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 walked the dogs....it’s dusk now...no bears yet. I have my camera at the ready. ;^)
I am getting sappy listening to the Duke Lax boys at their presser........I agree with one pundit.....she said these boys have proven themselves and corporate America would be lucky to hire them.
Don’t worry about it.
I have a major scandal in Cleveland to break on my blog, so I don’t have time for the other stuff.
I would like to have seen that.
Where were we? Oh, yeah. I had one too. I took mine swimming.
Camera at the ready? Cool! Glad you had a safe walk.
But they don't bloom as well. They need really acidic soil and be dry as a bone for months at a time. Weird gardening. First time in my life growing cacti.
The Dukes' guys have been in the press for 11 months now, and we all knew they were not guilty. No evidence at all except the two girls were there.
Now it's Imus. Yeckkkkkk.
It’s late. A major scandal in Cleveland?
The owner of the dealership wanted the engine from that car so badly for his boat, he gave me a terrific discount on a used blue Bug. It had a 5000 mile warranty on the engine. I blew it up at about 4500 miles. Newish engine was put on.
The truth is, I've really had good luck with my vehicles.
Cyber once asked me how I chose a car. The answer was simple: I have to be attracted to it. That's it.
VW Bugs float fairly well. They don’t make good speed in the water though.
The rear wheels act as a stern or side wheel riverboat for propusion, and the front wheels act as rudders for steering.
You can’t stay afloat very long. It’s best to head for solid land as soon as possible, unless you want to experience the thrill of Volkswagen submarining.
Good moring.
Our new Sexretary of State has taken over the Board Of Elections in our biggest blue county and is poised to appoint a member who used to work with conspiracy oriented group “Black box voting”
As Drudge would say, developing.
Are you serious? It's Polish sausage. It's like "smoked sausage" but more garlicky. My mother-in-law makes it along with Christmas or Easter ham by slicing it into circles about an inch thick or less and letting it heat up in the roasting pan with the ham. So it stews in the glaze of ginger ale, cherry juice, pineapple juice, brown sugar and ham drippings until it's sweet and delicious.
The ticket was dismissed. The LEO was there, but they still dismissed the ticket without even asking for an account of what happened.
See there are ways other than a low-cut tank top to avoid a speeding ticket.
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