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IT IS BIBLICAL JUNE 16, 2020

TEXAS LADY JUANITA
It is my late husband’s birthday today. In his honor, I will be a smart-ass, since he was not only a Marine, but was King OF the Smart-asses!! Today, however, know that this is also 100% truthful.

I want to defund all College Professors, and disband them immediately. MY CASE:I had the only World History professor that was teaching this class. It was a 3-hour class, 3 nights a week.She gave a lengthy list of books to read. She lectured the entire 3 hours of each class. Our grade would be one examination based on the books we were to read, and all the information she lectured on. This would be cruel and horrific enough, but her lecture voice was all one monotonous tone, and not loud enough for the entire class to hear it. Lucky people who did not have to feed children before class got a prized seat in the back. SO, I HEREBY DECREE WE WILL PAINT ALL PROFESSORS WITH THIS ONE BRUSH AND DEFUND EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!

I want to defund all waiters, waitresses, and store cashiers. On average, over my 50+ years’ experience eating out and shopping, I have had too many who were rude, and behaved like they were doing me some huge favor. I will admit that John and I wearing official ‘Border Control’ hats to brunch one Saturday morning to an out of the way branch of one of our favorite Mexican Restaurants was not a nice thing to do. Snicker, Snicker, but it was so funny. We sat there for a good 15 minutes while they found someone who spoke English to wait on us, and to bus our table. For the 2 hours we were there those two people waited on and bussed all tables. One more Snicker should do it here. BUAHAHAHAHAHA But, I digress. SO, I HEREBY DECREE THAT ALL WAITERS, WAITRESSES, AND STORE CASHIERS ARE DEFUNDED!

There was that hairdresser that cut a foot off my hair with her first snip. What part of, ‘I only want the ends trimmed,’ did she not understand? Her crying wasn’t enough – it DID NOT PUT MY HAIR BACK!!!!!SO, I HEREBY DERCREE THAT ALL HAIR DRESSERS ARE DEFUNDED!

There was the new U S Home I purchased, where my children and I like to have froze to death a few nights because they, “forgot to install the heater in the attic” when the duct-work and A/C was installed . . . DEFUND ALL HOME BUILDERS!There were the bones in my McDonalds Fish Sandwich . . . DEFUND ALL FAST FOOD JOINTS!

1919 White Sox – Because they rigged the biggest game of any season – DEFUND ALL BALL PLAYERS!

Charles Ponzi who invented the cheating Pyramid Scheme. . . DEFUND ALL SALES PEOPLE!

Bill Clinton lied under oath . . . DEFUND ALL CAREER POLITICIANS!

Richard Nixon spied on his opponents . . . DEFUND ALL PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS!

Kenneth Lay ENRON Founder, CEO, and Chairman – AND Fraud Meister . . . DEFUND ALL CEO’s / CHAIRMEN OF CORPORATIONS!

Lance Armstrong cheating cyclist – DEFUND ALL BICYCLE MAKERS & RIDERS!

Benedict Arnold spy – DEFUND THE MILITARY!

Next I thought of murdering dictators, and the list is too long of those they murdered to list here – DEFUND ALL DICTATORS!

If you do not get my sarcastic point, then you might want to have your brain included in your next annual health screening. If we, as a Republic, go down this slippery slope, will your profession be next? Even though you are an excellent person who does your job with integrity, could you be lumped in with the few who do not care about the integrity of your profession?

It would not serve the public well to get rid of 95% great and needed policemen and policewomen. Please do not get sucked into the group thinking of the far left who would disband thousands upon thousands of great men and women who make up the police departments in every city across our great nation.

“Romans 14:11-13
For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.”

“2 Corinthians 5:10-11
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.”

“2 Corinthians 8:21
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.”

“Ezekiel 33:8-9
When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.”

I am hereby endeavoring to warn the wicked to turn from this horrific endeavor to persecute innocent men and women who are good police officers. Do not defund them and disband them. Our nation needs them to help us in all natures of safety endeavors on our behalf as citizens.

Copyright © 2020 by Juanita Holloway-Walters

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 MY CRITICAL THINKING CLASS NOTES / RHETORICAL DEVICES

These are meant to be used when reading articles and commentary. Enjoy a deeper understanding . . .

