[Bubba]

Have just seen that the US visa waiver application form now asks you to list your social media profiles. Optional ... for now.

It's a pretty scary thought, there goes Privacy...

http://news.sky.com/story/us-considers-asking-visa-applicants-for-social-media-passwords-10759953

So if you're after a US visa you just create a dummy set of social media accounts that will bore them to tears and leave out all those posts about your ISIS sympathies. Easy.

[andy popp]

I actually was granted a US visa (K-1 alien fiance) last Friday.

[Oldmanmatt]

I actually was granted a US visa (K-1 alien fiance) last Friday.

Is that Vulcan or Klingon?





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[tomtom]

I actually was granted a US visa (K-1 alien fiance) last Friday.

Is that Vulcan or Klingon?

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That's a rather personal question to ask about a fella's fiancé

[jfdm]

Have just seen that the US visa waiver application form now asks you to list your social media profiles. Optional ... for now.

It's a pretty scary thought, there goes Privacy...

http://news.sky.com/story/us-considers-asking-visa-applicants-for-social-media-passwords-10759953

Mr Kelly told a hearing of the Homeland Security Committee: "We're looking at some enhanced or some additional screening.

"We may want to get on their social media, with passwords.

"It's very hard to truly vet these people in these countries, the seven countries. But if they come in, we want to say, what websites do they visit, and give us your passwords. So we can see what they do on the internet."

Shit, I'm going to Trump land at the weekend.
Do I have to put on visa about being a regular on UKB?
Will jfdm be unmasked state side.
If the Trump gets hold of my profile Lordy .....

[mrjonathanr]

Canadian reaction to rumours that Sarah Palin may be new US ambassador to Canada

http://mobile.twitter.com/dippedbanana/status/829420692617756676

[Will Hunt]

I actually was granted a US visa (K-1 alien fiance) last Friday.

I might have missed something along the way, but is this an announcement that you're getting married Andy? Congratulations if so!

[andy popp]

That's the general idea.

[fried]

 

[Oldmanmatt]

That's the general idea.

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[seankenny]

A racist reaction in America, aka Prohibition:

https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/america-has-been-here-before/

[Fultonius]

Burning the books?   

Just imagine the damage he could do. Too alarmist?


https://www.wired.com/2017/02/diehard-coders-just-saved-nasas-earth-science-data/

[Oldmanmatt]

Did you hear the one about the Trump voter, who ended up a refugee in a Sikh temple..?

You couldn't make it up.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-supporter-oroville-dam-refugee-sam-lyon-sikh-temple-sacramento-a7581501.html?cmpid=facebook-post


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[SA Chris]

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/donald-trump-israel-presser-anti-semitism-electoral-win

I'm more concerned about the hot air causing global warming. Should such a thing exist.

[Oldmanmatt]

So, being half term, I'm a bit later than normal with the coffee and papers thing.
The coffee is good, "Grumpy Mule" Columbian; not bad for off the shelf.
Papers are becoming a bit monotonous though, to be fair. I mean, the Mrs and I have just started watching the "Walking Dead" (season 1-3 in a week) for the first time and it's getting hard to tell if I'm still watching or reading the papers...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/16/trump-raises-spectre-nuclear-holocaust-amid-questioning-russia/

Note to self:

Add tinned food to shopping list.
Repair gap in back garden fence (Razor wire, for preference).
By that Crossbow for £20 they sell in "The Range".
Teach kids to make fishing nets.
Augmentin. Lots of it.


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[tomtom]

Track down his thoughts on what uranium is from n yesterday's presser... shocking.

I recommend house of cards when you're done with Walking dead...

[Oldmanmatt]

Track down his thoughts on what uranium is from n yesterday's presser... shocking.

I recommend house of cards when you're done with Walking dead...

Oh yeah, that stuff does all sorts of things, like nuclear things, like I'm allowed to say, I've been briefed, and what a victory! I wasn't supposed to get 207, but I believe in a one state solution, believe me! But China are nice, good people, gave me a great, really wonderful trademark, but the leaks were fake NEWS! The leaks were real, but they were fake! And that's what Uranium does!


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[TobyD]

Reading the quotes and listening to Trump's press conference is like listening to a five year old on the verge of a tantrum. It'd be really funny if it weren't so serious.

[fried]

When I give my evening report to the missus about what Trump's been up to, that's all she says '..Walking Dead' in the same voice. I think they're the only 2 works she knows in English.

[Oldmanmatt]

When the "Daily Mash" makes as much sense as the "real" news, we are a long, long, way up Shit-Creek, with no paddle, a hole in the Canoe, an impending flash flood, surrounded by half starved Crocodile...




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[SA Chris]

Sensible guy, can we elect him instead

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/harward-says-no-to-national-security-adviser-role/

And when it is all blatantly going to ratshit, best to blame the other guy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/trump-news-conference.html?_r=0

love to see what Obama thinks of that comment.

[Iesu]

When the "Daily Mash" makes as much sense as the "real" news, we are a long, long, way up Shit-Creek, with no paddle, a hole in the Canoe, an impending flash flood, surrounded by half starved Crocodile...

Me mam's favourite variant on this was always "up shit creek in a barbed wire canoe" occasionally "with no paddles" in extremis. Definitely appropriate to current world affairs (she's a Democrat voting US citizen for her sins; I have citizenship of the mother country but no voting rights sadly).

[Oldmanmatt]

So... Once the troops are on the streets, where next?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/trump-immigration-roundup-national-guard?CMP=share_btn_fb


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[Oldmanmatt]

And now he seeks an excuse to curtail the press.

Andy, you might want to ask some faculty and friends to complete this survey...

https://gop.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/


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[jfdm]

Just when things couldn't get any more bizarre.
Up pops, a British Trump appointee Seb Gorka.
Was in NYC this week.
Had a few conversations with Locals and most still can't believe that Trump is President.
Most of the talk on Fox was about the Trump handshake. Fox News reporters found it embarrassing. And tried to laugh things off.
The big event though was Charles Oakley the basketball great being thrown out of the NY Knicks game. Almost as though this was a welcome distraction from Trump.
Logistically protecting the Trumps, sounds like a costly nightmare, tax payer money being well used.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-familys-elaborate-lifestyle-a-logistical-nightmare--at-taxpayer-expense/2017/02/16/763cce8e-f2ce-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.f4b90643499e
Had a great time in NYC but much prefer the UK even with Brexit.