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Not a businessman. A con man. Judge Engoron ruled that Drump is "fraudulent" and borders on "pathological." Judge Engoron explicitly vindicated Drumpf's ex-attorney Michael Cohen, writing in his verdict that "Michael Cohen told the truth."

I hope you wrote a nice review of the hotel for your favorite travel sites. It looks beautiful inside and out. And it's practically on the doorstep for visiting the monument sites.

No recent reports? Was it the "real deal"? What is your little buddy Jeremy saying now? 🤐

Here are some other detection methods for us commoners. But if your spectacles are fogged up (in a sauna) or dirty (from 12th-century sandstone dust), you might want to fix that first. 🤓 https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/how-to-spot-a-fake-20-bill/103-391635173 Here are 5 ways to identify distinguishing features on the American $20, according to the U.S. Currency Education Program. 1. Check the bill for color-shifting ink. Tilt the note to see the numeral "20" in the lower right hand corner on the front of the note. The color of the numeral should switch from copper to green. 2. A real $20 bill will feature a portrait watermark. You can see it by holding the note to the light to see a faint image of Andrew Jackson in the blank space to the right of the center portrait. The watermark should be visible on both sides of the bill. 3. Check for a security thread. Hold the note to the light to see an embedded thread running vertically on the left of the portrait. The thread should be imprinted with the text "USA TWENTY" and a small flag in an alternating pattern. It's visible from both sides of the note. The thread glows green when illuminated by ultraviolet light. 4. If you move your fingers across the bill you should feel raised printing, giving real Federal Reserve bills a distinctive texture. 5. Look for microprinting. This could require magnification. Check for the small text "USA20" along the border of the first three letters of the blue "TWENTY USA" ribbon to the right of the portrait. Also look for the text "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 20 USA 20" in black in the border below the Treasurer’s signature.

For more than ten years, US $100 bills have indeed had hi-tech innovations to help prevent counterfeiting. "It's largely because of one particular security feature: the 3-D ribbon, a vertical blue bar made of thousands of tiny lenses. Images of bells shift to 100s when the bill is tilted." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-counterfeiter-wouldnt-waste-my-time-on-new-100-bill/ That's why shop owners, bankers, and other recipients will hold a bill up to the light and move it around. The image should change if it's a real bill. The $50, $20, $10, and $5 bills have a different type of hi-tech technology: an embedded security thread that glows blue when illuminated by UV light, with certain images that appear when held to the light.

Unicorn is not saying that at all! 😘

I'm even more amused that you somehow found the word "centuries" in Matt's comment. Perhaps we can find "traces" of something that's affecting you? 😽

Blood pressure that high is caused by your wacko communications on this site -- especially your advice to others about BP precautions and medications. 🤣😘🤣 They all come back to bite you! 🎯

https://www.advocate.com/russia-jailed-rainbow-frog-earrings Russian President Vladymir Putin’s crackdown on the LGBTQ+ community notched its first two victims last week. Last year the Russian Supreme Court declared the undefined “International LGBT Social Movement” an extremist organization allegedly operating to corrupt traditional social values within its borders. A series of raids and arrests followed the declaration. On Thursday, a Volzhan man identified as Artyom P. pleaded guilty to posting a picture of a Pride flag to Russian social media, according to the court’s press service. “At the court hearing, the man admitted guilt in committing an administrative offense, repented, explaining that he posted this symbol ‘out of stupidity,’” the statement read. “For committing this offense, by decision of the Volzhsky City Court, Artyom P. was assigned an administrative penalty in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of 1,000 rubles.” In a separate and more serious case in Nizhny Novgorod, a woman identified as Anastasia Ershov by the independent Russian news site Zona Media was sentenced to five days in custody for the crime of wearing earrings with Pride colors. The crime was revealed in a staged videotaped encounter with a man objecting to her earrings that took place on January 29. Her male friend was accosted for wearing a badge with the Ukraine’s national colors of blue and yellow. “Come on, take down the flag, b*tch,” the male attacker says in the video as he rips the Ukrainian flag badge from the male victim’s sweater. Ershov tried to defuse the situation, but the attacker threatened to report her to police. Hours later, the video was posted to Russia social media, including by the misogynistic and pro-war Russian blogger Vladislav Pozdnyakov. Pozdnyakov is a proponent of a fringe movement known as Male State, which glorifies white Russian men while denigrating women, non-white individuals, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Last year he wrote on his blog that “feminists and LGBT activists are bio-garbage” and “psychologically sick people who have no place among normal people,” according to RFE/RL. The court heard that crack Russian investigators determined each earring depicted a frog sitting under a mushroom. While the mushroom was found to be using approved colors of red and white, the frog was emblazoned with bars of the seven colors used in the Pride flag and was, therefore, illegal extremist propaganda. Last year, the Russian Supreme Court granted a request from the country’s Ministry of Justice to label the “international LGBT social movement” as an “extremist” element. In December the government responded by raiding a series of gay and LGBTQ+ bars.

