You flush him out into the open and push him into awaiting hunters arms.
You really seem to have a thing for Elon don't ya?
True.
God Himself is a judge. Supporting prisons is statanic? Ok, I guess we can just forego prisons and go straight to capital punishment then, cheaper in the long run anyway.
What problem needs a solution?
coarse?
Christians certainly don't have a monopoly on killing other people. It's a human trait. It has nothing to do with religion or even ethnicity. It's a human failing.
Nice try chairman Mao.
BTW, who is, "OUR"? As in our navy?
Oh, you want to play semantic word games? Lord is indeed a noun. Person, place or thing.
That is exactly what that clown is doing. God will prevail despite what he thinks. If a train smacks into you, not believing in trains won't help you.
Chief Judge James E. Boasberg
James E. “Jeb” Boasberg became Chief Judge of the District Court on March 17, 2023. He was originally appointed to the District Court in March 2011. Chief Judge Boasberg is a native Washingtonian, having graduated from St. Albans School in 1981. He received a B.A., magna cum laude, in History in 1985 from Yale College, where he also played basketball. Chief Judge Boasberg then received an M.St. in Modern European History from Oxford University in 1986 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1990.
Chief Judge Boasberg next served as a law clerk to Judge Dorothy W. Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following his clerkship, he was a litigation associate at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco from 1991 to 1994 and at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans in Washington from 1995 to 1996. In 1996 Chief Judge Boasberg joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia as an Assistant United States Attorney, where he served for 5½ years and specialized in homicide prosecutions.
In September 2002, Chief Judge Boasberg became an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Superior Court, where he served in the Civil and Criminal Divisions and the Domestic Violence Branch until his appointment to the federal bench in 2011.
Chief Judge Boasberg also served a seven-year term on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court beginning in May 2014. Appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts, he was the Court's Presiding Judge from January 2020 to May 2021. He is currently the President of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court and a member of the Yale University Council. He is also the past Chair of the Governing Board of St. Albans School.
James E. Boasberg is the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He became Chief Judge of the District Court on March 17, 2023. He was originally appointed to the District Court in March 2011 by then president Barack Obama of the Democratic Party.
Chief Judge Boasberg is a native Washingtonian, having graduated from St. Albans School in 1981. He received a B.A., magna cum laude, in History in 1985 from Yale College, where he also played basketball. He then received an M.St. in Modern European History from Oxford University in 1986 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1990.
Chief Judge Boasberg next served as a law clerk to Judge Dorothy W. Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following his clerkship, he was a litigation associate at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco from 1991 to 1994 and at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans in Washington from 1995 to 1996.
In 1996 Chief Judge Boasberg joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia as an Assistant United States Attorney, where he served for 5½ years and specialized in homicide prosecutions.
In September 2002, Chief Judge Boasberg became an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Superior Court, where he served in the Civil and Criminal Divisions and the Domestic Violence Branch until his appointment to the federal bench in 2011.
Chief Judge Boasberg also served a seven-year term on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court beginning in May 2014. Appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts, he was the Court’s Presiding Judge from January 2020 to May 2021. He is currently the President of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court and a member of the Yale University Council. He is also the past Chair of the Governing Board of St. Albans School.
Chief Judge James Emanuel Boasberg was born on February 20, 1963 in San Francisco, California.
James Boasberg is married to his wife Elizabeth Leslie Manson. They wed on August 25, 1991, at the Old Meeting House in Francestown, New Hampshire. The Rev. Bradford Abernethy, a Baptist minister, officiated the ceremony, according to The New York Times.
ames E. Boasberg is the son of Sarah and Emanuel Boasberg of Washington. His father is a retired partner of Boasberg & Norton, a former Washington law firm. His mother is a landscaper and garden designer.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg earns an annual salary of $247,400 in 2025, according to Judicial compensation records.
udge James Boasberg has no affiliation to a political party. He has bipartisan credentials: President George W. Bush of the Republican Party appointed him in 2002 to the D.C. Superior Court, which handles state court-style criminal and civil cases in Washington, before President Barack Obama of the Democratic Party elevated him in 2011 to the Federal District Court.
ames Boasberg is a Christian. His wedding was officiated by a Baptist minister.
Yeah, that poster seems to think he's in charge trying to dictate to us. He certainly seems concerned about something. I'm sure the big boys already have most, if not all of what they need at this point.
I keep getting the feeling that schiffy is in deep doo doo and is about to be caged, if not already.
What is China doing in Yemen?
Analysis | Asia-Pacific
Emily Milliken
Jul 13, 2023
Beijing is playing nice with all sides in the conflict there, appearing to hedge its bets for when the war finally ends.
Why is China positioning itself as potential diplomatic broker in Yemen?
In May, Yemen’s Houthi rebels signed a memorandum of understanding with China's Anton Oilfield Services Group and the Chinese government to invest in oil exploration in the country. Houthi-affiliated media reported that the deal came after multiple negotiations and coordination with several foreign companies to convince them to invest in the country's underdeveloped oil sector.
Even though Anton Oilfield Services Group later nullified the agreement,* the potential oil exploration deal with the Houthis underscores that Beijing implicitly recognizes the rebels — who have only had formalized diplomatic relations with Iran and Syria up to now — as a governing body in Yemen while still publicly maintaining that the Yemeni government is the country’s legitimate caretaker.
