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It is Wednesday and already time for our Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: =========================================== THE NEXT GENERATION This morning, my son said that his ear hurt. I asked, "On the inside or the outside?" He walked out the front door, came back in, and said, "Both." Moments like this got me wondering if I'm saving too much for college.

AfroKing, did you find work? Tell us about what you found, and how.

Richard, welcome to the forum! You've received good advice from highly experienced members. Good luck to you, and be sure to report further developments.

In addition (actually, before anything), shop for a lawyer who can draft wills, medical & financial powers of attorney, and similar estate documents. These make superlative evidence for ROC, and they're even more crucial to have in "life." Remember that if you move from one U.S. state to another, your will may need to be redone. If there's no time to draft a will, the powers of attorney are fine for ROC and crucial in "life."

After Years of Debate, Theologians Now Agree That Lying To Your Dentist About Flossing Is Not A Sin LOS ANGELES, CA — After years of fierce debate, theologians from all the major branches of Christianity have now come to an agreement that lying to your dentist about the frequency of flossing in your dental hygiene routine is not a sin. The debate over lying about flossing raged for years in a series of interdenominational councils held between all Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches. They don't agree on much else, but one thing they are now in total unity on is that it is acceptable to tell your dentist you "floss all the time, once a day at least." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/after-years-of-debate-theologians-now-agree-that-lying-to-your-dentist-about-flossing-is-not-a-sin

Investigation Reveals DOGE Had Just Laid Off The Guy Whose Job It Was To Make Sure Jeffrey Goldberg Wasn't In The War Group Chat WASHINGTON, D.C. — Elon Musk was quick to apologize Monday for DOGE mistakenly laying off the one government employee whose job it was to prevent journalist Jeffrey Goldberg from being in war strategy group chats. "Well, look, we move fast and break things and see what works and what doesn't," Musk said. "And one of the things that worked was having someone around to make sure Jeffrey Goldberg didn't accidentally get invited into a group chat where we discuss bombing Yemen." The employee responsible for that important job was White House Communications Intern Ellie Stromberg, a young employee who understands how group chats work. She was let go after [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/horrible-doge-had-just-laid-off-the-guy-whose-job-it-was-to-make-sure-jeffrey-goldberg-wasnt-in-the-war-group-chat

Democrats Estimate They Are Only One More Arson Away From Being Popular Again U.S. — Despite record-low polling numbers among American voters, Democratic Party leaders were confident they could turn things around and estimated they were only one more arson away from being popular again. While the party seemed to have run adrift in the American political landscape following its landslide losses to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, prominent Democrats remained hopeful that their fortunes would come back around after the next firebombing. "Just a few more torched Teslas and everyone will love us again," said Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "I mean, we've [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-estimate-they-are-only-one-more-arson-away-from-being-popular-again

Perfectly Good Sports Game Ruined By Lady Announcer CLEVELAND, OH — In a tragedy bemoaned by sports fans across the nation, a perfectly good basketball game between Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers was completely ruined by a lady announcer. According to fans present at the debacle, the game was just shaping up to be a real corker when the stadium speakers crackled with an unmistakably feminine mic-test of a woman with a woman's voice. "It all went downhill from there," recalls Jon Christiansen, a Warriors fan. "I didn't know you could get hired as a sports announcer when you're a woman. It's just not right. I thought this was America." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/perfectly-good-sports-game-ruined-by-lady-announcer

4D Chess: Genius Trump Leaks War Plans To 'The Atlantic' Where No One Will Ever See Them WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a stunning show of brilliant military strategy, President Trump has leaked his top-secret Yemen airstrike plans to The Atlantic so that no one will ever see them or read them. The battle plan, which was just a group chat text message that said: "Yeah, let's drop bombs on them, lol" was sent to a journalist with The Atlantic to be published in an article that no one saw, in a publication no one reads. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/4d-chess-genius-trump-leaks-war-plans-to-the-atlantic-where-no-one-will-ever-see-them

Thrilling Tuesday report, see man: Breakfast for Mini-B. was an Aldi "Meat-Lover's Breakfast Bowl," ingest with pleasure wee man man. We will add this item to his breakfast roster, chiefly now corn dogs or chicken melts man. Lunch was 2 turkey-&-cheese sandwiches, ingest we man. A decent siesta was thereafter taken, zzz we man. We are jockeying for a return meeting with the EJC, jockey we man. Din-din was (each) Many (2+1) slices of Costco luncheon ham further sliced into one Manyzen pieces, Many (2x2x2 +2) Aldi tater tots, half a can of pork & beans from an ES, and r'br from Lowes Market, ingest Two Guys man. Dessert (each) was 1/Many'th (1/[2+2th]) of an expires-today no-sugar-added apple pie on Walmart* markdown, dessert Two Guys man. *shaddap Bro G man man Ex-Mrs.-T-B. would never dream of producing or serving such a magnificent Two Guys din-din, no man. Mini-B. didn't want to play backyard football or have a movie night, man. He did, however, almost finish his current English assignment, caught-up wee man man. Wednesday will be our last rainless day of the week, so must play football then man. Worthless maid says she'll show up at the casa Wednesday, bets on that man? No other formal plans, no plan we man man. Party with the rubias tonight, cavort we man. And that was/is our thrilling Tuesday, report we man.

