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  1. This explains why the buffoon has not succeeded in the Japanese market... Etiquette is of the utmost importance in business dealings as well as daily life. If he talked like that in meetings he would appear far too direct for starters, and although he might get the odd "Hai, hai", everyone would be laughing behind his back and ignoring his ideas.

    No Trump Tower in Tokyo. Too many have studied in the US now to fall for such nonsense ...

    I bet they'd let him build if he let the boys run a train on Melania.

  2. imo/e, really, it's the china human seeking the loophole, seeking advice about the loophole, getting help with the loophole, and sneaking through the loophole.

    I won't argue the bit you've written, but say KUDOS on you for learning about it this week. Alas, I learned about it, about 5 years ago, almost got involved in purchasing several houses on the west coast. Happily dodged that bullet - but sheesh - I'm massively tired about it all.

    Hindsight is fun, aye? There ought to be some pregnancy check at the POE, turn away all tourist visa holders that are pregnant. Seriously.

    The only way a rule like that gets approved by Democrats is if instead of turning them away, they were required to donate their fetus' organs to Planned Parenthood for listing on Ebay.

  3. Looks like enzyte can't solve it.

    Enzyte is an herbal nutritional supplement originally manufactured by Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals (now Vianda, LLC) of Cincinnati, Ohio. The manufacturer has claimed that Enzyte promotes "natural male enhancement," which is a euphemism for enhancing erectile function. However, its effectiveness has been called into doubt and the claims of the manufacturer have been under scrutiny from various state and federal organizations. Kenneth Goldberg, M.D., medical director of the Male Health Center at Baylor University, says, "It makes no sense medically. There's no way that increasing blood flow to the #######, as Enzyte claims to do, will actually increase its size."[1]

    So Bob ain't smiling no more?

    Increasing blood flow will increase size if one was previously lacking in that area and if one is a grower not a shower.

    Yes, there are better drugs out there for that (i am told...) and as for Bob, he is smiling all the way to the bank.

  4. VJ current news forum - All the news too important to miss.

    A 20-year-old Saudi woman delivered a baby in the washroom at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) on Tuesday afternoon. Passenger Hayas Alhagbani along with three women and one male family members arrived from Hyderabad enroute to Riyadh on Air India flight AI921 at 12.45 pm. The flight was delayed and the takeoff was postponed to 5.45pm, when Alhagbani went into labour, said officials from Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL).

    ...

    Doctors rushed to the washroom and helped the passenger to move away so that the baby could be delivered safely. A baby boy was delivered at 1.56pm in the washroom located in front of boarding gate 78. The passenger was offloaded for medical reasons and was taken in an ambulance to Seven Hills hospital in Andheri around 2.41pm. “Both the mother and the baby are fine,” said an official from MIAL.

    http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/twenty-year-old-saudi-national-delivers-baby-in-mumbai-airport-washroom

  5. By Ilya Somin August 18 at 3:58 PM

    One of the most common arguments advanced by immigration restrictionists is that we must curtail migration because a nation can’t exist without borders. As Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump recently put in his recent statement on immigration policy, “A nation without borders is not a nation. [Therefore] There must be a wall across the southern border.” This claim is simply false.

    Even if we assume that a nation cannot exist without borders (itself a contestable claim because many nations have historically had unclear or contested boundaries), it does not follow that the maintenance of borders requires immigration restrictions. In reality, borders have a wide range of other functions, besides regulating immigration. For example, they define the territory within which a given government’s laws are binding, and also the land area within which it may deploy its armed forces without getting permission from other governments. If all immigration restrictions were abolished tomorrow, borders could readily continue to facilitate these and other purposes. A nation that doesn’t exclude peaceful migrants can still bar invading armies.

    The history of the United States also shows that borders – and nations – can exist without immigration restrictions. Until the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the federal government did not forbid voluntary immigration. Indeed, the original meaning of the Constitution did not give Congress the power to do so, allowing it to restrict eligibility for citizenship, but not to forbid migration. Some state governments had laws excluding immigrants, but not the federal government (and migrants excluded by one state could still potentially enter through another).

    If we take Trump’s theory (and others like it) seriously, the Declaration of Independence did not make the United States a nation because it did not establish any immigration restrictions. Even worse, it condemned George III for “obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners [and] refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither.” Instead of celebrating Independence Day on July 4, we should commemorate the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Jefferson Davis and his friends need not have taken the trouble of trying to secede from the United States in 1861. They should instead have argued that it simply did not exist in the first place.

    Even today, some nations, such as Argentina, do not restrict immigration. Few would argue that Argentina is not a real nation, that it has no borders, or that it somehow ceased to exist when it adopted a virtual open borders policy towards migrants in 2004.

    The debate over immigration policy raises a number of genuinely complex issues regarding the economic, political, and cultural effects of migration, and the extent to which it is morally permissible to make immigration policy without considering the freedom and well-being of would-be immigrants themselves. There are restrictionist arguments that deserve serious consideration, such as claims that immigration might create dangerous “political externalities” that reduce the quality of public policy. But the assertion that we must restrict immigration because nations cannot exist without borders isn’t one of them.

    ...

    Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and popular political participation. He is the author of "The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain" and "Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter."

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/18/nations-can-and-do-exist-without-immigration-restrictions/

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