Refugee Resettlement Reatrictions

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HR 4038 bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives now looks to the Senate to uphold the best principles and practice of American leadership in refugee resettlement.

The bill would overturn a system that has been working. It compromises the lives of people who are already some of the most victimized people in the world. It would set back US humanitarian leadership and provide an excuse for those who wish to argue that the U.S. does not live up to the values it proclaims.

Pee nuttiest

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After traveling on trains, planes and buses and visiting many public facilities, I have noticed one thing...
Do you know the difference between the men and women's bathroom? The pee on the floor.

When you reach the bathroom you’re faced with two options: Do you try to stand and deliver without spraying everywhere? Or go for the unmanly butt-bow and pop a squat?

When you’re all finished, close the lid. This makes the flushing quieter and prevents the toilet from spritzing up bowl water—the sort of piss-and-fecal fountain that could contain E. coli.

Men Eat For Women

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Most guys cram way more food in their mouths while dining with women than by themselves or with other men, according to a new study from Cornell University.

Sexual selection has been commonly considered by evolutionary psychologists interested in eating disorders among women; however, comparable attention has not been paid to problematic eating by men.

Jolly Good Java

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Association of Coffee Consumption with total and cause-specific mortality in three large prospective cohorts examined the associations of consumption of total, caffeinated, and decaffeinated coffee with risk of subsequent total and cause-specific mortality among 74,890 women in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), 93,054 women in the NHS 2, and 40,557 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

Different is Good

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The time has come to end the harmful teachings by some religious denominations that being LGBT is bad, or whatever words they use to demean, call evil, and cause enormous pain to our youth. More and more people are changing their minds….from evangelicals to Presbyterians to Catholics to Conservative Jews. Our understanding of human sexuality, and the natural place of same-sex love in it, has evolved!

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas

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There is nothing better than to have my students take time to congratulate and say happy holidays.

Warmest greetings and best wishes for the new year

May the wonder of the holiday season stay with you 2016

Happy new year filled with health, and success

Thank you for the gift of your friendship

Good tidings of Joy and Happy 2016

Peace on Earth. Best wishes for a wonderful season

Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday

Wishing you the gifts of the season — Faith, Peace, Joy, Charity and Hope

Merry Christmas. Feliz Navidad

American Xenophobia?

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Madness towards Mexicans and Muslims may lead to Facism. It would appear that our descent into irrationality has not yet hit its limit but getting close and it could have dangerous consequences.

The definition of XENOPHOBIA is fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. How can this be when our country is all about the multicultural melting pot. The American story has in large part been written by intrepid souls fleeing persecution in search of a better life in a nation forged in liberty’s name and dedicated to the equality for all.

WORLD TV DAY

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In Latin America during the 70s and 80s, hundreds of thousands were tortured, killed and disappeared. (THEO VAN BOVEN ARCHIVE: It is inexplicable and indefensible for the United Nations not to react urgently to situations of gross violations of human rights). One courageous UN leader spoke out. 21st Century, Episode #108 The Van Boven Principles via @UNMultimedia #UN http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/21stcentury/detail/4616617369001.html#.V…

More cooperation required

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US is leaning on European and Arab allies to provide more troops and support for the war against the Islamic State group, hoping that the horror of the Paris attacks will compel them to get more deeply involved.

The administration sees as the beginnings of battlefield momentum in Iraq and Syria. It may also reflect a sense in the Pentagon that the campaign against the Islamic State group has advanced too slowly and requires more urgent and decisive military moves.

Things go better?

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Eric Clapton may need no introduction, unless you've been living in a cave. May I begin with this septuagenarian guitar hero strolling onstage and then putting his band through its paces in his unique brand of British blues?

https://youtu.be/VmLQes4tmtM

https://youtu.be/bocDpFVhyDw

https://youtu.be/kntzQiaFzOQ

https://youtu.be/tyw8Hg3jpoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5USg8_1gA

That Time Eric Clapton Almost Became a Beatle http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/news/a39896/beatles-eric-clapton-l… via @Esquire

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