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https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/9kxmwy/yes-trump-actually-just-tried-to-both-sides-the-central-park-5

It is equally disturbing to know about her bigoted father. The father is a religious psychotic news commentator. The father often says that Trump is the greatest president America ever had. On the father's television show he repeatedly defends Trump's lies and bizarre behavior by saying, among other things, that other news stations and news sources that criticize Trump are "fake news" and "the enemy of the people" which is a term we have heard Trump say often. Considering the lies told by this woman, while reconfirming the lies told by Trump, what will be this woman's legacy as White House Press Secretary be. Her children must be ashamed to have such a hideous person as their mother.

https://www.secretflying.com/posts/new-york-barcelona-spain-291-roundtrip/

In Rio de Janeiro - "a conservative climate" - surely you are joking - Walk into Clube 117 on a Friday or Tuesday night and tell me, with a straight face, that the place or climate is "conservative" - Peace -

June 17, 2019 puts an end to the need for Americans (and citizens of two other nations) to get a visa to visit Brazil. No more wasted time going to a consulate. No more wasted money for a visa. No more wasted money paying an agency to get the visa in case you are not near a consulate. Also, beginning tomorrow, if Americans have a flight to Brazil, it is now possible to check in on line 24 hours prior to your flight. No more waiting in line at airports to have someone verify that you have a visa. Bolsonaro might be a lunatic but at least he had a good idea to stop the visa requirement. Think of how much tourism money was lost for Brazil because travelers did not want to waste money and time getting a visa. The end of an era. A good end.

https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazil/brazil-supreme-court-rules-homophobia-a-crime/

Hilarious but so, so accurate - good job -

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For those in Sao Paulo this Friday: Many who visit Lagoa and Fragata use the bus and/or Metro service to get to the saunas in the early evening. Then, when they leave later, around nine or so, they use Uber or a taxi to get back to their place of stay. However, this Friday, there will be a bus and Metro strike. This means that traffic will be unmanageable in Sao Paulo. For those in Sao Paulo, you might consider going to Rio or Curitiba or elsewhere for the weekend. For sure, your Friday will be a day of nothing but crowds and traffic jams in Sao Paulo. With the transit strike, you will wish you had gone to a different city. The strike is scheduled only for this Friday - As an afterthought, the garotos will likely not have transportation to get to the saunas on Friday. Hence - empty saunas. Brazil General Strike: Bus, Subway, and Trains in São Paulo to Stop on June 14th

I will make a short note then try to edit it - _________________________________________________________ It seems to be working this time. Thanks for looking into the problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrolaryngoplasty

Apparently there is quite a surge in Dengue fever in Brazil, especially Sao Paulo, because of the mosquitos. If it isn't the muggers after us, what next - https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhealth/2019/04/dengue-fever-cases-surging.shtml

You used the term "Yankee aggression" to describe the Civil War. My, oh, my! All legitimate history books confirm the chief reason for the Civil War was because of disagreement over the enslavement of black people. The "South" wanted to keep slavery while those "Yankees" (as you call us) wanted to end it. Your calling that war "Yankee aggression" certainly explains your allegiance to Trump and your view of minorities. Write what you want in rebuttal, I will not be responding to you again. Oh, and your comment "I am defending the office of the US President." is a mockery considering how Trump has abused and disgraced that office beyond repair.

"So-called media" is a condescending term used by FOX News and by Trump and by his supporters. They use that term because they have no legitimate explanation for Trump's disgraceful behavior. Among many other things, Trump referred and continues to refer to immigrants that are not white as murderers, rapists and worse. We have all repeatedly heard him spout those hideous remarks over television and in news reports. Despite Trump repeatedly saying horrible things about immigrants, he ignored federal laws and hired nearly thirty of these supposedly horrible people to work in his Florida facility. He was recently outed for having "undocumented" workers at his Florida facility. He offered no comment when caught. Will he be fined? Of course not. He is above the law. He is the president and cannot be charged with any federal crime while in office. Hypocrisy and dishonesty are just two words that come to mind in assessing Trump! Our nation is in a crisis because of that horrible man. Our country has not been as divided as it is now since the Civil War. Read this Huffington article that confirms Trump's numerous lies that he has repeatedly told Americans since taking office. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-washingon-post-fact-checker_n_5cc6f065e4b04eb7ff98ec18 I am bewildered at your defending a man who clearly is anti-gay and has repeatedly shown disdain for gays. Trump's side-kick (Pence) has equal disdain for gays. Trump clearly hates gays and yet you defend him and his hideous behavior.

Uh, oh, I cannot edit a post I made although the post is only fifteen minutes old. This same situation occurred the other day. Is there an alternative way to edit a post if the edit button does not function?

The gays have gone through hell and back again and many still suffer despite laws that are supposed to protect us. The previous administration in the Whitehouse encouraged placing the Pride flag along with the traditional flag, on the same pole (during Pride month). Hmm - Your location - Tennessee = Trump supporter. Despite your being considered by Trump, less of a human than you are, you still support that hateful man - shocking!

