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I can't imagine the terror felt by all as their plane goes down. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Black box shows Brazil plane crashed 1 minute after pilots sensed trouble, local media says SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Authorities investigating the Brazilian plane crash that killed all 62 on board last week now have the full transcript of the "black box" but its content did not immediately explain the cause of the accident, local TV station Globo said on Wednesday. The transcript from the cockpit voice recorder shows the pilot and copilot noticed a steep loss of altitude about one minute before the crash [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-box-shows-brazil-plane-012404634.html

'Resentful' Joe Biden Set to Snub Barack Obama and Kamala Harris Speeches at DNC While the Democratic Party leadership is putting on a united public front, Joe Biden's simmering resentment over the quiet coup that ended his re-election dreams may be bubbling to the surface. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/resentful-joe-biden-set-snub-134106186.html

All the Sports Being Cut and Added for 2028 Los Angeles Olympics [...] see which sports are in, out and making a comeback at the 2028 LA Olympics: [...] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sports-being-cut-added-2028-165345365.html

Scientists Drilled So Deep Into the Center of the Earth, They Knocked on the Mantle's Door If you want to understand the geology of our home planet, studying the mantle is a great place to start. Separating the planet's rocky crust and the molten outer core, the mantle makes up 70 percent of the Earth's mass and 84 percent of its volume. But despite its outsized influence on the planet's geologic processes, scientists have never directly sampled rocks from this immensely important geologic layer. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-drilled-deep-center-earth-163300616.html

I suspect that many school districts get away with metaphorical murder.

It is Wednesday -- time for our Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FUNNY SHORT ONES The bank says this is my final notice. Isn't it great that they're not going to bother me any longer? Now they're saying that cigarettes can cause rectal cancer. I'll be OK, though -- I'm always careful to put them in my mouth. "Coming soon to a cinema near you." How do they know where I live? I've been voted Employee Of The Month for the past 15 months. Self-employment has its advantages! When I walked into the store, the sign on the door said "Open." Now I can't leave, because the sign on the door says "Closed." When I was kidnapped as a young child, my parents sprang into action. They rented out my room. I'm not fat! I'm just easy to see.

That's great news!

Never. Not by nobody, not nohow.

Dear God in heaven... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Biden Randomly Starts Screaming at Cancer Event, Appears to Forget What Year It Is and Obama's Name [...] It's scary to think that this man has the nuclear codes. [...] https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/08/13/biden-randomly-starts-screaming-at-cancer-event-appears-to-forget-what-year-it-is-n2178080

Posted in the Elections thread, too...

Little Ms. Red-white-&-blue (D-Mogadishu) has won. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Rep. Ilhan Omar Wins Democratic Primary in MN-05 She had the incumbent advantage and was predicted to retain her seat based on recent polling. Now, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has won her primary in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District. [...] https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/08/13/rep-ilhan-omar-wins-democratic-primary-in-mn-05-n2178087

Country-specific thread is moved from the K-1 Case Progress subforum to the Thailand regional forum.

Scintillating Tuesday repartee, yawn man. ----- Thrilling Tuesday report, see man: Even after out-pigging on Monday, we were below our weight line this morning, whee man. Dropped Mini-B. at skool comfortably early, si man. Breakfast was 2 "egg bites" from Costco, ingest we man. Went to favorite large thrift shop, as indicated man. Prices went up, we man. Furthermore, no item had a half-price colored tag, man. We had to rely on our weekly discount, si and oh well and OK man. We got Mini-B. Many (2+2+1) long pants, $i man. We got Mini-B. Many (2+2) short pants, $i man. We got Mini-B. Many (2+2) long-sleeved shirts, $i man. We saved $Many ($2x2x2x2x2 +1 + half a buck), financially savvy we man. Lunch was onecan of tortilla soup*, ingest we man. *from supermarket clearance bin, financially savvy we man A siesta was taken thereafter, zzz we man. Casa health aide will see Uncle T-B. on Wednesday, schedule she man with we man man. Waiting to hear about nooser, confirmation pending man. Din-din was nuked mixed vegetables + On-Cor chicken parmigiana patties, ingest Two Guys man. Movie night was Many (2+1) Everybody Loves Chris episodes, watch Two Guys man. Many (2+1) bowls of Costco popcorn were consumed, ingest Two Guys man. This makes Many (2x2x2 -1) for the week already, counting Many from Friday man. Wednesday will be non-Two Guys eve, oh well man. We plan to take Mini-B.'s outgrown stuff to children's resale place, maybe last visit ever man. Then we must grocery for Mama T-B., fortunately all at one place man (!!?). Then we must collect Rx's for Uncle T-B., deliver we man to senior he man man. Party with the rubias once Mini-B. embedded, cavort we man. And that was/is our thrilling Tuesday, report we man.

