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Word for the Day, Friday, July 4TH, 2008 - Inalienable
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Posted on 07/04/2008 6:03:13 AM PDT by tioga



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".

Inalienable

Adjective

    incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred

"Alien," "alienable," "inalienable" -- it's easy enough to see the Latin word "alius," meaning "other," at the root of these three words. "Alien" joined our language in the 14th century, and one of its earliest meanings was "belonging to another." By the early 1600s that sense of "alien" had led to the development of "alienable," an adjective describing something you could give away or transfer ownership of, and "unalienable," its opposite. By about 1645, "inalienable" was also in use as a synonym of "unalienable." "Inalienable" is the more common variant today, but it was "unalienable" that was used in the Declaration of Independence to describe rights like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.


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

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


TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: 4thofjuly
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To: Gabz

This year, one more right went from worthless to at least semi - alienable according to the Supreme Court. Hold yer nose and keep Obama (peace be uipon him) out of the White House. The offspring of his presidency would be a disaster decades in the undoing.


21 posted on 07/04/2008 7:24:36 AM PDT by sig226 (Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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To: Argh

thanks arghy!! we miss you!


22 posted on 07/04/2008 7:34:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

23 posted on 07/04/2008 7:34:57 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Now get out there and spread some liberty.)
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To: NeoCaveman
RIP jesse helms.
24 posted on 07/04/2008 7:35:21 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: NeoCaveman

patriotic pooches! i will have to put some red white and blue on my pups, great idea~


25 posted on 07/04/2008 7:36:02 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Left us on what had to be his favorite day, the Fourth of July. May the good Lord rest his soul.


26 posted on 07/04/2008 7:41:47 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Now get out there and spread some liberty.)
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To: NeoCaveman

hate to think what the DUers are saying, spawn of hell that they are.


27 posted on 07/04/2008 7:44:52 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: sig226; tioga

Thank God we still have a core group of conservative USSC Justices who still adhere to an inalienable Constitution, one not subject to the vagaries of foreign opinion or the whims of the day...


28 posted on 07/04/2008 7:47:15 AM PDT by mikrofon (Happy Independence Day to All)
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To: xsmommy

Dang.........


29 posted on 07/04/2008 7:48:37 AM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my dad I'm a lobbyist, he thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: sig226

You won’t get an arguement out of me.


30 posted on 07/04/2008 7:49:36 AM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my dad I'm a lobbyist, he thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: xsmommy
"Jesse Helms, the firebrand U.S. senator whose outspoken, conservative views polarized North Carolina and U.S. voters for decades, died at 1:15 a.m. Friday in Raleigh."

Predictable "obituary" from the MSM -- so despicable...

31 posted on 07/04/2008 7:52:03 AM PDT by mikrofon (Rest in Peace, Mr. Helms)
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To: tioga; Robert Spencer

More inalienable rights articulated here...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021628.php#comments

Many thanks to Robert Spencer.


32 posted on 07/04/2008 8:06:16 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: NeoCaveman

Yankee Poodle Dandy!


33 posted on 07/04/2008 8:23:14 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: tioga
Inalienable

Photobucket

You must call them "Undocumented Migrants," y'see.

34 posted on 07/04/2008 8:56:11 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: tioga

Happy Independence Day. I hope the rain holds off until after 10 pm. We’ve already had one shower.


35 posted on 07/04/2008 8:59:23 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden
doesn't look good here...


36 posted on 07/04/2008 11:11:18 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Do they have rain dates for your fireworks?


37 posted on 07/04/2008 11:18:18 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: tioga

Methinks the day of 7/4 is inalienable — it may fall on a Friday this year, but no one will ever make it a Monday/3-day weekend thing.

Happy 4th, everyone.


38 posted on 07/04/2008 11:56:44 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: secret garden

local fireworks like fairfax and falls church yes, but the NATIONAL ones which are local to us, and televised and shown around the country, i don’t think so.


39 posted on 07/04/2008 2:47:58 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden
i guess the national fireworks actually DO have a raindate.
40 posted on 07/04/2008 3:12:33 PM PDT by xsmommy
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