Why would somebody

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...want to be President of the United States?

When you consider such "difficult" problems as :

Saudi Arabia''s crown-prince being accused of being complicit in the murder of an American.

Children trying to emigrate from Mexico being separated from parents and "corralled" indefinitely in the USA .

Iran.

Iraq .

etc.

Huh?

[HONDO74]

...want to be President of the United States?

When you consider such "difficult" problems as :

Children trying to emigrate from Mexico being separated from parents and "corralled" indefinitely in the USA .

Is that what is going on presently. Is Biden separating the children from their parents and putting them in cages...

If the Children are trying to emigrate from Mexico. they are not with their parents. Which is it ??

[robert.]

The guys that work with me crossed when they were 12. They walked from Guatemala to California. Then staid with family members on the us side. They had no adult relatives with them during their journey. Things were a little different 40 years ago.

[HONDO74]

Surge of 13,000 Central American minors to US border expected in May

Customs and Border Protection officials are bracing for as many as 13,000 unaccompanied children crossing into the U.S. in May, according to a report.

"We’re seeing the highest February numbers that we’ve ever seen in the history of the [Unaccompanied Alien Child] program," a Health and Human Services official told Axios.

The record surge of migrant kids will require a continued expansion of the country’s network of migrant-child shelters, where capacity has already been reduced due to coronavirus social-distancing protocols, the report said.

HHS is working with the Pentagon on securing space on military bases, where overflows of migrants were housed in tent-like structures during 2014 and 2019, the report said.

One aim expressed by Jonathan White, a top HHS career official, was preventing migrant kids from waiting out their immigration claims in unfit CBP holding cells

CBP warned top administration officials of the peak May numbers during a telephone meeting on Thursday involving senior-level officials with HHS, Homeland Security and the State Department, Axios said.

‘KIDS IN CAGES' BEING TAUGHT IN CLASS, WH SAYS, AS SCHOOLS REMAIN CLOSED

During the meeting, officials also discussed investing in Central American countries in ways that could help stem the conditions that cause migrants to flee, Axios said.

There was no talk of reinstating the Trump administration’s use of emergency health orders to quickly deport migrant minors.

The Biden administration came under fire this week for reopening some of the same border facilities that President Donald Trump had been criticized for using by many Democrats, including President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has complained about the recent reopening of an emergency facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, and of a notorious child-holding facility in Homestead, Fla.

The Texas facility will hold up to 700 kids ages 13 to 17 while their immigration claims are processed.

"Our goal is for them to then be transferred to families or sponsors," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said of the facilities.

But until that can happen, "this is our effort to ensure that kids are not in close proximity and that we are abiding by the health and safety standards that the government has been set out."

SAME SHIT JUST DIFFERENT CLOWNS RUNNING THE SHOW.

[gregj410]

Future Democratic voters. The Democratic Party wouldn’t exist without a permanent underclass of people voting for them.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"The Cat in the Hat" book for children is being scrutinized currently as being racist.
Why?!
Would somebody educate me in this regard?

[robert.]

"The Cat in the Hat" book for children is being scrutinized currently as being racist.
Why?!
Would somebody educate me in this regard?

It probably has more to do with Malania Trump donating them to schools.Than racism.

[HONDO74]

"The Cat in the Hat" book for children is being scrutinized currently as being racist.
Why?!
Would somebody educate me in this regard?

6 Dr. Seuss books won’t be published for racist images
https://www.ky3.com/2021/03/02/6-dr-seu ... st-images/

BOSTON (AP) — Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday.

“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday.

“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” it said.

The other books affected are “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!,” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”

As adored as Dr. Seuss is by millions around the world for the positive values in many of his works, including environmentalism and tolerance, there has been increasing criticism in recent years over the way Blacks, Asians and others are drawn in some of his most beloved children’s books, as well as in his earlier advertising and propaganda illustrations.

In 2017, a school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, criticized a gift of 10 Seuss books from first lady Melania Trump, saying many of his works were “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.”

In 2018, a Dr. Seuss museum in his hometown of Springfield removed a mural that included an Asian stereotype.

“The Cat in the Hat,” one of Seuss’ most popular books, has received criticism, too, but will continue to be published for now.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Why would Pope Francis have wanted to visit Iraq ?

[robert.]

Why would Pope Francis have wanted to visit Iraq ?

Same reason Trump visited with North Korea's Kim. Talk to your adversaries in person. It's possible to make friends that way.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

An excellent reply, Robert. Thank you.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Why would Pope Francis have wanted to visit Iraq ?

Same reason Trump visited with North Korea's Kim. Talk to your adversaries in person. It's possible to make friends that way.

The former was all a publicity stunt. The latter is not and I really doubt that the Pope sees Iraq as an adversary.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I think you're right about the Trump part, Rufus.

But what impressed me as insight, on Robert's part, is the outreach for friendly relations part.

Iraq had, in recent past, made a remark that The Vatican should be invaded and taken by Islam extremists (if my memory is correct,) so I have been stunned to see this effort on the Pope's part. As a Catholic, I'm trying to understand the purpose of this visit. Churches have been bombed and ransacked and bishops and clergy assaulted and killed in Iraq , recently. That's a fact.

[gregj410]

He’s likely there to try to keep the Daesh from beheading the Christians and the Yazidis again.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Digital artwork
Why would somebody pay $69million for a piece of art (by Beeple) that doesn't exist in the real world, which means, the work is not something we can walk up to, on a wall, nor touch it or pick it up .

Seeing this reported on the News this morning totally amazed me, since it was something of which I had been totally unaware .

I can, of course, understand why people would indulge in digital artwork, for self-expression and sharing, but paying for an intangible , presenting itself as art, puzzles me.

Hence, I present my puzzlement here, where a plethora of interesting voices , experiences , and backgrounds often promises an interesting conversation, with results.