OMG, Kate...

Keeping a journal is good, but I am not quite sure if it would be
admissible in court. Maybe you can talk to a Social Worker or a Police
Officer and have one of them escort you everytime. Again, I don't know
if it would be possible. But you hve to have proof and witnesses,
otherwise it won't be enough and it can get dismissed as hearsay. Talk
to your case worker and see what the best strategy might be. Don't lose
faith. Your son is lucky to have you as his mother. He has half a dad,
but a 2 1/2 Mom. Chin up, girl!

Meatloaf, baked potatoes and corn cake for dessert. Iced tea, so the
kids leave the coke and sprite alone!

Salt, garlic, soy sauce, wercestershire sauce, oregano. In Panama we use
a lot of coriander, but fresh (it grows in my back yard, long luscious,
aromatic green leaves), and fresh parsley.

I don't like hot peppers, no habanero, no jalapeño, none. We have a
recipe for hot sauce that it is made with habanero peppers and mustard,
and other spices of course. My brother makes a killer hot sauce
Thank you, not for me. The point of seasoning the food is to enhance the
natural flavors not to kill your taste buds...

"Alada I am sorry but all I have to say is five words: It takes two to
tango.

Just because an american man sires a child does not mean that child
should automatically be given american citizenship. Same thing fro an
american woman"

Daniel, you are wrong... to an extent. It is not automatic, there is a
process. A child is entitled to the citizenship of the country he/she
is born in and the citizen of the father or mother, if different from
the country of birth. For example, a child born in Panama of American
parents residing in Panama, is Panamanian by birth, but legally
American. If that same child is sired by an American father but a
Panamanian mother and born in the US, he is American by birth, but he
can also apply to have Panamanian citizenship, becoming a dual citizen.
And viceversa. If the child is born in Panama from an American father or
mother, again Panamanian by birth and entitled to his father or mother
citizenship. At age 18 this child will choose his/her nationality. But
the nationality of birth is never lost.

So, yes the fact that an American sires a child does entitles that child
to citizenship, provided that it can be proved. It is the child's right.

So, am I to understand that it will be OK to sire children from women of
occupied countries? I guess the intent is not to sire a child, but it
happens. The idea is just to have sex? And a child born from this
informal relation is just an accident? With no rights? And th
authorities will not acknowledge it.

Please.

My heart goes out to you!

My the angels and boddhisatvas keep him safe and bring him home

"(a) is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an
armed conflict;
(b) does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities;
(c) is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the
desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a
Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of
that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in
the armed forces of that Party;
(d) is neither a national of a Party to the conflict nor a resident of
territory controlled by a Party to the conflict;
(e) is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict; and
(f) has not been sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on
official duty as a member of its armed forces"

Jerry, am I to understand that if a Merc is captured and found out to be
a National or a resident of a territory Party of the conflict, it won't
be considered a Mercenary? What will the status be? Because if this
person is not part of the armed forces or under official mission, he
will be a civilian abroad. He will be tried as a common criminal? No
crimes of war? Please, I think I am getting over my head. Enlighten me
please.

I am going fishing on Sunday, real nice, fat basses...

eeeugh!

this is yummy and simple

that's her, isn't she?

she got bored without us.

A yellow Labrador. Big, good with kids, very protective of her family,
playful, smart as hell

Well, of course I would pick the quilss off your butt... Is just
humanitarian. Of course I would be laughing so hard at you I don't
think I would get much of it done

Claudette: "Ma, your huggie brought out a prize!"

(chanting) I really don't wanna be soup, I really don't wanna be soup, I
REALLY don't wanna be soup!

If I am correct, the President needs approval both from the Senate and
the Congress to go to war. He found a way around it. To institute
mandatory drafting will require approval as well. Although I am not
quite sure the average US citizens will accept it quietly.

There is another idea: In every place in the world that the US Armed
Forces have had military bases, there are children left behind. Fathered
by American G.I. that never took responsibility for them, and the US
government fails to make them assume their responsibility. Even more,
the US Government will not acknowledge these children, and won't even
provide the mothers with suitable means to prove that the child is
indeed a child born from an American father.

They are so willing to grant citizenship to anybody that will fight in
the Armed forces, regardless of their country of birth, political
affiliation, educational background, etc. why don't give it to a few
children that will be grateful for the opportunityof having a life?

Just my humble opinion.

"And since Sept. 11, 2001, the number of immigrants in uniform who have
become US citizens has increased from 750 in 2001 to almost 4,600 last
year, according to military statistics"
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And of those 750 that made it back to become citizens, how many went in
to start with?

And of the 4,600 that became citizens last year, how many went to Iraq,
for starters?

Of those new citizens, how many came injured, maimed? Who will pay for
their recovery and treatment? I hope you won't say the VA, because even
living outside the borders of the USA we know what kind of a mess that
is.

Do you think that citizenship is way too high a price to pay to a person
that is risking his/her life in a war?


Maybe I'm still being naive

Well, your own countrymen won't sign up to carry on with the war your
President started and sees no way out of.

That's why the Pentagon is pushing the Immigration Bill to be approved
ASAP.

The hypocrisy of it all...

In one hand you don't want immigrants, because they are taking your
jobs, and blah, blah, blah... in the other hand: go ahead and send those
immigrants to fight a war they have nothing to do with, a war nobody
wants to fight because it's so wrong.

Maybe I am just being naive, but, isn't that a bit of a double moral?

1.)What are you wearing RIGHT NOW?

2.)What are you eating or drinking RIGHT NOW?

3.)What are you listening to or watching RIGHT NOW?

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1.) White skirt with black flower print, black hip length high-neck
sleeve-less top, high heeled black suede pumps, skin colored stockings.
Hair up in a chignon in the back of my head and a black bow.

2.) Not eating nor drinking at the moment. I had a cup of green tea with
ginseng and lemon and a few saltine crackers earlier.

3.) Listening to my co-workers getting ready to go out to lunch.

If it's a dressy dinner at a fancy/formal place, I would definitely wear
stockings and pumps, even during the summer, if it's an inside sitting
dinner.

If the sitting arrangements are outside, I would wear high-heeled
sandals and no stockings.

Althought I probably wouldn't want to sit outside where is hot and humid
(hair disaster there), and the mosquitoes are probably around to feast
on my bare legs

what sort of face a woman finds attractive when she's giving birth to a
child? Hmmm