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We’ve not made a trip to Panama, so I can’t comment on road conditions, etc. I can share two things with you, however.
First, you cannot take any rental car across the border to either Panama or Nicaragua.
Second, before you try to drive across the border, you must obtain the proper documents for your Costa Rica-registered vehicle. One source of those documents would be your own attorney.
Sorry, Victoria, but your secret’s a secret no more. There’s been a drone surveilling you for months. We know your every move.
“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. No, it’s Superman. No, it’s a drone.”
If you look back through recent history, you’ll learn that the sociologists (Robert Merton in particular) have pretty well nailed it. Civil unrest occurs primarily when the population is generally optimistic about the likelihood of change in their interest. That explains well the civil unrest that characterized the 1960s and 1970s the calm that characterized the decade of the Great Depression. For as long as the populace is pessimistic about the chances for change, they tend not to raise a fuss. What would be the point?
Without disputing the figures about the military hardware that the U.S. has purchased, it’s important to note that those expenditures have been mostly done in the guise of homeland security. The recipients have been state and local governments. When, for example, you divide 30,000 bulletproof vests among all the state and local police forces in the fifty states, you don’t end up with much of a concentration. The same is true for 7,000 assault rifles, etc.
In 2009, there were some 14,000 law enforcement agencies int the U.S. which employed some 708,000 officers. If you do the math, you’ll soon see that the country isn’t very well prepared for anything much less some tidal wave of civil unrest.
Back in the early 1990s, there was an article on artificial stupidity in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Its final conclusion was that you can program a modern computer to do almost anything, but you can never program it to think like a Congressman.
MagicJack and Vonage both work just fine anywhere there is adequate Internet service. Thatis the unanswered question. Skype works, too.
ICE, Movistar and Claro all offer cellular service with varying coverage areas. You can buy a prepaid SIM from any of them without needing to be a legal resident. Your cellphone must operate on the GSM technology, not on CDMA, and it must be unlocked.
You’re right, Victoria, if it were true it would be important, but it’s not, so it’s not.
President Obama’s legal birth certificate was duly recorded by the State of Hawaii’s Office of Vital Records. By legal definition, they have the authority to issue duplicate birth certificates (long form and short) based upon their legal records and they have. His birth certificate is as legally definitive as yours, mine or anybody else’s born in one of the fifty states.
In the “never-going-to-happen” realm of President Obama’s removal from office, Vice President Joe Biden would ascend to the presidency and lay the groundwork for his own re-election in 2016.
Speaking for my fellow Americans, davidd, we’re glad that you’ve finally found peace. So what’s your interest in President Obama’s place of birth? What’s it to you? Are you equally concerned about the birthplace of President Chinchilla? Queen Elizabeth? Boris Putin?
And, by the way, if you, non-citizen that you are, get to declare the President’s Hawaii-issued legal birth certificate to be a forgery, then I get to declare yours to be a forgery as well. You and I have equal standing in this matter. We are equally knowledgeable.
If you paid any attention to Sheriff Arpaio’s statement on the YouTube video, you took careful note of his reference to (1)his “volunteer posse” of amateur sleuths and (2)the number of conditional terms he used — “we suspect”, “we think”, “it may be that”, “we feel”, etc. Add ’em up and you have a mouthful of nothing. He hedges every sentence. Why do you suppose that is?
I fail to understand your interest in President Obama’s birthplace given that you are not a naturalborn citizen of the United States. When were you naturalized?
We’ll have to see the documentation.
Yes, I readily agree that the middle class has taken enormous hits in the past forty years or so. I also acknowledge that the very existence of the middle class was made possible in significant measure, although not entirely, by a manufacturing economy.
None of that, however, supports your assertion:
[quote=”sprite”]The US stopped making things decades ago when the globalists in the government shipped our manufacturing jobs overseas. [/quote]
The manufacturing sector in the U.S., while perhaps not what it once was, has hardly gone dormant. Reports of its final demise (by you, sprite) are greatly and inaccurately exaggerated.
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I think people would be surprised just how much we do manufacture. The US is still in the top few in manufacture.[/quote]So you agree that the U.S. still has a significant manufacturing sector and that sprite has it characteristically wrong. That’s been my sole point all along.
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David, those are international corps that sell world wide. [/quote]You’re absolutely correct. They both sell and manufacture outside the U.S., but that doesn’t alter the fact that they do, in fact, also manufacture in the U.S. which sprite says hasn’t been true for decades.
She says that, but she’s simply wrong.
sprite, it was you who said . . .
[quote=”sprite”]The US stopped making things decades ago . . .[/quote]
The facts are otherwise.
I’ve provided references to hard data and I’ve offered to show you the concrete outputs. Draw whatever conclusions comport with your delusions.
sprite, the next time I’m in the U.S., I’ll invite you up to Lansing, Michigan where GM hasn’t manufactured a vehicle in decades and you can explain to me where all those Buicks and Chevrolets awaiting distribution to dealers came from. They’re sitting on various storage lots nearby the exits of the plants where GM doesn’t manufacture them.
Then we can take a plant tour and watch American workers not making those cars.
And you know better . . . how?
Tell us about your last on site inspection at a U.S. auto manufacturing plant, any one of them — GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW, Mazda. Or how about Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Grumman, et al? Or Raytheon, Texas Instruments, (the list goes on).
Tell us how you know that not one of those and hundreds more haven’t produced one thing in decades. Just don’t drive your Chevy Volt there.
And if you haven’t actually seen these and others not manufacturing anything for decades, just how do you know? Or are you making this up?
