Chesterton said:

In general, I think it could be a decent strategy. I wouldn't want to "go after" my hated enemy if I thought it might just enrich them. As to this case in particular, we all live and work and move in different environments. Some people may be more fatigued than others.

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A woman whose nemesis is an eight year old child who didn’t know the wrong he had done, now much does she need!?

rjs330 said:

Sounds like ICE is acting legally. We'll see if the law passes. I honeatly dont think it would be a terrible change.

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Won't it be kind of hard to track down family members of every illegal immigrant who is transferred to another facility?

rjs330 said:

Big whoop. LE makes mistakes all the time across rhe country regarding mistaken identity.

This lasted a whole 7 minutes. 7 minutes? Thats nothing. Laws are clear rhat when you stop someone it shouldn't last longer than necessary. 7 minutes is about as short of time as you can get from start to finish.

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Maybe that’s the point of the suit?
Make the government pay for “mistakes” and after a few million here and a few million there people will be advised to “do it legally”.

Kathleen30 said:

Traitors ? Was Ashley a traitor?

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She seemed to be very intent on not following the Constitutionally way of getting/keeping Presidents in power, she wasn’t a traitor in the sense that she sold out her country to an enemy but that she got took by over zealous rhetoric spewers.

Kathleen30 said:

About the only thing Ashley was guilty of was trespassing.

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In the ante room of the House of Representatives during an unprecedented riot, yes, no wonder she got got.

Kathleen30 said:

Like many others which at the very most should have only been a fine not jail time. In Ashley’s case it was a bullet to the neck probably discharged from an officer under stress.

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She was brave, I will give her that, misled but heroic.

Kathleen30 said:

Traitors ? Was Ashley a traitor? About the only thing Ashley was guilty of was trespassing. Like many others which at the very most should have only been a fine not jail time. In Ashley’s case it was a bullet to the neck probably discharged from an officer under stress.

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Yes, she was. She betrayed the oath she took when she joined the military. And there's no probably "something". We know fully well what happened. She was part of a mob, trying to break through a barrier. They were warned not to do so (twice iirc) and when she began to push herself through as the tip of the mob, she was shot. Good riddance.

Yttrium said:

Sure, there's nothing like putting the robber barons in charge. I'm just a bit fuzzy about the implications for this particular case.

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President Trump had nominated two of the seven Governors of the Federal Reserve, with Ms Kugler’s resignation, he got a third with Mr Miran, he could get a fourth nomination if he could fire a Governor “for cause”; this appears to be in the works.

essentialsaltes said:

On Aug. 19, Gabbard posted a memo on X that included a list of 37 current and former officials who had been stripped of their security clearances, including those who had supported Trump’s first impeachment trial or concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Also included on the list was a senior CIA officer who had been working undercover, though Gabbard was unaware of this at the time, The Wall Street Journal reported. However, sources told the newspaper that Gabbard did not consult with the intelligence agency before posting the list of names to her 762,000 online followers.

The CIA also had no advance warning that Gabbard planned to publish the list, which her office had sent it to the agency the night before.

The undercover CIA officer had worked in intelligence posts for more than 20 years and served as an expert on Russia and Eurasia on the National Intelligence Council between 2014 and 2017, according to the WSJ.

On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that the CIA had fired its top Russian expert days after Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. The officer, who had nearly 30 years of experience, was also included on Gabbard’s list of people whose security clearances were revoked.

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It used to be Vice Presidents* who could authorize such a “leak” and always once-removed.

Oopsie! Did we ‘out’ a covert agent!? Again? Oopsie!

Such incompetence is at least entertaining!

*c.f. Scooter Libbey

Pommer said:

I thought my post was explcit enough.
A person who has bankrupted CASINOS and other businesses 6 times, will likely hold sway in determining how the fiscal policies of the Federal Reserve System are designed and implemented.

It could be a bumpy ride?

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Sure, there's nothing like putting the robber barons in charge. I'm just a bit fuzzy about the implications for this particular case.

essentialsaltes said:

For the second time in less than a month, the Justice Department on Wednesday abruptly dropped charges against a client represented by Brad Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Federal prosecutors in Missouri this week agreed to voluntarily dismiss an indictment against Sid Chakraverty, a property developer who faced felony wire fraud charges. Prosecutors under the Biden administration accused Chakraverty in 2024 of lying about hiring women- and minority-owned subcontractors on a housing development in order to allegedly secure favorable tax incentives.

As recently as three weeks ago, career prosecutors held that Chakraverty should face criminal penalties for his alleged scheme.

Brad Bondi officially joined on as Chakraverty's attorney in July 2025, according to the court docket.

The development comes just weeks after federal prosecutors in Florida agreed to drop charges against Carolina Amesty, another client of Brad Bondi, who faced two counts of theft of government property related to alleged COVID relief fraud.

Amesty had hired Brad Bondi in December 2024, shortly after his sister, Pam Bondi, was tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as attorney general.

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Will wonders [checks internet] never cease?

