In Western Europe children begin their training in a foreign language at a very young age because that is when it is easiest for kids to learn language. Also, their foreign language classrooms are "no native language zones" the teacher ONLY speaks in the foreign language and kids who don't are punished. Yes it's difficult at first, but kids have very elastic minds at young ages when it comes to education. There's no way around it. Western Europe does education better. Period.

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Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president he’ll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys’ network in Washington.' I’m not making this up. This is somebody been in Congress for 26 years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s gonna take on the old boys' network,” he said. “In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting!- Obama, 9/17/2008

Not this time! This time, I'm absolutely right on.



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Yup that's what it means!

How do you figure? You griped and bitched about nonexistent "schoolyard insults" on my part, to which I responded with appreciation for the reference you used and recognition of your general whiny tone. I'm not really sure how that constitutes any "attack".

"Little man"? Speaking of "schoolyard insults", with emphasis on the "schoolyard". And, as for you not whining... from your lips to God's ears. If it makes you feel better to overcompensate for your previous tone in this thread with transparent blustering, don't let me stand in your way. Tell you what. Since I'm feeling in a generous mood, I'll do you one better and hold your hand on your way:

Of course you don't whine! You simply tell it like it is, the way a real man does. By endlessly complaining that you're being treated unfairly. After freely dishing out terms like "libtard" to other posters and then getting sniffly when people get sarcastic toward you. All the while, in a generally and endlessly plaintive tenor. That's the sort of behavior that conjures images of Davey Crocket and Paul Bunyan in my head.

So, there you have it. Here I sit with my 5 foot tall, diminutive frame, sickly demeanor, general difficulty with women, inability to make money in life, and bad memories of all the athletes picking on me in my youth because I liked to finger-paint (I hope I'm not leaving out any of the other bits of virile cleverness no doubt poised to leap forth from your keyboard, probably on its way to hunt down some bad guys), and I'm taking it all out on big strapping men that come along with real man-truth in order to compensate for my real-life, little-man deficiencies. If I could only get laid and get the image of Davey Smith from down the street making fun of me for wearing a dress to school that one time out of my head, I'd surely have no qualm with your incredibly truthful, no-nonsense opinions about why Obama is a communist doo-doo head. Plainly, the failing here has been mine all along.

Does it make you feel good to know that? Because making sure that you feel actualized, empowered, and always agreed-with is why I'm here. I can assure you that I'm interested in providing you with the feel-good, politically correct responses to your various thoughts that you desperately crave in, of course, the toughest possible fashion.

Now that we've established our relative roles in society and cleared up this unfortunate miscommunication where I got the misguided sense that you were doing anything other than kicking ass, taking names, chewing nails, and shooting wild game, do you have anything to add to your original post, which kicked off the 500th or so interesting, different, and never-repetitive thread in which you make a super-hardcore showing of not liking Obama for the reason of the day? Did you curse anyone out at your office for agreeing with Barack Obama? Because that would make a great story.

Or, perhaps you could share why you think Obama is worse. I'm looking for a strong, sturdy opinion of him myself, and I was wondering if you think it's worse that he's going to enslave American children and force them to learn Spanish at the tip of an anthrax ridden rusty knife, or whether it's worse that he's going to allow his Arab roots to show and make us all learn to speak Arabic at the same knife's point, of course. I think settling that issue, once and for all, is the only thing that can save the site from level of ruination to which I've brought it.

Your always objective and reasonable, yet incredibly macho, opinion is eagerly awaited by the sniveling masses that include myself. Any pictures you could post of someone like Sylvester Stalone in "Rambo" or Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Predator" would probably help me get a visual bead on intelligent discourse as well.

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

Western Europe is a large place. Which countries do you mean? Because many of them are in the midst of the same crises of confidence from which the US seems to suffer. But yes, I agree that languages should be learnt as early as possible.

Funny how all these righties support what BHO said about learning another language. Yet leftie partisans are still outraged. Go figure.

Where's the outrage you're referring to?

Or is this just another off topic swipe at the left that we know you so well for?

My daughter did take Spanish in elementary school but it wasn't until she was taking it in high school that the teacher allowed no English to be spoken.

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

Out of curiosity, would you support Slon's idea of putting landmines around possible crossing areas (this isn't rhetorical, nor is it a strawman - I'm just curious)?

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

Really? Seriously?

What happened to you?



This is not the Dr I remember.

The topic is not about me. Why are you so mean to me? Why are you so obsessed with me? Why, oh why?

*looking for cross on which to throw myself*

Maybe taking aim and personally shooting them is a bigger thrill than just planting landmines on our borders...


Just a guess.

You call him a little man (ridiculous at best and polite at that too), yet you seem to pride yourself on conservatism, but you realise you don't hold a cat's chance when it comes to who's more conservative between the two of you right? You'd be lucky to lick his boots....(Btw no doubt i think he's a great poster and moderator but its not just one or two people, he was also voted the poster of the year last year so you and Sam may well be in a mutual aboration society as far as that one goes).

Provided those areas were made into our own little "DMZ", yeah. Nobody goes in there. If they do, they're up to no good, and have earned whatever misfortune is visited upon them...

So there's no real outrage then? You just made that up to have something to bash the lefties with?

I was hoping you'd show me what my compatriates are outraged about.

You are just so mean to me. I don't know what to do with your obsession with me. The topic is not about me, yet you keep trying to make it that way. I reallllllllllllllly don't know why. You are bullying me.

I'm a rightie who supports BHO's attempts at increasing awareness about language skills, yet you keep picking on me. What is a poster to do?