Words You Are No Longer Allowed to Say to Me

1. Maverick. Unless you're James Garner. (No, I won't accept it from that nutbag Aussie who thinks Jesus spoke Latin. He was wrong: Aramaic, Hebrew, and probably a smattering of Koine. Latin? Pff. Greek was the lingua franca of the day. Most of the Roman army didn't even speak Latin. What a donkey.)

2. Wall Street.

3. Main Street.

4. I 'respectfully' agree, BUT...

5. Say NO to __________________

6. Drill, Baby, Drill! (Only one exception, but that's *very* private, isn't it?)

7. Any gerund whose final 'g' has been dropped, so "ya sound like a hick who hasn't had proper schoolin', ya know???" The word "schoolin'" is an example of an offending candidate.

8. "Ya" in place of "You".





Any guesses who crawled right up my left nostril tonight??? Just call her Caribou Barbie.

I hope I never feel so moved to make such a vindictive post again. Brrrr!!! She just rubs me the wrong way, with the lies and the smarminess and the "I just want ya all to know I'm just like ya!!"-ness.

On the issue of the issues, no, I don't think she was a slam-dunk. There were many instances where she exhibited those same characteristics she showed during the Katie Couric interview. There were some disgustingly manipulative times when she redirected her answers to something that blatantly suited her strengths. My favorite example was when the question was about home mortgages and the sub-prime loan debacle. Sen. Biden answered first, and his answer was interesting; it really needed the opposing side to balance it out, to contrast. Gov. Palin simply went right into energy policy and the need to develop alternative forms of energy to decrease our dependency on foreign oil.

WHAT??? Wrong answer.