Dan J

Hi everyone!

We have only three weeks to go before I make the big move to New Jersey on my K1 visa. Russ, my fiance, with be travelling over to the UK on 21st May and then we will be travelling back together on 31st.

I have already looked through the POE reviews and can't find many recent ones for Newark anyway but I still have a few questions...

1) If you travelled with your American fiance, did they allow you to queue tgether in the citizens line or were you separated?

2) Which forms do you fill out on the plane (normally I do the green and the customs form obv)

2) When you were directed to Secondary Passport control, were you permitted to go together?

£) And finally how long in your experience were you kept waiting before you could go?

I'm asking all of this because we have to then travel to cargo to collect our beloved labrador (that I will be really worried about by this point). So I just like to know in advance, what others have experienced...

Many thanks!

1. Thats often up to the traffic control person, I came in with my now wife, and we were able to go into the same line.

2. Customs and I-94 for the person with the K-1 visa.

3. Nope no secondary processing.

You mean not enough of a record to find something you can criticize. She has the credentials, but that wont matter to you if she isn't conservative enough in her decisions.

I really wish they would be more honest about the jobless rate.

It's such a bastardized statistic.

We're looking at somewhere between 15-20% unemployment in reality. How hard is that to put out there?

Just because people 'stop looking,' still means they don't have jobs....

You are not jobless if you don't want or need a job in the first place. That doesn't mean it you wont be looking for a job in the future.

There's a shee-it-load of "unsecured liabilities" and inevitable upside pressure on interest rates.

The effect of those two things can't be easily scripted into any kind of scenario for a bull market.

Coupled with the huge sovereign debt worldwide, it was just waiting to happen.

There are other reasons that the market went down and stayed down yesterday. Normal market type reasons.

Just got back and caught that story on the news. I wonder how many billions were lost today on the slip of a finger.

There are a lot of automated programs using rulesets to look for opportunities in stock prices. By itself this situation should not have triggered the panic it did, but with the automated programs it sort of cascaded down the line.

In other words, a huge drop in P&G stock price could have automatically triggered others to sell.

There's nothing wrong with what she said.

You can't argue genetics in once instance and not argue it in another.

Every last piece of our structure, the way we look the odds of having a disease, what color our hair will be, skin will be, etc. are all attributed to genetics. Why would the brain and its development be any different?

There's plenty of factors to look at.

She never made a 'matter of fact' statement. She made a probability statement that she thinks they could be a certain way, not that it was factual though.

People need to lighten up. Hell, I could come to the same conclusion in my interactions with certain groups of people as well if I go by the statistics and the intelligence of those I've come into contact with.

Sometimes people just need to look at the big picture and stop pushing it into something small like racism.

She was a law student and not a geneticist. She is trying to tie skin color to intelligence without really having the data or credentials to back it up. Which suggests another motive.

Might what she said be right? I don't think anyone really knows that yet. I think she was trying to justify her views in a way that couldn't be disputed, but what she "observed" could just a much be a result of environment as genetics.

So, the new tool for the day trader will be to organize protests in countries like Greece to manipulate US stock prices and make off like a bandit.

Love the spin guys, keep it up!

Are you going to start complaining that the Secretary of State wasn't involved next? Maybe the secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, they got to be involved somehow right?

What is the Dept of Interior going to do? Take away BP's drilling rights?

BP and the companies that contracted with them are ultimately responsible for this mess. Not the US government. The government got involved when it became clear that BP couldn't handle it alone.

This is not Katrina where an act of nature, which responding to is under the Responsibility of FEMA, didn't do their job.

well, i do not have an associates so far?? can i just go from "high-school-diploma" to bachelor without achieving an associates?

Yes you can. Some people do take classes at a 2 yr collage, then transfer, since its often cheaper. But you can go straight to a 4 yr collage if you want.

I feel like I understand ZERO. Time to call the school (once again..) and ask my questions I guess.

Should not be that difficult to figure all that out but I feel like I am stuck, I just don't get it.

Oops, something I should have mentioned:

It is not a 2 y. college. I think it already is a 4 year university...

http://www.wiu.edu/

Yup you are looking at a 4yr school, but you were mentioning associates degree when you probably meant bachelors.

So i just take ANY class I want the first 2 years?

For instance I take math - and then for my bachelor I could take somethink like English?

That does not make a whole lot of sense to me.

sorry, gotta ask again: are genEd classes couting towards an associates?

You want to figure out what 4 year collage you plan to go to. Even if you do two years at a community collage, you want to make sure you are going to a collage and taking classes that will transfer. In general, you want to take your general education classes at the two year school as those will most likely transfer.

Some 2 year collages have degree programs that are specifically set up for students who intend to transfer to a 4 year collage.

If these illegal immigrants were PhD holders or software engineers, then I bet you, more people would be outraged. The white, liberal elites are fine with the illegals doing menial jobs like that of a strawberry-picker or a janitor because it's certainly not something they want to do nor does it affect their own employment prospects. Yes, it's true, most people don't care as long as it doesn't affect them.

