the cousin's passports

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023355195

Oh my.

It's a primitive discussion of the new passports, and the cousin butts in:

nadinbrzezinski (123,979 posts)   Sat Jul 27, 2013, 04:56 PM

9. Having a passport is just common sense

I got to renew mine. Combined with my Mexican passports that will be like 16th travel document. My mom had the common sense to get my first when I was three and needed to travel for medical reasons.

Bay Boy (1,265 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 05:00 PM

12. Huh?

you needed a passport to travel to Mexico for medical reasons?

nadinbrzezinski (123,979 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 05:07 PM

19. Last time I checked Boston is not in Mexico

But hey, I said I needed one to travel for medical reasons. That implies outside of Mexico. Is this to hard to comprehend?
 
Oh and I forgot, you do need a passport to travel to Mexico these days.

tabbycat31 (5,208 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 05:16 PM

25. If you can afford it, yes

People have been telling me for years that I should always have a valid passport.
 
I will get one when I know I will need it (I have no connections outside the country). If I need ID, I will use my drivers license.
 
There's no sense in me paying ~$100 for something that will get no use.

(I have a very old passport from when I was a child. I have not left the country since. I haven't traveled for leisure since 2005, and my travel for work is all domestic as I work in US politics).

nadinbrzezinski (123,979 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 05:17 PM

28. Well, I need mine valid

Since I got family outside the US and have been challenged at elections by poll workers.
 
I will add, as a daughter of a holocaust survivor, that is also a compulsion.

tabbycat31 (5,208 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 05:19 PM

30. If you have family outside the US that makes sense

As for voting, I'm a perennial absentee voter (I work on campaigns for a living and I'm never around to vote in person).
 
I also vote in a state without voter ID laws, but my drivers license should do the trick.

nadinbrzezinski (123,979 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 05:23 PM

37. In 2004 I got challenged in Cali

Whipped it out, voted, and called the registrar. Saith poll worker has not worked my precinct ever since

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nadinbrzezinski (123,979 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 05:08 PM

20. You must be one of those Americans

That have never ever travelled outside the US...I know, icky.

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nadinbrzezinski (123,979 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 07:51 PM

72. I do, and it is n ugly archetype

Only the very liberal, rich, coastal elite...travels unlike real Americans.

uppityperson (75,953 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 06:11 PM

62. Yup, it is SOOooooo extravagant to hop over the border in Canada, eh?

Did you know that to drive from Skagway, AK to Anchorage you need a passport as you go through Canada?  And that is "extravagant"? Good grief. You are sounding like my stalker Frank.

[Big Dog]

gNads, the international manatee of mystery, has a shoebox full of passports:

British West Florida
Bumbunga
North Dumpling Island
Outer Baldonia
Westarctica

[Splashdown]

nadinbrzezinski (123,979 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 05:17 PM

28. Well, I need mine valid

Since I got family outside the US and have been challenged at elections by poll workers.
 
I will add, as a daughter of a holocaust survivor, that is also a compulsion.

huh. Haven't seen that before...

[GOBUCKS]

nadinbrzezinski (123,979 posts)   Sat Jul 27, 2013, 04:56 PM
I got to renew mine. Combined with my Mexican passports that will be like 16th travel document. My mom had the common sense to get my first when I was three and needed to travel for medical reasons.

Her treatment was obviously unsuccessful.

But sixteen is a hell of a number of passports for someone still shy of fifty.

Either Crazy Miriam gives her fake passports for her undercover assignments, or she counts a plane ticket as a "travel document".

[seahorse513]

16? That is impossible, and she is a lying full of shit. There are very few countries that allow a dual citizenship.
and why the hell, would you go to Mexico for medical reasons?? I am beginning to think she has what I have.. It might explain the hairloss,  and slight obesity factor.

[miskie]

Her treatment was obviously unsuccessful.

But sixteen is a hell of a number of passports for someone still shy of fifty.

Either Crazy Miriam gives her fake passports for her undercover assignments, or she counts a plane ticket as a "travel document".

- when one considers how old Nads must be to have such a rich resumé, living though 16 passports isn't surprising.

[franksolich]

huh. Haven't seen that before...

Obviously a "stretchy."

Her grandparents and father, then a young child, managed to get out of Poland circa 1938-1939, just before the second world war, and emigrated to Mexico.

Lately she's been alleging her father was a Polish partisan based in the forests, fighting against the Germans and rescued by the Red Army.  That tale falls apart immediately, because the Poles were at the time about as anti-Semitic as the German socialists, and would've never tolerated a kid of Judaic descent among them.  And the Red Army, upon entering Poland, would've either sent him to the gulag or killed him.

I suspect the cousin's original tale has more veracity.

[GOBUCKS]

why the hell, would you go to Mexico for medical reasons??

Well, the nutcase claims her mexican family sent her to the U.S. as a child when she was first diagnosed with terminal condescension. The hair loss, obesity, and dwarfism were side effects of the treatment.

Many desperate Americans have gone to mexico for treatment at the countless quack clinics that operate there. Remember the miracle cancer drug laetrile? That's what drew actor Steve McQueen to mexico where, like every other patient in the quack clinics, he promptly died.

[RobJohnson]

16? That is impossible, and she is a lying full of shit. There are very few countries that allow a dual citizenship.
and why the hell, would you go to Mexico for medical reasons?? I am beginning to think she has what I have.. It might explain the hairloss,  and slight obesity factor.

Before passports were required I know a lot of people that went to Mexico for medical and dental treatments. One lady had braces put on her teeth in Mexico at a considerable cost savings.

Now I don't hear about it as often other then one older gentleman that has plans on taking a vacation to Mexico to have a couple root canals done.

