Posted on 06/29/2012 5:44:33 AM PDT by tioga
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”.
Lugubrious
Adjective
lugubriously, adverb
lugubriousness, noun
[From Latin lgubris, from lgre, to mourn.]
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....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Hope the heat wave doesn’t oppress my already lugubrious mood over the news. But I wish everyone a nice weekend, anyway.
He’s way more clever than I. That’s part of the problem.
It’s what makes him worse than the other 8. He knew what was right and did the other thing. He’s the only one to have done what he knew to be wrong.
Right up there with “put some ice on that.”
You know what John G Roberts did to us and the Constitution yesterday?
It’s a tax
You’re overlooking the point that he is well aware, as is Obama, that there is a larger far more injurious rash of Lawsuits over this legislation.
This was the wrong question to ask the Court, and the Court only answered the question it was asked?
There is some point to that. I still don’t like at all this limitless taxing power.
Your boy got it wrong, face it.
Excuse me? My boy?
I just got a call from the Vatican. Judas’s 30 pieces of silver were in fact...a tax.
The court’s ruling that Congress does have the power to pass Obamacare under the taxing power is, to put it mildly, unconvincing. The court acknowledged that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act itself refers to the mandate by describing the consequences of a failure to obtain health insurance as a “penalty.” It says that the use of that description is “fatal” to the applicability of a law that says the court can’t hear a tax case at this stage of things, since it’s a penalty and not a tax. Then it turns around and says it’s not fatal to the ability of Congress to use the taxing power to pass the mandate in the first place. This is what the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, calls a “functional approach.”
Our guess is that distinction will strike most people as a lawyer’s self-parody. But we’re for bowing to the Court and throwing oneself into the political fray. The Court’s ruling sets up Governor Romney to remind us again that the taxing power is the most dangerous of the powers handed to the Congress. And that when the Democrats get ahold of the Congress, they will use it in every way they can — even in requiring an innocent, law-abiding citizen who is beyond the reach of the Commerce Clause to purchase health insurance. It is a moment to remember that if the Obamacare mandate is a tax, then it is something that can be cut or repealed, as thousands of other taxes have been in the history of our country, almost always to beneficial effect. That is, after all, the bedrock on which our entire revolution began.
Palate not palette.
He’s on so late I rarely see his show,but he usually cracks me up. I needed a laugh or 2 last night. He’s so goofy all he has to do is look at the camera funny and I laugh.
On a different subject, I got a thank you letter from Gov. Walker today. Got one from Lt.Gov.Kleefisch a few days ago. Unlike other politicians, there was no attached page asking for more money. Sure the recall election is over, but a lot of politicians would still ask for more for future elections. Gov. Walker’s letter had me tearing up by the end of it. I was then wondering if you thought it might be nice to put the text of the letter on FR as an article. Some who live outside the state might like to read it. What do you think, worthy of a thread?
The spouse had a drug lunch scheduled for today but the drug rep got laid off. Thanks a lot, obama. Hope and change makes for another unemployed person.
Is that something like a 3 martini lunch?
Did you hear that Crosby’s going to remain a Penguin for a long, long time?
That’s rhetorical.
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