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It can take forever to get an appointment at a busy office, but it's well worth it. I gave up on Houston and went to Brownsville when I was otherwise down there. Wonderful session, and G.E. card in my mailbox in under a week.

Truly not guilty if she fled to Mexico.

We would NOT be pleased, no man.

People with pending asylum petitions are deported all the time, and many self-deport. To confirm: Do not respond to -- but do save and document -- any further contacts from her. If your lawyer is restricting himself to the divorce only, you should decide whether to notify ICE, or the FDNS officer at your proximal USCIS office. If the former, it's unclear how, when, or whether the agency would react; if the latter, you would submit all backup documentation, submit it, never hear anything again, and never learn a final determination or outcome. Up to you whether to proceed.

A man sitting at a bar after work shared with the bartender why he was looking so stressed. "I'm not sleeping well. I have nightmares about a monster under my bed, and I'm too embarrassed to seek help.” A patron nearby overheard this and introduced himself. "I overheard your story, and I am a psychiatrist. Maybe I can help. The first thing is for you to recognize that these are only dreams. I should be able to help you in a few sessions. Here's my card -- give me a call." A few weeks passed, and the same two were once again at the bar after work. The psychiatrist said to the other guy, “How go the nightmares? I never heard from you, so I hope that you are doing better." The other guy said, "Things are great! The bartender helped me." The psychiatrist said, "The bartender helped you? You needed a trained professional to help you. What could a bartender possibly do that a psychiatrist couldn't?" "He told me to saw the legs off my bed."

Villalobos (town wolves, plural) is a fairly prevalent Spanish name. Were he British, it would probably be the more elegant "Wolverton."

Hegseth Kicking Himself For Not Just Getting 13 Soldiers Killed And Giving $80 Billion In Weapons To Terrorists WASHINGTON, D.C. — With lawmakers calling for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign over leaked Yemen attack plans, Hegseth expressed deep regret for not instead getting soldiers killed in a chaotic withdrawal and handing $80 billion of weaponry to terrorists. With Democrats demanding answers over how a journalist got added to a group text where top-secret information was shared, Hegseth wished he had provided the Taliban with Blackhawk helicopters so he could avoid uncomfortable questions. "I apologize for not exposing our soldiers to terrorist attacks and giving billions in high-grade weaponry to Islamists hellbent on killing us," said Hegseth. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/hegseth-kicking-himself-for-not-just-getting-13-soldiers-killed-and-giving-80-billion-in-weapons-to-terrorists

Thrilling final Wednesday report, see finally man: Lunch was 2 ham-&-cheese sandwiches, ingest we man. The ##### maid put some of our cups up in a cabinet, discovered accidentally by we man man. She also stuffed a clean pillow into miu's fluffy mat, man. Pillow is now covered in fuzz and miu-hair, man. She also moved our bathroom stuff all around, man. Why are chicas constitutionally incapable of leaving guys' stuff alone, huh man? After informing the PJC to quit texting us, we lay down for our siesta, zzz we man. The instant we did so, the ##### lawn crews started on the park across the street, man. The instant they quit, Uncle T-B. called us twice to moan about his phone & computer, man. We got maybe Many -- si man, Many -- minutes of zzz, bad or good depending on value of Many man. Din-din was the entire pack of Aldi beef taquitos, ingest Many (2x2x2 +2) each Two Guys man. Mini-B. didn't want backyard football, last chance before pending monsoons man. Our beautiful mow-lawning job came to naught, sigh man. Movie night was Many ([2x2] Manyzen) Hrs., watch Two Guys man. Many (2+2) bowls of Costco popcorn were consumed, ingest Two Guys man. This tallies to Many (2+2+2+1) bowls for the week, quota within range man. Must arise at o'dark-Many (Bro G. Walmarting time) to get Mini-B. to Band sectional, man. Then must run taxes-related errand for Mama T-B., certainly in the pending monsoon man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. And that was/is our thrilling Wednesday, report and we man.

You're up past your bedtime, zzz man. To keep yourself out of trouble, see man, si man:

As bad as -- or worse than -- we thought. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More Tea Is Spilled on Biden White House's Press Access Rules, and It's Worse Than You Think Watching alums of the Biden-Harris administration admit to some inconvenient truths well after the fact has in some ways been welcome, refreshing news but has in other ways been infuriating considering they could have (and should have) spoken up at the time but didn't. Among them has been Michael LaRosa, who worked for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign as Jill Biden's traveling press secretary. After the former veep to ex-President Barack Obama was sworn in, LaRosa became the First Lady's press secretary but resigned in the summer of 2022 after Mrs. Biden's San Antonio "breakfast taco" debacle. Since then, LaRosa has made some concerning admissions about what he says went on in the Biden White House during his time as the First Lady's spokesman, but it's what he's claimed since the Bidens left office that has raised even more eyebrows and prompted some "toldjah so's." [...] https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/03/26/more-tea-is-spilled-on-biden-white-houses-rules-on-press-interaction-and-its-worse-thank-you-think-n2187132

Mini-B. is almost as tall as we are now, corn-dog diet man. We're a calendar-jockey, organizational we man. And we laid our trap and you fell for it, hee hee man.

