Elizabeth Warren Ancestry Thread

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smartcooky said:
I find it remarkable that Trumpsters like Vixen, TBD, BrooklynBaby etc, are still trying to perpetuate and regurgitate the lies and misrepresentations that have already been so thoroughly debunked.

- "Warren has no more NA DNA that anyone else" - a lie, she has over 10 times the amount she should have!

- "Warren claimed to be a Cherokee" - a lie, she never made any such claim.

- "DNA evidence can't tell if you are a Cherokee" - a misrepresentation. No-one ever claimed that it could.

- "Warren used her claims of NA ancestry to land a plum job at Harvard" - a lie. She was hired BEFORE she ever indicated NA ancestry.

The facts have been proven over, and over, and over; the lies have been debunked over, and over, and over; but the Trumpsters tell lie, after lie, after lie about them. When called on this, they still lie. When taken to task on it, they double down on the lies.
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I am not a Trump supporter. So much for your cynical view of the world.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
This, my wife and I went away and got married secretly because both our sets of parents had circumstances that made travelling extremely difficult for them and they lived at opposite ends of the country. Rather than upset or offend one set of family we went off and got married by ourselves (thus offending and upsetting everyone!). In the 'abstract' (heh) everyone in the family refers to our wedding as an elopement.
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That is not an elopement.
 
smartcooky said:
Some grammar Rules

Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Do not use no double negatives.
Repetition is something you should never, never use at any time at all.
High flown language should be avoided unless you are walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
Avoid cliches like the plague.​
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Thanks for the laugh. Good one. :thumbsup: :D
 
Imagine the outcry if Shakespeare were alive today and posting on this forum. People would be up in arms they can't find his phrases on Google and they can't find his words in Merriam-Webster. The rules-bound amongst us would be tearing their hair out and heartily asserting, 'You are not allowed to write like that!'
 
I'm going to end my sentences any way I feel like medium sized feline boat.

Freedom!
 
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Vixen said:
Imagine the outcry if Shakespeare were alive today and posting on this forum. People would be up in arms they can't find his phrases on Google and they can't find his words in Merriam-Webster. The rules-bound amongst us would be tearing their hair out and heartily asserting, 'You are not allowed to write like that!'
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Shakespeare would definitely stand out like a sore thumb seeing how we don't speak or write 16th century English now.


Shakespeare would not attempt to claim "sister-in-laws" is the acceptable plural. Nor does the Oxford English Dictionary. Or any dictionary, for that matter.
 
Vixen said:
Imagine the outcry if Shakespeare were alive today and posting on this forum. People would be up in arms they can't find his phrases on Google and they can't find his words in Merriam-Webster. The rules-bound amongst us would be tearing their hair out and heartily asserting, 'You are not allowed to write like that!'
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You're GD right! Boring people to death is still murder.
 
Vixen said:
Er, hang on a minute. The story about her being a Native American was, er, a story. So all the extensions about how hard done by Native Americans were then and now is moot.

She was a Republican as of the time she claimed minority status.

That suggests her action was possibly racist motivated. The type of racist attitude that complains about 'political correctness' and rails against 'whites being discriminated against' in positive discrimination quotas in educational and employment opportunities.

How do you know it wasn't a gung-ho, 'If they can call themselves ethnic, I can too, as I don't believe this "ticking boxes" crap so I am going to sabotage it for the idiocy that it is.'

That would be the Republican mind set.
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I don't know what she was thinking, and I don't care. It is as about as close to meaningless to anything right now as it gets. I most probably wouldn't vote for her anyway.
 
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smartcooky said:
Some grammar Rules

Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Do not use no double negatives.
Repetition is something you should never, never use at any time at all.
High flown language should be avoided unless you are walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
Avoid cliches like the plague.​
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EXCELLENT!! :thumbsup:
 
Vixen said:
I wouldn't call that eloping.

That's rather stretching credulity. A person in their forties 'eloping'...?

You are taking the mickey.
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FOR CHRIST'S SAKE STOP DIGGING!!!


elope
/ɪˈləʊp/
verb
verb: elope; 3rd person present: elopes; past tense: eloped; past participle: eloped; gerund or present participle: eloping

run away secretly in order to get married.
"later he eloped with one of the housemaids"
synonyms: run away to marry, run off/away together, slip away, sneak off, steal away; run off/away with a lover
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THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REFERENCE IN ELOPING TO IT ALWAYS INVOLVING ABSENCE OF PARENTAL CONSENT.

Under aged people running away to get married is JUST ONE of the things that are encompassed under the definition of "elope".

What is it about your make up that makes it impossible to admit when you are wrong, and why, instead, so you just keep doubling down on the wrong!!?
 
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Craig4 said:
Hey, Shakespeare isn't boring; his works are fascinating and highly instructive. I learned everything I know about office politics from Richard III and Macbeth.
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The stories in Shakespeare certainly are not boring. His stories and plot themes have been rewritten thousands of times. But the language is very hard to get use to. Reading his plays can be unbearable because of it. But a well done play makes it come alive.
 
smartcooky said:
FOR CHRIST'S SAKE STOP DIGGING!!!





THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REFERENCE IN ELOPING TO IT ALWAYS INVOLVING ABSENCE OF PARENTAL CONSENT.

Under aged people running away to get married is JUST ONE of the things that are encompassed under the definition of "elope".

What is it about your make up that makes it impossible to admit when you are wrong, and why, instead, so you just keep doubling down on the wrong!!?
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I wonder what Vixen would find under 'elope' in the British National Library? After all, they are so much more flexible than we rule-bound Americans.
 
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