In the era of our jet age, as people move around the world within a few hours via our modern jet aircraft, have you ever wondered how a French pilot communicates with a air traffic controller in New York City? How about the Russian airline pilot that is preparing to land in London, how do they communicate with the tower without having a roomful of translators? The answer is simple, the industry has adopted English as the standard language world wide in air traffic control.
Recently, Immigration Bill 1348 was moving through the Senate for adoption, part of this Bill was to make English, America's official language. In a recent poll, 91% of the American citizens want English officially designated as our language. English has always been part of America, even in the founding of our great country, English was the language of choice by our founding fathers. Can you imagine the Declaration of Independence being written in any other language than English?
When, Immigration Bill 1348 came up for a vote, thirty three (33) Senators out of our designated 100 voted against English being officially recognized as our language. Following the last election, I thought the Majority Leader told all of us that it was his goal to unify the Senate and dedicate their work on a bi-partisan level for the good of their constituents. The thirty three Senators that voted against this bill were all of the Democratic party!
Perhaps you will recognize just a few of the names, each of them want to serve you as President of the United States. Those voting against the Bill includes, Biden (D-DE), Clinton (D-NY), Dodd (D-CT), Kerry (D-MA), Obama (D-IL), Reid (D-NV Majority Leader), and of course you had Kennedy (D-MA), and Feinstein (D-CA). Keep these names in mind and if you see them on the ballot to represent us as President, vote NO in English so this nothing lost in translation.
With the rhetoric that comes from some of our Senators and Representatives involving our War on Terrorism and their reportedly support of our military, I think the following quotation is very appropriate.
"Congressman who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled,or hanged" President Abraham Lincoln
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"spangled- beaded: covered with beads or jewels or sequins"....I didn't know the revolutionist were into bling.
Great quote dad, I wonder where all the parasitism went after 9-11? I don't think I can learn another language at this age...hopefully the law will pass.
oh where, oh where, has my daddy gone?
are you there stan
Nice blog. Another one opting out of English as a common language was Sen. Salazar. Bad news Senator sir-Crete forced me back into your home district for an address so I will be campaigning for your retirement from the Senate. You don't represent Colorado and never have.
You vote Party line Democrat.
Hello...quit playing and BLOG!!
just took forever to load you site...but you still haven't blogged. :)enjoy fishing for us, well except heath and donny, they are catcihng LOTS of fish!
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- Stan grew up fishing the rivers and marine waters of Cook Inlet since the 1950's. Retired from the U.S. Navy in 1983. Stan and his family owned and operated Anchor Angler Tackle Shop on Anchor River for twenty-two years. He was the host of the popular daily radio program, "Kenai Peninsula Sport Fishing Report" on radio stations KGTL, KPEN, and K-Wave for fifteen years. Stan retired from business in 2007 and continues to live in Anchor Point, Alaska.
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