I just wanted to extend to all the American People my deepest condolences for what happened in Boston...
I am born in Italy but always looked at the USA with so much love and admiration that basically i live my life here following the american values, and professing openly my passion for the USA (and let me tell you, here it's not easy, as i live in Tuscany, a so called "red region" where also is placed Camp Darby, one of the biggest Army Base in Europe, and many italians don't like that).
If i had the necessary skills to move to the USA as the INS requires i would probably already did, but i'm no doctor or surgeon or astrophysic so i guess i stay here and come to the US for vacation once in a while... i don't want to be an illegal immigrant, it would be pointless and against what i belive.
Anyway, i followed on Fox News the development of the search of those two suspects and i' m glad that this is over... at least this part, while the grief for the families that has lost loved ones will continue indefinitely...
But i know that american people are strong and will defeat fear and evil.
Again, my most sincere condolences and all my love.

Max, you don't need to have viable skills anymore to become a resident of this country. A quick pass through any "ethnic" neighborhood in Seattle on one of your vacations would prove that to you. Lots of Slavic gangsters, tribal Africans, south east Asian gangsters... just claim "oppression" in your homeland and some church will sponsor you...

If you are going to watch one "news" channel, balance it out with one from the opposing viewpoint. Right down the middle of the 2 is somewhat closer to reality. If I want actual news about what is going on in the USA, I'll watch an internet channel out of Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Belgium or Holland. They haven't sold out to this country's special interest groups yet.

Man dont listen to WD - Or I am not sure what he's talking about ... But I was bloody well qualified to run a mid sized data crunching operation when I started my career, I still was on the bleeding edge for 3 or so years with a set of packed suitcases in case I lost my job, 30 days to get out ... then around 96-97 my employer assured me 90 days of work after I get let go from a contract - as in they had an internal project going so if I was out of external billable work, I'd work 90 days minimum. Then in 98 my 6 years ran out. So off to canada I went for 1 year - lucky I had serious experience by then. Back to US in 99, green card in 01 - 2 months before 9/11. And citizen in 2010.

Anyway I wont say its easy to do it the legit way. It is possible if you have qualifications and experience and well patience to work in the immigration prison for a decade or 2.
I am not sure about the refugee way which may be what WD talks about. I have asked him and not got answer.
The illegal way - really its only open to mexicans. They are about the only ones who have a full blown underground economy ... no one else is allowed in, and they survive based on it. You dont find 30 brits in 1 house , or 30 french in 1 house or 30 italians in 1 house or 30 Injuns in 1 house (well they do if there is a wedding going on - else no) mexicans ... you find 30 in 1 house only if much of them have gone to work, and 2-3 women are coralling the 28 kids that belong to 12 families that live in that house. Otherwise the minimum is 50.

Cool.
Srinath.

guys, I'm sorry that late... I just don't really like the theme of the policy, and therefore this is my first post in this section at all...I offer you my sincere condolences to those two freaks made her nasty stuff...I'll never understand those people, who are ready to make a very hurt others for the sake only, to show that they were so cool(or justify some not understandable religious ideas and stuff..), I am pleased that these noobs still found and defused and justice I think восторжествует.
PS sorry for the "sharp " expressions

srinath wrote on 04/20/13 at 17:03:04:



Man you're right, but WD got a point, last time i was in New York there wasn't one cab that i took drove by an american driver... and in San Francisco was almost the same, russian,  albanians, nigerians and many other ethnic groups.
that confused me a bit, because you don't need much expertise to drive a cab, and an american born and raised in one of those cities i guess knows the place better than an immigrant... some of them spoke english very badly also, not to mention the latinos in L.A. that don't speak english at all... but i could speak with them because italian isn't that far from spanish.

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Well, i watch Fox News because it's the only live channel here on the italian satellite dedicated to the US... CNN it's the international edition and basically speaks 80% of the time of Africa... you have a good point there checking the internet, tha fact is that i'm a little bit tired of the snobbish attitude of many european towards the US...


To Retread: i love Tyrole, i use to spend many summers over there when i was a kid ... Now that i think of that, i could have a trip with my Savage to the tyrole area, in the summer would be awesome
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  Yep, my dream would be to come over and ride a big Ducati through the Trentino district..

He'd have to claim some form of religious persecution...

Does Venice still smell as bad as Alexandria Egypt? That could be considered torture...   Haven't been to either since the early 90s, can still feel the sinuses burning if I dwell on it...

The worse atrocities ever comitted were done in the name of flag and religion... Put crazy in between Falg and Religion, you have a caustic mix...