alienlovechild

Hi! We are still on the process of helping my mom to come over here in US through tourist visa. She already filled out the DS 160 application online and she's scheduled to have her interview at the US Embassy Manila on September 22nd. Can you give me some tips on how my momma can show strong ties to home and what are the documents that my mom should bring on her interview so she will have the great chance to be approved by the Consul? I want my mom to be here with us too as support when I will give birth on October. I would appreciate any helpful inputs. Thanks.

btw if your thinking of visiting Russia...think hard. For the most part it's a giant sh*t hole. Unless your going there to score on the broads...

It's on my list but not at the top. I'd rather go to Slovakia, Poland and Germany on my next trip to Europe.

My wife isn't likely to let me score any broads while I'm there.

Brits introducing gay lifestyle to children as young as 4

Sunday, January 23, 2011

But critics last night called the initiative a poor use of public money which could distract from the teaching of "core" subjects.

Maths teaching statistics through census findings about the number of homosexuals in the population, and using gay characters in scenarios for maths problems;

Design and technology encouraging pupils to make symbols linked to the gay rights movement;

Science studying animal species where the male takes a leading role in raising young, such as emperor penguins and sea horses, and staging class discussions on different family structures, including same-sex parents;

Geography examining the transformation of San Francisco's Castro district in the 1960s from a working-class Irish area to the world's first "gay neighbourhood", and considering why homosexuals move from the countryside to cities;

Languages using gay characters in role play scenarios, and teaching "LGBT vocabulary".

Gay brainwashing under the guise of education.

Fill in straight for gay in the subjects listed and ask yourself if you ever had to do straight math, straight design, straight geography or straight language when were you in school. Anytime you have an overarching ideology permeating most of the curriculum you do a disservice to students to push a system of beliefs to please some interest group.

It sure is a good thing for the world that we have been solving its problems! And obviously we must spend more per capita on foreign aid since we are number one and everything! I mean, that is right isn't it? It has to be right, I just know it because I am a patriot, after all. The world should just be so glad we are here to help them solve everything! We have been leading the way on all kinds of things like lowest infant mortality, longest life expectancy, lowest crime and murder rates, most efficient use of energy, etc. That all goes along with our being such a great world leader and all that!

Foreign aid is a joke compared to foreign direct investment in other countries. Guess which country is #1 in buying foreign products?

Did you notice that all of those nations have homogeneous populations?

No, I'm afraid you're wrong again.

Reagan. Big surprise. The Republicans WANT the illegals here just as much as the Democrats do. Amensty is just a conscription of new slaves.

They passed the amnesty in 1986 not knowing there would be steady stream of illegals 25 years later. Mass Mexican illegal immigration only began in 1982 when the Mexican economy dropped like a stone when oil prices went down.

The GOP could get all cheap labor with unskilled work visas but they wouldn't leave and this country really doesn't need more unskilled labor with almost 10% unemployed.

The Dems on the other hand don't need all of them to get jobs as their votes could be secured with some handouts to the new citizens.

My first and only visit to Red Square was in 2002, but Lenin's tomb was closed that day. So I never got to see the old #######. I did tour the Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral, Arbat Street, and lots of other tourist sites in Moscow. I stayed in a little town outside of Moscow named Ozeretskoye with my cousins. This was before I met and married my wife. My cousins and I road the bus, then the electric train into Moscow and got around Moscow on the Metro subway. Thank goodness I had my relatives with me to show me the way.

I stayed over in the Moscow suburb of Pushkino overnight at my wife's uncle's flat on our way back from visiting her parents in Siberia in 2009 before flying back to the USA the next morning. Unfortunately no time to do much except look out the window of the electric train from and back to Sheremetyevo Airport between Pushkino. Pushkino was nice except for the obnoxious drunkards trying to panhandle vodka money at the train station. Nothing new. Same as in the USA. Bums bumming. Houston has its share of them too.

I'd like to visit Russia in the future but I heard Moscow was expensive for foreign tourists compared to other parts of Eastern Europe.

No one gets 2.5 years of unemployment.

Is it still only 99 weeks with Federal extensions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOGm0P8VqPI

Is it the #1 goal of the GOP? Listening to them, it would appear that way. So I ask, how much will executing this plan reduce the unemployment rate? How many jobs will it create?

