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"Things were rough for everybody," remembered Marcelle Holmes, of Multnomah. "I remember my dad walking to Portland with a jelly sandwich to look for work. Us kids went to school with cardboard in our shoes, to keep our feet dry. And there were parents deserting their children, because times were so bad. These two little girls came to school in rags; they came every day with a piece of stale bread and you could just watch them getting thinner and thinner. Finally, the teacher caught on that something was wrong, and that those two girls had been living alone for two months with no mother and father. The mother and father had deserted them, feeling they would be better off, because the County would take them and put them into a home where at least they would get something to eat."

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"We used to pick up bags of flour out of the river," said Fred Nelson of Slabtown. "Loading ships you see, they had to pack the flour right down there in the hold of the ship; sometimes they were a little careless, didn't set the flour on the ship right, and it would fall in the river. And lots of times, you would pick up a sack of flour that was floating in the river, and the outer part would be all soggy, and of no value, but the inner part would be perfectly all right. Took it home, and used it for baking."

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It's never too late.

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This was last night, not the night before. I don't think his googles were filled with water. Wow, unless it happened two nights in a row?

I guess what I saw last night that really struck me was that he looked like he was doing a job, and that he wasn't happy at all. This may say more about me than Phelps!

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It's great. The more the merrier.

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Scottmil,

I'm interested in your line "Now the world is smaller, communications are quicker and easier."

If our learning other languages has been incidental in these changes, do you attribute them to technology alone? Or something else?

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This is not a science but a subjective, ongoing exercise, and yes: I didn't think the comment rose to the level of being removed.

Two parts in particular veered into the territory of personal attacks, not topical arguments:

"I am not sure how you cross the street..."

and

"...and if that wasn't your goal, don't waste time writing about nothing."

Finally, yes, I'm moderating a blog where broad, dismissive (or angry, or whatever) comments about groups are going to be more tolerated than individual attacks on fellow commenters. Those are the rules.

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ScottMil,

Someone who thought they were just flagging your comment for me to look at inadvertently moved it into the moderation queue. It's back now.

As for the reasons the comment was flagged, it's not about the content, but the tone. Our first commenting guideline is "Write with civility and respect." Your comment was neither civil nor respectful.

I suppose you could read this as "making nice," but that seems to me to be a paltry and stunted version of what we're hoping to foster. On the air and here, we welcome dissent and disagreement. Often it's only through that kind of friction that an honest conversation about tough issues can take place. But civility and disagreement shouldn't be mutually exclusive.

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Oh, there's room for a bit of promotion here and there. And in fact, we're not only talking about public high school students. Commercial language programs are a growing niche, and can easily come up tomorrow.

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A recent opinion piece by our current guest, William Barton, from the Statesman Journal:

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080730/OPINION/807300478/1049/OPINION

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Wade,

It was great to meet you, too. Bend did itself proud at that meetup. Thanks for the comment.

Dave

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Fred,

What is it about obesity, do you think, that gives many folks the license to make jokes? Fat jokes seem prevalent -- and public -- in a way that ethnic jokes, say, just aren't any more.

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Folks, the particular page that thesugarmonster linked to seems to be down, but you can find her blog here:

http://thesugarmonster.livejournal.com/

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No offense taken!

It's been changed.

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Quotes added. Thanks for the comment.

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2. The value of knowing a foreign language (I know there are some great benefits, but what exactly are they?)

Rick, you read our mind. We're working on this right now -- with a focus on Mandarin. Look for it next week.

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There's an interesting, very personal recap of the PNAA award ceremony here:

http://stevenlarose.blogspot.com/2008/06/suitable.html

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Pure coincidence. And anyway, would you really have a problem with folks from a church being there anyway? I'd like to remind you -- and everyone -- that everyone is invited.

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ScottMil:

I don't think this show easily lends itself to a referendum on religion in general. It seems to me to be more focused on a particular discussion about what a wildly popular book says about a growing strain of Christianity.

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Here's the full comment from Bob Hyatt's blog that I just read.

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Because it's already up there! The same post!

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