Underscoring Beijing’s growing relationship with the Houthis, one of the group’s political bureau members, Ali Al-Qahoum, praised China, saying it "emerged playing a pivotal role and making agreements that restore calm, peace, and diplomatic relations between the countries of the region." Qahoum is referencing the recent China-brokered Saudi-Iran agreement, which may take credit for the recent diplomatic movement in Yemen between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis.
Surprisingly, the oil exploration deal and growing relations between the Houthis and Saudi was met with no public response from the Houthis' biggest foe — Saudi Arabia. Riyadh’s lack of condemnation indicates that the Kingdom at least tolerates the agreement and Beijing’s relations with the Houthis, especially if the Chinese government could play a pivotal role in ending a war that has cost Riyadh billions of dollars.
But China isn’t just getting involved on the side of the Houthis. Chinese Chargé d'Affairs Zhao Cheng met with Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Mohammed bin Saeed Al Jaber to discuss the latest developments in Yemen and how to reach a political solution. This meeting comes after a series of meetings between Cheng and members of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), including PLC Chairman Rashad al Alimi, National Resistance leader Tareq Saleh, and Southern Transitional Council (STC) leader Aidarus al-Zoubaidi.
While nominally part of the PLC, Beijing has also been working to develop relations with the STC for years. In addition to the meeting with Zoubaidi, China has long maintained open lines of communication with the separatist group. And while China is publicly opposed to the issue of southern independence, it has been able to leverage its relationship with the STC to encourage it to uphold power sharing agreements with the Yemeni government. After the Iran-Saudi agreement, STC officials even praised China for the constructive role it has played in the Middle East.
But why is China trying to forge ties with multiple sides of a war that has garnered little international attention in recent years?
Chinese involvement in Yemen is far from new. Diplomatic relations between Yemen and China stretch back as far as 1956 when Yemen was actually the first country on the Arabian Peninsula to recognize the People’s Republic of China. Since the unification of Yemen in 1990, China has signed agreements to build natural gas power plants in Yemen, expand container ports in Aden and Mokha, and was active in Yemen’s oil production sector. China also began developing contacts with the Houthis as early as 2011.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/07/13/what-is-china-doing-in-yemen/
China’s Growing Influence in Latin America
Written By
Diana Roy
Last updated January 10, 2025 11:42 am (EST)
Summary
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China is South America’s top trading partner and a major source of both foreign direct investment and energy and infrastructure lending, including through its massive Belt and Road Initiative.
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Beijing has invested heavily in Latin America’s space sector and has strengthened its military ties with several countries, particularly Venezuela.
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Policymakers in Washington have previously sought new trade and investment avenues to push back against Beijing’s influence, but a second Donald Trump presidency could augur a more confrontational approach.
China’s role in Latin America and the Caribbean has grown rapidly since the turn of the century, promising economic opportunity but also raising concerns over Beijing’s influence. China’s state firms are major investors in the region’s energy, infrastructure, and space industries, and the country has surpassed the United States as South America’s largest trading partner. Beijing has also expanded its cultural, diplomatic, and military presence throughout the region. Most recently, China celebrated the opening of a new megaport in Peru as part of its global Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The United States and its allies, though, fear that Beijing is using these relationships to pursue its geopolitical goals—like the further isolation of Taiwan—and bolster authoritarian regimes such as those in Cuba and Venezuela. U.S. President Joe Biden saw China as a “strategic competitor” in the region, but the reelection of Donald Trump, who has promised a wide array of trade measures, including tariffs on Mexico, could signal a significantly more confrontational approach to China in the Western Hemisphere.
China’s ties to the region date to the sixteenth century, when the Manila Galleon trade route facilitated the exchange of porcelain, silk, and spices between China and Mexico. By the 1840s, hundreds of thousands of Chinese immigrants were being sent to work as coolies, or indentured servants, in places such as Cuba and Peru, often on sugar plantations or in silver mines. Over the next century, China’s ties to the region were largely migration-related [PDF] as Beijing remained preoccupied with its own domestic upheaval.
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Most Latin American countries recognized Mao Zedong’s communist government following U.S. President Richard Nixon’s trip to China in 1972, but it was not until after China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 that they began to form robust cultural, economic, and political ties. Today, Brazil, Cuba, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela are among the Latin American countries with the largest Chinese diaspora communities.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-influence-latin-america-argentina-brazil-venezuela-security-energy-bri
I don't necessarily have a problem with China or really anyone, as long as they don't start shit. By the same token, I would hope that we don't start shit either. I look at it more like neighbors that live on the same block, everyone has their own house, I won't tell my neighbor how to live and expect the same from them.
How is that anarchy?
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_css.asp
Do you also adhere to Jesus' teachings that would prevent you from going to jail in the first place?
Do you lie, cheat, steal, commit murder? God is tougher than any prison if He decides it's warranted.
Taiwan does not BELONG to China. They may be of Chinese descent but so what, they went there to get away from the commies. It's up to those people to decide what they want to be, not some dictator in China. It makes me wonder why China even wants Taiwan. I suspect China has some possible militaristic plans that would be enhanced by controlling Taiwan. Why else would they be building artificial islands out in the ocean and putting mil bases on them?
Depends on processor speeds.
I remember trying Mr. Pibb for the first time in basic training. Had never heard of it previously.
Seems familiar visually, can't say I've ever tried it though.
It doesn't matter what I think, since I don't live there.