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Things moved a bit slowly at the Registry today
By adamg on Mon, 03/26/2018 - 7:32pm
First day back at the RMV after a major system change and it was all: Hey, there goes Elvis! Yo, King!
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Federal Identification Papers
From the Glob article:
Near as I can tell, the Boston May Day (Commie Christmas) Coalition is part of the Occupy Boston movement. Their website is a fun visit with outdated things like Chuck Turner saying hello from prison and shout outs to long lists of communist affiliates.
Anyway... I am thinking back many,many decades ago, when I wanted an ID to drink beer with. I never thought of protesting. I admired the college kids who worked real hard to break the ID law and were rewarded with cold frosty beer. I wonder if the beer would have been less tasty, had they whined loud enough to be allowed to break the law instead of pulling off a caper with their own hard work and craftiness.
Question
What law are you breaking if you are 21 and don't want to have to get a freaking passport to drink? Or over 17 and don't want to get interpol body cavity checks to drive?
As usual, your rambling dementia makes no sense.
Response
I do not understand your line of questioning... or individual questions... or why you bothered to type anything.
Illegal people can't get licenses. I do not see why anyone would protest that. I didn't protest to get an ID to get beer when I was not of legal age.
Of course
"illegal people" cannot get licenses because ... PEOPLE are not ILLEGAL!
They may lack documentation of sorts, but people themselves are never illegal.
Also, please point out exactly where in the drinking laws and driving laws that a drinker or a driver is required to be anything other than of a certain age or in possession of certain testable skills?
/duh
Another response
My friend Hector is. He is a dishwasher and a communist too. We are still friends because I do not know enough Spanish to offend him properly. He is mad at the Haitians for deforesting half of the island he came from. I tried asking a Haitian if they got any beefs with Dominicans but the passive-aggressive response went over my head. The Haitian I asked was not illegal. I never met a Haitian who was illegal and I worked in Hyde Park for many years. I never met a commie Haitian either. I wonder if commies and being an illegal go hand in hand. I bet they do.
The laws are in the getting the ID part. If I scale the wall at Universal Studios in florida and security drags me away from the Butterbeer cart, I am not gonna be all like "African-Americans can't get a drink in American theme parks!! Pretoria Rules!". I am going to acknowledge that I broke the law getting in and enjoying a Butterbeer has nothing to do with the fact that I am African-American or not.
I think you know what it
I think you know what it means for a person to be "illegal". Just because you dislike the label (or dislike the people who use it) doesn't mean "illegal" is confusing or ambiguous in context.
Likewise even if you disagree about life beginning at conception/birth doesn't mean there's any confusion about what "pro-life" means.
Well, I have
to agree with Swirls, anon. People are not illegal. People do things that are illegal but those "things" are usually described by the crime done. In regards to illegal immigration, the act of immigrating illegally does not make the people themselves illegal. They are people who have immigrated illegally.
“Lines are longer than we’d
Am I the only person who gets annoyed when people are referenced as "folks"? People seem to use the casual term when they're trying to cover something up.
Folks...
It annoys me, too. I think it's supposed to sound, well...folksy. Fake folksy. It's like when we stopped having discussions and instead had "conversations." It's supposed to sound friendlier. It's part of the contemporary need for everything to be "nice," never upsetting or bothersome or challenging. Pretty boring, actually.
Another point of view
Using folks is OK by me. It's a fairly nuanced word that evokes "real people", with a layer of respect as well. "The folks at the DMV are doing their best" is kinder than "The people at the DMV are doing their best." Honestly, I don't blame anyone working at a DMV office for yesterday's long lines, so why shouldn't we speak about them in a respectful way?
Agreed
Folks is a perfectly fine word. ;-)