Sunny Adé

[lsanderson]

People traveling for work, vacations and family visits were all among the affected. The Nigerian musician King Sunny Adé was forced to cancel a United States tour, said Par Neiburger, the artistic director of the World Music Institute, who was organizing his New York concert.

He said 700 tickets would have to be refunded. “It’s very hard to believe and very hard to explain to patrons, because they have the same reaction I have,” he said. “Why on earth can’t they fix this?” Moar

Missed him the last time he was in town. Ain't neither of us getting no younger. Just saying is all.

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Ridiculous that there is no workable backup system.

Sometimes

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

You gits wot you pays for. I suspect this may be an instance of small government, or general idiocy. I guess either can be used to explain it.

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

Hopefully this will lead to the development of some sort of back-up plan. Argh.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Ummm.... the entire United States Government rendered incompetent for three weeks? I think that qualifies us as a world-wide #1 Laughing-stock. I also think that at least several hundred Government employees & Officials should be fired, With Predjudice (& possibly be given prison terms). Yes, they deserve it. No, they won't get it. At the very least, I should think, civil suits for loss of money/income should be in order, but I don't suppose that will happen, either.

Well,

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

No, or at least few natives wuz harmed and billions wuz saved! Ittsa wingnut field day!

[maruad.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Ade since he played Winnipeg during the 80's. Good show and good music.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I"m sure they/we/the U.S. Govt. could fix this quickly -- they just don't want to bother, mostly because "those other people" aren't important. "We're #1" and that's what counts, right?

Perhaps I was a bit too snarky, there, but... the quick fixing would involve paying a large number of citizens at least a living wage for several days or weeks, and the current Republican government seems to consider that horribly Socialistic. Plus, may of those foreigners aren't bringing much money with them, and a few might be taking some away.

MInd you, I bet a Freedom of Information Act inquiry would reveal that U.S. Congress members had no problem getting visas to popular vatcation destinations during this period. Purely on Fact-finding Missions that qualify for their Expense Account, of course.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

It's not visas to other countries; its citizens of other countries getting visas to come here. It just stranded hundreds of adoptive families in other countries for an extra week; I thought they had it fixed, but they must be doing adoption visas as the humanitarian expedites.