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WNBA Legend Retires With Six Career Points WASHINGTON, D.C. — WNBA legend Elena Delle Donne announced her retirement yesterday, the former MVP leaving after a decade-long career which saw her score six points. Fans gathered to celebrate Delle Donne's remarkable accomplishments on the court, which included a torrid stretch during her prime where she scored four points in just five years. "The numbers speak for themselves," said former coach Amy Bohannon. "Elena was [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/wnba-legend-retires-with-six-career-points

Financial Advisor Announces It's Time To Panic, Urges Clients To Make Hasty, Emotional Decisions ANNAPOLIS, MD — Local financial advisor Rick Rosas announced that now was the time for utter panic and urged his clients to hastily make huge money moves based on pure emotion. Rosas called each of his clients one by one advising them to let fear drive their financial decisions and recommending immediate changes before taking time to think it through. "What are you doing sitting there?? Buy! Sell! Panic!" said Rosas, speaking to a young couple worried about their retirement account. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/financial-advisor-announces-its-time-to-panic-urges-clients-to-make-hasty-emotional-decisions

New Poll Shows Trump Support INCREASING After Tariff Announcement Donald Trump is unpopular, and his policies are opposed across the board by Americans. You can be forgiven if you believe that. After all, that's the message that's been hammered home by most major media outlets since Trump took the oath of office for the second time. Following "Liberation Day," the left began to write the obituary of the Trump administration. That was April 2. Despite the best efforts of the media and Democrats, the American people aren't so sure about the failure of the second Trump administration. According to a DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners survey of over 1,000 registered voters, Trump's popularity has actually increased four percentage points, from 49% to 53%. It's up 13 points since March 7 among those 18-29. Astonishingly, Trump's approval jumped six points among Democrats and independents as well. [...] https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/04/06/new-poll-shows-trump-support-increasing-after-tariff-announcement-n4938642

Activist Judge Caught Red-Handed in Setup Against Trump in Bombshell Revelations A bombshell transcript obtained by conservative journalist Julie Kelly exposes how Judge James Boasberg deliberately positioned himself to target President Trump's administration over deportations of criminal illegal aliens. The shocking revelations demonstrate how far the activist judiciary will go to obstruct Trump's legal immigration enforcement efforts. Kelly's analysis of Thursday's hearing transcript reveals Boasberg's calculated moves to interfere with executive authority. The judge, who claims his assignment to the case was "random," actually knew the case was coming to him. "I have just received the (purchased) transcript from Thursday's hearing before Jeb Boasberg. Lots of good stuff especially as I develop a fuller timeline of what went down behind the scenes on March 15," she wrote in a post on X. Despite the claim that cases are "randomly assigned," what she found in the transcript shows he already knew the case was coming and had planned accordingly. "He wanted this case. He wanted to stop the deportations and most importantly—he wanted to set a contempt trap for the Trump administration," Kelly explained in a devastating thread exposing the judge's machinations. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/06/activist-judge-caught-red-handed-in-setup-against-trump-n4938644

Agree that it's a nothing-burger? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REVEALED: How Jeffrey Goldberg Got In the Signal Group Chat It's been a couple of weeks since the infamous "Signalgate" controversy erupted. Just as most Americans had moved on from this non-scandal, we have finally learned how Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, got into the encrypted group chat on Signal in the first place. For sure, this story was overblown from the get-go. Goldberg clearly oversold the chat as containing classified war plans, though a review of the chat, which Goldberg eventually published, proved the chat to be a real nothingburger. That said, the mainstream media quickly pounced on the story, and Democrats used the incident as a pretext for calling for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to resign. So, how did Goldberg get invited onto the chat? It all goes back to when [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/06/revealed-how-jeffrey-goldberg-got-in-the-signal-group-chat-n4938646

Strength pays off! Iran is abandoning the Houthis. Interesting article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Iranian personnel leave Yemen as US strikes intensify Iran has ordered its military personnel to leave Yemen amidst the ongoing US bombing campaign in the country, The Telegraph reported on April 3. The newspaper's source added that regime officials' concerns over the Trump administration have eclipsed discussions on Tehran's regional proxies, dominating every meeting and sidelining previous strategic priorities. The move is part of a broader pattern of the Islamic Republic recalibrating its regional strategy in response to the Trump administration's efforts to curtail Tehran's influence in the Middle East and threats to potentially strike Iran's nuclear sites. Iran had previously urged the Houthis to "cool tensions" in the Red Sea on March 18, with Iranian officials claiming the request was conveyed to the Houthi envoy in Tehran and that Iran asked Oman to communicate the same message. [...] https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2025/04/iranian-personnel-reportedly-leave-yemen-as-us-strikes-intensify.php

I would think that people would be more upset about teams being named "The Trojans" -- after a condom.

Interesting dialogue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WH Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett: More Than 50 Countries Started Trade Negotiations This Weekend President Trump's top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, told ABC's "This Week" what's going on with the new tariff strategy. "More than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiation," Hassett said. "But they're doing that because they understand that they bear a lot of the tariff." "I don't think that you're going to see a big effect on the consumer in the U.S. because I do think that the reason why we have a persistent, long-run trade deficit these people have very inelastic supply. They've been dumping goods into the country in order to create jobs," he said. [...] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/06/wh_economic_council_director_kevin_hassett_more_than_50_countries_want_to_start_trade_negotiations.html

Scintillating Sunday repartee, yawn man. ----- Thrilling Sunday report, see man: Left casa only to warsh the filthy T-B.-mobile, Clean for Gene we man. Lunch was 2 turkey-&-cheese sandwiches, ingest we man. A siesta was then taken, zzz we man. The one LL was conquered, victorious we man. Din-din was toucans of Chef B. "ABCs & 12Manys*," ingest we man. *without meatballs but from supermarket's dent/closeout bin, financially savvy we man The warsher was then dished, must de-dish man. Mini-B. arrived during AFV, Two Guys week begins man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. assured us that he was well-fed, assure ex-she man we man about wee man man. As soon as ex-she man left, Mini-B. requested onecan of S&Ms, we man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. No specific plans for Monday, no plan we man man. And that was/is our thrilling Sunday, report we man.