Kathleen30 said:

Traitors ? Was Ashley a traitor? About the only thing Ashley was guilty of was trespassing.

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I'm not buying that. Her purpose in trespassing was, from my point of view, a direct violation of her oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Yttrium said:

Could you clarify how that might apply to this case?

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I thought my post was explcit enough.
A person who has bankrupted CASINOS and other businesses 6 times, will likely hold sway in determining how the fiscal policies of the Federal Reserve System are designed and implemented.

It could be a bumpy ride?

Valletta said:

So your primary goal is not to save lives? How about half way,, would you accept a maximum 35 mph speed limit on all roads? That would save many lives. The manufacturers could limit the maximum speed.

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It's 25mph on quite a few suburban roads and some main roads into the city. The better the roads, the greater the number of lanes, the less pedestrians there are, the higher is the maximum speed. 35mph around suburbia is too fast.

To use your analogy, you appear to be suggesting that road rules aren't needed. That the higher death toll would be acceptable for you to have free reign to do what you wanted on the road.

Pommer said:

The pursuit of justice is made all the sweeter by President Donald Trump getting to appoint a fourth person to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, (August 7, Trump nominated Stephen Miran to succeed Adriana Kugler, who had resigned August 6th).

If these four see things Trump’s way, he’ll have effective control over fiscal policy.
What’s not to love!?

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Could you clarify how that might apply to this case?

The pursuit of justice is made all the sweeter by President Donald Trump getting to appoint a fourth person to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, (August 7, Trump nominated Stephen Miran to succeed Adriana Kugler, who had resigned August 6th).

If these four see things Trump’s way, he’ll have effective control over fiscal policy.
What’s not to love!?

Valletta said:

If you really want to save lives, how about banning motor vehicles?

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What saves more lives than you can imagine is that vehicles and driving are very heavily regulated. And I don't see anyone complaining about that.

These are Australian rules: You have to be above a certain age before you can drive a car. You can't get a licence until you pass a test. You have to show that you are physically and mentally capable of driving. If you fail then you have to wait until you do another. You have to show that you've had a certain amount of instruction. Once you pass your test you are limited as to the type of car you can drive and what speed you drive it at. The car has to be examined each year for roadworthiness. There are a boatload of restrictions on where you can drive, how fast you can drive, safety precautions that you must take and rules and regulations that you must follow each and every time you use the car. You can be stopped and questioned about your driving if it appears you are not following the rules and regs and you can be randomly stopped to make sure you are not using the car under the influence. You can have your licence revoked and your car taken from you if you break the rules. You have to have insurance in case you hurt someone with your car. You are not allowed to let someone drive it who isn't licensed for the type of vehicle. You are limited as to what changes you can make to the standard car. You are limited to 25mph near schools and in a fair proportion of city and suburban streets.

Perhaps I've missed a few others, but you get the idea. Cars are simply a means to get from A to B. But they are extremely dangerous. Even small cars at quite low speeds can cause a lot of damage (and I have the scars to prove that). So it has obviously been determined that driving one has to be strongly regulated. It's obviously common sense.

But when it comes to something that has been specifically designed to kill people then common sense rules and regulations apparently don't apply.

Learning always said:

Can you solve the problem of poverty by taking properties from the rich???

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Maybe, though some have tried to do so by taking properties from those who aren't rich.



Last remaining West End building:



-- A2SG, I drive near that building often on my way to work...

I am watching the finale of Destination X UK now.

keras said:

The next Prophesied event that the world will experience will be the Sixth Seal.

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The next prophesied event may be the resurrection/rapture. Not for certain.

The next prophesied event involving the unsaved will be the Gog/Magog attack on Israel of Ezekiel 38-39.

In your theory, the replacement of the current nation of Israel with a Christian nation called Beulah, Ezekiel 38-39 does not mention such a major event.

seeking.IAM said:

Don't rule out contagion. One mentally ill person sees another grab their 15 minutes of fame in a school shooting and decides they can seize a little of that infamy for themselves. We got the snowball going downhill.

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There’s only about a million and a half of them, most are just trying to figure out how well this life is going to suit them…you know, “normal”.

How’s about we don’t give in to anxiety of what this tiny, often marginalized group of people might do!?

How’s about we help them keep such horrendous thoughts at bay?
By not making their lives any harder than any of the rest of the 99.4% have it?

ozso said:

Even though other people died, surviving enemy fire and displaying courage in the face of enemy fire and death, has always been celebrated here in the United States.

If you know how to read ribbons, you'll see that Col. Ralph Puckett was awarded 5 Purple Hearts. Why give him awards when other people died?

Why is President Biden clapping when so many people died?

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Being the victim of a targeted shooting in the US is hardly comparable to being a MoH recipient.

Valletta said:

They have the documents and her signatures for her first charge, and so far she has not denied signing the documents.

