Gordon Osmond

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Retired lawyer, playwright, English teacher, tennis umpire. Author of So You Think You Know English: A Guide to English for Those Who Think They Don't Need One. ISBN: 978-1-61546-414-2 and Wet Firecrackers http://www.publishamerica.net/product38929.html Osmond hosts a weekly interactive broadcast dedicated to the discussion of books and ESL education. To participate, check out www.publishamericaauthors.com

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010 8:51AM

Walsh on Palin

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Hell hath no fury like a plain woman commenting on a pretty one.

 But JW surpassed herself with her "Big" Board account of Sarah Palin's keynote address to the Tea Party Convention in Nashville last night.

Declaring Palin a narcissist (thank God JW isn't one),  Salon must have stayed up all night to clip a shot of Palin in a snarky moment.  JW lied about Palin's speaking fee, which Palin donated right back to the cause, and, of course, in true collectivist mode, denounced the concept of profit.  She said that Palin misstated Obama's position on the stager of the Boxer Rebellion and terrorism as if Obama had one.

Smearing Palin as a careless speaker, Walsh failed to come up with a single grammatical or pronunciation lapse, while in the same breath ordering her Salon troops to stifle all comment on the genuinely scandalous and repeated mispronunciation of "corpsman" by our hapless Commander-in-Chief.

 

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And now the gormless Glenn Greenwald writes that Palin and the Tea Party are "nothing new." When will the outgoing leftists understand that "something new" is exactly what the American people DON'T want. Specifically Americans don't want the newness that Obama and his gang of corrupt collectivists have been trying to foist on the American public.

Palin wore a U.S./Israel pin. What's the problem? I would have preferred that the Union Jack be added, thus representing the three countries on the planet that most significantly espouse the basic tenets of private property, individual freedom and responsibility. But two out of three ain't bad.
" a plain woman commenting on a pretty one."

Bush league stuff, man. ad hominemn is bad. ad bodiem and ad lookiem is stupid.
Please, RR, back to the classroom. Your English is incomprehensible.

I get your general idea, which is stupid in the extreme, but unless it's successfully expressed in the language you choose to desecrate, I really can't deal with it.

You might consider buying my book, which can be purchased in rupees through www.clipkart.com
I dealt with the substance, which is more than you can say. By the way, it's ad hominem.
I will always reserve a front-row seat for you, dear Stellaa. I'm tempted to say, "to each according to need," but that wouldn't be true in your case.

Your English is, regrettably, the least of your problems. But I love you anyway.
By the way, it's a typo. More bush league stuff, Osmond. Time for your meds and a diaper change.
My God, you can't win around here. Some acne sufferer named Robert Crook wants to exterminate me because I'm old, and now we have "Can you bake a cherry pie, Billie boy" being concerned about my infant needs.
Why not just edit your post to remove the sexest comment about Walsh's looks? Take your spanking like a man and revise your post.
Congrats! It's amazing what linguistic purity one can accomplish by limiting one's sentences to two words. I'd wager you'd be even more immaculate with, "Fire."
Really, Osmond, is this your niche? Carping about spelling and grammar while you duck the issue of your sexism? Just fix the post. In the US, even kids know it's bush to talk about people's looks.
I see. He's a genitalianist grammarian. The worst kind.
Hey, get me a Bump-It, a pair of designer glasses and some heels, and I'll give Sarah Palin a run for her money any day.

I'm willing to bet that most of the people who worship at the altar of Palin never even heard of her before September 2008. But this is what they've been given, so they have to try to make the most of it. It's kind of touching, in a really misguided way.
Some of my best friends are women. But I wouldn't want my sister to marry one.

Even though, spelling, punctuation, and grammar are indeed my thing, I don't have time to correct the many errors above.

My original post was not about Joan Walsh's being plain. That goes without saying. I was positing the notion that JW's swarmy attack on Palin was to some extent motivated by jealousy.

