Image via ShutterstockA simple question, on a day when far too many Americans are surrendering to fear-mongering and bigotry.
When will Americans learn that turning their backs on desperate Muslim refugees is EXACTLY what ISIS wants them to do?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 18, 2015
“I’m not worried about what a bureaucrat in D.C. or an unelected judge thinks. … We need to gather (Syrian refugees) up and politely take them back to the ICE center and say, ‘They’re not coming to Tennessee, they’re yours.’ “
TN House Republican Caucus Chair wants to activate the Guard to round up Syrian immigrants https://t.co/G4Xstf5FPo pic.twitter.com/46h1Cwdrl6
— J.R. Lind (@jrlind) November 18, 2015
I would say that rampant pants-shitting and overall fearmongering has won the day given the amount of histrionics about refugees, but then I see poll results showing that Americans overwhelmingly do not want boots on the ground in Syria. These United States are in a weird place right now in my opinion.
re: #2 Kruggerrand Paul
I would say that rampant pants-shitting and overall fearmongering has won the day given the amount of histrionics about refugees, but then I see poll results showing that Americans overwhelmingly do not want boots on the ground in Syria. These United States are in a weird place right now in my opinion.
Very isolationist. Pull the covers over our head and hope the rest of the world goes away and leaves us in our God-granted moral superiority.
Air France flight from Dulles, Va., to Paris diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia, over security concerns - @KSundahlCTV https://t.co/07cUChW1ZI
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) November 18, 2015
FAA: Air France flight headed from LA to Paris diverted due to security incident. https://t.co/5UriKxwJ1t
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) November 18, 2015
DEVELOPING: Two Air France flights from U.S. bound for Paris have been diverted after anonymous threats were phoned in, the airline says.
— ABC News (@ABC) November 18, 2015
We’ve become a nation of bedwetters.
Bedwetters who demand to be able to take their gun anywhere but run, scream and cower in the corner at ghosts.
I prided myself having not blocked a single account on Twitter, I was nice like that.
This tweet brought out the nativist/nationalist freaks.
How bad is the refugee problem in the U.S.? This bad. RT @ianbremmer: The Economist with a little common sense. pic.twitter.com/OHR4AXaeMQ
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) November 17, 2015
I am now blocking accounts left and right, over a dozen today alone.
No one is paying attention to The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. en.wikipedia.org
OT for the Lizards who might find this relevant:
Apparently you can use HTML when renaming weapons in Fallout 4—awesome for an extra emphasis in inventory. pic.twitter.com/9V0FdVRnVw
— Rhéa (@ashelia) November 18, 2015
Imagine how much it must suck to be a Republican right now. You’re not allowed to have a reasonable opinion on anything. Just look at Jeb! and the others…falling over each other to sound more like Michele Bachmann than the other.
Trolling level: Presidential.
Obama: Can’t Think of ‘More Potent Recruitment Tool’ for ISIS Than GOP Rhetoric https://t.co/GT0P5et8Ie pic.twitter.com/5cKU6FyiZS
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) November 18, 2015
Heads are going ‘splodey everywhere tonight.
Obama is not pleased with how Republicans are talking about Syrian refugees, per pooler @shearm at APEC pic.twitter.com/fRlSsevaNO
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) November 18, 2015
re: #11 darthstar
Imagine how much it must suck to be a Republican right now. You’re not allowed to have a reasonable opinion on anything. Just look at Jeb! and the others…falling over each other to sound more like Michele Bachmann than the other.
You’re assuming they actually give a shit about wanting to be reasonable.
re: #10 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #11 darthstar
Imagine how much it must suck to be a Republican right now. You’re not allowed to have a reasonable opinion on anything. Just look at Jeb! and the others…falling over each other to sound more like Michele Bachmann than the other.
It’s hard to stay out in front of a panicked mob.
Officials in the Gulf are afraid the Syrian refugees “will bring their fight with them,” says Randa Slim at the Middle East Institute. For the UAE, “given its neighborhood, can’t afford to do this.”The Gulf states have donated millions of dollars to support Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, and defend their commitment to supporting the victims of Syria’s war. But the reality is more complicated, says Slim.
“It’s very sensitive,” says Slim, describing official reactions in the Gulf. The countries’ aggressive push-back against criticism is intended for an internal audience, she says.
In the Gulf region, “Everybody listens to CNN and reads Twitter,” says Slim, and Gulf officials have to convince the so-called Arab street that they’re not being negligent. “It’s about their domestic audience — that ‘we, as Muslims, are taking care.’ “
Arab satellite channels have run nonstop coverage of the Syrian conflict and exhausted refugees making the difficult trek across Europe. But a recent photograph of well-constructed, air-conditioned tents for religious pilgrims in Saudi Arabia set off another round of Arab media criticism, asking why the Saudis didn’t send the same facilities to Syrians displaced by the war.
