EDDIE MARS: Just a minute. The girl can go. I'd like to talk to you for a --
PHILIP MARLOWE: Suppose I don't wanna talk t'you?
MARS: I've got two boys outside in the car.
MARLOWE: O-o-h-hh -- Oh, it's like that, eh? Mm hmh.
Run along, angel.
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US tourism experiences a 'Trump slump'
ran a Guardian-UK headline yesterday.
Some of their Readers Commented:
-------------- faded Glory
I was considering a US holiday this year but now I won't.
I have a raft of very Arab-looking Egyptian stamps in my passport, from business travel, and don't want to risk any nonsense from the immigration officers about that.
---------------- tranmere1966
This is just Mexican, Brazilian, New Zealander and Singaporian propaganda to try and get you to go there instead.
I await for the man himself to announce that Tourism is up in the States, Occupancy Rates at all his hotels is running at 99.99%, and he is running a special news conference later, to selected right wing media folk, to announce that the Earth is flat.
--------------------- radical
Yes there is nothing more uplifting than the JFK welcome, 'STAND IN LINE I SAID STAND IN LINE NOW MOVE FORWARD I SAID MOVE FORWARD PUT YOUR INDEX FINGER HERE, NOT THERE HERE OK MOVE ON...oh have a nice day'
---------------------- MikeRichards
That's a blatant falsehood about American immigration. They never say 'have a nice day'.
Or 'goodbye', 'enjoy your stay', 'thank-you for coming' or any other words of welcome.
-------------------- Seamus Gallen
I usually do "pre-clearance" in Dublin, where the officials are a little more civilised. Once landed, you walk straight through, without let or hindrance.
---------------------- Joe King
Bingo! They're jumped up little Hitlers at JFK abusing their power. Always a deeply sour start to any visit to the States - Christ knows what they'd be like if they thought I was a Muslim. Awful, awful people - and a shameful first impression of America.
------------------------- GnomeSocks22
Sounds more pleasant than the Dulles airport welcome. (Being detained while 3 TSA slooooooowly search through your suitcase and scrutinise your UK passport like it's written in ancient Babylonian).
---------------------- Currently we live 6 months out of the year in New Mexico - a state with so much space, it's unbelievable. But I have never seen so many NO TRESPASSING signs in my life, even in the middle of nowhere - it's pathetic - and I think a lot of people should be examined - seriously! Something is wrong with this attitude...
------------------ Partly the problem is American men have been buying more guns and bullets than ever before in recent years so you know that if you get into an argument with a Yank there's always the possibility he might pull out a f&#%ing gun and shoot himself in the foot while he tries to blow your 9 year old grandson away.
------------------ Ridiculous, how often have you argued with a local when abroad, let alone to the point of him wanting to shoot you?
----------- "how often have you argued with a local when abroad, let alone to the point of him wanting to shoot you?"
Isn't that half the fun of being British?
-------------------------------------------- [hitlers at JFK airport] -------------- I've only been twice in my life. The first time I innocently but mistakenly moved forward to the passport checking booth too soon (i.e. when the person just checked had moved on) and I was shouted at and asked where had I come from and what did I think I was doing.
Thankfully some nice people behind me shouted that I'd come from the front of the queue. It was mortifying.
----------------------------- 'Yes there is nothing more uplifting than the JFK welcome...'
Try Oakland if you want to see American efficiency at its direst.
---------------------- A friend told me that the immigration officers themselves are purposely trained not to engage in small-talk and be austere, in part to avoid being influenced and in part to avoid the possibility of being accused of bias. ...
------------------------- The only time I was ever treated civilly at JFK was during the Iraq War, when the immigration officer praised Britain's allegiance to the US-led coalition and disparaged certain other "so-called allies" that had declined to get involved.
Spinelessly, I decided it wasn't the time or place to express my different view on the subject.
------------------- You don't get screamed at in the UK.
------------------ koushixinfei
I've avoided the US like the plague for the past 20 years. What I'm not surprised about is the recent reports of crass, insulting, boorish behavior by the rednecked illiterates parading as Border Guards. It's absolutely nothing new, it's been like Zimbabwe for the past couple of decades.
------------------- DavinlBell
US Customs checks have always been a nightmare of rudeness and suspicion. I was once given the gimlet eye at Houston airport for having an old Vietnam visa in my passport. With Trump I fear it'll be even worse.
----------------- Micksturbs
Try having stamps from Qatar, Bahrain and Morocco... We weren't quite at the point of 'cavity search', but it was a close call.
----------------------------------------------------- alan280170
I call bullshit, I have a Chinese, Saudi, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar amongst others and have been flying through LAX and IAH with no problems for years.
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Blogging Congress (continued)
New Mexico
District 1 Michelle Lujan Grisham Democrat
District 2 Steve Pearce Republican
District 3 Ben R. Lujan Democrat
New York
District 1 Lee Zeldin Republican
District 2 Pete King Republican
District 3 Thomas Suozzi Democrat
District 4 Kathleen Rice Democrat
District 5 Gregory W. Meeks Democrat
District 6 Grace Meng Democrat
District 7 Nydia M. Velazquez Democrat
District 8 Hakeem Jeffries Democrat
District 9 Yvette D. Clarke Democrat
District 10 Jerrold Nadler Democrat
District 11 Daniel Donovan Republican
District 12 Carolyn Maloney Democrat
District 13 Adriano Espaillat Democrat
District 14 Joseph Crowley Democrat
District 15 José E. Serrano Democrat
District 16 Eliot Engel Democrat
District 17 Nita Lowey Democrat
District 18 Sean Patrick Maloney Democrat
District 19 John Faso Republican
District 20 Paul D. Tonko Democrat
District 21 Elise Stefanik Republican
District 22 Claudia Tenney Republican
District 23 Tom Reed Republican
District 24 John Katko Republican
District 25 Louise Slaughter Democrat
District 26 Brian Higgins Democrat
District 27 Chris Collins Republican
North Carolina
District 1 G.K. Butterfield Democrat
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District 3 Walter B. Jones Republican
District 4 David Price Democrat
District 5 Virginia Foxx Republican
District 6 Mark Walker Republican
District 7 David Rouzer Republican
District 8 Richard Hudson Republican
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District 13 Ted Budd Republican
North Dakota
At Large Kevin Cramer Republican
Northern Mariana Islands
At Large Gregorio Sablan Democrat
Ohio
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District 3 Joyce Beatty Democrat
District 4 Jim Jordan Republican
District 5 Robert E. Latta Republican
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District 8 Warren Davidson Republican
District 9 Marcy Kaptur Democrat
District 10 Michael Turner Republican
District 11 Marcia L. Fudge Democrat
District 12 Pat Tiberi Republican
District 13 Tim Ryan Democrat
District 14 David Joyce Republican
District 15 Steve Stivers Republican
District 16 Jim Renacci Republican
Oklahoma
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District 3 Frank Lucas Republican
District 4 Tom Cole Republican
District 5 Steve Russell Republican
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