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reading this post leads me to believe that whatever sin you're guilty of should be a law too, and you should be in jail for life.  since you're saying we should except all of the bible as direct law, your sin of lustfulness or drunkeness or whatever it is you do should put you in jail for just as long as a murderer.  of course, there will be nobody left to man the jail.

As far as i've seen in my district, no.  there are a few spots where you need to be bilingual (such as ESL, or Spanish class), but i've seen no preference given to Spanish speaking teachers in normal classrooms.  And no, the school does not pay for teachers to learn Spanish.

I have parents who speak English but only speak Spanish in the home. It makes it harder on me, but they're actually doing their kids a service by ensuring they're bilingual. As for the accommodations we make, we're not doing that to enable the parents, we're doing that to ensure the children learn.

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I'm not condoning wasteful spending on either side. Here's an article about George and Laura Bush's SEVEN goodwill trips to Africa while W was in office.

You got this statement all jumbled up. It's "Palin is great because she has boobs," not "Biden is a boob."

I'm on record on here of saying I voted for Romney last election.

Did they not want to hear him speak or not want to hear his music. I saw some recent footage of his band performing, and the $16,000 would be worth keeping that out of town.

you guys are comparing things that people choose to do (murder, theft) with something that someone is born with. whether you disagree with both things or not, there IS a difference between a man and a man choosing to have a sexual relationship, and a man killing another man, or stealing someone's stuff. there is a difference between a legal act that hurts nobody and an illegal act that directly hurts somebody else. yes, they are both sin, but no, they are not the same.

I find someone who would COMMIT a CRIME that would hurt others to be worse than someone who does something legal that affects only themselves.  If you honestly believe that you would hold the act of homosexuality on the same platform you'd hold someone who came in and stole all of your stuff out of your house, I'd argue that you'd never had someone come in and steal all of the stuff out of your house.  As for situational ethics, show me a good Christian who isn't a perfect example of situational ethics, and I'll show you Jesus Christ.  EVERY Christian (and non-Christian, for that matter) uses situational ethics.

Not being able to speak Spanish to them actually makes teaching them English much, much harder.  We have our Hispanic kids put into a just a few rooms that either have a teacher or an aide that is able to speak Spanish so that those students are not completely lost.  we are not spending any extra money to accommodate them.

    i wouldnt blame the media. i watched the majority of those debates, and he began portraying himself as more conservative in the end, IMO as an effort to appease the ultra-conservative right that was complaining because he was too liberal.

With all due respect, in that election, with the state of the country at the time, an ultra-conservative would've lost much worse than McCain did. A "squishy moderate" was the GOP's best chance. Palin killed what nominal chance he did have, although I'll admit the GOP had very little chance to begin with.

I totally agree with the last half of this post. I do disagree with the beginning however. While homosexuality and stealing are comparable in that they are sin, I do not believe people are born thieves, and I also see a difference in someone sleeping with who they want (doesn't affect me) versus someone stealing from me.

As a teacher of pre-k, I speak a good deal of Spanish in my room. Many of my Hispanic students have ZERO English when they start my class. If I don't speak Spanish to them, they have no clue what I'm telling them to do. As the year goes on, and they begin to learn more English I use less and less Spanish in class, but if I wasn't allowed to speak it at the beginning of the year my Hispanic kids would take MUCH longer to assimilate into my class. It's a little different in older grades if the kids already know English, but if I wasn't allowed to speak it and my students weren't allowed to speak it, I'd have some students that would never say a word until the second semester.

I can understand people "understanding" how this could've happened. i can't understand the somewhat congratulatory tone many people are using when they talk about his actions.

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    which should've helped him a lot. Palin's nom for VP killed any chance he had.

Believe it or not, I like a lot of what Uncle Ted has to say, but in the end, he's a little too radical on a few too many issues for him to ever be taken too seriously.

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It reads about as glowingly as Obama's article would read if it were written by the Democratic National Committee.

In the classroom, sure. But in the hall with their friends, they should be able to speak what they want. Keep in mind this district is something like 50% Hispanic. I don't see how she can be surprised that this backfired. Regardless of your stance on immigration, these students can hardly be blamed for wanting to speak the language they're most familiar with.

I'm not saying he was wrong or wasn't. I'm just saying that particular argument is unprovable either way.

the thing about "reaching for something", is there's no way to prove whether he actually did, or if the father just said that to justify what he did.

i agree, but i'm not sure they would've wanted a vote.  i've seen where it's pretty divided there, not the overwhelming support that russia is reporting.  but then again, i know nothing about this area.