Yet another similarity to President Clusterfuck

That would be “W” redux.

Yet another similarity to President Clusterfuck

there I fixed for ya, by the way he is was not MY prezident, he was anointed the first time and he stole the election the second time. Bush is just a cheater and a liar…. maybe that’s where Sarahhh learned her lessons in lying!!

Great research, Julia.

On another topic, did you see bjnts pics of BBQ??
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21696200@N08/

Society has names for women like Palin. But I’m too much of a lady to mention any of them. She’s just another in the Republican stable.

And proper pronunciation of the word, “nukuler.”

Julia!!! Great catch!!

Palin is pathetic and dangerous.

Palin and McCain are impostors.

The only thing authentic about her is her phonyness. She’s a faker outer. Thinks it’s cute to play people. She’s a real power tripper, just like McCain. It’s extremely upsetting to see someone like her being adored by so many Americans. But, I’m not going to go all like that tonight.

Digg Is now op[en Pups!
So take out your new shovels and DIGG this Post for da LAKE and Julia!!

McCain has used those names in regard to his wife!

Y’mean…the Governor is really Sarah “Soapy Smith” Palin?

Con woman, bunko artist, and mayor of a small Alaska town with avaricious desire for higher office?

The parallels are actually striking.

KKKarl lives.

yup. He and Mrs. McPharmacueticals are vulger swine.

And I would bet dimes to dollars he has used those “WORDS” much more than once!!

What fun!

This is how she REALLY dresses herself, prior to the Republican Fashion Police intervention:

http://todercan.com/wordpress/....._palin.jpg

You betcha!

Whatever did we say BP (before Palin)?

Do you know who is Julia in the pics?

Fer sure. Yanno, I would really like to know ET’s take on the authentic Mat-Su Valley Girl accent.

Taste? You expect taste?

And the smiles seem like grimaces to me.

But… but… if this were true, then that would mean Governor Pain –– sorry, Palin –– is actually a completely cynical lying sham of a shadow of a mockery of a lie, and holds her audience in utterly total contempt!

OMG..I just said “you betcha” to Mr. LS. All is lost. OMG….I need a lobotomy pronto.

Pollster.com just moved Colorado and Florida into Obama’s column-putting him well over the top to win if he can hold on.

I never said taste….did I?

http://pollster.com/

Link to new electoral map

THE PEOPLE TO GOVERNOR PAIN: “What kind of chumps do you take us for?”
GOVERNOR PAIN TO THE PEOPLE: “First rate!”

Lobotomies make you Mavericky !

This is not really a mystery. I do this, myself. I was raised in a small town in Alabama. My accent, when I went to college, was very thick. People perceived me as stupid. They believed my accent denoted a lack of education. This is very often the prerogative of any American that has a northeastern, western or more subtle Midwestern accents. People very quickly judge other people on the nature of their accent.

You drop it and reinvoke it depending on the audience. It’s just a fact of life for most Americans who have one of the looked-down-upon accents.

Nice photos. Wish I could put faces to names. Isn’t that kind of the point of a meet up. I remember you saying some people wanted to keep their ids secret. Whatever.
I do recognize you (the hip chick) and Betsy, but don’t know anyone else.

BRAVO!!! nahant!
and
DITTO!

538.com’s version of the EC map: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

Gee and I was blaming it on a combination of rabies and advanced syphilis.

Who’da thunk it?

I certainly do not use my full vocabulary and often type like I am an ignorant Redneck,I am in no way unintelligent, but I am not being phony when I rely on my verbal laziness, I was raised by folks from the hills of Tennessee, I come by it naturally.
Then again, I am not running for office .
I can see her phoniness a mile away.

Shuckydarn Miss Pailin, y’all do a lousy imitation.

Next she is going to try and tell me she likes Grits and Hominy fer cryin’ out loud.

Geez. I got taken to the woodshed here for askin the same Q about Michelle Obama, why she drops the g in ing, and says min instead on men. MO went to Princeton, for crying out loud. And BO says ta instead of to. Geez.

