Larry, Larry, Larry…
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Recipes for cold weather@jon-nyc That looks great. I have a kabocha squash that needs cooking; I wonder if I could use it instead of the butternut.
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The Chicago kidnappings have begun‘Not something we deserve’ — Longtime Evanston resident describes 53 days in ICE custody
“It was so unfair seeing what he went through because I had the privilege of being born here but that doesn’t make us any different.” -Daniel Patino, on his brother Jose -
Mountains of wasteWaste from local authorities in the south-east is among the vast mound of rubbish dumped illegally next to a river in Oxfordshire, it can be revealed.
The finding provides evidence of possible large-scale corruption in waste management, a legal expert has warned.
Household rubbish, partly macerated, remained rotting and stinking in a mountain of waste about 150 metres long and up to 6 metres high on Tuesday, in a field next to the River Cherwell outside Kidlington in Oxfordshire.
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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?Ha! There is something blooming around here after all.
Mr wtg and I went for a brief walk which took us past our friends' house, and lo and behold, their witch hazel is in fragrant full bloom!! I smelled it before I saw it.
I love both the scent and the delicate spidery-looking flowers.
edit: About witch hazels.
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The Chicago kidnappings have begunIt may not be much, but at least it's something.
Arlington Heights says no to immigration agents using public spaces
Arlington Heights village board members have voted unanimously to ban immigration enforcement officials from using municipal property, though some trustees call the measure unenforceable.
Arlington Heights village board members have voted unanimously to ban immigration enforcement officials from using municipal property, though some trustees call the measure unenforceable.
The 8-0 vote late Monday came at the end of a debate lasting almost two hours in front of a packed village boardroom of residents opposed to the presence of federal agents in town in recent months.
“What our neighbors and residents have experienced, it is not safety. It is fear,” said Trustee Carina Santa Maria, who proposed the ordinance. “If we see this happening and choose not to act, then what is our role? We are elected to protect our neighbors — all of them — to create conditions for safety and stability, to take a stand when something is wrong.”
“It is not enough to say this isn’t our jurisdiction,” she added. “If it’s not ours, then whose is it?”
The ordinance, pending a final vote Dec. 1, would prohibit immigration agents from using any village-owned property, facilities or resources for the purpose of conducting civil enforcement operations. That would include areas already closed off to the public at large, such as a parking lot behind the police station.
But it also would encompass municipal parking areas that have spaces normally open to the public, such as the top floor of the Vail Avenue garage and the lot across the street from village hall.
Though he and other trustees eventually came to support the ordinance, Trustee Colin Gilbert questioned its enforceability and the expense of potentially having to fight such a measure in federal court.
“I don’t want anybody to be lulled into some sort of false sense of security that everything is OK, because we cannot keep these agents out of Arlington Heights,” Gilbert said. “What we can try to do is not allow them to use a small pocket of property. We can’t even do that. We can tell them we’d rather they didn’t. But in terms of enforceability, there’s just not much we can do.”
Trustee Jim Bertucci called the ordinance “window dressing.”
Nearly two dozen residents who later came up to the boardroom podium disagreed.
“Sometimes, it’s the principle of the thing, and not the enforceability of the thing,” said Robert Buehler, whose Ring doorbell camera footage of an Oct. 30 immigration arrest went viral.
The video captured federal agents pushing to the ground a mail carrier who tried to intervene in the arrest of a landscaper.
“I’m angry and saddened that my property played a role in this politically-motivated targeting of the Chicago area and the racial profiling of landscapers and others randomly working in our neighborhoods,” Buehler said.
The Rev. Corey Brost, executive director of the Viator House of Hospitality, which houses young men seeking asylum, said one of his former residents is now in federal custody at a jail in Michigan. The 20-year-old Venezuelan man, who has an active asylum case and a work permit, was arrested by federal officers while repairing a sign at an East Dundee gas station, Brost said.
“We need to be on the right side of history,” Brost said of his support for the village ordinance. “This is a time of moral reckoning. And as for enforceability, Rosa Parks didn’t have the law on her side either.”
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Recipes for cold weatherThe frozen ham bone was no longer usable, so we stopped at Mr Allison's to buy a fresh one. Mr A's ham is much better than what we had in the freezer anyway.
We've been cooking up our Mr. Allison's Ham since 1968 and still do it the same way! We hand select our ham from a local farm and only choose the best and freshest. Our hams are smoked using our own special blend of hardwoods and are baked in-house using a slow cooking method creating a tender and juicy ham. Each ham is then hand carved off the bone. Yes, it’s a long process but we will never take short cuts.
Over the years our customers have asked to take home our ham and have gained a following. During peak season we bake over 3 tons of ham in one week! We can accommodate any order just give us a call or stop on by.
Split pea soup tomorrow, FTW!
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Win for the day@Axtremus said in Win for the day:
Did AI help?
We're old school. We read the paper instructions that came with the new cartridge.
