Quote from: caskur on Today at 03:43:46 AMI would just take them outback and give their brain a bullet.... problem with UN solved.

There are alien sightings in our desert... the aliens must have got them.

Get the UN to go look for them.

Plenty of tinpot regimes have got their start by ridding themselves of their undesirables in such fashion. They make a great playground for organisations like the CIA to send in the assassins to take out the heads of state for the purposes of installing their own puppet governments. For the purposes of denuding the nations of their mineral wealth you know. And knowing how much you love it when your minerals are stolen from under your feet to enrich the pockets on the other side of your country, I imagine you'll be overjoyed when those profits are going straight into the pockets of foreign multinationals, bypassing those select few robber barons in the eastern states that you love so very very much.

You see, being the leader of a country doesn't give you the power you seem to think it does. Sure, if you are talking in terms of those beneath your feet, you get to stomp all over them all you like, quickly becoming the most hated person to every lay claim to Kirribilli as your address. You will quickly find yourself very lonely too, because you are a prideful and opinionated woman who is not given to sucking foreign cock and will dig her heels in against the demands made of her on the world stage.

And Australia, much as you like to speak of it in the same kinds of glowing rhetoric I hear from the governments like the DPRK, is nevertheless a small country, both economically and politically. King Chuck the Turd is not going to ride in to save the day for you any more that his mumsy did when Gough Whitlam shook his fist at that high ranking CIA official and told him he was open to the idea of ending Australia's arrangement with the US re: Pine Gap and the Northwest Cape because of the clandestine activities the CIA hand convinced ASIO to run in Cambodia using Australian soldiers. King Chuck the Turd probably won't even know about your bullet riddled corpse until long after rigor has set in and if history is any guide, he will likely walk away from the affair, his sausage fingers as squeaky clean as his his mothers were.

I'm just telling you how the world works. You and I have butted heads over many issues before and I know you are loath to take my understanding of many topics on faith even though I have consistently proven a knack for reducing situations to their component causes and applying those same rules to other situations. This situation of the immigration problem will not be fixed by your methods because it is not designed to be fixed. Your method, of the violent disposal of anything you deem a problem will only paint a target on your back. The fact you intend to do it in a clandestine fashion and lie about it afterwards shows me that you know it will.

I don't see any value in what you propose. You are doomed to fail if you are silly enough to try it.

Quote from: Brent on Today at 12:33:48 PMIs she on drugs.

Nah. Just really stupid

Arizona Senate advances measure allowing local, state police to arrest migrants illegally crossing border

Arizona senators passed a proposed ballot measure on Wednesday that would give local and state police the power to arrest people entering the state illegally via its border with Mexico.

Source: Arizona Senate advances measure allowing local, state police to arrest migrants illegally crossing border

Quote from: DKG on Today at 05:58:12 AMShe is both.

Assuredly so, though the latter far eclipses the former.

Quote from: formosan on Today at 11:25:22 AMWhoopi Goldberg is an entertainer.

One who is often mistaken for an "expert" and an "authority" due to her privileged position.

She doesn't entertain me so I don't think much of her as an entertainer either, but I am at least prepared to accept there are those that find her entertaining where I don't. Much of what she expresses I find... well..." idiotic, disingenuous and hypocritical" and the only reason I would pay it any attention at all would be to be informed on what unmitigated horseshit is being crammed into the minds of the gullible and the easily led.

Quote from: Oerdin on Today at 01:05:12 PMFrom local media on a current fire in a utility level battery storage center that no one can put out:

San Diego Firefighters have flown in experts to the Otay Mesa Battery Storage to study the fire because they do not know how to put it out
The Battery storage fire has already used 5 million gallons of water
Firefighters say it will take an additional 7-10 days to put out
They estimate it will take a total of 15-20 million gallons of water to put out
LETHAL amounts of Hydrogen Cyanide were in the air for 3 hours after the Otay Mesa Battery Storage fire began
This project does not belong in a residential area.

You can tell a lot by an elected representative by how they respond to the community. When the fire at the Otay Mesa battery storage facility broke out & La Mesa/San Carlos residents expressed concern. Councilwoman Laura Lothian went to the scene to get info for residents.

So much for clean air.

From local media on a current fire in a utility level battery storage center that no one can put out:

San Diego Firefighters have flown in experts to the Otay Mesa Battery Storage to study the fire because they do not know how to put it out
The Battery storage fire has already used 5 million gallons of water
Firefighters say it will take an additional 7-10 days to put out
They estimate it will take a total of 15-20 million gallons of water to put out
LETHAL amounts of Hydrogen Cyanide were in the air for 3 hours after the Otay Mesa Battery Storage fire began
This project does not belong in a residential area.

You can tell a lot by an elected representative by how they respond to the community. When the fire at the Otay Mesa battery storage facility broke out & La Mesa/San Carlos residents expressed concern. Councilwoman Laura Lothian went to the scene to get info for residents.

Quote from: reaps the honest on May 22, 2024, 02:41:57 PMAnd let's not forget the classic " the IRA are freedom fighters.They never killed women and children ".   

Is she on drugs.

Quote from: Conservative Perspective on Today at 06:20:22 AMHunter Biden tax trial postponed to September

The federal judge presiding over Hunter Biden's criminal tax trial in California has sided with the first son's attorneys, moving his trial from June to September.

Source: Hunter Biden tax trial postponed to September

Is that when he gets out of rehab.

Quote from: formosan on Today at 11:23:07 AMI'm making Taiwanese beef noodles tonight for supper.

From the pics I see of that dish, it looks fantastic!!!

Quote from: Herman on May 22, 2024, 09:02:57 PMHappy Meals have become an increasingly unaffordable luxury since Biden took office.
The government uses the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index to measure inflation.

For instance, when President Joe Biden took office, the year-over-year inflation rate was roughly 1.4%. CNN indicated the Biden inflation rate reached a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022.

Last week, the Labor Department indicated that the CPI for all urban consumers "increased by 0.3 percent in April on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.4 percent in March[.] ... Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.4 percent before seasonal adjustment."

According to the BLS inflation calculator, prices generally increased by approximately 21.5% between December 2019 and March 2024, according to TheStreet.

Some consumers have apparently turned instead to fast-food prices to gauge just how much purchasing power they have lost in recent years.

FinanceBuzz has made historical price comparisons easier, contrasting fast-food menu prices in 2014 and prices in 2024 on the basis of pricing data sourced from ItsYummi.com, FastFoodMenuPrices.com, and MenuWithPrice.com, cross-referenced with restaurants' official websites.

The breakdown claimed that the price of:

the McChicken increased by 199% over the 10-year stretch, from $1.00 in 2014 to $2.99 in 2024;
the McDouble increased by 168%, from $1.19 to $3.19;
medium fries by 138%, from $1.59 to $3.79;
the Quarter Pounder with Cheese Meal by $122%, from $5.39 to $11.99;
the Oreo McFlurry by 88%, from $2.39 to $4.49;
the 10 Piece McNugget Happy Meal by 83%, from $5.99 to $10.99;
the 4 Piece McNugget Happy Meal by 67%, from $2.99 to $4.99;
the Big Mac by 50%, from $3.99 to $5.99; and
the price of a medium drink increased by 25%, from $1.29 to $1.61.
McDonald's — which has reportedly contested the figures, saying "pricing is set by individual franchisees and varies by restaurant" — is not the only restaurant suffering what some are calling "McFlation."

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen's menu items have, on average, allegedly jumped by 86% in price since 2014. Taco Bell has reportedly seen an 81% average increase. Dining out at Chipotle Mexican Grill now, 10 years later, apparently costs 75% more.

It appears some of the more dramatic price increases have taken place over the past four years.

TheStreet indicated that the price of medium French fries at McDonald's increased by 134.1%, from $1.79 to $4.19 since 2019; the price of the McChicken increased by 201.6%, from $1.29 to $3.89; the price of the Big Mac increased by 87.7%, from $3.99 to $7.49; and price of the cheeseburger increased by 215%, from $1 to $3.15.

McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski told analysts in February, "I think what you're going to see as you head into 2024 is probably more attention to what I would describe as affordability," reported Fortune.

I will find out soon....we buy a DQ cone each to celebrate the start of summer.