Ducking under computer table,

the middle-aged one who doesn’t get enough sleep. Natch.

Do you wear fuck-me pumps and sateen belted suits and wink a lot while speaking with your accent? I’m guessing not, and there’s the difference.

Besides, I’d rather she showed her real self…AIP supporter and all…that’s the real deal…not the “Dallas” suits…. She does, however, wear her “new” “Republican shoes” rather well…..(love the shoes)…

McCain is a fooooool. He stands for everything she and Todd hate…

Talk about a clusterf*ck.

Let the games begin!!!

I knew you were part southern the moment I saw grendel in your name..)

Everyone in the world has an “accent”.

Julia is seated in IMG 3302, but standing, she is a tall item! (Julia, hope it’s OK to ID you!)

Ding f’ing Ding.

On accents. Mrs Knut is a French-Canadian lawyer. Her accent changes with the kind of client or person she is dealing with. She doesn’t go as far as Palin, but she shades her accent to the kind of person she is dealing with. It is a way of getting empathy and cooperation from them.

Evidently BO does it so Republicans will think he’s an elitist.

You know what this means too, doncha;

“Bless her heart”.

Can you tell me who the woman with the goldish top in photo 3304? If she’s one who doesn’t mind being outed?

Really the only thing missing from the picture is the gum chewing, and maybe a good nickname –– something like “Trixxi” or “Bambi”.

OT, but maybe not so much. I was thinking tonight that Obama has got inside McCain’s head, the way basketball and tennis players do to their opponents. I think he will go in for the kill tomorrow night, and he has every right to do so after today’s performance by McCain.

So Sarah Sixpack sometimes when she is talkin’ about somethin’ does use ‘g’s. Very interestin’.

Also, interesting, interestin’ is how her campaign is tryin’ a new press strategy. The press can be very annoyin’. But lockin’ ‘em up solves that problem. The journalists are gettin’ their very own free speech zone. But they cannot do any talkin’ to the people there. The reason is that the gotcha press keeps writin’ negative things.

Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn’t permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, “Can I help you?” and turn the person around.

When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn’t allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written. The campaign wanted to avoid that possibility Monday.

It’s fine. I kind of like that picture.

And I am in fact a tall item. Also wide, but that’s mutable.

And a neon sign. Oh!

Swatt not quite quick enough eCan!!

*sigh* Nobody had the courtesy to let the earlier thread, EW’s, know Julia was up…?

well, I replied, tho I was not taking you to the woodshed. I believe I pointed out that the US has plenty of regional accents, except of course in the special case of SoCal, where there are not regional accents.

However, I’m really not sure what to make of Palin’s “Valley Girl” accent (Mat-Su Valley) and I would like ET’s take on this.

You are fucking brilliant, dude.
You spelled phoniness correctly. I did not.
(and, I’m supposed to be a writer. :( )

Hey, C.

Whatever it takes. Doesn’t roll easily off my ears, though, and doesn’t save him from the elitist accusations.

This is a minor matter, and I don’t want to get into a dustup over it. It’s a petty peeve for me. If you’re going to be accused of being an elitist, don’t pander by degenerating your speech.

Obama’s done well by remaining calm & dignified. Let it be that.

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Salud !

and a brass pole!
WHERE’S THE BRASS POLE?????
lol

Those of us able to get down in the swill with ‘em should. Obama should not.

Aloha, Julia! Excellent post! ;-)

Can it really be true that a majority of this country fails to see the extent of the danger on display here?

Did you brass pole or brass bed??

Orange top. Hope she doesn’t mind, it’s Juslin. *waving if you’re lurking* Also 2578 & 2575 with bjnts in NYC.

She’d prolly but sugar and milk on grits.

I’ll drink to that!

*say*

OK!!!

she’s easy!!!

They ALL do it, because they are ALL trying to appeal to the people that speak takin’ and goin’ and votin’.

Yup. That’s what they does. *g*

I was kidding, the idea of them accusing him of being elitist was absurd from the outset. Clearly, it isn’t based on anything he actually says or does.

ummmm
i’d ask “could i get in on that”, but
it already happennnnennnnn.
lol

And simple as my dearly-departed grandmother used to say.