Keep the faith.

This Is What I Meant When I Said Things Were Getting Ugly On Sunday, I published a piece here saying that things are getting kind of ugly, particularly with the hatred toward Tesla. It was a warning, but I was hoping I was just being paranoid. After all, I've been concerned about where things were going before, and stuff settled down in time. I hoped this time would be the same. I'd rather be worried over nothing than not worried when I should be, after all, and I figured I had an obligation to at least mention it where others might start thinking about it. Assuming, of course, they hadn't already. But when I talked about where things were going, I was talking about stuff like this from our sister site, Hot Air: [...] https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/03/25/this-is-what-i-meant-when-i-said-things-were-getting-ugly-n1228080

Looks like Gov. Half-Whitmer continues her brainless reasoning on yet another unignorable issue. Good article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michigan's deer problems explode amid Whitmer's demand for higher hunter fees Exploding deer numbers are "causing big problems in suburban and urban areas of Michigan," and many believe Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's focus on hiking fees for hunters will only make matters worse. The issue stems from a steady decades long decline in the number of deer hunters in Michigan, which reduces the state's license revenue while "causing big problems in suburban and urban areas of Michigan, including excessive deer car crashes … deadly car crashes, damage to homes, businesses, the environment, and major crop damage across the state," WDIV reports. Michigan ranks second among states for deer collision claims at roughly $130 million in damages annually, as deer-related crashes in recent years hit a decade high. [...] https://www.themidwesterner.news/2025/03/michigans-deer-problems-explode-amid-whitmers-demand-for-higher-hunter-fees/

I'd try this first, too. Try to get an appointment (not easy in some locales) face-to-face with an agent. Try a supervisor at a land or airport POE, or try for a Global Entry appointment. Definitely let us know what happens.

We probably buy more there than anywhere, ironically man.

Thrilling interim Wednesday report, see on interim basis man: Maid showed up en punto (precisely on time), amazing man. Came without Mama maid, solo effort man. Spent Many (2+1) hours concomitantly cleaning and rearranging our casa, man. We have learned the hard way to hide all exposed bath/kitchen linens, for example man. We have learned the hard way to hide all stray kitchen silverware/implements, also man. She can't even replace the shampoo bottles in order, no man. She can't even replace the miu-bowls in order, no man. She can't manage to match the kitchen-strainer holes with the sink holes, no man. She knocked off another TP-holder, previously repaired from her last such treatment man. She put the bathroom trash can far away in the den, man. She again failed to vacuum the top level of the miu-tree, covered with miu-hair man. Plus other hitherto undiscovered damage and mayhem, man. We were more than ready for our siesta, desperate need thereof we man. Now, the hitherto-unmet PJC is texting us during a slow workday, let us zzz man. Life is hard and traumatic, conclude we man.

Meet in our own thread? (sigh man) Siiiiiiiii, man.

Thread title edited for clarity; country-specific thread moved to the Europe/Eurasia regional forum.

This has nasty future implications. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Breaking: SCOTUS Upholds ATF's 'Frame and Receiver' Rule In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld an ATF rule promulgated under the Biden administration that treats unfinished frames and receivers and DIY-gunmaking kids as fully functional firearms subject to federal law, overturning the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and holding that the regulation is not "facially inconsistent with the Gun Control Act." Justices Thomas and Alito dissented from the majority opinion, which was authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch. In the majority opinion, Gorsuch explains why the rule passes muster; not from a Second Amendment standpoint, which was never the focus of the plaintiffs' arguments, but under the Administrative Procedures Act: [...] https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/03/26/scotus-upholds-atfs-frame-and-receiver-rule-n1228101

Over-buying at Costco is easy to do.

I never understood this purchase in the first place, except purely to keep Dollar General from buying FD. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dollar Tree stock jumps on $1 billion sale of Family Dollar Investors are taking a positive view of Dollar Tree's (DLTR) sale of the flagging Family Dollar business and mixed fourth quarter results that depicted a stressed consumer. Dollar Tree stock jumped as much as 8% in early trading after the discount retailer shared its plans to sell Family Dollar to two private equity firms, Brigade Capital Management and Macellum Capital Management, for $1 billion. Dollar Tree acquired the Family Dollar brand in 2015 for a grand price tag of $9 billion after it outbid rival Dollar General (DG) to win the chain. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/dollar-tree-stock-jumps-on-1-billion-sale-of-family-dollar-154733182.html

As long as they keep their 2% lactose-free milk...

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.

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