Just so ya know, I am sharing these kinds of things here because most of you seem to be on the side of not wanting Syrian refugees, so I am sharing things from “the other side” to give a little balance to the discussion. On my Facebook page, I have shared some from both sides, for the same reason. People are talking past each other (or at, rather than to, each other). I respect & understand each side of the debate. (This is from a conservative site, BTW.) . . .
“… of the 23,092 Syrian refugees who have been referred to the United States for potential relocation, only 7,014 of them reached the interview process. Of that 7,014, only 2,034 have been resettled. Syrian refugees have less than a 1 in 10 chance of being accepted into the U.S. refugee program.”
I agree that we should accept some of the Syrian refugees. But I wonder why none of the “peaceful” Muslim countries don’t take the refugees of that religion?
” … Once you allow victimhood culture to spread on your campus, you can expect ever more anger from students representing victim groups, coupled with demands for a deeper institutional commitment to victimhood culture, which leads inexorably to more anger, more demands, and more commitment. But the Yale problem didn’t start at Yale. It started in high school. …”
““Liberal Parents, Radical Children,” was the title of a 1975 book by Midge Decter, which tried to make sense of how a generation of munificent parents raised that self-obsessed, politically spastic generation known as the Baby Boomers. The book was a case study in the tragedy of good intentions.
“We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling,” Miss Decter told the Boomers. “While you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices.”
Meager devices came to mind last week while reading the “Statement of Solidarity” from Nancy Cantor, chancellor of the Newark, N.J., campus of Rutgers University. Solidarity with whom, or what? Well, Paris, but that was just for starters. Ms. Cantor also made a point of mentioning lives lost to terrorist attacks this year in Beirut and Kenya, and children “lost at sea seeking freedom,” and “lives lost that so mattered in Ferguson and Baltimore and on,” and “students facing racial harassment on campuses from Missouri to Ithaca and on.”
And this: “We see also around us the scarring consequences of decade after decade, group after group, strangers to each other, enemies even within the same land, separated by an architecture of segregation, an economy of inequality, a politics of polarization, a dogma of intolerance.”
It is an astonishing statement. Ms. Cantor, 63, is a well-known figure in academia, a former president of Syracuse University who won liberal acclaim by easing admissions standards in the name of diversity and inclusiveness. At publicly funded Rutgers she earns a base salary of $385,000, a point worth mentioning given her stated concern for inequality. The Newark Star-Ledger praised her as a “perfect fit” for the school on account of her “exceptional involvement in minority recruitment and town-gown relations.”
Yet this Stanford Ph.D. (in psychology) appears to be incapable of constructing a grammatical sentence or writing intelligible prose. All the rhetorical goo about the “architecture of segregation” and “dogma of intolerance” rests on deep layers of mental flab. She is a perfect representative of American academia. And American academia is, by and large, idiotic.
That’s why I’m not altogether sorry to see the wave of protests, demands, sit-ins and cave-ins sweeping university campuses from Dartmouth to Princeton to Brandeis to Yale. What destroys also exposes; what they are trashing was already trashy. It’s time for the rest of the country sit up and take notice.”
Peter – I read somewhere that some of them have indeed taken in refugees, but I don’t remember where I saw that, or what the numbers were. So that’s not a lot of help in answering that question, is it? 🙂
The “peaceful” Muslim countries can’t take them in, though some will take a few, because it would upset the balance of power. The Muslims in Syria are not of the same ilk as those in the other countries. We, of course, have no reason to be concerned with the balance of power because they will all want to fit in.
Serious question. How many muslim immigrants is enough? Is there no limit to what’s acceptable?
In the last 5 years this country has already issued green cards to 680,000 people from muslim countries. The Obama plan calls for at least that many more coming in the next 5 years. To me, that seems more than enough already.
“President Obama’s open-door immigration policy is set to accept more immigrants from Muslim nations over the next five years than the entire population of Washington, D.C., according to federal documents.
Figures from the Department of Homeland Security show that the president has already issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim nations over the past five years. Unless Congress changes his policy, that number will be repeated in the next five years.
What’s more, the president is also planning to add over 100,000 more with refugee status, many from Syria. Refugees can also petition the government for their relatives.
DHS data released by the Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, noted that refugees, who must apply for a green card within one year, have instant access to federal welfare and entitlements, along with local benefits and education services; these costs are not offset.”
“The DHS number of 680,000 does not include temporary migrants who return home nor births or deaths.”
———————————————
Like I said, seems like way more than enough already…….
Wandering Views 
I think this guy mainly agrees with Chas, but he might agree with me a little bit.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/was_the_us_complicit_in_an_attack_on_a_russian_jet.html
LikeLike
Trump the Buffoon strikes again.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/261213-report-trump-battles-historians-over-the-civil-war
The really disturbing part of this story is that the Yankee is buying so much Virginia real estate.
LikeLike
The more Trump puts his foot in his mouth the more I think he is a Democrat plant to get Hillary in the White House.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Just so ya know, I am sharing these kinds of things here because most of you seem to be on the side of not wanting Syrian refugees, so I am sharing things from “the other side” to give a little balance to the discussion. On my Facebook page, I have shared some from both sides, for the same reason. People are talking past each other (or at, rather than to, each other). I respect & understand each side of the debate. (This is from a conservative site, BTW.) . . .
