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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:44:45 -0500, toto wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:47:02 GMT, Holger Dansk
wrote:

Bush speaks excellent English.

Here are a few of Bush's malapropisms.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm

"My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 21, 2004

Where is the error? He's talking like his audience.

"This has been tough weeks in that country."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2004

(note the lack of agreement between subject and verb here)

"This" is the subject and "has been" is the verb. They agree very well.

"Obviously, I pray every day there's less casualty."
—George W. Bush, Fort Hood, Texas, April 11, 2004

No big deal here. He doesn't want to see one killed or more than one
killed.

(how does praying have casualties?)

The praying is to have less casualties.

"God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on
both of us as a powerful message that people who
wonder about their future can hear."
—George W. Bush, Los Angeles, Calif., March 3, 2004

(He and God are messages?)

The message is that "Bush and God love you."

"Recession means that people's incomes, at the employer
level, are going down, basically, relative to costs, people
are getting laid off."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2004

(the employer level? - does he mean that employer's
incomes are going down

Yes, what else could "at the employer level" mean?

or that people who work *for* employers have less income - and, what income, if they
are laid off?)

The reason that they (employer level people) are being laid off is
"relative to costs".

"But the true strength of America is found in the hearts
and souls of people like Travis, people who are willing
to love their neighbor, just like they would like to love
themselves."
—George W. Bush, Springfield, Mo., Feb. 9, 2004

(Travis only likes to love himself? - he doesn't really
love himself?)

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone else.

"In my judgment, when the United States says there will
be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious
consequences, it creates adverse consequences."
—George W. Bush, Meet the Press, Feb. 8, 2004

(Adverse consequences aren't serious?)
(There isn't - should be there aren't, but the
whole sentence makes *no* sense at all)

He's treating "serious consequences" as a single thing. Therefore, to
use "aren't" instead of "isn't" would be wrong.

"There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial
regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The
evidence I had was the best possible evidence that
he had a weapon."
—George W. Bush, Meet the Press, Feb. 8, 2004

(Now we have a dictatorial regime?)

What's wrong with that. Hussein was a dictator.

"My views are one that speaks to freedom."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004

(His views are *one*?)

He is using "one" to mean himself and his views and not a synonym for
his views.

"Then you wake up at the high school level and find out
that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

(Ya think he meant literacy level?)

I think he made an error here. "Are" should be replaced with "is".

"And if you're interested in the quality of education and
you're paying attention to what you hear at Laclede, why
don't you volunteer? Why don't you mentor a child how to
read?"
—George W. Bush, St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5, 2004

(mentor a child how to read? - doesn't he mean teach
a child how to read?)

Well, they are very similar.

"So thank you for reminding me about the importance of
being a good mom and a great volunteer as well."
—George W. Bush, St. Louis, Mos., Jan. 5, 2004

(I never knew George was a mom)

He's talking about the importance of women being a good mom and
volunteer.

I don't have time to go through all of the rest of these. Maybe later.

Holger

"I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the
war, it requires an expenditure of money that is
commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to
make sure that they're well-paid, well-trained,
well-equipped."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2003

(You commisserate with people over things that happen
to them - he means commensurate here).

"This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin
and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist
dictatorship in Central America had collapsed."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 6, 2003

(This week in 1989? - when he is speaking in 2003?)

"[W]hether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu,
people have heard the universal call to love a neighbor
just like they'd like to be called themselves."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., October 8, 2003

(they were called, but they didn't answer g)

"I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for
what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed
by people who are probably read the news themselves."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003

(I sure hope those briefers read the news, but maybe they
just make it up).

"I'm so pleased to be able to say hello to Bill Scranton.
He's one of the great Pennsylvania political families."
—George W. Bush, Drexel Hill, Penn., Sept. 15, 2003

(I never knew Bill Scranton was a family all by himself).

"We had a chance to visit with Teresa Nelson who's a
parent, and a mom or a dad."
—George W. Bush, Jacksonville, Florida, Sept. 9, 2003

(I sure hope she is one or the other and not both a mom
and a dad).


