Posted on 04/04/2011 4:58:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
It's not a conversation when there's only one person speaking!
I would have said ‘I think I’ll get you the or something...it gives me a much broader range of merchandise from which to choose.’ (didn’t end my sentence with a preposition...Miss Kidwell, my middle school English teacher, would be very proud.)
Maybe our posterity can learn to take in laundry and run restaurants. It's like, you know, way easier than learning math and stuff. My wife used to have a special ed kid whose parents were Chinese immigrants. The kid had trouble with both English and math, but he worked diligently. His ambition was to go to West Point. I do not know what became of him, he'd be about 20 now. I bet he'd make one helluva good officer.
Yes, that would have worked. “You know what I mean!” says Bill. “Yes, but do you know what you mean? Do you mean that you would like me to buy you a hair dryer?”
He would have had trouble drying his hair with a new vinyl tablecloth ;-).
Can’t stand google. Much prefer dogpile. Google brings up too much.
Plumber, electrician, locksmith, mechanic, etc...
Things folks need, but no one wants or has the skills to do.
And, like the other poster said... gunsmithing may be a VERY valuable skill very soon.
My theory is that the “ambiguous interrogative” style of speaking comes from the cultural Marxist movement (PC)
that deems it offensive to be sure of oneself or one’s own opinions.
My benchmark libinlaw’s biggest complaint about my wife and I is that “you’re always so sure you’re right”.
Mr. Adams fails to recognize that socialist and collectivist managed schools are the problem. That most of our nation's children attend these **government** schools inevitably led to this problem.
For example, we have the most advanced and effective medical system in the history of humankind. Due to the professionalism of those now in the health system and the medical schools that support the system, once it is socialized it will continue to be effective. Over time, though, it will degenerate.
So....While our very first socialist, compulsory, and collectivist-managed schools were effective it was due to the underlying character and values that the earlier teachers, parents, and principals brought into the system. But....Our government schools were doomed to failure because they are fundamentally socialist, godless, and collectivist managed by the voting mobs.
In the quote above, Mr. Adams suggests that if we removed multiculturalism and diversity from the government schools that they would be fixed. NO! It is impossible to fix a socialist, collectivist, compulsory, and godless system.
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing all education.
Solution: Conservatives! If you love your children and want secure future for them, we MUST MUST MUST work to shut down all government schooling. We must work to see that all children have access to a PRIVATE and conservative education that thoroughly integrates the child's specific Judeo Christian religious belief, and our nation's founding principles, into all aspects of the child's education.
Children who attend godless, socialist, compulsory, and collectivist schools WILL learn to be comfortable with socialism, compulsion, collectivism and WILL learn to think godlessly.
I suppose, if I were an exemplary mother, I could have just bought Bill the hair dryer without hassling him, but I’d like him to reach adulthood able to make a simple request or statement without throwing in null-sounds.
My father would say, “Let your voice drop - you’re done!” and my mother would say, “Always be positive, even if you’re wrong.”
>>>Of course, I don’t want to paint with a broad brush and say that “all” teachers are lazy — but most definitely are. Teachers in government schools are vastly overpaid for the quantity and quality of the work they do. They will whine that this characterization is unfair, but they’re just wrong.
We need to close down government schools, and let parents send their children to schools where actual learning is demanded. Teachers at such schools will perform or be fired. No unions, obviously.<<<
I’m a teacher. I would like to disagree with you, but your statements are accurate. The good news is that I would thrive in a private school environment. Bring it on.
Fo' shizzle...
Haha! Both my boys have very short hair. It cuts down on using the detangler in the morning ;) I make up for it by spending mega bucks on the nearly 13 y.o. daughter who has incredibly thick and curly tresses. Now if I could get her to USE the styling products so she didn’t look like a Brillo pad in the mornings when I drop her off for school. She thinks pulling it back in a ponytail fools me. Her little sister (almost 7) has stick straight silky platinum blond hair. It just grows so darn fast!
Miss Kendig(my high school English teacher) who weighed about 90 lbs., 65 years old, strict disciplinarian, never sent anyone to Principal’s office and never had any behavior problems, would have flunked me for the year if I had used those words.
Other examples: to, too, two, your, you’re, there, their,hear, here, witch, which.
Reading these mistakes just drive me crazy.
That too
That would be a wise decision
Hows abouts Knowbama?
[I think it also shows how lazy parents are these days. My son occasionally tries to slip in a “neighborhood cool” type inflection to his voice. (He’s only 11 - it’s natural.) It gets nipped in the bud rather quickly.]
When my son was 11 he was told he must speak “adult” to me. He’s now 23, and there has been no trouble with interpretation since.
We Are One booklet: http://www.we-r-1.org/upload/weareone_teaching_toolkit.pdf
It’s April 5th..........
Much prefer dogpile... Google brings up too much....
So does my dog..and occasionally, the cat.
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