Rant About the CASE Here! Get it off your chest.#4

[reeseeva]

After listening to Full length, unedited versions of the first jail house calls to home, I'm starting to think it may not have been an accident

Between Casey & her friend Christina, "Nobody is thinking about ME , they JUST want Caylee back" Same call: "They are going to PIN this on ME if they don't find her"

July 15th to Anthony Lazarro "Guess WHO spends an eternity in jail if they can't find her"

I cant get past these statements.:furious: No feelings, no alarm, no concern or remorse! She knows what she is!

 

[gardenhart]

:bang::crazy:

Sorry I don't know of any grammar experts that find this acceptable!!

I know by this time it has become a "Meme", but I wish people would STOP! It really sounds so ignorant!! Sorry!!:bang::bang:

You must not know many grammar experts then. I was taught about it in college, 40 years ago, with the foremost grammarians cited.

The "grammarian's grammarian," H.W. Fowler, published A
Dictionary of Modern English Usage in 1926. (It is kept up to date with periodic revisions. All page references in this article are to A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 2nd ed. [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965].) This work is considered a standard reference, often used as the arbiter when questions of grammar and usage produce conflicting answers. This book is quite forceful about the silliness of the "rule" that one must not end a sentence with a preposition:

It was once a cherished superstition that prepositions must be kept true to their name and placed before the word they govern in spite of the incurable English instinct for putting them late. . . . The fact is that. . . . even now immense pains are sometimes expended in changing spontaneous into artificial English. . . . Those who lay down the universal principle that final prepositions are 'inelegant' are unconsciously trying to deprive the English language of a valuable idiomatic resource, which has been used freely by all our greatest writers except those whose instinct for English idiom has been overpowered by notions of correctness derived from Latin standards. The legitimacy of the prepositional ending in literary English must be uncompromisingly maintained. . . .
In avoiding the forbidden order, unskillful handlers of words often fall into real blunders. . . . (473-474)

In the same section of the book, Fowler explains that "the 'preposition' is in fact [often] the adverbial particle of a phrasal verb, [and] no choice is open to us; it cannot be wrested from its partner" (475).

Here is what Edward D. Johnson, another modern expert, from this side of the Atlantic, says in The Handbook of Good English (N.Y.: Facts on File Publications, 1982. All page references are to this edition.): "Note that it is permissible to end a sentence with a preposition, despite a durable superstition that it is an error" (283).

http://grammartips.homestead.com/prepositions2.html

 

[Fuzzymuffin]

Thank you...I thought somewhere along the line I had missed "Klee" being some sort of nickname as it's one syllable. I know we abbreviate to save time, but I'm with you...Caylee deserves to be spelled out. Expediency shouldn't matter...her life was short enough. JMHO

Sorry if this goes against the grain.

I totally agree. Every time I see "klee" or "Klee" I want to react. I sit on fingers then so I don't type something and get in trouble.

 

[norr]

I find it strange if not ridiculous that police could not break a 22 yo who sits in front of them and tells one lie after another.

 

[want2help]

The Anthony's are not originally from Florida - I'm not sure it's a Florida thing. Maybe an Ohio thing - that's where they're from.




:floorlaugh:

Nope, it's just a hillbilly thing.
Here's my rant- how many Casey copycats will there be?? It's different, but the nanny thing made me go, "hmmmmmm"

http://www4.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI107634/

 

[ecs5298]

I find it strange if not ridiculous that police could not break a 22 yo who sits in front of them and tells one lie after another.

I mean really. The means to "break" someone was taken away from LE long ago. I mean, how would you suggest they "break" her? Continually tell her that she looks fat or that her haircut was ugly or that no one was every going to talk to her ever again? I'm sure any one of us could have "broken" her. All we would need is a Miami phone book and immunity from prosecution and about 10 minutes alone with her :slap:. :furious::furious::furious::furious:

 

[essies]

I mean really. The means to "break" someone was taken away from LE long ago. I mean, how would you suggest they "break" her? Continually tell her that she looks fat or that her haircut was ugly or that no one was every going to talk to her ever again? I'm sure any one of us could have "broken" her. All we would need is a Miami phone book and immunity from prosecution and about 10 minutes alone with her :slap:. :furious::furious::furious::furious:

:laugh::floorlaugh:Good Post-I would say what they needed was an EXCORCIST to get the :devil: out of her!!

 

[ecs5298]

Sorry 'about that JBean. Won't happen again.

 

[L L & S]

Insomniacs will rule the world one day...errr night......see....we don't need sunscreen and can do things in the dark while everyones asleep. In the summer I even garden late at night...

I do scare the neighbors though...my friend in LA is also a night owl...sometimes we yak on the phone while I am out deadheading flowers at midnight...all the neighbors see is me talking to my self...or the flowers...:crazy:

I keep telling my husband that it's just normal for some people to have different systems...he is asleep by 9 and up with the birdies...

