I know it is basically on all the channels but which do you plan to watch and why?
My google skills have failed me this morning. I heard something the other day about the accompanying extras on certain channels - one, maybe CNN, is going to have a scroll with real time dial reactions. I'm curious as to what other stations are doing.
Id do whatever it takes to lock it up. We used to walk through houses under construction all the time when we were kids at the beach. Young and dumb. That stopped after we were touring a relatives under construction house (the relative was taking us through it) and my cousin fell and thought she broke her arm. It was just sprained but still. Lesson learned.
For the liability/insurance issues alone, I'd try to secure the site.
1. Not a gun, a book. 2. Even if it was a gun, it's an OC state as was previously posted. 3. If there was a gun that magically appeared all evidence is pointing towards a resurgence in police carrying drop weapons to plant in an effort to legitimize these murders.
It's not just that police departments aren't hiring the right people. It's also that group think takes over and it becomes very much an us vs them mentality. I've seen it happen with law enforcement in my own family. It's sickening. After awhile they start grouping people into "tax-paying citizens*" and everybody else - this second group gets treated like they're animals*. Completely dehumanized. Add in the militarization of police departments across the country, three strikes and you're out, stop and frisk and all that related crap and then people wonder how we're here.
The other thing is maybe policing isn't a lifelong calling. Instead of seeing it as a 20+ year career how about evaluating these officers every so often to see if they're still treating everyone with the same sense of humanity. Are they able to deescalate a situation now? Are they still able to deescalate a situation two years from now? Five years from now? If not, time to get them off the force. Maybe incentivize positive outcomes. I really don't know but if you can't recognize and acknowledge the basic humanity of a person - regardless of how you come into contact with that individual - I don't think they should be interacting with the public.
*these are not my terms. These are terms I have heard in the past. They are awful groupings - racist and classist.
I don't go here but I'm grinding my teeth about this one. You told him not to touch your stuff. He touched your stuff and he fucked it up. No. Just no. He needs to listen to you and respect your wishes. He also owes you replacements for the shit he ruined. Sorry about your stuff.
Love this. I saw a tweet that basically said this was NBD since they didn't get Bartlet and Sam and I was all "Who cares? They've got everybody else!" CJ, Josh, Charlie, Toby! I really need to rematch TWW again.
I'd put in the hedge and wouldn't bother with a heads up. As long as the noise is not too early/late (and you keep to any HOA rules and check that it is on/within your property line*) I don't think anyone needs a heads up. I wouldn't worry about their view either.
*Previous owners of our house installed a fence over our property line on all three sides. Neighbors to left and right did not care, neighbors to rear almost held up closing and had the fence moved as it was a couple inches onto their property line. Inches.
I guess my thing is, no one can make him sell the company, right? I think we all know he's not going to sell it. And if he does end up winning in November (heaven forbid), then he is president of the US.
So then what do we do? Any intelligent person knows the argument that his children will run the company is BS. I mean maybe they will, but like this argument points out, they can't keep the company from endangering US interests abroad unless they know what those interests are in a very detailed way. so there's nothing "blind" about that.
I am pretty confident he wont win in November, but it's still a possibility. so basically if that happens, we are just effed.
We'll have larger issues to worry about as the shadow government and our alien overlords will unmask themselves. :^)
If we come out of these debates without an enthusiasm swing in HRCs direction, I think we're in real trouble. I'm keeping my faith in the GOTV machine but my anxiety level creeps up a tad every day.
We take our cats to the vet for boarding when we move. They stress urinate so I wouldn't want them doing that at my parents or a hotel.
One suggestion on the plugins is to take them with you for the final walkthrough and plug them in then if you can. It'll give the stuff some time to disseminate. We took ours plugins straight to the house after closing to get them going before the movers arrived - and I promptly forgot all about them in the new house awe.
Also, my cats hid in one room for a few weeks after we moved so be prepared for an extended bout of weirdness.
None of this is great but context and clarity on the actual size and scope of the problem - and the actually security risks (of which I can't find much evidence there were any true risks) are important. I'm worried, as PP already stated, that this feeds into the OMG, immigrants = terrorists fringe theories.
I get the issue but at the same time I wondering how this lack of proper record keeping / digitizing / sharing of records across agencies is news? We know this is an issue and we've known this for years. There are consequences to shoddy work like this so fix the system.
1. When did this occur? From the article below it seems like it was pre-2010 process issue combined with a backlog issue.
2. Just being granted citizenship doesn't entitle anyone to secured clearance. I imagine there are other thresholds to such clearance such as background checks. That's not a question so maybe I only have one question.
More than 800 immigrants mistakenly granted citizenship
The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday.
The Homeland Security Department's inspector general found that the immigrants used different names or birthdates to apply for citizenship with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and such discrepancies weren't caught because their fingerprints were missing from government databases.
DHS said in an emailed statement that an initial review of these cases suggest that some of the individuals may have ultimately qualified for citizenship, and that the lack of digital fingerprint records does not necessarily mean they committed fraud.
The report does not identify any of the immigrants by name, but Inspector General John Roth's auditors said they were all from "special interest countries" — those that present a national security concern for the United States — or neighboring countries with high rates of immigration fraud. The report did not identify those countries.