Hey, you. My very first YouTube!

My older sister told me that SarAH is the most unprofessional politician she has ever seen. My sister was the past president of the Chamber of Commerce in Salem Mass and has introduced both John Kerry and Ted Kennedy to the Chamber and would never presume to ask them if she could call them by their first names! That and the winking boy did she have a lot to say about that!! Can’t repeat all she said as it would be moderated, and her choice of clothing well you know how she reacted to that. Sis was a VP of Marketing at an old Hotel in Salem Mass and she knows her stuff.

Well, when Palin talks trash, she does it with a smile.
When McCain talks trash, he sounds like a grumpy old man.

So, they have Palin talk trash.

Bob in HI

Well, when I first brought it up, I asked if it were a generational difference. In my 60-something generation, those of us who were consciously upwardly mobile, consciously tried to lose our regional accents. Perhaps the younguns are more relaxed?

But then Julia’s post suggests it’s just as u say, a put-on to “connect” to the lesser folk. Pandering.

Julia, I’m surprised ya didn’t capitalize on Miz Palin’s geographical ineptitude… ;-)

Thank you.
Hi Juslin - haven’t seen you here recently.
Come out, come out, wherever you are. Or not. Your choice.

Bless her heart!
how’d she KNOW this broad????
hehe

There’s always time for another toast. *clink*

Amateur…! *g*

I posted a comment a day or two ago in which I referred to the Alaska/Afghanistan border. Now this. If I’m starting to channel Palin, someone please put me out of my misery.

My older sister, 54, had the same reaction to Palin. She said, “I lived during the time when women worked very hard for equality, and this little twit has destroyed that generations-long progress in two f’n weeks!”

I noticed her accent disappearing during the debate. I notice that McCain is winking more. I notice that her hair is down for Fox and up for everyone else. I notice that she’s quite comfortable slinging mud and rather eager.

I notice investigations about her appearing and disappearing too.

I know, right? Granny had that intuition.

Yup.

If you show any tendency towards a refleksion of a edjication, you are unpatrio-otic kind of person.

Dummin’ you down.

Doggonitt!!!

You betcha!!!

Well, I suspect as much, anyway.

I’m not sure which of them is authentically her way of speaking, but one of them is a major put-on.

Coming to think of it, Juslin seems to be more reliable for turning up at parties. Ha!

*sniff*

:(

I’d mentioned on a earlier post; God help us if they get access to the button… I’m sure Ottawa would be targeted through their incompetence…! ;-)

Hmmm. Interesting that the focus is on the accent. My partner is a linguist, and the first time I played a Sarah Palin clip for him, he didn’t even comment on the accent. I believe “word salad” was the phrase he used to describe it. I suggested that a grad student could spend their career analyzing her various speeches, but he said no. There’s just no THERE there.

I’m sure your sister was just venting. No individual (no matter how annoying) can destroy the constructive efforts of so many.

Having said that, it is impossible to win a decisive, lasting victory over ignorance. Many battles have to be waged anew by each successive generation.

was that the get together i was gonna make my oatmeal crnberry cookies for?….oh im sorry i did not know it was imminent..loooks like yall had fun

And proper pronunciation of the word, “nukuler.”

IS THERE COPY OF HER PRONOUNCING NUCLEAR CORRECTLY?

oh man, that would SO destroy her image

I personally have NEVER heard ANYONE pronounce it the way this president does before he did it

Ding. Us 60-something women think Palin’s the worst thing that ever happened to taking women seriously. She’s, in a word, a whore, running for the second highest office in the world.

Double spit. Makes my life a travesty.

Sounds like a smart woman to me!
Priorities and all…

I personally have NEVER heard ANYONE pronounce it the way this president does before he did it

and now I hear all the republicans doing it, I BET rove sent out a commandment, “make it new QUE lar from now ON, or ELSE

I was kidding, Ma Cheri! 8-)

I only mastered it through Suz’s kind assistance…! *g*

Love “word salad.” Wish I’d been clever enough to have coined that.

