Word For The Day, Thursday, June 2, 2005

dictionaries ad nauseum | June 2, 2005 | secret garden

[secret garden]

Word For The Day, Thursday, June 2, 2005

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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".

shibboleth \SHIB-uh-lith; -leth\, noun

1. A word or pronunciation that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons from another.
2. A word or saying identified with a group or cause; a slogan; a catchword.
3. A saying or belief identified with a particular group and usually regarded by outsiders as meaningless or untrue.
4. A custom, practice, behavior, etc. regarded as distinctive of a particular group. / In the late '60s, however, the loud, open use of the "F" word became a true shibboleth, dividing the student radicals from the Establishment "pigs" they delighted in tweaking. --Elizabeth Austin, "A small plea to delete a ubiquitous expletive: can't we all get along without the 'f' word?" [1]US News & World Report, April 6, 1998

Newspapers accused the West of trying to foment anti-Russian feelings and revive the cold war, substituting the old "Soviet threat" with the new shibboleth "Russian mafia." --Michael Satchell, "Kremlin gilt - or is it guilt?" [2]US News & World Report, September 20, 1999

Most cases, she says, involve the charges of secular humanism -- a "shibboleth invented by far-right organizations and others who object to textbooks, library books and curriculum materials that do not promote their particular brand of religion." --Thomas S. Elliott, "Fight heats up over censoring schoolbooks," [3]US News & World Report, February 20, 1984

Class size is another shibboleth: First, small class sizes do not increase learning, and, second, class sizes have become quite small anyway. --Jay Nordlinger, "The Anti-Excusers," [4]National Review, October 27, 2003

This could not be stated, because the doctrines in the name of which the revolution was carried out -- and which, ironically enough, the revolution did so much to expose and discredit -- were too strongly ingrained as official radical shibboleths to which lip-service was still paid. --Isaiah Berlin, [5]The Sense of Reality

Christmas church attendance will be the last shibboleth of Christian devotion in Europe to fall: it has a wealth of sentiment, mid-winter cheer and good tunes to keep pulling the crowds. --Madeleine Bunting, "Paralysed by panic," [6]Guardian, December 20, 2004

Etymology: Shibboleth is from Hebrew shibboleth, "stream, flood," from the use of this word in the Bible ([7]Judges 12:4-6) as a test to distinguish Gileadites from Ephraimites, who could not say 'sh' but only 's' as in 'sibboleth'.

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.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Comment Section:

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

If the lefties can persist in the shibboleth of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, surely turnabout is fair play.]

Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[tioga]

This group is located in Jacksonville. I wish I could attend one of their healing masses. I have some of their tapes; my priest recommended them.

[secret garden]

If I were the King of the Foresssssst! A++

[tioga]

My mother died in hospice here at our home. It was 2 1/2 half years she lived with us. The only way I could survive was to attend a healing mass once a week for over a year. It was the best decision I ever made. God is awesome, and he does heal.

[secret garden]

It could never happen to me. I'm far too ticklish.

[tioga]

I am sure Robert would be only to happy to earn a passing grade via the toe-lick or three......

[secret garden]

Theocracy? Here? It will never happen, but if I had to pick a team, I'd have to go with the Religious Right Wing. A++

[Dutchgirl]

hospice

My dad died with hospice twenty years ago. I know that they offer counselling, as does my church - through Stephen Ministry. The healing ministry looks interesting and the names of the leaders look familiar, I just can't remember the context right now. I also have this text following me around right now.

2 Corinthians 12:9-12 (NRSV) [The Lord] said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness." So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

[LonePalm]

You're getting closer. I like 'em bear (bare). All the way around.

'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[tioga]

Near as I can figure - Francis MacNutt was a Catholic priest who left to get married, then he started a healing ministry, which appears to be his calling. In any case, my Catholic priest turned me on to his teachings. Mother Nadine Brown is my favorite though, she is awesome.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"I" regard toe-licks as a near end to a means... And the ends justify the means token to get to the end of the means...

Hmmmn.

Wait.

That doesn't sound right.

AAAaaaaaaaaarrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Give me a hand here! Ah kneed a step in the right direction...

