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Chicks
I see that the Dixie Chicks have officially changed their band name to The Chicks.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I think it’s as stupid and cowardly as most “woke” nonsense.
On the other hand, if it means that calling girls “chicks” is back in fashion, I’m totally down with that. Perhaps, if we’re lucky, “birds” and “dames” will make a comeback as well.
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Love that.
Remember that list of forgotten 1920s slang? My favorite was “choice bit of Calico.” Racy, but it supposedly just meant a desirable woman.
Make Language Fun Again!
I’m afraid I have to arrest you for the objectification of Calicos. And welcome to 2020, enjoy your stay.
Honestly, I’m enjoying myself. I’m gonna be here for a long time, and I was raised among the Wokies. My time at Ricochet has sharpened my pen and my noodle quite a bit, and while I prefer being civil, I’m at a point where I can run into battle with a certain gaiety, without enjoying cruelty.
They can step up if they want some!
The U.S. does not legally demand that a new citizen renounce his citizenship in another country — and, of course, lacks the authority to force another country to end the citizenship of the immigrant. The U.S. treats a U.S. citizen having dual citizenship the same as it would any other U.S. citizen, without recognizing any additional rights or protections an immigrant might claim based on foreign citizenship.
I can’t say I’m enjoying myself, but under the circumstances I’ll cling to gallows humor whenever and wherever I can.
Filet Chiks.
I was too, but I think I was mistaken.
A person is supposed to renounce any other citizenship when they become a US citizen. But it doesn’t seem to be enforced. And the US can’t force another country to “strip” someone of that citizenship. So even if someone renounces that citizenship, it still exists unless the other country follows through.
And Tommy Shaw is from Mobile, if I remember my liner notes from Crystal Ball correctly.
In the naturalization oath the immigrant renounces all other citizenship, but it has been a long time since the US enforced that policy otherwise.
And I don’t know how they could enforce it, really. Even demanding the immigrant renounce any other citizenship, doesn’t force the other country to comply.
True, but they could penalize the person. As sometimes happened in the old days. I knew a kid with dual citizenship in the 70s that had to get his US passport before his Canadian passport because the US would not issue if he already held a Canadian passport. I remember the details as being complicated and annoying, but he was trying to avoid being treated as an alien in either country.
Exactly. They just get the US passport first, is all. But nobody goes back and revokes the US passport if they get another. And even if they did, most people never need a passport anyway.
Hmmmn, not sure how true that is anymore.
Plus, if their loyalty isn’t with us – which I’ll admit, is a pretty big vow right at the get go – I don’t suppose it would burden anybody terribly to fib a little.
This hurts! It’s wrong and a desecration! ;)
Not as bad as that Ghostbusters movie, though. I mean, these I never even heard of.