Host and how bicultural they are and how accultureateed they will become. Theres a theory ive heard mostly through business folks who are trying to reach this market that, in fact, younger hispanics are interested and maybe middleaged hispanics are interested in this retro acculture ration. Perhaps youre two or three generations in the United States, and you realize, you know what . I do want to teach my children spanish and cook certain foods or listen to certain types of music. Do you see that as something that might perhaps connect a second or third or even fourth or fifth generation his pan ins to their original culture, if you will . Guest yes, i have noticed that amongst hispanic families that i know personally in the United States. And it does impress me. And i think it will, you know, have a countervailing effect on, therefore, perhaps my pessimism about the disappearance of spanish in the United States maybe excessive or i may be anticipating a shorter timetable over which thi
Now a pentagon briefing on air force operation. Air force secretary Deborah Lee James and chief of staff general mark welsh spoke with reporters for more than an hour. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the state of the air force press briefing. And Brigadier General mobilization assistant to the director of Public Affairs and im very privileged to introduce the honorable Deborah Lee James secretary of the air force and general mark welsh is chief of staff of the air force. Let me give you the groundrules wrote that. What we are going to do today is secretary james and general welsh will have opening remarks and then well open it up for questions and answers. Standard rules of engagement apply today so please state your name and affiliation when you are called on and then we will do one question and one followup and depending on how much time we have with us if we can get to other questions. If there are any questions we dont get answered today you are more than welcome to call the a
Whether or not they decide to sue me for doing my job. No, no, no. First of all, heres what i always say. Do not boo, vote. [applause] doing does not help. Voting helps. [applause] but think about this. They have announced that they are going to sue me for taking executive actions to help peop people. So you know, they are mad because im doing my job. And by the way, i told them, i said id be happy to do it with you. So they on the reason im doing it on my own is because you dont do anything. But if you want, lets work together. [applause] now i mean everybody recognizes this as a political stunt but its worse than that because every vote they are taking like that means a vote they are not taking to actually help you. When they have taken 50 votes to repeal the Affordable Care act, that was time that could have been spent working constructively to help you on some things. [applause] and by the way, you know who is paying for the suits that they are going to file . You. Now, now you are
Training and readiness. Lets take an air base. At an airbase, the air bases are open. They have guards at the gate. They have people in the tower. They have people in the fire truck. The lights are on. Were spending the money for all that. Where can you stop spending money quickly . Painting the buildings. Mow the lawn less often. That kind of thing. Importantly, you stop training. When you stop training, you have stopped readiness. We are protecting those in as we know are going to afghanistan and would be in a fight tonight on the Korean Peninsula if god forbid we ever had a wart on the Korean Peninsula. Were trying to protect the units most likely to find themselves in combat. For the others, we cannot afford to train them. That is risky because if something happens, those units will not be fully ready. Then we get to the civilian personnel part of a week ago, furloughs began for many of our civilians. Were far from washington, but our civilians live all over the country. They are n
So the real question is for all of that is, how did they manage to so marginalize, it are, take no account of women in the midst of the most serious right now Armed Conflict that is engaging so many governments . I dont have the answer to that, but what i do know is we better understand how it even works. It not just about denying both to 1325. They probably also did 1325. Lipservice is a very interesting thing to study. And we have that work now a blatant example of saint lipservice to a major u. N. Was aleutian that they are obligated to abide by and many of them voted for and yet, without seeing any embarrassment to help negotiate a process that shut women not to room. So i am going to and at that point and we can have a good conversation. Yes, please stand. [inaudible] we need mics. There you go. Jump ahead here. I work for a Womens International league for peace and freedom and cynthia has been a longtime member and influencer of our work. For almost 98 years old of a womens Peace