Nobody's calling it "Obama's Katrina" anymore because he's handling it so much worse than Bush handled Katrina.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
NAACP is nothing more than a bunch of bigots?
Excerpts:
"We don't care about the pigment of one's skin," he said. Dennis accused the NAACP of playing the "race card" and called the organization "irrelevant."
St. Louis Tea Party organizer Bill Hennessy wrote on the group's website Tuesday that the Tea Party stands for smaller government and fiscal responsibility, and accused the NAACP of abandoning black America.
"When you look at the crime and poverty and family breakdown of the African-American community ... you see a half-century of failure by the NAACP," he wrote. "None of those persistent problems was caused by the Tea Party movement, yet the principles of the Tea Party are exactly what's needed to wind down the multigenerational destruction in the African-American community.
"The NAACP was once a vital weapon in the war against segregation and oppression. All that's left is a bigoted and malicious shell that does far more harm than good for people who need a break," he wrote.
Fellow St. Louis Tea Party organizer Dana Loesch accused the NAACP of morphing into a political organization.
"They no longer prioritize civil rights," she told Fox News. More here:
My take? The NAACP may have been a civil rights organization at some point, but I don't remember it. I've always thought they were nothing more than black racists dressed up in suits. They don't do anything for black people. All they do is point and holler "witch" "racist" at white people.
Facts? They mean nothing to liberals
You know the part I like best about this video. When the reporter asks Harry Reid why he didn't allow Senator Session's bill (on E-Verify) up for a vote -- and Harry says -- this is why we need comprehensive reform, we can't do it piecemeal.
Excuse me? You can't let employers use the E-Verify unless you do "comprehnsive immigration reform?" Why not? I ask you ... is Harry an idiot? Or does he think we're idiots? Cuz I'm thinking it's one or the other.
And yes, he's in total denial about how illegal immigration is affecting jobs and the economy in general ... not to mention costing us billions of our hard-earned dollars. Politicians who steal our money like this need to be jailed.
"Controversial" Billboard - no wait, EVERYONE hates it
Bold is mine:
DES MOINES, Iowa – A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.
The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week. The sign shows large photographs of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin beneath the labels "Democratic Socialism," "National Socialism," and "Marxist Socialism."
Beneath the photos is the phrase, "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive." More here:
Ok, who thinks Stalin would have been more recognizable than Lenin? Ahhh, who cares, right?
Anyway, I love how this "jourrrrrnalist" tells you that everyone hates this billboard -- just EVERYONE -- even the teabaggers who paid to put it up -- that's right -- even stupid, despicable teabaggers hate this billboard. Those stupid teabaggers ... they're just so confused ... and stupid. You know what I mean -- stupid -- like Sarah Palin is stupid -- and all conservatives are stupid -- you get the idea -- and all liberals are geniuses and masterminds.
I wonder where this totally fair and objective jourrrrnalist was when crap like this was everywhere for eight years. Seriously, you couldn't swing a dead cat without getting fur all over some Bush-Hitler sign. I guess these types of things didn't "draw criticism." They weren't "controversial."
Ever notice how jourrrrnalists use the word "controversial?" For example, Arizona's immigration law is "controversial." However, Obama suing Arizona to stop them from enforcing immigration law is NOT controversial ... get it? Good.
From now on, whenever you hear an idiot lib jourrrrnalist use the word "controversial," you'll know you're about to hear some serious bullshit coming right behind it.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Pilots
A C-130 was lumbering along when a cocky F-16 flashed by.
The jet jockey decided to show off.
The C-130 then droned along for about 5 minutes and then the C-130 pilot came back on and said: 'What did you think of that?'
Puzzled, the F-16 pilot asked, 'What the heck did you do?'
The C-130 pilot chuckled. 'I stood up, stretched my legs, walked
to the back, took a leak, then got a cup of coffee and a
cinnamon roll.'
Hat tip to my friend, Forrest.
The jet jockey decided to show off.
The fighter jock told the C-130 pilot, 'watch this!' and promptly
went into a barrel roll followed by a steep climb. He then finished
with a sonic boom as he broke the sound barrier. The F-16 pilot
asked the C-130 pilot what he thought of that?
went into a barrel roll followed by a steep climb. He then finished
with a sonic boom as he broke the sound barrier. The F-16 pilot
asked the C-130 pilot what he thought of that?
