Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Oexmelin]

Seen on Twitter:

The wall between the US and Mexico should be built out of Hilary's emails, since apparently, no one can get over that.

[Solmyr]

Seen on Twitter:

The wall between the US and Mexico should be built out of Hilary's emails, since apparently, no one can get over that.

[viper37]

During the height of the immigration crisis a few years back we rented out a house. It was a proper, quite big house in the countryside.

We got a few mails from immigrants and they listed their income. It quite disgusted me how much money they got from the state and how much they were able to pay. Several of the families, with typically 3-5 kids, got more money monthly than we earned at the time.

Now, I assume that that money was temporary assistance to be able to set up a home in a new country and so on, but still, it rankled me.

if it's anything like Canada, they need to refund that money after one year.  Well, start to pay back, I mean, not upfront.

[The Brain]

Sweden is nothing like Canada. Thank God.

[Eddie Teach]

Both cold as the 9th circle of hell.

[crazy canuck]

Sweden is nothing like Canada. Thank God.

Couldn't agree more.  So do all the Swedes who immigrated to Canada.

[The Brain]

Sweden is nothing like Canada. Thank God.

Couldn't agree more.  So do all the Swedes who immigrated to Canada.

They're both great people.

[Barrister]

Sweden is nothing like Canada. Thank God.

Couldn't agree more.  So do all the Swedes who immigrated to Canada.

They're both great people.

Swedish immigration to Canada began in the 1870s with the first rural Swedish colony, Scandinavia, near the town of Erickson in Manitoba. Originally named New Sweden, Scandinavia was established by three men who organized dwellings to house the first settlers.

Like their Scandinavian counterparts, Swedish immigrants first arrived and settled in the United States and then travelled north to settle in Canada. A large influx of Swedish immigrants from the states of Minnesota and North Dakota migrated to the Canadian Prairie provinces in the 1920s. At that time, the United States introduced an immigration quota and Canada became the destination of choice for Icelanders, Finns, Norwegians and Danes.

Winnipeg was the "Swedish capital of Canada" until the 1940s, when Vancouver took over the title. Although a considerable number of persons of Swedish origin live in Calgary and Edmonton and their environs, the Toronto area is currently home to the largest concentration of newcomers. Swedish heritage is visible in Canada with more than 175 place names of Swedish origin such as Upsala in Ontario, Stockholm in Saskatchewan, and Thorsby and Malmo in Alberta.

As of 2001, there were more than 282,000 people with Swedish ancestry living in Canada.

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/history-ethnic-cultural/Pages/swedish.aspx

[Admiral Yi]

It is a program that came around before Obama (like many decades before Obama) to subsidize phone service for the poor. Not sure why it gets linked to Obama, he had nothing to do with it.

My recollection is that the legislation to use phone taxes to help the poor had existed, but it was Obama who used the legislation to give cell phones out.

[jimmy olsen]

Sister posted this yesterday 

I get into my car after leaving Julian's. A young guy walks up to my car and knocks on my window. I roll it down a little and he asked me for money.

Him: hi, can I get a few dollars (or something along those lines)
Me: sorry I don't have any cash (I really don't)
Him: what?
Me: sorry I don't have any cash.
Him: whips out a wad of cash and says "whatever, I don't need your money, useless bitch"
Me: okay, BYE! (Rolls up window)
Him: walks away

Wtf is wrong with people ‍♀️

[HVC]

Why'd she end with the female sign?

[Valmy]

It is a program that came around before Obama (like many decades before Obama) to subsidize phone service for the poor. Not sure why it gets linked to Obama, he had nothing to do with it.

My recollection is that the legislation to use phone taxes to help the poor had existed, but it was Obama who used the legislation to give cell phones out.

Not true, unless he proposed it as a Senator. That happened before he was elected President.

[jimmy olsen]

Why'd she end with the female sign?

Emoji copied over weird.

[Syt]

[The Brain]

Do they at least pass Go?