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lilnubber		#4441	[-]
Posts: 9409 (07/10/08 12:18 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	See, even PeePeeman gets it.
merkyl		#4442	[-]
Posts: 55700 (07/10/08 12:19 PM) Registered loser More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	So you admit it's a safety net and not meant to be someone's sole retirement. Glad to see you can learn something.
Strange Flute		#4443	[-]
Posts: 2692 (07/10/08 12:56 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	PassionatePiscesMan wrote: Wait till some about to retire folks find out their investments for their life tank and ss is about all they have. Some people also invest in their children's future with the expectation that they'll be rich and support them. Beefcake wrote: Obama's statement reflects a pervasive opinion among the 'elite' that language skills are the pinnacle of intellectual achievement. So if we expect kids to do better we're called elitist snobs. Whatever happened to the soft bigotry of low expectations?
Axle the Bulldog		#4444	[-]
Posts: 298 (07/10/08 1:01 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	btw: Can any of our Canookian friends tell us how well bilingualism works there, outside Quebec? If you are going into politics, you need to learn French but otherwise, it's not needed outside Quebec. I don't think it's even mandatory in school although I can't remember. I took French right up until grade 12 because I love the language and it's an easy A. I also took Italian because of my heritage. I can still understand a little of them both but mostly, I've lost the ability to communicate in either language because everyone around me speaks English. It's sad, really. I should take it up again. Learning another language in America isn't necessary but it doesn't hurt either. Especially Spanish since you guys have a large portion of the population who are Latino.
Ann Margret Thatcher		#4445	[-]
Posts: 5938 (07/10/08 1:24 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	So if we expect kids to do better we're called elitist snobs. He didn't say that. On the contrary, he said we should expect kids to do better in more practical areas such as math and science.
ACG2003		#4446	[-]
Posts: 1665 (07/10/08 1:26 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My daughter just graduated from HS here in Texas and it was mandatory that you had at least 2 credits (3 if you were wanting to grad with honors) of a foreign language. Anyone know about some of the other states and what they require? Personally, I don't have a problem with people learning a second or third language, it's the people who REFUSE/WON'T learn English, even when they're living here that piss me off. I don't expect people who are coming here for a visit or vacation to know english and I'm sure most would not expect Americans to know the language of the place that they were going to visit for a week or two. Of course, if I was going to live in another country, then I would make it a priority to learn the language of that country.
Gregoire		#4447	[-]
Posts: 28007 (07/10/08 1:35 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Language used to be considered practical. Much of the math and science taught in schools isn't practical. What is more likely today -- that you might have to speak Spanish in a situation or figuring out the cosecant of an angle You can demand that everybody speak the same language all you want; it won't prepare you for the real world. Why anybody would argue against any sort of basic education is beyond me. sigh There's a reason they call these the liberal arts, I guess, and not the conservative arts. Personally, I don't have a problem with people learning a second or third language, it's the people who REFUSE/WON'T learn English, even when they're living here that piss me off. I understand why crabby old Chinese ladies refuse to do so. It's unacceptable for everybody else. Why wouldn't you learn it alongside your native language, for practical reasons? Nobody should be forced to speak English, but why wouldn't learn the basics, just to get through the day? Last Edited By: Gregoire 07/10/08 1:41 PM. Edited 3 times.
Gregoire		#4448	[-]
Posts: 28008 (07/10/08 2:14 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	This conversation is boring. Let's liven it up with some current news pictures:: Why does she look so damn sinister in every picture? I can see Amy Poehler doing a good job with her. My soon to be new avatar: Last Edited By: Gregoire 07/10/08 2:17 PM. Edited 1 times.
Gregoire		#4449	[-]
Posts: 28009 (07/10/08 2:17 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I like a president with a gaping maw.
Ann Margret Thatcher		#4450	[-]
Posts: 5944 (07/10/08 2:27 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Gah! Those pics of Cindy McCain are scarifying. She's what, early 50s? It's odd how she can go from sort-of hottie to hag in a matter of seconds.
Strange Flute		#4451	[-]
Posts: 2693 (07/10/08 2:31 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I like Cindy McCain, but she definately married down.
Gregoire		#4452	[-]
Posts: 28010 (07/10/08 2:31 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Like Teresa Heinz-Ketchup before her, Cindy might do a good job running this country alone.
Ann Margret Thatcher		#4453	[-]
Posts: 5945 (07/10/08 2:33 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	LOL I was thinking of the Crypt Keeper for that pic too. I normally love pale blue eyes, but hers have an unsettling Children of the Damned quality.
B DeBrun		#4454	[-]
Posts: 17069 (07/10/08 2:39 PM) More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Ann Margret Thatcher wrote: LOL I was thinking of the Crypt Keeper for that pic too. I normally love pale blue eyes, but hers have an unsettling Children of the Damned quality. I've actually met her and shaken her hands. She is stunning in person. Alas, she's had a lot of sun or something since then.
Gregoire		#4455	[-]
Posts: 28011 (07/10/08 2:50 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	She's sometimes strikingly gorgeous and sometimes like a female version of Nosferatu. It must suck to always be photographed knowing they're catching your bad angles.
Ann Margret Thatcher		#4456	[-]
Posts: 5949 (07/10/08 2:52 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	She looks like Joanne Woodward here:
BobbyBrown06		#4457	[-]
Posts: 8782 (07/10/08 3:28 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Gregoire wrote: Like Teresa Heinz-Ketchup before her, Cindy might do a good job running this country alone.
SurvivorLDog93		#4458	[-]
Posts: 20467 (07/10/08 6:07 PM) Admin/Play-By-Play Guru More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Whoops! Looks like Phil Gramm just got himself thrown under the McCain campaign bus. Bloo-BLOOMP!
memyselfandi		#4459	[-]
Posts: 14261 (07/10/08 6:11 PM) Registered user More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	PassionatePiscesMan wrote: Wait till some about to retire folks find out their investments for their life tank and ss is about all they have. Not to mention the dollar is worth shit now.
Trixie Delight		#4460	[-]
Posts: 24948 (07/10/08 6:11 PM) put Angel in the corner More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Gregoire wrote: I like a president with a gaping maw.

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