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If I were one of the dozen remaining viewers of CNN, I'd tune in to hear them choke on their own words. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'TOTAL VICTORY': Trump Responds to His Win Over Letitia James President Donald Trump is responding to the decision by a New York appellate court Thursday to throw out the bogus $515 million fraud case brought against him by Attorney General Letitia James. Here is Trump's full reaction, which he posted on Truth Social: [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/08/21/trump-responds-to-his-victory-over-letitia-james-n2662152

Comments? ~~~~~~~~~ Has Gavin Newsom Already Sealed His 2028 Fate? Following President Joe Biden's debate debacle and Vice President Kamala Harris's stinging defeat last year, California Governor Gavin Newsom appeared to have the early inside track to the 2028 Democrat nomination. But just a few months later, his overzealous pursuit of power and unhinged anti-Trump hysteria may have already sunk his presidential aspirations. [...] https://amac.us/newsline/politics/has-gavin-newsom-already-sealed-his-2028-fate/

Scintillating Thursday repartee, yawn man. ------- Thrilling Thursday report, see man: Mini-B. stayed home from skool because of gastric distress, too much 'za wee man man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. reported that he had also consumed it during skool lunch on Wed., explains much man. We were partially caffeinated and not otherwise ready when the phone rang, ring we man. Phone guy was ready to activate Mama T-B.'s landline at new casa, short notice man. We beat it over there, bleary unshowered we man. Guy established service without too much trouble, capable he man. We spent a total of Many-&-a-half hours doing the following with Mama T-B., see man: -- supervising phone guy, see man -- discussing Many-month CDs, discuss we man -- discussing high-yield savings accounts, discuss we man -- hearing Mama T-B. justifiably beef about Head Nooser, illegitimate female child latter she man man -- chatting with hospice social-worker, engaged/engaging she man -- rehashing everything beforehand, interminable man Breakfast was Mama T-B.'s cold leftovers, ingest we man. Lunch was Mama T-B.'s unwanted portions, ingest we man. Returned to casa at half-past 1, day shot man. Lunched insistent miu, lunch miu we man. Went straight to siesta, zzz we man. Awoke prematurely because of hip pain, man. Din-din was the remaining Many (2+2) slices of 'roni 'za, ingest we man. Researched more high-yield savings rates, research we man. Asked ChatGPT several tax-related questions, banking issues man. Phoned Mama T-B. about H-YS rates, phone we man senior she man man. Need to create "NO VISITORS" sign for Mama T-B.'s door, exhausted senior she man man. Thoroughly brushed miu, brush miu thoroughly we man. Abided monsoon with deafening thunder, How Dry We Aren't man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. We have itineraried 2 ESs for Friday, itinerary we man. More occur on Saturday, itinerary later we man. And that was/is our thrilling Thursday, report we man.

*** Thread is moved from the K-1 Process forum to the K-1 Case Progress subforum. ***

Everything is going so well in this thread that it's already time for our Wednesday-on-Thursday Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: ============================= CANADIAN GIRLS IN AUSTRALIA Two pretty girls from Canada decided to travel to Australia over the winter to get a break from -40 temperatures, ice, and snow. They sat at a club in Perth, enjoying the sunshine and sipping on a cold drink. Two local young men saw them. One said to the other, "Hey, why don't you ask those pretty ladies over to join us?" His buddy walked over to the girls and said, "G'day, ladies -- haven't seen you around here before. Where are you from?" One girl looked up with a big smile and proudly said, "Saskatoon, Saskatchewan!" The young man looked at them, blinked a couple of times, and walked back to his buddy, who said, "Are the ladies coming over, or should we join them over there?" His friend replied, "Nah. They don't speak any English."

Pork Belly Persecution: The UK Is Arresting People for Professing Their Love of Bacon We've seen many examples in recent years of how the United Kingdom is falling, but this week, the government of Two-Tier Kier Starmer has finally gone too far. The UK is now arresting young men for declaring their love of the greatest food in the world: Bacon. [...] https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/08/20/pork-belly-persecution-the-uk-is-arresting-people-for-professing-their-love-of-bacon-n2417604

