Impeachable offense?
jps wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:42:10 -0400, HK wrote:
jps wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:43:41 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:
"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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On Jun 24, 9:21 pm, jps wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:05:56 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:
Firing Inspector General Walpin without the requisite explanation or
notice might be considered an impeachable offense. After all, Obama
sponsored legislation that required such but instead he was fired with
an hiours notice without explanation simply because he found $80
million if fraud by Obama's fav thang, "AmeriCorps" where an Obama
buddy was taking taxpayer money. Do you think the Dems will
investigate this? Do you believe in the Easter Bunny? Obama's buddy
had his hand in the public trough but The One could not allow an
investigation.
Remember, only little people pay taxes or have to pay penalties,
Democrats do not.
Sucker! You're gonna get taxed more than anyone.
We're singling you out.
Yup, they admit it, only little people pay taxes.
reply:
You forgot to mention that "people of color" don't have to pay, either.
Proof of Utah. You belong in the sticks, it suits you.
"People of color" don't have to pay taxes? Where do these idiot righties
learn this crap, at their mama's breast?
Unfortunately for Steve, it's not genetic. He lurnt it.
There are more *really truly* stupid people in this newsgroup than I
have ever met personally in my entire life, and thanks to loogy, they
fall on both sides of the Great Political Divide.
By stupid, I mean the definition in the dictionary:
OED
stupid, a. and n.
(ˈstjuːpɪd)
[ad. L. stupid-us, f. stup-ēre to be stunned or benumbed. Cf. F. stupide
(Rabelais), Sp., Pg. estúpido, It. stupido.]
A.A adj.
1.A.1 Having one's faculties deadened or dulled; in a state of stupor,
stupefied, stunned; esp. hyperbolically, stunned with surprise, grief,
etc. Obs. exc. arch. (poet.)
Very common in Dryden.
1611 Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 409 Is not your Father growne
incapeable Of reasonable affayres? Is he not stupid With Age, and
altring Rheumes? Can he speake? heare? Know man, from man? 1656
Blount Glossogr., Stupid, dismaid, abashed, astonied, amazed, senceless.
1675 Machiavelli's Prince xix. Wks. (1883) 123 These remained‥stupid
and astonished. 1697 Dryden Æneis vii. 1104 Men, Boys, and Women
stupid with Surprise, Where ere she passes, fix their wond'ring Eyes.
1725 Pope Odyss. xviii. 114 Down drop'd he stupid from the stunning
wound. 1737 in H. T. Waghorn Cricket Scores (1899) 19 The
latter‥receiving‥so smart a blow by the ball that he was knocked down
and lay stupid for a long time. 1859 Tennyson Geraint & Enid 753 And
Enid could not say one tender word, She felt so blunt and stupid at the
heart.
*b.A.1.b Belonging to or characterized by stupor or insensibility. Obs.
1607 Chapman Bussy d' Ambois v. 64 Reuiue those stupid thoughts, and
sit not thus, Gathering the horrors of your seruants slaughter,‥Into an
idle fancie. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 781 His Eyes are settled
in a stupid peace. 1702 Pope Sappho 128 No sigh to rise, no tear had
pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe. 1818 Keats Endymion
i. 678 My sweet dream Fell into nothing—into stupid sleep.
*c.A.1.c Of a part of the body: Paralysed. Obs.
1638 A. Read Chirurg. xi. 82 Touch the stupid parts [of a paralytic
person] with quick nettles.
d.A.1.d Path. ? Obs.
1822–9 Good Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 519 Cephalæa gravans. Stupid
head-ache. Pain obtuse; with a sense of heaviness extending over the
whole head.
*e.A.1.e Emotionally or morally dull or insensible; apathetic,
indifferent. Const. to [cf. F. stupide *].
1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxii. §17 As for pleasure, wee haue
likewise determined, that the minde oughte not to bee reduced to
stupide, but to retayne pleasure. 1641 J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii.
148 The Stoicks‥patience‥was‥onely a stupid senselessnesse, and wretched
carelessnesse. 1653 H. More Antid. Ath. ii. vi. §5 He is as stupid to
these things [the beauties of nature] as the basest of Beasts. 1713
Guardian (1756) I. No. 19. 86 It was a cause of great sorrow and
melancholy to me‥to see a crowd in the habits of the gentry of England
stupid to the noblest sentiments we have. 1758 S. Hayward Serm. xvii.
