[numbnuts]

Auralpoison, I understand what you're saying about the passport problem. I think the easiest solution would be to just save yourself the trouble and use your driver's license as your I.D. instead. You won't have to explain that to anybody unless they're really brain-dead. By the way, your name has a neat ring to it. What does it mean? Is it some reference to speech that poisons one's mind, or what?

[lucizoe]

oh, sheesh, he just doesn't get it, does he?

*shakes head*

whatever

[treehugger]

Damn. I don't have a passport. I'm gonna go get one.

[pixiedust]

saktii: I really think an ignore function would be the best thing. Most boards have them and if someone is on your ignore list, basically you don't see their posts. The attention whoring ones like Stephen would tire really quickly if no one could see what they are posting in BIG RED LETTERS. That way Bust could continue to be unmoderated since there seems to be a lot opposition to Mods. Regular thread clean ups would be nice too...off to go suggest that.

[pixiedust]

AP: That is too funny! Did he at least id you for the cooking wine? I got id'd for trying to buy campfire lighter fluid last summer. I was like, are you kidding me? We can't campout if we are under 21 these days? I also love how you almost have to sign over your first born to buy decent cold medicine. And if you don't have a 24 hour pharmacy in your area, you are SOL till morning.

[saktii]

there used to be moderators on this board who had the ability to delete non-essential/offensive threads. If I remember correctly, Lysistrata was a mod.... I'm wondering if the trolls would be less likely to garbage up the board if someone was able to delete the "I WANT TO GIVE A BLOWJOB TO JESUS IN THE NAME OF NOT KILLING BABIES EVEN THOUGH THE USE OF MY PETROL POWERED AUTOMOBILE INDIRECTLY MURDERS MORE HUMAN BEINGS EVERY DAY THAN ABORTION, AIDS, AND MY CLINIC BOMBINGS COMBINED"-- Book Of Religious Wingsnuts psalm 666-23 threads they keep creating.

[auralpoison]

To continue the OT:

The U.S. Office of Central Statistics says only eighteen percent of Americans have passports. The number of people who smoke cigarettes in the US is twelve percent higher than the total number who have a passport. Isn't that mental? I've actually had an airline employee that didn't understand how to read my passport. She kept telling me that I was not on the passenger manifest even though I had brought written proof that I was booked. She had completely ignored my last name & had been looking me up as my first & middle names only. Sheesh. My passport is my primary form of ID & it confuses the shit out of a lot of people because they've never seen one. A cashier in SE Kansas had to call a manager over when I tried to write a cheque with it. "What state is it from?" Um, it's federally issued. "I need a state to put on the cheque..." Well, it was issued by the Federal government in the great state of Washington, Seattle, specifically. "I need to get a manager." This is Walmart. I can use this thing to get into Peru & as ID to buy $350 worth of crap in the Czech Republic, but you need a manager to take my $25 cheque? I knew I should have gotten out of his line when he called over a manager because he wasn't sure if he could sell cooking wine as he was under twenty one. Idiot.

[pixiedust]

LOL...luci...the way the trolls hijack real threads, feel free to hijack the troll thread anytime!

[lucizoe]

Hee, pepper, I've had one since I was about twelve, I think. They're not really that expensive in the states, for what it grants you - the ability to more easily enter another country (which is why mine is always up-to-date, in case I need to flee ). I think mine was between $40-60 USD, more if you need to rush it. They do last ten years here, although I think they were planning on changing the standards for it, even before all the "terra" shit started happening.

Until current political climate, I never had to show anything when crossing the border, which I do at least twice a year. Now it's fucking ridiculously long lines of cars, in the heat, only to be harassed by over-zealous twenty year old border guards who never deviate from their paranoia script.

Seriously, last time I drove through Ontario, the US border guard gave my mom and I the third degree, asked us where we were going? (northern michigan), why? (to visit family), how do you know your family? (erm...) And this was to cross back into the states.

ergh - sorry so off topic!!

[pixiedust]

Lucizoe,
The main problem I have encountered with a passport( I do have one) is that through divorce my name has changed twice since I got it. I still use it for employment verification since I lost my Social security card, but I'll be getting a new one soon,now that I am remarried. But pretty much what pepper said, if you aren't leaving the country here it is pretty unnecessary. Canada and Mexico didn't require one although from what I read on the cruiseline website everywhere is going to require one at the end of the year. I think that is what is sparking a lot of the illegal immagrant protests lately(not sure because I really haven't followed it) But they won't be able to get passports. Most of them do not have vaild drivers licenses either.

[pepper]

luci, it's a really expensive document that takes forever to get and only lasts for five years here (i think it's ten in the states) and you can only really use it for travel for foreign countries. why bother getting one when almost everywhere will accept your driver's license as id? there's a proposal out there to add some encoding to the license that indicates citizenship and would make it acceptable id at the border.
it's crazy you know, i lived in windsor and we could get across with just a birth certificate, that's just a piece of paper with no signature or photograph on it at all, anyone could use yours or you theirs. i always thought it was stupid to even bother, why not just let everyone cross?
so off topic, ha.

[lucizoe]

Only 20% of Americans have a passport? God, I really DO live under a rock...I thought everyone had a passport...

[treehugger]

Ohio has it's problems now too. See my post in Perilous Position of Choice.

My next donation is going to go to planned parenthood in Ohio. Thanks in advance, Steve!

[pepper]

cha-ching. another post, another dollar.

pix, your friends may still be able to run on up into canada for a while but the new passport law the us is passing will certainly be keeping the majority of canadians and our every strengthening dollar out of america. only 30% of canadians even have a passport, 20% for americans. so weird, i mean, we're the ones who DON'T have guns!

[efilorp4]

To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.

[anarch]

I just donated $100 online (for efilorp4's 100 posts so far) to South Dakota Planned Parenthood's fight re the abortion ban. (I'm not technologically ept enough to upload photos, sorry.) Next donation will be for GLAD. Thought I'd post info from their site about all the other things they do for women, men, teens,
in addition to abortion.

Praise the Goddess for Her Infinite wisdom, for She works in mysterious ways to redirect the $100 I had earmarked for my savings account to Planned Parenthood instead. Thanks to you wise & witty Busties too. Love you!

[snafooey]

I think the Canadian troll was someone different - Merle? I'm not sure.

Btw, Canadian addresses don't always have the .ca on the end.

[pixiedust]

Frankly, that far north, he may spend a lot of time in Canada. I lived near seattle for a while and my friends were always running up to Canada for one thing or another. And to those who have said he followed them onto other websites...I came upon this link last time I was having problems with stalkers.

[gardnerella]

Is s.katzner@att.com not his real address then? Wouldn't it have some sort of Canadian suffix? Also, how was it determined? Wasn't his place of employment confirmed at some point or am I mistaken?

I can't really find any Katzner's in Canadian phone books.

[pollystyrene]

I thought we had determined he was Canadian when he was "ste" a couple of years ago.