“… of the 23,092 Syrian refugees who have been referred to the United States for potential relocation, only 7,014 of them reached the interview process. Of that 7,014, only 2,034 have been resettled. Syrian refugees have less than a 1 in 10 chance of being accepted into the U.S. refugee program.”
LikeLike
I agree that we should accept some of the Syrian refugees. But I wonder why none of the “peaceful” Muslim countries don’t take the refugees of that religion?
LikeLike
Finger-snapping? That’s a new one to me.
Creepy.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/11/the-college-problem-begins-in-high-school.php
And this was written by a liberal.
__________________
” … Once you allow victimhood culture to spread on your campus, you can expect ever more anger from students representing victim groups, coupled with demands for a deeper institutional commitment to victimhood culture, which leads inexorably to more anger, more demands, and more commitment. But the Yale problem didn’t start at Yale. It started in high school. …”
LikeLike
And speaking as a relative of an early admission to Yale applicant (no answer yet, of course), things are not looking up, attitude-wise. 😦
But then, I knew it all when I was 18, too. 😦
LikeLike
Radical Parents, Despotic Children….
http://www.wsj.com/article_email/radical-parents-despotic-children-1448325901-lMyQjAxMTE1ODIxNDYyMTQ0Wj
““Liberal Parents, Radical Children,” was the title of a 1975 book by Midge Decter, which tried to make sense of how a generation of munificent parents raised that self-obsessed, politically spastic generation known as the Baby Boomers. The book was a case study in the tragedy of good intentions.
“We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling,” Miss Decter told the Boomers. “While you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices.”
Meager devices came to mind last week while reading the “Statement of Solidarity” from Nancy Cantor, chancellor of the Newark, N.J., campus of Rutgers University. Solidarity with whom, or what? Well, Paris, but that was just for starters. Ms. Cantor also made a point of mentioning lives lost to terrorist attacks this year in Beirut and Kenya, and children “lost at sea seeking freedom,” and “lives lost that so mattered in Ferguson and Baltimore and on,” and “students facing racial harassment on campuses from Missouri to Ithaca and on.”
And this: “We see also around us the scarring consequences of decade after decade, group after group, strangers to each other, enemies even within the same land, separated by an architecture of segregation, an economy of inequality, a politics of polarization, a dogma of intolerance.”
It is an astonishing statement. Ms. Cantor, 63, is a well-known figure in academia, a former president of Syracuse University who won liberal acclaim by easing admissions standards in the name of diversity and inclusiveness. At publicly funded Rutgers she earns a base salary of $385,000, a point worth mentioning given her stated concern for inequality. The Newark Star-Ledger praised her as a “perfect fit” for the school on account of her “exceptional involvement in minority recruitment and town-gown relations.”
Yet this Stanford Ph.D. (in psychology) appears to be incapable of constructing a grammatical sentence or writing intelligible prose. All the rhetorical goo about the “architecture of segregation” and “dogma of intolerance” rests on deep layers of mental flab. She is a perfect representative of American academia. And American academia is, by and large, idiotic.
That’s why I’m not altogether sorry to see the wave of protests, demands, sit-ins and cave-ins sweeping university campuses from Dartmouth to Princeton to Brandeis to Yale. What destroys also exposes; what they are trashing was already trashy. It’s time for the rest of the country sit up and take notice.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
Peter – I read somewhere that some of them have indeed taken in refugees, but I don’t remember where I saw that, or what the numbers were. So that’s not a lot of help in answering that question, is it? 🙂
LikeLike
The “peaceful” Muslim countries can’t take them in, though some will take a few, because it would upset the balance of power. The Muslims in Syria are not of the same ilk as those in the other countries. We, of course, have no reason to be concerned with the balance of power because they will all want to fit in.
LikeLike
Karen,
AJ here,
Serious question. How many muslim immigrants is enough? Is there no limit to what’s acceptable?
In the last 5 years this country has already issued green cards to 680,000 people from muslim countries. The Obama plan calls for at least that many more coming in the next 5 years. To me, that seems more than enough already.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2577134
“President Obama’s open-door immigration policy is set to accept more immigrants from Muslim nations over the next five years than the entire population of Washington, D.C., according to federal documents.
Figures from the Department of Homeland Security show that the president has already issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim nations over the past five years. Unless Congress changes his policy, that number will be repeated in the next five years.
What’s more, the president is also planning to add over 100,000 more with refugee status, many from Syria. Refugees can also petition the government for their relatives.
DHS data released by the Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, noted that refugees, who must apply for a green card within one year, have instant access to federal welfare and entitlements, along with local benefits and education services; these costs are not offset.”
“The DHS number of 680,000 does not include temporary migrants who return home nor births or deaths.”
———————————————
Like I said, seems like way more than enough already…….
LikeLike
AJ again,
I forgot to include this above…
“Green Card Totals, FY09-FY13:
Syria (14K)”:
LikeLike