"DEFEND ARE VETERAN'S"

[WilliamPitt]

From the DC Tea Party riot yesterday. Yes, this is real.

The apostrophe-s is what makes it art.

What we're up against, folks.

[Wait Wut]

1. ...

[TheDebbieDee]

73. I'd bet $ to donuts that the writer is for defunding public education, too!

[tblue]

87. Yes. Somebody pls teach them English.

They need a course in ESL.

[Jackpine Radical]

130. Nah.

EFL.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

186. English for Losers?

[Jackpine Radical]

210. Brilliant!

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

226. I'm a high school.....

.....English teacher. I have their children in my classes. I'm told weekly, "why you talk so fancy?" I don't, just casual everyday language. I've told more than one class, "I'm screwed, you people are supposed to fund my Social Security!" They don't get it.

[kentauros]

229. Show them "To Kill A Mockingbird"

and I'll bet that they think the majority in the movie talk fancy, too! However, they might actually learn something from it as well

[Ford_Prefect]

88. Home schoolers Unite! Its a terrible thing to lose your mind!

...and no, they don't get sarcasm. A sense of Irony would be far too democratic for them!

[chervilant]

232. Now, you know you should have said "loose" your mind.

Or, a mind is a terribul think to waist! (You could always quote Dubya, but I tend to forget what that cretin spewed from his cold, disgusting lips.)

[Ford_Prefect]

233. Dan Quayle was the gifted speaker who famously said, "...what a waste it is to lose one's mind..."

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind
is being very wasteful. How true that is."

-- Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while
speaking to the United Negro College Fund, 5/9/89
This gem has been added to Bartlett's "Familiar
Quotations." (reported in Esquire, 8/92) (reported
in the NY Times, 12/9/92)

http://users.cs.fiu.edu/~kraynek/jokes/beckys.jokes.save

[Wait Wut]

112. awgeez.

You're probably correct. I need a nap, now.

[Solly Mack]

2. Damn

[monmouth3]

3. OMG, it so burns, especially on a Monday for some reason or other..LOL..

[Plucketeer]

213. I'm ALMOST jealous of folks like this

I used to scoff at the old line about ignorance being blissful. But if you put yourself in their shoes, you CAN see where simpleton comprehension could be a comfortable place. If you're not able to recognize and consider the complexities of the world we're dealing with, it has to be less perplexing and thereby as "deep" as a coat of cheap paint. This is why the likes of Palin, Perry, Paul and cruz can be touted as heroes. It's all as difficult as blinking when your comprehension is compromised. I'd like to know the mental ease afforded me if I could understand it all with a flag and a gun.

[fadedrose]

4. It otter be

DEFENSE THEM VETERAN'S

I could scream too....

[AmBlue]

5. Freaking dangerous doofuses!

I don't want to share the same planet with these ignoramuses, much less let them corrupt our country with their poison.

[kestrel91316]

46. That's usually a typo. But go ahead and defend the teabagger illiterates.

[uppityperson]

55. Some do not understand the difference between a forum and public view. Oh well.

Interesting though, first post hidden and not autoremoved. Guess the new software is kicking in.

[pinboy3niner]

6. As hootinholler observed in another thread...

Last edited Mon Oct 14, 2013, 03:15 PM - Edit history (1)

...they spelled "DEFUND" wrong.

[Turbineguy]

57. Very fine, that.

I bootlegged it to my FB page.

[hootinholler]

83. I didn't think many people read my comments

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3842971

And I misspelled they!

[tblue]

89. Oh snap!

DUzy!

[The Wizard]

154. 3niner this is five two

good one.

[Blue Owl]

7. Meanwhile, ol' Ted is whistlin' Dixie...

What a national embarrassment, this band of jackasses...

[KurtNYC]

8. this is what happens when you "Defund are skool's"

[redgreenandblue]

9. lol

[leftstreet]

14. LOL

[L0oniX]

17. Too stupid for school. There are standards ...ya know.

[calimary]

179. Well, they seem to like the whole idea of teaching to the test.

Good GOD, I shudder to think what those tests look like...

One of these days, if we keep allowing them to have their way, a few of 'em are gonna wake up and look around and start wondering why America is no longer competitive in the world (we just might be getting there now, already) and I'll bet you anything they'll turn around and try to blame the Democrats.

[L0oniX]

212. GOP introspect ...is an oxymoron.

[calimary]

215. Emphasis on the last two syllables.

Just plain ol' "moron" will cover it.

[nightscanner59]

190. I have a degree, but was still trying to smash the little bug

on the screen from crawling on FZ's face! Oh, hell did that disqualify me from the visual acuity standard? Oh, well... at least I can spell.

[L0oniX]

211. Eye nowe yew r uzing "Check Spelling" yew (he3t0r!

[LiberalElite]

10. O.M.G. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. And these assholes wonder way people look down on them.

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For example they want English declared the national language when they themselves are so ignorant of the language.

