I love that word, po-grom. It’s Russian, meaning “like lightning”, as the Cossacks did strike like lightning. Donner and blitzen! Now that’s a better expresssion for English speakers to understand how things were within the Pale of Settlement of the Tsars.

Weirdos in California – by the boatload! That’s why I smell one in you…one gets good at smelling them out in SF.

You always disturbing my anti-Finland reading….

That too as well as a long list of other reasons.

There were too many weirdos in California.

Or was he an economic refugee? Did he receive welfare, housing, etc in Brazil, or did he go to work? Did he just marry and live off a woman?

I am curious about your family and its persecutions. Why did they leave Brazil for USA? More persecution?

And then you leave USA to escape…what? A real job?

If we generously allow that 10 per cent of these border crossings were made by Finnish citizens and foreigners domiciled in Finland, that still leaves more than 9 million border crossings made by visiting foreigners. Again conservatively assuming an average temporary stay in Finland not exceeding 48 hours, this means that on a daily basis the foreign population of Finland exceeds the foreign immigrant population by at least 24,500 simply due to the impact of temporary visitors. On this very crude basis, it is already necessary to make a downward adjustment of at least 8 per cent in any statistic that fails to distinguish between foreign immigrants and foreigners in general. This is before making further adjustments for such factors as the relevant age profile of visitors.