Bullying defined for schools

(a) "Bullying" means systematically and chronically inflicting physical hurt or psychological distress on one or more students and may involve:
1. Teasing;
2. Social exclusion;
3. Threat;
4. Intimidation;
5. Stalking;
6. Physical violence;
7. Theft;
8. Sexual or racial harassment;
9. Public humiliation; or
10. Destruction of property.

Now class, remember that this only applies to students according to the legislation. Unless you're Steve Kemp - then it can apply to you. But it you're Vinegartits and you systematically inflict distress to Falliero et al (all school employees, no?) with name-calling and public humiliation, then it's okay.

I think I'll file a bullying complaint. I mean, it's all there in black and white on the internet that Lee bullies school employees.

Harassment defined for schools

(b) "Harassment" means any threatening, insulting, or dehumanizing gesture, use of data or computer software, or written, verbal, or physical conduct directed against a student or school employee that:
1. Places a student or school employee in reasonable fear of harm to his or her person or damage to his or her property;
2. Has the effect of substantially interfering with a student's educational performance, opportunities, or benefits; or
3. Has the effect of substantially disrupting the orderly operation of a school.

This is the definition that Lee is always quoting.

Illiteracy within her writing of others' illiteracy.

I was trying to find Lee's post where she bangs on about the bullying and harassment legislation and stumbled on this classic.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2010/01/playbook-for-griffins-challengers.html

>Employers don't think inability to punctuate, to write literate sentences, and even to construct reports are trivial.

The subject of "are" is "inability". "Inability" is singular. Employers don't think inability ... is trivial.

Make up your mind, you illiterate idiot. Bart and Vox think it's all trivial. Unless you're doing it, of course - then you're a hero.

Lee hates free speech!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2010/01/john-d-gets-his-comeuppance.html

Lee won't post the following comment. I'll keep posting it until she does. Free speech and First Amendment, my arse!



Perhaps Vox would like to define harassment. Or would she like to throw in the metaphorical towel also?

Bart says the homophobes can do and say what they like as long as gay students are not harassed. How does he feel about Lee de Cesare? Is she allowed to say and do what she likes under her freedom of speech umbrella as long as nobody is harassed?

You antinitpickers are all for stopping harassment right up until someone asks you what it actually is.

Yes, I am ambulatory. I'm sure that there is something that you deem witty or clever marching with ill-deserved confidence towards the conversation.
I'll pay your bill when you can direct me to the part of the law that supports your claim. What do you make of the following, bozo?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
Even in cases where speech encourages illegal violence, instances of incitement qualify as criminal only if the threat of violence is imminent.[35] This strict standard prevents prosecution of many cases of incitement, including prosecution of those advocating violent opposition to the government, and those exhorting violence against racial, ethnic, or gender minorities. See, e.g., Yates v. United States (1957), Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969).
Now, Vox, define harassment. Or are you whimpering out of the ring? You're as bad as Bart make me out to be when I wrote that I hadn't read any further in his post. You've made up your mind that you won't be asking me any more questions.

Joint ownership

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2010/01/john-d-gets-his-comeuppance.html

The Council of Trent Goes to the Mattresses in the Crossfire of John D's and Bart Birdsall's Nitpicking Joust;

There is only one joust, so it must be jointly attributed to John D and Bart Birdsall.

Edit: the crossfire of John D and Bart Birdsall's Nitpicking Joust

Ding! Yet another round goes to Antigrammargrinch on points. Bart won't even don his gloves.

Response to Bart Birdsall

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2010/01/john-d-gets-his-comeuppance.html

When I made the post, I had read no further, Bart. My point was that irregularities stood out and I had questions before going any further. I'm sorry that you misconstrued this.

How many times were you in your metaphorical boxing ring and said "Oh, I'm not going to duke it out with you"? You say there's no point debating with someone like me who nitpicks over things; Lee's punctuation pettiness must have you fairly reeling!

I find it strange that you don't like this nitpicking business, yet you were pushing for certain wording in a harassment policy. I'd like to know what the wording was and the wording you were duking it out for.

Tell you what; you're all for freedom of speech until someone gets harassed. Define harassment for me. Duke it out with me. If you can't handle duking it out with some nitpicking emailer, I would find it hard to believe that you duke it out with the Mike Tysons of the world.

Is the First Amendment upheld in courts when someone feels harassed? You mention that it is not upheld when it incites violence, but what about harassment? I look forward to your expert comment.


Lee won't post the following comment. I'll keep posting it until she does. Free speech and First Amendment, my arse!

Perhaps Vox would like to define harassment. Or would she like to throw in the metaphorical towel also?

Bart says the homophobes can do and say what they like as long as gay students are not harassed. How does he feel about Lee de Cesare? Is she allowed to say and do what she likes under her freedom of speech umbrella as long as nobody is harassed?

You antinitpickers are all for stopping harassment right up until someone asks you what it actually is.

I can't work out this logic.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/12/when-in-doubt-nag-dammit-nag.html

>Please consider this a formal complaint against Principal Morris of the Special Ed division .... The three's job descriptions detail those obligations that they
they either didn't know or ignored.<
So Kemp didn't know his obligations, but someone else is responsible. Morris didn't know her obligations, but you want to make a formal complaint. Have I got this correct?

Mr Cocks? I suppose that is Vox being funny again, isn't it, Lee?
A stupendous retelling, Goader? Perhaps. Do you agree with its accuracy, though? Was (or is) there abuse of retarded children?
Have I interpreted Lee correctly? Goader didn't know his obligations, but his superiors are responsible; Morris perhaps didn't know her obligations yet receives a request for a formal complaint?
Is lying through one's teeth a yardstick by which we judge people? Of course lawyers be discouraged from doing so. What about posters/bloggers who lie through their teeth also? Should they be allowed to lie through their teeth because they don't work for ROSSAC?
I look forward to reading your replies regarding this issue, but I won't get my hopes up!

Vox Populi said...
Kandy's hubby (RIP marriage to kandy) is back. How I've misled him. I mean missed him.
1:18 PM

Yeah, Vox, and I've been shagging Bart ever since I left the bitch.
You'll post Vox's potty mouth and gay taunts, Lee. Extend me the same, thank you.

LEE DIDN'T PUBLISH THE ABOVE COMMENT. SHE'LL ALLOW VOX'S POTTY MOUTH, BUT NOT MINE

Bloggers give their opinions on things. It is one thing for Lee to give her opinion and take on how the ROSSAC thugs mistreat teachers. She has that right. It is a whole different matter when a school board attorney representing a governmental agency lies through his teeth on camera at a school board meeting. Surely, you must know that. There is a huge difference.

Ahh, "opinions". I didn't question bloggers' opinions versus lawyers' lies. I questioned bloggers' lies versus lawyers' lies.

Now, can YOU see the difference?

My questions about abuse and obligations remain. Can you see the difference between lawyers who are pressed to give an answer to their claptrap and bloggers who remain surprisingly quiet?

What comma splice drugs is Lee on?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/12/suelching-false-rumors.html

>In fact, I encouraged her to run and kicked in a campaign contribution to her kitty, I believe she loves her husband and two little boys and that her husband loves her, On top of this, Mark Hart is a devoted Catholic who still suffers from guilt about his affair with Motel 8 Pole Girl Falliero. <

>I trust that his Scandinavian wife beats the Hillsborough school board Motel 8 adventuress Falliero with the same 7-iron ... <

Sexist.

>The wife should also scratch La Jennifer's nose as she did Tiger's and should finish off the school board's Delta Dawn by yanking out a couple of handsful of that dyed faux teeny bopper hair. <

You're kidding, teacher!

John_D CENSORED yet again.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-do-these-guys-pass-bar.html

Vinegartits will publish comments about my being someone's gay husband so that everyone can have a laugh, but she wouldn't post my reply. Typical. First amendment, my queynte.

My reply:

>Most posts on this subject say that nothing at all was found.<

Okay, Goader. "Most" obviously didn't cut it for you. Try this:

Most posts I have read on this subject say that nothing was found at all.

Better? I ddn't say that there was an effort to hide facts. What it seems and what it is are two different things. Esse quam videri.

If I can find spare time, I'll sift through your older posts and try to find your writing that they found indicators of abuse. Or you could provide a link for me, if you like. I would like to know if there is a post on this blog [Casting Room Couch] that outlines that there were indicators of abuse. I'd welcome that link also.

Goader, have you ever mentioned in a post that the CPI deemed that coaxial cable was not designed for restraining students? Click, click, click. Sorry, my ruby slippers ain't finding it. Could you please provide a link?

4:25 PM

John__D said...
"it was not in good judgment to use a tool (coaxial cable) not designed and approved to restrain students."Damn straight. "Not designed" is one thing. "Not approved" is another.I hadn't realised that the CPI had found verified indicators of abuse, neglect or abandonment. Most posts on this subject say that nothing at all was found.Thanks for posting the link. It certainly is good to have all the info.
2:27 AM

Anonymous said...
lee i can't find this guy (the attorney) in the florida bar member search.
12:39 PM

Goader said...
John_D, you make it seem like there was a concerted effort to hide facts about my case from readers like you. You are being disingenuous by promulgating—actually fabricating—the existence of a conspiracy where none existed. Perhaps you were not reading "Goader" when I first wrote about the case and subsequently revealed the facts, including the coaxial cable and the finding of abuse by the Child Protective Agency representative. Just because you are finding out about all the facts now does not mean a conspiracy existed.
2:58 PM

Anonymous said...
Is John D. Candy Olson's gay husband?

Go away, Vox.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-my-blog-and-ill-use-it-as-mood.html

>no he's still just trying to derail the discussion, lee.<
Naturally you would support and empathise the board when they allege that Lee is trying to derail a discussion at a meeting.
You people give it, but you can't take it. I couldn't care if you never wrote a keystroke to me. Just don't. I've been happy for two years listing Lee's hypocrisy at my blog, and I've never looked for attention. I've posted on this blog many times and no one responded. Lee loves burying the comments. That's fine, too.
I just didn't like being told to STFU. Now, FO, Vox, so I can get back to what I was doing.

The denigration of women - check your Chaucer.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28089922&postID=3151165497187783770&page=1

>Anonymous said...
I sad bad Photoshop pic blogger posted of you. Well, I saw you in person at a meeting, and you're one classy lady. Well dressed and in good shape. Why do some sickos feel the need to denegrate women?<

>Why do some sickos feel the need to denegrate women?<
No, clown. I am satirising Lee. (One woman.) You know - satire? Like when Chaucer wrote about a queynte? Or is that denigrating women, too?

Lee, tell Vox to lay off.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/11/lock-and-load-time-to-mosey-on-down-to.html

Lee, you had better advise Vox to lay the [insert truncated profanity here] off. If she isn't going to address me directly but in third person, I am still going to respond to her.

It's not my anonymous comment. This is ironic. My original question was about anonymity. I hope that someone from the school board alleges that your "anonymous" poster about homeless people was actually you.

>He has no first amendment rights here.<
Why,? Aren't we in America anymore? Vox has had the hide to say that I'm anti-American if I'm against the constitution (which I wasn't?!) and now tells me that I have no free speech. Oh, I'll contribute to the issues if you like, Vox, and I'll whistle the Star-Spangled Banner while I do.
Again I ask: what are your contributions to casting room couch? Calling everyone criminals with no proof, making fun of people's physical appearance with a bit of name-calling and telling Lee how wonderful she is. Teachers all over the country must be so glad to have you aboard.

>I am not the subject here, nor is John. The subject is the corruption of the school board and improving the world in general for all of us.<

One of the recurring themes about the school is bullying. You are a bully, Vox. Lee is a bully. If this truly is the subject (and Lee is writing to all and sundry complaining that it is) then why not take a leaf out of Ghandi's book and be the change that you want to see in the world?


Vox Populi said...
See, lee. He probably made that anonymous comment. He continues to change the subject TO HIMSELF. John is A TROLL.

I am not the subject here, nor is John. The subject is the corruption of the school board and improving the world in general for all of us.

I don't see John contributing there.

He's just trolling.He has all the hallmarks of a troll.

He has no first amendment rights here. I made a mistake addressing him in the first place. At every opportunity he takes the attention to HIMSELF. This blog isn't to discuss John's obvious lack of insurance coverage or reluctance to visit the EAP at his employer's expense.

I would post this anonymously BECAUSE I CAN. But won't.

Lee's views on the First Amendment

You would like this one, Vox.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28089922&postID=114800803467888235

>I will publish your chicaneries that I detect on this blog. You are going to sue me for telling the truth? Bring it on, ma'am. Bring it on if you dare. I have always wanted to be a martyr for the First Amendment. How much more glamorous a role can I get to enter into my eternal resume? My children will put on my Brooksville tombstone: "Dear Old Mom--Great Cook and Martyr for the First Amendment."<

No, I reckon Lee's children will write "Liked the First Amendment when it suited, but would not apply it consistenly, let alone die for it."

Lee de Cesare - elderly female writer of vile stuff

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-bullying-charge.html

>The Board lard-asses attend so many political banquets and sundry eating opportunities in the high and gluttony office of school board members that they have waxed fatter than fat. Being overweight and an aficionado of food wretched- excess goes along with the role of political functionaries. No prissy linguistics killjoys need protest that "lard-ass" is a vulgarity. The word has an impeccable linguistic history, having been found on the caves of Lescaux of our prehistoric ancestors along with the bison drawings. "Lard-asses" moves along nicely in the language of the human race and is, in fact, a term that finds its place in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as well as in comic masterpieces through the ages. <

Oh, you can write "lard-ass" but not "arse"! Hypocrite.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/08/error-erron-on-walll.html

>Linda says that the redaction was on separate paper with the Board's logo at the top. But that does not change the school's undermining the legitimacy of the Sheriff's investigation. That is dumb diplomacy to cover Tom Gonzalez's lazy ass. lee <


http://es-kay.net/?p=1182
>Is John a polymath, or is he just beating his chest and pretending to be one? I have met my share of machno grammarians in the faculty lounge who didn’t know their ass from their elbow.<

Vile, vile, vile!

Lee will make up any excuse. You be the judge.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/11/lock-and-load-time-to-mosey-on-down-to.html

>I received bitter email from John D. and deleted it. The fellow is sicko. His words will no longer appear in Casting-room-couch's pages. Goodbye to all that. His next Internet Provider will probably be Chattahoochee. lee
Posted by twinkobie at 10:56 AM <

This alleged "bitter" email is the previous post on this blog. A particularly vile message as Lee writes below? No, it pales in comparison with Vox Populi's blog and comments she made to me on Lee's blog, and even with comments that Lee herself makes.

Thanks to the first-time poster for reiterating such things as free speech and the First Amendment. Lee's followers will probably think that you are me, but we know better.

Vulgar potty mouth? Arse? Lee de Cesare has used the term herself. When I find where she has done so, I'll post it here. Disrespecting women and the elderly? Rubbish! Lee writes that her age demands civility? Does she really want me to treat her differently based on her age? Discrimination is rife at casting room couch.

But so is hypocrisy. Lee has kittens if someone on the board makes any allusions to her mental capacity and gets her stinky knickers in a twist while crying, "I don't have Alzheimer's." (No one said she did?!) Amazingly, below she writes that she is not completely sure of my mental wellness.

(She has also written about determining mental illness here: http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/07/council-of-trent-aka-as-hillsborough.html >Now you and Steve Hegarty and perhaps others of the board and administration have apparently plotted to prevent my signing up for comment on agenda items because as Mr. Hegarty says, "they" think I am "confused" and don't know what I am talking about. Pray tell me if a licensed physician especially a psychiatrist has made this judgment and provide his or her name and also whether any of the people responsible for banning me from commenting on public issues marked with citizen-comment privilege on the Web-site agenda are licensed physicians, or are you and they practicing medicine without a license?<)

You're a hypocrite, Lee, but neither your age nor your sex will change the fact.

Finally, Lee bets that my comments will be on my blog. Even the lowliest board member with a Home-Ec degree from a cereal box can work out that I wrote that clearly in the post I made. Durr, teacher. Your comprehension skills are in the toilet again.


>Anonymous said...
Lee, I am a long time reader and first time commenter. I applaud your efforts at stopping the corruption of the school district, however, I must say I think you should allow john's comments. No matter how much we disagree with him, it is his first amendment right to be heard. That is what makes this country great. I don't understand how you can criticize the board for suppressing free speech while at the same time blocking john's comments. I hope you will reconsider your decision and allow his comments.
7:40 PM

twinkobie said...
I thought before I dropped John. He sent me a particularly vile message when I said I was cutting him out of the blog.

I don't mind criticism and correction--especially humorous, but I do mind a vulgar potty mouth. Humor is one thing. Vulgar vitriol is another. In addition, I am an elderly grandmother. John showed no respect for either women or the elderly when he wrote vile things on my blog. Young people have to observe some boundaries in their communication with us older people. Our age if nothing else demands civility from young people, COMMA SPLICE, YOU ILLITERATE BOZO And I must say I usually get respectful attention from most young people. John has crossed the line, and I don't intend to welcome him back over it. My patience finally wore out.

I am not completely sure of John's mental wellness. I think he needs therapy. I hope he gets it. John has his own blog's free-speech privileges on Antigrammargrinch. You can continue to read him there. But you won't be able to read him on my blog any longer.

He says he will continue to send me posts although I don't print them. I bet they will be on his blog. Read them there by all means. lee<

First Amendment be hanged!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/11/evil-may-come-and-evil-may-go-but.html

>A reluctant farewell to John D, whose comments I will no longer print. Those who want to follow his blog, go to AntiGrammargrinch. I wish John well but allow him no more free rides for his vitriol on my blog. May his house be safe from tigers. lee drury de cesare<

Reluctant my arse! You've always been gutless. You're too gutless to answer straightforward questions and too gutless to admit when you're wrong.

I don't particularly care if you don't publish my comments. It proves that you don't give a rat's arse about the First Amendment or free speech. I'll keep posting them because you'll keep reading them. I'm still going to call you on all your rubbish. I can post all I like at my blog (as you suggested all that time ago).

Twit!

Still no email address from Vox. I knew she was full of it.

Bring it on, Vox.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-says-it-all.html

>I apologixe for calling you a moron. I still think you are one<
Then you just called me one again, didn't you, Vox? Your apologies count for nothing.

>john_d if you'd care to curse me in email you feel free, you big brave manly man.<
I'll move this away from this [casting room couch] blog as Lee has requested and accept your offer, Vox. What is your email address?

You can also feel free to call me a moron at http://antigrammargrinch.blogspot.com/
so the whole world can read it if they choose.

Go away vox.

>Do you want school district administration to bully teachers? If not, what do you think of much of the CONTENT of Lee's blog?<
I find it hypocritical, Anonymous. Lee is a bully herself.
>john d is an anti-american>You have no purpose here nor do you add to the discussion in any way.<
Seriously, Vox, how do you or many of the posters here add to the discussion? "Yeah, they're all criminals! Homeless people could do better!" You're kidding, right? Moron, big baby, John D(ufus) - more name-calling? Is that your contribution?
>I stand by my words and I feel certain they DO apply to your ummm situation... I do apologize for the fact that the above behavior did irritate me along with something he said about you in a post long forgotten. <
Vox, your apology is as hollow as your head! And then you justify your vulgarity by saying that it feels really really good.
>I'm normally above that behavior, reserving it for the most vile among us. John_d is probably NOT the most vile among us.<
You're right here, Vox. I've seen your blogs, and the most vile person around here is you. If you're a teacher, I'm effing scared for your students.

Vox is allowed to swear, but I'm not. It's effing obvious.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28089922&postID=4845135783129943578


>Sometimes Vox uses vulgarities, but she truncates them so that they come across as funny, not offensive to anyone but you is my judgment.<

Now, that's a strong call, Lee. My opinion is that Vox is a stupid, foul-mouthed queynte. Go and read her blogs.

If I called someone a stupid faggot and then suggested that in my opinion it was not offensive to anyone but Bart Birdsall, would you accept that logic? No, you wouldn't, and I wouldn't expect you to do so either.

Vox's truncated profanities don't come across as funny at all. Where do you draw the line? Is writing "mo'fo'" acceptable?