Most of us already know that Trump is bigoted and hateful (and crazy). However, last week he did something no one outside of an insane asylum would do - Question - what business is it of Trump which flag is on an American Embassy in foreign countries? Read this: U.S. Prohibits Embassy in Brazil From Flying LGBT Rainbow Flag Posted: 08 Jun 2019 01:32 AM PDT By Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Donald Trump administration has banned U.S. embassies abroad, including that in Brasília, from flying the LGBT pride flag on their official flagpoles during the month of June. The information comes from NBC, citing three American diplomats. President Obama’s government had granted general permission for embassies to […] The post U.S. Prohibits Embassy in Brazil From Flying LGBT Rainbow Flag appeared first on The Rio Times. And this: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-tells-u-s-embassies-they-can-t-fly-n1015236

https://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2018/12/16/tsa-says-theyve-stopped-filing-reports-on-average-americans-in-the-airport-and-on-flights-but-its-not-true/

Uh, oh! I think we have roughly one hour to edit anything we write in a post. However, I cannot edit even within a few minutes. I used two different computers and two different browsers but the edit feature does not work on my post although it was only a few minutes after posting. Is there a workaround for this?

You are right, there is something wrong with the article. There is also something wrong with different posts above where it was said that the Brazilian had four convictions for statutory rape. No news source reported that. The same poster also said the Brazilian spent almost a decade in prison for the crimes while the actual time in prison was six years eight months. Almost a decade? Hmmm! I think someone does not like that Brazilian.

