Pathetic rant by PNJ repoter Shannon Nickinson. She obviously slept through civics class

http://www.pnj.com/article/20120722/COLUMNISTS01/307220026/Shannon-Nickinson-Guns-loss-innocence

This clearly uneducated buy typical reporter for the PNJ thinks the second amendment was written to insure our right to hunt deer.

Well, it wasn't written to allow homicidal maniacs access to automatic weapons to shoot up innocent people in a theater.

Floridatexan wrote:
Well, it wasn't written to allow homicidal maniacs access to automatic weapons to shoot up innocent people in a theater.

Yes, thats true FT. Do you have anything else to add or is that it?

I just don't care for Shannon Nickinson's writings. They are all opinion pieces, but several have been heralded on the PNJ website as though they were news articles.

From the tone of her writing, she doesn't have much respect for Pensacola or Pensacolians. Also, it sounds as if she writes her pieces via cell phone while she's sitting somewhere in a waiting room. Or something like that. I just don't think she deserves all the hoo-haa she received when she first came to the PNJ. I'm glad to know I'm apparently not alone in that assessment.

Earle Bowden she isn't. Speaking of opinion writers and reporters, does anyone know what happened to Katie McFarland?

[quote="PBulldog2"]I just don't care for Shannon Nickinson's writings. They are all opinion pieces, but several have been heralded on the PNJ website as though they were news articles.

From the tone of her writing, she doesn't have much respect for Pensacola or Pensacolians. Also, it sounds as if she writes her pieces via cell phone while she's sitting somewhere in a waiting room. Or something like that. I just don't think she deserves all the hoo-haa she received when she first came to the PNJ. I'm glad to know I'm apparently not alone in that assessment.

Earle Bowden she isn't. Speaking of opinion writers and reporters, does anyone know what happened to Katie McFarland?[/quote]

I think Katie got smart fast and left the PNJ after a short stay. Notice how they did not announce her departure? I heard somewhere she went back down to south Florida.

Face it, the PNJ is on its last-legs. I liked Mark O'Brien pretty much, but they fired him. I bet the PNJ is one of Gannett's worst-performing newspapers. It would be very easy for the PNJ to fold. The gap could be easily filled by the Mobile Press Register if that paper simply published a Northwest Florida Edition. It would not be a Gannett offering, either. I bet local advertisers would jump on that ship quickly were this to happen.

PBulldog2 wrote:I just don't care for Shannon Nickinson's writings. They are all opinion pieces, but several have been heralded on the PNJ website as though they were news articles.

From the tone of her writing, she doesn't have much respect for Pensacola or Pensacolians. Also, it sounds as if she writes her pieces via cell phone while she's sitting somewhere in a waiting room. Or something like that. I just don't think she deserves all the hoo-haa she received when she first came to the PNJ. I'm glad to know I'm apparently not alone in that assessment.

Earle Bowden she isn't. Speaking of opinion writers and reporters, does anyone know what happened to Katie McFarland?

Hoo-Ha. A not uncommon word in the pages of Mad Magazine. Following is a st of various meanings of Hoo-ha


There were many different types of HOO-HAs each associated with a different nuance of body language, intonation, facial expression, and situation. When I looked this one up in Rosten’s Joy of Yiddish (2001), I was pleased to find that he had captured many of the subtly different ways in which this exclamation can be used, which I would have had trouble recalling:

HOO-HA!

Pronounced WHO HAH! to rhyme with ‘poo bah.’

An immensely impressive Yiddishism for the expression of

1) admiration. “His new house? Hoo-ha!”

2) astonishment. “She ran away? Hoo-ha!”

3) envy. “Did he marry a pretty girl? Hoo-ha!”

4) skepticism. “I can’t lose? Hoo-ha!”

5) deflation. “He calls himself a singer? Hoo-ha!”

6) scorn. “Some friend. Hoo-ha!”

Also used, depending on vocal emphasis and accompanying facial expression, to convey the essence of

1) “Imagine that!” (“Left his wife? Hoo-ha!”)

2) “You don’t mean it?” (“Her, Hoo-ha!”)

3) “Well, whaddaya know! or “I’ll be damned.” (“Right in the middle of the lecture, hoo-ha!, he stood up and left!”)

4) “Wow!” (“What a party! Hoo-ha!”)

5) “Who do you think you’re fooling?” (“Sure, I believe every word, hoo-ha!”)

6) “That’ll be the day! (“He wants to be president, hoo-ha!”)

7) “Like hell!” (I’ll get him a present, hoo-ha!

I was waiting for a definition of "Hoo-Ha" as being "She shot him in the Hoo-Ha."

Floridatexan wrote:
Well, it wasn't written to allow homicidal maniacs access to automatic weapons to shoot up innocent people in a theater.

No automatic weapon was used in the recent Aurora, CO shooting.

nsureme wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:
Well, it wasn't written to allow homicidal maniacs access to automatic weapons to shoot up innocent people in a theater.

No automatic weapon was used in the recent Aurora, CO shooting.

Before posting such nonsense and or editorials....It should be pointed out that the State of Colorado has some of the most strict gun control legislation in the country...IF...there is a diseased animal that plans and decides to carry out a plan such as this does anyone really think that that person would stop the craziness because they might pick up an additional charge for an illegal weapon?...Check out some of the states with strict gun control laws and then look at the murder or usage of guns in crimes...Illinois is another state and look at the mess in Chicago...Sometimes there is a reluctance on the part of some to recognize that there is pure evil in some people and that no matter what government and legislation is in place it can't stop the sickness in the minds of some...After WWI the League of Nations passed a resolution to outlaw wars...need more be said....

" Speaking of opinion writers and reporters, does anyone know what happened to Katie McFarland?"



She resigned and moved back to FT Myers area, According to Editor Dick Schneider. Dick said, they offered her more $ but wasn't interested. I guess she was homesick. I did email her last week inviting her to join this forum.


"I bet the PNJ is one of Gannett's worst-performing newspapers."


Nope.

Hoo-Ha. A not uncommon word in the pages of Mad Magazine. Following is a st of various meanings of Hoo-ha:

An immensely impressive Yiddishism for the expression of .......

Now don' choo be hatin' on my Yiddish, old Yeller, or you'll bring out my chutzpah.

In a weird twist, it's almost hunting season and you might bag a human in a goat outfit mingling with a herd of wild goats.

http://gawker.com/5927929/goat-man-hides-among-real-goats-in-utah



Blurry, I know. A hiker named Creighton found him and "He said he pulled out binoculars to get a closer look at the herd about 200 yards away and was shocked. The man appeared to be acting like a goat while wearing the crudely made costume, which had fake horns and a cloth mask with cut-out eye holes, Creighton said.

"I thought, 'What is this guy doing?' " Creighton said. "He was actually on his hands and knees. He was climbing over rocks and bushes and pretty rough terrain on a steep hillside."