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When things are not going your way.... the joooos are to blame! In the ME they, the jooos, have a reputation for drinking the blood of babies and other vile acts. It is always the jooos fault! Joooos! (No babies were hurt in the making of this post.) In the US of A it's the .... wait for it... RUSSIANS! And Jooos! /s

The lawsuit was not to pull the trigger on the RV. What gave people this misconception? The lawsuit was to return the value of the dinar back to the rate it was on December 18, 2020. Not any other rate - lower or higher. For example, take OSHA, independent body in the US of A (there are many others people confuse as government bodies because they act like it), and the rule to compel employers to require vaccines. OSHA is a federal agency but also a separate entity just like the CBI is in Iraq. Now at the direction of the POSTUS, Sleepy Creepy Joe, OSHA instituted a policy (not a law although some think it is) that compelled employers to require their employees to get vaxed. Then the State AGs got involved and sued OSHA in Federal (here is that word "federal" again)Courts to repeal the policy. The difference between what happened with OSHA and the CBI was that the CBI implemented versus OSHA had scheduled to implement their policies when the court cases were brought. In both cases, independent bodies. Then, in both cases, the highest court in the land got involved. The use of the word "federal" is what screws people up. They correlate the entity called the Federal Government with the scope of power an agency has which is in this case federally. Both the agency and government have a federal scope of power. While I agree the CBI is an independent body, the CBI is not above the purview of the law of the land and thus their rulings are subject to adjudication by the higher courts. Even if it states in the Iraqi Constitution the CBI is an independent body it has checks and balances by other bodies of government like the High Courts. Civics 101. (Don't tell this to those who thought the courts were going to take the IQD to some other value than that on December 18, 2020. They NEVER were.)

Dang I already broke fasting with breakfast. Good thing I had green eggs and ham! What are they going to do I already had a fatwah pronounced against me. Eat too many green eggs and ham and you will feel fat and go wah after looking in the mirror too!

Ha! The title put "effort" and "legislate" in the same sentence with "Iraq".

Well we know starting on April 2nd nothing will get done for the next 30 days other than great feasting once the sun goes down daily.

Good thing we had a POTUS with the foresight to top up the US Strategic Reserves while the rest of the country was distracted with OMB syndrome and those mean tweets. On another note, who would listen to anyone who wants to destroy your way of income such as the oil industry? Here is a novel idea, instead of depending on others for energy in the US of A, how about the US of A becomes energy independent before the US of A tries to move to a fantasy world of renewable energy in which doesn't exist. You need natural gas to power the electric plants (not every plant is near water) or coal (heaven forbid!) or (wait for it!) nuclear energy to charge up the millions of cars that are going to be on the roads. And how pre tell are they going to make tires without oil? We can use margarine for lube since that was the original purpose (See WWII history of margarine) not for slathering on your english muffins in the morning. Good thing we are getting rid of methane producing livestock that puts food on our tables. Next thing you know they will be getting rid of rainbow farting unicorns while they sip on 10 dollar cup of coffee they get from plastic Keurig pods and 20 dollar plastic lined cups of coffee from starbux . Yeah the left is that stupid. And people thought gas was expensive? I still think sending garbage into the sun is the best waste management idea, evah! Think of the jobs created!

Not everything has statute of limitations. Take murder for example for which there is no statute of limitations and charges can be brought at anytime, hence cold case files in their solving bringing charges decades later. Latest example of this is the Emmett Till murder in which the Federal Government reopened the cold case in 2004 and 2017 and finally closed the case in 2021. FYI the Emmett Till murder is the one that spawned the infamous Mississippi 1955 trial (and movie Mississippi Burning) which charged and tried two white men for murder. They were subsequently acquitted by a jury after the jury deliberated for a little over an hour. There were some issues with the trial that led to issues with the trial. In the ME, they are still crying over something that ended in 1291 A.D. IF you don't know what I am talking about, what was the one word after 9-11 that Bush Jr. ran into trouble with? His quote was "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while." His words sparked outrage and some can link this to actually starting, exponentially, the catalyst of which we see today in the United States. There are no statute of limitations where the ME is concerned.

