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Scintillating Wednesday repartee, yawn man. ------- Thrilling Wednesday report, see man: Lunch was from BK with use of a gift card, rediscover latter financially savvy we man. A nice siesta followed, zzz we man. Din-din was "Hungry Man" boneless-chicken frozen din-dins, ingest Two Guys man. Mini-B. was tired and didn't want a movie night, oh well man. We have a midday appointment on Thursday, attend we man. In later afternoon, we take Uncle T-B. to the doctor, chauffeur senior he man we man. We must arise at o'dark-Many to take Mini-B. to Band sectional, long day man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort and embed ourself early we man.

Small change in Nebraska election law could throw the presidential election to Trump Yesterday, Nebraska's Republican governor endorsed legislation that could affect the presidential election and reinstall Donald Trump in the Oval Office. [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/small_change_in_nebraska_election_law_could_throw_the_presidential_election_to_trump.html

What about asking Ukraine for the necessary funds? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Too Expensive': Biden Cancels Plan to Refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that, for now at least, it was abandoning plans to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after the president drained the emergency supply to its lowest levels since the 1980s in a transparently political move to artificially push gas prices down. In a realization that Americans have been making regularly since Biden and his failed "build back better"-turned-"Bidenomics" agenda came to power, the White House has seemingly realized prices are just too darn high to fill the government's emergency supply. [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/04/03/biden-cancels-plans-to-refill-strategic-petroleum-reserve-n2637317

Years ago, I had a girlfriend who escaped Czechoslovakia with her family and went to Canada. She said that, in school (taught only in English), she cried for 6 weeks and then caught on. She would agree wholeheartedly with this piece. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Teach Migrant Children English -- Bilingual Ed Is a Scam New York City, Denver, Chicago and other cities are urgently recruiting bilingual education teachers as the children of migrants enroll in school. Bilingual ed will doom most of these kids to failure. All too often it's an educational ghetto, producing dropouts who can't speak English and face a lifetime of poverty. Non-English-speaking students should be given intense instruction in English when they first arrive at school and then mainstreamed to classrooms where students are taught only in English. The educational establishment says stressing English competency is "xenophobic." [...] https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2024/04/03/teach-migrant-children-english-bilingual-ed-is-a-scam-n2637280

Biden and Xi Hold First Call Since 2022, China Promptly Deploys Ships and Warplanes Around Taiwan [...] Communist Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping has zero respect for besieged President Joe Biden — and fears the cognitively declining president even less. The latest example of proof of the above rings clear as a bell. Biden and Xi held their first phone since July 2020 on Monday. Within hours, dozens of Chinese warplanes and multiple naval vessels were reported around Taiwan, the largest coordinated display (implied threat) of 2024. At least 30 planes and nine ships were detected in Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) by the country's Ministry of National Defense (MND). [...] https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/04/03/biden-and-xi-hold-first-call-since-2022-china-promptly-deploys-ships-and-warplanes-around-taiwan-n2172245

Israel Intercepts Arms Shipment From Iran to Gaza On Wednesday, Fox News presented a video of an arms shipment reportedly intercepted by Israeli forces. The video was not accompanied by any narration or indeed any audio, but reportedly shows a cache of weapons and explosives headed for Hamas in Gaza, and supplied by Iran. The video displays a wide range of arms and munitions, including mines, hand-thrown grenades, and other explosives, rocket-propelled grenade launchers (the infamous RPG-7 of Cold War infamy) what appear to be a variety of sidearms including Glock and Beretta pistols, and interestingly, what look to be AR-15 platform rifles, although whether they are the M-16/M4 version that has the full-auto or 3-shot burst capability is not discernible. [...] https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/04/03/israel-intercepts-arms-shipment-from-iran-to-gaza-n2172249

Interesting. Comments? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Parents Under Investigation for Raising an Independent Seven-Year-Old [...] This brings us to the story of the Widner family in Canton, Georgia. Reason notes that the Widners homeschool their three kids. Back in August of 2018, the kids were on the swim team at the local YMCA. One day after practice, the kids were walking home when the youngest, seven-year-old Jackson, stopped at the local grocery store because it handed out free cookies. Fair enough. Jackson's presence as an unaccompanied minor raised some eyebrows and he was detained until the police could respond. Jackson refused to tell the cops anything since he had been taught not to talk to strangers. The police were able to deduce that he had been at the YMCA. They also told the boy that he was guilty of a serious infraction. Jackson took the opportunity to inform the police that he would go home if they just left him alone. Instead, the officers brought Jackson home and gave his father, Glenn, a stern talking-to. Glenn was told, "You just can't raise kids like that anymore—it isn't safe." Glenn disagreed and had the stats to back up his assertion. But the stats were not enough to keep the cops from calling CPS. [...] https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2024/04/03/parents-under-investigation-for-independent-7-year-old-n4927861

Hello, Wisconsin! Cheeseheads Seem to Be Waking Up [...] I was wondering what had hit these people, these Biden-voting people, and turned them into normies again. One of the wokest states in the union went ahead on Tuesday and voted AGAINST Zuckerbucks (!) AND letting anyone other than election officials touch anything to do with running an election. [...] https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/04/03/hello-wisconsin-cheeseheads-seem-to-be-waking-up-n3785887

Yes -- and these deaths were considered regrettable but necessary in bringing those enemies to their knees.

