tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post7851484350927940015..comments2024-03-28T14:04:22.218-04:00Comments on Lehigh Valley Ramblings: Dent: Hit Pause Button on Syrian Refugees Bernie O'Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-64795595950770185712015-11-25T19:57:40.306-05:002015-11-25T19:57:40.306-05:00Sorry, pal. The national media ain't using Br...Sorry, pal. The national media ain't using Breitbart as a source.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-78495765248253313602015-11-23T22:49:42.673-05:002015-11-23T22:49:42.673-05:0011:08 PM , still doubt the links my friend? looks ...11:08 PM , still doubt the links my friend? looks like the links/stories made national news today . I just tried to get you the info before it went national. <br /><br />You don't trust the links , even though they are from reputable sources and the stories were all over the news the same day ? makes a lot of sense. NOT<br /><br />YOUR QUOTE>>> "Because you only linked to one source here that addresses a small portion of your argument, and I don't trust most of the sources that you (I assume) linked to above as far as I can throw them". <br /><br />SO YOU DONT TRUST SOME OF MY SOURCES, YET THE NATIONAL MEDIA USED THE EXACT SAME SOURCES? <br />YOU DONT TRUST MY SOURCES, YET EVERY SINGLE CABLE NEWS NETWORK USED THEM AS WELL.<br />BUT I GUESS YOU KNOW BETTERE THAN MOST. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE SOURCES ? MAYBE THEY DIDN'T FIT YOUR AGENDA. PLEASE IDENTIFY WHAT IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED ABOUT A SOURCE THAT WAS USED BY EVERY SINGLE NEWS OUTLET, 3 DAYS LATE OF COURSE. <br /><br />PLEASE CITE ANY EXAMPLE WHY MY SOURCES WERE NOT CONSIDERED TO BE TRUST WORTHY?<br /> <br />MAYBE YOUR SOURCES ARE THE ONES WHO CAN NOT BE TRUSTED BASED ON THE HISTORY OF YOUR SOURCES. <br /><br />FUNNY HOW PEOPLE, LIKE YOURSELF, REFUSE TO USE THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA LIKE BLOGGERS OR OTHER SOUCES FOR REAL NEWS. ASK JOHN EDWARDS OR BILL CLINTON ABOUT THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA. VERIFIED NEWS COMES FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES , WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. <br /><br />DONT DOUBT ME SIR. I WILL NEVER POST BOGUS INFO. I PROMISE Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-85512507645112885622015-11-23T22:36:03.999-05:002015-11-23T22:36:03.999-05:00The Boston bombers were “coddled” and given “free ...The Boston bombers were “coddled” and given “free stuff” as refugees, but still “decided to attack us.” Looks like the exploited our own laws and our own programs.<br /><br />The Boston Bombers , Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev moved to the United States through the refugee program, the family NEVER applied for refugee status to gain entry into the country. INSTEAD, their family arrived on a six-month visa and applied for political asylum once they were in the United States. <br /><br />Nice job exploiting the program dirt bags. But we have nothing to worry about , just ask obama, hillary, wolf and fed ed.<br /><br />slow it down and review the process. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-70849124613217953382015-11-22T23:08:14.176-05:002015-11-22T23:08:14.176-05:00Because you only linked to one source here that ad...Because you only linked to one source here that addresses a small portion of your argument, and I don't trust most of the sources that you (I assume) linked to above as far as I can throw them, I'll only address your final paragraph. The four labels of political ideologies that you list are wildly different in scale and precision, and it is important that people are able to distinguish between them. Socialism is a very broad category of political beliefs that generally include nationalization of certain industries that could be held privately and taxation schemes in which higher proportions of wealthy people's income is taxed than poor people's. The Interstate Highway System is a socialist program, as are public school and the progressive income tax scheme we have had for about a century (note that the word "progressive" in "progressive income tax" doesn't refer to the political ideology, but rather to tax rates that progressively increase with income level). In a very loose sense of the word, the military could also be described as a socialist alternative to private security forces. Communism is a very extreme subcategory of socialism in which all property is publicly owned, and resources are evenly distributed among the citizens. Communism differs from fascism in that fascist states are intensely nationalistic and militant, whereas an ultimate goal of communism is to dispose of nation-states altogether. Essentially, communist governments are attempts to use an all-encompassing government to serve the people, and fascist states use the people to serve an all-encompassing government. Progressivism is a bit different than the other three in that it isn't ideologically cohesive and it necessarily changes based on what the prevailing political climate is. For instance, supporting public school systems, desegregation, and opposing corporate monopolies were all once considered progressive, but are now the status quo. Of these four ideologies, "collectivism" only necessarily applies to communism and fascism. It <i>can</i> apply to certain other strains of socialist and progressive thought and can often be applied to non-state organizations (like co-ops) and social customs that imply membership in a larger body.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-54701035596672225192015-11-22T10:27:24.244-05:002015-11-22T10:27:24.244-05:00Oh my , more Syrians caught at the border.
