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But that's the thing though... how is this guy talented exactly? He's ruthless and scuzzy. He's a serial adulterer (as several of them are in the admin). His expertise is threats and swinging. There's quite a few of these types in politics.. like Schlapp is one of them too. What happened to honesty and integrity and ethics? That's what makes a good and talented man. As for Bondi's potential replacement... I've heard Paxton is being floated... but there we go again, another scandal prone adulterer. The sleaze is what kicked quite a few republicans out of my heavy red leaning town. We didn't care about the R next to their names, we were absolutely sick of the affairs, lying, and corruption.

Thing is she's not quite.... out and neither is he apparently? She's just being put out to pasture in some other 'job'. The bogus grifty gift contracts to their friends Congress is trying to probe about are still in place too. So the grift will continue on the taxpayer dollar. Corey is.... quite simply a terrible person, and people have known this for years. As for Bondi, I hear rumblings she's next.

It's been going on for many years, some said that it was the biggest open secret in DC. Thing is the guy has a bunch of mistresses and potential.. misters so I hear. 😉It's fine if they want to swing and if their spouses are okay with it.... just not on the taxpayers dime.

I take it you have not seen the hearing and the questions Sen. Kennedy asked of the president about her responses who emphatically told him that Noem was lying to congress yesterday...? I don't think there was a single Republican that was happy with her answers. And surely you have also heard about her on-going affair with a person currently still employed by the WH?

I think the problem was yesterday, in which she was eviscerated during a public hearing and could not deny many of the accusations against her. During that hearing she claimed the president told her to do something or signed off on a large sum of money. The president says he did not do this. So the bigger issue is, has she perjured herself before congress by lying about the president or is the president lying? If she's going to now be the 'fall guy' for infidelity and behavior unbecoming, what about the person she's having an affair with?

You know those times when you look at your spouse and you say "hey honey you don't look so well"... and they go "Nah I'm totally 100% fine!" and you know that they are just full of BS...? (And he went and ran a 5k like this!) Finally wakes me up in the middle of the wee hours and tells me yep he's not fine. He is sweaty and delirious, doubled over with back and abdominal pain. Get him to the hospital and they are concerned about the very high BP and heart rate, but by this point he can't even sit down and is bent over gripping a chair like someone going into labor. Still it's pandemonium at the hospital and there are no gurneys, wheelchairs, or beds to be found... so after bloodwork we're asked 'can you walk?' and he gives a stoic sure! So we're marched through the halls for five minutes to get scans. What did we determine? Fever. Infection but thankfully no perforation. Dehydration. IV administered by a nurse tech so green that says "I'm not good with needles" and is not very inspiring as I watch her hit something and blood starts spewing on the floor. The doctor is the same guy that saw him years ago for the same problem, and says all these meds should fix him up again but he should probably think about getting an operation in the future, where they cut out the diseased area and put you back together. His family history and relapses are enough to consider it even at his age... the issue apparently will get worse the older he is. They send him home with a lot of pills. Since he is still in severe pain he takes the painkillers they've given him.. so yesterday he goes through all the motions - giddy, sleepy, completely stoned, followed by something that seems a lot like withdrawal, because he said the room was spinning and then ended up shaking and retching on the floor for hours. Anyway he will not take those painkillers ever again. He is better today, so I guess the antibiotics are working. I am tired.🫠😔

Certainly agree with everything you've said here.

Today the FBI has posted photos and recovered video from Mrs. Guthrie's doorbell camera. It shows the kidnapper. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/authorities-release-surveillance-photo-potential-subject-nancy-guthrie-rcna258356 Truly terrifying.

Thankfully back in 2023 scheduling it online wasn't too hard, and the fact that they made you do it was even more dumb, because when we showed up it was an empty building with one employee at the time. Unfortunately, the changes put into place since the new administration has made things harder and has been the subject of much complaint... and well it's an intentional feature not a bug. 😉 Depending on what you need the appointment for is going to depend on if you can get past the prompts to schedule an appointment to begin with. But it is best to go through the 'make an appointment' process, which will have you try your best to answer questions to the AI to see if you are indeed allowed to make an appointment (probably not, who knows?!). The best way to answer this is... they say you can make an appointment, but the truth is they don't really want you to make an appointment. It's very much like UK systems now. 🙃

I think the halftime show was probably the best part of the entire game? The ads were dreadful AI slop. The Patriots were sleepwalking to the point I think a team of toddlers could have beaten them.

