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Told you he was on Gutfeld! hawking the book. BTW, the book is one he wrote during COVID. It's him cherry-picking his old monologues, updating and tweaking them.

McCarthy: All search warrants involve the possibility of forced entry. All of them involve police seizures of property, which can subject the personnel involved to legal risks as well as safety risks. The cops or federal agents usually do a good job of identifying themselves during the process of seeking or forcing entry; yet there are tragic instances in which people inside the premises mistakenly believe violent criminals, rather than cops, are trying to get in, resulting in physical confrontations including, sometimes, exchanges of gunfire. As a result, and as a matter of common sense, the FBI always has an operational plan for carrying out a court-authorized search. That plan customarily involves reminding the search teams of the FBI’s use-of-force policies. Those policies, of course, include a refresher on the conditions under which lethal force may be used. This is to prepare law-enforcement officials for contingencies that are all too familiar, and to protect the agency and agents in the event of later legal claims. If you don’t instantly grasp why police agencies would perform these prudential steps, you must have been living under a rock for the last decade or so, which has featured no shortage of instances in which allegations of excessive police force have been made (and a thankfully small percentage of instances when excessive force was actually used), with intense scrutiny and occasional rioting in the aftermath. It would have been surprising if the Mar-a-Lago search hadn’t been conducted in accordance with an operational plan of which use-of-force policies were a component. It was important to do this search by the book — more on that momentarily. But there was never anticipation that force, much less lethal force, would be used, and there was never any threat to the former president. My understanding is that the FBI was reluctant to do the search — it was Justice Department officials who ran out of patience with Trump’s intransigence. The bureau intentionally carried out the search when it was known that Trump was not on the premises.

Running a good restaurant is bloody hard work. I've talked about my friend who was a regional manager for Burger King. Not that BK is high end anything, but most of his food skills he learned while overseeing an O Club back in his past. I have another good friend that was literally raised in the restaurant biz. Started bussing tables, became a prep cook, then the fry guy, head of kitchen, moved to the front of the house and later managed restaurants for awhile. One is too old now, but you couldn't forcibly throw either guy back into the job of running a restaurant.

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No, but it would be a welcome change.

@George-K said in Armed robbery: @Horace said in Armed robbery: It would be more inspirational if he was trans. Thank you for bringing the important things to mind. I remain humbled. But, it's pretty inspirational as shown, no? 5/10. White cis male privilege is not entirely stored in one’s arms.

Texas might be an easier build than California. After a decade and a half (or more) of promises and billions of dollars spent, the California HSR project continues to be a boondoggle. Getting right-of-way might be easier than in California. Remember when comparing HSR proposals in the United States, a sense of scale is important. [image: 1716429586793-image.jpeg] [image: 1716429609489-image.png]

Good, I hope this turns out as effective and as convenient and as cost effective as hoped.

@George-K said in The Godfather "When you gotta go, you gotta go.": @xenon said in The Godfather "When you gotta go, you gotta go.": Loved interstellar. Pulled off sappy sci-fi so well.. the acting, the visuals, the music. [image: 1716423324223-441485256_7554682591292851_6374061869868895459_n.jpg] 🤯

@George-K I think it is good. He has had to "walk backward" some of his earlier comments that were more strong about independence, etc. (Just like all politicians around the world. LOL). There will not be a whole lot of change from President Tsai. For the high majority of people, I believe they would just like the status quo to continue. Taiwan acts as a independent country. China leaves us along, etc. I think I mentioned previously, but one thing that Taiwan has done recently is removed "Republic of China" from the cover of the passports (Note: this happened before President Lai was elected.) [image: 1716427273402-img_1282.jpg]

Another Jimmy (attending surgeon) story... There are few forms of life that is lower than the intern on the vascular surgery service. One time, a intern said to Dr. Jimmy, "You know, I don't think I'm learning enough on this service." (insert THICK Chinese accent) "You miserable son of bitch! You not here learn! You hear wok (work)."

@taiwan_girl said in This 4th July....: ONe think good about the parliament system is that elections are announced and then they have them weeks later. Boom!! Oh, c'mon! We're into an election process about 5 milliseconds after the president is sworn in! Gives us something to talk about.

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Some sharp knifes there. LOL (What is asmr mean?)

Did the same thing with his paintings it appears. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/22/damien-hirst-artworks-painted-years-later-currency-artist At least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal. ...five sources familiar with the creation of the works, including some of the painters who put the dots to paper, told the Guardian many of them were mass-produced in 2018 and 2019. Their accounts suggest at least 1,000 – and possibly several thousand – paintings in The Currency series were made during the two-year period. They were produced by dozens of painters hired at Hirst’s company Science Ltd at two studios, in Gloucestershire and London, in what one source described as a “Henry Ford production line”.

I hear you. Not sure I’m willing to endure this Brave Ridiculous New World.