yuna628

If every person decided to not use drugs/never use again in the US today, the 'market' would collapse. They supply because we demand. I'm going to bet that there are many gangbangers, dealers, and users in the US that have contributed to many deaths. Shall we start blowing them up too?

It's wrong, but I don't think anyone cares about right and wrong in the government anymore.

As a young man clueless about immigration matters, my husband was certainly thoroughly grilled on his first time to the US. And he was just a student at the time, no home ownership or job yet. Still they were satisfied with the answers given. He did pay for his own tickets, he had travel insurance, and money. There was never an issue for any of the years afterwards. I can't say if the B2 will be accepted or not. If he cannot come to the US, then you're going to need to figure out the next steps. K1 will certainly work and that is what we used, but the long wait time for the EAD and green card in the face of not being able to work was a drain of finances. It is certainly worse now. You could marry in the UK, but that will require going through the UK fiance/marriage visa process, and there is the financial requirements that would need to be met for that. Afterwards you'd return home and go through the CR1.

There have been several articles lately on this guy.... and there's something that stands out. I can't say if there were any terrorist sympathies, I know some will make that claim without evidence yet. What we do see though is someone that had been heavily involved in a CIA unit (and other family members) since.. a child? And that once here really struggled with his language skills, jobs, and vastly different life. It sounds as if he suffered from PTSD and some kind of psychosis, certainly mental illness. He was not getting any treatment. CPS had been involved with the kids, and he would constantly abandon the family. It sounds as if some Americans and other community members had been trying to sound an alarm for help, and like many military men.. fall through the cracks. I'm not saying this to be sympathetic - he's a terrible person, but I'm not seeing anything that makes him different than any other nutjob with a gun yet, let alone someone involved with the military having severe issues.

I'll join you for those drinks... my sister has a 'new guy' this year that we know nothing about but she's mysteriously moved in with. She brought him along into my mother's hospital room, no introductions.. just brought him there. Mom was not pleased. I know she'll try and bring him along for Xmas, they're like one entity now. And I'll be expected to get gifts for a guy I don't know a thing about but a name (and he's old enough to be her bloody father!). Amen.....

It's been eventful: Mom recovered well from surgery, and a few days later they wanted to punt her out. I came as soon as I heard and the hospital had been put on lockdown. Despite having metal detectors (a guard that was dosing off), state cops posted outside, and doors sealed.. I managed to wander around the place trying to find a nurse to get me into her ward until I found a large ward unlocked and manned by just one nurse deep into her cellphone. They had no phones for patients in that ward, and this is when my mom told me what had happened the night before. It is terrifying to think how a guy with a gun got into the surgical ward and then her room to steal drugs! But if I could wander unimpeded.... man... we just aren't taking security seriously in hospitals these days. Dad was getting punted out of his rehab the next day, and when we went to get him, it was alarming that not only had they not put him on the right meds and diet, but he had ballooned in edema and 15lbs water weight again. He could not get into the house and fell. Rehab got an earful and once again... paramedics of whom we are well acquainted by now took him back to the hospital. He's back home finally and slowly getting it off, we have nursing care again, but I am not optimistic. All the cathing causes nothing but constant infections. Despite all that's been happening I managed to get all the decorations up and be solely responsible for making late Thanksgiving dinner. It was enjoyable, and I even fixed the traditional pork and sauerkraut, which something that us B'more people always have. All of the Christmas shopping is done, but it cost three times as much as last year. Sales are a joke.

Dad is in rehab. He complains that they make him do things(!!!) for two whole hours! Why it's just horrific. They are good people there. It's clean and safe. But I know he'll go back to his old ways once they discharge him. Mom got sicker and sicker over last weekend. We rushed her to the big hospital, and someone finally did a CT scan. Now she had just had one a few weeks ago and they didn't find anything. But this radiologist (bless him for being competent) found all sorts of things. Next thing I know I'm being called because Mom is getting an NG tube and being rushed into ICU. Apparently you can just start growing random tissue in your body that just start strangling things. Next day they are rushing her into surgery because nothing they've tried is working, and her bowel will die without being untwisted. Five hour exploratory. Surgeon was brilliant woman, managed to fix everything, but it's a wait and see if the bowel will start working again. She'll likely miss Thanksgiving. For now she still has the tubes in and she *hates* it. They are giving her the good drugs, and she keeps telling me about things that happened two months ago as if it happened today lol.

Seems like the left engine was on fire and then ejected itself from the aircraft and the right engine failed. They barreled into everything at high speed. Really terrible. I know my grandpa would have been fascinated by this one.. severe maintenance failure?