"As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without
facts, without information, the discussions about public
education mean that a person is just another opinion."
—George W. Bush, Jacksonville, Florida, Sept. 9, 2003

(a person is an opinion?)

"We had a good Cabinet meeting, talked about a lot of
issues. Secretary of State and Defense brought us up to
date about our desires to spread freedom and peace
around the world."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 1, 2003

(The Secretary of State and Defense? And they brought
who up to date on their own desires?)

"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the
road map to peace."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003

(huh?)

"It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who
left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and
their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change
America."
—George W. Bush, Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003

(steadfast and religion? - the slaves did what?)

"You've also got to measure in order to begin to effect
change that's just more — when there's more than talk,
there's just actual — a paradigm shift."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 1, 2003

(this one makes no sense at all)

"Iran would be dangerous if they have a nuclear weapon."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2003

(yeah, they sure would be)

"The true strength of America happens when a neighbor
loves a neighbor just like they'd like to be loved themselves."
—George W. Bush, Elizabeth, N.J., June 16, 2003

(makes me wonder if he's lusting after his neighbor)

"We are making steadfast progress."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 9, 2003

(just what is steadfast progress?)

"I'm the master of low expectations."
—George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

(I bet he is)

"I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian
Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003

(one hopes that a finance minister would have a grasp
of finances)

"I've got very good relations with President Mubarak and
Crown Prince Abdallah and the King of Jordan, Gulf
Coast countries."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003

(Gulf Coast countries?)

"All up and down the different aspects of our society, we
had meaningful discussions. Not only in the Cabinet Room,
but prior to this and after this day, our secretaries,
respective secretaries, will continue to interact to create
the conditions necessary for prosperity to reign."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003

(prior to this, they will continue to interact?)

"I think war is a dangerous place."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2003

(war is a place?)

"We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and
in so doing, we not only freed the American people, we
made our own people more secure."
—George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, May 3, 2003

(he meant freed the Iraqis, I presume?)


"You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll
take time to restore chaos and order — order out of chaos.
But we will."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2003

(he's going to restore chaos?)

"Perhaps one way will be, if we use military force, in the
post-Saddam Iraq the U.N. will definitely need to have a
role. And that way it can begin to get its legs, legs of
responsibility back."
—George W. Bush, the Azores, Portugal, March 16, 2003

(legs of responsibility?)

"[The Space Shuttle] Columbia carried in its payroll
classroom experiments from some of our students in
America."
—George W. Bush, Bethesda, Md., Feb. 3, 2003

(I sure hope that the payroll didn't blow up along with
the experiments)

"And, most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin
Powell, is with us."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2003

(secretary of what?)

"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of
the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam
Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself."
—George W. Bush, Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003

(I never knew Saddam was scared of himself)

"When Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and
persecuted as a war criminal."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 2003

(I know he means prosecuted, but he didn't say that)

"One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has
come to an end."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2003

(one year ago, the time has come?)

These are just a few of GW's gaffs in English.


http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:25:28 GMT, "R. Steve Walz"
wrote:

Holger Dansk wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:39:36 -0700, "Circe" wrote:

Dirk wrote:
Holger Dansk wrote in message
. ..
How does anyone think that it is right to not pronounce a lot of
common English words correctly?

Common English words like

Insurance
Umbrella
Install (commonly misused as a noun, btw)
Nuclear
I

...?

You have to have some loose screws to believe
that.

I've yet to hear you complain about Southern mispronunciations of
the following words. I imagine you think that it's either

a) correct, even though the dictionaries I've consulted do not
support "INsurance," "UMbrella", INstall", "Nookyouluhr" or "Ah"
even as alternative pronunciations; or

b) a lovable part of your heritage/culture/yadda yadda.

In either case--why don't you cut the brothers some slack already.
Sheesh. So long as the grammar's ok I don't really care if an
occasional "th" sound comes out like an "f", f'rinstance (a dialect
oddity some black Americans happen to share with Cockneys). Why do
you?