Religious tests for entry, my ass.
Asking for “proof” of being Christian means you’re trying move into God’s territory…and humans are SO bad at that….
Some things I did not know about LBJ, rescuing Jews:
Historians have revealed that Johnson, while serving as a young congressman in 1938 and 1939, arranged for visas to be supplied to Jews in Warsaw, and oversaw the apparently illegal immigration of hundreds of Jews through the port of Galveston, Texas.
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In 1938, Johnson was told of a young Austrian Jewish musician who was about to be deported from the United States. With an element of subterfuge, LBJ sent him to the US Consulate in Havana to obtain a residency permit. Erich Leinsdorf, the world famous musician and conductor, credited LBJ for saving his life.
That same year, LBJ warned a Jewish friend, Jim Novy, that European Jews faced annihilation. “Get as many Jewish people as possible out [of Germany and Poland],” were Johnson’s instructions. Somehow, Johnson provided him with a pile of signed immigration papers that were used to get 42 Jews out of Warsaw.
But that wasn’t enough. According to historian James M. Smallwood, Congressman Johnson used legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle “hundreds of Jews into Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough money could buy false passports and fake visas in Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American countries…. Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas. He hid them in the Texas National Youth Administration… Johnson saved at least four or five hundred Jews, possibly more.”
re: #18 gwangung
How would refugees prove their religion anyway? Get their pastor to fax their baptism certificate? From a war zone?
And Obama said, “If folks wanna pop off…” pic.twitter.com/32SvdLAhIh
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 16, 2015
re: #20 funky chicken
How would refugees prove their religion anyway? Get their pastor to fax their baptism certificate? From a war zone?
What if they start speaking Aramaic, a language no wingnut Christian can even understand?
Well, I’ve got to go write some copy for product collections we are bundling together. Bosses want it done by Thursday when we have the dive club meeting. Not going to be hard, since I was the one who assembled the collections, but have to make each one sound ‘special’ in it’s own way. (and truth be told, I think I did a good job of building sets across the price spectrum that provide and excellent value and gear I’d own without a moment’s hesitation)
I guess it’s something that I’ve inherited from my folks, my Mom was a good writer when she was alive, and my Dad, at 94, is taking courses on writing short stories at the local Community College down in Florida. I asked him why he wasn’t looking at a novel, and he just looked at me and said “‘Cuz I’m 94, that’s why, smart-ass” Love him to death.
RBS
This seems to be as good a time as any to re-post one of my favourite Cracked articles.
re: #22 electrotek
What if they start speaking Aramaic, a language no wingnut Christian can even understand?
Proper English would work just as well.
The House just posted its Syria and Iraq refugee bill. It requires ok from FBI and DHS before they can enter the US: https://t.co/ZK6RIS6tbm
— Connor O’Brien (@connorobrienNH) November 18, 2015
re: #20 funky chicken
How would refugees prove their religion anyway? Get their pastor to fax their baptism certificate? From a war zone?
Maybe the standard should be a simple verbal statement: “I believe in Jesus Christ” and that’s it. That’s good enough for God, it should be good enough for men.
re: #25 Romantic Heretic
Proper English would work just as well.
They would be fucked if they only knew Aramaic. To the wingnuts it would sound similar to Arabic and would be straight up denied entry because of it.
re: #25 Romantic Heretic
Proper English would work just as well.
Huh. Not something some of the native born could pass…
re: #10 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Cool beans. Makes keeping track of all my useful crap easier.
We are not the home of the brave anymore the Republicans have turned us into the home of the wimps.
Refugees are good for the community, for the economy, for America. You never have a better friend than one you helped in a time of need.
I lived in St.Paul when the Hmong came. I never knew a more grateful people, and now they add so much to the city’s culture.
re: #16 jaunte
It’s hard to stay out in front of a panicked mob.
Especially if you’re the reason they are panicking.
re: #22 electrotek
Oh that is just silly. If they want to prove they deserve to be here they need to take Palin’s advice and “Speak American!”
Statistically speaking, I’m far more worried about a heavily armed American with his own private arsenal shooting up the place I happen to be than I am about a Syrian deciding to undertake a harrowing journey to Europe, live in squalor and desperation for two years, undergo a background check, and then arrive without a support group or assistance, acquire a weapons cache and then decide to shoot up the place I happen to be in.
The heavily armed natives here have killed far more Americans than Al Qaeda or ISIS have.
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