MarJhi

Gather and organize any documents you may need. See if there are vaccination records you can get hold of (I know that is hit or miss in the Philippines). Proof of vaccinations means less shots at the medical. Renew the passport if needed

96 days for us. The only notification we got from NVC was when they sent it to the embassy, nothing else while it was NVC.

Ahh, so rising crime rates, cities turned into war zones and the defunding of the police is just a myth .

Oooooh....taboo

Oh they are enforced, but ignored by criminals. Gun laws ONLY limit law abiding citizens. Criminals do not care what laws are in place.

And the gun laws in those populated cities are???

Cool, since we are cherry picking data from other countries, let's compare Brazil and Japan, 2 countries that for many years had very similar (and very restrictive) gun laws but very different outcomes. Is it the gun or is it the culture? Japan is a largely homogeneous country, geographically isolated in terms of sharing a border and has an expectation of how to behave instilled in them at a young age. New Zealand and Norway would fit more in the Japanese mold than the Brazilian. Find me a country that fits in the US mold, a wealthy, multi cultural nation that shares a wide open border with a neighbor who facilitates illegal immigration on a massive scale. Also they need to have an executive branch who has no interest in securing that border and a bureaucracy that is intentionally apathetic. Find me that country and let's make an apples to apples comparison.

100% of people killed in this event were murdered by someone who is not a Texan, not an American and never should have been in this country unless he was in a prison cell for his repeated felonies.

I don't know what gun laws could have prevented this when the guy obviously cared nothing about laws to begin with. The man was deported 4 times and arrested for DUI. If he faced no consequences for those actions we are only training him that he is invincible in terms of punishment. He never should have been in this country or at a bare minimum should have been in prison for his repeated prior transgressions. Allowing him to be in this country when he had proven himself to be a bad apple is a major factor in the deaths of those people. Laws not enforced are not respected. There is no legal way in which this man accessed a firearm in the US.

Could it be possible that the governor did not know the immigration status of the shooter at the time of his statement?

The shooter was in the country illegally, so he clearly didn't care about that law. The shooter had possession of a firearm illegally, he didn't care about that law. The shooter murdered people, he didn't care about that law. No gun laws would have prevented this tragedy, but it's very possible keeping this individual from being inside the US would have.

Might be better off spending the money to send them to a top flight school in the Philippines before I would let some of these nutjobs in the US school system anywhere near your kids. It only takes one groomer lunatic to indoctrinate/influence/confuse your child when they are in their most vulnerable years. When you hear these psychos say things like "children don't belong to their parents, they belong to the community", you know there is a problem.

Might be the best thing that ever happened to Blunt Pretzels. By the way, checked the website, they look pretty tasty. Our Pretzels – Blunt Pretzels

I am not surprised. Most people live in their bubble and aren't that engaged in the news of the day. I read a story about a bar owner who said the sales of Bud light was down significantly but about a third of his customers hadn't even heard of the controversy, so it could have been much worse.

You'll know if she doesn't get called on again.

6 to 8 months were pre covid numbers, the current estimates are more than double that. We waited 458 days. Processing Times (uscis.gov)

But you personally wish to decide what we are forced to pay for. I have no problem helping people who need help through private charities. Forcing people to give money is not charity, it's theft.

You mean taxpayers. The government has no money.

Donate? Why not commit yourself to fully financially supporting an asylum seeker just as you would sponsoring someone for a K1 or the like? Anyone who wishes to take on that responsibility themselves is fine by me, but just dropping a small token donation and expecting the American taxpayer to cover the bulk is ridiculous, especially with the cost of living as it is.

There is a certain level of popularity these days that it makes no sense to work for someone else. Megan Kelly, O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and others have successfully gone on to do their own thing and they make all of the money and have none of the restrictions of a corporation or a boss on them. I would argue that Tucker is starting at a higher point in his career than those others. But obviously before he does his own thing he and FOX are going to have to come to some sort of financial settlement, which I can only assume will be quite large.

Yeah, somebody call Moses and have him go straighten Egypt out again.

Elon Musk, like Cleopatra was born and raised on the continent of Africa....so....is he black?

Yes, equal scrutiny no matter which direction it goes.

Or it means she will be financially compensated to quietly go away. Paying her to go away and hoping their customer base thinks she was terminated is the best they can hope for.

Advertising tells me that corporate wokeness and trans/gay and "everyone is a racist" ideology fueled by ESG are skipping hand in hand down the yellow brick road, they are inextricably tied together. But I will comply with your request. 😁