But a...Oh my , more Syrians caught at the border. <br /><br />But according to obama is not American to stop these people from entering the country. love how a guy with no morals values and ethics,lectures the country on what is American in regards to values. isn't he the same guy who wants to fundamentally transform America? his idea of American values are far different than most Americans.<br /><br />Go figure , obama, Casey , wolf ,the democrat/socialist party wrong again , in regards to national security.<br /><br />The bad guys, are using both woman and children, more and more to carry out their dirty work. according to the un as of Friday, over 70% of the people on the run are military aged men, not women and children. nice job cowards standing and fighting for your country and your people.<br /><br />they are here. they will continue to come due to the lack of border security but those who want the program halted like every single national security expert in the obama admin are racists.<br /><br />btw , did obama read the 911 report about border security and how the bad guys will use the lack of security and lack of enforcement to their advantage.did he read the part where it is stated numerous times that "they" have declared war on the United States.<br /><br />Love the fact that the guy making the security decisions refuses to sit in on the daily briefing and or even read the briefing. This was reported by Panetta and Gates, both secretaries of defense appointed by obama.<br /><br />It is quite obvious, You can’t negotiate with progressivism. You can’t reason with it. You can’t compromise with it. You have to destroy it, utterly root and branch. Just ask the French and every other country in Europe.<br /><br />Whether you label them “progressivism,” “socialism,” “communism” or “fascism,” it’s all just the same collectivist tyranny, varying only by degrees of bloodshed and fashion choices. Differentiating them is like choosing between herpes strains –it’s just a matter of the size of the chancres.<br /><br />http://www.kgns.tv/home/headlines/Five-Syrians-Stopped-at-Laredo-International-Bridge-One-352840981.html<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-17203221290277118642015-11-21T16:20:55.779-05:002015-11-21T16:20:55.779-05:007:41, it looks like you didn't finish reading ...7:41, it looks like you didn't finish reading the end of that article, where, despite being Christians and Assad supporters many in LV's Syrian refugee community are doing all they can to welcome Muslim Syrian refugees. You and 6:29 can keep thinking I am an Obama puppet, even though you don't know me, but I am very critical of his foreign policy. Most notably the failures to promote an alternative to Assad early on in the Syrian uprising, and to build up the governing and military capacity of the Iraqi state. I support letting the refugees in because I believe it is our moral obligation to do so, especially because, as some in these comments have noted, the failure of US policy in the Middle East allowed ISIS to take root. And you still have not articulated what to do with the Syrian refugees if we don't let them in. Do we send them back to Syria, making them resentful of the west? Do we coerce European states into accepting refugees, making the leaders of those states resentful of us, and straining longstanding diplomatic relationships?<br /><br />1:11/5:58Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-20342084424959435332015-11-20T19:41:45.756-05:002015-11-20T19:41:45.756-05:00In America's Little Syria/ Allentown Pa., a di...In America's Little Syria/ Allentown Pa., a divide on accepting refugees<br /><br />http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ESTABLISHMENT_SYRIANS_UNWANTED_REFUGEES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT<br /><br />seems like the only one who wants to continue the program is obama, harry reid , tom wolf and the democrat/socialist party. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-61774373048372751252015-11-20T18:38:16.705-05:002015-11-20T18:38:16.705-05:00"is (are) increasingly isolated""is (are) increasingly isolated"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-70817548019985267002015-11-20T18:37:04.001-05:002015-11-20T18:37:04.001-05:00"HOUSE PASSES BILL THAT COULD LIMIT SYRIAN RE..."HOUSE PASSES BILL THAT COULD LIMIT SYRIAN REFUGEES"<br /><br />By Deirdre Walsh and Ted Barrett, CNN<br /><br />"The high number of Democrats voting against the White House is a clear sign Obama (and 5:58 aka 1:11) is (are) in his (their) position on refugees in lights of the ISIS terrorist attacks on Paris."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-17717411990323600692015-11-20T18:29:59.026-05:002015-11-20T18:29:59.026-05:005:58 aka 1:11,
