Next time you hear someone say "send Syrian refugees back where they came from", show them this:

[dixiegrrrrl]

[Cary]

1. Is there any response to be made to the haters?

More and more of my friends have just cut off all "conservatives." I'm getting there myself.

[LiberalArkie]

2. I have, I have cut off just about everyone I knew. Just waiting until after

the election to start slowly adding them back on FaceBook. Right now I have 3 people.

[Cary]

4. perhaps it will settle down?

I am disgusted. I don't know if I can forget.

[LiberalArkie]

6. Any friends that are Trump/Carson/Hucklebee/ whoever in the hell else is out there

will get over it. Now the Democratic side may be a little different. I stop posting anything about politics after the election concerning candidates and whoever is still doing it gets dropped again.

It will probably be the same here with the exception of the disastrous situation of a Republican win.

The it may be hell for the people whose candidate won the Democratic nomination and lost the General.

Although if some economists are correct in that the car loan bubble is about to burst like the mortgage bubble did in 2008. It might not be that bad for the Democrats to be out of power and all the blame totally placed on the Republicans back. It could be the death of that party.

[AngryAmish]

3. You have taken a position that we should let them in.

They have taken the position they should be kept out.

If anyone changes their mind they will lose face by admit that they were wrong and the other was right.

So, do you value their friendship more than the status of being right?

Will the connection with them benefit you socially or in business? If so, letting the matter drop would be the prudent thing. If not, the satisfaction of expelling someone who you consider immoral would give you great satisfaction, if you are like almost every human.

Weigh your choices.

[Cary]

5. The difference in opinion isn't the problem

It isn't really about refugees. They hate liberals and President Obama and Hillary and they see blood.

They are throwing s*** against the wall. It's the same garbage only more brazenly racist.

[Phentex]

34. Agreed!

and it seems now that the governors made their declarations, stupid local politicians couldn't wait to join in the mud slinging. It's depressing.

[starroute]

7. Does that includd the people who brought farming to Europe?

Should they all go back and just leave the original Paleolithic hunter-gatherers?

[JDPriestly]

16. Thanks. Migration is how progress spreads.

[Live and Learn]

8. Wow, just wow, Why aren't we shown this by the MSM? nt

[oberliner]

9. How about when you hear "Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take in any refugees?"

Or the other wealthy Gulf states.

That seems to be a more frequently heard question.

[ToxMarz]

13. Are there any jobs in Saudi Arabia

I thought foreigners who weren't wealthy were basically like slave labor.

[oberliner]

19. Good question

I don't know the answer to that.

[Paper Roses]

10. Wish I had a link to this picture.

I have a family member who is bombarding FB with hateful posts about the refugees, among other things.
Yes, as much as I love her, I'm sick of seeing posts about this tragedy.

PS, she is a repub, and a (new) evangelical nut. I don't understand where her current vitriol is coming from. Whether it is Syria, Obama, religion, the posts are offensive to me. Yes, she is a trump supporter.

Since she is my sister, and I have a very small family, I can't unfriend her but I am sure tired of this baloney.
I have to avoid her posts.

Perhaps this picture would hit home.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Finding a copy is easy, there are 2 ways

if you B click on the picture, a page will open and give you the option of seeing "location",
it will be a jpeg of the imgur site I put the pic on.
Just copy and paste the location info into your address bar for a pic, send location to someone.
I would type it out for you, but it will simply post the pic again in this reply.

or

You can simply make a copy of the pic and then paste it into your email to someone.

You can also, if on Facebook, look for Planting Peace and follow them, should you wish.

[sunnystarr]

25. Right Click on the image

Select "Save image as.."
In the Save window click on "Desktop" in the list on the left
Then click on "Save" on the bottom right
The image now is on your Desktop

In Facebook select "Add Photos/Video"
Select "Desktop" in the new Window
Find the picture and select it
Click on "Open" on the bottom right
The image now is loaded in FB

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. And just how much profit was made by U.S. War profiteers on this horrid destruction? STOP WAR!

[Cleita]

15. Look at the US budget military discretionary spending. They say it's 54%.

I believe that's the pot all the war profiteers dip into.

[Dont call me Shirley]

17. It's not defense spending its offense spending and that is offensive to many! Thanks for the chart,

Cleita, puts offense spending into perspective!

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. That chart does not include mandatory AND discretionary spending

the pie chart ignores mandatory spending.
About 60 percent of all federal spending is considered mandatory, with 34 percent considered discretionary and 6 percent devoted to interest.

If you included mandatory and discretionary spending, the pie chart would look like this, according to
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/17/facebook-posts/pie-chart-federal-spending-circulating-internet-mi/

[Cleita]

32. No it doesn't. I was clear it was discretionary spending, which

can be changed and can be allocated for better uses like ending poverty instead of bombing the world and propping up the MIC. Mandatory spending is fixed so has little to do with this discussion.

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. Sorry if I mis-read...... n/t

[JDPriestly]

14. May I add that was also true for the many Israelis who went to Israel in the aftermath of WWII.

They too could not go home.

It is wonderful to extend a humanitarian hand to people whose homes are destroyed by war or who leave because they are threatened by war, by death, by genocide.

We should always be aware that "there but for the Grace of God go I."

That is a fact that every person on earth should remember including those who think they are the law in a country like Syria, those who are destroying the homes of others -- like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. We are racking up SUCH bad karma.

For those who are not able to leave this country, the price is gonna be high someday soon.

[oberliner]

21. You mean Jews, not Israelis

And much of the world did not accept those Jewish refugees either. That was part of the raison d'être for Israel in the first place.

[oberliner]

20. Do you know the specific location of that picture?

I am guessing it is Homs, but that is just a guess.

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Google picture finder indicates it is Homs. n/t

[stuntcat]

22. also this:

2 years ago.. but Syria.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. That is the The Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, btw.

In case anyone was wondering.

[stuntcat]

30. TY!

I saw the pic years ago and just can't forget it, but I did forgot the details.

[darkangel218]

26. Thank you for posting, Dixie

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. I am so sorry you were violated, and could not get justice.

It must be very painful to hear the jackass Right wing MEN blathering about how women "cause" rape here.

[malaise]

31. As long as the boys control the oil fields

who gives a flying fuck??