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*** Threads about the same case are merged. *** It depends which consulate. You're a Spanish citizen, correct? If the documents are in French and your DCF filing will be in Spain or another non-French-speaking country then they should be translated into English. If your DCF filing will be in France, the documents in French can remain untranslated.

Surprise! ~~~~~~~~~ Explosive Intel Report: Ukraine War Aid May Have Been Funneled to Biden Campaign, DNC Have you ever wondered why Joe Biden and the Democrats were so insistent that Congress send endless billions to Ukraine? Well, new declassified intel drops a bombshell that raises some troubling questions about it, and it stinks to high heaven. In 2022, U.S. spy agencies discovered Ukrainian officials were plotting to divert hundreds of millions in American taxpayer cash meant for clean energy projects to Joe Biden's 2024 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. "Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and has asked the U.S. Agency for International Development officials to scour for records to see if the plot actually was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be made to the FBI," Just the News reports. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/26/explosive-intel-report-ukraine-war-aid-may-have-been-funneled-to-biden-campaign-dnc-n4951085

More great news. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Israel Eliminated Terrorist Iranian Naval Commander Tangsiri The joint U.S.-Israeli operation against the terrorist Iranian regime has scored yet another important victory with the elimination of the top Iranian naval commander. It was Israel that once again brought a win with the elimination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Navy (IRGC-N) commander Adm. Alireza Tangsiri, as U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Adm. Brad Cooper confirmed on the morning of March 26. As Cooper reminded the world, Tangsiri was a Specially Designated Global Terrorist as of 2019, with the U.S. Treasury issuing the designation. Tangsiri's death "from an Israeli airstrike makes the region safer," Cooper observed. "Tangsiri commanded the IRGC-N for eight years, during which time [...] https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/03/26/iranian-naval-commander-tangsiri-eliminated-n4951090

England is hosed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At One Christian School in England, the Prayers They're Praying Are Not Exactly Christian It sounds like some insane Orwellian satire and warning all rolled into one, but it's actually just another day in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain. At one primary school in England, the administrator and teachers saw the writing on the wall and the direction in which Britain is heading, and took action accordingly: they instituted a program to teach their children how to pray as Muslims. Adding to the dark cloud of cultural suicide that hangs over this entire affair is the fact that the place where this happened, which is unnamed in the news reports about the incident, is identified as a Church of England school. [...] https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/03/26/at-one-christian-school-in-england-the-prayers-theyre-praying-are-not-exactly-christian-n4951109

Thrilling Thursday report, see man: Breakfasted/skoolbused Mini-B., groggy Two Guys man. Mini-B. wore $ome of hi$ new thread$, excited and expen$ively clad wee man. Breakfast for us was Mini-B.'s leftover scalloped potatoes, ingest we man. Siesta #1 was nicely effective, zzz we man. Visited Mama T-B., mollified senior she man man. Din-din was nuked burnt pork ends (Aldi) + air-fried tater tots (Aldi), ingest Two Guys man. Mini-B. then wanted to associate off-site with an amigo, consent although no movie night we man. We seized the opportunity for Siesta #2, wonderful zzz we man. They then returned to the casa for basketball, darts, and goofiness, associational wee men man. Amigo left at appointed time with a ride of his own, minor miracle man. We have informed Mini-B. that we expect 2 consecutive movie nights, expectational we man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. We have itineraried 2 highly allopatric ESs for Friday, itinerary we man. One is in FST, we're becoming regular there man. And that was/is our thrilling Thursday, report we man.

Things worked wonderfully well when our skoolbus drivers merely checked the kids' badges, si man. Things changed when badges started being scanned for "admission to the assigned route," sigh man. Precise ridership metrics, the presumed goal, have overtaken human considerations, see man. Access to skool should supersede all else, conclude we man. Current policies tread on that, sigh man. We're unsure how to confront or combat this aside from probably expensive legal action against Skoolbored man.

I've always enjoyed this author, who writes wonderfully well and is insightful as a liberal. He's shutting down his operations because Democrats refuse to listen to reason. This final piece of his is long but very worthwhile to read. Comments on it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No Learning Please, We're Democrats! Last July, I wrote a piece asking, in the wake of Democrats' catastrophic defeat in the 2024 election and the obvious need for serious party-wide change, "Is Our Democrats Learning?" At the time, I saw little evidence that Democratic learning was, in fact, taking place. Posing this question again in early spring 2026, it is my sad duty to inform you that our Democrats continue not to learn. If anything, they are increasingly adamant that such learning is not even necessary. Their mantra now might be, paraphrasing that old joke about the British: "No learning please, we're Democrats." The proximate reasons for this complacency are not hard to discern. Trump and many of his administration's actions are very unpopular and voters' views on the economy, their most important issue, are dire. Consistent with these sentiments, Democrats did well in the 2025 elections, continue to clean up in special elections, and appear poised to have a very good election this coming November. These favorable political winds have made it a great deal easier for Democrats to ignore the need for change. Surely the American people have now woken up, are rejecting Trump and Trumpism once and for all and will never be seduced by right populism again. But we've heard all that before haven't we? In 2018. In 2022. And now in 2026 with gusto. How quickly they forget. There was a brief shining moment right after the 2024 election when it did seem like the scale of the debacle would force a real reckoning within the party. But that trend quickly dissipated as #Resistance fever gripped the party, the usual suspects mounted stiff resistance to any revision of party positions and momentum shifted to the energized progressive left within the party. Currently, the desire for change seems to be hovering around zero, as more and more Democrats have convinced themselves that [...] https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/no-learning-please-were-democrats