Moreoever, the current US President--a white man born with a silver spoon in
his mouth and privileged to have one of the best educations money can
buy--cannot pronounce "nuclear" or "sovereignty" plus a half dozen other
words correctly, regularly invents words (e.g. "misunderestimate"), and
often butchers grammar and syntax (e.g., "Is our children learning?"), but I
don't hear Holger complaining about that.

Bush speaks excellent English.

Holger
-------------
If you actually think so then you have fully demonstrated your
ignorance. Bush is so illiterate that he can't even pronounce the
name of a prison that has been in the top of the news for weeks
and for which HIS people on HIS watch stand accused! He manifests
a form of quite classic alcoholic mental dystonia that makes me
think that he was either a fetal alcohol-syndrome baby before that
was well-understood, and that Barbara has an alcoholic past, or
that he's poisoned one too many neurons, or that he was actually
born borderline retarded. and that this will come out eventually
and the coverup of it, and that for a retard that he is functioning
at an amazing level, that is, of course, for a retard!

You are a nitwit. You don't graduate from Yale without some ability.

Steve


http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:30:57 GMT, "R. Steve Walz"
wrote:

Holger Dansk wrote:

On 8 Jun 2004 07:09:10 -0700, (Dirk) wrote:

Holger Dansk wrote in message . ..

How does anyone think that it is right to not pronounce a lot of common
English words correctly?

Common English words like

Insurance
Umbrella
Install (commonly misused as a noun, btw)
Nuclear
I

...?

You have to have some loose screws to believe
that.

I've yet to hear you complain about Southern mispronunciations of the
following words. I imagine you think that it's either

a) correct, even though the dictionaries I've consulted do not support
"INsurance," "UMbrella", INstall", "Nookyouluhr" or "Ah" even as
alternative pronunciations; or

b) a lovable part of your heritage/culture/yadda yadda.

In either case--why don't you cut the brothers some slack already.
Sheesh. So long as the grammar's ok I don't really care if an
occasional "th" sound comes out like an "f", f'rinstance (a dialect
oddity some black Americans happen to share with Cockneys). Why do
you?

Because I know how bad it sounds and how black people have such low
incomes, and that they could get better jobs if they would speak
correctly, dress correctly, sit and stand correctly, and walk correctly,
etc. Their lives would be so much better.

Holger
--------------
So if they did, then you mean, basically, that then superficial
human **** such as yourself and your few friends might very well
love them a lot more, eh? Now again!: Why in the WORLD would
they possibly actually WANT that?????!!

That's the problem. They don't seem to want good jobs and the good
life. They just want the "govmint" to give them money all the time.

Steve

Holger

http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm

"R. Steve Walz" wrote in message
...
toto wrote:

On 8 Jun 2004 11:57:26 -0500, (Herman
Rubin) wrote:

Look at the industrial revolution. How much of a role did
slavery have in it?

I guess that depends on what you mean by slavery.

The women and children who worked in the garment factories
were effectively slaves. So were the miners who worked in mines
with no standards of safety.

--
Dorothy
--------------------------
If you have to rent housing, or pay a mortgage most of your life
to be able to PRETEND to "own" a home, and if you did not receive
the right to an existing home from the People's State upon your
birth, which was available to you when you decided to live on your
own, then you are actually just a slave to someone rich who claims
ownership of his unearned share of the world and YOURS TOO, and now
uses you for slave labor to do YOUR work and HIS WORK FOR HIM AS
WELL, so HE doesn't HAVE to, and that's SLAVERY!!

You and the rich guy(s) you serve were both born into the world
naked and stupid. Only you're still stupid if you all haven't
ganged up on the rich yet and taken your share of the world back
from them by violence and further direct threat of violence, and
also by forbidding all the forms of scamming and unerned quest
for wealth without work, that means you all will have to totally
destroy all the speculating/lending/insurance/banking and financial
institutions that preserve the rent/mortgage-slavery system itself.

