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http://pierrelegrand.net/2006/12/21/ann-coulter-knows-how-to-winwhy-doesnt-our-political-class.htm

Ann Coulter knows how to win…why doesn’t our Political Class?

Here is my exit strategy and my definition of victory, when the enemy begs me to leave victory is at hand. Then I will set my terms and if he accepts I will leave a garrison in his home to insure comnpliance. Viola victory.

I am not sure why you are getting your panties in a knot over the insipid and dimwitted comments of a theatre reviewer over his grandiose ideas of how a war ought be fought, Ann. You provide ample evidence in your column that he ought not be taken seriously due to a lack of bona fides and of equal import, he is a writer for the Al Qu’aida Newsletter, the NY Times.

What is next, a revisiting of the umbrae and penumbrae of the 14th Amendment by their travel columnist? Ann, baby, sweetheart, you give these mutts way to much credit and way to many pixels of your otherwise insightful musings.

Who reads these jamokes anyway? They are preaching to the choir. (Except that they probably do not practice any Theocentric religion and hence the concept of a “choir” is as alien to them as the term “victory.” Perhaps a better reference may have been “They are preaching to the ‘West Village Gay Man’s Chorale.’”) A symposium on the wit and witticism of Ward Churchill would make more sense than giving any credence for a charter member of the LSM Memorial Gulag of which I hope to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony. Soon.

I agree with your plans, Ann. The quicker we despatch a quorum of Islamofascist terrorists, or, as defined by the NY Times, “innocent civilians” to meet Allah the better off we will be. I am of the firm belief that had we done what needed to be done, that is lay waste to Iraq upon our entry, to root out every bastion of the terrorists, to prosecute with extreme prejudice each and every person who even gave the slightest impression of having a bad thought against us, we would not have issues we are facing now.

We can still win. But with the next Congress looming large and in my humble opinion, festooned with those who would rather cut the Defense budget in order to subsidize to a greater degree the NEA, that prospect seems increasingly unlikely.

Barring some kind of horrific tragedy, an attack of everestal proportions on our soil or people it is remote that the democrabs who will take over the helm of our country next month have the intestinal fortitude, the intellectual honesty or the required patriotism to do the right thing.

Cry ‘havoc’ and let fly the dogs of war.

God Bless, God Speed and Merry Christmas to all, especially our brave service people serving and protecting all of us, even the Frank Rich’s of the world.

Pax Domini
John

PS: “voila” and “victory” in the same sentence? Does anyone else see the irony?

Jaksavin

I sometimes wonder about your over intellectual concepts. Reality is that Rich and others like him keep pounding the drum. By the day, realize or except it or not, people are converting because of these idiot's literary rants. Gays are multipling daily in the youth generation. They hear so much of this crap as well as see it on TV and movies that they either feel empathy for the "Poor gays who are picked on" or consider the lifestyle a true option for their own life.

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world because of the relentless pounding of the allah drum by those followers. Let Ann pound her drum and do it more often. She is our voice.

Ann is just getting into her exposure of the truth mood to do her part to fight back with the mighty pen. So no need to insult her or her panties!

LAMadDog

I dare say, you misunderestimated me, in no way shape or form would or did I insult Dear Sweet Ann, nor her undergarments.

I do agree with what you say, the left has ceaselessly bombarded we good American’s with their reprobate lifestyle and political views until we have succumbed a la the Stockholm Syndrome.

The possibility exists that I have given the remaining good American’s too much credit that they would not fall for the twisted logic of Rich et al. I know when I am being lied to, I was hoping that others would recognize that as well. For the Love of God, why would ANYONE in their right mind listen to a movie reviewer for their political eruditions? Or, did I answer my own question.

(Speaking of the gays, perhaps Rosie O’Freaking Donnell is the best thing for good American’s vis-à-vis the gays since, well, since Liberace! That loud mouthed, hating, anti-American, anti-Christian has done more to alienate good people and it is to be hoped that her strident screeching will sound as a clarion to others to rethink and reconsider what others of the left are preaching.)

