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Congress Bans Roofs WASHINGTON—In response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend, Congress moved quickly to pass legislation Monday that bans the civilian use of roofs. "As our country continues to reel from this horrific event, we in Congress have taken action by enacting a nationwide ban on all roofs, roof terraces, and balconies," said House Speaker Mike Johnson, explaining that [...] https://www.theonion.com/congress-bans-roofs-1851592883

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Really, Really, Really Happy For You, Kamala,' Says Hillary Clinton, Not Letting Go Of Handshake WASHINGTON—Doing her best to appear elated while a large, throbbing vein protruded from her forehead, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was 'really, really, really happy' for Vice President Kamala Harris as she shook the presumptive Democratic nominee's hand and refused to let go of it. [...] https://www.theonion.com/timeline-of-assassination-attempts-in-the-united-states-1851597642

Biden Flubs Exit Speech WASHINGTON—In what was widely regarded as a misfire by the 81-year-old as he formally bowed out of the 2024 election, President Joe Biden repeatedly flubbed his exit speech today, saying he would "rule the country with an iron fist for one thousand years." "Tonight, I, Joseph R. Biden, vow to take back my rightful throne atop the nation and continue my violent reign of terror until the end of time," said a visibly shaky Biden, who, despite his best efforts to [...] https://www.theonion.com/biden-flubs-exit-speech-1851599195

Party Cheating In Primary Election Promises They Will Definitely Not Cheat In General Election [...] "Don't be ridiculous," said Nancy Pelosi when asked if Democrats would cheat in November. "All the shady business we just did to get rid of Joe should not be seen as any sign that we would ever do anything unscrupulous in the upcoming presidential election. To be fully transparent, the fact that there are still unanswered questions about suspicious things that happened in 2020 and 2022 should not at all be used as evidence that we would do any suspicious things in 2024. Any suggestion to the contrary is a threat to democracy." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/party-cheating-in-primary-election-will-definitely-not-cheat-in-general-election

Biden Voluntarily Steps Down From Presidential Race Days After Being Forcibly Removed From Presidential Race [...] "This is an awe-inspiring act of sacrifice. He's just like George Washington," said Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski, wiping tears from her eyes. "It's clear that this move was completely voluntary on Biden's part and not in any way due to a coup forcing him out against his will. Biden will go down in history, not just as the most popular president, but as the greatest man to ever live." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/days-after-being-forcibly-removed-from-presidential-race-biden-voluntarily-steps-down-from-presidential-race

Thoughts about this? It's not just south-of-border illegals, but also (for just one example of many) Filipinas who come on K-1 and CR-1 visas. Discussion, please. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why the U.S. Must Heavily Tax Remittances One of the most under-discussed drivers of illegal immigration is the explosion of remittances, which has created a major economic incentive for foreign nationals to pour into the U.S. Immigrants of both the legal and illegal variety are coming to the U.S., earning money, and sending it back home instead of putting it into the U.S. economy. [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/why_the_u_s_must_heavily_tax_remittances_from_illegals.html

Interesting article. I wondered about the tsunami of donations myself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Is everything kosher about the $126 million that poured in for Kamala? Kamala, we were told, raised more money in a few hours than any other candidate in history. Sometimes, though, when things sound too good to be true, they're probably not true at all. Many people are raising questions about whether Kamala received $81 million in donations from 888,000 grassroots donors in just 24 hours and another $44 million in the next 48 hours or whether the announcement of Joe's withdrawal and Kamala's likely role as the Democrat presidential candidate created a useful opportunity for massive money laundering, including money from foreigners gaming the American election. ActBlue, the clearing house for all donations to Democrat parties and causes, has long had fundraising practices that, coincidentally or not, make money laundering easier. It allows donations from unverified credit cards, untethered to the cardholder's name and address. This means that there's no way at all to know who these donors are, paving the way for fraud. [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/is_everything_kosher_about_the_126_million_that_poured_in_for_kamala.html

Hypocrite. ~~~~~~~~~~ Something's Not Right About the $50 Million Dumped Into Montana's Senate Race [...] Last year, far-left progressive billionaire George Soros and his son Alexander Soros each maxed out campaign contributions to Tester's campaign. Tester has benefited from the Soros family contributions as the vulnerable Democrat seeks to raise money from left-wing donors ahead of what will be considered one of the most expensive Senate races of 2024. In February, Tester criticized out-of-state billionaires who buy elections-- yet they continue to fund his. [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/07/25/somethings-not-right-about-the-50-million-dumped-into-montanas-senate-race-n2642479

