Gotten Your New Passport Recently? Subliminal Obamanation? (Vanity)

My USA passport (and yours) | 4/1/12 | Self

[Yaelle]

Words mean things.

[Libloather]

All depends on your destination.

[Yaelle]

Does this matter to us?

What is next, money with quotes by Maya Angelou on it?

[Yaelle]

I realize this document is held in the hands of foreign government officials but the descent of the quotes is so severe in values that if we had any more pages a quote from Marx would be in there.

And if it were of Groucho I’d be ok.

[NonValueAdded]

Mohawks on gratitude to animals? Did you know that Mohawk means “man-eater” or “cannibal” in Algonquin?

[Fast Moving Angel]

The quote on the golden spike at Promontory Point — I don’t know if I would read too much into that, because it took place in 1869, just 4 years after the end of the War Between the States. I think they were referring to the “reunification” of the country after the end of the War.

[max americana]

Just be lucky it’s still in English and not habla espanol.

[Drango]

RFID....That’s all you need to know about the new passports. Why do words upset you?

[This I Wonder32460]

There are quotes written inside of U.S. passports? Is this something new? Or has this always been done? I’ll have to ask a friend if I can look at her passport to check out the quotes as I don’t have one.

[Lucky9teen]

What bothers me is when posters emit the o in the word God.

What is wrong with saying God and spelling the whole word when speaking of Him???

[Yaelle]

No, nothing wrong with the quote on the Golden Spike. It made a lot of sense at the time. But why was it chosen among the very few quotes for our Passport?

[Yaelle]

The old one from 1999 had no quotes at all.

[basil]

We just had to get out passports renewed, too.

I’m not overly worried by what’s written on it, as long as our name, etc are spelled correctly.

The worst thing is what you have to go through to renew them—and the cost to do so.

[Yaelle]

Sorry, it is the opposite of trying to offend. It’s a Jewish thing where we are forbidden to write His name on anything that is to be shortly destroyed. The ancient rabbis did not conceive of the Internet! :). Well, it’s another reminder for me of holiness as I have to make that pesky change and that remembering should do me some good. One hopes.

[max americana]

It sucks one has to line up at the local USPS office and it takes time for the post office union clerk to process them.

[Yaelle]

Just be lucky it’s still in English and not habla espanol.

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The first pages have everything in 3 languages! English / French / Spanish. But that is just for the officials in other countries so that’s ok.

The long lists of important info and restrictions are 100% in English. So far. :)

[Myrddin]

I allowed my passport to expire last December. No interest in foreign travel or being "eligible" to be sent out of the country by my employer. I've spent plenty of time doing contracts in Europe. Leaving the country just adds an extra bit of explaining when renewing a security clearance.

[bgill]

It’s two fold:

1) It’s their agenda

2) It’s a waste of taxpayers’ dollars and trees

[Fast Moving Angel]

Good question, but you've got me wondering -- who chooses these quotes, and why would they be in a passport to begin with? I thought all a passport was, was official evidence of one's entering into or presence in a foreign country (and/or return to the US), and for no other purpose. So why would it be important to include any quotes at all? I mean, that seems about as relevant to a passport as graffiti on a wall. Government, go figure

[House Atreides]

Well, at least it didn’t have:

“Yes, we can!”

or

“Hope and Change”

Maybe they’re saving that for his next term.