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'Kay. What's the law that she broke, and what are the criminal penalties? I don't know. Do you? Offhand, I don't know why she couldn't buy the place as a second home and then several years later decide to use it as an investment. But hey, let's go ahead and have a criminal investigation for fraud. I suspect the biggest challenge will be trying to get a judge to take the case seriously.

caffeinated.hermit said:

Yes. Some articles linking transgender identity to past sexual abuse and other serious issues.

Prevalence of Sexual Assault in a Cohort of Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals - PMC (sexual violence)

Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients Are Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder More Frequently Than Cisgender Patients Regardless of Personality Pathology - PubMed (borderline personality disorder)

Psychiatric Diagnoses Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients Compared to Cisgender Patients (ptsd and bpd)

Personality Disorders and Personality Profiles in a Sample of Transgender Individuals Requesting Gender-Affirming Treatments - PMC (general personality disorders)

This is not a fluke. Every transgender person I have ever met has suffered some kind of sexual abuse, serious physical abuse, or neglect as a child. Each one also suffered from severe anxiety or depression. This is not to say that every single transgender person is similarly impacted, but it does seem to be a theme.

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The prevailing attitudes of the general population (and especially among social-conservatives) seem to be bordered on one side by a desire to dissuade young people from the fact that they find themselves to be one of the unlucky zero point six percent of the population who (for whatever reason) are transgender; the other border, making sure that these same people have to live even tougher lives than just being transgender.

These people exist, to pretend they don’t could be seen as heartlessness.

DaisyDay said:

We're celebrating traitors now. It's not governmental overreach; I don't know what to call it.

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Traitors ? Was Ashley a traitor? About the only thing Ashley was guilty of was trespassing. Like many others which at the very most should have only been a fine not jail time. In Ashley’s case it was a bullet to the neck probably discharged from an officer under stress.

sjastro said:

I am not going to be side tracked or distracted by your multiple images and concentrate on the image I analysed presented again here for reference.

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But it was not just images but also linked explanations and arguements and even technical explanations are to how the signatures were produced.

This is a logical fallacy that you misrepresent what I posted as just images. This avoids dealing with the content. Whether that content is correct or not does not matter. Even if you think it conspiracy. You need to engage in the content and show how it is conspiracy.

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Granite is an igneous rock formed when magma solidifies deep underground. This results in slow cooling and the formation of large crystal structures. When the Egyptians were able to split granite along a plane of weakness the surfaces are not smooth, the crystal structures are interlinked resulting in a grainy roughened surface.
If the surface visible in your image is the result of splitting the granite there must have been some polishing of the surface afterwards.

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This is another fallacy. Your assuming that all smoothing and polishing is because the surface is rough due to splitting. Whereas the surface may be rough for many reasons such as bashing with pounders, cutting with copper saws, or machined. Or that smoothing and polishing regardless of how the rock was cut is a artistry practice in finishing the stone.

But more importantly the video I linked at the end of the post on the slab as Abu Rawash was a technical analysis for how this slab was cut. The slab has the exact same strirations as the stone I originally linked which you are commenting on.

This shows other possible ways how those lines may have been caused. But you dismissed this out of hand as you are fixated on one possible cause. This is really my point of this thread and how both sides can get fixated on certain causes which may fit their pre concieved idea and belief.

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This leaves two other options the surface is the result of either cutting the granite with your unknown technology but in this case let’s assume it is a diamond tipped rock cutting saw or a copper saw using water and an abrasive such as sand.

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Now you are fixing my own ideas and views as to what the cause is. It may well be as I think Flinders Petrie suggested some sort of fixed diamond cutting tech. Or loose quartz used as a cutting agent. But I honestly don't know. We can suppose these but there maybe some other way so we have to be open to all.

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Here is a comparison image between the two cutting methods.

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Even though your image shows a fair degree of wear through weathering effects there is enough detail in the groove structure of the striations to reveal a variability in the depth and kerf (the width of the groove) which one would not expect to find in diamond tipped rock cutting saw as illustrated.
The kerf variation also indicates the abrasive size is not constant, another feature one would not expect with a diamond tipped cutter.

Even thought the block is worn in your sample there is enough detail to indicate the striations are consistent with the ancient Egyptians using copper saws, water and abrasives instead of some modern form of tooling.

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I disagree. The quartz or diamond abrasive is known to be rough and eneven taking out some agregates more than others.

But more important this does not explain the examples where a hand held saw cannot work such corners and in the example I linked where the cut goes into the rock that is fixed in a line of rocks with no access to the other side to move the saw back and forth.

Nor the curved cuts which seem to leave an arc bith vertically and in depth as the last example for which the video goes into as to how this could be achieved.

This particular slab has the exact same strirations as the one you are using from my first example with the same type of arc qith a very thin lip. Which would not be left is a copper saw with quartz abrasive (abrasing the rock out and not actually cutting). Which would leave a wide cut without sharp thin edges.

Aldebaran said:

I'm pointing out that the gun is always what is looked at first and foremost when these shootings happen.
This guy was clearly mentally unstable and hate-filled.

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Can we have your ideas on keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people?