Real winners, all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here's Where Voters Stand With Kamala Harris' Potential VP Picks [...] The Democratic Party forced President Joe Biden out of the race last week when they realized he would never recover from his lousy polling numbers and defeat GOP presidential nominee former President Donald Trump. This leaves the party just enough time to nominate Harris, or another candidate, in the virtual vote next month and confirm her running mate soon after. According to an ABC News poll, voters aren't thrilled about [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/07/25/heres-who-made-kamala-harris-vp-list-n2642547

Why MSNBC's Focus Group Brutalized Kamala Harris [...] Like Hillary, the more this woman remains in the spotlight, the more unpopular she becomes. In Wisconsin, a crucial swing state, voters here are distrustful of her since they want to know how much she knew about Joe Biden's mental decline, which got exposed during his disastrous and eventually election-killing debate with Donald Trump on June 27. [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/07/25/msnbcs-focus-group-brutalizes-kamala-harris-n2642475

They're sanitizing Kommie. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Dem Leaked the Talking Points About Harris, and Look How They Align With the Media Coverage The media scrub job of Kamala Harris' appalling record has been offensively blatant as media outlets and GovTrack have sought to scrub anything that can be used against her. Wikipedia has also scrubbed or rewritten its pages. However, GovTrack's sin is worse: they deleted Harris' entire page. Then, the Democrats' talking points were leaked (via Outkick): [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/07/25/a-dem-leaked-the-talking-points-about-harris-and-look-how-they-align-with-the-media-coverage-n2642541

This Is Fine: 39% of American Adults Are Worried About Income Meeting Expenses We're totally fine. Totally fine. Why should we worry about inflation or wages or anything like that? It's not like 40% of adults are worried about making ends meet these days. Oh, wait: [...] https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/07/25/cnn-39-of-american-adults-are-worried-about-paying-their-bills-n2398828

Democrats Really Have a Problem With Jews Border Czar Kamala Harris had an opportunity Wednesday to reset the entire election. She had the ability to take her place as the president of the Senate and preside over a major address by a foreign leader to a joint session of Congress and look presidential to millions of voters trying to decide whether or not she's up to the job. As the antisemitic riots were taking place a block and a half from the Capitol, Border Czar Kamala Harris could have electrified the country by summoning up her own version of a Sister Souljah moment and denounce the violence, renounce the Jew hatred in her Democratic base, and ask the country to rally around common values. Border Czar Kamala Harris didn't do any of that. She demonstrated that her political instincts are exactly where they were in 2019 when she dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary weeks before the Iowa Caucus started doling out delegates - completely tone deaf. [...] https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2024/07/25/the-democrats-really-have-a-problem-with-jews-n3792251

Texas Aggies (students, faculty, staff, alumni, and anyone remotely connected to Texas A&M University) are the utter laughingstock of the medium animal kingdom. Search for "Aggie jokes."

Worth a horrified reading. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Local cops refusing to share info with FBI as agency suffers 'crisis of confidence' with DEI hires, damning whistleblower report reveals As FBI Director Chris Wray performed his usual smarmy stonewalling in Congress Wednesday, a damning report on his $10 billion agency's "cult of narcissism" was delivered to the House Judiciary Committee by an alliance of retired and active-duty agents and analysts. The same group gave us the scathing DEI report last year about the FBI's degraded recruitment standards and coddling of physically unfit, mentally ill, drug-taking or generally useless agents to satisfy diversity requirements at the expense of merit and experience. This time they have assessed the entire bureau and drawn several worrying conclusions, including that local law enforcement partners have developed a "disturbing loss of trust in the FBI" and are therefore reluctant to share information, with alarming consequences for national security and public safety. [...] https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/opinion/local-cops-refusing-to-share-info-with-fbi-as-agency-suffers-crisis-of-confidence-with-dei-hires-whistleblower-report-reveals/

