With apologies to Keats, at fourth para from end here (afraid full text may be subscriber only):
…Bierce defines beauty as “the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband”…
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Bierce also defined defame as such: “to lie about another. To tell the truth about another”.
Quite an observant fellow.
so..what do they call lying about yourself ? qualifying for affirmative action ?
further to yesterday’s pieces, they’re now calling her “fauxcahontas…dances with the truth” and everyone’s jumping on it, even leftist papers…this story has legs it seems…maybe they’ll even start calling for ‘bama’s proof that he’s who he claims to be…
dems, especially it seems, Harvard law professors, have no compunction whatsoever about completely fabricating things..anything at all…in hopes of wangling a few votes from dewy-eyed liebral kids with no life experience…and then feigning indignance when caught red-handed…
let the indignance commence..and of course her abuse of the system turns into the expected ‘war on women’ diatribe when her lies are exposed…. http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20220502warren_i_used_minority_listing_to_make_friends
Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to meet other people with tribal roots.
“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off,” said Warren.
The Harvard Law professor argued she didn’t use her minority status to get her teaching jobs, and slammed her Republican rival U.S. Sen.Scott Brown for suggesting otherwise.
“The only one as I understand it who’s raising any question about whether or not I was qualified for my job is Scott Brown and I think I am qualified and frankly I’m a little shocked to hear anybody raise a question about whether or not I’m qualified to hold a job teaching,” she said, pushing to put Brown on defense. “What does he think it takes for a woman to be qualified?”
Warren is looking to shake off the story of her Native American background, which has hounded her since the Herald first reported that Harvard Law School has touted Warren as a minority hire. She also listed herself as a minority in a law school directory for nine years between 1986 and 1995.
Warren’s statements come as genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society were unable to back up earlier accounts that her great great great grandmother is Cherokee. While Warren’s great great great grandmother, named O.C. Sarah Smith, is listed on a electronic transcript of a 1894 marriage application as Cherokee, the genealogists are unable to find the actual record or a photograhic copy of it, Society spokesman Tom Champoux said. A copy of the marriage license itself has been located, but unlike the application, it does not list Smith’s ethnicity.
Posted by: Bemused at May 3, 2012 11:21 AM
What is she, 1/256 Choctaw like Julie?
I don’t think there’s too many men that are terrified by their wives. The opposite should be true too.
If I had a New York girlfriend, she would be a cardboard cutout. (composite)
Bierce also defined defame as such: “to lie about another. To tell the truth about another”.
Quite an observant fellow.
so..what do they call lying about yourself ? qualifying for affirmative action ?
further to yesterday’s pieces, they’re now calling her “fauxcahontas…dances with the truth” and everyone’s jumping on it, even leftist papers…this story has legs it seems…maybe they’ll even start calling for ‘bama’s proof that he’s who he claims to be…
dems, especially it seems, Harvard law professors, have no compunction whatsoever about completely fabricating things..anything at all…in hopes of wangling a few votes from dewy-eyed liebral kids with no life experience…and then feigning indignance when caught red-handed…
let the indignance commence..and of course her abuse of the system turns into the expected ‘war on women’ diatribe when her lies are exposed….
http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20220502warren_i_used_minority_listing_to_make_friends
Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to meet other people with tribal roots.
“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off,” said Warren.
The Harvard Law professor argued she didn’t use her minority status to get her teaching jobs, and slammed her Republican rival U.S. Sen.Scott Brown for suggesting otherwise.
“The only one as I understand it who’s raising any question about whether or not I was qualified for my job is Scott Brown and I think I am qualified and frankly I’m a little shocked to hear anybody raise a question about whether or not I’m qualified to hold a job teaching,” she said, pushing to put Brown on defense. “What does he think it takes for a woman to be qualified?”
Warren is looking to shake off the story of her Native American background, which has hounded her since the Herald first reported that Harvard Law School has touted Warren as a minority hire. She also listed herself as a minority in a law school directory for nine years between 1986 and 1995.
Warren’s statements come as genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society were unable to back up earlier accounts that her great great great grandmother is Cherokee. While Warren’s great great great grandmother, named O.C. Sarah Smith, is listed on a electronic transcript of a 1894 marriage application as Cherokee, the genealogists are unable to find the actual record or a photograhic copy of it, Society spokesman Tom Champoux said. A copy of the marriage license itself has been located, but unlike the application, it does not list Smith’s ethnicity.
Posted by: Bemused at May 3, 2012 11:21 AM
What is she, 1/256 Choctaw like Julie?
I don’t think there’s too many men that are terrified by their wives. The opposite should be true too.
If I had a New York girlfriend, she would be a cardboard cutout. (composite)
Oh yeah, there’s a linky for that.
Obama: ‘New York girlfriend’ was composite
In some parts of the world domesitc bliss is defined as having an ugly wife and a tame camel.