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2006-06-20 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2006-06-20 00:45|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Make US Diplos get visas? Sure thing. Don't forget the sternly worded letter. We frame those and hang 'em in the basement party room.

We have to treat all EU "members", including those which were hijacked into the mess without a democratic vote, exactly the same, huh? That's your call, is it, who we require to get visas? Heh.

Posted by Ebbineper Ebbeaper1581 2006-06-20 01:39|| 2006-06-20 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 UN PARKING TICKETS + Washington Embassy ones. Pay Now!

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-20 02:11|| 2006-06-20 02:11|| Front Page Top

#3 You f**kin wankers want to start playing games ? We'll take our ball and head home. And y'all be headin' home too. Right quick.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-06-20 02:16|| 2006-06-20 02:16|| Front Page Top

#4 So, since I'm not really a diplomatic sort, what is the proper reply to this? Do we do the ol' "Brer Rabbit" thing and apply for the visas, or do we just say "No problem, dude!" and apply for the visas....while taking our sweet time to issue ones to EU bureaucrats?

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-06-20 06:37|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-20 06:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Ima likin' the Japanese approach to unwanted produce. Just make sure your inspectors are, um, too busy to get to that shipment until it's all a-spoiled an rotten and such.

Sad, but them's the breaks, eh?

Fuck the EU, with barbed-wire dildoes as someone said so eloquently yesterday. Life sucks if you're EU, and then you die unimproved, still stinkin of EU-ness.

Posted by Javimp Angerenter8610 2006-06-20 06:48|| 2006-06-20 06:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, the US should constantly revaluate visa regimes as the internation situation changes. The overriding concern is what is in the national interest to allow in the US.

US diplomats working in France, Greece and Spain already have to apply for visas.
This is great. The US should require visas for all people from these countries, reduce airline flights and increase trade tariffs. Trade and contacts are for friends, not enemies or even wannabe enemies. Quit playing the friendly goofball. You'll only get taken advantage of and despised in the process. Play hardball with a loaded bat.

Posted by ed 2006-06-20 07:09|| 2006-06-20 07:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey, if the EU wants to act the sovereign, then so be it. Tell the EUssr that we'll do that as soon as they give up all seats in the UN except 1, that there will be no embassys in the US from Europe except 1, etc. etc.

They want to play in this league they have to play by the rules.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-06-20 08:49|| 2006-06-20 08:49|| Front Page Top

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