Wasting money on programs that aren't necessary is a good idea anytime and absolutely necessary when are the jam we're in with the government sucking up more resources with little to show for it.

The private sector will hire more people when the economy is more stable and not waiting for the next crazy idea of out of DC. We need to spend up our ability to adapt and not try to create make work jobs that can't survive without government handouts. Cutting off unemployment benefits after 2 and half years is a starter for getting people off their butts and realize that aren't going to make what they made pre-2008.

The root cause of China’s muddle is its weak-currency policy, which is feeding an artificially large trade surplus.

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Chinese currency policy is a lose-lose proposition, simultaneously depressing employment here and producing an overheated, inflation-prone economy in China itself.

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The Chinese public is angry about inflation, and ... China’s leaders want to stop it.

But ... they’re not willing to deal with the root cause and let their currency rise. Instead, they are trying to control inflation by raising interest rates and restricting credit.

I wish our country had deal with a huge trade surplus and a manageable level of inflation in contrast to where we are headed.

There's a reason why most of the world see the China as a rapidly rising power and the U.S. economy is on a slow boat to China. Only 3 or 4 nations in the world have matched China's growth over a thirty period. They've got a long way to go to match per capita income levels with developed nations but they will rise.

We lead the world in per capita spending on education while our infrastructure crumbles away. That would be ok if our educational achievements were improving but that's not the case and we've been stagnating for decades.

Tibet was not indpendent 1920-1950. China has had soveignrty over Tibet since 1279. In 1950 they stopped Tibet from leaving Chinese rule. Much the same as we stopped the south during the Civil war. Tibet and Taiwan both are internal disputes that are none of our business, much the same as many other countries that want to stop segments of their country seeking to form a new country.

Taiwan hasn't been under the control of mainland China since 1896 nor do most Taiwanese want to be under the control of Beijing.

“They want to falsify history,” said 63 year-old Lidiya Petrovna, when told of Mendinski’s comments. “They want to bury not just his body, but his ideas. We are here as Soviet citizens!” I reminded her that we are in Russia now, but she dismissed me. “I am Soviet. This isn’t my country.”

Chop up his body and sell the bits as souvenirs. It would be fitting to make profit off that old bolshevik ####### who made so many people miserable.

They don't need to. They already are the economic powerhouse of the world. Thank you, Walmart shoppers.

So the Chinese are building aircraft carriers to protect WalMart conveys.

Countries near China are busy buying more weapons for a reason.

Much of this is not viable, ALC.

And are you impressed by them cutting their fleet of cars 20%. While they cut Federal Jobs? Many of which are held by veterans.

It's a starting point as Obama has cut little to nothing of note in two years.

Let's cut the Federal jobs and let chips fall where they may as veterans aren't guaranteed lifetime employment.

The disabled vets might take a hit because they have disportionate number in the Federal government.

http://www.gibill.com/news/veterans-jobs-transitioning-out-of-the-military-298.html

So, how many jobs would executing this list create? What percentage drop in unemployment rate would we expect from such plan?

You know, jobs being the #1 priority and all...

When was reducing the unemployment rate ever the #1 goal of the Obama Administration?

The job stimulus didn't reduce unemployment below the promised 8% target and the idea only government can jump start the economy by providing make work jobs is a very ineffective model when we don't have the money to blow anymore. A lot of the EU has embraced austerity measures why not this country?

I'm sure it does, but to stand on a general position that 'government spending = bad' without any substantiation is a bit bizarre.

At least oppose something tangible, otherwise it's nothing more than a hollow slogan.

You're expecting a laundry list of cuts from protesters. Most of those people could name something they'd like to cut as long as it doesn't affect them. Foreign aid is brought up as if it's big portion of the budget which it isn't.

Pointless exercise as voters vote for representatives, who, in turn, make policy decisions that make a difference.

What happened to the knee-jerk responses to the GOP Congress?

They only talk about tax cuts.

They don't offer any specifics.

They're all talk and can't propose anything to cut the deficit.

And still others, "conflicted conservatives" (30 percent), are not conservative at all on the issues. But they like identifying themselves as conservatives. To them, it somehow sounds better. "They like the word," explained Ellis. Or at least, they like it better then their other choices in the traditional self-identification questionnaire: moderate and liberal.

