tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post5186399092329640021..comments2008-07-29T09:51:02.169-04:00The Ostroy Reporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-10059597687437790162008-07-29T09:51:00.000-04:002008-07-29T09:51:00.000-04:00The biggest concern is who Barack picks for his VP. With his poll numbers tanking, he better go with a proven winner, HILLARY.<BR/><BR/>Without Hillary he will lose and we'll have 4 more years of Bush the third.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-37599268820488465052008-07-28T21:37:00.000-04:002008-07-28T21:37:00.000-04:0011:23 You are a narcissist who typically cannot tolerate being corrected. The semicolon in this case is not only correct, it is required by linguists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-90052809408679226472008-07-28T11:23:00.000-04:002008-07-28T11:23:00.000-04:0010:23,<BR/><BR/>I am also an "innocent" bystander.<BR/><BR/>There is absolutely no need for the semicolon or the comma that quickly follows after the word "and" in the sentence. It is a poor construction.<BR/><BR/>The fact remains if a person wishes to denounce another for making grammatical errors they should be especially concerned about making errors in their criticism (grammatical, factual or otherwise). That is the essence of the "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones" idiom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-75716159390433657602008-07-28T10:29:00.000-04:002008-07-28T10:29:00.000-04:00A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. <BR/><BR/>Excuse the typo. My little knowledge of how to type is also a "dangerous thing."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-50609634495881487112008-07-28T10:25:00.000-04:002008-07-28T10:25:00.000-04:00"A little knowledge is a dnagerous thing."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-5775215473016831082008-07-28T10:23:00.000-04:002008-07-28T10:23:00.000-04:009:39 I am an innocent "bystander"<BR/><BR/>"Use a semicolon to separate a series of phrases or clauses that are long or have punctuation, like commas, within them."<BR/><BR/>leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/semicolon.html<BR/><BR/>LEO Literacy Education OnlineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-66068191493338065242008-07-28T09:39:00.000-04:002008-07-28T09:39:00.000-04:008:54,<BR/><BR/>It may look like an independent sentence to you, but the opening phrase of the reply is a sentence fragment. It therefore should not be used in conjunction with a semicolon. <BR/><BR/>Clearly you do not understand the third definition of "idiom" provided to you by your dictionary. Simply follow the link provided earlier and you will have an answer without needing to bother your English teacher with a question you can answer for yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-12011973010994645652008-07-28T09:34:00.000-04:002008-07-28T09:34:00.000-04:00They're all rotten. In Sunday NY Times: RANGEL COLLECTS MORE FROM REAL ESTATE DONORS THAN MOST OTHERS IN CONGRESS. Then the article says :<BR/><BR/>"Some of Mr Rangel's largest contributors have come from people with ties to firms whose executives are leading members of the Rent Stabilizaiton Association. The group has been behind EFFORTS TO WEAKEN NEW YORK CITY'S RENT REGULATIONS, including a 1997 change in state law that eliminated rent controls on apartments when the tenants moved out or died . . . Now it is pushing to block what it calls 'a whole raft of pro-tenant bills bills". Rangel has received a least a hundred thousand dollars from them since 2004. <BR/><BR/>He not only took money, he is working against the welfare of his supporters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-87966587154796757392008-07-28T08:54:00.000-04:002008-07-28T08:54:00.000-04:0012:16 Thank you very much, sir. I'm afraid I don't see your criticisms so I ll take it to school when it opens to get help from my English teacher. It looks like an independent sentence to me. I'm sure she'll show me what you mean. I'm going to check out "idiom" too because my dictionary says Idiom: the langugage peculiar to an individual, a group, a class, or culture; 2) the characteristic form or structure of a language.3) an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself."<BR/><BR/>School doesn't start again for several weeks, but I sure appreciate your help. I'll get my teacher to help me understand what you said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-29464955283240980972008-07-28T00:16:00.000-04:002008-07-28T00:16:00.000-04:0010:44,<BR/><BR/>There are at least three misspelled words and a non-independent clause set off by a semicolon in the rant against Obama's grammar. Should you achieve your goal of teaching English, I think it likely you will deduct points from any student who provides work with such mistakes.<BR/><BR/>Also, if you ask a question you should end the sentence with a question mark (that was your mistake).