Posted on 06/30/2009 5:08:05 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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".
salient [sey-lee-uhnt, seyl-yuhnt]
-adj
1. prominent or conspicuous
2. projecting or pointing outward
3. leaping or jumping
4. Heraldry. (of a beast) represented as leaping
-n
5. a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line
6. Physical Geography. a landform that extends out beyond its surroundings, as a spur projecting from the side of a mountain.
[1555–65; < L salient- (s. of saliēns, prp. of salīre to spring, jump), equiv. to sali- verb s. + -ent- -ent ]
Great way to lay it at their feet...... how many there do you think are Obamites?
Coffee clean up on aisle 2! lol
not all by any stretch but there are bound to be some.
Surely you didn’t expect a conversation about college to end any other way. I resisted as long as I could. LOL
I’ll have to find that movie
It's not that I don't celebrate my own Man Day every day by tending to my desires, instead of to those of the women and children.
Nor do I consider myself some paragon of manhood--though by today's effeminized-man standards, I might actually qualify: I can drive a stick shift, work a chainsaw, enjoy relieving myself outside, and would never think of getting a vasectomy. (It's not that I wouldn't do anything for my wife--I love her more than life itself. But I don't want to be unfair to my future trophy wife. What if she wants kids?)
The reason I feel sorry for these mantards is the same reason I feel sorry for men's magazine writers, who on glossy pages filled with androgynous models and which smell like the inside of the Neiman Marcus perfume counter, write self-conscious manly-man articles giving man-tips to even less manly men under titles such as "The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master."
It's hard to imagine real men, like Jack Dempsey or Genghis Khan, reading up on how much cuff to show or how to "argue with a European without getting xenophobic or insulting soccer."
(ti shakes her head in disbelief)
the delusional do tend to cling fast to their pretensions ; )
yes, i know you're jealous. My point, which may not be as salient as i'd wish, is that once the gov't takes over health care, how soon will it be that the gov't starts contacting we who are a bit overweight (aka, not 6 pack abs, but certainly not a kegger... a case perhaps)... how soon until they contact you at home and begin telling you what your meals shall be until you are healthy enough for ObamaCare?
last evening the doorbell rang and when i answered it it was two older women who declared they were christian ladies from a nearby church whose pastor had prepared some literature which they wanted to share. they asked if we were christians and i assured her we were and i commended them on their mission and how badly in need of counsel people are, to prepare for what is to come. we often get Mormons, but this was the first time we have had run of the mill Christian witnesses. Today in the Target parking lot, i was approached by a Mormon, doing the same thing. this smacks of end times to me too, it does.
Maybe you’re just looking particularly heathen. ;-)
eat some protein, it’ll stick with ya longer. have some hardboiled eggs with the rest of your repast!
I’ve been reading “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg, and he reminds us that this country, during WWI did indeed attempt to dictate what we ate at which meal (in terms of meatless or wheatless).
He argues that the first fascist state was not Italy or Germany, but the good old US of A during the Great War.
I don’t think I’ve ever in my life had a full-sized Heath bar. I’ve eaten bite-sized ones. Had ‘em baked into cookies and smashed up in Blizzards.
don’t know that i have either, i rarely if ever eat a full sized candy bar. the small ones have less calories [even if you have several! ; ) i like toffee, though. xskids do not.
When you have several, you burn more calories opening up the individual wrappers. That’s why Hershey’s Kisses are essentially calorie-free.
hershey kisses with almonds yes. i don’t care for just plain chocolate, no matter how good it is. xsgirls ate my choc chips right out from under me! i have not been buying candy of any sort bc everyone except for xsboy is watching their weight. xsbrownie wanted to make cookies and i said fine and she said there are no choc chips and i said, of course there are... UNLESS....someone has eaten them out from under me. and of course, she and xsteen, for a chocolate fix, had been scarfing mitt-fulls of choc chips!
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