Yardies, at home and a farrin' (Part 5)

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

RAHTID...a weh ever badi deh...all di duppy mi caan see

[brownnskinn 0]

There were mostly familys there when we went for the interview. One guy was there with his daughter, they were asked what took so long to add his name to the birth cert., were you dead? the lady asked. So she said that that they needed DNA testing and then she gave the option for him to go ahead of his daughter to the states, or to wait to go at same time. So they approved his visa and blue slipped the daughter. I saw several like this where they only blue slip for the child and approved the mom or dad. I didnt witness any denials. So no worries Gill u KJ And Ken will be fine.

Sounds like what happened to us...why do they have to be such A$$es.

[clairern 0]

Eve'nin ladies.....ever have one of those days when you just don't feel like doing anything? Hope ya'll had a good night.

Gurl..that was my whole weekend!! I finally jumped up this morning and got to work!! So my house is clean...FOR A DAY!!!! Whatever!

The closer my interview date gets...the more crazy I feel...almost paralyzed in a way! Like when I think about the Interview I just want to THROW-UP!!! Unfortunately it is not having the desired outcome...I just end up stuffing more in my mouth!...

'This too shall pass!' day

Bless,

Gill

Gill, I am the same way......As soon as I found out the interview date......I got sick to my stomach.....My nerves are wrecking my digestive system......Just so many things to do before April 15th........The 14yo son keeps his room a disaster area......I have a tremendous job on my hands preparing him for Andrew........This disorder will drive Andrew crazy.......

Peace & Love,

Tonya

Hey Tonya;

What are you doing to prepare? I am so excited for you. Are you going to the interview? Maybe we can hook this w/e when I come to Charleston to see my dad?

Claire

[clairern 0]

Yo, JG sent me this article...Ya'll haffi read it!!

I can't believe this ooman...yuh see ow dem really feel about immigrated Jamaicans!!

Mi seh mi wouldda love fi meet dis ooman face to face and really tell har a ting or two!!!! Her facts are ALL WRONG!!

Makes for an interesting read!!

http://http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glea.../cleisure3.html

For those of your that can't link here is the actual article:

Fricking Nut job!! ...not b/c her opinion varies from mine...but because she didn't even research her facts before she typed them!

***************************************************

Unspeakable treachery

published: Sunday | February 24, 2008

Dawn Ritch, Columnist

Jamericans are up in arms. They're sending a firestorm of emails to the Editor, because I pointed out that Barack Obama was an impostor, and Hillary Clinton a victim.

Are these incensed letter-writers born and bred black Americans, or even brown ones? They are most likely the ones, or the descendants of those, who fled the island because of Michael Manley in the early l970s. They are Jamericans, the ones we all can't stand even when they're relatives, or perhaps because they are relatives. They try to rule us with money, either the actual thing or talk of it. Yet, when they die, they all want to be buried here.

Ungrateful people

I don't care much for black Americans either. They are the most ungrateful people on the face of the Earth. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, set them free. They repaid his party by becoming life-long Democrats. This is an unspeakable historical treachery. So you can keep them, for all I care.

President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, didn't feel that way. Indeed, black Americans themselves used to call him the first black American president. But all of that has been instantly forgotten. Black Americans and young, unemployed intellectuals believe they have a black presidential candidate, and so have been turning up in droves for caucuses which favour Obama. These are usually held for a specific, limited time. The working class who usually support Hillary do not have the time to spare to attend to vote for her.

Nobody said a word about John F. Kennedy's White House affaires, nor Lyndon Johnson's. Nobody breathed a word of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's mistress, and she lived in the White House along with Eleanor, and at the family home. So, why this obsession with Bill Clinton and his intern?

The answer is simple. Because Bill Clinton was lower class. His mother was an alcoholic, and his father died before he was born. She was forced to leave him with his grandparents where he was brought up among poor blacks, while she trained as a nurse.

