* this post has been cross posted at A la Gauche
Ever wonder the origin of the phrase “nitty gritty”?
How ’bout “flippin’ a bird”?
Or “ok”?
And who hasn’t wondered about “balls to the wall”?
I don’t know how, but I somehow came across a page explaining all these phrases and more. If you have nothing better to do, check it out: www.yaelf.com/questions.shtml. I didn’t watch the debate tonight, but I have been reading about it here and there. One interesting little tidbit I came across concerned the inequity in time given to the eight candidates.
Look who the top three are: Clinton, Edwards, and Obama. This can serve as evidence piece # 353,298,424 that the MSM is as corrupt as can be. This is, for a great number of Americans, one of their only chances to see the eight candidates and form an opinion as to how to vote. It’s almost become impossible for me to even remember being shocked at occurences like this one. From an AP story on the debate:
Clinton declined to say whether she would use military force in Darfur, saying she didn’t want to “talk about these hypotheticals.”
That just about makes me sick. She will vote to send American teenagers to Iraq to die, but she can’t say what, if anything, she would do to end the genocide in Darfur. Our inaction in regards to the slaughter going on in Darfur, is enough on its own to declare our nation morally bankrupt, without mentioning the U.S. governments inaction here at home. I think this might be the first election in which I don’t vote.
