"In Australia, live like Australians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Australia, to work and eat in Australia, should speak English fluently after five years in Australia, and respect all Australian laws."

CIA,

What's your take on people coming from New Guinea to live with their relatives on a Torres Strait island?

Should they have to learn English or would it be OK if they just used the Australian language of their kin in the Islands?

Foxy,

"Dear Constance,

You were the one who made the comment to me
about liking fairy-tales. I merely responded to it.
You digressed and -
you should not have digressed if you didn't want
a response."

Yes, what a fascinating occurrence...

For, just the recently Constance accused moi of all things of "STALKING".

I wonder what we should make of her nonchalant provocation of you, Foxy?

"Yes, well you do like fairy tales, don't you Fox?"

"Sorry, Foxy but I'm not hear [sic] to discuss fairy tales as that would be digressing from the topic of the article."

Excellent example of hypocrisy, Constance.

@Steelie
Who waxes long about credibility and then cites Snopes LOL

"A Google search revealed that Snopes.com is owned by David and Barbara Mikkelson, who live in Southern California and are Obama supporters. An interested reader (unknown to me) suspected that Snopes had a liberal bias after discovering several "half-truths" and distortions..."
http://www.curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=1284141

You are a joke Steelie!

@ Poirot

<<Lol!...SteeleRedux...for that I give you a five minute standing ovation>>
And ovation from Poirot is equavalent to getting a clap from a seal ...throw it any smelly old redherring and it will applaud :)
Yes i know you dont check links Poirot you havent mastered that hiteck stuff yet --but if wasnt for your benefit ;)

That's an insightful comment Foxy. The evidence is that the average capacity range of working memory in humans is between 4 and 7 items. We tend to categorise in order to be able to usefully process concepts beyond the range of direct working memory.

There's another type of memory known as prospective memory, which holds information about things we have to do, or expect to happen later. It interacts with working memory in interesting ways, since in order for us to act on something in prospective memory, at some point it has to be transferred to working memory. What is really interesting though, is that in order for something to be in prospective memory, it does not have to have been in working memory first, it may have been the result of subconscious processing (what we might call intuition) that bypassed the conscious working memory altogether.

It's also interesting that cognitive processing, including notably capacity of working and prospective memory often declines with age, but the longer-term memory which draws on categories doesn't do so to the same extent.

So what does all that mean? Perhaps nothing, but perhaps the people more prone to miserabilism have created categories in which perceived threat to status is a large weighting perhaps as a consequence of a working memory capacity at the lower end of the range and so their prospective memory is filled with information that is itself overweighted with a threat-perception.

Aren't people interesting?

Dear Constance.
Thank you for posting "Putin's speech" whatever its source.
It is a pity that some of our fearless leaders didn't have the intestinal fortitude to get up and say similar things.

David

But you are living in a fairy tale, not the real world, Foxy!