Even then you will never be free till you make a law that says
that ANYONE who tries to collect money from another person for
living in a home anywhere, or tries to evict another from their
residence, shall be immediately taken from that place by a mob
and they shall be killed with a shot to the head and that their
body will be left right there left on a pike to ROT as an example!!!
Steve

"Holger Dansk" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:44:38 GMT, "R. Steve Walz"
wrote:

Holger Dansk wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:03:11 GMT, "R. Steve Walz"
wrote:

Those people's labor for themselves would have done such incredible
good that it cannot even be fathomed.

They wouldn't know what to do. There would not be anyone to tell them
what to do.
-----------------
They knew what to do, they had been doing it FOR their masters for
ages.


Just like the black savages in Africa who have killed so many of the
white farm owners. They worked in the field on some of these farms,
but, after killing the boss, they don't know how to operate the farm so
it just becomes a wasteland or goes back to undeveloped land.

Holger
--------------------
Nonsense, the racist friends of white slavers who had worked the
blacks cut off the seed supply, and the republicans here decided
not to help them. Sort of: "If us rich white guys can't own it
all, then nobody can, even the people who deserve to!"

Where in the world did you get that crap?

If you can't see how savage many of the blacks are in Africa, then, I'm
sure people feel sorry for you.

You don't have a correct conception of what is right and wrong.


Brother Holger;

I feel that poor Stevie is slipping over the edge, and onto that long
slippery slope to becoming a total ranting idiot.

Please, continue in your assistance !

Jasper

I'm still waiting for you to state a "truth".

Charley Brown and Almighty Snoopy wrote:

yep everyone who states the truth be a racist..

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:52:41 GMT, Holger Dansk
wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:44:45 -0500, toto wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:47:02 GMT, Holger Dansk
wrote:

Bush speaks excellent English.

Here are a few of Bush's malapropisms.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm

"My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 21, 2004

Where is the error? He's talking like his audience.

"This has been tough weeks in that country."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2004

(note the lack of agreement between subject and verb here)

"This" is the subject and "has been" is the verb. They agree very well.
Sorry. It should be These have been tough weeks. Or This has been
a tough week. I mispoke what the error actually was.

"Obviously, I pray every day there's less casualty."
—George W. Bush, Fort Hood, Texas, April 11, 2004

No big deal here. He doesn't want to see one killed or
more than one killed.

Then it should be I pray every day there are less casualties.
It's still incorrect.

(how does praying have casualties?)

The praying is to have less casualties.

Ah, but that is not what he said.

"God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on
both of us as a powerful message that people who
wonder about their future can hear."
—George W. Bush, Los Angeles, Calif., March 3, 2004

(He and God are messages?)

The message is that "Bush and God love you."

That's not what he said though. And if that is what he meant,
he's being arrogant. He's a man, not God.

"Recession means that people's incomes, at the employer
level, are going down, basically, relative to costs, people
are getting laid off."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2004

(the employer level? - does he mean that employer's
incomes are going down

Yes, what else could "at the employer level" mean?

or that people who work *for* employers have less income
and, what income, if they are laid off?)

The reason that they (employer level people) are being laid off is
"relative to costs".

They are not *employer level people* though. Employees are
*not* employers (unless they are working for themselves)

"But the true strength of America is found in the hearts
and souls of people like Travis, people who are willing
to love their neighbor, just like they would like to love
themselves."
—George W. Bush, Springfield, Mo., Feb. 9, 2004

(Travis only likes to love himself? - he doesn't really
love himself?)

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone else.

Again read what he said, not what you translate.

He says just like they would *like* to love themselves.
It's not correct English.

"In my judgment, when the United States says there will
be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious
consequences, it creates adverse consequences."
—George W. Bush, Meet the Press, Feb. 8, 2004

(Adverse consequences aren't serious?)
(There isn't - should be there aren't, but the
whole sentence makes *no* sense at all)

He's treating "serious consequences" as a single thing.
Therefore, to use "aren't" instead of "isn't" would be wrong.

Sorry, he doesn't make the rules. Consequences is
a plural noun.

