04/25/2024 6:09:36 AM PDT
· 17 of 35 Orosius
to ChicagoConservative27
“Jamming gears has got to be a fever
‘Cause men become addicted to the grind
It takes a special breed to be a truck-driving man
And a steady hand to pull that load behind…”
The first Chinese immigrants to the US were brought here as cheap labor for such tasks as railroad construction, were from the poorest class and no doubt illiterate in their own language. They did not have the benefit of free ESL classes and had to make do (oops!) with pidgin phrases to communicate. So instead of saying “I’m terribly sorry but I can’t comply with your request to have your laundry ready by this afternoon “, they had to say “No can do.” English speaking Americans picked up on such phrases as handy, readymade replies and adopted them in turn, thus enriching our culture with yet more diversity to everyone’s benefit.
Or, to put it more succinctly, China Doll speak with forked tongue.
04/18/2024 6:18:46 AM PDT
· 37 of 55 Orosius
to Reverend Wright
Biden has a 16 year old boy’s idea of being the coolest, toughest kid in high school circa 1959. The aviator shades, the Cornpop story, “c’mon man”, the bragging, it’s all of a piece. He’s The Fonz in his own mind.
04/13/2024 9:39:39 AM PDT
· 40 of 53 Orosius
to ChicagoConservative27
It sounds better in the original German, but the English translation is “Lives unworthy of life”. It was the name of the Nazi program to liquidate cripples, mental defectives, insane people, and other undesirables. The Nazis would lock the victims in vans and pump in carbon monoxide. Later they moved on to more ambitious programs regarding political opponents, bothersome Christians, gypsies, Jews, etc.
04/09/2024 6:32:08 AM PDT
· 23 of 24 Orosius
to Angelino97; Fiji Hill
I thank you both for the corrections and interesting history. I came later to the party in that neck of the woods, always thought of B1 Bob as an OC guy.
“There is no fortress that the Bolsheviks cannot storm!”
These people intend to eliminate the American middle class, and the Green new deal” is their chosen instrument to accomplish this purpose. No need for cattle cars to the Gulag. Simply liquidate the kulaks in place, by stealth.
04/03/2024 8:27:30 AM PDT
· 24 of 26 Orosius
to airdalecheif
Illegal aliens are so essential to our economy that they have to be kept on every conceivable form of public taxpayer funded welfare forever. Progressive logic.