[cvoogt]

68. Ah kno, rite?

[BluegrassStateBlues]

12. Are children never learn. nt

[maryellen99]

13. Too bad Obamacare doesn't cover spelling lessons nt

[navarth]

148. goddam it

made me spill my coffee

[Contrary1]

15. Somedays their just arn't enugh...

smilies.

[lpbk2713]

16. And there series dammit.

It never ceases to amaze me how willing they are to proclaim their utter stupidity in public.

[L0oniX]

18. All your tea are belong us.

[IrishAyes]

109. THE WINNER!

Amidst an embarrassment of riches.

[Coyotl]

19. They were all protesting their own #GOPshutdown, so what did you expect?

[MANative]

20. As a writer and editor...

I am sad to say that this level of moronic ignorance is present in, easily, half the texts I review as a volunteer for an amateur writers' website. This level of illiteracy is the direct result of the deliberate and systematic de-funding of our education infrastructure. Sadly, the result is not just poor spelling and grammar, but also the utter inability to think, reason, and reach cogent conclusions. Makes me ill on more levels than I can express.

[BobbyBoring]

51. Not only that

Many major magazines and news papers are filled with misspelled words and grammatical errors.

I think it was in News Week where I TRIED to read a 54 word sentence. I would expect that on a RW blog but a major rag??

It's all by design too folks!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

187. Well, they would have to hire proofreaders. Then they'd have to pay them.

You know how corporations hate that.

[CherokeeDem]

52. Exactly...

The Republicans have been dumbing-down the public school systems for this reason, to prevent people from thinking for themselves.

It is sad to see this level of ignorance.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

94. Even the Vatican ... and the word is, "Jesus"

Because, you know, who in the Catholic Church has ever heard of that guy:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57606961/vatican-recalls-pope-francis-medals-after-jesus-name-misspelled/

[MANative]

105. yeah, that one really got me!

No one proofreads, it seems. Using spellcheckers is a first step, but even that can't replace a good, thorough read-through. (Don't get me going on misuse of homonyms and homophones. Or semicolons. Or commas. Or, God help me, dialogue punctuation for speech tags.)

[IrishAyes]

119. Don't forget misplaced modifiers, my personal horror.

All of it comes from banning the teaching of sentence diagramming in school. Most people today have no idea how to construct a proper sentence because they don't know the parts. That's why I refused to teach English; it would mean participating in a cruel hoax, telling students you'd make them architects but w/o the benefit of blueprints.

[MANative]

136. Exactly!

That's why I left public education thirty years ago. "Whole language" learning has been a total disaster. I must admit, though, that I was one of those of kids who would diagram sentences for fun!

[IrishAyes]

138. My long-lost twin, are you?

Mom had been an English teacher; as her conniving offspring, I quickly learned the way to her heart and could avoid all sorts of odious tasks if she saw me happily engaged in diagramming sentences. Now that I'm older, I'm no longer sure who won that game.

While we're at it, here's one game I know she won. When we went for long walks, she'd pretend to be a little bit lost when it was time to turn homeward. So I had to lead her, and boy did I strut. Not only did it make me feel invincible, but I wound up with the skills of a homing pigeon.

My son tried the same junk on me. I always read to him, and to ensure that it continued, he pretended not to be able to read himself. However, the mask slipped when we walked past a sign at a real estate office that showed their properties. He scoffed, "Man, $25K is way too much for a 1bd-1bath place." I gave him a gotcha! look and he never pulled that 'can't read' schtick on me again. He was 4. After that, he was required to read to me. I'd been pretty sure of the truth for awhile. And did he ever have a deer caught in the headlights look on his poor little face!

One of the cruelties visited on him by his own coldhearted Mom: when I bought him a new book, we'd look through it together before I read anything and he had to describe and assess the pictures on his own. I'd ask all sorts of questions about what might've happened before the action depicted, and I wouldn't turn the page before he guessed what might happen next in the story.

I like to think my son became a good cross between Studs Terkel and Eric Hoffer. But you know how parents can be about their kids.

[MANative]

140. Thank you for putting a much-needed smile on my face!

I've missed you, Sis!

[maddiemom]

152. A simple and long too discredited education tool, breaking down ( diagramming)

sentence structure is invaluable. It's not rocket science. Amazingly kids who grow up in homes which respect reading and education, don't usually need such instruction unless they have disabilities such as dyslexia. Simply beginning to read pre-school is not at all unusual for kids coming from homes who introduce them to books early on. Unfortunately parents have less time for their kids today, and less resources to send their children to quality pre-school or Montessori. As a retired English teacher and (later), reading specialist, I was fortunately able to to be a stay at home mom in my daughter's early years. My daughter was already reading at about a 4th to 5th grade level when she entered 1st grade, without any pushing. She's no genius, and neither are many others who pick up reading even before formally entering school.

[IrishAyes]

155. Agreed.

But as parents it's our duty as well as joy to put wings on their little minds so they can reach their natural potential.

