I don’t know I’ve never dropped the soap in prison but it sounds far less pleasant to me than a sports celebration.

@taiwan_girl said in Nungaray: It amazes me that people think that President Trump did a great job in reducing the number of illegal immigrants coming to the US, when if you look at the numbers, on average, President Obama did as good, if not better job than president Trump. (and yes, it has gotten much worse under President Biden but that still does not change teh fact that the numbers under President Trump were not any better than under President Obama (who in better than under President Bush)) https://www.statista.com/statistics/329256/alien-apprehensions-registered-by-the-us-border-patrol/ https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/migrant-encounters-at-the-us-mexico-border-hit-a-record-high-at-the-end-of-2023/ I lost 38% in the stock market during the Obama presidency. At the very last of Obama's presidency and through Trump's presidency until COVID, our economy was doing quite well. Yet, still less illegals were coming in under Trump, even though people in power were trying to keep the border more open. So answer me this...Why are people illegally crashing out border in a down economy and high inflation?

I remember when a particularly useless low-level co-worker retired, and a certain vice president wrote a long, glowing goodbye, reminiscing about all the stuff they'd gone through together. I was taken aback at choosing that person get so nostalgic over. Then a few months later that VP retired, and she wrote a farewell email to everybody that included a brag about all the money she made in her career there. This was a person who, when addressing the company before, had a very carefully tended air of humility. I'd had quite a lot of respect for this VP, before she shattered the mystique by being herself a couple times.

@taiwan_girl said in Terrorists among us.: Afghanistan withdrawal - President Trump Nobody is going to buy that one. Not after watching people die from falling off the landing gear of departing aircraft.

@LuFins-Dad said in Who handles Biden?: I don’t really think Obama. Frankly, I don’t think the two of them like each other very much. I think Schumer, if you’re looking for a big name, but I think it’s really somebody that is behind the scenes entirely. Michelle hates Biden. Hates him. So she definitely ain't in the inner circle. Barry uses him, only as far as he can get what he wants. I figured Jill is the gatekeeper and checks off on any proposed agenda proposed by Zients.

@89th .. the secret is out .. I google my bands late at night .. I’m so in love with Keith Urban : Link to video

And.... you don't even read this forum. Good stuff, ol' Ax.

I have a smart fridge. I determines when the fridge is less likely to be used to do its defrost cycle or something. I'm really glad because otherwise I'd hate to take 12 seconds to tell it to defrost IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREAKIN' NIGHT.

@Friday As I remember, the child went to the OR. I assume endoscopically. I just remember the X-ray up on the board and all of us, saying “Yup, it’s Christmas. That’s it!”

I'm genuinely disappointed in what Nigel Farage has done. Obviously, I've always disliked the guy, but he really seems to have gone off the edge of late, in what really appears to be a pathetic attempt to stay in the limelight. There have been numerous examples of this, and he actually said that Rishi Sunak "doesn't understand British culture" after he left the D-day commemoration early, which is clearly a racist dog-whistle, despite his protestations to the contrary. Hopefully he'll lose this bid to become an MP, as he did in his previous 7 attempts.

I was more surprised they could get back up.

Uvalde police indicted over role in slow response The former Uvalde schools police chief and another former officer have been indicted over their role in the slow police response to the 2022 massacre at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, according to multiple reports on Thursday. The Uvalde Leader-News and the San Antonio Express-News reported that Pete Arredondo, the former schools police chief, and Adrian Gonzales, a former officer, were indicted by a grand jury on multiple counts of felony child endangerment and abandonment. The Leader-News reported that Christina Mitchell, the local district attorney, confirmed the indictment. The Austin American-Statesman also reported that two former officers had been indicted but did not identify them. Mitchell did not immediately return messages from the Associated Press seeking comment. Several family members of victims of the shooting did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. The indictments would make Arredondo, who was the on-site commander during the attack, and Gonzales the first officers to face criminal charges in one of the deadliest school shootings in US history. A scathing report by Texas lawmakers that examined the police response described Gonzales as one of the first officers to enter the building after the shooting began.

I believe, but have no direct proof, that the military works with google and other satellite image companies to blur out pictures with classified or sensitive defense information. As @Jolly points out, you can get HD wallpapers of this, so it's not a big secret I'm guessing? Cool vehicle btw.

@Doctor-Phibes said in So what was your day job?: After Googling her name hoping for some better pics Ok that me chuckle. I did the same... purely for research purposes. Yeah her real estate license was revoked for some fraud. So let me get this straight... checked sex history, fraud, loves orange, makes a duck lips face in mugshot.... yup, Trump's new VP!

@Jolly said in The Broadband Infrastructure we were promised.: Sadly, it's something that is badly needed and maybe one of the best things to come out of the Biden Administration. Yes. Deeper in the article, it talks about the percentage of the US which has broadband from the private sector. Surprisingly high. Also, Starlink is a reasonable, and almost reasonably-priced, alternative. The kit is $500 and it's $120 a month for unlimited data. https://www.starlink.com/service-plans

Cool.

Besides, Reid Hoffman was already paying, were his billions not enough?

I watched one of the pretrial hearings. Apparently the defense had a list of witnesses whom they may call. They submitted the list by the deadline (as did the state). Once the list had been submitted, they discovered that one of the witnesses will testify that s/he saw Baldwin pull the trigger, which he has always denied. Having learned this, they want to disqualify the witness. State objected to the motion. Judge upheld the State. This judge, by the way, is the same one who presided over the Guiterrez-Reed case. She can be a bad-ass.