Apologies. More power to you. Keeping a clear head.

Since it is now almost impossible to find a pay phone and I do not carry pocket change, I like to have a cell phone on me for emergency purposes. I am not a criminal, and no one is hunting me down. All this paranoia is ridiculous.

And it is absurd. We are a nation of 350 million people. Is there really some monitor our there monitoring my life, 24 hours a day? That would be 350 million monitors. And who is monitoring them? And who is monitoring the monitor monitors? Etc. It becomes an impossibility.

But let us suppose that a monitor is responsible for 10 people and works only an 8-hour shift, so that only 105 million monitors are needed? And maybe only ~30 million monitor monitors are needed? Etc. Still impossible.

So, let us push it to the point where a monitor only checks in on 10 people for a minute out of every hour. This brings it down to 1.675 million monitors. How effective is 6 seconds out of every hour? What level of government can afford to pay 1.675 million employees to play Peeper? This whole paranoid fantasy does not have a shred of reality to it.

(Oh, don't bother to appeal to AI to do the work. That is like hiring all the dopeheads who have dope fantasies...or hallucinations. No way that an AI can be proven in court to have actually seen anyone. You still need "eyes on" to make an identification. "Oh, but they can tip me off to someone." Not if they are also tipping off false alarms. Every sensor system has a false alarm rate. When you increase the sensitivity, the false alarm rate increases. The detection rate goes up, but they become mostly false alarms. I used to design human-supervised automated wide-area surveillance architectures.)

Oh, go walk around without a phone. You carry around something that is the technological equivalent of a flashing light, and you wonder that you can be found? It never occurs to you that if you can't be found, you can't be called? Or call out?

Good old-fashioned wire telephones were individually identified with phone numbers, associated with addresses (remember telephone books?). Same thing with pay telephone booths. This has ALWAYS been the case.

Some people want to have their cake and eat it too.

July 21st, 2026.

It seems to me a distinction without a difference in practice.

If it were possible, someone would go back and shoot the man who made it possible. (Nobody here has read the science fiction of contradictions and paradoxes.)

When the result of a "theory" is identical with there being no theory, then there is no theory. Just a fairy tale.

And when it is gone, it is "wiped out."

Worse, it resulted in mass death for both sides. The blood flows freely, thanks to European incitement.

Q: How many Ukrainians does it take to change a light bulb?

A: More than they have left.

It's really embarrassing to see an adult community spending even a microsecond on this absurdity.

I think Rep. Gill is like a cross between Senator John N. Kennedy (LA) and Cary Grant.

What jobs? Where? And why would that be a problem for us?

A "peroxide" ANC member? Whiteface? I am sorry for your pain.

Visas are not citizenship in any way. Green cards (resident aliens) are visas. (I would happen to know.)

Maybe a naturalized citizen can have their citizenship revoked upon commission of a crime, but otherwise they are the same as ordinary citizens. An ordinary citizen does not have to be a "natural born" citizen; one U.S. parent is sufficient. All citizens enjoy the same rights and privileges. (Excepting that natural-born citizens are allowed to become President, a pretty unique exception.)

Bentley's third largest dealership in the world is in Kiev. They boast about it.

That would be for you, I think. The whole "prepper" culture is based on "jumping ship" from a city to a deeply rural area. To save their own skins. Is that a bad thing, to save one's own skin? I'm a fighter type, but not everyone is able or suited for it.

But get real. We are a nation of 350 million people. Like, what other nation could we squeeze into? My wife had to leave Zambia to save her own skin, and she kisses the ground of America for giving her refuge and the freedom to rebuild her life. She was a Trump supporter before he even declared himself for the presidency. She is ardent against illegals, and would cheerfully go to work for the Feds to root them out. You are so full of your own prejudice, I don't know what to say to you.

Or causing manned spaceships to crash on Mars. The possibilities are limitless.

This is exactly how the 737 MAX ended up with the MCAS software that killed 346 people. I think the losses related to that dual catastrophe were in the billions of dollars and a prolonged delay into the market. To the higher-ups who have no vision or product acumen, a focus on pennies leads to death and the loss of millions and billions. And if you think differently...

You don't need to show me dregs. I see plenty of white, English-speaking ones on the Seattle streets. Par excellence. But I have seen an Indian rural village get together to save a baby elephant from death by being stranded in deep mud.

You are aware of the four castes in India? The bottom one is despised by the other three. It could well be you are in agreement with the upper castes.

I hadn't thought of that. You are most certainly right. Too bad for a wonderful idea.

Citizenship is not a medal of honor; it is an acceptance of sovereign jurisdiction. Plenty of low-lifes get to be citizens. It's just part of the distribution of human types. We don't have different levels of citizenship. To that extent, the American tradition has been egalitarianism. If people commit insurrection and treason, those are crimes they can be charged with, tried, and sentenced for. No matter who they are.

There are plenty of born Americans who are not dedicated to America, nor are trying to make America strong (far too many, as we see in the Democratic party). I don't see that issue pointing exclusively to dual citizenship.

Do dual citizens have the right to dispose of their income as they see fit? Or are their spending habits to be dictated by the government? (The remittance issue is related to illegals.) Do Congressional staff members hire foreign nationals (or anybody, for that matter)? I think that is going astray from the topic. I don't agree with foreign nationals on any Congressional staff, but we were talking of dual citizens. Do you have trouble with native citizen Communists who are on Congressional staffs? I surely do. The problem doesn't seem to relate to dual citizenship.

The article didn't have anything to say about dual citizenship. Certainly, foreign troublemakers should be expelled with prejudice.

I'm just trying to unwrap the onion. It seems there is a lot of unconnected baggage associated with this subject. I didn't have any problem with my security clearances when I married my wife, a foreign national.

So, the question is where did he store the papers on his active projects, and Biden tries to get a grip on when that was, by locating temporal landmarks, which included the death of his son Beau, which prompted meditations on his loss, and a general befuddlement and wandering, in search of some answer to a question that has already evaporated in his thinking. I'm not sure this is Alzheimer's 101, but it could be a great stand-in.

This is THE classic illustration of why we might need a 25th Amendment, and stands as an indictment of a staff and subordinate officers who DID NOT DO THEIR DUTY under the Constitution. The Hur interview occurred in January of 2023. Biden was clearly unfit for office. I think it is no mystery why he was kept from seeing his subordinates, for they would absolutely notice his complete lack of focus and coherence. Based on this excerpt, I would have been surprised if they had allowed him to be unaccompanied in the White House at any time. (My late former spouse [ex-ex] was well along with Alzheimer's and she admitted she would get lost in the single angled hallway of her care residence.)

Or keep a pet dog in the shop. Actually, something like a big, overly friendly Labrador that wants to approach strangers with wagging tail.

Maybe also a side grill on a counter, with free bacon rashers to nibble on.

Now that I am on a roll, how about a big neon sign in the window reading "Non-Halal"? Written in Arabic? I need to stop this...