Sexual Harassment Suit Joins Several Against City

[The Troll]

Since they are both used in a demeaning way, one is just more vulgar and less socially acceptable, it technically makes no difference and why would you care?

  I can't see in any way that Darlin is socially unacceptable.  I know you might be queen in your household.  You are not here.

  I bet you really throw a fit if a waitress says, "I'll be there in a minute Hon, or Honey"  Give me a break.

[Anne]

Try rereading it, I did not say Darlin' was socially unacceptable, that it was not in this instance used a a term of endearment but as a substitute for the other word. No, I do not take offense if someone calls me hon or darlin' in the right context, any more than you would if someone called you a sob in a joking or friendly conversation, but you might if it was during a disagreement.

[The Troll]

Try rereading it, I did not say Darlin' was socially unacceptable, that it was not in this instance used a a term of endearment but as a substitute for the other word. No, I do not take offense if someone calls me hon or darlin' in the right context, any more than you would if someone called you a sob in a joking or friendly conversation, but you might if it was during a disagreement.

  If you don't know it and it was joking in a friendly way.  My mother was not a bitch.  She was a good church lady and she worked had for her church.  But if someone said of you that you were a queenly bitch, joking and friendly I'd probably agree. 

[Y]

Nope, speaking isn't thinking and harassment is harassment sexual or otherwise, and I'm not your Darlin'.

The 'Thought Police' is a generic term referring to 'crimes' without prerequisite harm be they thinking, speaking, or otherwise.

Not my 'darlin' huh?  I should have figure you for one of 'those' who make things out of innocent idiomatic figures of speech.   

It's an idiom I picked up during my years in the South - just like y'all - that I've never seemed, or really tried very hard, to shake.  I've run across prigs like you who want to make something out of it.  I get a good laugh out of 'em...darlin'.   

[The Troll]

The 'Thought Police' is a generic term referring to 'crimes' without prerequisite harm be they thinking, speaking, or otherwise.

Not my 'darlin' huh?  I should have figure you for one of 'those' who make things out of innocent idiomatic figures of speech.   

It's an idiom I picked up during my years in the South - just like y'all - that I've never seemed, or really tried very hard, to shake.  I've run across prigs like you who want to make something out of it.  I get a good laugh out of 'em...darlin'.   

  What has happened to all of those sexual harassment charges against the Anderson Mayor.  Did she just slink off like a snake. 

[Anne]

Don;t know, maybe our democratic leaning paper down't have time to investigate it.

[The Troll]

Don;t know, maybe our democratic leaning paper down't have time to investigate it.

   What paper are  you talking about.  I have been looking for a Democrat newspaper from Anderson, it seem like my whole life.

  You surly jest if you are talking about that Republican rag the Herald-Bulletin.  C'mon Anne,  don't play stupid. 

[Anne]

Not playing stupid, I have been reading the Anderson only newspaper and keeping an unofficial record, they endorse more democrats than republicans and publish more opinion pieces against republicans than democrats.

As far as the allegations against Mayor Ockomon, I don't know where they stand. The wheels of justice work slowly, as you would know if you have delt with it. I have a couple friends who used to work for the city, they are retired now. They told me the policy concerning sexual harassment is that it has to be witnessed three separate times to be acted on. That is a very high standard.

[The Troll]

Not playing stupid, I have been reading the Anderson only newspaper and keeping an unofficial record, they endorse more democrats than republicans and publish more opinion pieces against republicans than democrats.

As far as the allegations against Mayor Ockomon, I don't know where they stand. The wheels of justice work slowly, as you would know if you have delt with it. I have a couple friends who used to work for the city, they are retired now. They told me the policy concerning sexual harassment is that it has to be witnessed three separate times to be acted on. That is a very high standard.

  Read the Editorial page everyday like I do and the Anderson Herald is Republican to the core.  Antilabor, antiminimum wage and pro Republican.  If they endorsed a Democrat, the Republican candidate was terrible.   

[Anne]

I always thought it was more democrat leaning but most people on here said different so last fall before the elction I started keeping track to see. I counted more democratic endorsements than republicans and more pro democratic editorials by a slight margin. I think we tend to see and remember only the things we disagree with.

[The Troll]

I always thought it was more democrat leaning but most people on here said different so last fall before the elction I started keeping track to see. I counted more democratic endorsements than republicans and more pro democratic editorials by a slight margin. I think we tend to see and remember only the things we disagree with.

  Anne, I can remember when we first move here, my dad would read the cartoons out of the Herald and the Bulletin, that was when I was three and that was 70 years ago.  My dad bitched about the Herald being Republican clear back then.  The Bulletin was more independent and Democrat.

  The Anderson businesses started not advertising in the bulletin and it was discontinued.  Now we have the Republican Rag, the Anderson Herald/Bulletin.  You can count on only half of what you read in it. 

  For years and years I have wanted some foreign newspaper to come to Anderson so I could cancel my Herald.  I read the front page, the editorial page, the cartoons with Sandy Eggo as Danae in Non Sequitur and the obituaries.  The obituary is only to see if I am in it.   

[Henry Hawk]

Outside of occassionaly reading the obituraries, I never read it.  It IS pretty much useless.

Troll, I remember the Hearld was a morning paper and the bulletin was an evening paper or vis a versa...am I right?

[The Troll]

Outside of occassionaly reading the obituraries, I never read it.  It IS pretty much useless.

Troll, I remember the Hearld was a morning paper and the bulletin was an evening paper or vis a versa...am I right?

  You are right.  The Bulletin was an evening paper.  I don't know if you call it a Democrat newspaper, but it had a liberal slant.  It had one cartoon page.

  The Herald was the Republican newspaper.  It had two cartoon pages, two pages of the New York stock market prices and lots and lots of advertising.  Just look what the Herald/Bulletin has became since GM left Anderson and a lot of people making minimum wage can't afford to buy a newspaper.  So much for free trade. 

[Palehorse]

Outside of occassionaly reading the obituraries, I never read it.  It IS pretty much useless.

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I only read the obits (on line only) when someone I know has crossed over.

I only read the paper itself (in print form) when they schlep a free copy onto my driveway on Sundays. . . And then, it's only a cursory review consisting mostly of the sale papers for Lowes or Menards when they are included.

The paper in general, I would say, slants to whichever political side holds the reins of power during a given time period. When the republicans held the office of Mayor, it leaned republican. Since the dems have been sitting in the office it has leaned democratic. However, my personal opinion of the paper is it is nothing but dog training material: potty and punish. Once in awhile it makes a good kindling for campfires if you happen to have it laying around somewhere.

It's opinions and editorials are useless propaganda, ( plagiarized for the most part at that), constructed to support its meager revenue stream and nothing more.  They ought to rename it the Herald Parrot.

[Henry Hawk]

I only read the obits (on line only) when someone I know has crossed over.

I only read the paper itself (in print form) when they schlep a free copy onto my driveway on Sundays. . . And then, it's only a cursory review consisting mostly of the sale papers for Lowes or Menards when they are included.

The paper in general, I would say, slants to whichever political side holds the reins of power during a given time period. When the republicans held the office of Mayor, it leaned republican. Since the dems have been sitting in the office it has leaned democratic. However, my personal opinion of the paper is it is nothing but dog training material: potty and punish. Once in awhile it makes a good kindling for campfires if you happen to have it laying around somewhere.

It's opinions and editorials are useless propaganda, ( plagiarized for the most part at that), constructed to support its meager revenue stream and nothing more.  They ought to rename it the Herald Parrot.

well said....