Mitt Romney is trying to convince the voters of America he still has the best Mind out there. He reminds us that Newt and Slick Dick have voted for things like raising the debt ceiling over and over again - no doubt to make way for the White House Christmas tree. Newt reminds us that sometimes we need to see things in terms of absolute numbers rather than relative numbers. For instance in absolute numbers of people voting for him, Mitt Romney was unquestionably the biggest loser of Tuesday's trifecta primary loss. Because he did way better in the sheer Numbers of turnout of people willing to vote for him in 2008. Sometimes absolute numbers can mitigate facts and other times they tan agravate facts, though I prefer using the more scientific terms of "attenuate" and "enhance". And of course there are a lot fewer people employed in the United States now than when President Obama took office. I know this, but as a democrat I was hoping the American people wouldn't. Of course Tricky Dick Santorum knows how to speak the "Rust Belt" lingo and identify with the blue collar worker, and even side on occasions with Unions as part of his justly perceived "fiduciary" responsability to the people who put him in office. People still may be looking for a "not Romney" out there. If someone were to come to me and say, "Marcus, what we need is a civil libertarian who believe people's rights are supreme over both government machinations and corporation greed- - but also subscribe to Christian morality- - do you know of such a person?" I respond, "Is the Pope Catholic?" Mitt Romney is trying to show, and successfully doing so, that he is "one of them" in terms of Religious liberty in this country and that some of us actually believe that "The war on Religion" is every bit as counter productive as the war on Drugs. Some candidate somewhere ought to embody all the things American people want in a single candidate. Well, that candidate hasn't appeared yet.
Certain words I use may need to have their definitions restated again just for clarity. Such as "Perpendicularity". This doesn't necessarily have to do with erectile dysfunction, although I'm open to other applications. Then we have "Convexity", which is not to be confused with "Complexity". And of course there is the famed "Viscosity". I'll take this one. This could be redefined as either "wind" or "resistance to movement through it". It has other applications other than motor oil. "Agragate" to my way of thinking refers strictly to a mean or "average". If you are looking for the Median, don't settle for the Agragate. Certain words I give simpler definitions to than others may. For instance a simpler term for "Cognative dissinence" is "Confusion". When I use the word Corporate in a generic sense- - - I am often referring to "The Group". And as to the term "generic" itself - - this means the thing as originally conceived and designed. Capish?
If you are looking for the answer to that Math problem I talked about from Wendy's book, that we put on the previous posting, here is a big hint to the answer. Counting to nine isn't any problem for you, is it. Joe Cocker on an album asked us to count to ten. I hope for you people who learned their numbers in school in base Eight this isn't going to be a problem for you. Now - listen to the Sgt Pepper album, and there you will find a numeric clue. I'll state it another way. Doing exponent math 3 + 3 is 6 and 6 divided by 2 is 3. Of course Wendy is one of those people like Janet. She's one of those people whom I darkly suspect actually has an IQ forty points higher than I do but she does an excellent job of concealing it. Janet is the same say. You know Janet has a "Masada" social emotional policy. She's up there in her mental fortress catapaulting big rocks off the ledge, and never once worried about being hit back. Although hats off to Paul Evans as one dude with at least the balls to try. Of course sometimes playing intellectual "Possum" is of value. Ask Leo Le Port. He's always talking about having a separate physical fire wall router. There is a certain merit in having a regular Manfred Berkheart personality as security guard. You know, someone who thinks in as rigid terms as the Rain Man, and always adheres strictly to regulations, and is too dumb to be vulnerable to emotional manipulation. (or a computer virus) Playing intellectual possum is of value if you're attending a Christian Bible study. Mark Campbell was a master at this. I was one of the lucky ones fortunate enough to be included within Mark Campbell's inner circle or "space". I'd be curious to know who, if anybody, is allowed inside Janet's "space". I myself tend to be more of a Gloria Alred personality of "Like me or hate me - What You See Is What You Get".
I'd like to hit the whole grammar thing again. Of course as you know Sue on "The Middle" has made an awful lot of Sophomoric statements this year. So - - I thought I'd give myself equal time on the previous posting. Not to brag or anything but English can be an incredibly complex language when it comes to verb tenses and the like. Two tenses I think I left off were "Future perfect" and "Future perfect progressive". It can get more complicated than that. Try this one on for size: Imperitive Future Perfect Progressive. This is embodied by such English expressions as "You should have been doing your homework all along" or "You should have been keeping me up to date from the office". Certain words such as "must" or "should" or "ought to" have the double meaning of either Imperitive or probability. English uses a lot of "future" construction that involves things that haven't or didn't necessarily occur in the future. I would not like to hit on that Past Imperfect tense a bit more. This in Spanish makes use of what I call the cartoon overlay metaphore. It's like cartoon characters chassing each other past the same rock formation over and over. They have a backdrop on which they superimpose the animated characters. Well the Imperfect tense is the backdrop and the character overlays are the Simple Past. We can illustrate thusly, "As I worked in the lab late last night I suddenly beheld an eery sight", and I know I misquoted the lyrics so don't write me. I was making a point. So you can use such key words as "when" or "as" or "while" for this. Some say that I unnecessarily biffercated the Subjunctive move, because in Spanish - - both halves use the same tense endings. I have this one form of the subjunctive I call the conditional or probability. This is the simple IF or SINCE mode, where other key words can also be used such as "When you get to the next down- - call me". Or "While you are at the store, be sure and shoplift something for me" or - - "If the multiplyer of a number is 2, then the answer must be even". It's kind of like- - maybe you can call it conditional Indicative. Returning to the example of "If you spare the rod you will spoil the child" - - this is your conditional subjunctive. There is another form of the subjunctive involving either the "That - - - " construction, or the Infinitive construction. For instance with infinitives you use expressions like I Want - - or I Told You to - - or "I believe- - ". Or even I Move - - that the nominations be closed. I suggest- - - I recomend- - - anything involving either a "That" clause or else an Infinitive construction. This is kind of the 'out there" land. This subunctive mode can exist in either - the suggestive - - manner - - or the fate accomple mode, such as "Joe told me that Hank was a trans-sexual". So the dividing line with the subjunctive is kind of completed verse not completed acts.
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