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Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - police state
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ^ | 04/11/2007 | The Janitor

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.

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....


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)


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To: SoothingDave; Slip18
Eh, you think a slinky is sexy. ;-)

Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.....

A slinky sexy thong coming down the stair ....

121 posted on 04/11/2007 1:32:58 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: xsmommy

I’m not sure what else to call meat that is completely inflitrated with 4 different kinds of flavored sugars.


122 posted on 04/11/2007 1:33:24 PM PDT by SoothingDave (Eugene Gurkin was a janitor, cleaning toilets for The Man)
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To: xsmommy
I hate to admit it but think I just narrowly missed getting a ticket. I was rushing home to get dinner ready for a friend, and passed a local sheriff's vehicle (a truck so I didn't connect it with the law!) he slowed down when I passed him but I turned at the next corner. After I drove into my driveway and was getting out, he drove by and slowed in front of the house..... My husband had come outside to help me with the groceries and the guy looked at us then drove on.... yikes!

So that proves it - no police state here! ;^)

123 posted on 04/11/2007 1:55:18 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I won't settle)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

you think the marine deterred the polizei from coming to give you a ticket? ; )


124 posted on 04/11/2007 1:56:23 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

i have not had your version of candied kielbasa, i was picturing some chocolate version of a kielbasa or something.


125 posted on 04/11/2007 1:57:11 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
My big scary Marine? lol - actually I think the guy may have thought I was a teenager (hey, I'm NOT claiming I look like one and besides, I passed him at warp speed) because school had just let out....so maybe seeing an old lady being greeted by an old Marine changed his mind on stopping me...? That's my story anyway

But I guess he could have just gotten out and beaten me, you know, with the completely out of control government and police with no controls.... not!

126 posted on 04/11/2007 1:59:45 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I won't settle)
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To: NeoCaveman

-excellent interview with Fred Thompson today.......he is taking his candidacy to the American people it seems.......


127 posted on 04/11/2007 2:10:51 PM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy

-I loved the presser with the INNOCENT Duke Lax players......the AG said they were “innocent”...WOW!


128 posted on 04/11/2007 2:12:11 PM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

didn’t see the players press conference, but did hear the AG while in the car, he said innocent and he said rogue prosecutor. amazing stuff.


129 posted on 04/11/2007 2:13:09 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; tioga

I heard one of the dads - Mr. Evans - a real class act on Hannity today


130 posted on 04/11/2007 2:17:46 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I won't settle)
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To: Slip18

Naturally curly hair, oh you lucky woman.

Mine is naturally straight and ugly. ;) I have to have mine cut every 6 to 8 weeks it grows so fast.


131 posted on 04/11/2007 2:22:43 PM PDT by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

seems like the players and their families were a class act from the gitgo. too bad nifong isn’t.


132 posted on 04/11/2007 2:23:22 PM PDT by tioga
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To: VRWCmember

Home from work and cooking dinner-

When I first heard “police state”
I thought of Orwell’s and Levin’s books
Now when I hear the same word
I think of ‘rat political crooks

They seem to be fond of the concept
Of controlling all of the time
Which is the only way to assure
That they get to your last dime

Whether it is queen Hillary or Obama
Or any of the rest of their bunch
They need to be put in their placers
And tossed out like yesterday’s lunch


133 posted on 04/11/2007 2:29:48 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; tioga; xsmommy

Our bunco group only gets wild and crazy when we are indoors and alcohol is served...


134 posted on 04/11/2007 2:33:52 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Slip18; Robert A. Cook, PE
"Just don’t sit next to Cook. You may be sorry."

I don't mind if Cook sits next to me. Even if he copies from my paper he'll spell all the words wrong.

Besides, what's the big deal about getting in trouble? It's not like we live in a police state or something.

135 posted on 04/11/2007 2:46:58 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
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To: Slip18

Watch that hair stylist, and tell them to cease before they cut one hair shorter than what you want.

I do not let anyone trim my hair-I even trim the very top, which I keep short. The last time I went into a hairstyling place I was only there to take some paperwork to the owner who is on an HOA committee with me. She took the papers I gave her, and started telling me I should let her cut my hair from below my waist to just to my jawline because it was not fashionable for a woman my age to wear long hair. I told her no thank you, I like it this way, my husband likes it and I don’t want to look like the dyke who lives next door to me (Blondie the dyke has one of those chin-length bobs, bleached almost white). She gave me a scandalized look, but she has never mentioned chopping off my hair again. I really do look like a dyke with short hair, which was really a bummer when I was single.


136 posted on 04/11/2007 3:03:00 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: Slip18; xsmommy; NicknamedBob

It is clear and 74 out, and only down to the low 40’s tonight-time to go light the grill for some pork chops-back later...


137 posted on 04/11/2007 3:09:10 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: VRWCmember

With the current democrat control of the house, we live in a puh - leeeze state.


138 posted on 04/11/2007 3:42:19 PM PDT by sig226 (Where did my tag line go?)
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To: MoochPooch

Good to see you, Moochie!


139 posted on 04/11/2007 3:49:02 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; TxBec
I warned you, Tx! LOL!

Cook, you behave yourself with new students. I'm going to have to spank you on Tuesday.

140 posted on 04/11/2007 3:52:41 PM PDT by Slip18
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