It seems that free speech extends only to the vernacular deemed acceptable by the censor. Yes, you are the teacher, and you make all the calls. Some of them are duds.

I agree to abbreviate on your site anything profane I write to Vox, but if you are willing to sit back as the teacher and let one kid in your class tell another to shut the f#$% up while calling him a motherf#$%er, then I see you in a whole new light. Especially when the kid defends himself.

Go and read all your bullying legislation again, especially the name-calling bits. PLeae show me where "truncated" name-calling is okay and where name-calling is fine as long as the person being called the name is the only one who takes offence.

Vox Populi, as eloquent as ever. Neurotic bitch.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-says-it-all.html

>That's the name: Priscilla Ryan. I can't find it with search engines. But now I will remember it. And I will take this readers assessment of the Ms. Ryan's abilities.<

Lee, the illiterate buffoon, still doesn't know when to use an apostrophe.

>The next board meeting is November 3. I did not attend the last two, but I will go to this meeting and print out a copy of my reader's letter below and hand it to one of the people at the end of the board to pass to the board members. I want them to confront how dismal is the public attitude toward their behavior. Watch and see how I do at this attempt to shame them. lee <


3 comments:

John__D said...
Are you going to provide the poster's name to the board? Normally you rail against anonymous blather.
1:52 AM

Vox Populi said...
STFU john d, you moronic mfer...

12:32 PM

Anonymous said...
John D. would love for people to be revealed instead of staying anonymous. He probably loves the idea of teachers being tortured in Professional Standards for petty reasons. He obviously believes big wigs need protecting while the financially poor peons get beaten down by the big wigs.

My response: (Let's see if Vinegartits posts it.)

As I wrote, it is Lee who usually rails against anonymous posters. You people can't read.
No, Vox, YOU shut the fuck up. Don't call me a motherfucker either, you gutless sack of shit. Is that the best you've got? I hope that Lee reads your comments out at the next board meeting. I might submit my own letter to the board outlining my views on the calibre of Lee's posters.

Subtle.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/10/grammar-is-forever.html

John__D said...
>Such ideologues demand that everybody think as they do; they accept no other views but their own as allowable.<

Where does "You don’t have 'personal choices' in where to put punctuation, Sugarbritches. You either put the commas in the right place, or you (sic) are illiterate" fit in with this philosophy? Do tell.
4:15 AM

Lee will never answer this or any questions like it. She is chickenshit.

Lee writes:

>This lack in sensitivity to the uses of language shows deficiency in sensitivity to subtleties of the use of language.

Such negative commentators reveal their barren ability to sense gradations in language or in anything. They display an understanding that lacks sensitivity.<

Check out these subtleties and gradations of language.

>Fom your NYT column: "The Los Angeles Angels are not like most other teams."

Mr. Tyler Kepner:
Sports writers write some of the best prose in newspapers. But that does entitle them to make subject-verb agreement errors.

The "Los Angeles Angels" is plural in form but singular in meaning. Your "are" should be "is."<

Game on, sportswriters. Make all the subject-verb errors you like!

Lee explains what Steve Kemp is trained for.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-appeal-for-help-i-know-that.html

>Mr. Kemp has no academic credentials in caring for profoundly retarded children. His special-ed education is in teaching children who have trouble reading to read better.<

Tell me, was he qualified to restrain students? Just wondering - because he did. Obviously part of his training was how to tie quick-release knots.

>This stationery boy had still worn what apparently was a bus restraint.<

And he delivered newspapers in his spare time. Lee still has trouble with the homophones "stationery" and "stationary".



Ziggy said...
I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I saw the new poll you put up!
October 15, 2009 11:39 PM

John__D said...
There are many ways to respond to that. I'm going through a how-can-I-of-limited-power-possibly-know-what-people-mean phase. For instance, Vox Pop and OMG would laugh at my not having a life and being a sad case. I find it laughable yet disturbing that someone could be deluded enough to maintain that particular design purpose for coax. But that is my opinion. If someone were to maintain that another purpose for toe joints was to pop them in the principal's office, I don't think Goader would be have the same enthusiasm about serendipitous design purposes.
October 16, 2009 7:45 PM

Goader said...
Actually, I didn't have to know how to tie a quick-release knot, because the coaxial cable's design wouldn't allow a knot to cinch. By its very design the coaxial cable only accommodated a "quick-release" knot. What a perfect design it was, but you already knew that.
October 18, 2009 5:51 AM

Goader said...
Ziggy—You almost fell out of your chair laughing when you saw the new poll. You are easily amused, aren't you Zigster. Be careful reading John_D's comments, you might hurt yourself.
October 18, 2009 5:56 AM

John__D said...
>His special-ed education is in teaching children who have trouble reading to read better.< >Actually, I didn't have to know how to tie a quick-release knot, because the coaxial cable's design wouldn't allow a knot to cinch.<

Okay, Goader, did part of your training include how to restrain students?I've just tied a knot with coax, and it cinches. I guess it must be how the knot is tied. I can tie a quick release knot in rope that cinches easily.

>What a perfect design it was, but you already knew that.<

Do you now have the power to "know" what I'm thinking? Or is this another of your unexplainable jokes? I know that it's your opinion that someone created coax for the purpose of tying quick-release knots.

Coax cable is not perfectly designed for tying quick-release knots - but you knew that, didn't you!

Keep trying!

(Feel free to cast a vote - or have you?)
October 19, 2009 3:30 AM

Write to possible future governors and show your illiteracy

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/10/nail-them-before-election-they-become.html


>After observing the Hillsborough County schools for two years after the administration and board manufactured a Professional Standards charge against my gay friend Bart Bartsell, I have become something of an expert on board and administration corruption past and present.<

>Citizens should not have to listen to pious false promises made by gubernatorial candidates about what reverence they have for teachers, students, schools, etc but that, once elected, the governor ignores.<

>The school attorney, Tom Gonzalez, sits mute during this Constitutional shutdown of a citizen's Constitlutional right to approach elected officials for redress of grieviences. <

>I request that you provide specific pledges in plain English about what you, Ms. Sink, and you, Mr. McCollum comma will do as governor to clean up the corruption of school board and administration in Hillsborough County, especially in hiring and shutting down teachers' and citizsens' free-speech rights.<

Dumb Lee demonstrates her illiteracy to First Lady

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-lady-to-first-lady-call-for-help.html

>Please review my letters to Mr. Mueller, make a judgment of my claims, and if, as I will hope, you see that I have a point that you will request your husband to ask Mr. Mueller to investigate the school system of Hillsborough County for administration and board corruption. <

The great English teacher of 28 years stuffs up yet again.

Edit:
Please review my letters to Mr. Mueller, make a judgment of my claims, and if, as I will hope, you see that I have a point, request your husband to ask Mr. Mueller to investigate the school system of Hillsborough County for administration and board corruption.

A little parallel construction goes a long way.

As First Lady of our miniscule city,

That's "minuscule", you illiterate bozo. I hope the President ignores your crap based on your illiteracy. You don't have the decency to check your work before sending it to the President. Is that the amount of respect you afford him?

Does the FBI know that a comma splice is a felony?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/09/still-working-on-fbi-essay-lee.html

I love this rot. Lee writes to the FBI and has the hide to mention that Hamilton doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're". She has mouthed off that she was going to check her work so there weren't any errors. I hope the FBI grammar division doesn't find out about this one.


>The seated boy on whom Steve used the cord looped to the back of the bus restraint was supposed to have this bus restraint removed when he arrived in the classroom according to state restraint law, this removal should have happened before Steve entered the room. <

Cherabim (sic)? Singular? (sick)

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/08/pole-girl-has-opponent-thank-you-all.html

Pole Girl Has an Opponent! Thank You, All Cheribs and Seraphs (Oddly Enough, the Singular of these is "Cherabim" and "Seraphim": Go Figure

Is this illiteracy or stupidity? Here's my response.

I'll figure.

One cherub.
Two cherubim or two cherubs.

One seraph.
Two seraphim or seraphs.

So the plural is "cherubim", and neither the singular nor the plural is "cherabim" (sic).

Cherib, cherab - Honestly, are you illiterate or something?

She's innumerate!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/08/getting-in-some-licks-for-sisterhood.html

Ten dollars says that none of her readers corrects her. What beggars belief is how she got those numbers!

>You have 20 command-staff people. http://www.hcso.tampa.fl.us/2005_Organizational_Structure/Structure.htm.

1. One is a woman; women are almost 51 percent of the county's population;
2. 3 have what looks like Hispanic names; Hispanics are 22.8 percent of the population;
3. Three faces tell me they are black men; blacks are 16.6 percent of the population;
4. The rest are white Anglo-Saxon born-in-the-cotton-wadding-of-the-unfair-affirmative-action-plan-for-too-often-dumb white males, titular lords of the universe, not from ability but from cheating.

According to my math that makes your staff .5 percent women;15 percent Hispanics; 6.6 blacks; 78 percent white guys. Those percentages are obscenely out of line with the population distribution.<



Holy crap! Your maths is terrible! Honestly, your ignorance in a basic life skill such as percentages is deplorable.

One out of twenty is five per cent. Two out of twenty is two lots of five per cent - ten per cent.
What I find truly disturbing is that any comments you have made about teachers' pay and a pay rise of such-and-such percent were based on something of which you have no idea.

Now, try those numbers again. See me after class if you are still innumerate.

Vox Pop supports Lee's inability to understand what quotation marks do.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-bet-this-riles-up-blogaroos.html

This is getting ridiculous. Here's my response I posted.

"You don't like "my goodness", Vox? I'll use some of your abbreviated profanity instead, perhaps.

Lee posted her comment before Creamcheese's comment "clearing it up", but AFTER Creamcheese's original post that contained the quote in quotation marks.

Interestingly, Creamcheese's post was punctuated correctly so that the meaning was clear, yet Lee "didn't quite understand". You, however, write and punctuate like an imbecile so that few could work out wtf you are on about.

"no one misinterpreted her intention"? Whom tf did "her" refer to in your post?

Write clearly please, you name-calling bimbo."

Issues, no. Grammar bullying, yes.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/07/council-of-trent-aka-as-hillsborough.html

Lee's lame points can be easily refuted as usual. However, while she is busy picking on one lonely typo (her writing is regularly riddled with them) she shows us that she can't construct a sentence.

Mr. Practising as a good American that citizens have a First-Amendment right to abuse elected officials when they approach them for redress of grievances.

Now, the point was this: Is the poster qualified to make judgements as a matter of law?

Who wrote what?

Lee meant to carve up a poster on Goadr's blog, but she hasn't yet worked out that it is Goader's writing she is dissecting. Shhhhh ... I think she is sleeping.

http://es-kay.net/?p=1182&cpage=1#comment-3013

Beyond the homophone problem pointed out by one writer above, Ms. Gladstone needs help with punctuation and grammar.

Inviting the reader’s indulgence of her slapdash performance is graceless and unprofessional.
A comma goes after “Spell Check” inside the quotation marks for the introductory adverbial clause. In addition, “750 plus” and “less than one percent” are hyphenated adjectives before a noun.

There exists no justification for the quotation marks around “onstage.” Ms. Gladstone does not use the word in a special sense; she uses it in its ordinary sense.

“The teacher being” should be “the teacher’s being”: possessive before the gerund.
“This” in the next-to-the-last sentence of the second-from-the-bottom paragraph has no antecedent.

I consider Ms. Gladstone’s breezy, self-indulgent excuse for illiteracy in herself and in any teacher unacceptable. There is no reason why this teacher or other teachera could not have learned grammar and punctuation in their formal educational career of twelve or more years.
Ms. Gladstone’s error-ridden performance shows that she should get out her 9th-grade grammar primer and study it from cover to cover. To teach, she must catch up on what she failed to learn during her education years.

The correct use of language forms the basis of education. If a person cannot master grammar and punctuation in classrooms over the years of his or her formal education, that person does not belong in the classroom as a teacher.

Illiterate teachers produce illiterate students.

However, to add bonhomie to this criticism, I will join Ms. Gladstone in her moldy solecism: I ain’t kidding, folks.

Lee Drury De Cesare

Abuse, abuse, and more abuse.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/update-on-kemp-case-for-minions-of.html


>I doubt that practice of leaving the restraints on in class meets Florida restraint standards, but the administrative staff did not recommend the aide to Professional Standards. <

You had better keep looking through those standards, then. A restraint restrains. I'm no expert, but if a harness is left on, it doesn't atually do any restraining until it is attached to something. I'll guess that the old aide left the harness on all day but never used it to restrain the student to a chair. When you find out the facts, let the Minions of Light know.


>At this juncture the administrative trio of Smiley, Morris, and Sosa entered the room, and one of the women said she "didn't want to lose my job" when she spotted the harness restraining the student while Steve engaged in securing the other student. <

Yes, this was the point I was making. I'm glad that Lee thinks similarly.


>I have filed charges for child abuse against Smiley, Sosa, Morris, and Kipley--the last-named for for abetting the child abuse by not investigating my charge and not even acknowledging that she got it, which prolonged the danger to the children under the care of the three negligent administrators and the aide who did not remove the restraints when they entered the room in the morning. <

Steve Kemp assures us all that no abuse occurred. Lee has changed her tune from "potential abuse" back to "abuse". Plus, now Lee writes that the aide was negligent for not removing the harness and is therefore worthy of having a child-abuse charge filed against him or her.

I love exploring the issues!

>Ms. Griffin, who poses as teachers' friend did not show herself as much of a friend to teachers or to special-needs students either in this demonstration of her wanting to escape from the responsibility of dealing with it. <

Close your parenthesis, you illiterate bozo.

Deemed to be a danger.

I have been held to task for quoting things out of context. I will make a direct quote, only to have someone tell me that I miss the overall tone, gist, vibe, or whatever has been written. Would that writers actually wrote what they mean clearly rather than relying on readers to pick up the general feeling.

Here is an example from Lee's blog. She makes the bits she likes red. Luckily, the writer of the original article makes Phyliss's position clear. I'll make it red too, but bigger.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/update-on-kemp-case-for-minions-of.html

A new report on the issue of restraints and seclusion of special education students show widespread use in public schools throughout the nation. Some child rights and education rights advocates believe that the restraints amount to abuse and neglect of these students. Furthermore, the use of these restraints often times causes serious personal injuries and the wrongful death of special education students.

Under Florida law, school officials can restrain a special education student who is deemed to be a danger to themselves or others in the school environment. Muscumeci and others believe that Florida law is too vague and that children are often restrained when there is no danger at all to themselves or others. In public schools, some students are restrained for convenience of the teacher or staff rather than for the safety and welfare of the student. You can read more about Phyliss Muscumeci's efforts and the problems of restraints of special education students at Child Advocacy Groups and Mom Seek to End Restraints of Special Education Students in Florida and Other States.

http://www.floridachildinjurylawyer.com/2009/01/national_advocacy_group_and_fl_1.html

Damn you, passive voice. Deemed by whom? The teacher? The aide? The administration? The parents? The janitor?

Interesting stuff. Especially the bit about "believe to be abuse".

She did write "abuse", didn't she?

Her sentiments will now remain in the classic quotes section.

Hang on! Maybe she was told she had no standing because everyone knew that abuse didn't happen - even Goader himself! Filing a charge of abuse would be ludicrous when even the teacher aide maintains that no abuse (nix, nada, none, ixnay on the abusay, etc.) occurred.

I think Kipley must have been saving Lee the humility of being shot down by the person she was rooting for.

Ring ring ... ring ring ... Click. Hello? Hello, Kettle. This is Pot.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-newsweek-list-of-best-high-schools.html

The board looks the other way and allows the outrages against teachers to go on. The head of the Professional Standards is a woman with a home-ec degree who doesn't know how to punctuate; the administration just hired her husband, who has a high school degree. for an accounting position that required a bachelor's degree and experience. which four of the applicants have. This was payoff for all the dirty work the Professional Standards head has done for the superintendent and board, one infers.

Come on. At least get your own punctuation correct in the same sentence that you slam others.

The hypocrisy.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/postcards-from-edge.html

Here is the steaming turd in the water pipe from Lee's response.

I write:
Now, you've written that any citizen can file a complaint if they know of abuse, and also that most child abuse is inferred not known.

Lee's responds:
That's right.

(Lee has a rant here to distract.)

I write:
Would you therefore support someone who saw Kemp keeping those retarded children in a junk-filled room, inferred from the available evidence that abuse was occurring, and filed a complaint?

Lee responds:
I would not.

Hypocrite. Either you support someone who infers child abuse and files a complaint or you don't. Make up your mind.

Lee can't infer her way out of a wet paper bag.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/postcards-from-edge.html


For goodness' sake! We're all meant to accept that Lee Drury de Cesare can infer the finer points of child abuse cases and legislation, yet she can't infer that John__D is Antigrammargrinch. I think I'm about to give up on this dopey cow.

I can't be bothered colour-coding it all. Look at her blog for her edits.

(Many accept that the pronoun "they" can be singular. If I've got to move up from mangled homophones, Vinegartits had better move up from this. )



Gentle Readers: Here is another anti-lee specimen that makes AntiGrammargrinch look like one of the seraphim. I attract the strangest people. lee

-----Original Message----- From: John__D [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:58 AM To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on I Nevcr Take the Fifth. John__D has left a new comment on your post "I Nevcr Take the Fifth": >

I know in all senses that the three administrators named allowed, even promoted, child abuse of the severely retarded children.< ____________________________________________________- John D wades in:

This is a strong call about what you know. As for my protecting child abusers, you infer too much. I think you're doing Steve Kemp more harm than good. You write that his was "an innocent mistake by [what I presume is] an uninformed teacher" and also that the three administrators were guilty of abuse by putting disabled children in a room with junk lining the walls. Good. You got angled parentheses around an editorial comment in a quote right.

All Steve has to do is tell me so, and I will stop. I think keeping his case in the limelight has made the ROSSAC thugs deal with it a fairer way than they would have had nobody knew about it and had everything gone on behind closed doors as is the usual mode.

I believe that if Steve's case had not been publicized, he would be fired by now and trying to scare up a way to make a living to feed himself and keep a roof over his head.

Lack of attention to the thuggeries of ROSSAC when it wants to get rid of somebody was Mr. Erwin's problem. Nobody knew his case was going on and how the administration and board colluded to shut him up about crime on school grounds that various higher ups probably profited from and shut him down by firing him and depriving him of his pension.

I wish I had been doing Mr. E's PR. People would have known what a dirty deal the administration and board were pulling off in plain view with no audience but poor Mr. Erwin, the victim. I am glad he finally gave up on the system and took the ROSSAC thugs and the board to court and won his Whistleblower suit because the jury did not believe the board's and administration's lies. Nobody would if they heard them. The taxpayers paid $165,000 for board and administration crime.

That "innocent mistake" was abuse, wasn't it? I'll be honest and admit that all I know is what I've read on blogs - but if someone specifically trained for the job had done the same thing that Steve Kemp had innocently done, they Pronoun-antecedent disagreement would have been child abusers in your eyes, wouldn't they?

It's a contingency question. I would need to know all the data. One could say that this is another instance of the administration's and board's dopey management skills. It is OK for the boys to be restrained on the bus but not in the classroom. I'd like somebody to try to justify that disparity.

And one of these "boys," the one Goader was chasing while he hooked the lighter one to a chair while he chased the big fellow to try to keep him from escaping into the hall, weighed 175 pounds.

The administrators left the disabled children in a junk-filled room? So did Steve Kemp, didn't he?

No, he stayed in there with the retarded children and tried to keep them from pulling the stuff down on their or other people's heads and tried to conduct a class in whatever the retarded children do in class.

I don't believe that this fact is disputed by any party, is it?

I don't dispute it, but I would insist on giving it context.

It's a despicable situation, but Steve Kemp was there doing his best as a teacher while letting disabled children stay in that junk-filled room and, by your standards, abusing them.

Steve is not litigious. I am. I would have screamed bloody murder and perhaps called the cops if I had thought of it.

