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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 06, 2009 9:42 am) We better wake up and smell the roses in this country before we end up in the same situation as several EU countries. Major Hasan gave plenty of warning, concerning his beliefs over his career in the military. He adamantly opposed both our current wars. So why does the Army promote him to Major and deploy him to Iraq? The other sick part is we paid for his education as a doctor of Osteopathy and Psychiatry. I don't think he was part of any Islamic Terrorist group. Just a Islamic zealot that snapped when he was deployed to a war zone he did not believe was right.
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 06, 2009 1:01 pm) Our whole country was founded on multicultural BS. 
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 06, 2009 1:21 pm) One of the best examples of multicultural BS is the fire fighters in Oregon. SALEM, Ore. - Some English-speaking firefighters are losing their jobs because of an Oregon state law that requires them to be bilingual. The Department of Forestry enacted a law three years ago that requires them to be bilingual, but this year they're actually enforcing it. 2002 was such a devastating wildfire season, contractors were scrambling to find firefighters. Hispanics often filled their needs on the fire lines. Jim Walker of the Department of Forestry said "what we do know is 85 percent of the crew make-up is of Hispanic decent." But many of the Hispanic fire fighters do not speak English. Walker says the language barrier is a concern. http://www.katu.com/news/3634401.html That kind of crap should not happen in the USA. Anyone not willing to pledge his allegiance to this country should get the BOOT.
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JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail Friday, November 06, 2009 Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years. In response to the JCT letter, Camp said: “This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.” Key excerpts from the JCT letter appear below: http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=15- 3583 No wonder they don't want to release the bill for scrutiny before the vote. |
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OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference. I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you. Ah, the dangers of giving shout outs without a teleprompter. Crow is not a Medal of Honor recipient. As noted by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society: The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States. Generally presented to its recipient by the President of the United States of America in the name of Congress, it is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor. Crow's name is not included on the Society's Medal of Honor recipient list. He was, however, awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in August. Obama, often described as "cerebral" by the mainstream media, should know the difference between the Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom, especially since he personally awarded the latter to Crow. Don't expect his blunder to receive wide coverage. It's not something he can blame George Bush for. No biggie for a President that thinks we have 57 states in the USA. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 06, 2009 1:48 pm) If you're so concerned about speaking the local language, maybe you should learn Navaho or Hopi. Lots of people don't pledge anything because of religious convictions (hey, another reason the US was founded). You can't instill love of country by cramming laws down the throats of the citizenry. Here's a link especially for you. 
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 06, 2009 7:10 pm) Religious cults that refuse to pledge their allegiance to the USA are on the kook fringe. Getting back to native tongues. If the Hopi or Navajo had conquered we would probably be speaking the language. You know as well as I do that most of the Eskimos in Alaska cannot speak Iñupiaq, Inuit or any of the dozen or more crude dialects. The idea of multicultural coexistence is dangerous for US all. It is being shown in the gang war fare in many cities in the USA. Strict rules in English are imperative to communications between the races. Just like my niece teaching in a grade school in Anchorage with 95 languages represented. You cannot possibly believe we should try to communicate with each in his or her own language? Most modern societies teach English as a second language for good reason.
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 06, 2009 7:56 pm) I hate to be the one to break this to you, but not everyone looks or thinks like you do, nor do they want to. Just look at our fearless leader. Ask your pastor - canon ("church") law is alive and well in this country. I'm pretty vague on this stuff but it's my understanding that the governments of Canada and the UK have not sanctioned or given legal standing to Sharia law courts (unless the parties agree to be bound by the decision before going to one, just like you can go to binding arbitration and have the result be enforced). But if you're Islamic and can't get an Islamic divorce, you can still get a civil one. (link and link). Crude dialects? Who are you to say that? And until Molly Hootch, all the Native kids from all the various tribes got sent to boarding school where their language wasn't taught. (link) Almost forgot - some say you live a state where the governor doesn't even speak English.
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 06, 2009 8:30 pm) ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence. Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court. Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4749183.ece That says to me if a Muslim beats his wife the UK does not have any power other than Sharia law, which is quite lenient on the issue. Church laws have not negated US or state laws that I can find. And until Molly Hootch, all the Native kids from all the various tribes got sent to boarding school where their language wasn't taught. I think you know that was the beginning of the end for the Eskimo children getting a decent education. I know for a fact having installed the telephone systems in several of the Arctic village schools that the children are NOT taught in their native language. If you want to learn the old language you can take classes at the college level. If you want to see a generation of young people that cannot cope, go to any state run school in any village in Alaska. My understanding from when my wife took classes in New Mexico, it is much the same on the reservations. We have destroyed their culture by giving them the "White Mans" conveniences. It started at least 200 years ago when the whalers arrived from Europe and fur trappers from Russia. The classic is an Eskimo sitting on a Snow machine with an Oakland Raiders jacket and Nike shoes, declaring he was NOT going to be assimilated into the White Man's culture. Right... Ahnold is a BIG disappointment on so many levels. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 06, 2009 8:30 pm) This report from an Inuit school in Canada could be written by those involved in the Alaska native schools. Why do so many students make the choice to dropout? These and many more questions haunt me as a teacher and vice-principal. I have lived and worked in a small, isolated Inuit community in Nunavut for the past six years. Over this time I have seen many bright and potentially successful students drop out. It was once thought that the student dropout rate was high because students were forced to move away from their families in order to go to residential schools. Despite having a brand new community high school and many courses that use the traditional knowledge of Inuit culture as their main content focus, we still see a very high rate of early school leavers. What is even more frightening is the high rate of suicide and abuse that is happening to youth at the high school age. Since I have been teaching in Taloyoak, I have witnessed seven suicides all under 21 years of age; within January to April in 1996 the nursing centre reported 23 attempted suicides. Very young students are starting smoking and using drugs. It makes one wonder what schools can do to keep these students in school and give them the skills they need to survive in a very confusing and complicated world. http://www.polarnet.ca/~netsilik/Capstone/AS-I-Search.html The Eskimo people I met that were educated in Sitka and other BIA schools were much more able to cope with life in the Villages. My Eskimo trainee needed to learn math before I could give her a good background in electronics. She was a rarity and stuck with it. She just celebrated 20 years with the company. We were very close for the 17 years I worked with her. I even flew down to Las Vegas with others in the crew when she got married. She would not date an Eskimo man because they did not have any ambition. That is what the high schools in every village have done to her generation. So you can push the multicultural BS, but it does not fly with me. It is just another Liberal tool to make people dependent on the government. It is not freedom, it is enslavement. |
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