My son's teacher had fits with him. He'd been taught an old-school way of cursive writing at home, and when she first tried to correct him, he misunderstood her intent. Surely she must only be concerned over their differences, not trying to (gasp!) make him accept her way. So he patted her on the hand and tried to soothe her. "Don't worry, honey, it's okay. You do it your way and I'll do it mine." To him that was the essence of the matter. Well, that's what he heard at home, so what did he know?

[maddiemom]

191. Great anecdote! But I hope he didn't really call her "honey."

[IrishAyes]

195. 'fraid so. But realize, that was some 30-odd years ago, and he was just a wee one.

I always called him 'honey' and he honestly thought that was the proper way to conduct congenial negotiations.

She sent him to the principal, who sent him to the school psychologist, who told me he was the best adjusted kid he'd ever met. (Though not politically correct by recent code) Why? Because the shrink, who later became a great family friend, said he tried the usual pressure points and Little Billy simply did not respond. Aren't you afraid the teacher will stay mad at you? No, she'll get over it. Well, what about me, do you want me to get in trouble for this? Don't worry. If anything bad happens, Mom will take care of you. All that could be done was to tell Little Billy to go and sin no more. But that was only the start.

So yes, I think he got a great education. I always talked to him like he was an adult, and that's pretty much how he thought of himself. That child was made for Montessori. That's how he was reared.

But the stories above happened in public school. If there'd been a Montessori around, the teacher wouldn't have been so, well... what we considered odd.

[maddiemom]

209. Talking to kids as if they're adults (elementary level) is all good. We were

lucky to have a Montessori, although only through kindergarten. When mine entered first grade in public school, she made her teacher crazy at first. She was used to moving around the room and trying to help classmates who were having comprehension problems.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

200. We only had one year of diagramming sentences in middle school English, and I

loved it. But we didn't do it long enough for me to really get the hang of it. As a very visual learner, I would have found it helpful.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

188. Coincidentally, my daughter is diagramming

sentences in second grade now. Well not this moment, but as part of her second grade public school curriculum here in Minnesota. I recall doing it later, perhaps fourth or fifth grade (different state, different time).

I work in higher education and was surprised when an applicant for a job we had told me he was introducing the practice to his Cal State-xxxxx first year students about 15 years ago.

[IrishAyes]

193. Wow! That's terrific news. Thanks!

Never give up hope, right? Who'da thunk?

[IrishAyes]

116. Will hair of the dog help?

A woman wrote to me once claiming to be an aphid gardener; in the sorry state where I retired for financial reasons only, a typical local bragged to me that his girlfriend had almost made it through 11th grade (not that she learned anything all the while); actually this state has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Oh, and there's the girl I knew in college - she was a nursing student - who was convinced that DC is located in the state of Washington. When I showed her a map proving otherwise, she just looked at me with a blank stare and said the map was wrong.

While I have the greatest respect for native intelligence, even one denied a decent education, these people today are just plain stoopid.

Here's an example of their 'reasoning': Obama is Satan, therefore all his supporters (especially YT) are satanists.

There, there, now; there's no crying in politics.

[MANative]

137. My brain and my heart both hurt...

After reading that. It pains me deeply to think that people are so deliberately ignorant and obtuse. What's even more horrible is that people who take pride in knowledge and intelligence are actually derided as "elitists."

[IrishAyes]

141. Sorry. Sometimes I can be cruel.

[maddiemom]

216. It's often unbelievable to open minded and well educated people who aren't

involved in education themselves to comprehend the levels of misguided and ignorant thought out there. The tragic thing is that it seems to be willfully growing these days in the US, as opposed to many developing countries where many are trying to bring things into the 21st century.
To many in our own country, critical thinking is tantamount to brainwashing. My dad was a high school dropout, who made a good living back in the day. He could also do complex math at a level I never achieved, the only problem being his inability to explain it to me. My mom had a year or so education after high school and was an early "working mom." Together they provided us a good, a bit into upper, middle class life. Despite the advantages for their kids, their grandkids, although well educated, are experiencing a much more uncertain future. Without benefit of education at college level and beyond, their grandparent's generation personified success in what Mitt called the 47% worthless Americans. Their grandkids maybe expected more, but most of their future was outsourced for the greed of the few. Our "leaders" never planned for, or cared about the future for most of the current generation.

[maddiemom]

220. Oh, Wait! That might be Socialism.

[murielm99]

121. I have sixth graders who know better.

When I see mistakes like this, I look at them sideways, and they fix the mistakes. They know, but some of them try to get away with carelessness.

There is no excuse for this!

[MANative]

139. I can understand carelessness.

What I can't abide is the utter apathy and derision for knowledge. Thanks for your service as an educator. I know exactly how difficult your job is.

[murielm99]

197. Right now, I am only subbing.

I am retired, but there is a shortage of subs. I go to the same school nearly every day, and teach many of the same classes I always taught. It is enjoyable, because I can take days off when I need them.

[pangaia]

153. Thank you Roneld Raygin.

[maddiemom]

218. Love it!

[Nevernose]

156. I truly don't believe it's a systemic problem

It's a societal problem. We live in a culture that does not promote reading oven basic thinking. Students spend twelve percent of a year in school -- two percent in an ELA classroom. If they can't read, there is far more to blame than their formal educations.

