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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   No kid gets adopted until he deals with Assad. Maybe O will adopt Assad? If not, France is good for taking terrorists and dictators.
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   ansonia said, 6 months ago

   I have a friend who works in a psych unit in a large city. He said that they get Russian adopted children at times because the parents can’t manage them. Sometimes the parents don’tcome back for them.
   I saw a progam once, I think 60 Minutes or 20/20 where they showed all these children in Russian orphanages who had been abandonef. There were hundreds of them and just a fewcaretakers. The children would lie in cribs all day, day after day, and usually for years with almost no human contact, and totally without affection, love, and touch. By the time they are adopted, usually about 6 years old, they are permanently “damaged.” It is impossible for them to form a bond with another person. They never respond to loving gestures. They can never be “normal” ever.
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   Stipple said, 6 months ago

   @ansonia

   Politics aside, ansonia, I agree with this one 100%. The children are being destroyed.
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   And those in charge of them know this.
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   ruff said, 6 months ago

   Does anyone here have an idea what Ima’s garble is about ??
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   mickey1339 said, 6 months ago

   @ruff

   You do pose an interesting question. I think it means that once Putin gives asylum to Assad he will loosen the restrictions on Americans adopting Russian children. The stink was because Putin was “sanctioned” by the U.S. for civil rights abuses. How that involves Assad I’m not sure.
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   As to the rest of Ima’s post, I’m guessing it’s just a general rant about France harboring terrorists, and presumably, I think the reference to Obama is another “closet” reference to Obama being a secret Muslin. It does take serious interpreting at times to figure out all Ima’s alluding to…
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   http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/28/world/europe/russia-us-adoptions/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_mostpopular+%28RSS%3A+Most+Popular%29
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   lookinside said, 6 months ago

   Ima/rightisright/guardsgt, isn’t worth reading, period. Electronic graffiti.
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   4my10851cs said, 6 months ago

   @mickey1339

   " Obama is another “closet” reference to Obama being a secret Muslin. "
   SECRET?? he said he is
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   Rottiluv said, 6 months ago

   To be blunt, aren’t there enough kids in the US needing homes?
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   MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago

   There were people, in the 50’s, who fled the USSR, came to America and committed suicide because they simply could not deal with all the wealth, choice and freedom.

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   If you transplant a child from modern Russia to America that shock would not be that dramatic, but it would be a different world for the kid nevertheless. Imagine YOU would have been moved from the U.S. to Russia. The language barrier alone is a nightmare for kids older than about one year (the brain forms it’s linguistic structure around that time).

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   It may seem cruel, but I still support any ban on cross-border adoptions. Human children are no pets!
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 6 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    “Human children are no pets!”
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    In this country, children would KILL to be treated as pets! We treat our pets better than family members in the USA!
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    Do American remember when we used to be made afraid that the Russians had these orphanages exactly so that they could raise an army of “numb” soldiers that would be robot assassins?
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    How about the times when the rumors around the world were that Rich Americans were adopting foreign children so we could harvest their organs and sell them to the highest bidder?
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    Here’s another from about the same mindset “There were people, in the 50’s, who fled the USSR, came to America and committed suicide because they simply could not deal with all the wealth, choice and freedom.” Sounds like the sort of urban legend one might let leak out to keep people thinking twice about how “green” that grass was on the other side.
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    Comedian Yakov Smirnov would tell the tale about how when he first came to the States he couldn’t believe all the Freedom! He was in the store and he saw they were even inventing freedom and selling it right there! So he bought some New Freedom! He didn’t know how it worked so he wore it as a sort of a headband. “And NOBODY told me! ”height: 50px;" colspan="2">
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    dtroutma said, 6 months ago

    Saw Yakov’s show in Branson. While much was pretty funny, there was an “Ayn Randian” anti-Russian/anti-communist abundance, playing to the American audience (most, sorry, “redneck”) that got a little “over the top”. As someone who’s actually fought “communists” for America, and killed a few, the reaction of the audience was a little “disturbing”. They call it “nationalism”, and Germany got a little carried away with that in the 20’s and 30’s which led to a little “trouble” in the ’40’s.

    
    Which, why do Americans NOT ADOPT ALL AMERICA’S ORPHANS FIRST?

    
    NO, I don’t care for Putin, though “W” saw into his soul and loved him. (Yes, righties, think about that one a minute. Maybe it was because “daddy” ran the CIA for a while, into the ground?) I don’t like “Communism”, nor what I see in UNregulated Capitalism that we’ve suffered under for 30 years now. BTW, it is the growth of “capitalism” in Russia that has led to gangs, mobs, and mafias making the most money in a new “system” that hasn’t found its way to appropriate regulation yet.

    
    Totalitarian regimes ARE very, very bad for freedom, but as Yakov found out, we really need to be careful how we define that term.
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