The Statue of Liberty
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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
"Another... Solwitch thread." AST Current Games: :::City Skylines:::Elite Dangerous::: Division 2 "...our most seemingly ironclad beliefs about our own agency and conscious experience can be dead wrong." -Adam Bear Last bumped on Dec 13, 2016, 7:02:33 AM
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" I will bite. Is this about Syrian refugees or Mexican illegal immigrants? |
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" It doesn't matter. That nice poem was never adopted as national policy. My immigrant ancestors passed through Ellis Island at the turn of the last century, right under the torch of Lady Liberty, and had to pass certain tests and evaluations in order NOT to be turned back to Europe. Not sure when we in the US decided that anyone, no matter how disease-ridden, impoverished, or criminal, could enter our population unvetted, but here we are. ='[.]'= =^[.]^= basic (happy/amused) cheetahmoticon: Whiskers/eye/tear-streak/nose/tear-streak/eye/
whiskers =@[.]@= boggled / =>[.]<= annoyed or angry / ='[.]'= concerned / =0[.]o= confuzzled / =-[.]-= sad or sleepy / =*[.]*= dazzled / =^[.]~= wink / =~[.]^= naughty wink / =9[.]9= rolleyes #FourYearLie |
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" It is an aspiration to live up to. I never say America had to live up to it, it didn't live up to it. That is all. |
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