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Around the Political Sphere Today

Posted by JAZZ SHAW, Assistant Editor in Uncategorized.
Jul 10th, 2008 | Comments

Our fearless Editor-in-Chief is on the road this week in some Internet-unfriendly environs, but here are some of the interesting stories coming over the transom.

Will Jesse Jackson be neutering Barack Obama? Rick Moran thinks it’s much ado about nothing.

This is basically a story about a racialist who sees an ascendant Obama as a threat to his little white guilt extortion racket and expressed his frustration at the fact that if Obama is elected, it will be harder to maintain his position in the African American community and hence, the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed.

Is a recent plane flight with three special passengers a sign that Obama may be giving Hillary another look as his veep choice? Jeralyn at TalkLeft thinks it’s possible.

Obama wants you to speak English. No… Spanish. No… English. Or maybe French? Fausta sorts it all out for you, with video goodness.

Jesus loves Jonah Goldberg. But Warren Street at Blue Girl, Red State? Not so much.

How would a possible conflict between Israel and Iran affect global oil production? Cernig takes a shot at the answer.

the head of OPEC said today that if there’s an actual war, there will be no ceiling on the price of a barrel of oil.

It never ends. We’re still seeing the story of JonBenet Ramsey’s tragic demise.

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runasim

On speaking a second language, Fausta doesn't sort it out. She doesn't even get what it is that needs sorting. People like Fausta would gain some credence if they bothered to become familiar with immogrants who arrive without speaking English.
I can speak with some authority, because iI was such an Englishlesss immigrant child. The stark reality is that in order to succedd here, one has to learn English.
I did well because I was young,. My father did adequately, but my mother was too shy to ever become fluent. Our success directly mirrored our ability to learn English and to blend into the existing culture (assimilate). i did well, my father did adequately, but my mother was always severely limited in job opportunities and earning ability.

The result for me was that I was fluent in two languages, and could pick up a feeling for additional languages with much less effort than my English-only friends. This made it easy for me to befriend students from a variety of countres when in college, and from there, I have an easier time in understand people different than I.
it has been a win-win situation all my life, with the possible exception that I lose patience with the nationalistic types like Fausta suffering from a phopbia about non-English speaking immigrants.

All it takes to encourage learning Enlglish and assimilation is to encourage the will and the opporutnities to succeed. Retaining knowledge of the nother tongue can only enrich and help in success.

I'm glad to see that Obama gets it.

runasim

Jazz,,
I hope that 'it never ends' doesn't reflect boredom with the story.
i can assure you that the Ramsey family hasn't been bored during these 12 years.

What was done to them is an idictment against the press, the media and hyper-vemtilating pundits. It fits in perfectly with what we continue to do to anyone who captures the public's attenton.We revel in people destruction.

Jazz

No, runasim, I just meant that we may (at the rate things are moving) never find out what happened.

ChrisWWW

What was done to them is an idictment against the press, the media and hyper-vemtilating pundits.

Which is why it would have been better if the press had gotten bored and moved on more quickly. It's tragic for sure, but it's only one girl.

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