Let the record show that he is the only United States president, who, upon retirement, put his office in a black neighbourhood, specifically Harlem. I would have thought that this entitled him to some respect among black people. The foundation he set up concentrates its efforts on charitable work in poorer countries, mainly in Africa. He has already done a great deal to increase the availability of treatment and drugs for the sufferers of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa and the Caribbean. That, too, ought to entitle him to some respect from Americans, and indeed, all black and brown people everywhere.

'Fairy tale'

Alas, this was not to be! Even such a person was told to shut his mouth, and sit facing the corner because he called Obama's position on the war in Iraq a "fairy tale". Obama wasn't for it, but tells no one that after getting to Washington he voted heavily in support of it. Bill and Hillary Clinton could write a big, fat book on Obama's fairy tales, but it would make them look dirty and racist. Yet, all is fair in love and war and particularly politics, except it seems, when a supposedly black person is involved.

Land values in Harlem have shot through the roof since Bill Clinton put his office down there. Black property owners have become rich, Macy's moved in as well as other department stores, and the place is becoming gentrified. That's what he did for the seat of blackness in America. Now he and his wife are being vilified by elements in their own political party and the length and breath of the press. They just don't want Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination to represent her party in the US presidential elections later this year.

Emailing this newspaper from New York, Ian Christie responded to my column last week by saying, "It was Barack Obama, not Hillary Clinton, who after graduating from a prestigious university, chose to work on the streets of Chicago's South Side as a community organiser. Clinton, for her part, became a corporate lawyer for Wal-Mart."

This is a complete falsehood about Hillary Clinton. After graduation from Yale, she went straight to Washington to work in the child advocacy programme, which she continued to do for years until she married Bill Clinton and eventually went to Arkansas. It was long after that Hillary went to work for a law firm. Somebody had to bring home the bacon, since all Bill has ever done is work for the government, which doesn't pay well. But even then, she continued to work for children's health care in Arkansas.

She was on scholarship at Yale. I don't know what Obama was on at Harvard. She has spent her life working for children and healthcare. The irony is that both are senators, and that any examination of their voting records will show that they have voted equally for almost everything. Their votes are almost parallel, which is why Bill said he was a "fairy tale".

Obama worse than Bruce

I underrated Barack Obama in only one respect last week, when I compared him to Bruce Golding. He is much worse than that. He is like Michael Manley. Golding can talk the hind leg off a donkey, but he does not have charisma. Obama can talk and do so like Martin Luther King. But the latter was responsible only for a civil rights movement, not a country.

This is what makes Obama so potentially dangerous. When Michael Manley took over the government of Jamaica in l972, Jamaica's economy was one of the fastest growing in the world, and Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore was adopting our programmes. Now we're killing each other and selling cigarettes by the side of the road, while Singapore has become a First World country. If Americans want a future like ours, they can vote for Obama. Certainly, Jamericans should remember that is why they emigrated from Jamaica in the first place.

Roy Wilson's email from a local address tests the outer limits of irrelevance. In a letter to the editor he writes: "Dawn, in America you are either white or you are black; there is no in between foolishness about brown. The only exceptions are the Mexicans, who are referred to as brown."

In the first place, Mexicans are a particular type of Indian, not brown. I am unimpressed by American typology on race, considering that the country isn't even civilised yet, not in the way of the French or English. If, as America says, one drop of black blood makes you black, then a prominent white American banking family is black, which would surprise the current members. European royalty would also be black, which would come as a surprise too. Then, everybody would be busily trying to prove to me that because the late great Jamaican statesman and politician, Robert Lightbourne, was an ebony black man, he was really not as white as driven snow. Race is at the bottom a very fluid thing. Above all, it's a state of mind, assuming there is any mind there at all in which one could feign an interest.

The probable Republican nominee, John McCain, has pointed out that since Obama has no policies of his own, he has pilfered Hillary's economic plan and is presenting it as his. It is a painful irony, therefore, that the only justice Hillary can get is from the man her party must defeat for the presidency of the United States

She is a real idiot. Not a good journalist if you can't research your facts. This is the sh!t they feed to the JA people about americans and us jamericans. (lang dutty kissssss teeth). I don't bother to read the gleaner, me caan bodda.