As for the supposed conservative shift this election, Ellis believes that voters were thinking more about symbols and values than about specifics: "The tenor of the discussion was about smaller government, lower taxes and traditional social values," said Ellis. No wonder, then, that a few more people identified themselves as conservatives. (Other research has suggested that ideology can shift depending on the situation and that conservatism tends to rise in response to anxiety and uncertainty.)

No moderates at all and they're claiming a sizable portion of self-identified conservatives are more flexible and not doctrinaire depending on the issue.

There wasn't much anxiety or uncertainty when Obama won because the economy was in a tailspin in the fall 2008?

“In a lot of the other countries [besides Egypt and Lebanon] where you have smaller [Christian] communities — Morocco, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran — at the moment, the fear is those communities will continue to diminish. It is parallel to Jews about fifty years ago,” said Marshall. “These communities are beginning to go and in a couple of decades, unless the situation changes, you’ll just have remnants of communities. They will die out.”

Nothing will be done to change the trend. Christianity will be wiped out in most of the region and there won't be much in the news about it. Most people in the West aren't aware there are Christians in the region so they won't be missed.

Brashness? I have students that are down right disrespectful and arrogant...

Comes with the grade inflation and high self-esteem environment most of them come from. Most of them never saw a recession until 3 years ago so graduarion is going to be like getting a cold bucket of water dumped on their heads.

“It’s not just about Walmart underselling the competitor. It’s about the competitors cutting their prices in response to competition from Walmart. Someone might never step foot in a Walmart but they still might pay less for their food.”

Women, low-income families and people living in less densely populated areas are those most likely to put on weight after the arrival of a supercentre, according to Courtemanche and his co-author, Art Carden at Rhodes College.

Lower prices for consumers is an outrage. I demand people, especially women and low-income families, pay more for food to fix the problem.

Although Mr Kramer said some local governments would experience “severe strain”, he did not foresee mass defaults.

“I don’t assume that you will have that level of defaults just because there are various remedies, including asset sales, that you can engage before you have to default,” he said.

Expect governmental services to cut in addition to cuts from lower revenues and higher taxes to help out the pensioners.

Future pensioners are going to get less sweeter deals.

Why look for anyone to blame? Like the police or the armed forces the nature of the work means that there are risks to the people who take part.

Obviously the organisations these people work for should try to minimise these risks as far as is reasonably possible, but it's always going to be dangerous work.

Seems to me that the bigger issue here is what level of support is available to women to deal with the trauma of rape.

The Peace Corps isn't supposed to be dangerous work and they don't hand out flak jackets to volunteers. Your answer to getting gang raped on the first day in country is better rape counseling after the fact.

Volunteers should be fully briefed on the risks of their country of assignment and sending women into some places is simply reckless. I think the rape numbers are probably low as how many women would report being raped in countries that don't vigorously prosecute men for these types of crimes?

More than 1,000 young American women have been raped or sexually assaulted in the last decade while serving as Peace Corps volunteers in foreign countries, an ABC News 20/20 investigation has found.

In the most brutal attack, Jess Smochek, 29, of Pennsylvania was gang raped in Bangladesh in 2004 by a group of young men after she says Peace Corps officials in the country ignored her pleas to re-locate her.

Smochek says the group began to stalk her and tried to kiss her and touch her from the very first day she arrived at the city where she was assigned.

She says the gang rape took place just hours after a Peace Corps safety official filed a report with the local police but again ignored her pleas for re-assignment.

Between 2000 and 2009, Peace Corps figures show there were 221 rapes or attempted rapes, 147 major sexual attacks and 719 other sexual assaults defined as unwanted or forced kissing, fondling or groping.

In the case of the gang rape victim, Jess Smochek, she says she was made to feel the attack was her fault because she had been walking alone shortly after 5 p.m.

How long will it be before a Moderate party is formed to take in all the RINO's and DINO's rejected by the party bases? They could wield a lot of power!

Talk of a third party is always just that- talk. Never has worked in this country for at least the last 150 years and you'd have better chance electing fairies and elves in the fantasy world of third party politics.