RESULTS WHEN THOUGHTS GO RANDOM

• Statistic given out today:  11% of Americans will do their shopping online this season.
• What is going on in the minds of voters who plan to support Gingrich for President when he violated ethics, paid a very large fine and left his post as Speaker of the House?
• Christine O'Donnell's endorsement of Romney is a  kiss of political death.
• Why does the media allow Cheney to speak on Iraq?  He lied to get us there.  Why would he be truthful in giving credit to Obama for mopping up the detritus he was the primary cause of it being there.
• Romney keeps saying we need a leader for President.  Obama, despite the obstructionism of the Republicans has accomplished more positive changes than for which he is credited.
• In the race for greatness of Chutzpah:  Donald Trump should get a first prize.  He refuses to say he won't run for President and intimates he will run as an Independent candidate if he doesn't approve the one chosen by the Republicans.
• Why do people ask what your favorite anything is?  Perfection cannot be compared to perfection.  Can one say one prefers one orange to another or an apple to an orange?
• Why do people pay so much attention to the polls other than it give media pundits a crutch to make them look as though they are up-to-date on the status of every changing minds. The system of taking polls is as relevant to today's world as horse and buggies are in urban areas.
• Sorry, dear readers, my mind is as cluttered as my blivet of a house right now.  Tomorrow should be a better day.  Hopefully you will have a great one as well.

PEOPLE NOT VOTED INTO OFFICE BUT THINK THEY CAN RUN THE WORLD ANYWAY

When Sarah Palin speaks, the association which comes to mind is the Gentile definition of chutzpah: ' The child who murders his parents and then falls on his knees to appeal mercy from the court as an orphan.'  Her inflated ego dares to make her speak as though she is above President Obama in competence and experience.  She spoke in her speech before the Republican Conference in New Orleans about his having no knowledge about nuclear warfare and, I believe, foreign policy, sarcastically commenting that he had gained it when he was a community organizer.That should be beneath anyone worthy of respect.  She never got out of Middle School with that kind of game play.

She later commented on his part-time senatorial service, most of it spent on running his campaign.  The woman must be blind as she looks into the distorted mirror through which she sees.  She was only a half-time governor for the half term she served and spent her time campaigning.  People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones but she still tosses boulders.

Glenn Beck did not do himself or his country a service when he shamefully listed every bias he has to all but white men as he suggested his recommendations to President Obama for Supreme Court ju appointment.  In his bigoted way, he suggested a black woman, homosexual, disabled, immigrant should be chosen and then went on to babble some idiocy as to his reasons.

Words have great meaning but it is what they mean to the listener that is important,  the intent of the speaker is. not important  An intelligent person would understand that some words are incendiary; where they are spoken has meaning.  We can all say 'fire' as often as we wish, but dare not yell 'fire' in a theater.  These two persons stir up violent feelings while professing that they mean nothing from words like revolution, reload, kill, and other similarly poorly thought out use of words if one intends to unite people rather than be divisive.  They seem to be using the 'divide and conquer' for the country, but who then would take over?.

It saddens me to think that our media world is filled with this vitriolic hate, such a poor choice of exercising rights to free speech for elucidation, sharing ideas and opinions, rather than rabble rousing.  The few hate calls played by the media to illustrate the threats to politicians is very scary to me.  I don't feel like a Chicken Little nor do I believe the sky is falling.  However, I do believe that we have clear evidence from many media personalities that they do not wish to bring us together as a Nation but, rather, to continue with fostering distrust, as during the previous administration.

President Obama should stop trying to be the vehicle for healing the split political factions by inviting the Republicans in.  Instead, he should keep passing good bills for the people and continue to help make jobs to raise the economy as much as he is permitted by the House and Senate  The current Republican party .has made it eminently clear that their priority is to exercise as much control of the country as they can though they were voted out of its administration.  They have split themselves off to many obstructive factions and can no longer command respect from intelligent, well-informed people.

NEW LANGUAGES

We have all heard that identical twins have sometimes made up a language of their own which totally separates them as a unit distinct from all others. Apparently there are lots of made-up
languages. I always knew that I was raised bi-lingually but learned only a few years ago that I was 'tri-lingual'. Apparently when my parents and all their parents and peers came to the USA at the turn of the century a hundred or more years ago, there was no communication with their motherland. Media was not instantly international, radio was not common, TV not yet invented, and the Internet not even a vague hope. One might wonder what happens to a group of people for whom there is no word for things like car (which became 'caro' with a rolled r), airport which became 'aeroporo'. In fact, the word for car is autokinito..pronounced afftokeeneeto (literally meaning 'goes by itself') and airport, actually aerodromio, pronounced ah-erro-thromeeo (meaning air road).

Greeks who went to visit Greece in post WWII found that they were difficult to understand in what they thought was a native tongue. My brother, cousin and I had fun compiling a Fractured Greek dictionary, grown to several pages long over the years. There are almost enough words to make an entire new language. That language will die a natural death with the current survivors of that immigrant group.

Another facet to languages is that words can not be easily translated. For example, when I tried to tell a cousin in Athens that I was only window shopping, she looked at me with a very strange glance. I later learned I had told her I only buy window glass. The concept of window shopping is entirely different. When shops have windows, they pay more rent. There is a term for it...shopping 'vitrina'. That means you look at the store that has a window display, check the price and go to a store without a window and but it there at a lesser price.

Words and languages are wonderful. There are so many concepts that can't be translated from one language to another. Yiddish Chutzpah is one of my favorites. It is subtly different than any of the English words that people try to use for it, like nerve, gall, etc. I guess it takes a bit of Chutzpah to write a blog and think that anyone out there really cares to read it.