The Isolated Blurt Thread IV: A New Hope

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I would rather watch old Sherlock episodes, and Doc Martin (Where is the wedding special ?) than any of the "new" shows.
*gives PBS a hug*
 
Fish skin is so pretty. Why don't they use fish skin as a pattern, and make bathing suits from the print ? (Spear fishermen ?)
 
Not doubt Isolated, definitely not just a Blurt...

I generally remember way back when when it became law that employers had to verify and document legal residence status of everyone in their employ and everyone they intended to employ, and then forward that documentation to the national government...

...and then tonight I'm reading a piece about the Obama administration cutting employers slack on the fines they should be imposing for those employers intentionally hiring undocumented persons (can they be called anything kinder?), and I come across the "I9" form, which is the national government-issued form to document one's legal status in this country in relation to employment.

Funny thing, then...

...even though I was born in California to two parents who were born in Missouri, and even though I've worked my entire adult life without any issue arising about my citizenship at all, after reading about the "I9" form and the law which enables it, I find that I am they: even though I'm a natural born citizen, I am unable to be legally employed in the United Socialist State of America today.

I know, I know...

...it's all my fault. The only pieces of identification I have are a US Passport, an embossed, certified copy of my original birth certificate, my original SS card, and a diploma. I have absolutely no other forms of ID (intentionally).

Now, those first three pieces of ID are enough to satisfy I9 requirements...

...if my Passport hadn't expired in 2008 (the law states it had to be "unexpired" until April 2009).

So, without that "A" piece of required identification, those other two "B" pieces are not enough to appease USSA law that I'm legally able to be employed within the borders under its dictate.

Which is cool with me, in the statist way it considers me, I guess...

...for I planned the start day of my exile from the USSA in 2008 to correspond to the last day in that year on which my last remaining, substantial legitimate pieces of ID expired, and my dear intention was to try and last the rest of my life without ever again being voluntarily documented into the grid of the national government.

Getting close to 6 years in exile now, and I evidently haven't worked for anyone who cared any more than I for the USSA's, Stasi-like show me your papers command.

It's just that directly coming across again tonight how legally illegally I am now in my own country kinda brings it all back home and makes me feel sad...

...for a few seconds or so, and then to realize the literal meaning of rebel once more makes me very happy to be a they.
 
Very slow news day!

Top AP headline this morning:
"David Arquette's girlfriend won't agree to name baby Astro Arquette"
 
c'mon plumber, hurry up. i was hoping it'd be out of the way with by now :rolleyes:
things to do.
 
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