I support MoveOn both idealistically and financially, and I am not a Democrat. The first two points you make show that they are indeed an anti-Bush organization. But clearly that does not entail that they are a Democrat organization.
I will not only endorse the candidate with the best chance of removing Bush (Kerry), but I will vote for him. That is not to say that I am Democrat or that I even align myself with Kerry's platform which is currently vague and simplistic. I am just choosing the better of two evils.
I'm glad that they don't endorse any third party candidates. That would be counterproductive. It is clear that no third party candidate can oust our current president.
There seems to be a confusion between collaboration with and membership of an organization. I don't understand how anyone could claim that I am a Democrat when I have never joined their organization.
Czech and Slovak are indeed very similar. I would be very surprised if someone from Bratislava couldn't go to Prague at strike up a conversation with the bartender.
However, this idea that "most of Eastern Europe is the same language with different dialects" is naive to say the least. In many cases these languages fall within the same language group. The Slavic languages, for example, consist of Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, and a few others. But the difference between, say, Bulgarian and Polish is much more than a mild difference in vocabulary, usage, or pronunciation.
And there are many other languages besides those falling within the Slavic group. Romanian is a Romance language more akin to Italian than to any of its neighbors. The Baltic languages which include Lithuanian and Latvian bear no resemblance whatsoever to Estonian, even though the three countries border one another. Estonian (as well as Hungarian) does not even fall within the Indo-European language group!
The languages of Eastern Europe form a much more diverse class than the English dialects of the United States. I find ignorance to this fact much more distressing than Bradbury's reference to the former nation of Czechoslovakia.
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"xmms --stop" Mod4 + Up
"xmms --play-pause" Mod4 + Down
"xmms --fwd" Mod4 + Right
"xmms --rew" Mod4 + Left
"emacs" Mod4 + e
"firefox" Mod4 + m
"oocalc ~/aspreadsheet.sxc" Mod4 + c
I support MoveOn both idealistically and financially, and I am not a Democrat. The first two points you make show that they are indeed an anti-Bush organization. But clearly that does not entail that they are a Democrat organization. I will not only endorse the candidate with the best chance of removing Bush (Kerry), but I will vote for him. That is not to say that I am Democrat or that I even align myself with Kerry's platform which is currently vague and simplistic. I am just choosing the better of two evils. I'm glad that they don't endorse any third party candidates. That would be counterproductive. It is clear that no third party candidate can oust our current president. There seems to be a confusion between collaboration with and membership of an organization. I don't understand how anyone could claim that I am a Democrat when I have never joined their organization.
> the Democrat political site MoveOn.org
Where does MoveOn.org claim to be a Democrat political site? Or is this just an assumption?
Czech and Slovak are indeed very similar. I would be very surprised if someone from Bratislava couldn't go to Prague at strike up a conversation with the bartender.
However, this idea that "most of Eastern Europe is the same language with different dialects" is naive to say the least. In many cases these languages fall within the same language group. The Slavic languages, for example, consist of Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, and a few others. But the difference between, say, Bulgarian and Polish is much more than a mild difference in vocabulary, usage, or pronunciation.
And there are many other languages besides those falling within the Slavic group. Romanian is a Romance language more akin to Italian than to any of its neighbors. The Baltic languages which include Lithuanian and Latvian bear no resemblance whatsoever to Estonian, even though the three countries border one another. Estonian (as well as Hungarian) does not even fall within the Indo-European language group!
The languages of Eastern Europe form a much more diverse class than the English dialects of the United States. I find ignorance to this fact much more distressing than Bradbury's reference to the former nation of Czechoslovakia.