“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
A grammatical plea to think “Led Zeppelin” and not “Leadville” when using the past tense of the verb “to lead”
Please don’t think of me as a grammar Nazi. Think of me as a friend of the Periodic Table, who is tired of seeing an intermittently innocent heavy metal being thoughtlessly ABUSED by my fellow members of the Truth Community.
Surely, the element LEAD is bad, just like arsenic and fluorine. But Lead is a cultured killer. Please give him some credit, for being civilized since the earliest days of civilization. Lead may be a predator on women and children, but he’s a very civilized butler who probably did it.
Lead, however, is not a HOOLIGAN who uses incorrect English.
In contrast to the element, I call your attention to the past tense of “to lead”, where “leading” means a variety of things with which you are familiar.
Unlike the verb “to read”, where “read” (pronounced like “reed”) is the present tense, and “read” (pronounced like “red”) is the past tense, the verb “to lead” gives rise to “lead” which is pronounced like “leed”) in the present tense, and “led” (pronounced like the element lead, Pb) in the past tense.
Thankfully, this mistake is rarely made by the posters on our site. It is, however, quite common in blog posts, comments, and articles which are brought in from the internet.
I hope to keep things that way. My purpose is to warn you away from such foolishness. Even the deadly “should of” (it’s “should’ve”, a contraction of “should have”) is quaintly excusable as emergent new English, in my horribly radical linguistic opinion.
But the element LEAD as a past tense? HORRIFYING.
Please don’t equate the mere historical mass murderer LEAD with genocidal maniacs like FAUCI, TEDROS, and WALENSKY, who surely misconjugate the verb “to lead”, among their various other crimes.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Your efforts to avoid Fauci-level linguistic crimes will be rewarded by not seeing the above picture, which I intend to post whenever I see “lead” used in a past tense where “led” is appropriate. Even if merely being quoted from the internet.
Your humble grammar Nazi defender of a fellow heavy metal,
The amount of campaign spending that will take place over the next eight months will be staggering, and thanks to the duplicitous machinations and malevolent lawfare directed at Donald Trump by the Democrat establishment, the Republican Party and the Trump campaign are looking at a potentially overwhelming financial disadvantage.
What this author fails to realize is that anything President Trump tweets, says, or does gets automatic national coverage. There is no need for ads. It’s called free publicity. The man is living rent free in the heads of journalists.
"You Can't Hide the Dead Bodies" – Edward Dowd Testifies on Excess Deaths
"One America CEO Scott Davison, in a chamber of commerce meeting, revealed that he had seen 40% excess mortality … for 25 through 64. He said that a 10% increase would be once in a 200-year-flood or… pic.twitter.com/lA3NpFQttd
What story did they want to keep her from reporting on?
So badly they fired 800 other employees as a cover for grabbing her notes and sources?
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) February 27, 2024
Catherine Herridge. When the ax comes down on the “news” industry, she should be spared along with other reporters who were stymied by editors and other executives.
One day the full story will be told.
Why they let him into the Forbidden City.
Why he got the Sword Dance celebration.
The real deal he and Putin struck.
Why Kim honored him by letting him be the first US official to publicly enter North Korea.
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) February 27, 2024
Eithan Haim is one of the rare American physicians who's refused to accept the sexual mutilation of children in his hospital. Doctors, he says, believe “they can create a new type of human.” pic.twitter.com/964cxIOLBG
Hearty soups and stews and canned meat and fish in packaging that does not require a can opener are the best things to donate. Those are the most densely nutritious foods. https://t.co/doQadnWYIa
— LaughLoveLive, identifies as Deplorable Patriot (@LaughLoveLive1) February 28, 2024
I used to buy tuna in pouches for the food pantries. Packed with nutrients and easy to open.
(I don’t remember who brought this to a daily in the comments, but thanks.)
And, of course, the obligatory George Carlin:
Per the Boss:
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17And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, 18“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, 19and deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.” 20Then the mother of the sons of Zeb’edee came up to him, with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. 21And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.” 22But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” 23He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.” 24And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers. 25But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. 26It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 27and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; 28even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Please include: President Donald Trump, the Q team, our soldiers in the field, special forces, tactical units, first responders and those working behind the scenes…and any and all people with family members in the hospital, COVID or not.
And…members of the QTree who no longer participate for one reason or another.
We are getting ready to experience a level of evil that will be hard to comprehend. Stay strong. Be prepared.
It is quite clear, as per Wolf’s message from July, that we are under spiritual attack. Building up a robust arsenal of prayer and discipline is a must in fighting the enemy and his minions.
In that spirit, the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from Tuesday’s threads, and the Breastplate of St. Patrick, not to mention the Litany of Humility are favorites recommended by exorcists in spiritual warfare.
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