MENU WORLD g1 Globe Sports gshow videos SUBSCRIBE NOW MY ACCOUNT EMAIL ENTER > MENU WORLD Adopted at age 5, Brazilian is deported after more than 30 years in the USA Despite the Brazilian authorities' refusal to grant travel documents, the US government forced Paul Fernando Schreiner to embark illegally on Brazil; he does not speak Portuguese and has no relatives in the country. "He should not have to suffer a second time," says foster mother. By Associated Press 05/06/2019 20h08 Updated há 25 minutos Paul Fernando Schreiner in Niterói - Photo: AP Photo / Leo Correa Paul Fernando Schreiner walks around a room with few furniture, wondering if today will be different from all other days. Niteroi's air humidity troubles him, it does not look anything like the dry heat of Phoenix, Arizona, where the 36-year-old man lived when he was deported from the United States last year. Conversations are rare for Schreiner, since he does not speak Portuguese and few people speak another language. But language is just an issue: the food and even the sports Brazilians accompany - Schreiner likes football more than football - do not fit. Inside your head, every day is a struggle against boredom, loneliness and despair. "I am anything but Brazilian," said Schreiner, who was adopted in Brazil by an American family three decades ago. "I'm an American." The US government disagrees, underscoring the increasingly harsh line the Trump government is taking with legal residents deemed deportable. Undated photo courtesy of Roger and Rosanna Schreiner of his adopted son Paul Fernando Schreiner - Photo: Courtesy of the Schreiner Family via AP US immigration authorities went so far as to expel Schreiner that they may have violated Brazilian law and made it virtually impossible for him to exercise his alleged Brazilian citizenship. For US adoption groups, the forced removal of people like Schreiner violates basic human rights and amounts to a threefold increase: the affected were abandoned when children in their home countries are abandoned a second time by their adoptive country and then are sent to a place where they have no family, do not speak the language and have few skills to survive. "He should not have to suffer a second time," his mother, Rosanna Schreiner, says tearfully from her home in a suburb of Seward, Nebraska. Roger and Rosanna Schreiner talk about the deportation of their son Paul - Photo: AP Photo / Nati Harnik Schreiner never naturalized as a US citizen, but lived as an American for 30 years. He was legally adopted at the age of 5, had a birth certificate in Nebraska, a Social Security number, and paid taxes. US adoption groups estimate that between 35,000 and 75,000 adopted in the United States could be in such a situation today, many incorrectly believing that they are already citizens. The Children's Citizenship Act of 2000, signed by President Bill Clinton, aimed at simplifying the process, making the citizenship automatic for children adopted abroad. But there was one exception: for children already in America, only those under 18 were eligible when the law came into force. For a matter of only six weeks, the law did not apply to Schreiner. The petition for citizenship based on green card eligibility was also ruled out: when he was 21, Schreiner was convicted of statutory rape for having sex with a 14-year-old. After spending nearly eight years in prison in Nebraska, Schreiner was able to rebuild his life. He moved to Arizona, began working in pool cleaners and carpenter firms, and developed close relationships with Jason Young, a pastor at Heritage Baptist Church in Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix. "He was working, getting used to life after prison. So I get a phone call one day saying that he was in prison again, this time through ICE, "said Young, referring to Immigration and Customs. "I answered something like, 'Are you kidding me?'" Detention of immigrants When agents surrounded his truck at 5 o'clock in the morning when he left for work on October 23, 2017, Schreiner was not entirely surprised. Shortly after his legal problems began in 2004, he was notified by the ICE that there was a deportation order against him. But a removal order did not always lead to deportation during the administrations of Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama. Schreiner also had the support of Brazil. "The official position of the Brazilian government - expressed in the Child and Adolescent Law - is that adoption is an irrevocable act, which gives the adopted child the same rights as those who live with their biological parents," Alexandre Addor Neto, then Brazil's consul general in Chicago, wrote to Homeland Security in 2004 in response to a US request for Brazil to issue travel documents for Schreiner's deportation. Schreiner uses his computer in his room in Niterói - Photo: AP Photo / Leo Correa "The Brazilian government does not issue travel documents for the purpose of deportation of a Brazilian in this situation, unless that person freely expresses his clear and unequivocal desire to return to Brazil, which was not the case of Mr. Schreiner" the letter he said. After Schreiner's arrest in 2017, Brazilian officials again denied the US government's request for documents to deport him. Weeks turned into eight months at an immigrant detention center in Florence, Arizona. According to Schreiner and his father, Roger Schreiner, Brazilian consular officers in Los Angeles, who has jurisdiction over Arizona, said that he could refuse to board a plane. 'Wanted criminal' Then, on June 12, 2018, Schreiner was agreed and informed that he was being deported. "Brazil is a corrupt government and will let you in," Schreiner told an ICE agent that he did not have a passport. Schreiner said he had heard that if he made any confusion, he would be put in a "burrito bag," a kind of fair jacket used to restrain prisoners. In a statement, ICE only said that Schreiner had been deported and declined to comment. Handcuffed and accompanied by two agents, Schreiner said he was taken on a commercial flight from Phoenix to New York. However, in New York, American Airlines employees did not want to board Schreiner on the flight to Rio de Janeiro. The only documentation that ICE agents had for Schreiner was a "certificate of nationality" that the Los Angeles consulate, yielding to US pressure, had issued. He listed a single name, "Fernando," and the arbitrary date of birth that Schreiner received when he was adopted. "He is a wanted criminal in Brazil," the agents told the air authorities, who gave in and let him on board. Once in Rio de Janeiro, there were more questions. Undated photo provided by Roger and Rosanna Schreiner shows his adopted son Paul Fernando Schreiner (right) alongside the other family members - Photo: Courtesy of the Schreiner Family via AP For several hours, Schreiner said US agents and the Brazilian federal police had discussed whether they should let him in. After a series of phone calls and heated conversations, Schreiner was taken by a gift shop to the front of the airport. He had the handcuffs loose and the agents left. Brazilian federal police have not responded to several requests from the Associated Press for comments. In a statement, Brazil's Foreign Ministry said the consulate in Los Angeles was "instructed to formally confirm, before the US authorities, the Brazilian nationality of Schreiner, who had a final order of deportation against him." "I do not understand how someone living in the US could be abandoned like this," said Segisfredo Silva Vanderlai, a 68-year-old pastor with whom Schreiner lived. "It was thrown away like human trash." Memories and regrets Schreiner does not remember much of his early years. His parents adopted him from an orphanage in Nova Iguaçu, a Rio municipality full of favelas controlled by heavily armed narco-traffickers and paramilitary groups. "I remember my older sister picking up trash cans for me and finding bananas and other food to eat," Schreiner said. "I remember fear, running and hiding from older children with guns." 'I'm not Brazilian, I'm American', says Schreiner - Photo: AP Photo / Leo Correa At one point, Schreiner and his sister ended up in a house. It was there that her sister was taken away by people Schreiner only remembers as "bad men" and never heard of her again. Schreiner said he ended up in an orphanage where he was sexually molested, trauma that led to bed-wetting until adolescence. Life on a farm in Nebraska with four other foster brothers was happy, though Schreiner struggled with his identity. Because of this, his parents said they postponed his becoming a US citizen until he was older and able to fully participate in the decision. "It was a big miscalculation on our part," said Roger Schreiner. "It never occurred to us that any of our children could go to jail." Uncertain future Almost a year after being deported, Schreiner is still in limbo. He was unable to obtain a Brazilian birth certificate, an RG or a CPF needed to work. Entering the country through the back door with a citizenship certificate that refers to him just as "Fernando" has been an obstacle for civil registration officials. Another is that there is no original record of his birth, a common situation of adoptees and other poor people in Brazil. Vanderlai and others have tried to help Schreiner navigate the bureaucracy. His best hope, if he gets a Brazilian passport, is to try to immigrate to Canada, where he speaks the language and would be closer to the family. "The deportation is for illegal immigrants," Schreiner said. "I did not ask to go to the US and I did not cross the border."

Great place - I have been there many times. Try it, you'll like it -

How hypocritical of Trump. Most readers recall that early on when Trump took office, he visited Cuba with his family (at taxpayer expense). His supposed official visit (sight-seeing vacation) did not create much news because he did not meet with any Cuban political officials. The few comments made by Trump about the visit was to say that Obama should not have eased restrictions for Americans to visit the island nation. In other words, Trump "had his ice cream", so to speak - (his free family vacation to Cuba) but to hell with anyone else who might want to visit there. What a useless swine that Trump is!