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Does not!

No, I just found a Web site that obamaizes pictures. So I figured I could do that to my penguin.

He is mine, by the way. I bought him from a Jewish cartoonist in Germany. It's a very flexible character. He would make a good President. Certainly looks like a job any penguin could do.

However, I am thinking about moving to America again. Situation gets ugly in Ireland. Germany would be far safer but I have no chance to get a job there. And some of the Muslim immigrants are making life difficult. Here in Ireland it's mostly local fanatics, not so much Muslim immigrants...

Unfortunately getting a work permit or green card is not easy. It seems more difficult for me who is totally assimilated, speaks the language, and would be a productive member of society (I am a software engineer). Heck I even look forward to watching Baseball.

Plus I started an Irish pension fund, but not long ago so I could restart. My plan was to retire in Israel but I am not sure if this will be possible now. Israel might not exist any more in any meaningful sense in 40 years.

Since Monday, again as it so often happens, on my way to work I am afraid that somebody might realise that I am Jewish and act against me in the name of peace. It happens. It will happen more often. And I am too stupid to walk away instead of defending myself. And when the press isn't looking those people do not act as if they are brutally beaten.

Anyway, enjoy the penguin!

Who needs a green card in America?  Apparently our current administration thinks those getting green cards are just fools.

now that's an immigrant one can be proud of! 

Last I checked God was still on His throne! 

I think you would hate the area.  If you love Ireland, try someplace not as crowded (and a little warmer).

I live in Dublin, not Ireland. It's a difference.

While Dublin is (obviously) in Ireland, it's really very different from the rest of the country.

Dublin has no wide open spaces and Dublin is also very very crowded. I haven't left the city for the countryside in years. I hear that Boston is the most European American city.

With my job skills New York or so would be better. And I need public transportation. I don't drive.

Boston is not so good as I have already chosen sides in the Yankess vs Red Sox matter.

San Francisco might be good, but it's in California, and I think all Californians are idiots.

I don't know what public transportation is like in Portland or Seattle. I want to take a bus or train to work.

Like she said.

I do not know the public transportation in Seattle or Portland either, but it is something you can check out.

You know what? Denver sounds good!

The climate seems good, the politics fit me, and the city looks nice.

Ok, here's the thing. I just signed a contract for another year. But in that year I'll see if I can get a job and work permit. I'll save some money, visit Israel once or twice more, and then see how I can move to the US. Maybe I can take a month or two off between jobs here and in the US to visit Sudan and/or Somalia as I had planned for years.

But Europe definitely isn't the place where I want to grow old.

Or where people would want to let me.

Actually, fwiw Denver isn't half bad.  If you get outside of Denver itself though, Colorado becomes a pretty strange place.  There's a massive Jewish community in Denver too if it's that's something you're looking for.  

Chicago, San Fran, Boston, Minneapolis, Austin would make my good list.

Duck Atlanta, Phoenix, LA, and anything in PA.   

or the corruption! 

Ey!  There is no corruption in Chicago. You guys are like the feds!  Ya got nothing on Chicago political corruption.  Nada.  Zip.  Zero.  zilch.  NOTHIN'!