Word for the Day - Lugubrious

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[tioga]

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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”.

Lugubrious

Adjective

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

lugubriously, adverb

lugubriousness, noun

[From Latin lgubris, from lgre, to mourn.]

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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

[xsmommy]

14 years between seizures, no indication he went with medication to prevent them, that should not disqualify him from sitting, nor mitigate in favor of his removal.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

While most on the right are lugubrious
Others are hopeful, though dubious
That our voters unload
And make this whole mess explode
With an eruption reminiscent of Vesuvius

[SoothingDave]

Is that one of those Jacobin squirrels?

[NeoCaveman]

Actually Janice Rogers Brown is a fantasy pic. Really any established conservative would have done from Alice Batchelder (6th Circuit) to J. Michael Luttig.

[martin_fierro]

Lugubrious
Adjective
Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

[tioga]

aw, that is cute. did you notice the difference in their muscles from a gym rat? these three look more natural and fit.

[hobbes1]

2006 was an uprising against Iraq, and Party Corruption.

[afraidfortherepublic]

And I thought it was sweet that they gave credit this AM to their little sister who took the videos. I think they are adorable, and they have good manners too.

[hobbes1]

Romney started raising funds immediately after the decision, and in a message to supporters Friday morning his campaign spokeswoman said he had raised $4.3 million from 43,000 donations.

hmmmmmm....

[NeoCaveman]

Yes. That was 2006.

I meant the conservative uprising against the President when he said “trust me” on Ms. Miers which resulted in Justice Alito.

And isn’t it nice to have an appointee you don’t have to worry about?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I’m glad to hear there is an upside, potentially, to the announcement yesterday. I was just not able to even talk about it yesterday

[hobbes1]

The Newland family’s case is just one of 23 religious liberty lawsuits challenging the HHS mandate under Obamacare. Since Obamacare remains in place and these religious liberty claims were not at issue in the cases decided by the Court yesterday, these HHS mandate lawsuits will go forward and now become the center of legal attention on Obamacare. More than 50 plaintiffs are involved in the cases. They include Catholic and Protestant colleges, religious schools serving inner-city children, and charities providing care for the abused and neglected. The HHS mandate forces these ministries to violate conscience by providing coverage for services –like abortion drugs, deemed essential by the Obama administration but controversial among Americans generally — or face steep fines. This is among the first of the many rules and regulations expected as the behemoth, 2,700-page Obamacare law presses its full weight onto our constitutional order.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/304401/solidarity-against-hhs-mandate-and-rest-obamacare-s-burdens-jennifer-marshall

The club left in the bag.

[NeoCaveman]

2006 was an uprising against Iraq, and Party Corruption.

Yet we stayed in Iraq, and that gave us Barack.

Dammit, Barry's right as to whos fault it all is, just not the way he means it :)

[NeoCaveman]

Yes, the HHS abortaficient mandate will be tossed at leasat 5-4 if not better.

Actually Romney could just rescind that on day one as that’s regulation and not legislation. And I believe he will.

[tioga]

I have no hope, this is step 1 in our conversion to full socialized medicine and the left is right to celebrate. BFD indeed.

[hobbes1]

Roberts was smarter than that. By ruling that the individual mandate was permissible as a tax, he joined the Democratic appointees to uphold the law—while joining the Republican wing to gut the Commerce Clause (and push back against the necessary-and-proper clause as well). Here's the Chief Justice's opinion (italics in original):

Construing the Commerce Clause to permit Congress to regulate individuals precisely because they are doing nothing would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority. Congress already possesses expansive power to regulate what people do. Upholding the Affordable Care Act under the Commerce Clause would give Congress the same license to regulate what people do not do. The Framers knew the difference between doing something and doing nothing. They gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it. Ignoring that distinction would undermine the principle that the Federal Government is a government of limited and enumerated powers. The individual mandate thus cannot be sustained under Congress’s power to “regulate Commerce.”

The business about "new and potentially vast" authority is a fig leaf. This is a substantial rollback of Congress' regulatory powers, and the chief justice knows it. It is what Roberts has been pursuing ever since he signed up with the Federalist Society.,b. In 2005, Sen. Barack Obama spoke in opposition to Roberts' nomination, saying he did not trust his political philosophy on tough questions such as "whether the Commerce Clause empowers Congress to speak on those issues of broad national concern that may be only tangentially related to what is easily defined as interstate commerce." Today, Roberts did what Obama predicted he would do.

The Middle Finger

There is a far more sophisticated game being played here..

[secret garden]

I know about inside baseball - now we have inside SCOTUS? Heaven help us.

[TheConservativeParty]

I didn’t laugh yesterday until quarter to midnight. I turned on Craig Furguson’s show and he was doing his monologue about DeathCare. He became a US citizen just a few years ago. I think he knows the degree of tyranny we were bludgeoned with yesterday.

Lugubrious. Hmm.

“If I want to use the word lugubrious, will Obama tax me for using it, or tax me for not using it?”

[secret garden]

I think my dog is smarter than obama, so I don’t think Roberts was outdone intellectually by any means.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

that’s just plain awesome!