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FOWL CRIME: Illinois School Food Employee Gets NINE YEARS for Stealing $1.5 Million in Chicken Wings We wonder exactly how much fraud happened during COVID, when schools were closed and people were working remotely and the normal oversights and guardrails were lessened (if not outright gone). Tim Walz oversaw hundreds of millions in COVID fraud in Minnesota. It wasn't just Minnesota, however, a food service worker at an Illinois school district conned taxpayers out of $1.5 million by stealing chicken wings during the pandemic. [...] https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/08/13/illinois-school-worker-gets-nine-years-for-stealing-millions-in-chicken-wings-n2399586

It's Been One Month Since Someone Tried to Assassinate the Former President, and We're Hearing Crickets [...] You could tell the moment after it happened that this incident would not be treated like any other assassination attempt. The attempts on Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford held the national attention for years. Nobody's over John F. Kennedy's assassination. Robert Kennedy Sr.'s assassin has won his freedom from a parole board, though he still sits in a California prison. We all saw what happened on that Memphis balcony when a racist Democrat took a gun and shot Martin Luther King, Jr. Americans don't take kindly to people trying to permanently take out their leaders. And we didn't like it when some of the same people now investigating this assassination attempt previously tried to take him out with their Russia investigations, lies about peeing hookers, bank accounts, trips to Prague, and the free-for-all spending from Democrat allies paying for anyone to lie to take him out in court. So it was that hours after the attempt on Trump's life, the FBI and Secret Service brass, only a short helicopter or plane ride away, couldn't be bothered to show up for a news conference to tell America what happened and what we knew so far. I wrote about it in the piece called "Don't Worry if You Missed FBI Presser on Trump Assassination Attempt. You Didn't Miss a Thing." Here's an excerpt: [...] https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/08/13/its-been-one-month-since-someone-tried-to-assassinate-the-former-president-wheres-the-fbi-presser-n4931608

Tim Walz Is Just Like You and Me — If You and I Have Friends Who Love Hamas The marketing campaign is in high gear. Tim Walz should be our vice president, our self-appointed moral superiors inform us because he is a guy just like you and me and the fellow grilling hamburgers next door. Not Chuck Schumer photo-op raw meat, either. Walz, the "news" media insists, is the real deal, an Ordinary Joe, even more ordinary than Old Joe Biden. A high school teacher! A football coach! A Marxist authoritarian! Oh, scratch that last one; they won’t be admitting that one until later. Nor is the establishment media talking about his friendships with Muslims who love Hamas. The Washington Examiner reported Friday that Walz, "on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas's Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler." The imam whom the Examiner had in mind was [...] https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/08/13/tim-walz-is-just-like-you-and-me-if-you-and-i-have-friends-who-love-hamas-n4931603

Fascinating and ominous insights into the assassination attempt and much more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dissension, 'Toxicity' Plagued Trump's Secret Service Detail Before Assassination Attempt Rancor, recriminations, and serious formal misconduct complaints have plagued all levels of the Secret Service detail assigned to protect former President Donald Trump over the last year, distracting the team from its core mission of securing Trump from physical harm and preventing an assassination. Trump's regular detail team, a force of 60 employees – special agents and support staff – has been beset by internal division, long workdays and weeks, and constant stress. Last year, the team lost one of its members to suicide. Among the allegations are accusations of improper sexual relationships or fraternization within the team, debilitating mental health issues, non-merit-based promotions, conflict of interest issues, unfair retaliation and the creation of inappropriate memes and social media posts. [...] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/12/dissension_toxicity_plagued_trumps_secret_service_detail_before_assassination_attempt.html

Looks like the White House doc is as corrupt as Bidementia and his family. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Secrecy of the President's Family 'Doc' Raises the Question: Are We Getting the Full Story on Biden's Cognitive Health? For the next five months, Dr. Kevin C. O'Connor will be one of the most powerful people in the world. The White House physician is the chief medical arbiter of Joe Biden's fitness to continue as commander in chief in a war-torn world until the end of his term in January. Even as the public has long expressed concern about the 81-year-old president's mental capacities and Democratic Party leaders pressured Biden to drop his bid for a second term, O'Connor has repeatedly given his boss a clean bill of health. As Republicans demand that the president be removed from office under the 25th amendment -- and warn that adversaries such as China or Iran could use the lengthy lame-duck period to test Biden -- O'Connor's opinion looms as perhaps their biggest obstacle. [...] https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/08/13/presidential_physicians_secrecy_raises_question_are_we_getting_the_truth_about_bidens_health_1050904.html

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

I bought a combination lock for Mini-Bone just last night, so they're solvent for now and can relax.

Kommie's people probably didn't check that far, although they're certainly not complaining about the votes from Dearbornistan that will surely come!

At least the attorney resolved his OWN debts with these funds, so how can it be a scam?

You're most welcome -- that's what we're here for.

You might want to check their website. Some DOTs list countries that have reciprocity with the U.S. If no one here responds with a definitive answer, try to call or visit a PA DOT office to ask.