Larry, can you or LizdaGnome post the comments she put on Slager's blog so we can see whether there's any way he can back up her not being civil and/or truthful, and her not defaming anybody?

sorry not a parrot just didnt see the refund comments on the other thread

BOBO CLAIMS HE IS ALWAYS FOR FREE SPEECH BUT NOT WHEN YOU SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT OBSERVERMEDIA. HOPE YOU GET YOUR 5 BUCKS BACK.

SPECIAL HOMEWORK LESSON FOR BOBO:

SIMILIS AND METAPHORS

Similis and metaphors are used to compare a thing to something else. 

When a person uses a simile, they preface the comparison with "like" or "as."

If Larry had said, "Bobo's paper is like a kitty liner" then he would have been using a simile.

When a person uses a metaphor, they say the thing IS the thing they are comparing it to.

Larry used a metaphor when he said Bobo's paper "is a kitty liner."

Saturday's Homework:  Work with your Simile and Metaphor tutors, Bobo:

Slager has a history of comprehension problems . Two that come to mind are, 1. 501(C)3 foundations, and,2. metaphors.

With respect to 501(C) 3 foundations, I urged him, 'way back when I was dealing with him as if he was normal, that if he and the BOS would just read and internalize the substance of that statute,very same one that protects, for example, the endowments at MIT and Harvard from  The City of Cambridge, the whole library mess would go away. I repeated that plea  three more times before  I got it through my head that this guy is not pulling a full train.   Even as recently as this week he is still ranting  about the WFL Foundation as if it is composed of taxpayer funds. Even when he "knows" he pretends not to know.

Now switch to my metaphor history with Slager.

I've always subscribed to Robert Frost's definition: "A metaphor is meaning one thing and saying something else."

I've also always been generous with them as a teaching device, and three years ago  I sent him the timeless Greek  myth about the tragic story of Icarus  flying too close to the sun , which melted  the wax that held feathers to his homemade wings , causing him to fall to the ground .

My naive aim was to try to make Slager understand that as he was getting bolder and bolder with  his words he was getting closer and closer to  the collapse of his   journalistic enterprise.


How did he react?   He tried to build a case that I was threatening his life...that I was going to come in a black helicopter in the middle of the night, take him up to 500 feet and push him out.I'm not kidding you!

Now, I don't want to discount his  paranoid reaction as  a scenario without considerable merit, but it wasn't even faintly what I had in mind as someone  trying to get him to see himself as others were seeing him.

Silly me. He took the letter to the police station and showed to a cop who  loved the Greek myths when he was in school and waved him off. So then he took it to The 4th District Court and... lo and behold...  apparently found  a political appointee who gave the matter legs, and the next thing I know, there's a sheriff in my kitchen  handing me a document that said that I had to appear in court to defend myself  against his charge of a death threat . As I was reading it, jaw agape, the sheriff was  pointing a twirling finger toward  his temple: "He's a nutcase"

I've always supported the axiom,"He who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client", so I  found myself a lawyer....Not just any old lawyer , but a lawyer proud of her Greek heritage ,a lover of the Greek myths, and who was well aquainted with the 4th District Court.

When the day of the magistate's hearing came, we went into the small hearing room ,and just to show that I bore no ill will against against him I snuggled into a seat right beside Slager, who of course was defending himself, at which point  both Slagers leaped to their feet feet and yelled something like, "He's invading my space!"

That cooked his goose (omygawd ..another metaphor), but it got better.  Slager, the fool who was representing Slager, tried to point out how my relating this story was a threat to his client's life. He was in his Raymond Burr role, although there's no evidence that Burr drooled  as "Ironsides" or as Perry Mason. At one point the magistrate had to hold the file folder in front of his face, so pathetically humorous was Slager's  over the top  raving.

After deliberating for maybe 4 or 5 seconds the magistrate slam dunked  Slager. The ball never touched the rim. Swish.

The look on Slager's face and the way he spluttered about The Supreme Court as his next stop,  and the way he waddled out of the court like a fat goose ahead of a farmer with an ax,  almost made the $1,500  bucks it had cost me worthwhile.

The bottom line is that dealing with Slager with any hope of converting him has as much promise as trying to convince a "birther" that Obama is a "real American", or  trying to persuade the South Dartmouth woman who verbally  accosted Barney Frank that the president isn't a Nazi. He's hopeless. Mock him, but  don't let him "get under your skin .

Bobo, give it a rest.  If it's against the law to tell Greek myths, then lock up every teacher on the planet.  I can't remember how many times I sat in a class listening to a teacher go on and on about Zeus, Hercules, Pegasus, the Minotaur, etc. etc.  They're not real, Bobo.  Greek Myths can't hurt you.

PShooter

I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THE CHICKEN FEATHERS. ALTHOUGH SLAGER CLAIMED THAT HE NEVER TOOK ACTION AGAINST WHEELER IN COURT UNTIL I REMINDED HIM HE WROTE ABOUT IT IN HIS PAPER LOL. THEN HE BEGAN TALKING ABOUT IT. OH YEAH SLAGER WE BELIEVE YOUR VERSION OF THE INCIDENT BECAUSE YOU ARE SO TRUTHFUL HA  HA HA HA HA

Great story Mr. Wheeler! I wanted to say Mr. Slager was embarrassed because he didn't catch my metaphor and we did laugh a great deal at him. That may have been behind the ban, but I think her telling him she wasn his secretary (or mine) may also have played a part.

I could sit here and recap all the ways he "supports" free speech (that is sarcasm, just in case he is reading this), but it would just fall on deaf ears.

It has been wonderful to not read his site or see the lamebrain comments made in his daily chat, so I should be thanking him. Liz seems calmer, so that is a big plus!

Now, the recap of last night and the festivities for today! We had a wonderful lobster/crab boil with family and friends. It also included bacon wrapped scallops and marinated steak tips on the grill, boiled shrimp and crawfish! I wonderful time was had by all!

The hickory smoked pork has been pulled (for today) and bbq sauce is made. Soon we will fire up the grills and then it's hamburgers, hotdogs, garlic cheese sausage, linguica, bratwurst (boiled in beer, garlic, and onion), chinese sausage, 'tater salad, pasta salad, seafood salad(home made), jag, slaw, and who knows what else! 

I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Damn, Larry..wish I was there...

Classic Slager:  Although  I seem to have been the inspiration for the  alleged-suspect chicken feathers, I wasn't the perp. I didn't know what he was sputtering about for over a year , when a person sidled up to me  on the way out of a TM and told me that he got a big kick out of the Icarus myth flap  and that he had added to it   by scattering the feathers and wings of a sea gull he found on the beach around  what we will soon be calling The Slobsever Memorial Building...complete with a  brass  plaque saying: "Robert Slager slept here in 2009"

The "classic Slager" part of this is that he went from the fact that I raise chickens to the "fact" that the feathers  strewn around his office were from chickens and the "fact" that I was the one who had put them there.

Wrong on both counts. I didn't know what he was talking about for over a year, when a person came up to me as I was leaving a TM and told me that he got a kick out of the Icarus episode and  that he had followed it up by spreading the feathers and wings of a  dead seagull  around the building  we'll be calling The Observer Memorial Building with a little brass plaque with words:"Robert Slager slept here."
The Icarus myth is an apt metaphor for the rise and fall of a Robert Slager enterprise ; the way he has responded to it is a metaphor for Robert Slager the man.