We are in minor plumbing task mode this week. Next up: Replacing the pop-up drain thingy on our Kohler tub. That ought to take less than a minute. I actually did look for YT videos to see if I could repair the old one but came to the conclusion everyone else did, that a new one is in order. Twenty years is a pretty good run.
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James Comey@Piano-Dad said in James Comey:
Long form takedown of Lindsay Halligan ...
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/halligan-is-in-deep-trouble-in-the
Interesting stuff.
And it gets worse...
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Inside India's lottery scamsThe Scammer Next Door
In India, an era of glaring inequality is also a golden age of fraud.
https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/india-scams-scamlands?user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472
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The new systemAt a Justice Department conference in February, then-acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove told the department's top drug prosecutors that the Trump administration wasn't interested in interdicting suspected drug vessels at sea anymore. Instead, he said, the U.S. should "just sink the boats," according to three people present for the speech.
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Win for the dayWe replaced the cartridge in our kitchen faucet without incident.
The handle had been a bit wobbly for a while. It was taking some maneuvering to get it to shut off completely without drips.
So I ordered a new cartridge...and the swap commenced...
The supply line shutoffs worked flawlessly (no leaks when we turned the water off and back on), the old cartridge came out without a struggle, the new one went in perfectly, and the faucet now goes on/shuts off smoothly.
It's a small win in the great scheme of things (@Steve-Miller and @Bernard get the prize for biggest home improvement projects), but these days I'll take anything!!
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The new systemThis year, Associated Press reporters observed immigration court proceedings in 21 cities. Hearings repeatedly ended with cases dismissed by the government, allowing agents to arrest immigrants in courthouse hallways. AP reporters also reviewed internal records and spoke to judges, clerks and lawyers for the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to gain insight about the scope of the administration’s effort.
The government lawyer knew what was coming as she stood inside a courtroom and texted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent waiting in a corridor a few feet away.
“I can’t do this,” the lawyer said in a text message as she looked at her docket of cases. “This is a new emotional load.”
“I understand,” the agent responded. “Hopefully we meet again in a better situation.”
Nearby, a Cuban man who had lived in the United States for years stepped from an elevator and into the courtroom where the government lawyer was waiting for what the man thought was a routine hearing.
The man was doing what the law required, and brought along his wife, a legal resident, and their 7-month-old infant.
Then the lawyer quickly moved to have the man’s asylum claim dismissed and a judge agreed, making the man eligible for “expedited removal.” As he left the courtroom, the man was swarmed by plainclothes immigration agents who had been surveilling him. A struggle ensued and the wife’s shouts could be heard from the hallway as the lawyer moved on to the next case.
The agent replied four minutes later: “Got him.”
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Has Marjorie Taylor Greene ...When speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on 14 November, President Donald Trump was asked about recently released emails from Jeffrey Epstein which mentioned him.
Trump said he knew nothing about that and said the focus should be on other people named in those emails, including former President Bill Clinton.
After a journalist from Bloomberg News tried to ask a follow-up question on Epstein, the president turned to her and said: "Quiet. Quiet, piggy."
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c70j210g4e7o
Euronews has the memes:
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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?As much as I love the growing season, I also enjoy the peacefulness of winter. It's a time to cocoon and regenerate energy for the next spring and summer.
Of course I say that as a retired person who doesn't have to go out in the snow to get to work.
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About that Khashoggi guyMary Bruce from ABC News.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/trump-saudi-crown-prince-murder-jamal-khashoggi-127650855
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GOP plan in Utah backfiresA panel of federal judges blocked Texas from using its new congressional map, which Republicans drew earlier this year in an effort to shore up the party's narrow House majority in next year's midterm elections.
The ruling, signed by Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was nominated by President Donald Trump, ordered Texas to use its previous map that was drawn in 2021 instead.
“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map,” Brown wrote in the ruling.
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About that Khashoggi guyPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed U.S. intelligence findings that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman likely had some culpability in the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi as Trump warmly welcomed the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia on his first White House visit in seven years.
The U.S.-Saudi relationship had, for a time, been sent into a tailspin by the operation targeting Khashoggi, a fierce critic of the kingdom.
But seven years later, the dark clouds over the relationship have been cleared away. And Trump is tightening his embrace of the 40-year-old crown prince, who he said is an indispensable player in shaping the Middle East in the decades to come.
Trump in his defense of the crown prince derided Khashoggi as “extremely controversial” and said “a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman.” Prince Mohammed denies involvement in the killing of Khashoggi, who was a Saudi citizen and Virginia resident.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-saudi-crown-prince-mbs-505b32527e58d4bd49d5bc917efb4936
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Love this show@Daniel said in Love this show:
I can only watch clips, out of chronological order, as usua
Is this the series?
https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/series/6914d2b469032f4edfba7d0f/season/1
Pluto is free, but there are occasional ads. You don't even have to register for an account, but then you can't keep a watch list of favorites and it won't keep track of where you left off.