Now, you've written that any citizen can file a complaint if they (he or she knows) know of abuse, (no comma: You separate coordinate subordinate "that' noun clauses.) and also that most child abuse is inferred (comma for contrasting element) not known.

That's right. I got an email recently from a fellow who says an administrator in one of the schools lures boys into his office to have them take off their shoes so that he can play with their feet. He asked me what to tell the mother to do, that he is afraid the administration would cover it up if he told her to bring it to ROSSAC. They would: the guy is percipient. I told him to help the mother bring this issue straight to the State Education Committee's Professional Standards and Ethics Committees. I told the fellow (a teacher) to stick with the mother to buck her up and not to let her waiver.

This foot-fetish administrator is not a genital pedophile, but he may be working up to it. How do I know? I infer it. I am a nurse and have read a bazillion psychiatric case histories and every word Freud has written on pedophilic fetishes among all the other pathologies people suffer. I am afraid this guy will get away with this preliminary activity with the boys' feet and amp up his pedophilia.

Look what hideous things happened to the children in the Irish schools for poor children run by Christian Brothers and Sisters of Mercy. The Christian Brothers taught my husband in high school. The Sisters of Mercy rant the hospital where I trained as a nurse.

Foot fetishism has a long sexist history. The foot-binding practices of the Orient come under this fetish. The men didn't want the women to be able to run away if they wanted to rape them. Answer: bind the girls' feet when they are babies so that the foot doesn't grow normally and cripple the girls' locomotion.

Don't try to pull another Sgt. Joe Friday again on me and grill me. I will post your emails but will not answer them. I won't answer you or anybody on this foot case.

Would you therefore support someone who saw Kemp keeping those retarded children in a junk-filled room, inferred from the available evidence that abuse was occurring, and filed a complaint?

I would not. Steve had the situation thrust upon him; he did not create it. The ones who put the classroom for the retarded children in a dangerous, junk-filled room are guilty of directed child abuse.

I welcome feedback on these comments from you or your readers. I will stand corrected on anything I have misconstrued, but I think (know?) that I'm on the money. If you want administrators' heads to roll, Steve Kemp as the actual doer of the action will have to watch his head roll too if you get your way.

No, he won't, sugarbritches. Not as long as I can stand on a podium and squawk and pull myself up to a CRT screen and compose stirring defenses of him to the state bureaucracy. I shall flail away until Steve says he no longer wants my help.

Your case is one of hunger for attention. I infer--bordering on knowing--that you did not get enough attention as a child. So you want Granny Lee's attention now. Do I know this for sure? No, but I am betting on my intuition.

I will bet my three best pairs of Manola Blahniks that I am onto your personality disorder. Don't disesteem intuition. It is the inchoate intelligence we all have but can't attach analytic terms to. It's the gut feelings of our innards telling us what's really going on outside. Women have intuitive skills more than men because women are lucky enough not to take themselves as seriously as guys do, and women take care of people all their lives from babies to dying parents and grandparents. Women are at home in emotion mine fields.

I want as many people as possible to have blogs about the school system--especially teacher blogs because teachers see the schools from the inside. The schools are now run by a bunch of thugs and need as much attention trained on the thugs as possible.

You should have your own blog and come to the school board meetings and watch the board, ask for public-information documents from the Public Affairs Office, and speak out. Don't try to make me your Charlie McCarthy. I won't play that role again. lee

Let's sort out an issue, then.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-nevcr-take-fifth.html

I get a post dedicated to my question after posting it here.

I'll avoid levity. There is a possible typo that hinders my comprehension. Was Kemp a uniformed teacher or an uninformed teacher. This is a serious question, and a straight answer is important to me.

Does your post answer my question? Not directly, no. But as you write that "one does not see most child abuse", you seem to be writing that no one sees it and that no one could therefore know.

I'll make my question clearer based on your post, and I'll ask that you remember that you allege that I'm a Stanford-Binet lower-quartile dweller when you draft your answer.

Did you know the abuse occurred, or did you infer it?

a) You knew it.
b) You inferred it.





John D: The three administrators against whom I filed Professional Standards charges not only disrespected Steve and tried to turn his innocent mistake by an uniformed teacher into a crime, but they themselves all three--Smiley, Sosa, and the other one whose name I get mixed up (Morris, I think)--also put severely disabled children into a room with junk piled on the walls, an accident-prone situation.

And they threw Kemp into taking care of these children without paying any attention to his lack of training to care for severely retarded children--his specialty is teaching reading to children who have trouble with the skill. They as well didn't give him a word of orientation or make themselves available for consultation as their job descriptions say they should. That administrative behavior constitutes child abuse in my book.

And the Secretary of Education's Professional Matters committee online says both teachers and administrators are liable to lose their licensces for child abuse--not just teachers. In addition, it does not mention a qualification to file a complainte except the knowledge that a child or children were abused. Ms. Kipley probably with Ms. Elia's help as well as that of Linda Cobbe made up the "standing" objection to my filing the charge. One does not appear on the Secretary of State's site for Professional Behavior breaches.

One does not see most child abuse. He or she infers it when seeing evidence of child abuse as I did when I was an emergency-room nurse, or people infer it from other situations such as the one I describe above involving Kemp and the careless administrators. I also witnessed child abuse when I worked as court observer for domestic violence for almost a year in Pinellas County courts.

I hope this answers your question. lee drury de cesare


John__D has left a new comment on your post "Sherlock Holmes Rides Again": >I need also to know where you got your information that I do not have "standing" to file a Professional Standards charge. The written material you sent me does not mention such impediment. The Secretary of State's Web site's Professional Practices Section says otherwise. The Education Secretary's language suggests anybody who knows of child abuse should report it.

Why I seldom could be bothered to comment on the issues: censorship! Vinegartits flushes the First Amendment.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/sherlock-holmes-rides-again.html

I left a comment on this blog entry, quoting Lee from here.
http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/ground-skirmishes-to-defend-democracy.html

"I need also to know where you got your information that I do not have "standing" to file a Professional Standards charge. The written material you sent me does not mention such impediment.

The Secretary of State's Web site's Professional Practices Section says otherwise. The Education Secretary's language suggests anybody who knows of child abuse should report it."

I didn't keep a copy of the post, but I suggested that the key word is "knows". After all, that's what even the mighty English teacher of 28 years inferred from the website.

I opined that Kipley, Cobbe and whoever else alleges that Lee has no "standing" may have done so because to have "standing" to file a complaint, one must "know" something: not "have heard", "think" or "assume". (This is naturally speculation on my part, and I can't speak for Kipley et al.)

I then asked Lee how she "knows" that that abuse took place. She has not published my post or replied.

Her silence shouldn't incriminate her, but it makes me wonder. Normally this cow is never lost for words. You'd think she would have cut me down with some witty retort.

To all my detractors who have asked why I don't comment about issues, I say this: when I asked a genuine question about an issue, Vinegartits clammed up and censored me to boot. I invite all of you to suggest how Lee "knows" of the abuse about which she filed a complaint.

Until then or until she answers my question, I'll use my First Amendment right to say that based on the evidence she doesn't "know" diddly squat.

Gerunds 101

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/bullies-complaining-about-bullies.html

Bart, who is gay, had gay students' telling him they wanted to commit suicide because of the bullying they endured in the schools.

This is obviously ridiculous. What would one do here?

Bart had gay students tell him they wanted to commit suicide.

That's right; no apostrophe. "Tell" functions as a verb. "Telling" functions as a participle.

>Since this school was in Olson's district, I wrote her to complain about this teacher with his Bible's torturing the gay student.<

This is just as stupid. The Bible obviously wasn't doing any torturing.

>Nor did she fulfill a promise to Bart Birdsall to attend to a gay student being bullied at the time when she was sending out asinine emails to people complaining about a teacher with a Bible on his desk torturing a gay boy by telling him he would land in hell for being gay.<

See? Is it the desk's torturing? A teacher's torturing? Could she be bothered following her own stupid rules?

She could have nearly argued the first one, but she's illiterate, so she missed it.


>I am never one to suffer obnoxious public servants in silence. I wrote back to La Olson with one of my crisper rebukes and called the principal. She stopped the teacher from torturing the student and made him remove the Bible from his desk, good administrator that she was.

Suddenly, bullying is getting not only local but national attention, and things are looking up for abused children. This is no thanks to board members like Ms. Olson who has sat on the board forever and never raised a finger to intervene, although she promised Bart Birdsall that she would.<

This is bizarre. Olson never intervenes, but she intervened when the teacher was torturing the student. This is flawed.

Ms. Olson, Dr. Lamb, and Ms. Kurdell, all on the board when Dr. Lennard and his two ghouls Hamilton and Davis, were systematically torturing Mr. Erwin, trying to run him crazy, claiming his was crazy, trying to fire him, and trying to deprive him of his pension until Mr. Erwin shut them down with the jury's help in his Whistleblower suit against the board.

Another comma would have offset "Hamilton and Davis". This one comma separates the verb from its subject. There is no excuse for this one. As Vinegartits writes, "You don’t have “personal choices” in where to put punctuation, Sugarbritches. You either [sic] put the commas in the right place, or you are illiterate."

I wish her granddaughter luck with her teaching career. I hope that grammar hypocrisy isn't hereditary.

Apostroph-Lee

http://es-kay.net/?p=1137

>... Tom Galagher said that the reason Steve had got no notice of the charges’s end was that his lawyer and the board lawyer had “settled it months ago.” I didn’t get that impression from reading Steve’s blog. I understood him to say he learned that his charge was at an end when he read his name on a class schedule for next fall. lee drury de cesare<

She still doesn't get it, the illiterate bozo. I've already taught her how to show possession of regular plurals. There's no way I'd sit next to her on the bus.

Now, who's the liar?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/antigrammargrinch-surfaces-again.html

Lee Drury de Cesare is a damned liar. I've got this email, and it reads grown-up's. (See the post below.)

I've a message for the anonymous poster who is littering Casting-Room Couch at the moment: You can accuse people of lying all you like, but I've got proof that Vinegartits edits her emails before she posts them on her blog. What else do you think she edits? She isn't honest enough to stand by what she has written.

She's gutless.

Surfaced? I never left.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/antigrammargrinch-surfaces-again.html

This is laughable. Vinegartits confused the homophones “it’s” and “its” in her recent email to Linda Cobbe. I emailed the entire list to alert everyone to Vinegartits’s homophone illiteracy, and sent a cc to Vinegartits herself. Vinegartits tries to rip into my grammar and syntax, but fails miserably. Read this!

I wrote this:
Unfortunately, I don't think that she has the mental capacity to remember what she has filed or what she has asked for if she can't master simple English language concepts and is clearly illiterate.

Lee wrote:
>Antigrammargrinch expresses himself thusly [“thus” is already an adverb]:"... if she can't master simple English language concepts and is clearly illiterate." This locution should read "...if she can't master simple English (hyphenate for two words acting as a single adjective before a noun) language concepts, she is clearly illiterate."<

Those ellipses are misleading, Vinegartits. Your readers don’t know what has been elided. They would assume that “she is clearly illiterate” is the principal clause. I thought it was odd that I would have made such an error until I checked my email.

My principal clause is “Unfortunately, I don't think that she has the mental capacity to remember what she has filed or what she has asked for”. I added an adverbial subordinate clause of condition with a compound predicate.

My sentence reads thus:

Unfortunately, I don't think that she has the mental capacity to remember what she has filed or what she has asked for if she can't master simple English language concepts and [if she] is clearly illiterate.


You, Vinegartits, are changing the meaning of what I wrote. I wrote that you don’t have the mental capacity if you can’t master concepts and that you don’t have the mental capacity if you are clearly illiterate. I was not writing that you were illiterate because you can’t master the concepts; I was writing that you were illiterate as well that you can’t master the concepts.

So there’s nothing wrong with my grammar and syntax. It pains me that I construct a clear and correct sentence to explain myself and that I have to explain it to a lower-quartile dunderhead who can’t recognise homophones.

But I’ll try your advice. (I’ll include the rest of my sentence, though.)

Vinegartits thinks I should have written this:

Unfortunately, I don't think that she has the mental capacity to remember what she has filed or what she has asked for if she can't master simple English language concepts, she is clearly illiterate.

Have a long look. Have another long, hard look just to be sure.

That’s right. Lee Drury de Cesare, English teacher of 28 years with PBK membership and all her wonderful knowledge of grammar, wants to correct my syntax with a comma splice.

Boo, Vinegartits. No one likes your grammar bullying. You hassle enough people about their homophone errors and won’t stop emailing the same tired old cracks about “your” and “you’re”, but then you admonish me and say I need to move up from homophones. I could get sharper, but it would be wasted on comma-splicing dullards like you.

At no time did I suggest that you were senile, either.

>Meanwhile, Antigrammargrinch needs to move up to something a little more complicated in the English language than mangled homophones if he is going to joust on grammar's grown-up's turf<

The turf of grown-up of grammar? You meant “grown-ups”, didn’t you? “Grammar’s grown-ups’ turf”. Wow. How do you do it, you apostrophe-mangling airhead, in a sentence bidding me to move to something more complicated?

>if she can't master simple English (hyphenate for two words acting as a single adjective before a noun) language concepts<

If the compound adjective is a no-brainer and clear, the hyphen is not needed.

More homophone trouble in formal communication

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/step-by-weary-step-do-we-protect.html

>Please consider this a formal complain of breech of professional standards by Supervisor Sosa in the Special Ed division.<

I was going to make a post to respond to Vinegartits's post about my email, but I found this first. The illiterate cow has more homophone trouble than anyone she has pointed her finger at, especially in her formal writing.

I'll post my response to her bagging me later. It's a corker, but I want to give her a chance to dwell on how I'm going to nail her. She'll read this and go back and check the email and her post, realising (if she is as good as she says she is)) that she has stuffed up big time and tried to correct my writing with what she has always maintained is a grammar felony. Curious? Watch this space.

I'll even make a post about an issue for a change, although I am primarily concerned with Vinegartits's misfiring grammar and punctuation.

Homophone illiteracy in formal communication.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-is-donkey-work-of-prizing-public.html

>If the school system does not have one, it's management is highly remiss in professionalism.<

This is a common error among illiterate idiots. "It's" always means "it is" or "it has". For all other cases, use "its". More specifically, "its" is the possessive form of the pronoun "it".

the management belonging to it = its management

Lee alleges that she has a perfect recollection of what she has filed, written and sent, but she can't master this simple homophone in a formal communication. I've half a mind to email everyone on the list and warn them of her illiteracy and therefore credibility.

>That trick was played on me when I filed against Dr. Hamilton for using the emails for his personal pursuits a couple of years ago when Ms. Elia and Ms. Kipley had cooked up charges against Bart Birsall for using the school emails for his persoal business. <

The ability to proofread a formal communication is another issue.

>Women Must Demand a New Council of Trent and Demand Equal Representation on It or Not Accept the Vatican's Rules Coming Out of it. Fair Is Fair, Fellows.

Ms. Elia used apocryphal information to hang a charge on Kemp because he has an education blogs, and blogs' commenting on anything about the schools are an anathema to the administration and school board. <

The possessive-before-gerund rule is yet another. No wonder Vinegartits's students were confused.

Exactly how stupid are you, Lee?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/here-we-go-again-wearing-them-down.html


>I would like a copy of those reasons for rejecting the emails of Lee Drury De Cesare.<

Vinegartits wonders why her emails get marked as spam. Read the stats.

X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=17.902 required=5 tests=[AWL=-2.240, BAYES_50=0.001, CUSTOM_FS_COMBO=5, CUSTOM_FS_GSPOT=5, CUSTOM_FS_MEMBER=1, CUSTOM_GIRLS=0.01, CUSTOM_IRS_SARASOTA=4, CUSTOM_MEET_COMBO=5, CUSTOM_SEX=3.8, CUSTOM_STOCKS23=0.01, CUSTOM_STOCKS_COMP=0.01, CUSTOM_STOCKS_MARKET=0.01, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, SARASOTA=-2, SARASOTA_COUNTY=-2, SARASOTA_COUNTY_SB=-1.7, SARE_GIF_ATTACH=2]X-Spam-Score: 17.902X-Spam-Level: *****************X-Spam-Flag: YES

She's got a sexual reference attached to her blog name and wonders why the spam filter blocks her. Dopey old bitch.

Commas are another issue.

>Should you deny my request, or any part of the request, please state in writing the basis for the denial, including the exact statutory citation authorizing the denial, as required by s. 119.07(1)(d), F.S. <

This comma separates a compound object, Vinegartits. But you only know that when you pick on others.

>I will contact your Public Affairs office within 48 to discuss when I may expect fulfillment of my request and payment of any statutorily prescribed fees.<

Poor proofreading in a formal communication.

Ho hum - another sign of illiteracy from the queen of crap.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/5242009-dear-dr.html

>Dear Dr. Smith: As president of the Florida Association of School Superintendents, I am sure you take seriously the goals of your organization, especially the two that begin the goals list.<

This a common error among the illiterati. Vinegartits gets her knickers in a twist when "only" is misplaced, but examples like this are funnier. We now know that Vinegartits herself is the president of the Florida Association of School Superintendents unless she puts the adjectival phrase next to the word it is meant to modify.

Edit:
Dear Dr. Smith: I am sure you as president of the Florida Association of School Superintendents take seriously the goals of your organization, especially the two that begin the goals list.

And this was in a formal communication to an important education person. What a dimwit!

Synonyms

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/faxes-faxes-faxes.html

Firstly, "vagina", "pudendum" and "perineum" are not synonyms.

>I am not a ninny voter, General Mc Cullum; I am a serious citizens who expects diligent service from our elected officials. <

This is one of the proofreading errors Vinegartits includes in this formal communication.


>That's not the mark of democracy but of dictatorship.<

Parallel construction dictates this edit:

That's the mark not of democracy but of dictatorship.

Check Strunk & White if you doubt me.

Sexist language and hokey verbs

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/beyond-blue-door-of-reality.html

>It's like when the Bush spokesman told the press it didn't understand that the Bush White House lived in its own reality.<

Give yourself a lecture on your years spent fighting for women's rights.

>The administration, board, and Steve Heggarty, head of Community Affairs, says [say - plural verb for plural subject] that ROSSAC won't "cooperate with your story" of the girl's exposed vagina in the yearbook. <

Dr Hamilton doesn't know punctuation ...

... and neither does Vinegartits.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-am-moving-in-slowly-on-dr-beau.html

>This "gentleman" has not mastered grammar and punctuation (doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're) yet has made his money in education and now tries by hook or crook to double-dip his pension and a lobbyist take from taxpayers when he is still marginally literate and still not up to the mark ethically to represent children in the schools, especially my grandchildren, to the legislature.<

If she could punctuate correctly while she is cutting others down for their sloppy work, she might get somewhere. Close those quotation marks, airhead.

>I wrote the president of UF, Dr. Machen--and his wife, too, cautioning about letting slack thesis committees turn loose on the world UF PhDs who probably bought and paid for their theses. <
Interesting parenthesis!

>And these cultural barbarians can wear only a limited number of vulgar gold jewelry with giant zirconias and go to Hawaii for pricey vacations with non-stop room service only so many times before even they get bored. <

"Jewelry" isn't a count noun.

Dr. Hamilton has since gone back to his wife, poor woman to be fool enough to let him in the door, but now thanks to the Sarasota School board and other boards that throw around taxpayer money in the good-ol'-boy-and-girl-rape-the-tax-kitty system that seems to predominate in school boards. [comma,] Dr. Hamilton bodes to pull down maybe a half million dollars a year from these lax school boards in the lobbying-consulting racket he has devised.

This cow wants me to cut her down!

http://es-kay.net/?p=1101&cpage=1#comment-2849"

>Juries don’t like crooked administrators and they see through their distorted patois immediately.<

>I could make a case for a comma’s not being necessary between two short independent clauses.<

Let's look at how short these clauses are.

Juries don't like crooked administrators - 5 words (one a contraction)
... they see through their distorted patios immediately. 7 words


http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/comment-on-board-member-griffins.html
>I would do the same for you and [COMMA FOR COMPOUND SENTENCE] I hope you can respect that.

