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On Arabic studies, we're not all speaking the same language [Texas]
Star-Telegram ^ | Bud Kennedy

Posted on 02/09/2011 7:59:35 AM PST by Dubya

On Sunday night, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined former President George W. Bush at the Super Bowl.

One night later, only a few miles away, some south Arlington and Mansfield parents delivered a sharp drop-kick to one of Bush's and Rice's dreams.

After 9-11, a federal commission concluded that America's security is at risk in part because so few of us read or understand Arabic.

(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Military/Veterans; Religion
KEYWORDS: jerks; muslims; terriost
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To: Kandy Atz

You are correct.

Wake up America...think of the USA as a block of ice. You take the ice pick and steadily chip away and before you know it...the ice block is gone and nothing is left but a puddle of water. It’s happening and I pray to God He will put a stop to it because He at this point I think is the only one who can!!! Our enemy is within.


21 posted on 02/09/2011 8:40:57 AM PST by cubreporter (Rush Limbaugh...Man of all the years. Trust Rush he stands for America.)
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To: cubreporter

Me too!


22 posted on 02/09/2011 8:41:43 AM PST by Dubya (JESUS SAVES)
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To: momtothree

“Plus, the entire “culture” part of the language study needs to be really investigated”

Spot on. I teach history and I know they are just dying to force us to teach the ‘islamic version’. Uggh.

I’m happy to comment on their culture, how girls can’t go to school, that they are married off before the age of ten, etc. That they strap bombs to each other.

As for learning Arabic, that can be done at a university level. Or the military can train their own linguists, etc.


23 posted on 02/09/2011 8:51:04 AM PST by BenKenobi (one of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.")
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To: peyton randolph
"the "enemy" would be defined in the program as the United States."

I would expect that to be the real goal of this Islamic Indoctrination program.

The parents were to correct to march on the school board with torches & pitchforks.

Somehow or another, look for CAIR to be involved in this.

24 posted on 02/09/2011 8:53:27 AM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: Dubya
After 9-11 George Bush was like a puppet with Grover Norquist pulling the strings and supplying the voice: “Islam is the religion of peace ... Islam is the religion of peace ... Islam is the religion of peace ... Islam is the religion of peace ...”
25 posted on 02/09/2011 8:57:09 AM PST by bwc2221 ("")
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To: Dubya

Senior school administrators are professional parasites that usually move from one “gravy train” of excessive salary and
benefits to another.

They are just like Federal workers who breastfeed at the private sector taxpayer teat for their whole career. They
usually retire with a feather-bed of over a million in pension funds after screwing several poor, hapless school
districts.

The school board mouth breathers who hire them are little better and holding the bag at the end is you... the
homeowner paying for all the idiocy.


26 posted on 02/09/2011 9:12:56 AM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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To: Dubya
There are some minor issues in it but you can teach ME culture without once dealing with Islam ~ that would leave unexplained the current plight of 90% of the population there, but you can do it.

Remember, it has a very long Christian history, Roman history, Greek history, Pre-Islamic Persian history, and all the way back to the foundations of civilization itself.

Jews also played a considerable part of that history.

27 posted on 02/09/2011 9:14:26 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: cubreporter

“It’s happening and I pray to God He will put a stop to it because He at this point I think is the only one who can!!!”

God helps those who help themselves. Throughout history, He’s used people as His instruments. Pray that that will happen now, when we need it so badly. And, to various degrees, we can be His instruments as well.


28 posted on 02/09/2011 9:41:58 AM PST by llandres
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To: BenKenobi

Hi Benkonobi!! I haven’t heard from you in quite a while. If the job exists for linguistics, they certainly can promote it at the University level. Many students can easily learn a language (I am not one) and it could simply be a career choice option for them.


29 posted on 02/09/2011 10:16:20 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Dubya

Anytime I hear the word mandatory, I worry (especially with this political culture). There’s always more to the story than a “goodness and light” message and “it’s for National Security”. IMHO


30 posted on 02/09/2011 10:20:24 AM PST by momtothree
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To: momtothree

Bud Kennedy is another liberal loser and a reason why the Star-Telegram is laying off yet more workers. He and Sanders have made the paper unreadable. The paper rubber stamps every hair brained liberal idea while mocking Conservative values. They are giving away truncated versions (with coupons, the only thing of value) on Sundays and Wednesdays, they are that deparate.


31 posted on 02/09/2011 10:24:03 AM PST by 1scrappymom (Thanks Texas Rangers for a great run!)
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To: All
Meet LtCol West, Inf, US Army (Ret)-must watch brief video

READ THIS THEN SEE THE VIDEO

Only two African-Americans were newly elected to congress this cycle, and both are Republican. LtCol West is from southern Florida, a bastion of the Democratic Party. He won in a walk.

This new Congressman was an extremely popular commander in Iraq . He was forced to retire because during an intense combat action a few of his men were captured. At the same time his men had captured one of the guys who were with the Iraqis who captured his men.

Knowing that time was crucial and his interrogators were not getting anywhere with the prisoner LtCol West took matters into his own hands. He burst into the room and demanded thru an interpreter that the prisoner tell him where his men were being taken. The prisoner refused so West took out his pistol and placed it into the prisoner's crotch and fired. Then the he told the prisoner that the next shot would not miss. So the prisoner said he would show where the American service members were being taken. The Americans were rescued. Some one filed a report on incorrect handling of prisoners and West was forced to retire. He was elected in November 2010 to Congress from Florida . During the elections he was part of a panel on how to handle or how to relate to Muslims.

You will see his answer here, explaining very definitively in just over a minute the truth about Islam. Please watch and forward it to your friends.

CLICK HERE

32 posted on 02/09/2011 10:30:23 AM PST by Dubya (JESUS SAVES)
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To: texasredhead8712; TexKat; TheOldLady; ValerieTexas; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; ...

Thanks Dubya.
33 posted on 02/09/2011 6:36:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: momtothree

Where are those scumbag “Church and Staters” on this one. If ANYTHING fits their “Establishment Clause”.. this would be it. My kids would be out of that school so fast...


34 posted on 02/10/2011 11:20:07 AM PST by gwilhelm56 (NY... Can't afford to Live Here... Can't Afford to LEAVE!!)
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To: gwilhelm56

I agree! Is Islam getting a free pass? Our schools use the terms “Winter break” and “Spring break”. Now, my son and daughter do pray silently before their lunch and no one has said a thing but I am with you. Before someone indoctrinated my children to become Muslim, I would take them out of school. I would do that as well if they wanted to teach satanism. It goes against our religion. Mom


35 posted on 02/10/2011 11:27:46 AM PST by momtothree
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