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MAJOR UPDATE on the Gofundme Wall – THIS IS THE INFO YOU HAVE ASKED FOR

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on February 18, 2019

  We wanted to give you a full update on where we stand at the moment. It’s been 30 days since we started this project to build the wall ourselves and we have made incredible progress to begin building the wall that will supplement President Trump’s wall. We are very proud to be working with the President and to have his blessing on our project!

Our team has been identifying zones along the Southern Border that are known to be high-traffic areas for illegal crossings and smuggling operations. We are presently working with US Customs and Border Patrol experts and other US Border Security Service professionals who are highly experienced in these matters. We are beginning extensive due diligence and the commencement of feasibility studies and will be engaging leading experts in a variety of fields necessary to construct our Border Wall. These professionals will continue to provide us with critical guidance on the legal, engineering, contracting, environmental, accounting, maintenance, and real estate issues required to build a Wall along the Southern Border. I’ve been getting a lot of questions asked about the project which is why we setup a website FAQ, please visit it after reading this.

We believe we can build segments of the US Southern Border wall for approximately half of what the Federal Government’s currently estimates. We will build the Wall mile-by-mile in strategic locations based on a variety of factors. We will build as much wall as we can based on feasibility, land use, and funding.

Me and our team have been out to Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas multiple times meeting with landowners and state/local officials, it’s going great and the communities are supporting us! With that said I’m excited to announce that we have identified a minimum of 7 pieces of land in these border states to begin building on, and I am flying to meet with landowners this week to commence our first big land agreement which will allow us to begin the process to build. IT’S HAPPENING!

This process includes many items such as land surveying, applying for permits for construction, and all site impact studies. Typically, this process does not take too long and when its complete we will then be moving dirt and breaking ground with the first ever section of the ‘People’s Wall’… EXCITING!

We are launching our volunteer database in the next day or two on our website www.WeBuildTheWall.us so please check in on that later. Also we are pleased to announce our chairman of We Build The Wall Inc. as Steve Bannon, yes, Steve Bannon who was the mastermind behind Trump being elected. He’s now on our team and will fast track this project

This will go down in history as the people rising up to get the job done when politicians have failed them. We’re going to do this the old fashion way, rolling up our sleeves, getting dirty, and doing work! Showing America the can do attitude that this country needs again.

I’ve learned a lot along this journey, and the one thing these landowners all tell me is that they live in fear 24/7. They also feel neglected by the federal government for failing them for the past 30+ years. Property values have plummeted and crime has skyrocketed in these communities. And this is not acceptable, this is not the country I vowed to protect, this is not how we treat our citizens. It’s time we begin protecting our citizens and standing up to these cartels. Mexico has a nasty cancer, its bad, and its spreading into America. The corruption is already setting in, and that cancer is growing rapidly into the heart of our nation.

You won’t hear this on the Lamestream media:

        Former La Joya Police Chief Geovani Hernandez is facing various drug trafficking charges for allegedly helping Mexico’s Gulf Cartel move cocaine and marijuana in order to pay for his campaign to a higher office. Hernandez is still awaiting trial.

        Former Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino just finished serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to having taken money from convicted Mexican drug lord Tomas “El Gallo” Gonzalez in exchange for favors. During the investigation into Treviño’s dealings with Gonzalez, close to 20 Texas law enforcement officials pleaded guilty or were tried and convicted for various corrupt activities dealing with drug trafficking.
        Former Cameron County Sheriff Conrado Cantu is serving a 24-year prison sentence for his role in protecting Gulf Cartel members living in his county and their businesses. Cantu helped protect the cartel’s drug trafficking, money laundering, and underground casinos.

‘We The People’ will build the wall!

IMPORTANT NOTE: if you donated BEFORE Jan 11, 2019 you need to opt-in by signing at this gofundme link- click here

https://webuildthewall.news/border-wall-update/

The eyes of Texas are upon you . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csQD4Z_uHL8

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Many reuploads and analyses can be found.

