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2021-10-10 Britain

Some Afghan refugees among the 7,000 who were evacuated to the U.K. are now asking to be sent back due to the lack of free housing

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Posted by Fred 2021-10-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Bye.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2021-10-10 09:34|| 2021-10-10 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Everyone does the best they can for their families. The oligarchs and pols are the same. If they were Christian they would have to be honest.

Posted by Titus Prince of the Geats5631 2021-10-10 09:43|| 2021-10-10 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait until January and a few of them are found frozen to telephone poles or lying in ditches at Fort McCoy.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-10 10:15|| 2021-10-10 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ that will be whitey's and Trump's fault.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-10 10:19|| 2021-10-10 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Beso, they won't be found in January.
It'll be after the thaw.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-10 10:34|| 2021-10-10 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey Lenny, what's with the decline in DEFAC headcount and all the surplus rations this week?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-10 10:49|| 2021-10-10 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 True refugee story:
I worked for a bunch of years with a Vietnamese guy, Le, who had been resettled with his family after Saigon. Le had been a ARVN helicopter pilot, so no staying.
Anyway, he said when they got to the processing center in the Phillipines, the guy at the desk said his was cleared through for resettlement, and where would he like to go. Le told me "Now I'm just a dumb Vietnamese kid, the only place in the US I've ever heard of is Hollywood. So I said Hollywood."
Dude at the desk flips through a big folder, makes some notes, and says "You got your choice of Hollywood California, Hollywood Florida, or Hollywood Minnesota." Le says "Which one would be easiest?" Guy says "Minnesota". Minnesota it was.
Hoo Boy!
Le told me "I had only ever seen snow in a picture, and ice was something that came out of a big shot's refrigerator."
They got re-resettled after 3 months to the Gulf Coast, and that's where they've been ever since.
He said "The people in Minnesota were real nice, But..."

Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-10 14:01|| 2021-10-10 14:01|| Front Page Top

#8 "The people in Minnesota were real nice, But..."

There's a joke about the Norwegians who settled in Minnesota - how the cold and rocky ground and mosquitoes reminded them so much of home that they forget why they left in the first place.

I'm not saying the place in uninhabitable, but my earliest childhood memories are riding my tricycle in the snow and stepping in an ice fishing hole.

Posted by SteveS 2021-10-10 14:55|| 2021-10-10 14:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Paul Joseph watson has an excellent blog on how Afghan refugees trashed the Grand Hotel. TripAdvisor had to take down reviews from paying cutomers.

Posted by Regular joe 2021-10-10 15:15|| 2021-10-10 15:15|| Front Page Top

#10 #7 - I worked with some Viet (then children) refugees who became Engineers. Hardest working MFers and most smart as a whip. VN lost a lot, as I'm sure Cambodia, Laos, etc. did

Posted by Frank G 2021-10-10 17:03|| 2021-10-10 17:03|| Front Page Top

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