Thank you for the compliment, I think, but I hardly see my musings as “over intellectual concepts.” I am an American, I am a Catholic and I love my country. I detest and abhor those who do not and moreso those who pretend to be pro-American in their hate and vitriol. I am but a common man with common dreams. I want to see our country a good, God-Fearing country, one that does the right thing despite the opinions of others.

God Bless and God Speed
John

There is only one way that the War in Iraq and indeed, the whole War on Terrorism, is that the pussy-liberals are doing their damnedest to cause the military to fail. They succeeded during Vietnam, because the media put horrific photos of the war on the nightly evening news during dinner time, and Americans found they couldn't stomach it. Any news about the great things that American troops did for the local population? Nope. Just the body count, and the lies about soldiers committing attrocities. Sound familiar? Yup...because a pussy-liberal doesn't change it's spots. If they say the lies enough, they know people will percieve them to be the truth...and perception is all they need. As a former soldier, I abhor the socialist liberals in this country...I abhor the liberal media in this country...and I abhor the Hollywood retards who think that just because they make stupid amounts of money from the lemmings of America, they have wisdom about international matters and our national security. Every single person who falls into those categories are so incredibly dangerous to our way of life...and the "leadership" on the right DOES NOTHING! Quivering purse-dogs! It appears that we will have to stand by and watch our country be slowly destroyed by the pussy-liberals and the actual terrorists. Vietnam? That will be nothing compared to what happens if we fail this current "War on Terrorism"...God help us all...

Okay...first sentence SHOULD have read: "There is only one way that the War in Iraq and indeed, the whole War on Terrorism, IS LIKE VIETNAM is that the pussy-liberals..." Got ahead of myself. LAMadDog is exactly right...imbeciles like Frank Rich, Rosie O'Donnell, Sean Pean, Alec Baldwin, Barbara Striesand, Al Franken, Alan Colmes, and ALL the devious, dangerous idiots that make up "the Left" ARE being listened to...by the lemming-half of the country that keeps voting for murders like Ted Kennedy and traitors like John Kerry and thieving socialists like Hillary Clinton and...well, you get the idea. The "idiots" need to be shut up because the "idiots" actually ARE being listened too...by ignorant and/or idiot Americans. People don't think about these idiots being blithering retards (and I certainly don't mean any offense to all of the wonderful people who are truly "mentally challenged")...they keep hearing the same points from all corners of the media and liberal politicians and Hollywood scumbags...and so they believe it. If all those people said enough times that "the sun will rise someday as a bran muffin"...people will start believing it! America is full of lemmings...and Islam knows it and they are fully prepared to take advantage of that! The pussy-liberals won't even wake up when a dirty bomb or small nuke are set off in a major city...they'll just blame Bush!! They don't care about American lives...they only care about their socialist agenda. The fact that they can't see that Islam hates SOCIALIST TOO is facinating! They will die just like all the others, with disbelief in their face as they get THEIR heads cut off by these animals! Kill them all and let God sort them out! If they're so damned eager to go meet God...I say lets give them every opportunity we can!! God Bless America...and God Bless the patriots...like Ann and her readers...who love this country as much as I do. Merry Christmas to all...and to all a good night!!

Jaksavin, pls try to be more careful with our language.

"the left has ceaselessly bombarded we good American’s..." should have read "the left has ceaseslessly bombarded us good Americans..."

"remaining good American's" should have read "remaining good Americans"

"best thing for good American's" ditto.

WE HAVE TO BE BETTER THAN THEY ARE. IN EVERY WAY, INCLUDING GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION. GET A PROOFREADER.

Tsk, tsk.

With the Christmas season upon us, the message of Christ should be first and foremost on our minds.

Your contribution to the world this season is....a criticism of a columnist?

And once again, you may wish to explain the concept of irony to some of your commenters.

Apparently, they are unable to see that calling for 'laying waste' to entire nations, 'killing them all and letting God sort them out', calling the majority of their fellow citizens 'idiots' and 'lemmings' is ridiculous when followed by phrases about their love of country or their belief that God blesses that type of behavior or sentiment.

May God have greater mercy on their souls this season and always than they are willing to show His other children.