I said "useful idiot" an...5:58 aka 1:11,<br /><br />I said "useful idiot" and you clearly are one. So, enough with your feel-good crapola. You and your hero Obama foolishly want to put the lives of Americans at risk. Oh by the way, a clear majority of Americans DO NOT want to admit in Syrian refugees, either. And it's not because we are "quaking in our boots". It's because we're just not as stupid as you and ISIS want us to be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-27759129732522734862015-11-19T17:58:54.491-05:002015-11-19T17:58:54.491-05:00I'm not the one quaking in my boots at the tho...I'm not the one quaking in my boots at the thought of a few Syrians coming to live in the US. I have a very good friend from college who is a Syrian-American, and who still has family in Syria. They are just regular people like everywhere else, and they are in desperate need of assistance. Call me a bleeding-heart all you like, but if you can't come up with a thoughtful criticism of policy on your own, don't call me an idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-56540617751925432892015-11-19T17:31:40.727-05:002015-11-19T17:31:40.727-05:001:11,
You are the useful idiot and ISIS thanks yo...1:11,<br /><br />You are the useful idiot and ISIS thanks you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-86993807770673781362015-11-19T16:59:45.530-05:002015-11-19T16:59:45.530-05:00Bernie, you seem to have missed my point. I am no...Bernie, you seem to have missed my point. I am not saying I have a silver bullet, on the contrary, there isn't one. Foreign policy as it relates to the Middle East has always been a disaster (and not just American foreign policy, look at the UK and Russia as well), largely because the people devising it keep trying to treat Middle Eastern political entities as though they are European political entities. <br /><br />But people who are in favor of refusing entry to refugees in order to "protect people" seem to forget that the refugees are not only people, but the people who are most in need of protection. Although usually I find your thoughts on local politics to be fairly sensible, you and most of the other people commenting here seem to not be thinking very clearly on this issue. Our intelligence agencies have enormous troves of data against which the identities of immigrants can be checked, and everyone should know that if we wait around for a better vetting system, we will be waiting forever, because a better system is not going to magically appear out of the ether. Stop letting Charlie Dent dupe you.<br /><br />1:11Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-1730129520306821532015-11-19T15:02:42.176-05:002015-11-19T15:02:42.176-05:00Can someone pass this info on to obama , bob Casey...Can someone pass this info on to obama , bob Casey and tom wolf. these reports come from a variety of sources over the last 1 -2 days. we have Americans from Syria saying the entire vetting process is a scam. there is no process. passports and identities are created by hucksters. <br />we have other stories from yesterday with Syrians being picked up crossing into Texas from Mexico. Syrians picked up in Honduras and Costa Rica with fake Greek passports.<br /><br />here is a new warning from the US embassy in Italy -wonder why this didn't make news? http://italy.usembassy.gov/acs/security.html<br /><br />http://nypost.com/2015/11/19/syrian-community-leader-isis-is-already-in-new-york-city/<br /><br />http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/17/rep-blake-farenthold-obama-admin-lying-americans-r/<br /><br />http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/18/report-8-syrians-caught-at-texas-border-in-laredo/<br /><br />http://abcnews.go.com/International/terrorists-refugee-program-settle-us/story?id=35252500<br /><br />https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/in-first-six-weeks-of-fy2016-we-resettled-827-somalis-all-but-one-are-muslim/<br /><br />https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/667061035275259904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<br /><br />http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/sixth-syrian-with-fake-passport-captured-in-honduras-on-way-to-us/<br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/costa-rica-detains-syrian-woman-traveling-greek-passport-173220943.html<br /><br />http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/exclusive-6-men-from-pakistan-afghanistan-busted-illegally-entering-arizona-from-mexico/<br /><br />http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISLAMIC_STATE_CHEMICAL_WEAPONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-11-19-11-54-05<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/boko-haram-isis_564cd890e4b00b7997f8c15d<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-37807246974329244272015-11-19T14:34:58.478-05:002015-11-19T14:34:58.478-05:001:11, I'll advise everyone to stop what they a...1:11, I'll advise everyone to stop what they are reading and wait for you anonymous perals of widom ... or whatever they are. Bernie O'Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-25769352218350063292015-11-19T14:28:40.026-05:002015-11-19T14:28:40.026-05:00If every single member of the national security te...If every single member of the national security team appeared in front of Congress and said this is a bad idea bc there is no way to vet people who are not in the system. The exact line used, if they have never been a ripple in the pond, they are not in the data base. <br /><br />please tell me why obama, his party , our Governor and our one senator, refuse to take the advise given by the military, the national security team chosen by obama and his admin, in regards to this idea of suspending this plan until more vetting can be done? <br /><br />why have the muslim nations not stepped up to help their own people? where are the Saudis, the Jordanians , and every single other muslim nation.<br /><br />it is a fact, as reported by former members of the obama cabinet , including panetta and gates , that obama did not read the daily intel report. obama did not participate in the daily intel briefings and so , yet he is threatening a veto on suspending the refugee program for a time , until a system can be in place?<br /><br />he is petulant and child like when questioned as to what his plans are. he has one job and that is to do everything with in his authority to protect the people. instead he attacks those who question his motives , his plans and his threat to veto any and all bills. <br /><br />this should not be a partisan issue, but obama is clearly making it one. Casey is a is literally repeating the talking points word for word as is wolf. how many national security briefings does Casey and wolf participate in?<br /><br />to hell with protecting the people. it is all about the party. how sad. <br /><br />we will get hit. it is far past the point of if.it is a matter of when. <br /><br />if the so called experts are telling the country , her leaders and others , that the idea of allowing people in with out a vetting process is bad, who are Casey obama and wolf vowing to do the complete opposite?<br /><br />instead of being loyal to the democrat/socialist party , how about being loyal to America and her people.is that so hard to do ?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-57030729369229071402015-11-19T13:11:39.917-05:002015-11-19T13:11:39.917-05:00It is truly remarkable how many of the people here...It is truly remarkable how many of the people here think they know anything about foreign policy and are adequate judges of its quality. ISIS (and Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, the Taliban, etc.) is not an enemy in the same mold as the Axis forces of WWII, and foreign policy in the contemporary Middle East demands a drastically different approach. Germany and Japan both had formal territorial boundaries and strong state structures, so when they surrendered to the Allies, the new governments that were formed did not have to start from scratch. If ISIS is approached with a massive display of force, and is defeated 100% militarily, as many seem to be recommending, there is no effective government that can take its place, and new terrorist organizations are likely to take root in the rubble just as ISIS did in Iraq. Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are some of the weakest states on the planet, and solving the problems there requires a political, as well as military solution, which no GOP lawmakers seem to be offering. Simply yelling "Obama is weak" is not only an inadequately descriptive criticism of his policies, which are in many respects worthy of criticism, it also fails to propose a worthwhile <i>solution</i> to the problem, in which functioning, stable states are formed. <br /><br />I would further advise you all to keep in mind that the Syrian refugees are refugees at all because they are fleeing ISIS and the Assad regime to protect themselves and their families, as I am certain most of you would do in a similar situation, and that the system the US has for vetting refugees is the most thorough vetting of any legal immigrant group. So when Charlie Dent says that he wants to let in refugees, but our current