Please call or email me and [COMMA FOR COMPOUND SENTENCE] we will talk about your experiences and suggestions.<

I would do the same for you (7 words) and I hope you can respect that (6 words).

Please call or email me (5 words) and we will talk about your experiences and suggestions (8 words)

Is seven words a short independent clause? Only when Vinegartits writes one. What a hypocrite! She also carves up Griffin for her commas - I bet Griffin used that punctuation so that Thomas Vaughan wouldn't feel outclassed. You reckon someone that illiterate shouldn't be one the board? They shouldn't be teaching either.

Someone's got to let Thomas know he's illiterate.

Ms Griffin [comma of direct address]

If you would be willing to explain why this apparently skilled teacher [Steve Kemp] is being kept busy as a paper pusher comma I would love to hear about it. Its [apostrophe for it is] not just Steve. Ms Griffin [comma of direct address] this could happen to any one of us. It happened to me. Ms. Kipley herself told me how the numbers of abuse complaints against teachers has [subject - verb disagreement] tripled in the years she has been in charge of professional standards[caps].

If I recall correctly, I posited that it might be helpful to give guidance to teachers on how to avoid these problems. It seems to me as long as administration is willing to let teachers twist in the wind and show them little support (not good politically [comma] I guess) comma this "problem" will only get worse. If these abuse complaints have tripled as she said comma we have a problem that NEEDS [childish Romper Room capitals] to be addressed NOW [childish Romper Room capitals] .

Any suggestion that it is in the interest of teachers to curtail their participation in discussing these issues in blogs is a self hyphen serving attempt to protect the status quo which, in my opinion, is tantamount to sacrificing teachers for political expediency.

Those are the matters I want to speak to you about. Are you willing to talk to me? I believe we can find a way not to violate Mr. Kemps apostrophe right to due process and your obligation to remain unbiased. What do you think?

Had I a choice, I would prefer that Griffin teach my child over Vaughan.

Everybody - still singular; and a misquote

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/aw-furthermore.html

>The awful thing about somebody's messing up with the administration is that everybody--including other teachers and the union--shun the person as if she has the plague. <

She still can't work it out. The parenthetic bit should have helped. Everybody shuns. Sheesh!


>"The quality of mercy is not strained; it dropeth from heaven like the gentle rain," says Shakespeare.<

No, he didn't. And if he had, he would have spelled "droppeth" correctly.


>I append documents that I sent out today about the mistreatment of a third-grade teacher by one of Bradenton's principals and the board attorney.<

Flabby passive voice.


>I implore that you three see that Ms. Cropsey gets mercy from some source: you if it comes to that.<
The subjunctive mood is obviously dead as far as you're concerend. Lay off everyone else now, Vinegartits.

Make your case here, Vinegartits.

http://es-kay.net/?p=1101&cpage=1#comment-2849

">Juries don’t like crooked administrators and they see through their distorted patois immediately.<
She means slack things like failing to separate two independent clauses with a comma, as in this example from her post. "


I challenge you to make your case, Vinegartits. You aren't used to being called on these things, are you?

Everybody - singular!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/keeping-on-task.html

>When the administration targets a teacher like it has targeted Ms. Cropsey, everybody including other teachers who should know better make the person a pariah.<

Everybody makes the person a pariah. This is a common mistake because of all those nasty words in between.

Spellcheckers

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-distance-complaining-about.html

>I am glad I did not give a lecture on English because the spell checker betrayed me and spelled "know" as "no." Spell checkers won't catch homophones. I hope to remember that fact some day. lee <

Let's not beat about the bush. The spell checker did not spell the word incorrectly. You did, Vinegartits. Your record of homophone trouble is starting to make Hamilton's look insignificant.

Wordiness

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/as-hamlet-said-words-words-words.html

>If so, you should deal with the lies cooked up by the Hillsborough County Schools' administration in claiming teachers violate professional standards in order to scare them into acquiescence with administrative thuggery and to put the word out that anybody who lets out a peep of criticism of the administration or board will be the target of a false charge.<

Check Strunk & White for advice on wordiness.

Wrong commas = illiteracy

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28089922&postID=8229815643007280450

>Dear Vox Populi: I got a thing-a-ma-diggy that my grandson, the computer engineering student; was going come see me and attach to my computer so that it acted like a second hard drive.<

Wrong.

I upgraded to a snazzier computer, but I still don't have it hooked up to the stand=by hard drive.

This is new. And it's wrong.

Passive vs active - the verb "to goader"

http://es-kay.net/?p=1045&cpage=1#comment-2831


On Goader's blog, Vinegartits makes this comment.

>My computer has been down for a week, so the last thing I read about Goader’s crucifixion by Ms. Elia et al was a comment on “The Wall” in which somebody said he or she didn’t want the administration to be [sic] “goader” him or her.

The person who leaves behind his history is the one who can act so as to become a verb. This is Goader’s unique achievement: he has ascended to the status of transitive-active verb: the strongest in the verb family.<

Here are the quotes on The Wall. http://call-in-6.blogspot.com/2009/04/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go.html

Believe me: No one needs to get "goadered".

Thomas Vaughan said...
....Goader chose to let them intimidate him into silence. You can only be "Goadered" if you assuage them.

Vinegartits, a good test for passive voice is to see if you can slip a "by" in there.

No one needs to get "goadered" [by administration].
You can only be "Goadered" [by them] if you assuage them.

The verb "to goader" was used only passively, I'm afraid.

Thomas Vaughan, you really do have a way with people, don't you? As Goader wrote, keep repeating your rot and it might come true (even if it is only in your mind). And be honest; Lee has vinegartitted you, hasn't she?

vaughan88@verizon.net Are you providing info now?

This explains a lot. Go on - find my info. Let me know when you post it.

From Goader's blog:

http://es-kay.net/?p=1045&cpage=1#comment-2830

This speaks volumes. If you can't use a comma, you're illiterate. If you haven't read Machiavelli, you're not educated. Thomas taunts me with the "if the words aren't too big for you" line, and Lee still insists I'm in the lower quartile.

Readers, it's all those two have got! Name-calling.

Thomas Vaughan makes no secret of his hypocrisy when we writes "Yes, do as I say, not as I do." Good on you for not trying to hide it, but you're an asshole for practising it.

You can sense his excitement when he says he is about to get all my info. You go for it, Thomas. I'll be keen to see what you do with it. I've already told you some of what you need to know about me - that is, that I started this blog because I couldn't stand Vinegartits's hypocrisy - and you STILL can't work it out.


I can't wait to see all my info! If it's as wildly inaccurate as all the other crap you write, it might be good for a laugh. I challenge you to find it, Thomas. You've got it stuck in your head that only people who have read Machiavelli are educated; let's see your research skills, if you're so clever!



Thomas Vaughan on April 23rd, 2009 8:49 am
Did I hurt your feelings antigrammargrinch?
Yes, I am a master of capitulation, read Machiavelli and no, I refuse to zip it.
Oh wait, you may not be familiar with him. Machiavelli was a philosopher who wrote “The Prince”. Read it and become educated. You will find that capitulation is often an appropriate strategy.


Antigrammargrinch on May 3rd, 2009 7:55 am
Quotes will work better, obviously.
“Did I hurt your feelings antigrammargrinch?”
No, you make me laugh.
“Yes, I am a master of capitulation, read Machiavelli and no, I refuse to zip it.”
Fine. Don’t zip it. Expect fallout.
“Oh wait, you may not be familiar with him. Machiavelli was a philosopher who wrote “The Prince”. Read it and become educated.”
I may not be familiar with him … but then again I may be! How would you know? You make too many assumptions, don’t you Thomas? “Become educated” says he who can’t punctuate or distinguish between “you’re” and “your”. You’re a funny guy!
“You will find that capitulation is often an appropriate strategy.”
Not often enough. You obviously feel it’s fine for you to chicken out, but you admonish others who yield. It’s “do as I say, not as I do” with you, isn’t it?


Thomas Vaughan on May 3rd, 2009 12:11 pm
Yes, do as I say, not as I do.
antigrammargrinch pls reed Machiavelli. Your goin to luv it if de words aint to big for u .
As long as you do what i says….u goin to be fine.
Ok Steve I promise to end my comments on this thread…antigrammargrinch is so much fun to play with.

Goader on May 3rd, 2009 1:15 pm
The comment sections never close.

Thomas Vaughan on May 3rd, 2009 5:19 pm
OK…I’ll just refrain from taking antigrammargrinch bait. It really doesn’t have anything to add to the discussion. Its only purpose is to insult a woman who stood up for YOU when you were down.


lee drury de cesare on May 3rd, 2009 7:47 pm

I see that little imp AntiGrammargrinch is nipping in and out of Goader’s blog with his usual smart-ass, infelicitously couched comments. Just ignore the lower-quartile rascal is my advice. He will go away if you ignore him. He sends these missives from Tallahassee, I infer. I keep seeing a state university Internet service provideron my blog’s entries. And pray leave off urging him to read Machiavelli. The boy has not finished the first-grade classic “Down the River Road” yet. He will die without having read “The Prince” or even “The Adventures of Dipsey Doodle.”

Thomas Vaughan on May 3rd, 2009 8:38 pm
OMG
The Antigrammargrinch has been outed. I know a way we can get all we need to know about him. Want me to get the info?

Help needed. (Passive voice, and I don't care.)

http://prohcds.blogspot.com/2009/04/laptop-blackmarket.html

Thomas Vaughan said...
I was director of security for one of the largest hospital consortiums in Virginia and one of my responsibilities was inventory control and loss prevention. It is not that difficult to implement accountability systems to prevent this. My biggest problem was the loss of surgical gowns. I sat behind the hospital laundry each night for a week and caught some employee back his truck up to the receiving dock and load them in his vehicle. At least he was smart enough to get them washed before he took them.I guess the security folks are too busy harassing teachers who disagree with administration.
April 21, 2009 3:23 PM

I laughed when I read this, but I'm trying to find one of Thomas's posts when he complained that his principal walked in on him unannounced and was spying on him or something. I'd love to list both posts side by side.

If you can't work it out, you're stupid, Thomas.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/stomping-on-first-amendment.html

From Thomas Vaughan:
Ok...maybe she bothers some people with her grammar criticism. So what? What is wrong with good grammar? Its really all in fun. She hasn't attacked my poor grammar because she's given up on me.Have you read the nasty disgusting garbage written by her enemies? Who are those people? Why are they attacking her? Have you seen the doctored photo one of them uses? I don't get it, why are they being so gratuitously mean? What purpose does it serve?
2:52 PM
Anonymous said...
And notice how they don't ever comment on her content.....what kind of person tries to knock down someone who is fighting for the Little Man? Who on earth believes the people at the top should not have their feet held to the fire? They like big salaries, so with that big salary comes tons of responsibility and lots of criticism.

Are you really this stupid, Thomas? I don't believe that you are. I think you know exactly why. I've made it clear on this blog that I find Lee's hypocrisy incredible.

What's wrong with good grammar, and it's all in fun? That is not the case, and you know it. Lee doesn't give up on your grammar; she doesn't touch you because you're one of her special friends. It has nothing to to with grammar and everything to do with bullying people. If she were that worried about grammar, she would pick on everyone with a bit more consistency.

Look at the last post on her Grammargrinch blog. December 5, 2008. I've shut this cow down, but she'll come out with the grammar abuse occasionally when she wants to belittle someone.

You support her hypocrisy too, Thomas. Lee posts amusing pictures of fat cats that she says board members resemble, she makes fun of their hairstyles and calls them "pole girl" and other names, yet you question why I use a doctored picture and why I'm being mean? (Thomas, you called me names too, and you taunted me about my mother, but but this has nothing to do with why I pull up Lee.) Lee's post has "First Amendment" in its title, and you bang on about how Goader has been asked to be silent, yet you won't extend me the same courtesy.

"Maybe she bothers some people ... So what?" you write? It looks as if I bother people too, Thomas. You can respect my First Amendment right, thank you.

Anonymous, (Lee will maintain you're a coward for not signing your post), I've commented on Lee's content on a couple of occasions, but I set this blog up to list Lee's hypocrisy and her own grammar errors. Have a scroll through Lee's Grammargrinch posts. She regularly picked on people's grammar and punctuation without giving a hoot about content.

I pick on her grammar and pretty much ignore her content because I think Lee should cop a bit of her own medicine herself. Why not ask Lee why she picks on others' grammar and punctuation without discussing the content? You can post her response here, if you like.

If you want comment on content, check out Ziggy's blog, The Abyss. There's a link on my home page. Some of Lee's fans pop in now and again. People like Thomas Vaughan have a read, but don't post. It's strange that they make their comments (on Ziggy's meanness, not his content -even stranger!) elsewhere, rather than on Ziggy's blog.

I like the cockroach metaphor. When Ziggy and I turn the lights on, the Thomas Vaughans and Lee de Cesares of the world scuttle and hide.

Slight return: Since posting, I've been to Ziggy's post here:

http://ziggysabyss.blogspot.com/2009/04/its-really-all-in-fun.html

I swear that I hadn't read it first. How odd that more than one person notices the same things!


Anonymous said...
I agree. If people can't see that Lee's agenda is about re-inforcing her own sense of self importance and superiority they are blind or have no ojectivity.

She only cares about people insofar as she can use them to further her own agenda.When she thought she would be able to have April Griffin as her own personal puppet Lee was abuzz over her. Once April showed a modicum of free thinking and independence ignoring Lee's helf-witted demands well Lee could not stand it! Oh the travesty!

Lee can't figure out that you don't have to rave like a lunatic and make half-baked claims that destroy credibility to make a difference or work againt the establishment.

Lee seems to think that you have to threaten, belittle, demean and harass to get things done. It's sad and unsettling to observe such an unhappy and and clearly distrubed person. She is not at peace as she would have people believe.

Finally I think the woman has lost any grasp she may have had on reality. She calls people by the wrong name. She switches names routinely (In one post while railing against attorney Tom Gonzalez, she suddenly started calling him Ton Graham.... wtf!?!?). And she has the worst grammar that I have EVER seen. She routinely misuses words, mis-spells and doesn't follow her own punctuation rules. Lee is a self-proclaimed feminist who accuses women of sleeping their way to the top and tears women down if she feels the least bit threatened or insulted.

She is the ultimate hypocrit.
April 29, 2009 2:49 PM

How colloquial! (and ignorant)

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-lord-its-worse-than-we-thought.html

>They use to be easy to find on the web, but now you must belong to a paid "research" site for lawyers and/or administrators to get information on these lawyers who give such seminars.<

Edit: They used to be easy to find ... Vinegartits can't conjugate verbs.

She'll probably change it, but here's the proof.

Have I cured you?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/l-ets-drink-to-fighting-minions-of-dark.html

>Beware of board members bearing false faces of honesty when they are knee deep in the skulduggery that is killing you.<

Unfortunately, Vinegartits can't win with this one. If she recognises a participle and punctuates it accordingly, I'll lampoon her for failing to uphold her neurotic possessive-before-gerund standards. Does she see the error in her ways, or is she apathetic about punctuation? If it's the former, I'm glad to have been of assistance.

>Mr. Erwin's naivete and trust in the system made him think Mr. Bricklemeyer was honest. She was as honest as a pickpocket.<

Get your facts / gender agreement straight.

Comic book capitals

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/ive-got-mail.html

6:11 AM
twinkobie said...

>GoADER HAS ENDURED AN ORDEAL, AND IT IS COMING TO THE END OF IT. I WISH THAT HE WOULD DIRECT THIS KIND OF ENERGY TO ADDRESSING THE ADMINISTRATION ON BOARD DAYS. THAT WOULD ADVANCE HIS CASE MORE THAN ANY THING ANYBODY ELSE CAN DO.

I DON'T THINK THE ADMINISTRATION WILL FIRE GOADER AFTER ALL THE EXPOSURE HIS CASE HAS GOTTEN.I AM GRATEFUL TO GOADER FOR SERVING AS A MODEL OF WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION CAN DO TO A TEACHER TO SHUT HIM OR HER UP BY TERRIFYING THEM WITH THE THREAT OF JOB LOSS. IT IS TO GOADER'S CREDIT THAT HE HAS NOT SHUT DOWN HIS BLOG: THE ADMINISTRATION'S GOAL IN THIS UGLY ILLUSTRATION OF HOW THEY USE THEIR POWER WITH THE BOARD'S BACKUP TO TERRORIZE TEACHERS INTO SILENCE.

WHATEVER THE OUTCOME, I WISH GOADER LUCK. I PREDICT THAT HE WILL BE BACK IN THE CLASSROOM IN THE FALL SEMESTER. LEE<

Okay .. I hear you. Stop shouting with your comic-book Romper-Room capitals.

I think you're right, Ziggy. Senile Lee is losing the plot moreso these days.

Come now; you're not trying.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/devil-made-me-do-that.html

>Ms. Elia makes $300,000 a year and a beginning teacher makes $34,000. <

Separate two independent clauses with a comma, you stupid illiterate bonehead. I taught grammar for 28 years. It's a march to the swamps of illiteracy. Lee doesn't have a proper Ph. D. She's a nurse - one rung lower than a Home Ec. teacher and level with Early Childhooders. Blah, blah, blah.

Super comma splice

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/never-hesitate-to-ask-rhodes-scholar.html

>Your fellow Plant City denizen the greedy Dr. Earl the Pearl Lennard began this bonus gimmick, The equally greedy Ms. Elia continues it with board approval. <

The march to the swamps of illiteracy continues.

>Board Member Falliera has distinguished herself by initiating an affair with Marc Hart, former head of Community Affairs, causing him to divorce his wife, leaving his two little children in bad psychological and financial straits. The administration forced him to resign to save Ms. Falliera's "reputation." He brought the divorce depositions at his own initiative to my home in Madeira Beach, so I know the whole seamy tale. After this saga, the board appointmed Ms. Falliera chair.<

Stupid. Thrice.

>The newspaper reporting on the schools is too flaccid to give them any concern.<

No possessive for a change? I've taught you well, haven't I?

The sisterhood of Gaia, Dike, and Themis are watching.

"Sisterhood" is singular, sister.



Ziggy said...
Also notice that she said "Etheridge" instead of Edgecomb. This error along with "Falliera" (which are becoming more and more common) leads me to suspect that Lee is on the slow road to senility.
April 16, 2009 9:53 AM

Anonymous said...
Note the ever present name transition that vinegartits is such a propensity for. Tom Gonzalez is the guys proper name

From Lee's blog:Tom Gonzalez, ever prepared to cover illegal behavior of board members with faux-legal gloss, said later that my speaking someone's name might "violate the person's privacy." Tom Gallagher cares about as much about violating a person's privacy as he cares about the scandal of his holding the lawyer perch for 37 years, which his firm got on a good ol' boy handshake.
April 29, 2009 2:59 PM

The data thing ... again!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/flimflam-or-incompetence-neither-is.html


>His bosses, Jack Davis and James Hamilton, would write him that his data were incomplete or that they had not received it, and that he had to re-investigate the situation.<

were - plural
it - singular
Vinegartits - illiterate

Illiterate too strong a word? The comma after "it" splits a compound object. Make your own decision.

The apostrophe butcher

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/ive-got-mail.html

>To show how complicit the board is with the administration in crucifying teachers who give even a whiff of rebellion, I sent Steve Kemp to ask for Board Member April Griffins’ help. <

The help of April Griffin? I don't think so. Keep trying, Lee. You'll get there.