<BR/><BR/>I'm glad you do well in school. My children were introduced to idioms in middle school (7th grade, as I recall) and you can find information about the specific idiom being discussed at the following: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/people+who+live+in+glass+houses+should+not+throw+stones.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-41387610358453511832008-07-27T22:44:00.000-04:002008-07-27T22:44:00.000-04:002:33 I want to be an English teacher and I already do very well in school. What is the incorrect grammar used by the person who blamed Obama for bad grammar. I only saw the misspelled word or typing mistake, but no grammar. I am so sorry to have missed it.<BR/><BR/>I didn't know what "idiom" meant and looked it up. The definition doesn't fit your explanation of the "glass house" thing. Help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-82581811801636013612008-07-27T22:36:00.000-04:002008-07-27T22:36:00.000-04:002"15 I suspect you are one who strongly objects to the goverment welfare programs for citizens. Yet, since we can't have the equivalent of a Third World Country, we take care of the poor and sick. Yet, since that's the case, you object to what could be the government's effort to cut costs for caring for those people by encouraging them to stop their expensive, destructive behavior. I guess the only answer would be a healthcare program for those who are willing to follow health rues. If not, those people could be free to pay either their own doctor bills or find an insurance company who would insure them and then pay the huge fees. The same would go for alcohol.<BR/><BR/>Your other "thous shalt nots . . . " are really silly.<BR/><BR/>I do wish the government would legalize drugs so those who choose to kill themselves with such use would not cost the govenrment so much in the "drug war" police costs and the prison costs for users and dealers.<BR/><BR/>And there is another "thou shalt" I think is essential. "when you become a citizen of the USA thous shat accept the customes, mores, laugnage, and laws of the country." Maybe a trial period of at least a year living herre would allow the imbigrant to see if he can comply. If he can learn English, allow his children to go to school without wearing veils; agree to no "honor killings" or animal sacrifices; and, generally join the "melting pot" of America, he can become a citizen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-10025210013213024832008-07-27T14:51:00.000-04:002008-07-27T14:51:00.000-04:00and the logical next step is for the government to control individual health care decisions like:<BR/><BR/><I>"thou cannot smoke"</I> to reduce government spending on lung care,<BR/><BR/><I>"thou shall not drink more than <B>x</B> amount of <B>y</B> for period <B>z</B>"</I> to reduce government spending on liver care, <BR/><BR/><I>"thou shall not work more than 35 hours in a week"</I> to reduce government spending on stress management costs<BR/><BR/><I>"thou must forfeit the right of the 2nd Amendment"</I> to reduce government spending on 'gun-related' costs<BR/><BR/><I>"thou must forfeit the right of the 1st Amendment"</I> to reduce government spending on 'hate-crime' and 'hate-crime-victim-recovery-and-reparation' costs,<BR/><BR/><I>"thou must forfeit ..."</I> the government control of American citizens will happen on Barack Obama's watch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-5782538222091814552008-07-27T14:33:00.000-04:002008-07-27T14:33:00.000-04:007:18,<BR/><BR/>No need to apologize as it's not at all complex.<BR/><BR/>The University of Chicago Law School released a statement in response to media requests. In the column by Lynn Sweet that you cite, a lecturer from the Law School quibbled with the statement by proclaiming Obama did not hold the title of professor of law. <BR/><BR/>Sounds like that might make your point but it does not contradict in any way what the University put out in its release. The Law School statement stated, "Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track."<BR/><BR/>RE: Glass houses - the idiom is meant to warn people that in attacking others it's often easy for the same attack to be leveled back in response. Obama was attacked for poor grammar by someone who exhibited the same (poor grammar) during his/her attack.<BR/><BR/>10:52,<BR/><BR/>Medicare is run FAR more efficiently than private healthcare.<BR/><BR/>There is absolutely NOTHING in Obama's or Clinton's health care plan which precludes you or anyone else from purchasing private healthcare and it is instructive to note that 60% of doctors in this country are in favor of some sort of national health care program.<BR/><BR/>They recognize the system is screwed up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-10539435390863601882008-07-27T13:51:00.000-04:002008-07-27T13:51:00.000-04:00I admit I don't remember the details but what about the other relative - a cousin I think - that Obama sent huge sums of money to to help him win his political election in the Middle East? That would be another relative involved with President Obama in foreign affairs. He will make this "one world" under his presidency.