my cunning plan to extricate myself from this hellhole faces a stress test tomorrow.

they apparently won't let me make my case in the court because they seem to realize i'm going to change the laws. the gatekeeper bitch has gone quiet on me, but i'm not convinced she's disengaged. there was supposed to be a hearing tomorrow, but the lawyer didn't confirm the motion, so it got cancelled. what should happen is that it should be rescheduled, which probably means rescheduled to march or even april.

if that happens, i'll be here until either november occurs or i get moved out via subsidized housing, whichever happens first, and the answer is almost certainly the former. my cunning plan will have worked flawlessly. however, it it needs to get through this stress test first, and then i need to win an attempt to quash in the spring. 

there is some possibility that the judge might just cancel everything instead; that would be wrong, but judges are sometimes wrong, and the silence of the gatekeeping bitch is worrying me.

i will either have very good news tomorrow afternoon, and be safe here for the winter, or very frustrating news, and need to pack up and get out on short notice, which i'll probably be able to barely do.

it's remarkably hypocritical that the democrats are frightened of the bunch of harmless nuts that stormed washington on jan 6, but are celebrating the bloodthirsty islamist barbarians that recently stormed the government in syria.

trump should not pardon the islamist rioters in syria, and especially not the ones on the most wanted terrorist list. rather, he should put sanctions on syria.

guantanomo joe wants to criticize syria for human rights abuses. right.

it's not that syria didn't have some problems, it's that they were mostly tied to the previous ruler (who died 25 years ago) and that the reforms that his son brought  in were actually extremely liberalizing, leaving syria as probably the most moderate muslim state in the entire middle east. the turks, iranians, egyptians and saudis are all infinitely worse than syria has been in decades.

worse, syria was a rendition site for us torture during the iraq war. that is, a lot of the basis of the criticism comes directly from cia torture sites in syria.

i understand that this is a proxy war and that what actually just happened was a turkish-backed coup in syria, which is only possible with nato oversight (and russian disengagement). it looks like israel is going to make a mess of the situation, which is what assad was trying to avoid, and which is sort of required. these terrorists are bad guys, and at least the israelis seem have their heads out of their asses about it.

joe's analysis is just not of the current era, or of the current century. biden unquestionably green-lighted this, and he no doubt did it because harris lost the election. it's a last hurrah. yet, like so many of the horrible foreign policy decisions he made, it's through the filter of somebody that never let go of the cold war.

the younger assad is probably the least ruthless dictator anybody's seen in the region in the modern era, at least. the language coming from the white house and propaganda in line with it is not consistent with reality, and largely delusional in terms of what assad was and where he was trying to take the country, which was actually into the european union, in the very long run.

now, syria will be lucky to avoid a fate different than afghanistan went through in the 80s, and i can only wish them luck. they'll need it.

instead of fighting the last battle of the cold war, biden should have been blowing up the existential threat developing in yemen, which he's completely avoided dealing with because he's obsessed with settling scores with the russians.