[Wash Times] States that refuse to help resettle Syrian refugees are guilty of illegal discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, delivering a judicial rebuke to GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, who, as Indiana’s governor, had tried to stop Syrians from being shipped into his state.
Judge Richard Posner, writing for the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, said there’s no evidence that Syrians are more dangerous than other refugees, and he said even if they are, allowing Indiana to refuse to resettle them would only foist the problem onto neighboring states.
"Federal law does not allow a governor to deport to other states immigrants he deems dangerous," Judge Posner wrote. He said if Mr. Pence has worries, the governor should report his fears to federal bureaucrats for redress. The court fails to address the larger issue of the legality of refugee influx, but codifies the equal sharing of misery, crime, and costs across state lines. How very progressive.
[Times Live] Should "the diminishing white population" fail to "realise self-determination within the next five years...the Afrikaner will be a nation in true diaspora".
That's according to Front National leader Hannes Engelbrecht‚ who quoted the "latest figures from Statistics South Africa" that show "95 158 whites emigrated between 2011 and June 2015".
"It means that close to a million whites have already sought their livelihood outside the third world country in western countries; and the trend is continuing‚" Engelbrecht said on Tuesday.
"During the same four-year period 1 067 937 blacks from Africa and 40 929 Asians immigrated to South Africa‚ making it impossible for the remaining whites to maintain their demographic rights.
"I honestly believe we only have five years left. If white South Africans don’t put their money and votes into the ideal of self-determination now‚ the sell-out of 1994 will be complete." Engelbrecht said the exodus represented a brain drain‚ as "the white emigrants were mostly the skilled‚ educated and experienced whites sought after by developed western countries".
"This bodes ill for South Africa as a whole. It is fast turning into a typical third world African country that will never be able to return to normality with such an influx of foreigners and exit of skilled people."
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"During the same four-year period 1 067 937 blacks from Africa and 40 929 Asians immigrated to South Africa‚ making it impossible for the remaining whites to maintain their demographic rights.
Hopefully this demographic 'change' model will not be employed elsewhere.
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Immigration has some common, ideological themes. Legal immigration of white South Africans to the U.S. has been made nearly as difficult as legal immigration of whites from Europe or the U.S. to South Africa.
[GP] Wikileaks founder Julian Assange moved his much anticipated announcement from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London due to security concerns.
Wikileaks will now hold their announcement in Berlin, Germany.
The announcement is now scheduled for 3 AM Eastern time.
[WashingtonPost] Dating is steeped in uncertainty. After age 25, it should be. Sure, he looks cute in his pictures and is witty with the text messages, but will we have any chemistry in person? Sure, that first date was good, but with his travel schedule and my work schedule, will we find time for a second? We have fun together, but are we compatible long-term?
And so on.
The vast majority of first dates end up in that abyss of ambivalence: nice person, but not much of a connection. Or nice person, bad timing. Or nice person, but do I like them enough to suffer through Metro delays or traffic to make this work? (Peruse The Washington Post Magazine’s Date Lab long enough and you’ll see what I mean.) I'll pass
Which makes certainty — whether it’s positive or negative — quite special and rare. Certainty is the one thing that a good and bad date have in common.
For example, I went on a date recently, where I knew, after about 30 minutes of conversation, that I wasn’t interested. Being able to say, “Yeah, this isn’t going to work out” was nearly as satisfying as that amazing first date where I might say, “Let’s do this again” and really mean it.
So here’s what happened: I was on a first date with man who’s a Donald Trump supporter, a tidbit I did not know ahead of time. (Thanks, JSwipe.)
Most Trump supporters are men. So as a heterosexual woman, I’m more likely to end up on a date with one. As the editor of this blog about unmarried life, I’ve published a few columns from women in liberal cities who’ve been surprised to find themselves on dates with Trump supporters. But in the Washington area, which is quite liberal, I had yet to meet one, let alone end up on a date with one.
Normally, I don’t like to talk about politics on dates. I’m more concerned with getting to know the person sitting across from me than for whom they’re voting. So we started with some of the biographical stuff and pretty quickly realized that his brother is married to a wonderful woman with whom I’d studied abroad. (One point in the pro column.) He also seemed genuinely interested in my job, rather than intimidated by it. Some guys get skittish when I tell them that I write about dating. (Another pro.)
But those two things alone do not a match or connection make. Once he told me that he worked for a Republican on the Hill, I had to ask: Are you a Trump supporter?
Yes, he said. No caveats or equivocations. Just yes. How... shocking.
I didn’t want to get into an argument. But I did want to gently ask about my date’s political allegiance, and how that might intersect or contradict with his Jewish identity. (About 20 percent of American Jews support Trump, so my date has company.) When I asked whether he had concerns about how Trump might handle the delicate politics of the U.S.-Israel relationship and the Middle East in general, he responded that Trump was on the same page with the Israelis on how to handle terrorism and security.
“Besides,” he said, leaning in so the bar patrons on either side of us wouldn’t hear, “he wants to get rid of the Muslims.”
His tone of voice and the look on his face said: You’re a Jew. I’m a Jew. Surely we agree on this, right?
I was stunned, though maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised. A large swath of Americans who are aligned with Trump want to ban Muslims, or at least keep a closer eye on them. But I am not one of them. Then, I suggest you learn to walk with a permanent duck.
I felt certain that someone who’s aligned with Trump isn’t for me. This wasn’t a political mismatch, but one of deeply held values. So I had the distinct pleasure of telling him something I’ve never said while on a first date: “Yeah … this isn’t going to work out.”
So my “bad date” was pretty great in that I knew, with certainty, that after one date there wouldn’t be a second. Thanks to Clarice Feldman, another Jewish writer whom I follow, who said in Facebook comments:
The WPo has a regular feature where they fix up dates for young people--they always are dimwits working for public interest groups and always are all in for the dems and they always never go out again on a second date.
I've been on dates like that.
I imagine that after reading the above, the gentleman in question is grateful to have escaped.
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Muslims are natural enemies of Jews. Why would Jewish people be advocates of mass immigration of Muslims into America? The pogroms will not be far off.
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She writes about "dating"! How cute!
Wait a minute! Is this one of those imaginary dialogs that liberals love to perform in their heads because they can't find a real person that actually says and does what the liberals "knows" is true? Just to "prove" a point?
If you can feel it, then it must be true!
Wotta maroon!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
