Daily Archives: June 9th, 2005 «

 

Yes, words DO have meaning

Posted by: ST on June 9, 2005 at 8:21 pm » 3 Comments

This is a big pet peeve of mine: changing the meaning of a word via faulty comparisons so much that the true meaning of the word gets diluted. An example, to me, would be of comparisons of Bush or Clinton to Hitler. Neither are remotely close the being like the worst dictator we’ve seen in [...]

 

How to support the troops: by Charlie Rangel

Posted by: ST on June 9, 2005 at 7:42 pm » 1 Comment

How, you might ask? Why, you make the Iraq war morally equivalent to the Holocaust, that’s how! Powerful lawmaker Charlie Rangel has provoked the ire of the Anti-Defamation League by likening U.S. military action in Iraq to the Holocaust of World War II. The Iraq war “is the biggest fraud ever committed on the people [...]

 

My homebuying experience: miserable

Posted by: ST on June 9, 2005 at 7:02 pm » 9 Comments

.!. What I had hoped would be an exciting experience in homebuying turned very sour for me in the month of September. The builders and I had some disagreements that could not be ironed out, the biggest among them some deception on the part of the original seller who is no longer with the company [...]