I think I pronounced it like Bush and Palin until I learned to read.

Oh, yeah, she was venting. I talked her down.

Something the Republicans have been working quite hard at, dumbing people down, it is disgusting, they have been doing it for decades.

See, and that offends me. Because my grandmother grew up on a farm in the mountains of Italy, and had to drop out of elementary school to take care of her younger siblings at age seven when her father died and her mother had to take over the farm.

Riling up antagonisms against education is a terrific way of making sure that people won’t ask why one isn’t available to them or their children.

You notice, though, there isn’t anyone campaigning or working for anyone who’s campaigning who doesn’t have a damn good one.

Well, except maybe for Ms. Goodling & Co.

the fab GLENZILLA

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g.....index.html

Ding. Us 60-something women think Palin’s the worst thing that ever happened to taking women seriously. She’s, in a word, a whore, running for the second highest office in the world.

under bush it’s been the highest office in the world, it will be the same under mccain

Food, I think it’s safe to say, was had :D

My older sister, 54, had the same reaction to Palin. She said, “I lived during the time when women worked very hard for equality, and this little twit has destroyed that generations-long progress in two f’n weeks!”

I tend to disagree with this analysis. I really don’t think that Sarah Palin is bad for women in general. She has proven that any idiot can be the totally cynical choice for the Republican Veep slot, regardless of their gender. In 1988, it was Dan Quayle. In 2004, it’s Sarah Palin.

Noo-Kyoo-Luhr has been mis-pronounced for generations

At least as long as I can remember

child of the 60’s

I think I pronounced it like Bush and Palin until I learned to read.

nope, I researched it and you pronounced it correctly even before you learned to read

I have it documented, sorry

Suz is mighty.

It’s a symptom of schizophrenia

Love “word salad.” Wish I’d been clever enough to have coined that.

I’d heard the phrase before, to be honest. We use it in medicine to describe the speech patterns of some schizophrenics. I’ll spare you the obvious punchline.

we should have a battle of the progressives;

glenzilla vs jane kong

“G”……………..GOOD

You want to know an interesting fact?
When people live in close proximity to nuclear plants they have no problem pronouncing it properly, in my personal experience.

The Trojan NUCLEAR plant was a huge incentive.

Don’t think so . Happened in June. But now that I know u make cookies …

I believe “word salad” was the phrase he used to describe it.

Hey - that was the word I came up with too.

Your partner is obviously a brilliant person.

or maybe just had a bad moment. *g*

did you see what THE VILE BINT caused today?

http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/kill-him.html

It’s not just Palin. There’s a sub-culture of women just like her. And, then there’s another sub-culture of ladies whom are the polar opposite. Think suffrage.

Hah. You got it. Just emailed her the link so she can chuckle with us at a later date.

The phrase “Intermittent Gunderson Syndrome” from the beginning of the video is reasonably apt. I was surprised when I first heard her that the Minnesota/Dakotas dialect had migrated as far as Alaska. That also seems to be the speech pattern Tina Fey has tapped for her impression.

and CLINK to you, eCAHN!!!
I’ll pour,
while I throw THIS one out.

I WANT TO HAVE enough money to offer whoever I need to offer it to, to give me the tape, be a fly on the wall, WHATEVER,
to get to hear the conversation where WHOEVER THREW the idea of Palin at McStain for the first time….
the arguments, the plusses, the “get the “hil” voters, and “blow the red guys… out of the water, or whatever..”
I can go on and can only IMAGINE…..
who threw that up to him and just HOW did that go down??? THAT conversation,
ya know???
i’d love to buy that fly!!!
ya know???
GLUG GLUG,,,,,
OOOPS
i over poured again! i talk too much when i bartend…
it’s KNOWN!

No, no, no. Your life is not a travesty. Do not let that woman change who you are. I’m following the campaign, but other than that, I disregard her.

Oh, I have KO putting Palin’s crap in perspective now.

manners - evening Julia, all.

OT: Asian markets are down. There is now some very real speculation that the entire economy of Iceland might collapse. And I still have no idea what any of this means in practical terms.

