[Magdalen] Our "sh*thole" president.

[Christopher Hart]

Awesome article, Sally, Thanks for sharing it.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone from South S#%thole!!
>
> General view here is that we don’t care about the vulgar language. Or even
> Trump whose racism has been on fulsome display since the Primaries along
> with all his other prejudices and unconscious fears. Dignity of office -
> shed that on Day One.
>
> We care that so many Americans lack the guts to stand up to him, to demand
> answers and to risk his displeasure. Those Senators for example, what a
> spineless lot.
>
> Another protest march would be good right about now. Very loud and very
> yuge. Just saying.
>
> Meanwhile here is South SH journalist Tom Eaton speaking for most of us
> here
>
> https://www.timeslive.co.za/ideas/2018-01-12-trump-wins-
> the-race-to-the-bottom/
>
> Sally D
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 12 Jan 2018, at 23:44, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Renouncing one's country of birth is a part of the citizenship
> ritual/law in the US.
> >
> > Lynn,  musing on how much of the immigrant talk has revealed the early
> 20C in ways even I, who thought I was well educated in history on a variety
> of planes, had not realized. The xenophobia before and after WW1 for
> example. Musing on the greater metro Detroit area in my youth - *many*
> suburban families were WW2 war refugees, resettled in suburban Detroit -
> some adapted and assimilated quickly, some not so much. Also remembering a
> colleague of my fathers, also a Mechanical Engineer, whose family walked
> across the frozen Detroit River from Canada when he was a 5 year old child,
> on a cold cloudy night and ultimately became citizens.
> >
> > Nothing is simple.
> > Lynn (again)
> >
> > website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >
> > When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
> me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
> >
> > "Mercy and compassion are more than personal options. They are the
> antidotes to that fear and hatred." Mark Singel
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 3:25 PM
> > To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > Cc: <cantor03 at aol.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Our "sh*thole" president.
> >
> >> By coincidence, my maternal grandparents would have
> >> passed Trump approval.  I have a framed certificate dating
> >> from 1865 showing that they "renounced" the King of Norway,
> >> and expressed intent for obtaining citizenship in the USA
> >> (Philadelphia, 1865).  I suspect they were not handing out
> >> certificates when the paternal ancestors arrived at New
> >> Rochelle, NY fleeing Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu
> >> (1688).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> David Strang.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> In a message dated 1/12/2018 4:15:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
> >>
> >>
> >> No, he stood next to the leader of Norway that either earlier in the
> day or
> >> for sure the day before, so it may have been the first country that
> came to
> >> mind....
> >
>



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