Politics and religion.

[Grace]

OH,

I have to say this right now.


I CANNOT STAND "professional" people who are inept when it comes to public speaking.

In years gone by, a politician would get to a mike and was able to muddle through a speech or make a comment that was almost perfect.

These days I am effing amazed that a person, born and raised in America, gets to a premier school, gets a law degree, becomes a judge and possibly the next SCJ for the United States and still cannot use English properly.

This is a peeve of mine that shows how petty I am. My dad had a thick accent, never really got the hang of the language -It smell like hell in here!-
But he made pretty damn sure that his kids were schooled and were able to speak the King's English properly.

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To hear a person, who has more education that I'll ever see, hack and mangle sentences makes me shake my head and wonder.

I gots the idea that there be a problem with some thing that don't make so much sense when you hear it the first time.

The more I see and hear people that went to a uni/college, get wonderful jobs, yet, cannot seem to speak english properly, lets me know that no one took the time to correct them. It makes me cringe, not because I am any better or smarter. It just irritates me that we look the other way when we hear it.

Wisdom, brains, common sense should never be measured against the way a person speaks, but I wonder how a smart person could never realize how they sound when they speak.

Oh, Richard, you opened up the door wide with this one, and I can't resist the obvious. How did you manage to survive the past 8 years of Presidential speaking

[Pinot's Mom]

Oh, Richard, you opened up the door wide with this one, and I can't resist the obvious. How did you manage to survive the past 8 years of Presidential speaking

"One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2009

"Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2008

"We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 2, 2008

[RICHARD]

"One of the very difficult parts of um the decision I made on the financial ah crisis was to use hardworking people's money ah to help prevent there to be a crisis." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2009

"Anyone engaging in illegal um financial transactions will be caught and uh persecuted." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2008

"We got plenty of money in ah Washington. What we need is er more priority." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 2, 2008

[RICHARD]

http://news.aol.com/article/obama-te...reaks%2F569845


Whheeeeeeeeeee! I am tittering here like a 13 year old school girl!!!!!

[blue]

http://news.aol.com/article/obama-te...reaks%2F569845


Whheeeeeeeeeee! I am tittering here like a 13 year old school girl!!!!!

TOTUS down!! TOTUS down!!!

Titter away my friend.

[RICHARD]

TOTUS down!! TOTUS down!!!

Titter away my friend.

"We have implemented security measures around TOTUS, Repeat, we have implemented security measures around TOTUS!"

Radio traffic around the WH press area.....



Still tittering.....Could I do that on a cellphone?

[Grace]

Check out This Link - see how very much they think alike.

After reading it, I figured they all had the same speech writer

[RICHARD]

Still tittering.....Could I do that on a cellphone?

Tried it, didn't work.

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BO investing in new water technology for the U.S. and the world.


Barack Obama is looking for investments to bolster the latest scientific research in the area of powdered water.

He plans to market the powdered water to the only logical place on the planet-The Middle East. "If we can begin production of powdered water on a large scale, we can open up a trade agreement with the countries that are located in the ME." Obama said. "We can then use the leverage to possibly trade for oil or reduce the cost of buying petroleum products from the area. Who doesn't like a fresh glass of water while they are stumbling around in the desert?"

[Medusa]

This reminds me of what happened at the grocery story last week. A man came up to me at the meat counter and asked if the store sells lamb. I said "Sure, here it is" and I pointed to it. He thanked me and I said "You're welcome", we smiled at each other and both of us tried to leave but kept getting in each other's way. He finally said "I'm sorry. You're not in my way, is it?" It made me chuckle and he chuckled, too, because he knew that he probably didn't say it right. We all fumble for words now and then and probably use a word inappropriately but I get your meaning, RICHARD. Some people just cannot express themselves and public speaking is the last thing that they should be doing.

[RICHARD]

I have to invoke the spirit of Billy Mayes, for reasons that will be made clear in a moment?

I want my politicians to be more like Billy Mayes, Why?


He makes me feel like the stuff he sold was important in my life.

He told me that it worked, never mentioned the down side of the product-Hmmm, Notice he never mentioned TAXES, just shipping and handling!

He'd give me two of the items, I just had to pay a little extra for S&H!

