As Ilhan Omar endures anti-Muslim racism, most lawmakers in Congress remain silent – ThinkProgress
▻https://thinkprogress.org/as-ilhan-omar-endures-anti-muslim-racism-most-lawmakers-in-congress-r
at the time of publication, neither Democratic leaders in the House and Senate — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — had publicly condemned the actions of the West Virginia GOP.
Poll: Majority Of Americans Approve Of Sending Congress To Syria | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
▻http://www.theonion.com/articles/poll-majority-of-americans-approve-of-sending-cong,33752
The New York Times/CBS News poll showed that though just 1 in 4 Americans believe that the United States has a responsibility to intervene in the Syrian conflict, more than 90 percent of the public is convinced that putting all 535 representatives of the United States Congress on the ground in Syria—including Senate pro tempore Patrick Leahy, House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and, in fact, all current members of the House and Senate—is the best course of action at this time.
“I believe it is in the best interest of the United States, and the global community as a whole, to move forward with the deployment of all U.S. congressional leaders to Syria immediately,” respondent Carol Abare, 50, said in the nationwide telephone survey, echoing the thoughts of an estimated 9 in 10 Americans who said they “strongly support” any plan of action that involves putting the U.S. House and Senate on the ground in the war-torn Middle Eastern state. “With violence intensifying every day, now is absolutely the right moment—the perfect moment, really—for the United States to send our legislators to the region.”
“In fact, my preference would have been for Congress to be deployed months ago,” she added (...) regardless of whether the Assad regime used chemical weapons or not.
In fact, 91 percent of those surveyed agreed that the active use of sarin gas attacks by the Syrian government would, if anything, only increase poll respondents’ desire to send Congress to Syria.
« Senate Minority Leader Fooled by Report in Military Version of The Onion »
The best parody contains elements of truth. Which might explain how the military’s answer to The Onion suckered the Senate’s Republican leader.
▻http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/mcconnell-duffel-blog
Meet The Duffel Blog, if you haven’t already. A must-read for national-security nerds — and anyone who enjoys humor, really — it provides pitch-perfect military parody online, such as this piece about Syria hosting Iraq War reenactors (bylined by “G-Had”) or this one about a Google Street View Prius getting blown up in Kandahar. The Duffel Blog, as dutiful readers know, is America’s oldest online source for fake military news, founded in 1797 in a moment of farsightedness. It often gives more real talk than most legit journalistic institutions, but there is no way you can confuse it with the real news.
Unless you are a senior member of the United States Senate.
Sur le GI Bill (cf. article complet de Wired) : ▻http://fr.academic.ru/dic.nsf/frwiki/674445