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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.

Welcome to the forum! Sorry to hear of your anguish. The AP can last a long time in Middle Eastern/North African countries because of security concerns. In your case, some of the security checks might have expired while others were in process (they take differing times to be completed), and the expired ones have to be performed again. There's nothing to do but to wait. Find other ways to distract yourself and spend your time. It's hard, but you can do it. Vigorous physical exercise is helpful.

Every little inroad is a gain. Read the week-over-week statistics! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DC crime and the Trump-is-bad-but-he's-right effect There's something interesting going on in the continuing controversy over President Donald Trump's anti-crime initiative in Washington, D.C. When Trump first announced the move, saying crime in the district is "out of control," many Democrats and their media allies denounced it with the argument that crime is in fact falling in the district, perhaps even to its lowest point in 30 years. Now, after a week of heightened law enforcement and rising arrests, more and more voices are conceding that Trump is right, that crime really is a serious and ongoing problem in the district. Some of those voices are still opposed to Trump, but at least they are now admitting there is a big problem. [...] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3758852/dc-crime-trump-is-bad-but-right-effect/

Nice description of Gov. Hair Gel. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gavin Newsom: the chameleon who destroyed California Gavin Newsom may be saddled with an awful record. But the California governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet – even a frontrunner in some polls – in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. How is this possible? The simple answer is that Newsom might be the ultimate candidate for the attention-deficient generation. He is a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively – not according to facts, but to whatever best seems to fit the national mood. We witnessed this after [...] https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/18/gavin-newsom-the-chameleon-who-destroyed-california/

Zohran Mamdani is a political risk Democrats shouldn't take In a twist of comic irony, New York City — the embodiment of American capitalism — may soon have a democratic socialist mayor in 33 year old Zohran Mamdani. That being said, assuming Mamdani wins November's general election, the joke may be on national Democrats. Put another way, even as a mayoral candidate, by dint of New York City's status and his elevation into a national figure, Mamdani presents severe risks to the Democratic Party on the national stage. [...] https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5455115-mamdani-risks-democratic-party/