Thrilling Thursday report, see man: Actually, boring Thursday report, yawn man. It rained ALL day, How Dry We Aren't man. We did not leave the casa, no man. Breakfast/lunch was 2 dying bananas sliced with pancake syrup on top, tasty/filling ingest we man. We called a fridge-repair co. to look at our ice-maker, a dud for years man. Guy showed up after the Many-hour window, traffic & rain man. The heating element (to keep ice in cube/crushed form) is dead, bye man. Needs a new entire apparatus, what we expected man. The apparatus costs $Many00 and the labor costs $Many00 for a total of $Many00, oh well man. The good news is that the technician will clean our coils for free, not in bad shape man. We will schedule his return when the apparatus is in hand, OK man. We asked the technician whether we should get a new fridge, ours Many years old man. He said, "No, man -- yours was built when Frigidaire/Electrolux was decent, si man," si man. We asked him which brands were best, inquire we man of he man man. He said Bosch first, si man. LG is next-best, a little cheaper than Bosch man. He said that Whirlpool/Frigidaire/Electrolux now sucks, same company now man. He said to avoid Samsung like the plague, everything breaks one part after the other man. He even said that Samsung packed the wrong part in a box from the factory, man. We seem to remember that Ontarklar had trouble with Samsung or LG, enraged Ontarklar man. Din-din was Tuna Glop, ingest and diet we man. Miu has awakened in bored and needy form, demanding miu man. No word on whether Mini-B. got his hairs cut, time is wasting man. Party with the rubias tonight, cavort we man. Fence repairman is to show up Friday morn at o'-dark-Many, and probably monsooning then man. We have itineraried Many (2+1) ESs and a huge church GS for Friday, itinerary we man. And that was/is our thrilling Thursday, report we man.

Use of a template letter isn't the wisest action. If all letters look much the same, all of them will be called into question. Better to supply family with details (when you met, etc.) and let them put things into their own words.

What you're feeling is natural, and you'll survive it. Others will be along to offer advice and support.

Thread is moved from the CR-1 Process forum to the Effects of Major Family Changes forum.

Whereas ICE might handle large scams involving groups or multiple individuals, the FDNS officer at your local USCIS office can deal with single cases. Take copies of all information that you have. Prepare a written statement, if possible, of what happened. Be objective. Turn in the papers to the FDNS officer. Sadly, you'll never hear of an outcome.

Big, BIG, BIG mistake -- and infuriating! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Southwest Airlines plans to start assigning seats, breaking with a 50-year tradition Southwest Airlines said Thursday that it plans to drop the open-boarding system it has used for more than 50 years and will start assigning passengers to seats, just like all the other big airlines. [...] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/southwest-breaks-50-tradition-plans-103853024.html

Thread is moved to the Effects of Major Family Changes forum. This hurts. Whatever you're feeling is valid and natural. Things WILL get better (time heals).

Democrats Flee Capitol In Terror As Jew Stands Up To Speak WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sources from Capitol Hill report that Democrats in Congress fled en masse at the sight of a Jew standing up to talk. At the sight of the Jewish man preparing to say words out loud, Vice-President Harris ran fleeing from the Capitol along with several other Democrat leaders including Congresswomen Omar, Pressley, and Ocasio-Cortez. "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, IT'S A JEW!" Congresswoman Ilhan Omar warned her fellow Democrats, pulling her emergency Hamas burqa out from under her desk. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-flee-capitol-in-terror-as-jew-stands-up-to-speak

~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'The Ad Writes Itself': Here are 2 'Choose a Side' Pics That MUST End Up in a Trump Commercial [...] Hamas-sympathizing protesters in Washington, DC having fits over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu burned an American flag while yelling "Allahu Akbar" and confronted police. [...] https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/07/24/the-ad-writes-itself-here-are-2-choose-a-side-pics-that-must-end-up-in-a-trump-commercial-n2398803

This objectively sounds like a problem. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Democrats Seem Pretty Nervous About Kamala Losing Her War Chest Within hours of President Joe Biden announcing he was suspending his 2024 campaign for the White House, which he did through a letter posted on X, his campaign quickly moved to change from the "Biden for President" to the "Harris for President" on official Federal Election Commission forms. They did this so Harris can access nearly $100 million in already raised campaign funds. But according to FEC Commissioner Sean Cooksey, a transfer of funds to Harris isn't that simple. [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/07/24/harris-campaign-likely-breaking-federal-election-law-do-they-care-n2642445