Is the law that requires you to have your D/L with you while you're driving also an erosion of your civil liberties?

Driving is a privilege. Having your licence on you while driving is a requirement of that privilege. You can drive without a licence on private property, but that's not going to do you much good.

There are people who accept the erosion of civil liberties as long as it doesn't affect them. Of course once it does affect them, its likely too late to do anything about it.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Here's a question.

For reasons that I don't wish to go into, the job that I currently do while perfectly fine and with a good income has very few mental challenges.

If I was still in the UK at this point I would have started training to become a magistrate, this is a voluntary position in the UK and serves a useful service while providing a challenging and interesting environment. Is there anything equivelant that I could get involved in in the US?

I think becoming a mediator in a non-profit org, that provides community mediation services, would probably be the closest thing the US has to a magistrate. There are lower level judges, but those positions are often full time (and elected offices in some places).

Eric Kleefield

The Minnesota Republican Party's official candidate to succeed Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is looking ahead to a 2012 run for President, is a staunch conservative well to Pawlenty's right who has a long history of "Tentherism," the attempts by the far right-wing to invoke the Tenth Amendment and nullify federal laws on various liberal initiatives. He has even proposed a state constitutional amendment that would allow federal laws to operate in Minnesota only if they were consented to by super-majorities of the state legislature.

State Rep. Tom Emmer picked up the official Republican endorsement at the party's convention this weekend, and he also walked away with the backing of Pawlenty himself. "We don't have any doubt about what Tom Emmer stands for or what his values are," Pawlenty said at the convention. "He is strong. He is steadfast. He is clear. ... He is going to be the next governor of the state of Minnesota." Emmer also has the support of Sarah Palin, who praised him just before the convention got underway as a "hockey dad" who once played for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks -- a move that may have been a tipping point, according to the Star-Tribune.

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Considering how close the race was last time, Republicans just dug themselves a grave going with someone who is more conservative than Pawlenty

You're kidding me. I would have thought with Europe's uber fines and strict regulation they would be on the ball with safety.

And the bastards always have the more expensive fuel too.

Do you think a multinational company is going to follow the strictest laws in every country they operate? If they can get away with s**t, they will.

Do you think that a lengthy investigation, gathering of facts, and a determination of the root cause of the accident is appropriate before you make unsubstantiated allegations?

I said they may have messed up in this situation, I never said they did.

seems Halliburton upsets the left as much as Sarah Palin.... both makes a lefttard's head explode.

why does the left hate Halliburton? dems don't give contracts to Halliburton?

What does this have to do with politics? Halliburton may have f'ed up and is responsible or at least partially responsible for this oil spill. Do you think companies should be free of any environmental responsibility if they donate to the Republican party?

As I mentioned to Madhouse the other day, because the OP ed stories reflect the mindset of the poster. In this case it reflects my mindset. I see bigotry and racism on the left with the "angry white guy" critisizm of the tea party. They don't want to admitt that it is a grassroots movement populated with normal everyday middle class people. They would rather play the race card in attempt to marginalize the movement. This will of course backfire on them since the tea party really is a legit movement.

What cohesive position on issues does the tea party represent other than opposition to a democrat as president?

I'm curious how they got the number.

Not by rummaging through my trash, that's for sure - I shred everything!

How do you even know it was stolen and not a typo of another number?

“Hey Dad, Why do we save Billionaires, but not Teachers?”

Because billionaires can pay back their loans son by continuing to produce something great to the system. Teachers are victims of affirmative action and really can't teach anyone well at all these days. So their lack of salary is quite justified until the discriminatory law gets tossed out the window.

Thats true for those who made their money out of technological innovation. Not so much for those who exploited the markets.

I am not happy eating beans and vegetables all the time. I want my meat! As do hundreds of millions of others... meat would get a LOT more expensive, which means that the bulk of the grains would go where the profit is. That 70% would still head off to the feed lots and those with out cash would go hungry.

If we were letting market forces determine the price of meat, it would actually be higher than it is now. The government subsidizes corn production which makes it a lot cheaper to raise cattle. Corn also causes issues with E.coli, since its not the natural diet of cattle, but that's another issue.

As it is right now, due to the energy loss of biological processes, it takes 10 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of meat. As we cut back on meat consumption, we wont run out of food, its just that the diet will be less meat heavy.

Having spent 18 years growing up on a farm I can tell you for sure that returning agriculture to a more natural, sustainable methodology will severely reduce yields.

If that is done, who gets to select who we execute or let starve cause we can't feed them...

Considering 70% of our crops go to feed animals, thats a bunch of BS (Which is actually inefficient, has a 90% energy loss). Meat might get somewhat more expensive, but there will still be a lot of food to be had.

Meat is not bad for you.... and we surely don't want to turn this nation into a bunch of Vegan freaks.

Cows don't normally eat corn. They only do because of subsidies making it very cheap.