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Aren't the schools in Indiana required to have a specified amount of school days and hours each year? Wouldn't this mean longer days, or less summer break?

IDK - SF feels pretty confident because President Biden said that not a single dollar released by the US to Iran is being used to purchase any of their Military's equipment......I base that confidence on the the fact that President Biden sees Hunter Biden as the "smartest guy he knows".......

IDK - Anyone else connecting the funds from the Obama administration released to Iran and the amount of sophisticated missiles they are throwing at Israel that the US is now aiding in the defense of? Probably nothing to be concerned about...... https://www.the-sun.com/news/11092635/israel-iran-missile-attack-catastrophic-escalation-war-middle-east/ Iran threatens ‘1,500 missile’ strike if Israel launches revenge attack as Middle East risks ‘uncontrollable war’ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-administration-acknowledges-1-7-billion-transfer-to-iran-was-all-cash/ WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Obama administration is acknowledging its transfer of $1.7 billion to Iran earlier this yearwas made entirely in cash, using non-U.S. currency.

A premium example of a "Hypocrite" https://nypost.com/2024/03/27/real-estate/jon-stewart-found-to-have-overvalued-his-nyc-home-by-829/ Jon Stewart benefited by 829% ‘overvalue’ of his NYC home even as he labels Trump’s civil case ‘not victimless’ But it didn’t take long for internet sleuths to look into Stewart’s own property history, which shows his New York City penthouse sold for 829% more than its assessed value, records confirmed by The Post reveal. In 2014, Stewart sold his 6,280-square-foot Tribeca duplex to financier Parag Pande for $17.5 million. The property’s asking price at that time is not available in listing records. But according to 2013-2014 assessor records obtained by The Post, the property had the estimated market-value at only $1.882 million. 6 The 2013-2014 property assessment of Jon Stewart’s Tribeca penthouse.NY Gov The actual assessor valuation was even lower, at $847,174. Records also show that Stewart paid significantly lower property taxes, which were calculated based on that assessor valuation price — precisely what he called Trump out for doing in his Monday monologue. Pande, who purchased the penthouse from Stewart, then resold the property at a nearly 26% loss, according to the Real Deal — at just over $13 million — in 2021. Timothy Pool, a political commentator known for more right-leaning views, alleged on X that Stewart was being a hypocrite.

His handlers better get a grip......Next thing he'll be talking about is how he was riding in the limo with Kennedy in Texas one time and some guy started shooting at them. https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/us-news/biden-jokes-about-trump-being-crushed-by-debt-after-ex-prezs-net-worth-soars-to-6-4b/ Biden jokes about Trump being ‘crushed by debt’ after the former president’s net worth soars to $6.4B

