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Got an interview letter October 13th 2010. The interview was today November 5th at 8 am. My wife and I went with the two kids they made a few copies of passports and birth certificates, gave me an approval letter, stamped my passport, and then told me my card should be mailed to be within 2 months.

Fillet minion? You want to hurt this little guy?

No wonder he looks upset!

A co-worker's son asked his mom if a phone at a rest stop was to call the elevator. She informed him that it was a pay-phone.... he had no idea what it was.

My favorite is when one of my coworkers 12 or 13 year old kid calls the office and asks if his mom is there. WHO IS YOUR MOM YOU STUPID KID?!!!! I can understand a 5 or 6 year old asking this maybe but after that age they should know better.

Maybe, but I'm too lazy to think about it. I'll let someone else post an intelligent response.

:rofl:

Oh yeah and for the people saying that they want the restaurant owners to pay a fair wage to the waiters and waitresses......I don't am sure most of you would be complaining about how high the price of the food would be if that were the case. Most people want lobster, caviar, and fillet minion all you can eat for 10 dollars

My wife used to wait tables when she was in college. I know she used to make at least 100 a shift in tips but her hourly wage was only 2 dollars an hour. Oh yeah, she also told me that the fat women never tip a waitress.....they only tip the waiters and abuse the waitresses

UPDATE.....my mother went to pick up her visa today at the consulate in Beirut. When I called her to ask what was going on she told me it is a 5 year multiple entry and she will be here Wednesday hopefully before my wife gives birth!

Now all I need is for my conditions to be removed by CSC

Just a quick update. My mother was approved for a tourist visa yesterday and she will be picking it up from the consulate in Beirut by the end of this week. They asked her why she wants to visit and she told them because my son's wife is having a baby and she wants to be here since she hasn't seen her son and his family in a long time. They asked her if she has children in Lebanon and she said yes an 18 year old and a 10 year old. They asked if she wanted to bring the 10 year old and she said no because he has school in a few days. Then they asked what does her husband do for a living. Then they wanted to see her name on the house in the village, apartment in Beirut, and her bank account. She said they were very nice, fast, and to the point....then they gave her an appointment to come pick up her visa. Good luck to all of you trying to get a tourist visa for family or friends, I hope this was of some help.

Received letter in mail (letter dated 9/10/10), and indicated 10 GC approved.

Received emails from USCIS today, 9/20/10. GC approved.

Waiting for my GC to arrive.

Thanks, and hope more approval coming soon.

Congratulations....I received a touch on July 26th so I am hoping to hear something very soon.

My sister was sexually abused as a young child by an old man down the street. She was called a #######. She was 7 years old.

She was later gangraped in high school. The next day entering the cafeteria she was greeted by the football team that chanted ####### and ####### while she walked to her seat.

She later entered into an abusive marriage where she wasn't allowed to talk to her family for a while and was beat up for just about anything she did. My parents blamed her and said that they were removing themselves from her life. She eventually got him arrested when he tried to slit her throat and she cried for the police to not be brutal to him - she was still in love with him.

I could go on but similar situations happened through the years and each time instead of blanketing her with love and giving her gentle encouragement and unconditional friendship she was blamed.

My sister killed herself April 25, 2010.

Say what you want, blame the victim, crucify the battered wife while she's down on the floor. Just tell me how you sleep at night knowing that you've sent the victim down another notch of self hatred.

That is horrible I am so sorry.

look how easy it is to pull you people completely off topic

As long as you live in a secular country that separates church from state it doesn't matter. If another country in another part of the world wants to be governed by sharia or jewish law it is their business and their choice.

sorry for the sarcasm.

I try to post on factual events garnered through history and other sources.

I watch as much Fox as I do any other news media which is not much.

But truth is found when you recieve information from multiple sources of varing opinions.

No problem, we all get sarcastic at times, especially in a forum about religion and politics.

As for you receiving the truth from multiple sources and varying opinions might I make a suggestion? It is up to you if you are interested or not. But if you are sincerely interested in ME politics and history make a trip there and ask people from different neighborhoods, religions, and countries about the past, their opinions, and their experiences.....I promise they won't bite. Since for most people finances wouldn't allow such a trip try to visit a few predominately middle eastern neighborhoods (speak with christians, muslims, and make sure they are not all from the same country) and get your information from the people there. While history books and the internet are also great sources for information they are not always accurate and seldom do they show the full picture.

You have a very shallow view of the world and its people and prove it by making the same asumptions of anyone that disagrees with you using the same tired arguemnt over and over that you are the self proclaimed scholar on all middle east politics and Lebanon.

I will bow to your vast superior knowledge of your homeland and politics.

