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Off Topic Chatter Forget Bushisms, Biden Gaffes, We have Obama blunders
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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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Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said initial evidence suggested that the alleged shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, was a "self-radicalized, home-grown terrorist" who had turned to Islamic extremism while under personal stress. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125769764441836773.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopSto- ries Too bad our President has his head in the sand on terrorism. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 04, 2009 10:52 am) Hell, you can still be a Nazi in Germany, just keep it at home. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 06, 2009 1:21 pm) The US was founded on assimilation, NOT multiculturalism. They are as different as night and day. The US is (was) a success because the immigrants allowed in wanted to emulate the existing society and to participate. Once they arrived they gradually gained language and cultural fluency. Multiculturalism as it exists today is the opposite - immigrant groups coming in with no respect for the existing society and demanding that existing groups in the host nation conform to their demands. They have no desire to emulate what exists, and demand they are able to carry on their ways - at the expense of the host people. It is going to create a new war in Europe. I just spent some time in Switzerland, where there are endless posters devoted to the recent topic of banning minarets, and others declaring that allowing the wholesale importation of this garbage is the beginning of a culture war - and they are right. If you can find a society where Islam has coexisted with progress and justice, I kindly ask you to give me the details, as I have been unable to find it. I will also say that if the west would finally stop giving endless billions of dollars and the lives of our young men to aid the causes of parasite Zionism, we wouldn't have the Islamic nutjob enemies to begin with. But with AIPAC owning the American political spectrum as a whole, and the globalists profiting from all of this, it's going to take some strife on our own soil to create any change. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 07, 2009 7:00 am) You should see how much has already been stopped or banned as not to offend the invaders. England has lost a war, while still desperately clinging to a false victory 64 years ago in order to save face. Limey idiots.
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