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No argument on any of your points. We've had this discussion about the _right_ approach. I just watched the news this morning and saw the silliness in California, beat downs here and there, continuous violations of the constitituion by law enforcement (no surprise) and just got my pissed off for the day and wanted to vent. We see pics of soldiers in foreign countries giving children water, food, etc. while here we see children getting scared by those to serve and protect and it just pisses me off. /rant II

During the Ghislaine Maxwell trials it was revealed that several of Maxwell's sex slaves came from Mar-A-Lago. So closing that down would be a huge win in the fight against child traffickers, eh? Oh, and remember Ted Suhl? He ran The Lord's Ranch, a camp in Arkansas. It was a cover for a child sex ring, with “innumerable incidents of fondling of genitals and oral rape. The . . . men and women who owned, operated, and staffed the facility preyed on and abused the children housed on the remote facility in Warm Springs, AR. routinely and systematically.” Then those mean cops arrested him for running that. But don't worry. Trump pardoned ol' Ted. Birds of a feather and all that. Trump made that deal with the Taliban because the Taliban promised Trump they'd use the equipment to fight terrorism. The Art of the Deal! As always, sorry about the facts.

Your childish attacks are fucking disgusting.

"WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he might revoke talk show host Rosie O'Donnell's U.S. citizenship after she criticized his administration's handling of weather forecasting agencies in the wake of the deadly Texas floods, the latest salvo in a years-long feud the two have waged over social media. "Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, invoking a deportation rationale the administration has used in attempts to remove foreign-born protesters from the country." America and its King are swirling in the toilet bowl.

He’s a better artist than human being.

If he's over farmland, as Kamkisky suggests, with a lot of open flat area, that bodes in his favor. I can't see much scenario where the money gets badly damaged on landing, unless he full terminal impacts right on top of it on rocks. And it wasn't soaked with body fluids? I had to laugh for poor Mac the other day. He says he's never jumped before, and he exits at over 300 mph. You can tell me if I'm right, but I'm guessing that exit threw him ass over teakettle several times. (And he managed to pull and get open.)

Hi folks, A few years ago a neighbor was on his deathbed and motioned for his wife to come closer. He told her, "When I'm gone, I want you to marry Bill." She said, "I thought you hated Bill." He said, "I do." Jerry Baumchen

I'm not dead. The last five years almost killed me, but I survived. I don't want to go into it but I became the care taker for my mother for the last few years until she finally decided to stop breathing. But the important thing is I am still alive. Which is more then I can say for dropzone. It seems to not be where I left it. What happened to this place? On a more relevant issue, I don't know how many people will appreciate the joke I don't know how many people here will still remember my post, but I wrote a book. Yes the most illiterate person on the internet is now a published author. Que the laughter from the gallery. I know you wont believe me so check it out for your self. https://www.amazon.com/Trapped-Time-only-hope-future-ebook/dp/B0FHJHG4Q2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 And yes the world has finally come to an end. Just look at the flooding here in Texas. Today I saw a dog and a cat walking down the street with each other. I'm expecting fire from the sky at any minute. But all jokes aside, Check out the book you might even consider buying one like relic. Phisical proof of a divine marical. The artist guy did a great job on the cover although it came out a little darker then intended, but he wasn't cheep. And the editor, the poor editor. That man deserves a meddle. He needs to be paid off too. So buy a book because they deserve it even if I don't. In the mean time, what have I missed here? Lee

I have at least 5 of them on the shelf. I used to refurbish and Ebay them. But I got lazy and they are just sitting around now. The 400 series domestics are the last and best made of the once great Singer home machines.

Are you saying that you have a photograph of Cooper?

As far as sketch A vs. sketch B......we will never know which is better.....unless we catch him lol......kinda like arguing religion imho.

Today 12% of the US is under a "high heat danger" warning. Another 20% of the US is under a flood warning, and 8% of that is under a "high risk" flood warning. And this is just the beginning.

Ghislaine Maxwell is now petitioning for her own release, basing her petition on the fact that Trump claimed there was no client list and therefore no basis for her imprisonment. And it might work - especially if Trump has to keep that list undercover at all costs.