I'm off to teach night school: a place with eighteen, nineteen, and twenty year olds -- presumably of average intelligence and native English speakers -- who have never heard the word rhyme, who cannot identify the five senses (actual quote: "Sight, seeing, looking, and I can't remember the other two&quot , and believe that Martin Luther King freed the slaves.

[MANative]

157. I agree that there are many contributing factors...

but when I see the vast differences in performance for children in wealthier communities where education is supported by a healthy tax base, and poor communities which spend so much less per capita, it leads me to conclude that there is a strong causal relationship between the spending and the result. That so many of these communities are also in the south, where Republicans and their complicit cronies in the Religious Right have pushed "faith" over "elitism" for decades, it seems clear that it's no accident.

I grew up all over the country - my father was in the US Army for more than twenty-five years - but got my foundational learning in Massachusetts, which continues to rank at the very top in academic achievement. I was always head and shoulders above my classmates in Georgia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Texas, to the point that they kept trying to move me to the next grade-level so that I wouldn't be bored silly. Now, I know I am blessed with a good brain and natural curiosity, but my brothers also excelled in comparison to their classmates, and were considered middle-to-high-middle of the pack once we returned back home.

Having left the public education world nearly thirty years ago, I can't speak directly to all of the changes during that time, but I do have numerous friends who are current teachers, and it's very clear that the basic mission is "teach to the test" rather than for development of learning skill. Functional skills (job-specific things that tend to be more "concrete" in nature) seem to be taught at significantly higher levels than abstract skills (professional/managerial skills such as delegation, training a worker, counseling, etc.) aren't touched before college, if the student is lucky enough to ever get there. Teachers who are able to find ways to inject those bigger goals into their learning strategies seem to be rare.

My business now is focused on teaching individuals and companies those abstract skills like leadership and employee management. I can't even tell you how much time I spend on remedial work with people who are supposed to be managing large work groups and complex processes and systems. To add insult to injury, companies have slashed their training budgets so that this very necessary work is going undone, to the great detriment of the future growth of businesses and their executives. Only the "elite" who can afford private learning (read "MBA&quot get to experience this kind of development today. And don't even get me started on how crappy some of those programs are!

[Nevernose]

185. Sorry if I was a little negative

I posted that in the hour I have between day school and night school, and I'm a little burned out. I think this is the last year I'll teach night school, because I'm constantly on he verge of collapse.

Anyway, although what you're saying is more high-end than one of the more common gripes, it is in fact a common gripe: we have no vocational programs left, or at least not many. And it never occurs to the Education Czars to ask, "Why do ye have to know this stuff?"

Apparently calculus is extremely important in "the real world," but understanding things like basic economics is useless. I'm an English teacher, yet I have to explain what a 401k is several times a year, or how mortgages work, or how credit scores function. We can't teach leadership skills because we're too busy teaching totally useless shit.

Schools in poor neighborhoods are funded poorly, but as you said, that's only part of the problem (and probably the biggest part). Another key problem, though is home life. If you have a few minutes, google "thirty million words" and some of the research that's gone into it. We have decades of solid research that shows what we're doing with children at home has a far more profound effect on education and intelligence than most people realize.

The only solution to the multifaceted problem you mention that I could come up with, personally, is to mentor foster children on the weekends. Ah, the life of a bleeding heart liberal!

[SoCalDem]

167. When schools promote "the thought that counts" over spelling, punctuation and syntax,

this is what you get

I remember when our youngest was is grade school, and a teacher sent home a handwritten note to me.. It had TWO misspelled words in it.. I was horrified. I asked him if they even taught spelling anymore & he said the teacher wanted them to express themselves & spelling was not that important..

We started having spelling lessons at home..

[MANative]

171. Yes, that's "Whole Language" learning that I mentioned...

in another post. The theory (some thirty years ago) was that it would promote creativity. My argument then, which I am certain has been proved true, was that creativity meant nothing if a reader can't comprehend what the author has written due to improperly constructed sentences, paragraphs, etc. I love Lynne Truss (author of Eats Shoots and Leaves - the best treatise on the necessity of grammar in the last twenty years) and the Oxford comma!

[bullwinkle428]

21. "I CAN TYPING" hits the road!!

[Bobbie Jo]

59. !

[eppur_se_muova]

103. DUzy !! nt

[westerebus]

173. SNORT...

[morningfog]

22. Defend are verteran's WHAT? Don't leave me hanging.

[louis-t]

131. Wow, I went back to see if they mis-spelled 'veterans'.

Nope.

[eqfan592]

23. What morans!

Hey, do you have a link to where you found that? I'd like to FB it.

[steve2470]

204. delete the word delete and you have the link here:

this is the link: https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/1375710_10151984215336111_478838327_n.DELETEjpg

[mwrguy]

24. I guess they should have attended college instead of signing up to kill brown poeple

They'd have better protest signs, at least.

These are the people that John Kerry was talking about.

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq."