What did Earl think of these pearlers?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/keeping-in-touch-with-beelzebu.html

>Any one who read Mr. Wiesner’s Death by Education, Book titles get italics. now on sale at Alibris for very high prices as an education-underground-collector’s item, knows how sadistic you were as superintendent.<

>Mr. Wiesner’s His What the ? blood pressure skyrocketed. So he gave up. He left the malignant board and administration behind. I tried to get in touch with him Comma here: see Strunk & White but was unable to track him down.<

>Board members promise the public to “clean up the administration,” walks through the ROSSAC portals after election, and falls Subject-verb disagreement right in with the rackets run by the superintendent. Anybody who does not go along with the superintendent’s and board’s skullduggery gets fired.<

>You punished nobody for the crime after Mr. Erwin won his court case and $165.000 No period here settlement against the board and administration. <

>Middle-school media specialist Bart Birdsall and I sent Ms. Doretha Edgecomb a copy of the Wiesner book when she was elected Flabby passive voice. <

>Right now special-ed teacher Steve Kemp has been suspended Flabby passive voice for the alleged offense of child abuse manufactured by Ms. Elia More flabby passive voice .<

>The sheriff threw out the chargek, but Mr. Lucco Brazzi Valdez is prolonging the torture of Mr. KIemp in order to see what it takes to make Mr. Kemp shut down his blog, which is occasionally mildly critical of the administration. Somebody from the administration or at its even called Mr. Kemp and asked him not to discuss a certain subject on his blog any more. <

>And it was your reign that prepared the ground for such vile conduct by the current board Flabby passive voice and administration .<

>One thing more that offends me: Sentence precedes colon It was you who instituted the “bonus” for the superintendent based on student achievement. <

This last sentence is wordy crap. Edit: You instituted the " bonus” for the superintendent based on student achievement.

Tenured teachers

http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/article987898.ece

Interesting article.

Of course the first comment at Richard's blog here https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=438461550168398569&postID=3140093666193954922 is from our mate Thomas Vaughan.

Thomas Vaughan said...
I think you could investigate the employees of any institution and find bad ones. I guarantee you this, more good, dedicated and honest teachers leave every year because of the stress of the job than could ever be fired if they got rid of tenure.

A real hatchet job by Mr. Matus but is was great reading right Richard?

What did it prove and why did you include it on your blog? I was shocked that you would do this. I am a big fan of this blog but I am disappointed that you felt it necessary to include this garbage.
March 29, 2009 10:20 PM

Whatever happened to First Amendment rights, free speech and speaking one's mind? Oh, that's right ... you disagree with it, so no one is allowed to mention it.

And swearing on your father's grave doesn't disprove the allegations.

From the article:

There is no easy way to find out which teachers get in trouble a lot.
Their personnel files are public record, but they're not posted on the Web, and it can easily cost more than $100 to redact and copy a few files.

I might get a hold of a copy of Thomas's file and have a gander. I'm sure that Vinegartits has.

Whoops! Missed a post!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/some-comments-on-goaders-blog.html

>I was so enchanted with the sight of the board talking about ethics that I dumped my planned comments and instead said I would identify people on the board who should under no circumstances offer themselves as role models of character to children looking for people in the schools to look up to.<

Possessive before gerund, Vinegartits. Or have you learned (from me - glad to be of assistance) that there is a difference between a gerund and a participle? Please clarify. Either you are wrong according your own standards or you've decided to adopt mine.


>I wheeled on Ms. Elia and told her she was a bully, was a constitutional liar<

It certainly takes one to know one. You can't get enough of bragging how wonderful you are at the podium. The rumour is that you spoke terribly. You tried the "Oh, I changed my tack at at the last minute" ruse to try to save face. You've probably fooled some people.

Yes, but Lee's a liar, too.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/emotional-blackmail-as-usual-and-sneaky.html
I love the comments on this entry. They're all liars, they're all liars. Lee's a liar, too. It's been proven regularly. She's illiterate as well. Cop these.

I understand you were an undergraduate history major comma here but would bet my best pair of Manola Blanicks that you never read The Federalist Papers, and if you did, you didn't understand Hamilton, Madison, and Jay.

You have instigated the child-abuse frame-up that has gutted Steve Kemp during a six-months' This is a new form of apostrophe abuse, even for Vinegartits suspension; before you let him loose, you want to assure that he will offer you no resistance if you waive the child-abuse charge.

After the coddling of the incompetent principal in the Alafia case, your willingness to hire the incompetent Ms. Smith a coach on how act human for $345 Inflation? You received confirmation it was $340. Filthy liar. a day with plans before the mothers put their feet down to send her and her assistant principal to Eckerd for personality-remake seminars for $4500 apiece, this crucifixion of a teacher on a trumped-up charge makes Caligula look like an old softie.

Parenthesis trouble - and more.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/people-don.html

>The 56-foot yacht in Jupiter, Fla., used by the two judges.<

Flabby passive voice.

About twenty years ago, three Hillsborough County commissioners were caught taking bribes. I think Shouldn't you know before you start slandering them?these were Joe Kotvos, Fred Anderson, and Jerry Bowmer.

Dr. Lennard led the campaign with Dr. James Hamilton and Mr. Davis--or maybe it was Black; I get them mixed up-- Again, check your facts before you start.to give Mr. Erwin the runaround when Mr. Erwin tried for two years to get them to do something about the crimes he had discovered: kickbacks, rigged bids, shoddy construction of schools, and plain stealing of such things as tractors and even toilet paper by the grounds supervisor. Flabby passive voice.

The board looked the other way or some members participated, and the others looked the other way. Proper punctuation would help this sentence.

In fact Shudder., they are rapidly disappearing.

The readers slide to the semi literate of the population while savvy citizens switch to online news and blogs.

If an imperilled newspaper management were smart--and it isn't--look at that dope who owns the NYT, Dauphin Sulzberger, it would switch to Web sites with the local news its emphasis. Online news does not cover local but national news.
The removal of the bit in parenthesis renders the sentence nonsensical (and a run-on sentence).

I can then see a transition of readers to the smart local paper's blog for local news; then they would switch to blogs for differnt takes on local stories and the national and international news Webs for that level of news.

I heard Andrew Barnes at an ACLU hoedown fifteen years ago impugning the Internet's effect on news compared to With, with, with! the purity of local newspapers immaculate productions.

So much for Andy. Mr. Tash was Mr. Barnes's Sancho Panza, so he now manages with the same dim principles even though his parents were teachers and he graduated summa cum laude from some Iowa school--or maybe it was Ohio-- Check your facts for excelling in hayseed scholarship that did not include learning to punctuate or to assess a business situation and make the right moves to stay on the sunny side of economics.

One wants the institution that cares for the intellectual development of our children to be pure..

Such a belief contaminates the romance of schools being What? No possessive before gerund? the pristine and potent center of democracy's training the young to practice ideal democreacy when they are grown.

The board said noting about this rape of the tax payers and apparently did nothing to confirm that Dr. Hamilton's job was a faux position.

So if the board condones featherbedding jobs paid for by taxpayers Flabby passive voice. , maybe it is possible that one accepted a financial bailout from the administration with tax dollars.

I looked at the NYT front page to see what President Obama was going to do with the auto industry, Comma splits compound predicate and ran across the following shocker of public officials' crime.

Like the crime in the school sytem, people around these two judges knew about the crime Comma needed here but like the workers and teachers in the schools didn't say anything for fear of losing their jobs.

Vinegartits reads my blog to learn.

Two out of three ain't bad. A few posts ago here

http://antigrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2009/03/homophone-problems-equals-illiterate.html

I mentioned Vinegartits's homophone difficulties with "to" and "too" (proving that she is illiterate) and had a laugh at her error in a sentence that boasted how the ability to use language is so wonderful and how she is so great at it.

Vinegartits has obviously checked my blog and gone back to correct her errors. http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/peashooters-are-out-and-about.html

Now I know at least one reason why my hit counter keeps ticking over. You're welcome, Miss I've-been-teaching-for-28-years-and-I'm-so-wonderful. Luckily, I took a screen shot of your slop so that even if you corrected it we could all still see how illiterate you are.

PS Did you notice how I made my scan big enough for my reader to read? This is called "giving a shit". I know you don't give a shit about any of your readers because you give them a curt "Blow it up yourself". Your readers probably know deep down that you don't give a shit about them. The educators that you deride when you allege that they have no technological savvy are rolling in the aisles at your hypocrisy, too.

Check ... one, two ...

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/peashooters-are-out-and-about.html

I'll move away from Vinegartits's grammar briefly. I can't help notice these comments.


From Vinegartits (Sentence fragment intended):

>I can't figure out how to blow this scan up. You will have do that job. <

>Please send me the name of the AV person who is in charge when the board is in session.<

>The education channel has called me to come in and let it prove that they its personnel did not cut out my appearances.<

From a poster (Anonymous, natch.):

>When you spoke at meeting, no one in audience heard you. Sounds like Education Channel caved in. <

This whole let's-blame-everyone-because-Lee-couldn't-be-heard debacle is laughable. Ziggy outlines at his Abyss blog that Lee as a public speaker is pathetic.

I wager that Lee can't use a microphone or project her voice properly. Microphones aren't magic; many people think that if they are in the same room as this magic ice cream cone, then all is fine. I've seen people muttering into microphones, followed by efforts from the "AV" personnel to turn up the volume. Mostly, the idiots on the mics speak more quietly when they hear their levels increase.

Surely a teacher with experience of 28 years could project her voice clearly enough.

It wouldn't matter when the AV person tells Lee that she can't use a microphone for peanuts; she's already got her back up. The AV person could start talking about gain structure, feedback, cardoid patterns, condenser mics, omnidirectional/unidirectional microphones, or a host of other topics and it still wouldn't matter, because this vindictive bitch has already worked out that it couldn't have been her fault.

My thought for the day: If you've got something important for people to read, make it readable. If you've got something important for people to hear, make it audible.

We've seen how apathetic Vinegartits is towards increasing the size of some scanned text for people to read. Surely she could be similarly apathetic towards mastering the art of how to use a microphone for people to hear. Gee, she's too apathetic to master the homophones "to" and "too"!

Homophone problems equals illiterate.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/peashooters-are-out-and-about.html
>The education channel has called me to come in and let it prove that they its personnel did not cut out my appearances. <

>We must never believe a public official is too high or to mighty for us to call on for help where government is concerned.<

The homophones "to", "two" and "too" are often confused. Like those who confuse "your" and "you're", people who get this one wrong are illiterate bozos.

>Language is the most powerful weapon in the world, and I have e a handle on it.<

You sometimes have a handle on it, Vinegartits. Mostly, you've got only your hand on it.

Vinegartits hits The Wall

From The Wall blog:

http://call-in-6.blogspot.com/2007/03/random-thoughts-board-meeting-mar13.html

>In fact, every administrator making over $100,000 should kick in at least $40,000 of her/his bloated paychecks to the budget crisis.

...

In fact, where is the CTA ever when teachers need it to stand up to the administration? <

Do you know the facts? State them. Strunk &White insists you do.


>Her [Elia] salary represents an insult to teachers and students since she can't punctuate and doesn't show any sign of learning this literacy requirement for anyone's working in education.<

Is that so? How's this, then?
>Ms. Elia got over $10,000 raise at the same time the teachers got peanuts Separate two independent clauses with a comma and the bus drivers get third-world salaries and drive broken-down buses with not enough mechanics to fix them.<

>Massachussetts has a state law that mandates all administrators take the same literacy tests as do teachers. That requirement would clean out at least half of the current ROSSAC administration illiterati.<

And were it enforced, quite a few teachers too, I'd imagine. Thomas What's-an-apostrophe Vaughan would be the first.



>Even as catch-up, the "raise" was meager compared to bloated administration salaries.<

Facts.
1. This should be "compared with".
2. Strunk & White says that it should be "compared with".
3. I told Vinegartits here http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2007/06/tampa-tribune-editorial-editor-goudreau.html that it should be "compared with".
4. Vinegartits agreed with me here http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2007/06/tampa-tribune-editorial-editor-goudreau.html that it should be "compared with".
5. Vinegartits is too stupid to get it right. She is illiterate.

A new rant with a felony by the second sentence

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/cliff-notes-on-10th-board-meeting-we.html

Yes, fans of the Vinegartits genre, you can always pop into her blog and find grammar errors easily. I don't know how long it will take to find and post them all - stay tuned.

>I attended the board meeting on the 10th. Public TV cut out my part in citizens' forum at this meeting as it had done the previous meeting, At both I protested the unfairness of the Steve Kemp case.< My goodness!

>Ms. Elia hired a tutor for $340 a day to guide Ms. Smith in learning to treat other people as human beings. Isn't that a required [Adjectival, but still flabby passive voice.] job skill coming into a principal job?<

Aren't teachers allowed professional development? Besides, many teachers who post to your blogs don't have the required grammar and punctuation skills for a teacher job. When will you pull them up?

>This confirms teachers' maxim that at ROSSAC if youj mess up, you move up0.<
Sloppy.

>Dr. Lennard, you will recall if you have reviewed the Erwin court papers, was the principal torturer who tried to kick out a man from the school system with no pension [Laughably misplaced to modify "school system"] because he had discovered the nest of crime going on in ROSSAC and insisted on making it public.<

>One comes away from reading those boxes of Erwin documents with the conviction that protection of the crime going on then in which bid-rigging, theft of school property, slipshod building that got top dollar, and just plain stealing of money were ongoing and protected [Flabby passive voice] by the administration and board.<
Vinegartits's wordy sentences get her in trouble. Sometimes she forgets what the subject of a clause is because of all the crap in between it and its verb. Why else would she write that the protection was protected? Sheesh!

>Ms. Falliero, you will remember [Comma here] was the board member who wanted the board to get yet another raise that exceeded that of beginning teachers' pay even more than the roughly $10,000 that the board sloths presently exceed beginning teachers' salaries.<

>Ms. Edgecombe's customary chirping chatter held a seed of interesting data. If I rescued the data from the chirping, she and Mr. Valdez had taught together when she was a single mother.<

False logic. So if you hadn't rescued the data, they would not have taught together? This is a common error.

>And if teachers have a special place on the agenda, why did the little arts guy wearing a splotchy apron speak before me in the citizen's forum instead of the special teachers' forum that Ms. Olson claims exists> [Punctuate questions with question marks.] <

One citizen and many teachers? Arguments can be made for either singular or plural, but the argument for plural is stronger. We know that apostrophes aren't Vinegertits's forte, but she should pick one style and stick to it. Perhaps she can't remember six words back these days.

>Ms. Elia ignored the request. I agree that middle school and grammar school teachers should get proportional representation. My six grammar-school teachers had more impact on my psyche than all the other teachers I have had put together.<

This inconsistent style is poor.

>I suspect there is academic snobbery unfolding in middle- and grammar-school teachers absence from the committees.<

Forget possessives before gerunds; La Vinegartits can't manage possessives before nouns.

>Ms. Elia's own academic record is too shoddy to warrant such shopworn prejudice against the children's grammar- school and middle-school teachers.<

Is this another floating hyphen or lack of attention to detail?

>He doesn't know Roberts Rules from a hole in the ground.<

Vinegartits doesn't know the title or how to use an apostrophe. She started to punctuate this correctly after I pulled her up on it. It appears she is marching back to the swamps of illiteracy.

>I once heard him say that teachers' applauding their colleagues violated Roberts Rules when they attended en masse to protest Ms. Elia's downloading an extra class on them without consultation or warning. <

See what I mean? Once is a typo. Twice is ignorance.

>I append Thomas's last comment to this blog.<

Well, this should be good! I'll analyse it later.

By the way, I taught Lee how to apostrophise words ending with "s". Check here: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10202103&postID=7168423543492832625

Vinegartits ... back and slack.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/missing-in-action-but-still-alive.html

>The palentology community tried to disown the Neaderthals as precedent to us; it was nothing but discrimination because they were ugly.<


>I hope to be able to save his job by constantly nagging the thugs who are holding him on suspension on a cooked-up case of child abust that the sheriff threw out.<

>Never underestimate the effectiveness of being a pain in the ass. You don't have to be rational. You just have to be unrelenting. It doesn't matter if you don't make sense. Just keep talking.<
It doesn't matter if you don't make sense? Now you tell us your modus operandi!

>I was proud of Thomas for standing down that administrator who wants to "get rid" of him. That the administrators as a group think they have the right and the power to get rid of teachers for personal snits tells how indecent the ethics are of the school board and administration.<

>I have a new printer and computer Comma goes here to separate two independent clauses. but the computer will be tied up with the Geek Squad at Best Buy for a couple of days for data transfer.<

homas, you did great in fighting your fight against that pompous administrator, but you should have given that administrator's name.

Possessive before gerund

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/02/eking-out-public-information-if-at.html

>Ms. Cobbe: Has the total for the administration's defense of Alafia's Ms. Smith been talliled yet?<

This was a formal email. How substandard!

>Schools having federal grants are supposed to have affirmative action plans for disabled workers. <

Hooray! She's finally worked out that an apostrophe isn't needed! Normally the vinegartitted one would demand possession before "having", but it's obvious that it is the "schools" that are supposed (passive voice - how flabby), not the "having".

I taught her that examples such as this are participles, not gerunds. She's welcome, but I'm not even going to give her a chance to thank me.

Basic errors from the Stanford Binet lower quartile

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/02/treading-water-on-goaders-case.html

>The board-and- administration parasites use state money do such things as fund the board’s spending $150, 00 in a single year to gad about the country on frivolous junkets while teachers have to use their own money to buy supplies for poor children so that these tots can participate in class activities.<

>Or, using the logic that administrators can do no wrong, Ms. Elia sends out a memo to administrators to support all administrators caught in a contretemps and authorizes a “mentor” service at $340 a day for the disastrous principal of Alafia, Ms. Smith.<

This must seem reasonable now after the $340 per hour mix up. Vinegartits wouldn't be happy with $340 per month. Here's a question: How much does it cost for teachers to attend professional development for a day? Money for a relief teacher and money to attend PD? Does she rail against this cost also?

>Who pays for this personality-adjustment services?< Subject/verb disagreement

>Warming to the subject, I advised Thomas to go for broke<

You meant that it was Thomas who was warming to the subject, didn't you? The dangling participle phrase is a common error; you've made it before in your blogs.

>“Push back, Thomas,” I urged. “Keep in mind that they all reside in the lower quartile of the Stanford Binet. They could not have passed my English 101 course if their lives depended on it.”<

Thomas Vaughan couldn't have found his way to your classroom! This lower-quartile taunt gets old. Thomas Vaughan can't use an apostrophe to save himself, spells poorly and can't tell the difference between the homophones "your" and "you're". How do these lower-quartile achievers get teaching jobs?

>Thomas caught on quickly. He squawked loudly. He railed constantly. The reward: He saved his job.<

Vinegartits regularly insists that a complete sentence always precedes a colon.

>Thomas, errant comma himself saved his own grits just as Bart Birdsall had saved his with the same strategy when he fought and won the charge that he was using school emails for political purposes.<

>Galileo for saying the the sun was the center of the universe, not the earth, not vice versa as the church insisted.<

This is ridiculously misplaced! Edit: Galileo for saying the the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe, not vice versa as the church insisted.

>Samuel Gompers, Should this comma be omitted, or should there be one after Galileo earlier? who fought child labor and didn’t give up till he changed the vile practice of greedy industrialists’ making little children work long hours in dark and dank factories.<

Lee - full of it, as usual!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/02/blogging-to-pierce-veil-of-silence.html

>Ms. Elia's office needs an extra dousing with holy water since that is site of her putative cursing out of lower-level personnel with imprecations larded with the f-word. I can write the holy men and let them know the godless activities that go on in the sinful precincts of the School Board; the spiritual leaders of this community need to know of these devilish activities of the board and its administration minions on civic ground.

I am well qualified to do this task. I am a child of Episcopal parents, the church of whom in the little Georgia town where I was born turned Hard Shell Baptist about forty years ago. The apostates of the family joined the Baptists and outbred the sluggish Episcopal original members of the little family church on the grounds of the cemetery. Now the church's sermons come from itinerant born-again, bloviating ministers. These pulpit-pounding preachers prey on the ignorance that infests all the little Southern towns of my home state and even my family, alas. Ignorance has suborned my family along with the other dopes in town.

But the point is that I can talk high church and low church. I am fluent in both episcopal doxology and also born-again patois.<

Yet here:

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/09/comma-correction-followed-by-board.html

>Now this shows the erudition of my readers. They know a lot more than I do. My excuse is that I did not recall that God has three personae. I thought of Him as the the one boffo fellow in charge of everything. If I were smart enough to know the nitty gritty of religious doctrine, I would be guilty of a comma error. But since I am shaky on the Yahweh personae, you have to give me a pass on this one. lee <

Sooner or later the liars get busted. It wasn't Lee's ignorance of religious doctrine; it was her inability to use a comma.