"There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial
regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The
evidence I had was the best possible evidence that
he had a weapon."
—George W. Bush, Meet the Press, Feb. 8, 2004

(Now we have a dictatorial regime?)

What's wrong with that. Hussein was a dictator.

Yes, but in the sentence, the dictatorial regime is
*his* not Saddam's. He is clearly referring to the
American regime when he refers to having no
such thing as iron-clad evidence.

"My views are one that speaks to freedom."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004

(His views are *one*?)

He is using "one" to mean himself and his views and
not a synonym for his views.

Incorrect English. If that is what he meant, then the
sentence should have said *I am one that speaks to
freedom, not my views are one.*

"Then you wake up at the high school level and find out
that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

(Ya think he meant literacy level?)

I think he made an error here. "Are" should be replaced with "is".

The illiteracy level though?

The correct sentence would read:

"Then you wake up at the high school leve and find out that
the literacy level of our children is appalling.


"And if you're interested in the quality of education and
you're paying attention to what you hear at Laclede, why
don't you volunteer? Why don't you mentor a child how to
read?"
—George W. Bush, St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5, 2004

(mentor a child how to read? - doesn't he mean teach
a child how to read?)

Well, they are very similar.

No, they are not. You cannot *mentor* a child to read.
You can teach a child to read.

"So thank you for reminding me about the importance of
being a good mom and a great volunteer as well."
—George W. Bush, St. Louis, Mos., Jan. 5, 2004

(I never knew George was a mom)

He's talking about the importance of women being a good
mom and volunteer.

I know what he meant, but that isn't what he said.

I don't have time to go through all of the rest of these.
Maybe later.

LOL. You translate him well, but he is still butchering the
language.

Holger

"I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the
war, it requires an expenditure of money that is
commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to
make sure that they're well-paid, well-trained,
well-equipped."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2003

(You commisserate with people over things that happen
to them - he means commensurate here).

"This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin
and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist
dictatorship in Central America had collapsed."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 6, 2003

(This week in 1989? - when he is speaking in 2003?)

"[W]hether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu,
people have heard the universal call to love a neighbor
just like they'd like to be called themselves."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., October 8, 2003

(they were called, but they didn't answer g)

"I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for
what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed
by people who are probably read the news themselves."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003

(I sure hope those briefers read the news, but maybe they
just make it up).

"I'm so pleased to be able to say hello to Bill Scranton.
He's one of the great Pennsylvania political families."
—George W. Bush, Drexel Hill, Penn., Sept. 15, 2003

(I never knew Bill Scranton was a family all by himself).

"We had a chance to visit with Teresa Nelson who's a
parent, and a mom or a dad."
—George W. Bush, Jacksonville, Florida, Sept. 9, 2003

(I sure hope she is one or the other and not both a mom
and a dad).


"As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without
facts, without information, the discussions about public
education mean that a person is just another opinion."
—George W. Bush, Jacksonville, Florida, Sept. 9, 2003

(a person is an opinion?)

"We had a good Cabinet meeting, talked about a lot of
issues. Secretary of State and Defense brought us up to
date about our desires to spread freedom and peace
around the world."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 1, 2003

(The Secretary of State and Defense? And they brought
who up to date on their own desires?)

"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the
road map to peace."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003

(huh?)

"It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who
left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and
their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change
America."
—George W. Bush, Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003

(steadfast and religion? - the slaves did what?)

"You've also got to measure in order to begin to effect
change that's just more — when there's more than talk,
there's just actual — a paradigm shift."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 1, 2003

(this one makes no sense at all)

"Iran would be dangerous if they have a nuclear weapon."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2003

(yeah, they sure would be)

"The true strength of America happens when a neighbor
loves a neighbor just like they'd like to be loved themselves."
—George W. Bush, Elizabeth, N.J., June 16, 2003

(makes me wonder if he's lusting after his neighbor)

"We are making steadfast progress."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 9, 2003

(just what is steadfast progress?)

