Posted on 04/19/2014 5:48:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
When everything about you is founded on lies and false premises its just a matter of time before the whole house of cards caves in. The question of relevance is,”How many will it hurt in the process?”With this guy it may, like Hitler, affect millions.
Ever since that movie, “Floundering” and “foundering” have come to mean the same thing! A Flounder” IS A FISH, DARN IT! THIS is what “foundering means;
“foun·der2 [foun-der] Show IPA
verb (used without object)
1.
(of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
2.
to fall or sink down, as buildings, ground, etc.: Built on a former lake bed, the building has foundered nearly ten feet.
3.
to become wrecked; fail utterly: The project foundered because public support was lacking.
4.
to stumble, break down, or go lame, as a horse: His mount foundered on the rocky path.”
As an old sailor, this ticks me off!
They said Flounder and just wanted to make fun of them for the commentary, for Bammy and the use of the word.
Mission accomplished...feeling HOPELESS
‘flounder’ as a verb [to struggle; to move with difficulty] has been in use since the late 1500s.
Ooh boy, he really has the features of an Indonesian sultan.
Note: a flounder is a fish, one sided it’s true.
To founder is to fill with water and sink, usually a ship.
Sorry, just one of those things that get me.
Thanks.
Here is some more supporting evidence to your premise which I just ran across when starting my computer:
http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-speech-michelle-obama-draws-complaints-144546090.html
KANSA SPEECH - MICHELLE OBAMA DRAWS COMPLAINTS
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — If expanding the guest list to include Michelle Obama at graduation for high school students in the Kansas capital city means fewer seats for friends and family, some students and their parents would prefer the first lady not attend.
A furor over what the Topeka school district considers an honor has erupted after plans were announced for Obama to address a combined graduation ceremony for five area high schools next month an 8,000-seat arena. For some, it was the prospect of a tight limit on the number of seats allotted to each graduate. For others, it was the notion that Obama’s speech, tied to the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education outlawing segregation in schools, would overshadow the student’s big day.
“I’m a single mother who has raised him for 18 years by myself,” said Tina Hernandez, parent of Topeka High School senior Dauby Knight. “I’ve told him education is the only way out. This is one of the biggest days of their lives. They’ve taken the glory and shine from the children and put on Mrs. Obama. She doesn’t know our kids.”
Hernandez was among the parents and students who spoke Thursday at a school board meeting and urged district officials to reconsider their decision to invite Obama. Ron Harbaugh, spokesman for the Topeka school district, said Friday discussions were under way to work out the logistics and planning for the event, including how many tickets each family would be allotted.
“We will have a clearer picture of what’s going on,” Harbaugh said.
Harbaugh said officials asked the president or first lady to speak at graduation as a tie-in with the anniversary of the Brown decision, which outlawed school segregation. The district plans to place a priority on seating students and their families, and could broadcast the event to an overflow room at a hotel adjacent to the graduation arena for those unable to find a seat inside.
That’s not good enough for Taylor Gifford, 18, who started an online petition...
Just wait until Billary 2.0 extends the carnage for another 8 years.
“She expressed grave concern that the economy’s 6.7 percent unemployment rate was still significantly above the jobless level the Fed considers normal. “
Especially since it’s really north of 15%.
I've actually had someone in a meeting "gently" correct me when I used foundering. Of course, he was someone who loved to say irregardless.
6.7% my big ol’ hairy butt, unemployment is probably twice that if we were getting an honest number......The TRUE number is very close to 32%.
There's a reason that they call it the "Stupid Party."
There is not as much difference in these two words as you might think. Have you ever been “floundering” fishing for flounder? They can be caught on a hook and line but “floundering” also means wandering around in shallow water, at night with a lantern and a stick with a sharp point on it and sticking it into a flounder who is sleeping. This kind of “fishing” can go bad and you find that you are foundering in an unknown place in deep d..d...
(been there done that)
Obama may be foundering but he is also floundering.
The OED offers “flounder” as a verb going back to the 16th Century: “expressing impetuous or clumsy movements...to flop about”.
A 1592 citing is: “My foot did slide...and Flundering, almost flat on earth I go”; from 1735, “Another in the treach’rous Bog Lies flound’ring”; from 1834, “He lost his balance, and man and fish lay together floundering in the rapid”.
Seems likely the movements and actions of the flounder-fish were applied descriptively to other creatures and situations, in verb form—much as we also say someone “snaked” through tall grass, etc.
“...Obama’s Presidency Is Floundering...”
Nonsense.
It’s all George Bush’s, the Republicans’, the Tea Party’s and evil, mean, knuckle-dragging, gun-loving, bible-thumping, Christian white males’ fault.
See? Ya know?
(That’s the way the Progressives will spin it, in one way or another.)
IMHO
When was it ever not floundering. The country is a disaster.
Nothing matters. After 8 yrs of shitlery we’re DONE!
Yep. Bill Clinton: First American Reich
Barack Obama Obama: Second American Reich
Hillary Clinton: Third American Reich.
Damn them, I hope they can be stopped...
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