530 Oh stupid creatures that are not raised with the descriptions of his
person! a 1770 Jortin Serm. (1787) II. x. 199 Vice begets the dread
of punishment, unless it be constantly attended with unbelief, and with
a stupid carelessness about futurity.
*2.A.2 As the characteristic of inanimate things: Destitute of
sensation, consciousness, thought, or feeling. Obs.
1626 Bacon Sylva §98 Tangible Parts in Bodies are Stupide things; And
the Spirits doe (in effect) all. 1642 H. More Song of Soul ii. iii.
iii. 60 Yet if the Earth stand stupid and unmov'd, This needs must come
to passe. 1660 Boyle New. Exp. Phys.-Mech. xxxiii. 251 And as for the
Care of the Publique Good of the Universe ascrib'd to dead and stupid
Bodies; wee shall only demand, why [etc.]. a 1664 K. Philips Poems
(1667) 40, In Mem. of F.P. 14 Alas! in vain, in vain on thee I rave;
There is no pity in the stupid Grave. a 1694 Tillotson Serm. (1743)
IX. 4110 The stone is stupid, and is not in the least conscious of any
of those impressions, does not perceive what is done to it. a 1718
Prior 2nd Hymn of Callimachus 141 Euphrates‥copious runs, but Muddy; And
carries forward with his stupid Force Polluting Dirt. 1722 Wollaston
Relig. Nat. v. 74 Matter is incapable of acting, passive only, and
stupid. 1744 Berkeley Siris §190 Were it not for this [fire], the
whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass. But this active element
is supposed to be every where.
3.A.3 Wanting in or slow of mental perception; lacking ordinary activity
of mind; slow-witted, dull.
1541 R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 B iij b, For the fyrste speake ouer
lyghtly and to imprudently,‥and the other are all togyther stupydes,
sturdy, & lytygious. 1616 Bullokar Eng. Expos., Stupid, blockish,
without wit: dull. 1649 Milton Tenure Kings 8 No man who knows ought,
can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were borne free. 1667
― P.L. xii. 116 O that men‥should be so stupid grown While yet the
Patriark liv'd, who scap'd the Flood, As to forsake the living God.
1692 Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 290 But I esteem the Faith of a
stupid Peasant, more than all the Lessons of Socrates. 1712 Addison
Spect. No. 291 ⁋8 A Man, who cannot write with Wit on a proper Subject,
is dull and stupid. 1778 F. Burney Evelina (1791) II. xxvii. 161 ‘Why
is Miss Anville so grave?’ ‘Not grave, my Lord,’ said I, ‘only stupid.’
1819 Shelley Peter Bell vii. iii, His lordship stands and racks his
Stupid brains. 1829 Hogg Sheph. Cal. Wks. (1865) 368/2 ‘What a stupid
idiot I was!’ exclaimed Wat. 1838 Lytton Alice ii. iii, How stupid in
Caroline not to show it to you. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xliii, She
felt the pique which every pretty woman experiences who fancies her
favours disregarded, and thought Andy the stupidest lout she ever came
across. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 560 Anne, who, when in good
humour, was meekly stupid, and, when in bad humour, was sulkily stupid.
1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. viii. (1872) X. 160 He knew how to
listen‥which no stupid man was ever capable of. 1875 Jowett Plato
(ed. 2) I. 29, I remain as stupid as ever; for still I fail to
comprehend. 1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight viii. 108 Children with
astigmatism often appear stupid.
absol. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xviii. 19 But Good Council is cast
away, upon the Arrogant, the Self-conceited, or the stupid.
b.A.3.b Of attributes, actions, ideas, etc.: Characterized by or
indicating stupidity or dullness of comprehension.
1621 T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 131 Christians
willingly lay downe their neckes vnder the light yoke‥not with a stupid,
or hastie mad braine-sicke, or fond toying ioy. 1687 A. Lovell tr.
Thevenot's Trav. i. 145, I went to that Burying-place on the Holy Friday
of the Greeks‥that I might see what Ground they had for this stupid
Belief. 1707 Patrick Disc. Prayer ii. xviii. 197 Let us not‥persist
in such a stupid error. 1711 Steele Spect. No. 2 ⁋3 It is a stupid
and barbarous Way to extend Dominion by Arms. a 1770 Jortin Serm.
