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danjenkins @danjenkins (646) • United States 1 May 07

I've been to Belize .. it is ILLEGAL for me to get a job in Belize that a Belizean is qualified to do! I can't get into Mexico without the permission of their government. In fact, when you leave Mexico, if you don't have the...

aliens

belize

immigrants

immigration emigrants

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duncannichols I know because I have been to the states about as many times as you have been to Haiti; perhaps you have the insider tip on the subject, I don't know. But it certainly seems as though I am outnumbered. I believe my points stand - I have only one more...

3 May 07

jennybianca @jennybianca (12912) • Australia 1 May 07

Voting in all State & federal Elections is compulsory in Australia. If you fail to vote, with no reasonable excuse, you are fined. There are countries where voting is not compulsory, such as the US. What is the situation in...

compulsory

governments

voting

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duncannichols Definitely not. Although some people would say that with a compulsory voting system voters would be given the option on the ballot paper to abstain (as they are in Australia) it still makes a mockery (in a sense) of the system. Not turning up is as powerful a...

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danjenkins @danjenkins (646) • United States 1 May 07

I've been to Belize .. it is ILLEGAL for me to get a job in Belize that a Belizean is qualified to do! I can't get into Mexico without the permission of their government. In fact, when you leave Mexico, if you don't have the...

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duncannichols But people can't get into the country legally, and because their situation is so desperate they do so illegally. Looking at it from a purely humanistic point of view, I don't see how you can blame them for trying to better their lives. If you were in their...

2 May 07

sunshinedap @sunshinedap (615) • United States 1 May 07

Once I know the story it kind of does it for me because you know everything that is coming. Or worse, they don't stay true to the book or you have already imagined a certain way things are going in your own mind, so then the movie...

movie

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duncannichols If its a classic, usually no. I'm always afraid that the director will do a dreadful and chop huge swathes of the lot to put in a love scene, or something equally as ridiculous. But I am always interested, and so often do go to see them. Trainspotting, for...

2 May 07

danjenkins @danjenkins (646) • United States 1 May 07

I've been to Belize .. it is ILLEGAL for me to get a job in Belize that a Belizean is qualified to do! I can't get into Mexico without the permission of their government. In fact, when you leave Mexico, if you don't have the...

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duncannichols The countries you mention as examples, Belize, Mexico and Haiti, are all incredibly poor. The US has to accept its position as a global superpower and enormous economic force and do some good for once. Allowing Mexican immigrants (willing to work for less, and...

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skyjo1214 @skyjo1214 (9) • Philippines 28 Apr 07

I am still wondering if this is a plot to stop the beatles from reigning as the toughest band ever. Though some people say that John Lennon's popularity went to his head and bragged about it. Still it is his personal opinion that...

john is dead

what is the real reason

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duncannichols I don't think there was any conspiracy surrounding his death - I'm always very wary of supporting theories that don't have their basis in solid, factual evidence. Mark Chapman was clearly deranged, and so obsessed that he felt the need (perhaps in a posessive...

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