Comments on: Blogging in Tongues Against Ohio HB 477

By: Grover

Grover — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:05:07 +0000

I saw Bricktoss.com a few weeks ago and I agree it is a very interesting site. Some of the opinions are the usual trash but there are some thought provoking discussions and it appears to be just what it claims- non partisan. What makes you think it’s not honest?

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:43:49 +0000

Hmm – that Bricktoss thing is interesting – but I’m not sure I’d trust it to be honest! Thanks for writing it up though.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:41:51 +0000

@#27 – I just don’t agree with your predictions or your conclusions about what those predictions imply. But I do appreciate you taking the time to explain your ideas. I hope you keep reading.

By: Cabby

Cabby — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:29:19 +0000

It is great when people know other languages and other cultures, but come on, we are living in the U.S.A., where the official language should be English. If you go to another country, it is best to speak that other language. Now, there are alot of people in this world speaking English, but you will be better off if you spoke the language of the country you visit or live in. I got fed up and tossed those politicians at brick at bricktoss.com, and you can to.

By: MaryJ

MaryJ — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:15:13 +0000

You must be very young and naive and uninformed indeed, if you do not understand the implications of $200-and-up-a-barrel oil for the world economy. For one thing, the world can’t feed a population of 6.6 billion people without petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides, and fossil-fuel-powered mechanized tilling and harvesting. (Non-petroleum-assisted agriculture can feed maybe 2 billion, max.) For another thing, we (the US) won’t be able to finance our massive government overspending by borrowing from China anymore, because China’s economy depends on cheap exports to the West and peak oil will eventually wipe out its export sector. (You do know that our federal debt is now at 10 trillion dollars, with state and local governments also heavily in debt to the tune of many hundreds of billions of dollars more? And that is BEFORE the baby boomers start retiring.) Another thing, the airlines are already dropping routes and laying off people because of the oil price increase — I read just this morning that the Asian airlines will shortly follow the American ones into the bankruptcy courts.

Life is shortly to become much more difficult for all of us, and in difficult times, people tend to be reminded why concepts like borders, common languages and self-determination ever arose in the first place. Frivolities like “diversity training” and “multilingualism” and “a borderless world” are intellectual circle-jerks for fat, comfortable times. We can’t afford to be divided by language, or other such divisions, in an era of such extreme challenges. Eventually things will shake out to what makes it easiest for the most people to survive, and a common language is very much something that helps a people survive. Also, you are very naive if you think that taxpayers will be more willing to pay for multiple printed documents and translation services, instead of schoolteachers or police or fire services, when push comes to shove. I lived through the oil shocks of the ’70s and 22 percent loan interest rates, but that was nothing compared to what’s coming ahead of us now. But hey, it’s a good thing you speak Portuguese. Brazil just found a massive oil field off one of its coasts.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:29:34 +0000

MaryJ – where exactly do you live? what do you read? I’m not seeing or envisioning anything remotely like what you’re describing. I’m curious to know how you’ve come to these predictions.

By: MaryJ

MaryJ — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:24:56 +0000

In the end the situation will sort itself out due to the coming economic downtown and the mass economic dislocations caused by peak oil. With oil at $200 a barrel, jobs and money will be extremely scarce and immigrants — and government spending on immigrants — will become very, very unpopular in a very short time. Our governments won’t have the money for multiple translation services, multiple printed documents, bi-lingual policemen, or other needless expenses. Immigrants will soon learn the necessity of speaking English and assimilating, or else they’ll starve — as was the case a hundred years ago. Many won’t be able to hack it, and will just go home. Problem solved.

By: Oengus

Oengus — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:44:22 +0000

Actually I am fearless, I write often outside of myself. Analysts do that, they describe and detail and it is for the most part devoid of personal interests.

If I am appearing overly personal I will remove that, my feeling on the matter are wholly indifferent. What I noticed is quite bit of pigeon holing, pre judging and placing people into boxes

I am the type ruled by fear? I am a control freak?

Putting the needs of others before yourself is admirable, if real and not contrived. However those that you serve may also see you as foolish and take and not return the same consideration.

Living in a country and not speaking the language is not quite torture, its a circumstance that an individual created for themselves. I prescribe to the power of one and learning is within that realm, it is an individual that should bare the responsibility. Actually solving ones problems for themselves by themselves is empowering, and adversity builds character. Asking for help is weak and patronizing the weaknesses of others is degradation, not intentional it is a form of systematic degradation. It wears pretty frock it call compassion and wisdom, it actually usurp the energy of others, it empowers dependency and thrives on it.

Nobody is perfect.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:37:49 +0000

Oengus – you let fear rule you way too much. We’re not losing English as the dominant language, not in our lifetime or our kids’ lifetimes. And if evolution has it that English in the USA becomes a minority-spoken language, then so be it if it reflects the population.

Why are people such control freaks?

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