Posted on 05/31/2009 4:14:34 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
The blogger has rewritten the article; here is the original:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0
It was T. S. Eliot.
He may have re-written the original but he kept the misspelling of “descent.”
Thanks, I googled it, but...
The Bush Democrats are a prime example of this head in the sand RINOism.
Is this the result he wanted? At least he didn't get a Christian theocracy under the Republicans. Just the probable collapse of America into a Weimer/Zimbabawe style inflation scenario and the revivification of Islamic terror in the U.S. and throughout the world -- not to mention a upcoming war between Israel and Iran in a year or two (I'm being optimistic about the time).
Perhaps this is what he had in mind:
descent
noun
1. the act, process, or fact of descending.
2. a downward inclination or slope.
Synonyms:
1. falling, sinking. 2. decline, grade, declivity. 4. ancestry, parentage. 6. assault, foray.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/descent
Well, I Googled it too and actually was only able to find a couple of other writers attributing it to him. Nothing cited at all. So, you could still be right :•)
Of course, it was a typo. It’s just that the typo got spread all over cyberspace, illustrating how dangerous it is to take what you read on the web as true. One typo (not in this case) can completely alter the sense of a statement.
“The End of the Land of the Free”
STOP being so damn negative.
The blogger has rewritten the article; here is the original:
Not one word was “rewritten.” It is excerpted, but you’ll see both this version and the original at the link to the source.
Hanki
The author of the origianl is Russian. There are other English errors. It was not the English, but the clear vision of what is going on in America that was the point.
How would you do rewriting it in Russian?
Hank
“STOP being so damn negative.”
See?!
In a free country people don’t tell other people what to do.
Suspect you have no idea what freedom is.
Hank
It is "past" time for the next Revolutionary War to begin. It is "past" time to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. (IMHO)
Maybe it would be more correct to say say...."It is time too late for the next Revolutionary War to begin. It is time too late to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants."
Not a lecture. Just a thought.
Um, don’t know what your gripe is, but don’t take out your hostility on me. I don’t make the news, I just report it.
In fact, I first posted this same Pravda article on FR on Friday, May 29, 2009 at 9:35:05 PM.
I’m reminded of Patrick Henry’s speech: War is here already.
Good grief! That was hostile?
Sorry you got that impression. It was ot intended.
Hank
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