;Posted on 04/16/2012 4:40:14 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 4/16/12
;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".
1. of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount. 2. petty, carping, or prejudiced: I didn't want to seem picayune by criticizing. noun 3. (formerly, in Louisiana, Florida, etc.) a coin equal to half a Spanish real. 4. any small coin, as a five-cent piece. 5. Informal . an insignificant person or thing.
Etymology: 1780–90; < Provençal picaioun small copper coin (compare French picaillons ), derivative of an onomatopoetic base *pikk- beat, here referring to the coining of coppers
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Interesting take on the name. I’ll bet a picayune that you are right on the money! (pun intended)
Huma Abedin, Wife of Anthony Weiner, Gives Birth
December 22nd, 2011
A son!
Read more celebrity gossip at: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/12/huma-abedin-wife-of-anthony-weiner-gives-birth/#ixzz1sE91qdmE
hopefully the baby is more discreet than his father! i don’t know, i would assume lib women would be rushing back to their careers, it’s been 4 months, so i’m curious if Huma is back to work or not.
No one wonders; we already know her choice of partners.
Well, she’s a government employee — last I heard, some kind of Deputy Secretary of State. And the last I heard she was the only breadwinner in that family. I don’t know how far maternity leave extends these days. 12 weeks?
Gallop has Romney debuting with a 2% lead over O w/indies breaking for Romney. Attacking AnnRomney hasn’t worked out so well.
There is no federal maternity leave, you take your annual leave/sick leave, you can take up to 12 weeks of advanced leave, and you can take leave without pay.
GENIUS caps fans are bringing O faces [cutout faces of obama] to taunt TT with tonight. HONESTLY.... i tweeted several DC hockey bloggers to say, SERIOULY? do people REALLY think that TT gives a good damn about Barack Obama? i said if he’s so scary, why not bring the REAL THING there instead of O faces. OH THAT”S RIGHT bc obama has never set foot in a hockey rink. My eyes roll completely from my head at this point.
just told ya : )
We have fans that have GIANT heads on sticks of our coaches, announcers, and a few of the players. They wave them around during the game. Giant Obama heads would just get giant BOOOS anywhere outside of DC.
the head phenomenon isn’t new, they’ve had it for a year or more in NCAA basketball. But this is galling. It assumes that everyone here is a dem which is ludicrous in and of itself. Stephen Hayes and Rich Lowrey are both Caps fans and tweet about the games, and those are just big name people i happen to follow. i have been steady pushing back against this on twitter.
Fight the good fight! I think you are a voice in the wilderness where most people around you are employed by the govt.
Calling all IT brainiacs! The sound on my computer is gone. I tried going to the control panel to make adjustments but it is greyed out where I can adjust volume so it won’t respond. Any ideas?
Did you try turning it off and back on again?
If I didn’t have research for a bid to do, I’d pack up my plant gathering stuff and spend the rest of the afternoon as far into the woods as I can go and still get home by evening-it is cloudy, breezy and cool...
I don’t think that Obama
Will be so snooty and smug
When the latest scandals can’t
Be swept under the usual rug
It isn’t a picayune matter
That secret service has no respect
For that guy in the white house
Who calls himself the elect
They might be channeling Clinton
And figure Obama is the same-
Why not play when off duty-
The boss already has a bad name
I do think the rank-and-file LEOs who work for Obama have absolutely no respect for him, just like they had none for Clinton, because he treats them like lackeys, the same way that Clinton did, even to their wives being rude to them-remember Hillary’s infamous “don’t look at me” line?
Go to Control Panel/Sounds and audio devices? Does it show any devices installed?
A+++ seems like u could’ve fit erect in there somewhere between SS and the clintoon.... ; )
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