Posted on 11/01/2019 1:27:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
Bumper crop of hogs and corn for American farmers, God has a hand in everything.
You stop it. What it means is that people use words incorrectly. If you don’t think words are important, you write a contract where I pay you $1 million dollars and after you’ve signed it, let me legally change just on word in the contract. If one word doesn’t matter, you should have no issue with that.
Yeah, even if they move all day, that's 2.5 miles/hour. A worm?
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Reading this article makes you realize how VERY IMPORTANT it is to do everything you can to assure food security.
Yeah, I had to look it up. Confusing.
The adult form is a moth. The moth can travel that far daily.
Up next:
A plague of frogs and locusts.
Sorry...the Chinese are running Smithfield in old Virginny...bought it several years ago.
As I’ve said all along, we need their exports to make phone calls, they need our exports to EAT.
You can eat those....................
Viruses don’t respect sovereignty. It’s a world problem, and every resource we have to help them deal with this.
The deal we had for them to process OUR meats was stupid..................
They need to give it a better name.
I humbly suggest: "Pigbola".
Uh, David. Look up the correct meaning of “decimated”. It means to destroy every tenth one, or 10%, not 30-35%.
———————————————————————————Historically it meant 1/10th.
Now it simply means a large fraction.
Viruses don’t respect sovereignty. It’s a world problem, and every resource we have to help them deal with this.
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I’m sure we have good folks working on it.
My first thought also.
They may be starving but they are starving with an aircraft carrier.
I pray to God you are right.
A smarter person would stay out of this argument, but it is an issue I find interesting, so I’ll stick my nose in it against my better judgment. If I recall correctly, “decimate” goes back to a Latin term, specifically regarding a military punishment in which one in ten legionaries would be executed. So yeah, it literally means the loss of 10%.
But that was two thousand years ago. For better or worse, words evolve. Without question, I’d have to say I’ve seen “decimate” used in its sloppy sense (as meaning a whole lot killed) much more than it’s literal sense. One can fight it (more power to ya), but I don’t expect that trend to reverse. And I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. If I ask my secretary to make a copy of a report on our Konica Minolta machine, should I expect her to jump all over me if I ask her to get me 20 Xeroxes? We know what we mean, and that’s just fine.
And on a separate issue, kudos to the wag who brought up Dennis Rodman in relationship to this story (for those who don’t know, his nickname was “The Worm”).
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