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It depends how we define "overly cautious," and what risk you wish to take. Just because multiple (presumably anecdotal) stories of others suggest that they traveled successfully doesn't mean that (1) your situation is identical to theirs or that (2) what they chose to do was advisable. These people may have all dodged the metaphorical bullets. From your description, your lawyer sounds alert, engaged, and concerned about your welfare. If true, then you're highly fortunate to have associated with him. I suggest that you follow his recommendations precisely, given the potential risk that you face.

PR Analysis of the Democrats: One Thing They're Doing Right and One Thing They're Doing Wrong [...] the Republicans' current problem with Harris: She's just too much of a target-rich environment. The GOP is so overwhelmed with juicy, tempting vulnerabilities – i.e. her liberal record, her unpopularity, her debacle on the border, her far-left rhetoric, her track record of incompetence, her ties to Biden, her unlikeability – that all the voices are drowning each other out. There’s no structure or cohesiveness to the GOP’s messaging. Compare this to the Democrats, who had all their talking heads marching in lockstep, raiding the (friendly) airwaves to attack JD Vance as "weird." Because they spoke in unison, the American people clearly heard their message (as silly as it was). [...] https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/07/31/pr-analysis-of-the-democrats-one-thing-theyre-doing-right-one-thing-theyre-doing-wrong-n4931223

A Funny Thing Happened When a Hamas Leader Went to Sleep Last Night; He Blowed Up Real Good When I first read that Hamas' top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran last night, my first thought was that a Mossad assassination team had snuck in, done some dirty work that needed doing, and then snuck back out. But no — it was so much better than that. Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighters snuck into Iran's airspace undetected and expertly fired what must have been a small-diameter smart bomb or precision right into Haniyeh's guest residence in Tehran, killing just him and his bodyguard. I doubt Haniyeh even had enough warning to wake up in time to hear his impending death. Tehran promises revenge, yadda yadda yadda, but can't even defend its own capital. Jerusalem remains mum about the whole thing, naturally, but I imagine they went in with a flight of two F-35I Adir stealth fighters to get in close with another pair of F-15I Ra'ams nearby for backup. Or maybe Israeli jamming pods are so good that stealth fighters weren't needed, and it was just the longer-ranged F-15Is that reached out and touched someone last night. [...] https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/07/31/a-funny-thing-happened-when-a-hamas-leader-went-to-sleep-last-night-he-blowed-up-real-good-n4931220

Iran to Israel: You'll Pay For This 'Cowardly Act' Define cowardly. Does it mean 'striking the head of a terrorist organization in the capital of the terrorist state that sponsors it'? Or could it possibly mean 'raping and slaughtering hundreds of civilians and butchering babies who couldn't fight back against the psychopaths that the terrorist organization controls'? We should really define terms, you know. Anyway, Iran issued a Mom He Hit Me Back! response to the humiliating assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in their capital, where the IRGC apparently failed yet again: [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/07/31/iran-to-israel-youll-pay-for-this-cowardly-act-n3792504

Also posted in Election master thread. Why don't journalists do journalism?

It's brazen, and no one is held accountable.

It really does appear that the Secret Service was intentionally negligent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Ridiculous:' Local Law Enforcement in Butler Strike Back at Secret Service Director; UPDATED! [...] It was the locals' fault? The Secret Service didn't meet with the local snipers on the day of the rally--they blew a scheduled meeting off! The Secret Service was warned by the locals that a man with a gun was on the roof and sent an armed response, and the Secret Service ignored the warning and allowed Trump on stage. [...] https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/31/ridiculous-local-law-enforcement-in-butler-strike-back-at-secret-service-director-n3792512

In Seine - The French Olympic Follies Continue https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/07/31/in-seine-the-french-olympic-follies-continue-n3792529

Wella, wella! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trump Explodes Heads: Kamala Was Indian Before She Was Black the first reaction is, yeah - AY DIOS MIO, WHAT DID HE DO?!?! But, if you listen, the audience is cracking up. I don't know if it's out of astonishment that he'd have the nerve to say such a thing - Rachel Scott was certainly sputtering in indignant, "She's ALWAYS IDENTIFIED AS A BLACK WOMAN *snarlsnarlsnarl*!" outrage trying to shut him down - or if it was because so many in the audience secretly think Kamala's a phony, too. I have no idea. But it's quite a moment. And a moment that could be a death blow to most people, only that damn Trump, right? They're already fact-checking the appearance. Did Kamala fail the bar? Trump says yes, Scott says no...advantage? Trump. [...] https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/07/31/trump-explodes-heads-kamala-was-indian-before-she-was-black-n3792531

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Judge Merchan's Daughter Raked in $12.7 Million in First Six Months of 2024 Democrats have paid the company owned by the politically active daughter of compromised Judge Juan Merchan at least $12.7 million in the first half of this year. Federal election reports show Authentic Campaigns, the consulting firm owned by Loren Merchan, raked in the windfall between January 1 and July 1, 2024. Her father currently presides over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump in New York City. [...] https://www.declassified.live/p/judge-merchans-daughter-raked-in

This is exactly what the NBC News Mideast reporter was moaning about during their report about it.

It's to defuse the truthful accusation against Kommie. Actually not a bad strategy by them.

"...the murderers who are allegedly muslims." ----- Surprahz, Sarjent Carter...

