N**ts to You, Rev. Jackson

Obamarama says, "We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child -- it's the courage to raise one."
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Why doesn't he recognize, then, as a matter of equal protection, application and Rights, that mothers ALSO have this responsibility???? And, if mothers have this responsibility, what's all this talk about abortion "Rights"???

Now, if fathers [and mothers] have this responsibility, there must be something to be responsible for. Pro-choicers say there is nothing, before birth, for which to be responsible.

So, which is it???

==He just gave Obama three states.==

Oh? Howzat?

==beholding ==

Not a word.

The word you want is "beholden," meaning, "indebted, obliged."

==Thank you, Mr, Incredible. In fact, I knew that; but the fingers and the brain did not entirely mesh at that moment.==

I didn't mean to come off as harshly overcorrecting, if, in fact, you got that impression.

I've heard "beholding" before -- or, as teenagers/early 20-somethings say, "beholdeen"; they turn the "eeng" into "een" -- and it seems to me that it comes from hearing the proper pronunciation, "beholden," thinking that "beholden" is a mispronunciation of "beholding," when it's not, as you know.

==Glad to see some folks who prefer accuracy in linguistics.==

I used to be in radio news and some teevee news. Anchor, reporter, writer, and I was always fine-tuning my language. I hate to see and hear radio and teevee people sound as though they slept through English, speaking like stupid people.

I heard a tlevision news anchor, taling about the Olympics the other day, and she mentioned something about a contender in the Shortput, saying, "throwing the shotput."

Well, immediately, I called the newsroom and said that the "ball" is the "shot," and that the "throw" is the "put," that the "thrower" puts the shot, not throws the put. My goodness.

I hate split infinitives, too, cuz you can't split thinking, and the infinitive references a specific process of thought that cannot be split.

Now, don't get me wrong. I, myself, for effect, use informal forms, like "wanna" and, thanks to Steve Harvey Show, some street language.

However, today's news presenter knows nothing else and, what's more, doesn't even care! Yet, they try to tell us that they are accurate, objective, credible!

== The internet and texting have certainly not helped iin that regard!==

Still, intelligent people know how to shuttle between forms of language, in order to suit the situation.

That last post is from me. My name didn't take.