Dear Dick:

I am at sea with your remarks. I find it odd that you feel the need to castigate my putative errata but not for my content. With respect to your welcome suggestion to employ a proofreader, apparently I need to double check the proofreader that is in “Word”, whence the erroneous corrections were made.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

In addition, the use of the possessive in contradistinction to the plural, in my humble opinion, does little to detract from the message. After all, communication is the dissemination of thoughts, ideas and information. A redundant apostrophe will not alter the tenor of my ideas.

But, more perplexingly is the issue that you did not disagree with me. For someone to nitpick something as insignificant as you did would give currency to the concept that you agreed with me. Yet, I would be forgiven if I thought you might hold an MFA or another degree of similar import. Usually, one who consults “Fowlers” is of an antipodal political bent than me. (Or is it ‘I’, I am not quite sure.)

Speaking of “Fowlers” and my sophomoric attempt at pronoun humor, the use of “we” is, in fact, correct, and not the “us” as you erroneously proffer.

I am sure that you did it intentionally, but your admonition stated in part: “IN EVERY WAY, INCLUDING GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION.” Now, excuse me for thinking clearly but that is a sentence fragment. It may be a result of a period employed immediately preceding that statement in lieu of the correct punctuation mark, the comma. I find that mildly ironic. Taking me to task for a grammar crime as you commit a similar offence in your summation.

Those who live in glass houses…….

Have a splendid diurnal journey.
John

(I hope you get the humor just as I hope your posting was also a joke.)

Dick:

I offer the following in the event that you were serious. You began your little diatribe by stating: “pls try to be more careful with our language.”

I consulted a number of dictionaries I have at hand, yet not one has a citation for the word “pls.” It is cited in a number of ways as shorthand, abbreviation et cetera.

Were I not “more careful with our language” I would have used more sloppy usages. Perhaps I need a “Dicktionary” to find said words.

LOL!
John

Pls do not get our grandiose umbrae and penumbrae bona fide jamokes in a Theocentric chorale multipling daily in the youth generation because of the relentless pounding of the allah drum in an attack of everestal proportions just to insult her or her panties because you misunderestimated me, in no way shape or form as Rosie O’Freaking Donnell and the pussy-liberals committing attrocities people will perceive is facinating moreso, Sean Pean is ceaseslessly bombarded us commenters.

And that’s not the half of it!

Trochilus

Perfect! Ne Plus Ultra! I could not have said it myself, even tho apparently I did say half of that!

Perhaps, good dear sir, that you will continue with mr my quest to have the word "everestal" accepted by the neologists! I think it is a stunning word and have been using it for years without question as it describes itself!

Merry and Blessed Christmas My Erudite Friend.

God Bless and God Speed All
John

Jaksavin...

To paraphrase the dear, departed Rummy, goodness gracious, where to begin.

I shall try to be brief.

1. "pls" is an acceptable abbreviation for "please" in informal communication, no less so than your "lol". (see Dictionary.com) Email, unless it uses a direct lift from another more formal medium, is considered by most to be among the least formal forms of communication.

2. The use of an incomplete sentence to emphasize a point was, as you suspected, intentional. This is also common in informal communication, and is been used often at all levels of discourse.

3. True, the incorrect use (not redundant, which implies use of two rather than one, not one rather than zero)of the apostrophe did not change the substance. But it did detract from the author's authority, as did...

4. the fingernails-on-the-blackboard error of using the nominative case for a direct object of a transitive verb. And you persist, reponding, "the use of 'we' is, in fact, correct, and not the 'us' as you erroneously proffer." Doggone it, Jaksavin, this is third grade English, no Fowler's consultation required!

Why criticize style and not substance? Easy. I don't susbtantially disagree with you. My reason for submitting corrections is that I'm on your side and I don't like giving the other guys free ammunition, no matter how small the amount.

Blessed Christmas.

Dick

To paraphrase the dear, departed Rummy, goodness gracious, where to begin.

I shall try to be brief.

1. "pls" is an acceptable abbreviation for "please" in informal communication, no less so than your "lol". (see Dictionary.com) Email, unless it uses a direct lift from another more formal medium, is considered by most to be among the least formal forms of communication.

