Saturday, May 31, 2008

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.

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

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.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

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".

Saturday, May 24, 2008

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?

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

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.