There was construction that day at the terminal and 305 couldn't hook up to a jetway at that gate, thus why they had to board up the aft stairs. When it was time to board, they cued up and once they gave their ticket to Williams they walked down a walkway that led to a door which opened up to the tarmac. They then walked a short distance to where Flo was standing at the bottom of the stairs checking their boarding passes. So Mike's scenario doesn't really work in that scenario. That would require Cooper to somehow be OUTSIDE before any other passengers. It's highly unlikely that Williams would have let anyone just walk down the gate ramp and out onto the runway. So I don't see how Cooper gets out there for this interaction to take place and then ends up back into the terminal in the regular cue. Second, that would not have been an interaction that a stew would have forgotten once they realized he was the hijacker and certainly would have ended up being part of their narrative during their testimony. So much has gotten mixed up in the intervening years. For example, many passengers, including Michael Cooper, thought Al Lee was FBI because you'll see them say in interviews that there were FBI agents down by the plane. In hindsight that was a reasonable deduction on their part but it wasn't true. Larry Finegold got something very mixed up and it ended up in Bruce's book and caused a whole bunch of confusion. Larry told Bruce that an FBI agent he knew (Larry was a US attorney, famously) came ONTO THE PLANE and they exchanged a laugh with each other. Well, we know that's not true because there is actual video footage and a photograph of Larry running into this agent he knew (it was Don Steele according to Detlor) and this interaction happened when Larry entered the terminal with the other passengers. You can see Larry in the footage smiling and nodding his head at an agent. So that's a very clear of example of something occurring but being misremembered. I suspect that what Michael Cooper probably saw Hal Williams coming outside to ask Flo if they were ready to let passengers onboard yet. As I said, it was a bit of an ad hoc arrangement due to the gate construction, so as the gate agent Hal would have needed to go outside and talk to someone from the crew at some point. I bet that interaction between Flo and Hal somehow over the decades morphed into this being Cooper. This story doesn't appear until an interview Mike gave in the 2000's. So it's not that these people are inventing things out of whole cloth, but just conflating and misremembering. Although sometimes they absolutely embellish, such as Finegold stating in a media interview in the late 70's that he got a really good look at Cooper and that his law enforcement training as a prosecutor gave him the chops to really take note of the man's appearance. Well, of course, we have Finegold's 302 and he says he never saw the hijacker a single time. Jack Almstad claiming that he cracked a joke with Tina and Cooper while waiting in the aisle for the lavatory doesn't ring particularly true with me either.

See, this is exactly how I know you are happy that Chauvin, a convicted violent murderer, was shanked in prison.

Hi John, Some more on this: The poll . . . showed voters perceived the Democratic Party as “out of touch,” “woke” and “weak.” Poll reveals Democrats are struggling to regain voters' trust Jerry Baumchen PS) And more: After a crushing 2024 election loss, they say the party desperately needs a rebranding Gen Z Democrats are campaigning to unseat party elders | AP News PPS) Here is the real problem: In Georgia, 80-year-old Democratic Rep. David Scott’s decades-long legacy

Yes

Hi John, There is a lot of truth in your post. IMO the first step to come up with a reasonable candidate with policies acceptable to the voters is to get rid of the old guard; Schumer, et al. Jerry Baumchen

The left has become the party of we hate Trump. They have about 2 1/2 years to come up with a reasonable candidate with policies acceptable to the voters. I won't hold my breath.

Prescription lenses for sunglasses....

The simple fact that we require our police to wear body cameras in the false hope that knowing they are filming their violations of our civil liberties and rights might get them to take the whole serve and protect thing seriously says it all.

https://youtu.be/b-D2I5tE898?si=jc4cLDysPhVqJcR3 That’s scary and fascinating. Not sure if you can watch this BBC series online, but it’s a really good storyline on deepfakes and AI..

Sad to say I think that’s some American bias. I think the US is the single greatest threat to world peace (at the moment). USA, Russia and Israel are all top contenders. Gone from leaders of the free world to leaders of the Theocracies and Lunatics.

So, I _think_ we're all pretty much of a like mind when it comes to what's been happening with the deportation situation. Rolling up on someone because they're brown and demanding papers until it escalates to a beat down. ICE/CBP/Police take an oath to uphold the constitution not unlike soldiers. Soldiers are taught to refuse an illegal order. Unfortunately, less senior police/soldiers get the class, but become leary of its execution. Think Abu Ghraib. I blame the leadership. Yesterday - I realize I'm on the opposite side of most of you when it comes to Illegal entry, but there is a right way and a wrong way to do something. We had to have court intervention to do the right thing. There is a constitution and a code of federal regulations for a reason. There have been so many errors in the past 20 years. Not developing more points of entry, not securing the borders, no vetting process, etc. etc. But, none of it matters if we as a nation do not do things the right way until we are here. “A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky /rant.

We live in an age where an unstable simpleton can do inestimable damage to the world and ruin the lives of billions of people in an instant, or set the world on a path in that direction. All of the reasons from 200 years ago no longer apply. I think the president needs serious checks before taking action on gut instinct.

Absolutely. This was in no way an imminent threat.

Trump promised America First but instead joined a New World Order of corrupt fascist populist cronies prioritising scratching each other's backs over the wellbeing of their citizens. If only someone could have seen that coming.

Four way

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Just got word, he’s fine. The site got hacked by a group in Turkey. He’s working to restore.