Juliajms

I hate to agree with a single thing that man does, but if I do, this is it. If tech needs more workers maybe they should solve their rampant sexual harassment issues that chase women out of STEM jobs (particularly tech) in droves.

I'm pretty sure he just turned 11. I hope the rumors of Steve Bannons fall from grace are true.

Hell no. I would be so livid. No woman should have to put up with sexual misconduct in the workplace, but HHK was really young. MM should never be allowed back on the set, especially since other people seem to be persona non grata for doing far less (imo). If EB still has any pull at all I have to believe it won't happen.

That makes sense. I bet our own tech firms feel like the more H1B visas they can get the better too.

I know, I'm not saying Canada is doing anything wrong. In fact, I think the way they treat immigrants makes a lot more sense than the way we do. At the same time, I'm never going to think hundreds is a lot for a place like NZ. If you want to make it sound like you are a hero (the more the better!) then you better be taking at least a few thousand. As long as the US is taking a million people every year I'm going to call hypocrisy on the people who criticize us on the immigration front (In terms of numbers, not treatment). Especially if they have nothing to say about places like Japan who effectively take no one.

Hundreds? That's not a lot. The US takes a million every year and we are still taking 50,000 refugees (I'm sure Trump is still trying to change that as we speak). Canada with a smaller population then ours takes 300,000.

^ Yeah. I want my real president back to deal with this. Heaven help us all.

I'll admit I don't either, but I do think this is an area where the far left are right about their being a certain amount of propaganda in the US. I had a Chinese roommate when I was in college and that girl was under the influence of serious propaganda, it was pretty surreal at times. I'm not talking about that kind of complete warping of facts. It's just that we very rarely have in-depth coverage of the number of people our bombings have killed. There isn't a lot of talk in the mainstream about the amount of damage we've done in the Middle East over the last 25 years or so. I'd love to see a poll asking regular people how many people we've killed during these endless wars. I bet it's a small percentage that can even come close to the right number. The difference between someplace like China and Russia and the US is that we can easily find info here if we want to go looking and I'm not down playing that difference. http://foreignpolicy.com/2009/11/30/why-they-hate-us-ii-how-many-muslims-has-the-u-s-killed-in-the-past-30-years/

They are hoping this will stop Assad from continuing to gas people. I'm not saying they are right or that it's every human rights worker that's thinking that way. I'm saying if you are on the ground in Syria watching this happen, I understand you might hope that the US stepping in will help. I've been saying we need to stay out of it, even when Obama was the one who wanted to get involved. We don't have the will to do what it would take this kind of war (thank god) and if we did we'd almost certainly have to be occupiers. And maybe we do have a hand in what's happening in Somalia, Yemen and Sudan, but I don't think the whole thing can be laid at our door. I'd certainly be way more in favor of food aid then I am of getting involved in Syria. However , if your point is that we have let atrocities go on in places like Darfur without lifting much of a finger, yet for some reason we're getting involved with Syria, then I could not agree more. I don't see why the Syrian civil war is more worthy of our intervention then Sudan's was. I'm hardly a military expert, but it seems to me we might have had a chance of actually helping in Sudan, although once again the question is what do you do after you win? Leaving a power vacuum doesn't seem like a good option and occupation is nearly as bad.

Totally disgusting. Even if we were doing the right thing, calling the bombing of another nation "beautiful" is just completely messed up. How many times are we going to bomb the f*ck out of a middle eastern country, with no real strategy? I do understand why some human rights experts are happy about this. I really don't blame them. I felt the same after what Saddam Hussein did 20 some years ago. I happened to be up late the night he gassed the Kurds. CNN had footage and they aired it uncensored. I'm pretty sure it's the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. I'll never forget it. Still, all the bombing we did only added to the atrocities and it won't surprise me if things end up the exact same way this time around.

No kidding. The bastard going on about the "beautiful babies" being killed in the chemical weapons attack are the very people he won't let in our country. This is the caliber of the mind potentially leading us into a proxy war with Iran and Russia. I'm not sure. There having been some experts saying that he had prior authorization for some reason. The details were lost on me, but I'm sure we'll be hearing more on that over the next few hours.

