MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
|
|
|
From the Readers
- barefooted 10 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 12 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
Creative corner
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
From the Dagbloggers
- Michael Wolraich 1 year 3 weeks ago
- Danny Cardwell 3 years 3 months ago
- Doctor Cleveland 4 years 3 weeks ago
- PeraclesPlease 4 years 2 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 4 years 2 months ago
- William K. Wolfrum 4 years 2 months ago
- William K. Wolfrum 4 years 2 months ago
- Doctor Cleveland 4 years 3 months ago
- Doctor Cleveland 4 years 4 months ago
- William K. Wolfrum 4 years 4 months ago
Hits of the Day
Syrian Refugee Family Bound For Indiana Forced To Relocate
By barefooted on Wed, 11/18/2015 - 9:47pm |"For three years, they've been in the U.S. process being vetted through a variety of security screenings," she said.Miller said the New Haven-based Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services has agreed to take in the family who landed in the U.S. Wednesday.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy held a press conference after meeting with the family Wednesday. He said the family had a 5-year-old son.
Meanwhile, a GOP Tennessee legislator wants to round up Syrians and hand them over to ICE. A democratic mayor in Virginia sees no problem with reminding us of the Japanese internment success.
At this rate, we might end up with a President Trump. And it's looking like we'll deserve it.
URL:
http://fox59.com/2015/11/18/syrian-refugee-family-bound-for-indiana-forced-to-relocate-to-connecticut-after-pences-ban/
- Add new comment
- 4168 reads
Comments
The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee and 9 other American Jewish organizations support Obama's plan for Syrian refugees. And 71 other US organizations. Europe's problems are due to lax or no border checks or routine search warrants of even known Syrian Jihadis. They will have to be more like Israel security wise, more proactive, or quit fighting ISIS. Our Syrians are vetted to the max.
Oddly coincidental that the European Union and European Jihadi Central both operatte out of Brussels.
Hopefully, there will be no more massacres, and God forbid none here, or Trump......could....and then we get GOP Middle East Boots on the Ground Fiasco 2.
by NCD on Wed, 11/18/2015 - 10:59pm
Or quit fighting ISIS? Please. Do you think if they did it would matter?
The fact that Jewish groups are against denying Arab refugees asylum is a no-brainer. The fact that Muslim groups are falling over themselves to condemn extremist acts of murder is a no-brainer. The fact that the vetting process takes between 18-24 months on average, while families wait in camps is a no-brainer.
The fact that if an American citizen wanted to get a gun, explosives or a suicide vest they could is a no-brainer.
What the hell are we thinking? Knee meet jerk.
by barefooted on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 1:28am
Europe's problems have nothing to do with lax border checks - there wouldn't be much of a check between French-speaking Belgium and France anyway. It's about disgruntled Muslims in slums with little opportunity - in this case, Algerians and Moroccans, France's old colonies (which were part of France so didn't need any passports back then). The disgruntled Muslim ghetto doesn't much exist in the US, so it's less a worry.
Why couldn't disgruntled Muslims get machine guns in the US with all the open-carry and free access to guns there? More a different attitude.
There is no need for extremist groups or alienated individuals in France to have any contact with Syria or Afghanistan whatsoever just to do some machine gun & small bomb attacks - so all this discussion about borders and immigration is a complete red herring.
There are no Muslim attacks in Germany because the Turks are better integrated, with better jobs, less fundamentalist, and less discriminated against. It can still happen, but less likely. And there likely won't be any Muslim terrorist attacks anywhere else in Europe - there are smaller populations, the level of acceptance is in general fine, there's not the tension. Yeah, perhaps French Algerians could take a roadtrip to Greece or Norway, but they haven't been inclined to do that, have they? Why not? Spain and Italy are just across the border - but they don't have much of a grudge or energy to go anywhere else.
Really, you have some end ideas, and you want to distort all the facts to support those goals. Why?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 3:59am
Thanks for not bringing up The Charge of the Light Brigade or Gallipoli 'being worse examples than the Paris attacks'....again.