Ramma damma ding dong or no ramma damma ding dong, they are/were not going to RV by April 2nd. They don't even have a full government seated. Things have already been said that noting would get done until June and I have been espousing, for awhile, that ramma damma ding dong comes early this year than in the past years. Other noteworthy things to consider, Shabibi said that the RV could happen either in the middle of summer or at the beginning of the year. The last time they changed the dinar's value was in December (at the end of the year but for the beginning of the next). Just because ramma damma ding dong comes and goes don't think there must be an RV that happens before then because last I know ramma damma ding dong occurs before the middle of the summer and after the beginning fo the year. Also, as much consternation as the salaries are getting paid (not just in Erbil) what makes one think that the denizens of Iraq are going to suffer any less when it comes time to pay them from the proceeds of oil? They made 9 billion in one month from the sales of oil. In 6 months they could have 54 billion from the proceeds of oil. Yet they are still putting figgy date thumbs up their behinds while the GOI isn't fully seated. Someone needs to turn Mr. Potato Head into mashed potatoes with creme fraiche and a good ole dollop of butter.

April 30 is three days from the END of Ramadan this year. Ramadan 2022 comes early from Saturday April 2nd to Monday May 2nd. Ramma damma ding dong! Of course the official start and end is dependent on:

You might be better off going to the Grand Canyon for the same result.

Through electronic cards... or maybe

Well isn't that FAB -ulous!

Just in time for them to go on a month long so-called fasting holiday for three months. Ramma damma ding dong starts around April 2 this year. The good side to this is that it starts earlier this year.

Russia's oil ban is not wrong. What is wrong is funding a country killing citizens of another country, right Iraq? Or do you not see that, Iraq? My how short of a memory Iraq has for invading a neighboring country via despotic leader. What happened there, Iraq? What Biden has done wrong is to not open up the United States domestic oil production. He lied in his speech when he banned the oil from Russia. Just like people asked how they liked "hope and change" back during 0Bummer's admin, how is the manchurian president working out for you now? Electric cars are the worst thing for the environment because you have to burn fossil fuels to make electricity to fuel your vehicle. I asked a gentleman about his long distance trips in an electric vehicle. He told me that every time he stops to charge up his vehicle he has to wait 30 minutes to 1 hour to get enough charge to make it to the next charging station. So now a cross country trip, coast-to-coast, currently takes around 43 hours will take you over 70 hours to drive. This is a step back for travel time. Then let's talk about the batteries and their impact on the environment. The strip mining being done for "green energy" is turning the environment brown. The batteries require roughly a thousand years in our landfills to get rid of. If a crash occurs in an electrical vehicle, a hazmat crew has to come and assess the situation. Heaven forbid if the car catches fire because then the hazmat crew has to plunge the car into a bath to put out the fire. Yeah anything requiring a hazmat crew is not good for the environment. A green energy policy will deplete the Earth faster than greenies really think it will. But that is okay they don't mind as long as they can get their 15 dollar cup of coffee that tastes like it was dipped out of the local sewer and served in a plastic lined cup that will take thousands of years to decay. And where the heck did the hazelnut go? I think I will plant a hazelnut tree this spring.

Too much Western "woke" thinking here. At what point do the people of a country take responsibility for the accountability of their leaders? We might find out in Russia sooner than later. People will be happy not with the respect of their currency around the world, they will be happy when they can put food in their bellies and their confidence of purchasing of goods and services rises to a much higher level. Right now the only who cares about the rest of the world is the rest of the world, not so much the Iraqi citizen. They have enough to worry what is happening at home rather than what is happening in the rest of the world.

Great three months into the year and they have held their 3rd session. Ramma damma ding dong is fast approaching. That will break their streak to hold an average of 1 session per month. I want their job, get paid to go on fifty billion holidays that i vote for and in between work as little as possible to get more holidays. Sounds like a plan!

See this is where this statement goes astray in the name of freedom and rights. The Barzani family doesn't want to protect the Kurds rights and freedoms. They only say this to protect their wealth and investments. Their freedoms and rights are secondary to their hold on power and wealth. Remove power or wealth and then they will be crowing from the scaffolds about rights and freedoms because they lost money and power. It's two-fer. Lose one, lose both. It's the same way here with our politicians. They aren't in it for you, although they claim it's for the future children and the elderly (can't forget the elderly), they are in it for one or the other which then allows them to have both. People are people. Everyone is corruptible, not just politicians. My grandfather always told me to chase experience and the money will follow. Politicians chase power and money always follows.