Still waiting for the sane in the country to show up......When the current President piles on in front of his supporters but his comments are covered up by by his propaganda machine (main street media) it absolutely screams "Banana Republic".....This is just a frickin game to the Democrat Party and their ilk..... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13219965/trump-bond-james-new-york-fraud-josh-hammer.html Nothing's better for Republican unity than Democratic lunacy! Biden and the Left are salivating at the chance of bankrupting Trump, but JOSH HAMMER reveals why the $454M ruling against Donald will end up costing THEM dearly By JOSH HAMMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM The clock is ticking for Donald Trump to secure a $454 million bond by Monday or have his assets seized by New York Attorney General Letitia James - and liberals can't contain their glee. 'You-know-who says he cannot come up with the cash,' gushed Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View ' Wednesday. President Joe Biden couldn't resist twisting the knife when he spoke at a Democrat fundraiser Wednesday night 'Just the other day this defeated looking man came up to me and said: "Mr. President I need your help. I'm in crushing debt. I'm completely wiped out,"' Biden joked. His punchline: 'Donald, I'm sorry. I can't help you.' The crowd roared. Isn't it hysterical when the legal system targets your opponent? In February, a state Supreme Court ordered Trump to pay the giant penalty after he and the Trump Organization were found to have falsified financial statements, and misled banks and insurance companies. Now, the former president is being blocked by the Democrat AG from appealing the ruling until he pays up – and you'd think Christmas came early for the Left. 'I can't believe it,' chuckled Mika Brzezinski on her MSNBC show. Brzezinski was joined by former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's top deputies in the hoax Russian collusion investigation. You won't be shocked to hear that he fears — wait for it! — more Kremlin interference. 'Everyone's national security concern is that there will be somebody, just hypothetically, like a… Russian oligarch who thinks this is a very good investment [and bails Trump out], he said. 'No one wants to lend [Trump] the money in this country,' chirped 'The View' co-host Joy Behar. 'Who knows what will happen with Russia and Saudi Arabia…' It's Russia, Russia, Russia and 2016 all over again. Trump can't secure this gargantuan bond. No insurance company is in the business of taking real estate as collateral. So, he's in a tough spot and Democrats believe their lawfare has finally drawn blood. 'I can't wait to see the chains on Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. I'm kind of excited about it,' squealed 'The View's' Sunny Hostin. How foolish. What these unhinged Leftists don't understand – and never will – is that they are shooting themselves in the foot. Nothing's better for Republican unity than Democratic lunacy. If anything will convince stubborn Never-Trumpers to overcome their misgivings and vote for the ex-president this November, it's this brazen, extra-legal, nation-destroying madness. Yes, it appears Trump inflated his assets. And fraud is never acceptable. But it is nearly half-a-billion dollars bad? Put this penalty in perspective — Bitcoin fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was $250 million. Trump's in a tough spot and Democrats believe their lawfare has finally drawn blood. 'I can't wait to see the chains on Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. I'm kind of excited about it,' squealed 'The View's' Sunny Hostin. And that was for a criminal, not a civil case like Trump's. Notorious Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff's bail was initially set at $10 million—and prosecutors eased the terms after he failed to secure it. Those men were potential flight risks who harmed real victims. They deserved a burdensome bail. But Trump is running for President, so he's not fleeing anywhere. And there are no victims in this supposed crime of the century. No financial institution lost money lending to the Trump Organization – and no one claimed to have been deceived, let alone 'defrauded,' by the Trump Organization. What's more, apparently all major real estate players juice their assets to secure favorable loans. Don't just take it from me. Here's 'Mr. Wonderful' Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, himself: 'If we're going to [fine Trump], let's penalize all the developers all across America. They've all done the same thing,' he said last month. 'All of them should go to jail and we should stop building buildings.' 'I would never invest in New York now,' declared O'Leary. 'And I'm not the only person saying that.' A spooked New York Governor Kathy Hochul tried her best at damage control – but blundered into saying the quiet part out loud. 'This is really an extraordinary, unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are businesspeople have nothing to worry about because they're very different than Donald Trump and his behavior,' she told a New York radio station. You see, Trump was prosecuted because he's Donald Trump. As long as New Yorkers don't threaten the Democratic establishment – they'll be safe, says the governor. It's official, we've gone full-blown banana republic! No financial institution lost money lending to the Trump Organization – and no one claimed to have been deceived, let alone 'defrauded,' by the Trump Organization. New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron denies Trump a jury trial, then assumes full control of the case and concludes mid-trial that Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago estate is worth as little as a laughable $18 million. And it gets worse. During Tish James's 2018 campaign for AG, she vowed to pursue Trump, calling him an 'illegitimate president.' Did anyone not think the fix was in the moment she filed the lawsuit? Then, there's this judge, New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron. First, he denies Trump a jury trial, then assumes full control of the case and concludes mid-trial that Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago estate is worth as little as a laughable $18 million. Your Honor, have you ever taken a spin through Palm Beach on Zillow? Empty lots are going for $200 million. If your Spidey-sense is going off, it's not just you. During Tish James's 2018 campaign for AG, she vowed to pursue Trump, calling him an 'illegitimate president.' Did anyone not think the fix was in the moment she filed the lawsuit? In New York, there's no bail for murderous thugs who roam the streets of the Big Apple. Yet a Republican presidential candidate, leading in the polls against Uncle Joe, gets no such mercy. Folks in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and other crime-ravaged NYC neighborhoods would love to see that reversed. No one can earnestly look at what's been done to Trump and see anything other than a vindictive witch hunt – and America is watching. Who wants to live in a country where you're targeted by the all-powerful state simply for holding the 'wrong' opinions? Never-Trumpers and supporters of Nikki Haley have a choice this November: It's either Trump or these vicious leftists, who'll stop at nothing to injure their political opponents. It won't be a hard choice.