[WilliamPitt]

26. Lot of brown people in Germany in 1945, were there?

Fail.

[mwrguy]

32. That crowd is not comprised of WWII veterans

Most of the people wearing military flair look to be under 45.

[Decaffeinated]

28. A military dig from a guy with mwr in his name...

Interesting...

The day of the dumb knuckledragger is long gone. You know what you have to do to not get killed in a warzone? You have to be pretty fucking smart....

What elitist bullshit....

[JonLP24]

35. That's what John Kerry really said

mwrguy appears to be agreeing with it but Kerry is the one who made the dig.

On edit - In a sense what Kerry said is true and I say this as someone who spent a year stuck in Kuwait/Iraq, but I really didn't think it was smart to say that.

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. John Kerry said,"signing up to kill brown people?"

[JonLP24]

71. No

I didn't pay much attention to that part or didn't really look at it as a dig, that is an actual reason why some people join the military (not so much the brown part but the killing people part).

Plus the poster I replied to was defending the intelligence aspect of military work so that is why I focused my reply on what Kerry said.

[Decaffeinated]

48. The top portion was all MWR...

... and then a separate quote from Kerry followed....

[SoCalDem]

168. and lucky sometimes n.t

[Decaffeinated]

183. Absolutely....

... but stupid will get you killed with far greater certainty.

[eqfan592]

34. Thank you for damaging our cause and giving aid and comfort to the tea party.

I'm sure you feel so great about yourself, making what you likely thought was a perfectly witty jab at our service people.

[mwrguy]

39. Sorry for agreeing with the man I supported for president

Who is now our secretary of state, one of the leaders of the Democratic Party, and a subject matter expert on the US military.

[eqfan592]

44. Who made a completely idiotic remark about military service, "expert" or no.

So go ahead and agree with him. Color me completely unimpressed.

EDIT: Also, I don't recall him saying anything about "brown people."

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. Jury Members: "signing up to kill brown people" is NOT a direct quote of Mr. Kerry's

At Mon Oct 14, 2013, 10:26 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

I guess they should have attended college instead of signing up to kill brown poeple
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3846827

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

Elitist callout of all "dumb" military...

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Oct 14, 2013, 10:35 AM, and the Jury voted 3-3 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: Over the top.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: It's a direct quote...sorry.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: inappropriate, over the top
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: It's a quote...take it up with John Kerry. Sheesh.



_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Please read CAREFULLY when you click "yes" on Jury Service.

[eqfan592]

61. Apparently those jurors forgot that classic quote from one of our founders...

..."You can't believe everything you read on the internet." - Thomas Paine

[progressoid]

84. Paine was ripping off Lincoln!11!

[Bobbie Jo]

58. Uh...this slice of idiocy isn't exactly an example of

a "college-level" grammar/spelling competency.

.....and we're surprised they don't understand basic civics?

[Oilwellian]

25. Geez Louise

They don't even have a basic grasp of three-letter words. Here's another one where they confuse "our" with "are"...



On Edit: There's also a Blog called "This Is Are Country."

http://thisisarecountry.blogspot.com/

Not sure if it's satire.

[Ghost in the Machine]

63. He was part of my "FReeper Sign" I made years ago....

[mountain grammy]

96. Very, very good! thanks for the laugh I needed today.. BUHS, priceless!

[Ghost in the Machine]

166. Thank you mountain grammy, glad I could give you a good laugh today :-) ... The best part is that

we don't really even have to work for these.. they write themselves, LOL!

Peace,

Ghost

[Oilwellian]

142. Very Funny Stuff

There are so many misspelled signs, you can make a video of them:

[Ghost in the Machine]

169. Thank you, Oilwellian! The video was great, and I saw a few other pics I did a few years ago...

The "Feedom" guy was one:




I didn't see this one on the video, but couldn't resist




Peace,

Ghost

[MrMickeysMom]

228. !!!!

Priceless!

[NastyRiffraff]

214. To paraphrase the OP..

The hyphen between are and country is what makes it art.

[SomethingFishy]

219. The link you posted...

Is a great resource for really bad signs

[sakabatou]

27. *snicker*

[WinkyDink]

29. Is our children learning?

[VanillaRhapsody]

31. Are children ournt' apparently!

[VanillaRhapsody]

30. Art by Moran!

[regnaD kciN]

33. The morans are at it again…

[Warpy]

36. The stupid would be appealing targets

if there weren't so damned many of them out there.

Still, if they wreck the economy and we all have to turn to crime, we'll have a constant supply of ready suckers who will fall for anything.

[DinahMoeHum]

37. My response for the Teabaggers. . .

[kestrel91316]

47. I'm stealing that!!

[DinahMoeHum]

92. Help yourself.

It's already been stolen (it's not mine originally)

[joeybee12]

38. This person is talking about the entire family with the last name of Defend...

right?

[Orsino]

42. You can't say they didn't spell-check first. n/t

[enki23]

45. I think the second E in "Defend" was supposed to be a U.

[Brother Buzz]

56. That has DUzy potential

[Festivito]

49. Some art foam spilling foe my righting.

Wad cougar rung?