As I've written earlier, I'm glad that these bullshitters leave their trail in the ether!

Twenty-eight years in the business means nothing.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/02/twisted-thinking-behind-steve-kemps.html

It is more about the case comma and it simply reports that the district did not report it to the police.

The police was were trying not to blame the district in its their response to the reporters, if I remember correctly cliche.

Now think about your the extra word Kemp case.

You see, I have come to believe that Professional Standards picks and chooses WHOM comic book style capitals they want to cover up for and whom they want to scare.

They want to keep student/teacher sex cases out of the papers comma and so they try not to report it unless they have to, so they investigate that first.

But in kemp's capital case someone wanted to "get" you, so they did go straight to the police.


She's probably not even pulling the strings. She probably simply redundant adverbs does as she is told by Elia or whomever Passive voice is flabby.

I truly believe what happened is that they cooked up a scare for Kemp comma but doubted from the beginning whether it would hold water, which is why they kept him on PAID Romper Room capitals suspension.

Somewhere along the line they This pronoun has no antecedent. realized it is not going to work (probably when the police dismissed the case), so they just shut up about your the Again? Kemp case.

Sort of like, "Shoot! ... That will send him a message without us having to say it to him." This is a sentence fragment. Is "sort of" the best vocab you've got?

The ROSSAC people are bullies in a playground, and they bully who whom they think they can.

Lee the Liar's poor grammar and punctuation in her long rant.

Lee's a liar, but I'll rip apart her grammar and punctuation first.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/02/turning-over-rocks-in-professional.html


>I had been trying to help Bart in his goal of getting a program for educating school personnel about bullying in the schools especially of gay children (Bart is gay), I [This is a comma splice; a felony] remember chasing Dr Earl Lennard across a lobby of a hotel at a Tampa Tiger Bay meeting when he tried to escape me.<

>Neither can speak nor have ["neither" takes the singular verb "has"] any verbal ability.<

>In fact [Do you know the facts? Strunk and White suggests you state them.] , I suspect that the inability to write the English language and to punctuate it correctly .[Something about punctuating correctly? Why is this full stop here?] is a bona fide occupational qualification for administrative positions. <

>Steve got, no [Errant comma.] word of encouragement or encouragement [This is repetitious.] at all: he got nothing from the supervisors Smiley, Morris, and Sosa except being thrown in the room and then six days afterward charged with child abuse for hooking up one of the students to a chair while he chased down another.<



Lee the Liar

>But Ms. Elia continued to support Ms. Smith, who with her former-principal husband is a friend of Dr. Lamb. Ms. Elia had Grace Ippolito, erstwhile principal and Elia pal, act as “mentor” to Ms. Smith to teach her how to react to people in a humane fashion. The Ippolito pay was $340 a day. I have quoted this pay as $340 an hour, and I don’t think Elia would have demurred if it were, so eager is the administration to bolster Smith’s keeping her job.<

Vinegartits plumbs new depths. After repeatedy insisting that the pay was $340 per hour and deriding everyone for this reason, she finally admits that the pay was $340 per day. Many have told her this, and she has finally acknowledged it, twisting the knife with a "Well, they probably wanted to do it anyway." With Vinegartits, you're guilty until you're proven innocent, and then you're still guilty. Which amendment is that?

Vinegartits, your gay friend Bart Birdsall was fondling and penetrating young boys in the school library. Please confirm for me that Bart Birdsall was having his way with these boys behind the Junior Fiction shelves. I say this because I believe it. I am Teflon.

Hang on ... he wasn't? He was only reading a book? Well, he probably wouldn't have demurred were he given the chance to molest young boys.

It's not nice, is it?

Thomas Vaughan is his own worst critic.

From Goader's blog: http://es-kay.net/?p=700

Thomas Vaughan on September 13th, 2008 10:13 am

"I would take a pay cut to be treated like a professional."

From Richard's blog https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=438461550168398569&postID=277626849184071490&page=1 , Thomas Vaughan writes:

"People that are willing to take a pay cut to keep their "so called" professional jobs are a disgrace.... that teachers are willing to work for less is proof that they have no respect for themselves.

You get what you pay for. : )

Disgusting...and teachers wonder why they are not respected...."

Thomas Vaughan, you're a disgrace with no respect for youself, no? I sure your principal got exactly what she paid for.

Further on Richard's blog:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=438461550168398569&postID=277626849184071490&page=1

Thomas Vaughan said...
Anon 2
"Aside from that, what do you feel the union has done to encourage a positive outcome?'

You wrote that didn't you? I responded. Got anything useful to add? Perhaps you should read read more carefully.

Joe D
Disgrace? At least I have the courage to sign my name.
February 15, 2009 10:06 PM


John__D said...
>Joe D
Disgrace? At least I have the courage to sign my name.<

I sign my name using my Blogger account, although it seems pointless as you are unable to read it correctly.

Anon 2 probably has nothing more useful to add because s/he knows that you would misconstrue it anyway. You wrote:

>You [Anon 2] wrote earlier, "The District claims it's willing but that the Union won't come to the table."<

Anon 2 wrote that s/he hadn't written that earlier. Your comprehension skills are in the toilet, Thomas.

What say you about people who are willing to take a pay cut and that you are one of them? As usual, you don't answer questions asked of you. You think you're all aggressive and you insinuate how courageous you are, but you're a pussy who backs down when anyone challenges you and the contradictory rot you spruik.
February 16, 2009 5:37 AM

You're still a hypocrite, Thomas, and one who can't read to boot. Bullshitters like you always come unstuck when your droppings get lined up side by side. That's what I love about the internet - there's a permanent record of your contradictions for eternity in the ether.

Oh, and this comment, of course: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=438461550168398569&postID=277626849184071490&page=1

>February 16, 2009 5:37 AM
Thomas Vaughan said...

Your discourse is crude. I have no intention of responding to you after this.

I'm guessing your a misogynist by the crude reference. Do you beat your wife too? Do you have a problem with women? I think you do and I know why.

Still angry about how your mother treated you?

Bye bye baby boy. Get some treatment.<

It's the standard three.

- refuse to answer simple questions

- invent some weak point you think you can taunt your challenger with and call them a few names, and ... drumroll ...

- butcher the language even though you're a schoolteacher who admonishes management who allegedly can't distinguish between "you're" and "your".

Comma

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/02/still-on-trail-of-hamilton-lobbying.html

>Thank you, Ms. Champion and Aimee for these data.<

Here's some more data for you. You need a comma in this formal communication.

Homophone help - stationery/stationary

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/01/dont-miss-chance-to-try-anything-that.html

>When two large male students started acting up at once, he hooked the harness of one to a stationery object so that he could deal with them one at a time.<

Let me guess - the students were hooked up to a ream of A4?

I'm sure I've mentioned this one before; I must find the link. I distinctly remember coaching Lee with the "e" for "envelope", "a" for "at a standstill" reminder.

(Here it is: http://antigrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/04/basic-stuff.html)

Vinegartits struggles with many homophones. Even Hamilton and kindy teachers know the difference between "stationary" and "stationery". This stuff up was in a formal letter to a lawyer.

How dumb can you get?

>This procedure means the teachers are terrified of losing their jobs if they complain even about the most egregious cases of mistreatment of them by the administration and superintendent.<

Well, that dumb. Vinegartits normally complains about this misplaced modifier.

$340 per day

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/01/one-cesspool-at-time_25.html

>Please confirm for me that her mentor, Ms. Ippolito, got $340 a hour for her work.<

Vinegartits messes up articles in a formal letter. Help, it's a march to the swamps of illiteracy.


Here is an excerpt from the Tribune article.

"Ippolito is working under an open-ended contract at $340 a day with the school district." [My emphasis]
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/dec/08/coaching-alafia-principal-could-cost-district-thou/

Help, it's a march to either the swamps of ignorance or (more likely) the swamps of deceit.

Ziggy said...

Lee is either senile or mentally retarded. I did not catch the grammar error because I was disturbed by the fact that she is still claiming that the pay was per hour, instead of per day. She knows she's wrong, yet she ignorantly and defiantly asks Cobbe to "confirm" that she is right. Doesn’t Lee know she is going to be shot down? Cobbe has already made it very clear to her in a previous correspondence that the pay was per day. Lee has no argument against $340 a day, for that is the typical salary of an experienced elementary school principal (which Ippolito was before retiring).

January 26, 2009 9:46 PM
John__D said...
>Lee is either senile or mentally retarded.<

Stop being polite, Ziggy. There is a third option; she is a liar. She often lies to support her positions. I'm sure that Cobbe will, as you write, shoot her down.

Which was the previous correspondence? I must have missed it.

Subject/verb agreement

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/01/communication-from-floozy-genus-is.html

>I have corrected the punctuation errors in your little essay below. Get out your grammar primer. You need work for basic literacy. I know the kindergarten degree that you possess does not require Greek and Latin, but it must require that you learn punctuation. What diploma mill gave you a degree? I shall write the president to ask how come the outfit graduates illiterates to clog school administrations.<

>I am glad for this opportunity to tell you how women such as you who creep to the top by seduction, not qualifications, sets back all women’s progress. <

A plural subject requires a plural verb, Vinegartits. Kindergarten teachers know that. Where did you get your degree from? Get out your grammar primer and revise before I dob you in to the president, you illiterate cow.

>Hussies' sabataging women’s employment progress concerns me.<

Go back to kindy for spelling lessons, too. Although Greek and Latin aren't essential, the kindy folk can help you with the etymology of the word.

>Don’t use ellipses promiscuously. They have limited, special uses. Look the ellipses mark up in your grammar book.<

You want singular, idiot.

The poetic march to the swamps of illiteracy.

Vinegartits, do you ever get anything right?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/01/two-years-observance-of-hillsborough.html

>Milton in Lycidas summarizes the psyches of such people as bow down to the world’s Elias:

Anow as such these bellies sake, (Anow of such as for their bellies sake)
Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold?
Or other care they little reck’ning make, (Of other care ...)
Than how to scramble to the shearers feast, (Then how to scramble at the shearers feast)
And shove away the worthy bidden guest,
Blind mouths! (Blind mouthes!)

This is the kind of poem about which my students used to say, “Oh, Lord, Ms. De Cesare. What’s this guy talking about?”<

I'm not surprised that your students reacted that way. Did you always misquote it to your poor illiterate charges?

Whole numbers, Batman! She can't count either!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/01/b-b-gun-sharpshooters-are-out.html

>Hot dog! The lower-quartile artillery has come out of its bunker with b-b guns.

These specimens fell for the old green-pony trick as we knew they would.

As soon as they have completed Romper Room metaphysics, they should try another b-b pellet in our direction.

Until then, the lower-quartiles must floss daily, go to bed early, and eat their spinach.

Psychological query: What does the sign-off of "fondly" from this guy to Commissioner Smith mean? No homophobic aspersions, please. We are supporters of the gay brotherhood. But do two guys usually sign emails with "fondly"? Where are you when we need you, Uncle Freud?

Pax Vobiscum

Lee Drury De Cesare
leedrurydecesaresCasting-RoomCouch.blogspot.com<

You are in error with your direct quotation of "fondly". And you normally insist that the question mark goes inside the quotation marks according to your standards. Are you slipping into senility, or have I converted you?

There was only one guy signing one email.

>No homophobic aspersions, please.<
This is a sentence fragment, Vinegartits. You insist it is a grammar felony.

She can't read, write complete sentences, punctuate or count. See, Commissioner, I told you Lee doesn't know what she's talking about.

I wonder if Vinegartits has ever thought that administrators and so forth view her quests as the equivalent of little kids with BB guns. Perhaps they are too polite to tell her.

That's okay, Vinegartits. After all these years of popping off your own toy guns, ensure you keep launching your full-scale attacks at your detractors with your brolly.

(You have plumbed new depths with your gay taunts. Your thin veil of a disclaimer won't fool many. You don't seem worried about Freud when you post pictures like the one here. http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/10/stand-up-for-first-amendment.html)

And also with you.

Holy homophones, Batman! Twice!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/01/two-years-observance-of-hillsborough.html

Seriously, this one beggars belief.

>In return for the loss of a qualified, hardworking, no-gossip-about-her principal, citizens got stuck with her priapic former husband, one whose writing reveals that he doesn’t know the difference between “your” and “your, ” and one La Connie Mileto, munchkin femme fatale when it comes to climbing the employment ladder with meager credentials.<

This a different e-mail from the other one. Vinegartits makes the same error - again!

Now, class, lets add this up. Hamilton made his original your/you're error once in an informal email. Lee Drury de Cesare (teacher with 28 years of experience, college professor and self-proclaimed grammar expert) makes her your/your error twice in formal emails to an education head.

Vinegartits, there's no contest. You're ("your", if you like!) at least twice as stupid as Hamilton will ever be.

(You would think that after writing about Faliero that often, Lee could spell her name accurately in an email address. Heavens to Betsy, it's a march to the swamps of e-illiteracy!)

Commissionersmith@fldoe.org ; Commissioner@fldoe.org ; Sandy.Cho@fldoe.org ; april.griffin@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; Will.Holcombe@fldoe.org ; Chancellor.Haithcock@fldoe.org ; Lucy.Hadi@fldoe.org ; tomgozales@sdhc.k121.fl.us ; Joyce.hildreth@dbs.fldoe.org ; Bill.Palmer@vr.fldoe.org ; Arm@fldoe.org ; Linda.Champion@fldoe.org ; oig@fldoe.org ; Debby.Kearney@fldoe.org ; Erin.geraghty@fldoe.org ; Carrie.Fraser@fldoe.org ; Mike.Kooi@fldoe.org ; Sam.Ferguson@fldoe.org ; linda.cobbe@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; doretha.edgecomb@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; candy.olson@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; jack.lamb@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; jennifer.falliero@sdhc.k12.fl ; carol.kurdell@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; susanvaldes@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; paultash@sptimes.com ; larsen@tampatribune.com ; letitiastein@sptimes.com ; mbrown@tampatribune ; patrickmanteiga@lagacetanewspaper.com ;gsiudut@lagacetanewspaper.com ; goader@es-kay.net ; earl.lennard@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; Jim.hamilton@sdhc.k12.fl.us ; tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

Dear Secretary of Education Smith,

I apologise for this unsolicited communication. Regrettably, we live in an age where anyone can compile a list of emails and annoy people.

Lee Drury de Cesare is often in error. For example, in two separate emails to you she has consistently maintained that "your" and "your" are homophones. She will assure you that Dr Hamilton is incompetent because he has trouble with homophones.

I ask that you deem Lee Drury de Cesare incompetent for the same reason and that you hence assume that everything she writes is similarly flawed.

I'll post Lee's mind-boggling stupidity on my blog.
http://antigrammargrinch.blogspot.com/

Fond regards,
John D

Here it is! Your, your, your, your, your your, your.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/beat-goes-on_19.html

Yes, Vinegartits does go on like a cracked record. Here is an excerpt from one of her usual rants.

>Dear Secretary of Education Smith:

I solicit your assistance in regard to what I believe to be gross negligence on the part of the Hillsborough County School board in a matter of hiring ....

.... Dr. Hamilton will have to hire a secretary to do any writing for him because he has trouble with the English language although he got a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where, I believe you received your terminal degree as well. Dr. Hamilton stumbles with markers of literacy: he is, for example, unable to differentiate between the homophones “your” and “your.”<

"Your" and "your" are not homophones. They are the same word. You are stupid. You are more stupid than Hamilton could ever be. You haven't made a typo. You are very stupid. You have a poor command of the English language. You are stupid. You are heading the march to the swamps of illiteracy. You are stupid and can't write for toffee, Vinegartits. How can you confuse the same word? You're not qualified to do anything ever. You are stupid.

Thank you, Ziggy, for pointing out that it was Hamilton. And it would be "henchpersons" not "henchmen", wouldn't it? Don't get Vinegartits's feminist dander up.

PS While writing to the Secretary of Education about someone else's incompetence with language, Vinegartits cocks up her commas as well as the "your" thing. How stupid can she get?

Congratulations, Thomas Vaughan.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3903698425036113784&postID=3891725473460680488

I always knew there was something a bit vinegartitsy about our Thomas.

>In documenting her last "walk-through" she [his principal] accurately pointed out that I was at my desk conferring with a student and that my kids were working on an outline of the chapter but described a Graphic Organizer on my whiteboard as a Venn Diagram. A small point perhaps but The Venn Diagram is made up of two or more overlapping figures, usually circles. They are often used in mathematics to show relationships between sets.<

>My own Principal doesn't know the difference between a Venn diagram and a table. <

Is this it? He discredits his principal because she doesn't know the difference? How does he know that she doesn't know the difference? She may have only made a mistake.

He seldom uses an apostrophe correctly, yet he rabbits on about (in his own words) a small point. And yes, it is a small point. He's as pathetic as Lee with the your/you're thing.

(By the way, a Venn diagram need not overlap. Thomas had better brush up on Venn diagrams himself.)


Ziggy writes ...

By the way, I think Lee's your/you're fetish concerns Hamilton, not Lamb. It's not that I particularly care, I just figure I'd tell you before she or one her henchmen accuse you of being illiterate for such a minor error.

And why does Vaughan capitalize "vendiagram" and "graphic organizer"?

I think that Venn diagrams are named after Mr Venn as an Edison screw, a Pythagorean theorem and an Achilles heel are named after people. Thanks for pointing out that it was Hamilton. Confusing Hamilton and Lamb is nearly as bad as confusing "your" and "you're".

Lying bitch.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas-to-all.html

>A normal citizen must label such tax-paid junketing as insane abuse of the tax monies that the public pays and thinks they go to the schools and the students.<

This is poorly worded. Who is "they"? Let's remove "pays".

... the tax monies that the public thinks they go to the schools ...

A pronoun and a relative pronoun is a bit excessive.

... the tax monies that the public thinks go to schools.


>I just received a message calling me a “lying bitch.” We must be doing something right. lee <

No. Just lying.

More of Lee's wrong commas

>Wow, woman, you’re as bad as Bush. “Do things American or we’ll bomb the crap out of y’all!” Colour, modelling, metre – all wrong Comma and I’m illiterate, I suppose.<

Rearrange the sentence, moron.
I suppose [they are] all wrong and I'm illiterate.

"All wrong and I'm illiterate" is a compound object. You say yourself that a comma shouldn't separate a compound object. What changed your mind?

Note the difference:
(a) I suppose they are all wrong, and I'm illiterate.
(b) I suppose they are all wrong and I'm illiterate.

In (a) I'm stating that I'm illiterate. In (b) I'm stating that I suppose that I'm illiterate. There's a difference, but you're either too arrogant or too stupid to see it.

Comma, you stupid old cow.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/mail-bag-was-smoking-this-morning.html

>This fellow must be Ziggy’s best bud. Good. Ziggy needs a soul mate who can’t wrestle commas to the ground. Don’t think I shall give up my comma weapon fellows. It’s more effective than Buffalo Bill’s carbine, and you’re in the cross-hairs. lee <

A comma of direct address goes here while you're making fun of how we can't use commas, stupid. BANG!

Ziggy's Post

Ziggy has his own blog:

http://ziggysabyss.blogspot.com/

Post whatever you want here, Ziggy.

Ziggy says ...

Lee, despite her promise to post anything from any reader due to her commitment to the First Amendment, refuses to post a comment of mine. What did you expect, Ziggy? She's a hypocrite. She refuses to post it because I correct her writing in this one:

Ziggy, you argue for the sake of keeping the attention on you. A mother of four and a granny of ten can tell you that little kids cut up all the time to get attention.

You need to start a blog of your own. You are monopolizing my blog. It’s not the nagging you do; [SPACE AFTER SEMICOLON] it’s the space you take up with no point. you [CAPITALIZE “YOU”] nag for the sake of keeping the attention on you.

