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Word For The Day, Monday, January 26, 2004
The Verbivores
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Posted on 01/26/2004 5:17:39 AM PST by 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....
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.]
TOPICS: Education; Humor; Poetry; Word For The Day
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To: xsmommy
Or would that be xpelled.
101
posted on
01/26/2004 7:54:42 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Hey, it's not rocket surgery!)
To: xsmommy
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
To: xsmommy
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.
To: martin_fierro
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.
104
posted on
01/26/2004 7:56:37 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: TheGrimReaper
Poor Gilda suffered an awful lot of noogies in that role... (Lisa Loopner)
Yep!
105
posted on
01/26/2004 7:56:47 AM PST
by
VRWCmember
(We apologise for the fault in the taglines. Those responsible have been sacked.)
To: Hegewisch Dupa; Conspiracy Guy
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.
106
posted on
01/26/2004 7:59:51 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
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"
107
posted on
01/26/2004 8:01:21 AM PST
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Great rant...all true.
108
posted on
01/26/2004 8:01:24 AM PST
by
international american
(support our troops...........................revoke Hillary's visa!!)
To: hobbes1; Hegewisch Dupa
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!
109
posted on
01/26/2004 8:03:06 AM PST
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: xsmommy
109,107.
110
posted on
01/26/2004 8:03:33 AM PST
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: hobbes1; Hegewisch Dupa
how nice for yunz. guess all legmen DO think alike : )
111
posted on
01/26/2004 8:04:53 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: VRWCmember
"Todd! Stop it, Toooooooodd!"
To: xsmommy
RMFE.
113
posted on
01/26/2004 8:06:34 AM PST
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: hobbes1
what???
114
posted on
01/26/2004 8:07:53 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
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????
115
posted on
01/26/2004 8:15:52 AM PST
by
tioga
(I was on the CPAC field trip.........)
To: xsmommy
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.
116
posted on
01/26/2004 8:17:39 AM PST
by
doubled
(After the chaos and carnage of September 11, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers)
To: dubyaismypresident
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!!!
117
posted on
01/26/2004 8:18:19 AM PST
by
Gabz
(What happens at CPAC, stays at CPAC!)
To: international american
Great rant...all true.Thanks. Hey, my name isn't BSandEquivocationShallSetYouFree.
To: tioga; Hegewisch Dupa; hobbes1; doubled
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.
119
posted on
01/26/2004 8:23:23 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: doubled
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.
120
posted on
01/26/2004 8:24:39 AM PST
by
xsmommy
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