[Hutzpa]

50. wow

I will go on record and call them sociopath.

[IrishAyes]

123. Well, they are. Our culture grows more sociopathic by the minute.

[caseymoz]

53. I is moran.

[BellaKos]

54. Once upon a time in the USA

one would be embarrassed and ashamed to be an ignoramus. Don't believe me? It does sound preposterous, doesn't it?

[lpbk2713]

64. Shit-for-Brains changed all that. He made stupidity acceptable.

Hell, he made stupidity an admirable character trait ... to the mouth breathers.

[OldEurope]

120. Maybe that is why the right wing is so successful on them?

Half of the population is by definition under the average. Normally they notice at school that they are not the brightest ones, and they all to often learn it the hard way. They are less successful, and they are well aware that intelligent people, like many DUers, are looking down on them. Nobody likes the feeling to be inferior and ridiculed. Everybody needs some respect and selfesteem. So when somebody emerges and tells them that they are even better than those elitist well-educated leftists, they are thrilled. And when this Pied Piper shows them that he is just as stupid as they are and nevertheless can be a very successful politician, and even a POTUS, he will get all their votes. Not because they liked the politics, which is beyond their capability to understand, anyway. But because that man or woman on the stage made the impression not be one of those elitist intellectuals who constantly say things they do not understand.

One last thought: English is not my first language (so, please be merciful with my English) and not the only one I have learned. But earnestly, in regard to the disparity between spelling and pronounciation it is really, really difficult. You all know the "ghnoti", do you?

[IrishAyes]

126. I'm not about to criticize you at all.

Most Americans don't speak even one language properly. You're ahead of the pack already.

[watoos]

60. C'mon now,

maybe theirs another werd below veteran's.

[Bobbie Jo]

62. This is HUGH!!1!

Good Lord.

[locdlib]

65. Reading, writing, and spelling are fundamental.

Yet, RWingers/TBaggers always want to make cuts to the Department of Education. I suspect the genius who emblazoned this message on their window is part of the same crowd who wanted to "secdee" a few months ago.

[JEFF9K]

66. Republicans have harnessed the power of "stupid."

[munster69]

67. My brain hurts

Suffering fools seems to be an occupation these days.

[russspeakeasy]

69. What's are thi's mean's ?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

70. Pirate dictation.

[ffr]

202. Rrrrrrrrr!

[leftyohiolib]

72. since we're strutting around on our hi-horse regarding our spelling prowess

i'd like to say we should be criticizing them on the content of their charactor not by their lack of spellcheck. has any listened to our stephanie miller she misprounces word incorrectly gets many things wrong ,same with randy rhodes (i heard her mispronounce the name seamus (shay-mus)as seemus (c-mus).

[crazy homeless guy]

75. I second this....

Making fun of people for their lack of ability to spell doesn't help the problem at hand.

[bluemarkers]

227. I can't spell, but

If i'm going to a rally, the words on my sign and car will be spelled and used correctly....things like this are a sign (heh) of laziness

I gots a smart phone and I knows how to use it.

[timber84]

78. hi-horse?

[leftyohiolib]

79. short for high horse - goto dictionary.com for def

[timber84]

85. guess i'll find misprounce there too.

n/t

[leftyohiolib]

104. perfect example, picking on people for misspelling is petty and says more about you than me

[timber84]

106. picking on and pointing out are two totally different things

get it?

[leftyohiolib]

113. pointing out is not what you're doing

[sibelian]

125. No.

What it says is that you aren't sufficiently interested in what you're saying to make it intelligible. So it can't really be that important to you. THAT'S what it's saying.

[jeff47]

98. Lower-case S in "since", invalid example

(some people named "Seamus" pronounce it "see-mus&quot , lower-case I in "i'd", lower-case H in "has", "any" instead of "anyone", spell check is two words, lower-case letters to start names, "misprounces word incorrectly gets many things wrong" (a two-fer!), misplaced comma, missing closing parenthesis....

Anyone spot any more?

[timber84]

102. My hero

[leftyohiolib]

107. that's my point genius picking on people for spelling errors is petty and childish

[jeff47]

118. Then why are you?

You're attacking Ms. Rhodes and Ms. Miller for the verbal equivalent of "spelling errors".

If it's so petty and childish that we should avoid it, why are you doing it?

[IrishAyes]

132. A horrifying number of people pronounce 'Sean' the same as 'seen'

Let's see: far too many people name their girls Shy Ann for Cheyenne, and I actually knew a woman named Rocks Ann. Yes, she had rocks in her head, too.

[jeff47]

134. If I was gonna have another kid

First name "Rocks", middle name "Anne" would be tempting.

[tavernier]

101. Yeah, well, I can't play the piano

but you don't see me getting on the stage in Carnegie Hall! I'm pretty certain they are aware of being grammatically challenged, so please, step away from the poster board and Sharpie!