The C-130 pilot said, 'That was impressive, but watch this!'
The C-130 then droned along for about 5 minutes and then the C-130 pilot came back on and said: 'What did you think of that?'
Puzzled, the F-16 pilot asked, 'What the heck did you do?'
The C-130 pilot chuckled. 'I stood up, stretched my legs, walked
to the back, took a leak, then got a cup of coffee and a
cinnamon roll.'
Hat tip to my friend, Forrest.
My new bumper sticker
Ok, here's the call ... I signed up to get this free bumper sticker.
I have several reasons I think this is fun ... here are a few.
1 - I want jourrrrrnalists (and other idiot libs) to see it and read it as "In your face, jackass."
2 - I went a long time thinking there was something wrong with the media but I couldn't put my finger on it. Had I seen one of these stickers I think it would have helped me see the pattern of liberalism much sooner.
3 - Most of the old "news media" is going broke faster than a redneck in a strip club but they continue to aggressively push a socialist agenda, and it's affecting my happiness.
Organization like the MRC (Media Research Center) are exposing and neutralizing the liberal media, but too many Americans are being deceived and misled. Take a stand right now by clicking the link to get your free bumper sticker and help spread this message across the nation.
FYI:
They'll send you a reply email thanking you etc -- and they have a feature where you can forward that email to your friends and you can see how many of them sign up -- and how many forwarded your mail -- and how many of their friends signed up -- etc etc etc.
Of course, I didn't get this email because I unchecked the boxes that said "send me email now and then" etc.
However, after I signed up, another page popped up that said "you missed our link email so you won't be able to track your sign ups unless you click here." So I clicked there and got my link email anyway (still without signing up for more emails.)
Another peace loving Black Panther named Shabazz
Yes, well ... you can see why Obama and Holder would want to drop the charges. Let's face it, this guy was set up. They twisted his words and actions ... not fair ... Obama and Holder recognize this so they dropped trou the charges.
another reason not to learn english
New Jersey's Supreme Court has ruled that police must inform drunken driving suspects in their native language that they are legally required to take a breathalyzer test.
“If the man doesn't understand English, how does he read traffic signs, all of which are in English? How do you read the sign held by the road construction worker, "stop" or "slow"? If they can't read "Exit Ramp – Do Not Enter" couldn't innocent people die?”
Court rules breathalyzer test laws must be explained in suspect's native language
July 12, 2:11 PM • Bruce Maiman - Populist Examiner
New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner speaks as Justices Virginia Long, left, and Jaynee LaVecchia, right, listen in a 2008 photo. (AP)
How far should American society should go to accommodate people who don't know English?
New Jersey's Supreme Court has ruled that police must inform drunken driving suspects in their native language that they are legally required to take a breathalyzer test.
Three years ago, German Marquez was involved in a two-car accident. New Jersey police, who suspected him of DUI, read him a statement explaining that he had to consent to take a breath test and that failure to comply could lead to suspension of your driver’s license and a fine of up to two grand.
Marquez didn't consent. That's because he doesn't speak English. He only speaks Spanish. So Marquez was convicted on two charges: Driving while intoxicated, and; refusing to take a breath test when asked by police to do so.
Marquez' lawyer, Michael Blacker, didn't challenge the DUI conviction, but appealed the conviction on refusing to take the breath test. Blacker argued that the explanation about the law on testing should have been given in Spanish, as the accused does not understand English.
Blacker not only wanted the court to overturn the conviction but wanted the court to mandate translations of the breath test statement --which state law requires to be read before it's administered. The attorney says that if the statement is translated, it'll "level the playing field equal to English speakers."
The court agreed. In its 4-3 decision, the court overturned the conviction because the officer failed to inform the motorist, in Spanish, that he would lose his license if he refused the test.
Until today's ruling, no state had required translation of the statement for non-English speakers. In most states, drivers give implied consent to a breath test as a condition to the privilege of being allowed to drive on the road. It's known as the implied consent law. And in most states, police are required to make a reasonable effort to inform drivers of the consequences of refusing to take the test.
Marquez claimed he didn't know about that law.
Makes you wonder then, why we even have a state-issued drivers' manual to explain the rules of the road, a manual states make readily available in various translations so that non-English speakers can study for the driver's exam in their native language. Still, in support of attorney Michael Blacker's case, the ACLU filed an amicus brief arguing that non-English speakers are unfairly treated because they are "held to a higher standard of remembering their prior study of the driver's manual" than are English speakers.
