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Give me the name of just one restaurant in the US that has a foreigner menu
with
double pricing. Just one.




I can give you the names of several Times Square and 5th ave "camera" stores
that thrive on shameless "bait and switch" scams aimed at foreign tourists.

GF

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:13:26 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:
Give me the name of just one restaurant in the US that has a
foreigner menu with double pricing. Just one.

I have encountered various Chinese restaurants that have a different
menu for those who speak / read Chinese and the prices on those are
discounted...

Jay Honeck schrieb:

the famously less-than-welcoming attitude of many Europeans

Today released:

Travelers rate America’s entry process as the “world’s worst” by greater
than a 2:1 margin over the next-worst destination area.
The U.S. ranks with Africa and the Middle East when it comes to
traveler-friendly paperwork and officials.
54 percent of international travelers say that immigration officials are
rude.
Travelers to the U.S. are more afraid of U.S. government officials than
the threat of terrorism or crime.
Two-thirds of travelers surveyed fear they will be detained at the
border because of a simple mistake or misstatement.


Source:

The Discover America Partnership/RT Strategies study of international
travelers was conducted between October 25th and November 9th, 2006.
2,011 non-U.S. resident international travelers were surveyed,
representing 15+ countries worldwide. Half of those travelers had
visited the U.S. since September 11, 2001; the other half had not
visited the U.S. since September 11, 2001.

http://www.poweroftravel.org/release-11-20-06.aspx


So much about the "famously less-than-welcoming attitude"

Stefan

Travelers rate America's entry process as the "world's worst" by greater
than a 2:1 margin over the next-worst destination area.

Well, duh. After a country has been successfully attacked by foreign
nationals using airliners as weapons, did you expect to be welcomed
with open arms at the airport, without paperwork or security?

It's actually rather unusual that foreign tourists are being allowed in
the country at all. Throughout US history, tourism has been shut down
during war time. (Necessary aviation content: So has general
aviation, by the way.)

But all that's beside the point. In a country where most of our states
are larger than France -- and there are 50 of them -- there is more to
see and do here than any one person can accomplish in a lifetime.

But I'm gonna try!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:1164112603.897240.198500
@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

But all that's beside the point. In a country where most of our states
are larger than France -- and there are 50 of them -- there is more to
see and do here than any one person can accomplish in a lifetime.

It shouldn't take a lifetime...
Not all 50 states have anything of any real interest to see or do, though.

Of course, I used to think Iowa fell into that category. But then I heard
about this Aviation themed Hotel that I will have to check out before I die.

Jay Honeck schrieb:

Well, duh. After a country has been successfully attacked by foreign
nationals using airliners as weapons, did you expect to be welcomed

You'd be surprized to learn that some other countries have been attacked
in the past, too, and have managed to remain friendly nevertheless. I
find it interesting that you speak of the "famously less-than-welcoming
attitude of many Europeans" but in turn think such an attitude is a
pretty normal thing when practiced by the USA. Correction, I don't find
this interesting, I rather find it extremely boring.

But all that's beside the point. In a country where most of our states
are larger than France -- and there are 50 of them -- there is more to
see and do here than any one person can accomplish in a lifetime.

Depends on how much you want to broaden your mind. But then, I suspect
that you're happier when you're not forced to broaden it too much.

Stefan

It shouldn't take a lifetime...
Not all 50 states have anything of any real interest to see or do, though.

Of course, I used to think Iowa fell into that category. But then I heard
about this Aviation themed Hotel that I will have to check out before I die.

Chuckle. I used to think that way, too. As I've grown older, and my
travels have expanded, I've found that each state is a country in
itself, offering different treasures -- and they are all wonderful, and
more than worth the effort to see and explore.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 21 Nov 2006 04:36:43 -0800, "Jay Honeck" wrote
in .com:

It's actually rather unusual that foreign tourists are being allowed in
the country at all.

The US government's ineffectual border enforcement performance admits,
not only foreign tourists, but undocumented resident immigrants by the
tens of thousands annually. Our government is incapable of denying
people the ability to enter our country during the time of war or any
other time.

The whole TSA is a bad joke created by an arrogant former drug and
alcohol abusing, ignorant, pipit for those who are raiding our nations
wealth through corporate subsidies and non-competitive contracts with
Halliburton, The Carlisle Group, Bechtel, ..., at the expense of the
education, environment, and health care.

I am deeply ashamed of my country's choice of leadership, military
actions, both covert and overt, both past (post WW-II) and present,
and have lost faith in my fellow Americans' ability to vote wisely,
make rational decisions based on objective criteria instead of
emotional hysteria, and in our nation's corrupt Congressional
leadership. If radical reform isn't instituted soon, the entire
government is doomed to failure and collapse.

Corporations are not persons, and do not have the right to influence
governmental policies that negatively affect the people of this
nation. Ours is a government by, and for the people, not for the tax
evading, parasitic, exploitive, immoral, and often criminal large
corporations.

The emotional role religion played in Congress' action as a result of
the Terri Schivo matter underscores organized religion's inappropriate
influence on logic, rational judgment, and common sense. It is the
shamans who have for decades victimized the children of those with
whom they are entrusted to advise on moral and ethical matters. It is
the hypocrisy of the religious right who deny's homosexual couples the
right to a legal union, so that their adopted children will have the
benefits of a legitimate family, all the while engaging in same-sex
prostitution and drug trafficking, that reveal the irrationality of
the people of this nation in their continued support of irrational
belief.

If rational, logical, thoughtful leadership is not restored to our
nation soon, we are destined to see a lot more than general aviation
destroyed.

/rant

A nation can survive its fools, and even the
ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from
within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within
the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through
all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government
itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he
speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and
he wears their face and their arguments, he
appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the
hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation,
he works secretly and unknown in the night
to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects
the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to fear. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Jay Honeck wrote
... In a country where most of our states are larger than France ...

It looks to me that only alaska and Texas are larger then France.

The US government's ineffectual border enforcement performance admits,
not only foreign tourists, but undocumented resident immigrants by the
tens of thousands annually.

The 911 terrorists were =documented=. They had visas. We need to keep
the =documented= people out. Undocumented people have never crashed
jetliners into buildings.

The emotional role religion played in Congress' action...

.... merely reflects the huge role such superstition plays in the lives
of Americans.

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
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