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Decades too late. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ratline Files: Argentine President Javier Milei Orders Release of Country's Escaped-Nazi Archives The government of Argentine President Javier Milei announced Monday that, based upon the request of a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, it intends to declassify and release all files related to former Nazis who found refuge in the South American country after the Second War War. Guillermo Francos, the president's chief of staff, said in an interview with DNews that the release would satisfy American curiosity and concern for transparency regarding the issue. [...] https://redstate.com/mccabe/2025/03/25/ratline-files-argentine-president-javier-milei-orders-release-of-countrys-escaped-nazi-files-n2187074

Good News: Hamas Keeps Getting Deader One good way to tell if your effort to eliminate your enemy's leadership is going well is if you blow up their new defacto prime minister before his people have had a chance to learn that the old prime minister had been blown up, too. True story. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Hamas PM Ismail Barhoum was killed in an Israeli Air Force (IAF) airstrike just five days after his predecessor (pre-deceasor?) Issam al-Da’alis was — you guessed it! — killed in an IAF airstrike. With an almost coy dryness, the Journal headline read, "Israel Is Killing Hamas Leaders in Quick Succession." "Israel has killed at least another four senior political figures in a week of strikes, including the deputy ministers of justice and interior, as well as the head of Hamas's internal security agency," the paper noted. It almost doesn't need to be said that Israeli intelligence — not to mention IAF targeting — has been spot-on. Honestly, Hamas should have just let the hostages go and ended this 18-month-old war already — but where's the opportunity to murder more Jews in that? When the bad guys decide that martyrdom and murder are preferable to peace, you give them as much of the former as you can while preventing as much of the latter. Meanwhile, [...] https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/03/25/good-news-hamas-keeps-getting-deader-n4938245

BOMBSHELL: Anti-Israel Groups in U.S. Had Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack, Lawsuit Alleges A lawsuit brought by the families of victims of the October 7 attacks in Israel alleges that several pro-Hamas and anti-Israel groups in the United States aided and abetted the Hamas attack. Some groups reactivated their dormant social media accounts just prior to the attacks, according to the lawsuit. [...] https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/03/25/bombshell-lawsuit-alleges-anti-israel-groups-had-foreknowledge-of-october-7-attack-n4938259

1) Fire the staffer and move on... but it feels like a set-up. 2) "Leaking" that Trump was going to bomb the Houthis is like "leaking" that he likes Quarter-Pounders with cheese. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Has the Staffer Who Put Jeffrey Goldberg on the Signal Chat Been Exposed? Democrats were in faux outrage mode in the wake of a report by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic that he was mistakenly included in a chat on Signal with senior Trump administration officials discussing a planned military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Goldberg described the chat as containing "classified" information; however, that is untrue. So, while this wasn't the scandal Democrats hoped it would be, the big question that remains is how Goldberg ended up in the chat on Signal in the first place. According to President Trump, they know that it was a staffer for National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/25/has-the-staffer-who-put-jeffrey-goldberg-on-the-signal-chat-been-exposed-n4938269

BREAKING: Bhattacharya Confirmed as NIH Head Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was personally targeted and censored by the Biden administration (including NIH) and Big Tech, has been confirmed as National Institutes of Health (NIH) director. Bhattacharya, an outspoken critic of the government's disastrous COVID-19 policies, was finally confirmed by the Senate on March 25. Sen. Jim Banks celebrated, "When others were afraid to stand up against group think & COVID hysteria, Dr. Bhattacharya was a common sense leader. His confirmation is a huge win for American health." [...] https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/03/25/breaking-dr-bhattacharya-confirmed-as-nih-head-n4938275

Adjustment of status? Not a consular interview? Please complete your VJ Timeline so we know where things stand in your process. Elaborate here, too.

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Small towns in 5 states have Lowes Market: more than 140 neighborhood stores throughout Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Kansas. https://www.lowesmarket.com Nearest one to me is about 40 minutes away in my favorite small town. When I'm in range, I always stop. Their regular prices are rather high, but their specials can't be beat, and I research those in advance. It's a destination, not an option.

Eclectic here. Tonight's dinner was (half each for Mini-Bone & me): -- 3 slices of Costco luncheon ham, cut into 12 smaller squares -- 10 air-fried Aldi tater tots -- half-can of pork & beans from an estate sale -- half a sugar-free apple pie on expiration-day Walmart markdown -- 1 cup Food Club root beer from Lowes Market (see next post) Goes to show that good stuff can be found anywhere.

They wanted you to knuckle under, N ma'am.

Count your blessings! About 99.44% of everyone here is envious. Which consulate?

From prostrate to prostate to prostrate to prostate, pee man...

Costco just announced (like, yesterday) that they're expanding their gas-station hours. I'll try to find the article on it. Most irritating thing about Costco is that they have something like 12 registers and no more than 3 ever seem to be open even at peak times, with customers backed up halfway into the store with melting/thawing products. Conversely, all the self-checkout stations are always open, mobbed with folks who have few or many items to purchase. There are often staffers helping the self-checkout people scan stuff, and I can't figure out the logic of it. Why not reserve self-checkout for people with (e.g.) 25 items or fewer, and send everyone else into the staffed checkout lanes? Some chaos would be minimized. I invariably leave regular Costco with a headache. Conversely, I can be in and out of the Costco Business Center in 30 minutes. If the latter has what I want (a great many products overlap) and I don't also need gas, I'll go there with pleasure.