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• Teresa Nielsen Hayden commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
  Modus Operandi, you rock, esp. 113. And 118. And the Toblerone. And 174. Takuan, Santa said no ponies. Sorry. He's doing something else with them, I don't know what. Besides, Mark's cleared all the old straw out of the Boing Boing livestock barn and is building something weird in there. What Happened to the Australians: It turns out that the NYTimes link posted by Willie McBride clear back at comment #8 has the answer to most of the objections people have raised to this story:Each year, thousands of would-be visitors from 27 so-called visa waiver countries are turned away when...
• Modusoperandi commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
  Teresa Nielsen Hayden "Modus Operandi, you rock" I do rock. Hence the mullet. "...about conspiracy theories so obscure that even I have never heard of them..." You give yourself too little credit. Did you know that Xylophonists and a shadowy cadre of international plumbers were behind 9/11?...
• arkizzle / Moderator commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
  Teresa Woofed me eh? I thought my post @68 spelled out the dichotomy of Book vs Behaviour pretty well.. my mistake :)...
• Teresa Nielsen Hayden commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
  Oh, you done good and you know it. My godfather has reminded me of some non-Muslim terrorists I forgot, though I don't guarantee they all meet the twenty-year rule: Christian Identity, the KKK and all its spinoffs, the Aryan Brotherhood, ELA, FARC, FMLN, FPMR, the Khmer Rouge, the November 17 Movement, the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Loyalist Volunteer Force (who think the Ulster Volunteer Force is soft on popery), the Red Hand Defenders (who think the Loyalist Volunteer Force is soft on popery), and ... y'know, I'm not even going to try for a complete collection of Irish factions. Any...
• J France commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
  Takuan: More importantly (on the question of Australian sycophancy) John Howard is gone. Kevin Rudd and his labour party still give the US alot of time and energy, most probably more so now Democrats are in power, but he / they certainly won't cowtow like Howard did. He really was Bush's whipping boy. Howard being in Washington on 9/11 didn't help - he said right there and then that Australia would be with the US "all the way", before even consulting with his party room. And no - no treaty regarding citizens. Even the ANZUS treaty isn't a binding one,...