It's cold. So cold and so windy it's considered unsafe with the windchills for frostbite. The iceberg around the car is only slightly smaller with daily chopping. You can skate across the back yard, you can even walk on the bay, and the coyotes are getting loud at night. My RX was supposed to be filled a week ago. They keep saying 'understaffed' and that they'd get it the next day. Nope. I had to go in and stand in a line that wrapped around the building in that cold, and physically demand they fill it while I was there. I've got to do this all over again next week.

Hi TB, we've been over this a while back. That claim is simply, pants on fire not true. In fact the two people they were looking for had nothing to do with him and never did. One man was in jail, and the other did not even live in that town, city, or state. That is my point - when a government does wrong, they should not be doubling down or lying about that wrong - they need to do right. Because every time they don't, damages the agency as a whole and makes the situation worse.

It was -2 degrees this morning, 50mph winds, and the giant icebergs from a few weeks back haven't melted. It's brutal out there. Winter will continue to do it's thing. Groundhogs should never be used for weather prediction. They are some of our only animals that truly hibernate in winter, and thus by Nov/Dec should be snuggled up inside their burrows and left alone to complete their natural process. I'm excited to see momma hog and her babies exit the den they've got under my shed this spring. They'll be stupid and curious as always and start digging in my pots until I get my chili peppers out to remind them who is boss.

I grew up on that stuff. But for a lot of people some products in their frozen line are used in cooking and mixing in all sorts of recipes. If I'm making cucumber salads in summer, if I'm not using straight fresh lemons.. I'm using their bottles of frozen lemon. You can make really decent lemon and keylime frozen pies, and good mixers in drinks.

Did Chase send a letter or some kind of confirmation correspondence confirming you being added as authorized user? Usually cards will just have the user's name on it, but we took photos of our cards and various account info showing that we are linked. If I recall rightly, at the time I added my husband to my bank account, he did not yet have his SSN. They accepted his passport, marriage license, and other evidence. Typically a K1 should try to obtain their SSN within two weeks of entering the US, and that opens up a lot of possibilities and ways of securing other items. If you've waited too late or you are adjusting from a different way (it sounds like you came a different way) then your next opportunity is going to be EAD if you're filing for that with AOS. That will also open up the ability to go back to the SSA and also to get state ID etc. As far as other proofs goes.. health insurance, joint taxes, pension/insurance beneficiaries, life insurance, wills/POAs are all good. IIRC, we also had something like a Costco membership printed out where you could see him as a user on the account. We did the same with our phone plan. In the future, once you've got your SSN, getting a credit card without credit history isn't as hard as one might think. Start with a secured credit card like through Discover, and within six months you'll be upgraded and should be good to go.

It was supposedly from the possible kidnappers, and was also sent to local outlets as well. The rumor today is that the daughter and son-in-law are being scrutinized in some way. They are the last to see her alive.

Today after yet another embarrassing press conference on the subject of her disappearance with the sheriff... TMZ reports that they were emailed a threatening ransom note describing particulars of the case and demanding a large amount of bitcoin. I have no idea what to think of the legitimacy of such a note.

Man that is *stoopid* I'd tell them to kick rocks personally. There has to be someone that has the same parental situation.

From personal experience: we used a well-qualified joint sponsor for our K1 process and that wasn't the problem. We were confident that we had a large amount of savings enough to handle the long waiting period to a green card. Alas, that ended up being quite the pickle. The long wait (employers didn't want to hire him until he had a green card vs an EAD), the job market at the time in our area, and the enormous cost of health insurance significantly drained our finances. We were mere months away from losing it. He was hired out of a miracle chance, so our income stabilized, but that did not mean he was offered health insurance. That was another year for a promotion to get that. That was ten years ago. Insurance costs are even higher now and immigrants are viewed with even higher scrutiny. It's important to have a long term stable plan and perhaps employment before starting down this road. That may be difficult to hear, and I hope no offense is taken.