2. The use of an incomplete sentence to emphasize a point was, as you suspected, intentional. This is also common in informal communication, and is been used often at all levels of discourse.

3. True, the incorrect use (not redundant, which implies use of two rather than one, not one rather than zero)of the apostrophe did not change the substance. But it did detract from the author's authority, as did...

4. the fingernails-on-the-blackboard error of using the nominative case for a direct object of a transitive verb. And you persist, reponding, "the use of 'we' is, in fact, correct, and not the 'us' as you erroneously proffer." Doggone it, Jaksavin, this is third grade English, no Fowler's consultation required!

Why criticize style and not substance? Easy. I don't susbtantially disagree with you. My reason for submitting corrections is that I'm on your side and I don't like giving the other guys free ammunition, no matter how small the amount.

Blessed Christmas.

Dick

Jaksavin...

To paraphrase the dear, departed Rummy, goodness gracious, where to begin.

I shall try to be brief.

1. "pls" is an acceptable abbreviation for "please" in informal communication, no less so than your "lol". (see Dictionary.com) Email, unless it uses a direct lift from another more formal medium, is considered by most to be among the least formal forms of communication.

2. The use of an incomplete sentence to emphasize a point was, as you suspected, intentional. This is also common in informal communication, and is been used often at all levels of discourse.

3. True, the incorrect use (not redundant, which implies use of two rather than one, not one rather than zero)of the apostrophe did not change the substance. But it did detract from the author's authority, as did...

4. the fingernails-on-the-blackboard error of using the nominative case for a direct object of a transitive verb. And you persist, reponding, "the use of 'we' is, in fact, correct, and not the 'us' as you erroneously proffer." Doggone it, Jaksavin, this is third grade English, no Fowler's consultation required!

Why criticize style and not substance? Easy. I don't susbtantially disagree with you. My reason for submitting corrections is that I'm on your side and I don't like giving the other guys free ammunition, no matter how small the amount.

Blessed Christmas.

Dick

Dick’s Deli:

You sound like a child in that you post about others mistakes, had to have a temper tantrum and yell by using all capital letters and posted nothing substantive about the column being discussed. And, you had to post your last post about how correct you are three times within minutes of each other (4:58 pm, 5:01 pm, 5:06 pm of the same evening) as if to make sure you got in the last word. Now that’s childish.

The use of “pls” for “please” is acceptable shorthand. My personal opinion is that it shows a degree of laziness on your part, especially while in the midst of criticizing others, as you are only saving yourself three whole letters. The use of “LOL” saves a little more typing so its use is a bit more understandable. But regardless of the use of shorthand, I still understand what is being posted and that’s the main part.

This is a blog – not a writing class. If “WE HAVE TO BE BETTER THAN THEY ARE.” then I suggest that you post something substantive about the column and stop carrying on about typographical errors, “fat fingering” and other grammatical errors.

No one here is writing a column (although I admit some of my posts have gotten longer than the original column.) Most here do the best they can but even the best make mistakes. No proofreader catches every error. How many books have you read where there are typographical errors? I’ve read and caught plenty.

You need to lighten up – this is a blog.

As for ammunition, who is going to take and use comments from anonymous bloggers? Even if someone did, who cares? The ability to post allows people to vent their thoughts, feelings and/or spark debate. I believe debate is a good thing that should not be stifled, even if some people post what I think are some rather ridiculous comments, are grammatically incorrect or have a few typographical errors.

Join the fun of the debate instead of being a grammatical “stick in the mud”.

Merry Christmas everyone!

By the way, any spellchecker would have caught "susbtantially" all three times.

LynnJG...

You missed the misspell of "responding" and the blatantly incorrect "is been used".

And of course you missed the point. Next week's assignment, class: Learn the distinction between "correction" and "criticism". Extra credit: try to distinguish between fat-finger typos and deliberate mistakes borne of ignorance, not carelessness.

And thanks for taking the bait.

Dear Dick, Jaksavin, LynnJG, et al,
I am trying not to make some of the mistakes that you people are making, but if I do, I can blame it on being educated in the public schools.