You still avoid all questions i nregards to the politics and islam there answering nothing with no factual prove other than "I was there"

If it is such a great country why on heaven are you here or trying to come to the USA?( this is a friendly question the same I ask of BY when he spouts on about Aus)

Nice sarcastic tone from you, and I never said I was an expert at middle eastern politics....but people on here continually argue with others who have seen and lived through it and tell them they are wrong. As for me being in the USA I am here at the request of my wife, she wanted to be near her family.

Lebanon can't control Hezbollah's terrorist activities, just like they could not control the PLO's terrorist activities before Israel cleaned them out of Lebanon. The Lebanese are hostages in their own country due to the Syrian and Iranian backed terrorist that reside in Lebanon.

Now if you would like to start posting link for link with me dating back from 1982 in regards to Lebanon...let's go for it. Nobody here was born yesterday.

Like I said in the other post....I never said anything about the PLO. Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the Lebanese government, they are not a terrorist group.....but I don't expect you to understand anything that goes on in Lebanon or any other middle eastern country...you have Fox for that. The Lebanese are not hostages in their own country what a joke....there is religious freedom, freedom to come and go as the Lebanese people please, freedom and speech, and freedom of dress (you can see women in mini skirts next to a woman in abaya...it's a common site). Now I still would like to know why is it a surprise to people that Israeli soldiers were captured when they were on Lebanese territory. Israel needs to stay out of Lebanon plain and simple, but they can't do that....they are daily incursions across the border and even black helicopters and jets invading Lebanese airspace....then Israel denies even doing it and of course it never makes it in the news. If God jumped from the sky and said Israel did this they would still deny it and you along with most people would believe them. As for the links on the internet, this is not where I get my information, I get my information from actually living there, growing up there, and experiencing things first hand.

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11778707&Itemid=0

The truth began to emerge after a ceasefire was reached in mid-August. Upon completing an investigative mission to Lebanon, U.K. Foreign Office Minister Kim Howell told a parliamentary committee that Hezbollah had extensively hidden caches of arms and rockets in schools, mosques, apartment blocks and homes.

“What I saw out there begs many questions about the way we try to define what constitutes a war crime,” Howell said. “Every time the Israelis responded [to a missile attack] and smashed a building down, every picture of a burnt child and every picture of a building that had housed people [where] there was now pancake on the ground was propaganda for Hezbollah.”

The report and its accompanying photos and videos show Hezbollah rocket launchers hidden in Lebanese villages, alongside schools, mosques and hospitals; also rockets being launched from near U.N. outposts.

One Hezbollah detainee acknowledges on videotape that he transported missiles while carrying a white flag – used when Lebanese non-combatants wanted to signal Israelis that they were attempting to flee the battlefield. Other Hezbollah prisoners talked openly of using private homes both to store weapons and launch missiles.

Asked by The New York Times whether the Israeli report implies that Hezbollah should be seen as responsible for the deaths of Lebanese civilians, Elias Hanna, a retired Lebanese Army general, replied: “Of course Hezbollah is responsible. But these people are ready to sacrifice their lives for Hezbollah.”

That raises two questions that apparently did not occur to the Times: 1) If a Lebanese civilian was not ready to sacrifice his life for Hezbollah, how would he safely communicate that to Hezbollah leaders? And 2) if a civilian voluntarily turns his home over to Hezbollah to be used for rocket launches, does his home not become a military target – even if he and his family remain in it?

Hezbollah last summer fired more than 4,000 rockets into northern Israel. Most were aimed at such predominately civilian areas as Haifa, a city where Jews, Muslims and Christians have long co-existed peacefully.

Israel targeted civilian areas and that doesn't mean that Hezbollah was hiding weapons there. I was there in the middle of the bombing and I know the areas that were bombed, they were apartment complexes, hospitals, schools, supermarkets, and you name it....but they were not weapon caches. Keep believing everything you read without you seeing it, being there, or even knowing the area.

But they are all about peace and protecting themselves not Children attending school

So you condone the killings.

I have not seen anyone condone the actions of the Isrealis when they do this.

Oh By the way are you speaking about after PLO build up and attacks on Isreal?

If so It is funny how you failed to mentioned how bad the PLO was for the Lebanese people.

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Maybe becasue arming countries ran by or with ties to known terrorist organizations is not a good Idea

Most people come here and state they know more about this and that because they lived there or been there. You know what those are same peopel not doing anything about the problems and blaming everyone else for the problems in their religeon or country of origin.

No discoutning what Isreal may or may not have done during the early years of the country's existence and what they do now.

But are you really saying that and eucated Isrealy would not understand ME politics because they have only been there since 1948 or so?

I don't condone any killings...but you shouldn't be surprised that when troops cross over into the territory of another that considers them the enemy (the same troops that had occupied the area years earlier) they are held prisoner or even killed....what is so surprising about that? As for the Israelis not understanding ME politics I don't believe they have an accurate grasp on things or they are in denial. Also we are not blaming others for what happens in the region, but we simply want them to keep their noses out of our affairs. As for the PLO I never said anything about them....did I say they were good for the Lebanese people or even say one word about them....no I think not.

knew he would beat you to it, eh?

