All the Wrong Reasons

There’s a lot to ponder in this open letter to Barack Obama from Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, et al., but I’ll stick to this part:

We have to cherish and protect the multitude of educational, professional, and other networks and friendships that underpin our friendship and alliance. The U.S. visa regime remains an obstacle in this regard. It is absurd that Poland and Romania — arguably the two biggest and most pro-American states in the CEE region, which are making substantial contributions in Iraq and Afghanistan — have not yet been brought into the visa waiver program.

I’ve seen variations on this theme many times over the years: the U.S. government should do something for such and such country because that country’s government contributed troops to some U.S.-led war. I sometimes agree with the policy change suggested, as in this instance. It’s absolutely ridiculous that my Romanian mother-in-law was recently denied a non-immigrant visa on a whim from a sour embassy employee. (An immigration official here in the U.S. even told my sister-in-law that the visa should have been granted.)

But of all the reasons this or any other policy should change, the fact that Romania’s handout-hungry leaders assisted in a war of aggression (when less than half of Romanians supported it) should not count for much – to libertarians, at least.

24 thoughts on “All the Wrong Reasons”

  1. The U.S. needs to change its immigration strategy as much as its foreign policies. The USA should not be invading the world. It should also not be inviting the world either.

  2. Quite frankly, the other nations of the world, if they had any common sense or self-respect, would be urging their citizens to BOYCOTT travel to the United State until said rogue nation regains its senses and starts respecting human freedom and dignity again. To come groveling and begging on one's knees at the Retarded Giant's feet, beginning the tyrant to "Please, oh please, let us in!" not only encourages the continuance of its bullying and predations on the rest of the world, but also shows it that the rest of the world is unworthy of respect normally accorded sovereign nations capable of defending their own interests.

    1. Well, nations don't visit nations. Friends visit friends, parents visit children, business partners visit one another, etc. I'm for depoliticizing as much of life as possible.

      1. True enough. In an ideal world the whole passport and visa concept wouldn't even exist (in fact, it actually didn't exist until relatively recently, in historical terms). Unfortunately, this barrier to human freedom of movement is part of modern life and it's also, equally unfortunately, a political one. It seems therefore that the only way to put pressure to bear on states that practice immigration control abusively is to use political countermeasures.

        All of that said, I sincerely hope that you are able to successfully navigate the State Department bureaucracy in the near future and get your mother-in-law into the country.

          1. I'm having a similar problem with my wife. I'm thinking that most of these keep the border closed libertarians haven't had to deal with something so so so bureaucratic. My wife is Polish, has a master's degree and no criminal record. We not trying to bring a child or a another relative over and we're already married, we have it 'easy' and you wouldn't believe the bureaucratic mess I have to deal with.

            I'm not against protecting our borders either, but the methods GOP'ers and pseudo libertarians seem to be in favor for, to me at least, show a lack of experience in 'the system' every bit as bad or worse than any other piece of our federal government.

  3. You have to follow his career very carefully, and pay close attention to dates, when it comes to Hitchens, because at some point he totally and completely sold out, this is a fact. If you want to see this highlighted in the best manner possible, I urge you all to check out a 2003 debate, hosted by Democracy Now; George Galloway vs Christopher Hitchens. Seriously, whoever is critisizing this author for "having no idea about Hitchens" needs to carefully watch this debate.

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  8. Manchester United’s defence wasn’t good enough
    Who knew Daley Blind and Chris Smalling t? l? cá c??c bóng ?á tr?c ti?p would make such a fine centre-half partnership?

    Only three teams conceded fewer league goals last season, but the consensus was that this was a defence which needed significant reinforcement. At one stage, the central defensive pecking order looked something like: Chris Smalling, Daley Blind, Phil Jones, Marcos Rojo, Paddy McNair, Michael Carrick, Jonny Evans, Tyler Blackett. It didn’t scream ‘Champions League club’.