In Las Vegas often the Mexican doctors and dentists are caught practicing in motel rooms or in the back of grocery stores. They come up to care for those that are afraid of deportation or those without insurance. Sounds like a good way to catch an infection to me.

[franksolich]

Well, the nutcase claims her mexican family sent her to the U.S. as a child when she was first diagnosed with terminal condescension. The hair loss, obesity, and dwarfism were side effects of the treatment.

Good one!  Awesome.

[diesel driver]

tabbycat31 (5,208 posts)    Sat Jul 27, 2013, 05:16 PM

25. If you can afford it, yes

People have been telling me for years that I should always have a valid passport.
 
I will get one when I know I will need it (I have no connections outside the country). If I need ID, I will use my drivers license.
 
There's no sense in me paying ~$100 for something that will get no use.

In the first place, it takes $150 and about 2-3+ weeks to get one, helluva long time to wait should the SHTF and you need to leave...TODAY!

I paid $500 for a pistol that I never INTEND to use (outside of target practice), BUT, I consider a passport and a gun the same way:  It's better to have them and not need them, than to need them and not have them.

DUmmie tabbynumbers sure as hell was never involved with Scouting.   

[vesta111]

Obviously a "stretchy."

Her grandparents and father, then a young child, managed to get out of Poland circa 1938-1939, just before the second world war, and emigrated to Mexico.

Lately she's been alleging her father was a Polish partisan based in the forests, fighting against the Germans and rescued by the Red Army.  That tale falls apart immediately, because the Poles were at the time about as anti-Semitic as the German socialists, and would've never tolerated a kid of Judaic descent among them.  And the Red Army, upon entering Poland, would've either sent him to the gulag or killed him.

I suspect the cousin's original tale has more veracity.

I have not seen anything she has said to make me believe she is Jewish. 

If I remember correctly the Germans also went after the Communists and Liberals.   Her family could have been a member of quite a number of targeted groups.    The Christian family that hid Ann Frank also ended up in the camps as did Nuns, Priests, and people with any grandparents of Jewish decent.

[franksolich]

<<<would be happy to be put on "ignore" by my good friend vesta, but alas as a moderator, can't be ignored by a member.

The cousin's admitted too many times to count, to being of Polish-Judaic derivation, vesta, dear; she's mentioned it a lot of times throughout the years, but perhaps you were otherwise preoccupied and not paying attention?

[seahorse513]

<<<would be happy to be put on "ignore" by my good friend vesta, but alas as a moderator, can't be ignored by a member.

The cousin's admitted too many times to count, to being of Polish-Judaic derivation, vesta, dear; she's mentioned it a lot of times throughout the years, but perhaps you were otherwise preoccupied and not paying attention?

Frank, I cannot understand, anyone putting you on ignore..You are a very sweet person, and you like cats!!

[DumbAss Tanker]

<<<would be happy to be put on "ignore" by my good friend vesta, but alas as a moderator, can't be ignored by a member.

The cousin's admitted too many times to count, to being of Polish-Judaic derivation, vesta, dear; she's mentioned it a lot of times throughout the years, but perhaps you were otherwise preoccupied and not paying attention?

Well, actually vesta's point may be worth examination, as I read it, she is saying that although Nads has often claimed to be of Polish Judaic extraction, she is above all a DUmmie, even an archetypical DUmmie, and DUmmies always lie, and so it is indeed possible she is actually no more Jewish than Fauxahontas is Cherokee, and her family may well have left Poland more for political reasons than because of some five-degrees-of-separation connection to The Tribe.

[Gratiot]

Before passports were required I know a lot of people that went to Mexico for medical and dental treatments. One lady had braces put on her teeth in Mexico at a considerable cost savings.

Now I don't hear about it as often other then one older gentleman that has plans on taking a vacation to Mexico to have a couple root canals done.

Medical tourism is still pretty big.  Panama and Costa Rica seem to have taken most of the business that Mexico used to receive in that regards.  Thailand is another big destination, with advanced treatments unavailable in the USA.

[GOBUCKS]

advanced treatments unavailable in the USA.

That is invariably a synonym for "quackery".

[Gratiot]

That is invariably a synonym for "quackery".

Only if your mind doesn't grasp how the medical industry is regulated.

[Skul]

Frank, I cannot understand, anyone putting you on ignore..You are a very sweet person, and you like cats!!

Right there, he's pushing it. 



  @Coach.

[franksolich]

Right there, he's pushing it. 



  @Coach.

Oh, but I'm not a cat person.

They just came with the territory.

And not being a primitive, I accept anyone coming my way, even if a nuisance.

[FlaGator]

16? That is impossible, and she is a lying full of shit. There are very few countries that allow a dual citizenship.
and why the hell, would you go to Mexico for medical reasons?? I am beginning to think she has what I have.. It might explain the hairloss,  and slight obesity factor.

Mexican doctors will remove you testicles with no questions asked. That where the Heaven's Gate cult went when U.S. doctors refused to do it.

[Skul]

Mexican doctors will remove you testicles with no questions asked. That where the Heaven's Gate cult went when U.S. doctors refused to do it.

Metrosexual DUmpmonkies have them??2?22?

Oh, sorry, maybe the girl DUmpmonkies do.
Ask gNads.

Never mind, don't. Please don't.

[NHSparky]

and have been challenged at elections by poll workers.

Oh, horseSHIT, nads.  Based on what, your ****ed up accent?  Yeah, you and about 30 million other Californians.

[GOBUCKS]

Mexican doctors will remove you testicles with no questions asked.

That's because they are the only body parts a mexican doctor can reliably locate and identify.

[GOBUCKS]

Only if your mind doesn't grasp how the medical industry is regulated.

I just grasp how everyone who travels overseas for "advanced treatments" seems to very quickly expire.