But where's the $20 million that Congress allocated for body-cams and dash-cams?

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Trump keeps claiming that the US will eventually have complete control of Greenland and I suspect that this is just one move in that effort to gain control of the island.

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My understanding is that Amazon is going to rebate the amount that was charged customers which was the result of the tariffs which they paid, which may be limited as a result of how Amazon does business. What rebates that will be paid, will be in the form of credits on their customer's accounts.

Busily working on/awaiting a deflection to distract the conversation.

#27 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2026-08-03 01:13 PM

And Trump has found that compelling new issue which he needs to make a 'big decision' on shortly, whether to replace the red brick pavers in Lafayette Park with granite or not.

Our #4 granddaughter, who will be starting her senior year this fall at my alma mater in Northern Michigan studying chemistry (after her first three years, she's currently running a 3.95 GPA and is already taking graduate level classes) is working on her application to attend graduate school at the ETH (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, Switzerland (this is where Einstein went to school). I was talking to her the other day and I told her that she needed to apply for her passport ASAP, and to make sure that she does NOT get the one with Trump's image in it, which she agreed 100%.

With that in mind, she's teaching herself German. As she told me, back in high school, she could have taken German but took three years of Spanish instead since she was living in Texas and figured that would be better. She now regrets her choice, but back in her freshman year of high school she never dreamed that one day she might be going to school in Switzerland. BTW, this isn't the first time that she's taught herself a foreign language as for the last three years she's been teaching herself Japanese (her maternal grandmother was half Japanese and thought that it would be cool to learn more about her ancestry. She even joined the Asian student organization at the school, although she had to show them pictures of her grandmother and mother before they accepted the fact that she was indeed an Asian-American, albeit only 25%).

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David Hearn should demand that he gets something from Trump's anti-weaponization 'slush fund'...

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Probably done be the same people who did this.

www.reuters.com

#8 | Posted by bat4255 at 2026-07-31 08:50 AM

I started a thread covering this very same issue:

I thought that the 'Freedom 250' activities were going to be funded with donations from the well-healed crowd? What happened, they didn't think that they got their money's worth so that they cancelled their payments?

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And the empty heads of the inter-galactically incompetent Trumpf junta sunsetted the CIA World Factbook, which everyone in the USG and the world referred to.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-30 02:36 PM

I used to refer to the 'CIA World Factbook' all the time. Now I have to dig through all the minutia on Google to find the same sort of data.

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However, the description of constitutes a 'humanoid' robot is so vague that it appears that it could also include automated vacuums like 'Rumbas' and even robotic lawnmowers.

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Yea, they'll drop this case, but will continue the cases against James Comey and David Hearn.

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Why would this not be a violation of the HIPAA laws?

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That may be, but there a bunch of them on the road where we live in SoCal. We can hardly go to the store or out to eat without seeing at least two or three Cybertrucks, in all sorts of colors or designs.

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Illegal aliens have no constitutional rights.

#13 | Posted by THEBULL at 2026-07-27 12:04 AM

The Constitution does not use the word 'citizen' or 'citizens' as often as some people might expect, rather the word is used more often to describe who is allowed to hold various public offices, which seems reasonable. But when it comes to describe who enjoys the rights proscribed by the Constitution, the word used most often is 'person' or 'persons'. Every one in the United States is a 'person' whether they're native born, naturalized or undocumented. Even visitors, who are here for a short period of time, while they're here, they enjoy the rights of all of the other 'persons' who make their home here. It's generally accepted that the only 'persons' who do not enjoy all of the rights in the Constitution, nor it's protections, are individuals who enter the country on a Diplomatic Passport. They are considered to being subject to the laws and jurisdiction of their home country.

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My concern is that this sort of technology can be used not only to track down undocumented individuals, but also protestors or just innocent bystanders who might witness activities or events, such as the recent shootings. That's my primary concern about it possibly violating the 4th Amendment. Keep in mind this technology doesn't discriminate who it's gathering data on, at least not until after someone looks at it and decides if it's relevant or not.

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How does using this sort of technology not violate the 4th Amendment?

And besides, why wasn't this money spent buying dash-cams and body-cams?

