Ryan Dempster Trade Rumors

[Felix The Cat]

http://www.nesn.com/2012/08/ryan-dempst ... sport.html

Dempster reportedly doesn't have his passport, according to the Dallas Morning News, and may have lost it some time in the last few years.

Ergo, Dempster won't be allowed through customs at the airport and can't even travel with the team to the Rogers Centre.

[Vidor]

You know, forcing Americans to have a passport to go to freaking Canada is goddamn stupid.

[illiniguy]

You know, forcing Americans to have a passport to go to freaking Canada is goddamn stupid.

He's Canadian.

[Vidor]

You know, forcing Americans to have a passport to go to freaking Canada is goddamn stupid.

He's Canadian.

The principle's the same. Still stupid. In Europe you can travel from Portugal to Poland and Norway to Greece without visa requirements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

but Canadians and Americans need freaking passports to cross the longest undefended border in the world. Asinine.

[obucard]

You know, forcing Americans to have a passport to go to freaking Canada is goddamn stupid.

He's Canadian.

That makes it hilarious.

[illiniguy]

You know, forcing Americans to have a passport to go to freaking Canada is goddamn stupid.

He's Canadian.

That makes it hilarious.

Agreed

[jim]

You know, forcing Americans to have a passport to go to freaking Canada is goddamn stupid.

He's Canadian.

The principle's the same. Still stupid. In Europe you can travel from Portugal to Poland and Norway to Greece without visa requirements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

but Canadians and Americans need freaking passports to cross the longest undefended border in the world. Asinine.

I'm fine with it, but if you let folks in from Canada without a passport then let them in from Mexico as well.

btw ... you need passports all over Europe. I don't know when you last traveled to Europe but you can't enter in any of the countries without a passport. At least I needed to show my passport to go from Switzerland to France and then from Switzerland to Italy.

[Felix The Cat]

Yeah, I think he might be mixing up visas and passports. I don't believe you need a visa to go from the U.S. to Canada either.

[Pudgelewis]

I didn't mind needing a passport, but taking my newly purchased potatoes upon entry set me off!

[Vidor]

You know, forcing Americans to have a passport to go to freaking Canada is goddamn stupid.

He's Canadian.

The principle's the same. Still stupid. In Europe you can travel from Portugal to Poland and Norway to Greece without visa requirements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

but Canadians and Americans need freaking passports to cross the longest undefended border in the world. Asinine.

I'm fine with it, but if you let folks in from Canada without a passport then let them in from Mexico as well.

btw ... you need passports all over Europe. I don't know when you last traveled to Europe but you can't enter in any of the countries without a passport. At least I needed to show my passport to go from Switzerland to France and then from Switzerland to Italy.

People from outside the Schengen Area need to get visas. But people from any of the Schengen countries can move back and forth freely. Just like citizens of the USA and Canada used to be able to move back and forth across them freely.

Before the implementation of the Schengen Agreement, most borders in Europe were patrolled and a vast network of border posts existed around the continent, to check the identity and entitlement of people wishing to travel from one country to another.
Since the implementation of the Schengen rules, border posts have been closed (and often entirely removed) between participating countries. The Schengen Borders Code requires participating states to remove all obstacles to free traffic flow at internal borders.[43] Thus, road, rail and air passengers no longer have their identity checked by border guards when travelling between Schengen countries, although security controls by carriers are still permissible.[44]

Eh, it just seems insane to me that the U.S.-Canada border is not what it was. A pity, really.