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!
Monday, May 25, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
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.
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.
Monday, May 18, 2009
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. <
>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. <
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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.
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.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
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.
>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.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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.
>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.
Monday, May 11, 2009
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?
">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.
>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.
>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.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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.
>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.
>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.
Monday, May 4, 2009
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?
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?
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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?
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?
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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.
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.
Friday, April 24, 2009
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
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
Sunday, April 19, 2009
How colloquial! (and ignorant)
>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.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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.
>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.
Friday, April 17, 2009
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.
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.
>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.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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
>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.
>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.
>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.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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.
>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.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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.
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.
>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.
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.
Monday, March 30, 2009
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.
>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.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Vinegartits reads my blog to learn.
Two out of three ain't bad. A few posts ago here
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.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
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"!
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"!
Friday, March 27, 2009
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.
>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.
Monday, March 16, 2009
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.
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.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
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.] <
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
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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.
>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.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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.
>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.
Friday, February 20, 2009
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.<
>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.<
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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!
>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!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
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.
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?
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?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
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.<
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".
Sunday, February 8, 2009
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.
>Thank you, Ms. Champion and Aimee for these data.<
Here's some more data for you. You need a comma in this formal communication.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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.
>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.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
$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.
>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.
Friday, January 23, 2009
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.
>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.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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?
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?
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