This all sounds like rich people problems. Not a question if they get divorced but when.

Not a single kid this year. Very strange indeed. Seems most were driven in to a neighbor's house for party. We've had crazy Halloween displays in the neighborhood this year so I thought surely there would be kids, but someone has had their house fully decked out in Christmas displays since two weeks ago.

The 32 year old is still in custody, the 35 year old has been released and had nothing to do with it.

A fun story that had a sort of happy ending: A week ago my husband managed to put his Switch in a case on top of a vehicle and drove off. An hour later he realizes and I get a frantic phone call if I could search the neighborhood. I head out and search for a couple hours, checking roads and ditches.. find it very unlikely it would have maintained it's position on the car for long enough to get on 95 or anything. The worst case scenarios were it had rolled off and bounced into the river, it rolled into the woods somewhere, or had been smashed by a car. The other possibility was that someone could have picked it up. Nintendo support was sympathetic (you won't believe how many people this happens to???) and helped lock down the account and de-register the unit. He was too embarrassed to file a police report but I did have some contacts to put on notice that there was a reward. By some miracle we got a knock on the door from some teens that had found it after school and had not much to go on but his username since they could not get into his account. Needless to say they happily got a cash blessing for Halloween. The unit was pristine! A real testament to how good the case was and how sturdy a device Nintendo makes and it's nice that there's still some honest good kids out there.

Does this affect anyone that's a K1 and adjusting?

Is your license not written in English? If it is not you can get an IDP which will translate it for anyone that might question. Having your license already will waive you from doing some of the young or early driving requirements such as road hours, but it will not exempt you from a written test, road test, or other documentation requirements. You will need to refer to PA's MVA instructions. Most state's will want proof of residency such as your name and new address on a bank statement or bill, I94, EAD or green card, and a SSN. If you are arriving on a K1 getting all that will take a while. So once you've arrived it's important to get the ball rolling on documents you need.

Sometime.. this month I think? I heard a thud. You know what has happened when the thud occurs.. Yes, he fell again, this time quite a lot of blood and somehow narrowly missed hitting his head on the toilet. 911 again, with neighbors gawking. I tell the hospital, please don't kick him out, because if you do we will just be on repeat. But of course, they never listen. They send the nurse over who is nice enough but then starts asking questions about why he's falling so much and the level of care. It was hard to keep my composure. I can't keep explaining enough about how many doctors he sees that all have an 'opinion' on his condition. One adds a medication, another removes it. Others don't take it seriously. Dad doesn't listen, I can't make him listen. He gets hostile and on top of everything else I'm dealing with I can't force a grown-### elderly man to do something he doesn't want to do. They asked have I considered putting him in a home or getting a full time nurse. On what planet do you think poor people can afford these things? What home? The one the hospital tried putting him into that was filthy and inhumane? The nurses they send are so useless. Within hours of them leaving, I'm having to rebandage everything. It took seven months for his last injury to heal. That new skin that had him looking like a burn patient? All destroyed again. I really have to hand it to my grandparents man.. they never expected their kids to be their sole caregivers when they got old. They had everything planned for. Something got lost in translation with the next generation I guess. . Also wills are important for most people I think. When Dad goes I *know* my siblings are going to have one heck of a fight because he refused to get one. My grandma used to tell me a story about how our family once had a lawsuit about a single piece of porcelain once someone passed.

Nope, we found him a good attorney. Managed to keep his home, his kid, and is much better off financially. If he hadn't had that representation that was familiar with the tactics being used against him, no doubt he would have lost a lot. What I'm saying is... they were a financially stable couple to begin with good jobs and a nice house - that didn't matter. It came down to her issues, greed, and unfaithfulness. Couples can have marriage, finances, a house, and kids.. and still be fundamentally unhappy and break it all.

Why is there such an emphasis on the contract of marriage as if that solves every problem vs stable and committed relationships entered into by responsible and lovingly compatible individuals? I don't dispute the author's pointing to economic and wage factors as one reason why people aren't getting married. But his title is to make men marriageable again? While having financial stability is a plus for both men and women, this does not make a man a man, or a marriageable one either. After helping our friend through a messy divorce, it certainly wasn't finances that broke the marriage that's for sure.

Yep. You could have literally screamed in my dad's face and he wouldn't have had a clue what was going on. The paramedic tried pinching somewhere to see if it would bring him around.. nothing.

Man I remember the time my dad had one of those. Acted like an absolute mental patient before he collapsed.

