Community Chat

[goldensrbest]

Lets start a new thread,since the other got LOCKED!! People need to talk about what is going on in our world!!!!!!

[HappyDaze]

I am glad to hear/see that the Parisian people are not being fearful and still going out and showing the terrorists that they will NOT be made to feel afraid.

I was actually listening to NPR and they were speaking with a doctor in Beirut who said that it made him happy that everyone is behind France after their attacks but it also made him sad that when there was a bombing in Beirut (also by Isis), the world didn't rally around them like they are France. I was ignorantly under the assumption that Beirut experiences things like that fairly regularly (not saying that we shouldn't care even if that were true!) but he actually said that Beirut is a very metropolitan, modern city now and bombings are NOT common and it was a big shock to them. It is interesting too because I never really even heard about it on the news like we are with the Paris attacks and he commented on that too- that even the news barely gave it a nod in their reporting.

So my question is, why do we give our support and love and attention to the attacks in Paris but not the equal amount to the bombing in Beirut and all those hurt and killed there? Why such a discrepancy in reporting and support? I am kind of ashamed for not knowing about the bombing in Beirut and not supporting them as much as I did the Paris attacks.

[Puzzle Piece]

Wonder if it's okay to mention that several gov's won't accept the refugees.  It's not a good time to do so.  Maybe after all is taken care of, then some (with scrutinous screening) can be allowed.

If you ask me, None would ever be allowed. 

Brittany, hold your horses. 

[AngusandBuddhasMom]

Not everyone is blind to what has happened in Beirut and how the western media shrugged it off. 

[Puzzle Piece]

Now that the Russians know that officially, their plane had an explosive - credited to the terror group, they may be stepping up to the plate.  Bombs away !

[sunshine45]

very disappointed in governor hogan.

[HappyDaze]

I think it is sad and ignorant that so many states are refusing the Syrian refugees. I do believe we need to do our best to insure that the ones coming over here have no ties to terrorist groups but to just blatantly refuse all of them and not acknowledge the humanitarian crisis is, well, inhumane.

[MaggieMack]

There is another thread that spoke of creating an army out of all the displaced refugees and sending them back to take back their countries. What a novel idea! If you want to come to America, your first two years will be spent serving the country in some way in the military. They would learn the language and have marketable skills to enter the job force instead of relying on handouts. If you don't want to serve, don't come. That might weed out some of those with questionable motives.

[goldensrbest]

While i do not trust putin,at all,i do wonder what the russians will do ,because of the bomb on the airliner,he was there to support assad, and do what ever else he has in mind.

[Puzzle Piece]

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@MaggieMack wrote:

There is another thread that spoke of creating an army out of all the displaced refugees and sending them back to take back their countries. What a novel idea! If you want to come to America, your first two years will be spent serving the country in some way in the military. They would learn the language and have marketable skills to enter the job force instead of relying on handouts. If you don't want to serve, don't come. That might weed out some of those with questionable motives.

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Now, that's a ****** good idea!!!