tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8965992396463811283.post4761287910700380529..comments2021-04-28T02:30:27.192-07:00Comments on Heads nor Tails: Murder, Grammar, and Dead Ducks ,,,,,,!!!!!????Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8965992396463811283.post-42226086628601322952013-04-12T08:08:53.036-07:002013-04-12T08:08:53.036-07:00I'm glad it came through! Wishing him all the...I'm glad it came through! Wishing him all the good fortune--I hope he has a wonderful time and it pans out into everything he hopes for!Mumbleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06018218539392699050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8965992396463811283.post-50216720712549047412013-03-24T19:16:15.822-07:002013-03-24T19:16:15.822-07:00Just an answer to your question. Yes, my son fina...Just an answer to your question. Yes, my son finally got his passport. He leaves on April 12th., but he applied for the renewal last November. Merikayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378095339747943548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8965992396463811283.post-26823761512725845132013-03-24T16:02:32.830-07:002013-03-24T16:02:32.830-07:00I think the danger comes when the almost inevitabl...I think the danger comes when the almost inevitable manipulation comes. People who assume they can't lead themselves, that they have to make things all mystical and magical, are wide open to be fooled, to be played. I know the church, Tommy has a Facebook friend who's a member, and yeah, folks of that variety tend to gravitate. I find it depressing, feel they'd be better served by a mental health system that was affordable and effective rather than using fairy tales to seduce and mollify. <br />Mumbleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06018218539392699050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8965992396463811283.post-56362576908366075002013-03-24T00:37:24.682-07:002013-03-24T00:37:24.682-07:00I have accidentally used ,,,,,, when I meant ....,...I have accidentally used ,,,,,, when I meant ...., but it was just a typo that I didn't notice because the screen was too small, or because I didn't proofread. I know the difference though, and I have been seeing it happen often enough that I think that some people don't know that it's wrong. Kind of like people that write "ect" when they mean "etc." for example.<br />I remember back when the idea of "Ebonics" was being floated around, I think they were talking about teaching it in schools? Or that teachers needed to speak it so that they could communicate with their students? Well, I disagreed with the idea. My black, educated, English-speaking coworker thought it was a good idea. She made me feel racist for not going along with it. My stance is that it's slang, it's a dialect, and while it is okay to talk to your friends and family in your cultural dialect, it's not what school is for. It does us all a disservice, as you say, to not teach English in school. We all deserve to graduate knowing how to speak and write and be understood. I know that I'm not racist, either. My first experience with dialect that was hard for me to understand came from small town Oklahoma, in the form of a child with stunted growth and stained teeth from the chewing tobaccy his father gave him. Their family had chickens and ducks that shared their home. They were as white as it gets. I'm sure their teachers were teaching proper English, but at the same time, they could get away with not speaking properly because everyone in the community could understand them, even if they didn't all talk that way themselves.<br />On the Kumare topic, I haven't seen it, but isn't that how Scientology was started? L. Ron Hubbard purposely made it up to prove that it can be done, and it just took off, because he was right. I don't know if you remember the Genesis Project in Ogden? It's a non-denominational church that meets in the old Gold's Gym building on 12th street. Everyone I know that goes to that church are unstable, psychologically damaged individuals. I don't think the church did it to them, because they've all talked about mental problems they had and how the church has helped them, but I believe their mental and emotional disabilities are what predisposed them to the religious mentality. People that need to be shown how to live, need to be led. It is sad, but maybe in some ways we're safer when folks that stupid have some kind of instructions rather than being left on their own? PirateHeatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06605736515492873293noreply@blogger.com