Kevind,
Just because this is Christmas does not mean that we cannot defend ourselves. Saddam had WMDs and had used them against the Kurds and others. He invaded Kuwait and killed numerous political opponents. He supported Al Qaida and/or other terrorist organizations. (You did not hear that, did you?) I don't even remember everything else. I did hear President Bush give a list of offenses that Saddam had committed against the UN's resolutions and that anyone who aided terrorists would be treated the same as the terrorists themselves. That was how he justified the war with Iraq.

As for criticizing a columnist's opinions, anyone who puts their opinions into the public arena for public consumption is subject to having their opinions criticized. Jesus's message criticized His religious leaders. Why can't we criicize other people's opinions? What does the Christmas season have to do with it? Why do you criticize others for criticizing others?

That's hypocritical.

Dick's Deli:

Taking the bait… Wow, are you childishly delusional and full of yourself! You’re explanation is bad as the John Kerry botched joke explanation.

Is that all you are after is baiting people? So, everyone here should just ignore your posts because that’s all they are - bait?

You're not fooling anyone. I'm not the one trying to espouse how perfect I am, nor am I the one looking for every typographical, grammatical or spelling error in others. I’m forgiving – you are not. It’s you who thinks you are better than others here.

And, your errors are not deliberate regardless of what you say in your posts and how often you post it. You make mistakes just like everyone else but are afraid to admit it.

You are violating your own objective of "WE HAVE TO BE BETTER THAN THEY ARE" by actually BEING better in what you post.

And, it’s you that needs to learn the difference between “correction” and “criticism”.

Correction is not typing comments in all capital letters, which is considered yelling in the IM/blog world and you know it; nor is it using statements like “Doggone it, Jaksavin, this is third grade English, no Fowler's consultation required.” which shows frustration on your part. What you type attempts to embarrass or humiliate, not correct or criticize, in order to feed your own delusions of grandeur.

“Why do you see the splinter which is in your brother’s eye, and do not feel the beam which is in your own eye?” Matthew 7:3

"Oh hypocrites, first take out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to get out the splinter from your brother's eye." Matthew 7:5

And your assignment for next week is to grow up a bit and practice what you preach.

Basta!

Enough!

I get Dick’s point, and it was made tongue-in-cheek. Besides, I have a hard time taking anyone to task who agrees with me. I do appreciate the Rummy reference, and it is appropriate. Call me silly but I think he, Rummy, is a great man and has done much to help and protect our nation over his long and storied career in public service.

Lynn, methinks thou protesteth too much. As far as posting the same item three times, I have on a few occasions had the same citing appear more than once, call it a computer snafu.

Loser’s always accurate and insightful comments are spot on but I dare say any criticism of kevind is a folly. As he is a drive-by poster, spreading his hate, vitriol and, typical of the left, lies, falsehoods, mendacious statements, mis- and half- truths, anything said to rebut him will either fall on deaf ears or be totally ignored by aforementioned Birkenstockista.

As it appears that there are a limited number of us who play here in Ann’s Cyber Playground, I will invoke, again, the words of Rodney King: “Can’t we all just get along?”

My resolution for 2007(other than shedding part of my winter weight gain) will be not to criticize anyone for things other than substance or lies. Typos, other assorted errata, various and miscellaneous mistakes of grammar and punctuation will escape my corrigenda saving same for the dull-witted of the left who dare sully the ether with their hate.

But, hey, that is just me!

Dominus Vobiscum.

Ionni

...Et cum spiritum, Jacksavin.

And Basta!, indeed. (It's said that Toscanini muttered "Basta!" after his valedictory performance with the NBC Orchestra, not because it was simply enough, but mostly because he'd thought the performance had been stinko.) That's the difference betwen "Basta." and "Basta!
I think I get it.

As I read reports of the life of President Gerald Ford, the great domestic peacemaker the great domestic peacemaker,(nee Leslie KING), the words of Mr. Rodney KING, quoted by Jaksavin, seem to have added meaning.

By the by, the triple post is borne of inexperience and the all-caps sentence, the result of not being able to find italics.

Oh gosh, I must close. Thomas Friedman is on tv now. He never says anything, but he says it so WELL. (Think about it.)

All the best,
Dick

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