# Ilhan Omar - A thread about her marriage and immigration history. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347 "2019-07-20T12:32:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 38
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/742 "2019-09-18T13:24:25Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > What the hell? I assume he’s deep into the ‘breast is best’ party. To which I’ll post this[Slate article](https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/breastfeeding-mothers-recommendations-not-universal.html), arguing that that isn’t always true (which surprised me, TBH). ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/743 "2019-09-18T13:28:21Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I assume he’s deep into the ‘breast is best’ party. To which I’ll post this[Slate article](https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/breastfeeding-mothers-recommendations-not-universal.html), arguing that that isn’t always true (which surprised me, TBH). He’s deep into something. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/744 "2019-09-18T13:29:07Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > What the hell? The anti-formula movement has gotten [prominent backing](https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/30/mayor-bloomberg-declares-war-on-baby-formula/). ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/745 "2019-09-18T13:31:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The anti-formula movement has gotten [prominent backing](https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/30/mayor-bloomberg-declares-war-on-baby-formula/). That article doesn’t make much sense. Are New Yorkers prevented from going to Costco and buying 50 containers of formula? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/746 "2019-09-18T17:04:29Z")
I like Slate, but I think I will trust the official policy statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics: [https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/3/e827](https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/3/e827) > [@](#): > > It has been calculated that more than 900 infant lives per year may be saved in the United States if 90% of mothers exclusively breastfed for 6 months.24 In the 42 developing countries in which 90% of the world’s childhood deaths occur, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and weaning after 1 year is the most effective intervention, with the potential of preventing more than 1 million infant deaths per year, equal to preventing 13% of the world’s childhood mortality.25 So the impact of formula feeding of the US is certainly much smaller than on the developing world, but I still assume those 900 mothers would like their babies back. (ETA: Tens of thousands of mothers, actually, since that is 900 deaths per year.) > [@Jackmannii](#): > > The anti-formula movement has gotten [prominent backing](https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/30/mayor-bloomberg-declares-war-on-baby-formula/). Bloomberg FTW! Love that guy. Once again, this shows how nonsensical Monty’s claims are—which you’ll notice are not backed up by actual linked citations from my posts, because he can’t cite something that doesn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/747 "2019-09-18T19:12:50Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > So the impact of formula feeding of the US is certainly much smaller than on the developing world, but I still assume those 900 mothers would like their babies back. (ETA: Tens of thousands of mothers, actually, since that is 900 deaths per year.) Wow! Think how many lives would be saved if we banned guns! Glad you are on board! ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/748 "2019-09-18T22:45:19Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Wow! Think how many lives would be saved if we banned guns! Glad you are on board! 😕 It looks like you are being sarcastic because you assume for some reason that I am against gun control? I guess you haven’t been reading my posts in the Elections forum: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21860801&postcount=125](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21860801&postcount=125) [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21861358&postcount=155](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21861358&postcount=155) [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21866437&postcount=200](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21866437&postcount=200) No matter how long I post here and make myself crystal clear, many of you continue to think I am some kind of doctrinaire conservative for whatever reason. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/749 "2019-09-18T23:01:36Z")
(Even if you didn’t read the posts in the Elections forum, it might have been a tiny clue that I said just upthread that I thought Mike Bloomberg—a big gun control advocate—was awesome.) ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/750 "2019-09-18T23:17:59Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > 😕 > > It looks like you are being sarcastic because you assume for some reason that I am against gun control? Sorry, I have no idea what positions you hold on anything other than giving human trafficking victims rides. That’s pretty much all I need to know. Oh, and also that you believe black people are inherently less intelligent than white people. (If that’s not you, then I apologize). ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/751 "2019-09-18T23:39:20Z")
If you have no idea, where did the gun thing come from? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/752 "2019-09-18T23:53:01Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > If you have no idea, where did the gun thing come from? Let’s go with this: 1. You are for banning guns - glad to have you on board 2. You were against banning guns, but since you think banning formula saves lives, you must think banning other things that kill people saves lives - glad to have you on board edited to add: 1. Banning formula is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard, so your opinion is stupid. You pick. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/753 "2019-09-19T00:18:44Z")
None of those answer my question, and (2) is actively stupid. Whatever… ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/754 "2019-09-19T00:24:55Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > None of those answer my question, and (2) is actively stupid. Whatever… It’s at most passively stupid. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/755 "2019-09-19T00:27:36Z")
Okay, fair. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/756 "2019-09-19T00:33:22Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Okay, fair. Thanks! I’m nothing if not fair. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/757 "2019-09-19T08:29:06Z")
WTF is this thread about, now? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/758 "2019-09-19T23:56:17Z")
The right wing “Point of View” show on my local CBS station just mentioned Omar several times but I didn’t hear the details. Was there some new development, or are they just dancing to the oldies? Host Chris Berg pressed my congressman, Collin Peterson (DFL-MN) about whether he would refer Omar to the Ethics Committee and Peterson clearly looked uncomfortable but would not say “no”. Instead, he said he would “ask them about it”, but that he has many other more important issues on his plate right now. Ask them about what? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/759 "2019-09-20T00:15:35Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > The right wing “Point of View” show on my local CBS station just mentioned Omar several times but I didn’t hear the details. Was there some new development, or are they just dancing to the oldies? Host Chris Berg pressed my congressman, Collin Peterson (DFL-MN) about whether he would refer Omar to the Ethics Committee and Peterson clearly looked uncomfortable but would not say “no”. Instead, he said he would “ask them about it”, but that he has many other more important issues on his plate right now. Ask them about what? Googling suggests [this](https://nypost.com/2019/09/19/conservative-group-targets-ilhan-omar-over-payments-to-lover/). Basically she is alleged to have had an affair with a married man who runs a consulting company that her campaign hired. Having an affair with a married man is bad, if true, but hardly earth shattering. As far as the payments go, helping liberal campaigns like Omar’s is exactly the sort of thing this consulting company regularly does, so even if there was an affair it could be easily be that it started because of the payments (and work associated with them) rather than the payments caused by the affair. Compared with Stormy Daniels and Trump’s self dealing campaign spending this seem a pretty weak tea. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/760 "2019-09-20T00:22:38Z")
Too late to edit: Re-reading the article it sounds like the payments were made post campaign which is bit more suspicious, on the other hand it could be that they are just the paying off of old invoices. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347/761 "2019-09-20T01:20:33Z")
All the new furor is based off of a single accusation by a woman whose husband is leaving her? Pardon me if I don’t believe it based on her word alone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ilhan-omar-a-thread-about-her-marriage-and-immigration-history/837347.md?page=39)