SAVAGE NATION LIVE!! Friday, June 1, 2007

[Tarkus2040]

I apologize to you Infidels & Infidettes for me absence yesterday, but I’ve been busy attending to things and time got away from me. I didn’t have access to the Internet, so there was no way I could give any of you advance notice. Anyway, I hope you all have a fantastic weekend, and I’ll see you on Monday!

[Tarkus2040]

I apologize to you Infidels & Infidettes for me absence yesterday...

Ello, govnah! LOL!

[beaversmom]

Glad you’re okay. Didn’t know you were a cockney though.

[dynachrome]

“he has been good on this illegal stuff”
Rush has been out front against the shamnesty bill. Pretty harsh overall on the ‘pubs on this issue at least.
Here are the lyrics to the latest parody song he has been playing (he said he might pull it because of disrespect to the national anthem)
“The Star Spanglish Banner - Jose & The Illegals

Jose can you see by zee dawns early light
Cross the border we sailed
As the Gringos were sleeping
What broad stripes and bright stars
We like Red Green and White
On the day that we marched
We were gallantly screaming

And the rally was where
We waived flags in the air
As proof in daylight
That our flag was not theirs

Jose does that star spangled yet wave
Hoer de land of weak knees
In D.C. no one’s brave”

[omnivore]

I think Bush 43 was Yale undergrad and Harvard MBA. But I didn't mean it that way. At some point in the 50's or 60's, the pronunciation "nookyoolar" for "nuclear" became popular amongst some in the nuclear industry. Now it doesn't matter where people go to college, the pronunciation has passed into the mainstream lexicon. People bringing it up to try to make Pres Bush seem stupid are just being silly, IMHO.

A related shift of pronunciation: the thing in the middle of a divided highway is called a "median." If you drive interstates and listen to a CB radio on channel 19, the trucker general highway info and chat channel, when they refer to the median, they pronounce it "medium." As in, "there's a four-wheeler with a flat on the medium at the 73," meaning, there's a car with a flat tire on the median at or near the 73 mile marker. Now, are a bunch of pronunciation nannies going to try to explain to every long-haul trucker in America that the word is pronounced "median" rather than "medium," or, if they want to be more mean than controlling, are they going to claim that all truckers are stupid, just because they say it that way? I, for one, won't do either. It's just a shift in pronunciation. Languages evolve this way with common usage shifting among a particular population group, all the time.

Author David Foster Wallace makes a slight joke about this (acually the related topic of grammar rather than pronunciation) in his novel Infinte Jest, by pitting two factions against each other, the Prescriptive Grammarians versus the Descriptive Grammarians.

Both perspectives have validity. We all know of examples of shift of language that are indeed deterioration, but the sign of such deterioration is a loss of clarity or concision. (For example the unclarities in "Black English" which Bill Cosby has remarked on.) In cases such as "nookyoolar" and "medium" for "nuclear" and "median," there isn't any loss of clarity or concision, they're just alternate pronunciations. It's why Shakespeare's plays sound kind of strange in places despite being written in English; languages just change over time, even when they're written down. That's my defense of Pres Bush's pronunciation.

[Tamar1973]

6 posts on the LP thread wazzup wit dat? Those 2 posts by Rhino however had me rollin! LMAO!

With BSB out of commission for a while I think it will be even worse.

[Tamar1973]

My Rep. in Congress. Guess who I vote for every 2 years!

Consider yourself blessed! My rep is Mike Thompson. UGH!

Rep. Mike Thompson, 1st Congressional District, California

[Tamar1973]

Americans have’nt elected a senator since LBJ.

And that's only because he had been VP and then President first before being elected in his own right. So in a way, it'd be safer to say that we haven't elected a Senator to office since Pres. Kennedy.

[Tamar1973]

I apologize to you Infidels & Infidettes for me absence yesterday, but I’ve been busy attending to things and time got away from me. I didn’t have access to the Internet, so there was no way I could give any of you advance notice. Anyway, I hope you all have a fantastic weekend, and I’ll see you on Monday!

Ah, no problem! You can see we missed ya, though!

[beaversmom]

Thanks for posting that. I hadn’t read it before. She definitely sums up how I feel about the situation. He squandered his inheritance. 2004—I’ve got political capital and I’m going to use it. It’s like he went to Las Vegas and blew it on gambling, booze, and hookers.

[beaversmom]

Good thread over here in case you haven’t been on it. Some hangers on are still defending President Bush after all this—I call it Bush Derangement Syndrome (but in the other direction). One guy had a good analogy—he said we are all like battered wives.

Peggy Noonan and The WSJ Editorial - It’s Time to Revolt!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843422/posts

[whatisthetruth]

From the "Bush’s Push on Immigration Tests His Base (FR Mentioned) " thread.

"White House officials said it had led them to engage the blogosphere in a concerted way for the first time, posting defenses on liberal and conservative sites."

I guess some of us were right in the assumption that some posters who have joined us recently really ARE plants from the administration. With this revelation they can't pretend that they don't know why we are upset... Makes me wonder about some of the newer posters who've been so disrespectful when replying to some of my posts the last few days. Their attitude IS the same as these in our government pushing for Amnesty -- they AREN'T merely citizens who disagree, they are political operatives who are as out of touch as their bosses.

123 posted on 06/02/2007 7:46:05 PM PDT by LibertyRocks

So B-Mom it appears some of the Bush-bots are not just bots, but real life Bushies. LOL!