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Grex > Agora46 > #8: I'm Bummed, I'm Bummed, I'm really really Bummed | |
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scott
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response 185 of 594:
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Jul 13 06:00 UTC 2003 |
Yeah, Elvisfest in Ypsilanti. The A2 News had a big article about one of my
dojo brothers doing Elvis - Chris Solano. Does a great young Elvis.
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response 186 of 594:
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Jul 13 11:38 UTC 2003 |
Plenty of other folks saw him, however. We had to double the number of
lines to get into Elvisfest (take money, apply wristband, offer program)
and even then it was almost continuous work-as-fast-as-you-can from 2 to
6, with substantial lines backing up a few times.
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scott
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response 187 of 594:
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Jul 14 16:22 UTC 2003 |
Child overexposure - good thing all of my niece's friends are starting to come
back from vacation. I'm out of energy for playing with her.
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mooncat
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response 188 of 594:
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Jul 14 17:02 UTC 2003 |
re #151- anytime
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dcat
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response 189 of 594:
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Jul 14 17:19 UTC 2003 |
I woke up this morning to the sound of about 120 books jumping off the
bookshelf in the other room to the floor at 7am.
(On the top shelf of the bookcase, books are stacked. 40 high, six stacks
across, two deep. Approx the top halves of all the front stacks were on the
floor. . .)
Ah well. This'll give me a nice chance to exercise the obsessive-compulsive
in me & nicely reorder the books. . . .
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other
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response 190 of 594:
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Jul 14 22:31 UTC 2003 |
IBB I got the following report from the Discovery office today:
ALL THE POWERPRESENTER LAPTOPS IN THE PREMIUMS CLOSET WERE
STOLEN OVER THE WEEKEND, ALONG WITH MOST OF OUR OTHER COMPUTER HARDWARE
This is especially boggling to me because the office requires a keycard
for access, and the thief would have to have known both that the closet
had the laptops in it and where to look for the key to that closet.
In a strange twist, since I am in possession of a keycard which I grabbed
on my way out on Thursday evening, figuring I would use it to return
tomorrow to finish my work -- a keycard not officially issued to me -- I
may be considered a suspect in any investigation of the theft.
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jaklumen
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response 191 of 594:
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Jul 14 23:14 UTC 2003 |
resp:185 Young Elvis-- that's cool. I always thought the Vegas Elvis
was a bit overdone.
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tod
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response 192 of 594:
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Jul 15 17:43 UTC 2003 |
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gelinas
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response 193 of 594:
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Jul 16 03:05 UTC 2003 |
IBB Rabih Hadad (spelling?) has been removed from the country.
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scott
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response 194 of 594:
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Jul 16 04:11 UTC 2003 |
Vacation ends today - with some 16-20 hours of getting home.
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tsty
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response 195 of 594:
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Jul 16 08:00 UTC 2003 |
sorry , dewshine - the first and the most recent always hurt a lot.
the hurt receeds slowly - many of us - many of us - have lost friends
by the same sudden device. life is not fair, but keep onliving anyway.
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bru
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response 196 of 594:
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Jul 16 16:06 UTC 2003 |
I am NOT Bummed Because Rabih Hadad (spelling?) has been removed from the
country.
Why would you be bummed because a man who broke the law was sent home?
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cyberpnk
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response 197 of 594:
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Jul 16 16:45 UTC 2003 |
IBB because I am in desperate need of a part-time job, and Abilene is in
a bit of an employment slump right now *sigh*.....
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slynne
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response 198 of 594:
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Jul 16 17:52 UTC 2003 |
I am bummed because I dont believe that Rabih Hadad was treated fairly
and I believe that reflects badly on our country.
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anderyn
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response 199 of 594:
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Jul 16 19:38 UTC 2003 |
But if he was here illegally (which he was), then he should have been
deported. Apparently he entered on a tourist visa and overstayed it by five
years, so he was eligible for deportation.
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slynne
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response 200 of 594:
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Jul 16 20:05 UTC 2003 |
If that is the usual outcome for overstaying a tourist visa, then I
agree. However, it is still important to treat people fairly. He should
have had due process and it should have been public. Did you know that
his wife found out that he was deported when he called her from the
airport in Amsterdam? One has to wonder what the government was hiding
to conduct all the business of deporting him in secret. Heck, the odds
are that nothing sinister was going on but now it looks like there
could have been.
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gelinas
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response 201 of 594:
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Jul 16 21:08 UTC 2003 |
I was under the impression he had filed for an extension in the appropriate
manner, and the delay was ENTIRELY the fault of INS. NOT grounds for
deportation, in my view.
Since it was all done in secret, though, NONE of us know what ACTUALLY
happened.
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jmsaul
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response 202 of 594:
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Jul 16 22:51 UTC 2003 |
What Joe said. Haddad was trying to become legitimate, and was hosed for it.
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rcurl
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response 203 of 594:
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Jul 16 23:09 UTC 2003 |
Then there are the thousands of illegal aliens here that didn't even have
a visa when they entered, but no one in INS is looking for them very
ardently. And Haddad had during his incarceration been kept in solitary
confinement, denied visits from his wife, and otherwise treated in ways
our government would be screaming about if it happened to a US citizen
abroad.
Of course, since he was not charged with any crimes, apart from the visa
overstay, he should be able to obtain quickly a new visa and return to
pursue the permanent resident status that has been in the works for a long
time - right?
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tod
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response 204 of 594:
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Jul 16 23:29 UTC 2003 |
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rcurl
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response 205 of 594:
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Jul 16 23:44 UTC 2003 |
No one has been very clear in their public utterances about the ins and outs
of the visa matter - the left just minimizes it as an outdated visa, and the
right rants and raves about terrorism. It is certainly true that if you
don't have the right kind of visa you can get into trouble engaging in
business. If this is an issue, he should ot have done that until his visa
status was appropriate. But why would he be so dumb as to ignore that? A
good terrorist would be sure to do all the paperwork correctly.
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tod
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response 206 of 594:
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Jul 17 00:17 UTC 2003 |
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scg
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response 207 of 594:
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Jul 17 03:13 UTC 2003 |
For what it's worth, I don't think I know any non-US citizens living in the
US who don't have an INS horror story. I even know people who have been
deported despite being in the US on valid visas, when the INS lost their
paperwork. Even when it's been easy to document that the visa existed and
was legitimate, it's apparrently a very expensive and time consuming process
to get back into the US (a year, and somewhere around $8,000 in legal bills,
in the case of a Canadian I know).
I don't know much about this particular case, but the way the US treats
immigrants in general is a disgrace.
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tsty
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response 208 of 594:
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Jul 17 06:06 UTC 2003 |
quick retort - teh way immigrants treat teh u.s. both in general
and in particular is a disgrace, but more on that later.
i;ll grant, without argument or complaint, that the i.n.s is about
teh most fscked up gummint agency in existence today. there would
be an improvement if they learned from the i.r.s.,actually.
our permission for slopppiness and 'so what' attitudes - the defacto
attitude of too many of us - has gotten us into a nasty mess.
only we, applying *pressure* to the congress can force responsibility.
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gull
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response 209 of 594:
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Jul 17 13:47 UTC 2003 |
Re #207: A friend of mine who immigrated from England has had a terrible
time with the INS. It took him three tries before he and his lawyer got
them to process the paperwork for his green card without losing it.
I've also heard that if you come into the U.S. on a student visa, and
*immediately* start the paperwork to extend it the day you arrive, it
will still expire before the INS has finished processing the paperwork
to grant the extension.
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