;Posted on 08/03/2015 5:06:07 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 8/3/15
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
screed; noun/verb noun 1. a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.
3. Building Trades. a.a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface. b.a wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like. c.a board or metal strip dragged across a freshly poured concrete slab to give it its proper level.
4. British Dialect. a fragment or shred, as of cloth.
5. Scot. a.a tear or rip, especially in cloth. b.a drinking bout. verb (used with object), verb (used without object) 6. Scot. to tear, rip, or shred, as cloth.
Etymology: n.
early 14c., "fragment," also "strip of cloth," from northern England dialectal variant of Old English screade (see shred (n.)). Meaning "lengthy speech" is first recorded 1789, from notion of reading from a long list.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
perfect. A+++
Even the animals in “Zimbabwe” are at risk, because Mugabe needs the money!!!!
A+++ how cool! if it didn’t say Italy, there’d be no way to identify then as such!
very true.
We have no better leaders in the Senate than when Harry scReed was in charge by dictate and dictake.
A+++
A+++ sad sacks.
Since this second guy is an OB, maybe he can do some abortions to atone for his sin.
We have one on the loose that they have been hunting all over Milwaukee for 2 weeks. It’s most likely a wandering mountain lion, but the newscritters keep posting a picture of a full-maned African lion with their articles. Keep children and small pets indoors.
Rules, man! Rules!
I only hunt animals I intend to eat, and I’ve never, ever hunted a semi-tame animal, or poached-and I despise people who do either-that isn’t “hunting”-and poachers have been shot-but not killed-out here, because they are trespassing as well as taking illegal game, and nothing happens to the resident of the property who did the shooting.
But if canned hunts are legal where this happened, then I support a rich idiot’s right to participate in them, and show everyone who knows them that they lack cojones and any real claim to masculinity.
If those two guys did indeed break the law-then the PETA fools need to STFU and let the proper authorities take care of it-PETA has never had any credibility-it is just a collection of loons...
Obama’s speeches are screeds
And Hillary’s are the same-
The only things different are
Their gender and their name
They both speak in a monotone
Shake their fingers and scold-
After hearing Obama for years
That has certainly gotten old
Why would anyone with a brain
Want to hear more of the same?
Hillary doesn’t have Bill’s charm
In spite of having his last name
Newest medical annoyance started late last week, went to doc this afternoon and have an appointment with the surgeon tomorrow morning. Hopefully, results keep coming in this fast.
Funny how the left hates the idea of America being the world’s policeman. Except when we’re called on to enforce the hunting rules of African countries.
No kidding-and it is an exercise in futility, too-most African countries are so corrupt that if a “hunter” paid enough money, they could probably get guides to bring them human prey-maybe even clandestine taxidermy services, too...
If the place is that lawless, then let the fish and game people here forbid Americans from getting a license and going to Africa to hunt-legally or otherwise-cut off ALL the big game hunting money instead of rewarding illegal hunts-it is draconian, but I’m guessing it is the only thing that ignorant government understands...
A great screed on the worldwide mourning of a lion vs. everything else:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3320129/posts
Don’t get me wrong — I despise wanton killing or cruelty to animals. But somehow a lion takes precedence over human beings.
Rich Americans will find other things to spend money on.
African countries will suffer if this hunting is socially snuffed out.
It is their prerogative to spend their money elsewhere-they can go hunt boar in Russia or one of the nearby countries, or get in on the elephant cull in India-or just go to Alaska and hunt brown/Kodiak bear if they want to go on a REAL hunt for a downright dangerous animal in the wild instead of a semi-tame and collared one in a park.
I’m fresh out of sympathy for 3d world dictatorships and people who haven’t produced anything since they learned how to grow coffee-this is the 21st century, not the 19th, and they need to engage in something other than corruption, whining and terror if they are going to live in the real world-maybe it would be a right of passage for the African countries to lose the revenue-maybe they would learn not to peddle illegal hunts-or better yet, try making some product to sell/export besides poaching for profit.
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