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trueblue
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sligo
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: Unwanted in Idaho..? |
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| trueblue wrote: |
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/10/thousands_of_muslim_invaders_slated_for_idaho.html
C'mon SR...lay out your book of circular excuses as if it were a baseball card collection. |
Irony = a nation of immigrants complaining about imigration. |
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trueblue
Joined: 15 Jun 2014
Location: In between the lines
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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Sligo: A Simple Simon town in Ireland.
Sligo: Provider of a Simple Simon narrative.
Irony? Nah...the connection is as obvious as 95% of black Americans voting for Nobama because...wait for it...he is black (1/2 anyway).
Muslims should go somewhere else...at least to where they are wanted. |
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sligo
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| trueblue wrote: |
Sligo: A Simple Simon town in Ireland.
Sligo: Provider of a Simple Simon narrative.
Irony? Nah...the connection is as obvious as 95% of black Americans voting for Nobama because...wait for it...he is black (1/2 anyway).
Muslims should go somewhere else...at least to where they are wanted. |
Really? that's the best reply you can offer, offer a childish attack on my username and make a (terrible) pun about Obama and then make a borderline racist generalisation about an entire facet of your country's society. Just like most people, the black american community voted individually for the candidate that they saw represented their best interests. I suppose all the corrupt white gun nuts voted for McCain beacuse he was white too.
It seems most republicunts attack Obama because he isn't republican too, and throw their toys out of the pram because they aren't in control. Seriously though, he has been a million times better than that moron Bush. I watched the last republican debate, and Jebb Bush stated:
'He [George W. Bush] kept us safe.'
Really? 9/11 happened on his watch!
Seriously get off the soap box, this isn't the place for chest beating. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| trueblue wrote: |
Sligo: A Simple Simon town in Ireland.
Sligo: Provider of a Simple Simon narrative.
Irony? Nah...the connection is as obvious as 95% of black Americans voting for Nobama because...wait for it...he is black (1/2 anyway).
Muslims should go somewhere else...at least to where they are wanted. |
Al Gore got 92% of the black vote in 2000. John Kerry got 88% in 2004. Seems like only 3-7% of blacks voted for Obama because he was black. Also, while Obama enjoyed consistent support from black women, black male support fell from 95% to 88% (matching previous levels) in 2012 compared to 2008. Of course, this being a midterm election, this is fairly in line with a fall off in incumbent support.
Of course, Obama getting 95% may have had something to do with the disaster that was George W. Bush's presidency. There was a 6 point swing from both self-identified conservatives and moderates from Bush in 2004 to Obama in 2008. The Democratic party continued its gains with women, postgraduates, and Asian-Americans. The Midwest continued to be in flux, but being a big Democratic win.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/national-exit-polls.html
http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1
http://edition.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president/
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| C'mon SR...lay out your book of circular excuses as if it were a baseball card collection. |
The guy is also ignorant. I had no idea Mynamar and the Congo were Muslim countries, but hey who needs facts when you can substitute that with fear.
What kind of person labels 2,000~11,000 people, including women and children, as an invading force in perhaps the most heavily armed countries in the world, a country of 300 million with the best armed forces in the world?You can make an argument against accepting refugees without resorting to fear and hyperbole. Calling 2,000 refugees, including women and children, "invaders" is just ridiculous.
Anyways, they're always welcome in SE Michigan. We have plenty of Middle Eastern people who have settled here for generations. I feel much safer in their communities than say, the trailer park or the ghetto. They weren't the ones doing crack or heroin and then deciding to rob people at gunpoint. |
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Plain Meaning
Joined: 18 Oct 2014
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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Population of Lebanon: just under 6,000,000
Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: just over 1,000,000
Population of Idaho: just over 1,500,000
Syrian Refugees in Idaho: about 2,000 |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| If the residents of Boise or where ever want it to be a "welcoming city" which continually accepts refugees, that is great. It will be a valuable social experiment for the rest of us to observe. If the results really conjure up the "prosperity" and "livability" promised by their mayor, then they will be the beneficiaries, and if it turns out their mayor was a snake-oil salesman, then it will be their problem with which to cope. |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| If the residents of Boise or where ever want it to be a "welcoming city" which continually accepts refugees, that is great. It will be a valuable social experiment for the rest of us to observe. If the results really conjure up the "prosperity" and "livability" promised by their mayor, then they will be the beneficiaries, and if it turns out their mayor was a snake-oil salesman, then it will be their problem with which to cope. |
That is a lot of 'ifs'.
When you say 'their' problem with which to cope, who it their?
Those involved at the beginning of this experiment will not be the same as those involved years down the road...yes? |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
| That is a lot of 'ifs'. |
That's true. What can I say, mass refugee immigration is an iffy business.
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When you say 'their' problem with which to cope, who it their?
Those involved at the beginning of this experiment will not be the same as those involved years down the road...yes? |
"They" are the collected denizens of the city or cities in question. Yes, the individuals in question may vary over time, but society is an exercise in making choices for our descendants and treating oneself as entitled to be the beneficiary of the choices and efforts of one's antecedants. Unfortunately, the door swings both ways in that regard. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:29 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
| That is a lot of 'ifs'. |
That's true. What can I say, mass refugee immigration is an iffy business.
| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
When you say 'their' problem with which to cope, who it their?
Those involved at the beginning of this experiment will not be the same as those involved years down the road...yes? |
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