Today's irony (well, possibly MOST ironic) - today is World Refugee Day.
Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Jun 20, 2018 8:06:44 am PDT #26418 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-t - Jun 20, 2018 8:06:59 am PDT #26419 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's so terrible and I can't even imagine how a fix could happen, but clearly something needs to!
Dana - Jun 20, 2018 8:13:24 am PDT #26420 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I took the afternoon off with a stomachache, but maybe my stomach hurts because everything is awful. Who knows.
Toddson - Jun 20, 2018 8:32:18 am PDT #26421 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Just for a change, something NICE.
And a very brief video of a cute costume and the right way to take a picture.
Jessica - Jun 20, 2018 8:59:05 am PDT #26422 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It sickens me but I don't think any of the children who have already been kidnapped will ever be returned to their parents.
And the "keep families together" executive order sounds very much like we're just building all-ages concentration camps now. The GOP will treat is as a grand moral victory and wonder why those of us with working souls still aren't satisfied.
DavidS - Jun 20, 2018 9:10:33 am PDT #26423 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
um ... I really hope it's not true, but I've read some reports that they aren't tracking which kids came with which parent(s), making reuniting them difficult if not impossible
From what I've read, not only is that correct, but ICE has been destroying paperwork (such as it is) as they go.
Moreover, there are multiple instances of toddler aged children or younger (8 months) being kept in detention while their parents have already been deported. So...good luck with that 8 month old child being able to identify their parents, should the parents make it back to America.
The damage is already being done. This trauma has already been created. But it can get worse.
-t - Jun 20, 2018 9:15:50 am PDT #26424 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So, in less traumatic news, I was kind of overwhelmed by my to do list when I got to work this morning, it just seemed like a lot, but now it's all done except recapping my conference call from yesterday and that I just don't want to do.
Steph L. - Jun 20, 2018 9:29:12 am PDT #26425 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And the "keep families together" executive order sounds very much like we're just building all-ages concentration camps now.
That's what I'm assuming. It'll still be horrible, because we are monsters, fulfilling the long history of the US being monsters in this exact way.
-t - Jun 20, 2018 9:36:25 am PDT #26426 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It would be nice if we could just, like, try not taking kids from their parents for, I don't know, a century or so, see how that works out. It doesn't seem like that would be too difficult.
Atropa - Jun 20, 2018 10:16:38 am PDT #26427 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Welp, just posted something to Twitter that will almost certainly fill my @s with outraged right wingers. This should be fun.