I've been watching her for years. It is a way to see remote parts of the world and learn a bit about the cultures who live there.

Zed,

The four escapees you re cheering on:

Sandoval-Lopez, from Honduras, was charged with unlawful possession of a handgun in October and aggravated assault in February, officials said. Castaneda-Lozada, from Colombia, was charged with burglary, theft and conspiracy, authorities said.

Bautista-Reyes, from Honduras, was charged in May with aggravated assault, attempt to cause bodily injury, terroristic threats and a weapon crime. Pineda-Mogollon, from Colombia, was charged with minor larceny and burglary crimes.

"Was PM Netanyahu intentionally targeting civilians (as Pres Putin seems to do)? Or was Iran ~hiding~ its leaders in civilian targets?"

I would say neither. The leaders were specifically targeted, and they were living (not hiding) in residential areas. Hard not to end up with unintended civilian casualties when targeting people who live in populated areas.

Thanks Lampy, I appreciate your contributions. I thought you were one of the hamsters, lol. At least I know Idid it correctly this time.

#16 Yes, I did miss that thread, now that I have seen it is still pretty tepid considering the stakes here.

I don't generally post threads here, I'm not sure I really know how, but I am stunned that the only threads I am seeing about this conflict are those that reference Trump. This has the potential to evolve into a major, major WWIII level conflict. Can we talk about this? It is much bigger than red vs blue politics.

I don't generally post threads here, I'm not sure I really know how, but I am stunned that the only threads I am seeing about this conflict are those that reference Trump. This has the potential to evolve into a major, major WWIII level conflict. Can we talk about this?

Let me translate for you. There is no such thing as roofing without undocumented immigrants. There is a deep, multilayered deep network of middlemen providing fraudulent documentation to transient construction workers to game the system and give cover to folks like Mr. Sardinia who hire them and pay them substandard wages in cash. This is nothing new, and Sardinia knows this game. He just didn't think HE would get caught up in it. While it is possible that his workers had valid work permits and ICE will sort it out, it is equally likely that their permits were fraudulent, and even the workers didn't know it.

#10 Doc, Part of the draw for the ACA was that it would limit insurance company profit margins to a certain number, and anything above that was supposed to be rebated to the consumers. What happened to that? I got a rebate check one year, nothing since. You'd think a program like that would disincentivize denying care and claims, because the increased profits would be rebated to consumers. Obviously the insurance company accountants have found workarounds, or did they abandon that whole provision?

To clarify, this was not during COVID lockdown, it was at the point in the COVID timeline when Telehealth had become common. The excuse/reason the insurance company gave was that COVID itself had caused a mental health crisis causing the lack of available practitioners. He also had "good insurance", a gold level plan with a well regarded company, not some discounted exchange plan. They all suck.

I'm glad they have finally put a name to it "ghost network". Several years ago I sought care for a family member with similar results. He was struggling with depression, and the situation was pretty dire before he was willing to seek help. I stepped in to help him find a therapist. There were 60 providers on his insurance list and I called every single one of them, some several times. Most were independent providers and the calls went to voice mail, "I am with a patient and will call you back as soon as possible." Nobody ever called back, even when I followed up a week or two explaining that the situation was becoming very dire. These were mental health professionals and they couldn't be bothered to call back and at least give a referral to the suicide hotline or something.

Some were part of practices with receptionists. Of those who actually answered the phone, many were "not accepting new patients". Others were "no longer accepting (his) insurance". Others were "no longer with the practice". Others promised to call back (but didn't). Some were kind enough to suggest another practictioner, and I went down that rabbit hole too. There were a few that were booked out 8 weeks or more, but offered to make an appointment then. This wasn't that helpful for a person who was in crisis, unable to imagine he would still be here that far into the future.

It was already a big hurdle to convince him to seek help, and I told him I help him choose a therapist who was a good fit, so you can imagine how hard it was to tell him I couldn't find one at all. He was already feeling so rejected (the depression was related to the loss of employment and a relationship).If he had to make these calls himself, there is no way he would have survived the ordeal. Imagine being in crisis and making hundreds of phone calls to discover that nobody is willing to help you.

Ultimately, I made two appointments for him, both 6+ weeks out. Then our extended family staged an intervention, and moved him in with us so we could at least keep him safe until he could get help. Fast forward two months.....One of the providers cancelled the appointment with no explanation. The other saw him twice, then told him she didn't have room in her schedule to see him regularly. It took months to get going with another therapist, then that person left the practice and they had nobody else on staff that took his insurance. Back to square one. It is brutal out there.

This was during COVID, and that was the excuse then, but Ravi's story shows the situation probably hasn't changed much. It is awful, and I hope Ravi's lawsuit brings awareneness and change.

#2 Can you be any more tone deaf? Considering many people in need of mental health care are already either unemployed or struggling to maintain employment and a roof over their heads because of their mental health challenges, NO HE PROBABLY COULDN'T PAY OUT OF POCKET! Therapists charge as much as $250 per session.

Ridiculous, but I have to say, over the years I noticed that a common characteristic of pedophiles is a weak recessive chin. I always wondered why. Look at any sexual predator registry website and see if you agree.

I have no problem with the factual reporting in the Texas PR article you linked. I DO have a problem with the intentionally misleading content in the msn articles, particularly the one linked in my post headlined "Musk's Space City in Texas Sparks Uproar as Residents Face Eviction Threats"

I guess you're ok with msn lying by falsely informing recipients of routine zoning notices that what the letter REALLY means is that they are being threatened with eviction? That is fear mongering, and yes, it is a concern.

Clickbait, faux outrage, your guess is as good as mine. It appears to be a very routine zoning hearing, to which there will likely be little or no opposition ... .yet they have spun it into a viral headline suggesting people will be evicted from their homes, livelihoods destroyed.

Every year tens of thousands of zoning matters are handled in the state of Texas. In every case, those exact same scary words "lose the right to continue using" are included in a legally required notice sent to residents in the affected area.

Yet this one time, "journalists" consider it newsworthy.

I'm a grown up. I got married, I know that I need my marriage certificate to prove my name change. I keep it on a safe place It's not that hard, NEXT.

There is no such thing as non biased coverage of the Levant. I learned this when I was 13 years old. I Have been on a the Drudge Retort for more than 2 decades. During that time I learned that there are few people with REAL informed perspective on Middle Eastern issues. Madbomber is one of those people,.

Suppressors are frequently used by hunters for various reasons. Reduction of recoil, reduce spooking wildlife, less annoying to nearby property owners. The use of a suppressor to commit murder is exceedingly rare. Some people watch to many movies.

As part of an explosives training program, we were tasked with building an "undetectable bomb". One thing to look for when identifying suspicious packages is greasy cardboard, because C4 is oily. So we used that to our advantage and made a C4 pizza, put it in a used pizza. The scary part was using a torch to melt the mozzarella.

#19 Running low on the lithium again?

"Radimak, who was convicted of two bouts of pipe-wielding road rage in Southern California, was sentenced to five years in prison in September 2023 for criminal threats and stalking and was paroled in Los Angeles County on Aug. 28 " serving less than a year of his sentence."

He was born and raised in the US but is a citizen of Peru since 2015.