There was a pre-debate debate in New Hampshire last night. Anybody who expected any soaring rhetoric from the likes of Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, or John Kasich was sorely disappointed. There were no Trump sightings. Each contestant was called to the stage and asked a question by the moderator. Sens. Cruz, Paul, and Rubio participated by closed circuit TV as they were voting on defunding Planned Parenthood. Apparently Graham thought it was no big deal. It was, for the most part, unwatchable. I could have guessed how each would answer the questions they were asked and the monotony was enough to put an insomniac into a coma. The one part that stood out for me was when Carly Fiorina came right out and called Hillary a liar on Benghazi and the destroyed e-mails. Fox is hosting the first actual debate Thursday, moderated by Pissy Chrissy Wallace. Trump will be at that one. I doubt it will be boring.
THE TREACHEROUS BASTARD AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PICTURE VOTED AGAINST DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD. THAT’S WHAT PASSES FOR LEADERSHIP IN THE GOP ELITE
As of Saturday, August 1, I became officialy covered by Medicare, even though my birthday isn’t until next week. Funny, I don’t feel any older than I did Friday, July 31. However, I felt like I was 97 that day, so there you go. We senior citizens are looking at cuts to our social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid payment because the tens of millions of illegals flooding the border need their free stuff, even though they did nothing for it.
Today’s task is a daunting one indeed. I have more links cached than Carter’s got Little Liver Pills. (If you remember that one, you’re as old as I am.) I will now draw my trusty saber, wave it over my head and exhort my troops to ‘storm the parapets!’ But I have to refill my coffee cup first.
CAITLIN JENNER’S FIRST DATE
CANDID PICTURE OF BILL AND HILLARY STROLLING ON THE BEACH
We have reviewed your statements and have the following recommendations to help end this public relations disaster:
Location of the specimen at the time of demise is everything. Emphasize that you performed the poaching procedure OUTSIDE the park, and it is not really a lion unless it is INSIDE the park.
Change “head on the mantle above the fireplace” to “calvarium on the mantle” or better yet “tissue on the mantle.”
Change the terms “carcass” and “remains” to “products of hunting.”
In your apology, your term “taking the lion,” rather than “killing the lion” was on the right track, but Jimmy Kimmel saw right through it. We suggest “terminate” as a widely-accepted alternative.
Repeat over and over again, as much as possible, that brutally killing and dismembering innocent life is “ONLY 3%” of what you do. (Other clients have found this to be very successful, even though in their case, it’s not actually true.)
We are putting pressure on the media not to cover this, but in the meantime, pretend that your website was hacked to remind people that you are the victim here.
Sincerely,
Dr. Screwtape
P.S. If you still have intact organs or limbs from the procedure, we will gladly help you “transfer” them for a “reimbursement fee.”
The fact is … we don’t.The TRUTH about why Democrats are such ardent supporters of Planned Parenthood is that the organization donates big bucks to Democrat campaign coffers.
Feb 27, 2014: Planned Parenthood will soon announce a campaign offensive that includes spending over $16 million in the upcoming midterm elections in 14 different states. This $16 million comes on top of the$2.4 million the organization already spent on Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s successful run for Virginia governor in 2013
It’s all about the money … NOT about health care, something women can get in many other places that, oopsie, do not donate to Democrats.
Jake Tapper interviews Dr. Ben Carson re: PP funding
BOO to Tapper for saying AGAIN that women can get mammograms at Planned Parenthood. It has been established over and over that PP does NOT provide mammograms!
The Iranian regimeunder Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has long called us “the Great Satan” and predicted the coming fall of the United States. But NOT TO WORRY cuz Obama’s Secretary of State, that paragon of American Patriotism, John Kerry, says he has no specific knowledge of their desire to destroy us.
In the video below,Kerry admits the money we’re giving to Iran as part of this nuclear deal “may” be used to kill Americans and Israelis. Then, he blathers on about sanctions. Those sanctions have succeeded in damaging the Iranian economy … but it has NOT stopped them from giving more than a billion dollars worth of aid to anti-American Islamic terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
Sec. John Kerry: Iran May Kill Americans [:30]
We’re borrowing hundreds of billions every year. WHY are we even considering giving money we clearly cannot afford to a nation that has ignored the basic needs of its own people to fund terrorism?
Mama Buzz and I were chatting about the words the Minions say. I swear I heard one of them say “kawaii” (kah-wah-ee), which is what our Japanese exchange student named our little pet frog. She said it means “cute.” They also say “kampai” when making a toast, which is “cheers” in Japanese. Mama Buzz said she’s heard French and Spanish words and a friend who speaks Korean says he’s heard that language as well.
So, you know me … I googled.
There’s a surprising amount (even apps) about the Minion language. I learned, for example, that Minionese is not a fully worked out language like Klingon is. The guy who did their voices (Despicable Me director Pierre Coffin) says he pretty much made it up as he went along … but that it definitely has real words from a bunch of languages sprinkled throughout.
“I have my Indian or Chinese menu handy. I also know a little bit of Spanish, Italian, Indonesian, and Japanese. So I have all these sources of inspiration for their words,” he says. “I just pick one that doesn’t express something by the meaning but rather the melody of the words.”
In English, “minion” refers to a powerful person’s subservient dependent. But the French word “mignon” means “cute.” And the Despicable Me minions definitely get back to their “cute roots” in their appearance, behavior, and language. They have the big head, big eyed proportions of a human toddler, they talk at a higher pitch, and they use a lot of simple consonant-vowel syllables, especially with b and p sounds, which are among the first babies acquire.
In “The Subtle Genius of Minionese”, the author explains one phrase from the video linked below:
In this scene, where the minions are hitchhiking, one says “Me le due, spetta.” This is almost Italian for “I’ll do it, wait” (io lo faccio, spetta) but since it uses the “me” form instead of the “I” form, gives the sense of “Me do it,” which is how a toddler might say it. That “me” toddler sense also works for the Spanish (yo lo haces) and the French (je le fais). This babyish “feel” to the phrase, and the meaning of it, will be accessible to speakers of all those languages. What’s more, it will be accessible to English speakers too, because the “verb” has been changed to due, which sounds like “do it.”
Minions Official Trailer #2 (2015) – Despicable Me Prequel [2:32]
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