Elizabeth Wants ICE Abolished

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I grew up with Bill in greater Chicago in the 1970s. I was delighted when he came to Wait Wait. I will miss hearing his voice.

🤣 🤦‍♀️

Hell, I'd vote for Biden's dog, Commander. The one who bit people who likely deserved it. He'd be a busy boy, if he returned to the White House. So many people deserving of a chomp.

Opinion | Why it's fair to blame Trump for rising gas prices The ongoing war against Tehran has driven up oil prices as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a halt.

new from me: as the GOP was hammering Biden for record gas prices in 2022 i wrote that the “president does not, as [Republicans] would have you believe, have a dial in the Oval Office that he uses to set gas prices.”

shoutout to Trump for managing to find the most damaging exception to that rule

Holy shit. I'm so sorry you went through that. What an insensitive POS that man must be.

Bingo Quilt update: Strongly tempted to turn "TACO: Iran Edition" black after recent stories, but it's still red.

But I did just change "The rest of the world moves on without us" to "US invades Cuba on a pretext," making it the 4th "on a pretext" square in the Bingo quilt (2 are still red).

And given the demographics involved, I think I am justified in saying that Trump has lost most of his base.

Report from a barber shop full of white male boomers/Gen Jones/ GenX:

• Trump is an idiot/criminal
• Iran war is a mistake of epic proportions on the stupid scale
• They think we’ll forget about the missing Epstein files

My husband got a haircut yesterday. Apparently that was the trending chatter.

Contestant 1: Things that never happened for $400, Alex

Contestant 2 (buzzes): What is, “This asshole never sets foot in a grocery store if he can help it”?

Alex: So close. No, we were looking for “This asshole never talks to poor people if he can help it”

Given at a Hannibal lectern (not to be confused with a Hannibal podium)

Dunno. My grandmaster is Filipino in origin so he probably calls it what his mother (his predecessor as grandmaster for this dojo) taught him to call it. And we call it what he calls it.

It is, fundamentally, a stick.

You know what one of the most common complaints against people on SNAP is?

That they spend SNAP money on “luxury foods” like steak or lobster.

I’d rather see someone who routinely makes do with less gets an occasional treat than see well-paid exec branch staff party down day after day.

Fascinating, thanks for doing this

Her feedback to most of the other students was “get more mad.” Her feedback to me was “you’re mad enough, work on precision.”

And my GOD was it satisfying to imagine certain *cough* public figures on the business end of this escrima.

I bring this up because I put all of my considerable anger into the kata.

Was it pretty? No.

I was so overpowered I almost knocked myself over in my initial X pattern.

And my stances and posture weren’t great, per Hanshi Jennifer’s critique.

But she said I very convincingly showed the bonkai.

Then (8) you swing back to the ready position with the club extended diagonally downward, bring it up in a salute fist-to-chin, and bow. You have just pantomimed smacking the bejesus out of five people.

(7) Some 🫥 is coming diagonally from the left behind you! You bridge (step and turn to change direction) and roll under their strike and are now behind them. (8) You set yourself up in a solid ready stance and hit this 🫥 high (left-right), medium (L-R), low L-R.

(5) swing the club around your head and shoulders again as you turn to face the left 🫥. Repeat the X pattern. (6) swing the club around your head and shoulders again and repeat the plus pattern. You’re now facing front again, having beat the stuffing out of 4 🫥 opponents.

But you’re not done.

(4) swing the club around your shoulder and head again as you turn to face 🫥 to your left. This time, you strike in a plus pattern: swing left, then right, then swing the club up and around to wallop the 🫥 in the groin. Then swing it in the other direction to smack the head.

(3) you hit this 🫥 in an X pattern—down left, up right diagonal, swing around down to the right and diagonally up to the left. Then you pull back and stab the bastard in the gut with the tip of the club. Pull back, swing the club in a circle and smack the head.

(1) you strike the imaginary opponent in front of you 4x. After each strike, you flip the escrima over your shoulder and grab it with your free hand to strike again.

(2) after the 4th hit, you swing your escrima around your shoulders while turning to face 🫥 to your left.

We were told to pick a weapon and perform the kata in the advanced class tonight.

I selected the escrima (Filipino fighting stick). This is basically a 30-inch long, 1-inch diameter billy club without a handle.

The bonkai for this kata goes something like this:

We shoulda finished the job when they invaded Kuwait

[yes, yes, I know... that's why it's a horrible Iran take]

"Innocent until proven guilty" and "probable cause" both argue in favor of a leave 'em be approach to immigration enforcement. Maybe I'm quibbling, but I'd argue that "Persons Erroneously Detained" should read "Persons Detained Without a Judicial Warrant", as that covers most excesses by ICE/CBP.

and (2) the person thus detained can show definitively that an error occurred at the time of the detention? Meaning, the very title of the act presumes that individuals carry with them proof of a right to not be detained, which seems... kinda... wrong.

I hadn't heard of this act until now.

took a quick look at the PDF and...

"An Act to Create a Right to Judicial Review Under the Maine Civil Rights Act for Persons Erroneously Detained"

Doesn't the description "Erroneously Detained" presuppose that (1) error rather than malice is the problem,

Update:

Big goofy rottweiler lying on top of me licking my hand.

I'm so very sorry. We went through this last December with Koda, the rottie in the photo. I hope that you have some quality time with her and that her end, when it comes, is peaceful.