Feeling the Bern
Feeling the Bern's Journal20 year old UNT student shot in the head on New Year's has just died
http://www.fox4news.com/news/67590902-storyMy fraternity brother's daughter, who is one of the victims close childhood friends, just told me the victim has been taken off life support.
She died within ten minutes.
Happy fucking New Year.
I'm so sorry, Anne Sergi. I know Sara meant a lot to you.
In 2017, my Rape of Nanking movie will be released for worldwide audiences as well as
my piece using Sun Wukong's "Golden Compliant Staff" as a literal historical artifact.
Soon, a screenplay I wrote about K-pop and human trafficking in SE Asia will also go into development.
Just telling the Asian group know because all of my screenplays and movies have massive Asian influences, mostly Chinese and Korean.
$595,000 wealthier now! I got the payment for the movies I sold
Production starts in three to four months.
Scheduled to be released in 2017!
Awesome contract too. Writing, Story, associate producer credit as well as 5% of the profits.
Woo hoo! And I just got requests for two more.
Levity time: How many of you know at least 10 of these jerks at the gym?
When I was a personal trainer in college, I ran into all of these types of people. I started going to the gym to rehab a major shoulder injury from baseball. . .23 years later, I still go religiously five days a week after work. It's my stress relief.
"We Need To Take Our Country Back" - I lasted until that point with these teabaggers
How far can you last watching this 91 seconds of bullshit?
More Good cops:Cop Beats Innocent Child So Gruesomely With Flashlight He is Now Permanently Disabled
Around 9 p.m. on June 13, 2014, then-15-year-old Donovann Austin Braswell was hanging out with four other black teens when officers, searching for an armed man, ordered the kids to stay put. Instead of complying, Braswell and two others fled on foot. As Braswell attempted to climb over a fence, Grand Rapids Officer Sean McCamman grabbed the teen and threw him to the ground before repeatedly striking him in the head with his flashlight.
Guess the race of the child.
These are your cops: His attitude sucks and his Twitter is bigoted racism - Re: Tamir Rice
Asshole with a badge.
Someone troll this punk's racist Twitter.
No issue what so ever shooting and killing a 12 year old child. Police applaud it apparently.
There is a police War on Americans. . .when will people stand up and rise up to stop it, or are we all too frightened and bought off by gadgets and gizmos to care anymore?
More Good Gun Owners: Police: Florida Mom Fatally Shoots Daughter After Mistaking Her For Intruder
ST. CLOUD, Fla. (AP) Police in central Florida say a mother mistook her daughter for an intruder and shot her to death.
St. Cloud police Sgt. Denise Roberts said Wednesday the mother was asleep when she heard someone enter her home late Tuesday.
The mother told police she heard footsteps approaching quickly so she fired a single shot. She then discovered the person was her 27-year-old daughter.
See? More guns do make us safer.
Police Do Not Work For or Even Care About You (long video)
America's insane legal immigration process from someone doing it now - needs changes
Short abstract of this post: It's easier and cheaper with less aggravation to do it illegally than legally.
After going through the process of making my Chinese national wife a legal permanent resident (Green Card), I have come to the realization our immigration system actively works to close the doors in order to prevent people from coming rather than embrace our self-instilled propaganda as a country of immigrants.
1: Forms
The amount of paperwork to get a Green Card for an "alien spouse" is insane. . .I can't imagine how it is for people who aren't married to or have American relatives.
First, there's the I-130 which must be filled out perfectly. Of course many of the questions allow errors to be done by an immigrant, but don't worry, immigration lawyers are there to help you, for insanely inflated fees. One lawyer my wife and I wanted to entrust wanted a $3000 retainer. Both she and I walked out. So I did the paperwork myself as best as I could.
Fee: $420
Oh, most people come here on a tourist visa, according to the Dept. of State. B1 and B2 American visas prohibit working legally, so if a person comes here, they need to file an I-485 Change of Adjustment Status, allowing the immigrant to legally work while their case is being processed. It takes a minimum of three months to get approval, so that's three months of no working in a new country.
Fee: $1070 plus a biometrics check.
Once that is done, it's on the I-765 form, which authorizes the immigrant to gain a legal work permit. That takes another 75 days, minimum. So far, you are up to at minimum six months of no working.
Fee: $465 plus a biometrics fee.
So, right now, you're up to almost $2000 in forms and you can still be told no.
2: Calling the USCIS
They cannot give you answers about anything. Anything that could answer a question will be met with a "we can't answer that," or they will explain everything in such unhelpful bureaucratic language that it would make a native speaker's head spin.
3: Visa fees.
Now, let's say the person is coming to get married. It's time for the K1 visa. Fiancee enters the country, you got 90 days to get everything done or else the fiancee is bounced unceremoniously out of the country.
Let's say you're married already. It's time for the K3 visa, the spouse visa. Okay, time for your immigrant interview. Be prepared to have your foreigner spouse be treated with hostility and suspicion. If it's a foreign husband, the consular officer will look at him as a threat to national security. If it's a foreign wife, she will be looked at as a "green card" wife. Interviews are not designed for anything other than denial and recharge for all fees necessary. Non-immigrant visas are even worse.
So to get the K3, you will need to prove the marriage is legit, that you two love each other, that it's not a "mail order bride" and that she isn't getting the green card and then run away. So, the way they treat people at the consulates and embassies is insulting to the American and humiliating to the foreigner.
Fee: The I-129F form costs $340 and takes at least three months to process ink and paperwork. It is free if you are doing it while you are also processing a green card. In China, the only place you can go for the immigrant visa interview is Guangzhou. Beijing, Chengdu, Shenyang, Hong Kong and Shanghai will not do the IV interview. So there's a plane/train ticket to and from, hotel room and loss of wages/salary for days off. So let's make it a total of $340 for the form plus another $1500 for the tickets, hotel, food and loss of wages. And if you're denied due to the interview, be prepared to do it all over again.
Running total. . .minimum $4000 dollars.
4: Green Card with conditions.
Okay, you're done. You've gotten through the bullshit. You have your green card. Everyone looks at you and they are happy. 10 years of resident status. It comes in the mail or you get it when you turn in your K3 visa packet to the Port of Entry upon entry into the country. Your spouse looks at it. It says "two year conditional." That's right. Unless you've been married at least five years, you only get a two year conditional green card. Don't worry though. 90 days before the damn thing expires, you can file an I-751 to remove the conditions for another $590, with a third biometrics test. It takes two-three months and then you get the 10 year green card.
Running total. . ..minimum $5000 dollars.
5: Conclusion
It is a humiliating, overpriced process that literally sucks the life and soul out of you. I am glad my wife is married to me. Her processing time started August 18th and on December 4th, her packet went to the national visa center for processing her K3 visa. I can't imagine how people doing a green card through their employer or on their own can survive or handle this process.
One can understand why immigration laws are broken. The system is designed to keep people out, or to put up as many roadblocks and prohibitive costs as to make it completely unrealistic or impractical to come.
The system needs a complete overhaul.
Don't worry though. According to my teabagger, gundamentalist, Trump supporting sister-in-law, my wife needs to do this to prove she wants to be in the United States and she should kiss the feet of the government for allowing her to "leave her Chinese shithole to come here." After all, if "these foreigners want to come, they should pay, since they get everything for free in the first place."
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