Another example of mistreatment of Colonists (ahem, harrumph). You imprisoned them, too, word has it.

Light a cigar with it as a parlor trick. Or not.

Wednesday! Time for our highly effective Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SOMETHING NICE Unable to attend the funeral after his father died, a son who lived far away called his brother and told him, "Do something nice for Dad and send me the bill." Later, he got a bill for $200, which he paid. The next month, he got another bill for $200, which he also paid, figuring that it was some incidental expense. Bills for $200 kept arriving every month, and finally the man called his brother again to find out what was going on. "Well," said the other brother, "you said to do something nice for Dad. So I rented him a tuxedo."

As Kamala Campaigns, Nation Starting To Miss The Clarity And Coherence Of Joe Biden [...] "Sure makes you miss Joe's way with words, doesn't it?" asked one voter as Harris attempted to finish speaking a coherent sentence. "I know there were a lot of people who got really excited about Kamala in the last week or so, but man… when you hear her speak, it really highlights how great we had it the last few years with having a dementia patient giving speeches as president." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/as-kamala-campaigns-nation-starting-to-miss-the-clarity-and-coherence-of-joe-biden

Google Search Confirms Kamala Harris Did Not Exist Prior To July 22, 2024 U.S. — Despite attempts by conservatives to attack her for previous statements and alleged extreme positions, a quick Google search has confirmed that Kamala Harris did not even exist prior to July 22, 2024. The Vice President's surge in polling after being named the presumptive Democratic candidate for president led her critics to seek out as much negative information about her as possible only to be disappointed to learn from Google that her existence began only one week ago. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/google-search-confirms-kamala-harris-did-not-exist-prior-to-july-22-2024

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Behavioral Scientists Now Believe Feminists Are Always Angry Because They Don't Have A Man To Tell Them To Calm Down OXFORD — Eminent behavioral scientists at the University of Oxford have recently unveiled a new feminist theory of human emotions. Specifically, the theory holds that feminists are always angry because they don't have a man to tell them to calm down when they get angry. The theory, which was first published in an article in the journal "Behavioral and Brain Sciences" a few months ago, has gained significant traction among researchers who were formerly befuddled as to why feminists are so irate and hysterical all the time. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/behavioral-scientists-now-believe-feminists-are-always-angry-because-they-dont-have-a-man-to-tell-them-to-calm-down

Black Americans Patiently Waiting For Liberal White Woman To Tell Them Who To Vote For LOS ANGELES, CA — Reports from the historic Zoom call "White Women: Answer the Call" for Kamala Harris indicate that black men all across America were listening intently, waiting for liberal white women to instruct them on who to vote for. In a speech that moved many on the call to tears, Tiktok influencer and liberal white woman Arielle Fodor used the "gentle parenting method" to helpfully tell black men who they should support in the upcoming election. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/black-men-listen-closely-as-liberal-white-women-instruct-them-who-to-vote-for

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Democrats Continue Long-Standing Tradition Of Large Whites-Only Gatherings U.S. — Democrats continued their long-standing tradition of holding whites-only gatherings this week with the new "White Dudes for Harris" campaign. The Zoom call, featuring prominent politicians and celebrities, upheld the Democratic Party's proud heritage of gathering a large group of white men together to talk about black people just like the party did for decades with the Ku Klux Klan and other whites-only meetings. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-continue-long-standing-tradition-of-white-male-only-gatherings

Analysis of the hit, with several updates: https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/07/30/breaking-hamas-chief-haniyeh-killed-in-tehran-n3792501

Thrilling Tuesday-on-Wednesday report, see man: Breakfast/lunch was one dying sliced banana drenched in pancake syrup, ingest we man. The other dying banana was rotten down its center, just like another one in this bunch man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. called to say that she & Mini-B. had reached their penultimate destination, si man. Every member of her family wished that we'd been there, endorsed we man. A siesta was then taken, zzz we man. Warshered/baked/folded stuff from guest-room cleanout, not much man. Will try to sell Mini-B.'s better stuff to children's resale place on Wednesday, attempt we man. Will donate ex-Mrs.-T-B.'s stuff (and Many00 shoes) to favorite thrift shop, donate we man. Din-din was Re-Modified Tuna Glop, potato soup substituted for 'shroom soup man. We off-cleaned an end-table downstairs, mostly stuff to recycle man. We took about half the remaining misplaced items from guest room to proper places, organize we man. After Many (2x2x2 +1) p.m., Mama T-B. called, too tired to yell much at us man. She informed us that Subway and Arby's coupons had come in her mail, newspaper supplement man. We immediately went to her complex to root through the garbage, all right on top man. We now have enough coupons to last into mid-Manytember, finally man. However, we are supposed to be dieting, delayed gratification man. We used the excursion to also grocery for bananas and baby carrots, good snack man. We were doing well weight-wise, diet we man. We might have blown it tonight, man. We consumed a small chocolate bar and Many handfuls of dry Froot Loops, blow all accomplishment we man. We then consumed almost half a bag of baby carrots, at least low-calorie man. We do not want to see the scale tonight, dirty filthy rotten lyin' contraption man. We self-swear (at least tonight) to ingest only the baby carrots as computer snacks from now on, self-promise we man. No party with the rubias tonight, gorged whale we man. Couple of errands on Wednesday, industrious we man. And that was/is our thrilling Tuesday, report we man.

For once, government's good for something!