“Soapy” Smith had striking resemblances to Republicans. Except the Republicans do it at the national scale.

From Wiki: How Smith got his “affectionate” nickname.

Smith would open his “tripe and keister” (display case on a tripod) on a busy street corner. Piling ordinary soap cakes onto the keister top, he began expounding on their wonders. As he spoke to the growing crowd of curious onlookers, he would pull out his wallet and begin wrapping paper money ranging from one dollar up to one hundred dollars, around a select few of the bars. He then finished each bar by wrapping plain paper around it to hide the money. He mixed the money-wrapped packages in with wrapped bars containing no money. He then sold the soap to the crowd for one dollar a cake. A shill planted in the crowd would buy a bar, tear it open, and loudly proclaim that he had won some money, waving it around for all to see. This performance had the desired effect of enticing the sale of the packages. More often than not, victims bought several bars before the sale was completed. Midway through the sale, Smith would announce that the hundred-dollar bill yet remained in the pile, unpurchased. He then would auction off the remaining soap bars to the highest bidders.

Ultimately all the bars with money went to Smiths’ shills in the crowd.

In Denver, Smith opened the “Tivoli Club” filled with fixed roulette and other gaming tables, rigged poker games, fraudulent lottery shops, a “sure-thing” stock exchange that passed off stocks in nonexistent businesses, as well as fake watch and jewelry auctions. But Soapy became notorious for his gambling addiction, nasty temper and heavy drinking.

After his involvement in voting fraud in the 1889 city elections elections Soapy was forced to seek “greener pastures” in Creede, Colorado. Using Denver “trollops” to seduce property owners and separate them from theirleases, he obtained most of the lots along Creede’s main street, then rented them back at inflated rates to his associates. Eventually, when he had enough “subjects” he announced he was “camp boss”appointing his brother-in-law as deputy sheriff. In 1896 he told a newspaper reporter, “I consider bunco steering more honorable than the life led by the average politician.”

Colorado’s new Populist governor David H. Waite, attempted to cleanse corruption from Denver’s City Hall, calling out the state militia to assist. Soapy was commissioned as a deputy sheriff by the corrupt politicians his men ascended to the tower of City Hall to fight off the militia. Waite withdrew his forces and allowed the Colorado Supreme Court to decide the case.

Using their ruling, Waite began closing gambling dens, saloons and brothels. Even here Soapy was qable to exploit the situation.His men would fake “Bunko Raids” in his own gambling houses and “arrest” customers many compelled to leave winnings on the tables as “evidence”.

Before leavin Colorado, Soapy attempted to con President Porfirio Diaz to bring in a foreign legion made up of his gang. But the deal collapsed.

During the Klondike Gold Rush (1897), Soapy moved to Skagway, Alaska and established operations much the same way as he had in Colorado. He bribed the U.S. Marshal, opened a phony telegraph with wires only as far as the wall. Telegraph did reach Skagway until 1901.Smiths confederates “became” the newspaper reporter or clergyman, luring the new arrivals with ploys give them money. They would be brought to crooked shipping companies, brothels hotels,saloons, or casinos until he was broke.

During the Spanish-American War in 1898, “Captain” Smith formed a private “militia” called the “Skaguay Military Company”. Of course they never went anywhere. Soapway was killed when a rival group of vigilantes had a shoot out with his group over a gambling con. Soapy’s last words were “My God, don’t shoot!” His tombstone bears the epitaph “He died for the honor of Skagway.” Folks love rascals and frauds like that up in Alaska.

No, eCAHN Palin doesn’t dimish you or other inteligent women in the slightest.

Besides how do you think men of ANY conscience or consideration feel about W? Or the barnacle? Or, or (you get the idea).

Palin is a joke. On the ENTIRE species.

But remember, the greatest ‘invention’ or ‘discovery’ humankind ever came up with was agriculture. And it was women who did it.

Of course, men soon ‘figured’ out that the ‘wealth’ produced by agricultural endeavor could be parleyed into ‘power’ and ‘politics’ and thereby, ‘warfare’. The rest, as they say, is history.