Really? You mean after reading the driver's manual in your own language, you're going to plead that ignorance of the law is now a valid excuse?
One would hope one remembers not to go through a red light. You'd think one would remember they're not supposed to drive under the influence. Do they leave that out of the driver's manual when it's translated into another language?
If the man doesn't understand English, how does he read traffic signs, all of which are in English? How do you read the sign held by the road construction worker, "stop" or "slow"? If they can't read "Exit Ramp – Do Not Enter" couldn't innocent people die? The ACLU doesn't answer that question.
Lower courts ruled against Marquez though they did recommend that New Jersey make translations of the consent statement available in Spanish and other languages, which the state did. An official website provides recordings of the breath test statement in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The problem here: Police can access the site and play the statement in the suspect’s preferred language, though using the site remains at the discretion of the police and, according to the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, "is not intended to create any substantive rights for DUI arrestees."
The implications nationwide are obvious. The ruling sets a precedent that can be applied in other states, forcing states to spend tax dollars to accommodate non-English speaking drivers, or it might also affect how vigorously police apply the implied consent law at a DUI stop or even how they arrest people for DUI in the first place.
FYI: Police spoke in Spanish when asking Marquez to produce a license, but they didn't speak Spanish in reading the DUI statement.
FYI 2: Marquez isn't driving in New Jersey at the moment: He's "been in prison since last July on unrelated drug offenses."
Should drivers be given a license if they're not literate in English?
FYI: Non-English speaking foreign tourists are a separate category. They can drive legally with a license from their home country, and an International Driving Permit which will translate the information from, for example, a French Permis de Conduire into English, for the benefit of an American highway patrolman. The reason for making them an exception is that their presence is temporary and they tend to be from first world countries, some of which have higher standards of driver's education than the U-S. Resident aliens, legal and illegal, are in the country 365 days a year, and potentially could be driving all day, every day
“If the man doesn't understand English, how does he read traffic signs, all of which are in English? How do you read the sign held by the road construction worker, "stop" or "slow"? If they can't read "Exit Ramp – Do Not Enter" couldn't innocent people die?”
Court rules breathalyzer test laws must be explained in suspect's native language
July 12, 2:11 PM • Bruce Maiman - Populist Examiner
New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner speaks as Justices Virginia Long, left, and Jaynee LaVecchia, right, listen in a 2008 photo. (AP)
How far should American society should go to accommodate people who don't know English?
New Jersey's Supreme Court has ruled that police must inform drunken driving suspects in their native language that they are legally required to take a breathalyzer test.
Three years ago, German Marquez was involved in a two-car accident. New Jersey police, who suspected him of DUI, read him a statement explaining that he had to consent to take a breath test and that failure to comply could lead to suspension of your driver’s license and a fine of up to two grand.
Marquez didn't consent. That's because he doesn't speak English. He only speaks Spanish. So Marquez was convicted on two charges: Driving while intoxicated, and; refusing to take a breath test when asked by police to do so.
Marquez' lawyer, Michael Blacker, didn't challenge the DUI conviction, but appealed the conviction on refusing to take the breath test. Blacker argued that the explanation about the law on testing should have been given in Spanish, as the accused does not understand English.
Blacker not only wanted the court to overturn the conviction but wanted the court to mandate translations of the breath test statement --which state law requires to be read before it's administered. The attorney says that if the statement is translated, it'll "level the playing field equal to English speakers."
The court agreed. In its 4-3 decision, the court overturned the conviction because the officer failed to inform the motorist, in Spanish, that he would lose his license if he refused the test.
Until today's ruling, no state had required translation of the statement for non-English speakers. In most states, drivers give implied consent to a breath test as a condition to the privilege of being allowed to drive on the road. It's known as the implied consent law. And in most states, police are required to make a reasonable effort to inform drivers of the consequences of refusing to take the test.
Marquez claimed he didn't know about that law.
Makes you wonder then, why we even have a state-issued drivers' manual to explain the rules of the road, a manual states make readily available in various translations so that non-English speakers can study for the driver's exam in their native language. Still, in support of attorney Michael Blacker's case, the ACLU filed an amicus brief arguing that non-English speakers are unfairly treated because they are "held to a higher standard of remembering their prior study of the driver's manual" than are English speakers.
