It’s especially weird because doing one thing doesn’t stop you from doing the other. Even if a miner learns to be a plumber or computer programmer he can still work in a mine if one reopens. Education gives you more, not less, freedom.

The idea of “merit based immigration” is also funny coming from the “they’re taking our jobs!” crowd. Like, sure, you can give visas to people who have computer engineering degrees- but there are already Americans who have those degrees and want to work in that field. There aren’t tons of Americans who want to spend…

I grew up in a county in Alabama which had/has the most churches per capital in the state. I was a fundamentalist evangelical Christian as a teen, surely a tedious bore even to my religious classmates, and a general pain in the ass to everyone around me. I policed the actions of my entire family, and my only friends…

On the other hand, why should I give two shits what right wing publications think about anything whatsoever?

Yeah, Uzbekistan isn’t part of the conventional definition, though I’d argue it was a deeply integrated part of the Islamic world prior to the Russian expansion into Central Asia. Bukhara, Samarqand, Khiva, Urgench, all important cities in greater Persia and major players in Islamic learning and sciences.

Exactly. When the terrorist threat is magnified out of proportion, it is easily used by politicians to support their own agendas, from “let’s arm everyone” to “increase the nuclear arsenal.” And it thereby sucks resources from issues affecting many more Americans in much worse ways.

Bollards make it difficult to enter areas like this. The problem is bollards are relatively expensive so they need to be used strategically. Still, any time you can make their plan more difficult you raise the chance of them committing an error in the process and being caught before the attack, or limit the lethality…

I’m becoming convinced that Sarah pounds a bottle of vodka before every presser. She was bumbling every other word and halfway through, I’m pretty sure she forgot where she was going with this nonsense. Also, the very rich already pay less as a percentage of their income than the middle class, so the whole point is…

This parable also seems to assume that everyone is having an equal amount of beer, which extended to our budget is, ummm, not exactly the case.

Dementia is a hell of a sickness.

*hanged!

Be content that it isn’t a mishmash of Papyrus, Chiller MT, Comic Sans, and WingDings.

I’m willing to bet they’re also not screeching about kneeling NFL players disrespecting the flag either... because THAT would be hypocrisy! LOL!

The craziest thing about immigration attitudes in America is that Americans are the most entitled people on the planet, I guarantee you that if those immigration hardliners had to sneak into another country to get better care for their sick kid not only would they do it, they’d feel righteous about it.

Trump wanted to save the British baby that was brain dead, but this little brown girl who has spent her entire life in America? Nah, f$&k her.

I’m sure they all variously have their own justification for their bigotry and misogyny. Some of the things that stated included: not wanting undocumented immigrants to use Texas as a place to seek abortions, wanting the girl to self-deport with the fetus, and wanting Americans to adopt the baby and then send the girl…

This doesn’t excuse what he said, but I’m pretty sure he made those comments to Samoans, not Kiwis. Either way, it’s fucking shitty and I hate that people are still acting like the US is the best place to live. It’s not even in the top 15 of countries to live!

Its’ so weird— we have smart, educated good looking people here that the US is dying to deport and yet they are recruiting in New Zealand?

They only reason they haven’t is because Mango Unchained has hasn’t assigned Ambassadors to most countries, and there’s no one there to fuck things up.