[leftyohiolib]

111. apples and oranges

[IrishAyes]

133. Sorry, I don't think they realize that. And if they do, they're proud of it.

[MrModerate]

192. This is a symptom of willful ignorance . . .

And willful ignorance is a huge part of the problem with the wingnut population.

This is like graffiti in a neighborhood: a sign that things are deteriorating. Sloppiness in speech generally equals sloppiness in everything else, and sloppiness can be fatal to a society.

[whatchamacallit]

74. Lol!

Thanks, I needed that.

[lonestarnot]

76. OMG more special.

[get the red out]

77. Home school #1

On this 6,000 year old planet anyway.

[louslobbs]

80. Apparently their "Windows" system doesn't have spell check. n/t

Lou

[truebluegreen]

124. DUzy!

[louslobbs]

129. lol thanks. n/t

Lou

[glowing]

81. These are the mistakes my 8 yr old in 3rd grade makes.

And he's just getting the hang of writing and putting all the pieces together. However he normally gets our and are correct. Since they have started to teach him about possessives he tends to over use then now.. But we have ways around this to edit his writing...

So damn sad!

[JonLP24]

82. Anyone know what the words are on the front passenger window?

The apostrophe might fit depending on what it says on the next window.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

86. Morans. Period. Just MORANS. n/t

[nolabear]

90. They spelled DEFUND wrong.

Oh, right. They don't know they're the ones who did it.

[BlueStreak]

91. Defend Our English Teachers

[hobbit709]

93. Agnotology

Agnotology is the study of culturally induced ignorance.

[SammyWinstonJack]

95. ...

[ZRT2209]

97. your so mean!!!! :)

[The Blue Flower]

99. Because electrolytes!

nt

[d_b]

110. My first wife was 'tarded

She's a pilot now.

[Sheepshank]

100. Defend are Veterans while......

Wimps are Civilians?

[titanicdave]

108. Obviously

these idiots are Limpaw's and Bullshit Mountain (aka Fixed Noise) fans........

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

114. These are the same people who demand "English as a First Language".

[doc03]

115. I am sitting in the McDonalds in Frostburg Maryland and three old fucks at least 70 just

got in a pickup that had "Don't tread on me", "Impeach Obama" , NRA and verious other stickers plastered all over the back.
I don't get it don' t those stupid mofos know the Tea Party wants to take their pensions, SS, Medicare or any other government
help they get away. I am 65 myself and just can't figure what they are thinking.

[WilliamPitt]

144. You said "thinking."

[doc03]

175. Yep they don't have to think, they have Faux Snews n/t

[Aerows]

117. My Congressman

that is supposed to "represent" me is probably behind this mess. I will vote for a damned dogcatcher and campaign for them before I let this assclown hold office again. A rock could do a better job, because a rock wouldn't cause damage just sitting there.

I'm mad as a wet hen at this asshat, and I'm far from the only one. The difference is I'm a Democrat, and those that are pissed at him are Republicans!

[murielm99]

122. Sometimes I wonder if

it isn't people on our side, trying to make them look even stupider than they are. But I guess that level of ignorance is real.

I can't imagine that anyone on our side would have been at that rally. They would have left when they saw the level of hate and stupidity. It turned into really shocking hate-riot, didn't it?

[lunasun]

196. reverse Poe's law?

[louis-t]

127. Aw jeez.....

[redstatebluegirl]

128. This give me a headache....

My Granddaddy used to say the democracy was in trouble when we had an uneducated electorate...well here we are.

[Erose999]

135. He's just lucky he didn't fuck up on "defend" and make it "defund", lol.

[lanlady]

143. Difend hour Inglish

frum morans, pleez!

[ffr]

201. That was good.

[leftyladyfrommo]

145. I saw something else just like this once.

Some high school kids had been killed in a wreck. The other kids put a sign up on the side of the road where the accident happened that said "Stop killing are kids."

I kept hoping that someone would notice and correct it.

[trusty elf]

146. ........

[IMG][/IMG]

[AAO]

147. Holy Fuck the sulfur burns...

[maddiemom]

149. But if you pay attention to your schooling, the liberals are brainwashing you,

dontcha know. Proud and free rightwingers don't need no education.

[Rebellious Republican]

150. Get a brain Morans!

[TNNurse]

151. Can anyone tell??

Is that Sarah Palin's of Ted Cruz's handwriting????

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

189. LOL!

[bluesbassman]

158. Well, at leest the moran's usded actule werds.

[mysuzuki2]

159. Remember all those kids in high school who sat in the back of the class not paying attention

And never doing their homework? Well, this is what happened to them.

[DeeDeeNY]

160. Teabonics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379

[paulbibeau]

161. That warms me like a cup of cocoa on a snowy day.

[TheCowsCameHome]

162. Another reason to stay in school beyond third grade.

Thanks, baggers.

[TheCowsCameHome]

163. That's probably what they thought DAV stood for.

[pinboy3niner]

170. LOL!

[mrmpa]

164. Mr, Pitt,

I saw this posted on the Home Page. I saw that you wrote it and I was about to give you a tongue lashing for not correcting it before it was published.

Then I clicked on the link, and now I apologize to you.