Oh, gosh. Unless I posted it here previously, it would be pure luck to find it again. Regardless, will try.

This is an in-depth, but not lengthy, article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gallup: More Bad News for Biden Time for a new pandemic or other crisis, because it's going to take a lot of rigging to get Joe Biden across the finish line this November. I'm not making any predictions, mind you. Crises and pandemics can be manufactured on demand these days. It's not like the MSM is above putting its thumbs on the scales to move the needle. But according to Gallup, Joe Biden's reputation among Americans keeps getting worse, while Trump is still doing pretty well. [...] https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/03/gallup-more-bad-news-for-biden-n3785873

Thoughtful piece by Julie Kelly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aileen Cannon: Portrait of a Judge in the Fractured Double Reality of American Justice [...] When Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a sprawling indictment against Trump that included 32 counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly taking national defense records when he left office, he not only put the 43-year-old judge in the spotlight – he also put her in the crosshairs. [...] https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/03/portrait_of_a_judge_reflected_in_the_fractured_double_reality_of_american_politics_1021972.html

Some enterprising PhD student could write his dissertation on the landmark ways in which the Israeli military is minimizing civilian casualties in ways never even approached before.

Great article. A few weeks back, I read something like this, albeit a lot more technical. It needs to be understood by these simplistic Chicken Littles.

= one of the all-time great names, and looks like words from any one of NB's posts

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Protect your eardrums now... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cicada invasion: Trillions of noisy flying insects to swarm US for first time in 221 years Billions, if not trillions, of two groups of noisy flying insects are expected to emerge from the underground in 17 U.S. states in April in a rare natural phenomenon not seen since 1803. The insects, known as cicadas, are set to spring up and engage in a frantic mating frenzy lasting several weeks before they will all eventually die near trees. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/cicada-invasion-trillions-noisy-flying-110915743.html

Groundbreaking research! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How brown rats crawled off ships and conquered North American cities Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals – going on to infuriate and disgust generations of city-dwellers and becoming so ubiquitous that they're known as common rats, street rats or sewer rats. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/brown-rats-crawled-off-ships-180107113.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink

Thanks for taking the time to let everyone know the details of your experience. Your post is sure to help somebody in the future.

Thread is moved from General Immigration Discussion to the Major Changes forum, where VAWA-related issues are most often discussed.

It's Wednesday! Here is our highly effective* Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: *at prompting good news and approvals, if correlation = causation ========================================= LATER IN LIFE I used to be able to do cartwheels. Now, I tip over when putting on my underwear. I hate it when I see an old person and then realize that we went to high school together. I told my wife that she should embrace her mistakes -- so she hugged me. My wife says I have only two faults: I don't listen, and something else. At my funeral, take the bouquet off my casket and throw it into the crowd to see who's next. I came, I saw, I forgot what I was doing. Retraced my steps, got lost on the way back, and now have no idea what's going on. The senior version of "head, shoulders, knees, and toes" is "wallet, glasses, keys, and phone." If you see me talking to myself, just move along. I'm self-employed; we're having a staff meeting. I won't be impressed with technology until I can download food. I've reached the age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me. I really don't mind getting old, but my body is having a major fit. If you're happy and you know it, it's your meds!

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Scintillating Tuesday repartee, yawn man. --- Thrilling Tuesday report, see man: Took Mama T-B. to other doctor, chauffeur senior she man we man. Lunch was Subway WUOC, financially savvy we man. A siesta was taken thereafter, zzz we man. Din-din was an unparalleled Two Guys feast, see man: -- lettuce/tomato/crouton salad, all components from Aldi, ingest Two Guys man -- burnt pork ends from Aldi, ingest Two Guys man -- air-fried tater tots from Aldi, ingest Two Guys man -- remainder of Manyple Chocolate Creme cake from Aldi, ingest Two Guys man Mini-B. high-Many'd us not once, but twice, approval of Two Guys din-din man. Mini-B. embedded at normal time, are we hallucinating man. Party with the rubias after late TV news, cavort we man. A good day, si man.

Judge Orders Trump To Stop Noticing That The People Trying To Put Him In Jail Are Democrats NEW YORK, NY — In a devastating blow for the defense, State Judge Juan Merchan has ordered Donald Trump to immediately cease noticing that the only people trying to put him in jail are Democrats. "Quiet you!" Judge Merchan told Trump in court. "Stop mentioning that everyone in the legal system who is trying to imprison you just so happens to be a member of the Democrat party. It is completely irrelevant." "All instances of Trump noticing this fact will be met with serious legal consequences, which will be administered by Democrats." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/judge-orders-trump-to-stop-noticing-that-the-people-trying-to-put-him-in-jail-are-democrats

'I Didn't Do That': Biden Gaslights America On 'Trans Day of Visibility' [...] Biden could have just issued a friendly, supportive statement without a proclamation and avoided much if not all of the pushback. [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/04/02/i-didnt-do-that-biden-gaslights-america-again-n3785731