As more details come out about this case it sounds like a very serious kidnapping. The FBI is also quickly involved and there is discussion of disturbing crime scene evidence of some sort of serious harm. I wonder if this is some sort of stalker situation. They are being rather mysterious about the info on what has happened here, but I hope this poor lady is found alive.

I had visited him several times before his condition began so it was hard to see him deteriorate. There were some small blessings eventually. For a while he would have days where he couldn't remember what had happened to his wife, so he would go through the grieving process multiple times... eventually the disease spared him of wondering about that. Breakfast used to be dry bland cheerios, pop tarts, or toaster strudel (do they still make that?). Though the best occasional cereals were cocoa pops and soymilk. Okay 1) lactose intolerant? You can get lactose free cheese if that helps him. 2)is there something for breakfast that he wants to eat in particular? what does he eat when he's not with you? 3) why is Mama T-B mad at you for a trip? I mean.. I get you, every time me and the husband want to go on vacation the elderly seem to have a total passive-aggressive gaslighting meltdown to the point I can't even relax the whole time. Don't understand it.

Took a day off from chopping the ice and went back at it yesterday. The 'iceberg' has not melted much... 4 degrees this morning. But hitting it with my shovel and a hammer has provided some stress relief. Looks like blizzard #2 will sadly miss us, but might be some flurries. We learned of the passing of my husband's grandfather. He was the sort of man you could quintessentially describe as an absolute English gentleman. Tall, kind, dry-humored, full of stories.. with a twinkle in his eye. Always impeccably dressed. He loved his gardens, tea, finer things of life, and traveling. His grandfather's health began to decline after the loss of his wife, and not long after my husband left the UK. When we visited, he no longer had a memory of anyone because of severe dementia and he battled illness after illness... each time beating the odds. Take some comfort in the fact that once it's over, there will be no more sleepless nights, no missing each other, and no more empty rooms.

The drifts froze solid, so there's a good 10-12 inches that you can walk across easily... not great for shoveling, more like chopping and lifting heavy ice bricks. Unfortunately the cars were encased in that, so it's been a hard struggle all day to dig out the entryway and get at least one side of one of the vehicles cleared out. A neighbor with a backhoe cleared the rest of the driveway, but unfortunately piled a good 4ft wall in front of the other vehicle, so that's going to be insane to dig out. We're forecast in the teens all week, with more snow on the way. Rumors of blizzard #2 this weekend! At any rate it's not safe or possible to get the elderly out of the house to appointments this week so everything has to be pushed to another month. TB I'm curious where you put all the stuff you buy, surely at some point it will be too much clutter? Though the gloves are always good, I go through tons of boxes of those things a year with all the cleaning and elder-care.

I can report it's still blizzarding outside. Snow is knee-high and we have significant drifts to be digging out in the morning. Shoveling has been made difficult by near-constant sleet all day. Power has held so far, but the poor heat pump is struggling.

1) Decline of stable men. 2) Decline of stable women. (For points 1 and 2 I mean in all things - emotional maturity, actual maturity, financial security, compatibility, cultural issues, psychological factors) 3) Financial stability. 4) Examples your parents set end up giving you so much burnout you can't imagine having your own children and going through it. 5) Effectively spending all of your time and money 'raising' your parents in their old age. 6) Repressive cultures. 7) Fertility issues, sex-ed awareness, stigmas (women's reproductive and sexual health remain underfunded, understudied and millions of women are developing inflammatory reproductive issues which vastly affect their health and psychological well being. society's answer to this is BC as a medicine which isn't helpful due to numerous side effects including not having babies.) 8 ) we spent decades telling young potential parents to wait for 'marriage' only to have kids when married (so they enter into clueless marriages, eventual broken marriages too), to abort or give up their kids due to stigma.. and guess what? Now less young people are choosing to have kids before marriage.. but are also choosing not to marry or have kids at all. There is no one chief factor.