A leg up, as it were.

A toe hold hold, (Er, knead.)

[Robert A Cook PE]

I don't want a Theocracy, do you? After all, all you have to do is look to the middle east to see what happens when you become one.

An immoral left-wing "mono-liberacracy" is much more to fear.

The "moral" right wing (as an object to be feared!) is entirely a false construction, a projection of what THEY seriously intend on doing upon regaining power. A morally-guided force, no matter its power, can NEVER be oppressive, because it IS (by definition) bounded and governed by the rule of law, but MOST IMPORTANT, it is bounded by the rule of "Law" by men (and women) who respect and fear an almighty God.

An bounded liberacracy, on the other hand, changes the "law" to suit their goals, which is eternal power in their own immoral hands. They fear no one, no thing, other than Liberty - in the hands of an armed and educated citizen.)

In Hillary's FBI, for example, the head of her anti-terrorism task force in the months before 2000, said what he specifically feared most was "armed right wing extremists", especially those organized "under churches" against the government.

These, of course, were the very months that the armed left extremist (Muslims) were ACTUALLY IN the US planning their attacks on 9/11.

The whole "anti-terror" claims of the Clinton followers are false, completely fake to hide their military-stype assaults such as in Waco and Montana and California and in Florida AGAINST gun owners and those Christians who opposed the Clinton's crimes.

This, of course, combined with her use of the IRS and BATF to remove "right wing" opponents.

[Howlin]

Here's something else to think about:

Pollard allies wait for first lady

Foreign Affairs News Keywords: CLEMENCY

Source: MSNBC

Published: November 10, 1999 Author: Tom Curry

Posted on 11/09/1999 21:12:36 PST by Howlin

With Hillary Rodham Clinton due to begin a visit to Israel on Wednesday, a sensitive issue affecting her likely New York Senate bid remains unresolved. Advocates for Jonathan Pollard, imprisoned since 1985 for selling U.S. military secrets to Israel, are ratcheting up their demands that she drop her noncommittal stance on a presidential pardon for Pollard.

The First Lady, who is widely expected to run for the Senate in New York against Republican Rudolph Giuliani, said in September that she had no position yet on whether her husband, President Bill Clinton, should pardon Pollard or commute the life sentence he is serving for spying for Israel.

“I will wait to see what the pending review comes out with,” she told reporters then.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3828fec45162.htm

[tioga]

OMG, you are Dick Morris!

[Texan5]

Morning! I hear thunder south of us, and there is a 50-50 that it may rain this morning-I think I'd better leave early so I can get to where I need to be before it gets wet...

[Texan5]

"natural God given blessings"

I will stick with mine too, even though I am rather flat chested-the horror stories I've heard from women who have false accoutrements about the post-op pain and the later loss of sensation is enough to deter me, even if my husband thought fake boobs were nice (he doesn't-he dislikes them). And the fakes are so easy to spot because they do not look or behave naturally.

[MHGinTN]

Astute observations!

"In Hillary's FBI, for example, the head of her anti-terrorism task force in the months before 2000, said what he specifically feared most was "armed right wing extremists", especially those organized "under churches" against the government." That move was of course in the same vane as the 'slavery reparations' dust up ... designed to foment class envy/strife and keep the nation of Americans divided into races and classes that the democrat party then exploits with fear mongering and hate. The democrat party would dissolve if the American people awoke to see them for what they do to this nation in order to empower their political agenda and feed their lust for power at the expense (every time!) of this nation's resolve and unity. Without fomenting hatred, the democrats are clueless thus they are a political party given wholy over to creating and promoting race division, class envy and hatred, and 'america is the evil empire' (think GITMO) paradigms. Unless and until the American voters (that's ALL races and classes as voters) reject this current democrat party leadership and their empowerment schemes based on such divisive and destructive policies (think 44 million slaughtered in the scheme of abortion on demand empowerment for democrat politicians like Boxer, Lautenbrg, Kennedy, Reid, and Harkin), the leftists, liberal corrosion of this Republic will continue and accelerate under goons like Pelosi, Reid, Clinton, and Dean.