There's no crisis at the border......Especially when you just "fail" to file the paperwork..... https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/200000-migrant-deportation-cases-tossed-because-biden-administration-didnt-file-paperwork/ Immigration judges dismissed deportation cases against some 200,000 migrants under President Biden because the Department of Homeland Security failed to file the required paperwork before their court dates, according to a new report. The DHS’s failure to file thousands of notices to appear before scheduled hearing dates left courts without jurisdiction to handle deportation cases and rule on asylum claims, according to a report released Wednesday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. “These large numbers of dismissals and what then happens raise serious concerns,” the TRAC report, which includes data through February 2024, states. The nonpartisan research organization called it “troubling” that there was an “almost total lack of transparency on where and why these DHS failures occurred.” “Equally troubling is the lack of solid information on what happened to these many immigrants when DHS never rectified its failure by reissuing and filing new NTAs to restart their Court cases,” the report notes. Notices to appear, or NTAs, are issued when migrants are apprehended illegally crossing the border into the US. Migrants claiming asylum are assigned a hearing date — often years in advance — where they are offered the opportunity to explain to an immigration judge why they shouldn’t be deported. But the NTA must also be filed with the court where the individual is told to appear for the hearing to take place. “Almost all Immigration Court cases are removal cases for which DHS must file an NTA for the case to go forward,” the TRAC report explains. Cases dismissed because of NTAs not being filed jumped when Biden took office, from 6,482 in 2020 to 33,802 in 2021. The amount of no NTAs ballooned to 79,592 in 2022 before falling t0 68,869 in 2023. So far in 2024, 10,598 deportation cases have been dismissed because of no NTAs, according to the report. Between 2014 and 2020, less than 1% of deportation cases were dismissed because of NTAs not being filed with courts.

1 - Term limits clears up a lot. (will never happen though) 2 - Biden won't make it to election day, something will happen. (thoughts of his proxy are scary)

