Posted on 11/01/2010 9:53:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog
If he becomes governor of Colorado, Tea Partier Dan Maes will remind citizens that "freedom originates in a Supreme Ruler of the Universe," according to his Web site. In her campaign materials, New Jersey congressional candidate and Tea Partier Anna C. Little rhapsodizes the "inalienable rights by our Creator, among them Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" and touts strict border control as "the first step in the process of regaining control of our Republic." As you read these sentences, your first question is surely: Why do these and other Tea Party candidates hold the rules of capitalization in such contempt?
Capitalizing heavily today is, then, like wearing a tricorn hat or calling your interest group the Tea Party. The point is to hark back to better times, to establish your politics as more authentically American, and to associate yourself with the Founding Fathers. "To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison," Glenn Beck likes to say. More Capitals, less Das Kapital!
What capital-ist Tea Partiers fail to realize, however, is that their orthography imitates not Thomas Jefferson and James Madison but the far-less famous Timothy Matlack and Jacob Shallus—a couple of secretaries. No one played a larger role in crafting the Declaration and the Constitution than Jefferson and Madison, respectively, but it was Matlack and Shallus who hand wrote the official, signed versions of these documents and freely recapitalized them as they saw fit.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
As a family, we didn’t want to use his name. Or refer to him as the president. The kids especially didn’t want to hear it! I can’t remember which of the kids came up with it, but “He who shall not be named” (from Harry Potter) was used for quite awhile!
As one who was taught to respect the office of the presidency I have a hard time sometimes. Especially when the kids get irate. But then it dawned on me - and I told the kids it too. “It doesn’t make much sense for me to hold on to respecting ‘The Presidency’, when even the president (lowercase!) disrespects it.”
Wow, Magnum Opus! Well done, well done! Somehow I missed it when you posted it - thanks for pointing it out again. I'm going to pass it on!
“Slate’s writers are falling down on their jobs. Other than a single reference to English’s roots the author didn’t make a comparison to German. I would have expected a few vague comparison of the tea partiers to. general German authoritarianism and at least on direct comparison to Nazis.”
I thought the same thing. I learned nouns are capitalized in German when my homeschooled 13 year old took German at the local university. I thought for sure the author would compare TEA Party members to Nazis. Obviously the author is just uneducated and couldn’t even get the acronym right. Pathetic. What passes for an educated, college graduate...! Oh, that’s right, I spent 2 years hanging out in the university library while my daughter attended classes. I’ve heard the crap that comes out the university student’s mouths.
When we weren't paying attention:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uppercase?show=2&t=1288685503
No, they just want everything to be common. No propriety.
John Lackman is a Moron.
=:-D
wOw.
That Obama version is pretty darn funny :)
decapitate
Did you read that in the paypah?
LOL - GREAT!!
He has no argument he can honestly make against the remarks, so he attacks the messenger.
In a halfway sort of a way. :=)
“It doesn’t make much sense for me to hold on to respecting ‘The Presidency’, when even the president (lowercase!) disrespects it.”
Not only does he disrespect it (and us, we the people), he’s not legally or constitutionally qualified for it. He should be impeached and imprisoned (along with many of his cronies). The republicans (Pete King and a few other prominent ones) plan to call for many serious investigations. Pray it comes to pass, for the well-being of so many good and patriotic people.
How appropriate. This little gem is by John Lack Man.
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