;~D

Yes, would love to know what the conversations were about Sarah. Suspect John said, “She’s hot,” and that was the end of it.

nope, I researched it and you pronounced it correctly even before you learned to read

LOL! Fortunately it didn’t have a “th” or I’d have pronounced it with an “f” sound. At least, until a few monfs before my sevenf birfday.

she is pathological, she is single minded, she has a chore at hand and there is nothing else going on, if the sky fell she would continue with her talking points

She’s a good actress. So was W. W is a son of an extremely wealthy political family with generations of political influence with an agenda. Palin is a regular person, without the same background, but with a personal agenda (AIP and survivalism)…more aligned with Bush’s ancestors rising up in our society than what is happening now (which is why many regard her as the “future” of the GOP (which is BS, because the GOP is run by elitest versions of the spawn of the Bush’s and their cronies), carried along by her charisma and gender….”she’s hot”….

The thing is…the Rovians have “used” her to pump (shoes) up the base…the real base are the “elites”…not “Joe Sixpack”. The don’t give a damn about Joe Sixpack.

This is all about the continuance of Bushco going way back to Prescott Bush.

Throw them out, and arrest them all. JMHO

do tell

next meet up give me a week…shall have them there…….

Palin’s accent is strange but honestly I don’t like to listen to Queen Elizabeth either. She speaks the language so clearly but that high pitched voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. JMO

some college kid I think who lives in his mother’s house was the one to promote Palin to McCain. He went on colbert. I’ll try to find his name.

o no doubt!
CLINK!
lol!

why, thank you :)

I am very sorry, but I sincerely hate this woman. No questions, no possibilities of taking it back.

SHE INSIGHTED A MAN TO YELL…….”KILL HIM”…she is a sicko

Seems like that at the moment, but in this case I suspect I’ll have the last laugh. Still.

Palin, the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFPVCfQ7uxM

puhleeeze
i’m dyin for info on THAT one!

Sarah’s accent is fake? Just which demographic was she trying to get with that accent?

“you’re the genius, Governor!”

ie no conservative has bought the snake oil about the ayres connection etc etc. but you go ahead. let’s talk about domestic terrorists. going into AIP and the crazy witch doctor.

If I can remember!

Sorry, I didn’t realize you were directly responsible. Good job, Julia!

difference between writin’ and spellin’. that’s what i say.

really, serious question;

has anyone ever heard someone pronounce the word nuclear wrong before bush?

I have not, now I hear republicans doing it all the time, I SWEAR they have been given an order to pronounce it wrong so bush doesn’t look like a moron

too late but I think they have an order to pronounce it wrong, I am not kidding about that

same here…im not keen on my voice either,but if i sounded like PANDORA Palin,i would surely remain silent or hire an interpreter like Marlee Matlin

I bet she giggled with power.

Second. ECahn, did anyone ever hand you a job you weren’t qualified for?

Nah. Didn’t think so. I kind of doubt you even applied for one.

*clinking back*

Yet another similarity to President Clusterfuck

The similarities are so strong. Wondering if the same person selected both for candidatehood.

Thinking she’s a one trick pony and that trick is gonna wear thin as she ages.

Evening Jayt.

the nitwit vote…ah shes one of us

Another version of simple As to simple Qs: NO.

But then I also never heard anyone say Democrat Party before W.

Wrong. Jimmy Carter always said nukular, and by the way his degree was in Nuclear science.

im insensed about this,i want the FBI and SS to find this guy,that is not a joke

oopsy

I hate her. I hate McCain.

There. I’m a hater.

Wrong. Jimmy Carter always said nukular, and by the way his degree was in Nuclear science.

And look how that turned out.

It was Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention.

see fossil Liddy/Bob Dole

Yeah, Bush’s one trick was his bloodline and despite the similarities she doesn’t have that. I liked the description in the Rolling Stone article of young Bush and McCain both having “failed upward.”

Admission in not absolution, LS. *g*

im insensed about this,i want the FBI and SS to find this guy,that is not a joke

Good luck with that. The last group even had guns, and they didn’t get charged for PLANNING to kill him.