From time to time, as events wend their merry way through the Courts, I'll submit an SN Story Submission that summarizes the plot that has transpired so far as well as links to my detailed chronicles, each such chronicle packed solid with wall-to-wall Civil Procedures that use all their holes. Our Story So Far:

• Standing to Complain, Or, C-TRAN Kicks a Cripple

tl;dr:

The C-TRAN Clark County Washington Rapid Transit System used a FIFTY-TWO MILLION DOLLAR local sales tax increase to retain a firm of uncommonly sadistic banshees to build these quite cool Avant-Garde Installation pieces that I remain flummoxed are denoted as "Bus Stop Shelters".

Flummoxed because The Vine's alleged "shelters" do not protect either the waiting passengers, nor the benches within in _any_ way.

Redoubling my sorrow, is that as each Vine Avant-Garge Installation piece was... installed... the old, quite pleasant, inclement weather-protective though rather prosaic True Shelters was destroyed.

In this evenings mail, I received a Tort Claims Form from a Mr. Cedric Adams, Claims Manager for the Washington State Transit Insurance Pool. My _polite_, _respectful_ as well as I'ma Gonna Tear Ya A New Asshole reply:

Mr. Adams,

Thank you for sending me C-TRAN's Claim Form.

Note that I've CCed my Legal Advisor Rod Schmidt; when you mail me yourself, please CC Rod as well.

While I will fill it out and submit it tomorrow (Wednesday), I really don't see a way for C-TRAN to remediate the ultimate cause of the cruelty C-TRAN's Vine Bus Operator other than to either redesign, or perhaps to replace _each_ of the bus stop shelters for The Vine route.

This because those "shelters" do not, in _any_ way, shelter the benches from the wind, rain and snow. Nor do the protect either those sitting on the bench or those standing from the cold, wet winds which are so common in Vancouver during the Fall, Winter or Spring.

What led me to be so profoundly overcome with grief was the great pain I experienced due to having been forced to stand during most of the forty-five minutes I awaited The Vine's arrival on this last Saturday morning, February 9th. That grief was compounded by the knowledge that I _voted_ for the local sales tax increase that at the time of the election was intended to raise fifty-two million dollars for the construction of the Fourth Plain Rapid Transit Corridor.

Despite C-TRAN quite admirably sparing no expense nor effort to provide - in the parlance of the Americans With Disabilities Act - "Reasonable Accommodation" for those who cannot walk and so require wheelchairs, no such Accommodation was provided for those who do not use wheelchairs, but for whom walking or standing are excruciatingly painful and difficult.

For that reason, my monetary claim on our form will be a largely arbitrary, quite large amount, with the expectation that my claim will be denied. I will then proceed with my Civil Complaint through the Clark County Superior Court.

I shall do so with the expectation that C-TRAN's attorney and I - with the assistance and advice of Mr. Rod Schmidt - will negotiate a settlement which stipulates that _each_ Vine Stop Shelter be protected from the elements.

Enclosed please find a photo of one of the two snow-covered benches at the 12th and Broadway Vine Stop. I shot that with my phone upon my arrival on the C-TRAN #60 Delta Park Regional Bus.

Warmest Regards,

Michael D. Crawford

Indeed I did request my 9-1-1 call's audio file, but it's going to take CRESA (not "CRESPA"), the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency, ten to fourteen days to get it to me.

I await my Emergency Call's arrival with bated breath, as I _begged_ CRESA's Dispatcher to deliver unto me a VPD Officer who would not arrest my Evil and Cruel Bus Driver, but _reason_ with him so that he would stop insisting I get off his bus. That would have condemned me to another forty-five minutes of standing, with _great_ pain, in the snow for the next bus.

