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It is Wednesday -- time for our approval-evoking* Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: *if correlation = causation =========================================== VERY PUNNY A ham sandwich walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says, "Sorry, but we don't serve food here." What lights up a soccer stadium? A soccer match. Why shouldn't you write with a broken pencil? Because it's pointless. What's brown and sticky? A stick. Why do people say "break a leg" when you go on stage? Because every play has a cast. What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop. Why do seagulls fly over the sea? Because if they flew over a bay, they would be bagels. How do you tell if a vampire is sick? By how much he is coffin.

A superior, home-run article. Comments about it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Social Security Administration's Turnaround and the Real Purpose of DOGE On Dec. 22, 2025, an Inspector General report on the Social Security Administration, triggered by demands from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), documented a sharp turnaround in the agency's phone service during Fiscal Year 2025. Average wait times fell from roughly thirty minutes earlier in the year to single digits by September. The agency handled 65% more callsthan in the prior fiscal year, serving 68 million callers in total. Claims backlogs declined by 35%. This is an amazing improvement for an entrenched bureaucracy, and in less than a year. Much of this can be ascribed to reforms suggested by the Department of Government Efficiency. Those results cut directly against months of media coverage portraying DOGE as being disruptive without delivering measurable gains. Whatever one thinks of DOGE's style or politics, it demanded the system respond to pressure. Performance improved, demonstrably and at scale. That outcome matters because it clarifies what DOGE actually represents, and what it does not. [...] https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/12/23/the-social-security-administrations-turnaround-and-the-real-purpose-of-doge-n4947443

Noncitizen Says She Voted In Multiple Georgia Elections: 'They Gave Me A Paper To Sign' A woman who moved to Georgia from the Bahamas 30 years ago and is not a citizen admitted during a Dec. 9 State Election Board (SEB) hearing that she has voted multiple times. It is illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Clayton County resident Melanie Pickett is a Bahamian native but has lived in the Peach State for approximately 30 years. According to Pickett, she does not "know" "how it happened." [...] https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/22/noncitizen-says-she-voted-in-multiple-georgia-elections-they-gave-me-a-paper-to-sign/

Excellent and informative op-ed article about overall progress in removing illegals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trump's most important achievement https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-s-most-important-achievement/ar-AA1STJFI

Scintillating Tuesday repartee, yawn man. ------- Thrilling Tuesday report, see man: Embedded ourself at Many a.m. -- si man, Many a.m. -- after LL-ing Mama T-B.'s dusters and Mini-B.'s last-week stuff, exhausted we man. Was awakened a full 2 hours before alarm by cheery text from ex-Mrs.-T-B., cruising ex-she man man. Visited Mama T-B. before noon, visit senior she man we man man. Timed it perfectly to get a free lunch, savvy we man. Lunch was chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes, (?) mustard greens, & pineapple chunks, ingest we man. Then visited/fed/played with mini-miu, excited little orange boy man. Returned to casa for desperately needed siesta, zzz desperately we man man. Awoke in time to prep casa for maid's visit, major decluttering job man. She spent nearly Many (2+2) -- si man, nearly Many (2+2) -- hours, thorough she man man. Big job was completely de-molding our shower, around edges man. We were slightly sickened by the necessary bleach, son of a bleach man. Nevertheless, we are now on "maintenance" status, hopefully cheaper next time man. And, as we texted ex-Mrs.-T-B., maid said that our casa "wasn't bad at all" after Many (2+2+2) weeks, so there man. Din-din (during maiding) was 2 turkey-&-cheese sandwiches, ingest we man. Visited mini-miu again, excited little orange boy man. Funeral of Estranged Aunt T-B. is Wednesday, bye EA T-B. man. It will be very lightly attended and a short service, that's OK man. Uncle T-B. claims that he has nothing to wear and is reluctant to go for other reasons, man. We hope that there are no delays getting there on his account, chauffeur we man senior he man man. We also hope for no accidents, uneven terrain for unsteady senior he man man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. We must reconstruct the order of our shampoo bottles in the shower, inevitable after maiding man. And that was/is our thrilling Tuesday, report we man.

Idiots. Expense and effort without data = useless.

You sank my battleship!

Yee-HAAAAA! [Note to T-B.'s self: Jokes worked again, even back then... jokes worked again...] I echo Rhema1 just above, who said it perfectly. True words. Thank you for your generosity of spirit, and congratulations again!

Glad to hear that it was a micro-Stokes, if even that. Really pulling for progress in your case.

That's great! If w sweat or fret too much, we go insane. Try to distract yourself. Violent physical exercise has worked for many.

In addition to the above, this is a chance for a gentle, general reminder to all readers that solicitation is strictly prohibited per the VisaJourney Terms of Service. Any such fundraiser would have to be conducted elsewhere.

Thoroughly answered thread is now closed to further comment. Do not restart this topic.

That was my thought.

Yee-HAAAAA! Was this a Stokes interrogation?

And there's more -- far more: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Fulton County 2020 Election Bombshell If you have struggled to find any reason to support the Democratic Party, you are by no means alone. A new Quinnipiac poll revealed last week that 73 percent of voters disapprove of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job. Yet, somehow, the party's candidates managed to overperform its 2024 margins in all five House special elections this year. How did they work this miracle? One clue can perhaps be found in the recent revelations about election "irregularities" in Fulton County, Georgia. During a recent hearing of the Georgia State Election Board (SEB), an attorney for the county admitted that 315,000 illegally certified votes were included in the final results of the 2020 election. The gory details of this skullduggery were first reported [...] https://spectator.org/the-fulton-county-2020-election-bombshell/