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@wallace--it actually is as easy as the president signing off for blanket amnesty, as Ronald Reagan showed.

There is a process for securing temp foreign workforce, as the Trump Organization well understands having applied for hundreds more visas every July for decades. Next month may bring a bumper crop of non-citizen workers to the Trump winery and other properties. I will be sure to tune in for some first-time transparent disclosures from the Trump Org about their workers, as that employer in the past invoked privacy not to tell us anything about them. A nice juicy target for investigative journalists.

Forbes reports that the Trump Organization gets approval for hundreds of new temp foreign workers visas yearly, mostly in July. Their winery is one of the main needs for foreign workers. Will be interesting to learn more about the new round of hires coming next month.

@slayer--a good way to turn California red would be to adopt the policy of Ronald Reagan, blanket amnesty for millions of immigrants of questionable status. Easy as putting pen to paper. There were not these big immigration-related clashes during his terms in office, so everyone except the perpetually mad MAGA would be happy.

@itsonlyrocknroll--when you say Trump labours or belabors the point, how many of his marathon gabfest rallies have you personally taken the day off to watch in full? I bet a person could play 18 holes of golf in less time than is needed for him to laboriously riff on a simple list of topics.

One of their first vital missions that historians will study for decades will be to liberate some tasty Mexican food to top up the C-rations. Then go see either a Dodgers or Angels game. Deciding which LA area team to follow is a tough call that only a seasoned tactician should make.

How many of the deployed marines have earned their golf course security badges? Will they be needed for tactical rapid deployment to a Trump property to guard the immaculate greens and pitch in with housekeeping?

@woodylee--well said. If the president had advisors well versed in past Republican policies, they would remind Trump how Reagan smoothly solved immigration status with a stroke of the pen, granting amnesty to millions. But it looks like they want everything done the hard and costly way.

@OssanAmerica--Is that list since the start of the year? Wikipedia lists four mass shootings for Austria in twelve years. Twenty three dead in the four incidents. And if this latest shooter was formerly attending the school, seems unlikely to be targeted at random.

But does Greta, wallowing in naivety, fully comprehend the dramatic acting?

The commentary from certain quarters is Monty Python-esque. They must be well represented in the old movie collection.

@its only rock and roll--as a global business person, do you have anyone on staff who could edit your posts? I am fairly certain you are using an unintended word when you say that Greta, quote, fails to fully comprehend the histrionics, from the Holocaust to the present...

Wow Bass, between Stipe and Dolly, you have excellent taste in music. Care to explain why the Dolly and Miley duet Rainbowland caused some pearl clutchers to ban it at a public school some years ago?

You know it bro.

Nakano is more entrepreneurial Emerson.

Thoreau wanted his own row to hoe.

@USN--yeah, or their cover of Wall of Death by Richard Thompson. Though that one only sounds bleak from the title but is kind of a fun rumination on mechanical fair rides.

If you follow the unwritten rules that everyone knows, take backs are allowed by reciting Ollie-ollie-oxen-free. Yes or no?

If you want to hedge bets on whose market, then rename Liberation Day to something like Smoothly Transitioning Joe Bidens Policies Day, even if it is more accurately Retread of 45s Failed First Term Policies Day.

30 toys down to 2 is over 90 percent reduction. The new Barbie comes with a letter of termination and cardboard box for clearing out her desk?

Tweep! 10 yards penalty on Tennessee Thunder Thighs player Big Ma for cat fighting, and an additional 10 yards on teammate Boots for dangerous handbag swinging.

After the Olympics, a surge of players move on to the roller derby world.

Here's a new one with X number of rock references:

Many artists have listened to Specials and Journey, and it is said to be Fueled By Ramen. Happy Mondays to see a success story, someone who has been hit by the bottom Bass Bin Twins. The Bouncing Souls are on tour, so get tickets for you and your Paramore.

Just a little creative effort to cram four ancient rock artists into a sentence. Let me know if I should point them out with capital letters. But thanks for volunteering to play the boke straight man in our comedy duo.

Being that adamant about his specials journey really buggles the mind.

@owzer--Gov. Kishimoto collapsed at home on Monday morning, was taken to hospital, and died there on Tuesday morning.

@BC--looks like the votes are all against you. Why not keep your smiley emojis and veiled nonsense to yourself, not barfed here on the same day we learned of the passing of a good independent politician.

Us rugrats are trying to brush this story under the carpet. If our dusty puns bother you, Sanyo name on a petition. Upgrade to a hepafilter JT comment screening system. Reverse your flow on joining the anti-vac movement.

After avoiding the vocaloid genre for a long time, I found an older Miku Hatsune track that is good blast of retro 8 bit techno: the PaniX BoX Remix by Sasakure.UK of I m ALIVE.

@cephus--since you are against politics in the sports section, do you have a Dodgers or MLB-related comment? What did you think of the way May pitched today? Any opinion on the new torpedo shaped bats? Guess we should avoid commenting on Manfred as that could verge into politics.

@rainyday--maybe simpler than that, I bet Freeman is prioritizing some private family time after his sons health scare last year. He said it would be better to strike out a million times than go through that again.

Plus you never know when a ketamine freak wearing a chedder wedge and dragging a nose-picking toddler could barge into the oval office and kill the vibe.

@agondocz--those guys definitely attended. Betts was shown standing next to Ohtani. World Series MVP Freeman skipped it for health reasons. He was supposed to deliver the teams address, so instead it was read by Kershaw, a former star pitcher who spent 2024 on the bench.

The LA Times article about this says more about Roberts and Betts past distaste at the idea of meeting Trump.

I did not vote on what Namahage wrote, but those who downvoted may be older and do not like the idea of stringent annual driving tests. What is the multi-year licensing period now, and how tough are the tests?

In any case, cognitive decline may be speedy between tests. Last year in the US, a formerly powerful politician, Kay Granger, disappeared from Washington in the final year of her term. It took so many months for the media to locate her at a dementia care nursing home. If that can happen to a well-known congressperson who had to stand for election every two years, it is easy to imagine the decline in older people who are not on the radar.

@wallace--I reckon down the pie hole would be a safe a place as any. Especially for prepper households, not saying yours, with closets full of multi-years stock of TP.

The game was good, as were the next morning wide show segments about superfans, premium stadium cuisine, etc.

Odd though when some broadcasters go to extremes to broadcast content marginally related to the Tokyo Series. For example, NHK BS2 had a replay today of a Cubs vs. Reds game from 2020 in a silent, empty pandemic-era stadium. I am sure I saw the same game rebroadcast around this time last year. They must have sunk a lot of money into MLB rights to justify showing an old Bauer vs Darvish pitching duel year after year.