system is imperfect and we have to wait for a better one, all he is really saying is that he doesn't want to let in refugees, which is an embarrassingly callous stance for our Congressman to take in response to people fleeing for their lives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-44261394861741484082015-11-19T10:20:59.065-05:002015-11-19T10:20:59.065-05:00after reading through this blog, I stumbled upon t...after reading through this blog, I stumbled upon this story. we have a guy who claims the kurds are our allies. that is true. then we have another guy(4:49) claiming the kurds want nothing to do with Syria and Iraq. that is false. <br /><br />the kurds want to fight. the reason the kurds can not is due to the fact that the entire obama foreign policy is being run by the Iranians, not obama. he is taking his marching orders from the Iranians. for anyone to try to make sense of this is a complete farce.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-31488707799330186282015-11-19T10:14:22.390-05:002015-11-19T10:14:22.390-05:00Obama is like a really bad side-show magician at a...Obama is like a really bad side-show magician at a carnival. His push for Syrian refugees is meant to be a distraction from his failed policy (if he even has one) against terrorism in general and ISIS in particular.<br /><br />First Obama said ISIS was the JV team. Even if he wasn’t wrong about that (he was), it’s obvious that they are now the varsity squad, and it happened under his watch.<br /><br />Then Obama said ISIS was contained, but later that same day the world very clearly found out that ISIS wasn’t contained.<br /><br />His policies have destabilized other Middle Eastern countries, like Egypt and Libya, allowing ISIS to grow and thrive.<br /><br />It was his insistence on regime change in Syria that created the instability in that country, leading to the refugee crisis that he now supposedly wants to help.<br /><br />Even if reliable records and databases existed (and they don’t) in Syria to vet the Syrian refugees, Obama’s attempt to oust Assad in Syria has burned any bridge of cooperation that may have been available on that front.<br /><br />In short, Obama’s been a foreign policy disaster, particularly in the Middle East, and wrong on just about every decision he’s made there.<br /><br />Ordinarily, I’d be amused watching the rubes get suckered in by Obama’s deception. But this is about the security of our country, and even Obama’s own advisors have testified that there is no way to properly vet the Syrian refugees.<br /><br />That’s all the more I need to hear. So let’s support those calling for a stoppage of the refugees and get back to focusing on what Obama is doing to eliminate ISIS. That’s what he doesn’t want to talk about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-17391340526793632782015-11-19T08:58:14.438-05:002015-11-19T08:58:14.438-05:00And to think its the fruitcake liberals who have b...And to think its the fruitcake liberals who have been saying for several years now that Conservatives are more of a threat to the United States than terrorists.<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-3234580447307038892015-11-19T06:08:06.754-05:002015-11-19T06:08:06.754-05:00I don't undestand the urgency to accept Syrian...I don't undestand the urgency to accept Syrian refugees, Obama is acting like we absolutely must do this now. What's to be gained by accepting the refugees? There are many reasons to stop and think this through, once again Obama plows forward with his rigid ideology with no consideration of the views of the American public.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-1906212415873296362015-11-19T00:18:36.343-05:002015-11-19T00:18:36.343-05:00"Gallup : 64% Dispprove Of Obama's Handli..."Gallup : 64% Dispprove Of Obama's Handling Of ISIS - In Poll Taken Nov. 4-8 BEFORE Paris Attacks"<br /><br />cnsnews.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-49845249692892245602015-11-19T00:10:13.546-05:002015-11-19T00:10:13.546-05:00Obama not only said ISIS was a JV team but also th...Obama not only said ISIS was a JV team but also that they were contained, 10:06.<br /><br />Instruct us all some more about ignorance, please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-75225027560344367572015-11-19T00:06:53.256-05:002015-11-19T00:06:53.256-05:00Got a clue, 10:06?
Got a clue, 10:06?<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-68318048132459151992015-11-18T22:32:17.261-05:002015-11-18T22:32:17.261-05:00Haters & Murderers have no place in the human ...Haters & Murderers have no place in the human race!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com