These pardons should be voided, it increasingly appears. The question is, how? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DOJ Bombshell Shows That Biden Admin Ignored Critical Red Flags About Autopenned Pardons [...] An internal email that Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer sent on Jan. 18, 2025, expressed alarm over the scope and vagueness of the mass pardons. He warned that the language in one of the warrants was "highly problematic" because it lacked clarity and may have unintentionally allowed dangerous criminals to walk free. He also stated flatly that the DOJ, the very agency tasked with reviewing clemency applications, had been cut out of the loop entirely. That's not how the system is supposed to work. Presidents have the constitutional power to issue pardons, but history shows there's usually a vetting process to prevent abuses and to protect public safety. Biden's team threw that out the window. Weinsheimer specifically cautioned that the blanket wording could make some of the commutations ineffective, or worse, extend clemency to violent crimes that weren't supposed to fall under Biden's stated standards. The White House, meanwhile, ignored victims' families who pleaded against releasing certain offenders. Instead, they shoved through three massive autopen-signed warrants covering thousands of cases without so much as a second thought. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/20/doj-bombshell-shows-biden-ignored-critical-red-flags-about-autopenned-pardons-n4942867

This lady is something special. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ODNI 2.0: With Trump's 'Greenlight' Gabbard Launches Historic Intel Overhaul Tulsi Gabbard told President Trump before her nomination that she had come to peace with serving as last director of national intelligence if eliminating the post was necessary to permanently reform the sprawling intelligence community. Now six months after her confirmation and with the president's blessing, Gabbard will launch a campaign to dramatically overhaul the entire agency by returning it to its original purpose and thereby preserving its future. According to senior officials who assisted in the review, the plan includes cutting the workforce by 40%, eliminating redundant mission centers whose work is already being fulfilled elsewhere in the intelligence community, and doubling down on the core function of the agency: intelligence integration. [...] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/20/odni_20_with_trumps_greenlight_gabbard_launches_historic_intelligence_overhaul__153198.html

Too much winning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DC just had a murder-free week, and yes, Dems, Trump did that As the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Trump administration's takeover of the Washington DC police force begins to fade, the results are coming in, and they are nothing short of extraordinary. As of Wednesday afternoon, the nation's capital has had no murders for seven days, something that had not been achieved since March and something I can find no recent record of in summer months when the murder rate is typically at its highest. [...] https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-dc-just-had-murder-free-week-yes-dems-trump-did

Comments? ~~~~~~~~~ The Left Seethes As Trump Requires Immigrants To Actually Like America U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Tuesday they are updating their guidance so that radical anti-American foreigners can't receive a change in their status in the United States — a common sense change long overdue. Days after the USCIS announced updated guidance requiring applicants for citizenship to show they are "worthy" of becoming U.S. citizens, the agency updated its policy for aliens applying for immigration benefits (like work permits, citizenship, green cards) so that officers not only take into account an alien's compliance with immigration laws, but whether that alien "has endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused the views of a terrorist organization or group, including those who support or promote anti-American ideologies or activities, antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic terrorist organizations, and antisemitic ideologies." [...] https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/20/the-left-seethes-as-trump-requires-immigrants-to-actually-like-america/

Scintillating Wednesday repartee, yawn man. ------- Thrilling Wednesday report, see man: Mama T-B. and ex-Mrs.-T-B. awoke us at o'dark-Many with texts, man. Nevertheless, bedtime HSM seemed to work again, minimal ow we man. Breakfast was 2 hard-boiled eggs, ingest we man. Went to scooter place, long drive with tolls man. Very helpful folks, glee man. Used scooter in excellent shape, perfect and bought it for Uncle T-B. man. New batteries installed at a discount, financially savvy we man. Same-day delivery and free haul-off of old scooter, couldn't be better man. Except for arm/handle angle, Uncle T-B. very well pleased, thank the Great Sky-Chimp we man. Researched short-term CDs for Mama T-B., all top rates about the same man. Attempted siesta failed, man. Mini-B. appeared for Two Guys eve, Two Guys man. For din-din, a Many-inch 'roni 'za was ordered (and picked up during skool-release hours), si and man. Most of aforementioned 'za consumed, ingest Two Guys man. Mini-B. played V.R. on his Oculus while we siesta'd, finally zzz* we man. *but still with PTSD-type dreams about vacating Mama T-B.'s casa, this needs to end man Movie night was a Breaking Bad episode, only a few of these left man. No popcorn was consumed, stuffed-from-'roni-'za Two Guys man. Mini-B. returned in timely fashion, end of Two Guys eve man. Took tearful call from Mama T-B., still at end of rope senior she man man. Resisted Living head nooser is a first-class illegitimate female child, not just Mama T-B.'s opinion man. Going to have landline service established in Mama T-B.'s room on Thursday, aysheep senior she man. She can't grasp that the phone co. will call the day of with service window, no earlier advance notice man. No party with the rubias, no cavort we man. Must have phone/modem supplies and financial findings ready to go on short notice, prepare we man. And that was/is our thrilling Wednesday, report we man.