You were indeed by yourself. The early bird catches the best views. 🐦 With those pictures, your newest hobby can be making beautiful postcards for the palace!

Such a delicious meal -- legs included! 😇

Our Russian apologist will need to consult his favorite dictionary for the definition of дефенестрации (defenestratsii😞 "The favorite method of self-gratification for anyone who questions the actions and policies of Dear Tiny Leader"

And that's exactly what Imodium is meant to fix. ☺️

I'm glad you now know that this subregion exists! 😇

Well, you're the one who kept questioning these regional definitions because you couldn't pin them down as rigid and precise. Nothing seemed to satisfy you, so I had to ask about your motivation. Nothing out of bounds there, chappy! 😎

As I quoted, "the definition of Northeast Asia is not static but often changes according to the context in which it is discussed." You seem to expect fixed, never-changing definitions. Why not start with "gay" and "straight"? 😎 Or are you just taking the mickey? Fooling around? Taking the piss? Mocking? I suggest that you simply use "Oriental" if that's your style. 🎯

I know you're retired now. So you have time to pursue a new hobby: subtle humor writing. 👏

In the following definition, Japan and Korea are included. As it states, "the definition of Northeast Asia is not static but often changes according to the context in which it is discussed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Asia I'm not making these subregional names up! They're all defined on Wikipedia and other sites. 😉

That's a regional term that is not as common as the others. I've definitely seen Northeast Asia, which excludes Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

So you would rather call them "Oriental," which was the term proposed by another poster? That's what I was responding to.

From your home town?

By saying that, do you think people will stop commenting? 😂

Subregions of Asia according to geographers, anthropologists, and linguists South Asia: the entire subcontinent including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and sometimes Afghanistan (they're all south of Russia and China, bounded to the south by the Indian Ocean and to the north by the Himalayas and adjacent mountain ranges) Southeast Asia: mainland from Burma in the northwest to Malaysia in the south, plus Singapore and islands of Indonesia and the Philippines in the east East Asia: Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia Pacific Islanders: Polynesia, Micro- and Melanesia, and sometimes the Philippines Central Asia: Uzbekistan and all the other -stans plus Iran, and sometimes central Russia, western China, Mongolia, and Afghanistan West Asia: Turkey and the entire Middle East including Saudi Arabia and the Gulf nations, and sometimes Iran

Keith, can you please share some of your best travel blogs offering Business class deals? Thanks! 🙏

Yes, the Doubletree chain is indeed different abroad than in the old US. Buffet breakfasts in Indonesia are generally huge spreads in larger hotels. Same with Malaysia. You're traveling in Indonesia during the Imlek celebration (Chinese lunar new year), so you'll see the red decorations everywhere. Probably a little less of it in Bali but still very festive there too in the urban areas. In Indonesia, many Chinese guys are cut too. While they're not Muslim (most are Christian or Buddhist), they often like to go with the flow in the genitalia department. The Balinese are rarely cut, however, except for the very few Muslims in the east of the island and a bit elsewhere. But in Bali, as you know, most of the massage providers are from elsewhere and tend to be Muslim.