Then for once I agree with them. Not that I'm angry, I'm just deeply, deeply skeptical. Days ago he said he said he wasn't interested in regime change. Many people have said that signaled to Assad that he had impunity and led to the recent chemical attack on civilians. Now he decides that killing under 100 people is the straw that broke the camels back, but the 400,000 Assad killed over the last few years wasn't? I find the lack of a coherent, logical position very concerning. Now if this strike actually is very limited and does some good great. I'll be the first to say the right thing was done. Still conventional wisdom seems to be that getting rid of Saddam was a mistake and he was every bit as brutal as Assad when it comes to using chemical weapons. I'm just not sure Trump took the time needed to thing through the unintended consequences here. Time will tell. I'm be a lot more willing to support this if I had a shred of confidence in the man in charge.

I'm horrified that we are on the edge of taking military action in Syria under a president who doesn't know what he's doing. What a nightmare.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-hodeidah-yemen-famine_us_58a88970e4b037d17d28610b? U.S. policy about to make famine in Yemen more likely.

^ Aren't the AARP crowd baby boomers who used to be hippies? I feel like I'm missing something. How did these people become so conservative? I know a lot of people become more conservative as they age, but this seems extreme.

^ So embarrassing. I wonder why he snubbed her, but maybe there is just no understanding that man.

"However unsavory she and her countrymen may find Trump, Germany has no viable alternative to the U.S. partnership, either in economic or security terms." If that's true poor Germany and poor Merkel. I'm sickened by how many strong women have been demeaned by having to deal with Trump. As for the handshake that didn't happen, I wonder if he didn't hear her? They did hand shakes throughout the day, so what would be he point of snubbing her in the Oval Office? I'm not one to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, but maybe this one time he wasn't an ass on purpose? OK, that's probably a longshot.

Wow. And then something about HUD cuts being part of infrastructure. I'm not sure what that means. Other than we are going to have more hungry, homeless people in our country, while he ultra rich rake in more money.

Yes and I for one will welcome them back into the fold of sanity. As for Trump being a racist, of course he is!! Does anyone even deny it at this point? He's shown it at every opportunity. I would argue that most people have bias whether they know it or not, but Trump has clearly embraced it. He enjoys hurting people.

That's going to have to be the answer for all of us who oppose this madness. Our JCC got a bomb threat yesterday. It struck me as especially sad because an old age home is attached to the main building. So in addition to scared little kids they had to evacuate the sick and old. I'm looking in to volunteering there on weekends, since I don't know what else I can do. As DeeeDeee said it's going to be a long four years.

^ It's really disheartening. I feel like every day we wake up to find out something awful that's being done to the most vulnerable among us. I've read Meals on Wheels doesn't just serve food, but gives seniors a tiny bit of company and someone to check in and make sure they are ok. I hope people are really waking up and vote out everyone who is going along with these terrible policies.

That really is next level ugly. It reminds me of the Grinch reaching down from the chimney to take the last little crumb from Cindy Lou Who.

I have really mixed feelings on it. Feelings I'm not going to go into on the internet.

Thanks Marceline. I'm grateful everyday I was lucky enough to escape the insane level of ignorance. I'm sure region makes a difference too. I grew up in the mountains of upstate NY, which is more backwoods then some people realize, but it's not like being in the south. We were never taught to hate other races, but there was some stereotyping. It's really funny looking back because even into college I would have said I wasn't a victim of sexism, but now I see it was totally off the charts. I'm sorry your grandmother scared you with religion. I can totally relate. It's funny now, but my best friend and I were always worried about being left behind in the rapture. I remember once we walked into an empty room where a ball was bouncing and we looked at each other and she said "We've been left behind!". We were eight or nine and totally believed it.

As someone who was raised in similar ignorance, I'd say they pretty much all know Jesus is a Jew and they probably know more about the biblical middle east then they do about Europe. I certainly did until college. Most likely they do read the bible themselves quite a bit. They just tend to interpret it literally, which leads to a lot of crazy ideas. Of course, there are different strains of Evangelicals, but they actually tend to be pretty friendly towards Jews. Not long ago I watched a Vice episode about Evangelicals donating large sums of money to Israeli settlements (in hopes of bringing on Armageddon, I kid you not). I was not surprised. Until recently, I'd say Jews had a lot more to fear from Catholics then fundamentalists. The phrase "Jews killed Jesus" was unheard of in my po'dunk church, but you didn't want to be on welfare no matter how poor you were or you would be unmercifully shamed. We were on Social Security after my father died (hello Paul Ryan) and my mother never heard the end of it. We didn't have health insurance and we were still pretty damn poor. I certainly grew up thinking health insurance was an exotic luxury and no one I knew had it.