Comments on: Bilingualism and HBO http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:11:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: jhgjhg http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/#comment-138 jhgjhg Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:17:57 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=26#comment-138 kkjh kjhkjhkj kkjh kjhkjhkj

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]]> By: Zhombre http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/#comment-137 Zhombre Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:25:35 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=26#comment-137 English is not simply the language of power & money in America; it is the international language of science, commerce and technology, and anybody with functioning brain cells should realize this. I find it both ironic and risible that while we here in the U.S. play these foolish and ultimately divisive games with bilingualism, much of the developing world (who lack the fog of politically correct thinking on the issue) struggles to grasp spoken English. English is not simply the language of power & money in America; it is the international language of science, commerce and technology, and anybody with functioning brain cells should realize this. I find it both ironic and risible that while we here in the U.S. play these foolish and ultimately divisive games with bilingualism, much of the developing world (who lack the fog of politically correct thinking on the issue) struggles to grasp spoken English.

]]> By: Jamie http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/#comment-136 Jamie Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:59:36 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=26#comment-136 Just searching on google and found your site. It was ranked fairly high on google to. Anyway just looking around to see why. thanks jamie Just searching on google and found your site. It was ranked fairly high on google to. Anyway just looking around to see why.
thanks
jamie

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/#comment-134 Ymarsakar Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:12:46 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=26#comment-134 The Left has so many failed policies, I'm surprised America still exists as a power in the world. It is like everyday I find out something they tried but failed at, in American history. The Left has so many failed policies, I’m surprised America still exists as a power in the world.

It is like everyday I find out something they tried but failed at, in American history.

]]> By: Earl http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/#comment-133 Earl Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:28:53 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=26#comment-133 erp: Correct - but it was actually even better than "make-work" - teachers who could teach bilingual classes got more money!! There was a substantial financial incentive to shove kids into those little ghettoes. My guess is that the school also got extra money for every kid in bilingual "education". Very corrupt - everybody benefited except the child.....so? erp:
Correct - but it was actually even better than “make-work” - teachers who could teach bilingual classes got more money!! There was a substantial financial incentive to shove kids into those little ghettoes. My guess is that the school also got extra money for every kid in bilingual “education”. Very corrupt - everybody benefited except the child…..so?

]]> By: Ruth H http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/#comment-132 Ruth H Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:26:14 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=26#comment-132 Back in the 50's when my family moved to South Texas they tried to put my 1/4 Mexican, 9 year old brother into the segregated Mexican school. He had never spoken Spanish in his life. My blond, blue eyed mother had to go to school every day for a week before he was put into the proper class. We called that SEGREGATION and he was the only one of the five of us in school that it happened to. He was the only one who looked even remotely Mexican. It was cruel and it was segregation. Now and in the era the movie was about, it was called cruel to teach English. What a skewed point of view. Back in the 50’s when my family moved to South Texas they tried to put my 1/4 Mexican, 9 year old brother into the segregated Mexican school. He had never spoken Spanish in his life. My blond, blue eyed mother had to go to school every day for a week before he was put into the proper class. We called that SEGREGATION and he was the only one of the five of us in school that it happened to. He was the only one who looked even remotely Mexican. It was cruel and it was segregation. Now and in the era the movie was about, it was called cruel to teach English. What a skewed point of view.

]]> By: Patrick O'Hannigan http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/#comment-131 Patrick O'Hannigan Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:06:09 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=26#comment-131 My first comment on your new site. Wheee! Just wanted to share that the best essay on this subject I've ever read is Glenn Garvin's "Loco, Completamente Loco" from 1998, <a href="http://reason.com/9801/fe.garvin.shtml" rel="nofollow">linked here</a>. My first comment on your new site. Wheee!

Just wanted to share that the best essay on this subject I’ve ever read is Glenn Garvin’s “Loco, Completamente Loco” from 1998, linked here.

]]> By: erp http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/#comment-130 erp Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:06:25 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=26#comment-130 I thought Olmos was smarter than to fall for bilingualism. Just a short personal story. I didn't speak a word of English when I was enrolled in a Catholic school taught by black robed nuns (we're not Catholic and I had never even seen a nun before) who were unbelievably kind and patient, but didn't cut me any slack as far as the school work went. It took a couple of months as I remember, but by the end of the first grade, I was just another kid and by 8th grade, I was at the top of my class and the rest is history. Bilingual education is just another make work project for the teachers unions. I thought Olmos was smarter than to fall for bilingualism. Just a short personal story. I didn’t speak a word of English when I was enrolled in a Catholic school taught by black robed nuns (we’re not Catholic and I had never even seen a nun before) who were unbelievably kind and patient, but didn’t cut me any slack as far as the school work went. It took a couple of months as I remember, but by the end of the first grade, I was just another kid and by 8th grade, I was at the top of my class and the rest is history.

Bilingual education is just another make work project for the teachers unions.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/03/20/bilingualism-and-hbo/#comment-129 Ymarsakar Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:32:07 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=26#comment-129 <b>“You listen to Mr. Bookworm</b> Oh, ha, I just can't help laughing at that. Ever since Instapundit came up with the Insta family, I just found it quite amusing the way it is framed. <b>The men are cartoon-like in their hatred for all these oppressed people, and the oppressed people are saint-like in their oppression.</b> My analysis is such propaganda is very ineffective. So they will change. Let's see what happens. Here comes Fahrenheit and Syriana.... I wouldn't know the difference of course, I don't watch any of those movies. <b>They’re lousy movies, and they’re all available as part of the package for the enormous number of Americans who subscribe to premium cable packages.</b> I think Soros played some part in funding these movies. I mean, where else would these people get the money? There's always Hollywood of course. But they tend to have things like, jets, to spend their money on. With that kind of money at their backs, I'm not surprised HBO can't find some better movies to offer. What kind of conservative has so much liquidated money that he can setup his own propaganda apparatus? Most Republicans spend their money in their businesses, making more money and expanding. Wasting your capital or your income from your capital, on artys fartsy movies and artists, would seem a bad investment. If your objective was to make money, that is... “You listen to Mr. Bookworm

Oh, ha, I just can’t help laughing at that. Ever since Instapundit came up with the Insta family, I just found it quite amusing the way it is framed.

The men are cartoon-like in their hatred for all these oppressed people, and the oppressed people are saint-like in their oppression.

My analysis is such propaganda is very ineffective. So they will change. Let’s see what happens. Here comes Fahrenheit and Syriana…. I wouldn’t know the difference of course, I don’t watch any of those movies.

They’re lousy movies, and they’re all available as part of the package for the enormous number of Americans who subscribe to premium cable packages.

I think Soros played some part in funding these movies. I mean, where else would these people get the money? There’s always Hollywood of course. But they tend to have things like, jets, to spend their money on. With that kind of money at their backs, I’m not surprised HBO can’t find some better movies to offer. What kind of conservative has so much liquidated money that he can setup his own propaganda apparatus? Most Republicans spend their money in their businesses, making more money and expanding. Wasting your capital or your income from your capital, on artys fartsy movies and artists, would seem a bad investment. If your objective was to make money, that is…

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