BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

In light of the many dog & pony shows going on with the Obama Camp, and the player's behavior in this show; as well as the words and attitudes of some of the bloggers, bots and MSM I read, I felt this post was very timely. It's from my friend Anna 's blog. Anna , like myself, suffered from being raised by a destructive narcissistic parent. I have yet to read any of her posts that I would even take exception with. I hope you get as much out of it as I do. Good Liars? Or Just Practiced Diversion Artists? Dr. Robert Hare tells us that psychopaths are not the good liars they are generally acclaimed as being. In his book " Without Conscience " in the chapter titled Words from an Overcoat Pocket he outlines the anomalies of the way psychopaths use language. More accurately, how they misuse language. And some really interesting reasons as to why. Please don't be distracted by my referring to Hare's work with psychopaths. The character-disordered have on...

My Nana, of blessed memory, was fluent in Polish. Her mother (whom everyone says I look and act like!) was fluent in Polish, German, English and Yiddish. I didn't realize until I was in my 30s that my Nana's Polish was sprinkled liberally with Yiddish terms, picked up from her grandmother - that I heard so often I assumed they were Polish. Rozumiesz? The Yiddish language is a wonderful source of rich expressions, especially terms of endearment (and of course, complaints and insults). These are some of their wonderful words you have to learn to use: 1. baleboste - A good homemaker, a woman who’s in charge of her home and will make sure you remember it. 2. bissel - Or bisl - a little bit. 3. bubbe - Or bobe. It means Grandmother, and bobeshi is the more affectionate form. Bubele is a similarly affectionate word, though it isn’t in Yiddish dictionaries. 4. bupkes - Not a word for polite company. Bubkes or bobkes may be related to the Polish word for “beans”, but it really me...

This one's for Obama and his followers!! by Kathy Krajco One reason collective thinking gets so screwed up is because the language we think with is corrupted by constant abuse by the foghorns in our communication media. Note what they do to concepts in the meaningful words they bastardize. They bleach all the meaning out of them till these words are no longer action verbs with concrete meaning but just buzz denoting some fuzzy abstract sentiment that is totally generic and interchangeable and which anyone can lie about having or deny having. Love. Hate. Forgiveness. Justice. Fairness. Just ask people what they think those words mean. First a fuzzy look as though the cloud is in your question instead of their heads and then a load of meaningless confusion beyond deplorable and all the way to the point of being ironic. Hence you have the farce of someone professing not to hate a person they are in the very act of rejecting. The farce of claiming to forgive a person they are in the ve...