George Lakoff vs. Sarah Palin... (rlsd)

[K3 V iN Cummiskey]

"Nobody can achieve the American Dream or live an American lifestyle without protection and empowerment by the government."

I enjoyed reading your selection of George Lakoff, actually, he is new to me. The Republicans tend to be cereberal and symbolic successfully because they have so terribly screwed up in reality and in dealing with the problems facing everybody, (war, falling home values, foreclosures, health care, energy prospects, depreciating currency-rising prices, onandon). Both canidates are pandering, naturally, unconcerned with the weightier issues, and more concerned with the numbers. I was always a Democrat, but I've given-up.  I'm not voting anymore.  I'm not giving a green-light to corruption anymore, and both parties are massively corrupt. Still I pay attention to all the schnanigans. It's only a living contempory storie of life, and it never changes, in principle.

The quote on top is the one sentance in the George Lakoff article that I took issue with, like, I disagreed with it, if curious, again look at:  tolfa.us-down.htm (The gov does not protect us, that's a joke, and the only enpowerment it gives, is to those lumpen employed by the gov.)

I havn't yet figured out how you do the To: to a specific individual. But I've adopted the C + P much to my delight, it's the little things...


--- On Fri, 9/5/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: George Lakoff vs. Sarah Palin
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 12:01 PM
> I attempted to post this at the Huffington Post and it was
> deleted. 
> I've got a 15% failure rate with them, so I suppose
> I'm "Politically 
> Incorrect", or as my Mom, veteran of hundreds of
> protests, arrests 
> and direct actions puts it---"PF" to the
> max." Nonetheless we have 
> to consider and reflect on Sarah Palin's remark that
> the only 
> meaningful difference between a Hockey Mom and a Pit Bull
> is 
> lipstick. If Miss Mooseburger of 1984 wants to describe
> herself 
> as a female attack dog, so be it. If she chooses to be a
> self-described 
> Bitch, that's her option. If we respond in kind as to
> the accuracy of that 
> statement we cannot be charged with sexism. If we choose to
> extend 
> the metaphor---all in the name of political satire mind
> you, in the spirit 
> of Voltaire, Jonathan Swift and H. L. Mencken---then
> it's safe to say 
> that if she comes at us, foaming at the mouth in a rigid,
> snarling, 
> attack mode, then we are obligated to put her down if only
> out of 
> concern for public health and safety. 
> 
> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is
> wrong."
> Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Dave Monroe"
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> >
> http://files.tikkun.org/current/article.php?story=20080904070242463
> > 
> > And see as well, e.g., ...
> > 
> >
> http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=21
> > 
> >
> http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml
> > 
> >
> http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=framing_the_dems
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff