Update on my wife... - Page 2

Tonchi · 04-28-2005, 02:18 AM

Um, Radar, this is the point at which you are supposed to be slipping them the bribe. Otherwise, they will be "looking at" your paperwork until the next revolution there.

And you better lose that "public servants work for me" attitude, they chew up and spit out dozens just like you every week. Been there, done that.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-28-2005, 04:06 AM

I think he's refering to the US consulate. We all know US gumint employees don't take bribes.

Radar · 04-28-2005, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Tonchi

Um, Radar, this is the point at which you are supposed to be slipping them the bribe. Otherwise, they will be "looking at" your paperwork until the next revolution there.

The thought has crossed my mind. I'd have done it already if the problem was with the Vietnamese government, but many people have lost jobs at the Consulate or their cases when they try to bribe the U.S. workers.

Undertoad · 04-28-2005, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Radar

Tough org chart, but those 293,027,570 people aren't demanding that my wife be kept out or that our relationship be judged. They only want to make sure she's not a danger.

You know that's not true; a very large number of them don't want her in at all.

Radar · 04-28-2005, 10:42 AM

I guess that depends on who you ask. I see the racist, jingoistic, protectionistic, anti-immigrant types as a very tiny group of whackos compared to overwhelming majority who understand America was built by immigrants and who welcome them.

lookout123 · 04-28-2005, 11:16 AM

radar i hope everything works out with your wife. i also hope that your *ahem* strong beliefs haven't rubbed off on her too much yet. if she were too actually believe that the people who were interviewing her actually DID work for you, there isn't a chance in hell of getting here.

it is at this intersection with reality that your strict libertarian beliefs leave you high and dry.

wolf · 04-28-2005, 11:30 AM

You may have to choose which is more important to you at this stage of your life ... your principles or your wife.

Go kiss your Senator's ass, your wife will be here in two weeks.

If she really wants to come.

You have not been present at any of her interviews.

You do not know precisely what was said.

You have been supporting her and her family for some time.

Yes, as a matter of fact, my glass is half empty. But I'm rarely, if ever, disappointed.

mrnoodle · 04-28-2005, 12:48 PM

Even libertarians indulge in false hope from time to time. I say move heaven and earth to get past the beauracratic crap, then worry about the other stuff. Too much reality at once is bad for you.

Tonchi · 04-28-2005, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Radar

The thought has crossed my mind. I'd have done it already if the problem was with the Vietnamese government, but many people have lost jobs at the Consulate or their cases when they try to bribe the U.S. workers.

I think it rubs off on them, Radar. It's like, when you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. Imagine how I felt when I found out that supposedly AMERICAN citizens who are consuls in Manila have special bank accounts set up for laundering the bribes they require? How insufferably arrogant they are with the applicants like us who take a number and get in line while completely uninvestigated people who pay up sail right through. My friend has an aunt who got into an arranged marriage with a man who had been a friend of her father's, just to get out of the Philippines. Every time she leaves to go back to the US for an interview (she doesn't even live there with her new husband) they pay $5,000 for her exit-and-return visa to be approved

Radar · 04-29-2005, 10:41 PM

I bought a ticket today to go to Vietnam. I'll be leaving on May 19th and coming back June 4th. Hopefully I'll be able to arrange a meeting with my servants while I'm there.

I'll also travel around a bit with just me and my wife. This is the first time I've gone to Vietnam alone, and it will be the most time we've had alone together. Her family even came with us on our honeymoon.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-30-2005, 06:05 AM

Tell them you have connections in Philadelphia.

richlevy · 04-30-2005, 02:43 PM

Please take a camera to post some pics here. Good luck.

Beestie · 04-30-2005, 09:39 PM

Probably a stupid question but is living in Vietnam out of the question?

zippyt · 04-30-2005, 10:03 PM

Probably a stupid question but is living in Vietnam out of the question?

Go for it dude !!!!
You think your basic human right are stomped on here ???
Go live in a THIRD WORLD country !!!!!
I FUCKING DARE YOU !!!!!!

Dude ,, just incase you DON'T konw ,,, Life is cheap in the 3'rd world .
I have seen kids shot down on the street just for snagging a dudes wallet , $20US and its all forgotten .
FACT !!!!!!![

wolf · 04-30-2005, 10:46 PM

Oh, but it's not the third world. It's a shining example of the Communist Worker's Paradise.

04-28-2005, 02:18 AM	#16
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	Um, Radar, this is the point at which you are supposed to be slipping them the bribe. Otherwise, they will be "looking at" your paperwork until the next revolution there. And you better lose that "public servants work for me" attitude, they chew up and spit out dozens just like you every week. Been there, done that. __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

04-28-2005, 04:06 AM	#17
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I think he's refering to the US consulate. We all know US gumint employees don't take bribes. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-28-2005, 10:42 AM	#20
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	I guess that depends on who you ask. I see the racist, jingoistic, protectionistic, anti-immigrant types as a very tiny group of whackos compared to overwhelming majority who understand America was built by immigrants and who welcome them. __________________ "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin

04-28-2005, 11:16 AM	#21
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	radar i hope everything works out with your wife. i also hope that your ahem strong beliefs haven't rubbed off on her too much yet. if she were too actually believe that the people who were interviewing her actually DID work for you, there isn't a chance in hell of getting here. it is at this intersection with reality that your strict libertarian beliefs leave you high and dry. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

04-28-2005, 11:30 AM	#22
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	You may have to choose which is more important to you at this stage of your life ... your principles or your wife. Go kiss your Senator's ass, your wife will be here in two weeks. If she really wants to come. You have not been present at any of her interviews. You do not know precisely what was said. You have been supporting her and her family for some time. Yes, as a matter of fact, my glass is half empty. But I'm rarely, if ever, disappointed. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

04-28-2005, 12:48 PM	#23
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	Even libertarians indulge in false hope from time to time. I say move heaven and earth to get past the beauracratic crap, then worry about the other stuff. Too much reality at once is bad for you. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

04-29-2005, 10:41 PM	#25
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	I bought a ticket today to go to Vietnam. I'll be leaving on May 19th and coming back June 4th. Hopefully I'll be able to arrange a meeting with my servants while I'm there. I'll also travel around a bit with just me and my wife. This is the first time I've gone to Vietnam alone, and it will be the most time we've had alone together. Her family even came with us on our honeymoon. __________________ "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin

04-30-2005, 06:05 AM	#26
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Tell them you have connections in Philadelphia. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-30-2005, 02:43 PM	#27
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Please take a camera to post some pics here. Good luck. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

04-30-2005, 09:39 PM	#28
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	Probably a stupid question but is living in Vietnam out of the question? __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

04-30-2005, 10:03 PM	#29
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Probably a stupid question but is living in Vietnam out of the question? Go for it dude !!!! You think your basic human right are stomped on here ??? Go live in a THIRD WORLD country !!!!! I FUCKING DARE YOU !!!!!! Dude ,, just incase you DON'T konw ,,, Life is cheap in the 3'rd world . I have seen kids shot down on the street just for snagging a dudes wallet , $20US and its all forgotten . FACT !!!!!!![ __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

04-30-2005, 10:46 PM	#30
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Oh, but it's not the third world. It's a shining example of the Communist Worker's Paradise. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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