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So you don't like Bob Dylan. Tsk tsk.

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Russian embassy can eat my shorts.

Yeah I used to use a guy and he was OK but not great. So I went in with a picture of myself with a cut I liked better and asked him to do it like that. He got hysterical and said no he wouldn't and then he kicked me out of his shop!

Returning expats have every right as citizens to apply for any paltry government programs they may be eligible for as anyone else. But I've been clear all along that I think most lower wealth expats should remain as expats for life if they possibly can. Rents already through the roof aren't going to magically become affordable. Why choose misery?

Just spritz it.

Hard to say but if he bombs the US its game over.

OK. Too late. I just bought it!

Has he commented yet on his prediction of several years that Putin would never invade Ukraine and if he ever did it would show Putin to be completely insane? Which basically devalues his POV that Putin is a rational player. He was saying this days before Putin invaded as well.

Awful but keep in mind that nice weather can't be discounted as a draw if living outdoors. To remind people again, because of impossibly high rents, the old canard that all or most homeless people are homeless out of choice or insanity is obviously false. There simply isn't nearly enough affordable housing available.

Water under the bridge. The world needs to deal with what is happening NOW.

It's not a matter of fair or not fair. We've got a situation in the US now and people either need to deal with it which in some cases may mean homelessness or living in cars or perhaps a fitted van with a bucket to poop in, profit from it greatly if they are so positioned, or as I have been suggesting for lower wealth people: AVOID THE USA if at all possible.

But are you a heart attack on plate?

Again, this massive housing inflation phenom is NATIONAL and is showing up in all kinds of state colors. Obviously relative. If a place goes up 20 percent in a lower priced market it still sounds relative affordable when the initial basis was much higher. Possible to keep on the topic instead of sophomoric political scapegoating?

Profiles in courage are exceedingly rare among politicians. That's why Zelenskyy stands out so much.

Meeting (low) expectations.

HUD senior sliding scale housing has NOTHING to do with Section 8 and private landlords. They are buildings typically administered by churches (but open to all religions or no religion) that comply with all HUD rules for the program. They tend to be well kept up and not slums. They supply such a tiny percentage of total U.S. housing that it's not credible that they have any impact on the larger private market. Any lower wealth senior already in the US who is renting, I would suggest researching this and if you find a good one, get on the waiting list. I will add that the eligibility for the above is about INCOME not savings. They do not demand low assets at all. In fact application evaluators are interested to hear that applicants have significant savings because they know that such applicants are much more likely to be successful long term tenants. In other words if you have a low income and paying sliding scale you don't have much money for everything else so may even default on low rent, so having a reserve is highly desirable. Section 8 options tend to be slummy and also as mentioned before numerous times there is a definite trend now for Section 8 private landlords to get rid of their Section 8 tenants to be able to ride the gravy train of obscenely inflated rents on the regular market.

I'm afraid you might be right. It's like mass shooters expecting to die. They want to take as many people with them as possible. If this is the case, trying to reason with him is cruel joke.

Good question but we all know war criminal Putin won't stop. His preference is probably full surrender without destroying the country. But destroying the country will meet his goals too. Time is running out to save Ukraine.

I well may have misunderstood the dirty bomb thing. I was suggesting that IF Ukraine had real nukes that could be targeted at Moscow, Putin would have never have invaded in the first place. Ukraine gave up lots of nukes in exchange for it's sovereign borders to be protected by both Russia and the west. Seems a mistake now to trust Russia OR the west.

I don't have the military expertise to answer that question but I certainly wish the west would do much more to save Ukraine from being demolished by war criminal Putin ASAP!

Yeah sure but imagine if the Russian people had shown even a tenth of the fighting will as the Ukrainians. Maybe just maybe they could have toppled Putin and his ilk. Sure he would murder many people but my impression is that they didn't try very hard. I don't think there was any kind of democracy long enough in Russia for it to take root. They're a culture used to czar types. It has in the Ukraine.

Because he has nukes and people believe that he's willing to use them.

Very much. The darker side of this is that most of the world wasn't so outraged about Putin's war crimes when his victims were Syrian or Chechnyian. We all know why.

Well I wouldn't blame them! If they hadn't agreed to give up their nukes in the first place, Putin wouldn't be in process of bombing their country to smithereens.