Вопросы иммиграции

В свете последних решений последнего съезда, решившего предоставлять гражданство нелегальным иммигрантам и депортировать, если что, легальных, вспоминаются уже забытые проблемы диссидентского беженства. Проблема была в следующем: если диссидент отсидел в советской тюрьме, то у него был "criminal record", и его в Америку впускать было уже нельзя. Зато лицам, художественно... ну вы поняли.

Я не хочу никого обижать, просто есть ценности настоящие и воображаемые, и неплохо бы иной раз отметить разницу между ними, хотя бы и мысленно. Дык.

seagull management

You fly in, shit on everything, then take off.

does not the author have the copyright?

коллективизация гольфа в США

I happen to be a member of a privately owned golf club on Long Island called Deepdale. Located in the Village of North Hills, a tiny but very wealthy enclave, Deepdale is a beautiful course that has been in use for over 50 years. It has a fabled history; Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon were members. Now, perhaps emboldened by Kelo, the mayor of North Hills, Marvin Natiss, wants to confiscate Deepdale, and has taken some significant preliminary steps--such as hiring consultants and appraisers--toward starting proceedings to do so.

Why? Not to put up a public road or a public building, or for some other public use. North Hills doesn't need anything like that: It doesn't need any schools, or police, or firefighters, or libraries and the like because it gets those services from other local governmental units, such as the Manhasset school district, the Town of North Hempstead, and Nassau County.

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No, the mayor of North Hills wants to use the power of government to condemn Deepdale--whose members are a diverse group of people from all over the country and around the world--to make it an exclusive high-end golf course restricted to people who live in his small village and would be willing to pay thousands of dollars in yearly membership fees.