"I'm the master of low expectations."
—George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

(I bet he is)

"I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian
Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003

(one hopes that a finance minister would have a grasp
of finances)

"I've got very good relations with President Mubarak and
Crown Prince Abdallah and the King of Jordan, Gulf
Coast countries."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003

(Gulf Coast countries?)

"All up and down the different aspects of our society, we
had meaningful discussions. Not only in the Cabinet Room,
but prior to this and after this day, our secretaries,
respective secretaries, will continue to interact to create
the conditions necessary for prosperity to reign."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003

(prior to this, they will continue to interact?)

"I think war is a dangerous place."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2003

(war is a place?)

"We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and
in so doing, we not only freed the American people, we
made our own people more secure."
—George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, May 3, 2003

(he meant freed the Iraqis, I presume?)


"You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll
take time to restore chaos and order — order out of chaos.
But we will."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2003

(he's going to restore chaos?)

"Perhaps one way will be, if we use military force, in the
post-Saddam Iraq the U.N. will definitely need to have a
role. And that way it can begin to get its legs, legs of
responsibility back."
—George W. Bush, the Azores, Portugal, March 16, 2003

(legs of responsibility?)

"[The Space Shuttle] Columbia carried in its payroll
classroom experiments from some of our students in
America."
—George W. Bush, Bethesda, Md., Feb. 3, 2003

(I sure hope that the payroll didn't blow up along with
the experiments)

"And, most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin
Powell, is with us."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2003

(secretary of what?)

"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of
the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam
Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself."
—George W. Bush, Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003

(I never knew Saddam was scared of himself)

"When Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and
persecuted as a war criminal."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 2003

(I know he means prosecuted, but he didn't say that)

"One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has
come to an end."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2003

(one year ago, the time has come?)

These are just a few of GW's gaffs in English.


http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm


--
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..

The Outer Limits

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:28:05 GMT, Holger Dansk
wrote:

You proved my point. As far as you are concerned, all *white* people speak
good English, even when their English is atrocious (aka GW Bush). Thank you
for your honesty.

Just because Bush speaks excellent English does not mean all white
people do.

Bush doesn't speak excellent English though. He cannot pronounce
nuclear (neither could some other presidents). He uses incorrect
words. His tenses don't agree with the subjects or objects in his
sentences. Aside from that his words don't even make sense when
he speaks *off the cuff.*


--
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..

The Outer Limits

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:54:33 GMT, Holger Dansk
wrote:

You are a nitwit. You don't graduate from Yale without some ability.

Unless you are the son of a famous alumna. Bush daddy got him in
and Bush daddy would have been displeased if he had not graduated,
so he graduated with a quite undistinguished record too.

Even his teachers at prep school were surprised that he was accepted
into Yale.


--
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..

The Outer Limits

wrote:

I've met too many highly literate children of illiterates,
black or otherwise, for this excuse to hold any water.

And to be fair, I've met a lot of white people who deserve the
criticism from Bill Cosby as well.

What sucks is the politicians who want to keep people like
cattle herds in ethnic ghettos so they can be assured of their captive
vote.
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You idiot, ghetto people don't vote at all!!


If the black, Greek or Korean leaves the ghetto, heaven forbid,
they vote on their own - Better (for the pols) to keep them acting
like herds by providing things like bilingual education.
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Nonsense, people vote who are educated enough to do so and have
a belief that it will do any good! Those extremely few who happen
to bounce out of the ghetto lie a ping-pong ball in a barrel full
of mousetraps through one tiny hole aren't even representrative of
the rest of everyone they came from.


In by Bob LeChevalier
on Fri, 28 May 2004 19:47:31 -0400 we perused:

*+-I am sure that a small number of black slaves learned to read even
*+-though it was against the law. That would not negate the claim that
*+-blacks had insufficient access to any sort of education that would
*+-cause them to acquire native fluency in educated English.

*+-lojbab
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Ridiculous! That's like saying that one physicist in a family proves
that the rest of them are just pretending that they aren't physicists,
and that we should make them!!

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Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II
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Steve