drsmooth wrote:Hey, wimpy political skirmishers, dropping your tired Hitler this, Nazi that analogies: Dick Cheney sees your spittle-flecked hyperbole, and raises you Hiroshima & Nagasaki

pacino wrote:Scott Walker comes out for building a wall...on the Canadian border!!! The fiscally responsible question though is will he make them build it?

We'll be a giant fort, a walled-in country. It'll be great!

pacino wrote:Scott Walker comes out for building a wall...on the Canadian border!!! The fiscally responsible question though is will he make them build it?

We'll be a giant fort, a walled-in country. It'll be great!

slugsrbad wrote:

pacino wrote:Scott Walker comes out for building a wall...on the Canadian border!!! The fiscally responsible question though is will he make them build it?

We'll be a giant fort, a walled-in country. It'll be great!

On his birthday he will get giant sheets draped from wall to wall and we will have a sheet fort and it will be awesome.

“I saw everything,” he says. “I saw the gas. I saw the barrel bombs, the jets, the helicopters.” The Assad regime, he says, “has no mercy.” His family immigrated to the United Arab Emirates after the civil war broke out, he says, but he returned to Syria in the hope of escaping to Europe to finish his education. Studying in the U.A.E. “is not possible for people like me,” he says. The Emiratis don’t grant citizenship to, let alone educate, Syrian and other Arab refugees.

Barely into the first mile, sweat begins to pour down my forehead and back. The road is flanked to the right by the seashore. This is the world of flimsy bikinis, wedge sandals and beach cocktails—all set to the rhythm of European dance music. The miserable procession through this beach idyll, of refugees who a month ago lived under the caliphate, is a surreal sight. Many tourists and locals display great solidarity, delivering bottled water, juice and candy. Others are more callous. Two 20-something women riding a scooter wave and blow mocking air kisses. “Yoo-hoo!”

Hassan, the amber-haired 3-year-old in our group, walks vigorously. Does he understand what’s happening? His parents have stayed in Turkey, and he is traveling with a young uncle. Hassan has been made to understand that he is on a mission to reach Germany so he can rescue his parents. When we reach a public park in a town called Petra, he laughs joyously on swings and plays on the slides. For 10 minutes, Hassan gets to be a 3-year-old. Then we walk on.
By the seventh mile a sun-madness sets in. It becomes a steep uphill. Hassan’s uncle now carries him, now drags him violently, now soothes him with kisses. Gazing at the sun, the young man from Homs and I burst into laughter for no particular reason. In my case the laughter could easily melt into tears—and I have a cozy hotel room waiting for me.

Eventually, we get to the roadside restaurant where I parked my rental car. The restaurateur refuses to give away or even sell bottled water: “All the rest will come, and they will eat both of us.”

I offer the two children and their guardians a ride to Mytilene. As my car rolls out of the parking spot, the restaurateur runs after us with four bottles of ice-cold water in a plastic bag. “Everybody is a good person,” he says. “But we have limits.”

Soren wrote:Dan Carlin did a thing on why Trump is a good thing despite his massive distaste for the man. Trump's comments about Mexicans (and by proxy other illegal immigrants) force other hardliners to either soften their stance or double down and go further to the right.

Soren wrote:

pacino wrote:Scott Walker comes out for building a wall...on the Canadian border!!! The fiscally responsible question though is will he make them build it?

We'll be a giant fort, a walled-in country. It'll be great!

Certainly worked for the Chinese

@RandPaul
Behind me is the NSA. When I'm President we'll turn it into a Constitutional Center to study the Fourth Amendment!

Soren wrote:I constantly have moments with the Pauls where I'm like hey that's not a bad idea and then they keep talking

pacino wrote:Scott Walker comes out for building a wall...on the Canadian border!!! The fiscally responsible question though is will he make them build it?

pacino wrote:

@RandPaul
Behind me is the NSA. When I'm President we'll turn it into a Constitutional Center to study the Fourth Amendment!

slugsrbad wrote:New poll in Iowa has Dr. Carson tied with the Don.

td11 wrote:

pacino wrote:

@RandPaul
Behind me is the NSA. When I'm President we'll turn it into a Constitutional Center to study the Fourth Amendment!

Rand Paul: Behind me is the NSA
Aide: Sir, that's a potato farm
Rand Paul: When I'm President, we will turn the NSA-- the National Security Agency-- into a library of sorts. A library that studies pokemon and the newest memes