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~~~~~~~ Kamala Policy Page Now Just Redirects To Trump's Website [...] "It's nice to have all of her positions listed in one place," one internet user said after being redirected to the Trump campaign website. "I was wanting to know where Kamala stands on immigration and how to solve the crisis, and her website navigated me to Trump's policy page about the border wall. Good to know! Thanks, Kamala!" [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-policy-page-now-just-redirects-to-trumps-website

Jihadis launch terror attack from inside prison walls, for Allah's sake and Sharia law Less than a week ago at a high-security penal colony in Russia, four prisoners who identified themselves as the "Mujahideen of the Islamic State" launched a terror attack from inside the compound, taking security officers hostage—slitting a throat, gutting another, and brutally beating the head warden of the prison with a hammer and a bottle. According to Amy Mek's new article out at RAIR Foundation today, the prisoners were armed with knives and "makeshift explosives" that they'd obtained by reportedly bribing prison staff—the ordeal ended when Russian special forces were called up and quickly neutralized the jihadis. Now, also per Mek, several videos of the situation made it online, in which the terrorists made their motive abundantly clear: [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/jihadis_launch_terror_attack_from_inside_prison_walls_for_allah_s_sake_and_sharia_law.html

Thoughts, after reading entire piece? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tim Walz, Doug Emhoff, and the doltish 1990s and 2000s sitcom dad I was listening to a Ben Shapiro podcast (and I don't remember which one) when he likened either Tim Walz or Doug Emhoff (and I don't remember which one) to a 1990s sitcom dad. That struck me as being exactly right. We are seeing the result of American expectations shaped by decades of Hollywood's deliberate campaign against the post-WWII idea that "father knows best." [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/tim_walz_doug_emhoff_and_the_doltish_1990s_and_2000s_sitcom_dad.html

Scintillating Wednesday repartee, yawn man. ------- Thrilling Wednesday-on-Thursday report, see man: Got Mini-B. to skool, successful we man with wee man man. Ran errands, successful we man. Lunch was about a Many'rd of the tub of Costco chicken salad, ingest we directly from tub man. A very nice siesta was taken thereafter, zzz we man. Took Mini-B. to basketball program, chauffeur we man wee man man. Talked to very sweet (and very married) mother of classmate, sigh man. Mini-B. devoured snacks and 2 bottles of water after program, prepared we man. Din-din (delayed because of snacks) was the remaining Costco orange* chicken, ingest Two Guys man. *out of orange sauce, so substituted soy ginger sauce, oh well man No Two Guys movie night, tired wee man man. Mini-B.'s skool Open House on Thursday, attend we man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. will not attend, certification class for business man. Band program will feed Mini-B. din-din at skool, opening performance for parents man. We will consume din-din independently and join Mini-B. at skool, meet teechurs we man. And that was/is our thrilling Wednesday, report we man.

This could have gone in any of several threads. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Horrific: An All-Male Illegal Alien Shelter Opened Near an NYC School Concerned residents in Brooklyn, New York have spoken out about how city officials opened a 400-bed all-male shelter for illegal aliens just steps away from a school. One mother, Irina Edelstein, who is an immigrant with three children, bought a home in a Brooklyn neighborhood to live near a good school for her children. In April 2024, city officials gave residents a two-month notice that they would be opening the shelter near the K-12 school [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/08/28/all-male-migrant-shelter-opened-near-ny-school-n2643941

Amid Effort to Clean Up Its Voter Rolls, Texas Makes Alarming Discovery About Noncitizens Voting Texas's effort to clean up its voter rolls has resulted in more than 1 million names being removed, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday. Since signing Senate Bill 1 into law in 2021, individuals who have moved out of the state, died, or are noncitizens have been taken off voter rolls. [...] Of the 1 million names removed, more than 6,500 were noncitizens and about 1,930 of them have a voter history, the governor's office said. [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/08/28/texas-removes-1-million-people-from-voter-rolls-n2644020

If it's the same dude, Vicente Arenas was previously on a Houston station.