BZZT! Wrong Answer! While the Ukrainian-Russian war is causing prices to continue (notice I said "continue") to rise, at a somewhat faster pace, they were already on an upward spiral and showed no signs of leveling at a much slower pace. The global increase in prices is not due to Ukrainian-Russia war but it does have a contributing factor for the latest increases. Before the war, crude was already being talked about to hit record 3-digit prices per barrel (Thanks to Biden's puppet masters!). This was well talked about. Energy, like heating homes (heating oil, electricity et cetera) was also in that boat (Again, thanks POSOTUS Biden and his puppet masters!). The Ukrainian-Russian war is not the cause but a contributing factor. So let's get real here Mr. Hanoun and quit trying to find the scapegoat in the war. It is just not the root cause.

They already have a law to support the poor and hungry. They just need to implement it, especially as oil prices increase. It's in the Iraqi Constitution where each citizen is supposed to receive proceeds from the sale of oil. Betcha that would help out a bunch (muncha buncha fritos go with lunch!) but then again, business owners would see this and try to price gouge. So a law would then need to be drafted and implemented (the United States has a law similar to this on the books)for price gouging. Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows. means price hike means increase in rate change, and increase in ration card items... means price hike means increase in rate change, and increase in ration card items... means price hike et cetera...et cetera...et cetera. Can someone say "vertigo"? And if you think I "might" be wrong, then again I am not. As Rush use to say, paraphrasing here, more money just means bigger problems for similar items that you had when you were poor. Now those items and problems just cost more.

So here is the question of the day: The year before COVID, the Penske family bought the Indianapolis Raceway. Do we now not go or watch or listen (in blackout areas) to the Indianapolis 500 or other races sponsored by the Penske family? And if the answer is yes, then what about the drivers who have no part of Penske Racing? What about the tv and radio stations? Boycott them all?

Lets see 1/1.46 = 0.68 versus 1/1.18 = 0.847. Yeah I am all for the previous rate being more explosive than the current rate even with the zeros removed.

Yes The Longest Yard was first put out in 1974.

I recently watched this movie once again. I don't think before this I ever caught the whole movie and frequently confused this title with Bruce Willis's movie The Whole None Yards. Some of the cast includes Burt Reynolds (A 1974 trophy winner) and a townie played by Rob Schneider. Others include Chris Rock, Nelly, Cloris Leachman, Tracy Morgan, A synopsis, without giving too much away, is that a washed up professional football quarterback takes a joyride in his girlfriend's car causing damage. She reports him for stealing her car and Sandler gets arrested. He is sentenced to a Texas prison where the guards have a football team. The warden requests Sandler's character so that the warden can gain political points when he runs for governor of Texas. The movie culminates with Sandler quarterbacking for the prisoner's team and William Fichtner playing the Captain of the Guards and Quarterback for the guards. The cast is interesting and the chemistry between them is excellent. While this movie was one of his last funnier movies of the 90s leading into the early part next century before having a five year drought until Grown Ups in 2010, this movie did not rank up there but ranked in the top 15 by Sandler. That being said, what drew me to this was that there is a line in the movie by Rob Schneider (what Sandler movie is not complete without Buscemi and/or Schneider) and my desire to figure out which movie came out first The Water Boy or The Longest Yard. In the movie the Water Boy, Rob Schneider, playing a townie, says the line "You can do it" and then five years later, Schneider, he says it again as an inmate in The Longest Yard. The line is used by Schneider in a third Sandler movie, 50 First Dates with Drew Barrymore, where Schneider plays a one-eyed Hawaiian and Sandler's sidekick. The Longest Yard is not as funny as The Water Boy or Happy Gilmore but does rank within the top 15 of Sandler's movies and worth the watch, again, but like Ryan Reynolds, does use a lot of what worked in previous movies in newer ones.

I recently had a passenger in my car that was a trucker. He brought up the Freedom Convoy and his thoughts on it. I asked him to not to bring up as I try to stay away from politics when i am doing livery delivery. He kept on. So I asked him what do you think about the current US Convoy in support of his northern brethren, as I just heard about it in passing. He replied there was no such thing (even though there was, just not getting to much attention at that time). His reason he had not heard about it? He was a trucker and he had not heard about it and would know if there was because he was a trucker. Man if I had a dime for every time I had heard that excuse from a professional, I would be wealthy beyond my belief! Disclaimer: Not knocking down all truckers just this one on this occasion.