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-76173113507860347242008-07-27T11:53:00.000-04:002008-07-27T11:53:00.000-04:00Obama's brother lives in China helping the Chinese replace American jobs! Simply google "Worldnexus Ltd" and start your own investigation.<BR/><BR/>He decided to suspend his operations until his brother gets control of the White House. Once Obama becomes President, his brother will resume taking American jobs to China.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-87350055501343433812008-07-27T09:35:00.000-04:002008-07-27T09:35:00.000-04:00Without government there is anarchy. Our Constitution provides for the best government ever to appear on earth. Our government is not the enemy -- it is the scum we elect sometimes who subvert the Constitution.<BR/><BR/>The best run "business/program" in the history of our country, despite the Republicans dipping into it, is the Social Security program. It is not run by greedy, self-serving, unscrupulous individual businessmen.<BR/><BR/>Our government stands for freedom, privacy (until Bush started spying contrary to the Constituion) and protection from foreign lands and crooks in our own country. Our food supply is supposed to be protected too.<BR/><BR/>Coporate America has become a "legal" band of unpatriotic crooks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-57364252319501830782008-07-26T22:52:00.000-04:002008-07-26T22:52:00.000-04:00Remember Hillary Care during the Clinton Administration? Hillary tried to make it illegal for a citizen to use his/her own money to pay for their health care without insurance.<BR/><BR/>Democrats <B>want</B> the government to have total control of your health. It's all about power.<BR/><BR/>Government is NOT good. If you want the government involved in your health, feel free to move to Cuba.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-77318002494008900912008-07-26T19:18:00.000-04:002008-07-26T19:18:00.000-04:004:21/4:32<BR/><BR/>This is complex. Sorry.<BR/><BR/>The Sun Times article was about the response of the assistant dean of communications at the University clarifying the misconception that OBama was a legitimate professor at the University; he was a part time lecturer. and later had one class. She explainsthe statement from the university which called Obama a professor and which caused the misunderstanding. Read the article.<BR/><BR/>For your glass house platitude to be applicable the person throwing the stones has to be "guilty" of that for which he is throwing stones, and has to be vulnerable to the counter attacks of the target, thus living in a "glass" house An anonymous blogger has nothing to fear if Obama accuses him of also misusing the English language and misspelling a word or making a typo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-19048102217663696132008-07-26T16:32:00.000-04:002008-07-26T16:32:00.000-04:009:21,<BR/><BR/>What an ineffectual response.<BR/><BR/>You were throroughly loose with facts and made errors in the application of language when suggesting Obama and his team should be more careful regarding the very same issues.<BR/><BR/>(i.e. - Rocks thrown at glass)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-34680671939929979602008-07-26T16:27:00.000-04:002008-07-26T16:27:00.000-04:0010:05,<BR/><BR/>Please see the following and then report back where Obama (or Clinton, for that matter) states the federal government will have total control over the health care system in this country: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-25958964661767210032008-07-26T16:21:00.000-04:002008-07-26T16:21:00.000-04:009:51,<BR/><BR/>The University of Chicago seemingly begs to differ: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media/index.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-69300926163221684692008-07-26T14:07:00.000-04:002008-07-26T14:07:00.000-04:00It's the big corporations, banks, and merchants who sell customer/client personal information. Their only consideration is profit and our personal information is a "product." <BR/><BR/>Of course, now the government can spy on us, contrary to the provision of the Constituion thanks to the Republicans and Obama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-69906630900256032472008-07-26T11:24:00.000-04:002008-07-26T11:24:00.000-04:0010:05 So what? The government doesn't show my employer my tax return which would reveal my other job which I do part time. Your complaint is idiotic. My employer doesn't know my correct age but my State, where my birth certificate is registered. doesn't call my employer and tell him Im older than I told him. Government is not the enemy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-81923339344443959092008-07-26T10:05:00.000-04:002008-07-26T10:05:00.000-04:00There is a poll on www.cnn.com today, "would you want your employer to have your health test results?" <BR/><BR/>Almost 200,000 people responded - 91% said "NO".<BR/><BR/>So 9 out of 10 people don't want their employer to know their health test results, yet almost 100% of Democrats want the government to have total control of their health.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com