Sing it sister....

My neighbors KNOW I'm crazy, on any given summer night you can see the flash on my camera going off in the backyard at 2am and probably hear me talking to the dogs.

Not being able to sleep sucks.... gardening in the middle of the night is fun though.

 

[Pondering Mind]

I totally agree. Every time I see "klee" or "Klee" I want to react. I sit on fingers then so I don't type something and get in trouble.

Oh..I so agree! My fingers get numb from sitting on them though. :crazy: Really, it does just seem so disrespectful to C A Y L E E.

 

[gardenhart]

I find it strange if not ridiculous that police could not break a 22 yo who sits in front of them and tells one lie after another.

Just FYI, I don't think you're exactly swaying a bunch of us to the Anthony camp with your pro-Anthony posts.

 

[shannahg]

Oh..I so agree! My fingers get numb from sitting on them though. :crazy: Really, it does just seem so disrespectful to C A Y L E E.

klee reminds me too much of kleenex *just sayin'* but I know it's just an abbreviation (my one and only comment about this EVER Jbean, sorry!)

 

[elfie]

You must not know many grammar experts then. I was taught about it in college, 40 years ago, with the foremost grammarians cited.



http://grammartips.homestead.com/prepositions2.html

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

--Winston Churchill

I've always appreciated his insightful muse on the situation.

 

[jon_burrows]

My rant is about George’s bizarre finger naming game with Casey. Casey is 22, not two. It reminded of the nursery rhyme about the little piggys: this little piggy went to the market, this little piggy stayed home….etc.

 

[ThoughtElf]

Bravo for your TaterTot's outlook on the situation! You must have raised that one with "eyes" that look beyond anger and into what really matters. Father needs to have a little conversation with the carrot-head that smashed the car. (I have often said you have to watch out for those carrots! There is a reason they use them for the metaphors on the end of sticks. You just can't trust 'em~)

Ah, you made me laugh, SS. Thanks! (Bananas-Schmananas. I think you're so right that we need some carrot/stick emoticons.)

Otherwise a wonderful Holiday. Totally suffering from a food hang-over.

But, how about this obstruction on LA?

My rant is a two-parter:

1. That we keep hearing all of these teasers regarding obstruction charges on first GA & CA from B. Conway, now we're hearing sound bites from LA's council? But nothing concrete from either.
2. I am still needing more information, because I still can't commit to which of the three I would charge first, and for which reasons.

 

[ThoughtElf]

Thank you...I thought somewhere along the line I had missed "Klee" being some sort of nickname as it's one syllable. I know we abbreviate to save time, but I'm with you...Caylee deserves to be spelled out. Expediency shouldn't matter...her life was short enough. JMHO

Sorry if this goes against the grain.

Nope. Not against the grain, and worthy of repeating. :blowkiss:

One of the best things about this thread is in how consistently and how often people rail against the use of 'Klee'.

Reading the 'rant' thread can be a very heart-warming thing. Amongst the other rants, there is such respect and love for that sweet, lil' Peanut.

And I personally hope that we all keep working to highlight what you've posted so well, on each and every page of the rant threads until the use of 'Klee' is abolished altogether.

Caylee deserves every bit of dignity, honour and each caring bit of attention we can offer.

You guys are great.

 

[ThoughtElf]

Insomniacs will rule the world one day...errr night......

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Bwahahahaha. We already DO!

Most folks just slept right on through it in the wee hours and don't yet know they have been assimilated.

We need more reporters who are insomniac night-owls so we get the breaking news first. Darnit. (Can't they add this as course curriculum for Journalism? 'How to Cater to Night-Owl News Junkies 101')

 

[RR0004]

Bwahahahaha. We already DO!

Most folks just slept right on through it in the wee hours and don't yet know they have been assimilated.

We need more reporters who are insomniac night-owls so we get the breaking news first. Darnit. (Can't they add this as course curriculum for Journalism? 'How to Cater to Night-Owl News Junkies 101')

Really, since when wasn't news happening 24/7??!!

 

[norr]

http://208.106.234.17/Forums/tabid/690/view/topic/postid/2427/forumid/35/tpage/1/Default.aspx
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/history.htm
http://sciway3.net/clark/freemoors/index.html

Casey lived like a Gypsy so I have read. Could be in the blood I guess.

Zaniada is a name used often when reading about Gypsy heritage, bloodlines, etc.
North American Gypsies are hdqtrd in NYC and little is actually written about them for obvious reasons.

 

[ThoughtElf]

Really, since when wasn't news happening 24/7??!!

News IS. And I suspect that you follow world updates as closely as anyone.

But, we're sadly lacking a night-owl journalist on Caylee's case.