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November 21, 2008 11:29 AM | Сообщение 162591 — ответ на №162584 |
Nanna Mercer
Expert    Родные языки: English, DanishСообщений: 9031 На форумах с: February 12, 2005 Местонахождение: Denmark | Dear All, Off topic posts often have the same natural flow found in real life conversation which is one of the reasons why I generally do not mind or even bother commenting on off topic posts. However... Did anyone read Post #162487 ? If not, please do. Nanna
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November 21, 2008 11:36 AM | Сообщение 162595 — ответ на №162591 |
Jacek K.
Мастер TC
Родной язык: Polish
На форумах с: February 18, 2003
Местонахождение: Poland | Nanna, Since the last on-topic post here was Post #162334, would it be possible to simply move the entire pages that followed to the destination you have specified? Jacek (guilty as charged)
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November 21, 2008 11:45 AM | Сообщение 162599 — ответ на №162595 |
Nanna Mercer
Expert Родные языки: English, DanishСообщений: 9031 На форумах с: February 12, 2005 Местонахождение: Denmark | Originally written by Jacek Krankowski on November 21, 2008 5:36 PM
Nanna, Since the last on-topic post here was Post #162334, would it be possible to simply move the entire pages that followed to the destination you have specified? Jacek (guilty as charged) |
I am guilty myself... I wanted to avoid bad feelings and therefore tried a little humour (not my strong side) rather than move posts. But, yes I can move the posts... Should I? Nanna
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November 21, 2008 12:24 PM | Сообщение 162607 — ответ на №162599 |
Jacek K.
Мастер TC
Родной язык: Polish
На форумах с: February 18, 2003
Местонахождение: Poland | It's Bertha's turf.
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November 21, 2008 12:46 PM | Сообщение 162615 — ответ на №162607 |
John Bunch
Expert    Родной язык: EnglishСообщений: 1816 На форумах с: February 1, 2008 Местонахождение: United States | Getting back to the original post, I sat down and watched the entire Obama interview on national TV (I watched it on youtube). I have to admit, Obama is a very, very impressive guy. He handles things very well, is intelligent, and can speak intelligently on a broad range of issues. I wish him well in his presidency and I hope that he will "lead from the center". He has some very smart advisors and he has said, he will do anything, regardless if it comes from the the left or "from Reagan". I like that. Pragmatism is what we need (I personally don't think that "left" solutions work very well because they mostly result in a lack of transparency and choice, but oh well). But still, a very, very impressive guy, at least, when he speaks.
On the other hand, the GOP (Republicans) have degenerated into a party that is "against" things. Against immigration. Against global warming actions, against "secularism", against stem cells. It has also, as the Economist pointed out, turned into the party of the "redneck" - the Jacksonian man who disdains books and hunts and fishes. The only problem is that the U.S. is no longer a rural nation, but an urban nation with more and more people gaining higher education degrees. If one looks at the Democrats as the "urban party", and the Republicans as the "rural party"(which it increasingly is), one sees the problem.
And until the GOP finds a way back to talking in a clear, intelligent way about things that matter (cutting government waste, giving people more choices, pointing out how socialism does not work and backfires, being for lower taxes and more choices, etc.), I hope only that the party remains out of power and literally "in the wilderness".
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November 22, 2008 2:14 PM | Сообщение 162725 — ответ на №162615 |
Bertha S. Deffenbaugh
Expert Родной язык: SpanishСообщений: 4572 На форумах с: May 9, 2003 Местонахождение: United States | Originally written by John Bunch on November 21, 2008 9:46 PM
...the GOP (Republicans) have degenerated into a party that is "against" things. Against immigration... |
Immigration and illegal immigration are two very different things. Some Republicans, -not all of them- are against illegal immigration. Others, like McCain are "somewhat" for it. But don't worry. Janet Napolitano, our current Arizona Governor, recently refused to send the Arizona National Guard to the US-Mexico border claiming that the state did not have enough funds and saying she thought it was up to the Federal Government to make the "investment". She has done little or nothing to prevent illegal immigration here and, as it all looks like she will be the next Secretary of Homeland Security, more illegal aliens will be getting into the US. All of them will be able to sneak in, the decent ones along with the felons and the criminals. All in the same pot. Bertha 
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November 22, 2008 4:57 PM | Сообщение 162735 — ответ на №162725 |
David Kallans
Expert Родной язык: EnglishСообщений: 1752 На форумах с: April 13, 2007 Местонахождение: United States | Originally written by Bertha S. Deffenbaugh
All of them will be able to sneak in, the decent ones along with the felons and the criminals. All in the same pot. |
"Decent ones" is not the opposite of "felons" or "criminals." There are decent felons and decent criminals (Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus Christ, for example), and there are people who are neither felons nor criminals yet are far from decent (the emperor Nero, for example).
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November 23, 2008 4:14 AM | Сообщение 162742 — ответ на №162735 |
Jacek K.
Мастер TC
Родной язык: Polish
На форумах с: February 18, 2003
Местонахождение: Poland | Originally written by David Kallans on November 22, 2008 10:57 PM
There are decent felons and decent criminals (Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus Christ, for example), and there are people who are neither felons nor criminals yet are far from decent (the emperor Nero, for example).
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And then there are also people like President Bush. 
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November 23, 2008 10:13 AM | Сообщение 162772 — ответ на №154551 |
Bertha S. Deffenbaugh
Expert Родной язык: SpanishСообщений: 4572 На форумах с: May 9, 2003 Местонахождение: United States | RE: United States Presidential Election, 2008 Palin's Celebrity Status Still on the RiseBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD
AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Nov. 22) - Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor.
Oprah wants her. So do Letterman and Leno.……………………………………………… ……………………………………………….. However, Just this past week, shortly after conducting a string of national TV interviews and skipping a state education conference, she was scolded by the Anchorage Daily News. "There are ... low graduation rates, plummeting North Slope oil prices, proposals to build alternative energy projects, the gas pipeline," the paper said in an editorial. "It's time for the governor to refocus on Alaska's needs." http://news.aol.com/article/palins-celebrity-status-still-on-the/257306?icid=200100397x1213395585x1200906782
[Отредактировано Bertha S. Deffenbaugh, November 23, 2008 10:14 AM]
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November 23, 2008 10:28 AM | Сообщение 162774 — ответ на №162772 |
Bertha S. Deffenbaugh
Expert Родной язык: SpanishСообщений: 4572 На форумах с: May 9, 2003 Местонахождение: United States | RE: United States Presidential Election, 2008 decent
adjective 1 socially acceptable or good:
Everyone should be entitled to a decent wage/standard of living.
I thought he was a decent sort of person.
It was very decent (= kind) of you to help.
It made quite a decent-sized (= large) hole.
After the recent scandal, the priest is expected to do the decent thing and resign from his position.
2 INFORMAL dressed or wearing clothes:
Are you decent yet?
You can come in now, I'm decent.
decency
noun
behaviour that is good, moral and acceptable in society:
a sense of decency
[+ to infinitive] She didn't even have the decency to apologize.
the decencies
plural noun UK OLD-FASHIONED
the acceptable or expected ways of doing something:
I hate going to funerals, but you must observe the decencies (= it is something you should do).
decently
adverb
Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Dictionary) __________________________________________ Hyperdictionary Decent: Suitable in behavior, words, dress or ceremony; becoming; decorous; proper; seemly; as decent conduct, decent language www.hyperdictionary.com
[Отредактировано Bertha S. Deffenbaugh, November 23, 2008 10:30 AM]
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