I really can't comment on whether Elvira resembles Michelle P. I suspect, in her dreams.
You have to admire a man who is so concerned about his country that he lives in Brasil. You are a walking contradiction. Have you ever written anything positive or inspiring on this site? You are a one note loon who plays the same tune over and over again. Okay, we get it. You have all the answers and any of us concerned about making society better are simple dolts. You know it all. The world according to an old, arrogant man who shouts his message of hate from the sidelines. Keep on with your worship of your own delusions. A man who claims to be an expert in the use of the English language yet writes without an ounce of creativity or gusto about anything. Gordon, why not stop all the claptrack? I challenge you to write an essay on why the neoconservative view of the world is superior to all others. Come on loudmouth, write something with some thought. Quit talking about commas and defend your world view.
"I was positing the notion that JW's swarmy attack on Palin was to some extent motivated by jealousy."

In that case, you would be positing incorrectly.

But, please, go ahead and give us a list of women who are qualified, based on looks, to criticize Sarah Palin.
By the way, in your first comment you missed a comma. Do you see it?
Yes, "Dr.," I saw one instance where a comma was optional.

On your most recent slush, however, there are no fewer than three punctuation errors and one vocabularic mistake that is absolutely laughable. Don't try to play with the big boys.
You are a big boy? Is that an attempt at being funny? I noticed that you did it again. You hid behind the mechanics of the language and didn't get the message. Can you write? If not an essay, how about a poem or a short story? I want to see your writing. You claim to be an expert. Why not write something that people want to read? We won't laugh too loudly.
"If not an essay, how about a poem or a short story?"

How about a book or a play? My book can be purchased at www.gordonosmondbook.com and performance rights to my many plays can be purchased at www.productionscripts.com.

Where might I access your literary output, "Dr."?
I don't claim to be an expert. You do. I am talking about this site. You write nothing but your rightwing crap here. Come on, show us a snippet of your remarkable talent. Right here, right now.
Dr., are you so dim as not to know how to surf a member's posts? I'm proud of all of mine. Even you might learn something from them.
"Palin wore a U.S./Israel pin. What's the problem?"

Maybe you should ask the teabaggers who bitched and whined about the Mexican flag last year. Or did you conveniently for get that?
What evidence do you have that Ms. Walsh ordered her minions to not talk about Corpsgate?

I'm also intrigued that the low-tech Palin used the old "cribnotes on the hand" technique rather than the teleprompter (which she also used)
I agree with Dr. Osmond. Walsh is jealous, the green eyed monster has reared it's ugly head! I don't care how liberal you are, jealousy is a human emotion. Humans are attracted to beauty and symmetry, it is hard wired into our brains. Haven't you heard of the golden ratio? Google it!
Sarah Palin is a great speaker who happens to be pretty, but at least she and the Tea Party have a clue about the mess this country is in. The liberals gave us Hope and Change. Look where it got us, we are circling the drain while our government babysitters are out spending other people's money!
"Maybe you should ask the teabaggers who bitched and whined about the Mexican flag last year."

I did. They're still bitching and whining. I think that what bothered the members of the Tea Party is that it was a bit hypocritical for those seeking entry into the U.S. to wear emblems of the country they're dying to get out of.
Gordon finally got a rating! Thanks, Poppi!
That's it, JdeM. I gave you some slack for a while, but you're reverting to your ignorant, bitchy ways.

Anyone who confuses the value of a post on its popularity is what Ayn Rand called a second-hand thinker. Second think somewhere else. You'll be deleted on my threads.

And as for being as good looking as Sarah Palin, well, I guess one can claim anything.
So it's now sexist to call one woman better looking than another. What am I missing here?

Gordon, I can't wait for the over the top reaction to the Tebow ad when these clowns actually get to see it. Should be a blast.
Good for you, EH! By adding the coordinating conjunction, "but," you converted a comma splice into a real sentence.

Now that we've got your English under control, we'll have to go to work on your politics and your notion that you look like Michelle Pfeiffer. We might also cast a glance back at ending a sentence with not one, but two, prepositions, as in "through and through."
A Randian, genitalian grammarian. Trifecta! But enough fun. You know if you wait too long to get a fresh diaper and go to bed it gets messy, Osmond. Have some consideration for your caregivers.
Gordon, being a law school graduate, I am sure that you must have noticed that Sarah Palin's speech would have been given average grades at best and it would have been judged substantively weak.

Given her level of experience in public speaking, I don't think she would have thought it one of her better performances either. But yesterday she didn't have McCain's campaign speech writers to bolster her efforts as she did when she first came to national attention.
S. Freeborn, I respectfully disagree.

