OT: How small is your hometown?

[TerranC]

Gil: Nah. I don't want to hijack this thread to start a political discussion. However, I don't believe that Illegal immigrants should be labelled Illegal, and considered like any other immigrants, but did not have an opportunity to sumbit a request to the proper authorities.

Oh look at that, I hijacked it.

Tesco: I was 12. Took a period of 6 months to crash-settle (learn english, eat albertan , and get accustomed to canadian ways )

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[Gil Hamilton]

Man, is that WEAK!
An ILLEGAL is someone who attempts to circumvent the laws of the country by failing to follow the established proceedures for becoming a CITIZEN. If this first occasion of the ILLEGAL encountering one of the basic principles of this nation, that of abiding by the law, is marked with failure to follow the law the one must ask what other laws will the ILLEGAL be willing to cast aside as he/she feels like.
Come on down here for a week or two and I'll be happy to show you areas of desert scrub with no towns or roads for 50 to 100 miles or more where ILLEGALS "don't have a chance to register".
I know with your BANKRUPT, socialist, healthcare system up there you are use to paying for everyone else's service, but down here we feel a bit different over the destination of our EARNED dollars.
Its way past time the world ceased to look on the United States as a Free, all-you-can-eat buffet with one hand grabbing all they can, and then sh*tting on us through word or deed with the other.

P.S. Caught a 2 1/2 trout. Water was glass, breese was welcomed. Didn't even run across the Tagged fish

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Gil Hamilton:
An ILLEGAL is someone who attempts to circumvent the laws of the country by failing to follow the established proceedures for becoming a CITIZEN.

If this first occasion of the ILLEGAL encountering one of the basic principles of this nation, that of abiding by the law, is marked with failure to follow the law the one must ask what other laws will the ILLEGAL be willing to cast aside as he/she feels like.

Come on down here for a week or two and I'll be happy to show you areas of desert scrub with no towns or roads for 50 to 100 miles or more where ILLEGALS "don't have a chance to register".

I know with your BANKRUPT, socialist, healthcare system up there you are use to paying for everyone else's service, but down here we feel a bit different over the destination of our EARNED dollars.

Its way past time the world ceased to look on the United States as a Free, all-you-can-eat buffet with one hand grabbing all they can, and then sh*tting on us through word or deed with the other.

1. True, from a legal point of view.
2. So what are you saying? Any and Every illegal immigrant has or will use the potential to become a criminal?
3. I'm going to guess that "here" is Near the US-Mexico border? In that case, I know that Illegal border crossings are common, but They really don't have a chance when they pick garbage for food and money.
4. NEAR bankruptcy. Near. Big difference
5. "Give us your poor, Give us your tired, Give us your huddled masses..."
6. Good points.
7. All of those valid points should be sent to the INS. We all know you are having problems over there.
8. Sorry for hijacking this thread.

[Instar]

I dont know about all this talk of "stop lights" and "paved roads"...
heh
honestly, I live in the megalopolis of small towns... the central part of all of the small towns alllll around a slightly bigger small town

[Gil Hamilton]

I lived in Seoul from 1970 to 1973. Grade school, took lots of fieldtrips. Unique history and people. My favorite of the foreign countrys and people I've lived in or visited.

Some special memories are: The Children's Center and Amphitheater, The Korea House, The Blue House, the cazillion Temples, Shrines, Royal Palaces and cemetaries, ThemePark and Zoo, Ice carving on Nam-San (the tower was still under construction), the Huge tunnels/bomb shelters, three wheeled trucks, Smile Cookies, Dajos, the city gates, pachinco machines and parlors, the DMZ and "their" huge flag and blaring music, my second time to see The Blue Angels (flying F-4s!!!), walking 1 1/2 miles to and from school with those Manchurian winds, catching pneumonia, two sided drums and those long head-whip things, A-frames and the people under them, bell brass and of course, Ramen and KIMCHEE!!! Still can't get enough!

Sorry for the discourse, but as I mentioned, I liked it. Did many of you know who's navy was the FIRST to use Armored ships and against whom?

[Captain Kwok]

Gil - Perhaps you should acknowledge the fact that your country's big corporations go into these countries and while paying them next to nothing for well paying jobs here just so you can save a few bucks on your next electronics purchase. Perhaps if these corporations paid the people something they wouldn't keep trying to live your life in your country. Plus - you ever try going through the INS? I couldn't believe what a racist and discriminatory dis-service it was. It's an unfortunate problem but maybe the people in charge can consider a better remedy?

Secondly - I'll take my "BANKRUPT" health care system that doesn't discrimate and gives everyone the equal access to medical treatment over a HMO system that allows people to be treated like second-class citizens because of the amount of money in their wallet or some guy in some office decides that treatment is too expensive. I'm sorry but you can keep spending billions of your tax dollars to drive your economy through your military but I don't think more big ships and a faulty missile defense screen is going to stop terrorism...the old white men in charge keep saying that 9/11 changed "things" but I don't see that it really has. You're hard EARNED dollars dissappear just as easily as ours.

Don't get me wrong - I like the United States. My wife is from there and I lived in the Northwest for a couple of years. It's a great country and has many more positives than negatives, but don't walk around thinking of yourselves as the most "enlightened" people on the Earth because that's just not right.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Gil Hamilton:
I lived in Seoul from 1970 to 1973. Grade school, took lots of fieldtrips. Unique history and people. My favorite of the foreign countrys and people I've lived in or visited.

The Blue House, the cazillion Temples, Shrines, the Huge tunnels/bomb shelters, the DMZ and "their" huge flag and blaring music, my second time to see The Blue Angels (flying F-4s!!!),

walking 1 1/2 miles to and from school with those Manchurian winds, catching pneumonia, two sided drums and those long head-whip things,

Ramen and KIMCHEE!!! Still can't get enough!

Did many of you know who's navy was the FIRST to use Armored ships and against whom?

1. We do have a unique history. It helps when you are squished between rival powers and work as the only bridge between them It's worthy of a shakespearean drama, as one person said. Thanks for the comment; we try to be quaint

2. In the 70's... should be about right from What I've heard from my father and mother.
born in '80.

3. The Manchurian winds are one of the uncomforts of Korea. One of the most *enduring* periods, with added pollution and whatnot. Long Whip things? Is it an instrument?

4. Ramen is an Japanese invention. Kimchee, whoever, we take proud of. It helps you fight off cancer and many other things... except blood pressure. Don't take too much of it.

5. We really didn't build the first ARMOURED ships, we just built the first Ironclad. One of the finer moments of history.

[ June 02, 2002, 06:56: Message edited by: TerranC ]