My husband is the overseas rep for a Jordanian company. He is friends with many of his colleagues in Amman. You make excellent points. Its not because they don’t care. Its because they are stretched to and beyond their limits. I get sick of the blame game on a small desert country that has been doing everything they…

Because money alone doesn’t solve anything. You have to pay the right people the right amounts. That might mean illegal bribes. That might mean paying people who have committed serious atrocities. These solutions are not solvable by throwing money at them.

A charity that is consistently ranked as one of the most efficient in the world is the American Refugee Committee. One of things that I like about donating to them is that they don’t sell your contact information (which floods my mailbox with junk mail and makes the environmentalist side of me scream with rage). They…

Yeah, and with minimal planning and safeguards in place, do we believe the US incapable of such behavior? Australia is a developed Western state, and look at what it’s done to its refugees. Given the regional powers in the ME’s penchant for being shitty, why do we expect them to be any less awful?

Nobody is going “screw the starving and dehydrated refugees.” Most people do think Jordan should open the borders for aid to reach those camped out in the Syrian desert borderland. People are objecting to painting Jordan as some awful country considering they’ve done 80x more than any other country to help Syrian…

1. Jordan has limited resources and already has struggled to home its current refugee population. Should Jordan allow in unlimited refugees regardless of their resources? And without knowing whether aid from other sovereign states is necessarily going to cover this? Jordan has also seen a drop in relative arable land…

I lived a half hour from this border until I turned 15. I guarantee you there are some die hard Muslims who will fast no matter what. My 90 year old, diabetic grandmother insists on fasting to her own detriment, despite pleading from all her relatives to just fucking eat something. So I do know whereof I speak.

Very sad. Jordan has been very welcoming to refugees, not just from Syria but from all over the Middle East. Is it just exhaustion, or a security matter, or their own resources are being affected? I can’t imagine they would suddenly shut their borders to desperate refugees without a good reason.

Seriously. Places like Jordan and Lebanon have seen their populations swell from 30-40% with Syrian refugees. While the response from their official seems callous, those places are dealing with a serious crisis and it is an international problem.

Sad to see. Jordan has long been a nation sympathetic to the West and to its neighbors. It has borne the greatest burden regarding Syrian refugees, and this action is not surprising. The US simply needs to step up. President Obama should use his last few months to strengthen support for the refugees and UN aid. We can…

It’s an unfortunate action taken by a government stretched to its limits by refugees. Europeans and Americans like to talk about the influx of immigration, but the population of Jordan exploded from 5 to 7 million in just 15 years. Jordan has been the US’s greatest ally in the region, quietly taking on refugees from…

I feel the same way about Texas accents. The drawl some of the actors, who are not from there, use sound so over exaggerated it’s ridiculous

The detective thriller movie Taken Lives with Angelina Jolie opens on a shot of this tagged with “Montreal Canada:”

The Seattle version is that every apartment has a gorgeous view of the Space Needle—just like every window in Paris looks out on the Eiffel Tower.

As for Manhattan . .. I still remember a sitcom episode in which someone living in a small Greenwich Village apartment offered to let someone stay in their “guest room.”

Come…

I think the most obvious one is that magical filter that makes anyone from NYC automatically live in a beautiful, spacious midtown Manhattan apartment with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a terrace view. (Also, often the view they show is impossible from any residential building.)

Someone on CSPAN was saying this should shift from being presented as a religious freedom issue to being presented instead as a woman’s medicine and privacy issue.

I’m so fucking nervous

Tickets to reach the deck are $25. It costs $8 more to ride the slide.

(Seeing title and article picture) Oh fuck no, that looks nuts!

OK, I clocked it. The slide takes :04. That’s $25 for four seconds of slide.