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On Jul 6, 2025 at 9:41:32 AM PDT, "Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@sonic.net>
wrote:

> On 7/5/2025 11:06 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>  Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>  On 7/5/2025 2:08 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>  Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>>  On 7/5/2025 3:45 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>  Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>  On 7/4/2025 4:02 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>>  Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>  On 2025-07-04 1:56 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>  Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>  New from Amazon, we have John Sena and Idris Elba headlining an
>>>>>>>>>>>  action-comedy. Sena plays new American President Will Derringer while
>>>>>>>>>>>  Elba is the Prime Minister of the UK. President Derringer is a
>>>>>>>>>>>  Schwartzenegger-style movie star renowned for his action movies and Elba
>>>>>>>>>>>  doesn't much like him but circumstances - the shooting down of Air Force
>>>>>>>>>>>  One over Belarus - force them to work together and to try to save NATO.
>>>>>>>>>>>  There's also a romantic subplot between the Prime Minister and a woman
>>>>>>>>>>>  from his past.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>  I won't spoil any more of the plot. Suffice it to say that there's lot
>>>>>>>>>>>  of shootin' and killin' to keep us engaged and a fair number of puns.
>>>>>>>>>>>  It's not going to win any awards for realism but I enjoyed myself and I
>>>>>>>>>>>  think you will too.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>  IMDB gives it 6.5 but I think it deserves higher.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>  Ob Veeus just wrote to Robin and me recommending it. I’ve said elsewhere, I
>>>>>>>>>>  fell asleep during a different show and woke up in the middle of heads of
>>>>>>>>>>  state as the plane crashed, and they met the cute girl in the jungle and
>>>>>>>>>>  had no idea what the hell was going on, but added it to my watchlist!
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>  It will make more sense if you watch it from the beginning. ;-)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  I started it up in the middle of the night and saw it from the beginning
>>>>>>>>  through the plane crash before falling asleep.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  Today I’m dealing with the fact that the DMV destroyed the records of the
>>>>>>>>  citizenship of hundreds of thousands of Arizona and unless we can prove
>>>>>>>>  we’re citizens again we won’t be allowed to vote anymore.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  I am not making that up
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Got a link to a news report on that?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://www.azfamily.com/2025/07/03/longtime-arizona-voters-forced-reprove-citizenship-due-mvd-glitch/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  This one is about the previous letter where they told 83,000 people they
>>>>>>  had had their identity stolen
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://www.azfamily.com/2025/07/02/maricopa-county-recorder-takes-partial-accountability-mistake-impacting-83k-voters/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>  Thank you.  I read both and I can smell the fishyness of it hundreds of
>>>>>  miles away.  The problem was "discovered" nine months ago but they are
>>>>>  only NOW telling people about it?  And it is something like one system
>>>>>  broke, breaking another system and possibly a third system?  If that is
>>>>>  even close to the reality this is FUBAR'd to the nth power.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>  And nobody has backups of any of their files apparently. And why is the DMV
>>>>  safeguarding my citizenship status in the first place? And how come I’ll
>>>>  still be allowed to vote in federal elections just not local? And without
>>>>  proof of citizenship, can I even flee to Canadia?
>>>> 
>>>  Backups: Well, they might have but they waited over six months before
>>>  even telling anyone so the backups may have been overwritten.  Assuming,
>>>  of course, that they didn't penny pinch into oblivion a records backup
>>>  system....
>>> 
>>>  DMV: Because most states made the RealID verification part of the DMV's
>>>  responsibility.  That's where I had to go to get mine in California.
>>> 
>>  
>>  I might mention we didn’t even get real ID until about six weeks ago.
>>  Before then we had something you could pay $25 for but it wasn’t federally
>>  compliant and really didn’t do anything except raise money for the DMV.
>>  
> So Arizona decided none of its residents were allowed to fly?
> 
>>  
>>>  Fed Elections: Because this whole pile of fecal matter is intended to
>>>  prevent "illegals" from voting.
>>  
>>  Probably the exact opposite. We tend to emulate California in these things.
>>  
> NO STATE allows non-citizens to vote in Federal elections and the number 
> of instances of it happening are generally in the single digits in any 
> given election.

How would you know? In California it's specifically illegal to find out.