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Thread ID: 15217 | Posts: 17 | Started: 2004-10-04
2004-10-04 23:16 | User Profile
This is the face of the future voters of America.:sad: They even need their kids to read the english for them.
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2004-10-05 00:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Solid]This is the face of the future voters of America.:sad: They even need their kids to read the english for them.
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I don't know but maybe because I was born outside the US that the words "to read the English for them" somehow dosen't look right ,,,,, am I right or wrong?
Maybe "to read their English"? or "to read them in English"?
Solid? I think that you need someone "to read your English to you" lol.
2004-10-05 00:52 | User Profile
If you can't read an English ballot, you have no business voting (the blind aside). But, this is sooo mean, like not letting a kid eat all the candy he wants.
2004-10-05 02:17 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]the words "to read the English for them" somehow dosen't look right ,,,,, am I right or wrong?[/QUOTE]
It is a somewhat archaic, arguably even eccentric way of phrasing it, but not technically incorrect.
2004-10-05 07:05 | User Profile
My thoughts and my typing are not often parallel so I sometimes make alot errors. But Kevin says it's okay, so I'm not worried. And to be honest I was thinking of so many ways to write up this post because the picture quite frankly dumbfounded me.
Seriously, there are so many things wrong with that Yahoo article. First off, it says, "americans are registering to vote in record numbers", then it shows asians as if they represent the american voter in wide numbers, and to top it off she can't read english and needs her son to literally vote for her. He needs ten more years to be legally able to vote and we're not even sure he's a citizen. Yet she is assumed to be a citizen and thus legally able to vote. Sorry for the rant, but seeing crap like this really boils my blood.
2004-10-05 07:18 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]I don't know but maybe because I was born outside the US that the words "to read the English for them" somehow dosen't look right ,,,,, am I right or wrong?
Maybe "to read their English"? or "to read them in English"?
Solid? I think that you need someone "to read your English to you" lol.[/QUOTE]How clever and intelligent you are, Ponce de Leon. Let's say we inject the word "language" in the "to read the English for them" and then we'd have "to read the English language for them" . Think about it.
2004-10-05 11:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Solid]How clever and intelligent you are, Ponce de Leon. Let's say we inject the word "language" in the "to read the English for them" and then we'd have "to read the English language for them" . Think about it.[/QUOTE]
Me "clever" no way Jose, I am still learning your language,,,,the English language is one of the hardest languages to learn sinse you don't speak it, write it or read it the same way.
By the way "to read the English language for them" do sound a lot better.
2004-10-05 12:45 | User Profile
Solid,
Of all the things "our leaders" have (deliberately) failed us in this is the worst and most treasous of all. The "War on Terror" is a piker compared to the most important war we face today- the demographic war. We lose this one and there will be no return.
2004-10-05 14:54 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]I help run a precinct here and at the last class I attended I was informed that due to my State's burgeoning "hispanIc" population that the Diebold DREs (voting machines) will be upgraded to show the ballots in Spanish as well as English!
Here in Santa Clara County, our ballots, in addition to English and Spanish, are in Vietnamese, Tagalog (that hideous, robotic-sounding language spoken by Filipinos) and Mandarin Chinese. Regardless, I was the inspector for my precint in the March primary election and I saw about 20-25 people who apparently did not read any of those four languages, and thus had their children translate for them, just like the woman in the picture. I frankly didn't see what the big deal about that picture was, at first, but then I remembered most of you have not seen a California election take place (and for that, I envy you).
[QUOTE=Sertorius]What is really great about computers that it is possible to have the ballots shown not only in English and Spanish, but we can have them in Sanskrit, Arabic, Swahili, the list goes on.
I rather doubt the ballots will be appearing in Sanskrit any time too soon, any more than they will be appearing in Latin or Attic Greek (LOL).
2004-10-05 15:48 | User Profile
Kevin,
I not so sure about that here in Georgia. My local paper loves to run stories about our growing Hindu community and how they are becoming politically organized along the lines of the Jews to help the mother country!
Wonderful.
Then again, y'all have a lot of these folks out there too, I believe, thanks to our Silicon Valley "capitalists", L1 and H1B visas.
2004-10-05 16:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]I not so sure about that here in Georgia. My local paper loves to run stories about our growing Hindu community and how they are becoming politically organized along the lines of the Jews to help the mother country![/QUOTE]
I don't doubt there are many Hindus in Georgia, or at least soon will be. My little joke was directed at the fact that Sanskrit is a dead language; the Hindus stopped speaking it centuries ago.
2004-10-05 17:00 | User Profile
Kevin,
I see.
2004-10-08 05:18 | User Profile
The last true American died in 1865 . There is no America.. the Civil War spent over 550,00 lives.
America ? Give me a break ...
2004-10-08 12:22 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Exelsis_Deo]The last true American died in 1865 . There is no America.. the Civil War spent over 550,00 lives. [/QUOTE] ED -- I tend to agree with you to a certain extent, meaning that there is no longer much that holds America together as a nation at all, rather than a merely political entity. And yes, to a large degree, it was the War Between the States that killed off the bonds of blood and soil.
2004-10-09 03:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]ED -- I tend to agree with you to a certain extent, meaning that there is no longer much that holds America together as a nation at all, rather than a merely political entity. And yes, to a large degree, it was the War Between the States that killed off the bonds of blood and soil.[/QUOTE]
There are a lot of good people in America, in my opinion they exist in every race. Not every Negro and not every Jew is " anti-White ". Unfortunately, we live an a media-driven society, where impressions and cultural reality are shaped by outside forces, which are only driven for their own aims of power and control. Whether they surface in the mass media, government, military complex, intelligence " services ", or public education their face is easily recognized by the truly educated, and even scented by the uneducated perceptive minds. The War Between the States was indeed a bloddy disgrace. Slavery would have ended in a decade or two because from the beginning it was only an economic subjugation. Many Negroes today would be happier working on a plantation ( not all plantations, but the majority ) than the modern form of financial slavery we all live under. We are all slaves, slaves to the government. One could argue the giving Women the right to vote in 1920 was a bad thing. One could argue that ( and I believe ) that this is not a country at all. We are a State. A State in the Global Community. We cannot live in a fantasy and believe that this is a country anymore. Recognizing reality is not an indicator of weakness, but a virtue of strength, and nothing can change until this reality is understood by the majority of Americans, who are mentally infantile and make knee-jerk reactions based upon the propaganda spewed forth by the current complex. Propaganda when gentle and not identified is more sublime and nefarious than when it is in your face.
2004-10-09 11:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Exelsis_Deo]One could argue that ( and I believe ) that this is not a country at all. We are a State. A State in the Global Community. We cannot live in a fantasy and believe that this is a country anymore.[/QUOTE] We are certainly not a nation anymore, in the traditional sense of a unique people related by blood and culture. We are a mere political unit -- the State, as you mentioned. For this reason, I think that when the big crack-up occurs, the current US will probably split into multiple smaller entities. It is only held together now by force.
2004-10-10 16:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]If you can't read an English ballot, you have no business voting (the blind aside). But, this is sooo mean, like not letting a kid eat all the candy he wants.[/QUOTE] Couldn't of put it better myself...:thumbsup: