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.