I Think

The avenging black marker strikes again.

I'm not much concerned with all your typos, Ragman. I'm more concerned with your sometime cockamamie notions on how English works. That's the part that affects ESLs.

Ask me if I give a **** what your opinion is.

I was a bit shocked to see how much rain San Antonio and south Texas got. I hope the area and its people can recover soon. Glad that you guys are OK, too.

You most assuredly do, Ragman. You've gotten quite hot under the collar when your nonsense on English has been pointed out.

What's important is that ESLs don't think that your opinions on the English language [really just cribbed opinions from other equally poorly informed individuals] actually describe how English works.

Not that I'm suggesting you shouldn't offer your opinions on language.

Does bullshit count as an opinion? I thinks it's just hot air, and JTT contributes to global warming. IMO

You have an over-rated an inaccurate view on your impact on me, to those here on A2K and in the world - consistent creature that you are.

Hi there, Ms Cowardly. Howzit hanging?

Methinks you are peeking.

Isn't 'ignore' more than slightly compromised by your obsession?

The avenging black marker notes an infelicitous arrangement caused by someone too hot under the collar to write in his normal decent fashion.

... and to boot...you have such a decidedly sour and negative view, that any impact you could have gets thwarted. How to win friends and influence people.

What's negative about pointing out people lying about all manner of things, Ragman? You're just pissed because your ox has been gored.

You don't have the courage to defend your ideas - you just want to whine.

You're an adult. Look past the bits of acrimony that arise. The truth is what is important.

San Antonio doesn't have many places for water to go. A quick ten inches simply fills it up. I haven't lived there since I was about twenty. But I spent a few years to the northwest, about 36 miles out. Rain can wash out the bridges in just a few minutes. Once my brother Sam was driving with me as a passenger, after dark. We were the first to reach one bridge after a rain. Because it seemed so dark in front of us he stopped and got out to have a look. As we stood in the pitch black night, trying to catch a glimpse, a bolt of straight lightning lit up the landscape. We were shocked to see that one more step forward for either of us would have led to our falling twenty feet to some rocks below. Houston gets flooding too, of course, but Tomball sits pretty high. It has not flooded here in the 20 plus years I have been in the area.

Thanks for the update and info. May it continue on that way. Glad to you see you have taken the higher ground.

Life is short.

"Even open-minded people will often find themselves unable to take seriously the likes of [Noam] Chomsky, [Edward] Herman, [Howard] Zinn and [Susan] George on first encountering their work; it just does not seem possible that we could be so mistaken in what we believe. The individual may assume that these writers must be somehow joking, wildly over-stating the case, paranoid, or have some sort of axe to grind. We may actually become angry with them for telling us these terrible things about our society and insist that this simply 'can't be true'. It takes real effort to keep reading, to resist the reassuring messages of the mass media and be prepared to consider the evidence again."

David Edwards - Burning All Illusions

Drought stricken Texas gets quick 1o inch rainfalls, Edgar?

Yeah, when I listened to the news broadcast last night, they described this rainfall as a near(?)-historic rainfall for a non-hurricane in an interval of 24 hours. Was that hyperbole?

I think they are fishing to build on the fear created by the monster storms we seem to get of late.

Who exactly does generating such fear benefit? Hard to read the newspapers, or watch TV when things are floating down the former street or the drain.

Simple economics. The more fascinated watchers, the more viewers, the more ads sold. The whole of the country gets inundated with this stuff in lieu of actual work gathering more news.