Your hot button issue

[senatortombstone]

Yes, we've seen right-wing activist judges override state civil rights laws, like how they overruled the law in Alaska that said landlords couldn't discriminate against prospective tenants on the basis of marital status.

We've seen right-wing activist judges override the state of California by saying it couldn't ban excessive bank fees.

We've seen an activist right-wing Supreme Court allow Congress to require libraries to censor Internet access.

I support mandatory removal from office for activist judges who make rulings like this.

What about the left-wing California judges who decided in favor of liberal michael newdau in banning the pledge of alliegence in public schools?  What about the judicial activist who made murder in the form of abortion legal?  What about that, hippie!

[senatortombstone]

poor grammar, in general.  more specifically, the use of the nominitave form of the personal pronouns in cases which require the objective form. 

I especially hate it when people use the object/accusative pronouns when they should be using subject/nominative.  Here's a few examples

It's me.  shoud be, it is I.

You're just like him.  should be, you're just like he is.

we are faster than them.  should be, we are faster than they are.

me too! should be, I too/also/as well.

Any noun following the verb "be" is in the subject case.  When a noun is being compared to another, (than/as/like) it is in the subject case.  

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I especially hate it when people use the object/accusative pronouns when they should be using subject/nominative.  Here's a few examples

those bug me too, as implied in my post, but do not rise, for me, to the level of "hot button"  When people use the nominative when they should use the objective really gets under my skin.  When that happens, I really want to reach out and give the speaker an open-handed, full-frontal cheek-slap, the way a pimp would strike an unruly hooker, or the way you'd slap a panic-striken person in order to knock some sense into them.  Man, I know people with PhDs in Physics, Engineering, or Chemistry who can't put together the simplest sentences.  And they g brag about it!!!  "oh, my gramar is horrible.  Good thing we have secretaries."  Yeah, like they are any better.  Dorks.  It's very frustrating.  I'd say the grammar skills (or lack thereof!!!) being imparted by our public schools are a major pet peeve.  Oh, let's not even get started on their history, geography, algebra, ...

Your tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen! 

My last boss used to write in his e-mails

*if you have any questions, ask my secretaryor myself*

ARGH!  my-your-him-her-our-them-self/ves are either reflexive or intensive pronouns.

My mom gave this gift to my wife and I

Me and my wife went to the store.

ARGH!

[senatortombstone]

Someone needs to pick up a history book. Because according to you the declaration of independence and the constitution states that all men AND women are created equal. When in the history of this country have women not been treated like second-class citizens? Women are being discriminated against in this country, and if you cannot see that then you are the one with blinders on. Maybe men need to be second-class citizens for a while, just to feel what women have been put through for centuries.

Are you a man or a woman?  Are you telling me that you favor intentional discrimination against men?  In that case, you should join NOW.

The reality is this - there have always been benefits and drawbacks to being a man, as well as being a woman.  I don't buy the line that women had all the disadvantages in society, as you do.

Even if I did, two wrongs don't make a right.  We should fix things going forward, but I hate the mindset of the feminist movement and the whole diversity/multicultarism/sexism philosophy of seeing the world simply as advantaged and disadvantaged groups, and nothing more.

I totally agree, it's as if everyone wants to jump on the victim bandwagon.  We've become a society of casturated cauterwhaling cry-babies.


wahhhhh!  my great-great-great-grandfather was a slave!! pity me, pay me!

If we just stopped all liberal/democratic handout policies and took away the onetary incentive of victimhood, this would all go away.

stop paying people to be pussies!

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Someone needs to pick up a history book. Because according to you the declaration of independence and the constitution states that all men AND women are created equal. When in the history of this country have women not been treated like second-class citizens? Women are being discriminated against in this country, and if you cannot see that then you are the one with blinders on. Maybe men need to be second-class citizens for a while, just to feel what women have been put through for centuries.

Are you a man or a woman?  Are you telling me that you favor intentional discrimination against men?  In that case, you should join NOW.

The reality is this - there have always been benefits and drawbacks to being a man, as well as being a woman.  I don't buy the line that women had all the disadvantages in society, as you do.

Even if I did, two wrongs don't make a right.  We should fix things going forward, but I hate the mindset of the feminist movement and the whole diversity/multicultarism/sexism philosophy of seeing the world simply as advantaged and disadvantaged groups, and nothing more.

I totally agree, it's as if everyone wants to jump on the victim bandwagon.  We've become a society of casturated cauterwhaling cry-babies.


wahhhhh!  my great-great-great-grandfather was a slave!! pity me, pay me!

If we just stopped all liberal/democratic handout policies and took away the onetary incentive of victimhood, this would all go away.

stop paying people to be pussies!

Do you live out near Carver county or those outer Hennepin places like Corcoran and Maple Grove? You remind me of the lunatics who live out in those areas. Although it's probably a good thing they live far out there and don't bother the sensible decent people who live in Minneapolis.

Actually I live in Minneapolis and I am trying to make it a better place by expressing my voice aginst what the perverts who write the City Pages say.

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I totally agree, it's as if everyone wants to jump on the victim bandwagon.  We've become a society of casturated cauterwhaling cry-babies.

wahhhhh!  my great-great-great-grandfather was a slave!! pity me, pay me!

If we just stopped all liberal/democratic handout policies and took away the onetary incentive of victimhood, this would all go away.

Nah, it wouldn't go away, you just wouldn't have to see it.  The descendants of slaves would be in their ghettos, and the women would be in the kitchen, and all would be right with the world. 

Of course in reality there are no 'handout policies', only people arguing that there should be.  So perhaps they're being incentivised less by the possibility of reward, and more because their current situation is so bad.

What's wrong with working in the kitchen?  My father-in-law is doctor and he works in the kitchen every night reparing dinner for his family.

People who live in ghettos make them ghettos.  Just because you're poor doesn't give you an excuse to turn your neighborhood into a crime-infested warzone.

In America there is no excuse for poverty.  There are opprunities everywhere.  If you don't believe just look in the Star Tribune's Job section.  25 pages every week of employers practically begging for work.

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What's wrong with working in the kitchen?  My father-in-law is doctor and he works in the kitchen every night reparing dinner for his family.

The point is that was their only option.  It was a prison.

There is nothing dishonorable about working in a kitchen.  There is nothing more enjoyable in life than eating.  Being a cook is sacred trust.