A mother of four and a granny of ten can tell you that little kids cut up all the time to get attention. [SPACE AFTER PERIOD]You need to start a blog of your own. You are monopolize [REPLACE WITH MONOPOLIZING OR OMIT "ARE"] my blog with pointless patter. [ENTIRE PARAGRAPH IS REPETITION OF PREVIOUS TWO PARAGRAPHS]

Learn this bit of logic, dear boy: [INSERT “NEITHER”] You nor anyone will ever tell me whose grammar to correct. That is strictly the kid here's choice. lee [CAPITALIZE “LEE”]--

Logic? How is correcting one person's grammar and not another's logical?

And yesterday she posted:

Thank you and to all who make the fight against the board and administration's mistreatment of teachers, I wish a merry Christmas.

It's confusing. I think it should say:

To all who make the fight against the board and administration's mistreatment of the teachers, I thank you and wish you a merry Christmas.

The reason it's confusing is because there are two independent clauses that Lee doesn't separate with a comma.

"(I) thank you." and "To all ... Christmas."

Thus:

(I) thank you, and to all who make the fight against the board and administration's mistreatment of teachers, I wish a merry Christmas.

That second comma could be argued as well. Would Lee write

"I wish a merry Christmas, to all"?

No, of course not.

Keep posting, Ziggy. As Lee often writes, become a pest. Keep chipping away. This is America, and you have a First Amendment right.

Punctuation and quotes.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/alafia-parents-step-up-to-plate.html

>My bet is that Ms. Elia took the patronage privilege that the feckless board ceded her while its members intone with their fingers crossed behind their backs, “We are an equal-employment-opportunity employer, “ I envision that Elia hired Smith over lunch one day.<

This bint lectures posters on punctuating quotation marks; or is this one your run-of-the-mill comma splice?

>One parent emailed my blog to say that she was just like Ms. Elia.<
You mustn't like that parent then! Check your antecedents.

>(one inferred this referred chiefly to the Alafia blog since I didn’t see any comments about it on the other blogs). <
Parallel construction - ... since one didn't see ...

>If there is anything that Elia hates and also the board, it’s the hated blogs that just blab out the truth as they see it.<
Ewww!

>The special ed-supervisors who charged him with child abuse should have a Professional Standards case lodged against them since they threw him in a class of severely retarded youngsters and gave him no instruction. His field is learning disabled. Here is his explanation of his specialty. Lee<

What's an ed-supervisor, stupid?

Nor.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/civilizing-of-baord-and-administration.html

All board members, Ms. Elia, and even Mr. Gonzalez chimed in with their salute to the wisdom of the program that they implied emerged from them alone and that a fellow named Bart Birdsall nor even Jesus, one of the world’s good guys who for sure hates gay bashing, never had a thing to do with begging them for years about the need for such a program.

Wrong.

Agreement and passive verbs

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-brooks-see-me-in-my-office-after.html

You need one of those tough public-school teachers of the sort that teach in Hillsborough County while enduring the abuse of a thuggish administration and lackadaisical school board. This pedagogical stalwart of literacy would teach you grammar, punctuation, and how to write pellucid prose.

The clause "that teach ..." modifies "sort". Sort is singular.

The meager pay presents no lure for intellectually gifted students. Yet what is astonishing is how many smart college graduates still choose to teach despite the salary penury. They love the job despite the meagre pay.

Make up your mind. UK or US? If someone adopts UK style and punctuates accordingly, you have a hissyfit. At least I'm consistent.

>I interviewed people in the president-elect’s inner circle and determined that reformers had nothing to worry about. Passive verb in a wordy sentence. “People in the president-elect’s inner circle assured me that reformers had nothing to worry about.”<

She's deluded, even with 28 years' experience in teaching English. Which is the passive verb in this sentence? When Vinegartits rewords sentences, she usually sucks out the original meaning. Perhaps this is why she is such a liar; she rewords her own thoughts so that the end result is total codswallop.

A lost gem - retired teacher struggles with homophones and apostrophes.

http://tampabaygrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/03/sptimes-writers-punctuation-gaffes.html

The comma after “system” cuts off a restrictive adverbial prepositional phrase. The statement is not from a group of actuarial experts; its from “a national expert….”

Typical. Vinegartits lets this one rip in a post titled SPTimes Writers' Punctuation Gaffes. Oh, it's so important that newspaper writers get punctuation right. Oh, we're all marching to the swamps of illiteracy.

Your versus you're; of versus off.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/11/once.html

>I busied myself fend offing the bazillions of widows who infest these cruises trying to pick of my old man or any other old man who is not on a walker or an oxygen tank.<
Again you lampoon Hamilton because of one your/you're error. I bet he knows the difference between "of" and "off".

>I think the the board and the administration should indeed get the publicity they deserve so that an informed public will vote the board slugs out of office and vote in some people who care about education instead of power and who throw state money around without consulting teachers about the issues that affect them. <
Dummy. You want to vote in people who will throw state money around without consulting teachers about the issues? >

There is not one board member who has the courage, the education, or the knowledge of Robert's Rules <
This one's correct. Have you been secretly reading my blog? You're heeding my advice.

Another!

http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/09/conservative-in-politics-terrorist-in.html

That a deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal doesn’t know basic grammar and punctuation present a sign of how far the country has fallen.
posted by twinkobie at 7:38 PM

Hugh Fayle said...
That a deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal doesn’t know basic grammar and punctuation [present] a sign of [how far the country has fallen].Make sure your verbs agree with the subjects they follow. That is, "present" should be "presents" to concur with the singularity of the noun clause.Further, do not allow an adverbial clause to act as the object of a prepositional phrase.

Hugh Fayle Moore said...
I notice you did not approve the comments I left you. Do you have a reason for not doing so--a reputation of grammatical perfection you have (yet fail) to keep, perhaps?Shame. I don't even know if you understood the corrections I was making in your analyses.I am generally not this conniving, but I read your profile and caught wind of your contentious spirit. Now I am just trying to instigate. We grammarians have little else to do.

Yippee! I had seen the "present" error a while ago but let it slide. After all, I thought it was probably a typo. What's one "s" between friends?

Welcome to the fray, Hugh. I'm not normally conniving either, but I take exception in this cow's case. The reason she started screening her comments in the first place is because she couldn't handle my pulling her up on all of her errors and hypocrisy. Yes, we all make errors, but the way this bitch carries on irks me.

You'll note that she won't answer you. Get used to it. She'll call you names and take cheap shots rather than defend what she writes.

Stop drinking, for goodness' sake. (You WERE drunk, I hope.)

I've highlighted some errors and truly bizarre stuff below.

http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/11/to-junior-grammar-critic.html

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Excuse Me While I Teach Grammar to the New Preside...":

'As the object it should be, as you say, "Michelle and me," but when speaking I hear so many people make this mistake b/c they are over-correcting and not thinking.'

This is another common error. Misplaced modifiers regularly produce hilarious results. Did you mean that when you were speaking the people make the mistake (as you have written) or that the people make the mistake when they were speaking? There is a difference here between your error and Obama's. Most of the English-speaking world knows exactly what Obama meant, but your ambiguity means that I don't know what you are trying to say.

Oh, stop it already. You are out of your depth, or you would not have fallen into a dangling modifier:"but when speaking I hear so many people make this mistake b/c they are over-correcting and not thinking." (The poster didn't - the poster you quoted was quoting another poster.)

Your "when speaking:" is a dangling modifier in a construction in which your purport to correct me for some fugitive error. (Neither of the posters was correcting you. Re-read the posts.) You are not in this league of grammar-and-punctuation savvy, so just retire and lick your wounds, sugarbritiches. If you are interested in grammar-punctuation big-time, keep in contact with my Grammargrinch.blogspot blog. (This IS the Grammargrinch blog. You posted your reply on the wrong blog!?)

Most people's eyes glaze over in the dicussion of grammar. Only a few of us find grammar and punctuation enthralling.

The Grammargrinch blogspot forewarns that grammar is what it is about. I have been suprised at the hits I get on that site. Its aim is newspaper writers. Newspaper writers are interested in correct grammar. They are professinal writers and should be interested. lee

Love and kisses to a grammar wannabe, lee (You sign off twice?)


Wake / sober up! Especially if you're going to plagiarise another person's grammar correction and then slam them.

Lee keeps trying to master commas and fails!

The problem is that no one could be bothered trying to prove this bint wrong. Well, nearly no one.

http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/11/appositives.html

"Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, came to Congress as a single man, but fell in love with a Senate professional staff member, Julia Hart, on a Congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan in 2002.

The comma after "man" splits a compound verb."

Strunk & White Rule 4 - Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.

"When the subject is the same for both clauses and is expressed only once, a comma is useful if the connective is but ....

I have heard the arguments, but am still unconvinced."

You're always quoting Strunk & White, Vinegartits. Quote it now.

Nepotistic hypocrite.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/10/chat-about-english.html

Here we go again. Lee picks and chooses whose punctuation she analyses. She writes that she'd "jump on the king of the world who abused the English language", yet she didn't jump or even shift in her seat when the massacre at this post started.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/10/community-people-know-lot-more-than-i.html

In this latest case she abuses her power in defense of Elia and Kurdell. Here is a brief review of Falieros indescretions:1) As attested in Mr. Harts divorce .. (And there's more.)

Some apostrophes could be useful.

after making wild eyed and erroneous statements

Lee was quite concerned about hyphenated compound adjectives in the PBK post, yet this one doesn't faze her.

But why shouldn't she look after her croneys? I'll bet that her grandchildren punctuate like morons and she says nothing.

Plus, she still puts possessives before what she retardedly calls gerunds. If she were to consult Strunk & White, she could work out that she is wrong.

Would I lie?

Apostrophes bamboozle this English teacher.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/10/pole-girl-abuses-power.html

She is too morally corrupt to know right from wrong much less Roberts Rules.
Replace the creature. Don’t sit there like cowardly lumps and let her disgrace the board. The locution that you should call out when she makes one of her ridiculous and illegal decisions is “I appeal from the decision of the chair.” She has to ask you why according to Roberts Rules.


Once is a typo. Twice is ignorance.

Welcome, Vinegartits! Of all the places to make an error!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/09/message-from-reader-deserves-airing-lee.html



10:18 AM
http://antigrammargrinch.blogspot.com/


You know you have hit the big time when you have hate blogs posted about you. Here's one on me.


My legs are much better than the imposed ones the guy uses to spoof me. Thank God, the legs are the last to go.


My critic sounds really mad. I don't know whether he's down on English teachers are (Touche.) just paranoid. In grammar he doesn't know his ass from his elbow.


Trust me. Would I lie?
lee

You found me. Your English comprehension is poor. Anyone could read that I am not down on English teachers.

Yes, you would lie. If you want to go head to head with me, let's drag up the post where you assure your little pixie that her grammar and punctuation are fine. You know damned well that I'm right and that you let anything slide for your arsekissers, yet you still crucify one bloke over the your/you're typo. You're a hypocrite.

Ignorance is bliss and earns a pass

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/09/comma-correction-followed-by-board.html

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Just One More Sexist Twit":

"Appeal that position to God, the Father, who’s something of a domestic tyrant on his bad days" If you are distinguishing God the Father from God the Son or God the Holy Spirit, "the Father" is restrictive.

Now this shows the erudition of my readers. They know a lot more than I do. My excuse is that I did not recall that God has three personae. I thought of Him as the the one boffo fellow in charge of everything. If I were smart enough to know the nitty gritty of religious doctrine, I would be guilty of a comma error. But since I am shaky on the Yahweh personae, you have to give me a pass on this one. lee

Pass my ass, Vinegartits. If a journalist said that they didn't know the difference between "compliment" and "complement" and that you should pass them, you'd squeal. If board members said that they knew nothing about faulty air conditioners or misappropriated funds, you'd start e-mailing all and sundry with your vitriol.

"I wasn't smart enough to know, so you've got to pass me." Name one occasion when you bought that story during your 28 years of teaching.

Difficulty with subject-verb agreement

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/07/schools-federal-affirmative-action.html

"Each Government contractor with 50 or more employees and $50,000 or more in government contracts is required to develop a written affirmative action program (AAP) for each of its establishments.

A written affirmative action program helps the contractor identify and analyze potential problems in the participation and utilization of women and minorities in the contractor's workforce.

Linda, I want to see a copy of the schools’ affirmative action plan that its government grants requires. Lee"

subject - "government grants" - plural
verb - "requires" - singular

Durr.

Lee's worst I've seen to date.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/06/erwins-struggle-turns-to-the-great.html

Come on. Had you been drinking when you wrote and punctuated this, or did you let Elia edit it?

last five years, semicolon first-class payment

people in the grounds department's faking it is “people” that is possessive, if anything over the lawn workers possessive before gerund driving his school truck

ROSSAC bunker, the the sloppy proofreading board feels secure inpursuing and again its japes and skullduggeries.

You know opponents have run out of ammuntition spelling and missing conjunction they move to the "He's crazy" stage.

They carry the rumor but will be willing to turn on a dime if the power brokers say, "Wait! We have a new read on that chrous spelling about Erwin's being crazy."
"What is it?" yodel the ninnies' chorus. "chorus" is singular – “yodels”
"The new rumor is he's catatonic. comma" says the ROSSAC town crier. "Can you say'catatonic 'catatonic'? sloppy" says he.
"Yes, but we can't spell it close quotation marks here chrouses again? Herd Mentality," all with eary early childhooders can spell this childhood or home-ec degrees.

Tom Gonzalez hires an outside investigator--Glitzen & Associates-- to grill a bevy of school suspected miscreants but then suspends Glitzen's activities when Gitzen's spelling findings replicates subject-verb disagreement Erwin's complaints.

Le Gonzalez has held his sinecure as board attorney for 37 years, secured by venerable good-ol-boy wink-wink job-getting protocols, the only kind that count "kind" is singular – this is a common error in the Tampa Bay Area.

You are in good hands when you are in those of Thomas Gonzalez, Esquire, taxpayer-funded mouthpiece full stop He even brags of having an almost 100 percent rate of screwing workers for bosses in his practice.

If the opponent is proletarit spelling, Le Gonzalez's motto is,"Drive the impoverished creep out of town on a rail. close quotation marks

Gonzalez routinely villifies spellingand discriminates against me because I am poor and downtroden spelling.

Le Tom burns the midnight oil looking up precedents to impress jejune outback judges so as to beat up on poor workers for rich industrialists and orange-grove mutimillionnaires spelling.

and chant, "Double, double, toil and trouble" full stopThen Dr. Lamb throws eye of newt and toenail of a cat into the change-into-a-fiend broth boiling on the lectern on a Buntzs burner, Bunsen burner – Google “Buntzs burner” to find the only use on the internet lifted from the Hillsborough High chemistry lab.

passes it to Susan Valdes, who passes it to all other members of the board; don’t use semi-colon here whose collective touch will fortify and transform the mixture into bat's broth imbued with powers to make the person who imbibes it impeccably evil.

Finally, the last hand to touch the holy cup of the the sloppy unholy board initiation broth passes it to the newly elected inductee and says in a spooky voice that ricochets off the board-room walls, "Bottoms up" in the name of Beelzebub." work on those quotation marks

is then ready to go to work screwing over the citizens, teachers, and children of Hillsborough County whilst support ing vile machinations and the board's going along with her. i.e. nope making the teachers give up their class

Oh, yes. Now I recall. You must pick up on this thread next full stop Steady now.

Vinegartits is getting busted!

Have a look at the comments at http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/05/superintendent-round-up.html

Some poor bugger by the name of Paul Barnard is taking Lee to task over some document that she says she never received from Tom Gonzalez.

But have a look at the post at http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/05/gosmonster.html

>IN CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUITEN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA

CIVIL DIVISION
DEBRA SATCHEL,Plaintiff,Case No.: 8-06714v. Division: J

SCHOOL BOARD OF RILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, EARL LENNARD in his official and individual capacity, LINDA KIPLEY in her official and individual capacity, and

DOE(S) 1-37,Defendants.______________________________________________________/

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME

THIS CAUSE came before the Court on the Defendants’ Motion for Extension of Time to respond to the Plaintiff’s Amended Verified Complaint for Damages. Having reviewed the Motion, it is hereby:

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Motion is GRANTED. The Defendants shall have up to and including Tuesday, May 6, 2008, to respond to the Plaintiff’s Amended Verified Complaint for Damages.

DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at Hillsborough County, Florida on this th day of April, 2008.

JAMES D. ARNOLD
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE
Copies to: ORIGINAI.SIGNED
Thomas M. Gonzalez, Esq.
Debra Satchel, Pro Se
JAMES 0. ARNOLD
CIRCUIrJUDGE

IN CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FOR COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION;

DEBRA SATCHEL, Plaintiff,Case No.: 8-06714;Division: SCHOOL BOARD OF COUNTY, EARL LENNARD in his official and individual capacity, LINDA KIPLEY in her official and individual capacity, and James Arnold, the circuit court judge before whom the referenced case is pending.


LAW OFFICESHARRISON C. THOMPSON, JR (1925- 1994)

WILLIAM C. SIZEMORE (1945 - 2004)
LUIS A. CABASSA
*JAMES M. CRAIG *
JENNIFER N- FACOION
THOMAS M- GONZALEZ
THOMPSON, SIZEMORE, GONZALEZ & HEARING
PROFESSIONAL ASSOC[ATIONONE TAMPA CITY CENTER
201 N- FRANKLIN STREET, SUITE
1800POST OFFICE BOX 639TAMPA, FLORIDA 33601(813) 273-0050FAX NO- (813) 273-0072GREGORY A- HEARI NCMAROUIS W. HEILIGERIN C. JACKSON*KEVIN 0. JOHNSON *GRETCHEN M. LEHMANLARA J PEPPAROCAREN R. SKVERSXYDONNA V. SMITHCHARLES J. THOMASJ EN N I FER L. WATSON

Lee Drury DeCesare15316 Gulf BoulevardUnit 802Madeira Beach, Florida 33708

Dear Ms. De Cesare:

It has come to my attention that you have published the following statement:“Teacher who dared file 14-count conspiracy complaint against County, 2 named and 37 unnamed-Doe defendants has moved for default judgment on all claims.”

“The School Board had 10 days over the usual 20 to answer the complaint. The School Board failed to do so.”

You added to the just quoted assertion the following:“I think Tom Gonzalez must have missed the deadline for filing response to this case. That will give me another reason to ask for his firing, lee”

Finally, a posting on your blog over the name “David” but identified as having been authored by “Anonymous,” accuses me of having “failed” in my responsibility to respond to the lawsuit.

I enclose herein a copy of the order entered by Judge James Arnold, the circuit court judge before whom the referenced case is pending. Although I believe the order to be self-explanatory, I note that on April 28, 2008, Judge Arnold allowed the School Board and the individual defendants additional time within which to respond to Ms. Satchel’s complaint. Therefore, neither the School Board nor either of the other defendant -i required to file a response to the suit until Tuesday, May 6, 2008. You could hay ascertained this fact by checking the court file. You obviously chose not to do so. You therefore have published several false and defamatory statements about me. I suggest you correct them.

Very truly yours,

Tom Gonzalez

Enclosure: Order Granting Extension of Time<

Lee has actually scanned this court order and included it along with Tom Gonzalez's letter. She says that she never received it.

Pure bullshit. Plus, she's too stupid to remember that she has received it, scanned it and posted it.

What I think is funny is that all the other sycophants that post inane comments to her blog are too stupid to read her posts properly. They love it when there's a picture of a fat cat that Lee says looks like Elia and they all laugh, but none of them can sort through facts.

Good luck, Paul Barnard. I'm surprised that Vinegartits is even posting your comments. She stopped posting mine. Although she encourages everone to stand up and be heard, she hates it when someone stands up to her. Vinegartits will censor you sooner or later, even though "this is America!". If you ever find this blog, keep me posted.

