The gathered heads of state of NATO member nations were reportedly very impressed by the street level display of Lithuanias newest armament system. The battleship “Garliavos Histerikai” made the transatlantic journey from Garliava to the Chicago hamlet of Lemont in record time. The new battleships Captain, Kaimo Jurgis, deployed its primary weapon to the disdain of, well, everybody as several trispalve garbed Lithuanian kamikazes took to throwing themselves under the wheels of President Grybauskaites moving motorcade.

A German military attache, while rolling his eyes and shaking his head remarked: “Well, I guess thats one way of getting yourself noticed. Not sure if its the best way but the battleship “Garliavos Histerikai” was rumored to act on threats in bizarre ways.”

Given that a friend of mine, a graduate in business studies, was recent offered employment by a high end retailer in Vilnius, the kind of shop where wealthy women shop for themselves and wealthy men shop for their mistresses, I was amused to discover that the remuneration offered was one-fifth of that she would have been offered in the UK. Given that the goods being sold in the Vilnius shop were the same price as those sold in expensive shops in London, I wondered who was actually benefitting from this resurgence in consumer confidence.

A Christian could argue against gay marriage and adoption with the Bible in his hand, but the Bible, especially the New Testament, does not provide for violence or bullying. The Bible has several warnings against judging others, and it could certainly be argued that behavior (of Petras Gražulis) as described in this article is definitely not good moral or Christian behavior. Also homophobia and prejudice against ethnic minorities trigger emigration, further adding to the demographic problems of Lithuania and other East European countries.

There seems to be a widespread idea that homosexuality is a modern West European invention. It’s not. We’ve seen it in all urbanized places, like in old Greece or India, and today’s modern world.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

That is the debt-clock of a bankrupt country!
A time bomb that will blow off any day now!
Yeah, they can teach you how to get bankrupt!

“…The heads of higher education institutions admit that the experience gained from their foreign colleagues is priceless…”

I really would like to ask how did they get such high opinion about those professors?
THE USA IS TECHNICALLY BANKRUPT!

The situation in Lithuania and Poland is different, you are not dealing with indigenous languages but with ethnic minorities who, for one reason or another, have found themselves living somewhere where the majority language is different to their mother tongue. In the 1990’s a solution was in place, however, about twenty years later an appraisal is required to see how the system is working. Read “D. Lavrinovic: you have to learn the Lithuanian language”, at seventeen he was fluent in Polish and Russian, but he went to school in Lithuania! He’s in his twenties so he was probably born in what was the Lithuanian SSR and educated through the transition of the education system. The fact that he learnt Lithuanian after leaving school suggests to me that the system needs revision. If Lithuania and Poland are teaching the ethnic minorites they inherited at the fall of the Soviet Union somewhere in the region of 50% in their mother tongue then they are both doing well and long may it continue. To be clear about the EU, it does not dictate on what are official languages or on education systems within EU member states.

The Human Rights issue. At the moment the UK has no language requirement for immigrants, hence there are people who have lived here for decades who don’t speak English. Although there is no offical school leaving test, your GCSE English grade is taken as an indication of your command of the language and will have an affect on your career options. Other countries view fluency in their offical languages differently, as a citizen of an EU member country I would be entitled to live and work in either Lithuania or Poland and if there is a requirement by either to attend language classes then that’s what I would have to do: I cannot use what happens in the UK as an excuse or claim that it is a violation of human rights.

Personal names: Lithuanians and Poles came to the UK after WW2, letters such as ‘Š’ and ‘Ł’ don’t occur in the English alphabet, neither do surnames have masculine or feminine endings. They had to adapt, although today as most official documents are computer generated I see no reason why names cannot appear as an ‘official version’ and an ‘ethnic version’. Instead of point scoring, work together to find a solution.

In the UK, immigrants and other minorities usually join the main established political parties (Consevative, Labour, Liberal Democrat), those such as the British National Party which claims to represent the views of the ‘indigenous’ people, that is to say, nationalist, have very little support. In Africa, political parties are based on tribal groupings, and we can all see the result. In both Lithuania and Poland ethnic minority interest would be best served by joining the main political parties instead of forming minority interests groups.In a democracy you are elected to represent all of your constituents and in a broader sense, the interest of the State, how can you do this if you just focus on your own ethnic group or feel your loyalty lies with a neighbouring country?