    Yet it’s worked. Before his devastating injury Luke Shaw xem ?? bóng ?á tr?c tuy?n was the Red Devils’ best player of the season, Matteo Darmian was a welcome addition on the right, and Smalling and Blind formed an excellent pairing in the centre. Bastian Schweinsteiger ?á banh hôm nay and Morgan Schneiderlin should also be commended for their defensive work, while United have conceded the joint-fewest league goals this season.

  9. Mamadou Sakho. ty le ca cuoc bong da truc tuyen Brendan does lots of things that baffle Liverpool supporters. Top of the baffling list at t? l? cá c??c tr?c tuy?n the start of the season was his insistence that Dejan Lovren was cá c??c t? s? a better defender than Mamadou Sakho. The astonishment subsided to some extent when the Reds opened the season t? l? kèo bóng ?á hôm nay t? l? kèo bóng ?á hôm nay with three clean sheets but Lovren was soon up to his own tricks in the miserable 3-0 home loss to West Ham. Sakho’s man-of-the-match display (as captain) on his return to the side against Bordeaux in the Europa League prompted a cacophony of ‘I told you so’s’ and now the French defender – who has just been cá c??c bóng ?á online recalled to the national side by Didier Deschamps – is set for an extended run in the side with Lovren out injured.

  10. The detrimental effects of kham benh dong mach vanh o dau hard drinking were particularly pronounced in young and middle-aged adults, and people who were otherwise in good health, said lead researcher thi?u máu c? tim ? ng??i tr? Dr. Isaac Whitman, an electrophysiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. However, the study bài thu?c ch?a b?nh tim did not prove that heavy drinking causes cây thu?c ch?a b?nh tim heart failure.

    These results suggest that younger thuoc dieu tri benh tim adults need to take it easy on the booze, especially if they don't have cac thuoc chua benh tim mach any risk factors for heart disease thuoc dieu tri tim mach, Whitman thi?u máu c? tim nên ?n gìsaid.

    "In the case of alcohol, I don't think it's prudent to say I can abuse alcohol because I'm young and healthy, cay thuoc chua benh tim" he said. "You may be hurting yourself thieu mau co tim nen an gi relatively more than your older counterparts. You have more to lose." bai thuoc chua benh tim

  11. Patients with mechanical heart valves may kham benh dong mach vanh o dau benefit from managing their own blood thinners, a new study suggests.

    "There are several reasons that patients thi?u máu c? tim ? ng??i tr? who self-manage treatment have better outcomes than those who follow standard management," said study leader Dr. Thomas Decker Christensen, from Aarhus University Hospital, in Denmark.

    "Self-management patients receive more detailed bài thu?c ch?a b?nh tim information about oral anticoagulation therapy; they also learn more about the influence that diet, infectious diseases, alcohol, and other drug interactions can have on their treatment than do patients receiving standard management," Christensen explained.

    "We believe that the majority of patients who have cây thu?c ch?a b?nh tim a mechanical heart valve inserted during surgery should be able to manage their oral anticoagulant therapy, and recommend this as the standard treatment approach for these patients," he concluded.

    Patients with these heart valves must take blood thuoc dieu tri benh tim thinners (such as warfarin) to prevent blood clots, which could lead to strokes.

    The study included slightly more than 600 patients thuoc dieu tri tim machwho received mechanical heart valves and then took a course to learn how to manage their own blood thinners, gradually transitioning to self-management over the next three to 27 weeks.

    These patients were compared with cac thuoc chua benh tim mach a control group of about 3,000 patients who received standard blood thinner management.

    One year after heart valve surgery, thi?u máu c? tim nên ?n gì both groups were at similar risk for major bleeding and thromboembolism, a blood clot that forms in thieu mau co tim nen an gi one location and then travels and blocks another blood vessel, the findings showed.

  12. Self-Monitoring This May Help Heart Valve Patients

    Patients with mechanical heart valves may kham benh dong mach vanh o dau benefit from managing their own blood thinners, a new study suggests.