Really? You mean after reading the driver's manual in your own language, you're going to plead that ignorance of the law is now a valid excuse?
One would hope one remembers not to go through a red light. You'd think one would remember they're not supposed to drive under the influence. Do they leave that out of the driver's manual when it's translated into another language?
If the man doesn't understand English, how does he read traffic signs, all of which are in English? How do you read the sign held by the road construction worker, "stop" or "slow"? If they can't read "Exit Ramp – Do Not Enter" couldn't innocent people die? The ACLU doesn't answer that question.
Lower courts ruled against Marquez though they did recommend that New Jersey make translations of the consent statement available in Spanish and other languages, which the state did. An official website provides recordings of the breath test statement in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The problem here: Police can access the site and play the statement in the suspect’s preferred language, though using the site remains at the discretion of the police and, according to the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, "is not intended to create any substantive rights for DUI arrestees."
The implications nationwide are obvious. The ruling sets a precedent that can be applied in other states, forcing states to spend tax dollars to accommodate non-English speaking drivers, or it might also affect how vigorously police apply the implied consent law at a DUI stop or even how they arrest people for DUI in the first place.
FYI: Police spoke in Spanish when asking Marquez to produce a license, but they didn't speak Spanish in reading the DUI statement.
FYI 2: Marquez isn't driving in New Jersey at the moment: He's "been in prison since last July on unrelated drug offenses."
Should drivers be given a license if they're not literate in English?
FYI: Non-English speaking foreign tourists are a separate category. They can drive legally with a license from their home country, and an International Driving Permit which will translate the information from, for example, a French Permis de Conduire into English, for the benefit of an American highway patrolman. The reason for making them an exception is that their presence is temporary and they tend to be from first world countries, some of which have higher standards of driver's education than the U-S. Resident aliens, legal and illegal, are in the country 365 days a year, and potentially could be driving all day, every day
Monday, July 12, 2010
Why I love I Hate the Media.
From I Hate the Media:I'd like to respond to this stupidity point by point if I may.
You’ve probably seen the ad we ran to welcome Al Gore to the tony seaside community of Montecito, California. It’s gone viral and the traffic has already downed our server twice.
As expected, we’ve received a ton of hate mail, but none more hateful and incoherent than this one from a proud, liberal Montecito resident.
To: Editor
From:
Montecito Resident
***********@******.com
Message:
The town is making every sarcastic, insulting remark about your outfit from our offices to the restaurants. You’re a laughing joke!
1. No one “warmly” welcomes someone they despise.
2. Those who “hate” the media, would not contribute to it by paying for a full-page ad.
3. Why would you care about a so-called carbon footprint, when you obviously don’t believe there is such a thing as climate change?
4. Al Gore did not build this house. Why have you not attacked the person who designed it and built on grounds that use to be open space and supported views and wildlife? Why are you not angry with the people that owned it before Mr. Gore?
5. I live alone and have 4 TV’s, however, never is there more than one on at a time! You can have 17 fireplaces, but usually only one is on at a time, not six! That house has gas fireplaces – it will not be burning any forests. (Sorry you don’t have even one.)
6. Why have you not attacked Ivan Reitman, Stuart Whitman, Dennis Miller, Carole Burnett, Steve Martin, Oprah, John Cleese and Rob Rowe, Eric Schmidt of Google??????? I could go on and on.
7. Over 80% of houses with ocean views in Montecito have over an acre, a swimming pool and spa and multiple fireplaces, bedrooms and baths. Duh! You’ve obviously never stepped your carbon smutty foot in Montecito!
8. I’m sorry your hatred and envy of what you think you know, but don’t, is burning such a hot hole in your heart. I guess those who have nothing, and no power, will always blame others and resent their success.
P.S. You’ll have no money in the Bank of Karma at the end of your life either.
- They do when they're being facetious, or as many morons on the internet would mistakenly argue, ironic.
- Those who hate the media clearly would contribute to it by paying for a full-page ad. This point is demonstrated by the fact that they did contribute to it by paying for a full-page ad.
- Climate Change might be a myth but people like Al Gore profiting from it is a painful reality. The particularly painful part is that he's going to be making a mint with OUR money and that's going to happen whether or not we believe in Climate Change.
