Recent content by prinCZess

This is...basically correct. Insofar as it could be said of any Middle Eastern dictator. It's certainly more true of him than it is of any member of the Saud dynasty. Jimmy Carter, however, did. American distancing from Israel is, honestly, a bit remniscent of the distancing from Iran--albeit...

I know the idea of them doing it is a laugh at this point, but it is entirely possible for Congress to make spending cuts. Arguably even necessary/good considering the debt, looming Social Security insolvency, and inflation pressures. Or, if they wanted to keep up a 'fuck Russia' line, they...

The bill did have some hundreds of millions of dollars for 'refugee and entrant assistance' included on its own, and was intentionally split apart from HR2 (the 'sweetener' border bill that was talked about in prior months--much as I don't think that one was a good idea just because e-verify is...

Ladies and gentlemen, the aristocrats United States House of Representatives! Y'know, I think the thing that really aggravates over all this independent of all and any argument over funding levels or priorities or anything else on the specifics of the topic of Ukraine, is that it's the final...

This is a complete and total tangent, but... There's a weird...not 'beauty' at all, but a good appearance...to the mid-60s Soviet design bureau love-affair with big honkin' air intakes that extend to just behind the cockpit and makes the whole plane just...look like a Soviet apartment block but...

It's notable that the bill authors, besides including 'other shooting sports' (let's go, three gun and crew-served weaponry competitions in schools! Artillery courses would, no joke, undoubtedly incentivize mathematics and physics learnin'...), also chose/had to include culinary arts because of...

In fairness, few would accuse American academics of the last...decades...of being too tough on communism/'China', or interested in promoting American foreign policy dominance.

Because I was aghast at California (again) and couldn't quite believe a twitter report: https://www.kcra.com/article/purchasing-child-sex-misdemeanor-california-lawmakers-debate/60485983 Frankly, I'm still kind of shocked at the upped punishment being so low. For reference, rape itself in...

*years in the future, JSDF briefing Room* "Gentlemen, this is Iran's new seasonal rom-com characters." *pounds table* "WE CANNOT AFFORD A WAIFU GAP!"

Some state department weenie: "Better plan. Step one: Give everyone in the region, including the ones who hate us, shitloads of money. Step two: Deploy our own troops to the region to arm and train dissident groups who are in conflict with both our allies and our enemies. Step three: ???. Step...

That...That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Contracting to provide internet services for the government is not the erection of a Great Firewall of Israel and, if anything, the suspect partner in the relationship on THAT front is Google because of their history cooperating...

Regardless of anything else, actions like this, be it on private cameras, individuals recording (I'll have to look, believe it was a manhunt in Massachussets or somewhere where someone recording on their porch got swept with a rifle and threatened if they didn't stop recording and go inside), or...

Frankly, even warrant requirements would be too little. The FISA court is a rubber-stamp court for any warrant request made of them, and has been...basically since it got started. That said, it would at least provide a theater of constitutionality and, perhaps more importantly for...

So FISA reauthorization has passed the US House of Representatives. The amendment to require warrants (you know, that thing required by the document that created the House of Representatives) for queries of US citizens...was a tie-vote that Speaker Johnson broke in favor of rejecting the...

It's relevant to note Ukraine has a single-digit number of refineries because they're small (and were more an oil transit-point from Russia to Europe than a domestic refiner themselves). That said, Russia droned what wikipedia claims to be the largest refinery in the country in September of...