Comments on: It Pays To Improve Your Word Power http://www.popehat.com/2009/02/19/it-pays-to-improve-your-word-power/ A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:47:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Scott Jacobs http://www.popehat.com/2009/02/19/it-pays-to-improve-your-word-power/comment-page-1/#comment-23990 Scott Jacobs Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:09:06 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=3173#comment-23990 If, not is... *sigh* Will this day never end? If, not is…

*sigh*

Will this day never end?

]]> By: Scott Jacobs http://www.popehat.com/2009/02/19/it-pays-to-improve-your-word-power/comment-page-1/#comment-23989 Scott Jacobs Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:57:52 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=3173#comment-23989 Is "abort" means "assassinate", does the left now admit that they are assassinating the unborn? Is “abort” means “assassinate”, does the left now admit that they are assassinating the unborn?

]]> By: Patrick http://www.popehat.com/2009/02/19/it-pays-to-improve-your-word-power/comment-page-1/#comment-23987 Patrick Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:15:43 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=3173#comment-23987 Thank you for the detective work Nate. Duly noted. Thank you for the detective work Nate. Duly noted.

]]> By: Nate http://www.popehat.com/2009/02/19/it-pays-to-improve-your-word-power/comment-page-1/#comment-23984 Nate Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:16:00 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=3173#comment-23984 According to the article, he got his sign back. In fact, according the second paragraph, he got his sign back. According to the article, he got his sign back. In fact, according the second paragraph, he got his sign back.

]]> By: KipEsquire http://www.popehat.com/2009/02/19/it-pays-to-improve-your-word-power/comment-page-1/#comment-23976 KipEsquire Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:41:23 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=3173#comment-23976 I of course meant from the officer's perspective, not yours. :-) I of course meant from the officer’s perspective, not yours. :-)

]]> By: Patrick http://www.popehat.com/2009/02/19/it-pays-to-improve-your-word-power/comment-page-1/#comment-23975 Patrick Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:24:58 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=3173#comment-23975 That isn't the suggestion, but it would be a closer call, as the word has a specific meaning, leaving aside questions of imminence. Perhaps, "Join my caravan to DC to assassinate President Obama" would a proper pullover. But the suggestion here is simply that it's ridiculous to pull a man over for having a sign, and sad that the police have such limited vocabularies. That isn’t the suggestion, but it would be a closer call, as the word has a specific meaning, leaving aside questions of imminence. Perhaps, “Join my caravan to DC to assassinate President Obama” would a proper pullover.

But the suggestion here is simply that it’s ridiculous to pull a man over for having a sign, and sad that the police have such limited vocabularies.

]]> By: KipEsquire http://www.popehat.com/2009/02/19/it-pays-to-improve-your-word-power/comment-page-1/#comment-23974 KipEsquire Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:19:14 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=3173#comment-23974 Is the suggestion that pulling over someone with a sign reading "Assassinate Obama" would not also be a First Amendment violation? On what basis -- Brandenburg? Is the suggestion that pulling over someone with a sign reading “Assassinate Obama” would not also be a First Amendment violation? On what basis — Brandenburg?

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