I think you have a number of huge preconceptions about Muslims, Europe, the EU borders and the challenges and problems involved, and I am content for you to remain firm in your beliefs, it would be a fools mission to do otherwise.
by NCD on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 1:55pm
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 4:07pm
Peracles, I can't imagine them ignoring a guy wearing a Mizzou tee-shirt.
(I am recalling my stay at Georges V where I was billeted with the Stevie Wonder band and more or less trailed them back to London, sharing and paying for a cab with the attractive business manager. I must have misread her interest in me, as the next day I was told by the concierge at Claridge's that she had requested I stop calling her. )
A question for you or any of the thoughtful contributors here---what would it take (assuming that this attack, and most likely others, will not usher in a Rubio or Cruz Administration) for the U.S.to use the heightened muscle of France, as well as Russia, to wrap this Syrian/ISIS mess into a stalemate of sorts which would at least in the short term take the pressure off the U.S. to jump back in with additional troops.
by Oxy Mora on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 8:24pm
The problem with ISIS was examined by a UK writer, in a nutshell, no local Muslim group or state wants to get rid of ISIS at this point. Without local support, nothing Russia, US, Britain or France does will remove them.
Turkey - wants to get rid of Assad, so does ISIS. ISIS has been called Erdogran's proxy force while Hezbollah is Assad's proxy force. Turkey also gets low cost oil and human trafficking is a boost for local economies
Baghdad, Iraq - as long as ISIS controls the Sunni region, no requirement or need to share power with them. The End.
Iran - can take the high ground vs. ISIS, while Sunni ISIS shows the world what real barbarity is Sunni/Saudi style.
Kurds - do not want to fight to free Sunni regions, or Sunni population that have a record of attacking them, will fight for Kurd lands and cities only.
Assad - prefers to fight 'moderate Islamists' (if there is such a thing) to reduce conflict to just an Assad vs ISIS fight.
Saudi Arabia -major financier of radical Sunni groups (Saudi law proscribes a death sentence for conversion of a Muslim to any other religion, has medieval Sharia Law, like ISIS) prefers to bomb Shiite connected Houthi's in Yemen and has dropped out of fight against ISIS.
'Moderate' Syrian Islamists - ISIS allied with them against Assad, make deals/trades/sell US supplied weapons to ISIS.
You can see why Obama does not want to re-invade the region.
PP - congratulations on your safe walk thru St. Denis. Stay safe.
Sadiq Khan, Muslim and Labor candidate for Mayor of London:
by NCD on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 10:21pm
Good summary of the players and situation here.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/20/2015 - 5:14am
Fortunately I've resigned myself to my parents' Extremist views and learned to ditch the Mizzou garb for a Le Royal t-shirt when walking through Paris
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/20/2015 - 5:20am
NCD, thanks for the summary.
by Oxy Mora on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 11:40pm
Which U.K. writer are you referring to? There is much that is debatable in this summary. Perhaps you could post it in a separate news or blog post.
by moat on Fri, 11/20/2015 - 8:48am
It was at the UK Telegraph, I believe. His point on the Iraqi gov't seemed accurate, see 'US presses for Iraqi Army to push on Ramadi', and yet Mosul is really the big fish, not Ramadi.
Bottom line is (non-Kurd) Sunni need to free themselves where they are, and they show little signs of doing so. In Iraq....Why?
If the Sunni expel ISIS they then go back under a Shiite gov't and not so nice Moqtada al Sadr Shiite/ Iran connected militias, neither of which are friendly to them, or want them in the gov't.
If we had divided Iraq into 3 parts like Biden suggested, there would at least have been a Sunni gov't in middle of Iraq, with a stake in fighting for self-government and control of their land.
James Bamford said he had no inkling as to how to end this thing on Diane Rehm last week, and said US efforts, all to date and in the future, have/will fail without a collection of strong local groups/gov'ts leading the process, and he sees no takers, just like the guy who wrote the Telegraph op-ed.
by NCD on Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:13am