Catherine Herridge Has Full Readout of FBI Briefing on Trump Assassination Attempt [...] There's so much we still don't know about the assassination attempt or the shooter, Thomas Crooks. You'll see a lot of posts on Wednesday saying that Crooks had researched both President Joe Biden and Trump's whereabouts, with the suggestion being that he would have attempted to assassinate Biden if he'd gotten there first. Catherine Herridge has posted a full readout of the FBI's briefing. It's a bit long, but it tells us what the FBI knows: [...] https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/08/28/catherine-herridge-has-full-readout-of-fbi-briefing-on-trump-assassination-attempt-n2400256

Too bad they can't ask Kommie to simply print more money. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UPDATE: They Just Can't Do It - California Has No Money to Subsidize Illegal Immigrant Home Purchases On Monday, I reported that California was planning another huge giveaway, and it's a doozy; the California Legislature, which I remind you is controlled by a Democrat super-majority, meaning that they can effectively do whatever they please, was in the process of passing a bill that would have given up to $150,000 to first-time home buyers — but only if they were illegal aliens. Now, less than 48 hours later, in a delicious irony, we learn that there's just one problem: There's no money to do this. [...] https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/08/28/california-plan-illegal-aliens-cash-to-purchase-homes-hit-huge-snag-n2178630

Newsom Tells CA Lawmakers He'll Force Special Session If They Don't Pass His Bill to Increase Gas Prices Grasping for relevance, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is in the midst of a bit of a temper tantrum this week with the legislature - threatening to convene a special session if they don't pass his proposal to further regulate California's oil and gas industry. Industry analysts say that the proposal, which would force refineries to "maintain a minimum fuel reserve to avoid supply shortages," would lead to increased prices for drivers in California, Arizona, and Nevada. This asinine proposal is from [...] https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/08/28/newsom-tells-ca-lawmakers-hell-force-special-session-if-they-dont-pass-his-bill-to-increase-gas-prices-n2178662

This is blatant and outrageous. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Democrats 'Save Democracy' by Deciding Who Will and Won't Be on the Ballot in Swing States [...] In the Democrats' latest version of "I know you are, but what am I" (now reread that in a Pee-Wee Herman voice), they've taken it upon themselves to decide who will and will not be on the ballots in various swing states. RFK, Jr. has hitched a ride on the Trump train and decided to take himself off the ballot in roughly 10 states, but the pinkos have decided otherwise. [...] https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2024/08/28/democrats-save-democracy-by-deciding-who-will-and-wont-be-on-the-ballot-n4932045

Sigh. ~~~~~ Imam Instructs Columbia Students to 'Take Out' Jewish Professor Shai Davidai is a professor at Columbia University. He is also Jewish. He also recently learned that an imam instructed members of the student group Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine to "take him out." Looks like the school year at Columbia is off to its expected start. According to a piece in The College Fix, Davidai noted that he learned his name came up in the Aug. 20 webinar, "Islamic Political Activism." Davidai, who is an Israeli national and calls himself a Zionist, was targeted by Imam Tom Facchine. In addition to his role as an imam, Facchine is also a research director at the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. [...] https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2024/08/28/imam-instructs-columbia-students-to-take-out-jewish-prof-n4932048

USCIS would have access to this. In Texas, minors (under age 18) can't enter into contracts. The OP should follow whatever USCIS procedures are outlined for petitioners of his age.

That does sound unusual, LL ma'am. Let's hope for the best. --- Around my parts, we have a very few Randalls stores, I think owned by Albertsons. They need to stay open. I don't see any conflicts with Kroger locations, and there are so few Randalls anyway that it probably wouldn't matter.

Any of these would make a good Trump... or anti-Kommie... commercial. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kamala's Policies Are Getting Americans Brutalized. How Much Will We the People Endure? The Mockingbird Media mudpuppies decide which stories you will and will not hear about, but we at PJ Media are not Pravda press lickspittles. I'm sure your progressive, purple-haired, screech-bot, mollycoddle-in-law will call me a "racist" for telling the truth about the shocking level of carnage that illegal immigrants have wrought upon the nation, but you deserve to know how bad things have gotten. And whoa, it's worse than you think. Buckle up: there is way more going on than the left wants you to know about. [...] https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2024/08/28/illegal-immigrant-guns-down-eight-how-much-more-will-americans-endure-n4932055

After reading the rationales here, please comment. Would YOU approve or deny this merger? I lean toward denial. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FTC Tries to Block $25 Billion Grocery Chain Merger [...] In 2022, Kroger announced plans to buy Albertsons, another large competitor. The deal would merge the nation's second and fourth-largest grocery chains while still leaving them miles behind Walmart, the top chain in the country. Naturally, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is trying to block the merger, and states are getting involved as well. "The FTC and several states filed lawsuits to block the merger, arguing that it would lead to higher grocery prices for consumers while reducing the bargaining power of unionized workers in the industry," reports Fox Business. These suits come even as both companies have pledged to lower prices and spin off some stores to a smaller company. [...] https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2024/08/28/ftc-tries-to-block-25-billion-grocery-chain-merger-n4932051