DHS said the findings reflect what has long been a problem for immigration officials — old paper-based records containing fingerprint information that can't be searched electronically. DHS says immigration officials are in the process of uploading these files and that officials will review "every file" identified as a case of possible fraud.
Roth's report said fingerprints are missing from federal databases for as many as 315,000 immigrants with final deportation orders or who are fugitive criminals. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not reviewed about 148,000 of those immigrants' files to add fingerprints to the digital record.
The gap was created because older, paper records were never added to fingerprint databases created by both the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service and the FBI in the 1990s. ICE, the DHS agency responsible for finding and deporting immigrants living in the country illegally, didn't consistently add digital fingerprint records of immigrants whom agents encountered until 2010.
The government has known about the information gap and its impact on naturalization decisions since at least 2008 when a Customs and Border Protection official identified 206 immigrants who used a different name or other biographical information to gain citizenship or other immigration benefits, though few cases have been investigated.
Roth's report said federal prosecutors have accepted two criminal cases that led to the immigrants being stripped of their citizenship. But prosecutors declined another 26 cases. ICE is investigating 32 other cases after closing 90 investigations.
ICE officials told auditors that the agency hadn't pursued many of these cases in the past because federal prosecutors "generally did not accept immigration benefits fraud cases." ICE said the Justice Department has now agreed to focus on cases involving people who have acquired security clearances, jobs of public trust or other security credentials.
Several members of Congress criticized the Obama administration Monday in the wake of Roth's report, though the report suggests that the gaps extend several years earlier than the Obama administration.
Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Michael McCaul said ICE should quickly investigate all of the cases at issue and ensure that all immigration fingerprint records are digitized in short order.
Mistakenly awarding citizenship to someone ordered deported can have serious consequences because U.S. citizens can typically apply for and receive security clearances or take security-sensitive jobs.
At least three of the immigrants-turned-citizens were able to acquire aviation or transportation worker credentials, granting them access to secure areas in airports or maritime facilities and vessels. Their credentials were revoked after they were identified as having been granted citizenship improperly, Roth said in his report.
A fourth person is now a law enforcement officer.
Roth recommended that all of the outstanding cases be reviewed and fingerprints in those cases be added to the government's database and that immigration enforcement officials create a system to evaluate each of the cases of immigrants who were improperly granted citizenship. DHS officials agreed with the recommendations and said the agency is working to implement the changes.
She seems to love it so I guess that's what matters. I wouldn't do this for my preschooler. I wouldn't do this for my almost 6yo. However he is currently in a room I have mostly set up as my office (not yet finished) and he loves it and has claimed it as fully his own (hence the not yet finished). Sometimes kids just love their own space regardless of the design.
ps: we don't have a sleepwalker but we're always worried about B slipping out unnoticed. we have chain locks up where the youngers can't reach them. get them on ALL outside doors, just in case.
Thanks, will do! Considering this is the same kid who did slip outside unnoticed last week we are extra nervous.
Has anyone dealt with sleepwalking kids. We think DS2 (soon to be 4) is sleepwalking. Last week I found him going downstairs at 2am one night. Another night I found him sitting outside DS1's bedroom around the same time. Last night he fell asleep in the LR and then woke up, spoke gibberish and walked over to wear we keep our shoes seemingly to put them on. We're getting an extra lock for the front door that will be out of his reach but any other advice?
ETA: Sorry, LP, I have no info on dyslexia. Want me to start a new @randoms?
Just got a notice from the Paterson, NJ school district that there's a suspicious package under a railroad crossing (message isn't clear) near the Alexander Hamilton school. A few schools have gone to shelter-in-place.
I have a 201 cell phone number so I guess they just sent the message to everyone with phones in their area codes.
I think what is making this seem more tense is how mundane these locations are. It's not like major tourist attractions were targeted - these are simple, everyday places. A 5k in Seaside? That's like every Saturday morning everywhere.
H is on his way to NYC now via Amtrak. I saw they'd found devices last night on the news and was hoping they'd rescheduled his court case but I guess not. Then woke up to the news of one exploding. Hoping they round up the perpetrators quickly and there are no further incidents.
Did he travel from the south via northeast regional line? Were there any delays? My boyfriend has a flight to catch out of JFK and is taking Amtrak up this morning, but I assume he's still sleeping. The website didn't give any specific info about delays, so just curious if he should expect any delays catching his flight.
I've been checking it online. It said it was delayed leaving Wilmington, but getting into NYP 6 minutes early. I don't know if it was really delayed or not.
H is on his way to NYC now via Amtrak. I saw they'd found devices last night on the news and was hoping they'd rescheduled his court case but I guess not. Then woke up to the news of one exploding. Hoping they round up the perpetrators quickly and there are no further incidents.
What is with all the velvet? Is it the 90s again?!
I feel like every year there are a couple of people who wear velvet to the Emmy's and:
1. No, it's velvet. 2. It's September. Way to early for velvet no matter what other conditions warrant velvet. 3. It's 90 degrees out an spectators are requiring medical attention. Get a new stylist who doesn't hate you.