Blogcritics Comments on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Comment by joel savage on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:36:34 EDT

Dear Writer, SFC SKI, thank you very much for your nice letter, to Madam Mac Diva. I have already said she is "an empty barrel, making a loud noise". Now she already confirmed it herself. Do I need to say more...??? This is a woman who wants to show off to the WORLD that she writes in French and Spanish. But the HUMBLE AFRICAN Joel, speaks FRENCH, NETHERLANDS AND ITALIAN and doesn't even care if the world knows or not. ]]>

Comment by SFC SKI on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Sat, 11 Sep 2004 05:01:35 EDT

Mr. Savage, thanks for an interesting post. Ignore what follows. MD, your insufferable pomposity is overshadowed only by your inability to parse a sentence for meaning and context. Joel Savage wrote: "Those who obey the law, are law abiding people and those who break them, find themselves at the law court, infront of the magistrate, defended by lawyers, since they are trained and qualified for legal matters. You snarkily responded with:"Really? I don't quite follow how breaking the law qualifies people in legal matters. If that is what is being said. Who knows?" In writing this, you illustrate that you are either not able to understand what is written, or you just want to get in a cheap shot at some other author. Belittling someone to make yourself feel better about yourself is a very petty character trait. You write, "It is unfair to readers to come to a place promoting itself as having competent writers to find entries that are this embarrassingly bad. Nor is this an ESL class." Thanks for standing in the breach against authors with less than perfect language skills. Fluent and flawless in English, and you are surely never corrected when posting to Spanish or French sites, I thank you for protecting me and my totally inferior grasp of the English language, public school you know, from a good message delivered by a less than perfect messenger. Again, "If I ran a group site, I would read samples of people's writing for basic competence before accepting them as members". But you don't, so either step up and start your own, or accept what the proprietors of this fine site allow to be published. You MD, are intolerant of others, but you don't have to be called on it because of 400 years of history and oppression, which you hint at again , as you do in almost every one of your posts as you do here, "Eric, surely you do not mean to imply that one should expect an African to be incompetent. Right?" Where Eric was trying to clarify why Mr. Savage's diction and syntax were less than perfect as he is not a native speaker of English and does not have your facility in languages not his mother tongue in the capacity that you claim to have; you tak it as some racial comment, and are willing to throw that card in an effort to deflect criticism from your overbearing and sneering attack on Mr Savage's ability. You may be as great and talented as you claim to be MD, but you come across here as snide and small. ]]>

Comment by Mac Diva on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:11:58 EDT

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Comment by Mac Diva on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:10:37 EDT

[edited] I sometimes translate things I write into Spanish and/or French. The translation does not change the sense of the material. [edited] ]]>

Comment by Eric Olsen on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:33:53 EDT

Linda, thanks for being a regular reader, and I agree that emotional intelligence is very important and often in short supply on the Internet ]]>

Comment by linda torfs on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:59:36 EDT

Mac Diva, as a regular reader of blogcritics, I would like to give my comment too about the article above written by one Joel Savage. You seemed too harsh about your criticism... what is really bothering you? Is it the way he writes or the content of the article? I was a bit alarmed over the way you said kids at elementary school....I believe that when you comment on someone's way of writing, you should put this in a respectful way! I would have expected you to react in a different way.. you can certainly comment on an article but please don't try to make yourself more intelligent.. have you ever heard of emotional intelligence???? Wish you all the best and.. no hard feelings! ]]>

Comment by Eric Olsen on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:21:44 EDT

Joel is a journalist of African origin living in Belgium - English is not his first language. I think his perspective and substance is interesting and broadening. We are working on style and I find his efforts quite admirable. I could not begin to write conversantly in another language. ]]>

Comment by joel savage on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:20:11 EDT

Mr Mac Diva, to be frank, I have really enjoyed blogcritics, ever since the great editor, Mr Eric Olsen, thought me how to send articles through. I have read interesting articles of many writers on blogcritics but never ever read any article by Mr Mac Diva. Why? The reason is simple and logical. Because Mr Mac Diva's articles haven't any interest to Mr Joel Savage. Yet Mr Mac Diva, is always reading Mr Joel Savage's articles and criticizing them and making him famous every second, minute, and hour. Why? Because Mr Savage's articles are subjects of interest to Mr Mac Diva. The blogcritics site is an interesting site, but some people, if with reason or without reason wants to turn the site "A verbal War Zone" and this is not a good thing. Because we are adults not children. Criticism can come in various ways. There is nothing bad about that. But criticizers must be very careful when choosing their words to criticize some one article. "United we stand, Divided we fall" From the writer. ]]>

Comment by Mac Diva on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:00:09 EDT

Jealousy? ROTFL! Undoubtedly. ]]>

Comment by joel savage on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:51:07 EDT

Mr professor Mac Diva, thank you for your comments. I'm very happy that at least I have only one person who sees my articles and critisise them. Your problem is Jealousy but you can't break me down, because too strong to stand people like you. By the way let me remind you. I live in a police state. Thank and God bless you ]]>

Comment by Mac Diva on THE POLICE, THE LAW AND THE LAWYER

Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:39:44 EDT

The police are law enforcement officials, responsible for keeping public order. You don't say. They supervise and control citizens and foreigners activities against crime and other social vices. So, we live in a police state? In regard to their job, there are rules and this is the law. Hmmm. I could swear most laws are civil. The rules or the law, were established by the authorities to be executed. When will they be killed? Those who obey the law, are law abiding people and those who break them, find themselves at the law court, infront of the magistrate, defended by lawyers, since they are trained and qualified for legal matters. Really? I don't quite follow how breaking the law qualifies people in legal matters. If that is what is being said. Who knows? And this is just the first paragraph. Lord! Eric will say it does not matter, but there are kids in elementary school who both grasp issues and write better than this. Any standards Blogcritics had are really scraping the bottom of the barrel now. ]]>