Good for them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Israel Launches Massive Raid on the West Bank Israel launched a massive strike on West Bank targets on Tuesday, hitting "Islamic-Iranian terrorist infrastructure" and claiming that Iran was working to establish an "eastern front" against Israel," according to CNN. "We must deal with the threat just as we deal with the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever steps are required," Foreign Minister Israel Katz wrote on social media. "This is a war for all terms and purposes and we must win it." IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said in a briefing that Israel had identified "a systematic strategy in Iran" of smuggling weapons and explosives into the West Bank. "Specifically, about Jenin and Tulkarm, we've seen over 150 shooting and explosive attacks originated from these areas alone over the past year," Shoshani said on Wednesday. [...] https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/08/28/israel-launches-massive-raid-on-the-west-bank-n4932064

No Goodwill in Seattle: Thrift Store Chain Closing Locations, Citing Escalating Theft, Safety Concerns If you're Goodwill hunting in Seattle, the pickings are about to get very lean. The famous thrift store chain is shuttering two of its Seattle locations, citing escalating theft, safety concerns, and rising rents. That's a loss for lower-income residents of the area - and for people with various disabilities who Goodwill is known for employing. That's not good for Goodwill, and it's not good for Seattle: [...] https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/08/28/no-goodwill-in-seattle-famous-thrift-store-chain-closing-down-citing-escalating-theft-safety-concerns-n2178648

CNN Analyst Agrees: Kamala 'Incredibly Weak' to Bring Chaperone to CNN Interview Smart strategy or "weak sauce"? Or both? Kamala Harris finally committed to doing a sit-down interview with a major media outlet, choosing CNN's Dana Bash as her questioner. As John noted yesterday, though, she's bringing her "dad" along -- running mate Tim Walz. The aspirational VP hasn't done a media interview or press conference either since joining the ticket, but Politico explained yesterday that Walz has no idea what Harris' agenda is and worries about contradicting her later positions ... assuming she takes any. Hence, it might be a smart strategy to put them together in the first major interview. There's another more important strategic reason to do so too. By pairing them together, the campaign hopes that Bash and CNN will focus on their relationship a lot more than on issues and policies, turning this into a human-interest interview rather than a hard-hitting political interrogatory. CNN's own analyst Scott Jennings sees through both strategies [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/08/28/cnn-analyst-agrees-kamala-incredibly-weak-to-bring-chaperone-to-cnn-interview-n3793758

Interesting, and worth considering. Do you agree with the reasoning? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did Israel's Pre-Emptive Attack on Hezbollah Stop a Wider War? Alan Dershowitz certainly thinks so. And the signs coming not just from Beirut but also Tehran suggest that Israel has successfully reset the disincentives to war that the October 7 massacres undermined. We'll get to Dersh's arguments in a moment. Reporting today from the Times of Israel shows just how ineffective the retaliation attack from Hezbollah turned out to be. They didn't hit any of their intended targets, even accounting for the destruction of the pre-emptive strike conducted by the IDF. And yet Hassan Nasrallah seemed very eager on Sunday to declare himself satisfied that they had paid back Israel for the strike that took out Fuad Shukr: [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/08/28/did-israels-pre-emptive-attack-on-hezbollah-stop-a-wider-war-n3793760

A Bidementia/Kommie immigration issue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now We're Supposed to Panic Over Sloth Fever [...] This is the Oropouche virus (great... now we're all going to have to learn how to spell that) and it can lead to what is commonly referred to as sloth fever. The majority of people who become infected will not suffer serious medical consequences and generally recover within a few days to a month. However, a smaller percentage can develop very serious secondary ailments and even die. Just to put some icing on this already nauseating cake, there is currently no vaccine that prevents contraction of the Oropouche virus and no medication capable of treating it. The largest number of cases reported thus far in the U.S. have shown up in Florida, but more on that in a moment. [...] https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/08/28/now-were-supposed-to-panic-over-sloth-fever-n3793780

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Kamala Solemnly Places 'Joy' Sticker On Tomb Of Marine Killed In Afghanistan [...] The Democratic candidate for president stood in hushed silence in front of the tomb for several seconds before stepping up to place the "Joy" decal on the wreath to commemorate his sacrifice. "This sorrow is a joyful moment," Harris said to reporters following the ceremony. "In sorrow, we find joy. Joy is happiness. When we are happy, we have joy. And having joy is very joyous for those who have it. This is America. And America is joy." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-solemnly-places-joy-sticker-on-tomb-of-marine-killed-in-afghanistan

~~~~~~~~~ Harris Team Asks If Her Mic Can Just Be Muted For The Whole Debate U.S. — Ahead of the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on September 10, the Harris campaign has asked if their candidate's mic could "please" be muted for the duration of the debate. "It'd help us out a lot," said a spokesperson for Kamala Harris. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/harris-team-asks-if-her-mic-can-just-be-muted-for-the-whole-debate