Interesting aside from the "You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet" post

The Hill ^

[Cobra Scott]

Not sure why the thread was closed, don't really care and assume Jim & Company had their reasons. This is not about that.

In the article linked on Drudge, it mentions, somewhat as an aside, the following:

He joked at the second fundraiser that she graduated summa cum laude, "not just magna or laude laude, but summa cum laude."

Not sure if this is a pointed comment, a gaffe, or what, but I do believe a rough translation is actually:

cum laude = with honors suma cum laude = with high honors magna cum laude = with highest honors

I'm open to correction here, but aside from my lack of neo-latin vocabulary, I do believe the order is laude, suma and then magna.

[9YearLurker]

Hey, fulfilling a promise and giving your kids an at-home mom are the important accomplishments. Side benefits are not being intimidated by others because of their degrees—and still being open minded about those without.

Sounds like a bargain—and in 3 years no less!

[alexander_busek]

The correct sequence is:

non probatum, non sufficit, non rite or insufficienter: fail

rite: pass / satisfactory;

cum laude: with honors;

magna cum laude: with high honors;

summa cum laude: with highest honors.

Regards,

[norton]

Since this came from O's 'western swing' of (more) fundraisers, it seems as good a time as any to ask:

Is anyone keeping tabs on how many hours this guy actually spends in DC?

How many of those are spent on actual government business?
(excluding press conferences)

And just who IS running the show while he piles the miles on AF1?

[KrisKrinkle]

“so where does “mega” come in?”

When what you read/see/hear induces the urge to barf not just your last meal, but the last several meals.

[Cobra Scott]

Thanks, and I for one highly recommend that anyone raising a family consider the non-monetary benefits of having a mom or dad (either one) as a main head of household. My wife, bless her, took so much pressure off of me when I first went into the corporate world. The car and rent were always paid, tagged and insured, even the minutae of making sure I had clean clothes, buttons on shirts re-attached, you name it, right down to every detail.

It pays off in the end; even without children, a dedicated “household manager” frees the “breadwinner” up for late nights making overtimne and pursuing a fatter paycheck. In the end, who cares what the individual contribution comes to, the fact is that both of you built the family and saved up enough to pay for the Tariffs of Obamination...oh, wait, did we really succeed? LOL!

[Chucky is a girlie man]

Summa cum laude outranks magna cum laude.

[Chucky is a girlie man]

There’s also

“Laude, Laude, thank God I’m done!”

[Cobra Scott]

That was probably what they should have stamped on mine :)