I’m a far-away internet lady, but dear heart, I’ve been there (sometimes still am there), and I care about you <3

This is a fantastic point, and I love it.

Amen. Absolutely amen.

She isn’t just someone off the street, I’d point out. She’s a delegate. You do have a point, certainly, but I imagine that at this point the CNN anchors who have had to cover this madness for the past year are getting very short on patience.

Right?!? Okay, like, I grew up in a conservative Christian environment, incredibly focused on church and all its trappings, and now I’ve, uh, become a super-liberal, but I still consider myself theoretically Christian. ANYWAYS, as she’s listing off her self-righteous qualifications - I’m a Christian woman, I don’t…

Oh my GOD that was adorable!

NO! WRONG! THOSE CANADIANS ARE WRONG! The “s” is essential! It is not a proper apology if one is not apologiSing.

Eh, the kid’s mom, Helena Christensen, is Danish. Methinks she had a great deal of input in the name.

For instance, in my town there are a number of awesome groups that regularly feed local homeless and finds them emergency cold-weather shelters (as well as lobbying the government for better funding for housing and mental health), other groups (both governmental and non-profit) that work to find them housing, there…

50,000, actually. But dude, a ‘Nauru situation’ (aka “refugees are depressed”) is far preferable to the current Syria situation (aka “refugees are DEAD”.

I’ll agree with this. Again, I get that Jordan is just incredibly FULL right now - they have taken in a huge number of refugees. But the international community should be helping by taking some of these refugees, too! Then there’s room for these currently-starving refugees to get the heck in! If we took in more…

Yes they were from already-established refugee camps. However, that was taking from a readily-available pool, moving people into a safer situation as quickly as possible. It was practical, at the time. We can do more than that, though. We being the entire international community.

Joke’s on you, I help the homeless. Because I care about people. All people. It’s not “either help the people here or help the people there” - it’s “help all the people you can”. Nice attempt at redirection, though.

I can understand that, like other commenters have stated, Jordan has taken in a huge number of refugees already, and may find itself completely at the brink of what it can bear. However, dang, blocking off aid convoys? Telling the Red Cross to go THROUGH Syria? That seems cruel.

“. And how do we integrate these folks into the US? Do we set up Arabic schools? Do we immediately train thousands (tens of thousands?) of new ESL teachers overnight? Where do we house them, exactly? How do we give them economic meaning? Read up on the refugees in Nauru who, despite being fed and sheltered, are…

Okay, upon this information, I give greater credence to your protestations :P

It’s Canada, man. If it was anywhere else I might call bullcrap, but Canada, man. Especially up north. The farther north you go, the crazier the animals get. My cousins only live halfway up BC and they are regularly forced to scramble up trees to avoid angry grizzlies. Like, these are things that happen multiple…

This was utterly, utterly beautiful - thankyou for sharing it with us. <3