The Mind Simply Reels

There Is a Taboo Against Criticizing AIPAC — and Ilhan Omar Just Destroyed It

American Israel Public Affairs Committee

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Unattended-upgrade in progress during shutdown:
A start job is running for unattended upgrades shutdown

Been having problems with the Linux box. I don't shut it down very often, but recently, the machine has become pretty unresponsive. Generally, when I'm killing a little time by playing a game. The game becomes unresponsive, so I shut down other applications. That doesn't help, the game gets more and more unresponsive, until I decide to do a reboot. Except - the reboot never takes place.

So, I unmask the shutdown dialog, to find the above jewel delaying shutdown, or reboot. Dang, I was beginning to think it was a hardware issue!

So, I search for that message on the internet, and find an exact hit at https://catinsunshine.blogspot.com/2017/02/debian-cant-shutdownreboot-immediately.html

I checked the Debian WIKI for unattended upgrades services and found there are 2 packages involved: unattended-upgrades and apt-listchanges. Check the log file under /var/log/unattended-upgrades/, no record for upgrades, but reboot for test, still stuck on the service for 15 mins. So I make decision to remove it to save my time:

sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades

Then solved. Power-off/Reboot quickly, perfect.

Like the guy said, SOLVED!

So, now, the next question: Where in HELL did this unattended-upgrades come from? I presume it would have come from a dist-upgrade, but I don't know that. I am quite sure that I didn't intentionally install it myself! Obviously, nothing depends on it, so I didn't approve of it while installing some other program.

Is this a systemd thing? Soylentils have discussed abandoning systemd, and I have agreed, but haven't made the move yet. If THIS nonsense is something introduced by systemd, my priorities will change real soon! (need a hard drive to install to, and haven't bought one yet)

Ideas?

Also - it has been quite some time since I did a distro-upgrade. I'm wondering if it's been there for months, and only recently started acting up. Maybe it got corrupted or something, and only then started hanging up the system.

After removing it, I played my game again, on hard. Got all the way through Endgame: Singularity without a glitch. I've got my computer back! Now that I think about it, some other things have balked a little now and then. None of them as badly as Singularity, but odd little momentary hangs. Weird, isn't it? When I run any updates/upgrades manually, apt-get never interferes with other running applications.

I’d have a mischevious grin and a sadistic chuckle?

“Mike, this is getting _really_ old. Don’t tell us you have The Good Guy’s Gal tied to the railroad tracks again?”

Not, not today any, but have Your People call My People that we may come together as a team to do that before End Of Business on Monday.

The Long Blinks just hit! I’ll continue in the comments after I chills to one or more torrents.

You'll be wanting to "$ wget --recursive http://www.girlshighdef.com/images/" or so as you read this here screed.

I want to shop professor Ian from Mary Worth onto a Playboy Magazine cover, one of the "Girls Of" (some college) line. This because he only just narrowly escaped infidelity.

When I do a Bing Image Search for "playboy 'girls of'" I'm not met with any covers, but with some top hits of generously - for a freesite - high-rez Playments from Girls High Res Dot Com.

So I click the thumbnail to get the link, click the link then...

a "download.gz" file downloads into my Downloads folder. TF?

Being on an almost but not quite current rev of macOS, I figure I'm immune from viruses, so I click the .gz to unpack it - try that, LUNIX! - then click the "download" file. It opens right up in TextEdit to reveal...

... the markup that _should_ have been - but was _not_ their web page.

I've had this happen to me before, so I know full well what their problem is:

Their server has that page's MIME-Type set wrong, I expect to binary/octet or some such, and not text/html.

So here THEY"RE THE TOP HIT AT BING IMAGE SEARCH!!!! but they're not getting any ad clicks nor are their referral links getting any clicks.

I'll try a "site:girlshighdef.com inurl:wp-content inurl:uploads"... no, while that commonly works, it does not here.

HOWEVER!!!! That webmaster shall be flayed alive, not merely fired: every last page's Site Description is "Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Comment"

Now, I readily admit that every last website I've ever published has been A Multitude Of - non-pr0n Sins, but I have _always_ been diligent as to fixing them.