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Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 15, 2003: Vitiate
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary | 10/15/2003 | The Janitor

Posted on 10/15/2003 7:31:27 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".

vitiate \VIH-shee-ayt\ verb
1. to make faulty or defective; impair
2. to debase in moral or aesthetic status
3. to make ineffective *

* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

Example sentence: Critics asserted that studies claiming to prove the product safe were vitiated by lack of objectivity on the part of company- hired scientists.

Did you know?
Here's one for word puzzle lovers -- and anyone else allured by alliteration. The sentence "Vivian vituperated the vicious villain for valuing vice over virtue" contains three words that derive from the same Latin root as "vitiate." Can you identify all three? If you picked "vituperate" (a verb meaning "to scold"), "vicious," and "vice," your puzzle prowess is beyond reproach. Like "vitiate," all three descend from the Latin noun "vitium," meaning "fault" or "vice."

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....




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To: Flurry; Laura Earl; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
WOO HOOOOOO

If I were going to marry Laura Earl I might well go WOO HOO too.

OK, now nobody gets any more compliments until the next millenium. I would suggest you all, or y'all, or all y'all, or whatever the hell it is, all don't hold your breaths.

81 posted on 10/15/2003 11:02:10 AM PDT by Argh
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To: xsmommy
Well, I can't wait to see how they defend her having sex soon after the alleged rape. here is where the info was pasted regarding the 2nd pair of undies if you are interested.
82 posted on 10/15/2003 11:04:53 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: honeygrl
this prosecutor is looking like a royal boob today....
83 posted on 10/15/2003 11:06:23 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; Flurry
My Lancome lady wants to do my makeup for the wedding.
84 posted on 10/15/2003 11:07:03 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Day 5-Still love the ring!)
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To: Laura Earl
won't THAT be fun????
85 posted on 10/15/2003 11:08:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
YOu know as well as I do that we'll never know if he did rape her or if she is lying - she could have had sex with someone else and NOT have been torn - chances are that she willingly allowed this to happen then decided to cry rape - for whatever reason who knows...but I don't believe, and you can't prove, that just having had sex proves his innocence....
86 posted on 10/15/2003 11:08:58 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Laura Earl
You don't need any makeup.

BLAST, I said no more compliments...

87 posted on 10/15/2003 11:09:16 AM PDT by Argh
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
of course his innocence cannot be proven! our system only requires that GUILT be proven! i think she got more than she bargained for, in the act itself and changed her mind midstream. imo that should not constitute rape, though i recognize that in some jurisdictions it does.
88 posted on 10/15/2003 11:10:51 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember
Hurrah!!!!! I finally found the thread!!!!
89 posted on 10/15/2003 11:13:55 AM PDT by dixie sass (GOD bless America)
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To: xsmommy
You are right - and the system worked so well in the OJ trial......lol
90 posted on 10/15/2003 11:14:55 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: xsmommy
Yes it will. She also turned me on to a hair stylist that is all about more natural color. He's been doing hers and it is beautiful. She gave me a coupon for free highlighting with a haircut. Now that's a good deal!
91 posted on 10/15/2003 11:15:16 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Day 5-Still love the ring!)
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To: Argh
But Arghie, I LOVE makeup. And you can compliment me all you want.
92 posted on 10/15/2003 11:15:57 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Day 5-Still love the ring!)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
i guess i don't know what you are trying to get at. i think the girl is lying. yes, he screwed her, it was consensual and for whatever reason she changed her mind. i think the system needs to balance out the protections for the alleged victims with equal protections for those that are falsely accused.
93 posted on 10/15/2003 11:16:19 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
No, the blood and dna panties were from the day AFTER the alleged incident.
94 posted on 10/15/2003 11:18:38 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
It worked pefectly. OJ did not do what they said he did.
95 posted on 10/15/2003 11:19:53 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: white rose
I found your link particularly useful because it leads here, to what is supposed to be Miss Stewart's original story on Gray Davis. Thanks.
96 posted on 10/15/2003 11:21:16 AM PDT by Argh
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To: xsmommy; honeygrl; hobbes1
The defense has characterized this as "proof of his innocence" which I would expect any woman to find offensive and insulting. It would seem to suggest that if a woman had consensual sex with one or two other partners within a day or two of the alleged rape, then the sex with the alleged rapist must also be consensual.

So hypothetically this morning you get it on with the hubby before you leave for work; then on your lunch hour you sneak out for a quickie with your boyfriend; then tonight you stop for drinks with some big-time famous athlete and he gets more amorous than you like. Even though you say stop, and insist you don't want to do the nasty with him, he can force you into it and it can't possibly be rape because the presence of semen from other sources in your panties is overwhelming proof of his innocence? Sorry, but the characterization by the defense team of this "bombshell" is dishonest.

97 posted on 10/15/2003 11:34:58 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: secret garden; xsmommy; white rose
Email I sent to Howard:

Alright, Ellison, you always said you wanted to be the first Jewish pope, although I think you'll find a number of the early ones beat you to it. Anyhow, now's the time to submit your name.

Although that's pretty nervy for a scumbag who, on a planet of 6 to 7 billion people, is so low as to be only 10 billionth in line for the British throne...

http://slate.msn.com/id/2089815/

98 posted on 10/15/2003 11:36:01 AM PDT by Argh
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To: VRWCmember
Ummmm...that misstates the facts. The Panties she wore to the Hospital THE NEXT DAY, have the would seem to suggest that if a woman had consensual sex with one or two other partners within a day or two of the alleged rape, then the sex with the alleged rapist must also be consensual.

We are talking about Sex, Immediately AFTER the alleged rape

Blood from the Alleged tearing, and an Unknown third parties DNA in the Panties she wore to the hospital the next day.

No Blood in the Panties worn immediately after the alleged incident.

No one is saying she was definitively NOT Raped.Only Her God and Kobe know for sure.But there is more than Reasonable Doubt in this case.

99 posted on 10/15/2003 11:42:32 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: VRWCmember
Plus the fact that in order to reach your conclusion, you must ignore the fact that the Prosecution said, the Tearing, and Bleeding is the PROOF of the Rape.

If that is so, then she HAD to be "Raped" by the guy AFTER Kobe according to the prosecutors characterization of the evidence.

100 posted on 10/15/2003 11:45:32 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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