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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
This is 'journalism'?

Obviously without an editor...

"Ruger believes that Sheehan's stand at Camp Casey nudged much of the nation out of its oblivion over this ill-begotten venture.

How do you 'nudge' anything, much less a nation, 'out of its oblivion'?

I'll give you odds all the people involved with saying and reporting this stuff have 'degrees'.

"It's important to speak your mind but it's also important to effect change," she said.

And they don't know the difference between 'effect' and 'affect'...

10 posted on 02/01/2006 2:18:25 AM PST by EternalVigilance (www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: EternalVigilance
I agree with your points, but...

And they don't know the difference between 'effect' and 'affect'...

Neither do I. I've gone back and forth between the dictionary definitions and they seem to say the same things. I'd welcome a good explanation of the difference between the two.

26 posted on 02/01/2006 3:35:10 AM PST by libertylover (Bush spied. Terrorists died.)
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To: EternalVigilance

"It's important to speak your mind but it's also important to effect change," she said.

And they don't know the difference between 'effect' and 'affect'...

Sorry, Eternal, but "effect" is correct usage, meaning "to bring about" or "to bring into being". On the other hand, something can "affect " change, that is, "have an impact on". This is not to say, however, that I agree with anything these fools say or write. They are "oblivious" to the threat of islam.


64 posted on 02/01/2006 7:48:32 AM PST by astounded (We don't need no stinkin' rules of engagement...)
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