- Probably because the person who built it, designed it or lived in it isn't busy preaching hypocritical mumbo jumbo against just such a dwelling.
- I guess the missed point is that fireplaces are virtually impossible to properly insulate and are known wasters of energy.
- Refer to response 4. Listen, if you're going to iterate your gripes, I'm going to iterate my reasonable, logical, and even-minded responses.
- So... just because everyone is doing it, that makes it alright? Duh. Also and again, those people aren't making themselves rich by preaching about energy conservation.
- To use your own words and argument from item 1, No one apologizes to someone they despise. Although Democrats universally crave power, not everyone does. For many of us, our lack of "power" only means that we're free to do as we please. You Democrats on the other hand, spend most of your time trying to gain power and the rest of it trying to prevent others from taking it away from you. Those of us who don't trifle in such frivolities are free to speak the truth without ever having to worry about jeopardizing "crucial alliances" with people that we would otherwise avoid.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Not sure if this is the real deal or not but I like it
The following was a letter to the editor of the LA Times. I must say he is
a little ticked off, as you can tell.
Hector,
I can't believe that a major metropolitan paper like the LA Times would
publish drivel like your distortion-laden column I had the misfortune to
read today. The citizens of Arizona passed a law that makes it necessary
to prove you are in their state LEGALLY. They are tired of paying TWO
BILLION taxpayer dollars a year in medical and educational benefits to
people in their state ILLEGALLY. They are tired of the Mexican drug
traffickers, kidnappings (389 last year), traffic accidents, and crime
caused by ILLEGAL immigrants in their state. They are tired of citizens
of a foreign country overcrowding and bankrupting their emergency rooms
and schools. They have the ABSOLUTE RIGHT to defend their state when the
federal government fails to do so just like I have the right to put three
hollow-points in the chest of the guy who's trying to kick in my front
door when the cops don't show up.
It has been the law in this country since 1940 that foreign nationals be
able to produce proof that they are here LEGALLY by way of visa, green
card, etc. This "Produce your papers" and the allusions to Nazi Germany is
a bunch of dishonest claptrap. If you took time to read the Arizona law
(assuming you can read English) you would see that police officers may
only inquire as to an individuals immigration status in the course of a
"legal contact". The problem with you and Mexicans like you is the fact
that you have this sense of entitlement that you can enter OUR COUNTRY as
you please. You come from a culture and a country with no respect for the
law or the rule of law. The United States is a sovereign nation with the
ABSOLUTE RIGHT to decide who does and does not enter our country.
What amuses me the most is the fact that if our illegal immigration
problem was due to the influx of SWEDES, you wouldn't have written ONE
WORD in the defense of their rights. It is only because they are
Hispanics like you that you leap to their defense. I find it ironic that
you are truer to your Hispanic roots than you are to your American
citizenship, especially since the Hispanic culture is a broke-dick,
busted-ass, ignorant-ass, uneducated, going-nowhere culture and has been
for the last 500 years, and in all likelihood, will be for the NEXT 500
years.
When I moved to California in 1969, Los Angeles was a clean prosperous
city. Now it's broke under the weight of massive entitlements. Now we
need concertina wire to protect our freeway signs from Hispano-moron
graffiti "artists'. What an enlightened culture you come from that
believes that vandalizing anothers property is an art form. Over 400
California families have lost loved ones to ILLEGAL immigrant murderers.
40% of the criminals incarcerated in our prisons at CALIFORNIA TAXPAYER
EXPENSE, are ILLEGAL immigrants. Thank you so much for our overcrowded
ERs, schools and freeways. Thanks also for the gangs and the drive-by
shootings. In all fairness though, I like the tacos.
If I want to enter Mexico , France , England , Germany or ANY country on
this earth, I need to produce a passport to do so. It's THEIR COUNTRY and
I need to ask permission to do so. HOW DARE you and your brethren think
that they have some God-given right to flout our laws and come into our
country of their own accord. You and people like you are the textbook
example of why the fewer Mexicans we have in our country, the better our
country will be. We manage to produce a steady supply of home-grown
idiots on our own, thanks very much (Exhibit A - Obama)
Good luck with your boycotts and your protests. Just remember; amigo, 70%
of the people in Arizona and 65% of Americans LOVE this law. Every time
you put together thousands of protesters, you piss off MILLIONS of people
like me.