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There used to be a McCormick and Schmick's in Pasadena and downtown L.A.

Used to be.

#16 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-22 01:38 AM

Yes, I know. Our son started at the store in Irvine, and then, after he came back from his four years in the infantry, they asked him to move to the Beverly Hills store that they were just opening on Rodeo Drive. He worked there awhile after being promoted to a sous chef. Then they moved him to the downtown store in the position of senior sous chef. Then they moved him back to the Rodeo Drive store as the Executive Chef, one of the youngest in the company. We loved it when he was working there as friends or relatives would come and visit and we'd ask them if they'd ever been to Beverly Hills and we'd tell them that we knew a great place to eat and that we could probably get the Executive Chef to stop by our table. It was great, driving into there underground parking and having the valet take the car, it was like living the lifestyle of the rich and famous.

Shortly after his first daughter was born, they asked him to transfer to Houston to open a new store there. Then a few years later they moved him to Dallas to open a new store there. Then they moved him back to Houston and he's been there ever since. He was promoted to a regional chef with responsibly for about six stores in the middle of the country.

Shorty after that Landy's bought the McCormick & Schmicks company. Our son was so afraid that he was going to get squeezed out because he was just a middle-manager. When I asked him where Landy's corporate headquarters was, he said it was two blocks from his store. I told him that he had nothing to worry about since he was highest ranking McCormick's employee close to the Landry's people, and sure enough when his boss, who was located in Kansas City, didn't quite fit in with the new owners, he quit and they offered our son his job, and he's just kept moving up since then, to his current position.

Granted, when he jointed M&S they had about 40 stores nationwide and at their peak it was close to 65 when Landry's acquired them. However, over the years, as the leases started to run out many of the under performing stores were closed and then when COVID hit, more were closed. They're down to about 23 stores now. The Anaheim store is the only one that's still here in SoCal. They've still got one in San Francisco, as well as a few in the Pacific Northwest, which is where McCormick & Schmicks was headquartered when it was still being run by Bill McCormick and Doug Schmick. The rest are back east and in the midwest.

So yea, it's not like it used to be, but the food is still good and we try and eat at the Anaheim store maybe once a month or so, and our sons manages to get out to visit the store a few times a year (he's right now in Seattle and will be stopping in Portland before heading back to Houston in a week or so).

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All because Canada refuses to stop the smoke from the forest fires from drifting into the United States...

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Too what purpose...

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Note that the owner of that superyacht, Tilman Fertitta, the US Ambassador to Italy, is our oldest son's boss. Fertitta is the sole owner of Landry's, one of the worlds largest dining, hospitality, entertainment and gaming organizations:

Now Washington can make some changes at the federal level but it would mostly be in terms of rules for banks and mortgages.

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"Congress has chosen not to preempt local and state governments and tell them what to do,"

Probably because it would be unconstitutional. The feds can provide guidelines, standards, funding and assistance in implementing any new policies, but they must still be run by the states.

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Trump has also claimed on numerous occasions that he would prefer to see housing prices go up. After all, he and his billionaire buddies, many of whom are heavily invested in real estate, and lower prices will not help them continue to make obscene amounts of money.

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She can go away after the lawyer's take their share. Possibly about 40%.

Taking home 3 million should be adequate to live well if she spends it smart.

#103 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-07-10 10:15 PM

E. Jean Carroll has already stated that she intends on donating the money to charity, something which also has the potential to further infuriate Trump as I'm sure that the charities that she picks will be ones which would help groups whom Trump thinks doesn't deserves the generosity of people like Ms Carroll, or anybody else for that matter.

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Trump claims that E. Jean Carroll getting the money would cause him 'irreparable harm'. Now this has nothing to do with the money, but rather that it would be a tacit admission that he's guilty of the charges of sexual assault and defamation. He can't allow that to stand as it would undermine the image of himself, which unfortunately, he's about the only one left who actually believes it. It's like telling the Emperor that he truly didn't have any clothes.

That being said, the rest of us need to be concerned because if Trump does go fully over the edge, there's no idea what he might be able to get the hard core sycophants that he has surrounded himself with to do, people who have in their possession the tools to harm not only Americans but potentially the rest of the globe.

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