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Gatsby
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 Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:55 am Post subject: Palinisms |
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George Bush is easily confused with facts and syntax, but at least what he says almost makes sense.
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Palin: I agree that a president's job, when they swear in their oath to uphold our Constitution, their top priority is to defend the United States of America.
I know that John McCain will do that, and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people. |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203310.html
Palin doesn't know what she wants to say, and isn't sure how to say it. |
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newteacher
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| Aren't people with degrees in journalism supposed to be able to speak without completely butchering the language? |
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mises
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| Aren't people with degrees in journalism supposed to be able to speak without completely butchering the language? |
It took her several rounds at community colleges to get into a degree granting institution. |
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newteacher
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
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| Aren't people with degrees in journalism supposed to be able to speak without completely butchering the language? |
It took her several rounds at community colleges to get into a degree granting institution. |
I also saw that her degree was actually a B.S. in Comm/Journalism. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a true degree in journalism be a B.A. just like an English or creative writing degree? |
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ontheway
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: |
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I also saw that her degree was actually a B.S. in Comm/Journalism. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a true degree in journalism be a B.A. just like an English or creative writing degree?
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The ways of differentiating a BS from a BA are as varied as the many institutions offering them.
For example: At some Universities, any major can be earned as a BS degree, but with additional courses in Arts and Humanities, any of those majors can be earned as a BA degree.
So, you could have a BS in English and a BA in Engineering. |
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mises
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mises
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| "Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced [sic] your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let's look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education and I'm glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more. I come from a house full of school teachers. My grandma was, my dad who is in the audience today, he's a schoolteacher, had been for many years. My brother, who I think is the best schoolteacher in the year, and here's a shout-out to all those third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School, you get extra credit for watching the debate," |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Question: Are you offended by the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?
Sarah Palin: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I�ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance. |
-- Sarah Palin's response to the 2006 Eagle Forum Questionnaire
http://irregulartimes.com/palinisms.html
Sometimes Palin is clear and to the point, but ignorant.
What's wrong with this statement, class?
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The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855-1931), a Baptist minister, a Christian Socialist, and the cousin of Socialist Utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850-1898). Bellamy's original "Pledge of Allegiance" was published in the September 8th issue of the popular children's magazine The Youth's Companion as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, conceived by James B. Upham....
The Knights of Columbus in New York City felt that the pledge was incomplete without any reference to a deity.[citation needed] Appealing to the authority of Abraham Lincoln, the Knights felt that the words "under God" which were from Lincoln�s Gettysburg Address were most appropriate to add to the Pledge.[citation needed] In New York City on April 22, 1951, the Board of Directors of the Knights of Columbus adopted a resolution to amend their recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of each of the meetings of the 800 Fourth Degree Assemblies of the Knights of Columbus by addition of the words "under God" after the words "one nation." In the following two years, the idea spread throughout Knights of Columbus organizations nationwide....
Senator Homer Ferguson, in his report to the Congress on March 10, 1954, said, "The introduction of this joint resolution was suggested to me by a sermon given recently by the Rev. George M. Docherty, of Washington, D.C., who is pastor of the church at which Lincoln worshipped." This time Congress concurred with the Oakman-Ferguson resolution, and Eisenhower opted to sign the bill into law on Flag Day (June 14, 1954). The fact that Eisenhower clearly had Docherty�s rationale in mind as he initiated and consummated this measure is apparent in a letter he wrote in August, 1954. Paraphrasing Docherty�s sermon, Eisenhower said
These words [�under God�] will remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us to keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which alone give dignity to man, and upon which our way of life is founded.... |
So "under God" became part of the Pledge in 1954, and the Pledge wasn't even written until 1892.
Palin's problem isn't that she is stupid, it is that she is ignorant.
A "house full of school teachers"? Then there is no excuse for her ignorance.
Maybe we should ask her to name five Founding Fathers?
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mises
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:29 am Post subject: |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:21 am Post subject: |
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| who I think is the best schoolteacher in the year, |
I'm sure she said, "...the best little schoolteacher..." I'm sure, because it made me cringe. |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Asked if she thought Senator Obama was dishonest, McCain�s Mean Girl meandered:
�I�m not saying he�s dishonest, but in terms of judgment, in terms of being able to answer a question forthrightly, it has two different parts to this. The judgment and the truthfulness and just being able to answer very candidly a simple question about when did you know him, how did you know him, is there still � has there been an association continued since �02 or �05, I know I�ve read a couple different stories. I think it�s relevant.� |
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08dowd.html?hp |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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"I like being here because it seems like here and in our last rally too -- other parts around this great Northwest -- here in New Hampshire you just get it."
--Sarah Palin, Laconia, New Hampshire, Oct. 15, 2008
Someone ought to play a practical joke on Palin and send her to Prince George or Sudbury or Moncton to campaign. Perhaps someone in the campaign. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Okay, I know it's become a kneejerk liberal cliche to point out how freaking out-of-it this woman is, but...
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Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? [�] You've heard about some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
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I'm pretty much scientifically illiterate, but even I can remember being told by my high school biology teacher about how big a role fruit-fly research plays in genetics. And even if I can forgive an individual patch of ignorance on someone's part, surely someone on Palin's staff should have known enough about science to edit that line out of her speech.
http://tinyurl.com/5lowwr |
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khyber
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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Why are American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan:
'We're fighting for our elections overseas.' |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Why are American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan:
'We're fighting for our elections overseas.' |
I used google to see if that was a real quote. It is. God damn, that woman is an absolute idiot.
She was asked by a 3rd grader what the VP does. She said "runs the senate". |
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