Bidiot relocating Afgan refugees to swing states

[Hawkeye]

OK who’s the idiot here. Member since 2008 and you act like this.
30 days.

Thirty days in the hole... Somebody could turn that into a song!

Oh, wait... Maybe....


This really humbles me...

 

[Timjoebillybob]

You need to drop that whole romantic attachment to some words France put on the statue.

France didn't put those words on the statue. An American wrote that poem to help fundraising efforts to build the base for it. It was later cast into a plaque that was mounted at the statue by America.

 

[Alpo]

France didn't put those words on the statue. An American wrote that poem to help fundraising efforts to build the base for it. It was later cast into a plaque that was mounted at the statue by America.

The song is from the 1949 Broadway musical MISS LIBERTY. Written By Irving Berlin; lyrics adapted from the poem THE NEW COLOSSUS by EMMA LAZARUS.

This isn't the best version of the song, but it is by the guy who wrote the melody, so I went with that. You have to admit, we dressed better in 1949. No "casual Fridays" which was the end of civility in the USA if I remember correctly.

I remember singing this in grade school and at a Boy Scout conference.

Yeah, I know, old fashioned. But it was old fashioned patriotism. Funny thing: we believed the words then.

I still do.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

The song is from the 1949 Broadway musical MISS LIBERTY. Written By Irving Berlin; lyrics adapted from the poem THE NEW COLOSSUS by EMMA LAZARUS.

This isn't the best version of the song, but it is by the guy who wrote the melody, so I went with that. You have to admit, we dressed better in 1949. No "casual Fridays" which was the end of civility in the USA if I remember correctly.

I remember singing this in grade school and at a Boy Scout conference.

Yeah, I know, old fashioned. But it was old fashioned patriotism. Funny thing: we believed the words then.

I still do.

I still do as well, with limits. I agree with drillsgt we can't take in everyone that wants to come.

 

[wtburnette]

I still do as well, with limits. I agree with drillsgt we can't take in everyone that wants to come.

A country has to have borders and laws that protect it's citizens and it's sovereignty. Our economy can only handle so much. We can't solve all the world's problems by making everyone a US citizen, or even just allowing them to come live here. We have finite resources that these people are consuming, instead of the citizens of the country. The immigration that made this country great was done legally. We still have legal immigration. I agree that it needs to be revamped to be more effective, but at the same time, we need to tightly control our borders, not let anyone else in illegally and even round up and deport those we can. There are ways we can help other countries and peoples around the world. Letting them come here illegally is not a sane way to help them, mostly because it comes at the cost of destroying our country. Then who can we help?

 

[Alpo]

I still do as well, with limits. I agree with drillsgt we can't take in everyone that wants to come.

I didn't read his comments that way. But, whaddiknow....

 

[Timjoebillybob]

I didn't read his comments that way. But, whaddiknow....

I really didn't either. At least not in the whole. One sentence of it though "We need to be smarter now about our immigration policy like some of these other countries, we already have over 330M people here now, staggering debt, and out of control spending, we can't continue to take in anybody that shows up at the doorstep." I can agree with.

 

[churchmouse]

The song is from the 1949 Broadway musical MISS LIBERTY. Written By Irving Berlin; lyrics adapted from the poem THE NEW COLOSSUS by EMMA LAZARUS.

This isn't the best version of the song, but it is by the guy who wrote the melody, so I went with that. You have to admit, we dressed better in 1949. No "casual Fridays" which was the end of civility in the USA if I remember correctly.

I remember singing this in grade school and at a Boy Scout conference.

Yeah, I know, old fashioned. But it was old fashioned patriotism. Funny thing: we believed the words then.

I still do.

But we had a stead fast process even then.
in this there can be and is no argument.
these people fly right over the island and there is no real process.

 

[buckwacker]

Mass immigration and government entitlements\welfare state are incompatible.

 

[drillsgt]

France didn't put those words on the statue. An American wrote that poem to help fundraising efforts to build the base for it. It was later cast into a plaque that was mounted at the statue by America.

Out of that whole rant that's what you focused on lol, thanks for the correction, I edited out 'France'.

 

[Alpo]

I really didn't either. At least not in the whole. One sentence of it though "We need to be smarter now about our immigration policy like some of these other countries, we already have over 330M people here now, staggering debt, and out of control spending, we can't continue to take in anybody that shows up at the doorstep." I can agree with.

I do as well. Congress refuses to deal with it effectively. I'm all for a moratorium on any immigration until we set Congress down in a locked building and not let them out until they have an immigration law that makes sense.

....there may be a lot of skeletons before we open that door again.

 

[wtburnette]

Breakdown around 0:48

 

[printcraft]

A Female Soldier at Fort Bliss Was Assaulted by a Group of Male Afghan Refugees, Officials Say


Take them sky diving from the wheel house of a C130...

 

[drillsgt]

A Female Soldier at Fort Bliss Was Assaulted by a Group of Male Afghan Refugees, Officials Say


Take them sky diving from the wheel house of a C130...

One of the usual suspects in another thread said those are just a few bad apples but nothing to see here.

 

[printcraft]

One of the usual suspects in another thread said those are just a few bad apples but nothing to see here.

It's amazing how often the usual suspects are usually wrong.

 

[Alpo]

One of the usual suspects in another thread said those are just a few bad apples but nothing to see here.

Looks like they have role models.

Despite Efforts, Sexual Assaults Up Nearly 40% in US Military​

Despite Efforts, Sexual Assaults Up Nearly 40% in US Military

A new survey of active-duty troops has found that sexual assaults in the U.S. military rose by 38% from 2016 to 2018.

www.military.com

 

[printcraft]

Looks like they have role models.

Despite Efforts, Sexual Assaults Up Nearly 40% in US Military​

Despite Efforts, Sexual Assaults Up Nearly 40% in US Military

A new survey of active-duty troops has found that sexual assaults in the U.S. military rose by 38% from 2016 to 2018.

www.military.com

So much just wrong with your post... I don't know where to start.

 

[Sylvain]

France didn't put those words on the statue. An American wrote that poem to help fundraising efforts to build the base for it. It was later cast into a plaque that was mounted at the statue by America.

You can't blame everything on the French!

Emma Lazarus wrote that poem.

 

[drillsgt]

You can't blame everything on the French!

Emma Lazarus wrote that poem.

Without the statue there would have been no poem so still the French's fault.

 

[Sylvain]

Without the statue there would have been no poem so still the French's fault.

You guys could have written "**** off" on the plaque if you wanted.