Posted on 11/07/2002 7:13:29 AM PST by Bella_Bru
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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of 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....
trammel\TRAM-uhl, noun:
1.A kind of net for catching birds, fish, etc.
2. A kind of shackle used for making a horse amble.
3. Something that impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
4. An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
5. An instrument for drawing ellipses.
6. An instrument for aligning or adjusting parts of a machine.
As a transitive verb:
1. To entangle, as in a net; to enmesh.
2. To hamper; to hinder the activity, progress, or freedom of.
Etymology: Trammel is from Old French tramail, from Late Latin tremaculum, a kind of net for catching fish, from Latin tres, "three" + macula, "a mesh."
Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
The ankles DO meet. But always behind someones back....
See, I told you yesterday that I've been called a lot of things.
lol
I've had it with this country. I'm just sick about the happenings of tonight. This country has been hijacked, and largely because of the corporate media, the public at large has been brainwashed into voting repug.
Well, of course they will, because if your only source of news is network or cable, then it's only a matter of time before you start believing the lies. Oh, but we can't do a damn thing about it, because we've got to continue to "diversify the liberal media" with more conservative pundits.
The fact that Rush Limbaugh was on NBC tonight should signal what's happening to the country.
The Republicans are in total control now. How soon until liberals are arrested for their beliefs, or even better, shot in the streets? (not soon enough...tee hee)
I was so hopeful about tonight. We had this one in the bag. What the hell went wrong? Sure, the votes may have been rigged, but I don't have that much faith in the American people anymore. You don't think Bush will be re-elected two years from now? Of course he will.
We're becoming Nazi Germany, and all hope I had is now gone.
kaToy (5 posts) Nov-07-02, 12:04 PM (ET) Reply to post 78. It indeed was "a dark American night" I really enjoyed your post. It expressed many of the conflicting feelings I am having. Wednesday morning at about 3:00AM I found myself standing in my darkened kitchen weeping. (ROTFLMAO!) Why was I weeping? It wasn't just for a lost election. Lost elections happen all the time. I've been a Democrat since I first voted for Jimmy Carter in '76, so I've had my share of dissapointing election nights. No, I was terribly sad because I felt, not for the first time, but most assuredly now more so than at any time in my life that I was a stranger in my own land. I just couldn't , and still can't, come to terms with the fact that the direction our country is moving in seems to be just fine with the majority of people.
I asked myself, how is it so easy for them to abandon the most needy in our society? How is it so easy for them to give away their basic rights for some chimera of security? How is it so easy for them to be so blinded by rage that they are willing to ignore decades of international law and common sense? How is it so easy for them to vote, or not vote, as the case may be, againt their own self interests? But most of all I couldn't understand why they were so eager to leave to their children a country that will be meaner,cruder, and more dystopian than I want to imagine.
As always, when its late and I'm positive the world is going to hell in a handbasket I snuck into my son's room and lay down on his bed. Usually just hearing him breathe while he sleeps and smelling him clean from his bath calms me and makes me feel more positive about what is troubling me. Wednesday morning was different. The concerns I have about the direction of this country will affect him much more that they will me. I'm at a loss. I have gone as far as looking at the immigration requirements for Canada and Australia, but who knows what steps, if any, my family will take? It's a momentous decision. Jeez, who knew 30 years ago that being a Democrat was going to be so hard?
folks you can't make this stuff up....
Alan Trammel tramelled the hearts of the Detroit Tigers fans.
Did he really? OMG he is the man.
WHAT???????
Yes it is, it's also Hillary!ous....
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