Hasta la vista, baby.
Tom Edwards
a little ticked off, as you can tell.
Hector,
I can't believe that a major metropolitan paper like the LA Times would
publish drivel like your distortion-laden column I had the misfortune to
read today. The citizens of Arizona passed a law that makes it necessary
to prove you are in their state LEGALLY. They are tired of paying TWO
BILLION taxpayer dollars a year in medical and educational benefits to
people in their state ILLEGALLY. They are tired of the Mexican drug
traffickers, kidnappings (389 last year), traffic accidents, and crime
caused by ILLEGAL immigrants in their state. They are tired of citizens
of a foreign country overcrowding and bankrupting their emergency rooms
and schools. They have the ABSOLUTE RIGHT to defend their state when the
federal government fails to do so just like I have the right to put three
hollow-points in the chest of the guy who's trying to kick in my front
door when the cops don't show up.
It has been the law in this country since 1940 that foreign nationals be
able to produce proof that they are here LEGALLY by way of visa, green
card, etc. This "Produce your papers" and the allusions to Nazi Germany is
a bunch of dishonest claptrap. If you took time to read the Arizona law
(assuming you can read English) you would see that police officers may
only inquire as to an individuals immigration status in the course of a
"legal contact". The problem with you and Mexicans like you is the fact
that you have this sense of entitlement that you can enter OUR COUNTRY as
you please. You come from a culture and a country with no respect for the
law or the rule of law. The United States is a sovereign nation with the
ABSOLUTE RIGHT to decide who does and does not enter our country.
What amuses me the most is the fact that if our illegal immigration
problem was due to the influx of SWEDES, you wouldn't have written ONE
WORD in the defense of their rights. It is only because they are
Hispanics like you that you leap to their defense. I find it ironic that
you are truer to your Hispanic roots than you are to your American
citizenship, especially since the Hispanic culture is a broke-dick,
busted-ass, ignorant-ass, uneducated, going-nowhere culture and has been
for the last 500 years, and in all likelihood, will be for the NEXT 500
years.
When I moved to California in 1969, Los Angeles was a clean prosperous
city. Now it's broke under the weight of massive entitlements. Now we
need concertina wire to protect our freeway signs from Hispano-moron
graffiti "artists'. What an enlightened culture you come from that
believes that vandalizing anothers property is an art form. Over 400
California families have lost loved ones to ILLEGAL immigrant murderers.
40% of the criminals incarcerated in our prisons at CALIFORNIA TAXPAYER
EXPENSE, are ILLEGAL immigrants. Thank you so much for our overcrowded
ERs, schools and freeways. Thanks also for the gangs and the drive-by
shootings. In all fairness though, I like the tacos.
If I want to enter Mexico , France , England , Germany or ANY country on
this earth, I need to produce a passport to do so. It's THEIR COUNTRY and
I need to ask permission to do so. HOW DARE you and your brethren think
that they have some God-given right to flout our laws and come into our
country of their own accord. You and people like you are the textbook
example of why the fewer Mexicans we have in our country, the better our
country will be. We manage to produce a steady supply of home-grown
idiots on our own, thanks very much (Exhibit A - Obama)
Good luck with your boycotts and your protests. Just remember; amigo, 70%
of the people in Arizona and 65% of Americans LOVE this law. Every time
you put together thousands of protesters, you piss off MILLIONS of people
like me.
Hasta la vista, baby.
Tom Edwards
Saturday, July 10, 2010
A poem
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,... See More
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,... See More
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
Mouse is doomed
The mouse gets dropped in at the 5 second mark.
He swims fast ... mighty fast ... but it's all for nautical.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
New Sandwich at "Friendly's" Restaurants
No - honestly - I'm not making this up.
"A Big Beef burger between two hot grilled cheese sandwiches, with lettuce, tomato and mayo. Tasting is believing."
What could possibly come next?
Just so you know - 1500 calories (870 from fat), 2090 mg sodium, and 180 mg cholesterol. YUM!
The British Open is at St Andrews ... AND, guess who's playing
While Daly is playing golf on the small stage this weekend, he will be at the season's final two major championships, the British Open and the PGA Championship. He has lifetime exemptions because of his 1991 PGA title and his 1995 British Open win. More here:
My favorite player -- One of my favorite courses -- Yes, I'll be watching -- at least part of it.
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