by liberal japonicus
I an reaching the point where I measure out my life with 5 day open threads. How about y’all?
"This is the Voice of Moderation. I wouldn't go so far as to say we've actually SEIZED the radio station . . . "
"This is the Voice of Moderation. I wouldn't go so far as to say we've actually SEIZED the radio station . . . "
by liberal japonicus
I an reaching the point where I measure out my life with 5 day open threads. How about y’all?
I’m afraid I’m not even managing to keep track of the number of days any particular thread has been running. Too much else going on around me. I’ve got time (or make time) to read the comments. But that’s as far as my bandwidth will stretch most days.
Has the invasion of Greenland already begun in an unexpected way?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGpC91qs8yA
How unexpected is it really? I mean, Trump had no permission to raze the West Wing of the White House. He just did it, presented everybody with a fait accompli, and there was no way to put it back. So this sounds exactly like his usual MO.
If I were the Danes, I’d make it a priority to send a tug and barge, reload all that stuff, and haul it away. It has, after all, been abandoned on the shore, and has the same status as an empty beer can on the beach. Might even be worthwhile, if the Danes can establish ownership, to charge the company with littering and assess a fine for the cost of picking up the trash. Never going to collect on that, but it does help make the point.
My husband and I are measuring our lives in terms of progress on his effort to get Canadian citizenship and the vagaries of the housing market. He hit a roadblock at the starting point when he found out that his mother’s birth certificate didn’t match the name she used for the rest of her life, including in legal documents. So just last week we achieved one of those points of measure when Montana sent us a corrected birth certificate. We are now waiting on Quebec. And we have an appointment with a Canadian immigration specialist in September!
Meanwhile I have discovered a great deal of confusion over my legal name since my birth certificate, my Social Security card, my voter registration, and my driver’s license are all different. I caused some of the confusion by taking my husband’s name when I got married the first time and then I assumed that the divorce automatically caused my name to revert. (And maybe it did. I got divorced 20 years ago and simple started life under my original name with no problems until I began thinking about my application for permanent residency in Canada).
I’m pretty sure if SAVE passes I won’t be able to vote.
Acquiring a new citizenship is not for the faint of the heart. I found it useful to hire a lawyer who specialises in it. Apart from getting the grunt work out of the way and giving you a to do list, they actually helped us in a big way because they had inside knowledge of planned legislation disadvantageous to us and managed to get the application through beforehand.