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  1. It may be hard for you to believe that people who commit a misdemeanor are willing to respect laws but they in fact do. They are far less likely to commit serious crimes than U.S. citizens. Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas We make use of uniquely comprehensive arrest data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens between 2012 and 2018. We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117 What organizations like FAIR do is lump the misdemeanor of crossing the border with felonies to come up with their alarming figures.
  2. According to this article, Thailand bought 1 drone for 4 billion baht. Clearly that can't be the case.
  3. You're expecting sincerity from someone who declared that the "Special Military Operation" was undertaken to rid Ukraine of the Nazis ruling the country?
  4. This scathing decision by the judicial panel guarantees that the judge whose decision they reversed will be forever known as Eileen "Loose" Cannon
  5. Theresa May redux?
  6. Well, what would you call the U.S, Fed raising interest rates if not free market interference. The US was having no trouble selling Treasury notes at lower rates to finance its deficit but raised the rates to fight inflation. So it's not really just about free markets, is it?
  7. Well, one way it's not a good thing is the cost oil. Which is priced in dollars.
  8. How content are you feeling now? "The appeals court included an extensive takedown of the logic US District Judge Aileen Cannon put forward for ordering the special master review and for denying the DOJ's request that the classified documents be exempted from it. The panel dissected the rationale Cannon had presented to justify her intervention, saying she had put forward an "untenable" approach for letting an intelligence community assessment of the documents continue while the criminal probe into them was on pause. The government had "sufficiently explained how and why its national security review is inextricably intertwined with its criminal investigation" -- a claim that Cannon had dismissed." https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/appeals-court-mar-a-lago-criminal-classified-documents/index.html 2 of the 3 judges on the panel were appointed by Trump.
  9. Well, I'd like to think I wouldn't do it but it's understandable why when you've got nothing you resort to an empty insult instead. To repeat: you've got nothing.
  10. Can they walk on water? It's sailors who will be conveying them there.
  11. That 3 or 4 hours is probably an underestimate.
  12. I should have added that a 3 or 4 hours on the open sea is a pretty scare prospect when you're being targeted by a major military power.
  13. Lucky for China there's no chance that a major superpower might intervene on Taiwans side...oh wait a minute.
  14. Actually, I think most beef raised in Thailand is grass fed. That's one reason it tends to be kind of tough and low in fat. You can usually tell if cattle are grass fed because the fat tends to be yellow because of the carotene in the grass. Feeding cattle grain or soybean is expensive. Prohibitively so for most Thais who generally don't have muich use for beef anyway. The beef rimping offers is raised to American standards. It's called KU because the way it's raised has something to do with an agricultural school called K********* University. Which should mean that these cattle spend some of their lives in feedlots where they eat grain and/or soybeans. The beef tastes like American beef that is available in American supermarkets.
  15. russia can't properly equip the troops currently in the warzone. Where is the materiel going to come from for these additional 100000?
  16. Yes. And that opinion isn't mine alone. A Chinese invasion of Taiwan: Too costly to countenance? Amphibious assaults are exceedingly difficult and if China was to invade Taiwan — and crucially hold it — Beijing would need to move hundreds of thousands of troops as well as equipment across the Taiwan Strait. Even at its narrowest point the strait is 130 kilometers (80 miles) and weather conditions are notoriously unforgiving with two monsoon seasons. That leaves just two brief “windows of attack” — May to July and October — for such a large-scale operation, according to a U.S. Naval War College report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/06/17/asia-pacific/china-taiwan-invasion-cost/ How difficult would it be for China to invade Taiwan? First, the distance an invasion fleet would need to travel before it even gets to the island is daunting. The Taiwan Strait is 128km (79.5 miles) at its narrowest point between mainland China and Taiwan and much wider if embarkation ports where an invasion force would gather are to be considered. While airlifts and vast fleets of planes can move a few thousand troops and keep them supplied, the sheer number of soldiers and vast quantities of supplies – armoured vehicles, artillery, ammunition, food, medical supplies and fuel – needed for a successful invasion could only move by sea. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/4/4/how-difficult-would-it-be-for-china-to-invade-taiwan
  17. Taiwan has 100 miles of ocean between it and China. Atmuch of the border between Ukraine and Russia there was no barrier.
  18. Maybe back then. But now? https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-poll/
  19. And just to make it clear. When first time undocumented aliens are taken into custody, if they are charged, they're going to be charged with a misdemeanor. You really believe that those who commit misdemeanors are commonly incarcerated until trial? Stop spreading falsehoods.
  20. Putin says he's going to use "Weapons of Destruction"? As opposed to the kind that blow kisses?
  21. Can anybody recommend a good dentist for children? Somewhere in the city or around the city. We used to go to a first rate dental service but they seem to have jacked up their prices suddenly and out of line with what other first rate dentists were charging.
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