Comments on: Gang Of Five? http://www.chrisweigant.com/2011/05/17/gang-of-five/ Reality-based political commentary Wed, 06 May 2026 04:08:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2011/05/17/gang-of-five/#comment-14510 Michale Wed, 18 May 2011 11:58:09 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=3983#comment-14510 <I>The stuff you can find online. In the future, everyone will be virtually omniscient for fifteen minutes.</I> Ain't DAT the truth!! :D Thanx dsws.... Interesting notes from your link... "a chandelier of hummingbirds" “a parliament of owls” Weird..... :D Thanx again... Michale... The stuff you can find online. In the future, everyone will be virtually omniscient for fifteen minutes.

Ain't DAT the truth!! :D

Thanx dsws....

Interesting notes from your link...

"a chandelier of hummingbirds"
“a parliament of owls”

Weird..... :D

Thanx again...

Michale...

]]> By: dsws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2011/05/17/gang-of-five/#comment-14509 dsws Wed, 18 May 2011 11:45:01 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=3983#comment-14509 I had assumed that the first Gang in Congress was an intentional reference to China, but I don't actually know. I also didn't know what Gangs there had been, so I searched for "Gang of" on Wikipedia, and here's what I found: Gang of Four (China ~1976), the original; Gang of Seven (1990), some freshmen Republicans in the House who made noise over the House Banking Scandal; Gang of Eight (USSR 1991), the group who attempted a coup; Gang of Fourteen (2005), the bipartisan group on filibusters of judicial nominees; Gang of Eight (~2007-present), the members briefed on warrantless spying on US citizens; Gang of Six (2009), the bipartisan group on healthcare; and Gang of <strike>Six</strike> Five (2011), the current bipartisan group on the deficit. <i>Does anyone know the etymology of "a murder of crows"?? Besides being the last good movie Cuba Gooding Jr ever made, I have always wondered where that term came from...</i> Apparently, it and most of the other such terms come (at least in their modern use) from a 1968 book, <i>An Exultation of Larks</i> by James Lipton. http://www.grammarphobia.com/blogger-blog/2008/01/murder-of-crows.html The stuff you can find online. In the future, everyone will be virtually omniscient for fifteen minutes. I had assumed that the first Gang in Congress was an intentional reference to China, but I don't actually know. I also didn't know what Gangs there had been, so I searched for "Gang of" on Wikipedia, and here's what I found:

Gang of Four (China ~1976), the original;

Gang of Seven (1990), some freshmen Republicans in the House who made noise over the House Banking Scandal;

Gang of Eight (USSR 1991), the group who attempted a coup;

Gang of Fourteen (2005), the bipartisan group on filibusters of judicial nominees;

Gang of Eight (~2007-present), the members briefed on warrantless spying on US citizens;

Gang of Six (2009), the bipartisan group on healthcare;

and
Gang of Six Five (2011), the current bipartisan group on the deficit.

Does anyone know the etymology of "a murder of crows"??

Besides being the last good movie Cuba Gooding Jr ever made, I have always wondered where that term came from...

Apparently, it and most of the other such terms come (at least in their modern use) from a 1968 book, An Exultation of Larks by James Lipton. http://www.grammarphobia.com/blogger-blog/2008/01/murder-of-crows.html

The stuff you can find online. In the future, everyone will be virtually omniscient for fifteen minutes.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2011/05/17/gang-of-five/#comment-14508 Michale Wed, 18 May 2011 09:36:47 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=3983#comment-14508 <I>In fact, it may even enter the permanent lexicon as one of those odd "group" nouns, like a "murder of crows" or a "gaggle of geese." </I> Totally unrelated.... Does anyone know the etymology of "a murder of crows"?? Besides being the last good movie Cuba Gooding Jr ever made, I have always wondered where that term came from... Anyone?? Michale.... In fact, it may even enter the permanent lexicon as one of those odd "group" nouns, like a "murder of crows" or a "gaggle of geese."

Totally unrelated....

Does anyone know the etymology of "a murder of crows"??

Besides being the last good movie Cuba Gooding Jr ever made, I have always wondered where that term came from...

Anyone??

Michale....

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2011/05/17/gang-of-five/#comment-14507 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 18 May 2011 04:46:37 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=3983#comment-14507 In case anyone hasn't noticed, the only one who has been calling out the nonsense of the Republican cult of economic failure around all of this is none other than one treasury secretary Timothy F. Geithner. Yeah, I know ... the praise for him will be reserved for another lifetime. In case anyone hasn't noticed, the only one who has been calling out the nonsense of the Republican cult of economic failure around all of this is none other than one treasury secretary Timothy F. Geithner.

Yeah, I know ... the praise for him will be reserved for another lifetime.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.chrisweigant.com/2011/05/17/gang-of-five/#comment-14506 Kevin Wed, 18 May 2011 00:07:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=3983#comment-14506 I think the book title, "The Gang who Couldn't Shoot Straight" captured the essence of these critters :-) I think the book title, "The Gang who Couldn't Shoot Straight" captured the essence of these critters :-)

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