Posted on 04/11/2007 6:03:04 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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".
police state • \puh-'lees - 'stayt \ • noun
a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures
Example sentence:
George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four provides one of the best known fictional examples of a police state in all of literature.
Did you know?
(Courtesy of wikipedia) The term police state is a pejorative term for a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population, especially by means of a secret police force which operates above the normal constraints found in a liberal democracy. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive. The classification of a country or regime as a police state is usually contested and debated. The classification is often established by an internal whistleblower or an external critic or activist group. The use of the term is motivated as a response to the laws, policies and actions of that regime, and is often used pejoratively to describe the regime's concept of the social contract, human rights, and similar matters. Like many pejorative terms, the use of the term "police state" to decry the perceived loss of "liberties" via new laws often diminishes one's argument against such laws to one of infantile complaining, much like the principle that the first one to call the other a "nazi" generally loses the debate.
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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
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Duke LAX - AG used the word INNOCENT all charges to be dismissed.
When I went to my doc in November, she couldn't get me out of asthma. Called the paramedics because I have a trauma heart condition from a car accident. No diabetes. The paramedics took me away.
I received two double shots right into my arm. And I was better within an hour.
Cyber took me home within four hours.
Hope that works for your friend.
Spice me up? On Easter Week? When I’ve got a bag full of candied kielbasa?
:: sticking my head in the door and looking around the classroom :
Those kitties look like Girl Friend. She hasn’t eaten her food I left out for her this morning, but maybe she slept in. Simba has been looking for her all morning. Poor thing.
Heck, you could cut my hair with a lawn mower set on high and never know the difference. It's so danged curly.
Oh, my dear Lord, Gabz. More prayers being sent out for your friend.
Lotsa lawsuits will be pending or are ready to be filed now.
Well, get your head out of the door and get your body in here. We have plenty of seats. Just don’t sit next to Cook. You may be sorry. LOL!
I got into the CAth lab to observe for a few hours. I hope a stint will help him. Easiest solution.
He’s in good hands, and right now all the rest of us can do is pray.
May God Bless him and give him a speedy recovery.
Probably had I lived in a police state, I wouldn’t have been able to celebrate Passover.
(Hi, I’m b-a-a-a-ck. Holiday’s over.)
(Robt notes that Tx could sit on Cook ....)
Long slinky hair on tall slinky ladies is sexy ....
Eh, you think a slinky is sexy. ;-)
i have never seen a candied kielbasa
C’mon we’ve discussed this before. The kielbasa soaks in the glaze used to make the ham.
xsboy watched The Chosen in his religion class and has to do a paper on it, over break. i bought the dvd and watched it with him, what an excellent movie. i know it was a big movie in it's day with big stars like Steiger, Schell and Robbie Benson, but i have never seen many movies. i totally loved the movie, though.
oh that. well i have never heard it described as a candied kielbasa before, i told you i use honey on kielbasa slices that i bake in the oven. i used kielbasa for the stock in the borscht i made on saturday. it was yummy.
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