What race were the Carthaginians?

Sorry to hear it, brother. It will come back, on its own or after you buy current bargains, if you choose. This is positive, and a lot of folks could probably benefit from your advice. If you can remain objective (no political comments), consider posting something in the Tax & Finances forum (if immigration-related) or in Off Topic. Political comments are welcome in the current forum, of course.

Let's be careful to allow others their opinions, too... TOS, and all that.

As is "Opportunity..."

Be sure to provide details, for the benefit of others.

No one has reported bad news since our Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke, which means that it was effective! Here now is our equally effective (and hilarious) Official Weekly VAWA-Thread Joke: =========================================== THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY Stop hating on lazy people! We didn't even do anything. I've discovered that you can turn a regular sofa into a sleeper simply by forgetting your wife's birthday. Sign on train track: Due to the current workload, the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off. A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell. Attention! (Oh, sorry... never mind.) Caution: Ice on pavement. Walk like a penguin. God loves you more than you love tacos. Opportunity knocks but once, whereas temptation bangs on the door for years. Please don't tease the flytraps! How would YOU like it if someone stuck their finger down YOUR throat? If you do not KNOW where this trail goes, do not try to find out. Evacuation Plan: RUN! In Case Of Fire: Please leave the building before posting it on social media.

Oh, heavens, but this is priceless! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trump Administration Sends Brutally Honest Response Saying Judge Can't Undo a Perfectly Good Deportation The Justice Department filed an application for an emergency stay of an order requiring an adjudicated MS-13 member be brought back the United States that stopped within inches of calling the district court judge who issued the order a moron. In a tersely worded brief that demolished the entire proceeding, the Justice Department's brief ridiculed the order by Obama-appointed Judge Paula Xinis to "facilitate and effectuate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the US by Monday night, saying: [...] https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/04/05/trumps-justice-department-sends-brutally-honest-saying-judge-cant-undo-a-perfectly-good-deportation-n2187538

This is eye-opening and excellent reading from a long-time journalist eyewitness. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Border Crisis Is Over JUAREZ, Mexico – On New Year's Eve 2020, as President-elect Joe Biden was at home in Delaware celebrating his imminent move into the White House, a mob of some 300 Cubans stormed out of Juárez, Mexico, in a mad banzai charge over one of the international bridges toward El Paso, Texas. They swept past Mexican border guards, leapt pell-mell the wrong way over Mexican pay turnstiles, and sprinted for America in a crisscrossing stampede through traffic over the bridge lanes. But alas, the outgoing Donald Trump was still in office, and his U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mobile Field Force, already riot-ready and waiting behind heavy concrete blocks tipped by concertina wire, stopped the migrant charge cold. Bunched up behind the barricades, the foiled mob loosed a telling chant: "Bi-den! Bi-den! Bi-den! Bi-den! Bi-den!" "They should let us pass. We are calling out to Mexico and the U.S. and to Biden, the new U.S. president, to remind him of the presidential campaign promises he made, to make him aware we are here," said one of them, Raul Pino Gonzalez of Havana, to a Cuban news reporter. "There is an expectation. There is hope and there is enthusiasm in those who believe that, with the change of administration, will come new measures and that they will immediately enter and there will be new conditions that will allow them to request asylum," Enrique Valenzuela, head of the Chihuahua State Council for Population and Migration, told a Mexican newspaper that night. They were right in their interpretation of Biden's campaign promises, if a tad early. An estimated 10-12 million foreign nationals would more successfully answer the call starting on Biden's inauguration day a few weeks later, in record-smashing populations of between 200,000 and 350,000, ushered straight into America every month for the next four years. And all of that is now at an end. [...] https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-border-crisis-is-over/

Welcome to the forum! Your thread is moved from the K-1 Case Progress subforum to the IMBRA subforum, where similar issues are discussed. Folks will be along with answers.

The above merits enshrinement in the pantheon of All-Time Greatest VJ Posts.

Of course the criminal is the true victim.

Country-specific thread is moved from the K-1 Process forum to the Philippines regional forum.

Thrilling Saturday report, see man: Didn't pursue GSs/ESs, no energy man. After a.m. caffeination, was still tired, so siesta'd at Many (2x2x2 +2) a.m., zzz we man. Eventually went to legacy supermarket to use coupons expiring Sunday, financially savvy we man. Lunch was Subway*, ingest we man. *WUOC + gift card, financially savvy we man Siesta'd again, re-zzz we man. Had to retrieve Mini-B. after Band function, ex-Mrs.-T-B. in Zoom meeting ex-she man man. Mama T-B. fell earlier and couldn't make Cousinette's birthday din-din, disconsolate senior she man man. We took her card with ours to the din-din, accommodating we man. Din-din was at Mexican place, several Manyzen guests there man. Din-din was beef/chicken fajitas, beans, rice, tortillas, birthday (carrot) cake, ingest we man. Cramped area, so yakked with just a few, limited space man. Returned to casa and serviced indignant miu, service miu we man. No plans for Sunday, no plans man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. Might dish the warsher, day early man. And that was/is our thrilling Saturday, report we man.

Well, get one, si and miu man.

This ultra-crucial poll is hereby bumped.

Cat T-B. #3 again barfed, thankfully on the tile floor. She watched with curiosity as I collected in paper towels. She then lobbied for more food.