Posted on 11/19/2011 11:07:26 AM PST by jmaroneps37
Especially that particular damn yankee.
Oh Noes!
Bingo!
I am English, what's that? a "Brit", Ok.
I am French, therefore a "Frog"
I am Irish, therefore a (?) (drunk)
I am Jewish, therefore a "Hymie"
I am Polish, therefore "Dumb"
Can't find in my genealogy that I am Mexican or a "Spick".
Can't find if there is any Negra blood in me. Wouldn't matter.
My 9th generation grandmother was hanged in Salem, guess that makes me a "Witch", not.
Thank God,I'm not blonde, (sorry blondes, I just don't need one more item in my lineup, or see Polish.)
BTW: did you get this upset when Cain referred to Michelle Bachman as being "Tutti Frutti"? Calling Bachman a dingy nutcase, that was a Freudian slip if I ever heard one, said to me he has no respect for women.
Got to let go of the hate sometime, but I will tell you that I am an American.
Hardly.
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”GWashington
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?
He makes it very clear that when on dept of Gov encroaches upon another , despotism is the result.
It is an insult to even mention Cain in the same breath with GW.
I am English, what's that? a "Brit", Ok.
Limey.
I am Irish, therefore a (?) (drunk).
Mick.
Ok: English = Limey
Irish = Mick
Now, did I get the Mexican correct? or should that be "Wetback" and Italian the "Spick".
I let these things just roll of, like water on a ducks back.
Oh, I lived in Italy growing up and can help you there. They're "wops." (My childhood to now best friend and my brother-in-law are both of "wop" heritage and sometimes refer to themselves as that...LOL)
Mexicans are "spics" or "wetbacks" depending on when they came here.
Yes, those things roll off my back as well. When we were teenagers, my best friend and I used to call each other "Wop" and "Mick" more than we used our real names. And my best friend's boyfriend was "Polak." My boyfriend was a Mick like me, so we called him "Paddy."
Political correctness just programs people to be thin-skinned.
And now you’re a mick hick. ;p
And now you’re a mick hick. ;p
Illegal mexicans were wetbacks from swimming the rio grande.
I married a Polock and he told the best polock jokes. To this day a wallet full of singles he called a polish bankroll...I think of him every time I get a bunch of singles in my wallet....he passed on over 20 years ago...
The only thing I do HATE, is PC. There is no sense of humor in this world anymore. I still remember when Queer meant Queer/weird, now they are all happily gay. Oh well.
I can’t reply to your post without doing some actual research on what the job stats were at Coca-Cola, Burger-King & Godfather’s. Do you have any links?
Right on! Bump. I love it.
I went through a period during which I collected words. They were less expensive than antique tools and took up less space than Indian motorcycles.
The cost and space savings permitted me to continue collecting guitars, so it briefly made sense. That is, until I had to make room for a bookshelf of dictionaries devoted to bizarre or unusual words (and a few devoted entirely to words that are insulting or disgusting).
I have a mental checklist of my favorite words and a life goal of being able to use them naturally in a sentence in general conversation among friends.
'Defenestration' and 'defenestrate' came easily. With 'callipygous' and 'callipygian' it was matter of finding the right group of friends.
I'm still working on the 7-10 split of vocabulary: "sporabola."
How frequently do your friends engage in a conversation in which you need discuss the path than a fungi spore takes on its way from the fungi to the ground?
But I persevere.
That would make each of us a "Mick."
I have problems with my Welsh heritage. I have no idea what the ethnic slur is for the Welsh. I can only assume that there are no vowels in it.
Jesse, didn't anyone ever teach you that your character is measured by who you are in the dark? Bigotry when you didn't think it would be disclosed is still bigotry. In light of recent national events you should notice, Jesse, that child molesters molest children in private and they don't think it will become public knowledge. They're still child molesters.
That'd be my dream library. I read a lot of Simon Winchester. I aspire to achieve his vocabulary someday.
I have a mental checklist of my favorite words and a life goal of being able to use them naturally in a sentence in general conversation among friends.
Simon, is that you?
We should buddy up and start a polysyllabic sesquipedalian ping list. :)
While in Boston pursuing a graduate degree at A Well Known Eastern Business School, four friends of mine developed a fascination with my single-word mild insults and began to catalogue them. Soon they were developing their own and use of them in a contrapuntal stream became sport.
We'd be seated in a maroon vinyl banquette at a restaurant in China Town and one of them would accidentally knock over the salt.
I'd deign to look at them with mild disgust and murmur "churl" out of the corner of my mouth. The offended party would reply: "chuff." And it would commence rapid fire, the words curling out of our mouths in a low, disgusted voice as if they were rancid and bitter:
"Vassal"
Serf
"Grobian"
Bosthoon
"Sycophant"
Myrmidon
"Ninnyhammer"
Bescumberer
"Cacafuego"
Gubbertush
"Snivelard"
About a year after we developed this little . . . affectation . . . we reached the point that on a good night a mid-meal blunder would result in a string of insults that lasted through paying the check and riding the T back to campus.
The only way you won was if the other person ran out of insulting terms or if you came up with a new one that dumbfounded your opponent. Ah, sweet youth.
But don't worry about the whole Boston thing. I returned to Texas. Then left. But that's another story.
A paradisaical evening in my book! I’ve “starred” each of those splendid words in my Android’s dictionary as a favorite. As I was doing so, I ran through my list ... zugzwang (tsook tsvahng) ... I don’t even play chess, but that word is too cool for school.
You weren’t sent to diversity school?
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