Outstanding piece about homelessness in NYC and in general. Read all the 7 fictions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Alternative Reality of Homelessness Policy The abomination that is urban "homelessness" policy rests on the reinforcement of certain unspoken fictions. A recent article on New York's latest "homeless" outreach program demonstrates how that process works. Before recycling the usual "homelessness" myths, New York Times reporter Emma Goldberg lets loose with a fabrication of her own making. It is a whopper. Spotting vagrants in the urban landscape, she suggests, is a specialized skill possessed only by trained professionals. "It's something you can't exactly teach: how to spot the homeless New Yorkers trying to blend into the night—people resting on bus stop benches, curled up on doorsteps, tucked into the shadows of scaffolding." Fortunately for Goldberg, the outreach team she shadows on this March night proves uncannily adept at detecting these "subtle signs of hidden life on city streets," darting, almost miraculously, from one vagrant to the next. To which an ordinary New Yorker can only ask: in what world does Goldberg live? Street vagrancy is among the most visible features of the city's public spaces; the disheveled bodies, surrounded by filthy bedding, uneaten food, and cardboard, are unmistakable at any hour. New Yorkers can only wish they were camouflaged. Having grounded her article in an alternative reality, Goldberg then turns to the more familiar fictions. Fiction #1: Every homeless outreach program is a novel breakthrough. [...] https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-homeless-outreach-policy?skip=1

Or, more and more so, none at all. No matter which side (good vs. bad guys) decrees things administratively, I disagree, because it's the unelected, unaccountable "fourth branch of government." If Gov. Abbott were to issue an executive order, better, but he has the State Legislature to endorse just about anything he would want.

There has to be some solution, si man. But the skool is relying on their Handbook, sigh man. The irksome thing is that they initially treated this like a unique situation but now say "it happens all the time," man. We would continue this quixotic venture, such as to contact a TV station, si man, but ex-Mrs.-T-B. wouldn't go along with it, no man. Plus, Mini-B. won't cut his hair and would look like an English sheepdog, embarrassing man.

Richard, see the various other relevant threads in this forum. In addition, folks will be along to answer how they handled their own situation.

Thought about that, si man, but wanted to exhaust proper channels first, si man. Unfortunately, ex-Mrs.-T-B. got exhausted with it first, oh well man. LPoP and unread, no see we man. We're beginning to think that we won't win this at all, si and sigh and no man.

I was thinkin' the same. You're dead-nuts right.

Where's the +1,000 button?

Skoolbus drama coming to a fruitless end, man. From skooldistrict COO of Operations, see man: --- Good Afternoon, si man: We are unable to approve the requested accommodation, no man. As outlined in the ISD Student & Parent Handbook, transportation service is limited to one designated pickup and drop‑off location per student, which must be on an approved stop and approved route, si man. Parents may designate a child‑care facility or a grandparent’s residence; however, multiple or alternating pickup and drop‑off locations are not permitted, si and no man. While this request may appear limited in scope, approving such exceptions would create significant operational and capacity challenges, as similar requests occur frequently and must be applied consistently across the District, see man. For this reason, we must adhere to the established handbook guidance, si man. We appreciate your understanding and remain available to assist within the parameters of current transportation guidelines, si man. --- This is the verbatim reply from the Exec. DiRectum of Transpurtayshun, verbatim man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. has been cc'd on all of this and called us to tell us to knock it off, irritating and multiple rejections and "alternatives" man. She says that Mini-B. can learn to ride a bike (not heretofore done, no man) the mile-plus from our casa to ex-she-man's casa when necessary, si man, and she can drive him to skool when possible, si man. (This doesn't cover half the year when dark outside and doesn't cover the days during non-Two-Guys week when she can't take him, no man, and this will kill us, sigh man. Mini-B. also can't ride bike from ex-she-man's casa to "our" skoolbus stop without having to deal with where to leave the bike, no man. There are just two levels of appeal left, see man: VP of Operations, she man, and Superintendent, he man. The Skoolbored can dictate overall policy but not intervene in individual cases, si and no man. Comments and suggestions, huh and sigh man?