I wanted to try and look at some additional background on this case: when the MD Supreme Court ruled on this, it was 6-1. The dissent noted that it could ensnare a person convicted of small crimes or petty crimes because the law has been advocating for harsher sentences. Why yes, as I mentioned above the feds wanted to prevent people even convicted of minor drug crimes to lose their weapons. The ban in this case is a federal issue, not really a state one. The state followed the law. Now I have also heard that the guns in his possession were actually illegally possessed to begin with, because he like... stole them, and attempted to pawn them. I don't believe this individual has a history of being an upstanding citizen gun owner. This case had multiple issues and questions such as, should the state of MD follow the federal law? (Well, what choice do they have under the law and the appeals courts ruled as such?) Should a person that is a convicted criminal and now also caught stealing and possessing guns he shouldn't have to begin with because of that federal law, be in bigger trouble? Certainly the act of stealing the guns would have landed him in felony territory anyway and he still would have had illegal possession charges because he stole them? He argued that he was a law abiding citizen, which is also dubious. How his lawyers attempted to frame it: I understand this is being framed as a 2A issues, but man there are questions here. He's real mad about the child support thing, and he's real mad he got caught stealing guns. He was not a previous gun owner. He didn't go to a gun shop and say "I want a gun please let me fill out the background check"... nope, he just stole them for whatever purposes. I can only conclude he is not a good person or a responsible gun owner.

MD state law says that anyone convicted of a violation of common law crime which can involve prison time brings down such prohibition. These type of crimes could be something violent but could also be something such as shirking your parental responsibilities by being a longtime deadbeat. If attempts at getting child support fail in other ways, the state can use this sort of harsher conviction. Such crimes are not felonies but federal law says anyone convicted of any crime that may result in over a year of prison time should prevent possession of a gun. As the article states, if he had been convicted of even a lesser misdemeanor, it still would have triggered the federal block. Because of this prohibition he was convicted a second time of illegal possession of guns. These type of laws were designed to prevent those convicted of drug crimes or abuse from obtaining weapons. You can imagine many people might get caught up. I cannot speak to the 2A claims, but if he lives here he should know the laws here. How did he obtain the guns illegally? Why or how did he obtain them and get himself into even deeper hot water? Also deadbeats need to pay their child support to avoid getting themselves into trouble.

We had a very nice vacation and thankfully the weather was not too bad. A small rant though about men these days. I know of course not all men, but there seems to be a generation of men that are very aggressive and entitled these days. We had gone to my husband's favorite pub while in town, it was a nice night so it was packed and mainly filled with couples. Seating is always first come first serve, so we grabbed one of the remaining tables outside. My husband went back inside to place an order at the bar and chat to a friend, while I waited outside holding our table and waiting for the server. A young man with his much older, inappropriately dressed for this location, and very drunk date??? stumbles onto the sidewalk and begin having an argument with each other. She approaches another man seated at a table waiting for his date to arrive and when not given a response she wants then storms off into the bar. Her 'date' now sets his eyes on me, and begins to aggressively demand that he sit at my table because he has "some life **** to sort out", asks if I'm actually going to eat something, if I'm with someone. He's getting more angry every time I tell him that yes I'm waiting for a server and no he cannot sit with me. He starts pacing in front of me, gripping my husband's empty chair and again wants to know if I'm waiting for someone. I tell him in a firm tone that I am waiting for my husband. This immediately provokes him to start shouting that he's not interested in me anyway and several other expletives. I decide to start ignoring him because such children aren't worth my time, and I start texting my husband to hurry. Other patrons are now looking immediately concerned and thankfully my husband had arrived back at the table, which quickly scared him off. The 'date' got tossed out of the pub and they stumbled away arguing down the street. I am still so bewildered what it was all about, but sure made me uncomfortable!

Yes if you're an alcoholic. No if you're not.

I just wanted to follow up that the images shared here of the subject is not him. https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.7672466

Our 10th wedding anniversary coming up so we're off for our annual vacation. Supposedly the husband has plotted something special, so we'll see what that's about. Been absolutely exhausted these past two weeks. Between my dad always not listening to doctor instructions, my mom's crown falling out (my dentist bless him had to do emergency surgery) and also not listening to the dentist instructions, my sister's 5th COVID infection (but we are all thankfully still negative), cleaning everything, packing suitcases, and finally getting up the courage to pack the dog's things away... it's been a lot. We've had a few potential dog prospects come up, but they've been snapped up quickly. And while they are cute... I'm tearfully reminded that it's still not quite the right time, and none of them feel like the one. I mean who am I kidding? I'd adopt every single last one of them if I could... but that's not practical.