Interesting - So (quietly) AG James (NY) is OK with overvaluing property to entice better loans, except for when someone can actually pay it back......(like the Trump Organization) https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/opinion/an-irish-society-an-unpaid-loan-and-the-hypocrisy-of-letitia-james/ To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, here is a tale of financial shenanigans at the American Irish Historical Society, in which Trump-deranged New York Attorney General Letitia James is hoist with her own petard. It involves a grand old building on Fifth Avenue, an unpaid loan, a fading family dynasty, a James Joyce theatrical production which almost ended in fisticuffs, and hypocrisy from the AG as obvious as a glass of green beer. It all began when James Doyle, a wealthy Georgia businessman with a love of his Irish roots, joined the board of the nonprofit Society, whose jewel in the crown is a rare Gilded Age mansion at 991 Fifth Avenue, right across from Central Park and The Met. Over the years, financial mismanagement and misfortune had befallen the Society, and it was facing foreclosure. So, in 2017, the board turned to Doyle for a $3 million loan, structured like a private mortgage. He was told that the Beaux-Arts townhouse was worth $80 million that included valuable air rights. However, the Society only made a few repayments and Doyle soon found things weren’t quite as they seemed. The Society had been dominated for half a century by the Cahill family, and President Emeritus Dr. Kevin Cahill was accused of treating the townhouse as his own “private club,” with one of his four sons, Christopher, becoming its “well-compensated executive director,” according to the New York Times. Christopher earned $88,459 in 2020, and between $134,768 and $179,402 in previous years, according to IRS returns. Cahill, a tropical-disease specialist said to have treated Pope John Paul II after he was shot, reportedly raised the money to renovate the mansion to its former glory when he took over in the 1970s. A stocky man with bushy white eyebrows, he would dress each year in morning coat and Irish tri-color sash to preside over the St. Patrick’s Day parade from its Fifth Avenue balcony. He held a grand annual gala where he would hand out gold medals to the great and the good. Then, in 2019, his son Christopher, then 55, got embroiled in an ugly confrontation with the director of the Irish Repertory Theater, which was staging a play in the townhouse, adapted from the James Joyce short story, “The Dead.” “I’m going to kill you, Ciaran!” yelled Christopher, while lunging at the director after the performance, according to The Times. The Society’s financial woes and dysfunction had reached crisis point by 2021, when Cahill tried to sell the building for $52 million (later reduced to $44 million). He died the following year, and in stepped the New York Attorney General, citing a petition she had received opposing the sale. She announced that, by state law, any sale of a nonprofit asset had to be approved by her, effectively kyboshing the plan. “It’s an amazing place,” James gushed to the Irish Voice. “We had to save it, had to save it … One day people can come in there and enjoy it again.” Which was all very well, but Doyle still was owed $3 million. The AG appointed an interim Board of Directors and Doyle was persuaded not to try to collect his money or foreclose on the mortgage before July 2023. But by August 2023, he still hadn’t been repaid, so he initiated foreclosure proceedings — and promptly was blocked by the AG, who claimed the mortgage was invalid because he was a board member. On Friday, Doyle launched a lawsuit against the Society and requested a subpoena be issued against James requiring her to produce a raft of documents, including anything relating to campaign events hosted at the townhouse or any contributions to her political campaigns from the Society or any of its members or directors. Doyle’s lawyer, Tim Parlatore, alleges that James’ enthusiastic involvement in the Doyle case may be driven by “connections with the Defendant.” And he points out the uncanny similarities between his client’s predicament and the notorious case James brought against Donald Trump for supposedly inflating the value of his properties to get a better mortgage, “although her office is now taking a polar opposite position.” The lawsuit alleges that Doyle was given “fraudulently inflated valuations” of the townhouse, putting its market value at over $80 million. Dr. Cahill and the Society’s current President-General, James Normile, “made representations to [Doyle] that the building had ‘air rights’ and could be built, or rebuilt, higher than its current height. “In reality, there were no ‘air rights’ and the actual value is closer to $20 million. [The Society] made a gross over-valuation” of the townhouse, which induced Doyle to make the $3 million loan. “Tish James said, ‘nobody is above the law,’ which should include Tish James, who seems to have actively aided and abetted in the Art of the Steal,” Parlatore told The Post. “This organization fraudulently inflated the value of their building to induce my client into giving them a mortgage which Tish James is now trying to help these fraudsters avoid having to repay. “The theory of fraud Tish James accused the Trump Organization of engaging in is identical to the fraud she is aiding and abetting here.” James has come down on the side of the Society against its lender, Doyle. And yet, in her signature case of People v. Trump, she took the opposite position, holding that “where an organization inflates the value of a property to obtain a loan, that is fraud, even where the lender was aware of the actual value and was paid in full,” Doyle’s lawsuit says. Trump was punished with a $355 million fine. So delighted was James by the verdict last month that she started live-tweeting Trump’s daily interest bill: “+$114,553.04.” Parlatore points out that the Society inflated the value of its property to obtain a loan, just like Trump was accused of doing, but the difference was that Doyle could not conduct the sort of “sophisticated due diligence” that Deutsche Bank did. Therefore, unlike Trump’s lenders, Doyle didn’t know the true value of the townhouse. An even more important difference is that Trump paid back every penny he owed, but the Society never paid back Doyle. As the old Irish proverb says, forgetting a debt doesn’t mean it’s paid.