To the Pacino pal. I, also, know Al, and he says you're a bow-wow.

One more scatalogical comment by Billy boy, and he'll find himself in JdeM heaven.
Gordon, Elvira accuses you of calling Joan ugly and then proceeds to call you ugly.
This is how mind of a liberal works.

I'm pretty sure they don't get your post. They just need a reason to attack you. It's the liberal way.
@Elvira, blackness, huh? I like it. I may have to use it in the future.

By the way, pointing to what you perceive as bad behavior to justify your bad behavior, doesn't do you any good.
Right on. Obama and his gang are pulling knives. Palin and Brown are pulling out the guns.

Even though Obama, like Capone, comes from the gun capital of the country, Palin comes from a place where people know how to use them for civilized purposes.
I have a suggestion. All of the angry, jealous, and insecure people go take a xanax. All of the grammatically challenged please read Dr. Osmond's book.
Wow, you are truly one deluded and demented old man. But you know, it's the kind of delusion and dementia I can really get behind: the kind that's so far off consensus reality it's actually fun. So how's the weather in Brazil?

As for the pin and other hubub, let me make it simple for you: any criticism you have made of President Obama or Democrats ought to be, if you are fair-minded, levied equally against Palin and Republicans. While I respect your writing, and admire your occasional delusional state, you (and many other Palinistas) simply are not fair in your criticisms. Had Obama worn the flag of another nation, you would be criticizing him relentlessly, questioning his loyalty and intelligence, just as you do on his simple mistakes.

The the unfortunate "corpsman" mistake, for example: prouncing the word phonically (i.e., as it is spelled) is a common mistake, as so few Americans [even you?] have ever spent a day in uniform or even had direct contact with the military. Yet you and others deride this simple gaffe. Fair enough... except you are defensive about Palin's repeated gaffes, her obvious ignorance, and her failure to change any of that.

You lambast Obama for a mistake, then give Palin a pass for the very same or similar mistake. You say Obama's mistakes so him to be "out of touch," but you laud Palin's mistakes as giving her the "common touch" -- which is truly revealing, as it means you must think "common people" are poorly educated and lack the ability to speak in complete sentences... which may be true, but says a lot more about you than it does Obama.
"Had Obama worn the flag of another nation, you would be criticizing him relentlessly, questioning his loyalty and intelligence, just as you do on his simple mistakes.

The [sic] the unfortunate "corpsman" mistake, for example: prouncing the word phonically (i.e., as it is spelled) is a common mistake, as so few Americans [even you?] have ever spent a day in uniform or even had direct contact with the military."

I think the pin thing would depend upon the other country being represented, but maybe I'm being too context specific.

If Obama continues with his undergraduate foreign policies, we all may have increased exposure to the military.
"If Obama continues with his undergraduate foreign policies, we all may have increased exposure to the military."

God I hope so--lets bring back the draft! That will put a little skin on the table...
Actually, GW, I was thinking more of being exposed to the military of the bad guys. Talk about involuntary.
"So I'm reading this correctly? "

No, you are not.
Elvira Hancock. I think I warned You about Hancock, Maryland. The Western Maryland town have the Park & Dine eatery. The locals call the local food establishment the `Puke & Dine pukery. The local call politicians the `

Reason For he World Ills.
A something Osmond sense.
I future he don't want to see.
Grandchildren crawl on three.
War amputees, skinny old bones.
Children born with no farm songs.
Masses of people wear ragged threads.
So - We bang a keyboard for hypocrisies.
Odd - e act like we popped on Earth today.
Gordon take a handcock beating and loves it.
Palin love Osmond and Joan Walsh loves pie.
Handcock's chocolate cream pie is heaven scent.
A waitress at Hancock wash the dessert pie dishes.
This makes sense if you wake up sneezing an allergy.
Alligators in bed
Bedbugs in bed.
Ay Scabies itchy.
I know what you meant. I was being ironic, you o'l timey slow poke.
GW

If ever you should be so bold as to consider becoming a real writer rather than a ghost one, you may want to work on the difference between "lets" and "let's" and between "ol'"and "o'l."

Read my book. You'll love the pictures.
If the pics are anything like the one of your face, I will have to pass.