GO ABBA GO!!!

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
1) In fact, I do. Mostly. I sort a Quicken report for credit card expenditures in the prior calendar year and report every transaction over a certain amount (I think I've used $250 as a benchmark). It's not fully compliant, but it's enough to make me feel morally superior to other people, so it's good enough for me. In general I've changed my buying behavior so that I don't make major purchases on the Internet on the false basis that there is "no tax" for buying online, as I used to do. I'd rather my sales tax support my local government and infrastructure than go into general state revenues.

2) In fact, I don't. But they are my brothers by another mother.

Thankfully I have no such need to feel morally superior to other people. However, ironically, my lack of such need is making me feel a bit morally superior to you.

[Anne Elk]

The Nekfit rocks.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

I am trying to find out a few things for a friend, but don't really know where to look so if any of you have experience with these things and could point me in the right direction, I would be grateful.

My friend has a seven month-old baby. She wants to get a passport for her baby because her family lives in Ireland and she may have to travel to Ireland to visit them, esp. if a family member gets sick, which looks likely. She told me that the father of the baby has to sign off on the passport application. The problem is that while she is technically still married to the father, he has moved to Virginia, is not contributing one cent to the baby's care and whenever they talk he is generally being a pain in the ass. They do still talk, so she knows where to find him. However, she wants to be able to get the baby a passport without getting the father's sign off because she thinks he might hold out, or be an asshole about it etc. Is there some case that can be made that he's abandoned the kid and so she doesn't need his consent to the passport?

Thanks for any help.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

My boobs are not that size.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Is there some case that can be made that he's abandoned the kid and so she doesn't need his consent to the passport?

Thanks for any help.

She could get a judicial declaration of incompetence.

state department

They're pretty tight on these things, since once the baby is overseas, it's pretty tough to get them back (if she were trying to do that . . . )

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I am trying to find out a few things for a friend, but don't really know where to look so if any of you have experience with these things and could point me in the right direction, I would be grateful.

My friend has a seven month-old baby. She wants to get a passport for her baby because her family lives in Ireland and she may have to travel to Ireland to visit them, esp. if a family member gets sick, which looks likely. She told me that the father of the baby has to sign off on the passport application. The problem is that while she is technically still married to the father, he has moved to Virginia, is not contributing one cent to the baby's care and whenever they talk he is generally being a pain in the ass. They do still talk, so she knows where to find him. However, she wants to be able to get the baby a passport without getting the father's sign off because she thinks he might hold out, or be an asshole about it etc. Is there some case that can be made that he's abandoned the kid and so she doesn't need his consent to the passport?

Thanks for any help.

If she can prove that she is the sole legal guardian of the child, then she can get a passport without the father's signature. Otherwise she will need his consent.

Does she have an EU/Irish passport? That may be a bit easier to get.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Probably. There's not a lot of actual football in the show (because those scenes are expensive/difficult to shoot). A lot of people really like the interplay between Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton as husband and wife. On a different message board, there were quite a few women who liked watching the coach barking orders to kids while wearing shorts, so there's that. Apparently, there were other women who were happy to know that the actor who plays troubled, motherless fullback Tim Riggins was over 21 because it helped them rationalize the inappropriate thoughts they had about him. [Gwinky bonus: the actor is Canadian!]

There's also some stuff about how small-town life is stifling and how dead-end it can seem that might make your own job seem not so bad.

I say all of this knowing that I haven't seen any of the new season as my Tivo isn't currently hooked up and I'm not usually in front of the TV on Friday night.

Coach is cute, but Tim Riggins, holy mother of god, yeah, I'm glad he's over 18. Or 17. Or whatever the age of consent is. 21-shmentyone. And I'm sure IRL the actor, as well as the character, is a total asshole.

Mmmmm, coach and Tim.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by dtb
My boobs are not that size.

It appears to be stretchy material. It could probably accommodate you.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
If she can prove that she is the sole legal guardian of the child, then she can get a passport without the father's signature. Otherwise she will need his consent.

Does she have an EU/Irish passport? That may be a bit easier to get.

Ah. She may have an EU passport. I'll ask her. Thanks!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm just not even sure what to say about this:

I, too, am at a loss.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm just not even sure what to say about this:

Hank's wife has mad Photoshop skillz.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I, too, am at a loss.

What are you guys, idiots? It's a red x. They aren't that goddamn confusing.

Mmmmm, Tim Riggins. Used to model for Abercrombie, funnily enough. Or one of those places. Whatever. I'm sure he was shirtless. Must get The Covenant.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What are you guys, idiots? It's a red x. They aren't that goddamn confusing.

I'm not confused. I just don't have anything to say about it.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I'm not confused. I just don't have anything to say about it.

Shut up and get that Tim guy over here.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I am trying to find out a few things for a friend, but don't really know where to look so if any of you have experience with these things and could point me in the right direction, I would be grateful.

My friend has a seven month-old baby. She wants to get a passport for her baby because her family lives in Ireland and she may have to travel to Ireland to visit them, esp. if a family member gets sick, which looks likely. She told me that the father of the baby has to sign off on the passport application. The problem is that while she is technically still married to the father, he has moved to Virginia, is not contributing one cent to the baby's care and whenever they talk he is generally being a pain in the ass. They do still talk, so she knows where to find him. However, she wants to be able to get the baby a passport without getting the father's sign off because she thinks he might hold out, or be an asshole about it etc. Is there some case that can be made that he's abandoned the kid and so she doesn't need his consent to the passport?

Thanks for any help.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the rules about having both parents sign off on a passport application were put in place as a response to parents slipping out of the country to avoid losing custody, etc. Short of a hearing in which the father's rights are terminated, or a motion for an injunction compelling him to sign, your friend is not likely to get around the requirement.