[Magdalen] so we're sitting by the pool

[Grace Cangialosi]

Ah yes, but he had a Muslim name--reason enough to detain him, dontcha think? According to the account, they kept asking him where he got his name...
I agree that they were just bullying him because they could, but they could because that bullying had just been permitted--nay, encouraged--by an executive order!  
The floodgates have been opened...

> On Feb 25, 2017, at 5:43 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> He had his US PASSPORT, for crying out loud....what else did they need?
> ~smdh~ Sounds to me like a bunch of bullies just practicing a little
> religious and racial intimidation because they could. Give some people a
> uniform and they think they're God.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> And there was a report earlier today that Mohammed Ali, Jr. was detained
>> for several hours right after the Muslim ban went into effect, even though
>> he was born here (as was his father, of course) and had a US passport. They
>> let his mother go because she had a picture of herself with Ali, Sr.
>> Just when it seems things can't get any worse, they do. So many freedoms
>> are being threatened, and we're only five weeks into this regime.
>> 
>>> On Feb 25, 2017, at 5:15 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Tourism to the US is down considerably, and will be down more, I suspect,
>>> particularly from Down Under after the detention of Mem Fox, Australian
>>> children's author, yesterday. Apparently the Customs people claimed she
>>> "didn't have the right visa"...but she did.
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2/24/17 5:00 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Actually the mayor is a Democrat (and a Wellesley graduate)
>>>>> and this precinct went 65 per cent for Hillary.
>>>>> 
>>>>> These miscreants at the pool are renters (as, of course, are we).
>>>> 
>>>> "Miscreants"?  Because they like Fox News?
>>>> 
>>>>   1A person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law.
>>>>       1.1archaic A heretic.
>>>> 
>>>> adjective
>>>> 
>>>>   1(of a person) behaving badly or in a way that breaks a law or rule.
>>>>   ‘her miscreant husband’
>>>>       1.1archaic Heretical.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> BTW there are far fewer Canadians here this year. Some years
>>>>> a third of the license plates are from Ontario or Quebec or the
>> Maritimes.
>>>>> You hear couples speaking French. Not so many this year because
>>>>> of the exchange rate. Our friends from New Brunswick made it,
>>>>> though.
>>>> 
>>>> There's an organized boycott of US vacations going on among Canadian
>>>> Trump-haters.  I got a share on Facebook from Charles de Lint (I'm a
>> major
>>>> fan of his, have, have read, and love all his books) and a FB friend as
>>>> well as member of his mythic fan group.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Sibyl Smirl
>>>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>>>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>>