Thread is moved from the K-1 Process forum to the "AOS from K Visas" main forum -- topic involves that phase.

It's a lost battle to question jan22 about visa matters.

Thread is moved from the US Citizenship main forum to the Immigration News forum -- topic applies to more than naturalization.

Racists and bigots, obviously!

This is excellent, and not just from the autopen standpoint. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A New Document Casts Serious Doubt on Hundreds of Commutations Issued by the Biden Admin. (a Deep Dive) https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2025/08/19/new-documents-from-ed-martin-cast-serious-doubt-on-around-2500-pardons-and-clemencies-lawsplaining-n2417593

Thread is moved back to the Tourist Visas forum.

Thread is shifted from the main K-1 Process forum to the Case Progress subforum.

This article shreds and barbecues the "logic" of an esteemed imam. It also exposes the sneering, elitist snobbery of the Houston Chronicle, which is unfit for wrapping a dead fish. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Muslim Leaders Planning Texas Community Say They're the Target of 'Islamophobic' Attacks Controversy has been swirling for months around one of the largest mosques in Texas, the East Plano Islamic Center, and its plan to construct a large community in the Dallas area, featuring 1,000 homes as well as a mosque. The Houston Chronicle reported with palpable disgust Monday that "conservative Christian politicians" have been spreading "unfounded claims on social media" against the Center, and that Muslim leaders in the area claim that they have been "becoming increasingly targeted by Islamaphobic [sic] threats and attacks." The community might not have sparked so much opposition, however, if its leaders hadn't been so quick to resort to the left's tried-and-true tactic of claiming victim status at the sign of the slightest opposition, and if they had been a bit more honest and aboveboard about their intentions. The Chronicle sneers that those "conservative Christians politicians" have even made the wild (according to the Chronicle, that is) claim that "the project discriminated against Christians and Jews and intended to create a Muslim-only community that would impose Islamic law on residents." The Chronicle presents these charges as if they were self-evidently ridiculous, but are they, really? Take, for example, the "resident scholar" of the East Plano Islamic Center, the renowned imam Yasir Qadhi, who is a native of Houston. Back in March 2011, Qadhi penned a defense of Sharia, Islamic law, that was designed to reassure jittery non-Muslims but only ended up arousing more concern than it allayed, as it was a masterpiece of deceptive, disingenuousness, and dishonesty. [...] https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/08/19/muslim-leaders-planning-texas-community-say-theyre-the-target-of-islamophobic-attacks-n4942847

Justice Department Investigating D.C. Crime Stats Scandal The Justice Department is investigating whether Washington, D.C., police deliberately cooked the books to make the city's crime problem look less severe than it really is, two senior law enforcement officials told NBC News. U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro is running the investigation, and unlike swamp insiders, she has no problem taking on corruption wherever it festers. Last month, the Metropolitan Police Department suspended Commander Michael Pulliam and placed him on leave after launching an internal investigation into whether he manipulated crime data. However, this new investigation will dig much deeper. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/19/justice-department-investigating-dc-crime-statistics-scandal-n4942851

Good grief! Let's hope that the converters had ID numbers on them. They certainly will, or should, hereafter. And at least there's one good use for the online learning that the Covid lockdowns imposed -- utilizing it in this instance.

A microcosm of "majority rules" is evident in Oregon, and to a lesser extent in New York. Portland voters (very blue) dominate the rest of Oregon (redder), and New York City (very blue) dominates New York state (redder). These are examples of how doing away with the Electoral College would affect the entire U.S.

This ought to be the exciting part. In addition, she might find that she's way ahead of her classmates (U.S. schools tend to be behind other countries' schools in curriculum and rigor), and this will help her get off to a fast start. Your diligent thoroughness in reporting these updates is helpful to many and interesting to all. Keep it up!

This thread contains some ideas. Following the suggestions might make you feel a little better. http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/562879-cbp-at-tsa-airport-checkpoints-why-theyre-there-how-best-to-handle/#entry7784682

You have to make a quality decision as to which of these is more important to you, and live with it.