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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.

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.

Old thread is now closed to further comment. Anyone wishing to restart a tracking-thread for Accra is welcome to start one in the Africa: Sub-Saharan regional forum.

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

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