[clairern 0]

Ok, so now the latest thing in this process...maybe this can help someone coming AFTER me!

I filed for a K-1 & K2 visas for Ken & KJ. So, Ken & KJ went for their medical today! Only to find out KJ needs a passport in order for him to do the medical! Ken & I hadn't planned on bringing KJ up with him, until we had settled in and prepared for him. We were planning to bring him up in the fall (or whenever Ken's advanced Parole was approved)

Anyway, I just called my handy dandy 202# and asked them how to proceed, She said that they will NOT issue Ken's visa without KJ's! ...since I filed for them together! So for sure we are going to be getting a blue slip!!! So, we have to wait on KJ's Birth Certificate...then they will say they want a DNA test & KJ's passport, before Ken can come up!

Somebody told me that the US approved DNA test can take SIX months! Mobay Hope takes the samples and send it to the US for testing.

So it's looking like maybe another 8-9 months before Ken can come up and I feel like I am going to die right now!! This is so different from what I was originally told (memba when Homegirl lost KJ's Birth Certificate) they told me that Ken's visa would be issued and we had a year to sort out KJ's blue slip and bring him!

Lord...give me strength!

Thanks for listening...love you,

Gill

Oh Gill, I am so sorry to hear this unfortunate thing that is happening to you. Girl, the devil is rampant in these parts. Keep praying and remember, HE never brought you this far to let you down now." Despite all the tribulations that is putting you through, remember God's children always prevails.

Claire

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

Yo, JG sent me this article...Ya'll haffi read it!!

I can't believe this ooman...yuh see ow dem really feel about immigrated Jamaicans!!

Mi seh mi wouldda love fi meet dis ooman face to face and really tell har a ting or two!!!! Her facts are ALL WRONG!!

Makes for an interesting read!!

http://http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glea.../cleisure3.html

For those of your that can't link here is the actual article:

Fricking Nut job!! ...not b/c her opinion varies from mine...but because she didn't even research her facts before she typed them!

***************************************************

Unspeakable treachery

published: Sunday | February 24, 2008

Dawn Ritch, Columnist

Jamericans are up in arms. They're sending a firestorm of emails to the Editor, because I pointed out that Barack Obama was an impostor, and Hillary Clinton a victim.

Are these incensed letter-writers born and bred black Americans, or even brown ones? They are most likely the ones, or the descendants of those, who fled the island because of Michael Manley in the early l970s. They are Jamericans, the ones we all can't stand even when they're relatives, or perhaps because they are relatives. They try to rule us with money, either the actual thing or talk of it. Yet, when they die, they all want to be buried here.

Ungrateful people

I don't care much for black Americans either. They are the most ungrateful people on the face of the Earth. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, set them free. They repaid his party by becoming life-long Democrats. This is an unspeakable historical treachery. So you can keep them, for all I care.

President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, didn't feel that way. Indeed, black Americans themselves used to call him the first black American president. But all of that has been instantly forgotten. Black Americans and young, unemployed intellectuals believe they have a black presidential candidate, and so have been turning up in droves for caucuses which favour Obama. These are usually held for a specific, limited time. The working class who usually support Hillary do not have the time to spare to attend to vote for her.

Nobody said a word about John F. Kennedy's White House affaires, nor Lyndon Johnson's. Nobody breathed a word of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's mistress, and she lived in the White House along with Eleanor, and at the family home. So, why this obsession with Bill Clinton and his intern?

The answer is simple. Because Bill Clinton was lower class. His mother was an alcoholic, and his father died before he was born. She was forced to leave him with his grandparents where he was brought up among poor blacks, while she trained as a nurse.

