Word For The Day, Monday, January 26, 2004

The Verbivores | 1/26/04 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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....

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coruscate \kor*es*kate\ verb
coruscating, coruscates, coruscated; transitive verb
coruscation; noun

1. To give forth flashes of light; sparkle and glitter.
2. To exhibit sparkling virtuosity;
3. A flash of intellectual brilliancy.

A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call ta little coruscation.
--Boyle.

Etymology: [Latin corusc re, corusc t-, to flash.]

[martin_fierro]

Or would that be xpelled.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Habitat is shrinking or changing in most cases. Another other factors is pollution. The reason for all endangered species in most of the world, is HUMAN ENCROACHMENT. So get rid of the humans and the problem is solved. However then you would be getting rid of the most successful species in earth's history.

CG

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Three things that immediately come to mind:

1 - Have the criteria for endangered species been tweaked a lot recently? If it's easier to qualify for the classification, naturally there will be an increase. It's like when the medical community redefined diabetes. Instantly there was a huge increase in diabetics - as though people were healthy on day, sick the next. Also, as we redefine and find new sub-species, the overall number of endangered species should increase in response.

2 - Difficult if not impossible to figure out what nature 'wants' to happen. Extinction is part of the plan, although of course we often cause it where it would not have otherwise occured. But often tough to distinguish.

3 - Hope y'all enjoyed Mary Lou Retton's 36th b-day Saturday.

[xsmommy]

yes we are thinking on an appropriate reply. my first inclination was to say yeah, the leftwingers would have you believe it is a gutwrenching problem caused by the capitalists clearcutting the forests for fun and profit.

[VRWCmember]

Poor Gilda suffered an awful lot of noogies in that role... (Lisa Loopner)

Yep!

[xsmommy]

did mrs dupa make a cake for the family celebration at home? good point on the classification changes, wonder if i can verify that somewhere, it is a throwaway assignment, not like they are going to look closely at it, but i do want him to do more than just regurgitate the expected response. Yes, CG, just what i told him, kill people instead of animals, bc they are the problem.

[hobbes1]

Have him dig up the approximate numbers of extinct species, to date, or prior to industrialization, and say "Obviously it is Part of God's Plan"

[international american]

Great rant...all true.

[hobbes1]

2 - Difficult if not impossible to figure out what nature 'wants' to happen. Extinction is part of the plan

Me and HD,
two GMT,
obviously agree
It's got to be!

[hobbes1]

109,107.

[xsmommy]

how nice for yunz. guess all legmen DO think alike : )

[TheGrimReaper]

"Todd! Stop it, Toooooooodd!"

[hobbes1]

RMFE.

[xsmommy]

what???

[tioga]

People are endangered and genocide committed on them daily here in the US. Can't remember the speaker who pointed this out, but it had to do with protecting a tree or a human....you get the drift. Which one would God consider more sacred? Isn't he in a Catholic school? A lot of discussion took place about the emphasis of enviroment over humans and their lives, right to use their own land issues. They had a session called "Globaloney and Global Warming". Would have been a good field trip for your young'uns. Taxrelief was there with taxdeduction 1 and 2....One even got to ask Ann Coulter a question, her advice was NOT to go to law school......wonder what's wrong with law school????

[doubled]

The term 'endangered species' is a legislative one that has in some cases very little relevence to the real world. The cow could be called an endangered species, or maybe just the Texas Longhorn, if you could convince enough bureaucrats that they are declining to the point of missing. The current controversy in the great void over the preebles jumping mouse is a good example. Trained biologists disagree when they see a specimen as to if it is this little guy. They say laymen cannot make that judgment. So how do they know it is endangered if it is not identifiable as a separate type of mouse.

The wolf is another one in this part of the country. There were reports of wolves around for years even though ranchers and authorities had tried to wipe them out. So a foreign subspecies is brought in, multiplies like rabbits, and is now endangering livelihoods, but it can't get listed due to bureaucrat meddling. CJ can back up this one.

Grizzly bears are back in above sustainable numbers, but the enviros won't let them be delisted.

The spotted owls out in Washington that stopped the logging have numbers beyond what is considered sustainable in sites other than what had to be their habitat. They are still listed.

What I am getting at is between not delisting species even though they have recovered, listing species that you can't identify, and having other agendas for not delisting or getting a species listed; have all led to a growing number on the list and none coming off.

[Gabz]

My email box was at 142% of it's allotted size.

You prompted me to check mine..............I love my ISP's spam filter system.............only 42 emails got through it since Thursday morning!!!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Great rant...all true.

Thanks. Hey, my name isn't BSandEquivocationShallSetYouFree.

[xsmommy]

xsteen was there with me at CPAC last year. she really enjoyed the panel discussion between sam donaldson and robert novak.

yes, xsboy is in catholic school and this assigment is not a big deal, like i said, it is a makework kind of BS assignment, the handout comes from TimeforKIDS and so is biased by its very nature. the entire exercise is just to try to get kids reading about current events. i just thought it would make for interesting class discussion HERE in WFTD. he will write up a few sentences incorporating the ideas about the classification lists that HD, Hobbes and Doubled have posed here and i think that will be a nice answer.

[xsmommy]

great info, doubled. thanks! i am going to explain all of this to him. he knows the environmentalists are wackos, but i like to give as many specifics as possible.