(1771) IV. ix. 184 Great reason have we to be thankful that we are not
educated in such stupid and inhuman principles. 1819 Shelley Peter
Bell vi. xxxii, 'Twould make George Colman melancholy To have heard him,
like a male Molly, Chanting those stupid staves. 1871 C. Gibbon Lack
of Gold ii, This cursed frenzy makes me say and think the stupidest
things. 1891 E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 122 Our stupid passion for
snugness.
*c.A.3.c Of the lower animals: Irrational. Also of an individual animal,
its propensities, etc.: Lacking intelligence or animation, senseless,
dull. Obs.
a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) I. 203 And trains him up with Rudiments
more false, Than Nature does her stupid Animals. 1774 Goldsm. Nat.
Hist. (1776) IV. 328 [The badger] is a solitary stupid animal. 1815
Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 19 The birds of this genus
[Bucco]‥are a solitary stupid race. 1867 Morris Jason viii. 64 A
monstrous cage, Of iron bars, shut in the stupid rage Of those two beasts.
4.A.4 Void of interest, tiresome, boring, dull.
1778 F. Burney Evelina (1791) I. xxxiii. 179 Of all the stupid places
ever I see, that Howard Grove is the worst; there's never no getting
nothing one wants. 1832 Lytton Eugene A. i. iii, ‘I am sorry, dear
Ellinor, my awkwardness should occasion you so stupid an evening’,
answered Madeline. 1845 G. E. Jewsbury Let. to Mrs. Carlyle (1892)
161, I‥was getting quite fat till within the last few days, when I
caught cold on the stupid Rhine. 1854 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen.
Bounce xviii, For the first time in her experience of a London season,
Blanche begins to think it a ‘stupid ball.’ 1862 M. E. Braddon Lady
Audley ii, We were quartered at a stupid sea-port town. 1884 M.
Creighton Let. 22 May, in L. Creighton Life & Lett. (1904) I. 269 If my
letter is very stupid, forgive me. 1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. her
Mother to Eliz. xviii. 89 We went once to the Empire, but it was awfully
stupid, and I never want to go again.
5.A.5 Obstinate, stubborn. north. dial.
1788 W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 357 Stupid; obstinate (the common
epithet). 1829 Brockett N.C. Gloss (ed. 2), Stupid, obstinate, though
possessing good talents. 1866 Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Lizzie Lorton xii,
‘So Miss Lizzie, my dear, divn't be stupid’—she meant obstinate—‘but let
yersel be guided by them as knaws best.’ 1877 Holderness Gloss.,
Stupid, obstinate. ‘As stupid as a mule.’ 1893 J. K. Snowden Tales
Yorksh. Wolds 170 Kit Harpur were main stupid ower it.
6.A.6 Comb., as stupid-looking adj.; adverbial with another adj., as
stupid-honest, stupid-sure (nonce-wds.); stupid-head, a blockhead.
1838 Dickens O. Twist xxxi, Think it's the same boy, *Stupid-head?
1877 Tennyson Harold iii. i, Be thou not *stupid-honest, brother Gurth!
1815 J. Campbell Trav. S. Africa 502 How such a *stupid looking
animal [as the turtle] finds out this speck of land [Ascension
island]‥is truly wonderful.
1877 Tennyson Harold iv. iii, The people *stupid-sure Sleep like
their swine.
B.B n. A stupid person. colloq.
1712 Steele Spect. No. 468 ⁋6 Thou art no longer to drudge in raising
the Mirth of Stupids‥for thy Maintenance. 1819 Metropolis I. 222 His
loudest applauders were‥stupids, like Sir G. W. who scarcely could speak
a word of French. 1880 Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve II. 17 Ain't there no
place else for us to go to, eh, stupid? 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’
Valerie's Fate v, You do not know what a thoughtless, heartless stupid I
have been.
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[A.] [4.]A.4 Add to def.: Hence used as a term of disparagement or
abuse. (Further examples.)
1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon ii. i. 89 You think you're so much
better than other folks, with your college education, where you never
learned a thing, and always reading your stupid books instead of
working. 1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye i. 8 Anyway, it was
December and all, and it was cold as a witch's teat, especially on top
of that stupid hill. 1977 M. French Women's Room (1978) ii. 115, I
sit and watch the stupid boob tube. 1986 Auckland Metro Feb. 66/2
They‥sit and sniff from their stupid bags of glue.
Whew!
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