He guaranteed it for life, If I didn't like the item I could send it back, and I had lifetime refills - for only a small, you guessed it!- S&H!

But never TAXES. The dude put his name on some cool stuff and other crap that was nothing but pieces of shiat!

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The only thing that the these hearings are doing is offering us more crap from our reps that they put their name on and little else......

No guarantees, no refills, opportunity to send stuff back, or get a refund.

Caveat emptor (Thanks, STE! ) And a Boom Shaka Lakka to you all!

Poor Billy put his name on 'his' products because if they didn't sell, he didn't make money.

The snakes on the "hill" just sell stuff and really don't care about any guarantees regarding their products.....They will keep their cushy jobs, until they get caught stalking, going overseas for some action or find out that the escort they hired is really a hooker!


God bless us and America too. We place way too much attention to the "First fill in the skin type/background in America" and do not place enough attention on the qualifications of that individual.

We'll break all the land speed records to get where we think we need to go.

If we crash and burn on the track?

You guys go clean up the mess, I was all against THAT can o' worms.



God bless ya, Billy!

[RICHARD]

Oh, Richard, you opened up the door wide with this one, and I can't resist the obvious. How did you manage to survive the past 8 years of Presidential speaking

GWB was a doofus and he knew it.

BO is a doofus and he doesn't know it.

WTF cares about how anyone pronounces New Cleh ear? The end result is mass destruction and -like the old bumper sticker said - a ruined day.

BO cannot think on his feet but is very eloquent, with notes and a teleprompter.

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Seriously,

Then next time BO does a speech and starts to stammer his way thru the copy, play a drinking game while you watch.

Drink for every Um, Ah and Uh.

I can handle booze, but was in danger of losing my liver in the 15 minutes+
that I played, plus I got way more effed up than I planned.

GWB and his speeches were more a throwback to Yogi Berra, fat ladies singing and getting to the fork in the road and taking it and doing that deja vu thing, over and over again.

My peeve with La Mujer del Momento, is her fracturing the english language with the wealth of education she has.


GWB was a bobo that flew airplanes for a while, you just have to learn to land and take off. Most of the time what happens in between is out of a pilot's hands.

As the joke goes, You have to worry when the pilot flying the plane says, "Oh Shiat!"

Other than that? Who cares what he says!

[lizbud]

My peeve with La Mujer del Momento, is her fracturing the english language with the wealth of education she has.

Are you serious??? I don't see how you can believe that. Give me a
direct quote or other example of SS "fracturing" the English language.
(I'm serious)

I think she speaks "Lawyer" fluently. and after all, she is being questioned
on matters of law?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Are you serious??? I don't see how you can believe that. Give me a
direct quote or other example of SS "fracturing" the English language.
(I'm serious)

I think she speaks "Lawyer" fluently. and after all, she is being questioned
on matters of law?

Pot calling the kettle black?

And on behalf of the majority of those living in California...you are welcome for Ms. Feinstein....that is why she keeps getting reelected.

[blue]

Pot calling the kettle black?

And on behalf of the majority of those living in California...you are welcome for Ms. Feinstein....that is why she keeps getting reelected.

By the majority you mean the lefties that live in CAs largest population centers, screwwing over the rest of the state.

[RICHARD]

Are you serious??? I don't see how you can believe that. Give me a
direct quote or other example of SS "fracturing" the English language.
(I'm serious)

I think she speaks "Lawyer" fluently. and after all, she is being questioned
on matters of law?

The Nazi SS?


She refuses to go "rhetorical", but isn't that the whole idea of law? Going over a set of rules to protect us?

It's like those stupid laws in Podunk, California.

Let's make a rule that says, "Any person caught fishing from the open roof of a vehicle traveling over a bridge shall be subject to 250 dollar fine and/or 30 days in jail."

Let's pretend something is going to happen, so we need to make a law IN CASE SOMETHING DOES HAPPENS!!!

I've talked to lawyers.

You have to get them drunk and slurring before you can really tell if they are serious.

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Do I have to go back over hours of stunned people speaking, IT's there, trust me.

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Blue,


Now that little kid is what it's all about.

Throw a whole bunch of children into a room and they will figure how things work.