Today is my Friday and it is the 3rd and final game of the wood bat tourny and my son’s team has lost the past two, although he hasn’t played much in them. I think only a couple of innings yesterday.
I have to work today so I won’t get to make the game again. Yesterday I missed the game also, after I got off work I headed out there but it was just ending when I got there.
Dawnell emailed me and said my son isn’t playing in the game again today. I think the “more athletic” type players have been picked to play more, which can be frustrating for the kids on the bench most games.
I have been thinking about bringing the Ranger up to the base next week and place it in the “lemon lot” which is what everyone calls the parking area on the base where people can put vehicles they are trying to sell and see what happens. Could use the money to send my son to baseball camp for a couple of weeks.
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The end of paperless cross boarder travel is coming to an end. Monday starts the long awaited and dreaded Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. No longer will you be able to travel between Canada the U.S. Mexico, Bermuda and other Caribbean nations without a passport or proper travel document if you are age 16 or over.
Valid travel document include a regular passport, a new passport card, a “trusted traveler” card or an “enhanced driver’s license,” which states the person’s nationality. Currently, only Vermont, New York, Washington and Michigan offer the new enhanced documentation.
During a recent joint Bush/Clinton interview by Frank McKenna in Canada, Bush claimed total ignorance of the issue. Bush, holding up his hands said, “We had the EZ Pass cards, I don’t know what happened to the project. “I don’t know anything about the passport issue.” Clinton admitted the stickiness of the U.S. border was news to him too. “I told Frank the other day, I don’t know anything about this, when he mentioned it.”
The World Passport, which represents the inalienable human right of freedom of travel on planet Earth is not accepted for entry into the U.S.
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American TRAITOR gets off the hook with just $ 50,000 fine. Ben-Ami Kadish, an 85-year-old former civilian employee of the US Army, has been fined for passing classified documents to Israel in the 1980s.
Kadish said: “I thought I was helping the state of Israel without harming the United States.”
Between 1980 and 1985 Kadish provided information about nuclear weapons, fighter jets and missiles to an Israeli agent, Yosef Yagur, who photographed the documents at Kadish’s residence.
Yosef Yagur is the same Israeli agent who Jonathan Pollard supplied classified documents to before he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. (Israel awarded Pollard citizenship after his conviction.)
Kadish, who was born in the US but grew up in Palestine told the court “It was a mistake. It was a misjudgment.”
On a side note, Pollard’s supporters argue that he could not have committed “treason” as both Israel and the US are allies and have demanded the U.S. release him from prison.
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The Nakba bill, proposed by Israel’s far right would require all Israeli citizens (including Arab’s) to pledge allegiance to Israel as a Jewish state and perform some form of national service.
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring
Freedom casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central
Command: 4973
May 31st, 2009 at 20:58
did you notice any inaccuracies or mistakes in the star trec movie?
May 31st, 2009 at 22:21
Yes I did. There were a few.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:46
It is really a bummer that wherever you go, even to “neighbours”, you have to show a passport or any other travel document! I remember when I was in Holland for a few months (north-Brabant, very close to the Belgian boarder), we BIKED to Belgium, had a great time in a pub – and biked back at night! There was no boarder, just a wooden kind of “turnpike” which was opened anyway … and nowadays in Europe: same story! When, as German, I want to go from Germany to Austria or Switzerland or ANY other EU-country, I don’t have boarders to cross! I find it MUCH better that way … even though, I admit, there are of course disadvantages as well! Nobody “gets the whole cake” … though it feels more “human”!
June 2nd, 2009 at 15:21
Obviously the EU has different standards than the US. They also haven’t encountered such drug mule problems, and fugitives escaping across borders like the US has. I have no problem with the paper initiative, I think it’s the best way to keep track of who is going where.