    "There are several reasons that patients thi?u máu c? tim ? ng??i tr? who self-manage treatment have better outcomes than those who follow standard management," said study leader Dr. Thomas Decker Christensen, from Aarhus University Hospital, in Denmark.

    "Self-management patients receive more detailed bài thu?c ch?a b?nh tim information about oral anticoagulation therapy; they also learn more about the influence that diet, infectious diseases, alcohol, and other drug interactions can have on their treatment than do patients receiving standard management," Christensen explained.

    "We believe that the majority of patients who have cây thu?c ch?a b?nh tim a mechanical heart valve inserted during surgery should be able to manage their oral anticoagulant therapy, and recommend this as the standard treatment approach for these patients," he concluded.

    Patients with these heart valves must take blood thuoc dieu tri benh tim thinners (such as warfarin) to prevent blood clots, which could lead to strokes.

    The study included slightly more than 600 patients thuoc dieu tri tim machwho received mechanical heart valves and then took a course to learn how to manage their own blood thinners, gradually transitioning to self-management over the next three to 27 weeks.

    These patients were compared with cac thuoc chua benh tim mach a control group of about 3,000 patients who received standard blood thinner management.

    One year after heart valve surgery, thi?u máu c? tim nên ?n gì both groups were at similar risk for major bleeding and thromboembolism, a blood clot that forms in thieu mau co tim nen an gi one location and then travels and blocks another blood vessel, the findings showed.

  13. Nh?ng vi ch?t có trong y?n sào
    Qu?n 12 là qu?n n?i thành c?a Thành ph? H? Chí Minh, y?n sào thiên nhiên n?m ? phía tây B?c c?a Thành ph? H? Chí Minh, Vi?t Nam. Qu?n ???c thành l?p ngày 1 tháng 4 n?m 1997, v?i nhi?u ??a ?i?m tham quan nh? c?n c? V??n Cau ? Th?nh L?c, chùa Thiên Vân, chùa Qu?ng ??c, làng cá s?u, các v??n mai, v??n ki?ng… và c?ng là ??a ?i?m ??t trung tâm CNTT l?n nh?t n??c là Công Viên Ph?n M?m Quang Trung.

    ?ây là qu?n n?m rìa thành ph?. Tính ??n nay v?n còn khá hoang s? do ch?a nhi?u các nhà ??u t? ??u t? công trình l?n. Nh?ng nhìn chung qu?n 12 l?i t?p h?p nhi?u gia ?ình ?i?n hình do n?i ?ây có không gian yên t?nh ch? không t?p n?p trong thành ph?.

    Y?n t? ngoài công d?ng b?i b? cho ng??i ?m d?y, ?ây còn là bài thu?c ch?a tr? và ng?a các b?nh v? tim m?ch. Y?n sào là m?t lo?i th?c ph?m ch?c n?ng có ch?a h?n 18 lao? axit amin cùng các lo?i nguyên t? vi l??ng khác nhau. Y?n có th? giúp h? các ch?t béo trong máu gi?m thi?u tình tr?ng b? các b?nh tim m?ch vành và nhi?u y?n sào khánh hòa thiên nhiên lo?i b?nh tim khác. Là m?t ??i lý cung c?p y?n sào khánh hòa qu?n 12 chúng tôi luôn cung c?p ?úng ?? các lo?i y?n t? theo nhu c?u c?a khách hàng c?n dùng.

    Y?n sào Khánh Hòa qu?n Gò V?p, qu?n 12, Hóc Môn, C? Chi

    Qu?n Gò V?p là m?t qu?n n?i thành thu?c Thành ph? H? Chí Minh. T? nh?ng n?m 80, qu?n Gò V?p ???c xem là m?t qu?n có t?c ?? ?ô th? hóa cao c?a Thành ph? H? Chí Minh và ?ã có th?i ?i?m không ki?m soát ???c. So v?i qu?n khác, Gò V?p còn có qu? ??t l?n.