Let the record show that he is the only United States president, who, upon retirement, put his office in a black neighbourhood, specifically Harlem. I would have thought that this entitled him to some respect among black people. The foundation he set up concentrates its efforts on charitable work in poorer countries, mainly in Africa. He has already done a great deal to increase the availability of treatment and drugs for the sufferers of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa and the Caribbean. That, too, ought to entitle him to some respect from Americans, and indeed, all black and brown people everywhere.

'Fairy tale'

Alas, this was not to be! Even such a person was told to shut his mouth, and sit facing the corner because he called Obama's position on the war in Iraq a "fairy tale". Obama wasn't for it, but tells no one that after getting to Washington he voted heavily in support of it. Bill and Hillary Clinton could write a big, fat book on Obama's fairy tales, but it would make them look dirty and racist. Yet, all is fair in love and war and particularly politics, except it seems, when a supposedly black person is involved.

Land values in Harlem have shot through the roof since Bill Clinton put his office down there. Black property owners have become rich, Macy's moved in as well as other department stores, and the place is becoming gentrified. That's what he did for the seat of blackness in America. Now he and his wife are being vilified by elements in their own political party and the length and breath of the press. They just don't want Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination to represent her party in the US presidential elections later this year.

Emailing this newspaper from New York, Ian Christie responded to my column last week by saying, "It was Barack Obama, not Hillary Clinton, who after graduating from a prestigious university, chose to work on the streets of Chicago's South Side as a community organiser. Clinton, for her part, became a corporate lawyer for Wal-Mart."

This is a complete falsehood about Hillary Clinton. After graduation from Yale, she went straight to Washington to work in the child advocacy programme, which she continued to do for years until she married Bill Clinton and eventually went to Arkansas. It was long after that Hillary went to work for a law firm. Somebody had to bring home the bacon, since all Bill has ever done is work for the government, which doesn't pay well. But even then, she continued to work for children's health care in Arkansas.

She was on scholarship at Yale. I don't know what Obama was on at Harvard. She has spent her life working for children and healthcare. The irony is that both are senators, and that any examination of their voting records will show that they have voted equally for almost everything. Their votes are almost parallel, which is why Bill said he was a "fairy tale".

Obama worse than Bruce

I underrated Barack Obama in only one respect last week, when I compared him to Bruce Golding. He is much worse than that. He is like Michael Manley. Golding can talk the hind leg off a donkey, but he does not have charisma. Obama can talk and do so like Martin Luther King. But the latter was responsible only for a civil rights movement, not a country.

This is what makes Obama so potentially dangerous. When Michael Manley took over the government of Jamaica in l972, Jamaica's economy was one of the fastest growing in the world, and Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore was adopting our programmes. Now we're killing each other and selling cigarettes by the side of the road, while Singapore has become a First World country. If Americans want a future like ours, they can vote for Obama. Certainly, Jamericans should remember that is why they emigrated from Jamaica in the first place.

Roy Wilson's email from a local address tests the outer limits of irrelevance. In a letter to the editor he writes: "Dawn, in America you are either white or you are black; there is no in between foolishness about brown. The only exceptions are the Mexicans, who are referred to as brown."

In the first place, Mexicans are a particular type of Indian, not brown. I am unimpressed by American typology on race, considering that the country isn't even civilised yet, not in the way of the French or English. If, as America says, one drop of black blood makes you black, then a prominent white American banking family is black, which would surprise the current members. European royalty would also be black, which would come as a surprise too. Then, everybody would be busily trying to prove to me that because the late great Jamaican statesman and politician, Robert Lightbourne, was an ebony black man, he was really not as white as driven snow. Race is at the bottom a very fluid thing. Above all, it's a state of mind, assuming there is any mind there at all in which one could feign an interest.

The probable Republican nominee, John McCain, has pointed out that since Obama has no policies of his own, he has pilfered Hillary's economic plan and is presenting it as his. It is a painful irony, therefore, that the only justice Hillary can get is from the man her party must defeat for the presidency of the United States

She is a real idiot. Not a good journalist if you can't research your facts. This is the sh!t they feed to the JA people about americans and us jamericans. (lang dutty kissssss teeth). I don't bother to read the gleaner, me caan bodda.