I might include a few words here, just in case anyone's Googling. Mayby they'll find their way here.

casting room couch Paul Barnard Paul Bernard

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com

Subject / verb agreement hypocrisy

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/05/need-job-listen-up.html

From Vinegartits's keyboard comes this:
>3. If you can make your subjects and verbs agree and have the slightest knowledge of where to put commas, give up now or disguise these skills. Those accomplishments will turn the superintendent off to your getting the job since La Elia has no idea about such useless information as the accoutrements of literacy in the education racket.<

And then this a few sentences later:
>Call for more information: 810-Mr. Linda Kipley. Or leave your application in a pumpkin on the northeast side of the parking lot, whose mouth slot contain the tear-off slogan “Property of Mr. Linda Kipley, now on a glide track to the superintendency, at which point he will shuck his old wife, La Linda, for a new model from amongst the hordes of young women school-board stenos with a favorable hip-to-waist ratio who appeal to guys who dump the faithful wife who has maneuvered their success in the education racket into high gear in Hillsborough County, Florida.<

Make your own subjects match your own verbs, bimbo. Close your quotation marks, too.

Here's a comment on this blog from one Thomas Vaughan:

>Lee

I would like to tell the story of my evaluation, my attempt to get my grievance to it heard and the so called investigation of another complaint done by Professional Standards.

May I do this on your blog?

I feel my reputation has been smeared limp passive verb and my career put in jeopardy because of one person's personal animosity toward me.

I am prepared for the criticism that may be directed at me by your readers. Good! I have made my share of mistakes. I feel I have been treated unfairly and no one will listen. The CTA has limited power. I have discovered that they can only concern itself Ewww! with specific violations of the contract, that selective documentation of a teachers performance done only to call into question his professional skills is permitted. Outright false statements can be allowed to stand. Blatant errors of interpretation of the evaluation criteria cant be challenged, even though they make it appear as though I am inconsistent in my treatment of minorities. I deeply resent that implication.

I asked my principal for feedback, she promised comma splice - a felony right Lee?to give it but failed do so. I believe this was deliberate. She accepted my lesson plans for 12 weeks and despite my specific request for feedback on them said nothing until she used them to hammer me on the evaluation. She did however mark my down for turning several of them in a day late. The whole process was a set up from day one.

I am frustrated and discouraged. I feel my employer of 14 years has let me down.

The school district has closed ranks around one of its own and I have been left out to dry. I am 100% certain that I will get the same treatment next year. Another poor evaluation and I will probably lose my job. I have had excellent evaluations from my previous supervisors. My last evaluation was 127 points and I qualified for MAP money. This year it was 97 points. Nothing about my performance changed. The only thing that changed was my supervisors decision to force me out because she doesn't like me.

I have tried to go through the proper channels to seek redress but have been stymied at every turn. I want my good name back. I will no longer hide anonymously behind my keyboard. I feel I am right and am no longer afraid.

Thomas Vaughan<

This fellow can't use an apostrophe to save himself, among other things. Let's see what Lee has to say about it. Probably nothing - she should encourage him to go for a board job with writing skills like that.

Colons (again) and parallel construction.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/05/superintendent-round-up.html


>Meeting with Gorham: I think he is promising and would be a good substitute for Kurdell. Almost anyone not a rubberstamp is an acceptable substitute. He is sophisticated about the district's problems. He has a teacher wife, which explains that fact to me. He says he can face down Elia. That would be novel and welcome. He is fluent about the problems of the schools, is nice looking, and a good listener. I gave him a hundred bucks. There is another guy in the race now. We must look at him too. lee<

Independent clause should predede a colon.

Parrallel construction dictates " ... and is a good listener".

Colons

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/05/fatty-arbuckle-and-other-bad-role.html

>And speaking of bellies: the beer belly is nothing but fat. The beer belly will disappear if the person loses weight.<

Vinegartits usually maintains that a complete sentence precedes a colon.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/05/mr-linda-kipley-gets-job-unfairly.html

>She is also entitled to file charges under the American disabilities act.<

Capitalise the name of the act.


>I was able to examine four of the remaining candidates’ application for the job. <

The candidates submitted one application?

>It took a jury to rule that the board ignored Mr. Erwin’s warnings about theft, bid rigging, and shoddy construction of schools that the board and administration wanted to ignore and punish Mr. Erwin for pointing out.<

The board wanted to punish Mr. Erwin for pointing out his warnings? Idiot.

>He has little if any accounting experience (sales rep/accounting) doesn't sound like any deep accounting decorates his resume. <
This is nonsensical. Run on sentence or just crap?


>I have told Ms. Salem that if the board has turned her down for this job and picked the much-less-qualified husband of an administrator, <

Don't hyphenate the adverb in expressions like this.


>I look foreward to receiving these materials in a timely manner.<
[shudder]

Parentheses

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/05/superintendent-round-up.html

>My read is that a person with ability threatens the board C students, so Elia, who has to struggle with grammar and punctuation and who probably flattered the imminently susceptible board members to a faretheewell from her in-house spot got the job.<

Does Elia fail to enclose parenthetic expressions between commas as Vinegartits does here (Strunk & White Rule 3) or is this Vinegartits's personal struggle with punctuation?

Compound verbs

http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/05/david-brooks-misquotes-mccarthy-and.html

>If elected, she’ll have the power to take the Hobbesian struggle she perceives, and turn it into remorseless reality.
The comma after “perceives” splits a compound verb: “perceives” and “turn.”<

Parrallel construction might help. What Brooks meant to write was "... she'll have the power to take the struggle she perceives and to turn it into ...".

She'll have the power ... to turn it ino a reality.

"She perceives" is an adjectival clause modifying "struggle".

Put it this way - if "perceives" and "turn" were a compound verb, they would be the same in number, wouldn't they? Is "turn" even finite? What is its subject?

No, "to take" and "turn" are infinitives that qualify "power". The comma is incorrect, but not for the listed Vinegartitted reasons.

One day she'll think things through and check her grammar primer before posting her crap.

Singular subject, singular verb.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/04/anonymous-has-left-new-comment-on-your.html

>Not one of the board members that adorn the board semi-circle have the nerve to rein in Elia in arrogance of that sort. <
Vinegartits requires a singular verb. Not one ... has the nerve.

There's another one of these in her recent posts, but at the time I couldn't be bothered. If I see it again, I'll post it here.

>he had to defend himself against cramping citizens' free-speech rights who come before the board;<
The rights didn't come before the board, airhead.

>and that he knew it and was just counting on the citizen's ignorance to make his hints of a law suit scare them into silence.<
Teacher either can't match her pronouns with their antecedents or can't use an apostrophe. Probably both?


>I also got the fun of tearing up Gonzalez's grammar, punctuation, and writing style. That's my specialty and an especially apposite one with Gonzalez since he has an undergraduate literature degree and since lawyers are supposed to be able to write.<

As are ex-English teachers and university professors, Vinegartits.

Shoddy.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/04/ms.html

>If Le Gonzalez Esquire does any of the following more serious infractions than the four listed above and turned down as too flimsy for punishment by the Florida Bar, expect to get another complaint if Mr Gonzalez descends to the following barbarisms:<

If Vinegartits writes poorly, she should expect a mouthful if Vinegartits writes poorly.

>listed above and turned down as too flimsy for punishment by the Florida Bar<
Flabby passive voice.

>Very, very respectfully yours<
Redundant adverb.

Bad day for grammar and punctuation

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-spent-another-several-hours-with.html



>Erwin meanwhile is documenting that a lot of the schools are built on bad land, water being a particular problem. <



Possessive before your stupid gerunds, Vinegertits.



Erwin meanwhile is documenting that a lot of the schools are built on bad land, water's being a particular problem.



>I talked to Sam shortly before he died to find out about a guy whom ROSSAC had crucified, who had won his case, but then saw ROSSAC not restore him to his job but put him to teaching prisoners.<



"Who had won his case" is restrictive: no comma.





>That’s the kind of background that the Hillsborough County School Board counts as superintendent material, turning down Columbia PH.D.s with wide experience, considerable publishing, and fluent in three languages. <



With ... fluent in three languages? No. Parallel construction dictates "and fluency in three languages".



>The board covered its ass in a sham “nation-wide” search and billed the taxpayers $35,000 to cover their dishonest tracks. Entering ROSSAC just infects people.<



The board starts off singular and ends up plural. Covers its dishonest tracks. "Just" is a superfluous valley girl adverb against which Strunk &White inveighs. Innit, Vinegartits?



>In fact Ms. Elia created and the board signed off on a boutique job for him the last few months of his employment so that he could dither in comfort until he decided to exit. <



Do you know the truth? State it. Strunk & White suggests you do. Ditch this crap.



>He mistook the difference between “your” and “you’re” to give you some idea of his level of linguistic sophistication.<



No, he didn't. But it does. Comma needed.

Colons, colons everwhere!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/04/polly-pile-into-board-meeting-sign-up.html



>Polly, in regard to your message below: pile into the board meeting, sign up to speak, go to the mike when La Belle Dame sans Merci Falliera recognizes you, and then squawk.<

As Vinegartits often writes, a complete sentence should always precede a colon.



Here is yet another example of her lack of attention to detail. Slack, slack, slack. God forbid anyone puts a comma out of place.

An early classic

This is beautiful. It's one of Lee's earliest blog entries, and it provides a link to her grammargrinch blog.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2006/06/despicable-performances-by-public.html

>http://www.%20grammargrinch.blogspot.com/This blog tears into the grammar-punctuation-style and sometimes political errors of the NYTimes. Washington Post, Boston Globe, and LA Times. I don't pick on the little papers--just the big, important ones and the big, important columnists. Oddly enough, the site has a steady stream of hits from the people who work at these papers. They do want to write well, and most of them do not have training in grammar and punctuation and want to learn those skills.<

Even back then Vinegartits was picking on the grammar and punctuation of others while making clangers herself. Use commas to separate items in a list rather than periods, and proofread your work if you are to throw stones at others from your glass house.

Basic stuff

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/04/some-have-asked-about-getting-data-on.html

Here are some more Vinegartits classics:

>Steve Heggarty is the head person (He replaced Marc Hart when the administration-board booted the latter out for alleged alcoholism but really to cover up the affair with La Falliero) to keep her reputation spotless and to keep the public from knowing the board and administration tolerate and even cultivate hanky panky on the job.<

Remove the parenthesis:

Steve Heggarty is the head person to keep her reputation spotless and to keep the public from knowing the board and administration tolerate and even cultivate hanky panky on the job.

Twit.

>Heggarty got the head job not because he was qualified (he lacked the experience factor) but because he had covered the schools for the SPT and had played kissy poo with the administration and wrote puff pieces.<

Wordy. Edit: He lacked experience.

>Steve is not on the ball. His assistant, Linda Cobbe (who had also applied of the job) is.<

There is no excuse for this missing comma.

>He is good for nothing but rubberstamping Elia's ukases and waddling around asking board typists to send a letter from him on board stationary asking Mayor Iorio to abate his condo water bill.<

Try "e for envelope, a for at a standstill". It might help you remember. It works for my eight-year-old.

>The board has a month from the day of filing to respond, so this production is due soon to be found on this site if I can lay hold of it.<

Here, so means therefore. Vinegartits refuses to punctuate this one correctly despite Strunk & White's advice.

>What am I reading? The Leatherstocking tales, of course: I missed Fenimore Cooper when I was young; so I am reading him when I am old and in love with Natty Bumpo aka Hawkeye, Deerslayer, or Leatherstockings.<

Hang on! She's got it! Elsewhere she reckons I am making up grammar rules on this one. Maybe it's a typo, but if she has seen the error of her ways, then she is welcome for my help.

>He's even more attractive because he rejects all liasons with women--his bride, he avows, being the forest.<

Possessive before gerund, Vinegartits. Or has she finally worked out that they are participles?

Fix your own mistakes first.

http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/04/is-civility-of-whom-dead.html

Vinegartits writes this:

Parallelism: use "that...that" or use nothing. Don't use one that to begin a noun clause an omit before the other noun clause.

Maybe she's learned something from my post two before this one of March 25!

Attention to detail ... not!

http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/03/brooks-messes-up-in-politics-and.html

Honestly. A picture speaks a thousand words (with appropriate punctuation and proofreading).

Lee posts her garbled text and blames the text recognition program. What gets the blame for chunks of text shoved rudely in the middle of a word? I bet that one of the 150 copy editors at the New York Times would have picked up this one.

Vinegartits's hypocritical attitude towards error-free publishing amazes me.

Parellel construction

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/03/var-yahoo-shortcuts-yahoo_24.html

Lee writes:

>Hooper, You are showing that you not only go ga-ga over tacky board members and write dippy puff pieces about one, La Falliero, but you demonstrate in this banal question above that you also lack subtlety of thought. <

Strunk & White write:

Correlative expressions (both, and; not, but; not only, but also; either, or; first, second, third; and the like) should be followed by the same grammatical construction.

A time not for words but action. [Incorrect]
A time not for words but for action. [Correct]


Edit:

Hooper, you are showing that you not only go ga-ga over tacky board members and write dippy puff pieces about one, La Falliero, but also demonstrate in this banal question above that you lack subtlety of thought.

or

Hooper, you are not only showing that you go ga-ga over tacky board members and write dippy puff pieces about one, La Falliero, but also demonstrating in this banal question above that you lack subtlety of thought.

The real problem is that this rot is tautologous.

>You are showing that you ... demonstrate in this banal question ...<

Further edit:

Hooper, you are showing not only that you go ga-ga over tacky board members and write dippy puff pieces about one, La Falliero, but also in this banal question above that you lack subtlety of thought.

This attitude says it all.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/03/below-is-current-status-of-my-ethics.html

Lee said she had made her last post on her Casting Room Couch blog, yet this one appears. It contains this statement.


>Below is the current status of my ethics charge against the board attorney with the Florida Bar Ethics Commission. It's garbled in the PDF transfer mystery, but you can get an idea of what is going on.<


Here is some of the garbled text.


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Once you receive Mr. Gonzalez’s response. )VU have 10 days to file a iclnaial if dct if you decide to file a rebuttal, please said a copy to Mr. (ioorala. flc a a’y i a correspondence to me.
Please be advised that as an arm of the Supiune Coat of FiSda, lit FlotiiM investigate allegations of misconduct against attorneys, id wt apçixçris, inpra 1 It
attorney be disciplined. (sic)

But you can get an idea of what is going on? But you can get an idea of what is going on? This bugs me. This sour old cow crucifies anyone who puts a comma out of place, yet she is happy to post this gibberish.

I was going to mention this attitude a while ago when Lee wrote "Commas I can do. Graphics are a mystery." She can't be bothered to learn how to make her site presentable even though she labours over everyone else's possessive-before-gerund felonies.

I read sentences with missing commas easier than I read sentences presented in inch-high overlapping text. I understand "Did you see me swimming the English Channel?" more than I understand "id wt apçixçris".

Yes, I know that Lee didn't write it as such, but neither did its author. But she saw fit to publish it for people to read in its state. She couldn't be bothered learning how to tweak her text recognition tool in the same manner that people can't be bothered learning how to use commas.

I've got news for Vinegartits. Commas might be missing, but you can get an idea of what's going on. Writers might not use possessives before [what she calls] gerunds, but you can get an idea of what's going on.

Lee writes:
>Thank goodness, I am a writer.<

"I am a writer" is one of the "that" clauses with the "that" omitted. Vinegertits has written about this before. Thank goodness that I am a writer.

Edit: Thank goodness I am a writer.

Don't bother changing it, La Vinegartits; we can still get an idea of what's going on. ;)

Lee's difficulty with subject-verb agreement

http://tampabaygrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/03/maxwell-jealous-of-obama-trashes-commas.html

Lee hashes subject-verb agreement. I've read it's a felony.

>Data enter a person’s ear and comes out the other ear shaped by the back roads, cul-de-sacs, and curlicues of the alembic of that person’s particular psyche. In other words, it comes out biased.<

Lee starts off maintaining that "data" is plural by using the plural verb "enter". She then uses the singular verb "comes", the singular pronoun "it" and the singular verb "comes" again.

She was trying to appear clever by insisting that "data" is plural. It lasted five words.

Osculate my gluteus

http://tampabaygrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/02/st-pete-times-womens-grammar-and.html

>What century do those geezers and I'm talking about their wheezy old attitudes, not their chronological ages live in?

I regret to report that Ms. Bancroft has fallen into a grammar felony: subject-verb disagreement. “Do” should be “does”: “What century does.” The grammar checker is good on spotting such subject-verb agreement errors.<

The grammar checker, my dear Vinegartits, is poor at spotting them, as are you. You've mentioned spelling and grammar checkers before, but I've never believed that a teacher with experience of 28 years would rely on them. Your comment alarms me. Your comment indicates that you really do slap some text into a Word document and hit "spellcheck", waiting to pounce on the squiggly green underlined bits. I tried it with Ms Bancroft's sentence, and the green line appeared. God forbid.

The subject-verb agreement in "What century do those geezers and I'm talking about their wheezy old attitudes, not their chronological ages live in?" is correct.

Try pumping this one into your grammar checker. What century does those geezers live in?

When the computer doesn't have all those nasty extra words in between, it is able to work out that "What century do those geezers live in?" is correct. You might be able to as well with a little help.

Rearrange the sentence.
Those geezers do live in what century.
Those geezers does live in what century.

See someone intelligent after class.







>I wrote to Slate and asked why in the hell it let this grammar poseur write prescriptive columns when he didn’t know his ass from his elbow. <

Lee once chastised me for using the word "arse" and wrote that she preferred the elegant "gluteus". Either she is using the "ass from elbow" cliche to sound more like a Valley working girl or she is one.

I love this!

This here at http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/02/la-belle-dame-sans-merci-falliero.html both amuses and saddens.

Lee picks and chooses who will be the targets of her vitriolic grammar and punctuation pedantry. She makes no comments about the author's grammar, style and punctuation alternatives although she has condemned others for similar choices. I think Lee is no better than those who cut her off after a three-minute time limit while letting others run over. She rails against their inconsistencies and is just as guilty.

I have corrected the author's comment. Both of you need to see the teacher after class.


Lee

I have been reading our your - shoddy proofreading blog for a year , place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause - Strunk and White Rule 4 and I am certain you would give my Principal principal - no capital for this common noun quite an earful. I doubt this person would understand most of it though.

So if I told you the name of this person, and you sent the blistering missive, where would that leave me? This person is vindictive and mean spirited.

I thank you for taking the time to read my original message and will continue to enjoy your blog. Knowing your scrutiny of grammar and punctuation, please be gentle with me. dangling present participial phrase - The sentence is imperative; therefore, the implied subject is "you". The subject is not knowing the scrutiny. Recast as Knowing your scrutiny of grammar and punctuation, I ask you please to be gentle with me. I would hate to be graded on that.

Thanks



My dear, you should not let little, mean people like your principal cramp your spirit. He or she is nothing but a bully.

Your grammar is perfect; ditto punctuation. If you want to see some bad grammar and punctuation from a guy who holds a high position in the publishing world, go to tampabayareagrammargrinch.blogspot.com and read my analysis of the publisher of the SP Times's pitiful grammar and punctuation. It will give you confidence to think better of your skills. lee

Perfect grammar and punctuation? I think not.

Scholorship

From http://http//grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/02/elias-poison-spreads-throughout-schools.html

>Ms. Elia's bachelor's-degree college in New York state had grammar-and-punctuation errors on its home page when I checked it. This is not a good sign that Ms. Elia's alma mater is a hotbed of scholorship.<

I don't think that anyone (especially a teacher with experience of 28 years) who can't spell "scholarship" ranks fit to judge where is or isn't a satisfactory place to learn.

>The board is just as prostrate before Ms. Elia’s ukases as the teachers were. On the podium, it always seems to me that the board regresses to some age at which the designated adult, Elia, has the power. <

What is "it"? The word has has no antecedent. This is the kind of felony against which Lee rails.


>I'd like to slap those young first- and second-year teachers silly for participating in the punishment of older colleagues by taking the jobs that the principals and department heads removed from teachers such as Bruce for protesting the extra class. They are ingrateful, short-sighted little twits. lee<

Hypocrite. Lee bleats about freedom of speech for everyone and freedom of choice for those wanting an abortion. Don't first- and second-year teachers have the same freedom to make their own choices? What would Lee say to the crazies who say that women having abortions are not grateful for the gift of life or are being short-sigshted for not realising they are snuffing out an entire lifetime? Ingrateful, shortsighted, pro-choice twits? I know who the real twit is.