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I thought that--just this once--I'd expropriate The Daily Outrage post, and invite the Ricochetti to weigh in on my terms.
The Telegraph headline, on a UK immigration story:
Albanian criminal's deportation halted over son's distaste for chicken nuggets.
Ahh--Yep.
Evidence about child's picky eating helps convince immigration tribunal that being forced to leave UK would be unduly harsh.
I hope Tom Homan is preparing himself for this sort of lunacy, on this side of The Pond.
If you read the Telegraph article, you will also discover that the child has “sensory difficulties” with certain types of “socks.”
And also that the child’s father emigrated to the UK and entered illegally in 2001 (24 years ago) as a “15 year old unaccompanied child.” He used a false name and false Yugoslavian birth information (he’s actually an Albanian). His asylum claim was rejected, but in 2007 he was granted UK citizenship with “exceptional leave to remain.” IDKY. And apparently neither does anyone else.
He has three children with an Albanian woman who gained UK citizenship in 2006. In 2017 he (the father of the nugget-challenged child) was jailed for two years after being caught with £250,000 cash–the proceeds of a known crime.
Ever since then, he (the father) has been kicking around in the immigration system, using one-after-another junior lawyer, and one-after-another excuse on the backs of his children, to prevent his deportation.
Chris Philp, shadow home secretary [a Tory], said: “This case shows how bogus asylum seekers and foreign criminals are ruthlessly exploiting human rights laws and weak judges to stay in the UK when common sense clearly shows they should be kicked out.”
It's hard to believe things could get worse, or more dangerous or absurd. But what I've described above is yesterday's Telegraph story. This morning's Telegraph story has to do with the fact that a Pakistani paedophile escaped deportation because it would "harm his children":
The unnamed father of two toddlers, who was granted anonymity by an immigration court, had been banned from living with his children since he was convicted of trying to get three “barely pubescent” girls to engage in sex and was jailed for 18 months.
However, a lower tribunal judge ruled that he should not be deported back to Pakistan because it would be “unduly harsh for the children to be without their father”.
I've remarked--often--that I couldn't possibly live in my native country in this day and age because I'd be the lead story on the 11 o'clock news every night. And not in a good way.
I rest my case.
In comparison to the above, and as so often, the thought of getting my panties in a bunch, or of setting my hair on fire, over every single thing Donald Trump has said, or over every single thing Donald Trump has done, seems to me like a work of such supererogation that I can't but conclude that those who enthusiastically embrace the concept have either lost the plot, or simply don't have enough to do in their lives. Poor them. (Or, as it should more properly and grammatically be, I suppose, "Poor They.")
PS: Regarding the post title, a quick Google search indicates that there are no McDonald's in Albania. How is this even possible? Does US AID not understand the harm this is doing to underprivileged children who've not emigrated to the UK, and who find the Albanian chicken nugget equivalent unsupportable? Good grief. Enough already with the trans operas in Ireland, or the Sesame Street equivalents in Iraq. This is serious business!
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I think you're using humor, but a lack of McDonalds MAY BE an indicator of a possible serious problem in the country, a problem more worthy of U.S. attention than is a desire for trans operas in Ireland and Sesame Street equivalents in Iraq.
Not the lack of McDonalds per se. But the lack of willingness by McDonalds to do business as an indicator that the country may lack a stable system of government with a predictable rule of law. McDonalds needs (or at least strongly wants) a stable system of government with predictable rule of law before doing business.
Since countries with stable systems of government and predictable rule of law generally don't wage war on each other, promoting stable systems of government and predictable rule of law as a tool of world peace might be a reasonable use for United States foreign aid. A not-unreasonable objective of U.S. foreign aid might be "make country open for McDonalds."
Now maybe the Albanian system of government and rule of law are stable and reasonable, and McDonalds just does not see enough business potential to justify an investment. But, the lack of McDonalds could be a flag.
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My Ukrainian refugee friends who came to the US in the Gorbachev days were amazed at the McDonalds. Just ask for what you want, pay your money and receive your food almost instantaneously. (I don't know if McDonalds were more efficient then, but it seems that way).
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I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover that there are many reasons that there aren't any McDonalds in Albania, some of which reflect what you refer to as "serious problems" in the country.
But that's not really what this post is about.
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Poor They!
Indeed. It’s past time to find a life and get on with it!
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I had to laugh when I saw the title of your post. Since my fairly recent addiction to YouTube I knew exactly what you were talking about. I watch the GBNews and miscellaneous podcasts from the UK and just saw this item . Funny if it weren't so depressing.
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