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)
I just had my hip-length hair cut to almost hip length. One whole inch came off this head. She said she had never seen such fine thick curly hair before. LOL!
I’ve never had kielbasa before. Is it like fruitcake?
Yes. He’s also talking about some medical problems he has had so voters could decide if he should run for POTUS or not. I love this guy.
She cut inside my hair where it was so thick and where the matting was.
I see, well, it’s true, I don’t have to deal with anything like you have to.
Does the hot dry air make matters worse? I would think it would be hot, humid air causing the matting.
I like him as well........much better than the doofuses out there running now.
I was married to a police state for 20 years. The last ten years with the "police state" were the worst ten years of my life. I had to get my shotgun and hold him at bay at the top of the staircase with the dogs (Great Dane and Docker) snarling at him. He was diagnosed by three different doctors as manic/depressive, but he wouldn't take the medication. Took guns out of his mouth by putting my finger behind the trigger so he couldn't pull the trigger. Told him I would never do that again. "Effing shoot yourself."
More to it, but I'm done ranting. Felt good.
No police state in here. That’s why I gave a warning. DUH!
The snug, secure feeling of the all-encompassing Police State can be felt every time you get into a vehicle — and buckle your seat belt.
I told her the problems I was having with my hair, and she fixed it by cutting inside the thickness of it and keeping the length. Can't wait to wash it and see how the curls come out without the matting. Oh, she also cut the top of my hair, too, just as you do. She was inexpensive on top of it. I told her she didn't charge enough. So we gave her a whopper of a tip.
She also told me that I had such good hair that I wouldn't need to see her again for six months to a year. Now what hairdresser would tell you that? I'm in heaven right now.
Totally agree with you, sig!
“-I loved the presser with the INNOCENT Duke Lax players......the AG said they were “innocent”...WOW!”
That AG is the next governor of NC, I don’t know if he’s an R or a D but whatever he is, he’ll win big.
We are very humid right now. And that’s one of the problems. The wind is whipping up now, too.
Go Fred Go.
Oh, since I have not been to your state I believed it was hot and dry. Wind bring in rain no doubt.
How you making out with the new computer? Did you ever figure out what you were recording? LOL
I think there is a thread on the interview, I’d link you to it but........I have to go walk the dogs while watching out for bears........
My older sister had one of those Volkswagons that looked like a pregnant Bug. She was on a small two-lane curvy highway that went into Laguna Beach, CA. It was a short cut for natives in the area.
She made a sharp turn, rolled the vehicle and was thrown into the back seat. Had she been wearing just the over the lap seatbelt, she would have been killed.
I inherited that car. I loved it. It was a stick shift, and the stick shifter kept coming out of its socket. Had to remember what gear I was in. Oh, and I had to climb through the front window to get into the car. Real cute when you're wearing a skirt.
That's one of the reasons I decided to go with indiginous plants in the front yard. One is from Perth, Australia, but it's the same weather there.
I was tired of my roses dying in the heat. Then you water them, and they drown. It was very depressing. Another cacti is ready to bloom about 50 blooms. They are awesome. I had to learn I wasn't in CA any longer.
Oh, I was recording Tuesday’s thread without knowing it. LOL! Gotta be careful. Cyber deleted it.
Bring a salmon with you and throw it to the bears. It was a commercial. Please stay safe.
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