MY CRITICAL THINKING CLASS NOTES / RHETORICAL DEVICES
I reduced the class down to less than three pages!
Juanita Holloway-Walters aka Texas Lady Juanita

PERSUASIVE:

EUPHEMISM – Good expression replacing bad one that may offend

INUENDO – Insinuation of something deprecatory

RHETORICAL DEFINITION – To influence attitude or affect behavior, use images w/ positive or negative emotions (also known as Rhetorical Explanation and Rhetorical Comparison)

DYSPEMISM – Bad expression used to tone down the good

LOADED QUESTION – Question that rests on one or more unwarranted or unjustified assumptions

RHETORICAL DEVICE – Influence attitudes or beliefs through association – adds to persuasive but not logical

DOWNPLAYER – Diminish importance of claim

PROOF SURROGATE – Expression in place of actual evidence or authority

HORSE LAUGH – Ridicule disguised as reasoning to reject claim

RHETORIC – Persuade rather than prove logically

STEREOTYPE – Oversimplified generalization about a person of a certain class

HYPERBOLE – Extravagant Overstatement

WEASELER – Expression used to protect claim from criticism by weakening it

COMMON FALLACIES:

AD HOMINEM – Argument against claim based on who made the claim instead of against the actual claim (cannot resist pointing out that The Tea Party people are attacked this way, with Ad Hominem arguments on the six o’clock news – by other political parties calling us names we would normally attribute to far left, and not debating the issues)

FALSE DILEMMA – Fallacious reasoning – x and y can both be false — false reasoning says x is true because y is false

PERSONAL ATTACK AD HOMINEM – Refusing claim because person making it we do not like, or we disapprove of them

APPEAL TO IGNORANCE – Lack of evidence against a claim doesn’t mean the claim gets any positive points

GENETIC FALLACY – YO Mama! Not really ha ha – Rejecting a claim on the basis of its origin or history

POISIONING THE WELL – Discrediting the claim in advance because we don’t like the person

BEGGING THE QUESTION – Argument in which conclusion is identical to the argument (restates argument)

INCONSISTENCEY AD HOMINEM – You can’t make that claim due to prior opposing stance (or your actions are opposite)

MISPLACED BURDEN OF PROOF – Case where burden of proof is on the wrong side

LINE-DRAWING FALLACY – Insisting that a line be drawn at x, when it could also be drawn at y or z

SLIPPERY SLOPE – Arguing that because x happens, then y and or z will also happen

CIRCUMSTANTIAL AD HOMINEM – Attempting to discredit claim by discrediting the person making the claim

PERFECTIONIST FALLACY – Concluding claim is false because its conclusion is not perfect

STRAW MAN – Ignores actual position and argues a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented position

PSYCHOLOGICAL & RELATED FALLACIES

WISHFUL THINKING – Accepting it because you want it to be true and vice versa

GUILT TRIP – Making someone feel guilty for not accepting claim

ARGUEMENT COMMON PRACTICE – Justify or defend on grounds that everyone knows it or does it

NATIONALISM – Because of nationalism one may be led to blind endorsement of policy or claim

ARGUMENT FROM ENVY – Induce acceptance by arousing feelings of envy

ARGUMENT FROM OUTRAGE – Invoking anger with inflammatory words followed by conclusion

ARGUMENT BY FORCE – Using threat to support some conclusion

ARGUMENT BY PEER PRESSURE – Threatened by rejection if you don’t accept a claim

GROUP THINK FALLACY – Identifying with a group takes the place of reason and deliberation on an issue

ARGUMENT FROM PITY – Supporting claim by invoking pity rather than legitimate argument

SCARE TACTICS – Frightening scenario instead of facts to get someone to see it your way

ARGUMENT FROM POPULARITY – Convince of argument just because all or most believe it

SMOKE SCREEN – Irrelevant topic introduced to lead you away from original issue (Politicians in Washington like this one)

RATIONALIZING – False pretext to satisfy our desires or interests (teens love this one)

SUBJECTIVISM – An assumption that is true for one person, yet not for another

RED HERRING – Same as SMOKESCREEN

ARGUMENT FROM TRADITION – Using tradition as the basis of a claim

RELATIVISM – Error that two different cultures can believe different on a fact (oh, I could write a book on this one)

TWO WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT – Saying I can hit you because you would hit me

SCAPEGOATING – Placing the blame on a person or a group in error because they are an easy target

Texas Lady Juanita

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