No....I wasn't planning on it

Perhaps I should start by telling you that you’re not the authority on Middle Eastern Politics here, I think Middle Easterners have more to say on the matter than you ever will or can. Stick to what you understand fully please. And if you’re REALLY interested in why the Middle East is such an unstable region right now, you’re gona have to brush up your history a little (don’t worry you don’t have to go too far back- though that would of course seriously help you get a whole picture. But if you can’t be arsed, how about starting at 1945.

If you want to SPECIFICALLY learn about Israel and the Palestinians (and how that was/is the root cause of the region’s current troubles) which also I feel you need a lot of help with- then check out a book by author Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian and professor of Middle eastern history and ME modern politics. The book is called ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’. …. Hey I didn’t say it, an Israeli historian did. And he deserves respect for facing the ugly facts behind his own nation’s presence in the region. Of course the book was banned in Israel and the United States for many years, and he was issued warnings by the Israeli government for pursuing its publishing. But you can’t silence truth forever, I’m sorry ‘Why_me’.

He probably knows an Israeli that claims to be an expert on Middle Eastern politics and the situation there even though most Israelis are not even really Middle eastern now are they....most of them come from eastern Europe and Russia.

You defend propaganda and you insinuate that Muslims on VJ owe you should justify themselves to your satisfaction.

Yeah I noticed that about quite a few VJ members

This particular fatwa issuing idiot is American born, with ties to 911 highjackers, Fort Hood, the recent Time Square bombing and has a very large following online. English speaking nut job who is able to communicate the Radical Islamic message in the English language.

It isn't simply the media who takes him seriously he is the first US citizen to be targeted for death or capture by the Feds.

I don't know anything about the guy....but when I hear a fatwa was issued of a cartoon I automatically think of an idiot with the brain of a 2 year old. There are much bigger issues in the world that people could be tackling than trying to prevent a stupid cartoon from being drawn or calling for retaliation over a cartoon

Yeah I seen this on the news last night. I knew Danno would post on visajourney right away.

These guys who issue fatwas for cartoons obviously have a personality disorder and are completely irrelevant, they shouldn't even be allowed in the news....just like that preacher who wanted to hold the quaran burning (but I guess it sells great advertising). The best way to make an idiot stop being an idiot is to ignore them.

Nothing to do with the fact that there has been a trend in recent years for AMERICAN parents to become suspicious of vaccinations and become complacent about the reality of childhood diseases that many have little to no experience of to the point of rejecting the vaccination programs in numbers that will encourage the incidence of these types of epidemics, oh no.

Lesson to be learned, vaccinating all our children before they should be allowed into public schools is a public health necessity.

Yes, the reason I posted this thread was because I heard a radio host blaming illegals for the pertussis outbreak. While it is possible someone could have brought it over from Mexico or South America most likely it was caused by parents not vaccinating the children who are old enough to get the vaccination, in turn a baby too young to be vaccinated catches whooping cough. From what I understand Mexico has a firm policy on children being vaccinated, they can't get waivers like parents in the U.S. ......if Mexico enforces it or not I can't say. I know my 2 year old is up to date on her shots, and so are my wife and I.

"...and they all lived happily together...THE END". I must have been in a comatose state the last three plus decades.

Let's see just how well all the happy merry peoples of Lebanon have been getting along with each other these days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_conflict_in_Lebanon

2008 conflict in Lebanon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%932008_Lebanese_political_protests

2006–2008 Lebanese political protests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005-2007_Lebanon_bombings

Lebanon bombings and assassinations (2004–present)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Revolution

Cedar Revolution

There are two christian sides....they don't get along with each other. There are Druze, Shia, Sunni.....they don't get along either. Maybe if Siniora, Gaga, and Jumblatt would quit lining their pockets with the resources of the Lebanese people, raising taxes to unreasonable rates, cutting electricity in the neighborhoods that oppose them, blocking supplies from making it to supermarkets and bakeries, and quit being pawns to everyone else and instead put the interest of the Lebanese people ahead of their own....(oh and if Jumblatt would get off of the drugs that would be great too) things would calm down. There are two sides to every story but you will always see one side so it is a lost cause to even try to explain to you.

Maybe if the amount of Muslim's visually and vocally denouncing these Islamic extremest were near the same number of Muslim's taking to the streets celebrating 9/11 or even equaling the numbers of Muslim's going nuts in the streets and attacking Danish embassy's (after a cartoon) the world might have a different view of Islam.

And no it has nothing to do with the press. Al Jazeera is read by many...along with Reuters, BBC, etc.... Not much is hidden in this day and age seeing how it's the age of the cell phone w/camera and internet access.

I was in Lebanon in a Muslim neighborhood during the attacks....there wasn't anyone in the streets.