    ?ây là m?t trong nh?ng qu?n ???c thành l?p tr? nh?t trong thành ph? nh?ng hi?n gi? qu?n ?ã có m?c ?? ?ô th? hóa không thua gì các qu?n khác. Nh? các công trình l?n, hi?n ??i nh? vincom siêu th? hàn qu?c emart công viên s?ch ??p….

    ??i lý y?n sào Th?nh Phát là h? th?ng phân ph?i y?n sào khánh hòa Qu?n Gò v?p. Nh?n th?y ???c m?c ?a chu?ng y?n sào c?a ng??i dân n?i ?ây nên y?n sào th?nh phát ?ã s?m phân ph?i y?n sào n?i ?ây và hi?n ?ang là ??i lý y?n sào ???c ?a chu?ng và tin dùng c?a nhi?u ng??i.

    Y?n t? là lo?i th?c ph?m ch?c n?ng, là món quà ??n t? thiên nhiên. Nh? vào ???c c?u t?o t? 45% là protêin nên y?n t? có nhi?u các công d?ng khác nhau và ??c bi?t là h?i ph?c s?c kh?e. Protein ???c cung c?p ??y ?? thì c? th? s? có ???c d?i dào s?c s?ng c?ng qua tang sep nh? ph?c h?i nhanh h?n các v?t th??ng t?n trên c? th?. Ngoài ra ?ây là m?t lo?i m? ph?m th?n k? v?i công d?ng d??ng nhan. Ch?c n?ng chính c?a nhi?u thanh ph?n có trong y?n là làm ch?m quá quà t?ng s?p 2016 trình lão hóa da. Giúp da sàng và ??u màu h?n.

  14. Có tác d?ng d??ng âm, b? ph?, tiêu ?àm, tr? ho ??nh suy?n. Dùng trong các ch?ng ho hen, khái huy?t, suy nh??c c? th?. Y?n sào th??ng ???c dùng cho ng??i hen suy?n, ho ra máu, suy nh??c. T? y?n ???c ph?i h?p v?i nhân sâm, ??i táo, liên nh?c, hoài s?n, ???ng quy, câu k? t?… ?? làm thu?c b? cho ng??i già y?u, ng??i b?nh lâu ngày. Y?n sào có tác d?ng làm y?n sào nguyên t? c??ng tráng, t?ng s?c d?o dai, kích thích tiêu hóa, giúp an th?n, gây ng?, c?m máu, ch?a ???c b?nh ho, th? huy?t, ki?t l?. ?ây là v? thu?c b? r?t t?t cho ng??i ?m y?u, ng??i cao tu?i, s?n ph? b?ng huy?t, tr? em suy dinh d??ng. Y?n sào còn có hi?u qu? trong ?i?u tr? hi?m mu?n, suy th?n, suy gi?m trí nh?. S? d?ng dài ngày làm ??p da, t?ng s?c ?? kháng c?a c? th?. Li?u dùng trung bình t? 6 – 12g m?i ngày. Tham kh?o thêm “l?i ích y?n sào“. Thành ph?n y?n sào: Theo nghiên c?u c?a các nhà khoa h?c trên th? gi?i cho th?y y?n sào ch?a các thanh t? dinh d??ng quan tr?ng ?ó là acid amin r?t c?n thi?t cho c? th?: -Glycine: 1,99%, có tác d?ng t?t cho da -Valine: 4,12% giúp mau lành t? bào c? và tái t?o t? bào m?i -Leucine: 4,56%, giúp ?i?u ch?nh hàm l??ng yen sao nguyen to ???ng trong máu. -Isoleucine: 2,04 % giúp ph?c h?i nhanh s?c kh?e -Threonine: 2,69%, t?ng c??ng h? mi?n d?ch và giúp h?p th? các d??ng ch?t cho c? th? -Methionine: 0,46% h? tr? ch?ng viêm kh?p -Proline: 5,27% t?ng c??ng ph?c h?i các c?, mô, và da -Acid aspartic: 4,69%, giúp t?ng tr??ng t? bào.

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