Clair,

Mi fee di same way.....mi start read it den mi stop...Dem need fi bax dung ar journalist tecah

[clairern 0]

RAHTID...a weh ever badi deh...all di duppy mi caan see

Weh dem deh, weh dem deh? Mek me guh get sum insence and bun dem out

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

RAHTID...a weh ever badi deh...all di duppy mi caan see

Weh dem deh, weh dem deh? Mek me guh get sum insence and bun dem out

DWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL...

[Forever Young 1]

JaEnglishGirl I loved your meez, so I had to go play and make me. How fun. I used the plus size one but she's still pretty skinny, lol. They need to add a real size 18 lookin one on there.

Classy,

I did the same thing...and said the same thing!! I was like PLUS size...which part!! I need a plser plus size Penny!!!

She is SOOOOOOOO you...she's cute!

Bless,

Gill

[SupportOAFJF 0]

di ole a oonuh mad wid oonuh meez..ahahhahaa..no feel no way if mi join di wagon

lawny u had me cracking i started reading the article too a suck mi teet an move on..waste of time...

[Jengles 0]

Ladies,

??? when i go on some of the other forums, i see posts regarding the fact that american women are aggressive. have your SO commented on this? mr jengles has told me that i am aggressive, but of course i'm clueless. the only thing i can think of, is that in other places, men are used to being the sole provider, so what they say goes, here women are more independent and can do for themselves, so we don't see the need to agree with everything they say, and we can be vocal with our disagreements.

any other ideas?

[SupportOAFJF 0]

Ladies,

??? when i go on some of the other forums, i see posts regarding the fact that american women are aggressive. have your SO commented on this? mr jengles has told me that i am aggressive, but of course i'm clueless. the only thing i can think of, is that in other places, men are used to being the sole provider, so what they say goes, here women are more independent and can do for themselves, so we don't see the need to agree with everything they say, and we can be vocal with our disagreements.

any other ideas?

AGREE...soon come wid comment

[Forever Young 1]

***I AM IN LOVE WID MY VJ YARD FAMILY!!!*** :

Guys again...I want to thank you so much for your never ending support! I just had a good heart to heart wid Ken and we are back on track!

We are back to our old positive vibes ...He's in Portmore tonight and heading to get his Police Certificat (finally!!) tomorrow! I am sure 1st Chick from 202 # didn't know what the hell she was talking about!

Ken's going back to the RGD on Thursday to beg them to give s KJ's birth Certificate! Then we will express his Baby Passport! Look Bad things happen to good people EVERYDAY!!! We are no different!

WE WELL OVERCOME EVERYTHING TO BE TOGETHER...PERIOD...END OF BLOODCLAAT STORY!!! So Devil go back to where yuh come from...yuh had me going for a minute...but THANK GOD FOR MY VJ FAMILY AND MY HUSBAND (to be ) I GOT THROUGH IT!!!!

TO GOD AND MY VJ FAMILY BE THE GLORY!!!

I honestly & humbly thank everyone of you!

LOVE YOU,

Gill

[Jengles 0]

aawww Gil, and we love u too

[SupportOAFJF 0]

yes I do believe it is has alot to do with how the women are most times. alot of them make these feel it is ok to drop off money on friday and carry one single life..as long as money coming in an him a mine har she good..until him breed a next ooman dem cuss (she and di ooman) and still shack up wid this man..unbelievable..In JA SOME men still stuck in the MI A MAN A YAAD ERA...AND U DEAR NOT SHOW U LOVE UR BABY MODDA..exactly baby modda cause most girls that's all they demand..nothing else..no body nah treat mi like beer when mi expensive champagne....so di ooman dem fi get blame partially...den again u have men that are "americanized' and up to the time on things cause it seem like parts a JA wayyyy back a time..and tend to treat their lady like u see on TV..sometimes not all bad