Letters to the Editor
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Didn't notice because they don't
Far be it for Fester to contradict any expert, but I can't resist. I don't think they are the same people, though I admit to outtages in the Third Eye department these last few decades. For one, they all have different cultural references with minimal overlap. You're not going to hear Villemar talk about Ronald Ray Gun or Payne about Red Bull. You won't hear Manos talking about 'Nam.
Salon has a nice searching capability, so I suppose one could undertake a study to demonstate any connections. I'd read it.
I do notice a tendency of some here to think that the many are just one. An interesting topic for speculation, after we finish beating the bitters to death.
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Suarez
You make your living at language?
Suarez it is impossible to disguise, as the fact drops from your eyes, that you making your bad living, by bare naked lies.
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There's a place called Rattlesnake in New Mexico but it's unlikely that those posting their Hiberno phobia all come from that particular plave.
The descendants of the pick-and-shovel Irish Catholics who dug the Erie Canal, and also the Illinois and Michigan Canal, must be really delighted with the snooty comments made to a wealthy audience in San Francisco which obliquely branded the working-class Democrats as "rednecks", a racist term as we all know that only light-skinned people get reddened by the sun. Bill Clinton's ruddy complexion is often mentioned also by people who are antagonistic to him and, if the shoe was on the other foot in regard to complexion there would be uproar.
America is now revealing its snobbery. I've read, over and over, that Barack Obama's supporters are the "well-educated" ones and this has been trumpeted in a boastful way, a form of reflected glory on this site. The Harvard connection has been brayed loud and long, the support of Senator Ted Kennedy (Irish-American) was cheered despite his family origins and it was cool to admit that Obama's (white) grandmother had been vice-president of a bank in Hawaii. Now that a throwaway remark indicates that Obama has a superiority complex, new permutations must be devised.
Villemar brags that Barack Obama's supporters are hydra-headed but the monstrous water-snake was finished off by Hercules by applying burning brands to its wounds as soon as each head was severed so that is just another idle boast. I'm reading "Stealing Lincoln's Body". Life is full of little ironies, on of which is that the book was published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press and that it describes what happened when, in l876, a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed and embalmed body of Abrahm Lincoln. There's been a lot of grave-robbing in this campaign (JFK, MLK) and even the Irish who fled to America to escape starvation at home are pawns in this political posturing when some Obama supporters see fit to vent their spite on their descendants because they're not enamoured of the Johnny-come-lately Senator.
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oh for heaven's sake, fester!
did you possibly, even for a moment, think that manos, payne and villemar were the same person? if so, you are FAR TOO SUSCEPTIBLE!
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Puzzlement about 'overclass' word usage
I agree, I stumbled over that one as well.
The non-definitive Wiki:
Overclass is a recent and pejorative term for the most powerful group in a social hierarchy. Users of the term generally imply excessive and unjust privilege and exploitation of the rest of society. Compare the older term, upper class, which nowadays is sometimes also pejorative, but is not necessarily so, and historically was rarely so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OverclassThe old school liberal phrase is probably 'The rich and their lackeys'. But I guess you don't have to be rich or a lackey to be part of the overclass, although it helps. Is there an implication of 'excessive and unjust privilege and exploitation of the rest of society' regarding Obama?
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David Sugarman re read the post
I don't think they are the same people
You don't like that or the third eye quip was not to your taste?
I was meaning to ask you. You somewhat dinged Carter, and perhaps rightly so for his current activities which seem to be increasingly eccentric. But he did strike a deal with Israel and Egypt, didn't he? We still pay about 3B a year for it. Nobody mentions it, but he did get that done, no?
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Gallup poll still puts Obama in the lead
Looks like this clap trap flap all full 'o crap
is just a withering weed.
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Mr Sugarman
Actually Uncle F was responding to T. Suarez. Suarez of the conspiratorial mindset, eager to get his Encyplopedia Brown merit badge, failing ineptly once again, lost in the 21st Century without a compass or a weathervane.
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maureen
Maybe the black and white overclass can solve this dumbly entrenched ethnic rivalry.
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Fester and david sugarman
Go back and look through the long thread of letters. You never see tom payne, villemar and manos99 posting by themselves. They all show up together.
And don't be fooled by the lack of common references, Fester. That's the minimum someone trying to post as three-in-one would do. Read his/her sentences aloud. Notice similar cadences among them. He's tried to change since I called him out, but we are who we are. And there's a tremendous similarity in his/her inabililty to control himself/herself from name-calling, including some especially inventive names.
There's similar bile and venom in them too.
Yeah, tom/villemar/manos is a pathetic loser with three browswers open at once, logged in as three different people. Sad, sad, sad.
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the key phrase, Fester
was 'even for a moment' meaning that to grace their bait with comment is demeaning. capische? don't make me explain further, i realize that many have to vote - and you are on the same side as me - but i don't have much patience with willful downs (syndrome). as for carter, he arrived at the end. both the israelis and the egyptians had decided on a truce/peace - then colluded so america would pay for it.
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Dublin Bookies
Maureen,
I heard something about some Irish bookies of something that have placed odds on the US Presidency for some time now; dunno if for money or for fun (I suspect the latter). Your compatriots have placed HRC's odds of winning the nomination at 16& if I remember correctly. Any thoughts on that? What if your preferred candidate does not cross that threshold? Surely that possibility has crossed your mind.