For anyone that has spent over $40 filling thier tank...

[bobblehead]

That is partly true Howard, the dollar has a lot to do with it. Interestingly one of the "good" things that has come from the banking crisis is tightened lending practices which in turn is helping strengthen the dollar....unfortunately commercial lending is also at a standstill and this is hurting the entire economy and costing us jobs. Its a catch 22 that we have gotten ourselves into and someone a lot fucking smarter than me (or anyone running for or acting as president) is gonna have to figure out the mess. I hope Bernanke is smarter than I think he is.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Maybe my telling you that you parse too much is helping you. Maybe I am helping you to survive. Perhaps you owe me your life. Or, who cares if I offend? What is offense anyway? My nihilistic Post-Modern friend’s skin is a bit too thin to be a survivor in the herd.

Or, I could take a different approach and acknowledge that I offend, therefore I should stop. It is intuitively wrong to be offensive. And somewhere, if I search, I will discover from where that intuition comes.

I don’t care if another country has great schools. We don’t. And I am done going down the same path, all the while moving the goal posts, that we have for the past 40 years. We need a new approach. The reason parochial schools are at a disadvantage is the cost. A poor family can not afford to send their kids to the school, so they must go to the Government schools.

I am a broken record on the healthcare thing: HSAs and high deductible plans.

Parse: I couldn't care less. You do what you want. I'm only pointing out your behavior..just as you are doing to me. I havent' complained...so, spare me the thin skin. This was all in relation to your comment that played the victim.."why are you so antagonistic"...you come from the Hannity school.

Schools: If you dont care, then how can you be sure that the problem will be solved? That is highly ineffective. You are making huge assumptions without doing any "needs analysis."

This just comes across as another attempt to privatize.

Poor can't afford parochial schools. Interesting that you now care so much about them. But, i've seen plenty of poor that send their kids to parochial schools.

And, if it is important they will work harder and make sacrifices. Or, a low cost school will fill that need.

You nor any of your compatriots has ever presented a school that can run and be profitable for low dollars.

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!

[HowardRoark]

......you come from the Hannity school

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!

What's a Hannity School?

Generally speaking, you are correct, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR........in a free market.

Evidently, it buys sentences ending in prepositions.

[mraynrand]

You nor any of your compatriots has ever presented a school that can run and be profitable for low dollars.

Boy, we've been working at that school thing for a long time - you'd think we'd be turning a profit by now.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

......you come from the Hannity school

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!

What's a Hannity School?

Generally speaking, you are correct, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR........in a free market.

Evidently, it buys sentences ending in prepositions.

Perhaps i spelled it wrong..but Mr. Sean Hannity. Attack and then cry when others call you on it.

Prep: Seems like an ad hominem attack...aren't you against those.

Furthermore, i'm guessing you weren't an english major...since if you were you'd know that ending a sentence with a prep isn't a rule. English isn't descended from Latin..and therefore trying to enforce english into latin rules doesn't always work. English descended from German. Certain rules based on Latin grammar simply do not fit the structure of English.

Often what is perceived as a prep is really part of the verb..adverbial predicate..."put up with"..would be one example...and quite appropo..since that is what i'm doing with you.

Hopefully, you have learned something today.

Game, Set, Match.

[HowardRoark]

Prep: Seems like an ad hominem attack...aren't you against those.

Furthermore, i'm guessing you weren't an english major...since if you were you'd know that ending a sentence with a prep isn't a rule. English isn't descended from Latin..and therefore trying to enforce english into latin rules doesn't always work. English descended from German. Certain rules based on Latin grammar simply do not fit the structure of English.

Often what is perceived as a prep is really part of the verb..adverbial predicate..."put up with"..would be one example...and quite appropo..since that is what i'm doing with you.

Hopefully, you have learned something today.

Game, Set, Match.

Where did you learn all this stuff at?

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Prep: Seems like an ad hominem attack...aren't you against those.

Furthermore, i'm guessing you weren't an english major...since if you were you'd know that ending a sentence with a prep isn't a rule. English isn't descended from Latin..and therefore trying to enforce english into latin rules doesn't always work. English descended from German. Certain rules based on Latin grammar simply do not fit the structure of English.

Often what is perceived as a prep is really part of the verb..adverbial predicate..."put up with"..would be one example...and quite appropo..since that is what i'm doing with you.

Hopefully, you have learned something today.

Game, Set, Match.

Where did you learn all this stuff at?

While a decent attempt at humor..the sentence works better as "where did you learn all this stuff?"

Your way vs. what sounds better:

It isn't necessary to alert us to situations of which we are aware.

or

It isn't necessary to alert us to situations which we are aware of.

But, a quick gander thru A Dictionary of Modern English Usage:

It was once a cherished superstition that prepositions must be kept true to their name and placed before the word they govern in spite of the incurable English instinct for putting them late. . . . The fact is that. . . . even now immense pains are sometimes expended in changing spontaneous into artificial English. . . . Those who lay down the universal principle that final prepositions are 'inelegant' are unconsciously trying to deprive the English language of a valuable idiomatic resource, which has been used freely by all our greatest writers except those whose instinct for English idiom has been overpowered by notions of correctness derived from Latin standards. The legitimacy of the prepositional ending in literary English must be uncompromisingly maintained. . . .
In avoiding the forbidden order, unskillful handlers of words often fall into real blunders. . .

In: Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay: Practical Advice for the Grammatically Challenged

"Like the imagined rule against splitting infinitives, the notion that it's somehow wrong to end a sentence (or a clause) with a preposition likely grew out of early grammarians' attempts to force English to follow the rules of Latin . . ."

You are welcome.

[HowardRoark]

While a decent attempt at humor..the sentence works better as "where did you learn all this stuff?"

Your way vs. what sounds better:

It isn't necessary to alert us to situations of which we are aware.

or

It isn't necessary to alert us to situations which we are aware of.

But, a quick gander thru A Dictionary of Modern English Usage:

It was once a cherished superstition that prepositions must be kept true to their name and placed before the word they govern in spite of the incurable English instinct for putting them late. . . . The fact is that. . . . even now immense pains are sometimes expended in changing spontaneous into artificial English. . . . Those who lay down the universal principle that final prepositions are 'inelegant' are unconsciously trying to deprive the English language of a valuable idiomatic resource, which has been used freely by all our greatest writers except those whose instinct for English idiom has been overpowered by notions of correctness derived from Latin standards. The legitimacy of the prepositional ending in literary English must be uncompromisingly maintained. . . .
In avoiding the forbidden order, unskillful handlers of words often fall into real blunders. . .

In: Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay: Practical Advice for the Grammatically Challenged

"Like the imagined rule against splitting infinitives, the notion that it's somehow wrong to end a sentence (or a clause) with a preposition likely grew out of early grammarians' attempts to force English to follow the rules of Latin . . ."

You are welcome.

Very informative, I will have to remember those ones.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Ty, however, is not advocating having your children not learn the basics. After all, we want your conservative genes passed on..and uptight white chicks that your sons might marry can be awfully unforgiving for these types of gaffes.