It’s such a shame Liddy Dole is in trouble in her race in NC. Just a doggone shame!

we must demand it……wtf?

w/t upstairs

hahahahahahahahaha
it was the last face lift…they forgot to replace her EARS……..”g”

speaking of Betty boop;

can you imagine if she were first created today?

she would be considered pornography for kids, possibly child pornography

and speaking of child pornography, wouldn’t the Sistine chapel by davinci be considered lewd?

and aren’t the cherubs child porn?

I’m just saying

I’m sorry, there’s been so much flipping back and forth - hey, there.

I’m not used to seeing you folks so early…

Dya think? Peaked out well below where I would have been if I were a man. But that’s another story.

Oh well, one anecdote. My boss at Goldman, Sachs was retiring & in charge of choosing his successor (1985). I argued strenuously in my behalf, so he had to include me in the search. He kept detailed notes in his office and I stayed late and perused them after he left. There was only one slightly overt sexist comment, but nothing I could take to court. What happened is that with each failed external appicant I moved up in the rankings, but never to the top. He finally, after about a year, hired someone from outside. I swiched firms. The man who was hired at GS was nurtured by my boss for at least a year, then my boss left, and his replacement was fired about a year later.

Taught me a lot about how the system worked and why we women can’t get anywhere by overt challenges. Denial runs deep, and they’ve learned to cover it up.

It was less noticeable coming from Carter since it wasn’t symptomatic of imbecility.

Touche. On the other hand he was the most honest President we ever had. Thinking back, I think that either he was too good (honest) for us or we were too bad for him. Not sure which. Right now, I would take him over and above most since.

too bad you didnt work for HP…Carla wouldnt of stood a chance…”g”

Now, now. You’ll be fine. You hate lying, you hate cheating, you hate having to vomit in your mouth when you see and hear people who are just to creepy for words.
Or something.

707

Yeah. I’ve been there. Sucks.

But then, you’re well out of it now.

It’s such a shame Liddy Dole is in trouble in her race in NC. Just a doggone shame!

Shut your mouth! *g

he nailed it, didn’t he?
not that that’s unusual or anything!

Hey, H20Tiger is upstairs, which is always a good place to be.

Thanks for dropping by my little audition for the AV Club…

BAWAHAHAHAH!

yeah
DOWN with high culture!!!
friggin elitists!!!!

I cannot find a youtube of carter pronouncing nuclear, somebody show me a link

on the other hand you are gonna get a kick out of this. I was wrong, sarah did NOT pronounce it wrong on purpose, check out this youtube, they show her teleprompter spelling the word phonetically

this is histerical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRWaoEw0uU

aha, ko on c and l

http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....s-glass-ho

Damn, imagine if you had been head of GS?

What a different world this would be, eCAHN, what a different, far better world.

I cannot find a youtube of carter pronouncing nuclear, somebody show me a link

Sorry, you just had to have lived it. It was a commonly known fact during his time in office, one which he was much teased, and criticized for.

I sound like a completely different person when I speaking with my family, to be honest. I have had friends mention this when they hear me speak on the phone with my dad. I have also had more than one friend say that they didn’t think I had an accent until they heard me speaking with family.

Accents are weird like that, I suppose.

It’s a reference to a book by John Gardner. Though I’m now curious how it refers to being from the South.

Yes. I do. But only when i want to feel pretty. :)

This may very well be true. I have met more than one Californian who has claimed that he or she did not have an accent. The same is true for my Chicagoan friend who moved down here to Austin. There is also a bit of prejudice with accents. There are accents that are accepted, and there are accents that are looked down upon as denoting a lack of education or intelligence.

So- yes. Everyone has an accent. Not all accents are treated the same, and many people do not own up to the fact that their speech is accented.

I wouldn’t call it the disappearing accent. I would certainly call it the incredible shrinking accent.

She seems much more articulate in the clips from before she was a VP candidate. Which means the “hockey mom” is a character. Can she sue Tina Fey for copyright infringement?