[WilliamPitt]

165. Looser.

[calimary]

181. ROFL!

Just one more shining example from Sunday's Gathering of Mouth-Breathers.

[blkmusclmachine]

172. Elitist!

Hom skoolerz. Fuk yah!

[WCGreen]

174. Car windows don't come with Spellcheck....

[Rosa Luxemburg]

176. It has been reported that Republicans also have lower IQs than most

[appleannie1]

177. Another too lazy to learn basics idiot.

[tandot]

178. This is the result of Republicans trying to defund our teachers ...

You get uneducated and gullible idiots.

[gopiscrap]

180. Why can't fucking rednecks spell?

[TxDemChem]

182. Lol, okay my six year old niece would crack up if she saw this

Reminds me on the 'Speak English, No Excetions' sign (or some kind of misspelling).

[jazzimov]

184. And yet these people

are more or less holding our government and our economy hostage.

Do you ever feel like World War Z is a true story?

[tblue37]

194. Is that like Veterans Are Us? nt

[Beartracks]

198. Defund are school's!! ... Oh wait, dun that alriddy. n/t

[ReRe]

199. You might be a tea-bagger if...

... grammar = your mommers mommer.

[ffr]

203. Still trying to figure out what is implied by 'are veteran's.' Are veteran's what?

This is baffling me to no end.

Are veteran's defend? Veteran's are defend?

There's no way to make this come out sounding right. I don't get it. I give up.

[steve2470]

205. "I gots plentee of commin sents u fancy pants libruls...

"whoo cares bout spelin ?!"

[Ash_F]

206. The hand writing is not that bad.

When you take everything else into consideration.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

207. It's fine. It passes "spell check"

and wee veteran's are proud to be defended by this guy. Or would be, if oui veteran's were actually under attack.

Of course, the teabagger probably thinks a Veteran is where you take your dog to get sprayed.

[Conium]

208. Quit wasting federal dollars, trying to educate morons.

Last edited Tue Oct 15, 2013, 09:40 AM - Edit history (2)

Billions have been wasted, sending federal education dollars to red states. The money has obviously been blown on something else.

The Republican-dominated legislatures and governors refuse to maintain accessible public health systems. Stop giving these noncompliant states federal funding for that too.

After the insurrection has been quashed, it will be time for reconstruction.

The U.S. Government needs to step in and maintain these vital services. Set up Affordable Care offices in communities across our country and in every hospital.

Provide better oversight of education dollars, then subsidize books in places where their "leaders" are trying to burn them.

[spanone]

217. we're up against extreme ignorance...proud ignorance.

[Moral Compass]

221. Hate to be dense...

Is this supposed to be, "Defend Our Veterans"?

Surely not. Can't be. God, my head hurts so badly.

[ChiciB1]

222. Saw This Post & Was Astonished That A Person Of

Will Pitt's intellect & journalism shocked me! I thought OH NOES even YOU Will Pitt!! Since I've seen so much of this DUMBING down by American citizens it's been truly disturbing to me that this continues.

So, thankfully was relieved that HE didn't originate this! We as a nation must seem totally pathetic by many other countries who must be scratching their heads.

Yes, I make mistakes myself, but a typo from typing too fast or just not proof reading is usually the case. I have seen this happening here at DU too, but sometimes a fellow DU'er might point it out. I've been tempted at times, but I know many who post here are from other countries & different ethnic backgrounds. It's something that can be overlooked for the most part.

HOWEVER, seeing THIS type of thing when surely many people could easily have pointed out the blatant error says so much about who these idiots are! I grew up in a military family, an army brat from birth, but I'm appalled that so many veterans have let themselves become so duped by RIGHT WING ZEALOTS! Patriots??? It sickens me.

Not trying to paint with a broad brush as I know there are many more who would never associate themselves with this bunch. But I do have to question WHY some of them don't attend these events to call them out. I know MY father & father-in-law, both army lifers, may be rolling over in their graves right now. It galls me that so many project themselves as outright racists when so many surely served with people of all color & nationalities. My father was in charge of many men while serving & I remember so many times when people other than whites were invited to dinner & other family functions. Young men who had been drafted & away from home were ALWAYS a part of our lives. Not until I left home & got married did I see the true ugly side of racism!!

And they call themselves PATRIOTS!!!

[SunSeeker]

223. Good God. They can't even blame this on auto-correct. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

224. So do they really mean..

De-fund our Veterans? Because, the reality is, they want to shut down the VA medical hospitals, and take away disability checks from Veterans. I will never forget that guy who threw a dollar bill at a veteran in a wheel chair, as they bullied him. I am surprised they did not turn over his chair and told him to get up and walk, because he was faking it, to get their money.

Republicans love to say they support the troops, ..Just not when they get home from the War.. A few asked, why did you bother coming back, you should have died over there.. bastards.

[Initech]

225. Home scholers unite!!!!

[Jamaal510]

230. Skool sucks anyway. Ppl can spell just fin without them onion thugg teechers.

[Vestigial_Sister]

231. jesus...